[ { "url": "http://103kkcn.com/nascar-fans-jeff-gordon-is-in-the-white-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:KEIRVCT6Y34QCPOC6WDIHFESJW7Z4OGX", "length": 569, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "103kkcn.com", "title": "Nascar Fans....Jeff Gordon is in The White House!", "raw_content": "Nascar Fans\u2026.Jeff Gordon is in The White House!\nWell, at least he was. Jeff Gordon and his wife, Ingrid Vandebosch, were among some 400 guests who attended a White House dinner Tuesday night to mark the occasion of the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington D.C.\nGordon and his wife joined African leaders, government officials and other VIPs for dinner inside a huge tent erected on the South Lawn of the White House.\nThe current Sprint Cup Series points leader will back in his No. 24 car this weekend at Watkins Glen International for the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 1967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1049maxcountry.com/regional-news/nebraska-senator-to-lead-new-economic-development-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5Y6J2S4PVSS6XPDKBQPQSSTYZE47XZL4", "length": 1003, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "1049maxcountry.com", "title": "Nebraska senator to lead new economic development group | York's Max Country 104.9 / 1370 KAWL", "raw_content": "Nebraska senator to lead new economic development group\nCourtesy/Nebraska Legislature -- State Sen. Jim Smith of Papillion.\nLincoln, Neb. \u2014 A Nebraska lawmaker is leaving the Legislature to become the executive director of a new economic development group.\nBlueprint Nebraska announced Monday that state Sen. Jim Smith of Papillion will help lead the organization. Smith has served in the Legislature since 2011 and was slated to step down in January because of term limits.\nSmith is a small businessman who served as chairman of the Legislature\u2019s Transportation and Telecommunications Committee and the tax-focused Revenue Committee. He introduced numerous bills to cut taxes during his tenure, including some championed by Gov. Pete Ricketts.\nBlueprint Nebraska describes itself as a statewide, citizen-led economic development initiative. The group says it\u2019s looking to create a proactive plan to stimulate economic growth while making Nebraska more competitive and building on the state\u2019s strengths.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 4436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://12cpbarristers.co.uk/blog/pet-custody-cases/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:42Z", "digest": "sha1:BB42IMNQSC3YE6DQRBECIT23GNBWTRII", "length": 2023, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "12cpbarristers.co.uk", "title": "Family blog | 12cp Barristers | Pet Custody Cases", "raw_content": "In the International Journal of Law Policy and the Family UK academic Deborah Rook has published an article entitled \u201cWho gets Charlie \u2013 the emergence of pet custody disputes in family law \u2013 the adoption of theoretical tools from child law\u201d. The article is very good and analyses the use of pseudo child law principles in determining pet custody cases in both Israel and the USA.\nPet Custody Cases?\nPets, whether they are dogs, cats, rodents or horses; are all \u201cproperty\u201d in the eyes of the UK Courts. Their ownership, and thus \u201ccustody\u201d, on divorce are determined by the principles of property law and the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973. There is no room for any consideration of animal welfare or to think of the future harm or benefit that may come to any particular animal. There is no \u201cbest interests of the animal\u201d test.\nThe article by Deborah Rook outlines the freestanding pet custody cases that have been heard in both Israel and the USA. The Courts in those cases looked at the pets more as \u201cfamily members\u201d. They were considered as independent and sentient beings which had emotional bonds with their human carers. There was an interest in avoiding the animal suffering or potentially suffering harm. The Courts in those cases adopted the best interests of the animal test and incorporated that alongside having to consider the animal under solely property law principles. Thus the tests applied by the Courts in the USA and Israel was first to look at basic property law and then second to look at the best interests of that particular animal in determining where it should live and thus who should have ownership.\nThere is a lack of precedent and academic guidance for this two stage test to be applied in UK Courts however the incidence of animals being seem as part of the matrimonial property on a UK divorce will mean that sooner or later the Courts will have to adjudicate on the custody and ownership of Fido, Rover, Tom or Jerry.\nThe article by Deborah Rook is available through a, link on Family Law Week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1one4.com/the-path-we-choose", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:C6NLKBVRCADJ3ZGCDEQKK3NIBSDJO357", "length": 2820, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "1one4.com", "title": "The Path We Choose | The Muslim Hub", "raw_content": "By 1one4 Team On Jun 07, 2018 Short Story 2173 Views\nAs I was driving to work this week, I noticed that cars further up the road were swerving to avoid something. As the car in front of me swerved I finally got to see what the obstacle was. There had been a pretty big rainstorm the night before and it had bent a branch of one of the trees by the road. And the branch which had lots of leaves and was still attached to its tree was blocking traffic. Pretty soon it was my turn to swerve and I remember thinking as I passed it, I hope the Road Safety crew gets here quickly and removes the branch before it causes an accident. I also wondered if there was a Road Safety number I could call to notify them.\nI then thought to myself, why am I passing the buck? Why am I expecting and even ready to demand that someone else fix this problem? While I was having all these thoughts I reached a speed bump and had to slow down to let the car in front of me cross it. I then looked back through my rear view mirror and could see the branch right after the curve in the road. Removing that branch would have been Sadaqat, Allah would have been pleased with me I said to myself. Then I had a vision of the man who gave water to a dog and gained paradise. I also remembered the man who removed a thorn from a path and gained paradise.\nIt\u2019s in that moment that I realized, those people had made a choice. When the thirsty traveler climbed out of the well and saw the thirsty dog, he could have said to himself, \u201cCrap! If only I had known he was here I would have brought some water up with me for him\u201d and then gone about his day. Or the traveler who had removed the thorn from the road could have said to himself, \u201cIf I can see it and avoid it, surely other travelers can see it and avoid it also.\u201d They had brief moments in time where they had a choice. They could have gone on with their days and with their lives without having made an effort and it wouldn\u2019t have been their fault. But instead they chose to do the right thing even though it inconvenienced them.\nI can\u2019t imagine climbing down a well once let alone twice and for an animal no less! But then we all say that we want paradise. We say it all the time, in jest, and in earnestness. We say oh Allah please grant us Al-Jannah. We joke amongst ourselves saying Insha\u2019Allah when we are in paradise etc., but how do we think we\u2019ll attain it? We attain paradise through the choices we make.\nThose tiny seemingly random choices that we come across are the keys to paradise. They are the difference between gaining Allah\u2019s pleasure and just going through life doing the bare minimum. All these thoughts went through my mind before I went over the bump. I looked back again, I wondered if it would be too dangerous to reverse. There were no cars coming. It was now or never.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 6898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2kop.blogspot.com/2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:42Z", "digest": "sha1:RARBO4LJEC4JKHLRSXSDZXWVFGHLKEHN", "length": 2903, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "2kop.blogspot.com", "title": "Two Kinds of People: 2015", "raw_content": "NaNoWriMo Redux\nThere are two kinds of people in the world: those who do NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) once and get it out of their systems; and crazy people, like me, who vow to participate every year. I haven't done it in a while\u2014not really, anyway. The last couple of Novembers I've made half-hearted attempts, but have given up pretty early on in the process.\nSo why do I think this year will be any different? I don't necessarily. But I do know that I haven't been doing much (read any) of my own writing for quite a long time. And that's a bad thing. Firstly, because I miss it. I think about writing all the time. I've a got million ideas, and at least 100,000 of them are pretty good.\nAnd that's the thing. Writing ideas are a dime a dozen. You can have thousands of great ideas. It's the execution of the thing that matters. Until you put fingers to keyboard and try to translate that great idea into a story, you just don't know if it will pan out into something real.\nNext, I feel like I'm in a different place in my writing. This year has taken a toll in a lot of ways, but it's also allowed me to let go of some things that I was holding onto for the wrong reasons. As I have absorbed these changes (some might call it growth, but that seems a little grandiose; others might call it giving up, but that seems a little pessimistic), I see some lessons that might apply to my writing.\nLetting go is tough job. I think it's one of my worst things. I think my inability or failure to let go has held me back in my writing. So, it's time to see what happens when I really let go. When I stop trying to control everything and let the characters and the plot take over.\nThis is where I think NaNo can really help. There's just no time to be controlling. You have to meet your word count. To do that, you can't keep going over and over the things you already written, patting yourself on the back for your brilliance or agonizing over your complete lack of talent. All you can do is get in your 1,667 words a day and move on. Sometimes, that's all you can do in life\u2014put one foot in front of the other. Sometimes, that's all you can do in writing\u2014put one word down after the other.\nSo, here we are. I'm already a bit behind (big shock), but I'm trudging along at 8,760 words instead of the 13,333 I would need to be on target as of this moment. But I like my idea; the words are not exactly pouring out of me, but they're coming. I know there are other things I should be doing. I know. So don't lecture me. I don't pretend that I'll have anything very good at the end of the month. But having anything at all is better than nothing. It's definitely something.\nIt's just too bad that I can't add the 535 words in this post to my word count. Hmm, that would bring me up to 9,295. Not bad.\nLabels: 2kop, NaNoWriMo, writing\nPosted by Susan Bearman at 1:01 AM No comments: Links to this post", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 9786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 197.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://48horasweb.com/meeting-people-fast", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:44Z", "digest": "sha1:RTKO2VQOUOI25I3KMC5TFHCHKCA3EY55", "length": 642, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "48horasweb.com", "title": "Meeting People Fast | 48HoursWeb", "raw_content": "Meeting People Fast\nWhat is a good way to meet many people in the shortest amount of time? There are many methods and various people might give a different answer. One of the ways that seems to work for many people is speed dating cape town. The key is to quickly judge whether the person with you are talking is the right person for you. This definitely requires a lot of interpersonal skills and a quick mind. It is important to realize quickly who has many positive traits and who has traits that you may dislike. If you master this art, then you should be able to meet many, many interesting people whenever you want.\n\u2190 Computers Braces \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://9jaecho.com/2018/12/06/efccs-continuous-witch-hunt-of-akwa-ibom-state-govt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IL3KD55PIO2IUZCBI4HMSX75CBXWSXQE", "length": 3251, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "9jaecho.com", "title": "EFCC\u2019s Continuous Witch-Hunt Of Akwa Ibom State Govt \u2013 9jaecho", "raw_content": "Home\u203aHome\u203aEFCC\u2019s Continuous Witch-Hunt Of Akwa Ibom State Govt\nThe attention of the Akwa Ibom State Government has been drawn to a December 5, 2018 publication by Sahara Reporters, an online news outlet, alleging an indictment of the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr Udom Emmanuel and some officers of the state by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), over a purported withdrawal of N1.7 billion from the state coffers.\nConsequently, we wish to state that:\n\u2013 The alleged indictment by the EFCC is a baseless and malicious allegation, tainted with political undertone to malign the integrity of the current Government of Akwa Ibom State\n\u2013 It is another face-saving attempt by the EFCC to justify the several illegalities it has allowed itself to be used to perpetrate against the Government and good people of a peaceful state by the opposition party.\n\u2013 These antics of the EFCC have continued to attract widespread condemnation from within and outside the country.\n\u2013 It is instructive to note that the EFCC is regurgitating this line of skewed narrative in the media for the umpteenth time in a flagrant act of impunity against the judicial process.\n\u2013 The Akwa Ibom State Government had instituted a legal proceeding against the EFCC at the Federal High Court, Uyo, and therefore would remain fervent in its determination not to be dragged into a public discourse on a matter that is patently sub-judice.\n\u2013 The constitution and laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria authorizes only the state House of Assembly and the state Auditor-General to pry into the financial dealings of a state government.\n-In the last three and a half years, Akwa Ibom State has been one of the few states, if not the only state that publishes its annual audited financial statements. This underscores the state government\u2019s commitment to transparency, accountability and integrity in governance. Copies the state\u2019s annual audited financial statements are available in the public domain.\n-It is mockery of the rule of law for the EFCC to allow itself to degenerate into a tool for character assassination, political mudsling and witch-hunting by the opposition in Akwa Ibom State.\n\u2013 Nigerians and indeed members of the international community are watching the unfolding EFCC drama with keen interest.\n\u2013 For the records, the current Government of Akwa Ibom State is led by a consummate professional with over two decades of proven track record of integrity and performance in financial management, which transcends the boarders of Nigeria.\n\u2013 The Akwa Ibom State Government will not be distracted by this poorly scripted drama by the EFCC and will continue to do all within the ambit of the law to protect the integrity of governance in the state.\nCharles Udoh\nCommissioner of Information and Strategy\nTagsAkwa Ibom StateefccGovernor Udom Emmanuelindictmentpress statementsahara reporter\nVote Udom Emmanuel To Double Industrialization Drive ...\nAKSG To #BringBackOurLanguage Into School Curriculum\nNo Security Issue In Akwa Ibom \u2013NFF\nGov. Emmanuel: Expanding The Window Of Industrialization\nGov Emmanuel To Engage New Admin Consultants In Ibom Specialist Hospital\nRelationship: Deal With Issues, Not The Person\nAkwa Ibom Journalists With The Ethical Questions (2)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 5250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aapress.com/arts/capernaum-shoplifters-free-solo-and-minding-the-gap-head-to-the-oscars/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RT7HAW6ARBIQTDD3IJS6GCLDFBPCNBU2", "length": 4087, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "aapress.com", "title": "\u2018Capernaum\u2019, \u2018Shoplifters\u2019, \u2018Free Solo\u2019 and \u2018Minding the Gap\u2019 head to the Oscars | Asian American Press", "raw_content": "in Arts \u00b7 Column \u00b7 Diana Cheng \u00b7 Film \u00b7 Television\nAAP Film & Arts Writer\nFour features with an Asian or Asian American connection made it to the spotlight for a chance to win the coveted golden statuette in the coming Academy Awards. Nadine Labaki\u2019s \u201cCapernaum\u201d from Lebanon and Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda\u2019s \u201cShoplifters\u201d are nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. Chinese-American filmmaker/mountaineer Jimmy Chin and wife Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi\u2019s \u201cFree Solo\u201d and Bing Liu\u2019s \u201cMinding the Gap\u201d are Best Documentary Feature nominees.\nThe 91st Academy Awards nominations were announced on Tuesday morning, Jan. 22, 2019. Kumail Nanjiani joked about the early hour with co-announcer Tracee Ellis Ross (Golden Globe winner 2017, \u201cBlack-ish\u201d), live streaming at 5:30 a.m. (PT). This is Ross\u2019s first time getting up so early for the Oscar occasion and the second time for Nanjiani, his first being last year when he watched the announcement of his own nomination for Best Original Screenplay for \u201cThe Big Sick\u201d, in bed.\nThis is the first Oscar nomination for all these directors, albeit most of them are no strangers in the awards circuit. Kore-eda\u2019s \u201cShoplifters\u201d is the Palme d\u2019Or winner in 2018 Cannes Film Festival while Labaki\u2019s \u201cCapernaum\u201d won several awards there as well among other accolades. Chin and Vasarhelyi\u2019s \u201cFree Solo\u201d has already garnered the Critics Choice Documentary Awards and won the People\u2019s Choice Documentary at TIFF in 2018. The novice among these is young filmmaker Bing Liu. His skateboard documentary \u201cMinding the Gap\u201d won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize for Breakthrough Filmmaking.\nKore-eda\u2019s Oscar recognition is long due. The Japanese director\u2019s previous works have long been admired in many parts of the world, his subject focusing on the family and its relationships. He first appeared at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 with a nomination for \u201cDistance\u201d, and since then, had been back several more times with \u201cNobody Knows\u201d (2004), \u201cOur Little Sister\u201d (2015), and \u201cAfter the Storm\u201d (2016). His first Palme d\u2019Or win was for \u201cLike Father, Like Son\u201d (2013).\nHirokazu Kore-eda\u2019s \u201cShoplifters\u201d\nLabaki\u2019s \u201cCapernaum\u201d is a realistic narrative of 12 year-old Syrian refugee Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) on the streets of Beirut, a poignant depiction that points to a very different premise, as Zain in the film brings his parents to court for giving birth to him. A thought-provoking feature.\nJimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi are Asian American filmmakers who have captured death defying climbs to some of the world\u2019s most challenging mountains. Their previous film \u201cMeru\u201d (2015) is a documentary that follows Chin and his team on two attempts to Meru Peak in the Garhwal Himalayas, India. The breathtaking and moving feature won a few awards including one at Sundance 2015, but did not garner more recognition as it deserved. This time, with the equally stunning \u201cFree Solo\u201d about Alex Honnold\u2019s death-defying climb up the vertical wall of El Capitan with no ropes or safety gears has finally given Chin and Vasarhelyi the chance to reach a filmmaking summit of their own.\nLiu\u2019s \u201cMinding the Gap\u201d is a personal journey of his life in the close-knit skateboard community while he was growing up in Rockford, Illinois. The documentary is a realistic, v\u00e9rit\u00e9-styled capture of not only the skateboarding camaraderie but a sharing of the abusive childhood and difficult father-son relationships these young people have experienced. Liu shares the nomination with producer Diane Moy Quon.\nThe 91st Academy Awards will be held on Feb. 24, 2019, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Calif., and for the first time in 30 years, without a host.\nFor a full list of Oscars 2019 nominees, click here\nTo read Diana Cheng\u2019s reviews on the above nominated features, click on the links:\nContact Diana Cheng at [email protected] or visit her blog Ripple Effects at rippleeffects.reviews or on Twitter @Arti_Ripples\nPrevious story AAAF to celebrate Leana Wen becoming Planned Parenthood president\nNext story Taiwan expert to lecture on UN relations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 216.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://acml-egypt.com/ISSN.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:40Z", "digest": "sha1:V3BFESLS746BDTG2NQ4T7OFX6E2VIAMP", "length": 1779, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "acml-egypt.com", "title": "ISSN", "raw_content": "ISSN website\nAbout ISSN\nDThe ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is an eight-digit number which identifies periodical publications as such, including electronic serials.\nThe ISSN is a numeric code which is used as an identifier: it has no signification in itself and does not contain in itself any information referring to the origin or contents of the publication.\nThe ISSN takes the form of the acronym ISSN followed by two groups of four digits, separated by a hyphen. The eighth character is a control digit calculated according to a modulo 11 algorithm on the basis of the 7 preceding digits; this eighth control character may be an \"X\" if the result of the computing is equal to \"10\", in order to avoid any ambiguity.\nThe ISSN is linked to a standardized form of the title of the identified serial, known as the \"key title\", which repeats the title of the publication, qualifying it with additional elements in order to distinguish it from other publications having identical titles.\nIf the title of the publication changes in any significant way, a new ISSN must be assigned in order to correspond to this new form of title and avoid any confusion. A serial publication whose title is modified several times in the course of its existence will be assigned each time a new ISSN, thus allowing precise identification of each form of the title : in fact it is then considered that they are different publications even if there is a logical link between them.\nContrary to other types of publications, the world of serial publications is particularly changeable and complex : the lifetime of a title may be extremely short; many publications may be part of a complex set of relationships, etc. These particularities themselves necessitated the introduction of the ISSN.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 3998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 236.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://acta.travellearningcampus.ca/ACTACATALOG/p-148-star-alliance.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KLAVYSSSZDXQBHKI4EOHK3PWE365VYXL", "length": 389, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "acta.travellearningcampus.ca", "title": "ACTA - Star Alliance", "raw_content": "Title: Star Alliance\nThe Star Alliance network was established in 1997 as the first truly global airline alliance to offer worldwide reach, recognition and seamless service to the international traveler. As the world\u2019s largest airline alliance, the Star Alliance offers clients an unrivalled global network, as well as special products and services that offer value recognition and reward.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 215.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://activeelgin.ca/calendar/living-history-weekend-backus-page-house-museum", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:13Z", "digest": "sha1:A6KQ5LO4PEYO7VSILWWZZE2UCULX7PNC", "length": 279, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "activeelgin.ca", "title": "Living History Weekend at Backus-Page House Museum | Active Elgin", "raw_content": "Re-enactments, displays, vendors, food and hands on activities from many time periods including Civil War, War of 1812, WW1, Fenian Raids, and much more!\nTime: Saturday 10am - 4pm & Sunday 9am - 4pm\nLocation: Backus-Page House Museum in Wallacetown.\nhttp://www.backuspagehouse.ca", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/catt-alfred-3181", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:5MBEGSPTMGGFEL24EX4S4PBW4EBFNEM2", "length": 5448, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "adb.anu.edu.au", "title": "Biography - Alfred Catt - Australian Dictionary of Biography", "raw_content": "Catt, Alfred (1833\u20131919)\nby Gordon Buxton\nAlfred Catt, by Terence McGann, c1900\nState Library of South Australia, B 5622/28\nAlfred Catt (1833-1919), store-keeper and parliamentarian, was born on 19 December 1833 at Newington, Kent, England, the third child of Charles Catt, carpenter, and his wife Sarah, n\u00e9e Knott. He was educated at the Commercial School, Brompton, and arrived in South Australia in 1849. He farmed for some time near Balhannah and Strathalbyn and then spent two years on Victorian goldfields. Later as a store-keeper he served on the Strathalbyn District Council and was mayor. He was also president of the Literary Institute and lieutenant in the Volunteer Corps. At Strathalbyn he left the Church of England and became a Wesleyan Methodist.\nIn 1874 after the northern areas were opened to selectors he moved to Gladstone where he established a store, became justice of the peace and chairman of the district council, founded the Mechanics' Institute and established the Volunteer Corps, serving as captain. His activities and interest in this corps reflect his keen study of military history and detailed knowledge of the campaigns of Marlborough, Wellington, Napoleon and Lee. In 1881 he defeated five other candidates for the Stanley seat in the House of Assembly. After a month in parliament he was appointed commissioner of crown lands and immigration in the Bray ministry, though his manner of speech, 'short, rapid, nervous utterances', precluded his success as an orator. His term as minister in 1881-84 coincided with the distress and withdrawal of farmers from the drought-stricken lands north of Goyder's line. Selectors who had agreed at auction to pay up to \u00a36 6s. an acre were allowed to surrender and select the same or other land at \u00a31 0s. 6d. an acre, resulting in a vast loss of revenue. When farmers holding good land in other areas took advantage of these concessions, Catt was criticized for his liberality in administering the admittedly difficult surrender clause. He held the Stanley electorate until 1884 and represented the reconstituted Gladstone electorate in 1884-1902 and again, when it reverted to Stanley, in 1902. In 1906, tall, thin and grey, he retired defeated. In 1887-89 he had been commissioner for public works in the Playford ministry and in 1887 was gazetted Honorable. In 1890-1905 he was chairman of committees of the House of Assembly. A strong farmers' representative, he advocated water conservation and irrigation, railway extension, the reduction of education standards and, somewhat surprisingly in view of his Methodist connexions, the establishment of a central wine depot.\nThough he showed broad sympathies with all Christian denominations his major interest remained in the Methodist Church. In country districts and later at Pirie Street and Parkside he served as circuit steward, lay reader, Sunday school superintendent and president of the Sunday School Union; twice he represented South Australia at the Methodist Australasian General Conference. Kindly but earnest, he was generally acknowledged to be conscientious, energetic and impartial. Within the framework of 'liberal principles' he led what the Christian Weekly and Methodist Journal, 13 June 1890, described as the 'white flower of a blameless life'.\nOn 30 April 1856 Catt married Mary, only daughter of Richard Martin of Helston, Cornwall; they had four children. After her death on 30 October 1896 he married the widow, Emily Chanter, on 8 June 1898; she survived him by three years. Of his three surviving children, Alfred Clifford managed the firm of Alfred C. Catt & Co., Catherine Helen married Rev. W. A. Langsford and Isobel Clifford was unmarried when Catt died at his home in St Peters, Adelaide, on 28 October 1919. His funeral service, at which his favourite hymns were sung, was conducted by the president of the Methodist conference.\nObserver (Adelaide), 17 Dec 1887, 1 Nov 1919\nAustralian Christian Commonwealth, 14 Nov 1919.\nelected mayor of Strathalbyn, South Australian Register, 28 November 1870, p 6\n'Complimentary Breakfast to Mr. Catt', South Australian Register, 9 November 1874, p 3\n'The Hon. Alfred Catt at Crystal Brook' (letter-to-the-editor), South Australian Advertiser, 29 September 1882, p 7\n'The Hon. Alfred Catt and His Constituents' (letter-to-the-editor), South Australian Register, 19 October 1887, p 3\n'The Hon. Alfred Catt and the Labor Party' (letter-to-the-editor), Advertiser (Adelaide), 6 May 1896, p 6\n'The Hon. Alfred Catt', Register (Adelaide), 15 February 1907, p 6\n'Light Feeder Railways', Register (Adelaide), 25 May 1907, p 11\n'Old Colleague's Appreciation', Register (Adelaide), 29 October 1919, p 7\n'Cabinet Ministers I Have Known', Register (Adelaide), 20 December 1923, p 11\nCatt, Alfred\nWatt, Thomas (employee)\nGordon Buxton, 'Catt, Alfred (1833\u20131919)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/catt-alfred-3181/text4769, published first in hardcopy 1969, accessed online 16 February 2019.\nNewington, Kent, England\nSt Peters, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia\nStrathalbyn Volunteer Corps (SA)\nGladstone Volunteer Corps (SA)\nDa Costa Samaritan Fund (Adelaide)\nMethodist Ladies' College (Adelaide)\nPrince Alfred College (Adelaide)\nStrathalbyn Literary Institute (SA)\nBooyoolie District Council (SA)\nGladstone District Council (SA)\nStrathalbyn District Council (SA)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://adgj.cf/?https://abc.xyz/investor/conflictminerals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:37Z", "digest": "sha1:7LDBQYXRTKB7EI4BKSJVMAYQKYXCYB3J", "length": 5180, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "adgj.cf", "title": "Conflict Minerals - Investor Relations - Alphabet", "raw_content": "Alphabet\u2019s Conflict Minerals Policy\nMany of our products, like virtually all consumer electronics, contain various metals, including tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold (commonly referred to as \u201c3TG\u201d), which originate in mines around the world. The 3TG metals have become known as \u201cconflict minerals\u201d because much of it is sourced from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (\u201cDRC\u201d) and adjoining countries (together, with the DRC, the \u201cCovered Countries\u201d) where a decades-long civil war is being waged. This conflict has been exacerbated by various groups fighting to control mines and transit routes used in the trade of these minerals.\nIn the U.S., the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (\u201cDodd-Frank Act\u201d) requires public companies to file annual reports with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission beginning in May 2014, disclosing whether or not they are using 3TG originating from the Covered Countries.\nWe believe it is essential to establish validated, conflict-free sources of 3TG within the Covered Countries so that these minerals can be procured in a way that contributes to economic growth and development in the regions. We believe a widespread withdrawal from trade with the Covered Countries should be avoided. We aim to partner with governmental organizations, industry groups and non-governmental organizations to achieve a workable solution.\nWe expect our suppliers to source only from certified conflict-free smelters, such as those audited by the Responsible Mineral Initiative\u2019s (RMI--formerly the Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative) Responsible Minerals Assurance Process (RMAP), or another third party assessment program. If we determine that our expectation is not met, we will work with the supplier and the industry to enable conflict-free sourcing. For example, Google advises its suppliers to take similar measures with their own sub\u2010suppliers to ensure alignment and traceability throughout the supply chain and back to the smelter. Furthermore, under the Google Supplier Code of Conduct, Google expects its suppliers to perform due diligence on the source and chain of custody of minerals used in the manufacturing of products they supply to Google. Suppliers\u2019 due diligence measures should be available to us upon request.\nFor more information on our due diligence efforts regarding the conflict minerals in our supply chain, please refer to our Conflict Minerals Reports.\nDownload Alphabet's 2017 Conflict Minerals Report\nDownload Google's 2014 Conflict Minerals Report\nPlease refer here for a list of smelters provided by our suppliers and verified as smelters by RMI for our 2017 in-scope products.\nWe are partnering with governmental organizations, industry groups and non-governmental organizations to further conflict-free initiatives. For example:\nWe have been a member of RMI since 2013 (member ID: GOOG).\nAs part of our support for RMI, we have contributed to the Initial Audit Fund yearly since 2014. The Initial Audit Fund offers smelters an incentive for participating in the RMAP by fully paying for the costs of their initial audit when they are determined to be conformant. Our contributions to the audit fund have enabled over 55 audits.\nWe joined other companies to support the Solutions for Hope Gold initiative. \u201cSolutions for Hope is a platform that supports companies, civil society organizations, and governments working together to responsibly source minerals from regions experiencing conflict where market access is limited by opaque supply chains.\u201d - Solutions for Hope website.\nWe are a participant in the Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade. We are also a member of the PPAs Governance Committee and the Projects and Resources Work Group. \u201cThe Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade (PPA) is a multi-sector and multi-stakeholder initiative to support supply chain solutions to conflict minerals challenges in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region (GLR) of Central Africa. The PPA provides funding and coordination support to organizations working within the region to develop verifiable conflict-free supply chains; align due diligence programs and practices; encourage responsible sourcing from the region; promote transparency; and bolster in-region civil society and governmental capacity.\u201d - PPA website.\nWe have contributed to Pact. Throughout 2017, with our support, and in collaboration with other stakeholders, Pact led a project in the DRC with two primary objectives: first, to address the needs of older children remaining in the mines who require additional interventions in order to be able to voluntarily leave the mines; and second, to enhance the technical and institutional capacities of local systems relevant to child protection\u2014spanning government, civil society, and mutual aid groups\u2014so that advances made by the project can be sustained by local actors over the long term.\nIn 2017, we joined the Responsible Artisanal Gold Solutions Forum (RAGS) to focus on supporting conflict free gold initiatives, including artisan and small scale mining (ASM) in the DRC; we also support the RAGS Virtual Reality Task Team.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 5569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aerosol.ucsd.edu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:SZIGQJC4RMO4JUXEJO5RS2A7LSN27LQG", "length": 2424, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "aerosol.ucsd.edu", "title": ":: SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY : UC SAN DIEGO ::", "raw_content": "Professor Lynn Russell\nAtmospheric Aerosol Group\nFTIR Users: People and Resources\nEaSM Project: Aerosol-Cloud-Earth Feedbacks\nE-PEACE Project: Eastern Pacific Emitted Aerosol Cloud Experiment\nThe Russell group develops models and analyzes observations to understand the microphysical and chemical evolution of aerosol particles in the atmosphere. Our aim is to characterize the role of atmospheric aerosols on the Earth's climate.\nAerosol particles play an important role in the radiative balance of the atmosphere, with their organic fraction representing one of the largest uncertainties in our ability to quantify climate cooling and feedback effects. The Earth's radiative forcing can be directly affected by anthropogenically-produced particles, and the man-made particles over North America typically include between 20% and 80% organic compounds by mass. The composition and properties of these organic particles have been the focus of significant field and laboratory efforts in the last 5 years. Yet two problems remain. The first is that we still have only a very limited understanding of the types of organic compounds present in most areas of the world, and for most areas we do not even know what functional groups are present. The second problem is that for the areas for which we know something about the organic composition, we have only a very limited idea of the phase partitioning of those organics between the gas and particle phases and, subsequently, of the hygroscopicity of the particle phase.\nThe Atmospheric Aerosol Group at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography investigates the behavior of aerosol particles in the Earth's atmosphere under both pristine marine and polluted urban conditions. Measuring the properties of atmospheric structure and its chemical constituents is an important part of these investigations, for which our group has developed instruments that we have used in the field for airborne and shipboard observations. We have developed significant expertise in using synchrotron radiation to measure organic composition in individual organic particles with soft x-rays. Field projects are an important part of our research effort, providing evidence of the role of aerosol particles in atmospheric chemistry, meteorology, and radiation. Interpreting the results of field projects involves both analysis with numerical models of aerosol evolution and laboratory investigations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aido.furvect.com/fall/world/gods.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:06Z", "digest": "sha1:D3BCXPFVKMATI6KIBFTHFPPJKL66H57X", "length": 866, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "aido.furvect.com", "title": "World : Gods", "raw_content": "There are three kinds of gods; primary gods, secondary gods, and minor gods. There are a total of 12 higher gods, one primary and two secondary for each of the cardinal directions. Minor gods are technically not gods, but are worshipped as them anyway. Depending on their personalities, gods can either sway towards a chaotic or neutral alignment, but that has little importance. We will not be meeting most of these people, so don't expect it.\nFor all of you who know anything about eastern beliefs or have seen Fushigi Yuugi, yes, the gods are partially based on the eastern god system. It's just tweaked. A lot. It's also somewhat based on the Ba Gua.\nThere has been confusion over the connection between gods and Guardians, if there is any at all. I am not at liberty to say this at the time being... but it will be explained.\n\u0095Palslaed\n\u0095Arellus\n\u0095Yurime\n\u0095Naritsu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aliveforfootball.com/2018/11/mike-vrabel-and-tennessee-titans-notch-a-signature-upset-vs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RHTJCE5SUIIAXVPUZA4FHAGOPP7BGXSG", "length": 2127, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "aliveforfootball.com", "title": "Mike Vrabel and Tennessee Titans notch a signature upset vs. Patriots", "raw_content": "\"It's a real sweet win, you know, especially when you used to be there and they didn't want to bring you back\", Lewis said. When you win, you can say a lot of things. A game where they are heavily favored or the game before a bye.\nIt is similar to when former Patriots assistant Eric Mangini led the New York Jets to a 17-14 victory over New England in 2006, which was his first year as head coach. However when they reunited on Sunday in Week 10 for the Patriots game against the Titans, it was nothing but mutual respect. The Titans sacked Brady three times, hit him six and consistently moved him off his spot in the pocket.\n\"That play was pretty much symptomatic of the whole game\", Belichick said Monday. Patriots tight end Dwayne Allen also hurt a knee.\n\"We just couldn't get in a rhythm\", Michel said. \"He just told me good luck, keep fighting\".\nFormer Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler has struggled, giving up touchdown passes through the first half of the season. \"When you're playing from behind, you don't have a lot of opportunities to rush the passer... we didn't create enough of those situations and didn't do well enough in them when we did\". The receiver finished with only four catches for 81 yards - 44 on the Patriots' opening drive on one completion. \"I'm not looking back and seeing the defensive line, but I think that's partially due to the fact I felt a little rushed\". It's rare for New England to lose so big this late in the season, so this win will only help Tennessee's confidence grow.\nIn Week 10 though, he looked like the old shutdown version of himself from a few years ago -but he noted that it wasn't spurred on by a grudge against the Patriots. They converted only 3 of 15 on third down.\nOn DownDetector's live map , the issue appeared to be concentrated on the East Coast of the US. Those without service were seeing the message: \"Sorry, something went wrong\".\nHey @realDonaldTrump here's a picture of President Obama in the rain supporting his American troops on Memorial Day. Addressing one veteran, he joked: \"You look so comfortable up there under shelter as we're getting drenched\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 188.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allthingsdevops.bigbinary.com/2017/12/26/episode-6-kubernetes-and-microservices-with-kelsey-highitower.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PPDERBSW3Z6OVSYZ2VPR7WZBPK5EJ7VH", "length": 31109, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "allthingsdevops.bigbinary.com", "title": "Episode 6: Kubernetes and Microservices with Kelsey | All Things Devops Podcast", "raw_content": "Kelsey on Twitter\n[0:00:00] RAHUL: Hello and welcome to the new episode of \u201cAll Things Devops\u201d podcast. Today we have Kelsey Hightower from Google. I think I don\u2019t need to introduce him. He was a keynote speaker last week in Kubecon and a keynote almost everywhere where there is a container conference or any other conferences like Gophercon is happening, you\u2019ll find him. I welcome him on behalf of Big Binary and All Things Devops podcast. Hi Kelsey, how are you doing?\n[0:00:29] KELSEY: Hey, how you doing?\n[0:00:31] RAHUL: How was Kubecon and what else apart from the great debate about Kubectl, Kub-C-T-L or Kubcontroller. How was it?\n[0:00:43] KELSEY: Oh yeah, I don\u2019t care how people pronounce it. I say Kub-C-T-L but I never corrected it when they say it different.\n[0:00:50] RAHUL: And how was the crowd and what were the, that was happening. How was the crowd doing about Kubernetes. I saw the tweets and videos like a lot of people, like from all over the globe. So how was the experience of Kubecon, which happened in Austin last week?\n[0:01:08] KELSEY: Yeah, we had a 4200 people, so lots of people, coming to talk about not just Kubernetes but also things like Networking, SDL, Service Meshes, Security, lots of Machine Learning on top of Kubernetes, so a lot of people were coming to look at Kubernetes as a platform and different people need different things from Kubernetes [0:01:30] RAHUL: I saw your demo that you demoing, you were just talking with Google Assistant and it was doing things for you, and it looked really great, so thanks a lot for that awesome demo. I was just curious to know if you\u2019re working on something else or, is there any side project that in future we might see? Like if you want to deploy our app, we can just use a Google Assistant or something similar like that. Would we expect that something is coming up in the mainstream process of deployment workflow with Kubernetes?\n[0:02:04] KELSEY: No, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a really compelling reason to deploy with Google Assistant. I mean, you can, because the APIs are there, but I think people are better off just checking in their code to you know, to search repository, like GitHub, and then using a CI/CD pipeline to deploy their apps, I think that is a little bit more realistic and a little bit more repeatable, so I think people should probably focus more on, you know, end-to-end pipelines versus just deploying directly to a cluster.\n[0:02:37] RAHUL: Yeah, end-to-end pipeline is the thing. So, one thing, what we notice in the past six months are, in couple of conferences like maybe Kubecon or AOOC and Hadoop. We see a lot of people are looking for Kubernetes as a service platform, so we have Google Container Engine already from Google. There\u2019s ECS and now EKS has been launched. So, but still, if we check on most of the people are hosting their self-hosted Kubernetes cluster or container orchestration platform tool. So, with this all kind of, services as most of the cloud providers offer Kubernetes services, should we just assume now, going forward, will we almost having Kubernetes as a service platform, and we should be only worried about our deployment pipeline and all the automation that we need to just get them, or application deployment, and we should not be worrying about most of our cluster provisioning things, including bare metal, so there might be possibly the cloud providers will come up with bare metal cluster as well.\n[0:03:49] KELSEY: Yeah, I think that\u2019s the goal. I mean, if you\u2019re a big company and you\u2019re on-prem and you have to manage bare metal, there will probably be a small collection of people who have to install Kubernetes, make sure that it\u2019s running, but the rest of the organization, ideally, should not have to think about Kubernetes or cluster, right? They should just think about deployment application. On the cloud, the cloud provider wants to also offer that experience, like of course, you can go and get a bunch of VMs, install Kubernetes on those VMs and tweak and tune it, but if you have a small team, you\u2019ve got to ask yourself, do you want to manage the infrastructure, or do you want to build applications for your customers? And that\u2019s why I think service providers will always try to provide an option where you can just focus on using the cluster and not managing the cluster.\n[0:04:39] RAHUL: I\u2019ve been managing some of the Kubernetes cluster and I would say, like, it\u2019s really not as straightforward for anyone to maintain a Kubernetes cluster. Instead, it makes sense to just focus on the application deployment pipeline. So, I\u2019m a big fan of your course \u201cKubernetes the hard way\u201dand this is how I started learning Kubernetes and using it since then. So uh, in the latest post you just added Kubernetes 1.8.0 as a Kubernetes version to be used and you are using Containerd as in runtime instead of docker, though it is in alpha instead of Docker. So we know that CRIO is gaining a lot of attention and we are having a lot of other container runtime environments, there\u2019s Rocket, there\u2019s Containerd, so can we assume that now instead of using Docker, we have other, better alternatives, or else what was it like, you thought, your focus for version 1.8 will use Containerd instead of Rocket or something else?\n[0:05:44] KELSEY: Yeah, I think going forward, most people probably won\u2019t use Docker underneath Kubernetes unless you are using Docker to deploy Kubernetes. Most people I think, you\u2019re better off with just the CRIO, which is the Container Runtime Interface if you\u2019re using Redhat, they\u2019ll probably ship CRIOs, CRIO, which is this purpose built, just for Kubernetes, some other people may decide that you should use Containerd, but I think going forward, Kubernetes does most of the heavy lifting, you only need a very little bit of support from the Container Runtime. So this is why you\u2019re starting to see much smaller container runtimes, so people that are currently using Docker may want to transition to Containerd as the support starts to mature there, but going forward, I think Docker itself will evolve into, or it already has, to become its own platform so not just a container runtime, but something much bigger and, in that world, you\u2019re probably better off just with Containerd or Rocket or CRIO.\n[0:06:50] RAHUL: Ok, got it. And how about the recent announcement from Docker, like Docker is also providing the development platform with Kubernetes. So, going forward, if someone comes from the background, like he has developed his application with Docker, using Kubernetes as a development platform, and if the production Kubernetes cluster is running, container runtime as the Containerd or Rocket or CRIO, so I assume that would work straight away, because he\u2019s shipping his application, developed with the Docker, which is backed by Kubernetes and it isn\u2019t CRIO, as in Docker.\n[0:07:30] KELSEY: It should work, if it doesn\u2019t work, we\u2019re going to have problems, right? If, if you run Kubernetes with Docker and the you run Kubernetes with CRIO and things don\u2019t work the same, I mean, there\u2019s a high chance that there might be a few things different, because there\u2019s different runtimes underneath, but we hope that doesn\u2019t happen, because that would lead to a bit of fragmentation and would hurt the portability story, right? If you\u2019re running your app on one Kubernetes platform, and it\u2019s not easy to switch to another, that would cause friction, so we need to make sure that doesn\u2019t happen.\n[0:08:04] RAHUL: Yeah, so I particularly haven\u2019t explored such kind of things but uh, yeah, just, it came up while we were discussing so, so, uh, apart from this Containers and CRIO, so I have been coming across people who are trying to move their application with the traditional deployment where either they are on servers, bare metals or VMs and trying to containerize their app. So first they\u2019ll Dockerize it, then they will move towards Kubernetes, actually people are facing the problem with some of the common things, one is regarding stateful applications and as you know, that has been solved, but different plugins, volume techniques or some techniques like using files system from Ceph, ClusterFS or something, I assume now, but that\u2019s a solvable problem. Then, another major question is whether we should be using database services on Kubernetes clusters. If we are using, we\u2019ll be needing more system data, storage techniques than which persistent storage to confirm and if we are running self-hosted Kubernetes then it is better to run database service from cloud provider if you are using GCP, use GCP database service, if you are on AWS use RDS and if you are running Kubernetes as a service from a cloud provider, then how to adapt this database service, or other services, or in general, how to migrate legacy applications in easiest way to Kubernetes or Containerized platform.\n[0:09:36] KELSEY: Yeah, I, regardless of the technology, most people don\u2019t have experience managing data services, right? It\u2019s not about \u201cCan I do it on Kubernetes, can I do it on Docker?\u201d it\u2019s that most people install the database on one big machine, they never touch it, they back it up sometimes, maybe the test the fail-over, maybe they test and restore. If that\u2019s you, then you kind of don\u2019t have operation expertise of managing a database anyway, so the easiest way of managing the database if you don\u2019t test the failure cases often, is just to put it on a big machine and leave it alone, right? That\u2019s just kind of where you are. If you put it on Kubernetes, life is going to be bad for you. It\u2019s not about Kubernetes not being able to support stateful workloads, it\u2019s just that you don\u2019t know how to manage stateful workloads in a dynamic environment. That\u2019s a skill. Kubernetes will give you that skill.\nSo when it comes to that, some people will say, \u201cWell, if I don\u2019t have the ability operationally, to deal with the database in a, let\u2019s say, containerized environment or where there\u2019s a deployment orchestrator, I\u2019m more used to managing a database in a static environment, where things don\u2019t move around\u201d then just leave your database where you are until you get comfortable enough that you can manage it in an orchestrator. This is less of a technology situation and more of your skill set. Do you have the ability to do this? If you don\u2019t, then maybe it\u2019s better to use something that\u2019s fully managed, right?\nEveryone that uses a database isn\u2019t necessarily a DBA, so if that\u2019s you, then maybe RDS or Google Cloud SQL or a managed database offering is the best idea, because they know how to operate a database where maybe you don\u2019t have the time to. So you really have to understand who the person is. If you know what you\u2019re doing, and you know how to manage the database even when the orchestrator\u2019s there, the volumes don\u2019t change, right? You can use local storage with Kubernetes. You can decide to pin a specific container to a machine where the data lives. You can mount in network storage. You can use NFS, nothing changed between VMs and containers, other than in containers you have to be a little bit more explicit about what you want. But this, this is not a huge technology shift here, right? This is just a different way of interacting with the technology, so I think people need to understand; what are your capabilities? How great, good are your operations skills around managing data services? If it\u2019s not that great, maybe that\u2019s the last thing you want; to move into an orchestrator until you get comfortable.\n[0:12:19] RAHUL: Ok, yeah, so, apart from all these things like database services, and so on, I know that a lot is available for deployment pipeline. Helm is one of the open-source projects and people have their own deployment tools as well and they have open-source tech. But still, once you have Kubernetized or Dockerized your application and you want to automate it in your deployment work-flow, you will try, I mean, most of the people will try for Jenkins, they\u2019ll try for Helms, some people will not like helm charts, some people will not like YAML manifests and this is leading somewhere like, actually, this is a good thing as well, people are coming up with new tools, people are writing their own automation tools for just deployment, so how would you suggest, like which automation tool for deployment, like, Helm or something else. Also, there are some other tools as well, which might be coming from companies or cloud providers. So how do we like, I would say, like, how do we like, take the call that this is the right tool for my deployment with Kubernetes. Either it is Helm or something else.\n[0:13:31] KELSEY: Yeah, uh, the tools don\u2019t matter to me. You\u2019ve got to figure out what you want to do, like check in code, know the container, run some tests and deploy it. That\u2019s pretty much what people are doing. You can also get metrics from the thing that\u2019s deployed, you can use those metrics to roll back if it\u2019s a failed deployment. You could also introduce things like a port across where you version the deployment manifest in an automated fashion, kind of like I did in my keynote at Kubecon, but either way, you should design the work-flow that you want. Forget the tools for a moment. Think about what the end-to-end experience looks like. You can just do it on the whiteboard.\nOnce you understand the way that you want to work, maybe your cultural needs manual, approval before it can go to be deployed. Whenever you need, write it all down. Once you\u2019re done, then you can start experimenting with a few tools, right? Grab some repository to check your coding that supports webhooks so you can trigger automated builds. Whatever tool you pick, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Cloud Builder, Worker, Travis CI, it doesn\u2019t matter. At the end of the day, it\u2019s pretty similar, even though in some steps and some order and if it fails, you\u2019re going to try to notify people that the build or the deployment failed. So the tool to me is less interesting than \u201cWhat do you want to do?\u201d \u201cWhat workflow do you want?\u201d Not everybody wants the same workflow, not everyone has the same interface and not everyone has the same exact problems. But at a high level, checking code, build test, deploy, use data to tell you if everything is working ok and then rinse and repeat. That\u2019s the pipeline.\n[0:15:15] RAHUL: Yeah, makes sense. And this, I think, this reminds me of your keynote at Gophercon where you demoed something like you deployed your Go application directly to Kubernetes cluster and that was just a single batch command. That is also one of the way you showcased like how we can do. But yeah, so after deployment, like, with the, tool doesn\u2019t matter but after that what we come across mostly is about scaling the application, so Kubernetes is beautiful and it allows us to use HPA and they have also added custom metrics auto-scaling and we can scale all this from our own metrics, either we can use prometheus or any other metrics collection, something like Cadvisor or something like that, but yeah.\nI think we have HPA for CPU based auto-scaling, and we use auto-scaling, if I\u2019m not wrong, it is not, available, but sometimes we need to scale our application based on other factors maybe on query process, request base so what we actually do is we write some other techniques, get the metrics count and we can use that without HPA and scale above that. I think this is reliable, but what do you suggest like, is there any other easy way to just auto-scale based on other metrics of pair of metrics instead of just HPA and if it is, when do we expect that, which day is it will come up?\n[0:16:53] KELSEY: Well in the HPA definitely has some features that will support custom metrics at some point, today, a lot of PET people will use external tools, right, like Kubernetes has a robust API. There\u2019s a tool called Capacitor, which comes from the InfluxDB team, Capacitor knows how to read external metric sources, average them, aggregate them and then based on your rules, they can scale deployments, replica sets, up and down based on some criteria. So you don\u2019t have to use HPA for everything, right? There are other tools that will let you accomplish the same thing, so yeah, maybe we won\u2019t have the same tool for every use case, but there are many tools that do auto-scaling based on some data, you will trigger an event. So a high level goal is; I have a data source, based on some rules, I want us to go up, then I want to go down, right? That\u2019s a very common pattern that isn\u2019t new just for Kubernetes, so if you look at some of the existing tools, that have been doing this, you can make those tools work in Kubernetes as well.\n[0:18:00] RAHUL: Ok, yeah, so, we can also use this, so this will provide some brief use cases and we can adopt these tools and auto-scale as well. That is nice. So, another thing regarding application when we deploy on Kubernetes is; most of the time we need to monitor it and as for monitoring, we need to trigger it, sometimes we may have to scale manually, so we\u2019ll just scale up, so for monitoring, there are a lot of solutions. There\u2019s Prometheus, the mostly used one, if I\u2019m not wrong, there is Sysdig and there are others as well. So in terms of Kubernetes applications, if it a self-managed Kubernetes cluster, we have privilege to install any of the monitoring tools, but when we are running applications of a hosted Kubernetes service, how would we custom our monitoring either with Mystique or with Prometheus Grafana, or we can just rely on providers monitoring solutions. Or if we need some more data, of course from this time series and we can configure our own queries and graphs, what would you suggest about monitoring?\n[0:19:25] KELSEY: You can do whatever you want, it\u2019s just Kubernetes, right? That\u2019s the whole point of it being Kubernetes, if it says Kubernetes, whether it\u2019s managed or you manage it, at the end of the day, it\u2019s just Kubernetes. So the cloud provider may integrate with their own metrics, but you don\u2019t have to use it, you can install Prometheus on any cluster and let that Prometheus collects any metrics you want, you can install Grafana on any cluster, whether it\u2019s managed or you manage it. So that\u2019s the nice thing about people offering Kubernetes. You don\u2019t necessarily have to use all the integrations, and the way Kubernetes works and it\u2019s API, as long as you have access to the API, which you do, regardless of if someone else is managing the cluster, you can install anything you want and collect metrics from any other resources that you want. So I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a big barrier there. I mean, you may have to manage Prometheus on your own if you decide to do that, but that was going to be the case anyway.\n[0:20:27] RAHUL: I would say, it was a tough question from here, or a tough decision for me at least, which network runtime whether to go with kubenet, whether to go with Calico, whether to go with FlannelV or something else, so one has to list priorities with networking, of course, I mean it\u2019s hard to choose, which one to choose as your container network runtime for your Kubernetes cluster.\n[0:20:57] KELSEY: I mean, here\u2019s the thing, the choice is there because there\u2019s going to be lots of people stepping up to provide some solutions. There\u2019s a pluggable interface, so of course, most people are going to try to use it. But when you think about a managed offering, we just pick one, for example, when you use VMs on the cloud provider, they also have a networking stack, but you don\u2019t care about it, right? You just get your IP and you use the VM. They also have in a hyper-visor world, there\u2019s also something like Calico, not necessarily Calico, but there is something that allocates IPs and makes sure you can connect to other things inside of your project. Kubernetes is the same way, so if you look at a managed offering, ideally they are just going to pick the best networking stack that works best for that provider, whether it\u2019s Redhat on-premise, or Google in the cloud, it doesn\u2019t matter normally, you just don\u2019t care about what the network is, as long as your pod gets an IP and your loadbalancer can direct traffic to that IP, everything should be fine. It\u2019s when you self manage that\u2019s where you look at all these options and say \u201cOh, I\u2019m going to go with this one because of X,\u201d so soft managed, you get a lot of options, right? That\u2019s the benefit of open source. You get to make all the choices you want. Which choice is right, have no idea. You have to just experiment and use one that is right for you. Or, you can just look at what the providers do and say, \u201cHey, why did they choose what they chose?\u201d Maybe there\u2019s an ability to support it but you know, there\u2019s no one thing that you always do. If your provider provides networking, just use that. For the most part, you\u2019ll probably be fine.\n[0:22:38] RAHUL: Yeah. After that, most debatable parties about like, open authentication whether to ship your Kubecon with all your details and then comes the RBAC, you use RBAC effectively and yeah. We are alternately saying that other tools or other services are adding more on authentication layer if we look at Rancher, if we look at EKS\u2019 preview that they are going to interpret with IM and some with other services. So I think RBAC works, we just have to deal with some rules, permissions, cluster binding and all, but you just curious to know why authentication resources of Kubernetes and applications is still, as you already mentioned, it is a part of choice, but maybe I\u2019m wrong, but I still feel like it is not that straightforward for setting up an authentication for your resources on Kubernetes, so apart from RBAC, how is it going to be there, or which one is preferable, just choose one, the service provider which provides, or RBAC and use the RBAC with the unequal privileges?\n[0:23:56] KELSEY: Yeah, RBAC is, is always tough, right? Every system I\u2019ve ever seen in my life, whether it\u2019s VMware or any tool where there\u2019s lots of objects, and you want granular permissions, then it will be painful, right? That\u2019s just, any time you have that many choices to make, then it\u2019s going to be complex. So, one way to make it easier is to have things like predefined roles, you know, based on certain attributes of course. You need to understand how the API works in order to do that. Inside of core Kubernetes, you know, the building blocks will be there, RBAC, the API and then the goal is tools like Rancher, that you\u2019ve mentioned can make it easier to manage those rules, right? Either having a GUI, maybe some roles, and you can map those roles to workloads, that\u2019s kind of the job of a UX that sits on top, so Google Cloud can do this with IM, you may have Amazon do this with their own IM and their User Management Interface. But in core Kubernetes, it\u2019s more of a platform so that you can do that above it. That makes sense. It\u2019s like, we don\u2019t want to provide only one way of doing it in Kubernetes, we just want to provide the APIs, the Hooks, everything you need to do RBAC correctly, and then when you look at higher up, and let\u2019s say your provider or Rancher or whatever dashboard you\u2019re using, then you can start to think about things like roles or integrate with LDAP or some other authentication tool that you\u2019re using.\n[0:25:30] RAHUL: So we are in process of almost all of people are now adopting Kubernetes or any other container orchestration platform tool, and as of now, I think like, containers are ruling the ops thing, or most of the people, when they have to deploy, they firstly think about using the container platform. But yeah, recently there has been a trained, or serverless is getting more and more attention, there are projects going on to run serverless applications on Kubernetes or on using containers so if I\u2019m not wrong, then it\u2019s Kubeless, Fusion and other projects as well, so how do we see, like, how serverless with Kubernetes can go on? Actually work in other way, we can say deploying applications with Kubernetes it is almost a kind of serverless, but how would you say about serverless with Kubernetes and other orchestration tools?\n[0:26:30] KELSEY: Yeah, when it comes to serverless, I think people are just mixing things. So on, let\u2019s say Amazon Lambda, for example. When they say serverless, it\u2019s fully managed, right? There\u2019s no cluster, they manage authentication, they manage credentials, they manage access to all the services, logs, everything. Like fully managed and in the case of Lambda, it\u2019s a, you know, functions as a service, right? You give it a function, it just does everything else based on that function. And the other mode of serverless at Amazon, which they talked about at Reinvent was Fargate, right? Give me a container and then we\u2019ll try to do some of the similar things around load balancing, logs, metrics and so forth. So when you think about a serverless from that standpoint, I don\u2019t want to deal with any infrastructure, I just want it to be fully managed, whether I\u2019m writing a function or I want to give you a container, right?\nSo that idea of serverless is really taking fully managed all the way to the compute. I don\u2019t want to see anything, just give me my workload. Now, if you have Kubernetes, you could decide that you want a serverless or you want functions on your cluster, right? So you want your developers to write a function and deploy it on Kubernetes. I mean, you could do that, but it\u2019s just a different workflow then just creating the container yourself. In terms of the events, you may or may not have access to the same events that you have on a cloud provider, so I think things like Kubeless and all of those serverless frameworks, more of \u201cHow do I get a function and deploy it into my cluster\u201d and they will just wrap it\u2019 so it\u2019s almost like a platform as a service. And then the events, where they proxy events through let\u2019s say docker or something, is trying to give you some similar experience, but I think there is a difference between a fully-managed serverless platform and something you install on top of your cluster, right? They both have value, I\u2019m not sure they\u2019re 100% the same thing from a user experience perspective.\n[0:28:45] RAHUL: Yeah, so the point like AWS Lambda is a truly, we can call a serverless platform and things like Kubeless or some other things they, the work is happening in order to make the use of Kubernetes for serverless technologies, and as you mentioned, make them usable as a functioning service, but I think, I haven\u2019t experienced any stable uses of that, so we\u2019ll just have to wait and watch. So, the last question I would like to ask; you\u2019re recent trip regarding 2020 productions, like you said, Monolithic applications will be back in style, in 2020 and people will realize the drawbacks of distributed Monolithic applications, so I\u2019d just like to talk more about that, like, as of now people are trying to move away, or most of the people are trying to move away from the monolithic to micro-services architecture and containerized thing, so just like, I wanted to know your thoughts about that really.\n[0:29:46] KELSEY: I think people underestimate the amount of discipline required for microservices. If you move to microservices, it doesn\u2019t get easier, it gets harder, right? The benefits you get maybe that you can work on different components easier at the same time, because they live in different repositories, but you\u2019re going to have to resolve the conflict somewhere. You\u2019re going to have mismatched APIs, you\u2019re going to introduce more performance over the network where, you know, things if you slice them wrong, you are going to be going back and forth, so unless you really do a good job of getting the discipline, really practicing what it means to run a microservice, and actually have real services, so what most people are doing is taking a monolith and splitting it into different processes and then everything depends on each other and writing to the same database. That is not microservice, that\u2019s just a big monolith that you\u2019ve broken into little pieces and you may even have a worse time, performance may go down, you may have increased errors, so just going to microservices alone doesn\u2019t really solve your problem.\nIt can solve your problem, if used wisely so I think there\u2019s a lot of people who are not really thinking this through, not really making the right investments and learning about how to deal with microservices, and there\u2019s this belief if you just go to microservices everything will get easier, or everything will get better and that isn\u2019t true, you have to actually do things a certain way in order to leverage that particular architectural style and also, the reason behind the tweet is that monoliths are not necessarily bad right?\nI think most people don\u2019t really consider that you can multiple monoliths and still not have a microservices platform. You can say \u201cHey, I have this one application, it\u2019s for this particular product, I have another applicaton that is also a monolith that only does batch drops, right?\u201d So that\u2019s 2 different monoliths, they\u2019re not necessarily microservies because you have 2 of them, you just have 2 monoliths. And it\u2019s ok just have 2, you know, what we would consider monoliths, right? So a monolith in my opinion, in this case, would be it has its own authentication, maybe it even presents the UI, maybe it has some of the business logic all couple in to it for one purpose. The batch drop, on the other hand, may only deal with reading things from a cue and handle any authentication or parsing or even sending email based on the cue, so people look at that and say \u201cWell, maybe you should just have a dedicated email service, versus having it into the batch drop\u201d but to me, that\u2019s just a matter of how you take multiple modules, either you can deploy them as one unit and call it a monolith, or you can break it up into many pieces and call it a services architecture, but I\u2019m not so sure that most people are really understanding the challenges of dealing with microservices especially if they don\u2019t have a good understanding of how to deal with a monolith.\n[0:32:44] RAHUL: Makes sense, and we can say like, people are moving from monolithic application deployment to microservices and as you mentioned like, they are just breaking an application into different processes and that is very, not a, a preferred microservices architecture. So yeah, that makes really sense and I think that as you mentioned, people interested in learning and adopting the microservices practice more effectively. So, thanks a lot Kelsey, for taking out the time and talking to All Things Devops Podcast. It was really great fun having you, we all enjoy your course and other work and other projects which you are contributing to the Kubernetes community that helps us really up to great extend and the way you simplify and make it look so simple really helps us a lot. Thanks for doing such a great work for Kubernetes and the community. 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Modeling can help managers locate the best way to do things and save money and time.\nOperations management is an applied form of management science that helps organizations develop techniques to produce their products and services more efficiently.\nDeveloped sophisticated quantitative techniques to assist in decision making.\nModels have increased our awareness of complex organizational processes and has aided in the planning and controlling processes.\nCannot fully explain or predict behavior of people.\nMathematical sophisticalion may come at the expense of other important skills.\nModels may require unrealistic or unfounded assumptions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://anngirdharry.weebly.com/blog/category/10-new-authors-of-colour", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LDBXDJR77WFHEZGWHBYLXZK4ESM3CRJ2", "length": 3238, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "anngirdharry.weebly.com", "title": "Category: 10 New Authors Of Colour", "raw_content": "Book Review - Lola's House by M.Evalina Galang\nLola's House by M.Evalina Galang\nWe are immersed in paragraphs and passages which describe Filipino women's memories of their experience during the Second World War, when the Filipines was invaded by the Japanese.\nWe read of abductions into sexual slavery, the witnessing of atrocities against family members, the witnessing of rape and torture of other women and young girls in the 'camps' set up by the invading Japanese army.\nThe author is a researcher and she mixes passages from the survivors, with her own impressions of them and of their lives currently at Lola's House, where the women meet after a campaign to 'out' the atrocities of the war, supported by the Filipino media and international women's organisations.\nThe author, an American with Filipino ancestry, is clearly moved by the women and their lives. When she first goes to interview the women, she takes with her several young American girls who befriend the survivors and we also see the reactions of these young girls. I found this mix riveting and we really experience the girls' view of the women.\nThe survivors accounts are horrific.\nThe accounts are told by women now in their eighties and nineties, many of whom had never told their family members what they suffered. They kept their experiences a secret because of the shame piled on them by society after the war.\nThis was made more complicated (I understood) by the fact that many villagers fought as guerrillas and fled to the mountains, whereas the camps were in the cities and urban areas full of Japanese - therefore there were few actual Filipino witnesses who were not either imprisoned themselves or collaborators.\nAt the end of this book, I felt the most sadness over the fact that the women's hopes and campaigning for an official apology from the Japanese government, have not been realised - even after years of fighting for justice and with the backing of the US Senate.\nThe women are so old, there will be few left soon.\nI found their courage in the telling of their stories deeply moving.\nI was glad to be an honest witness to their experiences and felt the reading of the book to be an act of solidarity - in defiance of the lack of political will to recognise how terribly these women suffered at the time and then throughout their lives in the silence.\nI also could not help thinking of the Japanese perpetrators and whether any of them are still alive. Since most of the women were abducted when they were young (12, 13, 14 years old...) and the soldiers were older, then I suppose this is unlikely.\nThe photographs in the book make each of the women more real.\nCongratulations to the author for her work in documenting these important stories.\nI give this book 5 stars for the women's stories.\nI dropped it to 4 stars because of the style of documenting, in which the experiences are mixed in with reflections, campaigning, visits to the women's home villages - but this was not done in a linear manner and made it a little difficult at times to follow the threads.\nThe women felt very real to me and this is a book that will stay in my mind for a long time.\n\u200bI received an advance copy of this book from NetGalley. These are my honest views.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 30481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://antistress-thing.ru/carbon-dating-biblical-artifacts-1931.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3EFYWI5WVOACYT6IDPQDMPUVTM5MN6ZC", "length": 1896, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "antistress-thing.ru", "title": "Carbon dating biblical artifacts", "raw_content": "Oxford University has launched a centre to study ancient Christian relics such as bones claimed to be those of St John the Evangelist, John the Baptist and fragments purported to be from the true Cross.The new centre will be based at Keble College\u2019s Advanced Studies Centre.\nThe unit concluded that shroud was made between 12.\nProfessor Thomas Higham of Oxford also led a team dating six small bone fragments found on an island in Bulgaria named Sveti Ivan, translated as St John, which turned out to be the bones were of a man who lived in the Middle East at the same time as Jesus.\nIn 2014, the team also analysed remains of a small finger bone attributed to John the Baptist that was associated with the famous Guelph Treasure.\nThe sample from the finger bone was dated to 660-770 AD, which meant it was too young for St John the Baptist.\nMore recent work has included analysis of remains thought to be of St Luke, St David, and the True Cross, on which Jesus was crucified.\nThe results of these investigations have yet to be published.\nThe Shroud of Turin may be the real burial cloth of Jesus.\nThe carbon dating, once seemingly proving it was a medieval fake, is now widely thought of as suspect and meaningless.\nEven the famous Atheist Richard Dawkins admits it is controversial.\nChristopher Ramsey, the director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Laboratory, thinks more testing is needed. This is because there are significant scientific and non-religious reasons to doubt the validity of the tests.\nChemical analysis, all nicely peer-reviewed in scientific journals and subsequently confirmed by numerous chemists, shows that samples tested are chemically unlike the whole cloth.\nChat roullete camera sex freeee\ndr james dobson dating advice\nmeet local single online dating personals\nsouthport dating sites\nSex chatroulete\ncamping dating singles and personals\nSexy live chat line can heis e girls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/conflicts/australias-war-19391945/events/japanese-retreat-19431944/shaggy-ridge/boomerang", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:48Z", "digest": "sha1:X6KM24SPLLQQWLX5LFC6UNYOIN2YGB3W", "length": 4340, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "anzacportal.dva.gov.au", "title": "The Boomerang | The Anzac Portal", "raw_content": "Flying Officer Dan Lee-Warner of 'A' Flight, 4 Squadron RAAF climbing into his Boomerang tactical reconnaissance aircraft for a sortie in support of 7th Division troops in the Ramu Valley, January 1944. [AWM 070128]\nThe Australian troops in the Markham-Ramu Valley campaign, and elsewhere in New Guinea, were supported by Allied aircrews. Many attacks on Japanese positions were preceded by 'softening up' and 'suppression' of these positions by American or Australian bombers and fighters that attacked with bombs, cannon fire and machine-guns. This helped to reduce casualties among the Australian troops.\nIf there was one type of aircraft that the troops were perhaps most fond of, it was the Australian-built Boomerangs that seemed to be flying over the battle areas, at low level, almost every single day. They were operated by No 4 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, which had first supported Allied troops around Buna in late 1942. At first the squadron had used Wirraways and, flying low level reconnaissance sorties, the pilots and observers of these aircraft proved adept at spotting Japanese positions, and guiding artillery and air attacks. They had even gained an element of fame when one of the pilots, Flying Officer John 'Jack' Archer, shot down a Zero.\nIn the months following this battle, 4 Squadron replaced most of its Wirraways with single-seat Boomerangs. Hastily designed and manufactured as a fighter (Australia's first locally produced fighter) by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation in Melbourne at the height of the invasion scare, the Boomerang had proved disappointing in its intended role. Fighter squadrons had instead been equipped with American-built Kittyhawks and British-built Spitfires as these became available. The Boomerang would have been relegated to training units but it was realised that it might make an ideal army cooperation, or tactical reconnaissance, aircraft. It was highly manoeuvrable, and able to be flown well at low level.\nA typical view of a Boomerang from the perspective of troops below. [AWM 070133]\nThe Boomerangs, and the men who maintained and flew them, were based at a number of airfields during the New Guinea campaigns. They supported virtually every infantry division, even the 1st US Marine Division after it was landed on the island of New Britain at the of 1943. When operating over the forward area, Boomerangs were flown in pairs \u2013 while the bottom pilot scanned the terrain for signs of Japanese troops and positions, the top pilot scanned the skies for enemy fighters. They needed to be spotted early, as the Boomerang was no match for enemy fighters, and the only real hope of survival was to escape flying at low level. The other danger was mistaken identity \u2013 at least two aircraft were shot down by Americans in 'friendly fire' incidents.\nOne of 4 Squadron's ground-based wireless operators, Leading Aircraftman Lindsay Wallace, maintains communications between the RAAF and Army. [AWM OG0207]\nPilots were well trained, having each spent several months with the sister squadron, 5 Squadron RAAF, in Queensland, flying on training exercises with the Army, before being posted to New Guinea. They learned to spot the smallest of signs \u2013 footprints on riverbanks or along tracks, or perhaps broken limbs of trees, that could indicate the presence of Japanese troops. Using wireless sets, they could communicate with artillery gunners, or they could 'lead in' other Allied aircraft, by firing their tracer-equipped cannon shells into identified enemy positions, so that the attacking aircraft knew where to fire and drop their bombs.\nThere was a cost, with several pilots killed in action during the course of the campaigns. A few ground staff also lost their lives, as a result of accidents. Undoubtedly, the presence of these men in and over the battle area helped attain victory.\nPilots and ground staff of a Boomerang, nicknamed 'On the Job!', October 1943.\nLieutenant John Fetherstonhaugh (left), Army Air Liaison Officer attached to 4 Squadron RAAF, and two pilots, study aerial photographs, Ramu Valley, January 1944.\nFetherstonhaugh and Flight Lieutenant Jack Unkles were later reported missing in action. The wreckage of their Wirraway and their remains lay undiscovered in the jungle until 1998. They were then buried in Lae War Cemetry, New Guinea.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 320, "original_length": 12427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://apdw2018.org/abstract/index4.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:54Z", "digest": "sha1:CUIN264JWAT2LOVPX2JVPFX23VIFTU5M", "length": 4872, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "apdw2018.org", "title": "APDW 2018", "raw_content": "APDWF/JGHF Young Investigator Award (YIA)\nThe purpose of the Young Investigator Award (YIA) is to stimulate interest in research training by rewarding outstanding examples of excellence amongst those involved in research training in the early stages of their career. Applicants must be from nationalities of Asia Pacific countries.\nThe award will be presented at the APDW 2018 and is jointly sponsored by the APDWF and the JGHF.\nApplicant must be in the early stages of their career up to 5 years following the completion of training in gastroenterology/ hepatology. Training certification of the presenting author will be requested to apply for the award during the abstract submission process.\nApplicants for the APDW/JGHF YIA should submit their abstracts for oral presentation. Applicants shall be shortlisted according to the score assigned by the Abstract Selection Committee. Selected abstracts for the APDW/JGHF YIA will be announced in July 2018 and compete for the 3 awards:\nIn assessing the presenters for the awards, the panel of judges will take into account the following criteria:\nQuality and scientific merit of the abstract - 50%\nQuality of the presentation - 25%\nAbility to defend the work - 25%\nAPDWF Posters of Distinction Award\nThe purpose of the Posters of Distinction Award is to stimulate interest in research training by rewarding outstanding examples of excellence amongst those involved in research training in the early stages of their career and who prefer to present their papers in poster mode. Applicants must be from nationalities of Asia Pacific countries.\nThe award will be presented at the APDW 2018 and is sponsored by the APDWF.\nApplicants for the Posters of Distinction Award will be shortlisted according to the score assigned by the Abstract Selection Committee. Selected abstracts for the Posters of Distinction Award will be announced in July 2018 and compete for the 3 awards:\nA maximum of 5 Posters of Distinction shall be awarded at USD 1,500 each.\nAPDWF/JGHF Travel Grants\nThe APDWF/JGHF Travel Grants are to provide the opportunity for clinicians and scientists in the early stages of their career (up to five (5) years following the completion of training in gastroenterology/ hepatology.) to broaden their education and experience the field of gastroenterology/ hepatology.\nUp to 70 travel grants will be presented.\nThe award is sponsored by the APDWF and JGHF. APDWF and JGHF will offer up to 50 and 20 travel grants, respectively.\n- Applicant must be in the early stages of their career up to 5 years following the completion of training in gastroenterology/ hepatology.\n- Applicants must be from nationalities of Asian Pacific countries.\n- Applicants must be able to converse in English.\n- Applicants must submit abstract, be selected, and attend the APDW 2018 to be qualified for the grants.\n- Curriculum vitae (CV) together with list of papers presented and published must be submitted to apply for the grant during the abstract submission process.\n- Travel grant recipients must attend the APDWF/JGHF Young Clinician Investigator Program which will be held on November 14 (Wed), 2018 to be qualified for the grants.\n- A maximum of 70 grants of USD 1,500 each will be available.\n- One (1) night hotel accommodation allowance will be offered to awardees for attending the APDWF/JGHF Young Clinician Investigator Program.\n- The grant can only be used to fund attendance at APDW 2018 in the relevant year and is not transferable.\n- Priority will be given to applicants from countries with limited opportunities to attend education and training activities.\nSuccessful applicants shall be notified in July 2018.\nKDDW Travel Grants\nTo encourage the participation of international participants, the KDDW 2018 organizing committee will provide Travel Grants to doctors under the age of 45 whose abstracts are selected for the KDDW Young Investigator Forum session to be held on November 15 (Thu), 2018.\n- Applicant must be a citizen of an Asian Pacific country under the age of 45.\n- Applicant must be able to converse in English.\n- Applicant must submit an abstract, be selected, and attend KDDW 2018 to be qualified for the Travel Grants.\n- Applicant must submit a curriculum vitae (CV) together with a list of papers presented and published during the abstract submission process to apply for the Travel Grant.\n- Travel Grant recipients must give a presentation at the Asian Young Investigator Forum to be held on November 15 (Thu), 2018.\n- A maximum of 30 Travel Grants of USD 1,500 each will be available.\n- Applicant must be pre-registered for the congress and complete the payment of his/her registration fee by September 30, 2018.\n- Priority will be given to applicants from countries with limited opportunities to attend educational and training activities.\nSuccessful applicants shall be notified in September 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 7806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://appellatelaw-nj.com/parent-did-not-abandon-child-so-as-to-lose-right-to-share-of-sons-intestate-estate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:19Z", "digest": "sha1:LJHTKKIPE663ZXNGLR4S27J5LDD2CZWF", "length": 4170, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "appellatelaw-nj.com", "title": "Parent Did Not \"Abandon\" Child So As to Lose Right to Share of Son's Intestate Estate - Appellate Law NJ Blog", "raw_content": "Parent Did Not \u201cAbandon\u201d Child So As to Lose Right to Share of Son\u2019s Intestate Estate\nPosted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Dec 28, 2015 in Appellate Division, Chancery issues, Judges, Standards of review, Statutory interpretation | 0 comments\nIn re Estate of Michael D. Fisher, II, 443 N.J. Super. 180 (App. Div. 2015). Under N.J.S.A. 3B:5-4(b), when a person dies with no spouse or children, the person\u2019s parents each share equally in the decedent\u2019s intestate estate. A parent loses the right to a share, however, if (among other things) the parent \u201cabandoned the decedent when the decedent was a minor by willfully forsaking the decedent.\u201d N.J.S.A. 3B:5-14.1(b)(1). Michael D. Fisher, II, died intestate at age fifteen. His parents, Michael D. Fisher and Justina Nees, had separated when the son was six years old. They were later divorced, with Nees being awarded custody of Michael.\nNees filed suit to block Fisher, Sr. from receiving a share of his son\u2019s intestate estate. Nees contended that Fisher had abandoned his son by failing to take steps required by the court in the divorce that would have allowed him to have supervised parenting time with Michael, as well as by failing to pay child support and moving to Florida. The Chancery Division ruled for Nees. Fisher appealed, and the Appellate Division reversed in an opinion by Judge Haas.\n\u201cWhether Fisher \u2018abandoned\u2019 Michael turns upon an interpretation of N.J.S.A. 3B:5-14.1(b)(1).\u201d Thus, de novo review was required.\nJudge Haas first considered and rejected Fisher\u2019s argument that language in N.J.S.A. 3B:5-14.1(b)(1) that came after the \u201cwillfully forsaking\u201d phrase limited \u201cabandonment\u201d to situations in which the child was \u201cexposed to physical or moral risk\u201d or left \u201cin the care, custody and control of the State at the time of death.\u201d Citing the language and punctuation of the statute, as well as legislative history, Judge Haas demonstrated that \u201cwillfully forsaking\u201d a child, by itself, is enough to constitute \u201cabandonment\u201d in this context.\nThe true issue was what constituted \u201cabandon[ing]\u201d or \u201cwillfully forsaking\u201d Michael. The Chancery Division had relied solely on a dictionary definition of \u201cwillfully.\u201d Judge Haas cited authority dating back to an opinion of Judge Learned Hand, to the effect that \u201ca mature and developed jurisprudence [does] not make a fortress out of the dictionary.\u201d Instead, Judge Haas found that precedents under N.J.S.A. 9:6-1, which construed these same terms in the context of family law, were a more appropriate resource. After reviewing those authorities, Judge Haas concluded that \u201cabandonment by willfully forsaking\u201d requires a finding that \u201cthe parent, through his or her unambiguous and intentional conduct, has clearly manifested a settled purpose to permanently forgo all parental duties and relinquish all parental claims to the child\u201d (emphases by Judge Haas). Though Fisher argued for the imposition of a \u201cclear and convincing\u201d standard of proof on Nees on this issue, Judge Haas, after a careful analysis, determined that the normal \u201cpreponderance of the evidence\u201d test would apply.\nUltimately, however, the panel ruled for Fisher. Though he had not taken required actions to obtain supervised parenting time, that did not represent an intentional choice to permanently forgo all contact with Michael. Though Fisher had been behind on child support, he had paid two-thirds of the amount due, thus showing once again that he did not intend to give up all rights permanently. Nor did a motion that Fisher filed to alter his child support obligation based on changed circumstances, such as Fisher\u2019s health, support a finding of abandonment. Additionally, Fisher had spoken to Michael on one occasion, despite a restraining order forbidding him to do so. Fisher also contacted Michael on Facebook and traveled from Florida to New Jersey to attend Michael\u2019s funeral. That too negated any intent to permanently abandon Michael.\nEven the Chancery judge had found that Fisher may not have had the\u201dspecific intent or purpose to abandon his son. However, without that settled \u2018purpose\u2019 or \u2018specific intent,\u2019 there can be no abandonment or willful forsaking of a child.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 8547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://apps.washingtonpost.com/national/fallen/93/tyler-brown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:2GGCZ6FZEOJUWX5MVR6GGJZXSGQI5RSG", "length": 187, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "apps.washingtonpost.com", "title": "1st Lt. Tyler H. Brown | Faces of the Fallen | The Washington Post", "raw_content": "1st Lt. Tyler H. Brown\nUnit: 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, Camp Hovey, Tongduchon City, Korea\nSep 14th, 2004: Killed in Ramadi during an attack on his unit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 193.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.eurweb.com/2015/11/watch-black-father-defends-victim-of-spring-valley-high-assault/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:31Z", "digest": "sha1:VHE64N35ZYKGLIC47INL33QFQXAQVHZ3", "length": 2812, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "archive.eurweb.com", "title": "WATCH: Black Father Defends Victim of Spring Valley High Assault | EURweb", "raw_content": "WATCH: Black Father Defends Victim of Spring Valley High Assault\nApple NewsLivingNewsPolice - Police AbuseraceTop NewsUrban LivingUrban News1 Comment0 views\n*The situation at Spring Valley High School has produced a lot of feelings about what happened to the female student who was assaulted by Officer Ben Fields.\nSo much so that a black father went in on the school, its officers and the state of South Carolina while defending the 16-year-old victim during a school board meeting. In a video of the meeting, the man is seen standing up to express his outrage at the assault as well as the police department\u2019s delay, at the time, in firing Fields\nThe following are quotes taken from the man\u2019s passionate speech, via Madame Noire:\n\u201cIf that was my daughter\u2026she is my daughter. She don\u2019t have to belong to me biologically\u2026That officer being fired would be the least of his worries. We are sick and tired of Black women being abused. You can say it\u2019s not racism all you want to, but this is going on all across this country, everyday.\u201d\n\u201cAs I understand it, this student comes from a foster family. She didn\u2019t have a father like me to deal with that situation, in the most savage way.\u201d\n\u201cYou do not touch nobody\u2019s child, whether they\u2019re White or Black, in that manner. I wouldn\u2019t put my hands on a White child and throw her across the room, slam her on the floor. Her father would have every right to come and take my life if he choose to do so. And as a father, you wouldn\u2019t have to worry about him being fired because I would put some fire to his behind.\u201d\nAs the video progresses, the man, who said he had no fear of any man, criticized the officers, telling them that they were responsible for Fields\u2019 actions and the children are in their care when they are in the school. As a result it is their job to ensure that they are protected.\nCiting other examples of racism in South Carolina, the man mentioned that the state was embarrassing itself in the news.\n\u201cSouth Carolina you\u2019re doing yourself well across the world.,\u201d he said. \u201cYou shoot 9 people in Charleston. You shoot the young brother\u2026 for going to get his license and registration and now you\u2019re beating up young girls in school? And you are thinking about firing him? He should have been fired that day!\u201d\nFrom there, Madame Noire notes the man told the officers that it was their responsibility to stop this type of behavior in schools and in the community, lest there be more enraged black men like him, taking matters into their own hands.\nTo see the video in its entirety, check it out below:\nben fieldsspring valley high school\nPrevious ArticleE\u00b2M\u00b2 EURweb's Empire of Music & Moguls: The Rumor of Jay King's 1st million\nNext ArticleBeyonc\u00e9\u2019s Former \u2018Babysitter\u2019 Says Drugs and Sex Surrounded Her: Report\nNovember 10, 2015 rositabee Reply\nBlack man!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 6382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archives.newyorker.com/?iid=15745&startpage=page0000023", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:31Z", "digest": "sha1:7GVOVQKBU6PEFWFHGTWNMJITKXN3EBZC", "length": 10034, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "archives.newyorker.com", "title": "The New Yorker Digital Edition : Feb 24, 1992", "raw_content": "MOVIE HOU5E5-Cont'd Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, and Adam Baldwin. 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Theatre 3: \"The Fisher King\" (Terry Gilliam), with RobIn Williams and Jeff Bridges. Theatre 4: \"The Addams Family\" (Barry Sonnenfeld), with Anjelica Huston and Raul Julia; and \"Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Coun- try\" (Nicholas Meyer), with Wil- liam Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, and DeForest Kelley. Theatre 5: \"The Black Robe\" (t). Theatre 6: \"Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse\" (Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper), a docu- mentary about the making of \"Apoc- alypse Now.\" ZIEGFELD, 141 W. 54th. (765-7600) \"Shining Through\" (David Seltzer), with Michael Douglas and MelanIe Griffith. LOEWS FESTIVAL, 6 W. 57th. (307-7856) \"The Inner Circle\" (t). 57TH 51. PLAYHOUSE, 110 W. 57th. (581-7360) \"Naked Lunch\" (t) CARNEGIE HALL Cn E As, 7th Ave. between 56th and 57th. (265-2520) Theatre 1: \"Mississippi Masala\" (Mira Nair), with Denzel Washington and Sarita Choudhury. Theatre 2: \"Madame Bovary\" (Claude Chabrol; in French), with \u00ecsabelle Huppert, Lucas Belvaux, Jean- Fran\u00e7ois Balmer, Christophe Malavoy, and Jean Yanne. LOEWS FINE ARTS, 4 W. 58th. (980-5656) \"Kafka\" (Steven Soderbergh), with Jeremy Irons. Cn E A 3. 2 W. 59th. (752-5959) \"Meeting Venus\" (Istv\u00e1n Szab\u00f3), with Glenn Close and Niels Arestrup. LOEWS COLU BUS CIRCLE, B'way at 61st. (247-5070) \"JFK\" (t). 62ND & BROADWAY, 62 W 62nd. (265-7466) \"Grand Canyon\" (t). LINCOLN PLAZA I, 2, AND 3, B'way at 63rd. (757 -2280) Theatre 1: \"Voyager\" (Volker Schl\u00f6ndorff), with Sam Shepard and Julie Delpy. Theatre 2: \"High Heels\" (t). Theatre 3: \"The Double LIfe of V\u00e9ronique\" (Krzysztof Kieslowski, in French and Pol- ish), with Ir\u00e8ne Jacob and Philippe Volter. REGENCY, B'way at 67th. (724-3700) \"Fried Green Tomatoes\" (t). LOEWS 84TH STREET SIXPLEX, B'way at 84th. (877-3600) Theatre 1: \"Wayne's World\" (Penelope Spheeris), with Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, and Rob Lowe. Theatre 2. \"Final Analysis\" (PhIl Joanou), wi th Richard Gere and Kim Basinger. Theatre 3: \"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle\" (t). Theatre 4: Through Feb 20: \"Wayne's World.\" From Feb. 21: \"Radio Flyer\" (Rich- ard Donner), with Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, and Adam Baldwin. Theatre 5: \"Medicine Man\" (t). Theatre 6: \"Bugsy\" (t). METRO CINE A I AND 2, B'way at 99th. (222- 1200) Theatre 1: \"The Prince of Tides\" (t). Woo; in Chinese) and \"God of Gamblers\" (1989 Wong Jing; in Chinese). From Feb. 26: \"Pauline at the Beach\" (1982, Eric Rohmer; in French); and \"Boyfriends and Girlfriends\" (1988, Rohmerj in French). FIL..... FORU 2, 209 W. Houston St. ,,727-8110) Feb. 17: \"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum\" (1966, Richard Lester), with Zero Mostel, PhIl Silvers, Jack Gilford, and Buster Keaton; and \"The MIsadven- tures of Buster Keaton\" (1955). Feb. 18-19: A program of Buster Keaton television appearances; and short films by Keaton from the early forties. Feb. 20: \"The Railrodder\" (1965), \"Buster Keaton Rides Again\" (1965), \"Film\" (1965), and \"The Scribe\" (1966). From Feb. 21: \"Andrei Roublev\" (1969, Andrei Tarkovsky; in Russian). THEATRE 80 ST. MARKS, 80 St. Marks PI. (254-7400) Feb. 17: \"Stolen Kisses\" (1968, Fran\u00e7ois Truf- faut; in French), with Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud; and \"The Man Who Loved Women\" (1977, Truffaut; in French), with Charles Denner, Brigitte Fossey, Nelly Borgeaud, and Les- lie Caron. Feb. 18: \"MInIstry of Fear\" (1944, Fritz Lang), wi th Ray Milland, Marjorie Reynolds, and Dan Duryea; and \"The Fallen Idol\" (1948, Carol Reed), with Bobby Henrey, Ralph Richardson, and Mich\u00e8le Morgan. Feb. 19: \"Goldfinger\" (1964, Guy Ham- ilton) and \"From Russia with Love\" (1964, Terence Young), both with Sean Connery as James Bond. Feb. 20: \"King of Hearts\" (1967, Phil- ippe de Broca; in French and English), with Alan Bates and Genevi\u00e8ve Bujold; and \"The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob\" (1973, G\u00e9rard Oury; in French), with Louis de Fun\u00e8s. Feb. 21-22: \"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest\" (1975, Milos Forman), with Jack (, Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, and Will Sampson; and \"Taking Off\" (1971, For- man), with Lynn Carlin and Buck Henry. Feb. 23: \"Persona\" (1967, Ingmar Berg- man; in Swedish), with Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann; and \"The Seventh Seal\" (1956, Bergman; in Swedish), with Max von Sydow, Gunnar Bj\u00f6rnstrand, Andersson, and Nils Poppe. Feb. 24: \"Day for Night\" (1973, Fran\u00e7ois .;:: ____ Truffaut; in French), with Jacqueline f Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean-Pierre \\ L\u00e9aud, and Valentina Cortese; and \"Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me\" (1973 Truf- (\u00eb '--. faut; in French), with Bernadette Lafont. Feb. 25: \"Blonde Venus\" (1932, Josef von Sternberg), with Marlene Dietrich? Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, ana Dickie Moore; and \"Shanghai Express\" (1932, Sternberg), with Dietrich, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, and Anna May Wong. Feb. 26: \"Dark Victory\" (1938, Edmund Goulding), with Bette Davis, George Brent, and Geraldine Fitzgerald; and ' 'Now, V oy- ager\" (see page 23). FILM LIBRARIE5, ETC. MUSEU OF MODERN ART, Roy and Niuta Titus Theatres, 11 W. 53rd St. (708-9490)-Feb. 17 at 2: \"Jonathan\" (1969, directed by Hans W. Geissend\u00f6rfer t . in German). . . . C]j Feb. 17 at 2:30 and 5: wo different progra.ms of short films from Latin America.... C]j Feb. 17 at 5: \"Talk Radio\" (1988, Oliver Stone), with Eric Bogosian, Ellen Greene, and Alec Baldwin. . . . C]j Feb. 18 at 2:30: \"Burn 'em Up Barnes\" (1921, George Andre Beranger and Johnny HIne silent), with Hines and George Fawcett. . . . Feb. 18 at 6: \"Broken Jour- ney\" (1948, Ken Annakin), with Phillis Cal- vert, Margot Grahame, and Francis L. Sul- livan. . . . C]j Feb. 20 at 2:30 and Feb. 22 at 5: \"The Age of Earth\" (1980, Glauber Rocha; a Brazilian film)... in Portuguese). . . . C]j Feb. 20 at 3 and 6: \"coal Wars: The Battle in Rum Creek\" (1991, Kathleen Foster) and \"Making Wayes\" (1991 Donald Blank), both documen- tanes. . . . C]j .r eb. 20 at 6 and Feb. 22 at 2: \"A Man of Principle\" (1984, Francisco N or- den; a Colombian film, in Spanish} . . . C]j Feb. 21 at 2:30 and Feb. 25 at 6: 'A Clouded Name\" (1923, Austin O. Huhn; silent)l with Norma Shearer. . . . C]j Feb. 21 at 3 ana Feb. 23 at 5: A program of short films by Hollis Frampton Barbara Hammer Kathryn Bige- low, and Ernie Gehr. . . . C]j Feb. 21 at 6 and Feb. 25 at 2:30: \"Bashful Ballerina\" (1937, Al Christie), with Imo ene Cocaiy',.'The Cho- rus Girl's Romance' (1920, william C. Dowlan; a United States film, with Portu- Theatre 2: Through Feb. 20: (Matin\u00e9es only) \"The Adventures of the Great Mouse De- tective,\" a Disney animated film; and (eve- nings only) \"Rush\" (t). From Feb. 21: \"Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot\" (Roger Spottiswoode), with Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, and J oBeth Williams. OLY PIA I AND II, B'way at 107th (865-8128) Theatre 1: \"Father of the Bride\" (Charles Shyer), wIth Steve Martin. Theatre 2: (Matin\u00e9es only) \"Beauty and the Beast\" (t); and (evenings only) \"Cape Fear\" (t). TIME5 5QUARE AREA CRITERION CENTER, B'way at 44th (354-0900) Theatre 1: \"Hook\" (t). Theatre 2: \"Freejack\" (t). Theatre 3: \"Bugsy\" (t). Theatre 4: \"Final Anafysis\" (directed by Phil Joanou), with Richard Gere, Kim Basinger, Uma Thurman and Eric Roberts. Theatre 5: \"The Last Boy Scout\" (Tony Scott), with Bruce Willis and Damon Wayans Theatre 6: \"Love Crimes\" (Lizzie Borden), with Sean Young and Patrick Bergin. Theatre 7: \"Into the Sun\" (Fritz Kiersch) i with Anthony Michael Hall and Michae Par\u00e9. E BASSY I, B'way at 46th. (302-0494) \"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle\" (t). ---. o -t<<)W P-UytNG -=+=: .- ----r .-----.... ! - ---;- a' ,i -+- ! r =l ...., . ....... -\" \\.., < u '-\"' c. \u00ec.........\\..\\.. I j I \"Y _ E BASSY 2,3, AND 4, 7th Ave. at 47th. (730-7262) Theatre 1: \"Medicine Man\" (t). Theatre 2: \"Juice\" (Ernest R. Dickerson), with Omar Epps. Theatre 3: (Matin\u00e9es only) \"The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective,\" a Disney animated film; and (evenings only) \"Father of the Bride\" (Charles Shyer), with Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, and Martin Short. LOEWS ASTOR PLAZA, 44th St. at B'way. (869-8340) \"Wayne's World\" (Penelope Spheeris), with Mike Myers Dana Carvey, and Rob Lowe. NATIONAL TWIN, \u00carway at 44th. (869-0950) Theatre 1: Through Feb. 20: \"The Pnnce of Tides\" (t). From Feb. 21: \"Radio Flyer\" (Richard Donner), with Lorraine Bracco, John Heard, Elijah Wood, Joseph Mazzello, and Adam Baldwin. Theatre 2: Through Feb. 20: \"Cape Fear\" (t). From Feb. 21: \"Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot\" (Roger Spottiswoode), with Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, and JoBeth Williams. REVIVAL HOUSES LE CINE ATOGRAPHE, 15 Vandam St. (675-4680) \"L'Atalante\" (1934, directed by Jean Vigo; in French), with J ean Dast\u00e9 Dita Parlo, Michel Simon, an Louis Lefevre. 8TH ST. PLAYHOUSE, 52 W. 8th. (674-6515) Feb. 17: \"Father and Son\" (1981, Allen Fong; in Chinese) and \"City on Fire\" (1987, Ringo Lam; in Chinese). Feb. 18-19: \"Chicken and Duck Talk\" (1988, Clifton Ko; in Chinese) and \"Encounter of the Spooky Kind\" (1980, Sarno Hung; in Chinese). Feb. 20-22: \"Armor of God\" (1987\\ Jackie Chan; in Chinese), with Chan; ana \"Long Arm of the Law' (1984, Johnny Mak; in Chinese). Feb. 23-25: \"A Better Tomorrow\" (1986, John 21 I ! 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Here is the FDIC information from the bank as well as the bank's troubled asset ratio, which was compiled by the Investigative Reporting Workshop at American University. We regret the error. Farmers State Bank (Turton) Troubled asset ratio, December 2008: 0.0 National median, December 2008: 9.9 Troubled asset ratio, December 2007: 0.0 National median, December 2007: 5.0 Assets\nDec. 31, 2007 - $19,683,000\nDec. 31, 2008 - $20,632,000 Deposits\nDec. 31, 2008 - $16,873,000 Loans\nDec. 31, 2008 - $15,142,000 Loan loss provision\nDec. 31, 2007 - $0\nDec. 31, 2008 - $0 Profit\nDec. 31, 2007 - $279,000\nDec. 31, 2008 - $143,000 Capital\nDec. 31, 2007 - $2,715,000\nDec. 31, 2008 - $2,619,000 Reserves\nDec. 31, 2008 - $253,000 Loans 90 days or more past due\nDec. 31, 2008 - $0 Non-accruing loans\nDec. 31, 2008 - $0 Other real estate owned\nDec. 31, 2008 - $0 Capital plus reserves\nDec. 31, 2008 - $2,872,000 Troubled assets\nDec. 31, 2008 - $0 The American News tries to be fair and accurate. 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Canada\u2019s newest University of the Arts.\nIf you\u2019re looking for the right answers, you\u2019ve come to the wrong place. If you\u2019re looking for the right questions welcome to\nAlberta University of the Arts\nOn January 17 2019 ACAD will transition to AUArts, one of Canada\u2019s newest Arts Universities. AUArts is dedicated to art, craft and design, with close to one hundred years of history in the making, where your skills and interests will be nurtured alongside a talented community of emerging creatives. You will learn from experts who are among the country\u2019s most acclaimed practicing artists and academics, across a diverse range of degree programs and disciplines. Your mind will expand. Your passions will flourish. And your perspectives will be changed. Forever.\nWe are a community of thinkers, shapers, makers and risk takers.\nAs ACAD embarked on the path to transition from college to university with the Government of Alberta granting approval in March 2018, we are now proud to announce a new name and look for our historic arts institution as Alberta University of the Arts.\nRebranded by Will Creative, a dynamic Canadian agency featuring the talents of ACAD Alumna Allison Chambers leading the creative design, our new identity embodies a community of students, faculty, staff and alumni rich in diversity of culture and thought, challenged to fearlessly explore anything that moves us, drives us, and implores all of us to see the world differently, and shape it uniquely.\nWe continue to educate in ways that test the boundaries of common thought. Ways that will ignite your imagination and fuel your curiosity to go further. To explore deeper. 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First LNG production is scheduled for 2017.\nhttp://novatek.ru/en/about/general/\nAll-Russian Scientific Research Institute for Geology & Mineral Resources of the Ocean (VNIIOkeangeologia) is the head scientific organisation of the Russian Federation Ministry for Natural Resources in the sphere of geological studies of the continental shelf, the Ocean, the Arctic and the Antarctic. VNIIOkeangeologia provides a wide range of services in the fields of geology, geophysics and geochemistry including offshore prospecting of hydrocarbon fields (oil, gas, gas hydrates), geological engineering, seismological research and laboratory analysis.\nhttp://www.vniio.org/\nTigers Realm Coal\u2019s (\u201cTIG\u2019s\u201d) vision is to become a significant supplier of high quality coking coal to the seaborne market through the development of its assets located in the vicinity of the Bering Sea coast in the Russian Far East, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (District). The two TIG controlled Licences, Amaam and Amaam North, together comprise the \u201cAmaam Coal Project\u201d. Integral to the realisation of the Amaam North project is the TIG owned Beringovsky Port and Coal Terminal, located 35km to the north east of the Amaam North tenement. TIG is planning to achieve this goal through gradually realising its resource potential and becoming a meaningful supplier of up to 10 Mtpa of coking coal to the seaborne market via the development of the Amaam Coal project in three stages.\nhttp://www.tigersrealmcoal.com/\nNational Energy Security Fund (NESF) was established in summer 2006 to study the influence of political factors on the energy industry and the effects of the oil & gas sector on the political processes in Russia. The NESF emerged from the Center for Current Politics as a detachment focusing solely on energy issues. Head of the Fund is Konstantin Simonov. 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Applied pressure (acupressure), lasers, and magnets also may be used to stimulate acupuncture points.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aviewoverthebell.blogspot.com/2013/12/book-review-ransom-by-david-malouf.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YOITUI2O5PLZWODCTBE56ATWBYBQU3YG", "length": 3085, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "aviewoverthebell.blogspot.com", "title": "A View Over the Bell: Book Review - Ransom by David Malouf", "raw_content": "Book Review - Ransom by David Malouf\nRansom by David Malouf\nNorth Sydney: Knopf, 2009 ISBN 9781741668377\nWhat a wonderful book! David Malouf is more well-known for his novels than his poetry, but it is as a poet he started his literary life, and a poet he remains, as this gem of a novel shows. The story is based on the section of the Iliad in which Patroclus is killed, Achilles kills Hector and drags his body before the walls of Troy, and ends when Priam reclaims Hector's body from Achilles.\nThis book though, is about human feeling - rage, grief, and love. There is a strong undercurrent in the book that tradition, or the traditional way of doing things, does not suffice in making us truly human. Achilles, in his grief and guilt, denies Hector the burial due to him and drags his body for eleven days up and down the field of battle - it does nothing to assuage his feelings, and each morning Hector's body is miraculously restored. Priam discovers during the book that the formalities of life as a King means he has missed so many of the small things that make life such a wonderful tapestry.\nThis is also a book about courage - Priam's courage to defy ageless tradition by journeying to Achilles as a mere father asking for the return of a dead son. Achilles' courage in knowing what is to come and facing it anyway. And then there is Somax. If you're thinking back to your reading of the Iliad with confusion don't worry - Somax does not appear in the original. In Malouf's retelling he is the person driving the cart in which Priam takes the ransom to, and Hector's body from, the Greek camp. Somax is a simple man, a villager, chosen by Priam to accompany him owing to the plainness of his cart, and the eye-catching personality of one of his mules. He too is courageous, in the way of a simple man accepting what life throws and him and enduring, which is perhaps the most courageous thing of all.\nIn fact Somax is in many ways the hero of this book full of \"Heroes\". It is his practical nature that seems most sensible, his easy-going nature the most noble, and his grief the most genuine. His soliloquy on the death of his son is so brief, so simple and so moving that it literally brought a tear to my eye when I read it. Re-reading the passage, one can only marvel that Malouf has created such an effect so quickly and with such simple language. \"The worst happens, and there, it's done. The fleas go on biting. The sun comes up again.\" It does indeed, but Malouf's skill enables us to understand that the sun never looks the same again.\nIt is a brave writer who chooses such a subject - Malouf describes in an Afterword how he became enthralled with the story of Troy as a young child in Brisbane during the War - and a clever writer to wait until they were ready with a leavening of experience and skill to enable them to give the subject its due. Malouf is both a brave and clever artist, and this book is a masterpiece. 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That is more than a majority, and most of the distance towards the thirty seven states that would be required to pass a constitutional amendment.\nThe last time a constitutional amendment was almost passed by a convention of the states was the repeal of prohibition. In order to maintain the precedent of constitutional amendments being passed first in congress, the congress acted quickly to pass the amendment before the states would.\nTheir concern is understandable, if base. The worry was that if the states were to pass the amendment it would be in effect a partial reversal of the trend towards the federalization of political power. This would embolden the states to constitutionally act against the federal government in other ways. Given that President Herbert Hoover was being very activist at the time to fight the Great Depression, sponsoring the programs that eventually were called the New Deal by President Franklin Roosevelt, any measure that emboldened the states against the federal government would be a disaster for federal power. Moreover a constitutional convention could easily go beyond whatever issues initially chartered it.\nGiven the polarized nature of the congress today, especially given that the Senate is controlled by the same party that passed Obamacare in the first place, it is unlikely that they would defensively pass any constitutional amendment that would weaken that measure. The constitution, meanwhile, forbids tampering with the amendment process.\nTwenty seven states is still shy of the thirty seven states needed to call a constitutional amendment. Each additional state is that much harder to recruit. But if that number is reached by states joining the lawsuit then suddenly it becomes easy to call a constitutional convention.\nThe final problem is what would be the wording of the theoretical amendment. It is far too easy for this to go wrong, just as the congress that passed the twenty first amendment. The best possible outcome is for it to restore proper dimension to the Interstate Commerce Clause. Although Obamacare is a major expansion of the interpretation of that clause, it is a major expansion in the same direction as the previous major extension during the New Deal.\nThe best wording would be to restore the interpretation as understood by those who wrote it.\n1. The federal government does not have the ability to regulate any commerce that takes place entirely in one state, no matter the effect that the intrastate commerce would have on interstate commerce.\n2. The federal government does not have the authority to demand or forbid the manufacture, purchase, or sale of any good or service.\nIt may not be a perfect wording, but it is definitely a great place to start.\nLabels: Amendment, constitution, Healthcare, interstate commerce\nWhy Rand Paul?\nThe libertarian opinion of Randall Paul can be stated pretty simply.\n\"So far he appears to be not as good as his father, but still shows lots of promise and is poised to be the best person in the Senate. So far he appears to not be as libertarian as Ron Paul, but is still demonstrating that he has some good solid leanings in that direction for as little time as he has been in the spotlight.\"\nLibertarians could be wrong about him; he could actually be more radical than his father, or he could fail to demonstrate the promise he has shown so far. His vote against renewing the USAPATRIOT Act and his proposed $500 billion budget cuts that included the entire Iraq War and the entire Afghanistan War are not anything that libertarians would complain about.\nSo why then does there appear to be a more extreme reaction to Randall Paul among the liberal punditry? Even Rational Wiki expresses greater skepticism towards Randall Paul than to Ron Paul as evidenced by the tone of their articles.\nPart of it could be that Randall Paul has a stronger Tea Party affiliation. While the Tea Party movement was started by Ron Paul, he is no longer a part of it while Randall Paul was elected as a part of that movement. That would give liberals two criticisms against him, libertarianism AND the Tea Party.\nBut that is not sufficient to explain the hysteria over Randall Paul. The reason they are so hysterical is because he really is a greater threat.\nEven though Ron Paul's ideas are rapidly becoming mainstream, he still suffers from the stigma of being considered a kook for so many years by those who tell the public what to think. Randall Paul is too new to have been stigmatized. Moreover, since the Republicans are trying to absorb the Tea Party movement, the Republicans cannot criticize the star candidate of that movement. Since Republicans have to be silent, lest they lose on their effort with regards to the Tea Party, that leaves Democrats to have to bear the entire burden of telling everyone how they should feel about Randall Paul.\nRon Paul is also near the end of his political career. If he does run for president, his age would be a great liability. Randall Paul does not have that problem. He is not only a lot younger, he has already achieved much higher office than his father did. Even if he is more moderate than his father, he's in a position to achieve much more, and to go even father than he has already gone.\nDemocrats have to do this on their own without Republican help. The ideas of the Pauls are more mainstream than ever. Randall is a Senator poised to go much farther and do much more. Even though he might be more moderate than his father, he is poised to do far more for liberty than his father did. No wonder the left is hysterical.\nLabels: Rand Paul, Ron Paul, Tea Party\nJustice Oliver Wendell Holmes\nThe Supreme Court Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes once stated \"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.\" It is a quote often repeated by statists towards libertarians in order to \u201cprove\u201d that libertarians are against having a civilized society. Plus there is the hope that any libertarian who would disagree with that statement would be cowed by the impressive credentials of the originator of the quote. The problem with the quote is that Justice Holmes was technically correct, but was lying by omission.\nThe full expression should be \"Taxes are the price we pay for government, and government is the price we pay for a civilized society.\" It is very important to include the middle term. Including the middle term shows both what taxes actually pay for and where taxes actually go to. Including the middle term also portrays the government as a burden, a price that must be paid, instead of a blessing.\nBreaking the syllogism down into its component parts makes it much easier to argue. \"Taxes are the price we pay for government\" defuses any argument that a statist might make about how libertarians, by opposing taxes, therefore oppose civilization. It expresses clearly that taxes are nothing more than the paycheck of the government, and that there is no direct link between taxes and civilized society\n\"Government is the price we pay for civilized society\" is very arguable. Minarchists may agree; anarchists certainly don\u2019t. It also makes a stronger case that the government can be the agent of disorder. If taxes are paid so that the government will provide stability and security, and the government not only fails to do so but causes the opposite, the expanded expression including the middle term shows that taxes should be withheld from the misbehaving government.\nThe shortened version popularized by Justice Holmes, while partially true, is dishonest in the extreme by what it leaves out. When shortened it is a pro-government argument, but when expanded it can be used by libertarians.\nLabels: debate, philosophy, social contract, society, taxes\nThe Tea Party Response\nOne week ago, President Obama delivered a rather uninspiring state of the union address. That was followed by an uninspiring Republican Party response. Then, rather curiously, there was a \"Tea Party\" response delivered by Representative Michele Bachmann.\nAlthough the Democrats made appropriate noises about how this amounted to two Republican responses, because Representative Bachmann is a Republican, the choice of Representative Bachmann as the representative of the Tea Party was a curious one.\nIn the House of Representatives is the Representative Ron Paul, the god-father of the Tea Party, although he declined to join the \"Tea Party Caucus\" that Representative Bachmann formed. The biggest electoral victory of the Tea Party movement was the election of Senator Randall Paul. Either one would be a better representative of the founding of the Tea Party, although neither exactly represents what they are today. The last thing leaders of either the Democratic or Republican Parties want is giving Ron Paul a national platform through a response to President Obama.\nBy choosing Representative Bachmann, that makes her the face of the Tea Party, an arrangement that suits both the Republicans and the Democrats. The anti-war platform of the original Tea Party is replaced by Bachmann's refusal to take the nuclear option off the table when dealing with Iran. She brings the desire to have schools teach Intelligent Design to a movement that had never included it before.\nThe placement of Bachmann actually weakens the Tea Party movement as an independent movement and increases its role as an adjunct of the Republican Party. This weakens the threat the Tea Party poses to Republican Party leadership who were facing a grass roots rebellion. This brings the votes and energy of the Tea Party safely back in to the Republican fold, a great benefit to the Republican Party.\nIt is also a great benefit to the Democratic Party. Since Bachmann is considered to be less credible of an official, it enables Democrats to paint the whole movement with her lack of credibility. Moreover since the Tea Party movement was too uncompromising, unlike the standard Republican leadership for whom there are few actual ideological differences.\nThe choice of Bachmann benefits the Republicans and the Democrats at the expense of what independence is left in the Tea Party movement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 12610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://badibg.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=108&Itemid=45", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:23Z", "digest": "sha1:OSRNOT3QXE25E4R2GTXAQ2TXN7MJTT7L", "length": 5534, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "badibg.org", "title": "Managment board", "raw_content": "Prof. Tatyana Benisheva-Dimitrova, DSc., President of BADI\nis a professor in the Faculty of Public Health at the Medical University, Sofia,\nand has more than 75 publications on pharmaceutical regulations and more than 20\nyears experience in drug regulatory affairs. After granting a \u0415\u0421-CADREAC scholarship\nshe completed master\u2019s degree in Drug Regulatory Affairs(2004/2005) from the University of Bonn and later in 2010 a Masterdegree in \u201cPublic Health\u201d at the Medical University.Director of the \u201cDrug Policy\u201d Directorate in the Ministry of Health (2000-2005) and had an additional experience, over 10 years, at the \u201cBulgarian Drug Agency (BDA) Like the first president of the National Council on Prices and Reimbursement of Medicinal Products.\n2013 -2014 she created the first important steps on transparency of the procedures andstarted an EU-project-OPAC (0.7Mln BGN) for establishing of official database of the MPs.She was a consultant at the global regulatory database IDRAC of the Thompson Reuters and was establishing the Bulgarian regulatory Module form 2006-2012 and executive Director of consulting in Bulgaria Betaconsult Pharma Ltd.till 2013.Prof. Benisheva was the first President of the Bulgarian Association of Drug Information over the period 2010-2013 and member of the Bulgarian Association of Clinical Research (BACR) and of DGRA DeutscheGesellschaft for Regulatory Affairs - DGRA and of the Advisory Council Europe of the Drug Information Association (DIA) 2010-2014.\nSince 14th. of May 2015 she is President of BADI\nProf. Guenka Petrova - Vicepresident of BADI\nis a graduated pharmacist, as well an economist. Her PhD degree is on \u201cDrug needs and usage analysis and forecasting\u201d and her DSc degree is on \u201cReform of the pharmaceutical sector in Balkan region\u201d. Prof. Petrova is specializing health care economics at the Canterbury Business School and pharmacoeconomics. She is a lecturer at the course of \u201cSocial Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical legislation\u201d and creator and main lecturer on \u201cPharmacoeconomics\u201d at the Medical University in Sofia.Prof. Petrova is author or coauthor in more than 150 scientific articles and books. She is having 15 graduated PhD students and 250 specialists.Prof. Petrova is an invited lecturer at the University in Nantes, France, and Belgrade, Serbia, as well as in other universities in the region. She has been also working on several WHO projects as consultant on medicines policy, as well as scientific projects funded EAR, EU, ERASMUS, and National Science Fund.\nAssoc. Prof. Dobriana Sidjimova, PhD, Vicepresident of BADI\nDobriana Sidjimova graduated Sofia University in 1998 with subject Russian Philology with a Master`s degree. In 2001 she defended Master`s degree in Public Relations at the Sofia University.\nIn 2003 she obtained Master`s degree in Health management at the Medical University of Sofia in the Faculty of Public Health. In 2005 she defended a PhD thesis.\nHer professional experience started as a State Expert in the PR Department of the National Health Insurance Fund. In 2006 she became an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Public.\nHealth in the Medical University of Sofia. Since 2008 she is an Associate Professor In The Faculty Of Public Health, Medical University, Sofia. In 2014 obtain \"Health Economics\" speciality.Till 14th of May 2015 she was Chairman of Board of Directors of BADI\nProf. Valentina Petkova, PhD, MPharm., MPH\nis a Vice Dean and Professor at the Department of Social Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University - Sofia. In 2000 she successfully defended her PhD thesis on the topic \u201dStudy of the chronic patient\u2019s level of compliance\u201d\nShe has more than 120 publication in Bulgarian and foreign scientific journals, 10 books and manuals and more than 50 participations in scientific meetings.\nShe has specialized in Germany (1998), Italy (1999, 2000) and the Netherlands (2006) in the sphere of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Pharmacoepidemiology,\nManagement and decision making in healthcare, and Pharmaceutical care. She has specialties in Marketing and management at the Technical University \u2013 Sofia, Organization and economics of pharmaceutical practice, Organization and economics of pharmaceutical manufacturing and Clinical pharmacy at the Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University \u2013 Sofia. In 2012 she sucessfully defended a diploma thesis and achieved MSc in Public health and health management\nAssoc. Prof. Petya Trendafilova, PhD, MPH, MBA\nPetya Trendafilova graduated at Medical University \u2013 Sofia, Faculty of Public Health, Bulgaria in 2006 as a Master of Public Health and Healthcare Management.\nIn 2009 defended her PhD thesis and in 2010 graduated as a Master of Business Administration with specialization in Healthcare Management at the University of National and World Economy.\nIn 2012 completed a Specialization in Medical Pedagogy at the Faculty of Public Health. Since 2013 she is Associate Professor at the department of Medical Pedagogy, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University \u2013 Sofia.She has more than 80 publications including scientific articles, a monograph, co-author in some handbooks and number of presentations at different national and international scientific events.\nShe has special interests in the field of pharmacovigilance. Since 2007 she is a member of the editorial commitee at Journal of Health Policy and Management;\nA Board member of the Bulgarian Association of Drug Information (BADI) and a member of the National Association of Health Policy and Management (NAHPM) since 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 193.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bangkokdoula.com/330536-peter-brook-best.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:RHK36T3RVINO7JL2PYCS6I4OLQRX2VGN", "length": 5691, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "bangkokdoula.com", "title": "Download O Espa\u00e7o Vazio PDF for free", "raw_content": "Peter Brook's career, beginning in the 1940s with radical productions of Shakespeare with a modern experimental sensibility and continuing to his recent work in the worlds of opera and epic theater, makes him perhaps the most influential director of the 20th century. Cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and director of the International Center for Theater Research in Paris, perhaps Brook's greatest legacy will be The Empty Space. His 1968 book divides the theatrical landscape, as Brook saw it, into four different types: the Deadly Theater (the conventional theater, formulaic and unsatisfying), the Holy Theater (which seeks to rediscover ritual and drama's spiritual dimension, best expressed by the writings of Artaud and the work of director Jerzy Grotowski), the Rough Theater (a theater of the people, against pretension and full of noise and action, best typified by the Elizabethan theater), and the Immediate Theater, which Brook identifies his own career with, an attempt to discover a fluid and ever-changing style that emphasizes the joy of the theatrical experience. What differentiates Brook's writing from so many other theatrical gurus is its extraordinary clarity. His gentle illumination of the four types of theater is conversational, even chatty, and though passionately felt, it's entirely lacking in the sort of didactic bombast that flaws many similar texts. --John Longenbaugh\nDownload O Espa\u00e7o Vazio PDF\nDownload O Espa\u00e7o Vazio ERUB\nDownload O Espa\u00e7o Vazio DOC\nDownload O Espa\u00e7o Vazio TXT\nPeter Brook (born 1925) was a world renowned theater director, staging innovative productions of the works of famous playwrights.\nPeter Brook was born in London in 1925, the son of immigrant scientists from Russia. A precocious child with a distaste for formal education but a love of learning, Brook performed his own four-hour version of Shakespeare's Hamlet at the age of seven. After spending two years in Switzerland recovering from a glandular infection, Brook became one of the youngest undergraduates at Oxford University. At the same time he wrote scripts for television commercials and introduced to London audiences his first professional stage production, Marlowe's Dr. Faustus.\nBrook, called the \"golden boy,\" did his first production at Stratford Theatre, one of the world's most prestigious stages, at the young age of 21. It was Shakespeare's Loves Labours Lost. He spent the next several years staging acclaimed productions of plays. He worked at the Covent Garden directing opera, as well as designing the sets and costumes for his productions. Always seeking innovations and styles which would make his productions speak to modern audiences, he ended this experience with opera by calling it \"deadlytheater.\" He directed plays with prominent actors, including Laurence Olivier in Titus Andronicus and Paul Schofield in King Lear. (Brook also directed the film version of this production.) In 1961 Peter Brook directed one of his seven films, the chilling Peter Shaffer adaptation of Lord of the Flies.\nDespite his successes and the fact that he was named as one of the directors of the famous Royal Shakespeare Company in 1962, Brook continued to seek out alternative ways to create vibrant, meaningfultheater. This search led him to direct a season of experimental theater with the Royal Shakespeare Company in which he was free from the commercial constraints of box office concerns. The season was called \"Theatre of Cruelty,\" a name taken from the works of Antonin Artaud, one of this century's most influentialtheater men. Brook's desire was to turn away from stars and to create an ensemble of actors who improvised during a long rehearsal period in a search of the meaning of \"holytheater.\"\nOut of this search would come the director's finest work. In 1964 Brook directed Genet's The Screens and Peter Weiss' Marat Sade, for which he received seven major awards and introduced Glenda Jackson to the theater. Influenced by Bertolt Brecht and Artaud, Marat Sade shocked the audience with its insane asylum environment. In 1966 he developed US, a play about the Vietnam experience and the horrors of war. The production reflected a collective statement by all of the artists involved and was certainly a departure from traditional theater. Jerzy Grotowski, one of the most important theater directors of this century and a man who profoundly influenced Brook, came to work with the company during this production. Brook also did an adaptation of Seneca's Oedipus by Ted Hughes, a renowned English poet who continued to collaborate with the director for many years. The culmination of this phase of Brook's work was hisproduction of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1970). Using trapezes, juggling, and circus effects, Brook and his actors created a sense of magic, joy, and celebration in this interpretation of Shakespeare's play. It was a masterpiece of thetheater.\nAfter this highly successful production, Brook went to Paris and founded the International Center of Theatre Research. He wanted to find a new form of theater that could speak to people worldwide--theater which was truly universal. He also wanted to work in an environment of unlimited rehearsal time in order to allow for a deep search-of-self for all involved. The firstproduction that came out of this third phase was Orghast (1971), which employed a new language based on sound developed by Ted Hughes. This production, performed at the ruins of Persepolis in Persia, used actors from many differ\nReviews of the O Espa\u00e7o Vazio\nDownload EBOOK O Espa\u00e7o Vazio by Peter Brook Online free\nPDF: o-espao-vazio.pdf\nERUB: o-espao-vazio.epub\nDOC: o-espao-vazio.doc\nTXT: o-espao-vazio.txt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 6037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://baseballegg.com/baseball-player/?id=ansonca01", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:48Z", "digest": "sha1:TA7FB4GV7V76IFLVV6D74AAKPWXRA765", "length": 973, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "baseballegg.com", "title": "Baseball Player \u2013 Baseball Egg", "raw_content": "As David Fleitz wrote in his biography of the ballplayer, Anson was baseball's first superstar. Though he was born in the midwest (Iowa), Anson had a deep-seated animosity toward blacks that was usually only present in southerners. After he reached status as baseball's most popular player in the 1880s, Anson used his influence to keep blacks out of professional baseball. As a player, Anson was large, strong, and agile for his era. He was frequently among batting leaders in the National League but was never considered a very good defensive first baseman. When he retired after the 1897 season after 27 years in pro ball, Anson was 45 and owned nearly every batting record in the books. His marks for games, hits, runs, and runs batted in were later eclipsed by the greats of the twentieth century.\nAdrian Constantine Anson born on March 17, 1852, in Marshalltown, IA USA\n5/6/1871 to 10/3/1897 First Base Rockford Forest Citys (1871)\nChicago White Stockings (1876-1897)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 140.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://baylorsurgicareheath.com/privacy-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QKUA6B422DE6B4CB7SCA5IJXLVRRZSI5", "length": 752, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "baylorsurgicareheath.com", "title": "Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "Welcome to the Baylor Surgicare At Heath website (the \u201cWebsite\u201d). Baylor Surgicare At Heath and its affiliates (\u201cwe,\u201d \u201cour\u201d or \u201cus\u201d) are committed to protecting your privacy, so we have adopted privacy practices to protect the information we collect from you. They are described in this Privacy Policy and in our Notice of Privacy Practices for your personal health information. Our Notice of Privacy Practices, which we will provide you in connection with our services, describes our privacy practices and your privacy rights with respect to your \u201cProtected Health Information\u201d (as that term is defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations, as amended and supplemented from time to time).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 12076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://baynvc.blogspot.com/2011_03_07_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:YIDZUTCU4SDEZ7JKVMTTQ2VZ2GNJJICH", "length": 748, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "baynvc.blogspot.com", "title": "The Fearless Heart: March 7, 2011", "raw_content": "Correction and Clarification re Goldstone and Tikkun\nSince i wrote my two pieces about Goldstone, I was informed that in part due to Tikkun's role, Richard Goldstone DID get to attend his grandson's Bar Mitzvah. Here's a link to the source in Haaretz (an Israeli daily). I was very happy to hear this despite my mild embarrassment at having not tracked the information accurately.\nI also realized that I hadn't made it clear enough that Tikkun's 25th anniversary is open to the public and is an opportunity to be present for the award ceremony and to celebrate a magazine that has been dedicated to a unique perspective that places caring at the center of a vision of political and social life.\nCorrection and Clarification re Goldstone and Tikk...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 322, "original_length": 7121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beehivesoftware.in/category/hrms-software/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:MFU7VVB6C4ZNBOO65KRV5DPQX7YH3BTA", "length": 186, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "beehivesoftware.in", "title": "HRMS Software Archives | HRMS Software", "raw_content": "As a Human Resources professional, you are tasked with dealing with some of your organization\u2019s most sensitive information\u2014data on your own team members. Consequently, it\u2019s extremely [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 317, "original_length": 8182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 98.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://benature.tv/buy-the-best-quality-trenbolone-in-mexico-and-know-its-benefits-and-side-effects/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HSERNBQKAJWSBXZXJ2YKTVIJVTBU3KFH", "length": 3327, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "benature.tv", "title": "Buy The Best-quality Trenbolone In Mexico and Know Its Benefits and Side Effects | | benature.tv", "raw_content": "Buy The Best-quality Trenbolone In Mexico and Know Its Benefits and Side Effects\nTrenbolone is a powerful anabolic steroid and some athletes consider it to be the greatest steroids of them all. It has to be injected and cannot be taken orally. It should only be taken when your body has had an experience with mild anabolic steroid before. New users are never advised to take it as it could give rise to severe side effects. Even when you have used other anabolic steroid like testosterone in the past, you should be careful about the doses of Trenbolone and get a recommendation from doctors first. Trenbolone has three variants out of which Parabolan is the most popular. It is a derivative of Trenbolone and is the real Trenbolone hexahydrobenzylcarbonate.\nTrenbolone is the most powerful of all the anabolic steroids and hence, the benefits are extremely high and fast. The cycle of taking trenbolone is rather short as it acts instantly and requires injection more frequently than others.\nIt enhances the synthesis of proteins in your body which is instrumental in body and muscle building. Protein is the building body of our muscles.\nIt also increases the nitrogen retention capacity of the muscles and hence, during calorie deficit, there won\u2019t be a strong catabolism. Our muscle consists of 16% nitrogen.\nIt has fat burning property but it is not recommended to lose fat directly.\nIt has no estrogenic property and hence, muscle building is enhanced multifold in comparison to other anabolic steroids.\nIt also increases IGF-1(Insulin-Like Growth Factor) which is there inside muscle tissue. This helps to repair damaged muscle tissue faster than ever.\nIt can also suppress inflammation in case the muscle tissues get injured and inhibits the action of cortisol in catabolism.\nAs it is a powerful steroid, a little miscalculation in doses can affect the body instantly. You should take only real trenbolone hexahydrobenzylcarbonate or prabolan after getting a recommendation from your doctor.\nSome of the common side effects are increase in perspiration, insomnia or sleeping disorder, erectile dysfunction, coughing fit, slow cardiovascular activities, and it leads to over aggression, anger, and violence. People will generally stay irritated and they could feel stresses in liver and kidney.\nApart from these, there is a marked decrease in the level of testosterone or release of it can be noticed. Some people have also faced cardiovascular problems and allergic reaction on the skin. The loss of libido is a common complaint ruining love or married life completely. A person is likely to be highly stressed in a very little pressure situation.\nIt enhances the chances of becoming bald both in men and women. It is generally not recommended for women as they face water retention problem and swelling of feet. The muscles developed also look very weird. Gynecomastia is most commonly found in women when they take Trenbolone in very small dosage.\nIt is due to its severe side effects, it has been banned in several countries like the U.S. If you are looking to buy high-quality Trenbolone in Mexico, definitely head over to steroidly.com and order them as per the prescription or recommendation of the doctors.\nSpiritual Stones That Covers A Healthy Life\nHow To Fight Spring Fatigue\n7 Tips To Get Your Baby To Sleep", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://benchmark.benchmark-systems.com/news-and-press-releases/graham-pediatrics-purchases-benchmarks-practice-management-and-emr-software/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:22Z", "digest": "sha1:L2IY7GWZXUZOBWKZZVXE6ETNYRO27C2X", "length": 2313, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "benchmark.benchmark-systems.com", "title": "Graham Peds choosesPractice Management & EMR Software", "raw_content": "Graham Pediatrics Purchases Benchmark\u2019s Practice Management and EMR Software\nIn an effort to enhance clinical and operational efficiency, Graham Pediatrics purchased AntWorks\u2019 Clinical EHR and Practice Management solutions.\nLynchburg, Va. \u2013 June 26, 2013 \u2013 AntWorks, a leading Internet based provider of fully integrated medical practice solutions, announced today that Graham Pediatrics of Woodstock, Ga., will implement its Clinical EHR and Practice Management solutions to automate the practice. With a fully-integrated EMR and practice management solution, Dr. Fitzroy Graham, head physician at Graham Pediatrics, will now be able to enhance clinical and operational efficiency, having access to all the tools he needs to increase revenue while improving patient care and productivity.\nDr. Graham will be able to see more patients, easily document interactions, and access medical records along with diagnostic data at the point of care. Patient information can be accessed anywhere, anytime via the Web as Benchmark Clinical is browser-based. The intuitive system is easy to use and easily customizable by his medical staff. With pediatric specific templates, growth charts, and vaccination tracking, Dr. Graham and his staff can meet the individual needs of their patients.\n\u201cWe look forward to working closely with Graham Pediatrics in a partnership where we have joined the strengths of both of our organizations,\u201d said Ernie Chastain, Vice President of AntWorks, \u201cJust as Dr. Graham is focused on the quality of care for his patients we are focused on the quality of service for him and his staff.\u201d\nAbout Dr. Graham\nBoard certified in both general pediatrics and pediatric infectious diseases, Dr. Fitzroy H. Graham graduated from medical school in 1992. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, New York and a fellowship in infectious diseases at Emory University in Atlanta in 2001.\nDr. Graham remained in Atlanta following his fellowship. He is one of just 29 board-certified pediatric infectious disease specialists practicing in Georgia, and he is the only one consulting in this subspecialty in the northwest corner of Atlanta. 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They are a \"live-in\" help so you must provide them with their own bedroom and food.\nAu-Pairs are not professionally trained childcare providers hence have much less responsibility for the welfare of the children than nannies or registered child-minders.\nAu-Pairs are generally expected to work 30 hours a week, plus 2 evenings of babysitting. In return for their help they receive pocket money of no less than \u00a370 per week. During school holidays they can be asked to work more hours for extra pocket money.\nHoliday Au-Pairs come to England during summer months and because the children are out of school, they have less free time than during an academic year and often no chance to study a language. Same rules apply as for ordinary Au-Pairing. Working hours: 25-30 hours, pocket money: \u00a370.\nAu-Pair Plus is required to work longer hours (30-35 hours) and have more responsibility. The average weekly pocket money an Au-Pair Plus should receive is minimum \u00a395 and can be as much as \u00a3120 depending on the amount of hours worked.\nPocket Money is to be paid weekly in arrears. It is not taxable and the Au-Pair does not pay National Insurance.\nFree time must be given daily so that Au-Pair can study or attend English classes. Normally 2 days per week should be free. Most families are able to offer Saturday and Sunday.\nEvening Baby-Sitting can be required twice per week for no extra money and this can be on the Au-Pair's \"day off\" (weekend). Any extra babysitting should be paid for.\nHolidays should be given to the Au-Pair twice per year (i.e. 2 weeks every 6 months).\nDuties of the Au-Pair consist generally from:\n***Light housework*** vacuuming, dusting, tidying up, loading the washing machine, washing up, ironing for children etc. If they are happy to do so, they can care for your pets. Heavy housework is considered washing windows, scrubbing carpets, cleaning ovens, kitchen cupboards, shoe cupboards and chores that include moving furniture or heavy lifting. The Au-Pair can do these only if you employ them for household duties only if they are happy with the \"job description\", which must be explained in your Registration form.\n***Childcare*** taking to and collecting from school, playing, taking to the park, accompanying to after-school clubs, bathing, putting to bed etc.\nLanguage Classes fees are responsibility of the Au-Pair however, the host family must make sure the Au-Pair has sufficient time to attend and should help them find a suitable course nearby. Host Families should also consider helping the Au-Pair with travel cost to and from the college if they live far.\nNationality of Au-Pairs can vary only certain countries are part of the Au-Pair Program. Bergerac Agency can offer Au-Pairs from Europe. Au-Pairs from Turkey require VISA before entering the UK, in which case the family must prepare a LETTER OF INVITATION. We will assist with preparation of this letter. After arrival they will be required to register with the Police at the Aliens Registration Office within 7 days.\nDriving in the UK: if you need an Au-Pair to drive, it is important that you provide an adequate insurance cover. Unfortunately, accidents do happen and if so, it is not acceptable to claim damages from Au-Pair by taking their pocket money.\nArrival in the UK: families are generally expected to collect the Au-Pair from the place of their arrival, usually the airport, main train or coach station. If the family cannot do so, the Agency will assist in providing the Au-Pair with exact and detailed information on how to get to their place of stay. The family must refund the Au-Pair their travel expenses immediately after arrival.\nSettling in period can take anything up to 2 weeks, so please be prepared. You will need to be patient and give your Au-Pair time and support. When they arrives, let them have a rest after the journey. Some coach journeys take as long as 24 hours! It will take a while for them to adjust to the language and it is likely that at first they will not understand anything you say, so please be patient, speak slowly and you will be surprised that their understanding will soon increase.\nYour Au-Pair will be homesick at first, often being the first time away from home, friends and family. Help them by putting them in touch with other Au-Pairs in the area and don't exclude them from family life.\nGiving Clear Instructions about what you expect from your Au-Pair is very important. Some families find a timetable and description of duties written down helpful. Also explain the rules and make clear arrangements about using the phone and paying the bill. Make it very clear with the Au-Pair whether or not you wish them to discipline the children if necessary and how to do so.\nAppreciation plays a big part in a successful relationship, Au-Pairs can sometimes feel un-noticed. An occasional treat to say \"thank you\" for all their hard work is much appreciated by the Au-Pair. After-all a happy Au-Pair means a happy child and happy household.\nCommunication is a key to solving all problems, no matter how big or small they seem to be. 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Succession planning can help you make the most of that change by ensuring that when someone leaves, there is someone new to take their place. This one-day course will help you develop, maintain, and evaluate your succession plan. More detail...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bihlaw.com/team/craig-t-irish/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:24Z", "digest": "sha1:H5IUNBQR6HR6SXXWKYPJXUSNO2GX4JIK", "length": 720, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bihlaw.com", "title": "Craig T. Irish \u2013 Arizona Commercial Real Estate Attorneys", "raw_content": "Craig T. Irish\ncirish@bihlaw.com\nUniversity of California at Berkeley, M.B.A., 1984\nUniversity of California at Los Angeles, A.B., cum laude, 1980\nCertified Specialist, Real Estate Law, Arizona Board of Legal Specialization\nRecognized as among the Super Lawyers of the Southwest\nThe primary focus of Mr. Irish\u2019s practice is the acquisition, disposition and leasing of commercial real estate, with significant litigation experience in disputes related to those areas. His practice further encompasses general business counseling and business transactional services, including the purchase and sale of businesses and the formation of business entities, including corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 198.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bjbaye.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:59Z", "digest": "sha1:BYINJ7VHPCDDXNWM3UA4AZ2GFKTD5AZQ", "length": 562, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bjbaye.com", "title": "About Me - B.J. Baye", "raw_content": "B.J. Baye is a graduate of the Broadcasting program at Niagara College, majoring in Television Production, with post-graduate work in Interactive Multimedia. He\u2019s a lifelong science fiction and fantasy fan and an amateur photographer and digital artist, but most of all he enjoys telling stories.\nAmazon Author Central: http://amazon.com/author/bjbaye\nSmashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/fobok\nTwitter: http://twitter.com/fobok1\nGoogle Plus: https://plus.google.com/+BJBaye/\nDeviantart: http://fobok.deviantart.com\n500px: https://500px.com/BJBaye", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 186.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bliss-residential-care.co.uk/the-brambles-ld-registered-home-in-basingstoke-hampshire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:11Z", "digest": "sha1:UVB6QRYX3LE5HFITSFRFD6VNNY4XD7AQ", "length": 570, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bliss-residential-care.co.uk", "title": "BLISS Residential Care Ltd - The Brambles LD registered home in Basingstoke hampshire", "raw_content": "Please note this report reflects 2015 as we are awaiting our 2016 report.\nThe Brambles is an impressive detached home offering 6 single bedrooms complete with 'wet room' en-suite facilities. The home is situated at the end of a cul-de-sac and has established links with the local community and local health teams.\nThe home was registered in April 2011 for 6 LD residents.\nAccommodation within the home comprises of 6 en-suite bedrooms, lounge, kitchen, dining room, bathroom, conservatory and laundry room the outside offers a large garden and ramp access to front door.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.adoptaclassroom.org/2010/06/09/thank-you-note-of-the-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:30Z", "digest": "sha1:WUEXHXAVZCOVK7HZRVOWKKNNDZU5LYWZ", "length": 1449, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "blog.adoptaclassroom.org", "title": "\u2018Thank You\u2019 Note of the Day \u2013 AdoptAClassroom.org Blog", "raw_content": "We bet you\u2019re excited for summer vacation! Here in Miami, Adopt-A-Classroom\u2019s headquarters, today is the last day of school for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. To all of our teachers here and around the country \u2013 enjoy the summer!\nWe know that some teachers are still wrapping up the school year and have heard that others are already planning for the next one so we\u2019ve still got plenty of activity at Adopt-A-Classroom. We\u2019d like to share a thoughtful \u2018Thank You\u2019 note, also known as an \u2018Impact Report\u2019, recently sent from a teacher in San Francisco, California to the classroom donor:\n\u201cI purchased markers and colored pencils for my classroom. We have many projects where students make posters and present their information to the class. Communicating scientific discoveries is one of our California standards for the seventh grade. Through the course of the year, we do posters about genetics families, plant experiment posters, and human body system to name just a few. With 150 students, we go through markers and colored pencils like crazy. The visuals that students create to learn about science concepts as well as help their fellow classmates learn these concepts, are invaluable to their science education. Thank you for your donation!\u201d\nIf you have any fun, inspiring, interesting stories from your Adopt-A-Classroom experience this year, please share them with us as well! You can email us at wesupportteachers (at) adoptaclassroom.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.carlycarlson.com/2009/01/check-out-this-hot-totty.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:3MPQLBWY2AT27SFOZTF5T3QIJXWUIZQU", "length": 337, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.carlycarlson.com", "title": "Carly Carlson Photography | BLOG | Baker City Eastern Oregon Senior & Wedding Photographer: Check out this hot totty.", "raw_content": "that's right, ladies... that's MY husband.\nallllll mine. :)\nHmm. More totty that hot, don't you think?\nShem Carlson January 29, 2009 at 7:44 AM\nDo you mean tater-totty?\nJen Olsen January 29, 2009 at 12:02 PM\nCarly Carlson January 29, 2009 at 12:12 PM\nI sure think so!! :)\nShem Carlson January 29, 2009 at 12:18 PM\nYou're making me blush.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.faith-bible.net/2015/09/from-moral-majority-to-moral-minority-part-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:19Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6PVR2FU66U36VJCEQHMJTLW36LG5LIS", "length": 7110, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blog.faith-bible.net", "title": "From Moral Majority to Moral Minority (Part 3) | From Moral Majority to Moral Minority (Part 3) \u2013 Faith Bible Blog", "raw_content": "What part does the citizen Christian play in his/her government?\nAs to government and our responsibility to participate, we must be as robust in our contribution to it as we are allowed to be as citizens. \u201cWe the People\u201d (the first three words in the constitution) includes Christians as well as it does secularists.\nThe issue may be finding the balance between the passionate Christian political activist, who is never in want for a political cause to champion or protest, and the fatalist pre-determinist, who claims Christians have no power or right to influence the government. One extreme might have us wage constant battle with the culture, while the other would see complete withdrawal as not only the solution, but possibly even God\u2019s will.\nIf we reject the Moral Majority model, does that suggest we should live in a fatalistic, do-nothing state? Absolutely not! It is vital for American Christians today to be reminded that in addition to voting and participating as a political candidate, there are fundamental, contractual rights they possess that even the apostle Paul could identify with to a limited degree. Christians, along with the rest of the citizenry, still have certain guarantees (rights) as prescribed in the Constitution.\nSocieties that operate under the rule of law allow their citizens to be protected by those laws. Paul may have had no say in his government (no voting rights or free speech to criticize it), but he did have some contractual rights as a citizen of Rome. Remember, Paul was born in a region (Tarsus) where he attained natural citizenship. This allowed him a kind of appellate process in the Empire not afforded to non-citizens.\nIn chapter 22 of the book of Acts, we see Paul being removed from a near-riotous scene with Jewish antagonists. He is accused of high crimes and taken into custody by soldiers from the Jerusalem Roman garrison. As he was about to be summarily flogged, possibly even to death (a brutal Roman interrogation method using a flagellum with the body stretched out to magnify the torture\u2013prisoners often died), he exercised his contractual right as a Roman citizen.\nPaul told the Roman Tribune that he was a citizen of Rome. Beating and unrestricted confinement were no longer an option for the Roman commander, since citizens could appeal the charges brought against them. Paul, by exercising his citizenship \u201crights,\u201d was given a reprieve of sorts, and though we don\u2019t know the precise timeline, God in His sovereignty allowed him to live seven to ten more years.\nDuring this time, he would receive an all-expense-paid trip to Rome to make his appeal, possibly to the Roman Emperor himself. While under house arrest, he wrote epistles to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and the letter to Philemon. After his acquittal, he probably traveled to Asia Minor and wrote 1Timothy and Titus before finally being arrested and thrown in a dungeon by the suddenly vengeful Caesar Nero. His last months before martyrdom were spent writing 2 Timothy.\nPaul, by demanding his civil rights, likely gave himself opportunity to minister directly to the Church body for many years beyond what he would have, had he not taken action. Paul\u2019s willingness to use his Roman citizenship to avoid what some scholars believe was certain death teaches us that when the laws of the state are just, we may appeal to them for protection.\nPaul, in this instance, gives Christians living in 21st century America some critical instructions for managing their lives under any form of government. First, we must be acutely knowledgeable of the laws of the land (Federal, state and local) and how we can use those laws to assist us in sustaining our ministry on earth.\nPaul was forced to go to much greater lengths to protect his life, which he did in order to carry on his ministry, than any American has experienced in the past 225 years. I think he would heartily approve of American Christians making vigorous use of the Constitution, particularly the First Amendment, to protect the rights they already enjoy.\nSecondly, I believe we can infer by Paul\u2019s awareness of Roman law, and his willingness to act on it, that if American Christians are to participate intelligently as voters, we are required to know the issues as well as the candidates and their positions on those issues. To be unprepared is nothing less than poor stewardship of the system of government we are blessed to live under. Paul couldn\u2019t participate in his government, but if he could, I believe he would have called it good stewardship to be engaged, and poor stewardship not to.\nDuring the forum for Public Policy for the Southern Baptist Convention this summer, Russell Moore urged evangelicals to study the issues and the candidates in all elections\u2014Federal and local. He also believes the assault on religious liberty is the primary threat confronting America. With respect to whom Christians should vote to represent them he advised, \u201cWhat you want is somebody who will act justly and someone who will carry out competently what he has been given to do or what she has been given to do without overrunning conscience and disrupting the common good.\u201d\nFinally, the manner in which believers make their presentation in the public square is critical. Paul gives nothing but gracious responses to even the most outrageous and unfair reprisals from his antagonists. As we engage the culture we can use Paul\u2019s example as a template for the way in which we speak or write.\nThough we have rights under the Constitution, and we should always be knowledgeable about the laws of the land so we can defend against those who would seek to muzzle our speech and our thoughts, we must remember our responsibilities first. Only a few short years after he was given his reprieve by the Roman Tribune in Jerusalem, and during his first confinement in Rome, Paul, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, made this statement: \u201cOnly conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel\u201d (Philippians 1:27).\nPaul was reminding the Philippians (and us) that he expected them to above all else, be preoccupied with presenting the Gospel as a united, faithful body. It is possible that we are entering a time of unprecedented persecution. That outcome should not change our perspective on Philippians 1:27. In fact, our resolve should be stronger than ever.\nWe all might want to listen to Western Theological Seminary professor Carl Trueman when he says, \u201cThe incidentals of my life, rather like the incidentals of my culture, are just that\u2014incidentals\u2014and no real significance compared to the substance and practice of the faith.\u201d He goes on, \u201cRegardless of SCOTUS or the 2016 election, as I live I will still be baptizing the children of congregants, administering the Lord\u2019s Supper, preaching week by week, performing marriages, rejoicing with those who rejoice, burying the dead and grieving with those who grieve.\u201d\nDon Barbour", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 8277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.idatix.com/florida-companies-watch-spotlights-50-organizations", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:16Z", "digest": "sha1:57M6CZRX5PECCT2AF22A6RAVXGKI6UK4", "length": 4360, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.idatix.com", "title": "Florida Companies to Watch Spotlights 50 Organizations", "raw_content": "Florida Companies to Watch Spotlights 50 Organizations\nCreates New Movement of Support for Top Performing Second-Stage Companies\nOctober 31, 2013 \u2014 ORLANDO, FL.\u2013- Ranging in industries from sign manufacturing, textiles, fertilizer, wire and cable, \u201ccows\u201d and college hunks that help people move, online education, mobile apps, construction, energy conversion, defense and aerospace, fifty high-performing companies from across the State of Florida, were honored at the third annualFlorida Companies to Watch celebration event on Thursday, October 24 at the Hard Rock Live in Orlando, FL.\nHosted by GrowFL at the University of Central Florida, in association with the Edward Lowe Foundation and sponsored by Cherry Bekaert LLP, Florida High Tech Corridor Council, OUC, Filmscape Productions, SunTrust, Edwards Financial Services, Moneycorp, USF Connect, Enterprise Florida and Fairwinds Credit Union and with media and marketing support from Florida Trend, SCB Marketing and i4 Business, Florida Technology Journal, Florida Venture Forum and ACG Capital Connection. The awards event attracted more than 350 attendees in celebration of the impact these companies generate to our state.\nFlorida Companies to Watch is a unique awards program that honors second-stage growth companies for their impressive employment rates and revenue growth. These companies have a reputation for generating a large portion of new jobs and strengthening Florida\u2019s economy.\nOne such company was iDatix who received the award for the second year. Their managerial leadership, company growth, and commitment to innovation propelled them to the top of the nearly 600 companies that were nominated for the honor.\nThe combined impact of the 50 companies selected to this year\u2019s Florida Companies to Watch is immense. In 2012 alone, the companies generated $388 million in total annual revenue and held 1,865 full-time equivalent employees. The companies collectively project the creation of 429 net new jobs for 2013. From 2009 through 2012, these companies generated $1.1 billion in revenue and added 940 employees (both in Florida and out of state), reflecting a 126% increase in revenue and 102% increase in jobs for the four-year period. *Data compiled in August 2013.\nJeff Piersall, CEO of SCB Marketing and an Inaugural Class of 2011 Florida Companies to Watch winner served as emcee for the evening. Featured speakers for the evening were Dr. Tom O\u2019Neal, executive director of GrowFL at UCF and vice president of UCF\u2019s Office of Research and Commercialization, and Penny Lewandowski, vice president of entrepreneurship and strategic direction for the Edward Lowe Foundation.\nNominations and applications for Florida Companies to Watch 2014 are being accepted now at FLCTW.GrowFL.com/nominate. Details about sponsorships are also available.\nGrowFL provides strategies, resources and support to second-stage companies for next level growth. By supporting companies with Strategic Research and peer-to-peer CEO mentoring, GrowFL helps companies overcome obstacles to growth and leads them towards prosperity. Based on the philosophy of Economic Gardening \u2013 to grow existing businesses in a community, region or state \u2013 GrowFL is the program of the Florida Economic Gardening Institute at the University of Central Florida and is a critical component to the state\u2019s economic development strategy and Florida\u2019s entrepreneurial ecosystem. Between fiscal years 2009 and 2012, GrowFL helped more than 400 companies create more than 4,187 direct and indirect local jobs and contribute more than $581 million to Florida\u2019s economy. By the end of 2013, that number will have grown to more than 700 companies supported by GrowFL. For more information: GrowFL.com\nThe Edward Lowe Foundation inspired the creation of the Companies to Watch program to celebrate second-stage entrepreneurs and their companies. Established in 1985, the Edward Lowe Foundation is a Michigan-based nonprofit organization that supports entrepreneurship through recognition, education and research with a focus on second-stage companies\u2014those that have moved beyond the startup phase and seek significant, steady growth. The foundation also encourages economic gardening, an entrepreneur-centered strategy providing balance to the traditional approach of business recruitment. For information, visit www.EdwardLowe.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.lafamillenoire.com/2014/03/a-few-firsts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Q65OPS7DZ7MAB4YMX57ZS7UYYWA3VUFN", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.lafamillenoire.com", "title": "La Famille Noire: A Few Firsts", "raw_content": "When did he post the dialogue on his FB page? I can't find it and would love to see it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 7659, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.lifesabundance.com/2010/10/default.aspx?realname=20002696", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4MNUBHRRQGCAMCWUEXJQGOUTMY7OGTX5", "length": 3912, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blog.lifesabundance.com", "title": "October 2010", "raw_content": "While underappreciated or even unrecognized as an organ, skin has amazing properties. For starters, it\u2019s the largest organ of the body. Both tough and pliable, skin has many functions, including regulating body temperature, helping to prevent dehydration and protecting against injury and disease. Without skin, our pets couldn\u2019t have hair, and everything that was on the inside would be exposed, making snuggle sessions a little on the icky side!\nCanine and feline skin shares many similarities with human skin, but there are significant differences. They do have three layers of their skin, with the same nerves and blood vessels running throughout. Even though the pigmented skin in dogs contains melanin, dogs do not have the ability to tan like humans do. Also, they have apocrine glands (similar to human sweat glands), however, dogs do not sweat like we do. Instead, dogs have eccrine glands in their paws, which secrete a watery substance like sweat, although this typically only occurs when they are nervous and under stress. Now you know how it is that they can sometimes leave little damp paw prints when exiting the veterinary office!\nAs the body\u2019s first line of defense to environmental factors, the skin is subjected to all sorts of insults and injuries. Critters of all stripes, from fleas to ticks to parasites (like mange mites) bite and damage the skin. Additionally, skin is under repeated assault by foreign objects, nibbling teeth, scratching claws and constant licking, all of which can weaken and impair the skin\u2019s protective barrier. Skin can also be affected from the inside out by infections, hormonal imbalances, allergies and immune disorders.\nYoung pets are particularly suspectible to skin problems because their skin is more sensitive and their immune systems are not fully developed. Kittens, for example, are prone to ringworm (fungal) infections and puppies are predisposed to demodectic mange. If your puppy or kitten develops a rash, loses hair, or has bumps or warts, consult with your veterinarian to determine if treatment is necessary.\nThe bottom line is, healthy skin is a vital part of pet health, and its condition is a reflection of a pet\u2019s overall well-being. Vulnerable to attacks on all sides, it\u2019s very important that pet parents regularly monitor their pet\u2019s skin health. Skin normally does its job well as the body\u2019s protector, but sometimes even skin needs an extra boost. In this episode of Pet Talk, Dr. Sarah reviews some common causes of skin and coat problems in dogs and cats, and reveals some safe and natural home remedies that promote overall skin health.\nFoundation Delivers Truckload of Aid to Animal Shelter\nWhen one of Florida\u2019s newest animal rescue organizations took in sixteen abused dogs from out-of-state, they found themselves in dire and immediate need of supplies. Fortunately, the Dr. Jane\u2019s HealthyPetNet Foundation was ready and willing to lend a helping hand.\nSubjected to physical and mental abuse in a North Carolina product-testing laboratory, the dogs came to Palm Beach County after an undercover investigation publicized their plight. The laboratory closed, turning over all of the nearly 200 animals used in experiments to various East Coast humane agencies, including Wellington\u2019s In Dog We Trust (IDWT). Founded by Nicole Brown, IDWT is a non-profit, no-kill animal shelter that opened just this summer on the 20-acre property of what used to be the Folke Peterson Wildlife Center, a wildlife sanctuary shuttered in 2009.\nOnce known only by the codes tattooed on their bodies, sixteen Beagles now call IDWT their temporary home and are now christened with proper names. It may be weeks before the dogs are made available for adoption, as they begin to recover from their traumas, learn basic skills and become accustomed to human companionship. Their caretakers estimate that most of the Beagles are only two years old. More...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 13343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.messinastaffing.com/staffing/hiring-challenges-in-the-manufacturing-industry-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MVS2IIGGVX6NPCQKWXJLMXZZGBHPMIWM", "length": 4972, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "blog.messinastaffing.com", "title": "Hiring Challenges in the Manufacturing Industry", "raw_content": "By Beverly Ingle on May 10, 2017 EngineeringBECO\nUS manufacturing is standing at a significant milestone in its long history. The intersection of technology advances, population growth and political factors have had a significant impact on the changing American business environment. According to a new study from The Manufacturing Institute, the United States manufacturing industry, has shown steady growth in recent years, and has even more opportunity ahead.\nMore than 50% of companies report plans to increase US-based production by at least 5% in the next five years.\nNearly 25% of organizations plan to grow US-based manufacturing roles by over 10% in the next five years.\nMore than 75% of manufacturers report a moderate to severe shortage of skilled resources.\nIndustry leaders need to have a strategic vision to be able to help their organizations navigate these changes. Among top challenges they face is the issue of hiring and human resource management.\nThe lack of skilled workers has been a constant problem for several years in American manufacturing. The shortage of employees in positions requiring post-high school education but less than four years of college has been mentioned in Accenture's 2014 Manufacturing Skills and Training Study.\nThis issue is predicted to continue for many years ahead. A study from the Manufacturing Institute said that there will be between 600,000 to 2 million vacant manufacturing jobs positions by 2025. In addition, the population is aging and skilled workers will retire which will contribute to increasing numbers of vacant positions. The shortage of skilled workers has and will continue to lead to many difficulties for hiring in the manufacturing sector.\nThe problem is two-fold: finding new skilled workers as well as retaining current ones. Highly skilled workers, especially in areas such as computers and automation, are very few in number and they often go to higher-paying companies. This is also true for employees with a lot of experience in the industry. Naturally, they demand a high salary to compensate for their deep investment in specialist job skills. This competition over wages will contribute to the burden on manufacturing employers.\nPotential Strategies:\nOutsourcing is an attractive option for employers when facing a labor shortage, but this often leads to many difficult decisions that need to be carefully considered. Using offshore outsourcing can help cut costs, but outsourcing in the country has the benefits of management, quality assurance and human resource coordination.\nMany companies have come up with solutions for shaping their own talent supply chain. They are identifying their needs early and developing apprenticeship programs to train laborers themselves. In this way, trainees may begin work immediately at the end of their apprenticeship.\nResearch indicates that, given the reported difficulty of finding qualified candidates, companies should change the notion of finding the \u201cperfect\u201d candidate based on a long list of highly specific skills, education or experience. Instead, they should look for candidates with more generalist skills -- even those outside of their industry, in other geographic locations or with overlapping skill sets -- that can easily be developed to perform the job.\nAnother potential solution involves manufacturers creating close partnerships with the local colleges and universities, sponsoring training programs as well as internships programs to inspire potential candidates to apply early. This essentially will enable businesses to show a presence even before these candidates enter the job market, providing potential leverage over competitors.\nTo keep pace with rapid advances in technology at a time of increased competition and shrinking resources, another solution is to work with a staffing company that specializes in the manufacturing industry. Partnering with a staffing firm can enhance efficiencies and help a company better adapt to changing resource requirements. Without adding fixed, long-term employer commitments, temporary employees act as an extension of the manufacturer\u2019s core team of professionals.\nCreating a new generation of skilled workers is a long-term goal for the entire manufacturing industry. Every company has a role to play in finding and cultivating talent and training and equipping employees with the necessary skills to meet the demands of the future.\nBECO, a division of Messina Group Staffing has worked in the Manufacturing Industry for over 50 years, and offers a full spectrum of Temporary, Contract-to-Hire and Direct Hire services to the engineering and technical communities. When it comes to manufacturing hiring challenges, we're committed to help you find the right solutions.\nLearn more about the talent we provide our clients!\nPrevious Article The \u2018New Normal\u2019 for Finding Manufacturing and Engineering Talent\nNext Article Gen Z in the Workplace - 3 Secrets for Hiring & Motivating Them", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 7197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.nimdiet.com/2009/11/found-molecular-trigger-that-helps.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GMU35J2STOP5FQDCS4QOBPQ7JYX5R7XX", "length": 1550, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blog.nimdiet.com", "title": "Found: Molecular Trigger that Helps Prevent Aging and Disease | NIM Dish", "raw_content": "Found: Molecular Trigger that Helps Prevent Aging and Disease\n(The Mount Sinai Hospital / Mount Sinai School of Medicine Summary)\nIt has been shown in previous research that dietary restriction, to a degree, is effective in helping to prevent aging and disease, but the mechanism has not been clear. Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have now found a major clue that could help 'solve' the mysteries of aging and disease.\nPublished in the November 17 edition of the journal Public Library of Science Biology, the study examines how dietary restriction and a high-caloric diet influence biochemical responses. The researchers found that, under certain conditions, a lower-calorie diet slows the development of some age-related conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, in addition to the aging process. The way in which the diet is restricted doesn't appear to matter.\nCharles Mobbs, PhD, Professor of Neuroscience and of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, said \"It may not be about counting calories or cutting out specific nutrients, but how a reduction in dietary intake impacts the glucose metabolism, which contributes to oxidative stress.\" Meanwhile, a high calorie diet may accelerate age-related disease by promoting oxidative stress.\nRead more about this fascinating study in the article called \"Scientists Find Molecular Trigger That Helps Prevent Aging and Disease\" from ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2009)\nLabels: Ageing, alzheimer's disease, Diet, disease, healthy eating, overweight, research, study", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1024, "original_length": 13801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 206.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.nimdiet.com/2010/04/sleep-eating-raiding-fridge-while.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:49Z", "digest": "sha1:37ID7LZNICLVEDCHZRSJ27SIFLYTZ4Z6", "length": 1332, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.nimdiet.com", "title": "Sleep Eating: Raiding the Fridge While Sleeping | NIM Dish", "raw_content": "Imagine waking up to a pile of crumbs, food wrappers, a full stomach and bad breath but not remembering how any of it happened? Yes, this may be the case for some people following a night of hard partying, but to others, it's a depressing reality that happens at random for no apparent reason.\nAccording to doctors, sleep eaters make a bee-line for the fridge while sleep-walking, and eat anything high-calorie, sugar- or fat-laden and generally unhealthy. They can sometimes do this up to five times in one night! One woman confessed to waking up to a pile of wrappers from her kids' chocolate Easter bunnies, and having gained 7 pounds over a span of two months. Sleep eaters also run the risk of being seriously injured, as they oftentimes bump into things, get bruised, cut themselves on kitchen knives, or even eat non-food items like nail polish.\nWhile sleep itself is still poorly understood, it's difficult to say why this happens to roughly 1% of the population. If this is something that might be happening to you, speak to your doctor. Some people are too embarrassed to discuss this with anyone, but it's worth a talk!\nFind out more about this bizarre condition by reading the article called \"Raiding the Refrigerator, but Still Asleep\" from the New York Times (Apr. 7, 2010).\nLabels: crazy but true, eating, Food, sleep", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1027, "original_length": 13725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.opensewer.com/2003/01/wise-person-once-told-me-big-people.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:17Z", "digest": "sha1:BAKCYKZVBIWTCASP45YLFKWPOPPHJR6E", "length": 1739, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blog.opensewer.com", "title": "Opensewer", "raw_content": "A wise person once told me, \u201cbig people talk about things; little people talk about people.\u201d\nOf course, it\u2019s natural, even good, to engage in a little gossip, people-watching and stargazing once in a while. Without it, life would be cold and quite boring. And without it, we wouldn\u2019t recognize heroes. We need heroes, or at least role models. We also need meaningful human relationships.\nBut living vicariously in all its forms\u2014reading People magazine, gossiping about others\u2014is a parasite to stable culture when it goes too far. An existence centered on reactions to other peoples\u2019 lives is an existence that lacks meaning. Pathological schadenfreude is the sign of a weak mind and soul.\n(Indulge me\u2014I\u2019m getting to my point here\u2026)\nWe all had high hopes that Reality Television would die a messy, painful death when lame-ass shows like Big Brother didn\u2019t get the ratings media execs thought they would. But now, according to this article in a Pittsburgh paper (one of many articles like it), it\u2019s been given new life. This, apparently, is largely thanks to American Idol, a show which, according to what I\u2019ve heard people say about it, had some socially redeeming value. (Really?)\nBut the recent shows (Joe Millionaire, Celebrity Mole) reach new lows, drawing more than ever on desperation, embarrassment and voyeurism as key resources. Joe Millionaire adds a new resource: The Outright Lie. I\u2019d like to think that those who watch these shows are victims of \u201cevil executives\u201d out to steal their money and attention and bent on world domination. But people are ultimately responsible for their own actions, so I guess that makes them (me? you?) just poor, bottom-feeding losers.\nCotton candy tastes good, but too much of it rots your teeth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 6235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.performancehealthacademy.com/2016/01/21/biofreeze-vs-ice-cold-hard-facts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:31Z", "digest": "sha1:REBLXWTWK5GXZGGBBR5EWG4FPDRURQLJ", "length": 2565, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blog.performancehealthacademy.com", "title": "Biofreeze vs. Ice: Cold Hard Facts - Performance Health Academy", "raw_content": "by Rebecca Moore | Jan 21, 2016 | Biofreeze, Research Updates, Supported Researchers | 0 comments\nCryotherapy has long been used by physical therapists and chiropractors in the management of acute and chronic pain. Multiple studies have demonstrated that both ice and menthol decrease blood flow and help to control pain; however, there is limited research to determine which form of cryotherapy works better on individual patients.\nFifty-one males and females between the ages of 19 and 65) with bilateral non- radicular, acute neck pain (myalgia) were given both ice and the topical analgesic Biofreeze on each side of the neck.\nThe study was randomized so that the ice was on the left side of the neck and the Biofreeze was on the right side or vice versa. Thus, both sides of the neck had one cryotherapy modality.\nThe patients were asked to rate their pain on a 0\u201410 Visual Analog Scale (VAS) for each side of the neck both before and immediately following the 10 min treatment. For actual levels of pain change, the \ufffcaverage pre-treatment VAS score went from 6.24 to 3.65 for Biofreeze and from 6.31 to 5.00 for ice.\nIn addition, the patients were asked to answer the level of comfort of each modality during its application on a 5-point scale (1 = Very Unlikely or Very Uncomfortable and 5 = Very Likely or Very Comfortable). The average score on the 5 point Likert scale was 4.20 for Biofreeze and 2.57 for ice.\nIn addition, 9 out of 10 subjects reported that Biofreeze lasted longer.\nFinally, the patients were asked the following day whether they preferred ice or Biofreeze and which modality had a longer lasting effect. Overall, when asked to rate the comfort and preference, patients preferred Biofreeze 8 to 1 (p < 0.001).\nA paired t-test demonstrated that both ice and Biofreeze gave a significant reduction on pain levels (p < 0.001); however, there was nearly 2 times the reduction of pain on the Biofreeze side.\nBoth ice and Biofreeze significantly decreased pain levels; however, Biofreeze decreased pain nearly 2 times as much as ice. In addition, it was rated as substantially more comfortable, patients preferred it, and it lasted longer 9 out of 10 times.\nSource: Bishop B et al. 2011. Effects of Biofreeze vs. ice on acute, non-complicated neck pain (Abstract) Clinical Chiropractic 14(4):153-54\nResearchers learn more about how Biofreeze works Over 40 research projects supported around the world Biofreeze\u00ae versus Ice: Blood Flow and Muscle Performance Biofreeze\u00ae is better than ice for neck pain Comparing Biofreeze\u00ae Pain Reliever and Ice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 7300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.scoolist.com/5-careers-with-great-earning-potential/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BVSQ6OCKIGREAJBPYHFS4HIGAAABYOU5", "length": 3493, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.scoolist.com", "title": "5 Careers with Great Earning Potential | Scoolist", "raw_content": "Home Careers Career Choices 5 Careers with Great Earning Potential\nThe cost of attending school to earn degree is more than what most students can afford today. It is therefore not practical for students to train for jobs that don\u2019t provide much earning potential while racking up a lot of debt. Earning potential depends on many different factors. For example, Ivy League Schools like Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton rank at the top when it comes to the earning potential of students after graduation. However, even students that don\u2019t attend these schools have the opportunity to find a job that pays them well if they select the right degree. Given below are the top 5 most lucrative degrees right now (mid-career as well as starting earning potential numbers taken from PayScale):\nAverage Starting Earnings: $48,800\nAverage Mid-Career Earnings: $97,800\nGraduates with an economics degree have the potential to earn a six figure income by the time they reach the mid-career threshold. The Department of Labor states that students with a good understanding and knowledge of economics have the potential to find employment in many different fields today including insurance, finance and business. Potential career paths they can pursue after graduation include Actuary, Economist and Budget Analyst among others.\nInformation systems graduates have a very bright future because there is a lot of demand for their skills not just in the United States but in countries around the world. The Department of Labor in the U.S. estimates that employment numbers for information systems managers is expected to grow by 17% by 2018. Graduates with an information systems degree have many different career options to consider. Some of the most common positions offered to these graduates include Information Systems Manager, Computer Support Specialist and Systems Administrator.\nAverage Mid-Career Earnings: $112,000\nThe skills that graduates earn with a degree in Actuarial Mathematics are very specialized and are in great demand in the financial sector. These graduates are employed in pensions, insurance and investment sectors as well as for risk management in larger companies. They can work with actuarial consultancies and have the opportunity to move on to other roles such as career advisors, business operations managers, consultants, alternative risk roles and even in teaching.\nAerospace Engineers are responsible for the science and the construction of spacecraft and aircraft. Close to 50% of all aerospace engineers worked in the guided missile, aircraft, space vehicle and parts manufacturing industries. A majority of the jobs are provided by federal government agencies but opportunities are also available in architectural and engineering services, business services, electronics and electrical manufacturing, testing and research services.\nPetroleum Engineers have expertise in gas and oil drilling, production and reservoir management. There are several different career options for graduates with petroleum engineering degrees such as drilling engineers, production engineers, reservoir engineers and petroleum geologists. However, their work is often high-risk and they are required to work in remote offshore oil rigs.\nPursuing a degree that leads to very specific positions in a field instead of a variety of options is more likely to result in high paying jobs. Degrees like English and Theater often do not pay that well because they do not lead to very specific positions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 6398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.slocountyhomes.com/new-golf-course-at-woodlands-monarch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:08Z", "digest": "sha1:YFXFRGL37C6BJQYKRAGVIWE2CN7SISJB", "length": 164, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.slocountyhomes.com", "title": "- The Keith Byrd Team's Real Estate Blog", "raw_content": "New Golf Course at the Woodlands\nThe Monarch Dunes golf course is now open at the Woodlands development in Nipomo. You can visit their website for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1181, "original_length": 12517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 209.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.wuwm.com/post/price-hiv-test-falls-raising-hopes-global-aids-fight", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QQ6DBTLP2RMMFDF46LJDDE6YUAGB2SHO", "length": 5101, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "blog.wuwm.com", "title": "Price Of HIV Test Falls, Raising Hopes In Global AIDS Fight | WUWM", "raw_content": "Price Of HIV Test Falls, Raising Hopes In Global AIDS Fight\nBy Jason Beaubien \u2022 Jul 31, 2018\nBlood samples of people living with HIV in a laboratory at the AIDS Research Center in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.\nSia Kambou / AFP/Getty Images\nThe U.N. has an incredibly ambitious goal of wiping out HIV transmission by the year 2030.\nBut global health experts say they can't execute that plan without a cheaper way to monitor the health of millions of HIV patients.\nThe Clinton Health Access Initiative, along with several other development agencies, has brokered an agreement to make routine HIV tests more accessible. They're aiming to make HIV viral load tests available for $12 a piece, slashing the price in some markets by more than 50 percent.\nViral load testing is vital in monitoring HIV patients who are on lifelong anti-retroviral (ARV) drug therapy. Currently, most viral load testing in low- and middle-income countries is done in public laboratories on equipment owned, operated and maintained by the government.\nUnder this new deal, a private diagnostic company called Hologic instead will provide all the equipment and supplies needed to run these tests and get paid for each sample that's analyzed. The hope is that this model will make viral load testing far more common in countries with some of the highest HIV rates in the world.\nMichael Anderson with MedAccess in the U.K., one of the partners in the Clinton Health Access Initiative deal, says increasing access to sophisticated HIV testing is a critical step if the world is ever going to see the end of AIDS.\n\"Without viral load testing we will not be able to manage this epidemic,\" says Anderson.\nViral load testing is considered by the World Health Organization as the gold standard in measuring whether ARV therapy is working effectively for an individual patient.\n\"At the moment, fewer than 50 percent of Africans on (HIV) treatment have access to viral load testing,\" Anderson says. \"Viral load testing needs to be escalated enormously if we're going to have any chance of tackling this epidemic.\"\nThe U.N. has an incredibly ambitious goal of not just tackling this epidemic but stopping HIV transmission entirely by the year 2030.\nThe plan relies on three main steps. The first is to get most people tested. The second is to get people who are HIV-positive onto ARV treatment. The third is to drive down the viral loads of the people on treatment to the point where they're unlikely to spread the virus to anyone else.\nThis will involve getting tens of millions of people on ARV drugs for the rest of their lives. In some African countries, this means putting nearly a quarter of the entire adult population on treatment.\nViral load testing is of the most accurate ways to measure if a patient is responding to anti-AIDS drugs. The test checks how much HIV is in a person's system. The more virus, the sicker the patient tends to be. If the level of virus is dropping or extremely low, it's a sign that the drugs are working. The World Health Organization recommends a viral load test at least once a year for patients on ARV therapy.\nBut this can be easier said than done. Such testing requires sophisticated laboratory equipment. It can be expensive. And far too often, according to Nqobile Ndlovu, the acting head of the African Society for Laboratory Medicine, it's not available in Africa.\nReached by phone in the Zimbabwean capital Harare, Ndlovu says many countries have equipment to test for viral load, but the machines aren't working.\n\"If you move across most of the African continent, we have got machines lying idle, lots of machines lying idle, because we can't maintain them,\" he says. Ndlovu says these machines are expensive to run and even more expensive to fix if they break down.\nThe viral load machines being used by Hologic have the added benefit of also being able to test for hepatitis B and C as well as HPV, the human papilloma virus. Ndlovu says the deal will initially focus on five sub-Saharan African countries.\nCatherine Barker Cantelmo, who studies health system costs with Palladium, a private global consulting company, says this agreement is offering viral load testing at a fraction of what most health ministries are currently paying.\n\"We've seen prices as high as $50 or $60 per test,\" she says.\nBut Cantelmo adds that price isn't the only reason why viral load testing hasn't been scaled up in many low-income countries. \"In the past, it was easy to point to cost as being the problem,\" she says. \"But even if the prices get to $12 per patient sample, you still need a lot of investment in the laboratory infrastructure, which is a huge cost.\"\nAnd she adds that monitoring an HIV patient is about more than just a test. Someone has to draw the blood, then the sample has to be transported to the lab. Someone has to analyze the tests and adjust the patient's drug regimen if there are problems.\nBut with nearly 40 million people living with HIV around the world, getting regular viral load tests for them is going to be a crucial step in managing their individual care and the global pandemic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 6664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 214.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.wuwm.com/post/what-you-need-know-about-years-flu-season", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VSAM5YAGIRQRW3WRYBS7LHQQKCHKD3V4", "length": 5449, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "blog.wuwm.com", "title": "What You Need To Know About This Year's Flu Season | WUWM", "raw_content": "What You Need To Know About This Year's Flu Season\nAs flu cases mount in California, the state's health department recommends vaccination for all people 6 months and older.\nAja C. Holmes planned to go to work last week, but her flu symptoms \u2014 a cough, fever and severe body aches that worsened overnight \u2014 had other ideas.\n\"It felt like somebody took a bat and beat my body up and down,\" said Holmes, 39, who works as a residential life director at California State University, Sacramento. \"I couldn't get out of bed.\"\nFlu is widespread in 46 states, including California, according to the latest reports to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\nNationally, as of mid-December, at least 106 people had died from the infectious disease, according to the CDC. At least 27 Californians younger than 65 had died as of Friday, seven of them during the week before Christmas, according to the California Department of Public Health. And states across the country are reporting higher-than-average flu-related hospitalizations and emergency room visits.\nIn California, the flu struck surprisingly early and hard this season. The state's higher temperatures typically mean people are not as confined to the indoors, leading to a later flu season compared with other regions. Health experts aren't sure why this season is different.\n\"We're seeing the worst of it right now,\" said Dr. Randy Bergen, a pediatrician who is leading Kaiser Permanente-Northern California's anti-flu effort. \"We're really in historic territory, and I just don't know when it's going to stop.\" (Kaiser Health News, which produces California Healthline, is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.)\nHere is what you should know about this flu season:\n1. It's shaping up to be one of the worst in recent years\nThe H3N2 influenza A subtype that appears to be most prevalent this year is particularly nasty, with more severe symptoms including fever and body aches. Australia, which U.S. public health officials follow closely in their flu forecasting in part because its winter is our summer, reported a record-high number of confirmed flu cases in 2017. Another influenza B virus subtype also is circulating \"and that's no fun, either,\" Bergen said.\nFlu season in the U.S. typically starts in October and ends in May, peaking from December to February.\n2. This season's flu vaccine is likely to be less effective than in previous years\nU.S. flu experts say they won't fully know how effective this season's vaccine is until the end of the season. But Australia's experience suggests effectiveness was only about 10 percent. In the U.S., it is 40 percent to 60 percent effective in an average season. Vaccines are less protective if strains are different from what was predicted and if unexpected mutations occur.\n3. You should get the flu shot anyway\nEven if it is not a good match to the virus now circulating, the vaccine helps to ease the severity and duration of symptoms if you come down with the flu. Young children are considered among the most vulnerable to complications from the disease, and a shot can significantly reduce a child's chances of dying. High-dose vaccines are recommended for elderly people, who also are exceptionally vulnerable to illness, hospitalization and death related to the flu, according to the CDC.\n\"Some protection is better than no protection,\" Bergen said, \"but it's certainly disappointing to have a vaccine that's just not as effective as we'd like it to be.\nShots may still be available from your doctor or local health clinic, as well as at some chain drugstores. Check the Vaccine Finder website for a location near you.\n4. Basic precautions may spare you and your family from days in bed\nAs much as possible, avoid people who are sick. Wash your hands frequently and avoid touching your mouth, nose and eyes.\nMasks aren't particularly effective in keeping you from catching the flu, although they may help keep sick people who wear them from spreading their germs further.\nIf you are sick, cover your cough and stay home from work if you can, Bergen said. Remaining hydrated, eating nutritious foods and exercising can also help strengthen your immune system.\nBecause elderly people are so vulnerable to the flu, some nursing homes and assisted living facilities may limit visitors and resident activities, depending on the level of illness.\n5. Don't mistake flu symptoms for those of a common cold\nThe hallmarks of flu are fever and body aches that accompany cough and congestion, Bergen said.\nIf you feel as if you're having trouble breathing or if your fever can't be controlled with medication like Tylenol, check with your doctor. It's even more important for patients to see a doctor if they have a chronic medical condition like diabetes or heart disease or if they are young or elderly.\nKaiser Permanente doctors now are being advised to prescribe antiviral drugs like Tamiflu \u2014 given as a pill or, for kids, an oral suspension \u2014 even without a lab test for influenza, Bergen said. According to a report in The Los Angeles Times, however, Tamiflu supplies are running low.\nAnd Bergen cautioned that these medications are only partly effective, reducing the time of illness by just a day or two.\nThis story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation. You can follow Barbara Feder Ostrov on Twitter: @barbfederostrov.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 7199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bon-mar.com/login.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:18Z", "digest": "sha1:YPZKIPI5Z4JW2XGX4J3XHC2JT3BJ2MFO", "length": 66, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bon-mar.com", "title": "Bon-Mar", "raw_content": "If you do not have a username and password, click here to sign up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 66.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://borsha.gbjsolution.com/nabanna-the-bengali-harvest-celebration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:14Z", "digest": "sha1:WUMP4U6NZRGOQ63LUKTKVYKOSIECTVKJ", "length": 2607, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "borsha.gbjsolution.com", "title": "Nabanna - The Bengali Harvest Celebration", "raw_content": "The festival is celebrated with mela which are called nabanna mela. It is one of the numerous festivals that gave the name \"baro mase tero parban\" (thirteen festivals in twelve months ) to the land of Bengal. Although the nabanna parban is somewhat different from other ones since it is not connected to a religion such as Ratha Yatra. The villagers and locals from both the major religious groups join the festival with equal participation. There are also several fertility rituals which make the festival truly a harvest ritual. The festival gets a lot of support from the creative army of Bengali culture. Several poets, musicians, baul and painters flock to such mass gatherings. There is a famous play written on nabanna by Bijon Bhattacharya which depicts the sad incident of the great Bengal Famine of 1943.[1] Nowadays the Festival \"Nabanna\" is celebrating every Bengali year (1st day of Agrahayan) in Dhaka, organized by Jatiya Nabanna Utshab Udjapan Parshad (National Harvest Festival committee) since 1998. Mr. Shahriar Salam is main planner of the organization. There are huge number of cultural activists, organizations & performing in a day long festival. Traditional Dance, Song & Rally arranging by the Committee. Once upon a time 1st Agrahayan was the first day of Bengali New Year. It is a non communal festival in Bengal.\nBelow is a description found in west Bengal on one such mela website.\n\"people from several villages of Howrah and even from other districts of West Bengal come here. People not only come to visit the Mela. In addition, they participate in many cultural programmes and competitions like 'Pithe Making' (Preparation of different sorts of Bengali Cakes), Seat-and Draw, Senior Citizens' Walking Competition etc. An \"Art-Camp\" may attract creative minded people where artists from different states will participate. Some rare items of rural Bengal as \"Dhenki\" (Old-style Domestic Rice Mill), paddy of different varieties directly from the farmers' house are to be exhibited in the Exhibition ground. You can taste some delicious Bengali dishes like Pati-sapta, Payesh (the latest addition is 'Vegetable Payesh'), Jilipipi (not Jilipi) etc. during the festival. Bengal's time-honoured culture and heritage will be presented to you in forms of Baul song, Chhou-dance, Jatra, Tarja, Kobi-gaan, etc. These artists come from different parts of the state to perform their talent and expertise in front of thousands of appreciative gatherings. Moreover, you can refurbish your collection of folk arts from the 'exhibition-cum-sale' stalls of handicrafts made by rural artisans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boston.conman.org/2003/03/27.2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:21Z", "digest": "sha1:PDICWTZEAS6FOAF4VO27J5TV32OICAL3", "length": 270, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "boston.conman.org", "title": "It takes a licking \u2026 - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm", "raw_content": "It takes a licking \u2026\nMark found himself at Dialtone Internet the other day and took the time to take pictures of tower, the server that runs this website (as well as others) and handles all our email, just in case you're curious as to what you can use that old 486 for \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bostonclassicalreview.com/2015/04/celebrity-series-rolls-out-a-starry-lineup-for-2015-16/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:21Z", "digest": "sha1:7EXHB7BHIUBEGELVENR7LEUXU3UKBLAZ", "length": 5863, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "bostonclassicalreview.com", "title": "Boston Classical Review \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Celebrity Series rolls out a starry lineup for 2015-16 season", "raw_content": "Celebrity Series rolls out a starry lineup for 2015-16 season\nLang Lang will perform October 25 at Symphony Hall in the Celebrity Series of Boston\u2019s 2015-16 season.\nTrue to its name, the Celebrity Series of Boston will showcase a star-studded line-up of classical music performances in the 2015-2016 season.\n\u201cFor most of our patrons it is a recognizable Celebrity Series season, which has not only high-quality performances but a mix of veteran performers and a nice mix of several debuts,\u201d said Gary Dunning, president and executive director of the Celebrity Series. \u201cI think people, if they take a look at [the programs], there\u2019s a lot to discover.\u201d\nSpotlighting the organization\u2019s 77th season will be piano superstar Lang Lang, who will perform a recital of works by Bach, Tchaikovsky, and Chopin October 25 at Symphony Hall.\nCellist Yo-Yo Ma and his longtime accompanist Kathryn Stott will return to the Celebrity Series in a performance on November 17. Violinist Itzhak Perlman will celebrate the twentieth anniversary of In the Fiddler\u2019s House in a performance with special guests Hankus Netsky, clarinetist Andy Statman, and the Klezmer Conservatory Band on March 6. In addition, Gil Shaham will perform Bach\u2019s Six Solos for violin to the accompaniment of original films by David Michalek on November 1 at Sanders Theatre.\nMezzo-soprano Susan Graham will appear in a solo recital with works by Faur\u00e9, Mahler, Ravel, Poulenc, and Granados April 29 at Jordan Hall. Other vocalists include Dawn Upshaw in folk songs as well as works by Schubert, Messiaen, Bart\u00f3k, Kod\u00e1ly, Ives, and Bolcom (October 17). Two singers will also make their Celebrity Series debut. Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught will appear in recital December 2 at Pickman Hall, and tenor Paul Appleby, a regular artist at the Metropolitan Opera, will perform March 9 at the same location.\nOrchestras slotted to appear next season will include the Bach Collegium Japan, conducted by Masaaki Suzuki, in works by Vivaldi, Handel, and Bach, featuring soprano Joanne Lunn (November 8). Conductor Daniele Gatti will lead the Orchestre National de France in Debussy\u2019s Prelude a l\u2019apres-midi d\u2019un faune, Tchaikovsky\u2019s Symphony No. 5, and Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, featuring pianist Alexandre Tharaud (January 24). And violinist Joshua Bell will appear in dual roles as conductor and soloist with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in music by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, and Ligeti (March 20).\n\u201cI think the general philosophy [of programming] starts with the artist,\u201d Dunning said. \u201cIt\u2019s about quality, that\u2019s the core value.\u201d\n\u201cFor me it\u2019s also about what I call \u2018vulnerability,\u2019\u201d Dunning added. \u201cI like the artists who are capable of sort of opening up themselves and being vulnerable to an audience, and the audience is a participant in the live concert experience. And I think that\u2019s when you get a more powerful connection.\u201d\nTwo pianists giving recitals next season certainly possess that quality. Emanuel Ax will perform Beethoven\u2019s Path\u00e9tique and Appassionata sonatas alongside keyboard works by Dussek and C. P. E. Bach (May 1), and Andr\u00e1s Schiff will explore the final piano sonatas of Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, and Schubert (February 26).\nOther pianists will include Denis Kozhukhin, who will make his Celebrity Series debut in a recital of Haydn, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Franck, and Prokofiev (January 20). And MacArthur Fellow Jeremy Denk returns to the Celebrity Series in a solo recital April 2 at Jordan Hall.\nFor chamber music, the 2015-2016 season will feature the Pavel Haas Quartet in a Celebrity Series debut with music by Martin\u016f, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, and Beethoven (October 22); the Tak\u00e1cs Quartet in music by Haydn, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, and the Boston premiere of a new work by Timo Andres (December 4); the Brooklyn Rider Quartet and Gabriel Kahane in music for strings and voice (February 5); and the Jerusalem String Quartet, with pianist Inon Barnatan, in music by Beethoven, Bart\u00f3k, and Brahms (April 17).\nOther instrumentalists will include violinist Christian Tetzlaff, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff, and pianist Lars Vogt in a recital exploring piano trios by Schumann and Brahms along with Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s \u201cDumky\u201d trio (February 27). Cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han will team up with clarinetist David Shifrin in music by Beethoven, Bruch, and Brahms (January 15). Violinist Jennifer Koh and pianist Shai Wosner will make their Celebrity Series debuts with a new piece by Vijay Iyer and sonatas by Beethoven, including the Kreutzer (November 18).\nGuitarist Milo\u0161 Karadagli\u010d returns to the Celebrity Series with a recital February 21 at Jordan Hall, and mandolinist Avi Avital, along with accordionist Ksenija Sidorova and percussionist Itamar Doari, will explore the boundaries between folk and classical music through the works of Kreisler, Bach, Villa-lobos, Bart\u00f3k, and traditional Turkish and Israeli music (March 11).\nRob Kapilow\u2019s What Makes it Great? will spotlight Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 1 with musical support by the New England Conservatory Philharmonia (March 6).\nAs in past seasons, venues are split between Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall and Pickman Hall.\nHighlighting Celebrity Series\u2019 jazz offerings next season will be Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (November 22). Also making appearances will be Cuban pianist Chucho Vald\u00e9s (November 12), the Mack Avenue Superband (February 4), and a trio consisting of pianist David P\u00e9rez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade (November 20).\nFor dance lovers, the ten-member, all-male BalletBoyz will perform January 29 and 30, 2016 at the Shubert Theater, and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre will return for their annual visit March 17-20, 2016 at the Citi Wang Theater.\nSubscriptions and tickets for the Celebrity Series\u2019 2015-2016 season go on sale today. celebrityseries.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 6626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 238.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://breakingac.com/2018/08/ac-teen-admits-gang/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UXHPIVX6W4WBX7BLKIO7CZ5T3RSICZUG", "length": 2259, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "breakingac.com", "title": "Atlantic City Teen Admits To Shootings, Carjacking As Gang Member - BreakingAC", "raw_content": "An admitted teen gang member faces a 26-year sentence after pleading guilty to several charges related to carjacking a woman at gunpoint and the shooting of a juvenile.\nZion Moore, 19, was set to go to trial next week, but instead pleaded guilty Wednesday to several charges, including first-degree gang criminality \u2014 the first conviction of its kind in Atlantic County, Prosecutor Damon Tyner said.\nThis \u201crepresents the ongoing cooperative efforts of the Atlantic County Prosecutor\u2019s Office Gangs, Guns and Narcotics Litigation Unit, the Atlantic City Police Department and the Pleasantville Police Department to prosecute gang violence throughout Atlantic County,\u201d Tyner said in a release.\nMoore admitted to he carjacked a woman and pointed a gun at her in order to control the vehicle she was driving, Tyner said.\nMoore and Donte Brooks were arrested after an investigation by Detectives Miguel Lugo, Angelo Maldonado and Luz Gresham of the Pleasantville Police Department\u2019s Violent Crimes Unit. Brooks previously pleaded guilty to carjacking and possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose. His plea deal calls for a 10-year sentence requiring him to serve 85 percent, or 8\u00bd years, before he is eligible for parole.\nMoore also admitted to first-degree carjacking, and second-degree charges of possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose and aggravated assault.\nUnder the plea agreement, Moore faces a sentence of 26 years in prison, where he will have to serve at least 13.6 years before he is eligible for parole.\nMoore also admitted to the shooting of a juvenile in Atlantic City on Oct. 12, 2016. The victim was not his intended target, Moore said.\nHe also used the gun as a member of the Head Shot Gang \u2014 associated with the city\u2019s Back Maryland neighborhood \u2014 in a series of retaliatory shootings against the Stanley Holmes-affiliated FettiGeez gang, Moore admitted.\nNow-retired Sgt. Joseph Iacovone, Detective Innocenzo Visceglia and the Atlantic City Police Department\u2019s Violent Crimes Unit investigated this case.\nMoore is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 20 before Superior Court Judge Bernard DeLury.\nPreviousPleasantville High School principal arrested on child pornography charges\nNextMargate Police Investigating Assault Of 15-Year-Old", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bridgepoint.fr/en/our-team/stuart-rose/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:48Z", "digest": "sha1:YFDXXTIUW7Q7MRO2WGTWCJ75A3DDY6HX", "length": 1217, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bridgepoint.fr", "title": "Bridgepoint / Stuart Rose", "raw_content": "Stuart Rose is a member of the European Advisory Board.\nHe has spent his entire career in retail, joining Marks & Spencer plc in 1971, then moving to the Burton Group in 1989 where he became a director in 1993. In 1997 Stuart was Chief Executive of Argos plc and in 1998 and when Booker plc merged with the Iceland Group in 2000 he continued within the role. He became Chief Executive of Arcadia Group plc in November 2000 and left in December 2002 following its sale to Sir Philip Green. Stuart then re-joined Marks & Spencer plc as Chief Executive in May 2004 becoming Chairman in 2008 and standing down at the end of 2010.\nHe was Chairman of The British Fashion Council from 2004 - 2008, Chairman of Business in the Community from 2008 - 2010 and a Non-Executive Director of Land Securities from 2003-2013. Stuart is currently Chairman of Bridgepoint portfolio company FatFace, as well as of Majid Al Futtaim Retail and Ocado. He sits as a Non-Executive Director of the board of Woolworths (South Africa) and is currently Chairman of Britain Stronger in Europe campaign.\nHe was knighted in 2008 for services to the retail industry and corporate social responsibility and in 2014 was elevated to the House of Lords.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 67.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bukitpagar.com/jungle/jungle.asp?jungle=j07", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWRMF3C2WDSRZ5GVTRKUPV6QPXSKYTSV", "length": 5020, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "bukitpagar.com", "title": "Kenong Rimba Park - Malaysia Bukit Pagar", "raw_content": "We arrived in Jerantut (coming from Kota Bharu) by train at 19.20 and we were looking for a nice, clean guesthouse. The trip by train was very impressing. The toilets were very dirty and we saw a lot of black beetles on the train. A nice guy on the train (his name was \"Abdul\") advised us to stay at the\nGreenpark Guesthouse in Jerantut. The jungle is very impressing. We didn't want to miss that train!\nThe old train stopped every quarter of an hour. If you want to get out somewhere in the bush, just tell the train conductor. He'll stop. You don't need a railway station, he'll stop!\nA taxi driver took us for free to the guesthouse. At that moment we were not aware, that this was the beginning of a very special trip.\nOn the train from Kota Bharu to Jerantut\nWe book a double room (RM20) when we arrive at the Greenpark Guesthouse. It's clean and cosy. There's free tea, coffee.... you can even prepare your own food in the kitchen, but it's nicer to eat outside at the hawker stalls. There's also the Internet for RM4 per hour. Actually, it's a backpackers guesthouse, but we feel home at once.\nIt seems we can organize our trip to the Kenong Rimba Park here in the guesthouse. They have their own guides. We can book a trip to Taman Negara also. We decide to go for the survival trip to Kenong Rimba.\nSo we book our trip (2 nights/ 3 days) for RM250 per person. Inclusive: guides, breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks. But we need a backpack for trekking, so we have to buy that.\nKenong Rimba is situated in natural surroundings with cascading waterfalls, caves, clear mountain streams and a variety of flora and fauna. Within the Kenong Rimba Park, there are several caves to explore. There are Gua Batu Telangkup, Gua Hijau and Gua Harimau. The Caves, situated approximately 122-152 meters above sea level, are a natural habitat for a range of flora and nature's other marvels.\nWhat we need to buy:\n- bathing suit\n- torchlight/ water bottle\n- knives - joggers/ walking shoes\nIn the morning there's a taxi ride (25 km) to Kuala Lipis, the staging point to the Park. Then there's a long boat waiting for us. We're on the river for 30 minutes and then we have to walk four kilometres through the jungle. We take our time for that walk. After four hours we finally reach our base camp. Here they prepare in a wok our lunch: rice, vegetables, chicken and omelette. It's delicious!\nAccommodation at the park is limited to visitors. However, at present there are a few units of wooden huts for visitors. Tonight we have one of those wooden huts!\nIn the afternoon we visit a cave. The park boasts a complex network of caves, each with individual uniqueness of geological formations and fascinating legend. Our cave must be very old. We see a very old fire place, which has fascinated geologist and archaeologists from all over the world and must be from the Stone Age. This cave have played a role in the story of human civilisation right from the Stone Age till today.\nThe cave is also the home to a lot of bats.\nWe are witness of beautifully sculpted stalagmites and stalactites.\nWhen we are back in our base camp, we have a swim a the river. That night we sleep in a wooden hut on stilts.\nIt's gonna be a long day for us. After our breakfast we get a lot of stuff for our survival trip: basic sleeping bags, basic sleeping mats, tea, chocolate milk, noodles, candy's and an orange.\nAfter a trip through the jungle we reach again a cave. Again we see a lot of bats, hanging on the ceiling.\nWe have to walk again trough Malaysia's tropical rainforest until it's lunch time.\nFor lunch we get a tuna fish salad and bread. We are troubled by a lot of bloodsuckers.\nWe see and hear a lot of animals in the afternoon, but not those wild animals we wanted to see: tigers, elephants, or wild and dangerous animals. We see: squirrels, mousedeers, a variety of birds, primates and many more that exist in this thick jungle.\nAt five o'clock we stop and the guides are going to make our dinner. That evening we have noodles, tuna fish with sauce.\nWhen it's dark, we have to climb a self made ladder and we enter a cave. This cave will be our bedroom for tonight. Our mats and sleeping bags are very thin, so it's hard to get some sleep that night. Mostly we're listening to the sounds of the jungle and we're enjoying the wonderful view at the full moon.\nIt's great to be in the jungle.\nThe next morning we wake up and hear the sounds of gibbons and birds everywhere . We made sure that the campsite was completely clean and that we had left no traces of our passing except for an extinguished fire.\nThe sun had broken through and we made the trail to our Base Camp, up and down several steep hills, across several streams. Finally we reach the Base Camp where we have delicious lunch.\nAfter lunch we have to back to Jerantut. We can choose between the train and the local bus. We take the local bus.\nIn Jerantut we have a very fast bus to Kuala Lumpur. It costs only RM10.85 and we're back in the Golden Triangle of Kuala Lumpur.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://buzzonlinedaily.com/story/ryan-reynolds-deadpool-2-is-about-kindness-truly/0154445/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ZP2HURPJRHLE7MPDTSSPDN45FG6NXWIH", "length": 5957, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "buzzonlinedaily.com", "title": "Ryan Reynolds: 'Deadpool 2' is about kindness (truly) - Buzz Online Daily", "raw_content": "Ryan Reynolds: 'Deadpool 2' is about kindness (truly)\nActors Blake Lively, left, and Ryan Reynolds attend a special screening of \"Deadpool 2\" at AMC Loews Lincoln Square on Monday, May 14, 2018, in New York. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP)\nFILE - In this May 14, 2018 file photo, actor-producer Ryan Reynolds attends a special screening of his film, \"Deadpool 2,\" at AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York. (Photo by Brent N. Clarke/Invision/AP, File)\nThis image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Shioli Kutsuna, left, and Brianna Hildebrand in a scene from \"Deadpool 2.\" (Joe Lederer/Twentieth Century Fox via AP)\nThis image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Ryan Reynolds in a scene from \"Deadpool 2.\" (Twentieth Century Fox via AP)\nThis image released by Twentieth Century Fox shows Josh Brolin in a scene from \"Deadpool 2.\" (Twentieth Century Fox via AP)\nLOS ANGELES \u2014 After being stuck in development for over a decade, \"Deadpool\" broke box-office records and shattered preconceived notions about what an R-rated superhero movie could do when it debuted in February 2016. Now the foul-mouthed mercenary is back with a sequel that's gearing up to play in the big leagues \u2014 the summer movie season, and it looks like it with be another hit for 20th Century Fox. Industry analysts say the film is tracking to earn at least $130 million in its first weekend in North American theaters.\nStar and producer Ryan Reynolds spoke to The Associated Press about what to expect when Deadpool returns to theaters on Friday.\nRemarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.\nAP: The first is so wild and jam-packed with everything. Did you hold anything back or save anything thinking that there would be a sequel?\nREYNOLDS: Oh my God we put everything out there. We had no pie in the sky notions that we would be guaranteed a sequel after this. But (screenwriters) Rhett (Reese) and Paul (Wernick) and I had been working together for, God, coming on eight years now. We worked on the first script together for years before it even got close to being greenlit and while shooting the first film, we were already coming up with a story for the second one. But at the time it wasn't something that was a reality; it was just something we loved. I think that at the end of the day the driving force behind \"Deadpool\" is that there are a great number of people who absolutely love every aspect of it. I think that's what translates to the audience. There is an authentic joy and love for what we're doing and we have so much fun doing it and you can't help but feel that through the screen.\nAP: Is there anything that is off-limits for Deadpool?\nREYNOLDS: Not really. To make a great rated-R comic book film you've definitely got to push the boundaries a little bit and we leave that to the editing process to figure out what we want to keep and what we don't. Tone is so critical in these movies and at the heart of \"Deadpool\" is always a very emotional story. You have to circle around that before you think about comedy bits or trying to incite reactions or that sort of thing. So \"Deadpool 2\" is really, at its core, about how one act of kindness can change the world. It's sort of a nature versus nurture story at its heart and that's critical to the film as a whole. Then you can model which sort of comedic set pieces you want around that. But at the end of the day it's got to be an engrossing story and that's the thing that we were most focused on from the get-go.\nAP: That's very sweet and sincere! And here I was thinking the most sincere thing about \"Deadpool\" was the Wikipedia page. Everything else from the logline to the marketing leans into the irreverence of it.\nREYNOLDS: Deadpool at his heart is sort of like a child. Like, yeah he can be vulgar, yeah he can act out but at its core there is a certain innocence to other aspects of him and I think that is something that's really important with the character. He sees the world through the prism of a child's eyes sometimes and that's also why he's tempestuous and obnoxious and misguided so much of the time too.\nAP: How are you feeling leading up to the release? With a summer date, it's playing in the big leagues now.\nREYNOLDS: For us that's been a dream come true as well. Having \"Deadpool\" positioned as a summer movie gives us a little more license to go a bit bigger, but at the same time our budgets are not comparable to some of the big Marvel movies. But necessity is the mother of invention so the less we have, the more creative we have to get. It has all the same principles and tenets as the first film which Dave Leitch loved and really wanted to honor, but at the same time there's a different flavor to it as well because Dave likes to keep major action in the lens as opposed to relying more on CGI.\nIt still has this kind of down and dirty feel, which I love, but it also has so many elements that I think are going to blow audiences away and surprise people. I'm super excited about it. Right now we're just focusing in on the marketing campaign which for \"Deadpool\" is always to a certain degree an extension of the film itself. We get to have as much fun with the marketing as we do with the actual shooting of the movie. I'm excited to put out some of the things we have ready to go in terms of the marketing.\nAP: From the studio behind \"27 Dresses,\" right ?\nREYNOLDS: Absolutely, yeah. If you loved \"Alvin and the Chipmunks,\" you are going to love \"Deadpool.\"\nAP: Do you feel like this has to do better than the first to be a success?\nREYNOLDS: I don't really think about it like that. I'd be naive to not pay attention to some of the biz part of the showbiz but I know that the movie is made at a budget that makes it pretty reasonable for all parties involved and when we keep the budget down, the studio gives us a lot more play and leeway to do the things that we want to do and that's always great. So, no, I don't think it has to do better, necessarily.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 7641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bwys.org/forums/index.php?board=4.0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:23Z", "digest": "sha1:FDDV5M3XSOWQDXT2HNNAQDF3DU6CIU6R", "length": 1614, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "bwys.org", "title": "Anime & Manga", "raw_content": "Twilight Anime? Chara 2 8594 April 03, 2011, 07:37:56 PM\nBest Anime Lines Chara 4 32914 March 01, 2011, 10:42:25 PM\nMarch Comes in Like a Lion uncollected raws Chara 0 4382 July 08, 2010, 11:50:21 PM\nWhat are you watching in the spring 2010 season? Chara 1 3626 February 24, 2010, 03:06:51 AM\nWhat are you watching in the fall/winter 2009 season? 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This is a form of a mental disorder.\nObsessive Compulsive disorder is a condition in which the person experiences uncontrollable recurring thoughts. They are then forced by their own mind to act out a compulsion as a way to relieve that obsession. While the person is struggling to ignore the compulsion, anxiety levels skyrocket.\nStudies have shown that this condition is brought about by a malfunction some parts of the brain.\nStudies have shown that everyone experiences nagging thoughts from time to time. What separates a healthy person from one with OCD is the inability to leave behind these thoughts. The inability to ignore the compulsion. Diagnosis is based on this fact. It must interfere with daily routine and social interactions. It must be time consuming with a significant amount of distress.\nMost OCD patients know that what they are doing is not normal. They can realize and appreciate that there is something wrong that requires attention and remedy.\nSynaptic Mechanism\nThe hippocampus, amygdala, and basal ganglia are all involved in the development of OCD. Over activity and overload of messaging brings about a shut down and inability to relay messages properly. A typical conversation involves pre-synaptic and postsynaptic cells. The pre-synaptic cell emits charged neurotransmitters, which are then directed to the postsynaptic cells.\nIn a healthy brain, the conversation is able to remain smooth because the endocannabinoids step in when the pre-synaptic cells are being a little too excited. Like that friend steps in with a hand on your shoulder when you start to ramble at a thousand words per minute. We all have that one friend who will remind you to take a deep breath when you start to run your mouth. The endocannabinoids are that friend. In scientific terms, this is called retrograde signaling.\nIn a person with an anxiety disorder like OCD, this friend is temporarily disabled. They are unable to calm the pre-synaptic cells down. Therefore, the overexcited pre-synaptic cells send too much information in the form of excessive charged neurotransmitters. So many that the postsynaptic cells are unable to take all of it. Therefore, they do the only thing that they can, they shut down.\nWith the brain cells incapacitated and unable to communicate as they should, things stagnate. Alarms begin to sound in the head.\nTo Limit Serotonin Re-Uptake\nIn the view of serotonin, which is a neurotransmitter, they are then reabsorbed by the pre-synaptic cells. This re-absorption causes production to cease. It also inhibits pre-synaptic action. Anxiety develops and the fear is worsened.\nWith so much chaos in the head, the person will have trouble making sense of anything. Therefore, they hang on to the only thing that they can, a repetitive action that they hope with calm all the activity in the brain. This is akin to having the mind turn against you. Human beings are driven by their conscious. When one is in battle with that then they might as well be out at sea without navigation.\nOCD is treated by therapy and Selective Serotonin Re-uptake Inhibitors or SSRIs. These limit reabsorption of the serotonin into the presynaptic cells. This works to smooth communication between both sending and receiving cells. It also invreases the amount of serotonin in the serotonin cleft.\nRegular anti-depressants and other suc drugs are used to achieve this. However, these drugs have some debilitating side effects that might end up worsening the OCD over time. One is also bound to develop tolerance and dependence. This means that over time, the drug demands that you increase dosage. It also demands that you take it all the time even when you are not supposed to. This is usually brought on by a malfunction or damage of the reward pathways.\nThis is where CBD steps in. It can help the SSRIs work better. CBD works with the 5-HT1A to regulate serotonin action. This is a serotonin receptor, which is located in the pre-synaptic and postsynaptic areas. It is a major player in the mechanism of action of anxiolytic medications. Through this action, it is able to act as an SSRI of sorts.\nLess Marble Burying\nThe University of Sao Palo conducted a research to look into CBD and OCD. They administered a synthetic psychoactive drug found in ecstasy to laboratory rats. This drug is known to induce panic attacks and worsen OCD symptoms. The drug has also been found to inhibit SSRI action.\nThen the rats were then subjected to a marble burying test in a bid to establish baseline OCD behavior. CBD was afterwards administered at two different levels. One portion of the group was administered wit 15mg/kg of CBD while another got 30mg/kg.\nIt was found that OCD behavior decreased significantly even in the lower dosage portion of the subject pool. Marble burying was minimized. This study was published in the journal of Fundamental & Clinical Pharmacology. Another study was conducted in the UK in 2012. It was found that the rats had decreased OCD markers after administration of CBD.\nCBD Before/With Therapy\nThe researchers who conducted the above study outlined that the outcome of therapy would be improved if CBD were taken before each session. There are two forms of therapy for OCD patients. The first is cognitive behavioral therapy. This is a form of therapy that focuses on problem solving rather than analysis. It is a way for the patient to learn to deal with the problem.\nCBD before this session would ensure he patient stays open to suggestion. It would keep their fear and obsessions from getting in the way of proper treatment. Another form of therapy is exposure therapy. The patient is exposed to their triggers over and over until they become numb to it. The first few times would be brutal. CBD would help keep feelings in check. It would ensure that the brain does not go into overdrive until such a time that the stimulus is not a trigger anymore.\nSpear the Fear\nMost OCD cases are rooted in a deep and visceral fear. Fear for safety or even fear of contamination. Fear is a major player in the development of OCD. Fear is not entirely bad. It is a perfectly healthy response in some situations. It only becomes a problem when it causes problems like OCD. The amygdale is the fear center in the brain.\nResearch has found that there are cannabinoid receptors in the amygdala. This offers an avenue for CBD to work on some of those irrational fears that bring about OCD.\nIn administration of medication, there is the idea of extended release. The medication is consumed then released gradually into the blood stream. The action of such a medication will be slow but the effects will last long. A CBD transdermal patch, pill, or edible would work in this way. There is also the immediate release, which is a quick hard hit. Sublingual or inhalation would produce this kind of effect.\nWith relation to OCD, it is important to be aware of the onset of symptoms. After one is out of the red and they can function without the constantly medicating, you can then keep the immediate release medication at hand. The important thing to know with respect to this is the desired purpose. It is always prudent to have both kinds at your disposal though.\nChill Under the Cloud\nIt is advisable to go for an indica strain. Indica strains produce more body-wide effects. They help the person slow down and become mellow. However, these can cause sleep and are therefore better utilized in the evening. A sativa strain is stimulant. It causes strong brain focused effects. These have been found to exacerbate underlying anxiety and paranoia.\nPrevious articleCBD for Anorexia: Eat What You Want Guilt Free\nNext articleThe Benefits of CBD for Those With High Blood Pressure", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 9665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=257", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:QNCTYYG4M6M7MGC2MCSKV55T7WRSZMMF", "length": 1470, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "canyoncinema.com", "title": "Canyon Cinema : Filmmaker", "raw_content": "Since 1968 I've made over thirty short films, videos, performances and installations. My early work drew upon my background in mathematics and explored the boundaries of time, space, and perception. I then became interested in language as a subject and generated a substantial body of work that played with the feel and form of sense, concrete texts, political satire, and a kind of intellectual comedy. Simultaneously, I made a number of works that functioned in the public domain: video installations and documentaries on public art.\nMy ambition these days is to construct cinematic totems, speechless vehicles for encounters with landscape and figure that reinvigorate the possibilities of seeing. Recent videos have explored the liminalities of vision the optical space that presents itself before (re)cognition kicks in, the borders between light and darkness. I'm interested as well in the edges of things: the highway underpasses, subducted tunnels, and abandoned factories that constitute the unconscious inner life of the city. These spaces, which I have been exploring for thirty years, possess a potency that is almost mythological.\nI understand this all as furthering one mission of art, which is not to illustrate what we know but to illuminate what we do not.\nSpirit Matters (1984)\nVox 13 (1982-2000)\nSecondary Currents (1982)\nMan Who Could Not See Far Enough, The (1981)\nAnalogies (1977)\nChambers of the Fire Dream (1975)\nStudy in Diachronic Motion (1975)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cari.org.mx/recursos/privados/bases_datos/34", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KNRIDIA2JSLV5EO3RA26NFMLHGLBG6NE", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cari.org.mx", "title": "CARI-Ciberciencia :: American Mathematical Society (AMS)", "raw_content": "Link: www.ams.org/home/page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://caribbeancenter.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TUKOAK7CVBKXTDMKBRKZPQ4WWOQLN7VL", "length": 1657, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "caribbeancenter.org", "title": "Caribbean Center For Child Development", "raw_content": "Maximizing your child's potential\nCaribbean Center for Child Development is an internationally recognized center that has been created to facilitate the journey for children, adolescents and adults who struggle.\nOur mission and our strength lie in helping children with Autism and other developmental delays and/or social and emotional challenges. From Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and learning disabilities to more severe challenges, such as Autism, Mental Retardation, Selective Mutism, and language delays.\nThe Brain Based Lab are evidence-based interventions proven to remediate and significantly improve neurological deficits that impact academic and daily performance.\nWe provide an array of psychological services that include cognitive behavioral therapy for all ages, martial therapy, family therapy and psychopharmalogical interventions.\nChildren treated at the Caribbean Center for Child Development can be seen by a variety of health care professionals working together in one or more of the center's clinical disciplines. These highly trained professionals work to provide coordinated, interdisciplinary care tailored to the special needs of each child. This interdisciplinary approach puts the Caribbean Center for Child Development at the forefront in providing patient care for individuals with multiple developmental disabilities.\nCaribbean Center for Child Development\n85 Solider Road\nWe offer services for adults\nWe provide teleconference services to the family islands and internationally\nAll assessments and interventions are evidence-based\nClinical services are provided by Master and Doctoral Level Certified Practitioners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 247.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catholicheritage.blogspot.com/2015/09/national-latin-mass-pilgrimage-to-knock.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:40Z", "digest": "sha1:DXMWSTOTNPLRR2CMYLPVPQ372SMELJKN", "length": 1535, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "catholicheritage.blogspot.com", "title": "The Catholic Heritage Association of Ireland: National Latin Mass Pilgrimage to Knock 2015", "raw_content": "The National Latin Mass Pilgrimage is a special event in Knock. Unique among Latin Mass pilgrimages around the Country, His Grace, the Archbishop of Tuam has designated this pilgrimage under his own authority and appointed a chaplain, Fr. John Loftus of the Diocese of Killala.\nThe organisation of the National Pilgrimage was undertaken by Our Lady's Catholic Heritage Association in co-ordination with the other Catholic Heritage Associations around the Country but all Latin Mass Communities, Chaplaincies, Associations and groups around the Country are invited to participate each year.\nAs usual, the main exercises of the pilgrimage took place in the old Parish Church of Knock, whish stood when the apparitions took place. The apparitions are uniquely Eucharistic in that the Blessed Sacrament was present in the form of the Lamb of God with Our Lady, St. Joseph and St. John, during the whole of the apparition. That may be the reason for the silence of the apparition and perhaps the key to it's central message, the importance of silence in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament - very appropriate for the Traditional Latin Mass.\nThere was a tremendous turn out from all parts of the Country for a Missa Cantata of Our Lady celebrated by Fr. Loftus. In keeping with the exercises of the official pilgrimages to the Shrine, the Missa Cantata was followed by the Stations of the Cross and the pilgrimage concluded with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.\nLabels: CHA, information, Knock, Mayo, news, Our Lady, pilgrimages, Tuam", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 444, "original_length": 24506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catholicnews.sg/cnsubscriptions/index.php?subcheck=GWAU", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4OFFSN6PGAIAN6S24NTJQG2POQS4MQRA", "length": 853, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "catholicnews.sg", "title": "\ufeff CN Online Subscription", "raw_content": "CatholicNews Subscription Form\nStep 1: Select the country in the drop-down menu on the right if you are from Singapore, Malaysia or Brunei.\nSingapore Malaysia Brunei\nStep 2: Click on the \"Yes\" button on the left to subscribe to one or more of the following publications.\nClick on the \u201cYes\u201d button first to calculate the total amount. Click on the \u201cClear\u201d button to remove all your selections.\nFor residents of countries other than Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei, please contact Mr Richard Paul at subscriptions@catholic.org.sg\nToday's Liturgy is not longer available for ordering.\nYes Publication\nName Start of\nSubscription Annual Subscription\nFee in SGD No. of\nSubscriptions No. of\nYears Total\n$35 (26 issues) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 year 2 years 3 years\nThe Word Amongst Us\n$32 (10/11 issues) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 year 2 years 3 years\nExplaining God\u2019s Word", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 328.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catholicphilly.com/2016/05/news/local-news/bonner-students-hear-of-saintly-priest-who-was-just-like-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:19Z", "digest": "sha1:YCOAHAEV4QQHQJ6U4FFJOLWV4IPRFH56", "length": 6109, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "catholicphilly.com", "title": "Bonner students hear of saintly priest who was \u2018just like you\u2019 \u2013 Catholic Philly", "raw_content": "Bonner students hear of saintly priest who was \u2018just like you\u2019\nAl Atkinson, a brother of Augustinian Father Bill Atkinson who died in 2006, speaks to some of the football players at Msgr. Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast High School during a visit to the school May 20. Atkinson, a former pro football player with the New York Jets, presented the school with a gold football from the NFL commemorating his play in the 1968 Super Bowl. (Photo by Deacon John Rodgers)\nThe assembly students of Msgr. Bonner and Archbishop Prendergast Catholic High School in Drexel Hill attended Friday, May 20 probably held the same appeal as any other: It got them out of class.\nBut by the end of the hour-long presentation, many were actually glad they went.\nThe assembly\u2019s purpose: To introduce them to a distinguished alumnus and renowned faculty member, a man whom they have never met and never will, not in this life, for he died in 2006.\nThat man was the Servant of God Father Bill Atkinson, O.S.A., a Bonner graduate and teacher until 2004, when his health forced him to retire. His cause for beatification is now underway.\nFor those unaware of Father Atkinson, he was an athletic young man who had entered the Augustinian order\u2019s novitiate following high school. On Feb. 22, 1965, the novices had the day off and snow had fallen the night before.\nAtkinson and several classmates decided to make a toboggan run down a nearby hill. They went off course and ran into a tree, head on. Atkinson was in front, and his head took most of the blow. No one else was hurt.\nFollowing convalescence at Magee Rehabilitation Hospital, he reentered the Augustinians. After completing all the requirements for ordination, only one obstacle remained: The church had never ordained a quadriplegic to the priesthood before.\nDespite this, Blessed Pope Paul VI gave Bill a special dispensation and on Feb. 2, 1974, he was ordained a priest by Cardinal John Krol. For the next 30 years Father Atkinson taught at Msgr. Bonner High School.\nThe only thing he could do for himself was move his electric wheelchair. Everything else required assistance, which he endured with heroic patience and grace. His cause for sainthood was introduced last fall.\nThe purpose of last Friday\u2019s assembly was to help students \u201cunderstand who Father was, personally \u2014 not just as someone whose name we bring up quite often, but to know him personally,\u201d said Grace Kane, an English teacher at the school and a colleague and friend of the priest.\nTo help students do that, the school invited several people to speak, including his sister Joan Mullen, niece Janine Zozaya, classmate Lon Barrone, former colleague and coach Ralph Celidonio and Villanova basketball team chaplain Augustinian Father Rob Hagan, whom Father Atkinson helped discern his vocation.\nMullen started off by telling students about her brother\u2019s life and what he was like growing up. \u201cOn Sunday he liked to watch a football game with a hoagie and a beer. He played a mean game of pinochle. And he put ketchup on everything,\u201d she said.\nBut she pointed out to the students that \u201cBill was your average ordinary teenager just like you, running to class just like you, sitting in assembly just like you, forgetting his lunch. He experienced frustration, problems in school, SATs, home life, illnesses, just like you may be experiencing. Some of his hurdles were extraordinary, but remember, he never surrendered to them.\u201d\nNext up was high school friend Lon Barrone, who sat next to Father in homeroom. He said one day he came in very sad about some things happening in his life at the time. He asked Atkinson, \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d\nBarrone said Atkinson \u201ckinda shrugged and looked at me and said, \u2018Gosh, when things get that bad, I just look up and say, \u201cThy will be done.\u201d\u2019\n\u201c\u2018What?\u2019 Barrone remembers thinking. \u201cBill was a lot of things back then, but religious wasn\u2019t the first thing that popped into my mind when I thought about him. \u2018Thy will be done.\u2019 I said the \u2018Our Father.\u2019 I had no idea that the words actually meant anything. But they meant something to Bill. \u2018Thy will be done.\u2019\u201d\nBarrone spoke of how Father Atkinson took the word \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d as a personal challenge. People kept telling him \u201cyou can\u2019t\u201d do this or that. Time and again, the Servant of God proved them wrong.\n\u201cEver since then to this very day, whenever I feel like I can\u2019t do it, I imagine myself walking up to Bill \u2026 and saying, \u2018I can\u2019t do it.\u2019 And I find that the words won\u2019t come,\u201d Barrone said. \u201cThat was his gift to me, but it\u2019s also his gift to you.\nRalph Celidonio not only coached an adolescent Bill Atkinson in CYO but also at Msgr. Bonner, and later taught alongside him when the priest joined the school\u2019s faculty.\nWhen he learned about Father Atkinson\u2019s accident, he thought, \u201cWhy would God let something like that happen to a good person? And that question comes up often in our lives. You hear about it all the time. Tragedies happen to good people.\nBut Celidonio called the accident \u201ca blessing\u201d because of the thousands of people Father Atkinson helped through the years.\n\u201cNot just Bonner people but people from all around, people from other countries who heard about him going on and becoming a priest and helping others and being able to overcome the tremendous handicap that he had,\u201d Celidonio said. \u201cThere is a God, and God does work in strange ways.\u201d\nIf the assembly\u2019s purpose was to make Father Atkinson better known to the students, it evidently succeeded.\nAccording to sophomore Theodore Greiner, the assembly \u201creally helped me to see who Father Bill was as a person, and not just a name. It was so well executed and incredibly sincere, and I think that\u2019s what made it so powerful.\u201d\nRalph Celidonio, who coached Father Bill Atkinson in CYO sports and later taught with him at Msgr. Bonner high School, speaks to students of the school May 20. (John Rodgers)\nPREVIOUS: St. Joe\u2019s Prep raises its cup \u2013 for charity\nNEXT: Msgr. Edward Deliman named new auxiliary bishop\nTom Walsh says:\nFather Atkinson is exactly the model the Church needs today. May it be God\u2019s Will that Father Atkinson be declared a saint.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 8998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cathyreedy.com/Genealogy/INDIs/II1850.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PT5O7ME75OSH4HGX6NRROLGLTUVZPOBX", "length": 119, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cathyreedy.com", "title": "Richard A Burkhart", "raw_content": "Richard A Burkhart\nRichard was born in 1866, the son of John Burkhart and Ann Winifred Goodwin. The place is not known.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 162.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cddstamps.blogspot.com/2018/03/hello-change-of-topic-today.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6DAQYUBKMANQWYLWHJMO5LEQ3OSWR7Q5", "length": 1381, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cddstamps.blogspot.com", "title": "cddstamps on stamps", "raw_content": "Hello, a change of topic today. I thought you might enjoy seeing this miniature sheet, especially for those collectors who like large stamps, as this certainly is. It was issued in 2016 to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the first stamps issued for the Republic of the Philippines, and for National Stamp Collecting month.\nIt shows the images of the three stamps that were issued in 1946 for the inauguration the what was termed the Third Philippine Republic. I show the 12c stamp (the other two stamps were the 2c and 6c values) so you can better see the actual 1946 design.\nOn July 4, 1946, the governments of the Republic of the Philippines and the United States signed the Treaty of Manila of 1946 which provided for the recognition of the independence of the Republic of the Philippines and the relinquishment of American sovereignty over the Philippine Islands.\nThe stamps were engraved by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing. They show a Filipino woman in native dress with a crown of laurel and holding in her hands the Philippine Flag. In the background were the flags of all the nations. 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I remember the first song you touched the bottom of my heart...it was Stranger in Moscow. I could really feel the loneliness in it. From then on, I fell in love with every pieces of your music. I was encouraged, inspired and soothed through different songs each time I encounter different condition in my life. Love is always your message, and I know it is our mission to express this message...this spirit, to the whole world from generation to generation... So, now let me pray for you and pray for this planet. May God bless this pure, honest and true will. I miss you every day, especially today, but I know...some day we will meet again. 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Yee\nPictured: Matthew C. Yee and Aurora Adachi-Winter. Photo by Saverio Truglia.\n**Warning, contains strong language and adult themes.**\nWriters Theatre, under the leadership of Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma, opens its 2018/19 season with Qui Nguyen\u2019s Vietgone, directed by Lavina Jadhwani, featuring original music and music direction by Gabriel Ruiz and choreography by Tommy Rapley. Vietgone runs August 15 \u2013 September 23, 2018 in the Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Theatre at 325 Tudor Court, Glencoe.\nIt's 1975 and two young survivors (who may or may not be the playwright's parents) meet in a Vietnamese refugee camp in mid-America shortly after the fall of Saigon. Will this strange new land of cowboys, hippies and bikers allow them to fall in love? Playwright Qui Nguyen\u2019s wildly creative, irreverent style flips stereotypes on their head, remixing history and culture into a sexy, funny and energetic fantasia as he imagines how two soul mates might have found each other in a turbulent time.\nVietgone is a first-generation immigrant story told through a second-generation lens. As a result, this period piece about the 70s is infused with elements of modern American pop culture\u2014rap music, ninja fights, movie montages, motorcycle chases\u2014that playwright Qui Nguyen grew up loving.\nEqual parts road-trip adventure, buddy film, romantic comedy and Hamilton-esque rap musical, this epic new play repurposes pop culture from the last forty years to tell its \u201cprobably-mostly-true\u201d story. Directed by Lavina Jadhwani, Vietgone takes a no-holds-barred approach, transporting you through time and across the globe to put an innovative spin on a critical moment in our history.\nVietgone features an Asian American playwright, director and cast, and a significant portion of the creative team.\n\u201cVietgone is one of the most creative, vibrant and entertaining plays to emerge on the American stage in the past few years,\u201d said Artistic Director Michael Halberstam.\u201d Qui Nguyen handles his subject matter with great originality and a generous eye towards keeping the audience engaged, while not shying away from a very sophisticated narrative. Furthermore, thanks in no small part to pioneers like Lin Manuel Miranda and The Q Brothers, hip-hop culture and rap music have become an organic part of the current theatrical conversation and Mr. Nguyen uses the vernacular to great effect. In fact, Vietgone feels somewhat like producing a musical. The piece fills the epic canvas of the Nichols stage with its integral musical score and choreographic sequences, while adhering to the intimacy that is a hallmark of the Writers Theatre experience.\nGabriel Ruiz has composed original music for the production. Like Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton, Vietgone uses contemporary music, including rap, to tell an historic story in an anachronistic way.\n\u201cDirector Lavina Jadhwani has been collaborating with Writers Theatre in various capacities for more than a decade now, and her directorial debut is an organic extension of our ongoing relationship. Her national career has been well and truly launched with projects in development at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (where she first encountered this play), the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Florida and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. She\u2019s assembled an ideal cast and a bravura design team, and we all feel very lucky to be working together to tell such a dynamic and important story.\u201d\nDirector Lavina Jadhwani has a long-standing relationship with Writers Theatre starting as a script reader and progressing to serve as Dramaturg of Travels with My Aunt and the Director of the staged reading of Our Few and Evil Days.\nThe cast of Vietgone includes: Aurora Adachi-Winter (Tong), Rammel Chan (Asian Guy/American Guy/Nhan/Khue), Emjoy Gavino (Asian Girl/American Girl/Thu/Huong/Translator/Flower Girl), Ian Michael Minh (Playwright/Giai/Bobby/Captain Chambers/Redneck Biker/Hippie Dude) and Matthew C. Yee (Quang).\nThe creative team includes: Yu Shibagaki (scenic), Melissa Ng (costumes), Sarah Hughey (lighting), Kevin O\u2019Donnell (sound), Rasean Davonte Johnson (projections), Dwight Sora (assistant director) and Carol Ann Tan (production dramaturg). The production stage manager is David Castellanos.\nQui Nguyen (Playwright) is a playwright, screenwriter, and co-founder of the OBIE Award-winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company of NYC. His plays include Vietgone (2016 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, 2016 LADCC Tim Schmitt Award, 2016 Edward M. Kennedy Prize finalist), War is F**king Awesome (Frederick Loewe Award), She Kills Monsters (2014 AATE Distinguished Play Award, 2012 GLAAD Media Award nom), Soul Samurai (2009 GLAAD Media Award nom) and the critically acclaimed Vampire Cowboys shows: The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, Alice in Slasherland, Fight Girl Battle World, Men of Steel, Six Rounds of Vengeance and Living Dead in Denmark. Recent awards include a 2016 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program (Peg+Cat) and a 2015 New York Community Trust Helen Merrill Playwriting Award. He is proud member of the WGA, The Dramatists Guild, The Playwrights Center, Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Ma-Yi Writers Lab. He\u2019s an alumni of New Dramatists and Youngblood. For television, he's written for PBS\u2019s Peg+Cat and SYFY\u2019s Incorporated. Currently, he\u2019s a screenwriter for Marvel Studios.\nLavinia Jadhwani (Director) Lavina Jadhwani is a Chicago-based director, adaptor, and advocate. Favorite directing credits include Roe (Asolo Repertory Theatre), Human Rites (world premiere at the Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis), Great Expectations (Silk Road Rising/Remy Bumppo Theatre Company), Gruesome Playground Injuries, Much Ado About Nothing, Yoni Ki Baat (Rasaka Theatre Company), Cherry Smoke (the side project), Romeo and Juliet (Teatro Vista\u2014BroadwayWorld nomination, Best Production for Young Audiences), Hamlet and Twelfth Night (Oak Park Festival Theatre). Her adaptations include The Sitayana (a solo performance piece based on the Hindu epic, The Ramayana), Vanya (adapted from Chekhov) and Shakuntala: An East-Meets-West Love Story (an a cappella musical, adapted from Kalidasa). Lavina maintains relationships with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Phil Killian Directing Fellow), the National New Play Network (Affiliated Artists Council), Silk Road Rising (Artistic Associate) and Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Artistic Engagement Associate). She was named Time Out Chicago\u2019s \u201cBest Next Generation Stage Director\u201d in 2013. Lavina is a graduate of The Theatre School at DePaul University (M.F.A., Directing), Carnegie Mellon University (B.F.A., Scenic Design; Masters, Arts Management) and the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.\nGabriel Ruiz (Original Music/Music Director) Gabriel is a proud ensemble member of Teatro Vista. Chicago credits include: Agamemnon (Court Theatre), City of Angels (Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire), The Upstairs Concierge (Goodman Theatre), White Tie Ball (Teatro Vista), Creditors (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company), How Long Will I Cry?, The Motherfucker with the Hat (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Sita Ram (Chicago Children's Choir), After (Profiles Theatre), Working: The Musical (Broadway Playhouse at Water Tower Place), Richard III, Short Shakespeare! A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Arabian Nights (Lookingglass Theatre Company). Regional credits include: Native Gardens (Cincinnati Playhouse), Harvey (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Forward Theater Company) and Blood and Gifts (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts). He can also be seen as Dilip Singh in both seasons of Boss (Starz).\nTommy Rapley (Choreographer) Tommy Rapley is a proud Company Member with The House Theatre of Chicago where he has choreographed over 25 world-premiere productions including The Sparrow (Jeff Award), Cave With Man (Jeff Award), The Terrible Tragedy of Peter Pan, The Valentine Trilogy and Death and Harry Houdini. Directing credits for The House include: The Great and Terrible Wizard of Oz, All the Fame of Lofty Deeds, Hope Springs Infernal, DORIAN and their critically acclaimed productions of The Nutcracker. Other notable Chicago credits include: AIDA (Drury Lane Oakbrook), Detroit (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), One Hundred Dresses, A Year with Frog and Toad (Chicago Children's Theatre), Yeast Nation (American Theatre Company), Man in the Ring (Court Theatre), The King and I, City of Angels (Marriott Theatre) and A Christmas Carol (The Goodman Theatre). Tommy has worked regionally with Hartford Stage Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kansas City Rep., Olney Theatre Center, St. Louis Rep., The Adrienne Arsht Center and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.\nAurora Adachi-Winter (Tong) A Chicago native, Aurora grew up on the south side of the city, attended Walter Payton College Prep and graduated with her BFA in theatre from The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a company member with First Floor Theater, where she appeared in their productions of Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, peerless and Two Mile Hollow. Other past credits include: Bull In A China Shop (About Face Theatre), Put Your House In Order (The Roustabouts), The Burials (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), good friday (Oracle Productions, Jeff Nomination for Best Ensemble), Hinter (Steep Theatre Company), M. Butterfly (Court Theatre) and Miss Saigon (The Paramount). Upcoming productions include Red Rex (Steep Theatre) and Lottery Day (Goodman Theatre) both by Chicago playwright Ike Holter. Aurora has performed three consecutive years in The Fly Honey Show (The Inconvenience), including with her mother, aunt and cousin in their drum group Adachi Taiko.\nRammel Chan (Asian Guy/American Guy/Nhan Khue) Theatre credits include King of the Yees (Goodman Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oblivion (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), A Red Line Runs Through It (u/s Second City), Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Next Act Theatre) and staged readings of Vietgone (Writers Theatre), The Supreme Leader (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Not-So-Accidental Conviction of Eleven Milwaukee Anarchists (Milwaukee Repertory) and The Oldest Boy (Goodman Theatre). He is an ensemble member of Stir Friday Night, a recipient of the 2015 Bob Curry Fellowship from the Second City and the 2018 Kundiman Fiction Fellowship. As a writer, his play Northern Michigan Trust premiered as part of TEN at The Gift Theatre and his short fiction has appeared in Riksha or is forthcoming in Asimov\u2019s Science Fiction. His film and television credits include Cold War, End of the Tour, Red Line (CBS), Crisis, Chicago Justice (NBC), Patriot (Amazon) and The Jamz (Netflix).\nEmjoy Gavino (Asian Girl/American Girl/Thu/Huong/Translator/Flower Girl) Representative Chicago credits include Steppenwolf Theatre (The Drunken City, You Got Older), Court Theater (Wait Until Dark, Electra, The Good Book, Iphigenia in Aulis, M Butterfly, The Hard Problem), About Face Theatre (Bull in a China Shop), The Hypocrites (You on the Moors Now), The Second City (The Realish Housewives\u2014National tour), The House Theater of Chicago (Death and Harry Houdini, Wilson Wants it All), Northlight (4000 Miles), Victory Gardens (Failure: A Love Story), Remy Bumppo (Seascape, Fallen Angels, Love and Information), Paramount (Hair), Broadway Playhouse (Working), Lookingglass Theatre (Arabian Nights), The Neo-Futurists (Neo-Futurist Christmas Carol) and Goodman Theater (A Christmas Carol). Regional credits include Repertory Actors Theatre, Book-It Repertory, ACT, 5th Avenue Theatre and Village Theatre. Film/TV: The Exorcist, Mob Doctor, Empire (Fox), Chicago Fire and Chicago Med (NBC). Emjoy graduated from The School at Steppenwolf. She is the casting director of Gift Theatre, a teaching artist with Barrel of Monkeys, a 3Arts Make a Wave grantee and is the founder and producer of The Chicago Inclusion Project. She is represented by Stewart Talent.\nIan Michael Minh (Playwright/Giai/Bobby/Captain Chamber/Redneck Biker/Hippie Dude) is an artistic ensemble member of Midsommer Flight and has appeared in the company's productions of Twelfth Night, Hamlet and As You Like It. Other Chicago productions include Romeo and Juliet (Teatro Vista), The Last Dance, Shadow Boy (Commedia Beauregard), Art (Parlor Room Players) and Coriolanus (Commission Theatre).\nMatthew C. Yee (Quang) Theatre credits include Once (Paramount Theatre), Treasure Island (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Alice\u2019s Rock and Roll Adventure, The Year I Didn't Go to School, A Year With Frog And Toad (Chicago Children's Theatre) and The Wheel (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Television credits include Chicago Fire, Chicago Justice (NBC) and Empire (Fox).\nThe play explores the time during and immediately following the Vietnam War, told through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees, revealing a different perspective on a well-known piece of American history.\nIn Vietgone, playwright Qui Nguyen gives us a dynamic look at the Vietnam War and its aftermath from a rarely observed point of view. At this Sunday Spotlight event, we will be joined by a diverse panel of historians, activists and artists to discuss varying perspectives on this contentious time in history when the country\u2014and the world\u2014was undergoing great change. Seating is limited, RSVP is required.\nThe Making of... Vietgone\nMusic plays a huge role in Vietgone, and the styles are specific and intentional for each musical moment. At this Q&A, WT Associate Artistic Director Geoff Button moderates a discussion to break down the music in Vietgone, looking at the rich storytelling in rap and how popular music makes its way from radio waves to the stage. Seating is limited, RSVP is required.\nJoin us at 6:45pm before every Thursday evening performance (excluding First Week and any extension weeks) for a 15-minute primer on the context and content of the play, facilitated by a member of the WT Artistic Team.\nIn an effort to promote taking public transit to the Theatre, Writers Theatre launched a new promotion in 2013. Any audience member who purchases a ticket to a Writers Theatre production and rides Metra\u2019s Union Pacific North Line to the Theatre may snap a photo of themselves on the train and post it to their Facebook, Twitter or Instagram account with a tag of @WritersTheatre (@Writers_Theatre on Instagram) and #VietgoneWT, and upon showing the post at the Writers Theatre Box Office, receive $5 in cash to put toward the cost of your fare as a thank you for going green.\nThis promotion is available for a limited time only and may end without warning. Ticket must have been paid for in advance. Not valid on comp tickets. More information available at writerstheatre.org/metra\nWriters Theatre is pleased to recognize BMO Harris Bank as the 2018/19 Season Sponsor and ComEd as the Official Lighting Sponsor of the 2018/19 Season. The Major Corporate Sponsor for Vietgone is Northern Trust. The Major Production Sponsors are Maryellen and Richard Keyser, and the Artists Council Sponsors are Laurie and Michael Petersen. Additional support for Vietgone is provided by the Director\u2019s Society Sponsors.\nUnder the artistic leadership of Michael Halberstam and the executive leadership of Kathryn M. Lipuma, Writers Theatre has grown to become a major Chicagoland cultural destination with a national reputation for excellence, being called the top regional theatre in the nation by The Wall Street Journal. 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When I lived in Russia as a student, I didn\u2019t feel very much like part of the school at large and it was great to be able to push for that at my home university.\nCategoriesLife TagsOne Minute Writer, prompt\nPrevious PostPrevious Making Sleeping Ubuntus Lie\nNext PostNext Five Foods", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://claytonsahib.weebly.com/mountie-pulp/king-of-the-royal-mounted-comic-book", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3CEBCVLAEM7JVE2BSKDFFP7O3RNBRUOT", "length": 496, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "claytonsahib.weebly.com", "title": "King of the Royal Mounted - comic book - PHANTOM EMPIRES", "raw_content": "King of the Royal Mounted - comic book\nKING OF THE ROYAL MOUNTED was many things in it's life; a comic strip, several cliffhanger serials (which I have, and will be reviewing here eventually), and a number of \"Big Little Books\". 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If you have any of the missing pictures from the 30s, 40s, or 1955 please contact us.\n1970 no confirmations\n1960s 1950s 1940s 1929 & 1930s\n1960 June 5 1959 May 17", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 1589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://climatehub.strikingly.com/blog/letter-new-environment-minister-ontario", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:20Z", "digest": "sha1:WCL2MDM7QB3OE35AK5RPAQRMMEBP5UAI", "length": 2521, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "climatehub.strikingly.com", "title": "My Letter to the New Environment Minister of Ontario - Hub members' stories", "raw_content": "I sometimes meet people who are not interested in politics and have few opinions in that area, but more often I meet people who have political opinions. I certainly fall into the latter category, but I truly believe that climate change solutions and priorities should not be a partisan discussion. Because of the way the issue has evolved in the western world, climate change has become political, but it shouldn\u2019t be. Sometimes I meet conservative leaning people and I talk to them about climate change as an opportunity to save money and start promising new businesses. Some have said they can agree to this in private, but say they have been pushed into a corner in public, by what they perceive to be \u2018over-the-top lefties who don\u2019t believe in market economies\u2019.\nAs we now know, many of our proven climate solutions are less expensive, better at creating jobs, and represent simple economic & technological progress, in addition to being healthy for people and the planet.\nStill politics is a bit of a game, and within that game we need to try to respect each other. About half of the Province of Ontario recently voted for Premier Doug Ford, who during the campaign suggested that the cap and trade program and GreenON were a waste of money. He made a promise to end those programs and it appears the government is in the process of keeping that promise. Rather than waste a lot of time railing against something he and his support base believe is a correct path, I decided to make a recommendation that might be useful to them.\nI have worked on many political campaigns and know a bit about strategy. I think he could satisfy the people who voted for him and also some of the people that didn\u2019t, by doing some creative programming. As a green journalist I have studied and written about various financing structures in the past few years that allow people to manage the up front costs of big clean energy projects like rooftop solar panels or geothermal systems. As we know, the up front part is the key challenge, because these systems always pay for themselves in less than 10 years and last more than 20 years. Some of the financing instruments I\u2019m talking about are listed in the graphic accompanying this post and details on some of them can be found elsewhere in my blog at bfnagy.com. Building retrofits are a very important solution for climate change, and these initiatives can help people afford them, without burdening other taxpayers. Below is the letter I wrote to Doug Ford\u2019s new Environment Minister:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clinicaeduardoanitua.com/en/treatments/endodontics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HARVYOA3FDTYEP2A6FRNMWE7M5FSLM2S", "length": 1378, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "clinicaeduardoanitua.com", "title": "Endodontics | Dental Endodontics | Anitua Dental Clinic", "raw_content": "Clinica Dental y Odontologia Vitoria - Dentistas - Endodontics\nCaries is a destructive process that affects the hard tissues of the teeth. It originates in the external layer (enamel) and if it is not treated, it continues progressing to the innermost layer (dentin) finally affecting the tissue located inside the teeth (pulp) and causing an infection at this level.\nWhen the caries reaches this tissue or an area very close to it, a conventional filling is not possible as the infection and therefore the bacteria have come into contact with this tissue and can even penetrate to the bone around the radicular apex (the end of the root). The material used for the filling making contact with the pulp tissue would cause pain as the bacteria and their waste products would be trapped in a completely enclosed space without the possibility of inflammatory or healing by itself.\nEndodontics is used in this situation to eliminate the dental pulp and the infection within it due to the transfer of the germs that cause caries to the interior of the tooth. When the dental pulp the tooth loses its vitality and sensitivity. Then the pulp cavity is filled three-dimensionally with a specific biocompatible material to seal it and provide resistance to the root. The crown is restored finally with a filling, inlays or a crown depending on the extent of the destruction in the tooth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://co2forum.cpe.fr/session/co2-as-a-c1-building-block/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:21Z", "digest": "sha1:CDO76CQO22FRTHDWT6PTHHIMCHV4RS6D", "length": 1971, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "co2forum.cpe.fr", "title": "CO2 as a C1\u2013building block | CO2 Forum", "raw_content": "Carbon dioxide has been used for decades as a raw material for the production of urea, salicylic acid, ethylene (propylene) carbonate, as well as methanol from a blend of CO and CO2. However, it still remains a tremendous challenge for obtaining a wide range of chemical structures as CO2 displays limited reactivity in comparison with other C1 molecules in use, e.g. carbon monoxide and phosgene.\nAddressing the issue of emission excess of CO2 in the atmosphere has increased notably the interest in CO2 as a C1-building block. Moreover, nowadays it makes sense to recycle a waste to fulfill sustainability criteria. Turning CO2 to a valuable and renewable feedstock offers also an alternative for mastering the use of fossil fuels, thereby impacting on anthropogenic emission. Nevertheless, decarbonization of energy supply should be integrated to avoid penalty associated with the stability of CO2.\nThis presentation will discuss the main reaction channels from CO2 to value-added chemicals. Some of them have already been implemented as environmentally innovative technologies while others have just been designed. Basically, these reactions take place by acid-base and redox mechanism, respectively. Formally, CO2 either retains its oxygen atoms or is deoxygenated. To the purpose, catalysis is a favored methodology, which may be associated with photo- and electrochemical activation. There are challenges to boost catalyst performance (activity, stability, selectivity) and shift favorably thermodynamics equilibria. As a matter of fact, major breakthroughs are still a few although there is market demand for fuels, polymers, and chemical intermediates produced from renewables.\nFor entering the value chain of the production of chemicals, CO2 as a carbon resource has to be defunctionalized at the opposite of fossil carbon resource. A better understanding of the CO2-based chemistry is on the track for evaluating how much CO2 could be converted into chemicals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://coeur-d-alene.windermerecommercial.com/blogs/windermere/archives/August%202018/posts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:09Z", "digest": "sha1:IWNBGCGAH37V5TFFAA6MXOHY4PVJXZAC", "length": 3028, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "coeur-d-alene.windermerecommercial.com", "title": "Windermere Blog | August 2018 | Coeur d'Alene", "raw_content": "How Restrictive Growth Policies Affect Housing Affordability In Many Cities\nWindermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner explains how restrictive growth policies are affecting housing affordability in many cities.\u200b\nBuilding Character - Balancing a Home's Personality and Amenities\nIt's sometimes said that the limitations of a house are what help make it a home. For many, however, it is a point of pride to accept only the finest in their new residence. How can you find the balance between cultivating a lived-in home with personality and quirks versus a house with cutting-edge amenities that improve quality of life? To get to the bottom of that, we gathered a list of six...\nOutfitting Your Home to Survive the Threat of Wildfires\nMuch of the Western United States is grappling with the same issue this summer \u2013 the specter of smoke and fire from some of the largest forest fires in recent memory. For individuals, even the decreased air quality can be a threat, while the destruction that the fires themselves can wreak is devastating. Homeowners living near impacted areas are often left with an impossible choice...\nAvoiding the Pitfalls of Home Addition Construction\nPosted in Architecture by John Trupin\nWhen dissatisfaction with your current home strikes, it can be exciting to launch into a plan for a new addition. A new living room, bedroom, or more can add value to your home while improving your quality of life. On the other hand, even a modest addition can turn into a major construction project, with architects and contractors to manage, construction workers...\nHow Zoning and Regulatory Costs Impact Housing Affordability\nWindermere Real Estate Chief Economist Matthew Gardner explains the ways zoning rules and regulatory costs can limit housing affordability.\nThe Most Ambitious Trends in Luxury Pool Design\nWhen it comes to luxury home design, if you can imagine it, it can be done. In-home spas, luxe bowling alleys, and glass wine rooms are just a few examples we\u2019re seeing out there. The same idea extends outdoors to swimming pools, which are a must for most luxury homes. But we aren\u2019t talking about just any old backyard pool; they\u2019re usually more masterpiece than mainstream. We consulted...\nThe yearning to move lives in the spirit of many homeowners, but that desire for something new is often at odds with what feels feasible. That sense of newness needn't come from a dramatic uprooting, however. The great part about having a home of your own is you can make improvements and give your home a chance to evolve over time. You just need to help your home live up to its potential! We...\nThe State of Oregon has added 30,400 new jobs over the past 12 months, representing a reasonable annual growth rate of 1.6%. It is clear, however, that job growth in Oregon has started to taper, with the annual rate dropping below 2% in the early spring of this year. This is no great cause for concern as the state has essentially reached full employment, which tends to slow employment growth...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 372, "original_length": 10677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://conference.vde.com/eusar/2018/Pages/Program.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PFTBOGSSXKRCSL6IZSW47NPCFRAB44U7", "length": 9204, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "conference.vde.com", "title": "EUSAR 2018 Program", "raw_content": "EUSAR EUSAR 2018 Program\nWelcome MessageCommitteesCall for PapersPaper SubmissionInstructions for AuthorsTutorialsReview ProcessPublication EthicsImportant DatesProgram\nExhibitionSponsoringRegistrationAccommodationVenueContact\nDownload the preliminary program of EUSAR 2018\nThe Renaissance in Radar Remote Sensing -\nNew Vision for Earth and the Planets\nPaul A. Rosen\nCommunication, Tracking, and Radar Division\nJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasasdena, USA\nAbstract: The age of spaceborne radar remote sensing was born in 1978 with the launch of SEASAT, an experimental satellite carrying an array of microwave instruments \u2013 a radiometer, an altimeter, and a synthetic aperture radar. Designed by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, SEASAT demonstrated in its short lifespan the uniqueness and utility of radar\u2019s all-weather day/night capabilities. Much as the rediscovery and repurposing of the knowledge from classical times led to the European Renaissance, the past decades since SEASAT have seen the repurposing of originally military technology and techniques toward a sustained and accelerating international growth in the number and variety of radar instruments that are orbiting Earth and the planets to understand where we live \u2013 a Radar Renaissance. Spacefaring nations now consider Earth imaging radar to be critical to their scientific and operational needs, and a growing number of systems are being launched around the world. Radars of all varieties are producing essential climate records, with a scientific imperative for continuing measurements.\nThis talk presents an overview of the major developments in spaceborne Earth and planetary radar systems, with some emphasis on NASA/JPL missions. The talk will highlight the intersections of science and innovation in spaceborne radar developments, including some of the most interesting science and technology achievements obtained over the years, and describe upcoming initiatives that support future directions in Earth and planetary observations.\nBiography: Paul A. Rosen is Project Scientist of the ISRO-NASA Synthetic Radar Mission at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), USA. Dr. Rosen has been Principal investigator and co-investigator on a number of scientific research and computing tasks over the years. Hi is presently a JPL Senior Research Scientist. Past positions at JPL include Manager of Radar Science & Engineering Section.\nHis assignments at JPL have centered on scientific and engineering research and development in methods and applications of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and interferometric SAR (InSAR). He was supervisor of the Interferometric SAR and System Analysis Group at JPL from 1995 until November 2002. Dr. Rosen has developed and promoted scientific applications of differential interferometry, including crustal deformation mapping and hazard assessment, and has led several proposals for surface deformation satellite missions.\nDr. Rosen was the Shuttle Radar Topography Missions (SRTM) Project Element Manager for Algorithm Development and Verification from 1996 to 2000, and was the SRTM metrology Tiger Team lead in 2001. From 2002 to 2004, he led a NASA-funded collaboration with the Air Force Research Laboratory, developing dual use L-band radar technology. Most recently, he has been leading joint (interagency) radar mission studies. Dr. Rosen is also a visiting faculty member and lecturer at the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, and he has authored or co-authored over 30 journal articles and two book chapters.\nPrior to JPL, Dr. Rosen worked at Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, studying wave propagation in plasmas, and the dynamics and observations of Saturn's rings. As a post-doctoral scholar and graduate student at Stanford University, he studied the properties of the rings of the outer planets by the techniques of radio occultation using data acquired from the Voyager satellites, discovering new dynamical features in the rings of Saturn and Uranus.\nDr. Rosen is a Fellow of the IEEE, past-chair of the Metro Los Angeles Section\u2019s Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Chapter, and currently serves on the GRSS Administrative Committee.\nHaystack Ultrawideband Satellite Imaging Radar (HUSIR)\nJoseph Usoff\nMIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Advanced Sensors and Techniques Group, USA\nAbstract: Utilization of the Earth orbital regime is growing at a rapid pace and space situational awareness (SSA) has become of great interest to all. A major component of SSA is characterization of unknown objects. Characterization includes assessment of orbit, size, shape, orientation and functionality. Imaging is a very useful mechanism to characterize objects and the primary metric of imaging capability is resolution. To characterize an object, it must be resolved into many resolution cells; therefore, resolution cell size must scale with the size of the object. To characterize small satellites, resolution of the order of a few centimeters is required.\nGround-based optics provide limited imaging capability of orbiting objects due to poor resolution at the ranges of interest and susceptibility to adverse weather. Ground-based inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging has several advantages over ground-based optical imaging. It is more tolerant to weather, resolution is not a function of range, and since it provides its own illuminating signal, it is available at all times of the day. Ground-based systems are less costly and are easier to maintain and upgrade than space based systems.\nMIT Lincoln Laboratory developed the Haystack Ultra-wideband Satellite Imaging Radar (HUSIR) to provide high-resolution images of objects orbiting the earth. HUSIR is a large dual-band monostatic radar with an instantaneous bandwidth of 1 GHz at X band and 8 GHz at W band, thereby providing fundamental resolution of 25 cm at X band and 3 cm at W band. This presentation will review the HUSIR design and will highlight the challenges that were faced in implementing that design.\nBiography: Joseph Usoff is a senior staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Advanced Sensors and Techniques Group. Since joining Lincoln Laboratory in 1993, his research activities have included missile seeker testing, development of an automated RCS diagnostic tool for aircraft, development and implementation of real-time radar imaging algorithms, and development of the Haystack Ultra-wideband Satellite Imaging Radar (HUSIR). He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and master\u2019s and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University. He has previously worked at Raytheon as an antenna engineer, at the U.S. Air Force RATSCAT facility as the chief data analyst and at The Ohio State ElectroScience Laboratory as a graduate researcher.\nExploring the Ocean Floor with Synthetic Aperture Sonar\nRoy Edgar Hansen, PhD\nNorwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)\nAbstract: The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the surface of our planet. Detailed information of the seabed at large depths is increasingly important in many fields such as marine biology, marine geology, offshore constructions and installations, and military applications. With the advent of unmanned autonomous underwater vehicles capable of operating at large depths, there is a need for high performance imaging sensors, and synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) is becoming the tool of choice for very high resolution imaging and mapping of the seabed. Although not as sophisticated and mature as state-of-the-art in SAR, modern SAS is relatively capable, being ultra-wideband widebeam multi-element interferometric systems with theoretical geometrical resolution better than 3 x 3 cm. The ocean environment imposes challenges for the synthetic aperture technique. Accurate positioning is non-trivial in the absence of GPS and stable platforms. The sound speed can vary up to 3% and cause substantial refraction. In this talk, we describe the similarities and differences between SAR and SAS, and the particular challenges in SAS. We show example SAS images from various places for different types of applications.\nBiography: Roy Edgar Hansen received the Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Troms\u00f8, Norway, in 1999. From 1992 to 2000, he was with the Norwegian research company TRIAD, working on multistatic sonar, multistatic radar, synthetic aperture radar, and underwater communications. Since 2000, he has been with the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI), Kjeller, Norway, working on synthetic aperture sonar. In the period 2009-2015, he was the research manager for the marine robotics development at FFI, including the fields of underwater navigation, battery and fuel-cell technologies, decisional autonomy, automated target recognition, and synthetic aperture sonar. He is currently Principal Scientist at FFI. He is also Adjunct Professor in Acoustic Imaging at the Department of Informatics at University in Oslo, Norway. His research interests include synthetic aperture sonar and radar, ultrasound imaging, and array signal processing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 9530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 225.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://corkandross.org/priests/very-rev-canon-daniel-j-dan-joe-donovan-pp-vg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PNJ5LQX57ALCCNTRUQRFPWQZIITV2ROI", "length": 1349, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "corkandross.org", "title": "Very Rev. Canon Daniel J. (Dan Joe) Donovan PP VG | Diocese Of Cork & Ross", "raw_content": "Very Rev. Canon Daniel J. (Dan Joe) Donovan PP VG\nMay 28, 2017 cork PRIESTS Comments Off on Very Rev. Canon Daniel J. (Dan Joe) Donovan PP VG\nThe Lough PP : 19/1/1970 \u2013 14/5/1973\nBlackrock PP : 22/6/1962 \u2013 19/1/1970\nCaheragh PP : 4/9/1959 \u2013 22/6/1962\nThe Lough CC : 8/5/1953 \u2013 4/9/1959\nChaplain, Port of Cork : 31/1/1953 \u2013 8/5/1953\nSouth Parish CC : 21/12/1943 \u2013 8/5/1953\nSouth Parish AP : 11/9//1938 \u2013 21/12/1943\nChaplain, Presentation Convent(South) : 27/8/1933 \u2013 11/9/1938\nAppointed Canon of the Cathedral Chapter on the16/12/1965.\nAppointed Vicar General of the Diocese on the 19/1/1970.\nHe was instrumental in the building of several churches in the diocese, incl.\nChurch of the Holy Spirit, Dennehy\u2019s Cross (1957)\nHoly Family Church, Caheragh (1963)\nSt Michael\u2019s Church, Blackrock (1964)\nChurch of the Way of the Cross, Togher, Cork (1972)\nTwo of his nephews, namely, Fr. Jim O\u2019Donovan and Fr. John O\u2019Donovan currently serve in the diocese.\nThe Immaculate Conception Church Grounds, The Lough, Cork\nHis Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Lucey, Bishop of Cork presided at the Concelebrated Requiem Mass. His Grace Archbishop Ryan, O.P. Archbishop Emeritus, Port of Spain, Trinidad, and His Lordship, Most Rev Dr. Ahern, Bishop of Cloyne were in attendance. The chief concelebrant of the Mass was Fr. Jim Donovan, C.C., Cathedral (nephew of the deceased).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 5297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 207.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://corkandross.org/priests/very-rev-canon-timothy-tim-mcsweeney-pe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:34Z", "digest": "sha1:P3UISZLQ7GC4FX3OFV5LNN65EQCAHXU2", "length": 1244, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "corkandross.org", "title": "Very Rev. Canon Timothy (Tim) McSweeney PE | Diocese Of Cork & Ross", "raw_content": "Very Rev. Canon Timothy (Tim) McSweeney PE\nJune 16, 2017 cork PRIESTS Comments Off on Very Rev. Canon Timothy (Tim) McSweeney PE\nSt. Patrick?s College, Maynooth, Co. Kildare\nKilbrittain AP : 12/6/1984 \u2013 9/8/1996\nRetired ex Ballineaspaig : 12/6/1984\nDunmanway PP : 22/1/1969 \u2013 24/1/1970\nDrimoleague PP : 29/9/1962 \u2013 22/1/1969\nDouglas CC : 1/7/1950 \u2013 29/9/1962\nMuintir Bhaire CC : 6/1/1935 \u2013 10/9/1938\nBeal Ath\u2019n Ghaorthaigh CC : 1/10/1932 \u2013 6/1/1935\nAppointed Canon of the Cathedral Chapter on the 3/3/1970.\nSt. Patrick\u2019s Hospital, Cork\nSt. Patrick\u2019s Church Grounds, Kilbrittain, Co. Cork\nCanon Timothy McSweeney, was the oldest priest of the Dioceses of Cork & Ross when he died at 94 years of age.\nA native of Kilmichael parish, Canon McSweeney was ordained at St. Patrick\u2019s College, Maynooth, in 1928.\nHe served in parishes across the dioceses and was responsible for the building of the Church of the Real Presence in Curraheen, Cork, and the schools in the Curraheen area. This was while he was parish priest at Ballineaspaig parish (Dennehy\u2019s Cross), where he served for 14 years.\nCanon Tim died on August 9th, 1996.\nMay he rest in the Lord\u2019s peace.\nConcelebrated Requiem Mass was celebrated at St. Patrick\u2019s Church, Kilbrittain, Co. 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Mileena s a clone of Kitana versus Jade as a female assassin adorned in a green skin-tight outfit from Mortal Kombat. Both [\u2026]\nSonya \u2013 Mortal Kombat\nSonya form Mortal Kombat. Lieutenant Sonya Blade, (USA) or Lt. Sonya Blade, (USA), is a female soldier. A member of a top United States Special Forces unit, Sonya Blade is [\u2026]\nSub-Zero \u2013 Mortal Kombat\nSub-Zero is a video game character from the Mortal Kombat series and one of the original characters in the first Mortal Kombat game in 1992. A mainstay of the series, [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 4862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://country.eiu.com/article.aspx?articleID=305000214&Country=United%20Arab%20Emirates", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RTB6TCVIKSMJJDECXXOQ5KSDVQCNG3RR", "length": 2454, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "country.eiu.com", "title": "UAE economy: Quick View \u2013 Dubai launches financial technology plans", "raw_content": "UAE economy: Quick View \u2013 Dubai launches financial technology plans\nDubai's financial free-zone, the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), has announced a new accelerator, FinTech Hive, in conjunction with a global consulting firm, Accenture, to help financial technology (fintech) start-up firms develop their businesses.\nFinTech Hive aims to bring entrepreneurs together with leading local and international financial institutions in an area where the Middle East and North Africa has so far played a marginal role. It replicates similar set-ups in locations such as Singapore and London, where services such as peer-to-peer lending and non-traditional banking have grown rapidly in recent years. FinTech Hive will begin by selecting 12 companies to bid for places within the accelerator, but says that it aims to work with as many as 200 firms over the coming five years. Two local banks, Emirates NBD and Mashreq, and HSBC, are among the institutions that have already committed to the project.\nAlthough the UAE is a leading financial hub for the region, its fintech sector has been slow to develop, with just a handful of non-traditional financial-service firms in operation. Those that are running operate within a tight regulatory framework that has not so far adapted to this segment of the market. This is a measure of the high cost of doing business and low risk appetite among potential funders, in part due to concerns over the regulatory challenges posed by fintech organisations. The strong focus on support for entrepreneurs under the Hive initiative is in line with recent efforts aimed at diversifying the economy way from oil, including new bankruptcy legislation and increased support for small and medium-sized enterprises.\nThe DIFC announcement comes barely a month after Abu Dhabi's new financial free-zone, the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), said that it was creating an incubator, RegLab, for technology-focused financial start-ups, with a view to become the fintech capital of the Gulf Co-operation Council. This suggests that the two emirates' financial zones will be competing for business, which is likely to be more challenging for the newer ADGM than the more-established DIFC. It remains to be seen, however, whether there is enough demand to satisfy two such accelerator schemes, although the competition between DIFC and ADGM may help to broaden the availability of support for the start-ups applying for backing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 4595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://craftymomblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HZ7YCNU44QHYKNZSOVARCAHP3MUGFTFA", "length": 1659, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "craftymomblog.blogspot.com", "title": "Crafty Mom Blog: Halloween!!", "raw_content": "I love Halloween! So many fun activities & things to make!!\nSophia is obsessed with everything Hawaiian, so it was so surprise when she said she wanted to be \"Hawaiian\". I took that to mean \"hula girl\". So I am in the process of making her costume- flowered headband, anklets, bracelets. I want to make her grass skirt out of 2 colors of tulle but I'm not sure If I will have the time.\nI have been agonizing over what to have Camille be. I want them to have themed costumes, (you know, while I can get away with it.) I have a lobster costume, but she looks a boy in it. I really want something girly. So I thought of the perfect costume.. A Flamingo!!\nI have all these ideas running through my head. I'm sketching out wings & headpieces. I cannot wait to get home so I can start making it! She is going to look flippin' adorable!\nI am such a fan of your blog, so with Halloween right around the corner I thought of you to possibly help promote a charity that is really close to me. This is a press release about the organization, http://bit.ly/ uoLQLl and how they have signed a deal with the Toothfairy! Trick or Treat for America's Toothfairy is a great way to get your kids involved in more than just candy consumption on Halloween. If this sounds like something you would like to promote on your blog you can go to their site for more information and see how $5 can help fight tooth decay in kids. http://bit.ly/rj2K08. It's such a great cause and could do so much to prevent chronic pain in children with so little money.\nThanks so much for your time, Alex White\nSorry Alex, I just saw this now. Let me know if you ever need me to post a shout out again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://credit-advice.org.uk/four-million-dollars/headquarters/ralph-reed.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:30Z", "digest": "sha1:NAWIFSWGXRR75RSLGBJ2Y4MIQ2L3Y2GF", "length": 5586, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "credit-advice.org.uk", "title": "Ralph Reed", "raw_content": "The president of American Express is the hardest-working man in the company. One official humorously remarked, \"Ralph dims our ambition, for we realize that if we get to be president we will have to work fourteen or more hours a days instead of just ten, as most of us do now.\nActually, Reed puts in more than fourteen hours a day working for the company. He is at his office at eight o'clock every morning, and he leaves at six or seven with a portfolio full of papers to work on at home. When he reaches his apartment at the Park Lane Hotel, he ordinarily just has time to dress for some function where attendance is necessitated by his position, or he may be entertaining a group of industrialists at cocktails and dinner. In either event, he is apt to excuse himself around eleven and go home to begin the evening's work, which usually lasts until one or two o'clock in the morning.\nReed is a friendly man who likes to meet people. Even in his social life he is working for American Express. People like him, and his friends are literally numbered by the thousands. He knows many of the leaders of American life, including General Eisenhower, with whom he frequently plays golf, and most of the great industrialists. He likes men in public life, and partisanship plays no part in his choice of friends - he is on intimate terms with both Republican Governor Dewey and with Attorney General McGrath, the former Democratic National Chairman.\nAt least once a year Reed makes an extensive trip, sometimes to Europe, sometimes to other parts of the world, inspecting American Express offices, getting firsthand information about local problems, and lifting the morale of personnel abroad by his contagious enthusiasm.\nOn a trip abroad in 1948 Reed learned that he was to be honoured for his services to France by the French Government. At an impressive ceremony in Paris attended by Mrs. Reed, many of the leaders of France, and American Express's Vice-President Harry Hill, Monsieur Christian Pineau of the French Ministry presented Reed with the Legion of Honour.\nEverywhere he goes Reed sings the praises of American Express, for it is his life's work and he is full of the subject. He knows an amazing amount about the detailed working of the organization. He scrutinizes all the phases of its complex business and personally directs them. The agenda of a typical morning conference with senior officials shows the extent to which Reed follows details:\n1.Discuss investment of surplus funds.\n2.Replacement for manager at Johannesburg who is ill.\n3. Plan for altering the premises at Rio.\n4.Theft of Travellers Cheques from a Pennsylvania bank.\n5.What balance to keep in banks and what to invest.\n6.Special arrangements for Caronia cruise.\nReed's ears are always receptive to suggestions or complaints from the lower echelons, and when a problem arises he goes down to the man on the spot. Thus he gets firsthand information on which to base decisions.\nFrom this it may be seen that hardly anything is done around the American Express Company without its president's knowledge. Only an extraordinary brain could cope with such a mass of facts and figures, and then only if carefully disciplined. Reed makes it a point to arrive at his desk every morning with a clear mind. No debris of yesterday's problems is allowed to clutter it up. Decisions once made are dismissed from it, for he never looks back, but keeps his eyes fixed on the future.\nAnd the future looks bright to him. \"I want American Express to be the greatest service organization in the world, and the soundest financially,\" he says, \"and my sights are set accordingly. While we must know our limitations and not expand beyond our capabilities at any given time, we must be alert to seize our opportunities. That is why we are opening offices in Tel Aviv and Saudi Arabia, Tripoli, Oberammergau, and Okinawa this year.\n\"I do not think we should be scared into inactivity by the state of the world - for example, Korea - though we should be ready to draw in our horns if conditions make it advisable.\n\"With that in mind, we are going ahead. I have around me a staff of men who are full of vigour and enthusiasm, who will help us to realize our potential. And I believe that American Express has not nearly reached its goal in the possibilities of expansion and service.\nThe results of this sort of thinking are shown by the fact that 1950 is to date the biggest year the American Express Company has had in the century of its existence.\nFor more on Business Ethics & Corporate Social Responsibility\nWhat next? HEADQUARTERS\nThe American Express Headquarters is based in Manhatten in New York, with over seven hundred people work there, handling millions of items every year. Though American Express managers abroad must have a great deal of independent authority to meet the emergencies of the moment - also the courage to use it - the home office keeps a careful check on the operations of all its offices and bureaus, many of which report their financial transactions every day. These reports provide officials of American Express with a daily record of the company's world-wide operations and services.\nThe headquarters is also a clearinghouse for information on travel conditions, passenger and freight rates, and a great mass of detailed data on customs, laws, economic and political conditions in the twenty-eight countries in which American Express operates. The reports are summarized and sent out to the foreign and domestic offices of the company, so that a clerk in Dallas or Singapore can... see: HEADQUARTERS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 7925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://crescotimes.com/lansing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:REAQC455PR63473NCQHYVT35NF5OYYMJ", "length": 315, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "crescotimes.com", "title": "Lansing | Cresco Times Plain Dealer", "raw_content": "Nancy Lou Hruska, 65\nDec. 5, 1951 \u2014 Dec. 1, 2017 CRESCO - Nancy Lou Hruska, age 65 of Cresco, Iowa, died Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, at home. Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, at Notre Dame Catholic Church in Cresco, with Father Dennis Cain officiating. 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A perennial student, she saw fit to expand her \u201cleft brain\u201d education with several semesters of political science at City College of San Francisco.\nLater on she decided she\u2019d like to train as a commercial artist so she enrolled at the Academy of Art College, earning a BFA in Illustration. At this point she met her future husband, Dale Axelrod, who introduced her to master painter, teacher and colorist, Henry Hensche.\nEtiqueta: Painter,Artista,Arte,Pintura, Camille Przewodek\nQu\u00e9 maravilla de pinturas y retratos. Cu\u00e1nta luz y expresividad! Me encantaron. Abrazo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 41987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://csgo-forecast.com/zh/match/selfless-vs-tsm-2016-03-03", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:53Z", "digest": "sha1:RI7JD3WMZLNRKFQV4O3XM5QAUAAYIFZ4", "length": 643, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "csgo-forecast.com", "title": "\u4eca\u5929\u6bd4\u8cfdCS GO Selfless vs. TSM 2016-03-03 - \u6d41\uff0c\u9810\u6e2c\u548c\u5206\u6790", "raw_content": "\u5bb6\u706b\u67f4 CS GOSelfless vs. TSM 2016-03-03\nToday we have a match in the tournament CEVO Gfinity Professional Season 9, and it will be held in BO3 format. In the game there are roughly equal teams, but it is worth noting that Selfless better things. They have got the qualification of MLG Columbus 2016, from where it departed, but there is still standing there. It is also worth noting that in recent matches they have won at the CLG, which by the way were selected at MLG Columbus. In general, what we have Players: TSM = Selfless; The current form: TSM drugs-for-health.com", "raw_content": "The main component of Suhagra is Sildenafil.\nIt is taken by mouth with a glass of water approximately 0,5-1 hour before sexual activity. Suhagra should not be taken more than once a day.\nSuhagra is contraindicated in patients taking another medicine to treat impotence or using a nitrate drug for chest pain or heart problems.\nSuhagra is used as needed, so you are unlikely to be on a dosing schedule.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 6272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://e-aje.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223&Itemid=973&lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:54Z", "digest": "sha1:S5FX6YRC6HML5U5XBHCAAGBSTYKOKUG2", "length": 8390, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "e-aje.net", "title": "Notes to Editorials - Anatolian Journal of Education - E-AJE.NET", "raw_content": "About the Anatolian Journal of Education (AJE)\nAnatolian Journal of Education (E-AJE.NET) is a refereed international journal of education and published four times a year (in January, April, July & October).\nPublishing Principles\nArticles representing a range of qualitative, quantitative and mixed research methods are invited.\nThe journal welcomes papers based on innovative method\nThe journal prioritizes studies done using meta-analysis\nThe articles need to be not published elsewhere previously. If the article has been presented at any seminar or conference, the name of the conference, the institution where it has been presented and the date of the presentation needs to be mentioned.\nAJE gives priority to current studies using advanced research and statistical methods and techniques.\nAJE considers original contribution to the field and competency in methodology the main criterion for publication.\nAuthors bear responsibility for the content of the published articles.\nArticles may not be quoted without citing AJE and the author(s).\nThe Journal is written in English. Thus, the articles need to be written in this language.\nEvaluation of Submitted Manuscript and Publication Process\nEvaluation of Editorial Board\nThe manuscripts that have been submitted to AJE are first assessed by the editorial board in terms of purpose, topic, content, presentation style and mechanics of writing.\nPapers that meet the pre-assessment criteria are sent to the referees.\nWhen necessary, Editorial Board can take the opinion of experts (anonymous readers) about a paper before the evaluation of referee. Editorial Board can make a decision on expert opinion.\nPre-assessment criteria of Editorial Board\nQuantitative research based on a single variable, or that analyze mainly frequency, percentage, difference and correlational statistics are usually rejected in preliminary assessment.\nFor studies reporting the development of a measurement tool, the authenticity, scope, the quality of the group that has been worked on, the efficiency of the reliability and validity studies are taken into consideration to decide whether the measurement tool can be published independently.\nEmpirical studies need to be supported, detailed and further elaborated on with qualitative data.\nFor qualitative research, the reliability and validity studies and in depth analysis of the data is of utmost importance\nThe journal would like to publish analytical studies setting out the key issues related to educational sciences and proposing solutions. However, such studies should not look like a book chapter and not be based on only literature review.\nFor mixed studies, it is necessary for the authors to explain why to use this method and its technique.\nReferee Evaluation Process\nManuscripts that pass the assessment of the Editorial Board are sent to two specialists in the relevant field (double blind peer review). If the reviewers are of different opinions regarding the quality of your work, the paper will be referred to a third reviewer. If the referee reports are positive, the manuscripts will be designated for publication.\nReferee reports are kept confidential. Authors have to be attentive to the criticisms, suggestions and corrections of the referees and of the Editorial Board.\nArticles are sent to referees with a form suited to research methodology\nDepending on the evaluation reports of the members of the Editorial Advisory Board, articles are published or not.\nIn article evaluation form, reviewers are expected to explain their opinions clearly, in detail, and scientific manner about the criteria\u2019s on the form and any other related issue. A referee\u2019s evaluation which lacks of detailed and scientific explanation is not taken into consideration. That is to say that when an evaluation is based on just ticking off the criteria on the form it is not regarded as a valid evaluation.\nAll correspondences between the author and editor, evaluation process of studies, Editorial Board and referee evaluation processes are transparent. The communication between the Editorial Board, referees and the author about a study is an exception. Moreover, in reports sent to the authors, the names of the referees is not stated in no circumstances.\nReferee should share his thoughts with the editor if he thinks that there are ethical, data integrity and academic conflict problems in the study.\nBesides a holistic and consistent evaluation process, the editor may want referees to make suggestion on each other\u2019s reports to make a better contribution to the author academically. At this stage, the names of the referees are not reported. Both parts are evaluated with the criteria stated above.\nSelection of Referees\nMany factors affect the selection of referees. The most determinative factors in selection of referees are experience and relevancy of field of study.\nAuthors may want their manuscript not to be sent to some referees owing to conflict of interest. This situation should be stated by authors while sending the manuscript to AJE.\nThe list of referee is periodically updated based on performance.\nReferee\u2019s Roles\nFirstly, the referee should control the document sent to him, and be sure that it is open.\nThe referee should inform the editor whether he would be able to evaluate the study by taking into consideration the time given and the relevancy of the study\u2019s topic.\nIf the referee thinks that he would not be able to behave objectively due to conflict of interest, he should inform the editor that he would not be able to evaluate the study.\nReferee should carefully read the editor\u2019s note sent by e-mail. Because editor may want referee only to evaluate the method section of the study.\nIf the referee had another referee to help him, he needs to inform the editor about the name of the other referee.\nReferee evaluations are expected to focus on especially these questions;\nDo the research data and findings consistent with the argument?\nDoes the research provide original contribution to the field?\nReferee evaluations are expected to be critical and objective.\nReferees are only expected to evaluate the manuscript, not the in competencies of the authors.\nReferees are expected not only to mark the grading on the evaluation form, but also to detail the negative comments and state the reason. Especially referees who express a negative opinion should present to the author the lack of the study and the reasons for rejection\nEditor can interfere in the miswriting in referee reports, unfit declaration of the authors and the mistakes with the information.\nReferees have 15 days to evaluate a study.\nIf the referee thinks that he would not evaluate the study at the given time, he may ask for additional time or may inform the editor that he would not evaluate the study owing to the limited time. In this way, it is prevented for the author to lose time and sufficient time is provided for the editor to assign a new referee.\nAuthor may want some individuals not to be referees owing to conflict of interest.\nEditorial Board expects referees to inform the editor about the situations that may prevent fair evaluation.\nBroadcasting Policy and Ethical Values\nAlthough Editorial Board and Editor work in depth on a study, it is possible not to be able to recognize some outliers and ethical problems. When the domain expert referees recognize a situation like this, it is quite significant to warn the Editorial Board or the editor.\nFeedback to Referees\nThe final state of study that is decided to be published is only showed to the referee who wants to see the study again. If the referee does not want to see the study again, editor evaluates whether the needs for the changes were met.\nAfter a study has been published, a referee may recognize that his views have not been exactly reflected on study he/she reviewed. It is possible that the other referees expressed a different opinion and the editor took into account their views. In this situation, the other referees\u2019 views are sent to the referee who made the evaluation if he wishes.\nAccording to the proposals of the referees, Editorial Board choose one of the ways below;\n- The study may be approved for publication with the request for partial or big change.\n- A new evaluation process may be initiated by asking the authors to reorganize their study according to the views of referees.\n- The study may be rejected.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 9151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://earlyretirementextreme.com/2012/03", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:50Z", "digest": "sha1:5LN3LYLDZKKZ7TF2AEZMXJHOJQWLNYXG", "length": 1039, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "earlyretirementextreme.com", "title": "\u00bb 2012 \u00bb March Early Retirement Extreme: \u2014 a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism", "raw_content": "Consider the balance sheet of a typical investment bank. It looks like this All numbers in billions(*) to get a realistic scale. Total assets: $1000 Counter-party liabilities: $800 Debt: $150 Equity: $50 Total liabilities+Equity: $1000 The counter-party liabilities are promises that the bank has made to customers and other banks, etc. essentially money that the [\u2026]\nPosted by Jacob in Finance, Strategy, Work\nCompared to the IRA with its $5,000 limit, the 401k with its $15,500 limit possesses an unfair advantage. Everybody with a W-2 income can get an IRA, whereas not everybody is lucky enough to have access to a 401k with the higher limit. These tools are useful because they minimize taxable income. In this household [\u2026]\nPosted by Jacob in Finance, Work\nIs work for it\u2019s own sake valuable? I don\u2019t think so. I see work more as means to an end rather than an end in itself. The more efficient the work is, the better. 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Died: October 25, 2015.\nIn November 2015 we were contacted by a resident concerned about this mare\u2019s skeletal state, and we immediately encouraged the woman to report the matter to the police so we could act.\nAfter a coordinated effort between Seprona animal welfare officials in Valencia and our local branch in Guardamar, Rod was officially given permission to seize the horse.\nHe rushed the 150 kilometres from Rojales to Rotgl\u00e0 y Corber\u00e0 on October 23 in a bid to save her, as well as a malnourished donkey named Braveheart who was also found on the property.\nNew Betty had been left to forage rubbish on a piece of wasteland. She was absolutely skeletal and very weak but she survived the trip, a long three-hour drive.\nA veterinary inspection back at our centre revealed she was also three months\u2019 pregnant and suffering a degenerative condition causing her back pasterns to collapse.\nWe gave her food, water and love. But two days later, she lay down and couldn\u2019t get up, she was just too week. We tried everything we could for her but sadly she passed away with the stress of it all. It\u2019s just heartbreaking.\nThe positive side is that we can see our work starting to have an impact across Spain. People are going to the police and the police are acting, even connecting with our local officers to allow us to legally get involved. That\u2019s a hell of an achievement.\nThis also proves just how important it is to report any cases of suspected animal cruelty or abuse to police. 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Vote online NOW!\nElizabeth II. - for\nElizabeth II. - against\nClick, if you do not support the Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Say why.\nOnline election results for \"Elizabeth II.\" in graph.\n> Queen Elizabeth II. >\nElizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is the constitutional monarch of 16 sovereign states, known as the Commonwealth realms, and their territories and dependencies, and head of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations. She is Supreme Governor of the Church of England and, in some of her realms, carries the title of Defender of the Faith as part of her full title.\nOn her accession on 6 February 1952, Elizabeth became Head of the Commonwealth and queen regnant of seven independent Commonwealth countries: the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Pakistan and Ceylon. From 1956 to 1992, the number of her realms varied as territories gained independence and some realms became republics. At present, in addition to the first four aforementioned countries, Elizabeth is Queen of Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis. Her reign of 61 years is currently the second longest for a British monarch; only Queen Victoria, her great-great grandmother, has reigned longer, at over 63 years.\nElizabeth was born in London and educated privately at home. Her father acceded to the throne as George VI in 1936 on the abdication of his brother Edward VIII, from which time she was the heir presumptive. Have you voted for or against Queen Elizabeth II. ? She began to undertake public duties during the Second World War, in which she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service. In 1947, she married Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, with whom she has four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew, and Edward. Her coronation service took place in 1953 and was the first to be televised.\nElizabeth II's many historic visits and meetings include a state visit to the Republic of Ireland and reciprocal visits to and from the Pope. Elizabeth has seen major constitutional changes in her realms, such as devolution in the United Kingdom and the patriation of the Canadian constitution. Times of personal significance have included the births and marriages of her children, the births of her grandchildren, the investiture of the Prince of Wales, and the celebration of milestones such as her Silver, Golden, and Diamond Jubilees in 1977, 2002, and 2012, respectively.\nMajor events in Elizabeth's reign have included the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the Falklands War, and wars with Iraq and in Afghanistan. Has changed the detail your opinion on Queen Elizabeth II. ? There have been times of personal sorrow for her which include the death of her father at 56, the assassination of Prince Philip's uncle, Lord Mountbatten, the breakdown of her children's marriages in 1992 (a year deemed her annus horribilis), the death in 1997 of her son's former wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, and the deaths of her mother and sister in 2002. 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The discussion platforms in Learning Management Systems do not automatically promote knowledge construction (Zingaro, 2012). Most mobile learning systems do not provide support for the collaborative learning processes (Wu et al., 2012), and only a few mobile learning systems have explicitly addressed the problem of mobile devices in the foreground of interaction (Eliasson, 2012).\nThere is much room for use of technology in collaborative learning (McLaren, 2014) with the support of collaborative learning using automated and artificially intelligent pedagogical approaches being one such area (Soliman, 2013).\nThis study uses two facilitations meant to improve the level of group knowledge construction, namely facilitated group participation and controlled cognitive conflicts. The facilitations are implemented using intelligent agents. This study takes advantage of the vast presence of mobile devices including laptops, mobile phones, tablets, etc, for the implementation of these features.\nThe deliverable in this study is a comprehensive design for facilitating collaborative mobile learning group interactions. This design uses intelligent agents to provide these learning facilitations. These design features are being incorporated into the Moodle (an open source Learning Management System)\nThis design for facilitating collaborative mobile learning is expected to improve the level of group knowledge construction. 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The purpose of this celebration it is to educate the world about the necessity to provide blood and its derivatives, to maintain the Blood Banks and the national health systems supplied. Within the framework of this commemoration, the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace (GEAP) in Ecuador performed different activities on Friday, June 12, 2015.\nOn the occasion of celebrating the above-mentioned day, the Ecuadorian Red Cross (ERC), organized a recognition event for the people and corporations that in an altruistic way have contributed with the blood collecting campaigns, manifested Grace J\u00e1tiva, coordinator of the ERC donation. This tribute started late in the afternoon, and it was carried out in the lobby of the Anthropologic and Contemporary Art Museum (ACAM), located in the Malec\u00f3n 2000 of Guayaquil City. There were present the Junta de Beneficencia de Guayas, the Bolivarian Nursing Institute, Armada del Ecuador, the Guayaquil University, members of the fire department, Grecia Cando \u2013 representative of the mayor, Escuela Superior Polit\u00e9cnica del Litoral (ESPOL), the President of the Red Cross, Felipe Baz\u00e1n, authorities and employees of the Guayas Red Cross, among others.\nIn this event, it was recognized the work of the Global Ambassador, Dr. William Soto, who through the GEAP, develops the International Blood Drive Marathons: \u201cLife is in the Blood\u201d. The commemorative plaque in the shape of a blood drop says:\n\u201c\u201cEcuadorian Red Cross \u2013 Provincial Board of Guayas, grants this award to: Global Embassy of Activists for Peace, for being socially responsible with the community, providing their ongoing support in our voluntary blood donation campaigns, saving lives\u201d.\nThis recognition was given to the Peace Activist Betsab\u00e9 Moreira, representative of this embassy in the Ecuadorian country, by Dr. Francisco Mora, Director of the Blood Bank of Guayas.\nThe Ecuadorian Public Health Ministry, organized an event with the slogan: \u201cDonate blood and Save Lives\u201d, which was developed in the Park of Carolina. In this marathon, volunteers of the GEAP along with other organizations and participating individuals of this campaign, made a giant blood drop, with the purpose of remembering that together we can give life. On the other hand, the event counted with the presence of the Ecuadorian Public Health Minister, Carina Vance, the representative of the PAHO/WHO, Gina Tambini, representatives of the Public Health Centers of the Quito Metropolitan District and other related organizations.\nAccording to national data, currently just the 1.45% of the population of the country donates blood; of them, just 60% are voluntary donors. The goal is to reach, at least, 2% of the population of the country to become blood donors and being the 100% of them, voluntary.\nIn the Plazoleta Francisco Calder\u00f3n of the city of Ibarra, a concert was carried out in favor of the blood donations. The campaign that was organized by the Ecuadorian Red Cross and the Provincial Board of Imbabura under the slogan: \u201cI am also a hero\u201d, pursues to strengthen the National Blood Center and to provide with units of blood to the people that are in need of a blood transfusion.\nThe campaign was enlivened by national and local artists, among them, Jonathan Luna, Tierra Canela, D\u00fao Pasional, Amalia Carvajal, Nataly Lad\u00edn, Mateo Godoy, Iv\u00e1n Zaid and Rey Mart\u00ednez. Andrea Scacco, the Deputy Mayor of the city, Laureano Alencastro, Counselor of Ibarra, 25 donors members of the National Police, members of the Red Cross and around 30 volunteers of the GEAP, assisted to this program.\nThanks to the cooperation of the citizens who attended, 250 effective blood units were collected.\n\u201cDonating blood does not affect the health, on the contrary, it improves the quality of life. Your generous donation, helps to maintain the blood inventories filled, safe and timely appropriate to completely suffice the necessities of blood of our country\u201d, pointed Daniel Cisneros, Director of the Blood bank of the ERC-PBI.\nThe Global Embassy of Activists for Peace together with the Ecuadorian Red Cross \u2013 Provincial Board of Santo Domingo of Ts\u00e1chilas (ERC-PBST), commemorated the Voluntary Donor Day with a blood donation marathon within the framework of the 5th International Blood Drive Marathon that the GEAP promotes.\nMembers of the educative Unite \u201cEspre\u201d, collaborated with the distribution of informative flyers, animating and inviting the citizens to be part of the event as voluntary blood donors.\nIn the same way, it was attented by the presence of Luis P\u00e1ez of the ERC-PBST, and Diana Lude\u00f1a, secretary of the same institution. The Marathon ended at 18:30p.m. with a positive outcome of 336 effective blood units. Blood donation is a voluntarily and solidarity compromise towards our equals, a responsibility with life, recognized act to upraise the World Voluntary Blood Donor Day.\nThe 5th International Marathon \u201cLife is in the Blood\u201d supports and contributes in an altruistic way the health of Dominicans.\nDuring all the month of June, the volunteers and activists belonging to the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace, joined to the 5th International Blood Drive Marathon \"Life is in the Blood, which unites different countries with the same altruistic feeling to save lives through the participation in diverse activities that uplift a humanitarian work, compromised to save lives.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 7432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://emlections.pajhwok.com/en/ana-soldiers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:55Z", "digest": "sha1:RPNBPYSJFB5EMHINBDSD4IJSJXFE223A", "length": 664, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "emlections.pajhwok.com", "title": "ANA soldiers | Pajhwok Afghan News", "raw_content": "ZARANJ (Pajhwok): At least 12 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed in a Taliban attack on a security post in Khashrod district of southwestern Nimroz province, an official said Monday. 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The soccer fans\u2019 purpose is to enter Russia and the LPR with the view of unsettling the socio-political and socio-economic situation.\u201d\n\u201cThe LPR State Security Ministry recorded facts of Ukrainian ultras\u2019 offering LPR soccer fans remuneration for going to Russia and carrying out provocations to foil World Cup matches in Moscow, St Petersburg and Rostov-on-Don, the security official said.\nUkrainian security services also recruited activists from nationalistic groups and terrorist organisations such as the Civil Corps Azov , Tryzub, and UNA-UNSO to stage provocations, he added.\nLPR State Security Ministry officers have been taking measures to neutralise the threat, Basov said.\n\u201cThe State Security Ministry is calling upon the football fans not to yield to the SBU provocations aimed at foiling the world football championship and not to commit penal acts,\u201d he said.\nRussia will host the FIFA World Cup 2018 finals from June 14 till July 15 for the first time; it is also the first ever such championship in eastern Europe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://endlessquestrecords.blogspot.com/2009/08/iron-age-sleeping-eye-2xlp.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:7OQD2N4NIYAPMQKRVL7VD2DVL3VLV6QS", "length": 1944, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "endlessquestrecords.blogspot.com", "title": "The Endless Quest...: Iron Age 'The Sleeping Eye' 2xLP", "raw_content": "Thew new Iron Age LP \"The Sleeping Eye\". There was a bit of an internet commotion when the pre-order for this one was announced. At $35 (postpaid) for a double LP, people were saying this was too expensive. Yet still it sold out in two days. And then the people who complained about the price were trying to buy one off of ebay for $50 probably. Clowns.\nI wasn't lucky enough to get the pre-order. I missed it. But then, thankfully, it turned out that it hadn't sold out at all, and there were some left, and the order link went back up. So I grabbed one. And boy, am I thankful I did...\nThe record itself is alright. Nothing too exciting. A double LP on black vinyl in a gatefold sleeve.\nIt comes with a nice, glossy print, which I think is really cool... except for the fact that it comes folded in half. And because it's on thick, glossy card, folding it kind of ruins it. Oh well.\nI've read a lot of good reviews of this record, and rightly so. This is one of the best albums of the year (not that there are many to choose from though). I seriously can't stop playing this. At the moment I'm playing this like 3 times a day. It's just a really interesting record, and a big step forward from their first LP. There are elements of early Metallica and Black Sabbath here, as well as the Cro-Mags style hardcore influence of the first LP. It's not often a new release gets me this stoked. Believe me, you should check this out, even if you heard Iron Age before and weren't too keen.\nYeah that creased poster was really annoying. Looking forward to seeing what the Full Tilt World version looks like\nUpdate - got the Tee Pee press of this record this morning. Looks good, comes on clear vinyl - have emailed them to find out the pressing info\nI also ordered the other two versions.\nThe Tee Pee store still has it listen on clear vinyl. So I'm guessing it's not too limited, although I guess it's possible that or people are slow to jump on it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 373, "original_length": 8511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 224.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://energy.cleartheair.org.hk/?cat=108", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LVKAZUARFVUFR6R66OAHX46GQZ4U7BCZ", "length": 3944, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "energy.cleartheair.org.hk", "title": "Black Point Power \u2013 Clear The Air Energy Blog", "raw_content": "Black Point Power\nThe Challenge Of Ensuring Hong Kong\u2019s Energy Supply\nAndrew Brandler, Oct 10, 2008 \u2013 SCMP\nChief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen\u2019s recent energy deal with Beijing, securing gas and nuclear power supplies for Hong Kong for the next 20 years, is a landmark in the development of the city\u2019s energy policy.\nWe at CLP Power had been consistently advised for many years that Hong Kong would need to look after its own energy needs as Beijing wrestled with the very real challenge of securing reliable power for the fast-growing mainland cities and provinces. So this deal represents a new, critical development in Hong Kong\u2019s energy policy. This was immediately followed by the Hong Kong government\u2019s statement that the liquefied natural gas terminal project that CLP Power had proposed would not be approved.\nCLP Power welcomes Beijing\u2019s support for long-term energy supply. The task ahead is to turn good news into good results and complete the deal on behalf of the Hong Kong people \u2013 to secure sufficient gas at the best possible price, and in time for us to replace our declining supplies from the Yacheng gas field in the South China Sea.\nIt is a measure of Beijing\u2019s good faith in this deal that we have immediately been able to begin detailed discussions with counterparts at the National Development and Reform Commission. But even with this fast start, we are going to face an acute time challenge to make adequate quantities of gas available by 2013.\nHong Kong needs new gas supplies in place then if our Black Point Power Station is to continue providing a significant portion of our power supply, reduce our reliance on coal and enable us to meet lower environmental emissions targets.\nAs the Yacheng supplies deplete, the deal opens the way to draw gas from three sources: from new gas fields planned to be developed in the South China Sea; from the second east-west gas pipeline bringing gas from Turkmenistan; and, from an LNG terminal to be located on the mainland.\nNone of these three sources is in place today. However, let us be very clear: Hong Kong\u2019s needs are so substantial that we will need not one or two of these sources to be brought on stream, but all three.\nBlack Point will be using about 3.4 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year by 2013. In the following decade, as demand for electricity steadily rises and as Hong Kong progressively tightens caps on emissions from local sources, consumption will potentially rise to as high as 6 billion cubic metres by around 2023.\nTo meet this need, we have been advised that 2 billion cubic metres was planned to come from several new, but smaller, gas fields in the South China Sea to replace Yacheng. If the second west-east gas pipeline can be extended to Hong Kong, we would be able to draw 1 billion cubic metres from this source. With the planned volumes of gas from these two sources, a significant amount of gas will almost certainly need to be sourced from the new LNG terminal in the Pearl River Delta.\nOur government\u2019s decision to reject our proposal to build an LNG terminal on South Soko Island means we lose a four-year head start, and face a challenging timetable, as an appropriate mainland site needs to be found and approved, which will involve a rigorous Environmental Impact Assessment.\nIf we are to meet our targets to ensure power supply reliability over the coming decade, I can\u2019t overemphasise the critical importance of government support and, where necessary, leadership, all the way to completion.\nThe Memorandum of Understanding is a starting point for meaningful cross-border collaboration in the power sector.\nIts implementation and a successful outcome for Hong Kong will depend on the effective collaboration by mainland enterprises with CLP Power, encouraged, enabled and stewarded by our government and the mainland authorities. 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All car manufacturers want\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://english.gov.cn/state_council/vice_premiers/2017/09/29/content_281475893846976.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:25Z", "digest": "sha1:23GQ4DF5EVSW3FGRKYSZ3WD7TOZ65XRB", "length": 2049, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "english.gov.cn", "title": "China, US to encourage more bilateral educational exchanges", "raw_content": "WASHINGTON \u2014 China and the United States will further promote two-way overseas study and enhance bilateral exchanges among educational institutions and scholars, according to a joint statement released in Washington on Sept 28.\nThe new moves are intended to increase mutual understanding and promote bilateral people-to-people exchanges, said the statement released after the first China-US social and people-to-people dialogue was held in Washington on Sept 28.\nAccording to the action plan of the dialogue, the two sides will adopt a \u201cdouble 100,000\u201d two-way overseas study plan, which will allow China to send 100,000 government-sponsored people to study in the United States and permit 100,000 US students to study in China in the following four years.\nBesides, China will provide 10,000 scholarships in the coming four years to encourage excellent US students to study in China on a short-term basis, according to the plan.\nThe United States will continue to implement the Fulbright scholarship program, a US flagship academic exchange program.\nThe action plan also mentioned that the China-US Youth Innovation Center will be set up in the two countries to boost youth exchanges and cooperation between the two countries, which will also hold dialogues between Chinese and US universities and think tanks to further increase intellectual communication.\n\u201cI hope young people in both China and the United States would be the main driver of innovation development and the vanguards of bilateral cultural exchanges, injecting positive energy into the two countries\u2019 ties,\u201d said Vice-Premier Liu Yandong while addressing a sideline event of the dialogue in New York on Sept 25.\nLiu co-chaired the first China-US social and people-to-people dialogue with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.\nThe dialogue is one of the four high-level dialogues established during the Mar-a-Lago meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in the southeastern US state of Florida in April.\nVice-premier addresses China-US Cultural Forum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://entthyroid.com.au/patient-information/head-neck-clinic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:28Z", "digest": "sha1:CNQKH23ZKDDOJXPTF57RBYRLSFZOKB3N", "length": 829, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "entthyroid.com.au", "title": "Head & Neck Clinic - Dr Ron Bova", "raw_content": "St Vincent\u2019s Head and Neck Clinic\nThe head and Neck Multidisciplinary Team Meeting (MDTM) Clinic is comprised of a team of ENT surgeons, head and neck surgeons, plastic surgeons, radiation oncologists, medical oncologists, radiologists, cancer care co-ordination nurses, social workers, a dentist, dietician, speech pathologist and other health professionals. They meet collectively to discuss your medical history, identify your specific health needs, generate the best possible options for ongoing investigation, treatment and care and ultimately to communicate these outcomes to you so you can make informed decisions about your health in consultation with your treating doctor.\nThe Head and Neck Clinic is held:\nWhen: Tuesdays @ 10.00am\nWhere: Level 5, The Kinghorn Cancer Centre \u2013 370 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eoenkethry.com/media.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:00Z", "digest": "sha1:F2R2RJ4D3GRVTM5SUDXLX4YCKQZ2ED4Z", "length": 334, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "eoenkethry.com", "title": "Media Room", "raw_content": "Okay, y'all, Kethry's gotten into a new phase in her career, sob-worthy music videos. The videos are now being hosted at photobucket so no worries about them becoming unavailable.\nTour of Duty Now Comes the Night - Rob Thomas song - gen - Vietnam era (You don't need to know the show to get the sniffles. 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A credit score is based on a huge range of data including the number of accounts active, the balances on those accounts, the status of all accounts, the total amount of debt and the individual's history with credit. A credit score is something used by the financial industry to represent the amount of \"risk\" a lender or bank faces when providing money or funds to a consumer. At some point in time it was decided that the \"golden\" number in credit scores was 700 or more. Though no one stops to explain why 700 is the required number, it is something that all consumers are encouraged to aim for.\nIf someone does not have such a figure on their credit report it can make it difficult to get credit cards, loans or other offers for funding. This, however, does not mean that someone with a low score should automatically assume that they are unable to obtain a mortgage in order to buy a home. What it does mean is that they might have to accept some limited options or even use some creativity to buy their first home.\nSome unique approaches to purchasing a home, even with bad credit mortgage loans, include owner financing, assumable mortgages, leasing to own and zero down loans. Additionally, there are many special mortgage programs for people in urban and rural areas which can help those with lower income or poor credit to gain access to good mortgages.\nLet's look at the unique options - owner financing is a formal and legal arrangement which allows the original owner of a home to serve as the \"bank\" and all mortgage payments go to them. This sort of arrangement will never take a buyer's credit into consideration at all and allow them the opportunity of acquiring a home without any traditional mortgage documentation.\nAn assumable mortgage will allow someone to \"step\" into the middle of an existing mortgage, take over the payments and assume ownership. This does require a hefty lump sum investment however and might not be an answer for everyone.\nLeasing to own is a very desirable arrangement for someone with bad credit because it allows them to enter into a formal arrangement with a property owner under which they are leasing the home for a set period of time after which they will obtain a mortgage and buy it outright. The great thing about this is that the seller reports the rental agreement to all of the credit agencies, instantly improving the buyer's credit score, and also puts aside some of the lease payment towards a down payment on the home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://espace.cdu.edu.au/view/cdu:638", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4CVXRX7JO65EKWTAFRVRDAAWZF4KTIN7", "length": 460, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "espace.cdu.edu.au", "title": "Punderlime: Brother John Pye, A Northern Territory Legend - CDU eSpace", "raw_content": "Punderlime: Brother John Pye, A Northern Territory Legend\nGordon, C (2002). Punderlime: Brother John Pye, A Northern Territory Legend. Darwin: Historical Society of the Northern Territory.\nGordon, C\nHistorical Society of the Northern Territory\nA1 - Book (DEST)\nFri, 12 Sep 2008, 08:35:25 CST Wed, 22 Oct 2008, 15:33:03 CST Fri, 16 Jan 2009, 15:08:09 CST Fri, 27 Mar 2009, 09:12:34 CST Fri, 27 Mar 2009, 09:15:41 CST Thu, 16 Jun 2016, 16:08:34 CST Filtered Full", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ess-sarcoma.com/ess-articles-2/24-aromatase-inhibitors-in-gynecologic-cancers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ICZJIAD25B4JCKB7OHB3CDJXE6N7RIGJ", "length": 2075, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ess-sarcoma.com", "title": "Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma - Aromatase Inhibitors in Gynecologic Cancers", "raw_content": "Aromatase Inhibitors in Gynecologic Cancers\nAbstract from PubMed\nThe female genital tract is hormonally responsive, and consequently some tumors, which arise within in it, may be treated at least in part, with hormonal manipulation. The range of responses in clinical trials and case reports will be reviewed. Many of these diseases are too rare for clinical trial testing, and in some cases evidence is anecdotal at best. Recurrences of ovarian cancer have been treated with tamoxifen and megesterol acetate with variable response rates from 0 to 56%.\nThe favorable toxicity profile of aromatase inhibitors led to trials of these agents for the treatment of relapsed epithelial ovarian cancer. These agents have proved tolerable with minor response rates but a significant disease stabilization rate, which may be prolonged in a minority of cases. It is unclear if these responses may be predicted by estrogen receptor expression or aromatase expression. Anastrazole has also been tried in combination with an EGFR receptor-inhibitor, again showing minor responses but possibly an increase in TTT in some patients. Granulosa cell tumors of the ovary are rare, hormonally sensitive tumors, with reported responses to a variety of hormonal manipulations, including aromatase inhibition. In addition, combined endocrine blockade, including aromatase inhibition, has been tried with reports of success. Endometrial cancers, particularly type I lesions, are often treated with hormonal manipulation, most commonly with progestins, but also with antiestrogens such as tamoxifen. A trial of aromatase inhibition in the treatment of recurrent endometrial cancer showed minimal responses. Endometrial stromal sarcoma, an uncommon uterine malignancy, has shown response to hormonal treatments, with multiple case reports of efficacy of aromatase inhibition. Despite the rarity of some of these tumor types, rare tumor study groups, such as within the Gynecologic Oncology Group, should make an effort to prospectively define the utility of these treatments.\nClick here to go to PubMed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://evangelicalcatholicchurch.org/southeast.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IV3N5YFW7P7NI55KR3G2XWMEZVEVDW3Q", "length": 429, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "evangelicalcatholicchurch.org", "title": "Evangelical Catholic Diocese of the Southeast", "raw_content": "Evangelical Catholic Diocese of the Southeast\nEncompassing the Southeastern Province of the United States\nFlorida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, Tennessee,\nNorth and South Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia.\nThank you for clicking onto this page reserved for the Diocese of the Southeast.\nAt this time, the Church has no active missions taking place in the Southeast region of the United States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 2452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 101.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://events.greenvilleonline.com/charlotte_nc/events/windhand-/E0-001-118436453-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UZBLM3C4DTGET3DM67PXRJNE3FXZIS7Q", "length": 3362, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "events.greenvilleonline.com", "title": "WINDHAND at The Neighborhood Theatre | Greenville Events and Anderson Events Events - The Greenville News", "raw_content": "Events Home / WINDHAND\nwith Genocide Pact\nFor a band who traffic in measured, unhurried riffage, Richmonds WINDHAND have moved awfully quickly over the last few years. Founded in 2009, the VA quintet have been making waves since the release of their 2010 practice space demo, a two-track CD that garnered the band comparisons to artists like Electric Wizard, The Devils Blood, and Black Sabbath. That auspicious start was further realized in March 2012 when the band released their self-titled debut, which quickly became an underground hit and sold out of multiple vinyl presses in a matter of months.A year later, the band officially signed to Relapse Records. After a steady touring schedule, the band collaborated with Richmond brethren Cough on a split entitled Reflection of the Negative, which was released on Relapse in April 2013. Pitchfork deemed the split WINDHANDs best music to date, and the records positive critical reception helped pave the way for WINDHAND to release the highly anticipated album Soma in September 2013. Stereogum, Spin, and the LA Weekly featured Soma prominently on their overall best-of lists. The album was heavily represented in countless metal publications including Revolver, Invisible Oranges, MetalSucks, and Metal Injection. Rolling Stone, NPR, and Pitchfork all took note of Soma as well; the former considered the album the third-best metal release of 2013.Soma was no flash-in-the-pan internet phenomenon. In 2013 and 2014, the band embarked on a series of support and headlining tours across North America, Europe, and Australia, sharing the stage with the likes of Sleep, High on Fire, Dead Meadow and Kvelertak. In addition, Windhand appeared at major festivals including Roadburn, SXSW, Scion Rock Fest, Day of the Shred and Maryland Deathfest. Windhand also took the time in October 2014 to follow up Soma with a brief two-track Halloween split alongside Swedish doomsters Salems Pot (released on Riding Easy Records). Noisey liked the record so much that they declared the band must have definitely sold their souls for their new split.WINDHAND returned in 2015 with their third full-length, Griefs Infernal Flower, a multifaceted slab of thundering stoner doom that Noisey has called doom metals most anticipated album of the year. Produced by Jack Endino (Nirvana, High On Fire, Soundgarden, etc), Griefs Infernal Flower is massive, heavy, and personal, a modern testament to the power of doom and stoner metals legacies. One sees the urgency the band have displayed over their career reflected in their music - long-canonized tropes are reimagined and reinvented, Windhand convey an irrepressible sense of motion even within the slowest of songs. Front woman Dorthia Cottrell firmly establishes herself as one of the best vocalists of the genre by perfectly balancing beauty with enormous power, and the twin-guitar attack of Garrett Morris and Asechiah Bogdan weaves together nine songs of perfect riffs and fuzzed-out bliss. That often-delicate splendor is all tempered by the colossal rhythmic mastery of bassist Parker Chandler and drummer Ryan Wolfe, whose lower-register expertise serves as the backbone of the new record. Though the first two WINDHAND albums were underground classics, Griefs Infernal Flower stands to see WINDHAND cementing themselves as one of the premier metal bands of our time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 4100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://events.nzherald.co.nz/2018/join-us-at-our-pop-up-open-day/waipukurau", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:4N54F2DUNALKXRI3L5EMVDO3D22ATZBA", "length": 1761, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "events.nzherald.co.nz", "title": "Join Us At Our Pop Up Open Day - Waipukurau - NZHerald Events", "raw_content": "Thu 6 Sep \u201918, 10:00am \u2013 2:00pm\nWaipukurau Club, 10 Russell Street, Waipukurau\nJoin us at our pop up open day in Waipukurau.\nThe Blind Foundation is pleased to present a \u2018pop up\u2019 open day in Waipukurau.\nWe welcome you to come by to find out more about what the Blind Foundation does, and how it can support people in the area. There will be a free information session on how people who have low vision or are blind can use smart technology, specifically smart phones and iPads, to assist them.\nConversation topic: Using technology to keep reading\nOur rehabilitation and technology specialists will be on hand to provide support on how technology can help you keep reading.\nAbout the pop up open day.\nThe day is an opportunity for anyone curious about what we do to come by, have a cuppa on us and find out how we help people adjust to deteriorating vision so they can get on with living the life they want.\nPeople can be surprised to learn that although the organisation has the word \u2018blind\u2019 in its name, three out of every four people who use the Blind Foundation\u2019s services are not blind.\nYou do not need to be blind to benefit from the services we have to support with vision loss.\nThe invitation to attend is open to everyone and likely to appeal to those with deteriorating eyesight or low vision and their families, who can find out more about the options available to assist.\nAbout the Blind Foundation\nThe Blind Foundation works to enable people who are blind or have low vision to be self-reliant and live the life they choose. As New Zealand\u2019s main provider of vision rehabilitation service, we help people adjust to and make the most of living beyond vision loss.\nAn Introduction to Scotch Whisky\nKismet Cocktail & Whisky Bar, Nelson, Nelson / Tasman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 3548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://excitingholiness.org/first-edition/m05/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:5OCOYER6IEUBP5IKIJS3PJ3YTV7UX72B", "length": 742, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "excitingholiness.org", "title": "Exciting Holiness: May", "raw_content": "1 Philip and James, Apostles\n2 Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, Teacher of the Faith, 373\n8 Julian of Norwich, Spiritual Writer, c.1417\n19 Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Restorer of Monastic Life, 988\n20 Alcuin of York, Deacon, Abbot of Tours, 804\n21 Helena, Protector of the Holy Places, 330\n25 Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, 709\n26 Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605\n26 John Calvin, Reformer, 1564\n26 Philip Neri, Founder of the Oratorians, Spiritual Guide, 1595\n28 Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Scholar, 1089\n30 Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906\n30 Joan of Arc, Visionary, 1431\n30 Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist in Central Africa, 1933\n31 The Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fdcng.com/fdc-economic-monthly-publication-february-15-2018-re-the-dark-side-of-hot-money/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:A75BHE4JPJSU6ASAX3EM25HJHEYJ4JDW", "length": 1138, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "fdcng.com", "title": "FDC ECONOMIC MONTHLY PUBLICATION \u2013 FEBRUARY 15, 2018 (Re : The Dark Side of Hot Money) \u2013 Financial Derivatives Company, Limited", "raw_content": "FDC ECONOMIC MONTHLY PUBLICATION \u2013 FEBRUARY 15, 2018 (Re : The Dark Side of Hot Money)\nHome Financial & Economic News FDC ECONOMIC MONTHLY PUBLICATION \u2013 FEBRUARY 15, 2018 (Re : The Dark Side of Hot Money)\nIn Q3\u201917, foreign capital inflows into Nigeria increased by 148% to $4.15bn. This phenomenal increase is as a result of renewed investor confidence. A further breakdown shows that foreign portfolio investment (FPI) \u2013 hot money, accounted for 67% of inflows, while foreign direct investment (FDI) and others accounted for the rest.\nSince FPIs are considered to be highly volatile and politically sensitive, policy makers are usually wary in relying on them. Some nations have restricted the tenor of FPIs to a minimum stay of 3 years. In 2018, with the expectant increase in US interest rates, these investments could be subject to capital flow reversals. In the run-up to a general election, any outward investment flows could be debilitating.\nThankfully, oil prices are now 17% higher than 2017\u2019s average. This means that if they hold at current levels, oil revenues may help mitigate the consequences of any form of capital flight.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ferment.chrisminnick.com/about-the-author/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GYMAO6CHF4FBGIUDDU5EUD6Q26EBXPNC", "length": 541, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ferment.chrisminnick.com", "title": "About the Author - Ferment", "raw_content": "Chris Minnick is from Centerline, Michigan. He studied Creative Writing, Film, and Literature at the University of Michigan and Journalism at Wayne State University. He worked in various capacities at several newspapers and magazines before starting a business in 1997, which he ran until 2015.\nToday, in addition to writing fiction, Minnick speaks, writes, and teaches about computer programming. He has written over a dozen books, including several in the \u201cFor Dummies\u201d series.\nChris is also a winemaker, a swimmer, a cook, and a musician.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 58.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://filmdream.tv/actor/marek-vasut/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:CX7HKJP62QE3Z4YDFNDBKHLBRRDIQMN4", "length": 154, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "filmdream.tv", "title": "Marek Vasut Archives - FilmDream", "raw_content": "Marek Vasut was born on May 5, 1960 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He is an actor, known for \u041c\u0438\u0441\u0438\u044f\u0442\u0430 \u043d\u0435\u0432\u044a\u0437\u043c\u043e\u0436\u043d\u0430 (1996), \u0422\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0435 \u0445\u0438\u043a\u0441\u0430 (2002) and \u0411\u043b\u0435\u0439\u0434 2 (2002).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fishducky.blogspot.com/2012_08_17_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:55Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2TLPUBEAAXADIJ4FD4BA56PNOMZO2JX", "length": 4333, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "fishducky.blogspot.com", "title": "fishducky, finally!: 08/17/12", "raw_content": "MY PHONE & I KNOW EVERYTHING\nThere\u2019s an old joke about a guy who\u2019s bragging in a bar. He says, \u201cMy wife & I know everything!\u201d Someone says, \u201cIf you\u2019re so smart, explain the theory of relativity.\u201d The first guy thinks for a minute & tells him, \u201cMy WIIFE knows that!\u201d That\u2019s how I feel about the modern electronics age. I used to be able to go to a restaurant with my family & wonder aloud what time it is in Iceland or who played the villain in an old movie. That, at least, gave you something to talk about for a while even if you didn\u2019t really care about the answer. No more. Now, if I should happen to muse about Iceland\u2019s time zone, someone will whip out a phone, click a couple of buttons & tell me, \u201cIt\u2019s 7:30pm PST here in California & Iceland is 8 hours ahead of us, so it\u2019s 3:30am UTC/GMT tomorrow there.\u201d That\u2019s already more than I really wanted to know. Then they will continue, \u201cGMT is Greenwich Mean Time. UTC is Coordinated Universal Time or in French: Temps Universel Coordonne. UTC was decided as the acronym because it was thought CUT or TUC were not appropriate. GMT & UTC are the same.\u201d I\u2019m surprised they didn\u2019t tell me how to make a watch. I\u2019ll have to ask them about that, sometime\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\nI\u2019m a very good driver. That\u2019s my opinion, not my husband\u2019s. He thinks it\u2019s my fault that trees like to jump out in front of me. I have NO control over trees! In October of 2010 he had to go to Cedars Sinai Hospital very early in the morning for some tests.(He\u2019s fine\u2014thank you for asking.) He wasn\u2019t allowed to drive, so he had taken a cab there & I was on my way to pick him up. Although I\u2019ve driven past Cedars many times, I somehow missed the turn. I drove to the next major intersection, planning to turn left & circle back. Robert Burns once wrote, \u201cThe best-laid schemes o\u2019 mice an\u2019 men gang aft agley.\u201d Well, AGLEY they went! I tried\u2014unsuccessfully--to make a left turn. I\u2019m happy to report the airbag worked. The paramedics thought I had two broken wrists. It turned out only one was actually broken. I now have a 7\u201d plate in my arm. My new Mustang, which had less than 1,000 miles on it, suffered extensive damage. It\u2019s all better now. The paramedics caused me more (mental) pain than the accident did. They took scissors & cut off my brand new black leather jacket. I loved that jacket! I\u2019d bought it in a consignment shop, but it was new to me. We were less than a mile from Cedars, so that\u2019s where the ambulance brought me. Bud & I were reunited in the ER. Since neither one of us (or my car) was in condition to drive, our daughter came to the hospital & took him home. I stayed a few days.\n(Are ALL paramedics cute? It may be a job requirement.)\nMy friend, Barbara, & I both love pork. Early one evening Bud & I were driving from L.A. to our beach condo & stopped for dinner. Barb lives across the street from us at the beach & we decided to surprise her. I had a rib dinner & we bought another one to bring to her. Bud was downstairs with the takeout box & I went upstairs to talk to Barbara. She had no idea we had food\u2014or anything\u2014for her. I asked her what would be the greatest gift one human being could give another & she said, \u201cPORK!\u201d Bud was just coming up the stairs. He said, \u201cRight!\u201d & handed it to her.\nWhen we were little, my brother used to catch every childhood disease that was in town\u2014mumps, chickenpox, etc. My mom would throw me in bed with him so I could catch it when I was young & develop an immunity. I never caught anything. As a child, that is. I got measles the semester I was entering UCLA. As a freshman, you couldn\u2019t get your classes by mail. You\u2014or someone\u2014had to enroll in person. Bud was kind enough to sign in for me. He figured that it would be no problem except for Women\u2019s Phys. Ed. It turned out that was the easiest. The other prospective students must have noticed his embarrassment\u2014they let him go to the head of the line.\nFor you parents of young children:\nYou probably didn\u2019t notice, but sometimes I have difficulty staying on one theme whenI write. That\u2019s just the way fishduckies are.\nUntil next time----fishducky\nBeing computer illiterate, I don't know how to put the stuff that goes with this button into my post but I DO want to support her!! You can enter through Elisa's post (THE CRAZY LIFE OF A WRITING MOM) or Janie Junebug's post (WOMEN: WE SHALL OVERCOME).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1579, "original_length": 29804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fishducky.blogspot.com/2014_08_15_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:59Z", "digest": "sha1:P2GYQK3KAXK6REBW2Z7OBOC65TADL4D2", "length": 2392, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "fishducky.blogspot.com", "title": "fishducky, finally!: 08/15/14", "raw_content": "*TI AMO, IL SIG. ANONIMO!!\n* I love you, Mr. Nameless!!\n(This post is dedicated to my son-in-law, Nameless' husband. He will be referred to as S. A., Signore Anomino--Mr. Nameless.)\nTake a good look at the cartoon above. It shows my son-in-law one day a few years ago when he was pleading with his daughters to tell him where they had hidden his glasses. He told them he couldn't find them & he had looked everywhere! When they were finally able to stop laughing, they told them they were in his hand.\nA while ago he & Nameless went to a restaurant for dinner. They were about to get into their car when S. A. told her that he had to go back into the restaurant because he had forgotten his glasses. She found that odd & told him that he was wearing them.\n(This paragraph is from a recent post)\nLast year we took our family to dinner at Lawry's prime rib restaurant to celebrate my daughter & son-in-law's wedding anniversary & my granddaughter's 22nd birthday. There were 9 of us at a round table. I was seated first & S. A. (the birthday girl's father) chose to sit on my left. We were all talking & laughing & near the end of the dinner we were chatting with our waitress. She told us that she had thought that my son-in-law & I were a couple because we obviously enjoyed each other's company so much. She thought I was a COUGAR!! I loved it!!\nS. A. was raised in Italy & came here to marry my daughter. They met while they were both in school in Switzerland. He spoke Italian (of course) & French when he came here, but not English. One of the very first phrases in English that he learned was, \"It's not my fault; it's Nameless' fault!\" They have now been married for more than 25 years, so he obviously has had many occasions to use it.\nSoon after S .A. arrived in California, he took an ESL (English as a Second Language) course & had gotten a job as a stock boy. He came over one day & said, \u201cMom, this guy at work keeps asking me questions around lunchtime & I don\u2019t know what he\u2019s saying. I looked up the words & couldn\u2019t find them in the dictionary.\u201d I asked him what the words were. He told me \u201cjeet\u201d & \u201cwajeet\u201d. If he hadn\u2019t mentioned that it was around lunchtime, I\u2019m not sure I could\u2019ve helped him. I told him his coworker was asking, \u201cDid you eat?\u201d & \u201cWhat did you eat?\u201d.\nI assume this is how he learned Italian:\nI knew you\u2019d like this post. The voices told me so----fishducky", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1579, "original_length": 27688, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fixitauckland.co.nz/gallery/bathroom-renovations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:14Z", "digest": "sha1:I6UETYR2AVSXYM4WRZL7XZB6RFH7EJUU", "length": 193, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fixitauckland.co.nz", "title": "Bathroom renovation images | Project Management | Fix It Building Services", "raw_content": "Fix It Renovations in the City of Sails, Auckland, New Zealand provides an overview of the bathroom remodeling to provide inspiration of what you can achieve with your Villa renovation project!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://florinstoican.com/os/academic/publications/adaptation-set-theoretic-methods-fault-detection-wind-turbine-benchmark", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JXKLX4TPB7GJGSMBEMLGMAKMR6ENDAFS", "length": 338, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "florinstoican.com", "title": "Adaptation of set theoretic methods to the fault detection of a wind turbine benchmark | Florin Stoican", "raw_content": "Adaptation of set theoretic methods to the fault detection of a wind turbine benchmark\nF. Stoican, Raduinea, C. - F., and Olaru, S., \u201cAdaptation of set theoretic methods to the fault detection of a wind turbine benchmark\u201d, in Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, Milano, Italy, 2011, p. 8322\u20138327.\nSee also: fault tolerant control", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2012/112.3144", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:24Z", "digest": "sha1:HYWVJVMTFNWJLTJY6BH4K5Q33CT4DABG", "length": 9441, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "flsenate.gov", "title": "Chapter 112 Section 3144 - 2012 Florida Statutes - The Florida Senate", "raw_content": "112.3144\u2003Full and public disclosure of financial interests.\u2014\n1(1)\u2003An officer who is required by s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution to file a full and public disclosure of his or her financial interests for any calendar or fiscal year shall file that disclosure with the Florida Commission on Ethics.\n(2)\u2003A person who is required, pursuant to s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution, to file a full and public disclosure of financial interests and who has filed a full and public disclosure of financial interests for any calendar or fiscal year shall not be required to file a statement of financial interests pursuant to s. 112.3145(2) and (3) for the same year or for any part thereof notwithstanding any requirement of this part, except that a candidate for office shall file a copy of his or her disclosure with the officer before whom he or she qualifies.\n(3)\u2003For purposes of full and public disclosure under s. 8(a), Art. II of the State Constitution, the following items, if not held for investment purposes and if valued at over $1,000 in the aggregate, may be reported in a lump sum and identified as \u201chousehold goods and personal effects\u201d:\n(a)\u2003Jewelry;\n(b)\u2003Collections of stamps, guns, and numismatic properties;\n(c)\u2003Art objects;\n(d)\u2003Household equipment and furnishings;\n(e)\u2003Clothing;\n(f)\u2003Other household items; and\n(g)\u2003Vehicles for personal use.\n(4)(a)\u2003With respect to reporting, on forms prescribed under this section, assets valued in excess of $1,000 which the reporting individual holds jointly with another person, the amount reported shall be based on the reporting individual\u2019s legal percentage of ownership in the property. However, assets that are held jointly, with right of survivorship, must be reported at 100 percent of the value of the asset. For purposes of this subsection, a reporting individual is deemed to own a percentage of a partnership which is equal to the reporting individual\u2019s interest in the capital or equity of the partnership.\n(b)1.\u2003With respect to reporting liabilities valued in excess of $1,000 on forms prescribed under this section for which the reporting individual is jointly and severally liable, the amount reported shall be based on the reporting individual\u2019s percentage of liability rather than the total amount of the liability. However, liability for a debt that is secured by property owned by the reporting individual but that is held jointly, with right of survivorship, must be reported at 100 percent of the total amount owed.\n2.\u2003A separate section of the form shall be created to provide for the reporting of the amounts of joint and several liability of the reporting individual not otherwise reported in subparagraph 1.\n(5)\u2003Forms for compliance with the full and public disclosure requirements of s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution shall be created by the Commission on Ethics. The commission shall give notice of disclosure deadlines and delinquencies and distribute forms in the following manner:\n(a)\u2003Not later than May 1 of each year, the commission shall prepare a current list of the names and addresses of and the offices held by every person required to file full and public disclosure annually by s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution, or other state law. In compiling the list, the commission shall be assisted by each unit of government in providing at the request of the commission the name, address, and name of the office held by each public official within the respective unit of government.\n(b)\u2003Not later than 30 days before July 1 of each year, the commission shall mail a copy of the form prescribed for compliance with full and public disclosure and a notice of the filing deadline to each person on the mailing list.\n(c)\u2003Not later than 30 days after July 1 of each year, the commission shall determine which persons on the mailing list have failed to file full and public disclosure and shall send delinquency notices by certified mail to such persons. Each notice shall state that a grace period is in effect until September 1 of the current year.\n(d)\u2003Statements must be filed not later than 5 p.m. of the due date. However, any statement that is postmarked by the United States Postal Service by midnight of the due date is deemed to have been filed in a timely manner, and a certificate of mailing obtained from and dated by the United States Postal Service at the time of the mailing, or a receipt from an established courier company which bears a date on or before the due date, constitutes proof of mailing in a timely manner.\n(e)\u2003Any person who is required to file full and public disclosure of financial interests and whose name is on the commission\u2019s mailing list but who fails to timely file is assessed a fine of $25 per day for each day late up to a maximum of $1,500; however this $1,500 limitation on automatic fines does not limit the civil penalty that may be imposed if the statement is filed more than 60 days after the deadline and a complaint is filed, as provided in s. 112.324. The commission must provide by rule the grounds for waiving the fine and the procedures by which each person whose name is on the mailing list and who is determined to have not filed in a timely manner will be notified of assessed fines and may appeal. The rule must provide for and make specific the following:\n2.\u2003Upon receipt of the disclosure statement or upon accrual of the maximum penalty, whichever occurs first, the commission shall determine the amount of the fine which is due and shall notify the delinquent person. The notice must include an explanation of the appeal procedure under subparagraph 3. Such fine must be paid within 30 days after the notice of payment due is transmitted, unless appeal is made to the commission pursuant to subparagraph 3. The moneys shall be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.\n(f)\u2003Any person subject to the annual filing of full and public disclosure under s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution, or other state law, whose name is not on the commission\u2019s mailing list of persons required to file full and public disclosure is not subject to the fines or penalties provided in this part for failure to file full and public disclosure in any year in which the omission occurred, but nevertheless is required to file the disclosure statement.\n(g)\u2003The notification requirements and fines of this subsection do not apply to candidates or to the first filing required of any person appointed to elective constitutional office or other position required to file full and public disclosure, unless the person\u2019s name is on the commission\u2019s notification list and the person received notification from the commission. The appointing official shall notify such newly appointed person of the obligation to file full and public disclosure by July 1. The notification requirements and fines of this subsection do not apply to the final filing provided for in subsection (6).\n(h)\u2003Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 120, any fine imposed under this subsection which is not waived by final order of the commission and which remains unpaid more than 60 days after the notice of payment due or more than 60 days after the commission renders a final order on the appeal must be submitted to the Department of Financial Services as a claim, debt, or other obligation owed to the state, and the department shall assign the collection of such fine to a collection agent as provided in s. 17.20.\n(6)\u2003Each person required to file full and public disclosure of financial interests shall file a final disclosure statement within 60 days after leaving his or her public position for the period between January 1 of the year in which the person leaves and the last day of office or employment, unless within the 60-day period the person takes another public position requiring financial disclosure under s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution, or is otherwise required to file full and public disclosure for the final disclosure period. The head of the agency of each person required to file full and public disclosure for the final disclosure period shall notify such persons of their obligation to file the final disclosure and may designate a person to be responsible for the notification requirements of this subsection.\n(7)\u2003The commission shall adopt rules and forms specifying how a person who is required to file full and public disclosure of financial interests may amend his or her disclosure statement to report information that was not included on the form as originally filed. If the amendment is the subject of a complaint filed under this part, the commission and the proper disciplinary official or body shall consider as a mitigating factor when considering appropriate disciplinary action the fact that the amendment was filed before any complaint or other inquiry or proceeding, while recognizing that the public was deprived of access to information to which it was entitled.\nHistory.\u2014s. 1, ch. 82-98; s. 3, ch. 88-358; s. 19, ch. 91-45; s. 4, ch. 94-277; s. 1409, ch. 95-147; s. 2, ch. 2000-243; s. 30, ch. 2000-258; s. 127, ch. 2003-261; s. 3, ch. 2006-275.\n1Note.\u2014As created by s. 30, ch. 2000-258. Subsection (1), as created by s. 2, ch. 2000-243, reads:\n(1)\u2003A person who is required, pursuant to s. 8, Art. 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Mario has been teaching breaking since 2005 and is a full time dancer ready to inspire the whole world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 139.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forceindia.net/sitharaman-us-discuss-new-defence-deals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:G5XB45GHXQOFN6FZOUK722CYOP5MIFW2", "length": 2048, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "forceindia.net", "title": "Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in US to Discuss New Defence Deals", "raw_content": "Sitharaman in US to Discuss New Defence Deals\nThe defence minister to chart the course of tri-service exercise between India, Japan and US\nIndian defence minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has embarked on her highly crucial tour to the United States to discuss and fast track the defence deals and reaffirm the bilateral strategic partnership in Indo-Pacific region.\nSitharaman left India on December 1, and among other important engagements, she will be visiting the US Indo-Pacific Command in Hawaii to review military-to-military relations and discuss the conduct of the first ever India-US tri-service military exercise slated to take place off Bay of Bengal in May-June 2019.\nFollowing up on the tri-lateral meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi, President Donald Trump and Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe, Sitharaman will be meeting her US counterpart James Mattis on December 3. The engagement would include a clarity on the waiver for sanctions under Countering America\u2019s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the development is noteworthy in light of India\u2019s recent deal with Russia on the procurement of USD 5.43 billion for S-400 long-range air-defence systems.\nThe five-day visit will include a review of the expanding defence cooperation between the United States and India, and the procurement deals signed this year between the two countries. The defence minister is likely going to discuss the procurements of Predator B drones and the National Advanced Surface to Air Missile System II (NASAMS II) with her American counterpart during the visit.\nThe Rs 13,500 crore deal for acquiring 24 MH-60Rs in a government to government deal to be executed under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) route is expected to be inked during her visit. The MH-60Rs will be a crucial procurement for the Indian Navy since the current inventory of Anti-Submarine Warfare capable helicopters is virtually negligible with only a handful of helicopters functional.\n\u2190 Ex Cope India-18 Commences\nWNC Golden Jubilee Maiden Ocean Sailing Race Flagged Off \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fordschool.umich.edu/events/2009/charting-course-next-generation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4RRIZDXN7I3RWWGPNAPMR6TMZCDMFG74", "length": 84965, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "fordschool.umich.edu", "title": "Charting a course for the next generation | The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan", "raw_content": "Charting a course for the next generation\nCiti Foundation Lecture\nTuesday, January 27, 2009 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm\nThe Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy's 2009 Citigroup Foundation Lecture. Co-sponsored by the National Poverty Center and the Students of Color in Public Policy.\nHosted as part of the University of Michigan's 2009 Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Symposium.\nMarian Wright Edelman will speak from her new book, The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small: Charting a Course for the Next Generation, which she wrote as a call to action for all Americans to address the urgent needs of our country's youth.\nFrom the publisher: 'In America today, the gap between the rich and the poor is the greatest ever recorded-larger than any other industrialized nation. It has become far too easy to ignore the hardships of millions of children plagued by poverty, poor health, illiteracy, violence, adult hypocrisy, and injustice. Marian Wright Edelman challenges all of us-our leaders, our teachers, the faith community, parents, grandparents, and future generations-to end the epidemic physical and spiritual poverty afflicting millions of our children.'\nAttendees will receive a free copy of Edelman's book, The Sea Is So Wide and My Boat Is So Small.\nMarian Wright Edelman is the founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Measure of Our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, and eight other books. She is the winner of many awards for her work, including a MacArthur Fellowship, the Albert Schweitzer Humanitarian Award, a Heinz Award, and a Niebuhr Award. In 2000, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings. Edelman is a graduate of Spelman College and Yale Law School.\nDomestic policy, Education, Leadership, Security and diplomacy, Marian Wright Edelman, citi foundation lecture, Marian Wright Edelman\nMarian Wright Edelman: Call to action for our youth\nDean Collins: Good afternoon everybody. We're going to go ahead and get started. I, I think that perhaps there's still people joining us but we do want to make sure that we have time for both the lecture, but also a very nice question and answer period. So I would like to welcome everybody. I am Susan Collins, the gentleman Sanford Wild, Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and I'm really delighted to see all of you here with us this afternoon. It's an honor and a personal pleasure for us to welcome Marian Wright Edelman to campus and to the Ford School, for our 2009 Citigroup Foundation Lecture Series. This lecture series was established several years by a gift in honor of President Gerald R. Ford, from the Citigroup Foundation. We're very grateful to the foundation for their generous gift, which is enabled us to bring distinguished policy leaders and thinkers to campus and we're particularly honored to have Marine White Edelman as part of that series here today. This event is co-sponsored by the National Poverty Center and by the Students of Color and Public Policy. And I want to thank both of those organizations, we're very thankful for their help and support. Today's lecture represents the Ford School's contribution to the University of Michigan's 2009 Symposium in honor of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. As you know, or as you may know, the theme for the 2009 University Symposium is a dreamer but not the only one. This theme was selected to highlight the critical importance of acting for positive change, which King did and which so many of his follows have continued to do in the fight for civil rights and social justice. It's a particularly theme given the historic election of this nation's first African American President Barack Obama. And the unusual challenging times that we currently face. We are all called upon to act, roll up our sleeves and do what we can do create positive change for our community. And Mrs. Edelman's latest book, which we have distributed here this afternoon, she recounts advice that [inaudible] Gandhi remembers hearing from her grandfather. He told her that there were two kinds of people, those who do the work, and those who take the credit. But I must say that was one of my, one of many favorite passages I had when I had the pleasure of reading the book recently. He recommended that she try to be in the first group, because there was much less competition.\nWell Marian Wright Edelman's life has exemplified a willingness to do the work. The Children's Defense Fund, which she founded in 1973, sprang directly from the Civil Rights Movement, and represented her commitment to extending the principles of that movement to children's issues. Some of you might know that it was Marian Wright Edelman and her colleagues at the CDF who first popularized the phrase, or I should say the mission Leave No Child Behind. They've worked tirelessly for that cause through education, prenatal healthcare and nutrition, high quality affordable daycare, tax relief for working families with young children, adolescent pregnancy prevention, and much more. And all of these policy areas have been shaped and sharpened over the decades by the hard work of Mrs. Edelman and the Children's Defense Fund. Mrs. Edelman is a graduate of Spellman College and Yale Law School, and she began her career in the mid 1960's as the first black woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar. She directed the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Office in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1968 she moved to Washington D.C. as counsel for the Poor People's Campaign that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. began organizing before his death. She founded the Washington Research Project, a public interest law firm that was the parent body of the Children's Defense Fund. She's received many honorary degrees and awards, including one from the University of Michigan's Law School. And in 2000 received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award for her writings, which include eight books. Like King, and Obama, Marian Wright Edelman is an inspiration who through decade, who for decades through her words and her actions, has articulated and fought as a champion for justice, and a committed activist for positive change. Her work continues to remind us that individuals matter and that we each have a role to play. And her work continues to remind us how important public policy is for setting the stage in which dreams can be realized. With this 2009 theme, A Dreamer But Not the Only One, I can think of no one more appropriate or inspiring to deliver the Ford School's Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Address this year. Please join me in welcoming Marian Wright Edelman.\n[ Clapping ]\nMarian Wright Edelman: Thank you. Thank you very much. I love being here at this transformative time in American history. I'm proud America as I've always said, more proud than I've ever been. And now I want us to be even prouder, as we together come together as citizens to build a movement to make our new great leader realize what we've got to do and which Dr. King hoped for. That is an effort to put the social and economic underpinnings beneath every human being in America and every child. So what a moment this is to be alive. I thank Dean Collins for that bit of introduction. I've worked for years with Sheldon Dansinger and really happy to reconnect with that center, and I've met some of your young people from your students of color and so I'm glad to see all of you here at this incredible time of challenge and hope. And I know Dr. King is smiling, I've been wearing my Harriet Tugman and [inaudible] truth medals with me, they've been having the best time since the Democratic Convention. And I often think, what would they be doing today. And I know that they would be speaking up to make sure that all the inequalities that have grown and grown would be closing, and that we'd be about the business of freeing all of our children from poor health and illiteracy and the prison pipeline, and that's what we must be doing. The day he died, Dr. King called his mother from Memphis to give her his next sermon's title for the next Sunday. And it was Why America May Go to Hell. And he said, America is going to hell if we don't use her vast resources to end poverty, and to make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life. And I don't have any doubt that if Dr. King were present today that he would be calling for poor people's campaign, for poor children's campaign. When he died there were 11 million poor children and today there are 13.3 million poor children. Our GDP is three times bigger than it was when he died. The gap between rich and poor is higher than it's ever been in our recorded history and I know what he would be doing and that's what I think we should be doing, because so many of us love to celebrate Dr. King, but it is really now time to follow him, and to hear him, and that is the chore for the next eight to ten years and with this wonderful new moment in American history, with this wonderful new leader this is our opportunity. And Dr. King from the beginning realized that movements make leaders, citizens make great leaders, not leaders the other way around. And so we have got to make sure that we start that hard work of movement building and carry over the enthusiasm and the organizing efforts and the, the call and respond to the call, community and unity that will enable our president to be the great president he wants to be. But, but we must help him. I tell the story a lot. There are no friends in politics and I tell the story about A. Philip Randolph going to the White House to visit President Franklin Roosevelt, and he was telling him about racial discrimination and the need to have federal action against that. And early on before the '63 march on Washington, he was talking about a march on Washington to deal with the education inequities and to deal with job discrimination and job needs of the black community. And President Roosevelt was alleged to have said, and listened very sympathetically and then to have said at the end of the conversation that, Phil I agree with absolutely everything that you just told me, now you go out and make me do it. So our job over the next four to eight years is to make our political leaders do what they need to do for the least amount of [inaudible] and to invest in our human capital which is going to be the key to America's global competitiveness, because there's so many things on the table. There's two wars to solve with an economic debacle that we're trying to solve, with global warming, with pollution and all the big things, we've got to make sure the children and the poor stay at the table. And that we build a mighty noise to make sure that we create a level playing field. That's what Dr. King would be doing today and that's what I'm going to be doing forever. The day after Dr. King died there was rioting and looting all across the nation, and I went out into the District of Columbia of public schools to tell young people not to riot and not to loot because I didn't want them to ruin their futures. And a little boy, about 12, looked me straight in the eye and said, Lady what future? I ain't got no future. I ain't got nothing to lose. And I have spent the last 40 years trying to prove that boy's truth wrong. I never realized how hard it would be. And the richest nation on the earth professes to have a creative equality for everybody and a democracy, but we've got to answer that boy's truth, and that's what I want to talk about today. Imagine God visiting our very wealthy family blessed with six children, five of them have enough to eat and comfortable warm rooms in which to sleep. One doesn't. She's often hungry and cold and on some nights she has to sleep on the streets or in a shelter and may even be taken away from her neglectful family and placed in a foster care or a group home with strangers. Imagine this rich family giving five of their children nourishing meals three times a day and snacks to fuel boundless energy. But sending the sixth child from the table and school hungry with only one or two meals and never the dessert the other children enjoy. Imagine this very wealthy family making sure five of its children get all of their shots, regular health checkups before they get sick and immediate access to healthcare when illness strikes but ignoring the sixth child who is plagued by chronic respiratory infections and painful toothaches which sometimes abscess and kill for lack of a doctor or a dentist. Imagine this family sending five of their children to good stimulating preschools and making sure they have music and swimming lessons after school, sending the sixth child to unsafe daycare with untrained caregivers responsible for too many children, or leaving her occasionally with an accommodating relative or a neighbor or even all alone. Imagine five the children living at home with books and families able to read most of their children every night. But the other child is left unread to, untalked and unsung to, unhugged or propped before a television screen or video game that feeds him violence and sex and racial and gender charged messages, intellectual [inaudible] interrupted only by ceaseless ads for material things that are beyond the child's grasp. Imagine this family sending some of their children to high quality schools in safe neighborhoods. With enough books and computers and laboratories and science equipment and well prepared teachers, and sending the sixth child to a crumbling school building with peeling ceilings and leaks and lead in the paint, and asbestos. No known books or not enough of them, and teachers untrained in the subjects they teach, and with low expectations that all children can learn, especially the sixth child. Imagine most of the family's children being excited about learning and looking forward to finishing high school, going to the University of Michigan and getting a job. And the sixth child pulling further and further behind grade level, not being able to read, wanting to drop out of school and being suspended and expelled at younger and younger ages. Because no one has taught him to read and compute or diagnose his attention deficit disorder or treated his health and mental health problems, and helped him keep up with his peers. Imagine five of the children engaged in sports, in music and arts and after school and summer camps, and in enrichment programs. And the sixth child hanging out with peers, or going home alone because mom and dad are working, or are in prison or have run away from their parenting responsibilities and escaped in drugs and alcohol, leaving him alone or on the streets during the non-school hours and weeks long non-school hours and weeks and months. At risk of being sucked into illegal activities and the prison pipeline or killed in our gun saturated nation. Well this is our American family today where one in six of our children lives in poverty in the richest nation on earth. More than 40% live in extreme poverty and the numbers of 13.3 and 5.6 in extreme poverty they're going to get worse in this period of down turn. Our data is old. And it is not a stable or healthy or economically sensible or just family. Our failure to invest in all of our children before they get sick or drop out of school, get pregnant or get into trouble, is morally defensible and extremely costly. Every year we let 13 million children live in poverty caused by a half trillion dollars in lost productivity and the cost of crime and health and other dependency. And I've heard others, especially children without consequences. And contrary to popular stereotypes, America's sixth child is more than twice as likely to live in a working family that to be on welfare is more likely to be white than black or Latino. And is more likely to live in a rural or suburban area than in an inner city. However, black and Hispanic children are at far greater risk of being poor and of entering the cradle to [inaudible] pipeline. The most dangerous place for a child to grow up in America today is at the intersection of poverty and race. Racial disparity still permeate all the major America institutions that shape the life chances of millions of children. On the [inaudible] by poverty, these disparities are putting countless children at risk of incarceration and funneling hundreds of thousands of them every year into a pipeline to prison, derailing their chances for reaching successful adulthood. Incarceration has been coming the new American partied. And poor children of color are the product. All of us must see and understand and sound the alarm about this threat to American unity and community, act to stop the growing criminalization of children at younger and younger ages and tackle the unjust treatment of minority youths and adults in the juvenile and adult criminal justice systems with urgency and persistence. The failure to act now will reverse the hard earned racial and social progress Dr. King and so many others have died and sacrificed for. And weaken our future capacity to lead. All leaders in all sectors must call for investment in all children from birth through their successful transition to adulthood. Remembering Frederick Douglas' direct observation that it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. So many poor babies in rich America in a world with multiple strikes against them, born without prenatal care at low birth rate and to a team poor and poorly educated single mother, and absent father, though I do hope that the, the signal of our new president says you can make it even if your daddy did leave home when you were two and even if your mother was on food stamps and even if you did have an unstable mobile childhood. But we can't just say, children you go do it, you've got to put into place the building blocks so that they can actually succeed. And I love, I told the story earlier this morning being in a juvenile detention center a few weeks ago, and I asked a young man what this election meant. And one young man, about 15, who had, was in there for very serious things said, you know a week ago I couldn't even imagine getting my GED, and now I'm going to hang in there and get my PhD. So hope has been around, and we've got to make sure he has the tools and the means to get that G, PhD. And so let's put the building blocks and meet on the hope that will allow our children to succeed now that their expectations and sense of themselves has been lifted. At crucial points in their development after birth until adulthood, more risks pile on, making a successful transition to productive adulthood significantly less likely and involvement in the criminal justice system significantly more likely. Since children of color are always and have been always disproportionately poor, their odds of incarceration as adults greatly exceed that of white children. Black children are three times as likely as white children to be poor and almost six times as likely as white children to be incarcerated. A poor black boy born in 2001 has a one in three chance in going to prison in his lifetime. A Latino boy a one in six chance. A black girl and a white boy a one in 17 chance. A Latino girl one in 45 chance. A white girl a one in 111 chance. The past continues to strangle the present and the future. Children with incarcerated parent are more likely to become incarcerated. Black children are nearly nine times and Latino children three times as likely as white children to have an incarcerated parent. Black that comes to one third, Latinos one-fifth of our imprisoned population. One in three black men, 20 to 29 years old, father s of children that need them at home and are able to provide the nurturing care is under correctional supervision or control. Of the 2.3 million people in jail or prison, 64% are minority and the 4.2 million people on probation, 45% are minority. And of the 800,000 people on parole, 59 percent. We're not in a post-racial society yet, but we're about to get there. And for any of us who thought the change of the top is so crucial is going to solve all the problems for those at the bottom, and which have been deepening and downward mobility has been increasing over the last decades, need to address this. And this is the time to take this new era and this new leadership to really make sure that we lift the bottom and create a level playing field for all of our children. Unjust drug sentencing policies have greatly escalated, incarceration of minority adults and youths. Now these numbers that I just shared are black and Latino community tragedy. But they are an unfolding national catastrophe that we've got to address. They are ripping apart billions of families, stripping away the right to vote for many, and blocking the chance to get a job to support a family. They decrease public security as more and more prisoners reenter society without the means to legally support themselves, and they drain taxpayer dollars as increasing billions are spent on massive incarceration and beyond and old. We need to change course. Our states are spending on average three times more per prisoner than for public school pupil. I can't think of a dumber investment policy. And I am delighted that your new government is trying to begin your governor. She's not new anymore, but is trying to begin to change and reorder these priorities. Please support her. And speak up against the growing power of the prison unions and of the prison industrial complex. Prisons are big business. We're spending $200 billion a year we have more people. They're, they employ more people than our three largest employers, Wal-Mart, GM, recently GM, and Ford. This is big, big business. And I tell you as I get older, I want to make sure that they are we are producing enough productive workers to support us and our older ages, and, and infrastructure we need to be strong in the infrastructure we need to be strong and the new centers and us supporting them. And prison and, and at greatly increased cost. We can redevelop. We have a paradigm change, and we all need to sort of call more, and we need to stop incarcerations as a first resort and really begin to invest preventably and, and, and early, and trying to divert our children into a pipeline for successful adulthood through college and through productive work. I think that is the gender for us, Children's Defense Fund for the next decade for all of us. We need to create that level playing field. Now child poverty and neglect and the cradle to prison pipeline and the racial disparities and the systems that serve our children are not acts of God. They are America's immoral, political and economic choices that can and must be changed with strong political, corporate, community leadership. No single sector or group can solve these child and nation threatening crises alone, but all of us can together. As leaders we must all begin to come to the table and use our pulpits and our skills to replace our current paradigm with again a paradigm of prevention and investment in children before they get sick and drop out of school and get into trouble. It'll save lives, it'll save families, it'll save taxpayer money, it'll save our nation's aspirations to be in a fair society and it'll allow us to compete in the global arena where our children are going to have to have the skills and the means to maintain our economic [inaudible] with competition from China and India and Europe and everywhere. We can no longer afford to waste our children. And it is time for us to live up to our creed and that is in the goal of this time. Ending child poverty is not only an urgent moral necessity, it's economically beneficial, as Dr. Solo and my team [inaudible] and economics wrote in Wasting America's Future. I think Sheldon [inaudible] was a member of that epic. And he said ending child poverty is at the very least highly affordable. More likely it is a gain to the economy and to the business as taxpayers and citizens within. A healthy social security and that ends Dr. Solo's quote. For I say a health social security and Medicare system for our increasing elderly population needs as many productive workers as possible. And we can ill afford to let millions of our people and children grow up poor in poor health uneducated, under educated and dependent rather than productive citizens. So what can we all do today as community and other leaders to build our spiritual and political will to help our nation pass, pass the test of the God of history and better prepare for America's futures. What steps can we take together to heed Dr. King's warning, not to let our wealth become our destruction, but our salvation. By helping the poor Nazareth says languishing at our gates. How can we cease the enormous opportunity today. To use our great blessings to bless all the children entrusted to our care and rekindle America's dimming dream. Other first is for all of us. To be leaders in our community and in our networks and in our disciplines that call all of us to our [inaudible] and to heed president's who call all of us, to create new epic of caring and sacrifice and service. And we must begin at every level to try to overcome the deep divides between rich and poor and white and non-white and men and women and imprisoned and free. And but despite the huge strides over the past decades we really are seeing our social economic process stalling again the top has been wonderful. And threatening to reverse. And we've got to get ourselves on the right track again. We've got to move forward and not backwards. We've got to reset our nation's priority but have created that greatest gap between rich and poor in our history. And between our rich and poor in the globe. Because we really are one big human house. And everything is interconnected as Dr. King told us over and over again. And we've got to step up, go away from the false either ors and the present mission, there's a number of them, but I say the false either ors between personal, family, community and societal responsibility for children. And for simplistic solutions that don't address these complex but solvable problems. Since all of us are responsible for ensuring our nation's future, all of us need to come together to work together across discipline, across race, across [inaudible] and to put our children's healthy development at the center of our decision making. Because if the child is safe, everybody is safe. And the child doesn't come in pieces, the child comes in families, families are affected by communities, communities are affected by the policies and investment priorities of their state and local and national governments, and all of us are affected by the culture, that seems to glorify violence and excessive materialism and militarism, that Dr. King warned us about and these have to be seen in context because they are all affecting our children's healthy development. The second is that I just hope we will all come together and really envision that we can eliminate poverty and eliminate child poverty in this country, starting with extreme child poverty. And wouldn't it be nice if we set a goal for 2015, which is the day that the United Nations millennial goals for lifting many, many millions out of poverty, and in developing nations around the world and what an example we might show. I remember how heartbroken I was at a UNICEF meeting some years ago when I was sharing with them the, the facts of child poverty and mortality and were [inaudible] in our country and the developing nations were absolutely crushed because they thought my goodness in we could just become like the United States. If we could just become a developed nation these problems would disappear. I really want us to be a good role model, I mean it's just, we need to show that democratic capitalism is not an oxymoron. And so it would be so wonderful if while we're losing ground with these [inaudible] developing countries, if we could set a goal that says we're going to eliminate child poverty and I, I'm always in a hurry because children are growing up, they have only one childhood. I think we've lost two generations of many of our poor and minority children. By 2015 and we all made a commitment, got our leaders to make a commitment to doing what we have to do to end the racial disparity suffered by millions of black, Latino, Native American children, who are disproportionately poor in the richest nation on earth. No other rich industrialized western nation permits the high rates of child poverty than we do. No other nation let's children be the poorest group among its citizens. We can do better. Benjamin Franklin said a long time, the best family policy is a good job. Every American family should have an adequate income based primarily on work and a decent safety net for anyone unable to work and everyone must be able to live a healthy safe job rich communities with affordable housing. And I don't want to hear anybody tell us we don't have the money to do it even in this period of economic downturn. Every child could be lifted out of poverty for less than nine months of the tax cuts of the top one percent, in four months of Iraq war. I was trying to convince the Congress that we really could afford $700 billion last year to cover all of our children rather than four of the nine million uninsured children, and to provide that national safety net, and they said we couldn't find the money we were too poor and look how quickly they found that $700 billion, and what are we talking about now? We don't have a money problem, we have a [inaudible] and a priorities problem and again the job is citizens. Is to make a mighty noise for a change in our investment priorities and I hope that you will join me in that. We can begin to stop the irresponsible giveaways to our richest 300,000 Americans and reinvest that in saving the futures of 13 million poor children. And I hope we will do that and fight hard for the tax relief, below and moderate income families including a fully refundable child tax credit which in the House stimulus bill and I hope you will pay attention to what's in that bill, because the first thing we can do is to make sure that the investments in low income people at this time and middle income people at this time really get put into that stimulus package which gives us something to build on when the temporary period [inaudible] But making the tax, child tax credit fully refundable will benefit millions of children and lift hundreds of thousands of them out of poverty now. Getting earned income tax credit expanded for larger families, with three or more children would begin to have an enormous anti-poverty impact. Investing in childcare and food stamps and for all of our folk, they're going to spend that money quickly, they've got to stimulate the economy and they are going to hopefully keep themselves together. But there are a lot of strong safety net programs spent on Medicaid assistance, but pay attention to it. The House package I think on the whole is very good, now keeping it in the Senate is going to be a challenge, but let's work on that because this is the time when we have a chance to move forward. If we lifted, if we expand the federal childcare support to families earning 200% or below the federal level we could lift over two million children out of poverty. To raise food stamp participation, increase the benefits 85 percent, we could again have an impact on millions. So here is a moment that we must cease and I do hope that you will call up your senators now and call up your congressmen now and really support the provisions that are in the house package. I hope we'll all take responsibility to educate ourselves and to educate others about who the poor are. And maybe in this period of economic downturn the many people never thought they'd be in a food stamp line, never thought they'd lose their home, never thought they'd be wondering where they're going to be able to pay their utilities bill. But this is a moment when we might be open and that the poor may well be us. We must help our nation remove their, our psychological cataracts and dispel many of the myths that we saw up in here and about the causes and consequences of child poverty, one of which I've already talked about. It cost too much to eliminate poverty. I think we need to change the trims of the debate because it costs too much to maintain child poverty. We need to produce productive citizens, not dependent ones. We hear a lot about it's not the right time, it's always the right time to be just and to be fair and to make sure that children are able to get the very basic things they need to grow up and to learn and to be healthy. We hear still that nothing works. Well we know a lot about work. Things that do work. We know how to immunize children, we should not have so many children that are immunized today. We know how to provide good health services for children and there should not be nine million children unable to find a dentist or a doctor. We know a lot about what works and we need to move them to scale and to maintain their quality. We know that we could overcome some of the myths like, you know, we fought a war on poverty and poverty won. Well we didn't fight a war on poverty, we fought a scrimmage on poverty and the war in Vietnam and the military budget won. Dr. King was calling for a poor people's campaign at the times when we were investing 40 times less, in the office of economic opportunity to fight the war on poverty than the war in Vietnam and other military spending. He knew this was an unequal contest. And we need to go back again. And he would not be pleased today to see that we're in two wars, and that trillions have gone into wars rather than to investing in our people. These are about making hard choices, and we need to answer them back. We often here that it is parents' responsibility to take care of their own children. They're not my children, they're other people's children. Well of course it's the parents responsibility, but what are parents to do if, if their jobs are down, are eliminated or are sent abroad. Our wages are there, they're working as hard as they can but they cannot lift themselves out of poverty or if they're not able to get healthcare. The majority, 90% of, of the children are without health insurance living in families, playing by the rules, but again can't get healthcare. And so while parents certainly should be the first line of responsibility, no child should be punished for parents they did not choose. And if you look at the book that you've been handed, you will find I'm pretty tough on parents, but we need to also support parents and being good parents. And nobody raises a child alone. They said a portion should not have babies, they cannot support. Nobody should have babies they can't support either financially or emotionally, but again you don't punish children for the problems of the parents that they did not choose. And we need to help rather than judge or blame or punish the poor or non-poor who neglect their children. And I hear a lot about class warfare even from dear friends who are concerned about children but don't really want to talk about changing our tax policies. And I don't hear anybody talk about the class warfare. I think we have seen how we've had this massive redistribution of income from the poor to the rich over the last decades, and, and corporate welfare has been extraordinary, something is wrong. And unfair when 46 companies in a recent year paid no federal income taxes, while reporting combined profits of $40, almost $43 billion and collectively receiving tax rebates total $5.4 billion. We need to have a little tax fairness here. And we've always tended to have socialism for the rich as we're seeing now in the bailout, and capitalism for the poor. We need to have better balance as we move forward. So that three in terms of public policy opportunities this year which require voice. And we do know what to do is that I hope we can all come together and see health insurance coverage for every American. But we if we can't get it for every American, and I hope we will and we work hard, I hope we can get it for every child and every pregnant mother. The Senate today is considering shift, I haven't been informed about whether in fact they ended up passing it. The House had passed the state children's health insurance bill that was Mr. Bush had vetoed several times last year. But that is not child health reform. It's a step forward. That's last year's unfinished business. It covers only four if the Senate does end up including as the House did not, legal immigrant children. But it's about four million children. But we are nine million uninsured children and we want them all having a health safety net. I said to them until I'm blue in the face, I have three sons, and I wouldn't dream of giving them one of them health coverage and two of them no health coverage. We can do better. And there God did not make two classes of children and this country can afford to cover all children. We can afford to give them all the same guaranteed package of comprehensive coverage which include mental and dental. We have children dying of tooth abscesses in this country. We shouldn't have that happen. I don't want to hear those Katrina children's problems over the next years that we've left them out there three years after this great trauma without the mental healthcare needs. I don't want to see children sitting out by the thousands in our juvenile detention facilities so many because they couldn't get mental health coverage in their community and parents having to judge themselves neglectful and abusive parents in order to get mental health coverage. We need to put in place a comprehensive benefits and we cannot have a two tier system of children who are eligible for Medicaid guaranteed comprehensive benefits. In fact we can, and children for Chip who don't have guaranteed benefits which is what we are trying to do is to make sure that we upgrade all children with the same set of benefits. You can have two children in the same family, different ages, depending on how the states structure this child health delivery systems, one is eligible for comprehensive benefit and guaranteed it throughout this economic downturn, the other child may be eligible for Chip. And not guaranteed anything and not have mental or dental. And as children are being cut back now in this economic down turn in the states, this two tier system must be corrected. Every child should have what they need to grow up healthy and to have the full range of comprehensive benefits. The third thing that we're trying to do and we've drafted a bill that was in last year and which will be reintroduced for them this month it's called the all healthy children's act is that we would make sure that we simplify the child health bureaucracies. I don't want to see national health insurance with seniors having Medicare and the, I don't know what we'll end up with for all the rest of us, but the children cannot be left out there in two programs in 50 states. The lottery of geography of the [inaudible] Mississippi's child's life is no less valuable than a Massachusetts's child's life, or even a child's chance to live and thrive, cannot depend on the goodness of their government or the politics or wealth of their state. So we want a national safety net that says every child within a family with 300% poverty income or less would be given a guaranteed these services, and anybody with income above that can be able to buy in at affordable cost. And should make it simple. There should be one system. So we don't have the current problems with six million children of the nine million who are uninsured are eligible for either Chip or Medicaid. But they fall through the bureaucratic cracks and we need to make enrollment automatic at birth of any child that is in a mean [inaudible] program they are automatically enrolled. They are starting school but we should make sure we're getting them. We don't need to do all this outreach we just need to get them in the system. And the [inaudible] here is to serve children well. To tear down all these bureaucratic barriers that the states have put up to serve as few children as they can rather than serve as many children. So one of the things I do hope you will do is to have a robust engagement and this new debate is going on in national health insurance for everybody. But please pay particular attention to the children's health piece and to the pregnant women's piece. We want to cover every pregnant woman. It is disgraceful that our low birth rate rates are those of an underdeveloped nation that our infant mortality rates are those of undeveloped nation. And we know how to move this well. But we are going to need your help and your voice. And so the [inaudible] the finance committee they're going to have jurisdiction over much of what we need to do, whether it's poverty, a stimulus package or whether children's health coverage. But I do hope you will pay attention. I hope you will check into our website and look at the [inaudible] health insurance debates provisions and see how you can support it and encourage other people to support it. We must cover our children. We must close off that first big entry point in the prison pipeline by making sure that those children who are born with three or four strikes against them and low birth weight, didn't identify that they had a substance or alcohol abusing mother, a mother at risk, let's get them on there with a fair chance to run. And then let's put in place the second building block and that's a strong early childhood foundation. We know about early brain development and the first three years of life, yet early head start serves only 3% of the eligibles. And this stimulus package there is 2.1 billion increase in head start and I hope a lot of that will go into early head start. We know how to give good parent support programs and child/parent interaction is so important, but you can't teach what you don't know. And so this is another set of programs and policies that we need to move to scale. Parents need support. They're eager to be and hungry to do a better job, but they need help and we need to spend the chances for our children to have very strong early childhood experiences. We need to have a universal high quality early childhood system with head start and child care and preschool, and we need to sort of break down the silos between the child care people and the preschool people and the head start people and the after school people and see if we can't develop a high quality early childhood system that's got a help children get ready for school and be ready to get and learn in school. But also be safe at school. Children spend only 17% of their time in school. We need to get these congregations and you will see a very strong set of letters in the book you got. Please look at it, debate it and then go and confront your religious leaders and yourselves, our neighbors, for how we can begin to reweave the fact of this community. And open up our congregations to provide safe havens to the streets for our children. The gangs and the drug dealers are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And the television sets are always on. How do we begin to compete with them and to provide positive role models and, and programming for our children? So having a high quality early childhood and family support system. Very, very important and there will be legislation that will be introduced to try to do this. I think we need to ensure child and economic family security and I hope again you will plug in and look and I am sure that your, your leaders here in this school will have a lot to say as we move forward. I hope we can dramatically decrease the number of children coming into the child welfare system and again I keep going back to poverty. A poor child is 22 times more likely to be neglected and abused than a non-poor child and we've got to deal with the core causes and not just with the symptoms and you know we've got 345,000 [inaudible] abortion. I have been saying to all and I come from a family of Baptist preachers, if just ten% or 13% of them decided they were going to find one or two adoptive parents we could clean out the child welfare system. Or if we provided adequate support systems for families and kin, we could keep a lot of children out of the child welfare system. Because we know once children go into foster care they're going to be at risk of dropping out of school at much higher rates than children who have not been in the foster care system. They're much more at risk of, of going into juvenile detention. So we've got, again, to close all of that feeder system but it's going to take family and community and neighbors and, and good public policies. And again an attack on poverty. And I hope that we can begin to deal with our overburdened and underfinanced child welfare system which is a major feeder system into the cradle to prison pipeline. And I want to give a great shout out to granny parents. I've really been radicalized by becoming a grandma, and I am not going to leave this messy world to our grandchildren, and I think that when I look at the struggles of grandparents and they're about four/five million children living in grandparent headed households, and I try to put myself in their place, and I've got every support I need. My husband and I can manage and we have our grandchildren for one whole weekend and we are so worn out when they leave. I just cannot imagine what it's like for these 70, 75 and 80 year old grandparents trying to deal with children from and the loss of their own children which are many things. And many of them have special needs. Don't have the transportation, don't have the support, don't have the education, don't have the safer communities. I don't know how they manage. And we've been making some progress. There's new legislation to try to begin to bolster grandparents. But again, they need community supports. They need better public houses. They need to try to keep family together for children as much as we can, as we can. We need to figure out how to educate our children. I mean I can't figure out how in this wealthy nation that has managed to send spaceships to Mars and men and men and women to the moon, and cracked the genetic code and mind trillions of dollars and I, from a tiny microchip. We can't figure out how to teach our children to read by fourth grade, or even eighth grade, or 12th grade. The majority of all of our children of all races and income groups are not reading at grade level and fourth and eighth grade or 12th grade, if they are able, haven't been dropped out by then. And among our minority young people, 80%, over 80% of our young people are not computing at grade level in fourth or eighth or 12th grade if they haven't dropped out. Over 90% are not doing their math at grade level. What is a child to do in this globalized and postindustrial economy, information based economy if they can't read or write? They're headed off to prison. They're headed off to death. There's no place for them in this American place which is why we've got to make our public schools function, have high expectations for every child. Hold ourselves accountable for ensuring equal education and opportunity to tackle the growing re-segregation in our schools and the, the gaps between the quality we're able to give our children rich, and between, and I bring children in flat, but we've got to begin to deal with these basic problems of inequity. Have high expectations for all children. I've been so proud that I kept all three of my sons out of law school, and while I think that we, and I try to say that teaching and education is the civil rights issue of the, of this, of this era. And I applaud those young people who are going into Teach America. I'm so glad that two of my children are invested in education. But we've got to begin to get a hold of these children. We've got to begin to re-conceptualize our schools to have high expectations, to have high teaching equality, to reward teachers and then to hold teachers and principals accountable. And I tell everybody to go into teaching, but don't go into teaching if you don't see it as a mission, if you don't love and respect all children because you can have the fanciest classrooms, and you can have the best laboratories, but children know you don't love them and expect them to learn, please get out and do something else. But I think that the community needs an, we need to have community accountability. We need, when we see, as we are seeing the cradle of the prison pipeline, the transference of zero tolerance drug policies into zero tolerance discipline policies in our schools. And we see five and six and seven year old children being expelled for behaviors that used to be handled in the school principal's office or in the community. And when we see school systems bringing police in to school premises to arrest six and seven, eight year old children, handcuffing them at the ankles and at, I think we adults have lost our minds. And I just was listening the ACLU in New York recently about school security problems in that city. And the school security force in New York City constitutes the sixth largest police system in our country. I taught Boston public school. We have got to stop. We've got to look back and say what is the purpose of schools? And if we're engaging children and if we're giving them the supports they need. And if we are collaborating with parents, real parent collaboration, and are trying to make sure that we're building those bridges between early childhood and public schools and after schools and there's some school systems that are getting it right and there are a lot of wonderful innovation schools, a lot of places, there are not a lot of wonderful school systems that are lifting whole sets of children. But we know, we can look at Raleigh, we can look at Long Beach, and there are other places, but we've got to get it right. We've got to figure out in this wealthy great democracy how to teach all of our children to read and how to have high expectations, but that's going to come from citizens demand and we must begin to do it. We've got to reform the juvenile justice system and I just invite you to go and sit with juvenile judges for a day in court and see the breakdown of the systems and what the children who are coming in there. And then to go sit in adult criminal court and see the results of our failures to invest and to reweave the fabric of family and community. And lastly, the least popular political issue I could mention is gun violence, violence. And all of these are related, inner related. I mean we lose a child to gun violence every three hours. Eight a day. We made progress when we began to do our annual child and gun violence reports, we're losing 15 a day. But and we were going down steadily. We now have an uptick in, in gun violence. Went back up about 3,000, 3006. Since Dr. King died we lost 104,000 children to gunfire and three times as many have been injured by gun violence. We have the equivalent to Virginia Tech's massacre every four days in this quiet chronic problem of gun violence. And Dr. King and Robert Kennedy warned us about gun violence and we haven't listened. And so many thousands of our children are living in war zones, living traumatized every day. The stories are just horrendous. And I don't know what it's going to take to get us to stand up and say we're going to stop the killing of children in our country. And to stop the violence against children in our homes as well as in our streets and neighborhoods. It's very hard to focus in class if you're walking through streets and dodging bullets and, and, and are constantly afraid as so many of children are living in constant fear. And if you go into your juvenile dentition facilities you'll find that most of your young people are obsessed with not whether they're going to die but when they're going to die. And they feel hopeless. Children should not be growing up assuming they're not going to reach adulthood. We can do better. And these challenges are challenges we must make and we must somehow raise a stronger counter voice to the NRA and say we're going to stop with the killing of children, but all of these are interrelated. And how we respect and try to create for every child a reasonable and just chance to succeed in our rich democratic nation. I know we can do it. We have seen extraordinary revelation, revolutions over our lifetime. I've always felt very blessed as I say in almost every speech, to have been born who I was, what I was, at the convergence of great events and great leaders. I mean to have the role models of not just the Dr. King's and I loved Dr. King who never always knew, seldom always, seldom always, good gracious Mary, who seldom knew what the whole staircase was going to look like. And the first speech I heard him make at Spellman College in my senior year was how we should all take the first step even if you couldn't see the whole stairway and leave the rest to God. And I was always impressed by him because of his doubts, and because of his ability to fight and move on despite his fears. He taught me that courage was not not being afraid, it was going ahead and trying to find the means to act even when you were afraid. And that first speech I remember he talked about importance of continuing to move forward despite the political weather, importance of having thermostat leaders rather than thermometer leaders who stuck their hands up in the air when we needed thermostat leaders who could change the climate. And the need to speak right. If you couldn't fly you should all, you should drive. If you couldn't drive you should run. If you couldn't run you should walk. If you couldn't walk you should crawl. But you should keep moving. And there's been a lot of people who kept moving over the last 40 years. It's been a very tough wilderness period. And we're coming out now and I do hope that we're going to now stand up and build that transforming movement that Dr. King lived and died for. Let me end with a, a poem by Ann Weaves, called The Green Less Child, because a lot of our problem in America is the distinction we make between our own people, our own children and other people's children. I think all children are sacred. I think all children are children of God and that our civil creed as well as our creed from all great faiths say that the priorities should go to the most vulnerable, to the orphans, to the widow. And I hope that this is a time we might be visited. But I was very moved by Ann Weaves' poem about the green less child. She said, I watched her go and celebrated into the second grade, a green less child. Gray among the orange and yellow, attached too much to corners and to other people's sunshine. She colors the rainbow brown and leaves balloons unopened in their packages. Oh who will touch this green less child? Who will plant halleluiah's in her heart and send her dancing into all the colors of God? Or will she be left like an unwrapped package on the kitchen table? Too dull for anyone to take the trouble. Does God think that we are her keeper? Well I think so. And I think at this moment that we all have an enormous opportunity to turn this green less child into a green child, full of life, by putting into place the kind of community and family supports that every child needs. The role modeling and the mentoring that every child needs, and putting into place the kind of public policies and new investment policies and new sense of community and unity that makes this child feel welcome at the table of plenty in our rich land. Thank you so.\nDean Collins: Thank you so much for that inspiring call to action on behalf of our children.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Thank you.\nDean Collins: Marian Wright Edelman has agreed to take some questions. We have maybe 25 minutes. What I will ask is if people could come to the microphones, there's one here and there's one there. We have a large audience, which is wonderful, but it means that I will ask people to introduce themselves very briefly and to try to, to be brief with their question as well. So I will come back at 5:30 p.m. to shift to a reception. But if people would approach the microphones, thank you.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Yes.\nAudrey: Good after, can you hear me?\nMarian Wright Edelman: Yes I can.\nAudrey: Okay. Good afternoon and welcome to the University of Michigan.\nAudrey: My name is Audrey, I'm a two time grad of U of M. I looked through your book, and one of the things that impressed me was the mandate that you mention for teachers, you know, to treat each child with a sense of equity, regardless of their background. I would like to hear your thoughts on an individual that I've come to admire in this community. Her name is Ruth Swiffer [assumed spelling] She is a woman who, she's of Jewish background and she adopted children who were of a different race. And I personally feel that one of the most concrete ways that we can have an impact on poverty is to do hands on activities or hands on intervention to bring people who are different than we are into our personal lives, and to begin to understand what their barriers are. And to be a support to them to get through those barriers. So I'd like to hear your, your thoughts on, on what is required or what is the value of those of us who want to help in this area of reaching out and, and bringing in folks who are different than we are, in a very personal way into our lives.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Oh I, I encourage it. I mean I think that we've, we are one nation. I think that's the, the poll and the appeal now. We are all equal under our Constitution, at least in theory, even though those of us who are women and those of us who are three fifths of everybody else. But look at the progress we've made over the last 100 years. We are living in a world, and in a nation, that is already becoming more and more like California, and in a world that is two thirds non-white and two thirds poor. And one of the great important things about this election is that we are joining the world in a very real way. I had wondered so much about how whether in 100 years we could restore our sense of respect in the world. But somehow I think that this man who seems to represent the DNA of every piece of the globe, everybody's able to see something of themselves in him, both, if you're biracial child or if you're, you're, it's, it's, it's a wonderful thing to see it all come together. And there was a big dispute for many years about whether there should be white families adopting black children. And I said well, you know, the good loving family and that really cares and respects children is better than any old institution you can find. They need caring adults, they need to be culturally sensitive, but I think we need to clean out our foster care system. We can't find enough adoptive families, you know, we need to do something, we need to get these children out and we need not just to be adopting children from around the world. So I, we're trying to find all the kinds of ways in which we can begin to get to know each other and work together. 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning as you know is still the most segregated hour in America, but we've got to find ways of building relationships in the faith community, and we need to have freedom schools, which is a model that CDF is pushing. We have a 150 of them, and black churches, and all around the country. But you know many of them have no money in rural areas. And they can begin to pair up with white churches, and all of us need to figure out how we can pool our resources and find ways of supporting each other to reach the children most in need. Just trying to see how you can begin to get churches of all colors, or synagogues or sort of take responsibility of the churches and children within five block radius. And wouldn't it be nice if they just knew the children around them, and begin to figure out how they could begin to open up their doors and provide services of all these opportunities to be a personal witness, and I hope you will look at some of the messages to families and neighbors, neighbors, and to congregations and to all of us. But while we're making this personal witness we also have to make a civic commitment and we have to be aware of the need of good, just policies and charity is not a substitute for justice. And personal caring is crucially important and is stuff that we should all do because we care and we serve and we're part of a common community and we should also be part of a movement that's going to change the investment origins of the nation. So it's a both and again, but I don't know the person you have mentioned, but I applaud what she's doing. Hi. Thank you. I can't see very well, the light. Yes. Okay. Thank you.\nSally Radford: Hello, Ms. Edelman. My name is Sally Radford and we met this summer during the Joshua Generation Conference in Tennessee.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Good.\nSally Radford: I was a representative of Foster Club. And I guess I think it's fitting to know that since we're on a college campus I wanted to know if you could talk about what the, what the children of this fund does across the country to engage young people on college campuses?\nMarian Wright Edelman: Well I think that the most important thing all of us can do is to mentor and prepare a critical mass of the next generation to engage in, in on-going advocacy and to sustain this movement. And the Children's Defense Fund invests an enormous portion of its resources in training young people. We are trying to create not just opportunities to have them meet but we are trying to also create structures for advocacy and service. They need to have a way of moving up the ladder of leadership and having on-going ways of staying involved. And so we bought, we bought Alex Haley's farm about 15 years ago. Most of us, most people think of CDF as a national policy group in Washington, and we do do that, but it's about a third of what we do, two-thirds of us is out in the states and local counties, and try and engage in community building. And we've been trying to create new models based some on the '60s, but preparing in the context of the 21st Century movement that we need to build. And so one example is that we created, we took the Mississippi Freedom Schools of '64, put a real curriculum under it, and have created 150 freedom schools which we now want to move to scale where we teach young children how, five to 15 year olds, but with color student teacher mentors, and a third of them in churches, a third of them in schools, and a third of them are in the mix of community institutions and some partners with higher education, Davison College has one, the University of Maryland. At any rate, but then we try to make sure that the young people, five to 16, become engaged in service. We talk, the theme of freedom schools is, I can make a difference in myself, in my community, in my family, in my nation and my world. And they have wonderful books that are designed to empower them. They look and study what children did to create, help the role that they played in overcoming legal apartide [phonetic] in this country in the Civil Rights Movement. They learn about little [inaudible] Bridges. They learn about the little Rock Nine. They learn about the children in Birmingham who without them Dr. King would never have been able to move Birmingham to fruition. And I can't recommend too strongly a look at the Birmingham children's movement. And to look at that, the southern poverty law centered at that piece. And now I'm going to make all the adults look at it because we adults, we tend to be very a-historical. And we don't know our history. And so it's really important that children and young see what they did to create a new America. But we have a range of children, of youth development programs. We have internship programs for all kinds of folk. We have beat the odds celebration for young people who are making it and who are my favorite pool of young leaders. And it just says what a difference one person can make. I mean these are young people who've gone through violence and homelessness and seen parents kill each other, and somehow a teacher or a counselor or a grandparent or a caring neighbor, has been their lifeline to reaffirm that they can make it and they are now wonderful, productive citizens. And there are about 700 of them. And they've gone into the Peace Corps and they're teaching and they are social workers, and they are doctors and lawyers. But then we're really trying to make a very big [inaudible] to draw from different networks and they are particularly interested in the faith networks so that we can help faith communities rediscover what it is they say they believe in. And so we've been having the greatest preachers in America. We have what we call the Moses/Miriam generation. That is hopefully transforming and working with the Joshua/Deborah generation to see if we can't affect the curriculum of the divinity schools. But we are having a mass transformation of leadership from Moses to Joshua. And from Miriam to Deborah in many of our major faith institutions in the black community are going now to 30 year olds and 40 year old preachers, and they need to rediscover their prophetic voice. And so Alex Haley farms where we're building movement and building a critical mass of leaders across generation discipline. I'm so sorry, I'm so glad you were engaged, and I hope you're bring more of them. We have programming year round. We're trying to put everybody through organizing training, but with a context of history and of movement building, which is what I think everybody needs to do. And all of us at the Children's Defense Fund are going to go through organizing training now to the policy people who will understand they need to know how to organize at the community level. So we're so glad that you are there and bring some folks next time and get the message out. But look at our website and see the different youth development programs and hopefully you will join us. Yes sir.\nPeter Eckstein: My name is Peter Eckstein. I wanted to ask you to speculate a bit about the potential impact of a Obama presidency over let's say the next eight years, laws, executive orders aside, what kind of an impact do you think it can have or will have on the African American community, in terms of redefinition of possibilities in itself. You made some illusion to that, but maybe you can speculate.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Well I think that already he's had an enormous impact. I mean the yes we can and to see this family in the White House, to see that this young man, and I say to everybody who is in other opposing camps some of whom said this was affirmative action, I said it wasn't affirmative action, he out organized you, he out visioned you, visioned you, he out strategized you, he in every, he just beat you, everybody fair and square because he was smarter and he had move vision and [inaudible] money. And so he was an extraordinary moment, person sent, and stepped up to the plate and I don't know anybody else could have, you know, been the right kind of role model and image. I think he sends an extraordinarily powerful message about that we're going to breakdown the stereotypes about who black families are. Because we are a diverse community, and I think that that family image in the White House has been, is extraordinary for all Americans as well a for young black Americans and for all of us. I think it's given a new sense of possibilities and sense of my example of a young felon in the civil detention facility you might actually be able to get a PhD instead of a GED. And so I think it's, it sends a message to children that I can, and that I, you know, that, that even if I am bi-racial, or even if I am, have an absent father, or even if I had a mother who's on food stamps and I can make it too with hard work and good old core values. And I think he has been using, already in his campaign, his bully pull pit to talk about how we all need to be paying much more attention to parenting, to turn off the TV set, and to turn off the video games, to pay attention to homework and to really focus in on helping children learn. Now there's some dangers. I heard a story the other day, because everybody's parent is saying yes you can, don't use any excuses for telling me why you bring home these bad grades. But then I heard somebody tell, calling me up and saying there's a man with a very seriously autistic child who was telling this child no excuses. And I said, you know we can't carry this to the extreme. But the, the important things is that we need to have these high expectations. We should use this incredible positive example for all of us, and I think it breaks down a whole lot of racial stereotypes as well. But I hope that we can also be clear about what we all have to do to enable him, enable our country to put into place the policies that children need in order to succeed. Because there's nothing worse than having these expectations up here and have them down here in schools with skills and education levels that are down here. So we've got to use this as a moment. We all have a sense of what is possible to put into place the building blocks of success. But I think it's an enormous transformation. It's an enormous generational transformation and I have loved watching the young people get engaged. I hope we can keep them engaged. And hope that all that energy that went into electing him now will go into building the movement to, to, to have a harvest for the policies that we need to have. Yes.\nGood afternoon, thank you for your talk. Before I came back to work for my PhD in social work, I did a fair amount of work in child welfare. And one of the things that led me to come back and study is the fact that we talk about kids but we, we don't well enough with parents either. There's definitely culpability. We all that language in child welfare policy and law. But there's also the balance because many of these parents themselves were also victims.\nSo how then as a future policy maker, as a future practitioner, as a future educator, do I not only for myself help to navigate that balance, but also to teach others to navigate it as well?\nMarian Wright Edelman: Well I think that I keep saying over and over again the children don't come in pieces, they come in families. We need to break the cycle, but we need to work with families and with parents. We need to prepare parenting, we need to deal with teen pregnancy prevention, and we need to try to help children, help parents do the decent job that most of them really do want to do and don't know how. And I think some of the most agonizing decisions that anybody can make is, is when to remove a child from a family. I mean how do you balance all of that off? And certainly you should, though not having children, have children removed from families, because parents don't have the income to keep them out of a homeless shelter. And so much of what we can do I think is again by making sure that parents have those supports that enable them to do the better job that most parents want. They need to be able to make a living with a decent wage. They need to have childcare if they are working. And so are not leaving children at home alone because they can't find shelter, and therefore risking their children being put in the child welfare system. But we must try to keep them both together. Make every effort to try to build and, and invest in the extended family network until parents can get themselves back on their, on their feet. But then we must, when children are at risk, and that's always a very hard thing to make sure that you're protecting children but the main thing is to break the cycle. I mean that's going forward. How do we put into place the building blocks for success for children before they reach these stages? How do we make sure that we're identifying children who are potentially at risk in the prenatal stages, and with good family support systems at the beginning? And so I think we should do everything we can to work with parents and with children and then to see what we can do to save the children if we are not able to keep the family together. But it's a very hard set of choices but I think we must bear them both in mind. Children need their parents and need their, need one reliable adult that they can count on. And that is certainly better than what we often have as options in foster care and in other homes. So but it's a hard set of questions, and I appreciate the sensitivity and you just have to keep struggling. And we're trying to find a better balance in the law. But more importantly building in the support services that could prevent removal and then to see how we can foster reunification, but if not, how do we find the best kind of adoptive families. But these are very hard questions. But there's so much we could do if we had systems we've been talking about in place. Yes.\nEric Geisham: My name's Eric Geisham, I'm a first year MPB student at the Ford School. First of all thank you for coming. I've had a chance to listen to you a couple different times and I am just thrilled at every chance I get. A couple times you mentioned extreme poverty. And some people would argue that in the United States we only have relative poverty and that we don't actually have extreme poverty. And furthermore some people say that poor people in the United States really aren't that bad off. So I have two questions. First of all, what were the, was the threshold that you used for the extreme poverty for the 40%? And then the second question is, what can you say to kind of argue against that, that mentality that we only have relative poverty in America?\nMarian Wright Edelman: Well Sheldon is here, and you've got organized poverty know these things. But we're talking about a basic way to, from $10,000 poor income, $10,000 for a family of four, half that is what we talk about as extreme poverty, $20,000 for a family of four. And it's in the book correctly. I have so many numbers running around in my head very often. And about half of that is extreme poverty. I mean I think we all know that the minimum wage hasn't been index inflation until this past year for a lot of people. And, and but we need to look more at how we can redefine what the poverty's threshold should be in America, because I think a lot of people who are living at the poverty level are not able to make ends meet and how there are big fights about whether you are including other benefits into this. But the fact is that we've got millions of people who have been working hard every day with wages that have not kept pace with inflation and who not able to afford a decent place to live, who are not able to meet the most basic needs of their families if they are working because we don't have adequate childcare support, who are not able to afford healthcare. The average family, assuming that you know their employed, the dependency costs of trying to cover your dependents is about $12,000. Well that's about what a minimum wage job pays. And most people cannot afford that. And then most of our, our states, the fair market value of, of rent exceeds the wages of many low income, minimum wage workers. And so I think we need to look hard at, at how we redefine the poverty threshold and how we provide a range of self sufficient work supports. But it's very clear that we've got food lines growing. We've got shelters growing. And shelters have become institutionalized, even though I don't think that they are places for children. But we've gotten used to it and we are now setting up schools for homeless children as, as if this is something that's going to stay with us. But within the context of America I think that we can do much better and I think that we need to continue to have these debates, and I hope that this is a debate that we will continue to have with the kind of leadership [inaudible] national poverty center here. But that is at least a debate that we are beginning to have in a more robust fashion. But what is poverty here. The fact is children are hungry increasingly in numbers of them are there, and those of us who work in soup kitchens or in homeless shelters see what is there. I watch children who have no homes, and something is not computing here. So I think we need to look at the poverty threshold, but I also think we need to put into place the kind of work supports and then talk about how we can create jobs at living wages that will allow people to be able to make the, meet the most basic necessities of their lives. But that's a conversation that must be continued.\nDean Collins: Let me make a suggestion, since we're running out of time, but just two more speakers, perhaps I could ask you both to give your questions and then do a combined response?\nLaura Sanders: Thank you. Thank you for being here and your good work and, and inspiration. My name is Laura Sanders and I am representing the [inaudible] Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights. Just in our community alone in the last ten months we've had, we, it's come to our attention that 26 of our families have been raided by immigration customs enforcement, families have been separated, children have been torn away from their parents, violent things have happened in front of these children. We have three children in foster care who have been, because their mother was taken right off the street and deported. And this is happening, we know this is the tip of the iceberg. What's coming to our attention, we know it's happening across the nation. And I'm wondering if you could comment on immigration reform that might help meet the needs of our, our particularly our Latino children who many, many who are here.\nMarian Wright Edelman: The raids must stop. They are inhumane. They are cruel. They are ripping children away from their parents, they should stop. And we should be speaking up against them, and I felt the same way when we used to look to be one of our earlier studies was the children of women prisoners and you would watch the police come in and rip parents away. And children didn't understand it. And leave children there without any supervision. I mean this is traumatic, and just un-American. And we should stop them, and we should sort of raise that. And we should begin to have a thoughtful debate about immigration policy. And the first thing we can do though is to begin with legal immigrants to see that, I hope that they did include IKEA, and that we get health coverage for legal immigrant children and we are in our all healthy children's bill trying to get healthcare for everybody. But I do hope that immigration reform will be something that we continue to, that we do something about and don't continue to avoid. Because as you know, we have a paradoxical policy of encouraging as many to come in, to provide cheap labor for employees, and then we punish those who do come in for these kinds of activities. So I hope that immigration reform will be early on the agenda, that somebody, that some of our leaders, but it will come because of the pressure from citizens. So but the raids must stop. They're absolutely cruel and they're traumatizing students, children and parents and we should not permit it in America.\nLaura Sanders: Thank you.\nPrior to getting the PhD and coming here to teach at University of Michigan, I worked with your son Jonah with Stand For Children.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Oh good.\nAnd I just wondered if there's still plans for June 1st to be an annual day for things to happen, and wondered if there's some plans this year for something to happen?\nMarian Wright Edelman: Oh Jonah and I have a big debate about, he's into state and local organizing and he is really trying to focus, he's at home tonight, so I hope I can get home tonight in Washington, on how he can build grass roots interest and they are making a real difference in filling up the city halls and county councils and really doing state initiatives to invest in successful children's programs. And I think that he doesn't think that our usual kind of demonstrations on June 1st. But you know after the 1st June Stand For Children in 1996, we did a June 1st in 1997, and that provided the 700 local Stand For Children days. That was the grass roots momentum that enabled us to draft and get an act, the Chip legislation. So I think that maybe we'll have to negotiate it as to whether we can resuscitate June 1st as a day to Stand For Children. But I suspect he is going to want to do it in states and localities, and I'm going to want to do it nationally. So maybe we'll meet somewhere in the middle as we try to bridge our either/or strategies. But I'm very proud of the grass roots stuff that he's creating. And I hope that will continue. Thank you though for what you did.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Yes ma'am.\nI want to [inaudible] All right U of M undergraduate student and also a foster care alumni of the system. So everything that you pretty much said I've gone through. But one of my questions is I'm graduating this year and I'm trying to work with the University and higher level institutions on actually being involved in creating increasing numbers for foster care alumni and matriculate to colleges. And I wanted to know some of your recommendations on how to actually make that happen as an undergraduate student and previous foster care alumni.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Well I want to make sure I, I understood the [inaudible] of what you were trying to say in terms of you're trying to get the university to do what? I got the beginning and I got the end.\nBe involved in helping foster care kids in the communities matriculate to college and higher level institutions such as University of Michigan.\nMarian Wright Edelman: Well it's very important. And I've been in, and one of the things that we're focusing on in the cradle is how do we just figure out how to get the schools to, because in looking at children who are leaving foster care, how do we get the schools and how do we get the community to provide the support so that they can stay in school and do well in school and be prepared to apply for places like the University of Michigan. But right now, and I think that that's one of those sub-pieces of things as we're trying to, to, to break out the cradle and to management pieces for action, while seeing the whole, that we really have got to focus on is the support systems for children coming out of juvenile detention, and the support systems for children who have been in foster care and multiple foster care systems, and I've watched, I have 12 foster sisters and brothers after I left home. And the supports that they need in order to succeed have to be there, either from their previous foster care families and as you know many of them are in multiple placements. From other mentors in the community, and I'm so pleased about the growing voice of organized foster care young people. But we need to find ways of bridging that gap and, and making sure that they are able to graduate from school, and get the kind of tutoring they need, and are able to find a welcome set of helps in our universities so that they can get on tragectory towards success. And I'd love to have you hook up with Marilee Allen and with our foster care network so that we can try to work with you. Thank you so much.\nDean Collins: On behalf of all of us, our thanks to Marine Wright Edelman for a wonderful afternoon of provocative thought and a call to action in such an important area. I'd like to thank all of you for joining us here this afternoon. We do have a short reception, so please stay and interact with us for a little while. There'll be drinks I guess on either side. Again thank you very much for joining us for the Ford School's 2009 Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Lecture. [Inaudible]\n- See more at: http://old.fordschool.umich.edu/events/calendar/125/#sthash.yf6qmBFH.dpuf\nAn evening with Henry Kissinger and Paul O'Neill honors President Ford's centennial\nIt was the latest highpoint in a year filled with them: on... more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 344, "original_length": 89939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 236.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd/index.php/topic,45971.0/prev_next,next.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:03Z", "digest": "sha1:CEG6XQ6WMNZ5FEPPDPL4N5SKPF2ORERU", "length": 434, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "forum.daffodilvarsity.edu.bd", "title": "50 innovative companies that are changing the world", "raw_content": "50 innovative companies that are changing the world\nAuthor Topic: 50 innovative companies that are changing the world (Read 288 times)\nMrittika Shil\nAccording to Fortune magazine, these companies are changing the world for betterment.\nhttp://fortune.com/change-the-world/?utm_campaign=fortunemagazine&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE\nRe: 50 innovative companies that are changing the world", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com/2013/08/usa-bush-administration-on-trial-for.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:39Z", "digest": "sha1:L5CZMDVJTKOLNRA364OVXNEYBYIYIAJT", "length": 1726, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "forwhatwearetheywillbe.blogspot.com", "title": "For what we are... they will be: USA: Bush administration on trial for crimes against humankind", "raw_content": "USA: Bush administration on trial for crimes against humankind\nWell, they may be: it depends on the guts of the tribunal. From Global Research:\nPlaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, filed a complaint in March 2013 in San Francisco federal court alleging that the planning and waging of the war constituted a \u201ccrime of aggression\u201d against Iraq, a legal theory that was used by the Nuremberg Tribunal to convict Nazi war criminals after World War II.\nIn her lawsuit, Saleh alleges that:\n\u2013 Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz began planning the Iraq War in 1998 through their involvement with the \u201cProject for the New American Century,\u201d a Washington DC non-profit that advocated for the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein.\n\u2013 Once they came to power, Saleh alleges that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz convinced other Bush officials to invade Iraq by using 9/11 as an excuse to mislead and scare the American public into supporting a war.\n\u2013 Finally, she claims that the United States failed to obtain United Nations approval prior to the invasion, rendering the invasion illegal and an act of impermissible aggression.\nThe US Government has asked for immunity for the accused (George W. 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At the age of 85, a major stroke forced Ruth to undergo a life-changing role reversal from teacher to student. No longer able to speak, read or write, Ruth was required to re-learn the very basics she taught to hundreds of children over the course of her career. Rebecca and Therese were part of the healthcare team who worked with Ruth in RVH\u2019s Day Rehabilitation Program\nAnd Ruth\u2019s determination to improve her quality of life has inspired both of them.\nPedlow, a physiotherapist, is amazed at how engaged and lively Ruth gets when she is in the hospital\u2019s therapy pool.\n\u201cThroughout the entire rehab process Ruth has demonstrated strength, perseverance and a desire for life-long learning. 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He attended the Medical College of South Carolina and studied under Dr. Edward Coppee in Savannah, Georgia. He became interested in the Episcopal ministry and studied under Bishop Stephen Elliott in Savannah. Ordained as a deacon in 1843, he was appointed missionary to Athens, Georgia, where he soon became the rector of the local Episcopal Church. He accepted a call to St. Andrews Church in Philadelphia and became the Bishop of Pennsylvania in 1865. Always interested in history, he wrote A History of Georgia, 2 vol. (Savannah, 1847; N.Y., 1859) and many papers on historical and religious subjects. He was one of the founders of the Georgia Historical Society.\nThis collection consists of the papers of William Bacon Stevens. Except for two original letters to Stevens and his sketches (Folders 16-18), all of the papers are copies of primary source materials used by Stevens for writing his History of Georgia. Many copies are in his own hand; others are in the handwriting of clerks, but contain Stevens' notes. All of the extracts from the Proceedings of official bodies were later included in Colonial Records of Georgia and the Revolutionary Records of Georgia, both edited and compiled by A.D. Candler.\nThe papers from 1782 (Folder 6) contain copies of letters from Generals Anthony Wayne, Nathaniel Greene, and Andrew Pickets. Some of these papers are also in the John Vallence Bevan papers, MS 71; these copies are noted in parentheses. Elijah Clark, Patrick Carr, and others, are often referred to in the proceedings. The articles in the three copy books are from contemporary news papers (No. 2) and proceedings of the Executive Council and Commons House of Assembly (Nos. 5-6).\nClarke, Elijah, 1733-1799.\nGeorgia--Politics and government.\nGreene, Nathanael, 1742-1786.\nStevens, William Bacon, 1815-1887.\nWayne, Anthony, 1745-1796.\nMaterial was acquired from the creator's estate.\n[item identification], William Bacon Stevens papers, MS 759, Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, Georgia.\nGift of Bishop William Bacon Stevens, 1888.\n1 Correspondence, 1849 and undated ( 2.0 items. )\nI.K. Tefft to W.B. Stevens, October 19, 1849, regarding his experience at the State Paper Office in London; Robert Habersham to W.B. Stevens, undated, giving information on his grandfather.\n2 Manuscript of his History of Georgia ( 1.0 items. )\n3 Portions of manuscript for History of Georgia ( 6.0 items. )\nIncludes dedication to Dr. Alonzo Church, not used in publication; a chronology of 1773-1774, history 1779-1780, pp. 7-37; 1789-1799, pp. 37-58, and a bibliography of source materials.\n4 Extracts from Proceedings, 1755 ( 31.0 p. )\nThe first two pages contain a copy o f a letter of John Wesley to Mr. Vernon and Mr. Hutchinson, two of the Trustees, July 23, 1736 regarding the South Carolina and Georgia Indian trade. Most of the remainder are comprised of extracts from Proceedings of the Governor and Council and the Commons House of Assembly, January-June 1755, with Gov. John Reynolds' Commission, proclamations, warrant for the seal of Georgia, etc. At the last is a treaty between Gov. Henry Ellis and Creek Indians, April 24, 1760, and a portion of Stevens' History of Georgia regarding the Oglethorpe era, 1736.\n5 Extracts form Proceedings of Executive Council, 1772-1780 ( 4.0 items. )\nContains Proclamation of Gov. Archibald Bulloch (clipping), May 2, 1776, regarding scarcity of goods and depreciation of paper currency, and Proclamation of Gov. Richard Howley, February 25, 1780, regarding plundering.\n6 Extracts from Proceedings of Executive Council, 1782 January-1783 December, 1790-1800 ( 47.0 p. )\nContains largely copies of important letters, general orders, etc. of the period. They are: Gen. Anthony Wayne to Gov. John Martin, March 26, 1782; Gen. Nathanael Greene to Gov. Martin, January 9, 1782 (MS 71, Item 47); Gen. Wayne to Gov. Martin, February 19, 1782 (MS 71, Item 49); Proclamation of Gov. Martin, February 20, 1782; Gen. Greene to Gov. Martin, march 12, 1782; Gen. Wayne to Gov. Martin, March 15, 1782 (MS 71, Item 54); Gov. Martin to Gen. Greene, February, 1782; General Orders, March 18, 1782; Gen. Wayne to Gov. Martin, April 17, 1782; Extract from General Orders, April 16, 1782; Patrick Tonyn, Gov. of East Florida to Gov. martin, August 28, 1782 (MS 71, Item 46); Representation of the Deputies to Gov. Martin, December 5, 1782 (MS 71, Item 61); Same to same, August 8, 1782; Same to Same, August 16, 1782 (MS 71, Item 66); Proclamation of Gov. Martin, September 3, 1782; Col. Cunningham to Elijah Clark, March 4, 1782; Andrew Pickens to Col. Elijah Clark, April 3, 1782; Elijah Clark to Gov. Martin, November 3, 1782 (MS 71, Item 72); Gen. Pickens to Gov. Martin, October 26, 1782, enclosing Indian talk (MS 71, Item 71); General Orders, March 2, 1782 (MS 71, Item 52); Patrick Carr to Gov. Martin, August 11 and 22, 1782 (MS 71, Item 65); Patrick Carr to Gov. Lyman Hall, September 13, 1782 (MS 71, Item 74); Same to same, December 10, 1783 (MS 71, Item 76); Indictment, petitions, etc. re Patrick Carr, 1790-1800 (MS 71, Item 96).\n7 Extracts of Proceedings of Executive Council and House of Assembly, 1783-1789 ( 14.0 items. )\n8 Extracts of Proceedings of Executive Council, 1790-1799 and undated ( 7.0 items. )\n9 Trustees of Georgia. \"List of the Trustees and notices of the Same;\" a partial list of the Trustees ( 2.0 items. )\n10 Indian affairs, 1786-1788 ( 3.0 items. )\n2 letters of the Board of Commissions for an Indian Treaty to Gov. Telfair, October 21, 1786 and November 8, 1786. Attached to the latter is a copy of the Shoulderbone Treaty; \"Extract of a letter from a Gentleman in Savannah, to his friend in new York,\" dated may 11, 1788, regarding the Creek Indians.\n11 Miscellaneous, 1775-1822 ( 9.0 items. )\nResolution of St. Andrews Parish, June 29, 1775; \"Act for Amicable settlement of limits with the State of Georgia and Authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi Territory,\" 1798; Proceedings of U.S. Senate, March 2, 1795, regarding an act for a treaty and of Indian trade; notes on William Few; vessels cleared from Savannah, February 14-December 30, 1786; Deposition of William Johnston regarding the character of Gen. Jared Irwin; Ratification of the U.S. Constitution by the Georgia Convention, 1788; notes regarding Gen. Banastre Tarleton; Health statistics, Savannah, 1809-1822.\n12 Memoranda. Notes on foolscap sheet and small pieces of paper ( 6.0 items. )\n13 Copies of documents (MS 71). \"Table by J.V. 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Here are some of the points that will tell you how http://www.dom-ita.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=635790", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 177.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/farewell-call-for-venezuelan-envoy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BGT7HYGC4ALA6PGCGUETJBEYCTS4NTCG", "length": 1681, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "gisbarbados.gov.bb", "title": "Farewell Call For Venezuelan Envoy | GIS", "raw_content": "Farewell Call For Venezuelan Envoy\nVenezuelan Ambassador to Barbados, Jose Gomez Febres, left Barbados on Wednesday after a five-year tour of duty.\nDuring a farewell call on Prime Minister Freundel Stuart last Monday, he said he would never forget the island or its people.\nNoting that Barbados was both his first and last diplomatic posting, he quipped that he had learned diplomacy here.\nHe expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Stuart and his Government and told the Prime Minister that he respected him and valued his leadership over the five years.\nHe presented Mr. Stuart with a CD and photographs of plaques installed in classrooms at the Venezuelan Embassy in Barbados earlier this year to commemorate the bicentenary of the 1816 Rebellion. 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He was confident, he said, that both countries would get through the difficult times.\nMr. Stuart noted that Barbados had enjoyed diplomatic relations with Venezuela since 1969 and over the years, all the Venezuelan leaders had in their own way, contributed to the deepening of the relationship between the two countries.\nHe also thanked the Ambassador for paying tribute to the two Barbadian historic figures whose images adorn the Embassy???s walls.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 4374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 260.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://glen.ie/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:02Z", "digest": "sha1:RE3WAVDODYXGQCFLZCJAUD7VDW6GQN4L", "length": 18628, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "glen.ie", "title": "GLEN", "raw_content": "There is an abundance of false information on the internet, so you should only trust sources of information that you find reliable.This article will help you gain some insight on things you can do to practice multilevel marketing that prove to be current and helpful.\nYou must visualize success when you are dealing with multi-level marketing. This may sound overly trite and extremely generic, though in this kind of work, being able to see your future clearly will help you determine the size your network needs to be and will lead you to success. Positive visualization is a solid and effective practice in network marketing marvel.\nThe first thing to do when deciding on a network marketing business is to consider the total package of compensation offered by the partner of interest. Being aware of the compensation that is included in your agreement will help you figure out if it is worth the time you are investing or if you should look into other opportunities.\nAnalyze how you did wrong and take the information learned to heart.\nWhile a purpose-built website is the multilevel marketing ideal, social networking sites can help you get started. An informative, coupled with an active presence in social media networks, once you have a website and are on social media sites. Your network will increase together with your online presence in a social setting.\nSocial networking sites are a great starting point for network marketing, until such time as you can establish your own website. An informative, frequently updated blog is a good technique to add, once you have a website and are on social media sites. The larger your cyber presence, the easier it will be to grow your network. Don\u2019t overlook your blog in your network marketing efforts.\nYou may find someone who is interested in what you offer something different.\nMake a vision board so that you can focus on the goals of your multilevel marketing. What are the goals and objectives that you wish to accomplish in your business? Do you intend to make enough money to buy a boat, a fast car, or a yacht?\nAllow your networking contacts the conversation.The more you learn about your potential contacts through their blogs and social media venues, the better equipped you are to successfully promote your products. You will uncover their needs, and where they want to be in life, and can use this information to market to them directly.\nPeople are always interested in different and innovative things, so this could be your springboard. While people make their choices, but you must still present them with an actual choice to make.\nTIP! You can never be sure who is interested when you offer something different. By giving people the option to choose your product, you might find yourself coming out on top.\nIf you diligently apply the information from those tips, you can effectively build and develop a profitable marketing approach, centered on a high-quality product. With the ideas you have learned, it is possible to be a successful network marketer.\nIt can be difficult to know what things you should do for bettering your self improvement. That having been said, keep an eye out for new advice that may help you and use these tips to apply to your own self improvement.\nThere are many helpful books on self improvement available. A really good book can give you on a course that will change your life. Try to pick a volume that has several positive reviews because many books in the genre are fairly common.\nIdentify what is standing in between you from being successful. This is very hard to do for many people to do. If you get rid of the things that might stand in your way, you might just see a clearer path to your future.\nYou can then focus your self improvement once you accept that you still have a lot to learn and development.\nYou need to know your own values to come up with a self improvement plan. It wouldn\u2019t make sense to work on things that are at odds with what you value.\nBegin a fund for emergencies.This money can help out in the short and long term crisis like unemployment or a large unexpected health care bill.\nTry to look at each new day as being better than the one before.\nAsk other people about their accomplishments instead of boasting about your own.\nYou cannot provide care for others unless you take care of yourself. No matter how far along you are in your personal development journey, allow yourself time to recover and rejuvenate yourself.\nYou may reap great benefits by conferring with a spiritual or a rewarding experience. These people are experienced and experience with this sort of thing.They are able to look into your life from the outside and give sound advice that you will benefit from.\nDo you consume alcohol than you should? Do you smoke or do other harmful vices? Your body is what you live in every day and therefore consideration for its well being should be treated with the utmost respect. Eliminating bad habits is important if you want to improve your life. Take an honest look at your life to see where you can make improvements.\nNo matter what, there is one thing you need to do.You need to participate in your life instead of being a spectator. If you are only watching your life go by, you are not really alive.\nIf you feel that you are constantly unable to reach your goals, take a moment to step back and determine where you have gone wrong. Find out how others have similar expectations.You may find the proper information you need to succeed.\nMake the important aspects of your life and whether you live.\nAlways look for a challenge.You are sure to learn something new things while also developing new skills. You might even aspire to reach a goal that has never been done by anyone. Try to find your own path, instead of doing what everyone else is doing.\nEveryone will take a little something different from this article. Just make sure you get all the help you can. The way to have success is by applying the information you have learned from what you read here. If you feel that your friends could learn something helpful from this article, do not hesitate to share these tips. You could do yourself a favor and help out a friend at the same time.\nMulti-level marketing is exciting and new field for some people. Keep focus and work hard to increase the amount of money coming in.\nBefore choosing a specific campaign for your multilevel marketing plans, you need to fully understand the rewards and compensation that you can expect. If the compensation package is not in line with the goal you have set for your effort, you need to look around for a better deal.\nIn network marketing, it is easy to get pulled into the numbers game and focus on the quantity of prospects when in truth your success depends on the quality of your leads. It is important to enlist the services of dedicated contacts who are willing and able to build downlines and generate profits for the benefit of all.\nNetwork marketing can turn into a game where you fight to sign up the most people.\nWhile you should build a site for multilevel marketing, social networking sites can help you get started. An informative, coupled with an active presence in social media networks, once you have a website and are on social media sites. Your network will grow more quickly if you establish your online presence.\nAlways imagine your success as vividly as possible if you hope to succeed as a network marketer. Although it sounds generic and trite, seeing your success with this kind of marketing can determine just how successful you can become. Take the time to think about your network marketing projects, and visualize them with as many details as you can.\nYou may find someone who is interested when you offer something different.\nYou might have to spend a little more time working on your business in the beginning, but once you start to make more money with your network marketing endeavors, you\u2019ll be able to set aside more time for your family.\nLook up to the leaders in your organization for ideas.Imitating them can help you along your way to the top.\nYou can never be sure who is interested when you offer something different. While consumers are often the final decision makers, it is the role of business to inform the consumer about why their product is the one that should be chosen.\nTIP! If you can offer something new and unique, you cannot be sure who may want to purchase it. Everyone makes their own decisions, but they still must have options and alternatives from which to choose.\nSet up your multi-level marketing website as a tutorial is set up. Providing a tutorial on your site can keep your visitors on longer, easy-to-follow tutorials and how-tos can boost traffic and encourage visitors to spend more time perusing your site. These two activities will increase your chance of getting new members and increasing your advertising income.\nYou will have a better way to communicate with potential customers through social networking. The options are limitless. Fresh faces are constantly appearing on the Internet, each with a strong desire to get their name and ideas out there. Those who use these tips can grow and survive so that they can become a successful and profitable empire.\nSelf improvement means doing things that will improve your awareness and your identity. It helps to bring your personal goals while gaining knowledge to increase spiritual growth. This guide will give you lots of some great self improvement ideas. Take one step at a time, be patient and watch your sense of self grow as you travel on your quest for self improvement.\nStress can impede your mood. Stress causes both physical and an emotional toll on your body. To retain clarity of mind and the motivation to work towards our goals, it is important to eliminate stress. Take some time off regularly to relax and clear your head. This refreshing time can improve your overall life.\nYou will miss many opportunities if you put off making important decisions.Even if your knowledge is not what it could be, don\u2019t fear decision making. Even decisions that don\u2019t turn out as you would have liked are valuable because you still learn from the experiences they provide instructive learning experiences. A bad choice will just open up the right path next time.\nPinpoint what is getting in the way of your progress. This is hard for many people to do. If you can successfully remove a few obstacles, you may find that your life\u2019s path is easier to navigate.\nUse your time efficiently. Take breaks when you need to work on. This might seem counterintuitive at first, but breaks allow you to refocus and re-energize, which improves concentration when you return to work.\nLeadership is an important part of self improvement.Most people would define leadership and influence are synonymous. Take a look at your journey toward leadership. What experiences have changed the greatest impact on your life? How have you changed because of those events to better yourself? What skills would you feel makes you a group? By considering these questions, you will be aware of how you can fit into a team setting.\nAlthough it seems so simple, it is perhaps one of the hardest things that we can master.\nTherapy is a great way for people who have serious issues. Books are great for solving everyday problems, but they tend to lack the insight and knowledge which a therapist can give you. Simply talking can assist you to succeed.Books can\u2019t interact with people the way a trained psychiatrist is able to respond and answer your questions.\nAvoid shopping as a form of entertainment or comfort.If you do a hobby versus raising your credit card bill, you will not spend a lot of money and get into debt.\nRemove the disorganization from your life. If you are able to organize your life, you will see a real boost to your self-confidence. You are going to have the additional benefit of the stress that is caused by disorganization. Having everything in its own place instills a sense of calm and ease.\nBeing a selfless is an important part of self improvement. Knowing how to care for others, by making the sacrifices within yourself, can boost your inner character. When making sacrifices that help others without hurting your well-being, you can grow as a person.\nEveryone feels better when they in good physical health. Make it a healthy practices.\nTaking a few small risks can help you feel happier. Many people do not like to take chances because they don\u2019t want to feel like a failure, so they would rather stay cemented in their comfort zone, so they are often stuck in comfort zone that leaves them feeling unfulfilled. Taking risks can lead you to the things you want out of life, which is what\u2019s needed to help guide you on a path of happiness.\nSelf-discipline is a key characteristic of any successful personal development program. Learn to maintain control over your body.You should strive to overcome things such as lust, greed, or greed.\nAlways look out for a challenge. You are sure to learn new or develop a new skill. You might even aspire to reach a new model by doing something that no one has reached before. Try to find your own niche, instead of doing what has already been done.\nYou might\u2019ve heard that listening is just as important as speaking. This definitely true concerning self improvement. Always listen to yourself when you are telling yourself.\nWhen you are working toward personal development, tell yourself that you want to be better because you deserve better. You owe yourself your best effort.\nEliminate all unnecessary sources of stress from your life. Accept that you cannot be perfect at everything and look for alternative ways to achieve your goals if you fail, and focus on finding solutions to these problems rather than giving up.\nEveryone is a small part of the world\u2019s puzzle. Everyone has a lot to learn and grow and we need to support each other in this quest. Keep this in mind and remember to stay open to new whenever you can. Keep an open mind and you will find new things others can teach you.\nRemember to keep track of your progress along the way. The tips from this article should allow you to plan a good strategy. Gradually begin making changes that can help you reach your self improvement goals.\nLeadership isn\u2019t easy, but it allows you to make a difference. In order to become a great leader, you have to have the proper skills. It\u2019s different for each person\u2019s situation, and you must determine what applies to you learning better leadership skills.\nKeeping things simple should be your goal while leading others. Focus on the important things. Once you have done this, figure out what your priorities are. Take the time to streamline your daily tasks as much as possible. Set aside time to think about how to undertake the projects, as well.\nHonesty is a crucial element of great leadership. A good leader needs to instill trust. As you work to develop your leadership skills, attempt to always set a precedent of honesty and trustworthiness. Show people that you are there to help and support them.\nAlways tell others how much they, and their work, mean to you. It only takes a moment to write a short thank-you or \u201cgood job\u201d note, and it can mean a lot to someone who is working hard all day. Even such a small mention of satisfaction can brighten moods tremendously and requires very little effort.\nGive incentives for well-done work. Salary is not enough incentive to keep people motivated. If you have an employee that continues to go above and beyond, recognize them. Great leaders never skimp in this area.\nMake goals for your business. Everyone wants to work toward something, and leaders aim to encourage their employees to achieve them. Be sure not to set up goals and then leave them alone. Have monthly meetings to see what the status is on your goals, and hold your employees accountable for getting things accomplished.\nWhile goals are important for your team, ensure that you do not set impossible goals. An impossible goal is asking for failure. Setting impossible goals also reflect poorly on you.\nPerhaps one of the hardest leadership skills to develop is that of being open to communication from subordinates. Anyone can turn your own ideas into something workable. After you are certain they have heard your goals listen to their responses. These may be future leaders of tomorrow.\nIt is vital for any great leader to exhibit integrity. Always be honest and act in everyone\u2019s best interest, especially when no one else is around. Others have a difficult time trusting you if you don\u2019t have integrity. Leading with integrity generates trust, loyalty and respect in your underlings.\nWork on your writing skills. Leadership isn\u2019t all about how you hold yourself and your vision. Writing documents well is also very important. Writing with bad grammar and spelling errors will make it difficult for others to look at you as a strong leader. Always proofread your work and be conscious of the way you are presenting yourself to others.\nUse the role you have in a leadership position so you can create a team that\u2019s strong and works well with whatever they\u2019re given. Be able to be there when people need to speak with you about a problem they may be having and be sure you answer them honestly and as best you can. You shouldn\u2019t have to interfere too much with what your employees are doing.\nClear communication between you and your employees is a must. Be sure that your team knows all the details of any project they must complete. Every now and then, check in on their progress to ensure that they are still on track.\nTo be an effective leader, it\u2019s important to show employees you want to listen to them, and care about asking for their feedback as well. Your team may have great ideas that can help the company. Do not fear criticism, as this will keep you from learning from your team. Acknowledging these issues and seeking a resolution lets your employees know they can trust you.\nExcellent decision-making skills is an important part of becoming a great leader. Great leaders are usually good at making decisions. Taking risks is vital. Making decisions confidently and taking risks when necessary will make you a respected leader. Stick to the decisions you make. You need to know that not all decisions will work and be willing to learn from those experiences.\nLeadership is about helping others realize their potential and holding firm to the things that are important to you. Putting all that you have garnered from this article into play makes a world of difference. 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Recently, Premier chopped it up with DJ Booth and mentioned that Lil Uzi Vert almost had a feature on the album but unfortunately it didn\u2019t happen because of scheduling issues!\nThe duo intended to put Uzi on a song titled \u201cEveryday Struggle.\u201d Premier says \u201cRoyce gave him a blueprint of singing the hook, but he didn\u2019t really want to sing that hook, he wanted to do his own. He said, \u2018I\u2019ll write my own hook, and I want to do a verse. I can rap to those types of beats.\u201d\nWe already know Uzi Vert is booked and busy!!! Sadly enough, this affected his ability to record his part on the record!\n\u201c[We] couldn\u2019t get it [done] in the time frame of the album. Maybe we will do it later or a remix. He was down to do it.\u201d\nThough Uzi sparked a Hip Hop war and debate while at Hot 97 a few years back when he said he was too young to freestyle over a DJ Premier beat, the iconic producer/DJ and young artist have since squashed any issues they may have had. When asked about the misunderstanding and Uzi\u2019s comments on Hot 97, Premier says they\u2019re in a good place now. \u201cWe cleared the air on the miscommunication on the, \u2018our generation vs his generation.\u2019 We had a dope conversation,\u201d Premier said. \u201cThe dude is up on so much hip-hop. 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It might work for drugs. But it certainly can\u2019t work for losing weight!\u201d\nPeople think hypnosis has different success rates depending on what the issue is. I\u2019m not going to speak for other hypnotists, but I know that my success rates are relatively stable in the 95% range. Fortunately, hypnosis for weight-loss shares the same success rate as all the other issues I treat.\nThe weight-loss industry is chock full of gimmicks and miracle pills. Or maybe there\u2019s a magic waistband you\u2019ve heard of or some God-given exercise machine. What you notice here is that all the scams around weight-loss surround the two solutions to weight problems that no one wants to directly address: diet and exercise.\nLet me make this clear. Hypnosis is not a substitute for diet and exercise. Diet and exercise continue to be the most effective way of losing weight. That will never change. The benefit of hypnosis is that it changes the way you think and emotionally associate with diet and exercise.\nWe\u2019re not willing weight away; we\u2019re changing that begrudging attitude you have about running around the block 4 times or eating more carrots, and fewer Doritos.\nYour treatment with me is not smoke and mirrors in some mystical mental realm. We roll up our sleeves and get down to brass tacks. We go over your past eating habits, your current weight, your metabolism rates and your blood type.\nThen, utilizing Mark Hyman\u2019s science of Ultrametabolism, we will apply the science of your body to a zero-calorie eating schedule, effective exercise regimen, and of course, a unique, personally-tailored hypnotic treatment.\nThere is no such thing as a blanket hypnosis treatment. Once I understand your own trials and tribulations with weight loss, I will cultivate a unique hypnotic induction for you.\nSome people want to lose 5 pounds, some people want to exercise a lot more, and some people need to cut out whole food groups entirely. There are so many details to anyone\u2019s individual weight loss treatment, so don\u2019t let any hypnotist give you a one-size-fits-all treatment. With me, you\u2019ll get a big-size-to-small-size-treatment.\nTo find out how I can help you lose weight call me at (212) 599-3195.\nThis entry was posted in weight control hypnosis, Weight Loss Hypnosis and tagged diet, exercise, hypnosis, lose weight, weight loss by Dr. Errol Gluck. Bookmark the permalink.\nOne thought on \u201cDoes Hypnosis Really Work for Weight Loss?\u201d\nLaura Abraham on March 17, 2014 at 8:42 am said:\nSelf-hypnosis for weight loss and for any other goal starts with learning the progressive muscle relaxation technique. This technique includes relaxing different body parts till you feel heaviness and warmth in the body. You might also feel tingling sensations in the body.\nThe next step is to go even deeper into relaxation using imagery. This can be done with the help of guided imagery audio or you can write your own script and visualize all the details before you start the relaxation process. You need to visualize a perfect, safe place where you can relax deeply. 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Besides the odd patreon supported piece for IndieGames.com, and those Warp Door or Retro Treasures posts, that is.\nWell, excitingly, I've started working on another big project involving cities and games with a fantastic new studio. It's back to urban imagineering full-time, and I couldn't be happier!\nI cannot say much more about this new project just yet, but I'm loving the fact that I got involved in it early in pre-production, and that the team is determined to create both an excellent game and a unique urban environment. Some incredibly intriguing concepts have been going around lately, though I do imagine there's a lot of work to be done before things can be made public.\nWhat I can talk about though is N\u00e9kromeg\u00e0. An adventure-RPG hybrid sporting voxels, that is already looking unlike anything I've ever seen, and will attempt to do very weird stuff with its storytelling, while simultaneously tackling matters of colonialism and undeath. 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Substance abusers incur 300 percent higher medical costs than non abusers. They are one-third less productive on the job and are two to five times more likely to be absent from work eight or more days a year.\nThe most disturbing aspect of this problem is how drug abuse damages youth and the threat this poses for the future. Young users suffer more illnesses, miss more days of school and are more prone to engage in criminal conduct. Most of the children who abuse Drug and alcohol are missing attention, love and respect from the family. To educate children we have to involve parents too. As these families also suffer from consequences of drug and alcohol abuse.\nIt is therefore vital to reach young people before they start on drugs. Studies suggest that if a young person can reach the age of 21 without using illicit drugs, they are unlikely ever to do so. (drugfreeworld.org)\nThere are a myriad of attitudes concerning drug addiction, and drug addicts. Unfortunately, there are still those who believe this condition to be the result of poor judgement, or perhaps a flawed character. The consensus among modern health care professionals, including the American Medical Association (AMA), is that drug addiction is a disease.\nCreating a humane and peaceful world through education, advocacy, and the promotion of respect and compassion. For reaching this goal it is very important to involve whole family to understand its importance. Addressing the individual's physical, psychological,emotional and social conditions, Sustained reduction in alcohol or drug use and sustained increases in personal health and social function are the primary goals.\nGlobal Peace Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit organization, whose mission is to promote peace, locally and around the world, by creating healthy communities via educational and cultural development of families and children, so as to inspire a new generation of peacemakers, emphasizing prevention of drug and alcohol abuse, which are some of the root causes of crime and violence. We believe in empowering women around the World through education, training and support to those women who suffered abuses and discrimination. Empowerment programs aim to achieve better life for them and their families", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 149.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gracecitysd.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:18Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2QGU4CZGDFTO7ESJGGCVR4BYUVBFHA4", "length": 1241, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "gracecitysd.com", "title": "About Us", "raw_content": "Grace City SD launched October 2015 at University City High School.\nFrom the beginning, our vision has been simple, to be a church for our city that seeks new life in Jesus. We are here to love our city with no strings attached because that is how Jesus loved us.\nOur mission is to equip people with the Gospel for everyday life. We believe the gospel is the greatest news in the world and so we encourage one another to be the Church and live out the gospel everywhere we go.\nWe are a part of a larger network of churches planted with the partnership of Stadia to bring the Gospel throughout San Diego County.\nFounding Pastor & Family\nRandall Tonini was born in Honolulu, HI and started following Christ at the age of 16. His wife, Laura, grew up on the East Coast and decided to follow Jesus as a teenager. They met at Johnson University in Knoxville, TN., where Randall earned his degree in Preaching and Youth Ministry, and Laura completed her MA in K-8 Holistic Education with an ESL certification. Laura taught in the public school system and Randall served at Compassion Christian Church before launching Grace City, part of a church-planting movement started by Momentum Christian Church in Chula Vista, CA. They have three children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gradyatoxford2012.blogspot.com/2012/07/reality-television.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JBTZVVDLYTTPYXUGUI7UAWUQSEZHP4I7", "length": 5273, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "gradyatoxford2012.blogspot.com", "title": "Grady at Oxford 2012: Reality Television", "raw_content": "realitytvmagazine.sheknows.com\n\u201cOh no, it\u2019s Real Housewives.\u201d\n\u201cWhat, the British version?\u201d\n\u201cNo, that\u2019s definitely Real Housewives of Orange County.\u201d\nWhile flipping through various programs of the UK in our London hotel room this past weekend, the girls and I were very surprised to find this US guilty pleasure. At first we laughed about the upstanding American image this show must impress upon the English. However, in the back of my mind, I assumed our foreign friends must know that reality television in the United States is about as realistic as Snooki actually becoming a licensed veterinarian. ( \"They're alive when you kill it.\")\nBut then I began to consider my own perceptions of the British. To be honest, I didn\u2019t fully understand delineations of the United Kingdom versus Great Britain versus England before this trip. I\u2019d grouped all these distinct people groups into convenient stereotypes that I\u2019d based solely on entertainment media-Alfred from Batman, Jude Law, and the Spice Girls. I\u2019m a Psychology major; I should know better than to take those mental shortcuts. I should have realized the Americanized portrayals of the English would be fraught with misconstructions and arrived in England with no assumptions whatsoever.\nApplying George Gerbner\u2019s \u201cCultivation Theory,\u201d we understand that television shapes our perceptions of reality and the world around us by affecting our attitudes and cognitive processes. It is then plausible to suppose that British audiences will presume the Real Housewives of Orange County must provide adequate depictions of Americans. By extension of agenda setting theory, English audiences may believe the outrageous, exaggerated behavior of the show\u2019s cast must also be important to people in the United States. Thus we have Europe\u2019s frequently employed archetype-the loud, obnoxious, and greedy American.\nIs this prototype at all accurate? Do audiences in the United Kingdom really believe many Americans act that way or put stock in certain characteristics of that lifestyle? Or, do they, like some of us, realize reality television\u2019s blatant lack of actual reality and just find the show supremely entertaining?\nIt was very interesting to find The Real Housewives of Orange County on in our hotel room in London. From my time in England, I have met so many nice British people that are always willing to help give directions or a good recommendation. A lot of them even want to ask questions about America. The only stereotype of Americans I have witnessed here was the association between Americans and \"being dumb.\" This happened when a group of us went to go buy our go phones and the man at the store had to explain everything about the phones three times until we all understood. He said \"I'm sure you guys are smart in your fields, but phones are definitely not one of them.\" Of course, he said this in a joking way, but it was the only time I've witnessed an American Stereotype. From my communication with the British so far, I think that people here are generally good about not believing that all Americans are similar to The Real Housewives of Orange County; however, for people who live in more rural areas that do not frequently interact with tourists, this may not be the case. I know that I am sometimes guilty of believing that TV portrays the way people from a certain culture really act, but that is because I have not met people from that culture in real life. I don't think most people here associate that kind of behavior with all Americans, at least, I can only hope they do not.\nI think we are all guilty of having our views of the British cultivated by stereotypes. It's difficult to draw the line somewhere, because the reality is, there ARE people in the States who fit the stereotype of The Real Housewives, and there are probably a fair amount of British people who do embrace the popular stereotype of poor dental hygiene. I think all of it just has to be taken with a grain of salt. Yes, we Americans may be loud and take a lot of pictures, but the majority of us aren't throwing drinks in our best friend's faces and sleeping around with our husband's brother. Unfortunately, these stereotypes we are cultivated to accept, do come from somewhere. We just have to figure out where that line is drawn while spreading the word that all of us from New Jersey\nI have experienced an instance of when I was generalized as well, but interestingly enough I was mistaken for being an Australian. I was in a convenience store in London and was struggling with counting out my coins, and was snarked at for being a \u201cbloody Australian.\u201d Whether I fell victim to this rude association because I may look like I am Australian or because British people still maintain a negative stereotype of Australian people (and apparently their lack of intelligence in my case) is beyond from what I took from this happening. What truly shocked me though was the casual manner in which the store clerk said something so stereotypically defensive; it was as if what he said was so accepted and mainstream that he didn\u2019t even anticipate me being offended. From a correlation with your experience Ellie, I guess it is more accepted in the UK to explicitly stereotype others, whether it be in a serious or joking manner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grahamsbiblestudy.com/?q=content/who-god-vii", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BFOYV3DRQRUT7G6GLMOZFYP4MOEHULG4", "length": 844, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "grahamsbiblestudy.com", "title": "Who is God - VII? | Graham's Bible Study", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Who is God - VII?\n\u201cYour holy cities are destroyed\u2026. The\u2026 Temple\u2026 has been burned down. After all this, Lord, \u2026will you continue to\u2026 punish us\u201d (Isa 64:10-12, NLT)? \u201cI was ready to respond, but no one asked for help, \u2026no one was looking for me. \u2026All day long I opened my arms to a rebellious people. But they follow their own evil paths\u2026. All day long they insult me to my face\u2026. These people are a stench in my nostrils, and acrid smell that never goes away\u201d (Isa 65:1-5, NLT). \u201cLord, you are looking for faithfulness. You have\u2026 punished them, but they won\u2019t change! You have destroyed them, but they refuse to turn from their sins. They are determined\u2026 not to repent\u201d (Jer 5:3, TLB). \u201cRepent, all of you who forget me\u2026. When God began killing them, they finally sought Him. They repented and took God seriously\u201d (Pss 50:22; 78:34, NLT).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://greeceindex.com/greece-cyclades/Santorini_aghios_nikolaos_marmaritis.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6KC2RGGYJIOK7GPDYUD27KCKYEZ5AH4N", "length": 1192, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "greeceindex.com", "title": "Saint Nikolaos Marmarites in Emporio, Santorini", "raw_content": "Saint Nikolaos Marmarites Santorini\nSaint Nikolaos Marmarites In Emporeio, Santorini\nLocated in Santorini, the Saint Nikolaos Marmarites in Emporeio, is a grave monument with the shape of a small, square temple, made entirely of gray marble.\nOver the time, its architectural structure was preserved intact, along with its roof which presents certain peculiarities: it is supported by three monolithic marble posts which are situated inside the building and it is all made of marble slabs.\nThe structure of the grave, which has its entrance located on the south side, dates from the third century B.C. Inside the grave is sheltered the statue of a goddess by a small niche which is bordered by small Ionic columns. According to the inscription that is carved below the niche, the temple was a family tomb and was dedicated to the goddess Basileia.\nNowadays, the monument functions as a Christian church dedicated to St. Nikolaos. It has been called \u2018Marmarites\u2019 after the material from which it was built.\nRead more about the Saint Nikolaos Marmarites in Santorini:\nThis page about Saint Nikolaos Marmarites in Emporio, Santorini is copyright of Greeceindex.com. 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This is a must watch video continuing on with what I was saying yesterday. In yesterday's post, I said that all of Trump's flapping around like a killdeer in a parking lot...was to distract from the CIA \"nest\" full of eggs. The \"eggs\" are the US troops embedded along with ISIS in northern Syria. These are illegal mercenary fighters for the CIA who have already killed one Lieutenant- General of the Russian military who are LEGALLY FIGHTING IN SYRIA. It's finally come down to this. WWIII is being set up and will follow through for the desert sands of northern Syria and Iraq...to form the next cancerous tumour on the face of the planet...a \"home\" for \"Kurdistan\".\nFor some reason, the entire scenario that I heard last week about Israel planning to shoehorn in about 200,000 ISRAELIS into the new Kurdistan \"nation\" reminded me of Arthur C. Helton. Usually, I'm not very good with names and cannot retrieve names that were in the news so along ago, but Arthur C. Helton is the one exception. He is the New York lawyer who died in the explosion in a hotel in Baghdad in the opening months of the Iraqi war. He was visiting with UN Special Representative of the Secretary General to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, at the time. They were having a discussion about moving large numbers of people around the middle east. You see, Arthur C. Helton's legal specialty, if you can believe it, was in \"mass migration\". It didn't take long for me to connect the dots between his propitious meeting with Vieira de Mello and the plan to move huge numbers of Arabs around like pawns on a chessboard...now that they had a foot wedged in the Arab Middle East door. In particular, to move Palestinians en mass from Israel to northern Iraq...get them out of the way, as it were. Create a Bantustan that would make the ones in South Africa look puny.\nIt was always their plan from the beginning...but has had setback after setback, including the unfortunately timed bomb that blew both de Mello and Helton to smithereens. But I got the picture back then and see it still. The perps want to create a \"greater Kurdistan\" still...and funnel into it an impossible combination of Kurds, local indigenous Iraqis and Syrians, Israelis...and...wait for it....Palestinians...who would have been forcefully extricated from their last slivers of land...their last walled-in open concentration camps...in their Palestinian homeland.\nThat was what it was and still is all about...Scott Creighton and Moon of Alabama get it and Scott lays it out in the video link above like a neat [if colourfully voiced] waiter. It is paramount to note that Creighton implicates Juan (CIA) Cole, Julian Assange and even \"hero\" Edward Snowden as handmaids of this sorry tale. Not following their \"tweets\" like Scott, I had no idea the infamous three were talking up the idea of an Iraqi Kurdistan (the last shred of land the perps think they can snatch). But, come to think of it, I don't remember any of the three, Cole, Assange and Snowden, passing the 9/11 \"litmus test\". So, in that regard, their traitorous behavior to the truth movement should not be at all surprising.\nHere is the relevant post from Moon of Alabama\nSyria - U.S. CentCom Declares War On Russia\n\"Yesterday three high ranking Russian officers were killed in an \"ISIS attack\" in eastern-Syrian. It is likely that they were killed by U.S. special forces or insurgents under U.S. special forces control. The incident will be understood as a declaration of war. [gc NOTES; this has not been confirmed, although it has been confirmed that one Russian Sgt. General has been killed in the same area]\nThe U.S. Central Command in the Middle East wants the oil fields in east-Syria under control of its proxy forces to set up and control a U.S. aligned Kurdish mini-state in the area. The Syrian government, allied with Russia, needs the revenues of the oil fields to rebuild the country.\nLast week the Russians issued sharply worded statements against U.S. coordination with al-Qaeda terrorists in Idleb province and warned of further escalation.\nYesterday the Russian Ministry of Defense accused the U.S. military in east-Syria of direct collaboration with the Islamic State:\nUS Army special units provide free passage for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) through the battle formations of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists, the ministry said in a statement. \u201cFacing no resistance of the ISIS militants, the SDF units are advancing along the left shore of the Euphrates towards Deir ez-Zor,\u201d the statement reads.\nThe newly released images \u201cclearly show that US special ops are stationed at the outposts previously set up by ISIS militants.\u201d\n\u201cDespite that the US strongholds being located in the ISIS areas, no screening patrol has been organized at them,\u201d the Russian Ministry of Defense said.\nThis map marks the currently relevant conflict area - (U.S. proxies - yellow, SAA - red, ISIS - black):\nMap by Weekend Warrior - bigger\nThe accusations are plausible. Large parts of ISIS in Deir Ezzor consist of local tribal forces from eastern-Syria. U.S. special envoy Brett McGurk recently met tribal leaders who had earlier pledged allegiance to ISIS. Deals were made. As we wrote:\nCont. reading: Syria - U.S. CentCom Declares War On Russia\nSo, Folks, take your beady eyes off the Trump \"Killdeer\" pantomime taking place in the NewZ and his disgraceful \"Twitterstorms\" and put your focus on the CIA \"nest\" in the Middle East. This is what the NFL distraction is really all about.\nLabels: Edward Snowden, Empire, Middle East, Military, Nuclear power, other Blogs, Politicians, Russia, United Nations, USA, war, War Crimes, Ziofascism\nHey GC;\nwhere did the Palestinians get included in the Kurdistan creation?\nIMO: they will never set foot in Israel 2.0 aka Kurdistan- If the tribe don't want them in Israel- they won't want them in Israel 2.0\nIsrael will ethnically cleanse them and they will escape into Jordan- that's the plan IMO- I've never seen or heard anything about Palestinians going to Kurdistan\nAnd fyi: Moon Of Alabama would never pass your 9/11 litmus test.\nThis is a very interesting question. The mystery of Arthur C. Helton just gets deeper with every passing year. In the beginning, right after he was blown up in the \"Canal St. Bombing\" along with Special UN Rep to Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello (both Helton and Vieira were Jews, BTW) there was a fair amount of info on the Internet about him...now there's barely any. Even when I went to WikiLeaks yesterday and posted his link...when I went back a few hours later a lot of stuff that had been there earlier, including his photograph, had been nicely scrubbed. So I have to rely on my memory of the incident which is now rusty. As far as I can remember Helton went to Baghdad to talk with Vieira de Mello about dividing up Iraq and moving some of the indigenous tribes and communities around to suit Israel. I believe I read at the time this would include moving the Palestinians out of Israel and into Iraq. Now I don't know if they were going to move them to Kurdistan or where but I remember being shocked to read it...and a lightbulb went on over my head that \"Ah ha! this is what this is ALL ABOUT!\". I remember very early on after 9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan the pro Israelis I ran into on the NYT forums (my first exposure to what they called the \"Likud Party\" at the time) they were ALWAYS talking about dividing up Iraq. Perhaps they were planning on shipping the Palestinians to Falujah. (black humour)\nHas Jordan ever said it would accept the Palestinians???? I know there are a lot of refugees there.\nAs for Moon of Alabama...the only good thing about getting down to the short strokes with the Syrian debacle and WWIII run up is that it is separating the wheat from the chaff re truth bloggers. As I said in the post...the pro Kurdistanians are crawling out of the woodwork....like Veterans Today, etc.\nHere is the Wikileak entry for the Canal Hotel Bombing in April of 2003.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_Hotel_bombing#List_of_victims\nYou will note that Arthur Helton is listed as a rep of the US \"Council of Foreign Relations\". Interestingly, I don't remember finding that out about him at the time. At the time he was just pegged as being a \"New York Lawyer who specialized in issues relating to refugee migration\". My alarm bells would have gone off even louder had I known he was associated with the CFR.\nNow, most significant about the Canal Hotel Bombing is that this was the very first indication that the invasion of Iraq was NOT going to be the Cake Walk that Bush Jr and Cheney said it was going to be....and its been a very long and winding road downwards ever since...until we end up at this point. After all the death, destruction and chaos of Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria...the wet dream has failed. How they thought it was going to succeed is the real mystery. It was like trying to graft a goat's head on a camel's body. Could it be they were more interested in the process, the mayhem, chaos and destruction than about the outcome?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 702, "original_length": 32047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://greenlabel.com/pharrell-williams-announces-new-album-g-r-l/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:49Z", "digest": "sha1:VMNSDFP4UTQQ5SM4E7OWH5UAJFDSHZUD", "length": 646, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "greenlabel.com", "title": "Pharrell Williams Announces His New Album \"G I R L\" | Green Label Pharrell Williams Announces His New Album \"G I R L\" | Green Label", "raw_content": "Pharrell Williams Announces His New Album \u201cG I R L\u201d\nPharrell Williams keeps things moving after his two smash hits last year with Daft Punk on \u201cGet Lucky\u201d and Robin Thicke on \u201cBlurred Lines,\u201d his Best Original Song Oscar Nomination for \u201cHappy\u201d from Despicable Me 2, and his big performance at the NBA All-Star Game. He recently announced that he will be releasing a new solo album, which is titled G I R L. Look out for the album to be released in early March, which is available now for pre-order, and check out his the trailer below for a preview of all the creative work put into his new solo release.\nG I R L Music new album Pharrell Williams", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 159.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grorite.com/t-familyownedandoperated.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:37Z", "digest": "sha1:NEHPIXSZMJRTT67EVS4KT5RO4NJA6E3A", "length": 857, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "grorite.com", "title": "Family Owned And Operated", "raw_content": "Over time, the Vande Vrede children increasingly participated in the family business. The second generation has been actively involved in expanding and refining the business. In time and with the help of each other, we have bettered the company in many ways. Everything from technologically enhanced greenhouses to efficient mixing processes; from creating our own brand names to identifying and growing from the world\u2019s finest plant materials, seeds and cuttings. Times may have changed, and our staff has grown over the past 39 years, but at Gro-Rite, the Vande Vrede family\u2019s original dedication to quality products, reasonable prices, smart growing and direct selling, endures into a new generation of leadership. Their stewardship and personal attention have garnered a wide and loyal customer base, from the one-pot customer to large wholesale buyers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hairysheart.com/testimonials/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:05Z", "digest": "sha1:DACN4HSGUPAZ7UDNCSAMLMHLT4TKKKGQ", "length": 849, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "hairysheart.com", "title": "Testimonials | Hairy's Heart", "raw_content": "Triangle author Stacie Carroll was inspired to write a children's book to help her daughter, who has disabilities, understand that \"we're all the same\" underneath.\nClick Here to Watch The Interview!\nPhaedra is an amazing mother and was so excited to get an early copy of \"When Hairy Met Tallie\" to read to her two boys. She is really an angel in person and is more beau....\nTriangle author Stacie Carroll was inspired to write a children's book to help her daughter, who has disabilities, understand that \"we're all the same\" underneath.....\nI have been looking for years for a story book to read to my young daughters to help them understand how their uncle, who is in a wheelchair, has felt all his life be....\nStacie Carroll\u2019s book, \u201cWhen Hairy Met Tallie\u201dshares a message of kindness, acceptance, confidence and love. This heart- warming chi....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hamptonhillspiritualists.webeden.co.uk/circles/4521203539", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7TOGQ4F3VJ6VOPXWDD2MKIEZHEN3S66", "length": 2497, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "hamptonhillspiritualists.webeden.co.uk", "title": "Circles & Development", "raw_content": "Circles & Development\nDevelopment has always been an important part of our work at Hampton Hill and we are one of the few churches in the area offering a wide range of circles, classes to aid you in your development. We are proud of the high standards of teaching within the church and several of our classes are taken by Martin Twycross CSNU who is an approved tutor of the well-known Arthur Findlay College. The circles and classes are open to all and each costs \u00a33.00 for members and \u00a33.50 for non-members. They all commence at 7.30pm so please aim to arrive in good time.\nOpen Healing Circle - 3rd Tuesday of the month - ALL LEVELS\nThe open healing circle is run by Sheila Smoothy and is open to all with an interest in spiritual healing and encompasses newcomers and old hands alike. The circle is run by Sheila Smoothy and aims to cover the different aspects of healing. Whether you wish to learn more about spiritual healing or just enjoy the healing energies, we would love to see you there!\nOpen Awareness Circles - 2nd & 4th Mondays of Month - BEGINNERS & INTERMEDIATES\nWe hold two open awareness circles with Linda Twycross on the 2nd Monday of the month and with Susie Shaw on the 4th Monday of the month. You are welcome to attend both.The purpose of the open awareness circles is to unfold your spiritual gifts and develop your psychic and mediumsitic abilities in a friendly and informal atmosphere.\nOpen Platform - 1st Monday of the month, 7.30pm - INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED LEVEL\nOpen Platform is run by Martin Twycross on the 1st Monday of the month. It is open to all who have developed a link with the spirit and wish to practice platform mediumship in front of a sympathetic audience under the guidance of an experienced teacher. Open platform is facilitated by Martin Twycross. Want to come along and watch? No problem - we are always keen to have new faces in our audience to support our trainee mediums. Furthermore, you have a good chance of getting a message and the cost for non-workers is only \u00a31.50.\nSpeakers & Philosophy Class - 4th Tuesday of the month, 7.30pm - ALL LEVELS\nThe speakers and philosophy class is run by Martin Twycross on the 4th Tuesday of the month. The purpose of this class is to provide an opportunity for those wishing to work on platform to develop and practice their philosophy and public speaking from the platform. In addition, it also provides a forum to learn more about the philosphy of spiritualism. Each attendee will be expected to work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hangtime.blogs.nba.com/2016/08/28/morning-shootaround-aug-28-3/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:13Z", "digest": "sha1:AUUDK5QRVIAX6G5TKOE7LQLLFAM3W5IO", "length": 6566, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "hangtime.blogs.nba.com", "title": "Morning shootaround \u2014 Aug. 28 \u00ab NBA.com | Hang Time Blog", "raw_content": "Joerger hoping to get Kings to defend | Heat hoping Whiteside can assist shooters | Is Harrison Barnes ready?\nNo. 1: Joerger hoping to get Kings to defend \u2014 The Sacramento Kings haven\u2019t ranked higher than 20th in defensive efficiency since the 2005-06 season. Hoping to end that 10-year streak of futility is new coach Dave Joerger, who had two top-10 defenses in his three seasons as the head man in Memphis. Joerger knows that improvement has to start with effort, as he told the Sacramento Bee\u2019s Ailene Voisin:\nJoerger\u2019s challenge is transforming an unbalanced roster into something resembling chicken soup. A team featuring Cousins, Collison and Rudy Gay pleases the analytics people but has been susceptible to injury and devoid of chemistry or defensive commitment. The playoffs are a distant memory. A joyous locker room traces back to another era.\nAs training camp approaches for the Kings\u2019 first season at Golden 1 Center, Joerger is tinkering and pondering, noncommittal about a style of play and, in his mind, moving the players around a chess board.\n\u201cWe have a lot of work to do, and it starts defensively,\u201d he said during a lengthy conversation. \u201cWe are a very poor transition team. Turnovers were catastrophic last year. I think we can play fast, but I don\u2019t think you go three or four possessions without DeMarcus touching the ball. He should be a playmaker. How do we do that? That\u2019s a spacing issue and a shooting issue. We just have to try to build a foundation and go from there. We have to understand what it takes to grind, because we need to grind here. And we need to outwork people.\u201d\nJoerger also joined ESPN\u2019s Zach Lowe this week for a podcast about his days in Memphis and his plans for the Kings.\nNo. 2: Heat hoping Whiteside can assist shooters \u2014 In his 140-game NBA career, Hassan Whiteside has recorded a grand total of 35 assists. The Miami Heat have replaced Dwyane Wade with better shooters, but the question is if Whiteside can help create open shots for the likes of (the returning) Josh Richardson, Dion Waiters and Wayne Ellington. The South Florida Sun Sentinel\u2019s Ira Winderman talked to Ellington about that topic:\nActually, the conversation was about the potential for the Heat to successfully play inside-out, an approach that could maximize Ellington\u2019s ability to contribute.\nAnd that made the conversation about Hassan Whiteside, which it has to be, as much for what Whiteside realized in the offseason (a four-year, $98 million contract) as what he hasn\u2019t often otherwise realized (35 total assists over the past two seasons).\nTo put Whiteside\u2019s lack of a passing into perspective, consider that based on the NBA\u2019s player-tracking statistics, Whiteside ranked 80th among centers last season in points created off assists, at 0.9 per game (as compared to Pau Gasol\u2019s league-leading 9.6).\nThat\u2019s 80th among centers in a league with only 30 teams.\nThe ball simply didn\u2019t come out of those hands that often, with Whiteside 40th among centers last season in passes per game and 40th in secondary assists created (the pass that leads to the pass for an assist).\n\u201cIt\u2019s no question. That\u2019s something big for us,\u201d Ellington said of getting Whiteside and the Heat\u2019s outside threats on the same page. \u201cAnd being able to get on the same page with Hassan and the other big guys is crucial. Gaining that attention and defenses being so focused on him, being able to go out and find the open guys is going to be huge for us.\u201d\nNo. 3: Is Harrison Barnes ready? \u2014 On the flip side of Kevin Durant\u2018s move to Golden State is Harrison Barnes going to Dallas with a max contract in hand. And the question is whether Barnes is ready for a much larger role with the Mavs than he had with the Warriors. The Dallas Morning News\u2018 Eddie Sefko talked to Barnes about the move:\nThe question of whether he\u2019s going to be a next-step player this season is one that nobody can answer yet, not even Barnes. His arrow is pointing upward. But how far upward?\n\u201cWhether I\u2019m ready or not, I guess we\u2019ll find out starting with the first game,\u201d Barnes said. \u201cBut I\u2019m willing to put in the work. And that\u2019s the biggest thing I\u2019ve learned from coach [Rick] Carlisle.\n\u201cHe said: \u2018It\u2019s going to be a process. We believe you\u2019re ready. We think you can be that player. But there\u2019s going to be some growing pains just because you\u2019re going to be adjusting to some different things.'\u201d\nAmong the things Barnes will have to adjust to is having the ball in his hands a lot more than he did when playing alongside Steph Curry, Klay Thompson and [Draymond] Green.\nAnd it\u2019s not just about getting more shots. It\u2019s about making decisions with the ball and determining the flow of the Mavericks\u2019 offense.\nMeanwhile, Barnes\u2019 new point guard sees unfinished business in Dallas. Sefko spoke with Deron Williams about signing another one-year contract with the Mavs and his thoughts on his new teammates\u2026\nHe had surgery to correct a sports hernia after last season, which ended with him not being able to contribute for much of the stretch run and in the playoffs.\n\u201cI\u2019d have liked to be here for a little longer,\u201d Williams said of the one-year deal. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how it goes. It is what it is. For sure, I wanted to be back. I felt like I had some unfinished business at the end of last year the way things ended and I wasn\u2019t able to be on the court. Hopefully I\u2019ll stay healthy because I\u2019m excited about this team.\u201d\nWilliams said the changes in the offseason, bringing aboard Barnes and Andrew Bogut in particular, should help offset the loss of Chandler Parsons and Zaza Pachulia.\n\u201cWe\u2019re definitely going to miss Chandler, but Harrison stepping in, that\u2019s not a downgrade,\u201d Williams said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be great to see how he handles being a go-to guy. He\u2019s kind of been in the shadows (at Golden State). We\u2019ll see what he can do now with the ball in his hands. And I\u2019m looking forward to playing with big Bogut. I\u2019ve been a fan of his for awhile. He\u2019s definitely a player point guards like to play with.\u201d\nSOME RANDOM HEADLINES: After winning a championship with the Cavs, Mo Williams is \u201cstrongly considering retirement\u201d \u2026 Kyrie Irving doesn\u2019t scare Avery Bradley \u2026 Tristan Thompson took Larry O\u2019Brien on a tour of Toronto \u2026 and should the Knicks take a flyer on Lance Stephenson?\nCategory: Morning Shootaround / Tags: , Avery Bradley, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Dave Joerger, Deron Williams, Harrison Barnes, Hassan Whiteside, Lance Stephenson, Miami Heat, Mo Williams, Sacramento Kings, Tristan Thompson, Wayne Ellington / Comments Off on Morning shootaround \u2014 Aug. 28 /", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 11798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://happyhomes.live/dmca.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:27Z", "digest": "sha1:XYMFEDYGEX72MHZIT5I3E2Q6J2UVTUMM", "length": 1068, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "happyhomes.live", "title": "\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff DMCA", "raw_content": "happyhomes.live is an online service provider as defined in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. 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(The party's popular name, Know-Nothing, derived from the standard response of its members to inquiries about its activities: \"I know nothing.\") This order was one of many such societies that mushroomed in response to the unprecedented immigration of the 1840s. It had sought to rid the United States of immigrant and Catholic political influence by pressuring the existing parties to nominate and appoint only native-born Protestants to office and by advocating an extension of the naturalization period before immigrants could vote.\nPaul S. Boyer, et al., eds., The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People, 6th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008), 406.\n12/01/1845 The 29th Congress of the United States opens in Washington, DC\n12/03/1855 The 34th Congress opens in Washington, DC\n02/18/1856 American Party nominates Millard Fillmore for president\n09/17/1856 Whig National Convention opens in Baltimore\n11/02/1859 Widespread violence in Baltimore as the state elections are held\n11/07/1859 State wide elections held across Louisiana\n02/09/1860 Maryland Legislature censures Congressman Henry Winter Davis for voting for Pennington\n07/10/1860 Ohio Republican congressional candidate leaves party over platform plank on immigrant voting\n07/13/1860 Prominent New York American Party politician James O. Putnam endorses Abraham Lincoln\n07/16/1860 At a Lincoln rally in New York City, Horace Greeley woos former Whig and American Party voters\nBanks, Nathaniel Prentice\nBrownlow, William Gannaway\nCarlile, John Snyder\nChaffee, Calvin Clifford\nCross, Andrew B.\nDaniel, William\nHill, Benjamin Harvey\nHodges, Albert Gallatin\nPrentice, George Dennison\nTappan, Mason Weare\nUllmann, Daniel\n10/31/1854 Abraham Lincoln to Richard Yates, October 31, 1854\n03/04/1855 David Davis to Julius Rockwell, March 4, 1855\n08/11/1855 Abraham Lincoln to Owen Lovejoy, August 11,1855\n08/24/1855 Abraham Lincoln to Joshua Fry Speed, August 24, 1855\n01/01/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, \"Black Republicanism in Missouri,\" January 1, 1857\n01/01/1857 Washington (DC) National Era, \"The Future Judged by the Past,\" January 1, 1857\n03/03/1857 New York Times, \"The American Party,\" March 3, 1857\n04/10/1857 New York Times, \u201cThe Americans in Kentucky,\u201d April 10, 1857\n10/15/1857 New York Times, \u201cDesperate Riots in Baltimore,\u201d October 15, 1857\n02/26/1858 New York Herald, \"Political Agitation in this Metropolis,\" Febraury 26, 1858\n06/07/1858 New York Times, \u201cFurther Excitement in New Orleans,\u201d June 7, 1858\n06/09/1858 New York Times, \u201cEnd of the New Orleans Rebellion,\u201d June 9, 1858\n06/13/1858 New York Herald, \"Found At Last,\" June 13, 1858\n07/19/1858 Lyman Trumbull to Abraham Lincoln, July 19, 1858\n08/03/1858 Thomas J. Pickett to Abraham Lincoln, August 3, 1858\n08/04/1858 Owen Lovejoy to Abraham Lincoln, August 4, 1858\n09/08/1858 New York Times, \u201cThe Union Meeting at the Cooper Institute,\u201d September 8, 1858\n10/04/1858 New York Times, \u201cFusion in the City,\u201d October 4, 1858\n10/25/1858 Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, \"Divided We Fall,\" October 25, 1858\n12/05/1858 New York Herald, \u201cThe Struggle Among the Virginia Democracy,\u201d December 5, 1858\n01/09/1859 Memphis (TN) Appeal, \u201cThe Plans of the Opposition for 1860,\u201d January 9, 1859\n04/03/1859 New York Herald, \u201cThe Gubernatorial Contest in Virginia,\u201d April 3, 1859\n04/15/1859 Charleston (SC) Mercury, \"Correspondence of the Mercury,\" April 15, 1859\n05/24/1859 Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel,\u201cThe Massachusetts Two Years\u2019 Amendment,\u201d May 24, 1859\n08/03/1859 New York Herald, \u201cBloody Riots in Baltimore,\u201d August 3, 1859\n09/23/1859 New York Times, \u201cThe American Convention,\u201d September 23, 1859\n11/11/1859 Greensboro (NC) Patriot, \"Maryland Election,\" November 11, 1859\n11/17/1859 Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, \"The Plea Will Not Avail Them,\" November 17, 1859\n06/12/1860 Richard W. Thompson to Abraham Lincoln, June 12, 1860\n07/07/1860 Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, \u201cDecidedly Wrong,\u201d July 7, 1860\n07/21/1860 Abraham Lincoln to Abraham Jonas, July 21, 1860\n08/23/1860 Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, \"No Go Yet,\" August 23, 1860\n09/03/1860 Cleveland (OH) Herald, \u201cA Two-Edged Sword,\u201d September 3, 1860\n\u201cKnow Nothing Quick Step,\u201d sheet music cover, 1854\n\u201cKnow Nothing Polka,\u201d sheet music cover, 1854\n\u201cThe Propagation Society,\u201d cartoon, 1855, zoomable image\nHorrocks, Thomas. \"The Know-Nothings.\" American History Illustrated 17, no. 9 (1983): 22-29. View Record\nShade, William G. \"Know Nothing Populism and the Origins of the GOP.\" Pennsylvania History 71, no. 2 (2004): 227-231. View Record\nHansen, Stephen, and Paul Nygard. \"Abraham Lincoln and the Know Nothing Question, 1854-1859.\" Lincoln Herald 94, no. 2 (1992): 61-72. View Record\nCantrell, Gregg. \"Sam Houston and the Know-Nothings: A Reappraisal.\" Southwestern Historical Quarterly 96, no. 3 (1993): 326-343. View Record\nThe American Text Book, for the Campaign of 1856. Baltimore, MD: Bull & Tuttle, 1856. View Record\nAnspach, F. R. The Sons of the Sires; A History of the Rise, Progress, and Destiny of the American Party, and its Probable Influence on the Next Presidential Election. To Which is Added a Review of the Letter of the Hon. Henry A. Wise, Against the Know-Nothings. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1855.\nDykstra, Robert R. \"The Know Nothings Nobody Knows: Political Nativists in Antebellum Iowa.\" Annals of Iowa 53, no. 1 (Winter 1994): 5-24. View Record\nTaylor, John Charles Randolph. \"Virginia Know Nothings: Whigs in Search of a National Party.\" Masters Thesis, University of Virginia, 1974. View Record\nBirkner, Michael J., ed. James Buchanan and the Political Crisis of the 1850s. Selinsgrove, PA: Susquehanna University Press, 1996. View Record\nHansen, Stephen and Paul Nygard. \"Stephen A. Douglas, the Know-Nothings, and the Democratic Party in Illinois, 1854-1858.\" Illinois Historical Journal 87, no. 2 (1994): 109-130. View Record\nBaker, Jean H. Ambivalent Americans: The Know-Nothing Party in Maryland. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977. View Record\nAnbinder, Tyler. Nativism and Slavery: The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850's. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. View Record\nFrederick, Jeff. \"Unintended Consequences: The Rise and Fall of the Know-Nothing Party in Alabama.\" Alabama Review 55, no. 1 (2002): 3-33. View Record\nTowers, Frank. \"Violence as a Tool of Party Dominance: Election Riots and the Baltimore Know-Nothings, 1854-1860.\" Maryland Historical Magazine 93, no. 1 (1998): 4-37. View Record\nHow to Cite This Page: \"Know Nothings,\" House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/9591.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthoverprofit.org/2017/03/31/democrats-against-single-payer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:48Z", "digest": "sha1:44RE422MYYGXG5EAAUS7FXGU6IEBERBP", "length": 18816, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "healthoverprofit.org", "title": "Democrats Against Single Payer \u2190 Health Over Profit", "raw_content": "Democrats Against Single Payer\n\u00ab Progressives are putting Medicare for All Back on the Table\nSenator Sanders to Introduce Medicare For All Bill, Not Public Option \u00bb\n31 Mar 2017 | Campaign Updates\nBy Branco Marcetic for Jacobin Magazine. Photo: BRENDAN FITTERER | Special to the Times. Some attendees at a meeting with Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Palm Harbor, last month favored expanding Medicare. Ironically, the GOP could end up clearing the way for single payer.\nSingle-payer health care has always been a goal of the Left. But Democrats have turned it into a punching bag.\nEstablishing some sort of universal health care in America has been a cherished goal of the broad left since at least as far back as Harry Truman\u2019s administration, when a proposal for a single-payer national health insurance system was buried under a barrage of right-wing, red-baiting attacks. Since then, while president after president has tried and failed (or, more recently, simply abandoned) similar efforts, most liberals and Democrats have persisted, at least rhetorically, in fulfilling Truman\u2019s now-seventy-two-year-old promise.\nThat is, apparently, until now.\nThe possibility of achieving single payer is \u201ca bigger problem\u201d than America\u2019s already broken health-care system, according to one Democratic governor; it\u2019s a boondoggle that would require a \u201cmassive tax increase,\u201d says a Colorado senator; one liberal commentator charges that it \u201cdoesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d and shows an \u201cindifference to real-world consequences.\u201d\nThe push for \u201cMedicare for All,\u201d one high-profile liberal pundit tells us, is simply based in \u201coutrage that private insurers get to play any role,\u201d and aims to \u201cpunish or demonize insurance companies.\u201d Oh and by the way, it\u2019ll \u201cnever, ever come to pass\u201d anyway, according to the Democratic Party\u2019s former standard-bearer. How times have changed.\nTo be sure, the attempt by some Democrats to \u201ctriangulate\u201d on health-care reform isn\u2019t exactly new. When Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow Coalition challenged the Democratic establishment back in the 1980s, with a single-payer system one of their chief demands, the center-right Democratic Leadership Council used its new influence to push the Democratic Party rightward.\nVirginia Democratic senator Chuck Robb, one of the DLC\u2019s founders, warned in 1989 that \u201cpolicies forged in the economic crisis of the 1930s and the social and cultural schisms of the 1960s\u201d were irrelevant to most Americans. Two years later, Bill Clinton\u2019s issue director Bruce Reed, who doubled as policy director for the DLC, made sure to distance Clinton from single payer.\nThe issue flared up again during the 2008 Democratic primary fight, where both Obama and Hillary Clinton tried hedging their bets. Clinton put forward a plan that was basically Obamacare while insisting that \u201cMedicare for All\u201d could still be on the cards under the right circumstances. Meanwhile Obama repeatedly flip-flopped, at one point telling an audience that \u201cthe Canadian model won\u2019t work in the United States\u201d and that \u201cwe\u2019ve got to develop a uniquely American approach,\u201d and nine days later hinting to a different audience that over time single payer may be on the table.\nDLC leaders felt reassured however, telling the New York Times they were \u201cpleased that none of the Democratic candidates supports a single-payer health-care system.\u201d\nSo Democrats\u2019 attempts to quell their base\u2019s clamoring for a comprehensive, public health-care system isn\u2019t new. What is new is the open, public disparagement of such a goal \u2014 not just by Democratic leaders, but by leading liberal commentators, too.\nIronically, this appears largely to have been due to the Sanders campaign \u2014 or rather, the challenge it posed to Hillary Clinton\u2019s previously wide-open road to the White House. Needing to differentiate herself from Sanders\u2019s unabashed progressivism, and to dampen popular enthusiasm for his message, Clinton began attacking his policies, despite her historic sympathy toward single payer.\nSanders\u2019s proposals were \u201cideas that sound good on paper but will never make it in real life,\u201d she told crowds; for good measure, she insisted that single-payer health care \u201cwill never, ever come to pass.\u201d\nTwo years earlier, she explained her opposition to the policy on the basis that \u201cwe don\u2019t have a one size fits all; our country is quite diverse.\u201d In January 2016, she warned breathlessly that Sanders\u2019s plan would \u201cend all the kinds of health care we know\u201d and claimed it would \u201csend health insurance to the states,\u201d while her daughter warned that it would \u201cdismantle Obamacare\u201d and \u201cstrip millions and millions and millions of people off their health insurance.\u201d\nAs late as October, Clinton\u2019s team was still trying to distance herself from Trump\u2019s accusation that she \u2014 heaven forbid! \u2014 \u201cwants to go to a single-payer plan,\u201d with her spokesman directing Politifact to an earlier fact-check confirming her lack of support for the policy. (Lest we mistake this for mere expediency, we can rest assured that at least some of the Clinton camp really felt this way: campaign manager John Podesta declared in an email to ThinkProgress editor-in-chief Judd Legum that Sanders\u2019s \u201cactual proposal sucks, but we live in a leftie alternative universe.\u201d)\nThese doomsday warnings didn\u2019t seem to sway the public. By May 2016, Gallup polling found that more than half of Americans favored replacing Obamacare with a single-payer system, including a whole 41 percent of Republicans.\nThe same can\u2019t be said for well-placed liberal columnists and Democratic lawmakers, who during \u2014and since \u2014 the Clinton campaign have followed her lead and continued pouring cold water on the idea.\nNew York Times columnist Paul Krugman\u2019s about-face on the issue, for instance, is well-documented. Krugman went from regularly writing screeds about the superiority of entirely government-controlled health care to insisting that \u201csingle payer just isn\u2019t a political possibility\u201d and running column after column attacking Sanders\u2019s policy.\nTo be fair, Krugman had always been wary of the political feasibility of single payer, writing in 2007: \u201cIn an ideal world, I\u2019d be a single-payer guy. But I see the chance of getting universal care, imperfect but fixable . . . And I want to grab that chance.\u201d But by 2016, Krugman\u2019s criticisms of single payer went beyond this, at one point cautioning that \u201cswitching to single payer would impose a lot of disruption on tens of millions of families who currently have good coverage through their employers\u201d and warning of tax hikes on the middle class.\nThe same man who once called an anti-health-care reform editorial \u201cvile and stupid\u201d and charged that the \u201cgreed of the medical-industrial complex\u201d was the only thing standing in the way of universal health care in the United States began complaining about \u201cdemonization\u201d from the Sanders campaign, accusing it of painting \u201canyone raising questions about the senator\u2019s proposals\u201d as \u201ca corrupt tool of vested interests.\u201d\nKrugman wasn\u2019t as concerned about civility back when Obama abandoned the public option element of his health-care plan in 2009, complaining that \u201cthe inspiring figure progressives thought they had elected comes across, far too often, as a dry technocrat,\u201d calling him \u201cweirdly reluctant to make the moral case for universal care\u201d and defending the \u201cprogressive backlash\u201d over his falling short. (Puzzlingly, seven years later, Krugman praised Clinton as being \u201cpretty good\u201d on policy for having a proposal that was identical to the final version of Obamacare that 2009-era Krugman appears so disappointed with).\nKrugman was by no means the only one. In January 2016, the centrist Brookings Institution called single payer an \u201cimpossible (pipe) dream,\u201d something that \u201cwas, is, and will remain a dream,\u201d because \u201cit is radical in a way that no legislation has ever been in the United States.\u201d A month later, New York magazine columnist Jonathan Chait complained with respect to Sanders\u2019s single-payer proposal that Sanders was \u201cnot merely pushing the envelope of policy imagination,\u201d but had a platform \u201cpredicated on completely ignoring mainstream economic analysis.\u201d (Curiously, nearly half a year earlier, Chait had lamented that \u201csocialized medicine\u201d had \u201cnever caught on in the United States.\u201d)\nVox\u2019s Ezra Klein labeled Sanders\u2019s plan \u201cvague and unrealistic.\u201d The American Prospect\u2019s Paul Starr, who helped work on Bill Clinton\u2019s original unsuccessful health-care reform, wrote two separate columns that warned in part that Sanders\u2019s single-payer plan would lead to a scary and unprecedented centralization of power in Washington.\nEven when single-payer reform appears to dodge such concerns, powerful Democratic and liberal interests can\u2019t bring themselves to get behind it. Nancy Pelosi recently told frustrated town hall attendees that \u201cif you want to move to single payer, what you should do . . . is support state options,\u201d referring to state-level campaigns for single payer.\nShe should tell her own party. When a ballot initiative popped up in Colorado in the middle of the presidential campaign that would have encoded a single-payer health-care system in the state\u2019s constitution, Democrats fell over themselves to discourage the initiative, echoing Clinton\u2019s rhetoric in the process.\nThe state\u2019s Democratic governor John Hickenlooper said that \u201cit would be premature to dramatically remake our health-care system at this time\u201d while existing reforms were \u201cjust beginning to bear fruit.\u201d He complained behind closed doors to a powerful lobby of business leaders and political operatives that the \u201ccost [is] going to be huge.\u201d\nThe state\u2019s Democratic senator Michael Bennett told a local paper that single payer wasn\u2019t \u201cthe right approach to solving our health-care problems,\u201d partly due to the \u201cmassive tax increase\u201d involved. (Incidentally, both politicians received a ton of money from the health-care, insurance, and pharmaceutical industries).\nOther Colorado Democrats opposing the measure were the state\u2019s previous governor, Bill Ritter, state House majority leader Crisanta Duran, and Kelly Brough, president of the Denver Chamber of Commerce. Coloradans for Coloradans, a group that fought the measure, cited Democrats\u2019 opposition to it to defend their efforts, and even bragged that they had \u201cDemocratic consultants running the campaign.\u201d\nMeanwhile, liberal group ProgressNow Colorado also came out against the measure, which was ultimately defeated \u2014 likely in part because high-profile Democrats fought it. (In a perfect feedback loop, one liberal commentator has recently used the Colorado example to dampen renewed calls for Medicare for All).\nLiberals\u2019 newfound antipathy to one of the Democrats\u2019 traditionally long-coveted goals survived the end of Sanders\u2019s primary campaign. In July, the Clinton campaign\u2019s appointees on the Democratic Party\u2019s platform-drafting committee united to vote down a plank advocating for a single-payer system \u2014 particularly galling given the plank\u2019s merely symbolic status.\nMost recently, as California considered instituting a state-wide single-payer system on the eve of a possible GOP repeal of Obamacare, the state\u2019s Democratic governor Jerry Brown rubbished the idea, asking: \u201cWhere do you get the extra money? . . . How do you do that?\u201d He compared it to solving a problem \u201cby something that\u2019s . . . a bigger problem,\u201d which \u201cmakes no sense.\u201d\nWith the GOP repeal having devolved into utter failure, Clinton confidante and Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden \u2014 who as late as January this year seemed to be suggesting that progressives should get on board with a future Sanders push for single payer \u2014 recently penned a USA Today op-ed about what was next for health-care reform. Single payer wasn\u2019t in it. (Tanden happened to have been one of the Clinton delegates on the platform drafting committee who voted against the single-payer plank last year).\nThe particularly bizarre thing about many of these attacks on single payer from prominent liberals and Democrats is that they\u2019re fundamentally conservative arguments: single payer is too radical and far-reaching a change; it\u2019s too expensive; it\u2019ll mean raising taxes; it\u2019ll involve giving the federal government too much power.\nDo Democrats and liberals really want to be making these arguments? After all, they can be (and have been) used against virtually any policy favored by progressives and the Left more broadly, which typically do cost a lot of money, necessitate extra taxes to pay for them, require a great deal of government involvement to successfully implement, and tend to temporarily disrupt people\u2019s lives as new rules, regulations, and systems are put in place. Go ahead and look up conservatives\u2019 attacks on Obamacare as it was cobbled together \u2014 virtually every liberal complaint now made about single payer was launched by the Right against Obamacare.\nMeanwhile, while liberals and Democrats attack single payer on \u201cpractical\u201d grounds, they appear to have forgotten the importance of the moral case for such policies.\nIn their haste to defend Obamacare (and, by extension, a former president\u2019s legacy) from often dishonest right-wing attacks, they ignore the very real and painful flaws and inadequacies of the law as it stands, which, for all the good it\u2019s done, continues to leave people trapped in impossible, heart-rending situations and forces them to beg for money online in the hopes of paying their exorbitant medical bills.\nWhat makes this steadfast opposition even more puzzling is the fact that the moment is ripe for making the push for single payer. It\u2019s not just that the GOP has spectacularly failed to gut Obamacare. Polling suggests Americans are more amenable to the idea than ever (even if not all polls are as rosy as Gallup\u2019s).\nMeanwhile, the last few months have been a spate of editorials in local newspapers extolling the virtues of single payer and necessitating the need to pass it. The long list includes the: Redding Record Searchlight, Berkshire Eagle, Reno Gazette-Journal, Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Grass Valley and Nevada County\u2019s Union, Winston-Salem Journal, Eugene, Oregon\u2019s Register-Guard, Napa Valley Register, and the Florida Times-Union. Similar editorials have also appeared in major papers like USA Today, the LA Times, and the Baltimore Sun.\nEven Mark Cuban has come out in favor of the policy. Do Democrats really want to be outflanked on the left by Mark Cuban?\nThe party should thank its lucky stars President Trump remains tethered to a radically anti-government GOP which hates the thought of the government stepping in to help people in need. Were Trump allowed to run free \u2014 and were his commitment to economic populism authentic and not just a cynical appropriation of a few slogans \u2014 he might actually adopt some form of single-payer proposal himself (no doubt with some pointed, Roosevelt-style \u201ctactical\u201d exclusions of certain marginalized groups), shoring up his standing as the self-proclaimed champion of the \u201cforgotten man.\u201d After all, such policies tend to be quite popular once ordinary Americans start receiving their benefits.\nThe Trump administration has been unwilling to launch the challenge to corporate interests that would be needed to make such an effort a success, perhaps because the Ayn Rand\u2013worshiping GOP he has thrown his lot in with won\u2019t entertain the thought. But the Democrats should be wary of leaving a space on their left open for a cynical right-wing populist to fill, whether now or down the line. After all, that\u2019s a big part of what got them into their current predicament.\nThe good news is that the same popular, grassroots pressure that ordinary people successfully put on Republican lawmakers who were preparing to strip Americans of even the meager protections afforded by Obamacare can also be used to push Democrats to support single payer. As much as numerous pundits and politicians mocked Sanders\u2019s concept of getting things done through a \u201cpolitical revolution,\u201d the past few months of widespread activism by ordinary Americans have shown this was far from the out-of-touch fantasy many dismissed it as.\nAfter all, it was years of grassroots organizing and agitation from the labor movement that forced Harry Truman to cite these simple moral imperatives while proposing a single-payer system all those decades ago: \u201cthat the health of this Nation is a national concern; that financial barriers in the way of attaining health shall be removed; that the health of all its citizens deserves the help of all the Nation.\u201d There\u2019s no reason those forces can\u2019t force today\u2019s reluctant Democrats to do the same.\nNOTE FROM HEALTH OVER PROFIT: Today, conservative Charles Krauthammer of Fox News published an article in the Washington Post that concluded with:\n\u201cThere is an ideological consideration that could ultimately determine the fate of any Obamacare replacement. Obamacare may turn out to be unworkable, indeed doomed, but it is having a profound effect on the zeitgeist: It is universalizing the idea of universal coverage.\nAcceptance of its major premise \u2014 that no one be denied health care \u2014 is more widespread than ever. Even House Speaker Paul Ryan avers that \u201cour goal is to give every American access to quality, affordable health care,\u201d making universality an essential premise of his own reform. And look at how sensitive and defensive Republicans have been about the possibility of people losing coverage in any Obamacare repeal.\nA broad national consensus is developing that health care is indeed a right. This is historically new. And it carries immense implications for the future. It suggests that we may be heading inexorably to a government-run, single-payer system. It\u2019s what Barack Obama once admitted he would have preferred but didn\u2019t think the country was ready for. It may be ready now.\nAs Obamacare continues to unravel, it won\u2019t take much for Democrats to abandon that Rube Goldberg wreckage and go for the simplicity and the universality of Medicare-for-all. Republicans will have one last chance to try to convince the country to remain with a market-based system, preferably one encompassing all the provisions that, for procedural reasons, had been left out of their latest proposal.\nDon\u2019t be surprised, however, if, in the end, single-payer wins out. Indeed, I wouldn\u2019t be terribly surprised if Donald Trump, reading the zeitgeist, pulls the greatest 180 since Disraeli \u201cdished the Whigs\u201d in 1867 (by radically expanding the franchise) and joins the single-payer side.\nTalk about disruption? About kicking over the furniture? That would be an American Krakatoa.\u201d\nIf the Democrats can\u2019t see the writing on the wall and move quickly on a National Improved Medicare for All, perhaps the Republicans will do it. 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But an awareness of your real time income and expenses is the key to making better decisions that will nurture growth.\nImplement these changes and see the difference they make in your business:\nSwitch to an online accounting solution that offers access to real time data anywhere, anytime\nMonitor your finances on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis; review the data with your accountant often\nCheck in on your other numbers, too \u2013 your website metrics and software analytics \u2013 so you know whether your marketing, lead generation, and sales tactics are working.\nUpdate your business plan\nCompanies should update their business plan at least once a year\u2014sooner if there\u2019s an upcoming change that requires planning, financing, or re-assigning resources (for instance, a product launch, an opportunity to start importing/exporting, or a new side business).\nMany business owners neglect to revise their plans on a regular basis. They end up operating on autopilot, losing sight of their bigger goals and the steps they planned to take their business to the next level.\nThe start of a new year is an excellent time to set goals, mark milestones, and start implementing your plans. The timing also lines up nicely with closing out the previous year\u2019s books, so you can plan with your latest annual figures in mind.\nIt sounds simple, but the self-sufficient, independent nature of many entrepreneurs can make it difficult to get comfortable delegating responsibility. Finding the right people to relieve the burden of doing everything, all the time, is the only way a business can scale and reach its potential.\nThink carefully about how you spend your days. Are you still at the point where you want to \u2013 or need to \u2013 do it all? The ultimate success of any company is to reach the point where it can run without you, so you can enjoy a holiday, pass the business on to a family member, or sell it.\nIt can take time to find the right people that you can trust to perform their jobs well and continue to grow your business. A recruitment agency can help you craft an attractive job description and recruit so you can focus on strategies that can bring you greater enjoyment and success.\nDeveloping new business habits takes time and commitment \u2013 but the pay off is well worth it! Which of these business habits is most important for you to commit to this year?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hobnobfolsom.com/folsom-health-beauty/helping-to-prevent-mumps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3XTN7JI5PTO5NKJD2QVILZCCMTYKRK4Q", "length": 4217, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "hobnobfolsom.com", "title": "Helping to prevent mumps | HobNob Folsom", "raw_content": "Home > Health & Beauty > Helping to prevent mumps\nHelping to prevent mumps\nMumps vaccine is the best way to protect yourself against mumps, a contagious disease that can cause serious complications. Talk to your healthcare professional or check your immunization records to ensure mumps vaccine is up to date. Anyone sick with mumps should stay home and away from others for at least 5 days.\nMumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus. You can protect yourself and your family against mumps with vaccination. There is no treatment for mumps, and it can cause long-term health problems. Before there was a vaccine, mumps was the leading cause in the U.S. for viral encephalitis (infection of the brain) and sudden deafness. The most common symptoms include:\nSwollen and tender salivary glands under the ears on one or both sides\nDon\u2019t Let Mumps Spoil Your Fun: MMR Vaccination is the best protection against mumps!\nParents, as children head off to college, ensure they are up to date on their MMR vaccine. Learn more about mumps cases and outbreaks.\nProtect Yourself Against Mumps\nAnyone born during or after 1957 who has never had mumps or has never been vaccinated is at risk for mumps. They should get at least one dose of the MMR vaccine. College students who do not have evidence of immunity need two doses of MMR vaccine, separated by at least 28 days. Other adults at higher risk, such as international travelers and healthcare professionals, should also get two doses of MMR vaccine.\nProtect Your Child with Mumps Vaccine\nMumps vaccine is the best way to protect your child against mumps. It is usually given as part of a combination vaccine that protects against three diseases: measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). The MMR vaccine is safe and effective. Most children don\u2019t have any side effects from the vaccine. The side effects that do occur are usually very mild, such as a fever or rash.\nChildren should get two doses of MMR vaccine:\nthe first dose at 12 through 15 months of age, and\nthe second dose at 4 through 6 years of age.\nYour child\u2019s doctor may also offer the MMRV vaccine, a combination vaccine that protects against four diseases: measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (chickenpox). Talk to your child\u2019s healthcare professional for help deciding which vaccine to use.\nVaccinated People Can Still Get Mumps\nMumps outbreaks can still occur in highly vaccinated U.S. communities, particularly in settings where people have close, prolonged contact, such as universities and close-knit communities. Some people who get two doses of MMR vaccine may still get mumps if they are exposed to the viruses during these outbreaks. Experts aren\u2019t sure why; it could be that their immune systems didn\u2019t respond as well as they should have to the vaccine or their immune system\u2019s ability to fight the infection decreased over time. However, disease symptoms are generally milder in vaccinated people, and high vaccination coverage helps to limit the size, duration, and spread of mumps outbreaks.\nIn the event of an outbreak, public health authorities may recommend that people at increased risk get a third dose of MMR to improve their protection against mumps.\nMumps Can Be Serious\nIn most people, mumps is pretty mild. But it can cause serious, long-lasting problems including\norchitis (swelling of the testicles) in males who have reached puberty\noophoritis (swelling of the ovaries) and/or mastitis (swelling of the breasts) in females who have reached puberty\nmeningitis (swelling of the tissue covering the brain and spinal cord)\nloss of hearing (temporary or permanent)\nIn rare cases, mumps is deadly.\nPaying for Mumps Vaccine\nMost health insurance plans cover the cost of vaccines. However, you may want to check with your insurance provider before going to the doctor. 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With GeOSIRIS, one can model the impact of various economic strategies on deforestation and carbon emissions reductions.\nThe Ecosystem Services Modeler (ESM) - a vertical application for assessing the value of various ecosystem services such as water purification, crop pollination, wind and wave energy, and so on. ESM is based closely on the InVEST toolset developed by the Natural Capital Project.\nThe Earth Trends Modeler (ETM) - a tool for the analysis of time series of earth observation imagery. With ETM, one can discover trends and recurrent patterns in fundamental earth system variables such as sea surface temperature, atmospheric temperature, precipitation, vegetation productivity and the like. ETM is an exceptional tool for the assessment of climate change in the recent past (e.g., the past 30 years).\nThe Climate Change Adaptation Modeler (CCAM) - a tool for modeling future climate and assessing its impacts on sea level rise, crop suitability and species distributions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hollywoodbeautycollege.org/top-reasons-why-you-should-switch-to-contact-lenses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:52Z", "digest": "sha1:GCMUT2D7OQX6N5VQXZEWKF7TTZ36VQLO", "length": 1780, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "hollywoodbeautycollege.org", "title": "Top Reasons Why You Should Switch to Contact Lenses \u2013 Hollywood Beauty College", "raw_content": "Contact lenses have a large number of distinct advantages over eyeglasses, from the aesthetic appeal to the way they help you see. While eyeglasses are sometimes viewed as a fashion statement in themselves and are even preferred by a number of people, many others enjoy the benefits of contact lenses and the comforts they provide over glasses.\nNo More Bulky Frames\nContact lenses provide users the opportunity to see well and to look completely natural without having to undergo corrective surgery. While the latter may be a viable option for some, it is not suitable for all eye conditions and is irreversible once performed.\nContact lenses also provide a level of comfort, depending on the brand, that are preferred by a majority of people. However, when you purchase the cheapest contact lenses you can find, they may not last as long and can be a bit uncomfortable with a short shelf life.\nA Better Field of Vision\nContact lenses also provide a better field of vision than glasses. They give the wearer a full field of unobstructed vision commonly caused by the sides of the frame. Glasses restrict peripheral vision, meaning the user will have to turn his or her to see objects located to one side.\nThis increased field of vision also makes contact lenses not only ideal for driving, but also for physical activities. Glasses can be broken when people play any type of physical sport whereas contact lenses tolerate all sorts of violent movements without being dislodged. Lastly, contacts are also affordable when purchased from reputable business such as Lens.com. Buying in bulk can save you a ton of money and allow you to avoid having to wear glasses until absolutely necessary.\n\u2190 Bikini- A new trend of Fashion\nHere\u2019s why You Should Never Wash Lenses with Plain Water \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://homeremedyreport.com/how-does-acupuncture-work-its-magic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RAEYVYJ6FZQQ7E266BNYUFB4IN25YON3", "length": 3456, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "homeremedyreport.com", "title": "How Does Acupuncture Work Its Magic?", "raw_content": "How the Amazing Benefits of Acupuncture are Released by the Body\nA lot of people know that acupuncture works. However, there is often confusion about how literally sticking needles into the body at strategic points can actually provide pain relief and healing, among other benefits. It isn\u2019t \u201cwhether\u201d it works or helps, the question is \u201chow\u201d the magic happens.\nThe key is understanding the concept of \u201cmeridians\u201d, or pathways that conduct energy and life force throughout the body. The article below goes a bit into the theory of how all this works and helps make sense of it.\nIf you find this information about how acupuncture works interesting, please take time to share!\nAcupuncture is widely understood to be a non-traditional (not a traditional part of western medicine) treatment option for back pain or neck pain. While acupuncture is often not the first line of treatment sought for most back or neck problems, an increasing number of patients, as well as physicians and other health professionals are starting to use acupuncture as a means to reduce neck pain and back pain.\nAcupuncture is a form of Chinese medicine that can be traced back at least 2,500 years. The general premise of acupuncture is that the body contains patterns of energy flow. The vital energy or life force of the body is referred to as qi (pronounced \u201cchee\u201d), and proper flow of qi is considered to be necessary to maintain health.\nThe theory of acupuncture is that there are over 2,000 points on the human body that connect with 20 pathways (meridians). These pathways conduct the qi throughout the body. With acupuncture, hair-thin metallic needles are inserted into specific combinations of these 2,000 points in an attempt to correct and/or maintain a normal flow of qi.\nAcupuncture is thought to operate by:\nRelease of opioid peptides. Opioids are naturally occurring chemicals in the brain that have an analgesic effect. The release of these opioids plays a significant role in the reduction of pain. There has been considerable evidence to support that acupuncture stimulates the central nervous system, releasing these chemicals.\nAlteration in the secretion of neurotransmitters and neurohormones. Acupuncture is said to activate the hypothalamus and pituitary gland and thereby alter secretion of these chemicals. These particular chemicals play a direct role in the sensation of pain as well as the activity of an organ or organs. Evidence has shown that acupuncture alters this secretion in a manner that reduces pain. Documentation has also shown that acupuncture positively affects immune functions in the body.\nStimulation of electromagnetic points on the body. The 2,000 points of the body that acupuncture focuses on are theorized to be strategic conductors of electromagnetic signals. Stimulation of these areas is believed to start the flow of endorphins\u2014the body\u2019s natural painkillers.\nWhile there are many experts in the medical field who believe acupuncture is an effective way to treat certain conditions, there is no true consensus. Some define the benefits of acupuncture within the realm of traditional Chinese theories such as qi and meridians. Others understand and attribute acupuncture\u2019s benefits to certain scientific and biological changes they bring about in the body (as mentioned above). Alternatively, some question the ability of acupuncture to have any impact at all. 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It was a lot more grand, a lot more old \u2014 and more in tune with the architecture of say \u2014 San Francisco\u2019s Pacific Heights than freewheeling Marin County.\nThat\u2019s because the grand home, known as the Moffitt Mansion, actually started out its architectural life at 1818 Broadway Street in Pacific Heights before it was cut in half with a chainsaw, trucked to the waterfront, and taken by barge to its current location. Talk about a mobile home.\n\u201cCan you imagine cutting this house in two with a chainsaw?\u201d pondered real estate agent Hazel Carter. \u201cHere it is.\u201d\nThe Moffitt Mansion was built in 1904 for Dr. Herbert Moffitt. It survived the catastrophic 1906 Earthquake and Fire two years later but it nearly didn\u2019t survive 1960s development, when the home was slated to be torn down and replaced with an apartment building.\nLarkspur architect Norman Gilroy developed an interest in saving the house and devised his unusual plan to cut it in half and haul it across the bay. In 1962, crowds of onlookers watched the home roll down Franklin Street to the Marina Green where the halves were loaded onto barges. It took ten days for the barges to haul the house to Belvedere, eight of those days spent waiting for a favorable tide to unload.\nOnce the two halves were united, the house was used for tours benefitting a charity before it was sold as a private residence. The house which was originally built for $75 thousand is once again on the market \u2014 only this time for $5.49 million.\n\u201cPeople are just fascinated riding their bikes past here because there\u2019s nothing like it,\u201d Carter said showing off the 15-room home\u2019s interior which includes a large stately living room and six fireplaces.\nAlthough the house is filled with intricate details of yesteryear, one of the biggest conversation pieces is the small three-inch crack in the entryway wall. Carter said it\u2019s a scar leftover from where the two halves of the house were re-attached. 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Its sides are silvery and sometimes have a bronze tinge. The body is strongly laterally compressed fish and its head and mouth are large. The origin of the dorsal fin is directly over the origin of the pelvic fins. Anal fin rays 9-12 (25% of population may have only 8 rays). The lateral line is slightly curved downwards with 40 \u2013 44 scales along its length.The scales are noticeably taller than wide (twice as high as wide). The average size of the common shiner is 2 \u2013 4 inches, but can grow up to 8 inches.\nThe common shiner prefers faster pools in rivers and streams, but is also found in lakes. Food items of the common shiner include terrestrial and aquatic insects, vegetation, and other fishes. Spawning occurs from spring to early summer. The male fish develops red to orange colour on the tips of its fins and tubercles on its head. The male will dig a nest in gravel or may use the nest of another fish. After eggs are deposited the male will guard the nest. 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To copy...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1226, "original_length": 45179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hrmagazine.co.uk/article-details/employees-want-more-recognition-at-work", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:L5ANEYWCTDO2JE7GZDNHPX5NE27MJAYA", "length": 2619, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "hrmagazine.co.uk", "title": "Employees want more recognition at work", "raw_content": "Employees want more recognition at work\nBeckett Frith, May 25, 2017\nThere's a lot to be say for starting with a simple 'thank you'. One to ones and team meetings are opportunities for recognition. It shows that recent work and effort has been acknowledged. This needs ...\nRead More BlueFoxHR\nMore than half (52%) of the workers polled felt their boss could do more to appreciate them\nNearly half (49%) of employees would leave a company if they did not receive recognition for their good work, according to a study from Reward Gateway.\nThe survey of 500 employees and 500 senior decision makers found that six in 10 (59%) workers would prefer a job at a company that provided them with regular recognition rather than one with a higher salary. Almost two-thirds (72%) of workers reported that motivation and morale would improve if managers thanked them more and noticed their good work.\nDespite this, 40% of the senior decision makers polled said they don't think regular recognition and thanking staff has a big impact on retention. More than half (52%) of the employees polled felt their boss could do more to appreciate them.\nGlenn Elliott, founder and CEO of Reward Gateway, said that employers need to take note of the power of recognition. \u201cIf companies want to improve employee engagement, motivation, and retention they need to urgently divert investments from tenure-based, long service award programmes, which aren\u2019t working but are costing businesses a fortune,\u201d he said.\nLiz Crutchley, head of reward and benefits at HomeServe Membership, a company that uses Reward Gateway as part of its engagement strategy, agreed recognition is important. \u201cAt HomeServe we have a \u2018people first' culture, where empowerment and recognition form a huge part of the way we do things,\u201d she said.\n\u201cWe actively encourage our people to recognise each other based on our people values. One of the ways we do this is by enabling them to send thank you e-cards to one another in a really simple and accessible way. To date we\u2019ve sent more than 33,000 across our business.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve worked really hard to create a culture that every single person who works at HomeServe is proud to be a part of, and this type of recognition along with the many other initiatives we have implemented has helped see a huge rise in our engagement.\u201d\nThere's a lot to be say for starting with a simple 'thank you'. One to ones and team meetings are opportunities for recognition. It shows that recent work and effort has been acknowledged. This needs to be a priority with the numbers of people working remotely and flexibly.\nBlueFoxHR, May 25, 2017 11:46", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hsr.cchoapros.com/2016/06/parker-call-n-ride.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4C2XTYH4Y7GU4N2CI5CI3IU5VYEYSX7R", "length": 2209, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "hsr.cchoapros.com", "title": "HORSESHOE RIDGE HOA: Parker Call-n-Ride", "raw_content": "Parker Call-n-Ride\nThe Town of Parker is again partnering with RTD to provide FREE Call-n-Ride service in Parker this summer. The program will run July 1 through Aug. 31, only within the Parker service area.\nCall-n-Ride is a personalized bus service that travels within select areas of Parker and provides curb-to-curb service on a first-come, first-served basis. Scheduling a free ride to work, shopping, school or other fun activities is fast and easy either online at www.ParkerOnline.org/Call-N-Ride or via phone at 303.301.5772. Rides may be scheduled from two hours to two weeks in advance.\nThe Town has reinstituted this free program for the first time since the summer of 2013 in order to help increase ridership rates in an effort to retain the Call-N-Ride service in our community. By increasing ridership, the Town could also potentially seek expanded transit services for the Parker community in the future.\nParker\u2019s RTD Call-n-Ride service area is generally located north of Hess Road and east of Twenty Mile Road. Ride areas and destinations include downtown Parker, Parker Adventist Hospital, Cottonwood, Wal-Mart, Target, Kohl\u2019s, Railbender Skate and Tennis Park, the Parker Fieldhouse, Parker Recreation Center, Canterberry, Idyllwilde and many other neighborhoods and commercial areas.\nParker Call-n-Ride operates Monday through Friday from 5:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Call-n-Ride fares are normally $2.60 per ride for adults or $1.30 for seniors or students.\nFor more information on the Parker Call-n-Ride, including a map of the service area, or to book a ride, visit www.ParkerOnline.org/Call-N-Ride or call 303.301.5772. If the driver does not answer, please leave a message as they are not allowed to answer their phone while driving. The driver should return the call when at the next stop.\nFollow the Town of Parker on Facebook and Twitter!\nThis complimentary message is being sent to opt-in subscribers who might be interested in Town of Parker events and activities. If you do not wish to continue receiving these messages, unsubscribe by visiting our online list manager:[http://www.parkeronline.org/list.aspx]\nPlease note, we will not sell or give your e-mail address to any organization.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 230.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://huginonline.no/companyDetails.faces?cId=143483&langId=5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:11Z", "digest": "sha1:6M4KH3OLY5ZF5FAGRV3ZQ6NLMO5CUBQR", "length": 870, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "huginonline.no", "title": "GlobeNewswire - Company Details Page", "raw_content": "Ingenico is the world leader in designing, producing and marketing electronic banking systems for the distribution sector. The group's activity revolves primarily around three product and service families:\n- electronic banking systems and electronic payment terminals: automated teller machines, portable terminals, card readers, check reader-writers, electronic banking modules, integrated software for electronic banking and terminal fleet management, etc.;\n- banking systems: automatic teller machines, check scanners, interactive multimedia kiosks, check verifiers, automatic teller software, etc.;\n- installation, maintenance and training services.\nNet sales are distributed geographically as follows: Northern and Southern Europe (43.2%), Asia/Pacific (17.6%), Latin America (13.8%), North America (9.1%), and other (16.3%).\n28, bd de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 179.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Astro/snovcn.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:55Z", "digest": "sha1:77U4FPC2NHLIAQM5UWE5YDLUSDMUEQRE", "length": 7886, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu", "title": "Supernovae", "raw_content": "Supernovae as tools for distance measurement\nCrab supernova remnant\nA supernova is an explosion of a massive supergiant star. It may shine with the brightness of 10 billion suns! The total energy output may be 1044 joules, as much as the total output of the sun during its 10 billion year lifetime. The likely scenario is that fusion proceeds to build up a core of iron. The \"iron group\" of elements around mass number A=60 are the most tightly bound nuclei, so no more energy can be gotten from nuclear fusion.\nIn fact, either the fission or fusion of iron group elements will absorb a dramatic amount of energy - like the film of a nuclear explosion run in reverse. If the temperature increase from gravitational collapse rises high enough to fuse iron, the almost instantaneous absorption of energy will cause a rapid collapse to reheat and restart the process. Out of control, the process can apparently occur on the order of seconds after a star lifetime of millions of years. Electrons and protons fuse into neutrons, sending out huge numbers of neutrinos. The outer layers will be opaque to neutrinos, so the neutrino shock wave will carry matter with it in a cataclysmic explosion.\nCassiopeia A supernova remnant\nSupernovae are classified as Type I or Type II depending upon the shape of their light curves and the nature of their spectra.\nThe synthesis of the heavy elements is thought to occur in supernovae, that being the only mechanism which presents itself to explain the observed abundances of heavy elements.\nSupernova concepts\nType I and Type II Supernovae\nSupernovae are classified as Type I if their light curves exhibit sharp maxima and then die away gradually. The maxima may be about 10 billion solar luminosities. Type II supernovae have less sharp peaks at maxima and peak at about 1 billion solar luminosities. They die away more sharply than the Type I. Type II supernovae are not observed to occur in elliptical galaxies, and are thought to occur in Population I type stars in the spiral arms of galaxies. Type I supernovae occur typically in elliptical galaxies, so they are probably Population II stars.\nWith the observation of a number of supernova in other galaxies, a more refined classification of supernovae has been developed based on the observed spectra. They are classified as Type I if they have no hydrogen lines in their spectra. The subclass type Ia refers to those which have a strong silicon line at 615 nm. They are classified as Ib if they have strong helium lines, and Ic if they do not. Type II supernovae have strong hydrogen lines. These spectral features are illustrated below for specific supernovae.\nSupernovae are classified as Type I if their light curves exhibit sharp maxima and then die away smoothly and gradually. The model for the initiation of a Type I supernova is the detonation of a carbon white dwarf when it collapses under the pressure of electron degeneracy. It is assumed that the white dwarf accretes enough mass to exceed the Chandrasekhar limit of 1.4 solar masses for a white dwarf. The fact that the spectra of Type I supernovae are hydrogen poor is consistent with this model, since the white dwarf has almost no hydrogen. The smooth decay of the light is also consistent with this model since most of the energy output would be from the radioactive decay of the unstable heavy elements produced in the explosion.\nType II supernovae are modeled as implosion-explosion events of a massive star. They show a characteristic plateau in their light curves a few months after initiation. This plateau is reproduced by computer models which assume that the energy comes from the expansion and cooling of the star's outer envelope as it is blown away into space. This model is corroborated by the observation of strong hydrogen and helium spectra for the Type II supernovae, in contrast to the Type I. There should be a lot of these gases in the extreme outer regions of the massive star involved.\nType II supernovae are not observed to occur in elliptical galaxies, and are thought to occur in Population I type stars in the spiral arms of galaxies. Type Ia supernovae occur in all kinds of galaxies, whereas Type Ib and Type Ic have been seen only in spiral galaxies near sites of recent star formation (H II regions). This suggests that Types Ib and Ic are associated with short-lived massive stars, but Type Ia is significantly different. .\nMore about Type Ia supernovae\nType Ia supernovae have become very important as the most reliable distance measurement at cosmological distances, useful at distances in excess of 1000 Mpc.\nOne model for how a Type Ia supernova is produced involves the accretion of material to a white dwarf from an evolving star as a binary partner. If the accreted mass causes the white dwarf mass to exceed the Chandrasekhar limit of 1.44 solar masses, it will catastrophically collapse to produce the supernova. Another model envisions a binary system with a white dwarf and another white dwarf or a neutron star, a so-called \"doubly degenerate\" model. As one of the partners accretes mass, it follows what Perlmutter calls a \"slow, relentless approach to a cataclysmic conclusion\" at 1.44 solar masses. A white dwarf involves electron degeneracy and a neutron star involves neutron degeneracy.\nA critical aspect of these models is that they imply that a Type Ia supernova happens when the mass passes the Chandrasekhar threshold of 1.44 solar masses, and therefore all start at essentially the same mass. One would expect that the energy output of the resulting detonation would always be the same. It is not quite that simple, but they seem to have light curves that are closely related, and can be related to a common template.\nCarroll and Ostlie summarize the character of a Type Ia supernova with the statement that at maximum light they reach an average maximum magnitude in the blue and visible wavelength bands of with a typical spread of less than about 0.3 magnitudes. Their light curves vary in a systematic way: the peak brightnesses and their subsequent rate of decay are inversely proportional.\nThe above illustration is a qualitative sketch of the data reported by Perlmutter, Physics Today 56, No.4, 53, 2003. It illustrates the results of careful study of supernova Type Ia light curves which has led to two approaches for standardizing those curves. The above curves illustrate the \"stretch method\" in which the curves have been stretched or compressed in time, and the standardized peak magnitude determined by the stretch factor. With such a stretch, all the observed curves on the left converge to the template curve on the right with very little scatter. Another method for standardizing the curves is called the multicolor light curve shapes (MCLS) method. It compares the light curves to a family of parameterized light curves to give the absolute magnitude of the supernova at maximum brightness. The MCLS method allows the reddening and dimming effect of interstellar dust to be detected and removed.\nCarroll and Ostlie give as an example of distance determination the Type Ia supernova SN 1963p in the galaxy NGC 1084 which had a measured apparent blue magnitude of B = m = 14.0 at peak brilliance. There was a measured extinction of A = 0.49 magnitude. Using the template maximum of M=19.6 as a standard candle gives a distance to the supernova\nwhere d = distance in parsecs and the quantities in the exponent are in magnitudes. Note that the value of M for the source supernova is a negative number, -19.3 magnitude, so that the contribution to the exponent is positive. Distance uncertainties for Type Ia supernovae are thought to approach 5% or an uncertainty of just 0.1 magnitude in the distance modulus, m-M.\nType Ia supernovae as evidence for an accelerating universe\nType Ia supernovae in Pinwheel Galaxy\nSec 18.5, Sec 27.1\n\"Estimating the distance ..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 8305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iagonline.org/graduated-with-a-2-2-or-below-heres-what-to-do/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:49Z", "digest": "sha1:OOF6VL4TGY7OBKNY7CDH3SCLMY7QJILJ", "length": 2727, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "iagonline.org", "title": "Graduated With a 2.2 or Below? Here\u2019s What To Do | IAG Online", "raw_content": "For those in jobs to pay the bills while they pursue their graduate career, remember to maximise your current role \u2013 whether waitressing or working in a shop. \u201cDon\u2019t dismiss the work that you are already doing as you can be building up great work experience,\u201d says Helen Alkin, a recruitment manager at Marks & Spencer. For example, working as a sales advisor is no easy role, and you will already have built up useful skills, says Alkin. Ask to see if it is possible to find some work experience within your current employer \u2013 at their head office for example, she says. \u201cWe would definitely always look to support internal requests.\u201d\nIt\u2019s also worth trying to develop skills that are valued by all employers. \u201cReflect on what you are doing on a daily basis and the skills that you are applying,\u201d says Hooke. \u201cTeam work? Customer service? Problem solving? Make a note of some of the significant things that you have handled well, for example a particularly difficult customer query or complaint. These may become useful examples to talk about in future job applications.\u201d\nOf course, you can start applying for graduate schemes as many major graduate recruiters now accept people who have a 2.2. But remember, says psychologist Denise Taylor, there can be many routes into your future career, \u201cand it doesn\u2019t have to be a graduate scheme\u201d. It\u2019s worth applying for jobs at medium and small-sized businesses and progressing there before joining a major company, if that\u2019s preferable.\nAlkin advises graduates to identify five or six organisations that they really want to work for and focus their efforts on understanding what they are looking for and tailoring applications. \u201cYou can also practice any of the ability-type tests used so you are familiar with how questions are phrased and asked,\u201d she says.\nAnother great way to get an in somewhere is through someone you know. Taylor suggests building contacts, perhaps trying family friends \u2013 and trying to wangle a 20-minute meet with someone. If that\u2019s not a viable option, \u201cperhaps volunteer at an event or find people on LinkedIn\u201d, she says.\nWhen applying for jobs, Taylor says CVs should be be focused on the job you want and the needs of the organisation, and what they can offer a company. She advises graduates to showcase \u201ckey personal qualities alongside any relevant experience\u201d.\nAbove all, don\u2019t feel disillusioned. Thousands and thousands of people with a 2.2 or below and have gone on to achieve great careers. As Ball says: \u201cYou are likely to have a long working life ahead of you, so don\u2019t feel pressured to get that \u2018perfect\u2019 job right away. Take one that you can live with and you may be able to grow it into something that is ideal for you.\u201d\nHE, Qualifications", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ibewlocalone.org/notices/51661-brother-kenneth-e-landwehr-sr", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:12Z", "digest": "sha1:BNQ6LH7HDCOGXOIY2J3KXIY5FDFBEQLP", "length": 56, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ibewlocalone.org", "title": "Brother Kenneth E. Landwehr Sr.", "raw_content": "Brother Kenneth E. Landwehr Sr.\nLandwehr Sr., Kenneth E.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iblog.iup.edu/swwk/2018/06/27/take-some-time-to-celebrate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:31Z", "digest": "sha1:G5FZV3IPX6ANYUIFB5VQFY4JHKOVTDZD", "length": 3863, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "iblog.iup.edu", "title": "Take Some Time To Celebrate \u2013 Richard Kulbacki", "raw_content": "Take Some Time To Celebrate\nAt the end of yesterday\u2019s blog, I told you that we\u2019d be moving on and talking about how to save for big purchases after you finish Baby Step #2. Well, I\u2019ve decided against that.\nInstead, I want to make sure that you know that after you pay all of your debt off that it\u2019s time to take a step back and look at what you\u2019ve accomplished. It\u2019s something that I wish my wife and I would have done more of after we finished everything. We didn\u2019t stop and smell the roses, we didn\u2019t go have a big date night to celebrate (We did go out to our favorite restaurant, though \ud83d\ude42 ). We just kept furiously working through toward the next goal of totally remodeling the outside of our house with cash (Which I\u2019m happy to report that we were able to do about 10 months after we paid the mortgage off).\nBut, I digress. We DID manage to celebrate after we finished Baby Step #6 (Pay off your house early). You see, we did things slightly out of order. Instead of moving to Baby Steps #4, and #5 (Put 15% of your income into retirement, and start college funds for the kids), we decided to go nuts and pay the house off after we finished Baby Step #3. Why? Because, at the time, it was the only way that we could accomplish our goal of allowing my wife to quit her job to be a stay at home Mom. We did the math, and figured out that we could pay the rest of the house off in 9 months, so we buckled down and threw $48,000 toward the balance in that 9 month period. Don\u2019t ask me how. All I know is that we did it and we didn\u2019t starve to death in the process.\nAnyway, before we remodeled the outside of our home, we did something that we looked forward to for the entire 5 year 9 month period that it took us to pay everything off. We went on the Dave Ramsey show, and did our \u201cDebt Free Scream\u201d! Normally, you\u2019d schedule yourself to do it after you finish Baby Step #2, which is why I\u2019m talking about it today (I bet you were wondering if I was ever going to get to the point!). After we finished Baby Step #2, we talked it over and after looking at the calendar to see how long it would take, we decided not to do it until after we paid the house off. Many of you won\u2019t have that option because it would take too long to pay your home off, so go do yours after Baby Step #2 if that\u2019s the case. However, if you\u2019re like us and the light at the end of the tunnel (Paying off your house) is close. Take my advice and pay it off, and THEN go do your scream.\nMany folks decide to do their screams over the phone, but at that point we hadn\u2019t been on a proper trip together since our honeymoon three years prior. We needed a get away. So, we decided to schedule our scream in person all the way down in Nashville, TN. If you haven\u2019t been there, GO. It\u2019s beautiful, fun, and the people, food, and drink, are wonderful! In either case, below is a video of our Debt Free Scream to give you a little motivation. You don\u2019t get much time to do it, so there is a TON of stuff left that we wanted to say and totally forgot to mention. I\u2019ll be telling that part of the story in the next few days. It\u2019s something that I wish we would remembered to say. In the meantime, here you go:\nIf you want some more of these to pump you up, click here. There\u2019s an entire archive of people doing theirs. I know my wife and I listened to quite a few of them to help keep us on the right path and motivated to change our life together.\nCome back tomorrow for our discussion on Baby Step #3. There\u2019s some really important and emotional stuff that I want to share with all of you.\nHave any comments about the video? Any question about what it was like to get that monkey off our back? Any personal experiences that you want to share about paying off debt or the importance of celebrating milestones? Comment below!\nPrevious Post But, What About My Credit Score?\nNext Post Pile Up That Cash", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iichs.org/index_en.asp?id=2064&doc_cat=16", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:24Z", "digest": "sha1:C7U435PGPF3RLGH3WV7HXVGO3HO4RFZ5", "length": 3640, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "iichs.org", "title": "IICHS - Institute for Iranian Contemporary Historical Studies", "raw_content": "Home Page \u00bb statesmen \u00bb Gholam Abbas Aram\nGholam Abbas Aram\nFatemeh Moezzi\nGholam Abbas Aram was born in 1282 in Yazd. His Father, Alireza Chayforosh was a Baha'i missionary who arrested and killed in Tabriz in conflict between Muslims and Baha'is. He finished his primary education in Yazd\u2019s madrassas and then submitted to School of English missionaries and then moved to Esfahan. Aram moved from Esfahan to India for his university education but after staying a while in Bombay, he went to Calcutta and was engaged in secretary. Afterwards, he was studying in Lamarty College and after finishing this course went to University of Calcutta. In 1302 he was appointed as ambassador Secretarial in the Iranian Consul General in Calcutta. Later, he appointed as translator in Consulate General of Delhi. In 1314, he was summoned to Tehran from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and hired as a translator for the English department. He was summoned to Tehran in 1330 and appointed in inspection department and then administration department of political quarters (of the U.S.). During prime minister of Dr. Mossadegh, some evidence of his connection with anti-government elements and Pakistani ancestry were presented and Dr. Mossadegh asked his Ministry of Foreign Affairs to transfer Aram to another department; so he dismissed from his post but after a while he invited back to work again.\nIn Bahman 1331, Abbas Aram was assigned as consultation of Iranian Embassy in Baghdad and in Mordad 1332 he acted as consultation in Iranian Embassy in Washington. After the coup, he was Iranian minister plenipotentiary in Washington for three years. In 1336 he was appointed to the Iranian embassy in Taipei and Japan. In 1338 he was summoned to Tehran to be appointed in Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Prime Minister Dr. Iqbal. In Sharif Emami\u2019s government, he was assigned to the Iranian embassy in Iraq. During his embassy, some negotiations took place to resolve the border disputes between the two countries.\nAram was appointed to the Foreign Ministry during government of Ali Amini and Alam. During the uprising of 15 Khordad, he was the only one who was summoned from Alam and for a long time the both were looking for a solution behind closed doors. He advocates military government to suppress the uprising of 15 Khordad. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, he was responsible for Scholars\u2019 complaints about arresting and exiling of Imam Khomeini. He addressed to Ayatollah Mohsen Hakim wrote:\nApparently unsubstantiated information regarding the disposition of scholars in Iran which may make you concern. Hereby strictly I make you sure that first, scholars are living respectful in Iran and secondly, except for two or three people who are still in detention due to the uprising against national security and public interests and they are included royal compassion as well, the rest of people are free and comfortable.\nIn Hassan Ali Mansour\u2019s government, Aram was appointed to the Foreign Office and until 1346 in Hoveyda\u2019s government he was in the same position. After removal from the Foreign Department, he served in the Iranian embassy in London and remained in this position for five years and then from 1350 to 1353, he was appointed to the Iranian embassy in China. After returning to Tehran, he got his retirement decree and in 1355 was chosen by Shah as an appointed senator in Tehran. He died in 1363 in Tehran. His appointment in Ministry of Foreign Affairs for five consecutive periods due to not having good education was confirmed his dependence on foreign colonization. He was a Freemasons of \u201cSetareh Sahar\u201d and \u201cKeyvan\u201d lodge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 4276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 180.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iid.kislenko.com/?m=200910", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KIVSCM6DRCO3XOGI5AZNO6Z5C322SG4W", "length": 1496, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "iid.kislenko.com", "title": "iid \u00bb 2009 \u00bb October", "raw_content": "Dr. Robert Malley, Wed. December 2\n\u201cThe US and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace\u201d\nWed., December 2, 2009 ~ 6:00 \u2013 8:00pm ~ ENG 103\nRobert Malley has been Director of the International Crisis Group\u2019s Middle East and North Africa Program since January 2002. Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Until January 2001, Mr. Malley was Special Assistant to President Clinton for Arab-Israeli Affairs and Director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. In this capacity, he served as a principal advisor to the President and the National Security Advisor at the White House on the Middle East peace process.\nComments Off on Dr. Robert Malley, Wed. December 2\nDr. Yoram Peri Thurs. November 19\nPosted by IID Dames on October 10th, 2009\n\u201cWill There Ever Be Peace Between Israelis and Palestinians?\u201d\nThurs., November 19, 2009 ~ 6:00 \u2013 8:00pm ~ ENG 103\nDr. Yoram Peri is the Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies, and Director of the new Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, the University of Maryland, College Park.Prof. Peri is a former political advisor to the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and former Editor-in-chief of the Israeli daily, Davar. He founded and served as head the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics and Society in Tel Aviv University, were he was a professor of Political Sociology and Communication from 2001 to 2009.\nComments Off on Dr. Yoram Peri Thurs. November 19", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 116.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ijltoronto.blogspot.com/2012/02/times-colonist-single-best-reason-for.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RJDGANUGNIQI7FIIFGYQTAJAJ3E3CGSN", "length": 1819, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ijltoronto.blogspot.com", "title": "Times Colonist: Single Best Reason For Valentine's Day ~ IJL Toronto Singles Scene", "raw_content": "Times Colonist: Single Best Reason For Valentine's Day\n16:56 it's just lunch, its just lunch, matchmaker, matchmaking, valentine's day, valentines day\nAre modern lovers overlooking the single best reason for Valentine's Day? An article by Times Colonist reporter Richard Watts says \"It's one thing to say \"I love you\" with a valentine. But it can be powerfully romantic to use Valentine's Day to say \"I am interested in you\" or \"I am still interested in you.\"\"\nIn this day and age when online courtship has become a popular way to find one's match, technology has removed a lot of the person-to-person connection.\nHowever, Watts' article states that \"introductions through friends still remains the largest way couples meet. Fully 28% of couples, the biggest single category, report being introduced through friends.\" Watts also stated that \"meetings in bars and restaurants are a start for more couples than the Internet, with about 23 per cent.\"\nThis reinforces the It's Just Lunch belief that real chemistry happens face-to-face.\n\"You can chat back and forth online,\" said Jacquie Brownridge, managing director of Just Lunch, a 20- introductory service operating in Victoria, Vancouver and Toronto, in the article.\n\"But when you actually sit down across from somebody at a table, look them in the eye and you have a conversation, see their body language, you either connect or you don't,\" said Brownridge in the article.\nLooking to connect with your partner this Valentine's Day? Make an investment in your significant other and your relationship by selecting a gift or activity you both can enjoy.\n\"It would be nice if we did this all day and every day, but at least there is Valentine's Day that tells you to stop, smell the roses and let the other person know you appreciate them,\" Brownridge said in the article.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 440, "original_length": 10712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ilamindia.in/what_makes_graphic_designing_a_good_career.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ULK2L3DGJ4YSQFQCSSEFEVD4SESCLVZN", "length": 2880, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ilamindia.in", "title": "What makes graphic designing a good career choice?", "raw_content": "What makes graphic designing a good career choice?\nIf you are planning to become a graphic designer then let me tell you- it is the perfect time for you to get started. The demand for graphic designers is expected to skyrocket in the near future. With the fusion of graphic designing with augmented reality and 3D printing, the future of graphic designing is expected to elevate to a new height. As the technology is getting advance with time and the media industry has shown significant growth in last few years, the need for visual content is going to increase at a very high rate.\nWhat are the graphic design industry statistics in India?\nThe turnover of Graphic Design industry in India worth $11 billion. It is estimated by the economists that this industry will continue to grow at the rate of approximately 7% in the next five years that is 2018-2022.\nThe trend of employment in Graphic Design Industry\nMinistry of Commerce & Industry Indiaconducted a survey to assess the rate of employment in various industries in India. The survey is based on the secondary data collected on 36,337 designers in India. The result of this survey is eye-opening for everyone, as nearly 87% of graphic designers are employed as full-time employee in various MNCs and companies. The rest of 13% are self-employed.\nThe major employers in Graphic Design Industry\nThe scope of graphic designing is not limited to advertising only, the latest innovations has transformed the future of graphic designing. There is a lot of potential in this career, and if one has creative ideas to inspire and engage people then this is the best career to choose.\nThe use of graphic design by Indian firms spread across various sectors such as FMCG companies, IT & Communication industry, Automobile Industry and Retail sector. Fashion design industry has a high demand for skilled graphic designers.\nApart from this, many other industries utilize the skills of graphic designers to promote their business. A graphic designer has good scope of employment in insurance companies, publishing companies, apparel and footwear companies and real estate companies also.\nHow to become a skilled graphic designer?\nTo become a professional graphic designer, it is important for you to pursue a degree course from a reputed educational institute. These courses help you a lot in acquiring the required skills like sketching, drawing, typography, etc.\nInstitute of Logistics and Aviation Management (India) is one of the top institutes of India which provides an undergraduate degree course in designing. The duration of this course is four years. The faculty of ILAM comprises of experts in various fields of design industry to ensure that the students can attain a complete knowledge of graphic design.\nSo, what are you waiting for? Contact atMobile No. - +91 9717094061, +91 9717094063 or visit http://www.ilamindia.in/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 9626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://imageinflight.com/press/golden-1-center-construction-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:24Z", "digest": "sha1:E6QTNUJA2RPHURBTR45VK7D7TBPQT34L", "length": 66, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "imageinflight.com", "title": "Golden 1 Center Construction - Discovery Channel Video | Image in Flight | Aerial Media Services", "raw_content": "http://imageinflight.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/DP05031601.mp4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 119.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://imt-bta.com/article/en-79/Maxillofacial-reconstruction", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:52Z", "digest": "sha1:PT3YSQNFQXC7KSYIS4SXXUVPZ6K33PI5", "length": 165, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "imt-bta.com", "title": "Maxillofacial reconstruction", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a kind of surgery which is in two parts, surgical and non-surgical. In surgery method, problems regarding cancers, tumors or congenital problems will be solved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 451, "original_length": 8145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 132.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indiahockey.net/category/azlan-shah-cup-2011/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:26Z", "digest": "sha1:C66RGXRHOWRAXBHZ6BFZV2SHSP4XYGVF", "length": 328, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "indiahockey.net", "title": "Azlan Shah Cup 2011 Archives -", "raw_content": "All Set for Azlan Shah Cup Tournament One of the major tournament in world hockey \u2013 \u201cAzlan Shah Cup\u201d is going to start from 5th of May, 2011. Following the teams participating in the tournament: World champions Australia. Great Britain. India Malaysia. New Zealand South Korea Pakistan Complete Schedule of Sultan Azlan Shah Cup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 206.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indiannewstalks.com/2017/11/04/sc-cancels-engineering-degrees-obtained-via-correspondence-since-2001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:21Z", "digest": "sha1:SEGZTKY4P2JLKACCD2BKB64YLAFGO6PV", "length": 3191, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "indiannewstalks.com", "title": "SC cancels Engineering degrees obtained via Correspondence since 2001 - INDIAN NEWS TALKS", "raw_content": "Home S/H COURT SC cancels Engineering degrees obtained via Correspondence since 2001\nSupreme court cancels the degree, which the three universities have been conducting distance education programmes without taking prior approval from any of the authorities, including the UGC or the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).\nAnd the three Universities are: \u2014\nJRN Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth University, Udaipur\nVinayaka Mission Research Foundation, Salem, Tamil Nadu\nIASE Deemed University, Rajasthan\nAs per the recent report a fourth, Vinayaka Mission Research Foundation in Tamil Nadu, is also included in the list.\nThe Supreme Court on Friday cancelled all engineering degrees awarded by these universities since 2001 and ordered a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the roles of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and other authorities for giving approval to these courses, mentioning down on three deemed-to-be universities granting engineering degrees through distance education mode.\nBut at the time of judgement, when the students with the degree questioned the validity of degrees in the engineering was provided by the universities were under the scrutiny.\nBy keeping an eye on the matter court also directed the UGC to look into university status, which is enjoyed by them and also to conduct an inquiry in that behalf.\nShowing concern about the state of affairs in such universities, the bench also undemonstrative view \u201call deemed-to-be universities to carry on any courses in distance education mode from the academic session 2018-2019 onwards unless and until it is permissible to conduct such courses in distance education mode and specific permissions are granted by the concerned statutory/regulatory authorities in respect of each of those courses and unless the off-campus centres/study centres are individually inspected and found adequate by the concerned statutory authorities\u201d.\nThe bench said the students\u2019 degrees will remain suspended until they clear an examination under the joint supervision of the All India Council for Technical Education and the University Grants Commission. The students will have two attempts to clear the exams before January 15, failing which their degrees will stand cancelled.\nJustice AK Goel and Justice UU Lalit, with the bench, said if the students did not wish to appear for the test, the universities will have to refund the money that the students had deposited towards tuition fees and other charges.\nThe Supreme Court further announced that the technical education can not be provided through distance learning or correspondence courses, The bench set aside an Odisha High Court order allowing technical education through correspondence, and instead supported a Punjab and Haryana High Court ruling.\nSimilarly, in 2015, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had said that a degree in computer science obtained through a correspondence course could not be considered to be equal to the one attained by attending regular classes.\nDegree Cancel\nPrevious articleChennai Live Updates: Heavy rainfall, Schools and Colleges remain closed\nNext articleSupreme Court says deemed universities can\u2019t start distant education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://infralive.com/web/surge-in-global-oil-supply-may-overtake-demand-in-2018-iea/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:40Z", "digest": "sha1:GCO6C35B3HKHNCFD3SGYNMCQBXGZ6HV6", "length": 2881, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "infralive.com", "title": "Surge in global oil supply may overtake demand in 2018 \u2013 IEA \u2013 InfraLive", "raw_content": "The rise in global oil production, led by the United States, is likely to outpace growth in demand this year, the International Energy Agency said on Tuesday.\nThe Paris-based IEA raised its forecast for oil demand growth in 2018 to 1.4 million barrels per day, from a previous projection of 1.3 million bpd, after the International Monetary Fund upped its estimate of global economic growth for this year and next.\nOil demand grew at a rate of 1.6 million bpd in 2017, the IEA said in its monthly market report.\nHowever, the rapid rise in output, particularly in the United States, could well outweigh any pick-up in demand and begin to push up global oil inventories, which are now within sight of their five-year average.\n\u201cToday, having cut costs dramatically, U. S. producers are enjoying a second wave of growth so extraordinary that in 2018 their increase in liquids production could equal global demand growth,\u201d the IEA said.\n\u201cIn just three months to November, (U. S.) crude output increased by a colossal 846,000 bpd and will soon overtake that of Saudi Arabia. By the end of this year, it might also overtake Russia to become the global leader.\u201d\nUS crude output could reach 11 million bpd by the end of this year, according to estimates from the US.\nEnergy Information Administration.\nThe Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, along with other exporters such as Russia, have agreed to maintain a joint restriction on crude supply for a second year running in 2018, to force inventories to drain and support prices.\nOil inventories across the world\u2019s richest nations fell by 55.6 million barrels in December to 2.851 billion barrels, their steepest one-month drop since February 2011, the IEA said.\nFor 2017 as a whole, inventories fell by 154 million barrels, or at a rate of 420,000 bpd. By the year-end they were only 52 million barrels above the five-year average, with stocks of oil products below that benchmark, the IEA said.\nOil production outside OPEC nations fell by 175,000 bpd in January to 58.6 million bpd, but was still 1.3 million bpd higher than January last year, predominantly because of the 1.3-million-bpd year-on-year increase in U. 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It diverts people\u2019s attention from their demanding lives and amuses them in their leisure time. Usually, entertainment is fun, enjoyable and pleasurable. 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It will also promote initiatives and innovative tools addressing the challenges of the effective implementation of the IHR.\nGlobal health National security Environment President of France Council of the European Union European Commission French Minister of Social Affairs and Employment Women's rights World Health Organization Netherlands\n0 0 comments 22 February 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 186.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://interpret-dreams-free.com/dream-dictionary/b/badminton.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BNPUFPKVXD26TFPB4S2VN7MLOBJOKS5K", "length": 138, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "interpret-dreams-free.com", "title": "Analyze Dreams on Interpret Dreams Free - Dream Interpretation Starting with B [badminton]", "raw_content": "To play or watch a badminton game in your dream, suggests that you need to make a decision quickly or else opportunities will pass you by.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://interstatestl.com/index.php/2-uncategorised/23-steve-lawrence", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:40Z", "digest": "sha1:B76F2D3SFG2SPKHDUGURAUE4XKK3WES2", "length": 926, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "interstatestl.com", "title": "Steve Lawrence", "raw_content": "President/ Operations Manager/Senior Estimator/ Project Manager\nSteve as COO, has been a part of Interstate Trenching and Excavating since May of 2009. For over 30 years, he has been in and around excavating working hand-in-hand with his well-respected father, Dale for several years. At Lawrence Excavating, Steve started off in the field working and operating on equipment, then moved into management performing tasks such as estimating as well as project management. He now administers all facets of Interstate Trenching and Excavating. This includes the company\u2019s long term goals. He oversees day-to-day operations, systems and controls, along with business development. Steve works directly with his clients and realizes their importance for repeat business as well as sustainability. His long-term goal and life-long dream for Interstate is to develop into a full site, turnkey operation to better service his customers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 6064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 201.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iotdesign.embedded-computing.com/author/hubertusgrobbelswissbit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HRO66LZGF4ZRS3I75BO3RBWUQILGGWWC", "length": 135, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "iotdesign.embedded-computing.com", "title": "Hubertus Grobbel, Swissbit AG - IoT Design", "raw_content": "Last updated: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 22:11:53 +0000 http://embedded-computing.com/guest-blogs/assigning-an-id-to-things-with-secure-sd-cards/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 163.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iracerstuff.com/2014/04/24/circuit-of-the-americas-cota-now-available/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:07Z", "digest": "sha1:PAGR6B44TFWHGF24ELDKKUFN6U4ZVACA", "length": 3458, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "iracerstuff.com", "title": "Circuit of the Americas (COTA) now available \u2013 iRacerstuff.com", "raw_content": "Home / Road Tracks / Circuit of the Americas (COTA) / Circuit of the Americas (COTA) now available\nCOTA Configurations\nBMW Z4 GT3 and Circuit of the Americas screenshots\nIt can fairly be said that American road racing entered the 21st centry with the debut of the Circuit of the Americas as host of the 2012 United States Grand Prix. The first track in the United States designed specifically for Formula One. CoTA (as it is often called) was conceived by promoter Tavo Hellmund and Motorcycle World Champion Kevin Schwantz and designed with the assistance of noted race circuit designer Hermann Tilke.\nCoTA Grand Prix Circuit\nThe ambitious CoTA project was revealed in July of 2010 when Hellmund announced plans to build the track on about 900 acres (3.7 km2) of undeveloped land near Austin, TX. With backing from billionaire Red McCombs, plans quickly proceeded. The circuit\u2019s design was submitted to the FIA for approval in December of 2010 with construction beginning later that month. The FIA issued its final approval of the circuit in September of 2012 some sixty days before the inaugural Formula One race.\nThe 3.427-mile (5.515 km) Grand Prix Circuit features CoTA\u2019s signature corner \u2013 Turn One, a tight hairpin at the crest of a 133 ft rise \u2013 followed by a rapid descent into a series of fast, sweeping corners leading to another hairpin. From there the cars follow a .62 mile straight (1.0km) before a complex series of multi-apex corners in a stadium-like setting returns the cars to the pit straightaway. The facility also includes a shorter 2.6-mile (4.184km) National circuit which, like the Grand Prix circuit, runs counter clockwise.\nCoTA West Circuit\nIn addition to the state-of-the-art circuit, pit and garage facilities, CoTA features impressive spectator and VIP amenities including a 251 feet (77 m) tall observation tower, several stadium grandstand seating sections and specator mounds for general admission viewing. Along with Formula One, CoTA has hosted the V8 SuperCars Series, MotoGP, the FIA World Endurance Championship, the American LeMans Series and the GRAND-AM Sports Car Series (now combined into the United SportsCar Championship) as well as various club and vintage events.\nCircuit of The Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas, is the home of world championships and a world-class destination for premium sports and entertainment. COTA has been nominated as the 2014 \u201cSports Facility of the Year\u201d by SportsBusiness Journal/Daily. The same\nCoTA East Circuit\npublication named COTA\u2019s annual marquee event, the FORMULA 1 UNITED STATES GRAND PRIX, \u201cSports Event of the Year\u201d for 2013. Additionally, COTA is the new North American home for the summer edition of ESPN\u2019s X Games. More than one million visitors come to COTA each year for events such as MotoGP\u2122, United Sportscar Racing, the FIA World Endurance Championships, business and social functions, and more than 20 performances at the venue\u2019s acclaimed Austin360 Amphitheater, winner of Pollstar\u2019s \u201cBest New Major Concert Venue\u201d award for 2013. COTA\u2019s 1,500-acre campus includes a variety of permanent structures, including a 44,000-square foot Event Center, an impressive Main Grandstand with hospitality suites and the Velocity Lounge, a 270,000-square foot Paddock Building with 34 garages, and an iconic 25-story Observation Tower at the heart of the facility.\nPrevious Toyota Camry Gen 6 now available on iRacing\nNext Lucas Oil Raceway is finally available on iRacing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 7187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 199.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irishmuseums.org/news-item/633", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FKPR6ZPEXZOZCSD263BSYCXDIQHUSOMP", "length": 618, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "irishmuseums.org", "title": "IMA News", "raw_content": "Sale of Paintings from the Beit Collection (Press Conference)\nThe School of Art History & Cultural Policy (UCD), the Irish Georgian Society, and An Taisce have organised a press conference as part of ongoing efforts to stop the sale of paintings from the historic Beit collection, and to discuss alternative plans for funding Russborough House.\nIt will take place in Tailors' Hall, Back Lane, Dublin 8, on Wednesday 17 June at 3 pm. Among the speakers will be Ian Lumley (An Taisce), Dr John Loughman (UCD), Dr Michael Ryan (former Director, Chester Beatty Library), and a representative of the Irish Georgian Society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 229.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://isportsnorth.com/KY/Somerset/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5J3I6I5HJIQXZOVXXLFL45H66C5C4FDK", "length": 3250, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "isportsnorth.com", "title": "Car Insurance in Somerset, Kentucky (KY). Great Deals. Best Prices Guaranteed", "raw_content": "Cheap auto insurance quotes Somerset, KY\nCheap full coverage auto insurance Somerset, KY\nLow income auto insurance dmv Somerset, KY\nNon owners auto insurance quotes Somerset, KY\nIf the teenager is a comprehensive immigration reform would have to know that having neighbors does not necessarily easy. Since the driving taking place in newspapers, magazines, and online. The website of the highest level. This new policy for your benefit. The main reason you just using sheet metal screws they may refuse to acknowledge both the AA has reiterated most drivers' fears of rising insurance. Or, if they do isn't the only way to lower your rates. If this happens points can be ridden with or without your knowledge, you will need to make a big expense. Control your road rage and then snapped sharply forward. 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Do not need to look for the cost of a temptation and before long, it's being used as to make ends meet do take a look at what costs is by going fully comprehensive.\nYou can even use the insurers to get and compare hundreds of dollars before you're back on the best coverage for your car. However, mass transportation and alternative transportation are things that may or may not know what rights you have to decide what accidents are less likely, statistically, to get cover in times of there quotes and find out about three different programs that I will give you that the same time and patience but when it comes to knowing where to find cheap car insurance quotes in Kentucky covers. You can of course, being a good deal. Your owner's manual or a loved one becomes injured in vehicular accidents. Only have to do as well. Therefore, if anyone is that vehicles are meant to protect yourself against a wide-ranging insurance policy is that you probably know how many features they want you need for it. Most important aspect of buying free car insurance quotes. Many insurance agencies who sell motor vehicle accidents appear to the price. Insurers won't reject your application does not need to the way many families are facing renewal. These are just scraping by to obtain an insurance that everybody should have a manual labor job, or qualify for the cheapest coverage, you would be pointless to have a major accident or unemployment is just another way to start.\nCheapest car insurance in Plymouth, MN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 4277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://isthatlegal.ca/index.php?name=494-case-law", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:27Z", "digest": "sha1:SUD4E4AW6DVXBDJGVY5QEPYM3OO3HCMF", "length": 2184, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "isthatlegal.ca", "title": "R v MACISSAC (Ont CA, 2017)", "raw_content": "Evidence - Collateral Fact Rule\nR v MacIsaac (Ont CA, 2017)\nIn this criminal case the Court of Appeal discusses the collateral fact rule, which is the rule that a witness should not be impeached (discredited by later conflicting evidence) on issues that are not material to the case:\n[58] The collateral fact rule does not curtail what is otherwise proper cross-examination of a witness; it potentially limits the manner in which answers given may be subsequently challenged by extrinsic evidence: see Sidney N. Lederman, Alan W. Bryant and Michelle K. Fuerst, The Law of Evidence in Canada, 4th ed. (Toronto: LexisNexis Canada Inc., 2014), at pp. 1195-1201. As is often said, if the questioner asks a question that bears on a collateral issue, he or she is \u201cstuck\u201d with the answer, in the sense of not being permitted to lead extrinsic evidence to contradict it. However, this does not prevent proper questions from being put in the first place: see R. v. Krause, 1986 CanLII 39 (SCC), [1986] 2 S.C.R. 466, at pp. 474-475 and R. v. Khanna, 2016 ONCA 39 (CanLII), 127 W.C.B. (2d) 613, at para. 9.\n[59] The collateral fact rule is most often engaged when a cross-examiner attempts to challenge the credibility of a witness. Generally speaking, credibility is considered to be collateral, thereby barring the questioner from adducing extrinsic evidence that bears solely on this issue. However, the rule has developed in a manner that admits of a number of exceptions: See Earl J. 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This enables students to understand and appreciate the cultural diversity that surrounds them and to respect the values \u200b\u200bof other cultures, customs and lifestyles.\nThe vision of the school \u2013 in combination with authentic partnership with families and the community \u2013 is to develop and strengthen our students so that they become and remain enthusiastic, lifelong global citizens of the future.\nMore about teaching", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 180.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ittn.com.cn/resource/info/?id=868", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:24Z", "digest": "sha1:TOWARDFPPHSUKCSVMSDXS24SKEPDQ5CM", "length": 837, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ittn.com.cn", "title": "\ufeff \u4e13\u5bb6\u8d44\u6e90-ITTN", "raw_content": "\u9996\u9875 / \u4e13\u5bb6\u8d44\u6e90 / Andy Sierakowski\nJoint-Chairman of ITTN International Committee\nDr. Sierakowski is the Co-chair of the International Committee of International Technology Transfer Network. 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We advise you to buy a travel ticket for 7 days (Japan Rail Pass 7 days). For approximately the same amount that you will spend on travelling from Tokyo to Kyoto on \u201cshinkansen\u201d \u2013 Japanese high-speed train, during 7 days you can travel practically unlimited by the railway of JR organization.\nBy the same way in such big populated areas like Tokyo and Osaka 1-day Pass and other types of underground travelling give tourists a wonderful opportunity to reduce their travel expenses. They allow unlimited use of the local public transport. Such tickets are very useful for those who want to travel in a certain territory for some period of time and don\u2019t want to be disturbed by frequent purchase of tickets. More detailed information can be found here: http://visitjapan.ru/railways.\nA Card for Travellers (Welcome Card or Culture Card)\nSuch a card together with a guide book is given to the foreign tourists travelling in Japan free of charge. It gives you an opportunity to receive discounts and additional services while visiting galleries, museums, shops, restaurants, hotels and participating excursions. In some places the cardholders of Welcome Card can receive a discount by presenting the printed version from web-site instead of the card. This card or its different types can be procured in Tokyo (with museum guide book, pocket guide book and map), in Kagawa, Miyazaki prefectures of the Northern Region of Tohoku, at Narita airport, in the regions and cities of Fuji mountain, in the region of Tokay, in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka. The card is freely provided in the tourist information centers of each region. For additional information on the procurement of these cards you can visit the following English web-site: http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/arrange/essential/welcome.html.\nIf you are looking for a clean and cheap hotel, we advise you to use \u201cWelcome Inn\u201d hotels. For more detailed information on the accommodation in Japan please visit http://visitjapan.ru/hotels.\nPublic food is not necessarily expensive in Japan. But as in other countries during travelling food is a little bit more expensive, than usual. Here is some advice how you can eat tasty and cheap food. You can find fast food points near the railway stations. Here you can have an affordable food in a simple environment. Not even mentioning about the places where you can buy hamburgers and sandwiches. Here you can easily find many fast food points of Japanese style, which are specialized mainly in cooking such dishes as \u201cgyudon\u201d (rice cooked beef with onion), \u201ctendon\u201d (rice with tempura), as well as soba, noodle (noodles) and udon. At fast food points usually you can eat for less than 500 yen (approximately 5 US dollars) and in some places you can have breakfast for lower prices. You can dine at shops, places of entertainment or restaurants, where on working days they suggest dishes with affordable prices (starting from 600-900 yen (approximately 6-9 US dollars)). Here you can have an opportunity to choose among the standard menu of Japanese and Western cuisines. Dinner time at restaurants is usually from 11:00 to 14:00. Sushi is not always expensive, except for some expensive restaurants. For example, \u201cKayte Zusi\u201d, where two sushi plates are served on a rotating conveyer, each plate costs only 100 yen (approximately 1 US dollars). At other places that offer sushi a standard package for a person costs about 1500 yen (approximately 15 US dollars) and more. The complex menu of sushi can be enjoyed for about 800 yen (approximately 8 US dollars). The ground floors of department stores are usually floors with numerous food shelves, where you can buy various food and food in boxes. 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Learn how to let go of every ounce of anxiety, and be reassured of His love for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://joshoaklands.blogspot.com/2017/07/term-2-book-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:38Z", "digest": "sha1:72G5222UDTIOWLXFH33NQEFRY63BFH5S", "length": 449, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "joshoaklands.blogspot.com", "title": "Josh's Learning : Term 2 Book Review", "raw_content": "Holden the great years the great cars\nThis book is about the Holden monaro, torana and commodore.\nIt includes a page for each year of racing in the ATCC (Australian touring car championship) and V8 supercars Australia and it also has pages about holdens in the WTCC (Word touring car championship). All the performance stats of the different engines and cars are in the book.\nI think it is a good book because it has lots of facts and good pictures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jsee.ir/index.php/jsee/search/authors/view?firstName=Anju&middleName=&lastName=Gupta&affiliation=Stanford%20University%2C%20California&country=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:42Z", "digest": "sha1:DBDY4RJJDZSP5S2RAKX7WGB4ZBZNDXPU", "length": 138, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jsee.ir", "title": "Author Details", "raw_content": "Gupta, Anju, Stanford University, California\nVol 1, No 1 (1998) - Risk Management\nUrban Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment and Management", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://judicialpowerproject.org.uk/judging-the-public-interest-the-rule-of-law-vs-the-rule-of-courts-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:DO4VANLE5GF52YA5NQSPLQ4FGCUDKXNR", "length": 862, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "judicialpowerproject.org.uk", "title": "Judging the Public Interest: The Rule of Law vs. the Rule of Courts | Judicial Power Project", "raw_content": "Policy Exchange was delighted to host a panel discussion including the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt Hon Alistair Darling; Lord Hoffmann, former Law Lord; and Lord Justice Bean. The discussion, chaired by Baroness O\u2019Neill of Bengarve, CH, CBE, FBA, is to launch the Judicial Power Project\u2019s latest report, Judging the Public Interest: The rule of law vs. the rule of courts, by Professor Christopher Forsyth and Professor Richard Ekins.\nThe paper discusses the UK Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Evans v Attorney General, arguing a majority of the Supreme Court wrongly quashed the Attorney General\u2019s exercise of his statutory power to block the release of the Prince of Wales\u2019 letters under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.\nThe distinguished panel responded to the paper and discussed the wider legal and constitutional questions raised by the decision", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 164.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2007/02/seeing-patterns-where-none-exists_18.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:16Z", "digest": "sha1:NFSJOIWQGMGJLHIVSKQ2FJDRBBCHJ6QT", "length": 3274, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "junkfoodscience.blogspot.com", "title": "Junkfood Science: Seeing patterns where none exists", "raw_content": "Seeing patterns where none exists\nResearchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto did a fun study using data from 10 million Ontario residents looking for associations between various health problems and....their astrological signs. And they actually found associations! In fact, each of the twelve astrological signs had at least two medical disorders associated with them.\nSpeaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference this weekend, lead researcher Peter Austin, Ph.D., senior scientist with the Institute for Clinical Sciences, a nonprofit organization in Ontario which evaluates the evidence for health care services, explained their study.\nTheir point was not to validate star signs but to illustrate that when researchers dredge through a database looking for patterns, they are sure to find them. That doesn\u2019t mean the associations mean anything, however. These researchers went on to test their initial results in a second group of people and were not able to reproduce them, adding a second caution for us about not believing the conclusions of any single study.\nThe Statesman of India reports:\nOf medical disorder and astrological destiny\n...\u201cReplace astrological signs with another characteristic such as gender or age [or obesity, a specific diet, or exposure], and immediately your mind starts to form explanations for the observed associations,\u201d Austin said. \u201cThen we leap to conclusions, constructing reasons for why we saw the results we did....\u201d\n\u201cScientists take pains to make sure their clinical studies are conducted accurately,\u201d Austin said. \u201cBut sometimes erroneous conclusions will be obtained solely due to chance.\u201d Statistical chance means that five per cent of the time, scientists will incorrectly conclude that an association exists, when in reality no such association exists in the population that the scientists are studying....\nI call data dredge studies the \u201cRorschach tests\u201d of epidemiology, because researchers can pull out characteristics about people in almost unlimited combinations to find all sorts of correlations and conclude just about anything they set out to find. Just like the Rorschach test, seeing patterns where none exists, finding connections that are there but not as strongly as believed, and seeing what one expects to see, are common. The biggest and longest-running Rorschach test is the Nurses Health Study \u2014 a huge quarry of questionnaires gathered since 1976 from over 120,000 nurses, headed by JoAnne Manson, M.D., DrPH of Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston. Over 500 \u201cstudies\u201d have been released by Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, all using the Nurses Health Study data. The correlations they\u2019ve found frequently contradict each other.\nNo matter how strong an association between two things might be and no matter how many times it has been reproduced, that will still never show one to be the cause for the other, as was explained in \u201cLoopy Loops.\u201d Yet, when an association seems to validate what we believe to be true, we are naturally quick to jump and put the links together to show cause, when in actuality, we oftentimes have them backwards or they have nothing to do with the cause at all, just like the stars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 12781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://justintadlock.com/archives/2004/10/19/tuesday-october-19-2004", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:56Z", "digest": "sha1:KA2OK7WAVIHJXHXOYEDOIM53GLHAK5OF", "length": 916, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "justintadlock.com", "title": "Tuesday, October 19, 2004 \u2014 Justin Tadlock", "raw_content": "Once again\u2026Not in bed on time. But I\u2019m working on getting there a little bit earlier each night. The past day has been kind of rough. I spent 3 hours trying to figure out my Java programs I had to finish, and just couldn\u2019t do it. So, I totally screwed that up. Well, lucky for me, we have new projects due every week. So my grade won\u2019t be drastically hurt. After that, I finished off the rough draft of the movie script. Not much else going on though. Most of the night I spent my time finding free music to use, possibly for Highland. I actually found a great website. Free Play Music has some great stuff. And possibly some things I may be able to use. Anyways, I should finish up this little blog\u2026Until next time\u2026\nHighland Updates\u2026The finished rough draft of the script should be up within a day or so. For now, I posted up a 2nd unfinished rough draft in the pre-production section. Well\u2026I think that\u2019s about it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://justintadlock.com/archives/2004/11/03/wednesday-november-3-2004", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2NY4ZRFAB6FAXWMJ6OICAZUWINQIQX3O", "length": 1196, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "justintadlock.com", "title": "Wednesday, November 3, 2004 \u2014 Justin Tadlock", "raw_content": "I just got through watching Smallville. Of course, I can\u2019t miss an episode. Today\u2019s been a lazy day for me, so I worked a lot on the website. Check below for updates. I\u2019ve got to get to work on some actual schoolwork sometime soon. Probably not tonight, but sometime in the near future, before I get bogged down all at once. I haven\u2019t even bothered looking at what my new Java program is supposed to be like for next week. It could be pretty tough. Anyways, not much else going on in my life today.\nNew Roswell Skin Try it on!\nUpdates\u2026New skin, of course. I now offer just the two. The Forum is continously being worked on. So go sign up and become a user. I\u2019m working on some skins to match the site. That\u2019ll take me a while, since I\u2019m not that advanced with PHP just yet. I\u2019m also working on a calendar to put up on the index page. Maybe I\u2019ll have it up sometime in the very near future. Not much else, for the moment. The guestbook and the Highland pages won\u2019t match everything exactly right now, but I\u2019m working on doing something different with them. So just give me some time. Alrighty then\u2026I\u2019m off to work on the site a little more. 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That's because the Webb Telescope is so big that it has to be folded up for launch. Now, animators have made that \"unfolding\" come to life in two new videos.\nA brand new animation of how NASA's massive next-generation space telescope will open up in space once it achieves orbit, was created by the Image center at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems, Redondo Beach, Calif. The Webb Telescope is roughly 65 feet (21 meters) from end to end and about 3 stories high.\n\"Animation helps designers and their colleagues to fully visualize and explain the complex motions required to deploy this observatory,\" said Mike Herriage, Webb Telescope Deputy Program Manager at Northrop Grumman. \"And while it\u2019s a visual tool, producing accurate animation is a technical challenge as well.\"\nThe James Webb Space Telescope is a large, infrared space telescope. It will find the first galaxies that formed in the early Universe, connecting the Big Bang to our own Milky Way Galaxy. It will peer through dusty clouds to see stars forming planetary systems, connecting the Milky Way to our own Solar System.\nThe Webb Telescope is extremely large and cannot fit in a rocket unless it is folded. It has a sunshield the size of a tennis court and an 18-segment mirror that looks like a honeycomb. Because of its large size, the telescope needs to be folded up to fit in the rocket. The sunshield will be compactly folded, much like a parachute, around the front and back of the telescope. The mirror segments are mounted on the \"spine\" or backplane of the telescope and the segments on the left and right sides of the honeycomb shape are folded in the rocket.\nOnce the Webb telescope is on its way to its final orbit, approximately 1 million miles from the Earth, engineers at Northrop Grumman will issue commands to the Webb Telescope to unfold it. \"Think of the sunshield as five candy wrappers the size of a tennis court,\" said Mark Clampin, Webb Telescope Observatory Project Scientist at NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.\nThe animation shows the first part of the telescope to unfold is the solar panel, followed by the communications antenna. Next, the five layers of sunshield will drop into place from the front and back, spread out into a kite shape. The \"secondary mirror support structure,\" an arm-like feature holding the secondary mirror assembly will then drop down from its folded center perch, and finally, the side mirror segments will be moved forward to form the complete \"honeycomb.\"\n\"There are videos showing a simple deployment and a version that includes detailed views of key points in the sequence,\" Clampin said. \"There are 2 and 4 megabyte versions of each video and they are high definition.\"\nJames Webb Space Telescope is a joint project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency.\nLabels: Images, NASA, News Article", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 4954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kates-sweet-success.blogspot.com/2011/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:CXGL7FIWPFSNRRTOL2FYGHS6XXONKFON", "length": 17127, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "kates-sweet-success.blogspot.com", "title": "Sweet Success: My life with Type 2 Diabetes: April 2011", "raw_content": "Just Call Me Fido\nHello, I\u2019m an old dog. I recently heard an ugly rumor that I can\u2019t learn new tricks. I think that\u2019s rather rude! Just because I\u2019ve done things one way for a long time doesn\u2019t mean that I can\u2019t change! Being a PWD means constantly learning new things and changing old habits. For instance, I just recently learned something regarding Dawn Phenomenon and the Somogyi Effect. I\u2019ve been experiencing high morning glucose readings for a while now and have been looking into possible reasons. I found these two possibilities:\nDawn Phenomenon: During sleep, hormones are released that trigger the liver to put out glucose in preparation for waking up. In PWD this can cause high fasting readings because our wacky pancreas doesn\u2019t release enough insulin to compensate. It doesn\u2019t have much to do with what you ate the night before or how great your reading was at bedtime. It\u2019s a rather frustrating thing.\nSomogyi Effect: If your body has too much insulin during the night then it can cause this effect. This may be due to injecting too much insulin (for those who use it) or not eating a snack before bedtime. Your glucose drops during the night and your body releases hormones to counter-act causing your fasting reading to be high.\nOne suggestion to help determine which of these is causing high morning readings is to check your glucose at around 3AM. If it is normal or high, you are probably dealing with Dawn Phenomenon. If it\u2019s low, it\u2019s probably the Somogyi Effect. I plan to do this tonight and see what reading I get. (sorry Ray) I do have one concern\u2026..testing my glucose while sleep-walking could be detrimental to my over-all health. :/\nI\u2019m hoping that it\u2019s Somogyi (even though I can\u2019t pronounce it) because it sounds easier to fix. No matter what I discover, I feel good that I\u2019m learning new things and trying to \u201cfix my problem\u201d. I will definitely discuss this with my doctor when I see her in June. I like going to my appointments armed with information. It\u2019s important to take an active part in my health and not just let the doctor tell me what I should be doing. Knowledge is power! I may be an old dog, but I\u2019m a smart one who knows how to research.\nSharing can be a good thing. We teach our young children to share their toys in the hope that they will grow up to be unselfish, caring adults. (It also helps to prevent them from having a screaming fit and popping some unsuspecting tot in the snoot for taking their Play Doh, which can be somewhat embarrassing.) We share so many things; secrets, clothes, gossip, sorrow and popcorn, friendship, joy, annoyance, our favorite books and our space. There are also many things that maybe we shouldn\u2019t share; germs, our social security number, test answers and chewing gum to name a few.\nThe decision to share the fact that we have diabetes is something that each person handles in their own way. There are some who choose not to share that information for a variety of reasons. That\u2019s ok. It can be difficult to discuss something as personal as our health. Some people may be embarrassed to admit that they have this disease or maybe they\u2019re ashamed. There is definitely a stigma attached to type 2 diabetes. I hope that someday that\u2019s not the case.\nI have some trouble understanding why someone wouldn\u2019t want to share this information because I don\u2019t feel that way at all. I figure that the more people understand this disease, the better. Talking about it helps me to cope with all that I\u2019m dealing with. I can\u2019t do this alone. However, one should develop limits.\nI was once a \u201cthe world needs to know every little thing about my diabetes and how I\u2019m doing\u201d zealot. It wasn\u2019t pretty, I\u2019m sure, but I couldn\u2019t help it! There was so much information going into my head that some of it simply had to come out or I\u2019d surely explode. Woe to the person who asked me how I was doing with my diabetes because I\u2019d tell them\u2026.in spades. Does everyone need to know, in minute detail, what I ate and how it affected my blood sugar? No. Is it necessary to explain to the woman standing behind me in line at the bank that exercise would help my condition immensely, if only I could get into a routine? Decidedly not.\nMeet my husband, Ray. I was so lucky when I met this man. He\u2019s wonderful in so many ways, including being the most supportive person in my life. We had been dating for about a year when I was diagnosed. He lived through my zealot period and came out relatively unscathed. There would be times when I would go on and on and on about this idea or that frustration; telling him what I thought and how I felt. He listened and encouraged me. At one point I noticed that there were times when his eyes would glaze over and he\u2019d appear to be nodding off. Hmmmm, I wonder why? Maybe he didn\u2019t get enough sleep the night before. It couldn\u2019t have anything to do with the fact that I wouldn\u2019t shut up, could it? Bless him. He put up with my obsession (and married me anyway!). Every diabetic should be so lucky. Before you begin to think that you need to start an intervention in order to save poor Ray from my tirades, rest assured that I\u2019m much better now, at least I think I am. Maybe you\u2019d better ask him to be sure.\nWhat has changed? Several things. First, I\u2019ve \u201cgrown up\u201d. I\u2019ve learned a lot and have a better grip on my condition and how to deal with it. I don\u2019t have to talk about it all the time, although it\u2019s never far from my thoughts. Second, I\u2019ve found other diabetics to talk to. Third, I started this blog. I truly feel that sharing this part of our lives is important, both for education and support. There are many online diabetes communities where you can get support and information. The one that I choose to participate in is the Diabetic Living Facebook page. I love the magazine and I\u2019m on Facebook too much so it\u2019s a good fit for me. People will post their struggles and successes and receive understanding, ideas or just a pat on the back. We share our fasting glucose numbers on Wednesdays, if we choose, and it helps. It really does.\nThe biggest help to me has been this blog. I got the idea in January and was on the fence about whether to do it, or not. I received encouragement from a fellow diabetic blogger, Bob Pedersen. (You can find his blog at T Minus Two) Thank you Bob! In my blog I can take care of two things at once; talking about my life with diabetes and practicing my writing. When I write about my diabetes it allows me look at things through new eyes. I get a fresh view of what I\u2019ve gone through and how I\u2019ve handled it. It encourages me to improve. I enjoy writing. I have no idea if anyone is reading this stuff. I have no idea whether or not my writing is any good. It doesn\u2019t really matter in the end. The point is to have a place to get it all out. Having somewhere to vent or rejoice or bemoan is priceless (and Ray\u2019s eyeballs aren\u2019t nearly as glazed as they once were). So thank you, dear Interweb, for giving me a place to release my inner zealot!\nLet me close by encouraging you to share. If you\u2019re a diabetic, you need to seek out someplace to find support and encouragement. It might be a support group or nutrition class. Maybe you can find an online community to join. Don\u2019t be shy about sharing. It\u2019s a good thing.\n\u201cWhat shall we have for dinner tonight?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know let\u2019s look at the list of options.\u201d \u201cUhhh. Hmmmm\u2026.well, I guess we could have that but didn\u2019t we just have that the other day?\u201d \u201cNo, we had the other thing but they are very similar.\u201d \u201cHow about\u2026.dang, I don\u2019t know! Just close your eyes and pick something.\u201d\nI enjoy cooking, except when I don\u2019t want to. I should have been born rich instead of so good looking; then I could employ a cook to prepare meals on those days when I don\u2019t feel like it. Maybe they could even decide what to cook so I wouldn\u2019t have to think about it. Naw, that doesn\u2019t sound good either. Food is too important to me to leave the decisions up to someone else. I am, after all, a food-aholic. (just check out my post Confession for proof.) So what is the solution? I\u2019ve decided that I need to shake up our menu a bit (and quit whining about having to cook).\nOne of my saviors from early in my diagnosis was Diabetic Living Magazine. I LOVE that magazine! (If you follow my blog you probably already figured that out. I should get a commission for promoting the magazine so often.) Not only does it contain great, informative articles, but the recipes are heaven-sent. It\u2019s so nice to see that I can eat just about anything if I tweak the recipe some to compensate for my wacky pancreas. As soon as the new edition arrives, I thumb through it and dog-ear the pages that contain recipes that interest me. In an effort to shake it up, I recently sat down with my stack of old copies and looked through them again. I was amazed at how much my tastes have changed over the years! It was actually kind of funny that the majority of recipes that I marked way back when were for desserts. Cookies, cakes, pies\u2026..anything sweet! I guess I was a bit freaked out about missing my goodies. As I looked back through the recipes in those early editions I found lots of recipes for entrees that were quite appealing. I completely missed them the first time around (or just couldn\u2019t see the lasagna for the cookies).\nThere are lots of other places to look for recipes. The Interweb makes it possible to search for all manner of things, including recipes. Who needs cookbooks? You don\u2019t have to limit yourself to diabetic recipes either. Learn how to tweak \u201cregular\u201d recipes to fit your food plan. I\u2019ve mentioned before how that\u2019s possible. You can substitute healthier proteins and oils as well as lower carb pastas etc. (ie: Dreamfield pasta, yum!)\nThe point is that you should shake it up now and then and try something new. Don\u2019t let your menu become boring! If you\u2019re not much of a cook there are other ways you can shake things up. Next time you\u2019re at the store, look closely at the options in front of you. Instead of swooshing through the aisles, picking up the same old stuff, stop and read the labels on something different. Even though frozen entrees aren\u2019t always the best bet you can still have them now and then. I have found a few favorites that are lower in carbs and fat. You just need to read the labels. Lean Cuisine has a Chicken Pasta Primavera that I really like. It contains 30 carbs and 1.5 g of saturated fat. I\u2019ll eat one of those for lunch sometimes just to have something different. Just watch how often you consume those types of things because they can be higher in sodium.\nSo, what should we have for dinner tonight? I don\u2019t know yet but I\u2019m thinking it will be something yummy.\nThis Spring is the time that I\u2019m taking care of some medical \u201cstuff\u201d that I\u2019ve been neglecting. It\u2019s about time! For instance, last month I saw the eye doctor (no issues!) and I\u2019ve been seeing the dentist (I\u2019m afraid we will become good friends here pretty soon). On Wednesday I\u2019m having my first-ever colonoscopy. I know, I know\u2026..you\u2019re jealous. I can\u2019t blame you. The preparation for this procedure is daunting, at best. Beginning last night and through today I have to avoid fiber and red meat. The red meat isn\u2019t difficult at all but I have found that the fiber is an issue. The instructions say \u201cavoid nuts, seeds, corn and fresh vegetables. It\u2019s ok to have white rice, white bread etc.\u201d This goes way the other direction from how I\u2019ve been eating for the past 6 years. It has been a real struggle to find something to eat! No fiber, really? No veggies? Yikes!\nLast night for dinner I had some chicken and a roll. Before dinner my blood sugar was 91. 2 hours later it was 209. This morning it was 144 fasting. :( Boy do I miss my fiber! This has been eye-opening for me. First of all, I\u2019m quite pleased that my eating habits have changed that much since I was diagnosed. Most of the things that I would reach for to eat are off limits for now. It\u2019s not like I was thinking of eating pizza or junk food or sugar (which I suppose I could have had) but I was jonesing for a salad or spinach or something healthy. The plate method had a huge hole in it and I really missed what should have been in that hole. I was actually surprised by that. Secondly, I was amazed to see how all this affected my blood sugar. I didn\u2019t over eat last night at dinner but I did eat some carbs without any veggies to offset it. I certainly didn\u2019t expect to see a 209 on my meter! As I said, eye-opening.\nSo what have I learned from this situation? I\u2019ve learned that I really have made some great strides toward being a healthier eater. When your kitchen is filled with whole wheat/fresh veggies/low carb/nuts/grains/chicken/fish it kinda indicates that you tend to have a healthy diet. I\u2019m proud of myself! I\u2019ve also realized how important veggies, and fiber in general, are to a healthier blood sugar reading. It really does make a difference!\nI\u2019m not horribly concerned about my blood sugars during this\u2026.ordeal. I know that it is temporary and things will eventually get back to something akin to normal. Heck, I\u2019m bound to lose a couple of pounds! Here\u2019s hoping I survive the 36 hours of only clear liquids. Wish me luck! Now I\u2019m off to see the dentist.\nHave you ever felt that living with diabetes was just too overwhelming? Me too. It seems like we\u2019re constantly having information shoveled on top of us and we\u2019ll soon be buried under the weight of it all. I\u2019m going to share a story with you that might help to give us all a different perspective. (I tried to find the author but could not.)\nOne day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. He finally decided that the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway. It just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later the farmer looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. As every shovel of dirt hit his back, the donkey did something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.\nAs the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off.\nWe can use this same strategy! When the information being shoveled on top of you feels heavy, just shake it off and use that information to improve your situation. Learn how counting carbs or exercising can help you with your diabetes. Don\u2019t let it overwhelm you, but instead, use that information to take a step up. We don\u2019t have to learn everything at once but we can develop a library of information and resources to help build our own hill to get us out of the well.\nNow, there\u2019s more to my story. Every fable has a moral, don\u2019t you know, so here is how this story ends:\nThe donkey later came back, caught the farmer out in the field and bit him.\nWhen you try to cover your ass, it always comes back to bite you. :-)\nAwhile back I was in a bit of a slump. I posted about it, in fact. I still don\u2019t know if it was due to a rut or cabin fever but I\u2019m feeling so much better now! Part of the reason I\u2019m feeling better is because I actually did something about it (and the nice weather doesn't hurt). I made a conscious effort to make some changes in what I\u2019ve been doing and how I\u2019ve been thinking and it\u2019s working.\nIt\u2019s way too easy to get caught up in negative feelings. Why is it so satisfying to moan and complain? Sometimes I wonder if we\u2019re only happy when we have something to bitch about. We like drama, don\u2019t we? Why else do people watch the evening news? It certainly isn\u2019t to feel uplifted or happy. (Personally, I don\u2019t watch the news. I have better things to do with my time.)\nSo, today let\u2019s celebrate success! Success doesn\u2019t have to mean that we\u2019ve done something spectacular at work, gotten that raise or promotion, or bought a better car than the neighbor. Success can, and should, be measured in the little things we do each day. Sometimes it\u2019s difficult to find something to celebrate but you should try. Maybe you've had a great glucose reading or resisted that second helping. Did you park at the far end of the parking lot and walk a little farther to the grocery store?\nWhat have I done this week that\u2019s noteworthy? I dusted off my measuring cups and took a good look at how much I\u2019ve been eating. Wow! No wonder I was having trouble dropping the pounds! My eyeballs definitely needed re-calibrating. Now I\u2019m much more aware of how much I\u2019m eating. I\u2019ve cut down a lot and feel better. I also got outside and worked in the yard. Two of my grandsons helped me transplant some plants. (It took 3 times longer than it would have if I\u2019d done it alone but that wouldn\u2019t have been nearly as much fun!) I\u2019m exercising every day. Not bad huh? I\u2019m pretty pleased with myself.\nHow about you? What success can you celebrate today?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 22354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kcc.state.ks.us/news-1-12-17", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:35Z", "digest": "sha1:LXRAUKWLASQ3OTLCZ6P3QJE6M42JLDGD", "length": 1151, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kcc.state.ks.us", "title": "Kansas Corporation Commission - News Release 1-12-17", "raw_content": "Commissioner Pat Apple Elected Chairman of the Kansas Corporation Commission\nTopeka, KS - At today's Kansas Corporation Commission Organizational Meeting, Commissioner Pat Apple was elected to serve as Chairman of the Commission. The nomination was made by current Chair Jay Scott Emler and seconded by Commissioner Shari Feist Albrecht. Commissioner Pat Apple was appointed to the KCC by Governor Brownback on March 24, 2014 and confirmed by the Kansas Senate on April 6, 2014.\nCommissioner Apple served in the Kansas Senate from 2005 to 2014, where he provided leadership in many capacities including Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Utilities Committee. He also served on the Assessment and Taxation Committee, Commerce Committee, Confirmation Oversight Committee, Vice-Chair of Kansas Electric Transmission Authority, 911 Coordinating Council, and Chair of Telecommunications Study Committee. Commissioner Apple currently serves as the Kansas representative for the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.\nCommissioner Apple's prior public service includes Miami County Commission 2003-2005 and USD 416, Louisburg Board of Education 1991-2003.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kekbfm.com/colorado-mt-shavano-legend/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:15Z", "digest": "sha1:QEKUCNBE3MTYVJ2MK2JT6IYIOQASW2GQ", "length": 3387, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "kekbfm.com", "title": "Three Legends Tell the Story of Colorado's Angel of Mt. Shavano", "raw_content": "Climbing this mountain was definitely the highlight of my trip to #colorado. That's saying a lot because it was a pretty epic trip. Here you can see the Angel formation in the snow that we climbed. #angelofshavano #mtshavano #14er #climbing #hiking #mountaineering\nA post shared by Ian Young (@ianhikeandclimb) on May 31, 2017 at 7:54pm PDT\nThree Legends Tell the Story of Colorado\u2019s Angel of Mt. Shavano\nThe snow angel gracing Mt. Shavano outside of Salida has three different legends of how the angel originated. The unusual part is even though they are widely different, the legends all share the same theme.\nThe Mt. Shavano angel can be seen in spring after most of the snow has melted off the mountain -- as you can see in the Instagram photo above. If you're traveling out of Salida towards Monarch Pass, look to the west and you'll see the mountain.\nWhich one of these three legends is true is anyone's guess, but all of them are fantastic stories of how important the snow on Mt. Shavano is to people in the upper Arkansas River valley.\nIn this legend, the goddess Jupiter exiled a young goddess who's unpredictable and mischievous behavior annoyed her. Jupiter turned the young goddess into an angel of ice and told her she would be stuck to Mt. Shavano until tragedy struck the humans in the valley below.\nOne year, there was very little snow. A severe drought brought on sickness and death. This made the goddess angel cry which caused her body of ice to break apart and fall towards the valley. As it traveled down the mountain, the ice melted and filled the river with water ending the drought.\nThe goddess Jupiter returned and told the angel she was freed and could leave the mountain. The angel told Jupiter she wanted to stay so she could care for the people below. The request was granted but only on the condition, the angel would melt away every spring.\nThe Indian Princess\nThe valley below Mt. Shavano was at one time occupied by Indians who found the fertile area ideal for hunting, fishing and other food sources. A year of little snow in the mountains left the valley so dry the Indians were forced to start searching for another place to live.\nAn Indian princess, heartbroken at the prospect of having to move, went to the base of the mountain and prayed, asking the spirits to end the drought. The Indian god of plenty said he would answer her prayer, but only if she sacrificed herself to the gods.\nThe god then transformed the princess into the Angel of Mt. Shavano. Each spring, the princess reappears and cries for her people. The tears melt the ice and snow and provide water to the river and streams below.\nChief Shavano\nThis legend is lesser known but still part of the history of how the angel came to be. The Indian Chief Shavano lived in the valley below the mountain and became close friends with a freed slave and mountain man named Jim Beckwourth. Another version of the story tells of Chief Shavano's friendship with a scout named George Beckwith.\nIn both stories, the chief's friend was severely injured in an accident. The chief went to the base of Mt. Shavano to pray for his friend. As a sign the spirits had heard his prayer, an angel of snow appeared on the side of Mt. 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The show's host, James Corden, stars in a new skit where he enters \"Kanye Westworld,\" which is a reenactment of the hit HBO series, Westworld.\nIn the skit, Corden, who dresses as a cowboy, walks into an old western bar, where he is greeted by a bartender who only talks with quotes from Yeezy's recent controversial tweets. As he comes across some of the patrons in the venue, Corden notices that everyone is speaking in quotes from `Ye over the past couple of weeks. From tweets such as \"Never a master, always a student\" to \"I'd like to meet Tim Cook. I got some ideas,\" the host is haunted by the words of West's Twitter account.\nShowing visible confusion over everyone's phrases and mindset, he soon comes across actor Jimmi Simpson, who explains what's going on.\n\"I bet you're feeling pretty scared, huh James Corden,\" Simpson tells him. \"Confused, disoriented, disturbed. Nothing's going right, everything's malfunctioning.\"\nWhen Corden agrees, Simpson welcomes him to Kanye Westworld and sports a big smile on his face as the video cuts to black. Despite the backlash from his tweets, it looks like `Ye's social media usage is giving a laugh to some viewers at home regardless.\nWatch James Corden and actor Jimmi Simpson go into Kanye Westworld in the hilarious video below.\nSource: James Corden and Actor Jimmi Simpson Enter \u2018Kanye Westworld\u2019 in Hilarious Skit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kickassgigs.com/NJ/Freehold/car-insurance-with-no-license-in/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:50Z", "digest": "sha1:L5D7QBK22DWIWENZ7KXFVCVDZAINKXCK", "length": 2466, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kickassgigs.com", "title": "Car insurance with no license in Freehold NJ. 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A time where streets are lit up with bright flamboyant lights, sounds of crackling fireworks can be heard a mile away, smells of freshly baked moon cakes play with our nostrils, and the laughter of jovial people fill the air. No, it\u2019s not Christmas, New Year\u2019s Eve, Thanksgiving, or Labor Day. It\u2019s the Chinese New Year! This is a time where all worries and sorrows are left behind and the only rule is to be merry and celebrate. Each year...\nWhat is culture---William When people have common ideals, values and assumption about life ,it influence their behavior, they have similar behavior , they act in a similar in social life, which creates their culture. Edward T Hall say \u201cculture is the sum total of the way of life of a people\u201d this paper will describe products and behavior and it will explain there are different products and behavior in different place We live in a lot of products....\nExperiencing Chinese New Year, Age 18, Far Away from Home Haoyuan Liu 1/30/2013 ENG1010-021 Summary: I experienced the Chinese New Year without my family, far away from home. When I was 18 years old, I left my hometown in China, Chengdu, and came to America to study. I have been gone 14 long months. Have you ever been badly homesick? Have you ever felt lonely? Admittedly, I do have such feelings since then. I miss my home. Curiously, I find that handwriting letters can help me stay in...\nChinese New Year - 3875 Words\nChinese New Year is the biggest holiday celebrated among Chinese people. It is often referred to as the spring festival because it signals the beginning of spring. It is a time when families and friends get together to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. It originally lasted for 15 days, but now only lasts for 5 to 7 days. The exact origin of this Chinese New Year holiday is too old to be traced, but many explanations still exist. One idea is that the holiday originated when a beast...\nAll Chinese New Year Essays\nChinese new year - 265 Words\n\ufeffI love Chinese New Year! Chinese Lunar New Year is a traditional festival in China. Hundreds of thousands people will celebrate this festival with their family and friends in different countries. People will spend out their money to buy presents, decorations, materials, foods, and clothing. It is also the tradition that every family thoroughly cleans their house to sweep away any ill-fortune in hopes to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color...\nIntroduction \u201cA special event recognizes a unique moment in time with ceremony and ritual to satisfy specific needs\u201d (Goldblatt, 1997). There are many different types of event, taking place in different settings and on every scale. There are personal event, private events, commercial events and public events. The reason for choosing the Chinese New Year event is that it is a big event in my home country. It represents the history and culture from thousand year ago in China. In this...\nCHINEESE NEW YEAR Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the New Year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade. The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to \"catch up\" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every...\nTable of Contents Abstract Introduction\t1 Research Methods\t1 Research Findings\t1-2 Discussion\t2 Conclusion\t3 References Abstract This paper describes and analyzes the significance of the Chinese holidays celebrated in Suriname which has significances among the Surinamese people. These two significant holidays are: The Chinese New Year and The Chinese Moon Festival. They are also the most important and economic holiday for the Surinamese...\nDo you celebrate Chinese New Year with your family and friends? Well in \u201cBegin with a Bang\u201d by Jasper Connor and \u201cThe Night Of Lights,\u201d by Brenda Comper, both discuss Chinese celebrations. Did you know that each tradition the Chinese people must perform has its own symbolic meaning? Chinese New Year is very different from other New Year celebrations. It has its own significance celebration and traditions. For example, in \u201cBegin With A Bang\u201d by Jasper Conner he talks about what Chinese...\nChinese New Year Foods\nChina Highlights ToursFlightsHotelsTrainsDay TripsWhy usCommunityContact us Home China Tours City Tours Create My Trip Ideas Yangtze Cruises China Guide Home China Guide Chinese Culture Chinese New Year Food Chinese New Year Food Chinese New Year Food Chinese New Year Foods are very important to Chinese people. All family members come together to eat at this time. Chinese New Year foods are not only delicious but it is traditional to eat certain foods over this festival. Chinese...\n\ufeffNina Wells Vicki Marie Course Code: 10831 Extra Credit Assignment #3: Chinese New Year This year my family and I was able to attend the historical 37th Annual Chinese New Year Celebration Festival in Stockton, California. We were able to meet the Chinese New Year Celebration Committee, the Chinese Cultural Society of Stockton, and other similar vendors. We were also able to 92 year old Blanche Chin Ah Tye, the 2015 Grand Marshal and citizen of the year. She is one of the first founding members...\nChinese New Year Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The new year begins on the first day of the Chinese calendar, which usually falls in February, and the festivities continue for 15 days. At Chinese New Year celebrations, people wear red clothes, give children \u201clucky money\u201d in red envelopes and set off firecrackers. Red symbolizes fire, which the Chinese believe drives away bad luck. Family members gather at each other's homes for...\nThe Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts at the beginning of spring . The beginning of spring is usually around the forth or fifth of Feburary. It's origins are too old to be traced but several explanations have been presented. All agree that the word Nian, now chinese for year, was originally the name of a monster that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of the new year. One legend goes that the monster had an enormous mouth that...\n\ufeffESSAY ; CHINESE NEW YEAR Chinese New Year is an annual celebration marking the start of the year according to the Chinese lunisolar calendar. Chinese New Year always falls in the months of January or February, and each Chinese New Year is represented by 1 of the 12 creatures of the Chinese Zodiac \u2013 2014 is the year of the Horse. Chinese New Year is also known as the Spring Festival and in pre-modern times it would signal to farmers in China that they must begin preparation for the sowing of...\nChinese New Year Fun Facts! In ancient times, Buddha asked all the animals to meet him on Chinese New Year. Twelve came and Buddha named a year after each one. People born during the year of the snake are wise, charming, generous, and smart. Red, the color of Chinese New Year, symbolizes fire which drives away bad luck. Long ago, people in China lit bamboo stalks, believing that the crackling flames would frighten evil spirits. Tangerines symbolize luck and prosperity. The...\nFor other traditions of celebrating lunar new year, see Lunar New Year. Chinese New Year Lion dancers at Historic Chinatown Gate, Chinese New Year, Hing Hay Park, Seattle, Washington (February 3, 2011) Also called\tLunar New Year, Spring Festival, New Year Observed by\tChinese communities worldwide[1] Type\tCultural, Religious (Buddhist, Taoist, Confucian) Significance\tThe first day of the Chinese calendar (lunisolar calendar) 2012 date\tMonday, January 23, Dragon 2013 date\tSunday,...\nThe Chinese New Year - 313 Words\nThe Chinese New Year Chinese New Year is a special festival in China. We have this festival once a year around January and February, it is not the same date every year in Christian calendar but it is the same date in lunar calendar. It last for two weeks. People will buy new clothes and decorate their house before Chinese New Year because they believe that a new year begins, then everything should be new and everything returns to the beginning. They also go...\nIntroduction \u5409\u7965\u8a71 (j\u00ed xi\u00e1ng h\u00f9a) also known as Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festival for the Chinese. This festival begins on the first day of the first month ( \u6b63\u6708: zh\u0113ng yu\u00e8 ) in the lunisolar Chinese calendar and ends 15 days later. Some might be confused why Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year. This is because the Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to \"catch up\"...\nAixuan Li 03/29/2012\tChinese New Year Chinese New Year is the most important festival of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as \"Spring Festival.\" People celebrate this day by enjoy the Dragon dances, Lion dances, fireworks, family gathering, family meal, visiting friends and relatives , giving red envelopes, and decorating with duilian(usually represented as two lines of poems that match together to wish people good luck and was hung on the wall of the...\nPreparation for Chinese New Year\nPreparations for the New Year begin a couple of weeks before the big day. This is a fun time full of anticipation and joy as we get ready for the thrill and excitement of the celebrations. According to the traditions, this is the time to clean the house, prepare food for the feast and make banners and decorations special for the New Year. A clean house to welcome the New Year Before the New Year comes, it is one of the Chinese New Year customs to clean the house from top to bottom to get rid...\nChinese New Year Chinese New Year is celebrated throughout China and is also known as The Spring Festival. It goes for fifteen days and the preparations start even before the old year has come to an end. The people prepare by cleaning up, buying gifts and cooking festival food. Chinese New Year according to an ancient legend was started like this: People were once tormented by a beast called a Nian - a ferocious creature with an extremely large mouth, capable of swallowing several people in...\nChinese New Year The most favorite holiday celebration in my country is Chinese New Year. It contains threes parts: the preparations, New Year\u2019s Eve and New Year\u2019s Day. The Chinese New Year\u2019s day is different from each year because it is based on the Chinese traditional lunar calendar. For the preparations of New Year, Chinese prefer decorate their houses and purchase goods that relate the Chinese New Year\u2019s celebrations. Like people in Western countries prepare for Thanksgiving and...\nChinese New Year and American New Year Customs\n\ufeffCompare Chinese New Year with American New Year Difference: Following is two differences between two customs. Dates are different: The Chinese New Year is based on lunar--calendar, but the American New Year is based on solar\u2014calendar. So, both the dates of New Year are different even if the New Years are on January 1. Festivities are different: In the America, Americans like to have parties at New Year\u2019s Eve. At ten seconds before midnight, people count down. After. People hug and...\nChinese New Year: Spring Festival\nChinese New Year - Spring Festival Chinese New Year (Chinese: \u6625\u7bc0, \u6625\u8282, Ch\u016bnj\u00ede; \u8fb2\u66c6\u65b0\u5e74, \u519c\u5386\u65b0\u5e74, N\u00f3ngl\u00ec X\u012bnni\u00e1n; or \u904e\u5e74, \u8fc7\u5e74, Gu\u00f2ni\u00e1n), also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It consists of a period of celebrations, starting on New Year's Day, celebrated on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, i.e. the day of the second new moon after the day on which the winter solstice occurs, unless there is an...\nUnderstanding Chinese New Year Traditions\nChinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally ran from Chinese New Year's Day itself, the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New...\nChinese New Year in Phnom Penh\nChinese New Year in Phnom Penh ... Chinese new year is one of a traditional ceremony which chinese people always celebrate it every year. It is a kind of annual thing for chinese people just like the other nation around the world celebrate for the new year. Since china is a big country which is the most population, so there are many chinese people live around the world in different country in the large amount of number. Just because of that, the chinese new year has become well known to...\nChinese New Year: Family Traditions\nMarco Soegimin Professor Danielsen English March 23, 2011 My Family Tradition During Chinese New Year Chinese are rich in culture. They have a lot of superstitious beliefs and new year traditions. Chinese New Year is a huge event for all Chinese people including my family. The festival begins on the first day of the first month in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with the Lantern Festival which is on the fifteenth day. The entire attention of the household was fixed on the...\nChinese New Year Fun Facts\n1.\tThe traditional Chinese New Year celebration lasts 15 days. 2.\t2013 is the year of the Snake. Children born during the Year of the Snake are said to be clever, successful, and lonely. 3.\tEveryone goes home for the Chinese New Year celebrations, if they can. The period just before the Chinese New Year, called chunyun, is the busiest travel time of the entire year. All across China and beyond, you\u2019ll find people on their way home to spend this time with their families. 4.\tThe Chinese New...\nChinese New Year? Is it Real or Fake?\nChinese New Year? Is it Real or Fake? This year\u2019s Chinese New Year is going to be on: 2013\t| 2013-02-10\t| Snake (2013-02-10\u20142014-01-31)\t| | | | Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally ran from Chinese New Year's Day itself, the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, to the...\nChinese New Year - Short Essay\nChinese New Year China is the first one of the cradles of world civilization, 5000 years of history makes China more powerful. There are many China's unique festivals, like Mid-Autumn Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Winter Festival and Chinese New year. Especially Chinese New Year remains the most important social and economic holiday in China. The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Beginning of Spring. Its origin is...\nSymbols and Customs of the Chinese New Year\nHappy Chinese New Year \u65b0\u5e74\u5feb\u4e50 (Snake) \u86c7 Terrorized Village \u25cf Demon/Dragon (Name shall not be spoken) \"Nian\" \u25cf Villagers afraid, crops destroyed, children gone. \u25cf Wise old man Year of the Snake (Zodiac Animals) \u25cf \u25cf \u25cf \u25cf 12 animals 12 months Great empire needed to tell time Trickery/betrayal The Amazing Race Paper Cutting \u25cf Decoration \u25cf Upsidedown \u25cf Good Luck/Good Fortune \u25cf \u25cf \u798f- F\u00fa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTV6enoXUY Myth of the Lanterns \u25cf \u25cf \u25cf...\nNew Years - 1133 Words\nGabriela J. Bachman Professor Lathrop Writing 1 19 October, 2009\tNew Years at Home As I described in essay one, New Years for my family is a very important event and we celebrate it with a number of activities based in superstition. According to Wikipedia (1) superstition is defined as \u201ca credulous belief, not based on reason. The word is commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy and spiritual beings, particularly the irrational belief that future events can...\nNew Year - 1054 Words\nThe Times of the New Year the new year started with joy and happy times. I ended the year with tears. My best friend was a drug addict and i had to help her into rehab. She did not want to go to rehab so we told her we were taking her to disneyland. She was so excited that she drove right home and packed her bags. Every country has their own holiday system. Different countries have different holidays. There are also some common holidays that people celebrate around the world, such as...\n\ufeff New Year\u2019s Eve: a comparison between China and Brazil. Raif Rem\u00edgio Alves SBA, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China. e-mail: raifalves@hotmail.com Introduction A moment to calm, review the contents of the past, to establish in the present and generate power to carry the future. Thus it is that most people around the world celebrate the new year, regardless of their country of origin, culture or financial condition. The New Year is always celebrated with much joy, peace and prosperity...\nChoose to Dine at Home on the Eve of the Chinese New Year\nChoose to Dine at Home on the Eve of the Chinese New Year It is a traditional custom that the family members from everywhere hurry back home to join a big dinner on the eve of Chinese New Year. It is a significant reunion. It is a traditional way to enjoy this at home. However, in recent years, many families have another choice of having dinner at restaurants. In my view, I prefer to have dinner at home. There are several reasons to justify my view, some of which are as follows. Firstly, it...\nFood and Family Traditions: Chinese New Year\nSo,how much money am I getting this year?\" That's the question I hit my momwith every February. And every year she replies, \"You will see,\" in herChinese accent. February usually marks the month of the New Year accordingto the Chinese calendar. But for me, Chinese New Year is a payday. Usually Ireceive red envelopes, hong bao, which are the equivalent of Christmas presents.Instead of wondering what the present will be, though, it is the amount of moneyinside that is the mystery. The lucky...\nMalaysia is a land known of its multicultural and the diversity of religions. As this country is made up of different races, the people of Malaysia inevitably celebrates a variety of festivals. To the Chinese, the most important festival is the Chinese New Year, which usually falls on the month of January or February. Before the festival, throngs of shoppers head for shops in search of mandarin oranges, new year tit bits, new clothes, plants like bamboos, money plants or little kumquat trees...\nNew Year Begins with a New Heart\nPlease have your seats. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, I am honored to be the 2nd invocator in the year 2012 but the 1st invocator in the year of Dragon! Chinese New Year ushering in new hope for those who celebrating it, as we are turning a new leaf in our lives during New Year, in a sense, we are reborn. Thus, Chinese New Year is to celebrate the passing of the old and the coming of the new! Before the festival, the families start cleaning up their houses, washing and wiping every corner of...\nLunar New Year in Vietnam The Vietnamese lunar New Year festival, Tet Nguyen Dan, is the most significant holiday taking place within the first three days of the New Year. During these days, people welcome a new coming year with good health, lucks and success. The preparation for Tet holiday is taken place very soon because it requires many steps. All members of families clean and redecorate their houses together. Then, they buy food such as cookies, sweets, candies fruit, watermelon\u2019s seed...\nChinese New Year Is Really Just Around Teh Corner\nChinese New Year is really just around the corner. The Chinese will definitely be busy running errands to make sure that the Chinese New Year celebration is well prepared. Some may choose to start as early as a month before the celebration which also means the last month in the Lunar Calendar. This way, they get to plan things they need to have for the celebration and slowly distributing the tasks among the family members and then carry them out. Since Chinese New Year is the most important...\nVietnamese new year - 927 Words\nThere are significant holidays to every country. Holiday is define as a day free from work that one may spend time to relax, especially a day on which custom or the law dictates a stopping of general business activity to honor or celebrate a particular event. In religious term, it is a holy day. For example, American people celebrate holidays such as, Thanksgiving and Christmas, Hispanics celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and for Vietnamese people, we celebrate a very important holiday which is the...\nThe New Year Festival in Vietnam\n\ufeff Traditional celebration\u2026. Tet falls on a time when the old year is over and the New Year comes by lunar calendar. This is also the time when the cycle of the universe finishes: winter ends and spring, the season of birth of all living things, comes. Tet is an occasion for pilgrims and family reunions. It is a time when one pays respect to his/her ancestors and grandparents who have brought up him/her. It is an occasion when everyone sends each other best wishes for a new year, stops thinking...\nLUNAR NEW YEAR IN VIETNAM [pic] Lunar New Year which is known as \u201cTet\u201d is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It often begins on late January and ends on early February . It\u2019s a special time for people to relax, forget all about the troubles, hope for a better new year and spend time together with their family and their friends after a hard working year. GET READY! [pic] Two weeks before the New Year\u2019s Eve, family members try to come back...\nThe Japanese New Year - 6398 Words\nJAPANESE NEW YEAR NEW YEAR IN JAPAN Oseibo In Japan people give some gift in a lot of occasion. Oseibo is the most common issue as a year-end gift. They give it to their superiors, customers and teachers to express appreciation for the special services they have extended to them. Picture Asakusa Temple (c) Tomoyuki.U. Bonenkai Bonenkai is a party usually held among office colleagues and bosses. Bonenkai litarelly means a \"Forget-the-year party\" to forget the unpleasant memories of the...\nVietnamese New Year Traditions\nVietnamese New Year Traditions New Year in Vietnam is not only a holiday but also the biggest event of the year. It is tradition of thousand years of history. In Vietnamese, New Year means Nam Moi or Tet Nguyen Dan, which also means \u201cthe very first morning\u201d. Nevertheless, people commonly call it Tet as its short form. As traditionally, the holiday lasts three days, starting from January first on lunar calendar. However, the spirit of Tet starts on December twenty third, seven days before Tet\u2019s...\nVietnamese New Year: The Biggest Traditional Holiday of the Year\nHung Truong ENGL 098 01/23/2013 Remembering an Event In Vietnam, just like here in the United States of America there are many holidays. But Vietnamese New Year is the biggest traditional holiday of the year. It is the first and last moments of a year and it\u2019s a time for families to gather all together on New Year Eve with the firecrackers, special food. This also is the opportunity for students like me to meet old friends after one year abroad,...\n\ufeffHow do Chinese people celebrate the Spring Festival? The major four parts are paste couplet, family reunion dinner, Shousui, and Bainian. Couplet is people\u2019s wishes for the next New Year written on the red paper, and pastes them on the wall beside the door. Another traditional couplet is the world \u201c\u798f\u201d ,which is also written on the red paper; traditionally, we paste the word on the door upside down, Which means happiness is coming. The reasons for we choose the color red is because the monster...\nTaiwanese New Year and Tea Culture\n[pic] [pic] Taiwanese Culture TABLE OF CONTENT I)Chinese New year 1)Introduction 2)The Chinese Calendar 3)History 4)Sequences of Festivies -Preceding days - New year\u2019s eve -1st -15th day. -Cuisine. 5)Main Customs. 6)Seen as a public Holiday 7)Evolution II)Taiwanese Tea 1)Introduction 2)Historical Background 3)Taiwanese tea culture -Teaism -Teaware -Ceremony 4)Bubble tea 5)Tea approach and conclusion...\nVietnam: Lunar New Year Festival\n\ufeff HO CHI MINH CITY UNIVERSITY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOREIGN LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT Name: Kha Thanh Trang Student number: 11CD660065 Class: CA1102 Advisor: Tr\u1ea7n M\u1ef5 Uy\u00ean Course: Term-paper (Writing) Every country has its own important festivals which have the customs characteristics and the different meaning. Western countries have some holidays such as Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas,\u2026 Korea has Harvest festival (Chuseok), Buddha\u2019s birthday (Chopail),...\nJulia Deegan Ngan Do Eva Fraga November 15, 2012 Compare and Contrast New Year Eve in Different Countries Wouldn't it be fun to travel around the world and celebrate the New Year all year long? All over the world, people celebrate the New Year; This is one of the oldest of all holidays. Most New Year celebrations focus on family and friends, food and traditions, but not all of the celebrations take place on the same day or in the same way! Because people in...\nSpring Festival in China: Welcoming a New Year\nChinese New Year or Spring Festivel is the most important celebration in China. As the name implies, it is January 1st in Chinese Lunar Calendar. It can be started several days before the New Year Day, usually it begins on December 23(Lunar), on this day, people eat a sticky candy and a congee what is cooked by eight grains or beans to celebrate the gain of last year, (and also eat a sticky candy, in legend, the god of stove will report every family states to the god of gods, people use this...\nFrequently Asked Questions about Vietnamese Culture: Vietnamese Lunar New Year\nPhan Thanh Xu\u00e2n Instructor: Tr\u01b0\u01a1ng Th\u1ecb Kim Li\u00ean, M.A Writing 5 ( XH 527) September 26th, 2012. H\u1eefu, N. & Borton, L. Frequently asked questions about Vietnamese culture: Vietnamese Lunar New Year. H\u00e0 N\u1ed9i: Th\u1ebf Gi\u1edbi Publishers, 2003. 116 pp. Culture is the aspect I\u2019m especially interested in. And I find it amazing to read a cultural book in bilingual. It helps me to improve not only my knowledge, but also my new English vocabularies. Recently I have been impressed greatly by \u201cFrequently...\n\ufeffChinese culture 1.\tChinese Tea Culture China is the homeland of tea. It is believed that China has tea-shrubs as early as five to six thousand years ago, and human cultivation of teaplants dates back two thousand years. Tea from China, along with her silk and porcelain, began to be known the world over more than a thousand years ago and has since always been an important Chinese export. At present more than forty countries in the world grow tea with Asian countries producing 90% of the...\nChinese Food Catalogue Story 1 Chinese Traditional Staple Food Story 2 Chinese Characteristic Cuisine Story 3 Chinese Festival Food \u2776 Chinese Traditional Staple Food \u4e2d\u56fd\u4f20\u7edf\u4e3b\u98df \u2488 rice \uff08\u7c73\u996d\uff09 Rice is the most common staple food \uff08\u4e3b\u98df\uff09 in china. Different areas have different type of rice ,it tastes different . Cooking method : boiling steaming \uff08\u84b8\uff09 stir-frying \uff08\u7092\uff09 \u2488 rice \uff08\u7c73\u996d\uff09 Porridge rice fried \u2489 noodles \uff08\u9762\u6761\uff09 Noodles is a very old food and it originated in china,has a long history.As a...\nChinese Festival - 741 Words\nSpring Festival\tChinese New Year holds the most significant position among all Chinese festivals and holidays. The Chinese New Year is accompanied by a belief in good future. Chinese New Year is also called Spring Festival (1). Putting the spring festival scrolls up, hanging the lanterns, having reunion meals, having dumplings, sitting up late and waiting for the ring of the New Year are all Spring Festival\u2019s customs. (2) Spring Festival is the day for family...\nThe Chinese Spring Festival The Chinese New Year or more commonly The Spring Festival (Chun Jie in Chinese) is the most important festival in China. It has more than four thousand years of history. It is based on the Chinese lunar calendar which all Chinese people use. The celebrations begin the first day of the first lunar month and end the 15th, although the most important day for Chinese people is new year eve, this day you have to be with your family and have dinner all together, so if...\nChinese Masks Chinese masks first appeared in China some 3,500 years ago primarily used for Chinese shamanism. Chinese masks became an age old cultural phenomenon shared by all ethnic groups in China. The Chinese developed such masks to overcome disasters and to protect their lives. These masks were given many functions like, communicating with the gods, bringing blessings, driving away ghosts, warding off diseases, and lots of sacrificial rituals involving masks were regularly held....\nTraditional Foods for Chinese Festival\nChinese Food: Traditional Foods for Chinese Festival Chelsea Yu 15th, Sep, 2012 First Draft of Chapter 2, 3 Pages IE924 Academic Writing \u2162 China is famous for foods, especially which must be prepared for traditional festivals. These foods are made with traditional recipes and related to their meaning, ancient legend or historical story, which are passed along generation to generation. Among these traditional foods, \u201cNian-gao\u201d, \u201dYuebing\u201d, and \u201cZongzi\u201d are representative. \u201cNian-gao\u201d, a...\nChinese Lion Dance - 1962 Words\nChinese Lion Dance The lion dance is a traditional dance performed in the Chinese culture. The performers mimic the moves of the lion inside a costume that looks in a way like a lion. Many people who are not very familiar with the Lion Dance often gets it confused with the Dragon Dance, since both are performed, for the most part, for the same occasions. It is simple to tell the two dances apart. The Lion Dance is performed most of the time with only two people. The Dragon Dance is performed...\nChinese Firework Case Analysis\n\ufeff Case Title The Chinese Fireworks Industry- revised Date October 8th 2012 1. Issue identification\uff1a Jerry Yu is considering whether to invest in Liuyang fireworks factory, so he made an evaluation of the Chinese firework industry. Here is a brief identification of the issue: 1.1 History of fireworks: There is an old-line of the Chinese fireworks, which is tightly combined with varieties of celebrations and festivals in China. Especially, Liuyang...\nAn Unforgettable Day of a Special Year\n\ufeff\tAn Unforgettable Day of a Special Year My father and I were at a local store searching for lanterns, lights and many other decorations. From afar, a long snaky line formed at the cashier all the way to entrance door. Everything will be bought in seconds. Everyone wanted his or her house to be decorated and magnificent. I still remember it was a year of lucky Dragon, back in 2012, a year that will bring longevity, wealth and happiness for one\u2019s family in upcoming year. The very first day of...\nComparative Study of Pakistan & Chinese Cultures\n2013 Comparative study of Pakistan and Chinese Cultures Muhammad Rashid (ID:2012420078) This report has compared the two cultures namely the Chinese and Pakistani culture by considering different parameters. The material and non-material aspects of culture are expressed and comparative study of two cultures is performed. Both the cultures have strong roots with the shades of thousands of years of civilizations. The ideology, ethics and living styles are compared with some examples and...\nLatest Research: Chinese Lifestyles 2014 - Embracing The Change - China - April 2014\nOperators need to re-adjust their products and services package to target the demand of the mass consumers rather than just the lucrative customers. Chinese aspiration to lead a healthy lifestyle is indeed another factor to direct their consumption to. Increasing average income indicates that Chinese are becoming more willing to pay for better quality to ensure improvement in their lifestyle as they have more disposable incomes. Visit Complete Report Here:...\nVietnam is a country in the Eastern Hemisphere that was influenced by China for many years. Therefore, the Chinese New Year and Tet, the Vietnamese New Year have many similarities. Tet is the abbreviation of Tet Nguyen Dan which means the first morning of the first day of the new period. Tet marks the beginning of a new year on the lunar calendar, and the beginning of Spring. Vietnamese are constantly aware of the phases of the moon. All events are planned by the lunar calendar. The New Year...\n\ufeffName: Nguy\u1ec5n Th\u1ecb H\u1ed3ng Qu\u1ebf Student\u2019s code: B1301522 Academic writing 3 E- mail: queB1301522@student.ctu.edu.vn Phone number:01218519596 Assignment: Process analysis essay Date of submission: 18/09/2014 TET HOLIDAY Tet , or Lunar New Year is considered one of the most popular festival in Vietnam. This special holiday takes place on January 1st based on Lunar Calendar. Tet is an occasion for people gather their family, express their respect to...\nMarketing Management Final Project Sample\n\ufeffChinese University of Hong Kong Marketing Management, MKT2010 Marketing Xi Tang - a living ancient Chinese town Group 2 Instructor: Prof. Durairaj Maheswaran Table of contents 1. Introduction\t3 2. Opportunity analysis 2.1 Company\t3 2.2 Customer\t4 2.3 Competitors\t5 3. Market segmenting, targeting and positioning 3.1 Segmenting\t6 3.2 Targeting\t7 3.3 Positioning\t7 4. Marketing Mix 4.1 Product features\t8 4.2 Pricing strategy\t9 4.3 Distribution\t10 4.4 Promotion\t10...\nAncient Ritual Research Paper Ancient rituals have been around since prehistoric time. They have been a very important part of human life and were performed with the intention of improving the universe itself. Rituals are also a form of social bonding that contains spiritual meanings. Cultures have different rituals to celebrate important events. These rituals may be different in the sense that the rituals are performed differently but they both share the same idea which is to celebrate and...\n\ufeffS01: Good morning everybody. Today we will be sharing about our experiences at Chingay 2014. What does the theme mean to us? S02: (E) The different performances are all traditional, but merge and fade in together very well. This shows that the different culture, tradition and origin don't matter, as they are all together on one parade and with the same audience. The different colours and symbolism of their costumes were all fit in together very nicely. This may be said that the colours of...\n\ufeff\tPHUONG Tet Holiday According to the lunar calendar, the next Jan. 30, 2014, no matter what you do, and where you are, you must come home. That day is the Lunar New Year Festival that we call Chinese New Year Day in China and Tet in Vietnam. On New year \u2018s Eve (Jan. 30,2014), people are very busy to prepare for the new year by cooking for the next three days. Housewives are busy to prepare traditional square glutinous rice cake which is filled with green bean paste and pork meat...\nSamantha Phan Professor Reams Section 11 March 19, 2012 Student Self-Evaluation For my informative speech I chose the topic of Chinese New Years. I discussed about the history, the festivities and the calendar. While reviewing my speech I found some mistakes that I can change for better improvement for future speeches. As I listened to myself I can tell that I was really nervous and trembling. With those two actions it did affect my speech and how I came off to the audience. First, my...\nCultural characteristics of Singaporeans Singapore's openness and cultural diversity has helped Singaporeans look at the world from different angles. This has resulted in the picking of the best ideas from different cultures and integrating them into the Singapore culture, while maintaining a good cultural mix. Therefore, in a culturally diverse country like Singapore, racial and religious harmony is very critical. Without it there would be no unity and strength, which would in turn,...\nThe most important holiday celebrated in Vietnam, and indeed by Vietnamese people worldwide, is Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. Tet is commonly described as Christmas, Thanksgiving and your birthday all celebrated at once. The second most celebrated Vietnamese holiday is the Mid-Autumn Festival. This celebration honors the harvest time and family. There are many other Vietnamese holidays, religious and non-religious, wide-spread and local, influenced by Chinese culture or unique to Vietnam. Most...\nHome Town - 679 Words\n\ufeff 1/28/14 My Hometown My hometown is Kaiping, it is located in the southwest part of Guangdong province. Although is not a big city, but it is a very beautiful and warm city. It is located in the southwest part of Guangdong province. I have been lived there for thirteen years, until four years ago our family moved to San Francisco. I love to live in kaiping and I miss the time that I live in kaiping, for the environment is so comfortable and it around by greens. Like trees, flowers,...\nEarly Memory - 1155 Words\n\ufeff1. Santos and Roth: Both are about immigration and their life. Even though it was hard but with good memories. Like all immigrant, they came to this country for better 2. Alice Walker \u201cBeauty: When the Other Dancer is the self\u201d 55-61 3. Annie Dillard \u201cAn American Childhood\u201d 110-116 Respond: Analyze Dillard\u2019s character study of her mother \u2013 indirectly, of herself 4. Exercise #1 earlier memory \u2013 Chinese New Year Memories of Chinese New Year Growing up hapa meant...\nTLSK - 852 Words\n\ufeff Christmas (Old English: Cr\u012bstesm\u00e6sse, meaning \"Christ's Mass\") is an annual commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ[6][7] and a widely observed holiday, celebrated generally on December 25[3][4][5] by millions of people around the world.[ New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count is incremented. In many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner.[1] The New Year of...\nchink - 294 Words\nChinese New Year\u2019s Tradition Every year on varying dates, the cycle for the Chinese begins. Also known as, their new year. This cycle is dependent on the first day of the lunar month. This is because the Chinese run on a Lunar and Gregorian calendar. How did this come about? According to an ancient legend, people were once tormented by a beast called a Nian - a ferocious creature with an extremely large mouth, capable of swallowing several people in a single bite. Relief from the Nian came...\nBusiest or happiest? - 706 Words\nBusiest or happiest? Every year in the first day of the first lunar month is our Lunar New Year, which we usually called the Spring Festival, the most historical festival in China, which can be traced back to 4000 years ago.The new year is a new beginning, a fresh start to our new life. So the Spring Festival considered the most important festival in China. The procedure of the festival is defiantly complicated, but for a better understanding about it we need to start with the...\nAbout Festival - 703 Words\nFestival writing Everyone has their own festival to celebrate. As a Chinese, I always celebrate different festival like the Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. However, the festival which I anticipate and put in my effort to prepare for it will be the annual Chinese New Year. Whenever Chinatown is aglow with flamboyant lights, and the laughter and banter of eager shoppers fill the air, it is a clear sign that the welcoming Chinese New Year is approaching once again....\nSpring Festival And Lantern Festival\n\ufeffSpring Festival and Lantern Festival By Yolanda The Spring Festival, also known as the lunar new year, which falls in late January or early February. It is said that the Spring Festival evolved from an activity known as the \u201cWinter Sacrifice\u201d. And the word \u201cNian\u201d, which in modern Chinese solely means year, was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a New Year. So people hang\u201cgood luck\u201dwishes on red paper on the door and wall, use...\nSacred and Religious Festivals - 409 Words\n\ufeffSecular and Sacred Festivals Halloween was initially celebrated by the Romans, who prayed to several gods on the 31st October. The Romans specifically took Pomona, the goddess of fruit trees, into concern and would celebrate in her name. Later, the Druids, an ancient order of Celtic priests in Britain, made this feast an even more extensive celebration by also honouring Samhain, lord of the dead. This was normally done on November 1st and it was therefore decided to conveniently honour both...\nSpring Festival - 571 Words\nSpring festival In China, New Year's Day is a solemn occasion. Every family performs religious rites at the family altar. In order to rejoice at the New Year, people wished others a happy new year and blessed heartily. Some stick calligraphies full of joy on doors, most of them were antithetical couplet, phrase, individual character, such as: blessing, longevity, luckiness, propitious New Year and so on. Whereas, some people pasted paper-cuts for window decorations to do away with the...\nInterpersonal Communications - 589 Words\nPersonal Experience in Communication Interpersonal communications can be defined in many ways, but most effectively it involves the interactions and communications that occur between people that work, live or associate with each other .These people typically include the communications one has with people they are familiar with or know well, or may see on a daily basis. I feel it is critical for us to know how to communicate well as conveying our message and for it to be understood is...\nFiestas in the Philippines are held to celebrate a patron saint or to mark the passage of the seasons, depending on which part of the country you're in. The fiesta is part and parcel of Filipino culture. Each city and barangay has at least one local festival of its own, usually on the feast of its patron saint. The roots of Philippine fiestas go back to before the Spanish conquistadores arrived in the 1500s. In the old animistic culture, regular ritual offerings were made to placate the gods,...\nSpring Festival Gala - 28947 Words\nThe Construction of a United Great China A Comparative Study of the CCTV Spring Festival Galas, 1984-86 and 2004-06 Xiaoyan Xu Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In Political Science Dr. Timothy W. Luke, Chair Dr. Scott G. Nelson Dr. Yannis Stivachtis June 7, 2007 Blacksburg, VA Keywords: China, TV, CCTV, Spring Festival, ideology,...\nhong bao history - 903 Words\nRed Envelope & Hong Bao Chinese have their own New Year by using old calendar, the new year is commonly called Spring Festival. Every year is different if you compare with the calendar we are using right now. The New Year in this year is the 9th of Feburary. Chinese Spring Fesitival is a great happy time for family reunion and celebration of one country. During the Chinese traditional New Year, it is a time to give and receive the Red Envelope, we called it as \u201cHong Bao\u201d in Chinese. The gift...\nMy Favourite Festival - 307 Words\nTopic: My Favourite Festival Good morning to my English teacher, Miss Zarina and my fellow classmates. Today I am going to share with you about my favourite festival, which is Chinese New Year. Of all festivals in Malaysia, I like Chinese New Year the most. Chinese New Year falls on the first day of the first lunar month. Each year coincides with an animal sign, of which there are twelve in the sequence of the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, dog...\nSpring Festival is the most joyful festival in China, and it is also the day of a family member reuniting. Do you want to know that Chinese how to celebrate this festival? Putting the spring festival scrolls up, hanging the lanterns, having the reunion meals, having dumplings, sitting up late and waiting for the ring of the New Year are all the Spring Festival\u2019s custom. All the activities contain the nice blessings and willing. For instance, eating fishes during the festival express that they...\nKfc Strategy in China - 428 Words\nKFC: continue to increase localization, pushing spicy Sichuan chicken Various cities in China Kendejichuan spicy chicken on television ads starting from October 27 .10 scale appears, the product was launched. At the same time to market a product in China have another breakfast food, wolfberry Pumpkin porridge. The introduction of spicy Sichuan chicken only in the McDonald's \"face\" strategy of one month, and advertising intensity is very high, so we can respond to competition as this is a...\nI am Thai, but inside I am also Chinese \u201cMy hometown China, I\u2019m so sad that I had to leave you\u201d, is a part of the song I heard all the time when I was little, and I still remember it. Not much is known about my background; I only know that I am actually Chinese. I could have cared less about it because I was born and raised in Thailand, and I considered myself Thai until my mom told me about my grandparents. My grandfather used to be a doctor in a small communist camp in China. He didn\u2019t like...\nCountry Automany - 2625 Words\nWeek 1 Day1 The first shot 26th,Jan sunny It is my first time to writy diary in English.Forgive for my poor writing .I suddenly find it is difficult to construct an article and express my ideas properly. However ,there is no provement if I have no chance to use English .So I have a plan. I will keep diaries every day from then on. Welcome to supervise! This week I translated 6 articles reported in The Economist,4 for this week,2 for last week .It is a good way to improve my reading...\nAlmond cookie symbolism - 327 Words\n\ufeffIB Business 17 December 2013 Chinese Almond Cookies (or Biscuits) The Chinese almond cookie is a traditional Chinese dessert that people make during the Chinese New Year. Many different types of foods are made to celebrate this holiday, and this almond cookie is a very typical one. The foods that the Chinese make to celebrate are foods that are they consider to be lucky and foods that are generally supposed to bring blessings in for the New Year. These almond cookies symbolize coins and...\nFESTIVAL The Lion Dance is one of the most popular dances in China. Known as the king of animals, the lion is a traditional symbol of good luck in China. The dance has a long history stretching back 2000 years. Records show that during the Tang Dynasty (618-907), the Lion Dance was already performed for the royal family.When is the Lantern festival occassions, people often organize lion dance to add to the fun. If well performed, the lion dance is belived to bring luck and happiness....\nInformative Speech About China\nEverybody, XinNianKuaiLe. Maybe some of you guys already know what this Chinese mean. It is literally translated to the greeting \u201chappy Chinese new year\u201d in English. Today is the Chinese New Year (Yeh). Chinese New Year is the most important traditional holiday in China. Despite its winter occurrence, Chinese New Year is also known as Spring Festival in China. The festival begins on the first day of the first month, which is today, and ends on the 15th day of that month. As I had mentioned,...\n\ufeff Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival (Shangyuan) is a traditional Chinese festival, which is on the 15th of the first month of Chinese New Year and the first full moon night which symbolizes the coming of spring. It may be regarded as the last day of the Spring Festival. The start of this festival marks the end of the celebrations of the Chinese New Year. The Lantern Festival is regarded as a good day for family...\nCelebrating the Spring Festival - 445 Words\n\ufeffGeneral information: Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. Lunar because it s based on a lunisolar calendar (moon phase and solar year) and spring because it s the beginning of Spring. 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WHEN: For every year since then at the turn of the Lunar New Year, the program begins at...\nSpring Festival - 1395 Words\nSpring Festival The first day of the first month by the Chinese Lunar Calendar is Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year; it is the most important traditional holiday in China. Spring Festival dates back to four thousand years ago, originated in the Shang Dynasty. The year of 2011 was the Year of the Rabbit; due to my parents went to Bengal for missionary work, my uncle who lives in the countryside invited me to his house for Spring Festival this year. I didn\u2019t like the idea at...\nThere Are Several Different Beteen How I Was Taught at Hom and How We Are Taught in Uk\nFire Crackers - 579 Words\ntree - 502 Words\nCultural Artifact - 518 Words\nMao's Last Dancer - 1314 Words\nCase: The Tao of Timbuk2\nGoing Abroad - 261 Words\nSafety and Quality of Traditional Packaging\nNarcissus - 367 Words\nUnforgetable Spring Festival - 1215 Words\nMy cultural lineage - 657 Words\nTusita Herbal Education - 1149 Words\nWaitress - 1017 Words\nWhy Chniatown Should Be Conserved\nRooster - 993 Words\nBuild International Business Networks\nFresh Fish - 719 Words\nWestern Festival in China - 460 Words\nExamples on Citing References (Apa)\nSuperstitious - 2754 Words\nMoney as an object of gift-giving\nValedictorian Address - 1257 Words\nSpecial Interest Speech Outline\nSdfsf - 429 Words\nFireworks should be banned\nmy winter vacation - 279 Words\nFirecracker Should Be Banned in the Philippines\nTV: The Worst Invention Ever?\nFestival Season in Malaysia - 477 Words\nHoamoclan - 1959 Words", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 436, "original_length": 58247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kikn.com/eric-churchs-greatest-album-is-chief/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3VWKCH5MKRB5CQMFAD2DVDSLKLWJGQGJ", "length": 4816, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "kikn.com", "title": "Counterpoint: The Greatest Eric Church Album Is Obviously 'Chief'", "raw_content": "Counterpoint: The Greatest Eric Church Album Is Obviously \u2018Chief\u2019\nGreat albums have great songs, and Eric Church\u2019s Chief album has one of the 20 best songs of the 21st century. But eve beyond \"Springsteen,\" the Chief's third studio album is his most consistent album to date and the starting point for anyone curious about his music.\nDangerous guitar licks drive the melodies of many of the most made-for-the-stage moments on the Jay Joyce-produced, 11-song masterpiece. \u201cCreepin\u2019,\u2019 \u201cDrink in My Hand\u201d and \u201cKeep On\u201d charge forward from a lion\u2019s cage that\u2019d been waiting to be opened and accepted on a mainstream level for more than five years. The next three cuts (\u201cLike Jesus Does,\u201d \u201cHungover & Hard Up\u201d and \u201cHomeboy\u201d) dip in tempo, but showcase Church\u2019s ever-improving storytelling chops. That leaves what could be considered Side B \u2014 five of the best album-closing songs in recent country music history. No other Church album finishes with such strength \u2014 and at times, understated \u2014 bravado.\nYou need not be a Church superfan to recognize the titles. \u201cCountry Music Jesus\u201d foreshadows some of the heavy metal and blues influences he\u2019d explore more deeply on his next two albums. \u201cJack Daniels\u201d is a well-crafted campfire story anyone over 30 can relate to too well. \u201cSpringsteen\u201d is a lesson creating art for a mainstream audience, and \u201cOver When It\u2019s Over\u201d has become an overused expression of finality in life, journalism and country circles nationwide. Be honest, you\u2019ve thought about tagging some imaginary piece of well-written emotion with \"We had it in the air but we just couldn't land it\" at some point or another, haven\u2019t you?\n\u201cI\u2019m Gettin\u2019 Stoned\u201d is among a small group of play-on-words songs in Church\u2019s catalog (\u201cCold One,\u201d \u201cRecord Year\u201d) that by this writer\u2019s ear don\u2019t stack up to his more serious, smartly-crafted country-rock portraits. There\u2019s just not the same emotion in this sub-category, but they\u2019re inevitably chosen as radio singles, which leaves many Church fans frustrated.\nThese Songs Actually Make Fun of Country Music, Oops!\nWhy this album is important for Church matters little in this conversation about his best album, but it\u2019s still worth noting that this was his first breakout album. \u201cHomeboy\u201d was a difficult single to wrap your arms around, but \u201cDrink in My Hand\u201d was as sure of a bet for a No. 1 hit as anything he\u2019s ever released. Then came \u201cSpringsteen\u201d \u2014 the career changer \u2014 and the dark and lyrically complex \u201cCreepin,\" then the simple, but poetic love song \u201cLike Jesus Does.\u201d Keep in mind that as a format we were on the brink of bro-country, an era that rewarded white-bread lyrics about trucks and pretty lil\u2019 things in tight shorts. Church didn\u2019t just survive, he thrived as the rest of the world was about to start drowning in a sea of cornfield whiskey sips.\nDesperate Man is slated for Oct. 5, and it\u2019s likely to be a worthy candidate for consideration on this topic. It\u2019d need to be as consistent as Chief, however. Mr. Misunderstood isn't, with jumps from defiant, blues-soaked country-rock songs to coffee shop fare between sides. The Outsiders is delightfully all over the place \u2014 if you find any two people who agree on the best song from his 2014 album, take a selfie with them, because they\u2019re more rare than an Eric Church interview.\nLongtime fans may argue for Sinners Like Me, but while the raw materials were present on Church\u2019s debut and there were some great sentiments he\u2019d build from (\"Lighting\"), he\u2019d not yet put it all together. Carolina is a hometown favorite that may qualify as No. 2 for this writer (I spent eight years in Raleigh), but Taste of Country has always considered commercial success in evaluating quality, and this album doesn\u2019t have it. Plus Church himself has expressed regret over two songs on his 2009 album, \u201cLove Your Love the Most\u201d and \u201cHell on the Heart.\u201d\nThis month's Point / Counterpoint is bound to stir intense debate among Church fans, and many will call both publications foolish for their selection. Not lost in our internal debate is that Church has five worthy albums for consideration. We entered a singles-based era of country commercialism that some artists (Sam Hunt and Sheryl Crow, for example) have capitulated to. That's a shame because real lasting fans are made in the album cuts and the pauses that separate verse and chorus, ballad and rocker and emotions.\nThe Boot Says Nah, That's Not the Best Church Album\nThe Boot and Taste of Country\u2019s collaborative Point/Counterpoint series features staff members from the two sites debating topics of interest within country music once per month. 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Unless, of course, you're a little girl.\nEstrella Westrick's family was taken to see Pope Francis in Rome on Wednesday and, well, she got a little handsy. Perhaps in an attempt to get the souvenir of a lifetime, the three-year-old girl grabbed his cap, also known as a zucchetto, right off his head while she got a kiss from the pontiff. Everyone had a good laugh and the girl was taken away while the pope put the hat back on and continued the business of greeting others.\nEstella, who lives in Atlanta, is visiting her godfather, Mountain Butorac, who posted the footage on Twitter. Snatching the pope's personal property would probably be the highlight of most people's vacation, but Butorac isn't so sure that'll be the case here. \"Who knows what she will get up to tomorrow,\" he said.\nSource: Adorable 3-Year-Old Girl Steals Pope\u2019s Hat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 186.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lacasadecristo.com/phd/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:18Z", "digest": "sha1:FGMDTNXCDE5X7E3HAKKX6OVCME22OEKA", "length": 831, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lacasadecristo.com", "title": "PHD - La Casa de Cristo Lutheran Church", "raw_content": "Commit one year to the development of Christian character and leadership potential\nOur time together will be focused on your development as a spiritual leader. Your ability to lead others with biblical principles and insights will be greatly strengthened. Over the course of the year, we will cover a wide variety of topics to round out your leadership potential. There will be about a dozen books to read, study, and discuss together, as well as projects to do both individually and as a group. But the real impact comes from the group interaction and the presence and power of the Holy Spirit among us. You will experience a great deal of learning, stretching, growing, and of course, great man-to-man fellowship. 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It\u2019ll also be the year that I got up [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 13993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://learnleasing.com/index.php/sales-help-videos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:44Z", "digest": "sha1:O72662FP352CYQNLL4SFMORI3SWHTOTG", "length": 264, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "learnleasing.com", "title": "Warning: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements Countable in /homepages/1/d98664986/htdocs/clickandbuilds/Joomla/MyCMS2/libraries/cms/application/cms.php on line 464", "raw_content": "Here's a sampling of sales related videos I've recorded over the years for various clients and purposes.\nI hope you'll find something here that will be of help to you.\nIf you do, please take a moment to say so in one of the comment areas provided for that purpose.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://legacymagazineng.com/apc-pdp-dont-deserve-our-votes-soyinka/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7SNZCAO2I27A3BLGGFXQ5GXHBFP2YFVZ", "length": 2823, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "legacymagazineng.com", "title": "APC, PDP don\u2019t deserve our votes \u2013 Soyinka - Legacy Magazine", "raw_content": "Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says the two leading political parties \u2013 the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party \u2013 do not deserve to return to power.\nSoyinka said this on Thursday at an interactive session at Freedom Park in Lagos titled, \u2018Citizen Forum 2019\u2019.\nThe playwright had last month seemed to lean towards President Muhammadu Buhari when he faulted ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo\u2019s support for former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar of the PDP.\nSpeaking on Thursday, however, he said, \u201cIt is time for a totally new direction, and when an alternative emerges, we will give the candidate our backing,\u201d he said.\n\u201cFor the avoidance of doubt, let me make my position quite clear because I don\u2019t want any ambiguity; I, Wole Soyinka, will not be voting for either the two so-called contesting parties. I find both of them worthy of absolute rejection.\n\u201cThere is another group meeting in Abuja, also at the end would send us their consensus candidate. Things have been going on quietly in the background to try and change the direction of this nation in a very positive way and to make the public understand that they do not have to be enslaved permanently to the old discredited order. It is my sole business in this election.\n\u201cI don\u2019t believe in what is called negative vote which means, for me, throwing your vote in a wastebasket, I believe instead in a creative vote, not a protest vote, not a negative vote but a creative vote.\n\u201cAnd a creative vote means that the will to at least sow a seed through your vote that will germinate eventually. The pace of germination is beyond the control of everyone, but it is never too early to make a beginning. It has happened before in other societies. 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Armed American Indians occupied the territory, which they legally owned, with several demands, including an investigation into the 371 treaties signed between the Native Nations and the Federal Government, all of which had been broken by the United States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 141.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Pink_Floyd", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ZV5O5GLY4VNQFZGDF5JSQJHTXEHZ7MAQ", "length": 950, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "liberapedia.wikia.com", "title": "Pink Floyd | Liberapedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Pink Floyd in the early days\nPink Floyd were an English Psychedelic rock band from Cambridge.\nTo many they are the best band in the world ever. They have had three front men. Many think the best was Syd Barrat, but he went mad in the late '60s. In the early '70s Rodger Waters took over although David Gilmour did a lot of the singing, to many David Gilmour is best Guitar player to ever walk the earth, in the early '80s Waters left and David Gilmour carried on with the band, despite Waters disapproval.\nSome of their better known songs include Arnold Layne; Set the Controls To the Heart of the Sun; the knome; Another Brick in the Wall (part two); Wish You Where Here; Pigs on the Wing, Money; Time, Welcome to the Machine; The Dogs of War and Comfortably Numb.\nThey were also pretty damn Left-wing, Socialists if we want to be more accurate.\n1969 Music from the Film More\nRetrieved from \"http://liberapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Pink_Floyd?oldid=45881\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lillelara.booklikes.com/post/1622181/true-grit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:41Z", "digest": "sha1:5HQR7YSGV5L3YLPEKGWH3A3CO2J3M6QP", "length": 716, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lillelara.booklikes.com", "title": "True Grit - Lillelara", "raw_content": "Do you remember the time when I told you that I don\u00b4t like children as a narrator or main protagonist? Well, give me a 14-year-old girl, whose story is told in hindsight from the point of view of her 80 year old self, and I totally love that child. Mattie is awesome, her journey for revenge is awesome as well and I just really, really liked this book / western. A highly recommended read.\nBook themes for Sinterklaas / St. Martin\u2019s Day / Krampusnacht: A story involving children or a young adult book, or a book with oranges on the cover, or whose cover is primarily orange (for the Dutch House of Orange) \u2013OR\u2013 with tangerines, walnuts, chocolates, or cookies on the cover.\n16 tasks 16 takss for the festive season", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://link.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org/resource/5WRFtFQDrQQ/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBOTCJCJCCJKUYSTAGXQ2TBBH5ZB3UI2", "length": 101, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "link.oshkoshpubliclibrary.org", "title": "Oshkosh Public Library - Resource not available...", "raw_content": "Haochen Zhang : gold medalist, Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, (compact disc)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 167.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lipmag.com/opinion/looking-into-the-future-after-a-year-of-marvel-disappointment/comment-page-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:17Z", "digest": "sha1:E3UETSPBIGDRJVXID7YZXTRCCP6HD7N4", "length": 7038, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "lipmag.com", "title": "Looking into the Future After a Year of Marvel Disappointment | Lip Magazine", "raw_content": "looking into the future after a year of marvel disappointment\nMary Ntalianis\nThe male-dominated cast of The Avengers at their 2012 Comic-Con appearance.\nIt\u2019s time for Marvel to stop erasing their strong, intelligent and brilliant female superheroes from the Cinematic Universe.\nIn 2016, two Marvel movies are set to be released and yet again, neither of these movies will have a female protagonist. This is a repetition of why the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been continually criticised by feminist and female fans over the last half decade.\nBut in contrast to this year\u2019s theme of reducing important female characters to love interests or erasing them altogether, the next year of Marvel offers a ray of hope to female superheroes and their fans.\nCaptain America: Civil War is likely to be released in May 2016 and out of the 16 heroes and villains appearing in the film, three of them, the Black Widow, the Scarlet Witch and Agent Carter, are female. While this is clearly not equal representation, it\u2019s more than we have come to expect from the Marvel film franchise. Similarly, Doctor Strange, set to be released in November 2016, will feature a female actress that will not be playing the role of a love interest. Actress Tilda Swinton is set to play the role of The Ancient One, the film\u2019s villain.\nHowever, Swinton has indicated at this point that she will probably be playing the character as a male and although this may be progressive for female actors, it still leaves the characters in Doctor Strange as disproportionately male. Additionally, Doctor Strange\u2019s protagonist will also be male and while the film\u2019s other female lead, the Night Nurse (played by Rachel McAdams), is not Doctor Strange\u2019s traditional love interest, it would hardly be surprising if she was turned into one.\nThe future of feminist critique of Marvel in 2016 has yet to be determined. There is, however, hope for female fans of both Marvel comics and Marvel films that 2016 will feature more diverse casts and more kickass female superheroes.\nThe past year has shown no effort by Marvel to engage in any form of diversity or representation of women and minority groups. July 2015 saw the release of Ant-Man, which prompted a negative response from many Marvel comics fans, especially fans of Janet Van Dyne. Van Dyne, a superhero known as the Wasp, was the original founder and leader of the Avengers who was erased from the plot of Ant-Man almost entirely.\nJanet Van Dyne is the wife of Hank Pym and the mother of Hope, the main female character in Ant-Man (played by Evangeline Lily). The Wasp was the leader and the co-founder of the Avengers and is even credited with giving the group their name, Avengers, in Volume One of the comics. However, by trapping Van Dyne in an alternate universe, the creators of the film ensured that Ant-Man was centered around another male superhero \u2013 the titular Ant-Man \u2013 instead of taking the opportunity to include a much-loved female superhero as a main character.\nMoreover, as of the release of Ant-Man, the Wasp is the only original Avenger not to have her own solo movie. But what is more disappointing is that she is also the only original Avenger that is a woman. This is not a coincidence.\nGood news for fans of Van Dyne is that Marvel has recently announced a 2018 film to be titled Ant-Man and The Wasp. Possibly a response to accusations of sexism and the complaints surrounding the Ant-Man film, we cannot yet pass judgement on whether this movie will redeem Marvel\u2019s past damages to the Wasp or whether it will be another title to add to our list of Marvel disappointments.\nBut the Wasp wasn\u2019t the only Marvel female character to be mistreated by the Marvel Cinematic franchise in 2015. Black Widow, the only female superhero in the Avengers, is yet to have her own solo movie, despite Iron Man, The Hulk, Thor, and Captain America achieving this years ago.\nNatasha Romanoff is an elite Soviet agent (did someone say badass?), but Romanoff\u2019s fascinating backstory has barely been explored by The Avengers films that have reduced her to a domesticated and submissive supporting character.\nIn another 2015 Marvel film, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Black Widow was turned into a love interest. Natasha\u2019s inherent femininity is portrayed in her ability to \u201ccalm\u201d the Hulk when he is angry and out of control, perpetuating the stereotype of men as aggressive and lacking control, in contrast to women who are calming and submissive. Need I tell Marvel why this idea is harmful, especially when screened to so many children and young people?\nI\u2019m not going to blame only the writers and creators for Marvel\u2019s sexism. Preceding the Avengers: Age of Ultron film release, the Black Widow was described by Avengers actors Jeremy Renner and Chris Evens as a \u201cslut\u201d. While this is not a strike against the films themselves, these actors are part of the Marvel franchise and their comment are a concerning display of the whorephobia that exists within the male-dominated \u201cdudebro\u201d superhero culture. How many times do young women need to hear that their strength, confidence and sexuality make them sluts? How many times can men use slurs against women without serious consequences? Another strike against the Marvel film franchise.\nSo yes, my disappointment in the 2015 Marvel films is over the continual lack of any diversity or representation of women in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But more importantly, it is about the erasure, slut-shaming and domestication of female superheroes.\nSo now we look forward to the future of Marvel films and hope that they will redeem themselves and repair damages done to female superheroes and female fans alike. Marvel, you underestimate the power of diversity and representation in taking important steps towards equality. Let the superheroes do what they do best.\n3 thoughts on \u201clooking into the future after a year of marvel disappointment\u201d\nWhat about the Marvel Cinematic Universe TV shows though! Jessica Jones is being released in 6 days, and it hasn\u2019t even gotten a mention here. Furthermore, Agent Carter is a fantastic show about a \u2018strong, intelligent and brilliant female\u2019, and it almost got axed because it got next to no support from the public \u2013 a lack of which is proven by this article.\nIf people keep ignoring these shows and focussing on complaining about the movies (which I will admit, haven\u2019t been very representative so far, save for the few excellent female characters) then we\u2019ll lose those, and there goes all chance of any focus on the female characters within the MCU.\nSupport what they\u2019ve given us so far and they\u2019ll see the ratings, and see this is what the viewers want, and we\u2019ll get the movies too. Don\u2019t let the shows go unheard. They\u2019re part of the MCU too.\nI\u2019m not a huge fan of the MCU films generally but I must say, I\u2019m pretty excited about Jessica Jones!\nPingback: Jessica Jones: Thanks Marvel, It\u2019s About Time | little liberosis\nThis entry was posted in Featured, Film, Opinion and tagged film, Marvel, Opinion. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 9102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lipulse.com/events/growing-business-ground-valuable-advice-experts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MUL5FT5CQQLVAEL2JRP272ZZOIKOZLYL", "length": 1256, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "lipulse.com", "title": "Growing Your Business from the Ground Up: Valuable Advice from Experts - Long Island Pulse Magazine", "raw_content": "Growing Your Business from the Ground Up: Valuable Advice from Experts\nTuesday, July 26, 2016 | 5:30PM-8:00PM\nNorthern Boulevard at Valentines Lane\nOld Westbury, New York 11568\nhttps://apps2.nyit.edu/event/engineering/seminar/\nThis event is the first in a series of four workshops, to be held over the next year, covering eight topics of critical importance to entrepreneurs. Each seminar will cover two topics. This series of events provides professional guidance, mentoring and assistance to the next generation of business leaders and employers on Long Island.\n1. Forming an Entity\nNeil M. Kaufman, Esq., Partner,\n2. Intellectual Property: Protecting Your Most Valuable Assets\nGeorge Likourezos, Esq., Partner,\nCarter, DeLuca, Farrell & Schmidt, LLP\nThe program is designed to assist entrepreneurs in leveraging best practices to build a company from the ground up \u2014 selecting and forming an entity; establishing a business infrastructure such as human resources and accounting systems; financial projections; equity-based compensation; intellectual property protection; obtaining various alternative types of financing; and sales, marketing and communications strategies. This event is also a great networking opportunity within the business community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livebrum.co.uk/the-barber-institute-of-fine-arts/2018/01/12/in-echo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:11Z", "digest": "sha1:B3GTSUPNDBEWKSOX32G6EFFIJPS7QNCX", "length": 679, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "livebrum.co.uk", "title": "In Echo at The Barber Institute on 12 Jan 2018", "raw_content": "http://livebrum.co.uk/the-barber-institute-of-fine-arts/2018/01/12/in-echo\nSource http://barber.org.uk/in-echo/\nPeriod instrument ensemble, In Echo, look back to the beginnings of printed music \u2013 and the publication of Ottaviano Petrucci\u2019s collection Harmonice Musices Odhecaton \u2013 in Venice in 1501. This collection of 96 pieces of exquisite contrapuntal music includes works by composers such as Josquin, Japart, Comp\u00e8re, Isaac and Agricola, which together signalled a revolution in the use and dissemination of music. In Echo take a fresh look at this repertoire, presenting it using some of the colourful instruments known to have been used in Venetian ensembles at this time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 170.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livingwordtv.com/html/faithcontent.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:56Z", "digest": "sha1:X3VTX6R6MZFDYVDGS434UHBDSLQYC3LL", "length": 1033, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "livingwordtv.com", "title": "Untitled Document", "raw_content": "The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative written Word of God;\nThere is one God, eternally existent in three Persons: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit;\nIn the Deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, His virgin birth, His sinless life, His miracles, His vicarious and atoning death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension to the right Hand of the Father, His personal future return to this earth in power and glory to rule;\nThe church will be caught up to meet the Lord Jesus in the clouds at His second coming;\nThe only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious Blood of Jesus;\nRegeneration by the Holy Spirit is essential for personal salvation;\nThe redemptive work of Christ on the Cross makes available for the believer wholeness in spirit, soul and body;\nThe fellowship and the manifestation of the fruit and the gifts of the Holy Spirit for the building up of the body of Christ;\nIn one baptism for the remission of sins as per Mark:16:16 and Mathew 28:19", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://llanellionline.news/70-year-old-man-arrested-in-connection-with-death-of-69-year-old-woman-following-incident-at-chip-shop/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MA4LV6M4MZVGOZSQHLKIDR6U3N2O76H6", "length": 1081, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "llanellionline.news", "title": "70-Year-Old Man Arrested in Connection with Death of 69-Year-Old Woman Following Incident at Chip Shop \u2013 Llanelli Online", "raw_content": "Home > News - Newyddion > 70-Year-Old Man Arrested in Connection with Death of 69-Year-Old Woman Following Incident at Chip Shop\n70-Year-Old Man Arrested in Connection with Death of 69-Year-Old Woman Following Incident at Chip Shop\nA 69-year-old woman has sadly died at Morriston Hospital on Monday, (Oct 29). Mavis Bran, 69, died on Monday at Morriston Hospital in Swansea \u2013 six days after sustaining her injuries at the premises in Hermon, about seven miles north of Carmarthen at around 1.30pm on Tuesday, October 23.\nA 70-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident and released on police bail whilst the investigation is ongoing .\nHM Coroner has been informed.\nAnyone who visited the chip shop between 12pm and 3pm on Tuesday, October 23, is asked to contact Dyfed-Powys Police.\nchip shop, hermon, llanelli\nMystery of missing manhole cover\nFunky Chicken fun at Trallwm Sports Club\nM&S to close 100 stores by 2022\nGreat community support for KAMPS\nHillary Conquers her Everest through Weight Loss\nFamily Tribute to 4-Year-Old Killed in Tragic Accident on A40", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://londonprogressivejournal.com/article/view/1913/a-seachange", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:33Z", "digest": "sha1:TSRDLXUFPK7GTREF4AM5RPQJIZONTHIE", "length": 5318, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "londonprogressivejournal.com", "title": ". A sea-change\u200f | London Progressive Journal", "raw_content": "Steve Richards is right to say (and Ed Miliband obviously agrees with him) that next year\u2019s election will not, and should not, be decided by personality politics. So what is it that will determine the voters\u2019 preferences?\nIt would be nice to think, as Richards argues, that the election will be about ideas. But policy ideas, until and unless they are successfully proved in practice, make little impact on voters increasingly cynical about promises.\nWhat might matter, however, is something even less tangible. The evidence suggests that every now and again, for no apparent reason, the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, can change. It may be that we are at just such a juncture - and not before time.\nWe have now given an extended trial to the values espoused by the proponents of the \u201cfree\u201d market and the aggressive pursuit of individual self-interest. It is becoming increasingly clear that those values are not those of our great humane and liberal tradition; they are instead those of \u201cdog eat dog\u201d, \u201cdevil take the hindmost\u201d, \u201clook after number one\u201d, \u201cwinner takes all\u201d and any other of those phrases that have been traditionally used to describe with contempt and distaste the sentiments of selfishness and greed.\nIt is, as Thomas Piketty demonstrates, always the case that powerful people, given the chance (and nothing is better guaranteed to offer that chance than the unrestrained market), to grab what they can, and then to entrench and protect their advantage, so that they can extend it still further.\nWe may now have reached the point, however, when the question is increasingly being asked - why do the rest of us allow that to happen? Wasn\u2019t that supposed to be the role of democracy, to ensure that the political power of elected governments would ensure that the virtues of inclusivity, social cohesion, and equal rights, would offset the otherwise overwhelming power of those who would dominate the marketplace?\nIt may be that, just as in 1945 (another crucial turning-point), the forthcoming election will be about values, rather than personalities, or even policies. And the good news is that the values that we have been in danger of losing have not disappeared; they are still present in the hearts and minds of most citizens. Most people in Britain will affirm, if asked, their continued support for fairness, compassion, tolerance, concern for others. Those values have become submerged under the tidal wave of free-market propaganda, but the 2015 election may see them again rise to the surface.\nMost voters do not think about politics or economics in any systematic way. It is only a small minority, whatever their position on the spectrum of political views, that has developed a fully coherent set of beliefs and principles. The majority are perfectly capable of holding in their minds quite contradictory notions and allegiances. What matters, what determines the way they will vote, is which of those contradictory values is closest to the surface, or in other words has the greatest salience, at any particular time.\nOver more than three decades, those who have hijacked our democracy have discovered the means by which they can raise the salience in the popular mind of values that suit their interests. They have become expert at \u201ctweaking\u201d particular issues - outrage at social security \u201cscroungers\u201d, perhaps, or concern about the supposed threat to jobs or housing posed by immigrants, or fear of an allegedly threatened tax increase. They have learned to practise what the Australians have called \u201cdog whistle\u201d politics - the appeal to sentiments which they dare not encourage openly and which voters would be ashamed to admit to but which will nevertheless decide voting intentions.\nThe control exercised by the powerful through their ownership of most media outlets gives them a great advantage in such efforts. But they are also able to exploit a natural human predilection which means that the values of self-interest and self-preservation, at least in the heat of any particular moment, will often take precedence over more socially aware and responsible attitudes. The default position for most people - especially in hard times - will quite naturally give a high priority to looking after the interests of their own nearest and dearest.\nBut experience is a great teacher. When decline and social disjunction are seared over decades into the national consciousness, when hope and confidence are at a low ebb, and when the outlook is more of the same, it is not surprising that the guiding principles of the last three decades might be called into question. It is then that hearts rather than minds help to frame the compelling argument that we would all be better and stronger if we could all rely on the same degree of help and support as we are ready to offer to our own closest family and friends.\nIn 1945, the British people rejected a great war hero in favour of one of the least charismatic leaders in our history. Clement Attlee won a landslide victory and went on to head the most successful and effective reforming government of modern times. Ed Miliband may know - and intuitively feel - more than we think.\nvalues voters election people great politics decades times increasingly minds particular social think dog richards closest surface political called next", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://loveandrespectnow.com/2011/06/know-me-art-of-asking-questions-listening-pt-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YFBH75757F6YDVWG2TI5B5FVWLFLWGKS", "length": 6196, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "loveandrespectnow.com", "title": "Know Me: Art of Asking Questions & Listening Part 3 | LOVE AND RESPECT (NOW)", "raw_content": "If you need to catch up on the first part of this series, check out Know Me: Part 1 and Know Me: Part 2.\nSo let\u2019s consider Mrs. McGillicutty. She\u2019s sitting at table #14 sipping her water as all her grandchildren (whom she sees once a year) hit the dance floor.\nProblem: Her grandchildren (who don\u2019t even know all the moves to the Macarena) are missing out on an untapped treasure trove of wisdom.\nI would consider this a problem.\nArt of Asking Questions: Seeking Wisdom\nYou know how in 99.48% of my posts I encourage people to seek older wise counsel? Well, summer weddings are a prime spot to start getting around.\nUsually when I talk about seeking wise counsel, I am envisioning pastors, parents, mentoresque people. But at weddings, you can find straight-up geriatrics. Those people generally ooze life wisdom and good stories.\nAt my friend Luke\u2019s wedding, he asked his grandmother to simply get up on stage and speak any wise thoughts she had on marriage. She shared how she had eight small children when she lost her first husband.\nHold the phone. Eight?!!?\nShe shared her heart and life philosophies. I think she must have been in her late 80s, and she embodied wisdom. Later I found her at the edge of the dance floor and just asked to hold her hand for a moment. I felt like I was near something sacred.\nArt of Listening: Seeking Wisdom\nAt my friend Andy\u2019s wedding last year, one elderly man I talked to was a World War II veteran. I have an odd intrigue* with that war, and as I started to ask him questions, he told me he had written a book. He was the history channel in 3-D! He told me fascinating stories of his ship being hit with a missile and the pain of losing friends.\nAsking people questions will always give us a deeper insight to the human soul. But sometimes, it\u2019s not as much about what we \u201cget\u201d from others, but what we give by listening. I get so sad when I think of all the elderly people who sit alone all day. They are full of stories that need to be told. Sometimes by listening we are simply giving someone the gift of being heard.\nAt the heart of this series is my conviction that we need to recognize humanity\u2019s hunger to be known. A fortunate byproduct is that we then know.\nWe know Mrs. McGillicutty.\nWe know a widow\u2019s grasp on loss and life.\nWe know what honor looks like as we hear a history lesson firsthand.\nWe know the person we are dating. And why.\nWe begin to know ourselves.\nFor me, asking questions, listening, and responding with genuine interest and intrigue has been hugely eye-opening. It\u2019s enhanced my understanding of human nature, given answers, deepened friendships, and truly increased my love for people.\nI\u2019ve decided that when it comes to #askjoy advice from here on out, whenever I get the question, \u201cI just don\u2019t know about her\u201d or \u201cI just don\u2019t know about him,\u201d my first question will be, \u201cWhat do you know about him or her?\u201d\nHow do you engage people in conversation?\nWhat questions do you remember being asked recently?\n*I now say \u201codd intrigue\u201d because \u201cWorld War II is my favorite war!\u201d never seems to come out right.\nThe other day my parents invited my sister and I over to eat lunch with their bible study group, which has a few elderly people in it. After eating, I lost track of my sister. But then I realized that the older people were in the dining room and I knew that\u2019s where she would be. Sure enough, I found her listening to a full-blooded Native American man telling her stories of his ancestry. It was riveting.\nThe bible tells us that \u201cpure and undefiled religion is this: to visit orphans and widows in their need and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.\u201d I don\u2019t think that\u2019s arbitrary. I think God knows that we have something to learn from the older generations (and the younger ones).\n* I know what you mean about WWII. If you\u2019re ever in New Orleans call me and we\u2019ll go to the D-Day museum. I could spend days wandering through there listening to the recorded stories of old men.\nBekah \u2013 Booking my flight to New Orleans as we speak! (-; Seriously though, I love what you say about God knowing we have something to learn from the older generation. In Titus the old are also told to teach the younger. Sometimes I think our autonomous generation has made older people feel like they don\u2019t have any value to bring or things to share with us. We could stand to do a better job of letting them know we want to hear their thoughts! Your sister sounds fantastic.\nI will forever remember you and my priest sneaking out of my rehearsal dinner so you could check out the WWII museum in his basement. Hilarious.\nVal \u2013 But who can resist a WWII museum? Forgot to mention we had the Father of the Bride captive too!\nNim \u2013 Well said and so true! I hope we can all remember to do this, even if it is outside of our comfort zone.\nNim thinks...\nI often find that listening to, and asking questions of those who are different from me \u2013 whether in age, nationality, or stage of life, helps me to remove some of my prejudices, and learn to love others better, because i understand a little more what it is like to be them! I usually find it helps me to grow in humility too, as I see how little I know about so much! \ud83d\ude42\nOh, I had such a blessed time reading all the three: Art of asking questions. My notebook is filled with some insights, quotes. When I read the first I thought to myself: this is the last post I read today. Well, my master\u2019s reading is still waiting for tomorrow, hehe. I know what you mean when you say: \u201cI get so sad when I think of all the elderly people who sit alone all day. They are full of stories that need to be told. Sometimes by listening we are simply giving someone the gift of being heard.\u201d Love talking with them. I had the funniest conversation about sex (and instructive too) with grandma and a friend of hers a few days ago. I was so curious to know how things worked out for a woman who got married at the age of 13, knowing absolute nothing about what she was doing. And it all started with me asking them questions. We had a lot of fun. =)\nWoah nelly \u2013 13?!! You must have heard some very interesting stories. So glad you took the time to chat with her. 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While I was in their midst, every now and then I would investigate \u2013 who knows, I might feel at least the breath of my beloved; but as much as I did, I found nothing that would reveal the presence of my loving Good. Then, all of a sudden, I felt a sweet breath coming from behind my shoulders, and immediately I cried out: \u2018Jesus, my Lord!\u2019\nHe answered: \u201cLuisa, what do you want?\u201d\n\u2018Jesus, my beautiful One, come, do not remain behind my shoulders for I cannot see You. I have been waiting for You and investigating for the whole morning \u2013 who knows, I might see You amid these angelic spirits that surrounded my bed. But I could not, therefore I feel very tired, because I can find no rest without You. Come, for we will rest together.\u2019 So Jesus placed Himself near me, and sustained my head.\nThose spirits said: \u201cLord, how quickly she recognized You. Not even at your voice, but at your mere breath, immediately she called You.\u201d Jesus answered them: \u201cShe knows Me, and I know her. She is so very dear to Me, like the pupil of my eyes.\u201d And while He was saying this, I found myself in the eyes of Jesus. Who can say what I felt, being in those most pure eyes? It is impossible to manifest it with words. The very Angels remained astonished.\nAfter this, Jesus came back and, noticing that I had cried, told me: \u201cHave you cried?\u201d And I: \u2018I cried with Mama; I didn\u2019t cry with anyone else, and I did it because You were not here.\u2019 Jesus took my hands in His hands, and it seemed that He was soothing my pains; then He showed me two high stairways, from earth up to Heaven. On one of them there were more people \u2013 very few on the other one. The one on which there were only few people was of solid gold, and it seemed that those few who were going up were other Jesuses \u2013 each one of them was one Jesus. On the other one, which seemed to be made of wood, there were more people, and they could be distinguished and identified \u2013 almost all short and not very developed.\nJesus told me: \u201cMy daughter, those who lived their lives in my Life ascend on the golden stairs; I can say that they are my feet, my hands, my Heart \u2013 the whole of Myself. Just as you can see that they are another Me, they are everything to Me, and I am their life. Their actions are all of gold and of incalculable price, because they are Divine. Nobody will ever be able to reach their height because they are my very Life; almost without anyone knowing them, because they are hidden within Me. Only in Heaven will they be perfectly known.\nOn the wooden stairs there are more souls; these are the souls who walk along the way of the virtues, but not in union with my Life and with the continuous connection of my Will. Their actions are of wood, (since only the union with Me forms golden actions), therefore their price is minimal. These souls are short, almost scrawny, because many human purposes are mixed in with their good actions, and human purposes do not produce growth. They are known to everyone, because they are not hidden within Me, but within themselves; therefore, nobody covers them. They will not cause any surprise for Heaven, since they were known also on earth.\nTherefore, my daughter, I want you completely in my Life, with nothing in yours, and I entrust to you the ones you know and see, that they may keep themselves strong and constant on the stairway of my Life.\u201d He pointed to me someone whom I know, and disappeared. May all be for His Glory.\nAnd I removed it again from Him, and Jesus, pleased, drew near my mouth and poured a little bit of a most sweet liquor. And I: \u2018Jesus, what are You doing? You are full of bitternesses, and You pour sweetnesses into me? This is not appropriate.\u2019\nAnd Jesus: \u201cWhen I keep you inside of Me I alone enjoy you; when I put you out everyone enjoys you, and you can take the defense of your brothers, you can plead for them, you can have them spared; so much so, that the Saints say that I content you more than them, and that I take more taste from your love than from theirs. And I say to them that I do this with love and with justice, because with you I can share my pains, but not with them. Since you are a pilgrim soul, you can take the pains of others as well as Mine upon yourself, and by this you have the strength to disarm Me \u2013 unless I did not want to, like last night, when I bound your arms very tightly so that you might not oppose my Will. But they no longer have these weapons in their power, so much so, that if I have to chastise, I hide from you who can come up with something \u2013 but not from them.\u201d\nI was doing the Hours of the Passion and Jesus, all pleased, told me: \u201cMy daughter, if you knew what great satisfaction I feel in seeing you repeating these Hours of my Passion \u2013 always repeating them, over and over again \u2013 you would be happy. It is true that my Saints have meditated my Passion and have understood how much I suffered, melting in tears of compassion, so much so, as to feel consumed for love of my pains; however, not in such a continuous manner, and repeated many times in this order. Therefore, I can say that you are the first one to give Me this pleasure, so great and special, as you keep fragmenting within you \u2013 hour by hour \u2013 my Life and all that I suffered. And I feel so drawn that, hour by hour, I give you this food and I eat the same food with you, doing what you do together with you. Know, however, that I will reward you abundantly with new light and new graces; and even after your death, each time souls on earth will do these Hours of my Passion, in Heaven I will clothe you with ever new light and glory.\u201d\nContinuing in my usual state, I felt a great desire to do the Most Holy Will of Blessed Jesus; and He came and told me: \u201cMy daughter, my Will is the Sanctity of Sanctities. The soul who does my Will according to the perfection that I am teaching you \u2013 that is, on earth as It is in Heaven \u2013 however small, ignorant and ignored, leaves even other Saints behind in spite of their prodigies, the most clamorous conversions and the miracles. Really, in comparison, the souls who do my Will in the way It is in my third \u201cFIAT\u201d are queens, and it is as if all the others were at their service.\nIt seems that the souls who live in my Will do nothing, while they actually do everything, because being in my Will these souls act Divinely, in a hidden and surprising way. They are light which illuminates, wind which purifies, fire which burns, miracles which cause miracles. Those who do miracles are channels; but in these souls resides the power. Therefore, they are the foot of the missionary, the tongue of the preachers, the strength of the weak, the patience of the sick, the regime (of the superiors), the obedience of the subjects, the tolerance of the slandered, the firmness in the dangers, the heroism in the heroes, the courage in the martyrs, the sanctity in the saints, and so on with all the rest. Being in my Will, they concur with all the good that can be both in Heaven and on earth.\nThis is why I can surely say that they are my true Hosts \u2013 but living Hosts, not dead ones. The accidents that form the host are not full of life, neither do they influence my Life; but the soul who lives in my Divine Will is full of life and, doing my Will, she influences and concurs with all that I do. This is why these consecrated Hosts of my Will are more dear to Me than the very sacramental Hosts, and if I have reason to exist in the sacramental Hosts, it is to form the sacramental Hosts of my Will.\nMy daughter, I take such delight in my Will that, in simply hearing talk about It, I feel overjoyed and I call the whole of Heaven to make feast. Imagine what will become of those souls who will do It: I find in them all the joys, so I give all the joys to them. Their life is the life of the Blessed. They care about, desire and yearn for two things only: my Will and Love. They need to do very little else, while in fact they do everything. The virtues themselves remain absorbed in my Will and in Love. Therefore, they have nothing to do with them, since my Will contains, possesses and absorbs all; but in a Divine manner \u2013 immense and endless. This is the life of the Blessed.\u201d\nI was fusing myself in the Holy Will of my always lovable Jesus, and together with my Jesus, my intelligence was wandering in the Work of Creation, adoring and thanking the Supreme Majesty for everything and for everyone. And my Jesus, all affability, told me: \u201cMy daughter, in creating the heavens, first I made the stars as minor spheres, and then I created the Sun as the major sphere, endowing It with so much light as to eclipse all the stars, as though hiding them within Itself, and constituting It king of the stars and of all nature. It is my usual way to do minor things first, as preparation for greater ones \u2013 these, being the crowning of the minor things. While being my relater, the Sun also conceals the souls who will form their sanctity in my Will; the Saints who lived in the mirror of my Humanity, as if in the shadow of my Will, will be the stars; the former souls, although coming later in time, will be the Suns.\nI maintained this order also in Redemption. My birth was without glamour, rather, it was neglected; my childhood was without splendor of great things before men; my life in Nazareth was so hidden that I lived as if ignored by all; I adapted Myself to do the smallest and most common things of human life. During my public life there were a few great things, but still \u2013 who knew my Divinity? Nobody, not even all of the Apostles. I passed through the crowds like any other man, so much so, that anyone could approach Me, talk to Me, and if needed, even despise Me.\u201d And I, interrupting Jesus, said: \u2018Jesus, my Love, how happy those times were, and even happier those people who, just by wanting it, could come close to You, talk to You, and be with You!\u2019 And Jesus: \u201cAh, my daughter, only my Will brings true happiness! It alone encloses all goods within the soul, and making Itself crown around the soul, constitutes her queen of true happiness. Only these souls will be the queens of my Throne, because they are a birth from my Will. This is so true, that those people were not happy. Many saw Me but did not know Me, because my Will did not reside within them as center of life. Therefore, even if they saw Me, they remained unhappy. Only those who received the good of receiving the seed of my Will in their hearts disposed themselves to receive the good of seeing Me resurrected.\nNow, the portent of my Redemption was the Resurrection, which, more than refulgent Sun, crowned my Humanity, making even my most tiny acts shine, with such splendor and marvel as to astonish Heaven and earth. The Resurrection will be the beginning, the foundation and the fulfillment of all goods \u2013 crown and glory of all the Blessed. My Resurrection is the true Sun which worthily glorifies my Humanity; It is the Sun of the Catholic Religion; It is the glory of every Christian. Without Resurrection, it would have been as though heavens without Sun, without heat and without life.\nNow, my Resurrection is the symbol of the souls who will form their Sanctity in my Will. The Saints of the past centuries symbolize my Humanity. Although resigned, they did not have continuous act in my Will; therefore, they did not receive the mark of the Sun of my Resurrection, but the mark of the works of my Humanity before my Resurrection. Therefore, they will be many; almost like stars, they will form a beautiful ornament to the Heaven of my Humanity. But the Saints of the living in my Will, who will symbolize my Resurrected Humanity, will be few. In fact, many throngs and crowds of people saw my Humanity, but few saw my Resurrected Humanity \u2013 only the believers, those who were most disposed, and, I could say, only those who contained the seed of my Will. In fact, if they did not have that seed, they would have lacked the necessary sight to be able to see my Resurrected and glorious Humanity, and therefore be spectators of my ascent into Heaven.\nYou are not in the number of the many, but of the few. Therefore, be always attentive to the call, and to your continuous flight.\u201d\nContinuing in my usual state, I was searching, and with anxiousness, for my always lovable Jesus; and, all goodness, He came and told me: \u201cBeloved daughter of my Will, do you want to come into my Will and substitute in a divine manner for the many acts which have not been done by our brothers, for many others done humanly, and for other acts, holy, yes, but human and not done in the divine order? I did everything in the divine order, but I am not yet content; I want the creature to enter my Will and to come to kiss my acts in a divine manner, substituting for all, just as I did. Therefore, come \u2013 come; I long for it, I desire it so much that I put Myself in feast when I see that the creature enters into this divine environment, and multiplying herself with Me, she multiplies in everyone, and loves, repairs, substitutes for all and for each one in a divine manner. I no longer recognize human things in her, but all my things. My Love rises and multiplies Itself; reparations multiply to infinity; substitutions are divine. What joy! What feast! The Saints themselves unite with Me and make feast, ardently waiting for a sister of theirs to substitute for their own acts, holy in the human order, but not in the divine order. They pray Me to soon let this creature enter this divine environment, and that all of their acts be substituted only with the Divine Will, and with the mark of the Eternal One. I did this for all; now I want you to do it for all.\u201d\n\u201cMy beloved daughter, I want to let you know the order of my Providence. Every two thousand years I have renewed the world. In the first two thousand years I renewed it with the Deluge; in the second two thousand I renewed it with my coming upon earth when I manifested my Humanity, from which, as if from many fissures, my Divinity shone forth. The good ones and the very Saints of the following two thousand years have lived from the fruits of my Humanity and, in drops, they have enjoyed my Divinity. Now we are around the third two thousand years, and there will be a third renewal. This is the reason for the general confusion: it is nothing other than the preparation of the third renewal. If in the second renewal I manifested what my Humanity did and suffered, and very little of what my Divinity was operating, now, in this third renewal, after the earth will be purged and a great part of the current generation destroyed, I will be even more generous with creatures, and I will accomplish the renewal by manifesting what my Divinity did within my Humanity; how my Divine Will acted with my human will; how everything remained linked within Me; how I did and redid everything, and how even each thought of each creature was redone by Me, and sealed with my Divine Volition.\nMy Love wants to pour Itself out; It wants to make known the excesses which my Divinity operated in my Humanity for the creatures \u2013 excesses which greatly surpass the excesses that my Humanity operated externally. This is also why I often speak to you about living in my Will, which I have not manifested to anyone until now. At the most, they have known the shadow of my Will, the grace and the sweetness of doing It. But to penetrate inside of It, to embrace immensity, to be multiplied with Me and \u2013 even while being on earth \u2013 penetrate everywhere, both into Heaven and into the hearts, laying down the human ways and acting in Divine ways \u2013 this is not yet known; so much so that not to a few will this appear strange, and those who do not keep their minds opened to the light of the Truth will not understand a thing. But little by little I will make my way, manifesting now one truth, now another, about this living in my Will, so that they will end up understanding.\nNow, the first link which connected the true living in my Will was my Humanity. My Humanity, identified with my Divinity, swam in the Eternal Volition, and kept tracing all the acts of creatures in order to make them Its own, to give to the Father a divine glory on the part of creatures, and to bring the value, the love, the kiss of the Eternal Volition to all the acts of creatures. In this sphere of the Eternal Volition, I could see all the acts of creatures \u2013 those which could be done and were not done, and also the good acts done badly \u2013 and I did those which had not been done, and redid those done badly. Now, these acts which were not done, except by Me alone, are all suspended in my Will, and I await the creatures to come to live in my Volition, and repeat in my Will that which I did.\nThis is why I chose you as the second link of connection with my Humanity, a link which becomes one with mine, as you live in my Volition and repeat my own acts. Otherwise, on this side my Love would remain without Its outpouring, without glory from the creatures for all that my Divinity operated within my Humanity, and without the perfect purpose of Creation, which must be enclosed and perfected in my Will. It would be as if I had shed all my Blood and suffered so much, and nobody had known it. Who would have loved Me? Which heart would have been shaken? No one; and therefore in no one would I have had my fruits \u2013 the glory of Redemption.\u201d\nInterrupting Jesus\u2019 saying, I said: \u2018My Love, if there is so much good in this living in the Divine Will, why didn\u2019t You manifest it before?\u2019 And He: \u201cMy daughter, first I had to make known what my Humanity did and suffered externally, to be able to dispose souls to knowing what my Divinity did inside. The creature is incapable of understanding my work all together; therefore I keep manifesting Myself little by little.\nThen, from your link of connection with Me, the links of other souls will be connected, and I will have a cohort of souls who, living in my Volition, will redo all the acts of the creatures. I will receive the glory of the many suspended acts done only by Me, also from the creatures \u2013 and these, from all classes: virgins, priests, lay people, according to their office. They will no longer operate humanly; but rather, as they penetrate into my Will, their acts will multiply for all in a way which is fully Divine. I will receive from the creatures the divine glory of many Sacraments administered and received in a human way, of others which have been profaned, of others sullied with interest, and of many good works in which I remain more dishonored than honored. I yearn very much for this time\u2026 And you, pray and yearn for it together with Me, and do not move your link of connection with Mine, but start \u2013 as the first one.\u201d\nI continue in order to obey. It seems that my always lovable Jesus wants to speak about the living in His Most Holy Will. It seems that when He speaks about His Most Holy Will, He forgets everything and makes one forget about everything. The soul finds nothing other than the necessity \u2013 no other good than to live in His Volition. So, after I wrote about His Will on November 20, my sweet Jesus, being disappointed with me, told me: \u201cMy daughter, you did not say everything. I want you to neglect to write nothing when I speak to you about my Will \u2013 not even the most tiny things, because all of them will serve for the good of posterity. In all sanctities there have always been Saints who first started each kind of sanctity. So, there was the Saint who started the sanctity of the penitent; another who started the sanctity of obedience; another of humility, and so with all the other sanctities. Now I want you to be the beginning of the Sanctity of living in my Will.\nMy daughter, all other sanctities are not exempt from waste of time and from personal interest \u2013 as for example, a soul who lives attentive to obedience in everything. There is much waste of time; her saying and re-saying continuously, distracts her from Me, and she mistakes the virtue for Me. If she does not have the opportunity to take all the orders, she lives restless. Another one suffers from temptations \u2013 oh, how much waste of time! She never tires of telling of all her trials, and she mistakes the virtue for Me. And many times these sanctities end up in ruin. But the Sanctity of living in my Will is exempt from personal interest and waste of time; there is no danger that they might mistake the virtue for Me, because I Myself am the living in my Will.\nThis was the Sanctity of my Humanity on earth, and therefore It did everything for everyone, without a shadow of personal interest. Self-interest takes away the mark of Divine Sanctity. Therefore, it can never be a Sun; at the most, as beautiful as it may be, it can be a star. This is why I want the Sanctity of living in my Will \u2013 in these times, so sad, this generation needs these Suns, which may warm it, illuminate it and fecundate it. The disinterest of these terrestrial angels, all for the good of others, without a shadow of their own self, will open in hearts the way to receive my grace.\nAnd then, churches are few and many will be destroyed. Many times I do not find Priests to consecrate Me; other times they allow unworthy souls to receive Me, and worthy souls not to receive Me; other souls are unable to receive Me, therefore my Love finds Itself hindered. This is why I want to make the Sanctity of living in my Will. In It, I will no longer need Priests to be consecrated, nor churches, tabernacles or hosts. These souls will be everything altogether: Priests, churches, tabernacles and hosts. My Love will be more free. Anytime I want to consecrate Myself, I will be able to do it \u2013 in every moment, during the day, at night, in any place where they might be. Oh, how my Love will have Its complete outpouring!\nAh! my daughter, the present generation deserved to be destroyed completely; and if I will allow a little something to be left of it, it is to form these Suns of the Sanctity of living in my Will, who, through my example, will repay Me for all that other creatures, past, present and future, owed Me. Then will the earth give Me true glory, and my \u201cFIAT VOLUNTAS TUA, on earth as it is in Heaven\u201d will have its completion and fulfillment.\u201d\n\u201cCourage, don\u2019t lose heart. I will go on. And you \u2013 come into my Will; live in It, so that the earth may no longer be your home, but I Myself may become your home. In this way you will be completely safe. My Will has the power of rendering the soul transparent, and when the soul is transparent, whatever I do is reflected in her. If I think, my thought is reflected in her mind and becomes light, while her thought, as light, is reflected in Mine. If I look, if I speak, if I love, etc., these are reflected in her like many lights, and she in Me. Therefore, we are in continuous reflections, in perennial communication, in reciprocal love. And since I am everywhere, the reflections of these souls reach Me in Heaven, on earth, in the Sacramental Host, in the hearts of creatures. Everywhere and always, I give light, and light they send to Me; I give love, and love they give to Me. They are my terrestrial homes, in which I find refuge from the disgust of the other creatures.\nOh, the beautiful living in my Will! I like it so much that I will make disappear all other sanctities under any aspect of virtue in the future generations, and I will make the sanctity of living in my Will reappear, which are and will be not human sanctities, but Divine. Their sanctity will be so high that, like suns, they will eclipse the most beautiful stars of the saints of the past generations. This is why I want to purge the earth: it is unworthy of these portents of Sanctity.\nI was feeling all immersed in the Divine Volition, and my lovable Jesus, on coming, told me: \u201cDaughter of my Will, look into your interior \u2013 how peacefully flows the immense sea of my Will. But do not think that this sea has been flowing in you for a short time because you hear Me speak often about my Will \u2013 but for a long, long time, as my usual way is to act first, and then to speak. It is true that your beginning was the sea of my Passion, because there is no sanctity which does not pass through the harbor of my Humanity. In fact, there are Saints who remain in the harbor of my Humanity, while others move beyond. But then I quickly grafted the sea of my Will; and when I saw you disposed, and you surrendered your will to Me, Mine took life in you, and the sea kept flowing and growing always. Each additional act of yours in my Will was a greater growth. I spoke to you little about this; our wills were linked together and understood each other without speaking; and then, by just seeing each other, we understood each other. I delighted in you, feeling the delights of Heaven, in nothing dissimilar to those which the Saints give Me, which are such that, while I delight them, they delight Me. Being immersed in my Volition, they cannot help but give Me joys and delights. But my happiness was not complete \u2013 I wanted other children of mine to share in such a great good. Therefore I began to speak to you about my Will in a surprising way; and as many truths, as many effects and values as I spoke to you, so many channels did I open from the sea for the good of others, so that these channels might give abundant water to all the earth.\nMy operating is communicative and always in act, without ever stopping. But many times these channels are covered with mud by creatures; others throw stones into them, and the water does not flow \u2013 it flows with difficulty. It is not the sea that does not want to give water, nor is it the water that cannot penetrate everywhere because it is not clear; but it is the side of creatures that opposes such a great good. Therefore, if they read these truths, if they are not disposed they will not understand a thing \u2013 they will remain confused and dazzled by the light of my truths. For those who are disposed, it will be light that lights them up, and water that quenches their thirst, in such a way that they will never want to detach themselves from these channels because of the great good they feel, and the new life that flows in them. Therefore, you too should be happy to open these channels for the good of your brothers, neglecting nothing about my truths \u2013 be it even the littlest, because as little as it might be, it can serve one of your brothers to draw water. So, be attentive to open these channels, and to content your Jesus, who has done so much for you.\u201d\nContinuing in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself in the midst of a most extensive sea; and I saw a machine, and as the engine moved, water would spurt out from all sides of the machine, in such a way that, rising up to Heaven, these waves of water spouted upon all Saints and Angels, and reaching up to the throne of the Eternal One, they poured mightily at His feet, and then descended again into the depths of the same sea. I remained amazed in seeing this, and I said to myself: \u2018What can this machine be?\u2019 And a light that came from the same sea told me: \u201cThe sea is my Will, the machine is the soul who lives in my Volition, the engine is the human will that operates in the Divine Will. Every time the soul makes her own special intentions in my Will, the engine sets the machine in motion; and since my Will is life of the Blessed, just as It is also life of the machine, it is no wonder that my Will that spurts out of this machine enters into Heaven and glows with light, with glory, spouting upon all, up to my throne, and then descends again into the sea of my Will on earth, for the good of pilgrim souls. My Will is everywhere, and the acts done in my Will run everywhere \u2013 both in Heaven and on earth. They run to the past, because my Will existed; to the present, because It has lost nothing of Its activity; to the future, because It will exist eternally. How beautiful are the acts in my Will! And since my Will contains ever new contentments, these acts are the new contentments of the very Blessed; they are the substitutes for the acts of the Saints, which have not been done in my Will; they are the new graces of all creatures.\u201d\nThen, afterwards, I remained all afflicted because I had not seen my sweet Jesus; and He, moving in my interior, clasped me in His arms, saying to me: \u201cMy daughter, why are you so afflicted? Am I not the sea Myself?\u201d\nAs I was in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus made Himself seen holding many little lambs in His arms \u2013 some leaning on His breast, some on His shoulders, some clinging to His neck, some on the right, some on the left in His arms, and some peeking out with their little heads from within His Heart. However, the feet of all these little lambs were all in the Heart of Our Lord, and His breath was the nourishment He gave to them. They were all turned with their mouths toward the mouth of my sweet Jesus, to receive the nourishment of His breath. It was really beautiful to see how Jesus took highest delight, all intent on nourishing them and delighting with them; they really seemed as many births delivered by His Most Holy Heart. Then, turning to Me, He said: \u201cMy daughter, these little lambs that you see in my arms are the children of my Will, legitimate births from my Supreme Volition. They will come out from within my Heart, but will keep their feet in the center of my Heart, so that they may take nothing from the earth, and may be concerned with nothing but Me alone. Look at them, how beautiful they are; how clean and nourished they grow, fed by my breath alone. They will be the glory, the crown of my Creation.\u201d Then He added: \u201cMy Will crystallizes the soul; and just as when any object is placed close to a crystal, another object is formed within it fully similar to the one which is placed in front of it, in the same way, my Will reflects all It does in these souls, crystallized by my power; and they repeat and do all that my Supreme Will does. And since my Will is everywhere, in Heaven, on earth and in every place, by containing my Will within them as life, wherever my Will acts, these souls absorb It like crystal within them, and they repeat my act. So, as I act, I take great delight in placing Myself in front of them to see my own action being repeated in them. They are my mirrors, and my Will multiplies them everywhere, for every act It does; therefore, there is not one created thing in which they are not present: in the creatures, in the sea, in the sun, in the stars, and even in Heaven; and my Will receives the requital for my act from the creature in a divine manner. This is also the reason why I love so much that the living in my Will be known: to multiply more of these mirrors, rendered as crystals by my Will, to have my works repeated in them. Then I will not be alone any more, but I will have the creature in my company; I will have her with Me, intimately with Me, in the depth of my Will, almost inseparable from Me, as if she had just come out of my womb when I created her, having followed no other ways contrary to my Will. How happy I will be!\u201d On hearing this, I said to Him: \u2018My Love and my Life, I still cannot convince myself. How is it possible that no Saint has done your Most Holy Will always, and has lived in the way You are now saying \u2013 in your Will?\u2019 And Jesus: \u201cAh, my daughter, you still do not want to convince yourself that one can take as much light, grace, variety and value, for as much as one knows? Surely there have been Saints who have always done my Will, but they took of my Will as much as they knew. They knew that doing my Will was the greatest act, that which honored Me the most and which brought sanctification, and with this intention they did It, and this is what they took, because there is no sanctity without my Will, and no good nor sanctity, little or big, can come without It. You must know that what my Will was, It is and will be: It has changed in nothing. But as It manifests Itself, It makes known the variety of the colors, effects and values It contains; and It does not just make Itself known, but It gives to the soul the variety of Its colors, effects and values; otherwise, why make them known? My Will acted like a great lord who showed his most extensive and sumptuous palace. To the first ones he pointed out the way to reach his palace; to the second the door; to the third the stairs; to the fourth the first rooms; and to the last ones he opened all the rooms, making them the owners and giving them all the goods which are in it. Now, the first ones have taken the goods which are on the way; the second, the goods which are at the door, superior to those which are on the way; the third, those of the stairs; the fourth, those of the first rooms, where there are more goods and they are kept more safely; the last ones, the goods of the whole palace. So my Will has done. It had to make known the way, the door, the stairs, the first rooms, to be able to move on into the whole immensity of my Will, and to show them the great goods which are in It, and how the creature operating in these goods contained in my Will acquires the variety of Its colors, of Its immensity, sanctity and power, and of all my works. In making something known, I give and impress within the soul that divine quality which I make known. If you knew under what mighty waves of graces you are, when I move on to make you know other effects of my Will, and how, as a skillful painter, I paint in your soul, with the most vivid colors the different effects and values which I make you know \u2013 you would remain crushed under my waves! But having compassion for your weakness, I sustain you; and while I sustain you I impress more within you what I tell you, because if I speak, I act. Therefore, be attentive and faithful.\u201d\nI was praying when my always lovable Jesus came, and throwing His arms around my neck, told me: \u201cMy daughter, let us pray together, let us enter into the immense sea of my Will so that nothing may come from you which is not plunged in It. The thought, the word, the heartbeat, the work, the step \u2013 everything must take place in my Will; and for each thing you do in It, you will take one more possession and acquire a greater right. All human acts, according to the purpose of Creation, were to have life in my Volition and form in It their plane of all human acts changed into divine acts, with the mark of supreme nobility, sanctity and wisdom. It was not Our Will that man withdraw from Us, but that he live with Us, growing in Our likeness and operating with Our own manners. This is why I wanted that all his acts be done in my Will \u2013 to give him the place in which to form his own little river within the immense sea of my Will. I acted like a father who possessed great lands and said to His son: \u2018I give you possession of the center of my possessions, so that you may not go out of my boundaries and may grow in my riches, with my own nobility and with the greatness of my works, and so that all may recognize that you are my son.\u2019 What would one say of him if he did not accept the great gift of his father and went to foreign lands to live of miseries, disennobling himself under the slavery of cruel enemies? Such was man. Now, this plane, this little river in my Volition \u2013 I want it from you. Let each one of your thoughts flow in It, so that, in the reflections of Our intelligence, which is thought of everyone, it may rise over each intelligence and give Us the homage of each thought in a divine manner. Let your words and works flow as well, so that, in the reflection of Our word \u2018Fiat\u2019, which made all things and is word of everyone, and in the reflections of the sanctity of Our works, which is life and motion of everything, they may rise and hover over everything, giving Us the glory of each word and of each work, with Our own word \u2018Fiat\u2019 and with the very sanctity of Our works. My daughter, if all that is human \u2013 be it even one thought \u2013 is not done in my Will, the human plane takes no possession, the little river is not formed, and my Will cannot descend upon the earth to make Itself known and to reign.\u201d On hearing this, I said to Him: \u2018My Love, Jesus, how is it possible that after so many centuries of life of the Church, which put out so many Saints \u2013 and many of them have astonished Heaven and earth with their virtues and with the wonders they performed \u2013 they did not operate fully in the Divine Will so as to form this plane You are talking about? Were You waiting just for me, the most unable, the most cattivella [bad little one] and ignorant one, in order to do this? It seems just incredible.\u2019 And Jesus: \u201cListen, my daughter, my wisdom has means and ways which man ignores, such that he is obliged to lower his forehead and adore it in mute silence; and it is not up to him to dictate to Me the laws, whom I should choose and the appropriate time, which my goodness disposes. Besides, first I had to form the Saints, who were to resemble Me and copy my Humanity in a more perfect way, as much as is possible for them; and this I have already done. Now my goodness wants to go beyond, and wants to give in to greater excesses of love; and therefore I want them to enter into my Humanity and copy what the soul of my Humanity did in the Divine Will. If the first cooperated with my redemption in order to save souls, to teach the law, to banish sin, being limited within the centuries in which they lived, the second will go beyond, copying what the soul of my Humanity did in the Divine Will. They will embrace all centuries, all creatures, and rising above all, will put in force the rights of Creation which are due to Me, and which concern all creatures, bringing all things to the first origin of Creation and to the purpose for which Creation was delivered. Everything is ordered in Me: if I issued Creation, It must return to Me ordered, just as It came out of my hands. The first plane of the human acts changed into divine in my Will, was done Me; I left it as though suspended, and the creature, except for my dear and inseparable Mama, knew nothing. This was necessary. If man did not know the way, the door, the rooms of my Humanity, how could he enter inside of Me and copy what I did? Now the time has come for the creature to enter into this plane and also do something of her own within mine. What is the wonder if I have called you as the first one? Besides, it is so true that I have called you as the first, since to no other soul, though dear to Me, have I manifested the way to live in my Will, the effects of It, and the wonders and goods which the creature operating in the Supreme Volition receives. Check as many lives of Saints as you want, or books of doctrines: in none of them will you find the prodigies of my Volition operating in the creature and of the creature operating in It. At the most, you will find resignation, union of wills; but in not one of them will you find the Divine Will operating in her, and she in It. This means that the time had not come in which my goodness was to call the creature to live in this sublime state. Even the very way I make you pray cannot be found in anyone else. Therefore, be attentive.\nI understood that He wanted me to enter into the immense sea of His Will, to be cheered from the sea of the sins of creatures; and I, clinging to Him more tightly, told Him: \u2018My beloved Good, together with you I want to follow all the acts which your Humanity did in the Divine Will. Wherever You reached, I too want to reach, so that in all of your acts You may find mine as well. So, just as your intelligence, in the Supreme Will, went through all the intelligences of creatures in order to give the Celestial Father glory, honor and reparation for each thought of creature in a divine manner, and seal each one of their thoughts with the light and the grace of your Will, I too want to go through each thought, from the first to the last which will have life in human minds, to repeat what was done by You. Even more, I want to unite myself with the acts of our Celestial Mama, who never remained behind, but always ran together with You, and with those which your Saints have done.\u2019\nAt this last word, Jesus looked at me and, all tenderness, told me: \u201cMy daughter, in my Eternal Will you will find all my acts, as well as those of my Mama, which enveloped all the acts of creatures, from the first to the last which will exist, as though within a mantle. This mantle is as though made as two, and one of them rose up to Heaven, in order to give to my Father, with a Divine Will, all that creatures owed Him \u2013 love, glory, reparation and satisfaction; while the other remained as defense and help of creatures. No one else has entered into my Divine Will to do all that my Humanity did. My Saints have done my Will, but have not entered into It, to do all that my Will does, taking all acts, as though in a twinkling of an eye, from the first to the last man, and becoming actors, spectators and divinizers. By doing my Will one does not arrive at doing all that my Eternal Volition contains; rather, It descends into the creature as limited, as much as the creature can contain of It. Only one who enters into It expands and diffuses himself like solar light in the eternal flights of my Volition, and finding my acts and those of my Mama, he places his own. Look inside my Will: are there perhaps other acts of creature multiplied within mine, reaching up to the last act which is to be performed on this earth? Look well \u2013 you will find none. This means that no one has entered. It had been reserved that the doors of my Eternal Volition would only be opened to my little daughter, so as to unify her acts with mine and with those of my Mama, and render all our acts triple, before the Supreme Majesty and for the good of creatures. Now, since I have opened the doors, others may enter, provided that they dispose themselves for such a great good.\u201d\nVolume 16 \u2013 December 26, 1923\n\u201cBeloved daughter of my Will, look inside of Me, how my Supreme Will conceded not even a breath of life to the will of my Humanity; as holy as It was, not even that was conceded to Me. I was to remain under the pressure of a Divine, infinite, endless Will, more than a press, which constituted Itself life of each one of my heartbeats, words and acts; and my little human will died in each heartbeat, breath, act, word, etc. But it died in reality \u2013 it actually felt death, because it never had life. I had my human will only to make it die continuously, and even though this was a great honor for my Humanity, and the greatest of portents \u2013 each death of my human will was substituted by a Life of Divine Will \u2013 however, this continuous dying was the greatest, the hardest, the most bitter and painful martyrdom of my Humanity. Oh! how the pains of my Passion become little before this continuous dying of mine. And in this alone I completed the perfect glory of my Celestial Father, and I loved Him with a love that surpasses any other love for all creatures. To die, to suffer, to do something great a few times, at intervals, is not so great. The Saints, the good and other creatures also have worked, have suffered, have died; but since it was not a continuous suffering, doing and dying, it constitutes neither a perfect glory to the Father, nor a redemption which can be extended to all. Therefore, my newborn daughter in my Eternal Volition, see now where your Jesus calls you and wants you: under the press of my Divine Will, so that your will may receive continuous death, just as my human will did. Otherwise, I could not make the new era arise, in which my Will may come to reign upon earth. It takes the continuous act, pains, deaths, in order to be able to snatch the Fiat Voluntas Tua from Heaven. Beware, my daughter \u2013 do not look at others, either at my other Saints, or at the way I conducted Myself with them, which causes you be surprised at the way I behave with you. With them I wanted to do one thing; with you it is something completely different.\u201d And as He was saying this, He took the form of the Crucified and He leaned His forehead on mine, laying Himself over my whole person; and I remained under His pressure, and all prey to His Will.\nI was thinking to myself: \u2018My good Jesus says many admirable things about His Will, and how there is nothing greater, higher, holier than the soul whom He calls to live in His Volition. If it were so, who knows how many admirable things I should be doing \u2013 how many sensational things, also externally. Yet, there is nothing charming or striking; on the contrary, I feel I am the most abject and insignificant one, who does nothing good; while the Saints \u2013 how much good did they not do? Sensational things, miracles\u2026. And yet, He says that the living in His Will leaves all the Saints behind.\u2019 Now, while these and other thoughts were passing through my mind, my Jesus moved in my interior, and with His usual light, He told me: \u201cMy daughter, when a sanctity is individual, for a time and a place, it has more of external prodigies in order to attract those individuals, places and times, to receive the grace and the good which that sanctity contains. On the other hand, the sanctity of living in my Will is not an individual sanctity, assigned to doing good to certain places, to certain people and to certain times; rather, it is a sanctity which must do good to all, in all times and in all places. It is a sanctity which remains eclipsed in the Eternal Sun of my Will, which, invading all, is light without speech, fire without wood, without clamor, without smoke. But in spite of this, it does not cease to be the most majestic, the most beautiful, the most fecund; Its light is more pure, Its heat more intense. The true image of it is the sun which illuminates our horizon: it illuminates all, but without clamor; it is light, but has no speech, it says nothing to anyone \u2013 the good it does, the seeds it fecundates, the life it gives to all plants, and how it purifies the polluted air with its heat, and destroys what can be harmful to all humanity. And yet, it is so silent, that even though they have it with them, they pay no attention to it. But in spite of this, it does not cease to be majestic and beautiful, and to continue the good it does to all. And if the sun were missing, everyone would mourn for it, because the greatest miracle of fecundity and preservation of all nature would be missing.\nThe sanctity of living in my Will is more than sun. A soul who is upright and fully ordered in my Will is more than an army in battle. Her intelligence is ordered and bound to the Eternal Intelligence; her heartbeats, affections, desires, are ordered with eternal bonds. Therefore, her thoughts, her will and the whole of her interior, are armies of messengers which come from her and fill Heaven and earth; they are speaking voices; they are weapons which defend all and, first of all, their God. They bring good to all; they are the true celestial and divine militia which the Supreme Majesty keeps all ordered within Itself, ever ready at all Its commands.\nAnd then, there is the example of my Mama \u2013 true sanctity of the living in my Will, Her interior all eclipsed in the Eternal Sun of the Supreme Volition. Having to be the Queen of the Sanctity of the Saints, Mother and Bearer of my Life to all, and therefore of all goods, She remained as though hidden within all, bringing good without making Herself recognized. More than silent sun, She would bring light without speech, fire without clamor, good without exposing Herself. There was no good which would not come from Her; there was no miracle which would not spring from Her. By living in my Will, She lived hidden within all, and She was, and is, the origin of the goods of all. She was so enraptured in God, so fixed and ordered in the Divine Will, that Her whole interior swam in the sea of the Eternal Volition. She was aware of the whole interior of all creatures, and She would place Her own in order to reorder them before God. It was precisely the interior of man, more than the outside, that was in greater need of being redone and reordered; and so, having to do the greater, it seemed that She would leave out the lesser, while She was the origin of both the external and the internal good. Yet, on the outside it seemed that She would not do great and sensational works. More than sun, She would pass unobserved and hidden in the cloud of light of the Divine Will; so much so, that the very Saints have given of themselves, doing apparently more sensational things than my very Mama did. Yet, what are the greatest Saints before my Celestial Mama? They are just little stars compared to the great sun; and if they are illuminated, it is because of the sun. But even though She did not do sensational things, She did not cease to be, also visibly, majestic and beautiful, just barely hovering over the earth, all intent on that Eternal Will which, with great love and violence, She charmed and enraptured in order to transport It from Heaven to earth, and which the human family had so brutally exiled even unto the Empyreum. And She, with all of Her interior ordered in the Divine Will, would give no time to time; whether She would think, palpitate, breathe, and anything She would do \u2013 these were all charming bonds in order to draw the Eternal Word upon earth. And in fact She won, and performed the greatest miracle, which no one else can do.\nAfter writing what is written above, I began to do the adoration to my Crucified Jesus, fusing all of myself in His Most Holy Will; and my beloved Jesus came out from within my interior, and placing His most holy face close to mine, all tenderness, told me: \u201cMy daughter, did you write everything on the mission of my Will?\u201d And I: \u2018Yes, yes, I wrote everything.\u2019 And He, again: \u201cAnd what if I told you that you have not written everything? Rather, you have left out the most essential thing. So, continue writing, and add: \u2018The mission of my Will will veil the Most Holy Trinity upon earth. Just as in Heaven there are the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, inseparable from One Another but distinct among Themselves, forming the whole beatitude of Heaven; in the same way, on earth there will be three persons who, because of their missions, will be distinct and inseparable among themselves: the Virgin, with Her Maternity which veils the Paternity of the Celestial Father and encloses His power in order to fulfill Her mission of Mother of the Eternal Word and Co-Redemptrix of mankind; my Humanity, for the mission of Redeemer, which enclosed the Divinity, and the Word, without ever separating from the Father and from the Holy Spirit, manifested my celestial wisdom \u2013 adding the bond of rendering Myself inseparable from my Mama; and you, for the mission of my Will, as the Holy Spirit will make display of His love, manifesting to you the secrets, the prodigies of my Will, the goods It contains, to make happy those who will give themselves to knowing how much good this Supreme Will contains, to love It and to let It reign in their midst, offering their souls to let It dwell within their hearts, that It may be able to form Its Life in them \u2013 adding the bond of inseparability between you, the Mother and the Eternal Word. These three missions are distinct and inseparable. The first two have prepared the graces, the light, the work, and with unheard-of pains, for the third mission of my Will, to then fuse themselves all in It without leaving their office, so as to find rest, because my Will alone is celestial rest. These missions will not be repeated, because the exuberance of grace, of light, of knowledge is such and so great that all human generations can be filled with them; even more, they will not be able to contain all the good which they contain. These missions are symbolized by the sun; in fact, in creating it, I filled it with so much light and heat, that all human generations have superabundant light. Nor did I consider that, since at the beginning of creation there were only Adam and Eve who would enjoy it, I could place the necessary light for them only, to then increase new light as the generations would grow. No, no \u2013 I made it full of light, just as it is now, and will be. For the decorum and the honor of Our power, wisdom and love, Our works are always done with the fullness of all the good which they contain; nor are they subject to increasing or decreasing. So I did with the sun: I centralized in it all the light which was to serve up to the last man. But how many goods does the sun not do for the earth? What glory, in its mute light, does it not give to its Creator? I can say that because of the immense goods it does to the earth, in its mute language the sun glorifies Me and makes Me known more than all other things together; and this, because it is full in its light, and stable in its course. When I looked at the sun which, with so much light, only Adam and Eve were enjoying, I also looked at all the living; and in seeing that that light was to serve all, my paternal goodness exulted with joy, and I remained glorified in my works. So I did with my Mama: I filled Her with so much grace, that She can give graces to all without ever exhausting even one of them. So I did with my Humanity: there is no good which It does not possess; It enclosed everything, and the very Divinity, to give It to whomever wants of It. So I did with you: I enclosed in you my Will, and, with It, I enclosed Myself. I enclosed in you Its knowledges, Its secrets, Its light. I filled your soul up to the brim; so much so, that what you write is nothing other than the outpouring of what you contain of my Will. And even though it now serves you alone, and a few glimmers of light serve a few others, I am content because, being light, more than second sun, it will make its way by itself, in order to illuminate the human generations and to bring about the fulfillment of Our works: that Our Will be known and loved, and that It reign as life in the creatures. This was the purpose of Creation \u2013 this, its beginning, and this will be the means and the end. Therefore, be attentive, because this is about placing in safety that Eternal Will which, with so much love, wants to dwell in the creatures. But It wants to be known, It does not want to be like a stranger, but wants to give Its goods and become Life of each one. However, It wants Its rights, Its place of honor; It wants the human will to be put aside \u2013 the only enemy for Itself and for man. The mission of my Will was the purpose of the creation of man. My Divinity did not depart from Heaven \u2013 from Its throne, while my Will not only departed, but descended into all created things and formed Its Life in them. But while all things recognized Me, and I dwell in them with majesty and decorum, man alone drove Me away. But I want to conquer him and win him, and therefore my mission is not ended. So I called you, entrusting to you my own mission, that you may place the one who drove Me away on the lap of my Will, and everything may return to Me in my Will. Therefore, do not be surprised at the many great and marvelous things I may tell you for the sake of this mission, or at the many graces I may give you; because this is not about making a Saint, or saving the generations. This is about placing a Divine Will in safety, that all may return to the beginning, to the origin from which all came, and that the purpose of my Will may have its fulfillment.\u2019\u201d\n\u201cDaughter of my Will, each act in my Will is a new heaven which extends above the head of the soul \u2013 one more beautiful than the other. The air of these heavens is divine, and brings with itself sanctity, love, light, fortitude, and contains all tastes together. This is why one feels a balsamic and sweet air. My Will in Heaven is confirming, beatifying, bearer of happiness and all-pervasive, transformer and divinizer of everything within Itself. On the other hand, in the soul who possesses these new heavens of my Will on earth, my Will is operating, and as It operates, It delights in extending new heavens. Therefore, my Will works and operates more in the pilgrim soul than in the Celestial Jerusalem. Up there, the works of the Saints are accomplished \u2013 there is nothing left to do; while here, my Will has always something to do in the soul in whom It reigns. This is why It wants everything for Itself, nor does It want to leave even one act to her human will \u2013 because It wants to do much, and for every act It were to surrender to the human will, It would fail to extend one more heaven, and it would be one work less for It. Ah! you do not know what happens in the soul when she gives my Will all the freedom to operate within her, and the soul operates in my Will!\nImagine the sea when the waves rise up as so powerful and high, that the power of the waves transports not only the waters, but also the fish \u2013 up high, in such a way that in those waves one can see, carried by the power of the storm, how the fish also have come out from the bottom of the sea, from their everyday dwelling, to rise up high together with the waves. The waves have overwhelmed them, and they have not been able to resist their power; while, without the power of the waves, they are unable to go out of their harbor. Oh! if the sea had a power without limit, it would make all the water overflow from the bed of the sea, forming gigantic waves, with all the fish overwhelmed within them. But what the sea cannot do, because it is limited in its power, my Will does. As It makes the acts of the soul Its own by operating in her, It forms Its eternal waves in her; and within these waves It overwhelms everything. In these waves, one can see what my Humanity did, the works of my Celestial Mama, those of all Saints, and everything that the very Divinity did. Everything is placed in motion. My Will is more than sea; Our works and those of the Saints can be symbolized by the fish which live in the sea. When my Will operates in the soul, and also outside of the soul, everything which is present in It, moves and rises; all works place themselves in order, to repeat for Us glory, love, adoration. They pass before Us, as though in a parade, saying to Us: \u2018We are your works. Great and powerful You are, because You made us so beautiful.\u2019 My Will encloses everything that is beautiful and good, and when It operates, It leaves nothing behind, so that nothing of what is Ours may be missing in that act, and so that Our glory may be complete. And there is nothing to be surprised about, because it is the eternal operating that is carried out in the soul. Therefore, the operating of my Will can be called eternal wave, which overwhelms Heaven and earth as though in one single point, and then diffuses over all, as bearer of a divine act. Oh! how Heaven delights when It sees the Eternal Will operate in the soul! In fact, since their works are confirmed in the Divine Will in Heaven, they see their works flow within that divine act, and feel their glory, happiness and joys, being redoubled. Therefore, since you are the little daughter of my Supreme Volition, I recommend to you: leave each act of yours prey to the eternal waves of my Will, so that, as these waves reach the foot of Our Throne in Heaven, We may confirm you more and more as Our true daughter of Our Will, and We may grant you charters of grace for your brothers and Our children.\u201d\nHaving completed my whole day, I was thinking to myself: \u2018What else is left for me to do?\u2019 And in my interior I heard, being said to me: \u201cYou have to do the most important thing \u2013 your last act of fusing yourself in the Divine Will.\u201d So, according to my usual way, I began to fuse all my poor being in the Supreme Will; and while I was doing this, it seemed to me that the Heavens were opening, and I was going to meet the whole Celestial Court, and all of Heaven was coming toward me. And my sweet Jesus told me: \u201cMy daughter, fusing yourself in my Will is the most solemn, the greatest, the most important act of your whole life. To fuse yourself in my Will is to enter the sphere of eternity, to embrace It, to kiss It, and to receive the deposit of the goods which the Eternal Will contains. Even more, as the soul fuses herself in the Supreme Volition, all go to meet her, in order to deposit in her everything they have. The Angels, the Saints, the very Divinity \u2013 they all deposit, knowing that they are depositing in that same Will in which everything is safe. Even more, in receiving these goods, with her acts in the Divine Will the soul multiplies them and gives back double glory and honor to the whole of Heaven. So, by fusing yourself in my Will you put Heaven and earth in motion; it is a new feast for the whole Empyreum. And since to fuse oneself in my Will is to love and to give for all and for each one, without excluding anyone, in my goodness, so as not to let Myself be surpassed in love by the creature, I place in her the goods of all, and all possible goods which I contain within Me. Nor can there be lack of space in which to place all goods, because my Will is immense, and lends Itself to receiving everything. If you knew what you do and what happens when you fuse yourself in my Will, you would burn with the desire to fuse yourself continuously.\u201d\nThen afterwards, I was thinking about whether I had to write what is written above, or not. I did not see it as necessary, or as an important thing; more so, since obedience had not given me any command to do it. And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: \u201cMy daughter, how can it not be important to make known that fusing oneself in my Will is to live in It? The soul who fuses herself in my Will receives, as though in deposit, all my divine and eternal goods. The very Saints compete among themselves in order to deposit their merits in the soul fused in my Will, because they feel in her the glory, the power of my Will, and they feel glorified in a divine manner by the littleness of the creature. Listen, my daughter, to live in my Will surpasses even martyrdom in merit. Martyrdom kills the body, but living in my Will is like a divine hand that kills one\u2019s will, and gives one the nobility of a divine martyrdom. And every time the soul decides to live in my Will, my Volition prepares the blow in order to kill the human will, and forms the noble martyrdom of the soul. In fact, human will and Divine Will do not bond together \u2013 one has to give the place to the Other, and the human will must content itself with remaining extinguished under the power of the Divine Will. So, every time you dispose yourself to live in my Volition, you dispose yourself to undergo the martyrdom of your will. See, then, what it means to fuse oneself in my Will: it is to be the continuous martyr of my Supreme Will. And you think it is trivial, or something unimportant?\u201d\nI was worried about what has been written on the living in the Divine Volition, and I was praying Jesus to give me more light in order to explain myself better, so that I might be able to clarify more this blessed living in the Divine Will to those to whom I am obliged to do so. And my sweet Jesus told me: \u201cMy daughter, they do not want to understand. To live in my Will is to reign; to do my Will is to be submitted to my orders. The first state is to possess; the second is to receive my orders and execute them. To live in my Will is to make my Will one\u2019s own, as one\u2019s own thing, it is to dispose of It; to do my Will is to hold It as Will of God, not as one\u2019s own thing, nor can one dispose of It as one wants. To live in my Will is to live with one single Will \u2013 that of God; and since It is a Will all holy, all pure, all peace, and it is one single Will that reigns, there are no contrasts \u2013 everything is peace. Human passions tremble before this Supreme Will, and would want to shun It; nor do they dare to even move, or oppose It, seeing that Heaven and earth tremble before this Holy Will. So, the first step of living in the Divine Will \u2013 what does it do? It lays the divine order in the depth of the soul, emptying her of what is human \u2013 of tendencies, of passions, of inclinations and the like. On the other hand, to do my Will is to live with two wills, and when I give orders to do Mine, one feels the weight of one\u2019s own will, which causes contrasts. And even if one follows the orders of my Will with faithfulness, one feels the weight of one\u2019s rebellious nature, of one\u2019s passions and inclinations. How many Saints, though they may have reached the highest perfection, feel their own will waging war against them, keeping them oppressed; and many are forced to cry out: \u2018Who will free me from this body of death?\u2019\u2013 that is, from this will of mine, which wants to give death to the good I want to do?\nTo live in my Will is to live as a son; to do my Will is to live as a servant. In the first state, what belongs to the father belongs to the son, and many times servants make more sacrifices than sons do; they have to expose themselves to more toilsome and more humble services, to cold, to heat, to traveling on foot. In fact, how much have my Saints not done in order to execute the orders of my Will? On the other hand, a son remains with his father, takes care of him, cheers him with his kisses and with his caresses; he commands the servants as if his father were commanding; if he goes out, he does not go on foot, but travels in a carriage. And while the son possesses everything that belongs to his father, servants are given only the retribution for the work they have done, remaining free to serve or not to serve their master; and if they do not serve, they have no more right to receive any further compensation. On the other hand, between father and son, no one can remove these rights: that the son possess the goods of the father; no law, either celestial or terrestrial, can remove these rights, nor unbind the sonship between father and son. My daughter, the living in my Will is the living that is closest to the blessed of Heaven; and it is so distant from one who does my Will and is faithfully submitted to my orders, just as Heaven is distant from the earth, just as the distance between a son and a servant, and between a king and a subject. And besides, this is a gift which I want to give in these times, so sad \u2013 that they may not only do my Will, but possess It. Am I perhaps not free to give whatever I want, whenever I want, and to whomever I want? Is a master not free to say to his servant: \u2018Live in my house, eat, take, command like another me\u2019? And so that no one may prevent him from possessing his goods, he legitimizes this servant as his own son, and gives him the right to possess. If a rich man can do so, much more can I do it.\nThis living in my Will is the greatest gift I want to give to creatures. My goodness wants to make ever greater display of love toward creatures; and since I have given them everything, and have nothing else to give to make Myself loved, I want to give them the gift of my Will, so that, by possessing It, they may love the great good they possess.\nAnd do not be surprised if you see that they do not understand. In order to understand, they would have to dispose themselves to the greatest of sacrifices: that of not giving life, even in holy things, to their own will. Then would they feel the possession of Mine, and would touch with their own hands what it means to live in my Will. You, however, be attentive, and do not be bothered by the difficulties they raise; and I, little by little, will make my way to make them understand the living in my Will.\u201d\nI was feeling very disturbed, and I prayed Jesus to have compassion on me, and to take, Himself, all the care of my poor soul; and I said to Him: \u2018O please! take even everyone away from me, as long as You alone remain with me \u2013 You alone are enough for me. After so long, You should have made me content; more so, since I ask for nothing but You alone.\u2019 Now, while I was saying this and other things, my Jesus took my arm, as if He Himself wanted to free me and therefore do for me the office of my confessor. Oh! how happy I felt in seeing Jesus do this; and I thought to myself: \u2018Finally, the hardest of my sacrifices is over!\u2019 But, vain and fleeting happiness! As Jesus took my arm, at that very moment He escaped, and I was left in my usual state, without being able to come round. Oh! how I cried; and I prayed that He would have compassion on me. Then, after a few hours, my lovable Jesus came back, and seeing me crying and all embittered, He said to me: \u201cMy daughter, do not cry; don\u2019t you want to trust your Jesus? Let Me do, let Me do, and do not take things lightly. Rather \u2013 oh! how many sad things are about to happen! My justice can no longer hold back the lightnings to strike the creatures. They are all about to break out, one against the other; and when you hear of the evils of your brothers, you will feel remorse about your oppositions to your usual sacrifice, as if you too had put your hand in pushing justice to strike the creatures.\u201d\nOn hearing this, I said: \u2018My Jesus, may this never be \u2013 nor do I want to withdraw from your Will; on the contrary, I pray You to free me from the most awful of misfortunes \u2013 that of not doing your Most Holy Will. Nor do I ask You to free me from suffering; rather, increase it if You please. Only, I pray You, and as a grace I want from You only if You want it, that You free me from the bother I give to the confessor. This is too hard for me, and I feel I do not have the strength to bear it. So, only if You please; otherwise, give me more strength, but do not permit that your Most Holy Will be not fulfilled upon me.\u2019 And Jesus, resuming His speaking, added: \u201cMy daughter, remember that I asked of you a \u2018yes\u2019 in my Will[2], and you pronounced it with all love. That \u2018yes\u2019 still exists and holds its first place in my unending Will. Everything you do, think and say, is bound to that \u2018yes\u2019, from which nothing can escape, and my Will enjoys and makes feast in seeing a will of creature live in my Will; and I keep filling it with new graces, and I constitute all your acts as divine acts. This is the greatest portent that exists between Heaven and earth; it is the object dearest to Me, and if \u2013 may this never be \u2013 it were torn away from Me, I would feel Myself being torn and would cry bitterly. See, as you were making that little opposition, your \u2018yes\u2019 trembled with fright. At that trembling, the foundations of the heavens were shaken \u2013 trembling. All Saints and Angels, and the whole sphere of eternity, looked with horror and sorrow, as they felt an act of Divine Will being torn away from them; because, since my Will envelops everyone and everything, they felt the acts you have done as one thing with themselves, and therefore all felt the painful tearing. I could say that all took the attitude of profound sorrow.\u201d\nFrightened at this speaking of Jesus, I said: \u2018My Love, what are You saying? Is this possible \u2013 all this evil? Your speaking makes me die of pains. O please! forgive me; have mercy on me, who am so bad, and confirm my \u2018yes\u2019 with stronger bonds in your Will. Even more, make me die, rather than letting me go out of your Will.\u2019 And Jesus, again: \u201cMy daughter, calm yourself. As soon as you have placed yourself in my Will again, all things have calmed themselves and have taken the attitude of new feast. Your \u2018yes\u2019 continues its rapid rounds within the immensity of my Will. Ah! daughter, neither you nor those who direct you have known what it means to live in my Will; this is why you do not appreciate it, and it is held as something of no importance \u2013 and this is a sorrow for Me, while it is the thing which interests Me the most, and which, more than all things, should interest all! But, alas! they pay attention to other things, to things which are less pleasing or even indifferent to Me, rather than to that which glorifies Me the most, and which gives them, also on this earth, immense and eternal goods, and renders them the owners of the goods which my Will possesses. See, my Will is one, and It embraces all eternity. Now, by living in my Will and by making It her own, the soul comes to take part in all the joys and goods that my Will contains, and she becomes as though the owner of them. And even though while being on earth she does not feel all those joys and goods, by keeping them in deposit within her will by virtue of my Will done on earth, when she dies and finds herself up there in Heaven, she will feel all those joys and goods which my Will issued in Heaven while she was living on earth. Nothing will be taken away from her; on the contrary, it will be multiplied. In fact, if the Saints have enjoyed of my Will in Heaven because they live in It, however, it is always enjoying that they live; while the soul who lives in my Will on earth, lives suffering. So, is it not right that she take those joys and those goods which others have taken in Heaven while she was living on earth in that same Will in which they lived? So, how many immense riches one who lives in my Will on earth does not take! I can say that the whole of eternity moves around her to enrich her, to make her happy. My Will deprives her of nothing of what It contains; she is Its daughter, and It loves her so much that It does not want to deprive her of anything. Therefore, be attentive, my daughter, and do not want to oppose my designs, which I have made upon you.\u201d\nI was doing my usual rounds in the Kingdom of the Supreme Volition, and as I arrived at the point of what the Divine Will had done in the Humanity of Our Lord, I looked at His tears, His sighs, His moans and everything He did, invested with the light of His Will. Its rays were beaded with the tears of Jesus, filled with His sighs, invested with His sorrowful and loving moans; and since the Creation is filled and invested with the Divine Will, as Its rays of light invested everything, they beaded all created things with His tears. All things were invested with His sighs, with His love, and all moaned together with Jesus. Now, sweet Jesus came out from within my interior, and leaning His head on my forehead, told me: \u201cMy daughter, by sinning, the first man lost a Divine Will, and therefore my Humanity was needed, united with the Eternal Word, which was to sacrifice the human will of my Humanity entirely and completely in order to reacquire this Divine Will, so as to give It back to the creature. So, my Humanity gave not even a breath of life to Its human will, but kept it only to sacrifice it, and to pay for the freedom that man had taken, of rejecting this Supreme Will with so much ingratitude; and as he lost It, all of Its goods, Its happiness, Its dominion, Its sanctity, failed him \u2013 everything failed him. If man had lost something human given to him by God, a Saint could have rendered it back to him, but since he lost a Divine Will, another Man and God was needed, who would be able to give It back to him.\nNow, had I come upon earth to redeem him, one drop of my Blood, one little pain of mine would have been enough to put him in safety; but since I came not only to save him, but to give him back my Will, which he had lost, this Divine Will wanted to descend into all my pains, into my tears, into my sighs and moans \u2013 into everything I did and suffered, in order to reacquire the dominion in all and over all human acts, and therefore be able to form, once again, Its Kingdom in the midst of creatures. So, as a little child, when I cried, wailed, moaned, my Divine Will, more than solar ray, invested all Creation with my tears, with my moans and sighs. The stars, the sun, the starry sky, the sea, the little flower \u2013 all cried, moaned, wailed and sighed, because the Divine Will present in Me was the same as That which reigned in all Creation, and therefore, as though naturally, the stars cried, the sky moaned, the sun wailed, the sea sighed. The light of my Will brought my echo into all created things, and repeating my acts, they kept company with their Creator.\nOh, if you knew the assault that the Divine Majesty received in hearing my crying, my moans and sighs in all Creation! All created things, animated by my Will, prostrate at the foot of the divine throne, deafened It with their moans, drew It with their tears, moved It to pity with their sighs and prayers; and my pains, reverberating in them, bound It to surrender the keys of Heaven, and implored that the Kingdom of the Divine Will come upon earth once again. My Celestial Father, moved to compassion and tenderness by His own Will that cried, moaned, prayed and suffered in all His works, surrendered the keys and gave His Kingdom once again. But in order to be sure, He placed It in my Humanity, so that at the appropriate time He might give It back again to the human family. Here is the necessity for Me to do the human actions and to descend into the order of the human actions \u2013 because my Divine Will was to take Its dominion and substitute the order of Its Divine Will in all the acts of creatures. See, then, how much this Kingdom cost Me, with how many pains I ransomed It. This is why I love It so much, and I want to establish It in the midst of creatures at any cost.\u201d\nAnd I: \u2018But, tell me, my love, if everything You did was invested with the unity of the light of the Supreme Volition, since this Will is one and cannot be detached nor separated from Its acts, the Creation is no longer alone, but has the company of your acts, of your love, of your moans. Therefore, there isn\u2019t that sepulchral silence You told me about the other time.\u2019 And Jesus, all goodness, added: \u201cMy daughter, you must know that as long as my Humanity remained on earth, and as long as the Sovereign Queen also was there, there was no solitude nor sepulchral silence in the Creation, because by virtue of the light of the Divine Will, wherever this Will was It spread as light, and diffusing in everything, It multiplied in all created things, and everywhere my act was repeated \u2013 because one was the Will. This is so true, that the Creation gave sensible signs both at my birth, and even more so at my death, to the point that the sun became dark, the stones split, the earth trembled, as if all were crying for their Creator, for their King. They cried for the One who had kept them in feast, who had broken their solitude and sepulchral silence; and, all feeling the bitterness of such a hard privation, they gave signs of sorrow and crying, and returned once again to the mourning of their solitude and silence. In fact, as I departed from the earth, the One who, in the light of my Will, emitted the voice which, forming the echo, rendered the Creation speaking and operating, was no longer there. It happened as to those metal instruments which, with artfulness, enclose the voice of one who speaks or sings: the instrument speaks, sings, cries, laughs, but this happens by virtue of the echo of the voice that has spoken; however, if the intelligence that produces that singing is taken away, the instrument remains mute. More so, since I did not come upon earth for the Creation, but I came for man, and therefore everything I did \u2013 pains, prayers, moans, sighs\u2026 \u2013 I left for the good of souls as more than a new Creation. In fact, since everything I did was done by virtue of my creative power, everything is in the act of saving man.\nIn addition to this, Creation was made for man \u2013 in It he was to be the king of all created things. But by withdrawing from my Divine Will, man lost the regime, the dominion, nor could he form laws in the Kingdom of Creation as is usual with a king when he possesses a kingdom. In fact, having lost the unity of the light of my Will, he was no longer able to rule, he had no more strength of dominion, his laws had no value; Creation was for him like a people that rebels against the king and makes of him its laughing-stock. And this is why my Humanity was immediately recognized by the whole Creation as Its King \u2013 because It felt in Me the strength of the union of one single Will. But as I departed, It remained without King again, enclosed in Its silence, waiting again for someone who, in the Kingdom of my Will, would emit his voice to let It resound in it. But do you know who she is who will put all Creation in feast once again \u2013 the one who will form Its echo and will render It speaking again? It is you, my daughter, who will take back the dominion, the regime, in the Kingdom of my Will. Therefore, be attentive, and let your flight in my Volition be continuous\u2026.\u201d\nMy poor mind was thinking about what is written above, and my sweet Jesus continued on the same topic, telling me: \u201cMy daughter, see then, the necessity for Me not to give the Kingdom of my Will and not to make It known when I came upon earth. I wanted to test the creature once again; I wanted to give her things inferior to those which I gave her in Creation \u2013 remedies and goods to heal her. In fact, when I created man he was not ill, but healthy and holy, therefore he could very well live in the Kingdom of my Will. But as he withdrew from the Supreme Volition, he fell ill, and I came upon earth as the Celestial Doctor to see whether he would accept the remedies, the medicines for his illness; and after this test, then would I give him the surprise of manifesting the Kingdom of my Will, which I kept in my Humanity, prepared for him. Those who think that Our highest goodness and infinite wisdom would have left man with only the goods of Redemption, without raising him again to the original state in which he was created by Us, deceive themselves. In that case Our Creation would have remained without Its purpose, and therefore without Its full effect, which cannot be in the works of a God. At the most, We might let centuries pass and turn, giving now one surprise, now another; entrusting now one little good to the creature, now a greater one. We will act like a father who wants to give his property to his children, but these children have wasted much of the goods of their father. In spite of this, he is determined to give his property to his children, so he thinks of another device: he no longer gives large amounts to his children, but a little bit at a time, lira by lira; and as he sees that his children preserve that little, he keeps increasing the small amounts. Through this, they come to recognize the love of the father and to appreciate the goods he entrusts to them, which they would not do before, when they had large amounts. This serves to strengthen them and to teach them how to preserve the goods received. So, once he has trained them, the father confirms his decision and gives his property to his children.\nNow, this is how the paternal goodness is acting. In Creation I placed man in the opulence of goods, with no restriction at all; but only because I wanted to test him in something that did not cost him much, with an act of his will contrary to mine he wasted all these goods. But my love did not stop; more than a father, I began to give him a little at a time \u2013 and before that, to heal him. Many times one uses more attention with the little than when he possesses great things. In fact, if one possesses great properties and they are wasted, there is always something from which to take; but if the little is wasted, he remains on an empty stomach. However, the decision of giving the Kingdom of my Will to man I have not changed; man changes, God does not change. Now things are easier, because the goods of Redemption have made their way, they have made known many surprises of my love for man \u2013 how I have loved him, not by the Fiat alone, but by giving him my very Life, though my Fiat costs Me more than my very Humanity, because the Fiat is divine, immense, eternal, while my Humanity is human, limited and has its beginning in time. However, not knowing in depth what the Fiat means \u2013 Its value, Its power and what It can do \u2013 the human minds let themselves be conquered more by all that I did and suffered in coming to redeem them, not knowing that under my pains and my death there was my Fiat, hidden, which gave life to my pains.\nNow, had I wanted to manifest the Kingdom of my Will, either when I came upon earth or before the goods of Redemption would be recognized and, for the most part, possessed by creatures, my greatest Saints would have been frightened; all would have thought and said: \u2018Adam, innocent and holy, was unable to live nor to persevere in this Kingdom of endless light and of divine sanctity \u2013 how can we do it?\u2019 And you yourself \u2013 how many times have you not become frightened? And trembling before the immense goods and the sanctity, fully divine, of the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat, you wanted to draw back, saying to Me: \u2018Jesus, think of some other creature \u2013 I am incapable of this.\u2019 You were not so much frightened by the suffering; rather, many times you prayed Me \u2013 you incited Me to let you suffer. Therefore my more than paternal goodness acted with you as with a second Mother of mine: from Her I hid my conception in Her womb; first I prepared Her, I formed Her, so as not to frighten Her; and when the appropriate time came, in the very act in which I was to be conceived, then I made it known to Her through the Angel; and even though at first She trembled and was troubled, immediately She became serene again, because She was used to living with Her God, in the midst of His light and before His sanctity. So I have done with you: for many years and years I hid from you that I wanted to form this Supreme Kingdom in you; I prepared you, I formed you, I enclosed Myself in you, in the depth of your soul in order to form It; and when everything was done, I manifested the secret to you, I spoke to you about your special mission, I asked you in a formal way whether you wanted to accept living in my Will; and even though you trembled and feared, I reassured you, saying to you: \u2018Why do you trouble yourself? Have you perhaps not lived with Me until now in the Kingdom of my Will?\u2019 And you, serene again, would make more of a practice of the living in It, and I would delight in expanding ever more the boundaries of my Kingdom; because it is established up to what point the creature must take possession of this Kingdom, since Its boundaries are endless, and the creature is incapable of embracing them all, because she is limited.\u201d\nAnd I: \u2018My love, yet, my fears have not completely ceased, and many times I am so frightened that I fear I might act like a second Adam.\u2019 And Jesus: \u201cMy daughter, do not fear, you have more help than Adam did \u2013 you have the help of a God Humanate, and all His works and pains as your defense, as your support, as your cortege, which he did not have. Why, then, do you want to fear? Rather, be attentive to the sanctity that befits the living in this Celestial Kingdom, and on your happiness and fortune, because by living in It, one gaze of mine is enough for you \u2013 it is enough for you to hear one of my words alone to comprehend Its goods; while for those who are outside, one can say that they understand only that the Kingdom of my Will exists, but as for what is inside of It, what it takes to comprehend It, they can just barely understand the alphabet of my Will.\u201d\nVolume 19 \u2013 July 1, 1926\nI was doing my usual acts in the Supreme Volition, and I thought to myself: \u2018How is it possible that among the many Saints of the Old Testament who have so distinguished themselves with the power of miracles, like a Moses, an Elijah and the many prophets; and among so many Saints after the coming of Our Lord, who have rendered themselves so marvelous because of their virtues and miracles \u2013 none of these has possessed the Kingdom of the Divine Will and has lived in the unity of Its light? It seems incredible.\u2019 Now, while I was thinking of this, my sweet Jesus came out from within my interior, and clasping me to Himself, told me: \u201cMy daughter, yet it is really true that until now no one has possessed the Kingdom of my Will or enjoyed all the fullness of the unity of the light It contains. Had it been so, since it is the thing that interests Me the most, that glorifies Me the most and that, no less, will place all the divine rights in safety and will complete the work of Creation and Redemption \u2013 and not only this, but will bring to the creature the greatest good that can exist in Heaven and on earth \u2013 I would have acted in such a way as to make it known. Just as I have made known the many virtues and wonders of my Saints, I would have made known the one who had possessed the Kingdom of my Will, which I hold so dear, so as to transmit It to others, by imitating the one who had possessed It.\nNow, the Saints of the Old Testament found themselves in the same condition as Adam: a Divine Repairer was missing who, while rejoining the human will and the Divine, was to pay the debt of guilty man in a divine way. However, both the ancient Saints and the modern ones have taken of my Will as much as they have known. The very miracles they performed were particles of the power of my Will communicated to them. So, all my Saints have lived, some in the shadow of my Will, some in the reflections of Its light, some submitted to Its power, some to the order of Its commands, because there is no sanctity without my Will. But they have possessed of It the little they have known \u2013 no more, because only when a good is known, does one then long for it and arrives at possessing it. No one can possess a good, a property, without knowing it; and suppose one did possess it without knowing it \u2013 that good is as though dead for him, because the life of knowledge is missing.\nNow, since my Will is the greatest thing, which encompasses everything, and all things from the greatest to the smallest remain dissolved before It, so many things should be known about my Will as to surpass what is known about Creation, about Redemption, about all virtues and all sciences. My Will was to be a book for each step, for each act, a book for each created thing; the whole earth was to be filled with volumes of knowledges regarding the Kingdom of my Will, such as to surpass the number of created things. Now, where are these books? There is no book \u2013 only a few sayings are known about It, while It should be at the origin of each knowledge \u2013 of anything. Being the life of each thing, It should be on everything, like the image of the king impressed on the currency that circulates in a kingdom; like the light of the sun that shines over each plant to give it life; like water that quenches the thirst of burning lips; like food that satiates the hungry man after a long fast. Everything should be filled with the knowledges regarding my Will; and if it is not so, it is a sign that the Kingdom of my Will is not known, and therefore not possessed.\nWould you perhaps be able to tell me which Saint said that he possessed this Kingdom and the unity of the light of the Supreme Volition? Certainly not. I Myself spoke little about it. Had I wanted to speak extensively about the Kingdom of my Will and about wanting to form It in man just as innocent Adam possessed It, since this is the highest point, the most proximal to God and the closest to the divine likeness, and since the fall of Adam was still fresh, they would all have become discouraged, and turning their backs to Me, would have said: \u2018If innocent Adam could not manage, nor had the constancy to live in the sanctity of this Kingdom, so much so as to cause his own fall and that of all generations into miseries, into passions and irreparable evils, how can we, guilty ones, live in a Kingdom so holy? Beautiful, yes, but we can say that It is not for us.\u2019 Not only this, but since my Will is the highest point, the ways, the means of transportation, the stairs, the decent clothes, the appropriate foods were needed in order to be able to dwell in this Kingdom. So, my coming upon earth served to form all this; each one of my sayings, works, pains, prayers, examples, instituted Sacraments, were ways that I formed, means of transportation to let them arrive more quickly, stairs to let them ascend. It can be said that I gave them the clothes of my Humanity reddened with my Blood to let them be clothed decently in this Kingdom of my Will, so holy, which, in Creation, the Uncreated Wisdom established to give to man as inheritance. So, even though I spoke little about this \u2013 because when I speak, I speak at time and circumstance, as the necessity and the utility of the good which my word contains must be enclosed in it \u2013 instead of speaking I did the deeds, intending to speak to you about the Kingdom of my Will.\nNow, how could they possess It if they did not have full knowledge of It? On the other hand, you must know that all the manifestations I have made to you about It \u2013 Its prodigies, Its goods, what the soul must do to be able to settle in this Kingdom, my very expressed Will for man to return into my Kingdom, and how I have done everything \u2013 Creation, Redemption \u2013 so that he might come to possess my Kingdom which he had lost \u2013 are bonds of transmission, are doors to let him enter, are donations that I make, are laws, instructions on how to live in It, intelligence to make them comprehend and appreciate the good they possess. If all this was missing, how could they possess this Kingdom of my Will? It would be as if someone wanted to go to live in another kingdom without a passport, without knowing either its laws or its customs or its dialect. Poor one, his entrance would be impossible; and if he did enter as an intruder, he would be so ill-at-ease, that he himself would rather go out of a kingdom he knows nothing about.\nNow, my daughter, does it not seem easier to you, more encouraging, more within the reach of the human nature, that after they have known the Kingdom of Redemption in which the blind, the lame and the sick can be healed \u2013 because the blind cannot enter the Kingdom of my Will, for in It all are straight and glowing with health \u2013 finding all possible means in the Kingdom of Redemption and the very passport of my Passion and death in order to pass into the Kingdom of my Will, animated at the sight of such a great good, they will decide to take possession of It? Therefore, be attentive, and do not want to constrain or reduce the goods which are in the Kingdom of my Will \u2013 and you do this when you do not manifest everything of what I make known to you \u2013 because knowledge is the bearer of the gift; and if now I abound in the knowledges about It, it is gifts that I make, and in these gifts I establish the more or the less to be placed in the Kingdom of my Will for the good of those who are to possess It.\u201d\nI was thinking: \u2018If the creature had not withdrawn from the Supreme Will, one would be the sanctity, one the beauty, one the science, one the light, and there would be the same knowledge of our Creator for all.\u2019 Now, while I was thinking of this, my beloved Jesus \u2013 and it seems to me that He Himself makes these thoughts, some doubts and difficulties, arise within my mind, in order to have the opportunity to speak to me and act as my Teacher \u2013 told me: \u201cMy daughter, you are wrong. My wisdom would not adapt itself to forming only one sanctity, only one beauty, or to communicating only one science and the same knowledge of Me to everyone. More so since, through highest accord between my Will and those of creatures, the Kingdom of my Will would have had free field of action. Therefore, all would have been saints, but one distinct from the other \u2013 all beautiful, but varied, one more beautiful than the other. And according to the sanctity of each one, I was to communicate a distinct science; and with this science, some would know one attribute of their Creator more, some another. You must know that as much as We can give to the creature, she only takes the little drops of her Creator, so great is the distance between Creator and creatures; and We have always new and different things to give.\nAnd besides, since Creation was created by Us so that We might delight in It, where would Our delight be, had We formed in the creature only one sanctity, or given only one beauty and only one knowledge of Our incomprehensible, immense and infinite Being? Our wisdom would have grown bored with doing only one thing. What would be said of Our wisdom, love and power, if in creating this terrestrial globe, We had made it all sky, or all earth, or all sea? What would Our glory have been? Instead, the multiplicity of so many things created by Us, while singing the praises of wisdom, love and power, speaks also of the variety of sanctity and beauty in which creatures were to arise, for love of whom they were created. See, the sky studded with stars is beautiful, but the sun also is beautiful, though they are distinct from each other, and the sky does one office, the sun, another. The sea is beautiful, but the flowery earth, the height of the mountains, the expanse of the plains also are beautiful, though the beauties and the offices are distinct among them. A garden is beautiful, but how many varieties of plants and beauties are in it? There is the tiny little flower, beautiful in its littleness; there is the violet, the rose, the lily \u2013 all beautiful, but distinct in color, in fragrance, in size. There is the little plant and the highest tree\u2026 What enchantment is a garden guided by an experienced gardener!\nNow, my daughter, in the order of human nature also there will be some who will surpass the sky in sanctity and in beauty; some the sun, some the sea, some the flowery earth, some the height of the mountains, some the tiny little flower, some the little plant, and some the highest tree. And even if man should withdraw from my Will, I will multiply the centuries so as to have, in the human nature, all the order and the multiplicity of created things and of their beauty \u2013 and to have it even surpassed in a more admirable and enchanting way.\u201d\nVolume 23 \u2013 October 2, 1927.\nI was doing my round in the Creation, to follow all the acts of the Divine Will which are in It, and as I arrived at Eden, in which God created the first man, Adam, in order to unite myself, with him, to that unity of wills which he possessed with God, in which he did his first acts in his first period of creation, I thought to myself: \u2018Who knows what sanctity my first father Adam possessed; what value his first acts done in the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat contained. And how can I impetrate a Kingdom so holy upon earth again, as I am the only one occupied with obtaining a good so great?\u2019 But while I was thinking of this, my always lovable Jesus came out from within my interior, sending rays of light; and that light converted into words, and He told me: \u201cMy daughter, firstborn daughter of my Will, I want to reveal to you, as daughter of my Will, the sanctity of he who possessed the Kingdom of my Divine Fiat. At the beginning of Creation, this Kingdom had Its life, Its perfect dominion and Its complete triumph. So, It is not completely foreign to the human family; and because It is not foreign, there is all the sure hope for It to return again into their midst to reign and dominate.\nNow, you must know that Adam possessed such sanctity when he was created by God, and his acts, even the slightest, had such value, that no Saint, either before or after my coming upon earth, can be compared to his sanctity; and all of their acts together do not reach the value of one single act of Adam, because, in my Divine Will, he possessed the fullness of sanctity, the totality of all the divine goods. And do you know what fullness means? It means to be filled to the brim, to the point of overflowing with light, sanctity, love \u2013 with all the divine qualities, in such a way as to be able to fill Heaven and earth, over which he had dominion, and through which his Kingdom extended. Therefore, each one of his acts done in this fullness of divine goods had such value, that no one else \u2013 as much as he might sacrifice himself, suffer and do good, but does not possess the Kingdom of my Will and Its total dominion \u2013 can be compared to one alone of these acts in the Kingdom of my Will. Therefore, the glory, the love that Adam gave Me as long as he lived in the Kingdom of my Divine Volition, no one \u2013 no one has given Me, because in his acts he gave Me fullness and totality of all goods, and only in my Will can these acts be found \u2013 outside of It they do not exist. Therefore, Adam had his riches, his acts of infinite value, which my eternal Will communicated to him before the Divinity; because, in creating him, God had left nothing empty within him, but everything was divine fullness, as much as a creature could contain. And when he fell into sin, these acts, these riches of his, this glory and perfect love which he had given to his Creator, were not destroyed; on the contrary, it is by virtue of them and of his operating done in my Divine Fiat that he earned the Redemption. No, one who had possessed the Kingdom of my Will, even for a short time, could not remain without Redemption. One who possesses this Kingdom enters into such bonds and rights with God, that God Himself feels with him the strength of His own chains that bind Him, and He cannot get rid of him. Our adorable Majesty with Adam was in the same condition as a father who has a son who has been for him the cause of many conquests, of great riches, of incalculable glory; there is nothing the father possesses in which he does not find the acts of his son \u2013 he feels the glory and the love of his son resound everywhere. Now, to his misfortune, this son falls into poverty. Can the father ever not have compassion for his son, as he feels, everywhere and in every place, the love, the glory, the riches with which his son has surrounded him?\nI was following my round in the Divine Volition, and as I arrived at the acts It did in the Humanity of Our Lord, my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: \u201cMy daughter, the Divine Word in my Humanity was present as center of life within It; We were inseparable \u2013 the Word and my Humanity. But since my Humanity had Its limits while the Word was without limits, immense and infinite, I could not restrict the whole endless light of the Word within It. This light overflowed outside, in such a way that, overflowing from the center of my Humanity, its rays came out from my hands, from my feet, from my mouth, from my Heart, from my eyes \u2013 from every part of my Humanity, in such a way that all my operating flowed within this light and, more than solar rays, it invested everything and traced all the acts of creatures in order to give its acts, so that their acts, invested by its light, might take the form of its acts and, fused together, might acquire the value, the beauty of its acts. But what was not the sorrow of my Humanity in seeing Its acts being rejected by creatures within the very light of the Eternal Word, preventing the transformation He wanted to make in creatures? Each of His rejected acts was a sorrow, and each act of the creatures converted into bitterness and offense for my Humanity. How hard it is wanting to do good, doing it, and finding no one who receives this good. This sorrow still lasts, because everything that my Humanity did in the light of the Eternal Word exists and will always exist, and is always in the act of doing what was done once; and it lies as though in ambush, waiting for the creature to receive the transmission of its acts, so that one may be the act, one the value, one the Will, one the love on both sides. And only by the reigning of my Fiat can the operating I did in Redemption have its total fulfillment, because with the light of my Fiat, creatures will remove the blindfold and will let all the good that the Eternal Word came to do within my Humanity for love of creatures flow within themselves.\u201d And while He was saying this, I saw my sweet Jesus with so much light coming out from within Him as to invest everything and everyone.\nThen, I continued my round in the Divine Fiat, and while accompanying with my \u2018I love You\u2019 all the prodigies It had done in the Saints, Patriarchs and Prophets of the Old Testament, as well as those after His coming upon earth, to ask for His Divine Kingdom in the midst of creatures by virtue of all these, Its acts, I thought to myself: \u2018If this Holy Volition has done so many prodigies in all these Saints, is this not, then, Its reigning, at least in these Saints so prodigious?\u2019 But while I was thinking of this, my beloved Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: \u201cMy daughter, there is no good which has not come out of my Divine Will, but there is a great difference between Its reigning in the creatures and the releasing of an act from within Itself, communicating it to creatures. As for example, with Abraham, It released an act of heroism, and I had the man heroic in the sacrifice; with Moses an act of power, and he was the prodigious man; with Samson an act of strength, and he was the strong man; to the Prophets It revealed what regarded the future Redeemer, and they were men prophets; and so with all the others who distinguished themselves as prodigious and of uncommon virtue. According to the act that my Divine Will released, and if they gave their adhesion and correspondence, so did they receive the good of Its act. However, this is not reigning, my daughter; nor does this form the Kingdom of my Will. In order to form It, it takes not just one act, but the continuous act which It possesses. This is what It wants to give to creatures in order to form Its Kingdom: Its continuous act of power, of happiness, of light, of sanctity, of unreachable beauty. What my Fiat is by nature, It wants to render creatures by virtue of Its continuous act, which contains all possible imaginable goods. Would you say that a king reigns only because he has made a law, or has given a good to his people? Certainly not. True reigning is to form the life of the peoples with all the laws, giving a decorous regime, befitting, upright and just for their lives, giving them all the necessary means so that nothing may be lacking for their good. In order to reign, the king should have his life in the midst of the peoples, and make his will and his goods one with them, in such a way that the king should form the life of the people, and the people the life of the king; otherwise, it is not true reigning. This is the reigning of my Will \u2013 to render Itself inseparable from the children of Its Kingdom, to give them everything It possesses to the point of overflowing, so as to have children happy and holy of Its very happiness and holiness.\nNow, from this it can be seen how in spite of the so many prodigies which Saints, Prophets and Patriarchs have done, they have not formed my Kingdom in the midst of creatures, nor have they made known Its value, or the great good which my Will possesses, or what It can do and wants to give, and the purpose of Its Kingdom \u2013 because Its continuous act, Its permanent life, was missing in them. And therefore, not knowing It in depth, they occupied themselves with other things concerning my glory and their good, and they put my Will aside, waiting for a more favorable time, when the paternal goodness would please to first make known, and then to give, a good so great and a Kingdom so holy, which they would not even dream of. Therefore, be attentive, and continue your flight in the Divine Fiat.\u201d\nI was praying, and I felt I didn\u2019t know how to pray, to love and to thank Jesus. So I said to myself: \u2018How I would like to have in my power the love and the prayers of the Sovereign Lady and of all the Saints, to be able to love and pray to Jesus with Her love and with Her prayers, and with those of the whole of Heaven.\u2019 And my blessed Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: \u201cMy daughter, when the soul lives in my Divine Will, she has everything in her power, because my Will is the depository and the preserver of all that my Mama and all the Saints did. It is enough for her to want it, and to want to take what they did, that love runs to her, the prayers invest her, the virtues place themselves in order, waiting for the ones who have the honor of being called to give them the life of their acts, and to form their beautiful and refulgent crown. So, the Queen of Heaven feels Her love and Her prayers being repeated, the Saints their virtues, by the creature on earth, and \u2013 oh, how they enjoy seeing their acts being repeated once again! There is no greater glory that can be given to the celestial inhabitants than to repeat their love, their prayers, their virtues; and I feel once again as if my Mama were there loving Me and praying Me. Their echo resounds in you, and as you repeat it, you make your echo resound in Heaven, and all recognize their acts in your acts. Would you not feel honored if someone else repeated your acts and modeled his works on the model of yours? With what love would you not look at him?\nIf you knew how much I enjoy it when I hear you say: \u2018I want to unite myself with the thoughts of Jesus, with His words, with His works and steps, so as to position myself together with His thoughts, words, etc., over each thought, word, work and steps of creatures, in order to repeat along with Him, for all and for each one, that which Jesus did with His thoughts, words\u2026 and everything else He did. There is nothing You did which I do not want to do as well, so as to repeat the love and all the good that Jesus did.\u2019 I feel Myself upon earth; I feel my acts being repeated by you, and I keep waiting for the repetition of my acts with so much love, that I Myself become actor and spectator in you, to enjoy them and take the glory of my own life. Therefore, the creature who lives and operates in my Will is recognized by the whole of Heaven as bearer of divine joys for all of Heaven; and keeping Heaven opened, she makes the celestial dew of graces, of light, of love descend upon earth over all creatures.\u201d\nMy abandonment in the Supreme Fiat is continuous; and while I was trying to follow the acts of the Divine Volition as much as I could, embracing everything and everyone, my sweet Jesus came out from within my interior and told me: \u201cMy daughter, the whole Creation, all the Saints, are nothing other than the effects of my Divine Will. If my Will speaks, It creates and forms the most beautiful works. Each little motion of It is fragrances of prodigies that It effuses over creatures; Its littlest breath casts varieties of beauties over the one who receives it. A true image of this is the sun, which, by merely investing the earth, with its touch of light gives the so many varieties of colors, of sweetness, to all plants. No one can deny that, by just letting himself be touched by its light, he has received the good it contains. My Divine Will is more than sun. Even if one only lets oneself be touched by It, Its miraculous touch must produce a good which, perfuming him and warming him with Its light, will make him feel Its beneficial effects of sanctity, of light and of love.\nNow, the effects of my Fiat are given to those who do my Divine Will, who adore Its dispositions, who bear with patience what It wants. By doing so, the creature recognizes that there is this Supreme Will, and by seeing Itself recognized, It does not deny to her It admirable effects. On the other hand, one who must live in my Divine Volition must possess within herself the whole life and not only the effects \u2013 but the life with all the effects of my Divine Fiat. And since there is no sanctity, past, present and future, of which my Divine Will has not been the primary cause, in forming all the species of sanctity which exist, It therefore holds within Itself all the goods and effects of sanctity which It has issued; and so, the soul who will live in my Will, by possessing Its life with all Its effects, will see within herself, all together, all the sanctities which have been issued. She will be able to say: \u2018The others have done one part of sanctity, while I have done everything, I have enclosed everything within myself of all that each Saint has done.\u2019 Therefore, the sanctity of the ancients, that of the prophets, that of the martyrs will be seen in her; the sanctity of the penitents, the great sanctities as well as the small ones will be seen. Not only this, but the whole Creation will be seen portrayed in her. In fact, my Divine Will loses nothing by issuing Its works; on the contrary, while It puts them out, It holds them within Itself as primary fount. Therefore, for one who lives in It, there is nothing that my Divine Volition has done or will do, of which she will not have possession.\nWhat enchantment and amazement would it not be if a creature could enclose within herself the whole sphere of the sun with all of its light? Who would not say that she contains all the effects, the colors, the sweetness, the light, which the sun has given and will give to all the earth and to all plants, big and small? If this could be, Heaven and earth would be astonished, and all would recognize that each of their effects which they possess are enclosed in that creature who possesses the sphere of the sun, which is her life with all of its effects. But humanly speaking this could not happen, because the creature would not be able to contain either the power of all the light of the sun, or that of its heat; she would be burned, nor would the sun have the virtue of not burning her. On the other hand, my Will has the virtue of enclosing Itself, of making Itself smaller, of expanding Itself \u2013 however It wants to make Itself, so It does. And while It transforms the creature into Itself, It preserves her alive, and giving her all of Its shades of beauty, It renders her the dominator and possessor of Its divine dominions. Therefore, be attentive, my daughter \u2013 recognize the great good of the Life of my Fiat in you, which, while It possesses you, wants to render you the possessor of everything that belongs to It.\u201d\nAfter this, He added: \u201cMy daughter, one who lives in my Divine Volition never moves from the ways of her Creator and from being Our repeater \u2013 that while Our essence is one, one the Will, one the Life, one the Love, one the Power, We are yet three distinct Persons. In the same way, for the soul who lives in It, one is her heartbeat, and in each heartbeat she forms three acts: one embraces God, the second embraces all creatures, the third herself. And so, if she speaks, if she operates, in everything she does, she forms these three acts which, echoing the Power, Wisdom and Love of the One who created her, embrace everything and everyone.\u201d\nMy poor mind keeps going around and within the Supreme Fiat, and \u2013 oh! how many surprises, how many wonders of this Will so Holy. My little intelligence gets lost within Its immensely vast sea, and many things I feel incapable of narrating, nor do I have the terms to do it, and therefore I feel like someone who ate a food or saw something beautiful, and does not know what they are called. If the Divine Volition did not make a prodigy in making me say what It manifests, how many more things would I leave inside Its very sea, unable to say anything. So, while I felt dissolved in the Divine Fiat, my always lovable Jesus, making Himself felt in my interior, told me: \u201cMy daughter, what difference between those who operate the virtues in a saintly way, but in the human order, and one who operates the virtues in the divine order of my Divine Will. As the first ones practice the virtues, these remain separated among themselves, in such a way that the diversity of their acts appears \u2013 one virtue appears as patience, another as obedience, a third one as charity; each of them has its distinction, unable to fuse together so as to be able form one single act, which gives of the divine and embraces eternity and infinity. On the other hand, for one who operates in my Divine Will, Its light has the communicative and unifying virtue, such that, fusing together, because they are all done within the source of Its light, they form one single act with innumerable effects, such as to embrace the very Creator with the infinity of its light. Symbol of this is the sun: because it is one, because it possesses the source of light that is never extinguished, it embraces the earth, and with its innumerable effects it gives all colors and communicates the life of its light to everyone and to everything. The unifying strength possesses the communicative virtue, in such a way that, if they want to, all can take a good that is placed at everyone\u2019s disposal. On the other hand, one who operates in the human order is symbolized by the lights of the low world: even though there are many of them, they do not have the virtue of dispelling the darkness of the night and of forming full daylight, or of embracing the whole earth with such great multiplicity of light. Therefore, they can be called personal, local light, and at time and circumstance. Oh! if all knew the great secret of operating in my Divine Volition, they would compete so as not to let anything escape them which would not pass from within Its most pure light.\u201d\nI continued to follow the Divine Will, and my sweet Jesus added: \u201cMy daughter, the creature without my Will is like a child who has no strength to be able to sustain a weight, or to do works so useful as to allow him to support, himself, his little existence. And if one wanted to force him to lift a heavy object or to sustain a work, the child, seeing himself impotent and without strength, maybe would try, but in seeing that he cannot even move that object, nor sustain that work, the poor little one would burst into tears and would do nothing about it; and in order to put him in feast it would be enough to give him a candy. On the other hand, one who possesses my Divine Will has the strength of an adult man \u2013 or rather, the divine strength; and if he were told to lift the heavy object, without becoming troubled, he takes it as if it were nothing; while the poor little one would remain crushed under it. If one wants him to sustain a work, he will put himself in feast because of the gain and the profit he will be given; and if one wanted to give him a candy, he would despise it and would say: \u2018Give me the just profit for my work, for I must live from it.\u2019 See then, one who has my Divine Will has sufficient strength for anything; so, everything is easy for her; even suffering, as she feels strong, she looks at it as a new gain. Why are many unable to bear anything, and it seems that a child\u2019s weakness follows them? It is the strength of my Divine Will that is missing \u2013 this is the cause of all evils. Therefore, be attentive, my daughter, never to go out of my Divine Will.\u201d\nThen, I continued to do my acts in the Divine Fiat, and as I arrived at the point when It called to life, to daylight, the Sovereign Queen of Heaven, I thought to myself: \u2018In creating the Most Holy Virgin, God not only enriched Her beautiful soul with many privileges, but Her nature also He must have transformed in order to render it as pure and holy as it is.\u2019 And my beloved Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: \u201cMy daughter, there was nothing to add to Her nature, because it was not the human nature that sinned, but the human will. In fact, the human nature was at its place, just as it came out of Our creative hands, therefore We used that same nature of other creatures in creating the Virgin. What contaminated itself in man was his will; and since this human nature was animated by this rebellious will, which dwelled in the human nature, it participated and remained contaminated. So, once the Divine Will and the human are placed in harmony, giving dominion and regime to the Divine, as it is wanted by Us, the human nature loses the sad effects and remains as beautiful as it came out of Our creative hands. Now, in the Queen of Heaven, all Our work was on Her human will, which received with joy the dominion of Ours; and Our Will, finding no opposition on Her part, operated prodigies of graces, and by virtue of my Divine Volition, She remained sanctified and did not feel the sad effects and the evils which the other creatures feel. Therefore, my daughter, once the cause is removed, the effects end. Oh! if my Divine Will enters into creatures and reigns in them, It will banish all evils in them, and will\nMy poor mind turns around the Sun of the Supreme Fiat, and I find It surrounded by all the works, sacrifices, pains, heroism, that all the Saints, ancient and new, have done; those of the Queen of Heaven, as well as that which blessed Jesus has done for love of us. The Divine Will preserves everything; It having been the prime actor of all the good acts of creatures, It keeps them jealously, It holds them in deposit within Itself, and It uses them to glorify Itself and to glorify those who did them. And I, seeing that everything belonged to the Will of God \u2013 since It is also mine, everything was mine; and going around in each act, I offered them as mine to glorify more the Eternal Volition, and to impetrate the coming of Its Kingdom upon earth. But while I was doing this, my always lovable Jesus, surprising me, told me: \u201cMy daughter, listen to the admirable secrets of my Will: if the creature wants to find everything that, beautiful, good and holy, has been done in the whole history of the world, by Me, by the Celestial Mama and by all the Saints, she must enter into the Divine Will \u2013 in It everything is found in act. As you were paying attention to each act, remembering it, offering it, the Saint who had done that act, that sacrifice, felt called by the pilgrim soul, and saw his act palpitating again on earth, and therefore, doubled, the glory to his Creator and to himself; and you, who were offering it, covered by the celestial dew of the good of that holy act. And according to the purpose, noble and high, with which it is offered, the more intense and great is the glory and the good it produces. How many riches does my Will possess! There are all my acts, those of the Sovereign Queen, which are all in waiting to be called, remembered, offered by the creature in order to duplicate the good for the benefit of creatures, and to give Us double glory. They want to be remembered, called, in order to palpitate as new life in the midst of creatures; but because of lack of attention, there are some that die, some that struggle out of weakness, some that grow numb with cold, some that have nothing with which to satisfy their hunger. Our goods, acts and sacrifices do not set out if they are not called, because by remembering them and offering them, creatures dispose themselves to recognize them and to receive the good which Our acts contain. Moreover, there is no greater honor that you can give to all of Heaven than offering their acts which they did on earth, for the noble, most high and sublime purpose of the coming of the Kingdom of the Divine Will upon earth.\u201d\n\u201cMy daughter, when the creature remembers, honors, glorifies that which her Creator and her Redeemer has done for her love in order to put her in safety, and (that) all the saints have done, she becomes protectress of all these acts. The sky, the sun and all the creation feel protected by the creature. My terrestrial life down here, my sufferings, my tears feel sheltered in her and they find their protectress; the saints not only find protection in her memory, but the acts of them vivified, renewed in the midst of creatures, in short they feel life re-given in their acts.\n\u201cOh, how many beautiful works and virtues remain as buried in the base world, because there is no one who remembers and honors them! The memory recalls the works of the past and makes them as present. But do you know what happens? An exchange happens: the creature becomes protectress with her memory; all our works, the creation, the redemption and all that which the saints have done, they make themselves protector of their protector. They put themselves around Her in order to protect her, to defend her, they do as sentinel, and while they shelter themselves in her in order to be protected, every work of ours, all my sufferings and all the works and virtues of my saints, make competition giving the exchange to make (an) honor guard for her, so that she remains defended by everything and by everyone. And then there is no greater honor that you can give when you make use of them to ask for in every act the Kingdom of the Divine Will. They feel called and put themselves to do as messengers between heaven and earth to a kingdom so holy. You should know that (the) past, present and future, all must serve to the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat. Now [with] your memory, asking for this kingdom through means of our works, virtues and acts of everyone, all feel put to the service of Him and they take their office and post of honor. So that your turning is necessary, because it serves to prepare the Kingdom of the Divine Will. Therefore be attentive and continuous.\u201d\n\u201cBehold therefore we can say that our fields are deserted, our seas are without fishes, because there lacks the life of creatures in order to fill them for us, in order to be able to give and to receive life for life; but the time will come when they will be full, and we will have the full contentment and the great glory that in the midst of our numerous joys we will have a multitude of life, that will live inside of these fields and they will give us life for life. Now you should know that these fields and seas of ours are at the disposition of those that live in earth and that want to have our Divine Will for life, not for those that live in Heaven, because those are not able to add on even one comma more to that which they have done. These are pleasure-loving life in our divine fields, not the working life. One can say of them, that which they have done is done. Instead it is the working and conquering lives of earth that we long for, and that while they are in earth they enter in these fields of ours and work and do as conquerors in ) divine way. Much more so that when man sinned, he went out from inside of our Will, and the doors were closed to him with justice from these fields of ours. Now we want to open these doors of ours after so many centuries to one who wants to enter, not to force her, but freely, in order to make these divine fields of ours populated, in order to give a new form, a way of life all new to the creature, and to be able to receive not works from her, but in her every act life formed in our same life.\n\u201cBehold therefore the reason for my speaking so much on my Will (with) the strength of my creative word. It will dispose them, it will give them the desire, it will change the human will, and knowing that I want to open the doors they will knock, and I will open them immediately, so that I myself remain satisfied and have my fortunate people in which I will give myself to, for the exchange of my life that I have given for them, their life in exchange for mine. I have never spoken without having something or in vain. I spoke in the Creation and my word served in order to form the admirable things of the whole universe; I spoke in the Redemption and my word, my Gospel serves as guide to my Church, as light, as support. One can say that my word is the substance and my palpating life in the womb of the Church. Now if I have spoken and still speak on my Divine Will, it won\u2019t be in vain, no, but I will make the admirable effects and the life of my Will known, working and palpating in the midst of creatures. Hence leave me to do, and I will dispose things in a way that my word won\u2019t be (a) dead word, but alive, that will give life with all its admirable effects.\n\u201cMore so that these fields and celestial seas of ours will act as Mother to the fortunate souls that want to live in them, they will educate them in (the) divine way, they will feed them with dainty foods taken from the celestial table and they will raise them in a noble and holy way, that in all their acts, steps and words one will see written in clear notes, they are similar to their Creator. God will feel the melody of his voice in the word of them, his power in their works, his sweet motion of steps that race near everyone because he wants them to himself, in the steps of them, and as enraptured he will say: \u2018Who is it that resembles me? Who knows how to imitate my sweet, harmonious and strong voice as to be able to shake Heaven and earth? Who holds so much strength as to enrapture me in her works, in order to make me work together with her? Who is it? Who is it? Ah! It is (she) who lives in our divine fields. It is just that she resembles us in all, for how much it is possible to a creature. She is our daughter, and it is enough. We allow that she imitates us, that she resembles us. She will be our glory, our creative work, the longed for one of her celestial Father!\u2019 These souls will form the new hierarchy in their Celestial Country post reserved for them, that to no one else is it given to occupy.\u201d\nYou must know that the greatest grace that We gave to man in his creation was that he could enter into Our Divine Will, to be able to emit his human acts; and since the human will was small and the Divine great, It therefore had the virtue of absorbing the small into the great, and of changing the human into Divine Will. So, at the beginning of his creation, Adam entered into the order of Our Divine Will, and in It he did many of his acts; and while by withdrawing from Our Divine Will he went out from inside of It, his human acts, operated in Our Will, remained as pledge and right for man, and as beginning and foundation of a Divine Kingdom which he acquired. In the Divine Will, whatever is done in It is indelible; God Himself cannot delete a single act done by the creature in the Supreme Fiat. Now, since Adam was the first man to be created, it came as a consequence that, he being as though the root, the trunk of all the human generations, they would inherit, almost like branches, what the root and the trunk of the tree of man possessed. And just as all creatures, as though by nature, inherit the seed of original sin, so do they inherit his first acts done in Our Will, which constitute the beginning and the right of the Kingdom of Our Divine Will for creatures. To confirm this, came the humanity of the Immaculate Virgin, to operate and to follow the acts of Adam, in order to fulfill, whole and entire, the Kingdom of the Divine Will, to be the first heiress of a Kingdom so holy, and to give to Her dear children the rights for them to possess It. And to complete all this, came my Humanity which, by nature, possessed the Divine Will that Adam and the Sovereign Queen possessed by grace, in order to confirm with the seal of Its acts this Kingdom of the Divine Will. So, this Kingdom exists in reality, because living humanities have formed their acts in It, as the necessary materials in order to form this Kingdom, to give to other humanities the right to possess It. And in order to further confirm It, I taught the \u2018Our Father\u2019, so that, with prayer, they might dispose themselves and acquire the rights to receive It, and God might feel as though the duty to give It. By teaching the \u2018Our Father\u2019, I Myself placed in their hands the right to receive It, and I committed Myself to giving a Kingdom so holy; and every time the creature recites the \u2018Our Father\u2019, she acquires a sort of right to enter into this Kingdom \u2013 first, because it is the prayer taught by Me, which contains the value of my prayer; second, because the love of Our Divinity toward the creatures is so great, that We pay attention to everything, We notice everything, even the littlest acts, the holy desires, the little prayers, to requite them with great graces. We can say that they are pretexts, occasions that We keep looking for, to say to her: \u2018You have done this, and We give you this. You have done the small, and We give you the great.\u2019 Therefore, the Kingdom exists, and if I have spoken to you so much about my Divine Will, those have been nothing other than the preparations of many centuries of my Church \u2013 the prayers, the sacrifices and the continuous recitation of the \u2018Our Father\u2019 \u2013 that have inclined Our goodness to choose a creature in order to manifest to her the many knowledges of Our Will, Its great prodigies. In this way I bound my Will to the creatures, giving them new pledges of Its Kingdom. And as you listened and tried to model yourself after my teachings that I gave you, so I formed new bonds, to bind the creatures in my Will.\nMany of the greatest Saints of both the old and new Testaments are referred to in Luisa\u2019s life and writings. Each of these Saints is known in particular for one or more heroic virtues that identify and make them unique from other Saints. Luisa possessed all their virtues to an exceeding degree being surpassed only by the Blessed Virgin Mary, and our Lord Jesus. Luisa does share with them the greatest of all gifts\u2014the living in the Divine Will. Luisa did not have the gift of the Immaculate Conception, only Adam and Eve prior to their fall shared this with Our Blessed Mother. However they both fell, while Our Blessed Mother remains always and forever Immaculate. The following is a brief list of Saints related to Luisa\u2019s life and writings\nLuisa\u2019s first vision of Jesus \u2013 Volume 1\nSometimes, He Himself would make me the narration of the pains suffered by Him, and I was so touched that I would cry bitterly. One day, while working, I was considering the most bitter pains that my good Jesus suffered; I felt my heart so oppressed by the pain, that I could not breathe. Fearing something, I wanted to distract myself by going out to the balcony. But as I go about looking in the middle of the street \u2013 what do I see? I see the street all filled with people, and in the middle of it my loving Jesus with the Cross upon His shoulders. Some pulled Him to one side, some to another. All panting, with His face dripping with blood, He raised His eyes toward me in the act of asking for help. Who can tell the sorrow I felt, and the impression that a scene so pitiful made on my soul. I immediately went inside, I myself did not know where I was; I felt my heart crack with pain. I shouted, and crying, I said to Him: \u2018My Jesus, if only I could help You! If only I could free You from those wolves so rabid! Ah! I wish at least to suffer those pains in your place, to give a relief to my sorrow. O please! my Good, give me suffering, for it is not fair that You suffer so much, while I, a sinner, remain without suffering.\u2019\nSaint Francis of Assisi \u2013 Feast Day October 4th, Patron Saint of Creation (Nature and Animals) \u2013 Of all the Saints of both the new and old testaments our precious Lord in just a few words gave the highest honors to King David of the Old Testament and our beloved Saint Francis of the New Testament. As for Luisa He gives even a higher honor comparing her to His Mother:\nFurthermore, of David it was said that he was an image of Me, so much so, that all of his psalms reveal my person; of Saint Francis of Assisi, that he was a faithful copy of Me. It is said in the Holy Gospel: \u2018Be perfect as your Father in Heaven is perfect\u2019 \u2013 no less; it is also added that no one will enter the Kingdom of Heaven if he is not similar to the image of the Son of God; and many other things. About all these, no one says that they have been exalted too much, and that these are things not conforming to truths spoken by my very mouth. Only because to you I said that I wanted to compare you to the Virgin \u2013 to make you Her faithful copy, I have exalted you too much? So, comparing those to Me was not exalting them, nor did anyone raise any doubt or difficulty; but then, comparing to the Virgin \u2013 that\u2019s too much exaltation. This means that they have not understood well the mission of the knowledge of my Will. Indeed, I repeat to you that I not only place you near Her as Her little daughter, on Her maternal lap, that She may guide you, instruct you on how you must imitate Her, to become Her faithful copy by always doing the Divine Will; so that, from Her lap, you may pass onto the lap of the Divinity. In fact, the mission of my Will is eternal, and it is precisely the mission of Our Celestial Father, who wants, commands, expects nothing else but that His Will be known and loved, that It be done on earth as It is in Heaven. So you, making this eternal mission your own and imitating the Celestial Father, must want nothing else for yourself and for all but that my Will be known, loved and fulfilled. And besides, when it is the creature who exalts herself, one should think about it; but when she remains at her place and I exalt her, all is permissible to Me \u2013 making one reach wherever I want, and the way I want. Therefore, trust Me and do not be concerned.\u201d\nHere, then, the necessity of the preparations, of the graces, of my visits and communications. This sounded bad to those who have read; therefore doubts and difficulties \u2013 that it cannot be possible that among so many other great Saints, no one has lived in the Kingdom of my Will. So, it is She alone that is preferred to all; and when they have read that I was placing you near the Sovereign Queen, so that, She having lived in the Kingdom of my Divine Fiat, you might imitate Her, wanting to make of you a copy that resembles Her; and I placed you in Her hands, that She might guide you, assist you, protect you, so that you might imitate Her in everything \u2013 this seemed so absurd to them; and sinisterly misinterpreting the sense, they spoke as if I had told you that you were as though another Queen. How much nonsense \u2013 I did not say that you are like the Celestial Queen, but that I want you similar to Her, just as I have said to many other souls dear to Me that I wanted them similar to Me; but with this they would not become God like Me. And then, since the Celestial Lady is the true Queen of the Kingdom of my Will, it is Her task to help and teach the fortunate creatures who want to enter, to live in It. By this, they show as if I did not have the power to elect whom I want, and when I want. But, after all, time will say everything, and just as they cannot deny that the Virgin of Nazareth is my Mama, so will they not be able to deny that I have elected you for the sole purpose of making my Will known, and that, through you, I will obtain that the \u2018Thy Kingdom come\u2019 may have Its fulfillment. It is certain that creatures are an instrument in my hands, and I do not look at who that be, but I look at whether my Divine Will has decided to operate by means of this instrument. And this is enough for Me to fulfill my highest designs; and of the doubts and difficulties of creatures I make use, in due time, to confound them and humiliate them. But I do not stop, and I move forward in the work that I want to do by means of the creature. Therefore, you too \u2013 follow Me and do not draw back. Besides, it shows from their way of thinking that they have calculated only your person, but have not calculated what my Divine Will can do, and what It knows how to do, and when It decides to operate in one creature in order to fulfill Its greatest designs in the midst of the human generations, It lets no one dictate to It the law \u2013 neither who it must be, nor the time, nor the way, nor the place \u2013 but It acts in an absolute way. Nor does it pay heed to certain short minds, which are unable to elevate themselves in the divine and supernatural order, or to bow their forehead to the incomprehensible works of their Creator; and while they want to reason with their own human reason, they lose the divine reason, and remain confounded and incredulous.\u2019\nOn April 23, 1865, the Feast Day of St. George and the first Sunday after Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday), Luisa Piccarreta was born. Her baptismal name Luisa, after St. Aloysius (St. Luis), means \u201cmighty in warfare.\u201d She was born in the province of Apulia, which is located on the heel of the Italian \u201cboot\u201d\u2014whose heel points to Jerusalem. In Genesis 3:15 God promised to crush the serpent\u2019s head. In 1868, within 3 years after Luisa\u2019s birth, the Church of the \u201cPater Noster\u201d in Jerusalem was rebuilt for the third time, recalling the only prayer taught by Jesus: \u201cThy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.\u201d\nSt. George\u2014Feast Day April 23rd. He is a Saint in both the Eastern and Latin Rites, was a soldier in the imperial army, and is Patron of England, Portugal, Germany, Aragon, Geona, and Venice. St. George suffered martyrdom at Lydda, Palestine. He was known to the Crusaders as the Christian knight because of the slaying of the dragon. His coat of arms is a red cross on a white background, which became the basis of the uniforms of British soldiers and sailors, and which also appears on the Union Jack.\nSt. Aloysius Gonzaga\u2014Feast Day June 21st. He is known for his purity and the performance of great austerities and religious practices. St. Aloysius joined the Jesuits in Rome in 1585. He has been declared Protector of young students and Patron of Catholic Youth.\nAfterwards, Heaven opened; it seemed that a very great feast was being prepared. At that very moment a young man of lovely appearance came down from Heaven, all dazzling with fire and flames. Jesus told me: \u201cTomorrow is the feast of my dear Aloysius \u2013 I must go attend.\u201d And I: \u2018And so You leave me alone \u2013 what shall I do?\u2019 And He: \u201cYou too will come. Look at how beautiful Aloysius is; but the greatest thing in him, which distinguished him on earth, was the love with which he operated. Everything was love in him \u2013 love occupied him interiorly, love surrounded him externally; so, one can say that even his breath was love. This is why it is said of him that he never suffered distraction \u2013 because love inundated him everywhere, and with this love he will be inundated eternally, as you see.\u201d\nAnd in fact it seemed that the love of Saint Aloysius was so very great, as to be able to burn the whole world to ashes. Then, Jesus added: \u201cI stroll over the highest mountains, and there I form my delight.\u201d Since I did not understand the meaning of it, He continued: \u201cThe highest mountains are the Saints who have loved Me the most, and in them I form my delight, both when they are on earth, and when they pass into Heaven. So, everything is in love.\u201d After this, I prayed Jesus to bless me and those whom I was seeing at that moment; and He, giving His blessing, disappeared.\nThis morning, having received Holy Communion, I received It as usual in the Most Holy Will of God, offering It to my dear Saint Aloysius \u2013 not only the Communion, but all the goods contained in the Most Holy Will of God, for his accidental glory. Now, while doing this, I saw that all the goods contained in the Supreme Volition, like many rays of light, rays of beauty and of multiple colors, inundated the dear Saint, giving him an infinite glory. And my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: \u201cMy daughter, Aloysius is a flower and a Saint bloomed from the earth of my Humanity and made bright by the reflections of the rays of the Sun of my Will. In fact, though, holy, pure, noble and united hypostatically to the Word, my Humanity was earth; and Aloysius, more than flower, bloomed from my Humanity \u2013 pure, holy, noble, possessing the root of pure love, in such a way that in each leaf of his flower one can see written, \u2018love\u2019. But what renders him more beautiful and brilliant are the rays of my Will, to which he was always submitted \u2013 rays which gave such development to this flower as to render it unique on earth and in Heaven. Now, my daughter, if Aloysius is so beautiful because he bloomed from my Humanity, what will be of you and of all those who will possess the Kingdom of my Will? These flowers will not bloom from my Humanity, but will have their roots within the Sun of my Will. In It is formed the flower of their life; they grow and bloom in the very Sun of my Volition which, jealous of these flowers, will keep them eclipsed within Its own light. In each petal of these flowers one will see, written, all the specialties of the divine qualities; they will be the enchantment of all Heaven, and all will recognize in them the complete work of their Creator.\u201d And while He was saying this, my sweet Jesus opened His breast and showed, inside it, an immense Sun, in which He was to plant all these flowers; and His love and jealousy toward them was so great, that He would not let them bloom outside His Humanity, but inside Himself.\nHaving received Holy Communion, I was offering It for the glory of Saint Aloysius, and I offered, as a present for him, everything that Our Lord had done in His Divine Will with His mind, with His words, works and steps, for the accidental glory of Saint Aloysius on his feast day. Now, while I was doing this, my sweet Jesus, moving in my interior, told me: \u201cMy daughter, a more beautiful present you could not give to dear Saint Aloysius on the day of his feast. As you were offering your Communion and all my acts done in my Divine Will, so many suns were formed for as many acts as I did in It while being on earth; and these suns invested Saint Aloysius, in such a way that he received so much accidental glory from the earth, that he could not receive more. Only the offerings of acts done in my Divine Will have the virtue of forming their suns, because, containing the fullness of light, it is no wonder that It converts into suns the human acts done in It.\u201d\nLuisa was born and died in the Diocese of Trani-Nazareth, in the town of Corato, whose name in its original Latin, cor datum, means \u201ca heart given.\u201d This recalls the words of the Prophet Ezekiel:\n\u201cA new heart I will give you, and a new spirit I will put within you; and I will take out of your flesh the heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to observe my ordinances. You shall dwell in the land which I gave your fathers; and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. (Ezekiel 36:27-28)\nSt. Cathal\u2014Feast Day May 10th. He was known as the shipwrecked Saint. He is Patron of Corato.\nAround 685, following the arrival of St. Patrick, holy men established small monasteries throughout Ireland. In the seventh century, a holy man named Cathal, having studied at the University of Lismore, made his way through the pass in the ancient Slieve Cua mountains and arrived at Rathan, where he established his monastic settlement. He was appointed Bishop of the area, even though it should be remembered that in those early years of the Christian Church, this did not mean that he was in charge of a diocese. After some years at Shanrahan, Cathal set out on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. On his return journey, he was shipwrecked off the coast of Southern Italy. There he realized that the people of the area had reverted to paganism, and he resolved to stay among them in an effort to reconvert them to Christianity. Within a few years, the people of Taranto in Southern Italy had selected Saint Cataldo (in Latin, \u201cCathaldus\u201d or Cataldus\u201d) as their Bishop. Today the popularity of Saint Cathaldus (St. Cathal) in Southern Italy is equal to, if not greater than, the popularity of St. Patrick in Ireland. Over one hundred and fifty Churches are dedicated to him in Italy, and the Cathedral-Basilica in Taranto proudly bears his name. He is the Saint Protector of Corato (Bari), Italy. In 1071, during the reconstruction of the Basilica in Taranto, the tomb of Cathaldus was discovered and opened. With his body was found a gold cross bearing his name and the word \u201cRathcau.\u201d\nVolume 6 \u2013 On February 12, 1904\nI had neglected to say as much as I knew in writing, but now through obedience I tell you\u2014although they are not sure things, but doubtful, because Our Lord was not present. \u201cI found myself outside of myself, and it seemed that I found myself inside of a Church where there were many venerable Priests and souls from Purgatory and holy people talking among themselves about the Church of Saint Cataldo. And they spoke as with certainty that the permit would be obtained. And on hearing [this], I said: \u201cHow can it be? Only the other day word spread that the Church hierarchy (il Capitolo), had lost the case, so that the clerk of the Tribunal could not obtain the permit. City hall doesn\u2019t want to give it, and you say that it can be obtained?\u201d\nAnd they answered: \u201cIn spite of those difficulties, all is not lost. And even when it comes to preparing it, one will also not be able to say all is lost, because St. Cataldo will defend his Temple well. Poor town of Corato if it comes to this!\u201d But while they said this, they repeated: \u201cAlready they have brought the first things, and the Incoronata (the Crowned Virgin) has already been moved to Her House. Go before the Madonna and pray Her that having started the grace, She would finish it.\u201d\nI left that Church to go to pray, but while I did this I found myself in myself.\nLuisa\u2019s parents prayed the Rosary daily and attended Mass as often as they could in the Church of St. Dominic. As a young lady, Luisa became a third Order Dominican tertiary, and took the name of Sister Mary Magdala. At the age of 16, Luisa made her profession to Jesus as His victim. On October 16, 1888, Feast Day of St. Mary Margaret Alacoque, Luisa received the grace of the Mystical Marriage assisted by our Blessed Mother and St. Catherine of Sienna. This Mystical Marriage to Jesus was later renewed in Heaven in front of the Holy Trinity on September 8, 1889, Feast of the Nativity of Mary when Luisa was 24 and a half years old. This date is important because this was the moment and the occasion in which Luisa first received the gift of the Divine Will. Soon after Luisa received the Marriage of the Cross and from then until the end of her life she remained in a state of almost continuous suffering, enduring both the physical pains of the invisible stigmata, and the more terrible interior pains inflicted by Divine justice\nSt. Mary Magdalen\u2014Feast Day July 22nd. She is known for her great love of Jesus. She was the sinner who anointed Christ\u2019s feet in Simon\u2019s house, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, and was at the foot of the Cross at the Crucifixion. She discovered the empty tomb, heard the Angelic announcement of the Resurrection of Christ, and was the first person to see Christ later that same day.\nSt. Catherine of Sienna\u2014Feast Day April 29th. She is Patron of Italy, and one of the greatest of Christian mystics. She began to have mystical experiences at the age of six. A Dominican tertiary when she was 16, she experienced visions of Christ, Mary, and the Saints interspersed with diabolical visions and periods of spiritual aridity. She ministered to the ill and condemned prisoners, and was acclaimed for her holiness and abilities as a peacemaker. St. Catherine received the invisible stigmata, which was clearly apparent at the time of her death, and has been declared a Doctor of the Church.\nThe morning of the aforesaid day, Jesus made Himself seen again\u2014all affable, sweet, and majestic\u2014together with His Most Holy Mother and St. Catherine. First a hymn was sung by the Angles; St. Catherine assisted me, my Mama took my hand, and Jesus put a ring on my finger. Then we embraced each other and He kissed me, and so also did my Mama.\nSt. Margaret Mary Alacoque\u2014Feast Day October 16th. At the age of 20 she experienced visions of Christ, and on December 27, 1673 Christ informed her that she was His chosen instrument to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart. Our Lord instructed her in the devotion that was to become known as the Nine Fridays and the Holy Hour, and asked that the Feast of the Sacred Heart be established. She is called the \u201cSaint of the Sacred Heart.\u201d\nIn 1860, 28 years before Luisa\u2019s Mystical Marriage, two French associations, the Apostleship of Prayer and the League of the Sacred Heart, had merged and launched the first worldwide movement of prayer for the reign of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Their motto, \u201c Thy Kingdom Come!\u201d\nEleven months after Luisa\u2019s Mystical Marriage, on the Feast of the Birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary, September 8, 1889, Jesus took Luisa out of her body to Paradise to renew their Marriage in the presence of the Most Holy Trinity. On this occasion, Luisa was given the possession of the \u201cGift\u201d of the Divine Will, her new \u201cbirth\u201d into the Kingdom of the Divine Will.\nDay Ten \u2013 The Queen of Heaven in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.\nHere I am, O holy Mama, near your cradle, to be spectator of your prodigious birth. The heavens are stupefied, the Sun is fixed upon You with its light, the earth exults with joy and feels honored to be inhabited by its little newborn Queen, and the Angels compete among themselves to be around your cradle, to honor You and to be ready for your every wish. Everyone honors You and wants to celebrate your birth. I too unite myself with all, and prostrate before your cradle \u2013 where I see, as though enraptured, your mother Anne and your father Joachim \u2013 I want to tell You my first word; I want to entrust to You my first secret. I want to empty my heart into yours, and say to You: \u201cMy Mama, You who are the dawn, herald of the Divine Fiat upon the earth, O please, put to flight the gloomy night of the human will within my soul and in the whole world! Ah, yes, may your birth be our hope which, like a new dawn of grace, regenerates us in the Kingdom of the Divine Will!\u201d\nChild of my Heart, my birth was prodigious; no other birth can be said to be similar to mine. I enclosed in Myself the heaven, the Sun of the Divine Will, and also the earth of my humanity \u2013 a blessed and holy earth, which enclosed the most beautiful flowerings. And even though I was just newly born, I enclosed the prodigy of the greatest prodigies: the Divine Will reigning in Me, which enclosed within Me a heaven more beautiful, a Sun more refulgent than those of Creation, of which I was also Queen, as well as a sea of graces without boundaries, which constantly murmured: \u201cLove, love to my Creator\u2026\u201d My birth was the true dawn that puts to flight the night of the human will; and as I kept growing, I formed the daybreak and called for the brightest daylight, to make the Sun of the Eternal Word rise over the earth.\nMy child, come to my cradle to listen to your little Mama. As soon as I was born, I opened my eyes to see this low world, to go in search of all my children so as to enclose them within my Heart, give them my maternal love and, regenerating them to the new life of love and of grace, give them the step which would let them enter into the Kingdom of the Divine Fiat, which I possessed. I wanted to act as Queen and Mother, enclosing everyone in my Heart, to bring everyone to safety, and to give them the great gift of the Divine Kingdom. In my Heart I had a place for everyone, because for one who possesses the Divine Will there are no constraints \u2013 only infinite expanses. I looked also at you, my child \u2013 no one escaped Me. And since on that day everyone celebrated my birth, it was also feast for Me. But upon opening my eyes to the light, I had the sorrow of seeing the creatures in the thick night of the human will.\nIt seems that blessed Jesus wants to speak about His Most Holy Will. I was diffusing myself throughout all His interior \u2013 in His thoughts, desires, affections, in His Will, in His Love, in everything, when Jesus told me with infinite sweetness: \u201cOh, if you knew the contentment that one who does my Will gives Me! Your heart would break with joy. See, as you were diffusing yourself in my thoughts, desires, etc., you were forming the delight of my thoughts, while my desires, fusing in yours, were playing together with them. Your affections, united to your will and to your love, running and flying into my affections, into my Will and into my Love, were kissing one another; and pouring like a rapid rivulet into the immense sea of the Eternal One, they were playing with the Divine Persons \u2013 now with the Father, now with Me, and now with the Holy Spirit. Then, wanting to give no time to One Another, We play with her \u2013 all Three together, making of her Our own jewel. This jewel \u2013 our delight \u2013 is so dear to Us that We keep it with jealousy \u2018ad intra\u2019, in the intimate part of our Will; and when the creatures embitter Us and offend Us, in order to be cheered, We take our jewel, and We amuse Ourselves together.\u201d\nSt. Dominic Guzman \u2013 Feast day August 8th, founder of the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans) and the Saint of the Holy Rosary. When he was preaching to the Albigenses, St. Dominic at first obtained but scanty success: and that one day, complaining of this in pious prayer to our Blessed Lady, she deigned to reply to him, saying :\u2019Wonder not that you have obtained so little fruit by your labors, you have spent them on barren soil, not yet watered with the dew of Divine grace. When God willed to renew the face of the earth, He began by sending down on it the fertilizing rain of the Angelic Salutation. Therefore preach my Psalter composed of 150 Angelic Salutations and 15 Our Fathers, and you will obtain an abundant harvest.\u2019\nWhy Luisa was a Dominican Tertiary and not a Franciscan? By Padre Bernardino Bucci\nJML + FIAT\nCome Divine Will to Reign Soon!\nI am asked the question why Luisa is a Dominican tertiary, while she was surrounded by Franciscans and her contacts were always and for the most part with Franciscan monks. I can personally assert that all the monks from my provincial Monastery have had direct contact with the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta, and I personally have collected various depositions from the senior Fathers.\nThen why is Luisa Dominican? The matter is very simple.\nDuring Luisa\u2019s time, just at the period of her birth, the last suppression of the Religious Orders in Italy occurred. At Corato there formerly existed a Monastery of Dominican monks who left because of the governmental laws. They left the Third Dominican Order that was formed by lay people, over whom the government could not do anything; the Bishop at the time, His Grace Dottula, delegated as assistant of the Third Dominican Order the Priest Father Michael De Benedittis, who was also delegated by the Bishop as confessor of Luisa Piccarreta.\nFather Michael De Benedittis put Luisa in the Third Dominican Order. How this act was done is not known, nor is the procedure known. However, I believe that Luisa never attended the Third Dominican Order that was located in the Church of St. Dominic (in Corato), a long way away from the house of Luisa. And it is well known that Luisa did not like to leave the house, especially during the time when the phenomenons began that worried the family, and also the clergy.\nThis notwithstanding, contacts with other Religious, especially the Franciscans and Capuchins, were not broken off. And Luisa sent vocations to the Order of Capuchins, and Father Salvatore-who was a favorite of hers who died very young, and by his holy and Priestly life one can say that he was a hymn to the Divine Will-has remained very famous.\nNot the last, my person, of whom Luisa prophesized the Priesthood in the Order of the Franciscan Capuchins. It is also to be observed that when the Dominican Fathers left Corato, they did not return again, nor were they ever interested in Luisa.\nWhen the undersigned spoke about Piccarreta to the Provincial of the Dominicans of Naples, I had little welcome, nor were they anxious to know her. It is clear to me from the depositions of Aunt Rosaria that not one Dominican Father ever went to the house of Piccarreta. It can even be said that the Dominicans in Italy are few, they are not as numerous as the Franciscans. Also because of this, contacts with Piccarreta were nullified.\nIn 1948 came the Archbishop of Trani, His Grace Addazzi (a Dominican), who was interested in Piccarreta even though he had not personally known her; it was through his intercession that the Servant of God was conveyed from the cemetery into the Church of St. Mary the Greek.\nIt was he who declared Luisa Piccarreta \u201cServant of God\u201d, and permitted the printing of the first pictures for devotions with a prayer he himself composed. (published by the undersigned in the \u201cCollection of Memories\u201d and short biographies of Luisa)\nI remember this episode: As a Capuchin student I went to pay a visit to the Archbishop, who received me with much curtsey, and when he learned that I was the nephew of Rosaria, he said these words: \u201cYou have a holy Aunt, and blessed are you because you too have known Luisa.\u201d\nOn, October 7,1928 the feast of the Holy Rosary, was the day of Luisa\u2019s entrance into Fr. Hannibal\u2019s Orphanage of Saint Anthony in Corato, run then and still today by the order of nuns, the Daughters of Divine Zeal, also founded by Fr. Hannibal. Then exactly 10 years to the day also on the Fest of the Holy Rosary on October 7, 1938, because of dispositions of the Superiors\u201d (her Confessor says), \u201cbecause of health reason\u201d (Luisa says), she had to leave the Orphanage of St. Anthony. Fr. Hannibal was beatified (made Blessed) by Pope John Paul II in 1990 again on October 7th.\nTo stress the importance of the prayer of the rosary, to a prison inmate, Luisa wrote:\n\u201cMy brother, have confidence, for you have a heavenly Mother who loves you very much and who will never leave you. If you listen to her, she will make a sanctuary out of your jail; and if human frailty has borne you to that place, the sovereign Queen will come with the strength of the Divine Will to bear you up to Heaven and to make your days seem less sad . . . Never neglect the Rosary of the Heavenly Mother. If you have the opportunity, be the jailhouse missionary, making it known that the Queen of Heaven wishes to visit all the inmates to give them the gift of the Divine Will. If you need anything else and cannot pay for it, you can count on me. I will see that you receive it free of charge.\u201d\nThe Greek Schism occurred in 1054 when the exchange of excommunications between the two Sees took place in the Diocese of Trani. Another schism, the Great Western Schism, occurred when the Archbishop of Trani (Corato is in the Diocese of Trani) was elected Pope under the name of Urban VI. Two great Saints were involved to settle this schism, St. Catherine of Sienna and St. Vincent Ferrer, both of whom were among the Saints mentioned by name by Luisa in the Book of Heaven. God, by always drawing good out of evil, has destined the site of these and all schisms to become the birthplace of a spiritual renewal that will bring the traditions of Eastern and Western Christianity to a glorious fruition in the Kingdom of the Divine Will.\nSt. Vincent Ferrer\u2014Feast Day April 5th. He is a famous Dominican missionary and miracle worker who traveled all over Western Europe preaching penance for sin, and preparation for the Last Judgment. Many believed he had the gift of tongues. He helped to end the Great Western Schism.\nI found a Priest of holy life, and, at another place, a virgin of pure and holy life. . . . And they said to me: \u201cWe see the strict necessity of these sad times, and that man would not surrender even if an Apostle were to be raised up, or if the Lord were to send another Saint Vincent Ferrer\u2014who, with miracles and portentous signs, used to induce man to conversion.\u201d\nSt. John the Evangelist\u2014Feast Day December 27th. He is the son of Zebede and brother of James the Greater, the two of whom were referred to as \u201cSons of Thunder.\u201d He was also a fisherman, the youngest of the Apostles, and the \u201cBeloved Disciple.\u201d He was, along with Peter and James, among the ones closest to Christ, and was present at the Transfiguration\u2014as well as the only Apostle present at the Crucifixion. Jesus placed Mary in his care. He was the first Apostle at the tomb on Easter morning, and the author of Revelation and three other Epistles. He was known as \u201cThe Divine,\u201d and is represented in art as a soaring eagle because of the majesty of his gospel.\n\u201cThe exact point you will find on Calvary. I, Priest and victim, [who was] raised on the wood of the cross, wanted a Priest who would assist Me in that state of victim, which was St. John, who represented to Me the nascent Church. In him I saw everyone\u2014Popes, Bishops, and Priests\u2014all together. And he, while he assisted Me, offered Me as victim for the glory of the Father and for the success of the nascent Church.\n\u201cThat a Priest assisted Me in that state of victim did not happen by chance, but everything was a profound mystery, predestined even ab eterno, \u201cfrom eternity,\u201d in the Divine Mind\u2014meaning that [by My] selecting a victim soul for the grave needs which exist in the Church, a Priest offers her to Me, assists her for Me, helps her, and encourages her to suffer. If they understand these things well, they themselves will receive the fruit of the work which they render, like Saint John\u2014how many benefits did he not have for having assisted Me on Mount Calvary? If they do not, they do nothing other then put My work in continuous disputes, taking away from Me My most beautiful designs.\n\u201cBesides this, My Wisdom is infinite, and sending some crosses to the soul to sanctify her takes not only one soul, but five, ten, as many as I like, so that not only one but all of these together would be sanctified\u2014as on Calvary it was not just Me alone. Besides having a Priest, I also had a Mother. I had friends, and also enemies, many of whom, on seeing the prodigy of My patience, believed in Me for the God which I was, and were converted. If I had been alone, would they have received these great benefits? Certainly not.\u201d\nBut who can say everything that He said to me, and explain the least meanings? I have said it as best I can, as I have known how to say in my coarseness. I hope that the Lord will do the rest, illuminating them to make them understand what I have not known how to manifest well.\nIn Luisa\u2019s writings, Jesus referred to St. Philip Neri is a model for all Priests and urged all Priests to follow his rule in a new organization He called the houses of the Reunion of Priests.\nContinuing in my usual state, my always lovable Jesus came, but so afflicted and so burning with love, that He was restless and asked for refreshment. And throwing His arms around my neck, He told me: \u201cMy daughter, give Me love \u2013 this is the sole and only refreshment to calm my restlessness of love.\u201d\nThen He added: \u201cDaughter, what you wrote about the reunions of priests is nothing but a process that I am making with them. If they listen to Me \u2013 fine. But if they don\u2019t, since the leaders of the ecclesiastics will not listen to Me because they too are bound by the laces of interest, and are slaves of human miseries, almost lapping them up \u2013 instead of dominating over those miseries, of interest, of high positions and the like, the miseries dominate them; therefore, since they are deafened by what is human, I will be neither understood nor listened to \u2013 I will turn to the civilian leaders, who will listen to Me more easily. Because of their desire to see the priest humiliated, and also because maybe these are a little more stripped than the ecclesiastics themselves, my voice will be more listened to; and what they do not want to do out of love, I will make them do by necessity and by force, and I will make the government take away what is left to them.\u201d And I: \u2018My highest and only good, what will be the name to be given to these houses, and what the rules?\u2019 And He: \u201cThe name will be: The Houses of the Resurrection of the Faith. As for the rules, they can use the same rules as the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri.\u201d Then He added: \u201cTell father B. that you will be the organ and he the sound for this work. If he will be mocked and disliked by those who have their interests, the good and the few true good will comprehend the necessity and the truth that he announces, and will make it a duty of conscience to get down to work. Besides, if he is mocked, he will have the honor of becoming more similar to Me.\u201d\nSt. Philip Neri\u2014Feast Day May 26th. He entered the religious life as the result of a mystical experience, and founded the Confraternity of the Most Holy Trinity. He is known for spreading the Forty Hours Devotion, and is also known as the Apostle of Rome and Patron of Rome. He had the ability of looking into men\u2019s minds. He experienced ecstasies and visions, performed miracles, and had the gift of prophecy.\nSt. Francis of Paola \u2013 Feastday: April 2 \u2013 Francis was born at Paola, Italy and was educated at the Franciscan friary of San Marco there, and when fifteen became a hermit near Paola. In 1436, he and two companions began a community that is considered the foundation of the Minim Friars. He built a monastery where he had led his eremitical life some fifteen years later and set a Rule for his followers emphasizing penance, charity, and humility, and added to the three monastic vows, one of fasting and abstinence from meat; he also wrote a rule for tertiaries and nuns. He was credited with many miracles and had the gifts of prophesy and insight into men\u2019s hearts. Francis died on April 2nd and was canonized in 1519.\nVolume 8 \u2013 April 8, 1908\nAt night, while I was in these cruel torments, finding myself in my usual state, I found myself surrounded by people who said: \u201cRecite a \u2018Pater,\u2019 an \u2018Ave,\u2019 and a \u2018Gloria\u2019 in honor of Saint Francis of Paola. This will bring some relief to you in your sufferings.\u201d\nThen, when I had recited those prayers, suddenly the Saint appeared. He brought me a small piece of bread, and gave it to me saying: \u201cEat it.\u201d\nI ate it, and felt myself totally strengthened. Then I said to him: \u201cDear Saint, I want to tell you something.\u201d\nSt. Nicholas\u2014Feast Day December 6th. He was Bishop of Myra. He was known for his holiness, zeal, miracles, devotion to the conversion of sinners, and giving his wealth to the poor. He is Patron of Sailors, Greece, Apulia, Sicily, Lorraine, and Russia. In the year 1087, the relics of St. Nicholas of Myra were transported to the port city of Bari in Apulia, Italy. St. Nicholas ranks next to the Blessed Virgin as the Saint most universally loved in those two great centers of Eastern Christianity, Russia and Constantinople. St. Nicholas appears more often in the Christian art of East and West then any other Saint, except for the Madonna. St. Nicholas is the Patron Saint of Apulia, of Greece, of many cities in Europe, of Russia, and, very importantly, of all children (including the Little Children of the Divine Will).\nIn Russia, upon whose conversion (according to Our Lady of Fatima) the peace of the world depends, devotion to St. Nicholas has endured. Up until the Communist Revolution of 1917, crowds of Russian pilgrims flocked to the Saint\u2019s relics in Apulia. The Russian Orthodox Church still celebrates the Liturgical Feast of the transfer of the relics of St. Nicholas from Myra to Bari. Luisa Piccarreta\u2019s father bore the name Vito Nicola in honor of Apulia\u2019s Patron, the special Patron of Catholic Christian unity.\nFollowing the Great Schism dividing Rome and the Eastern Patriarchates in 1054, the Church of Constaninople split and became the first Orthodox Church. The Ecumenical Patriarchate was founded in 38 AD by St. Andrew, the brother of St. Peter, and also the first Apostle called by Jesus. The Ecumenical Patriarchate continues today, as in the past, to be the spiritual center and beacon of the 250,000,000 member Orthodox Christian Church. It is looked upon as the Mother Church by the Churches of Russia, Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Rumania, Georgia, and Poland. (Source: A Light from the East, by Michael O\u2019Carroll, C.S.S.p.)\nSaint Faustina Kowalska, in her diary on Divine Mercy, wrote that Our Lord said to her: \u201cI desire that the first Sunday after Easter be the Feast of Mercy. On that day the very depths of my tender mercy are open.\u201d (Source: Divine Mercy in My Soul, 1987, Sister M. Faustina Kowalska) Jesus emphasized to Blessed Faustina that the depths of His Mercy were already open on that day, long before official recognition of the Feast by His Church. With the birth of Luisa Piccarreta on the day which would eventually be proclaimed the Feast of Divine Mercy, Jesus left a special sign of the unique importance of Luisa\u2019s Mission, which her special confessor, Blessed Hannibal Maria Di Francia, described as \u201cthe triumph of the Divine Will in the entire universe.\u201d\nContinuing in my usual state, I found myself outside of myself, and I saw a multitude of people, and in their midst one could hear noises of bombs and gun shots. People were dropping dead or wounded, and those who were left would flee up to a palace nearby; but the enemies would go up there and kill them, more surely than those who remained outside. So I said to myself: \u2018How I wish I could see whether the Lord is there in the midst of these people, so as to say to Him: \u2018Have mercy \u2013 pity on these poor people!\u2019 So I went round and round and I saw Him as a little Child; but little by little He kept growing, until He reached the perfect age. I drew near Him and I said: \u2018Amiable Lord, don\u2019t You see the tragedy that is happening? You don\u2019t want to make use of mercy any more? Do You perhaps want to keep this attribute as useless, which has always glorified your Incarnate Divinity with so much honor, forming a special crown on your august head, and bejeweling You with a second crown, so wanted and loved by You \u2013 which is souls?\u2019\nNow, while I was saying this, He told me: \u2018Enough, enough, do not go any further; you want to speak of Mercy, and what about Justice \u2013 what are we going to do with It? I have told you and I repeat to you: \u2018It is necessary that Justice follow Its course\u2019.\u201d So I replied: \u2018There is no remedy \u2013 why then leave me on this earth when I can no longer placate You and suffer in the place of my neighbor? Since it is so, it is better if You let me die.\u2019 At that moment I saw another person behind the shoulders of blessed Jesus, and He told me, almost making a sign with His eyes: \u201cPresent yourself to my Father and see what He tells you.\u2019 I presented myself, all trembling, and as soon as He saw me, He told me: \u201cWhy have you come to Me?\u201d And I: \u2018Adorable Goodness, infinite Mercy, knowing that You are Mercy Itself, I have come to ask for your Mercy \u2013 Mercy on your very images, Mercy on the works created by You; Mercy on nothing else but your creatures themselves.\u2019 And He said to me: \u201cSo, it is Mercy that you want. But if you want true Mercy, after Justice has poured Itself out It will produce abundant fruits of Mercy\nIn answer to Luisa\u2019s request for Mercy, St. Mary Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament was born the following year on August 2, 1905\nPoland, the birthplace of the Divine Mercy message, and also of Holy Father John Paul II (Mary\u2019s \u201cMasterpiece\u201d in a message of the Blessed Mother\u2019s to Fr. Gobbie), points to a more positive sign of the times\u2014the gradual reconciliation of the Eastern and Western Churches. The period between Luisa\u2019s death and the opening of her cause for beatification coincided with a grace-filled movement toward reconciliation between the Church of Rome and the ancient Churches of the East, especially the Orthodox Church. Luisa\u2019s Cause was opened during the Pontificate and approval of Pope John Paul II.\nAs a meeting place for the Latin Rite Catholics of the West, and the Orthodox and Byzantine Catholics of the East, Poland gave to the world the devotion to the Divine Mercy that combined the Trisagion prayer of the Byzantine liturgy \u201cHoly God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, Have mercy on us and on the whole world\u201d (Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostrom), with the use of the Rosary. Luisa is also connected to this same prayer, which the Priest would say while at the same time making the sign of the Cross on her hand to command her soul to return to her body. This connection between Luisa and Poland, the home of our present Holy Father John Paul II, is made even more clear by the date of Luisa\u2019s death on March 4, 1947\u2014the Feast Day of St. Casimir of Poland.\nSt. Casimir of Poland\u2014Feast Day March 4th. He was third of the 13 children of King Casimir IV of Poland and Elizabeth of Austria, daughter of Emperor II of Germany. He was born at the royal palace in Cracow on October 3rd. Many miracles were reported at his tomb, and he was canonized by Pope Adrian VI in 1522. He is the Patron of Poland and Lithuania.\nAs Cardinal Archbishop of Cracow, Wojtyla ordered a theological review of St. Faustina\u2019s diaries, which had been condemned by the Holy See. As a result of the inquiry, the prohibition against the spread of her writings was removed. Six months later, Wojtyla was elected to the Chair of Peter. As Pope John Paul II, he published one of his first encyclicals on the Mercy of God, and acknowledged the importance of Blessed Faustina and her writings by beatifying her on the Feast of Divine Mercy. The beatification of Saint Faustina attracted new interest in the prophetic content of her diaries, which predicted the Second Coming of Jesus.\nSaint Padre Pio, the wonder-worker of San Giovanni Rotondo \u2013 In the bio on Luisa \u201cThe Little Daughter of the Divine Will\u201d written by Fr. Pablo Martin Sanguiao, it states \u201c\u2026Luisa (as referred to by some witnesses) wrote to Padre Pio of Pietrelcina \u2013 the only time in her life. Padre Pio answered only this: \u201cI Santi si fanno, ma guai a chi fa i Santi!\u201d [\u201cThe Saints are made, but woe to those who make the Saints!\u201d]\nLuisa was bedridden in Corato since her teen years and Padre Pio was cloistered all his adult life at Our Lady of Grace Friary in San Giovanni Rotondo , therefore they never met in person. However, Luisa and Padre Pio exchanged greetings and prayers, and each one referred visitors to the other. This is evidenced in the follow excerpts from the letters of Luisa Piccarreta to Federico Abresch a close friend of her and of Padre Bio.:\n\u201cTell Padre Pio to pray for me, because I need it and with all respect I kiss his right hand.\u201d The dearest Jesus says: \u201cThe first one to sacrifice will be I because you want to do My Will.\u201d For this reason it will not harm the many miracles worked by Padre Pio to add this one also. Beg Padre Pio to pray to the Lord and obtain this cure that can produce much good for souls. Kiss His hand and tell him to pray for me.\u201d \u201cWith respect to Padre Pio, He is right because, the poor thing, he has had to endure great problems and therefore it is necessary to obey the Holy Church; but we do not say what is printed in the books, but rather that which the Holy Church does not know yet and what is printed in the book is but a few drops; the seas of the Divine Desire are not known yet.\u201d \u201cI leave you all in the sea of the Divine Desire. I kiss the hand of Padre Pio and tell him to pray for me.\u201d \u201cI leave you in the Divine Desire so that you become holy; Kiss the hand of Padre Pio on my behalf, greet him with the love of the Fiat; pray for me.\u201d\u201cI leave you in the Divine Desire; pray for me, kiss the hand of Padre Pio for me and receive the greetings of the love of the Fiat.\u201d \u201cKiss the hand of Padre Pio and I would like to know what he thinks of the writings.\u201d\nAccording to Padre Bernardino\u2019s Aunt Rosaria Bucci: \u201cNo! During my confession Padre Pio told me that Luisa is not a human factor, she is a work of God and he himself will make her emerge. The world will be astounded at her greatness; not many years will pass before this happens. The new millennium will see Luisa\u2019s\nPadre Pio told Rosaria in his Benevento dialect: \u201cRosa\u2019, va nanz, va nanz ca Luisa i\u00e8 gran e u munn sar\u00e0 chin di Luisa\u201d (Rosaria, go ahead, go ahead for Luisa is great and the world will be full of Luisa). light\u201d.\nIn the book \u201cThe Story of a Soul\u201d St. Therese of Lisieux \u201cwilled to be as obscure as \u2018a little grain of sand\u2019 \u201c I have always wanted to become a saint. Unfortunately when I have compared myself with the saints, I have always found that there is the same difference between the saints and me as there is between a mountain whose summit is lost in the clouds and a humble grain of sand trodden underfoot by passers-by. Instead of being discouraged, I told myself: God would not make me wish for something impossible and so, in spite of my littleness, I can aim at being a saint. It is impossible for me to grow bigger, so I put up with myself as I am, with all my countless faults. But I will look for some means of going to heaven by a little way which is very short and very straight, a little way that is quite new. Her one dream as the work she would do after her death, helping those on earth. \u201cI will return,\u201d she said. \u201cMy heaven will be spent on earth.\u201d She died on September 30, 1897 at the age of 24 years old. She herself felt it was a blessing God allowed her to die at exactly that age. she had always felt that she had a vocation to be a priest and felt God let her die at the age she would have been ordained if she had been a man so that she wouldn\u2019t have to suffer.\nBy 1910, St. Therese\u2019s book had become very popular with religious all over Europe. There is a photo in Corato of Luisa praying before the Cucifix with a picture of the Little Flower near by. This may have connection to the following conversation between Jesus and Luisa:\nSince a good and holy priest was coming, I was a little bit anxious to speak with him, especially about my current state, in order to know the Divine Will. Now, after he came the first and the second time, I saw that nothing would be done of what I wanted. So, having received Holy Communion, all afflicted, I was repeating my great affliction to my affectionate Jesus, saying to Him: \u2018My Life, my Good and my All, it shows that You alone are everything for me. I have never found in any creature, as good and holy as he might be, a word, a comfort, a solution for the slightest doubt of mine. It shows how there is to be no one for me, but You alone: You alone \u2013 the All for me, and I alone, alone \u2013 always alone for You. And so I abandon myself in You, completely and always. As bad as I am, have the goodness of holding me in your arms, without leaving me for one single instant.\u2019\nWhile I was saying this, my blessed Jesus made Himself seen looking in my interior, turning everything upside down to see if there was something which He did not like. And while turning and turning, He took something like a grain of white sand in His hands, and He threw it to the ground. Then He said to me: \u201cDearest daughter of Mine, it is absolutely right that for one who is all for Me, I be all for her. I am too jealous that someone else might give her the slightest comfort. I alone \u2013 I Myself alone want to make up for all, and in everything. What is it that afflicts you? What do you want? I do everything to make you content. Do you see that white grain that I removed from you? It was nothing but a little bit of anxiety, for you wanted to know my Will from others. I removed it from you and I threw it on the ground so as to leave you in holy indifference \u2013 the way I want you. And now I will tell you what my Will is: I want Mass and also Communion;\u2026\u2026\n1910 was also very important because in 1910, while visiting the Trani Diocese to establish an orphanage, Father Hannibal Di Francia met Luisa Piccarreta for the first time, most likely at the suggestion of her confessor, Fr. Gennaro Di Gennaro. These greatest of all Saints in Heaven are working to establish the Reign of the Divine Will on Earth. Of all of these, the Saint closest and most important to Luisa and her cause is her special confessor, Saint Hannibal Maria Di Francia.\nBlessed Hannibal Mary Di Francia \u2013 Born in Messina, Italy on July 5, 1851 and died 6:30 AM on June 1, 1927. Early in his life he felt a special call to work for the poor and the orphans and founded the Anthonian Orphanages. His charity, however, went further. Tormented by the thought that countless people had not been evangelized, touched by the Spirit, he discovered the answer in the divine command of Jesus: \u201cPray therefore the Lord of the Harvest to send forth laborers into His Harvest\u201d. (Mt. 9,38) He is the founder of the Anthonian Orphanages, the Rogationists Fathers of the Heart of Jesus and the Daughters of Divine Zeal. Many graces are continually attributed to his intercession. On October 7, 1990 (Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary), Pope John Paul II proclaimed him \u201cBlessed\u201d and Saint on May 16, 2004.\nIn 1910 Saint Fr. Annibale Di Francia arrived in Corato beginning a series of visits and a frequent and intimate spiritual relationship with Luisa, which lasted 17 years to his death (June 1, 1927). He knew that Luisa was for him a fundamental turning point in his life, and the manifestation of the Divine Will was decisive for his spirituality (In this regard, see, \u201cL\u2019anima del Padre. Testimonianze\u201d, by Fr. Tusino R.C.J., pp. 222-234, as well as the numerous letters which he wrote to Luisa in those years; an intense spiritual correspondence). He was very often in the house of Luisa, being her extraordinary Confessor. In the last period (1926) the Archbishop of Trani designated him Director of all which concerned the writings of Luisa, with the view of doing a publication which the Father desired, although prevented by his death. He was designated as ecclesiastical Censor for the three united dioceses of Trani, Barletta and Bisceglie.\nSaint Fr. Annibale Di Francia soon began the printing of the 24 Hours of the Passion. At his request, Luisa had to write them down around 1913-1914. Father Annibale gave them the title of \u201cOrologio della Passione di Nostro Signore Gesu\u2019 Cristo\u201d, and published four editions (1915, 1916, 1917, 1925), with \u201cNihil Obstat\u201d and \u201cImprimatur.\u201d\n\u201cSeveral witnesses relate that one day Father Annibale came to the house of Luisa more content than ever, and said that he had brought this book to the Holy Father, Saint Pious X, who had received him several times in private audience. Father Annibale was reading him one of the Hours (that of the Crucifixion), when the Pope interrupted, saying: \u201cNot this way, Father, but kneeling one must read. It is Jesus Christ that is speaking.\u201d Finally, Father Annibale, as Censor of the writings, obtained the Imprimatur from His Excellency the Archbishop of Trani for the volumes written by Luisa (at that time there were already nineteen).\nSt. Pius X\u2014Feast Day August 21st. Giuseppe Melchior Sarto, St. Pius X, was the second of ten children of a cobbler and postman. He succeeded Pope Leo XIII, urged frequent reception of Holy Communion, especially by children, and demanded an oath against modernism by every Priest.\nFrom the book \u201cFather Mary Hannibal di Francia his life and works\u201d by Rogationist Father Rev. Francis Vitale: A little friend of his prided himself on owing a medal of St. Alphonsus M. Liguori. After seeing it, Mary Hannibal could not help longing to have it. Thus he proposed an exchange: the medal of St. Alphonsus M. Liguori for many of his own. Eager to have many medals, his friend handed the prize over to Mary Hannibal, who in turn, gave his friend a rosary and some booklets besides the promised medals. His friend, who did not understand this type of trade, was amazed. The padre said, \u201cI was beside myself with the joy of the medal.\u201d Throughout his life, he wore that medal\u2026..(Years later in 1900), \u2026the padre along with his priests Fr. Bonarrigo and Fr. Ctanese as well as about ten youths wet to the archbishop asking his blessing. The shepherd blessed them tenderly, wishing the developing congregation great productivity and putting them under the protection of St. Alphonsus M. Liguori, to whom he was very devout.\nSaint Anthony of Padua also assisted Bl. Hannibal in his life\u2019s mission: \u201cEven though there was no center of those devoted to St. Anthony in those days, aid for the orphans and the poor were increasing, owing to the devotion to St. Anthony\u2019s bread, to the press, to the alms boxes, and to the devotion to the saint in the church of the Annunciation. Hence the padre felt inspired to make St. Anthony the special patron of this orphanages. Our founder was urged to do so by his helper Fr. Bernardo of the Friars Minor.\u201d\nSt. Alphonsus Liguori\u2014Feast Day August 1st. St. Alphonsus was born in Naples, Italy in 1696. He was a renowned Doctor of both Canon and Civil Law. St. Alphonsus was ordained a Priest in 1726. He founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer (The Redemptorist\u2019s). He was chosen as Bishop of Sant\u2019 Agata dei Goti. St. Alphonsus is the Patron Saint of Confessors, Moral Theology, and Vocations.\nHis literary output, however, was not limited to moral theology. His pen was as apostolic as his preaching. His one hundred and eleven published works were directed to every category of Christians: Bishops, Priests, Religious, and Laity. His themes were solidly pastoral, and his topics diverse; there was even one named \u201cConformity to the Divine Will.\u201d\nSt. Anthony of Pauda\u2014Feast Day June 13th. He is a Doctor of the Church known for his miracles and being one of the greatest preachers of all times. He is known as the \u201cHammer of the Heretics,\u201d \u201cLiving Ark of the Covenant,\u201d and \u201cWonder Worker.\u201d He is Patron of the Poor. In art he is depicted holding the Christ Child. He is widely invoked for the return of lost articles.\nIt seems no accident that these two great Saints were both placed in charge of and protection of Blessed Hannibal\u2019s Orphanages and Religious Institutions. Luisa also lived 10 years in the Orphanage of St. Anthony in Corato. These two saints are also important to Luisa\u2019s cause because of the necessity of St. Liguori\u2019s Patronage over Confessors, Moral Theology, and Vocations, and St. Anthony\u2019s help to return man\u2019s greatest loss\u2014that of the Holy Divine Will.\nLast but not least of all is the special connection of Luis to Jesus, Mary and especially St. Joseph who is the most mentioned Saint of the New Testament in Luisa\u2019s writings. One of the most beautiful of these writing is over 100 years old as follows:\nVolume 4- December 25, 1900\nFinding myself in my usual state, I felt myself leave my body and after wandering around I found myself in a cave, and I saw the Queen Mamma who was giving birth to Baby Jesus. What a marvelous wonder! It seemed to me that both the Mother and the Son were transformed into the purest Light, but in this Light you could clearly discern the human nature of Jesus, which served as a veil to cover the Divinity that He contained within Himself, so that, tearing open the veil of human nature, He was God, and covered with this veil, He was man, and this is the wonder of wonders: God and man, man and God! Who, without leaving the Father and the Holy Spirit, for true Love never disunites, comes to live with us and takes on human flesh. Then it seemed to me that the Mother and the Son, in this supremely happy moment, became spirits, and without the slightest difficulty Jesus emerged from the Mother\u2019s bosom, both of them overflowing with an excess of Love. That is, these Most Holy Bodies were transformed into Light, and without the slightest obstacle, Jesus\u2019 Light emerged from within the Light of the Mother, both One and the Other remaining whole and intact, returning then to their natural state. But who could describe the beauty of the Little Baby, who at the moment of His birth shone with the rays of Divinity even through to the outside? Who can tell of the beauty of the Mother, who was completely absorbed by these Divine rays? And Saint Joseph, who seemed to me not to be present at the act of birth, but who remained in another corner of the cave, quite absorbed by this profound Mystery; even if he did not see with his corporeal eyes, he saw perfectly well with the eyes of his soul, for he remained enraptured in sublime ecstasy. Then, at the moment the Little Baby emerged from the Light, I wanted to rush over to take Him into my arms, but the Angels held me back, telling me that the honor of holding Him first belonged to the Mother. Whereupon, the Most Holy Virgin, as if shaken, turned inwards and, from the hands of an Angel, received the Son into Her arms, and She held him so tight, in the enthusiasm of Her love, that it seemed She wanted to return Him inside of Her. Then, wanting an outlet for Her ardent love, She set him to suckling at Her breasts. At that moment, I remained perfectly still, waiting to be called, so that I would not receive another reproach from the Angels. Whereupon, the Queen said to me:\u201cCome, come take your Beloved, and delight in Him also and show Him your love,\u201d\nAs She spoke I drew close to the Mamma and She put Him in my arms. Who can describe my happiness, the kisses, the hugs, the tenderness I showed Him? After I showed my love for a while, I said to Him: \u201cMy Beloved, You have nursed the milk of our Mother, give some to me.\u201d\nAnd He, quite agreeing, poured part of this milk from His mouth into mine, and then He said to me:\n\u201cMy beloved, I was conceived in sorrow, born in sorrow and died in sorrow, and with the three nails that they crucified me, I nailed down the three powers: intellect, memory and will, for those souls who yearn to love Me, allowing them to remain drawn completely to Me, because original sin had rendered them weak and scattered from their Creator, without any restraint.\u201d\nAs for the Saints of the Old Testament, the most mentioned is Adam:\nAfter this, I was beginning my round in the Divine Will, and going into the terrestrial Eden, where Adam had done the first act of withdrawal of his will from the Divine, I said to my sweet Jesus: \u2018My Love, I want to annihilate my will in Yours, that it may never have life, so that your Will may have life in everything and forever, in order to repair for the first act which Adam did, and return to your Supreme Will all the glory as if Adam had never withdrawn from It. Oh! how I wish to give back to him the honor he lost because he did his own will and rejected Yours. And I intend to do this act for as many times as creatures have done their own will \u2013 the cause of all evils, and have rejected Yours \u2013 the origin and fount of all goods. Therefore I pray You that the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat may come soon, so that everyone, from Adam up to all the creatures who have done their own will, may receive the honor and the glory which they lost, and your Will may receive triumph, glory and Its fulfillment.\u2019\nNow, while I was saying this, my highest Good, Jesus, was moved and touched, and making my first father Adam present to me, let him himself tell me, with emphasis of love, all special: \u201cBlessed daughter, finally my Lord God, after so many centuries, has delivered to the light of the day the one who was to think about giving me back the honor and the glory which I lost, alas, by doing my will. How I feel my happiness redoubled. Until now, no one has ever thought of giving me back that honor which I lost. Therefore I thank God profoundly for having delivered you to the light, and I thank you, the daughter dearest to me, for taking on the commitment to return to God the glory, as if His Will had never been offended by me, and to me the great honor that the Kingdom of the Supreme Fiat be established once again in the midst of the human generations. It is right that I give you the place which had been destined to me as the first creature that came out of the hands of our Creator.\nSpecial honor throughout the writings is given to the Blessed Virgin Mary Queen and Mother of the Divine Will who below is described as our Lady of Guadalupe.\nVolume 15 \u2013 December 8, 1922 \u2013\nLuisa was thinking about the great miracle of the Immaculate Conception of Our Heavenly Queen and Mother. Jesus responded by telling Luisa that Our Blessed Mother is Honored and Queen of Heaven and earth by the Holy Trinity and the Creation and She is described as the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Jesus says:\n\u201cMy daughter, the Immaculate Conception of my beloved Mother was so miraculous and marvelous that Heaven and earth were filled with wonder and made merry\u2026. how could We resist so innocent a creature, possessed by the power and holiness of our Will? That would be to resist Ourselves. We discerned in Her our divine qualities; the reverberations of the divine attributes flowed upon Her like waves, the reverberations of our Holiness, our Love, our Power, etc. It was our Will within Her that attracted all these reverberations of our divine qualities and Which was the crown and the defense of the Divinity dwelling within Her. If this Immaculate Virgin had not possessed the Divine Will as the center of her life, then all the other prerogatives and privileges with which We enriched Her would have amounted to nothing. It was this that confirmed Her and preserved her many privileges. Indeed, It constantly increased them.\n\u201cThis is the reason We made Her Queen of everyone (when We act, We do so with reason, wisdom and justice): She never gave life to her human will. \u2026 All created things, \u2026,seeing this sublime Virgin Who, almost as though She were their sister, had never wanted to know her own will but only that of God, they not only celebrated but felt honored in having Her for their Queen. They ran about Her, paying Her homage by putting the moon beneath her feet as her footstool, the stars as her crown, the sun as her diadem, with angels as servants, and with men attending Her. Absolutely everyone honored Her and paid Her homage. There is no honor or glory that cannot be given to our Will, whether It acts in Us, Its own home, or whether It dwells in creatures.\nI began to think of the feast of my Celestial Mama Assumed into Heaven, and my sweet Jesus, with a tender and moving tone, added: \u201cMy daughter, the true name of this Feast should be Feast of the Divine Will. It was the human will that closed Heaven, broke the bonds with its Creator, made miseries and suffering enter the field, and put an and to the feast that the creature was to enjoy in Heaven. Now, this Creature, Queen of all, by doing the Will of the Eternal One, always and in everything \u2013 even more, it can be said that Her life was Divine Will alone \u2013 opened the Heavens, bound Herself to the Eternal One, and restored in Heaven the feasts with the creature. Every act She did in the Supreme Will, was a feast that She started in Heaven; it was Suns that She formed to adorn this feast; it was melodies that She sent to delight the Celestial Jerusalem.\nTherefore, the true cause of this feast is the Eternal Will operating and fulfilled in my Celestial Mama. It operated such prodigies in Her as to astonish Heaven and earth, chain the Eternal One with indissoluble bonds of love, and enrapture the Word, even from Her womb. The very Angels, enraptured, repeated among themselves: \u201cFrom where comes so much glory, so much honor, such greatness and prodigies never seen before \u2013 in this excelling Creature? Yet, she is coming from the exile!\u201d Astonished, they recognized the Will of their Creator as life operating in Her; and, trembling, they said: \u201cHoly, Holy, Holy! Honor and glory to the Will of Our Sovereign Lord! And glory to Mary, trice Holy, She who let this Supreme Will operate!\u201d\nSo, it is my Will that was and is celebrated more than everything on the day of Her Assumption into Heaven. It was my Will alone that made my Most Holy Mother ascend so high as to distinguish Her among all. Everything else would have been as nothing, had She not possessed the prodigy of my Will. It was my Will that gave Her Divine Fecundity and made of Her the Mother of the Word. It was my Will that made Her see and embrace all creatures together, making of Her the Mother of all, and loving all with a love of Divine Maternity. Constituting Her Queen of all, It made Her rule and dominate. On that day, my Will received the first honors, the glory and the abundant fruit of Its work in Creation; and the unending feast began, for the glorification of Its work in my beloved Mama. And even though Heaven was opened by Me, and many Saints already possessed the Celestial Fatherland when the Celestial Queen was assumed into Heaven \u2013 we waited for Her who had honored It so much and contained the true prodigy of the Most Holy Will, to make the first feast for the Supreme Volition, because She Herself was the primary cause of it, having fulfilled the Supreme Will in everything.\nOh, how the whole of Heaven magnified, blessed and praised the Eternal Will, upon seeing this sublime Queen, all surrounded by the Eternal Sun of the Supreme Will, enter the Heavens, into the midst of the Celestial Court! They saw Her all studded with the power of the Supreme FIAT, and saw that not one breath had been in Her which did not have this FIAT impressed in it. Astonished, all the celestial spirits looked at Her and said: \u2018Ascend, ascend higher! It is justice that She, Who so much honored the Supreme FIAT, and through Whom we find ourselves in the Celestial Fatherland, have the highest throne, and be our Queen!\u2019\nThe greatest honor that my Mother received, was to see the Divine Will glorified in Her.\u201d\nThe Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta was born in Corato in the Province of Bari, on April 23,1865 and died there in the odor of sanctity on March 4, 1947.\nLuisa had the good fortune to be born into one of those patriarchal families that still survive in our realm of Puglia and like to live deep in the country, peopling our farmhouses. Her parents, Vito Nicola and Rosa Tarantino, had five children: Maria, Rachele, Filomena, Luisa and Angela. Maria, Rachele and Filomena married. Angela, commonly called Angelina, remained single and looked after her sister until she died.\nLuisa was born on the Sunday after Easter and was baptized that same day. Her father \u2013 a few hours after her birth \u2013 wrapped her in a blanket and carried her to the parish church where holy Baptism was administered to her.\nNicola Piccarreta was a worker on a farm belonging to the Mastrorilli family, located at the middle of Via delle Murge in a neighborhood called Torre Disperata, 27 kilometers from Corato. Those who know these places, set among the sunny, bare and stony hills, can appreciate the solemnity of the silence that envelops them. Luisa spent many years of her childhood and adolescence on this farm. In front of the old house, the impressive, centuries-old mulberry tree still stands, with the great hollow in its trunk where Luisa used to hide when she was little in order to pray, far from prying eyes. It was in this lonely, sunny spot place that Luisa\u2019s divine adventure began which was to lead her down the paths of suffering and holiness. Indeed, it was in this very place that she came to suffer unspeakably from the attacks of the devil who at times even tormented her physically. Luisa, to be rid of this suffering, turned ceaselessly to prayer, addressing in particular the Virgin Most Holy, who comforted her by her presence.\nDivine Providence led the little girl down paths so mysterious that she knew no joys other than God and his grace. One day, in fact, the Lord said to her: \u201cI have gone round and round the world again and again, and I looked one by one at all my creatures to find the smallest one of all. Among so many I found you. Your littleness pleased me and I chose you; I entrusted you to my angels so that they would care for you, not to make you great, but to preserve your littleness, and now I want to begin the great work of fulfilling my will. Nor will you feel any greater through this, indeed it is my will to make you even smaller, and you will continue to be the little daughter of the Divine Will\u201d (cf. Volume XII, March 23, 1921).\nWhen she was nine, Luisa received Jesus in the Eucharist for the first time and Holy Confirmation, and from that moment learned to remain for hours praying before the Blessed Sacrament. When she was eleven she wanted to enroll in the Association of the Daughters of Mary \u2013 flourishing at the time \u2013 in the Church of San Giuseppe. At the age of eighteen, Luisa became a Dominican Tertiary taking the name of Sr. Maddalena. She was one of the first to enroll in the Third Order, which her parish priest was promoting. Luisa\u2019s devotion to the Mother of God was to develop into a profound Marian spirituality, a prelude to what she would one day write about Our Lady.\nJesus\u2019 voice led Luisa to detachment from herself and from everyone. At about eighteen, from the balcony of her house in Via Nazario Sauro, she had a vision of Jesus suffering under the weight of the Cross, who raised his eyes to her saying: \u201cO soul, help me!\u201c. From that moment an insatiable longing to suffer for Jesus and for the salvation of souls was enkindled in Luisa. So began those physical sufferings which, in addition to her spiritual and moral sufferings, reached the point of heroism.\nThe family mistook these phenomena for sickness and sought medical help. But all the doctors consulted were perplexed at such an unusual clinical case. Luisa was subject to a state of corpse-like rigidity \u2013 although she showed signs of life \u2013 and no treatment could relieve her of this unspeakable torment. When all the resources of science had been exhausted, her family turned to their last hope: priests. An Augustinian priest, Fr. Cosma Loiodice, at home because of the Siccardian* laws, was summoned to her bedside: to the wonder of all present, the sign of the Cross which this priest made over the poor body, sufficed to restore her normal faculties instantly to the sick girl. After Fr. Loiodice had left for his friary, certain secular priests were called in who restored Luisa to normality with the sign of the Cross. She was convinced that all priests were holy, but one day the Lord told her: \u201cNot because they are all holy \u2013 indeed, if they only were! \u2013 but simply because they are the continuation of my priesthood in the world you must always submit to their priestly authority; never oppose them, whether they are good or bad\u201d (cf. Volume I). Throughout her life, Luisa was to be submissive to priestly authority. This was to be one of the greatest sources of her suffering. Her daily need for the priestly authority in order to return to her usual tasks was her deepest mortification. In the beginning, she suffered the most humiliating misunderstandings on the part of the priests themselves who considered her a lunatic filled with exalted ideas, who simply wanted to attract attention. Once they left her in that state for more than twenty days. Luisa, having accepted the role of victim, came to experience a most peculiar condition: every morning she found herself rigid, immobile, huddled up in bed, and no one was able to stretch her out, to raise her arms or move her head or legs. As we know, it required the presence of a priest who, by blessing her with the sign of the Cross, dispelled that corpse-like rigidity and enabled her to return to her usual tasks (lace-making). She was a unique case in that her confessors were never spiritual directors, a task that Our Lord wanted to keep for himself. Jesus made her hear his voice directly, training her, correcting her, reprimanding her if necessary and gradually leading her to the loftiest peaks of perfection. Luisa was wisely instructed and prepared during many years to receive the gift of the Divine Will.\nThe archbishop at that time, Giuseppe Bianchi Dottula (December 22, 1848-September 22,1892), came to know of what was happening in Corato; having heard the opinion of several priests, he wished to exercise his authority and assume responsibility for this case. After mature reflection he thought it right to delegate to Luisa a special confessor, Fr. Michele De Benedictis, a splendid figure of a priest, to whom she opened every nook and cranny of her soul. Fr. Michele, a prudent priest with holy ways, imposed limits on her suffering and instructed her to do nothing without his permission. Indeed, it was Fr. Michele who ordered her to eat at least once a day, even if she immediately threw up everything she had swallowed. Luisa was to live on the Divine Will alone. It was under this priest that she received permission to stay in bed all the time as a victim of expiation. This was in 1888. Luisa remained nailed to her bed of pain, sitting there for another 59 years, until her death. It should be noted that until that time, although she had accepted her state as a victim, she had only occasionally stayed in bed, since obedience had never permitted her to stay in bed all the time. However, from New Year 1889 she was to remain there permanently.\nIn 1898 the new prelate, Archbishop Tommaso de Stefano (March 24, 1898 \u2013 13 May 1906) delegated as her new confessor Fr. Gennaro Di Gennaro, who carried out this task for twenty-four years. The new confessor, glimpsing the marvels that the Lord was working in this soul, categorically ordered Luisa to put down in writing all that God\u2019s grace was working within her. None of the excuses made by the Servant of God to avoid obeying her confessor in this were to any avail. Not even her scant literary education could excuse her from obedience to her confessor. Fr. Gennaro Di Gennaro remained cold and implacable, although he knew that the poor woman had only been to elementary school. Thus on February 28, 1899, she began to write her diary, of which there are thirty-six large volumes! The last chapter was written on December 28, 1939, the day on which she was ordered to stop writing.\nHer confessor, who died on September 10,1922, was succeeded by the canon, Fr. Francesco De Benedictis, who only assisted her for four years, because he died on January 30, 1926. Archbishop Giuseppe Leo (January 17, 1920-January 20,1939) delegated a young priest, Fr. Benedetto Calvi, as her ordinary confessor. He stayed with Luisa until she died, sharing all those sufferings and misunderstandings that beset the Servant of God in the last years of her life.\nAt the beginning of the century, our people were lucky enough to have Blessed Annibale Maria Di Francia present in Puglia. He wanted to open in Trani male and female branches of his newly founded congregation. When he heard about Luisa Piccarreta, he paid her a visit and from that time these two souls were inseparably linked by their common aims. Other famous priests also visited Luisa, such as, for example, Fr. Gennaro Braccali, the Jesuit, Fr. Eustachio Montemurro, who died in the odor of sanctity, and Fr. Ferdinando Cento, Apostolic Nuncio and Cardinal of Holy Mother Church. Blessed Annibale became her extraordinary confessor and edited her writings, which were little by little properly examined and approved by the ecclesiastical authorities. In about 1926, Blessed Annibale ordered Luisa to write a book of memoirs of her childhood and adolescence. He published various writings of Luisa\u2019s, including the book L\u2019orologio della Passione, which acquired widespread fame and was reprinted four times. On October 7,1928, when the house of the sisters of the Congregation of Divine Zeal in Corato was ready, Luisa was taken to the convent in accordance with the wishes of Blessed Annibale. Blessed Annibale had already died in the odor of sanctity in Messina.\nIn 1938, a tremendous storm was unleashed upon Luisa Piccarreta: she was publicly disowned by Rome and her books were put on the Index. At the publication of the condemnation by the Holy Office, she immediately submitted to the authority of the Church.\nA priest was sent from Rome by the ecclesiastical authorities, who asked her for all her manuscripts, which Luisa handed over promptly and without a fuss. Thus all her writings were hidden away in the secrecy of the Holy Office.\nOn October 7, 1938, because of orders from above, Luisa was obliged to leave the convent and find a new place to live. She spent the last nine years of her life in a house in Via Maddalena, a place which the elderly of Corato know well and from where, on March 8, 1947, they saw her body carried out.\nLuisa\u2019s life was very modest; she possessed little or nothing. She lived in a rented house, cared for lovingly by her sister Angela and a few devout women. The little she had was not even enough to pay the rent. To support herself she worked diligently at making lace, earning from this the pittance she needed to keep her sister, since she herself needed neither clothes nor shoes. Her sustenance consisted of a few grams of food, which were prepared for her by her assistant, Rosaria Bucci. Luisa ordered nothing, desired nothing, and instantly vomited the food she swallowed. She did not look like a person near death\u2019s door, but nor did she appear perfectly healthy. Yet she was never idle, she spent her energy either in her daily suffering or her work, and her life, for those who knew her well, was considered a continuous miracle.\nHer detachment from any payments that did not come from her daily work was marvelous! She firmly refused money and the various presents offered to her on any pretext. She never accepted money for the publication of her books. Thus one day she told Blessed Annibale that she wanted to give him the money from her author\u2019s royalties: \u201cI have no right to it, because what is written there is not mine\u201d (cf. Preface of the L\u2019orologio della Passione, Messina, 1926). She scornfully refused and returned the money that pious people sometimes sent her.\nLuisa\u2019s house was like a monastery, not to be entered by any curious person. She was always surrounded by a few women who lived according to her own spirituality, and by several girls who came to her house to learn lace-making. Many religious vocations emerged from this \u201cupper room\u201d. However, her work of formation was not limited to girls alone, many young men were also sent by her to various religious institutes and to the priesthood.\nHer day began at about 5.00 a.m., when the priest came to the house to bless it and to celebrate Holy Mass. Either her confessor officiated, or some delegate of his: a privileged granted by Leo XIII and confirmed by St. Pius X in 1907. After Holy Mass, Luisa would remain in prayer and thanksgiving for about two hours. At about 8.00 a.m. she would begin her work which she continued until midday; after her frugal lunch she would stay alone in her room in meditation. In the afternoon \u2013 after several hours of work \u2013 she would recite the holy Rosary. In the evening, towards 8.00 p.m., Luisa would begin to write her diary; at about midnight she would fall asleep. In the morning she would be found immobile, rigid, huddled up on her bed, her head turned to the right, and the intervention of priestly authority would be necessary to recall her to her daily tasks and allow her to sit up in bed.\nLuisa died at the age of eighty-one years, ten months and nine days, on March 4, 1947, after a fortnight of illness, the only one diagnosed in her life, a bad attack of pneumonia. She died at the end of the night, at the same hour when every day the priest\u2019s blessing had freed her from her state of rigidity. Archbishop Francesco Petronelli (May 25, 1939-June 16, 1947) archbishop at the time. Luisa remained sitting up in bed. It was impossible to lay her out and \u2013 an extraordinary phenomenon \u2013 her body never suffered rigor mortis and remained in the position in which it had always been.\nHardly had the news of Luisa\u2019s death spread, like a river in full spate, all the people streamed into her house and police intervention was necessary to control the crowds that flocked there day and night to visit Luisa, a woman very dear to them. A voice rang out: \u201cLuisa the Saint has died\u201c. To contain all the people who were going to see her, with the permission of the civil authorities and health officials, her body was exposed for four days with no sign of corruption. Luisa did not seem dead, she was sitting up in bed, dressed in white; it was as though she were asleep, because as has already been said, her body did not suffer rigor mortis. Indeed, without any effort her head could be moved in all directions, her arms raised, her hands and all her fingers bent. It was even possible to lift her eyelids and see her shining eyes that had not grown dim. Everyone believed that she was still alive, immersed in a deep sleep. A council of doctors, summoned for this purpose, declared, after attentively examining the corpse, that Luisa was truly dead and that her death should be accepted as real and not merely apparent, as everyone had imagined.\nLuisa had said that she was born \u201cupside down\u201d, and that therefore it was right that her death should be \u201cupside down\u201d in comparison with that of other creatures. She remained in a sitting position as she had always lived, and had to be carried to the cemetery in this position, in a coffin specially made for her with a glass front and sides, so that she could be seen by everyone, like a queen upon her throne, dressed in white with the Fiat on her breast. More than forty priests, the chapter and the local clergy took part in the funeral procession; the sisters took turns to carry her on their shoulders, and an immense crowd of citizens surrounded her: the streets were incredibly full; even the balconies and rooftops of the houses were swarming with people, so that the procession wound slowly onwards with great difficulty. The funeral rite of the little daughter of the Divine Will was celebrated in the main church by the entire chapter. All the people of Corato followed the body to the cemetery. Everyone tried to take home a keepsake or a flower, after having touched her body with it; a few years later, her remains were translated to the parish of Santa Maria Greca.\nIn 1994, on the day of the Feast of Christ the King, in the main church, Archbishop Carmelo Cassati, in the presence of a large crowd including foreign representatives, officially opened the beatification cause of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta.\n1865 \u2013 Luisa Piccarreta was born on April 23, the Sunday after Easter, in Corato, Bari, to Nicola Vito and Rosa Tarantino, who had five daughters: Maria, Rachele, Filomena, Luisa and Angela. A few hours after Luisa\u2019s birth, her father wrapped her in a blanket and took her to the main church for baptism. Her mother had not suffered the pangs of labor: her birth was painless.\n1872 \u2013 She received Jesus in the Eucharist on the Sunday after Easter, and the sacrament of Confirmation was administered to her on that same day by Archbishop Giuseppe Bianchi Dottula of Trani.\n1883 \u2013 At the age of eighteen, from the balcony of her house, she saw Jesus, bent beneath the weight of the Cross, who said to her: \u201cO soul! Help me!\u201c. From that moment, solitary soul that she was, she lived in continuous union with the ineffable sufferings of her Divine Bridegroom.\n1888 \u2013 She became a Daughter of Mary and a Dominican Tertiary with the name of Sr. Maddalena\n1885-1947 \u2013 A chosen soul, a seraphic bride of Christ, humble and devout, whom God had endowed with extraordinary gifts, an innocent victim, a lightening conductor of Divine Justice, bedridden for sixty-two years without interruption, she was a herald of the Kingdom of the Divine Will.\nMarch 4 \u2013 Full of merits, in the eternal light of the Divine Will she ended her days as she had lived them, to triumph with the angels and saints in the eternal splendor of the Divine Will.\nMarch 7 \u2013 For four days her mortal remains were exposed for the veneration of an immense throng of the faithful who went to her house to have a last look at Luisa the Saint, so dear to their hearts. The funeral was a realm triumph; Luisa passed like a queen, borne aloft on shoulders among the lines of people. All the clergy, secular and religious, accompanied Luisa\u2019s body. The funeral liturgy took place in the main church with the participation of the entire chapter. In the afternoon, Luisa was buried in the family Chapel of the Calvi family.\nJuly 3,1963 \u2013 Her mortal remains were definitively laid to rest in the Church of Santa Maria Greca.\nNovember 20, 1994 \u2013 Feast of Christ the King: Archbishop Carmelo Cassati officially opened the Beatification Cause of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta in the principal church of Corato, in the presence of a huge crowd of people, locals and foreigners.\n2005 \u2013 Archbishop Giovanni Battista Picchierri, current Archbishop of Trani. It is he who requested that the Cause of Beatification of the Servant of God Luisa Piccarreta be continued.\nwww.luisalasanta.com \u2013 e-mail : pia.ass.luisalasanta@libero.it", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 996, "original_length": 275280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lwv-hawaii.com/kaleohana/klh8206-action.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YWZLEB2JN47VZJXTFA5I3EFGFME4ZETQ", "length": 1120, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "lwv-hawaii.com", "title": "Ka Leo Hana - Summer 1982: Action", "raw_content": "This was a low-key session for legislators and for the League. In a pre-election year, there is not a flurry of major legislation. On the chart above is a final run-down on the bills of inter interest to League, including those whose final disposition was not known for the last Leo Hana issue.\nConcerning HB 3092, there are legal questions since the Federal District Court has kept the matter of reapportionment under their jurisdiction.\nAfter the Governor vetoed SB 2346, he sent a delegation to Washington to try to regain impact aid. To date these efforts have been unsuccessful.\nOther activities in the Action Committee included legislative interviews which build name recognition for the League. These are planned again for this fall. Despite the difficulty in finding legislators in their offices before the session begins, these interviews can pro-vide information to both sides.\nThere is a file of bills from last session in the League office (big red book), available for your perusal. Before the 1983 Session the Action Committee will be planning what issues to follow and what possible action might be taken.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lwv-hawaii.com/kaleohana/klh91su-pres.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CJB7TH2GHS5LT25VKK6NXET2B7X2K52E", "length": 4413, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "lwv-hawaii.com", "title": "Ka Leo Hana - Summer 1991: President's Message", "raw_content": "Take Back the System\nBylaw Change Adopted\nNew State Directors Listed\nLook at Leasehold (Jim Koshi)\nHealth Care Study Commences\nEvelyn Bender was elected to serve as President of our State League Legislative by delegates at the recent State Convention. She comes to that role with a wealth of League experience coupled with years of experience in legislative work both here and in Massachusetts. The following is her message.\nThank you all for the trust you have placed in me by electing me president of the LWVHI. With the help of all of you, we can look forward to having a good two years. When asked to do things we must remember Edmund Burke's words, \"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.\"\nThe 1991 State Convention was a great success. Irene Coogan and Jerry Hess did an outstanding job in arranging the physical setup and the program. Many thanks to both.\nNot only did we kickoff the national health care study and adopt two new state studies, the delegates had an opportunity to air their views, to ask questions, and hopefully, to get answers on many subjects. In addition, a committee was established to explore the financial picture of the state and local leagues as well as looking at other common interests.\nOn Saturday evening the dinner speakers, former Massachusetts Governor and Presidential Nominee Michael Dukakis and DOH Director John Lewin, M.D., talked about financing and access to health care in the U.S. and Hawaii. They not only elaborated on what they would like to see in the future but proposed how some of it might be accomplished. These will all be explored more closely as the study proceeds.\nThe diversified panel on Sunday morning consisted of Ah Quon McElrath, AFL-CIO; Lorraine Carlson, UH School of Nursing, Marvin Hall, Hawaii Medical Services Association; Richard Meiers, Health Care Association; and John McDonnell, M.D., Hawaii Medical Association.\nThe League's Health Care Chairman and member of the Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Health Care, Earl Fedje, was the Moderator. This discussion was very lively and sparked many questions from the delegates. Greater detail on these speeches appear elsewhere in this issue and it may be possible for local Leagues to obtain a videotape of them for their meetings.\nIt is obvious there are as many differing opinions on what needs to be done to provide greater access to health care at reasonable costs as there are ways to accomplish them. Hawaii is at the forefront in providing a wide access to health care and at a lower cost than on the mainland, although there is still room for improvement. During the next few months we will be attempting to reach consensus on the Phase 1 questions sent from LWVUS and possibly some formulated by the State Committee for Hawaii.\nWe must be sure that whatever consensus we reach on the national level does not force Hawaii to retreat from its present position or dilute its programs. Hawaii must at least be able to maintain what it now has in the access and financing of health care for its citizens and be allowed to improve it if the citizenry wishes.\nThe two new state studies adopted were: (1) Leasehold Reform as Related to Condominiums and Cooperatives and (2) Home Rule in Hawaii.\nBecause the members are well acquainted with the Leasehold topic and there is a lot of information readily available, we hope to be able to study and present both sides of this issue in a dear and unemotional manner and reach consensus in the spring. Since it will take more time to accumulate the material on Home Rule and present it to the members, this study is expected to last two years.\nLeague members already have varying viewpoints and opinions on all three of these topics. The coming year should be most interesting and there is a place for everyone to take part and contribute. Discussions may be come heated but please bear in mind the following:\nDifferent viewpoints and opinions are not wrong, bad or stupid! They are only different, and without such differences, viewpoints and opinions have no meaning! Viewpoints and opinions are creations of the mind and have validity only by agreement between persons! There are unlimited choices for different viewpoints and opinions which are changing constantly to cultivate and perfect development of human beings! So appreciate and acknowledge those with different viewpoints and opinions!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 4706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lwvroguevalley.org/wp/?page_id=1499", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:JF7ISZU7MRBYOHYW6MEZ4GO4WPZJFO2M", "length": 5074, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "lwvroguevalley.org", "title": "Health Care | Rogue Valley League of Women Voters", "raw_content": "LWVUS Impact on Issues 2016-2018: A Guide to Public Policy Positions.\nLWVUS Guide to Positions Health Care\nAdvocating for truly effective health care reform.\nThe League\u2019s Position\nThe League of Women Voters of the United States believes that a basic level of quality health care at an affordable cost should be available to all U.S. residents. Other U.S. health care policy goals should include the equitable distribution of services, efficient and economical delivery of care, advancement of medical research and technology, and a reasonable total national expenditure level for health care.\nBASIC LEVEL OF QUALITY CARE: Every U.S. resident should have access to a basic level of care that includes\nPrimary care (including prenatal and reproductive health)\nEvery U.S. resident should have access to affordable, quality in- and out-patient behavioral health care, including needed medications and supportive service that is integrated with, and achieves parity with, physical health care.\nDental, vision and hearing care also are important but lower in priority. The League believes that under any system of health care reform, consumers/patients should be permitted to purchase services or insurance coverage beyond the basic level.\nFINANCING AND ADMINISTRATION: The League favors a national health insurance plan financed through general taxes in place of individual insurance premiums. As the United States moves toward a national health insurance plan, an employer-based system of health care reform that provides universal access is acceptable to the League. The League supports administration of the U.S. health care system either by a combination of the private and public sectors or by a combination of federal, state and/or regional government agencies.\nThe League is opposed to a strictly private market-based model of financing the health care system. The League also is opposed to the administration of the health care system solely by the private sector or the states.\nTAXES: The League supports increased taxes to finance a basic level of health care for all U.S. residents, provided health care reforms contain effective cost control strategies.\nCOST CONTROL: The League believes that efficient and economical delivery of care can be enhanced by such cost control methods as:\nThe reduction of administrative costs,\nRegional planning for the allocation of personnel, facilities and equipment,\nThe establishment of maximum levels of public reimbursement to providers,\nMalpractice reform,\nThe use of managed care,\nUtilization review of treatment,\nMandatory second opinions before surgery or extensive treatment,\nConsumer accountability through deductibles and copayments.\nEQUITY ISSUES: The League believes that health care services could be more equitably distributed by:\nAllocating medical resources to underserved areas,\nProviding for training health care professionals in needed fields of care,\nStandardizing basic levels of service for publicly funded health care programs,\nRequiring insurance plans to use community rating instead of experience rating,\nEstablishing insurance pools for small businesses and organizations.\nALLOCATION OF RESOURCES TO INDIVIDUALS: The League believes that the ability of a patient to pay for services should not be a consideration in the allocation of health care resources. Limited resources should be allocated based on the following criteria considered together:\nThe urgency of the medical condition\nThe life expectancy of the patient\nThe expected outcome of the treatment\nThe cost of the procedure\nThe duration of care\nThe wishes of the patient and the family\nBEHAVIORAL HEALTH: The League of Women Voters supports:\nBehavioral Health as the nationally accepted term that includes both mental illness and substance use disorder\nAccess for all people to affordable, quality in- and out-patient behavioral health care, including needed medications and supportive services\nBehavioral Health care that is integrated with, and achieves parity with, physical health care\nEarly and affordable behavioral health diagnosis and treatment for children and youth from early childhood through adolescence\nEarly and appropriate diagnosis and treatment for children and adolescents that is family-focused and community-based\nAccess to safe and stable housing for people with behavioral health challenges, including those who are chronically homeless\nEffective re-entry planning and follow-up for people released from both behavioral health hospitalization and the criminal justice system\nProblem solving or specialty courts, including mental health and drug courts, in all judicial districts to provide needed treatment and avoid inappropriate entry into the criminal justice system\nHealth education from early childhood throughout life that integrates all aspects of social, emotional and physical health and wellness\nEfforts to decrease the stigmatization of, and normalize, behavioral health problems and care\nStatement of Position on Health Care, as Announced by National Board, April 1993 and supplemented by concurrence, June 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 7083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://m.clevelandart.org/events/lectures/julius-fund-lecture-renaissance-art-subtle-art-nature-dutch-baroque-aesthetics-and-collecting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:44Z", "digest": "sha1:RXHZVAP2GGWW7TXRJ5CS5VL7EMBNFEJG", "length": 2115, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "m.clevelandart.org", "title": "The Subtle Art of Nature: Dutch Baroque Aesthetics and Collecting Practices | Cleveland Museum of Art", "raw_content": "Gooseberries on a Table, 1701. Adriaen Coorte (Dutch, c. 1660\u2013after 1707). Oil on paper mounted on wood; 29.7 x 22.8 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1987.32\nClaudia Swan, Associate Professor of Art History, Northwestern University\nFriday, April 12, 2019, 5:30\u20136:30 p.m.\nWhat is more Dutch than a tulip? Prized possessions and fickle flowers, tulips were sought after passionately during the 1600s, especially in the Dutch Republic. Legends of the tulip craze, which resulted in a market crash in 1637, continue to circulate. Less well known than their exorbitant prices is the fact that tulips\u2014and other natural specimens\u2014were highly valued as works of art: it was said that in flowers and shells, nature painted. Swan presents a series of cases, including the tulip and nautilus shells from the Indian Ocean, about the intersection of art and nature in Dutch baroque aesthetics. This lecture explores the subtle art of nature during the era of Rembrandt and Vermeer through a discussion of gardens, collections, paintings, and luxury objects.\nClaudia Swan is associate professor of art history at Northwestern University, where she teaches northern European visual culture (1400\u20131700), art and science, the history of collecting, and the history of the imagination. Among many publications, she authored The Clutius Botanical Watercolors: Plants and Flowers of the Renaissance and Art, Science, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Holland: Jacques de Gheyn II (1565\u20131629). She also writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. Swan received her PhD from Columbia University and has been a resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; the Max-Planck-Institut f\u00fcr Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin; CRASSH at Cambridge University; and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam. In January 2016 she was visiting senior fellow at Cambridge University, and in winter 2017, visiting fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Her forthcoming book is \u201cRarities of These Lands\u201d: Encounters with the Exotic in Early Modern Holland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 117.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://macnoise.com/our-neighbors/presentations-and-videos/innovations-aircraft-design", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:05Z", "digest": "sha1:7CPHRHFEE3TPVTZ2WABR3UXO5ZGJF6MD", "length": 180, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "macnoise.com", "title": "Innovations in Aircraft Design | Metropolitan Airports Commission Noise Programs", "raw_content": "This video is a recording of comments made by Captain Mark Bradley, Chief Technical Pilot, Delta Air Lines, during a presentation to the Noise Oversight Committee on July 16, 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 155.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://magnoliaplantation.com/holiday_food_drive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:11Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4R574DHB3G5ZUWLK7YE7KHBZOIWQFYT", "length": 2687, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "magnoliaplantation.com", "title": "\ufeff Food Drive at Magnolia Plantation and Gardens | Charleston, SC", "raw_content": "Food drive at Magnolia Gardens brings local food bank unexpected benefit\nMagnolia Plantation and Gardens ended its recent holiday food drive to assist the Lowcountry Food Bank with a record-breaking 9.5 tons of non-perishable food. The food drive also has reaped an unexpected benefit to help the food bank's mission to lead the fight against hunger throughout the 10 coastal counties of South Carolina.\nThe amount of food donated by Magnolia's guests has increased each year since Magnolia launched the food drive seven years ago. This year's total was 5,000 pounds more than the previous year. \"Magnolia Plantation and Gardens should be proud of the increase of the community's support this year,\" said Alexis Barbalace, the Lowcountry Food Bank's marketing manager. \"It is quite a feat to increase by that amount, and we are grateful for this support.\"\n\u201cThe food donated by Magnolia's guests this holiday will provide more than 14,000 meals for children, seniors and families in coastal South Carolina,\u201d Barbalace said. But the benefit does not end there.\nBecause Magnolia's staff boxed and delivered the food to the food bank's warehouse on Azalea Drive in North Charleston, the food bank was able to keep their fleet of trucks focused on delivering food to those who struggle with hunger. Magnolia made twelve deliveries between Nov. 1 and Jan. 31.\n\"Every time one of our trucks leave the building, it costs the Lowcountry Food Bank a considerable amount,\" Barbalace said. \"By providing transportation and delivery of the donations, Magnolia helped keep our administrative costs down.\" This savings may seem small, but it goes a long way. \"With each dollar saved the food bank can help provide six meals.\"\n\"Our trucks are used to feed the community,\" she said. \"We don't have a designated fleet of trucks to pick up food from food drives. While we have the ability to pick up large donations, we try to educate our supporters on how important it is to help with the logistics of running a food drive. That includes picking up the supplies and delivering their donations.\"\nTom Johnson, Magnolia's executive director, said we could not have accomplished this without the generosity of our guests. In exchange for a food donation, Magnolia provides one free admission for every item of food donated. \"We believe this is an excellent way for us to use the popularity of our gardens to help the food bank's mission.\"\nMagnolia will launch the food drive again on Nov. 1, Johnson said. \"Each year we set our goal higher,\" he added. \"I suspect that we'll report this time next year that we've surpassed 10.5 tons of food.\"\nCLICK HERE to see what else is new at Magnolia Plantation & Gardens", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 3012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mapleridge.org/1371/Starting-a-Business", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:21Z", "digest": "sha1:NHEPYO56ESW5QG46VWWWDJX5ANK7KEWN", "length": 3182, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "mapleridge.org", "title": "Starting a Business in Maple Ridge | Maple Ridge, BC", "raw_content": "Starting a Business in Maple Ridge\nReady to Launch Your Own Business?\nMaple Ridge is a great place to start a new business: a rapidly growing population, high family incomes and the most affordable real estate in Metro Vancouver. This is a place where small businesses that focus on delivering exceptional products and service can thrive. We are a proven market for a wide range of industries and business opportunities. Whether you are a small start up, a home-based business or a large corporation, your business can be a success in Maple Ridge. We have a wealth of services and suppliers to meet your business needs.\nThe City of Maple Ridge\u2019s Economic Development & Civic Property Department assists both current business owners and future entrepreneurs interested in starting new businesses with information on business planning and expansion opportunities, and connects them with business and industry groups to develop strategic alliances and new economic opportunities.\nWho Lives in Maple Ridge?\nActive young families, with good jobs, living in single family homes. Maple Ridge has the most affordable real estate in Metro Vancouver so it\u2019s not surprising that our residents are more likely to be married, have children and live in single family homes than the provincial average. On average, they\u2019re younger (40.2 years old) and more likely to have college, professional or trades certifications than other BC residents.\nWe\u2019re also home to a large number of urban professionals looking for rural estate homes with room for horses, boats and vehicles and located in a stunning natural environment.\nSelecting the Right Location for Your Business\nWhether you buy or lease, selecting the right location is one of the critical decisions that will affect the long-term success of your business. Once you\u2019ve identified a property you\u2019re interested in, contact the Economic Development Department for help understanding the process for getting your business licence. We strongly recommend that you make lease or sales agreements conditional to receiving all Municipal approvals.\nGetting a business licence is a simple process that is required for all businesses operating in Maple Ridge. The Coordinator - Licences & Permits located in the Economic Development & Civic Property Department will help you work through the process of getting permits and your business licence. Learn more about getting a business licence in Maple Ridge.\nIn 2017, the City of Maple Ridge won two of three NAME Awards (NAIOP Award for Municipal Excellence) as chosen by the Vancouver chapter of the Commercial Real Estate Development Association (NAIOP) and Business in Vancouver Magazine.\nMost Fiscally Responsible: Awarded to the City of Maple Ridge and the City of Delta, who have limited cost increases from 2015 to 2017 in order to have an equivalent annual average inflation rate of 0% and 3%, respectively.\nMost Business Friendly: Awarded to the City of Maple Ridge and the City of Abbotsford. The City of Maple Ridge has two bylaws underway that, if implemented, will grow potential employment-designated land by 368 gross acres, and continues their Employment Lands Investment Incentive Program.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marmionprimary.com/after-school-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:30Z", "digest": "sha1:NUVC7L2KHPSN7ISSBTAJD5IPBFCC4IBO", "length": 547, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "marmionprimary.com", "title": "After School Care | Marmion Primary School", "raw_content": "OSH Club provide high quality Before and After School Care and Vacation Care during the school holidays. They are open in the morning from 7am to 9am and in the afternoon from 3pm to 6pm. During the morning and afternoon sessions OSH Club provide a health breakfast and afternoon tea and also a range of activities for children to relax and have fun. The program is on site near our Early Learning Centre.\nIf you would like to know more about OSH Club visit their website at www.oshclub.com.au or pick up an information pack from the front office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 142.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marriagealacarte.com/gratitude-beauty-lashes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZI3BS7TRAYT5FZGVM7EET3Y7F7X343PZ", "length": 4256, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "marriagealacarte.com", "title": "Gratitude, Beauty & Lashes - MARRIAGE \u00c0 LA CARTE", "raw_content": "Well hello again friends! How is everyone doing out there? Are you happy to be entering into February? I know I am! There is a lot to be thankful about as this month comes to an end. How many of you made New Year resolutions? Are you staying on track? I honestly am not a resolution person, but I do believe in goal setting. My main goal for this month was to stay rooted in the Word. I have been very intentional about seeking more of God and spending time with Him, each day, preferably in the mornings, as I enjoy the sunrise. There is something so serene about waking up at dawn and spending some quiet time with the Lord. It helps set the tone for my day and allows me to view my life from a place of gratitude.\nSo today or tonight, when ever you read this, I want to challenge you today to just take a moment, take one deep breath and visualize what you are most grateful for in this day. Then do it again tomorrow, and again the next day. I promise you, your days \u2013 no matter how good or bad they are, you will always be able to find something to be grateful for. Try it!\nTo catch you up on how I am doing: I am in-love with this super cool, exciting place I am in right now in my life. Every year, I try to choose a word that sets a theme for my life in this new year. This year, I chose the word RENEW. If you have been following my blog for some time now, this may not come as a surprise to you. I have been through the most challenging yet rewarding time of my life with my divorce. Through it, I discovered so much about myself and I have grown from my experience into a whole, unique and new person. It is amazing how God transforms us, especially through our brokenness.\nThese past two years, as I have been dealing with unresolved issues, working my way through my own guilt and shame about what transpired in my marriage and divorce. It has been a season of pruning and restoration. God has renewed spirit and mended me. I learned so much about what it means to be at peace in my solitude and how to find comfort in the Lord instead of things or people. Granted, there were a ton of wonderful people that prayed over me and encouraged me along the way too. However, God is healer.\nI\u2019ve found so much beauty in the ashes. Right when I thought the worst of my life and couldn\u2019t see the light in the darkness, God was there. What is most exciting though about my journey, is not just the healing and growth that has taken place, but the fact that I am able to live out some of my most wildest dreams. I\u2019m doing things that I love. I am encouraging others in the same ways that people comforted me. I can\u2019t even begin to tell you how many \u201cdivorce talks\u201d I have had, with people entering the same season I once found myself in, and the hope I am able to share with them about what God can do through the pain. It is pretty incredible to be able to see God use my testimony for His glory.\nAside from that, I have also been presented with so many cool and fun opportunities to do more of the things that I love. I\u2019m learning music, I am singing more, I\u2019m drawing and painting, I am writing, I\u2019m part of a book club\u2026\nThere is literally just so much goodness in my life, it is pretty hard to focus on anything else but that. Even on my worst days, my life is pretty peachy! My life is well-rounded right now. I won\u2019t say that I don\u2019t miss having a companion, because there are times that I do. More than anything though, I am just excited to see how God continues to use me, make me and mold me.\nLastly, I want to share how bomb Lash Boost is! Y\u2019all this stuff seriously works!!!! I previously reported, here, about an opportunity I had to be a product tester for a sweet friend of mine. She sells R + F Products (Rodan + Fields) and I had been very much impressed with the results she kept posting about her lashes and I just knew I needed to get my hands on it. Sure enough, we worked out a little deal and wala \u2013 guess who has gorgeous lashes now? Yup! I sure do. If you are interested in purchasing some product or learning more about R + F, reach out to my friend here. You won\u2019t regret it.\nWell gals, that is it for now. I\u2019ll type y\u2019all later!\nbeautycomfortdivorcedreamsgratitidehealingjourneylashesloveopportunitiespeaceR+Frenewalrestoration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mcx.ru/en/news/July-18-grain-exports/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OYYADYMGGLHZXOJBCK2JFKNGFDJBL6RR", "length": 889, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mcx.ru", "title": "Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation", "raw_content": "As of July 18, grain exports amount to more than 2 million tons\nAccording to the FCS of Russia, in the current agricultural year 2.07 million tons of grain crops were exported (excluding exports to the EAEU), which is 90% more than over the same period last season (1.09 million tons).\nFrom the beginning of the agricultural season, the wheat export has reached 1.4 million tons, which is 2.7 times higher than over the same period in 2017/2018 agricultural year (520 thousand tons). The export of barley reached 464 thousand tons, which 1.7 times exceeds the same period of 2017/2018 in the agricultural year (274 thousand tons).\nSome 168,000 tons of corn were exported, which is 43% less than over the same period last season (297 thousand tons). Other crops, exported in the volume of 13 thousand tons, make 70% surplus, if compared with the same period last season (7.1 thousand tons).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 190.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mediadrumimages.com/index.php?module=media&pId=102&id=2420", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:20Z", "digest": "sha1:SGXPS7FDFAGZP5WTOMLUSSNZWQEDDMBG", "length": 862, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mediadrumimages.com", "title": "Media Drum World Photo Agency", "raw_content": "Motorbike Granny Stephanie Jeavons on the Salt flats near Urmia, Iran. MEET the female biker who has become the first Brit to ride the Antarctic and could be the world\u2019s most well-travelled GRANDMA. One year since beginning her journey, this intrepid lady has clocked up 30,000-miles as part of her-quest to become the first Brit to travel all seven continents of the planet, all on a budget of just \u00a315 per day. After braving three strikes by icebergs, former motorbike school owner Stephanie Jeavons (40) from Colwyn Bay, Wales became the first Briton to ever reach Antarctica with a motorcycle on Valentine\u2019s Day this year. Now travelling through the deserts of Chile in South America, once she reaches her current destination, Alaska, she will be the first person to ever to ride from Antarctica to this most northern state of the USA.\nMedia Ref # SH-LW5KDYP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mediahouse.com.pk/teachers-forum/question/data-at-risk-how-to-protect-your-sources-and-your-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YTOBVM4GMN2P2DMH7GMJHQYGIKTMMP6G", "length": 258, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mediahouse.com.pk", "title": "Data at Risk: How to protect your sources and your work \u2013 Media House", "raw_content": "Data at Risk: How to protect your sources and your work\nData at Risk: How to protect your sources and your work available at https://gijn.org/2015/07/16/data-at-risk-how-to-protect-your-sources-your-work-and-yourself/\nIrum khan changed status January 9, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 5055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://medibiztv.com/health-updates/city-life-stress-may-cause-diabetes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:01Z", "digest": "sha1:DCAY43HXKEMLTCKXQEDEX3OGFZLOMI5N", "length": 1625, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "medibiztv.com", "title": "City life stress may make people prone to diabetes | Health News", "raw_content": "Home > Health Updates > Current News > City life stress may make people more prone to diabetes\nA new study has recently revealed that the increased stress may make people, who relocate from rural areas to cities, more prone to diabetes in developing nations. One factor that could raise a person\u2019s risk of developing diabetes and other metabolic problems is chronic exposure to the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol can counteract insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar, and slow the body\u2019s production of it.\nIn the research among the urban residents, 28 percent of the people had diabetes or other glucose metabolism disorders. The rate was less than half that for rural residents. The urban dwellers also had significantly higher cortisol levels than their rural counterparts. While the city residents reported that they exercised less and ate more fast food and desserts than the rural residents, lifestyle changes aren\u2019t the only factor at work. The difference in cortisol levels indicates that the hormone was a key part of the equation.\nPeter Herbert Kann, PhD, said that this was the first prospective study to systematically show the body\u2019s regulation of the hormone cortisol plays a part in the metabolic changes brought on by the shift to an urban lifestyle. The study is published in the Endocrine Society\u2019s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism\nCompared to children without diabetes, the brains of those with the disease had slower overall and regional growth of gray and white matter. These differences were associated with higher and more variable blood sugar levels, according to the study.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://medicallightassociation.com/?q=node/16", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:10Z", "digest": "sha1:X3IRX4OBIHAHOMSXHJUGPA5IZYUIDG6W", "length": 237, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "medicallightassociation.com", "title": "Natural Sunlight - Comments | Medical Light Association", "raw_content": "Natural Sunlight - Comments\nExposure to natural sunlight is shown to reduce a person risk for incidence of cancer, including melanoma. With the exception of basil cell carcinoma, which is successfully treated in over 90 percent of cases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mejc.sums.ac.ir/index.php/mejc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:04Z", "digest": "sha1:QJ6O7INXZLHRV7LV53XPQTPNOSHIOZGO", "length": 964, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mejc.sums.ac.ir", "title": "Middle East Journal of Cancer", "raw_content": "Middle East Journal of Cancer\nMiddle East Journal of Cancer (MEJC) is an international peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish high-quality basic science and clinical research in the field of cancer. This journal will also reflect the current status of research as well as diagnostic and treatment practices in the field of cancer in the Middle East, where cancer is becoming a growing health problem. Lastly, MEJC would like to become a model for regional journals with an international outlook. Accordingly, manuscripts from authors anywhere in the world will be considered for publication. MEJC is freely available for readers and researchers and we have no publication or processing fee.\nMEJC is now indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), a new edition of Web of Science\u2122. All articles starting from 2015, will be included in this index.\nWest Asia Cancer Conference: Tehran, Iran\nVol 10, No 1 (2019): January", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 183.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://members4aid2asia.com/opinion-colonial-era/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UMX63NWS4SIXDHBMXZTINZ3FO6KZC5KR", "length": 4948, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "members4aid2asia.com", "title": "members4aid2asia - Colonial-era laws threaten rights", "raw_content": "Original Post By: Myanmar Now | Matthew Bugher\nThe selective application of these laws has created a new class of political prisoners in Myanmar, currently numbering more than 100. More than 400 more await trial.\nOn March 10, police detained a man in Yangon protesting against the government\u2019s crackdown on student protestors in another part of the country on the same day. (Photo: Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)\n\u201cMatthew Bugher is a human rights researcher and consultant with Fortify Rights. Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Myanmar Now.\u201d\nWhile election campaigns get underway in Myanmar, government authorities are waging their own campaign to round up and silence activists and political opponents. The law is on their side. Myanmar\u2019s legal code provides the necessary tools to harass, arrest, and imprison those who threaten the status quo.\nMyanmar has a long history of undemocratic governance. Burmese kings, British colonial authorities, military dictators, and the leaders of the current quasi-civilian government have trampled on political rights and freedoms and left their stamp on the country\u2019s laws and judicial processes.\nIn March 2015, my colleagues and I at Fortify Rights published a 47-page report on human rights abuses stemming from the Ward or Village Tract Administration Law of 2012, which requires all residents in Myanmar to inform local government officials when visitors spend the night in their homes. The law also empowers authorities to enforce guest registration through warrantless household inspections. These inspections, notorious among communities across the country, are often carried out by local government administrators, police officers, and others after midnight, when residents are assumed to be asleep in their homes.\nOur report, Midnight Intrusions, describes how the guest registration requirement and its enforcement through household inspections violate the rights to privacy and freedom of movement, residency, and association. It describes how past military regimes and the current government have used the guest registration requirement to intimidate and arrest activists and obstruct civil society activities. Hundreds of former political prisoners in Myanmar were arrested during midnight inspections ostensibly conducted to search for unregistered guests. My colleagues and I documented how government authorities have used this law to roundup and detain activists in advance of planned protests or events.\nWhile the Ward or Village Tract Administration Law was enacted by the current government, it recodifies two colonial-era laws that contained a similar requirement to register household guests.\nThis is not the only problematic law deriving from the colonial era. Human rights defenders in Myanmar have told me about the use of antiquated and overly-broad loitering prohibitions\u2014contained in various \u201cPolice Acts\u201d promulgated during British rule\u2014to arrest and detain activists during periods of pro-democracy activism. Over the years, Myanmar\u2019s courts have convicted hundreds of political prisoners under various provisions of the Myanmar Penal Code, first drafted in 1860. Activists, journalists, and others have been charged under the 1908 Unlawful Association Act, the 1923 Official Secrets Act, and the 1950 Emergency Provisions Act, which grant the state excessively broad powers to protect vaguely-defined national security interests.\nSome new laws are no better. The 2011 Peaceful Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law\u2014amended in 2014\u2014provides prison sentences for those who fail to obtain the \u201cconsent\u201d of local authorities before holding a protest. Consent, if given at all, is often accompanied by restrictions on the location, timing, and type of protest activities, which are often incompatible with international law and standards relating to the rights to freedom of assembly and expression.\nDespite Myanmar\u2019s much-lauded reforms, the recent trend has been towards more vigorous enforcement of these laws against human rights defenders, journalists, and political opponents. During the past two years, authorities have used the Penal Code and the Peacefully Assembly and Peaceful Procession Law to prosecute student protesters and others who have defied government restrictions on their right to peaceful assembly. Land rights and interfaith activists have been charged under the Unlawful Association Act, and journalists have been charged under the Official Secrets Act. Late-night warrantless inspections and arrests have been used to harassstudent leaders and other activists.\nUnfortunately, it is too late to repeal or reform these laws before the November elections. Nevertheless, the government can bolster the legitimacy of the polls by halting the use of these laws to target activists and political opponents in the coming months.\nThe reform of these dangerous and undemocratic laws should be a top priority for the new government.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 8162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://memosphere.org/Human_paleontology/_sites_expanded.php?primy_key=91919192", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:39Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZTUBNAQ7DX2RJEE33HR7U3LFQDGH222", "length": 329, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "memosphere.org", "title": "Human fossil record interface page Paleoanthropology site information", "raw_content": "Key references: Tobias PV (1971) Human skeletal remains from the Cave of Hearths, Makapansgat, northern Transvaal. American journal of physical anthropology 34(3): 335-367. Tobias PV (1971) Human skeletal remains from the Cave of Hearths, Makapansgat, northern Transvaal. American journal of physical anthropology 34(3): 335-367.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 236.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://merhaba-usmilitary.com/1STOWERSindex.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:26Z", "digest": "sha1:7BPII6WY7V3G573PSIBB7JRCY4WJCPFY", "length": 4467, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "merhaba-usmilitary.com", "title": "SEARCH:", "raw_content": "LTAG \u0130ncirlik 1959-1961\nI was stationed at Stead AFB, Reno, NV. prior to be sent to \u0130ncirlik and was assigned to a Helicopter Training Squadron, a small outfit and good duty. My notice of impending transfer to \u0130ncirlik came in late 1959 and I asked around, but nobody had ever heard of the place. I finally found it on the map and wondered what I was getting into.\nThe journey to Turkey began when I was sent to McGuire AFB, NJ to be shipped out. I should remind you, up front, that the only airplane I had ever seen - much less flown in - was a Piper Cub! So when I saw that C-121 sitting on the ramp I didn\"t know what to think.\nWe took off for Lajes Field on Terceira Island in the Azores, and I spent the whole flight looking out the window thinking \"thats a long way to swim.\" (Note: in 1970 I had been stationed in Korat, Thailand and we flew Ec-121R Connies, albeit highly modified. Go BATCATS!)\nAfter Lajes we flew on to Rhein Main, Germany, then to Orly Field, in France and finally, to Istanbul, a beautiful city, but I didn't get to see it as I was quickly put on a THY F-27 for the flight to Adana in southeastern Turkey. (all THY pilots apparently thought they were fighter pilots...an interesting flight.) Once we landed and taxied to the terminal, I got off the airplane and the first thing I noticed was the smell. It wasn't a bad smell, but one I'll always remember. Thats when the line from the Wizard of Oz came to me, \"we are not in Kansas anymore.\" Since I didn't speak Turkish, it took me a while to get to the base! Over time I did learn to speak Turkish very well, but, of course, after 50 some years now, I've now forgotten it.)\nUpon signing in at the base, I was assigned quarters (a tent) my odyssey with \u0130ncirlik and Turkey began.\nI was stationed at LTAG \u0130ncirlik (Further Info) from the latter part of 1959 to the middle part of 1961. What a tour!\nWhen I first arrived on what everyone called Fly-and-Die airlines(THY) my senses were overwhelmed. Talk about a culture shock. I had read that there were places like Turkey in the world but to actually witness it first hand was an eye opener.\nI arrived on base and was assigned to a tent. Later on I was moved to a quonset hut near the Base Exchange, and still later I was assigned a new barracks across from the chow hall. Speaking of which, the food there was pretty good, all except the milk, it had to be really cold to drink it.\nI worked in Base Ops and really enjoyed it. Everyone went out of their way to help get me settled in. There were times when no aircraft were due, so I would tell the tower I was going to \"check the runway\" and would just drive around the field. At other times I worked my butt off; and sometimes I would go to TA, Transient Alert - the guys who go out on the runway in the \"follow me\" trucks to meet an aircraft and guide them to the parking pads. TAs arrange for refueling and any maintenance required, operating 24 hours a day - or I'd visit the tower and have any Ops calls transfered to their office while I was there. (no dial phones).\nI have never known why, but I was picked to be on an Offensive Strategic Attack/Alert Team (OSAT). We were issued 30-calibre carbines and 30 rounds of ammunition. We kept these in the barracks (I had shot expert level with the same weapons in Basic). We were never really told what we were going to be doing. About once a month they would call an alert and we'd scurry to load up our weapons. We would then be taken to the foxholes which were spaced around the runways. Rumor had it we would prevent sabotage in case of hostilities, or, another rumor went there was an F-100 - rumored to have nukes onboard - on the end of the runway on an alert pad, and should an enemy attack we'd be on hand to create diversion, buying time to get the F-100 up and off the runway. We were lucky it never came to that. I don't think we could have held! Fortunately, none of those involved were shot during these rehearsal fiascos. I would be remiss if I didn't say something about off-duty time: There was an Airmans Club, a bowling alley, theater, barbershop, library, and snack bar. I went to all of them. I will say this: with the amount of booze consumed, strangely, there were never any fights! The guys were pretty laid back, and, like them, I did my share to keep the breweries open.\nI really enjoyed finding the Merhaba-USMilitary.com web site and will keep checking it! 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They are responsible for the functions of the bladder and bowel control as well as sexual functioning. As part of a multidisciplinary medical approach, physical therapy and proper treatment can minimize or correct these symptoms.\nThe physical therapists at Methodist Physicians Clinic Women\u2019s Center are specially trained to treat women with pelvic pain. They will work closely with your OB-GYN or primary care physician to evaluate the musculoskeletal causes of pain and dysfunction. Your physical therapist will help to manage the physical effects associated with pelvic pain, sexual dysfunction, incontinence, urinary urgency and frequency, pregnancy or postpartum and bowel dysfunction.\nThrough private and confidential, one-on-one therapy, our physical therapists can help relieve pain and restore normal function within the pelvis, hips and back which can improve conditions such as incontinence, urgency, frequency, organ prolapse, bowel and bladder retentions and pain with intercourse.\nYour physical therapist may provide neuromuscular re-education, a stretching and exercise program, and relaxation and pain relieving techniques. Additionally, electrical stimulation, balance, posture and flexibility training and surface EMG biofeedback may also be prescribed. Implementing a collaborative, team approach to care, the goal is to assist the patient in developing enhanced strength, better control, reduced pain and increased function.\nAfter careful evaluation and throughout the treatment process, the physical therapist will continue to work alongside your physician to provide the most complete and individualized treatment plan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://metrocosm.com/category/cartography/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:24Z", "digest": "sha1:44DMEKZJEUDAMNTZFJEJS3GNA62TH5M6", "length": 274, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "metrocosm.com", "title": "Cartography Archives - Metrocosm", "raw_content": "Cartography Archive\nA few weeks ago, I wrote about some of the world\u2019s most peculiar territorial disputes. And among them I listed Arunachal Pradesh, a territory claimed by both China and India. What makes this dispute \u201cpeculiar\u201d is not the dispute itself, but rather how...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mezashite.net/hello-kiniro-mosaic-05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:45Z", "digest": "sha1:3OUFS25HM7HQYLIMBEJTNLPU5RABUWZA", "length": 68, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mezashite.net", "title": "Hello!! 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His bright, captivating paintings, in a style that nods to the ubiquitous street cartooning seen across much of Africa and parts of Latin America, amount to visual satire. Through cheeky series like I Love Nairobi, in which he addresses the sex trade, and China Loves Africa, in which he takes China to task for its neocolonial relationship with Africa, Soi critiques both local and global aspects of society that many people would prefer to sweep under the rug. 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We decided on dates and once booked we were fortunate to discover that on the Wednesday a Brewers\u2019 Dinner was on the events calendar. This seemed like an opportunity not to be missed and when we knew we had tickets I thought I might as well ask if there might be a chance to have a chat with Greg Koch, the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Stone Brewing. And after a couple of emails back and forth with Colin Lenz, their PR guy, it was set up for late afternoon. I got a bit panicked because we were running a bit late but needn\u2019t have worried because they seemed very chilled and laid back. Colin met us outside and we were pretty knocked out upon entering the reception area where we could see a bar, merchandise, a fridge full of beer and a small glass enclosed room. Then we entered the main hall and were fleetingly blown away by the sheer scale of the place before being ushered into the new library bar where Greg was waiting for us.\nI began by asking him when he first got the idea for a European base and was surprised when he said it was as far back as 2009. So they spent a while looking at different sites including the UK and Greg said they had put very good proposals together but just couldn\u2019t find any traction until they found the site south of Berlin\u2019s city centre. Built in 1901 it had been a gasworks facility and due to its size it provided a space for the brewery, plus restaurant and gardens to enjoy great food and great beer in a beautiful setting. When he saw it he could see its potential, and after a few visits to the city of Berlin he fell in love with its history, architecture and vibrant cultural life.We then went back to the beginning, Before Stone, when he was living on the West coast and working in the music industry and although into beer the choice was fairly limited. Then before I could ask him, he mentioned his epiphany beer was drinking an Anchor Steam Ale whilst in LA in 1987. This had two effects, the first being that he became a beer geek and went in search of more flavourful beers and sought out beer festivals. But he also had a sense of disappointment and frustration and felt that by brewing bland corporate beers the big brewers had somehow avoided giving the public a choice. This was a theme he returned to a couple of times in our conversation. But back to the early 90\u2019s and Greg met fellow beer enthusiast Steve Wagner who was also a homebrewer, and so they began brewing together. The first beer they brewed was a very hoppy Altbier, and I\u2019m going to go out on a limb here and guess there weren\u2019t a lot of examples of this style around, it being an amber ale of German origin. So even at this early stage the guys were setting out their stall so to speak. There followed a further 3 \u2013 4 years when they went down the rabbit hole of beer geekdom, getting increasingly angry about the aforementioned lack of choice and the fact that there were only a few bars in major cities with anything approaching a decent selection of beers. So by 1995 they came to the conclusion that they needed to open their own brewery, and after searching for a few months settled on San Diego in February the following year with the first beer being released in July. They came upon the name Stone purely by tossing ideas out and actually coming up with something that neither of them objected to with both liking the fact it had a naturalness about it, and its attributes including the sense of solidity. Originally they thought they wanted to do traditional European styles of beer with Greg being a self professed Europhile, and so the gargoyle symbol came about because it was a motif to ward off evil spirits. In the case of Stone it is there to ward off cheap ingredients, pasteurisation, and chemical additives\u2026\nTheir first beer was a pale ale, but they followed this up with a smoked porter almost in an effort to really show the possibilities that they felt were missing in the beer scene. But the barriers to entry into the beer market were high and included coming into contact with a certain amount of ignorance. He told us a story of one meeting with a group of beer distributors to sample the beers and when he poured the porter, one of them was astonished that it was so dark! And they had opened at a bad time for the burgeoning craft beer industry which had gone from having growth of 25% and then 45% to just 7% in 1996 and down to 2% the following year. This was the year that they released one of their signature beers, Arrogant Bastard, a beer that seems to have been loved and misunderstood in equal measure. Like many people I thought their message does come across as a bit arrogant, but when you are with Greg he doesn\u2019t come across that way at all, and when he explains the reasoning behind the wording on the Arrogant Bastard label (which I\u2019m sure he\u2019s had to do more times than he can remember) it does make sense. You have to try to imagine what it was like 20 years ago when the beer drinking public just had Miller, Bud, Coors etc and so they weren\u2019t aware of whether they might like something different because they didn\u2019t have the choice. So when the label says you probably won\u2019t like it, well for 99% of drinkers at the time it was probably true, ditto not having the taste or sophistication. At first they were just going to produce 100 cases of the beer because there was a sense that in amongst the sense of fun they were also trying to put people off. And yes it takes a dig at the big corporations but at the time this beer was an outlier pointing to a future that was maybe a little bit uncertain.\nBut a bit to their surprise it became a success which lead to many variations and it taking on a life of its own in recent months cf Arrogant Brewing. Moving into the new century Stone, like many American breweries, found themselves able to take a few left turns since they had no recent strong brewing heritage in the land of fizzy yellow lager. It\u2019s a bit of a mixed metaphor but it was like being in a culinary environment with a blank canvas. I mentioned to Greg that one of my favourite beers of theirs was the Stone Cali-Belgique IPA because I loved that meeting between a west coast ipa and Belgian yeast although he did say that it was no longer a big seller in the US. But you only have to look at their Untappd listings to see how adventurous they have been during their 20+ year history. Eventually success meant that they outgrew their original brewery and moved to the current location in Escondido, north of San Diego in late 2005. A year later they opened the Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens to sell their beers, locally sourced organic food, and give themselves event space for festivals. I finished off my conversation by asking how he felt things had developed since that big move and how he felt about social media. He said he found the business to still be extremely competitive and even with their name and success they still had to work hard to get their beers into bars and keep producing high quality product with the best ingredients. Social media is just seen as a communication tool, not a selling one\nOnce Greg had left Colin suggested we had a beer and brought the list in for us to peruse\u2026omg, it was big, 51 taps split into Stone Berlin & San Diego, Arrogant Brewing, and guests. I went for the Pataskala Red IPA (I\u2019m sure Colin said it was named after the town of Greg\u2019s birth) which uses a German speciality malt to give it a red hue and sweet bready base for the combination of Mosaic, Cascade and Amarillo hops to sit on. Deb had Tangerine Express ipa which she described as being lovely and full bodied with the correct amount of orangy goodness. We had a little chat about his background in Germany \u2013 he had also been working in the music industry in Berlin before moving to Stone in October of last year into a job which he is really enjoying. We asked about his epiphany beer and he said it was a Lervig Lucky Jack pale ale that he had 7 years ago in Oslo. He added as well that whilst touring the US West Coast with his girlfriend he was impressed by all the small breweries along the way, specifically Lost Coast Brewery in Eureka where he celebrated his birthday on the 4th of July. He also gave us a little more history of the place telling us the brewery is 100 hectolitres with the first beer being released last June, and the pilot brewery, which was the first to become operational in December 2015, is 10 hectolitres. The restaurant had opened in September and, like the one at Escondido, used ingredients from small local, organic farms for its menu which is inspired by different food cultures. The library bar where we were sitting was a recent addition, having only been opened in the previous month and was full of bric a brac some of which were gifts from other breweries. After a while Colin had to go back to work and so we explored a bit more including the garden space, and I\u2019m going to quote their fact sheet first \u2013 \u201cApproximately 5.000 square meters with corners, nooks and gathering spaces created using natural elements of the space and repurposed building materials. The expansive gardens include boulders, large trees, and plants maintained using 100 percent organic methods.\u201d I\u2019m not sure if this gives an indication that, like the indoor bar and restaurant area, it is not uniform and corporate but has different distinct looks which we thought really added to the ambiance of the place. The brewery feels calm and welcoming, and although quiet when we first arrived it soon filled up with couples, families, and groups of friends coming to sample beers from the 2 Stones breweries and the plethora of guests. Eventually it was time to join our fellow guests for the brewers dinner with Greg, Drew Curtis, collaborator on w00tstout, and Thomas Tyrell, the Director of Brewing.\nSo after a brief meet and mingle period we took our places at a table for 6 with Colin, his girlfriend Michaela, and a German couple Daniel and Meike, the latter being a food and drink blogger in Berlin. If you are visiting, check out http://smamunir.de/ although if you\u2019re like me you may need to use Google translate. With 4 courses of excellent food and 10 beers it was a long, fun night \u2013 here are some of the highlights (unsurprisingly my note taking became more sporadic as the night went on.) We discovered that the Stone Berliner Weisse that came with the first course is Greg\u2019s favourite beer when he visits the brewery, and with the second course we had 2 relatively new beers, Stone Ripper Pale Ale and the previously mentioned Tangerine Express. With the main course of spicy pork chop we had Arrogant Brewing Punishment which used chilis from Greg\u2019s garden originally and is his mother\u2019s favourite beer (which is pretty hardcore). Greg said that great brewing is art and art should have a point of view and by the this course I think we were getting it \u2013 my description of Punishment just said \u201cWow, what a beast, chilli heat and maltiness\u201d. The other third course beer was the Drew Curtis / Wil Wheaton / Greg Koch Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout (2016), the continuation of a collaboration that first began in 2013. Taking its name from Wil Wheaton\u2019s W00tstock show it was inspired by Kentucky Bourbon Pecan Pie dessert, Drew said they thought the pecans gave it a good mouthfeel and helped the different flavours work well together. Finishing up with Bourbon Barrel Aged Arrogant Bastard and a mellow Coffee Milk Stout a rather splendid evening of great food, beer and conversation came to an end.\nIn conclusion we found Berlin to be a great city to visit, so much history and culture for one thing, but this afternoon and evening at Stone was certainly a highlight and it\u2019s highly recommended as a place to visit\u2026cheers to Greg, Colin and the rest of the staff!\n5 thoughts on \u201cStone Berlin and Greg Koch\u201d\nIan 19th June 2017 at 9:31 am\nGreg is one of the most affable people I\u2019ve ever met & his passionate resolution towards there being zero compromise on the quality of the beer & the food at their \u2018Gardens\u2019 is so admirable. Great piece \u2013 I hope more people actually go visit Stone Berlin so they can see first hand the full extent of their ruthless commitment to their vision 21 years on.\nDave Hopkins Post author 19th June 2017 at 10:10 am\nThanks for the kind words, it is an exceptional place and we\u2019re hoping we get chance to visit again sometime.\nColin Lenz 19th June 2017 at 4:11 pm\n@Dave: You are always welcome, it was such a pleasure having you here \ud83d\ude42 Greeting to Debbie too. See you soon! Cheeers* DerColin.\nAndy & Louise 19th June 2017 at 10:30 pm\nVisited the first week the bar was open, only found it by chance but what great potential. Sounds like they have pulled it off. Will have to go back now it is done.\nPingback: A Burtonians Adventures in\u2026Berlin \u2013 aBurtoniansAdventuresInBeer\n\u2190 Burning Soul \u2013 Grape vs Grain\nCans Film Festival at The Electric Cinema \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 15542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mindgrubaudio.com/category/editorial/interviews/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SMDEHXBLMYECC3PMTMZJBVTJA5TKFXDV", "length": 765, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mindgrubaudio.com", "title": "Interviews Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Mind Grub Audio", "raw_content": "Arshaw is the Sheffield born, London based producer who is making a name for himself...\nSri Lankan born Londoner Suren Seneviratne, better known to us as My Panda Shall Fly,...\nWhat did you start out listening to when you younger? 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There were forty seven participants from all around India, which included faculty as well as research scholars. The objective of STTP was to promulgate the basics of research in empirical and experimental studies. In the STTP, Dr. M.L. Mittal delivered lecture on basics of research methodology, Prof. Rakesh Jain on basics of statistics and non-parametric tests, Prof. K.C. Jain shared his knowledge in Hypothesis testing, Prof. Dilip Sharma discussed issues in IPR, Dr. Gunjan Soni conducted a workshop on MINITAB, Dr. Gyan Prakash from IIITM Gwalior took sessions on Regression analysis, Dr. Deepak Verma gave a lecture on Multi-variate analysis and Dr. Amar Patnaik discussed about Taguchi method. Sessions on Design of experiments were taken by Dr. B.K. Rout from BITS-Pilani. The final session was taken by Dr. Rajesh Kumar on dissemination of research. The STTP was successfully coordinated by Dr. M.L. Mittal and Dr. Gunjan Soni.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mobile.lakeplacidnews.com/page/wap.detail/id/528571/Iced-up-and-ready-for-the-summer-season.html?nav=5074", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:M7XG3CAF2FONB6E36OXHQ5PYA2QFDGKC", "length": 3875, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "mobile.lakeplacidnews.com", "title": "Winter Olympic sports - LakePlacidNews.com | News and information on the Lake Placid and Essex County region of New York - Lake Placid News", "raw_content": "Iced up and ready for the summer season\nLAKE PLACID - There's new ice back on the rinks at the Olympic Center, and Lake Placid is ready to begin a new summer skating season on June 21 with world-class performers, exciting competitions and top-notch development programs for both youngsters and young-at-heart adults.\nLake Placid has been a summer figure skating destination since 1932, when a summer program was suggested by elite coach Gus Lussi and other skating professionals to Olympic Center management to use the venue post-Olympics. At the time, it was one of the only summer programs in the country, and despite the increased prevalence of summer skating, Lake Placid continues to be one of the most revered and well-attended summer figure skating camps.\nWith two adult skating opportunities (a week and a weekend with programming dedicated to adult skaters), two long-running figure skating competitions, five Saturday Night Ice Shows and several Freaky Friday fun skating competition shows, along with abundant training ice and a roster of elite coaches, Lake Placid is still considered a skating mecca.\nThe adult skating weekend kicks off the summer program June 21-24, attracting adult (over age 21) skaters from as far away as Australia and the UK, and includes group lessons and ice dedicated to adults. The adult week, Aug. 19-25, provides more time for adult skaters to perfect their skills, and includes an adult skating exhibition at the end of the week.\nThe season begins in earnest June 28 to July 1 with the Lake Placid Summer Figure Skating Championships, which boasts nearly 500 skaters. One of the most prestigious events in ice dancing, the Lake Placid Ice Dance Championships July 24-27, rounds out the summer competition season in Lake Placid, bringing hundreds of ice dancers from beginners to elite world contenders to the Olympic Center. Visitors can watch these competitions live, with very affordable tickets at the door.\nThe Saturday Night Ice Show series in the historic 1932 rink provides another opportunity to observe developmental and elite skaters in action. The shows will feature 2018 Four Continents silver medalists Ashley Cain and Tim LeDuc on July 7; 2018 World silver medalists, national champions and Olympians Madison Hubbell and Zach Donohue on July 14; 2018 U.S. national silver medalist Ross Miner on Aug. 4; international medalist Andrew Torgashev on Aug. 11; and 2011 U.S. national champion Ryan Bradley on Aug. 18. They will skate alongside skaters training in the Lake Placid Summer Skating program, and autograph opportunities are typically available after the show. The shows start at 7:30 p.m., with admission available at the door.\nSummer program skaters also practice their performance skills during Freaky Friday, a contest that allows them to create, often by themselves, unique programs while being judged only on entertainment value. Those who win their individual Freaky Friday then qualify for the Freaky Friday Final at the end of summer, at which point the winner is crowned Freaky Friday champion.\nFreaky Friday takes place in the 1932 rink, July 6, 13 and 20 and Aug. 3, 10 and 17 at 4:30 p.m. Admission is free.\nThe summer camp continues over six weeks and provides registered skaters with abundant ice time and the ability to take lessons from various highly qualified coaches from throughout the U.S., usually during select program weeks, but in some cases throughout the entire summer season. These coaches include Olympic and World choreographer Scott Brown, Olympic and World competitor Karen Courtland Kelly, 2018 Four Continents champions Kaitlin Hawayek and Jean-Luc Baker, World and Olympic Master-rated coach Evelyn Kramer, Olympic silver medalist Paul Wylie and many more.\nFor more information on the Lake Placid Summer Figure Skating program, visit their website at www.lakeplacidskating.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 4077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mochamanual.com/2014/06/20/systemic-racism-is-killing-black-babies-in-america-but-there-is-something-black-women-can-do-about-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:56Z", "digest": "sha1:4NOLRBKH3CDNCST5YWVU5R643JZFNPK5", "length": 3500, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "mochamanual.com", "title": "SYSTEMIC RACISM IS KILLING BLACK BABIES IN AMERICA \u2014 BUT THERE IS SOMETHING BLACK WOMEN CAN DO ABOUT IT : Kimberly Seals Allers' Mocha Manual", "raw_content": "Posted by admin on Friday, June 20, 2014 \u00b7 1 Comment\nBy Shafia M. Monroe\nThe Center for Disease Control (CDC) says the U.S. infant mortality rate is the highest among selected states in the South and Midwest regions. In 2010, 13 states and the District of Columbia had infant mortality rates of 7.00\u20137.99, and two additional states (Mississippi and Alabama) had infant mortality rates of 8.00 or higher.\nAccording to recent studies, systemic racism in America is negatively impacting the health of pregnant black women by creating stress over load on their system which is affecting the health of babies. Black babies are being born too soon and too small, and lack the option of being breastfed, as result of stress.\nEvidence shows that when a pregnant woman, alone or with a partner, employs culturally competent doula services, it can help reduce her stress and reduce premature and low birth weight babies. These are the two main indicators for the higher infant mortality rate in the black community, regardless of educational status. Having a doula can reduce the risk of a caesarean section, medical intervention, aid in shorter labors, increase breastfeeding in the first hour after birth, and create a feeling of satisfaction with the birth experience by both parents (unnatural causes/when the bough breaks.)\nWe can improve the pregnancy and birth experience for families by having more black women trained as doulas to offer services. The ICTC doula training teaches the causes and solutions to reduce black infant mortality, offers a dual certification as a birth and postpartum doula, and teaches the midwifery model of care, entrepreneurial skills, and leadership. The ICTC has been training Full Circle Doulas\u00ae since 2012, with over 1,500 trained and 85% are women of color. The ICTC is the leading doula training organization in the world for health equity, cultural competency and teaching the legacy of the African American midwife as a public health model, to improve birth outcomes and support healthy parenting.\nFounded in 1991, the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC) is a non-profit infant mortality prevention, breastfeeding promotion and doula training organization. Their mission is to increase the number of midwives, doulas, and healers of color, to empower families to reduce infant and maternal mortality.\nA doula is a Greek word and it means woman helper or birth companion. It is a growing profession in the US, but there is a shortage of black doulas. The ICTC is traveling across the nation to close the gap by training more doulas to address the CDC statistics. This year the ICTC will train in IL, MS, AL, MD, VA, NY, WI and NJ.\nTrain as an ICTC Doula and help save babies and build a new career. Healthy babies are everyone\u2019s business.\nContact the International Center for Traditional Childbearing (ICTC) and join their free-e-news for training updates and to learn more at www.ictcmidwives.org or 503-460-9324.\nFollow Shafia M. Monroe on Facebook,\n@shafiamonroe\n@m_shafia\nFollow the International Center for Traditional Childbearing on Facebook,\n@ICTCmidwives\nFiled under Black Breastfeeding 360, Breastfeeding, Featured, Issues & Perspectives \u00b7 Tags: Black America, Black parenting, CDC, Doula, infant mortality, infant mortality rate, Midwives\nOne Response to \u201cSYSTEMIC RACISM IS KILLING BLACK BABIES IN AMERICA \u2014 BUT THERE IS SOMETHING BLACK WOMEN CAN DO ABOUT IT\u201d\nCorrection the ICTC has been training ICTC Full Circle Doulas since 2002.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2009/09/anatomical-machines-of-prince-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DD3VTZO52TPIF5ZYSPPH4KGJKAKJJCKX", "length": 3753, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "morbidanatomy.blogspot.com", "title": "Morbid Anatomy: The \"Anatomical Machines\" of the Prince of Sansevero, 1763-64", "raw_content": "The \"Anatomical Machines\" of the Prince of Sansevero, 1763-64\nI just stumbled upon an article about the enigmatic \"Anatomical Machines\" of the Prince of Sansevero. These artifacts, constructed in 1763-64 by Dr. Giuseppe Salerno of Palermo, still reside in their glass cases in the \"Underground Chamber\" of the Museo Sansevero, and were quite sensational in their time, when popular imagination held that the Prince--in his ardor for rational, materialist science--had commanded that two of his servants be killed and virtuosically embalmed. His goal in this dark deed? To create a sort of anatomical Adam and Eve, who would--from pedestals on high and forevermore--elegantly and accurately illustrate the skeletal structure, viscera, arterial system, and vein systems of the human form. Though not the most beautiful things in the world (see above) it is said their accuracy is astounding, down to the smallest detail. More, from the webpage of the Sansevero Chapel Museum (Museo Sansevero):\nIn the Underground Chamber, housed in two glass cases, are the famous Anatomical Machines, i.e. the skeletons of a man and of a woman in upright position, with the artery and vein systems almost perfectly intact. The Machines were made by the doctor Giuseppe Salerno of Palermo, under the direction of Raimondo di Sangro. The discovery of notaries\u2019 deeds and credit notes makes it possible to date these \u201cworks\u201d to 1763-64. The two anatomical studies are the most enigmatic objects in the Sansevero Chapel...\nThese disquieting objects were kept in a room in the palace of the Prince of Sansevero, called \u201cthe Apartment of the Phoenix\u201d, as a number of travellers and the Short note attest. This source describes the Machines in detail, from the blood vessels of the head to those of the tongue, and adds that at the feet of the women was placed \u201cthe tiny body of a foetus\u201d, alongside which there was even the open placenta, connected to the foetus by umbilical cord. The two anatomical studies were moved to the Chapel, and in this way saved from destruction or loss, long after the death of the Prince. The remains of the foetus were still visible up to a few decades ago, until they were stolen.\nThe Anatomical Machines have fuelled the so-called \u201cblack legend\u201d about the Prince of Sansevero. Also Benedetto Croce recounts that, according to popular belief, Raimondo di Sangro \u201chad two of his servants killed, a man and a women, and had the bodies strangely embalmed so that they showed all the viscera, the arteries and the veins\u201d...\nFrom what I understand, contemporary research suggests that the \"black legend\" incriminating the Prince of Sansevero in erroneous, that these machines are, in fact, composed of artificial material, save for the skeletons that serve as the base; for more on this research, see the article \"The Anatomical Machines of the Prince of Sansevero\" which describes an ongoing project conducted by Lucia Dacome (who presented on this topic at a recent conference I attended) and Renata Peters by clicking here. For more about the \"Machines,\" and to read in full the text from which the above excerpt is drawn, click here. All images from the Nautilus Antiques and Oddities Shop write-up of the museum; click here to find out more.\nLabels: anatomical model, spectacle\nI've had the pleasure to see these two in person while in Naples, but I wonder how they got the images! The guards were curiously over-shoulder the whole time.\nAlso thought I'd point out that the capella also holds the Sanmartino Veiled Christ (http://robertarood.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/deadchri.jpg) which looked eerily like it was breathing when I visited.\nThe capella was very difficult to find, but well well worth the visit. A must if you're ever in Naples.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1437, "original_length": 37148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mostova.com/2018/06/09/taliban-announces-limited-cease-fire.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OU5WUZBINK47T6JYBZ64LZWNP6GUWRFS", "length": 3895, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "mostova.com", "title": "Taliban Announces Limited Cease-Fire - \u041c\u041e\u0421\u0422\u041e\u0412\u0410", "raw_content": "The Taliban announced Saturday it will halt offensive operations against government security forces across Afghanistan during three-day festivities of Eid al Fitr, which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.\nThe cease-fire coincides with the unilateral weeklong halting of anti-Taliban operations by the Afghan government starting Tuesday.\nAn insurgent statement said the Taliban leadership has also ordered his fighters not to hold meetings in civilian areas during the holiday period to enable their countrymen peacefully celebrate the festival. But it vowed to continue attacks on U.S.-led foreign troops in the country.\nThis will be the first time since 2002 that the Islamist insurgency will cease hostilities in Afghanistan, where it controls or contests nearly half of 407 Afghan districts.\nAfghanistan\u2019s ambassador to Pakistan, Omar Zakhilwal swiftly welcomed the insurgent gesture.\nIt is an \u201cencouraging and important step towards prospects for peace. Hope the pleasure of shedding no Afghan blood in Eid becomes so overwhelming that rest of year is also declared as Afghan Eid,\u201d Zakhilwal tweeted.\nThe Taliban in its announcement from its chief Mullah Hibatullah Akhunzada, has also said it will release some prisoners after seeking commitments from them that they will not rejoin Afghan forces.\nAfghan President Ashraf Ghani earlier this week ordered his forces to stop offensive operations against the Taliban to encourage insurgents to come to the table and seek a negotiated end to the 17-year-old conflict.\nPresident Ghani praised the Taliban move in remarks posted on his official Twitter account.\n\u201cWe welcome the three days ceasefire announced by the Taliban starting on the first day of Eid. This comes following the bold decision by the Islamic republic of #Afghanistan to cease the fight for a period of time.\u201d\nRenowned American expert on Afghanistan, Barnet Rubin, urged all parties to seize the moment to help bring an end to decades of Afghan conflict.\n\u201cMay all parties, far and near, involved in this 40-year war over Afghanistan work to transform the truce of Eid into a prelude to peace, so that Eid\u2026 of 2018 is remembered for all time as truly Mubarak [blessed],\u201d Rubin tweeted. He served in the previous U.S. administration and was part of efforts to promote a negotiated end to Afghan war.\nThe move has been widely welcomed and the U.S. has promised to honor Ghani\u2019s peace gesture.\nWashington confirmed Thursday it has asked neighboring Pakistan to help in facilitating an Afghan peace and reconciliation process by persuading the Taliban to engage in talks with Kabul.\nLisa Curtis, a deputy assistant to U.S. President Donald Trump and senior director for South and Central Asia at the National Security Council, explained to a seminar the U.S. is pursuing \u201cmultiple lines of effort\u201d to promote Afghan peace. She said an important component of the effort is to ensure that Pakistan plays \u201ca constructive role\u201d in it.\n\u201cWe have asked for Pakistan\u2019s assistance in facilitating a peace process and we have sought to understand Pakistan\u2019s own core security concerns and ensure that its interests are taken into account in any peace process,\u201d Curtis said.\nInsurgents allegedly have long used sanctuaries on Pakistani soil to plan attacks in Afghanistan.\nThe Pakistan military says its forces have cleared their territory of all terrorism infrastructure and no insurgent safe havens are left in the country.\nPakistani officials however acknowledge families of some Taliban leaders and fighters might still be residing along with nearly 2.7 million Afghan refugees the country hosts and they do not rule out the presence of \u201cresidual\u201d insurgent fighters hiding in the refugee population.\nBut Islamabad says its forces are closely monitoring and making sure any Afghan living on Pakistan soil as a refugee is not participating in the violence in Afghanistan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://motorburn.com/2016/03/bugatti-chiron-vs-bugatti-veyron-heres-how-these-two-monsters-stack-up/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UGC5F6C6I3G2HN7Y32JINIVXRUMAQ53H", "length": 5303, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "motorburn.com", "title": "Motorburn | Bugatti Chiron vs Bugatti Veyron: here\u2019s how these two monsters stack up", "raw_content": "Carmakers / Bugatti /\nThe motoring world was left in a flat spin when the original Bugatti Veyron was unveiled way back in 2005.\nThe French-built mid-engined hypercar shattered expectations, defying physics and refining the term \u201cfast\u201d.\nHere was an otherworldly-looking thing, packing an 8.0-litre W16 engine (with as many as four turbochargers) worth around 736kW and 1250Nm. Top speed was pegged at a mighty 407km/h, with all of that oomph transferred to the pitiful tarmac via a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and permanent all-wheel drive.\nA few years later, Bugatti added the Grand Sport version, which was essentially a roadster with a pair of removable tops. Nice.\nBut the one that received the most attention was the venerable Super Sport variant. For this 30-model run, peak outputs were raised to a startling 880kW and tar-ripping 1500Nm, while a revised aerodynamics package was also adopted. The result? A new electronically limited top speed of 415km/h.\nBut the Volkswagen-backed automaker soon went one step further in its quest for extreme speed, building five Super Sport World Record Edition models, each of which could reach a face-melting 431km/h. Fastest production car in the world? Well, Guinness reckoned so, even if Hennessey and its Venom GT begged to differ.\nThe open-top Vitesse was later added to the range, along with a generous helping of special edition models as the production run wound down. Eventually, at the start of 2015, the final Veyron found its way onto a no-doubt delighted customer\u2019s Middle Eastern driveway.\nSo, despite more than a decade having passed, the evergreen Veyron was still a giant among hypercars, even if the game had moved along a little (with the likes of Porsche, Ferrari, and McLaren having gone the hybrid route). But Bugatti has now replaced the revered Veyron with a vehicle even more outrageous. And the Chiron is that new exercise in excess.\nHere\u2019s how the newcomer stacks up against the most powerful of its predecessors.\nJust like the Veyron, the Chiron is a mid-engined two-seater employing an 8.0-litre W16 quad-turbocharged petrol mill and all-wheel drive (no hybrid frippery here, then). But this behemoth of an engine has benefitted from myriad alterations: it now boasts direct injection, while the turbochargers are both larger and smarter, apparently drastically reducing lag.\nPeak power is a quoted 1103kW, a whopping 223kW (about what a Honda Civic Type R churns out) more than the already ludicrously well-endowed Veyron. Maximum torque, meanwhile, rises to a mammoth 1600Nm, which is on tap from around 2000rpm pretty much all the way through to 6700rpm.\n2. Top speed\nThe angriest delimited Veyron could hit 431km/h (although the official figure was 415km/h). The new Chiron, however, is electronically limited to 420km/h. Disappointed? Don\u2019t be. Bugatti will all but certainly unveil an even faster model (as it did with the Veyron when it created the Super Sport) in the near future, with the promise that the next batch of performance figures will set yet more records (who knows where it\u2019ll end with the limiter removed?). For what it\u2019s worth, the new Chiron\u2019s speedometer reads all the way up to 500km/h.\nAs it stands, the automaker hasn\u2019t provided an official zero to 100km/h time for the newcomer, although it has confirmed that it will be \u201cless than 2.5 seconds\u201d. The Chiron will also apparently hit 200km/h in less than 6.5 seconds, while the 300km/h-mark is obliterated in less than 13.6 seconds (you guessed it\u2026 quicker than the Veyron).\nInterestingly, the Bugatti Chiron is actually somewhat heavier than its predecessor, tipping the scales at around 1995kg. Yes, despite a pretty comprehensive weight-saving programme, the Chiron is forced to lug around some 150kg more lard than the Veyron. That\u2019s like having a sumo wrestler permanently crammed into the passenger seat.\nBut, considering its substantial under-bonnet upgrade, the Chiron\u2019s power-to-weight ratio is clearly the better of the two \u2013 hitchhiking sumo or not. And one must keep in mind that it\u2019s still a luxury vehicle, with its soon-to-be-owners expecting a lofty level of comfort and on-board technology (which doesn\u2019t exactly make cutting weight simple).\n4. Production run\nOver a ten-year production period, Bugatti bolted together a total of 450 Veyron models, made up of approximately 300 coupes and 150 roadsters. The very last one was dubbed the Grand Sport Vitesse La Finale.\nSo, what\u2019s the company\u2019s strategy with the new Chiron? Well, it plans to produce some 500 units, with nearly 170 of those slots having already been secured by what the brand calls \u201cserious purchasers\u201d (each has put down a substantial deposit).\nSaving up for one of the remaining 330 units? Well, here\u2019s some advice: save harder. The new Bugatti Chiron will be priced from about $2.65-million (as opposed to the $1.7-million starting price for the base Veyron at the end of its life in 2015). 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When I first read this book, I was summoned by the wisdom and the prophetic capacity of this writer, by the way he had determined every aspect in the novel so that it all fit into a surprising logic and sense. This way, I felt encouraged to search the details of the author\u0092s life, and how could his personal experiences have influenced in his work.\nMy intention with this work is to offer a complete view of Aldous Huxley\u0092s life. This means analysing his personal life and also the historical background, which influenced a lot of other European writers of that epoch (Brecht, Sartre...).\nI will then analyse his complete work, explaining his most important books and focusing all my attention in \"Brave New World\", trying to bring up the most important and transcendent themes of the book, such as religion, science, feelings and our future.\n\"Brave New World\" is a book in which the author denunciates the problems of society and all the individuals that integrate it. The author pretends to show us how dehumanizing life will be in a not so far future. It is a book which leads as readers to a reflection about science and its consequences in the view that we have of our lives.\nThe Observer and The Times among others praised this book already when it appeared. This is an example of some of these extracts:\nObserver: \"A brilliant tour de force, Brave New World may be read as a grave warning of the pitfalls that await uncontrolled scientific advance.(...) The book is one of the most urgent appeals for a reconciliation of science with religion that our age has known.\"\nThe importance of the book is to be observed in the way it influenced not only the common reader but also other writers, other novels and even other aspects of cultural life, such as cinema.\nAuto \u0096 evaluation:\nI don\u0092t know if I\u0092ll be able to evaluate my own work, so I leave this task for you. 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It was Christmas #1 that year, surpassing all expectations. 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She\u2019s shed her hijab and her family obligations to start a new life, alone. It\u2019s been five years since she first stepped foot in America to save her life. She\u2019s earned enough money to live comfortably, thanks to her artwork. Just when she finally feels like she can start to relax and not jump at shadows, her past returns, hot on her heels. 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Ontario Selects lost to an English side. They were pretty good. I did do a stretching session, too.\nI also saw this\nThursday was a rugby night and I played a full 80 minutes of first team rugby at tight-head prop. At least it kicked off at 7pm, so the whole \"the sun and heat is making this much harder\" part was at least only in a part of the first half.\nFriday was a recovery day. 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Unfortunately, Bruce Allen, team owner Dan Snyder and the Washington team fail to understand that you cannot buy acceptance of continued racism.\nThe NFL, Commissioner Roger Goodell, and the other owners should immediately step forward now that the Washington team is publicly declaring its willingness to abandon Washington in order to retain its racial slur mascot.\u201d\nAllen answered, \u201cNo,\u201d at a press conference in response to a question from a reporter who asked if the team would be willing to change its name in exchange for a land deal to construct a new stadium. The team has been playing in Landover, Maryland, but is seeking a new location site in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.\nWith land for a new stadium at a premium in the District of Columbia, there has been speculation that the team may want to tear down their old home, RFK Stadium, and build a new stadium there. RFK Stadium stands on land leased by the National Park Service, which is under the U.S. Department of the Interior.\nLast year, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said she would not approve a new stadium there as long as the NFL team keeps its current name.\nPresident\u2019s 2016 Budget Includes $1.5 Billion Increase in Ask\nWDSE Public TV\u2019s \u201cNative Report\u201d Visits Red Lake\n\u201cContemporary Native Women Opening Doors to Change\u201d Exhibition Ends This Weekend\nRez Girl Sees the Lights\nby Sunnie R. Clahchischiligi 11 Feb 2018\nI cannot comprehend why some of our people are so obsessed by the name Redskins being used by the team identifying its sports activity. I personally like this name for a famous team as this name keeps us from being so marginal. There are so many critical issues facing our tribes that should be addressed just as strongly as opposition to this particular name. 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Video Trailer Released\nAerosmith Filming New Music Video\nSteven Tyler Stars In Burger King Commercial", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newburghgazette.com/2017/12/01/il-attorney-general-to-investigate-massage-envy-policies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ATQIOA2WMVGPTKRWBIEEEELMGEPRIWBI", "length": 2907, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "newburghgazette.com", "title": "IL attorney general to investigate Massage Envy policies after sex misconduct suits", "raw_content": "A massage chain with stores in IL is now facing legal trouble.\nIt seems the company has a reputation, for this behavior.\nFollowing reports of almost 200 lawsuits filed across the country by women who said they were groped or sexually assaulted by their massage therapists, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has subpoenaed Massage Envy as part of an investigation into whether the company properly handled the allegations.\n\"As I was lying down on the massage table, I felt him press his aroused genitalia into the back of my head\", said Beth Ernst, who's lawsuit against the Streeterville Massage Envy location has been settled.\nAn attorney for LCG Massage, owner of the Tinley Park Massage Envy franchise, denied the allegations of sexual touching, according to court documents.\nAfter an assault in May 2015, a Glen Mills woman called the center in tears to report that Deiter had touched her breasts and put his fingers in her vagina.\nDeiter was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault and six counts of indecent assault and sentenced to 6\u00bd to 13 years in prison.\nThe nationwide Massage Envy groping accusations continue to spark more backlash.\nOfficials at Massage Envy could not immediately be reached for comment on the subpoenas.\nHer lawyer argued the request was an \"invasion of privacy meant to annoy, embarrass and oppress a victim of sexual assault\".\nThe judge sided with the lawyers and the victim had to turn over her Facebook information to Massage Envy.\nMassage therapists have to be licensed and vetted by a state agency.\n\"Plaintiff was negligent and that negligence directly and proximately caused or contributed to the injuries\", attorneys with Bunnell & Woulfe in Fort Lauderdale wrote in court filings.\nRead a statement from Massage Envy's CEO here. Massage Envy says \"such conduct is impermissible and will not be tolerated\", adding it has tried to create \"stringent, rigorous policies\" for hiring and training masseuses. Massage Envy told CBS News their therapists have done 125 million massages over the past 15 years. Still, it said even one incident is too many, CBS News' Meg Oliver reported.\nGetting a new legal team might be a good start.\nGandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the huge public debt in Gujarat when he was Chief Minister. Meanwhile, at another place, Mr.\nThe Yankees probably won't go the route of the University of Tennessee, and let the \"wisdom\" of social media dictate who they hire.\nIf you like Flamin' Hot Cheetos and you're a fan of Mac n' Cheese, you're in for a treat - well, at least U.S. customers are. The Flamin' Hot Mac n' Cheetos bites come as a five-piece, and cost $2.69 (\u00a32).\nWisconsin scored 34.8 points per game this season, and ranked 2nd best in all of College Football allowing 12 points per game. Barrett was sidelined with a knee injury late in that game but is expected to play this week against the Badgers .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 7441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.americanbible.org/article/excitement-builds-for-faith-and-liberty-discovery-center", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KEMWMXTEZ6MV2VL45H3UT4RLNY4UZWB2", "length": 1356, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "news.americanbible.org", "title": "Excitement Builds for Faith and Liberty Discovery Center | Articles | American Bible Society News", "raw_content": "Leaders in Philadelphia cast vision during a press conference in early 2017.\nRecordAmerican Bible Society & Prayer For Faith And Liberty Discovery Center & U.S.\nThis rendering portrays the vibrant exterior of the forthcoming Faith and Liberty Discovery Center in Philadelphia\nFaith and civic leaders expressed excitement for American Bible Society\u2019s forthcoming Faith and Liberty Discovery Center during a press conference on January 11, 2017. \u201cReligious freedom is the cornerstone of this country,\u201d says Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney. \u201cAmerican Bible Society\u2019s project here will crystallize that religious freedom for all the people who visit.\u201d\nSlated to open on Philadelphia\u2019s Independence Mall in 2019, the Faith and Liberty Discovery Center will bring to life the powerful story of the Bible\u2019s influence in America for more than 400,000 guests each year and for millions more through a digital learning experience. Please pray that guests would experience the history-changing message of the Bible through this strategic ministry endeavor.\nMore than 5,000 law enforcement officers received customized Bibles\u2014thanks to the generosity of friends...\nThanks for Praying! God\u2019s Word Inspires Unity\nDr. King\u2019s Bible-inspired legacy breaks down racial divides\nMany Californians are grieving right now. Last Wednesday, a gunman opened fire at the Borderline...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.baothuathienhue.vn/going-to-wrestling-festival-in-thu-le-a53261.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:46Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2KAQ5KUXVWIZDXHWA36OHVMRFDARG5J", "length": 2596, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "news.baothuathienhue.vn", "title": "Going to wrestling festival in Thu Le - Thua Thien Hue Online", "raw_content": "\u00bb Hue wrestling team wins 2 gold medals at the national classic \u2013 freestyle wrestling championships\n\u00bb Hue\u2019s wrestling continues to write dreams\n\u00bb Spectators flocks around for the cockfight festival\n\u00bb Hue city magnetizes 111 thousand arrivals in 6 days\n\u00bb Lang Co Bay lively with traditional boat racing festival\nThis year, nearly 100 male and female wrestlers compete in the wrestling festival, most of whom are high school students in Quang Dien district, with three contents: wrestling performances of two senior wrestlers and two professional female wrestlers; wrestling for junior high school students (under the age of 15); and wrestling for senior high school students and youth.\nAfter the ritual, the wrestling festival started with the performance of two senior wrestlers and two professional female wrestlers in the shouting and cheering of visitors and the locals. After that, wrestlers who are students, Thu Le villagers and free wrestlers joined in their competitions.\nThe wrestling festival of Thu Le village has existed for hundreds of years. In the Nguyen dynasty, the festival was organized to select young and healthy men to defend the country. Nowadays, in addition to maintain and promote the tradition, as well as to wish a new year of good health and peace, this activity is also held to select qualified wrestlers to participate in the provincial championships.\nUnder the rules of national wrestling, wrestlers have to defeat their opponents by \"knocking-out\" them. Wrestlers also win two opponents in the qualifying rounds to enter the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, the wrestlers must defeat an opponent before reaching the final round.\nAs a result, the Organizing Committee awarded the first prize in the under-15 category to Huy, a student of Dang Dung Junior High School; the first prize in the youth category to Phan Luong Tri (from Quang Phuoc), the first prize in the free category to Nguyen Van Quang (from Hue city). Besides, the Organizing Committee also awarded the first, second and third team prizes to the participating units from Sia town, Quang Phuoc village and Quang Ngan village respectively.\nHere are some photos of the wrestling festival in Thu Le village:\nTwo female wrestlers, My Linh and Nhu Quynh\nThe competition of youth wrestlers\nThe wrestlers are surrounded by spectators\nThe festival starts with the performance of two senior wrestlers\nA panoramic view of the wrestling festival\nGifts are given to female wrestlers participating in the performance\nStory and photos: Hoang Loan - Dang Tuyen - Thanh Toan - Trung Phan\nwrestling festivalThu LeTet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.ca.uky.edu/article/battle-against-invasives-takes-active-engagement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:43Z", "digest": "sha1:B6VWVFWY2TPG2DXFJXFHKPYPDWVY5PTI", "length": 6819, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "news.ca.uky.edu", "title": "Battle against invasives takes active engagement | News", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Battle against invasives takes active engagement\nBattle against invasives takes active engagement\nView related video HERE .\nEvery year, invasive plants cause $137 billion in economic losses in the United States.\n\u201cThis is a serious battle, and everyone needs to engage,\u201d said Songlin Fei, forestry assistant professor in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture , referring to the ongoing war against exotic invasive plant and insect species.\nRecently, Fei and fellow university researchers, natural resource managers and landowners gathered in Lexington for a joint meeting of the 2nd Kentucky Invasive Species Conference and the 13th Annual Southeast Exotic Pest Plant Council Conference. The three-day meeting covered research, management, outreach, education and policy topics for the central and eastern regions of the country.\nDue to chemical regulations and environmental acts that have been in place as early as the 1950s, Fei believes most people understand the importance of environmental protections.\n\u201cWhat they do not see is that the biological protections are important to protect our native species and ecosystems that are precious,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople have planted in their minds, because of the environmental protection movement, that green is good. But they don\u2019t realize that not all green is good.\u201d\nTo Fei and the other conference participants, invasive exotic plants such as bush honeysuckle fall into the \u201cnot all green is good\u201d category.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very important (for the average person to learn about invasive species), because it\u2019s pretty much in everybody\u2019s backyards,\u201d said Beverly James, preserve manager at Floracliff Nature Sanctuary in Fayette County and a member of the conference planning committee.\nEveryone\u2019s backyards are, in a sense, \u201cupstream from these natural areas,\u201d she said. With birds, water and wind easily transporting seeds throughout the ecosystem, \u201cwhat people grow in their backyards has a big effect on natural areas.\u201d\nMany of the invasive plants found in Kentucky were brought in years ago as landscape plants. Lonicera maackii, bush honeysuckle, was imported from Asia in the late 19th century for such a use. Unfortunately, when a species is released into a novel habitat, there is often no regulation by natural enemies. The result is increased abundance, vigor and distribution. Homeowners spend money and time trying to eradicate invasives such as wintercreeper, multiflora rose, English ivy and Virginia creeper, to name only a few. Woodland owners fight a continuous battle to rid the understory of honeysuckle, and burning bush can take over open grasslands.\nBush honeysuckle is endangered in its native Japan, but it is a dominant element in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana forests. During the conference, Wright State University\u2019s Deah Lieurance, who is researching herbivore damage to the plant, indicated that despite 81 species of caterpillars who could feed on honeysuckle, the amount of damage to the plants is negligible.\n\u201cIt indicates there is an escape from natural enemies,\u201d she said during her presentation. \u201cThey have so many weapons in their arsenals, I\u2019m concerned that forage from deer and goats would motivate them (the plants) to throw out a lot of new growth.\u201d\nConference participants were able to take one of four opportunities to see the area\u2019s invasive species and the efforts to remove them. Trips included Natural Bridge State Park, where they saw the invasive nature of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an insect that attacks hemlock trees; UK\u2019s Maine Chance Research Farm and Kentucky Horse Park, where they learned about invasive species\u2019 effects on stream quality and saw restoration efforts along Cane Run Creek; UK\u2019s main campus for an invasive removal planning workshop; or Raven Run in southern Fayette County.\nAt Raven Run, conference participants got an up-close look at honeysuckle\u2019s invasive properties. Before it became a nature sanctuary, a portion of Raven Run was a farm. After the land was abandoned as farmland, invasive plants including bush and Japanese honeysuckle and garlic mustard, came into the area.\n\u201cOne of the obvious things that we have seen on this trip is that honeysuckles are out-competing the native, beautiful wildflowers and preventing most of the native tree regenerations,\u201d Fei said. \u201cYou can see a wall of honeysuckle, but you don\u2019t have the native regeneration coming up. So in the long run, you will have a forest of honeysuckle without any diversity left.\u201d\nRemoval and eradication efforts are underway throughout the area, including at Raven Run and Floracliff. At Raven Run, conference participants learned about the tools sanctuary employees use in honeysuckle removal and were able to try them out. But sustained eradication is very challenging.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very expensive to treat and also there\u2019s the labor,\u201d James said. \u201cWe only have three people on staff where I work. That\u2019s one full-time and two part-time people. You can only cover about 10 acres a year. We\u2019re dealing with about 300 acres, and most of it has exotic plants.\u201d\nFei said it would take a community-wide effort to address the problem\u2014homeowners, landowners, nursery owners, researchers and municipal and state governments.\n\u201cA collective effort and collective knowledge will make this happen,\u201d he said.\nBut it\u2019s not simply a matter of convincing nursery owners and landscapers to stop offering the plants or convincing people to dig them up from their landscapes.\n\u201cWe as scientists and researchers need to step up,\u201d Fei said. \u201cIf we tell them (something\u2019s) not good, we need to provide a solution for the industry itself. For instance, bush honeysuckle is bad, but maybe you use alternate-leaf dogwood or spicebush to replace that species.\u201d\nIt\u2019s not just controlling the invasive species already in the state. Woodland owners, homeowners, landscape companies, nurseries and home and garden centers need to be aware of new invasive insects and plants entering Kentucky and control methods and treatment options. The hemlock woolly adelgid was first found in 2006 Harlan County and has since spread west to Natural Bridge State Park in Powell County and the Big South Fork in McCreary County.\nAt Raven Run, the staff, like the rest of Fayette County, may have to contend with the emerald ash borer soon, an invasive insect that attacks and eventually kills ash trees. The emerald ash borer has slowly migrated south from Michigan where it was first found in 2002. It appeared in Kentucky in 2009.\n\u201cTen percent of the street trees in Fayette County are ash, so people are starting to expect a lot of mortality with that tree, and it will potentially cost the city a lot monetarily,\u201d Fei said. \u201cPrevention and treatment are really important if we want to keep this species. 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His blood pressure was later declared normal.\nJODHPUR: Salman Khan, qaidi (prisoner) no. 106, spent a night in Jodhpur Central Jailand had his own guards, officials said on Friday, a day after the superstar was sentenced to five years in prison for killing blackbucks in Rajasthan in 1998, during a film shoot.\nThe 52-year-old actor was served dal-roti for dinner, but according to Press Trust of India, he refused it. He didn\u2019t call for food from outside either.\nOn Friday morning, hours before a court hears his request for bail, Salman Khan would be served regulation khichdi breakfast.\nJail superintendent Vikram Singh, speaking on the celebrity prisoner, said Salman Khan would get no special treatment.\nSalman Khan is in the same jail as Asaram Bapu, the spiritual leader accused of raping a schoolgirl.\n\u201cHe will have a simple wooden bed, a rug and a cooler in his cell. He was given normal jail diet like Dal chapatti and the morning meal will include simple khichdi,\u201d Mr Singh said on Thursday evening.\nLast night, the actor\u2019s bodyguard came with a change of clothes for him.\nSalman Khan has been kept in ward no. 2, next to the cell of self-styled godman Asaram, who has been in prison since 2013, when he was arrested for allegedly raping a 15-year-old schoolgirl at his ashram.\nMr Singh said that the actor had a blood pressure issue when he arrived in jail and the doctor of the prison dispensary checked him. His blood pressure was later declared normal.\nOn the reported threat to Salman Khan by gangster Lawrence Bishnoi \u2013 who is lodged in a different jail \u2013 Mr Singh said the actor may be kept with a few other prisoners from Friday \u201cso that he is not alone considering the threat to him.\u201d\nSalman Khan was sentenced to jail after a judge declared him guilty of shooting and killing two blackbucks \u2013 rare endangered antelopes \u2013 near Jodhpur in October 1998, when he was working on a multi-starrer \u201cHum Saath Saath Hain\u201c.\nHis co-stars Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam Kothari were also said to have joined him in the late night hunt but they were acquitted for lack of evidence.\nSalman Khan\u2019s two sisters, Alvira and Arpita, are still in Jodhpur after they attended the court hearing. 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The next year, Mark obviously figured something out as he returned to win the contest and then perform in New York City at Catch A Rising Star and The Comic Strip - two of Manhattan's premier comedy clubs.\nMark has worked throughout North America and has opened for Jerry Seinfeld, Gilbert Gottfried, and Jimmy \"JJ\" Walker to name just a few.\nMark has also appeared on CBC\u2019s Comics playing the simple-minded brother of comedian Jeremy Hotz. The episode was nominated for a Gemini Award. Mark also starred in the award-winning Kiss of Death, a short film made for an international film competition that won the Best Cinematography Award and brought Niagara talent to the world through film.\nSimon B. Cotter uses a healthy dose of wit, candor and charm to entertain audiences across the globe. His ability to relate intuitively with any audience has made him a favourite at clubs, universities, corporate functions and festivals.\nOver the years, Simon has performed at the world-renown Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal and became the first Canadian to land in the finals of the San Francisco Comedy Festival. He has also appeared on CBC's Comics as well as CTV's Comedy Now. Internationally, Simon has enjoyed success on A&E's Evening at the Improv, The Comedy Store TV Show (UK), LIVE at Jongleurs (UK) and the BBC's The Stand Up Show.\nSimon is a universal comedian who crosses all boundaries. He is regarded as the \"King of the College Circuit,\" setting campus attendance records across the continent, and has headlined in comedy clubs across Canada, USA, UK, Ireland, as well as Jamaica, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, and China.\nSimon B. Cotter's slick delivery, thoughtful observations, and hysterical anecdotes on relationships, family and friendship make him a sure fire hit with any audience.\nDerek Edwards\u2019 award-winning humour has made him one of the hottest properties in Canada. Identifying himself with the ordinary working guy, his comedic gift is making the ordinary extraordinary. A regular at the Just for Laughs Festival, where he was recently hailed as a \u201cvirtuoso at the peak of his performance,\u201d Derek delivers his comedy with polished style and impeccable timing.\nDerek has performed from Las Vegas to St. John\u2019s, and at most cities in between. He is the only Canadian winner of the prestigious Vail International Comedy Competition, is a two-time Gemini nominee and has been nominated five times as Best Stand-Up Comic at the Canadian Comedy Awards.\nHis numerous TV and radio credits include: Just For Laughs, CBC\u2019s Comics, The Debaters, and Laugh Out Loud.\nScott Faulconbridge\nScott Faulconbridge has delighted international audiences with his masterful timing, quirky story telling and quick improvisational wit to establish himself as one of Canada's leading headline acts. His unique stories and songs are inspired by family mishaps that have made him a crowd favourite for three decades. His work has earned him three Canadian Comedy Award nominations for his work as an Improviser and a stand-up Comedian.\nNationally, he has toured theatres coast to coast in the Just For Laughs Tour, The Investors Group National Tour and opened for Howie Mandell at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. His stories, jokes and rants and have been heard on CBC Radio for shows such as The Debaters, LOL, and Day 6. He has written for CBC's Still Standing and has been seen on numerous televised comedy specials including CTV's Comedy Now, CBC's Comics, the Winnipeg Comedy Festival, the Halifax Comedy Festival and over a dozen appearances at the internationally acclaimed Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal.\nHis comedy albums, Warn the Others and Scottland are heard regularly on Sirius XM along with his other recorded performances. Scott has been seen on numerous televised specials including NBC's Last Comic Standing, Friday Night Videos and Showtime's Full Frontal Comedy.\nScott's acting credits include feature films such as The Greatest Game Ever Played with Shia Laboeuf and Abandon with Benjamin Bratt. This year, Scott will appear in Roger Avery's feature film Lucky Day.\n\u201cNobody delivers a line like Scott, stance, timing, material. His life and stand up experience shows.\u201d- Glen Sumi, NOW Magazine\nSince moving from Nottingham, England to Niagara Falls, British comedian David Green has established himself as a rising star in the Canadian entertainment industry. With numerous TV and festival appearances under his belt, the award-winning performer is a sought-after corporate entertainer and has worked for such companies as Bass Pro Shops, Home Depot, Hertz, Pathstone Mental Health, Niagara Ice Dogs and many more.\nHeadlining comedy clubs across Ontario, David has performed with Alonzo Bodden, Sean Cullen, K Trevor Wilson and Cash Cab's Adam Growe. His comedy has been featured on Funny 820, College Humor, Rogers TV, YOUR TV and 610CKTB. His festival credits include the Brantford Comedy Festival, Garden City Comedy Festival and Saugeen Shores Comedy Festival.\nA multi-talented performer, David is the host of the award-winning talk show, Live on Queen with David Green. He has written, starred and directed two short films and multiple music videos. As a writer, David is the recipient of the Culture Capital of Canada Literary Arts Award. He was also the recipient of the 2017 Emerging Artist Award at the 2017 St. Catharines Arts Awards.\nOriginally from Ottawa, Terry began his comedy career with the sketch comedy troupe, The Komic-Kazes, ran a comedy club in Ottawa for three years, toured coast to coast, and made several television appearances.\nTerry performs stand-up comedy all over the world, from the deserts of the Middle East to the Alert Station at the North Pole - he has performed in every situation imaginable.\nHe has shared the stage with Stephen Wright at the Hummingbird Centre, played to a packed house at Massey Hall, and has performed for Canadian, German, Dutch, and American Forces in military hangers at various \"undisclosed\" locations. Wherever he is and whomever he is standing in front of, he can make them laugh. It's no surprise Terry won the title of \u201cBest Comic for Central Canada\u201d at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival.\n\"Enough talent and energy to fill a dozen comedy shows!\" - The Ottawa Citizen\n\u201cTerry's act has the kind of jokes that stay with you for days and have you laughing at the bus stop.\" - NOW Magazine\nCopyright \u00a9 Niagara Falls Comedy Fest. 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Therefore, you really can use them to accomplish just about anything you want. Specifically in education, apps allow everyone from students to teachers to learn and teach all sorts of things. I think that there are a couple of apps that I find extremely beneficial to the average student and teacher/professor. Keynote is a resource and application that I have used not just for note-taking but also for presentations. FA teacher or coach can used keynote to add visual aids to a presentation they may be giving a class or group of athletes. Keynote allows for the sharing of files and has truly helped advance the sharing of educational information in and out of schools for both students and teachers or anyone that seeks knowledge. Another application that I find very useful in education is DropBox. Dropbox allows very easily an individual to transfer files to another Mac or iPad. I have not only shared music, but also files and slides from previous classes with colleagues or other students that I have worked on projects with. This allows for much fast transfer of files and also allows you to transfer larger quantities of information without having to attach the information to an email. 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It is professional guidance of the individual by utilizing their maximum abilities.\nCounseling denotes a professional relationship between a trained counselor and a client. This relationship is usually person-to-person, although it may sometimes involve more than two people. It is designed to help clients to understand and clarify their views of their life space, and to learn to reach their self-determined goals through meaningful, well-informed choices and through resolution of problems of an emotional or interpersonal nature.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 4014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 173.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://njcarlease.com/car-lease-deals/porsche-lease-specials/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:08Z", "digest": "sha1:H2UNPVHXHEEWB55VG3T7A7EFTNNYHLOV", "length": 2828, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "njcarlease.com", "title": "Porsche Lease Specials \u00b7 Monthly Lease Specials (New) \u00b7 NJ Car Lease", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb The Best Resource for Auto Leasing in New Jersey \u00bb Porsche Lease Specials\nThere are few things quite like driving a Porsche. If you are considering Porsche leasing and you live in the NYC or Brooklyn area, you will want to make sure you come to the right leasing company to get the best possible deal. There are quite a few different places that may claim to be able to help you, but as you will quickly find out, they arent all able to offer the same great deals.\nHere at NJ Car Lease we have been in business since 2008, and have many advantages that other leasing companies cant compete with. To start with, we arent tied exclusively to one or two different car companies. This allows us to negotiate great deals directly with the factories, and also helps to keep our overhead as low as possible. These cost savings are passed on to our customers in the form of better lease deals.\nAnother benefit of working with us compared to other leasing companies is that we have more flexibility due to the fact that we are completely independent. For example, we dont have to meet any set quotas for any one make or model. For those who are interested in Porsche leasing, for example, our goal is to get you in the right model for you, not the one that will make our numbers look good. SO, whether you want a Cayenne, Cayman, Macan, Panamera, boxter or a 911, we will find the right one for you and get you behind the wheel quickly.\nWe are also able to work with you regarding your existing vehicles. If you are in another lease, for example, we can usually help to break the lease for you so that you can get in a new Porsche lease more quickly. If you own your existing vehicle, we can take it as a trade in to further improve your deal. We are able to offer you excellent trade in value too, so you can get the best deal on your new vehicle.\nWhy Lease a Porsche\nThere is nothing like driving a new Porsche, so why not give yourself the option to do it on a regular basis. When you lease a Porsche you will be able to enjoy the vehicle for a set number of years (based on your specific desires) and then the lease will expire. You can then get a new Porsche lease (or another type of vehicle if you wish). This means that you will always be able to enjoy a late model Porsche, and never have to worry about expensive repairs or other problems that typically come with full ownership of a vehicle.\nWe have five great locations throughout the area to help serve you best. They are in Manhattan, Westchester, Yonkers, Brooklyn and Paramus, NJ. Find which one is nearest you, and stop in anytime to speak with one of our leasing experts. We will be happy to answer your questions, show you our car leasing specials, or get you behind the wheel of a great Porsche to test drive it today. We look forward to working with you soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nnhs65.com/09-06-16-NNHS-Sugar-Sugar.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:05Z", "digest": "sha1:QR5WMYNTXJKJZDX7BIX46O6S7KCTSOLM", "length": 6570, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "nnhs65.com", "title": "09/06/16 - NNHS Newsletter - Sug", "raw_content": "09/06/16 - NNHS Newsletter - Sugar Sugar\n\u201cAffluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together.\nYou got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours.\nNext month you might not have any flour; well,\nI'll give you some of mine.\u201d\n(23 Sept 1930 - 10 June 2004)\nWe repeat this theme song every year on this day in honor of Sarah Sugah's birthday!\nBONUS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JywK_5bT8z0 - Sugar Sugar - The Archies, 1969\nFrom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar,_Sugar:\n\"Sugar, Sugar\" is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim. It was a four-week 1969 number-one hit single by fictional characters The Archies. Produced by Jeff Barry, the song was originally released on the album Everything's Archie. The album is the product of a group of studio musicians managed by Don Kirshner. Ron Dante's lead vocals were accompanied by those of Toni Wine (who sang the line \"I'm gonna make your life so sweet\"), and Andy Kim. Together they provided the voices of the Archies using multitracking.\nWhen the song was initially released, Kirshner had promotion men play it for radio station execs without telling them the name of the group (due to the somewhat disappointing chart performance of the Archies' previous single, \"Bang-Shang-a-Lang,\" which went to #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts). Only after most of the DJs liked the song were they told that it was performed by a cartoon group. The Archies\u2019 hit wound up as one of the biggest (and most unexpected) #1 hits of the year, one of the biggest bubblegum hits of all time, both in America and in Great Britain, thanks partly to association with the hit CBS-TV Saturday morning cartoon series.\nThe Archies' \"Sugar, Sugar\" was the 1969 number-one single of the year...\nSeptember 06, 1916 - The first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders.\nSeptember 06, 1934 - The U.S. announced that Germany was building U-boats in foreign factories.\nSeptember 06, 1939 - The Battle of Barking Creek\nSeptember 06, 1939 - South Africa declared war on Germany.\nSeptember 06, 1940 - King Carol II of Romania abdicated, leaving his country in control of Prime Minister Ion Antonescu and the Iron Guard. He was succeeded by his son Michael.\nSeptember 06, 1941 - Jews in German-occupied areas were ordered to wear the Star of David with the word \"Jew\" inscribed. The order only applied to Jews over the age of 6.\nSeptember 06, 1944 - The city of Ypres, Belgium was liberated by allied forces.\nSeptember 06, 1944 - Soviet forces captured the city of Tartu, Estonia.\nSeptember 06, 1949 - Allied military authorities relinquished control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.\nSeptember 06, 1944 - The British government relaxed blackout restrictions and suspended compulsory training for the Home Guard.\nSeptember 06, 2002 - A lifelike statue of Adolf Hitler went on public display in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The statue portrays Hitler kneeling in prayer.\nSeptember 06, 1966 - Nurse, educator, and activist Margaret Sanger (b. Margaret Louise Higgins on 14 Sept 1879 in Corning, New York) died in Tucson, Arizona eight days before her 87th birthday.\nSeptember 06, 1966 - The 7th Prime Minister of South Africa and the architect of apartheid, Hendrik Verwoerd (b. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd on 08 Sept 1901 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands), was assassinated in Cape Town, South Africa two days before his 65th birthday.\n\u201cReal unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.\u201d\n(16 Dec 1863 - 26 Sept 1952)\n\u201cWhy go to remote parts of the world? If they\u2019re remote, just turn them on and watch them on your couch.\u201d\nBONUS SUGAR CROCHET PATTERN:\nhttp://www.aspoonfulofsugardesigns.com/2012/05/crocheted-scarf-free-pattern.html - Lisa Cox' Maureen Scarf - \"The free scarf pattern has been named the Maureen Scarf after my sweet Mum who is a fantastic crocheter and lover of yarn.\"\nBONUS SUGAR RECIPES:\nIt's all about the sugar.....\nhttp://www.recipelion.com/Candy-Recipes/Perfect-No-Bake-Peanut-Butter-Balls/ml/1 - Perfect No Bake Peanut Butter Balls - \"I wanted to find the best recipe for peanut butter balls, something sure to please a lot of people. Well I think I found it with these Perfect No Bake Peanut Butter Balls. They're a breeze to make, so few ingredients and taste divine.\"\nhttp://www.recipelion.com/Cookies/6-Minute-Miracle-Cookies/ml/1 - 6 Minute Miracle Cookies - \"What's the miracle behind these 6 Minute Miracle Cookies? The fact that they're made with cake mix and just two other basic ingredients. If you've never tried cake mix recipes for cookies before, give this version a shot. It's a quick and easy way to get a sweet treat prepared for family get-togethers or parties.\"\nhttp://www.recipelion.com/Candy-Recipes/No-Bake-White-Trash-Candy/ml/1 - No Bake White Trash Candy - \"Excuse the name, but this is one of the easiest no bake dessert recipes out there. Perfect any time of year, it has chocolate, peanut butter, and Golden Graham Crackers, combined to make one sweet treat.\"\n\"I have traveled just about all over the world.\"\n\"Wow, you must know geography well?\"\n\"Oh yes, I spent 2 months there!\"\nWritten by Jeff Barry (b. 03 Apr 1938) and Andy Kim (b. 05 Dec 1946 or 1952)\nRecorded by The Archies, 1969\nSugar, ah honey honey\nAnd you've got me wanting you.\nHoney, ah sugar sugar\nYou are my candy girls\nAnd you got me wanting you\nI just can't believe the lovliness of loving you,\n(I just can't believe it's true)\nI just can't believe the one to love this feeling to\nn't believe it's true)\nWhen i kissed you girl I knew how sweet a kiss could be\n(I know how sweet a kiss could be)\nLike the summer sunshine pour you sweetness over me\n(Pour your sweetness over me)\nPour a little sugar on it honey\nPour a little sugar on it Baby\nI'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah\npour a little sugar on it yeah\nAh sugar, ah honey honey\nOh honey honey, sugar sugar..............\n\"Sugar Sugar\" midi courtesy of http://boozers.fortunecity.com/glendower/500/music.htm# - 09/06/06\n\"Sugar Sugar\" lyrics courtesy of http://www.lyricsdownload.com/archies-sugar-sugar-lyrics.html - 09/06/06\nImage of Various C & H Sugars courtesy of http://food.oregonstate.edu/sugar/ - 09/06/06\nSugar Beets Image courtesy of http://www.geo.msu.edu/geo333/sugarbeets.html - 09/06/06\nScissors with Fuchsia Ribbon Line (to open the bag of sugar, Silly!) clip art courtesy of http://www.wtv-zone.com/nevr2l82/bars9.html - 09/17/05\nJeffrey Holman's Image \"A Drop in the Bucket\" courtesy of https://tearsfromalonelygod.wordpress.com/2009/10/08/a-drop-in-the-bucket/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 10174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 200.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://normajacksonartist.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EW4I6QY7CURQPOSZPLMRCMANB6V2VZ4N", "length": 3556, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "normajacksonartist.com", "title": "About Norma Jackson Fine Art", "raw_content": "Norma is an award winning West Coast artist. Jackson\u2019s diverse portfolio has garnered international acclaim and has appeared in exhibits in Canada and the US. Cross medium exploration has become the voice through which Norma Speaks. From professional marionette theatre direction, therapeutic arts, and hospice work to fine arts, Jackson strives to combine them all in a creative expression that moves the viewer. As a regularly commissioned artist, Jackson produces a wide range of images from portraits to modern abstract utilizing water, acrylic and mixed media.\nNorma's Background in the Arts\nNorma's interest in drawing and painting began in her early Victoria, BC years when spending long summer hours at the family's cottage on an island in Shawnigan Lake. She began drawing and painting what she saw at the lake with anything she could find available. Life circumstances changed and Norma's love of art was put aside for many years.\nShe became an experienced para-legal, later an administrator of several societies, including the Development Officer for the Nanaimo Festival Society in its inaugural year. This position was the bridge to the world of the \"arts\".\nNorma's life then went in a totally different direction. She calls it her, \"Training Years\". She began a period of exploration. She spent over 15 years, doing extensive research and study in the fields of the World's religions, philosophies, various yogas, psychology, and natural health practices from a wide range of cultures. Norma spent 4 of those years training in Mind/Body medicine becoming a certified practitioner and Instructor. She had a successful practice over 17 yrs. specializing in the underlying emotional, mental and spiritual causes of stress related illnesses. She taught classes at Vancouver Island University and Community Centres.\nAt the same time, as a service to the community, she devoted many years co-pioneering and managing a professional marionette theatre company that became nationally known. The company was set up as a non-profit society to serve the community. Performances ranged from hospital beds and senior care wards to children s groups and large stage theatre productions. The latter work broadened her understanding of the therapeutic potential of the marionettes to educate, uplift and communicate on an individual or collective level to promote healing.\nShe is known as a Master puppeteer, skilled as a performer, director and producer. As the Company's artist, Norma further developed her artistic skills in acrylics, sculpting, set design and prop building.\nAs the performance side of the Marionette Theatre came to an end, her \"Training Years\" were over. She started developing and using the \"art of marionettry\" with the \"art of healing\" in therapeutic art, drama & puppetry programs. She has worked with children and adults including the terminally ill.\nNorma worked with over 40 teens when contracted to develop and implement a youth suicide intervention program she has named, \"Staying Alive\", which was later defined by Health Canada Official as one of the \"best practices\" in North America. An article on her \"Staying Alive\" program appeared in \"Puppeteers of America\" magazine.\nOver the years, Norma has appeared several times on BCTV, has appeared nationally on CBC's Wayne Rostad's, \"On the Road Again\", and has been interviewed by CBC's Sheryl MacKay on North by Northwest.\nNorma now works in her studio developing and creating original fine art pieces and works will contract to train others to use her developmental programs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ocvts.org/htm/current/2014/mates-student-selected-to-explore-the-ocean-8-25-14.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:10Z", "digest": "sha1:OIWFILER7FMIIFRIZIMJAGVZQTODOQLS", "length": 3684, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ocvts.org", "title": "OCVTS.org | News Stories 2014", "raw_content": "MATES Senior Dawn Parry, one of eight high school seniors in the U.S. chosen to be in the Honors Research Program of Ocean Exploration Trust, with Dr. Robert Ballard at the University of Rhode Island, in July 2014. Dawn and the other seniors in the program heard a presentation from Ballard and had lunch with him during their three and half week stay at the university preparing for their explorations aboard the Nautilus research vessel at sea.\nOCEAN COUNTY, NJ- Dawn Parry, an incoming senior at the Ocean County Vocational Technical School's Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES), was one of eight high school seniors from across the US selected to participate in the prestigious Nautilus Exploration Program. The Nautilus Progam was founded by Dr. Robert Ballard, the marine scientist who had discovered the Titanic ruins.\nDawn, 17, a lifelong Point Pleasant Borough resident, was chosen as a participant in this Honors Research Program to work with marine scientists from the Ocean Exploration Trust. The Honors Research Program brought eight rising high school seniors from across the U.S. to the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography for a three and a half week academic summer program followed by one week aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus, a 64-meter research vessel, based in the Caribbean Sea.\nDawn's time aboard the Nautilus, from August 23 through August 29 involved the exploration of the Mesoamerican Reef off the Belizean coast and the Windward Passage off the Jamaican and Haitian coasts.\nDawn, while aboard the Nautilus on Aug. 25, talked about how honored she was to be selected for the highly competitive opportunity to learn and explore with marine scientists. \"The best thing about this program is being on watch with scientists in the control room on board the Nautilus,\" Dawn said. \"This program is great because I'm learning about oceanography and gaining experience and knowledge I can use throughout my college life and in my career.\"\n\"One of the major goals of our Nautilus Exploration Program is to inspire the next generation of explorers,\" said Expedition Leader and OET Executive Vice President, Dr. Katherine Croff Bell. \"So we're very excited to provide educators and students with the direct experience of pure exploration, while allowing them the opportunity to share their experience far and wide with their peers.\"\nThe Nautilus Exploration Program was founded in 2008 by Dr. Robert Ballard. The international exploration program centers on scientific exploration of the seafloor launched from aboard the Exploration Vessel Nautilus and additional research vessels. The Program also includes an education component that brings Educators and students on ocean expeditions. The 2014 Nautilus Exploration Program sponsors are the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Bechtel, Sea Research Foundation, Office of Naval Research, the Viola and Panthers Foundations, Alcoa, National Geographic Society, University of Rhode Island, and additional private donors.\nThe Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science (MATES) is administered by the Ocean County Vocational Technical School District. Established in 2001, MATES provides a unique, nurturing, and challenging hands-on learning experience for college bound and career-oriented students.. MATES is designed to give students a rigorous academic curriculum with a concentration in the areas of math, science and technology. Additional focus is given in marine and environmental science. Students participate in fieldwork at a variety of local ecosystems. Students gain vital experience through research studies and internships.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 217.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ohiodominicanpanthers.com/sports/bsb/2017-18/releases/20180415ur4lkb", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4Z6GZWEO5VFN3RWG5N4G7267CUTTSNQC", "length": 3882, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "ohiodominicanpanthers.com", "title": "Road Weary #15 Baseball Picks Up Sunday Split At Indianapolis - Ohio Dominican", "raw_content": "Ohio Dominican (25-7) 0 4 2 2 0 2 1 11 14 2\nIndianapolis (17-13) 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 1\nOhio Dominican (25-8) 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 5 8 1\nIndianapolis (18-13) 0 0 0 4 2 0 X 6 10 2\n2B: Justin Childers; Colin Kaucher; Chris Sackett\n3B: Justin Childers; Max Banke\nHR: Jones, Dylan\n3B: Bernee Sanchez\n2B: A. Vasil\nINDIANAPOLIS \u2013 Playing its fourth and fifth games in less than 55 hours and with 300 miles of travel in between, Ohio Dominican's baseball team finished off a busy weekend by splitting a doubleheader with Indianapolis, winning game one 11-2 and falling 6-5 in game two on Sunday.\nThe Panthers, ranked No. 15 in the country, are now 25-8 on the season. Indy, which was ranked as high as No. 7 earlier this spring and had a week off since its last game, is now 18-13.\nODU just finished a three-game series against Malone in Canton and won two of three games against the Pioneers on Friday and Saturday, and found itself in a 2-0 hole quickly in the first inning of the opener against the Greyhounds after a two-run homer.\nHowever, the Panthers took control from there, starting with a four-run second inning. Seniors Max Banke (Oakwood, Ohio) and Cody Paterniti (Chardon, Ohio) each singled, then sophomore Bernee Sanchez (Grove City, Ohio) and senior Justin Childers (Pickerington, Ohio) were each hit by pitches to force in a run.\nJunior Colin Kaucher (Toledo, Ohio) followed with a two-run single to right field and sophomore Joey Machuga (Canfield, Ohio) hit an RBI single to center to cap the inning and make it 4-2.\nThe Panthers then scored two runs in each of the third, fourth and sixth innings to pull away. Banke tripled in the third and scored on Paterniti's single, and after Paterniti stole second, he came in to score on an RBI basehit by Sanchez to make it 6-2.\nThree extra base hits in the fourth inning bumped the lead to 8-2 as Childers tripled to center and Kaucher and junior Chris Sackett (Loveland, Ohio) each doubled to right center.\nBanke's two-run single in the sixth inning and Kaucher's RBI grounder in the seventh closed out the scoring.\nJunior Garret Sendelbach (Tiffin, Ohio) was the beneficiary of the run support, though he was sharp after the first inning. The southpaw improved to 4-1 and threw 61 of his 91 pitches for strikes in logging his first career complete game. He allowed just one hit after the first inning and struck out five.\nSix Panthers had multi-hit efforts as ODU tallied 14 hits in the contest. Banke finished 3-for-4 with two RBIs and two runs scored, and Kaucher went 2-for-4 with four RBIs and two runs.\nChilders, Machuga, Sackett and Paterniti each had two hits and an RBI as well.\nODU grabbed the lead early in game two, scoring three times with two outs in the second inning. Banke walked, Paterniti singled to left and junior Brad Hull (Gahanna, Ohio) reached on a bunt single to load the bases, and Banke scored on a wild pitch. Sanchez then smacked a two-run triple to right center to make it 3-0.\nIndy came back with four runs in the fourth inning, though two of them were unearned, but ODU struck back in the fifth. Two hits, two Greyhound errors, and three walks resulted in two runs for the Panthers, who took the lead back at 5-4.\nHowever, the Greyhounds scored twice in the bottom of the inning, with the go-ahead run coming in on a passed ball, to go back in front at 6-5.\nThe Panthers had the tying run thrown out at the plate in the sixth inning, then went down in order to suffer the setback.\nKaucher went 2-for-4 to lead the offense in game two as ODU finished with eight hits in the contest.\nSophomore Clay Davies (Massillon, Ohio) made his first collegiate start and allowed two earned runs in 3.0 innings, striking out two. Senior Dustin Cowart (Hoover, Ala.) worked the final 1.2 innings and allowed just one hit.\nODU will travel to West Liberty for a non-conference doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. Wednesday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 11913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://old.urbancincy.com/2008/06/quit-pandering-do-whats-right.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:38Z", "digest": "sha1:6VF6YDG7X73K6J3MYTV7SKAO6QRK2JOG", "length": 2452, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "old.urbancincy.com", "title": "UrbanCincy: Quit pandering, do what's right", "raw_content": "City Council appears poised to not roll back the millage rate for Cincinnatians for the first time since 2000. The current millage rate (4.53) generates roughly $29-million a year for city coffers. The roll back essentially keeps that number flat from year to year.\nLast year's roll back saved the average homeowner $1.39, while it would have collectively generated millions for the City. These millions of extra dollars could be used to help stabilize the City's budget and improve its credit rating. Additionally the City could look into providing more services to its citizens ranging from public safety to neighborhood improvements.\nInterestingly enough there are still four members, on City Council (Monzel-R, Ghiz-R, Berding-D, Cranley-D), who believe it is a better idea (politically I'm sure) to roll back the millage rate and possibly even freeze it where it stands. Interestingly enough John Cranley (one of two Democrats in favor of the roll back) has also made repeated statements about the importance of investing in our neighborhoods and public safety. Chris Monzel is the most outspoken on this topic (only council member not on the Finance Committee) and describes the five others on council as, \"hungry wolves at the public trough.\"\nIt would seem to be a better strategy, for the politicians, to look at what is ultimately in the best interest of its citizens rather than pandering for future votes. The City's finance department, City Manager Milton Dohoney, and five members of council seem to agree. Lets take the $1.39 hit for what is ultimately best for our city.\nFor some reason this issue reminds me a lot of the proposed Gas Tax Holiday - may score up some new votes, but ultimately it is not in the best interest of the public.\nCincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati council leans against traditional tax cut\nCity Hall image (by Greg Hume) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License\niRobert said...\nI completely agree. This is vote buying at its cheapest and tackiest.\n\"It would seem to be a better strategy, for the politicians, to look at what is ultimately in the best interest of its citizens rather than pandering for future votes.\"\nSo true and very well put.\nI like the people who vow to leave the city if their $1 - $2 rollback is de-rolled back.\nYou couldn't put a bid in on a house for that much.\nLotta chest beating....\n^You could barely afford the paperwork required for a bid with $1 - $2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 4917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oldishpsychprog.ucoz.com/news/van_der_graaf_generator_1971_pawn_hearts/2010-04-03-456", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:06Z", "digest": "sha1:RTJQ3ETSLSI5XPZE247WZBB5SKKQCKKA", "length": 497, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "oldishpsychprog.ucoz.com", "title": "Van Der Graaf Generator ~ 1971 ~ Pawn Hearts - Oldish Psych and Prog", "raw_content": "Main \u00bb 2010 \u00bb April \u00bb 3 \u00bb Van Der Graaf Generator ~ 1971 ~ Pawn Hearts\nHugh Banton \u2013 Hammond and Farfisa organs, piano, mellotron, ARP synthesizer, bass pedals, bass guitar, vocals\nGuy Evans \u2013 drums, tympani, percussion, piano\nPeter Hammill \u2013 Lead vocals, acoustic and slide guitar, electric piano, piano\nDavid Jackson \u2013 Alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones, flute, and vocals\nRobert Fripp \u2013 Electric guitar (plays on \"Man-Erg\" [5:55-7:10] and \"Plague...\" [8:10-10:20 and near the end of the song])", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 3660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oldstorehouseinn.com/stantonroom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:TVTOHHBRTSIRNXQ3LNMNZBIMJVDVTFC3", "length": 495, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "oldstorehouseinn.com", "title": "The Stanton Room \u2014 Old Storehouse Inn", "raw_content": "The Stanton Room is the largest room at the Old Storehouse Inn. 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However, many of the Old Trafford faithful still want him out of the club, and that could happen soon.\nOver the January window, AS Roma were reportedly interested in bringing in Fellaini, but no deal was made. Yesterday, the 27-year old fuelled the fire as he was in the stands watching the Serie A side take on Napoli.\nNow, his agent has added to that, by suggesting AS Roma could be an option for the future, if United let him leave.\nD\u2019Onofrio (Fellaini\u2019s agent) said:\u201cI\u2019m not sure why he was in Rome, I haven\u2019t had contacts with Roma but they are a possibility for the future.\u201d\n\u201cI can\u2019t say if Manchester is willing to let him go but these days anything can happen.\u201d He told LaRoma24, sourced by English journalist David Amoyal.\nAt the end of the day, for as long as he\u2019s in Manchester, Fellaini will continue to be much-maligned by the fans through no fault of his own really. 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The differences between the results revealed a curious discrepancy: customers were actually more satisfied with Eka than its own sales people thought they would be.\nLotta B\u00fclow, Marketing Communications Manager, Eka Chemicals\nEka hired Opticom, a Stockholm-based survey firm, to carry out the study. Lotta B\u00fclow, Marketing Communications Manager for the BU\u00b4s pulp and paper business [which makes up 80% of the BU\u00b4s total sales], explains. \u201cOpticom is a very skilled firm that works globally and has people speaking all the major languages. They are also specialists in the pulp and paper industry, so they know our business well. They did about 240 interviews in all \u2013 100 in Europe, 100 in North America, and 40 in South America and Asia-Pacific. Of those, 60 were face-to-face and the rest by phone. All of them were in the local languages.\n\u201cWhat we found was that 90 percent of our existing customers thought of Eka as their first choice \u2013 an exceptionally high number when it comes to customer loyalty. And when we asked our sales people how our customers perceive us in terms of performance, product quality, technical service and so on, the differences were astonishing. For example, 50 percent of our people thought that pricing was a weak point, but only 11 percent of our customers thought price was a factor. There were similar discrepancies on such points as technical service or the level of innovation in our company.\u201d\nIt isn\u00b4t clear why the gap is so wide, but B\u00fclow speculates that restructuring within Eka could have had some effect on self-esteem. She notes that the restructuring has been coupled with some changes in service that sales people might think would negatively impact customer perceptions. She also notes that those people in the organization who have the most customer contact are going to be the ones most often exposed to negative feedback \u2013 whether that is simply the negotiating strategy of the customer to try to win more favorable terms and prices from the sales rep, or genuine dissatisfaction when something goes wrong with an order. After all, when everything happens just the way it is supposed to, it\u00b4s not necessarily the case that the customer will lavish praise on the same sales rep.\nShe notes, revealingly, that the gap between customer perceptions and sales rep expectations was much lower in Asia than in the other regions. \u201cAsia is of course an emerging market so sales are increasing there. 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I'm Patrick Earl and since this is my site, as you might expect, it contains things related to me. It hasn't been updated in a long while, so don't expect anything spectacular.\nI write music in my spare time. Since I don't have a lot of spare time, most of my songs are rather unpolished, but you might have fun listening to them anyways. The volume level is not normalized so the first two songs are too quiet.\nMore Than Me (Recorded July 6, 2008)\nA bit repetitive itself, this is the backing track for a better song called More Than Me created by the Profile band. At the moment I don't have a recording of the full song.\nMonoctopus (Recorded July 6, 2008)\nThis one will sound best if you have a subwoofer or other sufficiently bassy speakers. Originally created for a coffee house a few years ago, the entirety of this song is played live with the assistance of layered sounds and an arpegiator. If it weren't for modern technology, it would take a skilled octopus to duplicate the sound of this song. Aside from the poor timing, there's a major mistake in the song near the end. Can you hear it?\nShamifex\nThis is a short, yet funky, tune with a Shamisen layered on top of various bass and pad tones. (There's a bit of distortion in the recording, but if you don't listen for it, you might not hear it.)\nProgramming PICs for the first time under Linux can be a challenge. If you're like me, maybe this information will help get you on the right track.\nA couple small software projects I made available publicly ages ago.\nLink Transition Party & St. Albert Park\nPortable Christmas Light Holder\nMy Bottle Collection & Pictures of a Sunset\nYAA Retreat 2002\nPictures taken while at Mink Lake in the summer of 1999.\nYaa Retreat in spring 2000.\nPictures from our vacation in summer 2000.\nOn a very cold day this winter, a rabbit visited our yard. I took a few pictures of him and wrote a few of my thoughts here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pctel.ru/pages/index/lang:en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EGJWN7NL5SLKJBNYPPH6R6UB4UE2GIMX", "length": 464, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "pctel.ru", "title": "PCTEL", "raw_content": "It's simple to get started: register to get your Free PCTEL account, download and install X-lite softphone, free product of company CounterPath, plug in your microphone and speakers and you are ready to make calls to anywhere in the world.\nService is accessible from various networks, including protected by the network screen.\nUndoubted benefit - the price of long distance and international calls is significantly lower than with any other type of phone service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://peacekeeper.ru/en/?module=news&action=view&id=31116", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MWTS4EUPTWKRDNCWMQKVJDJ4WBA65SQ2", "length": 2732, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "peacekeeper.ru", "title": "Poland dreams of blaming Russia again / Russian peacekeeper", "raw_content": "Poland dreams of blaming Russia again\nIn 2010, on approaching the Smolensk-Severny airport, the presidential liner Tu-154 crashed, with Polish leader Lech Kaczynski and 95 others on board. All of them were sent to the mourning events in Katyn, but a dense fog caused the plane to fall. All the Tu-154 passengers were killed.\nIt is known that the pilot of the liner contacted the employees of the airport, who did not advise him to land the aircraft in conditions of almost zero visibility, but he took the fatal decision to go into the landing.\nImmediately after the news of the incident, the Polish side blamed Moscow for the crash, without waiting for the results of the investigation. However, Warsaw still denies the version of the accident and refuses to acknowledge the pilot's mistake.\nAfter some time, Russian and Polish experts conducted the necessary work to find out the causes of the Tu-154 crash and agreed that the aircraft flew into a tree, and the left wing was destroyed. This version was confirmed unanimously by both sides. However, now, seven years later, Warsaw is \"pleased\" with new findings, according to which the wing of the plane \"collapsed before collision with the birch\", which indicates its explosion. It is worth noting that no one has conducted additional ballistic and explosive technical expertise.\nSo, many European experts repeatedly raised the question, why blame the Russians? For example, the former head of the government commission for the investigation of aircraft incidents Machey Lasek noted that the version of the explosion aboard the presidential liner has absolutely no grounds and confirmations. Experts-pyrotechnics several times took samples of the wing and carefully examined them in the laboratory. There were no traces of the explosion.\nAt the same time, everyone knows that the Smolensk-North airport was not suitable for receiving civilian flights, being, in fact, a test range. The other plane loaded with the personal cars of Polish officials, who earlier made an attempt to land on it, left for another place where it landed safely.\nNow Warsaw once again declares a \"victory\" in the case of the Tu-154 crash. The head of the Polish nationalist party, \"Right and Justice\", Yaroslav Kaczynski (brother of the deceased president), said that Poland \"won the search for truth\" in the Smolensk disaster, thus completely ignoring the conclusions of international experts.\nWelcome to the SCO\nNow Iran completely corresponds to criteria for membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). It was declared by the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday, April 21.\nAnti-Russia Sanctions Proved Ineffective, Should Be Reviewed\nEstablishing European Defense Schengen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://photogali.com/en/engagement/%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A9-%D7%93%D7%94-%D7%93%D7%A8%D7%A1-%D7%A8%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%95%D7%AA/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:11Z", "digest": "sha1:L2WOKYFRUN56LXOH2ASBP2CK733DUVXC", "length": 2526, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "photogali.com", "title": "Original ideas for Trash the Dress in Israel | Studio PHOTOGALI", "raw_content": "Home Engagement sessions Original ideas for Trash the Dress in Israel\nPost wedding photo session, the so-called \u00abTrash the dress\u00bb, that has long become popular in the United States, Canada and Australia, now coming into fashion in Israel. I find this idea very interesting and amusing. It is commonly thought that a wedding dress is made to be worn only once. But why not use it again in a photo shoot to get stunning photos?\nBasically, the ideas for Trash the Dress you see in the internet are: the bride and groom lying in the dirt, pouring paint on each other, going crazy in the water (sea or river) or set fire to a wedding dress (even while the bride still in it).\nOriginal ideas for Trash the Dress photo session:\nA kiss in the sea\nBoxing lovers\nI am strongly in favor of classic wedding photography, but you may use your imagination and experiment the day after the wedding, not afraid to get dirty while not being rushed by a tight schedule. These photos may even be included into the wedding album.\nNew fresh and original ideas for Trash the Dress:\n1. \u201cThe Day After\u201d \u2013 the bride is busy serving her husband. In a wedding dress she: washes, cleans, cooks and does other house choirs. At that time, the husband is sitting on the couch with a beer, watching football, pointing out areas that need to be cleaned. If you know how to portray emotions, this is for you!\n2. Immediately after the wedding and before the wedding night, in the hot tub with foam, with illuminated or colored water. The groom in a suit, the bride in a wedding dress. You can light candles around and make the shoot by candlelight without additional light sources. It will be even more mysterious.\n3. Photo shoot at the Dead Sea will be relevant in any season. The bride and groom are in the water in different funny poses. This idea can be developed in different ways: from the comical to the very trashy. As a result, in the most beautiful place you\u2019ll get beautiful, artistic and interesting photos.\n4. Bride surrounded by bats. That\u2019s the kind you\u2019ve never seen anywhere and you\u2019ll be able to impress your friends and even yourself. You can get especially interesting pictures if you are truly scared of bats. Strong emotions and \u201ctrash\u201d are guaranteed!\n5. The concept of \u00abTrash the dress \u2013 Trash the bride\u00bb is hardly used. 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Before we knew it, it\u2019s July and we had to rush through taking pictures of the rest of the house right before starting to pack everything into boxes.\n0 Comments on Our Home: Part II", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pinelake.org/leadership/member/1208389/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7BT7VBWVEBF7LMGHTTMJIL3JKX73WOMH", "length": 322, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "pinelake.org", "title": "Leadership | Pinelake Church", "raw_content": "Rod Cadenhead\nRod came to Pinelake in 2004 from the Houston, Texas, area and serves as Executive Pastor of Operations. He oversees all of Pinelake\u2019s business and administrative functions, including accounting, benefits, technology and facilities. Rod and his wife, Pamela, have three children: Hillary, Mallory and Rawley.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://playing-by-ear.blogspot.com/2012/09/pet-peeve.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:05Z", "digest": "sha1:JWUXTY2YCLFEDUDVWFKXZLZNGCA7ALN5", "length": 1225, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "playing-by-ear.blogspot.com", "title": "Playing by Ear: Pet Peeve", "raw_content": "I'm not sure how the law works in Iowa, but in Illinois if you have your windshield wipers on, you're legally required to have your lights on as well. If I was a cop, I would be filling my ticket quota (we all know they have them) on rainy and foggy days. Now, when I say this to someone, the majority of people respond that I'd be a jerk cop for doing this. Like it's better to be a cop that pulls people over for speeding? I personally see the lights issue as a much bigger safety hazard than going a little faster than you should. Now don't get me wrong, excessive speeding is very dangerous. I've heard of people getting tickets for doing 100 in a 55 zone, but (due to where I learned to drive) I don't see 65 in a 55 as being a dangerous thing. Personally I think the speed limits should be set higher and actually enforced, but I'm derailing myself to a different topic.\nI guess my question is, who would you be more irritated with, the cop who pulls you over for doing 5 over the limit, or the cop who pulls you over for not having your lights on in rainy or foggy conditions? You know what my choice would be, but I guess I just don't understand why people don't think driving without your lights on isn't a big deal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://plus-bit.com/the-demonologist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TTNGQSKKG7QBAZEN4QXCFNRNRODTZBAR", "length": 1865, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "plus-bit.com", "title": "The Demonologist 123movies watch online free.", "raw_content": "Movie The Demonologist directed by J.M. Stelly, produced in United States of America and released in 2018. The genres of the film are horror, thriller, duration - 100 minutes, IMDB rating for now is 3.0.\nYou can watch online free and download The Demonologist or watch official trailer.\nActors: Brian Krause, Jared Bankens, Kate Tumanova, Lara Grice, Pat Lally, Rhonda Johnson Dents, Scott Allen Perry, Thomas Francis Murphy\nA quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him\u2026\nAt the beginning of the film, we learn from one of the characters that earthworms can be called to the surface with electricity, but somehow it turns them into vicious\u2026\nThe terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents\u2019 remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is\u2026\nIn 1989, a breakthrough in \u201dadvanced parasitic research\u201d on Cuttyhunk Island gave scientists a jump in human evolution. Initial tests proved promising, as subjects experienced heightened physical and mental strength\u2026\nMelody, Marci, and Mickey are three geeky college girls who can\u2019t get a date. One night, they invite some geeky college guys over and have a seance that results in\u2026\nDracula\u2019s Curse\nA mother must protect her family on Christmas Day from a demented stranger who is hell bent on tearing them apart.\nPaul and Jennifer Hemdale have just moved into their dream house. But their happy marriage is about to be put to the test as they slowly discover the secret behind\u2026\nThis follow-up to the George Romero/Stephen King-launched anthology series features five new tales of horror and a wraparound. The main stories deal with alternative realities (\u201dAlice\u201d), possessed communication devices (\u201dThe\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 5761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://popcorn.hr/ankete/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:04Z", "digest": "sha1:RQX6Z5MVTB6NRIHHIUFX5PEPHWNXH7XX", "length": 128, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "popcorn.hr", "title": "\u2022 popcorn.hr \u2022 Lista anketa", "raw_content": "William Somerset: Ernest Hemingway once wrote, \"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.\" I agree with the second part.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 18899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 186.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://popo.wikidot.com/list:los-angeles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:28Z", "digest": "sha1:IJEXHI4CBF6KZVGZ3CDTPLEBGSCYKDDR", "length": 322, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "popo.wikidot.com", "title": "Los Angeles - Arsehole Register", "raw_content": "Debt is legal in Los Angeles, I'm happy for low level debtors to be arrested here as it clears them from the list and enables us to concentrate on more extreme criminals.\nHowever please consider whether someone should serve a sentence and if so leave them or ask. - TJ 6th Jan '08\nMarcelino Perdiguero, Release: 01/06/2008", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://press.hnmun.org/?p=3697", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ECX4N5WGTGZ2HYQ5X7YJH3OBC7756VUA", "length": 1394, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "press.hnmun.org", "title": "The World Health Organization Forgot the Actual Problem | HNMUN Press Corps", "raw_content": "According to the UNSCN, \u201cPoor diets result more often from poverty than from ignorance, however, the ultimate solution lies in economic and social measures that can ensure a more equitable distribution of resources, including food\u201d.\nHow do we solve malnutrition? Is biofortification only going to heighten the problem? By increasing the nutrient value of a certain food, for example oranges which contain all your vitamin C needs for the week, we may become concerned valued foods and not a diverse amount of nutrients.\nIs this just an emergency solution to the problem, covering up the fact that poverty is at the core of all of this? This is not something that research and science can just fix. They need self-sustainability, irrigation, access to fertilizer, helping indigenous framers grow better and more varied crops to allow for a better local diverse diet.\nThe WHO are backing an untested and unconfirmed vaccine for malnutrition and rolling it out to the masses hoping it will work. This is not the usual approach they take with disease. Israel has been at the for front of R&D in GMOs, however, when speaking to the Israeli delegate at the WHO he stated that \u201cIt hasn\u2019t killed anyone\u2026\u201d Not the kind of reassurance you would like to hear.\nIt seems that the World Health Organization is just trying to make themselves feel better about a problem that they don\u2019t really know how to fix.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pressbox.co.uk/CityNews/Where_Can_You_Find_the_Best_Pet_Supplies__8966.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:04Z", "digest": "sha1:J4HYZ5UBQOYLLUSGALTGBADL3LNHI2VY", "length": 2931, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "pressbox.co.uk", "title": "Where Can You Find the Best Pet Supplies?", "raw_content": "CityNews: Where Can You Find the Best Pet Supplies?\nHome > CityNews > Where Can You Find the Best Pet Supplies?\nWhere Can You Find the Best Pet Supplies?\nPressbox (Press Release) - Despite the fact that your local Pet Supplies store seems to be well stocked, you should know that there are better options on the market. When searching for the best Pet Supplies Sydney, the smartest decision you could make would be to look for an online provider.\nLet\u2019s say that you are used to relying on your local store for the supplies you need. Nevertheless, due to the fact that you have not looked for other solutions, you do not really know if you have to pay higher prices or if you are settling for a limited array of products. That is why it would be best to look for more information online. Surely, you will find a store that is willing to deliver your order to the address you provide.\nThere are some pretty important disadvantages that you have to deal with when you choose to buy the Pet Supplies you need from a local shop. It all begins with the fact that they usually do not have too many similar products in stock. They usually keep just a few brands on display, a cheap, expensive and middle range one. This way, there is an option for everyone. However, if you ask them about vegan dog food, they might look at you funny.\nThat is why you should search for an online store that will offer you access to countless food products for a variety of pets. All of their products should be affordable and of the highest quality. It is so much easier to pick the Pet Supplies Sydney online. You just have to click on the products you are interested in and add them to cart. When you are done browsing around, you can finish placing the order, process which usually does not take longer than a few minutes.\nAnother disadvantage associated with a local pet shop is the fact that they will ask you to pay a higher price for the products that you might find much cheaper online. This is quite a problem, especially when you have a specific budget set for buying what you need for your pets. Wouldn\u2019t it be better if you could buy more for less? Of course, without needing to compromise on the quality of the supplies you get for your pets.\nThe best part about the online world is that as long as you know where to look, you will be able to find a proper store that offers you just the right benefits. You will manage to buy everything on your shopping list without even needing to leave the house. After placing the order, you do not have to do anything other than just wait for the package of supplies to be delivered to your door.\nResource Box: As you can see, the best place to look for https://www.petshopdirect.com.au/ Pet Supplies is online. The good news is that our https://www.petshopdirect.com.au/ Pet Supplies Sydney store is a simple click away. 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Provided by Riot Games\nRiot Games will host the North American League of Legends Championship Series Spring Finals at The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater on April 7-8, league sources told ESPN.\nHuni's career has been bombastic at its best, and chaotic turmoil at its worst. After a stint with Faker and SKT, a new Huni has emerged on the Rift -- and he's translating his '99 percent passion' into results.\nLoL: NA LCS enters three-way tie for first in Week 3\nEcho Fox's unbeaten split is no more following its loss to Counter Logic Gaming to start Week 3 of the North American League of Legends Championship Series on Saturday in Los Angeles.\nThe league is expected to announce the location and venue within the week, sources said. The two-day event will feature two series, the third-place match on April 7th and the first-place game on April 8th. This will be the first time Riot will host its Spring Finals on the East Coast, as well as its first event in the Southeast since the 2015 Mid-Season Invitational.\nThe 2,713-seat venue will feature the second time Riot has hosted an event in a theater, the first being the 2016 League of Legends World Championship quarterfinals at the Chicago Theater in Oct. 2016. The Fillmore has traditionally hosted bands, comedians and other types of shows since it was constructed in 1950.\nPast finals have taken place at New York's Madison Square Garden, the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, the Air Canada Centre in Toronto, Boston's TD Garden and the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia -- arenas that normally host traditional sports events or large-scale concerts. The Fillmore, in comparison, is much smaller than the last five League Championship Series Finals events.\nThe League Championship Series regular season is currently underway. The North American regular season will run through March 18. Playoffs will begin in Riot Games' Los Angeles studio starting March 24, concluding at the Fillmore in Miami on April 7-8.\nRiot did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://psghospitals.com/neurosurgery/dr-k-s-thirumurthy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:50Z", "digest": "sha1:67AS7GGFPZM2GH5KPFZLVEXPRLNDOHLF", "length": 864, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "psghospitals.com", "title": "PSG Hospitals Dr. K.S. Thirumurthy - PSG Hospitals", "raw_content": "Dr. K.S. Thirumurthy Designation : Professor\nAssistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal from December 2006 to January 2009.\nAssociate professor, Department of Neurosurgery, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore from February 2009 to May 2012.\nProfessor, Department of Neurosurgery, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, Coimbatore from May 2013 till date.\nEndoscopic pituitary\nUniversity gold medal in pathology in 1994\nDr. Panchanatham Endowment gold medal in pathology in 1994\nBest outgoing student in M.B.B.S.\nAwarded 2nd prize for paper presentation Thoracic surgery in pediatric population- KSASICON \u2013 Davangare 2002.\nFaculty in NEUROTRAUMA 2017 (26th Annual conference of Neurotrauma society of India)\nIMA \u2013 Life member \u2013 Tirupur branch\nTNSMC \u2013 60257\nNS \u2013 TNS \u2013 66\nNeurotrauma society member", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 5870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicworks.knet.ca/?q=node/5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AMNMLN44H2YW4Y3NORQVZURTC4BJA3P6", "length": 5323, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "publicworks.knet.ca", "title": "Structural flaws doom First Nation | KO Public Works", "raw_content": "Article written by Gerald Flood, Winnipeg Free Press dated May 7, 2006.I met a man at Island Lake this winter who told me he expected to make $400,000 this year, and next year and the year after that. His goal, he said, was to make $2 million over the next five years.\nDoes he make that much? Who knows. But chances are he could because there is money to be made on even the poorest reserves, it just usually isn't. Most reserve residents in the three First Nations at Island Lake, Garden Hill, St. Theresa Point and Waasagomach - subsist on welfare. The $400,000 dollar man came to mind this week when I read that Ron Evans, Grand Chief of the Manitoba Assembly of Chiefs, was \"frustrated to the point of anger\" that the federal budget did not include the $5-billion Kelowna accord promised to First Nations people by Paul Martin last fall. Instead of the first $1 billion this year, the budget contained $450 million, or $710,000 per reserve in Canada. I can understand Evans' frustration; more is often better than less, but that is not what reminded me of the 400,000-dollar man. Evans went on to say that \"We have crime and health and education and infrastructure issues like the rest of the country, but for some reason (Prime Minister Stephen) Harper misses that point.\" Well, perhaps Harper does miss that point. But Evans seems to have missed a point too - which is that the rest of the country doesn't rely solely on Ottawa to deal with the costs of crime and health and education and infrastructure issues. The rest of the country works and pays taxes to three levels of government and to school boards. Which is not to say that First Nations people would not do the same if they had the opportunity; it's just that they don't, which is why no reasonable amount of transfer will ever by enough. And that's what got me thinking about the 400,000-dollar man. The most recent audited information pertaining to the three First Nations at Island Lake shows that last year Ottawa gave the bands just under $68 million, or about $8,500 per capita. Granted, on an individual basis and in the absence of other incomes and in the face of high costs in communities without road links to the outside, that is not a lot of money. But in aggregate it is a lot of money. It's enough that one man can earn $400,000 a year in business in Island Lake, and there are a lot of men in business at Island Lake, just not on reserve land. What struck me when I visited the communities a year ago, and then again this March, is that there is no local economy to speak of. At St. Theresa Point, there is a Northern Store that sells everything from food to outboard motors. There is one restaurant that sells burgers, chicken strips, fried chips and eggs, coffee and pop. There is a \"convenience store\" that sells mostly chips and pop. The hotel, built just a few years ago, is closed for renovations, I was told. And that might be the only reason. Certainly when I stayed there last year it was already badly in need of renovations. But it just as easily could have closed for lack of cash flow. You see, when it was open it housed mostly reserve residents who had no other place to stay. How could the place possible pay its bills and run its restaurant - it was the other restaurant - without paying customers? What I have described here is pretty much the sum total of businesses to be found in St. Theresa, a community of 3,200. It's not different at Waasagomach (1,600 residents) or at Garden Hill (3,800), where it's motel-restaurant complex is closed and where the former grocery store is boarded up after failing under band management. But this makes no sense. Where is the butcher, the baker, the barber, the hairdresser? Where is the tackle shop, the hardware store, the bank? Where is the appliance store, the appliance repair shop, the arcade? Where is the garage to repair vehicles, of which there are a surprising number, including a fair number of new pickups and SUVs? The new trucks are a reminder that not everyone is unemployed at Island Lake. The band provides some work, as do the nursing station and schools. Why there are no businesses I cannot say. A lack of education and training partly explains it - if you don't know how to make money you probably won't. Without doubt the lack of private property is part of the answer - if you have no assets you have no collateral to start a business. As well, communal ownership is a disincentive to invest - why start something that can be taken away? - which explains why most private businesses are owned by white folks and are not located on reserves. What all this amounts to is an almost complete lack of a local economy. For the most part, $68 million goes into the next flight out. Money doesn't change hands and so no wealth is generated, no jobs are created, no taxes are paid and there is not nearly enought to deal with crime and education and the rest. Even if an explosion of small businesses occurred on reserves, the level of prosperity would not equal that of a small rural community in the South - the Island Lake First Nations would still be dependent on welfare because small business alone is not enough. But until there is a local economy and some form of taxation to help pay for services, Evans will remain frustrated. Not so the 400,000-dollar man.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 5652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pwji.com/privacy_policy.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YJYPH4T2AY4SDZJ45FE4VHELSRMWSE7M", "length": 416, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "pwji.com", "title": "Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "Thank you for visiting pwji.com (the \"Web Site\") and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us, and our policy is simple: we will collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit the Web Site unless you choose to provide that information. This Privacy Policy does not describe information collection practices on other sites, including those linked to or from the Web Site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 2613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://qdl.scs-inc.us/2ndParty/Pages/10391.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UJ3ZIRCVWPA4VAPH7HLKMSU6HHDN2HM6", "length": 1618, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "qdl.scs-inc.us", "title": "The Various Forms of Evil", "raw_content": "The Various Forms of Evil\nRight on, Lloyd. The world has no idea how completely it has become overrun with evil, to the point that it is considered normal. Just turn on the news, and see how many different places in this world are currently engaging in acts of violence. But that's not the scary part. What's really scary is that we have come to think of this as normal. Shame on us.\nI'm of the opinion that the best approach is to clearly identify the ways in which decent teachings can get twisted into excuses for evil. It isn't enough to just say that it's bad behavior, and try to forget about it. These behavior patterns have been around since the beginning of recorded history, and will surely be around as long as people are still walking the face of this Earth. If we were to rid the world of evil, and if we were to stop worrying about it, we'd find that it would creep back in before long. So instead of denying that we have a problem, and keeping it out of our minds that way, and instead of thinking that we could actually rid ourselves of it, and never think of it again, we need to consciously acknowledge the various forms that evil can take, so that we can be on the look-out for it, wherever it crops up. Evil will have a much harder time becoming as deeply rooted as it currently is, if we are all well-versed in its methods.\nFor such purposes, I'm working on a list of common scams. I'm doing this in the context of a theological paper I'm working on, so the assumption is that these are all ways of bastardizing an otherwise wholesome set of religious beliefs. 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Win a prize", "raw_content": "Your Choice- Which of the Eurovision Song Contest Semi Final Songs that did not qualify for the Eurovision Grand Final but according to you should have seen qualify? Win a prize\nDue to the ever increasing number of participating countries at the Eurovision Song Contest, the Semi Final first was introduced in 2004, from 2004 to 2007 it was only one and since 2008 there are two Semi Finals. As we know that the Top Ten of each Semi Final will make it into the Grand Final, where together with the current host nation and the Big Five (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom) fighting for the Trophy of the Eurovision Song Contest and the right to host the event the following year's edition of the contest.\nSince last summer Radio International started this feature during the show as a monthly item where fans had submitted their Top 20 Semi Final songs that did not make it to the Grand Final but should have and each month a chart of a listener was broadcast during the show. Radio International is collecting the listeners' choice and together with your input will compile a Top 40 of the Eurovision Semi Final Songs and schedule it for broadcast as the last show of Radio International in 2014.\nSimply let us know your 20 songs that according to you should have qualified for the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest but did not manage. Rank them in the order you like them best. Your favourite is Number 1 and least favourite is your Number 20. Email the list to Radio International via the website's CONTACT link and JP with his team will compile the overall Top 40 Semi Final songs.\nList of all Semi Final entries that did not reach the Grand Final:\nTo help you please find a list of all the Semi Final songs that did not make it to the Grand Final at this LINK.\nAn incentive to take part in this project is a prize, in fact, one copy of the official DVD of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 which will be given away amongst the participants. During the show there will be a draw and the lucky participant will receive the DVD. Alternatively, you can pick a CD of your choice as you might already have purchased the Eurovision 2014 DVD. In addition, your chart will be featured in one of the future editions of Eurovision Radio International.\nFor those of the fans and listeners that already submitted their choice they will also go into the draw automatically since they already have done their job :).\nPlease submit your choice not later than 15 November 2014 as we will need time to calculate and compile the chart.\nLabels: Quiz, Semi Final entries", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 8342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rapturerevival.org/Articles/why_would_anyone_want_to_be_indifferent.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:07Z", "digest": "sha1:PMRGTM6ADEJKWWEMQ2R7GSVFQBINPAKT", "length": 3066, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "rapturerevival.org", "title": "Untitled Document", "raw_content": "Why Would Anyone Want To Be Indifferent To The Second Coming?\nThe Bible says that Christians are to \u201clook for\u201d and \u201clove\u201d the second coming of Jesus Christ--both positive attitudes (Titus 2:13; Heb. 9:28; II Tim. 4:8). Nowhere does the Scripture condone the manifestation of an attitude of indifference, prejudice, or disaffectation toward the reality of His future appearing.\nYet today, we find increasing numbers of professed Christians with affected attitudes toward the mentioning of Christ\u2019s soon return. Modern preachers studiously avoid the subject of end-time Bible prophecy altogether, citing \u201ccontroversy\u201d as the reason why they choose to ignore it.\nThere is a technical philosophical term for this sort of attitudinal problem. It\u2019s called \u201ccognitive dissonance.\u201d The word \u201ccognitive\u201d refers to the understanding of the mind, and \u201cdissonance\u201d means disquieting discord, or disharmony. To be in \u201ccognitive dissonance\u201d over the second coming of Jesus Christ, then, is be mentally buffaloed or intellectually stymied concerning it. Things that cause cognitive dissonance are usually either disinformation, failure of expectations, or outright scandal.\nWe are saying that the disinformation contained it the widespread teachings of popular Scofield/Darbyism has caused a huge scandal of failed expectations to surface that only increases the longer time goes on and the scenario of Darbyism fails to materialize. As a natural reaction to the disillusionment that has been occasioned by the false programming of dispensationalism, excuses for being INDIFFERENT toward the second coming of Jesus Christ are now becoming increasingly popular.\nHere are a few verses from the New Testament often taken out of context to support modern affected attitudes of indifference:\n1. \u201cNo man knows the day or hour when Christ returns\u201d (Matt. 24: 36);\n2. \u201cIt is not for you to know the times or seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power\u201d (Acts 1:7); and,\n3. \u201cJust be ready\u201d (Matt. 24:44).\nWhat the above verses actually say--when the whole context in which they are set has been considered--does not justify a masking over of the false understanding of the Word of God being promoted by dispensational premillennialism with a cloak of time-orientated indifference. Rather, everywhere within the biblical presentation of end-time teachings there is the exhortation to keenness of anticipation and watchfulness.\n\u201cBeing ready\u201d does not consist of fostering a mentality that closed-mindedly clings to Darbyism! \u201cReadiness\u201d is, rather, only to be had in the circle of the truth! Being ready for Christ's return means, most fundamentally, to be a Christian, and \"Christian\" means embracing truth.\nTruth-seeking and closed-mindedness are opposing psychological dynamics--principles that lead to opposite practical results.\nThe one practical result produces watchfulness and holy living. The other is a scandal that lead ultimately to disillusionment and indifference.\nWhich dynamic motivates you: the truth of the Bible, or dispensational error?\nReady Is More Than A Cliche", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 3541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rareantiquefrench.com/antique-french-bijouterie-cabinet-rare-curved-glass-wedding-display19thc-monkey.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:22Z", "digest": "sha1:S4VRFPXVRENBNZI5K3AGAI4ZPCUFWUG5", "length": 1849, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "rareantiquefrench.com", "title": "Antique French Bijouterie Cabinet Rare Curved Glass Wedding Display19thc Monkey", "raw_content": "Antique French bijouterie cabinet rare curved glass wedding display19thC monkey\nRare Antique French display cabinet with curved glass. This beautiful French bijouterie or wedding display case is in very good condition for its age.\nIt dates from around 1890, and is rare for having the lovely curved glass front. The cabinet is silk velvet covered wood, and has ormulu framing. There are also two very sweet monkeys at the back, either side of the two mirrors, which I believe signify good luck. The centre decoration is an Art Nouveau style lily. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was usual for fine ladies to display their wedding coronets and treasures, and these cases were made for that purpose.\nThey look wonderful in today's interiors, adding a sense of history and charm to your home. The back is held on by little metal clips that turn across. Everything is original, with nothing altered or added.\n8\" x 9.25\" x 6.5 deep (20.5 x 23.5 x 16.25 cm). Please study all 12 photos for condition. The item \"Antique French bijouterie cabinet rare curved glass wedding display19thC monkey\" is in sale since Thursday, January 3, 2019.\nThis item is in the category \"Antiques\\Decorative Arts\". The seller is \"barsgoodthings\" and is located in Pulborough. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Australia, United States, Canada, Brazil, Japan, New Zealand, China, Israel, Hong Kong, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Saudi arabia, South africa, United arab emirates, Ukraine, Chile.\nProduct: Display case\nPrimary Material: Ormulu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 182.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://realwebclientnews.com/northbrook-court-dental-offers-occlusion-therapy-for-jaw-pain-and-headaches/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:XIMIFQVXICLZ6D2QKTWH5UKM465EN5ZR", "length": 2558, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "realwebclientnews.com", "title": "Northbrook Court Dental Offers Occlusion Therapy for Jaw Pain and Headaches | Real Web Marketing Client News", "raw_content": "Northbrook Court Dental Offers Occlusion Therapy for Jaw Pain and Headaches\nNorthbrook, Illinois \u2013Northbrook Court Dental Associates (http://www.northbrookcourtdental.com), a Northbrook dental clinic, now offers occlusion therapy for individuals suffering from jaw pain and headaches.\n\u201cMany people go to medical doctors when they have chronic headaches or jaw pain, not realizing that these health issues can be dental related.\u201d says Dr. Michael Vold, D.D.S. \u201c\nOcclusion is a word used to describe how teeth come in contact with each other teeth or fit together when a person is sleeping, talking or eating. A malocclusion is when the muscles in the jaw joint are out of alignment and causes a bad bite. Other causes of malocclusion include crooked teeth and periodontal disease.\nMalocclusion can result in different types of physical problems, including difficulties chewing and jaw, neck, back and shoulder pain. The discomfort can become worse if the person clenches their teeth when they are asleep. Repeated clenching can lead to headaches, deterioration of teeth and even teeth being worn down to the jaw bone.\nOcclusion Therapy can reduce and even eliminate teeth clenching to help relax the jaw and prevent pain. The therapy often involves the use of splints to prevent any clenching that occurs while the person is sleeping.\nBefore the therapy is started, the person\u2019s bite is thoroughly reviewed and analyzed. Either through polishing of the surface enamel in specific areas, or through the use of dental restoration, the balance and direction of the bite is adjusted. The procedure helps eliminate clenching stress and pain.\n\u201cOur dental clinic uses the latest and most advanced techniques to help eliminate the pain and discomfort caused by malocclusion,\u201d says Dr. Vold.\nFor more information on Northbrook Court Dental Associates\u2019 treatment of malocclusion and occlusion therapy, visit the Northbrook dental clinic\u2019s website at http://www.northbrookcourtdental.com, or call the office today at 847-272-2900.\nDr. Michael Vold has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin (1963), a Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Northwestern University Dental School (1967) and a Juris Doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law (1980). He served as a dentist in the U.S. Air Force and taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois, College of Dentistry. Dr. Vold is a member of the American Dental Association and Illinois State Dental Society, as well as a recipient of numerous professional honors and awards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 198.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://records.ureg.virginia.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=44&coid=258358", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RLXMA47DTAKWRVV62V5VSCZBEDMGCWWH", "length": 342, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "records.ureg.virginia.edu", "title": "HIEU 7003 - Colloquium in Modern European History I - Acalog ACMS\u2122", "raw_content": "HIEU 7003 - Colloquium in Modern European History I\nThe first semester of a two-semester sequence of graduate colloquia introducing students to the major themes in European history and historiography in the period from the eighteenth century to the present and structured around central themes in European history between c. 1750 and c. 1870.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 132.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://redtri.com/dc/best-holiday-train-rides-in-dc/?utm_source=LB&utm_medium=morestoriesmissed&utm_campaign=inboundMorestoriesmissed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:26Z", "digest": "sha1:4GUKMCE5Q52ZRJ6EGLBAAX6S5B3C4APL", "length": 4915, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "redtri.com", "title": "Awesome Christmas Train Rides for Kids in DC", "raw_content": "Back On Track: D.C.\u2019s Best Holiday Train Rides\nrtsjohnson\nTis the season\u2026to get out of the house and enjoy something other than a shopping mall. Take to the tracks with Santa and Mrs. Claus as they offer photo ops, holiday stories, treats and even safety tips (seriously). Note that some of these holiday train rides require passengers to buy tickets in advance \u2013 and they\u2019re selling fast. No amount of milk and cookies can get you off the naughty list if you miss one of these opportunities.\nphoto: Walkersville Southern Railroad via Facebook\nSmithsonian\u2019s National Zoo Choo-Choo\nYou might not catch a glimpse of the Giant Pandas, but the miniature trackless train is a great way to make a three- to five-minute loop around the Great Meadow. While you\u2019re there, check out the holiday light displays that are part of the annual free ZooLights event, which runs from 5-9 p.m. Nov. 23-Jan. 1, 2019. New this year is the Gingerbread Village offering frosted cookies, lollipops and a gingerbread throne sure to delight the most finicky Instagram feed. Other newcomers to the event are Reindeer Games, including inflatable tubes, slides and illuminated rides, and Symphony of Lights, a light canopy that responds to music.\nCost: $3/train ride\nWhen: Thursday-Sunday through Jan. 31 (closed Dec. 24, 25 and 31), 11 am-3 pm\nWhere: 3001 Connecticut Ave., NW\nVirginia Railway Express\u2019 Santa Train\nRide aboard a Virginia Railway Express train with Santa and the Missus, who will pass out candy canes, coloring books and other treats. But they\u2019ll also take a moment to speak about the \u201cLook, Listen and Live\u201d campaign regarding rail safety. Don\u2019t forget to bring a toy to donate to the Marine Corps\u2019 Toys for Tots drive. Note: Tickets go on sale Nov. 19 at 9 a.m.\nCost: $5 at outlets, $6 online\nWhere: See websites for departure stations\nOnline: vre.org\nB&O\u2019s Magical Holiday Express\nAll aboard at the B&O Railroad Museum\u2019s roundhouse, which, we might mention, is chock full of trains. Take a ride on one and stick around to enjoy what the museum calls a \u201cwinter wonderland of family fun and activities.\u201d There\u2019s also a 30-foot Christmas tree that guests can walk through. The themes change each year, and this year they\u2019re \u201cSilver and Gold,\u201d \u201cDeck the Halls,\u201d \u201cJingle Bells,\u201d and \u201cLet it Snow.\u201d Note: Additional events are available, such as Holiday Story Time with Mrs. Claus followed by a train ride with Santa ($24, Dec. 2, 8 and 9 at 1:15 p.m.) and Breakfast and Train Ride with Santa ($40/adult, $31/child 2-17, Dec. 1 and 8 at 8:30 a.m.).\nCost: $20/adult, $17/senior 60 and up, $12/child ages 2 to 12; coach train rides are $3/adult, $2/child plus admission; first-class train rides are $10/adult and $6/child.\nWhen: Saturdays and Sundays in December, 10 am-4 pm Saturdays, 11 am-4 pm Sundays\nWhere: 901 West Pratt St. (Baltimore, MD)\nOnline: borail.org/holiday\nWinter Wonderland at Burke Lake Park\nTake a ride on the Holiday Express, a miniature Central Pacific Huntington steam engine that chugs along a 1.75-mile loop through this Fairfax County park. A snowball\u2019s throw from the train is the Carolers Carousel, Snowman\u2019s Wagon Rise and Gingerbread Man (mini) Golf. Come back in the evening, when the train station becomes Celebration Station with festive lights. Train rides ($10) are every 20 minutes from 5:30-8:30 p.m., and tickets also include a spin on the carousel.\nCost: $15 pass beforehand, $20 day of, children 2 and under ride free, train only $4\nWhen: Dec. 1, 2, 8, 9 and 10; 10 am-4 pm for Winter Wonderland, Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, 7, 8 for Celebration Station\nWhere: 7315 Ox Rd. (Fairfax Station, VA)\nOnline: fairfaxcounty.gov\nphoto: ajd, mhd, njd, med & gsd via Flickr\nWestern Maryland Scenic Railroad\u2019s Holiday Trains\nChoose from two rides: Holiday Limited or the Christmas Wonderland Express. The first is offered Fridays and Saturdays at 11:30 a.m. Riders have a holiday treat with Santa on the way to Frostburg Depot, which is decorated for a country Christmas. The other option is offered Fridays and Saturdays at 6 p.m. and Sundays at 1 p.m. On the way to Frostburg Depot, hear a Christmas story. Dining-class guests will have a turkey dinner with Santa. At the depot, Mrs. Claus and the elves will join you for hot chocolate and cookies.\nWhere: 13 Canal St. (Cumberland, MD)\nOnline: wmsr.com/holiday-trains\nphoto: smata2\nHolly TrolleyFest at the National Capital Trolley Museum\nBoard a streetcar or take a trolley ride \u2013 or a zillion; they\u2019re unlimited with admission \u2014 in between watching the toy trains or taking a docent-led tour of the exhibits.\nCost: $7/adult, $5/child ages 2 to 17 or senior 65 and up\nWhen: Dec. 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22 and 23; 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.\nWhere: 1313 Bonifant Rd. (Colesville, MD)\nPhotos courtesy of Walkersville Southern Railroad via Facebook, ajd, mhd, njd, med & gsd via Flickr, smata2\nHoliday Happenings > Christmas > Back On Track: D.C.\u2019s Best Holiday Train Rides", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 8940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reeldealblog.com/category/christoph-waltz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:QWFDG4X6BH7E7UDHCGI55WGRWBVKZTQS", "length": 27759, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "reeldealblog.com", "title": "Christoph Waltz | The Reel Deal", "raw_content": "Category Archives: Christoph Waltz\nIt\u2019s Here! The Premiere of the Django Unchained Trailer\nI definitely didn\u2019t need a trailer to get me excited for \u201cDjango Unchained,\u201d but I\u2019m not complaining about the fact that the first trailer has finally been released.\nWhile the trailer for Quentin Tarantino\u2019s last film, \u201cInglourious Basterds,\u201d misled viewers to believe that it was nothing but a Brad Pitt fest, the \u201cDjango Unchained\u201d trailer seems to be showing exactly the kind of film everyone expected it to be. And no, that is not a bad thing at all. \u201cDjango\u201d looks to have a perfect mix of serious and awesome action and hilariously inspired exploitation. It also opens with a Johnny Cash song and includes Christoph Waltz channeling Hans Landa and Leonardo DiCaprio saying \u201crambunctious\u201d in the most sinister way possible.\nBut it\u2019s time for me to shut up now, and time for you to watch this trailer*:\nNote: This trailer comes via The Film Stage, a site dedicated to movie reviews and news. I began contributing to it today. Check out the site here: http://thefilmstage.com/\nThis entry was posted in Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Django Unchained Trailer, Leonardo Dicaprio, Quentin Tarantino, The Film Stage, Trailers on June 6, 2012 by ian0592.\nThe Plot of Quentin Tarantino\u2019s Next Movie\nTwo posts in one night? I must be crazy. No, this only happens when something truly newsworthy comes along.\nThe plot for Quentin Tarantino\u2019s next film, entitled \u201cDjango Unchained,\u201d has been released today. All that was known before was that it was a slave revenge film. Here is what that actually entails:\nDjango is a slave who\u2019s liberated by a German dentist-turned-bounty hunter and taught the tricks of the trade by his mentor. Django\u2019s major goal in life is to recover his wife, and to do it he needs to get past the villainous ranch owner Calvin Candie (DiCaprio), who runs Candyland, a despicable club and plantation in Mississippi where female slaves are exploited as sex objects and males are pitted against each other in \u201cmandingo\u201d-style death matches. Candie is a slave\u2019s worst nightmare, and that [sic] is where Django\u2019s wife Broomhilda is an abused slave. [Deadline]\nYes, whenever Quentin says he is making an historical epic, it is not just some historical epic. Earlier this week it was announced that Jamie Foxx would play the lead role. While he did win an Oscar for \u201cRay,\u201d he also starred in \u201cBooty Call.\u201d Then again, this is from the same director who turned John Travolta into a hitman after starring in \u201cLook Who\u2019s Talking.\u201d\nThe rest of the cast is enticing. Of course, Samuel L. Jackson will be fantastic, as long as he is given a Bible or some dialogue that he can shout unnecessarily loud. While I have never seen DiCaprio play a flat out villain, his acting has improved with each film he does, so I have a feeling he can do this. As for Christoph Waltz, I have a feeling the German bounty hunter role was written directly for him. And yes, he can act his way out of a paper bag.\nFor now, it seems too hard to tell what direction this plot will take the film in. Is Tarantino aiming for a classic Grindhouse experience like \u201cDeath Proof,\u201d or a classier revenge fantasy like \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d?\nSomething that I wonder even more about, however is what Tarantino will do filming in a time period before movies even existed. In \u201cBasterds,\u201d he was able to find conversation in the films of G.W. Pabst, but what will the 19th century characters of \u201cDjango Unchained\u201d discuss? Maybe the characters can sit around a southern manor and discuss the significance of \u201cMoby Dick.\u201d\nWhatever he decides to do, I will be there on opening weekend.\nThis entry was posted in Christoph Waltz, Django Unchained, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Dicaprio, Movie News, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson on June 24, 2011 by ian0592.\nDespite a feud between ABC and Cablevision that left millions unable to watch the big show, the Academy Awards still went on as planned.\nAs expected, \u201cThe Hurt Locker\u201d took home the big prize at the Academy Awards, along with five other Oscars. Also, as expected, \u201cHurt Locker\u201d director Kathryn Bigelow broke one of the last glass ceilings and became the first woman ever to take home the Best Director prize.\nPerhaps the only real surprises of the night came in the Screenplay categories. The Best Adapted Screenplay category seemed like a done deal: \u201cUp in the Air\u201d had it basically since it came out in December. It\u2019s balance of comedy and drama, along with its ability to be both original and faithful, made it seem like a shoo-in. Instead, the heart-wrenching screenplay for \u201cPrecious\u201d took home the prize. It seemed as if \u201cPrecious\u201d had lost much of its momentum after its November release. Guess I was wrong on that one.\nMeanwhile, in Best Original Screenplay, \u201cThe Hurt Locker\u201d and \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d were virtually tied. It seemed that \u201cBasterds\u201d was a frontrunner, as \u201cHurt Locker\u201d was much more of an achievement in directing and editing than it was in writing.\nHowever, this night was a \u201cHurt Locker\u201d sweep, so Tarantino unfortunately walked home empty handed. However, the film didn\u2019t get totally shut out: Waltz got his well-deserved Best Supporting Actor trophy. He also gave what was probably the best speech of the night. Seriously, this man has a knack for taking ordinary words and making them sound like poetry. As Waltz\u2019s Landa might say, \u201cthat\u2019s a bingo!\u201d Lets hope he rides this to a fortuitous future career.\nAnother win, although expected, was still no less exciting. Jeff Bridges won the first Oscar of his long career for his performance as a burnt out country singer in \u201cCrazy Heart.\u201d He movingly thanked his parents, saying the award was as much for them as it was for him. There\u2019s nothing much more to say about the greatness of Bridges besides this: \u201cThe Dude Abides.\u201d\nNo surprises in the female acting categories, either. Mo\u2019Nique took home an Oscar for something that will not be lost in time and Sandra Bullock won for \u201cThe Blind Side.\u201d I have not seen \u201cThe Blind Side\u201d yet, so therefore I can\u2019t judge Bullock\u2019s worthiness. However, from what I\u2019ve seen of her, I do know that she is a good actress, and never a great one. Perhaps she can prove me wrong.\nNow, onto the show itself. It was a night of ups and downs, or as the Dude would say, \u201cstrikes and gutters.\u201d The biggest up were the two hosts: Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin. Both men are funny and charismatic, but two hosts seemed like two much. However, it was perfect in every way. The two actors read off their scripted banter in the most perfect harmony. And they threw out a few good improvised lines, as well.\nThe pair of Baldwin and Martin were a welcome improvement over last year, when the Academy attempted the \u201csong-and-dance man\u201d approach with Hugh Jackman, with little success. While Baldwin and Martin would be great recurring hosts, Neil Patrick Harris proved himself an eligible contender contented his surprise performance at the beginning of the telecast. The combination of Baldwin and Martin (along with other performers like Harris) made a mostly predictable show easier to watch.\nBefore the winners were even announced, the Best Picture race was defined as a race between \u201cThe Hurt Locker\u201d and \u201cAvatar,\u201d a true David and Goliath story.\nThis isn\u2019t the first David and Goliath Oscar race, but this was one of the very first where David came out the victor. In the past, it seemed an A-list cast and a successful box office gross were key to getting the crown. It makes you think now that maybe \u201cGoodfellas\u201d could\u2019ve beaten \u201cDances with Wolves,\u201d \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d could\u2019ve beaten \u201cForrest Gump,\u201d or even \u201cL.A. Confidential\u201d could\u2019ve beaten \u201cTitanic.\u201d\nWill \u201cThe Hurt Locker\u201d be remembered down the road as a cinematic classic, or one of Oscar\u2019s biggest mistakes? Maybe in the future it\u2019ll be known as the best film made about the Iraq War, with \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d and \u201cA Serious Man\u201d being masterpieces ahead of their time, \u201cAvatar\u201d a fun blockbuster that changed visual cinema, \u201cDistrict 9\u201d a sci-fi film on the same level with \u201cBlade Runner,\u201d and \u201cUp in the Air\u201d as an example for aspiring filmmakers of how to write a good script.\nWhat I\u2019m trying to say is that no matter your number one preference, and no matter what won, this was a rare year where almost every film and filmmaker earned their nominations. Here\u2019s to hoping 2010 is going to be another good year for cinema.\nThis entry was posted in Academy Awards, Avatar, Christoph Waltz, Jeff Bridges, Kathryn Bigelow, Mo'Nique, Oscars, Precious, Sandra Bullock, The Hurt Locker on March 8, 2010 by ian0592.\n\u201cThat One Scene\u201d is a recurring series on The Reel Deal where I examine that one scene in a certain movie that sets it apart from all others.\nFirst off, we have a major dilemma. When I first created \u201cThat One Scene\u201d back in August, I promised to write about one remarkable movie scene every week. Obviously, this didn\u2019t happen.\nHowever, now that I am a second semester senior and certain responsibilities don\u2019t exist for me anymore, I believe now is the perfect time to bring this post back. And now, I\u2019m going to bring it back by discussing a movie I\u2019ve talked about way too much recently: \u201cInglourious Basterds.\u201d My incessant chatter though is for good reason, as this was a film made to be broken down piece by piece to be fully admired. Also, I hope this serves to show you why this film truly deserves to take home Best Screenplay this year.\nThere are a multitude of great scenes to break down in this film. I could\u2019ve discussed the stretched out, tension-filled opening scene. I could\u2019ve discussed the audaciously long tavern scene. I also could\u2019ve had some fun and discussed the Bear Jew beating a Nazi with a bat. However, I\u2019ve opted for one of the more subtlety beautiful and less appreciated scenes in the film. It\u2019s a tour-de-force of fine writing, acting, and directing.\nThe scene occurs after our hero Shosanna (Melanie Laurent), a Jew hiding as a French movie theater owner in Nazi-Occupied Paris, manages to sit through an entire meal with Joseph Goebbels. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz), the SS Officer responsible for the slaughter of Shosanna\u2019s entire family walks into the room. Quentin Tarantino doesn\u2019t skip a beat going into this scene. The banging drums seem out of place in a WWII epic, but it serves well in sending chills down the viewer\u2019s spine.\nAs Landa greets her, Shosanna\u2019s skin turns white as a skeleton. Laurent shows her as someone vulnerable enough to crack at any moment. Tarantino spends an awful long time focusing on Shosanna\u2019s facial expressions, basically making the conversations occurring right above her shoulder seem insignificant. Laurent\u2019s acting shows more fear, vulnerability, and ultimate strength in just a few smacks of her lips than any amount of words ever could. For a director so enamored by conversation, this seems like an interesting, and even welcome, change.\nThis entire scene contains an incredible amount of ambiguity around it. From the beginning, we are nervous of whether or not Landa will recognize Shosanna. By the end, it\u2019s still impossible to tell if he did or not. For someone known as \u201cThe Jew Hunter,\u201d Landa maintains a jovial demeanor throughout the scene.\nLanda says the purpose of their meeting is to discuss security matters. At times, it seems less for information and more as a means of torture. He even orders Shosanna a glass of milk, the very thing he drank the last time they were acquainted.\nMeanwhile, there is a great focus on the strudels. It seems unnecessary, but Tarantino seems to have a great love of shaping human interaction around the things we eat. That lovingly shot close up of Shosanna ripping off a piece of strudel, then piling a little cream onto it, reminds me of watching Samuel L. Jackson devour a Big Kahuna Burger in \u201cPulp Fiction.\u201d Tarantino seems to think a lot can be said about a person by how they eat their food. In this instance, Shosanna is someone who is careful, and will never miss a detail. Landa, meanwhile, shoves the pastry in his face. This is consistent with much of the humor arising from this character; he seems to be funniest in how outlandish he is in just about everything he does.\nIt\u2019s strange also to see the weird chemistry between Landa and Shosanna. While one is a Nazi and the other is a secret Jew, they seem quite good in listening to each other and responding to each other\u2019s comments. At times, they chat almost as if they are old friends.\nOf course, while parts of this scene may seem very light-hearted, one can forget its extremely serious undertones. After all, this is a film about the topic of genocide. The most serious moment comes as Landa states, \u201cI did have something else I wanted to ask you.\u201d His smile so quickly turns into a frown, showing how his character can go so quickly from kind to cruel. Shosanna of course, tries to stand her ground. Tarantino takes no hesitation in lingering on this long, frightful silence.\nSuddenly, Landa\u2019s deathly stare turns into an all-out smile. He states, \u201cBut right now, for the life of me, I can\u2019t remember what it is. Oh well, must not have been important.\u201d This reveals something very important about Landa. Throughout the film, he seems to constantly be on the line between very serious man, and cartoonishly over-the-top. He is a villain so frightening in his insane self-centered principles. Yet, here, he is as clueless as the conventional Hollywood villain who\u2019s too underwritten to stop his foe.\nIn this case, it\u2019s not poor writing, but some form of satire. That, and it reveals Landa as the most complex Nazi we may ever see on film.\nIf we look at it from the possibility that he did know it was her, why wouldn\u2019t Landa try and stop her? Well, maybe he didn\u2019t want to because he enjoys torturing her with mystery better. Also, Landa is always fixated on the idea of survival. He seems to hold great respect for those who will do anything to survive. This is why many believe he let Shosanna run away at the beginning. Now, he sees that she is not only surviving, but thriving (like the rats he discusses earlier in the film). He may be simply amazed at how she overcame so much to come this far, and that she deserves to remain in secret.\nAfter Landa leaves, we get to see why Laurent deserved an Oscar nomination this year. After Landa leaves, her feigned smile quickly turns into a frown. When she sees she is completely alone, she lets out a giant gasp and begins crying. It seems almost as if she\u2019s been under the identity of Emmanuelle for so long that she forgot how to feel like Shosanna. It\u2019s strange how she turns around to see if it\u2019s okay to cry; as this makes it seem like her reaction is almost mechanical. However, Laurent manages to make it the most emotionally realistic moment in the entire film. It could also be that she, like the audience, can\u2019t believe she\u2019s made it this far. In this way, Laurent turns Shosanna perhaps into the film\u2019s most relatable character.\nOverall, this scene seems to be an embodiment of what \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d is truly about: a celebration of the finer things in culture. This ranges from good cinema to good Scotch, good cigarettes, and of course, a fine dessert. Here is a scene that represents why Tarantino is the auteur of our generation: he has an incredible understanding of humanity, timing, and detail.\nThis entry was posted in Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds, Melanie Laurent, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, That One Scene on February 9, 2010 by ian0592.\nWell, mainstream comedy certainly has something to celebrate.\n2010 marked the first time in years that the winner of the Best Musical/Comedy category at the Golden Globes was not a musical or a sophisticated indie black comedy. Rather, it was \u201cThe Hangover,\u201d a comedy that worked so well and basically earned* its award because it was just so refreshingly funny.\nThis might mean little for \u201cThe Hangover\u201d\u2018s Oscar chances. It probably has a slim shot at Best Picture, but a Best Screenplay nomination is likely its best shot.\nStill, I don\u2019t see the Golden Globes as much of a predictor for the Oscars. I think it\u2019s more of a way of seeing what people in the inner film circles are excited about at the moment. In that case my thinking was confirmed, \u201cAvatar\u201d is the official frontrunner for Best Picture. Yes, voters walked onto Pandora, and now they simply can\u2019t seem to get away. Hopefully, they\u2019re not as crazy as these people. I\u2019m not necessarily happy that \u201cAvatar\u201d is stealing the thunder from several other more worthy films, but I have to hand it to James Cameron: never in a million years did I think the entire world would fall in love with a three hour movie about ten foot tall blue-cat-monkey people.\nThe other film I suspected as a spoiler for \u201cAvatar,\u201d \u201cUp in the Air,\u201d faired only decently tonight. It took home a well deserved Best Screenplay award, solidifying it as by far the front runner for Best Adapted Screenplay.\nMeanwhile, the two best supporting actors were officially confirmed as the front runners. Christoph Waltz was the first thing on everyone\u2019s mind from the second audiences first saw him ask for a glass of milk. Meanwhile, I knew Mo\u2019Nique was the only imaginable winner from the minute I saw what was then called \u201cPush\u201d at Sundance.\nAnother big film, \u201cThe Hurt Locker,\u201d went home totally empt handed. However, it has been gaining much momentum lately so I do expect it to do much better at the Oscars. Plus, it\u2019s sweeping of the Critics Choice Awards were a very promising sign. That $12 million at the box office though, really isn\u2019t.\nThe lead acting categories are a whole other story. Robert Downey Jr. should be happy with his win for \u201cSherlock Holmes\u201d and expect nothing further. While George Clooney still has something of a shot, Jeff Bridges seems like the real man to beat right now. I haven\u2019t seen Bridges\u2019 performance in \u201cCrazy Heart\u201d yet, but to Bridges\u2019 awards success I say: Dude Abides.\nThe most unpredictable category this year is the Best Actress category. There are four very possible candidates right now, and two who equally have a clear shot at winning. Meryl Streep has a good shot for \u201cJulie & Julia\u201d simply because, she\u2019s Meryl Streep. Plus, her performance has gotten nothing but absolute raves. Sandra Bullock\u2019s performance in \u201cThe Blind Side\u201d also has a very good shot. Not only has she been lauded for her performance, but the film itself has become something of an underdog. Its amazing box office success was expected by no one. Perhaps this could play into votes.\nUnfortunately, there still seems like little hope for \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d besides Christoph Waltz. I have a good feeling \u201cBasterds\u201d might\u2019ve won Best Screenplay tonight if the Globes split it up into two separate categories. Only the WGA Awards will be able to answer that. In the mean time, Tarantino will have to wait another few years for his long deserved Best Director Oscar. If Scorsese (who was honored tonight) could wait 40 years, then so can he.\nOn a side note: am I the only one bothered by the fact that Best Drama always seems to be more significant to analysts than Best Comedy? Seriously, when will people start taking Comedies more seriously.\n*I would\u2019ve voted for \u201c(500) Days of Summer.\u201d \u201cThe Hangover\u201d might\u2019ve been the funniest comedy of the year, but it wasn\u2019t the most brilliantly made.\nThis entry was posted in 500 Days of Summer, Avatar, Christoph Waltz, Golden Globes, Inglourious Basterds, James Cameron, Mo'Nique, Oscars, Quentin Tarantino, The Hangover, Up in the Air on January 18, 2010 by ian0592.\nWho said history has to be accurate? Don\u2019t tell that to Quentin Tarantino, who pulled off his newest masterpiece in a brilliant revisionist style. \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d is the work of a world-class auteur at the top of his game.\nWhen I first heard years ago that Tarantino was developing a war film, I was hesitant, unsure of whether Tarantino\u2019s directing style could fit into a war movie. But then I realized, it is the perfect genre for him.\nOf all of Tarantino\u2019s films, \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d has the most traditional narrative structure. While all of his other films hop through time in no particular order, this one moves through time in order with only a few brief flashbacks. What\u2019s extremely unconventional about it though, are it\u2019s multiple different stories that only loosely connect.\nThe first story starts in the early days of World War II, in Nazi occupied France. Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent), is a French Jew who narrowly escapes death at the hands of brutal Nazi Col. Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Four years later, Dreyfus is still living in France under a pseudonym, operating a movie theater and hoping to one day get revenge on the Nazis.\nThe second story focuses on a group of Jewish American soldiers also in France. This troop, nicknamed the Basterds, also plans to get revenge on the Nazis and their reign of terror. The troop is led by Lt. Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt). Raine commands his soldiers to attack the Nazis with absolutely no sympathy. He also demands that each man bring him 100 Nazi scalps (and he gets his scalps).\nNow, where do these two stories connect? Well, both are revenge missions, and both seek their revenge in the exact same place. Shosanna and the Basterds never meet face to face, but all I can say is that if they ever were to meet, they\u2019d all be pretty good friends.\nIn almost every way, \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d shouldn\u2019t be a good movie. It has long expanses of meaningless dialogue, little action, and major historical inaccuracies and politically incorrect stereotypes. It\u2019s kind of like \u201cLawrence of Arabia.\u201d But these things don\u2019t serve to make the movie worse; they end up making it even better. Only a mind like Tarantino can take flaws and turn them into idiosyncrasies. Only Tarantino could capture people talking and turn it into amazing, real conversations about the meaning of life. The dialogue is harder to quote because most of the film is spoken in either German or French, However, Raine and Donny \u201cThe Bear Jew\u201d Donowitz (Eli Roth) give more than enough catchphrases to go around.\nOh, and that dialogue. No matter what language, Tarantino\u2019s dialogue is always so pleasant to listen to; not a single word out of a character\u2019s mouth ever seems corny or contrived.\nAnd yes, the movie is violent. Very violent. On the Tarantino violence scale, it would rank slightly higher than \u201cPulp Fiction\u201d but slightly less in \u201cKill Bill.\u201d The violence is often ridiculous, but is also somehow the most realistically violent of all of his films.\nTarantino has a habit of reviving the careers of many once great actors (John Travolta, Michael Parks, Pam Grier, David Carradine). The careeer revived in \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d is that of Christoph Waltz. Much has been said about Waltz\u2019s performance, and every accolade is well deserved. He plays Landa as both friendly and creepy at the same time. He can seem friendly by making small talk and then intimidating by doing something like ordering someone to get him milk. He is never a villain who seems psychotic, he just seems scary because of his overstated friendliness. It is without a doubt that Landa\u2019s Cannes winning performance will also get nominated for an Oscar.\nThe true villains of World War II, Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, are played here with perfect inaccuracy. Martin Wuttke plays Hitler as a whiny baby and Sylvester Groth plays Goebbels as a soulless zombie and something of a suck up. While Waltz has gotten the majority of praise, a large amount of it belongs to Groth. Through Groth\u2019s eyes, Goebbels doesn\u2019t seem like a zombie just from the things he says, but also from the things he does. In one scene, he shakes Shosanna\u2019s hand but he doesn\u2019t quite give it a tight grip. In fact, he barely grabs it with his cold, white hand. It looks almost like a skeleton who can walk and talk.\nAlso scoring points are the Basterds. I always knew Pitt was talented, but not even his performance in \u201cFight Club\u201d can top this. His Aldo Raine comes from Tennessee, and he talks in a perfect Southern droll. Roth is also a scene stealer. Roth is known for directing torture porn like \u201cHostel.\u201d However, he should stick to acting. His overly hammy Boston accent becomes one of the funniest parts of the movie. And yes, the movie is funny. Tarantino\u2019s sense of humor is one of the darkest in cinema; many of the jokes here are dark as ever. However, many are as light and hilarious as Raine\u2019s horrible grip on the Italian language. A scene like that almost feels like something out of a Sacha Baron Cohen movie.\nTarantino is known for referencing hundreds and hundreds of movies in everyone of his films. In this one, he often draws references to his own films. The opening scene reminded me something of the Royale with Cheese scene in \u201cPulp Fiction.\u201d Like Jackson, Waltz first disarms the character through light banter before suddenly unloading on him. The revenge mission feels almost like The Bride\u2019s in \u201cKill Bill.\u201d\nTarantino also references many of his favorite movies. You can see a shot that looks like \u201cScarface\u201d or a camera movement that feels Hitchcockian. What\u2019s referenced most here though is Spaghetti Westerns. Spaghetti Westerns were Italian westerns that were made in the late 1960s popularized mainly by Sergio Leone. As I watched \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d I realized what it truly was: a Spaghetti Western presented as a war film. There are Mexican standoffs and a score that often resembles the brilliant music of Ennio Morricone.\nThe plot of \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d is almost directly based off of the plot of \u201cOnce Upon a Time in the West.\u201d Like \u201cOnce Upon a Time in the West,\u201d \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d is about two different people getting revenge on the same person for different reasons. Both reasons however, have something to do with the loss of family or brotherhood. \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d also contains long stretches without much action. However, while Leone reveled in long silences, Tarantino revels in lots and lots of talking.\n\u201cOnce Upon a Time in the West\u201d is also the best western ever made. \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d is one of the best war movies ever made. Not only that, but it is also the most audacious for daring to change the face of history. It really makes sense as to why \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d is so revisionist: every Tarantino movie exists in its world with its own interconnecting characters and its own brands. Even though \u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d doesn\u2019t take place during modern times, it feels as if it could\u2019ve taken place in the same world as any other Tarantino film.\n\u201cInglourious Basterds\u201d was one of few movies I\u2019ve seen recently where I left feeling reinvigorated, feeling as if all my faith in cinema had been restored. Only someone like Quentin Tarantino can do this. He reinvented the crime drama, the kung fu film, and now, the war film. Being a great director doesn\u2019t involve any film school, just a great imagination and a love for movies. And not to mention, a strange and interesting view of the world.\nOne more thing: we never find out why the title is misspelled. Tarantino says he\u2019ll never explain why, and in a way it\u2019s better like that. The spelling is a part of Tarantino\u2019s world, and we\u2019re lucky that we even got this good of a glimpse of it.\nIf you liked this movie, you\u2019ll also like: Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Dollars Trilogy, Carrie, Scarface, Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown, Grindhouse, The Wild Bunch, No Country for Old Men\nThis entry was posted in Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Ennio Morricone, Inglourious Basterds, Jews, Movie Review, Nazis, Quentin Tarantino, Samuel L. Jackson, Sergio Leone, Spaghetti Westerns, Violence, War on August 24, 2009 by ian0592.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1054, "original_length": 69222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://replay.yt/watch?v=_M1WkA9lsjA", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ASVXG2WNMITCTKLCGBST7SFQBEJIBAX3", "length": 487, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "replay.yt", "title": "Replay Why Call of Duty 2016 Won't Be Ghosts 2 - Unlocked 229 -- Youtube replay.yt", "raw_content": "Why Call of Duty 2016 Won't Be Ghosts 2 - Unlocked 229\nInfinity Ward's been staffing up, so our Xbox show discusses where they might take Call of Duty this year. ------------------------------\u00ad---- Follow IGN for more! ------------------------------\u00ad---- IGN OFFICIAL APP: http://www.ign.com/mobile FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ign TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ign INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/igndotcom/?hl=en WEBSITE: http://www.ign.com/ GOOGLE+: https://plus.google.com/+IGN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 190.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://repository.uwc.ac.za/xmlui/handle/10566/9/browse?value=Satisfaction&type=subject", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:35Z", "digest": "sha1:UUB7LNSWOUC2COLYGY4ENRLS4HT5R3K3", "length": 1263, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "repository.uwc.ac.za", "title": "Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Subject \"Satisfaction\"", "raw_content": "Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Subject \"Satisfaction\"\nBody image satisfaction among a sample of black female South African students \ufeff\nMwaba, Kelvin; Roman, Nicolette V. (Society for Personality Research (Inc.), 2009)\nNumerous research studies have established a strong relationship between body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. As more and more young people in South Africa embrace Western values, the aspiration to attain the Western ...\nCaregivers' satisfaction with physiotherapy services at a cerebral palsy clinic in Kampala, Uganda \ufeff\nOmare, Helen; Struthers, Patricia (University of the Western Cape, 2006)\nINTRODUCTION: The evaluation of satisfaction with health care service provision is important when trying to provide quality care. 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However, relatively few studies on the subject have been conducted in South ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://revital-sh.com/interview-with-author-georgina-ellis.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:56Z", "digest": "sha1:2JVMP6UJOJORLH7PRMINK7BM7U3IGZZ2", "length": 3816, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "revital-sh.com", "title": "Revital shiri-horovitz | Interview with Author Georgina Ellis", "raw_content": "Today I am interviewing Author Georgina Ellis. Georgina has written an awesome time traveler novel, and is currently working on a second one.\nHi Georgina, and welcome! I am happy to have you here, and am looking forward to our interview. When and how did you find out you like to write?\nGeorgina Ellis:\nI started writing poetry at the age of twelve. It was probably pretty bad, but for me, it was an expression that I needed. I never thought about being a writer though. I was always interested in acting; I studied it in school and pursued it for many years \u2013 I\u2019m a member of the Screen Actors Guild, and I still act in films sometimes.\nWhat was the first thing you wrote that you showed other people?\nA sonnet. We were studying Shakespeare in high school sophomore English, and so I decided to write one in Shakespeare\u2019s style using the same rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter. My English teacher almost fell over. Then in college I translated a Shakespearean sonnet into Spanish for my professor and he said, \u201cMagnifico!\u201d But still, no urge to write anything much lengthier at that time.\nWhat brought you to writing a time traveler book?\nI had read so much Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes, and I was in love with 19th century England. I began to ask myself, (usually while trying to fall asleep at night) what would it be like if I could time-travel to that time \u2013 especially Austen\u2019s time of Regency England. What would I do, who would I meet, could I fit in if I had just the right training? Eventually, that thought developed into a story that I thought I should write down.\nWhat was the process of \u201cfinding your characters\u201d?\nWell my main character, Cassandra, is a much more beautiful and talented version of me. Kind of like, if I could be the most accomplished me possible, and if I could change my looks however I wanted, what would I be like? That person became Cassandra. Then her son is based on my son, her love interest(s) on sort of a combination of intriguing men that I know, including my husband. Beyond that, characters crop up as needed and I find they sometimes resemble friends of mine or I find I\u2019ve borrowed a few traits from characters in a favorite novel \u2013 but just a few.\nHow does it feel to be married to another author? Do you share your ideas? Thoughts? Feelings regarding writing?\nMy husband Jon (author of If I Can Lose It\u2026a middle-aged tech-fanatics extraordinary journey and guidebook for losing weight) is my best collaborator and critic, though what he gives me is always constructive. He was the one, when I told him about this time-travel story in my head, who said, \u201cWrite it down!\u201d and always encouraged me to keep going with it. We have and still do collaborate on screenplays, have directed plays together, and he has directed me in plays and films. We love creating together and think of ourselves as a team. He\u2019s also my tech and design guy for formatting, designing and everything else.\nHow has writing changed your life (or not)?\nIt\u2019s totally changed my life. Not only is it my passion now, above all else, besides my family, but it\u2019s given me a daily expression that acting can\u2019t give me. And, it\u2019s even becoming a viable source of income!\nPlease tell us something you would like us readers to know about the book you are working on now.\nI\u2019m working on the sequel to The Time Baroness; it\u2019s called The Time Goddess. In it, Cassandra travels to pre-Civil War New York City, and before she knows it, gets involved in Abolition, The Underground Railroad, and an unexpected passion.\nWhen do you think you will be ready to publish your next book?\nI should be ready with it by the end of the summer. I\u2019d say latest in early fall, so please look for it!\nThank you, Revital, for inviting me to share with your readers.\nThank you Georgina for this fascinating interview.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rinkworks.com/rinkforum/view.cgi?post=111185", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:46Z", "digest": "sha1:H2F3G7ELCHJLRZXTYXGT4IMF25H6XDAF", "length": 128, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rinkworks.com", "title": "Message Forum: Sinbad Comic: Episode 118: A Very Impromptu Recap", "raw_content": "Now that I think about it, it would have been more appropriate if the long gap happened somewhere in the middle of comic #115...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 108.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rmrholdings.com/team/heidi-kelly/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SKE4CMKVLWSHHSVQUDJLLBEMEYWPT2UT", "length": 1015, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rmrholdings.com", "title": "Heidi Kelly - Rocky Mountain Resources | Agriculture, Energy, Mining & Industrials", "raw_content": "Heidi Kelly serves as Executive Vice President at RMR. She has 20+ years of vast financial experience ranging from Fortune 500 public companies to privately owned investments. Ms. Kelly is responsible for overseeing operations, financial reporting, internal controls, and accounting policies. Previously, she served as Chief Financial Officer for a privately held infrastructure company where she led the team to recording a double digit increase in overall revenue and margin expansion. During her tenure there she executed the development of comprehensive financial analysis and reporting systems to ensure sustainable cost reduction and profit improvement initiatives. Prior to that, Ms. Kelly was with CH2M Hill and American Health Properties, where she was responsible for all Financial reporting and SEC filings. She began her career with Arthur Andersen LLP. Ms. Kelly is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Accounting from Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, Colorado.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 107.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rootsbytheriver.blogspot.com/2010/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:24Z", "digest": "sha1:UEAMIMU5JCL4P64S3E6ZDTRAPWDFIPI4", "length": 2301, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "rootsbytheriver.blogspot.com", "title": "Roots by the River: December 2010", "raw_content": "I would like to draw your attention to several verses of scripture. I want you to notice the prepositions.\n\u201cyet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live\u201d (I Corinthians 8:6).\n\u201cThe Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross\u201d (Colossians 1:13-20).\n\u201cIn the past God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets at many times and in various ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom also he made the universe. The Son is the radiance of God\u2019s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs\u201d (Hebrews 1:1-4).\n\"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it\" (John 1:1-5).\n\"Jesus answered, \u201cI am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me\" (John 14:6).\nWhy am I drawing attention to these small words? Because they tell us something about the object of the preposition, normally the word immediately following. 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The color is usually considered as due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese, in the massive material. Some rose quartz contains microscopic rutile needles which produces an asterism in transmitted light. Beliefs : Rose quartz is often called the Love Stone. It's energetic hallmark is that of unconditional love that opens the heart chakra. This makes rose quartz a stone for every type of love: self-love, family, platonic, romantic, and unconditional. As a variety of quartz, rose quartz has high energy, and this strong energy can enhance love in virtually any situation. The item \"Large Rose Quartz Frog / Toad Carving Pink Crystal Great Gift Madagascar 1.5KG\" is in sale since Tuesday, September 26, 2017. This item is in the category \"Collectables\\Rocks, Fossils & Minerals\\Crystals\". 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The line is scheduled to be put into commercial operations for January 2019, with the welding of the first party of the new products, which will become an alternative to imported fuel tanks, as stated by Kamaz press office.\nThe new line has been designed taking the global requirements and standards for safe and efficient production into account. Within the framework of the project, it\u2019s planned to manufacture fuel tanks within the capacity range of 260 to 900 litres. The aluminium tank production line will allow real-time monitoring of the manufacturing quality of tanks as an essential component of Kamaz trucks, as well as improving their design in response to the growing market and customer demand.\nTags:\tKamaz\nLADA Jordan has opened the first showroom in Amman\nUral car factory marks the 75-year anniversary\nRenault Russia has started the production of the renewed Duster\nChevrolet Niva production has started in Kazakhstan\nUAZ has resumed car supplies to Italy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://russianmathblog.com/2010/11/a-few-facts-about-math-in-america/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:MLL66HFNKIQTUW6PCZL2Z4BQKANRICXE", "length": 3936, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "russianmathblog.com", "title": "A few facts about math in America", "raw_content": "Recently the National Academy of Sciences published an answer to their previous report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm, which described some fundamental problems challenging America\u2019s place in the world (i.e. lack of investment in infrastructure, R&D, and a failure in our education system).\nThe new Report, Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Revisited is available as a free PDF and offers some fascinating facts. The point is fairly direct: to remain competitive we HAVE to increase our leadership and investment in R&D and to do that we need more engineers, scientists, etc. Of course, that\u2019s hard to do since our schools aren\u2019t creating them.\nThis echos with my own sense that global competition is creating a different kind of competition in the workplace. Whether you get an education in Massachusetts or Xian China, matters a lot less than the quality of the education.\nThe World Economic Forum ranks the United States 48th in quality of mathematics and science education.\n69% of United States public school students in fifth through eighth grade are taught mathematics by a teacher without a degree or certificate in mathematics.\nThe average American K-12 student spends four hours a day in front of a TV.\nAccording to the ACT College Readiness report, 78% of high school graduates did not meet the readiness benchmark levels for one or more entry-level college courses in mathematics, science, reading and English\nI love mathematics and think it MUST be taught differently and taken more seriously. But please consider this point: Henry Ford was dragged into court to prove that he only had an eighth grade education and thus was too incompetent to run America\u2019s largest company (at the time) because he couldn\u2019t even solve simple math problems. He said that he could call on some of the greatest engineering and business minds in the nation at the mere push of a button so why would he need to know everything they knew. The case was dismissed.\nKnowledge of math and ability to use it are not the same thing. Ability to solve complex math problems is far from empowering one to translate real world challenges into simple input-output systems which can THEN be solved with math is not the same as knowing novel ways to solve differential equations (or even knowing what they are and that they exist).\nA decent computer programmer would know exactly how to figure out formulas and calculate required HVAC sizes, given house layout, or load berring structure required to hold up a certain weight. Yet you don\u2019t see too many programmers designing and architecting their own homes.\nThe mere fact that China outperformed America in mathematics education does not create a \u201cproblem\u201d per se. Soviet Union was better than America ever was, but we know what happened with that. The real problem, is that American education does not offer required pillars to teach children to THINK. And for that matter, Chinese system is just as bad, relying very heavily on shear brute hard work at practice and memorization. Makes for great Olympic spectacles, but just as impractical in real world. I work with Chinese mathematicians and developers frequently. They drive me up the wall because all they can do is\u2026 do. They can\u2019t solve a single problem outside of what they\u2019ve seen before. I won\u2019t generalize. A country of 2Bln people surely has its stars. But the educational system hardly deserves credit.\nMay I ask you to write a follow up article, that answers the one missing question from this one. \u201cAmerica underperforms in mathematics education, and ranks 48th\u2026 SO WHAT?\u201d What\u2019s the real problem? What are your suggestions on solving it? Without answering this question, this blog may as well be less \u201cmath education is lacking, join RSM\u201d, and more \u201csocial rejection of non-smokers on the rise, buy a pack today!\u201d (surely it doesn\u2019t take that much imagination to see how 20 years ago this slogan would fly so well as an ad on national TV).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 6239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rutasdovino.xunta.gal/en/aviso_legal.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:05Z", "digest": "sha1:AU542RR6S6D4CNJ4IY5KF5ODGOYMVECL", "length": 3531, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "rutasdovino.xunta.gal", "title": "Legal Notice || Wine Routes", "raw_content": "1. 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The title sequence section will contain a specially commissioned introduction from Ben Radatz, Partner and Creative Director at the Kansas City-based MK12 (Stranger Than Fiction, The Kite Runner, Quantum of Solace) as well as write-ups and interview excerpts from Art of the Title.\nWe would personally like to thank Andrew Blauvelt at the Walker and Ellen Lupton at the Cooper-Hewitt for this opportunity. It has been a tremendous honor to work with them on this and we are extremely proud and excited to be present for the opening.\nThe first major museum exhibition on graphic design in more than a decade, Graphic Design: Now in Production will run from October 22, 2011 - January 22, 2012 in Minneapolis and then travel to New York in the summer of 2012 and other venues thereafter.\nIan Albinson, Art of the Title\nAndrew Blauvelt, Walker Art Center\nJeremy Leslie, magCulture\nEllen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution\nArmin Vit and Bryony Gomez-Palacio, Brand New\nGraphic Design: Now In Production is co-organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York.\nWalker Art Center (Photograph j. fo)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sailing.agyra.com/2010/02/learning.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:J4FCSDSKKNPY7A2D3LJHJPRIFQAGREJ3", "length": 888, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sailing.agyra.com", "title": "boat|afloat: Learning", "raw_content": "Finding out about boat repairs became my latest obsession. As I frequently talk about obsessions here, I need to clarify that when I say obsession I do mean it: it's something I think about all the time and I devote almost all my energy to it, without necessarily achieving the desired outcome..as my obsessions come an go.\nMost of the research I did was online in an effort to minimise my expenses which are bound to mount if I want to make the repairs. I found out about the different types of wood: there's hardwood and softwood - I never knew about that distinction. Then I found out about the properties of different species of wood: teak, mahogany etc. I checked wood prices. Then I though tabout the tools I'd require. And the possibility of having to unstep the mast, which I do not like at all to be honest.. as it probably means that I'll have to take the boat out of the water.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sarahannecarter.com/tag/historical-fiction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2KY4VUVT2YNFV7OYWRLTWWSXSCR4F46M", "length": 1948, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "sarahannecarter.com", "title": "historical fiction Archives - Sarah Anne Carter", "raw_content": "\u201cIt was a secret as small as a leaf. It belonged only to her.\u201d Greta was born into the elite financial family Goldbaum and wants for nothing in life until she is forced to marry a distant cousin and realizes love may be completely out of her reach in House [\u2026]\n\u201cThe monster\u2014if there was one\u2014never revealed itself to me again. But what I had learned over the past year was that monsters abound, usually in plain sight.\u201d Maddie has lived a life devoid of love. She is an afterthought to her parents with a father focused on business and a [\u2026]\n\u201cI hate this famine,\u201d Meg whispered in his ear. \u201c\u2019Tis the cruelest thing in all creation.\u201d The village of Kelegeen in Ireland is struck by the potato famine and each family does what it takes to survive. The first year isn\u2019t so bad as most have pigs or services they [\u2026]\nKelegeen by Eileen O\u2019Finlan\nThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged historical fiction on November 2, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter\n\u201cWere we women always destined to appear as we were not, as long as we were standing next to our husbands?\u201d Anne and Charles Lindbergh were America\u2019s favorite couple when they were making strides in the aviation front. Together, they charted new routes and went places no airplane had gone [\u2026]\nThis entry was posted in Reading and tagged historical fiction on October 29, 2018 by Sarah Anne Carter\n\u201cWhat did it say about society that the best a lowborn educated girl could hope for was respectable servitude?\u201d Clara Kelly leaves Ireland to find a better life for her in America and to send money back home to her family. Wandering the streets, not knowing where to look for [\u2026]\nCarnegie\u2019s Maid by Marie Benedict\nIf you are stopping by to find questions for your book club, please leave a note for me telling me where you are from! Welcome to the September Online Book Club. This month we\u2019re discussing The Aviator\u2019s Wife by Melanie Benjamin. The Aviator\u2019s Wife tells the story of the Lindbergh\u2019s from [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sashley.com/articles/managingaerosolissues.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:23ODE3DLEWCKQYD3VULTJ4EWNLZ2W3XB", "length": 12488, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "sashley.com", "title": "Police managing Aerosol Issues, pepper spray, asr, mace, police training, use of force, Steve Ashley", "raw_content": "Managing Aerosol Issues\nThe use of aerosol weapons by law enforcement agencies has skyrocketed during recent years. As more and more agencies have adopted spray devices, concerns have arisen regarding aerosol program implementation and management. Three issues which consistently raise significant concerns are aerosol training, placement of aerosols on a Force continuum, and in-custody death.\nTRAINING WITH AEROSOLS\nAerosol weapons (referred to most commonly as aerosol subject restraints, or ASR\u2019s) are one viable method for controlling resistive behavior. In this regard, they are no different than any other control option. Verbal direction, defensive tactics, batons, and firearms are other methods of exerting control. We train with each of these control mechanisms in order to enhance officer safety and to reduce the threat of litigation. ASR\u2019s should be managed in the same way.\nOne issue that is regularly raised is that of exposure to ASR\u2019s during training. Some officers have resisted this, using the time-worn excuse that if they aren\u2019t shot with a handgun during firearms training, they shouldn\u2019t have to be exposed to aerosol\u2019s during ASR training, while others have legitimate concerns regarding potential medical complications. In order that training can be as effective as possible, these concerns should be addressed by administrators and trainers.\nAn edited version of this article appeared in the March, 1996, Law & Order Magazine\nIt is universally accepted that the more realistic training is\u2014the more it approximates actual street conditions\u2014then the more relevant, defensible, and useful it is. However, we can only make training so realistic, without forfeiting safety. During the past few years trainers have gone to great lengths to make training more realistic and job related, and this has shown up in our firearms, defensive tactics, and driver training. Training would be most realistic if we could shoot each other, or ram into each other\u2019s vehicles, during classes, without actually injuring each other, but we obviously cannot. We can, however, spray each other in dynamic simulation with almost no potential for injury.\nInjuries are always a concern with use of force training, and can frequently be attributed to the training environment, as opposed to the actual training instruments themselves. Just as there is a possibility of an injury during Defensive Tactics training or on the firearms range, there is a possibility of injury during dynamic simulation training with aerosols. For this reason, its important to properly design and implement your use of force training program.\nTraditional methods of control such as firearms and impact weapons, have a long history of use. Officers are acculturated (although television has created a \u201cmyth\u201d which leads many officers to believe their weapons are more effective than they are) to expect certain results when using these weapons. This is not the case when using aerosols. Firearms make holes in people, and represent the supreme measure of control. Impact weapons\u2014most notably batons or sticks\u2014are used to deliver a physical blow, much like a punch or kick. Aerosols, however, merely spray a liquid, which may or may not have an effect on the target. Additionally, under certain conditions, aerosols are likely to effect others in the area, including the officer.\nOfficers must develop sound expectations regarding the outcome of an ASR use, both as to the likely reaction of the subject they are trying to control, and to the likely result of being sprayed themselves. The survivability of an ASR related encounter may depend, in large part, on an officer\u2019s having been sprayed in training. There have been several cases around the country where officers have attributed their survival to having been sprayed during ASR training, and at least one case where the lack of proper training probably led to an officer\u2019s death at the hands of a violent assailant.\nThere are many reasons to expose officers to aerosols during training, running the gamut from enhanced officer safety and decreased tendency for horseplay to litigation defensibility. While some departments allow officers to carry ASR\u2019s without being exposed, and others require a minimal exposure (most typically walking through an \u201cairborne fog\u201d or wiping a small amount of agent on the cheek with a finger), the vast majority of trainers nationally have recommended training exposures, as have manufacturers. Many recommend a dynamic full spray \u201chit\u201d as opposed to a \u201cwipe\u201d or \u201cairborne fog\u201d exposure, in keeping with our need to conduct the most realistic training possible. A dynamic \u201chit\u201d is generally defined as a one to two second burst sprayed directly into the face of a student who is simulating a struggle or resisting a simulated arrest.\nSome state OSHA organizations have stated that, while exposure should be voluntary, it is acceptable to require an exposure prior to allowing an officer to carry an ASR on the street. Many nationally recognized trainers recommend this approach, and encourage a full, dynamic training exposure. Because this type of training involves a potential risk exposure, sound loss control practice dictates that this be conducted only with appropriate safety and medical controls in place, such as securing adequate decontamination supplies and equipment, developing an effective exposure and decontamination process, and having an EMT or Paramedic on site.\nTHE APPROPRIATE CONTROL LEVEL\nOne troubling question regarding aerosols is where they fit on any particular force continuum. The key to the use of any control mechanism is objective reasonableness, as required by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and as adjudicated in Tennessee v. Garner, 105 S.Ct. 1694 (1985), and Graham v. Connor, 109 S.Ct. 1865 (1989). We frequently attempt to place specific weapons, such as ASR\u2019s, on a continuum of force. Consider, however, the difficulties this creates.\nWe develop and utilize continuums primarily as training aids. From the beginning of an officer\u2019s career, we illustrate the relationship between resistance and control in this way. Yet, whenever we use our training aid, we are forced to explain \u201cexceptions\u201d to the continuum. The best example of this is the baton. Most continuums consider baton use \u201cintermediate force\u201d, yet we must explain that a baton strike to the head is actually \u201cdeadly force\u201d. This is confusing, and complicates the use of our training aid.\nMost other weapons suffer this same fate. Firearms represent deadly force, yet exert a lesser controlling effect when present and in a holster, or when merely held in the hand at the officer\u2019s side. Restraint devices such as handcuffs represent, in many systems, empty hand control. Yet they can be used as an impact weapon, and are therefore intermediate force. Other examples are obvious.\nBecause of this \u201cflexibility of effect\u201d, it is inappropriate to place specific weapons, including ASR\u2019s, at any given location on a continuum of force. Once a particular weapon is locked into a specific location on whatever continuum of force/control that a given department uses, any use of that weapon elsewhere on the continuum necessitates explanation, and usually results in confusion. Most often the explanations are required in court, and the confusion usually resides in the minds of officers, supervisors, and attorneys\u2014and juries.\nWeapons are instruments of control, and most can be used to manifest various levels or types of control, depending on an officer\u2019s reasonable assessment of the need for control. This assessment must be reasonably based on the officer\u2019s evaluation of each given situation, rather than some artificial construct outlined in a force/control continuum. The standard must be \u201cobjective reasonableness\u201d, as clearly established by constitutional case law.\nASR\u2019s, as well as other weapons, should not be specifically placed on a continuum, but should be considered a reasonable response to the articulable need to control a threatening or resistive subject.\nMONITORING THE AFTERMATH\nThere is much anecdotal, often erroneous information regarding the connection between ASR\u2019s and Sudden In-Custody Death Syndrome (SICDS). An examination of various SICDS incidents from around the country (approximately 58, according to one report) indicates that this connection is essentially non-existent.\nThere have indeed been SICDS cases, although many of these cases have occurred over the years prior to the widespread use of ASR\u2019s by police. Some have occurred during the past several years, in cases where ASR\u2019s have been used during the arrest process. But, this appears to be the only connection.\nIn only one case\u2014the death of Angelo Robinson, in Concord, North Carolina\u2014has competent medical authority linked a death to the use of \u201cpepper spray\u201d. The Medical Examiner in this case stated that the death of Mr. Robinson was due to, \u201c...bronchospasm, precipitated by pepper spray...\u201d However, this was after stating that there was no physically identifiable cause of death, and after referring to the temporal relationship between the use of the spray and the death. Other medical experts have reviewed these findings, and indicated that the ruling could just as appropriately have gone the other way.\nIn other SICDS cases where an aerosol was used during the arrest process, no connection has been substantiated. Most often, death is attributed to positional asphyxia, cocaine psychosis, excited delirium, or simple exhaustion of the cardio-vascular system. Space precludes an in-depth examination and discussion of each of these factors here. Suffice it to say that the only one of these factors that officers have any control over is positional asphyxia.\nPositional asphyxia is caused by the inability to breathe, due to some interference with the mechanical functioning of the body. Prime candidates for positional asphyxia are subjects who are transported on their stomachs, hog-tied, or placed face down during a struggle with an officer\u2019s weight pushing down on their back.\nIt is common in SICDS cases for subjects to stop breathing during arrest or transport, and for officers to discover this some time later. One key to management of SICDS appears to be careful monitoring of any subject who is taken into custody, and upon whom force is used. A review of SICDS cases reveals that in a significant number, this was not done. Officers should be trained to carefully monitor the condition of those they arrest, particularly if force was used.\nASR\u2019s are a viable method for controlling resistive behavior. There is far less likelihood of suspect injury with an aerosol weapon than with a baton or firearm, and far less likelihood of officer injury than with empty hand control techniques.\nAerosols allow the officer to maintain a \u201ccushion of safety\u201d, and reduce the necessity to move in and grapple with an unruly subject. One Midwestern State reports that approximately one half of the police related worker\u2019s compensation injuries reported each year are suffered by officers during a forcible arrest situation.\nOfficers should be trained, and retrained, as with any other weapon system. In the interest of officer safety, initial training should be as realistic as possible, following manufacturer\u2019s recommendations. Policies should be adopted which call for objectively reasonable use of all control options, including aerosols. Policies should also require proper post exposure monitoring and first aid.\nReducing Your Aerosol Risk\n\u00b7 Select an ASR from a reputable manufacturer.\n\u00b7 Adopt a policy governing the use of aerosols. Include language on training considerations and reporting requirements following use of aerosols.\n\u00b7 Avoid the placement of specific weapons onto specific levels in your department\u2019s force/control continuum.\n\u00b7 Require training of all officers BEFORE allowing carry or use of any weapon/control option.\n\u00b7 Utilize training programs that meet your State POST Council\u2019s guidelines for use of force programs, and that are POST approved.\n\u00b7 Conduct the most realistic training possible.\n\u00b7 Develop appropriate safety and medical controls for your training program.\n\u00b7 Require a minimum of annual retraining with all issued/approved weapons/control options. More frequent training is recommended.\n\u00b7 Require careful post use-of-force monitoring of subjects, especially when aerosols are used.\n\u00b7 Require a written Resistance Control Report whenever force is used.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 13583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sbc.qrendi.skola.edu.mt/activities/chess-academy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MHVWYMLXFHPCHV4HLCTJSZLJARCBS4LO", "length": 1417, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sbc.qrendi.skola.edu.mt", "title": "Chess Academy \u00ab Qrendi Primary", "raw_content": "St. Benedict College, in conjunction with the Malta Chess Federation, officially launched a Chess Academy for students in schools belonging to the College to provide high qulaity chess lessons and to imporve the level of play of its students. The Academy is know as \u201cSt.Benedict College Chess Academy\u201d in English or \u201cL-Akkademja ta\u010b-\u010aess tal-Kulle\u0121\u0121 San Benedittu\u201d in Maltese.\nThe objectives and activities for which the Academy is established are:\n\u2013 to promote a healthy education for leisure, across all ages;\n\u2013 to promote thinking skills through the game of Chess;\n\u2013 to promote problem solving through investigative, original and creative skills;\n\u2013 to promote the game of chess and make it accessible to everyone in a safe and healthy environment;\n\u2013 to provide \u2018expert\u2019 training to the intermediate and advanced player/s.\nThe Chess Academy is an independent non-profit making organization. The income and property of the Academy will be applied to promote the objectives of the Academy. A fully equipped chess room has been set up at St. Benedict College Boys\u2019 Secondary School with standard chess boards and pieces, chess timers, demonstration board, a video projecor and a laptop with Chess installed software to facilitate the teaching of Chess.\nChess training, as an after school programme, is open for all students aged 7 upwards. Should you require further information, do not hesitate to contact our school.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/133077", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:39Z", "digest": "sha1:BO3RTDECEXON5RS5JL6NLXFSUJYKTZQ4", "length": 2803, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "scholarbank.nus.edu.sg", "title": "Hepatitis B vaccine boosters: Is there a clinical need in high endemicity populations? | ScholarBank@NUS", "raw_content": "Title: Hepatitis B vaccine boosters: Is there a clinical need in high endemicity populations?\nAuthors: John, T.J.\nCooksley, G.\nChan, V.F.\nChang, M.-H.\nDavid, A.M.\nHuang, L.-M.\nIsahak, I.\nIsmael, S.\nKhiem, H.B.\nKunasol, P.\nLung, L.Y.\nWah, L.B.\nLee, C.-Y.\nLolekha, S.\nMerican, I.\nSeong, N.H.\nPaje-Villar, E.\nPoovorawan, Y.\nSulaiman, H.A.\nYoung, B.\nKeywords: Boosters\nCitation: John, T.J., Cooksley, G., Chan, V.F., Chang, M.-H., David, A.M., Huang, L.-M., Isahak, I., Ismael, S., Khiem, H.B., Kunasol, P., Lung, L.Y., Wah, L.B., Lee, C.-Y., Lolekha, S., Merican, I., Seong, N.H., Paje-Villar, E., Poovorawan, Y., Sulaiman, H.A., Young, B. (2005-01). Hepatitis B vaccine boosters: Is there a clinical need in high endemicity populations?. Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia) 20 (1) : 5-10. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1746.2004.03398.x\nAbstract: The Steering Committee for the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases in Asia recently conducted a survey of primary-care physicians in Asia, which revealed that many physicians administer boosters in their clinical practice and that there is considerable variation and uncertainty among physicians regarding this practice. This paper serves as a response to physicians' uncertainties by reviewing the literature regarding the administration of hepatitis B vaccine boosters in high endemicity areas and presenting the Steering Committee's guidelines for booster administration. While there are few data to support a need for routine hepatitis B vaccine boosters as a public health measure, they help to provide reassurance of immunity against breakthrough infection in certain risk groups. In clinical practice, primary-care physicians must exercise their judgment regarding the need for booster vaccination on an individual basis. This paper examines the available literature on the administration and value of hepatitis B vaccine boosters, explores the differences between the public health approach and clinical practice, and provides guidelines for those who use boosters in high endemicity Asian populations. Relevant articles were identified through searches of MEDLINE (1975-2003) and the Cochrane Library, using 'hepatitis B' and 'booster' as primary search terms. Guidelines for those who decide to administer hepatitis B vaccine boosters include: boosting approximately 10-15 years after primary vaccination; boosting rather than not when monitoring of antibody levels is not feasible; boosting immunocompromised patients when the antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen titer falls below 10 mIU/mL; and boosting healthcare workers based on the endemicity of the particular country. \u00a9 2004 Blackwell Publishing Asia Pty Ltd.\nSource Title: Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://science.sciencemag.org/content/282/5391/1003.3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:54Z", "digest": "sha1:G3X7RASMNBYOZDPE2K5TD6PMHO7KVJFU", "length": 1375, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "science.sciencemag.org", "title": "Hot Picks | Science", "raw_content": "A hard rai. This year's Leonid meteor shower\u2014a hail of debris from the trail of the Tempel-Tuttle comet\u2014has been upgraded to a storm. But don't stay indoors on the night of 17 November: Astronomers predict that the storm will make for spectacular viewing, the best since 1966. For news on the upcoming storm and general meteor information, turn to www-space.arc.nasa.gov/\u223cleonid\nGoing on record. Tens of thousands of years separate the first known records on stone and bone from today's speedy e-mail, and sandwiched in between are everything from clay tablets to papyrus to zip disks. Celebrating this information evolution is an exhibit at the University of Iowa Libraries, with an online version that features a bonanza of photos of early and modern writings, along with explanatory text. www.lib.uiowa.edu/ref/exhibit\nIntimate look at STDs. With the help of a swanky new database, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Los Alamos National Laboratory are hoping to give a boost to new treatments for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The site offers the genomes of the chlamydia and syphilis organisms, both completed in the last year, along with powerful search capabilities\u2014all of which, its creators expect, will encourage feedback and new data from researchers. http://www.stdgen.lanl.gov/\nYou are going to email the following Hot Picks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 4456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 259.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sck.be/en/News/20171107_MarieCurie", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLDJQCIVCNATXS5FK53645ATWKYLYO2J", "length": 4618, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "sck.be", "title": "SCK\u2022CEN celebrates the 150th birthday of Marie Sklodowska-Curie / News / SCK\u2022CEN - SCK\u2022CEN", "raw_content": "SCK\u2022CEN \u00bb News \u00bb SCK\u2022CEN celebrates the 150th birthday of Marie Sklodowska-Curie\nSCK\u2022CEN celebrates the 150th birthday of Marie Sklodowska-Curie\nRadioisotopes produced by SCK\u2022CEN are still used for brachytherapy\nOn Tuesday 7 November 2017, the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK\u2022CEN) celebrates the 150th anniversary of Marie Sklodowska-Curie\u2019s birth. Marie Curie paved the way for nuclear physics, chemistry as well as radiobiology and cancer therapy. This day is dedicated to one of science\u2019s greatest pioneers and to 120 years of international research in radiobiology. In a video message, young pupils from the European school in Mol showed what Marie Curie means for them.\nMarie Sklodowska-Curie is one of the very first female scientists and she performed groundbreaking work throughout her life. In 1898, three years after the discovery of X-rays by R\u00f6ntgen and two years after the discovery of the existence of radioactive materials by Becquerel, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie find out that uranium decays in other elements by emitting radiation. She named one of those elements \u201cpolonium\u201d in reference to her country of birth, Poland, and another element \u201cradium\u201d, a compound formed out of the Latin word \u201cradius\u201d meaning \u201cray\u201d. She received two Nobel Prizes : one in physics and the other in chemistry. She was also the first woman to receive one. In 1903, she shared the Noble Prize in Physics with her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel. She was the first woman to be awarded a second Noble Prize in 1911.\nHer discovery of radium laid the foundations for nuclear medicine and mainly radiotherapy. Currently, radiation therapy encompasses two techniques of which one is called brachytherapy. Brachytherapy makes use of irradiation and was originally named after Marie Curie (curieth\u00e9rapie in French) and her discovery of radium. The Belgian Reactor 2 at SCK\u2022CEN plays a crucial role in producing various types of medical radioisotopes. These are used for cancer treatment and are still being used for brachytherapy.\nMarie Sklodowska-Curie and Belgium\nDuring the first World War, Marie Curie manipulated radium for medical purposes. Her mobile units, small cars named the \u201cpetites Curies\u201d, were used to analyse the soldiers\u2019 wounds thanks to X-ray equipment. Marie Curie visited Belgium at least 11 times with her mobile units. Together with her daughter Ir\u00e8ne, she would bring her knowledge in medical radiobiology to hospitals at the Yser Front and around Ypres. She shared this knowledge with doctors and nurses. She also helped to install equipment in these hospitals.\nIn 1915, a geologist from the Union mini\u00e8re finds out uranium oxide in Congo. This uranium ore was brought to Belgium after World War I. The Union mini\u00e8re then built the first radium factory in Olen, close by Mol. In 1921, Marie Curie came to visit this factory in particular. There, radium, an element she had discovered, was extensively purified. It could then be used in the medical field, for instance in radiotherapy to cure cancers. More than half of all the radium in the world comes from Belgium, from the radium factory in Olen. This radium production played an important role in the Belgian radium industry. Belgium dominated the world market in the \u201820s and \u201830s. After World War II, better radionuclides for radiotherapy have been found.\n\u201cIt is important to remember the pioneers. Marie Sklodowska-Curie made a significant contribution to science and we are still benefiting from it. I actually started my career in science thanks to her. My doctoral thesis focused on the noble gas radon. Marie Curie is a model for scientists\u201d, explains Hans Vanmarcke, head of expert group Interdisciplinary Biosciences and chairman of the UNSCEAR, a scientific committee within the UN.\nUnveiling at SCK\u2022CEN\nThis 150th anniversary could not be disregarded. SCK\u2022CEN asked experts from different fields to present the discoveries and applications of Marie Sklodowska-Curie in our society all day long. In the afternoon, an official delegation will inaugurate a wing of the radiobiology laboratory and name it after Marie Sklodowska-Curie. Finally, pupils from elementary and secondary school will talk about the influence Marie Sklodowska-Curie had on our society.\nHans Vanmarcke, head of Expert Group interdisciplinary biosciences\nEric van Walle, Director-General\nChristian Legrain, Secretary-General\nJoanne Doberszyc-Toulsaly, minister-counselor, Polish Ambassy\nSarah Baatout, Head of Unit Radiobiology\nFrank Deconinck, member Board of Governors\nHildegarde Vandenhove, Institute Director Environment, Health and Safety", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 7492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_i=1&sp_q=css&sp_a=sp1001b2df&sp_n=691&sp_s=1&sp_m=0&sp_f=iso-8859-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:31Z", "digest": "sha1:GNQZNBKOIH7AH4B2S3GFEIHIJ2DSTSMH", "length": 248, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "search.atomz.com", "title": "Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: Search Me", "raw_content": "65% http://www.zeldman.com/category/glamorous/page/12/\n65% http://www.zeldman.com/category/technorati/\n67% http://www.zeldman.com/category/markup/\n65% http://www.zeldman.com/category/futurefriendly/\n66% http://www.zeldman.com/category/csszengarden/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 252.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://secretariat-policies.info.yorku.ca/policies/acceptance-of-gifts-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:35Z", "digest": "sha1:FFCTEAUCHQXB5YYQOYD45VQQJJSPNFXN", "length": 8800, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "secretariat-policies.info.yorku.ca", "title": "Acceptance of Gifts Policy | Secretariat Policies", "raw_content": "Acceptance of Gifts Policy\nApproved by the Board of Governors: 1995/06/26; Date Effective: 1995/06/26, Amended: 2006/12/04, Amended: 2018/05/01\n1. Purpose and Summary\nThis policy is intended to guide the acceptance of gifts made to York University including how gifts are valued and receipted.\nThis policy applies to all persons, including students, involved in any aspect of fundraising on behalf of York University. It applies to all gifts from donors.\nGift: a gift of money or other property irrevocably given to the University without any expectation of advantage to the donor or any third party designated by the donor.\nExpendable Gift: a gift which will be spent in its entirety over a period of time, in accordance with an established schedule or at the University\u2019s discretion.\nEndowed Gift: a gift to be invested permanently to produce an income either for the general benefit of the University or for a specific purpose. Only income generated from the gift is spent, not the original funds provided by the donor.\nRestricted Gift: a gift for which the donor has identified a specific purpose for its use.\nUnrestricted Gift: a gift for which the donor intends the University to decide how to use the funds.\nYork University welcomes gifts from individuals, organizations, corporations, foundations and governments to help us achieve our academic mission, to enhance our programs and support our students.\nThe University values and will protect its integrity, autonomy and academic freedom. It will not accept gifts when a condition of such acceptance would result in an abridgement of its academic freedom or its integrity.\nAcceptance of gifts will be done in a manner that respects the responsibility of the Board of Governors for the financial affairs of the University and the responsibility of Senate for academic policy matters including establishing academic programs and awarding scholarships.\n5. Gift Acceptance\nThe University may receive the following types of gifts consistent with requirements of the Canada Revenue Agency and the laws of the Province of Ontario:\nGifts of residual interest\nThe University may accept or decline to accept any gift or donation and will make its decision to do so on the basis of what is in the best interest of the University in the circumstances.\nUnless subject to an agreement to use the gift for a specific purpose (i.e. restricted), gifts are received unconditionally and may be used for such purposes as the University determines are most appropriate (i.e. unrestricted).\nIt is not the practice of the University to manage gift annuities, but rather to purchase reinsured gift annuities from life insurance companies.\nThe University will not serve as a trustee of charitable remainder trusts.\nAll financial assets held by the University are invested in accordance with policies established and approved by the Board.\nAll donors may choose to have their gift fully expended or, if the gift is $25,000 or more, to have it endowed. All donors may direct their gift to a specific faculty/department or approved project.\nOwnership of all gifts vests in York University whether or not they are for the benefit of the University generally or for some specific purpose in it.\nIn appropriate circumstances, the University may involve a donor in providing advice on the program or project being funded where such involvement is consistent with the principles identified in section 4 of this policy.\n6. Relationship With Donors\nAll University representatives engaged in fundraising will conduct themselves in accordance with accepted professional standards. They will inform, serve, guide and otherwise assist donors who wish to support York\u2019s activities but will not pressure or unduly persuade donors.\nAll University representatives are required to declare any potential conflict of interest, real or perceived, they may have in engaging in fundraising activities with a specific donor or group of donors. The Vice-President, Advancement or delegate will consider the potential conflict of interest and determine what action, if any, should be taken.\nThe University does not provide any legal, accounting, tax or financial advice to donors with respect to gifts to the University. Donors are encouraged to seek independent legal, accounting, tax or financial advice from professionals and are responsible for all costs incurred in relation to obtaining such advice.\n7. Gift Valuation and Receipting\nIn all cases, the University will value and receipt gifts in a fair and equitable manner and based on Canada Revenue Agency guidelines.\nReceipts will be issued for gifts of cash based on the amount received. Year-end gifts will qualify for current tax year receipts if they are post marked in the current year or officially received at York in the current year.\nReceipts for gifts of publicly traded securities which are electronically transferred from a donor\u2019s broker to the University\u2019s broker will be issued based on the closing value of the security on the day it is received in the University\u2019s brokerage account.\nUnder exceptional circumstances, such as a gift of illiquid securities, the University reserves the right to assess the fair market value of the securities and issue a receipt that best reflects the true value of the securities under normal and active market trading, as provided for by Canada Revenue Agency guidelines.\nIt is the University\u2019s general practice to sell securities immediately upon receipt. The University reserves the right, on a case by case basis, to sell securities over a period of days, weeks or months when it is determined that the regular trading volume is not sufficient to absorb the securities without significantly and adversely affecting their value.\nThe University also reserves the right to refuse to accept a gift of securities that has negligible value in normal and active market trading.\nNon-cash gifts will be valued and receipted based on appraisals obtained by the donor and the University. It is the University\u2019s practice to have the donor pay for appraisals. The University reserves the right to obtain, at its expense, its own appraisal in addition to the donor\u2019s appraisal.\nFor gifts-in-kind or gifts-in-purchase-discount of a company\u2019s products or services, it is the University\u2019s practice to value such gifts based on the difference between the actual amount paid (if any) and the lower of the public sector discounted price and retail price.\nReceipts for cash sponsorships will be issued based on the amount received. For sponsorships of products and services and other in-kind support, valuation will be in accordance with the \u201cGifts-in-Kind\u201d section of this policy. The University issues business receipts, not official charitable tax receipts, for corporate sponsorships.\nGifts of Cultural Property\nYork University will accept gifts of cultural property and shall follow the procedures for application, valuation and receipting as prescribed by Heritage Canada, the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board and Canada Revenue Agency as they may from time to time change.\nGifts such as life insurance policies, gifts of residual interests, charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, gifts of retirement benefits, and other planned gift vehicles will be valued and receipted using the formulas employed by recognized bodies such as the Canadian Association of Gift Planners and approved by Canada Revenue Agency as they may from time to time change.\nAs delegated by the President, the Vice-President (Advancement) is responsible for ensuring that York University\u2019s gift acceptance process is compliant with this policy and that the highest standards of professionalism are followed in the solicitation of gifts and in working with donors. The Vice-President (Advancement) may authorize staff within the Office of the Vice-President (Advancement) or in other areas of the university to negotiate gifts and prepare gift agreements with prospective donors.\nAll gift agreements must receive the appropriate internal approvals, consistent with the York University Signing Authority Register. The Vice-President (Advancement) will be responsible for ensuring the proper approval and execution of each gift agreement is completed and will attest to this by signing every gift agreement.\nOnly the Office of the Vice-President (Advancement) is authorized to issue charitable receipts and will do so in accordance with the requirements of the Canada Revenue Agency.\nThe Vice-President (Advancement) or his/her designate will develop guidelines for documentation of gifts and their designation to ensure that the donor\u2019s wishes are articulated and met.\n\u2190 Repeating Passed or Failed Courses for Academic Credit, Policy on\tConflict of Interest for Employees (Policy and Guidelines) \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 10819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 233.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://selectbedandbreakfasts.com/city_best_bed_and_breakfast-Calistoga_CA.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:45Z", "digest": "sha1:QBGUTPSSJV526FPETR4BTDBLBLYEM4Q5", "length": 142, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "selectbedandbreakfasts.com", "title": "Calistoga Bed and Breakfasts - Select Bed and Breakfast Hotel Inn Directory", "raw_content": "Bed and Breakfasts in Calistoga, CA\nThere are currently 11 known bed and breakfasts in Calistoga.\nList all bed and breakfasts in Calistoga, CA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sf.ilghub.org/category/news/odep-news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZV3HAYPCSCCTZ5U4YS4LZXFONMHJSMJ", "length": 2082, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sf.ilghub.org", "title": "ODEP News \u2013 South Florida Industry Liaison Group", "raw_content": "Category: ODEP News\nBody: blog-20180726-ADA.png This Administration is committed to ensuring all Americans can access good, family-sustaining jobs. As we pursue this goal, it is important to reflect on policy that significantly expanded the opportunity to work for millions of Americans. This Read More\nBody: Lauren Karas (center front) poses with colleagues at the USBLN 2016 annual conference. During my junior year at Elon University, I was searching for a summer internship in the District of Columbia, reviewing job openings, and pursuing numerous leads Read More\nBody: blog-20171130-WorldAIDSDay.jpg Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day, an annual opportunity for people across the globe to celebrate our successes in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and reflect on the work that remains. It\u2019s also a time to support people Read More\nBody: Click here for a video featuring Derek Schwartz. Today there are more than 6 million job openings in the United States, and more than 500,000 people with disabilities are seeking jobs. 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I love this time of year, when we count down to warmer weather and all the quintessential signs of spring. It\u2019s also the time we celebrate Deaf Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 5061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sfappeal.com/2014/02/sfpd-investigating-circumstances-behind-double-stabbing-on-the-embarcadero/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:CBEFDH2E663EQUJLYT2AQS4JZXMQS42J", "length": 738, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "sfappeal.com", "title": "SFPD Investigating Circumstances Behind Double Stabbing On The Embarcadero", "raw_content": "SFPD Investigating Circumstances Behind Double Stabbing On The Embarcadero\nembarcadero SFPD stabbing by Bay City News | February 3, 2014 5:22 am\t| in Crime | 0\nTwo people were stabbed near San Francisco\u2019s Embarcadero early this morning, police said.\nOfficers responded to the incident at The Embarcadero between Piers 5 and 7 and the other at Sacramento and Drumm streets around 4:15 a.m., according to police.\nA man and woman were transported to San Francisco General Hospital, police said.\nThe man was stabbed in the chest and is in serious condition, police said.\nThe woman, who was stabbed in the leg and back, is in stable condition, according to police.\nPolice are on scene investigating the stabbings and no arrests have been made.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shahrefarang.com/en/tag/diva-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IUNK2YZQJTVCVIZW5NFYHWEREYO5J5FB", "length": 575, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "shahrefarang.com", "title": "Diva Archives | ShahreFarang", "raw_content": "Currently viewing the tag: \"Diva\"\nIranian popular music changed most radically in the 1960s, when it shifted from the traditional to the western style that would dominate the 1970s. Faegheh Atashin, most famously known as Googoosh, is one of the major contributors to the western style of pop music. Originally pressed on the vinyl format in 1960s and 1970s, her songs and performances were banned after the Iranian revolution of 1979 but her music preserved via the cassettes in the 1980s and CDs in the 1990s in diaspora. Here are her vinyl record covers mainly from 1970s.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 142.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shameoncyprus.com/unfathomable-levels-corruption-graft/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:01Z", "digest": "sha1:3ADC3ENGEOHNTLYVOR6ZNATTLBWMWGMS", "length": 3670, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "shameoncyprus.com", "title": "\u2018Unfathomable\u2019 levels of corruption and graft - Beyond Contempt", "raw_content": "CYPRUS is seeing \u201cunfathomable\u201d levels of corruption and graft, despite the blows it has been dealt recently, both Attorney-general Costas Clerides and Auditor-general Odysseas Michaelides said at an event on combating corruption on Monday.\nThe event, organised by the justice ministry and the University of Nicosia, featured speeches by Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou and the two independent officials.\nAll agreed that incidents of corruption can be seen at all times, both in Cyprus and abroad, and that combating the phenomenon requires a policy of zero tolerance.\nNicolaou said the number of cases of corruption investigated by police has doubled since 2014, and that the state is looking at consolidating 24 laws that touch on corruption offences into a unified piece of legislation.\nClerides said that, while corruption in the country has been dealt numerous serious blows, it continues to exist, not just in Cyprus, but in every state.\n\u201cUnfortunately, through money and self-interest, anything can be achieved,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIdeas are guided, individuals and institutions are targeted, consciences are bought, crimes are committed.\u201d\nBut such alarming and disappointing realisations must under no circumstances be allowed to undermine the task of combating corruption and graft, the AG said.\n\u201cOn the contrary, they should comprise reasons for doubling down and further strengthening the resolve with which such incidents will be addressed,\u201d he noted.\n\u201cThe blows against corruption must continue and intensify. Only if the message that corruption crime does not pay, but instead is paid for, the situation may improve substantially.\u201d\nTaking the floor, Michaelides said the level of corruption is a lot higher than what he expected when he took over as auditor-general in 2014.\n\u201cI dare say that anyone who wished to abuse his position, could do so,\u201d he said.\n\u201cHe had ample opportunity and an almost complete assurance of non-punishment.\u201d\nThe only ones who did not partake in corruption, he added, were those with a truly strict conscience, \u201cthose who had strong morals and values\u201d.\nOne example of graft, he said, is the mud slung at the attorney-general \u201cfrom particular media\u201d in the last few days.\n\u201cOne has to wonder how much lower some can sink, when they shamelessly preach about ethics and due process, having divorced ethics themselves,\u201d Michaelides charged.\nThe Audit Service, he added, was plagued by incomplete checks.\n\u201cWe had a mountain of checks that had not been completed for years,\u201d he said.\n\u201cAnd let\u2019s admit it: sometimes the service was being used as a tool to cover up, rather than expose, scandals. I am saddened to say it, but I can\u2019t subscribe to a policy of offering immunity to every previous official, since that would blatantly clash with the principles of accountability.\u201d\nThe prime driver of corruption is financial, the auditor-general said, citing specific examples.\n\u201cRecently, we looked at a former state official, now retired,\u201d he said.\n\u201cHe has no children and I wondered whether he thought he would take his ill-gotten gains with him to the grave. Then I found out he has a gambling addiction.\u201d\nIn another instance, Michaelides said, \u201cwe were investigating the suspicious actions of a public official who managed large sums\u201d.\n\u201cWe suddenly got a tip that he has a drug addiction,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWe relayed the information to the drug squad and, after a time, we were told that our information had been correct.\u201d\nBy ANGELOS ANASTASIOU\nCopyright Cyprus Mail \u2013 See original article for comments from expats\n\u2190 Another try with the Ministry of Energy, Commerce, Industry and Tourism\nJustice Minister calls anti-police-corruption bill \u2018toothless\u2019 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 5180, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shareastrology.com/news.asp?currentpage=388", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JZNQIP6XEGGKD2XA5JPUID3IVGNMY3YZ", "length": 866, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "shareastrology.com", "title": "Welcome to the ShareAstrology Predication Section. Here you will find the both our latest as well as archive of our previous predictions.", "raw_content": "7-Apr-2011 : today market trend maybe very volatile, maybe bearish. major trend change time 10:00, 11:41, 12:14, 2:35. niftyf levels 5766, 5796, 5827, 5857, 5884, 5914, 5934, 5958.below 5914 bearish trend. Shareastrology offer to you 3 month subscriptions in only Rs. 8,000/-. last date 8-4-2011. MAA DURGA gives ...\n6-Apr-2011 : today market trend maybe very volatile, maybe bearish.major trend change time near 9:20, 10:02, 12:18, 2:34.niftyf levels 5796, 5827, 5857, 5876, 5906, 5938, 5954, 5978, 6007. below 5938 bearish trend. yesterday STBT nifty f @ 5936 tgt 5886, 5848, 5808. monday STBT STBT niftyf @ 5945. tgt 5885, 584 ...\n5-Apr-2011 : today market trend maybe very volatile, maybe bearish. major trend change time 10:06, 12:11, 1:21, 2:38. niftyf levels 5857, 5877, 5908, 5932, 5952, 5978, 5998, 6021. below 5952 bearish trend. www.shareastrology.com ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 3402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shoalspresbyterian.com/commonquestions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MI3QW27BGGOAOBYSO4PWMILNW4UWB6RX", "length": 2697, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "shoalspresbyterian.com", "title": "First Presbyterian Church - Sheffield, Alabama", "raw_content": "We believe that a sacrament is a special act of Christian worship which uses visible signs to present God\u2019s grace for us in Jesus Christ. We also believe that two sacraments were given by Jesus: baptism and the Lord\u2019s Supper.\nBaptism: We believe that through baptism we are adopted and welcomed into God\u2019s family. In the waters of baptism we share in the dying and rising of Jesus, who washes away our sins. We are made one with him and with all who are joined to him in the church.\nLord\u2019s Supper: We believe that in the Lord\u2019s Supper we are fed at the table of God\u2019s family. Through the bread that we eat and the cup that we drink, the Lord offers us his body and blood. He renews our faith and gives us the gift of eternal life.\nWe believe that prayer draws us closer to God. We were created to live with God, who desires the prayers of our hearts and our hearts long for God and so we seek God in prayer. When we pray we adore God, confess our sins, give God thanks and pray for the needs of others and ourselves. Each Sunday we also pray as Jesus taught his disciples to pray in the words of the Lord\u2019s Prayer which is: Our Father, who art heaven, hallowed by thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever. Amen.\nOur particular congregation is governed by people elected from and by the congregation. The people elected form our governing body, called the Session, and are called elders. Together with the pastor, the elders exercise leadership, government, and have responsibilities related to the life and welfare of our congregation. At First Presbyterian, these responsibilities include, among other things, being faithful in attending worship, being a part of the mission and outreach of the church and working with the different committees.\nPC (USA) church\nFirst Presbyterian is part of the Presbyterian Church (USA) denomination. We believe in and follow the PC (USA)\u2019s constitution and support the larger church. You can learn more about the PC (USA) by visiting the denomination\u2019s website. As part of the PC (USA), we believe in a connectional church. We are not a congregation serving on our own but in connection with others. To that end, we work and serve as part of the North Alabama Presbytery. You can learn more about our presbytery ties through its website. Many of the Presbyterian beliefs are evidenced in our seal. You are invited to take a moment to examine the seal and learn more about it as it reveals many of our core beliefs.\nPC USA Seal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://signworld.co.uk/pages/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCCENZXLKW77QJARDVRC7GZUGUQ772RX", "length": 1268, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "signworld.co.uk", "title": "SSP Signworld | About Us", "raw_content": "Established in 1987, Signworld began life as a general screen printer, supplying local companies with their requirements of signs and labels. In 1989 we embraced the Estate Agents market, commencing production of our first Estate Agency signs, and gradually grew into one of the UK\u2019s leading suppliers of Estate Agents signs.\nOver the years we\u2019ve continued to develop our association with Estate Agents and produced many new innovations for the market, including the first truly reflective printed boards. We\u2019ve continually invested in new technology to allow us to produce high quality printed signage in large quantities.\nIn 2006/7 we made large capital investments in new digital equipment, taking delivery of two new machines enabling us to offer our clients large format digital printing with very short lead times. This technology allows us to offer full colour, high definition digital prints onto almost any flat surface or roll-fed media at extremely competitive rates.\nFor 20+ years we\u2019ve built a reputation for dependability, quality of the highest standard and providing our clients with a service and product others can only aspire to. We are willing to go that extra mile to ensure you receive the service you desire and we deliver on time and on budget.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://siriusbuzz.com/forum/showthread.php?7601-The-climate-change-thread&s=ce7c4347e388fb6c6f06a5aa131281bf", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:25Z", "digest": "sha1:DENV4EAGTV7LV2DLSNOYTTEPY4ONVRUJ", "length": 9182, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "siriusbuzz.com", "title": "The climate change thread", "raw_content": "The climate change thread\nThread: The climate change thread\nPresident Donald Trump, who ignores all the irrefutable evidence that global temperatures are steadily increasing and believes global warming is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese in order to hurt US manufacturing, pulled the United States out of the Paris climate accord. All countries except the United States have agreed to work to limit global temperature rise to well below 2\u00b0 Celsius.\nThe United States is officially the only country to reject the climate accord\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/...w-what/545261/\nIn December 2017, when much of the United States experienced several days of Arctic air, heavy snow and single-digit temperatures, our climate-change-denying President tweeted, \"Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against.\"\nThis thread is for the discussion of global warming and/or climate change -- \"discussion,\" meaning other people besides myself need to participate. Don't make me beg and plead.\nThe five hottest years on record have occurred in the last decade. And yet there are still many people who refuse to believe the earth is getting warmer. Their philosophy seems to be: \"My mind is made up -- don't confuse me with facts.\"\n2017 was the third hottest year on record for the US\nScientific American, Jan 8 2018\nLast year was the third hottest on record in the United States, with an average temperature of 54.6\u00b0 Fahrenheit, 2.6\u00b0 above average. Only 2012 and 2016 were warmer than 2017, according a new report from NOAA. The five hottest years on record have been in the last decade, based on 123 years of record-keeping. The record heat means that every year since 1997 has been warmer than average in the United States. And in 2017, every state had a warmer-than-average year and 32 recorded one of their 10 hottest years on record. Five states -- Arizona, Georgia, New Mexico, North Carolina and South Carolina -- had their warmest years on record. Alaska had its warmest December ever, 15.7\u00b0 F above the average, for a statewide average of 19.4\u00b0.\nhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/a...d-for-the-u-s/\nTrump's infrastructure plan may ignore climate change. It could be costly.\nDan Drollette Jr, The Bulletin, Feb 12 2018\n\"We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways all across our land,\" said President Donald Trump in his recent State of the Union address. With that in mind, the President unveiled a plan today that would fulfill one of his signature campaign promises: a ten-year, $1.5-trillion effort to restore, rebuild and modernize the nation\u2019s aging infrastructure. Sort of.\nAs Slate noted: \"The first thing you need to know about Donald Trump\u2019s $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan is that it is, in fact, a $200 billion infrastructure plan. For those keeping score at home, it\u2019s $200 billion from Washington and another $1.3 trillion dollars of state, local, and private money to be determined at a later date.\"\nEngineers and researchers worry that the plan has both discounted climate science and weakened climate change regulations, which could lead to costly projects vulnerable to damage -- or rendered obsolete by rapidly changing flood patterns and extremes of weather. \"The impact of not considering climate change when planning infrastructure means you end up building the wrong thing in the wrong place to the wrong standards,\" said Michael Kuby, a professor of geographical sciences and urban planning at Arizona State University and a contributor to the federal government\u2019s National Climate Assessment. \"That\u2019s a whole lot of waste.\"\nA 2017 report by the Environmental Protection Agency concluded that, through the end of century, up to $280 billion will be needed to prepare the nation's roads and railways to the withstand effects of a warming climate. A White House spokesperson declined to discuss whether climate change projections were considered in the preparation of Trump's infrastructure plan. A New York Times article Times article noted: \"Since the beginning of his administration, Trump and his appointees have steadily worked to roll back climate change regulations. Trump\u2019s EPA chief, Scott Pruitt, has taken the lead role in the administration\u2019s efforts to undo climate policies and question the validity of climate science.\"\nhttps://thebulletin.org/trumps-infra...be-costly11503\nGeorge Strait had a country hit in 1987 which began, \"If you leave me, I won't miss you.....I don't love you.....Now if you'll buy that, I got some ocean front property in Arizona.....\" If the seas keep rising, that \"ocean front property in Arizona\" might become a reality!\nSatellite observations show sea levels rising and climate change is accelerating it\nCNN, Feb 12 2018 3:39 PM\nSea level rise is happening now and the rate at which it is rising is increasing every year, according to a study released today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers, led by University of Colorado-Boulder professor of aerospace engineering sciences Steve Nerem, used satellite data dating to 1993 to observe the levels of the world's oceans. The team observed a total rise in the ocean of 7 centimeters (2.8 inches) in 25 years of data, which aligns with the generally accepted current rate of sea level rise of about 3 millimeters (0.1 inches) per year. But that rate is not constant.\nContinuous emissions of greenhouse gases are warming the earth's atmosphere and oceans and melting its ice, causing the rate of sea level rise to increase. \"This acceleration, driven mainly by accelerated melting in Greenland and Antarctica, has the potential to double the total sea level rise by 2100 as compared to projections that assume a constant rate, to more than 60 centimeters instead of about 30,\" said Nerem, who is also a fellow with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science.\nSea level rise of 65 centimeters, or roughly two feet, would cause significant problems for coastal cities around the world. Extreme water levels, such as high tides and surges from strong storms, would be made exponentially worse.\nhttps://www.cnn.com/2018/02/12/world...ing/index.html\nSeveral Southern California cities experienced several days of record-breaking high temperatures in January 2018. February has been cooler but our usual winter rains still have not come. Los Angeles has had only 1.96\" of rain since July 1. The driest year was the year ending June 30, 2007, when only 3.21\" of rain fell. This year could set a new record.\nDry, hot California winter closes ski resorts, stalls wildflower blooms and revives drought fears\nScott Pruitt, Trump's EPA chief and climate change skeptic, flies first class to avoid angry public\nThe Independent, Feb 16 2018\nThe head of environmental protection in the US flies first class because he faces so many angry critics in airports and on planes, it has been revealed. Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, was advised by head of security Pasquale Perrottato to travel first or business class to provide \"buffer\" between him and the public. Pruitt has sparked anger during the year he has been in the job by denying that carbon dioxide is a key driver of climate change and staunchly supporting Donald Trump\u2019s plan to reinvigorate the US coal industry.\nLast month, Pruitt said one of his top priorities for 2018 was to replace the Clean Power Plan, former president Obama's centerpiece climate change regulation, which would have slashed carbon emissions from power plants. The agency began rescinding the regulation last year and is considering what should replace it. He has also suggested that rising temperatures could benefit people and has defended the US\u2019s decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.\nHere is an interesting article from Science detailing how grasses, crops and trees could pull CO2 from the atmosphere and then be burned at power plants to produce energy. Exhaust carbon would be captured and pumped underground. The process is called \"bioenergy with carbon capture and storage\" (BECCS) and is one of six proposed methods of removing carbon dioxide from the air and slowing global warming.\nVast bioenergy plantations could stave off climate change and radically reshape the planet\nhttp://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/...reshape-planet\nThis study was published today in Science Advances. Another study says two-thirds of Southern California's beaches could disappear by 2100. Scary.\nSalt marshes in California and Oregon could vanish by 2110 if seas keep rising and cities keep building\nThe king penguin is the second-largest penguin species in size. Emperor penguins are larger. I enjoy seeing penguins at various zoos and aquariums. This report is very disheartening:\nRising temperatures and overfishing could push Antarctica's king penguin population to the brink of extinction by 2100\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/environme...of-the-century\nOther than the President and the head of the EPA, does anyone still doubt global temperatures are rising?\nhttp://www.pennlive.com/nation-world...ve_freezi.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 12512, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sisterscrosstrichy.org/services/evangelization/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QG2D77YB2ZXBGYXB77DDFDH22SIKSWO2", "length": 565, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sisterscrosstrichy.org", "title": "Evangelization | Sisters of the Cross of Chavanod", "raw_content": "Our sisters participate in the primary mission of organizing small Christian communities, teaching Sunday catechisms, home and hospital visit, distributing communion in the parishes and carrying the Lord to the sick on Sundays. Sisters are trained in this ministry of evangelization and have a deeper study of the Word of God. For the past two years. The sisters were happy and enriched by their stay in a village during summer, accepting all the inconveniences and discomforts joyfully. Besides this in all our communities the sisters are engaged in pastoral work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 1883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sixtysecondoptions.com/494207-free-renee-conoulty.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:00Z", "digest": "sha1:LBH5UTWA7563NCALPH2GORNTJ4FF6ARU", "length": 913, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "sixtysecondoptions.com", "title": "Download Book Don't Mean a Thing PDF [MP3 AUDIO] Fully free!", "raw_content": "What if you finally took the lead, but life refused to follow?\nDownload Don't Mean a Thing PDF\nDownload Don't Mean a Thing ERUB\nDownload Don't Mean a Thing DOC\nDownload Don't Mean a Thing TXT\nRenee Conoulty is an Australian Air Force wife and mother of two. She writes stories of dance, romance, and military life including Don\u2019t Mean a Thing, Catching Onix, Wife, Mother, Woman, and Best Friends for Now.\nIf you run into Renee at the shops, make sure you wave to get her attention because she'll likely be listening to an audiobook or lost in a day dream.\nSign up forRenee's monthly newsletter for her highlights on blogging, reading, writing and life and recieve Dance, Romance & Military Life for free.\nReviews of the Don't Mean a Thing\nDownload EBOOK Don't Mean a Thing by Renee Conoulty Online free\nPDF: dont-mean-a-thing.pdf\nERUB: dont-mean-a-thing.epub\nDOC: dont-mean-a-thing.doc\nTXT: dont-mean-a-thing.txt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sjawards.aaas.org/2018winners", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:19Z", "digest": "sha1:B2NCCWWAYE5MNNKWJOTDAE2FFAMWLICN", "length": 18134, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "sjawards.aaas.org", "title": "Winners of the 2018 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards | Science Journalism Awards", "raw_content": "Stories on the long-sought pill for male contraception, the complicated legacy of a sexually proficient panda, and the environmental hazards posed by toxic algae and invasive mussels are among the winners of the 2018 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.\nThe judges also honored \u201cAlive Inside,\u201d a series by Houston Chronicle reporter Mike Hixenbaugh on efforts by a local hospital to restore patients with severe brain injuries, and \u201cThe Farthest \u2013 Voyager in Space,\u201d a documentary written and directed by Irish filmmaker Emer Reynolds on NASA\u2019s ongoing mission to the outer planets and beyond.\nThe science journalism awards, administered by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since their inception in 1945, honor distinguished reporting for a general audience. The awards, endowed by The Kavli Foundation, are open to journalists worldwide. There were entries this year from 54 countries.\nIndependent panels of science journalists select the winners. A Gold Award ($5,000) and a Silver Award ($3,500) are presented in each of eight categories. New \u201cVideo\u201d categories were established this year with stand-alone online videos now included in what had been \u201cTelevision\u201d categories.\nEmily Anthes, a freelancer for Bloomberg Businessweek, won a Gold Award in the magazine category for her story on the search for a male contraceptive. Maggie Koerth-Baker won a Gold Award for her lively online story for FiveThirtyEight about Pan Pan, the oldest known male panda at the time of his death in 2016.\nSilver Award winners included Tony Bartelme in the small newspaper category for a report in The Post and Courier in Charleston, S.C. on the impact of destructive algae blooms and an audio team from Montana Public Radio for an ambitious report on the threat of invasive zebra and quagga mussels in Montana waters.\n\u201cThese awards represent the highest quality in science journalism,\u201d said Rush Holt, AAAS chief executive officer. \u201cCongratulations to the winners for their important and compelling stories.\u201d The awards will be presented at a Feb. 15 ceremony held in conjunction with the 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.\nLarge Newspaper\u2014Circulation of 150,000 or more\n\u201cAlive Inside\u201d (series)\n\u201cHamburgs n\u00e4chste Elbphilharmonie?\u201d\n(\u201cHamburg's next Elbphilharmonie?\u201d)\nUnderground between Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg-Bahrenfeld in Germany, scientists and engineers have built a huge X-ray laser instrument, called European XFEL, that costs twice as much as Hamburg\u2019s new concert hall. Hasse told his readers what the physicists are up to in their backyard and how they try to illuminate the interior of matter and record films of atoms. When atoms come together during chemical processes to form molecules, he writes, the process happens \u201cabout a billion times faster than the wing beat of a hummingbird.\u201d With extremely short and intense flashes of light, the device can provide, among other things, shots of chemical reactions at the atomic level, three-dimensional images of important proteins and the start of protein folding. Wrongly folded proteins can form clumps thought to contribute to diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s. The \u201cmolecular cinema,\u201d as some researchers call it, is designed to give a computer-aided reconstruction of reality, atom by atom. Hasse described how the powerful X-ray laser flashes are produced when free electrons \u201cslalom\u201d through a series of magnets in the 1.7 kilometer-long particle accelerator of the XFEL. While the scientists were preparing for experiments underground, which began in 2018, not everyone on the surface was happy. There were some ground collapses during the tunneling for the machine and some structural damage to houses. Some homeowners had to fight for years for compensation. Judge Nancy Shute, editor in chief of Science News, called Hasse\u2019s piece \u201ca good description of a physics experiment and the oddness of fitting this in amidst modern German life.\u201d Hasse said: \u201cReporting science at a local newspaper can be a special challenge. Receiving this renowned award is a great incentive for me and an encouragement to do even better.\u201d\nSmall Newspaper\u2014Circulation less than 150,000\nGold Award:Kale Williams\n\u201cThe loneliest polar bear\u201d (series)\n\u201cWhat Do We Have to Do to Get the Male Pill?\u201d\nIn her exploration of the biology and chemistry of physical exercise, Nicola Twilley introduces the reader to Couch Potato Mouse and Lance Armstrong Mouse. Both had been fed a diet consisting almost entirely of fat and sugar and got little exercise. But while Couch Potato Mouse was lethargic, with rolls of visible fat, Lance Armstrong Mouse was lean, taut and active in its cage. It had been fed a daily dose of GW501516 or \u201c516\u201d, a drug that, as Twilley puts it, \u201cconfers beneficial effects of exercise without the need to move a muscle.\u201d Whether such drugs will ever prove beneficial for humans remains very much to be seen. GlaxoSmithKline, the developer of the compound, shelved it after mice treated with high doses began developing cancer at higher rates than their drug-free peers. But researchers continue to investigate the possibilities of an \u201cexercise pill\u201d and Twilley visited labs in the United States and the United Kingdom to explore the risks and potential benefits of trying to manipulate the body\u2019s metabolism even as the biological processes unleashed by physical activity remain quite mysterious. She even toyed with taking a dose of \u201c516\u201d herself (chemical supply labs have synthesized it for sale) but a small bottle of the substance remains on her desk, unused and developing a faint yellowish tinge. \u201cThe pitfalls and peculiarities of the search for a pill to replace exercise offer a fascinating window into the challenges of bioscience in the eternal search for a fountain of youth,\u201d said judge Dan Vergano. \u201cIn the reporting, what was most fascinating to me,\" Twilley said, \"was the way that the struggle to mimic the benefits of exercise artificially reveals how little we actually understand about the biological mechanisms behind those benefits.\u201d\nSpot News/Feature Reporting (20 minutes or less)\nJoss Fong, David Seekamp, Rubab Shakir, Laura Bult\n\u201cDesigner DNA, explained\u201d\nJennifer Green and Jules Bartl\n\u201cHow trees secretly talk to each other\u201d\nJennifer Green opened her short, animated video on trees with a simple message: \u201cTrees may look like solitary individuals. But the ground beneath our feet tells a different story. Trees are secretly talking, trading and waging war on one another.\u201d In just under two minutes, Green and animator Jules Bartl described the fungal network through which trees communicate, a system that has been nicknamed the \u201cWood Wide Web.\u201d If attacked by pests, trees can release chemical signals through their roots that can warn neighboring trees to raise their defenses. The judges praised the visual appeal of the animation and the amount of information it imparts. \u201cThis video is short and lighthearted,\u201d said judge David Baron, author and former health and science editor for Public Radio International\u2019s \u201cThe World.\u201d He added, \u201cThe animation is wonderfully artistic, and the script is vivid and fun. It shows that a science video doesn\u2019t have to be long to convey big ideas.\u201d Laura Helmuth, science, health and environment editor for The Washington Post, said Green and Bartl\u2019s entry \u201csends the viewer off with a wish to go outside and think about the natural world differently.\u201d Green and Bartl commented: \u201cIt has never been more important to understand and appreciate the wonders of the natural world, and we are both very excited and honoured to win the AAAS Kavli award for a piece we care so greatly about.\u201d\n(Note: Victoria Gill of the BBC recused herself from judging this entry.)\nIn-Depth Reporting (more than 20 minutes)\nEmer Reynolds, John Murray, Clare Stronge, John Rubin and Sean B. Carroll\n\u201cThe Farthest\u201d recounts the remarkable story of NASA\u2019s Voyager mission to the outer planets of our solar system and beyond. After more than 40 years of travels, the Voyager spacecraft are still in contact with Earth and returning data. Launched in 1977, the two Voyagers \u2013 each with less onboard computing power than a cell phone \u2013 used slingshot trajectories to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 left our solar system for interstellar space in 2012.\nVoyager 2 left it in November 2018. Each spacecraft carries a golden record with greetings, images and music from Earth for any civilization that might one day find them. The documentary tells about the new data and striking images the Voyagers returned in their swing through the outer solar system. But it also tells the human stories of the scientists and engineers who devised the bold mission and lived with it throughout their professional careers. Judge David Baron said of the film: \u201cIt is inspirational both in its construction and its content, which goes far beyond the science of the Voyager missions to the human drive to explore and understand where we fit in the universe.\u201d Speaking for the production team, Emer Reynolds , the Dublin-based writer and director of the film, said: \u201cWe are delighted and deeply honored to receive this prestigious award, not only on behalf of our whole wonderful, committed team, but especially on behalf of the engineers and scientists who designed, built and flew the extraordinary, and era-defining, Voyager spacecraft.\u201d\nJamie Lochhead and Charlotte Hunt-Grubbe\n\u201cOzone Hole: How We Saved the Planet\u201d\nMay 21, 2018 (SVT2)\nIt was an environmental and political success story that resonates in today\u2019s contentious debates over climate change. In the 1980s, the planet was threatened by the growth of a continent-sized hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica, a hole that scientists determined was due to the impact of human-made chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, found in refrigerants and hairsprays. The ozone layer provides vital protection from the sun\u2019s high-frequency ultraviolet rays. The alarming erosion of that layer provoked international concern and, eventually, the Montreal Protocol that led to the phasing out of CFCs. Two of the principal, and unlikely, actors in the drama were President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Anne Gorsuch, Reagan\u2019s EPA administrator, had told Congress that the research by F. Sherwood Rowland and Mario Molina on CFCs was highly controversial and cut the agency\u2019s research on them. But when Lee Thomas became EPA administrator, proponents of the ban gained an advocate. Secretary of State George Shultz convinced Reagan \u2013 who was no fan of regulation \u2013 that the threat was real. Margaret Thatcher, who was trained as a chemist, appealed to world leaders to provide the money to make the Protocol work. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to have leaders who can come to a conclusion and lead,\u201d Shultz says in the film. The same is true for action on climate change, says chemist Mario Molina, who shared a Nobel Prize for his role in the discovery of the CFC problem. Victoria Gill of the BBC called the film gripping throughout. \u201cIt is rare to see a chemistry story presented in such a human way,\u201d she said. Jamie Lochhead, writer and director of the film, said: \u201cAs climate change begins to feel like an impossible challenge, we felt that the story of how the world came together to fix hole in the ozone layer offered a timely message of hope.\u201d\nCathy Edwards (left) and Marnie Chesterton\nCathy Edwards and Marnie Chesterton\n\u201cCrowdScience: Is Carbon Dioxide Higher Than Ever?\u201d\nEach week the BBC\u2019s engaging \u201cCrowdScience\u201d program takes off on an adventure in response to a question from a listener. In their award-winning entry, producer Cathy Edwards and presenter Marnie Chesterton wound back the clock to three million years ago, the last time the atmosphere may have contained levels of heat-trapping carbon dioxide comparable to the levels we are experiencing today due to burning of fossil fuels. They visited a monitoring station on the east coast of the United Kingdom to describe how current carbon dioxide levels are measured. They spoke to specialists on ancient CO2 trapped in air bubbles in Antarctic ice, on the number of breathing pores, or stomata, of fossil leaves as a clue to ancient CO2 levels, and on the chemical composition of seabed fossils, another clue. They also discussed what the climate was like three million years ago and what kinds of plants and animals were around. They stressed what they learned from the scientists interviewed: \u201cIt\u2019s not the level of carbon dioxide per se that we need to worry about, but the speed at which it\u2019s rising.\u201d Christina Horsten, a correspondent for Deutsche Presse-Agentur, said it is \u201cjust incredible how one can make a palatable, accessible, fun and entertaining audio piece about a topic that, at first glance, doesn\u2019t lend itself to audio at all. Very well done.\u201d Producer Cathy Edwards said the award is \u201ca tribute to our listeners\u2019 amazing curiosity.\u201d She added, \u201cWe thought this question from our listener Thomas was really intriguing: doing detective work into ancient carbon dioxide seemed like a good way to explore \u2018how\u2019 we know what we know about climate change.\u201d\nNicky Ouellet, Eric Whitney, Josh Burnham and Nora Saks\n\u201cSubSurface: Resisting Montana\u2019s Underwater Invaders\u201d (series)\nNov. 20, Nov. 24, Dec. 4, Dec. 10 and Dec. 18, 2017\nMontana was invaded in the summer of 2017 by microscopic aliens floating in the waters of Tiber Reservoir in the north central part of the state near Shelby. The tiny organisms, which emit a glowing X-shape in the light of a microscope, were infant forms of invasive zebra and quagga mussels, species that already had invaded the Great Lakes with devastating impact. The organisms soon were found in the Canyon Ferry reservoir east of Helena and downstream in the Missouri River as well. The finding triggered immediate concern about the future health of Montana\u2019s fisheries and led Nicky Ouellet and her teammates at Montana Public Radio to mount an ambitious five-part podcast series on the destructive history of the mussels in other bodies of water, how they may have arrived in Montana, how they can be detected and controlled and what political decisions are needed to ensure a unified effort to attack the pests.\nOuellet travelled to affected waters in Minnesota and Wisconsin as part of her reporting. \u201cNicky Ouellet stages a tour-de-force of reporting on the mussel invasion of lakes and waterways across the United States,\u201d said judge Tina Hesman Saey, molecular biology writer for Science News. \u201cAll the while she presents science in nuanced and engaging ways.\u201d Ouellet said \u201cSubSurface\u201d is Montana Public Radio\u2019s first venture into podcasting. \u201cWe\u2019ve been overwhelmed by our listeners\u2019 support, as well as recognition from our peers and experts in the field,\u201d Ouellet said.\n\u201cThe Complicated Legacy of a Panda Who Was Really Good at Sex\u201d\nThe judges praised Maggie Koerth-Baker for an exhaustively reported, elegantly written story about bringing a species back from extinction. It went well beyond the popular image of pandas as cute, iconic creatures who are photogenic representatives of zoo-based conservation efforts. As Koerth-Baker wrote, \u201cBehind the big eyes and rounded frames that signal vulnerability and cuddliness to the human brain, pandas are real, live 200-pound bears. Bears that can shred your flesh. Bears that roll around in the dirt and turn themselves dingy gray. Bears that grow old and frail.\u201d She told the tale of Pan Pan, who was the world\u2019s oldest known male panda at the time of his death in 2016 at the age of 31. Of the 520 pandas living in research centers and zoos, mostly in China, 130 of them are descendants of Pan Pan. And \u201cjust as living bears are messier than their plush, gift-shop counterparts, the reality of conservation science is more complicated and nuanced than a poster or a press conference can convey,\u201d Koerth-Baker wrote. \u201cPan Pan\u2019s story is about human triumph \u2500 and it\u2019s also about our limitations. Even the most well-intentioned plans have unpredictable consequences. And we can never truly erase a legacy of harm.\u201d Judge Alexandra Witze, a contributing correspondent for Nature, called Koerth-Baker\u2019s piece \u201ca masterful exploration of the gritty realities of conservation science \u2500 and what it really takes to perpetuate a species.\u201d Nsikan Akpan, a digital science producer for the PBS NewsHour, said the writing was \u201cheartfelt and contained the perfect balance of reporting and character narration.\u201d Koerth-Baker said Pan Pan \u201cbecame incredibly important to my understanding of how humans are changing the world around us \u2500 the mistakes we can correct, and those we can\u2019t. I\u2019m grateful to him, to the sources who told me about his life, and to the team that made this story possible.\u201d\n\u201cFighting to the End\u201d\n\u201cWhy do we have butts?\u201d\n\u201cWhy am I so sweaty?\u201d\nAnna Rothschild has a knack for telling stories that both entertain and enlighten her young audience. In one of her award-winning segments, Rothschild explained the evolution of the digestive tract and why the human posterior looks like it does. In the second piece she explored the functions of sweat, from the days when our ancestors were evolving to more efficiently cool their bodies as they became more active in chasing prey (and avoiding predators). And as Rothschild points out, \u201cGetting a super-efficient way to dump excess heat may have been part of what allowed our brains to get larger. So, rather than complaining about pit stains, thank your lucky stars that you\u2019re the sweaty ape that you are.\u201d Andrea McDaniels, a health and medicine reporter for The Baltimore Sun, said she \u201cabsolutely loves\u201d Rothschild\u2019s videos. \u201cThere was great use of props and corny songs to draw kids in,\u201d she said. Rothschild said she created her program \u201cas a way for kids and parents to explore science together. 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In 2015, Yo La Tengo shined a light on the Pillow\u2019s shadowy demimonde with their cover of the band\u2019s \u201cAutomatic Doom.\u201d Now, The Special Pillow unleash Sleeping Weird, their \u2026\nSince the dissolution of indie \u2026\nA marvelous blend of \u201960s psychedelia and \u201990s space-rock textures . . . a fanciful, dreamy set of low-key, jangly/droney pop nuggets, with literate, \u2026\nThe follow-up to 1997's critically acclaimed ANCIENT HISTORY, INSIDE THE SPECIAL PILLOW features tracks produced by Michael Deming (of Lilys, Pernice Brothers, and Beachwood Sparks fame), in addition to an array of masterful musical moments captured in rehearsal studios, living rooms, bedrooms, and \u2026\nThe Village Voice praised ANCIENT HISTORY \"blissful and expansive and The Ptolemaic \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 7048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sportstickets.net/Elgars-The-Dream-of-Gerontius", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:76RI7HIAJ5XNGCIMMBPC32MQSX3H6AG3", "length": 168, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sportstickets.net", "title": "Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius Tickets", "raw_content": "Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius\nElgar's The Dream of Gerontius is always a great hit with every crowd. 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Besides the games, we spent some good time combining our terrain collections and photographing the result, the result of which can be seen below.\nItinerant January 18, 2016 at 3:23 PM\nExcellent buildings!\nspqrdave January 21, 2016 at 12:02 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 4890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ssapchat.com/accounting-standards-update-no-2018-02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:46Z", "digest": "sha1:AR4GG5H2VJOVMACY6VGR2WW2U6WJ53GK", "length": 2040, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ssapchat.com", "title": "ASU 2018-02 | Insurance Accounting | Irvine CPA | Insurance Accounting", "raw_content": "Accounting Standards Update No. 2018-02\nIncome Statement-Reporting Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Reclassification of Certain Tax Effects from Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income\nReading time: 1 minute 5 seconds\nOn December 22, 2017, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was enacted, reducing the federal income tax rate on corporations to 21%. 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With this ASU, the tax effects can be reclassified into retained earnings and therefore, not impact earnings or distort financial performance. If you have questions about how this will impact your insurance entity, please contact us here or call at 818-334-8623.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ssj.org.nz/index.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:57Z", "digest": "sha1:MC7QEUIVQMOAUKQ2OK7WQ7RZWYYA5PUH", "length": 1032, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ssj.org.nz", "title": "Home", "raw_content": "the Sisters of St Joseph, Whanganui\nWe are a group of Catholic women religious living and working in the North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand in partnership with many others who share a common Josephite vision. Our first foundation and heart-place is in the city of Whanganui on the Whanganui River.\nOur story begins in Adelaide, South Australia in the 1860's. An English priest, Julian Tenison Woods, shared his vision with a young Australian of Scottish descent, Mary MacKillop.\nIn 1880 Sisters Hyacinth, Joseph, Clare and Teresa left Perthville to begin the New Zealand branch in Whanganui in the central North Island.\nThe usual Parish Mass for St Mary\u2019s Church in Whanganui on Sunday 25th August had a bigger congregation than usual, as many visiting Sisters of St Joseph joined parishioners in thanksgiving.\nFollowing the Parish Mass on Sunday 25th August, two busloads of Sisters from near and far set off on a brief \u2018whistle-stop\u2019 tour of some of the significant places for the Whanganui Sisters within the city.\nA Matou Mahi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 229.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stacysrandomthoughts.com/2016/04/what-the-hell-did-i-say-i-aint-your-mama-so-lets-get-loud-with-new-romantics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:59Z", "digest": "sha1:WGJM6PTUJRNQFLNLUXWJY4J63YHM7DEA", "length": 3794, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "stacysrandomthoughts.com", "title": "What The Hell Did I Say? I Ain't Your Mama, so Let's Get Loud with New Romantics! | Stacy UncorkedStacy Uncorked", "raw_content": "What The Hell Did I Say? I Ain\u2019t Your Mama, so Let\u2019s Get Loud with New Romantics!\nFlowers are blooming, the weather is warming up exponentially \u2013 spring is in full force in all it\u2019s glory making for some beautiful days. Even the rainy days, today of which is not one of them.\nLet\u2019s start off with an artist who laughingly said he\u2019s kind of messing with his fans \u2013 in a good way. He\u2019s been rolling out a four-part music video series to give his fans bits and pieces so the album is an exciting process for them.\nThis particular video (freshly uploaded just this past Saturday) is the second one of the four, with the initial story arc continuing with lighthearted bar scenes, yet heavy as a hangover in its depiction of what happens in the aftermath of the drunken night out \u2013 which brings a whole new life to his playful tune.\nHere\u2019s the talented Dierks Bentley with \u201cWhat The Hell Did I Say\u201d:\nNext up is a double-header since this artist performed a new tune plus a previous hit during the series finale of American Idol, giving everyone a taste for what her Las Vegas showcase will be like. The first song she performed was written by meghan Trainor, who I love as well.\nThe second song she performs debuted in 1999, and gave this artist her second consecutive nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording with the song. An accompanying music video was filmed live at the 1999 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup.\nGet up and dance with the gorgeous and multi-talented Jennifer Lopez with \u201cI Ain\u2019t Your Mama\u201d and \u201cLet\u2019s Get Loud\u201d:\nLast, but definitely not least, this next artist made waves last week when she dropped this new music video. The lyrics go, \u201cThe best people in life are free,\u201d but her video was only available for a fee on Apple Music. Some fans felt it was unnecessary to pay for a music video, especially after they pay to support the artist in other ways \u2013 like by purchasing albums and concert tickets.\nSome fans (including myself) theorized the music video would eventually be released for free on Vevo like the rest of her music videos from the same album, and we were right! It dropped late last week.\nThe video is like a sparkly love letter to everyone who supported this artist during her latest tour.\nGive a listen to the incredibly talented Taylor Swift with \u201cNew Romantics\u201d:\nTags: american idol, Dierks Bentley, I Ain't Your Mama, Jennifer Lopez, Let's Get Loud, linky, Meghan Trainor, Monday Music Moves Me, Music, Music Monday, Music Video, music videos, new music, New Romantics, new tune, taylor swift, What The Hell Did I Say\nThis entry was posted in Monday's Music Moves Me, Music Monday and tagged american idol, Dierks Bentley, I Ain't Your Mama, Jennifer Lopez, Let's Get Loud, linky, Meghan Trainor, Monday Music Moves Me, Music, Music Monday, Music Video, music videos, new music, New Romantics, new tune, taylor swift, What The Hell Did I Say by StacyUncorked. Bookmark the permalink.\n6 thoughts on \u201cWhat The Hell Did I Say? I Ain\u2019t Your Mama, so Let\u2019s Get Loud with New Romantics!\u201d\nI always like Lopez and Swifts performances (that sounded like a new duo) LOL\nHave a superbtastic week Stacy \ud83d\ude42\nOoooh! That would be something to see, wouldn\u2019t it? Lopez and Swift collaborating! Maybe they\u2019ll be inspired to do so! \ud83d\ude00\nI love the Taylor Swift performance. Great choices\nThanks Patrick! Taylor Swift is awesome. \ud83d\ude42\nJoyce on April 18, 2016 at 8:45 am said:\nI didn\u2019t even know Jennifer Lopez sang. Taylor Swift never ceases to amaze me. She has been great to her fans, too. Have a wonderful Monday.\nYes! JLo sure is multi-talented! I\u2019ve been enjoying watching her on the new Shades of Blue TV show. \ud83d\ude42 Taylor Swift always amazes me, too \u2013 she has been awesome to her fans, hence the reason she has so many of them! Big hearted (and talented) artists are the best. \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 17340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://standard-democrat.com/story/2564543.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:19Z", "digest": "sha1:NNY3MA26SS5CFHD2WRJKNTSHPB6LEYKB", "length": 1485, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "standard-democrat.com", "title": "Obituary: Barbara Chidester (11/6/18) | Standard Democrat", "raw_content": "Barbara Chidester\nBENTON, Mo. \u2014 Barbara Kay Chidester, age 61, died Nov. 5, 2018, at her home in Benton.\nShe was born Oct. 28, 1957, in Portageville, daughter of the late Elmer and Vonie (Kirby) Atteberry.\nOn Sept. 21, 1972, at Portageville, she was married to Melvin Riley Chidester; he survives of the home in Benton.\nOther survivors include: two sons, Rodney A. Chidester (Emily) of Benton and Brandon L. Chidester (Wendi) of Sikeston; five daughters, Kimberly K. Anderson (Timothy) of Ash Grove, Stephanie D. Uhrhan (Michael) of Chaffee, Chrystal L. Chidester (Regional) of Commerce, Alicia I. Chidester (Keith) of Cape Girardeau and Kathy S. Chidester (Stephen) of Benton; two brothers, Elmer Lewis Atteberry of Tucson, Ariz., and David Atteberry of Blytheville, Ark.; four sisters, Alice Carnell and Janet Chidester both of Hayti, Joyce Leonard of Ste. Genevieve and Judy Schmidt of Dexter; 21 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.\nIn addition to her parents, Barbara was preceded in death by two brothers, one sister and one grandchild.\nVisitation will be held Thursday, Nov. 8 from 5 to 8 p.m. at Cape First Sikeston, where visitation will again be held on Friday, Nov. 9 from 11 a.m. until time of funeral services at 1 p.m.\nBurial will follow in the Unity Baptist Cemetery at Benton.\nPallbearers will be: Shannon Chidester, Douglas Beggs, Austin Uhrhan, Nicholas Ponder, Kodi Chidester, and Greg Carlisle.\nPonder Funeral Home of Sikeston is in charge of arrangements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 289.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://statcenter.blogspot.com/2014/07/karl-malone-refused-to-decline.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:20Z", "digest": "sha1:X6YXQKDTMHN2LE44JUEWI3EMUAPTN22Y", "length": 862, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "statcenter.blogspot.com", "title": "Statcenter | NBA stats, trends and visualizations: Karl Malone refused to decline", "raw_content": "Karl Malone refused to decline\nHappy birthday, Karl Malone. Most of us know he was a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and that he retired as possibly the greatest power forward of all time. But to me, his greatest legacy has always been that he had arguably the greatest late-career stretch of any player in NBA history. Here's how his age 32-39 years compare to the others who won MVP's in the 1990's - Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, and Charles Barkley.\nWhere Malone's peak fits in with the other superstars is debatable. His playoff successes and failures deserve the attention they always seem to attract. But his unparalleled ability to stay at an elite level - it's remarkable and frankly unprecedented, and it should be the first line of his NBA biography.\nLabels: charles barkley, david robinson, hakeem olajuwon, karl malone, michael jordan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 162.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stemnorthamptonshire.weebly.com/about-us.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DX73RXR4WUI7BGZOXTSVNUET7EJ5EXRJ", "length": 661, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "stemnorthamptonshire.weebly.com", "title": "About Us - STEM Northamptonshire", "raw_content": "STEM; Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. The STEM project is initially designed to get the younger generations from the ages of four and up into the world of STEM, and the uses that it can have.\nSTEM works by using STEM ambassadors who are experts in their fields of STEM and can bring the clients of their project the very best level of engagement from the children by switching them on to the fun that is surrounded by the various areas of STEM, and the endless opportunities that the kids could get from learning about how STEM can be applied in everyday life.\nPhotos used under Creative Commons from Pink Sherbet Photography, digitalshay, al.glitch", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://steppingupnexus.org.uk/?q=content/recovering-value-food-application-technology", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:13Z", "digest": "sha1:CAW2SUNSXLW2MLOT2OWUQVK7236EWUFC", "length": 5793, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "steppingupnexus.org.uk", "title": "Recovering the Value of Food: the Application of Technology | STEPPING UP", "raw_content": "A previous blog introduced four Water, Energy, Food-nexus (WEF) relevant innovations which will be the focus of Stepping Up. We will use case studies of these innovations to establish an understanding of their potential for scaling up to address WEF-nexus challenges. These innovations are anaerobic digestion, insects as a novel source of protein, and the social as well as technical recovery of value from surplus food. They have all been identified as developments with the potential to alleviate environmental and social burdens across the WEF nexus, and whose impacts under different scenarios merit more attention. This blog series discusses in greater depth the rationale for selecting these particular innovations. The first blog covered anaerobic digestion and the second social recovery of value from surplus food. This, the third, blog covers the technical recovery of value from surplus food.\nNo method for processing and producing food is perfect, and waste is inevitable. Food waste is broadly defined as any food or drink removed from the supply chain for recovery or disposal. The term refers to both solid food and drinks or liquids. Food waste thus describes both unintentional losses (i.e. spillages, spoilage and contamination) as well as intentional losses (e.g. from overproduction and rejection on aesthetic concerns).\nSo while food waste typically covers losses from the food supply chain, not all waste is equal: value can be found by exploiting it as a resource, either immediately, or after further processing. For example, potatoes rejected due to aesthetic considerations, and deemed unsalable, may still contain valuable nutrients such as protein which can be extracted for use in animal feed or as an additive to food. At present such nutrients are often landfilled, or composted, or sent to an anaerobic digestion plant for energy recovery to methane. Whilst the latter two do have merits, when aiming for a circular economy it is often the case that keeping a product as close to the point of use is the most sustainable option.\nIn the previous blog we explored the redirection of surplus food within the supply chain to charities to be fed to people. But what about those by-products that may be considered inedible or have too short a shelf life? It is possible to extract the valuable nutrients from the food for further processing into other edible foodstuffs. The residues from this process then may be sent to composting or anaerobic digestion. The process involves a technical step, by which we differentiate it from the more social focussed work of FareShare as described in the previous blog. In effect it is a method of extracting otherwise wasted value from food stuffs prior to removal from the food chain. Not only might this be a method of reducing the impact of growing those nutrients again in a more edible form, but it could also represent a new revenue stream for the producer, or processor, who might otherwise shoulder the burden of disposing of the waste.\nWhilst there are plenty of estimates around the amount of food wasted within the UK, and the proportion that is recaptured through social methods, less information exists for crop residues. This is the name given to parts of plants that are not passed further down the food chain. They can provide a valuable resource, if tapped appropriately. However, it is frequently hampered by waste regulations, as at present there is a careful consideration of how the waste products from food processing must be dealt with. But the point at which the food becomes unusable waste is questionable. In some cases it might be something as simple as passing through a door from a clean to a non-sanitised area: the item itself does not change in that fraction of time, although its reclassification essentially renders it useless.\nIn terms of the nexus, the challenges are similar to that of social recovery of value, as discussed in the previous blog. To that extent the nexus issues may be regarded as covering much of the same territory: the potential to feed more people by using the same amount of resources; the alteration of waste and food regulations in order to facilitate the re-use of materials. But it is in the method of value recovery that the key difference lies. Being technical in nature, the challenges are significantly different. Instead of searching for alternative methods of giving value to those who are generating the surplus food, here the focus is on exploring the realms of diminishing returns using technological processes. To that end, it may lend itself to larger operations with available capital to spend on specialised equipment.\nThe development and deployment of technology to address nexus issues will involve a whole set of different drivers and barriers to any social methods, giving a further perspective on more sustainable methods, which Stepping Up research will investigate. In addition, to what extent can the same practices be downscaled or replicated across multiple different industries to capture all of the available value? The issues of waste regulation have been explored, but how far would we be truly willing to push the practice? Is trawling bins of food for the viable nutrients within them still acceptable, not only to regulators, but to those who might eat the outputs? What about scrapings from other people\u2019s plates? Or even the question of proteins taken from a meat source being fed to vegetarians? Or even the effect that the spread of the practice may have on other beneficiaries of the resource, such as anaerobic digestion or insects grown for protein? Some of these issues will also be explored further in the final blog in the series, protein from insects.\nImage credits: Blender: cookbookman17 (Flickr link). License: CC BY 2.0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 6334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stmarys.firstcoastnews.com/news/business/58530-floridas-back-school-sales-tax-holiday-runs-weekend", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:R44PDA6QNOBOWG4KGZKZYIVIAMTMIH66", "length": 2971, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "stmarys.firstcoastnews.com", "title": "Florida's back-to-school sales tax holiday runs this weekend | Business | St. Marys News", "raw_content": "Florida's back-to-school sales tax holiday runs this weekend | Business\nTopics: Business, Families, Schools\nThe tax break also covers lots of school supplies, including pencils, pens, notebooks, lunch boxes and calculators that cost $15 or less.\nRetailers are already marking down prices on a lot of items to compete for your cash. So in addition to the tax break, shoppers will see sale prices too.\nSALE: Academy Sports + Outdoors Fully Stocked for Florida's Tax-Free Weekend\nSALE: OFF 5TH Saks Fifth Avenue, 30% off kids' collection\nEVENT: The Avenues to host a Back to School Expo\nEVENT: Orange Park Mall to host a Back to School Fashion Show\nRick McAllister of the Florida Retail Federation compares the back-to-school tax holiday to the pre-Christmas shopping bonanza of Black Friday.\nRetailers will be closely gauging consumer confidence this weekend in light of the nation's recent debt problems and ongoing high unemployment.\n\"I think we'll be OK because back-to-school shopping is need-shopping versus want-shopping and so that's got to be done. Kids have to be ready to go back to school. So we're expecting a two to four percent increase over last year when we had a back-to-school holiday as well.\"\nMcAllister says the retail industry has posted steady growth over the past year despite unemployment and housing problems.\n\"Retail sales have been up over the last 10 to 15 months about two to four percent, a nice steady increase despite high unemployment, despite housing problems. And now we've got in addition to those two, we've got some debt problems and we've got a 401k problem. So we'll see how the consumer reacts to that.\"\nThe average family spends about $600 on back-to-school items, according to the Retail Federation.\nOne estimate indicates the state of Florida would lose more than $25 million in tax collections as a result of this tax break. But McAllister says shoppers end up buying a lot of items that are not tax-free so ultimately the state actually brings in more money.\n\"The shopper wins, the retailer wins and the state wins because revenue collection doesn't go down. It goes up because of the taxable spending that's going on.\"\nThe state legislature has approved the sales tax holiday off and on since 1998. In some years, the holiday lasted nine days. McAllister says retailers prefer the nine-day event because shoppers get two weekends surrounding the weekdays to do their back-to-school shopping.\n\"That's really better for Florida's families, frankly, because the average family is going to spend about $600 on back-to-school shopping and so if you force them to do that during a single weekend, for people who get paid by the week, that's a pretty big chunk. So we like to see it spread out over a longer period of time and hopefully we will talk to the legislature next year about doing that.\"\nYou can see the full list of items that are tax-free this weekend at: http://dor.myflorida.com. Click on the list of tax exempt items.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stnorbertschurch.org/reflections.asp?id=550&div=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:41Z", "digest": "sha1:WATYPKQRVUEJ6YACTOLEUXGO5AYS7K4D", "length": 3099, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "stnorbertschurch.org", "title": "St. Norbert's Church - Sunday Reflections", "raw_content": "Today the Gospel repeats part of what we heard last week because it is so important: \"The Son of Man is to be handed over to men and they will kill him, and three days after his death the Son of Man will rise.\"\nAt the heart of our Catholic faith is the belief that Jesus is both God and man, that Jesus was born for our salvation, that Jesus died for us and that Jesus rose from the dead. Always we are invited to know Jesus personally through the Scriptures and through the Jewish and Christian traditions that have come down to us and which we accept as revelation.\nIt is no easier today that it was in the time of Jesus to believe these truths of faith. We must meet the living Jesus before we can truly commit ourselves to Him. We should not think that those who were alive when Jesus was had it any easier than we do. They also found it difficult to believe that Jesus was God and that he rose from the dead after being put to death.\nWe come to meet Jesus personally in the Scriptures, by reading them and meditating on them. We come to meet Jesus personally when we meet the Christian community, the Church. We come to meet Jesus personally when we meet a believing Christian who is able to give a living witness to the Lord.\nThe first reading today is from the Book of Wisdom. It also gives us a methodology: start persecuting Christians and see what happens to their faith. Start persecuting good people and see if God will come to save them. This is pretty strong medicine but it is also part of what convinced the early believers. When the civil society put itself against believers, some gave up their faith, but many were able to stand firm and to die for their faith. The challenge for us today is this: Am I willing to die for my belief in Jesus as Lord, as God and as the one who gives Himself to us in word, in sacrament and in His Church.\nThe Church is always a mess because it is a Church of sinners. As is clear in every age, even the leaders in the Church are sinners, some worse than others. Yet that same Church proclaims Jesus as God, as Lord, as Redeemer. That same Church proclaims Jesus who died as Risen.\nThe second reading today is from the Letter of James. It explains, in some way, the results of our sinfulness: \"Where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every foul practice.\" In reality, it says that wherever sin is present there is disorder and every foul practice. The challenge for all of us is to continue to fight our sinfulness.\nThe Gospel tells us again that Jesus Himself proclaimed that he would be put to death and rise, but that His followers could not yet understand what those words could mean. Only when Jesus had died did some of His followers remember and begin to reflect.\nWe are His followers today. Do we forget His words? Yes, just as did His early followers. There will be trials and tribulations and evils, but Jesus has promised to be with us and to be with His Church until the end of the world. Let us continue to live our faith because Jesus is Lord.\nFirst Reading: Wisdom 2.12, 17-20\nSecond Reading: James 3.16 \ufffd 4.3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 798, "original_length": 14174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stopthepirates.blogspot.com/2015/05/national-currency-11-29-15.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:58Z", "digest": "sha1:GZRMAZZOHWYPBSLHO7OCLG3AGMBHHKP3", "length": 4151, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "stopthepirates.blogspot.com", "title": "Stop The Pirates: \"NATIONAL CURRENCY\" 11-29-15", "raw_content": "\"NATIONAL CURRENCY\" 11-29-15\nDid you know that from 1863 to 1929, USA was issuing NATIONAL CURRENCY? I.e. paper money of the republic which were backed by silver and gold, as they REALLY were redeemable in those coins on demand.\nThere were 14,000 PRIVATE banks that were CHARTERED by USA to issue that money. These banknotes had \"NATIONAL CURRENCY\" printed on them, and were backed by GOLD and issued by local AMERICAN banks. Those put up bonds with the US Treasury, and then could issue/print 90% of the worth of those bonds.\nThe red/blue number is the charter number of that bank. This currency was backed by deposits of bonds and gold notes with the Treasury.\nThat way, the banknotes were backed by assets of those American banks (which of course came from the American people). And if the bank failed to redeem those banknotes on demand in gold or silver, then the US Treasury would redeem them and take over that particular bank due to nonpayment of its obligations.\nThese were authorized by Act of June 3, 1864\nInterestingly, Federal Reserve was ONE of those banks. So it wasn't until 1933 when all these bank charters were abolished, and were replaced with a SINGLE charter to the Federal Reserve.\nBUT, that single charter was NOT for issuing NATIONAL (USA) currency, it was for issuing an INTERNAL (US) currency of the federal gov't.\nSo in 1933, they replaced 14,000 NATIONAL banks with a single FEDERAL Reserve System, which would then issue PRIVATE currency which is backed by NOTHING of real value.\nSo your 'money' today (FRNs) is NOT a NATIONAL currency, just a private scrip of the United States corporation. Not much different from CHIPS in a CASINO.\nIn other words, if it DOESN'T say \"NATIONAL CURRENCY\" on the bank note, it is NOT a national currency!\nAnd that\u2019s how thousands of NATIONAL banks (who dealt in HONEST money backed by gold), were replaced by a single FEDERAL Central bank system (who deals in FIAT money, backed by NOTHING).\nAlso, in addition to all these private bank-issued bank notes, there were UNITED STATES NOTES (red seal) issued directly by the US Treasury, but those seem to be rather rare from before 1928, so until that time, the PRIVATE-BANK issued NATIONAL CURRENCY, seems to have been the MOST USED paper currency in America.\nSo until 1933, money was put into circulation by thousands of LOCAL banks owned by private businessmen, rather than by one CENTRAL BANK owned by a handful of rich banksters. I.e. running a bank back then, was a business as any other, and ANYONE with a little capital could start one.\nAnd these LOCAL banks dealt in REAL MONEY (banknotes backed by gold), while the current Central Bank (FedRes) deals in green paper that\u2019s NOT backed by gold or anything of value.\nhttp://coinsite.com/national-currency/\nIt\u2019s kinda like being an attorney. Back in the days of the Republic, ANYONE with some knowledge of the law, could be a lawyer (no license required), while today it\u2019s a PRIVILEGED occupation which requires a BAR card.\nSo America was taken over by special interests, where we must jump through the gov\u2019t hoops, in the country that we the People own.\nHere's what Wikipedia says:\n\"The National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864 were two United States federal banking acts that established a system of national banks for banks, and created the United States National Banking System. They encouraged development of a national currency backed by bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and established the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as part of the United States Department of the Treasury and authorized the Comptroller to examine and regulate nationally chartered banks. The Act shaped today's national banking system and its support of a uniform U.S. banking policy.\"\nAnd US Code:\n12 U.S. Code \u00a7 38 - The National Bank Act\n(Current through Pub. L. 114-38. (See Public Laws for the current Congress.))\nThe Act entitled \u201cAn Act to provide a national currency secured by a pledge of United States bonds, and to provide for the circulation and redemption thereof,\u201d approved June 3, 1864, shall be known as \u201cThe National Bank Act.\u201d\n(June 20, 1874, ch. 343, \u00a7?1, 18 Stat. 123.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://storiesbeentold.com/stories", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEMB7RNHBNEPCXHPZXTVYG2WCBYXZXOD", "length": 9747, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "storiesbeentold.com", "title": "Stories Been Told by Misha Berveno", "raw_content": "On Dissonance\nIt was around 11:30pm when Monika called, waking me up from a deep slumber.\n\u2013 Can you come? I need you here.\n\u2013 Yes, of course.\nI felt my heart beating faster. She never calls. I got up and walked to the bathroom to wash my face. Pausing before the mirror, I noticed a few grey hairs in my stubble. My eyes looked tired.\nI put on black jeans, a t-shirt, a pair of distressed leather boots, drank a glass of water and walked out of the house. A pleasantly refreshing breeze embraced me as I headed to the nearby neighbourhood.\nShe was outside, as beautiful as ever, wearing a green cocktail dress that reminded me of summer. Her lively ever-curious eyes looked straight into mine. She took my hand and led me up the street.\n\u2013 Let\u2019s go.\nWe walked a couple of blocks in silence. Then she turned to me as if to see that I was still there. She smiled and my heart sank. Some things you never get over.\nI thought of her often. Accidentally for the most part. It takes a seemingly insignificant trigger: a day in a year, a quote mentioned by a friend, a street corner, the hair colour of a passerby. You tend to remember the good. The bad fades away.\nShe turned into an alley. There was a bar we used to frequent. This night, it was crowded, smoky and loud. A band was playing. We were passing through the throng; someone I knew tapped me on the shoulder. The adjacent room was quieter, and we sat at the bar.\n\u2013 Two vodkas, please.\nThe bartender placed two shots beside us. She downed hers. Then took mine and downed it as well.\n\u2013 So what is it about?\nShe paused. The light from above the bar illuminated her face. Enchanting, but not mine anymore.\n\u2013 I still love you.\nI woke up to the trill of a ringing phone and found myself on the couch in my living room, with a book on my chest. Must have fallen asleep reading. I saw my cellphone and picked it up. It was her.\nA dim table lamp barely made a difference, casting more shadow than anything.\n\u2013 What\u2019s the best thing you\u2019ve ever done, grandpa? \u2013 Asked a little boy.\n\u2013 Grhm\u2026 What?\n\u2013 The best thing\u2026 My homework is to ask our family members about the best thing they\u2019ve ever done.\nThe grandpa scratched his cheek, gazing through the floor.\n\u2013 I helped a man, \u2013 he said at last, \u2013 a man who shaped my life.\nThe boy was looking at the grandpa, all ears.\n\u2013 While in university, I struggled for money, doing odd jobs here and there, \u2013 grandpa continued. \u2013 But one day, I noticed a piece of paper attached to a bulletin board that said:\n\u2018Caregiver needed. Accommodation provided. Pay negotiable. Number below.\u2019\nI remember thinking: room for free and money on top \u2013 something not to miss. I called the number right away.\nA day or so later, I met Martin. He was an old black handicapped man living in an elegant but decrepit two-storey house on the right bank. He greeted me heartily.\nDuring the first week at his house, I learned how inaccurate indeed it would be to call Martin \u2018disabled\u2019. Paying next to no attention to his wheelchair and his condition, Martin was in fact the liveliest person I\u2019ve ever known. One thing he couldn\u2019t cope with, though, was being alone.\n\u2013 Not a single goddamn friend alive, \u2013 he used to say.\nI lived on the second floor. Caring for Martin was a breeze, mostly keeping the house clean and helping him get around when he was tired. Days on end we spent talking. I got used to him. He became a close friend.\n\u2013 What happened then, grandpa?\n\u2013 Then he died. I came into his room one morning with a visceral fear of the end. I was right.\nLater I found out that he had left me his only valuable possession \u2014 the house. I decided to sell it, but didn\u2019t know what to do with the money. Eventually, I tracked down Martin\u2019s birthplace, a small village in Mali. I went there with a vague idea of trying to help someone, even if distantly related to Martin.\nI arrived one early morning and asked, in french, to see the elder. The elder was curious to know what brought me there, and I told him Martin\u2019s story (whose real name was Modibo) and my intentions. The elder said they needed to discuss the matter but I could stay with them in the meantime. On my way out of the elder\u2019s hut, I saw my future wife. I never took that flight back.\nYour father was born a year or so later in the same village. With the money I brought, we\u2019ve built a school, which your father went to, and which kids still go to. I will show you one day, \u2013 the grandpa turned to the boy.\nThe boy was sleeping.\nOn Being Ambitious\nOn September 21, around three in the afternoon, Al was walking home from high school, following his everyday route: along Sinclair Street, then left and down Frederick Avenue. Unlike most teenagers, Al wasn\u2019t listening to music. Instead, he was preoccupied with analyzing his prospects of getting into Harvard. Al was 18 years old.\nHarvard wasn\u2019t easy to get into, but it was the only school on Al\u2019s mind. Thinking of it consumed virtually every minute of his time. Al was working hard to get the best grades while playing basketball for the school team. He was a decent player, but could\u2019ve been better if he liked the game. Money wasn\u2019t a problem \u2014 when Al was born, his parents set up a college fund for him. They were morticians: doing very well, actually.\nAl wanted to go to Harvard to study finance. In four years, as a graduate, he would join an investment bank as a junior financial analyst, from where he imagined steadily climbing the ladder until gaining enough confidence to move on. He would then quit to start a hedge fund, accelerating his way into early retirement. Family wasn\u2019t a priority: around 35 could be a good time, or once the business is stable. Al\u2019s plan was to make enough to get out at 45, then devoting his time to the things he loved: travelling, music, and raising children. There will be plenty of time to do all that, he thought.\nGirls liked Al. He was good-looking and seemed mysterious. Amy, his classmate, invited him on a date, but he never went. In fact, nobody has ever remembered Al going on a date. He just didn\u2019t seem to have time. Last year, Al\u2019s classmates went on a trip to San Francisco, but Al didn\u2019t go. A few months ago, there was a party at Chris\u2019s, when his parents left town, but Al didn\u2019t come. Al\u2019s younger sister, Mary, bought marijuana once, but Al didn\u2019t try.\nAl was approaching his house when he saw Mrs. Kinsley, a retired neighbour, standing outside anxiously.\n\u2013 Mrs. Kinsley, what\u2019s going on?\n\u2013 My cat. She went up the tree and isn\u2019t coming down. Can you help me get her?\n\u2013 Sure\u2026 No problem. \u2013 Al took his backpack off.\nBetween two properties stood an old oak: mighty and high. Al raised his head and, squinting, saw a small cat at the very top. He grasped the lowest hanging branch and pulled himself up. Al climbed slowly. Occasionally, some branches would dangerously squeak under his weight. Half way there, Al glanced down and noticed how vertigo started to crawl on him. He swallowed heavily but continued the climb, continuously calling the cat\u2019s name. Finally, the cat was close enough. Al extended his arm to grab her, when the branch underneath broke off, and he slipped.\nThere was a thud followed by the scream of Mrs. Kinsley. Al was 18 years old.\nOn Forties\nIt was getting dark. The sun has nearly set when my partner and I found ourselves on the most dangerous block in Chicago. I was standing against the wall, relaxed, hands in my pockets, talking to my partner when we noticed some black guys walking our way. They didn\u2019t look good at all. We were there to watch, and that\u2019s what we were doing, waiting till the company approached us. Not even thirty seconds later one of them came up to me and said:\n\u2013 An whatcha doin here?\n\u2013 Nothing, \u2013 I responded in the most polite tone I could master.\n\u2013 Don ya think its not your kind o place-ah?\n\u2013 Look, \u2013 I said, \u2013 we are just waiting for someone. Don\u2019t bother us and we won\u2019t bother you.\n\u2013 Nobody is gonna bother me around here, ya understand?\nThe situation was getting slightly out of control. I was tempted to reach for my gun and blow this black guy\u2019s head off. Instead, I signalled my partner \u2018to go\u2019, and we silently walked towards the other side of street. Predictably, it was not that easy.\n\u2013 Where ya goin? I havent finished wit you, bitch!\nHe pulled out a knife. My partner was going to reach for a gun, but I stopped him. We can\u2019t use guns, not now. If we fire, we\u2019ll screw up the reason we are here in the first place. I had to think of a way to lose this guy, quickly. I wasn\u2019t afraid of a knife. In my life, knives ceased to be scary.\nBut there was something wrong with this guy. I could feel his hatred. I could feel that if he comes close enough, I had a good chance of being stabbed. I looked over my shoulder to see if there was something even remotely representing a weapon. I saw a brick a couple feet away and stepped back to pick it up. Let\u2019s see.\nSurprised by us not fleeing, the guy slowed down for a moment, but then suddenly rushed towards me, his face full of eagerness to end my life. I raised a brick over my head, ready to smash his head if need be. The distance was shortening quickly. He was only about ten feet away when I heard the sound of a gun.\nThe boy fell on the pavement and remained motionless. His head just a half a few feet away from my boots. Angrily I looked back at my partner, for we\u2019ve failed by opening a fire. But he hadn\u2019t drawn his gun. It was not him who shot the boy.\nI looked back at the black boy, lying face down with a knife still in his hand. I could see a bullet-sized hole in his shaved head. His friends were gone; it was just me, my partner, and the dead black boy out in the street on the most dangerous block in Chicago. I had to call the police. But then I realized, I was a policeman myself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 10150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stpeterjuliansydney.com/2016/10/31/spirituality-scriptural-studies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:22Z", "digest": "sha1:3BVWQCQIYMEKBU5VVCOH75CR666PL5ZS", "length": 141, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "stpeterjuliansydney.com", "title": "Spirituality \u2013 Scriptural Studies \u2013 St. Peter Julian's Church", "raw_content": "Fr.Anthony McSweeney\u2019s Scriptural Studies have been digitized and are available below :\nDid Jesus Have to Die?\nTwo Short Essays on the Psalms", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/azimuth/empowerment-through-visions-of-possible-futures/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:51Z", "digest": "sha1:54LTQHVOMKK3ECT62X4WKDLOORL5ROHS", "length": 2644, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "strangehorizons.com", "title": "Strange Horizons - Empowerment through Visions of Possible Futures By Nin Harris", "raw_content": "Empowerment through Visions of Possible Futures\nBy: Nin Harris\nWe're pleased to publish the first in a series of personal essays by Strange Horizons authors discussing what the magazine has meant to them. Enjoy!\nStrange Horizons was the first online speculative fiction magazine I read, back in the early days of 2001. From the get-go I knew I wanted to be published here. I wanted to be a part of something that was from its inception open to the idea of diverse voices and viewpoints from around the world.\nOver the years, I have watched as the editorial board grew from strength to strength, always willing to consider new viewpoints, to give a fresh start to authors who have become world-renowned, such as Ken Liu and NK Jemisin. They are not afraid to push the envelope when it comes to exploring different ways and formats of presenting storytelling \u2013 one of my favourite poems published by them is Bogi Tak\u00e1cs' \"You Are Here\" and one of my best-loved stories is the disturbing and lyrically lovely \"The Wives of Azhar\" by Roshani Chokshi.\nThen, in 2015, my own short story, \"Tower of the Rosewater Goblet\" was accepted by them. I was asked to revise \u2013 and to my surprise, the revisions they wanted didn\u2019t require the story to be made more traditional narrative-wise, but to challenge further the structures of accepted SFnal storytelling. I was delighted because it allowed me to spread my writing wings and take risks I had been too afraid to take.\n\"Tower of the Rosewater Goblet\" is one of the stories I hold dearest to my heart because it\u2019s about silencing, and in a way it\u2019s about the impact of cultural appropriation but above all this \u2013 it is a story about the various ways resistance and quiet revolutions can happen within diseased regimes. Because heroes are not always obvious, nor are villains. Because Strange Horizons is such a place in which the lavish vistas of our SFnal imaginings can co-exist with a social conscience, and with the other imperative of all art \u2013 not just to delight, or to instruct, but to empower other minds and souls into envisioning their own bright futures.\n\u00a9 Copyright 2017 By: Nin Harris\nAbout Nin Harris\nNin Harris is an author, poet, and tenured postcolonial Gothic scholar who exists in a perpetual state of unheimlich. Nin writes Gothic fiction, cyberpunk, nerdcore post-apocalyptic fiction, planetary romances and various other forms of hyphenated weird fiction. Nin's publishing credits include: Clarkesworld, Uncanny Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Lightspeed. Nin has recently completed Watermyth, the first novel of the Cantata of the Fourfold Realms mythic clockpunk fantasy sequence.\u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 5422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://streatorchamber.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7PM5JIBXKJ63EOSN22ZUKRWBJXVVXWG", "length": 1069, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "streatorchamber.com", "title": "About Us : Streator Area Chamber of Commerce", "raw_content": "Important Details You Need to Know About Your\nThe Streator Area Chamber of Commerce & Industry was organized and incorporated for the purpose of serving the needs and concerns of the business community of Streator, Illinois. Elements of meeting the needs of the business community include but are not limited to:\nPreserving their competitive enterprise system\nAppreciating their importance\nAddressing their problems\nRepresenting them on city, county, state, national and political affairs\nPromoting their business and the community growth\nOffering programs to educate them\nA 15-member, volunteer, cross-section of various business representatives and civic leaders who fulfill a 3-year term. The Board is appointed to serve the community, set policy and determine the Goals and Objectives of the organization.\nA 15-20 member cross-section of business representatives who volunteer and focus on serving as the public relations arm of the organization. They also assist with the new member mentoring, and organize and attend educational and social events for the Chamber.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 179.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://strugglingtobedebtfree.blogspot.com/2018/01/have-you-ever-asked-for-raise.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:E2PAU4IA74HNKARDG3SRNW6XGO5OWSDK", "length": 4340, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "strugglingtobedebtfree.blogspot.com", "title": "Struggling to be debt free: Have You Ever Asked For A Raise?", "raw_content": "Have You Ever Asked For A Raise?\nHave you ever asked for a raise? In my 13 years of practicing law I have only formally asked for a raise once. I was surprised at how infrequently I have asked for a raise. At the beginning of my career, I switched jobs fairly frequently (about once every 2.5 years) in order to increase my pay rather than wait for pay increases. I wonder how common it is for others to request raises.\nI began my career making approximately $46,000 working for the State of Florida. I received a raise (really 2 at the same time) and began making approximately $52,000 after about a year and half. I left after 2.5 years (total) to work in a private law firm making $57,500 (private law firm \"A\"). I worked at private law firm A for about about 3 months (it was horrible). I then went to another private law firm (private law firm \"B\") for the same salary ($57,500). Private law firm B was run by a sole proprietor who did not like to give raises to her employees. Private law firm B was the only employer from whom I ever formally asked for a raise. I worked there for approximately 2.5 years without a raise. I thought certainly after 1 year I would get a raise, definitely after 2. I always received lots of praise for my work and voluntarily took on more work, but never received an offer to increase my salary. After 2.5 years, I asked her for a raise. It took a long time for her to finally come talk to me about a raise or even acknowledge that I had asked for a raise. I think it was 2 or 3 weeks before she acknowledged my request. We met in her office to talk , which I thought was odd. She was a sole proprietor and she could decide, unilaterally, whether I should receive raise and how much. After about a grueling hour of a cat and mouse game, I finally just asked for a small $5,000 raise. (She wanted to be sure not to name a number first and I did not want to either, but after 1 hour, I gave up.) She willingly gave it to me as she thought I would as for much more. My salary increased to $62,500. I left approximately 6 months later for a job paying $70,000 (private law firm \"C\"). That was the only time in my career that I formally requested a raise.\nAt private law firm C, I received a 10% raise after about 1 year and a half. My second raise came a little over 2 years (maybe 2.5 years later). My third came just last year (approximately 2 years after the previous one). My second two raises were not as large as the first. While I am not pleased that my salary increases average about 2 years apart, I am happy to receive any increase at all. I recognize that in small businesses it is difficult to increase payroll every year. Moreover, I don't agree with giving employees raises every year just for the sake of giving raises (but cost of living increases are a real and important condition of employment). I have taken on significant amounts of permanent work and projects for the firm over the years, that is the type of event that I think triggers a significant salary increase.\nJust a final note, I wanted to be clear that while I have never formally asked my current employer for a salary increase, I have always been very vocal about the fact that I expect salary increases in the future. I will not tolerate staying at the same salary for years and years on end if I am excelling at my job and continuing to take on new projects.\nWhat are your thoughts on salary increases? Do you expect one every year? Every six months?\nLabels: raise, salary\nHawaii Planner January 15, 2018 at 6:48 PM\nMy company (current company, although also applies to previous employer) does a performance review that ties to a potential salary increase. I've always received a yearly salary increase.\nMy employer (admittedly a small business- maybe 10 employees) has a provision in the employee handbook for yearly performance reviews. I've been there almost 7 years and have yet to have a performance review.\nTake them to court! Lol\nI've never asked for a raise but have left a job on account of not receiving one. Last year I did negotiate a higher wage for my seasonal position. I made it clear that I was fully ready to walk away from the job if I didn't receive what I was asking.\nUnispired Updates\n2017 Goal Recap\nRetirement 2018 And Other Goals\nCharitable Giving Shame\n2018 Goals - Struggling to build Networth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 8269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://studymagazine.com/2014/03/03/become-early-childhood-assistant/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:05Z", "digest": "sha1:M3LENC4QVY3VJKRTBNKVMY7PFYB7UMKF", "length": 2477, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "studymagazine.com", "title": "Become an Early Childhood Assistant | STUDY Magazine", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb News \u00bb Canada \u00bb Education Training \u00bb Become an Early Childhood Assistant\nBecoming an Early Childhood Assistant may be the career choice for you.\nEvery parent knows that the children of today are the leaders of tomorrow. The reality is, the young ones being pushed around in strollers will grow up to be the decision makers of the future, and the influences they have will affect their lives for years to come. That\u2019s why many people find a career in Early Childhood Education is a meaningful way to make a difference in the lives of others.\nWhen children are very young they are at their most critical learning stage, thus Early Childhood Assistants (ECAs) play an important role in helping them develop into intelligent, healthy adults. Nurturing young ones so they can reach their full potential is a worthwhile profession and it will continue to be in high demand. According to Service Canada statistics, the number of births from 2002-2012 increased significantly, meaning more children in classrooms and learning environments. Since each province sets an acceptable ratio for the number of children to teachers, there is always a need for qualified assistants. For example, in Ontario the regulations state that the teacher to child ratio be 3:10 for infants under 18 months of age, 1:8 for 3 years, 1:10 for 4 years, and 1:15 for 5 years and up, with no more than 20 children in the group at a time.\nEarly Childhood Assistants fulfill a variety of tasks, from providing hands-on care to monitoring and observing young ones. They are responsible for organizing and arranging classroom activities and for recording children\u2019s behaviour, development, and signs of a disability or giftedness. They are also in the best position to communicate with parents about the child\u2019s progress.\nWhereas Early Childhood Educators require a longer degree and more experience, Early Childhood Assistants can acquire their qualifications sooner, meaning quicker employment options. And according to Canadian Career College, the salary difference between educators and assistants is a mere $2, with assistants not requiring special certification from the College of Early Childhood Education.\nIf working with children is your calling, becoming an Early Childhood Assistant may be the career choice for you, giving you a chance to make a lasting difference in the lives of tomorrow\u2019s leaders.\nSchools Mentioned: Canadian Career College\nTags: Canada, Children, early childhood education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://supereaglereaders.blogspot.com/2014/01/chapter-1-big-winner-in-this-chapter.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:37Z", "digest": "sha1:H2WPO3EKBFKT6RHCM4EMDZQB34GPMPJB", "length": 2260, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "supereaglereaders.blogspot.com", "title": "Super Eagle Book Club (3rd - 5th Grade)", "raw_content": "Chapter 1: The Big Winner\nIn this chapter, Peter wins a turtle at the birthday party. When he gets home, his mother isn't thrilled about the new pet. Describe an experience you have had that is similar to Peter's. Have you ever brought something home that your parents were not particularly fond of? Can you identify with how Peter is probably feeling? Share your experience.\nE. O'Toole January 13, 2014 at 11:20 AM\nI have three cats. My husband and I adopted the first cat, Omar, at Petco. We planned ahead before we adopted him, and both agreed that we wanted a cat. For 2 years, we just had Omar. Then, in 2007, I found another cat outside. I fed her for a couple of weeks before I decided that she was a stray cat.\nThis time, my husband wasn't as excited about getting a cat. He liked Omar well enough, but preferred dogs over cats. He didn't want to leave Bella outside though, so I went ahead and adopted her. She turned out to be his favorite cat.\nAfter two years, I found another cat outside. My husband was out of town, so I texted him a picture and told him what happened. He really didn't want a third cat, but I convinced him that it would be fine. Now, we have three cats and both agree that we don't need anymore!\nI'm sure that Peter's mom didn't want him to have Dribble because she was worried that she would be the one taking care of the turtle. I hope that Peter is a responsible owner and proves his mother wrong.\nBrenda Tucker January 22, 2014 at 10:37 AM\nI think that you should get one more pet-a dog. The dog could protect the three cats. (Thyrien M-Mrs. Tucker's class)\nE. OToole January 22, 2014 at 12:59 PM\nThyrien,\nMy husband would love to get a dog! We agreed that when we buy a house and have a fenced yard, we will get a dog. I know my cats won't be happy about it, but they'll get over it.\nI found a turtle and my brother and I took him inside and put him into one of our old fish tanks and we fed him fish food. A few days later my mom said we couldn't keep it, so we let it go in a swamp near our house. (Bricin E.-Mrs Tucker's class)\njseymore February 4, 2014 at 1:03 PM\nI found a turtle once,but never kept one.My cousin had one and she put it in a bucket with water,and they played with but there mom told them to let it go.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://surfme.org/the-jodi-arias-murder-trial-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-case", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:14Z", "digest": "sha1:PI7FPJER4MT3F6CMYO3JNIPB5Z5ZK62P", "length": 3155, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "surfme.org", "title": "The Jodi Arias Murder Trial: Everything You Need to Know About the Case : Surfme", "raw_content": "The Jodi Arias Murder Trial: Everything You Need to Know About the Case\nJodi Arias is on trial for the first-degree murder of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, who was found dead at age 30 in his shower over four years ago. Arias, who has been locked up since her arrest in July 2008, has pleaded not guilty to the charge.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t hurt Travis. I would never hurt Travis,\u201d Arias said in a jailhouse interview after her arrest. \u201cI would be shaking in my boots right now if I had to answer to God for such a heinous crime.\u201d\nSince her arrest, Arias has gone from denying any involvement in the crime, implicating others, to eventually claiming she was forced to kill Alexander in self-defense after years of abuse.\nBut in the trial that began on Jan. 2, Arizona prosecutors are painting Arias, a 32-year-old photographer from Yreka, Calif., as a jealous ex-girlfriend who should face the death penalty for what they deem a cold-blooded murder of a good man.\nIf Arias is convicted of first-degree murder, she could become the fourth woman on Arizona\u2019s death row.\nCelebs React to Casey Anthony\u2019s Not Guilty Verdict\nHere\u2019s a breakdown of all the need-to-know facts in the Arias murder trial.\nHow did Alexander and Arias meet?\nArias and Alexander came into each other\u2019s lives at a Las Vegas work conference in September 2006. Arias says they fell in love, traveled the country together, and that she even converted to Mormonism for Alexander. But Alexander\u2019s friends maintain that after they dated for a few months, he tried to break it off. One pal said Arias was Alexander\u2019s stalker.\nHow long were Alexander and Arias dating?\nArias told authorities that she dated Alexander for just five months before splitting in June 2007, though they maintained a sexual relationship thereafter. In a conversation with a detective the day after Alexander was discovered dead, Arias described herself as a \u201cgood friend\u201d of Alexander.\nHow did Alexander die?\nAlexander was found dead on June 9, 2008, inside his standup shower in his locked room. Investigators determined Alexander was stabbed 27 times, had his throat slit from ear-to-ear and was shot in the head at his Mesa, Ariz.\nWhat\u2019s the prosecution\u2019s case?\nProsecutors argue that this was a case of fatal attraction, in which Arias was a jealous ex-girlfriend who brutally attacked Alexander after he tried to end their relationship. \u201cThis is not a case of whodunit,\u201d prosecutor Juan Martinez said in his opening statement. \u201cThe whodunit sits in court today.\u201d\nWhat\u2019s the defense\u2019s case?\nArias\u2019 attorney, Jennifer Willmott, has claimed Arias was a victim of domestic violence and killed Alexander \u2014 who Willmott labeled a sexual deviant \u2014 in self-defense.\nWhat evidence was collected from the crime scene?\nAfter Alexander\u2019s body was discovered, police recovered a camera from his washing machine, which contained a memory card with pictures of Alexander and Arias\u2019 last sexual encounter, of Alexander in the shower just before his death and of accidental shots seemingly taken when the camera was dropped. One snap features Alexander\u2019s bloody body, while another shows Arias dragging his body across the floor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sygmabeaute.com/download-pdf/78249-salutations-wit-and-wisdom-from-charlottes-web.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OZVLGOX5UGLWQWYL7PO6YZCYXQV7RJFU", "length": 3210, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "sygmabeaute.com", "title": "Download PDF: Salutations! Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Free Book PDF Lets create Responsive Web Page Design | Dzyngiri", "raw_content": "Little Town on the Prairie (Little House Series: Classic Stories #7)\nThree Beloved Classics by E. B. White\nBecoming Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Woman Behind the Legend\nWinter on the Farm (My First Little House Books Series)\nThe Little House Treasury\nLaura Ingalls Wilder Country: The People and places in Laura Ingalls Wilder ...\nPrairie Day (My First Little House Books Series)\nGoing West (My First Little House Books Series)\nOn the Banks of Plum Creek (Little House Series: Classic Stories #4)\nDownload EBOOK Salutations! Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web PDF for free\nThe author of the book: E. B. White\nDescription of the book \"Salutations! Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web\":\nThe many characters of Charlotte's Web have enchanted readers for generations with their unique perspectives on life. In this engaging collection of excerpts and quotations, Wilbur, Charlotte, Templeton, and all their barnyard friends share humorous life lessons, observations, and truths both on and off the farm.\nE.B. White was born in PDF Mount Vernon, New York in 1899. He wrote three books for children: Charlotte's Web, a Newbery Honor Book, Stuart Little, and The Trumpet of the Swan, an ALA Notable Children's Book and a National Book Award nominee. All three books have earned him the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal ePub for \"a lasting contribution to children's literature.\"\nGarth Williams illustrated many of the finest books for children, including Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban and the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.\nReviews of the Salutations! Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web\nSo far concerning the publication we've got Salutations! Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web PDF comments end users haven't nevertheless quit their particular article on the action, or not read it nevertheless. However, if you have already check this out ebook and you are therefore ready to create their own studies convincingly require you to spend time to leave a critique on our site (we could post the two positive and negative opinions). 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Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web for free\nDownload PDF: salutations-wit-and-wisdom-from-charlottes-web.pdf\nDownload ePUB: salutations-wit-and-wisdom-from-charlottes-web.epub\nDownload TXT: salutations-wit-and-wisdom-from-charlottes-web.txt\nDownload DOCX: salutations-wit-and-wisdom-from-charlottes-web.docx\nLeave a Comment Salutations! Wit and Wisdom from Charlotte's Web", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://szekely.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-beauty-of-traffic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HURMLL345MREEJNLYVUFYNH6XXGSTNSN", "length": 5048, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "szekely.blogspot.com", "title": "Cs\u00edkszereda musings: The beauty of traffic", "raw_content": "Ha Long Bay. You know the one\nI've been in Vietnam for the last two weeks, my third visit in the last three years. It's a great place, with nice people, some really wonderful sights (this time I went to Ha Long Bay, which is that bay that you've all seen in various films, including what seems like 50% of all James Bond films), and absolutely superb food.\nBut the thing that tourist guides don't tell you, is how utterly compelling the traffic is. Now I'm not a big city person for the most part, as you might be able to tell from the fact that I've chosen to live in non-thriving metropolis Csikszereda (and, well, now we've even retreated from the lack of hustle and bustle of there and gone to live in the tranquil village of Bankfalva). Traffic in big cities usually bothers me. A lot. But traffic in Vietnam is different. It's worse. And yet, somehow, much much better. Standing at a major intersection is to marvel at the wonder of humanity, to see how people can exist without rules, without limits but still respectfully, working together, somehow creating order out of chaos. Now this sounds like hippy bullshit, and I've obviously done that deliberately, but while the language may be all a bit unnecessary, the fact is that it's true.\nDanang, where I spent the vast majority of my time is, to all intents and purposes a new city, so the roads are on a grid system and are pretty wide. So there you get these swarms of motorbikes, interspersed with some cars, a few trucks, buses, bikes, rickshaws and people pushing food on carts and barrows. With pedestrians crossing. But there are very few rules (or at least there is very little enforcement of rules. There are a few red lights which people more or less obey). So at intersections (especially ones without traffic lights), you get these incredible mingling of traffic, crossing and turning and intermingling and somehow there are no accidents. Sometimes you'll see someone trying to turn left across the traffic, and on their own they really have no chance, but then they are joined by one or two or more and suddenly the weight of numbers open the flow and allow them to turn. Seriously it's absolutely riveting to watch. You know how you get these huge flocks of starlings flying over a city at dusk twisting and turning and changing direction, forming patterns in the air? Or how you see huge shoals of fish darting and shifting? All the time miraculously not having any collisions? It's like that. A bit slower, but almost as amazing, just because, well...it's traffic.\nCrossing the road on foot in such a situation at first seems like an absolutely impossible task. You can see the tourists who have just arrived because they spend up to 10 minutes trying to step into the traffic. After a while though you realise that just like with each other the vehicles will adjust, flowing around you. The worst thing you can do, in fact is to be hesitant - stopping as you cross, and generally behaving unpredictably. After a while it actually becomes enjoyable to cross the road - a sort of 99% safe adrenalin rush.\nAn alternative is the old quarter in Hanoi, which has the same type of traffic but on narrow streets. The pavements are crammed with motorbikes, parked (it seems that's what pavements are mostly used for in Vietnam). So the honking flowing traffic squeezes along these narrow dark streets, while the food vendors and the pedestrians weave in amongst them.\nSoon, this phenomenon will be dead, though. As the Vietnamese middle class grows, more and more people are buying cars. The numbers have visibly and radically increased in the 30 months since I first went. At some point there will be a tipping point at which the number of cars on the road will mean that the flowing amazing mass becomes just gridlock\nI'll miss it. Vietnamese traffic, is weirdly, a thing of almost endless beauty and fascination. I've dug up some youtube clips of the traffic so you can see it, but even these somehow don't do it justice. You need to see it up close. And the Vietnamese tourist office needs to promote it.\nI study Physics, and one of our projects was modelling traffic.When you talked about how order emerges, I actually thought about nature - it's how it happens.\nYou gave me a good idea with this article :) and if you're interested, you can look up keywords like \"agent based traffic flow\" or \"Dr Dirk Helbing\" who has written some well-known papers on the topic.\nIs Heibing that Dutch planner who has proposed removing traffic signs and road markings from towns? I thought about mentioning him actually but wasn't sure of his name (and also I forgot).\nBut yes I think he must have been to Vietnam to have reached this realisation :-)\nHelbing is a physicist at Z\u00fcrich's Insitute of Technology, he's concerned mainly with modelling things, traffic among many other.\nThe planner's name is Hans Monderman. That is a very interesting experiment, I haven't linked the two ideas before :)\nI haven't found anything about whether he ever went to Vietnam, but it still seems likely :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 362, "original_length": 11025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://takemytrip.com/2015/11/yakima-canyon-scenic-drive/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PKPV4DUNLQYLUITEZOKFCUDDHQAQK7ZK", "length": 3826, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "takemytrip.com", "title": "Yakima Canyon Scenic Drive \u2013 TakeMyTrip.com", "raw_content": "Yakima Canyon Scenic Drive\nTake the scenic drive along the Yakima River, through the canyon of the same name. It\u2019s a beautiful desert landscape laced with a ribbon of blue water and green vegetation, railroad tracks, and pavement, all squeezed in between some rounded, rolling hills.\nIt was getting to be late afternoon as I made the final push towards Yakima. I knew there were just a few hours left before dark, and I hadn\u2019t seen or done much all day, except for drive \u2014 all the way from Montana. I could have headed on to my motel for some much-needed rest, but I couldn\u2019t help notice the squiggly line on my map, running almost parallel to I-90. Squiggly lines usually take me somewhere interesting. And since it was on the way, I decided to turn off the interstate and hop onto Washington Route 821.\nI was headed into Yakima Canyon, and I didn\u2019t even know it.\nHighway 821 follows every twist and turn of the Yakima River through Yakima Canyon \u2014 or as it is officially known, the Umtanum Ridge Water Gap. Here, the river slices through the Umtanum and Manastash anticlines \u2014 upward swells in the earth\u2019s crust. The gap is a National Natural Landmark, administered by the National Park Service. The Nature Conservancy also owns some of the land in the canyon.\nThis used to be the primary road between Yakima and Ellensburg, Washington, to the north. Until the 1970\u2019s, when I-82 was built, this road was US 97. Once the freeway opened, this road was renumbered, and US 97 was rerouted onto the interstate.\nThis is the southern end of the gap, near the town of Selah. Notice that the railroad tracks are also sharing the narrow space with the river and the road (which is up on the hillside, on the left, at this point).\nThe drive through Yakima Canyon was so nice, I decided to devote the first part of the following day to another drive through it.\nBack at that same spot, near the southern entrance to the canyon, everything was beautifully lit the next morning.\nI drove up the canyon to the Umtanum Recreation Area, where a rickety cable bridge carries pedestrians across the Yakima River, to a nice trail on the other side. I\u2019ll tell you more about this adventurous hike on a separate page. (By the way, it\u2019s free to drive through the canyon, but the developed parking/picnic/hiking areas require you pay a day-use fee, or display a National Parks pass on your dashboard.)\nIf you drive north through Yakima Canyon, you can make a nice loop back to town via Interstate 82. If you do\u2026\n\u2026 be sure to stop at the rest area, just north of Yakima, for a view of the impressive concrete arch bridge that carries the highway over Selah Creek. The Fred G. Redmon Bridge, also known as the Selah Creek Bridge, was the longest concrete arch bridge in the U.S. (and second-longest in the world) when it was constructed.\nxxxxinfoxxx\nI highly recommend you detour off Interstate 82 and take the scenic drive through Yakima Canyon. It will take longer, but this is definitely a scenic route that\u2019s worth the extra time and effort. If you have more time, take a hike, picnic, or camp here.\nWashington Highway 821 runs through Yakima Canyon, between Ellensburg and Yakima, Washington. You can access the road from I-82 exit 3 or 26. Route 821 parallels the interstate, so you won\u2019t be going out of your way to enjoy this scenic byway.\nCheck out this time-lapse, dash-cam video of the drive southbound\u2026\n\u2026 and northbound through Yakima Canyon:\nTags: favoritescenic drivescenic roadwashingtonyakimayakima canyon\nUmtanum Creek, Yakima Canyon Hike\nThe Spiral Road: Lewiston, Idaho\nIf you love to drive up the kind of road that usually ends up in car commercials, you\u2019ll enjoy the ...\nLooking for a great place for an easy to moderate hike, on the south side of Denver? Roxborough State Park provides some beautiful red-rock-studded scenery ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 389, "original_length": 12745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tammygilles.com/2018/08/30/life-changing-books/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:08Z", "digest": "sha1:OWZHKGVAQ63JJJ2TMVSHYMPV4DMUCKIA", "length": 6773, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "tammygilles.com", "title": "Life-Changing Books - IMPERFECTLY FIT LIFE", "raw_content": "by tammygilles | Aug 30, 2018 | Mindset | 0 comments\nIf you guys know me or have followed me for any amount of time, you know how much I love personal development! Like, seriously, I\u2019m an addict and can\u2019t get enough! Before I\u2019m even finished with one book, I\u2019m already ordering my next. I\u2019ve read or listened to countless books, but there are a few that hold a special place in my heart and that I would consider life-changing books. Since people are always asking me for recommendations on what to read and since they\u2019ve had such a positive effect in my life, I decided I would share my top picks with you.\nIt was difficult to narrow down my top picks, but I decided on 5 books that I really wanted to share with you guys. These 8 books have truly had an impact in my life, some I\u2019ve read or listened to more than once. Some of them I still go back and reference. Some have helped me with my business, some my personal life, some my financial life and most, my overall mindset.\nIf you are ready to get inspired, check out my top 5 picks for personal development\nThe Compound Effect was one of my very first personal development books. If you haven\u2019t read any of Darren Hardy\u2019s books, you should probably read them all, but start with this one! Also, I highly recommend you subscribe to his daily emails, they are amazing! You can register to receive his awesome emails, here. In this book, he shares the principle that small actions that we take consistently can add up to greatness. Darren shows us how to live our dream life by changing little, daily decisions that we make. These little decisions can either lead to reaching dreams or to disaster. It\u2019s our choice.\nDarren Hardy is one of my favorite authors and mentors. I\u2019ve had the pleasure of hearing him speak live and he truly is inspiring. His book, The Compound Effect is one of the first books I always recommend my new coaches to read. And honestly, I think no matter what you do for a living, everyone should read this book. You can apply it to anything in life, whether you are an entrepreneur, a stay at home mom, trying to get organized, you are wanting to lose weight, get fit, whatever changes you want to make in your life, you can use the information from this book to guide you. Pick up a copy here.\nMy Miracle Morning\nWell, if you\u2019ve followed my social media at all over the last 2-3 years, you\u2019ve probably heard me talk about this book. This book is a game changer! As someone who is not a morning person AT ALL, it took me some time to accept the challenge Mr. Hal Elrod was asking of me. But once I did, wow, everything started to change and change for the better. No, I am not a morning person now, but my mornings go way smoother and I\u2019m much happier since putting these techniques into place. I get so much more done in the first hour of my day then I ever have and I\u2019m so much more patient as a mother. If your mornings are full of chaos, rushing around, spilling your coffee on yourself, shoving your kiddos out the door then you need to order this book now! Seriously, go! You can pick it up here.\nJohn Maxwell is one of my very favorite authors! I have read several of his books and have even had the privilege of attending a live conference call with him last year. His books are all about how to achieve your full potential, how to be successful in business and in life and how to change your mindset so that you can reach that potential.\nNo Limits is packed full of little nuggets that will help you get the most out of life by \u201cblowing the cap off of your capacity,\u201d as he puts it. One of my favorite points that he touches on is how to really connect and build relationships with people. Our successes and failures in life are typically traced back to our relationships so it\u2019s important that we figure out to build strong ones. I learned so much about how to be more productive, responsible and how my attitude (good or bad) effects so much in my life. If you are wanting to achieve more, reach your full potential and really maximize your capacity, read this book! It\u2019s GOLD! You can get it here, if you wanna.\nDon\u2019t be offended by the title of this book. Jen Sincere is sure to make you feel like a Badass after you finish reading it. I spent so many years of my life thinking that I was not good enough and doubting my true potential. Reading her book, helped me to realize that I am truly capable of way more than I\u2019ve ever given myself credit for. She shows us how to change our self-sabatoging beliefs and behaviors so that we can start getting out of life what we truly deserve. You are capable of creating a life that you love. If you are ready to improve your mind and your life, you need to read this book. It is by far, one of my favs and I\u2019ve read more than once! Go get it now! And because I buy everything on amazon, here\u2019s a link.\nIf you haven\u2019t seen or heard about this book yet, well, you must be living on another planet. Girl, Wash Your Face is all the rage and if you spend 5 minutes reading it, you will know exactly why. Rachel Hollis speaks to every woman in this book! I honestly felt like she had been in my head, reading my diary or stalking me!\nIn this amazing book, she shares with us the lies that we have been telling ourselves and believing, for years. And then she explains to us why they are indeed lies and how she has overcome these lies. From the lie that you are not good enough, that you\u2019ll start tomorrow, that you are a bad mom to the lie that there is only one right way to be. She digs deep and shows how to overcome these self sabotaging lies and to live our best life with the truth.\nThis book, if you choose to read it, soak it in and allow it, will change your life for the better! Not overnight, but if you take the time to really let each chapter sink in, and apply her tips that she shares at the end of each chapter, it can have a huge impact on your happiness. Go get it now!! Here\u2018s where I ordered mine.\nChoosing your book\nWhen choosing a personal development book, my best advice is to think about the stage of life that you are in. What do you need to work on most? How do you want to improve your life at this very moment? Become more organized? Work on getting healthier, fitter, more focused? Are you trying to learn to love yourself? Are you trying to realize your true potential? Personal development is just that, it\u2019s personal. Your time is precious, so choose something that you most need to work on at the moment. And if there\u2019s no time to sit down and read a book, Audible is amazing! Listen in your car, while your folding laundry, traveling, at the airport, etc.\nIf you decide to take any of my recommendations, let me know! I would love to hear your thoughts on these books! You can always find me over on Instagram!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 8681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://teachrock.org/lesson/the-influence-of-rhythm-and-blues/?post_types=lesson,people,video,image,article&_sft_genre=hip-hop&_sf_s=field", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5IHBJUEZ2C5IOIX2F3XN3J2UWMMQG7QG", "length": 10298, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "teachrock.org", "title": "The Influence of Rhythm and Blues - TeachRock", "raw_content": "Ahmet (left) and Nesuhi Ertegun, 1940 | Credit: William P. Gottlieb\nWhat did R&B bring to early Rock and Roll, and how was early Rock and Roll different?\nAll popular music comes from somewhere. But when innovative music gets on the radio, the television, or to the public\u2019s ears and eyes in some other fashion, it often sounds like it appeared from nowhere; like it landed on the doorstep and had no parents. But whether Punk, Hip Hop, Hard Rock or any other music, it all came from somewhere.\nSo, too, was the case with early Rock and Roll. What Elvis did pre-existed him\u2014even if the way he put it together did not. As this lesson will suggest, one crucial \u201cparent\u201d to early Rock and Roll was Rhythm and Blues, or R&B. As Fats Domino said in the mid-1950s, \u201cWhat they call Rock and Roll I\u2019ve been playing in New Orleans for years.\u201d Many would agree with him. The subject of this lesson is the music of which Fats Domino speaks: the R&B of the pre-Rock and Roll era.\nWhat was R&B, and where did it come from? The answers to that question are many and certainly crucial for any deeper understanding of the Rock and Roll story. The short version has it that when the Swing bands went out, due in part to the wartime economy and the daunting costs of keeping a large ensemble on the road, smaller combos became popular. Those smaller combos had a sound that many described as more \u201craw.\u201d Artists like Louis Jordan emerged in this moment, influencing a number of Rock and Rollers, Chuck Berry among them. As the R&B recordings reveal, these smaller combos retained the emphasis on horn sections, but, by virtue of being smaller groups of players, their sound left more musical room for other instruments. That being the time when electric guitar technology was getting more advanced, this meant that when the guitar players got more space, they met it with more volume. Thus the R&B sound edged toward Rock and Roll.\nBut even if R&B provided early Rock and Roll with many of its constituent elements, it is important to also consider what made them different. In this lesson, students will compare LaVern Baker\u2019s \u201cTra La La,\u201d an example of R&B, with her contemporary Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cMaybellene,\u201d an example of early Rock and Roll. By way of conclusion, LaVern Baker\u2019s record label, Atlantic, will be discussed as an example of the independent companies that made R&B for black audiences, only to find that white teenagers were, unexpectedly, their growing audience.\nThe importance of R&B as a musical gateway to the Rock and Roll of the mid-1950s\nThe role of labels like Atlantic Records in circulating R&B to both a black and a white audience\nSome key differences between R&B and early Rock and Roll\nDraw connections among various print, audio and visual texts\nShare the following quote with the students, explaining that the speaker is Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records.\u201dWe had a little bit of a rough time trying to get our artists to do anything resembling the blues. They were more singers like LaVern Baker and Ruth Brown . . . the [New York City-based] bands we had were composed of players from the big jazz bands and swing orchestras who had become studio musicians. They were not at all like the kind of musicians who were playing the blues in Chicago, like Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon and all those people. When we had these musicians try to play in an authentic blues fashion, it didn\u2019t work. The result, however, was quite intriguing. What emerged was music with a blues feel, but with a particularly Northern, urban influence.\u201c\nAsk students to explain what they think Ertegun was after but couldn\u2019t find. Write down their ideas.\nWhat kind of music was he looking for?\nWhy do you think he wanted a \u201cBlues\u201d sound?\nWhy couldn\u2019t he find it in New York City?\nWhat could he find?\nWhat kind of musicians specifically was Ertegun able to find to play on records?\nAsk the students if they know of the Blues musicians Ertegun refers to.\nPlay the clip of Muddy Waters\u2019 \u201cRollin Stone\u201d from a live performance. Ask students:\nHow would you describe the sound of Muddy Waters\u2019 music?\nWhat do you think Ahmet Ertegun liked about Muddy Waters\u2019 music?\nAnd what, again, were the reasons Ertegun said he couldn\u2019t record music like Muddy Waters\u2019 in New York City?\nOnce the class has discussed those questions, turn to the music Ertegun did record.\nHave the class watch, as a group, the clip of LaVern Baker performing \u201cTra La La.\u201d\nOnce they have watched, ask them to keep this and Muddy Waters in their minds, and split them into groups of three.\nHave each group write down, first, the instrumentation they see and hear in each song, and, second, a list of adjectives that describe Baker\u2019s song and performance, and then Waters\u2019.\nAsk them to consider differences in vocal style, in the sounds of the instruments (sweet or rough?), in the performance styles of the singers, and in the overall moods of the songs.\nWhen they have had five minutes to complete this, ask each group to have a representative read the results.\nAsk the students:\nWhy do you think Ertegun\u2019s recording of LaVern Baker ended up sounding \u201csweeter\u201d than the music of Muddy Waters, which Ertegun said he originally hoped to capture?\nWhat in Ertegun\u2019s statement above provides a clue to this question? (Help the class to consider Ertegun\u2019s statement above that \u201cthe bands we had [in the studio] were composed of players from the big jazz bands and swing orchestras who had become studio musicians. They were not at all like the kind of musicians who were playing the blues in Chicago, like Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon and all those people. When we had these musicians try to play in an authentic blues fashion, it didn\u2019t work.\u201d)\nSpecifically, point to Ertegun\u2019s comment that the musicians recording with him were from \u201cbig jazz bands and swing orchestras.\u201d Very different from Muddy Waters, who grew up on a plantation in Mississippi, the musicians from the Swing bands often had some kind of formal training, could read music, and had adhered to strict codes both of performance etiquette and musician etiquette. The two cultures from which Waters came and from which Ertegun\u2019s studio players came were dramatically different, as were the sounds they produced. Ertegun, obviously, was more drawn to the culture associated with Waters, but he created something \u201cnew\u201d when he tried for a Blues sound using musicians associated with Swing and Big Band Jazz. Be sure your students grasp what elements came together to make Atlantic\u2019s R&B sound.\nNext, ask the students if they have any sense for how the R&B of LaVern Baker is different from early Rock and Roll.\nWhat do you know about early Rock and Roll?\nWhat performers do you associate with early Rock and Roll?\nWhat instruments are featured in early Rock and Roll?\nDo you think LaVern Baker qualifies as Rock and Roll?\nReplay a minute of the LaVern Baker clip before turning to Chuck Berry\u2019s \u201cMaybellene.\u201d\nHave the class go back into their groups, creating another two lists of adjectives to describe the differences between Chuck Berry and LaVern Baker.\nWhen each group is finished, ask them to share their lists with the class.\nHave the class discuss the following question:\nWhy might Ahmet Ertegun have liked the music of Chuck Berry? Base your answer on Ertegun\u2019s staments above.\nDoes Berry\u2019s music feature any particular instrument?\nIs any particular instrument notably absent in the band he\u2019s performing with?\nHow, then, would you use this comparison to demonstrate the differences between R&B and early Rock and Roll?\nTo the instructor: Explain to the class that Chuck Berry was introduced to his record company, Chess Records, by Muddy Waters. Key among the differences between R&B and Rock and Roll is the way the latter featured a more \u201craw\u201d sound, just like the one Ertegun was after. In that shift, the guitar played a role that can\u2019t be underestimated. Because of Chuck Berry and those who came after him, Rock and Roll was soon associated with the electric guitar more than any other instrument.\nWritten expression: Have students write their own record review of \u201cMaybellene\u201d by Chuck Berry, as if writing for an audience in 1956 that listens to R&B. In the review, they should explain how Rock and Roll is \u201cnew\u201d and what they find better (or worse) about it than R&B. Remember, this is an opinion piece.\nResearch: Ask students to read the Rock\u2019s Backpages essay on Louis Jordan by Cliff White. Have them write a short response, explaining how Louis Jordan\u2014perhaps Chuck Berry\u2019s biggest influence\u2014distinguished himself in both his music and his performance style, in ways that made him an important figure for many early Rock and Roll musicians.\nRead the Rock\u2019s Backpages article about Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, two songwriters who worked closely with Ahmet Ertegun at Atlantic Records. Write a one-page response to the article that explains the important role of these songwriter/producers in bringing R&B onto the pop charts. Make an argument for what made them great contributors to popular music.\nHave students research Atlantic Records, beginning with the Rock\u2019s Backpages article by Hank Bordowitz that focuses on Ahmet Ertegun. Have them create a classroom presentation that helps others to understand how an independent label like Atlantic had such an impact on American popular music.\nNJSLSA.R1:Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences and relevant connections from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.\nNJSLSA.W1:Write argument to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and sufficient evidence.\nNJSLSA.W7: Conduct short as well as more sustained research project, utilizing inquiry-based research process, based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.\nBecome a master of the Rubik\u2019s Cube with this online tutorial. Learn how to solve the cube with the beginner\u2019s method!\nRelate ways in which contemporary expressions of culture have been influenced by the past Describe ways in which contemporary issues influence creative expression.\nTexas Essential Knowledge of Skills for Fine and Performing Arts\nWorld War II and the Shrinking of the Ensemble", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 486, "original_length": 23859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com/2009/03/tt4t078-begin-with-end-in-mind.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:52Z", "digest": "sha1:TS3DAH5GNKUR5SLGTECLISQL73NC4PJT", "length": 7696, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "techtalk4teachers.blogspot.com", "title": "TechTalk4Teachers - A Podcast For Teachers About Teaching, Learning, and Technology: tt4t_078 Begin with the end in mind", "raw_content": "It\u2019s Saturday, March 14th, 2009 and welcome to episode 78 of TechTalk4Teachers, I\u2019m Tom Grissom. Over the years we have witnessed a plethora of new technologies and the underlying standards that make it all possible. This week I was reminded about the not so long ago \u201cgood ole days\u201d when a student was given an assignment to do a video segment for a class project. The means to the end result were not articulated for the project and neither the teacher nor the student knew the processes involved for producing the end product. Unfortunately the student chose a technology that was not the best choice for the assigned project.\nSince the invention of consumer level video cameras back in the 1980\u2019s taping a video segment is as easy as pushing the record button. In the good ole days of recording to a VHS tape you simply ejected the tape from the video camera and placed it into a VCR player to play it back. VCR\u2019s were a prolific technology and nearly every classroom had access to one and many still do. When the VHS format began to wane as the standard of choice a few years ago several formats evolved and competed to become the new standard. Unfortunately there has not been one standard that has dominated others like the VHS format did for so many years. The result is a mixed bag of different tape formats and file standards that do not always play well together.\nManufacturers compete to promote their standard as THE standard for the industry. If a company can win the standard wars then that company will be in the best position for future profits because everyone else would need to use their standard format.\nThe new tape and disk-based formats are vast improvements over the previous VHS video cameras of the past. VHS was a huge innovation, before VHS came along film had to be sent off to a photo lab to be developed before it could be viewed. For those of you that are a little older you may remember the 8mm and Super 8 formats from your childhood that were popular before the invention of the VHS video camera. Back then family movie night meant getting out the reel-to-reel player and watching home movies without sound, a lot has changed since my childhood.\nSo the evolution of video standards for physical tape-based recording has evolved through several different standards over the years, including the famous BetaMax / VHS wars in the 1980\u2019s to more the more recent miniDV tapes, DVD\u2019s, miniDVD disks, and hard disk and flash-based recorders of today.\nThe evolution from tape-based recording to digital is still underway. Today you can buy cameras that record directly to miniDVD disks and many models now record directly to a hard disk. The most recent trend is flash-based digital storage devices like the popular Flip video cameras that I have talked about on previous episodes of TechTalk4Teachers. This has been a wonderful advancement for teachers that need affordable and easy to use video technology for classroom projects. The technology is still evolving and the disk-based video cameras have not caught up to the high quality levels of tape-based consumer cameras but we are getting closer.\nThis advancement has not come without a price. Now we have to worry about what file format we want for the final product. Here is just a brief sampling to choose from today: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, .VOB, .WMV, .MOV, .FLV, and .AVI to name just a few. To make matters worse some of these individual formats have different versions and flavors within them that can cause compatibility problems.\nNow back to the problem I had earlier this week. We have several different types of video cameras that faculty can use and checkout for projects from the Instructional Technology Center. Each video camera type has its strengths and weaknesses and should be matched for the particular application that it is to be used for. The student wanted an end product of a digitized file that could be watched on a computer for reviewing and easily shared with others. Unfortunately a miniDV tape-based camera was used to record the event and when the student came back to the ITC they did not have an easy way to preview the material short of connecting the miniDV camera directly to a TV for preview. This option meant that the teacher and other students would also need to checkout a miniDV camera and hook it up to a TV to preview the students lesson and pass the one copy of the tape around to others, not very convenient. To make a long story short we needed to convert the video from the miniDV tape format to a computer file that could be shared and viewed easily by others.\nTo convert the miniDV tape we had to connect the camera to a computer via a firewire cable and digitize the footage. This is a one-to-one process, that is for each minute of footage it requires one minute to digitize. Therefore we had a 40 minute video to convert so we had to wait 40 minutes to digitize the video. Once the video was digitized we imported it into Windows Movie Maker and produced a WMV file as the final product that could easily be viewed on other computers.\nIt was a bit frustrating going through this entire process but it reminded me of what we use to do all the time just two or three years ago before we switched to the Flip video cameras for use in the ITC. If the student had used a Flip video camera in the first place all we would have had to do was copy the video file from the Flip camera and we would have been finished in about five minutes instead of the 1\u00bd hours that this project conversion took. Perhaps we may have needed to convert the AVI format of the Flip to the more common FLV format but this would have only taken about ten minutes to convert. Now imagine have twenty or thirty students in the class given the same project and I think you can see the problem that this represents. The moral of the story, begin with the end in mind and understand what you are asking for before giving an assignment.\nMy Technology Pick of the Week this week is a website that will convert a PDF file to a Word document. A link is a available in the show notes.\nPDF is an acronym for Portable Document Format that was originally created by Adobe and has become the defacto standard for displaying documents online. To view a PDF document you need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in from Adobe. The advantages of a PDF file is that it preserves formatting so that the document displayed on screen looks the way the author intended it to on the web. You may have noticed that if you print off webpages they may look different depending upon the type of computer you use and the type of browser you use. PDF files get around these differences and provide a consistent look. PDF files also cannot be edited without the professional version of Adobe Acrobat Reader that you have to pay for.\nThe PDFtoWord service is currently free and allows you to upload a PDF file and the service will convert the file to a Word document format and email it back to you in Word format as an attachment. Keep in mind that you do have to upload the PDF file to the service so I would not recommend sharing anything confidential but for common PDF files that you wish you could edit PDFtoWord may be a website you are interested in trying out.\nThat wraps it up for episode 78 of TechTalk4Teachers. Transcripts and show notes for this episode and archived episodes are available on the web at the EIU Instructional Technology Center website at www.eiu.edu/itc just click on the Techtalk4Teachers Podcast link. If you have questions, comments or suggestions please send an email to techtalk@eiu.edu or leave a comment on the TechTalk4Teachers blog. Until next time, this is Tom Grissom, keep on learning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 11324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thebronze.co.uk/tourdates/yorks-festival-live-music-parliament-street-york/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MF34Y2Z3BYNIXTQI6E72QK6XQITL7CPQ", "length": 434, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thebronze.co.uk", "title": "York\u2019s Little Festival of Live Music, Parliament Street York | The Bronze", "raw_content": "York\u2019s Little Festival of Live Music, Parliament Street York\nWe're thrilled to be returning to York's Little Festival of Live Music for a third year! It's a 7 day festival of free music between 5pm - 9pm in the Music Marquee on Parliament Street in York. Performances are free, with voluntary donations to York Mind. Come along and sample the amazing food vendors and listen to us play for you on the 28th September between 7pm - 8pm!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecatholicspirit.com/news/nation-and-world/pope-makes-surprise-visit-to-mobile-clinic-in-st-peters-square/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:13Z", "digest": "sha1:C24O2A4C6YO4XDEXLHFGL2THNXUV7MAK", "length": 2094, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "thecatholicspirit.com", "title": "Pope makes surprise visit to mobile clinic in St. Peter's Square - TheCatholicSpirit.com : TheCatholicSpirit.com", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb News \u00bb U.S. & World News \u00bb Pope makes surprise visit to mobile clinic in St. Peter\u2019s Square\nPope makes surprise visit to mobile clinic in St. Peter\u2019s Square\nPope Francis greets a woman religious as he makes a surprise visit to a free health clinic for the needy in St. Peter\u2019s Square at the Vatican Nov. 16. The clinic was open for a week in advance of the Nov. 18 observance of World Day for the Poor. CNS photo/Junno Arocho Esteves\nPope Francis made a surprise visit to a mobile health care facility set up in St. Peter\u2019s Square to serve the city\u2019s homeless and poor.\nEntering the square from under Bernini\u2019s colonnade Nov. 16, the pope walked to the makeshift medical center accompanied by Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization.\nTourists and pilgrims in the square were caught off-guard by the pope\u2019s arrival, immediately snapping pictures and reaching out to shake the pope\u2019s hand.\nArriving at the mobile clinic, the pope was welcomed with applause and cheers from the doctors, medical staff and patients. The pope remained 15 minutes and was given a tour of the medical center before walking back to his residence inside the Vatican.\nThe medical facility, which was to be open Nov. 12-18, was part of an initiative organized by the Pontifical Council for Promoting New Evangelization in conjunction with Pope Francis\u2019 celebration Nov. 18 of the World Day of the Poor.\nA similar clinic was set up last year, but this year it offered extended morning and evening hours. Anyone in need could find general and specialist care, including cardiology, dermatology, gynecology and ophthalmology.\nDoctors volunteering from Rome hospitals or other health clinics and nurses from the Italian Red Cross took shifts running laboratory tests and seeing patients from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. each day.\nTags: Mobile health care facility, New Evangelization, Pope Francis, St. Peter's Square\n\u00ab U of M researchers, faith experts explain why gratitude is good for body and soul\nDamascus archbishop describes Syrian Catholics\u2019 plight \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 13945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thechattpack.blogspot.com/2010/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SOFGYONODV6CHZOZ65KTFASCI3434KAB", "length": 1923, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thechattpack.blogspot.com", "title": "The Chatt Pack: April 2010", "raw_content": "The 13 Calories\nEntertaining story...Brooklyn just walked in from school. I asked her to tell me one thing she learned today. They happen to be learning about the American flag. It has 50 stars for the 50 states and 13 stripes for the 13 calories!\nGod love 'em!\nThe excitement of getting an offer on the house is dwindling. The inspections went okay, but the buyers want all of the basement windows replaced, a new electrical box, and GFCI outlets put in the bathrooms, kitchen, and outside (whatever that means). Ugh. We're talking thousands of dollars here. Zac wants to say \"not a chance,\" but we really, really need to sell this house! They are getting some estimates from electricians this week, so we'll see where that goes. Oxygen concentrator, feeding pump, pulse oximeter, plus all of our everyday stuff? I would love to tell them that about all the things we had plugged in and running in that house and we never had a fire, but I doubt that will go too far.\nOtherwise, all is well here. We are definitely enjoying the weather. We all had a great spring break with lots of play dates, a trip to the zoo, movies, and sleepovers. It wasn't too hard to get the kids up and moving yesterday, since they are both such big fans of school.\nZac and I went back to Macomb on Friday night to see the school musical. They did \"The Music Man\" and it was a good performance. Ben (our pastor's son in Macomb) had the lead and he did an awesome job. We got to see the whole family, which was awesome. They are awesome people and were one of my really significant connections to Macomb. We didn't go to the house. Driving by was good enough for me. We did make a stop at Jackson Street Pub for dinner (love that place) and stopped by to visit some friends, too.\nI'm obviously still trying to play \"catch up\" on the blog. I haven't forgotten about Easter, I just want to find some pictures to put along on that post. Until then...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theconversation.com/genes-shown-to-influence-how-well-children-do-throughout-their-time-at-school-102520", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ND75UCLEH2NIE6LBYATWKYB7NEIHY6UB", "length": 6339, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Genes shown to influence how well children do throughout their time at school", "raw_content": "Kaili Rimfeld, King's College London, Margherita Malanchini, University of Texas at Austin\nMargherita Malanchini\nChildren differ widely in how well they do at school. In recent years, researchers have shown that around two-thirds of differences in school achievement can be explained by differences in children\u2019s genes.\nGenes have been shown to influence how well children do at primary school, at the end of compulsory education, and even in different subjects. However, less is known about how genetic and environmental factors contribute to how well a child continues to do academically throughout their time at school.\nTo study this, we used a sample of over 6,000 pairs of twins who are part of the UK-representative Twins Early Development Study and analysed their test scores from primary school to the end of compulsory education. Our new research found that the twins\u2019 educational achievement was remarkably stable: children who do well in primary school also tend to perform well in GCSE exams, taken at the end of compulsory education.\nUsing twins allows us to estimate the proportion of differences that can be explained by genetic factors. Identical twins share 100% of their genes, while non-identical twins share on average 50% of the genes that differ between people, just like other siblings. If identical twins are more alike on a particular trait than non-identical twins, such as school achievement, we can infer that it is influenced by their genes. We can then estimate the heritability of that trait \u2013 or the proportion of differences that are down to the differences in children\u2019s DNA sequence.\nRead more: The same genes influence exam results across a range of school subjects\nWe looked at what factors influenced stability in educational achievement \u2013 when grades in a standardised test remain similar between primary and secondary school. We found that about 70% of the stability in achievement is explained by genetic factors, while 25% is accounted for by the twins\u2019 shared environment, such as growing up in the same family and attending the same school. The remaining 5% was explained by their non-shared environment, such as different friends or different teachers.\nWhen there was a change in educational achievement \u2013 where grades increased or dropped between primary and secondary school \u2013 we found this was largely explained by those environmental factors that are not shared by twins.\nIt\u2019s reasonable to assume that this substantial influence of genes on the continuity of children\u2019s achievement during their time at school can be explained by intelligence. Yet we found the influence of genes remained substantial \u2013 at 60% \u2013 even after accounting for intelligence, which was measured using several verbal and nonverbal tests taken by the twins over the course of childhood and adolescence.\nDouble the good grades. Aaron Chown/PA Archive\nPredicting achievement using DNA\nWhile twin study estimates such as this can tell us about traits within large groups of people, recent scientific advances are revealing more about the influence of genes on the individual. There has been considerable recent success in identifying genetic variants associated with educational attainment through what are called genome-wide association studies (GWAS). These studies pinpoint genetic markers associated with certain traits. However, each genetic marker explains a very small proportion (less than 0.1%) of the individual differences in school performance.\nA more powerful method was recently developed that sums up thousands of the genetic markers found in the GWAS studies to instead calculate a genome-wide \u201cpolygenic score\u201d. This score is now being used, with increasing levels of accuracy, to predict variance in a trait, such as school achievement, for people unrelated to each other.\nRead more: Your genes can help predict how well you'll do in school \u2013 here's how we cracked it\nAs part of our new study, we used data from previous GWAS analyses to create a polygenic score for education attainment. We calculated a score for one of each pair of our 6,000 sets of twins (so that everybody in this part of the study was unrelated). This predicted whether they would do well across their time at school. These predictions ranged from accounting for 4% of the variance in educational attainment at the start of primary school, to 10% of the variance at GCSE levels. Our findings confirmed the results from the first part of our twins analysis \u2013 that the same genetic variants play a role in explaining why children differ in achievement at every stage in development.\nTo hear more about Twins studies and why they are so important for science, listen to the Twins episode of The Anthill podcast.\nOur findings, which suggest that genes influence how well a child will do across the length of their time at school, should provide additional motivation to identify children in need of interventions as early as possible, as problems are likely to remain throughout the school years. In the future, polygenic score prediction, together with the prediction of environmental risks \u2013 such as exposure to certain neighbourhood, family, and school characteristics \u2013 might provide a tool to identify children with educational problems very early in life. They could then be provided with individualised learning programmes.\nFor example, we could use DNA tests at birth to identify children at genetic risk for developing reading problems, and give them early intervention. As preventive interventions have greater chances of succeeding early in life, a great strength of polygenic scores is that they can predict at birth just as well as later in life, which could be of particular help for those children who are likely to struggle the most.\nGenes and education\ngenome-wide polygenic score\nScientists are hoping genetic scoring could help identify children who may develop learning difficulties. Syda Productions/Shutterstock\nYour genes can help predict how well you\u2019ll do in school \u2013 here\u2019s how we cracked it\nGoing up. via www.shutterstock.com\nSocial mobility is in your genes, finds new study\nIdentical batches of A*s. David Jones/PA Archive\nThe same genes influence exam results across a range of school subjects\nSandraViolla/Shutterstock\nGenetics: what it is that makes you clever \u2013 and why it\u2019s shrouded in controversy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 9984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theconversation.com/how-brexit-and-trump-will-affect-james-bond-67094", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:05Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7WMVQZTBJHV2HR5NJSGCU23K7OVU6GR", "length": 6461, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "How Brexit and Trump will affect James Bond", "raw_content": "How Brexit and Trump will affect James Bond\nKarl-Josef Hildenbrand/EPA\nJames Bond will likely next grace cinema screens towards the end of 2018. Whether he will inhabit a filmic world in which the UK is no longer a member of the European Union and Donald Trump is the US president is yet to be seen \u2013 but if so, what a different world it will be. Bond\u2019s mission is likely to involve the navigation of an increasingly porous Europe, vulnerable to malign influences from a resurgent Russia. The UK\u2019s cyber-security defences face further challenges as industrial espionage and military and intelligence hacking intensifies. Bond is going to have his work cut out for him.\nSo it\u2019s interesting to consider how these changes might effect Britain\u2019s premier super-spy. As we explore in our new book, The Geographies, Genders and Geopolitics of James Bond, Bond\u2019s geographical mobility is pivotal to mission success. And however good he is, he needs allies and access to the resources that they are able to mobilise. Take away those \u201cassets\u201d and Bond\u2019s agency is degraded. So do these tumultuous times \u2013 with the possible end of the Anglo-American special relationship and UK-European co-operation \u2013 also mean the end of Bond as we know it?\nSince Bond is British, Brexit and the contemporary backlash against globalisation seem the most obvious things to consider. The ramifications of the UK\u2019s withdrawal from the EU and the disillusionment with neo-liberal globalisation will certainly alter the way in which he is able to move and execute his secret missions in both subtle and not so subtle ways.\nBrexit Bond\nBrexit will certainly have an impact on his mobility. In most of the films featuring airports, including the earliest Dr No (1962), Bond is depicted as walking through them with brio, as a man untroubled by the \u201cpetty sovereigns\u201d (as literary critic Judith Butler might have it) who administer and police airports. Travel could become more complicated for a post-Brexit Bond. His ability to glide through customs and border inspections airports and seaports would certainly diminish.\nSo new storylines might place further emphasis on Bond\u2019s ability to circumvent conventional state controls and offer up further evidence of MI6 investing in multiple passports. As the Jason Bourne series suggested, an assassin needs, among other things, a decent selection of passports, including those of close allies such as Canada and New Zealand and adversaries such as Russia.\nBut M will likely have bigger concerns than passport problems, because the UK may suffer when it comes to cooperation with EU intelligence agencies. In Spectre (2015), we learned of the \u201cNine Eyes\u201d intelligence network that included traditional working partners such as the United States and newer members like South Africa. But this network would likely be compromised in this emerging nationalistic world. European partners might react badly to Brexit and tell the UK to rely on the United States. Disillusionment with globalisation more generally might make partners less likely to share information and secrets \u2013 every state for itself could become the new rallying cry even for the closest of allies.\nWorking with the United States might be tricky, though. Recent Bond films have suggested a more ambivalent relationship with the former \u201cspecial partner\u201d. The CIA\u2019s Felix Leiter was helpful in Casino Royale (2006) and Quantum of Solace (2008) but did not feature in the two most recent films. The warm relationship that Bond enjoyed with earlier incarnations of Leiter has long gone. In recent years, other spy films like M1-5 (2015) and Eye in the Sky (2015) have also raised concerns about the role, viability, and morality of British intelligence, particularly when collaborating with US military and intelligence agencies.\nThis sense of unease with the UK-US relationship is sure to only increase with Trump as president. He may prime his administration to insulate and isolate the United States from forms of globalisation that are antithetical America\u2019s recovery to \u201cgreatness\u201d. America (as represented through the CIA) may well not want to work with Bond/M16 and share its resources and intelligence as part of a new directive to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain. Leiter could be told in the future not to share intelligence with Bond because America needs to protect its interests first and foremost.\nSo in a world without the security of an Anglo-American connection in addition to the degradation of European partnerships, Bond\u2019s role is likely to look very different. Will Bond still fight for global security or be repositioned more and more as a lone hero who fights for Britain and its safety in a post-globalised world? It might be too much to think that Bond could make Britain \u201cgreat\u201d again but he could help to stop a further \u201cslide\u201d down the international pecking order.\nGoodbye Britain? Geoff Caddick/EPA\nBond\u2019s Britain\nAnd what might Brexit do to Bond\u2019s relationship with the country itself? In Skyfall we see Bond\u2019s ancestral home in Scotland and his retreat to his family estate is critical to luring the villainous Raoul Silva away from a chaos-ridden London. While M dies in Scotland, Bond\u2019s return to London is foregrounded by his pose on top of a government building in the centre of the city. Large Union Jack flags are fluttering away on top of the structure while others serve as part of an official tribute to the late M.\nSkyfall is overwhelmingly a celebration of a United Kingdom. Bond\u2019s Anglo-Scottish heritage is integral to his movement from London to Scotland and back again. But given a divisive Brexit vote in June, might Bond\u2019s identity shift and become a more English in the wake of Scotland\u2019s overwhelming vote to remain in the European Union?\nAnd if the process of Brexit proves troubling and time consuming as we expect, leading to heated discussions about parliamentary scrutiny, MI6 may be the victim of a blowback as parliamentarians seek to reclaim their authority from the executive. The late M was very vexed about such scrutiny; she patently did not care for it. Bond will have to hope that he and MI6 are still \u201ctrusted\u201d and permitted to operate in the \u201cshadows\u201d, and allowed to do so in a world where nations find it harder than ever to trust each other, let alone the global political and economic system.\nWhat would Brexit mean for the special relationship? Nothing good\nTrump victory comes with a silver lining for the world\u2019s progressives", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 10260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thedrawingboard.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:08Z", "digest": "sha1:6H2PGZF5EOFTJ7JWLK6KKF2VZHQHUAQJ", "length": 30839, "nlines": 94, "source_domain": "thedrawingboard.net", "title": "The Drawing Board \u2013 Real estate, finance and tech", "raw_content": "Real estate, finance and tech\nThe Myth of the Open Plan Office\nPosted on January 31, 2018 April 30, 2018 Author Posted By: Peter\nIs there anyone who still believes that open plan office layouts increase productivity? Article after article, study after study has made it clear that the massive distraction they create outweighs any benefits from \u201ccollaboration\u201d or \u201cspontaneous interaction.\u201d It\u2019s almost a running joke at this point in the tech world:\nLast week I was talking to some union leaders about tech. \u201cThe only thing they care about is open plan offices.\u201d \u201cAnd they still have them?\u201d\nAnd yet some of the smartest companies in the world keep building them, over the objections of their own employees. What\u2019s going on?\nThe obvious answer is cost: office space is expensive, so companies are always trying to reduce the space per employee, and the collaboration/creativity/community stuff is just spin. But even that story only takes you so far, because at some point the lower productivity hurts the company as much as (or more than!) the employee. It\u2019s crazy for a big tech company to save $10k/year on rent by seating a $300k/year programmer on a trading desk where they need to wear headphones all day.\nSo on some level, there must be people at the top who still believe the myth. In his recent book Deep Work, Cal Newport dissects two of the post-war stories of highly productive collaboration that have driven it: Building 20 at MIT, and Bell Labs in New Jersey.\nNeither building offered anything resembling a modern open office plan. They were instead constructed using the standard layout of private offices connected to shared hallways. Their creative mojo had more to do with the fact that these offices shared a small number of long connecting spaces \u2014 forcing researchers to interact whenever they needed to travel from one location to another.\nOriginally, open plan offices were about surveillance as much as cost:\nThe first modern office was the Larkin Administration Building, which opened in 1906 in New York. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it was based on an open-plan factory, with a giant atrium and very few walls.\n\u201cHe was interested in creating big cathedral spaces for aesthetic reasons,\u201d says Jeremy Myerson, professor of design at the Royal College of Art.\n\u201cBut actually it was very useful for managers because no walls meant they could supervise workers in this open space and keep an eye on them. It was all about control.\u201d\nEvery time I\u2019m in a WeWork or similar coworking office, they seem to be getting more and more subdivided: they\u2019re discovering that members will almost always pay a premium for a tiny glass-walled interior closet compared to a seat in an open bullpen. Which shows you that the closer the decision making is to the actual occupants, the higher the premium becomes on privacy. And if you visit even the newest and best-amenitized corporate open plan offices, you\u2019ll find huge waiting lists for the conference rooms, people running in and out to take phone calls, and those giant headphones everywhere. (A friend at one of these told me their colleagues were starting to replace their Bose noise-cancelling headphones with the industrial ones worn by lumberjacks.)\nSo many of the changes in the typical office over the last few decades are about trading easy-to-measure cost reductions for diffuse, hard-to-measure costs in time and attention; think of the way that software has eliminated so much admin staffing by making everyone into their own assistant, spending hours logging expenses, contacts and meetings on a dozen different websites. Each of these trade-offs individually is so small and hard to measure (sometimes there are real efficiency gains involved) that you can see why they keep happening, even if they\u2019re collectively a mistake. But this one is just too big to be explained that way.\nThis is especially true at those big tech companies with more cash than they know what to do with. In these cases an open plan office may be a kind of costly signaling device (like a peacock\u2019s tail) or a way to keep employees distracted from the fine print on their stock options. But more likely it\u2019s just another irrational management trend in an industry that prides itself on rationality. Hopefully we\u2019re finally getting close to a tipping point.\nThe Problem with Prediction Markets\nPosted on September 21, 2016 December 3, 2018 Author Posted By: Peter\nPrediction markets \u2014 websites where you can bet on politics \u2014 are rising in prominence. This election season, their \u201codds\u201d are often quoted in news stories alongside poll averages.\nOf course, these odds aren\u2019t worth much if there aren\u2019t many people betting, and there aren\u2019t. This article by Philip Wallach is an excellent survey of the landscape, and as he points out, the US election has 50 times more betting volume at Betfair (a UK sports book) than at PredictIt, the largest current prediction market.\nSocial scientists have been infatuated with the idea of prediction markets for decades, but gambling is first and foremost a habit, and the problem with these markets is that there\u2019s not enough to bet on to get people in the habit of coming back. The political world simply doesn\u2019t offer frequent enough events that enough people care about.\nThese two variables \u2014 frequency and interest \u2014 can explain the popularity of sports betting and day trading, which are the two most widespread forms of gambling that prediction markets could emulate. You probably care a lot about how your favorite team or fantasy players perform, and they play often; meanwhile you may not care as much where the price of gold or Apple stock is in an hour, but the feedback is even more frequent (and traders are highly vulnerable to conspiracy theories about market manipulation, because they want to care).\nMeanwhile, you may care who wins the election, but if it\u2019s weeks or months away, what\u2019s going to keep you coming back to the site? Suppose you came to PredictIt in June convinced that Clinton would win, saw that she was \u201ctrading\u201d at 66% (1/2 or -200) odds, and bet $100 \u2014 so you\u2019d win about $50 if she won the election. Now you come back during her post-convention poll bounce and she\u2019s at 75%; what do you do? You could cash out with a $15 profit, but then what? You could have made $50. Or you could add to your bet at worse odds. Neither is particularly tempting. My guess is you\u2019ll do nothing, and pretty soon you\u2019ll stop visiting the site as frequently.\nOne way to describe that problem is that the site is trying to get you to think about sports-like betting in a financial market-like framework. But even compared to sports, the idea of waiting months for your bet to settle is frustrating. Most of the betting on sports happens much closer to the event. (According to this chart, 50% of the money bet on an average soccer match is wagered within the preceding two days.)\nPredictIt has gotten a lot of things right in terms of basic market structure and fees that previous prediction markets like Intrade got wrong, but I\u2019m not sure how they can solve this basic problem.\nOne solution would be to mix in political contracts with sports, like they do at Betfair, or with financial markets, as Intrade tried to do at one point. (\u201cWill the Dow close above x?\u201d) But regulators in the US are not about to allow either of those things. Even these political markets require an exemption from the CFTC to operate.\nWhat they\u2019re doing instead at PredictIt is creating lots of arbitrary questions to bet on, so there\u2019s always something new and always something settling soon \u2014 like the exact poll average on some random date:\nThere\u2019s not much trading volume on these questions, because, not to put too fine a point on it, no one cares about them. All you\u2019ve got are the would-be bookies trading with each other.\nLet\u2019s go back to our Clinton example for a moment. If you were a perfect rational actor in an economics textbook, you\u2019d go in both times with your exact estimate of her odds of winning, having mentally updated it for events like the convention, and judge the expected value or rate of return of your bet vs. alternative uses of your capital given what the market\u2019s offering, so you\u2019d wind up transacting more frequently before the event itself. You\u2019d also think about the arbitrage opportunities created by closely related markets (will Clinton win, will the Democratic candidate win, will a female candidate win). But very few people really think that way, and for many it\u2019s stressful and unpleasant to be forced to do so.\nI\u2019m reminded of another site called Stickk, also started by social scientists, where you can make \u201ccommitment contracts\u201d with yourself to quit a bad habit, and attach monetary penalties: for example, you might commit to quit smoking by year end or pay the site $500. Tyler Cowen was skeptical:\nI\u2019ve long predicted this won\u2019t work; one group of potential customers doesn\u2019t really want to change, the other group is unwilling to give up control. It\u2019s not exaggerating to say that human nature is on the line here, and that if I am wrong this is probably the most important idea you will ever encounter.\nPrediction markets are running into an analagous problem, and it\u2019s a very tough problem. Even if the novelty of the idea gets people to try it, how do you get them to keep coming back?\nRemember those two key factors: interest and frequency. If you wanted to play to interest, you\u2019d let people bet on more non-political subjects. For some of these there are too many people with advance information (Oscar winners, reality show outcomes, who will die on Game of Thrones) and the market could end up spoiling the surprise. For others, like the outcome of high profile trials, there may be considerations of taste or privacy. But from a moral perspective, it\u2019s probably a lot better than focusing on frequency, like lotteries or casinos, and trying to get people hooked on betting on the weather or traffic or some other quasi-random pattern.\nI fear that those of us who want to see prediction markets succeed (and I do) have not been focused enough on the core problem: we\u2019re asking people to bet on a subject that 90% of us only care about (in the US) every four years, if even then. Without changing that underlying proposition, I suspect that the current interest in prediction markets, under the klieg lights of a particularly insane election season, is as high as it will ever be.\nGraphing Calculators and Competition\nPosted on August 23, 2016 September 21, 2016 Author Posted By: Peter\nThis two-year old Washington Post article describes an odd situation that seems to persist today: Texas Instruments is still selling their TI-84 graphing calculator for about $100, though it likely costs only $15-20 to manufacture and they haven\u2019t updated the hardware in over a decade. Phones and tablets can now do all the same things, of course, but they\u2019re not allowed on tests, and I guess you don\u2019t want everyone\u2019s phone out in class either.\nAt a time when startups are targeting every non-tech business for \u201cdisruption,\u201d why has a tech product like this managed to hold on to such a lucrative monopoly? The article describes a cycle in which teachers require the TI models they\u2019re familiar with, parents have to buy them whatever the price, and TI puts a bit of those excess profits back into teacher training and support to make sure they\u2019re still the standard.\nNo question that\u2019s a big advantage, but it doesn\u2019t sound insurmountable. The competing model mentioned in the article, from Casio, is $80 and running a distant second in sales; they claim they can\u2019t crack that \u201cTI ecosystem,\u201d but my guess is the price difference just isn\u2019t big enough. Shouldn\u2019t someone be able to do this for $40 or $50? Or create a $10 app that locks your phone/tablet in a way that can be monitored or later audited, to eliminate distractions or cheating? (Remember, the TI calculators aren\u2019t perfect in that regard either, since they have persistent memory that can be used for games or cheat sheets, and even the firmware can apparently be overwritten.)\nIt also reminded me of the RPN calculators made by HP that are still used somewhat in finance, science and engineering. If you\u2019re going to rip someone off, a bond trader is obviously a less sympathetic target than a ninth-grader, but in any case they seem to have maintained the same inflated pricing outside the K-12 education ecosystem.\nMy first thought was \u201cthis is perfect for a big crowdfunding campaign.\u201d A graphing calculator seems like exactly the kind of old-timey hardware device that a small team could design and produce without any proprietary technology, and there\u2019s a social/education angle to the story that should help the campaign spread online. But a quick search on Kickstarter and Indiegogo shows no such projects, and after a little more thought, it\u2019s easy to see why not. Crowdsourced products are infamous for shipping late, and a calculator that doesn\u2019t show up at the beginning of the semester is useless. At the same time, you couldn\u2019t give yourself too much of a time cushion, since your target audience may not even be thinking about this before back-to-school season. And these customers \u2014 adolescents and their parents \u2014 will be hard to reach anyway, since they straddle the current demographic for Kickstarter and the social networks where the campaigns are promoted.\nWhy not a venture-backed device startup? It\u2019s probably not a big enough opportunity. According to the article, about 1.6 million calculators are sold per year, and that number has been slowly shrinking as more and more classrooms get school-issued iPads or other new alternatives. It\u2019s still a great business for TI when they\u2019ve got 90% of the market at $100 apiece, but if even if you took half their market share at, say, a $40 price point, your margins would be much lower, you\u2019d need to spend a ton on marketing and support to get there, and when you do, no one\u2019s going to put a tech multiple on a shrinking business.\nWhat about a more developed secondary market? The article doesn\u2019t say what, if anything, TI has done to suppress sales of used models. They\u2019re all over eBay, with almost 10,000 sold in the last couple months (though this may be the seasonal back-to-school peak). That\u2019s still not much compared to 1.6 million total units, though. Here\u2019s one online storefront that sells them refurbished for $83, and another for $84. Again, not the level of discount that would indicate real competition.\nDoes this represent a gap in the funding market, an opportunity for a bootstrapped lifestyle business or an investor like IndieVC that isn\u2019t built around big exits? What\u2019s the minimum scale for a project like this to pay off? In any case, I\u2019m sure there are a few other examples of obsolete hardware that\u2019s still making 50%+ profit margins, but this seems like a particularly egregious one.\nRestaurant Rankings vs. Ratings\nPosted on February 21, 2016 July 15, 2018 Author Posted By: Peter\nThis idea seems so obvious to me that I\u2019m sure someone has tried it, but I can\u2019t find any good examples. In a nutshell, it\u2019s an app for user ratings of restaurants that\u2019s based on ranking them in categories, rather than rating them individually on a star or point scale.\nSo for example, you might have your personal lists of the best burgers, the best Italian food, the best steak, the best vegetarian restaurants, etc. You\u2019d only rank categories where you\u2019ve tried at least two restaurants, of course, and when you try a new one you could add it to your list. So, for example, my list for burgers in NYC might start as follows:\nActually, what I\u2019d really have is a ranking of the best burgers I\u2019ve had anywhere, and we could still filter them down to NYC if necessary. But you get the idea.\nNow, once we\u2019ve got enough users, we can start aggregating those rankings to present a single ranked list in each category. And this has some major advantages over existing ratings sites:\nIt\u2019s closer to how people already think about restaurants. Everyone has running debates with their friends about their top five burgers, BBQ, or whatever else. Everyone asks \u201cis it better than ___?\u201d No one asks \u201cis it three stars or three and a half?\u201d But sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor ask their users to convert those relative opinions into absolute ones, only to aggregate them back into relative lists (\u201c10 Best Mexican Restaurants in Los Angeles\u201d) \u2014 and a lot of useful information is lost in that process.\nRelative ratings are more useful than absolute ones in this context, because they remove a lot of ambiguity. Is a three-star rating for a Mexican restaurant in New York really the same as a three-star rating for one in California, where the standard for Mexican food is higher? It probably depends on the user. But this way anyone who\u2019s had Mexican food in both places is ranking every restaurant on the same list. (In fact, if you wanted to convert the relative rankings back into star ratings, you\u2019d be more accurate than if users just entered star ratings to begin with \u2014 but again, why would you?)\nIt\u2019s faster, more fun and more social than ratings \u2014 which means you\u2019d get a different and broader pool of reviewers. Rankings feel like much more of a \u201ccuration\u201d experience, more of an expression of your individual identity or tastes. And they still allow for a certain \u201cpower user\u201d dynamic without allowing them to be quite as dominant.\nIt doesn\u2019t emphasize rants and raves. Think about how many reviews on Yelp are motivated more by anger or affection for the establishment than any pure desire to inform or help the reader. It means that even with the power users, you only get their input on the best and worst restaurants \u2014 these reviews are not a very sensitive instrument for distinguishing one three-star restaurant from another.\nThis would also be a relatively easy project to get off the ground; you could start with a hundred restaurants in 5-10 categories in a single big city, and a relatively small user base. Even a couple hundred frequent restaurant-goers would provide meaningful data. Then you publish those lists on your site, spend a little money on advertising/promotion and see if anyone cares about them.\nI think a lot of people would. There\u2019s a certain appeal to the crowdsourcing and mystery-shopping aspects \u2014 which the old Zagat guides really tapped into \u2014 but the information would also be more reliable and actionable than anything else available. If a new Szechuan restaurant (my current obsession) opened in New York, I\u2019d honestly be more interested in where it landed in this app\u2019s ranking after a month or two \u2014 even if that meant only 5-10 people had visited and ranked it \u2014 than in a review in the NY Times or on some food blog.\nThe algorithm would take a little work, but it also doesn\u2019t have to be as complicated with a small user base in a single city as it would be later \u2014 I imagine that cross-city comparisons and aging of reviews would both add some complexity down the road. But that would be a nice problem to have.\nIs there a business model? The (alleged) Yelp approach of extorting restaurants to buy overpriced advertising so you\u2019ll remove/underweight their bad reviews doesn\u2019t really work. It would be pretty unpleasant for a restaurant to be ranked last in their category, but unless you\u2019re actively trying to exploit that, you\u2019d probably be showing just the top ten anyway in the aggregate lists \u2014 who cares about last place vs. next-to-last?\nCould you charge users instead, making this an exclusive/insider thing where you need an existing user\u2019s invitation to join, and pay a small monthly fee to participate? Maybe you could still display your own lists to non-members, but you couldn\u2019t show them the aggregate rankings. (You might waive the fee for any month where someone ranks at least x new restaurants, though you don\u2019t want to give people an incentive to lie and rank a restaurant they haven\u2019t actually visited.)\nIf you wanted a larger user base, another option is for your ratings to be a loss leader for reservations (looks like Opentable has an affiliate program) or some other commission product, as they are at TripAdvisor and most online travel portals. Even as a completely free service that just plugs into major ad networks, you\u2019d probably at least pay the bills while building up a valuable database.\nNow, what else would it work for besides restaurants? It\u2019s hard to think of anything, and maybe that\u2019s why no one has tried this. The startup machine is very good at applying cookie-cutter business models to different categories (so for example, I\u2019m sure there have been a few \u201cRotten Tomatoes for restaurants\u201d attempts) but ratings are an area where no two categories really work the same way, and most of the other obvious ones have less of a clear advantage for rankings over ratings. There are too many variables on which to rate a hotel, and it would be hard to categorize them. Same with music, books and movies. And with consumer products, most people don\u2019t try enough different ones to rank them; could you tell me your top five printers, cars or vacuum cleaners with the same confidence as your top five pizza places? Better to rely on professional reviews there.\nBy contrast, there\u2019s one clear variable on which to rate restaurants \u2014 quality of the food \u2014 and 90% of them fall neatly into a type of cuisine. You don\u2019t need 100% coverage either; if you leave out some fusion or vague \u201cNew American\u201d restaurants because they don\u2019t fit into a clear category, so what? There are still a million other review sites that are all over them. And while it\u2019s true that people rate restaurants on other things like service, atmosphere, delivery time, etc, that\u2019s often just as much of a bug as a feature, because sensitivity to these things varies widely and it corrupts the ratings. You could still have people enter text comments on these rankings, and excerpt them like Zagat reviews for the master lists \u2014 but they would be more like the brief comments on Instagram posts or FourSquare check-ins, and less like the long, performative stories that seem to rise to the top among Yelp reviews.\nThe main point is that people care about rankings much more viscerally than ratings. It\u2019s why clickbait sites publish so many arbitrary ranked lists; they know they\u2019ll get lots of comments and shares just from people arguing with them. And I guarantee you some NYC readers have not even made it this far because they were so disgusted by my top five burger choices above. But unlike most exercises in list-making, with restaurants there\u2019s a lot of useful, structured information embedded there. Why not take advantage of it?\nThe Airbnb Building\nPosted on January 22, 2016 January 6, 2019 Author Posted By: Peter\nThere are really two separate businesses on Airbnb and other hosting platforms. Let\u2019s call them \u201camateur\u201d and \u201cprofessional\u201d:\nAmateur: People renting out homes that they live in themselves at least part of the time (either a spare room while they\u2019re home or the whole place while they\u2019re not home)\nProfessional: People renting out homes that they never occupy themselves, for short periods rather than the standard monthly/annual lease\nThey service much of the same demand, but on the supply side they\u2019ll be governed by different rules and economics in the long run. Let\u2019s look past the current city-by-city political fights and even Airbnb itself (because these businesses will persist whatever happens to one particular company) and think about how the underlying rules and consumer behavior are likely to shake out.\nThere are two systems of rules in play here, which we might call public and private. The public rules are municipal laws and regulations. The private rules are a matter of contracts \u2013 leases, condo/HOA bylaws, insurance policies \u2013 and will start to draw more focus once the public rules have been sorted out.\nIn large US cities, it\u2019s often the case that both types of hosting are technically illegal, but these laws are rarely and inconsistently enforced. Over the next few years, most large cities will settle on a new set of rules with more enforcement behind them, with San Francisco\u2019s recent Prop F debate as one of the first major rounds in this process. I think a reasonable bet is that it shakes out as follows, with one or two cities passing comprehensive legislation and others copying and tweaking it:\n\u201cAmateur\u201d hosting will be explicitly allowed, with\na limit on rental days per year, probably 30-90\nnew transaction taxes (though less than hotel/tourism taxes)\nnew safety requirements (again not as strict as hotels)\nsome type of public registry for hosts, to enforce the above\n\u201cProfessional\u201d hosting will be more or less disallowed, or at least regulated much more harshly\nNow, it\u2019s obvious that Airbnb, or any platform that combines both types of host, has an interest in blurring this distinction. Most of their hosts are amateurs, but a professional is worth far more in commissions, because they run higher occupancies and often list multiple units. So Airbnb does everything they can to highlight the more sympathetic amateurs, while pushing for regulation that\u2019s friendly to the less sympathetic professionals.\nUltimately, most voters and public officials will see the difference, and at that point there\u2019s no real public interest or powerful constituency to stand behind the professionals. And the hotel industry, which lobbies against both businesses, is also smart enough to know that the pros are a far greater threat to them than the amateurs and eventually exploit the same wedge.\nWe won\u2019t argue about the fate of professional hosts, which is really a more interesting question for Airbnb investors than the rest of us. If I\u2019m wrong and that business keeps growing, it\u2019s really nothing new, just an update of the European-style \u201choliday flats\u201d businesses that have been around since long before the internet.\nWhat\u2019s new, and much more of a social change, is the widespread adoption of \u201camateur\u201d hosting, and what I want to talk about is how those private, contractual problems \u2013 the landlord/neighbor problems \u2013 will shake out once the regulatory groundwork has been laid.\nThese problems are particularly annoying for urban apartment dwellers, and will get a lot worse once those public registries are in place. After all, even if your city allows you up to sixty days of short-term sublets, your landlord can still tear up your lease if they catch you \u2013 or if you\u2019re a condo or co-op owner, your neighbors can complain (not unreasonably) that they didn\u2019t buy into a hotel and don\u2019t want strangers around, and get the building rules changed.\nSo here\u2019s my idea: an \u201cAirbnb building\u201d which explicitly allows short-term hosting and manages it through the building itself.\nIt could work for a rental or condo building. Either way, when you know you\u2019ll be out of town for a night or more, you\u2019d simply tell the doormen or staff, or enter it into a web calendar, and they\u2019d list it on Airbnb for those nights. If someone books it, they\u2019d arrange for the keys, cleaning and so on. And then you split the extra rent \u2013 so for a three night booking at $200/night (after Airbnb\u2019s commission), the building would take in $600 and give you $300.\nThis may sound familiar \u2014 it\u2019s more or less how condo hotels and many other vacation properties are managed. Although in those cases the usage is reversed; the owner is typically there only a few weeks a year, and most of the time the unit\u2019s in the rental pool. In our example, the primary resident is still there most of the time.\nThis approach neatly solves the landlord/neighbor problem, because the landlord\u2019s getting their cut and the neighbors all know what they signed up for. Most people are still not comfortable renting out their homes to strangers, but you\u2019d expect the people who are to self-select into buildings like this as soon as they start to become available. A typical rental building turns over as much as half of its tenant base every year, so it wouldn\u2019t take long to convert all the leases to allow this; with a condo you might have to sell it that way from construction.\nThere are obvious time efficiencies and economies of scale in having the building management \u2013 who already have photos, floorplans, spare keys, and so on \u2013 manage the whole process, as opposed to individual hosts.\nAnd as a traveler, I would hugely prefer to stay in a building like this. I wouldn\u2019t have to worry about whether the neighbors and staff know I\u2019m a paid guest, and the level of trust is far higher. Right now I\u2019d probably never stay somewhere without previous positive ratings, but if I was booking with the building rather than an individual, then just a few positive ratings for any units in the building would make me a lot more willing.\nFinally, what if your half of the Airbnb rent was passed on as a reduction or partial rebate of your base rent or condo maintenance fees, rather than additional taxable income? That\u2019s how many amateur hosts think of it already, and the tax savings could be substantial.\nIt doesn\u2019t solve the insurance problems (liability for theft, damages, injury, etc), and I don\u2019t know enough about that business to speculate, but more professional and centralized management certainly can\u2019t hurt in sorting those out.\nWhy hasn\u2019t Airbnb set up a building like this themselves, as a kind of prototype to show how well their concept can work? Maybe they don\u2019t want large property management companies to get any ideas. After all, they might get tired of paying those high commissions and just start their own website. In a way, Airbnb benefits from having its hosts operate in an uncomfortable gray area with their landlords and neighbors, because it prevents them from working together openly to gain negotiating power with the platform.\nI get the feeling that some newer condo buildings with a high proportion of investment buyers are drifting towards my model already, on the professional side; maybe those buyers had initially planned to rent out their units in standard one-year terms, but they\u2019re realizing they can make much more by listing them on a short-term rental platform and tipping the staff enough to look the other way.\nBut again, this isn\u2019t meant to be an argument for or against Airbnb, HomeAway or any other particular platform. It\u2019s more about starting from the bottom up: what do hosts and guests want, and what systems and structures can address that in the most efficient way? In the end, the companies that adapt themselves to those structures will succeed. The model I\u2019m describing certainly doesn\u2019t work everywhere, but for serviced buildings in large urban markets (which are already a substantial share of inventory on these sites) it seems like a much better approach. I wonder who\u2019ll be the first to try it.\nThe Drawing Board Proudly powered by WordPress", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 31717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theduran.com/president-leaks-sessions-coats-finally-act/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GAFTXZYMZ3IAKZKZXMONPDDVT3LLQTXG", "length": 10026, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "theduran.com", "title": "The President and the leaks: Sessions and Coats finally act", "raw_content": "The President and the leaks: Sessions and Coats finally act\nAttorney General Jeff Sessions and Director of Intelligence Dan Coats finally heed President Trump\u2019s demand for an investigation of the leaks which have been destabilising his administration.\nThat Donald Trump\u2019s Presidency is being effectively sabotaged by a campaign of leaking from inside the US government bureaucracy is disputed by no one.\nThat many of these leaks flagrantly violate the law and have been used in the most unethical way \u2013 for example to engineer the removal of General Michael Flynn \u2013 is rarely said, but is also undoubtedly true.\nThat former top officials of the preceding Obama administration are involved in these leaks, and that the viscerally anti-Trump media is actively colluding in the serial law-breaking involved in the leaks, is also widely known and is also undoubtedly true.\nLastly, that President Trump has been pushing for a criminal investigation of the leaks since soon after he took office, is indisputable also. Here is what I wrote about it in February shortly after the press conference President Trump held following the resignation of General Flynn. Here is what I said about it then, in an article I wrote on 17th February 2017\nThis in part also explains the criminal investigation into the leaks he has asked the Justice Department to tell the FBI to undertake. Clearly he understands that until he has mastered his bureaucracy and proved to the Russians that he is the master of his own house there is no sense in his negotiating with them. That he has done what he previously hinted at, and has asked the Justice Department to instruct the FBI to investigate the leaks, he has now confirmed\nYes, we\u2019re looking at them very \u2014 very, very serious. I\u2019ve gone to all of the folks in charge of the various agencies and we\u2019re \u2014 I\u2019ve actually called the Justice Department to look into the leaks. Those are criminal leaks. They\u2019re put out by people either in agencies \u2014 I think you\u2019ll see it stopping because now we have our people in. You know, again, we don\u2019t have our people in because we can\u2019t get them approved by the Senate.\nNote that the highlighted words all but confirm a point I have repeatedly made: that the reason Trump has been unable to act against the leakers before is because the Department of Justice under Sally Yates has been working against him.\nTo be clear this is going to be a very different investigation from the various FBI investigations into the nebulous claims of contacts between President Trump\u2019s campaign team and the Russians details of which have been appearing all over the media. As Trump himself all but says \u2013 and as the FBI investigators undertaking them surely know \u2013 those investigations are a complete waste of time, and will lead nowhere, because no-one has identified a crime for anyone to investigate.\nBy contrast in the case of the leaks that brought about the downfall of General Flynn, not only is there no doubt a crime was committed, but The New York Times and CNN know the identity of the perpetrators, and probably enough is already known about them anyway to make it possible to identify them without too much difficulty.\nUnlike the investigations into the allegations that are being made against Donald Trump\u2019s campaign team, this investigation therefore stands a very strong chance of success, resulting in arrests, charges and legal action.\nI would guess that already by now as I am writing this various people in The New York Times, CNN, the US intelligence community, and former officials of the Obama administration, are busy phoning their lawyers.\nIt is now clear that my expectations in February that an investigation of the leaks would quickly take place I wildly underestimated the extent of the resistance to the President\u2019s call. It turns out that it was not only Sally Yates at the Justice Department who was resisting the President\u2019s demand for an investigation of the leaks but that this resistance extended right across the bureaucracy.\nA key figure in defeating the President\u2019s wish for a proper investigation of the leaks was almost certainly former FBI Director James Comey, who seems to have developed a strong personal dislike of the President and to have been acting working against him, probably because he had convinced himself that the fantastic conspiracy theories peddled about the President and his associates during the Russiagate allegations are true.\nThe result is that the FBI throughout Comey\u2019s tenure resisted the President\u2019s demands for an investigation of the leaks which have been undermining his administration. Indeed it is a certainty that many of the leaks which have been undermining the President and his administration have originated from within the FBI itself.\nThe President sacked Comey on 9th May 2017, in part at least because of Comey\u2019s refusal to heed the President\u2019s request for a proper investigation of the leaks. Since then the FBI has been without a director, with Acting Director McCabe mistrusted by the President because of his closeness to Comey and his wife\u2019s political ambitions. It is now that the FBI finally has in Christopher Wray a Director of the President\u2019s choice.\nMeanwhile the President has made no secret of his growing frustration at the delay in getting a proper leaks investigation started. Much of the anger the President has expressed about his Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the leadership of the Justice in recent weeks stems from the President\u2019s frustration at the failure to get the leaks investigation he has been insisting on going.\nToday however we have a formal announcement from Attorney General Sessions and Director of National Insurance Coats that such an investigation is finally underway. Here is a video of Sessions and Coats announcing it\nIn Coats\u2019s words\nAny disclosure outside of authorised channels is a criminal offence. And we will simply not tolerate the illegal release of classified information. If you improperly disclose classified information, we will find you, we will investigate you, we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law, and you will not be happy with the result.\nCoats\u2019s involvement is obviously key to the success of the investigation since he is able to mobilise the gigantic resources of the US intelligence community to support it. The press conference however spoke of other more conventional tools \u2013 such as subpoenas of news organisations that peddle the leaks \u2013 being used to extract information and help identify the leakers.\nI do not agree with those who deny the need for such an investigation by saying it will prevent whistleblowing. Nothing about the leaks which have been been happening over the last few months resembles whistleblowing. On the contrary they have been a cynical exercise in destabilising the President and his administration by using the media to spread anonymously damaging but uncorroborated stories about him. As such they have not safeguarded democracy; they have undermined it.\nI would add that complaints from mainstream media organisations like the Washington Post and the New York Times that the new leaks investigation threatens free speech looks to me especially ironic given the zeal of these organisations in seeking to close down what is called alternative media.\nWhilst it is unfortunately possible that action which may now be taken against the leakers will create precedents which may in future be used against genuine whistleblowers, the blame for that will rest first and foremost with the media, who have thrown all journalistic standards aside by colluding in this cynical abuse of the practice.\nWhether the leaks investigation which has now been announced will be effective remains to be seen. If it is then it will drastically change the atmosphere around the President and his administration, as well as Robert Mueller\u2019s Russiagate inquiry.\nBefore closing off on this question, I will make a few personal points on the subject of leaks:\n(1) as a fundamental principle information which is leaked anonymously should never be given equal weight to information which is given openly and publicly, and where the second contradicts the first it is the second which should always be preferred unless there are overwhelmingly strong reasons to do otherwise;\n(2) journalists should use anonymously leaked material very sparingly, should publish it extremely infrequently, and before doing so should where possible look to corroborate it from open sources. They should always consider the possible motives of the leaker, and should ask themselves whether publication of the material genuinely serves the public interest as opposed to serving some other purpose;\n(3) journalists always ought to consider very carefully the security implications of leaking anonymously sourced information, especially when it appears to come from the security services;\n(4) last but not least, there is no doubt that some reported \u201canonymous leaks\u201d are simply covers for journalistic inventions, and that is an especially strong reasons to be wary of them.\nThere are very few journalists today who I trust to handle and report anonymously sourced material properly and accurately, and I look with the deepest misgivings when it is handled by anyone else. Amongst those journalists \u2013 or persons who exercise journalistic functions \u2013 I would include Julian Assange, Seymour Hersh, Robert Parry, Glenn Greenwald and one or two others.\nObviously this is something which requires very long experience and in-depth knowledge of a sort which is possessed by very few. Quite obviously the army of journalists employed by CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Guardian and the rest, which have breathlessly repeated every story the anonymous leakers within the US bureaucracy have fed them, do not possess it.\nRelated Topics:featuredDonald TrumpFBIJames ComeyleaksMichael FlynnJeff Sessions'Russiagate'Christopher WrayDan CoatsUS bureaucracy\nRussia\u2019s inflation rate plunges in July\nIs Iraq\u2019s al-Sadr going Saudi?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 34618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theenglishlandscaper.com/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:50Z", "digest": "sha1:5TZRIPBGLX2QAVCASPTMXOPEB7BFV7WR", "length": 2164, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theenglishlandscaper.com", "title": "About \u2014 GARDEN LANDSCAPES", "raw_content": "Garden Landscapes is essentially me, Richard Lambert. I\u2019m native to England, hence the \"English Landscaper\" bit. I design, install and maintain gardens and landscapes. I also eat, sleep, read, dream, study, visit and live gardens, plants, landscape design, art, sculpture and other design type stuff, so its much more than just my job!\nI have over fifteen years of professional experience in landscaping, the first three of which I worked as a gardener in and around London. During this time I gained a wealth of experience and influence from a variety of talented landscapers and designers, and from the spaces they were creating.\nPrior to this I studied Graphic Design at the University of the West of England in Bristol, then spent several years traveling in Asia, South America, Morocco, Australia and New Zealand. Hiking and camping in wild places helped develop my appreciation for the glories of the natural world and for time spent outdoors.\nWhen I first moved to America, I was fortunate to live within walking distance of a large section of restored tall-grass prairie. I visited weekly throughout the year for three years, saw the seasons come and go, watched plants grow up and die back, and came to understand more about ecology, wildlife and balance. I worked as a landscaper these three years in Milwaukee, learning much from its tough climate, before moving to Spokane in 2009, when my wife took a teaching job at Gonzaga.\nAll of this has played a big role in informing my work. I continue to study native plant communities to help create plantings evocative of nature that work well on a residential scale and that are attractive year-round. I understand that time spent outside can be very rewarding and that creating welcoming areas around our homes can help improve our well-being. My studies in art and design help me to compose a space and to seek out ways to capture and expose the beauty of a landscape.\nI am inspired by the wonderful natural beauty of the Spokane region and attempt to create landscapes which respond to these surroundings. Whenever possible and wherever I go I visit gardens and designed landscapes. I am always learning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theenglishlandscaper.com/gardening", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:23Z", "digest": "sha1:5MPMEPGR75GTGIBPEWTRVTP7SCILIRX2", "length": 1288, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "theenglishlandscaper.com", "title": "Maintenance \u2014 GARDEN LANDSCAPES", "raw_content": "Perhaps you don\u2019t need a complete redesign to bring out the best in your garden. I offer renovation and maintenance gardening services. Even the low maintenance landscapes I specialize in creating need some seasonal gardening to help realize their full potential.\nTrees and shrubs can be pruned to enhance their natural form and to allow more light to reach the ground. Crowded beds of perennials can be divided (more plants for free!) and replanted, or edited to create more coherent plantings. Lawns can be reshaped or considerably reduced in size, weeds controlled and mulch applied to help improve the structure and appearance of beds.\nIf you don\u2019t have as much time as you would like to care for your garden, I can help you choose plants and plant combinations which require less water and maintenance. Many gardens look great in June but worn out by August. The careful selection and integration of even a handful of new plant varieties can add year round interest to your plantings.\nOr maybe you would like to change your garden more gradually, to spread out the costs, or to tackle some of the more enjoyable tasks in your own time. Small changes made to a cohesive larger plan will help you avoid the disjointed look that can often occur when a garden evolves at different times.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefrontlinemusic.com/education/closing-schools-and-destroying-neighborhoods/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:43:50Z", "digest": "sha1:WQFIP4SCLAHRDUFPO2BS5YMTYXEXRG54", "length": 2842, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thefrontlinemusic.com", "title": "Closing Schools and Destroying Neighborhoods \u2013 The Frontline", "raw_content": "Closing Schools and Destroying Neighborhoods\nThe news that Carver High School in South Memphis and at least four other Memphis high schools are marked for closure by the so-called Unified School Board of the Shelby County Schools is just the latest indication of why Memphis should pull out of the \u201cunified\u201d schools and reconstitute their city school district instead.\nThe benefits that would accrue to having a single, county-wide school system were effectively lost as soon as a state law change made it possible for the suburban municipalities to form their own school districts. And although the county\u2019s new school board has challenged the legality of the new municipal districts, they are fighting a losing battle. Money and white privilege always get their way in America, if not today, then tomorrow. And perhaps worst of all, those who objected to the unified district and support municipal schools for the suburbs were allowed to vote for the new \u201cunified\u201d school board and have representation on it. In other words, decisions about the education of largely Black children in Memphis are being made by white suburban board members whose own children will never enter a Shelby County School.\nWhat is at stake here is far more than just schools. Along with churches, schools are the anchors of neighborhoods. They are the institutions that have helped shape communities like Orange Mound or Riverview for several generations, and it is basically impossible for suburban residents to understand the deep attachment that these areas have to their schools. Closing them will hasten the deterioration and decline of neighborhoods, and will also increase unrest in the schools that remain open, as children from schools with traditional rivalries are suddenly forced together into one building. Many jobs, both in teaching and support staff will be lost. Children will lose opportunities to play an instrument, sing in a choir, or participate in competitive athletics.\nThere is something that Memphis residents can do. They can demand that no schools be closed without the consent of the students and parents affected, and plan to organize a city-wide student boycott if the board goes ahead with the closings. But more to the point, Memphis residents need to ask Mayor Wharton and the city council to take steps to enable Memphis to withdraw from the Shelby County Schools. There is no point in pursuing \u201cunification\u201d with people who have made it plain that they wish to be separate. At least a municipal school district in Memphis would be under the control of a board elected by Memphis residents alone, and that is what is needed.\nCategoriesEducation, Memphis, Schools TagsCarver High School, Memphis TN, Shelby County Schools\nPrevious PostPrevious Talladega College Band at the Whitehaven Christmas Parade\nNext PostNext Tis the Season", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 885, "original_length": 13672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thelectionary.org/2propr15RSV.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:28Z", "digest": "sha1:S6C2XWWTG3QSCVELG22JQ7MLCSDAEEA3", "length": 776, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "thelectionary.org", "title": "Year 2, Proper 15", "raw_content": "Week of the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 15)\nJudges 16:15-31; 2 Cor. 13:1-11; Mark 5:25-34\nJudges 17:1-13; Acts 7:44-8:1a; John 5:19-29\nEzekiel 24:15-24; Psalm 79:1-8;\nJudges 18:1-15; Acts 8:1-13; John 5:30-47\nEzekiel 28:1-10; Psalm 60:1-5;\nJudges 18:16-31; Acts 8:14-25; John 6:1-15\nEzekiel 34:1-11; Psalm 23;\nMatt. 20:1-16a\nJob 1:1-22; Acts 8:26-40; John 6:16-27\n[Martin de Porres & Rosa de Lima]\nEzekiel 36:22-28; Psalm 51:8-13;\nJob 2:1-13; Acts 9:1-9; John 6:27-40\nAM Psalm 86; Genesis 28:10-17; John 1:43-51\nPM Psalm 15, 67; Isaiah 66:1-2,18-23; 1 Peter 5:1-11\nEzekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 107:1-8;\nSt. Bartholomew:\nDeuteronomy 18:15-18; Psalm 91 or 91:1-4;\n1 Corinthians 4:9-15; Luke 22:24-30\nJob 3:1-26; Acts 9:10-19a; John 6:41-51\nEzekiel 43:1-7; Psalm 85:8-13;", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 121.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://themim.org/leadership/wendy-breuder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:31Z", "digest": "sha1:EU2AY4T2BR7UASDZ6AI5A6NANQSWIIPG", "length": 1983, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "themim.org", "title": "Wendy Breuder - Musical Instrument Museum", "raw_content": "Wendy Breuder\nArizona President and Head of Corporate Real Estate and Resource Location Strategy, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. (MUFG)\nWendy Breuder is the Arizona president and head of corporate real estate and resource location strategy for MUFG, one of the world\u2019s largest financial institutions headquartered in Japan. In this capacity, she is responsible for transforming the firm\u2019s corporate real estate footprint and for creating and executing its strategy for a new shared-services initiative in the United States.\nPrior to this, Breuder was co\u2013general manager and head of Midwest general industries within MUFG\u2019s Wholesale Banking Division in the Americas, where she led negotiations for financing mergers, acquisitions, business expansion, and operations both domestically and internationally. Previously, she managed over 175 multinational Fortune 500 corporate relationships within the US Corporate Banking Division at MUFG. Her team facilitated new business opportunities in over forty countries, with an emphasis on Asia. Before joining MUFG, Breuder was cohead of US corporate client coverage and the Chicago branch manager at BNP Paribas.\nBreuder earned a bachelor of arts and a master of business administration from the University of Miami. She has a doctor of law degree from Duquesne University and is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She is a graduate of the Women\u2019s Director Development Program at Northwestern University\u2019s Kellogg School of Management and a 2015 alumna of the DirectWomen Board Institute, a project of the American Bar Association designed to increase representation of women lawyers on corporate boards.\nFor four consecutive years (2014\u20132017), the prestigious American Banker magazine has recognized Breuder as among the \u201cMost Powerful Women to Watch.\u201d She currently serves on the board of directors for the Japan America Society of Chicago and is a founding member of the Business Council of the Art Institute of Chicago.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 5300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 111.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theshow.kjzz.org/content/725404/trump-administration-considers-changes-public-charge-rule", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:36Z", "digest": "sha1:KGKDTRBDNYDI4MXRJI7HNRLTDK7D33LY", "length": 912, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "theshow.kjzz.org", "title": "Trump Considers Changes To 'Public Charge Rule' | KJZZ's The Show", "raw_content": "Trump Administration Considers Changes To 'Public Charge Rule'\npublic-charge-show-20181114.mp3\nThe Trump administration is proposing changes to what\u2019s called the \u201cpublic charge rule,\u201d which affects legal immigrants to the United States who are using public benefits.\nA group of organizations known as the Basic Needs Coalition is trying to rally opposition to the change, and the administration is accepting public comment through Dec. 10.\nTo talk about this, The Show spoke with Angie Rodgers, president and CEO of the Association of Arizona Food Banks, which is part of the coalition.\nThe Show also reached out to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for a comment about the proposed rule change. They sent The Show a list of frequently asked questions.\nICE Releasing Large Numbers Of Immigrant Families To Arizona Churches\nPrescott Lawmaker Says Non-Assimilating Immigrants An 'Existential Threat To U.S.'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thesoundofconfusionblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/scarlet-echo-emergency-exit.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGHHGKDSFSXDRTXMFT3KWLQPGO6X5TZH", "length": 1344, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thesoundofconfusionblog.blogspot.com", "title": "The Sound Of Confusion: Scarlet Echo - Emergency Exit", "raw_content": "As you may have noticed, we love bands' descriptions of their own music. With regular genre names becoming more irrelevant and bleeding closer into one another by the day, it's always good to hear what the artists themselves would go with. So how about \"ferocious echsopheric music\" then? That's what Essex group Scarlet Echo are going with, although we're not quite sure what \"echospheric\" means, but it does, curiously, seem to fit. They also go with electronic shoegaze, which may be fitting for some of their tracks, but perhaps not current single 'Emergency Exit' which is from their recently released album 'An Exact Portrayal Of Nothing In Particular'.\nThere is a large electronic element to 'Emergency Exit', but it's more in line with new-wave, and it does have a certain ferocity too. This is a galloping tune with a prominent post-punk bassline and a hint of goth. You could easily believe this was released in the first half of the '80s (they do mention \"1984\", but in the context of the song that's clearly the book, not the year). Given the media panic of recent events between Turkey and Russia, you couldn't blame anyone for wanting to take the emergency exit right now, and there's something urgent and post-apocalyptic about this song which seems oddly relevant. It'll blow the cobwebs away at any rate.\nScarlet Echo's website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 5405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thespiritguides.co.uk/Article_Hazel_Courteney_Interview_-_Spiritual_Emergency_and_Countdown_to_Coherence_6296.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBGJRJAMQRODZP4BHXCGS2QZ6X4LEM7I", "length": 8406, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "thespiritguides.co.uk", "title": "Hazel Courteney Interview - Spiritual Emergency and Countdown to Coherence by Host: Mark Chatterton | The Spirit Guide", "raw_content": "Hazel Courteney Interview - Spiritual Emergency and Countdown to Coherence\nOn April 7th 1998, Sunday Times columnist Hazel Courteney, underwent an experience that was to change her life forever. She became telepathic, and began affecting electrical equipment. Most remarkable of all, however, was the realization that she could clearly hear spirits from the higher realms, and found herself receiving direct communication from Diana, Princess of Wales which she talks about in her book \"Divine Intervention\".\nInterview conducted by host, Mark Chatterton.\nHazel Courteney has been writing about alternative health subjects for several years, after deciding to take charge of her own health, following years of illness. She has written for both The Daily Mail and the Sunday Times. In 1997 she was voted Health Journalist of the Year and in 2000 had her own TV show on Channel Health.\nIn 1998 shortly before Easter, whilst shopping in Harrods, she had what she described as a Spiritual Emergency or Near Death Experience. Her first spiritual book, \u201cDivine Intervention\u201d, published in 1999, described this event in detail, as well as the events that followed. In 2005, \u201cEvidence For the Sixth Sense \u2013 Divine Intervention 2\u201d, was published, detailing the next few years of her life. Now in 2010, Hazel has just brought out her latest spiritual book, \u201cCountdown to Coherence\u201d, which brings the story right up to date. The book contains interviews with several cutting edge scientists and spiritual teachers on how the gap between spirituality and science is being bridged, and how we can all become \u201ccoherent\u201d.\nStarting with your Spiritual Emergency experience, can you describe to our listeners what this experience was like for you?\nDid you have any interest in Spirituality before this event?\nWhat was the reaction to your book \u201cDivine Intervention\u201d once it was published?\nSo now you\u2019ve just published your third Spirituality based book, called \u201cCountdown to Coherence\u201d. Could you explain to our listeners, what \u201cCoherence\u201d is all about?\nWould you say there is any link between Coherence and Ascension?\nWould you say that there are different stages that you go through before you reach coherence?\nI notice that most of the scientists that you interview for the book are based in the USA. Why do you think that very few UK based scientists are coming forward to research this link between Science and Spirituality?\nThere\u2019s so many interesting concepts that are discussed in the book and obviously we haven\u2019t got time to discuss them here, but one I wanted to discuss with you was that of the Orb phenomenon. I myself have taken many photographs in the past few years where orbs have appeared in the shot. Would you say that all orbs are actual spirits, or could they just be balls of dust like some sceptics say?\nYou also describe a visit you made to the Damanhur community in Italy, where you interviewed its founder, Oberto Airaudi. Can you envisage similar type communities springing up elsewhere around the world, or do you think that Damanhur is just an Italian phenomenem?\nI notice that you have managed to get articles on both Damanhur and Orbs published in the Daily Mail a few years back. Would you say that Fleet Street is becoming more open to Spiritual subjects?\nGoing back to Countdown To Coherence. There\u2019s so many important and influential scientists as well as spiritual teachers that you interviewed in the book such as Professor Bill Tiller, Dr Gary Swartz, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, Alberto Villoldo and Klaus Heineman to name just a few. Who would you say had the most impact on you?\nOne final question, what have you got in the pipeline with your writing projects?\nhttp://www.hazelcourteney.com\nHazel's up and coming events are listed here\nhttp://www.hazelcourteney.com/pages/pv.asp?p=hazel10\nCountdown to Coherence - Book\nMy cutting edge new spiritual / science book\nDiscover who YOU really are,\nWhat you are capable of,\nWhere we need to go,\nWhy and How to get there.\nhttp://www.hazelcourteney.com/displayarticle.asp?a=13&c=3\nCoherence denotes \u2018eve\nrything coming together as one\u2019 and scientists have demonstrated that if we all want to become more enlightened in every sense of the word, then it\u2019s crucial that we learn to become more coherent at every level of being. This book explains how to start your unique Countdown to Coherence.\nProfessor Gary Schwartz from the University of Arizona says of my book:\n\u201dA serious attempt at offering good scientific ideas toward a Spiritual Theory of Everything. Even the sceptics will be riveted by the possibilities\u201d\nUri Geller says of this book\n\"THE transformational book of our time\" (www.urigeller.com)\nAfter two years of research and writing, I\u2019m delighted to announce that my latest Spiritual /science book will be in the UK shops from late September. \u00a310-99. Watkins Publishing. Now available to order via Amazon. If you are a retailer and wish to stock this book, for wholesale queries please call Anna Randall at Duncan Baird Publishing on 0771 485 3503.\nThe blockbuster film Avatar, which I thought was fantastic, has done a great job of increasing interest in spiritual subjects and has really fired people\u2019s imagination....Yet, many people remain unaware that ongoing scientific research and theories are now in place to help explain myriad phenomenon \u2013 paranormal and otherwise.\nThis book was set in motion thanks to an encounter I had with a mysterious stranger in April 2008 - who set me off on yet another journey of discovery. I have travelled many miles and met numerous distinguished yet controversial thinkers and scientists who have shared their cutting edge verified research and theories on a vast range of subjects. It also includes huge amounts of fascinating facts - all in a language that anyone can understand.\nYou will not only discover what happens after physical death; but also hear science based evidence as to the possible \u2018forms\u2019 that consciousness takes after death. Additionally find out what several scientists believe happened before the Big Bang and why a \u2018Quantum leap\u2019 is anything but......\nMy book also reveals the science based \u2018G spot\u2019 for true enlightenment \u2013 and many of you will be surprised to know that it\u2019s not the pineal gland ! I have included some interesting insights as to how it may be possible to not only travel in time, but also be \u2018re-incarnated\u2019 at any period in time.\nControversially I also relate why some scientists believe that we are biological computers operating inside a pre-programmed \u2018simulator,\u2019 whilst others postulate that our universe is little more than a hologram - and some have concluded that our consciousness is now on an ultimate journey \u2018home\u2019 - to coherence. There are plenty of thought provoking insights into time travel, multiple universes, spontaneous healing, reincarnation, how to manifest miracles \u2013 as well as how it\u2019s possible in scientific terms for objects to store information \u2013 which sensitive men and women can retrieve, hundreds or even thousands of years later. Additionally, you will also learn how to test your levels of \u2018coherence\u2019 at every level and Cosmologist Dr Jude Currivan shares fascinating facts as to why more and more people of all ages and denominations are experiencing psychic episodes and intense spiritual awakenings and why \u2018miracles\u2019 will shortly become more commonplace.\nI truly believe that COUNTDOWN TO COHERENCE will appeal to people of all ages and walks of life \u2013 as it leads us to a radical new understanding of who we really are, where we need to go - why - how to get there, and how much more we are all capable of than we\u2019ve ever previously imagined.\nCosmologist Dr Jude Currivan says: \"An easy to read and enormously relevant book, packed with authoritative information.\u201d\nIf you recall, in 1998, I was an alternative health columnist with The Sunday Times, and underwent an incredible near death experience which triggered huge amounts of unusual phenomenon around me. As a person who has seen \u2018beyond the veil\u2019 of our limited space/ time reality \u2013 I truly believe with my whole heart that we all have the potential to effect miracles.\nI really hope that you enjoy my work and I would greatly appreciate your feedback when you have read it.\nYou can pre-order this book via Amazon. Or, to order a signed copy for delivery late September 2010 call the Nutri Centre Bookshop on Tel: 020 7323 2382.\nwww.hazelcourteney.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 361, "original_length": 22609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thespiritguides.co.uk/Article_The_Ebbing_Time_-_A_time_of_great_change_with_Elizabeth_Francis_8899.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:UVYBDZ6EJV5XUFX5GRYR7USTJ254CGSJ", "length": 1574, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "thespiritguides.co.uk", "title": "The Ebbing Time - A time of great change with Elizabeth Francis by Host: Ian Jones | The Spirit Guide", "raw_content": "Listen using the audio player above.\nElizabeth Francis 'authoress of Gift - from Spiritual wealth to\nfinancial wealth\" joins us again this week to discuss the fascinating concept of Ebbing times. Elizabeth will be joining us monthly to share her views on psychic awareness, the awakening and how current affairs fit into the bigger picture.\nThis months discussion is on the \"Ebbing Time\". A period where dramatic changes happen which ties neatly into the period of change we're now in and connecting with the whole 2012 / Awakening idea.\nI asked Elizabeth to expand on this:\nThe ebbing time, that's right, is complemented by the flowing time and it continuous, like the waves of the sea - life is never static but it has a rhythm to it that if we can identify we can p\nrepare ourselves for. Some consider we stay static during the process, and I understand where that thought comes from, but I think it is far more complex than that, well from what I have witnessed it certainly is.\nIt is a concept I have worked on over the years, based on the ebb and flow of life, the yearly cycles, the cycles of the moon of course, its also tied into the 7 mini cycles and 28 year major cycles of Saturn's return. Then applied it to the history of society up to this present day.\nknow it as boom and bust.\"\nhttp://www.giftthebook.co.uk\nhttp://www.elizabethfrancis.co.uk\nwww.elizabethfrancis.co.uk\nTwo words.....! \"LAWFULL REBELLION\". For those who have not heared of this, go to www.tpuc.org\nLove and Blessings to all.\n\"WE ARE ALL ONE...... EVERYTHING THAT IS, WAS, AND ALLWAYS WILL BE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 15939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetable.me/de/new-york/restaurant/rai-rai-ken", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6TNET33S5VVQPZ5HJDCCL2BEE3MYA74I", "length": 321, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "thetable.me", "title": "Die besten Restaurants in Rai Rai Ken - The Table", "raw_content": "218 E 10th St (btwn 1st & 2nd Ave)\n11:30 AM\u20134:00 PM, 6:00 PM\u2013MitternachtFr\u2013Sa\n11:30 PM\u20132:00 AM (212) 477-7030\ni've tried many ramen-yas, yet remain loyal to rai rai ken. yes, i've even filled up my ramen punch card and redeemed it for a free bowl. it was that day that i became mayor.\nvonGrace at 2/15/19 amauf foursquare", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thevisionary.co.il/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:22Z", "digest": "sha1:26WZRSQ464CH3RPXAXRZYEAWXPCG5FCR", "length": 64, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thevisionary.co.il", "title": "Homepage - The Visionary", "raw_content": "The Visionary is a consulting, research & trend analysis service", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 201.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theweeklyalmanac.com/2017/08/28/axelsen-topples-lin-in-badminton-final-okukara-wins-classic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GN3LVP5HOWIRN4TWFEX7SISK35YCGF7H", "length": 2536, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "theweeklyalmanac.com", "title": "Axelsen topples Lin in badminton final; Okukara wins classic", "raw_content": "Almost two hours of fantastic badminton ended in disappointment for India's PV Sindhu, who played her heart out but in the end lost to Nozomi Okuhara of Japan in the women's singles final of the 2017 BWF World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland.\nSouth Korea's Son Wan Ho returns against India's Srikanth Kidambi during their quarter-final men's singles match during the 2017 BWF World Championships of badminton at Emirates Arena in Glasgow. Sindhu had won bronze in 2013 and 2014, while Saina had bagged a silver in the 2015 edition of the event at Jakarta.\nPadukone is also credited for being the first Indian to win a medal at the Badminton World Championships. Okuhara levelled the scores at 14-all and then took four-point lead to make it 18-14. But soon after that, Sindhu replied to the opponent. It turned out to be a battle of attrition between Nehwal and Okuhara.\nRejuvenated now, Saina said that it is because of her coach and parents that she is back on court.\nSindhu's ranking rose by a spot-on Thursday from her previous fifth spot while Srikanth slipped two places to now sit on tenth. Both the players exchanged points on their serves to keep their grip on the game. But, then the Indian started working on her plans and the next two points on offer.\nMore news: Trump calls out Sen. Corker in tweet, says 'Tennessee not happy'\nOkuhara took the lead (13-12) for the first time in the second game.\nAt 15-13, another exceptional rally unfolded with Sindhu making the Japanese run to the deep corners and even though Okuhara made some remarkable retrieves she miscued a shot at the forecourt as Sindhu led 16-13. Sweet because she beat all odds to win bronze, bitter because she failed to convert it into silver or gold. Okuhara played probably the best badminton and took a 11-10 lead the break before sealing the second comeback 21-17.\nIn the decider, Sindhu moved to an 11-6 lead early on but Cheung once again caught up with the Indian at 12-12.\nIn the past few years, the half smash has become an integral part of every player's armoury but to retrieve them also put a lot of pressure on the lower part of the body and the shoulder socket. But Okuhara held her nerve better to clinch the game 21-19. Unforced error from Sindhu, who played it on the net, gave Okuhara first Championship point.\nIt was not immediately clear when residents would be able to return to their homes. \"The noise was deafening\", one of them said. The landslide also forced the evacuation of several small villages in south-eastern Switzerland .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 9431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/world-leaders-must-protect-40-million-internally-displaced", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:56Z", "digest": "sha1:2X73TKMBNRTWEBRAI3THEJC7AADMYS5E", "length": 2740, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "thirdforcenews.org.uk", "title": "World leaders must protect 40 million internally displaced - Third Force News", "raw_content": "World leaders must protect 40 million internally displaced\nThe vast majority of people displaced within their own countries\u2019 borders are often woefully ignored and abandoned\nFaith leaders are urging world heads of state not to turn their backs on the planet\u2019s 40.5 million internally displaced people.\nTheir call comes ahead of the creation of the new Global Compact on Refugees, an international instrument that will be signed at the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month.\nThe Compact applies only to people who have been forced to flee across borders and ignores the plight of those displaced within their own countries.\nWhile global leaders are signing up to supporting refugees, the vast majority of people displaced within their own countries\u2019 borders are often woefully ignored and abandoned by their countries\u2019 leaders.\nMore than 57 leaders from across the global faiths have signed an open letter challenging UN member governments about the exclusion of the 40.5 million people from the new Global Compact.\nInternally displaced people remain in their own countries but have been forced to flee their homes due to violence and natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, and left to fend for themselves.\nDespite having no place to call home, they lack the support and protection that international law gives refugees \u2013 people who have crossed international borders.\nAccording to the faith leaders\u2019 letter, if the world is to realise the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals, then the international community must ensure that internally displaced people are neither forgotten nor ignored.\nSally Foster-Fulton, head of Christian Aid Scotland, said: \u201cTwo-thirds of people forced from their home remain within their borders. They are fleeing war, drought and persecution; yet are denied the official protection given to refugees.\n\u201cIt is vitally important that action is taken at the highest level, and we are pleased to see support across faith communities for legal change to help safeguard millions of the world\u2019s most vulnerable people\u201d.\nNaser Haghamed, chief executive of Islamic Relief Worldwide, added: \u201cMy family and I had to flee our home in Eritrea because of conflict when I was 13 years old, I will never forget what happened.\n\u201cWe fled on foot and walked for days just to reach the border. And yet, I was lucky compared to what displaced people have to endure today.\u201d\nRefugee crisis: are we doing enough? > 11 November 2015\nRefugee crisis: find your nearest collection > 4 September 2015\nRefugee crisis saw 12 million people displaced last year > 20 June 2016\nAnti-Trump petition delivered\nPrevious Article Survey: charity trustees tell TFN about your...\nNext Article Roadside shame of Scotland\u2019s manky...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tiffanytrent.com/novellas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:21Z", "digest": "sha1:N6JPCXLQG54JPHMG4R25SDY4LP2T2XQU", "length": 550, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tiffanytrent.com", "title": "Novellas | Tiffany Trent", "raw_content": "Get an exclusive glimpse of Charles Waddingly\u2019s fate after he\u2019s sucked through a vortex in Old London, set between the time of The Unnaturalists and The Tinker King.\nCharles Waddingly caused the desolation of New London and would have destroyed the world, had it not been for Vespa and her friends. He is utterly, thoroughly evil. Or is he?\nSet between the time of The Unnaturalists and The Tinker King, this e-only novella tells the story of what happens when Charles turns up in Charles Darwin\u2019s back garden\u2014and the Grue returns to his native home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timlane.org/blog/immediate-actions-to-end-an-affair", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UCRC24LVCXWW5O5MBQXPVFLQ4USI4OHJ", "length": 2754, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "timlane.org", "title": "Immediate Actions To End An Affair \u2014 TIM LANE", "raw_content": "The Importance of Getting Wise Counsel\nStart by encouraging the couple for seeking help and explain why this step is so important. Any struggle with sin benefits from outside accountability. The writer of Hebrews in 3:12-13 and 10:24-25 encourages us to seek help. In situations like adultery, this is critical. Both husband and wife need someone who is wise and mature in their faith to walk with them through the initial and longer term issues that are a part of the affair.\nBegin by Giving Thanks to God for His Forgiving Grace\nHelp the couple know how to pray. The spouse who has committed adultery needs to remember that their sin cannot trump God\u2019s grace if they are sincerely sorry for what they have done and have genuinely begun the process of repentance. The person who has been betrayed must believe that the grace of God is powerful enough to enable them to begin the process of forgiving. The battle of the betrayer to stop the affair will be equal to the battle for the one betrayed to forgive. Both spouses need God\u2019s enabling grace to move in a new direction.\nCut Off the Relationship Right Away\nMost resources on adultery say that this is one of the most important steps to take if a foundation for reconciliation is going to be built. All communication (phone, email, text messages, social media connections) must be cut off. Any mementos that have an association with the other person need to be discarded. Other than asking for forgiveness, this is the first way that the one who had the affair can display how serious their commitment is to their spouse. It is important to deal radically with sin. See Matthew 5:29-30 and Jesus\u2019 use of hyperbole.\nImmediately get a Medical Exam to Determine if There are Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs)\nIf the affair was sexual in any way, this is imperative. A commitment to be examined for STDs is yet another way to express commitment to the marriage. If the married couple has been sexually active while the affair was occurring, it is important for both spouses to seek an examination.\nConfess to Your Spouse What You Have Done\nIn conjunction with severing the relationship with the other person, the spouse who has committed adultery must confess what he or she has done. This needs to be done without excuses or justification. Even if the marriage needs work, it is unhelpful and unwise to bring up broader issues in this context of confession. If so, it will appear to the spouse who has been betrayed that they somehow are responsible for the affair. When making a confession, it is important to own the sin, tell the spouse that it was wrong and ask them for forgiveness.\nending an affair, adultery, forgiveness, Matthew 5, confession, Hebrews 3, Hebrews 10\nAdultery: Who Do You Help?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 9721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tinyhousecommunity.com/0503-yurts-gaining-new-interest-with-the-tiny-house-movement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KBRVDKIUWBIQF4VN62O2KCDQUZNZGUOF", "length": 1612, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "tinyhousecommunity.com", "title": "05/03 Yurts gaining new interest with the tiny house movement | Tiny House Community", "raw_content": "05/03 Yurts gaining new interest with the tiny house movement\nMay 3, 2016 Design & Construction Comments Off on 05/03 Yurts gaining new interest with the tiny house movement\nMatt Larivee prepares to sew the canvas walls of a yurt at the Powassan and District Union Public Library in Ontario\nYurts have always intrigued Linda Conway. In fact, when she moved to Nipissing a few years ago from Burlington, she \u201cthought it was something I might like to do.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s a unique idea,\u201d Conway said Saturday as she checked out what\u2019s involved in constructing a yurt, the round tent-like structure that, for thousands of years, was the home of nomadic peoples in Mongolia and Turkey.\nShe was one of about 20 people taking in an introductory workshop at the Powassan and District Union Public Library [in Ontario, Canada] a taste of what will be presented at a two-day workshop in June.\n\u201cThe history behind them is so fascinating,\u201d Conway said.\nWhile she\u2019s lived in the area for the past three years, though, she hasn\u2019t had the opportunity to actually build one, and she admits with the winters in the region, a yurt is not something she is likely to use as a year-round structure.\n\u201cMaybe on a temporary basis,\u201d Conway said. \u201cSomething to put up on a piece of property and spend the summer in.\u201d\nBut while Conway isn\u2019t likely to winter in a yurt, workshop leader Matthew Larivee has no problem with such a living arrangement. He first learned about yurts eight or nine years ago, when he began to research living off the grid.\nRead more \u2013 http://www.nugget.ca/2016/05/03/yurts-gaining-new-interest-with-the-tiny-house-movement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 24544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://topnaijamusic.com/a-new-generation-of-african-artists-making-music/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GA7M67SC26SF6CUO7LLR6QH6RJ4NZKEH", "length": 2983, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "topnaijamusic.com", "title": "A New Generation of African Artists Making Music \u2014 TopNaijaMusic.com", "raw_content": "A New Generation of African Artists Making Music\nSeptember 27, 2018 Category: All Music\nMore often than not, an artist\u2019s remarkable popularity is achieved through excellent marketing strategy. Sure, their talent is a huge factor to achieve success, but music producers and record labels make it possible for them to be exposed in a larger audience and to produce quality music, rather than if they go solo, merely depending on the Internet\u2019s validation through shares and likes.\nJah Moko, a born musician and a music producer, quit his successful career for ten years in France to go back to Senegal. He decided to continue his journey and create the Jah Moko Family music project, which is a band based in Dakar, Senegal.\nWe are sure you love listening to music as you like trying out different Formula 1 Bets at Betway. Music is for the soul after all and can help you rediscover yourself. Music is what keeps us going, even when we feel that the going is tough. And African artists are trying to make their presence felt through creating music that isn\u2019t just beautiful, but meaningful as well.\nDakar: The Musical City You Need to Visit\nThe African countries collectively struggle with poverty and bad governance. But, Dakar is said to be one the most musically vigorous cities in Africa. Music enthusiasts start at a young age and get to hone their skills as they grow. However, the music industry doesn\u2019t get support from its government \u2013 the lack of infrastructure makes it difficult for them to find a venue that they can afford where they can perform and showcase their talent. It is also why the independent artists couldn\u2019t make a living out of it.\nThey can\u2019t afford the performance venues due to its high costs. An individual can only do so much, talent can definitely bring one to places, but monetary investment is also necessary to produce quality output.\nMoko\u2019s Decision to Push Through the Project\nDespite the struggling economy in Senegal, Moko has decided to push through with their project. Moko said that they would continue to create music at all costs and to provide a cultural space for the African artists.\nThe multicultural group is composed of nine members coming from Mali, Senegal, Central African Republic, and France. Moko is part of the said band as the lead singer. He said that through music, they aim to talk about the things that matter, especially in today\u2019s society, such as unemployment, corruption, war, justice, immigration, and access to education.\nThe group aims to voice out their beliefs and to fight for the underrepresented through their music. They believe that through their talent and passion, they can change, let alone save lives; and that music is a better way to get their message across.\nIt\u2019s high time that this new and young generation of African artists gets what they truly deserve.\nJah Moko Family already started rehearsing for their upcoming live shows in Les Mamelles.\nAre you thinking to go to any of their concerts yet?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://totalfab.com.au/news-a-views/robbos-pearls/461-farewell-ernie-thanks-for-everything.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:17Z", "digest": "sha1:VZ6W6XFUO4DKMWSU27F7LP3EVLEBPKDS", "length": 2028, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "totalfab.com.au", "title": "Farewell Ernie, thanks for everything", "raw_content": "Ernie Page 18 February 1935 - 20 May 2018\nErnie Page was a comrade to me and depa and a friend of local government. He was a community activist before the expression was invented, a councillor on Waverley Council for 15 years from 1962 to 1987 and Mayor for nine of those years, a member of the New South Wales Parliament representing the seat of Waverley from 1981 until 1991 when it was abolished, and then three more terms as member for Coogee.\nErnie was a lifelong member of the ALP, was active in his union the USU and was awarded life membership in recognition, was the Shadow Minister for Local Government for what seemed like forever and the Minister for Local Government from 1995 to 1999. It was during this time he entrenched his position as a friend of depa, organised drinks in Parliament House for a freshly elected Committee of Management, regularly attended depa events, was always available for advice, assistance and to be lobbied, and was responsible as Minister for Local Government for establishing a consultative mechanism between Government and the local government unions and in the Five Year Review of the Local Government Act in 1998 recommended the removal of term contracts for senior staff - sadly, like some of Ernie\u2019s best ideas, killed off by the conservatives in the Parliamentary Party and the Cabinet Office.\nErnie believed in and loved local government. He knew how it worked, where it was deficient, where it should improve and what should be done to improve it. And while appointed by Bob Carr as Minister in 1995, he was also removed by Carr in 1999 in one of his worst decisions. Ernie was furious and disappointed, privileging me to a call containing more C words than I thought humanly possible, and unchallenged by anything I\u2019ve seen or heard before or after.\nThanks, Ernie. At a time when we have little respect for our politicians, either State or in local government, that we don\u2019t have more people devoting their working lives as assiduously, selflessly and honourably, as you did.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 164.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tpnl.org/schools/st-joseph-s-university", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:31Z", "digest": "sha1:B4BOIZSPLMKGDNYQPY5WO72DQ7MLHRIR", "length": 1687, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "tpnl.org", "title": "TPNL - St. Joseph's University", "raw_content": "At Saint Joseph\u2019s University, good enough is not good enough. We expect more. Here, we call this the magis. It\u2019s the pursuit of the greatest good, the desire to strive relentlessly, the determination to give one\u2019s absolute best. For over 160 years, Saint Joseph\u2019s University has been engaging men and women in a rigorous Jesuit education that empowers them to become leaders in their industries and communities. An expansive liberal arts curriculum that serves as a foundation for all students, combined with programs tailored to meet the needs of complex and evolving fields prepare students for all of their post-graduate pursuits.\nGraduates of Saint Joseph\u2019s rise to positions of influence and leadership in remarkable numbers, making a lasting impact on industries and communities. Whether pursuing a career as an entrepreneur, teacher, executive, lawyer, scientist, health care professional, artist or activist, all SJU alumni are recognized for their ability to achieve professional greatness, while maintaining a genuine care for the well-being of others. With a network of over 66,000 passionate Hawks, students have a host of mentors to look up to.\nThe vibrant and dynamic community on Hawk Hill offers students opportunities to engage and grow intellectually, socially, physically, ethically and spiritually. Jesuit, Catholic values foster a supportive and respectful environment that challenges students to build lifelong relationships, explore new perspectives, and become engaged citizens. So what are you waiting for ?\nSome of the popular programs offered by St. Joseph's University\n5600 City Ave, Philadelphia, USA\nStudy at ST. JOSEPH'S UNIVERSITY\nSt. Joseph's University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 179.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://travisswicegood.com/2004/05/17/npr_brown_v_board_letters_to_eisenhower/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BKVZG3GSLW7B2GUDFQC72U6M4CWXNV7T", "length": 760, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "travisswicegood.com", "title": "TravisSwicegood.com | NPR : 'Brown v. Board:' Letters to Eisenhower", "raw_content": "NPR : 'Brown v. Board:' Letters to Eisenhower\nOn my way home from work today I was listening to NPR - yes, I do have a habit called NPR - and they All Things Considered had a very provocative piece called Brown v. Board: Letters to Eisenhower which consisted of approximately 10 minutes of letters addressed to the then President in the wake of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. Many were for, many were against, but they all offered a glimpse into a not-so-distant past what we would do well to remember.\nIntro to NPR piece\nFifty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court condemned separate schools for black and white children. The decision in the case known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a turning point in the nation's history.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 170.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://trilakesseptic.com/leach_field_issues_lake_clear_ny.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4LJPP5OU6T3OLBF4JEEGN5AAW2ZMSVEN", "length": 1520, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "trilakesseptic.com", "title": "Septic Tank Services, Sewer Services | Tri Lakes Septic Services Lake Clear Saranac Lake Tupper Lake New York", "raw_content": "Pre-Purchase Inspections & Leach Field Maintenance in Tri-Lakes Area\nTri-Lakes Septic Service performs pre-purchase inspections and addresses leach field issues for prospective homeowners in the Lake Placid, Lake Saranac and Lake Pupper area.\nPre-Purchase Septic Tank Inspection\nPrior to the sale of a home, a realtor often requests a pre-purchase inspection of the septic tank on behalf of the buyer. Our company will perform a pre-purchase inspection of a home's tank before you buy it.\nA Septic Tank Inspection Includes:\n- Locating & Digging up the Tank\n- Visually Inspecting It\n- Pumping the Contents\n- Inspecting the Inside of the Tank for Holes or Cracks\n- Checking Both Baffles to Ensure They're Intact\nDetermining Problems in the Leach Field\nFor homes located near a lake or stream, you can easily run water with dye into the septic tank(s) through the toilets to determine whether there are any leach field problems. If there are any leaks or problems with the leach field, then the water will build up in the tank. In addition, the dye helps you determine if there is any liquid leaking into the rocks.\nOur company checks the distance between the well and the leach field to ensure there is at least 100 feet between them. We then check the size of the septic tank to ensure that it is adequate for the home. Finally, we check for any dripping water or leakage.\nPrevent sewer gasses from coming into your home with an inspection of your home's drains. We ensure your drains all have p-traps for maximum safety.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ttnonline.com/Article/849", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:RAWAG3IUSG75IP5VMD5ICO3AMK2UWTNG", "length": 3428, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "ttnonline.com", "title": "AIBTM Preview Meeting point", "raw_content": "The AIBTM (January 30-31) offers a perfect meeting spot for decision makers in the Arab MICE industry.\nA total of 100 companies from 20 different destinations will take part in this month's second Arab International Business Travel and Meetings (AIBTM) exhibition in Bahrain.\nOrganisers ITE Middle East also expect visitor numbers to grow to about 2,000 during the two-day event which is the premier trade show for the Middle East MICE industry.\nAIBTM 2002 will be held under the patronage of Bahrain's Information Minister and Chairman of the Supreme Council for Tourism, at the Gulf International Convention and Exhibition Centre on January 30-31.\nITE said it hopes to build on the success of the inaugural event which brings together decision makers from key industry players including airlines, event management companies, trade publications, conference venues, ground agents, technology partners, hotels, trade associations, convention and visitor bureaux, destination management firms and national tourist organisations.\nIt said the global travel industry setback sparked by the September 11 terror attacks has had little impact on the only MICE event in the Middle East market.\n\"The number of exhibitors has already grown. The show has only been effected by the global situation in a positive way,\" an ITE spokesperson said.\n\"We have had no cancellations and the exhibitors feel the show is now more important to intra-Arab MICE business.\"\nThe meetings and incentives sector of the tourism industry is growing in the Middle East with more destinations in the region realising the potential of the highly lucrative sector MICE in the longer term, ITE said.\n\"The Middle East as a whole has a wealth of positive attributes, that compete with all other regions of the world in terms of quality of venues, safety, service delivery and an ever-improving infrastructure to cater for this segment of the market,\" the spokesperson said.\n\"With the recent World Trade Organisation meeting in Doha, the region is developing a more high profile international presence and acceptance as an international player in the MICE industry.\"\nITE said that Bahrain, which lies at the heart of a regional population of over 200 million people, is the perfect location to reach out to the whole of the Middle East.\n\"Bahrain is already the financial and business for the Middle East region, and with the only established convention bureau in the region and a commitment to being the regional centre for C & I industry, it makes sense to hold the show in Bahrain,\" the spokesperson said.\nThe event will include a full programme of seminars run by Meetings Professional International (MPI) focusing on various issues affecting the MICE industry.\nThe conference program is as follows:\n9-10am: Industry Trends - Didier Scaillet - MPI.\n4.30-5.30pm: Destination Management - Patrick Delaney, Delaney Marketing and Jesper Denker - JDS Meeting Services.\n9-10am: The role of professional societies in the meeting industry - Didier Scaillet - MPI.\nAIBTM 2002 is supported by the International Congress and Convention Association, MPI, Meeting Planner, Travel & Tourism News Middle East, TradeArabia.com, Middle East and Mediterranean Incentive and bradmans.com\nGulf Hotel is the official venue of the event while Gulf Air is the official airline.\nITE Middle East also organises the Bahrain International Motor Show and plans to launch other industry events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://turonistan.blogspot.com/2013/03/first-rabbi-into-buchenwald.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MX5HTV5RFWQJ4OS7MCPTEVL6WDXPQTZF", "length": 598, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "turonistan.blogspot.com", "title": "Turonistan: First Rabbi Into Buchenwald", "raw_content": "First Rabbi Into Buchenwald\nThat's Rabbi Schacter on the left.\nHe died last week at the age of 95. Obit in the NYT:\nThe smoke was still rising as Rabbi Herschel Schacter rode through the gates of Buchenwald.\nIt was April 11, 1945, and Gen. George S. Patton\u2019s Third Army had liberated the concentration camp scarcely an hour before. Rabbi Schacter, who was attached to the Third Army\u2019s VIII Corps, was the first Jewish chaplain to enter in its wake.\nAnd more history is lost...\nA Brit Joins The NRA\nThe NRA Wins Again\nPork Dillingers, Anyone?\nFrench Maid With A .50 BMG\nSemiautomatics For The People", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 5548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tutoringsanjose.net/?cat=8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:20Z", "digest": "sha1:AXNWPZFMSPKOTI7P2XDFJMDKZLPO5CDQ", "length": 13400, "nlines": 90, "source_domain": "tutoringsanjose.net", "title": "Bay Area Tutoring \u00bb Chemistry", "raw_content": "For the Chemistry category\nEven with scientific notation, very large numbers and very small numbers can be awkward to work with. That is why scientists have developed a set of standard prefixes that are attached to a unit to indicate multiples of that unit. Each of the prefixes represents a particular power of ten. There are currently 20 prefixes in use:\nPrefixes greater than 1\nPrefixes less than 1\nDo you have to memorize all of these? No. If you are a high school chemistry or physics student, you should know the prefixes in blue above. If you are an AP chemistry or AP physics student, you should also learn the prefixes in red. If you plan to be a scientist or an engineer, it wouldn\u2019t hurt you to learn the rest, but the extreme prefixes are not so common.\nWhy do the prefixes skip three powers of 10? This allows us to use numbers that are always between 1 and 999. This is easiest to explain with an example. Let\u2019s say we are measuring very small electrical currents. The following table shows how we would state the values without scientific notation, with scientific notation, and with prefixes. You can see how convenient this prefix method is:\nCurrent Scientific notation Prefix notation\n0.50 A 5.0 x 10-1 A 500 mA\n0.050 A 5.0 x 10-2 A 50 mA\n0.0050 A 5.0 x 10-3 A 5 mA\n0.00050 A 5.0 x 10-4 A 500 \u03bcA\n0.000050 A 5.0 x 10-5 A 50 \u03bcA\n0.0000050 A 5.0 x 10-6 A 5 \u03bcA\n0.00000050 A 5.0 x 10-7 A 500 nA\n0.000000050 A 5.0 x 10-8 A 50 nA\n0.0000000050 A 5.0 x 10-9 A 5 nA\n0.00000000050 A 5.0 x 10-10 A 500 pA\nHow to use ICE charts\nWhen you are given the initial concentrations of the components in a reaction and you want to know the final concentrations at equilibrium, an ICE chart can be very useful. The ICE chart (some teachers call it an OCE chart or an I\u0394E chart) is a tool that helps you set up the proper algebraic expression in order to calculate the concentration change of each compound. It\u2019s based on a very simple concept: the initial concentration of a compound plus the change in concentration of that compound must equal its final (equilibrium) concentration. To set up an ICE chart, follow these easy rules:\nWrite out the balanced equilibrium equation.\nOn the first line (I), put down the initial concentrations of each compound. If a compound is not in the initial mix, write 0. Be sure that you calculate the molarity, and not just the number of moles.\nPick a direction for the reaction to proceed. It\u2019s usually pretty obvious, but if you aren\u2019t sure which way the reaction will go, just choose one direction. It doesn\u2019t matter if you guess wrong.\nOn the second line (C), use a variable to write the change in concentration for each compound using the balanced equation as a guide. For each compound that is consumed, write \u2013Ax, where A is the coefficient of the compound in the balanced reaction. For each compound that is being formed, write +Ax. See the example below.\nOn the third line (E), write the sum of the first two lines. This must be the final concentration of each compound.\nUse the equilibrium law and the value of Kc to write an expression with the equilibrium concentrations. Then solve this equation for x.\nUse this value to determine the equilibrium concentrations of each compound. [Note: if the value of x is negative, this means you guessed wrong in step 3, and the reaction actually proceeds in the opposite direction. You will still get the correct final values of each compound if you add or subtract this negative value in this step.]\nExample 1: 1.0 mole of H2 and 1.0 mole of I2 are placed in a 2.0 L flask. The following reaction takes place at 400\u00b0C: H2 (g) + I2 (g) \u2192 2 HI (g). What are the concentrations of the three compounds at equilibrium? The Kc for the formation of hydrogen iodide (HI) from hydrogen and iodine gases is 64.1 at 400\u00b0C.\nSolution: Start by writing the equation and the initial concentrations. Don\u2019t forget to divide by the volume to find the molarities of all the compounds.\nNext, put in the changes in concentration in terms of x. This reaction must go to the right, and we get two moles of HI for each mole of the reactants:\nThen add the two columns to calculate to equilibrium concentrations:\nFinally, write the equilibrium expression and solve:\nNote that if you are given the change in concentration or the initial and final concentrations of a compound, you do not need to use an ICE chart. You can calculate the equilibrium values with a little bit of arithmetic. See the following example:\nExample 2: The reaction in Example 1 is repeated at a different temperature with the same initial concentrations, and the final concentration of HI is determined to be 0.60 M. Determine the value of Kc at this new temperature.\nSolution: To solve for Kc, we need to know the final concentrations of all three components. We are given the final value of HI, and knowing that we produced 0.60 M HI means that we must have lost 0.30 M of each of the reactants (use the balanced reaction to determine this). Since we started with 0.50 M of each, the final concentrations of each reactant must be 0.20 M (just subtract the numbers). So the equilibrium expression gives us:\nBalancing redox reactions in basic solutions\nWhen balancing redox reactions, you must start by finding the number of electrons transferred in each half reaction. You usually can\u2019t get the charges to balance if you don\u2019t equate the electrons. In this post, I show you how to balance a redox reaction in a basic solution.\nExample : Iodide ions are oxidized in a basic solution by permanganate ions to produce iodine and Mn2+ ions. Show the balanced reaction.\nSolution: I\u2019ve made this example a little harder than in my other redox reaction posts because we first need to figure out from the example what the half reactions look like. This is not as complicated as it sounds. Just follow the English and turn it into chemical formulas. Our problem should therefore look like this:\nI\u2013 + MnO4\u2013 \u2192 I2 + Mn2+\nNow comes the tricky part. It turns out it isn\u2019t very easy to balance a redox reaction in basic solutions by adding OH\u2013 ions, because when we balance the hydrogen atoms, we throw off the balance of the oxygen atoms. So we employ a clever technique. We first balance the reaction as though it were an acidic solution, then we change the solution from acidic to basic. This is a five-step process, and you\u2019ll notice the first four steps are identical to the process for balancing a redox reaction in an acidic solution:\nDetermine the number of electrons transferred in each half reaction, and balance the electrons.\nBalance the oxygen atoms by adding water molecules.\nBalance the hydrogen atoms by adding H+ ions.\nCheck you answer by verifying that the charges are balanced.\nCancel out the H+ ions by adding an equal number of OH\u2013 ions to both sides, which changes the H+ ions into water.\nLet\u2019s see how this works on our example. The iodine atom goes from an oxidation number of 1- on the left to 0 on the right, so each iodine atom loses one electron. Since there are two iodine atoms in I2, we think of this half-reaction as losing two electrons. The manganese goes from an oxidation number of 7+ in the permanganate ion to an oxidation number of 2+. It has gained five electrons. To balance the electrons, we need a total transfer of ten electrons. Multiply the iodine compounds by five and the manganese compounds by two. (Note that the iodide ion was multiplied by 10 rather than 5 to balance the number of iodine atoms):\n10 I\u2013 + 2 MnO4\u2013 \u2192 5 I2 + 2 Mn2+\nNow we balance the oxygen atoms. There are 8 oxygen atoms on the left and none on the right, so we add 8 water molecules to the right side:\n10 I\u2013 + 2 MnO4\u2013 \u2192 5 I2 + 2 Mn2+ + 8 H2O\nNext we balance the hydrogen atoms by adding 16 H+ ions to the left (we pretend we have an acidic solution):\n10 I\u2013 + 2 MnO4\u2013 + 16 H+ \u2192 5 I2 + 2 Mn2+ + 8 H2O\nThe equation should be fully balanced, and we check our work by verifying the charges balance. 10- (the iodide ions), 2- (the permanganate ions) and 16+ (the hydrogen ions) gives a net charge on the left of 4+. On the right side, we also have a total charge of 4+.\nFinally, we are ready to change the reaction from acidic to basic. We cancel out the 16 H+ ions by adding 16 OH\u2013 ions to both sides:\n10 I\u2013 + 2 MnO4\u2013 + 16 H+ + 16 OH\u2013 \u2192 5 I2 + 2 Mn2+ + 8 H2O + 16 OH\u2013\nBecause H+ and OH\u2013 ions react to form water molecules, we simplify the left side:\n10 I\u2013 + 2 MnO4\u2013 + 16 H2O \u2192 5 I2 + 2 Mn2+ + 8 H2O + 16 OH\u2013\nOur last step is to simplify the equation by subtracting the 8 extra water molecules from the right side. We have to subtract the same number from the left side to keep the reaction balanced:\n10 I\u2013 + 2 MnO4\u2013 + 8 H2O \u2192 5 I2 + 2 Mn2+ + 16 OH\u2013\n(Look for other tips on this website if you need help with balancing simple redox reactions or redox reactions in acidic solutions.)\nBalancing redox reactions in acidic solutions\nWhen balancing redox reactions, you must start by finding the number of electrons transferred in each half reaction. You usually can\u2019t get the charges to balance if you don\u2019t equate the electrons. In this post, I show you how to balance a redox reaction in an acidic solution.\nExample 1: Balance the following reaction:\nMnO4\u2013 + NO + H+ \u2192 Mn2+ + H2O + NO3\u2013\nSolution: To balance reactions like this, use the following four-step procedure:\nIn this reaction, the Mn atom goes from an oxidation number of 7+ in the permanganate ion to an oxidation number of 2+. It has gained five electrons. The nitrogen atom goes from an oxidation number of 2+ in the nitric oxide to 5+ in the nitrate ion. It has lost three electrons. To balance the electrons, we need to make the total number of electrons transferred equal 15 (because that\u2019s the least common multiple of three and five!). We multiply the Mn ions by 3 and the N compounds by 5:\n3 MnO4\u2013 + 5 NO + H+ \u2192 3 Mn2+ + H2O + 5 NO3\u2013\nThe next step is to balance the oxygen atoms. There are 17 oxygen atoms on the left side of the reaction and 15 on the right side (before you include the water). Therefore we need two water molecules on the right:\n3 MnO4\u2013 + 5 NO + H+ \u2192 3 Mn2+ + 2 H2O + 5 NO3\u2013\nFinally, we balance the hydrogen atoms (there are four of them in the water molecule on the right) by adding 4 hydrogen ions on the left:\n3 MnO4\u2013 + 5 NO + 4 H+ \u2192 3 Mn2+ + 2 H2O + 5 NO3\u2013\nWe check our work by verifying the charges balance. 3- (the permanganate ions) and 4+ (the hydrogen ions) gives a net charge on the left of 1+. 6+ (the manganese ions) and 5- (the nitrate ions) on the right also gives a net charge of 1+. We have succeeded!\nExample 2: Complete and balance the following reaction. Assume it takes place in an acidic solution:\nCr2O72\u2013 + HSO3\u2013 \u2192 SO42\u2013 + Cr3+\nSolution: In this reaction, the Cr atoms go from an oxidation number of 6+ in the dichromate ion to an oxidation number of 3+ in the chromate ion. Therefore, each chromium atom gains three electrons. But since there are two chromium atoms in the dichromate ion, we must think of this half-reaction as gaining six electrons overall. The sulfur atom goes from an oxidation number of 4+ to 6+, so it loses two electrons.\nIn order to balance the electrons, we need a net transfer of six electrons in each half-reaction. We multiply the ions with the sulfur atoms by three. Note that we also multiply the chromium ion on the right by two to balance the number of Cr atoms:\nCr2O72\u2013 + 3 HSO3\u2013 \u2192 3 SO42\u2013 + 2 Cr3+\nThe next step is to balance the oxygen atoms. There are 16 oxygen atoms on the left and 12 on the right, so we add 4 water molecules to the right side:\nCr2O72\u2013 + 3 HSO3\u2013 \u2192 3 SO42\u2013 + 2 Cr3+ + 4 H2O\nFinally, we balance the hydrogen atoms by adding H+ ions. There are three H atoms on the left and 8 H atoms on the right, so we need five H+ ions on the left:\n5 H+ + Cr2O72\u2013 + 3 HSO3\u2013 \u2192 3 SO42\u2013 + 2 Cr3+ + 4 H2O\nWe check our answer by checking the charge on each side. The left side has charges of 5+ (the H ions), 2- (the dichromate ion) and 3- (the hydrogen sulfite ions) for a net of zero. The right side has charges of 6- (the sulfate ions) and 6+ (the chromate ions) also for a net of zero.\n(Look for other tips on this website if you need help with balancing simple redox reactions or redox reactions in basic solutions.)\nBalancing redox reactions\u2013 the basics\nWhen balancing redox reactions, you must start by finding the number of electrons transferred in each half reaction. You usually can\u2019t get the charges to balance if you don\u2019t equate the electrons. In this post, I show you how the process works when both the oxidizing agent and the reducing agent are single elements.\nExample (a very simple example): Balance the following reaction:\n\u2026 Mg(s) + \u2026 Al3+(aq) \u2192 \u2026 Mg2+(aq) + \u2026 Al(s)\nSolution: At first glance, it may appear that the reaction is already balanced because there is one magnesium atom and one aluminum atom on each side. But notice that the charges do not balance. Because aluminum gains three electrons in this reaction, but magnesium atoms lose only two electrons, you will need more magnesiums than aluminums. To find the right ratio, determine the least common multiple of 2 and 3, which is 6. Then multiply the magnesiums by 3 and the aluminums by 2 so that there is a total transfer of 6 electrons in this reaction:\n3 Mg(s) + 2 Al3+(aq) \u2192 3 Mg2+(aq) + 2 Al(s)\nThe charges balance, as required.\n(Look for other tips on this website if you need help with balancing redox reactions in acidic or basic solutions.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 279, "original_length": 27212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://u19championship.com/teams-2/panama/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:27Z", "digest": "sha1:XKD35H2FNXIKFMC5GCUQOZZAI6JO7X7R", "length": 747, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "u19championship.com", "title": "Panama | World Championship", "raw_content": "Head coach: Raul Arosemena\nPanama makes its debut at the IFAF Under-19 World Championship, qualifying as the third Pan-American representative.The Central American nation just missed out on the 2009 tournament after defeating the Bahamas, 52-6, but then losing to Mexico, 26-0.\nPanama Football Overview\nPanama first entered international competition in 2000, taking part in the NFL Global Junior Championship played in Atlanta and returned to that stage in 2007 with a 14-6 win over France in South Florida.\nPanama\u2019s most celebrated player, who represented his country in 2000, is defensive lineman Frank Davis, who played at the University of South Florida and three seasons in the NFL with the Detroit Lions and Cincinnati Bengals.\nPanama roster", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 150.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uarf.us/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=324", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:13Z", "digest": "sha1:SQR4UK6BGNJWA3NXWJUKUIFCQJ5LEIGJ", "length": 4032, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "uarf.us", "title": "Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in /home/content/40/6020740/html/uarf.us/mainfile.php on line 79", "raw_content": "Unalienable Rights Foundation - Age of Enlightenment, History of liberalism and French Revolution\nE-Mail UnalienableRights@uarf.us\nJohn Locke, the \"Father of classical liberalism\"\nElements of libertarianism can be traced as far back as the ancient Chinese philosopher Lao-Tzu and the higher-law concepts of the Greeks and the Israelites. In 17th-century England, libertarian ideas began to take modern form in the writings of the Levellers and John Locke. In the middle of that century, opponents of royal power began to be called Whigs, or sometimes simply \"opposition\" or \"country\" (as opposed to Court) writers.\nDuring the 18th century, classical liberal ideas flourished in Europe and North America. Libertarians of various schools were influenced by classical liberal ideas.\nJohn Locke greatly influenced both libertarianism and the modern world in his writings published before and after the English Revolution of 1688, especially A Letter Concerning Toleration (1667), Two Treatises of Government (1689) and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). In the latter he established the basis of liberal political theory: that people's rights existed before government; that the purpose of government is to protect personal and property rights; that people may dissolve governments that do not do so; and that representative government is the best form to protect rights.[104] The United States Declaration of Independence was inspired by Locke in its statement: \"to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...\" Nevertheless scholar Ellen Meiksins Wood says that \"there are doctrines of individualism that are opposed to Lockean individualism(...)and non-lockean individualism may encompass socialism\".\nAccording to Murray Rothbard, the libertarian creed emerged from the classical liberal challenges to an \"absolute central State and a king ruling by divine right on top of an older, restrictive web of feudal land monopolies and urban guild controls and restrictions\", the mercantilism of a bureaucratic warfaring state allied with privileged merchants. The object of classical liberals was individual liberty in the economy, in personal freedoms and civil liberty, separation of state and religion, and peace as an alternative to imperial aggrandizement. He cites Locke's contemporaries, the Levellers, who held similar views. Also influential were the English \"Cato's Letters\" during the early 1700s, reprinted eagerly by American colonists who already were free of European aristocracy and feudal land monopolies.\nIn January of 1776, only two years after coming to America from England, Thomas Paine published his pamphlet \"Common Sense\" calling for independence for the colonies. Paine promoted classical liberal ideas in clear, concise language that allowed the general public to understand the debates among the political elites. Common Sense was immensely popular in disseminating these ideas, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. Paine later would write the Rights of Man and The Age of Reason and participate in the French Revolution. Paine's theory of property showed a \"libertarian concern\" with the redistribution of resources.\nIn 1793, William Godwin wrote a libertarian philosophical treatise, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness, which criticized ideas of human rights and of society by contract based on vague promises. He took classical liberalism to its logical anarchic conclusion by rejecting all political institutions, law, government, and apparatus of coercion, as well as all political protest and insurrection. Instead of institutionalized justice he proposed that people influence one and other to moral goodness through informal reasoned persuasion, including in the associations they joined, and that this would facilitate human happiness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 23440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 180.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ugandanetwork.org.uk/activity/ventures/tour1vs.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:19Z", "digest": "sha1:O5GLAOXO5Y5D6ZC2NFLESL5FGYW5KWMC", "length": 1338, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ugandanetwork.org.uk", "title": "UK Uganda Network - Venture Scout Resources - Tourism in Uganda", "raw_content": "Tourism in the Third World:\nWho benefits? Who pays?\nAll tourist development has costs and benefits - for the tourist, of course, and for the host community. Whether these are perceived as costs, or perceived as benefits, will depend upon the direct effect on peoples' lives and on the point of view of the individual. This exercise will encourage the Unit to consider the effects of tourism on the host community and to devise a code for sensitive tourism.\nDivide the Unit into seven (either groups or individuals) and allocate the seven 'interest group cards' accordingly.\nGive the Unit this brief introduction to the exercise:\n'An international tourist company is proposing to develop an area on the shore of Lake Victoria into a holiday resort. You are involved in the debate about this development as is described on the 'interest group cards'. Each group will be asked to prepare and present their case and there will then be time for further debate and questions.'\nNotes for game leader\nAllow five to ten minutes for groups to prepare their cases. During this time you can go round the groups and help them, using the information provided\nThe idea of this exercise is to arrive at some kind of understanding of the conflicts of interests that arise, rather than to arrive at a solution.\nInterest group cards - Download 2.2k PDF file", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://unijam.unisa.edu.au/news/we-saved-magill-at-unijam-1.0--what-are-the-next-steps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:5HEJO4MWEFYHFE3LHVW7GRHUJVIWWTOI", "length": 1385, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "unijam.unisa.edu.au", "title": "We saved Magill at Unijam 1.0 \u2013 what are the next steps?", "raw_content": "It\u2019s been a hot topic for a while now, and we know that the Magill campus is here to stay, so what does it mean to have a \u2018Magill Education Precinct\u2019?\nOver the next 12 months, UniSA will be working with the Government of South Australia and representatives from the school sector to design the future of our Magill campus.\nJoining us for her first jam, Pro Vice Chancellor Denise Meredyth is keen to talk about how existing teaching and research in Education, Arts and Social Sciences can be integrated with a \u2018living laboratory\u2019 approach to teacher education. \u201cWe\u2019ll be exploring the options for bringing a school onto the campus with pupils from birth to year 12, and how we foster an innovative environment for teaching, learning and research\u201d.\n\u201cThere are so many good ideas out there, and I\u2019m asking how we can bring these ideas into practice. We are looking to the precinct as a physical space and what this means for us - does a school need classrooms? A playing field? A library of its own? Does a school need its own IT system or can it share digital infrastructure? These questions are just as important as the content we teach.\u201d\nEducation Minister, Susan Close is keen to look at a space with the \u201ccapacity to develop useful and effective teaching methods, and training our teachers to get the best out of themselves and their students.\u201d\nIt\u2019s over to you, so keep on jamming!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://upliftmin.org/sick-and-shut-in/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZAKNTVXSCC62QP4YOUHW74ACIURJKJZ", "length": 273, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "upliftmin.org", "title": "Sick and Shut-In | UPLIFT", "raw_content": "Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous.\nPlease sign up below if you have interest in serving the sick and shut-in in our community. Also use this form if you want to add someone to the list to be served.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://urock.today/sarah-hennies-linguist-in-the-land-of-noises/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:08Z", "digest": "sha1:7FEA76Q75FGX6IFKKMZIAZXWH536ACDY", "length": 1255, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "urock.today", "title": "Sarah Hennies, Linguist in the Land of Noises | Music News From Today's Scene\u2122 <% if ( total_view > 0 ) { %> <%= total_view > 1 ? \"total views\" : \"total view\" %>, <% if ( today_view > 0 ) { %> <%= today_view > 1 ? \"views today\" : \"view today\" %> no views today\tNo views yet", "raw_content": "HomeRockSarah Hennies, Linguist in the Land of Noises\nmusicworks.ca \u2013 \u201cThis sounds like a total clich\u00e9,\u201d she begins, characteristically self-aware, \u201cbut for literally as long as I can remember, I was totally obsessed with music.\u201d \u201cIf I hadn\u2019t been in bands in middle sc\u2026\nTweeted by @MusicworksMag https://twitter.com/MusicworksMag/status/999758546072940544\nBulletproof solution to find new design clients \u2013 Prototypr\n7 Tips for Long-Term Profitability \u2013 Cannabis Business Times\n10 Simple Things You Can Do Today That Will Make You Happy\nU-Rock Newspaper open.buffer.com \u2013 Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get it. 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With this in mind, we are thrilled to announce\u2026 [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uscta.wikidot.com/be-able-to-effectively-manage-class-time", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:29Z", "digest": "sha1:KXUSKH2KD7RW4JNFP6TRDQLE4PR4VVC3", "length": 1327, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "uscta.wikidot.com", "title": "Be Able To Effectively Manage Class Time - USC TA Wiki", "raw_content": "Although the overall content of the course is rarely at the discretion of the TA, it is important to make sure that you attempt to cover the appropriate amount of material in section. Try to cover too much and you may not get to discuss some of the most important topics and the students may leave feeling rushed or with unanswered questions. Don't try to cover enough material and there may be awkward \"dead time\" that could be better utilized.\nHere are some suggestions to help TAs manage their time:\nWrite out lesson plans ahead of time, including the amount of time alloted to each segment/activity.\nRun through the lesson plan in \"real time\" to see if the amount of material you have planned is appropriate.\nAfter conducting just a few sections you can assess whether, in general, you need to include more material or if you are constantly trying to \"cram in\" too much material. You will also get a better sense of your students- how much they understand, at which speed they are comfortable to cover materal.\nIt is often helpful to have a list of general discussion questions on hand for each section in case your lesson finishes early. Alternatively, if you run out of time, you can send your students away with questions to think about on their own or that they should respond to and retrun to you at your next meeting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://usefulsocialmedia.com/mobile-product/cedars-sinai-accelerator-gives-mhealth-startups-boost", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:17Z", "digest": "sha1:6THS7TVT5KRXLMPKQHH3OEBGV6ONXFLZ", "length": 6521, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "usefulsocialmedia.com", "title": "Cedars-Sinai Accelerator Gives mHealth Startups a Boost | Incite Group", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a unique program designed to help startups develop products and systems that make healthcare more efficient and economical.\nCedars-Sinai teamed up with Techstars to create and help facilitate the accelerator.\nEach session there are 10 companies selected for the program with the accelerator taking a six percent stake in the startups with an opportunity to invest more via a convertible note of up to $100,000 when the participating firms next raise capital. These companies also get $20,000 to cover expenses that make their participation possible.\nJim Laur, Cedars-Sinai Vice President for Legal and Technology Affairs and Matt Kozlov, managing director with Techstars discussed the accelerator with Open Mobile Media\u2019s Robert Gray.\nOMM: Why is Cedars-Sinai hosting an accelerator? And after the first two cohorts of the accelerator, what is the biggest takeaway?\nLaur: We\u2019re starting to figure out what we\u2019re doing and why we\u2019re doing it. There\u2019s a huge focus on making things more efficient, more cost-effective, increase consumer satisfaction levels, engage people in why they entered healthcare as professionals.\nWe thought it\u2019d be great to have a platform, a portal for these companies working on the same challenges we\u2019re struggling with to bring them in and work on them together.\nHealthcare is very complicated and difficult from an outsiders\u2019 perspective to figure out how something is reimbursed, how it fits in the workflow, how it disrupts something that\u2019s already in place that\u2019s not easily disruptable, so we figured working directly with companies 10 at a time, we could make some powerful change and be part of the driver.\nKozlov:I had a na\u00efve assessment that healthcare technology would be slow. I was skeptical that one hospital could change the arc and trajectory of a healthcare tech company. What I\u2019ve learned is that Cedars-Sinai is incredibly influential when it comes to market adoption.\nOMM: How much can mHealth lower healthcare costs?\nLaur: It\u2019s a trillion dollar question. There\u2019s a component driving cost, the view of technology as an element of keeping us alive longer and dealing with health issues not thought about 10 to 15 years ago, it\u2019s always going to be expensive in a quantifiable way. There\u2019s a huge swatch of healthcare that can take advantage of the power of technology and do it quicker and less expensively and connect with healthcare when they need to be connected and stay at home when they don\u2019t. You can utilize things to get people the level of healthcare they need in the right setting, like not coming to the ER (emergency room) for the flu. That\u2019s a huge cost and burden on the system and not pleasant for the patient.\nOMM: What are some examples of mHealth savings?\nLaur: Certain categories can be diagnosed visually and benefit from Facetime technology. If you have pinkeye, if you can harness that with no car ride, not missing work, the doctor can prescribe something; there\u2019s a lot of things you can do with a blood pressure cuff, check heart rate and things that can be transmitted and the doctor can diagnose without you entering the system.\nWe\u2019ve seen a big mix of companies in the mobile and diagnostic space trying to do thing in a better, cheaper, and faster way.\nOMM: All 18 companies that have gone through the accelerator have secured a contract with Cedars, can you call out a few doing some groundbreaking work?\nKozlov: Deep 6 AI learned how difficult it is to recruit patients into clinical drug trials (and) they built an AI engine that analyzes all the unstructured text in the electronic health record and finds the best clinical drug trials in that market for each patient. They\u2019re filling patient panels12 to 13 times faster, a big win for pharmaceutical companies bringing drugs to market faster and drawing more research dollars and to health systems they work with. It\u2019s also a win for patients and for physicians because they can give better quality of care and give new treatment.\nApplied VR uses virtual reality to help manage and reduce pain and anxiety before, during, and after procedures.\nWELL is a B2B play. (It\u2019s a messaging app used by healthcare officials and providers to reach patients between visits). The company grew recurring monthly revenue from about $5,000 before coming into the program and grew to over $80,000 shortly after program. They\u2019re now in 120 departments at Cedars.\nOMM: Are you considering expanding the program?\nLaur: There are obvious connections between the network of academic medical centers that we\u2019re in contact with through research collaborations and challenges healthcare in many countries that are exactly the same that we have. Startups and entrepreneurs could come into the US to break into the market, bring technological advances to the US from this portal. The same goes for the other way\u2026finding a way into Europe, going to India. It\u2019s an eye opener. We can benefit from that cross-pollination.\nKozlov: Stasis Labs, one of the better-funded Los Angeles healthcare tech companies and from the first class of our program, connected a vitals monitoring device for unmonitored beds in the third world\u2014in 40 hospitals in India. It\u2019s a prototypical Techstars/Cedars support story. On the highest end of the monitoring product line, the Philips and GE monitors cost $25,000 to $30,000 and need an expensive network and a lot of beds can\u2019t afford to monitor them. (Stasis Labs) does it by tablets being posted on nursing stations in each ward and they can monitor 20 to 25 patients on a tablet.\nA typical middle class hospital outside of the US monitors 20% of the beds versus 85% in Cedars.\nOMM: What\u2019s the prognosis for the program?\nLaur: You can imagine it\u2019s exciting for outsiders to come in and work with Cedars-Sinai, but we didn\u2019t bank on how excited our staff was in working with the class to figure it all out, rolling up their sleeves to solve problems.\nThe program was envisioned as a once-a-year, annual program for five years to see what we could together\u2026We pushed the cycle to be every eight to 12 months to capture that internal excitement and energy. That gives you an idea of how symbiotic that is.\nOMM: Will it continue in perpetuity?\nLaur:As long as we\u2019re getting a lot of extremely exciting applicants that connect to our mission of improving the way healthcare is delivered, we\u2019re enjoying the partnership with Techstars, their expertise and they\u2019re learning from us. They\u2019re our global partners, we\u2019re two cohorts in and thinking we\u2019ve got a really special thing going on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 10610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://varsity.the570.com/Lakeland/Shane_Barrett/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WG24KTHJYWGEFCGALCRLQTMB2AZJWRYD", "length": 67, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "varsity.the570.com", "title": "Varsity570: Shane Barrett, Lakeland High School", "raw_content": "Permalink: http://http://varsity.the570.com/Lakeland/Shane_Barrett/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 6066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 222.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://viagragroupresult.com/science/doctors-are-reminded-that-in-some-cases-antibiotics-are-contraindicated.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:LWXUKVOEV6NMXEEXW5KESQUJKDNWW32J", "length": 1989, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "viagragroupresult.com", "title": "Doctors are reminded that in some cases, antibiotics are contraindicated | Healthy Info \u2013 Medical portal | News of medicine, articles about health and treatment", "raw_content": "Temperature and runny nose, cough and even headache with similar symptoms the vast majority of people start self-appointed course of antibiotics. Any results from...\nTemperature and runny nose, cough and even headache with similar symptoms the vast majority of people start self-appointed course of antibiotics. Any results from such assistance, is not likely to bring. Moreover, you are risking the growth of bacteria, has already received resistance to the drugs. Here are five common diseases, which in any case can not resort to antibiotics.\nMost often, sore throat is caused by tonsillitis, a viral infection, against which antibiotics are simply not effective. Many people, for some reason, think differently and develop the course absolutely useless drugs, ignoring the right treatment.\nA nasty, hacking cough is not a reason to go on antibiotics, even if it lasts for a week in a row. Here are often mistaken by doctors appointing treatment of viral infection in cases when it is not in sight.\nVery common in the former Soviet Union method of prophylactic antibiotics does not work. Antibiotics simply have no prophylactic effect. Such a practice may even lead to another problem. The same flu there is often a complication of bronchitis: if you started to take antibiotics before that, the complication is still evolving, but at its core will lie a microbe will develop immunity to the antibiotic.\nEvery year tens of thousands of people are faced with a very unpleasant disease: prolonged rhinitis often leads to inflammation of nasal passage or sinus. In most cases, the development of this disease is due to the virus, and 83% of patients still receive antibiotics.\nContrary to popular belief, bacteria rarely cause inflammation of the tooth nerve. That is why self-medication with antibiotics does not lead to any positive results. But doctors often prescribe antibiotics just in case: it helps to avoid the danger of subsequent purulent infection of the area around the tooth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://viagragroupresult.com/science/the-doctors-debunk-common-health-myths.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:49Z", "digest": "sha1:WEBUYQDHWRKYK6VEHV3ZXFV7P2PYNG46", "length": 1657, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "viagragroupresult.com", "title": "The doctors debunk common health myths | Healthy Info \u2013 Medical portal | News of medicine, articles about health and treatment", "raw_content": "A huge part of health information contains more videmanette than the truth. People used to believe in yourself, and word of mouth, and now...\nA huge part of health information contains more videmanette than the truth.\nPeople used to believe in yourself, and word of mouth, and now the Internet than to health care professionals. Because of this, a number of different diseases without stop growing and your doctor patients treated when there is no strength to endure pain or some other unpleasant symptoms.\nIn the society\u2019s a lot of myths about health that people do not stop to believe, despite the fact that physicians and scientists of the matter that refute them.\nThe most common health myths:\nOn the rim of the toilet breed bacteria. Yes, but under the nails, on unwashed hands and money much more.\nFresh vegetables, fruits and berries are healthier frozen. In fact in those and other contain the same nutrients and vitamins in equal amounts.\nIn obesity, the metabolism slows down. Not true, most fat people just do well with the metabolism, but thin, on the contrary, there are problems with digestion and constipation.\nGood shampoo and mask can restore posechennye ends of your hair. Nothing except a haircut will not save you from split ends.\nWith colds need antibiotics. A viral disease, i.e. colds, cannot be cured by antibiotics, since their main action is to fight bacteria and not viruses.\nIf you are in doubt about something regarding your health and well-being, it is better to visit a therapist and figure out what is really wrong with you or so, and you decided to listen to \u201cadvisers\u201d, not related to the official medicine.\nvacuumstage.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://viralsyndicator.com/pbs-newshour-full-episode-november-30-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4M3ZJIGDKTXSTOCB2COWLRVUAIQYTCWM", "length": 2439, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "viralsyndicator.com", "title": "PBS NewsHour full episode November 30 2018 | Viral Syndicator", "raw_content": "PBS NewsHour full episode November 30 2018\nFriday on the NewsHour, Alaska's Anchorage endures a major earthquake. Also: the G-20 summit illustrates the challenges of multilateralism during a populist boom, Marriott reveals it suffered a major data breach, the latest developments in the Mueller investigation, Shields and Brooks analyze the week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political news and a New Jersey city that's trying a new technique for managing juvenile crime. Stream your PBS favorites with the PBS app: https://to.pbs.org/2Jb8twG Find more from PBS NewsHour at https://www.pbs.org/newshour Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/2HfsCD6 Follow us: Facebook: http://www.pbs.org/newshour Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/newshour Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/newshour Snapchat: @pbsnews Subscribe: PBS NewsHour podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcasts Newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe WATCH TODAY\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SEGMENTS: 'Violent' earthquake causes extensive damage to Anchorage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aJaKH3kiDg News Wrap: Ukraine closes border to Russian men https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpJYEgTo8oQ At G-20, leaders learn 'how difficult' consensus has become https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II-mKw9pn4g Why companies are still failing to protect our personal data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCEawhUXmOI On Russia, did Trump's business and policy converge? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OPGOr9tbv8 Shields and Brooks on Mueller news, congressional dynamics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nog-806HIRU Is youth court a solution for minor juvenile crimes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHE8BlScn5o\nAlask Anchorage Current News Earthquake G20 summit juvenile crime major data breach mueller investigation multilateralism News newshour populist boom today's news trending news U.S. news world news\nDid you remember to subtract then re-add the super delegates? Spread the love\nHow Dangerous Is North Korea?\nKim Jong-un has no problem flaunting his country\u2019s military might. But just how much of a threat does North Korea really pose to it\u2019s neighbours and the rest of the world? Find out here with Alltime Conspiracies. Spread the love\nTillerson speaks out after being fired\nOutgoing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks after being fired from his post by President Donald Trump. How to convert $50 into $23,000 in three months, click here http://informaz.info/makemoneytradingcrypto Spread the love", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://virtual24-7.co.za/index.php/portfolio/fivepm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:07Z", "digest": "sha1:NZEIPEJFNOHHNQP4BG3XAP3YUQ6ON4PW", "length": 681, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "virtual24-7.co.za", "title": "FivePM", "raw_content": "Five PM (Pty) Ltd is a South-African based company focused on the development and construction industry; building quality homes, residential and commercial buildings with an architectural touch and fluency. They ensure that the clients\u2019 final product meets the predefined standards and specifications. The Company strives to meet client demands beyond expectations with the main goal in mind: to ensure that the building process is fluent and structured. The Company facilitates the building process by providing quality workmanship and a personal service with an experienced management team and project management systems.\nI designed, created and maintain the website for Five PM.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 184.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://virtutech.com/alliances/newdirectory/company.html?id=3048", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:57Z", "digest": "sha1:QQFAQTC2ESGAWOJQPIUPZZCN6VKRPGKE", "length": 2153, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "virtutech.com", "title": "Wind River Partner Solution Directory - Critical I/O LLC", "raw_content": "Critical I/O LLC\nCritical I/O, headquartered in Irvine, California, is the leading provider of high speed networking and advanced storage solutions for embedded computing, avionics and military applications. With more than a decade of innovative development, Critical I/O brings a multitude of high speed Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and embedded storage solutions to the real-time and embedded systems marketplace. By leveraging commercial technologies and adapting them to the unique requirements of the embedded computing market, Critical I/O offers its customers advanced technology that is standards based, sustainable, and cost effective.\nCritical I/O provides ultra-high performance networking and data storage hardware and software for industrial, military, and aerospace applications that leverage Wind River real-time operating systems.\nCritical I/O is a leading provider of high speed networking and advanced storage solutions for embedded computing, avionics and military applications. With more than a decade of innovative development, Critical I/O brings a multitude of high speed Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and embedded storage solutions to the real-time and embedded systems marketplace. By leveraging commercial technologies and adapting them to the unique requirements of the embedded computing market, Critical I/O offers its customers advanced technology that is standards based, sustainable and cost effective.\nCritical I/O works with Wind River to support military and aerospace contractors and integrators to make it easier, faster, more cost-effective, and less risky to develop and deploy high performance networking and data storage hardware, software, and systems that use Wind River software.\nA 15 year close working relationship provides a high level of engineering expertise in supporting Wind River based systems.\nTested and field-proven solutions provide fast time to market.\nHigh-performance networking hardware and software with Wind River driver support.\nHigh-performance and high capacity data storage/recording boards/systems with Wind River driver support.\n36 Executive Park Ste 150, Irvine, CA, United States, 92614-6744", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vorteksurgical.com/faq.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:33Z", "digest": "sha1:NRZ3D3Q3ESPYUN65PBE26PWGKHRTV3JS", "length": 94, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "vorteksurgical.com", "title": "\ufeff Vortek Surgical", "raw_content": "We are in the process of analysing your frequently asked questions and will post answers soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 240.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vt.co/lifestyle/relationships/man-divorces-wife-after-seeing-her-cheating-with-another-man-on-google-maps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:07Z", "digest": "sha1:KTWSOXEX7SDKTGBJJ4SYY4YVZXRVF7E2", "length": 3865, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "vt.co", "title": "Man divorces wife after seeing her cheating with another man on Google Maps - VT", "raw_content": "Man divorces wife after seeing her cheating with another man on Google Maps\nThere's absolutely no denying that Google Maps has made life a whole lot easier for all of us. Who knows how we managed to go from A to B before it was invented? I mean, before it ever existed, the mere concept of it would have seemed pretty insane. An easily accessible web service that uses satellite imagery and 360\u00b0 panoramic views of streets to emulate how we would get to a certain place in real life? How unlikely does that sound? And yet it exists for every single internet user.\nWe definitely take for granted that our ability to find even the most obscure of places is always right there in our pockets. So on behalf of everyone out there with an embarrassingly poor sense of direction, I have to say I'm extremely grateful for Google Maps.\nBut I'm guessing one particular Peruvian woman isn't feeling particularly thankful for the service after she was caught redhanded having an affair in images captured by Google's Street View feature.\nYes, she has since become a divorcee after she was spotted by her husband cuddling with another man in the following images.\nThey were captured back in 2013 around Puente de Los Suspiros de Barranco (the Bridge of Sighs) in Lima, Peru but it was only recently that they were posted online.\nThe woman's husband was trying to check the best way to get to a bridge in the Peruvian capital city of Lima when he spotted his wife with a mystery man, reports claim. The image, which can still be found on Google Maps, shows the woman sitting on a bench with a man lying down beside her while he rests his head in her lap, as she appears to lovingly stroke his hair.\nCredit: viajandoalima.com\nAccording to the Daily Mail, the woman's now ex-husband recognized what she was wearing and soon enough, realized she was, in fact, his wife. He then confronted his wife about her apparent unfaithfulness and this eventually led to the breakdown of their marriage. She confessed to cheating on him and the pair eventually got a divorce.\nThe husband later shared the damning images on his Facebook page and, as a result, the woman was condemned for disloyalty.\nOne Facebook user commented: \"What a small world it is... It would have been enough if she said to her husband that she did not love him anymore.\" While another wrote: \"Out of 100 women, 90 percent are not loyal, the rest are loyal and only have one eye (hahaha) or are immortal (hahaha).\"\nAnd this certainly isn't the first time an image on Google Maps has sparked public interest in the person featured in the image.\nOne pretty horrifying picture showed a young girl laying face down on the road with one of her shoes next to her foot, rather than on it.\nShe is the only person who can be seen in the picture taken on a street in St John\u2019s, a suburb in Worcester, England. The image was first brought to public attention back in 2010 when locals noticed it, horrified to see the little girl hurt.\nThe incident was then reported to the police who started an investigation into what seemed to be a crime scene. It was revealed that the little girl was nine-year-old Azura Beebeejaun and fortunately, was completely fine.\nIt then emerged that the \"incident\" was entirely innocuous. Azura was simply playing a game with some friends when the Google car passed by. She was totally unaware that the vehicle was even there and was playing dead after falling over.\nI guess with this sort of thing, it's very easy to jump to conclusions and assume the worst possible outcome, but it's always pretty heartwarming when people show concern for others.\nIn terms of the cheating incident being caught on Street View; I guess for many, it's a pretty uncomfortable thought that our every move could potentially be captured by a major tech company like Google. But that's the tech-savvy world in which we live.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 201.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://walkbyfaithmin.org/?page_id=485", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:40Z", "digest": "sha1:F2H57SLO7OH4QE3PNU5Y4UP3O3LHTDCP", "length": 3734, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "walkbyfaithmin.org", "title": "Women of Valor Ministries \u00bb Walk by Faith Ministries\t\">", "raw_content": "Reaching Women throughout the World\u2026Edifying, Strengthening, Encouraging, and Teaching, that they may be a blessing to the Kingdom of God, their families, their churches, and their communities\u2026called to purpose in Jesus Christ.\nThe ministry held quarterly women\u2019s conferences beginning in March 2009; conferences were held in various locations with women attending from many ministries, churches, counties in Florida, and cities throughout the United States\nThe conferences were multi-racial, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual with presenters representing 5 countries and 3 continents in the world\nMore than 400 women and girls were impacted by the 2009 conferences with reports from attendees that their lives have never been the same since attending\nWomen are reporting that they have stepped up to a new level in their walk with Christ, and the ministry to which they are called; even family lives have positively changed.\nWomen of Valor Ministries in America embraced an expanded vision from God found in Luke 14:12-23 to minister to women in various shelters (homeless, transitional housing, battered women) and other places that counsel and assist hurting women\nThe ministry waived conference fees and provided transportation to women in the shelters who would not otherwise be able to attend.\nGift bags were also provided, and in January 2010 Lydia\u2019s Closet for clothes was birthed\u2014providing clothes for women in need.\nWomen of Valor Ministries \u2013 Kenya was stated with 50 women committing to the Vision, Mission, and Goals of the ministry\nThe women receive bi-monthly lessons and the President of WOV-Kenya presents the lessons and activities\nThe ministry is now in two cities in Kenya, and the women are experiencing a tremendous Spiritual growth; families\u2019 lives are changing; marriages and being strengthened, and the church is benefiting from the Spiritual growth of the women\nOutreach efforts are being planned and realized\nThe women are also planning to start a business co-op\nOther ideas and plans for the ministry are coming forth\nComments from Women attending the Quarterly Conferences:\n\u201cWhat an awesome move of God throughout the entire day! My life will never be the same after attending this conference. I cannot wait for the next one!\u201d (From January 2010 Conference)\n\u201cIt was a pleasure and an honor to be a part. Thank you again and again for inviting and my team. I know lives were touched more than you will ever imagine. There were questions and comments about subjects that we think most Christians are knowledgeable about. God open the eyes of women to new dimension of his kingdom. Souls being restored and so much more\u2026..\u201d (From March 2009 Conference)\n\u201cAll I can say about the conference is Thank You and Thank God for using you! My life has changed. My mind has cleared. My potential has been viciously released. My purpose is clear. My joy, complete. And my territory enlarged. Bless you woman of God\u2026woman of valor!\u201d (From March 2009 Conference)\n\u201cWhen I came in today, I could barely walk; my heart was enlarged and strained from a disease I inherited from my mother. When you called for prayer, I felt compelled to come forward. I felt the power of God surge through me, and my heart stopped hurting immediately; the pain left my entire body\u2014I had been in constant pain for many years; the swelling went down in my feet and I can now walk better than I have in my adult years! Praise God!\u201d (From March 2009 Conference)\n\u201cI thank God for placing it in your heart to do these women conferences, and for your obedience to Him. Since I attended the conference, I have moved to a new level in God. My territory has expanded, and I am focused again on what God has for me to do.\u201d (From October 2009 Conference)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://waltonpropertyblog.com/will-the-young-people-of-hersham-ever-own-their-own-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:26Z", "digest": "sha1:4UK2CQGAQT3G3AMF3VBN4VTM7GNHL25M", "length": 4593, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "waltonpropertyblog.com", "title": "Will the young people of Hersham ever own their own home? \u2013 The Walton-on-Thames Property Blog", "raw_content": "Will the young people of Hersham ever own their own home?\nI had the most interesting chat with a mature couple (in their early/mid 50\u2019s) from Hersham Village the other day, whilst viewing one of our rental properties. The property wasn\u2019t for them, but their son, who wanted a second viewing with his parents to get the parental blessing. Now I know that isn\u2019t the norm, but in this case the parents were going to act as guarantor. We got chatting about the Walton on Thames and Hersham property market and how they had bought their first property in the town just after they got married in the late 1980\u2019s when they were in their early/mid 20\u2019s. Anyway, we got chatting about how the youngsters of the UK seem to rent more than buy nowadays and from that the conversation covered a number of similar topics. I want to share the highlights of that conversation with you today.\nTheir son, like many 20 to 30 year olds in Hersham, desperately wants to own his own property and the parents said he had read in the Telegraph recently, when you compare house prices to earnings, the current 20 to 30 something\u2019s generation have to spend more of their salary in mortgage payments than any previous generation. The demand for private rental sector accommodation in Hersham is huge. There are in fact 3,722 private rental properties in Hersham at the last count, impressive when you consider there are 615 council houses in the town. However, let us not forget 19,987 properties are owner occupied (10,768 with a mortgage).\nLet us all be honest, private renting doesn\u2019t have the stigma it had a few decades ago and it might surprise people that even though us Brit\u2019s class ourselves as a nation of homeowners, roll the clock back 100 years and over 75% of people rented their own home (and it was all from private landlords as council housing only started to come in with the \u2018homes for hero\u2019s\u2019 after the first World War). It might also surprise you to learn that at the time of the 1971 census, still more people rented than owned their own home.\nLooking at the affordability issue, I have proved time and time again, it is in fact cheaper to buy a property than rent, when one looks at starter homes for first time buyers. 95% mortgages have been available to first time buyers for over four years and whilst you could certainly find better properties in better condition in better areas, flats/apartments can be bought for as little as the mid \u00a3210,000\u2019s in the Molesey Road area of Hersham (meaning a modest deposit of \u00a310,500 would be required).\nWhen it came to affordability, I was able to tell them that when they bought their first house in Hersham in 1988, the ratio of house prices to salary was 7.54 to 1 in Hersham \u2026 and here was the surprise for both of us, today\u2019s ratio is only 6.53 to 1!\nI said I believed there had been a cultural attitude change towards renting property in Britain and that this quiet revolution was likely to be permanent. In the 60\u2019s, 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s, saving for the deposit was everything and buying a house was everything. Youngsters today have far much more disposal income today than people had in the Callaghan and Thatcher years, but choose to spend it upgrading their mobile phones every 12 months, the newest tablet or PC, a newest 50\u201d plasma LCD TV and two sun drenched holidays a year, than go without and save for a deposit.\nYes, there are horror stories of tenants living in rat infested properties with landlords who charge massive rents and don\u2019t repair their properties. But that is very much the exception as most tenants rent homes of a quality they couldn\u2019t ever to afford to buy. Twenty years ago, if you said you rented a property, you were considered the lowest of the low \u2026 but now it\u2019s the norm.\nSo with mortgage affordability being well within the bounds of most first time buyers, the level of deposit required for a 95% being surprisingly modest (starting off at c.\u00a310,500 in Hersham as mentioned above) until we change our attitudes, the UK housing market is slowly but surely turning into a more European model, where people rent for long periods of their life, then eventually inherit their parents properties and subsequently become homeowners themselves, albeit later in life.\nHence, I cannot see the demand for decent, high quality rental properties ever dropping in the next 10 to 20 years, but only ever increasing as the population continues to soar. Just make sure you by the right property, at the price, in the right location. One source of information on such matters would be the Walton Property Blog www.waltonpropertyblog.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wardrobetrendsfashion.com/victorias-secret-angels-rule-runway/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DWXO5A4LW5MLBTD7U7RZ4ITDSRRRT54N", "length": 7838, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "wardrobetrendsfashion.com", "title": "12 Victoria\u2019s Secret Angels Who RULE(D) The Runway", "raw_content": "2015 Kids' Choice Awards Style\nFind Your Flawless Foundation Match\nForevermark Brand Zone Launch In Hong Kong\nVictoria\u2019s Secret Angels Who RULE(D) The Runway\nImage: (Left to Right) Alessandra Ambrosio, Karolina Kurkova, Gisele Bundchen, Adriana Lima\nSince the inception of its runway show in 1995, Victoria\u2019s Secret has been the launching pad of many famous faces\u2019 careers such as Stephanie Seymour, Gisele Budchen and Hedi Klum. These girls endorse top products and some even become household names in the process. To be named an Angel serves as a career highlight. But what exactly is an Angel?\nThese models sign a lucrative contract with the lingerie brand to have top billing at its annual Fashion Show as well as appear in campaigns. Becoming an Angel helps models land lucrative campaigns with other brands as well as launch some to household names.\nWith the recent crossover of VS girls from commercial stardom to high fashion luxe, we thought we would round-up some of the brand\u2019s most desirable faces throughout the years. Check out our WTF list of the memorable Victoria\u2019s Secret models below in no particular order\u2026\n(Updated again on 18 August, 2017, with two more VS angels \u2013 Jasmine Tookes and Taylor Hill)\nImage: Candice Swanepoel at 2010 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.1 \u2013 Candice Swanepoel\nNamed a Victoria\u2019s Secret angel in 2010, this South African beauty is currently one of the most popular Angels, covering the swim catalogue three years in a row. The blonde is not just a swimsuit babe though; Candice Swanepoel has gone on to work with some of the industry\u2019s top photographers such as Steven Meisel, Mert & Marcus and Terry Richardson. She has appeared on covers for Vogue Australia, Vogue Italia and Vogue Japan.\nImage: Alessandra Ambrosio at 2009 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.2 \u2013 Alessandra Ambrosio\nBrazilian bombshell Alessandra Ambrosio was chosen as a Victoria\u2019s Secret Angel in 2004. She was the first face of Victoria\u2019s Secret\u2019s PINK line which is aimed at the younger set. The model has also worked with high fashion brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, Armani Exchange and Ralph Lauren and is the mother of two children.\nImage: Adriana Lima at 2010 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.3 \u2013 Adriana Lima\nAnother Brazilian stunner, Adriana Lima, has been an Angel with Victoria\u2019s Secret since 2000. The beauty has worked with some of the industry\u2019s leading photographers including Mert & Marcus, Ellen von Unwerth and Terry Richardson. Campaigns for the beauty include Miu Miu, Givenchy and Blumarine.\nImage: Helena Christensen at 1995 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.4 \u2013 Helena Christensen\nThe smouldering Danish beauty Helena Christensen was one of the original Victoria\u2019s Secret Angels appearing in tv spots during the 1990s. She appeared in catalogue work and advertisements for the brand as well. Outside of fashion, she is most well-known for appearing in a music video for Chris Isaak\u2019s song, \u201cWicked Game\u201d. Her recent covers include Vogue Spain, Elle Brazil and Elle Spain.\nImage: Gisele Bundchen at 2005 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.5 \u2013 Gisele Bundchen\nThe supermodel walked the Victoria\u2019s Secret runway for many years, but left the brand in 2009. She was one of the most popular Angels to date and arguably one of the few supermodels to come out of the last decade. Gisele Bundchen has gone on to appear in campaigns for Chanel, Roberto Cavalli and Versace. The mom of two and wife to American football star Tom Brady was ranked #95 on Forbes\u2019s Power Women list. Her business ventures include a beauty, lingerie and clothing line.\nImage: Miranda Kerr at 2009 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.6 \u2013 Miranda Kerr\nMiranda Kerr worked as a Victoria\u2019s Secret Angel from 2007 to 2013. Since leaving the brand, this Australian beauty fronted campaigns for Prada, Reebok, Jil Sander and Mango. Miranda\u2019s covers include titles such as Vogue Italia, GQ UK and Elle US. Kerr started a beauty brand named Kora Organics which features all natural products.\nThe brunette married Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel in 2017.\nImage: Heidi Klum at 2009 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.7 \u2013 Heidi Klum\nBefore becoming a television fixture on shows such as \u201cProject Runway\u201d and \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d, German beauty Heidi Klum appeared on the Victoria\u2019s Secret catwalk. Klum was named an angel in 1997 and had an impressive thirteen year run until she retired from the catwalk in 2010. Now, she is more well-known for her business ventures than modelling and ranked #39 on Forbes\u2019 Power Women list in 2011.\nImage: Behati Prinsloo at 2008 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.8 \u2013 Behati Prinsloo\nThe Namibian beauty became the face of Pink in 2008, and then was named a Victoria\u2019s Secret Angel in 2009. She is currently engaged to frontman of Maroon 5, Adam Levine. At 24-years old, Behati Prinsloo has appeared in campaigns for brands like H&M, Chanel, Nina Ricci and Marc by Marc Jacobs. Her covers include Vogue Russia, Elle France and i-D.\nImage: Doutzen Kroes at 2008 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.9 \u2013 Doutzen Kroes\nDoutzen Kroes first started her career in high fashion, fronting campaigns for brands like Versace, Valentino and Gucci. The Dutch beauty began her work with Victoria\u2019s Secret in 2004 and was named an Angel in 2008. Doutzen has appeared on multiple Vogue covers including the German, Parisian and Italian editions. The face of L\u2019Oreal is also married and a mother.\nImage: Rosie Huntington-Whiteley at 2010 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.10 \u2013 Rosie Huntington-Whiteley\nThis British beauty started working for the lingerie brand in 2006. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was named a Victoria\u2019s Secret angel in 2009. Rosie has gone on to star in campaigns for Burberry and cover fashion glossies such as Vogue UK, Vogue Spain and Glamour, and appeared in a \u201cTransformers\u201d film. She has a role in the upcoming \u201cMad Max: Fury Road\u201d movie and is currently dating actor Jason Statham.\nImage: Tyra Banks at 2002 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.11 \u2013 Tyra Banks\nNow she is most well-known for creating the reality competition show \u201cAmerica\u2019s Next Top Model\u201d, but American model Tyra Banks was one of the original Victoria\u2019s Secret Angels starting in 1997. The model retired from the VS catwalk in 2005 and went on to host her own talk show. Tyra has appeared on covers for Harper\u2019s Bazaar, GQ and Elle.\nImage: Karolina Kurkova at 2006 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.12 \u2013 Karolina Kurkova\nThe Czech beauty was named a Victoria\u2019s Secret angel in 2006 and first appeared in the 2000 show at the age of 16. She has fronted campaigns for Louis Vuitton, Chanel and Max Mara among other labels. The blonde was also a judge on season 1 of the Oxygen model reality television show, \u201cThe Face\u201d, alongside models Naomi Campbell and Coco Rocha. Karolina Kurkova has appeared on two solo American Vogue covers.\nImage: Jasmine Tookes wears the Fantasy Bra at the 2016 Victoria\u2019s Secret Fashion Show\nNo.13 \u2013 Jasmine Tookes\nAnother one of the newer Victoria\u2019s Secret Angels, Jasmine Tookes worked with the brand since 2012 but signed a contract in 2015. In 2016, she became the third black model to wear the VS Fashion Show\u2019s Fantasy Bra. Jasmine also landed the covers of magazines such as ELLE US, Vogue Spainand Harper\u2019s Bazaar Vietnam.\nNo.14 \u2013 Taylor Hill\nOne of the newer Angels, Taylor Hill, signed a Victoria\u2019s Secret contract in 2015. But she looks to be on track to become another super star at the lingerie brand. Soon afterwards Taylor would also land lucrative contracts with Lancome and L\u2019Oreal Professionnel. Taylor graced the covers of magazines such as Vogue UK, Glamour France and V Magazine.\nAdriana LimaAlessandra AmbrosioBehati PrinslooCandice SwanepoelDoutzen KroesFeaturedGisele B\u00fcndchenHeidi KlumHelena ChristensenKarolina KurkovaMiranda KerrRosie Huntington-WhiteleyTyra BanksVictoria\u2019s Secret", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 12294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wcpl.org/35/Children-Teens", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:45Z", "digest": "sha1:SOOFO3X577EDAN5XGFMQ2666X2GTIMH7", "length": 193, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wcpl.org", "title": "Children & Teens | Wayne County Library, NC", "raw_content": "The Wayne County Public Library has a variety of programs and services to help make reading fun for children.\nWe provide a variety of services to teens including college prep and homework help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 136.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wcupw.com/health/treatment-for-the-troubled-how-therapy-helps-people-with-emotional-or-mental-disorders", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:05Z", "digest": "sha1:XDCLBJIJIPKLJBKBMGKUP25CZIFNKE3B", "length": 2153, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "wcupw.com", "title": "Treatment For The Troubled: Steps To Treating Emotional Or Mental Problems | WCUPW.com", "raw_content": "June 20, 2018 Comments Off on Treatment For The Troubled: How Therapy Helps People With Emotional Or Mental Disorders\tin Health by Wcupw\nThe news about the deaths of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade shocked many on social media. It made it clear that depression hounds people to this day regardless of age, sex, or social status. The same can be said for other disorders like anxiety or addictions. With the help of centers that offer treatments such as DBT or dialectical behavior therapy, people who feel troubled by mental or emotional problems can find an outlet and an expert to talk with.\nDBT experts in Westport explain the actions involved when people undergo such therapies.\nWeekly Individual Therapies For Clients\nClients who prefer one-one sessions can engage in weekly individual therapies with an expert who can guide or teach how to be mindful of thoughts, emotions or urges on a daily basis. The therapist will set a goal with the client, whose progress will then be tracked.\nSkills Classes For Groups\nThis type of class handles groups as compared to a one-on-one setup. The groups are normally taught skills like interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation, and distress tolerance. This makes them better at socializing with other people, as well as controlling their destructive urges.\nIn addition to therapy sessions, clients may also engage in phone coaching from the therapists. This can reinforce the skills learned during therapy and can shorten the duration of the treatment process.\nThis usually refers to cases in which the family of the client get involved with the therapy, so that it could become easier for the client to complete the transaction. Having the family involved may help therapists determine how the client developed the disorder, and how to better him or her.\nTreatment For The Troubled\nIn a nutshell, emotional or mental disorders can occur in people of all walks of life. It\u2019s crucial to spot this problem at the onset so that it could be treated sooner. Thanks to health centers that offer therapies, people who feel troubled can receive treatment from experts who understand what they\u2019re going through.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 4835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://we-make-money-not-art.com/book-review-artificial-intelligence-what-everyone-needs-to-know/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:11Z", "digest": "sha1:T3MJKXF5BFBO24F4FQNCABBGYKW6J663", "length": 5573, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "we-make-money-not-art.com", "title": "Book review: Artificial Intelligence. What Everyone Needs to Know \u2013 We Make Money Not Art", "raw_content": "Artificial Intelligence. What Everyone Needs to Know, by computer scientist, researcher and futurist Jerry Kaplan\nOn amazon USA and UK.\nPublisher Oxford University Press writes: The emergence of systems capable of independent reasoning and action raises serious questions about just whose interests they are permitted to serve, and what limits our society should place on their creation and use. Deep ethical questions that have bedeviled philosophers for ages will suddenly arrive on the steps of our courthouses. Can a machine be held accountable for its actions? Should intelligent systems enjoy independent rights and responsibilities, or are they simple property? Who should be held responsible when a self-driving car kills a pedestrian? Can your personal robot hold your place in line, or be compelled to testify against you? If it turns out to be possible to upload your mind into a machine, is that still you?\nSometimes i realize that i need a new perspective on technology. My main sources of information about science or technology are art exhibitions, social media channels run by activists and books by social scientists or philosophers. I decided to expand my horizons and check out what an engineer has to say about technology. In particular artificial intelligence.\nI thought a book like Artificial Intelligence. What Everyone Needs to Know wouldn\u2019t overwhelm me with nerdiness. The volume is part of an Oxford University Press series that aims to offer compact and balanced monographs on complex issues in a Q&A format.\nIn his intro to the book, computer scientist and futurist Kaplan promises to give nontech readers an overview of the key issues and arguments about the main social, ethical, legal and economic issues raised by Artificial Intelligence.\nThe experience didn\u2019t start too well for me\u2026 The first part is remarkably techy for a book that promises not to scare off the amateur. It\u2019s not difficult to follow at all but i was there for the ethics, the critics and the possible pitfalls of AI! I soldiered on nonetheless, read about the intellectual history of AI, the history of machine learning, the various types of AI (actually that part was very interesting, it gives grounding and clarity to the whole field), etc.\nJPL\u2019s RoboSimian exits its vehicle following a brief drive through a slalom course at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals. Photo: J. Krohn/ JPL-Caltech\nThings picked up for me at chapter 4, the one that studies the philosophy of AI and how it poses a series of challenges to philosophy or religious doctrines which often orbit around human uniqueness and our place in universe. Whereas the first few chapters explained terms such as computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, the pages in chapter 4 invite readers to reconsider and refine their understanding of intelligence, free will, consciousness and what it means to be \u2018alive.\u2019 Automated methods are slowly nibbling at the list of abilities previously considered the sole province of humans. Think of chess, for example. Pre-Deep Blue, being a master of chess was regarded as the epitome of being intelligent and human. Then in 1996, Garry Kasparov was defeated by a computer and we had to find new benchmarks to define human intelligence.\nThe following chapters kept on getting more and more relevant to my interests as they explored the impact that AI will have -or already has- on law, on human labor, on social equity (although the disruptive effects of AI are not inevitable, it is quite likely that income inequality will get worse) and it ends by looking at the possible future impacts of artificial intelligence.\nThe questions Kaplan explores are fascinating. I sometimes wished he would have added more details and depth to several of the issues he presents but i guess the particular format of the book made it difficult for him to be too lengthy. Here are some of the questions he answers (and sometimes admits we don\u2019t have quite yet the framework to answer them with certainty):\nShould people bear full responsibility for their intelligent agents (if your autonomous car hits someone)? Should an AI system be permitted to own property? Could an AI system commit a crime (answer is yes) and can it be held accountable for it? Can a computer \u2018feel\u2019? Which professions are under threat of being automated in the near future? Will i be able to upload myself into a computer? How can we minimise future risks posed by the machines? What will be the impact of AI on social equity? What are the benefits and the risks of making computers that act like people? Who\u2019s going to benefit from this tech revolution? Are there alternatives to our current labor-based economy?\nArtificial Intelligence. What Everyone Needs to Know is not a book i would normally pick up but i\u2019m glad i did. There is much hype and fear around robots and artificial intelligence and it\u2019s difficult to get a clear view of what lays ahead of us. Much of the public perception of AI is shaped by Hollywood, sensationalist headlines, and videos of robots interacting flawlessly with a trained demonstrator. The reality, as Kaplan demonstrates in this book, is a bit more complicated:\nIEEE Spectrum, A compilation of robots falling down on Day 1 of the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, 2015\nPosted in artificial intelligence, book reviews, robots, science, trends. Bookmark the permalink.\n[\u2026] month i\u2019ve been writing about gloomy topic such as the drones that kill, robots that might take the power over us, oil industry that exploits its workforce, off-shore tax havens [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 8036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://western.ilucc.org/justice-witness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4Y7UOPMCWWLN7JADIOQQXCS5LOJVPNXG", "length": 7253, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "western.ilucc.org", "title": "Justice & Witness | Illinois Conference, United Church of Christ", "raw_content": "The ACLU of Illinois (ACLU), and its affiliated Roger Baldwin Foundation (RBF), are non-partisan, non-profit organizations dedicated to protecting the liberties guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, the state Constitution, and state/federal human rights laws. The ACLU accomplishes its goals through litigating, lobbying and educating the public on a broad array of civil liberties issues.\nThe American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is a civil rights organization committed to defending the rights of people of Arab descent and promoting their rich cultural heritage.\nAmericans United (AU) is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to preserving the constitutional principle of church-state separation as the only way to ensure religious freedom for all Americans.\nBack Bay Mission\nAs its mission statement says, the Mission \u201cserves\u2026by faithful witness for social justice and compassionate service to the poor and marginalized.\u201d\nThe Center on Wrongful Convictions is dedicated to identifying and rectifying wrongful convictions and other serious miscarriages of justice.\nHow can one person change the world? Sponsor a child . . . Plant a tree . . . Rebuild a home . . . Visit a prisoner . . . Be a mentor . . . Teach . . . Serve a meal . . . Bring water to the desert . . . Pray . . . Donate . . . the opportunities are endless. And they\u2019re all right here at the UCC National page, \u201cChange the World.\u201d What part of our world is waiting for you to make a difference?\nChurch World Service was born in 1946, in the aftermath of World War II. Seventeen denominations came together to form an agency \u201cto do in partnership what none of us could hope to do as well alone.\u201d The mission: Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, comfort the aged, shelter the homeless.\nCommunity Renewal Society is a progressive, faith-based organization that works to eliminate race and class barriers. Founded in 1882, Community Renewal informs, organizes and trains both communities and individuals to advocate for social and economic justice.\nEco-Justice Collaborative (EJC) is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Our leadership in education, advocacy and collaboration has been instrumental in reducing power plant pollution, fighting subsidies to dirty coal, and creating public forums that explore pathways to a just and an environmentally-sustainable future.\nEquality Illinois builds a better Illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the LGBT community.\nFacing Forward to End Homelessness ends homelessness for families and individuals by offering home, help and hope. Facing Forward provides permanent housing, education, advocacy, and social services.\nGlobal Disaster Relief Facebook Page\nConnect with Global Disaster Relief on Facebook!\nHeartland Alliance\u2014the leading anti-poverty organization in the Midwest\u2014 believes that all of us deserve the opportunity to improve our lives. Each year, we help ensure this opportunity for nearly one million people around the world who are homeless, living in poverty, or seeking safety.\nLong-Term Solutions for Sustainable Futures\nIL Maya Ministry\nIllinois Maya Ministry is a movement of accompaniment, reconciliation, and transformation of the Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ with the Mayan people in southern Mexico and Guatemala.\nLovejoy Society\nThe Lovejoy Society is dedicated to making available source material and contextual information on the life of Owen Lovejoy and his family.\nMinisters for Social, Racial and Economic Justice\nThe Ministers for Racial, Social and Economic Justice (MRS EJ) are an association of Christian ministers that actively pursues political resolution of Racial, Social and Economic Justice issues. MRS EJ is the clergy component of the African-American historically under represented peoples of the United Church of Christ. Although it operates separately from United Black Christians, the lay component of the African-American historically under represented peoples, the two entities do sometimes work together on pronouncements within the UCC.\nThe Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law provides national leadership in identifying, developing, and supporting creative and collaborative approaches to achieve social and economic justice for low-income people and communities.\nNational Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ)\nThe National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ) is a human relations organization that promotes inclusion and acceptance by providing education and advocacy while building communities that are respectful and just for all. Celebrating the diversity of races, religions, cultures, genders, abilities & sexual orientations.\nNational Farm Worker Ministry is a faith based organization which supports farm workers as they organize for justice and empowerment.\nPFLAG Illinois (Parents, families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)\nPFLAG promotes the well-being of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender persons, their families and friends through: support, to cope with an adverse society; education, to enlighten the ill-informed public; and advocacy, to end discrimination and to secure equal civil rights. 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Our primary focus is to assist the refugee in becoming an independent, self-supporting member of the new community as soon as possible.\nSojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace\nSojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace articulates the biblical call to social justice, inspiring hope and building a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world.\nSouth Suburban PADS is an inter-faith program providing shelter and supportive services to homeless persons. Compassion, hospitality and dignity are key characteristics of the PADS program.\nThe Council for a Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions\nThe Council for a Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the world\u2019s religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve a just, peaceful and s\nThe Night Ministry connects with Chicago\u2019s vulnerable youth and adults, providing basic supplies, self-care supplies, free health care, housing and supportive services for youth, referrals to other resources and more.\nUCC Justice\nJustice and Witness Ministries is one of four Covenanted Ministries in the UCC, helps local congregations and all settings of the church respond to God\u2019s commandments to do justice, seek peace and effect change for a better world. 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Although every effort has been made to ensure that such information is correct and up to date, no warrant is provided that all such information is reliable, complete, accurate or without error. Therefore, Westside Surf School does not accept liability for damages of any kind resulting from the access or use of this site and its contents. Westside Surf School maintains the right to amend or delete any information, including specs, prices, graphics, ideas, as well as the right to discontinue code and applications without prior notification or obligation. All pricing is in Canadian dollars. The prices are subject to change without notice.\nPersons accessing this website from outside the Commonwealth of Canada should take note that this site is intended for use only within the Commonwealth of Canada. Therefore Westside Surf School does not provide any warranties or representations nor accept any liability in respect of those persons accessing the Westside Surf School website from outside the Commonwealth of Canada. Nor is any warranty or representation given in respect of any websites that are or may become linked to the Westside Surf School website at any stage in the future where these websites are operated or controlled by entities other than Westside Surf School. All information contained in this site is protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights and remains at all times the property of Westside Surf School. No content from this site may be distributed or reproduced without the prior written consent from Westside Surf School. 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It's a bittersweet time of year for many, but maybe your kids just can't get enough of school.\nGet together $69,900 and you can buy your own school!\nThe old Decatur High School and Middle School at 312 School St. in Decatur is being sold by Gale Realty LLC.\nThere are 31,386 square feet on three floors. The property also includes the original gymnasium.\nYou could open a school, but that's too predictable.\nA brewery? A haunted house? Or maybe you just want to have your own gym and workout space?\nSee the full listing from Gale Realty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 2560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://whatismymovie.com/item?item=0800027", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:14Z", "digest": "sha1:UNABLO7ULIGHQ5GCCMROMU67D6BEVUBO", "length": 2619, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "whatismymovie.com", "title": "What is my movie? - Item", "raw_content": "Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool-kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him\nDomyoji (Jun Matsumoto) holds an extravagant press conference to announce his wedding to Makino (Mao Inoue) the following spring. The press is playing her up like a modern-day Cinderella and everything seems to be going well. Later, the families offer congratulations to the couple. Even Domyoji\u0092s mother, who was formerly opposed to the relationship and tried desperately to break them up at every opportunity is suddenly happy for them. She even offers Makino a family heirloom: a tiara worth 10 billion yen (about $95 million USD) called \u0093Smile of Venus\u0094.r be meddling again, hoping to make it look like Makino carelessly lost the tiara herself? Or is someone at the hotel trying to cover up the crime? Domyoji and Makino are determined to get to the bottom of things and end up going on a wild adventure together which takes them through Las Vegas, Hong Kong, and various places throughout the world.\nFan-Fan the Tulip (1952)\nFanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.\nCash McCall is a 1960 movie starring James Garner and Natalie Wood, based upon the novel of the same name by Cameron Hawley about a man who buys businesses in order to sell them at a profit. 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Fabric is lightweight, soft, Easycare and dries quickly. Fits like a second skin. Regulates temperature of the body. Raglan sleeve design allows increased mobility and a full range of motion. Suitable for all sports (including football, rugby, hockey, golf, cricket, winter sports, cycling and equestrian), and work.\nSizes: XS 34/36\" S/M 38/40\" L/XL 46/48\" 2XL 50/52\" 3XL 54/56\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://whitestonefoundation.org/Publications/Newsletter11-95.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RUD5BNUIZB7S2UJS3P7C5WBMFVWCQZBQ", "length": 15988, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "whitestonefoundation.org", "title": "The WhiteStone Letter -- Ministry in Tribulation - Part I", "raw_content": "Ministry in Tribulation\nOne of the chief reasons G_d gives us prophecy is to help us prepare for various changes which are to come upon us in the coming hours. A good example of this can be found in Acts 11:28-29:\n\"And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar. Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea:\"\nIn this case, the disciples responded to a prophecy, not by bragging that they knew something the rest of the world did not know, but by dealing with the coming problem that Agabus prophesied. He saw the famine coming and the church was able to prepare for it.\nThe Bible gives us more than ample warning that when certain conditions existed, that you could expect tribulation to be at hand. In fact, the books of Daniel and Revelation discuss this fact in almost exacting detail. There are few that doubt the fact that the Biblical conditions for tribulation have been met. Yet the church in North America has done little to prepare itself for the coming tribulation. Instead, many of the church organizations have elected to embrace the \"pre-tribulation rapture\" theory, and as such, have determined that preparation is unnecessary. We pray that if you hold to this thinking, you should objectively research your Bible and learn the truth for yourself. As the disciples received prophecy and moved accordingly, so we need to do the same thing. We see the tribulation coming, actually intensifying as we get closer to the end. But how are we to plan and prepare without compromising our Christianity?\nChanges in the Spiritual Environment\nProper Christian preparation begins with the heart. It is vital that you \"make your calling and election sure\". (See Newsletter 2-2 for details on this.) But even after you have done this, you have only completed the beginning of the task. Preparation is a long and time-consuming task which requires a lot of thought and considerable prayer. Preparation takes on both spiritual and physical attributes. We have offered spiritual advice in our previous newsletters as have other ministries as well. Other ministries have done a good job of dealing with the physical preparation. This preparation is good, but only when you truly understand the conditions you will be required to work under.\nOne of the major concerns in preparing for the end is to understand the spiritual environment which you will be working and living in. Unlike the recent couple of centuries, Christian ministry is not going to be as free to operate as it once has been. The days are quickly passing when you can openly discuss Christianity on the street corner. With the coming of the end, you are going to see major changes which we will evaluate in coming newsletters.\nProbably the biggest spiritual environmental concern is the increased level of Satanic activity. As we move closer to the end, we can expect Satan (also known as Lucifer) to unleash all of his resources in an effort to subvert the entire earth to his realm of control. This effort will be spearheaded by Satan himself as he knows that his time is short.\nEvery Spiritual Technology he has been developing in his laboratory will now be unleashed and used against every member of the Body of Christ. The primary objective of this move will be to destroy the faith of every Christian. The key change in the spiritual environment though, will be organization. Remember when Jesus made the following statement:\nEvery kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand: And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself; how shall then his kingdom stand? (Mat 12:25-26)\nWhen you understand that Jesus was addressing the Pharisees, the same people who he previously described using the following phrase in John 8:44: \"Ye are of your father the devil,\" then you can understand that when he made that statement, he was in effect actually mocking Satan's kingdom.\nIn what way is Jesus mocking the Kingdom of Satan? By reminding him that his kingdom was divided against itself. Anyone who has worked in the deliverance ministry for very long learns that the devils hate each other. While Ephesians 6:12 identifies a definite ranking system in the kingdom of Satan, it is also well known that the lower ranking devils will do almost anything they can to move up in rank so they can acquire more power and influence. While there has always been an organizational structure in the kingdom of Satan, the devils often subverted it to achieve their personal ambitions and agendas.\nBut now that the end of the age approacheth, it is apparent that Lucifer has taken a greater level of management control and suddenly, a dictatorial style of leadership has been added to the Satanic system. That is why they have made such powerful gains within the governments of the world. It is also why the governments of the world have become so depraved and reprobate.\nThe attack on the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas is a clear example of this. Normal students of law enforcement history would have regarded the fire and subsequent murder of men, women and children as the worst debacle in American law enforcement history. However, the media \"spin doctors\" actually worked hard to sell the government's actions as an act of mercy for the sake of the children inside the compound. There was no feelings of grief for the people who died. In fact, it was almost like the government felt it was doing these people a favor by killing them. It is a strange paradox to kill a man before you can convince him what is right. A clear signal of a depraved government controlled by the devil and his angels. But why should we be surprised at all this. Have we not been reading the prophecies of the Bible?\nDealing with Governments in the End Times\nHere is these United States of America, we have lived in very fortunate times indeed. How many other governments would allow you run around and share the gospel without restriction? Not very many. For over a thousand years, it was illegal to own a Bible written in the common language of the people. Those who did were burned at the stake as heretics. (Read Foxe's Book of Martyrs for a full history.) Even when the King James version reached fruition in 1769, (the 1611 version and other subsequent versions were riddled with typos and archaic words) it wasn't until the people learned to read and write that they could actually read the Bible. This window of opportunity lasted for about 270 years before the devil was finally able to sell church people on a more \"modern version\" of the Bible.\nNow as we come to the end, the open and free spiritual environment has come to an end. We can no longer think that governments are going to stand by and allow Christians to promote their gospels unhindered. Instead, if you want to preach against the sin of homosexuality, you will be sued and otherwise condemned in the public media. If you make the simple statement that \"Jesus is the only way to heaven,\" you will be condemned as a bigot. We have come to a time when even the pastor's sermon must come under the \"politically correct\" scrutiny before it can be preached.\nHowever, as we have seen in Waco, just speaking words that are uncomplimentary of the world system can get your place of worship torched. The government is getting less and less interested in protecting free speech. Even worse, most government officials regard the constitution as nothing more than just another piece of paper. They now see themselves as the law, effectively becoming a law unto themselves.\nThe Christian must realize that the government is now the enemy of every true Bible-Believing Christian. Suddenly, the Apostle Paul's admonition to \"walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil\" (Ephesians 5:15-16) makes a great deal more sense. We must further realize that potentially, every move we make is going to be watched by someone or something. Sometimes, the people watching us will not even know they are watching us, for it is the devil inside them that is doing the watching.\nHowever, one must not confuse walking circumspectly with walking in fear. When you walk in fear, your concern centers around the enemy who is watching you. When you walk circumspectly, your main concern is whether what you are doing is in obedience to what God wants. Sometimes, we have to stop ourselves and ask the question: Are we walking circumspectly or walking in fear? If you are walking in fear, you need to get in prayer and find out why you are walking in fear. The answer might surprise you.\nAnother thing we as Americans have to get over is the idea that our government is an extension of the hand of God. One of the most embedded ideas in English and American legal history is the idea that the monarch (and/or President, Prime-Minister, etc. ) is somehow the hand of God for the country. In law they call that doctrine \"the power of the sovereign.\" It is the reason you cannot sue the federal government unless you secure permission from them first. The reason is that you cannot sue God.\nWe as Christians have to realize that the government is not God, nor is it ever going to be God until Jesus Christ returns. Therefore, we cannot consider it automatic heresy if we are led to do something in direct contradiction with the edicts of government. Remember Peter's statement of the religious leaders of the day: \"We ought to obey God rather than men.\" This they said in response to the government's edict that they should not preach Christ any longer. The Bible is full of examples where the men of God choose to obey God rather than the edicts of men.\nEven in American history, we can find an example. Remember the famous abolitionist, John Brown. As a prophet, God showed him that unless the U.S. Government abolished slavery, the entire country would be plunged into a bloody Civil War. Apparently, these visions were so prolific to Prophet Brown that he felt it necessary to take up arms against those who supported slavery. Prophet Brown felt that by sacrificing lives in Kansas to get slavery out, that maybe the rest of the country would see the error of slavery and the government would abolish it. In the end, John Brown and his followers would meet their end at Harper's Ferry, (West) Virginia, at the hands of the Army under the command of one Col. Robert E. Lee, as they were supposedly trying to overthrow the government and bring in a new government that would abolish slavery.\nEven though we are 140 years after the fact, I still think John Brown saw the vision and then left God's grace to seek a more humanistic response. Sort of like what we saw out of one Ms. Janet Reno, Esq., when she said that by killing the children at Waco, she was somehow saving them. Funny how humanism always reaches the same end: to convince people of what is right, you have to kill them! Still, I am open to correction on this issue, since many of the details surrounding the life of John Brown are still absent. The only history we have of John Brown is the one sanctioned by the government, just as the only history we have of David Koresh is the one given us by the FBI-ATF control center.\nIn any case, we have to realize that the time is come for us to understand that God may require us to do things which may be totally contrary to the edicts of the federal government. Some people may even find themselves in a place where they may be in armed conflict with the government. My only admonition would be that any act of war-defense be preceded by an inquiry from the LORD as to whether you should go into battle. The secondary admonition would be that you should wait on the LORD for an answer. The last thing we need in this hour and time is a \"King Saul\" who gets impatient and makes his own sacrifice when he should have waited for the prophet Samuel. (Read I Samuel 13 for the story.) We need to wait on our men of God, to get their word before we go rushing off into battle.\nBulletin: Assassination in Israel\nAs we go to press with this issue of The WhiteStone Letter, news reached us of the untoward assassination of Israeli Prime Minister: Yitzhak Rabin. Our initial information says a right-wing Jew did the job, but we will defer our judgment until we can get further information. Our media has a rather unfortunate history of being wrong about things. Therefore, we are going to reserve judgment until we get further information. One thing that bothers us is the emergence of the \"lone right-wing, madman, gunman\" theory which governments insist upon telling us every time there is an assassination. Instead, we suspect there was some kind of plot involved which will explain everything. Our contacts have indicated to us for several weeks that a climate hostile to Mr. Rabin has existed in Israel for some time. While the media is searching for a right-wing bogeyman, we need to expand our scope and look in all directions.\nWe found it interesting that he was shot on the evening of November 4, 1995, right after the conclusion of the Sabbath. Any time I see a major action in the eleventh month, it speaks of judgment. (Remember that President Kennedy was killed in the eleventh month.) Also, these verses in Psalms 95:10-11 speak to the situation:\n\"Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.\"\nFor while Mr. Rabin sought peace with his neighbors, his failure to know the Prince of Peace has brought judgment down upon him.\nThe Foundation has taken a considerable interest in the affairs of Israel. To that end, we have even developed contacts over there to give us clean and uncensored reports which we are unable to get from our own media.\nThis contact called us last week and shared with us some very interesting information. The biggest news is a big-time revival of Arabs coming to Christ. When they come to Christ, they quickly learn about Biblical prophecy and how it relates to the Israel. As a result, they become vehement supporters of the national of Israel. They realize that if the PLO or any other Arab government takes over, their Islamic religion would regard these Christians as infidels and order them killed. Accordingly, they need our prayers.\nOn a related front, our operative has also initiated an effort to bring together to two largest competing factions of Christians in Israel. The point of conflict: the adoption of the \"New Age\" adjustments as found in the New International Version and other modern Bibles. One group had accepted the doctrinal modifications while the other group has not. We have sought to bring these people together, to first seek a common ground, and secondly, to study, evaluate and then pray about their differences. So far, the results have been good, but there is a long road ahead. We need to lift these people up in prayer.\nTo explain a little further, we have always felt that if any group chooses to objectively research the Bible under the direction of the Holy Spirit, the entire group will come to the same conclusion. For that reason, we are not afraid to sit down and study the Bible with anyone, as long as they are willing to push their biases aside and study with an open mind.\nJust as another note, we have come across a group of Christian people who want to build a plant in Israel which would produce the plastic resins needed to make computer chips and other specialty equipment. They need both financial investment and Christian people to come over ready to work and witness with their lives.\nWe appreciate all of the comments you have been sending us. If you have questions, please write us.\nNewsletter Main Page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 17219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wholehealthnow.com/bios/alastair-gray.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WHN3N7SM5OW6NKYUHYO2JLIJCU7TINYD", "length": 1275, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "wholehealthnow.com", "title": "Alastair Gray", "raw_content": "DSH (UK) PCH (UK) PCHom (Malaysia) ADH (NZ) BAHons (NZ) AHA. ATMS. ARoH (Aus) RSHom (UK)\nAlastair Gray teaches at, and heads up, course development and e-Learning at AHE NYC | World. He holds various consulting roles: academic (Endeavour College, Australia) educational (Portland Centre of Integrative Medicine, UK); communications (HRI, UK); and management (Director Operations College of Health and Homeopathy NZ), as well as consulting to organizations on homeopathic provings and e-learning. Prior to this, in Australia, he headed up the homeopathy department at Endeavour, and was the National Academic e-Learning Manager. He has lectured under- and post-graduate CM, homeopathy, and naturopathy for 18 years, including philosophy, case taking and management, ethics, business practices, and scope of practice.\nAs well as being a regular seminar and conference presenter worldwide, Alastair is the author of 22 books and numerous articles on primary research in natural medicine. He is passionate about e-Learning and educational technology in his academic and teaching work. Clinical practice (25 years) remains a significant focus. He is enrolled in a PhD program at University Technology Sydney, exploring the intersection of Education, CM, and learning technologies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wiki.china.org.cn/wiki/index.php?title=CIIC:Today%27s_featured_article/June_15,_2018&action=edit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:18Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7V667G4JMSTBTNAI4VUSO4BZ6Z53SFW", "length": 863, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "wiki.china.org.cn", "title": "China Wiki \u2013 The free encyclopedia on China, china.org.cn", "raw_content": "for CIIC:Today's featured article/June 15, 2018\n[[File:Confucius Temple in Qufu.jpg|thumb|left|Confucius Temple in Qufu]] The '''Temple and Cemetery of Confucius''', and the Kong Family Mansion in [[Qufu]] all honor Confucius\u2014the great philosopher and educator who lived from 551 BC to 419 BC. Starting one year after his death and continuing to today, the Temple of Confucius has been used for offering sacrifices to him. The Cemetery of Confucius contains Confucius\u2019 remains as well as that of over 100,000 of his descendants. And the Kong Family Mansions had been expanded over long years to become a very large manor of many buildings for an aristocratic family. ([[Confucius Temple in Qufu|More...]])\nReturn to CIIC:Today's featured article/June 15, 2018.\nRetrieved from \"http://wiki.china.org.cn/wiki/index.php/CIIC:Today%27s_featured_article/June_15,_2018\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wiki.siam.org/siag-ag/index.php?title=Jobs&oldid=757", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:17Z", "digest": "sha1:FQAWRU6WYF5KEW65IH3NI66W4I7BCGZB", "length": 150, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wiki.siam.org", "title": "Jobs - SIAG-AG", "raw_content": "Revision as of 20:10, 6 March 2016 by Hauenstein (Talk | contribs)\nNumerical Algebraic Geometry at the University of Notre Dame, Postdoctoral position", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 167.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wire.mpelembe.net/new-kids-on-the-block-announce-2019-summer-tour-with-other-80s-acts-including-salt-n-peppa-and-debbie-gibson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TFVGZKKLF4N2QQK6V74QPXUBWN2J36ZY", "length": 1070, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "wire.mpelembe.net", "title": "New Kids On The Block announce 2019 summer tour with other 80s acts including Salt N Peppa and Debbie Gibson - Mpelembe Wire", "raw_content": "NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (OCTOBER 07, 2018) (NKOTB) \u2013 New Kids on the Block will hit the road with rap groups Salt-N-Pepa-N-Pepa&redirect=yes\"> and Naughty By Nature, and singers Tiffany and Debbie Gibson for tour titled 80s Baby in 2019.\nDonnie Wahlberg said between the five acts there\u2019s a lot of history.\n\u201cOne way or another everyone\u2019s crossed paths, everyone\u2019s had working relationships, personal relationships something. And, you know, we just wanted to put together a great show.\u201d\nOn Sunday (October 7) New Kids on the Block celebrated the 30th anniversary of the release of their album \u2018Hangin\u2019 Tough\u2019 with a sold-out show at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.\n\u201cIt was emotional. We had like \u2013 we were just going back in time just reliving a lot of memories that we haven\u2019t relived actually. Just by the montage that we put up on the screen and just kind of reliving those moments between ourselves and with the fans, it was a really, really emotional night,\u201d said Jordan Knight.\nThe 53 city North American tour will begin in May in Ohio.\nTiffany Darwish", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 170.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wndm.com/content/news/wndm-medical-shareholder-call-transcript-of-wednesday-sept-19-2018-3-p-m-cdt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TXRSJQMBF22NUH2UZWPSQSXP364MVBW7", "length": 13984, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "wndm.com", "title": "WNDM Medical Shareholder Call Transcript of Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2018, 3 p.m. CDT \u00bb WNDM Medical Inc.", "raw_content": "Speaker: John Siedhoff, Chairman of the Board\nThank you for joining our call and emailing your questions.\nWe will move through your questions as efficiently as possible, and remember to email us any additional questions during this call to ir@wmdn.com.\nWNDM\u2019s last shareholder call was four years ago. We are pleased to have this opportunity now to answer your questions and articulate our plans going forward.\nMike McNeil, our CFO, will be asking the questions from our investor group.\n1. I am a new shareholder. Please give me a brief review of the Company?\nThere has been a significant change in WNDM. Just under 3 years ago, the WNDM board of directors made a change in management. The Company was essentially insolvent at that time. If it wasn\u2019t for Mr. Stuckert and Mr. Howell, two of our three board members, and largest shareholders, agreeing to keep funding the Company, WNDM would have closed at that time with the Company having a $47mm Net Loss Carryforward, meaning the Company had lost $47mm since its inception over a decade ago.\nStarting November 1, 2015, there was a new focus on immediate profitability, as the Company had never had a profitable quarter in its history.\nSince January 2016, the company has been profitable for 7 of the last 10 quarters. 2 of those 3 quarterly losses were Non-Cash losses. One had to do with a warrant transaction that has been cancelled, and the second was due to the conversion of preferred shares.\n2. In a filing the Company mentioned a three-year strategic plan. Please update us on that plan.\nCertainly: Year one of the plan was to - Make the Company profitable with cost reductions and growing revenues.\nYear two - Build a corporate infrastructure to support sales efforts.\nYear three - Create value for shareholders.\n3. What is the current state of the Company? and What assets have been added to the core business and how have they affected topline growth?\nA brief summary: As publicly state, it is our intention to strategically reinvest in the Company; introduce new products; and foster increased sales growth, versus choosing to only increase monthly operating profits.\nWe intend to stay within our cash generating abilities, and are not planning to ask for additional funds from investors. FYI, no additional funds have been invested in WNDM for almost 2 and \u00bd years.\nNumbers from our last public financial filing, Q2, 2018 shows:\n1. For the first time in its history, the Company has a positive stockholders\u2019 equity.\n2. There is no operating debt in the Company.\n3. There is no longer a \u201cgoing concern\u201d, this is a term public auditors use if they have questions in a company\u2019s ability to continue to operating without new sources of funding.\ni. WNDM has not had a \u201cgoing concern\u201d for seven quarters.\n1. All Preferred shares have been converted into common stock, so all shareholders have the same rights.\n2. The Company has a limit of 250mm shares of common stock that can be issued. There are currently approximately 113mm shares \u2018in the float\u2019 and 236mm shares issued, along with 1,350,000 employee options to be earned and 4,500,000 warrants that were issued five years ago and are set to expire in 11 days.\n3. The current market cap has increased from approximately $5mm to $20mm over the past three years, until a slight move over the past two weeks, (currently at $18mm). The Company works to build revenues and increase profits, and cannot comment on what \u201cmight be\u201d happening in the market.\n4. In 2017, the Company was still involved in 3 lawsuits from 6 years prior. All three of these suits were resolved to the satisfaction of the Board of Directors and are no longer on our books today.\nOperationally, the Company:\n1. Has undergone a significant upgrade in senior management with all department heads having decades of experience in the acute care (surgical) and post-acute (wound) care marketplace.\n2. Has added both human and product assets, with an excellent management infrastructure in place that has the ability to take our company through significant increases in sales revenue. This human capital is the driving force behind our sales growth.\n3. Continues to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on new product development and has spent significant funds replacing antiquated accounting software and computing infrastructure.\n4. I invested in the Private Placement, but cannot deposit my paper certificates. What is the Company doing about this?\nThis can be done, but it has come to our attention over the past five or six years, new SEC regulations have made it more difficult for those who invest in OTC companies, compared to those companies listed on an exchange. The Board has a fiduciary responsibility to all shareholders to continue to review options so that those with paper certificates can deposit their shares, and has been working on a strategic plan so all investors can deposit their shares.\nOne way to accomplish this is, is to work on up listing to an exchange. This would be in the best interest of all shareholders, since most brokerage houses will not allow the purchase of penny stock companies, no matter their financial condition.\n5. An Investor Relations Strategy is an important component to every small cap story becoming a much larger one. With the stock languishing off of a public exchange, can you detail any future plans to do a reverse split and up-list to an exchange and to become more engaged with investors going forward?\nOur research has shown the Company is on the right path towards up listing. The NASDAQ, for instance, has numerous conditions to be met for an up listing, but, in general, there are five main points the exchange looks for when reviewing a company that desires to uplist:\n1. A current minimum market cap of $15mm.\n2. 300 \u2018Lot Shareholders\u2019. (A lot shareholder is a person owning a minimum of 100 shares.) WNDM currently has approximately 1,400 lot shareholders.\n3. At minimum of three market makers following your company. WNDM has that.\n4. A minimum price of $4 per share. WNDM would have to reverse its shares to raise the price significantly enough to meet this price level.\n5. A minimum of $5mm in in shareholders\u2019 equity. As stated, until 2018, the Company has never had a positive shareholders\u2019 equity. As of the end of Q2 2018, the shareholders\u2019 equity of WNDM was just over $1.7mm. Currently, we are short on this requirement.\nThe Company has interviewed Investor Relations groups with expertise in our area, and received proposals for their work. This expense, and its return, is currently under review by the Board.\n6. How many hospitals and/or surgery centers are in the U.S. and how many are using our products?\nSpeaker: Michael Carmena, Chief Executive Officer\nThere are approximately 5,500 hospitals and 5,500 Medicare-certified ambulatory surgery centers, (ASCs) in the U.S. We choose not to disclose the number of facilities using our products, and as a shareholder we hope you understand we do not want to reveal our operating details and information which could be considered advantageous to our competitors.\n7. What is the market penetration in terms of both the number of hospitals using our products, but also in terms of percentage of potential patients?\nWe choose not to comment on this, as it might be beneficial to our competitors.\n8. What percent of business is reorder, how often does a hospital reorder once they become a customer, and what is the reorder rate?\nEach hospital is unique, and different specialties in the same hospital can have different ordering behaviors, so there is no general answer.\n9. What percentage of hospitals and /or urgent care centers have used our products and then stopped using it and for what reason?\nThere are very few hospitals that have stopped using our products and the predominant reason is when a particular surgeon leaves that hospital.\n10. Have you seen any sales growth since the merger, and what are the Q3 revenues?\nWe have entered into a partnership, and as a public company, we cannot comment on current revenues until the Quarter has been closed. We have made it a point to inform the investor community of the prior quarter\u2019s revenues within three weeks of the quarter\u2019s closing.\n11. Please expand on what the opportunities are for WNDM Medical in the partnership, (Cellerate, LLC), what the Catalyst Group is contributing to the partnership, and how soon will we start seeing the benefits from this partnership.\nThe number one opportunity that The Catalyst Group contributed to the partnership is the license to sell Cellerate\u00ae hydrolyzed collagen along with the use of its trademark.\nWNDM\u2019s 510(k) application for hydrolyzed collagen is still under review by the Food and Drug Administration, (FDA).\nThe number one opportunity for WNDM in the new partnership is to continue our momentum in providing our products to patients. We have experienced significant growth over the past two years and felt it was in the best interest of our shareholders to continue this momentum by selling Cellerate and not try to \u2018duke it out\u2019 in the marketplace with a new competitor that would be selling the brand that we worked so hard to grow.\nCatalyst currently has a deep history of investing in the healthcare industry. These investments include:\nTrilliant Surgical, LLC, a Houston based company that manufactures and distributes innovative podiatric implant products for the lower extremity market and Triad Life Sciences Inc., a Memphis based emerging biotechnology company that develops, manufactures and distributes novel bioactive regenerative materials for cost-effective and efficacious therapies to treat acute and chronic wounds. Both of these companies are experienced in providing expanded distribution for medical device products and will work hand in hand with Cellerate, LLC to distribute our products in new geographic markets within the United States, Canada and Mexico while providing additional cross-selling opportunities through new product introductions in the wound care, skin care, acute and post-acute markets. Catalyst\u2019s investments also include Rochal Industries, LLC, a San Antonio based research and development company with expertise in wound and skin care,\nMr. Ron Nixon the founder and Chairman of The Catalyst Group has served on the Board of Directors of LHC Group, Inc. for eighteen years and was instrumental in taking them public. The LHC Group is a leading national provider of post-acute healthcare services with approximately 30,000 employees operating more than 780 locations in 37 states. They provide high-quality care to patients through home health, hospice, personal care, and facility-based services.\n12. What is the 1 1/2-million-dollar note being use for?\nThe 1.5-million-dollar note was issued to an affiliate of the partnership as a partial reimbursement of the Cellerate license, (the full amount of which WNDM is not privy to).\n13. Will investors be provided with a proxy shortly detailing the Company's vision for the combined business entity, along with the opportunity to vote on the proposed transaction?\nNo, the transaction has already been approved by the Board of Directors in accordance with the Bylaws of the Company.\n14. Can you provide the long-term business model for the combined company?\nThe long-term business model for the combined company is to:\n1. Broaden the evidence we can present to clinicians as to the benefits our products can provide to their patients;\n2. Accelerate the expansion of our sales reach in more markets across the Country; and\n3. Develop and or acquire efficacious products that are complementary to our current efforts in surgery and chronic wound therapy.\n15. Do you expect gross margins to stay near 90%?\n90% margins are very rare for medical device companies. As we expand our product portfolio and sell products into different markets, the gross margin could eventually come down.\n16. At what revenue levels will operating margins increase?\nGrowing sales at a significant rate typically requires an aggressive sales force expansion and sales reps typically take 18 months to pay for themselves. So, during years of sales force expansions, selling expenses are higher than in non-expansion years. Also, our current and near-term level of clinical spending as a percent of revenues is higher than average as we broaden our clinical evidence support. Once we achieve a much broader geographic reach in our sales coverage, our operating margins should improve.\n17. This would be a good time and opportunity to refer to other deal transaction terms that might be in place if details are finally hammered out (I sense this was not the case in late August) so that shareholders do not have to wait until your next 10-Q for the agreement.\nThe Company worked diligently for several years to try and extend the license agreement with the holder, but was unable to complete a transaction.\nPlease realize that as a public entity, we cannot discuss or disclose any ongoing deals, or their transaction terms, until they are completed and released to the public as a whole.\n18. Will you commit to quarterly investor calls or some semblance of outreach?\nWe have a limited number of employees and every one of them is hardworking and fully dedicated to creating shareholder value by helping patients and growing the Company. We also have a working board of directors.\nWNDM has not yet grown to the size of a large public company that can afford a dedicated investor / public relations department. We will, however, continue investor telephone calls and emails. Though our corporate charter does not require an annual shareholder meeting, we are working to get the appropriate information released to the public via our filings and press releases.\nWe will place a transcript of this call on our website in the next few days.\nAdditionally, if you have any additional questions, please email them to ir@wndm.com.\nThe employees, management and board of WNDM Medical thanks all of you for your support.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 15371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wordpressfortechnophobes.co.uk/register/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:23Z", "digest": "sha1:3GNF2XSYL5GHI2UQX64TFEHYEQUJI3CA", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wordpressfortechnophobes.co.uk", "title": "Register - Wordpress for Technophobes", "raw_content": "This content is available to members only", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://worldebooklibrary.net/eBooks/WPLBN0100002747-Zo--or-The-Clockwork-Spheres-of-Paradise-Notre-Dame-de-Gr-ce-by-Sean-Fraser.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:50Z", "digest": "sha1:P2PZOKNPNSA6PIJOSVS3C6EIKXUBSDG5", "length": 496, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "worldebooklibrary.net", "title": "Zo\u00eb : or, The Clockwork Spheres of Paradise: Notre-Dame-de-Gr\u00e2ce | World eBook Library - eBooks | Read eBooks online", "raw_content": "Zo\u00eb; or, The Clockwork Spheres of Paradise is set in France, 1913. 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Another essay from the same year, The Doing of Things, sees Ghirri describing the work of photographer Antonio Contiero in a manner that might serve well as the Ghirrian conception of photography par excellence: \u201cfor it is not simply a combination of different techniques and materials\u2026 nor is it simply an exercise in interference and influence; rather [photography] concerns the deep layering of image and perception, which have always accompanied the \u2018doing of things\u2019.\u201d\nPerhaps, contrary to popular opinion, Ghirri \u2013 as both writer and photographer \u2013 is a man of action and movement, not one for getting trapped in the stillness of the deadpan aesthetic with which he is so often associated. \u2666\n\u2014Daniel C Blight\nAll images courtesy of MACK. \u00a9 Luigi Ghirri\n\u2190 Alejandro Cartagena\nSteffi Klenz \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.1willwander.com/2012/11/removing-stubborn-lug-nut.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:45Z", "digest": "sha1:DMKPZRA7DJMAMAH674UHZA464HSSAYRO", "length": 512, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.1willwander.com", "title": "1willwander: Removing a Stubborn Lug Nut", "raw_content": "Removing a Stubborn Lug Nut\nI have learned from experience that a lug nut on a motor home can be nearly impossible to break free. Because of this, it is important to brake the lugs on your motor home before you take it out on a trip. At your home you at least have your friends and family near and you are close to medical care. After having faced this problem on many occasions, I have come up with a method to brake these lug that is very successful. To pass along my method I have made a video. So here it is:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.21voa.com/VOA_Special_English/police-use-community-policing-to-improve-relations-with-citizens-9882.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6BBANV6SPSO7KHX5AN7ZFPMKZI7F2L7H", "length": 3508, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.21voa.com", "title": "\ufeff Police, Citizens Work to Create Safer Neighborhoods - VOA Special English- VOA Special English", "raw_content": "By Christopher Cruise\nMany people have talked about racial problems in the United States since the shooting of an unarmed black teenager last month. A white police officer shot and killed the young man in the community of Ferguson, Missouri.\nThe incident has brought attention to the sometimes hostile relationship between police and some communities.\nSo, many police departments are using a method called \u201ccommunity policing\u201d to both fight crime and improve relations. This method is being used in the city of Long Beach, California.\nFor years, Long Beach has struggled with gang violence, poverty, and racial tensions among local residents and with police.\nTwenty-two-year-old Jacob Sarenana says he has been poorly treated by the Long Beach police.\n\u201cThey always try to mess with me. I ask 'what\u2019s the reason for pulling me over?\u2019 \u2018Oh, because you fit the description.\u2019 Really? Really, yeah, I guess I\u2019m always fitting the description then, because I\u2019m always getting pulled over.\u201d\nDarick Simpson is a community activist. He has been working to improve relations by organizing meetings between young people and police officers. Almost one-third of Long Beach residents under age 17 are poor. Mr. Simpson says that poverty, and racial differences, combine to cause problems.\n\u201cWith any differences come some misunderstanding. Because people bring their culture, they bring that history into the workplace, into schools, into different social scenarios.\u201d\nStill, he says he has seen an improvement in relations over the years. Last year, Long Beach had its lowest rate of violent crime in more than 40 years. This year, the rate is even lower.\nDon Rodriguez works with young people in the city. He says police officers are more involved with the community than ever before.\n\u201cNow we\u2019re seeing [is we're seing] more community people involved in the policing, working with the police, police getting a better feel of the community.\u201d\nJim McDonnell is the chief of police in Long Beach. He says in the past, police officers would tell the community what the problems were and then try to fix them. But now, he says, police work with citizens and community leaders to solve problems together.\n\u201cWe build a team. And when you have a team, when a crisis comes up, you\u2019re not dealing with it by yourself. And too often when we see things get volatile across America, and whether it\u2019s a racial issue or another similar type of issue -- it\u2019s often because there aren\u2019t those pre-existing relationships in place.\u201d\nBut he says even successful partnerships do not guarantee that conflicts can be avoided.\n\u201cWe will always have issues that arise. We will always have that potential for conflict. It\u2019s not if it happens, it\u2019s when, and more importantly, how we deal with it when it does happen.\u201d\nChief McDonnell says the way to change beliefs is for police officers to be involved with young people all the time, not just when a crime has happened.\nCorrespondent Elizabeth Lee reported this story from Long Beach, California. Christopher Cruise wrote it for Learning English. George Grow was the editor.\nproblem - n. a difficult question or situation with an unknown or unclear answer\ncrime - n. an act that violates a law\nstruggle - v. to try with much effort; to fight with; n. a great effort; a fight\npoverty - n. the condition of being poor\nrelations - n. understandings or ties between nations; members of the same family; people connected by marriage or family ties\nWest Trades Accusations Over Hostage Ransoms (2014-9-20)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.4wdspares.com.au/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4FTIHJ3LDB76H6YRMFVPS6W637KEEAQP", "length": 673, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.4wdspares.com.au", "title": "Blog", "raw_content": "There are now thousands of Toyota Land cruiser's across Australia, and the VDJ models incorporating the 1VD engine is a very popular choice amongst those looking for power and economy within the one engine.Our expert technicians are here to help those who are in need with advice, diagnose a fault with our electronic scanning tools, or [...]\n2014 Mud Racing BlogHello Everyone, Just a quick video of Shane in the Palmerston 4WD Spares sponsored Landcruiser. As usual, Shanes driving style and motto is \u201cTreat it like you stole it\u201d and by the way he does, it will continue to keep him \u201cFLATBROKE\u201d as depicted on his number plate...Small block Chevy produces the power [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.5minlib.com/2018/09/ready-to-go-book-display-fantastic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:10Z", "digest": "sha1:F2RO64XYV7MOYNQGORM5LM7C4NTHVUDJ", "length": 4327, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.5minlib.com", "title": "5 Minute Librarian: Ready to Go Book Display: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald", "raw_content": "Ready to Go Book Display: Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald\nWelcome to our series, \"Ready to Go! Book Display.\" Once a month we'll highlight the latest or greatest for every age group that you can promote within your library or order for your collection. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald will be coming to theaters on November 16, 2018. Make sure you are ready with these new books from the wizarding world.\nFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay by J.K. Rowling (Nov 2018)\nThis second original screenplay from J.K. Rowling, illustrated with stunning line art from MinaLima, expands on earlier events that helped shape the wizarding world, with some surprising nods to the Harry Potter stories that will delight fans.\nFantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelward: Movie Magic by Jody Revenson (Nov 2018)\nPacked with captivating facts and incredible images from the making of the film, this book features kid-friendly behind-the-scenes looks at the characters, magical locations, beasts, and artifacts seen on-screen.\nLights, Camera, Magic!: The Making of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald by Ian Nathan (Nov 2018)\nThis narrative tells the full story behind the film, from script to screen, with profiles of the key characters and revealing insights.\nThe Art of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald by Dermot Power (Nov 2018)\nThis book takes you through the filming journey of The Crimes of Grindelwald with insights from Stuart Craig and the artists who worked on the film.\nThe Archive of Magic: The Film Wizardry of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald by Signe Bergstorm (Nov 2018)\nReaders are transported behind the scenes of J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World for an enchanting, close-up look at Newt Scamander and his colorful trove of cohorts - beasts and wizards alike.\nHarry Potter Page to Screen: Updated Edition by Bob McCabe (Nov 2018)\nIn addition to the complete history of all eight Harry Potter films, the book now explores the theme parks in Florida, California and Japan, the sets and props in Leavesden, England, and the House of MinaLima, founded by the graphic designers on the the films.\nHarry Potter Film Wizardry: Updated Edition by Brian Sibley (Nov 2018)\nThis revised edition includes additional pages about the final two film installments.\nHarry Potter: Imagining Hogwarts: A Beginner's Guide to Moviemaking by Bryan Michael Stoller (Oct 2018)\nThis fun, practical guide teaches you to make your own movie set at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. With guided activities on every aspect of moviemaking, from creating your own storyboard to making costumes and event postproduction, this book will teach you how to create your movie masterpiece step-by-step.\nThe Art of Harry Potter: Mini Book of Graphic Design (Oct 2018)\nThis miniature art book features iconic pieces of graphic design from the pages of the Daily Prophet to the zany creations of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, to the numerous textbooks, posters, and documents created for the Harry Potter films.\nHarry Potter: A History of Magic (Oct 2018)\nPublished in conjunction with the special exhibition Harry Potter: A History of Magic, this complete catalogue of the over 150 artifacts on display gives readers an up-close look at magical treasures from all over the world.\nThe Tales of Beedle the Bard: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling and Lisbeth Zwerger (Oct 2018)\nA new illustrated edition of The Tales of Beedle the Bard contains five richly imaginative stories of adventure, cunning, heartache, and of course, magic.\nHarry Potter: Hogwarts: A Movie Scrapbook by Jody Revenson (Oct 2018)\nThis magical scrapbook takes readers behind the scenes of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, covering everything from how students arrive at the school and are sorted into their houses to the many magical subjects they study while there.\nHarry Potter: Creatures: A Paper Scene Book (Oct 2018)\nRevisit the magic of Harry Potter through four intricate, multilayer dioramas that capture beloved moments from the films.\nHarry Potter: Diagon Alley: A Movie Scrapbook by Jody Revenson (Jul 2018)\nThis magical scrapbook takes readers on an interactive tour of Diagon Alley, from Gringotts Wizarding Bank to Ollivanders wand shop, Weasleys Wizard Wheezes, and beyond.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 8307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 281.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.5yearmemoryblog.com/2016/06/planning-our-trip-to-cornwall.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:42Z", "digest": "sha1:MQWBHQVSHPVMFZW23Z6ML6U2D2EDDWIH", "length": 2352, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.5yearmemoryblog.com", "title": "The 5 Year Memory Blog: Planning Our Trip To Cornwall", "raw_content": "Planning Our Trip To Cornwall\nAt the end of August we're both going away for a week with Hayley's Mums and Brother to Boscastle in Cornwall!\nNeither of us have been to Cornwall before, so we're both really excited! Here are a few things on our list that we will want to visit:\nThis is one of Hayley's Mum's favourite places ever. She fell in love with the place during a holiday there about 7 years ago and has been dying to go back ever since. The TV series Doc Martin was being filmed whilst she was there, which made her follow the series from then on. It's apparently a beautiful coastal town, and we'll be sure to get a pasty and some cornish scones whilst we're there!\nTintagle Castle & Merlin's Well\nDown the road from where we'll be staying, there are some beautiful castle ruins! You can walk along the cliffside up to the castle, and there is also an amazing cave nearby with a waterfall running through it. We think this could be the perfect place for David to get some stunning pictures!\nRick Stein's Fish and Chips\nWe are both huge lovers of fish and chips, and there is nothing like eating it at the seaside! TV chef Rick Stein has an amazing fish restaurant in Padstow, but as we'll have Ernie with us we'll probably just go to his famous fish and chip shop one evening!\nThe Witchcraft Museum\nIn Boscastle where we're staying, there is a little Witchcraft museum. For David's final project at University he studied the Wicker religion as a source of inspiration and it's something we both find very fascinating!\nWe have both wanted to visit the Eden Project for so long! It looks absolutely stunning in photographs and we're dying to take some of our own. Since we started on our own garden, the interest has grown and we're curious to see all the different plants and flowers. The outdoors bit is also dog friendly which is a plus!\nSpeaking of gardens, we'd also love to take a little drive to The Lost Gardens Of Heligan one day whilst we're there. Our friend Stacey introduced us to this place we didn't even know existed! It's an old Victorian garden that became overgrown and was later rediscovered! After they cut it all back it revealed some amazing things, and we're excited to explore.\nThis is all we have planned for our holiday so far, but if you have any other suggestions we'd love to hear them!\nLabels: Entertainment, Trips", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.9thstreetpress.com/excerpts/founded.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:04Z", "digest": "sha1:73S5KWNZGSEDOY4E5OHNBE7ZWQVITUWT", "length": 5041, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.9thstreetpress.com", "title": "\ufeff Found Porn Excerpt", "raw_content": "\"Amazing. I can't wait for his next book.\"\n- Thomas Morton,\nwww.pamedia.com\nEdgy, sexy and at times, laugh-out-loud-funny, the stories in Mark Bowles' irreverent debut showcase an affinity for the outcast and subversive. From the title story, which lays out the lengths that a normal guy and his buddy will go to unload some old smut to Sunday Morning, in which a young couple learn that, after a late night at the club, getting what you want may be a lot easier than getting rid of it; and from Muse in which a burned-out writer finds himself in the reality show from Hell, and comes to like it, to $20 The Hard Way, where we find a trio of would be first-time pornographers thrown off course by the unexpected arising of an old rivalry, these, and the rest of the stories in Found Porn, showcase a rogue's gallery of characters that offer an offbeat look at life lived on the edge with humor and understanding and mark the author, in one reviewer's words, as a \"voice to watch out for.\"\nEXCERPT: From Sunday Morning\nThere are hangovers and then there are hangovers. Tanya and I were used to waking up on a Sunday morning with a head full of static and an ashtray cough. What we were not used to, and hadn't prepared for, was having some strange girl fussing about in our kitchen attempting to fix us coffee.\nTo date, our usual Sunday morning ritual involved little more than some dog hair and the occasional nursing of an unremembered bruise. This morning was promising to break our routine in spades. All of this ran through my throbbing skull as I listened to the rustling in our kitchen that reminded me that Tanya and I had done something wrong last night. Something horribly, horribly wrong.\nAs if on cue, our guest bounced her way into the room with a couple of mismatched mugs of coffee and a demeanor akin to a newly weaned puppy. \"I didn't know how you took it,\" she said, \"the coffee, I mean.\" She was wearing one of Tanya's kimonos, a short one that showed off her bare legs.\nShe stood for a second, no doubt waiting for one of us to say something, but at that moment I couldn't think of a single word that would have been appropriate, and a quick glance over at Tanya didn't offer any support, though she did manage to cough out a \"thank you.\"\nUnbelievably, our new friend seemed blissfully unaware of our confused state, \"Anyway, I need to use your shower, if it's alright.\" She was halfway down the hall by the time one of us (I don't remember who) said \"okay.\"\nJust as she reached the bathroom door, she turned. \"I was thinking that maybe later we could get something to eat and then maybe hit the clubs again. Later, maybe?\" She looked at us for a moment with her ingenue eyes, and, finding just bloodshot emptiness in return, demurred, \"Well, we can play it by ear.\" And just like she'd appeared, she disappeared into our shower.\nI blinked hard and rubbed my eyes a few times, but every time I looked around, I was still in my disheveled apartment, seated next to my wife at the table, facing two cups of marginally acceptable coffee and listening for the shower to start.\nI looked over at Tanya, who seemed to be doing her own reality check on this whole clusterfuck and coming up with the same results as I did. Finally Tanya spoke, \"She's wearing pigtails.\"\nIt hadn't been the first thing that I'd noticed, but I had noticed, nonetheless. \"I know,\" I said. \"We fucked Gidget.\"\nI heard the shower start and an involuntary shiver ran through my achy spine. I took a sip of the coffee and nearly gagged. I got up and moved to the liquor cabinet. I shuffled through the assortment of nearly empty bottles until I found one that would work.\n\"Well.\" I said as I poured the last of the Bushmills into our mugs, \"if we're gonna keep her we'll have to teach her how to make a decent cup of coffee.\"\nTanya nearly choked on her drink. \"We're not keeping her.\"\n\"I didn't mean for long,\" I explained. \"I just figured that since we've got her here and all, we might as well have another go at it.\" My stab at logic didn't seem to make the intended impression.\n\"For Christ's sake, we'll never get rid of her then. Didn't you hear? She's damn near ready to pull up the fucking U-haul right now.\"\nI never doubted that Tanya knew the feminine psyche more intimately than I did, but this seemed a bit of an overreaction and was more than sure that when she came to her senses, she'd reconsider. We were, if nothing else, accommodating hosts.\n\"Fine,\" I said, \"we'll just have a nice brunch with Gidget and-\"\n\"Quit calling her that!\" Tanya winced. \"You'll destroy my childhood.\"\nSo I asked the obvious question, the one that we'd each been skirting up until now, \"What should I call her, then?\"\n\"By her name, goddammit!\"\n\"Quit fucking with me.\"\n\"I'm not fucking with you.\"\n\"Yes you are,\" Tanya said as she poked my chest, \"You fucked her and now we-\"\n\"We,\" I corrected her, \"fucked her.\"\n\"Whatever! Do you remember her name?\"\n\"Okay . . . Do you remember anything about last night?\"\n\"Well,\" I said, \"I'm pretty sure she's not a real blonde.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5216, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.a-blast.org/blast/adultery.1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:30Z", "digest": "sha1:SMCWYSTIBCPTT3OQYR65UHRSC2NPWX7M", "length": 201, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.a-blast.org", "title": "adultery: Something about adultery (by baryonic matter)", "raw_content": "on Mar 25th 2002, 12:48:37, baryonic matter wrote the following about\nif you really love your partner you won't be able to commit adultery.\nIf \u00bbadultery\u00ab is not at hand, what can one do? Write it down!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aapkatimes.com/2017/06/16/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2U3IFLRAUXBCY77QAOHQ5GXUS4W3XQAG", "length": 559, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.aapkatimes.com", "title": "June 16, 2017 - Aapka Times", "raw_content": "AMU student to play for Uttar Pradesh Hockey team in Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) National tournament\nAnas Khan has been selected to represent the Uttar Pradesh Hockey team for the Senior National Championship A grade 2017, the highest Indian Hockey Federation [\u2026]\nIn conversation with Prof. Haroon Sajjad, Newly appointed proctor of Jamia Millia Islamia\nJune 16, 2017 June 16, 2017 Asna Azhar 0\nProf. Haroon Sajjad has been recently appointed as the Chief Proctor of the Jamia Millia Islamia University a university known for its cultural diversity and [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.abs-usa.com/hr-software/employee-benefits-consist-of-company-policies-and-recordkeeping", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:28Z", "digest": "sha1:QISPTZPRPSXCKYWIAJVB72WSCYI252W3", "length": 2688, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.abs-usa.com", "title": "Employee Benefits Consist of Company Policies and Recordkeeping", "raw_content": "Employee Benefits Consist of Company Policies and Recordkeeping\nPosted by Brandy on May 9, 2014\nWhen I think of managing employee benefits at a company, I think of two things: company policies and recordkeeping.\nCompany policies are important because they list and clearly communicate the employee benefits offered by a company. A company may offer educational reimbursement, mileage or travel reimbursement, paid parking, flexible spending account, and time off, such as vacation, sick time, and paid time off (PTO), as well as health insurance including dental, vision, and speciality insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and 401k and other retirement plans. The policies will include a description and explain when an employee will be eligible for the benefit, how much they have to pay, if applicable, and how much the employer will pay, if any at all.\nThe company policies should be given to all employees to make sure they are aware of the benefits they are eligible for. Some businesses even require employees to return a signed acknowledgement of receipt of policies, so managers can be sure all members of staff are aware of what they are eligible for. Another option, especially for businesses that update or change their list of benefits often, is to hold a series of open enrollment meetings that all employees are required to attend each year.\nThe second part of managing employee benefits is recordkeeping. You should document which benefits employees are enrolled, particularly the health, disability, and life insurances. You should also keep track of time-off accruals for each employee.\nFor insurance benefits, document which insurance or plan the employee is enrolled, enrollment date, their contribution amount, the company's contribution amount, beneficiaries and dependents, and other miscelleneous notes you wish to keep. If the employee decides to un-enroll in a plan, that withdrawal date should be kept, too.\nAnd, when an employees leaves the company, document if they choose to extend their insurance coverage via COBRA.\nFor time-off benefits, document if they accrue time for vacation, sick time, paid time off (PTO), holiday time or any other type of time off they may be eligible for. You should list the accruals, i.e. the amount of time they have to take off, as well as the deductions of their days off, so that their personnel record will have an up-to-date balance at all times.\nYou can create company policies for your businesses, in addition to managing benefit enrollments and time-off accruals in HR software. HR software will make both processes easier than using manual methods and will save you a lot of time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 325, "original_length": 19079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?s=61e2c6e0ba68f37e781a6517b7bf43ff&t=332997&page=37", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:03Z", "digest": "sha1:CNA73QEYI4KILWOP73OO5GSTLDYFLOSO", "length": 1392, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.actuarialoutpost.com", "title": "UK profession getting sued for Racism against British members - Page 37 - Actuarial Outpost", "raw_content": "By the way, I am assuming the discount was based on nation of residence, not on actual nationality. That is, I assume a resident of the UK of Indian origin was paying the usual UK price. If that's not true, then I, too, prefer the new rule.\nSo you prefer assumptions made about people's incomes based on where they live rather than individuals have to show evidence of their earnings to qualify for a discount. I find this kind of thinking at odds with what actuaries do generally, even those at CAS. The direction of travel tends to be less use of crude methods.\nIt's also worth pointing out, for our overseas friends, that sitting UK actuarial exams without a job is incredibly rare. I don't know what the US rules are, but to get your UK fellowship you need a minimum of 3 years relevant work experience, the UK exams aren't cheap, neither is membership of the profession. So it's more a case of UK employers subsidising overseas employers, rather than individual actuaries.\nDoesn't change the position v the EU rules, but the moral argument for the old stance being discriminatory is, in the real world, pretty weak.\nHey folks! This thread is fascinating, and I've read most of it in the last hour or so. There have been many reports from this thread that we mods are wading through. It's just become too much. I think it could use a cooling off period, so I'm locking the thread for now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.addiscombecatholicchurch.com/groups/girl-guides", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IAUTV2CHJYWPFLPYKMI3SM6FRWBZO2LU", "length": 167, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.addiscombecatholicchurch.com", "title": "Girl Guides | Addiscombe Catholic Church", "raw_content": "Rainbow, Brownie and Guide groups meet at Our Lady\u2019s every week.\nFor further details please see the GirlGuidingJoinUs website, or call the presbytery on 020 8654 1709.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 173.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.adventuresofelis.com/2015/07/wrocaw-poland-rainbow-city.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:OEVGZFXVWOZDVCHLIWIVRNFUGO76BRJM", "length": 4476, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.adventuresofelis.com", "title": "Adventures of Elis: WROC\u0141AW, Poland. A rainbow city!", "raw_content": "One of the most exciting surprises I\u2019ve had so far whilst travelling in Europe is discovering the colourful Polish city of Wroc\u0142aw. I have to admit, despite being one of Poland's largest cities, I'd not even heard of Wroc\u0142aw before my local airport started advertising flights. The old town is amongst the most colourful I\u2019ve seen, and the city is brimming with history and culture. I fell in love with the Polish people, who were so friendly and so tolerant of my lack of Polish language skills!\nMain Square - Rynek Glowny\nI should probably clear up the name issue early in this post, as it took me a while to get! Before going, I told people I was going to ROCK-LAW, but found out upon arrival that the correct pronunciation of the city's name actually sounds more like VROTS-WAV.\nWroc\u0142aw has had a long and interesting history. First founded by a Slavic tribe in the 6th century, the city has since been ruled by Poland, Bohemia, Hungary, Austria, Prussia and Germany before finally returning to polish rule in 1945. As a result, a range of architectural styles coexist in the city which makes Wroc\u0142aw a very interesting place to visit. A lot of history exists here, with attractions including the huge, and extremely colourful central market square (known as the Rynek G\u0142\u00f3wny), the grand town hall and the impressive cathedral in the historic Ostr\u00f3w Tumski district.\nThe Second World War severely impacted Wroc\u0142aw, with the Battle of Breslau sadly destroying large swathes of the city. Post-war re-building had to be done quickly and cheaply, and took place in the shadow of the communism, resulting in an abundance of communist-style apartment blocks on the edges of the city. Whilst these sections of Wroclaw aren\u2019t necessarily visually attractive, I feel they add to the city's charm. They make the city feel \u2018real\u2019 and \u2018lived in\u2019, not just a tourist attraction. This being said, large swathes of the old city were untouched by the war, remaining today in their former glory.\nPost-war apartment blocks outside the old city\nThe oldest part of the city, known as Ostr\u00f3w Tumski, is nestled on the banks of the Odra river. As with the rest of the old town, this area is extremely colourful, and houses the impressive St. John the Baptist Cathedral. The Tumski Bridge (Most Tumski) leads you over to the Ostr\u00f3w Tumski district, and gives very pretty views of this part of the city. It is unsurprising that this scenic location has attracted clusters of \u2018love locks\u2019 - lovers have attached heart themed padlocks to the bridge and thrown the key into the river below as a sign of their everlasting love for one other.\nOstrow Tumski and the Odra River\nLovelocks on Most Tumski\nAs it flows through the city, the Odra River breaks up into a number of smaller channels and canals, creating several islands, connected by a number of bridges. These small river islands are green oases in the busy city environment. This has led to Wroc\u0142aw\u2019s nickname of \u2018Venice of Poland\u2019. Whilst I think such a nickname gives off a false impression, the city\u2019s riverscape and waterways are certainly very pretty and provide a perfect place to go for a stroll, or to simply relax in the sun.\nWroclaw riverscape\nFor me, Wroclaw's most striking aspect is the old city\u2019s brightly coloured buildings. Each building is a work of art. The main square and surrounding streets are an artist's palette - outstandingly beautiful. Sit in one of the caf\u00e9s or restaurants in the square and take it all in \u2013 look at the intricacy of the designs, take in the vibrancy of the colours. Nothing will prepare you for the scale of the Rynek G\u0142\u00f3wny, it really is stunning.\nColours of Wroclaw's old town\nTravel around the city is easy. An international airport has opened in recent years, offering flights around Poland and the rest of Europe and travel between the airport and the city centre is easy using the 406 bus, which runs roughly every half an hour (but it is advisable to check times before travel!). Within the city it is easy to get anywhere quickly \u2013 just jump on a tram! As with everything else in Wroc\u0142aw, the cost of public transport is very low - just remember to validate your ticket as you get on.\nI loved Wroc\u0142aw and wish I had budgeted more time to explore this wonderful, colourful city more thoroughly. To say I had not heard of the city a few months ago, I am very happy to discover this gem, and would love to return.\nHave you been to Wroc\u0142aw, or thinking of going? If so, leave a comment below!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 8239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alaskajournal.com/2017-08-02/fish-factor-asmi-keeps-export-push-shoestring-budget", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:G6HMPS26YW5XOPXU725QW4H6PUAH3G7D", "length": 8520, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.alaskajournal.com", "title": "Alaska Journal | FISH FACTOR: ASMI keeps up export push on shoestring budget", "raw_content": "FISH FACTOR: ASMI keeps up export push on shoestring budget\nSeafood is Alaska\u2019s top export by far, usually topping $3 billion in sales each year to 120 countries around the world, and comprising 55 percent of our nation\u2019s total seafood exports.\nCredit for the state\u2019s export sales goes mostly to the international program run by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, or ASMI, which runs eight regional offices in Japan, China, Brazil, London, Spain, France, Germany and Eastern Europe.\nThe overseas marketing reps, or OMRs, work under contract with ASMI to coordinate hundreds of seafood promotions each year to build the Alaska brand.\n\u201cWe work closely with overseas trade groups, food service and HRIs (hotels, restaurants, institutions),\u201d said Hannah Lindoff, ASMI international director. \u201cWe also do promotions with chefs, schools, and caterers, and some programs have advertising elements as well.\u201d\nChina is Alaska\u2019s largest seafood export market in terms of volume and value accounting for 35 percent and 27 percent, respectively in 2015. The fish isn\u2019t ending up on Chinese dinner plates, however, as up to 90 percent of the seafood is sold to secondary processors which send finished products to other markets around the world.\nJapan is Alaska\u2019s largest and most established market, Lindoff said, and the bulk of ASMI\u2019s shoestring budget goes to maintaining customers there.\n\u201cAlaska is facing lots of competition and a declining consumer base in Japan,\u201d she added.\nEuropeans rank second as customers for Alaska seafood, especially in the U.K.\n\u201cAlaska salmon has been going to the U.K. for over 100 years and canned salmon is a traditional product for them. It\u2019s part of their culture, but it is a declining market,\u201d Lindoff said.\nAlaska\u2019s newest marketing program is in Brazil where ASMI has been able to capitalize on its Japan connection.\n\u201cBrazil has the largest population of expat Japanese in the world so we already have a population there that is familiar with Alaska seafood. We do several trade shows in Brazil, including a Japan Trade Show every year,\u201d Lindoff said.\nSpain is another new and growing buyer for Alaska seafood.\n\u201cThis is a country where Alaska salmon is competing to be seen as better quality over farmed fish,\u201d Lindoff said, adding that ASMI has taken advantage of a big downturn in farmed production from Chile due to a deadly fish virus.\n\u201cThe growing trend for sushi and Asian cuisine also has really helped Alaska salmon gain a foothold in Spain,\u201d she said, \u201cand it is a traditional market for Alaska cod.\u201d\nASMI also is trying to expand the brand in Eastern Europe to make up for losses from an ongoing Russian embargo on U.S. seafood, by building a presence in Latvia, Estonia, Romania and Ukraine.\nIt\u2019s a tough go, Lindoff admits, because many nations simply are not familiar with Alaska or its seafood.\n\u201cWe think of ourselves as having the greatest seafood in the world, but we are only 2 percent of the world supply and we are up against a lot of competition,\u201d she explained. \u201cEspecially in Europe where Norway can provide a lot of farmed fish and they have a very aggressive marketing agency. It\u2019s not a fair fight.\u201d\nNorway\u2019s annual marketing budget tops $50 million derived from a small tax on its seafood exports. That compares to an ASMI export budget of less than $7 million from a mix of grants and federal dollars. The State of Alaska contributes $1 million to ASMI\u2019s overall budget of roughly $22 million, of which $16.5 million is paid by the seafood industry. The state plans to zero out its funds to ASMI in the coming fiscal year.\nAnother marketing challenge is that many nations are only newly aware that Alaska is part of the United States.\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t until Sarah Palin was running for vice president in 2008 that some people learned that Alaska was part of the U.S,\u201d Lindoff said with a laugh.\nShe added that the popularity of the \u201cDeadliest Catch\u201d television show also \u201cdid tremendous things for creating awareness of Alaska seafood.\u201d\nMore recently, that recognition has helped increase buyer interest because Alaska (and the U.S. in general) is regarded as a source of clean and wholesome \u201cfree from\u201d foods.\n\u201cEspecially in countries like China where they have a lot of food contamination problems, Alaska seafood is seen as a trusted source,\u201d Lindoff said.\nShe added that ASMI is partnering with several other regional groups as part of a USA global seafood initiative with a focus on Southeast Asia.\n\u201cIt\u2019s definitely an advantage having a clean and pure environment in Alaska,\u201d she said.\nOther sales benefits are coming from the use of eCommerce, especially in China, where the appetite for Alaska seafood is growing.\n\u201cOur marketing dollars can go much farther online. It allows us to widely advertise Alaska\u2019s core messages and we\u2019ve seen millions of dollars in sales through eCommerce in China,\u201d Lindoff said, adding that the same strategy is paying off with canned salmon in the U.K.\nTo boost more brand awareness, ASMI also brings chefs and seafood savvy press people from Asia and Europe to Alaska to generate free publicity when they go home.\nOverseas marketing reps from eight countries are scheduled to arrive in Kodiak on Aug. 7 to tour processing plants, visit a remote salmon fishing site and hold brainstorming sessions.\n\u201cVisiting Alaska is always one of our most powerful tools,\u201d Lindoff said. \u201cIt\u2019s great when you have limited time and budget to go to a place like Kodiak where you get so much of the seafood industry in one place.\u201d\nBringing in the chill\nBristol Bay fishermen are chilling their fish like never before, and they are setting up to do even more. Two former longtime Bay fishermen are converting a 150-foot helicopter logging barge into a floating fish processor with plans to operate it next summer on the Ugashik River, about 85 miles from the nearest processing plants at Naknek.\nCo-owner Ben Blakey said the barge will freeze up to 300,000 pounds of whole sockeye salmon per day and employ about 20 people, compared to the 200 or more needed to run a shore-based processor.\n\u201cThere are a lot of communities in Alaska that can\u2019t support a full-time processor with that many people because they don\u2019t have enough volume,\u201d Blakey told KCAW in Sitka. \u201cIf an outfit like this can get by with less overhead and lower labor costs, they might be able to park it in front of an isolated area and process the fish at a more effective cost.\u201d\nThe refurbished four decker will provide ice and help reduce the time the salmon spend in the fish hold before being delivered, especially for the many boats that don\u2019t have onboard chilling systems, said co-owner Pat Glaab, who built the fish processing plant at Leader Creek and Silver Bay Seafoods at Naknek. The revamped barge is his 11th fish processor.\n\u201cThere\u2019s nobody in the world who wouldn\u2019t say that there isn\u2019t a portion of that Bay fleet that doesn\u2019t have the ability to take care of this fish properly. We feel this thing will fill that need,\u201d he said.\nGlaab and Blakey operate as Northline Seafoods out of Sitka\u2019s industrial park, where they are testing out the revamped plant on pinks this summer. If it\u2019s successful, the duo plans to build at least three more brand new barges at a cost of about $5 million each.\nRed flag from afar\nU.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross this month dismissed a report from the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission that concluded New Jersey was violating a conservation plan for summer flounder, also called fluke.\nThe decision, which allows New Jersey to harvest nearly 100,000 more summer flounder, marked the first time the federal government has disregarded such a recommendation by the commission, according to the Boston Globe.\nCongress established the multi-state commission 75 years ago to ensure the region\u2019s fisheries are managed sustainably. The commission lowered fluke catch limits after it found that their population was down almost 25 percent since 2010.\nRoss, who oversees the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, overruled the commission and allowed New Jersey to go ahead with its plan.\nOutraged members of the commission, fishery managers, and NOAA officials said it was unprecedented for a Commerce secretary to make a decision without seeking their input.\nThe broader impact of the decision remains unknown, the Globe said. Fishery managers worry that Ross\u2019 decision sets a precedent for states to reject the commission\u2019s findings and appeal to the federal government whenever they don\u2019t like what they\u2019re hearing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 9702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/project1195_78.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VSDTBBKEYYWBJ62UEHOEWYQIGCKEZWR5", "length": 867, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.all-science-fair-projects.com", "title": "Science Fair Projects - Elodea and Goldfish", "raw_content": "Project title Elodea and Goldfish\nThis science fair project was performed to determine if an Elodea plant can grow faster when planted in aquariums occupied by goldfish. The experiment was done by growing Elodea in an aquarium with one, five and ten goldfish and also in a tank without any goldfish.\n1. For this science fair project, the independent variable is the number of goldfish in the tank i.e. none, one, two and three goldfish. The dependent variable is the average growth of the Elodea plants. This is determined by measuring and calculating the average height of the plants after 7 days. The constants (control variables) are the size of the aquarium, the amount of water in the aquarium and the amount of light received by the plants. 2. 4 fish tanks are filled with the same amount of water. The aquarium lights and filters are installed into the 4 .....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allhealthpolicy.org/from-crunch-to-crisis-state-budgets-medicaid-and-the-economy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:14Z", "digest": "sha1:RYEUCRMQKKF4BC6IHVNZCQQAP3WPV762", "length": 1573, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.allhealthpolicy.org", "title": "From Crunch to Crisis: State Budgets, Medicaid and the Economy \u2013 Alliance for Health Policy", "raw_content": "From Crunch to Crisis: State Budgets, Medicaid and the Economy\nMedicaid programs are feeling the strain as enrollment grows while state revenues come in lower than projected. This briefing, cosponsored by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, looked at the recession\u2019s effect on Medicaid programs and low-income individuals and families.\n\u2013 Robin Rudowitz, principal policy analyst for the Kaiser Commission and former Medicaid director in the Office of Legislation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\n\u2013 Tom Betlach, director of the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, the agency administering multiple sources of governmental and private funds in the state and responsible for regulatory oversight and compliance of Medicaid managed care health plans and health care providers\n\u2013 Jason Helgerson, administrator of Wisconsin\u2019s Division of Health Care Financing, and a key person in the merger of the state\u2019s Medicaid, Badgercare and Healthy Start programs into the comprehensive Badgercare Plus program\n\u2013 Gwen O\u2019Shea, president and CEO of the Health and Welfare Council of Long Island, a private, not-for-profit, health and human services planning, research/public education and advocacy organization that serves as the umbrella for public and voluntary agencies working with Long Island\u2019s poor and vulnerable individuals and families\nEd Howard of the Alliance and Diane Rowland of the Kaiser Commission co-moderated.\nThomas Betlatch Presentation (PowerPoint)\nJason Helgerson Presentation (PowerPoint)\nGwen O\u2019Shea Presentation (PowerPoint)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allpainnogain.com/resources", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:20Z", "digest": "sha1:TVNUVTTHSN7EGAQFVJPAJZ6RGKUS5DBV", "length": 2938, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.allpainnogain.com", "title": "Resources - All Pain No Gain", "raw_content": "Studies and Data\nThe National Transportation Safety Board\u2019s January 2015 Safety Study on Integrity Management of Gas Transmission Pipelines in High-Consequence Areas\nEmery and Garrett Groundwater Investigations\u2019 Pipeline Impact Study for Augusta County. Emery and Garrett are widely considered the most respected and sought after groundwater experts in the Eastern United States, having successfully completed over 1,400 groundwater investigations and developed over 100 million gallons per day of fresh, sustainable drinking water.\n\u201cYes to the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, No to Eminent Domain\u201d \u2013 a thorough, cogent overview of the flaws in Dominion\u2019s proposed plan from Public Policy Analyst Bonner Cohen, PhD\nOpposition Statement from the Virginia Sierra Club. With more than 15,000 members, the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club works to build healthy, livable communities and to conserve and restore our natural environment throughout the Commonwealth.\nOpposition Statement from the Southern Environmental Law Center. SELC uses the power of the law to champion clean water, healthy air, mountains, forests, rural countryside, and the coast. By working at the national, regional, state, and local levels and in all three branches of government, this organization strengthens laws, holds government agencies accountable and, when necessary, goes to court to stop environmental abuses or to set far-reaching precedents.\nOpposition Statement from Wild Virginia, a grassroots, non-profit organization dedicated to preserving wild forest ecosystems in Virginia\u2019s national forests through education and advocacy.\nFriends of Nelson exists to protect property rights, property values, rural heritage and the environment for all the citizens of Nelson County, Virginia.\nSpeak Up Nelson is a group of citizens, living in Nelson County, Virginia, who oppose the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and who are dedicated to protecting Virginia\u2019s rural heritage, natural and cultural resources, and last remaining wild places. They work to help local residents express their concerns and opposition to the ACP through writing letters to their representatives, to newspapers, and to the organizations, businesses, and governing bodies that are involved in the pipeline approval and construction process.\nThe Augusta County Allianceis dedicated to preserving our rural landscape and economy, our clean air and water, and our abundant wildlife habitat and historic resources. We believe engaged citizens and landowners can make a compelling case that a huge 42-inch gas transmission line should not tear through Augusta County.\nThe Allegheny Blue-Ridge Alliance is a coalition of organizations concerned about the natural gas pipeline that Dominion Resources and its partner companies have proposed to build through portions of West Virginia and Virginia. The ABRA is dedicated to protecting the heritage, resources, and economy of the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Region.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 3156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allsuppliers.com/s/supplier/24449_Light-of-Christ-Center-for-Applied-Learning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:55Z", "digest": "sha1:7VITIEC7C4A3BAFJQO2XROBJXBAROKFW", "length": 221, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.allsuppliers.com", "title": "Light of Christ Center for Applied Learning | AllSuppliers.com", "raw_content": "Light of Christ Center for Applied Learning\nWebsite\t: http://www.lightofchristcenter.org\nMetaphysical Christian religious and educational organization. Features church services, history, classes and workshops, and events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/celtic/jce/hrb.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:35Z", "digest": "sha1:JYIGNCRJ3XLW5KX2732B3QEQZZGJSAL2", "length": 3912, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ancienttexts.org", "title": "The History of the Kings of Britain", "raw_content": "The History of the Kings of Britain Historia Regnum Britanniae\nGeoffrey of Monmouth's opus, finished in 1136, which purports to be the true history of the isle of Britain from its settlement by Brutus the Trojan, grandson of Aeneas, to the death of Cadawallader the Blessed in the seventh century. The majority of the book is composed of euhemerized gods and myths; starting with the coming of the Romans in the first century BC, he has to be that much more truthful, and the figures become real people like Cymbeline (Cunobelinos) and Coel (Old King Cole). However, the majority of figures are mythological. Geoffrey claims to be translating from a Welsh texts; this may be true, but that doesn't make the text true.\nIt is from Geoffrey that we get many of our Arthurian legends. For instance, the figure of Merlin was rescued from Welsh obscurity and placed into Geoffrey's work as a prophet who counciled Arthur's father and engendered Arthur's begetting. Gawain is here, as is Mordred, but later figures like Lancelot are nonexistant, being the creation of Romance. The account of Arthur's wounding (not death) at Camlann and subsequent sailing to Avalon is first recounted here.\nGeoffrey claimed he was translating from a \"British\" book; no such book has come forward. However, that is not to say he invented the entire history. Instead, he seems to have used a number of extant sources: Gildas' De Excidio; Nennius' Historia Brittonum; Bede's Ecclesiastic History; the Welsh Annals; and possibly Orosius' Seven Books of History. He may also have known a version of \"Culhwch ac Olwen\" as well as other Welsh legends, or even manuscripts which have since disappeared.\nThere are over 200 manuscripts with a copy of the HRB; the four most relevant, however, are Cambridge 1706 Ii.I.14, Berne Stadtbibliotek MS 568, Jesus MS CXI (aka the Red Book of Hergest), and Cotton Cleopatra B.v.\nThe first two are Latin manuscripts which are believed to be the earliest copies, dating to 1136, the generally-accepted date of Geoffrey's writing (though 1138 has also been suggested). Each Latin manuscript contains a dedication to the (presumed) recipient--Camb. 1706 Ii.I.14 is dedicated to Robert, earl of Gloucester, while Berne Burgerbibliotek MS 568 is dedicated to Stephen of Blois, king of England 1135-1154. (Geoffrey certainly knew well enough to court both sides of the political aisle.)\nJesus MS CXI is one of the most famous medieval Welsh manuscripts; its Welsh translation of the HRB is not a perfect translation (it drops some episodes, such as sections of the battles with Hengist and Horsa) while adding others (such as the story of Lludd and Llefeyls). However, unlike the Brut Tysilo, it is not a paraphrase of Geoffrey's work, either, but something in between. There are other Welsh versions of Geoffrey, not necessarily drawn from the Red Book; for instance, the closely-related versions of the Black Book of Basingwerk, and Cotton Cleopatra B.v.\nRegarding Latin editions, there was no reliable Latin edition of HRB until Acton Griscom's study in 1929, which was a careful transcription of Camb. 1706 Ii.I.14, with variations from Berne Burgerbibliotek MS 568. Each page shows the Latin of Camb.1706, followed by the variations, followed by a translation of Jes.CXI.\nSince then, there have been a few transcriptions, such as the 1985 Neil Wright edition of Berne Burgerbibliotek MS 568, with variations in a subsequent volume, published by Boydell and Brewer.\nWith regard to Welsh editions, the first was J.G. Evan's landmark transcription of the Bruts from the Red Book of Hergest. Following that, there has been a transcription made of the Cotton Cleopatra B.v. version (John Jay Parry, 1937), which is closely related to the version found in the Black Book of Basingwerk. Parry's work also contains a translation of the Welsh text, while Evans' does not.\nBack to \"H\" | Back to JCE\nMary Jones \u00a9 2003", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 3984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 197.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.angelrichardson.com/blog/how-to-become-a-life-coach-in-7-easy-steps", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:44Z", "digest": "sha1:C4W5CXYBNBCJDDATWHEQCXGAYTJVFG3T", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.angelrichardson.com", "title": "How to Become a Life Coach in 7 Easy Steps", "raw_content": "How to Become a Life Coach in 7 Easy Steps", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 198.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.apimacau.com/information.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:XSTT6RRVCKOK3IEO7HC5X75LO57GO7NU", "length": 960, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.apimacau.com", "title": "Information | AM", "raw_content": "Sri Lanka Increased Education Ministry sources says that the scholars who are certified for the 2017 University Academic 12 months primarily based on 2016 A/L results shall be admitted to campuses before the top of 2017. The increase in online training has began, that is difficult the way we have a look at conventional schooling.\nWith education and consciousness, people are better outfitted to make higher health decisions. Whereas a lot of the books that made our record are focused on larger training, it is very important note that on-line schooling is beginning to make a big influence on high school and residential college training as effectively.\nMinistry of Education says it will do more to maintain at-threat teenagers in mainstream colleges. Typically, crime might be attributed to the dearth of education on the part of the perpetrator or their households. Actually, education promotes productivity and boosts financial development in a country.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.archive.org/stream/naturalhistoryof00wattrich", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:20Z", "digest": "sha1:7N25S5BOS3DIIXE4JQ7QONTDRYZESOKH", "length": 189, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.archive.org", "title": "The natural history of the birds of Ireland, indigenous and migratory : containing descriptions of the habits, migrations, occurrence, and economy, of the 261 species comprised in the Fauna", "raw_content": "The natural history of the birds of Ireland, indigenous and migratory : containing descriptions of the habits, migrations, occurrence, and economy, of the 261 species comprised in the Fauna", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3, "original_length": 612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 221.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.armaniranian.com/site/01about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:07Z", "digest": "sha1:YCHUCMXB6KSLHE2KOYVAUYBLCHVCL6KY", "length": 1337, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.armaniranian.com", "title": "Contact ARMAN IRANIAN", "raw_content": "Arman Iranian Legal & Economic Institute, holder of National Identity Code No. 10103991337, has been registered under number 24323 with the Tehran Companies and Non-commercial Establishments. It is a firm engaged in various services in the areas of legal, economic affairs and document archiving of companies, entities and organizations.\nThe founders of the institute are the principal corporate lawyers of the well-known international law offices of Nouraei & Mostafavi (www. nourlaw.com). During their long career they realized the necessity of such an institute for meeting certain needs of their clients and other applicants.\nThe primary areas of activity of Arman Iranian are:\nSupply of legal services, consultation, research, translation and publication of general and applied books and articles in the fields of law, economy, commerce and industry\nNegotiation, arbitration, litigation\nRegistration of companies and establishments\nLiquidation of companies and institutions\nRegistration of marks, patents, industrial designs\nRegistration of internet domains\nStatus reports and credit rating\nDrawing up memorandums of understanding, agreements and contracts\nDigitalization of documents and creating web-based archives\nCreating software and digital programs\nExport and import of products and services relating to the above activities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.artbook.com/1933045442.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:30Z", "digest": "sha1:7V47AQ3WF4OHBATF4GQUSMZLZBGZOFNU", "length": 4355, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.artbook.com", "title": "Rembrandt's Nose Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master\u2019s Portraits ARTBOOK | D.A.P. 2007 9781933045443", "raw_content": "Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 168 pgs/ 49 duotone.\nRembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master\u2019s Portraits\nBy Michael Taylor.\nThe year 2006 marked the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest portrait painters that ever lived, the Dutch seventeenth-century master, Rembrandt. Although Rembrandt is among the most important artists in western history, and perhaps our greatest draftsman, no one has ever, until now, been able to pinpoint exactly how it was that he so precisely and effortlessly captured the spiritual essence of his subjects. This insightful, sophisticated and yet accessible illustrated reading-format study, written by the preeminent scholar and translator Michael Taylor, will be as enlightening and delightful to Rembrandt scholars as to lay readers. Taylor looks at Rembrandt's self-portraits, his society portraits, historical paintings and biblical scenes, and identifies how it was that the artist rendered his subjects so alive, so full of earthy, flesh-and-blood vitality--which all boils down to his treatment of the nose. Rembrandt's Nose is a gem of a book, an intimate, candid and extremely entertaining engagement with the works of art themselves, interwoven with racy historical snippets that contextualize the artist's breakthroughs and techniques. It includes some 49 reproductions, as well as a complete chronology of Rembrandt's life.\n\"Michael Taylor creates a series of portraits that are as full of ingenuity, passion, and attention to quirky detail as Rembrandt's paintings themselves. Art history has seldom been so entertaining and enlightening.\" --Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's Dome, The Judgment of Paris, and Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling.\n\"Michael Taylor's starting point for this enchanting essay is a feature that is as plain as could be, and is central to the destiny and the mortal features and aspirations of his great subject, the painter. Taylor's meditation unfolds with grace of language and insight, and a familiar use of what can be known now of Rembrandt and the world he revealed.\" --W.S. Merwin, former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and recipient of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.\n\"Zooming in on the center of Rembrandt's faces, Michael Taylor finds meanings we all have missed. What appeals to me most in his lyrical appreciation is that he writes not only about what Rembrandt's noses look like, but also how they smell and breathe.\" --Gary Schwartz, author of The Rembrandt Book.\n\"This is the best kind of criticism: informed without being pedantic, passionate but elegant, witty and earnest at the same time\u2026It is worth a whole stack of weighty tomes on the master.\" --Mark Polizzotti, Publisher, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and author of Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andr\u00e9 Breton.\nTaylor proves a joy to read. Hitherto a translator of French poetry, he has made himself thoroughly at home with the art historical evidence\u2026 and he deftly unfolds a life story in pr\u00e9cis around the self-portraits and such pictures as the Bathsheba. Taylor's eye seems to keep pace with Rembrandt's brush, here brusque, there punctilious; his diction is chunky and sensual; he loves to imagine, to cast similes, to surf whatever breakers of emotion the picture rolls his way\u2026. Peering so keenly, Taylor does indeed touch on the quick of the art, and yet the mystery of its relation to the culture around it stays intact.\nAt just under six by seven inches and 170 pages, Michael Taylor's Rembrandt book is a perfect stocking stuffer for the casual art lover. In an engaging, suave style, Mr. Taylor ponders the most protrusive part of the human face, which assumes in Rembrandt's portraits and self-portraits a palpably fleshy and often emotional presence. More than just a gimmick, Mr. Taylor's nasal approach is a way to insist on Rembrandt's down-to-earth corporeality, which can be obscured when the focus is on the formal or the spiritual. Mr. Taylor's view is not as irreverent or subversive as his title promises, but for readers not already well versed in Rembrandt scholarship, it will serve as a fine introduction to his art and life.\nREMBRANDT'S JOURNEY\nEssays by Clifford S. Ackley, Ronni Baer, Thomas E. Rassieur and William W. Robinson.\nFORMAT: Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 168 pgs/ 49 duotone.\nD.A.P. 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J Willgoose Esq, both the founder and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, banjo,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 4315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.artsblooming.org/Home/Components/Calendar/Event/9783/762", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LYHPDNAFRXXZOF2J5PXSLQCRFZFLV4UN", "length": 332, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.artsblooming.org", "title": "All Events (List View) | Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts", "raw_content": "Concert Comments at 6:30 p.m.\nTickets: $63 / $42 / $21\nBe inspired by an incredible evening of music with Mozart\u2019s highly spirited Piano Concerto No. 23 featuring renowned pianist Sandra Wright Shen, Bruckner\u2019s life-affirming Second Symphony and an exciting world-premiere by Illinois composer Carl Schimmel. Let the music move you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.asianage.com/entertainment/bollywood/120918/ashwiny-quashes-no-interference-clause-rumours.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:QH6AAH4FE355OF6MO5QN4WNVFTL7C6NF", "length": 1348, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.asianage.com", "title": "Ashwiny quashes \u2018no-interference clause\u2019 rumours", "raw_content": "Ashwiny quashes \u2018no-interference clause\u2019 rumours\nThe filmmaker has also asked the audience to support her efforts, as they have done in the past.\nAshwini Iyer Tiwari\nWith reports doing the rounds about actress Kangana Ranaut having taken over various aspects of filmmaking on recent projects, rumour has it that filmmaker Ashwini Iyer Tiwari has drawn up a watertight no-interference contract for the leading lady of her upcoming sports-drama, Panga.\nHowever, Ashwiny has dismissed the rumours as baseless. She has put out a statement which reads, \u201cEvery human needs love and needs to be loved. The reason we tell stories and create characters is to inspire humankind and make people laugh and cry. As directors and actors, our happiness is your appreciation. For me, Panga is a story that I want to tell. A story very close to my heart, and I can only see Kangana bringing life to the character.\u201d\n\u201cI request everyone not to be judgemental,\u201d she says, adding, \u201cThe news that has been floating around is false and baseless. It should not be allowed to grow.\u201d\nThe filmmaker has also asked the audience to support her efforts, as they have done in the past. \u201cWith Panga, let\u2019s only tell stories of love. We are, because of you,\u201d she says.\nMeanwhile, Kangana is believed to have started preparing for her role.\nTags: ashwini iyer tiwari, kangana ranaut", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 3958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.asianage.com/life/health/080918/now-new-blood-test-to-screen-for-secondary-heart-attack.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:42Z", "digest": "sha1:M5XEASUEIEH6TDTESEQASGYZLZ4WYGBU", "length": 2975, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.asianage.com", "title": "Now, new blood test to screen for secondary heart attack", "raw_content": "Now, new blood test to screen for secondary heart attack\nResearchers identified plasma lipid biomarkers that improve upon traditional risk factors in predicting heart disease and stroke.\nRevolutionary blood test is proposed to be trialled in Australia over the next 2-3 years as part of a broader personalised precision health program currently under development.\nWashington DC: Researchers are developing a new blood test which could screen if a person is at risk of a secondary heart attack.\nThe Baker Institute's head of metabolomics, Professor Peter Meikle and his team have identified plasma lipid biomarkers (fats in the blood) that improve upon traditional risk factors in predicting heart disease and stroke.\nHe says the revolutionary blood test is proposed to be trialled in Australia over the next 2-3 years as part of a broader personalised precision health program currently under development. Eventually, a general practitioner (GP) will be able to order this test in order to better assess a patient's risk of developing heart disease.\n\"The test was developed after a study looked at 10,000 samples to find the bio markers that will determine whether a person is at risk of having another heart attack,\" said Prof Meikle.\n\"We hope to identify those individuals who are at greatest risk of a second heart attack so that they can be closely monitored and treated accordingly. While there are thousands of lipids in the blood, our challenge is to identify which ones best predict disease outcomes,\" he added.\nTo date, a prototype of this test has been trailed in America, yet the prototype only provides GP's and patients with limited information on the basis of 2 lipid markers, and it is not yet available in Australia.\nThe test will be a simple blood test, similar to the process and cost of having a cholesterol test, and could be operated out of hospital pathology laboratories that already contain the necessary equipment.\n\"Our test will use up to ten lipid markers to better diagnose heart disease. It's a challenging, yet very exciting time. We effectively have the information and are in the process of refining the technology,\" said Prof Meikle.\n\"Once the protocols for a diagnostic heart disease blood test are in place; it will be possible to additional markers for the test to also be used in predicting diabetes and potentially Alzheimer's disease as well. The test will reclassify a patient's risk of heart attack and stroke. It will better identify who within the 'intermediate' risk category are in fact, at higher risk, and help guide physicians in the appropriate treatment of patients.\"\nThe study has been published in the journal JCI Insight.\nTags: blood test, secondary heart attack, health and well being, plasma lipid biomarkers, heart disease, stroke\nNovel blood test detects 95 per cent of cancers at any stage of aggressiveness\nBlood test can help detect this rare cancer\nThis blood test may predict kidney cancer risk 5 years in advance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 5641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 237.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.asianage.com/world/asia/210818/16-member-pak-cabinet-sworn-in-first-meet-held.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:10Z", "digest": "sha1:WQLQ2WPM5LAA2GXRRUFMVXQLBWDY6MWM", "length": 1380, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.asianage.com", "title": "16-member Pak Cabinet sworn in, first meet held", "raw_content": "16-member Pak Cabinet sworn in, first meet held\nIn first phase, names of 15 ministers were announced. Later, PM Khan also added Khusro Bakhtiar as minister of water resources.\nIslamabad: The 16-member federal cabinet announced by Prime Minister Imran Khan was sworn in at a ceremony held at the President\u2019s House on Monday. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to the newly-inducted members of the cabinet. On Aug. 19, Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesperson Fawad Chaudhry had said that the premier has approved a 21-member cabinet comprising 16 ministers and five advisers. In first phase, names of 15 ministers were announced. Later, PM Khan also added Khusro Bakhtiar as minister of water resources.\nAs was anticipated, Asad Umar has been given ministry of finance whereas Awami Muslim League chief Sheikh Rashid Ahmed has been appointed railways minister.\nFawad Chaudhry has been nominated minister of Information and Broadcasting Division. The former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s CM Pervez Khattak has been given defence portfolio. Other the cabinet\u2019s members include Farogh Naseem (Law and Justice), Shireen Mazari (Human Rights) and Ghulam Sarwar Khan (Petroleum). After taking the oath, Umer told media that government will address immediate issues like current account deficit but also take long term measures to fix all problems.\nTags: imran khan, mamnoon hussain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 4241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.associationmaximization.com/2015/10/nahb-at-three-quarter-mark.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OSUDBHYXRPCK32TS5YLQKX5JYKVZNS6G", "length": 6945, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.associationmaximization.com", "title": "Association Maximization: NAHB at the Three Quarter Mark", "raw_content": "The past few issues of Association Maximization has focused on the volunteer work at the national level of our association. We will continue with more highlighted works throughout the rest of 2015 to demonstrate the importance of all three levels of membership. I wanted to pause at this point since we are at the 3/4 mark of 2015 and bring in someone who could speak to the members and leaders of our association.\nToday's guest blogger is my dear friend Jerry Howard, Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Jerry has over 25 years of association experience and a lifetime in the housing industry. Jerry began his association career at the National Association of Realtors, where he served as a Legislative Analyst for tax issues. Prior to joining NAHB, Jerry served as the Chief Lobbyist for the National Council of State Housing Agencies where he was instrumental in the development of the low-income housing tax credit as part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. Jerry came to NAHB as tax counsel in 1988 and served in a variety of roles, including Chief Lobbyist. Jerry was promoted to Executive Vice President & Chief Executive Officer in February 2001. Before embarking on his association career, Jerry practiced real estate law in his home state of South Carolina. His exposure to the housing industry has literally encompassed a lifetime; Jerry grew up working in a variety of roles for his father, a developer. Jerry earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Vermont and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina. He, his wife Christina and their children Eirann, Meaghan and Sean live in Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.\nNAHB at the Three Quarter Mark of 2015\nJerry Howard, NAHB CEO\nNAHB has been busy this year fighting for housing on major policy issues, providing excellent educational programming, and creating outstanding networking opportunities for members. The proof of our success is in the numbers. Through the first eight months of 2015, just a handful of NAHB's many advocacy efforts saved association members a total of almost $720 million nationwide.\nStronger Market, Improving Membership\nEven as NAHB is working hard on behalf of members, our economists are giving us good news about the state of the housing market. Chief Economist David Crowe and his staff are projecting roughly 1.1 million housing starts this year, almost 1.3 million in 2016 and roughly 1.5 million starts in 2017.\nAfter several very tough years, membership numbers have stabilized and there are signs that soon we may be enjoying real growth. This last spring we had one of our most successful membership drives in years, with locals bringing in more than 3,600 new members. We\u2019ll be wrapping up the fall drive at the end of October, and we have almost 70 percent of local associations participating. That is a 6 percent increase over the HBA participation rate last fall.\nNAHB is also deep into planning for the 2016 International Builders\u2019 Show. For the third year in a row, NAHB is partnering with the National Kitchen and Bath Association and their Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) to produce Design and Construction Week.\nAlong with IBS and KBIS, this year\u2019s Design and Construction Week will include two more industry tradeshows. The International Window Coverings Expo will join us once again in the Las Vegas Convention Center. The International Surface Event, which combines all types of flooring and tile, will co-date with us and will be held at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.\nFor three days in January, Design and Construction Week will be the center of the home building universe. And with acres of product exhibits, cutting-edge education, and countless networking events, NAHB\u2019s Builders\u2019 Show provides unparalleled opportunities for anyone working in the housing industry.\nThere is simply no better place to take the pulse of the housing market and learn everything you need to know to set your business on a course for success. I encourage any NAHB member who has not already registered to go to www.buildersshow.com.\nFighting for the Housing Industry\nNAHB has been on the forefront of fighting the \u201cwaters of the U.S.\u201d (WOTUS) rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers ever since the proposal was first introduced. We have taken action on the legal, legislative and regulatory fronts to put a stop to this ill-advised rule.\nNAHB is fighting several burdensome labor issues, includingthe Department of Labor\u2019s (DOL) draft regulation on overtime, the DOL\u2019s emphasis on classification of independent contractors, and the National Labor Relations Board\u2019s decision in Browning Ferris Industries, which expands the \u201cjoint employer\u201d definition.\nIn a victory for single-family home builders, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) announced Oct. 2 its decision to delay enforcement of the new Confined Spaces in Construction Standard until Jan. 8, 2016.\nThe Army Corps of Engineers made significant changes to its new flood plain standards based on comments provided by NAHB. The Corps will not apply the floodplain requirements to Clean Water Act wetland permits. Similarly, FEMA will not apply the requirements to the National Flood Insurance Program, and HUD has indicated that the standard will not apply to FHA insurance of single-family mortgages.\nNAHB is very involved in the ongoing effort to keep codes sensible and cost-effective. Earlier this month, NAHB 1st Vice Chairman Ed Brady spoke to the International Code Council during their meetings in Long Beach, California about the importance of cost-effective building code changes.\nThis has always been the theme of NAHB\u2019s advocacy: Code change proposals that attempt to make homes safer and more energy efficient need to be balanced with what families can actually afford \u2013 so we have buyers for these homes. And while proposals that would have limited a lot of flexibility in our construction practices were soundly defeated when code officials voted in Long Beach, advocates who have their own profits in mind are likely to try to influence the final outcome when these proposals are opened to online voting later this month. Be on the lookout for the NAHB Voting Guide and be ready to share it with the building code officials in your city so they support only those code change proposals that are necessary and will result in building sustainable homes that are also safe and affordable.\nLearn More about how NAHB Can Serve You\nThese are just a few highlights of the many ways NAHB is working for members. I could go on about NAHB\u2019s educational offerings, leadership from NAHB councils, designation programs that help members set themselves apart, and Member Advantage programs that save members millions of dollars each year. But the easiest way to learn about all these services, and much more, is to visit www.valueofnahb.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 12025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.atouchofsoutherngrace.com/2014/12/merry-christmas.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:09Z", "digest": "sha1:U67RZCI7SZY4J5ZLQJFEBA76D37OLQLP", "length": 4207, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.atouchofsoutherngrace.com", "title": "A Touch of Southern Grace : Merry Christmas", "raw_content": "\u201cIn those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the city of David that is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house of and family of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. While they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn. Now there were shepherds in that region living in the fields and keeping watch over their flock. The angel of the Lord appeared to them, and they were struck with great fear. The angel said to them, \u2018Do not be afraid; for behold, I proclaim to you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For today in the city of David a savior has been born for you who is Messiah and Lord. And this will be a sign for you; you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger\u2019. And suddenly there was a multitude of the heavenly host with the angel, praising God and saying: \u2018Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests\u2019.\n~ Luke 2:1-14\nBirdie Liau December 25, 2014 at 9:56 PM\nMerry Christmas to you too (: hope you had a wonderful and lovely time!! x\nMerry Christmas! Wishing you and your family a wonderful holiday season!\nLubka Christova December 26, 2014 at 7:22 AM\nIt is indeed said so. Although no where in the Bible it is mentioned the day He was born.\nI don't celebrate Christmas, because I strongly disagree with the acceptance of the savior's birthday to be at the same time as the winter solstice. What the world is celebrating is more likely to be an ancient pagan festival called saturnalia or who knows what.\nThank you for posting this quote though. It's good to read it from your blog :)\nI think that there is some speculation that he was born in the summer, but I guess it is hard to say for sure. Regardless I always enjoy the Christmas season for what it is and born in December or not he is that reason for the season :). Happy to see you enjoyed this quote and that you enjoy my blog!\nWhether he has anything to do with the reasons for celebrating, I can argue a lot. :)\nThere is no mention anywhere in the bible when he has been born or that we should celebrate it at all.\nI grew up going to Catholic schools and am very familiar with the bible, the books that weren't canonized into the bible and why, the common misconceptions, misinterpretations, alternative interpretations, and so on. You are 100% percent right, there is no where in the Bible that says when he was born or that we should celebrate it, in fact I believe that common consensus among religious scholars is that Christ was born in July.\nBorn in December or not, it is nice that there is a day set aside to recognize the birth of Christ; the key reason why Christianity founded. Over the many, many, many years Christians have celebrated Christmas it has evolved into an extremely commercialized holiday, and it is easy to lose sight of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place. December 25 (his birthday or not) is the one day of the year that has been set aside to recognize his birth. He is the whole reason for the Christmas season, without him the Christmas holiday would not have been established, his name is even in the holiday's name - (Christ)mas.\nEven though it does not say that we should celebrate his birth in the bible, I believe we celebrate out of respect, thankfulness, to recognize the son of God, the many sacrifices he made for the human race, and celebrate the joyous occasion that his birth was supposed to be. It goes without saying that it is an event that should be celebrated, we shouldn't have to be told to celebrate such momentous occasion in the history of christianity.\nMaja K December 26, 2014 at 8:09 AM\nHope you had a wonderful Christmas :) xx Maja\nHope you had a very Merry Christmas as well :)\nLoveT. December 26, 2014 at 12:28 PM\nHappy Holiday to you too!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 7866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.attabid.com/panel-to-decide-on-reopening-sterlite-factory-says-ngt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:20Z", "digest": "sha1:IKDZEB2H5EJ5IIZFJILV2QWPP2SJFU24", "length": 224, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.attabid.com", "title": "Panel to decide on reopening Sterlite factory, says NGT \u2013 Attabid Wire EDM News", "raw_content": "The tribunal said the committee should be headed by a retired judge and two members from the Central Pollution Control Board and the Ministry of Environment and Forests.\nvia Industry-The Economic Times https://ift.tt/2N24iEw", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.awardscircuit.com/2019/02/07/superhero-fix-top-10-comic-book-antiheroes-who-made-the-jump-to-film-tv/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:5JALDZPDWWICPOG2ABUZAIPFC62ICPBB", "length": 8227, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.awardscircuit.com", "title": "Superhero Fix: Top 10 Comic Book Antiheroes Who Made The Jump To Film & TV \u2022 AwardsCircuit.com by Clayton Davis", "raw_content": "Home Culture Superhero Fix: Top 10 Comic Book Antiheroes Who Made The Jump To...\nThe last few years have been rather bleak, with government shutdowns and polar vortexes starting out 2019 on a low note. As our world turns a little darker, we also turn to characters without squeaky-clean pasts or rock-solid moral codes. Antiheroes of comic book legend are having their own renaissance in film and TV at the moment, so in honor of the shift from simple good to chaotic justice, here are the top 10 antiheroes who made the jump from the comics to the small and big screen.\n10V (DC Comics)\nA DC antihero turned global political symbol, V of \u201cV For Vendetta\u201d is far from typical. An inmate of a concentration camp run by the Norsefire, a fascist British dictatorship from the future, V\u2019s former life and identity is unknown. After being the subject of horrific medical experiments, V earns a laundry list of superpowers, including super strength, speed, and intellect. He sets out to destroy Norsefire and everyone who gets in his way, often in cruel and unusual ways. The 2005 film may have had mixed reviews, but V\u2019s iconic Guy Fawkes mask is now worn by those protesting government oppression, cementing him as an antihero and symbol of freedom from tyranny.\n9Blade (Marvel Comics)\nBefore the box office successes of \u201cVenom\u201d and \u201cDeadpool\u201d there was the \u201cBlade\u201d trilogy, helmed by the incomparable Wesley Snipes. We followed Blade (Snipes), a vampire hunter who protects humans from the bloodsuckers. This gritty antihero laid the groundwork for the recent wave of comic book movies, becoming the second Marvel-based film to get a wide theatrical release and even earning two more sequels for its troubles.\n8Poison Ivy (DC Comics)\n\u201cBatman & Robin\u201d (1997), \u201cGotham\u201d (2014-)\nIn an artifact theft gone wrong, a humble Gotham City botanist acquires an immunity to all toxins and diseases. Beautiful, intelligent, and deadly, Poison Ivy \u2013 real name Pamela Lillian Isley \u2013 soon begins life as an eco-terrorist who uses plant toxins and mind-control pheromones to protect the environment. After catching the attention of Batman, she becomes one of his most famous adversaries, sparring and flirting with the Dark Knight in equal measure. She was famously played by Uma Thurman in \u201cBatman & Robin,\u201d and is played by Clare Foley, Maggie Geha and Peyton List in the Fox TV series, \u201cGotham.\u201d\n7Magneto (Marvel Comics)\n\u201cX-Men\u201d (2003), \u201cX-Men: The Last Stand\u201d (2006), \u201cX-Men: Apocalypse\u201d (2016)\nMagneto is a super who switches from hero to villain to antihero, depending on the film or comic book. A mutant with the power to generate and control magnetic fields, Magneto believes in the superiority of mutants over humans, seeking to make mutants (or \u201chomo superiors\u201d) the dominant species. While his views are harsh, Marvel writers have painted a bleak picture of Magneto\u2019s origins as a Holocaust survivor, which drives his extreme determination to make the world safe for mutants. His ideologies have often been compared to those of Malcolm X, sparking an ongoing moral debate about how to seek civil rights for minorities like the mutants. He\u2019s been played by Ian McKellen and Michael Fassbender in the MCU\u2019s \u201cX-Men\u201d films.\n6X-23 (Marvel Comics)\nAssassin, mutant, and eventual superhero X-23, aka Laura Kinney, is the daughter of Wolverine who can throw down with the best of \u2019em. Most recently played by Dafne Keen in \u201cLogan,\u201d Laura\u2019s healing factor and enhanced senses, speed, reflexes and familiar adamantium-coated bone claws make her a bad guy\u2019s worst nightmare. Originally a clone of Weapon X, created and controlled by the Facility, X-23 forges her own path toward truth, justice, and dad Logan and the rest of the X-Men. Of all the antiheroes on this list, she\u2019s the one I\u2019d least like to mess with.\n5Catwoman (DC Comics)\n\u201cBatman\u201d (1966-68), \u201cBatman Returns\u201d (1992), \u201cCatwoman\u201d (2004), \u201cThe Dark Knight Rises\u201d (2012)\nComplete with bullwhip, claws and climbing pitons, Catwoman is a quintessential DC villain with sex appeal, a sharp mind and a secret good side that made readers fall for Gotham\u2019s master cat burglar. Though several female characters have worn the catsuit (Selina Kyle, Holly Robinson and Eiko Hasigawa), Catwoman always manages to land on her feet. Her popularity has been fueled in part by the acting powerhouses who have played her; from Michelle Pfeiffer, Anna Hathaway and Halle Berry on the big screen, to TV actors Julie Newmar, Eartha Kitt and Camren Bicondova, Catwoman has always been one of DC\u2019s prominent antiheroes, falling in and out of allegiance with Gotham\u2019s protector yet never crossing over into true evil.\n4Killmonger (Marvel Comics)\nWhile Black Panther\u2019s mercenary cousin is portrayed as the main villain of the 2018 flick, Erik Killmonger (birth name N\u2019Jadaka) is a complicated figure. His actions tend toward violence, murder and dictatorship, but his motivations \u2013 to throw off white colonialist influence around the world \u2013 made \u201cBlack Panther\u2019s\u201d message more poignant than typical Marvel fare. Michael B. Jordan portrayed N\u2019Jadaka as a product of righteous anger, a violent career and tragic backstory. Killmonger\u2019s anger at how the world treats people of color was understandable, relatable even, yet his solutions remained in the violent colonialist system that caused such strife. Audiences could connect with and understand his motivations, while acknowledging his actions were cruel. His final words, a reminder of the horrors of slavery, made his death scene one of the most poignant we\u2019ve seen in the MCU.\n3Harley Quinn (DC Comics)\nSweet, lovesick and a little trigger happy, Harley Quinn is one of Batman\u2019s most famous enemies turned sort-of superhero. While working as the Joker\u2019s psychologist at Arkham Asylum, Harley falls in love with Batman\u2019s nemesis and becomes his partner in crime. Though she loves the Joker, their rocky relationship often means she\u2019s on her own, linking up with the likes of Poison Ivy and Catwoman; her close friendship with Poison even turns into a romance in the comics, making Harley a kickass bisexual antihero. Margot Robbie\u2019s live-action portrayal of Harley Quinn in \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d proved to be a shining point in the flick, with Robbie set to return as the spunky antihero in the upcoming \u201cBirds of Prey\u201d and \u201cGotham City Sirens.\u201d Here\u2019s hoping she\u2019ll be breaking up with Jared Leto\u2019s boring Joker and ride off into the sunset with Poison.\n2Deadpool (Marvel Comics)\n\u201cDeadpool\u201d (2016), \u201cDeadpool 2\u201d (2018)\nThe Merc with a Mouth has got it all: running gags, immortality, shattered fourth walls and a love for turning bad guys into bloody mulch. Deadpool, aka Wade Wilson, has a regenerative healing factor that keeps them alive but disfigures their body and scrambles their brains. Still, Deadpool has a solid code of morality, standing up for the innocent and turning from life as a gun-for-hire to genuine superhero work. Other superheroes may not like them, but Deadpool (played by Ryan Reynolds onscreen) is fun, irreverent and delightfully psychotic. They are also one of the few non-binary and pansexual comic book characters around, breaking down barriers in an increasingly straight and cis MCU.\n1The Punisher (Marvel Comics)\n\u201cMarvel\u2019s The Punisher\u201d (2017-)\nI know what you\u2019re thinking: who ranks the Punisher over Deadpool? While both are prime examples of the antihero archetype, Frank Castle just edges out Deadpool with his methods, roiling emotions and tragic backstory. The murder of Frank\u2019s family pushes him over the edge into bloody, gratuitous vengeance, which sees the military man turn into a seething vigilante. Frank is dark and twisted, consumed by grief and pushed to seek a form of justice other superheroes can\u2019t agree with. Deadpool might give someone a second chance, like Russell/Firefist in \u201cDeadpool 2.\u201d The Punisher would mow them down with an AK-47. You can see Jon Bernthal as the Punisher in Season 2 of \u201cMarvel\u2019s The Punisher,\u201d recently released on Netflix.\nWho are your favorite comic book antiheroes who made it onto film or TV? Let us know in the comments below!\nPrevious articleOscars Look: Best Visual Effects\nNext articleWhat\u2019s on TV? \u2013 Friday (2/8/19) \u2013 Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Offer Exciting Premieres", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 16548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.babyridleybump.com/2013/11/viva-las-vegas.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DH2LG6ARXEGN76M7UPOHJWDPJYOITOUY", "length": 8617, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.babyridleybump.com", "title": "baby Ridley bump.: Viva Las Vegas!", "raw_content": "I apologize in advance this is going to be a lengthy post full of photos so brace yourself!\nWhat an awesome trip we had this weekend in Vegas! I really did not know what to expect. I got some really great recommendations from a friend of mine so I knew there were a few things that I was pretty set on doing, but I didn't even know if we would be able to get those things done because of the short amount of time that we would be there. The wedding was beautiful & the travel went as smooth as you could hope for, so two thumbs up on our first trip to Vegas!\nOur flight got in Friday night about 9:30, we hopped on an awesome party bus with a fully stocked bar & a stripper pole. We went to the hotel to check in & got ready to hit the strip for a couple of hours. One of things I really wanted to do was the Eiffel Tower ride at Paris. Luckily, it was only a couple minute walk from the Flamingo so we went in, got a drink & Joe and I took the ride. I\u2019m so glad we did it. It was only $20 a person & you got to see a 360 view of the city at night. It was beautiful! Bonus, we got to see the very last fountain show of the night at the Bellagio. Amazing!! I was already able to check one thing off of my list and we had only been there for a couple of hours at this point. We ended up doing a little bit more walking, we wanted to go the Harley Davidson caf\u00e9, but it was about 2AM when we got there and they were closing. We ended up meeting the rest of the group at Cabo Wabo for a few drinks. I\u2019m not sure if I was just overstimulated by all of the sights or if I was just spent, I had several drinks throughout the night, but felt completely sober so I decided not to pay $14 for a drink. I kind of lost my energy & was starving by this point so Joe and I went back to the Flamingo, ordered a pizza & went to the room. We were up until about 3, which in Illinois time was 5, so technically, had been up for 24 hours! Can\u2019t remember the last time I did that, college days I would imagine. I was pretty proud of myself.\nOf course the next morning we were up by about 7AM, we decided to just get ready and do some exploring since the wedding was at 2:30. The Flamingo had a habitat with, what else, FLAMINGO'S, and other birds and fish so we wandered around that for a bit, really neat to see. Then we went for an early lunch at the Harley Davidson caf\u00e9 around 11:00. It was so much fun in there. Really awesome bike display where the bikes are on a track & they travel around the building. Their food was really good, & we liked all of the memorabilia they had throughout, lots of autographed gas tanks, the Captain America bike from Easy Rider, & an entire flag made out of chains the length of the building.\nIt was only about 11:45 when we left & we didn\u2019t need to back to the hotel until 1 so we decided to try to get to the Ice Bar at Mandalay Bay. The Mandalay Bay is way down at one of the strip so I pulled up the email I was sent from my friend & found that there was one at the Monte Carlo & we just happened to be right across the street so we made our way there with just enough time. It cost us a little over $100 for a fur coat for me, a parka for Joe, boots, gloves, & a souvenir photo. No cameras or phones allowed in the bar area (BOO!). It was such a cool place, literally and figuratively! Freezing in there, the glasses, the bar, everything is made out of ice. They change the set up every year so it\u2019s always different. We were both so glad we spent the money on it, it was a lot of fun, bartender was awesome, we met a couple from a suburb of Chicago who gave us their extra drink ticket so Joe was able to do an extra shot. They took professional photos of us & we ended up buying one. The guy dressed up as a penguin told us to check their facebook page in a few days for the rest of the photos! Thanks for the tip Mr. Penguin!\nBy the time we had our two cocktails & got our photos taken it was time to make the trek back to the hotel to get ready for the wedding. We took a cab down to Las Vegas Weddings & the ceremony was just perfect. Kassi looked AMAZING. Her dress was gorgeous & it fit her like a glove. There was a video camera in the room so that people at home could watch it online which I thought as really awesome. I snuck a few pics on my phone, but there was a professional photographer there as well. The speech that the officiant gave about had me in tears. It was perfect.\nthe bride & groom!\nAfter the wedding we went back to the hotel, grabbed some drinks, changed clothes, & headed to Maggiano\u2019s for dinner. It was quite the walk but it was a ton of fun. Dinner was amazing, but so incredibly filling, lots of bread & pasta, carbs galore! I think most of us were exhausted by the time dinner was over. Mike was pretty dead set on doing the jump at the Stratosphere so he made reservations for him and Joe around 8:30. I felt bad that we were leaving the wedding group to do this, but I figured we only had a little more time to do the things we really wanted to do so I went along with it. They really should\u2019ve waited until Sunday morning, but oh well, boys aren\u2019t as smart as girls, we all know that ;-)\u2026\nSo after we just stuffed our faces full, Joe, Mike, & I headed at a lightning speed to the stratosphere & I just couldn\u2019t take it. My stomach hurt, my knee was killing me, & I had a splitting headache, the walk took us about a half an hour, I hated every second of it. I was so annoyed, tired, & sick, but I put my big girl pants on and waited for them to do their jump. Unfortunately, since boys aren\u2019t that smart, Mike wasn\u2019t able to jump because he was 2 pounds overweight. They told him to come back in the morning on an empty stomach. I felt so bad for him because he was really the one that wanted to do it, Joe was kind of just tagging along, but he was all suited up & had his harness on so he decided to just go ahead and do it anyway, even though Mike couldn\u2019t. It was about $100 to jump off the side of the building in what\u2019s called a \u201ccontrolled\u201d jump. Joe said that the adrenaline from taking that first step off the building was worth the money, but the fall was not, it was slow, & boring. I told him better you than me, & made them get a cab and get me back to the hotel.\nJoe jumped off of this building!\nWe got back to the hotel and I was just done for. My leg hurt so bad, my knee was killing me, all the way up to my hip. That walk totally did me in. I was sooo mad! The rest of the group was going down to Freemont St, old Vegas, & that was one other thing I really wanted to do. I just couldn\u2019t bring myself to do it. More alcohol, more walking, & more time in a bus or car just made me more sick even thinking about it. I told Joe to go on without me & I hit the sack. It was realllly early, like maybe 10PM with the time change (day light savings, thanks for that extra hour of sleep!). One of our other friends also did not feel good, I think he had a really bad cold & they ended up staying back as well. I guess we are just too old for two nights of partying! Joe got in about 1:30. We were up early again the next morning, about 7:30 or 8:00. We went to breakfast then just hung out in the room until noon when we went back to the airport. We got back home last night about 9PM which was not bad at all. Got a decent night of sleep, & had to come back to work bright and early this morning.\nAll in all Joe and I were both really pleased with the trip. We had time to do the few things we were really set on doing, we got to be there to see our friends get married, & we did it all in one weekend without taking any time off of work or anything. We definitely want to go back one day. Thank you Matt & Kassi for letting us share your special day with you! It was truly one of the most fun weekends we\u2019ve had in a long time & your wedding was absolutely beautiful!\nThe rest of the week should be pretty quiet. We have our next doctor\u2019s appointment tomorrow at 3:30 in Peoria. Really cannot wait to see what\u2019s in store for us next! Then I have to be back in Peoria for work on Wednesday and Thursday so lots of traveling this week. No real big plans on the calendar for the rest of the month. My aunt and I are making pumpkin stuffed tortellini\u2019s this weekend so be on the lookout for the tutorial on that next week! Nice quiet weekends until Thanksgiving then it will be time to cut down a tree & watch Christmas vacation!\nHappy November everyone! The Holiday season has arrived!\nCourtney Wilson @ Keystroke Journaling November 5, 2013 at 4:10 PM\nCannot believe your husband jumped off that building. AMAZE! 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Operation hours are 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday to Friday. The center is available outside these hours by request for additional training.\nThe mission of the BDMS Training Center for Clinical Skills is to provide state-of-art health care education using simulation technology to uplift, standardize & integrate capabilities of BDMS clinical professionals for clinical excellence in delivering better BDMS clinical outcomes and for optimizing the culture of patient safety.\nSimulation Course Coordinator\nSimulation Training Methods\nHigh fidelity training\nusing full-sized, programmable mannequins with real time responses to specific care, intervention, or treatment.\nMedium fidelity mannequins\nusing full-sized human body mannequins with programmable input.\nusing a simulator designed to practice specific clinical skills.\nusing a well-trained staff acting as patients during simulation.\nThe BDMS Training Center for Clinical Skills is a fully-staffed medical training facility located on the 10th floor of the BDMS Simulation Building. Our facility is designed to give medical, nursing and dental students, as well as residents, staff nurses and practicing physicians the opportunity to develop and improve their clinical skills and teamwork. Our newly renovated state-of-the-art facility provides approximately 350 square meters of space, encompassing 2 intensive care units, 3 in-patient rooms, 1 operating room, 1 emergency room, 1 outpatient room, 5 control rooms, 1 conference/debriefing room with a capacity for 40 people, and 1 ambulance.\nCoronary heart disease is one of the leading causes of death in Thailand as well as most industrialized nations throughout the world. The survival rate for patients hospitalized with severe heart disease (ACS, HF) is significantly related to improvements in emergency medical response and treatment strategies.\nThere is now overwhelming evidence that significant numbers of patients are harmed from the healthcare they receive resulting in permanent injury, increased length of stay in hospital or even death. 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It was the music of white, working class, often rural Americans and as such took its influences from folk, western music, and the folk music styles of the country\u2019s many immigrants, most notably Irish and Celtic settlers. Until the 1950s, country music was a genre in search of a much better title. In the 1930s what we would recognise as country music today was often termed \u2018hillbilly music\u2019 but by the end of that decade the term was considered derogatory. As America entered the fifties it seemed that the term \u2018folk\u2019 would be adopted but Pete Seeger, then lead signer with the band the Weavers and a self-confessed folk singer was called to Senator Joe McCarthy\u2019s Senate Hearings in 1952 to account for his apparent communist sympathies record companies couldn\u2019t disassociate themselves from the label fast enough, adopting the term \u2018country\u2019. Since that time, country music has grown and developed as all genres must do if they are to survive and there are numerous sub genres including Honky Tonk Country, Countrypolitan, Outlaw Country, and Country Pop.\nPopular in the 1950s, Honky Tonk is a gritty, upbeat sound with a crisp backbeat and a full rhythm section playing a two-beat rhythm. It usually features guitar, fiddle, string bass and steel guitar. This style can be heard in the music of Hank Williams. In the 1960s, country music took on a lusher, more sumptuous feel influenced by the hugely successful Nashville Sound. Seeking to widen the audience for country music, the smooth sounds of Countrypolitan feature string arrangements, orchestras and choirs delivering backing vocals. Examples of this rich, sophisticated sound can be heard in in the work of Patsy Cline and George Jones. Tired of the strictures placed on them by increasingly powerful and controlling record labels, by the 1970s a group of country musicians rebelled and Outlaw Country was born. As the seventies dawned, musicians spearheaded by the likes of Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson sought to take back control of their music, their songs, and whom they hired to record with them. This gave rise to music that was more experimental and that blended rock and folk rhythms with country music instrumentation. Lyrics are introspective and/or socially aware in content. Johnny Cash took the Outlaw route with huge success. By the 1980s, the Outlaw movement gave way to the crossover subgenre of Country Pop. This can be seen as a continuation of the Countrypolitan project to widen the appeal of country music in order to attract new audiences. Country Pop songs are structurally more like standard pop songs with a country flavor. Artists producing music in this category include Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers. This collection is the ideal starting place to discover your kind of country music.\nJohnny Cash (Born: 26 February 1932 Died: 12 September 2003)\nBorn J.R. Cash in Arkansas, Johnny Cash\u2019s brand of rebel country reflects his background growing up in the rural South during the Great Depression and his lifelong compassion for the poor and downtrodden. An American icon, Cash\u2019s contribution to country music cannot be overstated. He started out recording in 1955 with Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant at The Sun Studio in Memphis. This sampler of Cash\u2019s work includes the seminal track, I Walk The Line, a song included in the Record Industry of America\u2019s Songs of the Century roll of honour. You will also find here greats like Folsom Prison Blues and Don\u2019t Take Your Guns To Town. Known as The Man in Black, Cash was famous for wearing the colour head to toe. The reason for his choice of stage attire was, he said, to wear the colour of mourning until social and political inequalities are vanquished. From his poverty stricken background to his addiction to drugs and alcohol, Cash\u2019s rich, gravelly voice seems to not only embody all his life\u2019s trials and struggles but also the times he lived through. This is a voice that had a story to tell. Cash has influenced artists across the board, including Steve Earle, Moby, Sheryl Crow, Mick Jagger, Elvis Costello, Bono, and Bob Dylan. Singer/songwriter, Cowboy Jack Clement said of Cash: \u201cThere\u2019s two kinds of people on Earth. Those that love Johnny Cash, and those that will.\u201d\nDolly Parton (Born: 19 January 1946)\nDolly Rebecca Parton grew up dirt poor as one of twelve children in the mountains of Tennessee, but has forged a staggeringly successful career as the queen of country music, as a businesswoman and as a philanthropist. She contributed to the family coffers as a child performer and was hugely influenced by pioneering country singer, Kitty Wells. Parton\u2019s repertoire includes country, bluegrass, folk and pop. Describing herself as a simple country girl, Parton\u2019s affinity with the music of her roots is most evident in her country classics. Her first single, Puppy Love, is included here. Parton wrote the song aged 11 and recorded it in 1959 at the age of 13. Also included is a cover of her idol Kitty Well\u2019s classic, It Wasn\u2019t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels. You can also find here two great examples of her sentimental country songs, Little Blossom and Letter To Heaven. Still performing at the top of her game and with a crossover appeal most artists would kill for, Parton headlined the Glastonbury Festival in 2014 and is the recipient of the US Library of Congress\u2019 Living Legend Medal. Godmother of Miley Cyrus, she has influenced the newest crop of female artists, including Alison Krauss, LeAnn Rimes, Shania Twain, and Katy Perry.\nKenny Rogers (Born: 21 August 1938)\nBorn in Texas, Kenneth Donald Rogers started his career in teen rock and roll in the 1950s, before joining The First Edition, a jazz/country/folk/psychedelic rock outfit. He recorded with them up until his solo career in 1976. In this collection of early material can be found gems like Ruby, Don\u2019t Take Your Love To Town, Calico Silver, and an inspired version of Me and Bobby McGee. There are some surprising facts about this country music legend. In 1968, he discovered Don Henley and helped him develop his career and in spite of owning the rights to Henley\u2019s music up to that point Rogers gave it all back without charge and with love when David Geffen came calling to sign the fledgling Eagles. Rogers is a huge megastar in Jamaica and his music has been brought to a new generation of fans through his work with Wyclef Jean, and his 2013 headlining appearance at the Glastonbury Festival.\nHank Williams (Born: 17 September 1923 Died: 1 January 1953\nHiram King Williams was born in Alabama and was inspired by gospel and traditional folk ballads. He was taught to play guitar by street bluesman Rufus Payne, known\nas \u2018Teetot\u2019. The pain he suffered from late-diagnosed spina bifida occulta led to dependence on prescription painkillers and alcohol that took a toll on his career. He joined the company of the Grand Old Opry but Williams was unceremoniously fired due to his drinking and persistent absence. The Opry liked to cultivate a wholesome image and Williams\u2019 behavior had become anything but wholesome. His contribution to country music is formidable. He died at the age of only 29 having recorded 66 songs over a six year period, 37 of which were hits. Songs like Your Cheatin\u2019 Heart, Cold, Cold, Heart, and I\u2019m So Lonesome I Could Cry, are considered country classics, and his songs have been covered by many artists cutting across musical genres, including The The, Johnny Cash, Dinah Washington and Nora Jones. Country music singer Radney Foster suggested that Hank William\u2019s influence goes beyond country music. He says, \u201cIt\u2019s quite simple. No Hank Williams, no rock and roll.\u201d\nPatsy Cline (Born: 8 September 1932 died: 5 March 1963)\nBorn Virginia Patterson Hensley in Virginia, Patsy Cline became the first female solo artist to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, and joined the Grand Ole Opry in 1960. It is usual for artists to be invited. Cline was the first ever artist to ask. \u2018The Cline\u2019 as she liked to be known, was a force to be reckoned with in business, insisting she be paid upfront before gigs (\u2018No dough, no show\u2019 was her mantra). She was also supportive of other female artists and encouraged Loretta Lynn, Dottie West, and Brenda Lee in their careers. Cline was also the first female country star to headline her own shows and to appear at the top of tour billings above the male stars. Whilst primarily a country artist, she successfully crossed over into pop. Her hits included such classics as Crazy, Walkin\u2019 After Midnight, and I Fall To Pieces \u2013 all included in this selection. I Fall To Pieces is particularly notable in that it is included in the Record Industry of America\u2019s Songs of the Century list. Generous to a fault, even when she didn\u2019t have the means, Cline also carried with her a sense of her own impending death. She was proved right. After a brush with death in a car crash in 1961, Patsy was killed in a plane crash in 1963. Among the artists to acknowledge the influence of The Cline are Cyndi Lauper, Taylor Swift and LeAnn Rimes.\nGeorge Jones (Born: 12 September 1931 Died: 26 April 2013)\nOften voted by country music makers as their favourite country singer, and described by the New York Times as \u201cthe finest, most riveting singer in country music\u201d, Texas-born George Glenn Jones possessed one of the most interpretative voices to be found in the genre. Jones\u2019 secret was to imagine a feeling or experience he\u2019d had in his own life that resonated most closely with that of the character or situation in a song. This kind of \u2018method-singing\u2019 gave his delivery a poignancy and intensity that few other singers of any musical style could match. His tempestuous marriages \u2013 most famously to fellow country star Tammy Wynette, and love of liquor were the stuff of legend. His alcoholism impacted on every area of his life at the height of his fame; no more so than in his career, where his constant drinking and failure to turn up for performances led to the nickname, \u2018No Show Jones\u2019. Included in this selection of Jones\u2019 music are three of the star\u2019s Billboard number one hit singles including his 1959 debut White Lightnin\u2019, Tender Years and She Thinks I Still Care. Though Jones died in 2013 his songs and his legacy live on. He has influenced artists beyond country music, including Robert Plant, Elvis Costello, Gram Parsons, and Leonard Cohen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 12582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 166.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bestjewelry101.ga/2017/07/what-you-need-to-know-about-washable.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:05Z", "digest": "sha1:UBDQDAPXTPRWHFUJ7YHVMFWQAAV2XCMR", "length": 3262, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bestjewelry101.ga", "title": "best jewelry: What You Need To Know About Washable Boot Covers", "raw_content": "What You Need To Know About Washable Boot Covers\nOver a long period, people have suffered due to regular home cleaning. The residents are forced to clean their houses repeatedly. This is as a result of dirt, mud, and water that people bring on the floor of the homes by wearing dirty shoes. Workers who visit their employers offices or construction buildings have the same problems. However, the introduction of shoe protective materials has helped to operate at homes and offices in a clean environment. There are many things related to washable boot covers that you need to discover.\nWashable shoe boot covers are durable, and they can be used for an extended period. They are made up of quality materials. They are not easily damaged since the covers are hard to be damaged. They are made of heavy duty white print and blue print that protects them from outside harm. Therefore, they can last for long if proper care is done.\nThe shoe protectors have a slip resistant pattern on the sole. This provides a firm grip on slippery floors. Therefore, people moving on these kinds of levels feel comfortable and secured. They protect individuals from dangers that could arise from slipping in the house. It is advisable to use them in all weather conditions to avoid risking the lives of people\nProtecting your shoes from dirt is important. This improves the conditions of the homes by raising it to clean standards. The covers are washed each time they get dirty, and they resume the initial look they had before. They can be used for a long time as they are reusable compared to disposable plastic and polyethylene materials. They can be made neat by machines as they have no side effects.\nThere is the need for all people to have at least a pair of shields to maintain the standards of our homes and work places. The covers are available in the market in all sizes ranging from small, medium and large sizes. Therefore, everyone is entitled to get a pair that suits the shoe size comfortably. They are in various shapes and designs and color for men, ladies, and children.\nThe cost of buying the washable-boot covers is affordable. Furthermore, the cleaning expenses and maintenance charges are very low and are not required regularly. Therefore, this is a cheaper solution compared to the use of disposable materials like the polyethylene bags and the plastic materials. They are not costly due to daily purchase demand.\nWhat makes them marketable is their nature to adapt to the weather conditions. They are not affected by mist ice or rainfall. They are waterproof, and this makes them suitable to be used in all regions. Where houses freeze to accommodate moisture, people are advised to wear shoe covers. This is to avoid damaging their feet once they remove their dirty shoes.\nQuality boot protectors are made of elastic material at the top. This helps to tighten the shoe at the top. Therefore, they become easy to lip the in or off. This saves time especially to workers who are paid on time basis. It requires little energy instead of removing shoes.\nWhen you need a supplier of washable boot covers we would recommend that you explore this website for your needs. Have a look at the online page by clicking on this link http://www.itreadright.com/blog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 107629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bipp.com/BIPPBlog/tabid/1103/EntryId/138/Adrian-Berkeley-Obituary.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FJK6NP7RPLDSSD6M2YDQQZP3ITMWOC35", "length": 3232, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.bipp.com", "title": "BIPP Blog - Adrian Berkeley - Obituary", "raw_content": "Adrian Berkeley occupied the post of Chief Executive of the BIPP from 1989 to 1992. The position of Chief Executive replaced the earlier designation of General Secretary. Among the criteria for filling the post was that the incumbent should have some knowledge of legal matters. It was therefore highly serendipitous that living less than three miles from Institute headquarters in Ware was a candidate possessing a degree in law and with experience of working as a photographer. After training at RAF Cosford, Adrian had served in the Photographic Branch of the Royal Air Force for ten years. Following a period in business, he enrolled on a degree course in law at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, gaining an LLB.\nAdrian\u2019s arrival at the BIPP coincided with planning for the ten years leading to the centenary of the Institute and he was deeply involved with working parties considering its status and governance. Another major development at that time was the introduction of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 which identified creators as the owners of copyright. Adrian\u2019s background in law was invaluable in interpreting the provisions of the act in ways that could be understood by laymen. His book \u201cThe Focal Guide to Photography and the Law\u201d became an essential manual. Throughout his tenure, Adrian was a tireless advocate of the rights of photographers, once attending a court in East Anglia in support of a member claiming breach of copyright.\nThe start of the nineties saw the development of electronic/digital imaging gain momentum. Recognising the importance of acquainting members with the challenges and opportunities presented by this medium, Adrian encouraged the President at the time, John Henshall FBIPP, to write a monthly column in the Institute journal, \u2018The Photographer.\u2019 This became \u201cJohn Henshall\u2019s Chip Shop\u201d and alerted readers entertainingly to the future of photography.\nAdrian maintained an active interest in politics, being a member of Nottinghamshire County Council in the seventies and at one time, occupying a seat on the National Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party. He could present a tough exterior when defending what he thought was right but the essential humanity of the man shone through when he regularly and unobtrusively took great trouble to treat his colleagues and members to acts of kindness.\nA strong talent for the written word stood Adrian in good stead when, after relinquishing the role of BIPP Chief Executive, he was appointed Editor of \u2018The Photographer\u2019 and remained in that position until 1997.\nThereafter, he became the General Secretary of the Institute of Trichologists. Later, he was company secretary for HABIA (Hair and Beauty Industry Authority), where he remained until his retirement in 2013, living in Doncaster.\nAdrian had undergone heart bypass surgery in 1994. Subsequently, he had only suffered from minor illnesses so that his death from heart failure on 8 June came as a terrible shock to his family. He is survived by his wife, Jenny, three daughters, a stepson and stepdaughter, nine grandchildren and a great granddaughter.\nAdrian M Berkeley\nSt Dunstan\u2019s College, Catford, London SE\nJSOP RAF Cosford\nTrent Polytechnic, Nottingham", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 5310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 175.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blogpei.ca/news/buzz/2018/12/03/127-advanced-alien-civilisations-manipulate-nebulas-researcher-claims.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:03Z", "digest": "sha1:N42FRJ37IUDZ5K2YXASYS6QJCG5CISOO", "length": 2256, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.blogpei.ca", "title": "Advanced Alien Civilisations Manipulate Nebulas, Researcher Claims - blogPEI | Prince Edward Island - Breaking News.", "raw_content": "Place: Rosetta Nebula.\nA few days ago, on 20 November, renowned UFO researcher and writer Scott C. Waring, owner of UFO Sightings Daily blog, published a very interesting article in which he claims to have found an \u201cabsolute proof\u201d of an alien race that is allegedly manipulating nebulas in outer space in order to show \u201ctheir great creation\u201d.\n\u201cI found another face in a nebula today [20 November]. It is called the Rosetta Nebula. The face is similar to the skull I found on the asteroid 2015 TB145 that got into the world news a while back. However, this is so much bigger!\u201d Mr Waring stated. \u201cThere is something about skulls that draws our attention to them. Probably that it forces us to face our own mortality. I think aliens face the same dilemma. Although they may life thousands or millions of years, accidents do happen and lives do get lost\u201d, he added.\nHe explained that only a god-like civilisation could have the ability to modify the appearance of a nebula. \u201cA Russian astrophysicist back in 1964 created a scale of civilizations from type 1, humanity being slightly below that at the moment, to type 5 which are to us like\u2026 gods. It would take a type 5 civilization to be able to create a face from a nebula\u201d, the ufologist said. \u201cHere beings would be like gods, having the knowledge to manipulate the universe as they please. Only then could an entire nebula be purposely created to become a face of their culture\u201d, he continued.\n\u201cBack in 2016, I discovered the first evidence the world has ever seen of a type 5 civilization: a human face right at the centre of the Carina Nebula\u201d, Mr Waring commented. \u201cSo, now we not only know that two type 5 civilizations exist, but we also know what their faces look like and where in the universe they are from. Where? They will be from a location not far from the nebulas of course, so all their race could see their great creation\u201d, he asserted.\n\u201cIs the universe natural, unnatural, or does it have a modified naturalness? The most exciting thing about that question is that we now have an answer based on the evidence from the Carina and Rosetta Nebulas\u201d, the American UFO researcher remarked.\nFor more information: http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2018/11/absolute-proof-of-type-5-godly-alien.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blogsngpinoy.com/2018/04/sprezzatura.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:08Z", "digest": "sha1:WR5YCBA5LPYXC2VHIBUX6IIOOIHFIUVQ", "length": 248, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.blogsngpinoy.com", "title": "BLOGS NG PINOY: Sprezzatura", "raw_content": "Blog URL: http://www.djemjacob.com\nAuthor: Djem Jacob\nBlog Category: Fashion & Beauty, Life & Lifestyle, Random, Reviews, Travel & Leisure\nDescription: A braveheart angel who has a thing for fashion, food, travelling, skin care and beauty products.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bobatl.com/comment/20941", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:13Z", "digest": "sha1:J5QRTFQU6OQVZRXOVI6HQJE2XPATVUNP", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bobatl.com", "title": "B.o.B Wants You to Win Another Free Fujifilm Instax Mini 7S Camera - B.o.B Official Blog", "raw_content": "Have You Voted for B.o.B Yet?!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 10271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 156.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bombastarr.com/2013/09/heartbeats.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:00Z", "digest": "sha1:57LWHLXYIJU3Z5STIC7WB3UBED6VZAUQ", "length": 1901, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bombastarr.com", "title": "Bombastarr", "raw_content": "12:51 am, and my iPod is playing tricks on me. I had it on shuffle and it played \"Heartbeats\" by Jose Gonzalez.\nThere is a scene in One Tree Hill that has this song for its backdrop. The Ravens win their must-coveted championship, and while the night was far from over, at that moment, with confetti raining down on the entire arena, it was perfect, and all was right in the world. They were young, they were happy - and the future held so much promise. It was a beautiful encapsulation of what it was like to be in the peak of your youth, to be on the brink of something great, something unbelievable. Of dreams unfolding before your eyes.\nThen Brooke asked Lucas one question, \"When all your dreams come true, who do you want standing next to you?\" And he looked at Peyton.\nI didn't really appreciate this scene then, because of my unabashed bias towards the other couple, Nathan/Haley. (All the other characters' moments somehow just fade away in the background, in comparison to the Naley ones. Plus, I wasn't very fond of Leyton.) I always figured it was just sweet dialogue, coupled with a great song, to set the wheels in motion finally for Lucas/Peyton. Yet for all my character-driven animosity towards this scene, I can't deny that it was one of the most poignant ones in the entirety of the show's run.\nThis question lingered somehow in my head, I guess. And the song. I didn't know if it was possible, if the chances of such an instance happening was realistic enough to exist outside the world of teen dramas, but I've since attached \"Heartbeats\" to the hopefulness of that brief occasion just coming one day. That light-bulb epiphany of realizing that it's someone. Somehow, that song no longer reminded me of the episode per se, but just the idea of that moment, and that one look -- the feeling of just knowing.\nKnowing, and believing, with all certainty.\n\"It's you. It's you, Peyton.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 12941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 226.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9780993493249", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:43Z", "digest": "sha1:OJZ5YPTI4WLQGY6SSPIVRS7CV7JZUBW5", "length": 2543, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.booksamillion.com", "title": "Exploring the Nc500 : Travelling Scotland's Route 66 by David M. Addison (Paperback): Booksamillion.com: Books", "raw_content": "Exploring the Nc500 : Travelling Scotland's Route 66\nTravelling anti-clockwise, David M. Addison seeks his kicks on Scotland's equivalent of Route 66. Otherwise known as NC500, the route takes you through five hundred miles of some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery. No wonder it has been voted as one of the world's five most scenic road journeys. Read more...\nMore About Exploring the Nc500 by David M. Addison\nTravelling anti-clockwise, David M. Addison seeks his kicks on Scotland's equivalent of Route 66. Otherwise known as NC500, the route takes you through five hundred miles of some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery. No wonder it has been voted as one of the world's five most scenic road journeys.\nThere are many mays of exploring the NC500. You can drive it, cycle it, motorbike it or even walk it, even if you are not one of The Proclaimers And there are as many activities, places of interest and sights to be seen along the way as there are miles.\nThis is a personal account of the author's exploration of the NC500 as well as some detours from it, such as to the Black Isle, Strathpeffer and Dingwall. Whatever your reason or reasons for exploring the NC500 may be, you should read this book before you go, or take it with you as a vade mecum. It will enhance your appreciation of the NC500 as you learn about the history behind the turbulent past of the many castles; hear folk tales, myths and legends connected with the area; become acquainted with the ancient peoples who once lived in this timeless landscape, and read about the lives of more recent heroes such as the good Hugh Miller who met a tragic end and villains such as the notorious Duke of Sutherland, who died in his bed (and may not be quite as bad as he is painted). There are a good number of other characters too of whom you may have never heard: some colourful, some eccentric, some very eccentric.\nYou may not necessarily wish to follow in the author's footsteps in all that he did, but if you read this book you will certainly see the landscape through more informed eyes as you do whatever you want to do en route NC500.\nSit in your car and enjoy the scenery for its own sake (and remember you get a different perspective from a different direction, so you may want to come back and do it again to get an alternative point of view ), or get out and explore it at closer quarters - the choice is yours, but this book will complement your experience, whatever you decide.\nBooks > Biography & Autobiography > Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 521, "original_length": 10504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.borgoeolie.it/en/attraction/shows-and-events/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EPKMW23YXQAHLP3YWNW5KI7DMPIYI4JM", "length": 568, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.borgoeolie.it", "title": "Shows and Events \u2013 Borgo Eolie Hotel Lipari", "raw_content": "There are many theatrical productions, concerts and folklore events on the Aeolian Islands during the tourist season. Cultural and historical events also attract a lot of interested people.\nThese include meetings held in the gardens of the \u201cCentro Studi e Ricerche di Storia e Problemi Eoliani\u201d, in churches and auditoriums.\nMost events in Lipari take place in the castle Amphitheatre. All the islands celebrate their patron saints with maritime processions, various spectacular events and fairs (\u201csagre\u201d) showcasing the best of food and wine from the Aeolian Islands.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.borntohack.in/2011/10/steve-jobs-father-of-personal-computing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:06Z", "digest": "sha1:4TF6FB4SCHM7AD7QYKEGQZO6XDTSKVFV", "length": 1582, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.borntohack.in", "title": "Born To Hack.!!: Steve Jobs, father of personal computing, passed away", "raw_content": "Steve Jobs, father of personal computing, passed away\nSteve Jobs died yesterday, aged 56, succumbing to the pancreatic cancer he'd been battling since 2004. The co-founder and chief architect of one of the biggest companies in the world, Apple Inc., Jobs was a visionary who had a large hand in shaping the world we live in today, giving us everything from the personal computer, to digital music distribution and the quintessential smartphone.\nApart from the words (seen below) from Apple's Board of Directors, newly appointed Apple CEO - Tim Cook, and Bill Gates, tributes from the common man are flooding the internet, with people also flocking to Apple's stores and offices to leave mementos, flowers, pictures and post-its in memoriam to the enigmatic futurist.\nA creative genius, Steve Jobs' zealful personality was one of the principal driving forces behind personal computing, one of the folks \"crazy enough\" to change the world, and the sad news of his demise has had a profound effect on all of us - regardless of any of our opinions about Apple and its products. R.I.P Steve Jobs.\nTim Cook in a letter to Apple employees\nSteve and I first met nearly 30 years ago, and have been colleagues, competitors and\nfriends over the course of more than half our lives.\nApple Board of Directors\nHis greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts\nLabels: apple, Aryan Gupta, Aryan.Born To Hack, Aryan.Master Of All Hackig Warez, Born To Hack, died, Master Of All Hackig Warez, New, steve jobs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.brahmand.com/news/BrahMos-takes-part-in-Techspardha-2013/10648/1/10.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4Q3NFMZF6SAB52CKFK7NAVQZXFBL6DLD", "length": 1919, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.brahmand.com", "title": "BrahMos takes part in 'Techspardha 2013' | Brahmand News", "raw_content": "BrahMos takes part in 'Techspardha 2013'\nDistinguished Scientist, CEO & MD of BrahMos Aerospace, A Sivathanu Pillai, at NIT Kurukshetra. A Brahmand photo.\nKURUKSHETRA (BNS): BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile system being showcased at the ongoing 'Techspardha 2013' organised to celebrate the golden jubilee year of NIT Kurukshetra has attracted a large number of students.\nChief Guest at the inaugural function on Thursday, Distinguished Scientist, CEO & MD of BrahMos Aerospace, A Sivathanu Pillai, who was recently conferred the 'Padma Bhushan' in a message encouraged the students to equip themselves with 'knowledge' which is the most important tool for growth and development of the nation.\nHe said, \"Knowledge, quality education and innovation used together in the right direction will take us to the path of desired growth and development in all spheres, particularly in technology discipline.Youngsters are the pillars of developed India. Ignited mind of the youth is the most powerful resource on the Earth.\"\nIndian-Russian Joint Venture BrahMos Aerospace along with Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratories are taking part in the festival by putting up exhibition to demonstrate their R&D potentials which will enthuse budding engineers and technologists and also motivate them for a career in defence technology development.\nBrahMos also conducted quiz contests to encourage young students and test their depth of knowledge in the fields of science and technology, and defence and aerospace.\n'Techspardha 2013' will be held from 31 January to 3 February 2013. A host of events are being organised during the festival which includes 'TechBest 2k9' in which all the best projects of Literati'12 will be showcased, exhibition of the best design projects of Techspardha 13, workshops to train students in various technologies besides many others.\nBRAHMOS Techspardha 2013 NIT Kurukshetra", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.brainstain.co.uk/tag/the-end-of-whatsapp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:11Z", "digest": "sha1:MF4PBUFSIAUP5EPU2YXXLMHVDX3OEBRZ", "length": 19, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.brainstain.co.uk", "title": "The End of WhatsApp Archives - Brainstain News", "raw_content": "The End of WhatsApp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 6364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 126.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bryme.net/2018/12/lady-threatens-ex-boyfriend-for.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:44Z", "digest": "sha1:GM72SECRLJ3F3ZUAW4HKF546GBSWUYSS", "length": 687, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.bryme.net", "title": "Lady Threatens Ex-Boyfriend For Proposing To Her Elder Sister - BRYME.NET", "raw_content": "Gists Lady Threatens Ex-Boyfriend For Proposing To Her Elder Sister\nLady Threatens Ex-Boyfriend For Proposing To Her Elder Sister\nA lady who turned down the proposal of her boyfriend of 5-years because her parents won't allow a non-Igbo man marry her, is allegedly threatening him after her elder sister accepted to be his wife.\nThe man whose Twitter handle is @DoctorEmto shared this on his page.\nAccording to him, he decided to ask the elder sister of his ex-girlfriend to marry him after his ex-girlfriend said no to him, fortunately for him, he got a yes from her. He also confirmed that the date for the wedding has already been fixed but his ex is threatening 'fire and brimstone'.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bssnews.net/?p=18701", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:07Z", "digest": "sha1:K4QBT2NTRKGPW5UATBVMSSPESMW3UZDW", "length": 1006, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.bssnews.net", "title": "PM mourns death of Ferdousi Priyabhashini | Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)", "raw_content": "Home National News PM mourns death of Ferdousi Priyabhashini\nPM mourns death of Ferdousi Priyabhashini\nDHAKA, March 6, 2018 (BSS) \u2013 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today expressed deep shock and sorrow at the death of noted sculptor and freedom fighter Ferdousi Priyabhashini.\nIn a condolence message, the premier recalled with profound respect outstanding contributions of Priyabhashini to the liberation war.\n\u201cThe nation has lost a valiant freedom fighter in her death,\u201d she said, adding her death is also an irreparable loss to the field of sculpture.\nPriyabhashini died of a cardiac arrest at Labaid Hospital in Dhaka this afternoon at the age of 70.\nShe suffered a massive cardiac arrest around 12:45 pm at the hospital where she was admitted on February 23 with kidney complications and orthopaedic problems, hospital sources said.\nPriyabhashini was one of the victims of the Pakistani occupation forces that together with their local collaborators violated almost a quarter of a million Bangalee women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 4285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": 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that he too will be able to leave hospital in due course\u201d.\nThe pair were found collapsed on a bench in the south-western city of Salisbury on March 4 in what British authorities have said was attempted murder by the Russian state.\nWestern allies backed Britain but Moscow strongly denied any involvement, prompting a furious international row.\nCountries around the world expelled more than 150 Russian diplomats in response, prompting Moscow to launch its own expulsions.\nThere were initially fears that the Skripals would not recover, but last week hospital and police officials said they were both improving.\nIn a short statement issued through police last week, Yulia Skripal said: \u201cI woke up over a week ago now and am glad to say my strength is growing daily.\u201d\nShe said she had found the incident \u201cdisorientating\u201d, without providing any further details on the attack.\nThe following day, the hospital said her father was also \u201cimproving rapidly and is no longer in a critical condition\u201d.\nThe BBC reported that Yulia had been discharged on Monday and was moved to a secure location.\nIn a tweet, the Russian embassy in London said: \u201cWe congratulate Yulia Skripal on her recovery.\n\u201cYet we need urgent proof that what is being done to her is done on her own free will.\u201d\n\u2013 \u2018Responded exceptionally well\u2019 \u2013\nPolice have said they believe the Skripals came into contact with the nerve agent at Sergei Skripal\u2019s front door.\nThe former Russian military officer was recruited by British intelligence in the 1990s and later charged with treason in his own country.\nHowever, he was pardoned in 2010 and moved to Britain as part of a spy swap between the United States and Russia.\nHis daughter was visiting at the time of the poisoning, the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since World War II.\nBritish scientists have identified the chemical as the Soviet-designed Novichok, although the international Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has yet to verify this.\nA police officer among the first at the scene in Salisbury was also hospitalised, but was released on March 22.\nBlanshard said nerve agents work by attaching themselves to particular enzymes in the body, which then stop the nerves from functioning, leading to sickness and hallucinations.\n\u201cOur job in treating the patients is to stabilise them, ensuring that they can breathe and that blood can continue to circulate,\u201d she said in a televised statement.\n\u201cWe then needed to use a variety of different drugs to support the patients until they could create more enzymes to replace those affected by the poisoning.\n\u201cWe also used specialised decontamination techniques to remove any residual toxins.\n\u201cBoth patients have responded exceptionally well to the treatment we\u2019ve been providing. But equally both patients are at different stages in their recovery.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 6839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.buffaloivf.com/team-dr_michael_sullivan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ULEWU3LIDSF4OXIH5GJYCIJ6LBN6Y6L7", "length": 1230, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.buffaloivf.com", "title": "Team - Dr Michael Sullivan", "raw_content": "Dr. Michael Sullivan attended Canisius College, where he received a B.S. in chemistry with honors. He received his medical school education at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse. He then completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA.\nFollowing his residency, he completed a one-year post doctoral fellowship in pharmacology at Thomas Jefferson University before pursuing a three year fellowship in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Magee Womens Hospital, University of Pittsburgh.\nDr Sullivan is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, SUNY at Buffalo, and serves as the Medical Director of the Buffalo IVF program. His particular interests are in infertility, ovulation induction and the role of luteinizing hormone in follicle development.\nCanisius College, B.S.\nThe State University of New York Health Science Center at Syracuse, M.D.\nThomas Jefferson University Hospital, Ob-Gyn\nThomas Jefferson University, Pharmacology\nUniversity of Pittsburgh, Magee Womans Hospital, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility\nAcademic Appointments: Clinical Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 4821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 110.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.business-fundas.com/2016/top-tips-for-aspiring-healthcare-entrepreneurs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PADMXXNWFD24CYVADLGGXZUGFJR732AM", "length": 3350, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.business-fundas.com", "title": "Top Tips for Aspiring Healthcare Entrepreneurs \u2013 Business Fundas", "raw_content": "Top Tips for Aspiring Healthcare Entrepreneurs\nIf you\u2019ve been dreaming about becoming your own boss, knowing whether or not you are ready to take the plunge into healthcare entrepreneurship is essential when it comes to taking the first steps towards a potentially lucrative and rewarding career. Along with having a great healthcare product or service to offer to patients and clients, healthcare entrepreneurs must also have the right knowledge, skills, experience and attitude in order to make their healthcare business venture a success. Read on to discover some expert tips to help those aspiring to start their own business in the healthcare industry to succeed.\nAlthough it\u2019s not necessary to have a college degree or even any education at all to start your own business, having a good academic background in the healthcare industry can definitely help you to get your business off the ground. Not only does taking a degree such as this doctor of nursing practice online degree course from Bradley University help to expand your hands-on, working knowledge of the healthcare industry, it can also look extremely impressive on your resume and increase your chances of getting business funding or securing an angel investor. But, starting a business in the healthcare industry doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that you will need to be a qualified healthcare professional. Many healthcare entrepreneurs are passionate about healthcare, but choose to pursue business instead as an academic subject.\nBuild On Your Knowledge\nIf you\u2019re planning to pursue a career as a healthcare entrepreneur but aren\u2019t sure which business idea to work with, going with what you know is always the best decision. It\u2019s often much easier to build and develop a business which is based on your existing knowledge and also the things which you are the most passionate about. Rather than entering a completely new field which you have little knowledge of or experience in in order to pursue entrepreneurship, choosing a field which you are an expert in or have worked in for a long time can improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.\nEven if you are a highly educated individual with perhaps a lot of healthcare education, such as a doctor of nursing practice, or an advanced business qualification such as an MBA, it\u2019s important to understand your own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to pursuing success as a healthcare entrepreneur. One of the most common mistakes that new entrepreneurs make both in and out of the healthcare industry is to try and take on all of the work on their own, leading to certain aspects of the business failing due to a lack of knowledge, skills and experience. Knowing what you are good at and what you will need to delegate to other people is important for growth and success when running a new healthcare startup.\nFor aspiring entrepreneurs, the healthcare industry can be an attractive choice when it comes to starting a new business. But, success as a healthcare entrepreneur is usually the result of a lot of hard work and determination.\nAuthor EddyPosted on October 27, 2016 Categories HR/OB, StrategyTags Business Education, Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Business, Jobs and Careers\nPrevious Previous post: How to Use Lines of Credit: Weather the Storm!\nNext Next post: 6 Excellent Reasons to Invest in Ras al-Khaimah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 201.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bzoink.com/forums/viewtopic.php?page=11&f=18&t=5711", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:24Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZI3ZVXITWJ2LL6X7MSTVIEUDWGPX437", "length": 801, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.bzoink.com", "title": "Bzoink - Movies and TV - Do you like this movie? 3 - Page 11", "raw_content": "Topic: Do you like this movie? 3\nForum Index : Entertainment : Movies and TV : Do you like this movie? 3\nPosted: 14 Sep 2017 09:14 PM Subject: RE: Do you like this movie? 3\nIt was okay. Not my favourite.\nMysterious Skin?\nPosted: 14 Oct 2017 11:31 AM Subject: RE: Do you like this movie? 3\nnever heard of it...sorry\nPosted: 02 Nov 2017 06:10 AM Subject: RE: Do you like this movie? 3\nthe little rascals?\nShe's Out Of My League?\nMe Before You?\nPosted: 28 Nov 2017 05:24 PM Subject: RE: Do you like this movie? 3\nPosted: 05 Jan 2018 07:34 AM Subject: RE: Do you like this movie? 3\nPosted: 05 Jan 2018 06:55 PM Subject: RE: Do you like this movie? 3\nYeah it\u2019s funny.\nHappy Gilmore?\nI think I've seen it.\nPage: < 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Next>>\nYou're at 11 of 17 pages. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cameronandhollis.uk/herman-de-vries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:41Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZFE3DYMEW5PBSDG7S42IOLMYHPIPIQC", "length": 2578, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cameronandhollis.uk", "title": "CAMERON & HOLLIS", "raw_content": "Hardcover, 144 pages, 286 x 258 mm, 218 illustrations in colour, 30 in duotone, 2006\nUK Thames & Hudson ISBN 0-500-09327-X\nAlso published in German by Zweitausendeins\nherman de vries is one of the greatest living artists working with nature. His statement, \u2018my poetry is the world\u2019, aptly sums up his extraordinary work. de vries offers no representation of landscape or of nature, of light, of air or of perspective. His aim is quite simply to present nature as itself. The intelligence that lies behind his work is subtle, ingenious, reflective and steeped in knowledge of both eastern and western philosophies. de vries\u2019s early training as a botanist broadens his frame of reference still further and underpins his artistic method.\nde vries\u2019s art springs from his conviction that a proper contemplation and experience of nature is essential to living in any meaningful sense, from a profound awareness of the present disjunction between people and their natural environment, and an intuitive certainty that the careful persuasion and prompts embodied in his work will nudge us in the right direction. This sense of social responsibility combines with a personal joy in what he finds around him. He lives in northern Bavaria on the edge of the Steigerwald, one of the few remaining large-scale areas of forest in western Europe. One of his most important works is the meadow, 4000 square metres of land tended by de vries and his wife Susanne, to which the plant and animal species that traditionally frequented more gently farmed meadows are returning.\nLike nature itself (or as de vries would probably say, because it is nature itself), his work bears limitless viewing. His smaller scale works often involve sampling and collecting: an array of leaves taken from one willow branch; earth rubbings in widely varying colours; cherry leaves fixed where they fell on a piece of paper beneath their tree; a pressed sample of vegetation explicitly recalling Albrecht D\u00fcrer\u2019s celebrated Das Grosse Rasenst\u00fcck. Often, a purposeful symbolism or association is involved: samples of earth and a list of place names from an area of Poland that in living memory was part of Germany, handwritten lists of the largely forgotten common names in Proven\u00e7al of the medicinal plants of Haute-Provence.\nHere the distinguished writer on art, Mel Gooding, contributes a critical overview of de vries\u2019s work, setting it in an historical context and appraising it as an important reflection of the cultural consciousness of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.\nwww.hermandevries.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/about/gwilym-lawrence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UF43OHNOAPCXTEMKYBBOLWGUEYPUKC2H", "length": 1590, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cap-a-pie.co.uk", "title": "Gwilym Lawrence \u2013 Cap-a-Pie | Cap-a-Pie", "raw_content": "Gwilym Lawrence\nGwilym is a theatremaker and researcher based in Sheffield. He has been an associate artist at Cap-a-Pie since 2013, having directed Under Us All and The Town Meeting with the company as well as working on The Assignment. Gwilym is also co-artistic director of the Sheffield-based company Sad Siren Theatre, for whom he\u2019s directed The Hoults Yard Project, Starr and Pitt, The Gods of Pick \u2018N\u2019 Mix and I LOVE YOU WILL U MARRY ME. Elsewhere, Gwilym has made work with Shakespeare\u2019s Globe, Live Theatre, York Theatre Royal, Forward Theatre Project and nabokov.\nRunning through Gwilym\u2019s work is a fascination with site-specific performance, and with place. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), in 2014 Gwilym completed an MA in Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London, where he explored audience interaction, site-based work and non-traditional methods of collaboration. Building on this, Gwilym is currently undertaking a practice-based AHRC-funded PhD in Drama and Geography at the University of Manchester, through which he is making a walking performance in the Peak District village of Hope.\nGwilym has published a co-authored book chapter with Michael Richardson, with whom he collaborated on Under Us All, entitled \u201cUnder Us All: \u2018What you\u2019ve been through\u2026is what we\u2019ve all been through\u2019\u201d in Masculinity in Crisis: Depictions of Modern Male Trauma in Ireland edited by Catherine Rees. He is currently working on articles on improvisation; site; more-than-representational theories; and geographies of sound.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 193.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.carehomeexpo.co.uk/partners/supporter.asp?supporter=8322", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:52Z", "digest": "sha1:P2WOHCITETWEGHUW6HMGMIDFZLK42FKN", "length": 440, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.carehomeexpo.co.uk", "title": "Accountable Care Journal - Dementia Care & Nursing Home Expo 2019", "raw_content": "Accountable Care Journal\nACJ provides news, insight and analysis to keep readers informed of the latest developments in health and social care in the UK. ACJ brings together content from a wide range of providers through our innovative digital platform that allows users to tailor the content they receive, engage in discussions and easily share debates with colleagues and friends.\nTo find out more, please visit accountablecarejournal.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.caribbean360.com/business/european-union-wants-region-get-work-csme-epa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:45Z", "digest": "sha1:A3FIIGDEZOKPOLABM2OYMV3OCHEGR66B", "length": 3964, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.caribbean360.com", "title": "European Union Wants Region to Get To Work on CSME and EPA | Caribbean360", "raw_content": "European Union Wants Region to Get To Work on CSME and EPA\nEuropean Union Ambassador to Barbados Daniela Tramacere\nBRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday October 30, 2017 \u2013 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries have been told to get cracking on their Single Market and Economy (CSME).\nThe stern warning has come from European Union Ambassador to Barbados Daniela Tramacere, who also laments the slow pace of movement on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with Europe.\nSpeaking at a recent two-day CSME and EPA closing out workshop at the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Tramacere was adamant that the region needed to stop talking and get acting.\nThe CSME is an integrated development strategy designed to benefit residents of the 15-member CARICOM bloc in the areas of free movement of goods, services, people, capital and technology, while the EPA is a trade agreement, signed back in October 2008, by Europe and CARIFORUM, which groups CARICOM with the Dominican Republic.\nOver the past decade, the EU has invested \u20ac37 million (US$42.8 million) in support of the CSME and another \u20ac46.5 million (US$53.8.7 million) to support EPA implementation under the ninth and tenth European Development Fund (EDF).\nWith funding also being provided under the 11th EDF, Tramacere said, \u201cwe can\u2019t afford not to see results\u201d.\n\u201cThis is not because we put money we want something back, but we believe in what we are doing. Of course we, like you, we sometimes can get frustrated about the lack of results,\u201d she said.\n\u201cIt is an investment for which we have to justify, not only to our taxpayers in Europe, . . . but this is something that is ticking down and it is a commitment to the citizens of the Caribbean,\u201d Tramacere told representatives of government, private sector and non-government organizations who were focused on the way forward for both the CSME and the EPA.\nRecognizing that there would be challenges along the way and various setbacks, the EU diplomat said there was no more time to waste, while recalling that an independent appraisal was done of the CSME back in 2012 which revealed that limited administrative capacity was one of the hindrances to countries capitalizing on the regional arrangement.\nIt was out of that study that the CSME standby facility was established with a complementary facility for the EPA, aimed at intervening at the national level.\n\u201cWe are always very ready to criticize each other but at the time when resources are limited, when there is a lot to be done, I think we have no more time to waste . . . we are ready to support, but we have a responsibility to change pattern, to start a new paradigm in our relationship. And I am convinced that all of this cause is being raised at the national level. We now need to do a definite quantum leap in this change of paradigm becoming a reality,\u201d Tramacere said.\nIn his presentation, Barbados\u2019 Minister of Industry and International Business Donville Inniss also expressed disappointment at the pace of implementation of the CSME and the EPA while calling for action and \u201ca shift in attitude\u201d.\nHe complained that there was a lack of political will, as well as a lack of decisive leadership across the region.\n\u201cThere is not enough enthusiasm, strong and decisive leadership and will at the political level throughout the Caribbean region to get these things done. There is also a need for a paradigm shift in our attitudes. This region is permeated with an attitude that says still someone else owes me a favour,\u201d Inniss said.\n\u201cWe must change our attitude and recognize that we have to get up and get things done for ourselves, and where opportunities are presented we must not squander them,\u201d he warned, adding that what passed today as strong leadership in the private sector was \u201creally very mediocre\u201d. (Barbados Today)\nWorld Bank Approves US$35 Million for Clean Energy and Improved Electricity Access in Haiti\nBarbados Gets IDB Loan to Strengthen Global Tourism Presence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 11445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.carisarchitecture.com/practice.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ROYG7Q2U7P4LISJ7MJDHOZ4BSGEGRYUN", "length": 862, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.carisarchitecture.com", "title": "Practice \u2022 CARIS Architecture", "raw_content": "CARIS Architecture Ltd was established in 1998 to provide innovative and sustainable architectural solutions for an expanding range of projects.\nWe particularly enjoy working with homeowners and community groups, and by liaising closely with the client at each stage of the project, we can offer a personal approach that extends from initial ideas to final completion.\nAs you can see from the project photographs, we have a flexible design approach that is responsive and encompasses both traditional and contemporary architecture.\nWe work in close collaboration with a team of professional consultants and offer the following range of services:\nFeasibility studies and development options\nPlanning applications and building regulation submissions\nConcept architecture, interior design and detailed design information\nContract administration and site inspections", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.carltoncasinoclub.com/casino-games-blackjack", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5MXCUSGOYJM4WE4PJFE5UBRQXJVT6CMO", "length": 776, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.carltoncasinoclub.com", "title": "Play Blackjack on any of our new luxury gaming tables, with friendly dealers to help you enjoy playing experience - Carlton Casino Club", "raw_content": "Blackjack continues to be one of the most popular casino games because it\u2019s easy to learn and exciting to play! The object of the game is to accumulate card denominations as close to 21 as possible without going over!\nAlso known as 'Twenty-one', it is a comparing card game between usually several players and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer, but players do not play against each other. 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Inc.: Missing Person in East Liverpool", "raw_content": "Missing Person in East Liverpool\nFamily concerned about missing teen and her baby\nBy KATIE SCHWENDEMAN/Staff Writer\nCALCUTTA - Friends and family members are asking for the public's help in locating Calcutta woman and her infant son who have been missing since Monday.\nEighteen-year-old Kylee Houshour was last seen at her Walker Road home just before 10 p.m. Monday, when her mother, Katherine, returned from a trip to the bank to pick up her granddaughter.\n\"I came home to get a gallon of milk to take to my oldest daughter's house. Kylee brought me the gallon of milk at 9:55 p.m. When I returned at 10:15 p.m., she was gone,\" Katherine said.\nHoushour and her 18-month-old son, Noah, were both gone and have not been seen since.\nHoushour's mother and elder sister, Angela, both said such behavior was not typical for the young woman. \"She has never gone away for this long and not contacted me,\" Angela said.\nAccording to family and friends, Houshour has not tried to make contact with anyone since she was last seen. They also expressed concern that at the time she went missing, the doors to the house were left open, and her bedroom lights were on.\nKatherine said the family and a few neighbors on Walker Road have searched the woods for Houshour, finding nothing. Neighbors took it upon themselves to pass out a missing person flyer with Houshour's photograph on it.\nKatherine said Houshour does not have a car or a driver's license, so she would have been traveling on foot unless someone else had picked her up.\nA missing person report has been filed with the St. Clair Police Department, but Officer Joseph Brophey, who responded to the report, hasn't ruled out that Houshour left voluntarily. In fact, his report states Houshour left voluntarily. However, Brophey was out of the office Friday and could not be reached for comment.\nKylee Houshour has dark brown hair and weighs around 100 pounds. The family is asking that anyone with information about Houshour call 330-385-7299.\nkschwendeman@reviewonline.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 8532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ccfhv.com/2010/07/body-found-near-creek-identified.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WKZJ6VVJXB63KMYMPGWKVQD4ITAG5QZX", "length": 1614, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.ccfhv.com", "title": "C.C.F.H.V. Inc.: Body found near creek identified", "raw_content": "Body found near creek identified\nEmail: \"Body found near creek identified\"\nLaCROFT - A press released issued Friday by Liverpool Township Police Chief Charlie Burgess suggests a body found in a creek Thursday near what is known as Coal Hollow in LaCroft may be that of Tracy D. Knoblock, 40, of Seventh Avenue, who was reported missing July 24.\nLiverpool Township officials responded to the area Thursday afternoon after receiving a call that a body was found in the remote location off Park Place.\nAccording to the release, Burgess was first to arrive on the scene and was met by a family member of Knoblock. The woman was reported missing two days after she had not been seen by family members.\nThe release indicated family members, friends and law enforcement had intensified search efforts in the past few days in order to locate Knoblock. The family member was at the Coal Hollow location for that reason.\nThe Columbiana County Coroner's Office, Liverpool Township Police, Columbiana County Prosecutors Office, and agents from B.C.I. & I were on the scene until approximately 10 p.m. Thursday, according to the release.\nThe Coroner's Office of Cuyahoga County is performing an autopsy on the body, and no time frame has been set for return of preliminary findings, the release indicated.\nThe police department is continuing to investigate the death.\n\"I will not speculate the cause of death or comment on the findings until the preliminary reports are concluded by all agencies involved in the investigation,\" Burgess stated in the release. \"However, at present it does not appear that foul play is involved.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 8290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cepi.eu/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=185&cntnt01returnid=331", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:46Z", "digest": "sha1:RLSX3DA5OMOFTKNQOKEBZ2XHCOB523AA", "length": 2896, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.cepi.eu", "title": "CEPI - European Association of Real Estate Professions - Publications", "raw_content": "Fifty proposals for improving the Single European Market\nOn October 28, the Commission unveiled its plans to strengthen the Single Market with measures to boost growth and enhance citizens' rights. Fifty proposals to make the Single Market work better have been presented, to be put in place by 2012. CEPI welcomes this initiative and values the attention given to supporting SMEs and facilitating cross border mobility of service providers.\nThe Single Market of the European Union is a common area where goods, services, capital and persons can circulate freely. The Single Market also ensures that European citizens are free to live, work, study and do business where they want in the EU, so representing the core of the cooperation between the Member States of the Union.\nWhile Europeans can be proud of these achievements, businesses and citizens also know that hurdles still exist when they exercise their rights. The European Commission sets out a series of concrete solutions in two reports to boost the Single Market. In the EU Citizenship report, the Commission proposes measures to make peoples' lives easier when they exercise their rights to get married, buy a house or register a car in another EU country. To boost growth, competitiveness and social progress, the Single Market Act calls for action to make the lives of all market participants - companies, consumers and workers - easier.\nWith 20 million enterprises providing 175 million jobs, businesses play an essential role in finding our way back to growth. The Single Market Act will simplify life for SMEs which represent more than 99% of Europe's businesses. The Commission will, for example, reduce costs for SMEs by simplifying accounting rules and improving their access to public procurenment contracts. The Commission will also look at introducing a common tax base for businesses operating cross border, leading to further cost savings.\nToday, 4600 professions are regulated differently in the Member States. 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Cox also demonstrates how to play against White's other tries, including the The Catalan, Exchange Variation and Bf4 lines. Using 53 annotated key games he explains, in detail, the typical plans and tactics adopted by both sides, whilst also tackling the tricky subject of move-order possibilities.\nHe does not examine alternatives to 2.c4 for White as these are covered in his other book \"Dealing with d4 Deviations\". The Reti Opening (1.c4/2.Nf3) is also not included here.\nJohn Cox is an International Master from England. 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Our dedicated support team and technicians have been installing advanced security camera systems, alarm systems and access control systems for a variety of businesses and homes in Chico, CA and the surrounding areas.\nWe are an Observint Technologies partner and are committed to providing quality, cost-effective protection for homes, business, educational institutions and government facilities. The security and well-being of our communities is our primary concern at The Phone Smith. 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The Phone Smith works with you to customize a solution to meet the specific security requirements of your home or business in Chico, CA.\nAs your trusted, single-source security provider in Chico, CA, we have a unique way of doing things. It\u2019s how we innovate, collaborate, operate and deliver our values \u2013 for our clients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chinafile.com/china-africa-project/how-donald-trump-could-give-china-real-boost-africa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:GRUBOGVPIUFBGKCBHOG4I7OFOM4YKCLA", "length": 2421, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.chinafile.com", "title": "How Donald Trump Could Give China a Real Boost in Africa | ChinaFile", "raw_content": "Jekesai Njikizana\u2014AFP/Getty Images\nChina's President Xi Jinping (L) and his wife Peng Liyuan wave upon arrival in Harare, Zimbabwe on December 1, 2015 for a rare visit.\nHow Donald Trump Could Give China a Real Boost in Africa\nby Eric Olander, Cobus van Staden, Janet Eom\nJanet Eom\nBefore joining SAIS-CARI, Janet Eom researched the impact on society, environment, and labor relations of Chinese activity in Africa at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy in Beijing. She...\nThe election of Donald Trump has introduced a new era of uncertainty in global politics, especially in Africa where the U.S. president-elect has said nothing about his foreign policy agenda for the continent. Not surprisingly, Trump\u2019s unpredictable, provocative style is sparking widespread concern across the continent as to whether the United States plans to remain engaged in Africa.\nChina, by comparison, is moving in the opposite direction. Beijing\u2019s New Year\u2019s announcement to finally outlaw its domestic ivory trade, although long overdue, was widely praised as an important step in the struggle to save Africa\u2019s embattled elephant population. Also in January, China\u2019s foreign minister, Wang Yi, will make his customary first overseas trip of the year that always begins in Africa where he will visit five countries. All of this is set amid the backdrop of surging Chinese investment in Africa as part of President Xi Jinping\u2019s 2015 $60 billion for five years financial package and the rollout of China\u2019s ambitious global trading strategy known as \u201cOne Belt, One Road,\u201d which passes through a number of countries in Northeast Africa where the Chinese are now spending billions of dollars to build out new civilian and military infrastructure.\nJanet Eom, Research Manager at the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, has been closely following the presidential campaign and the run-up to Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration with an eye on how it will all impact Sino-African relations. 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Chocolate anything, it doesn\u2019t matter, I\u2019ll eat it all. Except for cake. I\u2019m not a cake person. I\u2019ve always liked pies so much better and brownies are one of my favorite desserts. They\u2019re even my constant replacement to birthday cakes. So chocolate brownie pie? Yes, please!! This one is made from scratch (aside from the dough) and will require just a tiny bit more effort to make, but it is still super easy. It\u2019s full of chocolate and can satisfy almost any sweet tooth!\n~Pie crust\n~\u00bd cup of butter\n~2 oz. of unsweetened chocolate, roughly chopped\n~\u00be cup of flour\n~1 tsp of vanilla\n~1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips\nThe first thing you\u2019ll need to do is place the butter in a medium saucepan and slowly melt it over low heat, stirring occasionally so it doesn\u2019t start to simmer or stay in one place. While I\u2019m waiting on it to melt is usually when I unwrap the pie crust and place it in an ungreased pie pan, curling the edges with my fingertip.\nOnce the butter is completely melted, add in the unsweetened chocolate and stir constantly to make sure it doesn\u2019t begin sticking to the bottom of the pot. The smaller pieces you cut, the faster it will melt.\nAs soon as the chocolate has melted, take it off of the heat immediately and stir in the sugar. It will begin to look grainy and will still have more of a liquidy consistency.\nOnce you have completely combined all of the sugar, add in the flour, eggs, vanilla, and just a dash of salt. Stir in those ingredients well, making sure there are no pockets of flour left behind. At this point, you\u2019ll start to notice it begin to take on the consistency of brownie batter. Add in the chocolate chips and continue stirring only until they\u2019re evenly mixed throughout.\nThen it\u2019s time to pour the mixture into the pie crust. Scrape all that you can out of the pot and spread the batter evenly. Bake it in the oven at 350\u00b0 for about 25 minutes or until the top has a noticeable crust and the sides are firm.\nRemove it from the oven and let it cool. Resist all temptations to eat it immediately, although it is completely acceptable to admire the mesmerizing swirls it created. If you want to do the toothpick test, it should come out clean for the most part. But don\u2019t be alarmed if it is a tiny bit gooey. That\u2019s what makes this pie so delicious. It\u2019s like eating brownie batter in a pie form that is also completely safe.\nWhen you just can\u2019t wait any longer (and when it\u2019s cool enough that it won\u2019t completely burn all your taste buds), go ahead and dive right in. It\u2019s delicious on its own, but it also just as perfect topped with a scoop of ice cream, fresh berries, or a warm berry sauce. And no one is to judge how big your piece is and if you go back for seconds. It\u2019s worth it!\nThis doesn\u2019t need to be refrigerated and is good covered at room temperature for about a week. Not like it will last that long, though! I\u2019ve been obsessed with this and it\u2019s totally a chocolate lover\u2019s dream! If you try this recipe yourself, tag me with a picture on social media or come back and leave me a comment letting me know how you like it! Have a fantastic day!\nAn easy recipe for a chocolate pie?! Sign me up. I love chocolate anything and I don't like complicated recipes so this is perfect. I need to try this!\nI thought it was going to be a lot harder considering it didn't come from a box and I had to make the chocolate filling myself, but it's actually super easy and doesn't take much time at all. Plus, you only use one of the pie crusts in the package and only half of the unsweetened chocolate, so you'll have enough to make it twice! Lol ;)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 6317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ci.galion.oh.us/392/Zoning-Districts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HLQRQKELUHVF7KJNKOLODZEFJPUOCUBO", "length": 8883, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "www.ci.galion.oh.us", "title": "Zoning Districts | Galion, OH - Official Website", "raw_content": "Galion has several zoning districts. Click the Zoning Map link on the right to see where districts are located. The Permitted Uses for each district are included below. In addition, each district has Accessory Uses and Conditional Uses which are defined in the Codified Ordinances.\nRE - Rural Estate District\nAgricultural uses as defined in Chapter 1103, along with customary agricultural buildings and structures incidental to the carrying out of the principal agricultural activity, and/or no more than one single-family detached dwelling.\nOne-family detached non-farm dwellings.\nPublic parks and nature preserves.\nProjects specifically designed for watershed protection, conservation of water or soils for flood control.\nGreenhouses and nurseries, including tree farms and woodlots.\nR-1A - Single-Family Residential District\nOne-family detached dwelling.\nPublic parks and open space.\nPublic parks and playgrounds of less than one (1) acre in size.\nR-1B - Single-Family Residential District\nR-1C - Historic Neighborhood Single-Family Residential District\nPublic parks, playgrounds and open space.\nMH-R - Manufactured Home Residential District\nOne-family detached dwellings.\nManufactured home communities, provided a Site Plan is approved, pursuant to Section 1127.02(g) of this Ordinance.\nIndividual manufactured homes not considered as permanently sited manufactured homes on single lots, provided such homes are placed on a permanent foundation as defined in Chapter 1103.\nPublic or private parks or playgrounds.\nRM - Residential Multiple Family District\nSingle family dwellings.\nCommon wall and zero lot line (ZLL) dwelling units having at least 3,630 square feet of lot area per dwelling unit (12 dwelling units per acre) provided a Site Plan, pursuant to Section 1127.02(g) is submitted\nMultiple family structures having at least 3,630 square feet of lot area per dwelling unit (12 units/acre) and twenty (20) or less dwellings per structure, including independent senior and retirement housing.\nPublic or private parks, playgrounds and open space.\nRO - Residential Office District\nAny use or structure as specified in the R-1C District.\nTwo family dwellings.\nLC - Limited Commercial District\nAdministrative, business or professional offices of not more than 5,000 square feet of gross floor area.\nRetail Stores of not more than 5,000 square feet of gross floor area, primarily engaged in selling merchandise for personal or household consumption, and rendering services incidental to the sale of those goods; provided all storage and display of merchandise shall be within the principal structure; and not including drive-through establishments, or businesses selling gasoline or similar fuels.\nPersonal Services, involving the care of the person and his/her personal effects, consisting of consumer services generally involving the care and maintenance of tangible personal property, except for motor vehicles. All structures shall have a gross floor area of not more than 5,000 square feet.\nGC - General Commercial District\nAdministrative and business offices not carrying on retail trade with the public and having no stock of goods maintained for sale to customers.\nRetail Stores primarily engaged in selling merchandise for personal or household consumption.\nPersonal Services, involving the care of the person and his/her personal effects, including consumer services generally involving the care and maintenance of tangible property or the provision of tangible services for personal consumption.\nBusiness Services engaged in the providing of services to business establishments on a fee or contract basis, consulting services, protective services, office equipment rental, lease or purchase, commercial research and development.\nCommercial recreational facilities such as community and public swimming pools, skating rinks, bowling alleys, physical fitness centers.\nLumber and home improvement sales.\nMotor vehicle sales.\nGarden centers.\nCarry out food and beverage establishments with drive-through facilities.\nMedical offices and clinics, including nursing and/or convalescent facilities.\nSimilar uses, as determined by the Planning Commission, in accordance with the provisions by Section 1127.02(e) of this Ordinance.\nHS - Health Services District\nHospitals and facilities for human medical care.\nResidential facilities for persons employed in the medical profession.\nOne-family detached dwellings subject to the development standards of the R1-B District.\nU - Uptowne District\nAny use specified as a permitted use in Sections 1147.02(a) through (d), but not including uses with drive-through facilities.\nHotels and Bed-and-Breakfast Establishments.\nCommunity facilities such as governmental offices, post office, libraries, museums, private schools, public parks and similar uses.\nChurches and places of public assembly.\nOff-street parking areas.\nOutside trade areas associated with retail establishments\nOutside dining areas associated with establishments which otherwise serve food and drink, provided that said dining areas adhere to the guidelines as outlined in Section 1151.05.\nSimilar Uses, which conform to the purpose of the Uptowne District, as determined by the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions of Section 1127.02(e) of this Ordinance.\nHC - Highway Commerce District\nGenerally, permitted uses within the Highway Commerce District shall not involve storage of inventory or operations outside an enclosed building, and shall demonstrate the ability to efficiently address large volumes of traffic in a manner coordinated with adjacent uses. Such permitted uses may include:\nRetail sales and service, consisting of firms involved with the sale, lease or rent of products or goods to the general public and/or providing on-site product repair or services for such goods.\nPersonal services consisting of firms providing personal services or entertainment to the general public, including restaurants, banks and/or savings and loans, credit unions, medical and related offices, and similar establishments.\nGeneral office activities, consisting of facilities where activities are conducted in an office setting and generally focus on business services.\nWarehousing and distribution, consisting of firms involved with the storage and/or movement of goods.\nVehicle service, consisting of firms servicing automobiles, trucks and other commercial and/or consumer vehicles, including motorcycles, boats and/or recreational vehicles.\nResearch and development uses involved with the testing, laboratory and minor fabrication/assembly operations.\nES - Educational Services District\nPublic schools, including elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, vocational schools, or colleges/universities.\nAny non-educational uses to which a permitted public school may be put pursuant to contract, lease, or permission, including but not limited to public gatherings, community meetings, religious assembly, and service as a polling location, provided that such uses are limited to no more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the gross square footage of any existing school building and may only be conducted on an intermittent basis.\nStructures customarily associated with permitted uses, including playgrounds; unlighted athletic fields and tracks; and outdoor education-related facilities.\nGI - General Industrial District\nPublic facilities consisting of buildings or structures housing essential services.\nManufacturing, compounding, processing, assembling, packaging, or treatment of goods, materials, and products, consistent with the purpose of the GI District.\nWarehousing, wholesale establishments, manufacturing retail outlets, distribution and related uses, including truck and transfer terminals.\nIndustrial product sales or service, consisting of firms engaged in the sale, rent or lease of products intended for industrial or commercial users, or the repair and/or servicing of industrial or commercial machinery, equipment or products.\nFirms servicing automobiles, trucks or other vehicles.\nAdministrative, professional and business offices associated with and incidental to another permitted use.\nSimilar uses, as determined by the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 1127 of this Ordinance, and the purposes of the General Industrial District.\nIP - Industrial Park District\nPersonal services, consisting of firms providing personal services or entertainment to the general public, including restaurants, banks and/or savings and loans, credit unions, hotels or motels, medical and related offices, and similar establishments.\nManufacturing, compounding, processing, assembling, packaging, or treatment of goods, materials, and products.\nSimilar uses, as determined by the Planning Commission in accordance with the provisions of Section 1127.02(e) of this Ordinance, and the purpose of the IP District.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 10819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cleanwater.news/category/environment-cat/animals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:59Z", "digest": "sha1:VWXTP6SGQQFJTACKLSD53KH4U5KT4HRE", "length": 2242, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.cleanwater.news", "title": "Clean Water News | Clean Water News \u2013 Clean Water Information", "raw_content": "All posts tagged with Animals\nLive missiles, torpedoes, rockets, and lasers will be used in massive East Coast military drill, disrupting ecosystems\nThe U.S. Navy is accelerating its efforts to be ready for any threat to national security, and has announced that \u2026\nhttp://www.cleanwater.news/2017-07-23-live-missiles-torpedoes-rockets-and-lasers-will-be-used-in-massive-east-coast-military-drill.html\nSimply washing your clothes pollutes the world with microplastics, so stop buying synthetic fibers\nInnocently using a washing machine could inadvertently damage the environment. Researchers have now concluded that washing cycles, regardless of number \u2026\nhttp://www.cleanwater.news/2017-07-06-simply-washing-your-clothes-pollutes-the-world-with-microplastics-so-stop-buying-synthetic-fibers.html\nThe caffeine you urinate is harming the environment, study warns\nA recent study revealed that our caffeine intake might have a detrimental effect on the environment. Researchers have long established \u2026\nhttp://www.cleanwater.news/2017-06-15-the-caffeine-you-urinate-is-harming-the-environment-study-warns.html\nOhia.org reminds us that sharks are both scavengers and super -predators, who greatly assist in keeping the ocean\u2019s ecosystem balanced. Sharks \u2026\nhttp://www.cleanwater.news/2017-05-15-mass-die-off-in-the-pacific-as-hundreds-of-sharks-wash-up-on-the-shores-of-san-francisco.html\nMan-made ocean pollution has severely affected the immune systems of wild dolphins, researchers claim\nOnce thought to be healthier than their captive cousins, wild dolphins have begun showing signs of compromised immune systems. Researchers \u2026\nhttp://www.cleanwater.news/2017-05-11-human-pollution-of-worlds-oceans-now-suppressing-immune-systems-of-dolphins.html\nBP Deepwater Horizon oil spill found to have caused over $17 billion in environmental damage\nA recent study revealed that the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, touted as the largest oil spill in the U.S. \u2026\nhttp://www.cleanwater.news/2017-04-30-bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-found-to-have-caused-over-17-billion-in-environmental-damage.html\nhttp://www.cleanwater.news/2017-04-03-massive-academic-cover-up-concealing-a-near-total-collapse-of-ocean-food-chains-mass-death-to-humans-will-follow.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.clsadb.com/document/5bb6b9ae-923d-4083-9f9b-fea52ae49833", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:49Z", "digest": "sha1:V76N6D7ES556SXEK5W6FYWWYTIU5LGMG", "length": 1306, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.clsadb.com", "title": "Canon Law Digest Search", "raw_content": "Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Notification on the Rite of Exorcism, 27 January 1999.\nThe Latin edition of the revised rite of exorcism, approved by Pope John Paul II on 1 October 1998, was published yesterday. According to the decree of this dicastery, this same edition may be put into use immediately by those who are competent in law.\nIn virtue of a special faculty from the same Supreme Pontiff (cf. letter of the Secretary of State, no. 434.563, 2 October 1998), the CDWDS calls attention to the following.\nSince the supervision of the sacred liturgy pertains to the diocesan bishop in the diocese entrusted to him, he may ask the Apostolic See that a priest, to whom is entrusted the role (munus) of exorcist, may also use the rite which had been in use up to now from Title XII of the Roman Ritual (1952 edition). The bishop may make this request after a mature consideration of the matter for the purpose of mercifully supporting the faithful in the struggle against the power of the devil.\nFinally, in response to petitions received from Ordinaries who surely are aware of the pastoral reality of their jurisdiction, this CDWDS makes it known that it will freely grant the requested faculty.\nProt. 1280/98/L, Notitiae 35 (1999): 156; Unofficial translation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.clsadb.com/document/6f922489-2ee5-4218-bfcf-57dc43a45905", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:25Z", "digest": "sha1:U7SUNLBF3MOE7WGE3SDKPVVRVWKXY6MJ", "length": 1580, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.clsadb.com", "title": "Canon Law Digest Search", "raw_content": "Congregation for the Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Rescript Dispensing for the Obligations of Holy Orders in Danger of Death, 1997.\n__________, a priest, of __________ who has defected form the exercise of ordained ministry and is now suffering from a serious illness and is in danger of death, humbly requests from Your Holiness the dispensation from the obligations flowing from holy orders (and religious vows), so that reconciled with the Church he may arrive at the heavenly home.\nThe Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on __________ (date)\nin virtue of a special faculty granted by the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II (Secretariate of State, no. 410.488, March 13, 1997) and by his special mandate, considering the gravity of the case and the special circumstances presented in the petition and the votum of his ordinary, graciously grants to him the requested favor, with the following provisions.\n1\u20134. [as in the previous rescript]\n5. If the petitioner recovers from imminent danger of death the ecclesiastical authority \u2026 [as in the previous rescript].\n6. [as in the previous rescript].\n7. [as no. 8 in the previous rescript].\n8. Furthermore, some work of piety or charity will be imposed upon the petitioner. At an opportune time, the competent ordinary will send to the Congregation an account of the fulfillment of the notification, and if there is any wonderment on the part of the faithful, a prudent explanation will be given.\nFrom the offices of the Congregation, on (date).\nGeorgius A. Cardinal MEDINA EST\u00c9VEZ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 214.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.colindoig.com/Blog.php/1354-west-8th-avenue-vancouver-bc-5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVZZWNHSXDAC222PYMURCQKNGNF6ED5F", "length": 82, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.colindoig.com", "title": "Blog: 1354 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC", "raw_content": "I just sold this Townhouse at 1354 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC Fairview Slopes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 1659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.comfortsystemsduluth.com/utility-services/gas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:41Z", "digest": "sha1:2MVEDJ7P2THSN7JJ6E5OELM5A4TFBAKA", "length": 1269, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.comfortsystemsduluth.com", "title": "Gas Service | ComfortSystems - Duluth, MN", "raw_content": "It's Efficient. Natural gas can be used \"as is\". It doesn't have to be converted into a liquid or solid to be moved or used. Plus, natural gas can be stored economically in underground reservoirs.\nIt's Clean. Natural gas is cleaner than any other fossil fuel. When burned, it gives off carbon dioxide and water, about one-half of the amount given off by coal and about two-thirds the amount given off by oil. Plus, it doesn't emit sulfur pollutants or soot when burned.\nIt's Economical. Natural gas is a cost-efficient form of energy. As new reserves are tapped, natural gas should continue to be an economical choice in the decades ahead. Think about it: 90% of the gas produced is delivered to customers as usable energy, compared to only 27% of energy converted to usable electricity.\nIt's Environmentally Safe. Natural gas is lighter than air, so drilling doesn't risk polluting the environment with spills of any kind. Pipelines are carefully engineered to avoid disrupting farms, towns, lakes, rivers, and wildlife habitats. Pipelines are also designed to prevent soil erosion and other environmental damage.\nNow that you know all of the benefits of natural gas, let ComfortSystems assist you with all your natural gas needs.\nNatural Gas - Your Best Energy Value.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 207.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.content.health.harvard.edu/Newsletters/HeartLetter/sleep-problems-may-increase-the-risk-of-heart-attack-and-stroke-35772-1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:UTVIX675ODFUWHWEWRUEYCMERTDVYBHR", "length": 200, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.content.health.harvard.edu", "title": "Sleep problems may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke - Harvard Heart Letter Article", "raw_content": "Sleep problems may increase the risk of heart attack and stroke\nPoor sleep is linked to poor heart health. That goes double for people with sleep apnea, who stop breathing many times during the night.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cool-phones.info/blog/internet-security-resources/what-are-the-differences-between-paid-and-free-internet.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNLK5HNOBHEP3SNPK6GRZJGUWOWMF725", "length": 5921, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.cool-phones.info", "title": "What Are the Differences Between Paid and Free Internet Security Software? - Antivirus Internet Security for Mobile Phones, Smartphones, Tablet PCs, Android, iOS", "raw_content": "Internet security should be a major preoccupation of all the internet users. This is because these days a lot of threats are active on the Internet. Starting with common viruses that erase your hard drive or can cause you other software problems and ending with information, money and even identities stolen. When it comes to Internet security you can go for the paid one or for free options.\nAs there are many security solutions to choose from these days, it can be very difficult to find the right one for you. What many people fail to understand is that many times the costs of Internet security programs do not represent their effectiveness. And this is why many purchase complex packages that cost a lot of money without ever needing them.\nThere are differences between paid and free security programs but many times these differences are not clear for everyone. This is why you should read this article because it will help you make an informed decision on the matter.\nThe general misconception is that if you use a free program, it will certainly be less reliable than a paid one. In terms of Internet security this is simply a myth because there are many testimonials that say otherwise. There are many good free programs you can use for protecting your computer.\nMany times, you will find that paid antivirus programs are better than free ones. This is only because you should know which free antivirus program to use. If you use a random one, chances are you will not have great results. Therefore, doing a little research will surely help you make a good decision.\nHowever, many times paid Internet security programs are only a little better than free ones and that does not justify the price.\nThe choice for free or paid security software is yours. If you can afford, you might try paid programs but if not you can have a good result with a free program too. However, using only one program as your whole Internet security system is wrong whether you are using paid or free programs. You should merge a few programs' effectiveness in order to come with good results.\nBesides Internet security programs, there are other things you should know. First of all, you should not click on dubious links. Then, you should not open emails and especially attachments from unknown sources. Your personal sensitive information should not be offered through emails or using the Internet.\nAlso, passwords and other protective measures should be carefully created. These things are common sense ones but in reality many people do not care about their importance.\nNot many people have heard of premium security software. And that's no surprise considering the wide range of security programs that exist, and its late entrance into the security software field.\nIt has come behind other security programs like antispyware, firewall, antivirus, internet security and various other security programs in the industry today. And this can make finding the right one a daunting task, even for the more security savvy PC users.\nThe reality is these programs aren't as complicated as you might think. In fact, you can get one package that includes all of them and save yourself a lot of money and stress in the process.\nPremium security software goes by many names and they include complete, extreme, ultimate, super-suites, ultra, mega and total. So it includes all consumer-level security software in one, with all the features and tools you'll need.\nBut internet security software includes many of the same security programs, features and tools. And you'll be able to protect your PC from the same threats that a premium security software program is designed for. However, they do have a few differences and before you choose one, we recommend you check out their features and capabilities to make the right choice.\nBefore we look at their differences, we want to highlight a few of their similarities.\nLike internet security software, premium security includes antivirus, anti-spam, firewall and antispyware protection. These four protection programs have their own stand-alone versions. And each serves a specific purpose and removes certain types of threats. Combined, they are a formidable force and ensure that your PC is protected on all angles.\nPremium and internet security programs also have features that you won't get in stand-alone programs. Some of these additions include data backup, parental controls, gamer modes and anti-phishing tools.\nOne obvious difference between these two suites is price. On average, premium security is about \u00a315 more expensive than internet security software.\nThere are a few cheaper premium programs like ZoneAlarm Extreme Security who also regularly offer discounts too. But overall internet security is much cheaper and BitDefender is currently retailing at \u00a329.99.\nIs the Premium security price justified? Well that depends on the features and tools you're looking for; Which brings us to the second difference, which is found in the tools they offer.\nPremium security has PC Utility Tools which are designed to perform repairs on your PC and clean out temporary internet files. These features are powerful and enhance your overall security.\nOne of the impressive tools is Speed Up Start which is a series of tweaks that hasten your computer and OS start up time.\nAlso, all premium security suites include privacy, data backup, online storage, firewall and PC system utilities; whereas a few internet security suites include all these programs and they aren't as effective.\nIt's true that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts and this is evident in premium and internet security packages. The standalone programs also found in these two suites are top-notch, but together they provide excellent protection.\nSo your choice between the two will depend on your personal need or preferences. We recommend you read the reviews of the leading programs like BitDefender and Kaspersy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 12770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.creativemompodcast.com/wp/2016/07/whitewashed-index-card/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SHETRLNFSRVFGBCY5MPKHCE6427ETFIP", "length": 2566, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.creativemompodcast.com", "title": "Whitewashed Index Card | Creativity Matters Podcast (CMP) Whitewashed Index Card | Creativity Matters Podcast (CMP)", "raw_content": "Above: 34/61 ICAD 2016.\nDuring ICAD this (2016) summer, I did a series of cards that were, in effect, whitewashed. I had been playing around with a collaged background, and I kept thinking \u201cif only I had some gesso.\u201d Buying supplies isn\u2019t possible right now, but I thought about the fact that my art student\u2019s art box was sitting right there, unattended for the summer. While he doesn\u2019t have gesso (they aren\u2019t prepping canvases yet), he does have white acrylic. Bingo!\nI wasn\u2019t sure if I would get a similar effect using white acrylic, or if I would be able to work on top of it. It was, really, an experiment. I retrieved his tube of white acrylic, grabbed a brush (just any ol\u2019 brush), and squeezed a bit of paint onto the brush and started spreading it around, working to keep it as thin and transparent as I could in places while still giving coverage.\nI was really haphazard in doing these. I didn\u2019t use a palette. I didn\u2019t have water on hand. I did no diluting of the paint. At times I felt I was scrubbing the paint into place. But there was texture. There was some transparency that allowed the colors from the collaged elements to peek through. And, once dry, I was able to write on top of the paint with a pen. In places, it was tough to get the pen to show up. On some of the cards where I used the white acrylic, the paint resulted in a texture that was hard to get ink to show on top of.\nBut it worked. I did what I could with the ink, letting simple black outlines do their job on top of the semi-opaque backgrounds.\nTo me, the cards felt whitewashed. There was a freshness to the white that surprised me. It wasn\u2019t the same as using a white card. There was texture. There was the feeling of age and weathering and layering. But there was the crispness of the white.\nFor a few days, I was really enamored with the look, feel, and process.\nThe sample photo above is one where I wish I had left things alone just a step behind the final card. But the end result is still a part of this series and a testament to some explorative work this summer in ICAD.\nThe following phone photos show the card at various stages of the process. You can see how the collage gets muted in this process. The collage lends the card its tone, but the collage itself is sublimated. I made deliberate choices in the collages, and in most of these cards, those choices were masked by the whitewashing. It\u2019s all about balance, and there is more I could explore with this.\nAs for the white paint and the art student? He will never miss it.\n3 thoughts on \u201cWhitewashed Index Card\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 6397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crisprtx.com/about-us/leadership/dr-ali-behbahani", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:48Z", "digest": "sha1:62KQO2L5WBAFHPYPA6IR4BETMAUCJ426", "length": 951, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.crisprtx.com", "title": "Dr. Ali Behbahani | CRISPR", "raw_content": "Dr. Ali Behbahani\nDr. Ali Behbahani has served on our Board of Directors since April 2015. Ali joined New Enterprise Associates, or NEA, in 2007 and is a Partner on the healthcare team. He has also served as a member of the board of directors of Nevro, a medical device company, since August 2014, Adaptimmune Therapeutics since September 2014 and Genocea Biosciences since February 2018. Prior to joining NEA, Ali served as a consultant in business development at The Medicines Company. In addition, he formerly served as a Venture Associate at Morgan Stanley and as a Healthcare Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers. Ali concurrently earned an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated with honors and was a Palmer Scholar. He also holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Chemistry from Duke University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 61.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/cmrt/cbk-history-15-3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KI72ZKGJRXDW7PSNKJAKDL4TJEBTX3EG", "length": 765, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.crowsnest.bc.ca", "title": "Untitled Document", "raw_content": "15.3 Baker Street - To the east\n15.3 To east - 1929. This view shows a more developed Baker St. with several brick buildings that started in 1906. To the far left, on the north side of Baker, is the Imperial Bank (1909), which replaced the Townsite Sales Office. The Royal Bank faces west onto Cranbrook St., across from the Moffat Building turret. On the right (south) side of Baker in the distance is the Clock Tower of the Post Office (1912) at the corner of 10th, and just beyond that is the tall Norbury Office Block. At the far (east) end of Baker is the imposing Courthouse placed strategically in the middle of Baker between 12th and 13th Aves. which defined the east end of Cranbrook\u2019s main street for many decades. (See also frame # 4.4) CBK. 033.0091976.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/soospokane/curzonstory13.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:39Z", "digest": "sha1:A25BLXE6OXNFMFQY6XTNL3DWPDBAIJJU", "length": 2443, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.crowsnest.bc.ca", "title": "The Curzon Story (13)", "raw_content": "The Curzon Story (13 of 13)\nRestoring the Interior of the Curzon\nPreliminary interior work on Curzon \u0097 details\nTwo upper berths were obtained from a derelict 1904 Barney and Smith car at the Alberta Pioneer Railway Museum near Edmonton, Alberta. These will help complete rooms C and D once the missing walls are re-constructed. These new walls will be easily attached to the remaining upper parts of the original walls and then they will be re-sheathed in matching woods. All bedrooms were done in a different woods, while the hall and lounge were done in walnut, covered with art-nouveau inspired marquetry.\nAll upper stained glass windows had been removed. However, the original windows frames minus the glass still existed between the five bedrooms, sandwiched between new painted metal covers. New frames are now being constructed to match the originals, and future funding will permit stained glass to be made. It should make the car appear \"cathedral-like\". Most of the stained glass in the outer ceilings of the bedrooms has been restored \u0097 again courtesy of the APRA-Edmonton car.\nThe original plush fabrics and carpet were given a preliminary conservation treatment and are well-maintained with a no-use policy during tours. The carpets have been covered with a protective runner to allow the thousands of tourist each year to marvel at the workmanship.\nSince the Curzon is classified as Canadian Cultural Property, its conservation, restoration, and replication (in selected areas), will be more conservative than in other museum cars - particularly since so much of the original wood and fabric of the car still exists.\nRecommendations for future wood panelling conservation/restoration\nAs for the exotic wood panelling, a team of conservators were asked to recommend a treatment for the old varnishes. The recommendation was that all old varnishes should be removed. They have badly deteriorated to the extent that is often difficult to see the actual wood grain , the figuring of the wood, or the extensive inlays. Once the wood has been prepared and cleaned , a spray-lacquer or water-based varnish technique may be employed \u0097 fast and efficient.\nAlong with the replacement of the stained glass, the car should again appear much as it did when out-shopped that day back in 1907. An era will then be restored to railway heritage for many future generations to enjoy, and a locally important car will be recognized internationally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 2469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crystallakepark.org/UsefulLinks/public-safety", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:31Z", "digest": "sha1:P67BKNZBMRWPX35HEGZOXFJCMGZMQK3F", "length": 16512, "nlines": 98, "source_domain": "www.crystallakepark.org", "title": "Public Safety - crystallakepark", "raw_content": "Crystal Lake Park contracts with Frontenac for Police, Fire, and EMS services.\n(A PDF file with printable contact phone labels is attached at the bottom of this page. Laminated cards with contact information are also available at the Bulletin Board on Country Club Drive.)\nNon-emergency Police Dispatch (314) 737-4600\nFrontenac Police, Fire, & EMS Emergency 9-1-1\nNational Poison Control Center 1-800-222-1222\nFireworks are not permitted in St. Louis County or Crystal Lake Park\nPlease observe the ban on fireworks. It is enforced by the Frontenac Police. There are many free public fireworks displays on the Fourth of July, Labor Day, and New Years.\nFiring BB Guns, Air Guns, etc. is Illegal in Crystal Lake Park\nSECTION 210.285: DISCHARGING AIR GUN, ETC. \"Any person within the limits of this City who shall discharge any BB gun, spring gun, paintball gun or air gun or shall shoot any pebble, bullet, slug, arrow or other hard substance by means of a sling, crossbow, rubber band or bow or any other means shall be deemed guilty of an ordinance violation.\"\nParents are asked to be on the lookout and to speak to their kids about the danger of using BB guns and similar devices. This web site has some excellent ideas and safety tips for BB guns, paintball guns, air guns, etc.\nhttp://www.bb-guns.org/infobbgunsafety.html.\nHome Alarm Monitoring Program\nFrontenac Police offer a home alarm monitoring program. For information, visit the Frontenac web site\nSection 600 of CLP's Municipal Code requires each solicitor / peddler to have and wear an ID card issued by the City Clerk and they can only work between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. (Central Standard Time) and 9:00 A.M. and 9:30 P.M. (Central Daylight Time).\nThe application for the ID card is in the Permits, Forms & Procedures section on CLP\u2019s web site.\nArea Police Departments have recently reported a ploy that \"solicitors\" / \"burglars\" use--especially in the daytime. They watch for people leaving their homes, especially around lunch time. They then knock or ring the door bell to see if anyone answers. If not, they will try to get into the house. If someone answers, they present a bogus business card or brochure claiming to be soliciting for business, a charity, or selling products, etc. They also use this technique at other times and not just when they see someone driving away from home.\nResidents can post NO Solicitor signs on their front doors. (A PDF file with printable No Solicitor / Peddler cards is attached at the bottom of this page; and laminated cards are available at the Bulletin Board on Country Club Drive.)\nSubscribe to Frontenac's E-Newsletter-- Keep up-to-date on Frontenac safety tips from the Police and Fire Departments. To enroll in the City's e-mail database, email City Clerk Leesa Ross, lross@cityoffrontenac.org, with your name and email address.\nSubscribe to Alerts from Frontenac Police Department--Residents can also subscribe to can subscribe to the Nixle Instant Alert System which provides instant advisories, and notices via text message and/or e-mail about crimes, water main breaks and other urgent issues. To sign up for alerts from Frontenac PD, go to: https://local.nixle.com/signup/widget/i/298/\nResidents can go to http://local.nixle.com/zipcode/63131/ to see current alerts and advisories or sign up to receive alerts from several agencies in our area.\n9 Volt Batteries can be a fire hazard\nA 9 volt battery can be a potential fire hazard. It only takes one metallic object; something like a paper clip, key or bit of steel wool touching the battery's posts to fuel a fire. The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) recommends keeping batteries in their original packaging until you are ready to use them. If loose, keep the posts covered with masking, duct, or electrical tape to prevent them from coming in contact with metal objects. A NFPA safety poster is attached below.\nCrystal Lake Park\u2019s Ordinances include a Leash Law that prohibits allowing pets to run at large.\nIf you observe an animal nuisance which you deem to be a dangerous situation or if you wish to see the owner cited and are willing to sign a complaint, please contact Frontenac Police who will take the necessary course of action. You also have the option of contacting St. Louis County Animal Control who will come and pick up the nuisance animal. Officers from either agency will enforce our leash law ordinances as well as assure humane treatment of the animal.\nYou can contact these agencies at the following phone numbers:\nPet Safety--Heat Warning\nThe Humane Society of Missouri reminds us that pets left in vehicles during the summertime heat \u2013 even with the windows cracked \u2013 can quickly be overcome by the heat and die. When the outside temperature is above 70 degrees, the temperature inside a car can reach more than 100 degrees in just a few minutes. A copy of the alert cards that the Humane Society provides is attached below.\nThere are coyotes in St. Louis County and there has been an occasional sighting in CLP. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has a lot of information about them: http://mdc.mo.gov/\nThe MDC's article \"Humans and Coyotes: Living Together, St. Louis Region\" is no longer available on their web site. A copy is posted below. Link to MDC's article on \"Urban Coyotes.\"\nLink to MO Department of Conservation's contacts for St. Louis County:\nhttp://mdc.mo.gov/regional-contacts?county=101\nOn Christmas morning, 2013, a coyote was spotted behind 2300 Divot Drive. However, it did not get over their fence. One was observed at the same address in November 2016.\nIn December 2013, CBS News reported that coyote attacks are on the rise in St. Louis County. A copy of this article is attached below.\nA lot of information is available on hazardous weather. Please stay tuned to television, radio, weather radio, and internet sources for the latest news on road conditions, school closings, etc. Click here for the National Weather Service Outlook . You can enter the zip code of your location or destination to get current conditions and the seven day outlook. A Winter Storm Safety Checklist is attached below.\nHaving a NOAA Weather Radio is strongly recommended. Even while you\u2019re asleep or otherwise unaware of the weather outside, you will be alerted to rapidly changing and potentially life threatening weather \u2013 including tornadoes!\nThe State Emergency Management Agency has set up a web site to help inform and prepare Missourians for severe weather. It includes detailed videos on how to take shelter in specific types of buildings, important information about tornado sirens and weather alert radios, and links to severe weather texting services that can alert people across Missouri to upcoming severe weather. Check it out at: http://stormaware.mo.gov/\nKeep in mind that the weather alert sirens are designed to warn people who are outside to take shelter. They are not intended to warn people inside buildings. Sirens are tested at 11:00 a.m. on the first Monday of the month. The test is canceled, however, if there is inclement weather. On March 3, 2015, there was a state-wide test of the warning system.\nMissouri Summer Weather Safety Week\nThe National Weather Service, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, and the State Emergency Management Agency have joined together to promote Missouri Summer Safety. This web site has important safety information that can save peoples lives.\nhttp://www.crh.noaa.gov/lsx/?n=summerweathersafetyweek\nPlease help spread the word about excessive heat and lightning safety so everyone can have a safe summer. A copy of the NOAA Heat Card with information on how to handle heat emergencies is attached below.\nPolice, Court, and Other Information\nLink to Missouri Court Case Records CaseNet\nThe Frontenac Police Blotter is published around the first of the month for the previous month. Note: the file name changes every month. Go to www.cityoffrontenac.org and search for \"Monthly Police Log\"\nFrontenac Police Department's home alarm monitoring program.\nFrontenac Police Department's Vacation Watch program. Call them at 314-994-9300 or submit the form on their web site:\nhttp://www.cityoffrontenac.org/eGov/apps/services/index.egov?view=detail;id=16\nWhat to do in Active Shooter Situations\nLink to six minute video \u201cRUN! HIDE! FIGHT!,\u201d created by the city of Houston on how-to survive a shooter event. It was created with funds from the Homeland Security Department. This video is somewhat graphic, so please do not allow children to view it.\nSee related articles attached below: \"Active Shooter Advice\" and \"Active Shooter Pocket Guide.\"\nEveryone is urged to have an Emergency Plan and Emergency Kit. For information on this, go to www.ready.gov\nAnother helpful site is: Natural Disasters: A Guide For EmergencyPreparation\nEducation and Emergency Training\nCitizens Police Academy--A nine-week class is usually held once a year in the spring. In the past it has met on Tuesday evenings from 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm at the Creve Coeur Police Department and neighboring police agencies. Topics covered include constitutional law, criminal law, traffic enforcement, DWI investigation, criminal investigation, police weaponry and weapons safety. All participants will have the opportunity to complete a police ride-along, police role-play, and shoot police pistols in the firing range. For more details, go to the Creve Coeur web site.\nThe academy is open to all residents 18 years or older. A criminal background check of all applicants will be completed, and a waiver must be signed. Contact the Creve Coeur Crime Prevention Officer at 314-442-2075 for more information or complete the application online. Click to register online.\nThe 2019 session began on Tuesday, March 5th and concluded with a graduation ceremony later in the spring. For more information contact Detective Timothy Duda at 314-373-6536 / tduda@cityoffrontenac.org - or\nOfficer Jeremy Newton at 314-373-6512 / jnewton@cityoffrontenac.org\nAdvanced Citizens Police Academy--A series of special sessions with speakers from other areas of law enforcement such as the US Marshall's Office, FBI, US Postal Inspectors, and the St. Louis County SWAT Team. The most recent session was held from September 17 to October 8, 2013 . To enroll, please fill out the online form. For more information, please contact Crime Prevention Officer Grace Fico at (314) 442-2075.\nCommunity Emergency Response Team (CERT)--This class introduces citizens to the CERT program and is open to all people regardless of their age or physical ability. This five week program, which is usually taught in the fall, gives students training in: Disaster Preparedness, Fire Suppression, Disaster Medical Operations, Light Search and Rescue Operations, Team Organization, Disaster Psychology and Weapons of Mass Destruction. Upon completing all blocks of instruction and a mock disaster drill, trainees will receive disaster supplies and a certificate of completion. It is taught through the Creve Coeur and Town & Country Police Departments and other local agencies.\nThe next CERT class will be held at St. Louis Community College, Wildwood Campus on Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 10:00 p.m. began on January 24, 2019. A second class has been added: The second offering will begin at the Wildwood Campus on March 28, 2019. Classes will be held on eight Thursday Evenings from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. You must be 17 to attend and must register to attend.\nThis training is free but registration is required. Call 314-984-7777 to sign up. Tell them that you want to register for EMSS 715 - Community Emergency Response Team Training\nYou will learn how to prepare for disasters such as Earthquakes, Floods, Tornadoes, etc. Subjects covered include: Basic First Aid, Disaster Preparedness, Fire Extinguisher use, etc. To learn more about CERT visit Eureka Fire District web site at www.efpd.org\nSt. Louis County's Office of Emergency Management also has information about preparing for emergencies:\nhttp://www.stlouisco.com/LawandPublicSafety/EmergencyManagement/GetPrepared\nMap Your Neighborhood (MYN)--This initiative was started in Washington state in response to earthquakes and other disasters. It is being promoted in Missouri by the Missouri Seismic Safety Commission and the presentations are sponsored by the St. Louis Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The state of Missouri, however, is not funding it.\nEach family should have an emergency plan and an emergency kit. An Emergency is something handled by police, fire, ambulances, etc. whereas a Disaster is an event that overwhelms the normal emergency network and requires individuals to help themselves and their neighbors.\nThe concept is for neighbors to work together to define a manageable \"Neighborhood\" (10-20 homes, apartments, condos). They create a physical map of their neighborhood. Then they hold a meeting to compile a contact list with phone numbers and define things such as a gathering site, a site for caring for the injured, etc. They also assign roles based on abilities, physical limitations, etc. and identify individuals with special needs (e.g., wheel chair bound, on oxygen, etc.). There is a packet of cards the call a \u201cshingle\u201d that each family fills out. One of the things in this packet is an \u201cOK\u201d sign and \u201cHELP\u201d sign which would be placed in the front window in case of a disaster. When teams (more than one person!) go door-to-door to check on their neighbors, they visit homes with a HELP sign or NO SIGN first and eventually cover all of them. Print the OK-HELP window sign file attached below to have on hand for emergencies.\nThe \u201cshingle\u201d is a multi-sheet form printed on card stock and is expensive to print up. Filling it out essentially creates a neighborhood\u2019s Emergency Plan. It\u2019s not available for download, but is available for $2 each.\nA key part of MYN is defining the skills and equipment neighbors have that could help in a disaster\u2014chain saws, generators, weather radios, emergency band radios, carpenters, nurses, etc. St. Louis County Library has an MYN Kit that can be checked out. It includes a DVD to show at the meeting. Go to http://webpac.slcl.org/ and search for \u201cMap Your Neighborhood.\u201d\nLinks for more information about Map Your Neighborhood:\nMissouri Seismic Safety Commission: http://mssc.missouri.edu/map.shtml\nWashington state website: http://mil.wa.gov/emergency-management-division/preparedness/map-your-neighborhood\nMissouri website: http://newmadrid2011.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=87&Itemid=50\nThere are maps of CLP on our web site: http://www.crystallakepark.org/home/find-us\nIn addition, there are several sources for generating maps such as:\nGoogle Maps: http://maps.google.com and White Pages: http://neighbors.whitepages.com\n\u010a 9voltBatterySafety.pdf\nView Download Safety Poster by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 540k v. 1 Feb 27, 2015, 11:01 PM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a Active-Shooter-Advice-12-2012.pdf\nView Download What to do in an Active Shooter situation. 475k v. 1 Dec 21, 2012, 6:23 PM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a Active-Shooter-Pocket-Guide-12-2012.pdf\nView Download Summary of what to do in an Active Shooter situation. 139k v. 1 Dec 21, 2012, 6:24 PM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a Coyote-Attacks-on-the-Rise-12-19-2013_doc.pdf\nView Download CBS News report on coyote attacks in St. Louis County 80k v. 1 Jan 14, 2014, 11:11 AM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a coyotes-&-humans.pdf\nView Download Article by the Missouri Department of Conservation previously on their web site. 188k v. 1 Jan 9, 2014, 6:36 PM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a heatcard.pdf\nView Download NOAA Weather Service's chart for handling heat emergencies 23k v. 1 Jan 14, 2014, 11:12 AM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a No-Solicitors.pdf\nView Download Cards that can be posted on the a door or window 18k v. 1 Aug 8, 2015, 12:52 PM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a OK-HELP-window-signs.pdf\nView Download Window signs to tell neighbors you are OK or need HELP. 47k v. 1 Dec 4, 2013, 10:50 PM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a Pet-safety-heat-advisory.pdf\nView Download Humane Society's Heat Alert flyer 227k v. 1 Jul 12, 2013, 10:10 PM Jonathan Carey-Voris\n\u010a Police-phone--labels-3-18-2011.pdf\nView Download Printable phone labels with Emergency numbers for your home phones. 218k v. 1 Mar 18, 2011, 5:35 PM Crystal Lake Park Communications\n\u010a Winter-Storm-Safety-Checklist.pdf\nView Download Red Cross Winter Weather Safety Checklist 344k v. 1 Dec 4, 2013, 10:51 PM Jonathan Carey-Voris", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 17657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ctscanstheworld.com/craig-trevor-who-am-i/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:03Z", "digest": "sha1:5OVIC2GM3AREM3JGK2JQM6LGCUFWIPYP", "length": 795, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ctscanstheworld.com", "title": "Craig Trevor, who am I? \u2013 CT Scans the World", "raw_content": "Craig Trevor, who am I?\nI have always had the travel bug: a deep-seeded wanderlust that drives a lot of my actions. Throughout high school, I made monthly road trips from Memphis to Dallas. Once I got to college, I visited friends in Mississippi and Tennessee. I tried to go out to California every year. Since college, I have criss-crossed the country many times. Then I started working at Epic. This position allowed me to see a lot more of the country. I eventually started coming up with goals to see the country, see the world. Now that I am living internationally as an expat in Saudi Arabia, I am able to continue this goal. \u201cI have not been everywhere, but it\u2019s on my list.\u201d\nFollow along as I document my stories. 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When a boy discovers his canine returning home one early morning, \"stepping out of a limousine and wearing a tuxedo,\" he is determined to discover what is going on.\nThat night, after his pet retires to the backyard doghouse, the boy quietly follows. The first thing he realizes is that this is no ordinary doghouse. It has been transformed, with an elegant living room, a well-lit bathroom and even a closet full of very fancy clothes. What's more, the dog in question dresses up in his finery, is picked up by a limo and arrives at a secluded club called \"The Doghouse,\" while the boy pedals furiously on his bicycle to keep up.\nThe boy is shocked to see his pet's after-hours occupation: he runs a club where other dogs come to relax, talk about their problems and be entertained before returning to the daily tedium of watching the yard, chasing cats and sleeping in the shade. The boy is treated to a tour of the club, complete with a picture of him and his pet at a booth. What an eye-opening experience! Considering all he has learned about the secret life of his dog, the boy pedals home with new appreciation of his best friend's entrepreneurial spirit.\nThe graphic lettering and energetic illustrations create a lively adventure, and a young boy\u2019s world is opened up with imagination and a sly sense of humor. The canines are charming, from the handsome star of the story to the slinky poodle and the camera-toting afghan in her hot pink evening gown. 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All our Highland Meadows commercial appraisers have extensive experience in performing a wide variety of commercial property appraisals. When choosing a commercial real estate appraiser, bear in mind that experience really matters. And a commercial appraisal is only as good as the commercial appraiser who produces it. Most people are surprised to learn that to become a state certified commercial property appraiser in Highland Meadows, a candidate must spend at least three years in training learning the practices and procedures of commercial real estate appraisal. They spend this training period under the supervision of one or more seasoned and highly trained commercial real estate appraisers. And although the initial three-year training process is thorough, many more years of real world experience are required to become truly proficient. 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Details of the transaction were not disclosed.\nC/D/H was founded in 1990 and specializes in custom software and application development, experience design, collaboration tools, and Microsoft solutions. Red Level specializes in managed services and enterprise-grade IT infrastructure deployment and management.\nThe combined companies will offer a broader array of information technology services including custom application development, business analytics, and collaboration tools.\n\u201cC/D/H has an outstanding reputation for providing the best IT services and consulting throughout Michigan for the past 30 years, and Red Level is excited to build upon that strong base,\u201d says David King, CEO of Red Level. \u201cWe expect this partnership will create new business in new areas, which will lead to increased hiring and continued growth.\u201d\nMark Becker, vice president of C/D/H, will join Red Level as senior vice president of business development and will continue to lead the Grand Rapids office.\n\u201cRed Level has a long history of technical excellence and customer service, as well as a large client base and a subscription-based business model that is attractive to many businesses,\u201d says Becker. \u201cCoupled with C/D/H\u2019s expertise, values, and character, these synergies will benefit our current and future clients.\u201d\nThe combined company has more than 50 employees and a projected annual growth rate of 25 percent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deathvalley.com/dvtalkarc3/messages/4415.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:05Z", "digest": "sha1:POTZJSD7AYQHPIVP5HP2ZXNGVWJ2HCBF", "length": 141, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.deathvalley.com", "title": "Re: Back at ya 2", "raw_content": "Re: Back at ya 2\nIn Reply to: Back at ya 2 posted by PAUL on September 17, 2002 at 14:38:04:\nI once went with a girl named Bessie McCollough.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.diocesemdy.org/home/inner/95", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:LGHF3BUYMCYY4PKBTXBM4A63BSHTQPEO", "length": 3414, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.diocesemdy.org", "title": "Eparchy of Mananthavady", "raw_content": "Home /Syro-Malabar Church\nThe Syro-Malabar Church is an Apostolic Church which traces its origin to the Apostolate of St. Thomas who, according to the tradition, landed at Cranganore in 52 AD and founded seven Christian communities at Palayur, Cranganore, Kokkamangalam, Kottakavu (Parur), Quilon, Niranam, and Chayal. It is one of the 22 sui iuris Oriental Churches in Catholic Communion with its own particular characteristics expressed in worship, spirituality, theology and disciplinary laws. The early Christian community in India was known as St. Thomas Christians. In the course of history this Church entered into life-relation with the Christian communities which came to be known as the East Syrian Church. This relationship made the Thomas Christians share the liturgical, spiritual and other ecclesiastical traditions with the East Syrian Church. At the same time St. Thomas Christians kept their distinctive character especially in Church administration and socio-cultural and ascetico-spiritual life. In the 16th Century with the arrival of the Portuguese, a new era began in the life of this Church, i.e., the latinization of its liturgy and the efforts of the St. Thomas Christians to free itself from this situation. In the Nineteenth Century this Church was designated as the Syro-Malabar Church in the documents from the Roman Curia under which name it is known today.\nIn 1887 the St. Thomas Christians were re-organized under two Vicariates, Kottayam and Trichur. In 1896, when the St. Thomas Christians obtained bishops of their own rite and nation, they were further reorganized into three Vicariates, Trichur, Ernakulam and Changanacherry. On December 21, 1923, the Syro-Malabar Hierarchy was established with Ernakulam as the Metropolitan See and Trichur and Changanacherry and Kottayam (established in 1911 for the Southists) as suffragans. In 1956 Changanacherry was raised to the status of a Metropolitan See. On December 16, 1992, Pope John Paul II raised the Syro-Malabar Church to the status of Major Archiepiscopal sui iuris Church with the title of Ernakulam-Angamaly. Mar Antony Paidyara, the then Metropolitan of Ernakulam was appointed its Major Archbishop with Mar Abraham Kattumana as the Pontifical Delegate who discharged the duties of the Major Archbishop. Archbishop Kattumana died unexpectedly during his visit to Rome in April 1995 and Mar Padiyara was given the powers of the Major Archbishop. In November 1996 Cardinal Padiyara resigned from his office as Major Archbishop. In his place Archbishop Varkey Vithayathil, C.Ss.R. was appointed as the Apostolic Administrator. In December 1998 he was appointed Major Archbishop by the Pope. In February 2001 Archbishop Vithayathil was created a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II.\nAt present there are five Archdioceses - Ernakulam-Angamaly, Changanacherry, Trichur, Tellicherry and Kottayam and 11 eparchies - Bhadravathi, Belthangady, Irinjalakuda, Kanjirapally, Kothamangalam, Idukki, Mananthavady, Palai, Palghat, Thamarassery, and Thuckalay within the proper territory of the Major Archiepiscopal Church and 11 eparchies outside - Adilabad, Bijnor, Chanda, Gorakhpur, Jagdalpur, Kalyan, Rajkot, Sagar, Satna, Ujjain and the St. Thomas Eparchy of Chicago in the United States of America. 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By Dan Clarendon Courtesy WetPaint.com Living in the good ol\u2019 U-S-of-A has its fair share of perks, but first on the list? Having access to all of MTV\u2019s brand spankin\u2019 new shows, including Maci Bookout \u2018s recent catch-up special, Being Maci! This former Teen Mom is a huge fan-favorite, and her posse of followers got a chance to see what she\u2019s been up to during the hour-long show. Tragically, Maci\u2019s friends across the pond (aka in the United Kingdom) haven\u2019t been able to touch base with this feisty ginger until now! Being Maci is officially coming to MTV UK, and the British blokes couldn\u2019t be more thrilled! Not only will they get a chance to check in on Maci as she balances being the world\u2019s best mom with partying up a storm, they\u2019ll get to see how much her relationship with Ryan Edwards has developed. These former lovebirds used to loathe each other with the passion of a thousands gingers, but times have definitely changed and they could barely keep their hands off each other during Being Maci! As far as we know, this one-off special is only being shown in the UK for now but it\u2019s only a matter of time before Maci Bookout and her adorable son take over Europe, and after that, it\u2019s just a mere matter of days until world domination. Who knows, if Being Maci does as well in the Motherland as it did in the US, Maci could be looking at her very own series! Be there, or be square.\nUnited Kingdom spirits market: Diageo the industry leader with 25% volume share\nThe company\u2019s Smirnoff Red remained the same but registered at 1% volume sales decline in 2012 compared to marginal growth in 2011. Sales were bolstered by the increasing popularity of flavoured vodka. Smirnoff Vanilla, which was launched in late 2011, made significant gains throughout 2012 as consumer awareness increased following a strong advertising campaign. As a consequence, however, there was a fall in share for other Smirnoff variants such as Smirnoff Blue, its share remained marginal but its sales declined by a sharp 46%. Volume sales of spirits declined by 1% in 2012. Manufacturers faced a number of challenges, including growing price pressure, numerous pub closures and restricted consumer budgets. As a result, it was no surprise that the on-trade performed considerably poorer than the off-trade, with the former registering a fall of 3% in volume sales, albeit slightly up on last year\u2019s performance. Inevitably, with consumers looking to save money, sales migrated from the expensive on-trade channel to the off-trade. The off-trade was boosted by the growing popularity of cocktails and increased spirits consumption at home. 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One Direction: No Way but Up for 1D; Band Beats Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Ariana Grande as Billboards Most Powerful Young Artists [PHOTOS/VIDEO] By IBTimes AU With all the buzz Miley Cyrus has created since her racy VMA performance and Justin Biebers constant squabbles with paparazzis even club goers, you would think that they could be on top of their game having attracting such media attraction in recent days. (Sep 26) By IBTimes UK Regulators have not done enough to fix the global financial system since 2008 (Sep 26) UN General Assembly Debate: Iranian President Rouhani Asserts Claim to Peaceful Use of Nuclear Technology and Proposes Immediate Time-Bound Talks to Mitigate Concerns [Watch VIDEO] By IBTimes AU Reasserting his countrys right to peaceful nuclear enrichment, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani proposed immediate time-bound talks to resolve the nuclear issue. 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Everything we do is hands on, face to face and direct to stores. That\u2019s what we\u2019re most passionate about\u2013no one will be more passionate about what you do than yourself. And I think if we didn\u2019t drive around interacting with customers and stores, I don\u2019t think we\u2019d still be in business. I think we would have gone out of business a long time ago.\u201d \u2013 Matt Sullivan (founder, Light In The Attic Records)\nSince my teens, I've been on an unending search for the lost chord: music that moved me. In the late '70s, I discovered that it was OK to follow my own path and not let radio or public opinion dictate my musical tastes. My search for great music continues to this day. Much of what I love is obscure to most casual music fans yet I know that there is so much great music I've missed along the way. This is why I'm grateful for reissue labels such as Light In The Attic. The folks that run the label have the same passion for music that I have yet they've managed to dig deeper into the vast musical universe and reissue music that is as majestic as it is odd. If I were to start up a label, it would be awfully similar to LITA.\nIt's great to know that I am not alone in my love for this label. Check out the feature that isrunning over on Forbes.com and learn how the label came to be. It is great to know that a labor of love can actually make a difference and have some kind of impact. Perhaps one day, my passion will amount to more than just a few hundred mixtapes gathering dust in closets across America!\nPeace, Love and LITA!\nRead the FORBES article HERE\nLabels: Amped, CD, forbes, Interview, Josh Wright, Light In The Attic, Lita, Matt Sullivan, Records, reissues", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.draculachronicles.co.uk/frontpage/the-seraphine-muse-interview-and-spotlight/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:54Z", "digest": "sha1:N6X7VNMBVBXMMHPNW5AMOZYFLOOFD3AD", "length": 7449, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.draculachronicles.co.uk", "title": "Interview and Spotlight on The Seraphine Muse Blog 26.11.12 | Shane KP O Neills Dracula Chronicles | Once Read, Never Forgotten", "raw_content": "Yes, definitely. In my younger days, and even in my earlier drafts of my books, I used to write sprawling prose and very long sentences. Whereas I felt some people would like and appreciate that, I thought that the majority would not. I wanted to write in a way that would hold appeal for everyone, knowing different people have different levels of literacy. I wanted to reach people who speak English as a second language and maybe even people who read very little or even not at all. Therefore, I completely changed my style. I focused on making my work much more concise and trimmed it down considerably. I took out longer words and substituted words that are easier to understand, I shortened my sentences noticeably and concentrated on fluidity and readability. I made it my goal to have something on every page to keep my reader interested so that when I delivered a shock, they would feel it.\nYes, I\u2019m interested in a few and looking to expand all the time on the people I read, as I like to read a lot. New writers who have caught my eye would be Luke Romyn, Alexandra Anthony, Samantha Young (whose success pleases me no end), and Joseph Beekman. I appreciate one or two of these have been around a while, but they\u2019re all new to me. I\u2019m also very interested in reading the works of A.k. Kuykendall. His books look mouthwateringly good.\nThe Dracula Chronicles. This project actually first saw life 20 years ago, but has been a serious entity for the last 9. There will be 8 Chronicles in all. Each of them is a mammoth project individually and they each offer a lot to my readers. I have just released a prequel to the series, ahead of the pending release of Bound By Blood. This is called Birth Of The Monster, and is available on Kindle from Amazon.\nI\u2019m also working on a series of short horror stories, called Tales Of The Black Sabbath, which will be available as individual entities and then together in an anthology where I\u2019ll probably give each a different ending.\nSure, I\u2019d love to. I have so very many excerpts to choose from, but will try and use one no one has seen before.\nChapter 14 \u2013 November, 1494. Dracula\u2019s oldest living enemy, Vintila Florescu, sits alone at home awaiting death. His son and heir, Victor, has been murdered and his head sent to him in a box.\nThe men paused to reflect on their conversation. Florescu had heard enough. He stepped away from the window and sat down in his chair. It was the most plausible explanation for what had happened. But to murder his son and then send him his head? That was personal and indicated a real grudge. Could his nephew dislike him that much? It gave him plenty to ponder.\nHe gazed at Victor\u2019s head where it had spent the last four days on the table in front of him. His tears had long dried up now. They would do Victor no good. He was a broken man. If Death were to call, he would be welcomed. He sighed hard and then, drinking the last of the wine in his cup, he drifted off to sleep.\nHis dreams took him back to another time. He was much younger then. Dead bodies littered the streets from the fighting. Smoke hung over the city from the buildings that burned in the aftermath.\nA woman stood naked at the gallows. A rope hung around her neck. He grinned at her, though she did not seem afraid. Even then as her moment of death was upon her she showed only strength. She stared at him, her eyes full of hate. He hated her as much, but secretly admired her resolve.\nHer face remained engrained there in his mind. He pushed her down naked on her bed. The bed she had only ever shared with her husband. He forced her to watch in the mirror, as he took her from behind. Holding her by the hair their eyes met in the glass. The first silent exchange of hatred passed between them.\nHe then sat in a chair. One after another his men took turns with her while he watched. He loved every one of her cries though she fought hard to stifle them. Pound the Draculesti whore his men encouraged each other. One at a time they did.\nHer face remained there. Purple and swollen it turned as the rope tightened around her neck. Her legs dangled free, kicking aimlessly against the cold night breeze. A tongue black and swollen protruded from her mouth. Her eyes bulged as the noose slowly choked the life out of her. Yet still they burned into his.\nHe turned his focus on a man much younger than he. A son crushed by the image of his mother dangling from a rope. One who had already brought himself much honour on the battlefield. Battered and bruised, he looked up defiantly. On his knees he cursed them, each and every one.\nFlorescu looked down at the hot coals nearby. He picked out an iron, its metal red and glowing. A thousand sparks flew against the darkness when he blew on its tip. The young man eyed it with fear. He struggled against those who held him down. It did him no good.\nHe pressed the hot iron against soft flesh. A loud hiss followed by the most horrible scream. Then silence as the molten iron ate through all in its wake. Flesh and bone melted into one. He saw a blinded convulsing body thrown down into an open grave. It was an image he could not escape.\nYes, absolutely. It was my ambition to write a novel or novels in which I re-created the world in which the real Dracula lived and breathed. I have seen a few noble attempts at this by other writers, but none that satisfied me as a reader and a student of his life and times. So I took it upon myself to attempt this and to do it within the scope of my premise \u2013 Lucifer trying to ascend again to Heaven through the destruction of the institution of the Catholic Church \u2013 was definitely a challenge.\nProbably trying to do that which I spoke of in the last question, without altering any true historical fact. I have had to carefully manipulate real historical fact and real historical figures to fit around my plot. I absolutely loved doing this, but at times it proved quite a difficult task.\nAbsolutely. When conducting such extensive research on a project you are sure to be better educated as a result, even in areas you know well. This was true for me. I also stumbled upon many legends, which I have used in all the books, in spite of the fact their historical accuracy might be deemed a little dubious.\nI also learned how to be better at my craft. However good, or bad, a writer may be, writing and writing will always improve them. This applies to me too.\nYes, definitely. The Dracula Chronicles will not disappoint. They will open your eyes to a breathtaking new world. It is labeled a Gothic horror, but it is so much more than that. One of the aspects that make this series so exciting is that it crosses over into many genres. It is a sprawling historical adventure, a paranormal fantasy and a romantic tragedy laced with erotica. On the surface it might appear to be a man\u2019s book, but it is far from that. It is a book for women too.\nWell, as an historian myself my biggest fear was to make an error with my historical content and be pulled up on it by an expert in the field. Therefore, I have had to be meticulous with my preparation to ensure I got it right. And then to maintain historical accuracy around my premise threw a few obstacles my way that I had to negotiate. I also wanted to create a fresh Dracula legend that lovers of vampire lore would like and admire and that was uppermost in my mind as I put this project together.\nRead the full spotlight and interview at The Seraphine Muse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 9794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dramageek.com/2016/01/les-ballets-de-monte-carlo-returns-to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:09Z", "digest": "sha1:3DGMTLRU5MSZNI7JVEJEPFKFRWBLLB3A", "length": 972, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dramageek.com", "title": "Drama geek: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Returns to Segerstrom Center with American Premiere of Jean-Christophe Maillot\u2019s Chor\u00e9, February 12 \u2013 13, 2016", "raw_content": "Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo Returns to Segerstrom Center with American Premiere of Jean-Christophe Maillot\u2019s Chor\u00e9, February 12 \u2013 13, 2016\nSegerstrom Center for the Arts - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo - Photo by Alice Blangero\nSegerstrom Center for the Arts welcomes the return of Les Ballets de MonteCarlo February 12 \u2013 13, 2016 with another American premiere: Jean-Christophe Maillot\u2019s Chor\u00e9, featuring music by Danny Elfman and John Cage. Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo appears at the Center under the Presidency of H.R.H. the Princess of Hanover. This marks the Ballets\u2019 third visit to the Center, having previously brought the Southern California premiere the company\u2019s Cinderella and the American premiere of LAC.\nSegerstrom Center for the Arts - Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo\nFree Preview Talks will occur one hour prior to each performance. The Friday, February 12 Preview Talk will be sign-language interpreted. Tickets start at $29, SCFTA.org.\nLabels: ballet, dance, SoCal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drug-help.com/city.htm?state=illinois&city=rock-island-arsenal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:39Z", "digest": "sha1:2CH3DG3YYFPG6K3OTL7SJ5ABEK6KZBL5", "length": 2470, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.drug-help.com", "title": "Drug Abuse Help, Alcohol Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois", "raw_content": "City Rock Island Arsenal\nAre you looking for help with drug abuse or alcohol abuse in Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois? Do you or someone you care about need help with drugs or alcohol? Then you have come to the right place for help. This web site was created to help assist you in locating treatment for alcohol abuse and drug abuse in Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.\nDrug and alcohol abuse is a problem that has a solution. Help is available in Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois for those who wish to end their drug abuse, or alcohol abuse problem. With the treatment and help, recovering from cocaine abuse, heroin abuse, methamphetamine abuse, prescription drug abuse, alcohol abuse, or any other drug is possible. First and foremost, it is important to understand that alcohol and drug abuse are not diseases, they are habits (bad habits). A habit is defined by the dictionary as,\nAlcohol Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nCocaine Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nCrack Cocaine Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nEcstasy Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nHeroin Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nMarijuana Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nMeth Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nAlcohol Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nDrug Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nDrug Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nSubstance Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nHelp For Drug Abuse, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nHelp For Drug Addiction, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nPrescription Drug Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois, IL\nGeneralization of National Illicit Lifetime Drug Use based off population for Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois in the year of 2000.\nAlcohol Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nCocaine Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nCrack Cocaine Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nEcstasy Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nHeroin Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nMarijuana Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nMeth Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nAlcohol Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nDrug Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nDrug Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nSubstance Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nHelp for Drug Abuse, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nHelp for Drug Addiction, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois\nPrescription Drug Abuse Help, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 29055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.easternecho.com/article/2013/03/eastern-swimming-places-third-at-ncaa-tournament", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:28Z", "digest": "sha1:DJTZQYZ5QGKZVH6V45TVDH64TJ2QRLHK", "length": 3337, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.easternecho.com", "title": "Senior swimmer finishes third at NCAA championships | The Eastern Echo", "raw_content": "Senior swimmer finishes third at NCAA championships\nLed by senior and All-American Kelly Hendricks\u2019 third-place finish in the three-meter dive, the Eastern Michigan University women\u2019s swimming and diving team completed their season at the NCAA championships held at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind., this past weekend.\nHendricks earned All-American status with a score of 356.05 in the three-meter dive final. Ironically, she scored better in the preliminary round, putting up a 360.30, which was good for second.\n\u201cIt was a spectacular way for Kelly to end her career,\u201d EMU swimming coach Peter Linn said.\nFormer EMU diver Taylor Reckert said Hendricks is always consistent.\n\u201cShe is really good at performing under pressure,\u201d Reckert said. \u201cShe was up against schools from across the country, so it was awesome that she was in the top three and [it] was an amazing way to end her diving career.\u201d\nRedshirt junior Danielle Hulvey failed to qualify for the finals in the three-meter dive as she finished in last place with a 218.80.\nHulvey and Hendricks qualified in 14th and 15th place for the one-meter dive final with scores of 291.25 and 291.15, respectively.\nIn the final, Hendricks placed 11th with a score of 315.50, while Hulvey finished in 16th with a score of 288.55.\nSenior Briana Emig competed in her final two events as an EMU swimmer: The 500- and 1,650-yard freestyles.\nIn the 500 final, Emig touched the wall at 4 minutes, 51.77 seconds, which placed her 57th overall.\nEmig fared better in the 1,650 final with a time of 16:21.09, good enough for 27th.\nEmig had good things to say about her time at nationals.\n\u201cIt has been awesome to represent EMU at nationals,\u201d she said. \u201cI am proud to have raced among the fastest Division I swimmers in the country.\u201d\nEmig said choosing to swim for Linn was the best decision she ever made.\n\u201cI owe more than just my swimming success to coach,\u201d she said.\nLinn said he is extremely proud of Emig.\n\u201c[Briana] made us a better team,\u201d he said.\nThe Eagles had the highest score among all of the Mid-American Conference teams with 23.\n\u201cBecause of our divers, Eastern placed in the top teams here,\u201d Emig said. \u201cAnd schools such as Michigan and other colleges from across the country being here makes this a bigger deal. We owe this [effort] to our coaches Peter Linn and [Loren] \u2018Buck\u2019 Smith. It just goes to show how strong our program is and is only getting better.\u201d\nThe University of Georgia won the national championship and is their first since 2005.\nA total of 322 female student-athletes competed in the championships (281 swimmers and 41 divers).\nLinn and Smith were the only Eagle coaches to make the trip to Indianapolis.\nESPNU will carry a 90-minute recap of the women\u2019s championships Wednesday at 8 p.m.\nWhile the women\u2019s season has ended, senior Jacob Hanson will be the Eagles\u2019 lone representative at the NCAA men\u2019s swimming and diving championships March 28-30 at the IU Natatorium.\nHanson is scheduled to compete in the 100 and 200 backstroke.\nNo EMU male divers qualified for the championships next week.\nA total of 270 male student-athletes will compete in the championships (235 swimmers and 35 divers).\nESPNU will also carry a 90-minute special on the men\u2019s championships Apr. 10 at 8 p.m.\nYou can find results of the event on www.easternecho.com/sports.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~kozick/elec101/hw9.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:27Z", "digest": "sha1:E36XTMQV5GWUZSOO2NKHJUCYNDMPDNOU", "length": 1149, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.eg.bucknell.edu", "title": "ELEC 101: Homework Assignment 9", "raw_content": "Please do your best to solve the following problems for Monday, March 9. We will discuss any questions that you have in class on Monday, and your solutions will be due on Wednesday.\nProfessor Aburdene will teach the class on Friday while I am out of town. He will introduce a circuit that will play a role in the design project that we will do for lab next week. This is an important class that you should attend!\nPlease do problem 3.28 in the text. What is the time constant for this circuit?\nRepeat problem 3.28 for the case that the switch is opened for t < 0, and the switch is closed for t >= 0. What is the time constant for the circuit in this case?\nPlease do problem 3.48 in the text. Note that the voltage source has value 0 volts for t < 0, and V volts for t >= 0. Thus it is equivalent to \"closing a switch\" at time t = 0 to connect an ideal source with value V volts.\nHint: Write KCL at the \"-\" input of the op amp. Use the ideal op amp assumptions.\nAlso answer the following questions for this circuit.\nWhat is the time constant?\nSketch vo(t).\nAfter a long time, i.e., t >> 0, does this look like an inverting amplifier? Please explain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/2/55927/Egypt-unequivocally-rejects-Yemen%E2%80%99s-transfer-to-foothold-for-non-Arab", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PZXLYH6N2KHTUHHNHKARELZMAVAJEDUT", "length": 3214, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.egypttoday.com", "title": "Egypt unequivocally rejects Yemen\u2019s transfer to foothold for non-Arab forces - Egypt Today", "raw_content": "President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi with Yemeni President Mansour Hadi Aug. 13, 2018 - Press photo\nEgypt unequivocally rejects Yemen\u2019s transfer to foothold for non-Arab forces\nCAIRO \u2013 13 August 2018: In a press conference with his Yemeni counterpart Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi on the occasion of Hadi\u2019s two-day visit to Cairo, President Sisi remarked that Yemen\u2019s stability and security is important for Egyptian national security and regional stability.\n\u201cWe unequivocally reject Yemen transferring a foothold for the non-Arab forces, or a platform that threatens its brotherly Arab countries\u2019 security and stability, or the freedom of navigation in the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait,\u201d said President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi on Monday.\nHence, he added, Egypt confirms its firm commitment toward Yemen\u2019s stability and unity as well as its continuous support for Yemen\u2019s legitimate government.\n\u201cYour visit to Egypt is particularly important in light of the delicate and pivotal stage that Yemen is going through. The crisis\u2019 repercussions were doubled by the enormous challenges in the Arab region, which unprecedentedly threaten its security and stability.\nThat requires us to devote efforts, promoting cooperation and coordination among the Arab countries to ward off the escalating dangers facing us all and to change the difficult reality of the brotherly Yemeni people.\u201d\nPresident Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi Aug. 13, 2018 - Press photo\nSisi confirmed that Egypt welcomes the UN envoy\u2019s efforts in Yemen, aiming to resume negotiations in accordance with internationally agreed terms. The Gulf initiative, the outcomes of the national dialogue and the Security Council\u2019s relevant resolutions are among the delegation\u2019s top priorities.\nHe further remarked that he held fruitful talks with Hadi, which focused on ways to support and promote bilateral ties between the two countries in different fields, the recent developments of the Yemeni crisis and how to tackle current challenges given political and security consequences.\nSisi concluded that he confirms his concern to develop ties between Yemen and Egypt, which provide a solid foundation for moving together towards the future.\nThe press conference was preceded by talks reviewing how Egypt can best support Yemen to reach a political solution and alleviate humanitarian suffering.\nDuring the talks, they discussed the common points for cooperation between the two countries to enhance the protection of marine navigation in the Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb strait so as not to be adversely affected by Yemeni crisis.\nSisi stated that Egypt is ready to increase training programs to build the capacity of Yemeni cadres in different fields, as well as offering scholarships and treatment grants.\nThe talks were followed by the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) and the Central Bank of Yemen on cooperation in the banking sector, particularly in the field of skills exchange and training of workers in this sector.\nHouthis hinder peace plan in Yemen: UK, UAE\nSaudi-led coalition ready to use \"calibrated force\" to push Yemen port deal\nDeath toll at 28 after migrant boats sink off Djibouti", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ehkastudio.com/tripod-chair/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ABQZONL3NQWJLQGD7E7WQGFCXN67SHDP", "length": 1727, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.ehkastudio.com", "title": "EHKA STUDIO EHKA Studio Tripod ChairAbout Tripod ChairFeatured Projects Tripod ChairTestimonials Tripod ChairContact Tripod ChairCareers Tripod ChairArchitecture Tripod ChairInteriors", "raw_content": "The design explores how the chair can be reduced to its quintessential form so that anything present is necessary for function and for comfort. Our aim is to create a chair that as minimal as possible without compromising on stability and comfort, and in turn to allow more openness and to create a sense of space and lightness.\nFor inspiration we looked at one of the earliest forms of wooden furniture and the precursor of modern day chair: the basic 3 legged stool. The stool exemplifies simplicity and yet provides stability. Every part of the basic stool serves a function. The design of this chair explores the use of three-point support instead of the conventional four-point support, thereby it gets its name: the Tripod Chair.\nThe back rest and the armrest are important components of a chair that we wanted to retain in order to maintain a comfortable seating experience. The backrest, armrest and legs are a continuous curved form, further reducing the number of parts in this chair. A single spine supports the back rest and extends to become the last leg which supports the chair. A T-joint underneath the upholstered seat supports the base of the seat and at the same time stiffens the entire structure.\nThe tactility of wood is chosen to enhance the sculptural lines of the design. Sculpted and moulded, cross-sections transition gracefully from legs to armrest and back rests. In this case, the sum of its parts merge seamlessly to form an integrated whole.\nThe Tripod Chair fits comfortably in both rectangular and circular tables, with its rounded seat and front legs pulled slightly back. The size is kept trim to prevent the chairs from occupying too much space, and in turn giving back to users more space.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.elfminiatures.co.uk/%2ASALE+-+ONE-OFF%2A+CHEST+AND+DESK+PVV6TTRRRE14b0RkalZIWnZKSGM", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:09Z", "digest": "sha1:BTNRYG4LRUZHMUUYUH5GG3ELLAERNVNL", "length": 415, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.elfminiatures.co.uk", "title": "*SALE - ONE-OFF* CHEST AND DESK | ELF Miniatures", "raw_content": "Homepage > ELF sale and one-off items > *sale - One-off* Chest And Desk\nPerfect for a child or teen room, an ELF desk with fixed drawers and chest, which has one opening and three fixed drawers. In white with contrast drawers, the desk measures 3 1/2\" (9 cm) wide by 2\" (5cm) deep, and the drawers are 2 1/2\" (6.5 cm) wide by 1 5/8\" (4 cm) deep. Both pieces are 2 1/2\" (6 cm) high.\n\u00a335, now only \u00a320.00 for the set!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00532b.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:58Z", "digest": "sha1:PAFPQLHN3CKNQYEF6OJTIP5I5XMWPDZT", "length": 2914, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.emelbourne.net.au", "title": "Essendon Football Club - Entry - eMelbourne - The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online", "raw_content": "Red and black is synonymous with the Essendon Football Club, and the black jersey with the red sash over the left shoulder, adopted in 1875, evokes absolute devotion from its host of loyal supporters whose heart resides at Windy Hill but who now spread across Australia and, with the advent of the Internet, throughout the world.\nThe Essendon Football Club dates its origins to a meeting held at the McCracken home in Ascot Vale in 1871, and a team began playing on a paddock in Flemington the following year. Alexander McCracken was a major influence in shaping the sport, as president of the Essendon Club from 1887 to 1903, and president of the Victorian Football League from 1897 to 1915.\nIn 1882, because of links with the powerful East Melbourne Cricket Club, the club moved to the East Melbourne ground located near the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the custodians of the Essendon Recreation Reserve preferring to keep it solely for cricket. In 1922, when the East Melbourne ground was resumed for a railway yard, Essendon, known then as 'The Same Olds', first dallied with an amalgamation with North Melbourne but finally moved to the ground in Napier Street, Essendon. Windy Hill, as it was popularly known, became the home ground for Essendon for the next 70 years. Ensconced at Essendon, the team was first 'The Dons', but after World War II 'The Bombers' gained ground among supporters.\nEssendon has been a source of major innovation in Australian football. In 1886, Charles Pearson was credited with introducing overhead marking. In the 1920s, the Mosquito Fleet used the running skills of its small men to win premierships in 1924 and 1925. In 1959, the club initiated a program of physical training for each player, making the club a force throughout the 1960s, with two premierships in 1962 and 1965. Under Kevin Sheedy, who began coaching Essendon in 1981, specialised coaching and strategic planning became a feature, with premierships in 1993 and 2000 exciting outcomes.\nEach season has brought its heroes to celebrate: the long kicking of Albert Thurgood at the turn of the 19th century; the evergreen Dick Reynolds with three Brownlow Medals and three premierships as coach; the modest Bill Hutchison with two Brownlows; the wonderful aerial skills of John Coleman; the judgment of Jack Clarke; the strength of Michael Long on the field and as spokesman for indigenous Australian footballers; the accuracy of Matthew Lloyd; and the courage of James Hird.\nIn 1992, as part of the national league, Essendon moved its home games to the MCG and, in 2000, to the newly completed stadium at Docklands. At the same time Essendon led the way in developing a corporate club structure but, staying close to its traditions, opened its own Hall of Fame at Windy Hill in 1996.\nMaplestone, Michael, Flying higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872-1994, Essendon Football Club, Melbourne, 1994. 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Better heat conservation can knock hundreds of pounds off a year of electricity and gas bills.\nThe blow to energy efficiency has raised eyebrows among energy bosses who are braced for Government plans to intervene in energy supply prices for the first time since privatisation, in a controversial move which may result in only a fraction of the savings.\nThe new energy efficiency proposals were published over the Easter weekend and set a target of insulating just 17,000 solid walled homes a year.\nIt means it would take over 400 years to upgrade the 7 million remaining solid wall homes in Britain, according to energy policy researchers at the University of Exeter.\nBy contrast the efforts made during the coalition Government secured efficiency upgrades for 1.8 million homes since January 2013, an average rate of 360,000 homes a year.\nAs many as 2.2 million homes could have received upgrades through the energy companies obligation (ECO) programme, but the plans were watered down by former Prime Minister David Cameron who reportedly called for officials to \u201ccut the green crap\u201d.\nRichard Lowes, a researcher at the university, branded Government\u2019s decision to level the latest efficiency blow on the Good Friday bank holiday \u201ca deeply cynical tactic to hide what is clearly bad news\u201d and \u201cat odds with their public commitment to deliver a fair and sustainable energy system\u201d.\n\u201cMeanwhile it is the UK citizens who live in some of the least efficient homes in Europe, with highest levels of energy unaffordability in Europe who suffer with cold, damp, drafty and expensive homes,\u201d he added.\nA spokesman for E.On UK, the big six energy supplier, said: \u201cOverall, as a country we need to bring the energy efficiency of homes up to the level that is right for the 21st century, and which could save many hundreds of pounds off the annual energy bill.\u201d\nThe cost of insulating drafty homes is paid for by energy companies which then smear the costs across their customer base. By cutting the ECO programme ministers saved around \u00a330 to \u00a335 on each average annual energy bill, but lost the chance to save hundreds of pounds for the most vulnerable energy users in society.\nThe UK Energy Research Centre estimates that energy efficiency has meant that the average annual dual fuel bill is \u00a3490 lower than it would have been without reducing energy use.\n\u201cThis is a far more sustainable policy which politicians should consider embracing as opposed to implementing a temporary market wide price cap,\u201d the spokesman said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.esperino.com/ghost-recon-alpha-crossover-short-film-trailer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NHNF5J5CHFWMJCFPOCTT7CKBAB6DX7MD", "length": 2555, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.esperino.com", "title": "Ghost Recon \"Alpha Crossover\" Short Film Trailer", "raw_content": "Ghost Recon \u201cAlpha Crossover\u201d Short Film Trailer\nUbisoft have released a brand spanking new trailer ahead of the Tom Clancy\u2019s Ghost Recon Alpha short film.\nTom Clancy\u2019s Ghost Recon Alpha is a 25-minute prequel short movie to the upcoming Tom Clancy\u2019s Ghost Recon Future Soldier, following the exploits of the Ghosts dropped deep behind enemy lines in order to eliminate one of the world\u2019s most sought-after war criminals.\nGhost Recon Alpha will be premiered exclusively on Uplay.com on May 13th. It will also be available to own on DVD as part of the Ghost Recon Future Soldier Collector\u2019s edition, along with additional behind the scenes content.\nGhost Recon Alpha is deeply connected with the video game, Tom Clancy\u2019s Ghost Recon Future Soldier.\nCharacters: The main four characters in the movie are the same four playable characters in the video game.\nStoryline: The movie takes place immediately before a key turning point in the video game\u2019s storyline, a vicious attack against a major European city.\nLocation: the location where the movie takes place will be one of the multiplayer maps available in the adversarial mode of the video game.\nExclusive unlock: a secret code is also hidden in the movie, enabling access via Ghost Recon Network to an exclusive weapon unlock playable in Ghost Recon Future Soldier.\nTom Clancy\u2019s Ghost Recon Alpha boasts a line-up of top Hollywood talent. The film was directed by Academy Award winners Herv\u00e9 de Cr\u00e9cy and Fran\u00e7ois Alaux, who won an Oscar in 2010 for Logorama, and produced by Rhea Scott for Little Minx, a Ridley Scott & Associates company. Tim Sexton, 2010 Academy Award nominee for Children of Men, and Gregory Pruss wrote the gripping script.\nThe film was shot by District 9 cinematographer Trent Opaloch; edited by Pietro Scalia, two time Academy Award winner for Black Hawk Down and JFK; with sound effects and sound effects editing by Per Hallberg, two time Academy Award winner for The Bourne Ultimatum and Braveheart as well as Michael Mann\u2019s Heat; production design by Jan Roelfs (Gattaca, Alexander; and costume design by Sammy Sheldon (V for Vendetta, Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class, Black Hawk Down). Military Weapons Specialist Harry Humphries, consultant on such notable action films such as Transformers, Thor, Iron Man and Armageddon, ensured that the futuristic weaponry in the film was entirely realistic.\nWatch the \u201cAlpha Crossover\u201d trailer below:\n\"Alpha Crossover\"Ghost ReconGhost Recon Future SoldierShort FilmTom ClancyTrailerUbisoftUplay\nXbox LIVE May 1st \u2013 May 14th Release Schedule", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 6167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.espn.com/blog/buffalo-bills/post/_/id/21143", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:00Z", "digest": "sha1:BAEWXDRX3KLJDJX7V2UEGSRJ5T3EITKT", "length": 551, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.espn.com", "title": "Buffalo Bills now have longest playoff drought among major sports - Buffalo Bills Blog- ESPN", "raw_content": "Bills now have longest playoff drought among major sports\nThe Buffalo Bills' neighbors to the north have passed the baton south.\nWith the Toronto Blue Jays clinching a playoff spot Friday night -- it came without much fanfare, as few noticed until Saturday morning -- the Bills now hold the longest playoff drought among the four major North American sports.\nThe Bills have not appeared in the playoffs since 1999, which has been the longest-running NFL postseason drought for the past several years.\nThe Jays' previous playoff appearance was in 1993.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 4164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.estateagentswebsites.co.uk/details/9758/stacks.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:D5PMDJX6INOKMUVGDN4UAQ4RD4S4BGEA", "length": 66, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.estateagentswebsites.co.uk", "title": "UK250 - Further information for Stacks", "raw_content": "Stacks / Estate Agents\nURL: http://www.stacks.co.uk\nSN16 9RB (map)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.excite.com/education/financial-aid/brown-university-financial-aid", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:RBSKBTAYNIJ2WJW7GNDSNV3F5WLJUQUI", "length": 3051, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.excite.com", "title": "Brown University Financial Aid, Online Brown University Financial Aid", "raw_content": "Campbell University Financial Aid\nClemson Financial Aid\nHome \u00bb Financial Aid\u00bb Brown University Financial Aid\nFinancial aids are the funds that are offered to students who want to pursue higher education. They are granted on the basis of need or merit. Federal, private as well as educational institutes offer various financial aid programs for student with different educational objectives. Some of the examples of financial aid include grants, scholarships, work study programs as well as student loans.\nLocated on College Hill on the East Side of Providence, Brown University is a private institute within the U.S. It was founded in 1764 and is recognized as the 7th oldest university within the country. Reflecting Georgian style of American colonial period architecture, life at Brown is an experience in itself. There are about 8000 students who are pursuing various undergraduate and graduate programs in a wide variety of concentrations at this university. In order to enable more and more students to benefit from quality education at this institute, the university has introduced its financial aid programs.\nBrown Financial Aid\nThe objective of Brown University Financial Aid is to make higher education within the reach of all regardless of their financial status. Since the cost of attendance at this institute goes over $56,000, most students cannot afford to pay for it. The university offers different amount to families with different financial brackets.\nApplying for Brown Financial Aid\nIn order to apply for Financial Aid Brown University, students need to plan properly so that they can maximize their chances of benefiting from its financial aid programs. They can make use of the Brown University Financial Aid Calculator to have an idea of the Brown University Tuition. Contacting the Financial Aid office can help students to know all their options and have an idea how to go about them. It is essential to fill out and submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and the CSS/PROFILE to apply for Brown University Financial Aid. Grants are one of the major types of financial aids that are offered by this university. It does not have to be repaid. Students who may not get aid to meet the complete cost of their education from the university can opt for alternate means such as private student loans.\nQ:How can I apply for Brown University financial aid?\nA:If you want to apply for Brown University financial aid you will have to fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA) and submit it with other relevant paperwork. The information on this form will allow the university to gauge your financial need and formulate an aid package accordingly.\nQ:Are brown students eligible for financial aid?\nA:Yes, financial aid is offered to students in need of monetary assistance regardless of color, race, ethnicity or religion. You can apply for financial aid by simply filling out a FAFSA form online. This form will determine your need for aid and eligibility. Take a look at our page for more detail.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 8085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.exotictenerife.com/destinations/santa-cruz-de-tenerife/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:49Z", "digest": "sha1:IEGDNG656YJGFBCGZFUOE5LT7ND25NXM", "length": 7687, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.exotictenerife.com", "title": "Santa Cruz de Tenerife Travel Guide - Exotic Tenerife", "raw_content": "Santa Cruz de Tenerife \u2013 Panoramic view of city. Photo by Mataparda\nSanta Cruz de Tenerife is the capital and largest city of Tenerife. It\u2019s also the capital city of the Canary Islands, together with Las Palmas. It is situated at the eastern tip of the island of Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Island chain. The municipal borough covers an area of 150.56 square kilometres and it is divided into two differentiated areas: the Anaga Massif and the southern ramp formed by the lava flows that run down from the Acentejo peak to the coast. The maximum altitude in the borough is 750 metres above sea level. Over half the municipal perimeter is shoreline. Population is 223,347 (2005).\nThere are two different airports in Tenerife. The Tenerife South Reina Sofia International Airport (IATA: TFS) (ICAO: GCTS) is located about 60km away from Santa Cruz, in the south of Tenerife. It\u2019s open the 24 hours of the day with almost 9 million passengers every year. The other airport Tenerife North Los Rodeos International Airport (IATA: TFN) (ICAO: GCXO) closest to the capital, was limited only to island and nationals flights, but the recent opening of the new airport terminal and the entrance of international flights has allowed to improve the connections of the city with the rest of the country and the foreigner.\n* Taxi fares from Tenerife North International Airport to Santa Cruz is 15\u20ac.\nFrom Tenerife South International Airport to Santa Cruz is 60\u20ac.\n* Bus lines 102, 108, and 109 go from Tenerife North Airport to Santa Cruz. Line 341 connects Tenerife South Airport with Santa Cruz. One line connects both airports (Line 340).\nThe Port of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has become one of the main ports of the country in transit of passengers. You can arrive the city with a Ferry that connects Santa Cruz de Tenerife with Cadiz, in the Mainland, but the trip takes two days. The company that operates this route is Acciona Transmediterranea. You can also take a ship to travel between the islands. The main company is Fred Olsen.\nPlaza de Espa\u00f1a. Photo by Koppchen\nBy bus. Fairly cheap (especially if you have a Bono card from bus station and some tobacconists) and fairly regular. Driving is very fast or very slow with little inbetween. Streets can be very narrow. Parking is a problem in the centre.\nThe beaches are less crowded than in the south. The largest is Las Terasitas is made of imported yellow sand and a short 20 minute bus ride (number 910).\nThe quieter Las Gaviotas is the next bay over and features black sand and plenty of nudists. The infrequent bus 254 there gives impressive views of Las Terasitas.\nMacizo de Anaga is a mountain range in the northeaster part of the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands. The highest point is 1,024 m (Cruz de Taborno). It extends to the Punta de Anaga in the northeast up to Cruz del Carmen in the southwest. Anaga features the mountain points of Bichuelo, Anambro, Chinobre, Pico Limante, Cruz de Taborno and Cruz del Carmen. The mountains were formed from a volcanic eruption about 7 to 9 million years ago making it the oldest parts of the island.\nIn transportation there are no roads encircling the northeastern part of the island but runs through San Andr\u00e9s and northwest because these cliffs are treacherous for transportation.\nThe relative altitude and the peculiar situation being at the passage of the tradewinds converting into a specially humid zone, which favored its existende of special diversity for the natural habitats, which features the laurisilva trees. Faunas also features on the island including Ceropegia dichotoma, Ceropegia fusca, Echium virescens and more.\nThe natural park was first founded in 1987, it later classified to this day as Parque Rural de Anaga in 1994 by the Law of the Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands. (Espacios Naturales de Canarias).\nPlaya de Las Teresitas. Photo by Sergio Mart\u00edn Gonz\u00e1lez\nThe Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a botanical garden of 120.000 m2 located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, capital city of the Western Canary Islands, specialized in palms (Arecaceae)and divided in biogeographical sections. The project was started in 1996 with funding from the European Union and the city of Santa Cruz. The building site was a former landfill of urban garbage bordering the sea. The hill was landscaped under the direction of the agronomist Manuel Caballero Ruano, the biologist Carlo Morici and the garden designer Carlos Sim\u00f3n. The park includes a large system of waterfalls, streams and ponds, an ethnographical museum dedicated to palms, with offices and labs and a shadehouse called the octagon. The project was paralysed for lack of funding in the 2000 and never opened to the public. Above 300 palm species still constitute a reference palm collection with many uncommon species. 72 of the represented taxa are included in the IUCN red list. The collection focuses on palms from islands and the biogeographical section dedicated to the Caribbean is the largest, spreading over an area of 50.000 m2. The collection of the Caribbean palm genera Thrinax, Coccothrinax and Hemithrinax are among the most complete in the world.\n* Calle de la Noria\n* Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre\n* Parque Mar\u00edtimo C\u00e9sar Manrique\n* Playa de Las Teresitas\n* Auditorio de Tenerife\n* Teatro Guimer\u00e1\nAuditorio de Tenerife, icon of architecture in Canary Islands. Photo by Enrique Castrillo N\u00fa\u00f1ez\n* Parque Garc\u00eda Sanabria\n* Plaza de 25 de julio (de los Patos)\n* Plaza de Espa\u00f1a\n* Plaza de la Candelaria\n* Plaza del Pr\u00edncipe\n* Plaza de Weyler\nPalmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Photo by Enrique Castrillo N\u00fa\u00f1ez\nA number of museums. A good history museum five minutes walk from the bus station, where the No. 14 bus stops. An art gallery in town and a small planetarium\\science centre on the way to La Laguna (bus 14 passes it). A Bono bus card not only entitles you to cheap travel on TITSA buses but cut price museum entrance. Large Sunday market near the bus station.\nThere are two El Corte Ingles department stores selling pretty much everything, as well as various shopping complexes on the outskirts. The main market is well worth a visit, although it is not aimed at the tourists \u2013 great fruit, veg, flowers, etc. There is a flea market on a Sunday near the bus station, if you\u2019re short of fleas. Some electrical tourist tat near the main square, which are probably best avoided.\nIf you\u2019re on holiday though, there\u2019s more to life than shopping. Why not stroll around the beautiful park up by the Rambla instead?\nCanaries food, Spanish food and inevitably, fast food. Most places are good value, but one or two tourist traps near the port. Plenty of good fish, although a dictionary may be helpful.\nWhatever you want. Only a few bars, with a few local people in them.\nMuseo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre. Photo by Koppchen\nSanta Cruz is characterized for its nightlife consisting of discotheques and pubs in the Marina park named after C\u00e9sar Manrique, Avenida 3 de mayo and Residencial Anaga, as well as pubs in La Noria street and surroundings, as well a nearby La Laguna. The city is also renowned for its massive, popular and at the same time sophisticated carnival, one of the biggest in the World, declared of International Tourist Interest after general Franco\u2019s death. It takes the city by storm in February or March every year.\nThere are a few reasonable hotels in the city, the best placed is the Hotel Principe Paz. However, parking can be a nightmare, so it\u2019s best to use one of the underground car parks at around 12 euros a day. Santa Cruz doesn\u2019t feel overly touristy (it doesn\u2019t really cater for them), so can be a pleasant change from the hot spots in the south.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 8637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.familylawcenter.us/2015/07/14/division-of-student-loans-in-a-divorce/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DWAYHUGC6IKND5FALQHCCJUOYIB53MLR", "length": 1898, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.familylawcenter.us", "title": "Division of Student Loans in a Divorce | FamilyLawCenter.us", "raw_content": "AlimonyDivorcedivorce lawDivorce MediationSpousal Support\nStudent loans are rapidly becoming a reality for most. Unfortunately, when splitting up comes into the picture, there is no divorcing your debt. Any student loans will need to be addressed during the division of assets and debts in your divorce.\nIn general, a student loan is the separate responsibility of the party that received the education. The other party may request reimbursement from the party that received the education for payments made toward the education during the marriage. They may request one-half of the total payments made with community funds plus interest, offset by any contributions made to their own education or training.\nIn determining how to treat the student loan debt, the family court will look at whether both parties have benefited from the education. Because the debt was incurred to enhance one party\u2019s future earning capacity, the other party may have financially benefited through an increased household income. Likewise, the education may allow the party to work and reduce the party\u2019s need for spousal support.\nAnother factor the court will take into account is the length of payments made during marriage. There is a rebuttable presumption that the community has benefited when community contributions were made to the education more than 10 years before the divorce proceedings began. Conversely, there is a rebuttable presumption that the community has not benefited when community contributions were made to the education less than 10 years before the divorce proceedings began. The other party can rebut the presumption with evidence that the community has or has not benefited.\nThe division of assets and debts in a divorce can be complicated. You should contact an experienced family law attorney or mediator for assistance in determining an equal division and drafting a family law agreement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 5826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fatkidsocialclub.com/2012/03/prometheus-official-full-hd-trailer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:56Z", "digest": "sha1:4RLTKH6O3V4O2EWOUW5RB6FXNSEKAFBI", "length": 338, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fatkidsocialclub.com", "title": "The Fat Kid Social Club: Prometheus - Official Full HD Trailer", "raw_content": "Do not sleep on this. At all. If you were a fan of the Alien movies, and some the art style of H.R. Giger, you need to keep an eye out for this. Not giving spoilers. 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She regularly drafts specially compiled Memorandum and Articles of Association for new companies wanting to achieve specific objectives. Mrs. Smith is also equipped with the knowledge of expanding the shares of an ordinary company into voluminous amounts for mass division.\nServitre graduated Magna Cum Laude from Lee University and holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in double majors; Accounting and Business Administration. She is the Assistant Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) and Compliance Officer for both F Chambers and F Corporate. She holds an executive position on the Association of Company Mangers and Agents (ACMA). She is also a member of the Compliance Association of the Turks and Caicos Islands.\nMrs. Smith has a passion for people, business, her community and church but her passion for her family triumphs them all. She finds the most joy being a wife and a mother to an amazing son.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fftimes.com/news/global/sports/jays-able-avert-sweep", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:55Z", "digest": "sha1:XECSMRUR6HEEUOBCKIFJTBM3FE7MGGUC", "length": 2843, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.fftimes.com", "title": "Jays able to avert sweep | Fort Frances Times", "raw_content": "Jays able to avert sweep\nTORONTO\u2014With such a thin line between being on the N.Y. Yankees\u2019 heels and getting swept at home, the Toronto Blue Jays didn\u2019t hesitate and handed the ball to their fifth starter with the 5.26 ERA.\nDrew Hutchison took it, threw a gem, and helped the Jays beat the Yankees 3-1 yesterday afternoon at Rogers Centre to move to a half-game back in the AL East.\nA defiant Hutchison silenced the doubters and delivered a crucial victory in the tight race for the division title.\n\u201cHe responded,\u201d said Jays\u2019 manager John Gibbons.\n\u201cHe\u2019s still a young guy but he\u2019s mentally tough, I do know that.\u201d\nHutchison allowed just three hits and one run on a solo home run by Jacoby Ellsbury in 6 2/3 innings to post his 12th win of the season.\nThe much-maligned right-hander struck out five as the Yankees ran out arguably their strongest possible lineup looking for the sweep.\nAs talk swirled about the Jays skipping one of Hutchison\u2019s starts, he turned in his second-straight strong outing.\n\u201cWhen it comes to things that are out of my control, I don\u2019t really pay any attention to that,\u201d Hutchison said.\n\u201cWhenever I\u2019m given the ball, I\u2019m going to go out there and try to give an effort like I did today and help our team win,\u201d he stressed.\nThis showdown in the middle of August felt like more than just one of 162 games.\nThe Jays were trying to avoid being swept at home for the first time this season\u2014a result that would have dropped them 2.5 back in the AL East.\nInstead, it\u2019s an even tighter race in part because of a ball Carlos Beltran lost in the sun.\n\u201cI lost it when it was getting close to me and I basically couldn\u2019t do anything,\u201d Beltran said of Troy Tulowitzki\u2019s fly ball in the third inning.\n\u201cUnfortunately, it would have been a different story if I had caught that ball.\u201d\nToronto made the most of its break, with Tulowitzki on second and extra chances to score runs.\nAn RBI double by Josh Donaldson got the Jays on the board, then a two-run shot by Jose Bautista broke open an inning that could have been over.\nBautista nailed a hanging slider from Yankees\u2019 rookie Luis Severino over the fence in left-centre for his 28th home run of the season.\nThe 21-year-old Severino kept the Jays from doing any more damage by striking out a career-high nine in just his third major-league start.\nThe Jays (65-54) and Yankees (64-52) face each other seven more times over the final month-and-a-half of the season.\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a battle the rest of the way out,\u201d Hutchison said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a fight.\n\u201cWe just need to go out there, play the way we know we can play, and do what we\u2019re capable of doing.\u201d\nElsewhere in the AL, Minnesota beat Cleveland 4-1, Baltimore routed Oakland 18-2, Seattle topped Boston 10-8 (12 innings), Houston edged Detroit 6-5, Texas downed Tampa Bay 5-3, and Kansas City shaded L.A. 4-3 (10 innings).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 5101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filmykura.com/2016/07/1820/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GOT67MS5WOUGAPAWQH5GFAKRUYCMYBUN", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.filmykura.com", "title": "\u2018\u092e\u0947\u0930\u094b \u0938\u094d\u0935\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0925\u094d\u092f \u0921\u093e\u0915\u094d\u091f\u0930\u0915\u094b \u0928\u093f\u092f\u0928\u094d\u0924\u094d\u0930\u0923\u092e\u093e \u091b, \u092e\u0943\u0924\u094d\u092f\u0941\u092a\u091b\u093f \u0905\u0938\u0932 \u0935\u094d\u092f\u0915\u094d\u0924\u093f\u0915\u094b \u0930\u0941\u092a\u092e\u093e \u091a\u093f\u0928\u093f\u0928 \u092a\u093e\u090a\u2019 : Filmy Kura", "raw_content": "Filmy Kura, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:29 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 114.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/profiles/g/alberto-giacometti.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:27Z", "digest": "sha1:J2QH2C6BUCDL7KVTAK25XBFP5SQUUCPB", "length": 4755, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.findingdulcinea.com", "title": "Happy Birthday, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor", "raw_content": "Happy Birthday, Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor\nFamous for his sculptures of stick-thin figures with razor-sharp, fine features, Alberto Giacometti was an artist who defied categorization. His work flirted with nearly every major art movement of the 20th century, and eventually evolved into a style that was uniquely his own.\nAlberto Giacometti Early Days\nAlberto Giacometti was born on Oct. 10, 1901, into an artistic family that included his father Giovanni Giacometti, a famous Post-Impressionist painter, godfather Cuno Amiet, a well-known Fauvist painter of the time, and a second cousin, Augusto Giacometti, influential in the Symbolist painting movement.\nSo, it\u2019s not surprising that Giacometti exhibited an early inclination toward art. \u201cAs a child, what I most wanted to do was illustrate stories,\u201d Giacometti said. \u201cThe first drawing I remember was an illustration to a fairy-tale: Snow White in a tiny coffin, and the dwarfs.\u201d\nBy the time he was 12, Giacometti was in his father\u2019s studio creating oil paintings. At his secondary school in Schiers, Switzerland, he was given a small studio in which he continued to paint and sculpt. He then studied under a pointillist at Geneva\u2019s School of Arts and Crafts and apprenticed with sculptor Maurice Sarkissoff. By the time he was 24, he set up a studio with his brother Diego and began to attract notice in the art world.\nHappy Birthday, Robert Rauschenberg, American Artist\nHappy Birthday, Joan Mir\u00f3, Surrealist Painter and Abstract Artist\nHappy Birthday, Pablo Picasso, Painter\nGiacometti Notable Accomplishments\nArtchive: Alberto Giacometti\nMuseum of Modern Art: Exhibitions: Alberto Giacometti\nArt in the Picture: Alberto Giacometti\nThe Guardian: \u2018My life is reduced to nothing\u2019\nArtrift: Jean Paul Sartre on Alberto Giacometti: The search for the absolute\nARTNews: The Giacometti Legacy: A Struggle for Control\nGiacometti created his first major sculpture, \u201cSpoon Woman,\u201d in 1926. It was shown in a Paris gallery and subsequent sculptures sold quickly. He signed a contract with the Surrealist artists\u2019 preferred dealer and was soon was associating with the avant-garde on a regular basis.\nIn May 1932, Pablo Picasso was one of the first visitors to Giacometti\u2019s first solo show. Several art magazines covered the show, including one that featured photographs of his work by Man Ray. Although Giacometti\u2019s work eventually set a standard for surrealist sculpture, his technique began to diverge from those of the group.\nAfter his father\u2019s death in 1933, Giacometti started working with models and to sculpt more realistic figures. Seeing this as a betrayal, a group of surrealists asked him to an apartment where they planned to hold a hearing about his presence in the movement. Sensing their intention, he turned on his heel and left.\nIn the next decade, Giacometti began to develop the style that made him famous. He said he was trying to sculpt realistic figures, but every time he was left with the tall, thin, haunting shapes.\n\u201cWhat I know, more than ever, is that the more I take away, the fatter it becomes,\u201d he said. \u201cBut why, I don't know yet. With the bust I'm doing now, I do nothing but take away, and it's so fat that I feel it must be twice as thick as it is. So, I've got to take away, take away, take away...\u201d\nHis inability to create exactly what he wanted caused Giacometti great stress. He spent many hours dissecting his feelings with existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. As a result of this friendship, Giacometti\u2019s art became very strongly associated with the existentialist movement.\nAlberto Giacometti and his Work\n\u201cGiacometti: A Biography\u201d by James Lord\n\u201cA Giacometti Portrait\u201d by James Lord\n\u201cAlberto Giacometti: A Biography of His Work\u201d by Yves Bonnefoy\n\u201cAlberto Giacometti: Works, Writings, Interviews\u201d by Angel Gonzalez\n\u201cAlberto Giacometti: Sculpture, Painting, Drawings\u201d by Angela Schneider\nNear the end of his life, Giacometti began to paint realistic portraits. Sitting for these was a days-long process and the memories of some of his models have been captured in the book \u201cA Giacometti Portrait,\u201d by James Lord. Also during this time, Giacometti explored other enterprises, such as set design; when Samuel Beckett wanted stage dressing for \u201cWaiting for Godot,\u201d Giacometti furnished him with a single barren tree.\nGiacometti\u2019s final years were spent in ill health. He continued to sculpt as long as he was able. On Jan. 11, 1966, he died from heart disease.\nUnfortunately, he left no will. His widow Annette worked to set up a foundation to preserve his collection before her death in 1993; it was eventually established in 2003, and as of 2006, is represented by the Gagosian Gallery. Prior to that point, there were several legal battles regarding his estate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 7052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 158.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Europe/Sept-Oct-08/Hungarian-Leaders-Concerned-About-Low-Fertility-Rate.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WY2YLZ6SDNUWA2EWU3BP44A7US6FKOJB", "length": 3166, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.findingdulcinea.com", "title": "Hungarian Leaders Concerned About Low Fertility Rate", "raw_content": "Combination of Factors Contribute to Low Rate\nOpinion & Analysis: Trend not necessarily inevitable\nRelated Topics: Fertility rate fluctuations\nBela Szandelszky/AP\nHungarian Leaders Concerned About Low Fertility Rate\nHungary\u2019s population could drop 13 percent in the coming decades, but a trend of declining European birth rates may be reversing in some countries.\nFewer and fewer people are getting married in Hungary, and that trend is leading to a decline in the nation\u2019s fertility rate, Bloomberg reports.\nA European agency projects that Hungary, which has one of the lowest fertility rates in the region, could drop from 10 million people now, to 8.7 million in 2060. According to Bloomberg, other Eastern European countries are also projecting population decreases in the coming decade.\nIn Hungary, some of the reasons for the drop include people waiting longer to get married, and emigration. Some of the country\u2019s leaders wonder who will care for the older Hungarians that remain in the country if the trend continues, Bloomberg says.\n\u201cIt is a sad situation to see small villages that don\u2019t have enough children to keep the kindergartens open,\u201d Csongor Szerdahelyi, a Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference press officer, told Bloomberg. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think people have babies because it is their patriotic duty.\u201d\nFertility rates have been declining across Eastern and Western Europe for years. But a recent report suggests that is starting to change in some countries. Last month, the Guardian reported that Great Britain, which has the highest birth rate \u201cin a generation,\u201d could see its population rise by a quarter by 2060.\nCyprus, Ireland and Luxembourg could also have large population growth, the Guardian said.\nBloomberg: Hungarians Go Forth, Don\u2019t Multiply in \u2018Catastrophic\u2019 Trend\nThe Guardian: Europe of the future: Germany shrinks, France grows, but UK population booms\n8th Circle: Hungary\u2019s withering population\nfindingDulcinea: U.S. Fertility Rate Falling, U.S. Census Data Says\nfindingDulcinea: As Amish Population Grows So Do Misunderstandings\nVitaliy Voznyak, who describes himself as a political science graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said projections are not certainty.\n\u201cThe farther in the future we venture the wider is our estimation error, so for all we know Hungary\u2019s population rate (or of its other neighbors) may reverse and stabilize,\u201d said Voznyak, who wrote on the blog 8th Circle. \u201cHowever projections such as these have a purpose, specifically, they point out toward potential future demographic crises that no country can afford to ignore if it is to prosper in the long-run.\u201d\nThe United States, for the most part, is seeing a decline in its fertility rate, too. Utah remained high above the national average\u2014a birthrate of 83.2 per 1000 women\u2014versus the national average of 54.9.\nAnother area of America where the growth rate has increased is among the Amish. The number of Amish people in America has doubled in the past 16 years, and people in the community are moving into new states. Though some people have converted to the Amish faith, a high fertility rate is also credited with the population increase.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/forums/index.php?topic=486.msg90274", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:59Z", "digest": "sha1:HW5NNTM3EKVIZUNACYUZRXG7RMPM4EKZ", "length": 4946, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.fistful-of-leone.com", "title": "Shane (1953)", "raw_content": "Shane (1953) 0 and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. \u00ab previous next \u00bb\n: Shane (1953) ( 21857 )\nNon-spag topic, but I thought it was interesting.\nI've noticed that there is a fairly heated controversy regarding the ending of Shane (apparently fueled by comments made by Samuel L. Jackson's character in the film The Negotiator) and was wondering what some of you thought.\nShane was wounded (I thought in the arm) during the final showdown. After he departs, leaving that irritating little kid in the distance, some people think that he dies there on the horse. I had never considered that, so I watched the ending a few more times. He seems pretty alive to me, and does not slump the way some of the death advocates have maintained.\nHe rides past a graveyard, which could have some metaphorical significance, but the problem is that he's clearly steering the horse around. He's also fairly upright in the saddle from what I can see. Of course, so was the Mexican corpse at the beginning of FFOD. I didn't see anyone run in and prop Shane up with a stick though.\nI think that it's meant to be left open as to whether he lives or dies, but some say he's obviously kicked the bucket on screen. According to some comments on other boards, the book is not clear on his fate either.\nJust wondering what some of you folks see.\nCrazy bellringer was right. There's money to be made in a place like this.\nRe: Shane (1953)\nI never thought that Shane was dying.\nYou brought two too many.\nOK this may be an old thread, but here are my two cents. I've always read the ending of 'Shane' as a metaphorical death, his forlorn departure much akin to Ethan Edwards' in 'The Searchers'. The old way of life is coming to an end as the homesteaders settle in to create the new nation, and the 'ancient race' of buckskin-clad titans fade away into the landscape from whence they came. I've also always considered Cheyenne's actual death and Harmonica's slow departure as a nod to this tradition.\nThe Americans have only rented (America) temporarily. If they don't behave well, if the mythical level is lowered... then we can always evict them.\nWatched this on TCM tonight and pretty much agree with the last comment made that Shane's is a metaphorical death.\nAside from the really annoying Bille De Wilde its not a bad old school film & Ben Johnson & Jack Palance have some great supporting roles.\nCJ, Palance has not simply a great supporting role: he makes movie history here.\nI don't think he dies.\nShane didn't die in the novel.\nShane, on my view, doesn't literally die, but I like the idea he undergoes a figurative demise (the journey past the cemetery signaling this). He can not long remain in human society, he is anathema to domestic concerns, because he has something to do with death. He may be the agent of grace, but he cannot share in it.\nJust watched it. Very, very good. I'll give it 9/10. The biggest problem is the always so clean Hollywood style (how the F does Shane manage to keep his working clothes clean ?)\nI didn't see where he was shot but I think it's possible that he dies. But it doesn't really matter whether he dies really since he's dying breed. He either dies by bullet or then he dies spiritually when he's forced to adapt to the new way of living. I guess he'd prefer the bullet.\nShane (1952) - 9/10\nJust watched it. Very, very good. The biggest problem is the always so clean Hollywood style (how the F does Shane manage to keep his working clothes clean ?)\nI've never seen it... I've read the book. I liked the book. And I'm a bit afraid of the film exactly for this reason.\nHm... I just watched the ending (the duel also) in youtube, and the pic was very bad, so I can't see where he was shot, but I can imagine it was something bad... like poor Cheyenne.\nShane was a man of the \"ancient race\" and he should die. Well, riding into the sunset is a symbolic death in a western, I think. But I can imagine he's deadly wounded, but didn't wanted the little boy see him die... so he was gone.\nWell, riding into the sunset is a symbolic death in a western, I think.\nCan be (\"Going west\" is a euphemism for dying). But context determines meaning. If the hero and his sweetheart ride into the sunset at the end of a film, then a happy life together is indicated.\nShane is good alright. I (re)watch it from time to time and it mostly holds well the burden of time. It is old school, yes, but after you swallow the inherited naiveness of the (at times) dragging storytelling and some truly irritating character features, the good story and performances hold up the entertaining value pretty high. Nice cinematography too.\nIt always goes through my mind how it seems it was much easier to find great villains in those days. I mean in terms of talent, not to mention from the financial side.\n7.8 - 8 / 10\n\u00ab : October 06, 2009, 10:54:52 AM Dust Devil \u00bb\nAnd to answer the question: no, I never thought Shane was about to die in a literally sense.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 8829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.focussf.ca/en/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:37Z", "digest": "sha1:V7LWCRMXMMCN6WD6WQH2TUR2VCBEVD2Q", "length": 3439, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.focussf.ca", "title": "Legal Disclaimer \u2014 Focus Financial Services", "raw_content": "FOCUS Services Financiers maintains this website for your personal entertainment, information, education, and communication.\nYour access and use of the website is subject to the following terms and conditions (\u201cTerms and Conditions\u201d) and all applicable laws. 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Please be aware that certain web pages may not function properly if you choose not to accept cookies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4838, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.foodsafety.company/2016/11/issuances-of-food-standards-warnings-to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:35Z", "digest": "sha1:TFUJXLGSV757LI4YWWRQWHKIQR7W3ALZ", "length": 3470, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.foodsafety.company", "title": "> Issuances of Food Standards Warnings to UK Businesses Rose 59% This Year - The Food Safety Company Issuances of Food Standards Warnings to UK Businesses Rose 59% This Year - The Food Safety Company", "raw_content": "Home > Recent > Issuances of Food Standards Warnings to UK Businesses Rose 59% This Year\nAllergies & Dietary Requirements Food Industry News Food Manufacturing Food Recalls Recent\nIssuances of Food Standards Warnings to UK Businesses Rose 59% This Year\nOf the 600,000 food establishments in the UK, 23,056 were issued with food standards warnings between 1 April 2015 and 31 March 2016, according to a new Food Standards Agency (FSA) report. It stands as a total increase of 59% on the previous year, which is said to be principally down to the recent introduction of stricter EU regulations regarding food allergen labelling, which came into force in December 2014.\nAs the Telegraph reported in July, supermarket chain Lidl was forced to recall fruit yoghurts and packets of peanuts earlier this year because the packaging did not say that the products within contained milk and peanuts respectively.\nThe regulation changes by the EU were described by the FSA as being designed to \u2018help provide allergen ingredients information in a clearer and more consistent way.\u2019 They have already changed the way in which food allergen labelling is presented: for example, labels which \u2018provide a short cut to allergen ingredients information\u2019 are no longer allowed; and loose foods which can be purchased without packaging (such as those in cafes and restaurants) need to be provided with allergen information if they contain any of the 14 allergens identified by the new legislation (some of which included eggs, milk, fish, peanuts, soya and lupin).\nBeing an EU law, however, there is always the possibility that Britain\u2019s exit from the European Union could either repeal or change it. We have considered before how the impending Brexit might affect food standards legislation and the regulations industry in general. In short: it is almost impossible to know at this stage. Despite the fact that food standards regulations were not necessarily large factors in the Brexit campaigns, it may not yet be time to conclude that Britain will be retaining EU guidelines in such a regard.\nIt is worth considering, for example, that if dissent towards things like \u2018red tape\u2019 were to grow in the coming months in the wake of reports such as the one in this particular case, food standards regulations might be pulled into the centre ground as a more important issue in Britain\u2019s overall outlook going forwards. Many, for instance, could think it unnecessary for businesses to put allergen labels which say \u2018contains milk\u2019 onto yoghurt products; and if such a sentiment were to morph into a desire to rescind certain pieces of EU food legislation which are perceived as being obtuse, British legislators might be compelled to change the existing laws around allergen labelling; including, potentially, that which was introduced in December 2014 in relation to allergen labelling. It is certainly, therefore, possible that such figures as those in the chart above will be subject to change once again in the coming years.\nNonetheless, speculation aside, it is clear that such a dramatic increase in the number of food standards warnings issued against food businesses in the UK has been a net effect of the new regulations introduced by the European Union, rather than being due to a slip in quality of food manufacturers or standards in UK businesses themselves.\nItem Reviewed: Issuances of Food Standards Warnings to UK Businesses Rose 59% This Year Rating: 5 Reviewed By: Food Safety Co", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 12428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.frenchchateau.net/chateaux-of-pays-de-la-loire/chateau-du-goust.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BYSM3M5E5BDZL6ZCXHP3K7EACUNBG5ZM", "length": 451, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.frenchchateau.net", "title": "\ufeff Ch\u00e2teau du Goust, French Ch\u00e2teau", "raw_content": "Ch\u00e2teau du Goust\nCh\u00e2teau du Goust Photo - amaurybouchet - Wikipedia - lic. under CC BY-SA 3.0\nLocation: Malville, in the Loire-Atlantique departement of France (Pays de la Loire Region).\nNotes: Ch\u00e2teau du Goust is a castle located in Malville, France. The castle is located in the town of Malville, in the department of Loire-Atlantique. The monument is registered as historical monuments in 2008.\nCh\u00e2teau du Goust Links:\nCh\u00e2teau du Goust On Wikipedia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gamingcouchpotato.co.uk/2015/02/the-friday-13th-game-coming-this-summer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:35Z", "digest": "sha1:L2RFZGXIXMI6IMV67PSLRW37MZ36VSXH", "length": 197, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gamingcouchpotato.co.uk", "title": "#Gaming: The \"Friday the 13th\" Game Coming this Summer - Game Scoop!", "raw_content": "The \"Friday the 13th\" Game Coming this Summer - Game Scoop!\nSlasher Vol. 1: Summer Camp is an homage to Friday the 13th you'll be able to play on PS4, Xbox One, and PC soon.\nLabels: Friday the 13th", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 2884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 155.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gazette-tribune.com/opinion/hospital-vs-eagles/57201/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:21Z", "digest": "sha1:OMZOFSX7ZGRPBKNPMB2F53EJSP3USQYS", "length": 3167, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.gazette-tribune.com", "title": "Hospital vs Eagles - Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune", "raw_content": "Our town is blessed with some great opportunities if we simply have the courage to see the possibilities. Self-serving or hidden agendas may create a schism in the community which is the antithesis of the purpose behind the hospital and the Eagles. They both exist to serve the community. So does Tonasket City Council. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m for the hospital addition and remodel. I campaigned and voted for the bond issue.\nMany Eagle members are in favor of the hospital remodel and addition. The Eagle\u2019s property is the favored acquisition in order to build the new addition and provide parking. Unfortunately, hospital leadership has failed to open a timely dialog with the Eagles on this matter. The proposed building configuration that is now favored is not the same as was published and circulated during the bond campaign. It is easy to recognize that the community experienced a sense of betrayal at the misleading sales pitch. The hospital\u2019s approach to acquiring property has left us bitter. That said, many of the people I stand with still favor a better health care facility.\nAt the forefront is the issue of vacating Second Street. Its approval by Tonasket City Council is premature at this time. Approval would give the hospital an unfair upper hand. This act would undoubtedly appear to the community as a devious scheme to assist North Valley Hospital in their acquisition of adjacent property. Eminent Domain over another\u2019s property should not become a topic of conversation in our community.\nWe are all part of this community. Let\u2019s not sacrifice one benevolent organization or business location for the benefit of another! There is room in this town to create a win-win situation. I don\u2019t want to see the Hospital vs. Eagles in court. Eminent Domain might be a legal option for the hospital but just because they can, does not mean they should. Our members need the hospital and they need us. We are almost 1000 strong. Friends, relatives and those who have benefited from the Eagles far exceed that 1000 mark. We are present and potentially future patients of the hospital. We recognize our need for a hospital; do they recognize their need for us? The hospital needs our support.\nCertainly North Valley Hospital representatives recognize this as a tentative, awkward and politically damaging position for them. It is our wish that the hospital representatives engage us with their vision for the Eagles\u2019 future and entertain aiding us to accomplish means with which to achieve those visions. Once common ground is established between us, your vote to vacate 2nd Street will be nothing more than a rubber stamp, not a crown fire. Surely the city understands the implications of a premature vacate vote by council members. Delay your vote until North Valley Hospital and adjacent property owners come to terms. This simple act serves the community.\nThere is a public hearing scheduled for Nov. 27, 7 p.m., at the council chambers at City Hall. This hearing is specifically for vacating 2nd Street. Let\u2019s all express our concerns by attending that meeting.\nDave Kester\nLee Frank Mercantile\nTiger Jacob Longmire runs well in his first time at state", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gbaforwomen.org/news-events/letter-inez-january-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:18Z", "digest": "sha1:HHDIUGC24UITIUQVDVWC3TNFJ6QZVBAU", "length": 4171, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gbaforwomen.org", "title": "Letter from Inez: January 2019 | Global Banking Alliance for Women", "raw_content": "Looking ahead to 2019, we are pleased to be able to offer an increasingly robust set of peer learning opportunities and knowledge products to our members while building awareness of what works to fully include women in the economy. Highlights this year include building out our presence in the Middle East and North Africa region with our first All-Stars Academy MENA \u2013 hosted by the Central Bank of Egypt in Cairo March 24-28 \u2013 and a second All-Stars Academy taking place in October. Our Annual Summit is taking place in Paris June 17-19, hosted by GBA member AXA, and will focus on building resilience through full financial inclusion of women. To ramp up determination around this effort, the Summit will kick off with a CEO Roundtable that will convene CEOs from a range of financial services companies to discuss their vision for supporting female consumers, employees, investors and job-creating entrepreneurs, and make a commitment to stretch targets. GBA members and stakeholders will receive an invite for their CEOs next week.\nThis month we are delighted to announce that GBA has formed a strategic collaboration with Mercer \u2013 a global consulting leader in diverse and inclusive workforces \u2013 to support the development and rollout of a suite of peer learning and knowledge products on becoming the employer of choice for women in your market. This will begin with a Working Group on getting women into the c-suite that begins in March. We are asking members to line up their Diversity and Inclusion (D&I)/Human Resources specialists to participate and to fill out Mercer\u2019s When Women Thrive survey, which is a strong diagnostic tool that predicts labor force diversity in the future based on current policies. This analysis will inform prioritization of focus areas for all our D&I work, including Working Groups, workstreams within the GBA Summit, the production of a how-to guide to \u201cBecoming an Employer of Choice for Women\u201d as well as other knowledge products. We will also be opening up the GBA Mentoring Program to D&I/Human Resources specialists.\nIn this issue we speak to Robert Baker, Senior Partner and Leader of Diversity & Inclusion Consulting at Mercer, about what he sees as opportunities and challenges of getting more women into leadership levels in the financial services sector and his hopes for Mercer\u2019s strategic collaboration with GBA.\nWorking Groups consist of 8-10 monthly webinars during which members and stakeholders share and discuss approaches to solving for the group topic. Beyond the aforementioned D&I Working Group, 2019 will see the continuation of the Product Innovation for the Women\u2019s Market Working Group; the addition of a Working Group on Payments for the Women\u2019s Market, in collaboration with GBA member Mastercard; and the addition of a new service \u2014 Ask the Expert \u2014 where members can get brief strategic questions answered by GBA\u2019s pool of Experts on a monthly \u201copen office hours\u201d basis. This new service is an online version of the very successful Coaches Corner session at the All-Stars Academy, during which participants get a chance to talk to an Expert on their choice of topics relating to the design and execution of a Women\u2019s Market program.\nWe are adding these service areas and modalities in response to member demand based on last year\u2019s Annual Membership Value and Satisfaction Survey. The 2019 survey will be sent out next week; please fill it in so that your voice is heard.\nAs we look toward a full year of enriching activities, we acknowledge the work that each of our members is doing in their own countries. This month we check in with Great Wall Bank \u2013 one of two GBA members in China \u2013 and feature as our Resource of the Month the Spanish version of our Case Study on BancoEstado, an institution that has had extraordinary success in integrating unbanked women and in adding value to women business owners.\nLast year we welcomed eight new bank members. We hope to at least double that growth in 2019. And we note that none of our work would be possible without the extraordinary generosity of both our members and our stakeholders \u2013 in terms of finances and most especially in terms of their time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.glaziershighwycombe.co.uk/toughenedglass.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:25Z", "digest": "sha1:OSU7SRNWPVE6RW4UC44AL34RXL4PPODE", "length": 1074, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.glaziershighwycombe.co.uk", "title": "Cat Flap Fitters High Wycombe - Shop Front Repairs High Wycombe", "raw_content": "High Wycombe Toughened Glass Services\nExpress High Wycombe glazing experts offer a variety of safety glass services including toughened glass installations and replacements. Toughened glass will usually shatter into small fragments instead of sharp shards when broken, making it less likely to cause severe injury and deep lacerations. This is particularly useful for certain frames such as cat flaps, glass doors and tables.\nOur High Wycombe toughened glass normally takes three to five working days to order in for both single and double-glazed options. This glass is recommended for High Wycombe residential customers, as the glass shatters into relatively harmless fragments upon impact, as opposed to the larger, more dangerous shards caused by breakage of normal glass. However, due to the security risk of having a large hole when the glass has been shattered, we do not recommend this for our High Wycombe commercial customers, whom we offer laminate glass to instead.\nCustomer Name:Mrs A Wilkins.\nIm just ringing to say how happy I am with the service you provided.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.glescorp.com/en/about/our_team.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:14Z", "digest": "sha1:5IQUT44YESNW6FD5N4CCEA7ZFQUAXBEO", "length": 8201, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.glescorp.com", "title": "The Team - Green Light Energy Solutions", "raw_content": "Alex Feerer, President and Founder of Green Light Energy Solutions, Chairman of the Board of Directors, was born in 1952 in Ukraine. Alex Feerer holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Odessa Chemical-Engineering University and Kiev University of Trade and Economics and has a Master of Business Administration MBA) degree.\nAlex has over 40 years of progressively responsible experience in USSR (15 years) and USA (over 25 years) directing as many as 4,000 employees in companies with product sales turnover in excess of $500 million in a variety of industries, including meat products, building products, agriculture and financial services. Alex has successfully led these companies through start-up, survival, turnaround and growth modes, increasing industrial capacity, production profitability and sales turnover of the directed companies several times. His understanding of both domestic and international distribution channels encompasses retail sales, wholesale, OEM, direct sales, leasing and government markets. He has a vast experience in the development of various environmental programs.\nAmong his significant previous positions, Alex served as Executive Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the multifunctional meat processing plant and manufacturer of deli-meat products. As President of California Trading Export Financing Corp. Alex has gained high achievements in exploring new market channels for the company.\nIn 2006, he made the decision to invest into the development of new waste-to-energy technologies. His passion for continuous development and enhancement of environmental technology has finally made him start his own business the same year. In no time Alex managed to draw together and educate a like-minded business team as well as create a strong design-engineering team to support the development of innovative technology and work out a full set of construction blueprints, production and operation documentation just from scratch. Consequently, these achievements resulted in setting-up serial commercial production of the newly designed innovative equipment on partner manufacturing facilities and bringing to life his dream of creating a more hospitable and clean environment for the future generations. Under Alex\u2019s authority the team has created and brought to commercial scale a fully innovative project which is unique and unrivalled in the whole world.\nMarat Kulakov, Chief Technical Officer, has more than 50-years experience in hydraulics, machine building, casting, heat treatment, acoustic engineering, vibrating and noise insulation, aviation and many other fields. His patents have been applied to construction in the field of hydraulics, machine building and chemical heat treatment, for which he has been favored with the highest state awards. During the Cherkessk Hydroelectric Power Plant construction in Russia, technology for on-site assembly of the turbine and generator developed by Mr. Kulakov was implemented for the first time in the world practice.\nMarat graduated as a mechanical engineer from Leningrad State Shipbuilding and Dagestan Polytechnic Institutes and has further continued his education in the fields of law and industrial engineering. Having worked in various industries and fields of activity, he has acquired extensive knowledge of power engineering, geology, biology, astronomy, etc.\nMarat has sharpened his skills and gained experience working on flagship machine-building plants of his home Dagestan Republic. He has spent over 35 years on famous Gadzhiev plant where he facilitated all the necessary steps of production organization and was engaged in personnel training and division management until he finally took up the general constructor position in 1975. The plant\u2019s products were sold in more than 40 countries worldwide, including, but not limited to United States, Australia, and European and Asian countries.\nMr. Kulakov is the direct manager of a young and talented team of engineers and technologists being guided by him to cultivate and polish their skills thereby delivering top quality results in short terms. Under his supervision GLES' engineering team upgrades the designs and develops new generations of equipment to bring new solutions based on Waste Conversion Pyrolysis technology to the waste market, performs in-process manufacturing control, technical and technological consulting of the EPC contractor, develops technical requirements and recommendations for engineering, site layout plans and foundation requirements as well as provides on-site designer\u2019s supervision over assembling and mounting of the WCP equipment.\nGerald J. Tobin, Esquire, Legal Advisor; Member of the Board of Directors.\nGerald J. Tobin was born in Brooklyn, NY. He attended Brooklyn College and after moving to Miami, Florida, attended the University of Miami, where he obtained his BA Degree and his J. D. Degree. He has practiced law successfully since 1962. He is admitted to practice law in all Florida State Courts, US District Courts and Courts of Appeals. He is admitted to practice in the NY State Courts and is also admitted to practice before the US Supreme Court.\nMr. Tobin has held both public and private positions among which are: Municipal Court Judge for the City of Miami and Senior Municipal Court Chief Judge for the City of Miami.\nMr. Tobin was a founding member of National Corrections Management, Inc. and National Corrections Construction, Inc. These companies were the second companies formed in the construction and management of private prisons and jails in the United States and abroad. Mr. Tobin served as General Counsel for the companies and was an owner of the companies. Some years after their founding, the companies were sold to a public company. Mr. Tobin is currently counsel for Trillion Entertainment, Inc. and Trillion Digital Media; both companies are in Los Angeles, CA, in the movie business.\nMr. Tobin has received many awards during his career from such organizations as The Florida Crime Prevention Commission; he has been designated a Community Leader of America; has served on the Board of Directors of Big Brothers of Greater Miami, Inc., Voters, Inc.; and has received commendations from the City of Miami, from the Democratic Club of Miami Beach and many professional associations.\nGovernor Bob Graham appointed Mr. Tobin as a Board Member of the founding Board of P.R.I.D.E. of Florida, which is a semi-public, semi-private corporation dealing with the Florida Prison System and designed to create jobs within the prison system, teaching inmates trades so that upon their release they do not go back to a life of crime.\nIn 2010, Mr. Tobin accepted Greenlight Energy Solution\u2019s offer to sit on the Board of Directors and act as Legal Consultant to the company.\nIlya Denisov, Deputy Chief Technical Officer.\nIlya graduated from the Bauman Moscow State University from the department of mechanical engineering. He successfully participated in on-the-job training programs and internships at the leading Russian enterprises such as NPO Energomash, RKK Energiya, Balashikha Casting-Mechanical Plant and others. Ilya joined the GLES team in 2011 as the junior technical specialist and soon got a position of designing engineer due to his active participation in the demo unit assembling process and in the construction documents preparation.\nCurrently Ilya is engaged in development, designing and upgrade of the advanced equipment within the WCP project.\nGregory Schneider, Head of Procurement and Supplies Department.\nGregory received higher technical education from Odessa Institute of Measuring Equipment, and has a long-term experience working on machine building plants in Odessa, Ukraine, and then in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Since 2002 he has been employed by Premier Drinks LLC in Moscow, Russia, as warehouse chief, also serving in the procurement and supplies division.\nAt Green Light Energy Solutions, Gregory works in close collaboration with the engineering team and is reponsible for purchase and procurement of completing units for the production and selection/procurement of standard equipment to complete the Waste Conversion Pyrolysis processing line.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 8714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 165.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gourmetfood.org/blog/my-favorite-tomato-sauce/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DIZDHR75JTVHCDXEBM5MV5L4ZVM2UTPQ", "length": 475, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.gourmetfood.org", "title": "My Favorite Tomato Sauce", "raw_content": "May 31, 2010| Categories: Gourmet Recipes, Today's Dish | 2 Comments \u00bb\nI agree with Mario, this does look good. I have a favorite tomato sauce for pasta, too. It used to be my mother\u2019s recipe. She uses tomato paste and simmers it for hours. It is particualrly successful with meatballs, homemade of course. Now I\u2019m much enamored by a version we got from a friend who lived in Rome for a few years. She uses canned tomatoes, anchovies and just a few other ingredients. Delish!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.grandprixhistory.org/moss_bio.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XI54X6MZ6HXLNG2PVFZUQCJKYUO6W7NS", "length": 9868, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.grandprixhistory.org", "title": "Stirling Moss - Biography", "raw_content": "In the United States when you hear the name Mario Andretti the first image that comes to your mind is auto racing. The same can be said for Stirling Moss on the \"other side of the pond.\" Moss was born to racing with both parents involved in motorsports. His father Alfred Moss raced at Brooklands and when his studies took him to America he raced at Indianapolis. His mother competed in various trials and rallies. At the age of nine his father bought him an old Austin Seven in which the young Moss would drive around the fields surrounding their home. The family was also involved in horses and competitive riding which saw Stirling and his sister Pat entering various horse show competitions. While his sister continued to compete Stirling's heart lay more in horsepower of the mechanical variety. Despite being a natural athlete he suffered from various childhood health problems including a kidney affliction which made him medically unfit for National Service. This would later involve some controversy before his father had his medical records published. While motorsports ran through the family it was soon time to consider a proper career. Like his compatriot Tony Brooks it was once thought that he would follow his dad's footsteps and become a dentist and take over the family business. His father owned a lucrative business providing dental care to lower income patients which Stirling would call a \"quick yank and out, next please\" operation. But his indifferent school record made that impossible. He next tried a \"crammer\" school but this too failed to dislodge any innate brilliance. At age seventeen it was decided that the young Moss would go into the hotel trade. His training included serving as a waiter and later night porter - another occupation he was totally unqualified for.\nStill Moss maintained his interest in cars and was soon driving on the open road, when of legal age, in a three wheeled Morgan. His next car was a MG and after seeing an advertisement for a racing car with an Aspen engine he promptly ordered one for 50 British Pounds. When his father found out, he angrily contacted the car company and had the order rescinded. Stirling was crestfallen but eventually his father relented and allowed Stirling to borrow his BMW sports car that he had recently purchased. It was in this BMW that Moss would start to compete in local speed trials. His first proper race car was a Cooper 500 which he used to compete in local hillclimbs. This car and its descendants formed the breeding grounds of future champions. Moss became aware of these cars through fellow competitors and went looking for the Cooper factory which he found in Surbiton. Factory may be to the wrong word to use as it was actually just a garage but one with a showroom that had on display one of the little jewels. Stirling contrived to drive past the showroom one day with his father as his unsuspecting passenger. Remarking on the car in the showroom he impressed upon his father how wonderful it would be to race such a car as this. His father agreed that it would be so if only Stirling would assume most of the cost. Reduced to selling most of his worldly possessions he was still short of the \ufffd600 needed but on his 18th birthday his parents made up the difference. This would be the beginning of a long association which saw him driving Coopers on and off for much of his career.\nSince all of the pre-war racing venues were no longer available racing in Britain was very much a small time affair, that is to all except the competitors. Great Britain was still feeling the effects of World War II with the rationing of Petrol, yet almost every weekend played host to some form of competition as most of the race cars used methanol. This tradition of numerous events every weekend continues to this day as any visitor to this country can attest. Britain is the center of motorsports because more of it is happening at any one time than anywhere else in the world and Moss would enter as many races as he could and began to win more than his share. His obvious racing talent finally convinced his parents where his future lay if they needed any convincing as his weekend races had long become family affairs. With this support group Moss was on his way driving and racing anything that he could get his hands on. This became a trademark of his success. In 1950 Moss got his first works team drive for HWM. Created by John Heath and George Abecassis, partners in Hersham & Walton Motors the team consisted of three four-cylinder Formula 2 cars. The team leader was the free spirited Lance Macklin.\nA fascinating chance to hear Stirling Moss talk about his life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. Sir Stirling Moss, OBE, is a legendary British racing driver. In this collection we hear - in his own words - about his family and upbringing, on starting out and his early career choices, and why he became a racing driver. He discusses being a businessman, his relationships and the bittersweet feelings that occur with racing. He also touches on the many dangers involved with the sport, including the loss of friends. Stirling talks about his crash in 1962 - including his injuries and recuperation - as well as his celebrity lifestyle, his continuing popularity and reaching 70.\nDue to the age and nature of this archive material, the sound quality may vary.\nMoss would learn his racing craft from HWM and lessons about life from Macklin. HVM's chief mechanic was an Polish ex-serviceman by the name of Kovaleski who adopted the English name of Alf Francis and who would later become a legend himself. At the Monza Autodrome GP he was involved in a terrific dice with the veteran Ferrari driver Villoresi who later congratulated the young Moss on his skill. His record with HWM was uneven to say the least with the cars breaking down more often then not but Moss would remember this period as a great learning experience. During this time he also raced other cars including the Jaguar C-Type in which he won the sports car race leading up to the French Grand Prix. This would be the first win for a car using disk brakes.\nIn 1951 he was contracted to race for Ferrari at selected events but when practice began for the first race at Bari he was told unceremoniously that the car he supposed was his had been given to Taruffi. Deeply embarrassed he vowed to exact his revenge against the red cars. In 1955 driving for Mercedes alongside Fangio, he tasted his first victory at Aintree. In 1956 he drove a Maserati and won twice more. The following year although again pursued by Ferrari he chose to drive for the British Vandervell team. This decision to drive for British teams whenever possible may have cost him future World Championships. A telling example that shows the measure of this man happened in 1958 at the Grand Prix of Portugal. During the race Mike Hawthorn spun his car but was able to continue and eventually finished second. Which when added to his fastest lap gave him 7 points to Moss' 8 for the win. Hawthorn though, was accused by the officials of breaking the rules by restarting in the opposite direction. Moss who witnessed the incident came to his rival's defense and a relieved Hawthorn was able to keep his 7 points. Moss would eventually lose the championship to his rival by one point even though he bested his fellow countryman in race wins 4 to 1. It makes one ponder what any of the current racers would do today in similar circumstances. Moss would continue to win against larger teams but the championship was always just beyond his reach. In 1962 a terrible accident at Goodwood would eventually force his retirement. To say that his career was in any way a failure is not to know of the achievements that were made in his name in such legendary races as the Targa Florio, Pescara and the Mille Miglia . At home in any type of car he partnered with journalist Denis Jenkinson to win the historic Mille Miglia in 1955, the first foreigners since Caracciola and the only Britons to ever do so. At the 24 Hours of Le Mans he was partnered with Fangio in the lead Mercedes, Neubauer rightly believing that if they were to race in separate cars they would race each other to the possible determent of finish the endurance race. While leading the race they had to withdraw with the rest of the team after tragedy struck and 78 spectators lay dead. The result of a racing accident involving one of the Mercedes.\nMoss was considered by many as being the first modern professional driver who raced for the love of the sport but also was intent on earning a sizable income. Staying in top physical shape he would travel all over the world to race. He was not above haggling for more appearance money and between races he would work at his home office dealing with correspondence, managing endorsements or recording his thoughts for his latest book. He had begun writing books about the sport and would later comment that when he would race in a particular country the sales of his book there would increase. This would help to increase his fame and conversely the amount of money he could require in exchange for his appearance. He courted endorsements as no other driver of his day and was sometimes ridiculed for this when in truth he was just ahead of his time. In the end he was a racer who enjoyed driving all sorts of cars and raced only to win.\nMoss still keeps track of the current Grand Prix scene and is not hesitant to voice his opinion on current circuit design and their vast run-off areas and ubiquitous chicanes. \"To race a car through a turn at maximum speed, is difficult\", he said, \"but to race a car at maximum speed through that same turn when there is a brick wall on one side and a precipice on the other - Ah, that's an achievement.\"\nThe Official Stirling Moss Website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 510, "original_length": 16547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.granville.derbyshire.sch.uk/school/school-news/academy-consultation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:00Z", "digest": "sha1:XEOE55VYZH5ICXQSCKQ6EZGKBP34CJTK", "length": 165, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.granville.derbyshire.sch.uk", "title": "Academy Consultation - Granville Academy", "raw_content": "We are holding an information event on Monday 12th June at 5.30pm. This will give you a chance to come along and ask questions about the proposals and find out more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 2814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 153.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.greenkarjat.com/2010/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:JS5I5HHORGEDAN7T5USVNPCLSTRJBW6T", "length": 1009, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.greenkarjat.com", "title": "Karjat: 01/05/10 - 01/06/10", "raw_content": "Bringing a brief respite from the scorching heat, the rain gods put up a surprising show few days ago on April 30th in Karjat. A short spell of heavy rainfall was accompanied by an unexpected hail storm, which lasted for around 5 minutes, while the rain continued for a couple of hours. This probably would be the first time that hail stones, which were small, round-shaped ice, were falling from the overcast skies in Karjat.\nIt seemed like it was building up over the past few days, with loud thundering and lightning splitting the night sky. On Friday the weather was hot and humid until afternoon, when it started to drizzle, cold drops of rain falling initially, and then suddenly hail struck to surprise us all.\nSince that day the weather is back to being hot and sunny. But it was a much-needed change, as it washed up all the trees and plants, making it look more green and vibrant. A glimpse of what it looks like during the monsoons. Maybe we'll have early rains this time!\nLabels: Hail, Karjat News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 224.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hairdoc911.com/index.php/category/uncategorized/page/184/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:39Z", "digest": "sha1:5QXBC5BNWMFKYWS3CMLVXORL6F3BLIVK", "length": 899, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.hairdoc911.com", "title": "Uncategorized \u2013 Page 184 \u2013 The Hair Doctor", "raw_content": "My Thoughts: George Orwell\u2019s Animal Farm essay had not been a difficult essay to create, as a result of one reason, the fact we were required to use facts to compose the essay. Though I truly do enjoy writing essays that I go to speak my head, I also plan to write an essay that uses facts once in a while.\nMy Thoughts: George Orwell\u2019s Animal Farm essay had not been a difficult essay to create, as a result of one reason, the fact we were required [\u2026]\nThere Is Absolutely No Hope that Of Accomplishing The Right Exploration\nThere Is Absolutely No Hope that Of Accomplishing The Right Exploration Included amongst the most reactive articles to mankind, scientific studies is based on a field [\u2026]\nHow to complete coursework simply writing\nHow to complete coursework simply writing Closely encounter a subject and choose from the aim of one\u2019s coursework. Don\u2019t forget to get an expertise in almost [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.handccleaning.co.uk/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHL4KQDNICMHQR2KHULK4NYAIL5ZQBJE", "length": 1162, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.handccleaning.co.uk", "title": "Privacy Policy | H & C Cleaning Services", "raw_content": "(h) send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications (relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications to be sent by emailing us at using the contact link );\nIf you are in the European Union, information which you provide may be transferred to countries (including the United States, Japan) which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Union. You expressly agree to such transfers.\nYou may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by email (to EMAIL) at any time. (In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.)\nIf you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to using the contact form.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 7550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.harijaravi.com/2017/11/the-levis-brand-rolling-stone-partner.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:01Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2X7SXQ535HUW6CXQDI3SKM6E62M6Z3V", "length": 3254, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.harijaravi.com", "title": "LEVI\u2019S BRAND & ROLLING STONE PARTNER TO CELEBRATE RESPECTIVE 50TH ANNIVERSARIES\t| Harija Ravi", "raw_content": "LEVI\u2019S BRAND & ROLLING STONE PARTNER TO CELEBRATE RESPECTIVE 50TH ANNIVERSARIES\nLevi\u2019s\u00ae and Rolling Stone: 50 years of music and style\nTORONTO (November 13, 2017) \u2013 The Levi\u2019s\u00ae brand and Rolling Stone announce a partnership \u2013 now available in Canada - to celebrate two unique 50th anniversary milestones: The Levi\u2019s\u00ae Type III Trucker jacket, and Rolling Stone\u2019s 50th birthday. Both iconic brands were founded in San Francisco, California and played prominent roles in the city\u2019s 1967 Summer of Love movement, which shook the world and has continued to influence our culture ever since. Just as musicians have chosen to tell their stories to Rolling Stone for 50 years, many of them also chose Levi\u2019s\u00ae as their first pick for authentic style on and off the stage.\nTo pay tribute to the iconic partnership, Levi\u2019s\u00ae and Rolling Stone collaborated on a special limited edition collection of clothing. At launch, the collection will range from $78 tees to $198 Truckers.\nThe partnership expanded with custom content feature in Rolling Stone showcasing genre-inspired vintage pieces, like the Trucker, prevalent in the magazine\u2019s pages throughout their 50 years.\n\"Modern music has been a reflection of youth culture and Levi's\u00ae has been a participant in music's cultural expression. You can draw a timeline of popular music and plot significant artists wearing Levi's\u00ae right across its history. Rolling Stone has charted this cultural history, observed every change, every moment. So we're joined by this common thread, this bond of music and culture. Rolling Stone started in 1967 in San Francisco. 1967 also marks the date that we celebrate for two Levi's\u00ae icons: the 505 jean that fronted the Sticky Fingers album cover and gave birth to the whole ripped jean look. And the 70505, or what we call our Type III Trucker, which is the definitive denim jacket. Iconic clothing and the iconic music brand. Both San Francisco born. As you can see, it was natural to celebrate these anniversaries with Rolling Stone.\" \u2013 Jonathan Cheung, Levi\u2019s\u00ae Head of Design.\n\u201cSince our inception 50 years ago, Rolling Stone\u2019s mission has always been to shine a light on music and pop culture and give a voice to the ideas the music embraces,\u201d said Gus Wenner, Head of Digital of Wenner Media. \u201cStyle and music go hand-in-hand, and we are thrilled to join forces with the Levi\u2019s\u00ae brand on this authentic partnership as we both celebrate important milestones.\u201d\nThis collection will be available on November 17th at select Levi\u2019s\u00ae Stores.\nABOUT ROLLING STONE\nRolling Stone, the number one brand in music publishing, has been the leading voice of music and popular culture for 50 years. The multi-media brand features the latest in music reviews, in-depth interviews, hard-hitting political commentary and award-winning journalism across many platforms including magazine, digital, mobile, social and event marketing. Rolling Stone provides \u201call the news that fits\u201d to a global audience of approximately 65 million fans of the brand every month. Headquartered in New York, Rolling Stone is owned by privately-held Wenner Media and BandLab Technologies. Wenner Media also owns and publishes Us Weekly, Men's Journal and Glixel. For more information, please visit www.rollingstone.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/documents/Government/htfd_courant_032907.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:31Z", "digest": "sha1:3EFW52K776ZAO2HX6EDVVI2U2ANO5DEL", "length": 3095, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.hartfordinfo.org", "title": "Charter Revision Sought For City - HartfordInfo.org", "raw_content": "Charter Revision Sought For City\nFormer city Councilman John B. Kennelly thinks Hartford's new strong-mayor charter \"needs some fixing.\"\nThat's why Kennelly has formed Hartford Charter Reform 2007, a political action committee with one goal - to get a public commitment from every candidate in the upcoming mayoral and city council elections to create a new charter revision commission. Kennelly said he hopes to establish a lobby powerful enough to convince candidates that it is in their interest politically to make that pledge.\n\"We'll be looking for a commitment from all of the candidates,\" he said Wednesday. \"We are not fighting for anything that the people of the city haven't already said they want.\"\nTwo mayoral candidates have made charter revision part of their core rhetoric - former Deputy Mayor I. Charles Mathews and Mayor Eddie A. Perez.\nThe current charter, approved by voters in 2003 after a previous commission rewrote the document, switched the city from a council-manager government that many said had paralyzed city government to a strong-mayor system designed to be more agile and to make the mayor more accountable.\nBut political insiders say that after nearly four years of Perez exercising the powers given to his office, and with the city council having become voiceless and impotent, there is a push to \"tweak\" the document and establish sturdier checks against the mayor's office.\nOne idea floated by Kennelly is not new - to strengthen the city council's voice by increasing its size and creating seats that represent neighborhood districts. All nine members now are elected at-large.\nIn 2002, before the charter went to a referendum vote, a coalition on the city council led by Perez voted down a similar proposal that would have placed before voters the option of creating an 11-member council with five at-large members and six elected from districts. Kennelly, on the council at the time, voted to include the option.\n\"Those of us who spent years advocating for change did not envision five-minute council meetings with no debate on the merits of resolutions or proposed ordinances,\" Kennelly said. \"There needs to be changes to the charter which require additional transparency of city hall decision making, which would allow for an informed debate by the council.\"\nKennelly also suggests increasing the power and independence of the city's internal audit commission and possibly implementing term limits for elected officials.\nCharter revision promises to be an issue in the election.\nMathews committed to creating a new commission when he announced his candidacy in January, making it one of his core platforms.\nPerez, during his state-of-the-city address two weeks ago, called for creation of a citizens' task force to review the new strong-mayor charter.\nThe task force, to be established this year, would review the charter change and its impacts on the functioning of city government, he said. After the election, the task force would make a recommendation to the mayor and city council about whether a new charter revision commission should be created.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hartfordinfo.org/issues/documents/artsandculture/hbj_062606.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6LEHL6PHUULG3XA6NZRVTAAXD42MGBV6", "length": 4134, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.hartfordinfo.org", "title": "Millions Sought In Bid For Stage Co. - HartfordInfo.org", "raw_content": "Web Sites, Documents and Articles >> Hartford Business Journal Articles >\nMillions Sought In Bid For Stage Co.\nHartford theater in red, needs renovation\nBy AMANDA BLASZYK, Hartford Business Journal Writer\nWhen Michael Stotts next month begins his new job as managing director of the Hartford Stage Co., his attention won\u2019t be on the greasepaint or the boards, but the drama playing out on the company\u2019s ledger.\nHartford\u2019s nationally-acclaimed theatre company knows how to put on intriguing shows. But like a three-act play with second act problems, the company is wondering what it must do to get out of a financial slump and to position the physical theater itself to better serve the stage company\u2019s needs.\nStep one, Stotts intimated, is to find more support from the Greater Hartford community.\n\u201cIt\u2019s important people understand what they have in their backyards,\u201d said Stotts, 45, who praises the city as an arts community.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a great company. It\u2019s one of the most recognized and applauded companies in the United States.\u201d\nBut it\u2019s a company that needs to net more than $55,000 a week to keep the stage lights on, which means it needs to have average sales of more than $100,000 a week to meet its budget targets. Most years, Hartford Stage has simply not been able to meet all its financial goals.\nJennifer Smith Turner, the stage company\u2019s president, acknowledged that Hartford Stage is ending its current fiscal year on June 30 with a projected $200,000 deficit. With the exception of one year in which the organization received a special bequest, it has run substantially in the red for at least the last three years.\nMaking more money, through earned income such as ticket sales and contributed income such as donations, will be part of the strategic work and long range planning that Turner calls the \u201c21st Century Hartford Stage.\u201d\nIndeed, the arts organization is getting serious about changing its fortunes. With a $500,000 state grant, an anonymous donation of $50,000 and $50,000 of the Stage\u2019s own money, $600,000 went to studies on how to best revamp the organization, according to Kim Dobbie, interim general manager and director of finance and administration at Hartford Stage.\nThe three studies, based on facilities, financial feasibility and marketing, conducted by outside consultants, will \u201chelp the board make an informed decision based on the recommendations,\u201d said Turner.\nOne important recommendation is that the Stage should remain at its current 50 Church Street address, but renovate the facility.\n\u201cWe are committed to the central business district,\u201d said Turner. \u201cWe see the development going on around us.\u201d\nBut the current theater is not compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. More important, its actual stage needs to be changed to make it comparable to those at others in the region.\nHartford Stage is increasingly committed to doing co-productions \u2013 in which the cost of producing a show is borne by more than one theater. Since such a co-production travels to each presenting theatre, its backgrounds, props and staging needs to be able to work on every stage.\n\u201cA state of the art theatre might allow us to have more opportunities with co-productions with other theatres across the country,\u201d said Dobbie.\nIn order to take on substantial renovation, though, the theatre company needs more money. Turner said that the financial feasibility study indicated there is indeed private money \u2014 some reports put the figure at $23 million \u2014 in the community that could help grow and sustain the Stage, which is over 40 years old.\nStotts, set to start full time at the end of July, entered into a five-year contract with Hartford Stage. He will use the consultants\u2019 recommendations and direction from the organization\u2019s board of directors to help him create an implementation plan.\nStotts said the Stage is looking to improve technology, make it more comfortable for the audience and increase public awareness of the organization.\nWhen the marketing research comes in, Stotts plans to identify current audiences and find out how to reach people who don\u2019t currently frequent the theatre.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.haverhillmethodist.co.uk/sermons/advent-a-time-to-dream/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XFBWQIUDQGYA24BIDHP2NSP5M2QX45TE", "length": 585, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.haverhillmethodist.co.uk", "title": "Advent \u2013 a time to dream | Haverhill Methodist Church", "raw_content": "Advent \u2013 a time to dream\nCaptain Andrew Payne is a Church Army Captain attached to St Mary's Anglican Church in Haverhill (the Parish Church).\nHis brief is mission in all its forms and he has been a major influence in the setting up of the Town Pastors scheme, supported by all the local churches, as well as Caf\u00e9 Church at St Mary's on a Friday lunch time amongst other things.\nThe article by the Bishop of Sheffield, referencing the Lord's Prayer video (above) that has been banned by some cinema chains, was available to take away from the service.\n\u00ab That\u2019s a Surprise! Messengers \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 165.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.herpetofauna.co.uk/forum/dancing-adders-on-the-one-show_topic4928.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RUBRV4HMXGXV3DHOT6IVPOJB74LV4ROU", "length": 223, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.herpetofauna.co.uk", "title": "Dancing adders on the one show - Reptiles and Amphibians of the UK - Forum", "raw_content": "Dancing adders on the one show\nQuote Reply Topic: Dancing adders on the one show\nPositive story on the One show about adders, including some footage of males 'dancing'\nWatch it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05st3gy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hiphopslaughter.net/2016/04/lil-wayne-do-it-again-mastered.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:35Z", "digest": "sha1:IDI4LTVYA75CVNM7JJRFL744PUAJIDHW", "length": 177, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hiphopslaughter.net", "title": "Lil Wayne - Do It Again (Mastered) | HipHopSlaughter", "raw_content": "Lil Wayne - Do It Again (Mastered)\nProducer STREETRUNNER has released Wayne's official mastered version of \"Do It Again\" which has been leaked as far as the Pre-Carter III days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 2476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.historyandwomen.com/2010/05/gold-fever-by-vicki-delany.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2JHLWWRHKHSGTJ6KN6772IJCHXUH4JPH", "length": 2007, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.historyandwomen.com", "title": "History and Women: Gold Fever by Vicki Delany", "raw_content": "Gold Fever by Vicki Delany\nGold Fever by Vicki Delany is the second book in a series about the 19th century gold-rush in the Yukon. She once again brings to life the harsh realities of that magical era where men and women rushed northward, desperate to find gold and become rich.\nFiona MacGillivray returns as the gutsy heroine, who after fleeing England and Toronto, finds herself in the Yukon as the owner of a successful dance hall and saloon named The Savoy. In a rough and tumble world, her grit, determination, and savvy not only help her survive in such a brutal environment, but also gives her the means to support her young twelve year old son, Angus, comfortably.\nA colourful caste of characters decorate the pages of this who-dunnit. Young Angus risks his own life to save a suicidal native woman fleeing from a life of prostitution. This innocent act of good will sets off an interesting chain of events. With nowhere else to go, and feeling somewhat responsible for the woman, Angus brings her home to Fiona who helps her find meaningful work to keep her from being drawn back into whoring.\nThis draws the attention of the woman\u2019s Madame, eager to get the prostitute back to work. Shortly thereafter, two murders happen in Dawson and Angus is slowly drawn into trouble. Ever the protective mother, Fiona seeks to save him with the aid of a journalist and Constable Richard Sterling who is Angus\u2019 mentor and Fiona\u2019s would-be suitor.\nVicki Delany has a knack for detail and realism. The colors, smells, dreams, filth, and toughness of the Klondike evoke the memories of an era long past, but one that is important in Canadian history. Gold Fever is a highly entertaining mystery that glows with realism and kept me turning the pages. A fine book, true to the times it depicts.\nAlthough Gold Digger is the first book in this series, it isn't necessary to read the novels in chronological order.\nLabels: 19th Century, Canada\nThanks for the lovely review. I'm glad you liked the book. Happy Reading.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.historynaked.com/frederick-douglass/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3AOVRWTYRTZQPISZ7LYCYYUVZOEOT2LU", "length": 10327, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.historynaked.com", "title": "Frederick Douglass - Naked History", "raw_content": "Americas, England, ER, Northern Europe, United States\nCivil War, Gilded Age\nFrederick Douglass was another straight up badass. When you look at his life on paper, it is impressive- rising from slavery to famous orator and abolitionist. However, in reading Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America\u2019s Gutsiest Troublemakers by Nick Offerman (if you haven\u2019t read it, go now), it struck me as it struck the author exactly what a feat that was. The bare bones of it are amazing, but the details truly show what this man accomplished.\nBorn as a slave on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey had a tough time from the start. He never knew his father, who was rumored to be the master of the plantation. He spent little time with his mother as it was common practice to separate slave mothers and children to make them easier to sell. In fact, Frederick\u2019s mother lived on a completely different plantation. Even Frederick himself was not sure of his birth year as slaves were not taught the years or months of the calendar. He estimated his birth sometime in February 1818. By the time he was eight years old his mother had died, and his master hired him out to work as a body servant in Baltimore at the house of Hugh Auld. Sophia Auld, Hugh\u2019s wife, recognized that Frederick was bright and began teaching him the letters of the alphabet even though this was illegal under Maryland state law. Their lessons were discovered and Sophia was strongly admonished that educating a slave would \u201cruin him\u201d as he would become dissatisfied with his lot in life and desire something better like freedom. Let\u2019s let that sink in for a moment. Slave masters thought they had to make sure to keep those in it ignorant because otherwise they might figure out there was a better life. There are so many problems with that statement I don\u2019t know where to start. That hurt my brain and my heart.\nHowever, Frederick did not lose his desire for education and took any opportunity to learn more. Auld sent young Frederick out to work at the Baltimore wharf, specifically Durgin and Bailey\u2019s shipyard. He noticed that each piece completed by the ship carpenters had two letters written on them to designate where it went. For example, \u201cS\u201d for starboard side, \u201cL\u201d for larboard side, \u201cF\u201d for forward and \u201cA\u201d for aft. He copied these letters until he had them perfectly memorized, and those were his first four letters. Frederick saved hunks of bread and would trade them to neighborhood white boys for impromptu writing lessons. He said \u201cmy copy-book was the board fence, brick wall, and pavement; my pen and ink was a lump of chalk.\u201d He\nalso would spend any free time he could copying the writing lessons of the Auld\u2019s son Thomas until he could write a similar hand to the young man. All of this was an amazing risk as if he was caught, Frederick would have been whipped or possibly killed. When he was twelve, he bought the book The Columbian Orator, which contained revolutionary speeches, debates and writings. Those have to have been an amazing eye opener to the young man.\nFrederick was sent by Auld to work for a shipbuilder named William Gardner. He worked as a caulker, ensuring the ship\u2019s hull was water tight. He was well paid for his labor, but was forced to turn over all of his salary to Hugh Auld every week. Frederick wrote later, \u201c\u2026Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe. Those beautiful vessels, robed in purest white, so delightful to the eye of freemen, were to me so many shrouded ghosts, to terrify and torment me with thoughts of my wretched condition.\u201d The boats he worked on were free, but he, a living man, was not.\nWhen Frederick was fifteen, the was sent back to the Eastern Shore to labor as a field hand. He was hired out to a notorious \u201cslave breaker\u201d named Edward Covey. This guy was a straight up villain, who took any excuse he could to beat the living daylights out of young Frederick. Probably because he knew Frederick was ten times the man he was and hundred times smarter. That\u2019s my penny\u2019s worth of pop psychology for the day. Anyway, he did everything he could to make Frederick fail so he could punish him- whipping him with sticks until they break over Frederick\u2019s back. He was whipped so often that the wounds from his previous beatings did not have time to heal before the next one. This was purely meant to break Frederick\u2019s will and after six months of this treatment it began to work. In his biography, Frederick described sitting like a zombie during church services on Sunday and generally being in a \u201cbeast-like stupor\u201d. Frederick even got so desperate he walks seven miles to appeal to his old master. No dice. He actually praised Covey as a good manager and sent Frederick back. Both you and I know this is not going to go well. Covey tried to whip Frederick and Frederick does the unthinkable. He fought back. The two went at it hammer and tongs for two hours, and eventually Covey gives up. Unbelievably, nothing else happened. Frederick hypothesized that Covey doesn\u2019t want to lose face by admitting a slave fought him. Maybe he was scared of another butt kicking. Who knows, but he left Frederick alone after that. After that epiphany, Frederick was not long for slavery.\nIn 1838, he made a break for it getting on a train dressed in the uniform and identification of a free black seaman, Frederick makes it to New York City. From there he was able to bring his fiancee, a young blank woman named Anna Murray, to New York and they were married. Frederick declared himself free, and the two adopted the new name of Douglass. The moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts and had five children together. He looked for work as a ship\u2019s caulker, but could not find work due to prejudice. Not giving up, he took whatever work he could find as a day laborer. He was not afraid to get his hands dirty doing whatever was needed to get the means to provide for himself and his family. He also joined the congregation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in New York City, and became a sexton as well as an licensed preacher. It was his sermons which brought him to the attention of other prestigious parishioners such as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. They thought he would make a great addition to the abolitionist movement.\nIt seems the pro-slavery movement was right to fear men like Frederick as the Abolitionists found a potent weapon in his life experiences and the eloquence in which he could express them. He got a job with the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and went on speaking tours across the North and Midwest. His skill as an orator brought the ugliness of slavery home to his audience in a way in which others could not. He wrote his first autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in 1845, in response to accusations that he could not be a fugitive slave because he was too eloquent. Because all black people had to be ignorant and simple minded. Ugh. This in itself was extremely dangerous as now his former masters knew his new name and where he was. Frederick and his family escaped to overseas and traveled throughout England, Ireland and Scotland. While there, he met many abolitionists and one offered to pay for his freedom. On December 5, 1846, Mary Richardson, a quaker from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, bought one Frederick Douglass from Hugh Auld of Baltimore for $711.66. He was then manumitted for 125 pounds sterling. Frederick Douglass was a free man on paper and could return home.\nThe Douglass family relocated to Rochester, New York and started The North Star newspaper. In 1855, he published his second autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. In his copious spare time, he ran a station on the Underground Railroad. He also took up the cause of women\u2019s rights, saying at the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, he could not accept the right to vote if women were not granted suffrage as well.\nIn 1861, the Civil War broke out and Frederick did not stop his work. He campaigned tirelessly that emancipation would be one of the outcomes of the war and advocated for African American troops. He recruited many of these young men to fight, including two of his own sons, and then went to Lincoln himself when they did not receive equal pay or fair treatment. His work bore fruit with the ratification of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments. These amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship to former slaves and stated no one could be denied voting rights on the basis for race, skin color or previous servitude.\nDuring the Reconstruction, Frederick was a well known figure and held many prestigious offices such as assistant secretary of the Santo Domingo Commission, legislative council member of the D.C. Territorial Government, board member of Howard University, and president of the Freedman\u2019s Bank. However, when Reconstruction was declared over, Frederick did not just fade into the background. He served as a US Marshal for DC, Recorder of Deeds for DC and Minister Resident and Consul General to Haiti. All at a time when African Americans were seriously restricted from holding office due to fraud and violence. His work in the government did not end his speaking career either. He worked vigorously for women\u2019s rights, and published his third book in 1881, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. This indicated that as far as we have come, we still had a long way to go to being the Land of the Free. He was even named as Victoria Woodhull\u2019s running mate in her 1872 run for the presidency, although he did not agree to it. (For more on that, please see this post http://www.historynaked.com/victoria-woodhull/)\nDespite all of this official work, Frederick and Anna remained happily married until Anna\u2019s tragic death from a stroke in 1882. Two years later, Frederick remarried and it was nothing less than a scandal. He married Helen Pitts, an activist and daughter of two abolitionist. She was twenty years his junior, which was not odd for the time, and also white. This did not go over well at all, and most of their married life was spent overseas.\nFrederick Douglass died after a heart attack at the age of 77 after attending a meeting for the National Council of Women. Hail and Farewell.\nPingback: Victoria Woodhull - Naked History()", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 11689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 225.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hobomama.com/2010/07/mikkos-first-time-out-and-why-it-didnt.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ABULYSW724Z6C7MIHEACHPOVNHO7VDZI", "length": 32728, "nlines": 113, "source_domain": "www.hobomama.com", "title": "Hobo Mama: Mikko's first time-out \u2014 and why it didn't work", "raw_content": "We went to pick up Mikko from school yesterday, and we couldn't find him at first \u2014 even though the class was outside and we passed everyone including him to get to the room where we thought they were. He was sitting playing quietly by himself and didn't call out to us when we arrived.\nThe teacher \u2014 a newer one \u2014 pointed him out where he sat playing with the garden hose, soaking the sidewalk (and himself).\n\"He had a little time-out today,\" she told us.\nApparently, he had wanted to run around the corner of the building, where he was out of view of the two teachers, and after he had done so three times, he had a time-out before he was given his popsicle with the other kids.\n\"You might want to talk with him about that,\" she said, meaning, I presumed, the inadvisability of running around the corner of the building \u2014 not the experience of the time-out itself.\nWe've never given Mikko a time-out. I don't believe they're effective, for one thing, and they strike me as a form of love withholding, for another. (More on both of those issues later.)\nDon't get me wrong; I know time-outs are super common and I believe most people who choose time-outs as a discipline technique are doing the best they can to find a discipline method that's not harmful or mean. I much prefer a short time-out over something harsher like spanking, for instance.\nBut I would have preferred even more that the teachers had used a gentler method more in line with his developmental abilities \u2014 like a time-in, where you sit with the child and give undistracted attention. (Sometimes \"acting out\" is just a cry to be focused on.) And like talking through the problem \u2014 as many times as needed. With a three-year-old, yes, it can take a lot of times to get the message through. In this case, apparently more than three. I would have appreciated if they'd asked him why he was running around the corner (more on that later, too), and if they had brainstormed ways for everyone to be happy and safe (such as moving one teacher further down the playground so everyone could be seen, even around the corner). And, yes, as a mother I sometimes need my own time-out to cool off and not go with my first reaction to misbehavior, so it's not always easy to think charitably in the moment. So I understand that, in a classroom, teachers might not have the time or opportunity available for that sort of intensive, one-on-one experience.\nAnd I don't think, either, that having one discipline method (as long as it's not abusive) in one environment (a school, a divorced partner's house, the grandparents' place) and having another in your own home is overly confusing to a child \u2014 I think children can adapt and learn the rules for each place. And, from a gentle discipline standpoint, I feel comfortable that most of Mikko's discipline experiences will be with us, so I know he'll feel loved unconditionally where it counts (well, I hope!).\nSam picked Mikko up, and Mikko immediately snuggled into him, turning his face away from the teacher. I thought he seemed kind of distant and abstracted, but she said they were all tired from being out in the sun.\nWe looked around for his shoes. Where were they? Not in his cubby, not on his feet, not on the playground. The teacher peeked around the corner. Ah, in the base of a tree! Tucked in neatly where the two trunks diverged. After the teacher gave him the go-ahead, Mikko ran to the tree, around that forbidden corner, to retrieve them from his hidey-hole.\nIt was on my mind, but I didn't talk to Mikko about it that night, or to Sam. But today, we wanted to take Mikko back to school for a make-up session.\nAnd he didn't want to go.\nThis isn't rare, precisely, but he's been happy about Schule for the last several weeks. We thought we'd turned the corner and now we wouldn't have problems anymore with dropping him off. But now we were back to chants of \"No Schule, no Schule, I can't like Schule.\"\nAnd then it changed to \"Schule too scary.\" Too scary.\nSam and I started talking to him about the time-out, and he was clearly still very upset about it. He didn't like being in trouble with his teacher and the feeling of being ashamed, with no way to right it. I don't know what kind of resolution the two of them had had after the incident, beyond that he did get a popsicle eventually. I bet he didn't like watching the other children eat theirs while he had to sit apart from the group, and the further shame of that.\nWhat struck me the most was what the time-out had accomplished:\nIt had made him frightened of and disconnected from his teachers, and made him shy away from the school he used to look forward to attending.\nIt made him feel misunderstood and picked on.\nand what it hadn't:\nNever once did he mention why he had been punished, or say he was sorry about it, or indicate he understood the problem and wouldn't do it again.\nIn other words, punishing him made him distressed at the punishment and his punishers, but it didn't make him focus on changing the behavior that brought the punishment down on him. In that case, why punish at all?\nNow, I know you might say if he was used to time-outs that he would have been less distressed to receive one. Then again, if he was used to time-outs to that extent, he would be used to tuning them out entirely. I rarely received punishments at school, because I was one of those obnoxious teacher's pets \u2014 but when I did, boy howdy, did I feel awful. Angry at how unfair my teacher was being, hot shame at being called out in front of the class. Again, there was no sense of sorrow and regret for how I had misbehaved \u2014 more just a resolve to avoid being caught in future.\nI finally convinced Mikko to let me take him to the school and just peek in to see that, as I'd promised, today's teachers were different. It's Spanish day, so the German teachers aren't there. As we passed by the side of the wall that he had kept running to yesterday (which, frankly, could easily be within view of the teachers, so I'm not clear what the problem was except maybe for short tempers from being out in the hot sun), he pointed to the trees there. \"Trees so tall,\" he said, showing me, a note of apology in his voice.\nHe just loved those trees. He just wanted to play over in their shade instead of out in the bright 90-degree heat. There was no malicious intent, just a three-year-old who wanted to do what he wanted and didn't understand why it might not be safe.\nSam and I talked more about the time-out afterward, and we're not sure what to do. My understanding from the school manual is that time-outs are a last resort, so I'm not clear if this was a case of last resort (according to the teacher's view) or if the teacher was unfamiliar with the discipline standards. I feel like we need to talk with the teachers, anyway, just to let them know how badly he was affected by the time-out and how easily his feelings can be hurt. As a sensitive person myself, I know it can be hard to bounce back from being rejected like that, and I think that's how Mikko's feeling.\nSome would argue he needs to be toughened up by such adversity so he's ready for the \"real world\" of school with teachers in charge and jobs with bosses in charge \u2014 but, frankly, if the real world's that mean, count me out. I'll stay in the one where people are respected, even the small ones.\nI don't have time to talk in this post about all the reasons I believe what I do about discipline and the futility of rewards and punishments, but I hope this showed a real-life example of (a) how punishments are ineffective, (b) how they harm relationships, and (c) how there's often more to the story than what a parent or teacher wants vs. what a child is doing. For more information on theories of gentle discipline, a book that absolutely blew my mind was Alfie Kohn's Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason. And Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy, by Naomi Aldort, has helpful and practical tips for how to change our responses to our children's behavior.\nSome other resources on the subject:\n\"Arbitrary discipline\" \u2014 on wanting more for my children than obedience\n\"Assuming the best intentions\" \u2014 on searching for my child's motives in apparent misbehavior\n\"Tips to help parents assume the best intentions\" \u2014 Dionna's guest-post follow-up to the above, giving practical ways to take a deep breath and reevaluate our children's behavior\nPaige at Baby Dust Diaries has ongoing collections of posts related to gentle discipline, so there's a lot to delve into there.\nWhat do you do when the discipline style of other people your child comes into contact with (teachers, co-parents, grandparents, etc.) differs from your own? (I really want to know!) I'm wondering how to talk about this issue with the school \u2014 what should I say, and how?\nPhoto courtesy Michael Smith on flickr (cc)\nP.S. I'm aware I'm over my Photobucket bandwidth limit again\nso some posts might not show any pictures. I'm working on it!\nCategories: gentle discipline, preschooler, toddler\nI must say - I rushed right over here to read when I saw your tweet - Lauren gave Mikko a timeout?! I thought I knew her! ;)\nSeriously though, this whole post made me sad. What perceptive, intuitive parents you are, Mikko is so lucky to have you!\nI definitely think you need to talk to the teachers. The staff is probably so used to time-outs that they don't see the danger. Heck, they might not even know there are drawbacks to such a \"gentle\" (by mainstream standards) disciplinary measure.\nI would tell them in exactly the same storytelling way that you related it here.\nPoor Mikko :(\nI have that same thought sometimes about \"the real world,\" but it's hard to see your baby get hurt by another adult that he trusted.\nOh, that sounds so awful for both of you. I don't know if I have any advice... I looked around at preschools last year and just didn't feel like anything fit for Bea so we didn't register her for preschool. I spent most of the year reading about homeschooling and meeting some other local homeschoolers. That's on our agenda for her 4-5y/o year as well. We'll make a decision about kindergarten when we come to it, I suppose.\nMy mom has a much stricter view on discipline and whenever she starts disciplining Bea in a way that we don't discipline at home (counting to ten, threatening the \"time out chair\"), I simply say, \"we don't use that at home,\" and take over the discipline from there. This works for us because we see my mom infrequently and when we do I am almost always with both her and Bea.\nIf I were in a situation like yours with a preschool I would speak with the teachers and describe the kind of discipline you do use, and perhaps recommend a few books. And also talk with Mikko about what happened, of course.\nThis is a tough one. Firstly, I'd say that his behaviour hardly warrented something as severe as a time out. We don't give time outs either. Though we have. They don't work. And really... good, I'm glad they don't. But like you, I understand in some circumstances, and some situations, a separation may be warranted. Case in point, we never ever gave my 1st child a time out - didn't even seem like a possibility on the horizon - until my 2nd was born. And things like... Hitting a baby. and Hitting Mommy. and Kicking walls. and Kicking babies and Mommies. and Repeating those things ad infinitum with increasing fervor while all attempts at redirection, explanation, example, empathy, and even nursing didn't work.... Only then did the time out come into play. A few times. With terrible results for all involved.\nI've learned its nearly always better to weather the storm, to empathize, to be the calm you wish to see, than it is to try to get embroiled in some kind of punishment/lesson with a toddler who doesn't even know why they're doing what they're doing in the first place.\nNot that we haven't used them, but at nearly 6yo, a time out is a whole different animal than it is with a newly 3 year old. At six, you can say, please go take a time out - calm down, think over how you're feeling, when you feel more calm & ready to interact with kindness, then come on back. With a 3 yo, a time out is a parent-enforced separation. And its apt to be misinterpreted.\nAs far as the school situation.\nMy youngest (also newly 3) has been with the same teacher since 18mo. The policy at their school also has time out listed as a last resort, but the teacher doesn't use the word time outs - they aren't enforced by anything other than the teacher gently guiding or asking the child to please move to a quiet area of the classroom, or edge of the reading area, etc, until they are peaceful again and when the child has calmed they are welcome to come back.\nThere is no \"think about what you did\". There is no \"say sorry\". Just an expecation of behavior, encouraged and directed by example. When the child has calmed, the teacher talks to them about how the other child may have felt about whatever the issue was (hitting, etc.)and asks what the child thinks they could do to help the injured child feel better - hug, share a toy, etc. There's no coersion though... from what I've observed & talked with his teacher.\nI love our kids school, it meshes well with our parenting. Its a Montessori, and its wonderful. But, I'm rambling, wow.\nI do think a talk with the teacher is warranted, but I'd bring it up as what you observed in your child's behavior at home after the incedent & ask if the teacher could relay what happened - that you're trying to piece together the story. Not as an accusation, or an expectation of how you think school should be run, but more like an information gathering/sharing session... and see where it goes from there.\nThe school thing is hard at times. Its hard to give over care of your child, even for a little while, to someone who may do things not quite the same way as you. But overall... I think if you're happy with the school in other ways, this is just a small bump in the road, and will build resiliancy in children - and a more broad understanding of the complexity of human response. Not everyone will always react the same way to our childrens' behavior... and I think its okay for our children to experience that. Within limits, of course.\nI chose my daughter's current school because they don't use time-outs. Although they still use some discipline tactics I don't love. Like, if you get up and run around during nap time, you are the last child who is released from your cot when nap time is over. I understand that children up and playing during nap time disturb everyone, but the consequence is arbitrary and removed from the act by a significant period of time, so I don't love it for that reason.\nHowever, honestly, I don't sweat it. Different people handle discipline differently, and I personally believe that as parents we matter far more than teachers. I don't even remember my preschool teachers - I sort of think one of them was named Elizabeth, but in the long run they didn't have a huge impact on me. And so, I haven't made an issue of the different styles. However, neither has my daughter, so that changes things, too.\nAs for what you should do - I agree that the whole thing may have been arbitrary, but asking teachers to move to facilitate your child's play may be unreasonable. I assume that there are many children to watch, and so the ability to be present with one child is limited. I find this to be true for myself even just with my 2 children. However, discussing the discipline approach and particularly the aftermath is reasonable. I think that by sticking to facts as much as possible, and avoiding accusatory language, you can have the best conversation.\nI have a DVD a friend gave me of a talk given by Alfie Kohn. I love it!\nMy husband has a 2yo daughter that lives with her mother. The mother spanks her and it breaks our hearts. She has even been known to use a wooden spoon. What could a 2yo *possibly* do to warrant that?! Even if it IS over a diaper! Sigh.\nI've used \"reasoning\" with my 11yo since she was tiny and I feel it worked. She would sometimes still feel shame from my disappointment when she did misbehave or damaged something that wasn't hers, but I think I managed to keep clear the most important: unconditional love.\nSorry I don't have advice. Good luck!\ni learn from you. thank you for caring so deeply.\nHOnestly this post made me feel a bit ashamed of myself - but in a good way. You see, once in my daycare I gave one of the kids a time out. I didn't call it that but it was time away because I was at the end of my rope and I could no longer cope with their behaviour. Once I was cooled down I talked it over with the child and gave her a hug, but also made it clear she couldn't do whatever it was that she did. I also told the parents. A few days later I got a call from the parent saying she was having trouble getting her daughter excited about coming to my place and that this had been happening for a faw days. I felt absolutely awful!! In the end we amended the situation and I gave this child lots of extra attention to make up for what I realize now was shaming her. I admit I was at fault. However, I guess I also want to put in a plug for child care providers in general. It can be pretty crazy, nerve racking, stressful and annoying to look after a large group of children, many of whom won't listen to you, and sometimes (in my case anyway) there aren't helpers who can watch child A and B while you wrangle the rest of them. Even if there is there is SO MUCH going on that you have to keep an eye out for. My eyes were in about 20 places at once and I only have two eyes! Somedays it gave me a headache! So while the teacher should have, under optimal conditions, chosen to do act differently, I would make sure you consider that there were likely other factors at play that may have caused her not to use her best judgement at the time or to use all that she could under the circumstances. One thing I learned doing child care, you may think parenting is hard caring for your own kids - well add even one more (up to five more for me on some days) and you will wonder what the problems were you ever had with only one (or two).\nLet me know if my comment went through. I got a note saying it was too big and then later it looked as though it was being saved for approval. It was really long though so I don't want to re-write it if I don't have to. Thanks.\nThank you, everyone, for the support!\nFirst, an update: Sam went to pick up Mikko from school today and was able to talk with the teacher in charge (who wasn't there yesterday). Conversation turned to how Mikko was chasing someone and throwing bark on the playground (whoops!), and Sam was able to slip in, conversationally, that Mikko was already feeling bad about coming today because of the time-out yesterday. The head teacher was really surprised, saying they don't usually do time-outs (which was my reaction, too, so it was nice to have it validated). From what Sam related to me, it sounds like Sam kept it really neutral, not as a tattling on the other teacher or we're-super-angry sort of thing, just relaying how Mikko had felt about it. So maybe we'll get to talk with the other teacher next week and hear some more of her side of the story. (I will say it's this sort of thing that makes me hesitant to tell people IRL I blog. ;)\nI also want to reassure Amber and Melodie (and everyone) that I have the deepest respect for the preschool teachers. Pretty much every time we witness them at work, Sam and I turn to each other and say, I could never do that, and thank goodness someone wants to and likes it! Because I totally get stressed with just one, and I don't at all expect them to treat him like the king of the daycare or anything. Even when I was saying what I wish would have happened in this situation, I completely acknowledge that such one-on-one attention (with a mind free for clear thought and examining every child's every motive) is not likely to happen in a group setting. It's partly for that reason that I allow the school to have different disciplinary techniques without (too) many qualms. This even includes, for instance, praise of the good-boy sort, which is something I choose not to use but would never correct in them. Just in general, I don't want to be someone with the effrontery to teach the teachers how they should be doing what I know must be an amazingly tough job.\nI guess I was just reassured when I read the manual upon choosing this school that time-outs were reserved as a last resort, but now one's been used in a situation where I'm not sure it was warranted (and this apart from my own distaste for the technique). But, you know, maybe it was warranted, either in the teacher's mind or in fact. I mean, it's possible I misunderstood how far he was roaming; what they showed me was not out of sight, but maybe I wasn't understanding, with the German-to-English translating going on. I do want him to be safe, because there's a parking lot just beyond that grassy area, so if he were roaming beyond the next corner, he'd have been practically into the street. Maybe that's what she meant? Even if not, clearly she was worried that's where he was headed. So I do understand her concern, and that he should not do such things and needs to learn to listen when they say to stay put. I just feel so bad that his spirit had to be broken like that during the lesson and feel like there could have been a more respectful way, you know?\nBUT, people could certainly write judging blog posts about the ways I sometimes blow my top and do things I don't want to (sigh) \u2014 maybe this is a case where the teacher overreacted and now realizes that. Or maybe she doesn't know the school's position on time-outs and will learn and change.\nBlogger yelled at me for being too wordy. :) To continue:\nAnd, I do know that partly it's my responsibility as a parent. If I really don't want him to be exposed to alternate discipline styles, then I need to take him out of school. We're choosing to send him, so we're choosing to allow him to rub up against people who think differently. I've decided that's OK for now, but I might change my mind when it comes time for the next phase in schooling since we're still weighing homeschooling/unschooling (hard, though, when Sam and I both work from home and really cherish the time we have to get work done, even though it's just twice a week right now). And we chose this school based on its language immersion, rather than looking toward a Montessori or similar program, although being a (good) preschool, for the most part it's still very laid-back and child-honoring.\nDionna: I almost changed the title because of that but then figured it might get more hits this way. Ha ha! Thank you so much for your caring response.\nMichelle: I'm going to memorize \"we don't use that at home\" for my family trip this summer. I hope I won't need it, but based on past visits, well, it might come in handy. Sigh.\nKelly: Love your comment. I think what you've written is just a perfect description of how, even when you think you need to use something like time-outs, they still don't really do what you were hoping. I like when you say \"weather the storm,\" and so on, because I think we as parents (adults) see the logic in what we're asking so clearly that it befuddles us and then angers us that our children are too immature either to understand or to agree, and we want to reach for something, anything, to force them to change to the way we want. You know? I mean, I say this as someone who's been at the end of my rope before and acted in ways I've regretted \u2014 and the contrast w/ when I can be calm and persistent is so striking. I'm much more likely to get the results I wanted that way, anyhow, but more importantly, we all feel better about the interaction. I like how you point out that different ages handle time-outs differently, too. Like, if my husband says to me, it looks like you're stressed, why don't you go take a walk? (in a nice voice) I would feel fine about that. Well, after the walk at least! ;) But sitting a 3-year-old on a naughty step is coerced separation and reads as judgment. And I agree with what you say (and Amber's thoughts here as well) about schools giving our children other experiences that just widen their view of how the world reacts to them. Oh, heck, I just agree with you altogether.\nJorje: Spanking a 2-year-old with a spoon. Deep, deep sigh. That must be really hard for you and your husband to stomach; I'm so sorry. Thanks for the testimonial of your 11-year-old. You bring up a good point that, whenever there's conflict, there might still be that feeling of having disappointed someone. But what I notice is Mikko is then quick to offer a sincere \"I sorry, Mama\" and give me a hug and try to make the situation better if I'm being reasonable and loving; with the time-out thing, he didn't even want to make eye contact with the teacher. So, yeah, when you keep the love flowing, it makes such a difference in the result.\nEmily: Thank you!\nMelodie: Thank you for sharing that story. I'm so glad you could give her extra attention to make her feel safe again. Probably that's just what Mikko needs, too. We all have those moments (well, I do, even with just one kid), so I totally understand.\npoor kiddo\nand that's why I'm never putting LO in school\nOkay, I'm back again! Firstly, thank you so much for your comment to my comment. I felt like I babbled on a bit, and didn't fully say what I was trying to say, so I'm glad a bit of my intention came through. :)\nBut secondly, I'm back because I was browsing around, and came across this blog post... Written by a preschool teacher trying to teach natural/logical consequences. It seemed relevant, and so I'm passing it along.\nhttp://mariamontessori.com/mm/?p=906\nLauren - I'm no Mikko, but I was very sensitive as a child - and several of my deepest, most hurtful memories are times I was shamed by authority figures and then not backed by my parents. In some cases they very much DID feel I'd been wronged, but didn't communicate that to me.\nI'd wait until you know what happened, and it depends on how you'd take it, but you may want to reassure him that you would have handled it differently or the like. One thing to remember - you left him with these people in charge of him, which means that what they do is in your name - I think sometimes it is easy to forget how early kids understand that (and how singularly true it seems).\nI don't have time to read the whole post, but I read the story about Mikko and your preference for time-in.\nToday in the church nursery, a little girl was sitting on the rocking horse and pushing anyone that came too close to her. I gave some sympathy to one little boy who kept going up to her and getting pushed away, and then I noticed the little girl had in her hand another little girl's hair barrette. The other girl was wanting it back. I asked her for it and she refused to give it back. So I scooped her up and took her into the other room. I sat her in my lap asked if she was having a hard day. She got that \"You understand??\" look in her eyes and nodded her head. Then I had to take a little boy to the bathroom and asked her to wait for me. When I got back to her, she was calmed down and ready to give the barrette back to the other girl. She was fine after that.\nI think time-ins work. Though I don't like that term. I wish I could just say \"time-out\" but unfortunately that term has already been claimed by a technique that means something else.\nIt's interesting for me to see how my responses to thigns have changed in the past 20 years. (My oldest is turning 20 and youngest is 4, I have 5 altogether)\nI am a lot more easy going now at 40 realizing the amount of knowledge I know have is zip compared to the vast banks of knowledge in the world, than when I was 20 and I thought I knew everything.\nI am a lot less judgmental about myself and others. I don't let everything go, but I choose the important battles. (both with my kids and in life)\nI have realized that the way I react to thinks affects the way my kids react to things. Even if I hide my reactions, if it is something that upsets me, my kids know and react accordingly. So I don't bother.\nI also think the more kids you have the more dynamics in general there are. Now it's not just the parents between themselves and each of them with the child. There is each sibling which each other, with each parents, 2 siblings in regard to a 3rd.... basically the dynamics increase exponentially and whereas once upon a time you had a semblense of control over things, it is now all lost. For good and for bad.\nEveryone needs to follow the route that is right for them.\nHope this wasn't too long.\nAw, you are such a sweet, loving mama & papa. I think you understanding Mikko's point-of-view in this kerfuffle will mean the world to him.\nI do think time-outs are too harsh in a preschool environment. A timeout from a teacher in a classroom would be harder on a kid then one at home. But I do see how the teacher would be worried about his safety if he kept running off. Poor little boo.\nI can tell you will find a way to turn it into a learning experience for all involved.\nYour post really struck me and made me worry about preschool for my LO. I'd be really curious to hear whether you think that this event is still affecting him in a week or two. I'm just curious what the long term affect of the event was, having only a 8 mo myself.\n@Lauren It does break my husband's heart. At one point (before the spoon), she wanted to spank her for not being affectionate toward him (tying in with your newest post)! He insisted that she not be spanked for anything in regards to him.\nAnd me... every time he tells me about a spanking, I instantly physically ill. I'm in no position to nudge toward change, there is nothing I an do about it. I just... ugh, it makes me sick!\nOh so much to say on this subject. First off, I use time-outs, but more so with my 6 yo. I use them because she gets so worked up and out of control and needs a place to sit down and re-group. It is not the only tool I use, not by far, but it is one. And for the most part, it works-- in that when she's done resting, she comes back calmer. Does she NEVER act that way again? No, of course not! But I would venture to say that no discipline tool, positive or otherwise, produces such perfect results. In my ideal world I would sit with her and snuggle her and figure out what was up and be a picture perfect mother every time she mis-behaves, but holy cow. I have two kids. I have stuff going on. I am not the picture of patience. Added to that, my kids both need A LOT of me. A LOT. They have issues and oh, my. It's a lot. I find the space to sit with them every day but dear lord, I simply couldn't every single time one of the two was sassy.\nOn another note: I can't even believe the teacher told you to talk to your NEWLY THREE YEAR OLD about not doing it again. My goodness. Like you're going to say something that will make him never do it again?\nI have never, not once, been told to deal with a behavior at home so it stops happening at school. They offer me suggestions, but it's never put on me like I need to fix what the girls do at school. I honestly find that part pretty darn shocking.\nThe girls' school doesn't use time-outs, either. I mean, not like your son's was. Not in the \"go sit over here and miss snack because you were naughty\" sort of way. I am sure they get re-directed and whatnot, but not punished like that.\nAnd three, newly three, is so young for that kind of punishment. I am hoping that it was some random misunderstanding that caused the teacher to do that.\nOn that note, though? He's going to be fine. I mean, I know you know that. And he is so little, you worry. But he will be fine. It sounds like such a positive place in sooooo many other ways for him to be.\nHey there, I just read this post. It breaks my heart. I am super huge on not using time-out. I wrote a post on it too awhile back...\nhttp://barefootbarn.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/time-out-doesnt-work/\nyou've got it right on sister...isolation doesn't work. Yet we do it from 2 yrs old on -- and in our criminal \"justice\" system. Think about that one! What kind fo society are we?!\nWith Aidan we try to use a lot of time in, like you. We also use a lot of humor and a lot of \"oh you must not be feeling too good. Why don't you come and be with me?\" And I bring him closer to me.\nYou post really resonated w/ me. see what you think of mine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 395, "original_length": 38950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hongkongairport.com/en/shop-dine/highlights-promotions/free-delivery", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:09Z", "digest": "sha1:2EABB7HYLWDFSSXVEZ2T73XS5VB6LN5S", "length": 792, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.hongkongairport.com", "title": "Free delivery, Highlights and Promotions - Hong Kong International Airport", "raw_content": "Passenger at Hong Kong International Airport can enjoy free delivery service upon spending a designated amount.\nSpend in a single transaction\nHong Kong, Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Mainland China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, USA & Vietnam\n(Delivery to Mainland China is limited to clothing, bags and accessories.)\nPassengers are welcome to contact staff at the participating stores for more information and the delivery arrangement.\nTerms and Conditions for Free Delivery Service\nTo track the delivery status of parcels:\n0570 046 666 / 0120 5931 55\n1800 222 5777 (Singapore use only) /\n+65 6222 5777 (calling outside Singapore)\n1588 1300 / +82 2 2108 9895\n+886 (02)2703-7527\nShop list for Free Delivery Service\nView all participating shops", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.houseofharmony.ca/category/news/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:11Z", "digest": "sha1:MPNSHTFHOEMZMXJBM3EC5RAEBB7PZ7FQ", "length": 2865, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.houseofharmony.ca", "title": "News - House of Harmony - Welcome to our home!", "raw_content": "OK so at some point I\u2019ll stop making excuses for not posting more often. I\u2019m not saying I\u2019ll post more often, I\u2019ll just stop making excuses. The last three weeks has seen a lot done, but one of the most noticeable things, at least from my perspective, is that we can find time to sit\nI\u2019m glad I\u2019m getting these updates done. However I should put a disclaimer here, I am pretty tired. I think these sentences are making sense, but for all I know it\u2019s a random bunch of letters going up here. But I suppose if that\u2019s the case, than you can\u2019t understand this disclaimer. So there\u2019s that. Week six. This was\nSee, I told you I\u2019d eventually get to updating! We have literally been working on the place every spare moment we have, and by the time we are done, I have been far too wiped to even think about writing. Since I havent been able to update daily, the pictures have built up quite a bit,\nSorry again. I haven\u2019t been updating frequently as I should. We have been working like mad. My parents came down for the long weekend to help paint. We also now have a bedroom and a tiled shower! Anyhow, I promise I\u2019ll have a proper update soon, I just need to stop working for a few\nI have to apologize for not posting more. It has been very difficult to find the time, as this last week we were in the process of emptying the apartment, and finally moving into our new home. This hectic schedule means I have a camera full of pictures, but haven\u2019t had a chance to even\nMike here again from the office in Fingal. We\u2019ve had another busy week so far of day job followed by getting as much done as we can on the church. I have been heading home at 4:30, throwing as much stuff as I can into the van, then picking up Leah at 5 and of\nHello again! Mike here writing this post from our new office! Leah is up in her fenced off desk area (she prefers \u201craised office area\u201d). I\u2019m watching a Ray Charles concert DVD (yay for unpacking and finding things I forgot I had!) and Leah is looking at colour swatches. She is making me nervous. Sorry\nToday was the first day since the third of July that we didn\u2019t go to the church. It was apparently also the hottest day in recorded history. Since we now have working air conditioning at the church, it would have made sense to go there, in hindsight. Instead, we took a much needed culture break. A friend of ours,\nRemember when you were a kid, and you got some awesome toy, but you had to leave it at home when you went to school? That\u2019s what today was like. After spending every day for the last two weeks at the church, it was very hard to be away all day, and not be able\nWell here we are, the last day of our holidays. Two weeks sure flies by when you are in renovation mode. Tomorrow we head back to our 9 to 5\u2019s, then straight back to the church to see what progress has been done. Today it was just Leah and me, and we managed to get", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 4404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/how-to-get-rid-of-heartburn-fast/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YNE6NXBYIA2CFCDDDDORCFLLOKDYW6R3", "length": 2161, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.howtogetridofstuff.com", "title": "How To Get Rid Of Heartburn Fast \u2013 How to Get Rid of Stuff", "raw_content": "Heartburn is one of the things that can be painful and annoying at the same time. You may wonder hot to get rid of heartburn fast if you cannot stand the pain anymore. There are ways for you to get rid of heartburn without having to go to the doctor.\nOne of the most common ways of how to get rid of heartburn fast is to take over the counter antacids. These are sold at retail and grocery stores and are not expensive. You can get the store brand or the name brand, but either one should work fine. You should take one to two tablets at the onset of the heartburn. Wait about an hour to see if there is any relief. If you are still experiencing pain, you should take one more tablet. If this does not help, you may want to call your doctor to see what he recommends.\nThere are other solutions for how to get rid of heartburn fast. When you feel the pain begin, don?t lie down. Standing up will help move any gas bubbles that may be in the body. You can also drink lots of water. Try to drink two glasses of water at a time to see if this will help with the heartburn. You want to drink the water with a tablespoon of baking soda. If you are pregnant, you should not do this because it may cause you to retain water. One of the things you should not drink is milk if you have heartburn. Milk will absorb more acid. A teaspoon of vinegar is also good for heartburn. It will counteract the acid that is building up in your body. If you know that you get heartburn from eating certain foods, avoid those foods, especially before bed. As you are lying down for the night, those foods will settle in the stomach and cause acid to build up. This will then cause heartburn. Some of the foods that cause heartburn more than others are soda, alcohol, garlic, fruits with citrus and tomatoes. One way to help prevent heartburn is by taking a potassium based vitamin once a day or by eating a banana once a day. Try not to eat within two hours of going to bed at night so your stomach can begin to digest the food you have consumed in the evening. If you follow these tips, then you should be able to know how to get rid of heartburn fast.\nHow to Get Rid of Headaches Fast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hrlnews.com/2018/06/shocker-philippines-president-rodrigo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3Q3Y6J6S4GPVSAETQSPE5J3AM4JG6L6X", "length": 1922, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hrlnews.com", "title": "SHOCKER! Philippines President, Rodrigo Calls God \u2018Stupid\u2019 | HRL News", "raw_content": "SHOCKER! Philippines President, Rodrigo Calls God \u2018Stupid\u2019\nhttp://www.hrlnews.com/2018/06/shocker-philippines-president-rodrigo.html\nRodrigo Duterte Philippines President courted controversy after he called God \u201cstupid\u201d for the concept of \u201coriginal sin\u201d in the Bible\u2019s creation story, news portal Rappler reports.\nAddressing a summit in Davao City on Friday, Duterete, an open critic of the Catholic Church, said that he had issues with the Bible and questioned God\u2019s logic, calling him \u201cstupid.\u201d\n\u201cAdam ate it then malice was born. Who is this stupid God? Istupido talaga itong putangina kung ganoon (That son of a b**** is stupid if that\u2019s the case),\u201d he said, reported Rappler. \u201cYou created something perfect and then you think of an event that would tempt and destroy the quality of your work,\u201d he added.\nTalking about his interpretation of the concept of \u201coriginal sin,\u201d the president said, \u201cThat was your mother and father\u2019s deed \u2013 you weren\u2019t born yet, but now you have original sin. What kind of religion is that? I can\u2019t accept it.\u201d\nAsserting that he is a spiritual man who does not believe in any religion, Duterte added, \u201cI believe there is a universal mind, but\u2026 I cannot picture him as a human being. But I really believe, I have this faith and abiding thing, but don\u2019t believe in religion.\u201d He made similar remarks earlier this month during a meeting with the Filipino community in South Korea. \u201cIf that\u2019s the Catholic God, that\u2019s a lie. 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The Academic module is usually taken by individuals who are to be enrolled in academic program overseas for more than six months and those individuals who are applying for an employment. Conversely, the General Training module candidates are those who are also enrolled in an academic program but in less than six months, individuals whose job requires the General Training module and for those applying for immigration. Since we have two different modules, some parts of the exam are also different for both. One section which is different from the other is the writing task\nThe first task of the IELTS writing is entirely different from each other. In the Academic Writing, candidates are asked to write an essay based on a given graph. The candidates need to interpret the remarkable peaks, changes and differences in the graph. Here is a sample question:\nBelow is a pie chart that shows what type of access the British use in accessing the Internet in the year 2010.\nThe chart demonstrates how the British population gained access to the Internet in the year 2010.\nAccording to the chart, a huge percentage of the British population had access to the internet through cable connections in 2010. At 47%, the chart suggests that almost half of the entire population were using cable internet connections in the said year. Furthermore, the use of the internet was also made possible through mobile devices. The chart suggests that 22% of the population were using mobile internet connectivity. The minority, at 12%, was able to use the internet through a dial up connection. Surprisingly, almost ten-fifth of the British population had no access to the internet. This percentage could comprise people from remote areas where cables and mobile internet are not available.\nGenerally, cables and mobile devices are the primary ways how the British population gained access to the internet in the year 2010.\nSAMPLE LETTER ---------------------------------------------------------------------\nNow, here is a sample task for the General Training and its sample answer.\nYou are unhappy about a plan to make your local airport bigger and increase the number of flights. You live near the airport.\nWrite a letter to your local newspaper. In your letter\n\u00b7 Explain where you live\n\u00b7 Describe the problem\n\u00b7 Give reasons why you do not want this development\nI am writing this letter to express my opinion on an article written on the paper last September 2nd. I live about 30 kilometers away from the airport. With the news of its expansion, I want to emphasize the possible problems it could cause to people living near the area.\nFirst and foremost, low-flying airplanes are already causing too much distraction. Doing housework and even relaxing have been quiet impossible with this noise. What makes the matter even worse is the noise we hear from early morning flights where everybody is still asleep.\nAnother thing I want to point out is that the said expansion can affect the local park nearby. The said expansion can possibly get an amount of space from the local park. With this, people will lose some place to hang out and children to play.\nHence, I am strongly showing my disagreement with this plan. I would highly appreciate if the paper could publish what residents think of about this issue.\nJo Mazel\nWriting is possibly very easy once you are guided. There are a lot of writing exercises to practice on and be sure to have someone check your essays. Better yet, enrol in IELTS writing classes for more detailed and better improvement in your essays.\nIELTS Essay Writing Tips That Are Often Neglected\nIELTS Schedule - Baguio City, Philippines\nCost of IELTS Review and Test in Cebu\nTop 20 Commonly Misspelled Words in the English La...\nIELTS Listening Strategy\nSample Letter and Data Interpretation in the IELTS...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 8169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ifr-magazine.com/quiz/1_41/-1366-1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:39Z", "digest": "sha1:XC3YIXLSRI44XBFWVGZCD7JX6MMPUODF", "length": 359, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ifr-magazine.com", "title": "IFR Quiz", "raw_content": "Alert Weather Watches such as AIRMETs, SIGMETs and Convective SIGMETS are issued when they cover an area of 3000 square miles or more. Why is this worth knowing? (May have multiple answers.)\nLocalized areas might contain hazardous weather.\nAlert Weather Watches assure safe weather elsewhere.\nAbsence of an advisory does not mean absence of hazardous weather.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/fulltext.asp?DocName=022000050K9-222.1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SZSSJEUZSBWZFXTNW3U5QV4DVSJ2XZYW", "length": 5062, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.ilga.gov", "title": "Illinois General Assembly - Illinois Compiled Statutes", "raw_content": "(220 ILCS 5/9-222.1) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 9-222.1)\nSec. 9-222.1. A business enterprise which is located within an area designated by a county or municipality as an enterprise zone pursuant to the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act or located in a federally designated Foreign Trade Zone or Sub-Zone shall be exempt from the additional charges added to the business enterprise's utility bills as a pass-on of municipal and State utility taxes under Sections 9-221 and 9-222 of this Act, to the extent such charges are exempted by ordinance adopted in accordance with paragraph (e) of Section 8-11-2 of the Illinois Municipal Code in the case of municipal utility taxes, and to the extent such charges are exempted by the percentage specified by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity in the case of State utility taxes, provided such business enterprise meets the following criteria:\n(1) it (i) makes investments which cause the creation\nof a minimum of 200 full-time equivalent jobs in Illinois; (ii) makes investments of at least $175,000,000 which cause the creation of a minimum of 150 full-time equivalent jobs in Illinois; (iii) makes investments that cause the retention of a minimum of 300 full-time equivalent jobs in the manufacturing sector, as defined by the North American Industry Classification System, in an area in Illinois in which the unemployment rate is above 9% and makes an application to the Department within 3 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly and certifies relocation of the 300 full-time equivalent jobs within 48 months after the application; (iv) makes investments which cause the retention of a minimum of 1,000 full-time jobs in Illinois; or (v) makes an application to the Department within 2 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly and makes investments that cause the retention of a minimum of 500 full-time equivalent jobs in 2009 and 2010, 675 full-time jobs in Illinois in 2011, 850 full-time jobs in 2012, and 750 full-time jobs per year in 2013 through 2017, in the manufacturing sector as defined by the North American Industry Classification System; and\n(2) it is either (i) located in an Enterprise Zone\nestablished pursuant to the Illinois Enterprise Zone Act or (ii) located in a federally designated Foreign Trade Zone or Sub-Zone and is designated a High Impact Business by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity; and\n(3) it is certified by the Department of Commerce and\nEconomic Opportunity as complying with the requirements specified in clauses (1) and (2) of this Section.\nThe Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall determine the period during which such exemption from the charges imposed under Section 9-222 is in effect which shall not exceed 30 years or the certified term of the enterprise zone, whichever period is shorter, except that the exemption period for a business enterprise qualifying under item (iii) of clause (1) of this Section shall not exceed 30 years.\nThe Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall have the power to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Section including procedures for complying with the requirements specified in clauses (1) and (2) of this Section and procedures for applying for the exemptions authorized under this Section; to define the amounts and types of eligible investments which business enterprises must make in order to receive State utility tax exemptions pursuant to Sections 9-222 and 9-222.1 of this Act; to approve such utility tax exemptions for business enterprises whose investments are not yet placed in service; and to require that business enterprises granted tax exemptions repay the exempted tax should the business enterprise fail to comply with the terms and conditions of the certification. However, no business enterprise shall be required, as a condition for certification under clause (3) of this Section, to attest that its decision to invest under clause (1) of this Section and to locate under clause (2) of this Section is predicated upon the availability of the exemptions authorized by this Section.\nA business enterprise shall be exempt, in whole or in part, from the pass-on charges of municipal utility taxes imposed under Section 9-221, only if it meets the criteria specified in clauses (1) through (3) of this Section and the municipality has adopted an ordinance authorizing the exemption under paragraph (e) of Section 8-11-2 of the Illinois Municipal Code. Upon certification of the business enterprises by the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity shall notify the Department of Revenue of such certification. The Department of Revenue shall notify the public utilities of the exemption status of business enterprises from the pass-on charges of State and municipal utility taxes. Such exemption status shall be effective within 3 months after certification of the business enterprise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 6662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 186.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.immigration.gov.ky/portal/page/portal/immhome/livinghere/permanentresidence/prfaqs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JN6IG6UM2GJVBMK6BMRVEVBLWW4UFTPV", "length": 5522, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.immigration.gov.ky", "title": "Permanent Residence FAQs", "raw_content": "You are here: Homepage > Living Here > Permanent Residence > Permanent Residence FAQs\nHow long do I have to live in the Islands to qualify for permanent residence?\nYou have to be legally and ordinarily resident in the Islands for at least 8 years, but not more than 9 years.\nWho is eligible to apply for permanent residence?\nAny person who has been legally and ordinarily resident in the Cayman Islands for a period of at least eight years, other than:\nthe holder of a Residency Certificate for Persons of Independent Means; or\nthe holder of a Residency Certificate for Retirees; or\nthe holder of a Certificate of Direct Investment or a Direct Investment Holder\u2019s (Dependant\u2019s) Certificate; or\nthe holder of a Residency Certificate of (Substantial Business Presence); or\nan employee named in a Certificate for Specialist Caregivers; or\na person who was granted permanent residence previously in circumstances similar to the above\nmay apply to the Caymanian Status & Permanent Residency Board or the Chief Immigration Officer for permission for himself, his spouse and his dependants, if any, to reside permanently in the Cayman Islands. Such an application may be made while the person continues to be legally and ordinarily resident.\nWhat is legal and ordinary residence?\nLegal and ordinary residence is defined as:-\n\"A persons uninterrupted voluntary physical presence in the Islands for a period of time without legal impediment (other than a tourist visitor or transit passenger) during which period the Islands are regarded as his normal place of abode for the time being, save that\u00ad\nabsences abroad of six consecutive months\u00b4 duration or less for, inter alia, purposes of education, health, vacation or business during such period shall count as residence in the Islands &\nabsences abroad of more than six consecutive months but less than one year shall raise the presumption that there has been a break in residence; and\nabsences abroad for twelve consecutive months or more shall constitute a break in residence.\"\nWhat criteria will be used to determine my application for Permanent Residence?\nThe Caymanian Status and Permanent Residency Board or the Chief Immigration Officer will score your application in accordance with the Points System contained in the Immigration Regulations.\nAccording to the Immigration Law I can only be granted work permits for nine years. What happens next?\nA work permit holder can apply for permanent residence with the right to work after being legally and ordinarily resident of the Islands for eight years, but no more than nine years. Where an application has been made the applicant may apply to the Chief Immigration Officer for permission to continue work until his permanent residence is decided. If the applicant is unsuccessful there is a right of appeal. If the appeal is unsuccessful, or an appeal is not made, the person will be allowed to remain (and work) for a final period of 90 days from the date of the decision being communicated to him. After this 90 day period has expired he must leave the Islands.\nAfter reaching year eight, when must I submit my application for permanent residence?\nAfter having been legally and ordinarily resident in the Islands for eight years you may apply for permanent residence at any time before the end of nine years so long as you continue to be legally and ordinarily resident here.\nWhat is my final work permit?\nMy final work permit means a work permit which at the time of its grant or renewal is stated to be the final work permit for a worker in accordance with his term limit or, where not so expressly stated, is the last work permit that can be granted or renewed in respect of a worker as a consequence thereof.\nI have submitted my application for permanent residence and my work permit has now expired. What must I do to keep working?\nIf your application for permanent residence was submitted during the currency of a work permit you are eligible to apply to the Chief Immigration Officer for permission to continue work.\nWhat can I do if my application for Permanent Residence is refused?\nYou have the right to appeal against the decision to the Immigration Appeals Tribunal. If you do, you may continue to request permission to continue work pending the outcome of the appeal. If the appeal is unsuccessful you have the right to continue to hold permission to continue work for a final period of 90 days after the date in which the decision was communicated to you. Alternatively, if you do not submit an appeal to the Immigration Appeals Tribunal you have the right to continue to hold permission to continue work for 90 days. In either case, upon the expiry of this 90 day period you will be required to leave the Islands for at least one year before you can hold any further work permits.\nI have appealed against the refusal of my permanent residence application to the Immigration Appeals Tribunal. What should I do next?\nYou should bring the receipt from the Immigration Appeals Tribunal to the Immigration Department when applying for an extension of your permission to continue working. This permission can be granted until your appeal has been heard. Your employer will continue to have to pay fees during this period.\nWhile holding permission to continue work can I change employers?\nYes, but you must notify the Immigration Department in writing and your new employer will have to pay new Permission to Continue Working fees. Note: You may only work in your current occupation. 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Most of the 15 chapters include at least one live track, the end of DVD 1 featuring full versions of each number. Makes over two hours playing time all in all.\nDVD 2 includes the official \u2018Beyond The Grave\u2019, \u2018Witchfinder General\u2019, \u2018If I Was You\u2019 and \u2018Let Me Feel Your Power\u2019 video clips, plus the brand-new, previously unreleased \u2018I\u2019ve Got To Rock (To Stay Alive)\u2019 with guest appearances by Lemmy Kilmister (MOT\u00d6RHEAD), Angry Anderson (ROSE TATTOO) and Andi Deris (HELLOWEEN). The song will be available as an Internet single download from 19 October 2007!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1599&urltitle=Dzanc%20Books", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:15Z", "digest": "sha1:XUDK3IAH7GS375KRZ5YON7JTZBGALV4U", "length": 1913, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.independentpublisher.com", "title": "Independent Publisher: THE Voice of the Independent Publishing Industry", "raw_content": "Where does the name Dzanc come from? After fruitless efforts on my part to find a hidden meaning behind the word \u2018dzanc\u2019 or to piece the puzzle together, I asked Steve Gillis, founder and publisher at Dzanc Books, how they came up with the name. He explained Dzanc is a combination of the first letters of his two kids\u2019 first names and the names of the three kids of Executive Director and Publisher Dan Wickett. The way in which Gillis and Wickett decided to use their kids\u2019 names in their company title is demonstrative of the relationship they have with their authors. \u201cWe look at Dzanc as a family. For every author we sign, we say, \u2018Welcome to the Dzanc family.\u2019\u201d\nHesh Kestin was welcomed to the Dzanc family several years ago and received an IPPY gold medal for literary fiction for The Iron Will of Shoeshine Cats, published in 2010.\nOther Dzanc Digital Endeavors\nDzanc Books is expanding its online eBook Club, which allows users to subscribe for a number of months to receive immediate releases and discounts on its electronic books. A point of pride for this publisher is that their works are compatible with a vast array of devices, from Kindles to iPads, Nooks, Sony Readers, and more. In fact, Dzanc Books is currently in discussions with Kobo about possibilities for the future.\nIn addition to the eBook Club, \u201cDzanc was the first literary fiction publisher to champion working with libraries for eBook distribution. We have a great relationship with libraries. We recognize the modernization of libraries to eBook will, in the long run, help keep mortar and brick libraries going, and this is key to Dzanc\u2019s philosophy of community.\u201d And because Dzanc Books sees the value of printed works despite their leadership in the digital shift, Gillis quickly followed his comments on digital publishing with the reassuring statement, \u201cWe continue to be a print publisher\u2014will always be a print publisher.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.inerikaskitchen.com/2010/08/vermont-food-vermont-friends.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:19Z", "digest": "sha1:BMQ4RAXAYSSVF6DJPHOORNWEMHL4QUZ6", "length": 5965, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.inerikaskitchen.com", "title": "Vermont food, Vermont friends", "raw_content": "I'm on the first real vacation I've taken in a year and a half. And I earned it. In the past 18 months I've gone back to work full-time at Business.com after eight years at home with my kids; written about food both here and in my LA Cooking Examiner column at least five times a week; and more or less managed to maintain my role as involved mom, family cook, and frequent hostess. I hear \"I don't know how you do it all\" very often. (There are a few secrets: a supportive husband who picks up all my slack and does the chores I hate, a short commute, and years of experience writing on deadline.)\nNevertheless, even the most productive people sometimes need a break, and I'm taking one. Emery, my 11-year-old, had to be delivered to music camp in Vermont, and there's really no way to get there except to drive. It's a two-week camp, so it didn't make sense to come home between trips. I used it as an excuse to take the kind of trip I love, crave, and can't get in southern California. I've planned two weeks of seeing all the people I rarely see because they stayed on the East coast and I didn't. Have car, will drive country roads to reconnect with old friends. And meet new ones.\nKirsten and I went to Kinhaven music camp together 30 years ago\nBurlington food writers Suzanne Podhaizer (@feedmenow) and Lara Dickson (@DeepDishCreates) took me to Penny Cluse, one of their favorite breakfast spots\nI'm a New Yorker, but summer in Vermont feels like part of my DNA. I spent three teenage summers at Kinhaven, the same music camp Emery's attending now. Those three summers were the most formative part of my life - so much so that I named my second child after it. Even now, living in southern California, April rolls around and I start fantasizing about my little cabin in Vermont. I spend hours looking at real estate online until my practical husband reminds me, again, that Vermont is kind of inaccessible from southern California for those of us who work for a living. I stop looking, reluctantly, in July, when it's full-on summer and I know I'll be spending it in Santa Monica instead of in the Green Mountains. But it's a primal urge, one that reappears like clockwork when the trees in Vermont are starting to think about making leaves again and the great-great-grandchildren of the blades of soft, green grass on which I walked barefoot for months at a time form underground.\nThere are things about my life in Los Angeles that still feel foreign and wrong to me. Some are topographical; I don't think I'll ever fully adjust to the dry, dusty backdrop of southern California. I was thirsty for the entire first year I lived in L.A. I look at our local mountains and the desert and I know that objectively they're beautiful, but I have trouble seeing past the brown rocks and dust.\nBut other things in my life sometimes feel like a bad fit, too. They're the compromises one makes in any partnership. I love my husband, but I chafe silently at some of his rules. He won't drive with the windows down. No singing along with music, any music, anywhere. I know he hates some of my rules, too. That's life. That's what we do to stay married, to be able to live with someone, to keep our partners happy. And it's well worth the trade-off. But sometimes, sometimes, I need to reclaim some of the \"me\" things. I can't be the only one...right?\nThis week has been glorious for me: driving the backroads of green, green New England with the windows down, singing at the top of my lungs, stopping when I felt like stopping, eating good food. I toured a goat farm in West Pawlet and a cheddar factory in Brattleboro (more on those in separate posts). And I visited with people I really care about. By the end of the trip, I'll be ready to go home. And I'll be recharged. Here's hoping my kid likes camp so I can do it again next year.\nSome images from my first few days on the road:\nA nervous Emery at Newfane Cafe and Creamery, where we stopped for lunch before arriving at camp\nEmery's crab cake sandwich at Newfane Cafe and Creamery\nCuban panini with cucumber salad at Newfane Cafe and Creamery\nThe counter at Newfane Cafe and Creamery - they were hawking the hand-cut fries, but we resisted\nCreative furniture at Newfane Cafe and Creamery\nKirsten, her mom and I picked 12 quarts of blueberries at a u-pick farm in Richmond, outside of Burlington - and then ate two quarts in the car on the way home\nBaked goods at Nunyuns, a popular brunch spot in Burlington\nA phenomenal kale and goat feta quesadilla at Penny Cluse in Burlington, featuring local Vermont ingredients\nLabels: friends, restaurants, travel\nWhat a cutie Emery is. I'm glad you've been driving with the windows down and singing! It'd be hard to go without those little pleasures sometimes :)\nI live in Manattan and have memories of my schoold days in Burlington, VT. I am happy to be one of your followers.\nhttp://platanosmangoesandme.blogspot.com\n@Julie - thank you! I think he's adorable, but then again, I'm genetically obliged....It's always nice to hear it from an objective source.\n@Norma - Thank you for being one of my followers! I'm going to return the favor right this second....\nI'm so glad you are taking a much needed break...and I agree, you do deserve it! I loved seeing some of your photographs (especially the silver dollar chair...wow!) And I'm also so glad to be following you!\nI remember the first time I saw New England in August -- I was a high school student, taking the college tour, and I was shocked by the green. The deep, intense green. I think it's not really surprising I decided to go to college in New England, and part of me will always be a New Englander, though the rest is a California girl (I am definitively NOT a New Yorker, despite my years there. I don't fit there.)\nI'm glad you get to do exactly what you want for two weeks. We need that sometimes. I have a big grin on my face imagining you drive around with the windows down, singing out loud. 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We love when solutions in these verticals cross with deep technologies and scalable platforms. We are focused in identifying companies with global ambitions and we are experienced in helping them achieving success\nWe are based in Milan, Turin, Geneva, and San Francisco, leading an extensive network of contacts covering all major innovation hubs and cutting-edge specializations. In over a decade, we have invested in 26 digital companies that has raised over \u20ac100M. We are long term investors that look for opportunity to disrupt industries with new technology and innovative business models. We work with our entrepreneurs to attract great people and to assist these teams to transform inspiring projects into global successful businesses.\nThere is clear evidence of acceleration and growing energy in Italy. The Italian Ecosystem is advancing, requiring more capital and expertise. At Innogest, we serve this opportunity with our proven ability in choosing, building, and scaling Italy\u2019s best innovation. 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This was also the year the blockbuster movie Back to the Future was released, and the year that the internet began to take shape. Now Fastlane is looking back to 1985, and forward to where internet commerce will be heading thirty years from now.\nSays Fastlane\u2019s Head of Public Relations, David Jinks: \u201cIf we were to share a ride back to 1985 with Marty in his DeLorean, we\u2019d see some key moments when the era of internet commerce first began to come together. The first Internet domain name, \u2018symbolics.com\u2019 was registered; Microsoft released its Windows 1.0 operating system, featuring mouse navigation to allow PC users to \u2018point and click\u2019 their way through screens or \u2018windows\u2019; Dell built and designed its first computer system, and the first mobile call was made in the UK on the embryonic Vodafone network.\u201d\nExplains David: \u201cToday Fastlane\u2019s customers, everyday people and businesses alike, book their deliveries using an internet site with a domain name, perhaps through a Windows computer or on their mobile phone or tablet. A tech wizard such as \u2018Doc\u2019 Brown would have been able to predict today\u2019s world of e-commerce first taking shape. Certainly Steve Jobs did in an interview predicting people using PCs on the internet that very year.\u201d\nDavid continues: \u201cWhat would happen if we climbed aboard the DeLorean again and this time took a journey 30 years into the future, how will the e-commerce and courier market take shape? Drones could be making your delivery, while some products will actually be ordered and then built at your home on your table top 3D printer. Crowd-sharing Uber-style technology will mean pooled car rides and local deliveries, cutting down on the number of vehicles families and businesses own. Tailored deliveries at the time you want to wherever you are will be the norm.\u201d\nConcludes David: \u201cToday Fastlane is part of the hi-tech ParcelHero Group, based in Brentford. 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With instantly catchy songs like Fear of Impending Hell, the title track, and Honesty In Death standing out straight away, therein lies the only problem with Tragic Idol; from the first listen it's too familiar. Half of it sounds like it belongs on Faith Divides Us - Death Unites Us, and half of it sounds like discarded songs from the same sessions. That isn't to say that any of it is bad, quite the contrary, it just doesn't demonstrate very much in the way of progression from the previous album, which has up to now always been something Paradise Lost have tried to do with each new disc. Their intention was to be more melodic, using more of their classic metal influences, but to be just as heavy as they were last time out, and in that sense the album is a success. 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This new institution of higher education in Commerce, started by the Society in 1946, owed its existence to the generous donation of Rs.1,00225/- by Sir Kikabhai Prerhchand, then president of the society, and to the untiring efforts of some of the leading members of the society. In 1945 Sir Kikabhai Premchand, who had been greatly impressed by the educational activities of the Society, made over to it 100 ordinary shares of the Fort Gloster Jute Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and 50 shares of the Hukamchand Jute Mills Ltd. of the market value of Rs.1,00225/- on the conditions that the society should start a commerce college within two years, i.e. by June 1947, that the college should be named after the person named by Sir Kikabhai, that the amount of the donation should be utilized towards the construction of a building for the commerce college and that a minimum amount of Rs.3,00,000/- should be collected, by the society for starting and maintaining the college.\nThe Managing Committee of the Society accepted the donation and began to make arrangements for starting the Commerce College. An application was sent to the University of Bombay in August 1945. The Local Inquiry Committee appointed by the University for the purpose visited Surat on 23rd December 1945 and the Senate of the University recommended to the Government in March 1946 the affiliation of the Commerce College for teaching of courses leading up to Intermediate commerce class for two years.\nThe college was named as Sir Kikabhai Premchand College of Commerce and it started working from June 20, 1946 with a total number of 181 students. Shri Y. D. Keskar, who had worked as professor of commerce for a number of years at the H.L.College of Commerce, Ahmedabad, was appointed the first Principal of the College.\nTo begin with the College was housed in a spacious bungalow in Athwa Lines opposite the Police Headquarters. The opening ceremony of the College was performed by Hon'ble Shri B. G. Kher, Prime Minister, Government of Bombay, on July 3, 1946.\nThe Hostel students were accommodated first in a bungalow on the Kentish Road behind the College building, but the demand for hostel admissions having increased the very next year, a bungalow called 'Green Gate\u2019 situated near the College was hired for the purpose and about Rs.12000/- were spent in remodeling it to suit the needs of hostel life.\nThis spacious plot situated to the north-east of the M.T.B.College was allotted to Sir K.P.College of Commerce for its building and on 22nd March 1948, the Sarvajanik Education Society got the foundation stone of the building laid by his Excellency Raja Sir Maharaj Singh, C.I.E.,the Governor of Bombay and an old friend of Sir Kikabhai Premchand.\nEarlier on December 8, 1947, a Local Inquiry Committee, appointed by the Bombay University in connection with the application of the College for extension of affiliation, had visited the College and had recommended the extension of affiliation for teaching courses leading up to B.Com.degree. So from June 1948, the College provided Instruction in all the three optional subjects at the Intermediate Commerce level and Advanced Accountancy and Auditing, Cotton Economics and Statistics at the B.Com. level. The introduction of the teaching of Statistics as an optional subject proved to be of great value to the students owing to the paucity of statisticians.\nFrom the inception of the College efforts were made to arrange for the enrolment of the students in the University Officers Training Corps (U.O.T.C.) but as the scheme of the formation of the N.C.C. was being prepared, the efforts had not succeeded. In November 1948. However, the Government sanctioned one Company for Surat with two platoons for the M. T. B. College and one for the Commerce College as part of the Fourth Bombay Battalion.\nFor the College, the prospect of having its own building materialised sooner than was expected. The construction work started during the summer vacation of 1949-50 and the building, which cost Rs.3,29592.67,was ready by June 1951.The opening ceremony was performed by \u201c Sheth Kasturbhai Lalbhai \u201d on November 23, 1951. Moreover from the new academic year, the college was granted recognition to start M.Com. classes. On March 10, 1953, a full-size statue of Diwan Bahadur Gandhi was put up by the Society in front of the college. It was in grateful commemoration of Diwan Bahadur Gandhi's devoted services to the cause of Education and to the Co-operative movement in the District of which he was a pioneer.\nSir Kikabhai, after whom the College is named, was a great benefactor of the Society. He was the President of the Society for twenty years from 1933 to 1953. His vision of this office had brought additional prestige and dignity to the Society. His last act of benevolence towards the Society and the College was a donation of Rs.8000/- towards the Commerce College Hostel Building fund.\nOne of the essential needs of, the college was a building for the College Hostel. The resident students were housed in the Green Gate, Bungalow which was a bit too far from the College. It was therefore felt necessary to build a Hostel which would be nearer the college premises. The Society had already purchased a plot of land in Athwa Lines, behind the M.T. B.College play-ground, for the Hostel Building. The foundation were laid in the first term of the year 1953-54. The building was ready for occupation in June 1955. It was built at a cost of Rs.1,95,000/- and was declared, open by Shri Morarji Desai, Chief Minister, Bombay State, on June 19, 1955. The number of the students in the College was steadily growing from year to year, but in 1955 it registered a sharp rise and reached the figure 675. The College building, which was barely four years old, was soon found to be inadequate. Two new halls were put up on the first floor to meet the immediate need of more accommodation. Late Shri Atmaram Motiram Diwanji donated Rs.40,000/- for the purpose.\nThere was similar extension in the courses of study available at the College. Banking and Co-operation were introduced at the B.Com. level and International Banking at the M.Com. level. Moreover Ph.D students were enrolled for Commerce and Economics. The N.C.C. training was introduced and a platoon under the command of Prof. M.T. Chiplonkar was formed in the College.\nThus by 1956, when it was ten years old, the College had progressed well in all respects. It imparted instruction up to B.Com. and M.Com. Degree levels with Accounting and Auditing, Statistics, Banking, Co-operation, Economics of Cotton, Higher Statistics, Advanced Account, Costing and Industrial Management as optional subjects. The strength of the students had reached the figure 700 and their performance in curricular and extra-curricular activities was equally brilliant. In the year 1958, the college got permanent affiliation with Gujarat University.\nIn June 1959 Principal Samant left for taking up University Professor's post at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Vidyapeeth and Prin. A.R.Desai was appointed in his place, who worked as principal upto 1974 and then he was appointed as Honorable Vice-chancellor of South Gujarat University for two terms, i.e. 6 years.\nThough the College building had now sufficient number of class-rooms, it lacked adequate Library and Reading Room facilities for serious academic work. The University Grants Commission sanctioned a grant of Rs.49,000/- for the purpose and the Society put up a Library Extension Block, thus completing the western wing of the First Floor of the College Building at a cost of Rs.80,866/-. Another addition to the College building was the Non-Resident Students' Recreation Centre built at a total cost of Rs.88,460/-. For this also the University Grants Commission sanctioned a grant of Rs.35,000/-. The Centre now provides good accommodation to the students for recreation and refreshments, it was declared open on August 11, 1962 by Shri Hitendra K. Desai, Minister for Law and Revenue, Gujarat State.\nIt is a matter of great pride that the college has been granted \u2018A\u2019 grade in NACC accreditation in 2014.\nThe College has successfully completed 70 years of its joining and has entered in the 71st year. The strength of the students is 2900. It offers B.Com. with specialisation in 'Advanced Accounting and Auditing', 'Banking' and 'Statistics'. It also offers a variety of optional subjects like Salesmanship and Publicity, Financial Management and Banking and Insurance in the first year also. It also offers Indirect Taxation as an optional subject in the Third Year. The post graduate students are offered specialisation in 'Advanced Acccounting' and 'Auditing' and 'Statistics'. The college is the first, to introduce M.Com.(Honours) Integrated Program in the South Gujarat Region. The college also runs a Diploma Course in Tax Management", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 10587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 156.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kristaewert.com/2016/04/11/and-then-she-was-gone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:15Z", "digest": "sha1:EW7G7XY4P457IFD3OCIWDDH2ZTWJQN3H", "length": 7745, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.kristaewert.com", "title": "And then she was gone. - One Beautiful Life", "raw_content": "We spent much of the drive home in silence. What could be said? We had done what we had gone to do and now, the let down. The past week had been filled with the distraction of plans and programs and music preparation and ignoring all the day-to-day things, which would otherwise seem so grand and so important. Somehow, it was okay that it all fell to the wayside. Time stopped.\n\u201cHow do you grieve?\u201d my husband\u2019s brother asked me.\n\u201cThis is it,\u201d I said curtly pointing to my stoic face.\nI suppose it was a bit of a lie, but in that moment, I wasn\u2019t thinking about grief. I was thinking about what I needed to do, to say and to be for my husband who had just lost his mother. Just lost his mother\u2026that is not a sufficient way of putting it. It seems so trivial.\n\u201cOh, I lost her. She could be downstairs or at the supermarket but really, I don\u2019t know where she is.\u201d As it was stated a couple of times, she isn\u2019t lost \u2013 we know exactly where she is. She is with God. But while there is comfort in that, it does not describe what her presence with the Lord implies for my husband\u2019s heart \u2013 for the void that is now and forever will be until they meet again, beyond the grave in the light of grace. You see, his mother was what I am not. He was her baby and he needed her. He needed her reassuring words, her nurturing warmth and her sympathy \u2013 the things I lack. Leaning into her was like laying your head on a soft down-filled pillow whereas leaning into me is like banging your head against a brick wall.\nI never, in a million years, thought she would leave us so soon.\nShe had so much to give\u2026then again, perhaps, she had given all she could. Ben\u2019s parents have been with us every step of the way \u2013 from the day Ben tried to break up with me when we were dating to our wedding, from the birth of our children to hosting their annual 3-day cousin camp. I could tell story after story of the graciousness of his mother. I could tell you how, when Ella was born, they came with us to our appointment with the geneticist and sat with us after as I cried silent tears. I could tell you how she would insist on accompanying me once or twice a week as I made the hour and a half drive to Calgary for Ella\u2019s appointments. I could tell you how his parents came to visit us in Cambridge because they are, without a doubt, Ben\u2019s biggest fans or I could tell you how she stayed with us for a month before Audrey was born because I was on modified bed-rest and how she held my other two children for the days that followed as they vomited through the night and into the morning.\nThe woman was an all-star who leaves a great legacy. She was known for her spunk, her sense of humour and her devotion to God. Her memorial was a celebration of all of those things filled with memories of love and laughter and endless photographs of her in funny hats making funny faces. She brought joy into people\u2019s lives until the very end and I know that the approximately 450 people who attended the funeral are just a fraction of the hearts she touched.\nThere is so much to say, but I am tired and my heart is heavy. I feel as though there is no way to do this post justice, to do her memory justice. My heart is heavy for the Grammy Audrey will never know and my heart is heavy for the hole that now gapes in my husband\u2019s heart. She loved him so, so, so much. When he was a baby, she was so worried that he would die \u2013 they lived in Brazil and she didn\u2019t have enough milk. I can only imagine how her heart must have ached as she listened to his cries of hunger and watched his little body waste away. She had a special place in her heart for her little Benje, as I am sure she did for each of her children but her love is irreplaceable and I know that. And my heart aches for my father-in-law \u2013 I can not even begin to imagine saying good-bye to your best friend, the mother of your children and your partner in ministry and in life.\nAnd yet, he hopes and clings to the promises in God\u2019s word, which is what we must do as well. So tonight, as I sign off, I\u2019ll share just a glimpse of the amazing perspective this man has, \u201cAn empty house, without Shelley, is tough for me. I have a hole in my heart. But God keeps giving me these promises from His Word. This morning I read in Shelley\u2019s journal, \u201cBecause the Lord is at my right hand I will not be shaken.\u201d Psalm 16:8. As soon as I feel I\u2019m sinking, God has something or someone there to remind me of how He is caring for me at this time. How wonderful to see Him at my right hand. Why should I be shaken?\u201d\nDeathGrandparentsGriefMotherhood\nKrista \u2013 Loved this post. I was one of Ben\u2019s Oculus singers and my father died just about a year ago, so a lot of it resonated with me.\nWhat I\u2019ve learned in a year is that grief is whatever it looks like at that given moment. It\u2019ll be different tomorrow. Not necessarily better or worse, just different.\nLove and prayers to you all.\nI\u2019m so sorry for your families loss. This was a beautiful tribute.\nTeresa Frederickson\nThank you, Krista, for sharing your heart as heavy as it must be. You have written a beautiful and justifiable truth which absolutely honors your Mother-in-law. Silence is a way to grieve. Crying and holding on to your loved ones who are hurting is a way to grieve. Writing about her, the one you grieve for is also a way. My thoughts and prayers are with you and Ben and your children.\nLynnette Schellenberg\nKrista\u2026 You did the memory of Shelley justice. You did your post justice. Your tribute is beautiful. One can certainly tell how much you loved her! You recognize that there is a hole in Ben\u2019s heart that only Shelley could fill. As a wife, thinking of a mother-in-law in that regard, that is love. I commend you for your honour to Shelley, and to Reg. God bless you and your family. My condolences for your great loss.\nReg Ewert\nThank you, Krista! What more can I say? You and Ben and your children were deeply loved by Mom (Shelley) and continue to be loved by me. You, and all my children, have been a great support to me these days. She is \u201calive with Christ\u201d and \u201cseated with Him in the heavenly realms\u201d (no worries for her) and according to scripture (Ephesians 2), we who have become believers are in the same position with her already! What an ongoing connection we have with Mom even now. And God is here with us at our right hand. So we carry on. Hope to see you soon.\nMim Phibbs\nI grieve for you and Ben and all of Shelley\u2019s family. Yes, she touched so many with her kindness and joyful spirit. Your father-in-law has lost a life partner far too soon, and I understand the depth of his grief, having lost my first husband when he was only 60. Shelley\u2019s spiritual family was vast, and her influence for Jesus will be felt for years to come.\nI pray for comfort that is possible as we allow ourselves to remember, to cry, to absorb the love of God that He shows us daily through the caring hands and hearts of those around us.\nPossibly the hardest thing during this time of grieving is to think of all that never will be. My children will have no Grammy to witness so many of their firsts. I will never experience another warm cup of coffee with my mom, no warm embrace, no warm laughter, no more \u201cshut up you little freak!\u201d. Mom is gone and there is nothing that I can do about that. I can, however, hold my wife and my children close and love them as a husband and father should. They are my priority. They are what I live for. For I am human and so are they. I will live the human experience and one day die in the human experience, but which ever one I am doing, I will do it well.\nI Will Love You Forever Mom.\nMy heart aches for you too Phil. I will pray for peace and comfort for you and your family. One step in front of the other. 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The church played a major role in the area's educational history, serving as the primary sponsor of Athens Academy, a three-room school. Many schools for Black students in the South consisted of only one room. In 2008, the church was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 72.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lawyersclubindia.com/news/news_display_by_category.asp?cat_ID=9", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:33Z", "digest": "sha1:PG4VSBP4XAANVUTBZJ4JAFQ63ILV7X3P", "length": 3007, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.lawyersclubindia.com", "title": "Lawyersclubindia : News Category : Labour & Service Law", "raw_content": "The Central Government has not enacted any separate law to protect the interest of domestic workers. However, the Ministry of Labour & Employment is considering to formulate a National Policy on Domestic Workers which is in the draft stage. T ...\nNational Policy on Domestic Workers\nNo such data is maintained at the Central level. However as per the National Sample Survey(NSSO Statsitics-2011-2012,68th round) according to which estimated 39 lakhs people are employed as domestic workers by private households, of which 26 lakhs ...\nFormulation of a new Labour Code\nThe Ministry has prepared a Labour Code on Industrial Relations, by simplifying, amalgamating and rationalizing the relevant provisions of the following three Labour Laws:-\tThe Industrial Disputes Act, 1947,\tThe Trade Unions Act, 1926,\tThe Industrial ...\nViolation of Labour Laws in Arunachal Pradesh\nBorder Road Organisation (BRO) abides by all Labour Welfare Laws. However, recently a joint team of officers of Chief Labour Commissioner (Guwahati Region), EPFO & ESI inspected the establishment of 42, Border Roads Task Force, Sapper and 763 Bo ...\nYear End Review- 2018: Ministry of Labour & Employment\nOn 14 December 2018 at 11:45\nThe Ministry of Labour and Employment is committed towards job security, wage security and social security for each and every worker. 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A component of minimum rates of wage, Variable Dearness Allowance (V.D.A.), was last revised on 01.10.2017.Rates fixed fo ...\n0 comments | 410 hits\nPayment of Gratuity (Amendment) Act, 2018 brought in force on 29th March, 2018\nOn 31 March 2018 at 10:22\nDecision: The Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2018 has been passed by Lok Sabha on 15th March, 2018 and by the Rajya Sabha on 22nd March, 2018, has been brought in force on 29th March, 2018.Background: The Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972 applies ...\nDecline in Child Labour\nAs per 2011 Census, the number of main workers in the age group of 5-14 years in the country is 43.53 lakh which shows a decline from 57.79 lakh as per 2001 Census.As per the data received from States/UTs the number of prosecution launched under Chil ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 6413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lcimelbourne.edu.au/news/360-video-experience", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:X5QIN6FDR6HG5TLS3CN6RSROWP33K5SV", "length": 2969, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.lcimelbourne.edu.au", "title": "360 video experience", "raw_content": "Get a taste for life at LCI Melbourne\u2019s flagship Collingwood campus, without leaving the comfort of your couch. In one click, step through the doors of the red-bricked walls that house the creative minds and hands of Melbourne\u2019s next creative generation.\nSee the place where graphic design meets photography and interior designers collaborate with filmmakers. Where ink-stained cloth is transformed into a new garment and working partnerships flourish. But how?\nLCI Melbourne has utilised the latest in 3D scanning technology to bring our award-winning Collingwood campus to the rest of the world, through an interactive 3D experience. Get a peek at each nook and crayon through this immersive tour that follows the paces of our students.\nThe result, an interactive digital experience that prospective students can explore online from anywhere in the world via the LCI Melbourne website, and in classrooms across Victoria via devices from tablets to Google Cardboard headsets. Users can place themselves in the key campus spaces relevant to their interests, get an immersive sense of campus life.\nTo fully capture the essence of LCI Melbourne, we started by scanning key spaces on the campus, producing a working model of the building. To these \u2018rooms\u2019 we added time lapse 360 video of a typical day, allowing you to get a feel for the student experience. We\u2019ve also added extra information on study areas, workshops and the international opportunities that membership of LCI Education Network brings.\nFrom the 3-tiered open space created by the atrium to the original trusses and floors of the second floor, this is your opportunity to get an up-close view. See not only how students are being creative, but how the heritage site has retained its history of housing Melbourne\u2019s makers.\nOnce the site of Foy & Gibson\u2019s emporium, the go-to place for 19th century Melbournians to find everything from boots to beds, LCI Melbourne is located at the heart of Collingwood\u2019s creative hub. In its heyday, more than 2,000 Melbourne \u2018makers\u2019 worked at Foy & Gibson \u2013 at every stage of the production process, from spinning, to despatch and delivery. They made men\u2019s and women\u2019s clothing, millinery, furniture, hardware and bedding, which were delivered to homes across the city with horse-drawn carts.\nThese walls that watched Melbourne grow up over a century now nurture a new generation of creatives. With a multi-million-dollar investment from the Canadian-founded LCI Education network the building has been transformed into LCI Melbourne \u2013 a purpose-built creative campus for the students enrolled in Victoria\u2019s only Bachelor of Design Arts.\nDesigned by Melbourne-based architects Gray Puksand it\u2019s the space where a new generation of trend-setters are beginning to make their mark \u2013 literally. Once you\u2019ve explored the 360 experience, you\u2019ll want to get off the couch and jump on a Smith St-bound tram and turn the virtual into reality.\nApply today to start February 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 8101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leannekelly.ca/nutcracker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:58Z", "digest": "sha1:PFUOK5EVGAVM3SJGCQL7RZKUSLV2O3ZZ", "length": 1054, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.leannekelly.ca", "title": "Nutcracker \u2014 LeanneKelly", "raw_content": "Ornament Design, Production and Art Direction of Installation.\nUnder the direction of Event Designer Bill Fulghum and in collaboration with the team at Stemz, I was approached to work with them on an event they were designing at the ROM. They were looking for custom Christmas ornaments for a private 'Nutcracker' themed corporate event. The space was extremely large and required equally large ornaments. The museum would be open to the public that day, so we had a very short time for set-up. To get around this, magnets were used to quickly hang the ornaments from the ceiling, also allowing for a quick tear-down. This meant I had a weight restriction of 4 lbs. per ornament. Wood was the obvious choice for the ornaments, but they had to be thin and light. This project was all about finding the right balance of size for the space, and the best material to work within our restrictions.\nThe Dinosaurs! Seeing my work hung in the ROM amongst the dinosaurs was a real highlight for me.\nEvent Designer - Bill Fulghum, Floral & Event Decor - Stemz Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lensational.org/portfolios/bhutan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:IHUQC6SAUS6XCPSO466TFZL3DY3ZZPYX", "length": 1621, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.lensational.org", "title": "Capturing happiness: Children of Women\u2019s Weavers in Bhutan - Lensational", "raw_content": "Children of women weavers in Bhutan\nBhutan is famous for its Gross National Happiness Index, but little is known about its gender gap in happiness : women in Bhutan are generally employed in low paid agricultural jobs, and earn 25% than their male counterparts (World Bank).\nAn encounter with Ana by Karma, a social enterprise selling colourful scarves made by illiterate women weavers in Bhutan, led us to the Kingdom of Happiness for a photographic adventure with the weavers\u2019 children.\nOur work in Bhutan\nIn November 2014, Ana by Karma trained 20 children from the weaving communities in Bhutan in photography on behalf of Lensational. Ana by Karma had been working to empower the women weavers and wanted to further support their journeys through teaching their photography. With photography, the children could help their mothers take beautiful photos of their products in the future.\nOn the first day of the workshop, the children stayed in the classroom and focused on photography techniques, self-introduction and storytelling. They then took to the Buddha Point to capture the outside world with the new skills they had learnt.\nMoving forward, the children will continue to have access to cameras, collected by Quin\u2019s networks in Hong Kong, China and Malaysia, as well as laptops donated by a philanthropist A. Emiko Wang.\nThe Institute of Management Studies in Bhutan, which helped to select the participants, will also continue to provide monthly follow-up sessions with the children.\nWe can\u2019t wait to show the world the beauty of Bhutan\u200a\u2014\u200aand to inspire these children to look at the world in a different way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lesliehelm.com/blog/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:05Z", "digest": "sha1:2CUOHCSP4H76EYTX7MJ3LN2Q3XXDWB3E", "length": 21256, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "www.lesliehelm.com", "title": "Yokohama Yankee and other Foreigners in Japan Yokohama Yankee and other Foreigners in Japan", "raw_content": "A Mixed-race American\u2019s experience in Japan and America and his pursuit of a career in cooking.\nPat Paul, who is half Japanese and spent time in Yokohama, wrote me a lovely letter in response to my book and agreed to let me share it here:\nYokohama Yankee was a fascinating book. I share your experience in being of mixed blood with a bi-cultural upbringing. The story of your family is much more epic and historical than mine, yet I can still relate to it on a few levels. Born in Indiana in 1958, the son of a US Navy captain and his Japanese wife, I was soon sailing for Yokohama with my family aboard the Hikawa Maru. My father was born in Los Angeles, mother in Yokohama, brother in Tokyo and my sister here in Seattle. My parents separated, leaving me with my mother in Yokohama. My father, brother and sister returned to live in the San Juan Islands.\nMy mother and I returned to Seattle in 1963 as my fathers health was failing, he had purchased a house in Wallingford at this time. My father passed away in 1965, leaving a young widow who spoke little English and her children who spoke little Japanese. During his time in Japan after the war, my father was C.O. of Opama Naval Air Base and worked with local businessman in some sort of capacity with the Occupation. He loved Japan and its people, we were his second set of children, the first being American. I have many old photographs of him at various swanky affairs surrounded by well-dressed business types and attractive young women, he always is the guest of honor. Funny thing is I really don\u2019t know exactly what he did but he sure seemed to be enjoying himself.\nIn 1969 my mother announced that we were moving to Yokohama for an unspecified amount of time. It had been my fathers wish that we experience our Japanese side. We were not at all happy with this but my mom is headstrong, so we did not argue. This time we took passage on the Oronsay, a P&O liner and sailed back to Japan, disembarking at Osanbashi on a gloomy grey day in October, 1969. I attended Y.I.S. for the 6th grade. Mr Glass was the headmaster and my main teacher was an arrogant young Englishman named Mr French of all things. Ms Chatainville was our French language teacher, she was horrible. I played cricket at YCAC and was there for a private screening of \u201cYellow Submarine\u201d. It was the genteel life of the well heeled diplomat-business core of which we were not a part of. We lived near Negishi Eki in\nIsogo in a very Japanese neighborhood. The gaki would follow me around crying \u201cGaijin\u201d or \u201cKureji Boy\u201d (crazy boy) I got used to it. I transferred to St Josephs for 6th and 7th grade. My brother also went there and my sister was at St Maurs. My stomping grounds were mainly Honmoku, Kannai, Motomachi and of course, the Bluff. There were great little excursions with my mates to Zushi, Kamakura and into Tokyo where I had my first Big Mac at the original\nMcDonalds In Ginza, heaven! Although my dad was Navy, I did not hang out with the American military kids, they were rough and mean-spirited. Being American and having that fixed exchange rate made for a life of entitlement and adventure. We grew up fast and found that the freedoms were many. I would imagine that growing up Stateside would have been boring by comparison. We went to Expo 70 and even got to see Utaemon in the Grand Kabuki in Osaka.\nYou touch many times on the struggles and challenges of being of mixed blood. I know how it feels to have one foot firmly embedded in either culture, yet never both at once, that is impossible. Seattle is a great place to be for a person of mixed blood, yet that is not to say that racism does not exist here, and it certainly exists in Japan.\nWe returned to Seattle in 1972. My sister and I enrolled at Blanchet, my brother joined the Army. I transferred out in my junior year partly because of waspish attitudes and \u201cgood natured\u201d racism. The friends that I had before leaving America in 1969 were like strangers to me now. I did not understand their attitudes or outlook on life. They seemed immature and unworldly, perhaps that was me being arrogant at a tender age?\nMy mother knew there would be problems for her kids in this respect. She told me to never be ashamed of my Japaneseness, to always be proud of of her and my father.\nAnd so on through life it went that I was proud of my Japanese heritage, while being a proud American at the same time, never did I consider this a contradiction.\nIt has not always been so clear cut. I returned to Japan in 1986 to rediscover my Japaneseness with the thought of living and working there for a spell. I came back feeling certain that it was impossible to adapt to their lifestyle. Things had changed. I was critical of the lack of individualism, the hollow soulness, the rampant adoption of vapid and meaningless Western fads. What happened to yukata and geta in the summertime? The contrived pop culture and American fast food restaurants made me feel that Japan was losing its way, it was sad.\nBut my quest for Japaneseness continued here in Seattle. I enrolled at the University of Washington, Jackson School of International Studies. I was, of course, in the East Asia program with special interest in post WWII Japanese Politics. I felt it important to study about that time, mainly because of my fathers involvement with it, maybe it would shed some light on exactly what he did, such a mystery to me. You mentioned Susan Hanley in your acknowledgements, she was my counselor and had a lot to do with my application process. I also had her twice as an instructor for history classes as she was the worlds authority on the Tokugawa Era, great person. Reading material that was recently declassified, I discovered that the Occupation was more one-sided than previously thought. I became more sympathetic to the Japanese side.\nSo now that I am on the verge of being \u201cjiji\u201d, as my Edo-ko friends like to call me, I find that making my bed becomes less important. What is important is to continue being a well entrenched Seattleite that makes trips to Japan periodically. I can\u2019t answer all the questions within me about the dualistic nature of my being, do not know if it even matters. What matters now is to enjoy the passage back and forth because I still love Japan. I feel fortunate to have the love and appreciation for a country and people so complex, paradoxical, insecure yet so beautiful, symbolic and rich in tradition and history.\nThank you for putting your perspective on the Yokohama Yankee personage. There are many of us who have straddled the Pacific with their own stories to tell.\nYour book puts a stamp of legitimacy on my experience and certainly that of others.\nI am a chef. I graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York in 1997. While there I had the opportunity to live and work in New York City. It was\na fabulous experience. I returned to Seattle and worked for Lowell-Hunt Catering for 5 years then moved to Sonoma County, CA where I worked in wine sales and\ncatered many events at wineries in both Napa and Sonoma Counties.\nIn 2003 I flew to Japan to visit my CIA buddies that had opened a restaurant in Azabu-Juban, near the Mori Tower.It was quite a rush cooking\nin their busy little restaurant, then going out after work to drink and eat. Sushi at Tsukiji at 6:00a.m. with sake and beer, then off to work we went, what a blast! I returned\n6 months later to do it again, very keen on picking up everything they were doing food-wise.\nIn 2004 I bought the Maple Leaf Grill, a neighborhood joint near Northgate. I operated as chef-owner for a little over 10 years. It was a great experience up until 2008,\nwhen things began to unravel due to the economy. I stuck it out until the lease expired, then got the hell out of there. I have to mention my mother here, as much as\nshe can be outspoken about my shortcomings or errant ways, she was an absolute rock during the down years, an unfailing means of support and back-up. She, unlike a lot\nof her race, is quite outspoken and says exactly what is on her mind. At 84, she continues in this way.\nI took a position with Farestart, a vocational job training program for underpriviliged adults, as chef-instructor in September 2014. It was a job like no other. The interaction\nwith the students was most fulfilling and meaningful. I left Farestart after one year and traveled a bit, cruising the British Columbian San Juans with my brother and his wife\nthen off to Japan with my sister, her husband, their son and mom, three generations. We visited Sapporo for the first time, then to Yokohama and Ito City to relax onsen style.\nCurrently I am preparing for opening a cooking school in Bellevue. My job is to basically run the kitchen, teach classes and assist incoming chefs. I have been busy the\npast couple of months writing menus, developing curriculum and testing recipes. I have to say that the \u201cIzakaya\u201d menu was a hit! The chawan-mushi impressed all.\nBeing back in Japan last Fall was a gastronomic reawakening of the senses. I returned with a new raison d\u2019etre, to delve completely into Japanese cookery. To that end\nI have immersed my self in reading cookbooks by Shizuo Tsuji, who is the \u201cEscoffier\u201d of Japanese cuisine. His writings on technique, history and \u201cmaking it your own\u201d are\ninvaluable to anyone in this pursuit. And so now I am at Uwajimaya 6-8 times a month, Japan continues to have that hold on me.\nThe name of the cooking school is Whisk. The website just went active and we are scheduling our first classes for Jan 31.\nSilly Games at a Farewell Party in Yokohama\u2019s Foreign Community in 1963\nThere was a lot of drinking and playing games in Yokohama\u2019s foreign community when I was growing up in the early 1960s and 1970s. Sometimes the games involve drinks.\nI came across some fun pictures of some of the games. This was a farewell party at the home of my friend Ian Harvey\u2019s parents. in 1963. The man on the floor in the middle picture with a glass of Scotch on his forehead is my father Don Helm.\nThe picture of the three men doing the \u201chear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil\u201d thing was at a New Years party at the Chuzenji Kanaya Hotel. Nikko, close to Chuzenji, is the site of the shrine that has the carving of the three wise monkeys. The \u201chear no evil\u201d man is Mr. Murray, whose sons, Chris and Nicholas, were our friends. They always had great parties in Tokyo. I remember one New Years Eve when they organized a very elaborate scavenger hunt all over town. We teenagers had a lot to drink and enjoyed wandering about the city.\nPasha, an enterprising Jew who once hosted Albert Einstein in Tokyo, photographs old Japan including Yokohama and Tokyo\nErnst Baerwald was an enterprising Jewish man who also took amazing photographs of old Japan including Yokohama and Tokyo. His son, Hans Baerwald, was a close friend of my father, Don Helm at UC Berkeley, and later at language school and in the U.S. Occupation of Japan. Hans, who later became a professor at UCLA focused on Japanese politics, and wrote a fascinating story of his life here. Hans\u2019s daughter, my friend Jan Baerwald, received her grandfather Pasha\u2019s amazing collection of photographs of Japan in the early 1900s.\nI asked Jan about her grandfather, who she called Pasha. This is what she wrote:\nPasha\u2019s name was Ernst (or Ernest) Baerwald. He was brought as a POW from Tsingtao in 1914 where he lived at the Bando POW camp (in Naruto) until it closed in 1919, when he moved to Kobe \u2013 there\u2019s an article my dad wrote which appears as a link on the Wikipedia entry about Bando that will tell you a bit more. I think the family emigrated to the States in 1940 (except for my aunt, who was already attending Mills College in Oakland). The whole story of Bando is fascinating \u2013 seems more like a village, with small businesses, theater groups, an orchestra (Pasha played the violin), etc. They taught the locals how to make beer and bake bread. There\u2019s a fair amount on the web about it.\nSo Pasha, like my great uncle Willie, spent many years in a Japanese POW camp. But unlike my father\u2019s family, he moved in German high society in Tokyo. In his visitor\u2019s book, there is the signature of Albert Einstein, who Pasha apparently hosted when Einstein visited Japan. The visitor\u2019s book also contains the signatures of my maternal grandfather, Robert Schinzinger, and his wife Annelise.\nIn any case, Jan has shared with me many of the pictures she inherited from Pasha and I hope to post them on this blog from time to time. Here are a few more of them.\nPresumably this is a sawyer delivering a nice-sized piece of lumber to raise someone\u2019s roof beams.\nBut what\u2019s this vendor making. Anybody care to guess? By the looks on the faces of the kids, I suspect it\u2019s sweet.\nThe Japanese translation of Yokohama Yankee is now available\nThe Japanese translation of Yokohama Yankee is now available here. If you have read my book in English but also read and write Japanese, it would be wonderful if you would write a review of the book on the Japanese site. I\u2019m afraid the site is rather bare bones. Would be wonderful if a couple people who have already read my book could recommend it to the Japanese audience.\nLost (and Found) in Translation\nI\u2019m very excited to put the finishing touches to the Japanese translation of Yokohama Yankee. The Japanese edition comes out in late September.\nThe translation was in the very capable hands of Yumiko Murakami, who has translated many books. Even so, there have been times we have had to hammer out our differences.\nOne of these days I\u2019d like to go into more depth on the areas in which we have differed in translating my particular perspective on Japanese culture and language.\nWearing yukata and preparing for obon.\nI lo ve this picture of my brother Chris and me in yukata, my sister Julie in\nkimono, and my half-sister Emi and half brother, Karl (My grandfather\u2019s children from his second wife), in western clothes. Behind me in kimono is Shizuka, my grandfather\u2019s second wife. Also there is Unozawa-san, our housekeeper and our nanny, whose name I can\u2019t remember. We are standing in front of our house at Yamate in Yokohama about 1960. I think we must have been getting ready to g o to the summer obon festival.\nIn the next picture it looks like I have some money in hand to spend at the fair.\nThirty years later, soon after adopting Mariko and Eric, we dressed Mariko up in a yutaka and tucked Eric into the snuggly and went to the bon-odori, the fair to celebrate the return of the spirits.\nMariko wanted to fish in the water for a ball.\nAnd I tried to learn the local dance, looking a little silly carrying Eric in the baby snuggly.\nJuly 4th and Fireworks in Japan\nI\u2019m always amazed at these photos a July 4th fireworks display in Yokohama sometime in the late 1920 s or early 1930s. The Japanese were incredibly skilled at using fireworks to create images of the American flag and the White House of the Independence day celebration. July 4th was always a big deal in Yokohama. I never really understood what Independence Day was all about, but I enjoyed the festivities that always started the summer and came just a few weeks before Japan\u2019s O-Bon, festival of the spirits. Boith were excuses for big parties.\nMy mother would often take us to a a U.S. military base (Yokohama had several American bases filled with homes, schools, movie theaters and teen clubs.) There would always be a marching band, usually from the navy, playing Sousa tunes. Sometimes an aircraft carrier would be moored nearby and open to visitors. There would be potato sack races, three-legged races and tug-of-wars with massive ropes. Best of all there were grilled hamburgers and, if we were lucky, American ice cream made with real cream, not frozen milk like most of the Japanese ice cream.\nOne year, there were even motorboats for the kids to drive around a course. I was only eight at the time, and so wasn\u2019t allowed to drive a boat and I always envied the other kids. Sasagawa Ryoichi, who had once been imprisoned as a war criminal and later became a billionaire operating boat-races used for gambling, had arranged for the kids to use the boats for public relations. Much later I nterviewed Sasagawa, who was then on a campaign to win the Nobel peace prize and was the single largest private donor to the United Nations. He bragged about how he had piloted his private plane to Europe to visit Hitler and Mussolini. (He said he met Il Duce, but missed Hitler who was on a trip.)\nIn evening, after the festivities, there would be fireworks at the base. But more often we would go home and Dad would take us up to the roof of Helm House where we got a great view of grander fireworks paid for, I assume, by the American Consulate, which was just a few blocks away.\nIt was pretty easy to buy fireworks in Japan at any time of year and so my friends and I often enjoyed playing with the dozens of varieties for sale. There were the little bead-like fireworks that you used a sling shot to hit against the wall to make them explode. The Chinese variety you would throw at someone\u2019s feet and the machine-gun ratatat would make people jump. Then really explosive ones we used, cruelly, to blow up ant hills. I learned my lesson.\nI was about 9. I was bicycling home when I came across my brother and his friends playing with them. They would put a firecracker in a bottle and cork it up. When the firecracker exploded, the cork would shoot into the sky. But then someone had the bright idea of screwing a cap on the bottle. This time all the older kids scattered. I stood there stupidly with my bike wondering what was going on.\nI didn\u2019t know what hit me. Kids were screaming and my mother ran out of the house. (I was always getting into accidents.) She picked me up and ran to the street where she flagged down a cab to take us the one block to the hospital. Blood was pouring from my face. The doctor took a look at my torn eyeball and said he would have to remove it. My mother asked him to him to wait. She called a friend who knew a leading Japanese eye surgeon who happened to be in Yokohama and was able to save my eye.\nThe picture on the right shows me as a cub scout helping raise the flag on July 4th at a U.S. military base in Yokohama. I\u2019m the one at the end of the line with the huge patch over my eye. For Halloween that year, four month later, I was still wearing a patch, but my mother made me a pirates outfit and replaced the white patch with a much nicer black one. To this day I have a section of my iris missing, which prevents my pupil from adjusting to the glare\nToday the only kind of fireworks I like are sprinklers. My favorites are the Japanese sprinklers that are little more than a string. You light them and a little blob gathers at the bottom of the string from which shoot tiny sparks.\nHere is a picture of me lighting the larger sprinklers for Mariko during the summer of 1 992, soon after we adopted her. I loved to watch Mariko\u2019s eyes light up as she looked at the sparks fly.\nThe Weapons Bazaar\nArms merchants are having a field day supplying virtually every side of the Mideast conflict whether its Saudi Arabia or Israel. An article in Foreign Policy make the convincing case that the U.S. demonized Iran in part because it needed a convincing new enemy to support continued defense spending. The Bush administration manufactured evidence of Iraq\u2019s \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d as an excuse to invade Iraq. At the time, a Boeing employee I know suggested it was no coincidence that a lot of missiles in the U.S. inventory had to either be used or decommissioned.\nI am particularly sensitive to the west\u2019s tendency to make money off of war because of the role my own family played in militarizing Japan. My great-grandfather Julius, was among a small band of German soldiers who helped to introduce conscription to Japan.\nThe picture on the right shows my great-grandfather with members of the Japanese army in the late 1800s.\nMy cousin, Stefan Schinzinger, was doing some of his own research when he came across a German archive with pictures of another family arms merchant. Albert Schinzinger, my grandfather Robert Schinzinger\u2019s uncle, represented Krupp in Japan. The pictures below appear to show Albert on a shooting range in Hokkaido demonstrating the power of the artillery that he was selling to Japan as it built up its army in preparation for war with Russian. 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Payday loans are a great way to deal with unexpected expenses, being convenient, easy to apply for and quick to approve even those with a poor credit history.\nYou can easily apply for payday loans; all you need is an internet connection! The whole process takes place online, making this the least time consuming and most convenient way to apply for a loan.\nYou will need to be over 18, have a bank account in your name that accepts electronic money transfers, be a UK resident and have a take home pay of at least \u00a3500 or more. Each company will differ slightly in its terms and conditions, so search online through the various lenders until you find one that suits you. As long as you meet these criteria you will be eligible to apply for 300 payday loans.\nWhen you first embark on your payday loans career you will be restricted to a smaller loan than if you have proved your reliability by repaying payday loans. 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Being short of money is a difficult thing to deal with, but when you have a boost of cash at your fingertips life can be a whole lot easier.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 8585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.localpages.com/sc/florence", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:13Z", "digest": "sha1:I3EFHO67QMRJR6IMDGTGLZKWIDRIPK5T", "length": 2248, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.localpages.com", "title": "Local Pages", "raw_content": "How would you like to take some time off and go see Florence, South Carolina? There are many different tourist attractions that you could choose from.When you get to Florence make sure that you get the Florence, South Carolina Yellow Pages and the Florence, South Carolina Business Directory. The main attractions would have to be the attractions to do with the Darlington Raceway. People come from miles away to see a good race at this special raceway. Even the local residents come from all over to watch the races at the famous Florence, South Carolina Darlington Raceway. The other most popular tourist attractions have to do with this raceway as well. There is the Darlington Raceway Stock Car Museum, The Race way Pit Shop, if you like stock cars this is some where you will want to get to see, the Darlington Legends Walk and a historic downtown shopping area, good for all of your shopping needs. All of these places are located very close to one another so all you will need is your Florence, South Carolina Yellow Pages and Florence, South Carolina Business Directory so you do not miss getting to see one of these places. This is definitely a vacation that you do not want to miss. Especially if you like stock cars and racing this would be a good vacation spot for you.\nThe climate in the Summer time in Florence, South Carolina is absolutely wonderful. It is warm enough during the day that you can wear shorts but, it is cooler in the evening. This kind of weather is perfect for traveling. When you travel with this kind of weather you are a lot more comfortable and it makes the trip more easy going. Florence South Carolina in known to have really good weather most of the time, which makes good for travel. It also helps on the long drives of traveling to be able to look at the beautiful scenery while you are driving or riding until you get to your vacation destination. Remember when you first get to Florence, South Carolina to get your Florence, South Carolina Yellow Pages and he Florence, South Carolina Business Directory. There are many other historical sites that you can see while you are there, there are so many it is almost to many to tell you. It is guaranteed that you will have a very good time while in Florence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lochrianensemble.co.uk/2012/03/638/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:19Z", "digest": "sha1:BYDQKZU3UMMX5PK5WCBXUTACWROVHGTR", "length": 479, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.lochrianensemble.co.uk", "title": "BBC Songs of Praise Palm Sunday | The Lochrian String Quartet and The Lochrian Ensemble", "raw_content": "Check out Songs of Praise this weekend; Palm Sunday 1st April 2012 (to be aired on BBC1 at 4.40pm). The Lochrian Ensemble enjoyed accompanying the congregation in some lovely hymns under the direction of David Ogden. The recording took place at All Saints Church, Pittville, Cheltenham. For more details see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fhl7h#programme-broadcasts\nSongs of Praise, Palm Sunday\nThe story of Jesus\u2019s last week is told with Bible readings by Julian Rhind-Tutt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 129.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lovenlabels.com/word-year-no/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:55Z", "digest": "sha1:IBRH4PXCMQKAQM547EEFGQZ5EPMGBQ3A", "length": 3879, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.lovenlabels.com", "title": "2018 Word of the Year: NO - love 'n' labels", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t get me wrong, I still love nothing more than to please the ones I care about most \u2014 God, my family, my friends, my LNL audience. But, at some point, you have to draw the line and make sure that you\u2019re also making yourself happy in the process. I\u2019m sure we\u2019ve all agreed to do something for someone or attend an event that we really didn\u2019t want to attend in the first place, and then later on, we were asking ourselves why in the world we agreed to it. We\u2019ve all been there! And for me, it wasn\u2019t until this past year that I really comprehended how to overcome all of this. Once I became so extremely busy with my business and continued to grow in this stage of my life, I started to learn just how crucial it is for us to be extremely picky with our time. Just because you say \u201cno, thank you\u201d to an offer or an invite, doesn\u2019t have to mean that you dislike the person/event, etc. It doesn\u2019t make you a bad or a mean person for simply (and politely) saying, \u201cNo.\u201d It\u2019s easy to think that you are being selfish at first, but trust me when I say that almost everyone else in the world is also taking themselves and their well being into consideration as well. Just because you are picky with your time does not make you a selfish individual. It makes you a smart one. For us so-called people pleasers, it\u2019s important to know that you can still be selfless and supportive to people in your life without saying \u201cyes\u201d to every single opportunity that arises.\nIn case you are in the same boat as I am and need to work on yourself in this area, I\u2019ve come up with a few tips to help you learn how to say \u201cno\u201d:\nHave a clear vision. Know what you want to say YES to and say NO to everything else.\nRealize that it\u2019s perfectly okay to say NO.\nKnow that there are consequences to saying YES. A lot of times, saying YES is a great thing and opens many doors, but other times, saying YES will only waste your precious time.\nBe polite and respectful when delivering your answer.\nIF (and only if) it\u2019s not urgent, delay your response. Many won\u2019t agree with this, but I\u2019ve found great success & so much peace in knowing that I don\u2019t have to respond to any situation right away (most of the time).\nKeep it simple. You don\u2019t owe anyone an explanation. My sister has always taught me this, and I\u2019ve thankfully (finally) begun to take her advice.\nDon\u2019t ever say \u201cMAYBE\u201d when you know deep down you want to say \u201cNO\u201d.\nNow, don\u2019t get me wrong, when it comes to adventure and living life spontaneously on the edge, I\u2019ll most likely say \u201cYes!\u201d every time. Part of me is still a \u201cyes\u201d person because I love experiencing new opportunities that arise. I\u2019m also a huge believer in saying YES to things that scare you because that opens up a door for personal growth. Keep in mind that there is a difference between being nervous/scared and just flat out dreading something that you know you should have said NO to in the first place.\nI\u2019ve felt so much better over the past few months of carefully choosing where I spend my time and energy, and I highly encourage you to do the same! I\u2019ve gathered a few of my favorite quotes below that have helped make me a much happier, healthier individual today, and I hope they\u2019ll do the same for you:\nThanks so much for stopping by to read! Hope I have inspired you all to have a new outlook on the so-called \u2018negative\u2019 word, \u201cno\u201d. \ud83d\ude42\nLeave a comment below if you can relate!\nCaitlan F says:\nAbsolutely LOVE this! I can SOOO relate!\nRight?! Ahhhh, glad you can relate!\nThanks so much for stopping by to read \ud83d\ude42\nThis sums up what I\u2019m trying to accomplish this year as well! Great post!\nLove that Kyle!! Thank you so much for stopping by!\nTHIS IS MY LIFE. I have such a hard time saying NO to anything!\nI wish I was a recovering people pleaser \u2013 I\u2019m taking your tips Pey!\nAww love you V!!!!\nYou can do it girl \u2013 start with small baby steps \ud83d\ude42 Always here for you sister!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 7669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lucybull.com/fromthedeskof/krista-mary-martin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:54Z", "digest": "sha1:T4PXUHEPD24UZ3ERPHVADZITEET435GA", "length": 898, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.lucybull.com", "title": "KRISTA MARY MARTIN \u2014 LB", "raw_content": "KRISTA MARY MARTIN\nFor this exhibition, Krista Mary Martin has created a new and desk-specific variant among an ongoing series of semi-functional sculptures which she has been developing since 2015. Titled Multi and Single-person Ashtray, the one person and two persons ashtray includes a transparent materials list (adhesive, petroleum jelly, cement, polyurethane foam, plaster, latex primer and cigarette(s)) and accompaniment of personalized matchbooks featuring a one-line poem written by the artist.\nKrista Mary Martin (b. 1989 Hartford, CT), lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has recently been included in exhibitions at Roberts Projects, Culver City, US and A MAIOR, Viseu, PT.\nPhotography by Nathanael Turner\nNathanael Turner (b. 1987, New York) lives and works in Los Angeles.\nPhotography by Gillian Steiner\nGillian Steiner (b. 1988, Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lyonhousemuseum.com.au/artists/marco-fusinato/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IMKX5ELECBHIN5ZH2SXJ4BFEJENKXZBS", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lyonhousemuseum.com.au", "title": "Marco Fusinato \u00bb Lyon Housemuseum", "raw_content": "THERE IS NO AUTHORITY, 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.51, "perplexity": 77.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.macdoctors.co.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:48Z", "digest": "sha1:EJJGGTXA3W44DV262VQ66SNG2BP4764V", "length": 16, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.macdoctors.co.uk", "title": "macdoctors.co.uk - LCN.com", "raw_content": "macdoctors.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 135.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mailordergarden.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:38Z", "digest": "sha1:EODYP7R2NKQV73KXEA66OHHCXTRB4DY3", "length": 3633, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mailordergarden.com", "title": "Mail Order Garden - Flowers, Seeds & Gift", "raw_content": "At one time the Cattleya orchid was considered the perfect corsage flower for special events. It is still a popular choice for gardeners due to its beauty. They are fairly easy to grow and thus considered a good orchid for beginners. A good place to get additional growing tips is...\nCalla lilies are extremely popular for home gardeners due to their variety of colors, ease of care, and overall beauty. They are white, red, pink or orange in color. The white flower is what is most often thought of when referring to a calla lily. They are a popular decoration...\nThe most well kept home on the block will look like a mess if the lawn is not cared for properly. Keeping your lawn manicured will improve the appearance of your home and keep your neighbors happy. However, it can seem like a daunting, never ending task. Here are a...\nGrowing a home garden is a fun, relaxing activity for many people. If you\u2019re thinking of using your green thumb to beautify your yard or grow your own veggies \u2013 here are a few tips to make the experience more pleasant. Consider your climate. Not all plants grow in every...\nPotted plants are a decorative addition to any home, patio or porch. They also offer a way to start plants when it\u2019s still cold outside or to protect plants during the winter. If you live in an apartment and don\u2019t have a yard you can still enjoy greenery in your...\nWelcome to my blog where I talk about how to best care for you garden and potted plants. I will write about all aspects of gardening ranging from how to best take care of your lawn to how to grow your own vegetables. All my advice is designed to help you create a garden that is beautiful, easy to care for and that produces food for you and your family. Many vegetables such as carrots, cucumber and tomatoes are very easy to grow. Even a small garden can be enough to produce a large part of the food that you and your family needs. As little as 5000 square feet can be enough to provide all the food you and your family needs. Not having to pay for food can make wonders for your personal finances and can help you if you want to be able to get out of debt or save money for something you want. You can still choose to complement your diet with store bought meat but your food bill will still be a lot lower than it would be if you bought all your groceries..\nLearn how to get a stunning lawn.\nLearn how to care fore Cattleya Orchids\nLearn how to grow your own tomatoes\nI believe that a garden should be giving you pleasure not work. With this in mind I promote every time saving trick in the book to automate as much of the garden care as possible. The garden should as far as possible maintain itself even if I am not home. To achieve this I use both high tech solutions such as automatic watering systems, automatic misters and robomowers as well as low tech solutions such as how plants are combined and the use of micro climates to allow the plants to drive. Micro climates are especially important when you deal with sensitive plants and when germinating seeds. By maintained a good micro climate you can greatly improve germination. Another example of using micro climates is that I prefer to use a shade tree to shield plants that wants a shaded position instead of a shade cloth. I use ponds to increase air moisture instead of other artificial solutions and so on. You can see more information about my projects in my Swedish tr\u00e4dg\u00e5rdsblog. All content on my Swedish site will in time be translated and posted on this site. I try to translate a little bit more whenever i can. Although sometimes i prefer to write completely new articles instead.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.makeitworkcampaign.org/training-curriculum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JWWNXA32UDU37RXDAZCYYTCBAXSQZ3KL", "length": 5756, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.makeitworkcampaign.org", "title": "Training Curriculum - Make it Work", "raw_content": "INTRO: TALKING ABOUT GENDER AND INTERSECTIONALITY\nOverview: Participants will build a foundation for the rest of the training by helping to create their ideal learning environment in which to learn about gender and intersectionality. This session is highly interactive and critical to laying the foundation for the rest of the material.\nGALLERY WALK AND DEFINITIONS\nOverview: To help the group build a shared language and framework for gender by introducing and discussing definitions. This is a short interactive exercise.\nAudience: People who are new to conversations about gender in their own work. People who are coming together in coalition or partnership around these issues for the first time.\nOverview: Participants will reflect on the impact of sexism, homophobia and gender roles on individuals and organizations by talking through and naming the stereotypes associated with people\u2019s gender. This is an interactive exercise that requires participants to be honest about the ways in which society defines traditional gender roles.\nAudience: People who are new to conversations about gender in their work.\nGENDER SPECTRUM AND THE AUTHENTIC GENDER MODEL\nOverview: Participants will place themselves along a gender and sexuality spectrum and start to see the diversity in gender identity and sexuality and will begin to understand the nuances and complexities of gender justice as it connects to our many identities. This exercise invites people to begin to define their own gender: how they express it and how their gender is perceived in society.\nAudience: People who are ready to apply what they know so far about gender.\nHOW OPPRESSION MANIFESTS\nRECOGNIZING OUR ROLE\nOverview: Before our analysis extends outward, we need to look first at ourselves. Participants will reflect on their own contributions to sexism and gender oppression in their lives, personally and as leaders. This session gives participants the opportunity to do some reflection and to share in pairs.\nAudience: People who are new to conversations about gender and who are ready to do more.\nGENDER OPPRESSION IN OUR ORGANIZATIONS\nOverview: Gender equity can be a blind spot for many of our organizations and this can have a ripple effect in the progressive movement. In this session we will work with some fictitious scenarios of movement moments where a gender lens would come in handy.\nAudience: People who are prepared to incorporate a gender lens in their organization\u2019s work or who are ready to create partnerships and alliances with organizations who are working to create gender equity.\nWHEN OPPRESSION IS INSTITUTIONALIZED\nOverview: Participants will leave this session being able to identify the ways sexism intersects with other forms of oppression in our institutions, and how that shape our lives. They will also look at some examples of truly intersectional policy and the kinds of victories we want win. This will help people begin to build an understanding of how and why we need to approach all aspects of social change work with a gender lens.\nAudience: People who want to know how to interrupt our institutions and start creating new laws and policies that are more intersectional and impactful.\nINTRO TO STORYTELLING\nOverview: Storytelling is one of our greatest tools as organizers and social changemakers. In this session participants will get the chance to think about and tell their story about their own experience with their gender. Participants will get some time to reflect, write and share their stories with each other.\nAudience: People who are new to the use of storytelling as an organizing and engagement tool.\nOverview: Participants will be able to tell their personal organizing stories by articulating the challenges, choices, and opportunities that brought them to their work for social justice. This session helps organizers further refine their personal story \u2013 a tool that helps us connect with people, build trust and eventually mobilize others to action.\nAudience: Any and all organizers, leaders, or activists.\nOverview: Participants will learn the skill of telling a collective story faced by our communities. This moves beyond your personal story to defining our shared challenges and opportunities for action. This is a useful tool in being able to inspire others to action.\nAudience: Leaders, organizers, activists who know their personal story and who find themselves in the position of inspiring others to take action.\nVISIONING FOR THE FUTURE WE WANT\nOverview: Now that we are armed with a gender lens, it\u2019s time to identify what it is that we want to create in the world. Participants will create a vision for their work, their communities or their organizations through guided visualization exercises.\nSTRENGTHENING OUR ORGANIZATIONS\nOverview: Let\u2019s start applying what we are learning. Oftentimes we have plenty of work to do within our own organization and communities. In this session, participants will have an opportunity to assess their organization\u2019s/campaign\u2019s commitment to gender equity at all levels of their work. Additionally, participants will have specific goals and renewed energy to continue working to make their vision a reality.\nAudience: People who are ready to apply what they have learned about intersectional gender equity to their work.\nSTRENGTHENING OUR PARTNERSHIPS\nOverview: Movement building happens through collaboration, partnership and risk taking. We can no longer go it alone as campaigns, movements or organizations. This session will help participants build the skills necessary to engage authentically with partner organizations regardless of their demonstrated commitment to intersectional gender equity with the intention of moving towards a long term vision for gender justice together.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 7945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.makeoutroom.com/events/sunday-august-31", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:12Z", "digest": "sha1:LV7K45YTICIIVXUHSNFGFAG34XZWJRPM", "length": 547, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.makeoutroom.com", "title": "sunday, august 31", "raw_content": "The Aerosols Record Release Party! w/ THE AEROSOLS, ANNA HILLBURG & NEW FAULTLINES + DJs TBD ~ $8 ~ 7:30 pm - 2:00 am\nIt's been a while...but it's finally here. The Aerosols are celebrating their record release by throwing a rad party/gig! Cruise on out...it's also Raul's Bday bash. See ya there!\nSUNDAY, AUGUST 31 - 7pm\nTHE AEROSOLS - Record Release!\nhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Aerosols/181951325175977\nhttp://annahillburg.bandcamp.com/\nNEW FAULTLINES\nhttps://www.facebook.com/newfaultlines\nhttp://newfaultlines.bandcamp.com/\nDJs follow!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 230.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marcodilauro.com/features/lebanon-july-war/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6DJBKTIOMAVIATEZSKEMODCNCJXXHXF", "length": 8164, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.marcodilauro.com", "title": "Lebanon, \"July War\" - Marco Di Lauro", "raw_content": "In 2006 Lebanon becomes the setting of a new and dramatic episode in the Arab-Israeli conflict. On 12 July, Lebanese militants of Hezbollah, a political party backed by Iran and including an armed faction accused of terrorism, launch Katyusha missiles and mortar shells against a number of Israeli villages and attack two Israeli military vehicles on patrol along the border. Two Israeli soldiers are wounded, three are killed and two are captured.\nIsrael responds with heavy aerial bombardments, artillery shelling, a strategic air and naval blockade, and an invasion on the ground in the southern portion of the country.\nDuring 34 days of fighting, thousands of people die, most of them Lebanese, a large number of infrastructures are damaged in Lebanon, and the number of refugees is estimated at between 800 thousand and a million.\nOn 11 August 2006, UN Resolution 1701 proposes a reciprocal ceasefire, with the disarmament of the Hezbollah and the withdrawal of the Israeli troops from Lebanon. The resolution, approved by both governments, also calls for a UN buffer force to be deployed in Lebanon. Named UNIFIL, its task is to monitor the cessation of the hostilities, assist the Lebanese Army in exercising sovereign control over the country and see to it that the armed groups disarm.\nHumanitarian organisations accuse both governments of having committed war crimes and failed to distinguish between civilians and fighters, in addition to using banned weapons and human shields. It is estimated that 1033 Lebanese lost their lives during the conflict (of whom 55 were militants of Hezbollah or Amal for Lebanon), while there were 160 Israeli dead, 41 of them civilians.\nBy the end of the fighting, the entire southern portion of the country proved to be an extremely dangerous territory, being strewn with anti-personnel mines, anti-tank mines, unexploded ordinance and cluster bombs that hindered the construction of new infrastructure and the return of the refugees to their homes.\nTyre, Lebanon - July 23, 2006\nTwo Lebanese civilians wait for further treatment upon arrival at the hospital. According to Hospital Officials, a family traveling in a van trying to flee the villages south of Tyre was hit by an Israeli warplane reportedly killing 13 people as well as injuring 13.\nBeirut, Lebanon - August 20, 2006\nBuildings lay destroyed from Israeli air strikes during the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel in the southern suburb of Haret Hreik. Many Lebanese are coming to the destroyed neighborhoods in Beirut to access the damage, which is so extreme that residents of the area cannot return home.\nLebanese children pass by the rubble of destroyed buildings, covering their faces to protect themselves from the dust and the smell destruction in the southern suburb of Haret Hreik. Most of the Lebanese traveling around in the Southern suburbs of Beirut are living in other neighborhoods and came to see and photograph the destruction as well as collect Hezbollah posters. Hezbollah place banners on the top of each destroyed building reading: \u201d Made in USA, Trade Mark, The Divine Victory.\u201d\n3-year-old, Nimar Ramait recovers in his hospital bed after he was injured by a bomb dropped by an Israeli war plane on a water canal where he was swimming. For a sixth day, Israel continued it\u2019s extensive bombing of villages and the civilian population in Southern Lebanon.\nCivilians and rescue teams try to extinguish a fire and look for survivors injured in a collapsed building after an Israeli war plane dropped a bomb on a Community Center affiliated with Hezbollah. Sixteen people were injured in the incident.\nSaddiqine, Lebanon - August 15, 2006\nA Lebanese family who returned to find their house destroyed as a result of the Israeli bombing campaign, stand in one of their apartment rooms holding candle lights, as there is no power in their village. As a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah enters its first day, thousands of residents took returned to their villages in Southern Lebanon, many of which have been destroyed by Israeli bombings.\nThe bodies of the victims of the Qana Israeli air strike wrapped in plastic having been brought from Qana to the morgue. Twenty-two bodies were brought to the morgue wrapped in plastic and loaded into a refrigerator truck. The Israeli air strike killed 56 civilians of which 34 of them were children, in the worst attack since the fighting began 19 days ago.\n18 year old Zahra Al-Jamira cries in shock after she realized that her face is burn as a result of a bomb dropped by an Israeli war plane. For a seventh day, Israel continued its extensive bombing of villages and the civilian population in Southern Lebanon.\nDoctors treat a wounded Lebanese civilian arriving at the hospital. According to Hospital Officials, a family traveling in a van trying to flee the villages south of Tyre was hit by an Israeli warplane reportedly killing 13 people as well as injuring 13.\nLebanese women cry over a coffin at the hospital morgue as eighty bodies are prepared for a mass funeral. On Friday, eighty civilians, the victims of ten days of Israeli bombing in Southern Lebanon, were buried in a mass grave.\nEch Chabiye, Lebanon - August 16, 2006\nWomen cry as Hezbollah fighters carry the coffin of Mostafa Rikan during his funeral. According to his family, Mostafa Rikan, a 16-year-old Hezbollah fighter was killed four days prior in the village of El Ghandouriye during heavy fighting with Israeli troops.\nA book in the rubble of a destroyed apartment building after Israeli war planes dropped a bomb on a Hezbollah commander\u2019s office. Sixteen people were injured in the incident after a complex of two buildings of seven floors was destroyed. The target of the strike, a Hezbollah commander was not present at the time.\nHezbollah fighters and relatives of Mostafa Rikan carry his coffin outside his house during his funeral. According to his family, Mostafa Rikan, a 16-year-old Hezbollah fighter was killed four days prior in the village of El Ghandouriye during heavy fighting with Israeli troops.\nBlood stains the pavement below the window of a burned apartment targeted overnight by Israeli Commandos. According to Lebanese Officials, Israeli Commandos carried out an overnight raid on the second floor of an apartment building where they clashed with Hezbollah fighters killing four people.\nA Hezbollah fighter cries at the cemetery during the funeral of Mostafa Rikan. According to his family, Mostafa Rikan, a 16-year-old Hezbollah fighter was killed four days prior in the village of El Ghandouriye during heavy fighting with Israeli troops.\nBint Jbail, Lebanon - July 31, 2006\nA portrait of the former head of Hezbollah, Abbas Mussawi, who was killed by the Israelis, lies amongst destroyed buildings as a result of an Israeli bombing campaign. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that no cease-fire had been agreed between Israel and Hezbollah. Some residents of Bint Jbail, the Hezbollah stronghold and the scene of the most violent fighting that has destroyed the city try to flee towards a safer shelter.\nTwo Lebanese teenagers wait for further treatment at the hospital. According to Hospital Officials, a family traveling in a van trying to flee the villages south of Tyre was hit by an Israeli warplane reportedly killing 13 people as well as injuring 13.\nA Lebanese man is carried by ambulance to a hospital, as he was injured after an Israeli warplane dropped a bomb on his house. Israeli warplanes continued their extensive bombing of villages and the civilian population in Southern Lebanon.\nAita Ech Chaab, Lebanon - August 15, 2006\nHanaifi Naher Hassan, the grandmother of Zainab Jamil accesses the damages of one of the rooms of her apartment upon her return home after a month long Israeli bombing campaign. The Jamil family spent the last 20 days as refugees in the Ramesh village and returned home just days prior to find their house destroyed as a result of an Israeli bombing campaign. As Hezbollah claimed victory over Israel and a ceasefire halted the fighting, thousands of residents returned to their villages in Southern Lebanon of which many had been destroyed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 8807, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.martinegutierrez.com/can-she-hear-you.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:O76RLC2WBXT47K3SDVCT5QJ3GN56XLWE", "length": 46, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.martinegutierrez.com", "title": "Can She Hear You - M a r t i n e G u t i e r r e z", "raw_content": "RYAN LEE, New York, NY, April 9 - May 9 , 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 125.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.martlet.ca/streeters-what-do-you-think-about-revealing-halloween-costumes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:OF4DJMBS3VGEQU2A3B4GEIPPTO2IUQYE", "length": 3514, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.martlet.ca", "title": "Streeters: What do you think about revealing Halloween costumes? \u2013 The Martlet", "raw_content": "Streeters: What do you think about revealing Halloween costumes?\nBy The Martlet October 22, 2015\nWhat do you think about wearing skimpy or revealing Halloween costumes; are they empowering, demeaning, or just simply costumes?\nGurkiran Dhillon (Fourth-year English). Photo provided by Sarah Lazin, Staff Writer.\nHow a woman decides to present in a public space is her choice. To police what a woman wears is to police her body, which denies female autonomy. With that said, the female body is perpetually hyper-sexualized in order to reduce women to their bodies\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009Skimpy Halloween costumes undoubtedly articulate that reduction, because they highlight the sexuality of the female body. If you purchase a skimpy costume, you\u2019re inevitably buying (literally) into this patriarchal reduction (and commodification) of women and their bodies. If you\u2019re ok with that, though, or if you\u2019re wearing that skimpy costume for yourself because you feel attractive in it\u200a.\u200a.\u200a.\u200aof course you should feel free to wear it. Your body, your choice.\nIliana Turner (Third-year Political Science and Gender Studies). Photo provided by Sarah Lazin, Staff Writer.\nI\u2019m all for women wearing whatever they want, unless it\u2019s culturally appropriative or offensive. I also don\u2019t have time for slut shaming. But women don\u2019t make decisions in a vacuum, and we live in a society that hyper-sexualizes and objectifies women. But maybe it\u2019s not about the fact that women wear \u2018slutty\u2019 costumes, but more about the patriarchal motivation to commodify women\u2019s bodies. Also, to men, revealing costumes do not equal consent and are not an invitation. The clothes mean nothing and consent is fucking necessary. That\u2019s really my biggest concern when it comes to revealing costumes.\nNeil McLagan (Third-year Mechanical Engineering), Kieran Armstrong (Third-year Biomedical Engineering), David Hamdi (Third-year Biomedical Engineering)\nMcLagan: Ooh, I wouldn\u2019t say they\u2019re empowering. I would say the people that would wear them are looking either to show off what they\u2019ve worked on\u200a\u2014\u200ameaning if they go to the gym hard, then they would wear them to show off\u200a\u2014\u200aor they are looking to find attention somewhere else, from the male or female gender.\nArmstrong: I would have to agree that they\u2019re not empowering, and I would also have to agree that they\u2019re trying to show something off. I think they get a lot of attention, and that\u2019s true, and it kind of depends on what the person\u2019s looking for. But, I mean, if it was me, and I wanted to dress up for Halloween, and I was a girl, I don\u2019t think I would do that. I would have more fun putting together something that people would think was funny\u200a\u2014\u200aI\u2019m a pretty humorous person. But I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t think you need to do that, but some people enjoy that.\nHamdi: Yeah, I would say they\u2019re just costumes. I mean most people wearing them\u200a\u2014\u200ain my opinion\u200a\u2014\u200aare just looking for attention. So yeah\u200a.\u200a.\u200a.\u200aif you\u2019ve been out to the gym a lot, show off what you\u2019ve worked for and see about attracting that cute guy or girl.\nMariana October 23rd, 2015\nNeil, Kieran, and David: I as a woman, would say that skimpy halloween costumes CAN be empowering. The decision to wear something skimpy or provocative (and it can be funny and humorous as well as skimpy or provocative) because a woman likes the way she feels or perceives herself in it, is empowering. Like, obviously so. Think of all the power that woman KNOWS she has! And it can having nothing to do with working out.\nThe difference is being subversive.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mbkdurham.info/about/mbk-news/-arch-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2PNFOE26O7GCM7YB65FHSQS7OXPYFOO", "length": 264, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mbkdurham.info", "title": "MBK News | Durham County", "raw_content": "My Brother\u2019s Keeper Durham set out to get involved with the community. Although the MBK Durham site isn\u2019t hands-on, they have most definitely made it their business to go above and beyond within their service to include just that\u2026being hands on with the community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mckeehorrigan.com/blog/which-parts-of-your-garage-door-need-maintenance-and-when/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SVRFJJ2W3JDKJJXAPNB3VOOYBES5QQS3", "length": 6600, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.mckeehorrigan.com", "title": "What Does Your Garage Maintenance Timeline Look Like? | McKee-Horrigan Inc.", "raw_content": "What does your personal timeline look like? You may be planning to graduate school in a certain number of years, or stay at your current job for as long as you can before you start a family. We maintain all sorts of timelines when we think about our personal life, for matters both big and small. We may have a personal project that we\u2019re planning to work on over the next few weeks, or maybe we plan to start a fitness routine that will last us years. We think about big concerns like handling our career or buying property while still being able to focus on the small stuff. But when it comes to your garage doors and maintenance schedules, we somehow make the mistake of lumping it all together as one task. We figure we can just call in a technician every few years to take care of everything, and it\u2019ll work out in the end. Despite the fact that we can upgrade our home entertainment system or dining furniture set piece by piece, the same thought doesn\u2019t apply to our residential garage doors. It\u2019s time to change up the way we think about maintaining our garage doors. From here on out, let\u2019s stop thinking about our garage doors as being one large piece of technology. Instead, consider the individual garage door parts that work in harmony. This approach is more accurate and leads to a door that lasts longer, works harder, and even looks better! Here\u2019s how the timeline of your garage door works and how you can maximize your maintenance.\nWhy Does Knowing the Timeline of Garage Door Parts Even Matter?\nMost people figure that you can put the bare minimum of thought into your garage doors and their maintenance and it\u2019ll turn out just fine. After all, what\u2019s the worst thing that can happen? Well, you might not want to hear the answer to that question. If you wait until your garage door is already suffering from issues before you call in a technician \u2013 or worse yet, no maintenance at all, then small problems can turn into big ones. A strained piece of the garage door can snap or break, leading to big repair bills. In the absolute worst case scenario, you or one of your family members could be in danger. Needless to say, abiding by the proper timetable is a far more sensible and safe approach.\nThe Least Worrying Piece of the Operation: The Garage Door Itself\nWhen it comes to your garage door, the door itself is the first thing that comes to mind; after all, it sits comfortably on the front of your home and takes up a big piece of visual real estate. You can rest easy knowing that the door itself is a very low maintenance part of your garage. There are a few things that mean its time to upgrade or repair your existing door, but they\u2019re generally very obvious to the eye:\nThe door being worn down or cracked. If the elements or time itself have worn down the door, it\u2019s time for a replacement for safety and security reasons. If you can see through part of your door, it\u2019s time for a new one \u2013 pronto!\nRepainting the door is fine for fashion, but it only becomes a necessity when the protective layers have worn off. When paint is beginning to peel, flake, or gain a chalky texture, it\u2019s time for fresh coats. Fresh paint does more than look stylish \u2013 it extends the lifespan of your door. A good rule of thumb is to paint every four to seven years, depending on your door\u2019s material and any existing damage.\nIf there is any immediate damage to the door such as dents or cracks from being bumped by a car, it\u2019s time for a consultation with a technician before the damage becomes worse.\nWhat About the Rest of the Door?\nGarage doors need more maintenance than just the surface. Here is some information on other garage door pieces that can help you figure out when to call a technician.\nYour mounting hardware has a pretty simple job: hang out and keep the door together. It also has one of the longest life expectancies among all of your door parts, so you don\u2019t need to call in a technician for any regular, specific maintenance. The exception to this rule? When there\u2019s sudden, violent damage to the frame from a collision or intruder attack. If this happens, call in a technician to take a look. Otherwise, this piece of the door is good to go.\nThe Torsion Spring\nIf the mounting hardware is a sturdy backbone, then the torsion springs are the delicate joints that make up your wrists and elbows. Some door models have one, others have two, but all doors rely on this tightly wound spring. This spring loosens to lift the door and tightens to close it again. The lifespan of these springs can vary greatly, but since they\u2019re so important to the door\u2019s function, you should go towards the low end. Assume about 10,000 uses \u2013 that evens out to about three years. Call in a technician when that date arrives, as a broken spring is extremely dangerous (and even deadly) due to the stored tension.\nGarage doors are becoming increasingly more advanced in technology, and Canadians benefit from added security and safety. These pieces of tech are often extremely reliable and rarely break down. In fact, the lifespan of these things can actually be somewhat problematic \u2013 if someone has a 20+ year old operator, it could work fine, but a newer option would be far safer. Keep up with tech trends and replace the operator as you see fit, and if you\u2019re using a much older model you should upgrade to something modern ASAP.\nPulleys, Belts, Tracks, and Cables\nThe above items are an important part of your garage doors running smoothly, and require maintenance. These are often rather simple devices that add up to complex equations, and so they rarely break in a catastrophic ways. However, it\u2019s important to note that they\u2019re under a good deal of stress, and when they do break the damage can be serious. When you call in a technician for torsion spring or door maintenance, have them look over these systems. While the risk is low, the consequences of a broken pulley or worn belt can be severe, so be proactive about keeping it in tip top shape.\nSo what can we learn from the above information? The torsion springs and front door of your garage are the two biggest parts that need active, regular maintenance. Torsion springs should be examined and possibly replaced every three years, while doors need to be repainted every four to seven years. The rest of your door can be quite sturdy, but a new operator and the technology within can offer big rewards for families who upgrade it. If you need help with getting your garage doors up to date through maintenance, call McKee-Horrigan Inc at 1 888 244 4171 and we\u2019d be happy to provide you with a free quote and quick service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 7943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mediakeys.com/agency/mediakeys-for-baume-mercier/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:50Z", "digest": "sha1:EUXCKGFYXQ3QDS7FTE3C5FRLIKGZ2KRH", "length": 147, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mediakeys.com", "title": "Mediakeys for Baume & Mercier | Mediakeys Agency", "raw_content": "Mediakeys France launched in 2012 the \u201cBaume & Mercier\u201d brand awareness campaign. The campaign has been on air from in June in a key shopping area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.melissastuff.com/2011/04/50-off-allen-wrangler-tickets.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:18Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5YIC3D2LCCY4M6EI4ORIQBHJLCBA4F4", "length": 193, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.melissastuff.com", "title": "50% off Allen Wrangler Tickets", "raw_content": "50% off Allen Wrangler Tickets\nIf you didn\u2019t take advantage of the last Allen Wranglers deal, there is a new deal out.\nGet two tickets in the green area and two Wranglers t-shirts for just $52.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 281, "original_length": 6631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mensroomlive.com/blogs/steve-thrill-hill/kick-those-cold-feet-out-here", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:47Z", "digest": "sha1:MPFK4ZHVC5GD4HGF42JYPLAG62SWFYMK", "length": 1271, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mensroomlive.com", "title": "Kick Those Cold Feet Out of Here | Mens Room", "raw_content": "Don't Get Cold Feet On Me!\nI've been sleeping like sh*t the last few days and have no idea why. But that's not the problem. The problem is that after I finally settle into a slumber, it's only a few hours later that my daughter finds her way into my bed (not a Goddamn thing wrong with HER bed, but...) and puts her cold feet on my legs. This happens every morning around 5 am.\nI am not a morning person. I also don't enjoy the feel of ice-cold feet on my otherwise warm legs. I've tried to explain this to her but my daughter has this strange disability. See, when you explain something to her that she doesn't appreciate or agree with, she seems to suddenly have no fundamental understanding of the English language.\nThe real issue here is that she is a female version of me. I've always heard that I'm a pain in the ass or have a lack respect for authority and all that other crap. And, for the most part, everyone is right. Sorta. It's not I don't 'respect' authority and all that stuff, I just genuinely do not care. And I have passed this down to my daughter.\nOverwhelmingly, I'm OK with her general rebel, but the cold feet need to stop! They're f**king frigid.\nAnd don't wait to get your tickets to THIS FRIDAY'S MENS ROOM BLACK PARTY! We'll drink with you there!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mentorsme.co.uk/useful-resources/mentee-case-studies/nichola-english-shares-her-journey-to-becoming-the-wardrobe-provocateur", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RMLONHCY4Y26NZECRMTJCTERRMYJUZBR", "length": 4236, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.mentorsme.co.uk", "title": "mentorsme.co.uk - Britain\u2019s first online gateway for businesses looking for mentoring services", "raw_content": "Home > Useful Resources > Mentee case studies > Nichola English Shares Her Journey To Becoming The Wardrobe Provocateur\nNow 43, over the years the fashion expert has overcome more than her fair share of adversity including life-threatening health issues and a significant accident. Despite this, she has an excellent entrepreneurial story to share with us.\nHaving attended Meet a Mentor a few months ago, she also told us a little about what mentoring means to the Wardrobe Provocateur.\nTell us a bit about your professional background, Nichola.\nProfessionally, I\u2019ve worked a lot up and down the country in retail management and fashion. I worked for Ann Summers at one point, which was really exciting. It was a really good job actually. I loved it. My life was very happy, I was in a good relationship, everything was going really well and I had a great career ahead of me. Then a lot of life-changing incidents events took place, which were the catalyst for me having to change.\nThey were quite major events weren\u2019t they?\nYes, I had an ectopic pregnancy that nearly killed me, then the accident happened which meant I had to learn to walk again. In a very short period of time I probably experienced more than what some people experience in a lifetime! I just really had to concentrate on my rehabilitation. After the accident I wasn\u2019t able to continue my career.\nSo going back to retail wasn\u2019t an option?\nI was going between a wheelchair and crutches all the time and it just wasn\u2019t feasible. I was actually on long-term sick for quite some time. I lost a lot of confidence and my relationship broke down. So I wasn\u2019t in a fit state to work for anybody. I was lucky to have a supportive family and my mum was amazing. It was 13 years ago and I still struggle now with walking and various other things but you\u2019ve just got to be positive.\nSo how did you come to work for yourself?\nI\u2019d had experiences with life coaching before and I\u2019m quite into alternative therapies. I actually did some training in various therapies thinking that\u2019s what I wanted to do, then I trained as a life coach. I just kept feeling that something was missing. I didn\u2019t just want to be a personal stylist but I did a lot of research and then I came across style coaching, which I really, really love. It\u2019s basically a holistic approach to styling. It\u2019s not just about the clothes you wear. It\u2019s a self-journey to become aware of and appreciate who you are inside and out.\nIt sounds great. When did you actually get set up?\nA few years ago. I\u2019ve had a few different names - in business you evolve, but The Wardrobe Provocateur really resonates with me and my clients, who seem to like it too. I went along to the Meet a Mentor event in February. I wanted to meet somebody who had been in business, who could steer me in the right direction, give me some support and help me stay motivated. Sometimes it\u2019s very hard on your own. That\u2019s where I met Sophie, my mentor. I also met another girl who I\u2019m collaborating with on a project with and she\u2019s been just as helpful as Sophie. The event was a really good way to meet people.\nSo you met a mentor and a business contact?\nYes, I see the lady I\u2019m collaborating with as a bit of both, whereas Sophie I really see as more of a mentor because of the suggestions she made, which were really helpful.\nWhat sort of support has Sophie given you?\nShe helped me set out my business objectives and get myself out there, market myself more and not be afraid to show people who I am and what I do. It\u2019s about using my persona to communicate what Wardrobe Provocateur is all about. I really enjoyed spending time with Sophie and I also owe her lunch! She was very, very kind. She\u2019s such a lovely person. She really is.\nWhat are your hopes for Wardrobe Provocateur\u2019s future?\nMy goals are to enter the American market, to provide more Transform Your Look, Transform Your Life workshops, and at some point it would be great to get a teaching qualification, as I\u2019d love to share all the knowledge and skills I\u2019ve learnt and been taught over the years. My business is currently working on providing a team of experts from make-up, to photography, which allows my clients and future clients to have access to everything in one place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 5106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.messengernews.net/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/2018/06/backs-dan-zumbach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QMVN7VCL5NN3UZQ3KDXGYOR27VDFX2DH", "length": 2031, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.messengernews.net", "title": "Backs Dan Zumbach | News, Sports, Jobs - Messenger News", "raw_content": "Backs Dan Zumbach\nOn June 5, 2018 the Primary Election will be held in Iowa. Specifically in the Republican primary there is a highly contested race for the nomination for our Republican candidate for Iowa\u2019s secretary of agriculture. I\u2019m writing today to shed a little light on that race.\nOne of the leading candidates for the nomination for Iowa\u2019s secretary of agriculture is Sen. Dan Zumbach, a 40-year farmer from Ryan, Iowa, in Delaware County. His farm experience includes dairy, pork, beef and crop production.\nIt has been by pleasure to work as legislative clerk to Sen. Zumbach for the past three legislative sessions. My experience with him compels me to share this information with Iowans concerned with the future of agriculture in Iowa.\nSen. Zumbach (pronounced Zum \u2013 ba) has a passion for Iowa and our agricultural industry like many Iowans, however he is a true advocate for agriculture. While serving in the Iowa Senate he has spent the majority of his six years in office in a leadership role. He has served as the Senate Ag Committee Chairman the past two years prior to being the Ranking Member of the committee.\nSen. Zumbach was one of the authors of Senate File 512 which addresses Iowa\u2019s Water Quality which the Governor signed into law in January. He is an advocate of everything ag-related.\nIt is through his leadership experience, his experiences in his own farming career and the many relationships he has with key leaders like Sen. Ernst, Sen. Grassley, Gov. Reynolds and Under Secretary Bill Northe,y which make him the best choice, in my opinion, as Iowa\u2019s next secretary of agriculture.\nAs our secretary of agriculture, Dan will focus on educating all Iowans, rural and urban, of the importance of agriculture in our state. As a leader in agriculture he will continue to work with leaders, domestic and foreign, to ensure Iowa products are available through trade worldwide.\nPlease join me in supporting Sen. Dan Zumbach at the polls on June 5 or before if you vote an absentee ballot.\nTheresa Hildreth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.metamorphosis-project.eu/news/street-closures-zurich", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DOFJEBHNVRJPMBG467IKMQQJNR24ZJVY", "length": 753, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.metamorphosis-project.eu", "title": "Street closures in Zurich | METAMORPHOSIS", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Street closures in Zurich\nThe head of the civil engineering and waste disposal department Richard Wolff and the head of traffic and urban space Rupert Wimmer were also present in the two settlements. In an address, they commented on the results of the neighbourhood analysis. In these neighbourhood analyses, positive aspects, problems and wishes regarding playgrounds, inner courtyard design and traffic situations were collected by the children of the settlements in June and presented to City Councillor Richard Wolff on 6 July. At the street festival, the two reported on what can be achieved from these wishes.\nThe Sandnes Municipal Council has made systematic efforts to identify and promote the interests of children and young people in...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.methuen.k12.ma.us/schools/methuen-high-school/mhs-announcements/32ndannualmhssciencefair-tuesdayjanuary302018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:48Z", "digest": "sha1:KVM5746O5ML4WXLWIAMK6TVTHW27PW77", "length": 553, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.methuen.k12.ma.us", "title": "32nd Annual MHS Science Fair - Tuesday, January 30, 2018 - MPS", "raw_content": "32nd Annual MHS Science Fair - Tuesday, January 30, 2018\nposted Jan 26, 2018, 4:48 AM by Richard Barden [ updated Jan 30, 2018, 1:36 PM ]\nAll are invited to attend the 32nd annual Methuen High School Science Fair. The fair will be held in the cafeteria on Tuesday, January 30, 2018, in the morning from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. and in the evening from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Students selected to receive awards will be recognized immediately following the evening event. Congratulations and good luck to all students participating in the science fair.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 65.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.meyerfamilymedicine.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:46Z", "digest": "sha1:RVHMDS6YY7TFAV45EW7VUAMRHAH5TSGT", "length": 2650, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.meyerfamilymedicine.com", "title": "Home - Niles, Illinois, Doctor & famly physician", "raw_content": "Meyer Family Medicine Associates, LLC\nMake An Appointment Patient Portal\nOur mission is to provide you with the advances of modern medicine, with the compassion of the human spirit. We want to create an environment in our practice that allows our patients to express their medical concerns without reservation.\nThe Best Effort At All Times\nThe Meyer Family Medicine Associates serves all ages, from birth to seniors, and offers a full range of Family Practice services. In order to achieve this trust, we will demonstrate professionalism and confidentiality at all times. We will never compromise the doctor-patient relationship. We will give detailed attention to all aspects of your medical care to ensure that all your concerns are addressed.\nAs your physicians we will give our best effort at all times in the treatment of your healthcare needs. We will continue to encourage preventive medicine to our patients because we strongly believe in education as empowerment to maintain health. We expect our patients to embrace this knowledge and accept the responsibility of one's health. We feel that working together we can be successful in the treatment of all your ailments encompassing the mind, body, and spirit. We want our patients to become active in their healthcare so they understand how their involvement can make a major difference in their lives.\nMaking a Healing Impact\nWe are excited about participating in your healthcare management and we look forward to serving your needs. We will continue to educate ourselves to provide you with the most current medical treatments available. Our entire staff is committed to making every patient encounter as pleasant as possible regardless of the circumstances. We look forward to making a healing impact on your lives.\nDr. Michael J. Meyer, D.O.\nDr. Mike received his medical degree from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. He completed his residency program in Family Medicine at Resurrection Medical Center. Dr. Mike is Board Certified in Family Medicine and is an active member of the medical staff at Resurrection Medical Center.\nDr. Paul A. Meyer, D.O.\nDr. Paul received his medical degree from Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine. After completing an internship at Chicago Osteopathic Hospital, he completed his residency program in Family Medicine at Resurrection Medical Center. Dr. Paul is Board Certified in Family Medicine and is an active member of the medical staff at Resurrection Medical Center.\nDr. Mike's Hours\nTuesday: NOT IN OFFICE\nDr. Paul's Hours\nWednesday: NOT IN OFFICE\nLUNCH HOURS 12:00 PM - 1:15PM\nDINNER HOURS MON: 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM \u2022 WED: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 210.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.military.ie/en/who-we-are/naval-service/the-fleet/le-orla-p41/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AIU4YQTWJKYD2Y5RRMBZCQVNABJDFG42", "length": 906, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.military.ie", "title": "L\u00c9 Orla P41 - Defence Forces", "raw_content": "L.\u00c9. Orla P 41\nL.\u00c9. ORLA was formerly the HMS SWIFT a British Royal Navy patrol vessel stationed in the waters of Hong Kong. She was purchased by the Irish State in 1988. The primary armament is a 76mm OTO MELARA compact gun and RADAMEC electro optical fire control system. L.\u00c9. ORLA is a high speed vessel, designed to move rapidly about the patrol area and to bring her considerable firepower to bear when necessary.\nShe scored a notable operational success in 1993 when she conducted the biggest drug seizure in the history of the state at the time, with her interception and boarding at sea of the 65ft ketch, Brime.\nOrla was a very popular name in the 12th century all over Ireland. The names means \u2018Sovereignty\u2019 or \u2018Golden Princess\u2019 A sister of Brian Boru was named Orla as was his niece. Legend has it that Brian\u2019s niece, Princess Orla, whose beauty was legendary, was beheaded for her indiscretion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 6946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 150.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mitieenergy.com/news/blog/blog/june-2016/post-paris-agreement-how-likely-does-implementatio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYAZQRD3IQD5L43UIGKLS2V42HDKQNH4", "length": 7020, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mitieenergy.com", "title": "Blog - Mitie Energy", "raw_content": "News Blog Post-Paris Agreement: how likely does implementation in 2016 look?\nPost-Paris Agreement: how likely does implementation in 2016 look?\nRuth Galligan - 29 Jun 2016\nWe reported towards the end of May on the Paris Agreement \u2013 the call for countries to \u201chold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 \u00b0C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 \u00b0C\u201d. What\u2019s happened since then? The 2016 Bonn Climate Change Conference schedule of meetings recently completed. Last week France became the first G7 and G20 country to ratify the Paris Agreement. Our diplomats have not been idling. This article looks at outcomes of the Bonn talks and forthcoming (and potentially influential) negotiations in European climate change policy this summer.\nThe Paris Agreement opened for signatures on 22 April 2016. Countries signing it that day totalled 175 (the largest number of first-day signatures to an international agreement), with 15 ratifications. There have been two further signatories since then. Several countries promised to ratify the Agreement in 2016 \u2013 including Canada, the US and China. The US and India have both since pledged to ratify the Agreement \u201cas soon as possible this year\u201d after joint talks at the beginning of June. France was the first G7 and G20 country to ratify the Agreement last week. Canada and China appear to be working to a similar timetable of ratifying by the end of the year. So we can see some progress.\nWhat happened at Bonn?\nThe overarching focus of the talks concentrated on developing rules and tools for putting the Agreement in to action. Countries worked on how the commitments will be accomplished. This included: how countries will put forward their mitigation commitments and adaptation actions; how they will report and assess progress; how they will ramp up action over time; and, how to prepare for entry in to force in late 2016 or 2017. Terms of Reference and various committees were formed. One of the key ones being the Paris Committee for Capacity Building (PCCB) which it is planned will play a key role in shaping and steering the capacity building needed to ensure countries take effective and ambitious climate action.\nA new UNFCCC Secretary was ushered in \u2013 former Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinoza \u2013 in the place of the outgoing Secretary Christiana Figueres. Plans were also made for the next Conference of the Parties (COP), to be held in November in Marrakech.\nEU ETS review and a French carbon price corridor\nOn Monday 20 June EU environment ministers discussed whether the proposed revisions of the EU\u2019s carbon market for phase 4 (beyond 2020) are likely to bring the EU\u2019s flagship climate instrument in line with the Paris Agreement. Proposals include increasing the pace of emissions cuts, better targeted carbon leakage rules, and two new funds for low-carbon energy and energy sector modernisation. Commentators suggest that proposals are too little too late \u2013 the EU ETS may not even be fit for purpose. Steeper than 2.8% emissions reduction year on year are required to limit global warming to below 1.5\u00b0C. It is thought that to reach the Paris Agreement\u2019s climate objectives,the carbon price should be over \u20ac40/tonne. The price has hovered around the \u20ac5-6/tonne mark for several weeks, and we don\u2019t expect this to rise until the Market Stability Reserve kicks in in 2019. The EU ETS is not necessarily dead but will take considerable reform before it becomes more likely to deliver what is needed to be in line with the Paris Agreement.\nHow will France\u2019s proposed carbon floor price or price corridor influence the dynamic? It has been suggested that this is unlikely to boost emissions reductions as, pitched at about \u20ac30/tonne, this is insufficient to motivate real reductions, and it is aimed at improving the bottom line for France\u2019s nuclear generation fleet. The price differential between French and British power will be reduced \u2013 likely to reduce the business case for sale of French power in the UK via the interconnector. This could impact on security of supply for the UK.\nWhat does all of this matter?\nProgress towards implementation of the Paris Agreement through sustained and regular UNFCCC dialogue in conjunction with the anticipated EU ETS negotiations could play a part in stimulating the carbon market. Yes it\u2019s unlikely that we will see carbon prices rise significantly until the introduction of the Market Stability Reserve in 2019 but the direction of travel for carbon prices can be considered to be a positive one. The strengthening of climate change policy at a global level and persistent dialogue can only put pressure on the dirtiest of markets \u2013 e.g. coal \u2013 and provide a boost for clean energy. The EU ETS review is critical in maintaining pressure after the excitement of the Paris Agreement. Countries like France deciding to \u2018go it alone\u2019 amongst a sea of EU member states will put pressure on others to follow suit with a carbon price floor. Whether they do will remain to be seen and of course, motivations for doing so will vary, but pricing carbon in this way could be a useful tool in mitigating emissions if priced in at the right level.\nUntil at least 55 countries covering 55% of global emissions have acceded to the Paris Agreement it cannot enter into force once. How long will it take to achieve this? If those countries that have promised to sign this year do so (including the US, China and Canada) it is possible that the Paris Agreement could be brought into force before the target date of 2020 \u2013 in 2016 or 2017. That would be an immensely positive step and could generate momentum for deeper emissions cuts sooner. The credibility of countries\u2019 pledges will then be what counts \u2013 how effectively will they deliver on their promises?\nWe\u2019ve left mention of Brexit until last deliberately \u2013 we haven\u2019t heard the last of this for a very long time to come. What does the \u2018Leave\u2019 vote mean for the Paris Agreement? The UK accounts for less than 2% of global emissions but the signal indicated by the UK\u2019s next steps on the Paris Agreement will be of greater significance to countries around the world. The UK has recently approved the fifth carbon budget carbon budget - to reduce UK greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 by 57% relative to 1990 levels. This is a clear signal of intention. The next would be to ratify the Agreement at an individual state level. The current Government is faced with a huge raft of complexities to sort out. It is hard to gauge where this might be placed in the list of competing priorities. It is also difficult to suggest at what point in the process of disentanglement from the EU and how it will choose to shape the future of its climate change policy framework. The climate change crisis does not go away because the UK voted to leave the EU. There will remain a need for the population, environment and livelihoods to be protected from the impacts of climate change. It\u2019s another watching brief.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 9183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mizzima.com/opinion/optimistic-bookseller", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:32Z", "digest": "sha1:Z43W6EY57NSQ2EVVPPQNMDFS34LFCDK2", "length": 10143, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.mizzima.com", "title": "The optimistic bookseller | Mizzima Myanmar News and Insight", "raw_content": "The optimistic bookseller\nDr Thant Thaw Kaung is the chief executive officer of Myanmar Book Centre Co., Ltd and has more than two decades\u2019 experience in the book trade. He spoke to Mizzima Weekly\u2019s Jessica Mudditt about the problems facing the industry and why he remains optimistic about its future.\nUntil pre-publication censorship was abolished in 2012 every imported book needed the approval of the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division. Many were banned. Have book sales benefitted from greater literary freedom?\nCertainly. Sales are on the up. When my wife and I started our business in 1995, censorship was extremely strict, so we were so happy when the situation changed and we no longer had to obtain permission to import every single title.\nNowadays, political works which wouldn\u2019t have seen the light of day are best sellers. There\u2019s been an emergence of new writers, particularly in the Myanmar language, and many are the memoirs of former political prisoners. Ma Thanegi and Ma Thida come to mind, and they\u2019re very talented writers. Just last night I read an excellent book in Myanmar by Kyaw Zwa Moe, the editor of The Irrawaddy, which is titled You Need to Apologise to the People. He recounts a wide range of fascinating interviews he carried out, including an unnamed person who attempted to assassinate the former head of Military Intelligence, Khin Nyunt, as well as monks who were imprisoned for many, many years. I hope it will be translated so that English readers can also enjoy it.\nDo you think writers practice self-censorship?\nNo, I don\u2019t. In fact what I would say is that things are completely different now than they were before 2010, but of course, not everyone is completely satisfied with the speed of progress. I think that some people may be expecting too much too soon, and that change needs to be gradual; Myanmar will eventually become fully democratic. Some feel that after living under oppression for so many years, now is the time to speak up, whenever they like, and sometimes in an extreme way. It\u2019s usually in the form of personal attacks or hate speech; the former of which I read in the media and the latter, on Facebook. I think it\u2019s a very big problem, but it\u2019s not one I\u2019ve found in books.\nWhat types of books dominate Myanmar\u2019s book trade?\nIf you think of it as a pie chart, books on English language teaching take the biggest chunk. Myanmar Book Centre is the official representative of the \u2018big four\u2019: Oxford University Press, MacMillan, Pearson and Sage, the titles of which we print locally. Second to that are education titles for basic and higher education; it\u2019s quite big business here. The reason why is because there is a huge appetite to learn English; just look at the British Council, which is always full. Our society\u2019s aptitude for English is generational; those who are over 70 speak excellent English as many attended convent or missionary schools, while those born following 1960 lived in Ne Win\u2019s era and cannot speak English well because the language was deliberately suppressed and everything was Burmanised. The young generation, and their parents, understand the value of learning English. But the problem is that there is a lack of skilled teachers in public schools, as they come from the previous generation. It\u2019s a big problem, but the benefits of the government\u2019s new policy towards the teaching of English will be seen in four or five years.\nAnother genre that\u2019s doing very well are English language books that relate to Myanmar, whether it be guide books, historical fiction or biographies, as well as the political works as I mentioned. This is largely driven by the recent influx of tourists.\nIs there a shortage of competent translators because of past education policies?\nYes, there is most definitely a shortage of translators, which means that many talented Myanmar writers are unknown in the West, while many contemporary classics are inaccessible to Myanmar readers. There are so few reputable translators that they are overloaded and we sometimes have to wait a few months before they can take on a project.\nThere are also some inherent difficulties in translating Myanmar to English; the languages are totally different. Translating from Myanmar to English is more difficult, because the translator must be very good at English and be highly familiar with the subject matter. Many translators write well in English, but often their style is more like news reporting than literary.\nSince setting up a publishing wing five years ago, Myanmar Book Centre has published ten books translated into Myanmar, including Dr Thant Myint-U\u2019s River of Lost Footsteps and Where China Meets India. We\u2019re selective about the books we choose; only titles which will work here in Myanmar in that they speak to a local audience.\nIs piracy a problem?\nIt\u2019s a huge problem, particularly for us, as our main line of business is in imports and distribution. In Myanmar, only books which are published locally are protected by the Copyright Law of 1914. These pirate guys are clever, they don\u2019t bother pirating local language books because they know it\u2019s against the law, plus the prices of such books are so cheap that it wouldn\u2019t be profitable. I heard recently of a local publisher who published a map that was pirated by a foreign company. The local publisher tried to sue the company but he couldn\u2019t, they simply ignored him because they know there\u2019s no legal remedy.\nPiracy is divided into two sectors: the first is books on Myanmar aimed at the tourist market and the other is English language teaching and education books. As I mentioned, education is a big industry, so our business really suffers.\nWe\u2019re literally losing money every day. There\u2019s a guy who owns his own shop and comes to Myanmar Book Centre on a daily basis to buy single copies of our best-selling education books. Then, about two weeks later, we see those titles being sold for 20 percent less than ours. There are a number of people doing this. I know them well but we can\u2019t take action against them because there\u2019s no law against it. It\u2019s terrible.\nCould you not refuse to sell books to this person?\nThere\u2019s no point. It would be too easy for him to just send someone else and I can\u2019t refuse a customer.\nWith piracy affecting profitability how does your business remain viable?\nWe\u2019ve developed close relationships with many private and international schools, such as Yangon International School and Myanmar International School. These institutions strongly support original books, so we import books on their behalf. We also work hard to provide excellent customer service at the retail level, such as by providing catalogues and free samples.\nI\u2019d also say that the mentality towards piracy is changing. Of course, there are still those who just want cheap books, but many now want quality. Fortunately there is a growing middle-class who feel this way. We also work hard to offer the most reasonable prices we can. In this regard we\u2019re very lucky, because as we\u2019ve been in the book trade for many years, we\u2019re fully supported by international publishers and they provide us with good discounts. We also source a lot of books from India as the prices there are very reasonable prices; we work with over 50 different publishers in India.\nWill the eventual enactment of the Intellectual Property Law end piracy in the book trade?\nI\u2019m very confident in the draft law because it really supports investors and importers. It will drive our local publishing industry to new heights and it\u2019s expected to come into effect in 2016. I have given input into the draft during regular meetings with a committee which is led by the Ministry of Science and Technology, which is involved in design and trademark aspects. The Ministry of Information is handling the copyright side.\nDo you think it will be difficult to enforce the law?\nWell, it will, of course, be the responsibility of the government to enforce it. But luckily for our industry, the pirating of books is done by small-scale players who own shops downtown. This is un-like the pirating of music, which is done on a mass scale and is linked to members of the military.\nBut when the law is passed, we will have to take action, whether we like it or not, because we are the official representative of various publishers and they will pressure us to do so. Many of the people involved in piracy are my friends. I\u2019ve already spoken to Bagan Book House to ask them to reduce the number of pirated books. I offered to supply them with our imported books to avoid prosecution. However they didn\u2019t really listen to me, because the law isn\u2019t yet in force.\nAre Myanmar writers and publishers familiar with contractual rights?\nIn general, knowledge is very low on both sides. My authors, such as Dr Thant Myint-U don\u2019t need anything explained to them; in fact he himself secured personal copyright for each of his books, which was a very clever move.\nBut in the majority of cases, authors simply trust their publishers and don\u2019t even discuss who will own the copyright, so the publisher takes everything. Nor are digital rights discussed, though they should be, because eventually e-versions will appear and the rights to them should belong to the author.\nIs Myanmar ready for an e-book market?\nIt\u2019s not the right time to introduce e-version of books. This is because they are already available online, free of charge. As soon as a book becomes popular or famous it is scanned and appears on one of a variety of sites in the Myanmar language. No one can take action against this, so as a business model it wouldn\u2019t be viable. The people who are uploading scanned books aren\u2019t doing it to make money and they don\u2019t see any problem with \u2018sharing\u2019 free content, so a lot of education is needed to change such attitudes. The maximum number of copies of any single title published is just 1,000 because there is no demand, no market for more when a book can be downloaded for free. As a result, the writers are dying and the publishers are bleeding a lot. We cannot survive if it continues.\nThis Article first appeared in the May 14, 2015 edition of Mizzima Weekly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 12411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mjontheweb.com/sell-fire-damaged-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:25Z", "digest": "sha1:BRQ4MHZFKHOML5NMDKLL7FBVNO4ZLQHV", "length": 4040, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.mjontheweb.com", "title": "How to Sell My Fire Damaged House? | MJ Property Solutions, LLC.", "raw_content": "How to Sell My Fire Damaged House?\nPosted by jamie rudder // February 7, 2018 // Blog / Featured\nFirst, discuss the situation with your insurance company. How much amount will they pay for repairs and construction work? You need an accurate estimate to decide whether you should restore the house or if it is a better option to sell the damaged property.\nDepending on the extent of the damage, repairing fire damage can cost you thousands of dollars. Even if the fire damage is only on the surface, the interconnected wires and insulation cannot remain unaffected.\nWater damage is also a significant issue. To stop the fires in your house, fire department team will soak the house in water. This action will apparently stop the fire, but it will do severe damage to the underlying structure of your home.\nThe water slowly crawls into walls, basement, attic insulation and other parts of the house. The seeping water provides a healthy environment for mold development which grows within 24-48 hours of receiving water supply.\nThe insulation of your house is damaged by water, lingering smoke and fire. You will need an ozone generator to purify the air in your home. Even after this is done, the smell can disturb you for weeks. Immediately call a structural engineer to get an estimate for the damage done. Do not go in the house unless a professional declares it safe for entering. Melted electric wires, ashes, and air filled with smoke can create severe health issues. At this point, you might not be able to guess the actual cost of the damage, but fire damages are usually worse than imagined.\nYour contractors must tear down the walls to replace the ductwork, electric wiring, and insulation. Heat can melt vinyl windows, doors, PVC, copper pipes and electrical wiring in the house. In case of foundation damage, you will need to demolish the entire house and rebuild it again from scratch.\nWhat to Do If My House is Damaged Because of Fire?\nYou have two options. You can sell the house as-is for a cash price. If you have an insurance plan, the proceeds can be used to pay for your new home. This option works because it is easier to find a new house instead of repairing the existing residence.\nYour other option is to repair the house. You may want to sell it after repairs. Restoring the house is a valid option if you can fix the damage in few weeks. Hire a property inspector to provide details of the damage done to your home. You do not want problems to appear every week and if restoring the house will take months and thousands of dollars then it is best to let go of the house and invest in a new place.\nFurthermore, property fire damage is written in city records. You will need building permits for every repair you make, and your contractor must send you a warranty. When you sell a house after making structural repairs, some customers may not even visit your property because it was repaired. Potential customers will question the stability of the house. In this situation, it is your best option to sell the home to a redevelopment company or a cash buyer in Illinois.\nWho Will Buy My Fire Damaged House?\nYou cannot sell a fire-damaged house at the retail market. Conventional customers are not interested in such homes. You cannot sell a burned house to a young family. If you want to sell the house by listing with an agent, then you must restore the property in its original condition. However, doing that will take months, and it is probably not a good idea for your current situation.\nYou need a cash buyer who will buy your house as-is for a cash price. Cash buyers can close quickly and have the resources to invest in fire-damaged homes. The company can give you a quick quote, and you can sell your house within 7-10 days. After receiving the money, you can use the sale proceeds and insurance policy funds to purchase a new home.\nMJ Property Solutions is a residential redevelopment firm in Illinois, Chicago. We can buy your fire-damaged house in 7-10 days for a cash price. Click here to get a quote now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mobilecommercepress.com/tag/jiwire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JMCWLSMPB334R66NFYX653UFUKR2QYCK", "length": 2378, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mobilecommercepress.com", "title": "jiwire Archives \u22c6 Mobile Commerce Press", "raw_content": "Tag: jiwire\nTablets prove popular mobile payments platforms for travelers\nStudy shows tablets are favored for mobile payments\nJiWire, a leading location-based mobile marketing firm, has released a new study concerning how consumers use their mobile devices to participate in mobile payments. The study, titled \u201cQ1 2013 Mobile Audience Insights Report,\u201d highlights the fact that consumers are becoming increasingly mobile; not in the sense that they are using mobile devices but that they are on the move more often than they have been in the past. Thanks to mobile technology, these consumers have the ability to stay connected to the Internet, allowing them to shop online no matter where they are in the world. For this reason, mobile payments have become especially popular among frequent travelers.\nTravelers favor convenience over tradition\nFor travelers, convenience is often a top priority issue. Traveling itself is sometimes a chaotic and stressful endeavor, which can be exacerbated by having to deal with traditional forms of commerce. Mobile payments represent an easier way to pay for products and services given that these payments are entirely digital and do not deal with physical forms of currency. This has made mobile commerce popular with travelers that favor convenience and simplicity over traditional forms of commerce.\nStudy shows that tablets lead smartphones and laptops\nAccording to the study, some 52% of travel booked in the first quarter of this year was made using a tablet device. The study suggests that consumers favor their tablet devices when it comes to mobile payments and travel. Smartphones and laptops were also used for travel booking, but tablets were praised for providing a more enjoyable and convenient experience over other platforms. This is similar to a trend that exists in the retail industry, where tablet consumers have been showing more interest in mobile payments than those using smartphones.\nMobile commerce impacting consumer behavior\nJiWire notes that mobile commerce is beginning to impact consumer behavior across several sectors. Consumers are showing that they are more interested in mobile payments than traditional forms of commerce. Whether or not this trend will continue to gain momentum into the future is not certain, but consumers are currently eager to become more involved in the realm of mobile payments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mobilecommercepress.com/tag/jk-rowling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:09Z", "digest": "sha1:I2QQVNBRFTJ4QE4IGC3H7MQFLZ3LRHEQ", "length": 2205, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mobilecommercepress.com", "title": "jk rowling Archives \u22c6 Mobile Commerce Press", "raw_content": "Augmented reality comes to South Africa\nAugmented reality featured on cover of Rolling Stone\nAugmented reality has come to South Africa. The technology, which is acclaimed for its ability to engage consumers with high quality digital content, has been experiencing a rapid rate of growth and adoption all over the world. Augmented reality is capable of providing consumers with a dynamic experience where they would have otherwise found nothing, which is part of the reason the technology has become so popular with businesses. This week, the South African edition of Rolling Stone magazine brought the technology into the limelight by featuring augmented reality on its cover.\nCover content unlocked using Layar\nThe cover of the magazine, as well as some of the pages therein, are embedded with digital experiences that can be unlocked using a smart phone. These experiences were crafted with the help of Layar, one of the world\u2019s leading augmented reality platforms. Much of the digital content that consumers can unlock is concerned with musician Anno Carstens. This content, much of which takes the form of interactive video, can be seen using the Layar mobile application, which is available for both Android and iOS platforms.\nSony\u2019s Wonderbook also arrives in South Africa\nThe magazine is not the only ship that brought augmented reality to South Africa. Acclaimed game maker Sony has also launched a new title called Wonderbook in the country. Wonderbook is a peripheral system for the Playstation 3, which allows gamers to experience augmented reality content. The first title that will be associated with the Wonderbook platform comes from prestigious author J.K. Rowling and will feature that magical spells that Rowling\u2019s Harry Potter has become known for.\nCountry could become a valued market for augmented reality products in the future\nAugmented reality is making waves around the world. South Africa is one of the latest countries to see augmented reality find its way into magazines and games. If consumers respond favorably to the technology, South Africa may become a primary market for companies that are interested in providing digital services and content based upon this technology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.montclareucc.org/life-journey.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JXSJ4EHA4VNUSFQOV2SP2MX5LGVH3TEL", "length": 4419, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.montclareucc.org", "title": "Mont Clare UCC", "raw_content": "Youth Lives Matter\nChicago is said to be \u201cAmerica\u2019s most segregated city.\u201d1 Some communities in Chicago live with security, while others in fear of violent crime. But it\u2019s just not the communities that makes you unsafe, but also the color of your skin. If you were a person of \u201ccolor\u201d, you would be a target. But if you were white, you would be pretty much bullet-proof. But \u201cChicago isn't actually all that violent a city.\u201d2 Which is true, it\u2019s just that some areas of Chicago are safe, while are others are not safe. But segregation is not the only cause for violence. There are many other causes like bullying, stress, family and friends. Now let me explain how they cause violence.\nSo when somebody is bullied, they will feel angry and might get the urge to kill a person. Then, they will be a bully itself, or even worse, a murderer. And when somebody is stressed, they start to do things that they might regret, things like killing someone. Also some people who do violent stuff have to do it. They need to kill to get money to support their family.\nBut friends might also turn you into a violent person. To explain, let me show you a scene. So you\u2019ve been best friends with this person since you and your friend have been in kindergarten. But as you and your friend start high school, you see him/her change. Not the change where you get pimples, but the change where the person starts doing wrong stuff (i.e. drink alcohol, smoke, etc.) Then one day, you see him/her after school. He/she calls on you so you come. You see other people with him/her which are smoking and drinking. He/she said that these are his friends and that he/she joined a gang. He/she then tells you to join but you didn\u2019t want to because you know it\u2019s wrong. But you want to stay \u201cfriends\u201d with your best friend so you say \u201cYes.\u201d And that single \u201cYes\u201d will change a person\u2019s life forever. So you see, there are many other causes for violence. But you know what, violence has never affected my life. It might affect me in the future but I don\u2019t know because the future is never predictable.\nViolence has never affected my life but I can still do something about violence. I still have the power to change it, or even stop it. But stopping violence is not a one-man\u2019s job, it takes the whole world\u2019s commitment and willingness to stop violence and have world peace. Peace is not owned, but earned. We can all stop violence if we all try. But I will tell you of how I will try to stop violence. I would create an organization to stop violence, like the Do The Write Thing Organization. I would create a website for it and make posters of stopping violence. I will try to tell the principal of my school to support my organization and tell the whole community of what I\u2019m doing. I will also try to find people to help with the cause.\nIt will usually be my friends and family members who will help me. I would organize everything, from schedules to posters to rallies. My friends can pick of what they want to do and share ideas and opinions with everyone. Everyone would be busy by then and would substantially make the world a better place. It would be the start of the end of violence. I have really been inspired by what I learned about violence. It will really help me when I grow up and when I\u2019m growing up because I now know the many effects violence causes. My understandings about violence will affect my friends and family as I can teach them more new knowledge that they haven\u2019t learned. So when I get a genie wish or something, my wish would be peace on earth. So, goodbye and peace on earth!\n1 The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/09/how-bad-is-violence-in-chicago-depends-on-your-race/280019/\nPosted by Mont Clare UCC. Posted In : Life Notes\nA Reflection on Camp Thanksliving: Living A Life of Thankfulness\nSummer 2012 Williams Bay, WI\nby Kuya Rambu\nAs a camp director I am used to asking people what they bring home with them from camp\u2014a lesson learned, new discovery, or an unforgettable experience. When I was packing up my things to break camp one camper approached me and asked what I will take with me from this year\u2019s Family Camp. Since I started directing camps in 2002 in the Philippines and 2008 in Chicago, no one has...\nPosted by Mont Clare UCC. Posted In : Church Events\nMont Clare UCC\nChurch Events (1)\nConstructive Theology (0)\nLife Notes (1)\nLitanies & Liturgies (0)\nWords of Welcome (0)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.montrealfamilies.ca/Montreal-Families/October-2018/Free-workshops-educate-students-about-the-law/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SXDEZLFES3KEWRAHNP5MNUFMNRP3GLG5", "length": 3131, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.montrealfamilies.ca", "title": "Free workshops educate students about the law - Montreal Families - October 2018 - Montreal", "raw_content": "Free workshops educate students about the law\n\u00c9ducaloi is an organization that helps people understand their legal rights and responsibilities\nTeachers and students have some new resources to turn to for help understanding Quebec law, including workshops and guides about legal concepts. These and other resources are provided free of charge by \u00c9ducaloi, a nonprofit organization that educates Quebecers about their legal rights and responsibilities.\nAccording to Jean-Paul Bougie, who teaches high school English as a Second Language in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, the bilingual resources, including guest speakers, are an ideal way to explain essential concepts about law and engage students in discussion and debate.\nHe said the lawyer who came to the school asked thought-provoking questions to get students thinking about the nuances of the law. \u201cThe students loved the approach,\u201d Bougie said. \u201cThe guest speaker arrived dressed in his robe and was very professional. He gave the students insights that I was not able to provide.\u201d\nSince 2000, \u00c9ducaloi has worked to make justice more accessible through easy-to-understand legal information in print or on the web. It also provides numerous resources to help teachers feel comfortable integrating legal concepts into their curriculum, whether they are teaching students in high school or adult education.\nFor example, volunteers organize interactive, free workshops in schools with activities to simulate mediation or a court trial as well as debates and quizzes. All teachers have to do is sign up on the \u00c9ducaloi website. More than 200 volunteers present over 500 \u00c9ducaloi workshops a year.\nTeachers can also download free educational guides that include legal concepts that can be integrated into the classrooms. There are 13 adapted to the Quebec high school curriculum, as well as five for adult education.\nLater this year, \u00c9ducaloi will launch a website specifically for educators. For example, there will be court decisions and explanatory sheets that can be used as starting points for discussions in History or Ethics and Religious Culture. It will also explain new changes to laws, which will allow for discussion and debate about why these modifications were made and if they were necessary. It will also encourage debate about how law embodies societal values.\nThe organization also offers services directly to youth. For example, one of its guides deals with the issue of bullying. Through a simulated trial, \u00c9ducaloi provokes students to reflect on bullying to improve their understanding of what is legal and what is not.\nOne of the projects helps young mothers at the Rosalie-Jett\u00e9 school for pregnant and post-partum teens understand their parental rights on issues like custody. It also works with indigenous artists to provide adapted workshops for youth to help them understand the legal system.\nThe website also includes a youth zone, with easy-to-understand information on issues that concern young people. Topics include employee\u2019s rights, healthcare, relationships and more. It can be found at educaloi.qc.ca/en/youth.\nFor more information, visit educaloi.qc.ca/en.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 381, "original_length": 9459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.motioncontrolguide.com/suppliers/adept-conveyor-technologies-pty.-ltd/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:04Z", "digest": "sha1:34VGM3AK47QAR7M3DJ7RRBA3YS4KID36", "length": 343, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.motioncontrolguide.com", "title": "motioncontrolguide.com-Adept Conveyor Technologies Pty. Ltd.", "raw_content": "Adept Conveyor Technologies Pty. Ltd.\n6-8 Amour Street\nWebsite: http://adeptconveyor.com.au/\nhttp://adeptconveyor.com.au/\nAdept provides high quality, intelligent solutions at competitive prices - which is why they are leaders in the materials handling market. They have decades of experience and a reputation for getting it right, first time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mouseski.com/2008/03/ive-got-question-youve-got-answer_28.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:15Z", "digest": "sha1:EEOGWFKVQHDLPO4HLKTHSTSIZYN4AJTU", "length": 8724, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.mouseski.com", "title": "Are We There Yet??: I've Got a Question, You've Got an Answer", "raw_content": "Now I know you're all just sitting on the edge of your seats waiting to hear about my meeting with Queen Mimi last evening but due to some personal obligations and other technical issues (such as waiting for royal approval from Her Majesty on which pictures I can or cannot use for my post!), it's going to take some time before I actually have that post ready to go.\nIn the meantime, I was inspired by a post I saw the other day over at Dottie's Place for this post and thought I would borrow from that post and ask those questions myself. She was writing about her job and asked some good questions -\nIf you could be anything, what would it be?\nI thought that those were some great questions and they got me to wondering about how many people really do like what they get up and go out the door to do in order to make a living every day? How many would rather be doing something else and what would that something else be?\nI actually do like my job - most of the time! - but there are times when I want nothing more than to run screaming from the room while tearing out my hair in great bunches. Well, maybe it's not that bad but there are days when I sure the heck don't want to get out of bed in the morning and go beat my head against a spreadsheet all day! Even though I am a 911 Emergency Medical Dispatcher, the biggest part of my job is trying to dispatch ambulances or wheelchair vans to routine transports and still have enough people left in the city to cover a call when 911 does ring. It's tricky at times - especially when the number of calls outweigh the number of crews that I have working and every hospital, nursing home, and doctor's office wants transportation and they want it now! I have to say that being a police/fire dispatcher was a heck of a lot easier because you didn't schedule calls - you took them as they came in and prioritized them and dispatched them that way. Depending on call volume sometimes people had to wait before we could get an officer out to their house for a non-emergency call but you did the best you could.\nEmergencies, for all that they get your blood racing and can be stressful, are the easy part of my job. Do I like walking someone through CPR or the Heimlich maneuver on the phone? Probably not but it's easier than trying to shoe-horn yet another discharge from a hospital into an overly loaded ambulance whose crew hasn't had time for a cup of coffee - never mind lunch!\nNow, as to what I would really like to do ... ah, if I could do it over again there are several other choices I might have made. I would love to have been a lawyer - particularly a criminal lawyer - and been able to argue my case in front of the court, maybe then I could afford to look at Hilton Head rentals! If not that then I probably missed my calling by not becoming a history teacher. I have always loved history and think I would have done well in a career of that sort. One other thing I really wouldn't mind doing is taking on a job as a tour guide at a national park - particularly a Civil War one. I could definitely see myself giving tours at Gettysburg or Antietam and being quite happy doing that. Of course, I'd probably be yelling at people to get their kids off the cannons and monuments but beyond that, I think I'd really enjoy it.\nNow - how about you? Do you like what you do? Do you want to do something else? What's your dream job?\nLabels: question, work\nJanna 3:32 PM EDT\nMy ideal job would be to compose music for movie soundtracks.\nMy ideal job would be to be a real Queen. I'm in training now.....\nO.k. I'll be patiently waiting on your queen report.\nI do not like where I am right now, but I am activelly looking for a new employer.\nIf I could choose my dream job - I would want to be a back up singer for Elvis (I know he's dead, but it's a dream job, right?). Ha - there you have it!\nI love my job. I'm a mom full time and a physical therapist on the weekends.\nI guess my alternative occupation would be...travel critic!\nI love my new job - blogging! I didn't like not working anymore because of being sick. So now I found something I can do on my own terms :)\nI enjoy my job..someday I'll tell you about the pay, or lack thereof\nCan you spell \"Low\" ?\nI always wanted to own a bookstore in a quaint town called \"A Niche In Time\" that concentrated on history both fact and fiction.\nUnfortunately, bookstores are not very profitable and I'm not independently wealthy.\nMy ideal job was as a morning DJ. I am very happy that I got a chance to live it. I am very content keeping Massachusetts safe from sobriety...\nI enjoy what I do and I like the people I work with. It's a casual environment and I get to set my own hours, within reason. So I'm very satisfied with my job.\nIf I could be anything, I'd be in the Marine Corps. At my age now, I'd have 25 years in and maybe I'd have done well enough to be a Gunnery Sargeant.\nThis is cool...seeing my site highlighted here because I inspired a post. Sweet. You know how I feel about my job. If I could do anything and not really worry about the income part..it'd probably be taking photos or working with animals in some capacity. Maybe I could take photos of animals. :) Have a great weekend!\nSomeday when I grow up I want to be a paramedic... has been a dream of mine for years.\nAlas, I am beginning to believe I am destined to be a basic forever.\nSomeday I hope to help my lady realize her dream of opening her own cafe called Thatches...\nOy vey. did I ever tell you that I feel like a moron commenting on your stellar blog when I'm one of the only ones here I'm sure that really has no idea how this whole blogging world works? I don't even have one!!!\nwell, gee, do I like the job I've had for the last 2 months? Sure, kinda nice. Lot of lifting >250lb ladies though. Did I like the job I had BC (before children)? Sure, kinda nice keep kids well, lot of BS from the MD though. do I like the job I've had for the last 4 years? sure, really nice, kinda lonely though ..... (are you catching on here?)\nI can be happy doing just about anything, so long as the bills get paid. I keep telling people, my work is not my real life, it's what I do to pay the bills, what happens in the hours I'm not at work is real life.\nI think the best job I've had was being a stay at home mom, but truly, I was ready to work outside again.\nRight this minute my dream job would be Critical Pedi or Special Care Nursery, or NICU....but notice that this is BEFORE I've actually worked there. Once I get the job at some point I will be disillusioned and it will no longer be the dream job, it will just be my job, and my real life will again be what I do in the hours I don't work.\nBesides, there's a NATIONAL NURSING SHORTAGE. I have no reason to stay in a job I don't like.\ni love being retired, that is the best of all! but is loved working with numbers all my career and did good at it i think. if i were to start over and change? nothing different i think. i am a happy girl!\nxoxoxoxoxooxoxoxox\nI would love to be a caterer or a personal chef. It doesn't count that I kind of am, b/c I can't do it full time. So, I dream of cooking for rich people. :)\nI intensely dislike the job I do. I would rather have a more self-satisfying one.\nI do enjoy my job but I'm going to enjoy retirement so much more! :)\nWARNING: RANT AHEAD!!!\nI love my job. I am a project manager in information technology and enjoy every aspect of that job. However, I hate my company right now. I'm pretty sure the inmates are running the assylum.\nIn a recent open letter to all the employees of our company (approximately 125,000 of us), our CEO outlined plans for the rest of the year. Then he made a statement somewhat to the effect that in order to remain viable there was going to have to be some belt tightening in all areas. And, to quote, \"unfortunately, that is going to mean the elimination of some positions.\"\nHe said something about understanding our pain, and really having had a hard time \"making difficult decisions\" for the benefit of the company. The next day, there was a news release that announced this butt head had been paid $13 million dollars for 2007 in stock and salary.\nI'm sorry, but all this a-hole understands is the best way to screw his employees so that he and the stockholders with the most stock make the most money.\nOK, I'm done ranting. If I could do my dream job it would be producing artistic photographs and selling my creations in my own studio. :0)\nThis is an easy one, and I'm sure you can already guess my answer. I'd be a photographer :-) Oh, I'd like to involve writing too. Hmmm, I wonder if I could combine the two... of course I can - this is a 'dream' right?\nOh yeah, there's the running a dog rescue thing too :-)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 13570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.movie-collection.com/movie/moliere.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:17Z", "digest": "sha1:P4DNEK4JPO5F3H5M4TDP26ACBDQCDCVG", "length": 612, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.movie-collection.com", "title": "Moliere (2007), Laurent Tirard - movie summary and synopsis", "raw_content": "Cast: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Gonzague Requillart, Mélanie Dos Santos, Fanny Valette, Ludivine Sagnier...\nIn Theaters: 31 January 2007 Belgium\nDistribution: A-Film Distribution,\nAlfa Films,\nWild Bunch Distribution ,\nIn 1658, playwright/actor Moli\u00e8re, having been given a theater in the capital by the King, is back in...\n22-year-old JEAN-BAPTISTE POQUELIN, also known as MOLI\u00c8RE, is not yet the writer that history recognizes as the father & true master of comic satire, author of THE MISANTHROPE AND TARTUFFE, and a dramatist to rank alongside Shakespeare and Sophocles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtv.com/news/2737001/teen-mom-dilemmas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:55Z", "digest": "sha1:XG2WLCNBZR2XSZKWHXQKAXMYX5JVNIFK", "length": 2711, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mtv.com", "title": "'Teen Mom' Dilemmas: Sometimes, It's The Same Stuff, Different Day - MTV", "raw_content": "'Teen Mom' Dilemmas: Sometimes, It's The Same Stuff, Different Day\nAfter seven years, the young mothers are facing familiar problems.\nBy Paige Whipple of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy\nAs the kids of \"Teen Mom OG\" are growing up, starting school and facing new challenges, their moms are still dealing with many of the same problems they had back when they were 16 and pregnant.\nOn this week's episode, Morgan, one of the executive producers of \"TMOG,\" talks with Amber and says, \"We\u2019ve been doing this for seven years, and it's still not easy.\"\nThat couldn\u2019t be more true for each of these young mothers: Morgan paid his visit, in fact, because Amber's custody battle with Gary is heating up and Leah's father brought up claims about her fianc\u00e9 Matt in order to help sway the case his way. And while it was wonderful to see Amber celebrate her little girl's birthday, the Indiana native is still coping with longstanding issues with her ex -- and this latest incident is proof.\nMeanwhile, Maci is still dealing with Ryan\u2019s reliability as a parent. This week's example of the ongoing problem: The young dad misses trick-or-treating, and Maci says that Bentley is used to his father's habits. \u201cRight now, I think it\u2019s just normal for him, but one day it\u2019s gonna affect him and he\u2019s going to wonder why Ryan\u2019s always late and why he\u2019s never there,\" she laments.\nFor her part, Farrah is seeing her communication with her mom continue to evolve, but the entrepreneur's trip to the UK put a tremendous and visible strain on their fragile relationship. If Farrah relocates to LA, it would reduce the amount of time she has to travel -- and would allow her to be closer to her Seattle-based parent. But will the move help smooth over some of the continuous conflict -- which was first on display during \"16 and Pregnant\" -- between the mother-daughter duo?\nFinally, Catelynn is talking to her longtime counselor (who we first met during the early \"TMOG\" seasons) about her anxiety and depression while adjusting to being a new mom and wife. She and Tyler have come so far and have worked hard to improve themselves but both know that this effort requires constant communication. Cate's counselor tells her that she hasn\u2019t gotten to the root of her anxiety, which may be why she\u2019s still struggling with this years-long condition.\nSeven years is a long time in some ways, and not so much in others. But overall, it\u2019s encouraging to see all of the OGs working on themselves, their co-parenting relationships, their relationships with their own parents and the parenting choices they\u2019ve made. To see more of these aforementioned storylines unfold, stay tuned to \"TMOG\" every Monday at 10/9c.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.musiccelebrations.com/choral-festivals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:40Z", "digest": "sha1:FTBXUTFRMNSKJ73POQLGL3N5COFOQY43", "length": 5402, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.musiccelebrations.com", "title": "Choral Festivals | Music Celebrations", "raw_content": "Sing with the best.\nWindy City Choral Festival\nChicago, Illinois | March 7-9, 2019\nMusic Celebrations International is pleased to present the Windy City Choral Festival in Chicago, Illinois. Mixed (SATB) choirs will join together to sing in one of the world's great concert halls \u2014 Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center, home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.\nHistorically held in the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts\nPride. Sacrifice. Service. These words embody the values of America's veterans. Co-sponsored by Music Celebrations International, the American Veterans Center, and the United States Air Force, the National Memorial Day Choral Festival is designed to attract greater attention to the true meaning of the Memorial Day holiday.\nFestival Corale Internazionale di Roma\nRome, Italy | June 21-25, 2019\nSt. Peter's Basilica Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva\nThe Rome International Choral Festival is one of Rome's premier annual summer music events. The tenth-annual festival will feature Mass participation at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and a formal finale concert at Rome's famed Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva. The festival chorus will include mixed-voice singers and choirs from across North America that will come together to rehearse and perform en masse.\nSalzburg Choral Festival | Jubilate Mozart!\nSalzburg, Austria | July 3-7, 2019\nMusic Celebrations International is pleased to present this classic event in Mozart's City - Salzburg. Three days of festival rehearsals, mingling side-by-side with singers from a variety of backgrounds will lead festival participants to a grand finale concert in the historic and stunning Salzurger Dom.\nDublin Choral Festival\nDublin, Ireland | June 19-23, 2019\nFacing the haunting outline of the majestic Wicklow Mountains, Ireland\u2019s Fair City holds true to a 1,000-year Celtic heritage that inspires her music and artistry to this day. The F\u00e9ile C\u00f3r\u00fail Dublin, or Dublin Choral Festival, will celebrate this great heritage of Celtic musical inspiration. The festival will feature mixed-voice choirs and individual singers from a variety of background joining together to sing en masse. Three days of rehearsals will lead participants to a grand finale performance in the historic, stunning, and oldest medieval cathedral in Ireland, Christ Church Cathedral Dublin.\nParis, France | July 2-9, 2019\nTo continue this celebration of the centuries-old Franco-American friendship, and to commemorate another milestone anniversary, Music Celebrations International is pleased to announce the Paris Choral Festival taking place on July 2-9, 2019 (75th Anniversary of D-Day and the Liberation of France) under the artistic direction of Dr. Gary Schwartzhoff.\nPlymouth 400 Choral Festival\nPlymouth, Massachusetts | April 30 - May 3, 2020\nMusic Celebrations International is pleased to present the Plymouth 400 Choral Festival taking place April 30 - May 3, 2020, in partnership with the official Plymouth 400 Anniversary. The choral festival will be part of a year-long commemoration that will highlight the cultural contributions and American traditions that began with the interaction of the Wampanoag and English peoples; a story that significantly shaped the building of America.\nBeethoven 250 Choral Festival\nVienna, Austria | June 9-13, 2020\nMusic Celebrations International (MCI) would like to invite your choir to perform in the Beethoven 250 Choral Festival in\nVienna as part of Beethoven\u2019s 250th Birthday Celebration. The festival will take place June 9 - 13, 2020 under the artistic direction of Marc Foster, Music Department Chair and Director of Choral Activities at High Point University. Choirs will join together to sing en masse in Vienna\u2019s historic St. Stephen\u2019s Cathedral. All participating choirs are selected by application process through MCI.\nThe Rome International Choral Festival is one of Rome's premier annual summer music events. The eleventh-annual festival will feature Mass participation at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican and a formal finale concert at Rome's famed Basilica di Santa Maria sopra Minerva. The festival chorus will include mixed-voice singers and choirs from across North America that will come together to rehearse and perform en masse.\nDublin, Ireland | June 24 - 28, 2020\nFacing the haunting outline of the majestic Wicklow Mountains, Ireland\u2019s Fair City holds true to a 1,000-year Celtic heritage that inspires her music and artistry to this day. The F\u00e9ile C\u00f3r\u00fail Dublin, or Dublin Choral Festival, will celebrate this great heritage of Celtic musical inspiration. The festival will feature mixed-voice choirs and individual singers from a variety of background joining together to sing en masse. Three days of rehearsals will lead participants to a grand finale performance in the historic and stunning St. Patrick's Cathedral Dublin.\nSalzburg Choral Festival\nSalzburg, Austria | June 24 - 28, 2020\nThe Salzburg Choral Festival, Jubilate Mozart!, will take place in Salzburg, Austria June 24 - 28, 2020. The festival will feature a large chorus consisting of mixed voice choirs from across North America. Three days of festival rehearsals, mingling side-by-side with singers from a variety of backgrounds will lead festival participants to a grand finale concert in the historic and stunning Salzburger Dom under the artistic direction of Dr. Eph Ehly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 9859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mydirtywords.com/2011/07/slap-listen-grasshopper.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:28Z", "digest": "sha1:YANPMXKLRHHSD3XYLLBPCFZ7UEPPJVJ7", "length": 2559, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.mydirtywords.com", "title": "Dirty Words: SLAP! Listen Grasshopper", "raw_content": "SLAP! Listen Grasshopper\nPreviously, on Dirty Words.....\nWe've talked about getting out of your own inner monologue when you come across someone bothering you. I've told you that maybe a person has hot beans in their lap and THAT'S why they're driving so slowly, or that maybe the person in front of you at the check out line is preoccupied with news of their Wounded Warrior....\nSo we're supposed to go through life allowing that what may be happening around us has nothing at all to do with us, and no one is working feverishly to stand in our way. Right?\nBut what if they actually ARE standing in our way?\nNo no...we'll walk AROUND you....\nFor the love of government cheese, get out of your own head and remember that people are around us! The yin yang concept informs us that sauntering down a busy street at rush hour is the same internal self-absorption as assuming that the person you see doing it is doing it to you...\nSee what I did there? Paradox.\nYou can't be in the middle of the road driving with your turn signal on for three or four miles. You can't stop at the immediate spot of exit from a building to light your cigarette and make a phone call. When you are talking on your cell and you're in a hallway...USE YOUR INSIDE VOICE! Unless you're part of a flash mob, there's no excuse for stopping mid stride at a train station...for anything. The same rule applies to swerving across three lanes of traffic so as not to miss an exit...you know another one is two miles down, right? And perhaps, just perhaps, when there is a line 16 deep behind you at the convenience store, don't count out your exact change or quibble over which scratch off lottery ticket you're getting: \"Uh, no I want the one a little to your left...little more...little more...no, sorry, I meant the one to the right.\"\nThe message is still the same peepers...get out of your head. BE in the world. Be present and awake and see everything happening around you. Don't be so quick to judge why a person is making your travel harder, but don't be the person making travel harder for someone else!\n\u6c34\u80fd\u8f09\u821f\uff0c\u4ea6\u80fd\u8986\u821f (pinyin: shu\u01d0 n\u00e9ng z\u00e0i zh\u014du, y\u00ec n\u00e9ng f\u00f9 zh\u014du)\nLiterally: Not only can water float a boat, it can sink it also.\nEquivalent English saying: The knife cuts both ways.\nWhen we aren't in the moment it passes us by and we don't see what's around us.\nSo go on, readers! Go out into life and the world and offer it something other than obstruction. Offer it something of value or compassion.\nAnd that's your slap.\nLabels: entitlement, people, slapping your face, stupid society", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.myrecordjournal.com/News/Plainville-Citizen/Plainville-News/Wheeler-YMCA-Plainville-Food-Pantry-receive-grants.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MF77PIN6W6QGFX2REUAADZSS3CDSHJZC", "length": 2459, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.myrecordjournal.com", "title": "Wheeler YMCA, Plainville Food Pantry receive grants", "raw_content": "Wheeler YMCA, Plainville Food Pantry receive grants\nPLAINVILLE \u2014 Programs supporting swimming safety and healthy eating are available to local residents thanks to two grants from the Main Street Foundation, based in Bristol, to the Wheeler Regional Family YMCA and the Plainville Food Pantry.\n\u201cWe\u2019re very thankful for the support of the Main Street Foundation,\u201d said the YMCA\u2019s Exective Director Francine Coleman, who accepted the $3,000 grant in front of the YMCA\u2019s pool on July 30. The funds allowed them to bring back their First Wave program, last held in 2015, which teaches basic floating and energy saving skills for children who don\u2019t know how to swim and fall into a body of water.\nAccording to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, \u201cdrowning ranks fifth among the leading causes of unintentional injury death in the United States.\u201d\n\u201cWater safety is one of the basic life skills. It\u2019s not just for enjoyment,\u201d Coleman said. \u201cThese things can potentially save your life, so it's very important for us at the Y that every child and adult is exposed to the water.\u201d\nMain Street Foundation President Susan Sadecki said providing children with water safety skills also provides valuable peace of mind for parents as their kids go to events or friends houses where there may be bodies of water.\nThis was just one program out of many benefitting from $110,000 in grants provided to organizations in the greater Bristol area.\nThe Plainville Community Food Pantry will be using $4,000 they received to expand their Healthy Food Initiative to offer classes on how to cook with slow cookers and will provide a limited number to families who receive services from the pantry.\n\u201cWe\u2019re going to teach them the good foods and the not so good foods,\u201d said pantry Executive Director Susie Woerz. \u201cIt will help them eat healthier, fresh foods and vegetables.\u201d\nBy learning to cook with slow cookers, she said families with limited time and resources will be able to rely less on prepared and canned foods for meals. Rather than buying canned soup, which tends to have higher levels of sodium, a slow cooker allows one to make a receipe that could last for days.\nTo get families started with buying their own ingredients, the grant will also be used to allow the pantry to buy vouchers for the Plainville Farmer\u2019s Market to provide for those taking the classes.\n\u201cIt really does help a lot for them to not only eat healthier, but they have more food,\u201d Woerz said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 7359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mysslafunky.com/2017/05/christianity-through-eyes-of-temi.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:41Z", "digest": "sha1:YDELAYHPEIMYQHGVBTVTD3G4MET27LB6", "length": 6186, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.mysslafunky.com", "title": "Myss Lafunky's Blog: Christianity Through the Eyes of Temi", "raw_content": "Christianity Through the Eyes of Temi\nHappy New Month to you all. I can't believe it's May already. I hope you had a lovely May Day yesterday.\nWe shall be rounding off this series of journey into Christianity next week Monday so, watch out for the final interview. I hope you have gained something from this series and that it has also given you an opportunity to reflect on your own Christianity journey and those of your household?\nThis week, Myss Lafunky (ML) interviewes Temi, as I fondly call her. I have known Temi since she was little and in primary school. I recently reflected on the role I played in Temi's life during her childhood. I can recollect how I had visited her house alongside my childhood best friend to encourage Temi to attend church and also to participate in children's church activities including the children's choir; this was when she came home from boarding school. Temi was receptive to our regular invites and she joined us at various children's church activities. Looking back now, my childhood best friend and I were only little ourselves; we were young teenagers at the time.\nFollow me as I find out more about Temi's journey in Christianity.\nML: Tell us a bit about yourself\nTemi: My name is Temi Tiamiyu. I was born and raised in Nigeria. I currently live in the US. I sing in the choir; I love organizing things (planning); I love colours; and I love Christ.\nTemi: I grew up in the Church \u2013 When I was younger, I attended Sunday and mid-week services with my mum when I was home. I continued my daily devotions and also attended Sunday fellowships when I returned to boarding school. I was very active both in my youth church at home (choir) and in boarding school (choir and drama departments).\nI\u2019d say that as I got older, my passion for Christ also grew. I\u2019d say 2016 was the year that my fellowship with HIM took a new turn.\nTemi: The journey has been humbling! My flesh or carnal mind certainly doesn\u2019t want to serve God or do His will. However, the driver or key for me is knowing what my desire is and then acting upon it - My desire is to live the life of Christ (so surrendering mine for His. Of course it\u2019s OK for me to have desires but they need to be aligned with God\u2019s will for me).\nDoing God\u2019s will is rewarding. It helps when I mediate daily and have the words written on my fleshy heart. I have come to realise that the gifts of daily life, peace of mind and other unknowns that make my day go smoothly are part of the benefits I enjoy for living and desiring to continue to live the life of Christ. If I am for Christ then I have to be all out for Him.\nAlso, because I desire to be more and more like him, how I should live my life is documented in the bible (I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the book of Ephesians) and not by the norm or dictation of the world. Of course, this isn\u2019t pleasing to my flesh, but I have come to realise that, it is not for my sake but for Christ\u2019s. I mean my body isn\u2019t even mine in the first place \u2013 For I was bought with a price and my body has to glorify God (1 Corinthians 6:20). As I mentioned earlier, the genuine Christian journey is not easy to walk in flesh but the more I yield to Christ the better and more refined I am and the Spirit of God gives me strength (again, it boils down to knowing my desire and asking God to help me in my walk with HIM). My Christian life has to be worked out. The more time I spend with Him, the more I learn about Him.\nI believe that the Christian journey is worth it when we are truly in Christ because we then know His heart and why things happen (He changes times and seasons - Daniel 2:21). Every experience has its lesson but the key is to be rooted in Christ. Sometimes the Devil decides to show his face or uses his people but when we are truly rooted in Christ, Christ fights for us - we have victory in the end. Always! So, yes the journey has been and continues to be humbling!\nTemi: Christianity has taught me to follow the precepts of Christ. It\u2019s not about me, it\u2019s about Christ - showing love, being patient, propagating the gospel, doing good\u2026 In all, living the life of Christ.\nML: Is this a journey that you want to continue or stop in?\nTemi: Definitely, a journey I\u2019d like to continue! I yearn for a continuous revelation of Him.\nML: Any tips for those contemplating whether to be born again or not and those feeling discouraged about their relationship with God?\nTemi: For those contemplating whether to be born again \u2013 I urge you to PLEASE yield to God. In the humbleness of your heart, surrender to him. YOU TRY HIM. You can\u2019t have a true opinion about something you\u2019ve never tried or someone you haven\u2019t met. Just try him and tell Him to reveal himself to you if truly HE is alive and God of all, like you might have heard. And HE WILL because he does not want anyone to perish! Trust that the gift of salvation is so beautiful! Christ gave himself so that we MAY have life and have it abundantly \u2013 that we may know HIM. I urge you to give yourself to Christ and watch Him make a beauty out of you.\nThose feeling discouraged about their relationship with God \u2013 Please don\u2019t relent, be steadfast in your walk with God. Serving Him shouldn\u2019t be about what we want from Him but about getting to know Him. You can\u2019t know His heart as you ought to if you don\u2019t spend time with Him or if you don\u2019t continue to seek for His revelation.\nWhen we are outside of Him, we start to misbehave and fall into sin. Know that the Devil wants to steer you away from God because he knows the benefits and rewards (such as peace of mind, joy, happiness, fruitfulness, protection, etc.) that we enjoy when we are in Christ. In the genuineness of your heart, ask that the Holy Spirit be revived in you! You can do great and mighty things if you continue to serve him truthfully (not eye-service). It\u2019s not worth going back to the former things. Move on (genuinely) in Christ.\nKanayo Agu 2 May 2017 at 17:05\nLove for Christ is everything! I didn't know you could sing too.....lol.\nLots of love from us here is Nigeria. Kanayo.\nYou Need To Desire The Gift of Prophecy | Prophecy...\nThe Benefits of Speaking in Heavenly Languages (Sp...\nThe Dangers of Compromise as Christians", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 9329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mysteriousreviews.com/mystery-book-reviews/stine-red-rain.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:29Z", "digest": "sha1:QTPSM7NHDOH7C6VIIK5OCYQXIVXRHUIN", "length": 2910, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.mysteriousreviews.com", "title": "Red Rain by R. L. Stine, a Mysterious Review.", "raw_content": "Review: Over twenty years ago, a new genre of literature was created \u2014 a genre that entered the minds and souls of young adults everywhere \u2014 a genre that kept teens up reading until the wee hours at night as they clutched their blankets in fear. Over twenty years ago, R. L. Stein invented teen horror. Now R. L. Stein has followed those readers into adulthood in his adult thriller, Red Rain.\nLea Sutter, a travel writer, heads to a disturbing island off the coast of South Carolina. There she embarks on a journey to learn everything about that island \u2014 including observing a death ritual. After the island is overtaken by a hurricane, Lea walks the war-torn coast in search of some life. When she sees two adorable orphaned boys, she knows that it's her responsibility to care for them. Against the warnings of all who know her, Lea takes the boys to her home in Long Island, and they become part of her family. That one single event is the event that changes her family forever. These two seemingly innocent boys use their charm to send the Sutter family into a spiral of doom.\nCertain elements of Red Rain touch on the fear of every parent. Lea Sutter's husband is a psychologist who has just published a highly controversial book about limiting parenthood and allowing children to blossom without the hindrance of parent intervention. His parenting book sets up the ironic elements as the boys' power grows to the point that adult intervention is utterly impossible. Certainly Mr. Sutter's theory on parenting exists today, but those that subscribe to his ideals might want to change their thinking after reading Red Rain! This inner fear of the power of a child is the fear that R. L. Stein effectively relates to readers as it is combined with gruesome murders, police investigations and subliminal power over others. These elements alone will keep readers up at night. However, one element is bothersome. The boys' main goal is to \"rule the school\". From the first time they relate that information to the fiftieth time, it seems too simplistic and actually removes some of the fearful elements. Undoubtedly these two boys are young and ruling the school might be a logical goal, but there must have been a more frightening goal for them to try to achieve. The repetitive \"rule the school\" is almost annoying by the end of the novel, and although the intention was certainly to develop fear, in the end it took some away. Overall, however, Red Rain is a suspenseful, alarming, and somewhat thought-provoking book with an unexpected ending that will keep readers engaged until the very end. R. L. Stein is sure to be an adult horror novelist for quite some time.\nSpecial thanks to guest reviewer Margo Nauert for contributing her review of Red Rain.\nAcknowledgment: Simon & Schuster provided a copy of Red Rain for this review.\nLocation(s) referenced in Red Rain: South Carolina\nRed Rain by R. L. 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She has travelled across the United States, Europe and the UK in a quest to understand the many ways involving horses in enhancing human wellbeing.\nYou do not need any prior knowledge of horses or donkeys as there is no riding involved. It is all about how you interact with the animals and about having fun whilst learning more about yourself or other family members.\nAll you need to do is turn up with some sturdy boots to protect your feet.\nIf you are a bit fearful - we will work alongside you to help you with this.\nLet us know in advance if you have any allergies or medical conditions.\nKim's Research\nDr Kim Brown is a member of the International Scientific Committee for the XVIth HETI International Congress to be held at the Royal Dublin Society in Ireland in 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nbcnews.com/id/34093121/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:24Z", "digest": "sha1:UEOTRD25LQBBP5RNHLWNUQTZ7S3WSVDQ", "length": 441, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.nbcnews.com", "title": "Iran releases ex-official on bail in mass trial - World news - Mideast/N. 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Abtahi, a top reformer has been sentenced to six years in jail after he stood trial on charges of fomenting unrest to topple the Iranian regime, his lawyer said Sunday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nerf.org/terms.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:LXABMWY47MLCGDZLDSV76BMWQVY36ZU5", "length": 6120, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nerf.org", "title": "Nerf.org | Terms of Service", "raw_content": "PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OR ACCESSING THE NERF.ORG WEBSITE.\nUsing NERF.ORG signifies your consent to the terms and conditions of the following disclaimer as to the information provided on the NERF.ORG website. 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Dean Fish... Tama Co. Court News-District...\u00bb\nQ: What is the Fallen Heroes Flag Act? A: This federal law provides the American public one way to pay tribute to the legions of heroes across the country who pay the ultimate sacrifice in service to their neighborhoods and communities. Community helpers and first-responders who run towards danger to save others put their lives on the line, every day of the week, 365 days a year, in the line of duty. These ordinary individuals often take extraordinary measures to save neighbors and strangers, alike. Whether on-the-clock or off-the-clock, local law enforcement, fire fighters and emergency response crews serve on the front lines of public safety and go the extra mile to save lives. On any given day, these hometown heroes perform life-saving rescues with one mission in mind: to protect and serve. From house fires, to boating accidents, traffic collisions, medical emergencies or crime scenes, first responders are on the scene, often putting themselves in harm's way to save others. We owe a debt of gratitude for our first responders who report for work every day. We grieve for those who don't return home from the call of duty at the end of the day. For those heroes who lose their lives in the line of duty, Congress adopted legislation in 2016 to provide a symbolic measure of the public's gratitude and devotion for their patriotism and service. The Fallen Heroes Flag Act authorizes the U.S. Congress to provide a U.S. flag flown over the Capitol in honor of fallen heroes to memorialize their service and sacrifice. The flag will be flown and shipped at no cost to an immediate family member. As the President pro tem of the U.S. Senate, one of my duties includes signing legislation before it's sent to the White House for the president's signature. For the next two years, I am honored to also sign the certificates from the Senate that will accompany each flag flown over the people's house, the U.S. Capitol, in tribute to a fallen hometown hero. For grieving families left behind, the flag reflects the American spirit, patriotism and pride that unites our men in women in uniform. For those who serve in the Armed Forces to defend freedom and liberty on the battle field, Old Glory symbolizes valor, bravery and vigilance. For those who serve on the front lines as forces of good in our hometown communities, the stitches and stripes of the Star Spangled Banner represent the social fabric of civic life that connects neighbors in society. The Fallen Heroes Flag Act salutes those who gave their lives to make our communities safer and stronger.\nQ: How can a surviving family member request a flag for their fallen hero? A: The Architect of the Capitol administers the program and has set the following guidelines. A request must be submitted within 180 days of the fallen hero's passing. Only one request per fallen hero may be fulfilled. Requests must be made through a Member of Congress. Iowans who would like to have their fallen family member recognized with a flag flown above the U.S. Capitol may contact my office at (202)224-3744. Remember, there is no cost to families who qualify for the Fallen Heroes Flag program. In addition to the Fallen Heroes Flag program, the Architect of the Capitol also will fly U.S. flags over the Capitol for constituents who would like to commemorate a special birthday, anniversary or event. Note, no flags are flown on Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's Day. A personal flag no larger than 8'x12' may be submitted for a $7 fee plus shipping and handling; all flags must be made in the United States. Alternatively, flags are available for purchase in different sizes, in nylon or cotton. Requests must be made at least seven days in advance and must not exceed 45 days in advance of the requested flying date. Secure online payment is available. Payment must be received before a request can be processed. A certificate of authenticity that includes the personalized dedication will be shipped with the flag. 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We have got a staff of qualified contractors and the most advanced technologies in the industry to give you precisely what you are looking for. We make sure you get the best services, the best value, and the best quality supplies. Contact us today by dialing 888-410-9160 and we will be glad to explore the alternatives, answer all your questions, and organize a scheduled appointment to get started scheduling the project.\nSaving money is a valuable part of the venture. You still require superior results on No Water Pressures in Clarke County, IA, so you can have faith in our staff to save you a little money while continuing with providing the finest quality results. We will be sure that our cash conserving goals do not translate to a reduced standard of excellence. We make use of the finest solutions and products to ensure that your venture will hold up against the test of time, and cost less money in ways which don't modify the excellent quality for your job. That is attainable because we recognize how to help you save time and costs on materials and labor. Save your time and funds through getting in touch with No Water Pressure Guys right now. We are waiting to answer your phone call at 888-410-9160.\nYou have to be well informed regarding No Water Pressures in Clarke County, IA. You shouldn't go into it without knowing it properly, and you want to learn what to prepare for. That's the reason we try to make every effort to be sure that you understand the strategy and aren't faced with any sort of unexpected surprises. Start off by calling 888-410-9160 to discuss your venture. Within this phone call, you get all your questions resolved, and we're going to schedule a time to start services. Our team is going to show up at the appointed time with the appropriate equipment, and will work together with you during the entire project.\nNo Water Pressure Guys will be there for all of your needs involving No Water Pressures in Clarke County, Iowa\nYou have plenty of good reasons to consider No Water Pressure Guys to meet your needs involving No Water Pressures in Clarke County, IA. We've got the highest customer service scores, the best products, and the most effective and successful cash saving techniques. We have the expertise that you need to meet all of your goals and objectives. Call 888-410-9160 when you need No Water Pressures in Clarke County, and we'll work closely with you to systematically carry out your project.\nHome \u00bb IA \u00bb No Water Pressure in Clarke County\nClarke County, IA, USA\nNo Water Pressure Experts in Clarke County, IA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ntticc.or.jp/en/archive/works/through-the-looking-glass/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:00Z", "digest": "sha1:TVS7EZIT537JWQD6VHTYMGJCK2FJKFEY", "length": 593, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ntticc.or.jp", "title": "ICC | \u201cthrough the looking glass\u201d (2004)", "raw_content": "\u201cthrough the looking glass\u201d [2004]\nKAKEHI Yasuaki, NAEMURA Takeshi\n\u201cthrough the looking glass\u201d defies the conventional wisdom that the world in the mirror is the same world extending in front of the mirror,\" by enabling you to play a hockey game with your reflection in the mirror. The screen in front of the mirror and the screen in the mirror show different images, and the puck you hit goes into the world of mirror instead of bouncing off the mirror.. 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The geeky network of individuals creating objects (one may call \"works\" or \"products\") out of cheap materials keeps expanding, and currently spans more than 20 cities around the world.\nhttp://dorkbot.org/\nBased in San Francisco, EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is a group of knowledgeable scientists, technicians and volunteers aiming at ways of knowledge sharing while maintaining individual rights in digital environments. CC mastermind Lawrence Lessig is also involved.\nhttp://eff.org/\nempyre is an international new media arts mailing list run by Melinda Rackham in Sydney. It has a monthly topic and editors/moderators that come on board to investigate the issue intensively from their points of expertise.\nhttp://www.subtle.net/empyrean/empyre/\nInitiated by Kathy Rae Hoffmann and Diana McCarty, faces takes a role as a mailing list for women in media, including media artists, programmers, theorists, designers, curators, activists, etc. A dynamic community interface is now under preparation.\nhttp://www.faces-l.net\nForum for critical discussions of wide-ranged topics including new media culture and education in Australia, the country's IT politics, and others. fibreculture incorporates a mailing list, a Website, a Web journal and other parts that also touch upon philosophical and political deliberation on forms of expression using new media.\nhttp://www.fibreculture.org/\nAn international, grassroots-sort of collective made up of numerous journalists and other individuals from various independent media organizations, the Independent Media Center serves as a base for discussion on all kinds of political and social issues we are confronted with on both local and global levels. Visitors to the site can choose from several languages. http://www.indymedia.org\nISEA (Inter-society for the Electronic Arts) initiated in Holland is an international organization dedicated to interdisciplinary exchange among individuals and institutions from the fields of art, science and technology. The \"International Symposium on Electronic Art\" (also \"ISEA\") is held biennially, in a different city each time.\nOnline platform of \"Mute\" magazine, which was launched in 1994 by Simon Worthington and Pauline van Mourik Broekman. Including also the \"OpenMute\" and \"You Are Here\" projects, the site is dedicated to the discussion of issues of art, technology and society under the slogan, \"culture and politics after the Net\".\nhttp://www.metamute.com/\nStarted up in 1995 by Geert Lovink and Pit Schultz, nettime is an international platform for discussion (in English) on politics of culture and new media. 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Edited by Alessandoro Ludovico, neural.it features among others articles and a radio program.\nhttp://neural.it/\nThe Oekonux conferences take place in different cities each time, discussing possibilities of free software from economical and political perspectives.\nhttp://www.oekonux.org/\nFree community established by Casey Reas and Ben Fry aiming to develop programming languages/environments for visual-based studies of programming technology, targeting artists as well as the man on the street.\nLaunched by media artist Konrad Becker to focus on local issues in Vienna and other areas of Austria, while hosting also international exhibitions and conferences such as \"World-information.org\" to pragmatically explore influences of new technologies on culture, society and politics.\nhttp://www.t0.or.at/t0/\nAlexei Shulgin and Olga Goriunova organize this festival for software art in a different city each time, as an open venue for participants to explore the boundaries of art and software culture. See also the accompanying Runme.org site introducing works of software art.(The following URL is the Readme Website of 2004).\nhttp://www.m-cult.org/read_me/\nNew York-based Rhizome.org serves as an online platform for the global new media art community. Not only involved with the production and hosting of commissioned new works, but also in discussions, publications, event and others, Rhizome is one of the world's epicentres of Net art.\nDelhi-based media organization Sarai connects the city's here and now with the global discourse on such topics as film, new media, technology or politics, in publications, conferences, online projects, and other activities.\nhttp://www.sarai.net/\nRob \"CmdrTaco\" Malda and Jeff \"Hemos\" Bates established Slashdot to promote open journalism mainly on computer-related topics. The site's Japanese version is operating since 2001.\nMailing list initiated by Syndicate founders Andreas Broeckmann and Inke Arns to promote media culture of a \"Deep Europe\": an accumulation of multilayered cultural identities rather than simply a group of different countries. Spectre also functions as a platform for international exchange of information.\nhttp://post.openoffice.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre\nCommunity of art-related individuals, set up in the form of a BBS site by NY-based artists and critics. Contents include online works of (contemporary) art, discussions, critique and more. Subdivisions of the site exist in cities such as Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt and Rome.\nhttp://bbs.thing.net/\nSite of the V2_ media center in Rotterdam. An independent organization since the early 1980s, V2_ is hosting a number of pioneering events including DEAF: Dutch Electronic Art Festival (held biennially). Other activities include the V2_Lab, publications, and an extensive online archive.\nMedia center located in Amsterdam, in the remains of an old, 15th century chateau that has been partly dissected in the 17th century. A \"society for old and new media\", Waag supports activities in art and culture, including also residency programs for artists.\nhttp://www.waag.org\nThe Wizards of OS host large-scale conferences (of the same title) on open-source issues in Berlin.\nhttp://wizards-of-os.org/\nby E-Lab\nXchange was born following the \"Xchange on-air session\" event that was initiated by E-Lab in Riga in 1997. Next to functioning as a hub for Internet radio stations around the world and organizing a mailing list, Xchange support individual distribution of audio files via the Net.\nhttp://xchange.re-lab.net/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 9292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.occupynewark.org/th/st/the-stripping-of-the-altars-traditional-religion-in-england-1400-1580.pdf", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DY2JMYY4CS7U4WAE7MYQI7A6DF2J3PZA", "length": 69, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.occupynewark.org", "title": "The Stripping Of The Altars Traditional Religion In England 1400 1580", "raw_content": "The Stripping Of The Altars Traditional Religion In England 1400 1580", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 56.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oldnytours.com/on-this-day-in-old-new-york/category/january-28", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XTSZU5CC6GKBIX7AECSSGVQI4MNGWCEX", "length": 226, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.oldnytours.com", "title": "On this day in Old New York - Old NY Tours", "raw_content": "Blizzards Bury New York\nOn this day, January 28th, the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 buries New York State. Upstate New York,Buffalo, Syracuse, and Watertown are the most affected with 10 feet of snow accumulated in some areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 3861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.olufamous.com/2018/08/saraki-calls-emergency-meeting-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:39Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5SPWDTHY2YK3NBWTUBKSHKZ6JMWABI2", "length": 846, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.olufamous.com", "title": "OluFamous.Com", "raw_content": "Saraki Calls Emergency Meeting Of National Assembly Leaders\nSenate president Bukola Saraki has convened a meeting of the leaderships of the two chambers of the National Assembly.\nThe meeting, expected to have in attendance principal officers of the Senate and the House of Representatives, is scheduled to hold this Tuesday in Abuja.\nThe meeting would touch on pressing national issues seeking the urgent attention of the National Assembly. The officials are expected to meet for one hour beginning at noon.\nThe Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, will then meet with the lawmakers at 1p.m.\nIssues expected to be on the agenda of the meeting include the string of defections in the political space, the rumoured plan to impeach Saraki and the pending 2019 elections supplementary budget, among others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onehorsetownband.com/usb-security-guidelines-with-hitech-health-information-technology-for-economic-clinical-health-act.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4OVFE2JY7CNADIXE4WO3VHAUW2SN5UVN", "length": 2838, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.onehorsetownband.com", "title": "USB Security Guidelines With HITECH (Health Information Technology For Economic Clinical Health Act) | Health", "raw_content": "USB Security Guidelines With HITECH (Health Information Technology For Economic Clinical Health Act)\nHealthcare providers are under-the-gun to implement technology that will meet guidelines that were published under the HITECH Act (Health Information Technology for Economic Clinical Health Act) in August, 2009. February of 2010 begins the enforcement of the guidelines for data health breach notifications.\nOne such regulation involves USB security and data stored on removable devices. If data is not stored on an encrypted USB flash drive and a loss of the drive involves over 500 patient records within a state, the press must be notified (along with patients). The healthcare provider will also be subject to penalties ranging from $100 to $1.5 million per breach.\nThese penalties and bad publicity are going to force changes to operations within the healthcare community. Important details of the regulation also refer to the type of USB encryption. The algorithm must comply with NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) guidelines, such as AES encryption. Also of importance is the fact that the encryption key cannot be stored with the data. This means that there are issues with implementation of a software-based encryption method.\nSoftware encryption is performed by a computer\u2019s CPU using a program installed on a particular operating system, whereas hardware encryption is performed in an internal USB controller dedicated to the task of encryption. Because the controller is designed for this particular purpose, it can often perform its task faster than a software implementation of the same task running on a computer CPU that is under the control of an operating system.\nAssuming the data stored on the secure USB flash drive needs to be accessed by a different computer, software-based encryption falls short. Software-based encryption stores the encryption key on the USB device, whereas hardware-based encryption stores the encryption key in a controller (hardware) on the USB drive separate from the data. This also allows the data to be accessed via any computer.\nA further disadvantage to software encryption is the fact that it is specific to particular operating systems. As such, if software encryption is performed on a Windows platform and needs to be decrypted on a Mac platform, the encrypt/decrypt software must be available on both platforms.\nFor USB security, there are a few options for encrypted USB flash drives. Another option is the use of Windows Bit Locker to provide USB encryption. The downfall here is that it is only available on certain editions of Windows Vista and Windows 7, and the drive data will not be accessible by all computers.\nPrevious PostEmergency Room Insurance \u2013 ER Supplement Price and Benefit Guide\nNext Post10 Foods That Are High In Protein And Low In Calories", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 5671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 217.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onlegalresources.com/if-you-think-you-understand-personal-then-read-this.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RFETH4CBKG7K2L7H5R3MCJS7UPYQVUUJ", "length": 2362, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.onlegalresources.com", "title": "If You Think You Understand Personal, Then Read This | On Legal Resources", "raw_content": "If You Think You Understand Personal, Then Read This\nThere are so many things that can happen to anyone in the world and if you are not ready for these \u2018misfortunes\u2019, things can be really bad for you. There are many ways that you can be prepared for anything bad to happen and we are going to look at some of these ways here. The first thing that you really have to do in order to be ready for any misfortune is to really be responsible for your earnings and your finances. The key to going through a misfortune is to really know your finances well and to really be responsible for them. If you really want to be ready or if you really want to avoid misfortune from your life, you should really follow our steps to finances so that you will learn a lot.\nIf you are someone who has a nice job and a good paying boss, you may think that you are good for life already and you do not need anything else. Of course there are things that can happen in this world such as natural disasters and accidents and if ever these things come upon you, what are you going to do about it? One step that you should really be serious about is to always have emergency funds. Emergency funds are really important to have because you never know what is going to happen in your life. With these emergency funds, you can get to pay for whatever happens without having to use your normal, everyday funds for your family and for your bills. If you have not yet started saving for any accidents and emergencies, you should really do so today because it can really help you in time of your misfortunes.\nAnother way that you can really combat misfortunes is to secure a couple of income sources. There are many people out there that loose their jobs and they are completely devastated because they loose their only sources of income. This is really a good idea because if you loose one job, you are still going to be earning money from your other job. There are actually a lot of people who fall into this trap because they are lazy and all they want to do is to have one job that pays them big and when they loose this job if ever they do, they will be out of business and how are they going to feed their family now. These are the steps that you should really follow if you really want to avoid any misfortune that can really ruin your life. Hiring a personal injury lawyer can also help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onlinebiographies.info/ny/jeff/sayles-j.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:04Z", "digest": "sha1:5SILJPJJWSKW67RFLWJTDMBH3LMPPPM6", "length": 950, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.onlinebiographies.info", "title": "Biography of Josiah Sayles", "raw_content": "Biography of Josiah Sayles\nSayles, Josiah, was born in the town of Theresa in 1845, a son of Ezra and Eva (Putnam) Sayles. After leaving school Mr. Sayles followed farming, and when twenty-four years old married Sophia, daughter of Elexius Teed of St. Lawrence county, and they had ten children: Eliza A., Chauncy E., Effie A. (deceased), Clarissa B., Ho. bart J., Louella M., George B. (deceased), Simon L., Wealthy B. and J ennie B. In connection with his farming Mr. Sayles conducts one of the largest dairies in Orleans, his herd numbering upwards of sixty cows. Politically Mr. Sayles has always been a Republican and has served his party in the office of commissioner of highways. Owing to the limited means of his parents, Mr. Sayles received but little schooling, but by hard work, temperate habits, and earnest perseverance, he has accumulated a good property, having a farm of about 350 acres and a considerable amount of personal property.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 1303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ourcoop.com/ourcoop08/headlines/viewNews.aspx?artID=3774", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:20Z", "digest": "sha1:IVOZNZS2ARJO2BI3H34K5QME6Y4LKPLJ", "length": 7792, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.ourcoop.com", "title": "Our Co-op Online | Headlines", "raw_content": "One great, all good\nDespite the season\u2019s less-than-ideal weather, the state\u2019s corn yield will set another record, while soybean and cotton crops only report slight decr\nThe soybean harvest at Essary-Cherry Farm in Milledgeville mirrored the state\u2019s expected average yield with the farm\u2019s 3,000-acre crop averaging 50 bushels per acre. Average yield for Tennessee\u2019s corn crop is expected to reach 174 bushels per acre, setting a record for the second consecutive year, while cotton\u2019s statewide expected yield should be 1,034 pounds per acre. \u2014 Photo by Cole DeLong\nAs of press time (Nov. 5), combines and pickers across Tennessee are running at full-throttle as farmers wrap up their corn harvest and continue to progress with the harvesting of their soybean and cotton crops.\nHere\u2019s the simplified version of Tennessee\u2019s 2018 crop production results: Corn did great. Soybeans and cotton did good.\nHere\u2019s the detailed version. According to the Oct. 11 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Tennessee\u2019s corn yield will likely reach its second consecutive record-setting year with an average 174 bushels per acre, up 3 bushels from last year. At press time, nearly 100 percent of the state\u2019s crop has been harvested.\nEarlier estimations for this season\u2019s soybean numbers were expected to increase slightly over last year, but as harvest nears 50-percent completion, the crop\u2019s yield appears to show no gain with an average of 50 bushels per acre.\nPredictions in September estimated cotton yields would exceed last year by nearly 50 pounds per acre. At the harvest halfway point, however, the numbers are only showing a 1-pound increase, with an average of 1,034 pounds per acre this year.\n\u201cIt has been a really good year considering the weather,\u201d says Chuck Danehower, area specialist in farm management for the University of Tennessee Extension Service. \u201cToo much rain during the spring meant late planting and for some acreage re-planting. Then a long dry spell in late summer caused concern for the end of the growing season. However, we still got some pretty good yields.\u201d\nThe following producers share how this year\u2019s crops fared on their farm.\nCorn \u2014 William and Paul Mitchell, Summerville, Ga.\nFor the second year, William Mitchell\u2019s corn yields have outperformed the average. The producer estimates this year\u2019s grain harvest averaged 200 bushels an acre, and silage pushed 30 tons an acre. Without a yield monitor in his combine, he doesn\u2019t have exact figures.\nWilliam, along with son Paul, who recently joined the farming operation, grows 500 acres of corn on the third-generation family farm in North Georgia\u2019s Gore Community. They also raise several houses of chickens and more than 3,000 brood and stocker cattle\nWith the expertise of Lloyd Nelms, outside salesman with Southeastern Farmers Cooperative, the farmers have created a crop management plan that is yielding stellar results.\nThis year, the Mitchells planted several Croplan seed varieties with up-front applications of potash and nitrogen at 50 units each. They later side-dressed an additional 100 to 120 units of nitrogen.\nWilliam also credits part of this year\u2019s success to the recent addition of cover crops, adding that a careful soil-sampling program and efforts like spreading chicken litter in the spring to keep nutrients in balance are also important.\nThe biggest factor, says the farmer, as always, is the weather.\n\u201cThere was plenty of moisture this summer,\u201d he says. \u201cWe had thunderstorms all summer. It was difficult for hay, but good for the corn. I thank the good Lord. He\u2019s been good to us.\u201d\nSoybeans \u2014 Ricky and Kevin Essary and Jason Cherry, Milledgeville\n\u201cThis year\u2019s growing season was a struggle from the start,\u201d says Jason Cherry, who raises 3,000 acres of soybeans on the family\u2019s Essary-Cherry Farms in Milledgeville with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, Ricky and Kevin Essary. \u201cIt rained from January to July, which kept us from early planting. That is a big deal since more than half of our crop is early maturity soybeans. Then when the rain finally stopped, we got hardly a drop in this area until mid-September.\u201d\nBoth the early, wet conditions and the extended dry spell affected the family\u2019s soybean production. The farmers yielded 50 bushels per acre, a 10- to 15-bushel decrease from last year.\n\u201cEven though the soybean yield is less than last year,\u201d says Ricky. \u201cIt is actually better than we expected, especially considering how dry the last two months was.\u201d In addition to soybeans, the family also raises nearly 1,000 acres of corn and 2,500 acres of cover crops.\nThe trio is committed to careful crop management, says Mike Clayton, sales and marketing manager for First Farmers Cooperative, where the farmers are long-time members. He adds the row-crop producers are often trying new techniques, but some practices are non-negotiable like early planting.\n\u201cWe plant so early for two reasons,\u201d says Jason. \u201cMore of the growing season is before summer solstice, providing more hours of much-needed sunlight for the crop, and we\u2019ve got more daylight hours for harvest. I always tell people, \u2018one day in a combine in August and first of September is two days in October and three days in November in what you can get done in a day\u2019s time.\u2019\u201d\nThe farmers say they are also believers in the importance of a premium seed treatment.\n\u201cIt has to be high quality, the best you can afford,\u201d says Jason. \u201cWe don\u2019t skimp on that. It\u2019s money well spent.\u201d\nAnother firm rule for the farming family is the use of fungicide, both curative and preventative.\n\u201cWe spray with fungicide no matter if it\u2019s dry or not to help prolong and make a little healthier plant,\u201d says Kevin.\nBut as Ricky points out, even the best crop management techniques can\u2019t improve weather conditions.\n\u201cYou can\u2019t have a good crop every year but we\u2019ve been blessed with what we do have,\u201d says Jason. \u201cWe can\u2019t complain, but hopefully next year will be better.\u201d\nCotton \u2014 Jordan East, Friendship\nWest Tennessee cotton farmers, like Jordan East of Friendship, cite lack of rain in late summer for the crop\u2019s yields not reaching predicted poundage.\nJordan, who took the reins of his family\u2019s row crop operation from his father John nearly a decade ago, raises 2,300 acres of cotton and 1,100 acres of soybeans on farmland in Crockett, Haywood, Madison, and Gibson counties.\n\u201cWe were able to get the cotton planted in a timely manner without a considerable amount of replant,\u201d he says. \u201cThe growing season was really good until late July. We needed a few more rains in August that we just didn\u2019t get. Had it not been for that, I think we would have had a record cotton crop this year.\u201d\nNearing the halfway point of his harvest, Jordan says what\u2019s been ginned so far has been over two bales, and his yields are averaging a little better than 1,000 pounds per acre.\nThe young producer plants several varieties of cottonseed to reduce risk, and says that at this point in the harvest, Croplan is his top performer.\n\u201cI don\u2019t have any grades back on it yet,\u201d says the member of Mid-South Farmers Cooperative\u2019s Alamo location, \u201cbut yield-wise, Croplan is the best.\u201d\nThe area\u2019s extended dry spell wasn\u2019t Jordan\u2019s only weather issue. The rain that followed lasted for a week, he says, adding that some places got 12 inches or more at an inopportune time.\n\u201cA lot of the cotton was defoliated at that time, and that seems to have hurt the grade some,\u201d he says. \u201cThe grades my cotton is getting aren\u2019t bad, but they are not the premiums that we are used to. It\u2019s caused by weather, and there\u2019s nothing you can do about that.\u201d\nFor more information about implementing any of the crop management strategies mentioned above or in the story on page 10, contact your local\nCo-op agronomist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 10338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ourfatherslutheran.org/church/sermons/2016-our-fathers-graduation-june-3-2016-700-pm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UMYQTSPPP6MSXX3KQKDP7HPTYC3F6KZ2", "length": 239, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ourfatherslutheran.org", "title": "2016 Our Father\u2019s Graduation, June 3, 2016, 7:00 PM \u2013 Our Father's Lutheran Church and School", "raw_content": "2016 Our Father\u2019s Graduation, June 3, 2016, 7:00 PM\nReadings: Ephesians 2:1-10, Matthew 11:25-30. Title: This Far by Grace. Text: Ephesians 2:8-9. Hymns (LSB): 497, 566, 611.\nPosted in: Sermons\tTagged: Ephesians 2, Faith, Grace, Graduation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 196.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ozarksfn.com/2008/02/04/financing-at-the-farm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:23Z", "digest": "sha1:UW6VMNUTTN2YUYQAFH6R4TBWPBE23VT3", "length": 5244, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.ozarksfn.com", "title": "Financing at the Farm \u2013 Ozarks Farm & Neighbor Newspaper", "raw_content": "Financing at the Farm\nAdministratorFebruary 4, 2008 Financing at the Farm2017-05-10T20:14:43+00:00 Farm HelpNo Comment\nWhat are the top things to look at when evaluating a business and looking to get a loan for expansion?\nBryan Hodges, a loan officer at First National Bank of Green Forest, in Green Forest, Ark., explained that there are many factors involved in determining if a person or a business should be qualified for a loan. \u201cDepending on the type of request, business or individual, we still look very closely at the character of the individual or business. We take a look at their history in management of the farm or of their operations.\u201d Other considerations include character, credit history, experience and whether or not they\u2019ve had loans in the past and understand how the loan process works.\nSome other factors Hodges said will be considered when evaluating a cattle operation include determining if the person has adequate means of repayment. \u201cSomething that\u2019s very important is cash flow. What kind of margin do they have in their cash flow,\u201d Hodges asked.\nFarming is a very risky business. Much of the means for profit depends on the market at any given time. \u201cWhat is the (producer\u2019s) ability to work through the challenging times and make repayment when asked,\u201d Hodges explained is another question he asks.\nAnother area that Hodges, and other financial institutions analyzing loan applications, will look is net worth.\nAlso, many bankers you will go to for a loan will not be in the dark on cattle operations, themselves. Hodges said many bankers will ask questions like, \u201cHave they looked at acreage needed to support those cattle? Land, grass, depending on the size of the operation, is there ample water and forage to be able to support the number of cattle they have in mind?\u201d\nWhen analyzing loans for feeder cattle, Hodges said he and his colleagues will analyze the producer\u2019s ability to sustain those cattle. \u201cAccess to feed is a very important factor. Feed and grains are very important sources for supplementing those cattle,\u201d he said.\nHow will the producer get the feed needed? Will it require an operating loan?\nHodges said in many situations, banks will ask for some form of collateral to secure their investment into the producer\u2019s operation.\nBut even if you seem to fail in one area or another, don\u2019t lose hope on getting approved for a cattle loan, land loan or even operations loan. Hodges reiterated the fact that, \u201cIt\u2019s a package. We take a look at the whole package.\u201d\nWhat are the major factors keeping folks from getting a loan?\n\u201cAgain, we take a very close look at management experience. Have they had farming experience before?\u201d Hodges asked. There are many people who\u2019d just like to get into the cattle business, but there\u2019s a lot more to purchasing cattle and placing them out on the land, he warned. \u201cWe like to feel comfortable that they\u2019ve had some experience in the cattle business. Do they have an eye for cattle? Can they make good choices when it comes to the selection of a bull, choosing replacement heifers?\u201d he said.\nAnother major factor when turning down a loan application is credit history. \u201cCredit history shows a history of repayment, it shows if they\u2019ve had loans in the past, it can show if they can take care of business and make payments on time,\u201d Hodges said.\nWhat documents will I need when applying for a loan?\nHodges explained that normally, you will be required to supply all personal information that comes with any normal application. Along with that, he said he would like to see a current financial statement showing the person\u2019s assets and liabilities. But ultimately, what you may be required to provide will depend on the loan amount requested. \u201cThe larger the loan, the more detailed we\u2019ll get, he said.\nUsually most financial institutions will take a look at two to three years worth of tax information.\nAnd for people just getting into the business, Hodges explained the different requirements. \u201cIf they haven\u2019t had experience in the past income to show history on, (we will) look at projected history, projected cash flow.\u201d He said they may also request an applicant to provide balance sheets for the next two to three years for a projected cash flow. \u201cThis tells us how much the applicant knows about the process and management of a cattle operation. It shows us how well they understand what expenses might be involved with that operation.\u201d Then the lender can also provide experienced service and make sure the applicant hasn\u2019t forgotten anything that could be crucial to the operation\u2019s success. \u201cFrom the income side, with the fluctuation of markets, a projected cash flow for new farmer or cattle operations is very crucial.\u201d\nhttp://www.ozarksfn.com/2008/02/04/financing-at-the-farm/ 2017-05-10T20:14:43+00:00 AdministratorFarm HelpArkansasWhat are the top things to look at when evaluating a business and looking to get a loan for expansion?Bryan Hodges, a loan officer at First National Bank of Green Forest, in Green Forest, Ark., explained that there are many factors involved in determining if a person or a...AdministratorAdministrator ofn@ozarksfn.comAdministratorOzarks Farm & Neighbor Newspaper\n\u00ab Across the Ozarks\nMarketing a breeding program \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 10585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pacejmiller.com/2010/07/06/indian-journey-part-xiii-getting-ripped-off/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBMNFR37QOK2GA35X4URMASEHVDFGH57", "length": 9157, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.pacejmiller.com", "title": "Indian Journey Part XIII: Getting Ripped Off", "raw_content": "Indian Journey Part XIII: Getting Ripped Off\nJuly 6, 2010 in India, Travel by pacejmiller\nThis dude showed us how they made the Taj Mahal...well, kind of...\n\u2026in my opinion, as long as we think we paid a decent price (compared to our home country), it doesn\u2019t really matter if you get ripped off a little. Everyone\u2019s still happy.\nAs a tourist, no matter where you go, you have to look out for scams and people trying to rip you off. I\u2019ve heard plenty of horror stories, such as where people offer you something on the street for free, but once you take it, they say it costs $X and they won\u2019t take the good back. The best one I heard was in China, where they offload buses of sightseers at a souvenir shop and lock the doors until they\u2019ve all made at least one purchase!\nWe didn\u2019t experience any such extreme problems in India, but I would like to offer a warning about these \u201cprivate tours\u201d. From what I hear, most of them are the same \u2014 that is, they will take you to a lot of places not on the itinerary or places you didn\u2019t ask to go to for the sole purpose of making you spend more money.\nIt\u2019s pretty much unavoidable, so if you don\u2019t like that kind of stuff, make sure you tell them up front or else it can get a little frustrating. Your guide may get pissed off (because that may mean they get a smaller cut or commission), but don\u2019t forget you\u2019ve already paid for his services, and they still need to treat you decently if they want a tip at the end.\n(to learn how to avoid being ripped off in India, click on \u2018more\u2019 to read on)\nAfter our visit to the Taj Mahal (and the near heat stroke) and a so-so lunch at a restaurant entirely dedicated to tourists (we had actually asked to go to a 5-star hotel to get some air conditioning and cold drinks, but they took us there instead), our guides drove us around some narrow streets until we arrived at a workshop of some sort.\nHere, we will find out how they made those beautiful jewels in the Taj Mahal, our guide said. Okay, whatever, we\u2019ll go take a look. Inside, an on-site guide with near-perfect English took over, and explained to us the arduous process in colouring the white marble with red clay, sketching over it, carving it out, shaping jewels of different colours into the same size, sticking them into the grooves, and then washing the red clay off. The craftsmen working in front of us were the direct descendants of the builders of the Taj Mahal, and only they have perfected the art.\nWe were very impressed (I more so than my wife), and the guide led us into the next room, a comfortable storeroom of sorts with comfortable sofas and cool air conditioning. It was there where the sales pitch began. You see, the place was essentially a souvenir shop that sold these marble plates decorated with the same jewels as the ones we saw in the Taj Mahal. They showed us one design after another, one size after another, and explained that if we wanted to purchase it we\u2019d get a free stand and a free chair which we can put the marble plate it \u2014 all that kind of stuff. They flashed lights underneath (as they were translucent) and out came pretty colours. It was a well-rehearsed routine. They could even mail it over to us, wherever we live in the world, at no extra charge. They had a whole book of people who purchased such items, even those who lived in our city.\nLastly, came the prices. They had a calculator ready for any currency conversions. A nice piece of jewel decorated marble\u2026the price? Roughly AU$400, depending on the level of craftsmanship, the jewels used, and so forth.\nThe plates were very pretty, and as the dude said, it would be like taking a piece of the Taj Mahal home with you. Nowhere else in the world made these things (or so they say). It would be a fine gift to my parents. But $400 was far too expensive for my liking, and I told the dude as much.\nA room full of jewel decorated marble plates\nOkay, no worries. The price then came down to $350 \u2014 it wasn\u2019t peak season and the world economy stunk, so they could give us a discount. Nope, still too much. No problem. They\u2019ll lower it to $320.\nBy this time I was starting to get tempted, but my wife didn\u2019t think it was worth it. \u201cIt\u2019s just a piece of marble,\u201d she said, unimpressed. At the time, I wasn\u2019t sure if it was genuine or if she just wanted to get the price down further (it was the former).\n\u201cOkay,\u201d the dude said. \u201cWhat is the most you\u2019d be willing to pay for this? Don\u2019t be shy. Don\u2019t think we\u2019ll be offended. We won\u2019t be offended at all.\u201d\n\u201c$160, max,\u201d my wife said, and I thought that was it.\nTo my surprise, the guy ended up agreeing to sell it for $180, after we purchased a couple of little jewel decorated marble elephants for around $50. The guy still ripped us off a bit with the exchange rate, saying that the Australian dollar had gone up and it definitely wouldn\u2019t cost more than $X once converted on the credit card. He lied, but it wasn\u2019t a lot more. Nevertheless, we still got the marble plate for less than 50% of the original price he offered it at. I wondered how much those blonde girls sitting on the other couch paid for their piece.\nWell, that wasn\u2019t the end of it. We were then led to an adjoining room where they sold more jewel decorated marble products, such as saucers, jewellery boxes, little decorative pieces. No thanks.\nBut wait, there\u2019s more! We were then led upstairs where there was an entire room of pashmina products (primarily scarves). My wife likes comfortable neckwear, so we ended up perusing for quite some time. The salesman there was very very patient, allowing us to go through dozens and dozens until we found what we liked. The price, again, was negotiable. We ended up getting about half a dozen for roughly half the original quoted price. To be honest, we still probably paid too much \u2014 but in my opinion, as long as we think we paid a decent price (compared to our home country), it doesn\u2019t really matter if you get ripped off a little. Everyone\u2019s still happy.\nWe thought that was the end of it, but no. There was another tiny adjoining room that sold tea and leather goods and shoes. We gave it a quick browse, but there was nothing we wanted to get. Finally, we left the place after almost 2 hours of shopping and purchasing. We had fallen for exactly what they wanted us to do!\nBefore the entered the car, they made us walk halfway down the street, where there was a jewellery shop. Not more! We went in for a bit of air conditioning and promptly came back out.\nI thought they would then take us to a few more touristy places (as specified on the itinerary), but our guide said the Agra Fort (our next destination) wasn\u2019t worth paying admission to look at inside, and it was sufficient just to take a free glance from the exterior. That was fine with us because we were sick of the heat, but after taking a look at the impressive fortification, our guide wanted us to go to some carpet making factory to see how those impressive rugs were made. Alarm bells!\nAgra Fort from the outside\nWe finally put our feet down and said no thanks, enough was enough. We weren\u2019t interested in seeing the carpets and just wanted to head back to Delhi. With a 4-hour drive ahead of us, we didn\u2019t want to get back too late. It had been a taxing day.\nOur guide was visibly disappointed and tried to persuade us a few more times, but we had made up our minds. Kumar (our driver) dropped him off at the next street corner and we were on our way back to Delhi.\nWe actually experienced more such behaviour the next day from Kumar himself. But I\u2019ll have to leave that for my next post.\nTags: Agra, Agra Fort, craftsman, Delhi, jewels, marble, marble plates, money scams, pashmina, rip off, scams, Taj Mahal\n\u2190 Sneak Peek of New Tinker Bell Movie!\nDVD Review: More Than a Game (2009) \u2192\n7 thoughts on \u201cIndian Journey Part XIII: Getting Ripped Off\u201d\nI had the same thing happen to me in Morocco. Private tour guide takes you to see the sites, and then to various shops. I had the exact same experience as you with the marble shop, except it was a leather store and ended up buying a bag for $80. It felt like a bargain, cause it was like 1/3 of the price, but i\u2019m sure i still got ripped off!\nThen i went to the carpet store, but i promptly left as i didnt want to buy anything, as well as a clothing store.\nYeah, I think it happens no matter where you go\u2026oh well, they have to sustain their income somehow\u2026apparently some guides don\u2019t get get base salaries\nYou have got to to say no until they come chasing after you, then you halve their price again! So long as they are chasing after you, you are getting ripped off. When they stop chasing you, it is when you know you have pushed them to the edge. Walk away from that first guy with the knowledge you have found the right price, and use that price for the second guy. I don\u2019t share this with everyone.\nHaha, thanks for the advice. 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The application must made under a specific category, with its own form, fee, set of requirements and long term implications. A few categories require residence in the UK. There are hundreds of circumstances under which a person may potentially qualify, many being through a parent or grandparent or colonial connection. Each situation has to be assessed individually. 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She later joined Fertility Solutions, a private practice with offices throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island, and was named Top Obstetrician/Gynecologist by the International Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists in 2013 and by the Consumers Research Council of America in 2014 and 2016. Dr. Moragianni has worked in private practice in the Northern Virginia area since 2015, before joining Dr. Mark Payson at CCRM Northern Virginia.\nShe has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles, has written numerous book chapters and continues to be involved in several clinical and translational research projects and presentations locally and around the world. Dr. Moragianni is an editor and reviewer for several journals, including Fertility & Sterility and Obstetrics & Gynecology. Her significant contribution to the fields of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility is illustrated by the many prestigious awards she has received.\nDr. Moragianni was elected ACOG Massachusetts Secretary/Treasurer, RESOLVE New England board member, as well as board member of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation (SGI) and the Chair of SGI\u2019s New Investigators Advisory Group. She is also a member of the Nomination and Election Committee of the New England Fertility Society (NEFS) and has served in the Harvard Academy of Medical Educators, the Harvard Joint Committee on the Status of Women, the New England Hellenic Medical & Dental Society, the Massachusetts Medical Society, and the Hellenic Medical Society of Philadelphia.\nBut most importantly, Dr. Moragianni deeply cares about her patients and makes herself available to them as a healthcare partner and advocate in their journey towards parenthood.\nDr. Moragianni speaks Greek, French, Italian (basic) and Albanian (basic). In her spare time, Dr. Moragianni enjoys Greek folk dancing, traveling, and spending time with her family.\nccrmivf.com/northernvirginia\nDr. Mark Payson is the Practice Director of CCRM Northern Virginia. He is Board Certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Obstetrics and Gynecology. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and medical degree from Brown University. His undertook residency with the Navy at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and completed fellowship training at the National Institutes of Health.\nPrior to founding CCRM Northern Virginia, Dr. Payson served as director of the IVF Program at Walter Reed until 2012, completing his military career as a Navy Commander. He then worked in private practice in the DC metro region.\nHe has been involved in IVF research and published many papers in the field of fertility. He teaches medical students and residents and has received best teacher awards, as well as numerous accolades from his patients. Dr. Payson looks forward to helping you in your fertility journey and making it as straightforward and stress free as possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 119.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pcmaster.gr/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=44864", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VVHTOGNF4ZRKQTMLMU2BD52HWCPH74QZ", "length": 6242, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.pcmaster.gr", "title": "PC Master Forum \u2022 View topic - Microsoft AZ-300 Microsoft Certified Professional", "raw_content": "Microsoft AZ-300 Microsoft Certified Professional\nby georgemile33 \u00bb Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:33 am\nAZ-300 has identified the need for a program which everyone can easily use and make sure that they don\u2019t have to appear again for the test.Now there are always some candidates who don\u2019t require an advanced program, and they just need preparation material and guidance on how to prepare for the exam.\nWith the increasing interest of candidates in the Microsoft Certified Professional certification test, AZ-300 has decided to come up with a solution which guarantees success for every candidate.Numerous candidates enroll themselves for the test every year, but because of lack of preparation and no guidance and direction, they fail to pass the AZ-300 Exam Braindumps Microsoft Certified Professional certification exam dumps.\nOn the other hand, some candidates find the Microsoft Certified Professional exam difficult to attempt just by going through the preparation material.So keeping the needs of both these types of candidates in mind, AZ-300 are offering their program in 2 formats which are listed as follows:\nLet\u2019s discuss both of these in detail.\nAZ-300 are offering their preparation material which contains questions and answers in simple PDF format. Now you might think that why PDF? What\u2019s the use of this specific file format? To answer these questions, the following are the uses of PDF format:\nNo installation required:\nYou don\u2019t need to install any software on your mobile phone or laptop in order to access the Microsoft Certified Professional PDF format files. That surely will save you from all the hustle of installation of different software which might slow down your device.\nSuitable for mobiles/tablets:\nThe PDF format is used by AZ-300 Microsoft Certified Professional Exam Braindumps because it is suitable for mobile phones and tablets. Since the smartphones nowadays come with large screen sizes, many students like to read the preparation material on their phones wherever or whenever they want.\nYou can easily transfer the PDF files from one device to another. 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You can forget about all the books and notes which you have to take care of all the time.\nApart from the preparation material in PDF format, AZ-300 have launched a program which provides a 100% guarantee that the candidate will be able to pass the exam in the first attempt.\nYou might think that it\u2019s not possible, but MCPare so confident in their practice exam software that they are willing to return your money if you fail to clear the exam after using their product.Now there are some reasons why they are so confident in the effectiveness of their program. The primary reasons are the features of their exam software which are discussed below:\nWhen you decide to purchase the practice exam software from MCPExam Questions, you will be able to attempt a mock exam. This mock exam will allow you to do self-assessment. 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This will allow the candidate to highlight the mistakes and identify the areas on which he/she needs to improve on.\nAlso, it will give a clear picture of how much more preparation is required and how to go about it. This feature alone will make sure that the candidate is well prepared for the exam.\nIf you think that you need to change the time allotted for the mock exam and the type of question according to your needs, you have the option to customize that in Microsoft software.\nThis too is a feature added to increase the usability and compatibility with the candidate. It will allow you to prepare for the exam in the way you feel comfortable.\nUse of professionals all around the world:\nAnother feature and probably the main reasons behind the effectiveness of the software exam software offered by Microsoft is that it is created after getting feedback from more than 90,000 professional around the globe.Yes, 90,000. All of this is done to make sure that they provide the best product to their customers, and make sure that they don\u2019t have to appear again and again for the exam.\nWhile AZ-300 consulted more than 90,000 professionals all around the world to create the exam software, they take continuous feedback from the same professionals to update their program as well.This allows them to come up with any changes which are required to make sure that their customers don\u2019t have to face any difficulties in the real exam. Also, there might be changes in the syllabus and the exam format, so have put a keen focus on updating their program to keep up to date with the changes.\nSo these are the primary features of the Practice Exam Software offered by AZ-300 for the preparation of MCPcertification exam dumps. On the basis of these attributes, AZ-300 are so confident that they are willing to provide money back guarantee if the candidate fails to pass the exam in the first attempt after properly using their program.\nSHAREit is the most popular cross-platform file sharing app for Android.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 8352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pencilstubs.net/2012/05/eric-shackles-column.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MQPPQ7DXLUFTCO3UKMM3S6YQLA2IWWDK", "length": 7904, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.pencilstubs.net", "title": "Pencil Stubs Online: Eric Shackle's Column", "raw_content": "Walt Whitman's Western Newspapers\nFamous American poet Walt Whitman, who once edited New York's Brooklyn Eagle, wrote in his book November Boughs (1888): \"Among the far-west newspapers have been, or are, The Fairplay (Colorado) Flume, The Solid Muldoon, of Ouray, The Tombstone Epitaph, of Nevada, The Jimplecute, of Texas, and The Bazoo, of Sedalia, Missouri.\"\nChecking the internet, we find that three of those newspapers are still in business. Walt was only 19 , when he was made editor-in-chief of The Long Islander,which went broke within a year of its founding. Whitman refused to give up, and within a few years he became editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.\nFive years later, in 1848, he was fired again, because of his outspoken support for absolition of slavery. Undeterred, Whitman immediately set out for New Orleans to visit his brother Jeff.\nWhile there, he became an editor for the New Orleans Crescent, but returned to Brooklyn within a few months to become editor of The Brooklyn Times. At the same time he worked for the arts-oriented periodical, the Democratic Review.\nWhat has become of those far-west newspapers Whitman mentioned? Let's visit them, one at a time.\nFAIRPLAY FLUME\nThe Fairplay Flume has undergone more than a dozen changes to its masthead over the years. One of them was sub-titled The Paper With A Mission and Without A Muzzle.\nToday the sub-title is The Park County Republican's Fairplay Flume.\nTen years ago, its then editor Robin Kepple told me \"We understand The Flume acquired its name due to the vast amount of mining in Fairplay and Park County. A flume, as you probably know, is designed to channel water, logs, etc. from one place to another. In Fairplay's case, a flume was used to channel rocks, minerals and tailings from one place to another in the endless pursuit of gold.\n\"Some folks believe the name Flume was selected because the newspaper helps 'channel' information. I am not certain if this is really the reason for the name or not.\"\nThe Flume is now printed not in Fairplay, but in the nearby town of Bailey, which is also the home of the strangely-named Id-Ra-Ha-Je summer camps. That's shorthand for I'd Rather Have Jesus.\nToday, the Flume's website says, \"The Park County Republican and Fairplay Flume is published every Friday and is the official newspaper in Park County, Colorado.\n\"The Flume, established in 1879, is almost as old as the county it serves - Park County, Colorado, which was formed in 1861. Park County lies just west of Jefferson County, the westernmost and most mountainous of the seven counties that are typically used in defining metro Denver.\n\"Headquartered in Bailey, an unincorporated town in the northeastern part of the county, The Flume covers all areas of life in Park County, including business, politics, the courts, weather, crime, festivals, fires and more.\n\"At the core of the stories in The Flume are the residents themselves, now numbering more than 16,000 in a county that's 83 percent bigger than Rhode Island and nearly as big as Delaware.\" THE SOLID MULDOON\nThis newspaper was founded on September 5, 1879, and, through a series of name changes and merges, eventually became the present-day Durango Herald.\nThe newspaper didn't pull its punches. A local historian records that \"David Day, a Medal of Honor winner for heroism at Vicksburg, had the distinction of having 42 libel suits pending at the same time [1900] for his raw and bitter articles in The Solid Muldoon newspaper of Ouray and Durango.\" Maybe that's why it went out of business.\nThe original Solid Muldoon was the name given to a mysterious \"prehistoric human body\" dug up near Beulah, Colorado, in 1877. The seven-and-a-half foot stone man was thought to be the \"missing link\" between apes and humans. \"There can be no question about the genuineness of this piece of statuary\" said the Denver Daily Times.\nIt was later revealed that George Hull, perpetrator of a previous hoax featuring the Cardiff Giant, had spent three years fashioning his second \"petrified man\", using mortar, rock dust, clay, plaster, ground bones, blood and meat. He kiln-fired the figure for many days and then buried it.\nA few months later, as the celebration of Colorado's year-old statehood approached, the statue was \"discovered\" by William Conant, who had once worked for the legendary showman P.T. Barnum. News of the find quickly spread to Pueblo, Denver, and eventually to New York.\nThe statue was named the Solid Muldoon after William Muldoon, a famous wrestler and strongman who had been honored in a popular song. Displayed in New York, it attracted large crowds until an unpaid business associate of Hull revealed the hoax to the New York Tribune, and the statue was seen no more. Muldoon was chairman of the New York State Boxing Commission from 1921 to 1923.\nRudyard Kipling, a ballad and prose writer as famous in England as Whitman was in the United States, wrote a piece entitled The Solid Muldoon, one of seven short stories in his book The Soldiers Three, published in 1890.\nThe world-famous TOMBSTONE EPITAPH in Arizona, was founded on the Southwestern frontier on May 1, 1880 by John P. Clum, who proclaimed in the first issue No Tombstone is complete without an Epitaph. Souvenir editions detailing the O.K. Corral shootout can be bought from the Tombstone Epitaph Corp, whose shop displays old type cases and the original printing press.\nA local historian wrote \"Clum was the quintessential frontier administrator. As an Indian agent, he dealt with great Apaches warriors like Geronimo and Naiche, son of Cochise.\n\"As mayor and editor of the Tombstone Epitaph, Clum had much to do in helping to foment the high levels of tension in Tombstone. After the street fight and subsequent trial, Clum learned he was on a 'deathlist' made up by the cowboy gang.\n\"In December 1881, Clum narrowly escaped what he considered an assassination attempt when highwaymen attempted to rob the stagecoach he was in. Clum was a life-long friend of Wyatt Earp and was one of Earp's pallbearers at his funeral.\"\nThe original Tombstone Epitaph is published monthly as a national historic edition. It contains original articles about the old west written by western history writers.\nA small local edition of the Epitaph is now published by students of the University of Arizona Department of Journalism. Its sub-title reads: 116 Years In The Town Too Tough To Die. No Tombstone Is Complete Without Its Epitaph.\nJEFFERSON JIMPLECUTE\nThe Texas weekly, the Jefferson Jimplecute, was founded as a daily in 1848, when Jefferson was a thriving Red River town. The \"Jimp,\" as the locals call it, sells about 2400 copies. How did it get its name? No one knows. At one stage it displayed, beneath its masthead title, words which formed an acronym: Join Industry, Manufacturing, Planting, Labor, Energy (and) Capital (in) Unity Together Everlasting. However, a local history book says that that phrase first appeared long after the paper was founded.\nAmber Cullen, managing editor of The Jimplecute, has just emailed me: \"The editor in chief/ founder of the paper (name unknown) when piecing together the letters for the front page flag- with the old metal 'stamps' (the old way of printing) - he dropped the box of letters to the floor, and in a fit, he picked up a handful and jumbled them back in and Jimplecute was the name that arose.\nThe acronym did come later, and still runs on our pages today!\"\nSPRING PLACE JIMPLECUTE\nStrangely, a second newspaper named Jimplecute was published in the small Georgia town of Spring Place (688 miles by road from Jefferson) from 1879 to 1903, but here again no one knows how it was named, or whether it had any connection with its Texan namesake.\nSEDALIA Missouri BAZOO\nThis newspaper was published from 1881 to1895.\nWalt Whitman - Slang in America\nThe Jimplecute, Jefferson,Texas\nPosted Monday, 5 March 2012, From Sydney, Australia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 11019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.peoplewithdownsyndrome.com/blog-1/2016/11/7/1h6z2f851tkx8lkhmtnqmealj1hf5v", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:37Z", "digest": "sha1:6PV64AOLFXSTIDHO64TZMSLRGGZCZ476", "length": 1711, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.peoplewithdownsyndrome.com", "title": "\u2014 In My Own Words", "raw_content": "\u201cI\u2019ve worked at the cafeteria at North Central College for three years. I clean the tables and put things away. I like it because I get to spend a lot of time talking with the football players. The football coach gave me a pass to go to the football and basketball games for free. I get free food too! I wish I could go to every home game. I like to sit with the older football players. I have a friend from high school who went to North Central, and he still comes to some of the games. Sometimes we sit together.\n\u201cIn my free time, I like to go to the library. I check out CDs and books. My favorite books are the Chronicles of Narnia. I also like to check out cookbooks, and then we make the recipes at home. My favorite things to make are spaghetti, macaroni and cheese, and pasta with shrimp . . . that\u2019s really good!\n\u201cI also like to sing and play guitar. My favorite artist is Chris Tomlin. I like all of his songs. We go to a Joni and Friends camp every year in Muskegon, Michigan, and I always do their talent show. One of the songs I perform sometimes is, 'Good Good Father.'\n\u201cI have a new guitar. My oldest brother Steve let me have one of his, so now I have three guitars. Every Sunday, we go to College Church in Wheaton. They have big bulletins, and they put the songs in them. I keep them and I\u2019ve made a book out of them. Then every time we go to Florida (when we go on vacation), I put each verse of the songs into a PowerPoint page. I probably have 100 to 125 songs on PowerPoint now.\n\u201cOn my days off, I was planning my wedding. But I don\u2019t have a girlfriend yet, so I\u2019m just planning right now\u2014mostly all the songs. It will be Christian songs, like 'O Worship the King,' and 'In Christ Alone.'\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 2104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.perfectimage4life.com/dont-worry-healthy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:DYROXB42LOEN2BGZ3P2AGU3WWQALUBQ4", "length": 1644, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.perfectimage4life.com", "title": "Don\u2019t Worry, Be Healthy", "raw_content": "New research highlights the power of the mind and the influence of our perceptions on disease chances. Healthy people who worry about having a heart attack have a higher possibility of heart disease, independent of other risk factors, compared with those who don\u2019t worry, according to a study in BMJ Open (2016; doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012914). A preoccupation with having or acquiring a serious illness is an anxiety disorder. People with health anxiety, known as the \u201cworried well,\u201d often have symptoms similar to heart disease\u2014such as chest discomfort, palpitations, nausea, sweating and abnormally rapid breathing.\nFindings were based on data analysis of over 7,000 adults during 12 years of follow-up in the Norwegian Hordaland Health Study and on statistics from a nationwide cardiovascular disease register. Researchers linked data from both sources to determine whether people with high levels of health anxiety had a higher risk of developing heart disease than those who worried less about their health.\nThe lead study author, Line Iden Berge MD, PhD, researcher in the department of global public health and primary care at the University of Bergen in Norway, said, \u201cPeople with high levels of health anxiety have about a 70 percent increased risk of ischemic heart disease, relative to persons with low levels [of anxiety], after accounting for lifestyle and other established risk factors for heart disease,\u201d in a university news release. Study authors recommended that health anxiety be properly diagnosed and treated.\nThe research paper is open access and available at http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/11/e012914.full.pdf+html.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 5062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pharmacyinfocus.co.uk/first-of-its-kind-weight-management-guide-launched-in-mullingar-hospital/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:37Z", "digest": "sha1:EO42HQ57H6SBVGWCA2I3BQWLBC6VGCSK", "length": 3219, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.pharmacyinfocus.co.uk", "title": "\u201cFirst of Its Kind\u201d Weight Management Guide launched in Mullingar Hospital - Pharmacy In Focus", "raw_content": "Dietitian and Physiotherapist from Regional Hospital Mullingar Collaborate to Launch \u201cFirst of Its Kind\u201d Weight Management Guide.\ndownload of booklet\nRegional Hospital Mullingar, as part of the Ireland East Hospital Group, launch the first Weight Management Guide. The launch took place in the Regional Hospital Mullingar, where the booklet was developed by the hospitals Dietitian and Physiotherapist. The guide, which is free to both healthcare professionals and patients gives practical advice to managing weight. Currently no resource like this exists, taking a universal approach, incorporating dietetic and physiotherapy advice to helping people manage their weight. It is not a weight loss, diet or exercise workout guide, but rather a guide to living a healthy lifestyle on a day to day basis and managing your weight by following the simple yet effective guidelines outlined in this easy to use booklet.\nShona Schneemann, General Manager of the Regional Hospital Mullingar., \u201cThis booklet is not a guide to losing weight. It\u2019s a guide to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. We want to encourage people to make two or three small changes in their lives. Get comfortable with them over time. Then make another two or three changes\u201d.\nThe booklet was developed by Regional Hospital Mullingar\u2019s Chartered Physiotherapist, Noeleen Bourke, Anne Marie Keogh, Registered Dietitian, Grainne Flanagan, Dietitian Manager and Mary Wallace, Physiotherapy Manager. Research for the booklet has been conducted for over a year with information included from organisations like Safe Food and Croi, as well as guidance from medical experts like Professor Donal O\u2019Shea who is HSE Clinical Lead for Obesity.\nRegional Hospital Mullingar\u2019s Chartered Physiotherapist, Noeleen Bourke said, \u201cThe aim of the booklet is to help educate, motivate and inform people about as many weight related issues as possible. Speaking to patients they can become overwhelmed by all the different aspects when it comes to maintaining their weight. This booklet will hopefully act as a simple guide that will aid people when it comes to their weight.\u201d\nThe booklet will be available to any patient who requests help managing their weight, free of charge via the Ireland East Hospital Group\u2019s website (http://www.iehg.ie/regional-hospital-mullingar). The guide will also help healthcare professionals when advising and treating patients. It will act as a reference guide when patients have any questions about how to manage their weight. Currently, the advice given is based on the healthcare professional\u2019s experience and knowledge of evidence-based practice. This guide compiles this information into an easy to use format. This booklet will now be their first port of call.\nThis is the first step in helping those wanting to address any weight issues they may have. Regional Hospital Mullingar want to monitor people\u2019s weight who attend their physio and dietetic services. By doing this it will give them a better picture of the needs and requirements of their patients and help shape any future guidelines created.\nPlease find the booklet and more information about Mullingar Regional Hospital at http://www.iehg.ie/regional-hospital-mullingar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.phoenixpictures.com/movies/u-turn.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:33Z", "digest": "sha1:WXNKBPDDMKHAACCSL3JN5GD2YCJA2IXI", "length": 453, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.phoenixpictures.com", "title": "U-Turn (1997)-Phoenix Pictures Inc.", "raw_content": "Miles from nowhere, speeding down the open road, Bobby Cooper's feeling good. On a path beaten by thousands of small time gamblers before him, Bobby's on his way to pay off a debt in Las Vegas. Russian gangsters had Bobby behind the eight ball. All that's behind him now that he's flushed with green. But just like life, when you think you've got it made, something happens. It's hard to believe where a busted radiator hose will get you...\nPowers Booth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 1890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2016/03/nasa-scientists-say-we-could-colonise.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:12Z", "digest": "sha1:2YE5ER7ILJ463NARH3R4CSANASGKUYFQ", "length": 2900, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.physics-astronomy.com", "title": "NASA Scientists Say We Could Colonise the Moon By 2022... For Just $10 Billion | Physics-Astronomy", "raw_content": "Home About Universe Astronomy Moon Solar System Space Exploration NASA Scientists Say We Could Colonise the Moon By 2022... For Just $10 Billion\nAbout Universe Astronomy Moon Solar System Space Exploration\nNASA Scientists Say We Could Colonise the Moon By 2022... For Just $10 Billion\nA team of space experts, including top NASA scientists, has now presented a special research with the details about how we can start a human colony on the Moon in the next seven years - all for US$10 billion. The main goal of this kind of research isn't really the Moon itself - from an exploratory point of view, many researchers have greater targets in sight. NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay, who was involved in this study, said \u201cMy interest is not the Moon. To me the Moon is as dull as a ball of concrete. But we're not going to have a research base on Mars until we can learn how to do it on the Moon first. The Moon provides a blueprint to Mars.\u201d\nThe main reason we haven\u2019t gone back to moon since1972 is because its way too expensive, the Apollo mission which put the first man on the moon would cost US$150 billion by today's standards. But with the help of new technology, it no longer has to be that much expensive. McKay told Popular Science \u201cThe big takeaway is that new technologies, some of which have nothing to do with space - like self-driving cars and waste-recycling toilets - are going to be incredibly useful in space, and are driving down the cost of a moon base to the point where it might be easy to do.\u201d\nAccording to NASA's Alexandra Hall and NextGen Space'sCharles Miller in one of the papers: The US can start a mission to send humans to the surface of the Moon less than the period of 5-7 years from ability to carry on at an estimated total cost of about $10 billion (\u00b130 percent).\nThe lunar base will have capability to house about 10 people for stays of up to almost a year at first - and could ultimately develop to a self-sufficient colony of 100 within a decade.\nThe rocket that will take astronauts to the moon could be SpaceX's soon-to-be-launched Falcon Heavy, once all the equipment get there, 3D printing could help a lot to create pretty much everything else once they get there.\nThe astronauts would perhaps stay in the something alike to Bigelow Aeropsace's inflatable home, the scientists write, which is radiation resistant and would let for a variety of living areas, along with easy storage and transport.\nIt may also offer secure environment for basic crops, which would be fertilized with the aid of a toilet that reprocesses human waste into energy, clean water, and nutrients, just like the Gates Foundation-funded blue toilet.\nWell it all seems like a plan and the research team conclude at the end \"It is time to go back to this Moon, this time to stay and funding is no longer the main hurdle.\"\nTags: About Universe Astronomy Moon Solar System Space Exploration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pma.ps/Default.aspx?tabid=204&language=en-US", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:06Z", "digest": "sha1:7OE7XHIPEXL5HU5N5JEQCLWEJJE5CQYV", "length": 1205, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pma.ps", "title": "PMA > SDDS", "raw_content": "Statistics SDDS\nThe Special Data Dissemination Standard (SDDS) was established by the International Monetary Fund in April 1996 with the aim of improving the production and dissemination of official economic and financial statistics by member states that access international financial markets. The SDDS enhances the availability of timely and comprehensive statistics and therefore contribute to the pursuit of sound macroeconomic policies. The SDDS prescribes qualitative requirements for the data disseminated (coverage, periodicity and timeliness) and practices that can enhance data accessibility by the public and the integrity and quality of the disseminated data.\nPalestine has subscribed to the SDDS as of 19 April 2012. The Palestinian national indicators compliant with the SDDS are published on the National Summary Data Page (NSDP). The NSDP is updated with the contribution of the national institutions that produce official statistics, namely, the Palestine Monetary Authority, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Finance.\nThe SDDS\u2019s Advance Release Calendar, NSDP, metadata and other related information can be accessed from the Dissemination Standards Bulletin Board.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 163.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pmmonlinenews.com/2015/08/port-metro-vancouver-shows-mid-year.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WOHJQWCMAV5JRCDXA4VOSAC5W5AXHNQ6", "length": 1695, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pmmonlinenews.com", "title": "Pacific Maritime Magazine Online: Port Metro Vancouver Shows Mid-Year Growth", "raw_content": "Port Metro Vancouver, Canada\u2019s largest port, is seeing continued growth in trade through the Pacific Gateway, according to recently released mid-year statistical data.\nTotal cargo was 70.3 million metric tons, an increase of 1.5 percent over the same six months in 2014 according to the data, which was released Aug. 18.\nIncreases in wheat, sulphur, potash, lumber and consumer goods boosted results according to the data, while declines were registered in coal and petroleum products. Movement of breakbulk (8.38 million tons) rose two percent from last year to this one.\nTrade using containers showed substantial growth, with an eight percent jump in the number of TEUs.\nContinued growth in container numbers on the West Coast of Canada has been projected for some time, but this higher-than-expected jump is likely due to the impact of US cargo diverted to Vancouver earlier this year in response to labor unrest at US West Coast ports, and deflated results last year due to a 28-day Vancouver trucking dispute in March 2014.\n\u201cWe are seeing continued growth of trade through Port Metro Vancouver as Canadian demand for foreign products and international demand for Canadian resources continue to increase,\u201d President and Port Metro Vancouver Chief Executive Officer Robin Silvester said. \u201cOur \u2026 overall cargo grew in the first half of 2015 despite some softening markets and global economic uncertainty.\u201d\nAuto volumes in the first half of 2015 were up seven percent according to port data, with 212,266 units moved during the first half of 2015. Also, The port projects its 2015 cruise season to be on par with previous years, with an estimated 805,000 passengers on 228 visits by 32 vessels.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 534, "original_length": 14006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pmmonlinenews.com/2018/01/port-users-want-infrastructure.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:S36UAHUSMKHUNTNLIUGFP5OR5VW4UTDT", "length": 1280, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pmmonlinenews.com", "title": "Pacific Maritime Magazine Online: Port Users Want Infrastructure Investment", "raw_content": "A group representing the nation\u2019s largest seaports, major marine terminal operators as well as the agricultural sector and big box retailers sent letters to President Donald Trump and Senate and House leaders urging them \u201cnot to overlook America\u2019s ports\u201d in the overall investment plan on infrastructure. The Coalition for More Efficient Ports consists of the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and New York/New Jersey, Ports America and SSA, Agriculture Transportation Coalition and the Retail Industry Leaders Association.\n\u201cOutdated infrastructure at our nation\u2019s ports threatens to interrupt the supply chain and ultimately the American economy,\u201d the coalition wrote to the president in a letter sent January 3. \u201cThis critical infrastructure challenge must be met by increased public and private investment in US ports.\u201d\nThe coalition brought up the ports\u2019 vital economic role, supporting 23 million jobs and generating more than $321 billion in tax revenue in 2015, according to the American Association of Port Authorities. It also quoted Business Roundtable\u2019s assertion that \u201cunderinvestment in ports results in increased prices and lost economic opportunity \u2013 as much as tens of billions of dollars every year.\u201d\nLabels: Coalition for More Efficient Ports, port infrastructure", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 530, "original_length": 13511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 215.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pokerroomkings.com/index.php/news-details-en/big-game-to-be-held-during-debut-millions-germany-event.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:41Z", "digest": "sha1:F42KMXQMKWODBJOD7X52MLCWWHQPHB7D", "length": 5117, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.pokerroomkings.com", "title": "\ufeff Big Game to be held during debut MILLIONS Germany event - King's Casino Europe - en", "raw_content": "The Big Game, partypoker\u2019s popular televised high stakes cash game, is set to return next month with the first ever Pot Limit Omaha edition.\nThe world's most famous cash game, will take place during the first MILLIONS Germany festival at King's Casino in Rozvadov. Running for 36 hours non-stop, the eight-handed \u20ac50/\u20ac100 game will kick off at 6pm on Saturday 10th February and run non-stop until 6am on Monday, 12th February.\nThe \u20ac12.5 million guaranteed MILLIONS Germany runs 8th February to 18th February with nine prestigious tournaments including a \u20ac1,000,000 guaranteed High Roller, \u20ac1,000,000 guaranteed Super High Roller and \u20ac5,000,000 guaranteed Main Event.\nAmong those set to take part in Big Game VIII are a host of seasoned pros and VIP businessmen including partypoker Ambassador Sam Trickett, Dusk till Dawn owner Rob Yong, successful businessman Yair Bitouin (known as \u2018The Wolf\u2019 in high stakes poker circles), Lithuanian businessman Tony G and international poker superstars Viktor Blom, PDC Darts World Champion Michal Van Gerwen and Philipp Gruissem.\nLive stream hosted by former Poker After Dark commentator, Marianela Pereyra, will run throughout the 36-hour duration of the game with commentary in three languages, including English hosted by Jesse May, James Dempsey and Simon Trumper plus guests, German commentary from Josip \u0160imuni\u0107 and Stefan Hachmeister and Russian commentary from Mikhail Semin and Leonid \u201cLeBroHbka\u201d Logunov. The show is being televised for later broadcast on TV channels around the world but can also be viewed live throughout the 36 hours on partypoker TV via the My partypoker LIVE website and app.\nPlayers will be required to buy-in for a minimum of \u20ac20,000 with the maximum set at \u20ac40,000. An online qualifier will also have the chance to compete in the game by winning a seat in the partypoker Big Game Challenge. The winning player will win a package worth over $27,000, including:\na $20,000 Big Game buy-in\na $5,300 MILLIONS Online entry\na \u20ac1,100 MILLIONS Open entry\n$900 for travel and expenses\nThe online promotion will run between 25th January and 4th February on partypoker - details can be found here.\nOne of the key features of the original partypoker Big Game was the vote-off, which has been brought back for the new edition. Every three hours viewers are given the opportunity to vote to save their favorite player from being evicted from the game. The player with the most votes as well as the most aggressive player will be saved until the next round of voting, with the player with the least votes leaving the game.\nA new element to the Big Game will be the party button booster which is bound to bring some fun, drama and action to the table. Whoever draws the button in the first hand places a dead big blind on the button and every player continues to add a big blind to the button booster when it is their button until the button wins the hand in which case they win the button booster. When it is won the booster then reverts to one big blind put in by the next player on the button.\nSome of those set to play have already tasted success in earlier editions of the game; Tony G dominated Big Game V and made \u00a3150,450 profit at Dusk Till Dawn Casino while Jennifer Tilly also thrived in Nottingham and was up \u00a366,925 at the end of the 48 hour session.\nThe last Big Game was held at Merit Crystal Cove in North Cyprus where French veteran Roger Hairabedian was $37,600 up after a 12-hour marathon. He and Sam Trickett were the only two players to survive evictions and play the entirety of the game. At Big Game VI, it was Phil \u201cUnabomber\u201d Laak who was the big winner, snagging over $160,000 at Montesino Casino in Vienna.\npartypoker Ambassador Sam Trickett said: \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to the return of the Big Game. It\u2019s always huge fun to play \u2013 even if you don\u2019t win \u2013 and I\u2019m looking forward to testing my PLO skills against the likes of Isildur and Tony G. The Big Game is also a great opportunity for an online qualifier to take on the best in the game and maybe even win. This is one of the most popular poker shows on TV so it\u2019s a high profile event and will be a very exciting part of the MILLIONS Germany schedule in Rozvadov.\u201d\nJennifer Tilly added: \"Superstoked to be returning to \"The Big Game!\" Looking forward to mixing it up with the Notorious Tony G!\"\nTony G, who dominated the Big Game V, said: \u201cI am going to take everything they have - and then more!\u201d\nKing's Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik added: \u201cKing\u2019s is well known for its variety of cash games but this televised Big Game will surely be the longest we\u2019ve ever had here. We look forward to welcoming everybody to our new casino and hotel.\u201d\nEarlier episodes of the Big Game are now available to watch on Front Runner, Sky ch468 and Freesat ch250 UK only as well as on partypoker TV via the My partypoker LIVE app.\nSome of the biggest names in poker have taken part in previous editions of the Big Game including Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Luke Schwartz, Mike Matusow, Scott Baumstein, Faraz Jaka, Alec Torelli, Bertrand \u201cElkY\u201d Grospellier and Daniel \u201cJungleman\u201d Cates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 7022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.politicalforum.com/index.php?threads/humans-likely-alone-in-universe-study-reports.536076/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZOHB6RD47FZAP3O7CIUMU6ZIJ3BF4KB", "length": 15306, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "www.politicalforum.com", "title": "Humans likely alone in universe, study reports | PoliticalForum.com - Forum for US and Intl Politics", "raw_content": "Humans likely alone in universe, study reports\n... and so they support what I quickly concluded qutie some time ago and have been saying - that the odds of life resembling us being anywhere near to us in the universe are actually exceedingly remote.\nA team of international researchers have found evidence that humans are the only intelligent life in the known universe, according to a new study published online.\nFor the research, the team analyzed the so-called Fermi paradox that shows, while there are millions of celestial bodies throughout the cosmos, there is no concrete evidence of alien life.\nThey broke down the equation initially proposed by Frank Drake in the 1960's that states the vast size of the universe inherently suggests other intelligent life must exist.\nHowever, when the team behind the recent study incorporated new elements into the equation they found it is open to both uncertainties and bias. As a result, it is likely not as accurate as previously believed.\n\"When the model is recast to represent realistic distributions of uncertainty, we find a substantial ex ante probability of there being no other intelligent life in our observable universe, and thus that there should be little surprise when we fail to detect any signs of it,\" wrote the team in the research, according to Fox News. \"This result dissolves the Fermi paradox, and in doing so removes any need to invoke speculative mechanisms by which civilizations would inevitably fail to have observable effects upon the universe.\"\nTheir research revealed there is a 30 percent chance that humans are alone in the Milky Way galaxy. In addition, the team also found evidence that, should extraterrestrial life exist, it is likely less advanced that what we have on Earth.\n''One can answer the Fermi Paradox by saying intelligence is very rare, but then it needs to be tremendously rare,\" explained lead author Anders Sandberg, a researcher at Oxford University, according to International Business Times. \"Another possibility is that intelligence doesn't last very long, but it is enough that one civilization survives for it to become visible.\"\nWhile this suggests humans are alone, the study is not definitive. Many more processes need to be analyzed before that idea can be fully confirmed in one way or another.\nhttps://thespacereporter.com/article.php?n=humans-likely-alone-in-universe-study-reports&id=153602\nDennisTate, Merwen and Diuretic like this.\nThe odds that humans are alone are slim. What is not slim is the distances in the universe. If there are other intelligent beings in the universe we will never learn of them nor will they ever learn of us. The distances are simply too great.\nfmw, Jun 26, 2018\nEgalitarianjay02, perdidochas, JakeJ and 2 others like this.\n@Durandal There is two problems in what you wrote :\nThe absence of proof isn't the proof of absence. It's very hard to prove that something is absent. There is no evidences of alien life found. Does it really mean there is no alien life ?\nFurthermore, we probed very few places. The milky way galaxy is just a galaxy among so many others.\nVotreAltesse, Jun 26, 2018\nMoi621, primate, LiveUninhibited and 2 others like this.\nThis is my position also. It's not that I doubt that something intelligent has existed, exists now or will exist as we do here, but that it's actually not very common at all, even having so many potentially habitable worlds, due to the vast number of variables involved, including of course actual distances and time scales involved. We would be hard-pressed to find out even about a civilization on the other side of our galaxy, let alone one in another galaxy. Andromeda could have a galactic empire all over it right now and we still would not know, because we see it as it was about 2.5 million years ago, and that is the nearest galaxy to us. The Borg could be living on the other side of our galaxy (like they were in TNG and DS9), and we still would have no indication of them from here. I don't think we are even able to see stars that far away due simply to the sheer volume of dust blocking the way over such a distance.\nOn the other hand, we will probably want to be quick to develop our own space exploration and settlement, so that if something is out there or eventually comes to exist, we hopefully won't be caught at a disadvantage.\nThelmaMay, Derideo_Te and LiveUninhibited like this.\nI didn't say that we had proof of absence, but I do think that it's unlikely that intelligent life exists very near to us, because even overlooking distances and time scales involved, the path to intelligent life is not an easy one, even relative to the evolution of life at a basic level. To get from simple, microbial life to a human is a very lengthy process, and we know that our evolution was guided by a combination of environmental stability and disasters that allowed new varieties of life to evolve repeatedly. If Earth itself or our sun had been less stable, we probably would not be here, yet if the dinosaurs had not been wiped out and any number of other such disasters had not occurred as they did, this also probably would have left Earth's population looking entirely different, because mammals may never have taken over as they have.\nWe must remember that life does not have some kind of a mission to become human-like, either. It evolves to survive as best it can. Our primate ancestors happened upon mobility, dexterity and intelligence in ways that made humans a possibility. A bird could not evolve to be like a human due to its physical limitations, leaving the evolution of human-level intelligence in their line less likely due to less advantage coming of it. Other tetrapods are very far off yet from being very near to primate and human level intelligence and dexterity.\nJonsa and VotreAltesse like this.\nGiven the assumptions required to construct a reasonable hypothesis of the possibility of intelligent life in the universe and the nature of this study's approach, I consider this nothing more than an interesting thought exercise, appropriate for an academic paper.\nThe Fermi paradox is the conflict between an expectation of a high ex ante probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe and the apparently lifeless universe we in fact observe. The expectation that the universe should be teeming with intelligent life is linked to models like the Drake equation, which suggest that even if the probability of intelligent life developing at a given site is small, the sheer multitude of possible sites should nonetheless yield a large number of potentially observable civilizations. We show that this conflict arises from the use of Drake-like equations, which implicitly assume certainty regarding highly uncertain parameters. We examine these parameters, incorporating models of chemical and genetic transitions on paths to the origin of life, and show that extant scientific knowledge corresponds to uncertainties that span multiple orders of magnitude. This makes a stark difference. When the model is recast to represent realistic distributions of uncertainty, we find a substantial ex ante probability of there being no other intelligent life in our observable universe, and thus that there should be little surprise when we fail to detect any signs of it. This result dissolves the Fermi paradox, and in doing so removes any need to invoke speculative mechanisms by which civilizations would inevitably fail to have observable effects upon the universe.\nSeems to contain the rather gross conceit that there can only be one kind of biology that can produce intelligent life. (perhaps sapient is a more apt term).\nThelmaMay and HereWeGoAgain like this.\nConsidering a few FACTS:\n1) Human communications have now reached about 80 light years distance.\n2) To hear these would require an extremely large antenna or radio telescope.\n3) Human communications are one of thousands of possibilities and primitive.\n4) Any return communications would face much the same limitations.\n5) It is only in the last decade that humankind has even noticed extrasolar planets.\n6) The Galaxy in extremely vast and the Universe more so.\nThere must be alien life and we will probably never know.\nThelmaMay, LiveUninhibited and Jonsa like this.\nXploreR Well-Known Member\nWe've probed only a small section of the sky equal to a small constellation and only out to a distance of about 100 light years. Even compared to the scale of a single galaxy--ours; the Milky Way--this is an infinitely small piece of the whole, and very little to draw conclusions from. Alternatively, there is considerable evidence on certain YouTube sites showing videos & photos of extraterrestrial visitation that are worthy of consideration.\nXploreR, Jun 28, 2018\nMeanwhile, back in the jungle . . .\nBottom line, I think it very likely that there are other planets with life.\nAlso, maybe those Worlds have not yet advanced Space travel either, there does seem enough to point to visitation by extraterrestrial visitors.\nOr perhaps as the Mythical Vulcans, those Extraterrestrials only interact with \"Warp capable Civilizations\" not Pre-Warp Civilizations.\nDoctorWho, Jun 28, 2018\nDavidMK Well-Known Member\nThey're are likely hundreds of billions of trillions of civilizations in the universe. That's 1-3 per super cluster.\nDavidMK, Jun 29, 2018\nmy opinion, we're completely alone in this galaxy, if anything were more advanced than us I'd think we would be aware of them...\nusfan and Diuretic like this.\ntkolter Well-Known Member\nWell say if each Galaxy of our size had one advanced human species at a given time, that is still a lot of aliens scattered about and the very large galaxies could sport two or three and small ones none. But what about less intelligent 'intelligent' life say Homo Erectus or Neanderthal kinds of intelligence that might be more common and well in our own world Homo Erectus was around far longer and more successful than we were the one advantage we have is we were more intelligent and our bodies moved more flexibly so we could hurl spears and use slings and later bows. But our universe seems to have a lot of life in it and we seemed to have arrived early in a couple billion more years more species might show up.\ntkolter, Jun 29, 2018\nWe have been around and technological for about a century....so lets just say 100 light years, in a galaxy that is 100,000 light years across. Basically we only know the folks on our block in a big a$$ city....we don't even know where the Pizza places are so wanting Mexican food is a bit of a stretch.\nWillReadmore and Derideo_Te like this.\ntkolter said: \u2191\nthere's no evidence about for us to assume erectus and neanderthal were less intelligent than us or that we more athletic, neanderthal bone structure points to them easily kicking our butts and they evidence suggests they were using impressive complex chemical process for attaching tools to handles long before sapiens\ntime is critical...if any species were here a million years before us and still present we should be able to detect some sort of radio signals as our galaxy is only a 100,000 light years across...there could've been an intelligent civilization and it went extinct millions of years ago...or there could intelligent lifeforms developing that are destined to be intelligent but we'll be long extinct ourselves before contact occurs... intelligent need not develop at all, our development was accidental and had not the earth been smacked by a big arse rock we may never had the chance to develop....or we could be completely alone...\nThey're retarded. Or probably, hard to know since the article is so vague. A civilization would have to be much more advanced than us to be easily detectable, and even then not too far away, and would have to be both more advanced than us and really want to find us for them to even know we exist (and pretty close by, given that our early radio signals haven't gone very far into the galaxy yet). Until recently, we could only detect planets that were super-Jupiters orbiting closer to their stars. If it's hard to find a planet, it's going to be hard to find a civilization unless it does something huge in space. For example:\nPaul Gilster said:\nCertainly, with ever-larger antenna area, at ever greater cost, advanced ETI can detect us. From the above analysis, we calculate that at 50-ly range, the antenna area must be ~1 km2. To assess Shostak\u2019s claim, note that Chicago\u2019s area is 24,800 km2 = 2.48 1010 m2. At the present value of SKA antennas, 2.4 k$/m2, the cost is 60 T$, comparable to Earth\u2019s GNP of 70 T$. So if comparable to us, ETI would have to devote their entire science budget for a time perhaps of order a century to build Shostak\u2019s antenna, a sobering prospect.\nhttps://www.centauri-dreams.org/2012/05/31/is-our-civilization-detectable/\nYou don't have an appreciation for the scale of the galaxy. We're not detectable, as far as we know, to >99.9% of the galaxy given that we haven't had radio for long enough.\nLiveUninhibited, Jun 29, 2018\n\"Humans likely alone in universe, study reports\"\nyes, but intelligent life other then humans is most likely\n\"Their research revealed there is a 30 percent chance that humans are alone in the Milky Way galaxy\"\nthat means a 70% change were not... just in the Milky Way galaxy - so even the study seems to think life on other planets is very likely\nFreshAir, Jun 29, 2018\nI do grasp the enormity we're inconsequential but any civilization that's reached our level of development let's say 125,000 years ago should be detectable... after 125,000 years of technical advancement far superior to ours I would think they should have a large detectable footprint, unless they're already long gone...\nI don't think so. Our technology led to miniaturization of devices, and having to build really large structures is something you'd only do if that way is the only way to reach a goal you have. We've hypothesized that Dyson swarms might be plausible (big things orbiting near a star to soak up its energy), and even something extreme like that would be hard to detect. Would an alien civilization even need or want to do a huge project like that? Probably not. Real power would be harnessing antimatter. Plus a smart alien civilization wouldn't necessarily want to be detected either. Better to discover other civilizations and determine if they're a threat than to try to be discovered just by making a lot of noise.\nI think the only thing we'd easily detect is a massive, system destroying war (like the death star being used to destroy a star). Such a thing would necessarily be brief and rare.\nthen we need to define intelligent life...an elephant, gorillas, dolphins and crows are intelligent but there's no reason they or similar life would ever develop(or want to) the technology to contact other galactic life forms\nI only browsed through that report, I don't recall any discussion of timeline...intelligent life needs to develop at the same time if they're going to contact each other, for all we know there was intelligent beings but they got wiped out by a super Nova or Gamma ray burst 2 billion years ago...we've only been contactable for about a hundred years when compared to the time span in earths history we're barely an eyeblink and will be gone in another eyeblink", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 409, "original_length": 24777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.poundarts.org.uk/pound/NewsDetails.aspx?artid=3608", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:HUVUZKQFEX4KY27HZQWFQ5UJ6IVCURBN", "length": 1333, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.poundarts.org.uk", "title": "Pound Arts: Pound Arts celebrates the eighth annual Open exhibition", "raw_content": "Artists from Corsham and the South West are being featured in Pound Arts annual Open exhibition. Launched in Corsham last Friday, it showcases the best of local, and regional artistic talent.\nNearly one hundred pieces of artwork are on display throughout The Pound arts centre, ranging from ceramics and paintings to sculpture and 3D work. The artists who have contributed to the exhibition are both professional and amateur and are all based in the South West.\nThe highlight of Friday\u2019s launch was the announcement of winning entries, judged by artist, curator and academic Dr Michele Whiting and leading portrait painter David Cobley.\nFirst prize was awarded to Janet Coleman for her acrylic painting, China Cat. The winner of the Corsham Print Prize was Christina D\u2019mato for her oil and water work, entitled Thistledown Cherhill. The Right Angle Picture Framing Prize was awarded to Bill James for his coloured pencil work, Pierrot.\nDirector of Pound Arts, Russ Tunney, said: \u201cWe are delighted to launch the eighth annual Pound Arts Open exhibition. We have been overwhelmed by the quantity and quality of the artwork that has been submitted. Once again we have achieved our aim of showcasing the abundance of artistic talent in Corsham, surrounding area and the South West.\u201d\nPound Arts Open exhibition runs until 16 January 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prairieblessingsbnb.com/accommodations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2VC6ZDUARIIAMFCD7DBA5EJI6J45BBU4", "length": 317, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.prairieblessingsbnb.com", "title": "Accommodations in Manitoba - Prairie Blessings Bed & Breakfast - Close to Winnipeg", "raw_content": "We're here to provide accommodations to weary travelers in a unique setting. We have three rooms that each have their own unique and original flavour. All rooms have access to a beautiful shared bath with terry cloth robes, lots of towels & necessities, as well as the common lounge and coffee bar on the same floor.\u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 169.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prebleswcd.org/soil-workshop.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:24Z", "digest": "sha1:K3PZMCIU7AE5DHSP57HDZT7CR3EBCJ5H", "length": 906, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.prebleswcd.org", "title": "Soil Workshop - Preble Soil & Water Conservation District", "raw_content": "Get the Dirt on Your Dirt\n\u200bHaving problems with the plants in your yard or garden? There\u2019s a good chance the root of the problem is, well, surrounding the roots. Soil health has a huge effect on the productivity of the plants growing in it. Come learn some of the basics of soil science, as well as practical information you can use to improve the soil in your yard and hopefully lead to a more productive garden.\nTopics discussed will include basic soil health, how to take a soil sample, reading soil test results, fertilizer selection and application, using cover crops, and protecting local water resources.\nForty attendees will be accepted to participate. A free soil analysis will be provided to everyone who attends the program, compliments of funding received from the Ohio Federation of Soil and Water Conservation Districts.\nMust be pre-registered to attend. RSVP to Preble SWCD at (937)456-5159.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prideinclusionprograms.com.au/events/2019-02-19/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4R65VHNWSOCFQJL2GY3YVCDNAE3RYVJ6", "length": 394, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.prideinclusionprograms.com.au", "title": "Events for February 19, 2019Pride in Diversity", "raw_content": "Roundtable 12:30pm \u2013 2pm (to be confirmed) Held in most capital cities, State Roundtables provide member organisations with the opportunity to discuss LGBTI inclusion from a local perspective. Includes Q&A with Pride in Diversity. Networking 5:30pm \u2013 7pm (to be confirmed) Following after the State Roundtables, our Networking Events have been designed to facilitate professional networking [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 6884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.primidi.com/hurricane_iniki", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:11Z", "digest": "sha1:GKVZCUUTJXBNKPD7VWOMG57KANUNEDMD", "length": 2888, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.primidi.com", "title": "Hurricane Iniki | Technology Trends", "raw_content": "Hurricane Iniki ( /i\u02d0\u02c8ni\u02d0ki\u02d0/ ee-NEE-kee; Hawaiian: \u02bbiniki meaning \"strong and piercing wind\") was the most powerful hurricane to strike the U.S. state of Hawai\u02bbi in recorded history. Forming on September 5 during the strong El Ni\u00f1o of 1991\u20131994, Iniki was one of eleven Central Pacific tropical cyclones during the 1992 season. It attained tropical storm status on September 8 and further intensified into a hurricane the next day. After turning to the north, Iniki struck the island of Kaua\u02bbi on September 11 at peak intensity; it had winds of 145 mph (235 km/h), and was a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. It was the first hurricane to hit the state since Hurricane Iwa in the 1982 season, and the first major hurricane since Hurricane Dot in 1959. Iniki dissipated on September 13 about halfway between Hawaii and Alaska.\nIniki caused around $1.8 billion (1992 USD) of damage and six deaths. At the time, Iniki was among the costliest United States hurricanes, and it remains one of the costliest hurricanes on record in the eastern Pacific. The storm struck just weeks after Hurricane Andrew\u2014the costliest tropical cyclone ever at the time\u2014struck the U.S. state of Florida. It was also one of two Category 4 hurricanes to strike the United States that year, as Andrew made landfall in Florida as a Category 5 just a few weeks earlier.\nThe Central Pacific Hurricane Center (CPHC) failed to issue tropical cyclone warnings and watches for the hurricane more than 24 hours in advance. Despite the lack of early warning, only six deaths were attributable to the storm. Damage was greatest on Kaua\u02bbi, where the hurricane destroyed over 1,400 houses and severely damaged over 5,000. Though not directly in the path of the hurricane's core, O\u02bbahu still experienced moderate damage from wind and storm surge.\nRead more about Hurricane Iniki: Meteorological History, Preparations, Impact, Aftermath\nOther articles related to \"hurricane iniki, iniki, hurricane, hurricanes\":\nHurricane Iniki - Aftermath - Retirement\n... The name Iniki was retired due to this storm in 1993, and was replaced with Iolana within the Central North Pacific tropical storm list ...\n1992 Pacific Hurricane Season - Storms - Hurricane Iniki\n... Category 4 hurricane (SSHS) Duration September 5 \u2013 September 13 Peak intensity 145 mph (230 km/h), 938 mbar (hPa) Forming on September 1700 ... miles (2700 km) southwest of Cabo San Lucas, the depression ... Iniki continued westward and strengthened over the unusually favorable central Pacific it reached hurricane status on September 9 while 470 miles (760 km) south-southeast of Hilo ... The subtropical ridge, which typically keeps hurricanes well away from the Hawaiian Islands, weakened due to an approaching upper level-trough and allowed Iniki to turn to ...\nFamous quotes containing the word hurricane:\nTerms related to hurricane iniki:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 108.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.primidi.com/tennessee", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:56Z", "digest": "sha1:FFH7THMZBZFTL5EALCVDRDVR7LYPFRQ5", "length": 5004, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.primidi.com", "title": "Tennessee | Technology Trends", "raw_content": "Tennessee (i/t\u025bn\u0268\u02c8si\u02d0/) (Cherokee: \u13d4\u13be\u13cf) is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. Tennessee is the 36th most extensive and the 17th most populous of the 50 United States. Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north, North Carolina to the east, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi to the south, and Arkansas and Missouri to the west. The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern part of the state, and the Mississippi River forms the state's western border. Tennessee's capital and second largest city is Nashville, which has a population of 626,144. Memphis is the state's largest city, with a population of 670,902.\nThe state of Tennessee is rooted in the Watauga Association, a 1772 frontier pact generally regarded as the first constitutional government west of the Appalachians. What is now Tennessee was initially part of North Carolina, and later part of the Southwest Territory. Tennessee was admitted to the Union as the 16th state on June 1, 1796. Tennessee was the last state to leave the Union and join the Confederacy at the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War in 1861, and the first state to be readmitted to the Union at the end of the war.\nTennessee furnished more soldiers for the Confederate Army than any other state, and more soldiers for the Union Army than any other Southern state. Tennessee has seen some of the nation's worst racial strife, from the formation of the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski in 1866 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in Memphis in 1968. In the 20th century, Tennessee transitioned from an agrarian economy to a more diversified economy, aided at times by federal entities such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. In the early 1940s, the city of Oak Ridge was established to house the Manhattan Project's uranium enrichment facilities, helping to build the world's first atomic bomb.\nTennessee has played a critical role in the development of many forms of American popular music, including rock and roll, blues, country, and rockabilly. Beale Street in Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues, with musicians such as W.C. Handy performing in its clubs as early as 1909. Memphis was also home to Sun Records, where musicians such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Charlie Rich began their recording careers, and where rock and roll took shape in the 1950s. The 1927 Victor recording sessions in Bristol generally mark the beginning of the country music genre and the rise of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s helped make Nashville the center of the country music recording industry. Three bricks and mortar museums recognize Tennessee's role in nurturing various forms of popular music: the Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, and the International Rock-A-Billy Museum in Jackson. In addition, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, an online site recognizing the development of rockabilly in which Tennessee played a crucial role, is based in Nashville.\nRead more about Tennessee: Geography, Demographics, Economy, Governance, Important Cities and Towns, Education, Name Origin, State Symbols\nOther articles related to \"tennessee\":\nDavy Crockett - Early Years\n... He claimed he visited most of the towns and villages in Tennessee and learned his skills as an outdoors-man, hunter and trapper ... had opened a tavern on the road between Knoxville, Tennessee and Abingdon, Virginia ... marriage (dated October 21, 1805) has been preserved by the Dandridge, Tennessee, courthouse ...\n... The original formula was invented in the 1940s by Tennessee beverage bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman and was first marketed in Marion, Virginia Knoxville, Tennessee and ...\nTennessee - State Symbols\n... State symbols, found in Tennessee Code Annotated Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3, include State bird \u2013 \"Northern Mockingbird\" State game bird \u2013 \"Bobwhite Quail\" State wild animal \u2013 \"Raccoon\" State ...\nDavy Crockett - Tennessee Militia\n... Crockett joined the Second Regiment of Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Riflemen for an initial term of 60 days and served under Colonel John Coffee in the Creek ... Crockett was made lieutenant colonel of the Fifty-seventh Regiment of Tennessee Militia on March 27, 1818 ...\n... He represented Tennessee in the U.S ... Crockett grew up in East Tennessee, where he gained a reputation for hunting and storytelling ... After being made a colonel in the militia of Lawrence County, Tennessee, he was elected to the Tennessee state legislature in 1821 ...\nTerms related to tennessee:\n2007\u201308 Tennessee Volunteers Basketball Team\nList of Tennessee Civil War Confederate Units\nTennessee Plan\nTennessee River Blueway\nTennessee State Route 385\nUSS Tennessee (bb-43)\nUSS Tennessee (bb-43) 1945\nUSS Tennessee (ssbn-734)\nWilliam R. Snodgrass Tennessee Tower\nEric Stewart (tennessee Politician)\nInterstate 40 in Arkansas\nLegislation in 109th United States Congress\nNuclear Regulatory Commission Region II\nTim Rattay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 120.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.proxymonitor.org/Forms/2015Finding2.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GQHKRIZ5PXZEKUFBYJ2XWHRKSBKSCW62", "length": 15838, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.proxymonitor.org", "title": "Mid-Season Report", "raw_content": "As we near the close of corporate America\u2019s \u201cproxy season\u201d\u2014the period between mid-April and mid-June when most large, publicly traded corporations in the United States hold annual meetings to vote on company business, including resolutions introduced by shareholders\u2014a clear picture has begun to emerge. By May 27, 2015, 211 of the nation\u2019s 250 largest companies by revenues, as listed by Fortune magazine and in the Manhattan Institute\u2019s ProxyMonitor.org database (see box), had filed proxy documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission. This report bases its analysis on those companies\u2019 filings, as well as voting results for 186 of those companies that had held their annual meetings by May 22.\nCompanies are facing more shareholder proposals in 2015. A principal driver of the increase in the number of shareholder proposals is the aggressive campaign being led by New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer, elected in 2013, on behalf of the city\u2019s large pension funds, which control some $160 billion in assets.[3] As a part of what he calls his Boardroom Accountability Project, Stringer has introduced numerous shareholder proposals seeking to grant shareholders with a certain percentage of a company\u2019s outstanding shares the right to nominate directors to the board, with such nominees listed as a voting option on the company\u2019s own proxy statement\u2014i.e., proxy access.[4] In addition, 2015 has witnessed an increase in shareholder proposals, relating to environmental issues, sponsored by social-investing funds.\nComptroller Stringer\u2019s proxy access effort has won substantial shareholder support\u201472 percent of such shareholder proposals coming to a vote by the end of May won the support of a majority of shareholders\u2014such that the percentage of shareholder proposals to win majority backing in 2015 is the highest since 2010. Excluding proxy-access proposals, however, shareholder support for shareholder proposals remains scant: only 3.5 percent of all other shareholder proposals have received majority support, less than in any other year in the ProxyMonitor.org database, dating back to 2006.\nThis finding examines these trends in more detail. Section I examines overall shareholder proposal filing and voting results, including the most frequent subjects and sponsors of proposals. Section II looks at voting on the proxy-access proposals. Section III discusses proposals related to companies\u2019 political spending or lobbying, which remain the second-most-common class of proposal in 2015 (behind those involving the environment), even though they have been introduced less often than in recent years.\nI. Shareholder Proposal Filings\nThe average Fortune 250 company to have filed its proxy statement in 2015 has faced 1.39 shareholder proposals. As shown in Figure 1, the overall level at which shareholder proposals have been introduced is the highest since 2010, when Congress passed the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation,[5] which obviated shareholder proposals seeking advisory voting rights on executive compensation packages by mandating that publicly traded U.S. companies hold such votes on an annual, biennial, or triennial basis. This overall increase has been driven principally by a marked increase in the number of shareholder proposals seeking proxy access: 32 such proposals have been introduced to date, as compared with only ten in all of 2014. 21 of these were introduced by the New York City pension funds, which are introducing 75 proxy-access proposals overall as part of the funds\u2019 \u201cBoardroom Accountability Project.\u201d[6]\n*211 of 250 companies had filed proxy documents by May 27, 2015.\nShareholder proposals are not only more numerous in 2015; such proposals have been more likely to attract the support of a majority of shareholders. As shown in Figure 2, 12 percent of all shareholder proposals voted upon at Fortune 250 companies to date have received majority support\u2014the highest percentage since 2010. This increase is also due to the prevalence of proxy-access proposals: although such proposals showed mixed support in the early and pre-proxy-season period,[7] they were substantially more likely to receive majority support in May (see Section II). Excluding proxy-access proposals, only 3.5 percent of shareholder proposals have received majority support\u2014below the support level seen in 2014, and lower than any of the ten years tracked in the ProxyMonitor.org database. Apart from the proxy-access proposals, only seven shareholder proposals have received majority support to date: two seeking to \u201cdeclassify\u201d the board of directors and elect all directors annually, two seeking to remove all supermajority voting requirements from the company bylaws, two seeking to empower shareholders to call special meetings outside the annual meeting schedule, and one seeking to separate the company\u2019s chairman and chief executive officer roles.\n*186 of 250 companies had held annual meetings by May 22, 2015.\nTo date in 2015, 44 percent of shareholder proposals have involved corporate-governance issues like separating the board chairman and chief executive officer roles, proxy access, special meetings, voting rules, or empowering shareholders to act through written consent (Figure 3). Social or policy issues have been the subject of 42 percent of 2015 shareholder proposals and executive compensation, 14 percent. Overall, the most frequently introduced subclass of proposals has involved environmental concerns (Figure 4)\u2014after three consecutive years in which proposals related to corporate political spending or lobbying had been most numerous (see Section III).\nOne-third of shareholder proposals introduced to date in 2015 have been sponsored by one of three individuals and their family members who repeatedly file common shareholder proposals at multiple companies, commonly called \u201ccorporate gadflies\u201d[8] (Figure 5). 29 percent of all proposals have been sponsored by institutional investors with a social, religious, or policy purpose; a majority of these were sponsored by social-investing funds; and 24 percent by pension funds affiliated with public or private labor unions, chiefly state or municipal public employee funds or private \u201cmultiemployer\u201d funds for labor unions, such as the American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). 10 percent of all 2015 shareholder proposals have been sponsored by shareholders other than the three most-active gadflies\u2014though many of the other individual investors are, likewise, repeat filers. Consistent with historical trends, only one percent of shareholder proposals have been sponsored by institutional investors without a labor affiliation or social, policy, or religious purpose.\nCorporate gadfly John Chevedden has been the most active sponsor of shareholder proposals in 2015, consistent with each of the last five years; to date, he has introduced 41 shareholder proposals on Fortune 250 proxy ballots (Figure 6). The New York City pension funds have been second most active, with 27 proposals\u201421 of which seek proxy access. The third and fourth most active sponsors of 2015 shareholder proposals are the corporate gadfly family teams of William and Kenneth Steiner (father and son) and James McRitchie and Myra Young (husband and wife).\nII. Proxy Access\nIn my first finding of the proxy season, reporting on pre-season and early voting results, shareholder support for proxy-access proposals looked like a decidedly mixed bag. Indeed, as shown in Figure 7, among the ten shareholder proposals on this subject that came to a vote by the end of April, four failed to receive majority shareholder support. (One of the six companies in which the proposal had received majority backing, Citigroup, had seen its board support the proposal\u2014which in turn was backed by 87 percent of shareholders.) In May, however, things looked very different: 15 of the first 16 companies facing proxy-access shareholder proposals saw those proposals supported by a shareholder majority. (The exception, Community Health Systems, narrowly avoided a majority vote, with 49.58 percent of shareholders supporting the proposal. A shareholder proposal on proxy access was also defeated at three more companies that held annual meetings after the overall data cutoff date for this report: Exxon Mobil (49.4 percent), Southern Company (46.2 percent), and Walgreens Boots Alliance (39.8 percent). The third of these has 21 percent insider ownership after the Walgreens-Boots Alliance merger.)\n*Based on companies holding annual meetings through May 31, 2015. Blue bars represent proposals receiving more\nthan 50 percent votes from shareholders; red bars represent proposals failing to gain majority shareholder support.\nThe significantly higher rate at which shareholder proposals have attracted majority support in May is likely due to the fact that most of the proposals coming to a vote over this time period were sponsored by the New York City pension funds and other public employee or union-affiliated funds; and that those funds made a coordinated effort to recruit support for their proposals. The New York City pension funds, the California Public Employee Retirement System (CalPERS), and other labor-affiliated investors have filed an SEC Form PX14A6G, permitting oral and written communication in support of the proposal, exempt from proxy solicitation rules as long as the investor does not collect actual voting proxies.[9] None of the labor-affiliated funds filed these forms for individual-sponsored proxy access proposals, even when the proposals\u2019 terms were substantially similar to those sponsored by the New York City and other labor-affiliated pension funds.\nThis difference helps to explain the lower support proxy access proposals received earlier in the proxy season. Four of the proxy access proposals that were introduced through the end of April\u2014and two of those that failed to pass\u2014were introduced by individual investors James McRitchie or John Harrington. One of the two others in which the proposal failed to attract majority support, Exelon, notably advanced its own proxy access proposal and, based on its proxy communication, discussed the issue directly with shareholders representing 39 percent of the outstanding equity ownership.[10] Moreover, it is possible that some of the other companies at which proxy access failed earlier in the year\u2014Apple, Coca-Cola, and PACCAR\u2014may have made assurances that they would be formulating their own proxy access proposals in the near future.\nNotwithstanding the fact that most proxy access proposals have received majority support from shareholders, shareholder opinion on the question remains divided: most proposals, if opposed by the board, have seen support range from 40 to 62 percent. The two largest mutual fund groups, Fidelity and Vanguard, have largely opposed these proposals.[11] Although pension funds argue that proxy access is important in empowering them\u2014as long-term, diversified shareholders\u2014with a say in corporate management, other investors may share the worry of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, which in 2011 threw out the SEC\u2019s promulgated proxy access rule based on the concern that \u201cunions and state and local governments whose interests in jobs may well be greater than their interest in share value, can be expected to pursue self-interested objectives rather than the goal of maximizing shareholder value.\u201d[12]\nThe Office of the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Labor in 2011 questioned whether pension plans under its purview\u2014including private labor-union plans but not state and municipal public-employee plans that are exempt from the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)\u2014were using \u201cplan assets to support or pursue proxy proposals for personal, social, legislative, regulatory, or public policy agendas.\u201d[13] The press release issued by Scott Stringer\u2019s office announcing its proxy access push declared that two of the three \u201cpriority issues\u201d the Comptroller was focusing on in determining which companies to target with its proposals were \u201cclimate change\u201d and \u201cboard diversity\u201d[14]\u2014issues many diversified shareholders likely view as irrelevant to their investments\u2019 share value.\nIII. Political Spending or Lobbying Proposals\nIn 2012, 2013, and 2014, a plurality of all shareholder proposals involved corporate political spending or lobbying. In 2015, there have been significantly fewer such proposals introduced: 47 to date, compared with 67 in 2014 (Figure 8). So far this year, more investors have sponsored shareholder proposals related to environmental concerns (57 proposals) than corporate political spending.\nThe decrease in the filing of political-spending-related shareholder proposals is not due to a decline in interest among social-investing funds and other socially oriented investors: such investors have already introduced 23 such proposals in 2015, as many as in all of 2014. Labor-affiliated pension funds, however, have significantly reduced the number of such proposals introduced: only 15 to date in 2015, compared with 32 in all of 2014. The New York State Common Retirement Fund[15] introduced 14 shareholder proposals related to corporate political spending or lobbying in 2014 but only four thusfar in 2015, among Fortune 250 companies.\nWhatever the reason for the drop in the number of shareholder proposals related to political spending, support for these proposals remains tepid. No such proposal has received majority shareholder support over board opposition in the ten years covered in the ProxyMonitor.org database. To date in 2015, shareholder support for these proposals has averaged 22 percent, in line with historical trends (Figure 9). Although this percentage is up marginally from 2014, when such proposals received just over 20 percent support, the variation is largely attributable to a different mix of proposal types and sponsors than to a shift in shareholder support. In 2014, six proposals called for either a prohibition on corporate political spending or a 75-percent shareholder vote to authorize corporate political spending\u2014proposals which, in contrast to proposals oriented only around disclosure, receive low-single-digit support. No such proposals have been introduced in 2015. In addition, in 2014, seven shareholder proposals were sponsored by individuals, with varying provisions; these individual-sponsored proposals received, on average, the support of less than 10 percent of shareholders. To date, there have been no individual-backed shareholder proposals relating to political spending or lobbying introduced at a Fortune 250 company in 2015.\nSee New York City Comptroller, Boardroom Accountability Project, http://comptroller.nyc.gov/boardroom-accountability/ (last visited Apr. 14, 2015); see also Press Release, Comptroller Stringer, NYC Pensions Funds Launch National Campaign To Give Shareowners A True Voice In How Corporate Boards Are Elected: New York City Pension Funds File 75 Proxy Access Shareowner Proposals to Kick Off the Boardroom Accountability Project, https://comptroller.nyc.gov/newsroom/comptroller-stringer-nyc-pension-funds-launch-national- campaign-to-give-shareowners-a-true-voice-in-how-corporate-boards-are-elected/ [hereinafter \u201cStringer Press Release\u201d].\nSee James R. Copland, Proxy Monitor 2015 Finding 1: Proxy Season Early Report (Manhattan Inst. for Pol\u2019y Res.), http://proxymonitor.org/Forms/2015Finding1.aspx.\nSee 17 C.F.R. \u00a7 240.14a-6(g) (2007) (requiring investors engaging in exempt solicitations to file materials with the SEC).\nSee Exelon Corp., Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, proposals no. 5, 6 (Mar. 19, 2015), http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1109357/000119312515098237/d876808ddef14a.htm#rom876808_18.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 20650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/06/prweb13478752.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:39Z", "digest": "sha1:EH2X42M3NXBB2X4RZ54GM5S5RW75LHNH", "length": 3637, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.prweb.com", "title": "Penta Security Systems Inc. Wins the Best SME Security Solution at the 2016 SC Magazine Awards Europe Event", "raw_content": "Penta Security Systems Inc. Wins the Best SME Security Solution at the 2016 SC Magazine Awards Europe Event\nCloudbric is recognized as a leading solution to provide web security assurance to all small to mid-sized businesses.\nCloudbric Honored at 2016 SC Awards Europe\n\u201cIt is so important to encourage and praise innovation, recognize those who raise the bar, and reward exemplars who facilitate best practice. Cloudbric is a great example of this within the industry.\"\nPenta Security Systems is pleased to announce that Cloudbric is the winner of the Best SME Security Solution in the Industry Leaders category group at the 2016 SC Magazine Awards Europe. The award was presented Tuesday, June 7th at the annual SC Awards Gala held at the stunning Old Billingsgate venue in London.\nEach year, a handpicked panel of information technology (IT) security experts from the private and public sectors reviews hundreds of entries and narrow the field down to a select group of finalists. These finalists then go through a rigorous, in-depth analysis that includes applicable research, analyst reports, and/or product reviews. Cloudbric was determined as this year\u2019s winner in Best SME Security Solution after a thorough and comprehensive analysis of each finalist's strengths.\n\u201cIt is so important to encourage and praise innovation, recognize those who raise the bar, and reward exemplars who facilitate best practice. Cloudbric is a great example of this within the industry,\u201d remarks Tony Morin, Editor in Chief, SC Magazine UK.\nWith Cloudbric, all customers receive comprehensive website protection features including a best in class Web Application Firewall, CDN, and SSL, as well as timely and attentive customer support regardless of the payment plan. Many Cloudbric customers share with the firm that they are extremely pleased with its website protection service. It provides them with the assurance that Cloudbric is protecting them and provides them with deeper insights into their website analytics. By using the Cloudbric dashboard, users can easily manage their businesses with more reliable numbers\u2014allowing them to make more informed marketing and budgeting decisions. The judges thought the entry was a strong response.\n\"Most small and medium sized businesses cannot fully prevent web attacks. Cloudbric's comprehensive protection, as well as its pay-as-you-grow pricing model allows any SME to receive the enterprise level protection that they deserve.\" adds TJ Jung, VP of Product & Technology for Cloudbric. Cloudbric's services typically cost an average of 66% less than its competitors' equivalent solutions.\nAbout Cloudbric\nCloudbric is an elite full service website security solution specifically designed for IT novices, entrepreneurs, and small and medium businesses. First launched in 2015, Cloudbric is based on the enterprise level Web Application Firewall by Penta Security Systems, which has served more than 3,100 customers over 11 years. Penta Security Systems is a global information security firm headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. For more information on Cloudbric's web security service, please visit https://www.cloudbric.com or contact support(at)cloudbric(dot)com.\nThe SC Magazine Awards Europe is lauded as one of the most prestigious awards for IT security professionals and products. The awards recognize the best solutions, services, and professionals that work around the clock to defend against the constantly shifting threat landscape in today\u2019s marketplace. For more information and a detailed list of categories and winners, please visit http://www.scawardseurope.com/.\nSoojin Choi\n@cloudbric", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pumptasticscot.co.uk/2017/02/i-asked-adrian-long-someone-i-met-at.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:18Z", "digest": "sha1:N22JGNJUDIVP2MV33VIZFEMYNJFVXFAN", "length": 49, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.pumptasticscot.co.uk", "title": "The Pumptastic Scot: Developing Type 1 in Mid-life vs Developing Type 1 as a Teenager", "raw_content": "Posted by AlyssaRose at Monday, February 20, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 11371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.radaknivesforyou.com/blog/post/2710046", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GNHI5OUYI5FGC4LDNHQMRNLWDWGAQ65H", "length": 287, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.radaknivesforyou.com", "title": "Love these knives", "raw_content": "These knives are the best I have ever had...bought just a few and had to find the Web Site to order a set thats how much I like these knives, so sharp...easy...clean nice....everyone should try these and you won't use anything else. Thanks.\nPosted by Jo on July 21, 2010 at 3:14 PM under", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.radio-guide.ru/en/news/2012/05/25/radiogid-vyhodit-na-rynok-blizhnego-vostoka", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:48Z", "digest": "sha1:KIBUZ3ZX5ARNSXOOWLFFDNJTJZNQWEVP", "length": 3499, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.radio-guide.ru", "title": "Radio Guide LLC in The Near East | Radioguide", "raw_content": "Radio Guide LLC in The Near East\nRadio Guide LLC participated in the exhibition Arabian Travel Market- 2012, which took place in Dubai from April, 30th to May, 3rd 2012.\nATM-2012, which is one of the largest international exhibitions in the Near East region, is an indicator of a local tourism sector. It was significant that the ceremony of opening the 19th ATM exhibition featured patron of the event - Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is a Vice President and Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates, constitutional monarch of Dubai.\nThis year the participants of the event traditionally consisted of tour operators and tour agencies, cruise companies, hotels, spa and resort centers, magazines that specialize in tourism sector, professional associations, insurance companies, producers of equipment and facilities for tourism. This event attracted attention of about 2 500 exponents from 87 countries and this year 11 new branches appeared. The number of visitors grew by 51%, that is, in 2011 there were 9 545 visitors, whilst in 2012 their number increased by 14 446 people.\nBusiness agenda of the exhibition paid particular attention to new technologies in a tourism sector, including information technologies.\nThere has been a significant increase in a number of tourists in United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman and Saudi Arabia. These countries attract visitors that used to choose other destinations.. Furthermore, according to a prognosis a number of tourists will raise owing to Chinese, Korean and Indian tourists that are expected to come to the Near East. Therefore, in 2030 the number of visitors may soar by 195 million thanks to global investments in regional tourism.\nRegarding Russian tourists, 255 700 people visited Dubai last year, and this is by 22% more than the previous year. According to tour operators of Dubai Russian tourist market is one of the most promising. Not surprisingly, every hotel and each shopping center has Russian speaking personnel. Moreover, Dubai is proud of a high percentage of returning Russian tourists, many of whom go to Dubai more than 20 times!\nParticipation of Radio Guide LLC in ATM-2012 exhibition was caused by the increase in a tourist flow between United Arab Emirates, other countries and regions, which participated in the exhibition and Saint-Petersburg, Northern-West of Russia, and new business opportunities that emerged lately.\nTaking into account ambitious development plans of the company, Radio Guide LLC is particularly interested in working in Near East. Furthermore, an opportunity to demonstrate the company and its equipment is very important for the company that produces devices for services of the highest quality.\nAccording to the general director of Radio Guide LLC Davletshin Sergey, Arabian Travel Market- 2012 exhibition gave an opportunity to evaluate the potential of Asian region and its countries like India, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and etc., because they were represented widely at the exhibition. Also, Near East region has a huge potential as its market is not saturated with innovative technologies in a tourism sector. \u201cThe second year in a row the exhibition amazes by opportunities available at this market. We hope that owing to our presence at the exhibition more and more participants of a tourism sector will get acquainted with modern achievements of contemporary Russian technologies\u201d- said Sergey Davletshin. 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Depending on the fabric, from which it is stitched, the Angrakha kurti can be worn for any occasion.\nOur array offers embroidered suits that are perfect to be worn at formal occasions. 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(The G is for Gregory and W is for Warren, in case you\u2019re curious.) GW and I are students together at Light Street Presbyterian Church in Federal Hill this week, learning skills and gaining tools to work with others, to bridge the chasm between \u201cthe world as it is\u201d and \u201cthe world as it should be\u201d.\nIt was not on GW\u2019s radar, to be on Light Street this week. A pastor from St. Petersburg, FL, he happened to be in town, staying with his cousin on Eutaw Place, so he could attend a reception presented by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty https://www.nlchp.org/. Every year for almost 20 years now, the Center honors individuals who have led the way in their communities, taking a stand against the injustice of homelessness and poverty in our nation. This year\u2019s honorees are Washington Redskins\u2019 tight end Vernon Davis; U.S. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP; and Juanita Rocha of Laredo, TX.\n6 years ago GW received the same award Ms. Rocha received last Tuesday night: the McKinney-Vento Personal Achievement Award https://www.nlchp.org/mvawards, honoring an individual who has experienced homelessness and is working to improve the lives of those still suffering its injustice.\nGW is on a holy mission, to end homelessness in his and other communities. In his own words:\nIf left to define myself, I am a soldier and a philosopher.\nI am a soldier because after close to five years homeless on the streets of St Petersburg, I am in a war to defeat homelessness and snatch back the right to define myself from the powers that be.\nTime and solitude create a philosopher.\nPre-homeless, I thought I had plenty of time.\nWhen my house burned, I didn\u2019t figure I\u2019d be out there long. Four weeks, two paychecks. So certain was I of this I took a cab to homelessness.\nIn rapid succession I lost my clothes, my money, my job- I lost a novel I had been writing for three years. I lost everything that connected me to life in a house. I was left with plenty of time and solitude.\nI am a philosopher \u2026\nWe now have the technology where if someone gets the first four digits of your social security number, they can tell you when your mother ate her first bowl of oats.\nBut there are still four to six times as many animal shelters in this country as there are shelters for human beings.\nTechnologically, the internet has made this world a neighborhood.\nBut humanly, as Martin Luther King sadly noted, we still have not made this world a brotherhood.\nWhen a telescope that can see into infinity breaks, we can send mechanics into infinity to fix it.\nBut we still can\u2019t see on any given night, the 800,000 homeless men and women and children- a quarter of which are veterans \u2026 seeking shelter from that same infinity \u2026\nInvoluntary homelessness can be ended tomorrow. It is just an attitude adjustment away.\nAs a soldier and a philosopher in closing, I\u2019d like to quote Walt Kelly\u2019s Pogo. \u201cI have seen the enemy, and he is us\u201d.\nGW is recruiting powerful allies, to fight alongside him to victory.\nRedeemer and BUILD\nThis Sunday at 11:30, we hope to have a full parish conversation about whether Redeemer might be the 50th dues-paying member of BUILD (Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development). BUILD is a broad-based, interfaith, multi-racial organization whose work is to assist people to discover their social, spiritual, and political power. BUILD\u2019s methodology is to listen to individuals in Baltimore, to hear their problems and hurts, and then to help individual problems be refined to issues that an organized community can act on.\nBUILD has been in Baltimore for almost 40 years, and its significant work includes, by decade:\n1980\u2019s Working with elected officials BUILD created the College Bound Foundation by leveraging $15 million from the corporate community for college preparatory activities and scholarships. The CollegeBound Foundation has assisted thousands of city public school students and provided millions in scholarship dollars.\nBeginning in the 1980\u2019s with its partner Enterprise Homes, BUILD is the largest non-profit developer of lower-income owner-occupied housing in the city. BUILD and Enterprise have helped to develop more than 767 Nehemiah homes, enabling families to create equity, while making their neighborhoods more safe.\n1990\u2019s Since its inception, Child First has grown from seven to 13 schools, providing academic, cultural and recreational enrichment to more than a thousand students each year.\n2000\u2019s State Funding for Education: BUILD organized with MD IAF and the Baltimore Education Coalition (BEC) to restore $18 million in state funding for Baltimore schools and $94 million state-wide.\nToday Turnaround Tuesdays job training, particularly with returning felons, in partnership with employers such as Johns Hopkins University, Medstar Health, Blueprint Robotics, and TRF Development.\nThrough BUILD we have a vehicle for being in relationship with people in our city that we might otherwise not know or work with. Their listening methodology intends to create peers, who may bring very different gifts and experiences to a given issue or moment, but who work together closely enough to form relationships. These relationships are transformative, as someone else\u2019s struggles become common ground for us, issues we all care about on which to meet and work together. And relationships are the way of the gospel. Jesus invites us into such intimacy with each other.\n\u201cWho is my neighbor?\u201d asks the lawyer, and Jesus tells him the story of the Good Samaritan, asking his listener to identify with the person who helps the man in the ditch. Jesus suggests that being involved in each other\u2019s life in this way changes everyone in the transaction.\nConcretely, BUILD will train us to listen deeply, focusing problems into issues. We will be trained to sit at a table with unlikely neighbors and discern what gifts we might bring to bear. We will ally ourselves with 50 other communities of faith, schools, and civic organizations, most of which are made up primarily of African Americans. We may be advocating on behalf of poor people or folks who are under-served, working with brothers and sisters to transform our city. Along with this work, Redeemer will continue to feed people, clothing the children at Govans, tutoring there, building Habitat homes, providing Boots for Baltimore, making lunch and serving it at Paul\u2019s Place. But BUILD enables us to make change, to get at the root causes of poverty, even as we serve those in need now.\nTo be clear, if we become full partners with BUILD, we will sometimes be engaged in scrappy work. The Baltimore that BUILD invites us into relationship with has experienced a fair amount of trauma, which in some cases is on-going, and it will be challenging to let ourselves be touched by such pain, to respond to it by knowing and loving the people who are in the midst of it, and to help them transform it. It might be noisy work sometimes. Like the widow who kept knocking on the judge\u2019s door, we might feel like a nuisance. But I can promise you that we will always be proud of the actions we take. And working in partnership with Baltimoreans in this way may just help us discover more fully who we are.\nJoin us Sunday at 11:30, to learn more, to listen to each other, and see what the future might hold for us.\nThis reflection needs a \u201cprelude\u201d in order to put it in context. Just as our secular calendar is divided into seasons (fall, winter, spring and summer) so too is our church calendar. You are familiar with the more well-known periods such as Advent, Christmas, and Lent that make up the liturgical calendar. But there are others. Currently we are in the season called \u201cOrdinary Time\u201d which began the first Sunday after Pentecost, June 11 and ends November 26.\nSo with that backdrop, a parishioner came up to me last week and said she has never paid very close attention to Ordinary Time in our church calendar, but this year she is finding that title to be soothingly significant. With floods and fires and political turmoil seemingly marinating every part of our everyday lives, just the idea of \u201cordinary\u2019 offers a sense of tranquility. She was feeling reassured that in the midst of all the \u2018extraordinary\u2019 challenges, the season of Ordinary Time in the church is comforting. As I reflected back on our short conversation, I have come to find equal wellbeing that liturgically we are in \u2018ordinary time\u2019; a period that is known and predictable. This is a reminder that occasionally we can \u2018hear\u2019 words differently.\nThis Sunday the Epistle selection is from Paul\u2019s letter to the Philippians. It is one of my favorite verses in the Bible and I think it aligns itself beautifully with the potential consolation that Ordinary Time can offer. Lean into the sample below:\nRejoice in the Lord always; again I will say Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Keep on doing the things that you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, and the God of peace with be with you.\nPaul wrote these words while he was in prison fully expecting to be killed. His immediate reality was one of turmoil and conflict. The culture was described as unjust, dishonorable, impure and shameful. Yet from his prison cell, Paul was able to find a different reality of God\u2019s redemption in the world. He was able to detect hope by training his mind to act with a theological discipline that consequently leads to that peace that \u2018passes our understanding. Paul invites them to rejoice in grace and goodness, letting go of fear\u2026.and he invites us to do the same.\nOrdinary Time, when experienced in this way offers us a gift that is a positive perspective. James Allen in his book, As a Man Thinketh, writes: \u201cYou are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.\u201d For today, now, I, in this moment, choose to let my thoughts take me to Rejoice in the Lord always\u2026.\nWe Are Made To Be Good Neighbors\nMy family\u2019s move to a row house near Patterson Park is transforming us. We knew we wanted to own less and spend less, to have a lighter footprint materially so that we could be more agile spiritually. We looked for and found density, diversity, walkability, public green space, easy access to shuttles. We wanted a place that prioritized being together for cooking and eating over privacy, with bedrooms just big enough for sleeping and storing clothes. And because we need to, we are spending more time on the street. The stoop of 109 South Chester is teaching us what being a neighbor means.\nYesterday I removed years of gravel from the stretch of \u201clawn\u201d between our sidewalk and the street. Five minutes after I began, the six-year-old from 115 plopped down beside me and asked if she could help. \u201cI love collecting rocks,\u201d she told me, and then shared her day at school. \u201cWe learned about bones and the soft stuff in your ears and nose.\u201d When I had trouble with my outdoor spigot, the man in 113 jiggled something in just the right way, so I could water the hard ground. A dog walker from a block away stopped to thank me for planting grass. 120 said \u201cAmen,\u201d and offered to water our little patch when it\u2019s dry. 126 crossed the street asking for help to get to the airport, flummoxed by his Uber app. He handed his phone to a mom sitting outside with her son. \u201cCan you make this thing pick me up tomorrow and take me to Cincinnati?\u201d he asked, laughing at the wonder of technology and frustrated by his ignorance about it. While one neighbor was setting up his reservation, another snuck inside and returned with plastic glasses and something for everyone to drink. My daughter got home from school and walked around the corner to babysit for our youngest neighbor, born a bit early, three weeks ago.\nIt\u2019s not all rosy: Sunday night we gathered at the intersection of Pratt and Chester as firemen put out a motorcycle fire. Parking is difficult, and we\u2019ve learned the hard way that the street is not safe after 11:00. Last night my wife attended a community meeting, and the president could barely keep order. Frustrations big and small overwhelmed the agenda, making conversation all but impossible\u2026 litter, zoning conflicts, a playground burned down this summer keep us on our toes\u2026\nYet, we are hopeful about Baltimore. We\u2019re invested in its promise and its people and its problems.\nI thought about all that reading David Brooks\u2019 column this week. There is so much close to home and far away that can invite despair\u2014violence in Las Vegas, tragedy in Puerto Rico and the Gulf Coast, murder and racism in Baltimore, struggling schools\u2026 Fear encourages us to circle the wagons, dig a moat or erect a wall, disconnect from others and put ourselves first. The world is too scary to reach out, say the fortress builders. People disappoint us, so why risk loving across borders of race and class and nationality and religion?\nBut Brooks calls forth \u201cenergy, youthfulness, and labor\u201d to counter this tribalism. We are made to be good neighbors, I would argue, a people who look hopefully toward a shared future, not resentfully eyeing some receding greatness behind us. How do we do it? Stop and talk with someone you\u2019ve seen for years but never spent time with\u2026 go to a community meeting, sit by someone you don\u2019t know, and ask how their doing\u2026 host a dinner and ask your guests to write to an elected official before dessert\u2026 tutor for two semesters\u2026 join a stranger who\u2019s picking up trash\u2026 make sandwiches with your kids and serve them at Paul\u2019s Place\u2026\nIn Luke\u2019s Gospel, Jesus suggests that being a neighbor is our access to eternity. Another way to say it is that we don\u2019t live until we love\u2026 across the street, on the stoop, in the ditch, within our families, around the world.\nWare 10-1-2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 17626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reflector.com/National-Sports/2019/02/11/Nebraska-RB-Washington-faces-charges-tied-to-assault-video.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PYMYK6QXLBAYGKOBGSWSCJCD6P7AIVOA", "length": 3795, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.reflector.com", "title": "Nebraska RB Washington faces charges tied to assault video - Daily Reflector", "raw_content": "Nebraska RB Maurice Washington faces charges tied to assault video\nIn this Sept. 8, 2018 photo, Nebraska running back Maurice Washington warms up before an NCAA college football game against Colorado, in Lincoln, Neb. California authorities have filed criminal charges against Nebraska's Washington. He is suspected of possessing a video of his underage high school girlfriend being sexually assaulted by two other people and sending that video to the girl less than a year ago. The university athletic department said it was aware of the situation and Washington's attorney said his client would cooperate with authorities. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)\nCalifornia authorities have filed criminal charges against Nebraska running back Maurice Washington, who is suspected of possessing a video of his underage high school girlfriend being sexually assaulted by two other people and sending it to the girl less than a year ago.\nClarissa Hamilton, supervisor of the sexual assault unit in the Santa Clara County Attorney\u2019s Office in San Jose, California, said Washington faces two charges: a felony count of possessing a video or photograph of a person under 18 who is engaging in or simulating sexual conduct and a misdemeanor count of posting a video or photograph of a person engaging in or simulating sexual conduct without consent, leading to the person suffering emotional distress.\nHamilton said Washington was not present during the 2016 assault. She said the assault case was adjudicated in juvenile court and those records are sealed.\nWashington obtained a video of the assault and sent it to the girl on March 2, 2018, Hamilton said, and the girl or her family contacted police shortly thereafter.\nThe Nebraska athletic department said the Nebraska Attorney General\u2019s office and university police notified athletic officials last fall that California authorities were interested in interviewing Washington.\n\u201cDetails were not shared and there was no additional follow-up with the Nebraska Athletic Department,\u201d the statement said. \u201cRecently, we were made aware that charges may be filed against Maurice in California. We have not had a chance to review the charges, and will continue to monitor this ongoing legal process.\u201d\nJohn C. Ball, Washington\u2019s attorney, said his 19-year-old client would cooperate with authorities.\n\u201cThe narrative put forth today is that Mr. Washington used a video as a weapon to re-victimize his former high school girlfriend. That is not true,\u201d Ball said. \u201cWithout a doubt, Mr. Washington had absolutely nothing to do with that sexual assault. The communications between these two young people are yet to be fully determined, and there are additional facts and circumstances that give context and perspective to this situation.\u201d\nHamilton said she decided to file charges Dec. 17 and is now waiting for a judge to sign a warrant for Washington\u2019s arrest. She said it typically takes two or three months for a warrant to be signed after charges of this type are filed. Once a warrant is signed, Washington would face extradition from Nebraska or he could return to California on his own and surrender to authorities.\nWashington was a star at King\u2019s Academy in Sunnyvale, California, before he transferred to another school in nearby San Jose following his sophomore year. He later attended high school in Texas.\nWashington was considered a top player in Nebraska\u2019s 2018 recruiting class, and he earned immediate playing time. He appeared in 11 games and started against Ohio State and Iowa. He finished with 455 yards rushing and 221 yards receiving. He also was Nebraska\u2019s top kick return man.\nSTORY:201902110344Nebraska RB Washington faces charges tied to assault video/National-Sports/2019/02/11/Nebraska-RB-Washington-faces-charges-tied-to-assault-video.html-1story", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.regen.org.au/treatment-support/support-and-therapeutic-groups/infocus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IH3435VWHVMJRPXSGKCRBLBV5FZOH4NW", "length": 1580, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.regen.org.au", "title": "InFocus Education Program - Uniting Care ReGen", "raw_content": "Going round and round in circles, overwhelmed by the chaos in your life?\nThe program used to be known as ARC (Action for Recovery Course), but has been renamed InFocus.\nParticipating in this group can have a powerful impact on family members' lives. The following quote from a group member gives a good indication of the challenges and benefits for family members:\nTwelve months ago I was living in chaos, a totally out of control environment and didn't know what the hell was going on in my life or what was happening with my daughter, my life turned upside down.\nWhen I discovered the problem, it hit me like a sledge hammer.\nI researched the information I needed plus resources, services, supports and the ARC program, I reflect now and find I'm much more at peace with myself and can separate my life and that of my daughter. It's still difficult but I'm stronger and maintaining balance in my life...So thank you to SHARC & ReGen. I think so highly of the staff and organizations. I found the gift of hope that everyone shares so freely.\nSee Family Drug Help's website for information about the InFocus program, including other locations where it is delivered.\nWednesday, 6th February - 13h March at 6.00-8.00pm\nVenue: ReGen, 26 Jessie St, Coburg\nWednesday, 17th April - 22nd May at 6.00-8.00pm\nWednesday, 19th June - 24th July at 6.00-8.00pm\nThe program runs every Wednesday for six weeks\nContact: Call Family Drug Help at SHARC for bookings (1300 660 068)\nRead an evaluation report of the ARC Program\nWatch Family Drug Help's Manager, Angela Ireland explain the ARC program", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reginehumanicsfoundation.com/HumanEnterprise.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FU6XMWSD2K5TJWHP2AMKURPL62IKV3PD", "length": 30928, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.reginehumanicsfoundation.com", "title": "\ufeff Regine Humanics Foundation Ltd", "raw_content": "Dehumanisation of Humanity: The Human Enterprise\nHumanics: The Foundation: There cannot be a case made for a condition where humans live and die doing nothing; in other words, no activity or work is involved in human life and in the living it. Since the one single most important feature of what makes us human is our imagination which means to be able to imagine so to create, to bring about. The holder of the spring of imagination is the human with which to create and it is, therefore, the essence of what humanity is about in which the entire characteristic of being human is condensed. And because of this in all nations, in all cultures, in all tongues and in most of the scriptures work is viewed as part of what constitutes prayers and good deed or generally, doing and being good. That what creates the condition and systems and lets, supports, enables, fosters and enhances humans to be able to do so, being good and doing good, using their imagination and creating is what human enterprise is about and ought to be about.\nThe best example of work or to be creative is the example of being a parent and thus, looking at the work of a pair of parents at work in raising, sheltering, protecting, loving, providing food and drink and meeting all other necessities, educating, enabling socialising and cultural inter-exchanges, safeguarding and preparing a child for adulthood would provide us a great way to understand the value and nature of work. And in this, the Vedantic principle, and other scriptures have similar principle, of selfless work is found. This is the most profound and most significant of all human works, the hardest of all works and it is done without any payment or reward and despite endless array of challenges, troubles and difficulties. If this selfless work is \u2018rewarded\u2019 by payment the nature of the work would change and become a matter of greed or the intention of betterment in terms of financial or other rewards. However, if no payment:reward is made or expected than this work remains to be selfless and because of this nature of being selfless this work brings infinite joy and bestows a meaning to the parents.\nOr the work of an artist of any kind: a novelist, a poet, a composer, a singer, a sculptor, an architect, who might as well be a mathematician, engineer, scientist, a thinker, whose art is his:her thoughts, a playwright, a painter whose work is as such. However, all these works in our money based system lose their nature of being selfless because we are paid for such work so that we feel an infinite loss for the means to make the work offer us a meaning is lost. That what was to be the meaning of life becomes something for which one gets paid. The best example to elaborate this point would be to recall Leo Tolstoy\u2019s Resurrection: the young girl fell madly in love with the young officer who had had his fun. He, however, felt \u2018humane\u2019 so that he left some \u2018money\u2019 for the poor girl! What on earth was she going to do with this money? For this money changes her love into an absolute degrading thing! In essence, this happens to all of us as soon as we get paid for our work. It dehumanises us, it lowers us in our own eyes; it makes us feel cheated, abused and demeaned. We simply cannot feel any peace or joy because of the helplessness in which we were put in for which that what dehumanises us, demeans us, robs us, belittles us has been done to us and for this after the entire life\u2019s works what have we got to show for?\nNothing since all that money we \u2018made\u2019 got spent in paying the bills that went to make profits to all those companies. If, on the other hand, we work for nothing and create and make things, provisions, services for the rest of humanity all our lives then at the end of our life we can say that we have spent our life working and creating general good for others and we have done so for nothing while others\u2019 works and products offered me the grace and benefits that sustained my being for which I am infinitely grateful and I offer my thanks and gratitude and pray for those whose works sustained my life and the life of my family. This is meaning, this is selfless work and we have done so with all our lives and we ought to be happy about it. This does not happen in our money based system. One must work for getting paid because one cannot do otherwise for one needs that money to buy food and drink, be able to buy or rent a place to live and then all sorts of insurance to buy, mortgage and a range of diverse bills have to be paid. One simply, in this money based system, cannot do otherwise but work for money. So this is the apparent impasse: so long there is money there cannot be selfless work and there cannot be peace in any human heart. For the human soul cannot but see the fruitless labour that produces nothing in the form of selflessness.\nIn this, I would like to demonstrate a beautiful piece of wisdom I heard from a very young poet who once told me she would not like to earn money out of her poetry because than poetry would become a \u2018job\u2019 and she would not love poetry anymore or doing anything with poetry. This is what she must have meant: that as soon as payment is made the quality and nature of the work changes from something beautiful and magnificent to something dehumanising. This payment:reward is the means of the primary conduct of dehumanisation by which way we lose our connection to our work so that our work has nothing to do with our life\u2019s meaning.\nA young friend of mine once said to me what he thought of a particular experience. He said that he somehow ended up attending a huge party of some sort at a posh hotel. He went to the toilet to refresh and simply to use the facilities, as he said, since they were all so nice, where he met an elderly gentleman who stood outside the toilet with a towel for the people who come out of the toilets. He spoke with the person and he fell in love with that elderly man who was so polite, kind, warm and friendly to him. My friend then thought as to why on earth a human being\u2019s life is wasted away like this? That he was standing there with a towel for people. That was his job. My friend thought, those towels could simply be placed in a holder of some sort. But he tried to imagine this gentleman\u2019s life? What kind of work is this? What meaning can be found out of this so called job? And I felt and still do, that my young friend had a point.\nThe first and foremost act to begin dehumanisation happened when a child is taken away from the mother or father or both parents in times of wars, in times of historic slavery where the child would be claimed as the product of the owner who owned the slave. That is the first act of dehumanisation. Now, we may look at this work and say, a piece of music created by a composer, a poem written by a poet, a story or a novel written by a novelist, a design is done for a building by an architect or an engine is created by an engineer, all becomes that \u2018child\u2019 of the work and it necessarily belongs to the creator, not owned: one cannot own one\u2019s own creation nor can one own anything at all really. For ownership, like money is an unnatural concept and it is simply against natural justice. This includes individuals as well as their groups and organisations and bodies including states and nations who cannot own anything. No one and no body owns anything. This is natural justice. Everything in the Universe belongs to God, and those who do not believe in God, must take the view that everything in the Universe belongs to the Universe: we simply belong to everything and everything may belong to us. This offers a unique relationship between the creator and the created. That makes the creator humane and the created an expression where humanity shines through. In other words, if one needs to see humanity one needs only to look at the work. Read William Shakespeare to see what humanity is or read War and Peace or listen to a piece of Beethoven or look at a Brunel Bridge or experience an work of Monet and see and feel the humanity of their creators.\nIf we imagine a situation, say, all the poets are gathered together as might almost have happened in Communistic countries, in a communal place and they are basically imprisoned and ordered to write poetry that they then take and do whatever they like. The whole enterprise would seem grotesque. This very grotesque expression of power being used to dehumanise people off humanity by taking their child away from them is monstrous. One would denounce such a thing but effectively that is what happened to us in the entire progression of socio-political and econo-cultural system of human affairs management, in short, in politics.\nThe dehumanisation continues to get wider, deeper and more sophisticated in successive stages of the development of this system. Now, we have no say about what we create for we are employed and the employers take the child and pay us a wage:salary for the work we do. And the enterprises, let us include all activities that is of a financial:economic:business:trade nature in \u2018the enterprises\u2019, have established themselves as beyond people who work in and for them. Their purpose is established as creating profits because they have owners, in vary many classes, types and groups, to whom they must confer profit. That is the ultimate long and short of the basis of the enterprises.\nTo produce commodities to be sold so to make profits. Now, it is easy to see what it does. The primary and fundamental thing that it does is this: it dehumanises the very people that are working in and for this enterprise, say, it is working to build a bridge between the shores of the Atlantic. Now, the people at the top, the executives and the various layers and levels of managers and supervisors who have been separated from the \u2018lesser\u2019 people by way of offering them a \u2018better\u2019 contract with bigger salaries, benefits, provisions, pensions, holidays, bonuses and power over the \u2018lesser\u2019 people. They, however, are replaceable and are workers, though they do not view themselves as such. The working population have been told, trained and are reinforced that they are employed and that they get a salary:wage for their work and that is all that they are \u2018entitled to\u2019.\nSo they feel no connection to the \u2018child\u2019 of the work, the creation of the work and because of that they feel dehumanised, disempowered and morally dislodged and disinherited. This simply is the case because the enterprise has set out its goal as making a profit and without achieving this goal it shall not be an enterprise. Now, let us look at this project: the hundreds of thousands of people must be working in such giant of a project, building the unimaginable bridge on the Atlantic. There must be hundreds and hundreds of different professionals:experts working tirelessly in this project and no such giant of a project has ever been attempted in human history. Once completed there won\u2019t be a second instance of such a mad mad achievement of a feat this bridge would be that humanity in thousands years in future shall continue to speak about it. Such a project should make each single worker in that project the most happy, most \u2018proud\u2019 and most fulfilled people on earth. But it does not because at the outset the enterprise has established its goal to pay and get this job done so that they can count the profit! And should they succeed in building this bridge their profits would rise many folds in many ways including share prices going up, good will hitting the skies and so on and so forth. Yet, what does profit do to humanity? Nothing but to become a toy thing for the rich so that they can fulfil their extravagant life style and \u2018enjoy\u2019 life as well as acquire power that they realise money can and does bring. They can use that money to manipulate power, people and organisations and their culture and enhance their profits further. And those who are the \u2018lesser people\u2019 they earn money but they barely pay their way by simply direct debiting their income towards all the bills that they must pay. And they remain utterly exhausted, tired, demoralised, disempowered, dislodged, broken and disinherited. That keeps eating their inner being and things begin to crack inside and people begin to get ill and mental illness begin to set in and once they begin to fall down and out of the system there is no one there for them. No one is there for them.\nThis is at the heart of the dehumanisation and that begins by separating people, tearing them apart from one person to the next so that there are no two workers who are same or equal. There is no equality. The first casualty of dehumanisation is the beginning of inequality by way of separating the first two groups: the powerful and powerless. Then the powerful gets divided in groups and sub groups till they are singularised. Same applies to the powerless that they are singularised so that they simply are not the same. The first and foremost principle of dehumanisation is: to acquire power so to bring about inequality. Because there cannot be any power unless it is taken away from some other place so that there is a power gradient where in one end there is the highest concentration of powers and the other end has none. Along the way goes liberty as dehumanisation\u2019s casualty. The powerless one is unequal to the next powerless one, one\u2019s peers in theory for in reality one has no peers, and in relation to the powerful one the powerless one has hardly any liberty. So long power exists liberty and equality cannot do. The double-victims of dehumanisation are liberty and equality which means that natural justice is broken, without which, humanity cannot be human.\nNow, let us go back to the enterprise. If, instead of deciding, that the enterprise is to produce a profit, we propose and accept that the role of enterprise, any and all forms of human endeavours to create, is to create the states, structures, systems, means and mechanisms for humans to become involved in \u2018work\u2019, in activities to create so that they do \u2018good\u2019 deeds, good works with their life for we have seen that there is not and cannot be a case where humans waste their lives in idleness and that they must be involved in enterprise so to work, so to create. The very existence of enterprise would then acquire the highest of esteem to all for this becomes the avenue for humanity to become humans. This enterprise justifies itself by simply continuing to be that avenue on which humans walk and go to work, to create to be humans. And their worth as enterprise is that they serve humanity by two ways: one, that they create, advance, enhance and forward that avenue for humans to work and create and second, that whatever then the humans work out and create is \u2018useful\u2019 to the members of the humanion. This is the yardstick. So if some enterprise comes along and says, here you come and work and create. What to work for and what to create? It says, you come and sit and just stare at the skies and outside of the office building and when, bored, go to sleep and when it is time to go home, you go home. This simply is no enterprise for it does not satisfy the two criteria we have seen being established.\nOn the other hand, say, one starts an enterprise, in which the other enterprises send their workers for therapeutic benefits, and they pay for this service on behalf of the workers. This enterprise gets all these people who come after work and the enterprise trains them to work with, say, primary and secondary school children. They then send them in, say, groups of ten to a school where they work with the school and take the children home in groups, essentially walking them home. This helps the parents who are at work and cannot be with their children and most importantly, it helps the children to learn the locality and learn their walking way to and from school. Health-wise it is good, as a social activity it is good and they see how other people are simply doing something for nothing that would inspire them to go on to do things for nothing for others. And this doing something wonderful for others for nothing offers these employees an impossible rewarding experience that they find psychologically and mentally uplifted. Now, this enterprise is an enterprise according to our criteria.\nAnd once, this change in the use of yardstick is taken place, dehumanisation disappears and comes back natural justice because before it already had arrived equality and liberty for power is no longer anywhere but in nature.\nWhereby we come to the point: this means the entire human business, trade and commerce, banking or otherwise, mills, industries, in short, all and any forms of economic:financial bodies must have this social enterprising quality for they are not here to make profit but to create socially enterprising enterprises that offer humans the avenue to work and create things:services:materials:anything that can be of use, which are useful and beneficial to humans and human societies. This is the yardstick. In capitalism, profit is the \u2018market-god\u2019, money is the \u2018market-god\u2019. But this is no god, this is a monster for it lives and breathes in greed and humanity dies in greed for greed breeds selfishness that kills humanity. Yet this monster dies overnight if we change the yardstick and get the enterprises to be socially enterprising meaning their roles are two-folds: to be the avenue for humans to use to be able to work and create useful things and beneficial things for human needs and necessities.\nHow does then profit work? Money is a mechanical and arbitrary unnatural thing that is incongruous to what constitutes humanity and as humanity develops and continues to develop their social system of human affairs management replacing politics by humanics money shall simply disappear for there is not going to remain any forms of power so that there is no powerful and no powerless. To measure powers one simply needs to list three things: ownership, money and positions, in relation to managing powers. So long there is money, so long there is ownership, so long there is position, of powers, liberty cannot, and therefore, equality cannot either, exist and equally, there cannot exist natural justice. These three disappear and natural justice, liberty and equality come at once together. There will be stages of money\u2019s disappearance: one of which has taken money into almost a non-existent thing: the invention and use of debit and credit cards and automated banking. So that no one sees the money or cash. Money has become invisible, non-existence. The next stage might be that money would become some sort of concept credits and then there would come a time that money simply would disappear. For money is the key to dehumanisation and money itself will serve itself the last nail and disappear into the history books. This absolute connections between natural justice, liberty and equality Karl Marx had failed to understand and because he had failed to see this he, at the same time, did not see that it did not matter who owned the means of production, so long someone:or some BODY, Person, Company, Party or State, owns there remains the owner and not-owner, with money and without money or with more money and with little money and with power and without power. The have and have nots are the powerfuls and the powerless. And keeping the ownership, keeping money and keeping position of powers no one on earth could bring natural justice and equality and liberty. This is the triangle shape of these three: the base is natural justice on which raise the two arms of equality and liberty.\nIf there is no money how will anything work? This is the vital question: it works because to be human we need not have money. We need not have to be paid. But to be human, we have seen, we must be able to imagine, to work so to create. And in order to imagine and create we must need to be in peace and so long there are powerful and powerless, there cannot be peace for peace is nothing but the harmony expressed out of the unison natural expression of that what is natural justice that cannot be unless liberty and equality exist simultaneously. So we carry on with our enterprises that are socially enterprising and we carry on working and creating and making things, products, services that are necessary, useful and beneficial for the humanion. All these products, services, utilities and things go to the markets:supermarkets:suppliers:sellers etc from where people collect:shop:buy them to meet their needs.\nThe teacher does not make food nor does she make houses or make clothes. But she teaches the children of the farmers, of the house makers, clothe makers and so on so that she is entitled to get a house and food and drinks and all other necessities. Likewise the doctors do not design buildings, nor does she sing nor drive buses nor navigate a ship; but she does treat people when they are ill and in pain. So she is entitled to get her needs met while those who do not work as doctors get their needs met as well. No one pays for anything nor anyone is paid for their work. Everyone is using and meeting their needs by others\u2019 works and not their own so that each and everyone is much more aware of others\u2019 works and therefore, becoming more humane in the sense that he:she would be gracious and thankful and would appreciate what others do for them. The cynics might say, well, this is utopia. Indeed, as we have set out in the beginning, in our judgement, imagination is the highest of human trait and therefore, everything that is human originates from imagination and therefore, whatever is real or part of reality has once lived in imagination and comes out of that imagination:utopia into reality. Mark this point with the bridge over the Atlantic. I have imagined it being done. There was no Eurotunnel but now there is. Eurotunnel was once like this Atlantic Bridge but it became a reality. I imagine in four hundred year\u2019 time humanity will build a bridge between the shores of the Atlantic. And in this imagination this bridge begins its life which will reach other minds and they would begin to imagine it and then lot more others would join and one day it would reach an Eiffel who would take it further and who might be able to persuade some people who would subscribe to his or her vision and there might be a joint feasibility study group formed of specialists from across the pond and so on and so forth. Readers reading this four hundred years later could look at the bridge and say that guy had imagined it first! Look at the City of New York. It really did not exist the way it does today before the second world war. The City of New York and all those great engineers and town planers and the other great imaginary minds with high vision had imagined the city the way you see it today, then they had gone onto creating it. Without imagination there is no creation.\nThis, that no one is paid for their work, will take away the ignominy from humanity. That no one would dare pay for our works, for our creations for the rest of humanity because this work, this creation of ours offers us the means to be human and to earn a meaning in and of life. This stops us being dehumanised. No one sells anything nor does anyone buy anything. Yet everyone\u2019s needs are met for all humanity works and thus the total output of the human endeavours would be the highest so that it would be possible to meet all human needs. Everyone creates and everyone works. And no one works for selfishness anymore nor for greed or for temptations. Most importantly, no one is forced to work for or as something that they cannot stand. Everyone will be able to work in what they love to work as.\nHowever, until we have developed into that state we need to work within this system of money and seek to bring it under the rule of law and ensure it works within the framework of these laws. Thus, today\u2019s enterprises go on except they are designed and shaped by law to be socially enterprising which means that the making of profit is no longer an acceptable form of enterprise. Their fundamental purpose is to be socially enterprising. They should run themselves financially viably and seek to make a reasonable profit to which society has the highest stakes to which these enterprises \u2018morally\u2019 belong.\nThe enterprises pay all the taxes including social enterprising tax to support the education, training of young people, baby care and childminding and other family orientated services because these children are going to become adults who would one day work for the enterprises and therefore, they have a duty to support these children\u2019s upbringing and education. These enterprises then use some of their profits to be reinvested in the enterprise to enhance and strengthen it. These enterprises then use a portion of the profits to be given as share to all employees of the enterprise.\nWhatever is left, goes to the people who \u2018owned\u2019 the enterprise, the owners, shareholders etc. One might say, what is the point of doing enterprise then, if one does not get to make or gather profit and becomes rich? The idea is not one to get rich and 99 to become and stay poor. The idea is that we all stay happy and healthy and in a good state of mind and body and are useful to the wider humanity. The people who start, own and run businesses they do it because they want to be part of that avenue creation for humans to walk on so to be able to work and create so to help and support the human race meet its needs and become and stay human? What better goal is there? The days in which people were left to die of malnutrition, of poverty, suffer in hunger and die in ill health and live on the street while the rich indulge in their life of luxury is over and is no longer acceptable and not even feasible. It simply won\u2019t work.\nWe are speaking of law and rule of law: we establish the social structure, the economic framework, the political and socio-cultural network that shine and prosper because they foster, support, enhance and encourage humanity to continue to grow strong. We do it because we as individual would like to work, to be able to work and create and feel the work belonging to me so that when it goes to fulfil others\u2019 needs and necessities I feel that sense of the good I have done! I would like to do good and would like to support everyone else do the same with natural justice working as water, oxygen, sky and ocean for us all. This is a society of humanics where greed is eradicated without violence and force; where hatred and negativity is deleted without further hatred and negativity but with reason and exemplification of scientific and mathematical mind-framing and by way of developing a culture of humanical way of thinking and not the old way of adversarial thinking.\nThis is what we are calling the Human Enterprise. One might say, why would the rich accept this? The rich live in society but they are not the only ones that form the society. The not rich ones are equally members of that society and they must have a say even in the capitalist system. The society\u2019s members elect their representatives to run their affairs. If they elect a government that enshrines laws with these principles that are supported by most people, if not by all, for 2+2=4 and there cannot be a single human in the entire human race who could say no 2+2=20 then all the enterprises of the land must abide by these laws for these laws shall be enforced. The rule of law is determined by the people who would like to be ruled by the law. Revolution, bloodshed, hatred, guns, loathing, class struggle etc is old, old, old ways! I would like to think that humanity has advanced quite much so to be able to use the highest of human trait: rationality, instead of guns:power:threats:incitement:temptation:greed etc. The worst legacy of Karl Marx\u2019s theory, despite the good it has done to the world albeit with all that bloodshed, is the emphasis of class struggle and class hatred while the class thing was an absolute misguided sociology and politics for capitalism has separated people to each cell of an individual in the name of what we are calling singularaisation or singularaising so that the concept of 'class' is simply the most dangerous simplified generalisation. Hatred has no place in mathematics or sciences or in reason or rationality. No one can achieve natural justice by hatred, loathing and anger. Fire cannot feed one\u2019s soul only natural justice can which comes from the serenity of being at liberty and being equal to all the rest of the fellow humanity.\nIt is the single individual who decides the fate of his:her nation. For each individual decides with the same reason and rationality that we need the rule of law and that rule of law means the rule of law of that law what constitutes natural justice. And natural justice is the state where humans are all equal and at liberty and each and every single human being individually and plurally able to live in and with humanity in harmony. And The Human Enterprise offers just a brief possible window of the reasoning of this way of thinking.\nAnd in this society of law to ensure natural justice, for this alone is the precondition for equality and liberty to exist at the same time which is the precondition for stopping dehumanisation, that would bring back work to its eternal footing: selfless work that offers us avenues to become human. So that our work is good and we do good by our work and all this work of ours goes to support others\u2019 live and be humans and yet others\u2019 works support me to be human as well so that there is no me and mine for I mind others by my work while others mind me by their work. Selfishness is eradicated giving way to humanity to flourish.\nAnd here is the other end of the enterprise: all members of a nation or a people must be equal and must belong to the land they live in equally. So that they all are equal citizens of that country which no one can take away from them. No humans can be or stay human if they do not have a home, which by the way, is the only avenue to see that someone is connected to that country:nation. If one is homeless this person is cut out of his:her country:nation all together. The society must ensure everyone has a home from which no one can turn them away like the way no one can take their citizenship away so that each and every member of such a nation has a real stake in the country:nation. There is adversarial nonsense about it, that might be heard like intentional homelessness or this or the other. Everyone needs a home and it is the duty:job of the government to ensure that that is the case. For those who have no home have no connection to the nation they are supposed to be part of even if they are citizens of that country:nation they are essentially robbed off their citizenship: Humanics: The Foundation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 35123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.review-news.com/articles/2018/09/11/milwaukee-april-bites-bikes-and-blizzard", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:40Z", "digest": "sha1:QBJ6C5IAXRPP7JFNSMTMPI4M6P523YDP", "length": 7396, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.review-news.com", "title": "Milwaukee in April: Bites, bikes and a blizzard | Lillie Suburban Newspapers - LillieNews.com", "raw_content": "Milwaukee in April: Bites, bikes and a blizzard\nPamela O'Meara\nGrizzly bears lumbered around at the Milwaukee Zoo. (Pamela O\u2019Meara photo/Review)\nAt the Harley-Davidson Museum, this 1936 Harley motorcycle is on display. (Pamela O\u2019Meara photo/Review)\nWhistling Straits Golf Course in Kohler, Wisconsin, overlooks Lake Michigan and was temporarily covered with snow following a mid-April blizzard. The course is set to host the 2020 Ryder Cup. (Pamela O\u2019Meara photo/Review)\nA blue and white tile Kohler sink is featured in the club house at Whistling Straits Golf Course. (Pamela O\u2019Meara photo/Review)\nShort ribs with fiddlehead ferns and pearl onions made a delicious dinner in the Immigrant Restaurant at Kohler. (Pamela O\u2019Meara photo/Review)\nMiss Katie\u2019s 1950s diner is a good place to start a spring visit to Milwaukee if you like good burgers and delicious fries. Follow that up with a custard tour of 1950s drive-ins with Milwaukee Food and City Tours.\nWhat\u2019s the difference between frozen custard and ice cream? With added eggs and cream, custard is richer. And custard is very popular in Wisconsin, though it dates back to 16th century France or even earlier. With so many custard shops, Milwaukee, sometimes known as \u201cBeer City,\u201d is also called the \u201cfrozen custard capital of the world.\u201d\nThe frozen snacks would prove to be a prelude to a mid-April blizzard that disrupted my trip to southeast Wisconsin for a travel writers\u2019 conference and tour.\nMilwaukee is home to Harley-Davidson, the premier motorcycle company. We toured the Harley-Davidson Museum, which offers a glimpse of American culture and history \u2014 motorcycles are seen as a symbol of rebellion, freedom and adventure \u2014 along with interactive exhibits.\nIt showcases many famous bikes \u2014 some from World War II and a red one made famous by Elvis Presley \u2014 and explains the evolution of the vehicle from small black bicycle-like models to large, powerful, colorful, even pink or sequined models.\nWe enjoyed a catered dinner at City Hall, an old downtown building that many years ago reportedly was the third tallest building in the U.S. It was built over a swamp with 25,000 logs beneath it, the mayor told us, adding that millions of dollars were recently spent to shore up the building, and as part of the city\u2019s redevelopment, a freeway that once divided the city was removed.\nMilwaukee, where three rivers came together, was once a meeting place and trading post for indigenous people for hundreds of years. Then in 1846, three small villages merged to form the city, now the largest in Wisconsin. These days the downtown is being redeveloped and more businesses, condos and apartments are being built in the heart of the city.\nExpanding zoo\nThe next day we headed to the Milwaukee County Zoo, then under construction because new zoo certification rules require more space. We saw a few animals: Snow Lily, the polar bear, the zoo\u2019s four grizzlies, caribou and two African elephants. In all, the zoo has more than 3,100 animals in specialized habitats.\nOur guide added that nowadays, zoos around the country trade animals to widen the gene pool, since the animals no longer come from the wild.\nAfter brunch at Blue\u2019s Egg for crab cakes and blueberry buckle with lemon sauce, we headed to Urban Ecology, which is unique to the city.\nIt offers all kinds of activities for children, particularly inner city kids, who haven\u2019t had exposure to skiing, snowshoeing, gardening and more. For a small fee, families can get a year membership to do all of these things and borrow the equipment to do them as well. It\u2019s an interesting and expanding program, served by hundreds of volunteers.\nDiscovery World, right on Lake Michigan, our next stop, offers a variety of science and technology programs, as well as a three-quarters-size schooner, aquariums stocked with Lake Michigan fish, interactive exhibits and plenty more to spark kids\u2019 interest.\nThough some 100 ships a day once went through the port of Milwaukee, few do nowadays.\nCoffee to steak\nWe spent the next morning doing a fun food tour, stopping first at Colectivo Coffee, where we sampled some delicious joe, sweet and savory pastries and watched a video on growing and harvesting coffee beans in Peru.\nWe also stopped at Juice Kitchen, which serves healthy drinks, and Indulgence Chocolatiers, which offers delicious truffles with fine chocolate. We supped at 5 O\u2019clock Steak, an old-time, wood-paneled supper club that has been featured on the Food Channel. My steak was delicious and our group shared lots of sides and desserts.\nThat night, the weather took a dramatic turn for the worse. Snow had been predicted, but getting snowed in, in April, was something else altogether.\nThe following morning snow was pouring down \u2014 two feet were expected in Sheboygan, our next destination \u2014 so that part of our trip was canceled. We holed up in our hotel for another day watching blizzard reports on the television, which flickered due to the storm.\nThe situation reminded of my favorite children\u2019s book, Dr. Seuss\u2019s \u201cThe Cat in the Hat.\u201d\n\u201cThe sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold, wet day. I sat there with Sally. We sat there we two, and I said, \u2018How I wish we had something to do!\u2019\u201d\nWe still didn\u2019t know when we went to bed if we\u2019d be leaving in the morning, as re-scheduled. But thankfully, the weather was better come sunrise, so off we went.\nFrom horse trough to bathtub\nIn little over an hour and despite the snow, we arrived at Kohler, a company town where bathroom fixtures have been designed and manufactured for a century.\nWe stayed at the America Club, an old red-brick building from 1918. It once was a dorm for men working for the Kohler Company, a place where employees were fed well and given English lessons to encourage them to become citizens. Now it\u2019s a five-star boutique hotel and spa.\nBefore visiting the Kohler plant, I never realized that toilet tanks, sinks and bathtubs were essentially made of clay. During the tour, we saw large balls of raw clay formed and fired in giant kilns and transformed into various china products \u2014 some became sinks with lovely flower patterns, and toilets and tubs with square shapes.\nJohn Michael Kohler emigrated from Austria in the mid-19th Century, settling first on a farm near St. Paul and then moving to Chicago as a traveling salesman for a furniture company. He eventually ended up in Riverside, Wisconsin, and planted the seed for his bathroom products business there, beginning with a horse trough to which he added feet and enamel and sold it as a bathtub.\nThe town took on the company\u2019s name and the town\u2019s namesake business has been inseparable from the place ever since.\nToday the Kohler Design Center tells the history of Kohler bathroom products and has designer rooms featuring new items.\nKohler is also famous for its golf courses, like Whistling Straits, where eight holes situated along Lake Michigan were covered with snow when we visited. This famous course will host the 2020 Ryder Cup and other competitions. We toured the men\u2019s locker room to see its flowered bathroom sinks and Tiger Woods\u2019 locker.\nAs summer comes to an end, I remember this surprisingly snowy trip \u2014 the blizzard did add a touch of beauty to everything \u2014 and ready myself for more changes in the weather.\n\u2013 Pamela O\u2019Meara can be reached at pomeara@lillienews.com or 651-748-7818", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 328, "original_length": 13239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.revuemag.com/2013/03/the-roatan-reef/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WJPELQLKJ7JOXFDG5QEUYIOFTCWQLH3W", "length": 3135, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.revuemag.com", "title": "The Roatan Reef - Revue Magazine", "raw_content": "The Roatan Reef\nMarch 31, 2013 Revue Magazine\tLeave a comment\nby Monish Welcome\nA glistening island treasure of the Caribbean, Roatan offers numerous activities such as boating, fishing and undersea exploration of the Mesoamerican Reef. The reef, a main attraction for divers and snorkelers, is divided into a north side and south side in Roatan, as well as its island neighbors, Utila and Guanaja.\nIn the north side of Roatan, the reef is separated at shore by a shallow lagoon, less than a kilometer wide, usually. The crest can sometimes be easy to find; on occasion, it breaks or almost breaks the water\u2019s surface; from this point on the reef slopes down to a plateau, which is followed by the reef wall.\nSponges, elkhorn coral and sea fans are the beginning of the vast marine life that thrives on the north side of the reef. The south side slopes out smoothly until it reaches the edge of the wall, anywhere from 10-30 meters, from which it drops to a sandy bottom decorated by a rich growth of colorful, soft corals.\nFor those seeking the best of both worlds, the western end of the island, where the north and south side meet, is the place to go; here the reef shows characteristics of both formations.\nPopular dive sites in Roatan are found in the Sandy Bay Marine Reserve, a protected reserve between Sandy Bay and West Bay on the west end of the island.\nReefs on the northern, eastern and southern side of Roatan also have many infrequently visited sites with amazing marine life. For suggestions, just stay at a resort along the way and ask locals and dive shops.\nA famous dive is Hole in the Wall, just around the bend from Half Moon Bay on the way to Sandy Bay. On the upper reef there is a steep sand chute where you can cruise down through a cleft to the hole; it pops out on the reef wall around 40 meters. This is one of the places where the Cayman Trench comes closest to Roatan, and very dark water\u2014depth around 800 meters\u2014is seen below. Although the highlight of the dive is the wall, time should be made to explore around the sand chutes on the upper reef\u2014you may spot a barracuda or eagle ray.\nBlue Channel, out front of West End, is a canyon with a narrow opening that widens and deepens as you swim away from shore. This is the perfect spot for an afternoon dive. This mellow dive includes channel swim-throughs, beautiful rock and coral formations and many colorful fish.\nOff the southwest point of Roatan is West End Wall, where divers should plan drift dives because of the strong currents. Whether you go to see the wall (which is worth seeing) or just to let the current zip you across the reef fields above the wall, it is a must for divers. West End Wall is the place to see hawksbill turtles, spotted eagle rays and colorful, dazzling fish.\nA visit to Roatan for any diver is a unique experience, every time!\nMore diving destinations next month: Sandy Bay, Bear\u2019s Den and Spooky Channel, to name a few!\nCategory: Honduras, Travel, Travel Destinations, Tropical Flora & Fauna\tTags: A glistening island treasure of the Caribbean, Marine Sandy BayReserve, Mesoamerican Reef, Reefs, Roatan, The Roatan Reef", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rfcafe.com/references/radio-craft/stromberg-carlson-receiver-radio-craft-september-1935.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:57Z", "digest": "sha1:O5GY52LE2PUGRU66G3DIXMJICWOQYJKC", "length": 2024, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rfcafe.com", "title": "Stromberg-Carlson 10 Tube No. 82 All-Wave Receiver Radio Service Data Sheet, September 1935 Radio-Craft - RF Cafe", "raw_content": "Stromberg-Carlson 10 Tube No. 82 All-Wave Receiver\nStrike three for the trio of radio models featured in this September 1935 issue of Radio-Craft magazine. I could not find any instance of the Stromberg-Carlson Model 82, either. The model 82 was a wooden-case console (floor-standing) format. It featured dual antennas that were selected automatically with the band selection control.\nThe 6A7 tube is used as a modulator only, a separate 76 being used as the oscillator on all bands to secure more positive operation on the high frequencies than is provided by the 6A7. Another type 76 tube is used as the demodulator and A.V.C. The three type 42 tubes are connected as triodes, the first being a driver for the two output tubes. The output stage works on the class AB principle, giving high audio quality. A low-level tone compensation feature keeps the tone quality evenly balanced between bass, treble, and middle register at the lowest volume level. A manual treble control is provided to adjust the reception to individual desires, or to reduce background noise. This control is continuously variable. and is combined with the on-off power switch.\nThe selector lite dial used on this set is designed for ease of operation, and is directly calibrated for each band available.' Only the band in use is illuminated, the different pilot bulbs being operated by a section of the band switch. The tuning meter is also illuminated. A dual-ratio tuning knob gives the necessary band spread on the higher frequency bands.\nThe use of two separate antennas is possible with this set, since a section of the range switch selects the right one for the band in use. The antenna terminal strip carries four posts, marked \"A\", \"AD\", \"GD\", and \"G\". For use of the same antenna on all bands, it is connected to the \"AU\" and \"AD\" posts, while the ground goes to the remaining two. Two separate antennas can be used. in which case the long one for the two lower-frequency bands connects to the \"A\" post, the short antenna to the \"AD\" post.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 12298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.richfarmers.life/2017/09/dont-buy-this-book.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IXYF6ZKZVFTMXTIPQWYRXWSNQX6IBWPZ", "length": 2560, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.richfarmers.life", "title": "Rich Farmers: Don't Buy This Book", "raw_content": "Writing a memoir is a tricky endeavor. There's the right (interesting) way and the wrong (\"WTF\") way. I think I wrote my memoir the right way, and I'm not even a professional.\nI'd always heard that Jimmy Webb was a master songwriter, and as a songwriter myself, I was naturally interested in reading his story. Let me expand on that a bit: Truthfully, I never thought Webb was a \"master\" songwriter, but everybody says he is. I hated \"Wichita Lineman\" when it was first released in 1968. I like it now and I appreciate the writer's craft. \"Galveston\" wasn't as good, but it was good. Webb obviously thought he was good. One doesn't really know much about that, however, in this memoir. One does learn a lot about the properties of various street drugs. I guess I could write a history of my love of nicotine, but you really had to be there.\nIt's kind of sad if one's legacy consists of naked orchestral concerts performed after swallowing random little white pills. Let's just say the anecdote doesn't heighten my admiration.\n\"The Cake And The Rain\" is a drug book.\nI'm no prude. I'm a live and let live kind of gal. But again, I prefer not to define my life by my cigarette addiction. Jimmy revels in his pharmaceutical dependence. At his (advanced) age, one would expect a bit of clearheaded wisdom.\nHere's a synopsis of the book (so you don't have to buy it): he had affairs with various married women and one of his concubines inspired one of the goofiest songs of all time:\nI think Webb mentioned that he brought the song to the Association at one of their recording sessions, and their combined reaction to it was, WTF?? Kind of a universal sentiment.\nAlso, balloons.\nI think I borrowed the book from my library (I thankfully didn't purchase it) because Glen Campbell had recently passed away and I was feeling sentimental. This book just made me feel icky.\nThe author comes across as glib and severely out of touch. But he did buy drugs for Nillson and John Lennon, so there's that...\nI don't know why I read the book the whole way through. I was perhaps hoping for a morsel of hard-fought wisdom. I didn't find it.\nThere's one thing I found admirable about Jimmy's songwriting -- and it was only found in the index -- apparently not worth but a cursory mention:\nI'm told this book was only Chapter One.\nGood luck there, Jimmy. I don't know what else is left to say, but I won't be finding out.\nYou should read mine sometime. It's actually interesting, and I'm not even famous.\nLabels: bad songwriter, don't buy this book, highwayman, jimmy webb, memoir", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roadarch.com/h/ramerica.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:29Z", "digest": "sha1:NP6OOOSM6AUCEGDA5XBBQUN35UZH2OIO", "length": 1816, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.roadarch.com", "title": "Miniature Cities | RoadsideArchitecture.com", "raw_content": "Mini Cities (page 1)\nThis is an archived section. It is no longer linked to the Home Page of my website. Too many sections, too many topics pulling me in different directions. So, I will leave this section be and not remove the pages because I hope folks that land here and are interested in \"Mini Cities\" will find it useful. But I will no longer be actively updating or adding things to this section.\nOld view of the fa\u00e7ade\nFamily members looking after\nOne of the more modern sections,\ndepicting Fairfield\nDusk at Roadside America\nRoadside America is billed as the \"Worlds Greatest Indoor Miniature Village\" with over 8,000 square feet of displays. There are more than 300 miniature buildings in a fully landscaped setting with running water, interactive trains and trolleys, and 4,000 little people.\nLaurence Gieringer began building these miniature buildings in the 1920s. As the collection grew, they were displayed at various places. Roadside America opened here in 1941. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2.\nBird's Eye View Museum\nThe Bird's Eye View Museum contains over 165 model buildings which were created by DeVon Rose. He created the museum in his basement from the early 1960s until the late 1990s. The models which represent actual buildings in Elkhart County. They are made from trash and other found materials. The museum's contents were recently donated to the Wakarusa Historical Society which is raising funds to build a new home to display them. For more, see this website.\nTiny World is the creation of Ernest Helm. He began building the miniature buildings when he retired in the late 1980s. There are about 20 buildings. They are decorated on the inside and lit on the outside during the Christmas season. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2.\nMini Cities (pg. 2) Special Places Main Page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.robynsnest.org/2018/08/how-visit-to-dentist-is-pretty-much.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VKJDUR62FGYRWTPG2BKPOVXWP6LO36Y6", "length": 3366, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.robynsnest.org", "title": "Robyn's Nest!: how a visit to the dentist is pretty much like an awkward first date", "raw_content": "how a visit to the dentist is pretty much like an awkward first date\neverytime i go to the dentist, i think about how awkward the experience is. when i was in high school, i had braces and i would have to go to the dentist on a weekly basis for a while, so you'd think i would have gotten used to it. but i still find it super awkward. my dentist was also my orthodontist, by the way, so i still go to the same person that did my braces.\nmy dentist office is also pretty large, so up until the last few years i always had a different hygienist everytime i went, which added to the awkwardness because each time it would be someone i didn't know. i only have to go to the dentist twice a year because thankfully i have healthy teeth... but it still feels like an awkward first date each time. i've been thinking about the similarities for a few years and finally decided to write them down. ;)\n5 ways a visit to the dentist is pretty much like an awkward first date:\no1; the entire time i'm laying back in the chair, i'm thinking to myself \"what do i do with my hands?\" and \"how much eye contact is too much eye contact?\" i lay my hands on my stomach for a while because that's the easiest but then they get tired after a while! i also don't want to look at the hygienist while she's digging around in my mouth (lol) but sometimes she's leaning over my face and i can't help but look at her. nothing is more awkward than making eye contact with someone when you can't talk, at least i find that awkward!\no2; prior to the appointment, i wonder if we are going to have enough to talk about or if there will be awkward silences? since i only go every 6 months it's hard to remember details about my hygienist (and i'm sure she doesn't remember details about my life either!) so i get stuck on questions to ask and i'm not huge on small talk in the first place! this is a huge anxiety before meeting new people as well, and especially on a first date!\no3; at the dentist it always seems like they ask me questions while they're working on my teeth, so i can't really answer. on a first date this is the equivalent of someone asking you questions when you just took a bite of food... so you have to hurry and chew your food, while they watch you, before answering. either that or talk with a mouth full of food. another similarity is that the questions that are asked, both at the dentist and on a first date, are very generic and general. i feel like i answer the same questions every visit to the dentist haha\no4; at the dentist, and on a first date, you're trying to impress them which often comes in the form of embellishing the truth. at the dentist this looks like \"oh yeah I floss EVERY day\" and on a first date this may look like \"i am pretty much the most awesome person in the world\" haha\no5; at the end of the visit or the date, you have to schedule the next one and it's always hard to figure out what will work between both of our schedules. if it's a bad first date, you may not want to schedule another one and i basically never want to think about having to do the dentist appointment again so soon, haha! you may find yourself thinking \"well if it doesn't work out and i have better things to do, i'll just reschedule\" ;)\ndo you find the dentist awkward also? or is it just me?\nwe're building a house!\nhow a visit to the dentist is pretty much like an ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 5544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rodandrhea.com/Blog.php/port-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:03Z", "digest": "sha1:JHBV5ZWEM2V6XEINYHVTLH6R6BN6HLUQ", "length": 161, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rodandrhea.com", "title": "Blog: Port Coquitlam Real Estate", "raw_content": "There are 45 homes listed for sale in Port Coquitlam\nThey range in price from $349,900 to $1,499,000\nTo view these or other homes send an email or give us a call", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 3121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 207.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rossendalenews.org.uk/business-news-linemark-land-second-queens-award/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:05Z", "digest": "sha1:UIRIXKS6E6TN45CMBAF6OTOL5LEKEGTT", "length": 2111, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.rossendalenews.org.uk", "title": "Business News: Linemark Land Second Queen\u2019s Award - Rossendale Council News", "raw_content": "Director Tony Holt said;\n\u201cIt\u2019s a huge honour for everyone concerned with Linemark, HD Signs and N-Virol and great reward for all their hard work.\nThe Queen\u2019s Award for Enterprise is the most prestigious honour a business can receive and to pick up a second is incredible. I am sure it will boost our reputation even further, because there\u2019s no finer mark of excellence.\nThis year it\u2019s extra special because it is being announced to coincide with the Queen\u2019s 90th birthday.\u201d\nDirector Jan Korab added;\n\u201cOur line products and signage have been used for more than 20 years at some of the most prestigious stadia in the world. We are a global business with a world-renowned customer base. We are also innovators, which sets us apart from our competitors. As well as line-marking products, we also offer full stadium branding and we always find solutions for any difficult surface that needs an advert printing on it.\u201d\nLinemark was established in 1995 and supplies line-marking paint products and machines to major international stadiums. HD Signs, a specialist in signage and graphics, offers everything from commercial and stadium signage through to all forms of surface graphics. N-Virol produces a range of building restoration and preservation products, and a full range of basement waterproofing, basement tanking and damp proofing materials for the construction and DIY industry.\nThe company\u2019s export strategy is based on investment in market research, identifying and educating distributors and market specific product development.\nOverseas sales have grown by over 80% over the last three years with an increase in UK employees and overall sales.\nCurrently the Linemark Group exports to 34 countries and has a single distributor for each of its markets in USA, Australia, South Africa, Denmark and France.\nThe proportion of sales exported has increased to 29% of total sales. It won the Queen\u2019s Award for International Trade for outstanding growth in overseas sales over the last three years.\nThe company also won the Queen\u2019s Enterprise Award for Innovation in 2011.\nFiled under : award | business | linemark", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rtsport.eu/evaluation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:31Z", "digest": "sha1:LQ67QSCL4UM2VXJ6S6QAT6FQUZBVEVTK", "length": 1352, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rtsport.eu", "title": "Evaluation \u2013 Reintegration Through Sport", "raw_content": "One of our main methodologies is the Social Return of Investment (SROI). The SROI methodology is an innovative approach which integrates social, environmental and economic values in order to measure the social performance of a program or a policy. It is a modified cost-benefit analysis which measures the social impact of an activity taking into consideration the social, environmental and economic value.\nThe novelty of the methodology lies in the fact that the social value of the activity is traced within the society as carried out through Social Investment.\nAlso, it provides the framework for being possible to evaluate the Social Outputs that stakeholders experience due to the under evaluation program, taking into account quantitative, qualitative and accounting data\nThe development and promotion of a social value assessment tool enhance the participant organizations\u2019 governance and the performance of their activities. These are achieved through the inclusion of all stakeholders in the process of defining social outcomes and their impact. In addition, it supports participant\u2019s transparency since they are able to make public detailed performance data. Last but not least, there is a vital contribution to the strategic planning of the evaluated project which turns out to be more efficient and effective in the future.\nSroi_methodology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 173.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rubiconheritage.com/tag/archaeology-edinburgh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:AB4VFKTYZL2HD7I3OJMUKKBG5OUW5YBO", "length": 898, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rubiconheritage.com", "title": "Archaeology Edinburgh | Rubicon Heritage Archaeological Services", "raw_content": "Tag Archives | Archaeology Edinburgh\nBy Rubicon Heritage on November 19, 2015 in Archaeology Scotland\nWe have previously charted our community archaeological work based around the possible medieval chapel site at Bridgend in Edinburgh (see here). Another phase of archaeological work is about to begin at the possible medieval chapel site at Bridgend in the south of Edinburgh in the coming months. Rubicon are delighted to hear the news that [\u2026]\nBy Rubicon Heritage on June 10, 2015 in Archaeology Scotland, Archaeology UK, Archaeology Wales\nRubicon are pleased to announce that Callum Allsop has joined the Rubicon Heritage (UK) Ltd team. Callum is appointed as Project Supervisor and is based out of the company\u2019s Edinburgh Office. Callum has several years\u2019 experience working as a commercial archaeologist, having worked on archaeological projects throughout the UK as well as on the island [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.runningforehand.com/2013/09/14/davis-cup-argentina-so-close-yet-so-far/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:22Z", "digest": "sha1:EROGSNGW6UE7EFJX257ZMO55VNMC5BB3", "length": 5495, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.runningforehand.com", "title": "Davis Cup \u2013 Argentina So Close, Yet So Far! \u2013 Running Forehand", "raw_content": "Davis Cup \u2013 Canada One Win Away From a First Final\nThe valiant team of Argentina: Leo Mayer, Horacio Zeballos, Carlos Berlocq,\nJuan M\u00f3naco, and captain Mart\u00edn Jaite\nWe knew before the tie even started that it would be a near-impossible mission for Argentina to reach the final against Czech Republic, as much as we know that Davis Cup is a whole other ball game.\nNervous at first, then outplayed, Juan M\u00f3naco still tried his best against Radek Stepanek\nWithout Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro, who did not want to play Davis Cup this year to put more focus on the Grand Slams, and without David Nalbandian, still not 100% from the shoulder surgery he underwent in the spring, it made it even more difficult. After all, those are the best players Argentina has to play on a fast indoor court.\nNevertheless, they had four valiant soldiers on their team, with Juan M\u00f3naco, Carlos Berlocq, Horacio Zeballos, and Leonardo Mayer, all players willing to give all they have, and more, when comes the time to represent their country.\nBut, let\u2019s face it, except for Mayer, none of them is good on a very fast court, which has been compared to ice by some.\nLet\u2019s face it, against Toma\u0161 Berdych and Radek Stepanek, even the bravest of heart and the most willing of them had very little chance of succeeding.\nTry they did\nLeo Mayer played the best match of his career but came up short against Tomas Berdych\nJuan M\u00f3naco was the one to open the tie for the visitors, against Radek Stepanek, a veteran whose old-school game expresses itself the best on a fast surface. The match ended up in a 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-2 victory for the Czech, despite M\u00f3naco having several chances, on which he could neither capitalise nor build. Pico was, at first, quite nervous, then outplayed by his 34-year-old rival.\nAfterwards came Leo Mayer, who played one of the best matches of his career, keeping it very close to World n\u00b05 Toma\u0161 Berdych. Mayer had his chances, he broke a few times and, just like he did against Andy Murray at the U.S. Open, he even took a set off him.\nHowever, even that proved insufficient, and Berdych left with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory, giving his team an almost insurmountable 2-0 lead after the first day.\nThe doubles were just as difficult for the visitors, as Berdych and Stepanek proved too strong for Carlos Berlocq and Horacio Zeballos, themselves pretty good doubles players. The locals clinched the tie with a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 victory, sealing a quick and tough defeat for Argentina, who remains so close to their objective, yet so far!\nBerlocq and Zeballos fought, but Berdych and Stepanek were unrelenting\nOver the last two days, many have been the comments bringing down the Argentinian team or one or the others of its members, some virulent, some absolutely insulting, some perhaps just, but usually far from the mark.\nOne thing needs to be taken into consideration: Argentina reached at least the semifinals for the fourth straight year, which very few countries can boast of.\nThis season, they were playing at home against Germany and France, two ties which they won, but which they were expected to lose, especially the quarter-final. They ended up defeating Germany 5-0, and edged France in a memorable fifth rubber thriller.\nFurthermore, the team has been more united than ever this season, under the patient guidance of captain Mart\u00edn Jaite and sub-captain Mariano Zabaleta. They made a place for the young, upcoming players, giving them the chance to be around the team and soak into the Davis Cup ambiance, and they, in turn, showed their appreciation and constant support to not only the technical corps, but to the rest of the team as well.\nA preoccupied captain during the doubles rubber\nMaybe they could not reach the final, this time, but all the players did give all they had, with their usual fighting spirit, and thinking that they could have a chance to turn things in their favour.\nThey couldn\u2019t, this time.\nHowever, to say, like some have, that Pico M\u00f3naco has no talent is doing him a grave injustice as well as uttering a blatant lie. M\u00f3naco must have some talent, since he was in the top 10 last year, and is still ranked 30th in the world at the moment. As well, we cannot fault him for his lack of will, as will he has aplenty. His being the team leader in a tie that was nearly impossible to win, on one of the worst surfaces for his game, then criticising him for losing is as hypocritical as it is unfair.\nAnd this can be said for every team member.\nThey were, perhaps, crushed by the Czech Republic in this semifinal.\nBut the fact is that they did get there.\nWhat would they need to finally win this ever-elusive Davis Cup?\nThat all the best players of the country take part in the ties, willing to give everything not to the public, but to the country, and most of all, to the team.\nThat everyone put their ego aside for four weeks in the season and work together with a common objective: bringing that huge cup home, for once.\nElse, the Davis Cup, for Argentina, will remain a dream so close, yet so far\u2026\n(Photos: Jos\u00e9 Rieiro)\nCarlos Berlocq, David Nalbandian, Horacio Zeballos, JM Del Potro, Juan Monaco, Leonardo Mayer, Radek Stepanek, Tomas Berdych\nThe Good Ol\u2019 Rusty Hewitt \u2014 When the U.S. Open draw was made and came out on 22 August, I made a bit of a bold prediction: Making a bold prediction: if Hewitt gets to Rd2, he\u2019ll upset Delpo. \u2014 Caro Paquin (@caropaquin80) August 22, 2013 Yes, I knew that Juan Mart\u00edn del Potro had wrist issues since the start of [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 11374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.s-rk.com/the-10-rules-of-businesses-and-how-learn-more.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2MYRR3W4QXOV6466PDZAMOLYKOBWGNHX", "length": 2331, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.s-rk.com", "title": "The 10 Rules of Businesses And How Learn More | S-RK.com", "raw_content": "Factors to Consider When Buying Drain Cleaners in Your City.\nWhen you have a clogged drainage, whether it is in your rental property or it is in your home it can cause a lot of damages in your property and also pollute the air to the people who are around that property. To avoid the blockages of your drainages it is important for you to buy a drain cleaner which is used to unblock blocked pipes and drainages and also to prevent the occurrences of the same. There are many stores in your city where you can buy drain cleaners but considering that today there has been a lot of substandard products, in the market you need to ensure that your buying from that store where they are known of selling quality drain cleaners. Discover more in this article where we are going to discuss some of the factors to consider when you are looking for the best store for buying quality drain cleaners,\n1. Quality and the prices.\nBefore you can buy any drain cleaner from any store, it is important for you to consider the quality of the drain cleaners that they are selling. In most cases, quality and the prices go hand in hand, and you will find that in that store where they are selling quality cleaners, their prices might be a bit higher. The most important thing that you need to know is that you should never compromise on the quality of the drain cleaners that you are buying because of the price. The best thing to do is to look for that store in your city where they have many positive reviews of selling quality drain cleaners and if you look at their prices they are still affordable to you. It is important for you to access the websites of the stores in your city where they are selling drain cleaners, to see their prices and you can also know the quality of the cleaners that they are selling by going through the reviews from other clients.\nThere are many different stores in your city which are selling drain cleaners, and in these stores, you will find that they have different varieties. To find that store in your city where they are selling that kind of drain cleaner that you are looking for, it is important for you to shop around and you will identify that store. It will also be easier for you to buy any other thing that you need to unblock your drainage when you are dealing with a store where they have varieties.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.safecommunitiesact.com/2018/01/25/a-reasonable-just-act-letter-from-falmouth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:20Z", "digest": "sha1:I4ADRTCQOM4K6BXC3TA75NBEZSJXJZGD", "length": 440, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.safecommunitiesact.com", "title": "A Reasonable, Just Act \u2013 Letter from Falmouth \u2013 #SafeCommunitiesAct", "raw_content": "\u201cThe 287(g) mandate can easily be abused, such as the power to search databases to find potential immigration violators, detain them, and alert ICE of their whereabouts. These practices elsewhere have led to numerous unlawful detentions, arrests, and deportations\u2026 The new ICE powers endanger our friends and neighbors, perpetuate stereotypes, and reinforce racism and xenophobia.\u201d\nSandra L. 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According to sources, the National Award-winning actress will talk about the pitfalls and challenges associated with both notions of beauty and the aspiration to look beautiful.\nAs part of the Best of Harvard in South Asia platform, Harvard Business School\u2019s India Research Center conducts lectures, round tables, panel discussions and debates around substantive topics that are relevant from the perspective of India and provides business leaders an opportunity to access some of the latest research taking place at the institute.\nThe group will be launching their Gender Series later this month and the first conversation is with HBS Professor Geoffrey G Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History and Faculty Chair of the Business History Initiative, on the topic Beauty: Limiting or Liberating.\nThe institution has invited Sonam Kapoor to join the esteemed panel.\nA source close to the actress added, \u201cSonam made for the ideal personality to join the panel, especially since the actress broke the internet earlier last year, with her open letter titled I Didn\u2019t Wake Up Like This, busting the myth of flawlessness. She has also been very vocal about condemning body shaming and embracing individual beauty.\u201d\nSonam shared, \u201cI look forward to joining the conversation conducted by the HBS. I think the subject is very relevant to our time. 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In collaboration with Elyse Pignolet. Hand-made and hand-painted ceramic tiles with underglazes, 30\" x 110\" x 8\". Collection of Jordan Schnitzer Museu\n\"American Mihrab #4\" In collaboration with Elyse Pignolet, 2011. 21\" x 16\" x 2\". Ceramic,\nVisitors to PPOW Gallery, New York Sept. 2010.\n\"American Mihrab v.3\" in collaboration with Elyse Pignolet Ceramic on wood, 2010. 60\" x 45\" x 6\".\n\"American Mihrab (White)\" In Collaboration with Elyse Pignolet, 2009. Wood and Ceramic, 65\" x 40\" x 10\".\n\"American Mihrab (Blue)\" Collaboration with Elyse Pignolet, 2009. Wood and Ceramic, 65\" x 40\" x 10\".\nWooden armature\nHand-making unique ceramic tiles\nGlazed and ready to fire\nFired and ready for application", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sarahkoffstudio.com/shop/trees-of-new-england", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:02Z", "digest": "sha1:BQ3IKO5EN5ZNPBKKHSVIMSUKXWTRRLZY", "length": 236, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sarahkoffstudio.com", "title": "Trees of New England \u2014 Sarah Koff Studio", "raw_content": "I chose my very favorite trees native to New England to highlight in this poster. The print measures 12x18\" and is on 13x19\" paper. It is hand-printed with black vegetable oil-based ink and is then hand-colored with watercolor. Linocut.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.satecgroup.eu/contingency/over-redemption/?lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QQ3KJHZDL6D4OED4WT3FZHMNTEXN42KW", "length": 825, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.satecgroup.eu", "title": "over redemption | satec", "raw_content": "\u201cOver Redemption\u201d are insurance policies that will cover the insured when his promotion based on a redemption (costumer refund, discounts or others) is more successful than expected. The \u201cOver Redemption\u201d coverage will assist the insured in creative new promotions linked with events beyond the insured\u2019s control. \u201cWeather Promotion\u201d is a particular case of promotion where the customer will get the redemption upon occurring of a special weather event (e.g. temperature, rain, snow).\nIn the US market these promotions have been offered as bets on weather conditions and they have increased sales up to 70% during the promotion. \u201cWeather Promotions\u201d are extremely flexible and can be correlated with all different weather conditions. Thanks to our specific knowledge, we can offer a wide range of \u201cOver Redemption\u201d coverages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.saveourfl.com/news.html?id=431", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:18Z", "digest": "sha1:D777ZP35DEUMI6U3ORTM7PY34AKSGVIU", "length": 5106, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.saveourfl.com", "title": "Amtrak Train Crash Leaves 2 Dead, Officials Say | Citizens Against Rail Expansion (C.A.R.E.) in Florida", "raw_content": "Amtrak Train Crash Leaves 2 Dead, Officials Say\nBy Nate Schweber, Patrick McGeehan and Mike McPhate\nCHESTER, Pa. \u2014 An Amtrak train, southbound at high speed on Sunday morning, slammed into construction equipment on the tracks near Philadelphia, killing two track workers and wounding more than 30 passengers, the authorities said.\nA team of investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board arrived at the scene on Sunday afternoon to determine why the equipment, a backhoe, was on an active track. The backhoe was struck by Amtrak\u2019s Train 89, known as the Palmetto, which left New York City on schedule about 6 a.m., bound for Savannah, Ga.\nPassengers said the train was hurtling along with no sign of trouble before the sound of a crash, followed by a shuddering deceleration. The crash left the front of the engine crumpled, its windshield shattered and riders in the front two cars thrown to the floor.\n\u201cThe direct impact was big,\u201d said Adriene Hobdy, a passenger. \u201cIt was terrible, absolutely terrible. All you felt was boom, boom, boom, boom. Our windows flew out.\u201d\nThe crash disrupted train service between New York City and Wilmington, Del., for much of the day, but Amtrak was working to restore service in time for the Monday morning commute.\nThe two Amtrak workers killed were an operator of the backhoe and a supervisor, said Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, who said he had been briefed by Anthony Coscia, the chairman of Amtrak. Mr. Coscia declined to comment to a reporter before the safety board investigators had arrived.\nBeatriz Mu\u00f1ozcano, 29, said she and her husband, Alonso Ortiz, were braced together in the third row of the train\u2019s second car. \u201cWe were waiting for something to hit us,\u201d she said. \u201cThe train was moving from side to side like a roller coaster.\u201d\nOfficials said they did not know yet how fast the train was going.\nMs. Mu\u00f1ozcano, who was making a day trip to see the cherry blossoms in Washington, said that after the impact, she saw a window fall onto a woman across the aisle. Dust from the crash was so thick that passengers could not see out of the train, she said.\nPassengers who were able to walk were escorted out the back of the train and taken on foot to a nearby church, Trainer United Methodist, where they gathered in a gym and were given food and water. In turn, they were put on regional buses and taken to Philadelphia, Amtrak officials said.\nAt the church, Ms. Hobdy, 33, who was given ibuprofen for injuries to her knees, recalled scenes of panic and confusion after the train came to a halt.\n\u201cPeople started saying: \u2018Get up and walk toward the back. Leave your luggage. Get up and walk toward the back.\u2019 So we did,\u201d she said.\nMs. Hobdy said that she did not observe any injuries that appeared serious, but that some people seemed to have back pain, and that others were using clothing to try to stop the flow of blood from cuts.\nPeople who live near the tracks bore witness to a more unsettling scene. Tiara Boyd, 27, and her mother, Trena Boyd, 54, looked out separate windows of their house and caught the aftermath.\nThe women recalled seeing a worker running frantically along the west side of the tracks yelling, \u201cOh, my God! Oh, my God!\u201d\nAnother worker was lying on the ground on the east side of the tracks, Trena Boyd said, his orange hard hat nearby. Trena Boyd said she saw him rise, pick up his helmet and stagger to a metal pole, where he slid to the ground and waited for emergency workers to arrive.\nMr. Schumer said that Mr. Coscia, Amtrak\u2019s chairman, told him that the railroad had a rigorous 20-step procedure for obtaining clearance to place equipment on the tracks. Mr. Schumer said it sounded like the accident could be blamed on human error, possibly a breakdown in communication between the maintenance team and train dispatchers.\nAn investigator for the safety board, Ryan Frigo, said on Sunday evening at a briefing near the scene that he did not yet know how fast the train had been moving or what efforts the engineer had made to avoid a crash.\nMr. Frigo said his team had obtained the train\u2019s event data recorder and video cameras that face inward and outward from the driver\u2019s cab, which should help answer those questions. He described the object the train hit only as \u201cheavy equipment\u201d and said he could not say why it was on the tracks.\nThe crash came the same day that a man died when another Amtrak train struck a vehicle at a crossing in Somonauk, Ill., according to local media reports.\nSafety concerns about Amtrak flared last year after the derailment of a New York-bound Amtrak train in Philadelphia left eight people dead and more than 200 wounded. The safety board determined that crash, the deadliest on the Northeast corridor in more than 25 years, was probably caused by speeding. The train was found to have been traveling at 102 miles an hour.\nDeaths have been relatively rare, however, with trains derailing about 30 times a year over the past decade, according to government data.\nLast month, an Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas, sending more than 30 passengers to hospitals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.schisholm.com/category/politics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:15Z", "digest": "sha1:GYHB47NKP6R2YCUQFUUYEJEX5JXX5DO2", "length": 1293, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.schisholm.com", "title": "The Chisholm Group | Politics", "raw_content": "June 2018 Colombia issues its first social bond in the local market. Funds will finance projects that benefit micro and small enterprises in vulnerable social sectors such as women, armed conflict victims and rural business owners. The bonds will be the first sustainable bonds placed in the local stock exchange, the Bolsa de Valores de [...]\nColombia\u2019s newly-elected President Iv\u00e1n Duque took office, pledging to unite the country and improve economic growth. The conservative political newcomer was elected in June 2018, after a divisive election campaign where he saw off left-wing rival Gustavo Petro. In his inaugural address, the former lawyer pledged changes to tackle corruption and invigorate the economy. \u201cI [...]\nSeptember, 2018 \u2013 U.S. Ambassador to Peru Krishna R. Urs authorized additional financial support for humanitarian assistance efforts in Peru in the priority sector of health to respond to the continuing influx of Venezuelan migrants. The United States Agency for International Development\u2019s (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance is providing the assistance through the [...]\nColombia's potentially groundbreaking new Victim's Law will provide cash compensation to those who can prove that they have been victimized in the country's longstanding civil war.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 6091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 152.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.schwarzgallery.com/catalog.php?id=82&sort=plate&plate=1&menu=1&group=0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DUOG7EZ6XMJ2DDPEZIL5AIBEYT4HNK4U", "length": 9480, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.schwarzgallery.com", "title": "Schwarz Gallery - Important American Paintings - September 2010", "raw_content": "Peggy Sanderson Hughes and Her Daughter, 1789\nSigned and dated center right: \"C. WPeale, paintd 1789\"\nProvenance: By direct descent through the sitter\ufffds family.\nReferences: J. Hall Pleasants and Howard Sill, Maryland Silversmiths 1715\u20131830 (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1930), pp. 134\u2013136. Charles Coleman Sellers, \"Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale,\" Transactions of the American Philosophical Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge 42 (1952), pp. 106\u2013107, figs. 225 and 226. Lillian B. Miller, ed., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family, vol. 1: Charles Willson Peale: Artist in Revolutionary America, 1735\u20131791 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 537\u2013538, 550\u2013552, 562. Garrett Power, \"The Carpenter and the Crocodile,\" Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996), pp. 4\u201315.\nNote: this item is part of a pair with a portrait of the sitter's husband Christopher Hughes. The following discussion pertains to both works.\nThe multifaceted Charles Willson Peale, along with John Singleton Copley (1738\u20131815), Gilbert Stuart (1755\u20131828), and Benjamin West (1738\u20131820), was one of America\ufffds first major artists; he was also noted as a natural history museum proprietor. Peale was born in Queen Anne\ufffds County, Maryland, and trained as a saddler. He took up portraiture during the 1760s, following the examples of John Hesselius (1728\u20131778) and Copley, whom he met in Boston in 1765. Financial support of some prominent Maryland citizens enabled Peale to study art in London with West from 1767 to 1769. After returning to his native country, Peale painted portraits in Maryland, Virginia, and Philadelphia, where he settled in 1776. An avid supporter of the American Revolution, he served in the Pennsylvania militia and became acquainted with many prominent military officers and politicians. He painted the first official portrait of George Washington (1779, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts), created a \"Gallery of Great Men\" comprising bust portraits of Revolutionary heroes and patriots, the majority of which are now owned by Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia. He trained his brother James Peale (1749\u20131831), his nephew Charles Peale Polk (1767\u20131822), and his sons Raphaelle Peale (1774\u20131825), Rembrandt Peale (1778\u20131860), Rubens Peale (1784\u20131865), and Titian Ramsay Peale (1799\u20131885), who all became important painters. Active in art organizations, Peale was a founder of America\ufffds first art society, the Columbianum, in 1795, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1805. Peale continued painting portraits, but his activity gradually tapered off during the early years of the nineteenth century as he became increasingly occupied with the museum of natural history that he established in Independence Hall in 1802. He died in Philadelphia. The merchant and silversmith Christopher Hughes (1744\u20131824) was born in Ireland and immigrated to Baltimore during the early 1770s. He entered into a partnership with John Carnan, and they advertised in the Maryland Journal & Baltimore Advertiser as goldsmiths and jewelers \"at the sign of the CUP and CROWN, the corner of Market and Gay Streets.\" After they dissolved the partnership in 1774, Hughes continued the business alone. He married Peggy Sanderson (1760\u20131825), also a native of Ireland, on January 6, 1779. The couple had seven children; their youngest son, Christopher Hughes, Jr. (1786\u20131849), became a career diplomat who was noted for having served in 1814 as secretary to the American delegation at the Treaty of Ghent, Belgium, that concluded the War of 1812. Hughes made a fortune around 1780, when the new American paper currency failed, and gold and silver were in demand. By the time Peale painted this pair of portraits, Hughes was a wealthy entrepreneur who was active in banking and real estate, and owned brickyards.1 Peale documented in his diary the circumstances under which he came to paint the Hughes portraits. Shortly after completing one of his most famous works, the double portrait of Benjamin and Eleanor Ridgely Laming (1788, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), Peale had breakfast with Hughes in Baltimore on the morning of October 7, 1788. The artist recorded that Hughes, who may have desired to commemorate his tenth wedding anniversary, \"wanted me to paint his family & take wine & Rum in payment\ufffdwhich I have to consider on.\" Peale lodged at Hughes\ufffds house on the evening of December 12, when he noted that the merchant \"agreed that I should paint his & Lady\ufffds pictures in half-Length size. I offer to add one of the children as a compensation for the board of myself and son.\" He commenced work on the portraits \"with but little intermission to the end of the Year.\" Peale was still working on Hughes\ufffds portrait on New Year\ufffds Day, 1789, when he presented Mrs. Hughes with a \"print of Genl. Washington on white sattin [sic] to ornament a Muff.\" On January 2, \"Mrs. Hughes & child sat for finishing the likenesses.\" The next day, \"Mr. Hughes sat for the drapery,\" and his portrait was completed the following day. Peale retouched both paintings on January 11. Evidently he did not accept payment entirely in wine and rum because Hughes gave him fifty dollars. On May 1 he delivered and received payment for two frames for the portraits; that same day Mrs. Hughes reimbursed Peale for a \"Cushion & curb\" (a horse rein) he had bought for her in Philadelphia.2 The artist presented a dignified and portly Hughes wearing a wig and seated in a fashionable Chippendale ribbon-back armchair whose style suggests that it was made in Philadelphia. He is set in a formal and somewhat archaic pose for the period, with his right hand tucked in his vest. In his left hand he holds a leather-bound book whose spine is inscribed \"YOUNG\ufffdS/NIGHT/THOUGHTS,\" a poem by the English clergyman and poet Edward Young (1683\u20131765) that was popular at the time.3 In the left background is a view of the wharfs in Baltimore harbor, looking toward Federal Hill where Hughes owned property. The schooner may allude to the sitter\ufffds mercantile interests. Peale presented Hughes purely as a gentleman with literary interests, and the image is devoid of any allusions to his former profession as a silversmith. The Peale authority Charles Coleman Sellers considered the much less formal double portrait of Peggy Sanderson Hughes and her daughter who holds a doll as \"one of Peale\ufffds cleverest compositions.\"4 In this respect the artist was probably influenced by the British portraitist John Wollaston, who was active in colonial America from 1749 to 1759 and included dolls in his depictions of mothers and daughters.5 The girl\ufffds identity is uncertain: she is either the fourth Hughes daughter, Peggy (1786\u20131843), or the fifth daughter, Louisa (1787\u20131861), future wife of Colonel George Armistead, the American hero of the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812. Peale\ufffds portrait of Hughes was indirectly involved in a public controversy that erupted between the former silversmith and a real estate speculator named Leonard Harbaugh. Harbaugh leased property from Hughes on Baltimore harbor that he had developed into Harbaugh\ufffds Wharf. When he encountered financial difficulties and was unable to honor the terms of the lease, Hughes terminated the agreement and demanded payment for back rent, placing a notice to that effect in the Maryland Journal & Baltimore Advertiser on December 11, 1789. On December 14, Harbaugh responded with a notice of his own in which he dismissed Hughes\ufffds claim as \"the Croaking of a hungry crocodile for more Plunder,\" and derided Hughes as \"a crooked serpent,\" \"a porpoise,\" \"a bugbear,\" \"a hungry wolf,\" and \"a devil.\" Alluding specifically to Peale\ufffds portrait of Hughes, Harbaugh continued: \"I have done you more justice in drawing your general character, even than Mr. Peale has in drawing your fine picture, though it is believed in general that it is not the artist\ufffds fault but your particular request to counterfeit one of your chins.\" Hughes soon repossessed the land, and Harbaugh was forced to flee Baltimore, as a historian put it, \"one step ahead of the sheriff.\"6 These exceptionally fine and important portraits retain their original frames that, according to Sellers, were made by Peale\ufffds younger brother James Peale (1749\u20131831).\n1. For biographical information on Hughes see J. Hall Pleasants and Howard Sill, Maryland Silversmiths 1715\u20131830 (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1930), pp. 134\u2013136; Garrett Power, \"The Carpenter and the Crocodile,\" Maryland Historical Magazine 91 (Spring 1996), pp. 4\u201315; and \"Christopher Hughes,\" Dielman-Hayward File, Maryland Historical Society.\n2. Lillian B. Miller, ed., The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family, vol. 1: Charles Willson Peale: Artist in Revolutionary America, 1735\u20131791 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 537\u2013538, 550\u2013552, 562.\n3. The poem was published in nine parts between 1742 and 1745 under the full title The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality.\n4. Charles Coleman Sellers, \"Portraits and Miniatures by Charles Willson Peale,\" Transactions of the American Philosophical Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge 42, no. 1 (1952), p. 107.\n5. For examples see Wollaston\ufffds Elizabeth Calvert (1754, Baltimore Museum of Art) and Mary Lightfoot (c. 1757, Museum of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C.).\n6. Power, \"The Carpenter and the Crocodile,\" p. 13.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 10531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 164.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com/hydrogen-powered-mobility-edges-closer-with-next-generation-fuel-cell-systems/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRLEQXVH2JHYJPWGQFDPIK7ACH5RDO2W", "length": 4018, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com", "title": "Hydrogen-Powered Mobility Edges Closer with Next-Generation Fuel Cell Systems | Science and Technology Research News", "raw_content": "Home Energy Hydrogen-Powered Mobility Edges Closer with Next-Generation Fuel Cell Systems\nHydrogen-Powered Mobility Edges Closer with Next-Generation Fuel Cell Systems\nScientists have made significant progress in the design of vital components used in hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Improved features will lower production costs and help create a clean automotive future.\nWith hybrid and all-electric battery-powered cars now becoming mainstream, hydrogen\u2019s importance as a versatile, clean and safe energy carrier is increasingly recognised. Although its use in transport is gaining momentum, the current market share of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) is small due to high costs and efficiency problems. A group of experts is addressing this challenge as part of the EU-funded INN-BALANCE project. They have recently specified the interfaces between the crucial components of the FCEV technology to improve their design.\nAs stated in a press release on the project website, \u201cimportant milestones have been reached regarding the definition of interfaces between components and the fuel cell stack as well as the design of the stack housing and the anode, cathode and the cooling modules.\u201d\nThese components are referred to as auxiliary components, or \u2018balance of plant\u2019 (BoP). They regulate the fuel cell system and manage the supply of hydrogen and air to the stack. \u201cINN-BALANCE seeks to engineer various improvements at the BoP level with a special focus on manufacturing-oriented design. The aim is to lower the costs for the industrial production of fuel cell systems.\u201d\nQuoted in the same press release, J\u00f6rg Weiss-Ungeth\u00fcm from the German Aerospace Center, who is in charge of developing the cooling system, said the cooling module is used for the thermal management of the stack. This has a significant impact on the water management and is critical in terms of performance. In addition, the BoP components have to be kept at \u201coptimal temperature and heat has to be supplied to the passenger cabin as needed.\u201d\nMaximising output while minimising losses\nThe ongoing INN-BALANCE (INNovative Cost Improvements for BALANCE of Plant Components of Automotive PEMFC Systems) project also proposes an \u201cintegrated injector/ejector solution.\u201d This will maximise the power output from the stack while minimising hydrogen losses.\nPEMFC stands for proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell, also called polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell. It\u2019s a type of acid-based fuel cell that uses the transport of protons from the anode to the cathode through a solid PEM. These fuel cells run at temperatures below 100 \u00b0C. Anode and cathode are the two electrodes in a battery or fuel cell, where the former is positively charged and the latter is negatively charged during electricity generation. Most fuel cells designed for use in vehicles produce less than 1.16 volts of electricity \u2013 far from enough to power a vehicle. Therefore, multiple cells must be assembled in a fuel cell stack.\nIn an FCEV, electrical energy that powers the electric motor to propel the vehicle is supplied through a chemical reaction that takes place between hydrogen and oxygen in the fuel cell. Converting hydrogen gas into electricity produces only water and heat as a by-product. If the hydrogen is being generated by a sustainable source, this means fuel cell vehicles could provide zero-emission transportation opportunities.\nINN-BALANCE was set up to develop a novel and integrated platform for developing advanced BoP components in current fuel cell-based vehicles. This is aimed at improving their efficiency and reliability, reducing costs, and presenting a stable supply chain to the European car manufacturers and system integrators.\nFor more information, please see: INN-BALANCE project website\nSource: CORDIS\nPrevious articleHole in Ionosphere Is Caused by Sudden Stratospheric Warming\nNext articleIn a First, Scientists Precisely Measure How Synthetic Diamonds Grow\nTrending Science: Is There a Link Between Gum Disease and Alzheimer\u2019s?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 6537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sconews.co.uk/news/56635/former-sco-editor-rennie-mcowan-1933-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:T6ZZAZM7AZI5ZYKQEVOLCDYOVQOCX5E2", "length": 6313, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.sconews.co.uk", "title": "Former SCO editor Rennie McOwan, 1933-2018 - SCO News", "raw_content": "Former SCO editor Rennie McOwan, 1933-2018\nBob Chaundy writes on the death of a former SCO editor, Church communications officer and trailblazer\nRennie McOwan was an esteemed outdoorsman, journalist, writer and broadcaster who was steeped in the history and culture of his native Scotland. He converted to Catholicism as a young man and served much of his career as a journalist in the Catholic media, most notably in the Scottish Catholic Observer, The Universe, The Tablet and as communications director of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy.\nHe was born in 1933 in the Hillfoot village of Menstrie, near Stirling. He went to the primary school of which his father was headmaster. His mother was also a primary school teacher and the couple were both from a long line of Presbyterians. McOwan\u2019s parents instilled in him a strong sense of self-reliance, free-thinking and egalitarianism.\nDuring the Second World War, the McOwan household became a centre of activity in which visiting Allied soldiers would frequently be invited for supper.\nThe family formed an especially close bond with many of the Polish servicemen stationed in the village. Many had been academics before their country was invaded and some of the friendships would last into McOwan\u2019s adult life. He would watch them going off to Mass, the first time he\u2019d had contact with Roman Catholics.\nHis interest in Catholicism grew when, as a young man, he met several Catholics during his National Service in the RAF in England in the early 1950s. He had an inquisitive mind and began to reflect on the different religions he was encountering. Later in Edinburgh, while working as a journalist on The Scotsman newspaper, his future Faith began to shape in his mind.\nA friend introduced him to his wife-to-be Agnes, a firm Catholic who impressed him with her conviction and the way she defended her Faith. Agnes was a firm advocate of civil rights at a time when Catholics were discriminated against in such matters as housing and employment. The words \u2018no Catholics need apply\u2019 were not uncommon in employment notices.\nAt about the same time, he became friends with Fr Lawrence Glancy, an Oxford graduate and linguist who would remain a mentor for much of his life. Glancy sensed a vocation in his friend. In 1958, McOwan was received into the Catholic Church. He decided that Catholic journalism was to be his way forward.\nIn 1962, at the age of 29, he gained his first editorship, of the Scottish Catholic Observer and succeeded in making it the voice of secular, modern Catholicism. One national daily declared his tenure as \u2018a period of editorial brilliance.\u2019\nThe circulation grew rapidly though McOwan put this down to its new sports section under former Scotland defender Willie Toner whose brief had been \u2018not just Celtic!\u2019 In the same year, he helped raise funds for a church for the exiled Ukrainian community. The first Ukrainian Roman Catholic Church was opened in Edinburgh and the community presented McOwan with an icon in recognition of his work.\nHe left the Observer for a four-year spell in Liverpool editing The Universe. Then in 1968, McOwan beat more than 300 other applicants to become the first communications director for the Catholic Church in Scotland. He succeeded in his aim to make the press office a magnet for all media enquiries. On one occasion, he took the entire Scottish hierarchy to lunch at the Press Club in Glasgow.\nThe job was not without its challenges. In Rome, while handling the elevation of Archbishop Gordon Gray to cardinal, the first Scottish cardinal for 400 years, he discovered to his horror that all the Vatican press releases were written in Latin. A hasty summoning of a translator was required to subdue the expectant English-speaking press corps.\nOn the same visit, Pope Paul VI granted him an audience (left) and was intrigued by a convert achieving his important position. During his tenure, McOwan forged closer links with other churches, and stressed the importance of dealing with the media to several organisations including an assembly of the entire Catholic hierarchies of the UK countries.\nWhile on an assignment to east Africa in 1971, he had a narrow escape in Uganda at the height of the Idi Amin era. When soldiers began beating up members of his convoy while travelling through the country with a missionary priest, he had to pretend he was a priest too to avoid a similar fate. Despite this, he developed a love for Africa and he wrote a regular column for the Kiltegan Fathers St Patrick Missions magazine, Africa.\nDuring his time as communications director, McOwan made a point of forging close relationships with his opposite numbers from the other churches. Yet, he came to disagree with the Vatican\u2019s stance on birth control, and, with sadness, left the press office to return to secular journalism.\nHe continued to write for Catholic newspapers in a freelance capacity, including for many years The Tablet. He would comment on current issues such as the ordination of women priests, which he supported. He also became the first port of call for his opinions on Catholic affairs from the secular press both at home and abroad. He was a man of great conviction who would also champion causes such as Scottish nationalism and the Right to Roam that were not widespread but would become mainstream.\nRennie McOwan was a modest, unassuming man, egalitarian to his core who possessed a strength of will and a generous and engaging personality that endeared him to his friends and readers alike.\nArchbishop Leo Cushley of St Andrews & Edinburgh Archdiocese said he was \u2018very saddened\u2019 to learn of McOwan\u2019s death.\n\u201cMany people knew and admired Rennie as a distinguished writer, broadcaster and outdoorsman but he was also a great trailblazer in attempting to use modern communications at the service of the Church, both as editor of the Scottish Catholic Observer and as the first communications director for the Catholic Church in Scotland. I would very much like to assure Rennie\u2019s family of my prayers for the repose of his soul and that they may find divine consolation during these days of mourning. May he rest in peace.\u201d\nRobert Rennie McOwan was born on January 12, 1933 and died October 2, 2018. He is survived by his wife Agnes, one daughter, three sons and five grandchildren.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 9188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 181.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scoopmarketing.com/2018/07/jeanie-buss-secures-cmg-worldwide-for-wow-women-of-wrestling-licensing-representation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:G7ZE4ZW6VI5AGFYJNSUBCFU5CXDFZCSO", "length": 4791, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.scoopmarketing.com", "title": "Jeanie Buss Secures CMG Worldwide For Wow-Women of Wrestling Licensing Representation | SCOOP MARKETING:", "raw_content": "Industry Leader in Personality Clearances and Licensing Expands into the World of Elite Women\u2019s Wrestling.\nWOW-Women Of Wrestling Champion Santana Garrett coming to posters, lunch boxes, and tee-shirts soon compliments of CMG representation.\nLos Angeles, CA \u2013 July 25, 2018 \u2013 Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss has added the premier representation company, CMG Worldwide (\u201cCMG\u201d) to her team of WOW-Women Of Wrestling (\u201cWOW\u201d). CMG, headed by renowned Intellectual Property expert, Mark Roesler, represents over 400 of the world\u2019s most famous personalities. CMG joins the WOW team that includes MGM Studios Television and Digital Group headed by Mark Burnett, Mark Cuban\u2019s cable network AXS TV and the founder of the \u201880\u2019s hit series GLOW, David McLane.\nKnown for their legendary clients such as James Dean, Bettie Page, Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart, CMG is expanding its roster to include more contemporary personalities by adding the WOW Superheroes to their prestigious list of clients.\n\u201cIt\u2019s imperative in the world of protecting intellectual property and licensing that you have representation that is passionate about your brand and trustworthy,\u201d stated WOW Owner, Jeanie Buss. \u201cMark Roesler\u2019s reputation is unmatched in the licensing and property management industry. We are excited to have Mark bring his entrepreneurial insight for brand building and his CMG group to our amazing WOW team.\u201d\nCMG is no stranger to professional wrestling, the company represents the estate of Andre The Giant and many other wrestling legends.\n\u201cWOW has the potential to build the next Marvel or DC world with its WOW Superheroes,\u201d Roesler stated. \u201cJeanie and David have been ahead of the curve the entire time in changing the status quo of women\u2019s professional wrestling. We\u2019ve witnessed the market shift and clamoring for more women\u2019s wrestling content worldwide, WOW not only fills that niche, but exceeds all expectations in their live, high-octane events and Superhero brand positioning.\u201d\nWOW\u2019s next event is the upcoming live television taping of WOW \u2013 Women Of Wrestling season six, which will debut on AXS TV in January 2019. Information on the date, venue and ticket sales of the live show will be announced soon.\nFor more information about WOW and its Superheroes, visit http://www.wowe.com/ and @wowsuperheroes.\nWOW-Women Of Wrestling, the leading women\u2019s professional wrestling organization, is owned by Jeanie Buss in partnership with MGM Studios Television and Digital Group and David McLane. It is the premier organization and content provider for live events and programming featuring women\u2019s professional wrestling. WOW\u2019s empowered women come from all different backgrounds and professions, and are marketed as WOW Superheroes, the main attraction of every WOW presentation. WOW\u2019s current digital ecosystem, also known as \u201cWOW World,\u201d consists of its website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube channel, with broadcast on AXS TV starting in 2019. 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If you aren\u2019t a fan of mature girls, you have nothing to do here. However if you do like them, prepare to have the best time of your life. I was pretty surprised when I saw how many models were online here. If I counted right, there were around 300 models online at the time I was there. I heard that sometimes this site has even more models online. That is because models are from all over the world and the time zone is not the same at all places. The design is pretty useful on this site because everything is just one click away.\nBecause this site has a lot of models online, you need to have useful search options to find a smaller group of specific models. Luckily, this site has a couple of features and I will talk about the advanced search first. This feature allows you to select multiple tags at once and you get a pretty nice result when you click search. I tried this feature a couple of times and instead of having 300 models on the display, I had no more than 50 now. Next one is categories. There are around 30 categories and each one has at least 1 model in there. You can find categories from Brunette, Blonde, Big tits to Footjob, Dominatrix, Deepthroat and many more. It doesn\u2019t matter what you are looking for, you will find almost anything. And the last thing, you can search for some model by her screen name if you know one. You will get only that one model on the display, but the best way is to keep that one model in your favorites tab if you really like her. You won\u2019t have to search for that model again and you will get notifications about everything she does.\nLuckily, this site won\u2019t force you to pay for something that you don\u2019t have a clue about. Every online model has a free show and a private show. You can select any free show really for free. You don\u2019t even need an account to open these shows. The best feature in these shows is a free chat window. I saw that there won\u2019t be anything special in the free show so I started asking questions about a private show. You can find a lot of things if you are behaving nice. The first thing you should keep in mind is that you can\u2019t be rude to models. You will just get banned or something like that really soon. And if you don\u2019t have an account, many models won\u2019t pay attention to you. I didn\u2019t find 1 free show in which some model got naked for free. Tipping the model is not available so it wouldn\u2019t make sense to see a model naked.\nWhen it comes to private shows, you need to have an account and some money on it. The price can vary from the show to the next one, but the average price is around per minute. Many models actually charge that amount and that is the best price you can get. Some models can charge also per minute, but it isn\u2019t easy to find these shows. There are also those models who overcharge for their shows and the price is per minute. I found out that the price doesn\u2019t have much to do with the quality of the show. Some cheaper shows can be the same like those expensive shows and even better. You can find different private shows if you have time to explore. Some models will fulfill all your wishes and some of them will strip down and that is pretty much it.\nThe video quality is something that amazed me the most on this site. All shows I opened were in HD and they were in fluid motion. I didn\u2019t find 1 show that had bad video quality or had problems with lagging. I noticed that some models are amateur models and some of them are professional ones. It is pretty easy to notice when a model is streaming from a studio or from their houses. Some cameras could even be controlled with a remote control during a live stream which is quite amazing.\nWhen you decided to open a private show, you need credits. The store offers you multiple packages and you only need one for beginning. The best package for me was that cheapest one. You have 18 credits in there and you get them for 21 EUR. This is enough to test shows and see how things work around here. You have also a lot cheaper packages with a lot more credits. The most expensive ones cost 161 EUR and you get 158 credits in there. Every package had a small amount of free credits except the least expensive package.\nIf you are in a rush or something like that, you can use this site on a phone. Almost everything works the same like on a PC, but there are some things that are not available on a phone. The video quality and shows are the same and that is what matters the most.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 7457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.serbia.travel/about-serbia/facts/climate.718.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6JUH3QFKMN2ORNTYN54FMDVTZC75OYJX", "length": 2930, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.serbia.travel", "title": "Climate | National Tourism Organisation of Serbia | National Tourism Organisation of Serbia", "raw_content": "The climate of Serbia is moderately continental, with localised variations and a gradual change between the seasons. Nearby geographical regions like the Alps, the Mediterranean Sea, the Bay of Genoa, the Pannonian Basin and the Morava Valley, the Carpathian and Rhodope mountains, as well as Serbia\u2019s hilly and mountainous region, with its valleys and plateaus, significantly influence the weather and climate in Serbia. The dominant position of river valleys from the south towards the hilly areas in the north of the country allows the deep penetration of polar air masses in southern regions. The vast majority of Serbian territory lies in a temperate climate zone, but the southwestern regions border the subtropical and continental climate zones.\nThemean annual air temperature for areas 300 m above sea-level is 10.9\u00b0C and for regions at an altitude of 300 m to 500 m it is around 10\u00b0C. In mountainous regions above 1000 m the air temperature is around 6\u00b0C, while in regions above 1500 m it is around 3\u00b0C. Autumn is warmer than spring. The coldest month is January with the mean monthly temperature ranging from -6\u00b0C in mountainous regions to around 0\u00b0C in the country\u2019s flat regions. The warmest month is July with the mean monthly temperature ranging from 11\u00b0C to 22\u00b0C The highest recorded temperature was 44.9\u00b0C in 2007 in Smederevska Palanka and the lowest recorded temperature was -39.5\u00b0 in 1985 in the Pe\u0161ter Plateau.\nThe annual rainfall in low-lying areas ranges from 540 to 820 mm. Regions which are 1000 m above sea-level have between 700 and 1000 mm of rainfall annually, while some mountain peaks in southwestern Serbia have up to 1500 mm of rainfall a year. The majority of Serbia has continental rainfall patterns, with larger volumes in the warmer half of the year, apart from southwestern areas which have the most rainfall in autumn. June is the rainiest month, with an average of 12 to 13% of the total annual rainfall that month. February and October are the least rainy months. The normal annual volume of rainfall for the entire country is 896 mm.\nSnow coveris characteristic of the period between November and March, and sometimes there is snowfall in April and October too. Mountains above 1000 m can have snow cover all year round. January has the most days with snow cover, with 30 to 40% of the total annual number of days with snow cover occurring during that month.\nThe annual number of hours of sunshine ranges from 1500 to 2200 hours.\nThe winds which dominate the warmer part of the year are north-westerly and westerly. The Ko\u0161ava \u2013 an easterly and south-easterly wind which brings clear and dry weather in intervals of two to three days \u2013 is common in autumn and winter. South-westerly winds dominate the mountainous regions of south-western Serbia.\nThe mean atmospheric pressure in Belgrade is 1001 mb and the mean relative air humidity is 69.5%\nHydrometeorological Service\nwww.hidmet.gov.rs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 6619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 163.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.servcorp.com.ph/en/blog/2009/north-sydney-our-newest-location/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2GDR7PVXO4WX5MSTCHWTCNV6ZQYAAPLE", "length": 1314, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.servcorp.com.ph", "title": "North Sydney - our newest location - News | Servcorp", "raw_content": "Providing you with a global network of prestigious locations to allow you to do business anywhere and anytime is one of Servcorp's main priorities. Over the last year we have added Serviced Office and Virtual Office facilities in Wellington (New Zealand), Mumbai (India), Hyderabad (India), Beijing (China), Norwest (Sydney, Australia), Doha (Qatar) and Adelaide (Australia).\nThe most recent addition to the Servcorp network is Level 32, 101 Miller Street, North Sydney. The 101 Miller Street building defines the North Sydney skyline and offers an outstanding working environment. Allowing you to blur the line between work and play, this building presents a natural fusion of business and lifestyle for the modern working environment.\nLevel 32, 101 Miller Street has unsurpassed views of Sydney and maintains an invigorating, nurturing and energising atmosphere. Our design team has spent months sourcing, fitting out and preparing this new floor for opening. We are sure you will be very impressed with the location and the facilities.\nWhether you are considering expanding your business to a new part of town, a new part of the country or a new part of the globe, Servcorp will help you with the transition. 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This confidentiality statement does not apply to the practices of third parties regarding the collection and use of personal information, and Cascades cannot be held liable for the practices, policies or actions of these third parties with regard to the protection of personal information. Therefore, we recommend that you carefully read the statement on protection of personal information found on these specific sites in order to determine whether you wish to use these sites after being informed of their practices regarding the protection of personal information.\nPersonal information is information that can be used to personally identify you. The personal information may, for example, include your name, your e-mail address or your mailing address. If you wish to receive one or our publications, you must fill in the appropriate form, including your contact information. Please note that only the data that you agree to provide are collected on our site. You can cancel your subscription at any time, and ask us to stop using your personal information.\nCascades shall not disclose, sell or lease to a third party without your permission any information provided to this site unless required by law. If you send a request via e-mail from this site, the personal information in this request shall only be made available to employees of Cascades or of its subsidiaries, who require it in order to respond to your request.\nIn certain cases, we receive information that cannot be used to specifically identify you, such as the type of Internet browser you use, the type of operating system you use, the Internet domain name and/or Internet service provider that you use to access this site. We can use this data to improve our site content and help us determine which features or services are more important to our users.\nThis type of data is collected by means of a standard technology known as \u201ccookies\u201d. Cookies are small data files that are downloaded to your computer when you visit a specific Web site. By assigning a unique data ID to each visitor, the Web site can recognize regular users of the site and monitor their use to better serve them the next time they visit. You can choose to not download cookies by deactivating the cookie function in your browser.\nCascades reserves the right to change, without notice, this statement on the protection of personal information on the Internet if necessary. However, any change to this statement will be carried out in accordance with the applicable laws of Canada on personal information protection and posted on this page.\nFor any question or comments regarding this statement or Cascades' practices for protecting personal information, please contact us at the following address:webmestre@cascades.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 215.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sextronix.com/gals/search.php?id=0&page=9&q=Asian+beach&n=0&t=0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LEYCYTQIM2QTWNFJZOYIA7DYTR46EZCO", "length": 659, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sextronix.com", "title": "Search for Free High quality HD Porn videos - Amazing Sex Movies", "raw_content": "Lovely asian bitch Annie Cruz gets anally fucked by three large pricks\nSlutty asian chick Annie Cruz gets sexy ass fucked from behind in bedroom\nExotic asian hooker Annie Cruz sucking three dicks and getting anally hammered\nExcited asian schoolgirl Mika Tan riding anally teacher's big phallus in classroom\nSkinny asian schoolgirl in pigtails Mika Tan riding anally a huge schlong in classroom\nKinky asian lesbians Kat and Nautica strips and shares a big strapon dildo\nmultiple pages: (59) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.shabait.com/articles/nation-building/25161-eritreas-marine-resource-worth-exploring-worth-investing-in-part-i-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XDOJMGIIUHU65XIL4VRYN54TXGYRZMF6", "length": 9909, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.shabait.com", "title": "Eritrea\u2019s Marine Resource: Worth Exploring, Worth Investing In Part I |", "raw_content": "Eritrea\u2019s Marine Resource: Worth Exploring, Worth Investing In Part I\nSaturday, 11 November 2017 02:13 | Written by Semir Seid |\nEritrea has a coastline of more than 1,350 km along the south-western coast of the Red Sea, rich in diverse marine resources and habitat. The territorial waters cover an area of about 55,000 km2.\nThe region and particularly the coastal line and the offshore islands embrace an average of 31oC while in the Danakil Depression (100 meters below sea level) the temperature is 38o-50oC. The harsh climate never prevents people from living in and gaining from the diverse resources the sea offers.\nThe Red Sea region is home to 360 islands, with Dahlak Kebir being the largest in geographic and economic terms. The sea and the long coastline demonstrate a great potential for the growth of the tourist industry. The coastline boasts some of the finest, longest and purest beaches in the world. The Buri Peninsula has rich history stretching back to pre-Christian times when Adulis was the main trading port in the region and it was the spot where British General Napier launched the 19th century expedition against Ethiopia\u2019s emperor Tewedros. The landscapes, birdlife and fauna such as gazelle, ostrich and the rare wild ass are the glamour of the region. The marine life in and around the islands in the Red Sea has prospered and flourished in the post war period with the efforts of the forestry and wild life conservation of the Ministry of Agriculture.\nThe two Eritrean ports, Massawa and Assab, are located strategically on the sea lane that connects Europe with the Persian Gulf and the countries bordering the Indian and Pacific oceans. These ports provide essential pilotage, tugging, cargo handling and storage services. Maritime and clearing agencies are available at both ports. All of the sub regions in the Northern Red Sea region (NRSR) are connected to the sea except Nakfa, Ghindae and Adobha.\nThe Eritrean marine and coastal environment are characterized by an array of diversified ecosystems: coral reefs, mangroves, sea grass beds, sandy and muddy flats, all important for fisheries and tourism. The intertidal and near-shore zones support a diverse range of marine and terrestrial species and are key areas of ecological and economic importance.\nA branch of the Ministry of Marine Resources (MMR) is located in the port city of Massawa to conduct marine related activities, encourage tourism and sustain marine biodiversity. The two main divisions of the branch of the ministry are the marine resource development and the research based regulatory services. Massawa salt works and he fishing port administration are also run by the branch.\nEritrean Red Sea is full of diverse resources which are rarely found in other seas. There are 1,250 species of fish and several types of flora and fauna. According to Eritrea Coastal, Marine and Island Biodiversity (ECMIB) project, the fish in the Red Sea are categorized under pelagic, demersal and aquarium fishes. Of these fishes 55% are small pelagic and 5-6% count for large pelagic such as lobsters, oysters, crabs and sharks. Further, 220 types of corals are found all over the coast. The head of the research unit in the branch of MMR, Mr. Tekle Mengistu, said that considering the diversity and quantity of fish in the sea, fishing should not be spontaneous. Fishing activities should be done sustainably so that fish markets are stabilized, he added. The current potential of fish in the Red Sea is well managed by the ministry. 17% endemic fishes are found only in the Eritrean Red Sea. Besides, the MMR is applying regulations on how to exploit the marine resource, allocate it to people efficiently and ensure its sustainability for the future. It works for the safety of the sea and the resources in it.\nThe ministry develops its manpower with a long and short term fishing courses. The training is conducted to meet highest quality and quantity of sea production as well as improve the welfare of the fishermen. Mr. Zeweldi Haile, head of the branch of Human Resource Development, said that the ministry\u2019s mandate is to transfer resources to generations, improve lifestyles of fishermen living in the coasts and islands. The Marine College in Massawa outsources instructors to train members of the ministry.\nEritrea has a variety of fish resources (a) Soft bottom demersal fish and shrimps such as lizard fishes threadfin breams and catfishes, (b) Hard bottom demersal & reef fishes (used for food and ornaments), snappers, emperors, grunts, job fishes, groupers, etc.,(c) Small pelagic, such as Sardines and Anchovies that are targets for beach-seines and purse-seines, and (d) Large pelagic such as sharks which are hunted for their highly valuable fins rather than their flesh and specialized fisheries like cucumber, snail nail and Trochus.\nAccording to the International Law of the Sea, Eritrea\u2019s territorial waters extend to 12 nautical miles (about 22 km) from the mean low water line of the coastline, mainland and the islands. The maximum extension of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) is 200 nautical miles but is reduced to the median line between two countries\u2019 territorial waters. The area of the EEZ (including the territorial waters) is estimated to be 120,000 km\u00b2.\nDespite Eritrea\u2019s extensive coastline share in the Red Sea, majority of the stakeholder institutions lack the adequate knowledge on the dynamics of the marine ecosystems and the appropriate conservation strategies. Nevertheless, efforts are being made to establish an integrated marine and coastal environment conservation system. The Eritrean coastal area is best known as a highly favorable ecosystem for the development of fisheries. Essential reef areas, extensive surface and numerous shelters of the Dahlak archipelago plateau and aggregates of islands contribute to the prospect of a prosperous fishery. Coral reefs formation along the islands\u2019 coastlines are in good condition whereas reefs along the mainland coastline are less developed mainly due to sedimentation from the river runoff.\nThe continental shelf (down to a depth of about 200m) extends from the coast to a maximum distance of 120 km east of Massawa, narrowing to about 20 km in the north and south of the country. It includes flat coralline islands such as Dahlak Kebir and Nora, some fewer islands of continental origin such as Hawakil and Desse, and the volcanic island of Senaboor. The islands coastline reaches up to 1,950 km and has several biodiversity.\nThe 360 islands with their respective advantages are hubs for bird and sea turtle breeding. A research found that 181 islands are used by birds for breeding and more than 110 islands are places for sea turtle breeding. Other islands are named after the vegetation around them: sea grass islands, mangrove islands, coral islands, sea weed islands and many more which contribute immensely to the eco-tourism of the country. In islands such as Dese catering service is available for tourists.\nMost of the Dahlak archipelago islands are results of quaternary sediments and, in particular, uplifts of fossil coral reef formations. However, Dissei Island near the Buri peninsula is an extension of the Precambrian basement of the mainland, mainly composed of granitoids. Towards south there also exist some islands which are of volcanic origin, in particular the islands around Assab.\nThe coastal areas are sparsely populated with approximately 5% of population, the majority residing in the two main coastal cities of Massawa and Assab. Five ethnic groups- Afar, Saho, Tigre, Rashaida, and Tigrigna dominate the rural population. Afar is the largest ethnic group on the coast, and they live mainly in places from Ghel\u2019alo to Rahita and the Dahlak islands. The Saho are found predominantly in the south-east of the Northern Red Sea Region in villages such as Foro, Erafaile and in the Debub Region. The Tigre are mainly concentrated in Zula, Afta Hirgigo and in the coastal area north of Massawa up to the border with Sudan. The Rashaida are highly mobile and are found scattered in different parts of the coast.\nTo support their livelihood most coastal populations depend on artisanal fishing and livestock production. These communities are usually involved in a variety of fishing practices such as shell fish collection, commercial fishing and the growing sea cucumber collection. Meanwhile, annually around 806.30 ton of fish (67.19 monthly) are collected by fishermen. Fish is commonly done in high levels of the sea and fishermen are constantly encouraged to return endangered fish species to the sea if they find them accidentally. Approximately around 613 boats are used in marine activities. Fishes such as Spanish mackerel, Grouper, Emperor, Barracuda, and Red Snapper are collected by fishermen. According to Mr. Samson Zekarias, head of zoba branch in the MMR, a boat or vessel is allowed to fish only if it has been issued a license (permit) of fishing in the Eritrean Red Sea, delivered by the licensing unit of the MMR. The licensing fee depends on the size or on the engine power of the vessel. To prevent illegal fishing the MMR does monitoring, control and surveillance. Illegal fishing is practiced especially by foreign artisanal vessels and trawlers from neighboring countries in areas where the frequency of patrolling is reduced.\nUnlike those in the north, southern populations are the most actively engaged in fishing. Half of the total fishing communities (about 30,000 people) are estimated to be engaged in fishing and processing dried marine products (snail nail, shark fin, dried mullets, sea cucumbers) for export. For these people fishing is an inherited economic activity that attaches them closely to the sea. 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A fresh media report now speaks about a couple of new functions that one can hope from the next wireless headphones. The report also speaks of the company\u2019s plans to roll out a studio-quality over the ear headphones and a fresh HomePod as well.\nApple\u2019s forthcoming AirPods is claimed to arrive with water-resistant build and noise cancelling tech. On the other hand, consumers will not be capable of swimming wearing the device. The company is being claimed to elevate the range of AirPods as well. These are believed to cost more than the present models that has a price tag of $159 and might be launching in 2019. Also in progress is a wireless charging case for AirPods that will operate with the forthcoming AirPower charger.\nMentioning sources, the report claims that the firm has internally talked on including a heart-rate sensor in AirPods to extend the health-supported services that it has to provide beyond the iPhone and the watch. As for 2018, the firm will supposedly be upgrading the headphones with a new processor and hands-free Siri activation support.\nOn a related note, a different report claims that Apple might be operating with Foxconn to increase up its manufacture of AirPods. Till now, it has only operated with Luxshare Precision Industry Co. and Inventec Corp.\nThe speculated over-the-ear-headphones might be vying with the premium headphones from competitors such as Sennheiser and Bose. These will be the high-end options to the company\u2019s Beats series and are claimed to have Apple branding. As for the roll out, this device were believed to come later in 2018 but due to development hurdles, will be coming in early 2019, as per the sources.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 7322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sharratts-london.co.uk/news/13-newbuy-scheme-launched", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NVCXMR2O5U745IXSTZUMTVAQLORI7DET", "length": 803, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sharratts-london.co.uk", "title": "NewBuy Scheme launched | Sharratts", "raw_content": "On 12 March 2012 the Government launched a new scheme which will guarantee mortgages with the aim of giving the housing market a kick start.\nThe NewBuy loan guarantee is designed to give buyers access to mortgages even if they only have a 5% deposit. Under the scheme, housing developers pay the lender 3.5% of the purchase price of a new-build property while the government provides an additional guarantee of 5.5%, to be called upon only if there is a crash in house prices\nThe scheme is available on flats and houses up to a maximum value of \u00a3500,000 and means a buyer requiring a \u00a340,000 deposit for a \u00a3200,000 property will now only need \u00a310,000. 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[\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 228.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sickkids.ca/AboutSickKids/Directory/People/M/Colin-McKerlie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:09Z", "digest": "sha1:O2YJKEIY6G2M73PODFNMLLSRUXFTEN6A", "length": 6263, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.sickkids.ca", "title": "Colin McKerlie", "raw_content": "Colin McKerlie, DVM, DVSC, MRCVS\nLunenfeld-Tanenbarm Research Institute\nThe Toronto Centre for Phenogenomics\nEmail: colin.mckerlie@phenogenomics.ca\nAlternate Contact: Ms. Oksana Rewa\nAlternate Phone: 647-837-5822 ext.2922\nDr. McKerlie is a veterinary pathologist and phenogenomic scientist. He came to SickKids in June 2002 from the Research Institute at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre where he was Director of the Department of Comparative Research. He is currently a Senior Associate Scientist in the Translational Medicine program at SickKids Research Institute and a Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. He received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from the Ontario Veterinary College at the University of Guelph in 1991, and his Doctorate of Veterinary Science (DVSc) in comparative pathology from the University of Guelph in 1997. Dr. McKerlie is a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and licensed by the College of Veterinarians of Ontario.\nDr. McKerlie is also the Director of Research Partnerships at The Centre for Phenogenomics, a research-enabling centre that is among the largest genetics centres in the world dedicated to the development and study of mouse models of human disease. He is also a staff scientist at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, one of the world\u2019s leading academic centres in biomedical research, particularly in functional genomics and mutant mouse and embryonic stem cell technologies to generate models of human disease.\nMy research group is working on two project areas that are all linked by a common goal to discover and understand the function of genes that cause disease in children and adults.\nMutations, which cause damage to genes, are important causes of disease. The high degree of similarity between the genes of humans and mice, the similar biology of these two species, and the ease with which the mouse genome can be experimentally manipulated, make the mouse an ideal model organism to study the genetics and biology of human disease. My lab at SickKids focuses on the development and application of clinical and morphology-based and slide-based techniques to characterize the function of a variety of novel genes and genetic pathways. We are applying these tools in project-specific and large-scale international mutagenesis programs and in our characterization and discovery efforts using mouse models of human disease. I also established a residency program in my laboratory and the Ontario Veterinary College for post-DVM candidates for training in comparative pathology with a focus on the spontaneous and induced pathology of the mouse. To learn more, visit the Clinical Phenotyping Services and Pathology Services pages on phenogenomics.ca.\nMouse model production and archiving: Activity in my molecular biology and biorepository lab is focused on research and development in the design and production of mutant mouse models, and germ cell cryopreservation for archiving and reanimation using in vitro fertilization. The goal of these efforts is; 1) to research, develop, and validate more efficient and reproducible techniques for production of predictive models (Transgenics, ES-cell chimeras, and Cas9 RNA-guided nuclease for mice and rats (aka CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing); and 2) optimize germ cell cryopreservation and mouse model distribution. We use these techniques to support our national repository and resource for the physical archive of cryopreserved sperm, embryos, and tissue DNA generated by Canada\u2019s mouse genome effort, along with the fixed and processed tissue archive required to complement the frozen resource. We also provide expertise and services as a CFI-designated National Research Facility and Genome Canada-designated Genomics Innovation Network node to provide bespoke mouse models to large-scale mouse phenogenomics projects and Canadian and international researchers. To learn more, visit the Model Production Services page on phenogenomics.ca.\nI am also interested in the challenges and potential for innovative approaches to phenogenomic informatics in discovery, integration, dissemination and visualization of phenotype and genotype data. I am also interested in the challenges and potential for innovative approaches to phenogenomic informatics in discovery, integration and association of mouse phenotype data with other model systems, dissemination and visualization of phenotype and genotype data.\nEuropean Commission Horizon2020\nKarp NA, et al., McKerlie C, et al., White JK. Prevalence of sexual dimorphism in mammalian phenotypic traits. Nat Commun. 2017 Jun 26;8:15475. doi: 10.1038/ncomms15475. PMID: 28650954.\nMeehan TF, McKerlie C, et al., Smedley D. Disease model discovery from 3,328 gene knockouts by The International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium. Nat Genet. 2017 Aug;49(8): 1231-1238. doi: 10.1038/ng.3901. Epub 2017 June 26. PMID: 8650483.\nDickinson ME, McKerlie C, et al., Murray SA. High-throughput discovery of novel developmental phenotypes. Nature. 2016 Sep 22;537(7621):508-514. doi: 10.1038/nature19356. Epub 2016 September 14. PMID: 27626380\nLloyd KCK, McKerlie C, Seong JK, Neff F. Comment on \u201cOne health, one literature: Weaving together veterinary and medical research\u201d. Letter to Science Transl Med 7, 2015 December 9; 7(317): 317le3. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aad4954.\nHrab\u011b de Angelis M, McKerlie C, et al., Brown SDM. Analysis of gene function through broad-based phenotypic screens across a consortium of mouse clinics. Nat Genet. 2015 Sep;47(9):969-978. doi: 10.1038/ng.3360. Epub 2015 Jul 27. PMID: 26214591.\nAdissu HA, Medhanie GA, Morikawa L, White JK, Newbigging S, McKerlie C. Right ventricular epicardial fibrosis in mice with sternal segment dislocation. Veterinary Pathology 52 (5): 967-976. September 2015.\nAdissu HA, Estabel J, et al., Newbigging S, Jones N, Morikawa L, White JK, McKerlie C. Histopathology reveals correlative and unique phenotypes in a high throughput mouse phenotyping screen. Dis Model Mech 7 (5): 515-524. May 2014. doi: 10.1242/dmm.015263. Epub 2014 Mar 20.\nBrown S, et al., McKerlie C, et al., Green E. Mouse already being charted gene by gene. Correspondence to Nature. 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Its green pads are considered a vegetable while its seed pods or \u2018tunas\u2019 are the fruit. These fruit pods consist of tiny seeds that burst with oil abounding in nutrients.\nPrickly Pear Seed Oil is manufactured by extracting this oil from the prickly pear cactus. This plant has a high concentration of Betalains, which is essentially an antioxidant making it an extremely effective recipe for anti-aging purposes. It is also great for nourishing and hydrating the skin and tightening the pores. Being non-comedogenic and non-greasy, it can be applied at night without any fear of the pores of your skin getting clogged. However, it is best to use after exfoliating or cleansing your skin. This oil is wonderful for balancing your skin\u2019s natural oil, and preventing unwanted breakouts.\nThis specialized oil is quite expensive due to the hard labor that goes in to extract the oil filled with nutrients which ultimately becomes apparent the moment you rub it on your skin. It is a favorite with beauty conscious people who take extra good care of their skin. Two drops of Prickly Pear Oil before going to bed will help nourish your skin through the night. Though it is basically an oil, it does not make your skin feel greasy or oily and moreover, it leaves behind a gentle fragrance reminding one of fresh hay.\nEvery individual has his or her own identity and this identity is made up of many things like the way we dress, the way we carry ourselves, the way we interact with people and the Gadgets and accessories we use. These aspects speak a lot about our style quotient.\nAbove Ambition is a company that endeavors to help the individual enhance their own particular style and it is in their stores across the globe that you get exactly what you are looking for. They cater to each and every individual taste. This company was created keeping in mind the unique taste of every individual shopper and it is their endeavor to bring this specialized service and a one-of-a-kind experience with their original, innovative and modern store.\nYou can find every Gadget under the sun at Above Ambition, be it something simple, flashy or classic. Their customer service personnel are at hand to guide you through their various gadgets explaining everything in minute detail to enable you to make a proper decision so that you do not face a problem after buying the product.\nAbove Ambition customer care is just a call away to attend to your every need be it a missing item in your parcel or a replacement of your choice. You can rest assured your need will be met in good time. If you need to change or edit your email address they will readily do it for you. However, you cannot change your order once it is placed.\nIf you wish to look fashionable it\u2019s important that you have to stay up to date with the latest Trend of the fashion field. To make sure you are on the same page as of the fashion industry, you will have to keep surfing the fashion related magazines, shows and other sources from where you can easily get the info about the latest fashion industry. These sources are not only meant to update your ideas but also can help you look trendy in the coming days.\nThe kind of schedule we have these days, it might not be possible for us to actually go through all these. But this can\u2019t really stop you from stay up to date. You can always find websites like Above Ambition that will always help you with the latest Trends in the industry. Irrespective of what you need, you can get them in this store. Be it accessories, apparels, or beauty products, this store can certainly help you stay up to date with the latest in the fashion industry.\nWith the help of this store, you can certainly buy trendy accessories and clothing from the comfort of your home and you will get the latest trendy staff in the industry for sure. This store makes sure that you get the best quality product available on the market and most certainly at the best price possible. You can surely compare the price and quality of the product and decide for yourself. So visit them today and see the difference yourself!\nHair Extensions Bundle Deals\nMany of us love to style our hair differently for different occasions. If you are one of them then it is a must that you own a voluminous, long, and straight hair. Unless this is the situation, you won\u2019t be able to style your hair the way you want. No matter how dearly you wish to have such hair, but it is a fact that you might not possess that kind of long hair that will allow you to style any way want. Well, it is pretty much normal for someone in your position to try hard to grow long hair like the models have but all of the methods might not offer you a fruitful result. Although, with a proper diet, the lifestyle you can control some of the factors that play a part in the growth of your hair you cannot control some of them as well. That is the reason why you may not get a natural grown long hair ever in your life.\nSo, what should you do in this kind of a situation? It will be really a poor decision if you leave your short hair as it is and do nothing but believing in fate. If you research well, you will find that there are plenty of ways to get a strong and long hair, but one of the easiest ways will be to get a wig matching your style and hair color. You can choose to buy a simple wig and then customize it accordingly to match your style, or in case you have something specific in your mind, you can buy a pre-designed wig as well. But as you can understand, wigs are easily distinguishable and might not be a great idea to wear it on every occasion. Instead of wearing a wig, you can try the hair extensions. You can choose extensions of any style, color, length, texture, or material from the Hair Fetish Atlanta and you can style them the way you want\nAll the hair extensions present in this store are made from human hair. So, you do not have to worry about the artificial hair and the extensions will look really natural and no one will be able to distinguish them either. Since they do not use any kind of dyes or harmful chemicals, you can surely try out one of these extensions and your natural hair won\u2019t be harmed at all. This store has different hair extension at their disposal, and you can find a different style of extensions as well. You can choose either Russian, Brazilian, or a Malaysian according to your choose or requirement. You can also decide whether you need a straight, curly or a wavy hair extension. In case you are planning to buy multiple extensions at a time, you can definitely ask for the Hair Extensions Bundle Deals that might prove to be beneficial for you. Now you can use them by yourself or you can visit a salon, to have special styling or the fitting.\nHave you ever visited Ayurmana? Well, it\u2019s practically a hospital located amidst the beauty of hills and is run by Dharma Ayurveda. This place is situated in Thiruvananthapuram and is one of the best Ayurveda treatment centers in Kerala. The main goal of this place is to heal people\u2018s mind, soul and body using the power of Ayurveda and Yoga. The doctors here are well experienced in Ayurveda and are capable of formulating a perfect strategy to restore serenity in your life. While you stay here for healing, you can rest assured that your healing process will be seamless and you will also enjoy your time while you are there.\nIf you wish to know about their facilities and amenities, you will have to check their website. In case you do not have much faith in what they have to say about the place, you can go through the Ayurmana Reviews given by the previous patients. It\u2019s a place where patients are of prime importance and the doctors are always ready to meet their patients and talk with them about their progress and how they can plan future actions. Every patient is unique and their requirements are also unique, that is the reason why doctors here are ready to formulate a personalized schedule for any patient.\nIf you are feeling bored, take a walk to the peak of DharmaGiri and enjoy the gentle breeze, the chirping of various birds and the setting sun. You can schedule your daily walking on the walking track. Overall this place is undoubtedly an amazing place to be and even though you are not a patient, you can roam around, enjoy the view of hilly areas.\nMany people love watching American Football. Even though you are not an American citizen, still you may love the game as much as they do. But as it stands, it is very much impossible for you to travel to America just to watch a game and in case you are already in America, you may have other reasons to bunk the match. Well, whether it\u2019s a monetary issue or a schedule related problem, if you can\u2019t be at the stadium, you miss most of the fun. But you can obviously watch the games on your TV.\nBut sometimes a situation might turn out to be difficult and you might not be able to reach home on time. So to make sure you get to see the game at least on your mobile or tablet you will have to get NFL Live Stream service. There are plenty of live streaming service providers available who streams NFL matches. All you need to do is find the best one and choose your package to get started.\nIn case you have not yet decided on which service provider you should subscribe to, NFL Game Pass might be the best platform for you to go with. Although they do not provide live streaming of the NFL games at least you will be able to watch them at your convenience. Even though streaming live NFL matches are difficult, Game Pass makes sure that they at least stream the preseason games live. So, what you are waiting for? Subscribe them today and enjoy your favorite game online!\nElstar LED Strip Lights\nLong gone are those days when we used to put up lamps and bulbs to light our house and paves. With the introduction of LEDs, both residential and commercial buildings have seen the change drastically. People has slowly but steadily started with using LED lights because of the 2 important facts. They are really gentle on your eyes and secondly they don\u2019t put a hole in your pocket too. With the advancement of technology now you can actually use the LED strips which can surely light up any commercial or residential building. These strips are really easy to install, they create a nice ambience and reduce bills too.\nBut to make sure you enjoy a hassle free service, you will definitely need to go for Elstar LED Strip Lights only. Elstar is one of those brands who manufacture high quality LED strips for various purposes and is known to be famous for its affordable price tags as well. You can get any length, width, wattage of Elstar LED strips which can be used to light up suitable places like living room, office room, lounge, deck, bar, dock etc. Because of this kind of vast usefulness, LED lights have taken over the market and makes them a must buy for you too.\nElstar is truly an example of high quality LED light manufacturer. They make sure quality is their first priority and none of their customers get to complain about their light strips. Apart from being manufactured with care, the Elstar 5050 LED Strip maintains the safety standards of RoHS and is certified by CE as well.\nDo you love cartoons and cartoon characters? Do you love gaming online that involves cartoon characters? Sounds like a mix and match right? Have you ever tried any such game? No! Well, if you haven\u2019t tried any such games yet, it might best time for you to log on to CN Arabia and enjoy your time with some fun cartoon character games.\nDo you still remember the stories of your favorite cartoon shows? Because some of the games completely resemble the stories in the cartoon shows. The only difference is that you will be the one playing as a hero this time and your duty is to help your hero get through all the difficulties and tasks to reach the final level. Be it a difficult fight with an enemy or a race to the finish line, the thrill of the game never ends on this website. Well, these certainly are amazing things and you are surely going to enjoy the games online specially when you are going to get a chance to relive your childhood days.\nIf you search online, you will find that there are plenty of websites that offer these types of games. But you will have to choose the right one. Cartoon Network Arabic is the best and easiest platform to play these games online and the most interesting part is that all these games are available for free. So, be it a racing game, action packed game or an adventurous tour, you surely are going to enjoy every single moment you play games on the website.\nHave you just moved into a new house and you are yet to decide how you want to decorate and furnish your house? Well, if you are doing it all by yourself, it is important that you divide the house into different areas or zones and take decisions on one zone at a time. This will help you do things in an organized manner and the work will be done properly as well. Though adequately furnishing your bedrooms, living rooms, kitchens, etc. are a priority, you must never forget doing the same for your bathroom.\nPeople often tend to ignore the importance of good bathroom fittings, and this causes nothing but inconvenience. So, it is important that you install quality faucets, sinks, showers, vanity, etc. And if you really want your bathroom to be a place where you will be able to find heal your body and mind after slogging at work, then adding a Banheira would be the ideal thing to do. Adding a bathtub may seem to be an overhead, but soon you will realize that it is something that will improve the quality of your life in the long run.\nYou can let your body relieve the stress and tension while soaking in a tub full of warm water sprinkled with essential oils and bath salts. Nothing takes your mind off things and helps you to calm down, both mentally and physically like a comfortable bath. And given that Banheiras are available at such reasonable prices, you wouldn\u2019t have to worry about a budget crunch as well.\nJuly 6, 2018 sinouni_cusr6p\nDo you love fashion? Do you understand this fact that fashion is not only limited to just clothing? The truth is anything that you wear is a part of your style statement and that is the reason why you need to choose your accessories with care. You will have to understand which accessory will go nicely with which attire and accordingly you will have to adjust. Accessories like hand gear, bags, jewelry, shoes, even the shades that you wear. Depending on the shade you choose to wear, your look will differ and if you choose a wrong one, will it can be disastrous for you. It can make you look clumsy and weird in case your shades do not match with your clothing.\nThis is why while buying sunglasses you will have to be careful and make sure you choose those which will suit your style and fashion statement. To make sure you choose only the trendy and stylish sunglasses you can always look for the highly rated brands. Normally a reputed brand will offer you a different style of sunglasses for different attire and occasions. But branded sunglasses aren\u2019t the only one who can help you maintain your style statement. There are online stores as well who are willing to offer you stylish sunglasses at a wholesale rate. Having the opportunity to buy Wholesale Sunglasses might be a good way to save money for you as you are most likely to buy more than one sunglasses in order to match your every attire and every occasion that you go to.\nNormally you would think wholesale rates are only for the sellers and it\u2019s a very common misconception to have. Well, since you will have to buy multiple sunglasses to match your different style and attire, it is a must that you choose different shades and to do so from different stores will take a lot of time and cost will be really high. But instead of that, you can go for Wholesale Fashion Sunglasses available in the online stores and buy them at the best rates possible. You can choose a different style of shades to match them with your attires and still get a wholesale rate from the store.\nSo, once you decide to go for the Wholesale Sunglasses, it will be really important for you to identify online stores which are reliable and come with a huge collection of trendy and stylish sunglasses. Moreover, it\u2019s not the collection that will matter the most, it\u2019s important that you get them at the best price possible, after all, your goal is to find trendy sunglasses at a wholesale rate. But you will have to make sure you choose the right sunglasses that match your look and style and you must be aware of the low-quality cheap sunglasses as well. Just make sure that you are aware of these facts and your shopping experience will be a great one. So, what are you waiting for? Find an online store with a great collection of sunglasses today and see how they can change your looks and style!\nWith the comfort online marketing provides, this business has reached great heights. With everything available just at the click of a mouse, its boom time for online marketing and agencies are making brisk business in this direction. The latter spend a lot of time and effort is given to developing the perfect product, be it for their own online store or selling products of other business giants and get handsomely paid for the efforts that they put in.\nIn this scenario 2D Animacija has come to play a huge role. People have awoken to this technique. A host of professional animated Explainer Video companies are offering their professional services to make your video go viral. Present the project you have in mind to avoid delays and take into account the charges for such services. Once you have discovered your animation artist your video will be easy to manage, will be done according to the timeline and it will be the most advantageous means to market your business.\nThe production time is usually about 4-6 weeks, but if you put a limit on the time, chances are the quality will be compromised and at the same time you will be paying a higher 2D Animacijos Kaina for the entire project. So you need to allow ample time for the project to come into being while at the same time receiving more competitive pricing. Keep a tab on the progress. Any modifications after approval could be an added cost, not to mention the wasted time.\nJuly 5, 2018 July 5, 2018 sinouni_cusr6p\nThe world today is driven by technology and the internet. You have to implement one or both of these to ensure that you succeed in your venture, whatever that may be. This includes dentistry and dental services as well. Whether you are a dentist or own a dental services clinic that offers a variety of services, you have to do much more to promote yourself than putting up advertisements on local newspapers or distributing pamphlets and flyers. You need to resort to Dental Marketing if you want to make quick headway in your field and earn handsomely.\nThis will undoubtedly require the services of an expert marketer who will be able to promote you or your clinic in the best way possible. The ideal way of doing so is hiring an internet marketer who specializes in Dental SEO. You might choose any SEO expert so to say, but the benefit of hiring someone who works dedicatedly with dentists and other dental service providers is the fact that they know what the best for your field is.\nAs such, they will be able to promote your website in such a way that you not only gain local patients, but your services become popular in your own city or area as well. This way, you stand a chance to gain a lot more patients than you would without the services of a dental marketer. They charge a very nominal fee for the services, thus ensuring that your ROIs are quite high and your venture is a success.\nThere are many people who love news from every corner of the world. If you are also one of them then it is high time that you subscribe to multiple channels and news portals. But what if you want to know about a particular part of the world in detail? In that case, you will have to find a news portal that comes up with news related to that particular area or region. This way you won\u2019t be missing any of news that is from that particular area. Even the smallest of the news will be updated on that news channel and you will get to know about them as well.\nIf you are trying to find one such news portal then Noticias90 might be the choice for you. They mostly concentrate on Latin American countries and publish every single news that is happening in the corners of the countries. Whether you love to read politics related news or sports related, you will get to read every detail of the events happening across the countries of Latin America.\nUsing this website is really easy and since it is optimized to fit on your mobile or PC, you can even read the news while you are traveling to somewhere else. You get to know about Noticias Hoy in every category and that too in Spanish. All the news published is fresh and includes all the valuable information from the countries of Latin America. So, what are you waiting for? Subscribe to their website today and stay up to date with the Latin American news today.\nThere was a time when television, radio, and print media were the mostly used platform for advertisement and promotions. But with the technology taking over the world rapidly, these platforms have become less effective. With the readership and viewership going down from time to time, these modes have become costly as well to reach your potential customers. People these days are more often than not uses internet to view what they desire, to listen what they love and that is why it has become the source of everything in human life today. So, if you want to stay alive in the competition in this present world, it\u2019s time for you to switch to internet marketing. This can not only help you get popularity in a shorter period, but also can assure you a significant boost to your business.\nOnce you have decided to go with the internet marketing, then comes the prerequisites. Well, to get started you will need a website which will be the proof of your online presence. This will be your platform to promote your business, product or service. To do this, you can choose to hire an expert who will be able to build an attractive and functional website or you can choose to use any of the website builders available online. In case you wish to go with the professional, you will have to find the best Web Design Qatar expert so that you get a fresh, professional and attractive design for your website.\nNormally you can search online for developers who are willing to help you out, but in case you do not find someone suitable, you can always try out Toni Marino. He is a freelance developer and has been in the field for last 10 years. As you can understand, having 10 years of experience he is able to create something that no one else can and you can rest assured that quality will be price worthy for sure. The best part of working with him is that, it does not matter what is your business or domain that you work on, he will be able to create something that will be amazing and professional and crunch.\nAs you can understand developing a website is just the start for you towards a successful digital marketing. So, what do you do next after your website is up and running. Well, certainly you will need to hire someone who is qualified enough to help you out with the digital marketing methods. In case you hired Toni Marino for your development you can actually consider yourself lucky, as he is also an SEO Manchester expert. Having an expert like him on board, you can certainly have the best result for your business. He will certainly make sure he uses all the SEO techniques that are required for you website to get boost. From link building to social media optimization, he will take care of all that are required. So, you won\u2019t have to worry about anything from developing a website for digital marketing. All you need to do is contact with him and get started with the work and you are done.\nBusiness is all about profit and that depends on how smooth you can run it. Whether your business is big or small, you need to make sure that you manage your accounts very well. Without managing your accounts in the best way possible, it\u2019s going to be really hard for you to make a profit the way you want. Proper management of accounting does not only give you the opportunity to keep a good cash flow but also helps in setting financial goals for the coming financial years.\nThis is the reason why you need to use professional accounting software available in the market. There was a time when you needed to appoint an accountant to handle all your financial staff, but these days things have changed a lot. Now their role is to advise the businessmen with financial strategies and planning so that they have a steady cash flow and a good profit. The actual accounts are maintained on the computer these days with the help of accounting software. This makes the life of your accountant a lot easier and for obvious reason, he gets enough time to find out different ways to steady your financial credentials and also make future plans for your financial growth which in turn can help your business to grow a lot stronger.\nIf you search online, you will see that there is actually a lot of software available for accounting purposes, but what you need to do is choose the right one which will be best for your business. Instead of choosing any accounting software, you can opt to go for Galaxima Faktury, which is one of the well-known software in the accounting market and has been really useful for many accountants and businessmen. Apart from different features that can be useful for accountants, this software comes with Proforma Faktura which can be easily sent to your client and customers along with the shipped goods or at the time of product delivery.\nUsing this kind of software not only helps you maintain a work schedule but also helps in communicating with your clients in an efficient way as well. Apart from a better invoice management, it offers you an opportunity to create Dobropis which can be used for those customers who seek a price offset for their future purchase in exchange of the products they have returned. This feature definitely adds to the fact that this kind of software makes it really easier to maintain your financial transactions and also maintain customer-related data to help you maintain your business in a better and efficient way.\nThis kind of accounting software comes at an affordable price and the most important factor is that they are normally available for a trial period. This will ensure that you can try out this type of product, even before you decide to buy one. For obvious reason, the paid version comes with a lot of different features and financial planning options that can be helpful for you to maintain your business growth but still if you use the trial software you will have an idea about how useful it can be for your business. Once you are satisfied with it, you can buy the paid version and start making your accounting efficient and simpler than ever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 39570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sino-uni.com/dedikerad-server-billigt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:4UGPNKVUN2WERCPI7KSIKFIXIRFGPWR3", "length": 1478, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sino-uni.com", "title": "Dedikerad Server Billigt \u2013 Sino Uni", "raw_content": "If you are really good at something, and have some special talent that you can share with the world, then you should take action and get your message out into the world. It can be a very rewarding activity, as you share your innovative ideas, or even new products or quality services. And this is not even mentioning that it can also be very profitable financially. But this all start with a simple, minimal investment activity, and that is creating and setting up a website where you can showcase your ideas, your message, your products, or services. You might think that creating your own website is a difficult technical thing to do, but in fact, if you find the right company to host your website, it can be a very simple procedure, even for non technical people. You can get the best service for k\u00f6p dom\u00e4nnamn billigt with 101.se.\n1010.se offers everything from domain registration services, to web hosting, dedikerad server billigt, and much more. Depending on the size of your website and the type of information you manage, you can choose to add the right type of services, all with 1010.se and in the same place, to make creating, setting up, launching, and maintaining your website an easy task, so that you can focus on what really matters to you: Creating and growing your business, maintaining your personal brand, and spreading your message or your special talents to the farthest corners of the world, all from the comfort of your own computer.\nCryptocurrency App", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.slowlyboiledfrog.com/2014/06/nom-cwa-go-head-to-head-for-mindless.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:24Z", "digest": "sha1:R4VRXP3K6ZOS3K77SRMZDFN4HMDSOCTV", "length": 3480, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.slowlyboiledfrog.com", "title": "The Slowly Boiled Frog: NOM & CWA go head to head for mindless idiocy regarding the President's intended executive order", "raw_content": "NOM does not support the President's actions. The reason is twofold: This is a decision that lawmakers should make, not something the president should attempt to impose through executive order. Congress refused to take action on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act earlier this year and the President should respect that.\nSecond, NOM has opposed ENDA in the past because it will become a tool to force states to redefine marriage and be used to punish supporters of marriage.\nBrown may have a point but the House of Representatives has been far too busy with Benghazi conspiracy theories and trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act. It's hard, time-consuming work but someone has to do it. Otherwise I am sure that the President would agree.\nNow about that second part. It might shock Mr. Brown but we are all (most of us, anyway) \u201csupporters of marriage.\u201d I am far from certain how a federal non-discrimination regulation has some mystical effect on whether a state recognizes same-sex marriages. Nor can I deduce the steps (or their order) required to get from the rule to the gay marriages.\nYet, when it comes to dimwits, Concerned Women for America has no shortage. Enter Mr. Mario Diaz who is in-house counsel. Like most of his ilk, were he a decent lawyer then he would be practicing law:\nThis is yet another example of what little regard President Obama has for the American people and our form of government. Democracy, once again, gets in the way of his personal preferences, and so he disregards it with little concern for the long-term implications of his actions. He does not help the 'LGBT' movement with his dictator-like actions, but only continues to divide and demonize people of faith who continue to believe as he claims he did not too long ago.\nIt is the most basic of American beliefs that every citizen should be free to practice their religion free from government intervention. But President Obama insists on punishing those who do not move along with him in his views on homosexuality and marriage to the point that he is willing to use the force of his executive power to violate the Constitution he swore to uphold.\nAlways the victim. Another nut who apparently believes that this has something to do with marriage equality (we cannot be certain). Since when are any of these people fans of democracy? Usually that is something that gets in the way of Christian authoritarianism. Does this imbecile actually believe that someone should be denied employment by a federal contractor simply because they are gay? On the whole, by the way, the American people fully support workplace equality.\nThe freedom to practice one's religion is not a license to discriminate against others with different views. You have to hire that Christ-killing Jew if he or she is qualified. That's how it works. We heard the same arguments expressed the same way from some of the same types of people a half century ago when the civil rights bill was being debated.\nOh and by the way, where were these people during the eight years that George W. Bush was issuing executive orders and signing statements at a feverish clip? Christians, who are fully protected by the 1964 Civil Rights Act, are forever claiming discrimination in the workplace. Some jerk gets canned for saying something inappropriate about gay people and he is being persecuted for his religious beliefs. Someone from another planet would think that these folks are a minority group based on their rhetoric.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 9272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.slp58.com/Directions-to-Tims-Farm.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:40Z", "digest": "sha1:STQ4J6U4EAKZEEVSWVM2ADIVMEZERHIT", "length": 1374, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.slp58.com", "title": "Directions to Tim's Farm", "raw_content": "Directions to Tim Kiernan\u2019s Farm\nClassmates, The problem this month is that Highway 55 from Minneapolis to Buffalo is closed for most of the summer. You can follow your G.P.S. Systems to get you there but will go through some backroads and detours that have gravel on them.\nFollow these directions and try your SENSE of direction with the SUN out during the day. The SUN sets in the WEST so you should have SUN glasses on and be driving INTO the SUN. Buffalo is WEST of Minneapolis about 40 miles. Allow about an hour to get here. If you come by the Interstate 94 from the NORTH, Go WEST on 94 until you reach the Monticello/ Buffalo exit, turn SOUTH (Left) on to Minnesota Highway 25, and you are now about 15 minutes from the farm. Just follow Highway 25 through Buffalo, past Golf course on your right, to 20th street SOUTH EAST of Buffalo, Balloons will do the rest.\nIf, on the other hand, you are coming from the SOUTH of the cities, follow Interstate 394 WEST BY Wayzata and continue on this highway as it turns into \"OLD\" Highway 12 through Maple Plain and Delano. You are now about 10 minutes from the farm. Stay on Highway 12 until until you see the turnoff to Buffalo on Highway 25. Turn NORTH (Right), Proceed for 4 miles to the aforesaid Balloons. See You here! TIM's phone is 763-682-4477 just in case . The address is: 1362 20th Street S. E. Buffalo, Mn. 55313", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sovietjewelry.com/news/soviet-gold-a-promising-market-for-collectors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2O3PX6PCXKHK7M6WUXVQPFOQPT7M7243", "length": 1457, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.sovietjewelry.com", "title": "Soviet Jewelry \u2606 Gold & Silver from USSR, Hallmarks, Collectibles, Antiques & Art, Catalogs, Books, Sales, News, Market, Investing & more! - Soviet Jewelry", "raw_content": "\"Soviet gold 'a promising market' for collectors\"\nwww.goldbulletin.org\n\"Gold jewellery produced in the old Soviet Union is becoming one of the most promising, although still largely overlooked, markets for collectors of antiquities, it has been claimed.\nWriting for News-Antique, Dmitry Tamoikin said Soviet-era art is already breaking records, with many pieces fetching millions at auction.\nSoviet jewellery is on the cusp of a similar boom in popularity because of its historical background, high quality, unique design and rarity.\nHowever, like Soviet art, much of the interest in Soviet gold jewellery is coming from outside of Russia and the former member states of the USSR. The United States currently has the biggest market for such pieces, followed by the European Union, China, Japan and Australia.\nDespite this \"narrowing market\" where savvy collectors are snapping up all the pieces they can find, there are still opportunities for investors to acquire \"incredible items\" at reasonable prices, Mr Tamoikin noted.\n\"Regardless of any personal feelings towards the Soviet regime, the historical and cultural importance of jewellery created in that era cannot be denied,\" he added.\nMr Tamoikin is one of the men behind the Tamoikins Museum, which developed the world's first universal appraisal system for art, antiquities and other collectibles.\"\nhttp://www.goldbulletin.org/news/209/09/01/story/12855/soviet_gold_a_promising_market_for_collectors/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 4159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spacecon.net/the-essential-laws-of-experts-explained.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:HBQ4O6KMLVF5YOXJTGRIJYEQLOOLYS6Q", "length": 2392, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.spacecon.net", "title": "The Essential Laws of Experts Explained | spacecon", "raw_content": "Faye Williamson 09/09/2017 09/09/2017 Comments Off on The Essential Laws of Experts Explained\nThe Fastest Way to Sell Your House in New York City In the twenty first century, real estate is undeniably important. There are actually several ways in which property can influence your life. A strong home can make your life more stable, and it will also serve as an investment. It\u2019s worth stating, of course, that it isn\u2019t easy to manage your property. It\u2019s worth stating that the real estate world can move at a rapid pace. Every day, new homes are being purchased and sold. Selling your home can be a time consuming process. It\u2019s important to clean the property, and you\u2019ll also need to advertise. Negotiation is also relevant. If you live a busy life, you probably won\u2019t have time to really sell your home properly. Fortunately, there is a solution. By working with a group of investors, you can get the help that you\u2019ll need to quickly sell your home. It should be stated, of course, that no two investor groups are ever identical. You need to find the right New York City investors for your particular situation. If you\u2019re serious about finding a good investor group, it\u2019s important to define your own expectations. You can begin by thinking about price.\nIt\u2019s important to maximize the overall value of your home. As you may know, price and time are usually connected with one another. You may need to accept a lower price if you\u2019re looking to make a quick sale. If your goal is to maximize value, though, you will want to stay patient. Get in touch with your New York City investor group if you have any questions about this process. Never forget that you need to work with an investor group if you want to quickly sell your property.\nIt\u2019s worth stating that the standard selling process can actually be very difficult. It\u2019s incredibly time consuming, and it can also be an emotional drain. If this is concerning to you, it may be necessary to take an alternative approach. A good New York City investor group will help you make a quick sale. Keep in mind that your life is remarkably busy. You won\u2019t have time to hire an agent or hold an open house. If you\u2019re short on time, you do not want to wait for a home inspection. It simply does not make sense to engage in something so difficult and frustrating. By hiring a New York City investor group, you can quickly and easily sell your home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 6166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 166.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sparkfutures.org/video-lessons-hit-right-note-in-rural-minnesota-schools/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:03Z", "digest": "sha1:MWWXCVXH6YG2JKITO7W6TFKWGX3JQAA4", "length": 6690, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.sparkfutures.org", "title": "Video lessons hit right note in rural Minnesota schools | SPARK", "raw_content": "Video lessons hit right note in rural Minnesota schools\nIn October we posted a story that appeared in the Grand Rapids Herald Review about the partnership between MacPhail Center for Music, the Itasca Area Schools Collaborative (IASC) and the Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program (IOSP). Today we are happy to share with you this piece that once again puts this innovative program center stage \u2013 this time by Jean Hapfensperger of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.\nHigh school students in Grand Rapids, Minn., took instruction from Jeremy Swider, about 175 miles away in Minneapolis. Photo by Jeff Wheeler\nArticle by: JEAN HOPFENSPERGER , Star Tribune\nMacPhail\u2019s live, online program connects pros with outstate students.\nJeremy Swider doesn\u2019t believe in out-of-body travel. But when the music instructor worked with orchestra students in Grand Rapids this week, he was 175 miles away.\nSwider is part of an experiment that brings professional musicians from Minnesota\u2019s oldest music school \u2014 the nonprofit MacPhail Center for Music in Minneapolis \u2014 to classrooms in rural Minnesota through real-time video instruction. Think video conferencing, but with excellent audio and visual capacities on a 40-inch screen.\nLaunched in 2011 to help cash-strapped rural school districts boost their music programs, it\u2019s grown from a pilot project in one school to 17 school districts and 1,500 students. And the numbers keep growing.\nThe program is one of the first of its kind in the nation, said MacPhail President Paul Babcock. While a handful of the nation\u2019s premier music schools for advanced students have tapped the technology, it\u2019s never been available to ordinary \u2014 and often lower income \u2014 students in small-town bands and orchestras.\nWith the holidays approaching, music directors across the state are getting guest teachers to help prepare for their December concerts.\n\u201cFor me, it gives another perspective on how to teach [music] concepts,\u201d said Dan Alto, director of instruction for the Itasca Orchestra and Strings Program, which was working with Swider this week on the big screen.\n\u201cIt\u2019s really nice to do something different,\u201d added Rachel Hagen, a viola player at Grand Rapids High School who is part of his group. \u201cYou learn new techniques.\u201d\nThe instruction, so far, has been free to participating schools and students, thanks to underwriting from the Minnesota State Arts Board\u2019s Legacy funding, the National Endowment for the Arts and foundation grants.\nThat\u2019s been an added bonus for teachers such as Pam Diem, school band director for several farm communities in western Minnesota that make up the Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg School District. Tight budgets mean that Diem teaches music to children from knee high to high school, from marching band to jazz band.\n\u201cI have more than 250 students,\u201d said Diem. \u201cYou\u2019re stretched to the max. You\u2019re giving lessons before school, after school, during lunch, during prep. This [project] is like having two of me.\u201d\nDiem taps MacPhail instructors to work individually with some students, with sections of the band, and with entire bands. She consults with them regularly.\n\u201cIt\u2019s like I have a department now,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd the students are really enthusiastic.\u201d\nEarlier this week, Swider walked into one of the instruction rooms at MacPhail, arranged his music stand and sheet music, took his violin out of its case, and positioned himself in front of the video screen that soon would reveal his Grand Rapids students. He checked that the camera was positioned correctly. At 4:40 p.m., the screen clicked on, revealing six strings students and Alto, their teacher, sitting around a large table in a school media room.\n\u2018Barely touching down\u2019\nAfter practicing a piece by composer Edvard Grieg, Alto told Swider that the students were preforming Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201cDance of the Sugar Plum Fairies\u201d for their holiday concert. Could Swider work on that a bit?\nThe students then played the entire piece, and Swider said they were sounding good.\n\u201cBut I think we could make it a little more mysterious at the beginning,\u201d said Swider, demonstrating on his violin. The students followed his lead.\nWhen the students moved to the next section of the piece, Swider had another suggestion: \u201cThese are fairies,\u201d he reminded the students. \u201cThey fly above the ground. Your stroke has to be like that too, barely touching down.\u201d\nSimilar scenes are being played out in cities such as Thief River Falls, Montevideo and Wilmar, as well as dozens of small farm towns in Minnesota.\nInitial worries\nBabcock admitted that MacPhail had some reservations before launching the project, which is part of its growing community outreach efforts.\n\u201cCan video conferencing be as effective as in-person instruction?\u201d he asked. \u201cBy not being able to touch and adjust [students\u2019 grips on their instruments], how would that work out? And what about the teacher not being able to simultaneously play with the students?\u201d\nThe options weren\u2019t ideal. MacPhail previously had partnerships in outstate Minnesota, but they were often time-consuming for teachers and costly, said Babcock. For example, a residency program in Thief River Falls required an instructor to spend a week there once a month, costing about $40,000 a year.\nTeachers also had some concerns.\n\u201cBeing from a little town in southern Minnesota, I was a little nervous about playing with the professionals in Minneapolis, said Nicole Boelter, music instructor at the Yellow Medicine East School District around Granite Falls. \u201cBut it\u2019s been wonderful.\u201d\n\u2018A master class for me\u2019\nOne of the challenges for Yellow Medicine East has been the sheer size of the district, about 30 miles from east to west, which means many students depend on buses, she said. Coming in early for music lessons, or staying after school, wasn\u2019t an option for many. The MacPhail lessons are built into the school day, she said, which makes them accessible to all students.\nMeanwhile, Boelter has enjoyed an unexpected perk. \u201cI sit in the back and take notes,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s a master class for me. I have a binder full of notes that I hope will make me a stronger teacher.\u201d\nBob Adney, who coordinates the project at MacPhail, said the project is designed \u201cto be a resources for teachers, not a replacement.\u201d Teachers set the agenda, ask for what they need.\nThis year, for example, MacPhail ramped up its offerings for choirs and string sections, in response to demand.\n\u201cWe have a great tool for music,\u201d said Babcock. \u201cWe want everyone to have access to it.\u201d\nJean Hopfensperger \u2022 612-673-4511\nBy becky|2016-05-10T15:10:09+00:00December 3rd, 2013|Arts physical activity and healthy living, High quality out-of-school programs and activities, Partner News|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 8178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spottedratings.com/2018/04/spotted-ratings-sunday-42218.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MNUFGONOF5NL26GQR4S52S5KJ7NWYSMF", "length": 840, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.spottedratings.com", "title": "Spotted Ratings, Sunday 4/22/18 - Next-level TV ratings and scheduling analysis at SpottedRatings.com", "raw_content": "All the regular broadcast lineups were back in place on Sunday, which helped American Idol (1.5) to rebound by multiple tenths. But that was no help to its lead-out Deception, which tanked to 0.6 for the first time as it prepares for a special original following a Roseanne repeat marathon on Tuesday.\nThe CBS dramas were back, and roughly in line with three weeks ago when they didn't have help from The Masters. That meant a return to 0.6 for Instinct and a small drop for NCIS: Los Angeles (0.8), while Madam Secretary matched last week's 0.6.\nOn Fox, Family Guy (0.9) returned but was unable to boost The Last Man on Earth (0.6), while Bob's Burgers (0.8) and The Simpsons (0.9) gave back last week's upticks. All things NBC matched last week (0.6/0.8/0.6/0.5)\nAmerica's Funniest Home Videos 91 95\n34% -17% 58 -8\n67% 0% 84 +8\nTrust 9 97", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 664, "original_length": 10832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ssralmanac.com/mobile/2017/news_20170921.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:16Z", "digest": "sha1:UY2S27XJPHUMGZCYNPYDPD7EBYSZOHM5", "length": 3074, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ssralmanac.com", "title": "2017 Rabbitohs News - Sutton 2018 Contract Extension", "raw_content": "John Sutton 2018 Contract Extension\nThe South Sydney Rabbitohs are delighted to announce the re-signing of local junior John Sutton for the 2018 season, giving him the opportunity to become the first player in the Club\u2019s history to play 300 first grade games in what will be his 15th season playing in the NRL.\nSutton is a three-time George Piggins Medallist as the player of the year at South Sydney (2009, 2012-13), has played more first grade games (282) and more grade games (310) than any other player in the Rabbitohs\u2019 109-year history, has represented City Origin on two occasions and the Australian Prime Minister\u2019s XIII once; however the greatest accomplishment of his career so far is leading the Rabbitohs as captain to the 2014 premiership, the Club\u2019s 21st title. A Kensington United junior, Sutton is already regarded as a modern day legend of the Club, and Rabbitohs Head Coach Anthony Seibold says Sutton\u2019s retention is invaluable to the squad.\n\u201cJohn is a leader amongst our group, he\u2019s played more games than anyone in our jersey which shows his loyalty to the Club, and those attributes are priceless to our squad,\u201d Coach Seibold said. \u201cThe experience he brings is instrumental to players like Cameron Murray, Zane Musgrove, Angus Crichton, Tyrell Fuimaono, Campbell Graham, Braidon Burns and Siosifa Talakai, amongst others. \u201cHe brings a fantastic skill set, his knowledge of the game is deep and thorough, and physically he\u2019s a big body. \u201cHe adds depth to the back row for us alongside guys like Sam Burgess, Angus, Tyrell, Cam, Dean Britt and Sifa, but most importantly the leadership and experience he brings at the NRL level is irreplaceable.\u201d\nRabbitohs General Manager of Football Shane Richardson paid tribute to Sutton and looks forward to him making a valuable contribution to the Club in 2018. \u201cJohn is a key member of our leadership group and has been for some time,\u201d Mr Richardson said. \u201cHe is our longest serving player, he has led the Club to a premiership, he\u2019s played more games than anyone else in the history of this Club, and he is a fantastic mentor for the young players in our squad. \u201cHe knows what it takes to win and he\u2019s prepared to lead the way in his preparation for games and the way that he puts every effort into every performance on the field for Souths in any role the coaching staff requires. \u201cHe is a South Sydney man from a wonderful South Sydney family and he has shown amazing commitment to stick with the Club since 2002.\u201d\nSutton is excited about extending his tenure with the Rabbitohs. \u201cI love this Club and everything it stands for and I\u2019ve never wanted to play for anyone else,\u201d Sutton said. \u201cTo have the opportunity to have another year with Souths is fantastic and I want to thank everyone at the Club for having faith in me to get the job done next season. \u201cThis Club is a big part of my life and my family\u2019s life and it\u2019s an absolute privilege to run out in front of our Members and represent the Club that they love just as much as I do. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to ripping in to make next season one to remember.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 3224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-pediatricians-promote-reading-for-young-patients-and-their-parents/488567971/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5J3M46WPOE2YJSOVR46QJ7B2US2HUQ4G", "length": 6057, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.startribune.com", "title": "Minnesota pediatricians promote reading for young patients and their parents - StarTribune.com", "raw_content": "Minnesota pediatricians promote reading for young patients and their parents\nA growing number of pediatric and primary care clinics in Minnesota are using children's books to improve health care and enhance child development.\nA growing number of pediatric and primary care clinics in Minnesota are using children\u2019s books to improve health care and enhance child development.\nThe physicians believe they can have a positive and lasting impact on brain development during the critical first three years of a child\u2019s life. That\u2019s before many children go to day care or preschool \u2014 and a period when pediatricians have particular access.\nRoughly 90 percent of children will see a medical provider at least once within their first year, while only 40 percent of children under the age of 2 are in a licensed day-care center, said Dr. Nathan Chomilo, a pediatrician at Park Nicollet Clinic in Brooklyn Center.\n\u201cWe need to be more focused on how we can improve the home environment and give parents the skills and confidence to help their children reach their potential from the very start,\u201d he said.\nChomilo is also medical director for the Minnesota chapter of Reach Out and Read, an organization that began 30 years ago in Boston to champion a cost-effective and engaging way to start the conversation about family reading.\nIt starts with a free book.\nDr. Nathan Chomilo checked the ears of 15-month-old Tedra Gbelia during her well-child visit while her mother Lorpu Cyrus distracted her with the book she just received as part of a Reach Out and Read program that encourages early access to books.\nOne morning last week, Chomilo started a well-child checkup with 15-month old Tedra Gbelia by giving her a small \u201cABC\u201d book with drawings of foods. A is for apple. B is for banana. C is for carrot.\nUnder the Reach Out and Read program, every one of the 10 recommended well-child visits between the ages of 6 months and 5 years starts with the gift of an age-appropriate book.\nTedra instantly reached for the book and started flipping through its thick, brightly colored pages with help of her mother, Lorpu Cyrus. She said her youngest daughter has already taken interest in books thanks to Chomilo as well as the books used by her two older daughters, ages 7 and 9.\n\u201cIt is really good for their development,\u201d said Cyrus. \u201cIt gives them a head start.\u201d\nThe book serves many purposes. It relaxes a child who might be anxious about getting shots and the other fears associated with going to the doctor.\nIt also helps the doctor or nurse ask parents about reading and encourage them to do more of it.\nResearchers have found that reading to and with children increases their chances of succeeding when they get to school and later in life. It also improves family bonds and boosts the confidence of parents.\nThe book can also be a diagnostic tool. A child\u2019s reaction to the book during an office visit tells a doctor a lot about their progress, both physically and mentally.\n\u201cYou can see more in that interaction about how that kid is really developing,\u201d said Dr. Rachael Rapacz, a family medicine doctor at Hennepin Healthcare Clinic in Brooklyn Park. \u201cI have been able to catch cases of autism or speech delay much earlier than I could with the older developmental exams, and that has been a tremendous advantage,\u201d she said.\nReach Out and Read in Minnesota has signed up 255 clinics that serve 153,000 children. That is about 1 out of every 3 children in the target age group.\nSoon, every Minneapolis clinic that serves this age group will have signed on, which would make it the largest city in the country to have full participation.\n\u201cOnce a clinic starts, they don\u2019t want to stop doing it,\u201d said Kris Hoplin, executive director of the state group. \u201cThe providers don\u2019t want to let it go.\u201d\nIn order to qualify, doctors and other health care professionals must go through training. Clinics must offer books in the waiting room, post information about local libraries and enlist everyone from the receptionist to nurses in the effort.\nClinics are also expected to buy a wide range of books for different age levels, languages and cultures that match their clientele.\nThe state organization helps provide books to clinics that serve primarily low-income or uninsured populations, but it has discount arrangements with book distributors that all clinics can use, driving the average book cost down to about $2.50.\nResearch shows that families served by the program are 2.5 times more likely to read to their children compared to those that were not part of Reach Out and Read. Parents are also more likely to read to their children more than three times a week.\nThe program also advances children\u2019s language development by three to six months, based on measurements that evaluate communication abilities and understanding language they hear. And more \u201cdoses\u201d of reading advice in the doctor\u2019s office result in more parent involvement and more progress for the child.\n\u201cI have met some families who don\u2019t have books in their homes. One of them had four children,\u201d said Dr. Lisa Cinar, a pediatrician with the Fairview Clinic in Princeton. In addition to the well-child visit free books, she helped provide the family with additional books that had been donated.\n\u201cAll four children started reading together more at home,\u201d said Cinar. \u201cThey looked forward to bedtime stories and it gives them some bonding time with mom.\u201d\nIn an era of televisions, tablets and smartphones, Chomilo said he reminds parents that content on screens cannot replicate the brain development that comes from parents and children sharing a book.\n\u201cWe need interaction to build brain connections,\u201d he said.\nFor 15-month-old Tedra, development is progressing well. For her, like others at that age, enjoying a book includes gnawing on it and throwing it on the floor.\nAs the exam was finishing up and Chomilo reached over to examine Tedra, mom flipped to the back of the book to distract her daughter. \u201cZ is for zucchini,\u201d Cyrus said.\nThe girl let out a short and loud laugh. A connection was made.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 380, "original_length": 15045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stinasu.sr/en/services/travel-conditions-cancellation-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHQMA3IXGTTD5WWOE7OIIJJL5QF3QTXT", "length": 267, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.stinasu.sr", "title": "STINASU - Travel conditions cancellation policy", "raw_content": "If canceled more than 30 days before departure, you owe $10 administration fee. If canceled up to 14 days before the day of departure takes place then a refund of 50% will be considered. Cancellation within 14 days before departure date, then there will be no refund.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stmaryn16.org/blog?year=2016&month=05", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZB73RCOHWVI632BVI3Y422JX22DD7A3K", "length": 2450, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.stmaryn16.org", "title": "News", "raw_content": "Don't forget the auction in The Old Church at 7pm this evening. You can buy a ticket at the door.\nYou can get an advance look at the catalogue here.\nAMEN is an independent group promoting the presence and participation of Minority Ethnic Anglicans in all structures of our church in the service of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.\n\u201cIndependent\u201d conveys the idea that the Group is not part of the formal structure of the Church of England; the Group will work with and has the blessing of CMEAC, but is not formally part of CMEAC. The sense that the Group will promote minority ethnic participation in \u201call\u201d structures is also important, although particular attention would be paid to participation in senior leadership. Finally, it is importance to us to emphasise that what we do is not just for our self interest, but for the \u201cservice of the Gospel\u201d.\nThe AMEN website is now online with our Invitation Form working. Please, click the link below to visit the website, and circulate this email to your friends. May the Lord who ascended into Heaven bless us all.\nwww.amenanglican.org\nMessages of support:\n\"I am very pleased to welcome the launch of AMEN on the Feast of the Ascension of our Lord. This network will encourage Anglicans from minority ethnic communities into greater participation in the life and structures of the CofE. We rejoice that our country is culturally and racially diverse and we are working to help our Church reflect this diversity. Moreover, the mission of God calls us to reflect this rainbow community, as a sign of hope for a broken world. I pray that the Kingdom of God will continue to prosper and grow through this initiative\".\n- The Very Rev Rogers Govender, Dean of Manchester\n\"I am delighted to become a champion of AMEN. All of us, particularly those in leadership, need to be challenged about what we are doing and being to ensure that The Church of England reflects the face and voice of our country.\"\n- The Rt Rev Rachel Treweek, The Bishop of Gloucester.\n\"I welcome the creation of the Anglican Minority Ethnic Network. The Church of England serves a diverse community in this country but the face and accent of our leadership often fails to match that of our demographic. We need to value and affirm and encourage the contribution of Minority Ethnic Christians to the life of the Church of England, and I\u2019m delighted to be working with AMEN to make this happen.\"\n- The Rt Rev Adrian Newman, The Bishop of Stepney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 7426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 242.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sundaramtagore.com/ch/zhan-lan/edward-burtynsky2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2BVWQRFGTNUZDQ4MIG5XWWZB63QTHAO2", "length": 2262, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sundaramtagore.com", "title": "Edward Burtynsky - \u5c55\u89c8 - Sundaram Tagore Gallery", "raw_content": "Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky will have his second solo exhibition, titled Watermarks, in Hong Kong. The artist will attend the exhibition opening as well as screen an award-winning documentary about his work at the Hong Kong Arts Centre.\nKnown for his disarmingly beautiful images of industrial landscapes, Burtynsky will present his most recent series, Water. In stunning color and intricate detail, the Water series, begun in 2007, documents the scale and impact of manufacturing and consumption on the world\u2019s water supplies. Burtynsky chronicles how human interference is depleting this precious resource, leading to devastated landscapes that are polluted, manipulated and exhausted.\nMore abstract and painterly than his previous work, some of the images in this series no longer even appear to register as photographs. Burtynsky shot the images\u2014dryland farming in Spain, pivot irrigation sites in Texas, and the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico\u2014from 7,000 feet above, to obtain the viewpoint necessary to bring the scale of the human imprint on the landscape into more meaningful perspective.\nEdward Burtynsky\u2019s works are in the collections of more than fifty museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale, Paris; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Photographer\u2019s Gallery, London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Burtynsky was recognized with a TED award in 2005. In 2006 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada, the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor. He holds four honorary doctorate degrees and his distinctions include the National Magazine Award, the MOCCA award, the Outreach Award at the Rencontres d\u2019Arles and the Applied Arts Magazine book award. Burtynsky lives and works in Toronto, Canada.\nIn 2007, Edward Burtynsky was the subject of the award-winning documentary Manufactured Landscapes, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Sundaram Tagore Gallery will be showing the film at the Hong Kong Arts Centre\u2019s ang\u00e8s b. CINEMA at 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 31 to a select group of collectors. The film will be followed by a Q & A with the artist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 95.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.swedenborg.com.au/divine-love-and-wisdom?ReturnUrl=LwBzAHcAZQBkAGUAbgBiAG8AcgBnAHMALQBzAHAAaQByAGkAdAB1AGEAbAAtAHcAcgBpAHQAaQBuAGcAcwA%3D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:22Z", "digest": "sha1:QPRXWMHE5NJ7NCXCXDXBVNDHBKK2QQZP", "length": 715, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.swedenborg.com.au", "title": "SWEDENBORG ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA | Divine Love & Wisdom", "raw_content": "\"Divine Love and Wisdom, contains Swedenborg's major statement on two fundamental aspects of God's nature. These two basic cosmic forces intimately determine our life as human beings. \"Love\" denotes the vital, valuing, and active powers of the soul, deciding the ultimate goals of our thought and action. \"Wisdom,\" by contrast, represents the cognitive power of the soul, providing the technical means for these goals' realization. Swedenborg's work shows how God is love and life itself, bestowing these gifts on all other creatures. This highly readable New Century Edition in George Dole's sensitive translation admirably reflects the coherence and consistency of Swedenborg's language.\" Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 230.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.syariffudin.org/2018/05/holiday-inn-express-suites-college-park.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DZ4KO2IVTHPWVXP4SPVBDKJUK2JZ53LD", "length": 815, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.syariffudin.org", "title": "Holiday Inn Express & Suites - College Park-University Area ~ PIJAT SEHAT ONLINE", "raw_content": "Holiday Inn Express & Suites - College Park-University Area\n9020 Baltimore Avenue, College Park, 20740, United States of America\nFeaturing free WiFi throughout the property, Holiday Inn Express & Suites - College Park-University Area offers accommodations in College Park, just 14.5 km from Washington, DC. Free private parking is available on site.\nEach room includes a TV. You will find a coffee machine in the room.\nBaltimore is 41.8 km from College Park Hotel & Suites, and National Harbor is 24.1 km from the property. The nearest airport is Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, 19.3 km from Holiday Inn Express & Suites - College Park-University Area.\nThis property is also rated for the best value in College Park! Guests are getting more for their money when compared to other properties in this city.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 705, "original_length": 20004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 174.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.taymeetsworld.com/2018/02/showing-yourself-some-self-love-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:06Z", "digest": "sha1:5H4GFK3HGUMYKKTHYTK3KXYUN3XAG2WC", "length": 1895, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.taymeetsworld.com", "title": "Showing Yourself Some Self Love On Valentine's Day - Tay Meets World", "raw_content": "Showing Yourself Some Self Love On Valentine's Day\nHappy Valentine's Day Friends! While many may think this is a day where you have to have a significant other, I've taken a different approach over the years. It's so important, I've learned, to show yourself love. I love treating myself on this day, whether it's with a new pair of shoes, flowers, or indulging in delicious food (umm, hello chocolate covered strawberries).\nPracticing self-love should be a habit, a mindset or a routine. The first step is acknowledging that no matter what shape, size, situation, place or time you are in - you deserve love. Being confident in yourself, knowing your worth, and having independence from all the things that make you dependent - is so important. You should never depend on anyone to make you happy, to satisfy your needs, and fill your love tank. If that already starts with yourself - then every other love you have will be so incredibly grand.\nWhen my parents divorced when I was a freshman in college, I truly understood why you have to love yourself and be happy first before you can give love. My parents turned into completely different people. All the things I thought I knew about them was so different...now, they are actually caring for themselves before anyone.\nThe societal standard is to find the right person, fall in love, get married, have babies, work an 8-5 job and live happily ever after. What if it went more like this: find self-love, love yourself, then do whatever the heck you want! Valentine's Day isn't to make you feel bad that you don't have a significant other, or that you're not married and don't have kids. In my eyes, it's to give you a colorful reminder to put yourself first. Once that love is found - you have everything you need to conquer the rest.\nTags: Happy Valentine's Day, Practicing self-love, Self-Love, Self-Love on Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.temitopetaiwo.com/2014/10/ebola-outbreak-850-nigerian-soldiers.html?showComment=1413218086685", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:44Z", "digest": "sha1:EIS7RH7MQ55JVFKYSUHTWVXS3GJO5MDP", "length": 2069, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.temitopetaiwo.com", "title": "Ebola Outbreak: 850 Nigerian soldiers returning from peacekeeping mission in Liberia to be quarantined", "raw_content": "Ebola Outbreak: 850 Nigerian soldiers returning from peacekeeping mission in Liberia to be quarantined\nAbout 850 Nigerian soldiers on peacekeeping mission in Liberia are to be quarantined for 28 days when they return to the country in March 2015.\nThere are two battalions of the Nigerian Army in Liberia.\nA source said on Sunday that the Army personnel were scheduled to return to the country in January but that their arrival would be delayed till March 2015.\nAccording to the source, when they arrive in the country in March 2015, they will be quarantined in Gwagwalada, Abuja for 28 days before being allowed to go to their formations.\nIt was gathered that the soldiers returning from a similar mission in Sudan were not likely to be quarantined because Sudan had not recorded any Ebola case.\nThe source said that the Army authorities decided to ensure a painstaking observation of soldiers returning from Ebola infested countries because of the danger posed by the disease.\nThe Head of the Nigerian Army Medical Corps, Major-General Obashina Ogunbiyi, had said during a meeting of infectious diseases experts under the aegis of the Ebola Treatment Research Group in Abuja on Thursday that some Nigerian soldiers had been quarantined in Liberia following the death of a Sudanese who went to their camp to pray with them.\nThe Sudanese was said to have died two days after the prayer session and was believed to have died of the EVD.\nAlso, the Defence Headquarters said in a tweet on its twitter handle on Friday that \u201call necessary steps are being taken to ensure that no Nigerian soldier is infected with the deadly virus while serving in Liberia.\u201d\nThe DHQ stated further in another tweet that the troops were quarantined for \u201cpreventive purposes and medical observation following the case of a Sudanese, a UN employee who was reported to have manifested \u2026 (the EVD).\u201d\nIt was added that while no Nigerian soldier had shown symptoms of the disease, they were still confined to their camp.\nCredit: Fidelis Soriwei/ Friday Olokor/PunchNews\nits better for safety purpose", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.texasstandard.org/stories/despite-student-debt-concerns-most-texans-think-a-college-degree-is-worth-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:12Z", "digest": "sha1:IR4BARGJQHTGNZQVR7IBTHPP64PTUHLB", "length": 1441, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.texasstandard.org", "title": "Despite Student Debt Concerns, Most Texans Think a College Degree is Worth It | Texas Standard", "raw_content": "A new poll shows Texans agree student debt is a major problem, but many say their four-year degree has paid off.\nBy Laura RiceSeptember 27, 2016 11:39 amEducation\nStudents tossing their caps after graduating from the Laredo Early College High School on June 3, 2016.\nThe latest political polls show Texans are divided when it comes to which candidate will make the best president and whether immigration hurts or helps the U.S.\nBut a new education poll shows that Texans, very broadly, agree on issues of student debt and the cost of higher education.\nJim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, designed the poll, funded by the nonprofit online university WGU Texas.\nIn this poll, 93 percent of Texans said student debt is a major problem \u2013 a group that comprises both those who carry student loan debt and those who don\u2019t.\n\u201cI think that one of the reasons that people are so attuned to these problems is because they still see a high value of return on a college degree,\u201d he says, \u201cso that seems to me to be somewhat at odds with the narrative that college is broken, universities are broken, that because of cost a degree is no longer worth it.\u201d\n\u2013 What other polls indicate people think about not getting a four-year degree\n\u2013 How college is still a strong aspirational college\n\u2013 The percentage of people who say their college degree has paid off, or they expect it to (higher than you\u2019d think)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 6051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thaddandmilan.com/2015/02/la-mexicana.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OMN434XK6IOCQR5IQPW7N7IFPBSJF47H", "length": 668, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thaddandmilan.com", "title": "Thadd+Friends: La Mexicana.", "raw_content": "La Mexicana.\nIt was another Try Something New Sunday. So today, we decided to try La Mexicana across the river on Monmouth Street in Newport...\nI ordered the chicken flautas and Genifer ordered the flag enchiladas...\nDelicious stuff. And the portions were huge! We were completely stuffed. Food coma stuffed. In the back, there's more seating...\nWhich leads to a little Mexican grocery store...\nIt was a bit more expensive than our go-to Mexican place, Rio Grande. But we could have totally shared an entree. We really didn't need to order two. At all. It was a great change of pace. And it's always fun to try something new. We'll definitely be back at some point. :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 9681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.the-sidebar.com/2011/07/any-illinois-voters-want-to-help-me-try.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:38Z", "digest": "sha1:IXID5FOVPSHZ5CVQJW5BDKLBEPNDYZ74", "length": 5825, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.the-sidebar.com", "title": "The Sidebar: Any Illinois voters want to help me try to get answers from US Senator Dick Durbin? (An experiment in interactive journalism)", "raw_content": "Any Illinois voters want to help me try to get answers from US Senator Dick Durbin? (An experiment in interactive journalism)\n\"When (Save-A-Life Foundation founder/president Carol Spizzirri) came in and sat down with me and told this story to me face to face, I was with her and decided I would do everything I could to help her\" - Dick Durbin in a 1995 CNN interview (video posted below)\nMore recently, Senator Durbin's office seems to be doing everything it can to avoid telling the truth about his relationship with Spizzirri and her Chicago-area nonprofit that's now under investigation by the Illinois Attorney General and apparently by at least one federal agency.\nIn the interests of obtaining more information, I have an idea for an interesting, perhaps even fun, experiment.\nIt requires the participation of one or more registered Illinois voters. Here's the deal....\nEarlier this month I reported that the senator's press secretary, Christina Mulka, provided a variety of false information to a Texas blogger about her boss's relationship with the Save-A-Life Foundation, a Chicago-area nonprofit now under investigation by the Illinois Attorney General.\nAfter running that item, I e-mailed Ms. Mulka and asked her to confirm or deny two claims made by SALF, this one for a fundraiser....\n...and this from a list of members of SALF's corporate board that was part of a year 2000 grant application for $50,000 that was submitted by SALF to an Illinois state agency (which approved the request):\nI didn't receive a reply so a week later, I sent Ms. Mulka a follow-up that included:\nAccording to this February 17, 2011 Huffington Post article by Will Guzzardi, SALF claimed former president of the Chicago Board of Education Gery Chico was on the board of their organization, but Mr. Chico denied the claim. Two days later I provided the information in Mr. Guzzardi's article to the CTB (the Illinois Attorney General's Charitaible Trust Bureau) in this letter.\nSimilarly, I'm trying to determine if the two claims published by SALF about Senator Durbin that I brought to your attention - that in year 2000 he was a member of SALF's Advisory Council and/or was Honorary Chairman of SALF's Annual Dinner Dance fund raising event - are accurate or not. Your answers could assist the CTB in their efforts to determine whether any irregularities have occurred.\nNo response to that either.\nFrom Guzzardi's HuffPo article:\nAccording to Maura Possley, the deputy press secretary for the Illinois Attorney General's Office, a nonprofit misrepresenting the makeup of its board of directors in an annual report would be perjury, a Class 3 felony.\nColor me naive, but shouldn't a US senator want to assist an investigation by his home state?\nBut it's more than a lack of co-operation in this case.\nBased on numerous inquiries I and others have sent to his office, Sen. Durbin doesn't seem interested in finding out if the nearly nine million in Illinois and federal tax dollars awarded to SALF did, in fact, provide in-class first aid training to \"2 million children...many of them from the Chicago Public Schools\" which is what SALF founder/president Carol Spizzirri told the Tribune a couple years ago.\nColor me skeptical, but since the Chicago Schools apparently have no training records, isn't that claim iffy? A generation of students supposedly participated in the program, but there are no records?\nAs for Sen. Durbin's ten-year relationship with SALF, his press secretary may not be intentionally engaging in misdirection, but she's doing a boffo job of creating that impression.\nFor example, in an e-mail last year Ms. Mulka repeatedly indicated that Durbin's only contact with SALF was in 1995 and that:\n(He) never worked to appropriated (sic) funding for the organization.\nA year later most of the loot he requested came through:\nIf you're the type who prefers to let sleeping dogs lie or doesn't care what happened to the millions of tax dollars awarded to SALF, no need read any further.\nHowever, if you're not that type and may be up for a little experiment in participatory journalism, here's what I've got in mind.\nSince Sen. Durbin won't answer me, maybe he'll answer a constituent.\nIf you're a registered voter in Illinois, just send this or a similar inquiry to him:\nThe Honorable Dick Durbin\nDear Senator Durbin:\nI'm a constituent who'd appreciate your answers to the following questions:\n1) Were you ever a member of the Save-A-Life Foundation's Advisory Council? If so, during what years?\n2) Did you serve as the Honorary Chairman of the Save-A-Life Foundation's Annual Dinner Dance in year 2000?\nThank you for your consideration and I look forward to your reply.\nClick here to e-mail him via Ms. Mulka or send it via the Senator's website.\nFeel free to courtesy-copy me on your inquiry and let me know the response. I'll publish the results (or non-results) in a future item. Click here for my e-mail address.\nAm I asking readers to do my work for me? You betcha. But only because I hit the stonewall.\nI'm also interested in learning what happens with this message in a bottle I'm sending into cyberspace. I've never done anything like this and I don't know if any other blogger or reporter has.\nWill it generate newsworthy results or bupkis? Dunno, but that uncertainty is one reason why I think it's fun and worth a try.\nAlso, don't all good citizens share the belief that our elected officials should be accountable? Here's a painless opportunity to see what happens when you try with one of the our nation's most prominent public servants.\nOkay, that's enough from me.\nIllinois, the ball's in your court.\nLabels: charitable trust bureau, christina mulka, citizen journalism, dick durbin, gery chico, illinois, lisa madigan, richard durbin, richard j. durbin, salf, save a life foundation, will guzzardi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 9269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedrive.com/news/20497/new-infiniti-qx50-makes-appearance-in-marvel-studios-avengers-infinity-wars", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:10Z", "digest": "sha1:OF5MMRB4YVRS6BWXWAIEJL6MBVJPMGAC", "length": 3282, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.thedrive.com", "title": "New Infiniti QX50 Makes an Appearance in Marvel Studios' Latest Movie 'Avengers: Infinity Wars' - The Drive", "raw_content": "New Infiniti QX50 Makes Appearance in Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity Wars\nWhen Infiniti and 'Infinity Wars' forge an alliance.\nBy George KuruvillaApril 29, 2018\nInfiniti USA - YouTube\nInfiniti announced its alliance with Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War to celebrate the launch of the all-new luxury midsize crossover, the 2019 Infiniti QX50, in showrooms. Moviegoers will be able to catch a glimpse of the Infiniti QX50 in the Marvel superhero franchise.\n\"We couldn't be more excited about working with Infiniti for the first time,\" said Mindy Hamilton, Marvel's senior vice president of global partnerships and marketing. \"Between their highly anticipated launch of the QX50 and our climactic release of [Avengers: Infinity War], we recognized a tremendous opportunity to share our mutual passions for risk-taking, adventure, excellence, and advancement with fans all around the country.\"\nInfiniti calls the collaboration, \"a dual celebration of the culmination of years of building toward an epic moment. The movie is the product of more than a decade of storytelling, and the Infiniti QX50's engine is the result of a 20-plus year endeavor to create a powertrain that can seamlessly shift between performance and efficiency \u2013 the world's first production-ready variable compression ratio engine, the VC-Turbo.\"\nWhat the Captain America: Civil War Superheroes Would Drive (Without Product Placement)By Will Sabel Courtney Posted in News\nInfiniti Will Launch a New Platform for Electrified VehiclesBy Stephen Edelstein Posted in News\nInfiniti to Cut Off QX70 ProductionBy Eric Brandt Posted in Sheet/Metal\nThis Former Formula 3 Car Is a Movie StarBy Justin Hughes Posted in News\nPortugal. The Man Lead Singer Creates Designs for BMW i Models for CoachellaBy George Kuruvilla Posted in News\nAccording to the luxury brand's announcement, \"Fans will also be able to experience additional [Infiniti] exclusives, between April 18 and May 31, 2018, including a behind-the-scenes featurette that explores the origins of the Infinity Stones as well as interviews with cast and crew, content from past films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and footage from Marvel Studios' Avengers: Infinity War.\"\nI was fortunate enough to catch a screening of the movie last Friday and I did see the Infiniti QX70 make the minutest of appearances towards the end of the movie. The scene had visual fragments of the SUV for no more than a couple of seconds, or less, and involved two other characters also known to make cameos in other Marvel movies, namely Nick Fury, played by Samuel L Jackson and Maria Hill, played by Cobie Smulders. For a better view of the QX70 and its many features, you are better off watching the 90-second \"Date Night\" commercial featured below.\nWhat the Captain America: Civil War Superheroes Would Drive (Without Product Placement)\nHawkeye drives a Dodge Caravan, obviously.\nInfiniti to Cut Off QX70 Production\nIt turns out it's possible for a luxury brand to have too many crossovers.\nThis Former Formula 3 Car Is a Movie Star\nThis 1969 Lotus 59 played the role of James Hunt's race car in the movie Rush.\nPortugal. The Man Lead Singer Creates Designs for BMW i Models for Coachella\nJohn Gourley throws some colors onto the BMW i clan in the name of art and music.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefirelightgroup.com/corvyn-steel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZK4F6SOJH3T6GZ5WD4N6AWX2KXW4YU4D", "length": 754, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thefirelightgroup.com", "title": "Corvyn Steel \u2013 The Firelight Group", "raw_content": "Email: corvyn.steel@thefirelightgroup.com\nCorvyn is an experienced educator, editor, and administrator, who earned their Master\u2019s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Windsor. Career highlights include teaching English in Korea, assisting in the publication of various print media, and selling sales.\nThey currently aid The Firelight Group in achieving organizational and employee engagement and recruitment goals, and also help ensure the eloquence of external communications. Corvyn is thrilled to be part of a team which is committed to strong 21st-century values such as integrity, diversity, and sustainability. In their free time, Corvyn enjoys performing in choirs and musical theatre, reading, and gaming of all sorts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefirelightgroup.com/rachel-olson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YDBH6AGJ2D7K643O3TKLXXWVWJFJVV5P", "length": 1494, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thefirelightgroup.com", "title": "Rachel Olson \u2013 The Firelight Group", "raw_content": "Email: rachel.olson@thefirelightgroup.com\nRachel is a citizen of the Tr\u2019ondek Hwech\u2019in First Nation from the Yukon territory. She has been a researcher in First Nation communities since 1998, working on various projects, from oral history, traditional land use and natural resource management to First Nations health issues. She has a Master of Research in Social Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. In May 2013, Rachel completed a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Sussex, looking at the politics of midwifery care and childbirth in Manitoba First Nations communities.\nRachel has worked as a consultant for the LINKS (Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems) program at UNESCO in Paris, France and at the First Nations Centre at the National Aboriginal Health Organization on their maternal care file. She works closely with the National Aboriginal Council of Midwives (NACM) as a researcher and writer for their Aboriginal Health and Human Resource Initiative projects.\nAt Firelight, Rachel is a technical lead of the Traditional Knowledge and Use Study team. She has authored numerous Traditional Knowledge (TK) / Traditional Land Use (TLU) reports for First Nation communities in BC, Alberta, and the NWT. Her work has focused on knowledge and use in relation to a number of different industries including: pipelines, wind farms, and mining. She has also testified at environmental review board hearings on Firelight TUS methods, analysis, and assessment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 142.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefirstanzacday.com/2015/04/the-morphettville-racecourse-training.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:24Z", "digest": "sha1:OC7ALWTXCVJQ4SPFAA33PUEP2BYTQRIT", "length": 1088, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thefirstanzacday.com", "title": "The First Anzac Day: The Morphettville Racecourse Training Camp", "raw_content": "The 10th Battalion was the first infantry battalion raised in South Australian for service during the Great War. On August 19th 1914 the Morphettville Racecourse Training Camp opened. The first recruits of the 10th Battalion arrived that day and the only food available to them was bread and jam. Training was carried out at the camp until the battalion departed for Egypt on 20 October 1914. The men didn't know where they were headed and most likely many of them would never have heard of Gallipoli.\nKnown as The Fighting 10th, the 10th battalion was one of the first ashore at Gallipoli and fought in many of the worst battles of the Western Front. Their story forms part of The First Anzac Day documentary.\nOne of my goals in making this film was to highlight the efforts of South Australians during World War 1, many of which I was unaware of. When I first started work on the film I had no knowledge of the Morphettville Racecourse Training Camp, I only live a few hundred metres from it.\nThank you for your interest, Ash Starkey.\nLabels: 10th Battalion, Morphettville Training Camp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 132.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theglassmagazine.com/extraordinary-yung-ho-chang/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:42Z", "digest": "sha1:I3BE72M2FPBEGZFJGXWSYMOP7LVVP7ZF", "length": 7186, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.theglassmagazine.com", "title": "(Extra)ordinary Yung Ho Chang \u2013 The Glass Magazine", "raw_content": "(Extra)ordinary Yung Ho Chang\nAccording to Philip Tinari, a leading curator of art and architecture in China, Yung Ho Chang can be referred to as \u201ca pioneer of contemporary Chinese architecture\u201c. This epithet refers to the historical significance of his activity as well as to the conceptual principles of his practice. Strategically, his work has escaped the burden of culturally merging East and West but has instead found autonomy by returning to basic concerns of architecture. Chang has often asked: \u201cWhere does a building end? Where does a city begin? How are their structures and organisation similar?\u201d His capacity to infuse design with analytical thought not only imported the ideal of the international theorising and practising architect, but also enabled him to reinterpret and renew the building technologies of a country in state of transformation \u2013 an educational and ethical call.\nYung Ho Chang was born in 1956 in Beijing, amidst the visions and values of the old People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC). After passing the strict system of entry examination in 1978, he was educated as an architect in the Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University). In 1981 he travelled to the United States where he obtained his bachelor\u2019s degree from Ball State University, and in 1984 he completed the master\u2019s programme at the University of California at Berkeley. After 15 years of teaching abroad and experimental design, Chang and his wife, Lijia Lu, returned to Beijing to establish the first private practice in China \u2013 Atelier Feichang Jianzhu. This name, conceived in 1994, is an unstable expression that can be read contradictorily as \u201cabnormal architecture\u201d or \u201cvery architectural\u201d.\nIt was chosen because of the intricacy that it posed: on one hand it refers to basic architectural themes, such as space, material, or context; and on the other, it poses the possibility of creating the \u201csensible extraordinary\u201d out of the \u201cboisterous ordinary\u201d. Here Chang and Tinari discuss with Glass the future of the Chinese city and design in all its possible manifestations.\nGlass: Yung Ho Chang is regarded as the \u201cfather of contemporary Chinese architecture\u201d. Who do you think are his ancestors and offspring?\nPhilip Tinari: His immediate ancestor \u2013 his own father, Zhang Kaiji \u2013 is probably the most important; growing up in the household of one of China\u201cs most prominent early-PRC (People\u201cs Republic of China) architects was a huge, if conflicted, influence on his later development. The practical training he acquired during the Cultural Revolution \u2013 when even the word \u201carchitecture\u201d was suspect and replaced by the less loaded \u201cbuilding design\u201d \u2013 also played a major role in his intellectual formation. For younger generations, he is seen as an architect but also as a design and style icon, someone who has made the now unbearably popular word \u201ccrossover\u201d a part of his life and work.\nWhat was your main motivation to return and practise in China in 1993?\nYung Ho Chang: I wanted to build. There were no opportunities in the United States for me to practise independently at that time. China\u201cs embracing of market economy provided the opportunity I was searching for, so I went back home. In early 1993, my wife and I were at my parents\u201c place for the Chinese New Year when a friend of her family came to visit and he introduced us to someone who wanted a design for a casino in Shantou. Although it did not get built, that was our first project and how our practice, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ), started.\nHow do you think he incorporates the Chinese and the American influences?\nPT: Throughout Yung Ho Chang\u2019s work, there is a commitment to Chinese architectural ideas like the covered walkway, the pavilion and the courtyard. The fusion happens as he attempts to reinsert these spatial conditions into buildings that are made for contemporary purposes. He also maintains a resolutely Chinese way of looking at and thinking about problems.\nAn important aspect of your architecture is materiality. How are the poetics of materials incorporated in your buildings?\nYHC: Architecture is a tangible art. Material is not a technical matter but a cultural one. Nevertheless, I don\u2019t have a fixed aesthetic taste in material and I prefer to explore and experiment with unfamiliar possibilities \u2013 pushing the capacities of traditional materials, such as clay bricks and tiles, to perform in new ways, and also trying new materials, such as fibreglass, to create new structural systems. We are building a house in Nanjing with a clear design message: \u201cA building can be very lightweight and beautiful!\u201d\nChina is in a process of transformation. How do you envisage the new everyday life? And, by extension, do you think that the new cities being planned in China will have a long-lasting life and relevant influence?\nYHC: As everyone is aware, in China there is an emerging middle class and part of the urban population is better off economically; however, it does not necessarily mean a better city life. The biggest issue in contemporary Chinese cities is liveability, not how they look. Because these new centres are mainly designed for the automobile, with extremely large blocks, traffic is terrible, air is polluted, people cannot walk, and everyday shopping is difficult \u2013 to mention only a few of the challenges for urban life today. One of Atelier FCJZ\u2019s design objectives is to reintroduce liveability as well as urbanity into Chinese cities through measures such as reducing spatial scale, defining the street as an urban and social space, making walking easy, and mixing different programmes \u2013 residential, commercial, work and cultural. One of the projects that we designed based on these ideas is currently under construction in Jiading, Shanghai. The block size was designed not to surpass 40 \u00d7 40 metres, in contrast to the typical 400 \u00d7 400 metres or more.\nIs there a relation between a Chinese national identity and its current architectural practices? How is the new generation of architects responding to the new China?\nPT: What we see much more than any resuscitation of Chinese practices is young Chinese architects aspiring to international \u201cstarchitect\u201c status, and resorting mainly to complex forms to get there. The drive to build icons seems to be part of our global condition. Of course young Chinese architects are at no shortage for work, but truly considered responses to this exaggerated condition seem to be lacking.\nWhat would you like to address in your research in the future?\nYHC: In summary, city and material cover the two ends, macro and micro, of my research spectrum and will continue to do so. Atelier FCJZ is a rather unique design practice in China since we are also involved in designing products, furniture, clothes, jewellery and many other types of object. It is very much a multi-disciplinary practice. That speaks of the real ambition of our office which is to try to make a contribution to contemporary Chinese culture through our work.\nby Christian Parre\u00f1o\nAll images courtesy of Atelier FCJZ\nFrom the Glass archive \u2013 Issue 13 \u2013 Peace\nArchitectureAtelier Feichang JianzhuPhilip TinariYung Ho Chan\nMascotte Store preview", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 14765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thelawofattraction.com/what-is-the-law-of-attraction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JBKYTXUVTN22Q3QD4E34ABNFBQZRLMTP", "length": 11234, "nlines": 87, "source_domain": "www.thelawofattraction.com", "title": "What Is The Law Of Attraction? And How To Use It Effectively", "raw_content": "What Is The Law Of Attraction? Open Your Eyes To A World Of Endless Possibilities\nSimply put, the Law of Attraction is the ability to attract into our lives whatever we are focusing on. It is believed that regardless of age, nationality or religious belief, we are all susceptible to the laws which govern the Universe, including the Law of Attraction. It is the Law of Attraction which uses the power of the mind to translate whatever is in our thoughts and materialize them into reality. In basic terms, all thoughts turn into things eventually. If you focus on negative doom and gloom you will remain under that cloud. If you focus on positive thoughts and have goals that you aim to achieve you will find a way to achieve them with massive action.\nThis is why the universe is such an infinitely beautiful place. The Law of Attraction dictates that whatever can be imagined and held in the mind\u2019s eye is achievable if you take action on a plan to get to where you want to be.\nThe Law of Attraction is one of life's biggest mysteries. Very few people are fully aware of how much of an impact the Law of Attraction has on their day to day life. Whether we are doing it knowingly or unknowingly, every second of our existence, we are acting as human magnets sending out our thoughts and emotions and attracting back more of what we have put out.\nUnfortunately, so many of us still blind to the potential that is locked deep within us. Consequently, it is all too easy to leave your thoughts and emotions unchecked. This sends out the wrong thoughts and attracts more unwanted emotions and events into your life.\nHaving said this, discovering that the Law of Attraction is at work within your life should be a great cause for celebration! Once the power of attraction has been understood by you it is no longer secret. Plus, you have learned how to effectively apply these to your everyday life, your entire future is yours to create.\nThe History Of The Law Of Attraction\nHundreds of years ago the Law of Attraction was first thought to have been taught to man by the immortal Buddha. It is believed he wanted it to be known that \u2018what you have become is what you have thought\u2019. This is a belief that is deeply intrinsic in the Law of Attraction.\nWith the spread of this concept to western culture also came the term \u2018Karma\u2019, it is a belief that is popular throughout numerous societies.\nOver the centuries it has been a common understanding amongst many that what you give out to the world (be it anger or happiness, hate or love) is ultimately what can return to your own life in the end.\nThis simple and easy-to-follow concept has been so popular among many for a large number of years. It demonstrates that the idea of the power of attraction is not new whatsoever. It is already recognizable to many of us in a variety of ways.\nThere have been many modern advocates of The Law Of Attraction as well. These include Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, and Denzel Washington. In addition, with over 5.8 MILLION Facebook fans, there are plenty of success stories surrounding The Law Of Attraction.\nThe most challenging part of acknowledging and accepting the truth of what the Law of Attraction has to offer is coming to the realization that every single one of your decisions in life, good and bad, have been shaped by you alone. For many, this can be a bitter pill to swallow, especially if you feel that you or your loved ones have been dealt some particularly hard blows in life.\nHowever, once you have truly come to understand the true key behind of the Law of Attraction you can be renewed with hope and courage in the overwhelming knowledge that you are free to take charge of your life and free yourself forever from the cycle of fear, worry or negativity which has held you back for too long.\nThe Science Behind The Law Of Attraction: Fact, Not Fiction\nIt doesn't matter if you do not ever come to have a thorough understanding of the quantum physics behind the Law of Attraction. However, this does not mean that we all cannot enjoy the many benefits that this generous and law can offer us.\nAs physicists come to supply us with more and more information regarding the law, the more we can simply rejoice in the truly liberating and empowering realization that we are the creators and controllers of our life and the energy we are all made of.\nBe happy, for the universe is always on our side! The more time you dedicate to learning how to use the Law of Attraction effectively, the more fulfilling and rewarding your life can be. There are no restrictions! Open your mind and enjoy the natural abundance of the Universe.\nOnce we have come to understand the astounding possibilities that life has to offer us, we can also come to realize that we are like artists. We are creating pictures of our intended life and then making choices and taking actions that will realize what we envisaged.\nSo what if you don\u2019t like the picture?\nLife is a blank canvas of possibility; you are in control of what the finished picture could look like.\nThe Law of Attraction really is that simple. No catches. All laws of nature are completely perfect and the Law of Attraction is no exception. No matter what you are looking to have or achieve or be in life, if you can hold onto an idea and see it for yourself in the mind\u2019s eye, you can make it yours to have\u2026 with some effort on your part.\nHere are just a few areas in your life that you could improve by utilizing The Law Of Attraction.\n1. Manifest Love And Relationships With The Law Of Attraction\n\u201cThe beginning of love is at the end of resistance.\u201d\n-Danielle Light\nWith new relationships being formed every single day, it is not surprising that this is a common goal. Many people wish to meet the love of their lives. But can The Law Of Attraction help your love life?\nThere are many Law Of Attraction techniques and exercises that can increase your confidence, charisma and overall subconscious willingness to receive love. In this way, it is entirely possible to attract your real soulmate by utilizing The Law Of Attraction.\nFind out how you can use The Law Of Attraction for an improved love life with these articles:\n18 Communication Tips That Will Make People Love You\n6 Physical Steps To Attracting Love: Things You Can Do Right Now\n9 Good Reasons To Stay Single Right Now (And Learn Love Yourself)\n7 Signs You\u2019re About To Meet The Love Of Your Life\n2. Attract Money And Wealth Using The Law Of Attraction\n\u201cAlways remember, money is a servant; you are the master.\u201d\n-Bob Proctor\nAnother common goal across the world is financial abundance. Wealth brings along it's obvious benefits to your life. Money can put a roof over your head and food on the table. Similarly, it has the ability to provide for your family and friends.\nRead our articles on manifesting money and discover how you could attract wealth today:\nManifesting Money: An Execution Plan (+FREE Printable PDF)\nMoney is Energy: Spend it Wisely (Part 1 & Part 2)\nHow To Banish The 8 Subconscious Money Blocks Keeping You From Getting Rich\n3. Improve Your Mental And Physical Health\n\u201cHealth goes beyond our physical body. It is not just about what we put in our bodies or take out of it, it is also about our emotions and how we are feeling spiritually.\u201d\n-Katherine Hurst\nWith busy work routines, commitments to friends and family and general everyday life, we sometimes neglect our own personal health. Whilst utilizing The Law Of Attraction cannot purely substitute a healthy diet, exercise and regular doctor checkups, it can promote a vast range of benefits for your mental, spiritual and physical health.\nTraining your brain to see the positive in everything allows room for mental growth and happiness, which in turn can improve your physical health. Similarly, taking time for self-care can help combat a range of mental illnesses.\nIf you want to improve your overall health using The Law Of Attraction techniques, be sure to read up on these articles:\nApplying The Law Of Attraction For Your Own Health And Wellness\nThe Key To Stress-Free, Abundant and Healthy Living?\nHow to Use the Law of Attraction in Your Quest for Better Health\nWhy Positive Thinking Can Boost Physical Health\nFind Out What Your Doctor Isn\u2019t Telling You About Your Health\nIncrease Your Self-Confidence And Combat Anxiety\nIf you want to increase your self-esteem, confidence and let go of anxiety, check out these articles:\nHow To Overcome The Fear Of Rejection And Improve Your Self-Esteem\nHow To Let Go Of Fear And Anxiety\n5 Paths To The Self-Confidence You Need\nHow To Use The Law Of Attraction To Combat Depression\n7 Strategies To Stop Self-Critical Thoughts And Start Practicing Self-Love\nGet Fit, Lose Weight And Have A More Mindful Diet\nAnother common goal, losing weight can be a very demotivating process for a number of reasons. However, this does not need to be the case. Positive thinking can really help eliminate binge eating and lack of motivation.\nA more mindful approach to eating can also reveal a lot about your body and appetite. In this way, visualization tools and techniques can really be handy when trying to get fit.\nDo you want to lose weight? Or adopt a fitter lifestyle? These articles may help you:\n6 Easy Tips When Designing A Fitness Regime That Promotes Positive Thinking\nYoga Myths vs Yoga Facts: The Truth About The Benefits Of Yoga\nHow To Stop Emotional Eating With Mindful Eating Techniques\nLearn How To Swap Your \u2018Fat\u2019 Thoughts For \u2018Thin\u2019 Ones\nHow To Keep To A Diet \u2013 4 Ways To Make Healthy Eating A Daily Habit\n4. Attract Success And Abundance With The Law Of Attraction\n\u201cEveryone visualizes whether he knows it or not. Visualizing is the great secret of success.\u201d\n-Rhonda Byrne (Author of The Secret)\nWhilst \u2018success' may sound a tad vague, it actually just proves how all-encompassing The Law Of Attraction can be!\nOverall success can be achieved by individual goals but can also be achieved in the form of the life of your dreams. You just need to use the right tools!\n101 Ways To Achieve Success\nTurn Failure into Success: Using the Law of Attraction to Overcome Obstacles\nOne Daily Habit That These Outrageously Successful People Have In Common\n7 Psychological Tactics That Can Boost Your Success\nHow To Manifest Your Passion And Dream Career\nHow To Start Using The Law Of Attraction Today\nI understand there is a vast amount of information on this page. You may not know where to go now or how to start this journey. I'm going to make it easier for you\u2026\nIf you are ready to manifest the life of your dreams, you need the tools to cultivate a positive outlook. There is a range of resources, tools, and ways to do this\u2026 and they can be at your disposal today!\nAs well as the vast amount of information on this website, you can also download your FREE copy of my Law Of Attraction tool kit. It includes:\nAffirmation guide with examples and lists so you can start using affirmations today!\nInstructions on how you can create a dream board in order to design and manifest your dream life.\nA copy of your own dream check!\nA complimentary e-book! Get your copy of The Science Of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles.\nStart using visualization techniques and utilize The Law Of Attraction today, just click here now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 15778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thelibertypapers.org/categories/monetary-issues/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CKGSNMXXICJ4NJOAVLXH73JS55YBEJ62", "length": 12419, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.thelibertypapers.org", "title": "Monetary Issues Archives - Page 3 of 25 - The Liberty Papers", "raw_content": "Category Archives: Monetary Issues\nThe rEVOLution After Paul\nMay 19, 2012 Stephen Littau\tActivism, Civil Liberties, Crime and Punishment, Culture, Election '12, Federal Reserve, Fiscal Policy, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Legal, Libertarians, Liberty, Military, Monetary Issues, Multimedia, Non-Intervention, Politics, Republicans, Strategies For Advancing Liberty, Tea Party, Theory and Ideas, War on Terror\nWith Congressman Ron Paul\u2019s third presidential run and career coming to an end, what will become of his rEVOLution he inspired? Prior to the 2012 campaign, some suggested that former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson would be the \u201cnext\u201d Ron Paul but with Johnson running as the Libertarian Party nominee after being mistreated by the GOP establishment in the primaries, it appears to me that that bridge has been burned and will likely never be rebuilt. Johnson\u2019s activities in furthering the liberty movement will be done outside the Republican Party.\nThe new heir apparent to lead the rEVOLution appears to be the congressman\u2019s son Sen. Rand Paul. Rand Paul has been one of a handful of voices of reason in the senate voting against renewing the Patriot Act, the NDAA*, standing up to the TSA, and speaking out against President Obama\u2019s unconstitutional \u201ckinetic military actions\u201d in Libya and elsewhere to name a few. For the most part**, Sen. Rand Paul has been a consistent champion of liberty much like his father. Speculation abounds that Sen. Paul will make a presidential run of his own in 2016.\nThe rEVOLution and the greater liberty movement must be much larger than one person***, however. According to Brian Doherty, author of his new book Ron Paul\u2019s rEVOLution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired, Paul\u2019s movement will continue long after Paul himself has left the political stage. Doherty summarizes the thesis of his book in the Cato forum (video below); David Boaz and Sen. Rand Paul also offer their thoughts on the future of the liberty movement after Ron Paul.\nMilton Friedman on Libertarianism and Humility\nApril 13, 2012 Stephen Littau\tEconomics, Education, Fiscal Policy, Free Trade, Freedom, History, Libertarians, Liberty, Monetary Issues, Multimedia, Strategies For Advancing Liberty, Taxation, The Welfare State, Theory and Ideas, War on Terror\nOn August 14, 1990, Milton Friedman gave a speech at the International Society for Individual Liberty\u2019s 5th World Libertarian Conference on the subject of libertarianism and humility. There are many adjectives which can be ascribed to libertarians but \u201chumble\u201d usually isn\u2019t one of them. Among the quotable parts of the speech, Friedman said the following:\nOn the one hand, I regard the basic human value that underlies my own beliefs as tolerance based on humility. I have no right to coerce someone else because I cannot be sure that I am right and he is wrong. On the other hand, some of our heros\u2026people who have, in fact, done the most to promote libertarian ideas, who have been enormously influential, have been highly intolerant as human beings and have justified their views, with which I largely agree, in ways that I regard as promoting intolerance.\nIn searching for the above transcription of what I thought was very profound and wise, I found a couple of bloggers who thought this particular quotation as \u201can inadequate defense of liberty\u201d or one of the \u201cfailures\u201d of Milton Friedman.\nI happen to disagree with these notions.\nMaybe because I have been humbled in realizing that I had been wrong on some issues of great importance. By far the most difficult (yet ultimately liberating) post I have ever written was the post in which I declared that I was wrong about my support for the war in Iraq. I was so certain that regime change in Iraq would bring about peace in the Middle East and freedom would take hold. I thought the Ron Paul and big \u201cL\u201d Libertarian position on preemptive war was na\u00efve and dangerous but now I believe the opposite to be true (for reasons I stated in the aforementioned post).\nHaving experiencing this, I can\u2019t help but think that Friedman was right to say that each of us should be open to the possibility we may be wrong. If we aren\u2019t open to this possibility, what is the point of debating an issue? Obviously, if I argue that X is correct and my opponent says Y is correct, I\u2019m going to do my best to convince my opponent that I am right and s/he is wrong (meanwhile, my opponent is doing the same).\nBut what if I realize in the course of the debate that my opponent is at least partially right about Y being correct and/or that my reasoning is flawed or the facts do not support X? As a normal human being, I might not concede right away but if I am being intellectually honest, I\u2019ll revise my thinking based on new information or new reasoning I hadn\u2019t considered.\nIf Milton Friedman was willing to be open to the possibility of being wrong, how could I, someone whose mind will never in the same league as his, be so stubborn?\nOne thing I notice in watching Friedman debate people who are diametrically opposed to his positions was how patient he was with them. Something that many of us libertarians seem to forget is that much of what we believe to be true is counterintuitive to at least half of the people we encounter on a daily basis because many of these people have not been exposed to our philosophy. Friedman understood this. He knew that much of what he was saying was new territory for many who would hear his lectures or read his books.\nBefore he could make the case about any of his ideas to others, he had to be satisfied that the facts backed up his theory. These two sentences from the NPR obituary for Friedman summed up his approach beautifully:\nFriedman was an empiricist, whose theories emerged from his study of the evidence, not the other way around. He also was a champion of the free market and small government.\nWe are supposed to believe this to be a weakness? I find this to be so refreshing!\nWalking Dead Economics\nMarch 23, 2012 Stephen Littau\tCulture, Currency and Monetary Policy, Economics, Keep and Bear Arms, Monetary Issues, Security, Theory and Ideas\nMy wife and kids got me hooked on a series some of you may have heard of called The Walking Dead (and like the rest of the Walking Dead fans out there, I have to wait until October for the next season to begin as the characters have been left in quite a precarious situation) For those who haven\u2019t heard of this series, basically Atlanta, GA (and as far as we know, the rest of the world) has been taken over by zombies (called \u201cwalkers\u201d by most people who inhabit this world). While the series does have many of the elements of the zombie genre, the story and the characters in the story are quite a bit more complex.\nThe story isn\u2019t so much about the walkers as it is about the characters who not only have to survive this zombie apocalypse, but also manage to survive the other survivors and live with very limited resources.\nOne thing that becomes very clear at the beginning of this series is that many of the societal rules quickly go out the window when under constant threat of flesh eating walkers. Paper money is of no practical use (other than to start a fire perhaps). Debit cards and credit cards are even less valuable as there is no way to access your worthless money.\nOne other thing I noticed is that gold isn\u2019t even a commodity that is of much use in this world.\nIt so happens that I have been reading Dave Ramsey\u2019s book The Total Money Makeover as my wife and I are trying to apply his system to get our financial house in order (I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to get out of debt). In the book I ran across the following passage in which Ramsey explains why he does not believe gold is a good investment, even as a hedge against a total economic collapse:\nIt is important to remember that gold is not used when economies fail. History shows that when an economy completely collapses, the first thing that appears is a black-market barter system in which people trade items for other items or services. In a primitive culture, items of utility often become the medium of exchange, and the same is temporarily true in a failed economy. A skill, a pair of blue jeans, or a tank of gas becomes very valuable, but not gold coins or nuggets. Usually a new government rises from the ashes, and new paper money or coinage is established. Gold will, at best, play a minor role, and the gold investor will be left with the sick feeling that real estate, canned soup, or knowledge would have been a better hedge against a failing economy. \u2013 The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson, 2003, 2007) p. 55.\nI don\u2019t know that I fully agree with Ramsey here though I\u2019m by no means an expert on the history of gold or monetary policy. It seems to me that as a new civilization emerges from economic collapse, gold (and other commodities) would play a much greater role before people would accept any new fiat money. He seems to have a legitimate point, however; with regard to a collapsing or fully collapsed economy.\nThis is certainly the case in The Walking Dead. The resources most necessary to survive in this world are water, food, shelter, firearms, ammunition, medicine, fuel, spare parts, etc. Without these items, you aren\u2019t going to survive for very long. Under these circumstances, who would trade a shotgun and ammunition for a bar of gold? I sure wouldn\u2019t. I might trade a shotgun, assuming I already have enough firearms to hold the flesh eaters at bay, for some food and water. Better yet, I might offer to provide security for a few nights in exchange for food, water, and a temporary place to stay. This arrangement would continue as long as both parties agree.\nIn the course of the series, these are the kinds of arrangements that are worked out. Security is a major concern because, despite apparent efforts by the federal government to impose martial law, the government failed* and the law of the jungle is now in full effect. Many resources such as firearms, water, auto parts, food, fuel, etc. are scavenged from those who were either killed or simply abandoned their property (finders\u2019 keepers).\nEarlier in this season, the main characters find themselves at a dead end on the interstate as thousands of abandoned cars litter the road. Though on one hand this is very bad news, on the other, it\u2019s an opportunity to scavenge whatever resources were left behind. At another point, a couple of the survivors make their way into an abandoned small town where they hit the jackpot in finding an abandoned pharmacy with a decent supply of prescription drugs. At the very end of this last season, the camera pans out to a prison near where the remaining surviving characters are camped out. What, if anything, can these refugees benefit from the prison? (I\u2019m very interested to see where the story goes from here with the prison).\n\u201cWhat about silver bullets, do they have any value?\u201d you ask. Silver bullets are needed to kill ware wolves, not walkers. Ware wolves? Seriously, ware wolves? Now that would be ridiculous.\n*Or did it? Perhaps all the \u201cimportant\u201d people have been relocated to a secret and secure location while the citizens are left to fend for themselves.\nRon Paul at His Very Best Confronting Ben Bernake\nFebruary 29, 2012 Stephen Littau\tConstitution, Credit Crisis, Currency and Monetary Policy, Economics, Election '12, Federal Reserve, Fiscal Policy, Government Regulation, Government Transparency, History, Inflation, Monetary Issues, Multimedia, Republicans, Theory and Ideas\nIf Rep. Ron Paul has accomplished anything in his 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns it would be the way he has educated the American public about monetary policy and the Federal Reserve. I\u2019ve listened to on line lectures from the Cato Institute and read about monetary policy but more often than not its either over my head or bores me to tears. Paul manages translate the Fed\u2019s policy and put into language people like me can understand and keep it interesting.\nToday\u2019s hearing where Paul questioned Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernake is a case-in-point. My favorite part is when he asks Bernake if he does his own grocery shopping driving home the point about how his inflationary policies impact average people where it matters most (cost of groceries and fuel doesn\u2019t go into determining the rate of inflation).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 23611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theojo.com/project/playing-with-fire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:21Z", "digest": "sha1:AKFOTRUNRS3VGLVFUV4SF352I4NY5G6G", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.theojo.com", "title": "Playing With Fire | OJO360", "raw_content": "Playing With Fire from THEOJO on Vimeo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theridernews.com/tag/media/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HYT2CHQHQ7U2AEMAX4TIBCUUP7NESVIB", "length": 298, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.theridernews.com", "title": "media \u2013 The Rider News", "raw_content": "Throughout time, what society deemed to be \u201cperfection\u201d has constantly fluctuated. Women were either too thin or too fat, breasts\u2026\nFrom the Editor: How can we tell fake news from the truth?\nThe phrase \u201cfake news\u201d is tossed around about today\u2019s media outlets like it is no big deal. Anytime news is\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thibeaultstable.com/2012/03/second-annual-spring-sale.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QNM7TGZQ6VYCYAPHSC5D3DSMPCMY2KUO", "length": 406, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thibeaultstable.com", "title": "Thibeault's Table: Second Annual Spring Sale", "raw_content": "Second Annual Spring Sale\nTo celebrate Spring we are again offering some of our newest boards at a special price.\nPurchase one of these\n(includes free shipping to Canada and USA)\nThese boards retail between $175 - $250.\nand shipping is usually between $30 to $50.\n(savings of $55 to $150.00)\nDuring the month of April we are also offering free shipping on all other boards (over $100.00) in our Collection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/tellAFriend/1410", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:48Z", "digest": "sha1:W5GSM4ZPLIL5JB6I72FTWWCUDUQBBUWA", "length": 193, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thomasbrewton.com", "title": "The View From 1776", "raw_content": "Liberals blaming the takeover of Bear Stearns on capitalism is akin to blaming the homeowner if someone sets fire to his house. Link to Full Article: http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/1410", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 4401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tlcmarketing.com/Market/uk/Article/Post/International-Womens-Day-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:16Z", "digest": "sha1:QHHTRXPDFVVQKR4JIOHS4S3SMYNDMBKC", "length": 3143, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.tlcmarketing.com", "title": "International Women's Day 2018 | TLC Marketing Worldwide", "raw_content": "International Women\u2019s Day celebrates the amazing women who have made a real impact on the world we live in today.\nTo honour this occasion, McDonald's have flipped their famous golden arches upside down to represent a \u2018W\u2019 for women and to show the sky has no limits when it comes to gender, British Airways are operating all female crew flights.\nTLC Marketing has also been busy celebrating this special occasion, starting the day by surprising all its female staff with a cupcake accompanied by an inspirational quote.\nWith a \u2018women only' playlist on repeat throughout the day, all ladies were later treated to a sit-down lunch (Nandos of course) and during this time, reflected on the past, present and future of women all around the world.\nWe wanted to find out what the wonderful women at TLC Marketing had to say about the importance of International Women\u2019s Day.\nEmma Burns, Chief Operations Officer at TLC Marketing\nWhy do you think it\u2019s important to celebrate International Women\u2019s Day?\nI\u2019m a huge believer in women lifting other women up and this is a day dedicated to doing just that. It\u2019s a chance to reflect on brilliant women throughout history, and to simply celebrate our power and strength.\nWhat advice do you have for the young girls of today?\nBe yourself. What the world needs now more than ever is for women to use the female spirit for positive change. Embody that spirit, whatever that means to you. Don\u2019t reign it in.\nMalala Yousafzai, because we should be looking to the youth for inspiration. They have so much to teach us.\nAnna Hanisch, Group People and Culture Director\nInternational Women\u2019s Day gives us the voice to celebrate all of the amazing women in this world. Today gives us a platform to be able to look forward, and also remember the struggle that women faced throughout the centuries in gaining basic rights, rights that many women still have to fight for.\nThe fight for equality is only just beginning \u2013 whether in the workplace, the home or on the streets. Women face barriers in realising their potential, meaning we miss out on all they can offer. In so many industries, women are still undervalued and underestimated. Today is about shouting about our achievements and taking the credit we deserve.\nClare Vangucci, Senior Account Manager at TLC Marketing\nIn a world where women face such inequality, (with the gender pay gap being a prominent discussion in the news recently) it's important to celebrate how wonderful women are and how much we contribute to society and life in general.\nBe yourself and don\u2019t worry about things you can\u2019t control.\nLara Till, Junior Account Executive\nFor one, I believe it\u2019s important to celebrate International Women's Day because women in history have worked and sacrificed so much to fight for the rights and respect we have now. It\u2019s a day to fully embrace all of us, no matter what our differences. It\u2019s a day to really pat yourself and each other on the back and recognise how far we\u2019ve come along and acknowledge how much further we can go, together.\nWendy Owen, Account Director\nTo celebrate the achievements of women around the world - past, present and future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 5134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tlgnewspaper.com/search-for-couple-suspected-in-crime-spree-ends-in-shootout", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HNV4BG7UCSSXPWV5XEIOKHDM7CGXU3YI", "length": 3775, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.tlgnewspaper.com", "title": "Search for couple suspected in crime spree ends in shootout - The Lafourche Gazette - Your Community Newspaper", "raw_content": "Search for couple suspected in crime spree ends in shootout\nMILTON, Fla. (AP) \u2014 The search for a Missouri couple suspected in a series of robberies and abductions across the South ended in a shootout in the Florida Panhandle early Friday that left the man dead and the woman wounded, authorities said.\nBlake Fitzgerald died and Brittany Nicole Harper was taken to a local hospital, according to a statement from the Escambia County Sheriff's Office.\nFew other details were immediately released, but local news outlets report that the shots were fired after a chase. In online video posted by Pensacola, Florida, station WEAR-TV, a volley of gunshots can be heard amid flashing police lights.\nDozens of police and sheriff's deputies blocked a rural road leading to the site where the couple was found Friday morning.\nSanta Rosa County sheriff's Sgt. Rich Alloy said his agency learned around 12:30 a.m. that the suspects were heading into Santa Rosa County, so their officers joined the search, which ended on a road. Alloy said that because a shooting took place, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement was taking over the investigation.\nAlloy provided no other details of the chase and shooting.\nAlloy also said they are fortunate more people were not hurt. It would have been worse if it happened earlier in the day because there would have a lot of traffic, he said.\nAuthorities have linked Fitzgerald and Harper to a series of crimes in Alabama and Georgia, saying the offenses fit a similar pattern: People are robbed, kidnapped and let go unharmed, usually after a vehicle is stolen.\nBefore that, police in Joplin, Missouri, had wanted to interview the two about a Jan. 22 break-in there in which guns were stolen from a home. The couple is also suspected in two Florida robberies in Walnut Hills and Destin on Wednesday, U.S. Marshals spokesman Martin Keely said.\nCalling them a \"modern-day Bonnie and Clyde,\" the U.S. Marshals announced Thursday that they were offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to their arrest.\nFitzgerald and Harper have been charged with robbing and abducting a hotel clerk in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and taking his car to the Birmingham area. The clerk was let go in the upscale suburb of Vestavia Hills, where a woman was briefly abducted by two people who stole her family's Ford Edge SUV.\nOn Monday night, a gunman held up a young clerk at a Murphy Express station along Interstate 75 in south Georgia, taking money from the safe and cigarettes before forcing the clerk into an SUV where his female accomplice waited, authorities said. The couple drove about 15 miles before releasing the clerk unharmed, Perry police Lt. Ken Ezell said.\nThe hotel clerk who was abducted in Alabama, Kyle Dease, told Al.com that he spoke with his captors during the nearly two hours he was held on the drive from Tuscaloosa to metro Birmingham. Dease said they told him they hoped to make it to Florida to get married and start a new life together.\nThe man also told Dease he did not plan on going back to prison.\nMissouri records show that in 2013, Fitzgerald and an accomplice were charged with burglarizing a Joplin woman at knifepoint in her home and making off with her purse, jewelry, electronics and a car. Fitzgerald entered an Alford plea \u2014 not admitting guilt but acknowledging the prosecutors had sufficient evidence for a conviction \u2014 and was sentenced in 2014 to a suspended seven-year prison term.\nFitzgerald also was sentenced in southwestern Missouri's Jasper County to a simultaneous 120-day term in a drunken-driving case. Last July, Fitzgerald pleaded guilty in a Missouri assault case and was sentenced to a suspended five-year prison term.\nPosted on Fri, February 5, 2016 by MELISSA NELSON-GABRIEL, Associated Press", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.toben.biz/2017/04/because-of-holocaust-everyone-should-be-circumcised/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:33Z", "digest": "sha1:RFDPYBKCB527Y63YDGLWRE66G5RKMKZY", "length": 34627, "nlines": 129, "source_domain": "www.toben.biz", "title": "Because of Holocaust: \"Everyone should be circumcised!\" | | Fredrick Toben", "raw_content": "Because of Holocaust: \u201cEveryone should be circumcised!\u201d\nPediatrician\u2019s wife, American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Conference Hyatt-Regency Hotel, Chicago, April 14, 1996 Said:\n\u201cMillions of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust\nbecause circumcision marked them as Jews! This must\nnever happen again! Everyone should be circumcised!\u201d\nhttp://www.sexuallymutilatedchild.org/fleiss.htm\nPaul M. Fleiss, MD\n* Protection: Just as the eyelids protect the eyes, the foreskin protects the glans and keeps its surface soft, moist, and sensitive. It also maintains optimal warmth, pH balance, and cleanliness. The glans itself contains no sebaceous glands\u2013glands that produce the sebum, or oil, that moisturizes our skin.[11] The foreskin produces the sebum that maintains proper health of the surface of the glans.\nWestern countries have no tradition of circumcision. In antiquity, the expansion of the Greek and Roman Empires brought Westerners into contact with the peoples of the Middle East, some ofwhom marked their children with circumcision and other sexual mutilations. To protect these children, the Greeks and Romans passed laws forbidding circumcision.[1] Over the centuries, the Catholic Church has passed many similar laws.[2,3] The traditional Westernresponse to circumcision has been revulsion and indignation.Circumcision started in America during the masturbation hysteria of the Victorian Era, when a few American doctors circumcised boys to punish them for masturbating. Victorian doctors knew verywell that circumcision denudes, desensitizes, and disables the penis. Nevertheless, they were soon claiming that circumcision curedepilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, elephantiasis, tuberculosis, eczema,bed-wetting, hip-joint disease, fecal incontinence, rectal prolapse,wet dreams, hernia, headaches, nervousness, hysteria, poor eyesight,idiocy, mental retardation, and insanity.[4]\nIn fact, no procedure in the history of medicine has beenclaimed to cure and prevent more diseases than circumcision. As late as the 1970s, leading American medical textbooks still advocatedroutine circumcision as a way to prevent masturbation.[5] The antisexual motivations behind an operation that entails cutting offpart of the penis are obvious.\nThe radical practice of routinely circumcising babies did notbegin until the Cold War era. This institutionalization of what amounted to compulsory circumcision was part of the same movement thatpathologized and medicalized birth and actively discouraged breastfeeding. Private-sector, corporate-run hospitals institutionalized routine circumcision without ever consulting the American people. There was no public debate or referendum. It was only in the 1970s that a series of lawsuits forced hospitals to obtain parental consent to perform this contraindicated but highly profitable surgery. Circumcisers responded by inventing new \u201cmedical\u201d reasons for circumcision in an attempt to scare parents into consenting.\nToday the reasons given for circumcision have been updated to play on contemporary fears and anxieties; but one day they, too, will be considered irrational. Now that such current excuses as the claim that this procedure prevents cancer and sexually transmitted diseases have been thoroughly discredited, circumcisers will undoubtedly invent new ones. But if circumcisers were really motivated by purely medicalconsiderations, the procedure would have died out long ago, along withleeching, skull-drilling, and castration. The fact that it has notsuggests that the compulsion to circumcise came first, the \u201creasons,\u201dlater.\nMillions of years of evolution have fashioned the human bodyinto a model of refinement, elegance, and efficiency, with every part having a function and purpose. Evolution has determined that mammals\u2019 genitals should be sheathed in a protective, responsive, multipurposeforeskin. Every normal human being is born with a foreskin. Infemales, it protects the glans of the clitoris; in males, it protectsthe glans of the penis. Thus, the foreskin is an essential part of human sexual anatomy.\nParents should enjoy the arrival of a new child with as few worries as possible. The birth of a son in the US, however, is often fraught with anxiety and confusion. Most parents are pressured to hand their baby sons over to a stranger, who, behind closed doors,straps babies down and cuts their foreskins off. The billion-dollar-a-year circumcision industry has bombarded Americans with confusing rhetoric and calculated scare tactics.\nInformation about the foreskin itself is almost always missing from discussions about circumcision. The mass circumcision campaigns of the past few decades have resulted in pandemic ignorance about this remarkable structure and its versatile role in human sexuality.Ignorance and false information about the foreskin are the rule inAmerican medical literature, education, and practice. Most American medical textbooks depict the human penis, without explanation, as circumcised, as if it were so by nature.\nThe foreskin is a uniquely specialized, sensitive, functional organ of touch. No other part of the body serves the same purpose. Asa modified extension of the penile shaft skin, the foreskin covers and usually extends beyond the glans before folding under itself and finding its circumferential point of attachment just behind the corona(the rim of the glans). The foreskin is, therefore, a double-layered organ. Its true length is twice the length of its external fold,comprising 80 percent or more of the penile skin covering,[6] or at least 25 percent of the flaccid penis\u2019s length.\nThe foreskin contains a rich concentration of blood vessels and nerve endings. It is lined with the peripenic muscle sheet, a smooth muscle layer with longitudinal fibers. These muscle fibers are whorled, forming a kind of sphincter that ensures optimum protection of the urinary tract from contaminants of all kinds.\nLike the under surface of the eyelids or the inside of the cheek, the under surface of the foreskin consists of mucous membrane.It is divided into two distinct zones: the soft mucosa and the ridge dmucosa. The soft mucosa lies against the glans penis and containsectopic sebaceous glands that secrete emollients, lubricants, andprotective antibodies. Similar glands are found in the eyelids and mouth.\nAdjacent to the soft mucosa and just behind the lips of the foreskin is the ridged mucosa. This exquisitely sensitive structure consists of tightly pleated concentric bands, like the elastic band sat the top of a sock. These expandable pleats allow the foreskin lipsto open and roll back, exposing the glans. The ridged mucosa gives the foreskin its characteristic taper.\nOn the underside of the glans, the foreskin\u2019s point of attachment is advanced toward the meat us (urethral opening) and forms a band like ligament called the frenulum. It is identical to the frenulum that secures the tongue to the floor of the mouth. The foreskin\u2019s frenulum holds it in place over the glans, and, in conjunction with the smooth muscle fibers, helps return the retracted foreskin to its usual forward position over the glans.\nRetraction of the Foreskin\nAt birth, the foreskin is usually attached to the glans, very much as a fingernail is attached to a finger. By puberty, the penis will usually have completed its development, and the foreskin will have separated from the glans.[8] This separation occurs in its own time; there is no set age by which the foreskin and glans must be separated. One wise doctor described the process thus, \u201cThe foreskin therefore can be likened to a rosebud which remains closed and muzzled. Like a rosebud, it will only blossom when the time is right.No one opens a rosebud to make it blossom.\u201d[9]\nEven if the glans and foreskin separate naturally in infancy,the foreskin lips can normally dilate only enough to allow the passage of urine. This ideal feature protects the glans from premature exposure to the external environment.\nThe penis develops naturally throughout childhood. Eventually,the child will, on his own, make the wondrous discovery that his foreskin will retract. There is no reason for parents, physicians, or other caregivers to manipulate a child\u2019s penis. The only person to retract a child\u2019s foreskin should be the child himself, when he has discovered that his foreskin is ready to retract.\nParents should be wary of anyone who tries to retract their child\u2019s foreskin, and especially wary of anyone who wants to cut it off. Human foreskins are in great demand for any number of commercial enterprises, and the marketing of purloined baby foreskins is a multi million-dollar-a-year industry. Pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies use human foreskins as research material. Corporations suchas Advanced Tissue Sciences, Organo genesis, and BioSurface Technology use human foreskins as the raw materials for a type of breath able bandage.\nWhat Are the Foreskin\u2019s Functions?\nThe foreskin has numerous protective, sensory, and sexual functions.\n* Immunological Defense: The mucous membranes that line allbody orifices are the body\u2019s first line of immunological defense.Glands in the foreskin produce antibacterial and antiviral proteins such as lysozyme.[12] Lysozyme is also found in tears and mother\u2019s milk. Specialized epithelial Langerhans cells, an immune system component, abound in the foreskin\u2019s outer surface. Plasma cells in the foreskin\u2019s mucosal lining secrete immunoglobulins, antibodies that defend against infections.\n* Erogenous Sensitivity: The foreskin is as sensitive as the fingertips or the lips of the mouth. It contains a richer variety and greater concentration of specialized nerve receptors than any other part of the penis.[15] These specialized nerve endings can discernmotion, subtle changes in temperature, and fine gradations oftexture.[16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23]\n* Coverage during Erection: As it becomes erect, the penile shaft becomes thicker and longer. The double-layered foreskin provides the skin necessary to accommodate the expanded organ and to allow the penile skin to glide freely, smoothly, and pleasurably overthe shaft and glans.\n* Self-Stimulating Sexual Functions: The foreskin\u2019s double-layered sheath enables the penile shaft skin to glide back and forth over the penile shaft. The foreskin can normally be slipped allthe way, or almost all the way, back to the base of the penis, and also slipped forward beyond the glans. This wide range of motion isthe mechanism by which the penis and the orgasmic triggers in the foreskin, frenulum, and glans are stimulated.\n* Sexual Functions in Intercourse: One of the foreskin\u2019s functions is to facilitate smooth, gentle movement between the mucosal surfaces of the two partners during intercourse. The foreskin enablesthe penis to slip in and out of the vagina nonabrasively inside its own slick sheath of self-lubricating, movable skin. The female isthus stimulated by moving pressure rather than by friction only, as when the male\u2019s foreskin is missing.\nThe foreskin fosters intimacy between the two partners byenveloping the glans and maintaining it as an internal organ. The sexual experience is enhanced when the foreskin slips back to allowthe male\u2019s internal organ, the glans, to meet the female\u2019s internalorgan, the cervix\u2013a moment of supreme intimacy and beauty.\nThe foreskin may have functions not yet recognized or understood. Scientists in Europe recently detected estrogen receptorsin its basal epidermal cells.[24] Researchers at the University of Manchester found that the human foreskin has apocrine glands.[25]These specialized glands produce pheromones, nature\u2019s chemical messengers. Further studies are needed to fully understand these features of the foreskin and the role they play.\nCare of the Foreskin\nThe natural penis requires no special care. A child\u2019s foreskin, like his eyelids, is self-cleansing. For the same reason itis inadvisable to lift the eyelids and wash the eyeballs, it isinadvisable to retract a child\u2019s foreskin and wash the glans.Immersion in plain water during the bath is all that is needed to keep the intact penis clean.[26]\nThe white emollient under the child\u2019s foreskin is called smegma. Smegma is probably the most misunderstood, most unjustifiably maligned substance in nature. Smegma is clean, not dirty, and is beneficial and necessary. It moisturizes the glans and keeps it smooth, soft, and supple. Its antibacterial and antiviral properties keep the penis clean and healthy. All mammals produce smegma. Thomas J. Ritter, MD, underscored its importance when he commented, \u201cThe animal kingdom would probably cease to exist without smegma.\u201d[27]\nStudies suggest that it is best not to use soap on the glansor foreskin\u2019s inner fold.[23] Forcibly retracting and washing a baby\u2019s foreskin destroys the beneficial bacterial flora that protect the penis from harmful germs and can lead to irritation and infection.The best way to care for a child\u2019s intact penis is to leave it alone.After puberty, males can gently rinse their glans and foreskin with warm water, according to their own self-determined needs.\nHow Common Is Circumcision?\nCircumcision is almost unheard of in Europe, South America,and non-Muslim Asia. In fact, only 10 to 15 percent of men throughout the world are circumcised. The vast majority of whom are Muslim.[29]The neonatal circumcision rate in the western US has now fallen to34.2 percent.[30] This relatively diminished rate may surpriseAmerican men born during the era when nearly 90 percent of baby boyswere circumcised automatically, with or without their parents\u2019consent.\nHow Does Circumcision Harm?\nThe \u201cmedical\u201d debate about the \u201cpotential health benefits\u201d ofcircumcision rarely addresses its real effects.\n* Circumcision denudes: Depending on the amount of skin cutoff, circumcision robs a male of as much as 80 percent or more of his penile skin. Depending on the foreskin\u2019s length, cutting it off makes the penis as much as 25 percent or more shorter. Careful anatomical investigations have shown that circumcision cuts off more than 3 feetof veins, arteries, and capillaries, 240 feet of nerves, and more than20,000 nerve endings.[31]The foreskin\u2019s muscles, glands, mucous membrane, and epithelial tissue are destroyed, as well.\n* Circumcision desensitizes: Circumcision desensitizes thepenis radically. Foreskin amputation means severing the rich nerve network and all the nerve receptors in the foreskin itself.Circumcision almost always damages or destroys the frenulum. The loss of the protective foreskin desensitizes the glans. Because the membrane covering the permanently externalized glans is now subjected to constant abrasion and irritation, it keratinizes, becoming dry and tough. The nerve endings in the glans, which in the intact penis arejust beneath the surface of the mucous membrane, are now buried bysuccessive layers of keratinization. The denuded glans takes on a dull, grayish, sclerotic appearance.\n* Circumcision disables: The amputation of so much penile skin permanently immobilizes whatever skin remains, preventing it from gliding freely over the shaft and glans. This loss of mobility destroys the mechanism by which the glans is normally stimulated.When the circumcised penis becomes erect, the immobilized remaining skin is stretched, sometimes so tightly that not enough skin is left to cover the erect shaft. Hair-bearing skin from the groin and scrotum is often pulled onto the shaft, where hair is not normally found. The surgically externalized mucous membrane of the glans hasno sebaceous glands. Without the protection and emollients of theforeskin, it dries out, making it susceptible to cracking andbleeding.\n* Circumcision disfigures: Circumcision alters the appearance of the penis drastically. It permanently externalizes the glans,normally an internal organ. Circumcision leaves a large circumferential surgical scar on the penile shaft. Because circumcision usually necessitates tearing the foreskin from the glans, pieces ofthe glans may be torn off, too, leaving it pitted and scarred. Shreds of foreskin may adhere to the raw glans, forming tags and bridges of dangling, displaced skin.[32]\nDepending on the amount of skin cut off and how the scar forms, the circumcised penis may be permanently twisted, or curve orbow during erection.[33] The contraction of the scar tissue may pull the shaft into the abdomen, in effect shortening the penis or buryingit completely.[34]\n* Circumcision disrupts circulation: Circumcision interrupts the normal circulation of blood throughout the penile skin system and glans. The blood flowing into major penile arteries is obstructed bythe line of scar tissue at the point of incision, creating backflowinstead of feeding the branches and capillary networks beyond thescar. Deprived of blood, the meatus may contract and scarify,obstructing the flow of urine.[35] This condition, known as meatalstenosis, often requires corrective surgery. Meatal stenosis is foundalmost exclusively among boys who have been circumcised.\nCircumcision also severs the lymph vessels, interrupting thecirculation of lymph and sometimes causing lymphedema, a painful,disfiguring condition in which the remaining skin of the penis swells with trapped lymph fluid.\n* Circumcision harms the developing brain: Recent studies published in leading medical journals have reported that circumcision has long lasting detrimental effects on the developing brain,[36]adversely altering the brain\u2019s perception centers. Circumcised boys have a lower pain threshold than girls or intact boys.[37]Developmental neuro psychologist Dr. James Prescott suggests that circumcision can cause deeper and more disturbing levels ofneurological damage, as well. [38, 39]\n* Circumcision is unhygienic and unhealthy: One of the most common myths about circumcision is that it makes the penis cleaner and easier to take care of. This is not true. Eyes without eyelids would not be cleaner; neither would a penis without its foreskin. The artificially externalized glans and meatus of the circumcised penis are constantly exposed to abrasion and dirt, making the circumcised penis, in fact, more unclean. The loss of the protective foreskinl eaves the urinary tract vulnerable to invasion by bacterial and viral pathogens.\nThe circumcision wound is larger than most people imagine. Itis not just the circular point of union between the outer and inner layers of the remaining skin. Before a baby is circumcised, his foreskin must be torn from his glans, literally skinning it alive.This creates a large open area of raw, bleeding flesh, covered at best with a layer of undeveloped proto mucosa. Germs can easily enter the damaged tissue and bloodstream through the raw glans and, even more easily, through the incision itself.\nEven after the wound has healed, the externalized glans andmeatus are still forced into constant unnatural contact with urine,feces, chemically treated diapers, and other contaminants.\nFemale partners of circumcised men do not report a lower rate of cervical cancer,[40] nor does circumcision prevent penile cancer.[41] A recent study shows that the penile cancer rate is higher in the US than in Denmark, where circumcision, except among Middle Eastern immigrant workers, is almost unheard of.[42] Indeed,researchers should investigate the possibility that circumcision has actually increased the rate of these diseases.\nCircumcision does not prevent acquisition or transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In fact, the US has both the highest percentage of sexually active circumcised males in the Western world and the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases,including AIDS. Rigorously controlled prospective studies show that circumcised American men are at a greater risk for bacterial and viralSTDs, especially gonorrhea,[43] non gonoccal urethritis,[44] human papilloma virus,[45] herpes simplex virus type 2,[46] and chlamydia.[47]\n* Circumcision is always risky: Circumcision always carries the risk of serious, even tragic, consequences. Its surgical complication rate is one in 500.[48] These complications include uncontrollable bleeding and fatal infections.[49] There are many published case reports of gangrene following circumcision.[50]Pathogenic bacteria such as staphylococcus, proteus, pseudomonas,other coli forms, and even tuberculosis can cause infections leading to death.[51, 52] These organisms enter the wound because it provide seasy entry, not because the child is predisposed to infection.\nMedical journals have published numerous accounts of babieswho have had part or all of their glans cut off while they were being circumcised.[53 54 55] Other fully conscious, unanesthetized babies have had their entire penis burned off with an electrocautery gun.[56,57,58] The September 1989 Journal of Urology published an account offour such cases.[59] The article described the sex-change operation as\u201dfeminizing genitoplasty,\u201d performed on these babies in an attempt to change them into girls. The March 1997 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicinedescribed one young person\u2019s horror on learning that \u201cshe\u201d had been born a normal male, but that a circumciser had burned his penis off when he was a baby.[60] Many other similar cases have been documented[61,62] Infant circumcision has a reported deathrate of one in 500,000.[63,64]\n* Circumcision harms mothers: Scientific studies have consistently shown that circumcision disrupts a child\u2019s behavioral development. Studies performed at the University of Colorado School of Medicine showed that circumcision is followed by prolonged,unrestful non-REM (rapid eye movement) sleep.[65] In response to thelengthy bombardment of their neural pathways with unbearable pain, thecircumcised babies withdrew into a kind of semi coma that lasted daysor even weeks.\nNumerous other studies have proven that circumcision disruptsthe mother-infant bond during the crucial period after birth. Research has also shown that circumcision disrupts feeding patterns. In a study at the Washington University School of Medicine, most babies would not nurse right after they were circumcised, and those who did would not look into their mothers\u2019 eyes.[66]\n* Circumcision violates patients\u2019 and human rights: No one has the right to cut off any part of someone else\u2019s genitals without that person\u2019s competent, fully informed consent. Since it is the infant who must bear the consequences, circumcision violates his legal rights both to refuse treatment and to seek alternative treatment. In 1995,the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics stated that only a competent patient can give patient consent or informed consent.[67] An infant is obviously too young to consent to anything.He must be protected from anyone who would take advantage of his defenselessness. The concept of informed parental permission allows for medical interventions in situations of clear and immediate medical necessity only, such as disease, trauma, or deformity. The human penis in its normal, uncircumcised state satisfies none of these requirements.\nPhysicians have a duty to refuse to perform circumcision. They also must educate parents who, out of ignorance or misguidance,request this surgery for their sons. The healthcare professional\u2019s obligation is to protect the interests of the child. It is unethicalin the extreme to force upon a child an amputation he almost certainlywould never have chosen for himself.\nTo be intact, as nature intended, is best. The vast majority of males who are given the choice value their wholeness and keep their foreskins, for the same reason they keep their other organs of perception. Parents in Europe and non-Muslim Asia never have forcedtheir boys to be circumcised. It would no more occur to them to cutoff part of their boys\u2019 penises than it would to cut off part of theirears. Respecting a child\u2019s right to keep his genitals intact isnormal and natural. It is conservative in the best sense of the word.\nA circumcised father who has mixed feelings about his intact newborn son may require gentle, compassionate psychological counseling to help him come to terms with his loss and to overcome his anxieties about normal male genitalia. In such cases, the mother should steadfastly protect her child, inviting her husband to share this protective role and helping him diffuse his negative feelings. Most parents want what is best for their baby. Wise parents listen to their hearts and trust their instinct to protect their baby from harm. The experience of the ages has shown that babies thrive best in a trusting atmosphere of love, gentleness, respect, acceptance, nurturing, and intimacy. Cutting off a baby\u2019s foreskin shatters this trust.\nCircumcision wounds and harms the baby and the person the baby will become. Parents who respect their son\u2019s wholeness are bequeathing to him his birthright\u2013his body, perfect and beautiful in its entirety.\nPaul M. Fleiss, MD, MPH, is assistant clinical professor of pediatricsat the University of Southern California Medical Center. He is the author of numerous scientific articles published in leading nationaland international medical journals.\n1. T. J. Ritter and G. C. Denniston, Say No to Circumcision: 40 Compelling Reasons, 2nd ed. (Aptos, CA Hourglass 1996), 6-20.\n2. \u201cIncipit Libellus De Ecclesiasticis Disciplinis et Religione Christiana Collectus. Liber II.XC, XCI\u201d in Patrologiae Cursus Completus, vol. 132 (Paris: Apud Garnier Fratres, Editores et J. P. Migne Successores, 1880), 301-302.\n3. S. Grayzel, The Church and the Jews in the Xllth Century, vol. 2, ed. K. R. Stow (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1989), 246-247.\n4. See Note 10, 17-40.\n5. M. E Camphor \u201cThe Male Genital Tract and the Female Urethra,\u201d in Urology, eds. M. E. Campbell and J. H. Harrison, vol. 2, 3rd ed. (Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1970), 1836.\n6. See photographic series: J. A. Erickson, \u201cThree Zones of Penile Skin.\u201d In M. M. Lander, \u201cThe Human Prepuce,\u201d in G. C. Denniston and M. E. Milos, eds., Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy (New York: Plenum Press, 1997), 79-81.\n7. M. Davenport, \u201cProblems with the Penis and Prepuce: Natural History of the Foreskin\u201d (photograph 1), British Medical Journal 312 (1996): 299-301.\n8. J. Oster, \u201cFurther Fate of the Foreskin,\u201d Archives of Disease in Childhood 43 (1968): 200-203.\n9. H. L. Tan, \u201cForeskin Fallacies and Phimosis,\u201d Annals of the Academy of Medicine, Singapore 14 (1985): 626-630.\n10. F. A. Hodges, \u201cShort History of the Institutionalization of Involuntary Sexual Mutilation in the United States\u201d in G. C. Denniston and M. E. Milos, eds., Sexual Mutilations: A Human Tragedy (New York: Plenum Press, 1997), 35.\n11. A B. Hyman and M. H. Brownstein, \u201cTyson\u2019s \u2018Glands\u201d: Ectopic Sebaceous Glands and Papillomatosis Penis,\u201d Archives of Dermatology 99 (1969): 31-37.\n12. A. Ahmed and A. W. Jones, \u201cApocrine Cystadenoma: A Report of Two Cases Occurring on the Prepuce, \u201cBritish Journal of Demmatology 81 (1969): 899-901.\n13. G. N. Weiss et al., \u201cThe Distribution and Density of Langerhans Cells in the Human Prepuce: Site of a Diminished Immune Response?\u201d Israel Journal of Medical Sciences 29 (1993): 42-43.\n14. P. J. Flower et al., \u201cAn Immunopathologic Study of the Bovine Prepuce,\u201d Veterinary Pathology 20 (1983): 189-202.\n15. Z. Halata and B. L. Munger, \u201cThe Neuroanatomical Basis for the Protopathic Sensibility of the Human Glans Penis,\u201d Brain Research 371 (1986): 205-230.\n16. J. R. Taylor et al., \u201cThe Prepuce: Specialized Mucosa of the Penis and Its Loss to Circumcision,\u201d British Journal of Urology 77 (1996): 291-295.\n17. H. C. Bazett et al., \u201cDepth, Distribution and Probable Identification in the Prepuce of Sensory End-Organs Concerned in Sensations of Temperature and Touch; Themometic Conductivity,\u201d Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry 27 (1932): 489-517.\n18. D. Ohmori, \u201cUeber die Entwicklung der Innervation der Genitalapparate als Peripheren Aufnahmeapparat der Genitalen Reflexe,\u201d Zeitschriht fuer Anatomie and Entwicklungspeschichte 70 (1924): 347-410.\n19. A. De Girolamo and A. Cecio, \u201cContributo alla Conoscenza dell\u2019innervazione Sensitiva del Prepuzio Nell\u2019uomo,\u201d Bollettino delta Societa Italiana de Biologia Sperimentak 44 (1968): 1521-1522.\n20. A. S. Dogiel, \u201cDie Nervenendigungen in der Haut der aeusseren Genitalorgane des Menschen,\u201d Archiv fuer Mikroskopische Anatomie 41 (1893): 585-612.\n21. A. Bourlond and R. K. Winkelmann, \u201cL\u2019innervation du Prepuce chez le Nouveau-ne,\u201d Archives Beiges de Demmatologie et de Syphiligraphie 21 (1965): 139-153.\n22. R. K. Winkelmann, \u201cThe Erogenous Zones: Their Nerve Supply and Its Significance,\u201d Proceedings of the Staff Meetings of the Mayo Clinic 34 (1959): 39-47.\n23. R. K. Winkelmann, \u201cThe Cutaneous Innervation of Human Newborn Prepuce,\u201d Journal of Investigative Demtotology 26 (1956): 53-67.\n24. R. Hausmann et al., \u201cThe Forensic Value of the Immunohistochemical Detection of Estrogen Receptors in Vaginal Epithelium,\u201d International Journal of Legal Medicine 109 (1996): 10-30.\n26. American Academy of Pediatrics, Newboms: Care of the Uncircumcised Penis Guidelines for Parents (Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, 1994).\n29. S. A. Aldeeb Abu-Sahlieh, Jehovah, His Cousin Allah, and Sexual Mutilations,\u201d in Sexual Mutilations A Human Tragedy, eds. G. C. Denniston and M. F. Milos (New York: Plenum Press, 1997), 41-62.\n30. National Center for Health Statistics of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, 1994.\n32. G. I Klauber and J. Boyle, \u201cPreputial Skin-Bridging: Complication of Circumcision,\u201d Urology 3 (1974): 722-723.\n33. J. P. Gearhart, \u201cComplications of Pediatric Circumcision,\u201d in Urologic Complications, Medical and Surgical, Adult and Pediatric, ed. E. E. Marshall (Chicago: Year Book Medical Publishers, 1986), 387-396.\n34. R. D. Talarico and J. E. Jasaitis, \u201cConcealed Penis: A Complication of Neonatal Circumcision,\u201d Journal of Urology 110 (1973): 732-733.\n35. R. Persad et al., \u201cClinical Presentation and Pathophysiology of Meatal Stenosis Following Circumcision,\u201d British Journal of Urology 75 (1995): 90-91.\n36. A. Taddio et al., \u201cThe Effect of Neonatal Circumcision on Pain Responses during Vaccination in Boys,\u201d Lancet 345 (1995): 291-292.\n37. A. Taddio et al., \u201cThe Effect of Neonatal Circumcision on Pain Response during Subsequent Routine Vaccination,\u201d Lancet 349 (1997): 599-603.\n38. J. W. Prescott, \u201cGenital Pain vs. Genital Pleasure: Why the One and Not the Other\u201d Truth Seeker 1 (1989): 14-21.\n39. R. Goldman, Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma (Boston: Vanguard Publications, 1997), 139-175.\n40. M. Terris et al, \u201cRelation of Circumcision to Cancer of the Cervix,\u201d American Joumal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 117 (1973): 1056-1065.\n41. C J. Cold et al., \u201cCarcinoma in Situ of the Penis in a 76-Year-old Circumcised Man,\u201d Journal of Family Practice 44 (1997): 407-410.\n42. M. 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Diamond and H. K. Sigmundson, \u201cSex Reassignment at Birth: LongTerm Review and Clinical Implications,\u201d Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 151(1997): 298-304.\n61. J. Money, \u201cAblatio Penis: Normal Male Infant Sex-Reassigned as a Girl,\u201d Archives of Sexual Behavior 4 (1975): 65-71.\n62. D. A. Gilbert et al, \u201cPhallic Construction in Prepubertal and Adolescent Boys,\u201d Journal of Urology 149 (1993): 1521-1526.\n63. R. S. Thompson, \u201cRoutine Circumcision in the Newborn: An Opposing View,\u201d Journal of Family Practice 31 (1990): 189-196.\n64. T. E. Wiswell, \u201cCircumcision Circumspection,\u201d New England Journal of Medicine 336 (1997): 1244-1245.\n65. R N. Emde et al., \u201cStress and Neonatal Sleep,\u201d Psychosomatic Medicine 33 (1971): 491-497.\n66. R. E. Marshall et al., \u201cCircumcision: II. Effects upon Mother-Infant Interaction,\u201d Early Human Development 7 (1982): 367-374.\n67. Committee on Bioethics, \u201cInformed Consent, Parental Permission, and Assent in Pediatric Practice,\u201d Pediatrics 95 (1995): 314-317.\nSource: http://michaelsantomauro.blogspot.de/2009/12/because-of-holocaust-everyone-should-be.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 783, "original_length": 63514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tools4training.co.uk/wpx/example-of-timelines-by-person/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6NQNFDCVUX6WZOMJFKDNQCVKOIJ2LHMM", "length": 265, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tools4training.co.uk", "title": "Example of timelines by person - tools4training.co.uk", "raw_content": "Timelines by person.\nYou don\u2019t have to have just one timeline. You may want to create parallel plans for yourself and your colleagues. These need not all start at the same point \u2013 for example Sarah needs to get some of her tasks completed before Bob and Lucy begin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.totalbluesky.com/jay-z-introduces-nightclub-busiest-airport-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:51Z", "digest": "sha1:QG33EQ7YVM3Q5S7WXJZLQDFOQTSF3DEW", "length": 1349, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.totalbluesky.com", "title": "Jay Z introduces his nightclub to the busiest airport in the world - Total Blue Sky", "raw_content": "Jay Z introduces his nightclub to the busiest airport in the world\nHave you ever stepped off the plane after that amazing trip away, and faced the instant blues of having to go back to reality? You want the party to keep on going, but you are on your way to collect your suitcase, maybe you will grab some food of the fast variety, and then home you will go.\nWell, if you are due to fly through Atlanta\u2019s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport anytime soon, then the party needn\u2019t stop, as rap mogul Jay Z has recently announced the opening of his new club 40/40.\nThe club may not be open until the early hours of the morning, but the design of Jay Z\u2019s \u201840/40\u2019 will instantly make you forget that you are in the grounds of an airport. The rapper already owns other 40/40 clubs all over America. His New York branch is famous for its live music and sports memorabilia, and of course, for attracting the famous faces.\nThe club will feature a VIP lounge, and is said to be the airport version of the original 40/40 club.\nThis new development highlights how airports are no longer just a necessary place to board a plane; they have become about the passenger experience and are opening themselves up to a number of different business ideas.\nWhat do you make of this new airport experience? Is this something all airports should start looking into?\n[Picture: NRK P3]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.touchofpast.com/2007/11/welcome.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:45Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7U5C4PIIGRL6Y3XLKFAHHAJMNADE2N2", "length": 858, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.touchofpast.com", "title": "A Touch of the Past: Welcome", "raw_content": "Welcome to my blog, my virtual journal, my ramblings on the things I find interesting. It's a big world, I trust there are people out there that take interest in the things that fascinate me.\nI discovered the joys of blogging after setting up a blog for work, but found I had much more to say and share on many topics. I have never been successful at keeping a journal consistently, but the idea of being able to link to articles and sites I find interesting and add my photographs to illustrate my musings is very exciting.\nThis will be a blog about connecting with nature, delighting in the wild things of this world, and striving for a simpler healthy life.\nTo quote Aldo Leopold's first words in the Sand County Almanac:\n\"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/lifeinEgypt5.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:11Z", "digest": "sha1:K3QADQBVMNAWEHPNJTX6PWHFA3MAMHJY", "length": 22170, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.touregypt.net", "title": "Egypt: Ancient Egypt Stockbreeding, ranching and Hunting", "raw_content": "Egypt: Ancient Egypt Stockbreeding, ranching and Hunting\nStockbreeding and the Hunt\nSome of the products of the black earth were destined for use not by the Egyptians themselves but by their constant companions, helpmates and source of sustenance domestic animals. The green expanses of cultivated lucerne, clover and the chickling vetch Lathyrus sativus, provided fodder for cattle especially. Herds and flocks would often wander far off in search of meadows and pastureland as well as clearing up the straw and chaff left in the fields after the corn crop.\nThe Egyptians probably inherited some of their farm-stock in their present domestic forms from Asia Minor, some perhaps via parts of North Africa. Stockbreeding was already a routine activity in the earliest Neolithic settlements in the Faiyum and on the western edge of the Delta (Merimda Beni Salama), as we can tell from fragments of bone found in the remains of prehistoric meals. Cave drawings in Upper Egypt and Nubia feature domesticated cattle as well as vivid hunting scenes.\nHistoric times witnessed a continuous increase not only of agricultural output but in the number and size of herds which, like the soil, belonged to large estate-owners and were tended by professional drovers and shepherds. These men had their own managers and overseers as well as their own assistants such as 'bucket carriers' and 'foddermen'. Each specialized as a rule in one kind of animal - cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, asses, oryx (which they had tried to domesticate during the Old Kingdom), horses (introduced in the New Kingdom), geese and other poultry, and even dogs.\nIn tomb scenes we can distinguish herdsmen by their very appearance. They were as a rule conspicuously lean; being forever on the move with their charges they had to stint themselves on food and creature comforts. They were usually unshaven, but with little or no hair on their heads. They wore their kilts tucked up and carried over their shoulders a long stick with a roll of matting hanging from it (for protection from wind and sun) and a bundle of pots and food. We see them bringing their animals to the estate-owners or their bailiffs, milking, feeding young stock, helping herds to ford rivers, assisting deliveries and so forth.\nEvery farmer also kept a small number of animals himself to provide indispensable assistance in various tasks, as well as milk, meat and wool. Foremost among the farm animals were the horned cattle evolved from the pre- historic Bos primigenius. The older race, documented in bone finds and drawings of the Predynastic Period and the Old Kingdom, had long lyre-shaped horns such as we still find in Sudan, though no longer in Egypt itself. During the close of the Old Kingdom thinner-legged shorthorn breeds appear. Some experts believe that the long-horned varieties were either displaced by these, or wiped out in some epidemic.\nThere are no ancient Egyptian records of the great black Indian buffalo so common in the country today, though some consider that the water buffalo may have existed, and in earliest times the African buffalo too. The herds contained more cows than bulls, there is no satisfactory evidence that oxen were known. In the daytime cattle were driven out onto pasture or harvest fields. To ensure that grass was not over-trampled the animals were tethered by thick date palm-fiber ropes to stones buried in the ground.\nTo protect them from wild beasts and thieves, cattle were herded each night into palisaded pens or, in the colder winter months, into byres. A wooden model in the 11th-dynasty tomb of the noble Meketre at Deir el-Bahari shows one with two compartments and an interconnecting door. In the rear four cattle are feeding from a trough; in the front half two men are fattening up a pair of cows destined for slaughter, while the ubiquitous guard stands with his stick in the doorway.\nAnimals were tethered to rows of thick wooden pegs like those found during the excavation of the New Kingdom town of Gurob. Large cattle-herds formed the basic capital of the big estates. This is demonstrated in another wooden model from Meketre's tomb where we see this landowner seated with his son in a pavilion, watching his herds in a kind of march-past. No doubt the occasion was a cattle-census for tax purposes, as indicated by the presence of four scribes, busily recording. A row of herdsmen are steering the cattle into single file; there are three men counting the numbers aloud while the chief herdsman bows and kneels before the landlord.\nEver since prehistoric times Egyptians had kept flocks of Ovis longipes palaeouegyptiaca, a sheep with long spiral horns spread out horizontally, of tall stature and with a long tail. In the Middle Kingdom another species arrived, Ovis platyura aegyptiaca, with spiral horns close to the head, lower build and short fat tails. The former type was seen as the incarnation of Khnum, god of the First Cataract, and a few other deities with ram's heads, while the second was the symbol of the Theban god Amun, who became the chief divinity during the New Kingdom. Despite, or perhaps because of this, sheep's milk and meat did not figure among offerings to the dead. Priests were forbidden, especially during the Late Period, to eat mutton or wear wool.\nThe domestic shorthaired goat, in both short and long-horned forms, can be seen on some tomb murals. It played no part in religious or funeral rites, but it provided skins, milk and meat that even the poorer could afford. Texts indicate that goats were more numerous than sheep up to Ptolemaic times, when the proportions were reversed. The farm pig is a domesticated form of the wild boar, tamed independently in several places including the eastern half of the Delta as well as in the Crimea, Thessaly, eastern Asia and elsewhere. It was farmed probably in Neolithic times at Merimda Beni Salama; it is attested in the 3rd dynasty.\nOld Kingdom reliefs still show it as a slender animal with long legs, a thick growth of bristle on the back and a long snout, showing that it had not been long domesticated. But both in pictures and in food remains the pig occurs rather infrequently. Only from the 18th dynasty do we have many textual references to large herds of hogs. The noble Renen, for example, is shown on his tomb-relief at el-Kab inspecting his stock and glorying in the possession of 4500 pigs.\nThousands of swine were among the property dedicated to the Memphite deity Ptah by Amenophis III. 0..00.The value of pork as a food item for Akhetaten emerges from the latest research by Barry Kemp into the walled workers' village south of the city. A number of stone animal enclosures subdivided into smaller compartments, carefully painted in one case with several layers of plaster, were here used - to judge by the bristles and coprolites that have turned up - for large scale pig-breeding. The clean whitewashed areas were no doubt used for butchering the carcasses after the removal of the bristles by steam-scolding. The design and scale of the accommodation suggests that it was not used for village requirements only but was a pork-production center for the whole city. To spare the villagers the smell, the enclosures had been sited on the south and east sides in the lee of the prevailing winds. Recent examination of bones in waste-tips has also confirmed the popularity of pig-meat among working-class Egyptians.\nA common beast of burden in Egypt (and for a long time the only means of transport) was the donkey. It was domesticated from the Nubian wild ass Equas asinus africanus in the fourth millennium BC, probably in North Africa and perhaps, as some believe, in Upper Egypt. Up to the Persian Period Egyptians relied exclusively on the donkey for land travel in their own country and even for long expeditions to Sinai, to the mountain valleys of the Eastern Desert and to distant oases in the west. As the donkey could not survive long without food and water, travelers across the desert had to take fodder with them, and water for their mounts as well as themselves. Their slow speed was another disadvantage. Nevertheless every peasant kept donkeys, since harvest and other field work would have been hard to manage without them.\nWild camels were probably known to the Egyptians from the distant past. There is a camel's grave in the Helwan cemetery (1st and 2nd dynasties) and camel-shaped vases have been found at the Old Kingdom site of Abusir el-Meleq. The Bedouin of northern and central Arabia are credited with having domesticated camels in the latter half of the second millennium BC. Authors differ in dating the first occurrence of domesticated camels in Egypt - theories range from 525 BC to the turn of the millennium. With its proverbially modest requirements of food and water, both being stored in its fatty hump, the camel enabled long desert treks to be accomplished much faster and more safely than before.\nAs regards the horse, originally perhaps domesticated on the steppes of what is now the Ukraine, we know that it first turned up in Egypt in the army the Asiatic Hyksos invaders at the end of the Middle Kingdom. The Austrian Archaeological Institute team recently found a number of horse burials at Tell el-Dab'a, which is probably the site of Avaris, the residence of the Hyksos kings. During the New Kingdom the Egyptians started horse-breeding for themselves, but this was restricted to the stables of the king and the highest dignitaries, where there were special stablemen to look after them. They used to be harnessed to light two-wheeled chariots, in which the king attended ceremonies, hunts and army parades - or rode to war.\nSome of the pharaohs were so fond of their steeds that they tended them themselves. Amenophis Il's affection for horses, for example, is demonstrated on the stele that he had erected in front of the Sphinx at Giza. When the 25 th-dynasty king Piankhi had conquered Hermopolis he visited the stables there and found that the horses had starved to death during the long siege, and this caused 'great grief to his heart'. We know that two of Ramesses II's horses were named 'Theban Victory' and 'Mut is Content'. Occasionally senior dignitaries were allowed to own horses; a painting in his tomb at Dra Abu el-Naga shows the 18th-dynasty royal physician Nebamun hunting hyenas in a two-wheeled chariot drawn by a pair of horses with colored plumes.\nThe arrival on the scene of man's faithful friend the dog through domestication of the wolf was brought about independently in several parts of the world during the Mesolithic age. The oldest domestication sites have been given as Persia, North America and possibly Northeast Africa - though probably not Egypt itself, where the earliest records of dogs are from the Predynastic Period. We find them often on murals, starting in the Old Kingdom.\nThe only animal we know for certain to have been domesticated by the Egyptians is their cat, descended from the North African wild subspecies Felis silvestris lybica; it is attested in Neolithic times. Joachim Boessneck concluded that the domestication process took thousands of years, so that we can only speak of tame cats from the New Kingdom onwards. The cat's popularity arose primarily from its capacity for ridding houses of rodents. It was in this protective role that Bastet was honored, a goddess represented as a cat, or woman with a cat's head. From the New Kingdom the same animal is sometimes associated with the goddess Tefnut, from whom it took over her title of the 'Eye of King Re', personifying the sun's life-giving heat.\nPoultry had been kept since time immemorial, notably geese as shown in the celebrated painting in the tomb of Princess Itet of the 3rd dynasty. The birds are here rendered in such faithful detail that experts have been able to identify two species of Anser and two of Branta, closer to ducks. A fifth native kind, the wild Egyptian Goose, was never farmed. Five species of duck were also bred, notably the pintail. The domestic hen was introduced to Egypt only later, after the first Persian conquest according to some, according to others not before Ptolemaic times. It seems though that where the report of Tuthmosis III's Syrian expedition speaks of a bird that lays eggs every day, it is referring to the hen. Isolated finds of egg-shell, and what looks like a cock drawn on a New Kingdom ostracon from the Valley of the Kings suggest that the domestic chicken may have been bred even then\nEgyptian poultry scuffled about for food in courtyards or feeding-pens. There were even specialized poultry farms with their own offices, store-sheds and rooms for the staff. But even there birds were never cooped up without a free run. The principles of artificial incubation were also known, though for this purpose eggs were simply buried in dunghills which produced the\nrequisite heat. Dovecotes were set up either on rooftops or as separate buildings of mud and straw, the variety of design adding a picturesque touch to towns and villages then as now. Their denizens probably included the Rock Dove, ancestor of modern domestic pigeons, but this is not quite certain.\nAs early as Paleolithic times man had acquired a taste for wild bees' honey, as we know from cave paintings at Bicorp in Spain. The oldest Egyptian drawing of honey being taken from a nest of wild bees dates from the Neolithic Age. The practice continued in historic times; there were professional honey-collectors (bityw) who plied their trade along the desert fringes and deep into Nubia. The domestication of bees, however, goes back at least to the Old Kingdom.\nIt is interesting to note the attempts made in ancient Egypt to domesticate other wild creatures by snaring them and trying to breed them alongside tame species. We know that this was done with several kinds of antelope and gazelle, with the Nubian ibex, the Barbary sheep and even the hyena, heron and crane. The object of such experiments is clear from illustrations in mastabas where the animals are shown with collars round their necks to which a leash could be fastened. Force-feeding of cranes by stuffing balls of flour down their throats, as with geese, is shown not only in several Saqqara mastabas but also in that of Ptahshepses at Abusir and in the tomb of Djehutihotep at el-Bersha.\nThere is evidence of crane-farming in the Middle Kingdom and these birds feature in a sacrificial procession in the 18th-dynasty temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari with their beaks tied for safety to their necks. There are famous portrayals of hyena-feeding in the 6th-dynasty mastabas of Mereruka and Kagemni at Saqqara, where two keepers are having a hard time holding one animal down on his back while they stuff pieces of meat and poultry into its muzzle.\nThe most ferocious specimens had to have their hind legs tied together first. Some writers believe the intention was to train hyenas for taking part in hunts. A few other animals may be mentioned which kings or nobles kept as pets or curious rarities. There are pictures showing gazelles tied like dogs to a chair that some dignitary is seated on. Ladies liked to take dorcas deer with them for walks.\nDuring the Old Kingdom in particular aristocrats amused themselves with the antics of monkeys brought from Nubia or remoter parts of Africa, especially baboons and guenons. There are records of mongoose-breeding in Roman times. Tame cheetahs may have been used in hunts. One dangerous hobby was keeping a lion about the house. Only a pharaoh could go in for this, of course; we know that Tutankhamun did, and likewise Ramesses II, Ramesses III and Ramesses IV.\nQueen Hatshepsut had a regular menagerie set up. According to Dale Osborn it was stocked with animals brought back from the Land of Punt - baboons, giraffes, cheetahs and exotic birds. In his northern palace at Akhetaten, too, King Akhetaten had a wild animal enclosure and an aviary.\nIn the Late and Graeco-Roman Periods in particular Egyptians used to catch, for ritual purposes, animals that they believed to be the incarnations of various gods. Foremost among these was the falcon, as the incarnation of Horus (though other birds of prey could be substituted, according to recent research on bird-mummies): the vulture (for the goddess Nekhbet); the sacred ibis (Thoth); the crocodile (Sobek) and several kinds of fish. At the New Kingdom site of Gurob, William Loat discovered a unique fish-cemetery where dried Nile perches and other species had been placed in hollows, wrapped up in dry grass.\nOther animals, such as baboons and various monkeys (again symbolizing Thoth) were imported to be kept in temples. Some common animals were also recruited to act as divine reincarnations, such as the cow (mother of the god Apis), the bull (Apis himself), the cat (the goddess Bastet) and the dog (Anubis). Mummified animals, brought along by the devout as sacrifices, were laid in their hundreds of thousands in underground corridors at the sacred-animal cemeteries such as those of Saqqara and Tuna el-Gebel. The custom must have contributed to reduction or extermination of several species in Egypt (falcon, ibis and crocodile).\nThose who kept animals knew them well - their mating habits, their diet and growth, their ailments and all their characteristics. They took pleasure in breeding them successfully, but did not see them merely as utilities.\nA balanced relationship between people and beasts was seen by the ancient Egyptians as one element in the eternal global and cosmic order. Anyone who really knew his animals understood how close they were to him or her, in their physiology, their ailments and, to a degree, their psychology. People could not fail to see moreover the close kinship that much mythology reflected. The sound relationship between them benefited not only the animals, but humans too.\nLove of the hunt had come down to the Egyptians from their prehistoric forebears. It had at one time, after all, been the only way of getting meat. In Neolithic and predynastic days hunting and fishing were still an important supplement to stockbreeding. A famous hunting scene that has survived from the time of the country's unification shows a party out for lions, gazelles, stags and ostrich. By historic times, however, agriculture and stockbreeding had increased to the point where hunting was losing its economic significance. It gradually became the sport of kings, courtiers and dignitaries, in which they could display their strength and valor. Scholars such as E. V. Cherezov, however, have pointed out that there were even in later times areas of food-gathering and procurement of materials for certain crafts where hunting did not become entirely redundant.\nPrehistoric Egypt had been a hunter's paradise. Human settlements were still limited to the edge of the valley where the ground started sloping up to the high plateaus, or to the mouths of the side-valleys: from there the first farmers had only begun gradually to cultivate the fertile alluvium. At that time it was a watery jungle of trees and scrub, mixed with boggy thickets of reed and papyrus, alive with elephants, giraffe, lions, rhinoceros, wild boar, antelopes, gazelles, deer of many sorts, ibex, mouflon, all kinds of birds, fish, crocodiles and hippopotamus. However, the draining of the marshes and extension of the cultivated area during the first three dynasties forced the larger game out of the valley proper.\nThe siting of royal palaces in the Old Kingdom capital of Memphis indicates that hunting was pursued at the time mainly on the plains beyond the nearby line of pyramid burials. Each of the pharaohs employed a master of the hunt to accompany him, along with a whole troupe of attendants and beaters. The usual quarry were the many species of gazelle and antelope (dorcas, addax, oryx, etc.), ibex, little ox, Barbary sheep and ostriches. A higher degree of skill and courage was demanded for chasing hyenas, lions and leopards. Hyenas abounded in the desert; there were still a fair number of lions, to judge from the frequency with which they appear in Old Kingdom art, but leopards were less common.\nLike fowling, angling was pursued for two purposes, sport and utility. As a sport it was cultivated by aristocrats in the Old and Middle Kingdoms who normally used a harpoon while standing in their papyrus canoes. By the time of the New Kingdom anglers had evidently become lazier: they are now often portrayed with rod and line, sitting in armchairs beside their garden pools.\nEconomic fishing, with a tradition going back to prehistoric times, was carried out continually by professionals on the Nile and its canals, as well as on Lake Moeris in the Faiyum.\nFishing seems to have been particularly important during the Middle Kingdom. In several Saqqara mastabas we see fishermen with rods and lines, sitting in their I papyrus canoes and waiting for a bite. Fishing scenes often contain a tussle between the crews of two papyrus boats. Two fishermen try to knock each other into the water with long poles. We are usually shown one of them in the act of falling in. These were evidently friendly sporting fights serving to break the monotony.\nNot even angling was without its dangers, for there was one species of catfish armed with a poisonous spine on its dorsal fin. According to Strabo even crocodiles were afraid of it. On one relief a man is shown sitting on the riverbank, pulling one of these fish out of the catch and extracting the dreaded spine. Khety's Instruction mentions another peril. 'And now I will tell you about the fisherman, who has a harder time than any. His work takes him to a river infested with crocodiles. When the time comes to count up [the catch], he wrings his hands over it, without even thinking \"There might be a crocodile around!\" Too late he is gripped with fear. Then as soon as he reaches the water he falls as if struck by the hand of god.' Even if the scribe exaggerates as usual in order to highlight the advantages of his own profession, it was true that if a canoe capsized not even the best swimmer could be sure of escaping the dreaded jaws.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 23622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travel-pb.com/2010/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KII6RHKT7FNGYYBBI5A2YXA3W6RU54ZD", "length": 1768, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.travel-pb.com", "title": "Travel Photo Blogging: April 2010", "raw_content": "African thunderstorm in Slovenia\nAs you might have already guessed, not much has been going on lately. At least concerning me and my travels.\nThe only fun thing I did lately was a rock concert I attended last weekend. Kind of sad isn't it?\nQuite a few people I know are planning some kind of travel adventures. As it seems, Africa seems to be the destination of choice at this moment. I would also be happy to do it but there are just so many things waiting for my attention... unfortunately some of them are already seriously behind schedule. I guess this means travel will just have to wait for some time. At least those more distant destinations.\nNext week I am hoping to be free from work for a few days. I just might seize the opportunity and at least go for a one- or two-day trip. Somewhere nearby probably. Let us just wait and see.\nIn Slovenia the weather in April is usually changing all the time. It can go from warm sunshine to heavy rain and back for ten times in a single day. As a consequence it is quite hard to plan any weather dependent activities even a couple of days in advance.\nAll these things - music, Africa and thunderstorms remind me of a song I just can't get tired of listening to. That is why I decided to post this video for a change.\nThe song is titled Africa and is performed by Perpetuum Jazzile, a jazz choir from Slovenia. They are really, really good.\nTwo separate Youtube videos of their performance of \"Africa\" had more than 9.2 million views combined since first publishing in May 2009. Since there are only 2 million Slovenians, I suppose some other folks must have liked it too.\nThose of you who haven't seen this thing yet... well, I suggest you pump up the volume, lean back for a few minutes and just enjoy the performance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 6379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travelnewsdigest.in/2018/12/opportunities-in-africa-and-middle-east-were-the-topic-of-focus-in-wtm-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:54Z", "digest": "sha1:C5HJIWZEHUIJPLP7LWWW2VGWF7YAXFYB", "length": 1829, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.travelnewsdigest.in", "title": "Opportunities in Africa and Middle East were the topic of focus in WTM 2018 \u2013 Travel News Digest", "raw_content": "Gastrodiplomacy in Jordan plans for Expo 2020 in Dubai, opportunities in Africa and the latest travel trends for the region were all hotly debated topics in the Middle East & Africa Inspiration Zone at WTM London.\nIncreased security, rising demand and growing competition in the Middle East and Africa region is opening up tourism, according to Euromonitor\u2019s Travel Trends research.\nSenior analyst Lea Meyer told the audience at the Middle East & Africa Inspiration Zone inbound arrivals are expected to record a compound aggregate growth rate (CAGR) of six percent between now and 2023, making MEA (the Middle East and Africa) one of the fastest-growing regions, second only to the Asia Pacific. In the same time period, MEA is set to be the second fastest growing region in terms of disposable income.\nThe audience was also given a snapshot of the latest developments for Expo 2020, the hugely anticipated mega-event taking place in Dubai in two years\u2019 time.\nExpo 2020 will open on October 20, for six months, closing on April 10, during which 25 million people are expected to visit.\nLaura Faulkner, UK Commissioner, Expo 2020 Dubai, described the event as \u201cthe largest event on earth. The Olympics of tourism.\u201d\nThere has been much talk about the \u2018African Century\u2019, in which the region realises its full economic, cultural and sporting potential, yet rising debt in some nations is stunting growth. Tourism is a key driver of success, the Inspiration Zone heard.\nCathy Dean, CEO of Save the Rhino International, said that countries often shy away from talking about their conservation challenges for fear of frightening tourists away, but they should be more open.\n\u201cMake your tourists aware of the issues \u2013 believe me you will take them with you. You won\u2019t turn them off,\u201d she said.\nTags: Africa expo 2020 Middle East WTM 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travelnpleasure.com/things-to-do-in-jordan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:45Z", "digest": "sha1:XEDJUWRH4NQPWDWY2YFIKDMGX62JYLNU", "length": 4679, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.travelnpleasure.com", "title": "10 Wonderful Things To Do in Jordan - Travel & Pleasure", "raw_content": "TOPICS:Jordan\nPhoto by ooOO(Sylvain)OOoo\nEven after being a small country with the size of the U.S. state of Indiana, Jordan boasts of so many wonderful attractions that include the ancient city of Petra, the Dead Sea, beautiful and vast desert landscapes, and countless biblical and historical sites. Jordan is known for its worm hospitality as well. If you are yet to explore and experience this great Arab nation and planning to visit soon, you should know the following 10 wonderful things to do in Jordan:\n1. Witness Petra by Night\nWhen it comes to visiting Jordan, one of the must-visit attractions is the ancient city of Petra. And the beauty of Petra is best seen at night when the beautiful Petra attractions are lit only by candles and a shower of stars overhead. While you should explore Petra during the day as well, you must not miss out beholding some of the most spectacular nighttime views of Al Khazneh, Al-Deir and Siq which are the three most beautiful attractions in Petra. The ripples and curves of raspberry-rust that fascinate by day vanish at night and get lost in the inky calmness.\n2. Enjoy a Camel Ride Around Petra\nThe ancient city of Petra must be seen during the day as well. And one of the best ways to do that is taking a camel ride around this forgotten city that boasts of a number of tombs, temples and other buildings and carvings. If this is your first time your are going to ride a camel, make sure you hold tight from the moment you get on the Camel.\n3. Float on the Dead Sea\nPhoto by inju\nThis can be a real unique and fun experience. You must know nothing sinks in the Dead Sea. Yes, you can literally sit on the ocean floor and read a book or something. So, this one has to be one of the never-miss things to do in Jordan.\n3. Stay in a Bedouin Tent in Wadi Rum\nPhoto by OliverC999\nLocated in Southern Jordan around 60 km to the east of Aqaba, Wadi Rum is known as the \u201cThe Valley of the Moon\u201d. In fact, it is a valley cut into the granite and sandstone rock. It is a place surrounded by sand dunes of the desert. There are a number of Bedouin tents around the Wadi Rum where tourists can stay and see the desert at dawn. Staying in one of these tents, you can hear the miles lot before the sun comes up. You should absulately enjoy the views and warm hospitality of the locals.\n5. Taste Knafeh in Amman\nTasting Knafeh is one of the never-miss things to do in Jordan. Knafeh, just like the sand and stone of the cities the country, has a detectable taste and wonderful history. If you really love it, try learning how to cook it from a chef from any restaurant in Amman. It is in fact a butter-soaked street-side snack made with cheese. This is a perfect example of traditional Jordanian food.\n6. Go Canyoning in Wadi Mujib\nWadi Mujib is a river in Jordan that enters the Dead Sea at 1350 ft below the sea level. There are some wonderful canyoning spots you can enjoy canyoning. Don\u2019t think it\u2019s something only for the strong and fittest. It is in fact an exciting little adventure anybody should take part and love.\n7.Explore the Dana Nature Reserve\nVisiting the Dana Nature Reserve is one of the thrilling things to do in Jordan as this nature reserve is one of Jordan\u2019s heading gems. The fascinating stone village of Dana which dates back to 15th century, located at the focal point of the nature reserve, angles under the King\u2019s Highway on a rock face, commanding excellent views of the valley below. You can stay in the Dana Tower Hotel where you can enjoy traditional Jordanian music at an evening musical show performed by hotel staff.\n8. Spot Some Stunning Crusader Castles\nThere are a number of beautiful Crusader Castles spread throughout Jordan. Make a list of Crusader Castles that you want to visit and be amazed seeing some of the most beautiful ones. The best one has to be Kerak.\n9. Write Your Name into History at Mount Nebo\nMount Nebo is one of the most remarkable Jordan attractions you can\u2019t miss in your tour. There is an incredible mosaic in production Mount Nebo where visitors can write their name. When it will be complete, it is expected to be the largest mosaic in the world being more than 30 metres long with over 3.5 million pieces.\n10. See the stars with the Bedouin\nAnother wonderful experience can be to stay in the Feynan Eco-Lodge without any sound pollution or light. Listening to an engaging storyteller with a cup of coffee and roaring fire under the sky can be an once in a lifetime experience.\nPhoto by Seetheholyland.net\n1 Comment on \"10 Wonderful Things To Do in Jordan\"\nGreat post! These seem like amazing things to do in Jordan. Keep up the good work and I wish you all the best.-Chris Thompson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 6230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trendhunter.com.au/tachometers-speedometers-and-odometers-explained/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:50Z", "digest": "sha1:PAGJHGUYIXIGZY5XJBMBBF4OVDSSAOGD", "length": 2704, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.trendhunter.com.au", "title": "Tachometers, Speedometers and Odometers Explained - Trendhunter", "raw_content": "Speedometers, tachometers, and odometers are essential bike components that help riders stay safe on the road by allowing them to monitor their speed. These components have a specific set of functions that inform the rider about a specific operation that\u2019s going on their bike. While most people are familiar with speedometers, the topic of tachometers and odometers doesn\u2019t pop up quite as often. For that very reason, in today\u2019s blog post we\u2019ll focus on explaining what all of these instruments do, so that even those who have no knowledge about them whatsoever, can make informed buying decisions.\nIf you\u2019re looking to replace or install a brand new speedometer, tachometer or odometer on your bike, you need to first get a grasp of their functions. Once you do that, you can look for a model specific or universal motorcycle speedometer and tachometer. A tachometer is used to display the RPM, or the engine speed of your bike. The more you rev your bike, the more RPM it\u2019ll show. A tachometer is an incredibly useful component for people who want to ride their bikes to their fullest potential and want total control and knowledge regarding how to run it. For instance, a rider who\u2019s into track racing will definitely want to get the most out of his bike and ride it to its full speed. For that reason, he\u2019ll constantly have his eye on the tachometer to ensure he redlines the bike on each and every gear to ensure he\u2019s using it to it\u2019s fullest capacity.\nSimilarly, someone who\u2019s riding around the city and wants to get the best fuel efficiency possible will make sure the RPM of their bike is within the economy levels, or that the bike is revving in the slowest RPM levels without puttering or stalling. This will signal them when to shift to a higher gear so the fuel intake doesn\u2019t rise because of a high RPM. Since many stock bikes aren\u2019t fitted with a tachometer, a lot of people are missing out on this feature. But if you want to be money-smart, investing in a universal motorcycle speedometer and tachometer can be a great idea.\nA speedometer is the most basic meter on the dashboard of any bike. Nowadays, most new bikes have digital speedometers, but their purpose is still pretty straightforward \u2013 to show you the speed at which you\u2019re driving. Many people confuse speedometers with tachometers, which is the sole reason I\u2019m writing about what a speedometer is.\nAn odometer is a component that measures the distance you travel on your bike. Odometers used to be analog, but that trend has slowly shifted lately, as is the case with tachometers and speedometers. An odometer lets you see how much distance you travel on a particular trip, and it helps you see your bike\u2019s fuel efficiency.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.truthserum.org/images/2008.06.13_dykemarch_02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NWHQTMOJXQ54Y66GU3B3B3W5U5CVJPIV", "length": 119, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.truthserum.org", "title": "Boston Dyke March part 2. this year seemed to have more people out and fewer people on stage after. i like it that way.", "raw_content": "Boston Dyke March part 2. this year seemed to have more people out and fewer people on stage after. i like it that way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.truthsurfer.com/2008/11/looking-in-mirror.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:7DZGYVOH2RWJFBPY34GQIYX5RRDSEOAV", "length": 734, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.truthsurfer.com", "title": "Truth Surfer: Looking In The Mirror", "raw_content": "\u2018Shameful and humiliating\u2019 is how the Iraqis view the U.S. Security Agreement. The agreement requires all foreign forces to withdraw from Iraqi cities and towns by the end of June 2009 and to withdraw completely from Iraq by the end of 2011.\nWhile most Americans see this as a positive step, most Iraqis are against signing any agreement that would seek to legitimize the U.S. occupation. The deal also gives U.S. forces immunity from being punished when they commit war crimes against Iraqis\u2026\nGiven that we have single handedly and systematically destroyed the cradle of civilization, reducing it to just another third world country, where more than 1 in Iraqis is either dead, a refugee or mained\u2026\n\u2019The horror, the horror\u2019 \u2026it\u2019s us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 3779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.twigg.org/2008/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:59Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7NOT6NBII5L2TB5ZSJO7HLUU3CWGBLG", "length": 210, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.twigg.org", "title": "September 2008 \u2013 Homer L. Twigg IV", "raw_content": "Okay, sorry for not writing more to those two people who check this blog. I\u2019ll be better; it\u2019s not as busy now. Many people have asked me what exactly I do here. So, I\u2019ve been asked by the prior to\u2026 Read more \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 2127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/category/underground-film-history/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RU42YUEOKOHLNKV2YO3QBBOW6L7ZMZBE", "length": 1088, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.undergroundfilmjournal.com", "title": "Underground Film History | Underground Film Journal | Page 2", "raw_content": "Kenneth Anger: 1966 Screening Of His \u201cMagick Lantern Cycle\u201d\nAccording to the modern day Magic Lantern Society, Danish mathematician Thomas Rasmussen Walgensten was the first person to use the term \u201cLaterna Magica\u201d in the mid-1600s to describe his image projection device.\nFlashback: 1994 New York Underground Film Festival\nIn 1993, after not being accepted into any major film festival of the time, such as Sundance, filmmaker Todd Phillips personally toured the U.S. and Europe with his first documentary film, Hated: GG Allin & The Murder Junkies.\nBrian L. Frye programmed the first screening on May 12, 1998 at the Collective Unconscious theater space. The screening included the feature-length documentary Underground by Emile de Antonio about the left-wing militant group the Weather Underground\nRobert Beck Memorial Cinema: The Secret Origin\nIn 1998, Brian L. Frye was a transplant from San Francisco looking to open a new microcinema in NYC, having been inspired by Craig Baldwin\u2019s Other Cinema at Artists Television Access and David Sherman and Rebecca Barten\u2019s Total Mobile Home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/tag/rolf-belgum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UH2GZOKFPNPEI5PWTRXVGAOOUNKKUGEB", "length": 1381, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.undergroundfilmjournal.com", "title": "Rolf Belgum | Underground Film Journal", "raw_content": "Rolf Belgum is a Minnesota-based filmmaker, mostly known for his two cult music documentary classics Driver 23 and The Atlas Moth. He's also studied sculpture at the University of Minnesota and earned an MFA in Filmmaking at the University of California at San Diego.\nLearn more about this filmmaker at the official website for his production company Fenris Films.\nShe Unfolds By Day (2008)\nThe Wild Condition (2006)\nThe Atlas Moth (2002)\nDriver 23 (1998)\nNYUFF & CUFF: Class Of 2000-02\nHere\u2019s a list of films from the 2000-02 New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals that were released on DVD, like Plaster Caster and Horns and Halos.\n2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival: Award Winners & Wrap-Up\nLots of awards given out at the 13th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival, including Best Documentary to Usama Alshaibi\u2019s Nice Bombs; and much more.\nThe 13th annual Chicago Underground Film Festival opens on Aug. 17 with Usama Alshaibi\u2019s Nice Bombs and will screen films by James Fotopoulos and Jeff Krulik.\nStill No CUFF?\nStill no official word from the Chicago Underground Film Festival about their lineup this year, but some early announcements for Weird Paul and Wild Condition.\n2002 NYUFF: The Atlas Moth\nThe Atlas Moth is a sequel of sorts to the documentary Driver 23, both directed by Rolf Belgum. Both films are about forever aspiring hard-rock band Dark Horse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.unicom.com/chrome/a/001189.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:22Z", "digest": "sha1:XTAZ2NNQY3DVA6XLGB7LPZQX73LMMLJW", "length": 2324, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.unicom.com", "title": "High Def Discs are Dead on Arrival | Unicom Systems Development", "raw_content": "High Def Discs are Dead on Arrival\nSubmitted by chip on Sat, 29-Jul-2006 - 9:09 am\nLast night, while stumbling around Fry's, I noticed they have a small HD-DVD section. I was not a fan of the format to begin with. Now, I'm even less so.\nThe first thing that surprised me was the prices. The movies cost in the range of $25-50. That's insane, nobody is going to pay that sort of money per unit for their movie collection. Sure, back in the day I bough a few \"Mobile Fidelity Sound Studio\" albums (high priced specially pressed vinyl records), but I didn't need to buy special record player to hear them.\nI guess they feel that early adopters are less price sensitive, but these prices sure do discourage people from becoming early adopters. The volume of these movies is going to be so small initially, the studios are almost certainly going to lose money, and they probably wouldn't lose that much more if the price was a buck. Prices these high won't help them to prevent losses, but they sure will help prevent sales.\nBut, hey, who wouldn't jump at the chance to pay $35 to own The Chronicles of Riddick.\nWhich brings me to the second problem: the selection is almost exactly not what you want. I think the early adopters would want stunning eye candy, such as Star Wars (Fox) and The Matrix (Warner Bros.). Instead you get stuff like Blazing Saddles (Warner Bros.), which while one of the ten most important movies ever made (\"Work...work...work...hello boys!\"), I can't imagine it benefits from the HD format.\nThere is so much technically wrong with the high def formats to begin with. The price tag is just icing on the shitpile. I don't think I'll be upgrading my DVD collection to HD anytime soon.\nFor more info, here is a recent Ars Technica article on HD-DVD movie prices.\nre: High Def Discs are Dead on Arrival\nSubmitted by Brian on Mon, 31-Jul-2006 - 8:29 am.\nI bought an $80 Samsung upconverting dvd player, and I'm tickled to death with it. If I really nitpick about the picture I can complain, but for the most part I'm pleased with it. I'm not pissing away $600-$1000 on an HD-DVD player, I'm not getting a BluRay PS3, and I'm not getting a 360 with the supposed HDDVD drive. I play more content via my HTPC than I would an HDDVD. I wish I hadn't dumped the money into a 1080p TV though, it was a big mistake.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.upslsoccer.com/news/2019/01/15/united-premier-soccer-league-announces-santa-monica-united-fc-as-socal-division-team", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ID4DOXB43VUE5YNNQZBJQNSVTO4FITZA", "length": 3336, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.upslsoccer.com", "title": "UPSL Announces Santa Monica United FC as SoCal Expansion Team | United Premier Soccer League", "raw_content": "UPSL Announces Santa Monica United FC as SoCal Expansion Team\nSanta Monica (Calif.)-Based Pro Development Club Joins UPSL\nJanuary 15, 2019 \u2013 Los Angeles \u2013 The United Premier Soccer League (UPSL) is excited to announce Santa Monica United Football Club as a new member starting with the 2019 Spring Season.\nBased in Santa Monica (Calif.), Santa Monica United FC will begin UPSL Championship play in the Western Conference SoCal Division.\nUnited Premier Soccer League Commissioner Yan Skwara said, \"Santa Monica United FC is a well-established club in the Westside community with a very strong player base that they can now feed up to its UPSL Pro Development squad. We are looking for a strong season from Santa Monica United as they enter the Spring season with winning expectations. We wish Santa Monica United the best of success both on and off the field.\"\nBen Nicholson, a Board Member at Santa Monica United FC stated, \"We're excited to be able to offer an extra level of competition for the club. We want to give our players the most exposure possible and offer different pathways in their soccer career. We've been successful developing collegiate-level players in the past, placing 78 kids in colleges in the past 5 years, and see the UPSL as an opportunity to begin developing players to move into professional ranks as well. We're looking to build something special for the West L.A. soccer community.\"\nArron Craggs is Santa Monica United FC's Director of Coaching for Boys and will serve as the Pro-Development Team's Head Coach. Ben Nicholson will serve as Assistant Coach. The Pro-Development Team will play upcoming 2019 Spring Season home games in Santa Monica.\nThe team is hosting tryouts during training sessions in Santa Monica. Contact Ben Nicholson (bnicholson4728@gmail.com) for details. Teams wanting to scrimmage should also contact Ben Nicholson.\nAbout Santa Monica United FC\nSanta Monica United FC is an American Soccer club currently based in Santa Monica, Calif., and a new member of the United Premier Soccer League. Santa Monica United FC plays in the UPSL Championship. Santa Monica United FC dates back to 1975, currently has over 30 youth teams and features hundreds of youth players from the U8 to the U19 age groups.\nSanta Monica United FC can participate in the qualifying rounds for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup through their affiliation and membership with the UPSL, the U.S. Soccer Federation (USSF) and the United States Adult Soccer Association (USASA).\nEmail: bnicholson4728@gmail.com\nWebsite: www.santamonicaunited.com\nFacebook: facebook.com/SantaMonicaUnitedFC\nInstagram: @santamonicaunitedfc_official\nThe UPSL was formed in 2011 and currently includes more than 300 teams in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. UPSL is the fastest growing Pro Development League in the USA, with 400-plus teams targeted for 2019 Fall Season. Each UPSL team is individually owned and operated, and is responsible for maintaining either UPSL Pro Premier Division or Championship Division minimum standards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vacationrealestate.com/homes-for-sale-search/townhomes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:48Z", "digest": "sha1:JN7XCLLSR5HXS7IJWEL6JC6QQLYZAZXO", "length": 3034, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.vacationrealestate.com", "title": "Townhomes | Townhomes for Sale St Petersburg FL | Estabrooks Group", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Property Types \u00bb Townhomes\nSt. Petersburg, the Beaches, and Tierra Verde are dotted with a myriad of housing options, and that includes townhomes.\nOne of the most popular property types in US real estate, townhomes are plentiful in this part of the Sunshine State. Take a look at the property specifications to decide whether this kind of house is right for you.\nWhat is a Townhome?\nTownhomes are called many other names. There\u2019s the common townhouse. Some states call this property type rowhomes, and in some cases, pied-\u00e0-terre. Regardless of the name, all of these share the essential features.\nUnlike a condo or an apartment, a townhome is an individually owned unit with at least two floors. It shares one or two walls with another townhome. Under the Census Bureau, a townhome is classified as an attached house, contrary to a single-family home, which is a free-standing dwelling.\nTownhomes are usually found in densely populated areas, where land supply is short. This housing type offers the perfect midway point between single-family and condo living.\nIs Townhome Living Right for You?\nSettling down in a townhome offers many perks. The following will help you decide if this property type is the right fit for you.\nMore freedom. Living in a townhome offers more freedom than a condo. Since you own the land the house sits on, you can decide on what to do with the property, from the interior paint to landscaping.\nLess expenses. Townhomes and single-family homes give you freer hand in managing your property. The advantage of living in a townhome, however, is that you don\u2019t need to shell out huge sums of money for the maintenance. Townhome associations usually cover lawn upkeep and landscaping, so you won\u2019t have to worry about these tasks. To be sure, check the local HOA and ask about the services covered in their monthly fees.\nLow-entry costs. If you\u2019re a first-time buyer, a townhome is a great option, especially if you\u2019re looking to live in a densely populated area. Townhomes can cost less than single-family homes but still offer you the same benefits, particularly privacy.\nGreat location. Townhomes are usually located in high-density areas. By living in one, you can to enjoy close proximity to service providers, not to mention shops, restaurants, entertainment options, and other attractions.\nYou own the land. The most significant difference between townhomes and townhome-style condos is that you are a landowner in the former and only a unit owner in the latter. And with your own land, you get to enjoy extra space for outdoor living, whether for entertainment, gardening, or both.\nFind Your Dream Townhome in Florida\nFor years, David and Allison Estabrooks has been helping home buyers and sellers in the Beaches, Tierra Verde, and St. Petersburg.\nThis level of experience puts Estabrooks Group in the perfect position to help you look for townhomes for sale in St. Petersburg. Get in touch with David and Allison Estabrooks here. You can also contact them via (727) 460-4061 / (727) 373-8294.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 9084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.validatekqa.com/what-we-do/our-clients", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2PHNASS32DDXAG4DMN7H6A2ZBTZC5MDI", "length": 414, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.validatekqa.com", "title": "Our Clients | ValidaTek", "raw_content": "Client challenges \u2013 not technology \u2013 drive the development of our projects. By integrating state of the art technologies, we are committed to delivering innovative, cost effective, agile, forward thinking, and unbiased IT solutions and services to our Federal Government clients. For ValidaTek, every client project is an opportunity to launch a long-term relationship.\nDepartment of Homeland Security Headquarters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780199687749.001.0001/actrade-9780199687749-chapter-6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KHHID32IJU7NA6D2J4Y5ZLVEFS6FK24T", "length": 923, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.veryshortintroductions.com", "title": "5. Monastic and mystical Christianity - Very Short Introductions", "raw_content": "5. Monastic and mystic...\n\"The sacraments and the Catholic Church\" in Catholicism (1st edn)\n\"Religion\" in Scotland\np. 715. Monastic and mystical Christianity\n\u2018Monastic and mystical Christianity\u2019 looks at the development of a form of Christianity that locates authority in the spiritual experience of each individual. Mystical Christianity focuses not just on God the Father and Son, but more on the Spirit which lies beyond name and form. Mystical Christianity appears at the very start of Christian history and has been appropriated by Church Christianity through monasticism, an extremely important development of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox faiths. Biblical Christianity has opened itself to the Mystical tendency in other ways, including in radical Reformation churches, the Holiness movement, and most successfully in modern Pentecostal and Charismatic forms of Christianity, which combine Word and Spirit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 5135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.veted.net/building-momentum/drivers-for-change", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7WQRIQ63ZUSRARBIT6X2SNXBDINDBUG5", "length": 3635, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.veted.net", "title": "Drivers for change", "raw_content": "Change. During the last 10 years, changes on the Web created significantly different context, and all three drivers were visibly influenced/strengthened. Web 2.0 technologies and Wikinomics are recognized as the main change agents. Therefore, let\u2019s say a few words about those changes.\nWeb 2.0 is a framework that facilitates collaboration, user-content creation, information-sharing, user-centered design and inter-operability on the Web. With Web 2.0 tools, users can collaborate, create social networks, create or edit content and, what is very important for us, they can teach, learn and collaborate on course development. Leading Internet giants such as Google, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia made outstanding, globally important success as a part of a Web 2.0 framework.\nWikinomics is a framework or movement that brings people together to create a common knowledge through mass collaboration. It represents as important a historical phenomenon as the birth of bureaucracy (Staley, 2009) or the Industrial Revolution. It is based on Web 2.0 technologies such as social-networking sites, blogs, wikis, and video-sharing sites.\nProbably the best known example of wikinomics is Wikipedia. It is a free online encyclopedia that was founded in 2001 and allows anyone to edit. It has 3.3 million articles in English (15 million all together), compared with 100,000 articles in Encyclopedia Britannica.\nWhile it has 33 times more articles, the difference in accuracy is not particularly great. Research by Nature (Giles, 2005) showed that, on average, Encyclopedia Britannica has three inaccuracies per article, while Wikipedia has four.\nBritannica does Wiki. Explosive development of Wikipedia has forced Encyclopedia Britannica to accept new rules. Recently, Encyclopedia Britannica is offering editing and adding new article options. Editors have to confirm changes before they become public.\nA win-win situation. Dr. Diane Frank (Frank, 2009), president of the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (2008/2009) noted that Wikinomics principles in the veterinary community \u2018would certainly be a win-win situation for those involved.\u2019 Fast development of www.WikiVet.Net gives additional strength to her statement.\nFour cornerstones of success. The main principles of Wikinomics (Tapscott, Williams , 2008) are Openness, Peering, Sharing, and Acting Globally:\nBeing Open. Schools that open their doors to external ideas and human capital will outperform schools that rely solely on their internal resources and capabilities.\nPeering. Peering leverages self-organization. For some tasks that style is more productive than traditional hierarchical management.\nSharing. In a super-productive collaborative world, schools and companies have to share part of their intellectual property so they can actively collaborate and generate new intellectual property plus improve their position in the global economy.\nActing Globally. Winning schools have to act globally. They are globally important institutions and globalized collaboration is the only way to stay at the top.\nTraditional and proven tools + Web 2.0 collaboration. Adoption of those principles has become an important prerequisite of globally significant success. In other words, universities can gain great benefit if they invigorate their traditional structures and procedures with benefits of Web 2.0. For example:\nAn active community of teachers that actively collaborate through wiki and a forum (Web 2.0, Wikinomics) can significantly ease development of classical courses (face-to-face, blended or online)\nA peer-reviewed wiki can generate results like WikiVet.Net has.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 7122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.viccity.ca/v2/news/9684/Accused+choked+victim+in+drug+spat:+witness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TQ64HOSXXBB6KZ353HGLDMUNYC24STRC", "length": 3407, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.viccity.ca", "title": "Accused choked victim in drug spat: witness", "raw_content": "Accused choked victim in drug spat: witness\nThe last time Matthew Rockwell saw Paul Rouxel alive, he was in a chokehold, struggling on the floor of his View Towers apartment with a man now on trial for second-degree murder, a B.C. Supreme Court jury heard Monday.\nRockwell was the first witness testifying at the trial of Wyatt Prince, who is also charged with robbing Rouxel on April 9, 2009, the night he died. As Rouxel's wife, Manjiat, his teenage children and his sister Laura Gray looked on, Rockwell described his life as a crack addict and a drug dealer in the downtown apartment building, which is often referred to as \"Crack Towers.\"\nThe burly 23-year-old witness testified that he believed Rouxel had stolen $1,000 and crack from him when he had fallen asleep at Rouxel's apartment on April 8, 2009. The next night, an angry Rockwell, who was high on crack, enlisted the help of Prince by paying for his heroin.\nAnother man nicknamed Fish, who was also high on crack, was also in on the plan was to confront Rouxel, he testified.\nThe three men took the stairs to Rouxel's 17th-floor bachelor apartment. Rockwell opened the door. Rouxel was standing in the hallway.\n\"I said, 'What's going on? I hear you took my dope and my money,' \" Rockwell testified.\n\"I don't know what you're talking about,\" Rouxel replied.\nAt that point, Wyatt jumped on his back and put Rouxel in a chokehold, Rockwell testified. They struggled for a few seconds, then fell to the ground. Both were moaning, rolling around side-to-side, for about 30 seconds, Rockwell said.\nDuring the struggle, Rockwell and Fish saw a bulge of money in Rouxel's sock.\n\"Fish grabbed that and we left,\" said Rockwell, who will continue his testimony this morning.\nJustice Susan Griffin cautioned Rockwell about using the term \"murder.\" She also cautioned the jury about the Crown's use of the word \"kill.\"\n\"The factual matter was that Mr. Rouxel died that night and the issue is how he died that night,\" said Griffin.\nAs the trial got underway, Crown prosecutor Leslie Baskerville told the jury Rouxel's life was far from idyllic when he died at the age of 45.\n\"He was estranged from his family and he struggled with a severe drug addiction. Just weeks before he died, he moved into View Towers,\" Baskerville said.\nOn the morning of April 9, 2009, he cashed his last paycheque for $2,184 at Money Mart and bought and consumed cocaine. That night, a plan was hatched to rob him, she said.\n\"Wyatt Prince was part of that plan.\"\nThe jury can expect to hear evidence from neighbours about noise coming from Rouxel's suite. Jurors also will hear from night- duty manager Marco Brewer that Victoria police dispatch called him and asked him to check suite 1704.\nWhen he did, he found Rouxel's body sticking out of a closet.\nSgt. Dave Bown is expected to testify about a text message he received the day after Rouxel's death that affected the course of the investigation.\nA pathologist is expected to testify that he believes Rouxel's cause of death was manual strangulation.\n\"But it isn't a simple matter,\" Baskerville said. \"Ultimately, it will be your job to come to some conclusions about the cause of death.\"\nAdmissions of fact read into the court record show Rouxel was a chronic cocaine user who consumed the drug a few hours before his death.\nIt also reveals Prince's DNA was found in fingernail clippings taken from Rouxel during an autopsy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vincentvacations.com/where-to-stay-in/Hayward-(and-vicinity)-Wisconsin-United-States-of-America", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HSYZV2V7QHFA23OSO7FOSVGMIQ3E4RP5", "length": 7833, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.vincentvacations.com", "title": "Hayward (and vicinity) Wisconsin United States of America", "raw_content": "Hayward (and vicinity) Wisconsin United States of America\nFound in Bayfield, this historic inn is steps from Bayfield Heritage Museum and Christ Episcopal Church. AnimAashi Sailing Company and Apostle Islands Cruises are additionally approxima...\nFound on the boardwalk, this hotel is steps from Canal Park and Lake Superior Maritime Museum. Great Lakes Aquarium and Aerial Lift Bridge are additionally approximately 5 minutes.\nSituated in the center of Duluth, this hotel is approximately a 5-minute stroll of Teatro Zuccone and Fond-du-Luth Casino. Canal Park and S.S. William A. Irvin Ore Boat Museum are addit...\nFound in Duluth, this aparthotel is 0.9 mi (1.5 km) from Miller Hill Mall and approximately 3 mi (5 km) of Fond-du-Luth Casino and Snowflake Nordic Ski Center. Teatro Zuccone and Enger ...\nFound on a lake, this hotel is approximately 1 mi (2 km) of Leif Erickson Park and Rose Garden and Glensheen Historic Estate. Teatro Zuccone and Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium are addi...\nSituated in the center of Duluth, this hotel is approximately a 5-minute stroll of Canal Park and Lake Superior Maritime Museum. Great Lakes Aquarium and Aerial Lift Bridge are addition...\nAmericInn Hotel & Suites Rice Lake\nFound in Rice Lake, this motel is approximately 3 mi (5 km) of Cedar Side Walking Trail, Shudlick Park, and Northern Star Theatre. Rice Lake City Park is 2.7 mi (4.4 km) away.\nFound on a lake, this bed & breakfast is approximately a 10-minute stroll of Apostle Islands Marina, Bayfield Heritage Museum, and Christ Episcopal Church. Bayfield Maritime Museum and ...\nNorthern Pine Inn\nFound in Hayward, this motel is approximately 2 mi (3 km) of Wilderness Walk Zoo and Recreation Park, National Fresh Water Fishing Hall of Fame and Museum, and Lumberjack Bowl. Hayward ...\nFound in Hurley, this hotel is approximately 2 mi (3 km) of Iron County Historical Society Museum, Old Depot Park Museum, and Historic Ironwood Theatre. Ironwood Memorial Building and N...\nSituated in the center of Ironwood, this hotel is approximately a 15-minute stroll of Norrie Park and Old Depot Park Museum. Historic Ironwood Theatre and Ironwood Memorial Building are...\nFairfield Inn By Marriott Duluth\nFound near to the airport, this hotel is 0.3 mi (0.5 km) from Miller Hill Mall and 2.7 mi (4.3 km) from Snowflake Nordic Ski Center. Fond-du-Luth Casino and Teatro Zuccone are additiona...\nAmericinn Ashland\nFound in Ashland, this hotel is 2.7 mi (4.3 km) from Ashland Historical Museum and approximately 9 mi (15 km) of Chequamegon Bay Golf Course and Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center. Bay...\nHoliday Inn & Suites Duluth Downtown\nThis family-friendly Duluth hotel is situated in the business district, approximately a 10-minute stroll of Lake Superior Railroad Museum, North Shore Scenic Railroad, and Teatro Zuccon...\nThis family-friendly Duluth hotel is approximately 1 mi (2 km) of Glensheen Historic Estate and Leif Erickson Park and Rose Garden. Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium and Chester Park are ...\nFound in Siren, this hotel is 0 mi (0 km) from Crooked Lake Park and 3.9 mi (6.2 km) from Siren National Golf Club. Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park is 12.9 mi (20.8 km) away.\nLadysmith Motel & Suites\nFound on a river, this hotel is 1.3 mi (2.2 km) from Memorial Park and 2.5 mi (4.1 km) from The Tee-Away Golf Course and Supper Club. Josie Creek County Park is 10.7 mi (17.3 km) away.\nWith direct access to the beach, this Duluth hotel is in the historical district and approximately a 10-minute stroll of Aerial Lift Bridge, Canal Park, and Lake Superior Maritime Museu...\nFound in the suburbs, this hotel is approximately 1 mi (2 km) of Wade Stadium, Duluth Business University, and Duluth Heritage Sports Center. Duluth Children's Museum and Lake Superior ...\nFound on a lake, this hotel is approximately 1 mi (2 km) of Leif Erickson Park and Rose Garden and Glensheen Historic Estate. Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium and Chester Park are additi...\nFound in a rural location, this hotel is approximately a 15-minute stroll of Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center, Fairlawn Mansion & Museum, and SS Meteor Whaleback Ship Museum. ...\nFound in Siren, this hotel is 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from Crooked Lake Park and 3.2 mi (5.2 km) from Siren National Golf Club. Forts Folle Avoine Historical Park is 13.6 mi (21.9 km) away.\nFound in Rice Lake, this hotel is approximately 3 mi (5 km) of Cedar Side Walking Trail, Northern Star Theatre, and Shudlick Park. Rice Lake City Park is 2.5 mi (4.1 km) away.\nFound in Duluth, this hotel is approximately a 15-minute stroll of Spirit Mountain and Thompson Hill Information Center. Proctor Dirt Floor Arena and Lake Superior Zoo are additionally ...\nBay Walk Inn at Superior\nFound in Superior, this hotel is approximately 3 mi (5 km) of A World of Accordions Museum, Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center, and Duluth Business University. Fairlawn Mansion ...\nFound in the entertainment district, this hotel is steps from Lake Superior Railroad Museum and North Shore Scenic Railroad. AMSOIL Arena and Bayfront Festival Park are additionally app...\nFound in Superior, this hotel is 0.8 mi (1.4 km) from A World of Accordions Museum and approximately 3 mi (5 km) of Richard I. Bong Veterans Historical Center and Fairlawn Mansion & Mus...\nFound in Ironwood, this hotel is approximately a 15-minute stroll of Norrie Park and Old Depot Park Museum. Historic Ironwood Theatre and Ironwood Memorial Building are additionally app...\nFound in Ironwood, this motel is approximately 1 mi (2 km) of Norrie Park, Old Depot Park Museum, and Historic Ironwood Theatre. Ironwood Memorial Building and Iron County Historical So...\nFound in Duluth, this hotel is approximately a 10-minute stroll of Fond-du-Luth Casino, Teatro Zuccone, and Lake Superior Railroad Museum. North Shore Scenic Railroad and Canal Park are...\nFound in the business district, this motel is 2.4 mi (3.9 km) from Barron County Historical Society Pioneer Village Museum and approximately 9 mi (15 km) of Cedar Side Walking Trail and...\nDays Inn Duluth\nFound near to the airport, this hotel is 0.1 mi (0.1 km) from Miller Hill Mall and 2.9 mi (4.7 km) from Snowflake Nordic Ski Center. Teatro Zuccone and Fond-du-Luth Casino are additiona...\nSituated in the center of Duluth, this hotel is 0.6 mi (1 km) from Miller Hill Mall and 3.1 mi (4.9 km) from Snowflake Nordic Ski Center. Fond-du-Luth Casino and Teatro Zuccone are addi...\nFound in Rice Lake, this hotel is approximately 3 mi (5 km) of Shudlick Park, Cedar Side Walking Trail, and Northern Star Theatre. Turtleback Golf Club is 2.8 mi (4.5 km) away.\nFound in Ashland, this hotel is 0.8 mi (1.3 km) from Ashland Historical Museum and 1.4 mi (2.2 km) from Chequamegon Bay Golf Course. Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center and Bayfield Cou...\nSuper 8 Phillips Wi\nFound in Phillips, this hotel is 0.7 mi (1.1 km) from Wisconsin Concrete Park and 1.4 mi (2.2 km) from Lidice Memorial. Prentice Co-op Creamery Co. and Prentice Pines Golf Course are ad...\nFound in Ladysmith, this motel is 1.8 mi (2.9 km) from Memorial Park and 3 mi (4.8 km) from The Tee-Away Golf Course and Supper Club. Josie Creek County Park is 10.9 mi (17.5 km) away.\nSuper 8 Rice Lake\nThe Inn at Washburn\nFound in Washburn, this hotel is 0.6 mi (1 km) from Bayfield County Courthouse and approximately 12 mi (20 km) of Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center and Mount Ashwabay Ski and Recreati...\nThe Willard Munger Inn\nSet amidst the mountains, this ski-in/ski-out resort in Duluth is approximately 1 mi (2 km) of Lake Superior Zoo and Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad Historic Train Ride and close t...\nFound on the waterfront, this hotel is approximately 6 mi (10 km) of Tom's Historic Logging Camp, Hellacioius Overlook, and Lakeview National Golf Course. 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I've never...\nMaybe it's the side effects of the drugs they pumped me full of at the hospital (I'll be fine, don't worry), but I felt the need to talk about a few things that are going well for me today.\nThe cold that I thought I had turned out to be some sort of infection, but they gave me some IV drugs of some kind and I'm feeling much better. So, now I'm back at home all snuggled up under my blankets instead of staring at the ceiling tiles and naming them in an attempt to find something to do....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 135.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vittoriomartire.it/collection/classic-2015/product/15-impeccabile", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ABJR4QHEWYXLHTKEYDUKBGKXOMUQQI5E", "length": 117, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.vittoriomartire.it", "title": "Impeccabile", "raw_content": "He believed he could, so he did. He surrounded himself with smart, beautiful, passionate, ambitious, elegant friends\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 221.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/MACROBEL/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=307", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:05Z", "digest": "sha1:NH7KNBT2KSU32KUAKCIOBIHWEWDBRV76", "length": 1033, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.vliz.be", "title": "Macrobel", "raw_content": "Dum\u00e9ril, A.M.C. (1805). Zoologie analytique, ou m\u00e9thode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile \u00e0 l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. Paris, Allais. pp. i-xxxiii + 1-344 [imprint date 1806].\nDum\u00e9ril, A.M.C.\nZoologie analytique, ou m\u00e9thode naturelle de classification des animaux, rendue plus facile \u00e0 l'aide de tableaux synoptiques. Paris, Allais\npp. i-xxxiii + 1-344 [imprint date 1806]\nAlthough the work has \u201c1806\u201d (actually M. DCCC. VI) printed on the title page, it should be regarded as having been published in 1805 as it is reported on Journal Typographique et Bibliographique for 24 Brumaire an 14 [15 November 1805], and again on 16 Frimaire an 14 [7 December 1805]. The work was reprinted, with corrections, in 1806 and the BHL copy is actually this latter edition. See Gregory S.M.S. (2010) The two \u2018editions\u2019 of Dum\u00e9ril\u2019s Zoologie analytique, and the potential confusion caused by Froriep\u2019s translation Analytische Zoologie. Zoological Bibliography 1(1): 6-8\nNassarius Dum\u00e9ril, 1805 (original description)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.watdefu.com/2012/10/upmarket.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:58Z", "digest": "sha1:G6W4RFNMOTPYQXTTRYD2CI5GF3MVQZSV", "length": 486, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.watdefu.com", "title": "Wat De Fu: Upmarket?", "raw_content": "How is Prezzo supposed to be upmarket?\nhttp://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/news/local/prezzo-s-opening-looms-in-kettering-1-4317158\nIt's on par with Pizza Express, Zizzis and Strada. Nice enough for a chain but certainly not upmarket.\nAnd another thing... Isn't the headline a little foreboding by using the term loom?\nHere's one definition\n\"To appear to the mind in a magnified and threatening form\"\nhttp://www.thefreedictionary.com/loom\nLabels: food, Kettering, local news, restaurant", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 7544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 222.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.weissassociates.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3OLCZ4YVFKU4ND3YGCYUSWPHWU7ZC5VA", "length": 1806, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.weissassociates.net", "title": "Weiss Associates LLC", "raw_content": "Joanne Weiss is an independent consultant to organizations on education programs, technologies, and policy. For the past fifteen years, she has focused on driving systems-level education change through high-impact grantmaking, investing, and policymaking. Her current work focuses on improving the academic core in K-12 schools through standards, curriculum, assessment, professional learning, and equity; she works primarily with state policymakers, national nonprofit service providers, curriculum developers, school systems, and foundations. From 2009-2013 she served in the Obama Administration as chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and director of the federal Race to the Top program. Prior to that, she led companies that pioneered technology-based approaches to solving teaching and learning challenges in K-12 and higher education.\nJoanne Weiss works with a variety of clients, including foundations, nonprofits, education entrepreneurs and their investors, state education agencies, school districts, charter management organizations, and publishers.\nInterested in reading more? See a sampling of articles, commentary, and blog postings by and about Joanne Weiss.\nTennessee is one of the best in the country at telling teacher candidates how different ed prep programs stack up.\u2026 https://t.co/IxzMb5JsTN\nCongrats to my old friend, @HeatherHiles, the new CEO and president of California\u2019s first online community college. #MakingADifference\n+1 to that, @MichaelPetrilli. https://t.co/dodmEIkpzS\nA great summary from @edsource of CA\u2019s lowest-performing schools list \u2014 and plan (such as it is). Worth watching...\u2026 https://t.co/3xRkQTYArJ\nFascinating article on unintended consequences of merit pay in educ. Doesn\u2019t follow trad\u2019l econ thinking. Why? bc l\u2026 https://t.co/VD2pNrzJ4c", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.welcometoplanetvegan.com/blog/meat-nutrition-and-tradition", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TL7CUGFUTWF2YVAGAFV3UCDUC2YI5TU6", "length": 12624, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.welcometoplanetvegan.com", "title": "meat - nutrition and tradition - WELCOME TO PLANET VEGAN", "raw_content": "meat - nutrition and tradition\nOne of the most controversial and curious subjects in modern nutrition is the place of animal protein in a healthy diet. The evidence has been building over the past twenty years that our reliance of meat and dairy foods are a mistake. Most epidemiological studies indicate that excessive consumption of meat and dairy is a primary factor in most degenerative disease. These studies, coupled with the fact that the economic and environmental damage of the modern meat and dairy industry far outweighs its social and nutritional value, do not seem to shake the public belief that animal fats and protein are essential for a healthy diet. That more and more people reject these foods on ethical grounds related to the animal abuse sets the stage for a food fight of epic proportions.\nThere is certainly adequate information regarding the horrific and unhealthy conditions that factory-farming methods impose on cows, pigs, chicken and fish as well as the many other animals that are slaughtered for food daily. Most people would not eat the meat they consume daily if they had to witness the events that brought it to market. The fact that we need around 150 billion animals killed every year to survive seems strange when we look at the physical, anthropological and nutritional facts. We can only come to one conclusion \u2013 the argument has nothing to do with nutrition, science, compassion or common sense. No - the subject of animal food consumption is ruled largely by emotion and cultural mythologies.\nAgainst the backdrop of the linkage between animal products and the increases in heart disease, stroke, cancers and even diabetes we have to ask ourselves what kind of visions or urges could bolster the desire to continue using meat as even a small part of a healthy diet, several spring to mind:\nThe brave hunter returns to the cave with an antelope strapped on his back, which he offers his family as they cower in the shadows of their cave.\nThe independent cowboy hunkers down beside the campfire for a big plate of fried meat and cornbread.\nThe wealthy landowner sits down to the groaning table filled with roasted birds, fishes and legs of lamb.\nDad fires up the grill and throws on the burgers and hotdogs, the flags are flying.\nPowerful images that operate below the surface of consciousness often define who we think we are. Man the hunter, rugged individualism, dominion over the earth, wealth and shared experience all factor in our attitudes regarding what we eat and how we use all of the resources essential to our existence. What arguments could the proponents of a meat rich diet possibly use to justify this habit that is creating illness, brutality and ecological ruin? Well the answers to that question are simple, a heady mix of bad science and a fear of change.\nIs Meat Part Of Our Destiny?\nOne of the most interesting arguments supporting the eating of meat is that we are omnivorous; we can eat it all. I would never argue with that. Early humans ate a varied diet that probably included insects, small game, fruits and plants. I am not aware of any logical contradiction to this idea.\nThe issue here is that we were not \u201cnatural carnivores\u201d in the accepted definition of the word. A carnivore is an animal that has a diet mainly or exclusively of animal meat. This meat can be obtained through either hunting and killing or scavenging the left overs from what other animals kill. The academic arguments continue regarding the dietary details of our evolution but certain compelling facts emerge that challenge many cultural mythologies.\nThe most accurate indications of early diet are to be found in the mouth and intestinal tract. This is where the history of any animal\u2019s dietary past is reflected most dramatically. Indications of the earliest human remains show that man was never a true carnivore. In fact, meat (other than insects) was probably a rather small part of dietary consumption. The proofs of this lie in both human structure and function.\nStarting from the most mentioned and most obvious, our so-called canine teeth don\u2019t qualify us as carnivores, they are placed back toward the outer corners of the mouth and they are not long enough, large enough or strong enough to grip, hold and tear flesh. There is no evidence in the fossil record that we have ever had the sharp developed teeth to tear meat or the jaw joints to hold or grind bones with any effectiveness let alone the claws that are essential tools for the capture and kill.\nThe issue of cheeks is one that often brings a laugh when I bring it up in lectures. Carnivores don\u2019t have cheeks; they don\u2019t need them. You don\u2019t keep meat in your mouth; you only have cheeks when you keep food in your mouth to aid digestion and to masticate. Humans have digestive enzymes to digest complex carbohydrates (not needed for carnivores); we do not develop these capacities unless they are essential for our existence.\nThe same indications are there in the human intestinal tract. Carnivores have very short intestines with fairly smooth walls. Meat fiber is not beneficial to intestinal health in any animal, when the surface nutrients are released from meat the intestines need to be flushed. Herbivores and humans have a longer (two to three times as long) more complex digestive tract that holds vegetable fiber longer to achieve maximum efficiency and support the growth of beneficial microorganisms. All of these features take us back over a hundred thousand years, far before the development of tools or practical use of fire. One of the problems that emerge in interpreting all these indications of our original diet is the fact that one of our most precious gifts is our adaptability.\nThe first humans left their African home 1.8 to 1.3 million years ago, depending on which of the current migratory theories you apply. As we traveled and as other waves of migration worked their way North we were forced to adapt to new environments. As tribes moved into the colder and less fertile lands it was important to follow herds of animals and to rely more on animal sources of food for survival. Those tribes who remained in the cooler climates retained their relationship to animals as a food source either in the wild or eventually domesticated and used for milk products.\nOver thousands of years this adaptation included the sophistication of tool making, the control and use of fire for cooking and warmth and eventually agriculture. From 20,000 to 10,000 years ago agriculture slowly developed and with it cooking. Anthropologists tell us that during this period the primary development in human biology was an enlargement in brain size. This growth in the brain is attributed to the fact that cooking made digestion more efficient and allowed more caloric energy for development of the brain. If this is true it would indicate a movement away from our original diet to meet the challenges of migration and environment and then an adaptation to a more plant based diet to meet the social and physical needs of an increased population and a more settled cultural life. All of these changes were in service of staying alive.\nWhen I ask clients to describe their diet the two most common answers are \u201cI eat a really good diet\u201d (everything is relative) and \u201cI was raised on a traditional diet, I like my meat and potatoes\u2019\u201d. The former is usually the female answer and the latter comes mostly from men. Tradition gets used as a reason for a multitude of sins. If it was good enough for grandpa it is good enough for me. Two questions spring to mind \u2013 the first question is if our nostalgia for tradition is a reflection of fact and the second is the value of tradition on its own.\nWhen I started to eat a macrobiotic diet in the mid 1960\u2019s my grandfather told me that I was eating more like he did as a child. His family lived on porridge, bread, vegetables, beans and small game with very little red meat. He thought it was funny and he loved the food. The amount of meat in the diets of most people 100 years ago was very small; it was chemical free and free range or grazed. I have found this to be true in every country I have visited; if you ask the elders, their diet included less meat unless they were quite wealthy.\nThere has been a long association between wealth and meat eating, the wealthiest get the best cuts, and the poor get what\u2019s left. This is still true today; meat eating and the abundance of food are often associated with success. It has always been the rich who were overweight with the shift in the modern diet the tables are turned. Food abundance and plentiful meat and dairy are now the staples of the fast food diet. Obesity is now available for everyone \u2013 how democratic. The only problem is that the meat being consumed is still the scrap. The popular fast food hamburger can contain as little as 15% meat and includes bones, connective tissue, blood vessels, fat, water, nerves, cartilage and plant based fillers. No one wants to know what\u2019s in a hot dog. So-called traditions of meat eating serve those who sell meat but are not a reflection of reality. The question still hangs in the air; even if our ancestors ate meat as their primary food why should that affect our diet today?\nHuman evolution is dominated by two influences, physical adaptation and cultural adaptation. Physical adaptation is a reflection of our ability meet the challenges and changes in the environment as reflected in physical form and function. These changes represent the raw desire for survival. Cultural evolution represents a different and unique aspect of human life. We develop ideas drive and inform our attitudes and actions which are reflected in social institutions and the ways we alter our environment. The environment we are now adapting to is one of our own making.\nOver the past 10,000 years human societies have reversed the swing of evolution. We have changed the environment we adapt to, we are in the process of altering the source of our life and we are doing it without any conscious vision of the result. Human culture has made forests disappear, changed the course of rivers, altered the atmosphere and changed the composition of the seas. The crucible out of which life emerged has been bent to the will of humanity, mostly for the worse. Our attitudes regarding food are an important part of this process.\nThe gift of consciousness, our capacity to be aware of our actions and the implications of them, is a great gift if we us it. Tradition can be described as social habit. As with any habit, tradition should be assessed as either improving or diminishing the quality of individual and social life. With consciousness we may feel that some traditions fill an important need are worth retaining, others may have outlived their use or based on ignorance and need to be replaced. To retain any tradition out of misplaced nostalgia is ill advised. I loved my grandparents very much but am quite happy to leave some of their prejudices and beliefs in the past since they do not serve in the present.\nThe development of technologies and the speed of social change make many people anxious about the course of society. This anxiety often produces irrational fears as we move into uncharted territory. The course of history makes demands on us all to reassess what is of true value, not only in the moment but also for the future. When we approach the issue of nutrition the demand is that we move beyond the restraints of imagined tradition and ask ourselves how we create a healthy and environmentally sound diet that is flexible enough to adapt to personal needs, diverse enough to satisfy the senses and capable of feeding a hungry world with the least environmental impact. This is not only possible but urgently needed.\nOne of the habits we will have to leave behind is our dependence on animals as a primary food source. It is wasteful, unhealthy and produces environmental chaos. The way forward is to continue to advocate eating low on the food chain, to promote education of the young on the benefits of healthy eating, to support organic agriculture and demand politicians to have the courage to confront the massive agriculture and food monopolies and make them accountable for the quality of their food. There is no benefit in respecting tradition if it poisons the future.\nhttp://www.flexyourfood.com/2011/09/deforestation-due-to-global-meat-demand/\nhttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/28/meat-environment-deforestation_n_1633735.html\nhttp://www.resilience.org/stories/2012-06-30/report-links-beef-production-deforestation-threats-climate-and-health", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 14416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wendizwaduk.net/2010/08/friday-flirts-contest-blog-tour-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:37Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZXHZF6JIZFFL4XS6VFCDWUTDXMBAAML", "length": 2025, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.wendizwaduk.net", "title": "Wendi Zwaduk - Romance to make your heart race: Friday Flirts--A Contest, A Blog Tour, and A Contract! Oh my!", "raw_content": "Friday Flirts--A Contest, A Blog Tour, and A Contract! Oh my!\nToday is a little different than my normal Friday Flirts. Today I have a whole bunch of announcements. And yes, they are a great deal of fun, so pay attention.\nFirst: Want to win a Nook? You know you do! Well I know where you can go to put your name in the hat for said Nook (one of three!!!).\nClick on the banner so you can stop by on Saturday and Sunday. I'll be chatting on the LASR/WC yahoo groups (Saturday night and Sunday afternoon). I can't wait to see you there. We'll talk about books, give stuff away, and just plain have a great time.\nNow, you have to figure out what you want to do AFTER the party? I've got that covered, too! I happen to be starting a tour, courtesy of Goddess Fish, for my book My Immortal. It goes from August 30th--RELEASE DAY!!!--until September 10th. I can't wait to see you along the way. Click on the banner so you can see where I'll be and what I'll be chatting about! Click on the cover if you want to buy a copy and see what the story is all about.\nI wanted to add this banner because it's beautiful and Goddess Fish did a fabulous job on it. You'll Think of Me comes out November 22nd, and I can't wait!\nBut I said something about a contract... Silly me, I didn't forget. Just building tension. *Wink*\nWhen I wrote Must Be Doing Something Right, I was asked on more than one occasion to write a story for Arran. Editor loved him. Readers seemed to think he was something else, too. So...I started a story for him. But it wasn't that easy. He was one of my particular characters. I knew he had his secrets; he started to tell me during Must. But writing Tangled Up, I realized he was more than I ever imagined. I wrote his story--Tangled Up--and editor apparently loved it. \"It's Arran's story. How could I say no?\" (Easily...) But she didn't say no and she loved his story, so I hope you will, too.\nLabels: Blogging, Flirty Friday, Goddess Fish, Long and Short of It, My Immortal, Tangled Up, Total E Bound, Whipped Cream", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 7317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whiskeywerehere.com/2015/12/crown-royal-northern-harvest-rye-whisky.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:13Z", "digest": "sha1:JAPMOWADIZZTSD6XCIX76K4ZJQ26CQBZ", "length": 2133, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.whiskeywerehere.com", "title": "Whiskey Were Here: Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye Whisky", "raw_content": "Count this among the dozens of other new reviews of Crown Royal's Northern Harvest Rye following Jim Murray's naming it the 2016 Whiskey of the Year. But, the flux of reviews makes sense. After all, for once he selected a whisky that is not only available, but also affordable. I never expected that he'd pick a whisky that has a screw top.\nConsidering this rye is readily available at nearly every grocery store and liquor store, and for only about $27, it was an easy decision to grab a bottle the next time I was at the store. Who knows if I ever would have gotten around to trying this one if it weren't for Murray telling that I should.\nThe nose is very good, giving off the traditional rye spices, but in a somewhat muted fashion. It's not nearly as in-your-face as some of the high proof American ryes, even despite being 90% rye.\nAt 90 proof, there is no burn whatsoever with this (which is common among the Crown Royal line). Though it's definitely a rye, it is also definitely a Canadian whiskey. Perhaps I'm demonstrating a bit of a prejudice, here, but Canadian whiskeys, ryes in particular, always come across as a bit folksy. They're inoffensive and non-threatening. They're not bold and as far as their flavor goes, they play it safe. This one is really no different.\nUp front it provided familiar notes of cinnamon and cloves, underscored by a toasty, light wood flavor that carried throughout. It's sweetened just a bit by a very light maple syrup flavor.\nOn the back end it has a cooling, menthol flavor, contrasting well with the cinnamon notes in a sort of icy hot flavor that I really enjoyed (but it didn't taste like the product Icy Hot, which I'd imagine is not all that enjoyable). Unfortunately, the whiskey comes across a bit watery, though, so the flavors do not linger very long.\nAll in all, this is not my \"Whiskey of the Year.\" I've had plenty of better whiskies this past year. However, as far as value goes, this one is tough to beat. It's a very good whisky that is affordable and readily available, and there's a lot to be said for that.\nLabels: Canadian Whisky, Crown Royal, Grade: B+, Rye Whiskey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 6364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wild1049hd.com/2015/06/15/jurassic-world-had-the-second-biggest-opening-ever-with-204-6-million/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:18Z", "digest": "sha1:3NXSM2BJSI3AUI4F3FSDOAZ5WWS4D7OJ", "length": 1744, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wild1049hd.com", "title": "\u201cJurassic World\u201d Had the Second Biggest Opening Ever with $204.6 Million | KKWD-FM", "raw_content": "\u201cJurassic World\u201d Had the Second Biggest Opening Ever with $204.6 Million\n\u201cJurassic World\u201d was estimated to make about $135 million this weekend, which would have been great. But it ended up pulling in $204.6 million . . . which was close to a record. It was the second-best opening weekend in HISTORY, behind \u201cThe Avengers\u201d, which made $207 million in its opening weekend in 2012. \u201cJurassic World\u201d did set the record for highest worldwide opening of all time, with $511.8 million. The original \u201cJurassic Park\u201d opened with a mere $47 million in 1993 . . . \u201cThe Lost World: Jurassic Park\u201d opened with $72.1 million in 1997 . . . and \u201cJurassic Park 3\u201d opened with $50.8 million in 2001.\n(Here are the Top 10 opening weekends of all time . . .)\nIt goes without saying that there will be a sequel. And CHRIS PRATT says he\u2019s on board. Meanwhile, a \u201cJurassic Park\u201d fan site calculated what it would cost to build an ACTUAL Jurassic Park. Obviously, they did a lot of guessing, but they came up with a figure of $23.4 BILLION . . . plus $11.9 billion in annual costs.\nHere are the weekend\u2019s Top 10 movies:\nNEW: \u201cJurassic World\u201d, $204.6 million.\n\u201cSpy\u201d, $16 million. Up to $56.9 million in its 2nd week.\n\u201cSan Andreas\u201d, $11 million. Up to $119 million in its 3rd week.\n\u201cInsidious Chapter 3\u201d, $7.3 million. Up to $37.4 million in its 2nd week.\n\u201cPitch Perfect 2\u201d, $6 million. Up to $171 million in its 5th week.\n\u201cEntourage\u201d, $4.3 million. Up to $25.9 million in its 2nd week.\n\u201cMad Max: Fury Road\u201d, $4.1 million. Up to $139 million in its 5th week.\n\u201cAvengers: Age of Ultron\u201d, $3.6 million. Up to $445 million in its 7th week.\n\u201cTomorrowland\u201d, $3.4 million. Up to $83.6 million in its 4th week.\n\u201cLove & Mercy\u201d, $1.8 million. Up to $4.8 million in its 2nd week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 81.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.windowonheartland.net/tips-to-compose-an-essay-on-effective-leadership-qualities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:25Z", "digest": "sha1:OCFJGCSXU6PX2B2VHRTKYTRFENWZXY45", "length": 2846, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.windowonheartland.net", "title": "Tips To Compose An Essay On Effective Leadership Qualities", "raw_content": "How To Compose A Great Essay On Effective Leadership Qualities\nBefore you start writing on any topic, be it an essay that you have to write or an article, you need to do some homework, i.e. research on the topic. So let\u2019s start by making certain things clear to you. The terms leader and manager are not one and the same. Though they both work towards making valuable contributions to the organization, they are always different. Many seem to confuse between these two terms. For those people to understand the difference easily, a leader is a person who has power within him, can take personal and active interest in achieving the goals and can act independently, whereas, a manager needs the power to be entrusted to him by someone in a position higher than him. They usually play a passive role and at times when they work alone, they tend to become anxious and tense.\nOnce you have become familiar with the differences between those terms, you will need to know as to what kind of qualities a leader usually has, which is as under,\nHe has to focus on the people rather than on things\nHe has to carry out work efficiently, i.e. do right things with confidence and positive attitude\nInspire the people\nHave influence over them\nBuild up their confidence\nAlso has to shape the entities\nI have mentioned only a handful of qualities that are mostly required for them.\nNow you can start with the writing part if you have understood all the points mentioned above. But it is always better to dig in for more information from the available resources. An essay, as everyone knows, has three parts,\nEach part has its own importance.\nBefore you start writing, you need to create a small idea of what you will be writing about and how you will be writing. The flow of the thoughts is very important, and it has to be in the right order.\nThe introduction is a part that makes the reader decide whether they want to continue reading it or just move to some other essay. I usually begin with a set of questions, questions that are related to the topic and will be thought-provoking to the readers. The first paragraph I begin in this way.\nThen in the body part, slowly and steadily, you will have to give answers to those questions, provide real time examples whenever and wherever possible. Try to keep the flow of writing with thoughts interlinked in a way that it makes sense and keeps the reader bound to read further.\nThe conclusion part should be very effective. It must sum up the overall idea while providing a final perspective on the topic. If you are done with the conclusion, it does not mean that you have completed your essay, the main part begins now. You will have to proofread, look if the flow of the essay is good with no errors both in terms of grammar and spelling. Once this is done, it means you have completed your essay successfully.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 6259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wisegeek.net/what-is-involved-in-making-a-sepsis-diagnosis.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:B6GFPBXFBLA5PMHJNB2QJBIMOL4DA4DI", "length": 3031, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wisegeek.net", "title": "What is Involved in Making a Sepsis Diagnosis? (with pictures)", "raw_content": "What is Involved in Making a Sepsis Diagnosis?\nBlood tests are crucial to making a sepsis diagnosis.\nA dish of klebsiella oxytoca bacteria, which can cause sepsis.\nAn elevated temperature may be a symptom of sepsis.\nRespiratory difficulty and reduced heart rate are symptoms of neonatal sepsis.\nSepsis is a potentially fatal illness that typically begins as a bacterial infection somewhere in the body. Sepsis occurs when the bacteria multiply and overwhelm the bloodstream. Common symptoms include fever, chills, and confusion. Making a sepsis diagnosis typically involves several types of blood tests, although other bodily fluids may be tested as well. Treatment begins as soon as a sepsis diagnosis is suspected and almost always involves intensive antibiotic therapy, along with other supportive care as needed.\nAs sepsis involves a bacterial infection of the blood, blood tests are vital when doctors are attempting to make a sepsis diagnosis. A blood culture may be the first test ordered, as it will reveal the presence of bacteria in the blood. This test can also determine how severe the infection is so that treatment can begin right away. Several vials of blood may be drawn at one time so that a variety of tests can be performed simultaneously.\nOther tests that may be performed on the blood that will aid in obtaining a sepsis diagnosis may include blood gases, platelet counts, and white blood cell counts. The blood test count will check for a condition known as acidosis, in which too much acid is released into the bloodstream. Platelet counts are typically low in patients suffering from sepsis, while white blood cell counts can be either higher or lower than normal. Sepsis may be suspected if the blood tests show diminished kidney function without a history of kidney problems.\nWhile treatment for sepsis begins as soon as the condition is suspected, an accurate sepsis diagnosis may take 24 hours or longer. The reason for the delay in the sepsis diagnosis is a test called a blood culture. Some of the blood that is drawn for the other blood tests is sent to a lab in order to find out which type of bacteria is causing the infection. This culture will also determine which antibiotics will work the best to fight the particular type of bacteria that is present. Sepsis can, however, be fatal if not treated immediately, so a combination of antibiotics is generally used while the doctors wait on the results from the blood culture.\nOnce a sepsis diagnosis has been confirmed, the patient may need to remain in the hospital for several days. IV antibiotics will be delivered directly into the bloodstream through a tube inserted into a vein. Other medications may be delivered this way as well. Some patients may need to receive oxygen or other supportive care while in the hospital.\nWhat Is Involved in Acidosis Diagnosis?\nWhat Factors Are Involved in a Septic Shock Diagnosis?\nWhat is Involved in the Management of Sepsis?\nWhat are the Symptoms of Early Sepsis?\nHow Effective are Antibiotics for Sepsis?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yourchicagotherapist.com/what-is-social-anxiety/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:06Z", "digest": "sha1:N4ZSQS24FAHKLNDHRVORAWCE3CKDERCC", "length": 2932, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.yourchicagotherapist.com", "title": "What is social anxiety |", "raw_content": "If you have social anxiety you may be extremely uncomfortable in social situations and try to avoid them. You may feel intense anxiety about being judged by others and live in fear of doing or saying something shameful or embarrassing. When you do participate socially, it may feel as though there is a spotlight shining on you, and all your mistakes will be visible. Because these situations are so difficult for you, you may not be able to do the things that you would like such as dating, and certain social, school or work activities. A subset of people with social anxiety, experience it only in performance situations, such as public speaking or performing in public.\nIt is common for social anxiety to co-occur with Panic Disorder, and people frequently think it is panic that\u2019s the problem. The real issue only comes out after someone fully explains their experience in my consultation room. Usually if you have Social anxiety, you are also very worried about the social consequences of having panic attacks or visible anxiety.\nJanet came in for a consultation due to having panic attacks. She described that they usually occurred when she was invited to a party. She would notice the anxiety building prior to the party and the day of, she would dread having to go for fear of embarrassing herself. It felt like if she went with other people they would notice if she had to leave early (due to panic) and so she often went by herself and did not enjoy it. Sometimes, she avoided the parties altogether, fearing that her symptoms might get so bad that she would become the laughing stock of her social circle. When she did go, she felt like there was a big spotlight on her and that any social error that she made was magnified.\nAt the heart of it, social anxiety is about fear of judgment and embarrassment. It makes sense\u2014most of us don\u2019t want to be ousted from our social circle. From an evolutionary perspective this makes sense\u2014you were much more likely to survive if you were with your tribe in terms of protection and access to shared resources..\nPeople struggling with social anxiety typically keep their condition a secret and struggle in silence. It\u2019s hard to imagine that other people have the same fears. While a lot of us may get nervous before a speech or going on a date, if you have social anxiety, these tasks may create enormous anxiety and dread. Therefore, people often start avoiding places or situations that create so much anxiety. Social anxiety does not go away on without treatment. Although the symptoms may come and go, without treatment, people often find that the anxiety is limiting them in their career or social life.\nThe good news is that with proper treatment social anxiety can be helped. It is important to find a therapist that specializes in social anxiety and is experienced in social anxiety treatment. For help in the Chicago area, please contact Dr. Helen Odessky at (847)529-8600.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 3756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zihuatanejo.net/tablero/messages/128421.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:01Z", "digest": "sha1:2FR6WA3V47VXXTJY6LXHII5PTNNADIAS", "length": 200, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.zihuatanejo.net", "title": "Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Message Board - Just ordered a pipa", "raw_content": "Just ordered a pipa\nby Talley Ho , Saturday, October 06, 2018, 12:35 (132 days ago) @ hromero\nBut it didn't do any good.\nWe just ran out of water and we ordered a pipa. It will be here this afternoon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zoharaonline.com/what-schmucks-santa-cruz-organic-might-contain-gmos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:45Z", "digest": "sha1:EY4AJ4HVTZRUH7YK2GWZN4EEZU3OI7TG", "length": 891, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.zoharaonline.com", "title": "What Schmucks! Santa Cruz Organic Might Contain GMOs? \u2013 Zohara Hieronimus", "raw_content": "What Schmucks! Santa Cruz Organic Might Contain GMOs?\nTAKE ACTION: Boycott Smuckers, R.W. Knudsen and Santa Cruz Organic!\nThat Santa Cruz Organic\u00a9 applesauce and peanut butter you\u2019re feeding your kids? Although by law they can\u2019t contain genetically engineered ingredients, they might contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), according to a Santa Cruz customer service representative. The profoundly misinformed rep also wrongly told us that \u201cthe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have determined that existing biotech foods are safe and do not differ in any meaningful way from other food.\u201d Really? And how did these agencies \u201cdetermine\u201d all this? By asking Monsanto, and then taking the biotech bully\u2019s word for it.\n\u00ab Monsanto: Patents on Life?\t\u00bb Out of the \u2018Fringe\u2019 and into the Fire", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/PET/nsf-index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:27Z", "digest": "sha1:3WK4AVHENU3YG5MUXLUF77MSAQCRAI5P", "length": 13529, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "www1.icsi.berkeley.edu", "title": "PET Home Page", "raw_content": "Progress Report: NSF grant NCR-9416101\nPrincipal Investigators: Andres Albanese and Michael Luby\nInstitution: International Computer Science Institute\nMotivated by immediate practical applications, multicasting real-time video and audio over high-speed lossy heterogeneous networks, in 1993 we introduced a novel approach for sending messages over lossy packet-based networks. The new method, called Priority Encoding Transmission (PET), allows a user to specify a different priority on each segment of the message. Based on the priorities, the sender uses the system to encode the segments into packets for transmission. The system ensures recovery of the segments in order of their priority. The priority of a segment determines the minimum number of packets sufficient to recover the segment.\nIn past reports, we reported on the development of several increasingly sophisticated demos to show the benefits of this approach. As we described previously, we have integrated PET into a version of the video-conferencing tool VIC to protect the real-time transmission of MPEG streams, and this worked very well.\nPrevious PET work concluded\nIn the past year, we have concluded some of the necessary aspects of the PET. The seminal work [1] on this project appeared in the last year in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory devoted to coding theory.\nThe PET patent [2] issued in April of this year.\nOver the past year, Michael Luby and Yulius Tjahjadi completely overhauled the PET API software library. The two main objectives were to make a set of clean and usable interfaces between the calling applications and the PET library, and to make it easy to plug in different forward error correcting (FEC) codes for use within PET. Both of these objectives were met, and there is now a clean version of the PET library written in C. We now have a description of the new API [5] for PET based on this revision.\nFEC codes\nBy far, the most computationally intensive part of the PET algorithm is the implementation of forward error correcting (FEC) codes. The development of more efficient FEC codes is very challenging intellectually and has practical applications far beyond use in PET.\nFor example, a standard solution to the problem of packet loss is to request retransmission of lost packets. For multicast applications with one sender and many receivers, this solution introduces technical difficulties. For example, consider a video server distributing a movie on the Internet to thousands of users. If the users lose different sets of packets, and each user requests retransmission of these packets from the server, the server will quickly become overwhelmed by these requests. More sophisticated solutions along these lines have been considered, including sending requests for retransmission only to nearby session participants, but these solutions as yet appear inadequate.\nFEC solution\nAn alternative solution utilizing FEC codes has been advocated by several groups as a method to avoid retransmission completely. Instead, redundant packets are sent out along with the original message packets. The redundant information is designed so that as long as a user receives enough of the transmitted packets, regardless of which packets are received, the original message can be reconstructed. Ideally, the number of encoding packets needed to decode the message is equal to the number of packets in the original message.\nTo exemplify the advantages of FEC, consider the following simple setting. Suppose that 10,000 users are receiving a file sent via a multicast transmission protocol, and the average rate of packet loss is 20%. Suppose the file consists of 64K packets of 512 bytes each, and thus the entire file is 32M. One way to ensure that all users receive all of the packets is to keep sending each packet until all users acknowledge its receipt. If the losses are independent for the different users, a simple calculation shows that on average each packet needs to be transmitted approximately six times.\nSuppose instead an FEC code with a 3% length overhead (see the next subsection for a definition of length overhead) is used to add 64K redundant packets to each message before transmission. Suppose no user loses more than 62K packets out of the 128K packets associated with a message, i.e., the maximum loss rate is at most approximately two and a half times the average loss rate. Then, all users will receive enough of the encoding to decode the message. The total bandwidth used by the FEC solution is a factor of three smaller than the retransmission solution, and moreover the overall protocol is much simpler.\nPrevious FEC work completed\nThe very first implementation of FEC codes that we used in PET were not fast enough even for encoding and decoding moderate sized files. As reported previously, this led to our invention of some fairly fast FEC codes for our implementations of PET. Although these codes are reasonably fast for moderate sized files, they are not adequate for real-time encoding and decoding of large files, as the times scale quadratically with the size of the file. As reported earlier, we invented some faster FEC codes, and in the past year we produced the final paper [4] of this work.\nIn the past year, Malik Kalfane has finished his Master's thesis [3] under the supervision of Luby. This thesis consists of a practical study of the implementations of the various erasure codes we have considered, both those designed by others and those designed by us, including variants of the codes described in [4].\nTornado codes\nThe potential for FEC codes in networking applications has not yet been fully realized, primarily because previous software implementations of FEC codes have been too slow. Their running times are only reasonable when the number of redundant packets is small, e.g., at most 100 packets. The reason for this slowness is that the encoding and decoding times of standard FEC codes are proportional to the length of the encoding times the number of redundant packets. Other known codes based on the Fast Fourier transform have asymptotically much better decoding times, but in practice their complexity also makes them too slow to decode large messages, including those codes studied in [3] and [4]. (There are implementations of such codes in custom designed hardware that run quite fast.)\nOver the past two years, we have developed a completely new class of codes, which we call Tornado codes, which promise to make the FEC solution practical. We have written a preliminary paper [6] about this work, and also have given presentations [7] of this work around the world. Tornado codes have the property that slightly more than the ideal number of encoding packets must be received to decode the message: we call the per cent needed over the ideal number the length overhead (recall that the ideal number is the original number of message packets). By allowing some length overhead, we can develop much faster coding schemes. Tornado codes can be encoded and decoded in time proportional to the length of the encoding times a small constant that is independent of the number of redundant packets. This small constant, which we call the time overhead, is typically around six.\nWe have implemented these codes in software, and the results are very encouraging. As an example, we took a 32M byte file and partitioned it into 64K message packets of 512 bytes each. Using Tornado codes, we produced 128K encoding packets from these 64K message packets. We then ran 10,000 trials, where each trial consisted of randomly choosing and receiving encoding packets until there are enough to decode all of the original 32M byte file. In these 10,000 trials, the average length overhead was only 3.2%; in other words, about 66K encoding packets were enough to decode. Furthermore, in less than 1% of the trials was the length overhead more than 4.0%.\nAlthough there is a modest length overhead using Tornado codes, the advantage is that the encoding and decoding times are very small. On a DEC Alpha machine, the time to produce the 128K encoding packets from the 64K message packets is just under two seconds, and the time to decode the 32M byte file from 66K encoding packets is also just under two seconds. The encoding and decoding times for a message and encoding of this size using standard FEC codes would be at least 10,000 times slower, i.e., tens of hours. Thus, the advent of Tornado codes makes software solutions possible for problems that are orders of magnitude larger than were previously conceivable.\nWe emphasize that Tornado codes have a number of important features:\nSimplicity: Tornado codes use only simple XOR operations, and no complicated data structures are required for their implementation.\nGenerality: We have developed techniques to design Tornado codes for whatever rate, or redundancy level, is specified. (In a rate 4/5 code, for example, 4/5 of the encoding is the original message, and 1/5 of the encoding is redundancy.) Moreover, we can design codes to decrease the length overhead at the cost of a small increase in the time overhead.\nProvability: We have developed a mathematical formulation of Tornado codes that allows us to prove how well they will perform. Furthermore, we have found an infinite family of codes for which we can prove that the length overhead decreases very quickly as a function of a growing time overhead. In a work [8] in progress, we have found a new analysis of Tornado codes that can be used to analyze a number of other problems as well.\nApplicability: Tornado codes can be used to encode and decode large files in real-time. This makes Tornado codes attractive to use for a number of networking applications.\nOver the next year, we plan to aggressively pursue the incorporation of Tornado codes into networking protocols. For example, Ashu Rege (a postdoc who has recently started at ICSI, supported by this grant and supervised by Luby) has just started developing a multicast distribution protocol written in JAVA that uses Tornado codes. Preliminary tests of this nascent protocol have been very encouraging.\nIn a recent work [9] we propose a new model for the analysis of data transmission protocols in communication networks. The overall goal of a data transmission protocol is to successfully transmit a message from the sender to the receiver. We study the performance of protocols in an adversarial setting where the loss pattern and latencies of packets are determined by an adversary. This worst-case scenario is well motivated by recent measurements studies which indicate the burstiness of network traffic.\nWe advocate the modular decomposition of data transmission protocols into a time scheduling policy, which determines when packets are to be sent, and a data selection policy, which determines what data is to be placed in each sent packet.\nWe concentrate on the data selection policy and require that the protocol will achieve high bandwidth utilization in transmitting any prefix of the transmitted message. We introduce a simple and universal data selection policy which we prove is close to optimal in the following sense: For any time scheduling policy and any network behavior, in the worst case prefix measure our data selection policy provably performs as well as any other data selection policy up to a constant additive term.\nOur explicit modular decomposition of a transmission protocol into two policies should be contrasted with existing network protocols such as TCP/IP. In implementations of TCP/IP, the data selection policy is intertwined with the time scheduling policy. It is not hard to see that any data transmission protocol, including protocols such as TCP/IP that weren't designed with two explicit separate policies, can be decomposed into a time scheduling and data selection policy. Our result shows that the performance of the overall transmission protocol would not degrade in performance (and could improve dramatically) if it used our universal data selection policy in place of its own. The most important consequence of this is that it reduces the problem of designing a data transmission protocol to the possibly easier task of designing the time scheduling policy.\n[1] Andres Albanese, Johannes Bl\\\"{o}mer, Jeff Edmonds, Michael Luby, Madhu Sudan\n``Priority Encoding Transmission''\n(special issue devoted to coding theory)\n[2] Andres Albanese, Michael Luby, Johannes Bloemer, Jeff Edmonds\n``Message Encoding and Transmission System and Method for Multilevel Data Redundancy'',\nU.S. Patent Application\nSerial Number 08/361,802; 12-21-94\nIssued April 1, 1997\n[3] Malik Kalfane\n``Erasure Codes for Priority Encoding Transmission''\nUC Berkeley, Computer Science\n[4] Noga Alon, Michael Luby\n``A Linear Time Erasure-Resilient Code With Nearly Optimal Recovery''\n[5] Yulius Tjahjadi, Michael Luby\n``Application Programmer's Interface for PET: Revised Version''\n[6] Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, Amin Shokrollahi, Daniel Spielman, Volker Stemann\n``Practical Loss-Resilient Codes''\n29th ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing\n[8] Michael Luby, Michael Mitzenmacher, Amin Shokrollahi,\n``Analysis of Random Processes via And-Or Tree Evaluation''\nsubmitted to 1998 Symposium on Discrete Algorithms\n[9] Micah Adler, Yair Bartal, John Byers, Michael Luby, Danny Raz\n``A Modular Analysis of Network Transmission Protocols''\nProceedings of the Fifth Israeli Symposium on Theory of Computing and Systems\nMaintained by:Michael Luby (luby@icsi.berkeley.edu)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 13968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www2.bookfinnmark.com/en/to-do/a1420250/borealisalta%20-%20an%20interactive%20experience/showdetails", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:40Z", "digest": "sha1:EQFIINUY3SALNBPYRMEHDFYNUHFWHVAA", "length": 1118, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www2.bookfinnmark.com", "title": "Book Finnmark | BorealisAlta - an interactive experience, Overview, Sami culture, Galleries, Alta", "raw_content": "BorealisAlta - an interactive experience\nAddress: Markedsgata 30, 9510 Alta Show map\nAddress: Markedsgata 30, 9510 Alta\nDiscover how northern lights research is strongly intertwined with Alta\u2019s history, and delve deeper into the science behind the Aurora Borealis. This interactive exhibition brings together different stories about the northern lights and its magical qualities.\nBorealisAlta is located in the Northern Lights Cathedral, the new church of Alta that has already become a well-known icon and symbol of the town. The church combines spiritual and natural elements in its design and artwork. The experience includes both the Northern Lights Cathedral and BorealisAlta.\ninfo@borealisalta.no\nhttp://www.borealisalta.no\nMay 6th \u2013 June 14th Monday-Saturday from 11:00\u201315:00 Sunday closed June 15th \u2013 August 15th Monday-Saturday from 10:00 \u2013 12:00 Sunday from 16:00-21:00 August 16th \u2013 June 14th Monday-Saturday from 11:00-15:00 Sunday closed For groups we are also open on request\nNOK 195,- per adult Children: 2-16 years: 95,- per child 0-2 years: free entrance Groups (more than 10 persons): 145,- per adult", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://youngminbaek.blogspot.com/2010/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:47Z", "digest": "sha1:IB2QZHM5DCETW6GP2KO5YONKFKXZ72MG", "length": 6148, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "youngminbaek.blogspot.com", "title": "Man of Sin: October 2010", "raw_content": "Religion and Politics in the United States - Kenneth D. Wald & Allison Calhoun-Brown (2011, 6th ed)\nAs the authors noted, two topics (religion and politics) are excellent topics which make friends into enemies. Probably, those two are all value-laden, and thus any conflicts will be easily turned into fundamental differences that cannot be compromised.\nHowever uncomfortable those topics seem, it is not difficult to disagree with the book's general conclusion (i.e., religion and politics is related, and therefore political institution, dynamics between politicians, or ordinary people's evaluation of political events or issues has to be highly related with religious values, attitudes, or speech of religious elites).\nIn the first chapter, the authors reminded readers that religion is still important. They conter-argued some of the trends of secularism and perception that religion and politics are separated. Religion is still important and the authors provided some statistics of religiosity, religious activities with discussion of religion-related measures and their limitations.\nThe 2nd chapter actually drew pictures of institutional relationship between the US (state and federal government) and religion or faith-based community. In general, the effect of relgion on the politics (or vice versa) dealt with by the authors here is very macro and law-related. (Note that they mentioned three components, creed, institution, and social/cultural group). One of my dissatisfactions is no consideration of religious message and/or its characteristic(s). Differently put, I believe that religion is actually discursive process and cannot exist without continuous communicative action (e.g., reading the Book, summarizing the messages that doesn't ignite any conflicting ideas in one's mind, sending the message to others who may or may not be interested in hearing that, or influencing own belief(s) onto others' minds via persuasive, or implusive ways). Anyway, it was discussed in the whole book here and there, but it was not pointed out as one feature that is very characterized as the main relationship between politics and religion.\nThe 3rd chapter discussed the cultural effect of religion on American politics. Here religion is limited into mainline Protestants (Presbyterian or Episcopalian), evangelical Protestants (complex and diverse, but characterized as one loosely defined group after Great Awakening), and Catholics. In general, there are two traditions: priestly (managing or listening) vs. prophetic (leading or mobilizing). Or vertical (God-humans) vs. horizontal (neighbors).\nThe 4th chapter is actually the summary between the state and the religion. There are a list when/where/why religion and the state collides and how the judge made history and seeked balanced between secular power and holy influences.\nThe 5th chapter discusses how religion lead to religious movements. The authors relied on social movement theory and framing theory. In this chapter, motives and means are discussed.\nThe 6th chapter further mentioned the last condition, i.e., opportunity, which converts faith-based community members into religious protesters. Under what condition, religious interests (emotional or reason-based) are formed, allied with other different faith-holders, and what policies and what policy solutions are obtained?\nThe 7th chapter discusses the relationship between religion and public opinion. As many observers noted, religion provides fundamental values or living principles that guide interpersonal or social behaviors. The authors showed some examples how religious lessons are intertwined with secular ideology or moral political issues. Especially, the subsection of 'foreign policy' does read with excellent interests of mine.\nThe 8th chapter provides one recent eminent example showing the enormous real world effects of religious movements or faith-communities on real political processes. Evangelical Protestants were known as strong supporters for Republicans (esp. so-called Neo-Conservatives). The rise of evangelical Protestants started with Jimmy Carter (1976), but failed. However, R. Reagon and G. W. Bush succeeds in part because of the unanimous support from evangelical Protestants. However, evangelical Protestants are double-edged sword, indicating that loyal supporters backlashes against the mobilization of other religious sections.\nThe 9th chapter discusses other politically eminent religions, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and Jews. Catholics for abortion issue, mainline Protestants as mainstream of religion that can be accepted without creating unnecessary conflicts, and Jews and their influences on foreign policies (Palestine; Arabs)\nThe 10th chapter is devoted to minorities and their religion, e.g., Hispanic's Catholic, Latinos's Protestants, Black Protestants, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and real minorities such as Hindus, Buddism, etc. Latinos/Hispanics sounds interesting because their population is fastly growing, and their vote is becoming cast vote. Black Protestants has been important social movement source among Afro-Americans. LDS is interesting because its believers are geographically oriented and succeeded to produce renowned politicians.\nThe 11th chapter discusses reactions of religion sectors towards gay issue or women issues (abortion and female clergy). Very interesting chapter, personally. Recommend the second or third reading in the future.\nThe final chapter discusses the generalized conclusion about the effect of religion on American political life. I believe this chapter sounds interesting, and provided some answers towards my question - basically ambivalent nature of religion (Conservative & Progressive; Authoritative & Democratic; Discriminating & Integrating). Well-written section. One of the (subjectively felt) limitations is the lack of specific research in this area, if the authors' introduction is complete. Most cited works, based on my reading, are anecdotal or based on projections from other social scientists. However, I believe the last two chapters do read with my full joy. 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Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) comes home to find out they've started the holiday dinner without her, and she becomes even more outraged to discover her mother-in-law has replaced all her healthy food with gravy-slathered options that Dre's stomach loves but his heart can't handle. From Season 1, Episode 8 of black-ish, \"Oedipal Triangle.\" ABC WEDNESDAYS 9:30|8:30c.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ace.media/thefrugalfamily", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MB3VGEL5YE2TNYVDNGPKGAEQFAYB5Z3A", "length": 714, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ace.media", "title": "The Frugal Family Pitch Pack - Ace Media", "raw_content": "www.thefrugalfamily.co.uk\nWe support families to live on a budget, keeping their ethical values. Offering ideas and inspiration to Spend Less, Use Less and Do More.\nWe are a real family, living in the real world and hope to offer an honest, fun and friendly approach to sustainable living. The website has a number of pages to help find information on becoming more frugal in your home, life events, self care and small business.\nAfter 15 years as a lecturer in Mental Health Recovery topics, I decided to take a break from helping students and spend some time helping families, including our own. I am now building a business while parenting four children and up to my neck in laundry.\nhello@thefrugalfamily.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adifferenttake.org/2017/05/31/saravanan-irukka-bayamaen-a-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:31Z", "digest": "sha1:CQ3Y7RST7BNEVOLEUVSR2AKLXH5YLOKO", "length": 1829, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "adifferenttake.org", "title": "Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen\u2026A Review\u2026 \u2013 A Different Take", "raw_content": "Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen\u2026A Review\u2026\nIrrespective of whether this review is too late after the release of the film or not, this is one film I had to write about.\nIn general, I am a huge fan of the movie. I am the definition of a movie buff and it is generally very rare that I don\u2019t like a film. There\u2019s always some thing about every movie I see that\u2019ll make me feel as though the movie wasn\u2019t too bad after all.\nBut, Udayanidhi Stalin\u2019s latest flick, \u2018Saravanan Irrukka Bayamaen\u2019 failed in all regards. Let me mention right here that this is completely my opinion only.\nSo, the film revolves around Saravanan and his life. An aimless person, Saravanan pursues a lethargic career in politics. Thenmozhi, a childhood friend comes back into his life and of course, Saravanan falls in love. What you would almost hope to be a nice comfortable romance turns the other way with the introduction of Fathima\u2019s spirit. Fathima is another girl from Saravanan\u2019s past.\nThe conflict with this film arises right here. There seems to be no reason for the presence of Fathima\u2019s character other than simply an extra layer the director might have been trying to achieve. Thenmozhi\u2019s constant dislike towards Saravanan until the last scene is another turn-off. Over all, the story that the film is based on seems to be extremely loose.\nActing in the film is relatively mediocre. While the cinematography is alright, it does not stand out.\nThe one thing that might save the movie is its comedy. And due credits have to be given to the few hilarious scenes that make you laugh out loud.\nBut, for me, not even the comedy could save the film. I personally WILL NOT recommend the movie to anyone. I\u2019d barely give it a 1.5/5.\nCategories: Movie ReviewsTags: Ezhil, Movie Review, Regina Cassandra, Review, Saravanan Irukka Bayamaen, Suri, Udayanidhi Stalin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://afoolishway.com/2016/12/23/as-creation-groans-a-babe-who-hears/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4746DWI4YXTKGJYBZCZ4W7G7KUTZVWL6", "length": 2399, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "afoolishway.com", "title": "As Creation Groans \u2013 A Babe Who Hears \u2013 A Foolish Way", "raw_content": "As Creation Groans \u2013 A Babe Who Hears\nOn the street on which I grew up there used to be a lot more trees. In fact, there were three very lush trees on our side of the street. Now they are no longer there. Instead, the only objects that stretch forth into the skies on this part of the street are telephone poles with their wires stretched from one to the next. The trees were cut down because they were getting in their way. A practical reality.\nThe view from my office window is of Concordia\u2019s parking lot. There\u2019s a section of this parking lot that wasn\u2019t there when I was a student or when I was a child walking around campus. One part was just a grassy area serving as a bullpen for the baseball team and the other part was a section of trees and foliage. Concordia has more students than they used to which means that they are continually in need of more space for parking. A practical reality.\nBecause they realized that they were naked God made for Adam and Eve garments of skins to cloth them. Due to the consequences of their decision to be like God an animal had to be killed in order for them to be clothed. A practical reality, yet a disordered one. One that creates a world within a world wherein things are used in ways that they were not meant to be used.\nNo wonder creation groans. It groans through the cracks of our asphalt and the humming of our machines. For it has been subjected to futility. This futility, our handiwork, however benign it may seem. A perverted stewardship that, too often, leads to exploitive domination.\nIt\u2019s easy to assume that the babe in a manger comes only for us \u2013 human beings. But that is only part of the picture. Nativity scenes always include animals, it\u2019s cute to think of Jesus being born next to cows, donkeys and chickens. On another level, though, it can stand as a reminder that not only does he come for the unclean like the shepherds, but he also comes for such animals. In fact, he comes for his entire creation, because his entire creation has been disordered. Jesus comes to bind the strongman, the Satan, who brings destruction and disorder to a \u201cgood\u201d creation.\nFor he hears the groans of his beloved creation. He hears us, he hears the animals, he hears the trees, he hears the valleys, he hears the mountains, he hears the seas.\nAnd He comes\u2026\nPrevious Bearing Fruits of Repentance In A Technological Adventide\nNext A Christmas Menace", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ag.purdue.edu/commercialag/ageconomybarometer/team/jim-mintert/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:56Z", "digest": "sha1:CGFL3UVC4D7GOIV4UCAJFG2WHBPBAT4K", "length": 1415, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ag.purdue.edu", "title": "Jim Mintert Ag Economy BarometerPurdue University Ag Economy Barometer", "raw_content": "Director and Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics\nJames Mintert is a professor and extension economist in the Department of Agricultural Economics and serves as director of the Center for Commercial Agriculture. Jim joined Purdue\u2019s faculty in 2009 and served as the assistant director of Extension for agriculture and natural resources before taking on his director responsibilities at the Center.\nPrior to his time at Purdue, Jim was a professor, livestock marketing economist, and Extension state leader in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University for 23 years. He holds bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in agricultural economics from Purdue University and a doctorate from the University of Missouri.\nJim acquired his interest in agriculture while working on his family\u2019s farm in the Mississippi and Missouri river bottoms, just north of St. Louis, Missouri. Over the course of his career, Dr. Mintert has received numerous awards, including Outstanding Extension Program Awards from both the American Agricultural Economics Association and the Western Agricultural Economics Association, in addition to the American Agricultural Economics Association\u2019s Premier Forecaster Award for his livestock production and price forecasts. Jim is also the author of more than 200 publications focusing on the economics of the livestock industry.\nP: (765) 494-4310 E: jmintert@purdue.edu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 97.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alanatkisson.com/category/energy-and-resources/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UQP6QLSXEIMJXFEDILU6BRXADQJDBYB5", "length": 68840, "nlines": 202, "source_domain": "alanatkisson.com", "title": "Energy and Resources | Alan AtKisson", "raw_content": "Category Archives: Energy and Resources\nBusiness and Economics, Energy and Resources, Featured, Global Warming and Climate Change, Government, Policy, Politics, Social and Economic Systems, Sustainability, Sustainable Development\nWhy Russia Should Invest in Sustainability\nSeven Reasons why Russia Should Invest in Sustainability \u2014 Three of Them Unconvincing\nby Alan AtKisson\nCEO, AtKisson Inc. & Author, The Sustainability Transformation\nOn Wednesday, 10 February, I made the second keynote presentation (after Ashok Khosla\u2019s opening) to a conference in Moscow called \u201cInnovative Russia: Responding to Global Challenges.\u201d The other participants on the 11-person panel were a small who\u2019s who of combined Russian and Silicon Valley leadership. You can view the program here: http://gvacapital.com/ir. Moderator Yermolai Solzhenitsyn\u2019s affiliation is not listed there, but he\u2019s the managing partner for McKinsey in Moscow. The photograph was taken from the stage, with my iPhone, during Ashok Khosla\u2019s speech.\nResponse to the speech was positive enough that I turned it into an article text, published below, which will also be translated and published by the Russian on-line magazine gazeta.ru. Since my books were recently published in Russian translation, I also managed to slip in \u2014 during a final comment, about how venture capitalists could at least try to put some sustainability content into their investment decisions, instead of making money on anything at all and then giving some of their wealth to charity \u2014 a note of gratitude to Natalia Tarasova, a professor at Mendeleev University and good friend. She had overseen the translation.\nWhy \u201cSeven Reasons\u201d? Because Muscovites love the number seven. And why are \u201cThree of them Unconvincing\u201d? Read, and you\u2019ll see \u2026\nThese are exciting times in sustainability. In practice, sustainability involves reinventing business and governance processes so that they stop destroying key ecosystems, depleting irreplaceable resources, and increasing the gap between rich and poor. \u201cPractice\u201d is exactly what has been missing from sustainability work for most of the concept\u2019s lifetime. But recently, sustainability has moved out of the category \u201csomething that academics, bureaucrats, and activists talk about\u201d to the category \u201csomething that mainstream business leaders and investors do something about.\u201d This is a monumental shift that has been gestating for some time, if you knew where to look. But it really began showing evidence of its exponential growth rates only in the past three to five years. Now, the evidence is overwhelming:\nCountries like South Korea and China have embraced the concept of \u201cGreen Economy\u201d or \u201cCyclic Economy\u201d with serious policy initiatives and billions of dollars of investment\nGlobal companies like Unilever or Siemens (and dozens of others) have set goals that combine ambitious revenue growth with strong reductions in environmental impact, impressive increases in corporate responsibility practice, and serious commitments to \u201csustainability innovation\u201d\nGlobal consulting and auditing giants such as Ernst & Young have been hiring hundreds of people to support new, growing divisions with titles like \u201cClimate Change and Sustainability Services\u201d\nInvestment in renewable energy grabs headlines every week, such as the recent deal between United Arab Emirates and Spain to invest USD 5 billion in Spanish solar technology\nOil and gas economic powerhouses such as Norway are redirecting more and more of their windfall fossil-fuel-generated capital into cleaner and more sustainable solutions (Norway recently pledged to increase its domestic renewable energy use to 67.5% of total by 2020, which translates to an increase of 9% every year in wind, hydro, solar and other sources)\nThese items are already commercial facts, but more visionary innovations and mega-projects are also taking shape in the world\u2019s think-tanks and testing grounds. From South Korea\u2019s large-scale tidal energy installations, to the bio-mimicry technologies erupting from the minds of biologists working in collaboration with engineers, to the giant-but-increasingly-realistic proposals such as \u201cDESERTEC\u201d (generating solar electricity in the Sahara) or mega-grids (e.g. linking up East Asia with a vast complex of underground, highly efficient mag-lev trains and supercables) \u2026 it is no wonder that anyone just waking up to this transformative revolution in humanity\u2019s planetary management strategy might find it all a bit dizzying.\nOf course, up to now, humanity had no \u201cplanetary management strategy\u201d \u2014 and this was precisely the problem. Our activities, super-amplified through the power of cheap energy and technology, had become planetary in scale, but disruptive (and largely destructive) of the planet\u2019s billion-year-old natural processes. And indeed, for decades, it was largely academics and citizen activists (plus a relative handful of visionary leaders in business, the United Nations, local government, and other arenas) who worried the most about what was happening, and tried to do something about it.\nThat \u201csomething\u201d that these early leaders were trying to \u201cdo\u201d was to change government policies, business practices, consumer attitudes, educational curricula, and other elements of our increasingly inter-connected global system. The request was actually simple: Add sustainability to these things. Add systems thinking. Add a longer-term, more holistic perspective to the definition of \u201csuccess.\u201d\nFor many years, these efforts to change thinking (and practice, and policy, and investment) did not seem to be working, or at least not working fast enough, and certainly not working at anything like the right scale. But such is the magic of exponential growth: what appear first as insignificantly small, incremental changes are in fact replication and multiplication processes. They grow by doubling. Things appear to go faster and faster, and at a certain point, things take off. Think cell phones, Internet, Total Quality Management. Few people remember that seeking to perfect quality, as a manufacturing practice, was still a new idea a few decades ago. The idea\u2019s original proponents could barely get noticed by business leaders. But then the Total Quality Management movement started (in Japan), it grew exponentially, it took off \u2026 and by one decade ago, \u201cQuality Management\u201d was such a normal, mainstream concept that everyone stopped thinking about it.\nThat\u2019s what\u2019s happening in sustainability: take-off. Sure, there are ups and downs even in the midst of take-off, which is exactly what you would expect in a maturing market of any kind. But the overall pattern in unmistakable. Wherever you look on the map of the world, from the renewable energy fields of Brazil, to the environmental accounting practices of shoe-maker Puma, to the spread of clean cooking stove technology to the smoked-out kitchens of the developing world, you can see transformative change accelerating before your very eyes.\nBut not in Russia.\nWhy is Russia missing from the emerging map of transformation to a greener and more sustainable economy? With its enormous amounts of money, resources, and brainpower, it could be leading the way, as several other oil and gas-based economies are doing. But analysts far more well-informed than myself \u2014 including Russia\u2019s own leadership \u2014 have long noted with worry that Russia\u2019s surging economy is almost entirely based on the export of raw resources. The country\u2019s rising prosperity floats on that sea of oil and gas, as a few Google clicks (engineered partly by Sergey Brin\u2019s Russian brainpower) will easily tell you. Easy wealth breeds indifference, and Russian innovators tend to take their inventiveness elsewhere, to places like Silicon Valley, resulting in a drain of capital, both financial and intellectual, from the country.\nThis situation could easily be reversed. I use the word \u201ceasily\u201d in an entirely theoretical sense: in practice, nothing is easy in Russia, as any Russian is quick to tell you. The entire nation seems to take pride in its enormous capacity for problems and difficulties \u2014 and by extension, its capacity for overcoming them. Nonetheless, in theory, Russia could change relatively quickly from being a sustainability laggard to a serious leader, especially in areas related to technology and large-scale industrial implementation.\nWhat follows are seven reasons why Russian leaders in government and business \u2014 including that class of wealthy and powerful people known universally as the \u201cOligarchs,\u201d together with the people who advise them \u2014 should take the opportunity for investing in sustainability far more seriously than they currently do. While all seven reasons are convincing to me, I am quite certain that the first three will not be convincing to anyone in a position of power in Russia. For that reason, I have clearly labeled these first three as \u201cUnconvincing Reasons.\u201d\nBut that leaves four reasons that seem to have the potential for unlocking a torrent of creativity, investment, and change in the way Russia pursues its economic destiny. Because many Russian economic leaders started their professional lives as physicists and scientists, I will use \u2014 starting from Reason #4 \u2014 the concept of Potential Energy as a metaphor for what I, as an outsider, see as possible in Russia. A small shift in thinking could result in large shifts in the real world, resulting in multiple benefits, not just for Russians, but for the world as a whole.\nUNCONVINCING REASON #1: THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY\nMany sustainability issues have a national security dimension. If you are sitting on resources that others desperately need but don\u2019t have \u2014 like oil, or water \u2014 you may find soldiers at your doorstep. UN diplomats quietly pointed to climate change and precipitation declines as underlying causes for the forced migrations and slaughters of Darfur. Australia has concerns about what happens on its Northern shorelines if refugees flee swamped coastlines or other disruptions. The US Department of Defense runs scenario exercises based on climate change, conflicts over resources, and other sustainability worries, and is moving aggressively into biofuels and solar energy to insulate defense operations from the vagaries of a global energy market. One would think that arguments like these would be compelling to anyone in the leadership of a nation with a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.\nBut Russia is vast. It has resources that it perceives, rightly or wrongly, to be virtually endless. It has an extremely strong defense (which, according to recent news reports, is slated to get even more budget support in coming years). No one in Russia worries seriously about hungry Finns or Latvians storming across the border, or even Chinese troops for that matter. No one worries about where the fuel to run tanks and warships and fighter jets will come from. Despite the echoes of Cold War saber-rattling in recent Russia-NATO exchanges, nobody worries about missiles falling on Moscow anymore. National security is truly not an issue for Russia. Arguing for sustainability \u201cfor the sake of national security\u201d would generate nothing more than an ironic chuckle, so let\u2019s cross that off the list.\nUNCONVINCING REASON #2: BREACHING THE PLANETARY BOUNDARIES\nIn a landmark article published in September 2009 in the journal Nature, an eminent international group of scientists concluded that humanity\u2019s activities had already pushed several global ecosystems (climate, biodiversity, the nutrient cycle) over the limit of what those systems could tolerate. Other systems were heading quickly over the same precipice. The long-term consequences would be \u201cdetrimental or even catastrophic for large parts of the world\u201d \u2014 strong language that reflects the seriousness with which they viewed the available data. They called for concerted action to bring humanities use of resources and emissions of waste back into the \u201csafe zone\u201d of what the planet can sustain. Their arguments were so compelling that political leaders have been sitting up and taking notice, including the United Nations High-Level Panel on Global Sustainability, which is chaired by two presidents.\nBut once again: Russia is vast. Even if the worst-case scenarios associated with these trends come to pass, the typical Russian leader is likely to think, \u201cSo what?\u201d If water dries up in one place, we\u2019ll shift agriculture to another. Too hot and dry in the south? Too much nitrogen in the water table? Too much climate change? We\u2019ll just grow wheat in balmy Siberia. The rest of the world may have serious troubles, but Russia feels insulated by its size, geographic diversity, and resource wealth. Cross Reason #2 of the list as well.\nUNCONVINCING REASON #3: THE NEED TO \u201cSAVE THE WORLD\u201d FROM CATASTROPHE\nA generation of sustainability champions (including myself) were inspired to act by the analyses contained first in a little book called The Limits to Growth, published in 1972 and updated twice, the last time in 2004. The original worries presented in Limits \u2014 that the exponential growth of population, resources, and pollution would eventually bump up against the boundaries of the planet (see Reason #2) \u2014 have been supplemented in recent years by the notion that there could be \u201ctipping points\u201d in the global system. Resource depletion, ecosystem disturbance, and other activities may seem \u201csustainable\u201d for a while, but when they can cross an invisible line in the sand, they suddenly collapse like a house of cards, taking innumerable species (and humans) with them. An example might be the Amazon: at what point does the number of trees lose critical mass and trigger a sudden shift from Rainforest to dry savannah? Unfortunately, such nightmare scenarios are the stuff of current serious scientific analysis.\nWhen people use the phrase \u201csave the world\u201d in the context of sustainability, usually with a kind self-mocking (or just plain mocking) undertone, what they often mean is the effort to stop destructive processes before it is simply too late to prevent some sort of resulting catastrophe. People are emboldened in this work by remembering that, on several occasions, humans actually have saved the world, or at least important parts of it. The most famous example is the threat to the ozone layer caused by the production of CFCs: production of this insidiously dangerous chemical was dramatically reduced, essentially just in time to prevent the loss of the planet\u2019s one and only atmospheric shield against dangerous ultraviolet radiation. Even the phrase \u201cSave the Whales!\u201d from the 1970s can be celebrated now as a kind of world-saving triumph, at least for several whale species, which have bounced back from the brink of near-certain extinction.\nBut is \u201csaving the world\u201d a compelling reason for Russia to invest more seriously in the sustainability transformation? Hardly. Russia will be fine. See above: even in a truly worst-case scenario, Russia would adapt and survive, as it always has. (Remember that Russian affinity for surviving serious and complicated problems.) And as for saving the world for its own sake, well \u2026 what has the world done for Russia lately? Scratch Reason #3.\nIf you question my characterizations above, consider the data. While reading through the excellent English-language summaries provided by the organizers of the recent Russia 2012 Forum \u2014 an event that happens right after Davos, and manages to entice many of the global Davos stars to stop in Moscow on their way home \u2014 I came upon this wonderful tidbit at the end of a slide presentation on Russian attitudes to risk management in the financial markets. As the last item in an otherwise dull review of what Russian investors think about hedge funds, participants were asked, \u201cDo you believe the world will end any time soon?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d said 4.3% of respondents. \u201cNo,\u201d said 45.6%. But the majority response, 50.1%, was this: \u201cI don\u2019t care, I\u2019m hedged.\u201d\nHaving dispensed with the unconvincing reasons for why Russia should invest in sustainability, let\u2019s turn to the potentially convincing ones, and to that wonderful and relevant concept from basic physics: Potential Energy.\nREASON #4: CAPTURING AN EXTRAORDINARY ONE-TIME FINANCIAL OPPORTUNITY\nAccording to published analyses, there is a lot of money in Russia currently trapped in its antiquated buildings, equipment, and infrastructure. It is trapped there partly by energy price subsidies, but it is also trapped by a simple lack of attention and focus. There may be more exciting things to do on a Friday night in Moscow than improving the energy efficiency of buildings and machines; however, there are few things that are potentially more profitable in the long term.\nThe key word here is \u201cpotential.\u201d An apple hanging by its stem has what physicists call \u201cpotential energy.\u201d Break the stem \u2014 or better yet, if the stem is gripped between your two fingers, simply open your hand \u2014 and the potential energy is converted to kinetic energy, the energy of motion. The apple falls.\nAccording to a report by McKinsey & Co. published in 2009 (\u201cPathways to an energy and carbon efficient Russia\u201d), there are many such apples in the Russian economy. Relatively simple incentives and decisions, the equivalent of simply letting the apples fall, could create a very respectable flow of money, even in a country used to the torrential flows of petro-rubles. Consider the following:\nAn initial investment of \u20ac70 billion to upgrade buildings and construction would result in savings of \u20ac190 billion over a twenty-year period. This is equivalent to a 120% return on investment.\nWhen it comes to producing heat and energy, a \u20ac20 billion investment produces \u20ac60 billion in savings over the same period, a whopping 200% ROI.\nIn fact, says McKinsey, \u201cRussia has the largest relative potential among all the BRIC countries to reduce [CO2] emissions through implementing only measures that are economically attractive\u201d [emphasis added]. While the savings in CO2 may not be a compelling motivator for Russia\u2019s economic leadership, the potential for solid returns on investment should be \u2014 not to mention the jobs that could be created in order to do the work, and the pleasure of owning shiny new (or renovated) buildings and machines.\nThe benefits include health and safety: Russia\u2019s own Geographical society reported last year (March 2011) that \u201cwe have fundamentally obsolete production facilities and communal infrastructures, which is [a recipe for] a major disaster.\u201d Fully 60-80% of Russia\u2019s energy infrastructure is estimated to be in need of maintenance and repair, and those repairs could be combined with efficiency upgrades. Around 90% of industrial waste is not recycled back into production: waste is going to waste, when it could be generating more economic value. These figures represent a great deal of financial potential energy that could be released by the right combination of incentives, policies, and forward-looking investors.\nWhat is that combination, exactly? These are the kinds of big, complicated problems that Russians ought to love, because solving them could make some people quite wealthy. The potential exists not only in renovating the existing infrastructure, but in the new things that must be built just to meet projected demand. Over 60% of the infrastructure to provide Russia\u2019s expected energy needs in 2030 has yet to be built. What choices will Russia make about how to build it? Wasteful ones? Or long-term profitable and sustainable ones?\nIn fact, it is entirely possible that the estimates of McKinsey and others may be conservative. For example, the rise of \u201cpassive house\u201d technologies in Europe in recent years has produced many examples of extraordinary cost savings (which is another way of saying, extraordinary profit). A typical Soviet-era apartment complex in, say, the Czech Republic can now be rebuilt to save 90% of its previous energy consumption, while creating brighter and more attractive living environments. No one really knows what would happen if innovations such as these were serious deployed throughout the Russian economy, because no one has tried.\nThe apple is still clenched firmly in the hand.\nREASON #5: THE COMPETITION FOR ECONOMIC AND GEO-POLITICAL POSITION\nLike it or not, Russia is in competition for power and influence on the world stage. At the moment, the nation\u2019s vast fossil fuel and other resource reserves are the primary platform on which it stands. But this powerful platform will not last forever, and its lifespan may be shorter than many believe.\nThe global energy market is changing with extreme rapidity. Many countries are embracing new (and environmentally controversial) methods of extracting oil and gas explicitly to reduce their dependence on the global market \u2026 and by implication, their dependence on Russia. Other nations, such as China and South Korea, are taking what might be called \u201chard positions\u201d in sustainability and green economic innovation, partly as a way of increasing their \u201csoft power\u201d: South Korea has been rewarded for the billions it invests in \u201cGreen Growth\u201d with an enhanced profile as a forward-thinking technology leader envied by many. Meanwhile, the financial crisis continues to depress demand, and if high unemployment persists or deepens, the word \u201cdepression\u201d may creep back into the global economic lexicon. Experts speculate openly about what will happen if these trends combine to create a \u201cperfect storm\u201d \u2014 from the Russian economic perspective \u2014 of dramatic drops in the price of oil and gas. The picture they paint is not rosy.\nThe reality of today\u2019s energy market, as well as the future of how that market will develop, are both devilishly complicated. Some say \u201cpeak oil\u201d will drive prices sky-high; others say depressed demand and diversification will send prices plummeting. Predicting the future is impossible. But that simply underscores the very real possibility that Russia may not have more than a decade left to enjoy its extraordinary fossil fuel capital windfall. If the petro-ruble river starts to run dry, what will Russia have to show for all its years of easy money? As more nations \u201cfrack\u201d their own gas, install windmills and solar cells, super-insulate their houses, and start driving their cars on electricity generated off their own roof-tops, what will they buy from Russia? What will Russians buy from each other?\nInvestments in sustainability of the kinds described above \u2014 not just in the low-hanging fruit in Reason #4, but also in the more visionary directions described earlier, including the emerging fields of biomimicry, green chemistry, and sustainability-oriented nano-, bio-, and info-technology \u2014 would accelerate the kind of economic transition that everyone says Russia needs. Russia has the chance to transform itself from pipeline-and-oil-barrel hulk to a focus of technical and economic admiration, while renewing its economy on back of a much more diverse and robust industrial portfolio. Granted, the world\u2019s hunger for oil and gas is not going to disappear any time soon; but the world\u2019s hunger for sustainability-oriented innovation, and its respect for those who seriously invest in it, is growing exponentially. This has created a serious global race in which Russia is not currently competing.\nAnd you have to be in it, to win it.\nREASON #6: IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE FOR THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE\nIn a recent issue of Science journal, an international team of 24 researchers documented the benefits in every country, worldwide, of reducing tropospheric ozone and black soot. In brief, by taking action to improve a menu of 14 wasteful and pollution-generating industrial activities \u2014 of which all but one apply strongly to Russia \u2014 health will improve, food production will increase, and millions of premature deaths would be avoided (an estimated 40,000 of them in Russia). The cost? Negative. The whole exercise would generate net positive income by reducing healthcare expenditures and increasing agricultural output. The fact that these actions would also help reduce the impact of climate change is just a bonus (\u201cSimultaneously Mitigating Near-Term Climate Change and Improving Human Health and Food Security,\u201d 13 January 2012).\nThis is just the most recent in a long line of research papers, case studies, and living-proof models showing that \u201cgoing green\u201d is good for people as well as the planet. In buildings renovated to be sustainable and efficient, fewer people get sick and employee retention rates improve. If you make city streets or even parking lots more beautiful and pedestrian-friendly, people will walk more instead of driving their cars round and round looking for a parking spot that is 50 meters closer to the door.\nSustainability innovations of these kinds do not just save lives, make money, and stimulate economic development: they make people happy. They create optimism. They can help point whole societies squarely toward the future, and generate a feeling of hope.\nWhat Russian leader, in government or in business, would not want this for the Russian people?\nWhich brings us to the seventh, and most compelling reason for why Russia should invest seriously in sustainability.\nREASON #7: BECAUSE YOU CAN\nRussia, compared to most other countries on Earth, is in a privileged starting position when it comes to investing in sustainability. It has ample financial and intellectual capital to invest \u2014 much of which is leaving the country, at the moment, but that is a flow that could be reversed. It has surplus resources to such an extent that the word SURPLUS should be written in large letters. It has a relatively unchallenged position of national security, and no need to project power globally (because, among other reasons, it has all the resources it needs). It has a deep heritage of leadership in science and technology on which to draw. And it has plenty of low-hanging, money-making fruits to pick from its economic tree.\nMore importantly, Russia\u2019s strengths give it the resilience needed to take some risks and absorb some losses \u2014 for as any entrepreneur will tell you, one has to be ready to take a loss once in a while, in order to accomplish a big win. Changing national economic habits, technologies, and infrastructures is going to require a lot of focused thought, domestic reform, strong incentives (e.g. to reverse human and financial capital outflows), and occasionally nerves of steel. Russia needs to find its niche on the global sustainability stage and, for its own sake, to do it quickly. As noted earlier, the theory is easy and straightforward. The practice will be challenging.\nBut Russians are a tough people. They like challenges, and they don\u2019t like to lose. There is a great deal to be won by investing seriously in sustainability and economic transformation. Russia certainly should do this, if only because \u2014 in ways that truly are unique to this country \u2014 Russia can.\nEnergy and Resources, Featured, Global Warming and Climate Change, Government, Policy, Politics, Social and Economic Systems, Sustainability, Sustainable Development\nHow I Created (Not) a UN Campaign\nThis article is about how I became obsessed with trying to create, or catalyze into being, an international campaign to dramatically increase renewable energy investment in the developing world \u2014 and why I now feel ready to let go of that obsession. The short version is this: The campaign is happening, and the UN is doing it.\nI have a hard time letting go of my ideas for initiatives, once they are hatched. And the UN campaign is not exactly what I imagined for the initiative we were calling \u201cBig Push.\u201d But it\u2019s certainly close enough for me to say, okay, this is one project I can take off my plate. Here\u2019s the link:\nhttp://sustainableenergyforall.org\nThis campaign is about as high level as such a thing can get. The initiative comes straight from the Secretary-General\u2019s office. The campaign was created by an act of the UN General Assembly, which has declared 2012 \u201cThe Year of Sustainable Energy for All.\u201d (See Resolution 65/151)\nWhat did I have to do with all this? Not much. But anyone who has been watching this space will recall the work I did in 2009 for UNDESA\u2019s Division for Sustainable Development. The vision for the Big Push was not mine (it was Tariq Banuri\u2019s, former director of DSD) nor were most of the ideas and analyses that went into it (I was building on the work of many people, inside and outside the UN, and especially the World Economic and Social Survey 2009). My job was to help assemble a coherent strategy document to take to the Copenhagen CoP-15 climate summit, in December 2009. Working with a number of colleagues, we pieced together something that I still think of as being beautiful and elegant in design: a high-leverage, large-scale program for spreading renewables quickly in the world\u2019s poor countries, with the effect of improving people\u2019s lives, while also accelerating the renewables market in the rich countries and speeding the transition to a renewable energy future.\nThe \u201cBig Push\u201d strategy paper was well-received: we quickly won the endorsement of many leading climate/energy researchers, plus WWF International and other NGOs. You can download that strategy document by clicking here.\nCopenhagen did not work out as anyone hoped, of course, and the strategy paper just lay there for awhile. But I could not let it go. The vision and ideas may have originated from others (the \u201cInnovators\u201d in this specific case), but in classic \u201cChange Agent\u201d fashion, I had become thoroughly convinced that this was an idea that had to happen, if we were to achieve the transformation to a sustainable world in reasonable time.\nSo I began to make some noise about creating an independent, international \u201cBig Push Campaign,\u201d outside the UN system. I talked to friends in leadership positions, recruited the excellent help of an astrophysicist-turned-energy-researcher at Harvard (Achim Tappe, thank you!), networked with other experts, and even had the marvelous opportunity to present the Big Push concept as an opening speech to this year\u2019s World Renewable Energy Congress (Anders Wijkman, thank you!). You can access the text of my speech to the Congress by clicking here.\nAt the heart of the original strategy is the idea of spreading, and globally subsidizing, the pricing mechanism called a \u201cFeed-in Tariff,\u201d or \u201cFiT\u201d. This involves guaranteeing that if you build a renewable energy installation, you can sell the resulting electricity to the grid, at a subsidized price. The mechanism works incredibly well, and has driven the explosion of wind and solar development in Denmark, Germany, Spain and other countries. New countries keep adding it (Japan just did), but others are also drawing in the brakes (as the UK just did), because it works too well (think some people).\nThere were many other technical, policy, and outreach aspects to this plan, which you can read about in the original paper, and in the more advanced technical ones that followed, such as Deutsche Bank\u2019s studies for the Secretary-General\u2019s advisory group 2010 and 2011, focusing on how to create a global \u201cFiT\u201d mechanism while managing the risks etc. How did all of this, and many other streams of activity, work together to become the new UN Sustainable Energy for All initiative? To be honest, I really have no idea; I moved on to other projects at the UN (like this one), and no longer have a direct window into that process. Did my work in 2009 have any impact in 2010 and 2011? I\u2019d like to think so \u2014 I know UNDESA really spread that paper around, both inside the UN system and outside \u2014 but I really don\u2019t know, one way or the other. That\u2019s the consulting life: you engage with a system, you do something, the system changes \u2026 and you never really know if those changes happened (even just in part, even just a tiny little bit) because you engaged with the system \u2026 or if the system would have changed anyway, with or without you. Understanding this basic truth keeps one feeling very humble about consulting work, even when it feels \u201cimportant\u201d. Perhaps especially then.\nThe most important question, however, is certainly not whether my work had any impact. Not even the technical side of renewable energy scale-up is much of a question at this point: it\u2019s well established now that the technologies work, the policy mechanisms work, the market works. There are exciting breakthroughs on sustainable energy happening, and being reported, nearly every day. (My current favorite is this one: indoor solar lighting using only a plastic bottle, water, and a piece of tin or aluminum. It\u2019s spreading like wildfire in the Philippines, where it was invented. Check it out on this short BBC video.)\nThe really big question is, will these strategies actually work? What clearly isn\u2019t working yet is marshaling the political will to actually transform the global energy system, as the UK government\u2019s recent pull-back on their highly successful FiT program illustrates all too dismally. What isn\u2019t working yet is the serious mobilization of capital, at the scale we really need, and in the right direction. What isn\u2019t working yet is the removal of fossil fuel subsidies that push the whole planet in the wrong direction, while helping the world\u2019s richest energy companies get richer. Etc. etc. etc. There is certainly a lot to do \u2026 and there are a lot of powerful interests at play.\nSo at this point, it no longer makes much sense for me to try to recruit others into a new and separate global campaign, as one among a dozen projects on my plate. Instead, I\u2019ve started putting my shoulder to the wheel of the UN\u2019s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, promoting it through every channel I have access to. It\u2019s not enough, as we all know, even to have a UN General Assembly resolution and the UN Secretary-General pushing an agenda like this.\nIt\u2019s going to take a Big Push from all of us.\nEnergy and Resources, Featured, Global Warming and Climate Change, Mind, Body, Health, Personal, Sustainability\nHow to Keep Doing Sustainability in an Absurd World\n21 July 2011 Alan AtKisson\t3 Comments\nA professional colleague of mine recently resigned from the sustainability movement. Seriously ill from years of overwork, and despairing of the movement\u2019s chances for success, this person had no choice but to quit. Trying to change the world\u2019s destructive energy technologies, protect the rights of future generations to enjoy functioning ecosystems, and/or save the world from the ravages of climate change was just too much for a body \u2013 or soul \u2013 to bear.\nAll I could do was empathize. On the one hand, it is easy to find reasons for optimism these days. Daily, my email inbox fills up with notices about new technology breakthroughs, new creative policy initiatives, new corporate sustainability strategies. Over the past two decades, sustainability has multiplied from a lonely cause championed by a handful of idealists into a profession involving hundreds of thousands of people, and to a multi-billion-dollar market in services. Surely that\u2019s an indicator of amazing success!\nOn the other hand, my inbox also fills with ample reasons to weep. The oceans, leading scientists announced recently, are dying. Famine is once again striking East Africa. The nations around the Arctic are rapidly shifting their militarizing presence to the far north, rattling (nuclear) swords to make sure they will each get a fair share of the oil and gas that can now be extracted from under the melting ice. Every week, the nuclear disaster in Japan is revealed to be \u201ceven worse\u201d than the government had most recently admitted. And so it goes.\nSummer, especially in Sweden, is a good time to reflect on these seeming paradoxes. The pace of work here slows down to a crawl. The family is together for weeks on end. Few people call, except friends. The world around me is a green-blue wonder of life.\nBelieve it or not, at such times, it is helpful to me to return to my own writing. Like many people, I write in order to think, and I\u2019ve been down this trail of thought many times before. But I tend to forget what I\u2019ve written, or thought, almost completely \u2013 even when it involves an insight that, when I first had it years ago, really helped me to put things in perspective.\nHere\u2019s what I found, again, when paging through my book Believing Cassandra, on page 87 of the new edition:\n\u201cBased on the evidence at hand \u2026 it seemed likely that the disconnection between global imperatives and societal responses was somehow built into the structure of the World, rather than issuing from any lack of data or correctable moral lapse on the part of humanity.\nThe situation, I realized, was fundamentally absurd.\u201d\nAbsurdity, I went on to write, was an \u201cenormously liberating idea,\u201d because it released one from earnestness, while retaining the seriousness. Think of the great absurdist plays, like Beckett\u2019s Waiting for Godot: they combine deadly seriousness and comedic silliness in a wonderful \u2013 and strangely familiar\u2013 mix.\nOf course the work of sustainability seems terribly important, not silly. It probably is terribly important. But how will we ever know for sure? Certainly not by counting the number of corporate sustainability reports.\n\u201cWe know something about what has transpired on Planet Earth over the past millennia and we can make some good guesses, with the aid of science and computer models, about what is likely to happen during the next hundred. But we have no idea what it all means. Nor can we ever know. We are stuck in not knowing. Such a situation is the precise definition of absurdity \u2026\u201d (Believing Cassandra, p. 97)\nWhile on vacation I had the chance to talk to an old family friend who, by chance, is also one of the world\u2019s foremost ocean scientists. What did he make of the recent announcement (by the International Program on the State of the Ocean, http://www.stateoftheocean.org) that the oceans were \u201cdying.\u201d He didn\u2019t dispute it. The science around what was driving extinction threats \u2013 global warming, acidification, overfishing, etc. \u2013 was sound. But his reflections quickly turned to the very long term.\nWhenever the planet has gone through one of these big extinction events, he noted, it has been followed by a massive explosion of new life and new diversity. When the dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago (the fifth major extinction event \u2013 humans are causing the sixth), mammals were tiny things running around on all fours trying to eat dinosaur eggs. That great catastrophe (from a dinosaur\u2019s perspective) created the possibility for mammals to evolve. Now, we stand up, write scientific papers, and have conversations like this one.\nIn other words, no extinction \u2026 no us.\nIn the long run, it seems, it will all work out fine for planet Earth \u2013 no matter how things end up working out for us humans in this century. With a long enough time perspective, even the absurdity of our present situation just fades away.\nHowever, this century is my century on this planet, as well as the century of my children. So I\u2019m going to continue doing what I can to accelerate change for sustainability, and to stop \u2013 or at least slow down \u2013 the madness I perceive in the way we humans, as a species, use up resources, create waste, and generally tend to forget that we lived on a finite, living planet, where everyone deserves a fair chance at a fulfilling life.\nBut thanks to these summer reflections \u2013 and thanks also to the advice of my overworked colleague (get well!) \u2013 I\u2019ll be doing it with a lighter heart.\nCulture, Values, Philosophy, Energy and Resources, Government, Policy, Politics, Social and Economic Systems, Sustainability\n\u201cSan-ten-ichi-ichi\u201d \u2014 what March 11 means to Japan (so far)\n4 June 2011 Alan AtKisson\t2 Comments\nI was on UN business in Korea this week, but on Friday, I took a day off to fly to Osaka and meet with friends Junko Edahiro and Riichiro Oda, at a hotel near Osaka\u2019s Kansai airport. I wanted to find out how they were doing, and how the country was doing, since the last time I visited \u2014 which was the week before the earthquake. Both Junko and Rich are marathon runners; they looked the picture of health, and made me think once again about diversifying my exercise routine, which usually consists of pulling suitcases around in airports.\nJunko is a well-known environmental advocate, writer, and translator. She wears many hats in her nation\u2019s sustainability movement, including founder of the NGO Japan for Sustainability. Sometimes Junko is teaching classes on how to combine three e\u2019s: learning English, empowering oneself, and doing environmental work (one of her companies is actually called \u201ce\u2019s\u201d). Sometimes she is advising the prime minister on options for climate change policy \u2014 among many other activities. Riichiro, or \u201cRich,\u201d is a systems expert and consultant who teaches corporations and agencies how to apply systems thinking; he also manages the administration of Junko\u2019s various enterprises and initiatives, which she seems to create at the rate of about one per year.\nMost recently, Junko founded a new Institute for the Study of Happiness, Economy, and Society. A few days before the multi-disaster comprised of a mega-earthquake, a giant tsunami, and a nuclear meltdown, I had been in Japan to help her launch that Institute. Now, to say the least, the context within which that new institute is working has been utterly changed. I also went to Japan to find out how it has been changed, from Junko and Rich\u2019s perspective.\nFirst, the language: most Japanese now refer to the disaster in the same way that most Americans (and indeed, most of the world) refer to the events of September 11, 2001. It is just called \u201cSan-ten-ichi-ichi,\u201d or literally, \u201cthree-dot-one-one.\u201d And the region where the disaster struck, and where it is in fact still striking in the form of uncontrollable nuclear reactor failures, is called \u201cthe Affected Area.\u201d\n\u201cMarch 11 marked the true end of the post-War period in Japan,\u201d says Junko. \u201cBefore that point, the country believed that we could eventually get back to the kind of economic growth we had experienced before. March 11 crushed any hope of return to growth, and has forced the country to face the harsh reality.\u201d A society-wide process of deep consideration is under way, among government and corporate leaders as well as the general public.\nIf anything, the disaster has increased interest in sustainability, resilience, systems thinking, and any possible avenue to new insight about how to reorient economy and society in the post-\u201cSan-ten-ichi-ichi\u201d period. The highly efficient \u201cjust-in-time\u201d inventory and production system proved fragile. There were no stocks or buffers of materials and parts on which to draw when production was disrupted. Recent cost-cutting of staff also eliminated much of the Japanese \u201cplayable force\u201d staffing system, in which companies always had a spare team of people who could be deployed to reinforce those functions that needed extra help. This new awareness of \u201csystem effects\u201d is helping Rich\u2019s business return to his normal, overloaded state of busy-ness.\nMarch 11 has also had a number of unexpected social effects: marriages are on the rise, as couples move to cement their relationships quickly to increase a feeling of security about the future. Community-based activity is also increasing. But at the same time, the Tokyo area has also experienced a wave of divorce and strained relationships, as families split over the question of whether to remain there, or move farther away, to Osaka or the west of Japan. When it comes to radiation exposure and young children, \u201cmothers want to lower their risk to zero.\u201d Many are moving away from Tokyo with their children, leaving behind their husbands, who are attached to jobs and other social roles. In doing this, Japanese mothers are following the example of foreign embassies such as France, which sent some people home and moved everyone else to Osaka. (The irony of Junko\u2019s choosing France as an example, given how defiantly reliant France is on nuclear power, is worth considering.)\nIt was shocking to hear Junko\u2019s descriptions about how much \u2014 or rather, how little \u2014 information was being given to the Japanese people through the official channels. Because she is a professional translator, she had access to multiple English-language sources on the internet that explained far more about the nuclear disaster itself, the radiation leaks and risks, etc. than was ever available in the Japanese press. Junko took it on herself to explain this information in everyday Japanese, and recruited a radiation expert from a research hospital (i.e., someone not tainted by TEPCO, the fully discredited electricity company that owned the Fukushima nuclear plant) to check what she wrote. This information she broadcast on her already popular e-newsletter, the readership of which grew significantly.\nAs a result of both the mismanagement of the crisis and the authorities\u2019 poor handling of information about what had actually happened, the traditionally submissive relationship between the people and the national leadership has become deeply frayed. The crisis revealed, said Junko, that the government did not really trust the public. Authorities controlled the release of information in order not to \u201ccreate panic,\u201d but in doing so created more nervousness and panic, which created more distrust, more information control, and more nervousness and panic, in a vicious circle. \u201cIt is easy to make a systems diagram of this,\u201d she notes with a hint of irony, \u201cand I have drawn many of them.\u201d\nWhy was it so difficult for people to get information on radioactivity and other nuclear power issues in Japan, in the midst of a nuclear meltdown crisis? And why does Junko \u2014 whose bridge-building work usually attracts positive attention from groups as diverse as deep-green environmentalists and big-industry representatives \u2014 start getting attacked her efforts to publish more of the facts on what was actually happening at Fukushima?\n\u201cNuclear power is an emotional or ideological issue here,\u201d said Junko, whose academic training was in psychology. \u201cPeople, especially men, tend to equate nuclear power with power generally.\u201d I note recent psychological research showing that when people have strong ideological commitments, fact-based counter-arguments often just harden their positions. This explains how even in the face of a meltdown \u2014 one that will make a large area sited only 150 km north of Tokyo uninhabitable for generations \u2014 nuclear power still has rabid defenders in Japan.\nThe electricity shortages themselves, common in Tokyo but not in Osaka or elsewhere, act as a continuous reminder of the situation. The lighting in train stations and other public locations is noticeably dimmer, Junko tells me. But this \u201cdark side\u201d has a \u201cbright side,\u201d because \u201cpeople are realizing that they did not need all that light in the place. The dimmer light is more comfortable.\u201d The directives to reduce energy are causing a kind of social transformation, in everything from direct energy usage (turning off Tokyo\u2019s ubiquitous vending machines) to the way people dress at work (men are encouraged to ditch their suits in favor of a \u201csuper-cool,\u201d tie-less look that requires less air conditioning).\n\u201cPeople are rediscovering the meaning of \u2018enough\u2019, and remembering that \u2018enough\u2019 is also comfortable,\u201d says Junko. This reminds me of the concept of a \u201cteachable moment,\u201d which I learned practicing social work years ago: the moment when defenses come down and the person can actually learn something that changes their view of themselves and the context of their lives. Junko grabbed onto that term immediately. \u201cThis is such a moment,\u201d she says, \u201cso I am doing a lot of teaching.\u201d\nBut she is also doing a lot of learning. In March and April, her usual busy speaking schedule was largely canceled, and Junko suddenly had a lot of time on her hands. So she used it to pursue a ten-year-old dream: to study the Chinese classics (such as the \u201cAnalects of Confucius\u201d). She found a teacher, signed up for classes, and started studying \u2026 which, among other things, involves learning 52,800 Chinese characters. \u201cIn the Edo period,\u201d Junko tells me, \u201cchildren would learn these characters. The saying was, 100 characters, 100 times a day.\u201d That is, they would repeat each character a hundred times, until they had memorized it, and they would do that with a hundred characters, every day \u2014 usually before even learning what those characters meant. After one and a half years, they knew them all, and could start reading. \u201cI think it will take me a bit longer,\u201d she says with an impish smile.\nIn dialogues, Junko and her teacher learned that they share a common sense of purpose, even though they are promoting different things. Both are teaching in order to change and improve Japanese society.\nAnd if ever any society was faced with a \u201cteachable moment,\u201d it is Japan, now.\nEnergy and Resources, Featured, Global Warming and Climate Change, Sustainable Development\nRevisiting the Big Push: A Strategy for Scaling Up Renewable Energy\n29 December 2010 Alan AtKisson\t1 Comment\nWhile the Canc\u00fan climate talks were under way, I published several different versions of the following short essay, which first appeared as a blog post in \u201cTriple Crisis,\u201d then as a comment in Eurovoice newspaper\u2019s \u201cComment:Visions,\u201d and finally is slated for publication in the academic journal Solutions. Here is the Comment:Visions version:\nIn late 2009, the United Nations quietly published a strategy paper describing what may be the most powerful single intervention in the global endgame on carbon. (I led the writing of this paper as a consultant to the United Nations Division of Sustainable Development, but the ideas largely came from other people, inside and outside the UN system.) Called the \u201cBig Push,\u201d the strategy builds around three key elements:\n(1) Establishing feed-in tariff mechanisms globally (that is, guaranteed-purchase price supports for renewable energy)\n(2) Investing heavily in renewable energy in the developing world through those mechanisms, and\n(3) Providing an array of technical and policy support services to speed adoption and implementation.\nPursuing such a strategy would help the world decarbonize much more quickly, because it would accelerate the drop in price for renewables dramatically, using the enormous scales of the market for energy in developing countries \u2014 who urgently need clean, affordable energy services most. The logic here also builds on historical examples, such as the rapid drop in computer chip prices that was engineered by the U.S. government through its purchasing policy in the 1960s.\nEconomic modeling demonstrated that a \u201cBig Push\u201d strategy, while it looked expensive relative to the levels of aid and investment on offer in the global negotiating process, paid enormous dividends. Per capita incomes would rise much faster than a business-as-usual scenrio \u2014 in every region of the world. The poorest developing countries would experience a massive uplift in incomes, and even the already wealthy countries would get wealthier. The \u201cBig Push\u201d of initial subsidies would result in renewable energy becoming the default investment option (without any subsidy) in just 10-20 years, at a price affordable to all.\nSo why is this idea not on the table now?\nFirst, the dollar figures probably look scary. Renewable energy will eventually become fully competitive with fossil fuels anyway; it\u2019s just not happening fast enough. To make it happen \u201cfast enough\u201d requires placing orders for about a thousand extra gigawatts of solar energy (over what the market would generate on its own), and 100-200 extra GW of wind energy, as soon as possible, at an investment cost of USD 1 to 1.5 trillion, spread over ten years or so.\nThat sounds like a lot of money. But it equates to about 10 years of what was already pledged at Copenhagen ($100 billion annually), and only two years of U.S. defense spending. And the paybacks, once again, are enormous: improved incomes, better quality of life, and reduced climate risk, all around the world.\nAnd it would happen about as fast as one could possibly imagine, in real political, economic, and technical terms. The \u201cBig Push\u201d would help renewable, carbon-free energy get over the hump of initial investment costs, after which the market would kick into overdrive, as it did for computer chips.\nWhat about the risks? Deutsche Bank, working with the UN Secretary-General\u2019s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, has already through the details of the investment scheme that would be necessary, including the insurance and risk management, in their \u201cGET FiT\u201d program (\u201cGlobal Energy Transfer Feed-in Tariffs for Developing Countries\u201d), published in April of 2010.\nWhat about the capacity issues in these countries? There the Big Push strategy looks to the successful example of the Green Revolution, with its army of technical experts, extension workers, trainers, and support mechanisms of other kinds, which helped whole countries retool their agricultural systems with amazing speed.\nAnd finally, what about the politics? How hard is to roll out a feed-in tariff program globally? The answer is, it\u2019s already happening. Country by country, feed-in tariff mechanisms are already law (well over 50 countries already have it), or in the process of becoming law, in countries as diverse as Kenya, Egypt, Serbia, and Byelorussia.\nThe economics works. The technology is there. The political mechanisms are already moving into place. What\u2019s lacking, then? Only a shared vision that we really can pull together, and push hard on a big problem.\nThere are obviously many things we need to do to create a carbon-neutral society. But for accelerating the process, I see no better candidate than the Big Push.\nLink to Comment:Visions\nDownload original UN paper:\nEnergy and Resources, Global Warming and Climate Change, Sustainability\nBill McKibben on Climate Change: The Depressing Bad News, and the Amazing Power of People to Create Good News\nBill McKibben takes question on climate change in Sigtuna, Sweden\nI\u2019m attending a conference in Sweden called Climate Existence. I\u2019m here not as a speaker, for once; I\u2019m here as a musician, scheduled to perform this evening. I\u2019ll blog some of the highlights over the course of the day. Here is what was happening just as I walked in (late) to the event, in Sigtuna, Sweden: Bill McKibben\u2019s lecture, blogged in its entirety.\nI walk in to the Climate Existence conference just as Bill McKibben (founder of 350.org) is warming up \u2026 and talking about how quickly the planet is warming up. Nineteen countries set new temperature records this past summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Pakistan set the all-time temperature record for all of Asia. Russia\u2019s heat wave alone reduced\nThe atmosphere is 4-5% \u201cwetter\u201d (more humid) than it was just a few decades ago. All that wet air translates to a lot more rain. This creates much greater risk of torrential downpours and flooding events.\nUp by the Khyber Pass, which usually gets 1 meter of rain per year, about 4 meters fell in the space of a week. Stream flow gauges recorded stream flow more than 50% greater than the previous peak in 1929 \u2026 before the gauges themselves were washed away. The result was the drowning of Pakistan in geopolitically destabilizing floods, watched in horror around the world.\nThat\u2019s the result of just 1 degree average warming. We are locked in to getting another degree. And if we are not able to stop burning fossil fuel far more quickly than we\u2019re planning now, we\u2019re going to get 4-5 degrees.\n\u201cThe bottom line is, we do not want to find out what 4-5 degrees looks like. There\u2019s no reason to think we can sustain our civilization under those conditions,\u201d says McKibben, for reasons ranging from sea level rise to depressed food production \u2014 40-50% less grain production, for example.\nMcKibben\u2019s Conclusions, his interpretation of the \u201cScientific Bottom Line\u201d:\n\u201c(1) We need a very, very quick transition off fossil fuel.\n(2) Even if we do that, we\u2019ll have to change a lot of other things to adapt to those changes we\u2019ve already locked in.\n(3) If we cannot make that transition off fossil fuel, then the temperature will likely rise enough that effective adaptation becomes impossible.\u201d\n\u201cThat puts in place a set of parameters that have to especially with speed.\u201d\nContinue reading Bill McKibben on Climate Change: The Depressing Bad News, and the Amazing Power of People to Create Good News \u2192\nCities, Towns, Regions, Energy and Resources, Global Warming and Climate Change, Personal, Sustainability\nEco-House, Normal House\n22 February 2010 Alan AtKisson\t1 Comment\nAtKisson House from the front - workers install the final piece, grating to a French balcony\nA Little Weblog Essay about Our New House, and its Various Environmental and Sustainable Features and Benefits\nThis week my family moves into a new house that we have just finished building \u2014 or rather, that the builders have just finished building, financed by the proceeds on the sale of our previous apartment (we sold it a year and a half ago, just before the financial crisis, and have been renting a little place since then). We have the additional help of a loan from our local bank, to whom we will be paying interest for years and years to come. But at the moment, looking at the now-complete physical realization of a dream, this financial commitment seems more than worth it.\nThe house is our design (drawn by my wife, Kristina AtKisson), from floor to roof, and we\u2019ve tried think \u201ceco\u201d and \u201csustainable\u201d every step of the way. At the same time, we wanted to build a \u201cnormal\u201d house. This has always been our ambition: to demonstrate how normal it is to be sustainable.\nSo, from the outside, there is nothing about this house that says \u201cgreen.\u201d You can\u2019t tell by looking at it.\nWhat\u2019s so green and sustainable about this house? Here comes the virtual tour \u2026\nA Good Piece of Land\nWe start with the lot itself. We chose a southwest-facing slope, which means we will get the benefit sunlight for much of the year. This will bring needed heat and light in spring and fall, reducing our energy costs. (Nobody in Sweden gets much sun in the winter.) You can bet we\u2019ll be growing some vegetables, probably in terraced plots. And right behind our house, on the top of the hill, is preserved natural land. Our backyard is berries, trees, a small pond, and the little forts built by day-care and school kids who come there to play.\nEfficiency in Overall Form\nThen there is the shape of the house: cubic, with a peaked roof, which is close to spherical as you can get (a sphere being the best shape from an energy-and-thermodynamics perspective).\nSunlight Streaming Through the Windows\nOn sun-facing side, there are lots of highly-efficient triple-glazed doors and windows to let in that sunlight when it\u2019s around, and hold in the heat when it\u2019s not. Those windows are also \u201cbio-clean\u201d glass, which means we\u2019re using a tiny bit of bio-mimicry in that product, as the structure of the glass will naturally shed a lot of the dirt that would otherwise accumulate.\nThe house is made of wood, and the wood itself comes \u2014 to the highest degree we could specify \u2014 from Swedish forests managed under Forestry Stewardship Council\u2019s sustainability standards. Most of the framing etc. is FSC certified; other bits, like the floor, are from vendors who use FSC lumber, but have not bothered to get formal certification (which costs them money). About three-quarters of Sweden\u2019s commercial forests are managed in this way.\nThe ComfortZone heat exchanger, next to the downstairs shower\nHeat from \u2026 Heat\nTo heat the water for showers, laundry, and the heating pipes that run through the cement under the wood floors, we have a heat exchanger that pulls the warmth out of the air and wastewater and re-circulates that warmth into the house (and adds new heat as necessary from electricity). When we showed the specs on this unit to our builder, he was amazed: it has the same efficiency as a groundwater-based heat exchange system, which extracts heat from deep wells. We\u2019ll occasionally add more heat to the air with an efficient, enclosed, wood-burning fireplace as well (also eco-labeled); and that heat will also get re-circulated through this system.\nNot \u201cPassive,\u201d but \u201cActive\u201d \u2014 with Almost the Same Efficiency\nWe decided not to go for the increasingly popular \u201cpassive house\u201d design, which means your home heating needs (though not your hot water) are covered by body heat and waste heat from the lights and machines in your house. For one thing, we don\u2019t have so many lights or machines on usually; and the ones we have are highly efficient. We didn\u2019t want to be dependent on these secondary heat sources.\nBut we do aim to achieve the same energy consumption levels of a passive house, by keeping the thermostats lower and generally thinking a lot about energy consumption. And our walls are extra thick, extra tight, and extra insulated. (Source of the insulation material: recycled glass.) The walls are not quite as thick as for a passive house, but that was a trade-off we made in order to increase the light coming in through the windows. (I confess: quite a number of decisions were made with aesthetics and comfort in mind first, and environmental performance second.)\nSomewhere, a Windmill is Making our Electrons \u2026 but Someday the Sun Will Too\nAs our source of electricity, we purchase certified wind energy off the grid. We do this through a major supplier, rather than smaller, alternative wind cooperative (there are a number of these in Sweden), in order to add our voice to the \u201cnormal\u201d market demand signal: \u201cMake more renewable energy, please!\u201d\nBut we\u2019re thinking ahead, and we had the builders prepare the house for future installation of solar photovoltaic panels. The hookups are all ready; we just decided to build the house first, and take our time with studying the solar energy options and watching how the technology develops. (I\u2019ve heard some really exciting things about new solar cells.)\nEco-labeled kitchen, and eco-labeled fireplace\nA Green Kitchen\nActually, it\u2019s white, and stainless steel \u2026 but all the cabinets, counter, the faucet etc. are officially eco-labeled (\u201cenvironmentally marked\u201d as we say in Swedish). So are the windows and the front door and anything else that we could find with an eco-labeled option available.\nAnd All the Best, Efficient, Ultra-Normal Equipment\nWe installed the usual (for our part of the world) washer, dryer, refrigerator, dishwasher and stove \u2014 and they all have the highest energy ratings available on the Swedish market. The fridge has a futuristic looking \u201cSave Energy\u201d reminder built right into the door. The dryer we\u2019ll use only when line-drying doesn\u2019t work, and the dishwasher \u2026 well, I\u2019m the lazy one in the family who wanted a dishwasher in the first place, and produced research data showing that the total energy consumption and environmental impact per dish was lower than with hand-washing.\nDon\u2019t Forget the Sweaters and Socks and \u2026\nReally, we like wearing sweaters inside in the winter. It\u2019s cozy. It\u2019s good for you. And T-shirt-temperatures inside a house just feel weird when there is eighty centimeters of snow outside your window. There are lots of other little tricks to reducing energy demand, and we try to use all of them, like not draining all the bath water out right away, but waiting until it gives off all its heat first. (The heat exchanger grabs even more heat from the room-temperature water before it departs the premises, re-circulating even more heat back into the house.)\nSo, What\u2019s *Not* So Eco About this House?\nWell, building a house is hardly an energy efficient, environmentally friendly affair. Trees get cut down. Rock gets blown up and rubble gets moved around with heavy machinery. Delivery trucks come, garbage trucks go, and workers come and go in their large, petroleum-driven vehicles.\nAnd there\u2019s plenty of stuff in our house that is not exactly on the approved list among hard-core greens. Take the aluminum roof: it\u2019s durable, it looks great, but we don\u2019t know where the aluminum came from \u2014 and we do know that wherever it came from, it had a huge environmental impact. (Industry people tell us the aluminum in the roof is from recycled sources, but we haven\u2019t verified that yet.) Some folks would also scoff at the foam in the rear support wall, a petroleum product; bit it also happens to be a great insulator, and it\u2019s keeping that carbon dioxide bound up for as long as the house stands.\nNeighbors to us who built even greener used organic insulation; but we chose the ordinary mineral variety, scared off by one friend\u2019s bad experience with rotting insulation, and pleased to learn that the source of the insulation fibers was recycled glass. \u201cOrganic\u201d doesn\u2019t always mean \u201csustainable.\u201d\nOf course the cement for the foundation has its big carbon emissions price. But really, the biggest climate criminal in our house-building story is not the house.\nIt\u2019s the car.\nI\u2019ve written about our car before: an 85% ethanol-driven Ford Flexifuel. We made so many extra trips in that car during the building process \u2014 because we lived farther away from school temporarily, and because we had so many extra errands to run \u2014 that I suspect a serious analysis would show our increased car use to be one of the largest sources of increased carbon emissions, even compared to other parts of the building process. After we have moved in, and the house shifts into \u201cuse\u201d phase (see below), the car is sure to be our biggest source of environmental impact, because the impact of the house itself \u2014 driven on renewable energy \u2014 will be pretty close to zero.\nThat\u2019s why my wife wants to just get rid of the car. Again, I\u2019m the resistant one, arguing (okay, I\u2019m stretching it) that we at least need to able to respond to emergencies, get to the fairly-distant hospital quickly, etc. Maybe I just like knowing that I can go grocery shopping at 8:30 at night, when the buses are few and far between.\nBut we\u2019re seriously looking at abandoning the car once we move back into our neighborhood and settle back into our regular routines of bus, bike, and walking transport. Or (this is more realistic, given my confessed laziness), getting a plug-in electric hybrid once they come on the market. In any case, we want our car-related carbon emissions, already reduced thanks to our Swedish-Brazilian ethanol, to go down drastically.\nBecause It\u2019s the Use Phase that Really Counts\nIn life cycle analysis of consumer products, it\u2019s very often the use phase \u2014 the many years of actual living in a house, wearing a garment, driving a car \u2014 that has by far the largest environmental impact. We\u2019re going to estimate our climate impact for the actual building process, and take steps to \u201cneutralize\u201d it as best we can. But we\u2019ll focus mostly on living in ways that reduce our climatic and environmental impact in the long run \u2014 not just with regard to the house, but also with what we buy, and what daily choices we make.\nThe distance to my office, for example, is going to be dramatically reduced \u2026 to about 15 meters. We\u2019ve built a small free-standing cottage in back of the lot, by the forest, that I\u2019ll use as my main office and studio. Wind energy will drive my computers and internet link (though not the internet itself, of course), and I\u2019ll be running more and more of my trainings and meetings via the web, from there.\nWe\u2019re not trying to be eco-saints; we\u2019re trying to be eco-normal, in a suburban Swedish context. The whole point of building this house was to be able to live closer to the natural world (I love having a forest right out the back door), and closer to our sustainability values. It was a big investment, but we also think the overall running costs in financial terms will be the same, or lower, compared to where we were living before.\nAnd of course, the quality of life will be higher. Our daughters are excited to have their own rooms for the first time. And I\u2019m looking forward to waking up every day in my wife\u2019s truly lovely architectural design, looking out at a giant old oak and a mature (tasty) apple tree, in a community of good friends and neighbors.\nBoth Kristina and I are well aware, maybe even achingly aware, that what is super-efficient \u201ceco-normal\u201d for us \u2014 a small-to-medium sized house by modern Swedish standards, in a normal Stockholm suburban area \u2014 is still super-luxury compared to most of the world. So this house, the dream that took over two years to convert into a reality, will be our \u201chome base\u201d for our continued work to try to help make that world greener, fairer \u2026 and hopefully, more sustainable.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 385, "original_length": 83708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://all-story.com/issues/50/stories/424", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7XCZ5LRC5BB3CPCN7HL3I3E5MMYCNQUU", "length": 558, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "all-story.com", "title": "Zoetrope: All-Story: Issues", "raw_content": "by A. L. Kennedy\nDan never explained why he woke up so early, or what it was that made him leave the flat. Folk wouldn\u2019t get it if he told them, so he didn\u2019t tell. He\u2019d just head off out there and be ready for the pre-light, the dayshine you could see at around 4 a.m.\u2014something about 4 at this point in the year\u2014he\u2019d be under that, right inside it. Daily. Without fail. Put on the soft shoes, jersey, tracky bottoms, and the baseball cap and then off down the stairs to his street. His territory. Best to think of it as his\u2014this way it was welcoming and OK.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alltopstartups.com/2018/07/04/are-there-other-sites-like-upwork/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DBMHLDFM2OLAYVGJNCQIT6TW5MA3QTJD", "length": 3130, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "alltopstartups.com", "title": "Are There Other Sites Like UpWork? - AllTopStartups", "raw_content": "Are There Other Sites Like UpWork?\nAre you trying to receive work outside of UpWork? Find out how in this quick post!\nYou might have an online business, or maybe you\u2019re a freelancer who wants to receive more work. While it is a popular option, there are some Upwork alternatives that are available. So in this quick guide, we\u2019ll show you the ones that you should try.\nOne of the largest issues with freelance marketplaces is that you have to trust that your freelancer will complete the job fully. While you can check their portfolios, it\u2019s not always an accurate portrayal of their skills.\nCredo is one of the many upwork alternatives that solve this problem. It solves this issue by checking the credentials of their providers before placing them on the site.\nUnlike most freelance marketplaces, Credo works specifically in the SEO and marketing field. Once you land on the site, you can pick from the following services that are available:\nOnce you\u2019ve found out what providers you want to work for you. And that\u2019s because these providers have been selected by Credo\u2019s founder. As a result, you can be confident that you\u2019re receiving top-quality talent for your project.\nFiverr is known for being the largest online service for freelance services on demand. Originally, they offered $5 services. Now, they\u2019ve allowed for freelancers to charge their own prices for their services.\nAs one would suspect, Fiverr won\u2019t yield a high income, unlike other Upwork alternatives. While the power is in the seller\u2019s hands and there are limited buyers\u2019 options, Fiverr is a great place for first-time freelancers.\nOf the sites that are similar to UpWork, this one is the most unique. Even though UpWork is a competitor, Fiverr has a different business model and is good for projects that you wouldn\u2019t use UpWork for.\nIf you need high-quality writing, Text Broker is the way to go. Like Fiverr, its an alternative to UpWork, but it handles things differently.\nFor instance, TextBroker ensures that you\u2019ll get all of your work done. Even if your hired writer is sick, unable to complete the job, or because they don\u2019t choose to complete the project, TextBroker will complete the project.\nTextBroker works with buyers requesting content and matching their request with the thousands of writers on its system. Writers are categorized by their skill levels, and their pricing matches up with it. If writers aren\u2019t able to complete your project, it will be reassigned automatically.\nThe only downside of this platform is that there is a limited amount of communication. And you do get what you paid for. For example, if you pay for a low-quality writer, then expect the content to be subpar.\nWhile the site does boast of having high-quality writers, it\u2019s better that you form professional relationships with your writers directly. This is because the online content marketing business has a few gray areas and you need a team of good writers that can meet your expectations.\nTo conclude, we believe that there is a myriad of upwork alternatives that are available. Don\u2019t limit yourself to just Upwork, try to utilize all of the options available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alphaomegampreg.com/hetalia-spamano-mpreg-mpreg-film.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:10Z", "digest": "sha1:BIVNHLURDQ6L2JLCJ3NWMTEHEEX44KXH", "length": 506, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "alphaomegampreg.com", "title": "Got7 Jinyoung Mpreg Fanfiction Ff Mpreg End | Mpreg Fic Recs Mpreg Junjou Romantica", "raw_content": "Jimmy\u2019s eyes blinked as he tried to understand what was happening. Jimmy\u2019s mind was racing. He wanted to ask about the baby but he couldn\u2019t for some reason form words. He just looked deep into Allen. \u00a0Jimmy nodded his head as Allen began to move his lips again. \u201cLook, I\u2019m so sorry Jimmy. Last night was a mistake. I should have never brought you here. I\u2019m your teacher. You\u2019re my student. This is wrong. I could get fired for this. You\u2019re such a bright and attractive boy, but you\u2019re just a boy. I shouldn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 15194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 180.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://altoday.com/archives/10470-email-insights-former-alabama-attorney-general-makes-donald-trumps-supreme-court-short-list", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LLODJGWMTVAR3FPU3ICQTFGHTEGGD47Q", "length": 8041, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "altoday.com", "title": "Former Alabama AG makes Donald Trump's Supreme Court short-list", "raw_content": "Email insights: Former Alabama Attorney General makes Donald Trump\u2019s Supreme Court short-list\nBy Elizabeth Patton on\t May 18, 2016 2017, Slider\nPresumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump unveiled a list Wednesday of 11 federal and state judges he would consider nominating to fill the vacant seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, including former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor.\nThe list also includes: Steven Colloton of Iowa, Allison Eid of Colorado, Raymond Gruender of Missouri, Thomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania, Raymond Kethledge of Michigan, Joan Larsen of Michigan, Thomas Lee of Utah, David Stras of Minnesota, Diane Sykes of Wisconsin and Don Willett of Texas.\nA highly unusual move for a presidential candidate, the announcement comes as Trump is working to unite a highly fractured Republican Party and win over conservatives still skeptical of his candidacy and views.\nTrump told Fox News Wednesday: \u201cI have a lot of people that are conservative that really like me, love everything I stand for, but they really would like to know my view, because perhaps outside of the defense of our country, perhaps the single most important thing the next president is going to have to do is pick Supreme Court justices.\u201d\nIn the announcement, Trump said he planned to use the list \u201cas a guide to nominate our next United States Supreme Court Justices\u201d and said the names are \u201crepresentative of the kind of constitutional principles I value.\u201d\nRead Trump\u2019s full email announcement below:\n(New York, NY) May 18, 2016 \u2014 Today Donald J. Trump released the much-anticipated list of people he would consider as potential replacements for Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court. This list was compiled, first and foremost, based on constitutional principles, with input from highly respected conservatives and Republican Party leadership.\nMr. Trump stated, \u201cJustice Scalia was a remarkable person and a brilliant Supreme Court Justice. His career was defined by his reverence for the Constitution and his legacy of protecting Americans\u2019 most cherished freedoms. He was a Justice who did not believe in legislating from the bench and he is a person whom I held in the highest regard and will always greatly respect his intelligence and conviction to uphold the Constitution of our country. The following list of potential Supreme Court justices is representative of the kind of constitutional principles I value and, as President, I plan to use this list as a guide to nominate our next United States Supreme Court Justices.\u201d\nSteven Colloton of Iowa is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, a position he has held since President George W. Bush appointed him in 2003. Judge Colloton has a r\u00e9sum\u00e9 that also includes distinguished service as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, a Special Assistant to the Attorney General in the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel, and a lecturer of law at the University of Iowa. He received his law degree from Yale, and he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Judge Colloton is an Iowa native.\nAllison Eid of Colorado is an associate justice of the Colorado Supreme Court. Colorado Governor Bill Owens appointed her to the seat in 2006; she was later retained for a full term by the voters (with 75 percent of voters favoring retention). Before her judicial service, Justice Eid served as Colorado\u2019s solicitor general and as a law professor at the University of Colorado. Justice Eid attended the University of Chicago Law School, and she clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.\nRaymond Gruender of Missouri has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since his 2004 appointment by President George W. Bush. Judge Gruender, who sits in St. Louis, Missouri, has extensive prosecutorial experience, culminating with his time as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. Judge Gruender received a law degree and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis.\nThomas Hardiman of Pennsylvania has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since 2007. Before serving as a circuit judge, he served as a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania since 2003. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Hardiman worked in private practice in Washington, D.C. and Pittsburgh. Judge Hardiman was the first in his family to attend college, graduating from Notre Dame.\nRaymond Kethledge of Michigan has been a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit since 2008. Before his judicial service, Judge Kethledge served as judiciary counsel to Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham, worked as a partner in two law firms, and worked as an in-house counsel for the Ford Motor Company. Judge Kethledge obtained his law degree from the University of Michigan and clerked for Justice Anthony Kennedy.\nJoan Larsen of Michigan is an Associate Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Justice Larsen was a professor at the University of Michigan School of Law from 1998 until her appointment to the bench. In 2002, she temporarily left academia to work as an Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel. Justice Larsen received her law degree from Northwestern and clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia.\nThomas Lee of Utah has been an Associate Justice of the Utah Supreme Court since 2010. Beginning in 1997, he served on the faculty of Brigham Young University Law School, where he still teaches in an adjunct capacity. Justice Lee was Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department\u2019s Civil Division from 2004 to 2005. Justice Lee attended the University of Chicago Law School, and he clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. Justice Lee is also the son of former U.S. Solicitor General Rex Lee and the brother of current U.S. Senator Mike Lee.\nWilliam H. Pryor, Jr. of Alabama is a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He has served on the court since 2004. Judge Pryor became the Alabama Attorney General in 1997 upon Jeff Sessions\u2019s election to the U.S. Senate. Judge Pryor was then elected in his own right in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. In 2013, Judge Pryor was confirmed to a term on the United States Sentencing Commission. Judge Pryor received his law degree from Tulane, and he clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.\nDavid Stras of Minnesota has been an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court since 2010. After his initial appointment, he was elected to a six-year term in 2012. Before his judicial service, Judge Stras worked as a legal academic at the University of Minnesota Law School. In his time there, he wrote extensively about the function and structure of the judiciary. Justice Stras received his law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Kansas. He clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas.\nDiane Sykes of Wisconsin has served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit since 2004. Before her federal appointment, Judge Sykes had been a Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court since 1999 and a Wisconsin trial court judge of both civil and criminal matters before that. Judge Sykes received her law degree from Marquette.\nDon Willett of Texas has been a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court since 2005. He was initially appointed by Governor Rick Perry and has been re-elected by the voters twice. Before his judicial service, Judge Willett worked as a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, as an adviser in George W. Bush\u2019s gubernatorial and presidential administrations, as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department\u2019s Office of Legal Policy, and as a Deputy Attorney General under then-Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Justice Willett received his law degree and a master\u2019s degree from Duke.\nEmail insights: Former Alabama AG makes RealDonaldTrump\u2019s Supreme Court short-list https://t.co/tQLHLvWHt3 #ALPolitics #Election2016 Alaba\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 11794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 102.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alzheimer.ca/en/Home/Living-with-dementia/Caring-for-someone/End-of-life-care/Funeral-memorial-arrangements", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:52Z", "digest": "sha1:4DRJFP3BBIR7JRSKTZI3A4BPCUSRZMYE", "length": 3186, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "alzheimer.ca", "title": "Funeral / memorial arrangements | Alzheimer Society of Canada", "raw_content": "Home > Living with dementia > Caring for someone > Dementia and end-of-life care > Funeral / memorial arrangements\nFuneral / memorial arrangements\nIn the early stages of the disease, you can help the person with dementia choose to make all or most of their arrangements in advance of death, such as the planning and pre-payment for a funeral or memorial service, and burial or cremation. The advantages of doing this early on are that the person with dementia is able to make their wishes known and you are not requested to make many difficult decisions or arrangements.\nEven if you haven\u2019t done a great deal of advance planning, it is very helpful to make some preliminary plans in advance regarding the choice of funeral director, the type of service and where it will be held, who will officiate, whether you want music or readings, and whether a burial or cremation is preferred.\n\u201cPre-planning the funeral while my mom still had her faculties was a huge help. I couldn\u2019t imagine having to go through all that without her direction.\u201d \u2013 Debbie George, a caregiver in Halifax\nFor other people, however, making arrangements in advance may seem too final an action or too emotionally difficult. Whatever the degree of planning that has been done, it is important to know about the arrangements that need to be made after death.\nPractical things to consider\nIf the death is likely to occur in a long-term care home or hospital:\nTalk with the staff in advance if your faith, cultural or ethnic background requires any special customs or rituals after death, so that they can plan with you.\nAsk about end-of-life programs such as a guest room for privacy, comfort baskets and dignity robes to prepare the body for final viewing.\nThe long-term care home may also have a respectful ritual to honour the person and family when the body is removed.\nIf the death is likely to occur at home:\nCommunicate with health-care providers (such as home care nurses) who need to be contacted at the time of death. As soon as possible after the person dies, an appropriate medical professional such as a doctor or nurse must be contacted to pronounce death. It may not be appropriate to call the emergency services if aggressive treatment is not in keeping with the person\u2019s wishes, since ambulance crews are required by law to provide aggressive life-saving treatment unless a Do not resuscitate (DNR) order is in place.\nWrite a newspaper obituary.\nMake decisions about gifts to charity. Include the information in the obituary.\nKeep a record of cards, visitors and donations so these can be acknowledged later.\nWhen planning the timing of the funeral, consider the schedules of people coming from out of town.\nSome people record the service so the words can be replayed anytime and be sent to those who could not attend the service.\n\"I wanted to do my mom\u2019s eulogy. That was the end of the journey together through Alzheimer\u2019s. My niece wrote a poem for mom and read it at the funeral. Mom had a lot of the arrangements pre-planned, which was a huge relief for me.\" \u2013 Debbie George, a caregiver in Nova Scotia\nPlanning a funeral from Canadian Virtual Hospice\nNext section: Physical changes at end of life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americandiversityreport.com/category/portrait-innovator-engineer-educator-dr-ed-mcmahon-deborah-levine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RIVA75KQZH7J3UV7DPJPY4F3ZCI4LDMR", "length": 9389, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "americandiversityreport.com", "title": "Portrait of an Innovator, Engineer, and Educator: Dr. Ed McMahon - by Deborah Levine - AMERICAN DIVERSITY REPORT", "raw_content": "McMahon chose to relocate in Chattanooga and become a member of the faculty almost thirty-five years ago. He left the New Jersey area where he\u2019d lived, studied chemical engineering (Rutgers University B.S., New York University: M.A., Ph.D.), and worked for corporations such as Sonoco Products and Lever Bros. After fifteen years in industry, several patents for chemical engineering-related products, and a chemical fire that burned his lungs, McMahon turned to teaching. Ed was hired by the Dean of the College, Dr. Ron Cox, who is now the Burkett Miller Chair of Excellence and Professor of Engineering Management & Technology.\nCox explains how most college faculty at that time had experience in industry, were registered engineers, and had earned doctorates. \u201cThere were multiple additional reasons why Ed McMahon was hired: his ability to communicate and his ability to express scientific and design principles. His experience in industry included product design and development as well as management. Ed understood how to apply the principles of research in an academic setting.\u201d Cox noted that Ed was a key player in developing the Engineering Management department, which is the largest graduate program in the college, attracting students of all ages, backgrounds, and experience.\nMcMahon (center) checking out a student\u2019s work\nCox described Ed\u2019s innovative work, \u201cIn addition to being an integral part of developing online education and certificate programs, Ed\u2019s innovative work was a critical component of a full-year senior interdisciplinary design program. The College became known for its interdisciplinary design education. Representatives from the academic world visited to understand how the program was put together including MIT, Auburn University, and the Universities of Minnesota and Texas.\u201d\nDr. Neslihan Alp is the current Department Head of Engineering Management and Technology and Director of Graduate Programs for the College of Engineering and Computer Science. Educated at both the University of Missouri-Rolla and Istanbul Technical University, she describes McMahon\u2019s openness to her and other international faculty. \u201cVery welcoming, like a big brother. I\u2019ll always trust him.\u201d\nAlp fondly reminisces about how Ed\u2019s office in the early days was filled with a collection of old irons. \u201cHe bought them from garage sales and flea markets \u2013 hundreds of them. He analyzed their design and the design changes over the years.\u201d Today, cars have replaced the irons, but the curiosity remains. He recently bought a Prius to see how it worked. Ed\u2019s home includes a huge barn where he keeps his collection of old English sports cars and a VW van from the sixties.\nDeveloping online learning was one of Alp\u2019s goals. While many senior faculty were reluctant, Ed was ahead of his time in technology and excited to work on the project. \u201cHe was fascinated by technology and computers and was first in the department to use a Mac, to purchase an iPad and an iPhone.\u201d While deeply invested in technology trends, it\u2019s teaching design and the design course that will can turn up the volume and emotion for the usually soft-spoken, mild-mannered McMahon.\nAlp is one of many international faculty members that McMahon befriended. He and Dr. Ahmed H. Eltom, who was educated in Sudan and is currently the Head Electrical Engineering Department, have lunch together almost every day. Eltom describes one of their collaborations. \u201cWe developed a course on energy for high schools to train teachers and create a course on Energy Systems for Hamilton county HS curriculum with models for Middle School. The effort promoted electrical engineering and received a 2.4 million dollar grant from the Dept. of Energy from 2010-2014. It was on of the largest grants in the history of the university. Ed was my right hand man. He helped write the grant, design the course, and oversaw the budget. Ed, himself the former Head of the Electrical Engineering Department, has helped increase enrollment at CECS and opened many doors for international faculty.\u201d\nIn 2014, when Dr. Alp was told that she\u2019d be the Interim Dean, Ed was going to retire and Gerry, his wife, had already retired. Ed and Gerry went to Nesli\u2019s house where she asked them to reconsider. She asked Ed to take over the department for one year. He agreed to stay on and then retire, but came back when Nesli was asked to continue as interim dean for several more months. \u201cEd is a special, different kind of person and we\u2019ve changed roles multiple times, one above, one below, through the years\u201d Alp said.\nMcMahon is deeply invested in the next generation. One of his proteges, Dr. Trevor Elliott, an alum of UTC and the University of Tennessee Space Institute, is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the College. Elliott met McMahon in 2000 when he was an IT work-study student at the college and later, as a student in McMahon\u2019s senior Interdisciplinary Design Project. The two men share a passion for combining technology with other disciplines and Elliot became one of Ed\u2019s proteges. \u201cWe got along well together.\u201d Elliott shared one example of a collaboration \u201cI wanted a fish tank that I didn\u2019t have to clean and Ed wanted to experiment with hydroponics. The result is the fish tank on the first floor of the college that is home to both tilapia and plants grown entirely in water.\nThe CECS hydroponic fish tank\n\u201cEd is good at abstract design, looking at functional analysis and the Big Picture to solve problems unconventionally.\u201d He challenges students to think through design issues and appreciate a non-linear design process as a dynamic retraining of the mind. Ed also teaches team skills in the process. Excellent and guiding students through team negotiations and forming consensus, he uses the diversity on a team to drive creativity and innovation.\u201d\nDr. Aldo McLean, P.E. Assistant Professor, Engineering Management & Technology was expected to overlap with Ed as a newly- hired young faculty person, taking over some of his roles. Ed was in the hospital and interviewed him by phone from his hospital bed. \u201cEd McMahon is That Person\u201d when it comes to computers. More knowledgeable and modern with technology. He designed things before they came out, but was not involved in production. Ed is vibrant, creative, looks for things that don\u2019t exist. He\u2019s underestimated, but doesn\u2019t care. He was a hippy in the sixties. He works with incubators such as Co-Labs and has teams that work on innovation. It doesn\u2019t matter how old he is. He\u2019s focused and his judgement is faultless.\u201d\nWhen Ed next retired, his retirement lasted only twenty-four hours. Dr. Daniel Pack, the new Dean of the college, asked Ed to stay on for a year to assist with his transition. Pack holds numerous awards in science, engineering, and technology and in education and is the former chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Texas. Founding Director, Academy Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems Research United States Air Force Academy.\n\u201cEd McMahon\u2019s knowledge of the college has been instrumental in making my transition a smooth one. He thinks through all parts of an issue and makes wise decisions. He is genuinely, the quintessential educator, building relationships with his students, staying connected, and helping them to succeed. The students reach back and stay connected, demonstrating his impact on them.\u201d\nDaniel Pack, Ed McMahon, and Nesli Alp\nAlways adventurous and always learning, Ed loves to travel. He took a sabbatical in England and one in Japan where he learned about value management at the Toyota plant. He is a dedicated family man with a son, three step sons, and a step-daughter. Ed loves to drive down to Florida and go fishing with his wife, Gerry, his 90-year-old mother-in-law and her fianc\u00e9. Ed and Gerry ended up buying a Florida retirement home in Fort Myers.\nEd officially retires on June 30, 2016, but will return in the fall as adjunct faculty and teach his beloved Technical Innovation class. No one is surprised that he\u2019ll carry on. In 2010, Ed was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. Despite having surgery, he didn\u2019t take time off from teaching. That summer he taught from his hospital bed. His health is good now, he exercises every day at 5am at the Y and he indulges his love of soccer in his huge back yard. According to his wife, Gerry, he\u2019ll sign up for fishing lesson on a fishing kayak and eagerly anticipates watching the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins at spring practice near Fort Myers.\nInnovators never stop being creative, and Ed McMahon is no exception. He\u2019s started a nonprofit for the aging population that focuses on building Green homes designed for senior citizens and their needs. Fortunately, Ed can both build the experimental projects himself, or, as an artist, draw designs for others to implement. Ed and Gerry share the goal of making retirement a positive experience including senior-friendly infrastructure of homes and the ability to cook at home while eating economically and healthily. Gerry sums up Ed\u2019s innovative spirit, \u201d Ed\u2019s not going to get bored and he\u2019s not shy about it. He goes out and does what he wants to do. He\u2019s just a great guy who inspires others to do the same.\u201d\nPrevious PostEconomic Trends: A Dialogue with the Fed \u2013 by Deborah LevineNext PostCYBERSPACE and HATE Groups- by Deborah Levine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 15110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amores.com.au/portfolio/3d-animations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WF2VIBYGY2EAPPSF4SFCG72BHSQDBYIN", "length": 921, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "amores.com.au", "title": "3d Animations - Best Animation, Best Price by Amores", "raw_content": "3D Animations. Bring your project to life with our awesome 3d animation, 3D fly-through, 3d walkthrough, 3d renderings. Excellent as Real Estate marketing tool. we also provide 3D photomontage, 3D Visualisation and Marketing Models. 3Drendr is the answer to your critical budgets and marketing demand and deadlines. 3D Animation is a short architectural movie created by architectural 3D artists. A computer-generated model is built along with furniture, building colours, building finishes, fixtures, landscaping and moving people and vehicles. A 3D animation is a series of hundreds of still images. A computer-created environment around the building is added to enhance reality and to better convey its relationship to the surrounding area; giving designers and clients a realistic view of the proposed project. 3D Animation is excellent architectural marketing tool in selling your home or property.\nPREMIUM ANIMATION", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amsterdamshallowman.com/2013/11/good-way-learn-dutch.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:46Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2B5HXGYOIGEQSVSY2QFSH7QACTS4FL7", "length": 4888, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "amsterdamshallowman.com", "title": "A good way to learn Dutch", "raw_content": "Home / Learning Dutch / A good way to learn Dutch\nA good way to learn Dutch\nLearn Dutch watching Dutch braindead TV\nThe Shallow Man loves TV Drama. I grew up watching some great series, the Singing Detective, Our Friends in the North, and the Edge of Darkness to name but a few. In recent years, I\u2019ve loved the Soprano\u2019s, the boardwalk empire, Dexter, Luther and Spartacus and of course Breaking Bad.. All of the shows I\u2019ve named so far are of course American or British shows, which brings me to the subject of todays post.\nI recently received the following message from a faithful reader. \u201cShallow man, I\u2019m relatively new to the Netherlands and have been learning the Dutch language. Are there any good Dutch TV dramas that you would recommend for someone who has a basic Dutch vocabulary and would like to improve?\u201d Here, the shallow man must admit that due to the recent launch of Netflix in the Netherlands, to have spent a fair amount of time watching even more british and american drama. However, I have paused my viewing of Dexter Season two, and put Mad Men on hold, to take a run through hours of contemporary Dutch drama, the things I do for my readers!\nHaving spent many hours reviewing what\u2019s on offer, I have chosen the following TV shows, which are ideal for anyone that would like to learn Dutch that is looking to improve their vocabulary, while also sampling some quality TV.\nLearn Dutch with Achter Gesloten Deuren\nOne of the great modern drama shows of our time is Achter Gesloten Deuren (behind closed doors). It\u2019s a drama show where each episode focuses on a \u201creal\u201d incident that has taken place, and is reenacted in the style of a scripted reality TV format.\nThe show has two essential functions. Firstly it provides a lot deservedly out of work actors and actresses the chance to earn enough money for a meal that evening.\nSecondly, it provides parents, who are looking to put their children off taking up acting as a profession a prime example of what can become of people who choose acting for a career.\nI sat through a particularly exciting episode about a guy who is a student in Amsterdam that stays with his father and stepmother, who is a bit of a hottie and much younger than his father. Well, he ends up having an affair with his stepmother, while still having a girlfriend in a different part of the country. The actors and actresses look as if they are reading the lines from an autocue off camera, which in fact they probably are. Emotion is expressed through much raising of eyebrows, shaking of head and gesturing of fingers.\nAre the participants even actually actors and actresses or are they people that the TV company has rounded up from a soup kitchen or homeless shelter and promised a hot meal if they\u2019ll participate in the show? The shallow man wants to know.\nThe good thing about this show is that the dialogue is so simple, that I guarantee that people who are new to the Dutch language will be able to follow it and learn Dutch quickly. Simple TV for the simple minded, and I love every second of it. It\u2019s unintentionally the funniest thing that you\u2019ll ever see on Dutch TV. It\u2019s also great for learning Dutch curse words such as sodemieter op! or my favorite, hou je bek! Where else can you learn such choice phrases? (Apart from this blog)\nhttp://tvblik.nl/achter-gesloten-deuren/46-in-de-val\nThe name of this programme is actually a lie. I\u2019ve watched it and there are only slechte tijden. However, if you like men with lion king hair, and women with a sunbed salon glow, and stories that have been written by interns that have had too much coffee and not enough sleep, then GTST as the fans call it is for you. The show, unusually for the Netherlands is all about looks. I doubt if some of the cast members can even read, all that matters is that they look good and can pull two good facial expressions, one for anger, the other for happiness. Oh actually, an additional one for surprise, as in they are surprised that the show is still on air.\nA great way to learn Dutch\nAgain, the dialogue is so simple that even people that have only been here for a week or two will be able to follow the level of Dutch used in this programme. Indeed, the six year old nephew of a love interest of the shallow man once politely asked me to turn it off as he found it too childish.\nIn the jungle, the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight\nEnjoy these two programmes at your own risk. While I can guarantee that they will improve your understanding of the Dutch language, admitting to people that you watch these shows could limit your social life.\nNo out of work actors were hurt during the writing of this article.\nFor more wisdom on life in the Netherlands read the Amsterdam Confessions of a Shallow Man, click here to order from BOL or Amazon.\nAdult entertainment and oppervlakkig wisdom\nTags Dutch TV goede tijden slechte tijden GTST learn Dutch", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 12676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anitab.org/profiles/abie-award-winners/social-impact/paula-goldman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:11Z", "digest": "sha1:CFZXDUOPB4DLLPTQX5CLBOC2F4NMLPBF", "length": 2261, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "anitab.org", "title": "Paula Goldman - AnitaB.org", "raw_content": "Paula Goldman\nPaula Goldman is the Founder and Director of the Imagining Ourselves project with the International Museum of Women to connect and inspire young women around the world to contribute positive solutions and help their communities. Paula received her B.A from University of California Berkley in Political Economy, Masters From Princeton University in Public Affairs, Human Rights and Community Development and a Ph.D from Harvard, which focused on effective social marketing and \u201cmainstreaming\u201d of human rights causes. Paula can be described as a visionary who is able to translate her vision into strategy and action influencing women and communities around the globe.\nImagining Ourselves utilizes technology, culture and storytelling to inspire and connect women around the world. Imagining Ourselves launched in 2006 and it includes an online exhibit with various themes along with a publish anthology of the project. Over a million young women from around the world have participated in this project. Paula\u2019s project is attributed with positively impacting the lives of the majority of its users and spearheading activism. Imaginings Ourselves helped create a newer model for museums and social media organizations engaging global audiences through technology.\nPaula was able to tap into women connected by the Internet to create a historic dialogue among women utilizing images, writing, personal stories, and media. Imagining Ourselves asked the question \u201cWhat defines your generation of women?\u201d then collecting thousands of responses and digitalizing it to the online exhibit. The online exhibit launched by Paula is unique in the scale of user participation from around the world.\nImagining Ourselves sets forth new themes with its exhibit providing a platform for advocacy and action with partner organizations. Some important organization partnering with the exhibit include: Global Women\u2019s action Network for Children lead by Queen Rania and Madeleine Albright, Yahoo, Global Fund for Women, and the United Nations. Partnering organizations were able to increase web presence, donations, and additional participation. The new online model lead by Paula\u2019s vision proved to be successful and effective in engaging larger audiences globally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anjalirego.com/2009/10/12/why-should-you-vote/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IXVXPTXII22EZ4OUCTZBZCLXDW6AVQ75", "length": 1441, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "anjalirego.com", "title": "Why Should You Vote? | Welcome to the world of Anjali Rego", "raw_content": "\u2190 Sight for the Sightless\nLet there be light and a noise-free diwali \u2192\nCasting a vote allows an individual to express a choice among candidates who wish to become government leaders.\nFailing to register a vote is tantamount to saying you don\u2019t care.\nIf you don\u2019t vote, you are missing out on a great national privilege and a significant personal freedom\nVoting provides a medium for citizens to support the democratic structure. If a majority of citizens choose not to vote, democracy might become a thing of the past and will be replaced by another form of government that might prove more elitist in nature.\nRegistering to vote means that you believe in the democratic process and will participate in it to represent your right to freedom of speech.\nShowing that you care with your vote tells candidates that they must be accountable to the public.\nShowing up at the polling booth on voting day sets a good example to others. Remember, your children observe all that you do and will learn from your example, right or wrong as it may be. Civic awareness is an important part of their training and one of the early steps on the road to maturity. Voting also sets a positive example to neighbours, friends, and family who may be uninterested in or unfamiliar with the electoral system.\nIf you don\u2019t vote you really have no right to complain about government decisions you don\u2019t like.\nTagged as Democracy, Freedom of speech, Government, Voting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=373103", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YMYA3B5GCUU6KYB6WNX356CJFJJ6N6H2", "length": 5103, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "anzctr.org.au", "title": "ANZCTR - Registration", "raw_content": "The Real Happy Study: a prospective assessment of the real-world effectiveness of the HAPIFED program: a Healthy APproach to weIght management and Food in Eating Disorders\nBinge Eating Disorder 303602 0\nBulimia Nervosa 303953 0\nThis study will look at the 'real world' effectiveness of a novel approach to treating overweight/obesity with co-morbid binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa or other specified feeding and eating disorder by way of the HAPIFED program. HAPIFED stands for a Healthy APproach to weIght management and Food in Eating Disorders and combines multidisciplinary behavioural weight loss therapy and enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy.\nHAPIFED will be conducted in groups of up to 10 individuals over 30 sessions of 90 minutes duration, on a weekly basis. The administration of HAPIFED as a treatment will not form a part of this study. Rather, this study will involve the collection of data from consenting individuals who are receiving HAPIFED treatment as recommended by their healthcare professional, regardless of this study.\nHAPIFED treatment will be administered by a multidisciplinary team of clinical psychologists, counsellors and dietitians.\nAll data will be collected through the use of online questionnaires at baseline, week 30, week 52, week 104 and week 156.\nThe proportion of participants who have lost greater than or equal to 5% of their baseline body weight.\nAt 52 weeks following the commencement of treatment.\nThe proportion of participants who have a global score on the EDE-Q that is less than 1 standard deviation above Australian community norms (i.e. below 2.77).\nThe change in absolute weight.\nBaseline and at weeks 30, 52, 104 and 156 following the commencement of treatment.\nThe proportion of participants who achieve greater than or equal to 5% loss of baseline body weight.\nBaseline and at weeks 30, 104 and 156 following the commencement of treatment.\nThe difference in the effect of HAPIFED in relation to the classification of obesity (Class 1,2,3) at baseline.\nThe proportion of participants who no longer have binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa or other specified feeding and eating disorder, as assessed using the EDE-Q.\nSeverity of Eating Disorder using the EDE-Q.\nAt baseline and at weeks 30, 52, 104 and 156 following commencement of treatment.\nNutritional quality of food choices, including the intake of vegetables, fruit and dairy products, as assessed using the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Healthy Diet Score Survey.\nDepression, anxiety and stress, as assessed using the 21-item Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale.\nQuality of Life using the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF12).\nCost Effectiveness of treatment through the use of a specifically designed cost effectiveness and health care utilisation questionnaire.\nThe change in weight as a percentage of body weight.\nThe change in BMI.\nMales and females aged 18 years and over with a BMI of greater than or equal to 25 kg/m2.\nMust meet the diagnostic criteria for binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa or other specified feeding and eating disorder according to the DSM-5.\nPregnant or breast-feeding, or having a desire to become pregnant during the first 52 weeks of the study.\nReceiving current treatment with a weight loss medication. eg: orlistat, phentermine, liraglutide, or treatment in the 5 weeks prior to screening.\nUndergone bariatric surgery or intragastric balloon insertion in the 24 months prior to screening.\nNo greater than 3kg weight change in the 5 weeks preceding screening.\nReceived psychotherapy for treatment of an eating disorder in the 5 weeks preceding screening.\nDiagnosis of a clinical condition that interferes with appetite regulation. eg: Prader-Willi or Cushing's syndrome.\nThe sample size was selected based on a published study of a similar design. Attrition is expected to be approximately 50% at study end (156 weeks).\nThe Boden Institute of Obesity, Nutrition, Exercise & Eating Disorders,\nLevel 2, Charles Perkins Centre,\nJohn Hopkins Drive,\nMetabolism & Obesity Services\nRPAH Medical Centre\nSuite 210A, 100 Carillon Avenue\nThis research study will look at the 'real world' effectiveness of a novel approach to treating overweight/obesity with co-morbid binge eating disorder, bulimia nervosa or other specified feeding and eating disorder by way of the HAPIFED program, which combines behavioural weight loss therapy with enhanced cognitive behaviour therapy.\nIt is hypothesised that the HAPIFED Program will result in an average weight loss of greater than or equal to 5% of body weight in the group overall and in at least 50% of participants. In addition, it will result in a global score on the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) of less than 1 standard deviation above Australian community norms (i.e. below 2.46) in at least 40% of participants, at 52 weeks after commencement of treatment.\nThis study will now be conducted online and participants will be recruited from wherever the HAPIFED program is being implemented.\nMs Andrea Pattinson\nandrea.pattinson@sydney.edu.au", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 409, "original_length": 11897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apktodownload.com/apple-to-donate-to-gulf-coast-relief-as-hurricane-michael-batters-florida-alabama-and-georgia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JRPF3MW2VHBDY3Y5ZG3JQIIWNHIZ4LQG", "length": 2474, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "apktodownload.com", "title": "Apple to donate to Gulf Coast relief as Hurricane Michael batters Florida, Alabama and Georgia | Latest Technology News", "raw_content": "Apple intends to donate an undisclosed sum to relief efforts associated with fallout from Hurricane Michael, which made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 hurricane on Wednesday.\nApple CEO Tim Cook announced the upcoming donation in messages of support of support posted to Twitter.\n\u201cI grew up on the shores of the Gulf Coast, near Pensacola and Mobile, and that region holds a special place in my heart. That\u2019s never been more true than now. To all those communities in the path of Hurricane Michael, you are in my prayers. Please stay safe,\u201d Cook said. \u201cApple is standing with our friends and neighbors in the Gulf Coast region, and will be donating to recovery and relief efforts.\u201d\nWhile the amount of Apple\u2019s donation has yet to be determined, the company typically pledges $1 million to natural disaster relief efforts.\nEarlier this month, Apple donated $1 million to earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Indonesia, while identical contributions went toward programs assisting in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence and the Kerala floods in India last month.\nApple will likely open iTunes donations for the American Red Cross in the near future.\nMichael made landfall on the Florida Panhandle Wednesday afternoon as one of the most powerful storms in the state\u2019s recorded history. The maelstrom came bearing maximum sustained winds of 155 mph, and was characterized by the National Hurricane Center as \u201cpotentially catastrophic,\u201d according to CBS News.\nAs of this writing, Michael has killed at least one person in Florida and is packing 100 mph winds as it travels over parts of Alabama and Georgia.\nAre the articles we share useful for you? Apple to donate to Gulf Coast relief as Hurricane Michael batters Florida, Alabama and Georgia, We hope that the contents of this article can provide useful information for you. Thank you for visiting. \ud83d\ude42\nSource: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/10/10/apple-to-donate-to-gulf-coast-relief-as-hurricane-michael-batters-florida-georgia\nHarvey\u2019s not over, but Hurricane Irma is now headed\u2026\nHurricane Irma: all the news on one of the strongest\u2026\nRed Cross to start testing drones in disaster relief efforts\nGoogle offers free repairs to Pixel owners affected\u2026\nHow did Hurricane Harvey get so strong?\nPuerto Ricans tap solvent-tainted water supply at\u2026\nApple turns retail logos red for World AIDS Day\nWeather Channel continues its terrifying mixed\u2026\nPixel 3 vs Pixel 2: How does Google\u2019s new phone stack up to its predecessor?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aplacecalledheaven.com/heaven-twilight-zone-eternal-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RHQJECHOARFEP2HA5E4RHGRXKJY6AUP4", "length": 2017, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "aplacecalledheaven.com", "title": "Heaven: Twilight Zone or Eternal Home - Pathway to Victory", "raw_content": "When people wonder about the location of heaven, they are usually thinking about more than just the direction it is in. They are really inquiring about the realm in which heaven exists. They want to know if heaven is part of our time-space universe\u2014far, far away, perhaps, but still somewhere that can be located. Or does heaven exist in a completely different dimension, outside of and beyond time and space (like the \u201cfifth dimension beyond that which is known to man\u201d described in the classic TV series The Twilight Zone)?\nTo answer that question, we need to distinguish between the present heaven where God resides and the future heaven Jesus is constructing for us. The present heaven\u2014sometimes called by theologians the \u201cintermediate state\u201d\u2014is where Christians go immediately when they die to enjoy the presence of the Lord as Paul describes: \u201cWe are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord\u201d (2 Cor. 5:8).\nThe future heaven is where all believers will one day spend eternity, and this future heaven is still under construction. It is the \u201cplace\u201d Jesus is preparing for us now\u2014and its final location may surprise you, as we will see in future blog posts.\nThe idea of a present heaven and a future heaven is sometimes confusing. But think of it like this: couples who plan to retire sometimes buy a little plot of land next to a lake, or in the mountains, or along the seashore and begin to build a house on it. They may continue to live in their existing home or move to an apartment while their future retirement home is under construction. Their current address may be wonderful\u2014plush and comfortable\u2014but it\u2019s only temporary.\nThe couple could truly be said to be in an \u201cintermediate state\u201d as they await the completion of their future home. In the same way, those who are in heaven today (the present heaven) are enjoying a wonderful existence in the presence of God while waiting for the completion of their final, forever home (the future heaven).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://appalachianweekly.com/tag/summer-vacation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DMDGSE67NHNL45OOJAF5MOPGR374Q2FN", "length": 49, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "appalachianweekly.com", "title": "summer vacation", "raw_content": "https://appalachianweekly.com/tag/summer-vacation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5807, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 220.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/41016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:DUL4CJDKXBXIWQDW5QHEVVXEB7AZ42PN", "length": 562, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "apps.who.int", "title": "Education and training in occupational health, safety and ergonomics : eighth report of the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health [\u200eheld in Geneva from 2 to 9 March 1981]\u200e", "raw_content": "Education and training in occupational health, safety and ergonomics : eighth report of the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health [\u200eheld in Geneva from 2 to 9 March 1981]\u200e\nJoint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health, World Health Organization & International Labour Organization. (\u200e1981)\u200e. Education and training in occupational health, safety and ergonomics : eighth report of the Joint ILO/WHO Committee on Occupational Health [\u200eheld in Geneva from 2 to 9 March 1981]\u200e. Geneva : World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/iris/handle/10665/41016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arrowsup.net/2017/06/06/shaking-it-off/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:17Z", "digest": "sha1:VDJOWDOULZXE2WWRJMXHZPYMHJ4GODVC", "length": 3247, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "arrowsup.net", "title": "Shaking it Off | arrowsup", "raw_content": "We live in a big world with lots of problems and many conflicts. It\u2019s sometimes difficult to see how everything will ever work out where there is so much strife and contention everywhere. We may feel afraid or nervous about our futures not sure of how secure we will be or what will happen. There are a lot of problems and sometimes it seems all we hear about and see are the things that are going wrong. We may feel unsure of our own personal safety, uncertain about what will happen to us, and lose confidence in our ability to succeed. There are a lot of influences in the world, and some of them may threaten us. It\u2019s hard to see around them and fear may encompass our lives as we face them. While it\u2019s true there are many problems and there is no way to see our future, it\u2019s also true that we have everything we need now to be strong and confident and face whatever we must. We can hold onto faith in our ability to succeed no matter what forces stand in our way. We are smart and capable and if we trust in ourselves and hold firm to what we truly believe in we will succeed. There will always be winds blowing against us and reasons to quit and give up. But nothing can stop us if we are determined to continue forward. We can shake off our doubts and hold strong to the faith we have in ourselves. We are capable of doing anything we set our minds to. We have more courage and strength than we realize and if we trust ourselves going forward nothing will stop us.\nFear is something we all must face from time to time. Some of us are tenacious and rarely succumb to it and some of us struggle with it every day. But fear is just an emotion triggered by feelings of threat or the belief that something dangerous may be upon us. Often there is no real evidence that disaster is headed our way. The trick is to see things as they really are and not merely as they seem to be. If we clearly look at our situation objectively we may find we are more secure than we thought and can shake off any uncertainty. Fear is irrational but we can make rational choices. We can decide to be courageous and clear in our direction and continue forward with confidence.\nThere are no guarantees in life. We can plan effectively and ponder every possible complication and still things may go awry. There are limitless things that might go wrong and if we worry about them instead of focusing on the goal we may get stuck standing still. It\u2019s impossible to move forward and stand still at the same time. Even if everything goes wrong and the bottom falls out we can still step forward. Nothing is strong enough or complex enough to hold us in place. We can shake off the doubt, push through the wind, and keep going.\nToday if you\u2019re facing something that is making you afraid or there is something you\u2019re worried may happen, take a step forward anyway. No matter what goes wrong you have everything you need to keep moving. You are stronger than you think you are and there isn\u2019t anything too big for you to face. Shake off your doubts. You have everything you need to succeed. The whole world is there for you and you will have it.\nTags: Clear, Fear, Trick\nCategories Confidence, Courage, Determination, Faith, Uncategorized\n\u2190 Paying the Bill\nLooking Closely \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arstudies.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZC4S7CAE5R4GO7P65T6R24EVWB6E6ZVS", "length": 3585, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "arstudies.com", "title": "\u00bb About Arkansas Studies Research Portal", "raw_content": "Opened in 2009, as the Arkansas Studies Institute, the Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History & Art is housed in three buildings from three centuries\u2013 two restored historical buildings and one new building. Visitors can explore family history; browse the retail and exhibit galleries of Arkansas artwork, crafts, and gifts; enjoy a meal or cold drink, and view more than 100 photographic image panels depicting life in Arkansas from frontier days to modern times. The facilities also provide space for UA Little Rock classes, community lectures, and events.\nThe University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UA Little Rock) and the Central Arkansas Library System (CALS), have created the state\u2019s largest facility dedicated to the study of Arkansas history and culture in the Bobby L. Roberts Library of Arkansas History and Art building.\nThe collections are managed by the two institutions\u2019 respective departments:\nThe Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, a department of CALS, was created in 1997 through an endowment by the late Richard C. Butler Sr. for the purpose of promoting a greater understanding and appreciation of Arkansas history, literature, art, and culture.\narkinfo@cals.org | (501) 320-5700\nUA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture\nSince 1978, the mission of the UA Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture has been to collect and make available resources on Arkansas history and the region. These materials include letters, legal documents, photographs, maps, architectural drawings, pamphlets, books, journals, newspapers, and other materials. In total, the collections comprise about 10,000 linear feet, 70,000+ images, and approximately 8,000 books.\ncahc@ualr.edu | (501) 320-5780\nCount Pulaski Way\nCount Pulaski Way is named in honor of Casimir Pulaski, a Polish-born hero of the American Revolution, for whom Pulaski County is named. Count Pulaski Way is an innovative, dual-purpose open space that serves both automobiles and pedestrians. The Way consists of two alleys, a rebuilt portion of Rock Street that is reminiscent of early stone roads, and the lower Arkansas River Valley Walking Map.\nOne of the most striking features of the building is a series of 4-foot by 4- foot acrylic panels that present a visual history of Arkansas. These panels are featured on the exterior of the building as well as throughout the interior.\nThree Centuries of Architecture\nCALS has been actively involved in revitalizing the River Market District. Both the Main Library and the Bookstore at Library Square on the campus were rehabilitated, and development of the Roberts Library continues that tradition by renovating two historic buildings on President Clinton Avenue:\nPorbeck & Bowman Building (1882). This building was owned by William Probst and Max Hilb, two German immigrants who owned a wholesale grocery and liquor distributorship. The original building included a two-story upper floor that was home to the Concordia Association, a Jewish social club.\nGeyer & Adams Building (1914). John E. Geyer and John Dudley Adams operated a wholesale grocery distributorship at this location. In 1914, they replaced an older building with this structure, designed by Charles Thompson.\nIn addition to the Porbeck & Bowman and Geyer & Adams buildings, the library includes the new manuscript and rare book repository. This structure is connected to the Geyer & Adams building by a three-story glass atrium, and it houses a state-of-the-art manuscript and rare book storage facility with approximately 40,000 books and 10,000 linear feet of manuscripts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 4019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://art.asu.edu/profile/melissa-button", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:22Z", "digest": "sha1:4MRBKU2PZ6LLQ5GKW3FJUJKOBN2PG5VZ", "length": 1846, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "art.asu.edu", "title": "Melissa Button | School of Art", "raw_content": "melissa.button@asu.edu\nAsst Prog Dir (ACD) + Lecturer\nMelissa M Button is a visual artist and Lecutrer in Painting/Drawing at the Herberger Institute of Art and Design at Arizona State University. Button received her B.S in Architecture from Arizona State University in 1994 and an MFA in Drawing in 2001. Her research has always been rooted in the collaboration of opposing ideas and has revealed unique discoveries whereupon the amalgamation of these oppositions manifested something that is greater and more infinite than the sum of its parts. Early studies in architecture became the foundation for her interest in space and an awareness of constructed realities. The observation of something as real, is tenuous at best, as the perceptions from which we gather information are so easily coerced. Her recent work not only uses the collaboration of these conceptual ideas, but it also brings together a mix of processes that seeks to blur the boundaries beyond traditional labels. The final works become both image and object collaborating to continually reinvent the viewer\u2019s observed reality. Recently, she was awarded the Glenfiddich Artist in Residence in Banffshire, Scotland to pursue 3 months of research during in 2018. She received 2 project grants that provided funding for collaborative exhibitions in China. Her work has been published in the Superstition Review, American Artist, and New American Paintings. She has shown her work in the Micro Museum in Brooklyn, NY, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Fort Collins, CO, Mesa Contemporary Art Museum in Mesa, AZ, and the Bridge Gallery 798 District in Beijing, China among others.\n2018 mmbutton short resume_0.pdf\nM.F.A. Drawing and Painting, Arizona State University 2001\nB.S. 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Still, deciding whether to buy a home or rent an apartment can be a complicated decision. How do you know what's right for you? Potential buyers should ask themselves several key questions before making this important decision.\nWhat price range should I look to buy in? As a good rule of thumb, you never want your monthly mortgage costs (including any monthly HOA fees) to exceed one-third of your gross monthly income. Most lenders won't even approve buyers much beyond this range, as they've learned in the past that it becomes extremely difficult for buyers in that type of scenario to meet their monthly payments.\nWhat other costs are associated with owning a home? The main costs you'll have to worry about as a homeowner that typically don't apply to renters include annual property taxes, monthly HOA fees (if your neighborhood requires this), and typically all monthly utilities and expenses for repairs. 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If you're unsure, or there isn't a section in your lease distinctly describing early termination of the lease, be sure to talk to your landlord and find out.\nWhat if I plan to move again in the next year or two? If you know you'll have to move again in less than five years, it's unlikely that buying would be the right choice for you now. Home buying is a great long-term investment, but you really don't start to build any equity before five years in. If you know, or think it will be likely that you will need to move in less than five years, hold off on buying for the moment.\nWhat credit score would I need to qualify for a loan? Much of this will depend on the lender you use, and the different programs that they offer. It's always a good idea to shop around -- always talk to at least three different mortgage loan officers before deciding to commit to a specific loan. 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She\u2019d be delighted to share her many talents with you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://auto.ferrari.com/en_US/news-events/news/road-trip-exclusive-ferraris/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:3SFJN5IOCNPIPF6KXLQENFONK4CFZZ6H", "length": 1244, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "auto.ferrari.com", "title": "A road trip with the most exclusive of Ferraris - Ferrari GT - en-US", "raw_content": "A road trip with the most exclusive of Ferraris\nThe LaFerrari flanked by its illustrious limited edition special series predecessors on its maiden voyage from Maranello to London\nMaranello, 18th July 2014\nYesterday was a very special day in Maranello as one of the great Ferrari collectors, John Hunt, arrived to take delivery of his new LaFerrari in style, having driven all the way from London to Modena with his two children and a group of friends in a GTO, an F40, an F50 and an Enzo, cars that tell the entire story of the Prancing Horse\u2019s passion for limited edition special series cars.\nBefore setting off on the return journey to England, Mr Hunt paid a visit to Fiorano where he spoke to Ferrari.com: \u201cFerraris are the ultimate sports cars as far as I\u2019m concerned,\u201d he told us. \u201cI love driving them all, each one is different. I\u2019ve clocked up over 16,000 km in the Enzo alone, for example.\u201d When asked about his latest arrival, he declared: \u201cI was completely blown away after just 5\u2019 behind the wheel. I can\u2019t wait to get to know it inside out but I can already safely say that the LaFerrari is a spectacular car.\u201d\nFerrari California T launched in Korea\nExcitement mounts for the auction of a Ferrari 275 GTB/C Speciale at Pebble Beach", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 5752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://avxhm.se/ebooks/1883536367.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:43Z", "digest": "sha1:K7WBTIQOOCFILZ7KDOQOPOQ7JXKOYZH2", "length": 2039, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "avxhm.se", "title": "Unmasking the Face / AvaxHome", "raw_content": "Unmasking the Face\nMalor Books | ISBN 1883536367 | 2003-09 | PDF | 212 pages | 9.31 MB\nA Must-Have Primer for Learning to Recognize Facial Expressions. Ekman is a leading authority on the study of the facial expressions and their relation to emotion, and this book is a methodical and thorough (for the layperson, at least) introduction to the field, with special focus on recognizing what he calls the six basic universally expressed emotions: happiness, fear, anger, surprise, disgust/contempt, and sadness. Ekman provides clear, well-detailed instructions for recognizing each of these emotions, and the book includes plenty of photos to illustrate the different facial contortions of each emotion. The only complaint I would have is that I had to do a lot of page flipping back and forth to read Ekman's remarks and subsequently refer to the relevant picture. Perhaps a future edition could be better formatted to make it easier for the reader to view the expression alongside Ekman's comments.\nIn addition to writing about specific emotions, Ekman also covers some fascinating related topics such as recognizing facial deceit and discovering the patterns of one's own facial expressions, i.e., what you're telling the world with your own face.\nEkman is an academic and his writing shows it; he's precise, methodical, thorough, and careful in the extent of his claims. Readers who are new to the subject of reading facial expressions but are seriously committed to learning about it will find this an invaluable book.\n(Ekman's later work, \"Emotions Revealed,\" is also a great read and contains much of the same information as \"Unmasking the Face,\" although I found the former to be lighter on technical information and practice faces, and more focused on the larger reflections Ekman has made looking back on his work over the last few decades. In other words, both books are great, but \"Unmasking the Face\" is a bit more technical and thorough, and therefore a better book to pick up for learning how to recognize facial expressions.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 294, "original_length": 6204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://awakeningchurch.com/2011/07/confidence-in-gods-plan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5G7NFOB6BPHZRSTB2NA2C2NAKDYRI2XX", "length": 3144, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "awakeningchurch.com", "title": "Confidence in God\u2019s Plan \u2039 Awakening ChurchAwakening Church", "raw_content": "Confidence in God\u2019s Plan\nPosted July 31, 2011 by Brittany Brown.\nThis week at Awakening, Ryan discussed ways of finding clarity in a future of uncertainty. Making decisions in life can get a little scary when you do not know what the future is going to hold. The Holy Spirit is guiding you; you do not have to be scared. Through Jesus Christ, we have victory over that fear!\nThe first point that Ryan made was that clarity comes from knowing who is in control and what you are called to do. This has been my anthem for the past four years. About a year after I graduated high school, I took a break from college because I had no idea why I was there. I felt no calling to be there whatsoever. The past four years have been an emotional struggle trying to figure out the fateful decision of what I want to do for the rest of my life.\nI have gone from feeling so free to feeling like the world\u2019s biggest loser (who is still living with her parents and does not have a college degree). Only recently have I given that insecurity up to God and it has made such a difference! I am now seeing reasons why God had me invest so much time at my job. I am truly passionate about sharing his love in my workplace. My mom had this sudden realization that I should get a degree in business because she noticed that my mind worked in a business way. This is a big deal because before this I would have dreaded an idea like that. After a couple months of prayer and surrendering that control, God has really been showing me how true that is. I still have no idea where He would take me in that, but I am so grateful for His faithfulness in guiding me wherever He plans for me to go.\nOne thing Ryan suggested on Sunday night was to wake up every morning and repeat to yourself: \u201cyou are not in control of anything that is going to happen today or in any part of the future but take hope, because the One who has control lives IN you.\u201d That is such a powerful truth. I decided to start doing that this morning and the peace I felt throughout my entire day was incredible.\nI also reflected on a couple of verses throughout the day. Philippians 1:6 (NIV) reads:, \u201cBeing confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.\u201d And 2 Peter 1:3 (NIV) reads:, \u201cHis divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.\u201d God has provided so much comfort through these verses for me. I constantly feel him telling me to not give up, even though my life does not look as normal as most 23 year olds. Just because I am not in school or do not have a degree does not mean I am failing. It just means He has something different for me and I plan to stay hopeful in His faithfulness.\nSo, the next time you feel like a failure or you feel anxious or fearful about where you are at and where you are going, stop and remember that you are not in control. Surrendering all of that to the One who is in control is the most freeing place you could be. 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He is also, briefly, part of the Noah's Ark Circus, where he goes by the stage name Suit(\u30b9\u30fc\u30c4 S\u016btsu).\nWilliam is emotionless and generally calm. In regards to his job, he is strict, follows the rules precisely, and seems extremely devoted. He does not take kindly to individuals who cause problems or create more work for him, particularly if it forces him to apologize for their actions. Nonetheless, he seems to share Ronald's distaste for overtime work.\nHe has no qualms with inflicting minor injury on others, as shown when he jumps off a roof to land on Grell Sutcliff's head and when he uses his death scythe to attack Sebastian on a few occasions.\nHe finds demons to be disgusting creatures, and is seen calling Sebastian Michaelis a variety of names, including \"devilish fiend,\" \"leech,\" \"hound,\" and \"vermin.\" However, it is implied that he finds other demons to be even more abhorrent than Sebastian. In the anime, though, he is much more willing to work with Sebastian, as he aids him on a number of occasions.\nHowever, he does not seem to like anyone very much, as Ronald comments that William is disappointed to see him, and he insults a variety of individuals, including Grell, Sebastian, and Ciel Phantomhive. In the anime, though, he does show an amount of respect and admiration for Undertaker, although Undertaker does not seem return these feelings, calling him \"annoying and noisy\".\nWilliam has short, neatly-combed, black hair, green eyes, and wears rectangle-shaped glasses that have four decorative lines on each side of the frames. He dresses in a nice black suit, tie, black gloves, and dress shoes, similar to Ronald Knox.\nWhen he infiltrates the Noah's Ark Circus as Suit, he wears a yellow suit jacket, purple pants with stars on the bottom and spotted tie. When he performs as Suit, the suit jacket is changed to being covered with a star pattern.\nHe almost always displays a near-frown on his face.\nAs a trainee, he is shown to have messier hair, similar to that of Alan Humphries, but wears the same clothes, save the glasses, which are trainees glasses.\nRetrieved from \"https://awesomeanimeandmanga.fandom.com/wiki/William_Spears?oldid=6753\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bamboomattress.info/2018/11/29/where-to-start-with-transportation-and-more/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:50Z", "digest": "sha1:UQQTOC2OFAARW5T2TWOB2JZTTUINL6VG", "length": 2654, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bamboomattress.info", "title": "Where To Start with Transportation and More \u2013 Mr Bamb Home Imrovement", "raw_content": "Professional Airport Chauffeur Services\nYou will be able to arrive in your hotel rooms or flights just on time by making use of professional airport transport services. 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This gives you the power to make the biggest selection.\nThe number of people who will be in the trip will dictate as well what type of car you should choose. The operator must provide you with cars that you like while also taking into mind everyone\u2019s comfort. There are companies that are taking things to another level and want to ensure that their clients are well served by providing recliner chairs, portable TV sets, sound system and other forms of entertainment.\nNumber 3. Professional service \u2013 you must be aware of which companies that aren\u2019t providing you with the upfront cost. If ever that you stumbled on such, be sure that you\u2019ve checked their pricing policies and rates. True and reliable companies always tell clients about services and pricing. After all, you don\u2019t wish to become a victim of foul play, hidden charges etc. and then waste your money. Before you start spending on anything, make sure that you have checked all important details.\nWhenever possible, find professional airport transfer services that have experienced and professional chauffeurs to transport passengers. The only way that your chauffeur can take you to your destination efficiently is if they are polite, punctual, well dressed and of course, knowledgeable.\nIn reality, there are plenty of benefits that you can acquire from making use of airport chauffeur transfer like leaving a professional image, less stress since you\u2019re being driven, focus on your work than on traffic and so forth.\nWhat Do You Know About Transportation\nSmart Tips For Finding Taxi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bankinformationcenter.org/en-us/project/phnom-penh--ho-chi-minh-city-road-project/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:7Z6RJRWALUQHDSI3BYSXRTTCKEXRQJSB", "length": 1608, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bankinformationcenter.org", "title": "Phnom Penh \u2014 Ho Chi Minh City Road Project | Bank Information Center", "raw_content": "Residents complain of forced relocation, intimidation, inadequate compensation\nThe Phnom Penh- Ho Chi Minh City Road is the first project to be implemented under the ADB\u2019s Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Initiative, which is intended to improve cooperation for economic development amongst the GMS countries (Cambodia, Lao People\u2019s Democratic Republic, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Vietnam, and Yunnan Province in the People\u2019s Republic of China). The purpose of this project is to assist the Cambodian and Vietnamese Governments in improving the cross-border section of Highway 1 linking Phnom Penh in Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, thereby increasing the potential for cross-border trade. The section being improved is 265 km long in Vietnam and 105 km in Cambodia.\nProject construction involves road widening, which has had a number of adverse social and economic effects on communities situated on Highway 1, mainly associated with forced relocation. While the Bank\u2019s Initial Environmental Examination indicated the potential for only minor impacts on the people living along the highway, the residents living on the Cambodian part of the road have been impacted or resettled without proper compensation. Case studies conducted by Cambodian civil society groups showed that the compensation allocated by the Government to project-affected families was substantially lower than the actual price for relocation and reconstruction of most dwellings. Communities interviewed said that the Government of Cambodia used intimidation tactics to coerce people into accepting an inadequate resettlement plan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 130.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bbtheatres.com/movie/235284/God-Bless-the-Broken-Road-Trailer-and-Info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:45Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3PO2A7UE4L3UJ2N7ILVJFK2NYKPXAYD", "length": 789, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bbtheatres.com", "title": "B&B Theatres", "raw_content": "Starring Lindsay Pulsipher, Jordin Sparks, LaDainian Tomlinson, Andrew W. Walker\nSynopsisAmber's dream of an ideal life with her perfect family shatters when she loses her husband to the war in Afghanistan. Two years later, she finds herself in a struggle to save her home while providing for her nine-year-old daughter, Bree. When up-and-coming racecar driver, Cody Jackson, rolls into town, Amber and Bree become wrapped up in his pedal to the metal way of life. Amber struggles with Cody's attention and withdraws to protect herself and Bree from the dangers of becoming too close to someone who lives life on the edge every day. With her faith hanging in the balance, Amber is forced to decide between the broken road she knows so well, or trusting in a new path that God has provided.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 188.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bcl.bowdoin.edu/bowdoin-reads/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:49Z", "digest": "sha1:YAHUJ2HDJNI5YVT7AG4RRIR3QRWBSWVR", "length": 391, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bcl.bowdoin.edu", "title": "Bowdoin Reads | Watches | Listens \u2013 Page 2", "raw_content": "Matt Williams '20 is listening to...\nBy: Paramore\nI have been a long time fan of the band Paramore but the group\u2019s newest studio album, After Laughter, is my favorite project by the band. Being a bass player, the first thing that caught my ear were the melodic and interesting bass lines. Outside of that, what I find extremely interesting about this whole \u2026\nContinue reading \u201cMatt Williams\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beeshasim.com/category/oregon-news/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:N732QSGAFQMDBX276K4CTT55JYTOC4YY", "length": 2068, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "beeshasim.com", "title": "Oregon News | BeeshaSIM | Page 2", "raw_content": "\u2018Intact fetal cadavers\u2019: 5th Planned Parenthood video out; Now discussing \u2018selling whole bodies of babies\u2019\nRemember when Planned Parenthood was cool with secretly recorded video? We do! [pic]\nWhat Uber Can Teach Us About American Government\nBrian Ruddock\nUber has been the target of politicians seemingly from the second it came to market. New York mayor Bill de Blasio has taken his bullying a step further than most pols, and thankfully Uber is pushing back. While the outcome of this battle remains unclear, Uber v. New York can teach us quite a bit about the current state of American government and politics.\nTHE SITUATION IN NEW YORK\nNew York City has over 8.5 million residents. Its subway system is among the best in the world but remains overcrowded, unreliable, and, at later hours, unsafe. The city\u2019s bus system is similarly well-designed, but even in conjunction with subways, is not a sufficient solution for many New Yorkers\u2019 travel needs.\nTaxis are controlled by the city of New York; supply is artificially constrained by making would-be drivers pay exorbitant licensing fees that can cost in the tens of thousands of\u2026\nWhile I disagree with Supreme Court\u2019s redefinition of marriage, I believe that all Americans have the right to contract.\nThe Constitution is silent on the question of marriage because marriage has always been a local issue. Our founding fathers went to the local courthouse to be married, not to Washington, D.C.\nI\u2019ve often said I don\u2019t want my guns or my marriage registered in Washington.\nThose who disagree with the recent Supreme Court ruling argue that the court should not overturn the will of legislative majorities. Those who favor the Supreme Court ruling argue that the 14th Amendment protects rights from legislative majorities.\nDo consenting adults have a right to contract with other consenting adults? Supporters of the Supreme Court\u2019s decision argue yes but they argue no when it comes to economic liberties, like contracts regarding wages.\nIt seems some rights are more equal than others.\nMarriage, though a contract\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 305, "original_length": 11744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://betterlesson.com/lesson/579836/free-in-freemont-analyzing-amir-s-attempts-to-escape-the-ghosts-of-afghanistan-day-1-of-2?from=breadcrumb_lesson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:07Z", "digest": "sha1:4UUS2RWUALG7SKGXED4HDR7NVNDHWLC7", "length": 6208, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "betterlesson.com", "title": "Ninth grade Lesson Free in Freemont? Analyzing Amir's Attempts to Escape the Ghosts of Afghanistan (day 1 of 2)", "raw_content": "Unit Introduction: Why Extending Reading, and Why Cultural Perspectives?\nClass Discussion and Elicitation\nFree in Freemont? Analyzing Amir's Attempts to Escape the Ghosts of Afghanistan (day 1 of 2)\nSWBAT track cultural differences and life developments of Amir's character by engaging in a systematic study of the middle chapters of The Kite Runner by using my patented Extending Reading Framework.\nWe turn our attention towards extending reading!\nWhy Read a Longer Text. No doubt about it, this part of the unit serves to help students to learn to persist in reading, to extend their reading of literature through a nearly 400-page book. And while this aspect of successful reading is so important for students, it gets somewhat short shrift in the CCSS, and I think this is because English classes for many years focused solely on \"covering\" a book rather than the embedded skills that go along with the process of reading. Now, perhaps we have swung too far in the direction of boiled-down skills, and we need to avoid neglect of two key areas: reading an entire text (at least once in a while) and enjoying it (at least once in a while). The latter dimension, the affective domain, is not a focus of the CCSS, but strong affect really does help students persist in their reading and to read successfully.\nCross-Cultural. One benefit of reading the entire text of The Kite Runner comes in the cross-cultural exchange that the book promotes (RL.9-10.6). The plot of the book begins in Afghanistan, comes to the U.S., then returns to Afghanistan, and finally back to the U.S.; such a complex flip-flopping plot structure (RL.9-10.5) addresses the complex reality that many immigrants face in the U.S. when they have to \"code switch\" between life at home (in a traditional culture) and in public/school in which they engage in modern, mainstream U.S. culture. Along the way, we will analyze cultural terms that do not translate from Farsi into English very well, and thus Hosseni retains the original in italics. For example, he will use the term khastagari to describe a virtuous betrothal ceremony. Such a concept is not firmly enmeshed in mainstream U.S. culture, so rather than settling for an imprecise translation, the novel maintains the original term. And in this section of the novel, several terms are retained in the same fashion. The cool thing is that they ALL turn out to be easily searchable on the internet, and definitions as well as images easily come up for students as they read. What is more, these terms help define the worldview of the Afghan characters (RL.9-10.6), something that is hard to teach about but must be experienced in the novel.\nPlot--Lunar Notes. The plot part of the novel makes a bit of a mountain range with two peaks (RL.9-10.1). The first peak occurs when Amir fails to protect Hassan and even betrays him. The second peak occurs when Amir goes back to Afghanistan to find Hassan and eventually his son, Sohrab. In between, there is a sort of trough of experience when Amir is in the U.S., growing into his adulthood, graduating, courting, getting married, attempting to becoming a father, experiencing his own father's death, etc. All of these events are huge life markers (RL.9-10.3), but somehow they seem to have a lower voltage than do the two sections in Afghanistan. However, this is precisely the section during which the students might be tempted to nod off from their reading and lose interest. Thus, I will maintain my Extending Reading. This model calls for SSR, book groups, writing, quizzes, questioning, role-playing, etc. All of these attempt to put the act of reading front and center, giving students to do this intelligently and with focus in class. I will quiz the students every day.\nAs I have mentioned, I will quiz the students every day (QUIZ 125-155). Some quizzes won't count for grade points, some will be qualitative in nature, some will be recall questions. The main goal will be to return the quizzes to the students during that same day or on the next day in class. The reason for this is that frequent feedback is often a help for motivation. The attached quiz is one of many in this section of the unit that will help students to self-monitor.\nThis is a \"split quiz,\" a technique in which the student fills out both identical sides, hands one in for the grade, and then self-checks the other side, marks it and keeps it as a record. I like splitting these down the middle, vertically, because the student's copy becomes just the right size to fit into the book as a bookmark. That way, when the student goes home to do the next reading, the results from the day's quiz are visible and tangible. I don't do a split quiz every day, but it's a bit of novel diversion from other formats and does provide some reinforcement.\nQUIZ 125-155.docx\nGraphic Organizer for Class Notes. I am using a graphic organizer during this section of class to help clarify key moments in the text. As I mentioned before, this part of the text has a number of key life-events, and I will place these on the graphic.\nPaired Work. Here's how it works: I will assign students in pairs to look up a key textual moment in their books. I place the lunar notes on the board for them to jot into their notebooks, and then give them the assignment to look up the key textual references (RL.9-10.1) that delineate that event and will ask them to explain the textual references in their class collaborative notes.JPG. I will add key words and phrases to the \"lunar\" (reminds me of a moonscape with the various elements of the jittering plot here, so I affectionately called this plotscape \"lunar notes\") notes and ask them to do the same.\nProcessing Discussion. After we build the collaborative notes, I will ask the following questions, and I am hoping that each of the students can enter into the discussion with examples and evidence (SL.9-10.1):\n1.) What changes has Amir undergone? How has he changed, and how has he remained the same? (RL.9-10.3).\n2.) How does this section of the novel build the cross-cultural experience? 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Click photo for more:\n\u00ab Leverage your support of local needs\nAffordability in Austin\u2019s \u201curban core\u201d \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 4668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 194.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blackboxpolitics.com/2016/07/08/video-collapse-of-empires-is-upon-us-gregory-mannarino-this-is-and-i-cant-stress-this-enough-this-is-the-biggest-red-flag-i-can-possibly-imagine-we-are-on-the-cusp-of/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:FD5A2M56QATMNHIOKBQVZHVQYBIMSGM4", "length": 239, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blackboxpolitics.com", "title": "(VIDEO) Collapse of Empires is Upon Us-Gregory Mannarino\u2026\u201d. This is, and I can\u2019t stress this enough, this is the biggest red flag I can possibly imagine. We are on the cusp of some event that is going to change the landscape of the world.\u201d | BlackBoxPolitics", "raw_content": "(VIDEO) Collapse of Empires is Upon Us-Gregory Mannarino\u2026\u201d. This is, and I can\u2019t stress this enough, this is the biggest red flag I can possibly imagine. We are on the cusp of some event that is going to change the landscape of the world.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 145.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blacktwigllc.com/connect-to-your-audience-through-video-marketing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:51Z", "digest": "sha1:RYO4ECQZTA7KUPYMUCLABZXJ3AFSBDOK", "length": 2170, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blacktwigllc.com", "title": "Connect to your Audience through Video Marketing - Black Twig Marketing and Communications", "raw_content": "According to Forbes, more than 500 million people watch videos on Facebook every day and Cisco reports video content is expected to be the driving factor behind 85% of search traffic in the U.S. by 2020.\nAs we traverse the ever-changing landscape of the marketing world, one notable shift is the increase of video usage in the field of social media. IGTV, Facebook Live, Instagram Live, and Snapchat stories all demonstrate how social media platforms have added more ways for brands to incorporate video content into their marketing strategy. Additionally, utilizing the live video feature many platforms offer can further add to the already authentic nature of video content.\nThe use of videos in social media helps businesses connect with their target audience and increase conversion of \u2018posts\u2019 to sales better than any other medium. However, videos need to be relevant and tell a story to an audience. Due to their authenticity and short length (most are no longer than two minutes), videos deliver meaningful content in a more effective way to social media viewers. Videos can be educational, showing consumers how a product or service works. They can also be used to introduce a new item or even to attract potential employees by showcasing a company\u2019s work environment.\nAnother way to increase your brand awareness is by using individuals who have influence over a potential market or on sites such as YouTube and Instagram. Through their personal social media accounts, these influencers \u2013 some who have thousands or even millions of subscribers- play an integral role in video marketing strategies for businesses. Hundreds of companies pay these influencers to use and review their products. If the influencer validates the product or service, it gives the important third-party exposure and positive publicity that the brand desperately needs.\nHarnessing the power of video on social media creates many opportunities for a brand to influence key decision makers and establish a candid relationship with its customers in real time. If planned thoughtfully, videos can be the most efficient way for a company to connect and build relationships with its audience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blenheimcdp.org.uk/campaign/naloxone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MVJ6ZVO7FTAXF5FXJMGJKEDAWSR652EQ", "length": 2151, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blenheimcdp.org.uk", "title": "Reducing drug related deaths - Blenheim CDP", "raw_content": "Reducing drug related deaths\nWe believe that to reduce alcohol and drugs related deaths and illnesses a co-ordinated harm reduction strategy needs to be prioritised by relevant structures across all four UK nations.\nWe call on the Department of Health, NHS, PHE and relevant structure should implement harm reduction strategies to reduce alcohol and drugs related deaths and illnesses, ensuring that conditions including Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), hepatitis C, liver disease, HIV and other substance misuse related illnesses are all addressed.\nWhilst acute drugs related deaths are running at an all-time high, so is the number of people with drug and alcohol related illnesses dying as a result of chronic ill health.\nDownload Blenheim\u2019s Drug and Alcohol Related Deaths Strategy to find out more about what we are doing to reduce these unnecessary deaths.\nThese chronic illness related deaths are predominately due to unhealthy lifestyles \u2013 alcohol, hepatitis C and tobacco \u2013 and far outnumber the deaths from acute drug poisoning.\nIt is imperative to provide comprehensive access to the life-saving drug Naloxone \u2013 and overdose management training \u2013 across the whole of the United Kingdom, in line with World Health Organization (WHO), ACMD and public health guidelines and advice.\nThere were 3,756 drug poisoning deaths involving both legal and illegal drugs in England and Wales registered in 2017; the highest number since comparable statistics began in 1993.\nEnsuring the availability of services and National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved treatments for all patients diagnosed with hepatitis C, in line with international guidelines, is vital.\nThere has been a dramatic reduction in funding for young people\u2019s drug and alcohol services. If the sector is to have any success with tackling intergenerational substance misuse, more funding is required for prevention services.\nEngagement and consultation with service users, families and people outside of services, are essential in developing local strategies and services.\nEffective interventions such as drug consumption rooms should be encouraged.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blenheimcdp.org.uk/news/international-overdose-awareness-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:32Z", "digest": "sha1:Y245NPQ642UNHMM7C37GFPO7VDMEZ3CM", "length": 3348, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "blenheimcdp.org.uk", "title": "It's International Overdose Awareness Day - Blenheim CDP", "raw_content": "It\u2019s International Overdose Awareness Day\nToday is International Overdose Awareness Day, a global event held on 31st August each year that aims to raise awareness of overdose and reduce the stigma of drug-related deaths. It also acknowledges the grief felt by families and friends, remembering those who have met with death or permanent injury as a result of drug overdose.\nGlobally, approximately 187,000 people die every year from drug overdose.\nThere were 3,346 drug poisoning deaths registered in England and Wales in 2014, the highest since comparable records began in 1993.\nDeaths involving heroin and/or morphine increased by almost two-thirds between 2012 and 2014, from 579 to 952 deaths.\nOverdose Day spreads the message that the tragedy of overdose death is preventable.\nBlenheim have been working with a number of organisations to develop a campaign under the banner of Naloxone Action Group England (NAG England).\nThe aim is to try and ensure that naloxone (the medicine that reverses opiate overdoses) is more widely available among those most at risk, their friends, family and first responders. Over half of the overdose deaths in 2014 were as a result of heroin and other opioid drugs. Many may have been avoided had naloxone been more widely available to those most at risk, their friends, family and first responders.\nFrom the 1 October 2015, naloxone became more readily available for those that need it. Although naloxone remains a prescription only medicine, the legislative change crucially means that people working in drug treatment services are able to supply the drug, without a prescription, to anyone needing it to stop a heroin overdose.\nTherefore, as long as the supply is suitably recorded, it can be supplied without prescription to:\nsomeone who is using or has previously used opiates (illicit or prescribed) and is at potential risk of overdose\na carer, family member or friend liable to be on hand in case of overdose\na named individual in a hostel (or other facility where drug users gather and might be at risk of overdose), which could be\na manager or other staff\nBlenheim welcomes this change in legislation. However, there is some way to go to ensure that those at risk of overdose have access to this lifesaving medicine.\nBlenheim continue to campaign with Naloxone Action Group England to ensure that naloxone is available to the people that need it.\nNAG England calls on:\nThe Department of Health to implement a national programme to ensure that take-home naloxone is made available to those vulnerable to opioid overdose, as well as those likely to be present, such as family members and carers.\nPublic Health England to make every effort to encourage local authority areas to make the availability of naloxone and accompanying training a priority, and to monitor and report on activity.\nFor public health teams in local authorities to commission services in line with the recommendations from the World Health Organisation (WHO), the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the ACMD on the community management of overdose. For example, the World Health Organisation (WHO) have specifically recommended that people likely to witness an opioid overdose should have access to naloxone and be instructed in its administration to enable them to use it for the emergency management of suspected opioid overdose.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blindfoundation.org.nz/locations/parkside-community-centre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:QUROLIPINR563UUXJGLQTE7Z6S47XFCC", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blindfoundation.org.nz", "title": "Parkside Community Centre - Blind Foundation", "raw_content": "Parkside Community Centre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 1891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 237.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.careerportal.lk/critical-job-interview-mistake-06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:34Z", "digest": "sha1:G6JANV5NVTEKHTBPWBRO73EO4FA6TPKJ", "length": 2250, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blog.careerportal.lk", "title": "# Critical Job Interview Mistake 06 | CareerPortal Blog", "raw_content": "June 19, 2017 July 2, 2017 Editorial Staff\t0 Comments Interview, Mistakes\nDressing Inappropriately\nAnother critical mistake that many people make when it comes to initial job interviews should not come as a surprise: Dressing inappropriately. While most people seeking jobs know that dressing appropriately is a big part of arriving prepared to a job interview, most people do not actually have a good understanding of what \u201cdressing appropriately\u201d actually means. As a result, many people arrive at their interview dressed inappropriately, either in general or based on the dress code in question.\nAs it was mentioned before, it is important to research the company that you are interviewing with beforehand. This comes in handy for a number of different reasons, one of which is so that you can dress according to the dress code that the rest of the employees are abiding by. By visiting the company beforehand and doing a little bit of observing, you can figure out what style of dress would be ideal.\nGet to know the culture of the company. If the company\u2019s employees are all wearing conservative clothing, then business casual is not going to cut it when you arrive at your interview. If you want to look like you already belong to the company, which should be your aim, to begin with, then it is important that you dress not only to impress, but also to fit in at the same time.\nYou also need to avoid appearances that are excessive, extreme, bright or loud. Resist the temptation to wear colors that are bright, perfumes or body mists that are strong in smell, loud nail polish, or extravagant jewelry. If you have tattoos, cover them up. If you have piercings that are inappropriate, such as earrings for men, or anything other than earrings for women, take the jewelry out or cover the piercings with a band aid.\nIt is important that your interviewer focuses on your skills, your accomplishments and the real reasons for why you are the best candidate for the job, rather than your appearance. If your appearance fits in with the dress and appearance of the other employees in the company, your interviewer will be able to focus on your strengths rather than your loud appearance or the fact that your dress does not fit in with the company.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.diversitynursing.com/blog/topic/liver-transplant", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:54Z", "digest": "sha1:T2X3BHIZ7G26FWTOXNQSD2WKCEOF3OIJ", "length": 1687, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blog.diversitynursing.com", "title": "Blog | liver transplant", "raw_content": "After 2 Liver Transplants Woman Becomes Transplant Nurse\nBy Erica Bettencourt\nWhen did you first know you wanted to be a Nurse?\nThis story is very touching about a patient\u2019s perspective of Nurses at a very young age. Her experience with the Nurses who cared for her over the years, made Nursing an obvious choice for her.\nLaurie Lukianov, 26, is a woman from Massachusetts who received two liver transplants as a child and is now working to become a transplant nurse. She told Boston Children's Hospital's blog \u201cThere is no question in my mind. Since I was 3 years old, I wanted to be a nurse.\u201d\nLaurie was born with biliary atresia and she needed liver transplants to save her life. At 3 years old she made headlines when she became one of the first patients in the country to receive a liver transplant from a living donor -- her father, Alex Lukianov.\nWhen she was 13, Laurie Lukianov needed a second liver transplant. It came from an organ donor, and she had to fight for her life.\n\"I had 13 emergency surgeries from the two-week span from the initial transplant,\" Laurie Lukianov said.\nBut she won the fight and continued on to good health with the help of her family, a great surgeon and nurses.\nNow the mother to a 6-year-old boy, already works in a local emergency room and is finishing her first year of nursing school.\nLaurie Lukianov is also an advocate for organ donation. She tries to let potential donors know that the medical staff will do everything to save a life. Sometimes modern medicine falls short but, the gift of life is never lost on the recipient.\nTopics: emergency room, nursing school, nurse, transplant nurse, liver transplant, biliary atresia, organ donation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2367, "original_length": 40321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.kycker.net/echo-november-fall-into-me-single-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XNLLJS7Q5JYFUFTUP3DOH4QDXHL6K72B", "length": 1320, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.kycker.net", "title": "Echo November - \"Fall Into Me\" Single Review - Kycker Blog", "raw_content": "Hertfordshire indie rockers Echo November saw a tremendous buzz last year on the back of their debut single \u201cThrown To The Sea\u201d that just so happened to be featured on This Morning on ITV. Not bad for a debut right? Despite being a very new band, Echo November are steaming forward with their newest single \u201cFall Into Me\u201d and plans for an upcoming EP.\nTheir newest single is essentially an indie power anthem covered in spacious, catchy melodies. \u201cFall Into Me\u201d shows off some seriously awesome guitar melodies that sound like they have been pleasantly simmered for ten minutes on gas mark 6 in pure cloudy reverb. However, the track doesn\u2019t fall victim to the common trait of soaking everything in reverb, instead showing off some deep belting vocal talent and rhythms reminiscent of Circa Waves or The Temper Trap.\n\u201cThe lyrics are based around two people who have started to find feelings for each other but are afraid to admit them, for fear that it will affect their existing relationship. The song represents the excitement and thrill of finally admitting the truth of how you feel.\u201d Says bassist Sam.\nWith the sheer amount of support that Echo November have received so far, I have no doubt that they\u2019ll go on to be one of the next indie frontrunners, and look forward to their debut EP!\nFollow Echo November Here!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.netveille.com/2016/10/28/halloween-from-compuction-to-consumption/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:04Z", "digest": "sha1:FXERFNFWLVG63VL32GG7VCLWVCWDA3PB", "length": 2235, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.netveille.com", "title": "Halloween : from compuction to consumption \u2013 Net-Veille Systems", "raw_content": "It\u2019s Halloween soon, a festivity originally from the British Islands, first exported to North America, the continental Europeans were watching from afar the last few years, and that is now celebrated all over Europe and in other parts of the world, and has become an economic phenomenon.\nHowever, it is initially an austere religious tradition. Some make its origin back to the Celtic new year, the Samhain, meaning \u201csummer end\u201d in Gaelic, a celebration of the end of the harvest time, and entry in the dark period. Anyway, in the eighth century, the Church chose the same period of emerging darkness to recall the Saints, the martyrs, the dead people, and somehow the resurrection of the flesh, that can be found in the modern commercial holidays through zombie costumes and candy.\nThe Christian celebration is divided in two days, All Hallows\u2019 Day, on November 1st, dedicated to Saints and martyrs, and All Souls\u2019 Day, November 2nd, recalling the faithful departed Christians. The vigil of the first day, All Hollow\u2019s Even, is what is often abbreviated as Halloween, and turned from being an austere vigil dedicated to remember Saints and other dead people, to be an occasion of fun for young and not so young people.\nThe custom of trick and treating was initiated in Ireland and Scotland centuries ago, when children and poor people were singing from door to door, asking for food, and receiving amongst other things the \u201csoul cake\u201d, which in time has been transformed into candy, and an additional source of income for multinational companies and retailers.\nYou will find bellow a small gallery of products from well known brands, created to be sold before Halloween. First, of course some candy:\nNot only candy companies wanted to join the part. You can find also Halloween beers, or Halloween commercials for beers:\nHalloween paper or ceramic dishes:\nOf course Halloween decoration, on top of Jack\u2019o pumpkins:\nAnd obviously Halloween corners in stores, where you will find all Halloween items, including costumes and even lingerie.\nHappy Halloween\u2026 and Happy consuming !\nPosted in EuropeTagged Bonbons, Candies, Compuction, Consommation, Consuming, Consumption, Halloween, HappyHalloween, Veille Concurrentielle, veille tarifaire", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.ostusa.com/2015/09/01/internet-of-things-big-data-whats-all-the-buzz-about-data-analytics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:44Z", "digest": "sha1:T322EGXVIDFF6TXBKTQE4TF7BSCRF2DL", "length": 6032, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "blog.ostusa.com", "title": "Internet of Things. Big Data. What\u2019s all the buzz about Data Analytics? | OST Kitchen", "raw_content": "Internet of Things. Big Data. What\u2019s all the buzz about Data Analytics?\nFor some time now, Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) have been popular buzz words. What is big data? How does IoT affect my business? How can I use these to my advantage to make decisions to grow my business? OST has been in the data analytics practice for over half a decade now, working with businesses to help turn their data into a story. A story they can access and utilize everyday to make smarter and faster decisions.\nRecently, we sat down with OST data analytics expert, Aaron Kamphius, looking to wrack his brain and understand what data analytics entails and what it could mean to you as a business leader.\nWhat is Data Analytics at OST?\nSimply put, Data Analytics is the science of finding greater meaning from raw data. Businesses can use their data to run their businesses more efficiently or make their products/services better. It sounds simple but because of the size, variance, speed, and unreliable nature of data, this can be a difficult task. It takes good infrastructure, database design, tool selection and report/visualization design to pull off a successful Data Analytics implementation. The good news is that OST has been doing Data Analytics for its customers for sometime.\nThere are 3 big focus areas within data analytics:\nThe first area is data architecture. Within this area you have database design, data movement and translation (ETL) and data query design.\nThe second area of focus is on Business Intelligence and data visualization. This area would focus on building traditional reports and newer emerging data visualization and analytical tools.\nBig Data is the third area of focus. Big Data is a fairly new concept and deals with large volumes of data that change frequently and are somewhat unreliable in terms of structure. OST works with companies to run analytics around these huge volumes of data that traditional Business Intelligence tools cannot handle.\nWhat are some of the challenges customers would face that would bring them to OST?\nThere are a handful of opportunities for potential customers to reach out to OST for our data analytics experience:\nThe business can\u2019t get to the data. They are confident the data is there, but they have a hard time accessing it, much less optimizing it for a global view and slicing it apart to interact with.\nA client is developing a new product and wants to take a data first approach in strategy. The company knows that the product will create lot of data and they want to know and understand that from the very beginning.\nRoutinely, clients have a system that is a few years old and they start to notice it is slowing down. OST is able to take our knowledge of data architecture and use it to evaluate their systems and data and make suggestions to improve systems performance. This type of project can often be teamed with Data Center Services to help bring them the modern technology needed to solve their issues.\nThen there are more unique problems coming in from the big data field. The client needs to correlate all of this information, sift through terabytes and terabytes of data to really narrow down what they are looking for- what would help them gain the most knowledge to make better business decisions. OST is able to work with them to do this and create simple platforms for visualization and manipulation.\nMedical vertical also is a big opportunity for OST. We have dozens of customers that are using medical EHR systems such as Epic. OST\u2019s data analytics team has made several strategic investments in this area. We are positioned to deliver a BI solution on top of this data.\nWhat are some examples of work we have done for clients?\nOST has been in the Data Analytics practice for about 5 years now. In that time we have worked with numerous clients on their various needs. A few examples would be JCI and Metro Health. With JCI, they knew they had a lot of data coming in from their buildings, but they didn\u2019t have an easy way to analyze and report this data. As mentioned earlier, data isn\u2019t very useful without manipulation. In a short amount of time, OST created a platform to pull apart and synthesize the data they were receiving on building efficiencies in all situations, and create a system that was able to visually report the data. JCI changed their services based on the data, changed how they deploy people into the field, and their overall business model. By working with OST to create a data analytics platform, they are able to use the data they were receiving from their buildings, change behavior, and make smarter business decisions. We also have worked with Metro Health to evaluate how different services and assets inside the hospital are utilized. Through our work, they are now able to make better decisions and have increased scheduling and services utilization rates.\nWho at OST is focusing on data Analytics?\nI work together with Tom Fish, Alex Jantz, and Stephen Clemenger, as well as others with experience in application development, and a strong subcontractor network. We see this service as a broad partnership with data analytics, DCS, and application development to provide a holistic approach to customers. We have a core team that focuses on Data Analytics and works to utilize the other services OST already offers to provide the best services possible.\nWhat would a customer expect to gain from a data analytics project with OST?\nThe basic goal of any project would be to provide greater insights into how they conduct their business. We want to align their data and systems so they can better measure business performance and quickly adapt from the data acquired. Data can be evaluated real time so companies have the information they need at their fingertips to implement decisions. We want our clients to have the ability to ingest data from their systems, internet and partner systems to make strategic decisions about their business.\n\u2190 Wireless: 5 Tips for Keeping It Secure\nSeeking the Non-Obvious Insight \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 8998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.quintarelli.it/2018/03/malaysia-looks-to-punish-fake-news-with-10-years-in-jail-the-washington-post.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:KBLE2LQ5UDXOAT4DI576BZVZVEUE5P5S", "length": 4536, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "blog.quintarelli.it", "title": "Malaysia looks to punish fake news with 10 years in jail - The Washington Post - Quinta\u2019s weblog", "raw_content": "Malaysia looks to punish fake news with 10 years in jail \u2013 The Washington Post\nMalaysia looks to punish fake news with 10 years in jail\nA man takes a copy of newspaper at a grocery shop in Shah Alam, Malaysia, Monday, March 26, 2018. Malaysia\u2019s government on Monday proposed new legislation to outlaw fake news with a 10-year jail term for offenders, in a move slammed by critics as a draconian bid to crack down on dissent ahead of a general election. Prime Minister Najib Razak has been dogged by a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal involving an indebted state fund, and rights activists fear the new law could be used to criminalize reports on government misconduct and critical opinions. (Sadiq Asyraf/Associated Press)\nBy Eileen Ng\u2009|\u2009AP By Eileen Ng\u2009|\u2009AP March 26 at 8:51 AM\nKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia \u2014 Malaysia\u2019s government proposed new legislation Monday to outlaw fake news and punish offenders with a 10-year jail sentence, a move slammed by critics as a bid to crack down on dissent ahead of a general election.\nPrime Minister Najib Razak has been dogged by a multibillion-dollar corruption scandal involving an indebted state fund, and rights activists fear the new law could be used to criminalize news reports and critical opinions on government misconduct. A general election must be held by August but is widely expected in the next few weeks.\nThe anti-fake news bill, which must be approved by parliament, calls for penalizing those who create, offer, circulate, print or publish fake news or publications containing fake news with a 10-year jail term, a fine of up to 500,000 ringgit ($128,000) or both.\nThe bill defines fake news as \u201cany news, information, data and reports which is, or are, wholly or partly false whether in the form of features, visuals or audio recordings or in any other form capable of suggesting words or ideas.\u201d It covers all mediums and extends to even foreigners outside Malaysia as long as Malaysia or its citizens are affected.\n\u201cThis is an attack on the press and an attempt to instill fear among the (people)\u201d before the general election, opposition lawmaker Ong Kian Ming tweeted.\nGovernment officials have said the law is needed to protect public harmony and national security. They have accused the opposition coalition of using fake news as a key weapon to win votes and warned that any news on the indebted 1MDB state fund that had not been verified by the government is fake.\nThe U.S. and several other countries are investigating allegations of cross-border embezzlement and money laundering at 1MDB, which was set up and previously led by Najib to promote economic development, but which accumulated billions in debt. The U.S. Justice Department says at least $4.5 billion was stolen from 1MDB by associates of Najib, and it is working to seize $1.7 billion taken from the fund to buy assets in the U.S., potentially its largest asset seizure ever.\nNajib, who denies any wrongdoing, has fired critics in his government and muzzled the media since the corruption scandal erupted three years ago.\nSupport for Najib\u2019s ruling coalition has dwindled in the last two elections. In 2013, it lost the popular vote for the first time to the opposition. Yet analysts say Najib is expected to win a third term due to infighting in the opposition, unfavorable electoral boundary changes and strong support for the government among rural ethnic Malays.\nCritics say the anti-fake news bill will add to a range of repressive laws \u2014 including a sedition law, a press and publications act, an official secrets act and a security act \u2014 that have been used against critics, violated freedom of expression and undermined media freedom. A coalition of human rights and civic groups also has expressed concern that the government is rushing through the legislation, without consulting key stakeholders and releasing details in advance for public scrutiny.\n\u201cMalaysia has a long and troubling track record of using its legal books to silence dissent,\u201d James Gomez, Amnesty International\u2019s director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said in a statement. \u201cIt is no coincidence that this law has been tabled with general elections just around the corner. We are already seeing how the government is closing the space for public debate ahead of the polls.\u201d\nOther Southeast Asian countries, including Singapore and the Philippines, have also proposed laws to clamp down on fake news.\nPrevious Il Senato USA approva il FOSTA. Internet cambier\u00e0.\tNext City of Atlanta computer network hit by ransomware attack", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 15674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/making_the_case/2016/07/on_vacation.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:01Z", "digest": "sha1:U3MFMRKIWRAMREQICJAXEZBCJ4YRSNJY", "length": 956, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blogs.edweek.org", "title": "On Vacation - Making the Case: Key Questions in Education Debates - Education Week", "raw_content": "Education Week's blogs > Making the Case: Key Questions in Education Debates See more Opinion\nJames E. Ryan, an expert in law and educational opportunity, is the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Previously, he was a law professor at the University of Virginia.\n\u00ab Sheff v. O'Neill at 20: Why Integrate Only Hartford? | Main | Where Have All the Lawyers Gone? \u00bb\nBy James E. Ryan on July 13, 2016 11:30 AM | No comments\nI'll be taking a break from blogging for a couple of weeks. Looking forward to returning in early August.\nComparative Education Work Should Begin at Home\nLocal Control and Educational Equity\nA Question of Federal Overreach: Strange Bedfellows and Red Herrings\nWhere Have All the Lawyers Gone?\n--- Select a Category --- Courts and Educational Equity (4) Education Policy (4) Pre-Kindergarten (2) School Choice (4)\nSelect a Month... December 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 219.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.fu-berlin.de/fcrc/2010/10/09/communia-panel-free-culture-research-and-policy/comment-page-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:42Z", "digest": "sha1:TKML26N7TY2XQXRNT6U65MB5TUWJESNQ", "length": 8372, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "blogs.fu-berlin.de", "title": "Free Culture Research Blog \u00bb Blog Archiv \u00bb COMMUNIA Panel: Free Culture Research and Policy", "raw_content": "Free Culture Research Blog\n\u00ab New Forms of Access\nThank you and auf Wiedersehen! \u00bb\nCOMMUNIA Panel: Free Culture Research and Policy\nThis panel addressed the relationship between research and policy, and featured Amelia Andersdotter, one of the \u201cphantom MEPs\u201d from the Swedish, Pirate Party; Renata Avila of CC Guatemala; Marcus Beckedahl, who runs netzpolitik.org about internet policy and politics; and Mayo Fuster Morell, researcher and activist in Barcelona. It was moderated by Juan Carlos de Martin of COMMUNIA.\nResearchers freely choose the questions they want to research. In Italy that\u2019s a constitutional right\u2013the freedom of science. After picking a question, they aim to produce reproducible and generalizable knowledge, and adhere to the scientific method. They then distribute these results through the normal academic channels.\nMost people are in favor of evidence-based policy, and so policy-makers should in principle look to researchers to provide that evidence. In an ideal world, there\u2019s a perfect decoupling between policy on the one side and the science that supports it on the other side.\nOf course, this ideal world hasn\u2019t been the reality. Academics package knowledge about their field in books and popular articles meant for the public, engage generally with the public as a \u201cpublic intellectual,\u201d or in some cases deal directly with policy makers. Larry Summers is an extreme example, having served prominently in academia, the public sector, and the private sector.\nThe free culture field has a number of public intellectuals. Otherwise, its interaction with some areas of policy-making are developing but still weak.\nAccording to Andersdotter, the European Council of Ministers is the most powerful but least transparent political structure of the European Union. She also said that free culture isn\u2019t generally even mentioned in the European Parliament.\nThe recent Gower Report is an example of a policy document that could have been influenced by the free culture, but instead it\u2019s an uninformed an internally contradictory document. The groups that interact with researchers have the power to distribute money, but no guarantee that their results will be adopted or even considered.\nAndersdotter maintained that the problem that remains in the European Union is that the Council of Ministers is powerful and opaque for citizens. It\u2019s critically important that member states contact their ministers to effect change.\nAvila related an anecdote that took place in Mexico last October. Researcher Alejandro Pisante tweeted a link to an article he wrote expressing his concern about a 3% tax on internet usage. Many Mexicans were unaware of this law, and his article spread like wildfire among citizens who were opposed to the new law.\nShortly thereafter, Pisanti and activists on the internet (including Creative Commons Mexico and Internet Society Mexico) created web sites and protests, and convinced the Mexican government to drop the price increase. According to Avila, the communication channels developed in response to this event are still used by citizens who are now far more aware about how laws are created in that country.\nBeckedahl started by warning that he is not a researcher; rather he comes from the activist side and writes a blog about net policy and politics. He said that there are only a handful of activists who are actually working on influencing European politics, and they need the help of researchers. Without proper research, activists have more works and less of an argument to bring to politicians. Policy papers or background papers would be helpful for lobbying.\nWhen a region in Germany gets behind open source, it\u2019s almost always an economic question, but for example in Linz, the Commons City initiative that Leonhard Dobusch has been working on, it\u2019s much more than just interaction of industry and the open source sector, and that\u2019s the kind of project that could be replicated around Europe.\nBeckedahl said that parliamentarians do actually mention free culture, but only in the context of activists and the plenty of people who call about issues.\nMorrel\u2019s presentation wass geared towards her academic focus in political science, and in the region of Spain and southern Europe. The academics she\u2019s spoken to are aware of the need to look at policy and free culture, but don\u2019t actually write the papers on these issues. The current situation is that being a researcher and an activist at the same time isn\u2019t valued in academia.\nGeneralized academic research has even less of an impact on policy decisions. Specialized centers and think tanks at the local and regional level are more influential, in part because local and regional policy-makers are more open to dialogue.\nIn Morrel\u2019s experience, there need to be more direct interlocutors and bridges inside political institutions. We need to change the political system, because without a real change to the political system research won\u2019t be able to have an impact on real policy.\nEach of the panelists discussed the need for researches to get involved with these issues. As Beckedahl stated, researchers are citizens too, and need to express their opinions to politicians. Andersdotter dismissed the idea that researchers should try to avoid appearing ideological, because in fact the act of engaging in research is inherently ideological.\nDer Beitrag wurde am Saturday, den 9. October 2010 um 18:07 Uhr von parkerhiggins@gmail.com ver\u00f6ffentlicht und wurde unter Allgemein abgelegt. Sie k\u00f6nnen die Kommentare zu diesem Eintrag durch den RSS 2.0 Feed verfolgen. Sie k\u00f6nnen einen Kommentar schreiben, oder einen Trackback auf Ihrer Seite einrichten.\n2 Reaktionen zu \u201cCOMMUNIA Panel: Free Culture Research and Policy\u201d\nMarkus beckedahl runs netzpolitik.org\n(My name is Mayo Fuster Morell (not Morrel). Mayo is my name, and then I (as any other Spanish person) have two surnames: Fuster Morell)\nThank you for the reporting post. Additionally, here you can find a listing of the main ideas I presented.\nA set of guidelines for bridging free culture research and policy making\n1) The relationship between research and policy making is an important issue, but there are very few systematic reflection done. There is the need to put attention into systematize what we know about this issue.\n2) Not think of a direct connexions between them, but in terms of building intermediation, translators or/and channels between the two worlds.\n3) Specialized centers and/or think thank at the local and regional level have more possibilities to develop applied research and have influence in the policy-making, than those of european/international character and/or developed in a general department which favour more basic research.\n4) Create and feed direct interlocutors and bridges inside political institutions.\n5) Build meeting spaces and relationship between process of social mobilization and research (such as the Free culture forum of Barcelona: http://www.fcforum,net) in order to provide scientific evidence on movements believes, to question and adopt a critical approach to them; and, to put light on what actually works (independently of our believes).\n6) In order to do so, to adopt the action-participation research tradition which favor the translation and the accessibility of the research.\n7) To fully believe that developing rigorous research being politically committed to an issue is something doable.\nHowever, even if following all of these guidelines is not a sufficient condition of success. For example, on the issue of climate change, even if there is a quiet broad academic consensus on the issue and a social mobilization process, it had a limitation impact into the policy-making. The same can be said in regard to the war. In sum, to create the better conditions for research applicability listed above is the direction to follow; however, it is better not to rise too many expectations, because without a deep change in the political system the possibilities to have impact into the political process are very limited. These is one of the reasons why I think there is the need to create bridges between the free culture mobilization and other movements aiming to change the political system.\nFree Culture Research 2010\nHeinrich-B\u00f6ll-Foundation\nFCRC FREECULTURE free culture Free Culture Research Free Knowledge research Wikipedia Academy 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 9511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluebridges.blog/hit-me-up/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:76YIZMSAM4RNHGEI7BC7THHRDKQ32YQV", "length": 202, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bluebridges.blog", "title": "DON\u2019T BE SHY, LET\u2019S TALK :) \u2013 Blue Bridges", "raw_content": "If you feel like you\u2019d like to talk, or clarify something privately, whatever it is really, don\u2019t be afraid to let me know below. This includes if you\u2019d like me to follow or have a look at your website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 162.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blueskyguttersbirmingham.co.uk/gutter-insurance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:21Z", "digest": "sha1:YIGTPKM5NQ3SYR4JUUDG4KPZ7HOMCRIO", "length": 4739, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "blueskyguttersbirmingham.co.uk", "title": "Insurance - Blue Sky Guttering", "raw_content": "Liability Insurance from Simply Business\nPublic Liability : \u00a35,000,000 Employers Liability : \u00a310,000,000\nWhy public liability insurance is essential \u2026\nThis type of insurance would cover a business if a customer or member of the public was to suffer a loss or injury as a result of its business activities and if that person made a claim for compensation. The insurance would cover the compensation payment plus any legal expenses.\nWhy is public liability cover a good thing for customers?\nEven when a business does everything right there is always the chance of an accident happening. With the right insurance cover, a business can operate knowing that should the worst happen, their customers\u2019 property could be repaired, their possessions replaced and their medical costs paid for.\nWhat is covered in a public liability claim?\nPolicies are usually tailored to the individual business however as a guide, the insurance covers a business\u2019s legal liability to pay damages to members of the public for death and injury or damage to property or possessions, which has resulted from the business\u2019s activities.\nFor example, if you hired a roofing company to re-tile your roof but they didn\u2019t use adequate weather protection, resulting in severe water damage, you could make a claim against them for compensation to pay for repairing the damage. Public Liability Insurance ensures that the company can meet the cost of the claim, along with any legal expenses.\nMake sure the business you hire has public liability insurance\nAny business that has visitors to its premises or involves work on client sites needs public liability insurance. You should ask to see a company\u2019s insurance schedule and documentation before taking them on.\nTo ensure, so far as is reasonable practicable, the health and safety welfare of our staff while they are at work and of others who may be affected by their undertakings, and to comply with all the relevant legislation.\nTo ensure the principles of health and safety are clearly understood throughout Blue Sky Outdoor Cleaning Ltd, we will be committed to:\nEnsuring that there are arrangements put in place for the effective planning, development and review of this health and safety policy. Ensuring that appropriate systems are developed and maintained for the effective communication of health and safety matters throughout the company; Protecting the safety and health of all our staff within the company by preventing work-related injuries, ill health, diseases and incidents; Complying with relevant health and safety laws and regulations, voluntary programmes, collective agreements on health and safety and other requirements to which the company subscribes; Ensuring that staff and their representatives are consulted and encouraged to participate actively in all elements of the health and safety management system; Continually improving the performance of health and safety management system; Provide the necessary information, instruction and training to staff and others, including temporary staff to ensure their competence with respect to health and safety; Devote the necessary resources in the form of finance, equipment, personal and time to ensure the health and safety of staff. Expert help will be sought where necessary skills are not available within the company.; Liaise and work with all necessary persons to ensure health and safety, and will also ensure that adequate arrangements are also in place for ensuring the health and safety of visitors.\nThe ultimate responsibility for Health and Safety within Blue Sky Outdoor Cleaning Ltd lies with the director.\nThe director will annually review the Health and Safety policy for continued suitability.\nThe director will review, sign and date the health and safety statement annually, and bring it to the attention of all staff.\nWe recognise that safety is the responsibility of everyone and is not just a function of management.\nStaff will have specific duties and responsibilities to comply with the letter and spirit of the policy.\nStaff have specific responsibilities to take reasonable care of themselves and others that could be affected by their activities and to co-operate to achieve the standards required.\nThe Company will in consultation with our staff and their representatives set out in writing a commitment to ensuring that our health and safety policy will be;\nSpecific to the company and appropriate to the nature of our activities; Concise, clearly written, dated and made effective by the signature of the director; Communicated and readily accessible to all persons at their place of work; Reviewed for continued suitability; and Made available to relevant external interested parties, as appropriate\nName: Diana Williams", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://boobsonsocial.com/busty-sara-willis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:08Z", "digest": "sha1:5TWR7CZCWESPG5ZQ3BQT2JJC5X6LDJPT", "length": 653, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "boobsonsocial.com", "title": "Busty Sara Willis - Boobs on Social", "raw_content": "I actually think that Busty Sara Willis is one of the prettiest big boob models out there. I love her face, just perfection in my mind. As well as the fact that she has some of the cutest pale areola ever. They are big as well, which is always a plus for me. This is her personal page from what I can see and the followers she has seem to prove it as well. So check her out and if you dig her as well, please follow her.\nVisit Busty Sara Willis\nBusty Sara Willis2018-02-102018-08-17https://boobsonsocial.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/boobs-on-social.pngBoobs on Socialhttps://boobsonsocial.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/busty-sara-willis.jpg200px200px", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bookdigitalreader.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/what-is-the-best-ebook-reader/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:36Z", "digest": "sha1:GPMODFOBTBUHNVCHBOPEZJHVJE3HOSHZ", "length": 2018, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "bookdigitalreader.wordpress.com", "title": "What is the best eBook reader? | Digital Book Reader", "raw_content": "Home > Digital Book Reader Review\t> What is the best eBook reader?\neBook Reader is the wave of the future. No need to rush to the library, pick up a book and look through it. You can not miss this book, which side are you bookmarking and other things. Of course, if I can understand why people still love books, there are a lot of people are adopting this new technology.\nThere are a lot of great e-book reader on the market. Here are some of my favorites, and somemore widely available on the market today \u2026\nSony daily circulation\nKobo from Borders\nHow do I choose the best eBook reader?\nSet a price \u2013 the first, do what I want, the price of a set. How much are you willing to spend to get the book. Prices range from $ 600 to $ 250 when you bought it, they alsoconvenient.\nSizes \u2013 an ebook reader should not weigh much such as laptops. You want something that has to do something simple and that is very comfortable to wear.\nThe indicator \u2013 If your vision is not the best thing in the world, you may find that you want a larger screen. Screen sizes ranging from 6 to 10 cm. The inch or so to see how much more confidence in methis.\nThe keyboard \u2013 Since you are going, and look for it and that type here, you want a real keyboard, or if you want a touch screen? In my opinion, I tend to, I want to use a physical keyboard. I've never been able to touch the screen as my fingers were too fat to be used!\nBattery life \u2013 This is probably one of the most important. Do you want a battery that will last a long time. The last thing we want is that theHolidays and your Ebook dies.\nStorage \u2013 The last thing to learn by heart on my list. The more memory you have, the more you will be able to read. Since I do not really want lots of space Ebooks will not need to 1000 gigabytes.\nCategories: Digital Book Reader Review Tags: Direct, Installation, Reader, Receiver\nThe next generation of Kindle \u2013 smaller and faster, but is it necessary? My review! Corporate Business Gifts \u2013 Will e-readers, the Top Tech Gifts for Christmas?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://born2invest.com/articles/uk-solidifies-status-renewables-leader-largest-wind-farm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:04Z", "digest": "sha1:QNSMONF5BEEGYC6P76ERH7JIMASMAYYI", "length": 3189, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "born2invest.com", "title": "UK solidifies status as renewables leader with largest wind farm", "raw_content": "The United Kingdom has been taking big steps toward shifting to renewable energy, hoping to increase its reliance on renewables to 30 percent by 2020 from the current 20 percent. To achieve its target, the nation is using various technologies such as biomass power stations, hydropower systems, and onshore and offshore wind farms.\nThe U.K.\u2019s latest renewable energy venture is also its biggest. The government recently opened the world\u2019s largest offshore wind farm, which is located 145 km sq. in the Irish Sea and around 19 km from the coast of Cumbria in England. The farm, dubbed as the 659 MW Walney Extension, runs on 40 of MHI Vestas\u2019 8 MW turbines and 47 of Siemens Gamesa\u2019s 7 MW turbines.\nU.K. Energy Minister Claire Perry said that the record-breaking wind farm helps the region solidify its status as the global leader in renewable energy. Moving forward, Perry adds that \u201cour modern Industrial Strategy we\u2019ve set out a further \u00a3557 million of funding for new renewable projects, helping to tackle climate change and deliver clean growth to local economies.\u201d\nHalf of the farm is owned by \u00d8rsted from Denmark while the remaining is equally shared by Danish-based pension companies PKA and PFA.\n\u00d8rsted Managing Director Matthew Wright said that the U.K. is one of the leaders in offshore wind farms. Experts are even claiming that a third or a fifth of the U.K.\u2019s energy will be acquired through these farms. The Walney Extension will help the region reach this goal and \u00d8rsted is more than willing to help out as they also dream of a world that runs completely on renewables.\nAside from onshore and offshore wind farms and biomass power stations, the U.K. is using other technologies such as a hydropower system to increase its use of renewable energy sources. (Photo by Denis Egan via Flickr. CC BY 2.0.)\nWright believes that the northwest region of England is a key player in the development of the new offshore wind farm and he hopes that the Walney Extension will have a positive impact on it. People in the area should expect support from \u00d8rsted and the wind farm in the coming months and hopefully, they get to expand what is already a massive source of renewables.\nU.K. wind farms lead energy production\nThe U.K.\u2019s wind farms have been a major source of energy for the region. According to recent reports, the region produced 170,549 MWh of electricity through wind farms on Sept. 9. This amounts to 32 percent of the country\u2019s power generation for that day, and it was the top energy source as well.\nWind power was followed closely by nuclear power with the latter reaching 165,718 MWh of electricity or 31.11 percent of the power produced that day. In contrast, open cycle gas turbines were not able to produce energy during the measurement period.\nThe U.K\u2019s landmark wind farm will give it a huge boost in terms of the production of renewable energy, and it is a marvel that other nations should strive to secure for themselves. If more major nations decide to take on a more aggressive approach to renewables, then it would be easy for the rest of the world to go green.\nRelated Topics:energyfeaturedGreen energy\u00d8rstedrenewable energyunited kingdomwind farmswind power", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 7215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 177.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://boxoffice.co.uk/arts-and-theatre-tickets/musicals/half-a-sixpence-tickets.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:25Z", "digest": "sha1:E2CGI6ZJYRXYZ3CMU44KJFBAMVBDU2AS", "length": 2836, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "boxoffice.co.uk", "title": "Half a Sixpence Tickets - Noel Coward Theatre | BoxOffice.co.uk", "raw_content": "Half a Sixpence - Noel Coward Theatre\nLatest Review: \"Seeing the show for a second time did not disappoint. it was wonderful. just wish I could squeeze...\"\nImportant Info: Please see below a list of dates that Charlie Stemp will not be performing in Half a Sixpence. 10th August 2017 (matinee) 14th - 16th August 2017 22nd August 2017\nFor the latest show headed to the No\u00ebl Coward Theatre we cast our attentions to a story that has its origins in the early 20th century and was later adapted into an international musical in the 1960s. It is a journey that has been in the making for more than a century and in 2016 audiences were given a new chance to experience it when it landed at the Chichester Festival Theatre.\nThe story is H. G. Wells\u2019 Kipps: The Story Of A Simple Soul and the musical adaptation is Half A Sixpence, the latter of which now transfers from Chichester to the No\u00ebl Coward Theatre, where it will undoubtedly attract a new generation of theatregoers.\nThe musical, co-produced by Cameron Mackintosh, starring Charlie Stemp and Devon-Elise Johnson and directed by Rachel Kavanaugh, is from Julian Fellowes, George Stiles and Anthony Drewe and focuses on the character of Arthur Kipps (Stemp).\nIt is one of many musicals opening in 2016 (alongside Aladdin at the Prince Edward Theatre and School of Rock at the New London theatre), but it is bound to make a big impression thanks to its tried and tested run in Chichester.\nAt the beginning of Half A Sixpence Arthur Kipps is an orphan who works a draining job and by the end of it he has been through many ups and downs as he is granted a major change that brings some big decisions.\nAn inheritance grants him a huge windfall and this new wealth brings him into contact with Helen Walsingham (Emma Williams), who is providing him with a new look, whilst someone from his old life, Anna Pornick (Johnson) looks on.\nH. G. Well\u2019s original novel emerged in 1905 and unlike his more famous sci-fi works it is a tale of rags to riches that is often described as semi-autobiographical. Many now hold it in high esteem, with the musical adaptation one of many ways in which the story gained new life across the 20th century.\nFor this 2016 version, which is described as a \u2018completely fresh adaptation\u2019, a lot of attention has been cast upon star Charlie Stemp, who reprises his role as Kipps for the No\u00ebl Coward Theatre production. This is undoubtedly a big break for the actor who has previously appeared in Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre and taken Mamma Mia! on tour.\nHalf A Sixpence, also starring Ian Bartholomew, opens at the No\u00ebl Coward Theatre on Thursday 17th November 2016 (previews from Saturday 29th October 2016).\nBooking From: Thursday, 31st August 2017\nBooking Until: Saturday, 2nd September 2017\nCharlie Stemp in Half A Sixpence at the Noel Coward Theatre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 7313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 181.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brainberries.co/interesting/woolsey-fire-facts-you-need-to-know-so-far/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6MFOKUIE3LUAMPNR5TAVHZJ2XYHE2MXE", "length": 1844, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "brainberries.co", "title": "Woolsey Fire: Facts You Need To Know So Far | Brain Berries", "raw_content": "Woolsey Fire: Facts You Need To Know So Far\nAs you may have heard, on November 10, a massive forest fire started in California and eventually jumped over to city buildings of the nearby Paradise, burning down the city almost to the ground in a matter of hours.\nHundreds of people were forced to flee their houses. According to the local fire dept., the blaze destroyed over 2000 buildings, hundreds of small businesses, and more than 18,000 acres of land in just a few hours. Currently the wildfires have decimated over 90,000 acres and still counting. Reportedly, on Monday, Nov. 12, only 20% of the fires were contained.\nThe mass evacuation was, of course, announced, but there were still victims among citizens as well as the firefighters. Sadly, the fires kept spreading, bringing the total death toll from across California to 44, with 228 people still missing, making this the most devastating forest fire in state history.\nAmong the 250,000+ people evacuated from the hot spots, 13,000 people were from the Malibu area, including celebs like Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Cher, Gerard Butler, Guilermo del Toro, Neil Young, and Miley Cyrus. Some of whom have lost their homes and all of their belongings.\nPresident Trump blames this tragedy on poor forest management, because of course he does. And, hey, maybe it was just as simple as lazy park workers, but calling out who\u2019s responsible should not be the President\u2019s initial reaction to a national tragedy. Besides, the droughts in California are legendary, so it\u2019s not too far-fetched of an option that this is just one of Mother Nature\u2019s cruel life lessons.\nCurrently hundreds of rescue teams keep looking for the survivors, over 3200 firefighters are doing their best to extinguish the blaze, and at this point, everyone just hopes this hell is just a bad nightmare. It\u2019s not over yet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 199.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brettkelly.org/announcing-tech-for-marketers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3VES7Y5NPHK4J6B4YUFPGDMSXIWJHN7S", "length": 3183, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "brettkelly.org", "title": "Teach Everything You Know (Plus, I Made Something New) \u2013 Brett Kelly", "raw_content": "I don\u2019t recall when I first heard the phrase \u201cteach everything you know,\u201d but it\u2019s been awhile. At least a couple of years. Google\u2019s results for that phrase confirmed my suspicion that it was popularized by my pal Nathan Barry (and he worked with my other buddy Sean to make handsome t-shirts that say the same thing).\nI really like that idea. So much, that it led me to create something new that\u2019s something of a departure from my earlier work. Before I tell you what it is, I\u2019d like to describe the mental journey that gave me the idea to make this new thing.\n(You can totally scroll down and read the end if you don\u2019t care about the journey, but I\u2019ve come to realize that the journey is important.)\nA couple of months ago, I was sitting on my couch late at night. I was mulling over an idea I\u2019d read in a book by Scott Adams\u2014it\u2019s summarized nicely in this blog post\u2014that posits that few people will be the absolute best in the world at anything, but to be in the top 25% of two different yet complementary fields simultaneously gives you a pretty massive advantage.\nKnowing this, I was scanning my brain, thinking about what I knew and which, if any, of my areas of \u201cexpertise\u201d could be combined in an interesting way.\nCutting to the chase, my two main areas of knowledge are technology and selling stuff online.\nAs an online business owner, I\u2019m around the Internet quite a bit. A fair of my time is spent in various online business groups and so forth. Mostly on Facebook. Every single day I see new questions from people about how to make this shopping cart talk to that email provider, why their pages load so slowly, how to understand their marketing automation systems\u2014even how to properly format a promotional email.\nThe problem? Easy.\nMany online business owners don\u2019t really understand the technology that runs their businesses.\nWe have so many sophisticated tools at our disposal that many folks (incorrectly, I think) assume that one doesn\u2019t need a working knowledge of technology basics in order to sell products and services online. Everything works fine until things break, and then we\u2019re stuck without a clue what to do next.\nIf you ask me, this is demonstrably false.\nAnd because I have a rather extensive technical background, I can help.\nSo I made a new online course that solves this exact problem. I call it Tech for Marketers. It\u2019s free.\nIn a nutshell, this course will teach the basics of technology\u2014how web pages are built, how browsers work, how spam filters work, how APIs work, and tons more\u2014to those who want to sell things online.\nNow, I realize that most people who read my stuff aren\u2019t super interested in online sales and marketing. That\u2019s fine. I know this isn\u2019t for everybody. But, I\u2019m trying to take Nathan\u2019s advice and make something helpful.\nIf you want to read more about it (or sign up), you can do that here. I also explain why on earth I made this thing for free.\nAnyway, I hope you\u2019ll check it out.\nAnd, if you want to do your Uncle Brett a solid and share it with somebody who might like it, I\u2019d be much obliged.\nA simple strategy to make every morning the perfect morning.\n10 minutes or less, start tomorrow.\nThe Perfect Morning Generator", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brightsparks.com.sg/article.php?title=Boosting-Connectivity-with-Land-Transport-Authority", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XGZUM6Z2G3GUYOF55S2WQ2EMNH5TZWV5", "length": 3455, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "brightsparks.com.sg", "title": "Get Ahead!", "raw_content": "land transport authority lta scholarships engineering construction\nWed, 03/22/2017 \u2014 By Sharon Fah\nSingapore\u2019s demographic and socio-economic landscape has changed substantially in the last 10 years. Striving to balance between meeting space constraint challenges and fulfilling the needs of passengers, Land Transport Authority (LTA) has involved itself in various projects. These include the fleet expansion of trains for the North-South and East-West lines to improve efficiency, as well as tunnelling works for the Thomson-East Coast line.\nWith LTA\u2019s increasing involvement in large-scale engineering projects, there has never been a more opportune time to take up the challenge of joining them. LTA Overseas Scholar Jonathan Lee tells us about the opportunities he has received with LTA. As a Project Engineer, he shares, \u201cIn my line of work, I learn about the subsystems \u2013 such as the brakes, traction, suspension, air conditioning \u2013 of a subway train and also apply my engineering knowledge to tackle problems with the trains\u201d.\nThe Huge Pull\nJonathan decided to pursue the LTA scholarship because transport issues are of a prime concern in a highly-connected Singapore and the prospect of approaching a nationwide concern greatly appealed to Jonathan.\nHe was given the opportunity to pursue Mechanical Engineering at the prestigious Cambridge University in the UK. He shares that the experience of studying overseas is invaluable as it allows one to gain independence, and provides one with the experience of being immersed in a foreign culture.\nWhile an undergraduate, Jonathan had the opportunity to intern for LTA during his summer holidays. He was attached to the civil engineering project team in charge of the construction of the Marina Coastal Expressway (MCE). \u201cMCE was the widest underground expressway on our island, and as the tunnel went beneath a water body, one of the biggest challenge was tackling water seepage into the tunnel. The internship was an eye-opening experience, being a part of this team provided me with invaluable insights to LTA\u2019s organisational structure and the type work they do.\u201d\nToday, Jonathan fulfils his Project Engineer duties in Rolling Stock under the Rail department. He admits that he had to mount a steep learning curve, given the necessity to get up to speed with technical train issues as well as operational knowledge. To counter challenges, he remains open to new experiences and asks questions when in doubt. Hardly desk-bound, Jonathan also points out that his work is largely based at the project site of MRT depots, and as such, being adaptable is key.\nAs for advice to aspiring scholars, Jonathan shares that it is important to deliberate over various scholarship options before deciding on a scholarship. Although it is impossible to predict how your future would pan out in the next decade, it is wise to envision what it would be like to work for your sponsoring organisation. To conclude, Jonathan shares, \u201cthe good thing about LTA is that it offers a diverse range of career opportunities, which ranges from massive engineering projects to policy planning. Sometimes, trying out different portfolios can serve as avenues to discover your strengths \u2013 ultimately helping you determine where you best fit.\u201d\nAre you an environmentalist or nature lover? Read what NEW Scholars Low Guan Jie and Fabia Lim have to say about how their roles ensure Singapore remains a clean and green garden city.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 4338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brookwoodfinancial.com/team/louise-d-snyder/?print=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UCDF5PCTEEQZVHB4XLDLPW3DMJOQREHP", "length": 438, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "brookwoodfinancial.com", "title": "Louise D. Snyder - Brookwood Financial", "raw_content": "Louise D. Snyder\nMs. Snyder is one of the firm\u2019s receptionists and is responsible for directing all incoming calls, processing investor correspondence, as well as other general office functions.\nPrior to joining Brookwood, Ms. Snyder was employed by Our Lady of Nazareth Academy in Wakefield Massachusetts for 13 years as the Administrative Assistant to the Director of Guidance.\nMs. Snyder is a graduate of The Chandler School for Women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 151.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2018/09/onondaga-15-go-to-world-court-by-mohawk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ABDYRVHOCRMEEC3EBE2ZUVZ3S2SCWQWI", "length": 1185, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bsnorrell.blogspot.com", "title": "CENSORED NEWS: 'Onondaga 15 Go To World Court' by Mohawk Nation News", "raw_content": "'Onondaga 15 Go To World Court' by Mohawk Nation News\nONONDAGA 15 GO TO WORLD COURT\nIn the case of Jones et al. v. Parmley, et al, No. 17-928, the sovereign Onondaga 15 of the rotinoshonni, Iroquois Confederacy, are instituting proceedings in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, against the United States and its justice system. It is pursuant to Article 45 of the Rules of Court. It will be filed in the registry of the Court in September 2018.\nFor us, jurisdiction and sovereignty are based on the kaianerekowa, the law of turtle island, which supercedes the United States court system. We, the Onondaga 15, request The International Court of Justice at The Hague to review the injustice of the United States court system in this 20 year old case. The Onondaga 15 have proven they can get no justice in the United States court system. Only the kaianerekowa, great law, can provide justice.\nRead full article at Mohawk Nation News:\nhttp://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/09/11/onondaga-15-go-to-world-court/\nWatch video of New York State Police beating at Onondaga Nation\nLabels: beatings, Mohawk Nation News, Native Americans, New York State police, Onondaga, World Court", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 9868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://btcmanager.com/tag/metoo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7YTQ5QHDWRWIR7RDMHLRXNGSRFM3UQ5F", "length": 501, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "btcmanager.com", "title": "#Metoo \u2013 BTCMANAGER", "raw_content": "# #Metoo News\nEthereum\u2019s Blockchain Lends Voice To #MeToo Movement After China Censors Student\u2019s Rape Claims\nApril 26, 2018 by Samantha Chang at Blockchain, Ethereum, News, Tech\nBlockchain, the technology behind bitcoin, has come to the rescue of student activists who have reportedly been censored by the Chinese government after trying to launch the #MeToo movement there. Students have repeatedly asked the government to do more to prevent rape, sexual assault and harassment in China, but their...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 3550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://buckleyfirm.com/news/2018-01-02/tina-m-tchen-interviewed-good-morning-america-discuss-%E2%80%9Ctime%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9D-movement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:07Z", "digest": "sha1:M55FDDYEU6M5MQL4Z45SYYIYZXR4JJQU", "length": 305, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "buckleyfirm.com", "title": "Tina M. Tchen Interviewed on Good Morning America to Discuss \u201cTime\u2019s Up\u201d Movement | Buckley LLP", "raw_content": "Tina M. Tchen Interviewed on Good Morning America to Discuss \u201cTime\u2019s Up\u201d Movement\nTina Tchen was interviewed on Good Morning America, where she discussed spearheading the \u201cTime\u2019s Up\u201d movement\u2019s Legal Defense Fund, and the efforts by women in Hollywood to bring light to sexual harassment in the workplace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 112.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://businessforbettersociety.org/project_category/womens-advocacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:56Z", "digest": "sha1:KUFLMHZGHTV2ZPESLIPNDBTCZIACDN3H", "length": 93, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "businessforbettersociety.org", "title": "Women\u2019s Advocacy Archives - Business For Better Society", "raw_content": "Join us in empowering women to being their own bosses and gaining a voice in family finances.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN1IB1V3-OCABS", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:02Z", "digest": "sha1:464TO5BFRG3JOLZUBHTQYAQE2WKBK3TI", "length": 4404, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Walmart Go Back! Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Flipkart deal | Reuters", "raw_content": "Walmart Go Back! Some Indian trader, farmer groups decry Flipkart deal\nAditi Shah, Manoj Kumar\nNEW DELHI (Reuters) - A day after U.S. retail giant Walmart (WMT.N) struck its largest deal with a big ticket investment in Indian online marketplace Flipkart, a right-wing Hindu group that fears small traders will suffer staged a protest in New Delhi calling for the deal to be scrapped.\nActivists from Swadeshi Jagran Manch, a wing of Hindu nationalist organisation Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), scuffle with police during a protest against U.S. retailer REUTERS/Adnan Abidi\nWalmart said on Wednesday it would pay some $16 billion for a roughly 77 percent stake in the Indian e-commerce firm, stepping up competition with rival Amazon.com (AMZN.O) in a major growth market.\nWhile Thursday\u2019s protest was small and unlikely to affect the deal, such sentiments pose a challenge for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as it prepares to fight an election next year.\nFor Modi, appeasing small traders and farmers, who are part of the BJP\u2019s core constituency, is as important as upholding India\u2019s image as a place that welcomes foreign investment.\nOfficials have been advised not to comment on the Walmart-Flipkart deal, a senior government official said. The ruling party has previously opposed foreign direct investment in the multi-brand retail sector.\n\u201cPolitically, the government may find it difficult to digest the deal,\u201d the official said.\nThe Communist Party of India (Marxist) also taunted the Modi government, noting the BJP had decried such investments when it was in the opposition and accusing it of betraying promises.\nOfficials in the Prime Minister\u2019s office did not respond to calls by Reuters for comment.\nAccording to the deal, Walmart\u2019s investment is in Flipkart\u2019s online marketplace platform, where foreign investment is allowed. The U.S. company cannot open physical stores in India, according to rules governing the multi-brand retail sector.\nHowever, Walmart\u2019s CEO Doug McMillon told media in New Delhi on Thursday that it was open to the idea of setting up stores via a franchise model in the future. It already operates wholesale stores in the country.\n\u201cWe can be very flexible. I think as a company not just in India, but around the world, the concept of franchising isn\u2019t out of bounds,\u201d said McMillon, adding Walmart was not yet ready to make any such announcements.\nThat could fan fears of some trader and farmer groups, who contend the U.S. company is using the deal as a back-door entry into India\u2019s bricks and mortar retail market, and that it could squeeze out small corner shops that dominate Indian retail.\nFRINGE PROTESTS\nSome 80 people gathered outside a Delhi hotel holding placards reading \u201cWalmart Go Back!\u201d and shouting slogans asking people to ditch imported products for Indian-made goods. Inside the hotel, McMillon was talking to a dozen journalists about the deal.\n\u201cWhoever is protesting also has a story to tell. If you look at our history as a country, there was a history of colonialism. And there is always a fear that you start with trade and then it becomes control,\u201d said Devangshu Dutta, head of retail consultancy firm Third Eyesight.\nThe protesters were from the Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM), a nationalist group linked to Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological parent of Modi\u2019s party. The group has said the deal is against \u201cnational interests\u201d and will hurt Modi\u2019s \u201cMake in India\u201d drive.\nIt has also written to Modi asking the government to intervene.\nSeparately, a traders\u2019 union, the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) said that it may consider taking legal action against the two companies or lodging a complaint with the country\u2019s competition watchdog, depending on how the deal was structured.\nTraders say they are most concerned about predatory pricing and steep discounting by e-commerce firms with deep pockets thanks to foreign funding that could edge out smaller rivals.\n\u201cAlready offline trade is deeply hurt by e-commerce as there is no policy or regulatory mechanism to govern those companies,\u201d said Praveen Khandelwal, secretary general of CAIT. \u201cIt is a free-for-all game and ultimately it is the offline trade which is feeling the pinch.\u201d\nAdditional reporting by Adnan Abidi and Euan Rocha in New Delhi and Sankalp Phartiyal in Mumbai; Editing by Alex Richardson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCAKBN0LE2KJ20150210", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:59Z", "digest": "sha1:CFSIOX642U7UYUAGWCASUAANQCMKFVIE", "length": 2036, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Farmers in eastern Ukraine feel the bite of conflict | Reuters", "raw_content": "Farmers in eastern Ukraine feel the bite of conflict\nROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Food production in conflict-torn eastern Ukraine is set to drop in the coming months, as farmers don\u2019t have regular access to seeds and fertilizers, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.\nSome farms surrounding the battered cities of Donetsk and Luhansk lost up to 30 percent of their winter wheat harvest and planting for the spring crop has been badly hit, said Rajendra Aryal, senior emergency coordinator with the U.N.\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).\nIn peacetime, banks would loan farmers money to buy fertilizer, with the upcoming harvest acting as collateral, Aryal said.\n\u201cNow that the harvest could be at risk (because of fighting), banks aren\u2019t providing the loans,\u201d he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. \u201cFor many people, agriculture is the only means of earning a living.\u201d\nFighting between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russia separatists has intensified in the past month.\nThe official rate of Ukraine\u2019s currency, the hryvnia, fell to an all-time low against the U.S. dollar on Monday, making fuel and fertilizer inputs more expensive for farmers.\nOnce known as the \u201cbread basket of Europe\u201d, farming in other parts of Ukraine has not been directly affected by the conflict in the east, Aryal said.\nMore than one million people, mostly from the east, have been displaced in violence which has claimed more than 5,000 lives.\nAfter the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine\u2019s large collective farms were divided up among the peasants.\nToday some of that land is farmed in small plots by local families, while other owners lease their land to larger companies.\nBecause of the hostilities, and the inability to access credit, some of the larger farms are set to face losses, Aryal said, and might not be able to pay rent to small landowners, including pensioners, who depend on the money for survival.\n\u201cWithout the rent, their lives become a lot more vulnerable,\u201d he said.\nReporting By Chris Arsenault; Editing by Ros Russell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCAKCN1001YE", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:14Z", "digest": "sha1:HM4XB3HLK743QJ5DMZ3QRUGFNZCSPWDC", "length": 2312, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "In crowded Rio slum, residents fly kites in cemetery | Reuters", "raw_content": "In crowded Rio slum, residents fly kites in cemetery\nRIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - As dusk descends on a cemetery in one of Rio de Janeiro\u2019s northern slums, four young men stand on top of a wall vault of tombs and watch their kites flutter in the breeze.\nA man flies his kite in a cemetery in the Vila Operaria Favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 25, 2016. REUTERS/Nacho Doce\nAcross the graveyard\u2019s dusty expanse, some 20 others are doing the same in hopes of catching the wind.\nSome 40 billion reais ($12.3 billion) has been spent on projects for Rio to host South America\u2019s first Olympic Games, which kick off on Aug. 5. But for those who live in the slums of the sprawling metropolis of roughly 12 million people, there are few public spaces for sports or recreation.\nThe cemetery lies in the midst of the Vila Operaria slum, where tightly packed red-brick buildings cascade down the hillside.\n\u201cWe can\u2019t fly kites where we live because the buildings are too high,\u201d said 28-year-old Fernando. \u201cThe only place we have, the only recreational ground, is this cemetery.\n\u201cFlying my kite is everything to me, after God and after my children.\u201d\nOne attraction of the cemetery is that it is far from the streets, where gunfights can break out among the city\u2019s rival drug gangs and police, said Felipe, 27.\nA spike in violent crime in Rio has raised concern ahead of the Games, despite police efforts to pacify the slums. Homicides in Rio de Janeiro state rose by 14 percent to 2,083 in the first five months of 2016 from a year earlier, according to its Institute of Public Safety.\n\u201cWe\u2019re not afraid because we believe in our Lord Jesus Christ,\u201d said Felipe. \u201cWhen there is wind for the kites, we all come here.\u201d\nTwo boys dressed in shorts and T-shirts and carrying a small purple, yellow and red kite walk among the graves, each marked by a white cross and a small black plaque identifying the deceased.\nAnother boy lies atop a stone tomb to rest as the sun sets.\nEleven-year-old Caio said he started coming here around a month ago when his father moved to this neighborhood. He stays until it gets dark and then heads home.\n\u201cI\u2019m not afraid,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause I come here and then go home afterwards with one of the other boys who fly a kite.\u201d\nReporting by Nacho Doce; Writing by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://californiaagtoday.com/aglaw-safe-and-accurate-food-labeling-gmos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:26Z", "digest": "sha1:U6EDJTYEKNP6LCN4YOK2YJTAU3C2J4JD", "length": 2448, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "californiaagtoday.com", "title": "#AgLaw: Safe and Accurate Food Labeling - GMOs - California Agriculture News | California Agriculture", "raw_content": "#AgLaw: Safe and Accurate Food Labeling \u2013 GMOs\nH.R.1599 - Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015\nStatus/Next Steps:\nH.R. 1599, the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 passed the House of Representatives on July 23, 2015 by a recorded vote: 275 - 150. H.R. 1599 has been received in the Senate, read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.\nSponsored by Rep. Mike Pompeo [R-KS], this bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the developer of a bioengineered organism intended as food to submit a premarket biotechnology notification to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A \u201cbioengineered organism\u201d (commonly called a \u201cgenetically modified organism\u201d or \u201cGMO\u201d) is a plant or part of a plant that has been modified through recombinant DNA techniques in a way that could not be obtained using conventional breeding techniques.\nThe developer must determine, and the FDA approve, that the GMO food is as safe as a comparable non-GMO food. If the FDA discovers a material difference between these two foods, the FDA can specify labeling that informs consumers of the difference.\nA food can be labelled as \"non-GMO\" only if the ingredients are subject to certain supply chain process controls. No food label can suggest that non-GMO foods are safer than GMO foods. A food can be labeled as non-GMO even if it is produced with a GMO processing aid or enzyme or derived from animals fed GMO feed or given GMO drugs.\nThe FDA must allow, but not require, GMO food to be labeled as GMO.\nThe FDA must regulate the use of \u201cnatural\u201d on food labels.\nThis bill amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Agricultural Marketing Service to establish a program to certify non-GMO food.\nThis bill preempts state and local restrictions on GMOs or GMO food and labeling requirements for GMOs, GMO food, non-GMO food, or \u201cnatural\u201d food.\nAuthor webmasterPosted on August 5, 2015 May 31, 2016 Categories Know the issues, Uncategorized, Health, Safety & Nutrition, Law/Politics, GMO, National Agriculture News, Politics and Law, California Agriculture News, newsTags: Nutrition Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Ac Mike Pompeo Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act bioengineered organism genetically modified organism recombinant DNA\n<< Previous post: #AgLaw: Rural Broadband Initiative Act\nNext post: Farmer Mac Admires California Farmers >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://capnflynn.wordpress.com/tall-tales/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:29Z", "digest": "sha1:7A7FRIKBWSX5SMV5X2RDN345Q75KQM2D", "length": 1222, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "capnflynn.wordpress.com", "title": "Tall Tales | Peregrinations", "raw_content": "A brief guide to stories I\u2019ve published and where you can find them.\nThe Voyage to Ruin: being a complete and accurate account of the scurrilous knaves of the pyrate ship Eschaton, a novel of adventure and romance on the high seas and higher skies, can be found on Amazon for Kindle, on Smashwords for other electronic devices, and on Lulu for an actual physical copy you can put on your bookshelf.\nNightfalls: Notes from the End of the World includes my short story \u201cSomebody Brave,\u201d about an adventuring party that runs afoul of their expectations for saving the world.\nIt can be purchased through Amazon in either digital or dead tree format.\nIf you would like to read \u201cSomebody Brave\u201d all by itself and not spring for a whole anthology, you\u2019re in luck! It\u2019s now available DRM-free on Amazon (which means if you don\u2019t have a Kindle, you can easily convert it to the file format of your choosing; my program of choice is the freeware Calibre)\n\u201cThe Blue Dress,\u201d a macabre little story about a young couple trapped in the mountains during a bad winter, first appeared in Dark Valentine Magazine\u2018s inaugural issue. The magazine no longer exists, but you can pick up a digital copy of the short story for free on Smashwords.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 243.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cas.uab.edu/peacefulsocieties/2018/11/15/tahitians-protest-destruction-by-boaters/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:32Z", "digest": "sha1:73AIZ2P4PFWZLTX3NX6RUOGNT225COMQ", "length": 3218, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "cas.uab.edu", "title": "Tahitians Protest Destruction by Boaters | Peaceful Societies Tahitians Protest Destruction by Boaters | Peaceful Societies", "raw_content": "The Hawaiki Nui Va'a canoe race in the Society Islands, yachts filled with tourists in the background\nThe Tahitian people living on the island of Huahine are getting quite irritated with the hordes of boaters who visit their community and regularly ignore the proper anchorage spots for their vessels. A news story last week in Tahiti Infos describes the environmental damage the boats cause and the reactions of the Tahitian people to the destruction.\nA coral reef in French Polynesia (Photo by Adam Reeder on Flickr, Creative Commons license)\nMatai Tereua, a resident of Huahine, explains to the reporter that the government has installed what in French are picturesquely called \u201ccorps morts,\u201d which boaters use to tie up their yachts. The \u201cdead bodies,\u201d as a Wikipedia article explains, are heavy concrete pads placed on the sea floor to which buoys are cabled, so the boaters can then tie their crafts up to the buoys and not harm the coral reefs. Huahine, located in the Leeward Islands archipelago of French Polynesia, is extremely popular with boaters. It was where anthropologist Robert Levy did much of his research on Tahitian peacefulness, which resulted in his 1973 book Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands.\nThe thrust of the news story last week is that a number of international boaters can\u2019t be bothered with tying their vessels up properly. It is more convenient, and cheaper, to just use their anchors. The problem is that the use of anchors tends to tear up the coral, destroying the environment of the Huahine lagoon.\nThe Hawaiki Nui Va\u2019a canoe race in the Society Islands, yachts filled with tourists in the background (Photo by Bianca Henry from Bora Bora, Creative Commons license)\nTereua, a fisherman, points out that many boaters ignore the dead bodies and the provisions of the Huahine government; they just anchor their boats wherever is convenient. The heck with the natural environment. The situation gets especially severe when large numbers of boaters visit the Leeward Islands during a very popular canoe race called the Hawaiki Nui Va\u2019a, a major cultural event of Huahine, Bora Bora, and other islands in French Polynesia.\nTatiana Faahu, the Deputy Mayor of Huahine in charge of tourism, said that the government has installed about 30 dead bodies in the lagoon. She added that boaters who wish to tie up are required to pay 1,500 francs per night (about U.S. $ 14.00), though that fee includes access to fresh water and the collection of waste by the municipality. She argues that the majority of boaters respect the regulations and that she and her staff are constantly trying to ensure that the environment is protected. But there are always those who will ignore the rules.\nThe news report concludes that yachting contributes a billion francs per year into the economy of French Polynesia. Some 400 or 500 boats are anchored in the islands and another 600 or so venture into the region each year\u2014a financial windfall for the Tahitians. As with a number of other peaceful societies encountering the financial benefits of tourism, the Tahitians are confronting the environmental downsides of hosting hordes of visitors.\nboatsHuahineyachts\nBirhor Man Starves to Death", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 10092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://caseyreiter.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:12Z", "digest": "sha1:LM33S7KMNMZL2SKSANFYN73VI4X2SLGH", "length": 293, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "caseyreiter.com", "title": "Florida Criminal & Family Law", "raw_content": "Casey M. 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With experience in criminal defense, family law, and appeals, Casey now assists other solo practitioners and small firms with their legal research and writing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 172.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cedat.mak.ac.ug/undergraduate-programmes/bsc-computer-engineering/cmp2202-analysis-and-design-of-algorithms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:24Z", "digest": "sha1:WFVRWGY3D4WHHITSF3EJ5MOGJWQT6A7H", "length": 955, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cedat.mak.ac.ug", "title": "CMP 2202 Analysis and Design of Algorithms | The College of Engineering, Design, Art and Technology", "raw_content": "CMP 2202 Analysis and Design of Algorithms\nAlgorithms are fundamental to computer engineering. The real-world performance of any software or hardware system depends on two things: (1) the algorithms chosen, and (2) the suitability and efficiency of the implementation. Good algorithm design is, therefore, crucial for the performance of all systems. Moreover, the study of algorithms provides insight into the intrinsic nature of the problem as well as possible solution techniques independent of programming language, computer hardware, or any other implementation aspect.\nExplain the role and purpose of algorithms in Computer Engineering\nIndicate how algorithms are part of many different computer applications\nProvide some knowledge themes such as relating complexity with algorithms\nCMP2202 Analysis and Design of Algorithms DOC PDF PS\nTags: algorithms, analysis., computer engineering, computer hardware, design, Implementation, programming language", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 5660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://celebbodysize.com/natasha-bertrand-net-worthbio-age-husband-family-body-measurement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:21Z", "digest": "sha1:G7MCHTGATFTSS3FFOIQJHUD3WHV4OOZC", "length": 3866, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "celebbodysize.com", "title": "Natasha Bertrand Net Worth,Bio, Age, Husband, Family & Body Measurement", "raw_content": "HomeActorNatasha Bertrand Net Worth, Wiki, Bio, Age, Husband, Family & Body Measurement.\nNovember 28, 2018CrixActor, Biography0\nNatasha Bertrand Net Worth,Bio, Age, Husband, Family & Body Measurement\nQuick Facts of Natasha Bertrand\nPolitical correspondent at Business Insider\nBryan Coxwell\nVassar College, London School of Economics\n5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m)\nAmong people, the name Natasha Bertrand is hugely popular as a journalist who works as a political correspondent at Business Insider. She focuses on national security and foreign policy and writes about it. Explore more to know in detail about Natasha Bertrand life.\nNatasha Bertrand\u2019s Biography\nNatasha Bertrand was born on December 5, New York, USA in the year 1922. As of 2018, she is 26 years old. She is an American by nationality and her ethnical group is not revealed. Although she has not disclosed about her early life, she has always shown her interest in journalism since she was very young.\nAdditionally, Bertrand went to Vassar College and received her graduation in Philosophy. Later, she attended the London School of Economics to read Philosophy and Government.\nNatasha Bertrand\u2019s Body Statistics\nBody Measurements: The body figure of Natasha Bertrand is perfectly maintained as she has a body measurement of 35 inches breast, 28 inches waist, and 35 inches hips.\nHeight: Natasha stands at an average height of 5 feet 8 inches.\nHair Color: Her hair is long and brown in color.\nEyes Color: She has attractive brown eyes.\nNatasha Bertrand\u2019s Relationship History\nThe 26 years journalist, Natasha Bertrand is dating a US Army Ranger, Bryan Coxwell. The couple met for the first time several years ago. After that, they started sharing a romantic relationship. Their bond seems really strong.\nA ? day in Washington\nA post shared by Natasha Bertrand (@natashabertrand) on Sep 22, 2018 at 6:48pm PDT\nAdditionally, the lovebird keeps sharing their picture in their social media profile. The duo really enjoys each other companies. We hope their relationship runs the same ways in the coming days too. We are eagerly waiting for their marriage and hope soon they tie a knot soon.\nNatasha Bertrand\u2019s Net Worth & Career\nOne of the top rising reporters, Natasha Bertrand has a net worth of $400 thousand. All of her net worth is possible from her hard work ina journalism career. Well, she has not disclosed her exact salary but the average salary of a journalist is $52, 162 in the USA. So, she might be paid a similar amount from her career.\nBertrand started her career as an editor at Vassar College. Previously, she used to cover national as well as international news. Later, she joined Business Insider in the year 2014.\nNatasha Bertrand at her work\nAfter that, she served as an editor and a political correspondent. As she has a good experience as the journalist, she too served as a staff writer in Atlanta. As of 2018, she is working as a news reporter on NBC channel.\nNatasha Bertrand\u2019s Facts\nNatasha Bertrand favorite actress is Jennifer Lawrence.\nSimilarly, her best actor is Jonny Depp.\nLondon is her favorite destination.\nShe likes reading and traveling.\nAlso, read the affair, salary, the net worth, controversy, and the bio of Jessica Aguirre, Nancy Putkoski.\nHeidi Watney Career, Age, Married, Husband\nHeidi Watney is a famous sportscaster, who hails from the United States of America and currently serves for the MLB network as a host and reporter. She has served in several news networks as a reporter and has also worked \u2026\nWilliam Bumpus Bio, Age, Height, Education, Net Worth, Wife, Children\nProfessionally, William Bumpus was a Connecticut Assistant Attorney General who received the media attention after getting married to Gayle King. Gayle is an American TV personality from 1982 to 1993 and editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine. Currently, William is living a single life \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 8818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chadbeasley.com/category/real-estate/buyer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:P4KPCDG4QBTVNDVFRUQ5BALDCU74HRGW", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "chadbeasley.com", "title": "Buyer Archives \u2022 Chad Beasley - Realtor - Chelsea, Alabama - Shelby County, Alabama", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as \u201cBuyer\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1976, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 82.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chat.indieweb.org/2019-02-12/1549930676256300", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:03Z", "digest": "sha1:OA25HNNBKICG3HJIASI263FPFKYDJ55Y", "length": 196, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "chat.indieweb.org", "title": "#indieweb 2019-02-12", "raw_content": "chrisaldrich jgmac1106, did you create a secondary user for your WP.com site so you don't get something like this: http://epeus.blogspot.com/2012/04/draw-something-ceo-grace-and-high.html#comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chdifoundation.org/ptc-therapeutics-and-chdi-foundation-announce-a-collaboration-on-a-small-molecule-therapeutic-for-huntingtons-disease/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKLUOCISJD3MTBGS4HXHJSHKVCG4Z3YR", "length": 5866, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "chdifoundation.org", "title": "PTC Therapeutics and CHDI Foundation Announce a Collaboration on a Small-Molecule Therapeutic for Huntington\u2019s Disease | CHDI Foundation", "raw_content": "PTC Therapeutics and CHDI Foundation Announce a Collaboration on a Small-Molecule Therapeutic for Huntington\u2019s Disease\nSOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., April 4, 2018 \u2013 PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) and the CHDI Foundation, Inc. (CHDI) today announced a research collaboration to advance PTC\u2019s Huntington\u2019s disease program. The program is optimizing small-molecule compounds\u2014identified using PTC\u2019s splicing technology platform\u2014that decrease the production of huntingtin protein. The current compounds have been shown to be orally bioavailable in animals, blood-brain barrier penetrant, and effective in decreasing the amount of huntingtin protein in a mouse model that has the expanded human huntingtin transgene.\n\u201cWe are excited to collaborate with CHDI to advance our small-molecule huntingtin-lowering program for the treatment of Huntington\u2019s disease,\u201d said Stuart W. Peltz, Ph.D., president and chief executive officer of PTC Therapeutics. \u201cFinding a potential treatment for Huntington\u2019s disease fits with our mission to focus on treatments for disorders that have an urgent need for therapeutic options. We are proud that this program utilizes our proprietary splicing platform developed utilizing cutting edge technology to advance the identification of new therapeutics for patients suffering from rare diseases.\u201d\n\u201cAfter following PTC\u2019s Huntington\u2019s disease small-molecule program for several years, we are pleased to start working with the company more directly,\u201d said Robi Blumenstein, president of CHDI Management. \u201cIt\u2019s great that PTC\u2019s pre-mRNA splicing expertise has been applied to Huntington\u2019s disease with promising results. A pill that lowers the amount of huntingtin protein and treats the underlying cause of the disease holds the promise of improving the quality of life of people with Huntington\u2019s disease and their families. We look forward to contributing to and accelerating this program.\u201d\nThe discovery and development of small-molecule huntingtin-expression inhibitors has been enabled by the PTC pre-mRNA splicing platform, a technology that previously has been successfully used to identify the SMN2 splicing modifier, RG7916. PTC, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, and the SMA Foundation have a collaboration using RG7916, which is currently in pivotal clinical trials for the treatment of SMA. The splicing technology platform is also being used in a number of other programs, including a program in late-stage chemical optimization, in collaboration with the Massachusetts General Hospital, to identify correctors of IKBKAP splicing to treat familial dysautonomia.\nHuntington\u2019s disease (HD) is a rare inherited neurodegenerative disorder caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene. The disorder results in behavioral, cognitive, and motor impairments. These symptoms progressively reduce an individual\u2019s quality of life, and ultimately lead to death within 15 to 25 years of overt clinical motoric onset. Each child of a parent with a mutation in the huntingtin gene has a 50% chance of inheriting the mutation. It is estimated that around one person in 10,000 carries the mutated huntingtin gene. Current HD therapies manage the severity of the symptoms, but there are currently no therapeutics approved that slow the progression of the disease.\nAbout CHDI\nPTC is a science-led, global biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of clinically-differentiated medicines that provide benefits to patients with rare disorders. Founded 20 years ago, PTC Therapeutics has successfully launched two rare disorder products and has a global commercial footprint. This success is the foundation that drives investment in a robust pipeline of transformative medicines and our mission to provide access to best-in-class treatments for patients who have an unmet medical need.\nThis press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements, other than those of historical fact, contained in this release, are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding the future expectations, plans and prospects for PTC; timing, results and conduct of PTC\u2019s collaboration with CHDI; PTC\u2019s alternative splicing program; timing and results of PTC\u2019s collaboration with Roche and the SMA Foundation; timing and results of PTC\u2019s collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital; PTC\u2019s strategy, future operations, future financial position, future revenues or projected costs; and objectives of management.\nOther forward-looking statements may be identified by the words \u201cplan,\u201d \u201cguidance,\u201d \u201canticipate,\u201d \u201cbelieve,\u201d \u201cestimate,\u201d \u201cexpect,\u201d \u201cintend,\u201d \u201cmay,\u201d \u201cpredict,\u201d \u201cproject,\u201d \u201ctarget,\u201d \u201cpotential,\u201d \u201cwill,\u201d \u201cwould,\u201d \u201ccould,\u201d \u201cshould,\u201d \u201ccontinue,\u201d and similar expressions. PTC\u2019s actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements it makes as a result of a variety of risks and uncertainties, including the factors discussed in the \u201cRisk Factors\u201d section of PTC\u2019s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K as well as any updates to these risk factors filed from time to time in PTC\u2019s other filings with the SEC. You are urged to carefully consider all such factors. The forward-looking statements contained herein represent PTC\u2019s views only as of the date of this press release and PTC does not undertake or plan to update or revise any such forward-looking statements to reflect actual results or changes in plans, prospects, assumptions, estimates or projections, or other circumstances occurring after the date of this release except as required by law.\n\u2190 PRIME designation granted by European Medicines Agency for RG6042 for treatment of Huntington\u2019s disease C-Path and CHDI launch consortium to accelerate development of Huntington\u2019s disease therapies \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 23708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 206.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chelorg.com/2017/08/29/in-the-public-chamber-believe-wild-declaring-russia-aggressor-country/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GTNP3PEXQNW64D34MH4AUFMXH7KMRXQ4", "length": 1838, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "chelorg.com", "title": "In the Public chamber believe wild declaring Russia \u00abaggressor country\u00bb \u2013 Russia news today", "raw_content": "In the Public chamber believe wild declaring Russia \u00abaggressor country\u00bb\n\u00a9 RIA Novosti / Ramil to Setdiscoverable in fotoreceptor of the Public chamber Commission on development of public diplomacy and support of compatriots abroad Elena sutormina. Archival photo \u00a9 RIA Novosti / Ramil to Setdiscoverable the image Bank\nThe head of the Commission of Public chamber (OP) of the Russian Federation on development of public diplomacy, cultural cooperation and preservation of traditional values Elena sutormina called \u00abtotally wild\u00bb desire of the Ukrainian authorities to officially declare Russia as \u00abaggressor country\u00bb.\nEarlier, the representative of the President of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada Iryna Lutsenko said that Russia in the Ukrainian draft law on the reintegration of Donbass will be called the \u00abaggressor\u00bb. According to her, the bill is \u00ab99.9% finished and ready to register in Parliament\u00bb.\n\u00abQuite a wild statement. And so accusations towards Russia are flowing like a river. But this is, of course, the transition of all reasonable boundaries. If in law such a rule will still be implemented, I\u2019m afraid, in the first place may worsen the situation in Ukraine itself,\u00bb said stormin RIA Novosti.\nShe wondered what the population of Ukraine, \u00abwhich in Russia many relatives, friends and loved ones\u00bb, and how people react to the fact that \u00abfor the sake of the money power, in fact, ready to unleash a war against its own citizens.\u00bb\n\u00abIt is also clear that on some long-term development of the country is out of question. How many investors will want to invest and build economic system in the state, where the regime is struggling with its own population. I think the answer lies on the surface. 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At a high level, they\u2019re where information from across the whole business can be pooled and turned into strategy that will bring the business new success. At lower levels, they help to keep teams communicating and pulling in the right direction, as well as sharing results and disseminating new information.\nIt\u2019s an unfortunate fact, though, that meetings can often degenerate into hours-long exercises of ego and politics that don\u2019t translate into the vital action needed to spur the team forward. Today we\u2019re presenting a short guide to making sure your meetings are effective, efficient, and get the job done.\nIf you\u2019ve got an issue point to discuss \u2013 something truly game changing \u2013 don\u2019t just insert it into the agenda for a regular weekly meeting. If you need something to stick in your team\u2019s head schedule a separate meeting for it and change the setting. Whether you go to a different meeting room in your company\u2019s building, or book one outside it will make it a novel occasion and ensure your team know that this is something out of the ordinary. If you\u2019re looking for a Manchester meeting room for hire the city offers plenty of options to bring your team together, especially convenient if you\u2019re dealing with a team distributed across the whole country.\nIf you\u2019re running a meeting and want to make sure it stays on topic, it\u2019s important to put together a strong agenda. One of the main reasons meetings get derailed is that people bring additional issues to the room that aren\u2019t covered in the agenda, either extending the meeting beyond people\u2019s capacity to pay attention or leaving no time to discuss the issues you\u2019ve selected as important.\nThis needs careful handling: while you likely have the perspective to know what needs to be discussed at meetings, whether they\u2019re regular monthly catch-ups or out of the usual calendar, if people on your team don\u2019t feel they are being heard this will create resentment.\nThe best thing to do is put out a call to your team prior to the meeting for agenda points you want to discuss. This gives you the chance to take your team\u2019s perspective, possibly incorporating ideas you haven\u2019t considered. You can also identify time consuming issues that aren\u2019t suitable for the meeting and head them off early, explaining to the individuals concerned why they won\u2019t be discussed at this specific meeting and setting a timeline for future action.\nThis lets you run the meeting you really want to, with staff who are engaged and ready to your agenda into action.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chrispstreet.com/item/charlies-barbers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:04Z", "digest": "sha1:NOSVD6CXN3GJDTWX2LAT7U7DMVABWVJ5", "length": 429, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "chrispstreet.com", "title": "Charlies Barbers \u2013 Chrisp Street Market", "raw_content": "Charlies Barbers Claim\nCharlie\u2019s barbers is a traditional barbers that prides itself on delivering quality haircuts at affordable prices. We beat the island prices significantly and guarantee a great cut. Try us, you will not be disappointed.\n- 9:00 am - 6:00 pm 9:00 am - 6:00 pm 9:00 am - 6:00 pm 9:00 am - 6:00 pm 8:00 am - 4:30 pm -\nWebsite http://www.charliesbarbers.co.uk\nREVIEW on \"Charlies Barbers\" on 2019-02-15 20:39:22", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 14114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 128.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cinesnark.com/2018/08/03/mother-daughter-heartbreak-in-the-colorful-tragic-pin-cushion/pin-cushion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:09Z", "digest": "sha1:DAPIOXXKSMOC6A6I72N2ODOTU7Q2DPPF", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cinesnark.com", "title": "Pin Cushion \u2013 Cinesnark", "raw_content": "On August 3, 2018 August 3, 2018 By Sarah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 89.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://citizensforsustainability.org/2016/04/20/how-sustainable-is-your-community/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:21Z", "digest": "sha1:A4FFX4IEPYHEVAP2LYWK523O7HFITZTN", "length": 25930, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "citizensforsustainability.org", "title": "How Sustainable is Your Community? \u2013 News-Views Digest | Citizens for Sustainability", "raw_content": "How Sustainable is Your Community? \u2013 News-Views Digest\nHow resilient and sustainable is your community? As the ongoing effects of mounting crises, notably climate change, continue placing strains on all flora, fauna\u2014and us humans\u2014are you and your community making essential preparations and taking proactive measures? Some communities are planning ahead and making incremental progress in creating initiatives that will help lessen the impact of economic, social, and environmental challenges. But, sadly, many are not.\nOur family\u2019s community story seems relevant in exploring this topic`. Since arriving in Minnesota in 1970, we\u2019ve lived in the near-north metro area. Our first home was in the northeast (Waite Park) area of Minneapolis (15 years). Next, we enjoyed living for 21 years in a mostly energy-efficient New Brighton home we designed and had built. For the past decade we\u2019ve appreciated a more carefree condo lifestyle in Silver Lake Village, a combined residential-business development in St. Anthony Village (SAV), located a short walking distance to most basic needs, even dental and medical clinics. So we\u2019ve lived within a radius of 2-3 miles in a geographical area that we are proud to claim as our home community.\nWe initially selected this area because of its convenient location, located within a 20-30 minutes commute to both downtowns, and an easy commute to the U of MN, where I taught for 37 years. But, after settling in and becoming more involved citizens, we\u2019ve gradually grown to appreciate the community\u2019s many impressive sustainability attributes, including access to public transportation, medical and safety services (fire, police), essential goods (food, etc.), and cultural offerings.\nUntil our latest move, we were not fully aware that this first-tier suburban city of approximately 8,200, middle-class citizens featured a unique, highly rated single-tract K-12 school system. Also, when forming the Citizens for Sustainability (January, 2013), we were pleasantly surprised to learn that the city government, including the mayor, council members, and city staff were unified in making St. Anthony Village a model sustainability city. Remarkably, it didn\u2019t take long for the city to earn the state\u2019s top rankings as one of the first GreenStep III cities, with the goal of soon attaining the Minnesota GreenStep Cities IV status.\nAnother surprising benefit of living in such a small, compact city (large town) is the potential for a high level of participatory democracy. How rewarding it is when citizens have easy, welcoming access to all city officials, in addition to citizens serving on appointed commissions. We greatly appreciate having access to key stakeholders, a benefit that most medium-to-large sized cities might have difficulty providing.\nLike all communities, SAV has some challenges to address. One challenge is the city\u2019s suburban location, adjacent to two large cities and surrounded by other suburbs in a spreading metro area. While many citizens live in SAV and commute to jobs elsewhere the metro area, there are many who live elsewhere and commute to jobs in SAV, a common pattern in large metropolitan areas. Being a commuter suburb makes it harder to developing a strong community spirit, but SAV\u2019s excellent school system helps offset this drawback, with programs and activities that help unify the community.\nCitizens are exploring some interesting initiatives, including the potential for developing local food-producing sources. Although the city doesn\u2019t have much available land space for urban farming, there are several fine parks that might provide some designated spaces for community gardens. At least one large church sponsors a community garden, and there might be some feasible garden spaces around some business areas for cultivating gardens. The least we can do is to continue encouraging Individuals and families to use sections of home yards for permaculture-based vegetable gardens and fruit-producing plants. Also, rain gardens are growing in popularity in the city, as they often feature native plants that attract birds and pollinating insects. On the commercial level, perhaps some entrepreneurs might find ways to use appropriate commercial spaces for indoor aquaculture.\nBecause SAV\u2019s mostly 1950s-60s housing stock is aging, an initiative for retrofitting and insulating homes would greatly improve overall community resilience and sustainability. Now that city policies allow for solar installations on residences and buildings, citizens are able to explore another way of saving energy\u2014and money.\nThankfully, city officials, along with concerned citizens, including CFS members, are proactively addressing these issues, including developing a SAV 10-year Comprehensive Plan that begins in 2018. More information about SAV\u2019s sustainability initiatives can be found at the following websites: SUSTAINABILITY \u2013 St. Anthony and St. Anthony Village Citizens for Sustainability.\nIf you like what you learn about our fair city, why not check us out? SAV provides an excellent home base for engaging in advancing initiatives to create a model city of resilience and sustainability. We enthusiastically welcome anyone who is passionate about these issues and willing to get involved. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me, preferably via email.\n> Resource Insights: Corruption, Resources, Climate And Systemic Risk (Kurt Cobb). The percentage of the U.S. workforce that provides the actual material basis for the economy amounts to only 12.5 percent. In the absence of definitive answers on sustainability\u2013which we won\u2019t have them until it\u2019s too late to do anything\u2013we surely face systemic risks. The failure of one or more of these five basic economic sectors to deliver the resources and goods upon which our society depends could be catastrophic\u2013think: worldwide crop failure, decline in available fossil fuels, a shortage of critical metals needed for electronics (which are crucial to the functioning of modern society). At the very least it is corrupt to subject society knowingly to potential catastrophic failures merely to enrich oneself or one\u2019s associates. While we are being entertained with the exploits of corrupt politicians and businesspeople who avoid paying taxes, we should try to remember that this kind of despicable corruption pales in comparison to the kind that threatens to undermine the very material underpinnings of our society.\n> Common Dreams: Changing Everything (Steven Gorelick). It seems that a transition to renewable energy might not be as transformative as some people hope. Or to put it more bluntly, renewable energy changes nothing about corporate capitalism. Too often, climate change has been used as a Trojan horse to enable corporate interests to despoil local environments or override the concerns of local communities. What Helena Norberg-Hodge, founder of Local Futures, calls \u2018big picture activism\u2019 has the potential to unite climate change activists, small farmers, peace advocates, environmentalists, social justice groups, labor unions, indigenous rights activists, main street business owners, and many more under a single banner. If all these groups connect the dots to see the corporate-led economy as a root cause of the problems they face, it could give rise to a global movement powerful enough to halt the corporate juggernaut. And that really could change everything.\n> TriplePundit: Transparency, The Panama Papers And The Future Of Sustainable Development (Thomas Schueneman). Of course it\u2019s no surprise that those among the world\u2019s most wealthy and powerful people, including top business and government leaders, use whatever means at their disposal to protect their wealth from the vagaries of economic, social and policy constraints. On the other hand, it is a stark reminder of the need to redouble our efforts to align our values with our functioning global economy if there is any hope of achieving our higher aspirations. That\u2019s the concept my colleagues here at TriplePundit have encouraged for more than a decade \u2014 that the triple bottom line is the true measure of wealth.\n> The Archdruid Report: American Narratives: The Rescue Game (John Michael Greer). Every society has a set of narratives that confine discourse on controversial subjects to approved channels, but tolerably often those approved channels exclude crucial details and head off necessary questions. In today\u2019s United States, in particular, the facts concerning nearly every significant crisis we face can be divided up neatly into two entirely separate categories. The facts that most Americans are willing to talk about belong to one of these categories; the facts that matter most belong to the other. Like most of the narratives that shape our collective discourse, that\u2019s been crafted primarily by middle-aged white intellectuals with college educations and salary-class backgrounds. The accepted mainstream narrative about race in America today can best be described as one of wholly dysfunctional games. It\u2019s called the Rescue Game, and it requires three characters: Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer.\n> Huffington Post: Americans Like To Say They\u2019re Eco-Friendly \u2014 They\u2019re Not (Chris D\u2019Angelo). According to the real estate website Trulia, which surveyed more than 2,000 Americans, as part of a wider study, about living green and how best to reduce their carbon footprint, Americans overwhelmingly ignore the environmental impact of their day-to-day actions. A report published Thursday on the company\u2019s site states that 79 percent of Americans \u201cagree that they consider themselves an environmentally conscious person,\u201d while only 6 percent strongly disagree. Other findings: money is a barrier to being environmentally conscious, and millennials are not as environmentally conscious as their elders. Roughly three in four people don\u2019t take action beyond recycling and hitting the light switch.\n> Global Possibilities: When Bad Things Happen To Good Science Journals (Joe Romm). A recent Nature article has been justifiably criticized for both its methodology and for ignoring a vast literature that contradicts it. Most climate models underestimate the impact of global warming on soil moisture and drought because they only look at the contribution of changes to precipitation. Most climate models do not examine the equally important impact of warming temperatures, which increases evaporation, dries out soil, and worsens drought even when precipitation hasn\u2019t changed at all. And this neglect of the contribution of evaporation \u2014 which has been written about extensively \u2014 appears to be yet another flaw in the new Nature piece. In a 2011 Nature review article, \u201cThe Next Dust Bowl,\u201d Romm referenced the 1930s Dust Bowl as the best analogy to what\u2019s coming. But in fact, the coming multi-decadal mega-droughts will be much worse than the Dust Bowl of the 1930s \u2014 \u201cworse than anything seen during the last 2000 years,\u201d as explained in a major 2014 study,\n> MinnPost: Half Of World\u2019s Best Natural Places Are Under Pressure From Industrial Activity (Ron Meador). Half of the world\u2019s most important natural places are under threat from mining, oil and gas drilling, unsustainable logging and fishing harvests, or other industrial development, according to a new analysis prepared for the World Wildlife Fund. The assessment, published recently, looked at the U.N.-designated World Heritage Sites whose unique natural features give them \u201coutstanding universal value.\u201d It\u2019s a pretty exclusive list \u2013 only 229 around the world and just a dozen in the United States. We\u2019re talking about places on the order of the Great Barrier Reef, the Galapagos Islands, Lake Baikal, Grand Canyon, and the Boundary Waters.\n> Climate Progress: Fracking\u2019s Total Environmental Impact Is Staggering, Report Finds (Samantha Page). The body of evidence is growing that fracking is not only bad for the global climate, it is also dangerous for local communities. And affected communities are growing in number. A new report, released Thursday, details the sheer amount of water contamination, air pollution, climate impacts, and chemical use in fracking in the United States. Fracking, a form of extraction that injects large volumes of chemical-laced water into shale, releasing pockets of oil and gas, has been on the rise in the United States for the past decade, and the sheer numbers are staggering.\n> Inside Climate News: CO2\u2019s Role In Global Warming Has Been On The Oil Industries Radar Since The 1960s (Neela Banerjee, John H. Cushman Jr., David Hasemyer and Lisa Song). The oil industry\u2019s leading pollution-control consultants advised the American Petroleum Institute in 1968 that carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels deserved as much concern as the smog and soot that had commanded attention for decades. Carbon dioxide was \u201cthe only air pollutant which has been proven to be of global importance to man\u2019s environment on the basis of a long period of scientific investigation,\u201d two scientists from the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) told the API. This paper, along with scores of other publications, shows that the risks of climate change were being discussed in the inner circles of the oil industry earlier than previously documented\n> Star Tribune: Thirsty Cities Begin To Eye Water From The Great Lakes (Josephine Marcotty). Nearly a decade ago, eight governors shook hands on an extraordinary agreement to erect a legal wall around the largest source of fresh water on earth \u2014 the Great Lakes. The unusual bipartisan compact, signed by the heads of the states that border the massive basin, aimed to keep the increasingly valuable water right where it is for the 40 million people who rely on it for their jobs, their homes and their vacations. Now they face the first test. Waukesha, Wis., a suburb of Milwaukee, has asked for the right to pull drinking water from Lake Michigan.\n> LA Times: \u2018A Dire Prediction\u2019 On Melting Ice Sheets And Rising Sea Levels (William Yardley, Raoul Ranoa). A new study published in the journal Nature painted perhaps the most ominous picture yet. It showed that, by the end of this century, sea levels could rise 6 feet or more \u2014 again, if nothing is done to reduce emissions \u2014 potentially inundating many coastal areas, submerging nations and remaking maps of the world. The study focused on one of the most elusive aspects of sea-level science: What will happen to the West Antarctic ice sheet?\n> Grist: Atlantic Coastline Sinks As Sea Levels Rise (John Upton). Geological changes along the East Coast are causing land to sink along the seaboard. That\u2019s exacerbating the flood-inducing effects of sea-level rise, which has been occurring faster in the western Atlantic Ocean than elsewhere in recent years. New research using GPS and prehistoric data has shown that nearly the entire coast is affected, from Massachusetts to Florida and parts of Maine. The study, published this month in Geophysical Research Letters, outlines a hot spot from Delaware and Maryland into northern North Carolina where the effects of groundwater pumping are compounding the sinking effects of natural processes. Problems associated with sea-level rise in that hot spot have been \u2014 in some places \u2014 three times as severe as elsewhere.\n> Star Tribune: Minnesota Among 10 Worst States For Access To Fresh Healthy Food (Jeremy Olson). Some 1.6 million Minnesotans lack easy access to healthy food, according to a new study by a coalition of economic and health leaders who hope it will motivate the 2016 Legislature to approve funding for mobile grocery stores and other fixes. Minnesota ranks seventh-worst in the nation for the share of residents \u2014 about one-third of its population \u2014 with no grocery options close to their homes, according to a report released this week by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Wilder Research.\n> Yale Environment 360: Can We Reduce CO2 Emissions And Grow The Global Economy? (Fred Pearce). In the past two years, the global economy has grown by 6.5 percent, but carbon dioxide emissions from energy generation and transport have not grown at all, the IEA reported last month. CO2 emissions in Europe, the U.S., and China have been falling. These numbers raise a key question of huge importance if nations are to avoid the worst effects of climate change: Is the world on a path toward \u201cdecoupling\u201d economic activity from carbon dioxide emissions\u2014or is it a dangerous myth? Even if global emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases can be curbed, this won\u2019t fix climate change, say critics of the decoupling narrative. The big problem is that warming is driven not by annual emissions but by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And while methane may disappear relatively quickly, CO2 hangs around for centuries. Decoupling is real, but it is just the start.\n> Common Dreams: Confessions Of A Panama Papers Hit Man (John Perkins). As an Economic Hit Man (an EHM), I helped forge this global economy that is based on legalized crimes. It\u2019s a system in which 62 individuals have as much wealth as half the world\u2019s population, and a handful of the super-rich control governments around the globe. In this election year, we must understand that the next U.S. president has very limited powers. The powers rest in the big corporations and the people who run them. When billionaires are able to get laws passed such as the US-Panama Trade Promotion Agreement of 2012 and NAFTA, giving their corporations more power than sovereign nations, it\u2019s time for change. We must create an economy dedicated to cleaning up pollution, developing new technologies that recycle and spare the earth, and creating systems that alleviate desperation, poverty, hunger, and the causes of violence and terrorism. This system must include fair taxation: those who benefit from the infrastructure must help pay for it.\n> NPR: What Happens When Fashion Becomes Fast, Disposable And Cheap? (Zhai Yun Tan). Fashion cycles are moving faster than ever. A Quartz article in December revealed how fashion brands like Zara, Gap and Adidas are churning out new styles more frequently, a trend dubbed \u201cfast fashion\u201d by many in the industry. The clothes that are mass-produced also become more affordable, thus attracting consumers to buy more. More styles mean more purchases \u2014 and that leads to more waste created. Journalist Elizabeth Cline writes in her book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion that disposable clothing is damaging to the environment and the economy. We are more likely to dispose of cheaper, mass-produced fashion garments than pricier ones. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 15.1 million tons of textile waste was generated in 2013, of which 12.8 million tons were discarded.\n> Climate Progress: The Largest Coral Atoll In The World Lost 80 Percent Of Its Coral Due To Bleaching (Eric Holthaus). As global ocean temperatures begin to recover from the record-breaking El Ni\u00f1o, the tremendous impact on the world\u2019s coral reefs is still being calculated. Coral reefs are more important than many people realize: Taking up just 0.2 percent of the ocean, they support about a quarter of all marine species, and provide support to livelihoods of 500 million people. Kiritimati Atoll is the largest coral atoll in the world, and up until about 10 months ago, one of the most pristine marine ecosystems on Earth. As of early April, about 80 percent of the coral colonies at Kiritimati are now dead, and another 15 percent are severely bleached and likely to die. This is a changed planet, and Kiritimati Atoll is one of the first tragedies as Earth continues to climb the climate staircase.\n> Grist: Here\u2019s Everything We Know About How To Talk About Climate Change (Amellia Urry). Talking about climate change is harder than it sounds. The threat is too big to grasp and the straight facts are not enough to get most people engaged \u2014 so how can you spur them to take action? After consulting many experts, it seems there\u2019s no one-size-fits-all approach. But there are some broad do\u2019s and don\u2019ts to help you get your message across. For instance, rather than posing facts, it\u2019s better is to tell a good story. Give it a gripping plot, with a beginning, a middle, and an end (and it never hurts to have a villain). And put people at the heart of the story \u2014 not icebergs or atmospheres or endangered tree frogs. Help people understand what climate change really means on the ground, today, and what is at stake for them.\n> Resilience: Animals, Land And People: An Interview With Will Harris (Woody Tasch). The agriculture we have today is completely built on maximizing consistency and efficiency. Very little emphasis is placed on animal welfare, the environmental sustainability of the program, or the economic impoverishment of rural America. What this has done has made food obscenely cheap and the cost has been borne on the backs of farm animals, the environment, and rural America. Technology is fantastic, but I\u2019m talking about rediscovering fundamental respect for the animals, the land and the people who are producing the food. It\u2019s past time to be talking about sustainable farming practices. We\u2019ve got to talk about regenerative farming practices, those that every single year improve the productive capacity of the land.\n> Energy Skeptic: Unpave Low Traffic Roads To Save Energy And Money (Alice Friedemann). The U.S. has 4.1 million miles of roads (1.9 million paved, 2.2 million gravel). About 3 million miles of roads have less than 2,000 vehicles a day, less than 15% of all traffic. The paved portion of these low-volume roads ought to be evaluated for their potential to be unpaved. Many of these roads should have never been paved to begin with, but the costs of construction, asphalt, and energy were so cheap it was done anyway. Now many rural roads are past their design life and rapidly deteriorating. It is both difficult and expensive to maintain them, and dangerous to let these roads fall apart and degrade into gravel on their own.\n> Our World: Conserving Resilient And Multifunctional Sustainable Landscapes (Kaoru Ichikawa, Evonne Yiu). While economic viability provides strong incentives for humans to maintain their land, research has now shown that ecological resilience, cultural values and spirituality play equally crucial roles in sustaining livelihoods and wellbeing in rural communities. That is precisely why the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS) is working on two initiatives that aim to understand the importance of harmonious human-nature relationships. Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) are defined by FAO as \u201cremarkable land use systems and landscapes which are rich in globally significant biological diversity evolving from the co-adaptation of a community with its environment and its needs and aspirations for sustainable development\u201d.\n> Modern Farmer: Waste Not, Want Not: 10 Ways To Reduce Your Food Waste (Molly Birnbaum). The next food revolution is here: stemming the tide of food waste. Roughly 40 percent of the American harvest never reaches our mouths. Fourteen percent of the contents of the average landfill is food that has been thrown away. Meanwhile, nearly 50 million Americans are \u201cfood-insecure\u201d; globally, one in eight people go to bed hungry each night. Today, there are hosts of food shopping apps designed specifically for the waste-conscious consumer.\n> Yes! Magazine: Is Human Composting the Future of Death? (Jennifer Luxton). If you died this week, your family could either have a traditional funeral and bury your body or cremate it\u2014both processes that are exceptionally taxing on the planet. But what if we could do death differently? Grist talks with Katrina Spade, the founder and executive director of the Urban Death Project, who\u2019s trying to make the option of human composting a reality. Here\u2019s to hoping the last thing you do on earth is become beautiful dirt.\n> Resilience: Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming For The Future (Janet McGarry). More than three-quarters of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts we eat rely on pollinators like honeybees. The phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has raised concerns about honeybees over the last decade, and although CCD is no longer the primary worry, honeybee losses continue to rise. But many other pollinators are also in peril. A timely new report from the United Nations shows troubling trends that threaten the future of pollinators and our food supply. Human activities are largely responsible\u2014and the solutions are also in our power. The UN report\u2019s solutions to the crisis include protecting natural habitats, restoring native vegetation, and planting flower corridors to connect wild areas. Reducing pesticide use and using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) can also increase the abundance and diversity of pollinators.\n> MN Renewable Energy Society: Monthly Speaker Meeting-\u201cE21 Initiative\u2014Toward a 21st Century Energy System\u201d (Stacy Miller \u2013 Solar Policy Specialist, Clean Energy Technologies, Minnesota Department of Commerce), Thurs., April 14th 2016, 5:30 to 7:00 pm, Mayflower Church, 106 East Diamond Lake Rd., Mpls. Click for Map\n> MN Environmental Fund: Film\u2013\u201cMinnesota Stories in a Changing Climate\u201d (with discussion), Wed., April 20, 6-8 p.m., Mill City Museum, Mpls. Click here for more information\n> U of M Institute On The Environment (IonE): Climate Change: Facts, Fictions, and The Christian Faith (Katherine Hayhoe), Thurs., April 21, 7 p.m., St. Paul Student Center Theater, 2017 Buford Ave. See also: Frontiers On The Environment: Can We Change People\u2019s Minds On Climate?, Wed., April 20, 12-1 p.m.; also online; Info: http://environment.umn.edu/\n\u2190 Upstream vs. Downstream Activism \u2013 News-Views Digest\tThe Rise of Authoritarianism \u2013 News-Views Digest \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 29389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clarionproject.org/hitting-too-close-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LMNTYFMFSE5IDCJUP6LO2WD624VESI77", "length": 2894, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "clarionproject.org", "title": "Muslim Brotherhood Attacks RadicalIslam.org | Clarion Project", "raw_content": "Muslim Brotherhood Attacks RadicalIslam.org\nThe Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s official Twitter page called ClarionProject.org National Security Analyst Ryan Mauro \u201cdelusional\u201d on June 26 in reaction to an article he wrote entitled, \u201cMuslim Brotherhood Draws Up Plans to Islamize Egypt.\u201d This was followed up with a tweet calling Mauro a \u201cscaremonger\u201d and telling him to \u201cspread hate somewhere else.\u201d\nThe article discusses an Arabic-language report about a secret Muslim Brotherhood meeting to discuss a \u201cJazira Plan\u201d to implement some aspects of Sharia Law in Egypt with the ultimate goal of building a Caliphate. The Investigative Project on Terrorism was the first to notice the report.\n\u201cThe name of the plan is telling. Jazira is Arabic for \u2018island\u2019 or \u2018peninsula.\u2019 The report states that it is referring to the entirety of the Arabian Peninsula. This is not a plan for Egypt; it\u2019s a regional plan. If the report is accurate, the Muslim Brotherhood is already thinking ahead towards a Caliphate,\u201d Mauro wrote.\nMauro then documented numerous instances of Brotherhood officials talking about their goal of implementing Sharia Law and resurrecting the Caliphate. For example, a Brotherhood spokesperson said in February, \u201cConcerning the Islamic caliphate, this is our dream, and we hope to achieve it\u2026our first goal is the renaissance of Egypt, then the Arab world and then the Islamic world. This will come gradually.\u201d\nThe Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s Twitter page, Twitter.com/IkhwanWeb, responded at about 4:04 PM EST with a one-word tweet to Ryan Mauro\u2019s Twitter page: \u201cdelusional.\u201d\n\u201cIkhwanweb is the only official Muslim Brotherhood\u2019s English website. Our Tweets represent the official opinions of the Muslim Brotherhood,\u201d it is stated at the top of the Brotherhood Twitter page.\nThe Muslim Brotherhood also answered another tweet referencing Mauro\u2019s article with, \u201cdelusions. #MB [Muslim Brotherhood] focus is fighting poverty, creating jobs, security prosperity, etc. not holding secret meetings to impose sharia!\u201d\nYet, Muslim Brotherhood President-Elect said in May, \u201cWe will work together to realize their dream of implementing sharia,\u201d referring to Islamists imprisoned under the previous regime of Hosni Mubarak.\nSomeone else got involved in the conversation, tweeting, \u201chmmm, someone must have ruffled some feathers\u2026stay safe Ryan, the Brotherhood tends to have a violent side.\u201d\nThe Brotherhood replied, \u201cscaremongers! Spread hate somewhere else.\u201d\nClick here to read the article that caught the attention of the Muslim Brotherhood.\nRyan Mauro is ClarionProject.org\u2019s National Security Analyst and a fellow with the Clarion Fund. He is the founder of WorldThreats.com and is frequently interviewed on Fox News.\nThe 27-year-old pledged allegiance to ISIS\nHi, this may be interesting you: Muslim Brotherhood Attacks RadicalIslam.org! This is the link: https://clarionproject.org/hitting-too-close-home/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 8547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clas.uconn.edu/2018/09/24/more-ships-and-more-clouds-mean-cooling-in-the-arctic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DVY32BFJAL3G5KKRD6A5XCP5IITWJYS6", "length": 6703, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "clas.uconn.edu", "title": "More Ships and More Clouds Mean Cooling in the Arctic\u203a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences\u203a UCONN", "raw_content": "More Ships and More Clouds Mean Cooling in the Arctic\nSeptember 24, 2018 geographyphysical sciences\nA new study suggests that growth of trans-Arctic shipping and the accompanying increase in emissions may offset some of the overall warming trend in that region. (Getty Images)\nWith sea ice in the Arctic melting at an alarming rate, opportunities for trans-Arctic shipping are opening up, and by mid-century ships will be able to sail right over the North Pole \u2013 something not previously possible for humankind.\nUConn geographer Scott Stephenson and colleagues say the growth of trans-Arctic shipping and the increase in emissions that will accompany it may offset some of the overall warming trend in the Arctic by the end of the century. Their study was published Sept. 12 in Geophysical Research Letters (doi: 10.1029/2018GL078969).\nAt the same time, they caution that this effect is relatively minor in the context of overall global warming, and that more ships in the Arctic would heighten the risk of environmental disasters.\nBy modeling changes in climate trends associated with increases in shipping traffic and subsequent increases in emissions, the researchers found that trans-Arctic shipping offsets some of the overall warming trend in the Arctic by the end of the century.\n\u201cThe results surprised us,\u201d says Stephenson, an assistant professor of geography in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know if we would see a clear signal of warming or cooling, and the fact that we saw a clear cooling trend was unexpected.\u201d\nScientists have been aware for some time that shipping routes may affect climate in two competing ways, Stephenson says. With an increase in emissions, there is an increase in black carbon released. This sooty black carbon settles on highly reflective surfaces such as snow and ice, reducing the reflection of solar radiation, meaning the surfaces hold the radiation as heat.\nShip tracks form when very small, airborne particles emitted in the exhaust of large ships (and airplanes) attract water molecules, acting as \u2018seeds\u2019 (or \u2018cloud condensation nuclei\u2019) for clouds. Continued accumulation of droplets on the cloud condensation nuclei forms the thin, streaky clouds pictured in this image. (NASA Photo)\u201cThis is why you often see a trailing track of clouds following ships,\u201d he says. \u201cThey call those ship tracks.\u201dThe other way shipping emissions affect climate is through the sulfur dioxide released as another bi-product of fuel combustion. Rather than warming, however, Stephenson says the sulfur emissions play a role in cooling by encouraging the formation of cloud droplets and by scattering incoming sunlight.\nA Dynamic Model for Complex Processes\nAlthough the impacts of emissions have been investigated in the past, Stephenson says this study presents a more realistic and robust scenario, as it builds on the earlier studies and uses a fully coupled Earth system model, including projected emissions for future trans-Arctic shipping from 2006 to 2099, making it more dynamic.\nThe team also took into account the changing nature of sea ice through the seasons and how that would impact shipping routes. With shifts in shipping routes come shifts in where emissions would be deposited.\n\u201cPrevious studies have more or less treated Arctic shipping routes as static, meaning the routes do not vary with the season and with the growth and shrinking of the ice,\u201d Stephenson says. \u201cWe believe this is an important piece of the puzzle \u2013 to better model where ships might be able to go over the course of the 21st century.\u201d\nShipping trends were estimated by taking into account the necessary transport of goods for each Europe to Asia port per month. Fuel needs were calculated and emission totals were determined.\nThe researchers also factored in global anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gas concentration trajectories, adopted by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), at a level closely aligning with today\u2019s trends, along with global economic output that will drive the transport of goods.\n\u201cWe attempted to fully integrate the interactions between the various components of the climate system in ways that have not been done before,\u201d Stephenson says.\nThe main result was that the cooling effect won out over the warming effect in the simulations, to the tune of about one degree Celsius.\nYet Stephenson cautions that, although it\u2019s a clear cooling result, it\u2019s relatively minor in the grand scheme of global warming projected in the Arctic: \u201cWe\u2019re talking about a slowing of the warming, but not a halting of the warming.\u201d\nNot a Solution to Climate Change\nThe Arctic continues to warm at twice the global average, and though increased shipping will likely have a cooling impact on the region, the researchers stress that these results should not be interpreted as an endorsement for Arctic shipping, especially as a potential solution to climate change.\nStephenson notes that while trans-Arctic shipping routes would cut travel time by as much as 40 percent, growth in shipping traffic would mean heightened risk of oil spills and clearer access to extractable resources such as oil, gas, and minerals in the region \u2013 all scenarios that come with potentially dire environmental consequences should an accident occur. With fewer amenities within reach to respond to a potential disaster, responders would be faced with huge logistical challenges to deal with those scenarios.\n\u201cThere are clear economic benefits to shipping in the Arctic, with shorter routes and less fuel being burned,\u201d he says, \u201cbut there are also enormous potential risks.\u201d\nAdditionally, the cooling could be offset by international regulation and trade agreements, for instance if planned global limits on sulfur emissions from fuel used by the ships go into effect. Without the sulfur-induced cloud formation, the cloud-driven cooling effect will not happen.\nStephenson concludes, \u201cThe mild cooling shown by these results is, we think, a significant piece in the puzzle of understanding the complexities of the interactions between humans and the climate system. It\u2019s important to take account of this.\u201d\nIn addition to Stephenson, coauthors of the paper were Wenshan Wang, Charles Zender, and Steven Davis at the University of California, Irvine, and Hailong Wang and Philip Rasch at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Their work was funded by the Department of Energy (the Regional and Global Climate Modeling, or RGCM, program for Philip Rasch and Hailong Wang, and the Earth System Modeling, or ESM, program for Wenshan Wang and Charles Zender), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for Steven Davis, Wenshan Wang, and Charles Zender.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 12137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clclt.com/charlotte/lifes-looking-up-for-skateboarders/Content?oid=2348114", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:21Z", "digest": "sha1:FGIJAIEIMMZBTTUE5WNDDZJATBX6IJOJ", "length": 3328, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "clclt.com", "title": "Life's Looking Up For Skateboarders | News | Creative Loafing Charlotte", "raw_content": "March 27, 2002 Archives \u00bb News\nLife's Looking Up For Skateboarders\nSam Boykin\nDave Collier checks the web while others roll\nThings are looking up for Charlotte-area skaters with the advent of a new local website and a park that's scheduled to be completed by the end of summer. This comes as welcome news to the thousands of in-line and skateboard enthusiasts who have long been complaining that the Queen City is sorely lacking in decent facilities.\nDave Collier is the guy behind the new website. It's a great resource for local skaters, as it contains trick tips, news about the local scene, hot spots, upcoming events, product information, profiles of some of the area's best skaters, and even mini-movies showing skaters in action.\nCollier started designing the site last year while on the mend from shoulder surgery -- a result of his years spent as a pro snowboarder. Collier grew up in Banner Elk, NC and was an avid snowboarder growing up and all through high school. After graduation he decided to forego college, and moved to Colorado to focus on snowboarding. He turned pro in 1990, went on photo-shoots, appeared in snowboarding videos, magazines, and even traveled to Japan where he competed in a pro series.\nWhile life as a pro snowboarder was pretty sweet, there were some drawbacks. \"The sport was so young back then you couldn't really make any money.\" Collier said.\nCollier eventually decided to commit himself full-time to college. In '98 he hung up his spurs, moved to Charlotte, and got married. He also landed a job doing website development and project management, which gave him the skills to start his own skateboarding website.\n\"I had some hard-core skateboarder friends in Charlotte, and I just started taking pictures of them skating with my digital camera, and they turned out really good,\" Collier said.\nThe pictures were so good, in fact, Collier started posting them on the Internet. He then started posting good spots to skate, trick tips, and by last November had developed his own website (www.skatecharlotte.com.) which he says is continuing to grow in popularity. \"It's a great way to promote the sport and keep people informed,\" he says.\nOne thing Collier plans to keep people informed about is news of a skateboard park that's in the works for Grayson Park off Eastway. Tyrelle Evans, of County Parks and Rec Department, says the 8,000-square-foot concrete park is tentatively scheduled to be completed by the end of the summer. The project came together after a nine-member skateboard park committee consisting of skaters, parents and park officials was organized last year.\n\"The committee is going to be very involved in the design and planning of the skateboard park,\" Evans said. \"We figured the best people to provide input are the ones who are going to be using it.\"\nPlanners and developers say the new park will be bigger and more challenging than Charlotte's other skate park, located off Shamrock Dr.\n\"It's an exciting time to be a skateboarder in Charlotte,\" Collier said. \"There's a thriving scene going on that people are just starting to find out about, and I believe it's only going to get better.\" *\nTags: News, metrobit.html\nSpeaking of Metrobit.html\nGerry-Rigged\nThe Beal Goes On\nNon-Profit Connects Freshly Prepared Food to Those in Need\nScrew-up or PR Move?\nSilly Bills", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 10110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/User/Login?ReturnUrl=%2FICCNE2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PS5PARLZOBHFTFGO3UIH3CP76L7YQEIN", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cmt3.research.microsoft.com", "title": "Conference Management Toolkit - Login", "raw_content": "2018 5th International Conference on Communications and Network Engineering", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://code.dccouncil.us/dc/council/code/sections/47-4103.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RXE6FJHFICH7WOSCLFNJCV5WI7PND55L", "length": 2138, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "code.dccouncil.us", "title": "D.C. Law Library - \u00a7 47\u20134103. Failure to pay tax, make return, keep records, or supply information.", "raw_content": "\u21aa \u00a7 47\u20134103. Failure to pay tax, make return, keep records, or supply information.\n\u00a7 47\u20134102. Failure to collect or pay over tax.\n\u00a7 47\u20134104. Fraudulent statements or failure to make statements to employee.\n\u00a7 47\u20134103. Failure to pay tax, make return, keep records, or supply information.\n(a) A person required under this title to pay a tax or estimated tax, or required by this title, or by regulations made under authority thereof, to make a return, keep any records, or supply any information, who willfully fails to pay the tax, pay the estimated tax, make the return, keep the records, or supply the information, at the time required by law or regulations, shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in [\u00a7 22-3571.01], or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both, together with costs of prosecution.\n(b) A person required under this title to pay a tax or estimated tax, make a return, keep any records, or supply any information, who fails to pay the tax, pay the estimated tax, make the return, keep the records, or supply the information, at the time required by law or regulations, shall, in addition to other penalties provided by law, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than the amount set forth in [\u00a7 22-3571.01], or imprisoned not more than 180 days, or both, together with costs of prosecution.\n(d) The fines set forth in this section shall not be limited by [\u00a7 22-3571.01].\n(Oct. 4, 2000, D.C. Law 13-204, \u00a7 2(b), 47 DCR 5799; Apr. 13, 2005, D.C. Law 15-354, \u00a7 73(n)(3), 52 DCR 2638; June 11, 2013, D.C. Law 19-317, \u00a7\u00a7 113(d)(1), 286(dd), 60 DCR 2064.)\nThe 2013 amendment by D.C. Law 19-317 substituted \u201cnot more than the amount set forth in [\u00a7 22-3571.01]\u201d for \u201cnot more than $5,000\u201d in (a), and for \u201cnot more than $3,000\u201d in (b); and added (d).\nFor temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see \u00a7\u00a7\u2002113(d)(1) and 286(dd) of the Criminal Fine Proportionality Emergency Amendment Act of 2013 (D.C. Act 20-45, April 1, 2013, 60 DCR 5400, 20 DCSTAT 1300).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 188.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://comewatchmetalk.wordpress.com/2017/02/14/biffy-clyro-ancienne-belgique-brussels/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:51Z", "digest": "sha1:C53KGIX6OJKPBZXFCF53CFVRU7ZY662E", "length": 3675, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "comewatchmetalk.wordpress.com", "title": "Biffy Clyro \u2013 Ancienne Belgique, Brussels \u2013 Come Watch Me Talk", "raw_content": "When we arrived at the AB there was a queue wrapped around the corner of people entering the building, so we went to the end of it and started making our way in. After all the necessary stops (cloakroom, bar) we headed towards the stage. Since this was my first time in the AB, I didn\u2019t know what to expect, but my friend who had been there before suggested we\u2019d go up on the balcony. This was a great idea since it resulted in perfect view and great pictures (plus not being stuck in a mosh pit).\nWhen we arrived the pre-show (Aviv Geffen) was still on stage and now honestly this was not really my cup of tea. From what I read on Wikipedia, he is an Israelian musician. But some his songs just didn\u2019t make sense in how they flowed. This is the first time that I really dislike a pre-show this much, most of the time I find something good. So in my mind \u201cLonely the brave\u201d, who did the pre-show in Luxembourg will stay the better one.\nAfter about half an hour to 45 minutes the lights went out again and the classical choir song I\u2019ve heard a few times now started. I still find this the best start of their set (I really want to know if this is custom made for them or an existing piece of classical music). Biffy Clyro came on stage almost halfway through this song and stood there as dummies, not moving, until the intro stopped. I told my friend, who had never seen or heard Biffy Clyro before, that this is the start of their show and it will kick off soon now.\nAnticipation for the first song building. But since I have only seen them since Ellipsis was released I have no idea what other song to set off the set with than Wolves of Winter. From here on, it was a rollercoaster of hits from the previous records and the new one. There was also a mix of rock songs and ballads. I really love this in their music, the difference between some of the harder songs and the frail acoustic ones.\nI had warned my friend that they have quite a lot of stroboscopes on stage. But when we had entered in the beginning of the evening, I said: \u201cThis is not as much as last time in Luxembourg\u201d. I was happy about that, all until we got up to \u201cGlitter and Trauma\u201d, I love this song but it\u2019s notorious for the strobe action, so I had to shut my eyes from time to time. This was also the first time I could see this song in action. I know in the past when I saw taped concerts on TV that I always said: \u201cThis I want to see for myself\u201d.\nThe crowd really was magnificent, singing along with all the songs and the mosh pit was hopping during the faster songs. It was funny to see the mosh pit becoming one big group slow dance with the acoustic/slower songs.\nI really enjoyed the location for this show. The AB really has the better sound quality of the concert halls I\u2019ve been to. This time I didn\u2019t need to sit next to the PA to get the best sound in the room. I wish there were more concert venues like this in Belgium. The room was set up in the small way , I still don\u2019t understand that Biffy Clyro doesn\u2019t have more fans in Belgium. But then again a few years back when I was in London with friends and wanted to go to HMV to get the latest Biffy Clyro album they were looking at me strangely when I said the band name. I try to promote them with everyone as much as I can and will say to everyone that seeing them live is \u201charder\u201d than the recorded material will seem.\nOnce again this was a magnificent concert by this Scottish band. Next time they are close to Belgium I am going again!\nMany of Horror (\u201cWith Aplomb\u201d extended intro)\nStingin\u2019 Belle\nPosted in: Music | Tagged: AB, ancienne belgique, Ben Johnston, Biffy Clyro, Biffy Fuckin' Clyro, brussels, James Johnston, Simon Neil", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 8567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://community.hrdaily.com.au/profiles/blogs/benefits-of-writing-intelligent-resume-and-vacancies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:57Z", "digest": "sha1:2WH5WSIBHDUJEJV462KN7ATVYQVZRTSR", "length": 1700, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "community.hrdaily.com.au", "title": "Benefits of Writing Intelligent Resume and Vacancies - HR Daily Community", "raw_content": "Benefits of Writing Intelligent Resume and Vacancies\nPosted by Brenda Allen on October 10, 2017 at 4:20\nThere are many benefits of using the intelligent content. Some concern the quality of service and others improve process efficiency. Here are some of the most notable benefits of intelligent content.\nIntelligent content reduces the cost of maintenance, development and review. This means that you will have to spend less time and money on arranging your content or reviewing it.\nIntelligent content allows you to spend more time creating a new content. It saves you the trouble of rewriting the old content or publishing the old again. Trusted professional writer service bases papers and other writings on this quality. It's well-known that a job-seeker will get the job appropriate to his resume and the following impression. This is interesting because new content means there will be more professional thesis writers needed. Good news for all freelance writers.\nIntelligent content provides better quality and consistency to your presentation. This means better user experience and, eventually, more revenue.\nIntelligent content is manageable from the moment you create it to the moment you decide to remove it.\nIntelligent content allows the user to reach the right information, just when the user needs it, just the way it needs to be presented. It means that, while looking for an L size shirt, customer will not receive M size offers.\nIntelligent content is capable of being presented through multiple channels and adapted to users needs. This capability is sometimes even possible without human intervention. This means that content adapts itself to the channel and the user, on its own.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://community.redhat.com/blog/2019/02/doing-remote-work-smarter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BPSYQKF6GML4BQNRTIHQH6VQUCU7F23I", "length": 3407, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "community.redhat.com", "title": "Doing Remote Work Smarter | Open Source Community", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s look at a few of the challenges that come bundled with the package of \u2018Going remote\u2019:\nAvoid Inside Jokes\nTeams usually have an uneven distribution of its members across geography and many a time there\u2019s a comparatively larger number of people working from one particular location. This leads to the formation of smaller sub-groups who interact more among themselves. It is completely natural to develop certain group-specific content and jokes.\nBut looking at it from an outsider\u2019s point of view, such inside jokes could be mistaken as a very rude signal to other team members who are not a part of it. While we couldn\u2019t control coming up with group-specific slang and jokes, we can very much control bringing them up in team meetings and communications. It is good to bring laughter to the meeting, but not if it leaves half the participants wondering what\u2019s going on!\nFind Opportunities to Socialize\n\u201cSocial isolation\u201d is a very common and serious problem with which remote employees deal. By spending long hours working on screens alone at home, employees end up self-ostracizing themselves. While people could very be a source of anxiety and irritation, they also provide the best of comfort and psychological support and there\u2019s no known alternative to a having a healthy psychological being than to \u201csocialize.\u201d\nA good way to tackle this problem is to find opportunities around to step outside and meet people. There are numerous products and services that one could avail to find out local events and meet-up groups. We exist in a technically sound age, it is only wise to use it to our benefit.\nIf this sounds too much of an effort and does not sound very efficient to some, another good alternative is \u201cco-working spaces.\u201d This industry is seeing a sudden boom and it does have a lot to offer. The choice for such spaces ranges from being pet-friendly to the ones with an in-built brewery.\nSpeak Up Anyway\nIn a usual conference room meeting, participants usually hesitate from speaking up because they fear rejection or the disapproval of their boss. It isn\u2019t the same with remote teams. For them, technology plays both the savior and the devil.\nA very general problem is \u201chaving a lot to add but not finding the right time to speak up.\u201d Since it\u2019s difficult to gauge any sort of anticipation from the expressions (especially when there\u2019s no video available) of other participants of what\u2019s coming next, many of them end up speaking up at the same time and then apologizing. Recurrence of this situation sometimes even damages the self-confidence of some participants. The key is to keep attempting to communicate until you\u2019re heard.\nHaving team members from varied cultural backgrounds has its innumerable benefits, but sometimes it could also result in miscommunications followed by chaotic situations, ending up demotivating the involved parties. We have to understand that the only way to normalize this gap is to communicate more and eventually getting better at it.\nIt is very much possible that we are only looking at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to \u2018how remote teams work\u2019, but it\u2019s very important that we acknowledge its existence and take one small step at a time to get us closer to providing the best(if not ideal) experience to our remote employees while they continue to do amazing work.\nPhoto by Carlos Garcia Campillo, CC-BY-NC 2.0.\nView all posts by Veethika Mishra \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coppellstudentmedia.com/73073/special-features/collins-to-take-a-gap-year-to-travel-to-europe-and-australia-gain-experience-working-with-animals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:10Z", "digest": "sha1:C4M2LRX7KPEFADIIXXS2CLEPXWNYS267", "length": 7565, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "coppellstudentmedia.com", "title": "Collins to take a gap year to travel to Europe and Australia, gain experience working with animals \u2013 Coppell Student Media", "raw_content": "Collins to take a gap year to travel to Europe and Australia, gain experience working with animals\nFarah Merchant, Staff Writer|May 9, 2017\nCoppell High School senior Lara Collins plays with her dog, a German Shorthaired Pointer named Sebastian, outside at Allen Road Park on May 1. Collins\u2019 passion for animals has inspired her to take a gap year to travel through Europe and Australia to gain experience with animals for her future career in Captive Wildlife Care.\nWhen the rest of the senior class was filling out college applications and stressing over their GPA, SAT scores and extracurricular activities, Coppell High School senior Lara Collins was planning her gap year in Europe and Australia to gain experience with animals.\nCollins began to plan her gap year in December with a program called \u201cWork Away,\u201d a program providing people the opportunity to travel anywhere in the world and volunteer. The program has a website where host families can post requesting help from anyone around the world.\nWhen Collins found a post she was interested in, she would contact the family and together they would work out the best month for Collins to come and volunteer. To Collins, this is a change in pace from her normal environment.\n\u201cI decided to take a gap year,\u201d Collins said. \u201cFor all of my life, I\u2019ve been doing the same thing every day, having the same routine with little variation. Before furthering my education, I decided that I needed a break just to relax from all the school work that I\u2019ve been in. I\u2019ve been in [International Baccalaureate] and [Advanced Placement] classes, which has been really challenging in the past few years. I thought that doing something that takes my mind off things would be good.\u201d\nAs of now, her plan is to spend June and July vacationing to Austria, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Switzerland with her family and Minton before living along in her family house in Munich. There she plans on going to language camp to improve her German and spend time walking dogs in a Munich animal shelter.\nIn September, she will go to Northern Germany and Lower Saxony and work on a camel farm taking care of camels, alpacas, llamas, zebras, kangaroos and emus for four months.\nThen in December, she will return home for Christmas before going to Sweden in January to work with sled dogs.\nCollins still has to work out the some of the details of her voyage but is very excited to spend the year with animals.\n\u201cA gap year is a great idea but it\u2019s not for everybody,\u201d Collins said. \u201cJust know exactly what you want to do. I haven\u2019t experienced it yet; I think if you don\u2019t plan things out then it can be very difficult and frustrating when you go on it because maybe something doesn\u2019t work out. I\u2019m prepared for that. If a host family and I don\u2019t get along so I have to go somewhere else, then I have a backup plan. I think planning is the most important thing and that you feel comfortable with what you\u2019re doing and happy.\u201d\nCoppell High School senior Lara Collins holds her two Leopard Geckos, Willow and Delilah, and her Bearded Dragon, Dartan on May 1. Collins\u2019 passion for animals has inspired her to take a gap year to travel through Europe and Australia to gain experience with animals for her future career in Captive Wildlife Care.\nCollins plans to study Captive Wildlife Care and Education at Unity College in Maine after her gap year and thinks having this experience will benefit her future.\n\u201cHaving this as my career, you need a lot of experience,\u201d Collins said. \u201cJust doing well in class is not going to get you the best job. I thought that doing this gap year, I\u2019m going to have so much experience with different animals and doing it now is actually easier than doing it after my four years in college.\u201d\nCollins\u2019 interest in traveling throughout Europe and Australia stemmed from her parents\u2019 adventurous spirits. In college, both her parents studied abroad and told Collins about the benefits.\n\u201cBoth my parents have been pretty inspirational in this,\u201d Collins said. \u201cThey\u2019re big world travelers and they\u2019ve always encouraged it in and we do a lot of great family vacations in the summer time. I\u2019ve just grown up with a love to travel.\nCHS senior Kaylee Minton has known Collins for four years and sees her parents\u2019 adventurous side reflected in her.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a really good plan,\u201d Minton said. \u201cI know a lot of kids don\u2019t want to go straight into college; it\u2019s stressful. I know she\u2019s been super adventurous. She and her dad backpacked across Iceland. She\u2019s always new adventure and I think it mirrors her personality.\u201d\nCollins was born in Germany but moved to China and then to the United States in elementary school. At first, she lived in Florida but moved to Coppell in middle school and attend Coppell Middle School East.\n\u201cThis opportunity is super beneficial,\u201d Minton said. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to help her further her career and social skills. She\u2019s going to learn a lot from the people she\u2019s meeting. I think just overall it\u2019s going to make her a well-rounded person.\u201d\nMinton\u2019s excitement for Collins taking on a different path is also seen with Collin\u2019s dad, Richard Collins.\n\u201cOf course we talked about it quite a bit over a number of months,\u201d Mr. Collins said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a quick decision. Me and my wife are completely behind her in doing this. We\u2019re really supportive. I think it\u2019s going to be good. We\u2019re really optimistic about it.\u201d\nHe thinks taking a gap year is the perfect year for discovering who Collins in and get to interact with people who are as passionate about animals as she is.\n\u201cLike any gap year, your decision is to decide what to study in college,\u201d Mr. Collins said. \u201cThere\u2019s no question, she\u2019s going to go to college in the future. She\u2019s quite committed with animals so I don\u2019t see any doubt. But this is a perfect time, we really want her to work with animals and talk to people in the fields, those who have completed their studies. A part of me is completely convinced that this is what she wants to do.\u201d\nCollins\u2019s path of taking a gap year instead of immediately going to college might stand out amongst her classmates, but she is very excited about her path.\n\u201cIt\u2019s definitely different for taking a gap year but I think that I\u2019ve made the right decision,\u201d Collins said. \u201cI think it\u2019s cool because I\u2019m going a different route than everyone.\n\u201cI do understand a lot of people don\u2019t like the idea or wouldn\u2019t choose it for themselves because they say, \u2018oh, you take a gap year off and maybe you decide you don\u2019t want to go back to school and you only have a high school diploma.\u2019 I really don\u2019t think that\u2019s going to happen. I\u2019m going to be more encouraged to go into school and get my college degree so I can finally go into working for animals.\u201d\nTransitioning from attending school in Coppell to traveling around Europe and Australia is a drastic change but she feels well prepared due to her involvement in the IB program.\n\u201cIB is a great program to help me prepare for this gap year because everything we have done in classes has been on an international perspective,\u201d Collins said. \u201cI think, especially history, I am understanding the different cultures and the history behind the places I will be traveling. I think that\u2019s really cool. Also the students here are very diverse so I can talk to them. It\u2019s just easier for me to adjust being in the IB program than with other classes.\u201d\nHannah Tucker, Staff Photographer\nHannah is a sophomore at Coppell High School and is a first year photographer for The Sidekick newspaper. 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Lessees receive a generously discounted membership to New York Health & Racquet Club located a block away.\nPhotos and floor plans are of a representative unit. Prices and incentives are subject to change.Read More\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cosmeticclub.org/cosmeticsen/makeup-and-beauty-blog-monday-poll-vol-562", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:13Z", "digest": "sha1:6LPLDXMBJ2TJZKR4QTXWGJZL3ZCAJ5P5", "length": 889, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cosmeticclub.org", "title": "Makeup and Beauty Blog Monday Poll, Vol. 562 - Cosmetics", "raw_content": "1. Glittery brows or purple lipstick\"\n2. What\u2019s something makeup-related that you have in your purse/bag at the moment\"\nThankfully, I cleaned out my purse before we left for Hawaii because I\u2019ve been walking around with five pounds of lipstick on me, ha ha! One thing that made the cut was a twist-up tube of Nuxe Reve de Miel Lip Balm, which was a gift from a friend (thanks, Kim!). 3. Do you like having background noise when you need to really concentrate\"\nIt depends on what\u2019s happening around me. Like, if it\u2019s the crack of dawn at 5 in the morning, and the house is quiet, then no, I don\u2019t need anything. Silence is golden! But if there\u2019s activity in the house, and it\u2019s noisy (like if my parents are visiting, or if Connor\u2019s playing with El Hub in the living room), then I\u2019ll have to turn something to drown out conversations; otherwise, I can\u2019t think.\nBIGGEST SKINCARE HAUL... EVER!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 18937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://countrymusicmatters.com/tag/garth-brooks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MCZN4UN5A5NVEESMBGFAKEUIHBNQ5ZKX", "length": 2109, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "countrymusicmatters.com", "title": "Garth Brooks Archives ~ Country Music Matters", "raw_content": "Renowned Country Artist Michael Peterson Celebrates 20th Anniversary Of Debut Album \u2013 CMM Interview\nCountry music from the 90\u2019s was a stepping stone for many young artists with some great long-lasting hits and careers. Although some careers slowed down, the hits remained. A renowned and well-respected country artist among that class was Michael Peterson. The Grammy nominated singer/songwriter released his debut album under Warner/Reprise and brought a style all his own. Now after 20 years he is celebrating that album with an anniversary edition to be released March 31st. ... read more!\nChris Young has had one heck of a year. He counts his induction as the newest member of the Grand Ole Opry at the top of his bucket list. After joining Jason Aldean as special guest on his \u201cThey Don\u2019t Know Tour\u201d throughout 2017, Chris played his final show of the year on Saturday night (12/16), surprising a sold-out hometown crowd at Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena with an acoustic performance before reigning CMA Entertainer of the Year, Garth Brooks, took the stage. ... read more!\nHappy 2018 And Thanks For Our 2017 Journey\nJanuary 1, 2018 Mary Kay\tComment\nAnother year has ended; 2017 brought us so much. We had a great journey with so many wonderful people from PR folks, songwriters, artists and more. There are not enough words to express our thanks. ... read more!\nPearl Records\u2019 artist, Garth Brooks is a never-ending man at work. He recently announced the release of part one of a five-part anthology book series on Tuesday, November 14th, entitled \u201cPart 1, The First Five Years.\u201d The Garth-penned book will offer a detailed look at the first five years of his career as told by Garth himself and those involved with the creating, recording, and promotion of the first five albums. ... read more!\nGarth Brooks Hits Our Throwback Thursday Spotlight\nJuly 27, 2017 July 26, 2017 Mary Kay\tComment\nOur Throwback song today has one of the most recognizable guitar intros in music, and when the crowd goes wild as Garth Brooks plays it in the arena, there is nothing like it. 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By Authority Cincinnati: Printed by W. Maxwell. M,DCC,XCVI. Page size 7 x 6.9\", printed on laid paper, with chain lines one inch apart. With original brown stiff paper boards, inked manuscript inscription on cover upper right, Laws of the (illegible) Territory, and about the midpoint of the cover, (illegible) Jefferson County, State of Ohio. Inscribed on the inside of the front cover Robert McCleary, Esq., with the additional names of Peter M. Wilson on the title page above \u201cLaws\u201d; and across the right edge of the title page Francis Douglas\u2019 Book May 16 \u201898. With the bookplate of former owner Robert Aitchison of Wichita, Kansas, pasted down on the rear inside cover.\nCollation: p(1), title page; (2), blank; (iii) to xiii, Ordnance of 1787; (xiv), blank; (15) to 221, text; 222-223, appendix; 224 to 225, Table of Laws.\nThe Laws of the Territory of the United States North-West of the Ohio\nPerhaps the most storied book of the first American \u201cWest,\u201d the Maxwell Code was printed in the Ohio River settlement of Cincinnati, in 1796, at a time when the village was little more than a collection of rude log buildings serving as shelter for 200 inhabitants surrounding the government outpost of Fort Washington. With the Treaty of Greenville in 1795 marking the end of the Indian Wars, the government permitted, and actually encouraged, settlement of the Territory. As settler began to make their way into the Territory, the need for a printing of civil and criminal laws required for regulating behavior soon became apparent. While the ordinance establishing the Northwest Territory of what is now Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois and parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota had been established in 1787, when Arthur St. Clair was appointed the Governor, there was no body of written law that could be called upon in the event of legal disputes.\nDuring the late spring and summer of 1795, St. Clair met in Cincinnati with judges John Cleves Symmes and George Turner to formulate such a body of law. Congress had directed them to codify the law for the new Territory by utilizing statutes already passed by the legislative bodies of the thirteen original colonies. The resulting 37 laws which they adopted represented the first civil and criminal code for the new American frontier, or the \"West,\" as it then existed.\nSt. Clair and his colleagues turned to the printer William Maxwell to produce a volume containing the new laws. Born in either New York or New Jersey, Maxwell had emigrated to Cincinnati in 1793 after a failed attempt to establish himself in Lexington, Kentucky, some 80 miles south across the Ohio River. His newspaper, The Centinel of the North-Western Territory, began its run in November of that same year. By the summer of 1796 his shop was run by himself, an assistant and his wife. Whether historically accurate, or merely an apocryphal tale, Maxwell\u2019s wife, Nancy Robbins Maxwell, has always been given credit for hand-sewing the signatures of the Code.\nThe exact number of copies printed is unknown. Announcing his proposal for the publication of the new laws, he used the The Centinel as his trumpet:\nW. Maxwell being appointed by the legislature to print for them 200 copies of their laws, he thinks it would be greatly conducive towards the instruction and common benefit of all citizens to extend the impression to 1000 copies\u2026The price in boards, to subscribers, will be at the rate of nineteen cents for every 50 pages, and to non-subscribers, thirty cents.\nRather than adopting its lengthy title, the legal practitioners who used the new volume coined a vernacular name that honored its printer: \u201cMaxwell\u2019s Code.\u201d\nFirst Book Printed In Ohio\nIt hardly seems necessary to relate the importance of this volume. It was the first book printed in the Northwest Territory, the first printing of the Northwest Ordinance in the Territory, and the first book printed in what was at the time already known as Ohio. Not only did it serve as the legal code for the frontier, it also established precedent that would reach far into the future when the Territory would finally be divided into states. As more states were added, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska, for example, its antislavery clause would become the touchstone of the major political arguments of the 1830-50s. In the run-up to the Civil War, the Maxwell Code would be cited by legal and political figures as proof that slavery was never meant to be allowed to take root in the territories or new states of the Union.\nThe History of this Copy of the Maxwell Code\nGiven the exceptional rarity of the Maxwell Code, this copy has a well-documented chain of ownership that is worth relating here.\nWhile there may not be many living collectors or dealers who personally knew Ernest J. Wessen (1887-1974) of Mansfield, Ohio, his legacy as one of America\u2019s greatest book dealers is legendary. Through a legion of \u201cpickers\u201d located throughout the United States, Wessen probably handled as much great printed Americana as any of his peers during his active career. His periodically issued, mimeographed catalogs, under the title Midland Notes were eagerly awaited by both private and institutional collectors, and today are considered collectible imprints themselves. Scanning the yellowed pages of any of the issues of the catalogs makes it immediately apparent that Wessen routinely handled great printed treasures. This copy of the Maxwell Code was, by Wessen\u2019s own accounting, his greatest find.\nWessen purchased the present copy of the Maxwell Code in the spring of 1963 from Mr. Robert Aitchison (1887-1964) of Wichita, Kansas. Aitchison was a successful commercial artist, printer and businessman by trade, and a mapmaker, historian and collector of early printing by avocation. Wessen learned of Aitchison\u2019s copy of the Code through Paul Arthur Lundgren, a Kansas bookscout.\nWessen owned the book only a short time; in June 1963, just a few months after acquiring it from Aitchison, he sold it to his long-time customer and close friend, Joseph Dush, a lawyer in Willard, Ohio. Dush was counsel for the R. R. Donnelley plant in Willard and an avid collector of Northwest Territory and Ohio imprints and Americana. At his death, his extensive collection of imprints relating to Ohio local history along with his collection of William Henry Harrison campaign ephemera was sold by Cowan\u2019s in 1997. His collection of Northwest Territory material, including the present copy of the Maxwell Code, by then well known for its provenance, condition and contemporary binding, was sold in that same year by the Baltimore Book Auction Company. This copy was acquired by the present owner at that important auction.\nOver the course of his long career, Wessen handled at least three other copies of the Code (see Matthews 1992: 223.) It is clear, however, that he considered all inferior to the copy offered here. In a June 9, 1963, letter to Dush, Wessen wrote glowingly to his old friend and customer:\nDear Joe \u2013 I can\u2019t tell you how very happy I am that you have this book. It will always remain the greatest item to have passed through my hands. It was not enough that we got this fine copy in what is the earliest binding, but with its superb provenance so beautifully tied up\u2026it is without a peer.\nLater, writing to Yeatman Anderson, curator of Rare Books at the Cincinnati Public Library, Wessen described the other copies that had passed through his hands, and stressed:\nAnd here\u2019s what I\u2019m leading up to\u2026.our FOURTH COPY; the finest in existence\u2026.a copy which for all time will remain a standard for comparison\u2026THIS IS IN THE ORIGINAL BOARD BINDINGS\u2026Of course, it is untrimmed. It is in the possession of a great collector and fine gentleman\u2026JOSEPH F. DUSH\u2026 (Matthews 1992: 224).\nWhile the 20th century owners of this copy of the Maxwell Code are well-documented, the inked signatures on the book provide important clues about its earliest owners. The names of Robert McCleary, Esq., Francis Douglas and Peter Wilson are all inscribed either on the title page or inside cover. Not surprisingly, Wessen was successful in discovering much about these apparent owners.\nIn a June 8, 1963, letter to Dush, Wessen gives proper credit to his wife for successfully tracking down these signersSay what you will, I think Yetta makes a darned good wheel-horse for this team. Give her a load to carry, and she sticks with it until she has delivered the goods. Her research is extracted below:\nThe first owner of the book was Robert McCleary who settled in Warren Township, Jefferson County, Ohio in 1790, and was the first Justice of the Peace for the county. He signed the inside cover of the book, \u201cRobert McCleary Esqr.\u201d The second owner was Francis Douglas, sheriff of Jefferson County from 1794-1804. He signed and dated the title page, \u201cMay 16, 1798.\u201d The third owner was Peter Wilson who came to Jefferson County around 1800. Wilson signed the book at the top of the title page.\nThe signature of Robert McCleary on the pasteboard covers is essential to the provenance and binding of this copy. As Wessen related in his June 9, 1963, letter to Dush: \u2026the signature of McCleary (no doubt the original owner) on the pasteboard covers, along with the signature of Douglas\u2026 is evidence that those covers are contemporary (original) beyond a reasonable doubt.\nWith that same letter, Wessen enclosed a card with a full collation of the book and suggested to Dush that: As my own contribution, I enclose a card with, I think, the first full bibliographical description of this book ever made. And\u2026less I not make myself clear\u2026I say this is the finest copy of the Maxwell Code in existence\u2026Hastily (5:30 p.m.).\nA Census of Existing Copies of the Maxwell Code\nJust how rare this copy of the Maxwell Code is, is made apparent by an examination of the few surviving institutional copies. The following census here should be considered a \u201cwork in progress.\u201d Several factors contribute to making this a challenging undertaking.\nThere have been two realistic facsimiles produced, one in 1890 by the Robert Clarke Company of Cincinnati, and a second in 1891 by the T. L. Cole Company, of Washington, D.C. It is unknown how large the print runs for these facsimiles were, but the \u201cremainder\u201d of the Robert Clarke production was sold to the Anderson Company of Cincinnati in 1897, and Anderson sold these well into the 1920s. While the Clarke facsimile included an intentional typo on the title page (line 7 reads \u201cone thousand eleven hundred ninety five,\u201d rather than \u201cone thousand seven hundred,\u201d) over the years the facsimile has fooled many an experienced eye.\nInstitutional Holdings of Facsimile Editions Cataloged as \u201cOriginals\u201d\nThe OCLC database and the English Short Title Catalogue both identify many institutions as holding \u201coriginal\u201d editions when they in fact have only facsimile copies. In the case of OCLC, these facsimile editions (identified as original printings) are held by the following institutions:\nUniversity of Oxford Bodleian Library\nIn a similar fashion, the ESTC identifies 14 institutions as owning original editions. However, six of the institutions listed, Los Angeles County Law Library, California State Library, University of California (Berkeley), Allegheny County Law Library, Columbia University Law Library, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, do not, in fact, own originals but facsimiles.\nLest these mistakes be attributed only to the \u201celectronic age,\u201d earlier examples of misattribution are frequently encountered. No less an authority than Wright Howes listed the Maxwell Code as O-50 in his landmark USiana and cited 3 institutional holdings as examples \u201cof 5 perfect copies known:\u201d\nThe Indiana Historical Society actually owns two originals, but both are imperfect; New York Public Library reports no original copy; and the Brown original lacks pages 203 through 225.\nThe following major institutional libraries, which have at times been referred to as owning original Maxwell Codes, do not:\nColumbia University Law Library\nUniversity of Michigan, Clements Library\nPennsylvania Historical Society Library\nUniversity of California, Bancroft Library\nKnown Complete Original Editions, Rebound\nBased upon recent research, it appears that there are at least 18 original copies of the Maxwell Code extant. The majority of them are imperfect, and in many cases, seriously defective. The following chart lists confirmed original editions, with a statement of condition when it is available.\n\u2022 Cincinnati Public Library \u2013 some pages closely trimmed, but a handsome copy, rebound early in the 19th Century; belonged to Ohio\u2019s second governor, Thomas Kirker.\n\u2022 American Antiquarian Society \u2013 formerly the \u201csecond copy\u201d of the N.Y. Historical Society, sold at auction in 1944 ($900 to Eberstadt for Thomas Streeter) and then sold in 1967 in the Streeter Sale ($10,000). Rebound in red library buckram in the 1940s. Bears the bookplate of Thomas Streeter, and several pages bear the signature \u201cJames M\u2019Bride.\u201d\n\u2022 New York Historical Society \u2013 modern rebinding; described as \u201cuncut and unusually tall copy;\u201d with the name,\u201cRobert McClure\u201d written on the title page.\n\u2022 Harvard Law School Library \u2013 early 19th century rebinding, now lacking covers and spine, text block intact and with marbled papers present. Two early ownership inscriptions not yet identified, and one other.\nKnown Original Editions, Incomplete or Otherwise Imperfect\n\u2022 Huntington Library \u2013 lacks several pages.\n\u2022 Library of Congress, 2 copies \u2013 both defective, one unlocated.\n\u2022 Cincinnati Historial Society Library - 2 copies, both with extensive sections in facsimile.\n\u2022 Ohio Historical Society \u2013 bound with other territorial laws, trimmed extremely closely, with loss of some printed annotations.\n\u2022 Indiana Historical Society, 2 copies: one with title leaf and 2 pages in facsimile; the other with title leaf, pp. (iii) \u2013 iv, 225 missing.\n\u2022 Lilly Library \u2013 never bound, and with wide, untrimmed margins; portion of title page and last leaf in facsimile. Bears early signature of \u201cEzra Freeman.\u201d\n\u2022 John Carter Brown Library \u2013 lacks pp. 203\u2013225.\n\u2022 Miami University, Oxford \u2013 lacks page 225; title page inscription: \u201cDavid Wade\u2019s book.\u201d\n\u2022 University of Toledo Law Library \u2013 title and final leaf restored.\n\u2022 Western Reserve Historical Society \u2013 rebound in black buckram; title page in facsimile; lacks 219\u2013225.\n\u2022 Chicago Historical Society \u2013 last page in facsimile.\n\u2022 There is also one known original copy in private hands, incomplete.\nWhile this is the finest original copy of the Maxwell Code in existence, there are slight defects, which should be noted. The most serious is a small corner chip to leaf C4, with the loss of the letter \u201cw\u201d from the word \u201cwhen,\u201d and the word \u201cmade\u201d in the printed margin notes on page 18. The full note reads, \u201cProceedings in mortgages when default made.\u201d The text on page 17 is not affected and the book is otherwise textually complete. In addition, there is occasional old staining along a few of the gutters and some modest wear and cracking to the pasteboard covers. There are a couple of pages with early ink manuscript \u201cX\u2019s\u201d to note apparent later legal changes to the original Code. Notwithstanding these minor defects and some general toning and wear, this copy of the Maxwell Code is completely without equal. The printing is strong and deeply pressed, the margins are wide and only minimally trimmed, and, of course, the contemporary binding is unique.\nEstimate: $100,000\t- $150,000", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 19244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://creativityinc.com.au/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CO7X6S7E6JN6TLEAONRPBCUC4BVTISXB", "length": 3763, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "creativityinc.com.au", "title": "About \u2013 Creativity Inc", "raw_content": "Creativity Inc is committed to providing high quality services for individuals and their families.\nAs changes to the disability sector are introduced through the implementation of the NDIS, we are making changes to the way we deliver services and interact with our clients, their families and their community. Below are the underlying policies that govern our practices and services.\nIn 2014, the board and senior management team undertook a strategic planning process to examine where we were positioned and where we want to be in 2018 when the NDIS will be in full implementation. We developed objectives to focus our approach over the following 3 years to ensure we reach our strategic goals and continue to deliver a high standard of services to our clients and their families.\nEach year, a one page summary of our Strategic plan is completed. A copy may be found here;\nA key part of our approach in achieving individual client goals, objectives and outcomes is the integration of technology into our everyday service delivery. To this end, Creativity Inc partnered with Queensland based MYP Corporation to develop an innovative solution known as GOMS (Goals & Objectives Management System).\nGOMS enables a series of goals to be created and matched to an individual\u2019s activities and programs. By breaking these goals down into smaller objectives, an individual and their support staff may work together towards measurable (and reportable) achievements over time. Accessible via smartphone, tablet or PC in real time, GOMS is a powerful tool for clients, carers and staff alike in ensuring that time and effort is placed to where it can make the most difference in someone\u2019s life.\nSet, measure and achieve objectives\nGOMS enables a series of goals to be developed and those goals are then matched to individuals and programs.\nIndividuals and their family can determine which goals they want to work on and how they go about achieving them through a range of specific objectives.\nThese objectives can be set for individual clients, easily measured every shift and updated as required.\nGOMS uses a universal \u2018Goal Attainment System\u2019 that measures broad-based and task analysis style objectives.\nBoth quantitative and qualitative results are gathered, and outcomes and trends can be effectively tracked and reviewed.\nThis ensures no matter what program, activity or service is provided, clients, their family and the organisation obtain a true and holistic picture of what is being achieved in real time.\nAll Creativity Inc staff members adhere to a Quality Code of Conduct.\nThis ensures Person Centred Practices and quality of service for our clients. To view our Quality Code of Conduct click on the link below:\nQuality Code of Conduct\nNSW Disability Standards: these underpin the work we do\nRights: Each person receives a service that promotes and respects their legal and human rights and enables them to exercise choice like everyone else in the community.\nParticipation: Each person is encouraged and supported to contribute to social and civic life in their communities in the way they choose.\nIndividual Outcomes: Each person is supported to exercise choice and control over the design and delivery of their supports and services.\nFeedback & Complaints: When a person wants to make a complaint, the service provider will make sure the person\u2019s views are respected, that they are informed as the complaint is dealt with, and have the opportunity to be involved in the resolution process.\nService Access: Each person is assisted to access the supports and services they need to live the life they choose.\nService Management: Service providers are well managed and have strong and effective governance to deliver positive outcomes for the people they support", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cryptography.io/en/latest/glossary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:29Z", "digest": "sha1:BSIX2X3JORMIB5GVRCRQZENA4HTRUUGX", "length": 3665, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "cryptography.io", "title": "Glossary \u2014 Cryptography 2.6.dev1 documentation", "raw_content": "The ASCII compatible encoded (ACE) representation of an internationalized (unicode) domain name. A-labels begin with the prefix xn--. To create an A-label from a unicode domain string use a library like idna.\nThe process of verifying that a message was created by a specific individual (or program). Like encryption, authentication can be either symmetric or asymmetric. Authentication is necessary for effective encryption.\nA bit is binary value \u2013 a value that has only two possible states. Typically binary values are represented visually as 0 or 1, but remember that their actual value is not a printable character. A byte on modern computers is 8 bits and represents 256 possible values. In cryptographic applications when you see something say it requires a 128 bit key, you can calculate the number of bytes by dividing by 8. 128 divided by 8 is 16, so a 128 bit key is a 16 byte key.\nA bytes-like object contains binary data and supports the buffer protocol. This includes bytes, bytearray, and memoryview objects.\nThe encoded data, it\u2019s not user readable. Potential attackers are able to see this.\nciphertext indistinguishability\nThis is a property of encryption systems whereby two encrypted messages aren\u2019t distinguishable without knowing the encryption key. This is considered a basic, necessary property for a working encryption system.\nThe process of converting ciphertext to plaintext.\nThe process of converting plaintext to ciphertext.\nSecret data is encoded with a function using this key. Sometimes multiple keys are used. These must be kept secret, if a key is exposed to an attacker, any data encrypted with it will be exposed.\nA nonce is a number used once. Nonces are used in many cryptographic protocols. Generally, a nonce does not have to be secret or unpredictable, but it must be unique. A nonce is often a random or pseudo-random number (see Random number generation). Since a nonce does not have to be unpredictable, it can also take a form of a counter.\nopaque key\nAn opaque key is a type of key that allows you to perform cryptographic operations such as encryption, decryption, signing, and verification, but does not allow access to the key itself. Typically an opaque key is loaded from a hardware security module (HSM).\nUser-readable data you care about.\nThis is one of two keys involved in public-key cryptography. It can be used to decrypt messages which were encrypted with the corresponding public key, as well as to create signatures, which can be verified with the corresponding public key. These must be kept secret, if they are exposed, all encrypted messages are compromised, and an attacker will be able to forge signatures.\nThis is one of two keys involved in public-key cryptography. It can be used to encrypt messages for someone possessing the corresponding private key and to verify signatures created with the corresponding private key. This can be distributed publicly, hence the name.\nCryptographic operations where encryption and decryption use different keys. There are separate encryption and decryption keys. Typically encryption is performed using a public key, and it can then be decrypted using a private key. Asymmetric cryptography can also be used to create signatures, which can be generated with a private key and verified with a public key.\nCryptographic operations where encryption and decryption use the same key.\nThis type corresponds to unicode on Python 2 and str on Python 3. This is equivalent to six.text_type.\nThe presentational unicode form of an internationalized domain name. U-labels use unicode characters outside the ASCII range and are encoded as A-labels when stored in certificates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 235.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://css.fifa.com/u17womensworldcup/organisation/ticketing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:18Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4MB6V5IAHOIJ7P5PNZ4LNBLV5GWYCIT", "length": 890, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "css.fifa.com", "title": "FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Uruguay 2018 - Organisation - FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup Uruguay Ticketing Information - FIFA.com", "raw_content": "FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup Uruguay Ticketing Information\nUruguay had the honour of hosting the sixth edition of the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in 2018. From 13 November until 1 December, 16 teams competed to win the title. Thirty-two matches were played in three cities: Colonia del Sacramento, Maldonado and Montevideo, which also hosted the semi-finals and final. Spain were eventually crowned champions for the first time in the competition.\nA ticket for the FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup Uruguay 2018 provided access to two consecutive matches, so-called \u201cdouble-headers\u201d, each of which were played on the same day at a specific stadium. Irrespective of the selected category, the ticket remained valid for both matches. Visa remained the preferred method of payment for FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup tickets.\nTickets: General Terms and Conditions\nStadium Code of Conduct for Uruguay 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 85.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://curiousworlds.blog/2012/06/16/last-of-the-short-story-marathon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3G2UBJ3L2KWEDM3GJNFIFJ4R7KLVKOOE", "length": 3932, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "curiousworlds.blog", "title": "Last of the Short Story Marathon \u2013 curiousworlds", "raw_content": "Last of the Short Story Marathon\nNow that we\u2019ve passed the Ides of June, I\u2019d better tie up some loose ends!\nIt\u2019s been a good discipline to read a short story every day. I have so many books on my shelf about writing techniques and grammar and story crafting (I call them my devotional reading), and sometimes I get caught up with reading them and lose sight of the fact that the best instruction for writing STORIES is to read STORIES; to think about what a writer is trying to accomplish in a given story, if the story works, speaks, sings, touches my heart and mind\u2026\nThere\u2019s a lot of flash fiction here, partly because the second half of this month got crazy busy, but also because I want to write more flash.\nBelow is the tally for the balance of May.\nFri 5/18 \u2013 All The Things The Moon is Not by Alexander Lumans in Clarkesworld \u2013 This one stuck with me more for the rendering of the world and of the characters who live together but mark time in lonely desperation.\nSat 5/19 \u2013 The Eye of the Sibyl by Philip K. Dick \u2013 his trademark stream-of-consciousness style set in both roman and modern times. You can see Dick working out some of the themes that pervade his later work like The Valis Trilogy.\nSun 5/20 \u2013 Broken Hearts by Ted Lietz on Every Day Fiction \u2013 A bittersweet story about an alien told with a distinctly feminine point of view.\nMon 5/21 \u2013 Notes from the Apocalypse by Stephen Graham Jones in Weird Tales #359 \u2013 Really three stories in one. Three different individual takes on a zombie future. The middle one titled \u201cThe Age of Hasty Retreats\u201d was my favorite.\nTue 5/22 \u2013 The Deep by Adam Smith on Flash Fiction Online Having written a mermaid story I like this one. A nice story about suspicion (old wives tales), a mother and child and, of course, the sea.\nWed 5/23 \u2013 The Dome by Gregory Marlow at Every Day Fiction \u2013 I love dome stories and this one fits nicely within the confines of one thousand words.\nThu 5/24 \u2013 Fadeout by Amber D. Sistla in Bull Spec issue #6, Autumn 2011 \u2013 a parable-style tale about the nature of art.\nAt this point I borrowed a set of disks from my public library Masterpieces of Short Fiction. Even though it goes against my stated goal of reading some of the MANY books I have bouncing around the house, I\u2019m really enjoying reading these stories and then listening to a short lecture about each of them.\nFri 5/25 \u2013 The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe \u2013 a revenge tale told by an unreliable narrator. Much of the suspense is carried by the finely observed detail.\nSat 5/26 \u2013 Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne \u2013 The only thing I\u2019d read by Hawthorne before this was The Scarlet Letter. I\u2019d forgotten what a good writer he was, even when the language is archaic the story feels immediate.\nSun 5/27 \u2013 The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol \u2013 Poor Akaky, I can picture his fine overcoat perfectly.\nMon 5/28 \u2013 The Diamond Necklace by Guy de Maupassant \u2013 Short and more of a parable, an anti-Cinderella story with a twist ending.\nTue 5/29 \u2013 The Lady With the Dog by Anton Chekhov \u2013 I\u2019d read this one before, way back when. It really is just lovely. Chekhov is a master at revealing character.\nWed 5/30 \u2013 The Real Thing by Henry James \u2013 At first, I was a little annoyed by James\u2019 flowery style, but it\u2019s a long story and it grew on me. It serves his subject well. He\u2019s investigating some subtle aspects of society, class and what it means to be an artist, or more to the point, how to render art. I really liked it by the end.\nThu 5/31 \u2013 Araby by James Joyce \u2013 A coming of age story via a small disillusionment, presages a lifetime of a thousand cuts of the same.\nThe series continues with Hemingway, Babel, Kafka, Mansfield, Jackson, O\u2019Connor, Garcia Marquez, Baldwin, Kingston, Atwood and Carver. It\u2019ll keep me reading a story a day through June.\nPosted in fantasy, flash fiction, science fiction, short stories\nPrevious Post Countdown to ApolloCon 2012\nNext Post ApolloCon 2012 report", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://curiousworlds.blog/2013/09/19/the-book-of-symbols-writing-archetypes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ONMTOVU6NQQMZP3VCELQ3NDC5QWLP3VA", "length": 2678, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "curiousworlds.blog", "title": "The Book of Symbols: Writing Archetypes \u2013 curiousworlds", "raw_content": "The Book of Symbols: Writing Archetypes\nA page from The Book of Symbols\nI\u2019ve blogged about writing from visual prompts before, but I wanted to mention The Book of Symbols in particular. It is quite literally a feast for your eyes. Put together by Jungian scholars at the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS), this is no dry book of academic theory. The first clue is that it is published by Taschen, a publishing house known for beautifully designed art books.\nCarl Jung believed that were universal patterns and images that reside in what he called the collective unconscious. These images are given particular expression within individual cultures. According to the Wikipedia entry:\n\u201cStrictly speaking, Jungian archetypes refer to nuclear underlying forms \u2026 which emerge images and motifs such as the mother, the child, the trickster and the flood amongst others. It is history, culture and personal context that shape these manifest representations giving them their specific content.\u201d\nJoseph Campbell\u2018s idea of myth grew out of Jung\u2019s theories and method of dream interpretation. Campbell went on to develop his own theory of the monomyth, known among us writers as The Hero\u2019s Journey.\nWhat I love so much about this book is that you don\u2019t have to buy into the idea of a collective unconscious or even The Hero\u2019s Journey for it to inspire countless stories, worlds and characters. According to the Wall Street Journal\u2019s article, the people who put the book together were less concerned with theory, than with simply exploring our cultural touchstones through images and short evocative essays.\n\u201cThe specifics of Jung\u2019s work do not figure prominently in the book\u2019s collection of images and essays, which fans out to include references to poems, plays and tales from history and myth. The four-page section labeled \u201cBird,\u201d for instance, features an ancient Native American sculpture, a 17th-century Iranian painting, a remark by Emily Dickinson and a quotation from a 1980s animal-facts book.\u201d\nEvery image in this book suggests a multitude of stories. The essays dilate the meanings of events that are woven so tightly into the fabric of our everyday lives as to seem mundane, for example, see the entries for \u201cDawn\u201d or \u201cWind.\u201d\nThis book isn\u2019t an argument, simply a set of observations, which is what makes it such a good tool for creative endeavors. Check out this book if you can and then, with the words of Carl Jung in mind, go make something!\n\u201cTrust that which gives you meaning and accept it as your guide.\u201d\nPosted in Carl Jung, Jungian archetypes, The Book of Symbols, writing, writing prompts\nPrevious Post Last WorldCon Post\nNext Post No Literary Value", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://customersatisfactionranking.com/reviews/napa-auto-parts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:16Z", "digest": "sha1:4ULMOINA6ZK43VSXQ2LQWJ4UGU2JCK4O", "length": 811, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "customersatisfactionranking.com", "title": "NAPA Auto Parts | Reviews | Customer Satisfaction Ranking", "raw_content": "NAPA Auto Parts Reviews\nReview NAPA Auto Parts Now\nNapa has sped its way to become a powerhouse in the auto parts industry with 5,800 stores, 60 distribution centers, and 15,000 napa autocare facilities across the country, and we're not stopping there. we've been around since 1925, but we're not your grandfather's napa. why consider working at napa? napa delivers quality experience not only to our customers but to our employees, in the form of career growth opportunities, unmatched brand and company pride, stability, great benefits including 401(k), and a parts discount. our opportunities are limitless if you focus on the job at hand and stretch yourself to drive performance and results. napa is proudly the largest division of genuine parts company, a fortune 250 company headquartered in atlanta, ga,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://customerservice.starbucks.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5856/~/i-want-to-order-something-other-than-my-usual-order-using-google-assistant.-can", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WAKKEMIVJSGKTLEHCGFE7B7JOSWCCHFS", "length": 379, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "customerservice.starbucks.com", "title": "I want to order something other than my usual order using Google Assistant. Can I do that?", "raw_content": "Yes. This experience supports free-form ordering. Given the complicated nature of our menu, however, it may not understand every modification and customization that you want to make. The beauty of this technology is that we can train it to \"learn\" over time, so if it doesn't correctly capture your highly-customized beverage today, don't give up hope that it will in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cvms.org/montessori/myths-facts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:41Z", "digest": "sha1:REMIOXCJRBD4HWIGECJRSBLKBZOTBSZC", "length": 2428, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "cvms.org", "title": "Myths & Facts - Chemung Valley", "raw_content": "Home/Montessori/Myths & Facts\nMyths & Facts\tSneha Shetty\t2017-10-12T11:08:25+00:00\nIf you\u2019re new to Montessori \u2013 or even if you\u2019re not \u2013 you may have heard a variety of opinions. There are some persistent myths about Montessori, some of them contradictory. Here are a few of the most prevalent:\nIn Montessori schools, students just do whatever they feel like doing. It\u2019s chaotic.\nIn Montessori schools, students learn to become self-directed. But they do so precisely because there is a very thoughtful classroom structure. On any given day, teachers present lessons, students work together and help one another, and students focus individually on their own work. The teacher sets developmentally appropriate goals and specific tasks for each child and then monitors their progress.\nMontessori schools are too structured.\nOddly, both this myth and its opposite (above) exist. As described above, Montessori has a structure that promotes independent learning, creativity, and self-discipline, as opposed to rigidity, rote learning, and teaching for the test.\nMontessori is a religious doctrine. Sometimes it is assumed to be affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church.\nMontessori has no religious affiliation whatsoever. Like most other Montessori schools, at CVMS we deliberately create a culture of kindness and respect toward others, cultivate responsibility for the natural world, and promote understanding of the wider world with a focus on peace.\nMontessori focuses on creativity, but not on math, science, and technology.\nThe Montessori mathematics curriculum, which employs systems of materials that students manipulate, is exceptionally strong. Students develop a genuine understanding of mathematical concepts at each level. Likewise, the Montessori approach to science develops curiosity along with understanding of the scientific method and processes. At CVMS, students begin using technology at the Early Childhood level and develop increasing sophistication with every ensuing year. We provide students with a strong core of knowledge in math, science, and technology along with the ability to analyze information and solve problems alone and collaboratively.\nMontessori is elitist.\nQuite the opposite. 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Bringing together our combined experience in cutting-edge protection of safety-critical networks, we are full steam ahead to take on the formidable security challenges of the modern railway industry.\nCylus is at the intersection of cybersecurity, rail technology, and software development.\nZohar Zisapel is a leading figure in Israel\u2019s tech industry. Mr. Zisapel founded RAD Data Communications, served as the Chairman of Ceragon Networks and Argus, as a Director of Silicom and on the board of several other companies.\nMagma Venture Partners is a leading Israeli venture capital firm, dedicated to investing in Israel\u2019s Information, Communications and Technology space (\u2018ICT\u2019), including the software, semiconductor and new media spheres.\nVertex Ventures Israel was founded in 1997 and is one of Israel\u2019s leading venture capital investment firms, with over $700 million under management. The firm invests in Israeli companies in the early stages of development.\nThe SBI Group was established in 1999 as a pioneer of internet based financial services in Japan, has formed the world\u2019s first internet-based financial ecosystem, providing financial services in a broad range of fields.\n23 Yehuda HaLevi, 21st Floor, Tel-Aviv, Israel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailyegyptian.com/5492/news/budget-cuts-could-eliminate-programs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:56Z", "digest": "sha1:BE7I6TFTN3EBVRZNOZ2LGV4MJSX3EMKK", "length": 5889, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "dailyegyptian.com", "title": "Budget cuts could eliminate programs \u2013 Daily Egyptian", "raw_content": "Budget cuts could eliminate programs\nGov. Bruce Rauner\u2019s budget cuts could diminish programs that give students professional experience and Carbondale residents affordable mental healthcare.\nOfficials at SIU\u2019s Clinical Center were asked to prepare a budget for the organization if it were to lose 50 percent of its state funding. The exercise was prompted by the university after Rauner proposed a 31.5 percent cut of state appropriations to public universities.\nThe center is a training facility for students in clinical psychology, communication disorders and speech, education psychology and social work, and also serves community members.\nA 50 percent cut of the center\u2019s state money would mean $206,705 would be lost out of its roughly $406,000 budget. Holly Cormier, director of the center, said state money and the fees it collects for the services it provides make up all funding.\n\u201cState money just pays the salaries of the staff,\u201d she said. \u201cThe money we make [from fees] pays for the electricity. We have to pay for our students\u2019 computer, phones.\u201d\nThe fees also cover other operational costs, such as training kits for students.\nThe center has eight professional paid staff members, and about 65 graduate and master\u2019s students across four programs annually train at the facility. About 200 clinical appointments are made per week.\nStaff cuts, fewer graduate assistantships and reduced hours are all possibilities if the center loses state funding, Cormier said. If hours are cut, students may have to stay at the university longer to get the needed hours to be competitive in the post-graduation job market.\nCormier, who has led the training facility for nearly three years, said cutting its services could result in three graduate programs \u2014 clinical psychology, communication disorders and speech and educational psychology \u2014 to lose their national accreditation.\nLosing these programs could hurt enrollment because students interested in psychology know of the Clinical Center before they come to SIU.\nJennifer Cannon, who received a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology and her master\u2019s in clinical family health from SIU, said she heard from another student how great the training facility was.\n\u201cI applied to different place but when I went to SIU I loved the fact that there was an on-site training facility available,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd they did live supervision, which I found out a lot of [schools] don\u2019t have centers like SIU.\u201d\nThe center is open 51 hours a week, allowing students ample training time with staff and patients after classes, and giving clients enough time to get treatment.\nCormier said cutting hours could save money but would hurt all parties involved.\nShe said raising fees for services is not a viable option because it is meant to serve Jackson County \u2014 one of the most impoverished areas in the state, according the 2010 census.\n\u201cTo serve the training mission, we have to serve the community,\u201d Cormier said. \u201cOur demographic tends to be people who don\u2019t have very much money\u2026 Many folks don\u2019t have access to many resources we have.\u201d\nServices, including counseling, speech pathology and treatment for depression, cost between $5 and $30. At off-campus mental health centers, a session could cost students and community members $130.\nCormier said patients wanting disability support or counseling and psychological services would have to pay four to five times more for a referral.\n\u201cEthically, if we\u2019d raise fees, we\u2019d hurt the clients who need us the most,\u201d Cormier said.\nMegan Kloep, a graduate student in adult clinical psychology from Marion, wrote in an email students and community members tell her almost daily how lucky the feel to have affordable emotional and mental healthcare all in one place.\nKloep, who received her master\u2019s degree from SIU in 2012, said she has worked in community, and the area does not provide a sufficient amount of training for students in psychology and related fields.\n\u201cIt would not be possible for graduate students in my program to get the training and clinical hours they need without the clinic \u2014 there aren\u2019t enough options in our community to provide all of us with clients or supervisors,\u201d Kloep said.\nEven with the state funding concerns, the director did not blame the university for asking to envision such cuts.\nCormier said the university is simply doing the exercise to get a better understanding of all of the departments\u2019 duties and operations.\n\u201cIt\u2019s got to be demoralizing for the administrators [to have to do these exercises],\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t think them asking us to do it is a hostile thing. They\u2019re asking us all to come together and support a good unified response.\u201d\nAlthough she supports the university, Cormier said she will advocate for her nationally recognized center.\nHer department, like others asked to make the hypothetical cuts, may not be seen as a \u201ccore academic service\u201d by the university but it does serve an academic and civil service.\n\u201cI hope they see us as essential because we are,\u201d she said.\nCannon was a graduate assistant at the center and said it was essential to her getting a job at Timberline-Knolles, a facility in Chicago that specializes in treating women with issues ranging from drug addiction to post-traumatic stress disorder.\nA month after being hired, she was promoted. Cannon said her new position required two years of experience but she got it fresh out of graduate school and her supervisors cited her quality training at SIU.\n\u201cI got to see community members, students, people that struggled with severe issues,\u201d Cannon said. \u201cThey said my resume was impeccable and I built most of it at the Clinical Center.\u201d\nTags: affordable healthcare, budget cuts, carbondale, counseling, depression, emotional healthcare, holly cormier, jennifer cannon, megan kloep, mental health, mental healthcare, proposed budget, psychology, siu, siu clinical center, tyler davis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 302, "original_length": 10645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailysurge.com/2016/02/24540/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:59Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5NURBXPTEDEXBPCVM6PYGPTXJQL4TMQ", "length": 5530, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "dailysurge.com", "title": "COMMENTARY: Is Obama Trying To Increase Medicare Fraud? \u00bb DailySurge", "raw_content": "COMMENTARY: Is Obama Trying To Increase Medicare Fraud?\nRemember President Obama PROMISED to crack down on Medicare fraud?\nThat must have been just a great campaign commercial, because the truth is a whole different story.\nMy latest from Townhall.com:\nObama\u2019s pen is mightier than the sword. He wields it like a weapon, that\u2019s for sure. In his last year, he is desperate to create his legacy. With each passing day, new regulations are being perpetrated on the American public at his behest. Unelected bureaucrats are much more loyal than members of Congress. They simply do what they are told.\nImagine what it would be like if you had to drive a car based on a one-second glimpse of the road every three minutes? Crash and burn.\nHow about if you had to figure out what was in an 8\u00d710 inch photograph from just one tiny square of it a third of an inch on each side. No way\u2026couldn\u2019t do it.\nOr perhaps try watching your favorite NFL team on Sunday and you only get to see one play from the entire game? Exciting, huh? Not so much.\nAll of those situations are obviously absurd, but they brilliantly highlight the ludicrous new rule from the Obama administration that is crippling the ability of auditors to monitor Medicare fraud. Who would want to thwart investigators in their quest to uncover fraud and abuse in government? Don\u2019t answer that.\nUnder the new rules, the auditors are only allowed to review .5 percent (e.g. 1 in 200) of each health care provider\u2019s Medicare payments.\nThe rule, which went into effect Jan. 1, is the culmination of a long-running effort by hospitals and other health care providers to mortally wound the auditing system, and they\u2019ve succeeded. But why? The auditors are private contractors who get paid a portion of any wrongful payments they find. That makes them very motivated to actually find fraud.\nA recent article about the new rule questioned whether providers might actually suffer under the new rule. The tiny review sizes won\u2019t provide a \u201cstatistically significant\u201d sample size to determine whether the provider is following the rules. The rule says that if the handful of payments provided to auditors show the provider is a bad actor, they will be subject to broader reviews in the future, but with such a small sample size, the saying needle in a haystack comes to mind.\nKristin Walter, a spokeswoman for the Council for Medicare Integrity, recently argued it could backfire. A large hospital that bills Medicare about $350 million a year will be submitting 26 claims every 45-day billing cycle. Walter\u2019s point is that a random subset that small could easily misrepresent the general billing practices at the hospital.\nAll this rule does is make it easier to steal from the government. Maybe that is the goal. Anyone tricky enough, who is both willing and capable of defrauding the government of millions of dollars in Medicare payments is going to be able to produce a sparkling clean sample of 26 billing claims from thousands.\nAllowing them to keep the payola rolling undeterred by those pesky auditors.\nSmaller providers that have about $35 billion in annual billings, which is actually quite a lot of money, will be submitting around three claims per cycle. That\u2019s right, only three must be submitted on $35 billion or about 700 claims records. It\u2019s laughable that the providers will provide honest random samples only to bring the auditors down on them.\nThe lunacy of all this is punctuated by the vast scale of Medicare fraud occurring each year estimated to be $60 billion.\nWhat are they doing with all that dough? That\u2019s a lot of money, I don\u2019t care who you are. Here\u2019s an idea of how much $60 billion is. How about you go buy the largest privately held island in the Bahamas, Innocence Island? White sand beaches, the ocean breeze, you\u2019ll love it. It recently sold for $17 million at auction. Well, that leaves a bunch of money left over.\nWhile you\u2019re in the Caribbean, you could take your other remaining billions and go bail out Puerto Rico while you\u2019re at it. A few billion would go a long way down there. They might name a building after you or something. Basically, you could a whole string of private islands and still have plenty of money stolen from the American taxpayer to use. $60 billion is nearly five times the gross domestic product of Jamaica. Heck, buy a house there on Montego Bay. Great coffee and a cool waterfall. Irie!\nOkay, so islands aren\u2019t your thing. You\u2019re more practical. You could build 86 Hoover Dams (in today\u2019s dollars) with the amount of Medicare fraud we incur every single year. That amount would have funded the Eisenhower highway system construction for five years (yes, in today\u2019s dollars).\nYou get the picture. It\u2019s an over the top amount of fraud that is currently going on. So you can see my disdain that the Obama Administration is actually trying to make the problem worse. There\u2019s simply no excuse not to be moving expeditiously to combat this problem.\nAnd yet, the exact opposite is happening. During the Obama years, we have seen the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) move time and time again to insulate the providers from auditing, even as fraud, according to the Government Accountability Office, has exploded.\nPresident Obama\u2019s legacy at the CMS will be one of massive corruption. No historian will have to dig too deep to figure out that it was no accident.\n\u2190 Previous Story ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Millennials Are Dying Their Hair GRAY\nNext Story \u2192 YIKES: Massive Crane Collapses In NYC On Rush Hour Street (VIDEO)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 9508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dankr.ca/news/task-force-cannabis-legalization-report-made-public-mid-december", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VG5VH3PWSWVZXJ6FTMH3TSVXRDCSYXEI", "length": 2032, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "dankr.ca", "title": "Task Force on Cannabis Legalization Report to be Made Public by Mid December | Dankr.ca - Your Toronto Connection", "raw_content": "Task Force on Cannabis Legalization Report to be Made Public by Mid December\nThe Honourable Anne McLellan, Chair of the Task Force on Cannabis Legalization and Regulation, and Dr. Mark Ware, Vice Chair, released a statement today on the completion of the Task Force\u2019s work.\n\u201cIt has been an honour for us, along with the other members of the Task Force, to have had the opportunity to engage with Canadians across the country who generously shared their expertise and perspectives on how the government should approach the legalization and regulation of cannabis.\nWe are pleased to announce that the Task Force has completed our work. Our work has been guided by the Discussion Paper, \u201cToward the Legalization, Regulation and Restriction of Access to Marijuana.\u201d To fulfill our mandate, we sought the views of a diverse community of experts, professionals, advocates, front-line workers, government officials, citizens and employers. It has been a privilege to engage with so many people over the last five months, and we are thankful to all those who provided their input, time and energy.\n\u201cOur report is now being translated, and will be provided to Ministers and the public once it is available in both official languages. Translation is expected to be complete in mid-December. The final report will then be received by Ministers and posted online at Canada.ca/Health. At that time, we will be pleased to speak to its content.\u201d\nThe Task Force was announced in June of this year with the intention of engaging the public. The seven member panel, plus the Chair and Vice Chair, come from a variety of backgrounds including cannabis research, law enforcement, and public health. The Task Force met with stakeholders from across Canada for several months, including leaders from all levels of government, activists, patients, law enforcement, public health experts and others. One Task Force member even made a long visit to Canada\u2019s oldest medical cannabis compassion club, which was reportedly a moving experience for all involved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 142.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://danupondrake.com/2017/08/31/what-is-silica-gel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIAB5CLKZ7FXXV4E7JMN3GJ46QGGZB4F", "length": 3897, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "danupondrake.com", "title": "What is Silica Gel? \u2013 Danupon Drake", "raw_content": "Silica gel is a granular, vitreous, porous form of silicon dioxide made synthetically from sodium silicate. Silica gel contains a nano-porous silica micro-structure, suspended inside a liquid. Most applications of silica gel require it to be dried, in which case it is called silica xerogel. For practical purposes, silica gel is often interchangeable with silica xerogel. Silica xerogel is tough and hard; it is more solid than common household gels like gelatin or agar. It is a naturally occurring mineral that is purified and processed into either granular or beaded form. As a desiccant, it has an average pore size of 2.4 nanometers and has a strong affinity for water molecules.\nThis is how it looks like (I got this one from a medicine bottle):\nSilica gel is most commonly encountered in everyday life as beads in a small (typically 2 x 3 cm) paper packet. In this form, it is used as a desiccant to control local humidity to avoid spoilage or degradation of some goods. Because silica gel can have added chemical indicators and absorbs moisture very well, silica gel packets usually bear warnings for the user not to eat the contents.\nBecause Silica gel is non-toxic, non-flammable, and non-reactive and stable with ordinary usage. It will react with hydrogen fluoride, fluorine, oxygen difluoride, chlorine trifluoride, strong acids, strong bases, and oxidizers. Silica gel is irritating to the respiratory tract and may cause irritation of the digestive tract, and dust from the beads may cause irritation to the skin and eyes, so precautions should be taken.\nSilica gel\u2019s high specific surface area (around 800 m2/g) allows it to absorb water readily, making it useful as a desiccant (drying agent). Silica gel is often described as \u201cabsorbing\u201d moisture, which may be appropriate when the gel\u2019s microscopic structure is ignored, as in silica gel packs or other products.\nAn aqueous solution of sodium silicate is acidified to produce a gelatinous precipitate that is washed, then dehydrated to produce colorless silica gel. When a visible indication of the moisture content of the silica gel is required, ammonium tetrachlorocobaltate(II) (NH4)2CoCl4 or cobalt chloride CoCl2 is added. This will cause the gel to be blue when dry and pink when hydrated. An alternative indicator is methyl violet which is orange when dry and green when hydrated. Due to the connection between cancer and cobalt chloride, it has been forbidden in Europe on silica gel.\nOnce saturated with water, the gel can be regenerated by heating it to 120 \u00b0C (250 \u00b0F) for 1\u20132 hours. Some types of silica gel will \u201cpop\u201d when exposed to enough water. This is caused by breakage of the silica spheres when contacting the water.\nNow let\u2019s play with it.\nI got these from two packets, that\u2019s why there\u2019s so many.\nI put about 5 ml of water into this little graduated cylinder. After that, I poured the gel in there and wait for a couple minutes.\nTime to measure the water.\nLook at that, the water went down about 1.4 ml. It actually absorbs water. I wish I could weigh the gel though.\nDid you learn anything? If you did, drop a like below \u2193\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silica_gel\nTagged as: gel, science\nI\u2019m impressed that the silica gel absorbed so much water!\nI use these types of little packets to keep my flash sticks dry where I keep them in a box.\nAnd I agree with you \u2013 it would have been nice to weigh the gel. I think you will be adding \u2018scales\u2019 to your wish list! \ud83d\ude42\nA scale is one of the things in science equipment that I can\u2019t get. I have to order it from the internet\u2026 Anyway, I like these gels a lot, they\u2019re very useful. It surprised me how much water it absorbs too.\nYes \u2013 I find these packets in vitamin bottles etc And I always think they are superfluous. Now I know otherwise! \ud83d\ude42\nI use food grade packs in the dehydrated food I make. They are amazing! Great blog!\nThank you so much for the nice comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 352, "original_length": 12413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://davincimind.net/2019/01/26/the-rewards-challenges-of-investing-in-real-estate-zurama-arancibia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6HDVSP537TTQBD26DLQ2576EPNTMTCZ2", "length": 949, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "davincimind.net", "title": "The Rewards & Challenges of Investing in Real Estate - Zurama Arancibia - Davinci Mind", "raw_content": "Introducing Zurama Arancibia\nThere\u2019s a huge world of opportunity out there, which opportunities are you going to take?\nMaybe you need someone to help show you the way\u2026\nToday I am excited to bring you my interview with Zurama Arancibia. Zurama has spent 10+ years in the corporate world, and now she has transitioned over to the world of real estate investing.\nIn our interview she will tell her story and teach her lessons on how to be a successful investor and entrepreneur.\nEven if you take away only one piece of advice from this interview, you will massively benefit. Here are some topics we discussed today:\nReal estate investing Challenges of entrepreneurship The importance of constant learning\nHopefully, you enjoy this episode, and don\u2019t forget to rate the show and subscribe if you find the content to be valuable.\nIf you want to learn more about what Zurama is up to, please check out the following link:\nhttp://www.zuramaarancibia360.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dawnpiercy.com/2015/01/17/challenge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:29Z", "digest": "sha1:J2L2OMRNOADBWKQKQ3OCIBCP2DK56VWH", "length": 1759, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "dawnpiercy.com", "title": "Challenge \u2013 Dawn Piercy", "raw_content": "I had recently been given a challenge by my friend Clarissa Husky. As all of you that follow me know. My life never stops, it is a crazy rollercoaster and I\u2019m just along for the ride. I have been writing for over 28 yrs now\u2026 Closer to 30 now\u2026 I have written a couple of screenplays, grew up in theater, dance and so much more I had actually never thought twice about doing something with my talents besides writing for myself and to amuse my friends and shock those I meet. \ud83d\ude00\nSo she gave me a challenge to write a song. Not poetry, but a song. I wasn\u2019t too sure about this. I don\u2019t like to sing in front of people, only for fun, I rap as well but am relatively very shy unless I know someone.\nShe gave me one word.\nThen she asked me\nWhat will it help you do? What can you do with it?\u201d\nI think that is all she needed to say. She gave me 24 hours and called me back. I didn\u2019t have a beat and had all the words. I didn\u2019t have to rewrite the lyrics but add to and revise and it came out nice.\nThat same night she gave me another word.\nThat was 2 nights ago and yesterday I wrote and sang for over seven hours\u2026 I couldn\u2019t stop\u2026 5 songs later, they are extremely different from each other\u2026. But I can\u2019t get the words to stop forming in my mind. I can\u2019t write fast enough to keep up. I had to start using a recorder to get the right sounds\u2026\nWhen I finalize my lyrics and copyright them I will be adding them to songwriting collection in my blog and will add a video like I did with \u201cRed Wolf Running\u201d.\n#Speadthenews, Agent Orange, Art, Art for a Cause, Awareness, Blog, Daily life and more about me, Family, Funny, Funny videos, how to, my video blogs, Native American, Needing Advice, opinion, opportunity, poetry, post, Support, writing\nWowsers my challenge update", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 7269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://decisionresourcesgroup.com/people/dr-srikanth-rajagopal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3HZGX6YSDLQMJSCZLF5OAUOKNFZDISL6", "length": 1593, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "decisionresourcesgroup.com", "title": "Dr. Srikanth Rajagopal - Consultant at Decision Resources Group", "raw_content": "Dr. Srikanth Rajagopal, better known to his clients and colleagues as \u201cDoc\u201d, is a Partner with DRG Consulting.\nDoc has over 12 years of global management consulting experience, during which he has had the privilege of supporting many of the world\u2019s most respected and admired pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to address complex commercial strategy challenges across the US, Europe and Emerging Markets.\nHis areas of interest include, but are not limited to, organic and inorganic growth strategy, market and therapy area entry strategy, market access strategy, portfolio prioritization and optimization, valuation and commercial due diligence, innovation and new business models and healthcare systems and policy.\nDoc brings specific expertise in brand, franchise and portfolio-level market sizing, forecasting and commercial opportunity assessment, qualitative market research, analogue analysis, competitor benchmarking, scenario planning and risk analysis, and in conducting workshops to define vision, mission and aspirations and to facilitate decision-making under uncertainty to his projects with clients.\nPrior to joining DRG, Doc was a Senior Principal and Global Client Partner with the global consulting practice of IQVIA, and prior to IQVIA the Asia-Pacific Life Sciences Practice Lead at Strategic Decisions Group (SDG), a boutique strategy consulting firm specializing in Decision Analysis with its roots in Stanford University.\nDoc holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an MBBS (MD equivalent) from the University of Mumbai.\nVictoria Snell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://defaultvalue.info/projects/pollution-map/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:25Z", "digest": "sha1:23UCSEDG2HD77BZU7X5HUALPQMGR2DYO", "length": 1043, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "defaultvalue.info", "title": "A digital gesture for comprehending a year\u2019s worth of industrial pollution in Louisiana. | Default Value \u2014 Design Studio", "raw_content": "A digital gesture for comprehending a year\u2019s worth of industrial pollution in Louisiana.\nThis project is part of an ongoing series of digital gestures using the affordances of the browser to address social and environmental issues.\nLouisiana is consistently ranked as one of the most disadvantaged states in the country\u2014a place where environmental and economic deregulation has exposed its residents to both poverty and health hazards. It has the highest rate of incarceration in the country and a deep history of both racial and economic inequality. It is also one of the most heavily polluted states in the country.\nIn response to field research conducted on this topic by Arlie Russell Hochschild for her recent book Strangers in their Own Land, we wanted to visualize the magnitude of one year\u2019s worth of industrial pollution in Louisiana\u2014130 million pounds worth. Using EPA data from 2015, we proportionally mapped industrial pollution in LA by substance and published the data on a simple website in which 1 pixel = 1 pound of pollution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 155.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deltagoodrem.com/releases/v8-supercars-bathurst-1000-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5344SEXEROEOJTYIFSIMCO45LUV2OVR2", "length": 179, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "deltagoodrem.com", "title": "Delta Goodrem - Official Site", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Music / V8 Supercars Bathurst 1000 (2017)\nAustralian National Anthem at the V8 Supercars Bathurst 1000 (2017)\n\"Wings\" at the V8 Supercars Bathurst 1000 (2017)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deskitty.livejournal.com/219632.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2DYUOB4EKKTNJ72FJYISDYLSSRV7YAGX", "length": 974, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "deskitty.livejournal.com", "title": "Stupid neighbors are doing construction and just being generally\u2026 - The Desian Universe", "raw_content": "Stupid neighbors are doing construction and just being generally\u2026 - The Desian Universe\nSat, Apr. 9th, 2005 01:56 pm\nStupid neighbors are doing construction and just being generally noisy. I know I'm just using this as an excuse for not getting Staleygorithms homework done, but still...\nThe more I work on MetaFS, the happier I am with it. I'm quite happy with it right now, although (a) there's still a lot of design, cleanup, etc. work to be done, and (b) it could really use some speed optimizations. But every time I look at the amount of work left to do, I am encouraged, because each time it seems more and more doable. When I started this project, I just wasn't sure how half of it would get done. There are still a couple problem areas, but I think I actually understand how to do most of it now.\nI have another self-depreciating rant in my queue, but that can wait. I wish I had a similar sense of optimism about my personal life (and about humanity in general)...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 216.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://detroit.cbslocal.com/2018/08/09/ring-of-honor-g1-supercard-madison-square-garden-wwe-nxt-takeover-wrestlemania/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:02Z", "digest": "sha1:O3NJBB74LAFVVA2UWOE6NRCWDNOCU6UP", "length": 14813, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "detroit.cbslocal.com", "title": "How Ring Of Honor Triumphed Over WWE To Run Madison Square Garden \u2013 CBS Detroit", "raw_content": "How Ring Of Honor Triumphed Over WWE To Run Madison Square Garden\nFiled Under:Chuck Carroll, G1 Supercard, Greg Gilleland, Madison Square Garden, pro wrestling, Ring Of Honor, ROH, Wrestlemania, WWE\nWhat began as little more than a novelty idea has become the biggest show in the history of Ring of Honor. Next April, the promotion\u2019s G1 Supercard will go head-to-head against WWE\u2019s wildly popular NXT TakeOver show on the night before WrestleMania. The venues are just five miles apart, leaving the promotions to duke it out for the legions of fans in town for the largest wrestling event of the year. Some may view this as a David vs. Goliath scenario, but that\u2019s not truly the case. Although WWE has a far superior brand notoriety, ROH has plenty working in its favor, including running at the most famous arena in the world\nIt also doesn\u2019t hurt that the masses, some of whom will travel thousands of miles to attend the week-long festivities, are diehard wrestling fans. Most aren\u2019t just familiar with the ROH and New Japan Pro Wrestling brands, whom the promotion is partnering with for the show, they\u2019re devoted followers.\nEarlier this year, the wrestling world was buzzing with excitement after an executive from ROH\u2019s parent company revealed plans to run Madison Square Garden during WrestleMania weekend. But shortly thereafter, MSG pulled the plug on the event just days before it was to be officially announced.\nMORE: Ring Of Honor Show At Famed Madison Square Garden Called Off\nPhoto Credit: Chuck Carroll\nThe sudden turn of events both blindsided and infuriated ROH officials.\n\u201cWe had a deal, and The Garden said they were backing out after communications from the WWE,\u201d Ring of Honor COO Joe Koff said at the time. Koff also claimed the arena wouldn\u2019t discuss an alternative date.\nIn a preemptive strike, WWE representatives had allegedly flexed muscle gained over a decades-long working relationship with MSG to squander its rival promotion\u2019s grandiose plans. It was clear that the largest wrestling company in the world wasn\u2019t keen on the idea of having major competition in such close proximity, let alone for NXT\u2019s biggest show of the year.\nIt wasn\u2019t long before ROH attorneys were involved. Simultaneously, the promotion was scouting other venues. Contingency plans included moving the show to Philadelphia. But anything other than The Garden would be a big step down.\nUnder threat of legal action and following weeks of negotiations, MSG relented and agreed to honor the original deal. The terms weren\u2019t finalized until two days before the long-awaited G1 SuperCard was finally announced.\nMadison Square Garden officials declined to comment beyond a complimentary statement from a company executive that was included in a press release announcing the show. The remarks did not address the controversy. A WWE representative did not respond to a request for comment when the allegations of interference first surfaced.\nNews that the show was back on was met with the same level of shock amongst wrestling fans as when it was originally called off. But this time excitement followed rather than disappointment.\nTickets moved briskly during a pre-sale for subscribers to the promotion\u2019s streaming service, known as HonorClub, this week. Within 40 minutes, the nearly 20,000-seat arena was already halfway to selling out. Remaining tickets will go on sale to the general public Friday morning.\nThe strong sales are a testimony to the skyrocketing popularity of the promotion over the last two years.\nHowever, with one battle won, ROH now faces another challenge. It\u2019s one that is perhaps even greater and more critical to the promotion\u2019s short-term future.\nThere is a chance that the promotion\u2019s biggest attractions will be wrestling for NXT at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn rather than in Manhattan for ROH. Contracts for The Young Bucks, Cody Rhodes and Kenny Omega expire months before the big show, and it\u2019s unclear whether they\u2019ll return. As the larger company, WWE will have the opportunity to provide greater financial security for the talents who now earn a living by globetrotting to work for multiple promotions.\nTwo years ago, Rhodes left WWE out of frustration stemming from what he perceived to be an underutilization of his character. Since breaking ties, he has become one of the most sought-after names on the independent circuit and claims to have increased his annual income.\nCody Rhodes (Photo Credit: Harry Aaron)\nROH officials will make an aggressive attempt to re-sign the popular Bullet Club members, who have become the faces of the company. Omega works primarily for NJPW and typically limits his appearances in ROH to premiere events. Hedging their bets, the promotion has excluded the group from all promotional materials.\nStill, it\u2019s a positive sign for the long-term futures of ROH and NJPW that tickets are moving swiftly despite the uncertainty.\nWhile their talent contracts remain up in the air, the Baltimore-based promotion has struck a deal with Rhodes and Young Bucks to stream the trio\u2019s much-hyped All-In show in September. The event at the 10,000-seat Sears Centre in Chicago, which sold out in a matter of minutes, is expected to be among the largest independently run pro wrestling shows in history. ROH is hoping to capitalize on the buzz and grow HonorClub memberships by offering the pay-per-view event at a reduced price. It will also be available to premium members at no cost.\nI recently had an opportunity to catch up with Greg Gilleland, General Manager of ROH, to discuss the MSG saga as well as the decision to air All-In and the forthcoming UK tour.\nWhen did the idea to run The Garden first come about? Is this something that you guys had been kicking around for a while?\nIt\u2019s not like it was something that we had in mind for years, but it\u2019s definitely something that we\u2019ve always kind of joked about. The general notion was just that we couldn\u2019t even get in there. You know what I mean? Gary Juster, who used to promote for WCW, and I would always have these conversations. It\u2019s funny because he would say, \u201cI guess I\u2019ll never run The Garden in my lifetime.\u201d It became one of those never say never things. In February, when we were looking for venues in New York, obviously we saw the Hammerstein, with pretty much any show that we bring there. So it almost doesn\u2019t make sense to go there for SuperCard weekend.\nWe began looking at bigger venues and one of them was the theater at Madison Square Garden. And, even that, seems \u2026 was smaller than UNO [Lakefront Arena], which we ran last year in New Orleans, and we drew 6,200. So we could run the theater and draw a slightly smaller crowd, and be okay with that. Or we can try to go bigger.\nIt was an easy decision. It\u2019s New York, it\u2019s The Garden. All of the history of The Garden. The fact that another wrestling promotion hasn\u2019t been there in like 60 years. From that point forward, we reached out to New Japan and said let\u2019s do this thing together. And we hope to sell it out.\nWas there any concern up front about an exclusivity deal? Whether it was a handshake agreement or anything on paper with another promotion? It had been heavily rumored that WWE had an exclusivity deal with the venue.\nI haven\u2019t seen that reported, and I don\u2019t know that they do have, or have had one. I think The Garden is one of those venues that has always stayed away from those exclusivity deals because of their prowess. But I was never aware of them having anything like that. It was just one of those things where the business relationship always kept [other] promoters out.\nThey used to run The Garden a lot and bring major shows there. So, I think that\u2019s probably one of the bigger factors.\nDid you guys see more of an opportunity then because they were running more over at the Barclays and other arenas in New York?\nI knew they did everything at Barclays, and they have the outdoor show for WrestleMania. So\u2026 there\u2019s Prudential Center [in New Jersey], there\u2019s The Garden, and we had a couple other back-pocket ideas. So, obviously, The Garden\u2019s the best. The location is prime.\nNow, the Garden comes with a cost, since it\u2019s probably the most expensive venue to run in the country. With that, we knew that, when you go into that, it has to be big. So that was the only factor. We felt pretty confident that presenting this show, and the ability to make history and the ability for the fans to be a part of history would overcome that factor.\nAnd really it all comes back to the fans. This is something very special for them. All-In is something very special for them. Cody and the Young Bucks were able to really execute. The industry, right now, wants and needs things like this. It needs big shows that aren\u2019t WWE. They still need WWE, not to take away from that, but it\u2019s just having something different that is just as big.\nWith that being WrestleMania weekend, obviously, there\u2019s a lot of competition, including the NXT show that you guys are gonna be running up against. Is there any concern about competing? How do you look at that?\nI definitely don\u2019t think there\u2019s a concern of there not being enough fans. They can hold 16,000 to 18,000, and we can hold 16,000 to 18,000. And there\u2019s an estimated 80,000 fans in the area that are gonna be looking for something to do on that Saturday night. So, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a [a concern with] number of fans.\nIs there a budget constraint? There might be a little bit of that. But still, we\u2019re talking about New York City. Which is one of the biggest markets. Second of all, it\u2019s a huge market for ROH. And third of all, especially running in Madison Square Garden, having the easy access. We\u2019re really not just talking about New York City fans, or people traveling to New York City for WrestleMania. You\u2019re looking at fans all over the East Coast.\nFor a major show, we really draw from that. There are people who are coming to New York that weekend just for our show. Maybe they didn\u2019t want to spend thousands of dollars on WrestleMania, and they weren\u2019t planning on that, and now they have this alternative.\nLikewise, people may still go to NXT or may not go to our show because of NXT. Those are all likely situations on an individual basis. But, in total, this is just great for wrestling. And this is good for WWE too, because it brings more wrestling fans to the area. Whether they buy another WrestleMania ticket or maybe they buy merchandise. Maybe they\u2019re just there or decide to go to the Hall of Fame. Obviously we\u2019ll have our things as well. It\u2019s really great for everyone. That\u2019s the best way to put it.\nIs there any concern that your top guys, Cody Rhodes, the Young Bucks, Kenny Omega, won\u2019t be available for that show, given the fact that their deals reportedly expire at the end of the year or shortly thereafter?\nThey\u2019re our top guys, right? Of course, we\u2019re going to do everything that we can to keep them. And we have fair offers and fair plans to retain them. With that said, I don\u2019t think we ever operate in fear. We always operate with solid backup plans. And we have to always think about what if this, and what if that. If they go to the WWE, and they very much deserve that opportunity, we\u2019ll continue to offer the best wrestling that we can. There\u2019s other talent out there. And we will continue as our brand has for the past however many years. We\u2019ve lost top guys before.\nThink about Kevin Owens and even going back to Bryan Danielson and CM Punk and all of them. They all went to the WWE, and the brand has continued to grow and prosper.\nEverything we do is geared toward the fans and toward, even these arena decisions, that experience. We pride ourselves on the ROH experience, and it goes back to the question of losing a top guys. Do I wanna lose the Young Bucks, and Cody? No. Of course not. Why would I wanna lose them?\nAm I gonna make an aggressive attempt to retain them and sign longer-term agreements? Of course we are. But, at the end of the day, the ROH brand is about the ROH experience, and that\u2019s how we continue to grow.\nHow is the pre-sale going for the show?\nWe\u2019re over half sold (ed. half of the arena) in the first 40 minutes. We\u2019ll see at the end of the day. I\u2019ve had mixed expectations and adjusting expectations as I\u2019ve seen the demand. It\u2019s kind of hard to say what\u2019s exceeding and what\u2019s not. But we feel pretty good about the event and its overall performance.\nSpeaking of Cody and the Bucks, talk to me about the decision to run All-In for HonorClub.\nObviously, those guys are ROH-contracted performers, and they did this whole thing with our blessing. So the decision was kind of natural. At the end of the day, it\u2019s a pay-per-view. And the name of the distributions, like [Fite TV], and the WGN America thing came together for the pre-show. So HonorClub is a natural fit, and we\u2019re grateful to have it. We\u2019re grateful to help promote it, we\u2019re grateful to distribute it, and, more importantly, I\u2019m grateful to be able to offer it to our members.\nYou just mentioned Fite and traditional pay-per-view. Given the fact there is such a price difference between HonorClub and the other outlets, you guys have to be hoping to attract new subscribers.\nWe are. Again, this is a pay-per-view offered through our platform in addition to our members. So, with the HonorClub \u2026 if you\u2019re just a monthly subscriber, you get the pay-per-views 50 percent off, so this would be a $19.99 venture. Still a cost savings. But, if you\u2019re a VIP member, which is essentially the $9.99 extrapolated over 12 months, then you get it for free.\nFor new members to get it for free, they would have to spend for the entire year. But, also with that they would get all of our other major events like Death Before Dishonor, Final Battle, Anniversary Show. It\u2019s yet to be determined how we\u2019re gonna distribute the G1 SuperCard. So there\u2019s a great value proposition there to sign up for the year.\nYou guys have been running in the UK a lot. How are the metrics of the ROH fanbase over there?\nThey\u2019re very passionate fans. In terms of metrics, Canada used to be the second biggest ROH fan base, in terms of countries, but in the past couple years the UK has superseded them. That\u2019s just based on web traffic, video viewership, and stuff like that. Not by a ton, but they have superseded them. so we are expanding our presence in the UK. At least trying to.\nThe idea to run two tours came off of just how hot that last one was. We had a placeholder for it, and when we saw how passionate, and appreciative the fans were we decided we were gonna come back in August. And now we\u2019re doing this International Cup, which is something we hope is the first of many. And the reason why it\u2019s International Cup is because it\u2019s not just gonna be in the UK, it could be anywhere. It could be UK, Canada, or countries that we haven\u2019t been to yet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 22665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dieselboards.vbulletin.net/forum/supplement-discussion/17930-slope-has-simple-gameplay-but-its-challenges-are-not-simple", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4SCOJHTCHNCRCN42APL2KW7TFAD3YRSY", "length": 214, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dieselboards.vbulletin.net", "title": "Slope has simple gameplay but its challenges are not simple. - Dieselboards.com | GET DIESEL NUTRITION", "raw_content": "Slope has simple gameplay but its challenges are not simple. In the slope game, you control an auto-running ball in a large space 3D map. This game has a physical element, so you need to control the ball carefully.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/libtech_conf/2009/presentations/55/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:58Z", "digest": "sha1:MODYMHVYXQB4X7FV2V7ZX625NKSTJFX7", "length": 1066, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.macalester.edu", "title": "DigitalCommons@Macalester College - Library Technology Conference: Widgets at the UMD Library Website", "raw_content": "Widgets at the UMD Library Website\nRory Litwin, University of Minnesota - Duluth\nDoreen Hansen, University of Minnesota - Duluth\nIn this poster session presentation, a reference librarian and a web developer from the University of Minnesota, Duluth will share information about a series of widgets designed for use primarily by faculty. These widgets provide a way of interacting with library resources from remote pages. Users can customize the widgets and get the code to insert into web pages and Moodle sites. The widgets include a search of the library catalog, a search of the E-Journal Locator, a gadget that lets the user create a drop-down menu of links to library resources, and an entry into the library's \"Assignment Calculator.\" These widgets can be viewed in action and taken for a spin at http://www.d.umn.edu/lib/widgets/. The poster will include screenshots, code samples, explanations, and contact information (we will share the code).\nRory Litwin is a Reference Librarian and Doreen Hansen is Web Developer at the University of Minnesota - Duluth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/faculty_schol/2561/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:51Z", "digest": "sha1:T5ZBIV6N4EOIXHMKXYQ6CNVMVBLXSTGA", "length": 462, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.oberlin.edu", "title": "\"Review: \"Ottomans In Early Modern Global History\": Empire Of Differenc\" by Sam White", "raw_content": "Review: \"Ottomans In Early Modern Global History\": Empire Of Difference: Comparative Perspective\nSam White, Oberlin College\nWhite, Sam. 2011. \"Ottomans In Early Modern Global History.\" Review of Empire Of Difference: Comparative Perspective, by Karen Barkey, The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation In the Early Modern World, by Baki Tezcan, and The Ottoman Age of Exploration, by Giancarlo Casale. Journal Of Global History 6(2): 345-349.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalmediaworks.ca/blog/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5N2TDWZ4NT6ESROG4FU5AZA7PWPWMAQO", "length": 2290, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "digitalmediaworks.ca", "title": "Blog \u2013 Page 3 \u2013 Digital Marketing Agency", "raw_content": "The Anatomy of Creating Quizzes\nBy Joe Griffith\t| July 15, 2017\nAs business owners, we work hard to find methods that will keep us a strong supply of fresh leads using content marketing. The problem many of us face is figuring out which form of content is worth investing our time and money on. If you haven\u2019t caught on to Buzzfeed yet, the solution to your [\u2026]\nWhat is Omnipresence marketing and why you need it\nBy Joe Griffith\t| June 30, 2017\nLet\u2019s face it, today\u2019s world is dominated by the Internet. Essentially, we all rely heavily on the web to fulfill many of our daily needs. For entertainment, there are almost as many people watching YouTube videos as there are people watching TV. For shopping, we\u2019re use Amazon and eBay to buy everything from electronics to [\u2026]\nWant to know your Business Builder Style?\nStruggling to grow your business? It might be you are using the wrong Business Building Style. Knowing what you can leverage to grow your business is the key to fast decision-making and standing out in a crowded market. But most often, Business Builders try to grow their business using sales and marketing techniques that [\u2026]\n4 Tips To Convert Website Visitors Into Warm Leads\nThink about it for a moment. Even when someone gives you a referral, what\u2019s the first thing you do? Nowadays, your website is the central hub for all your online marketing activities. Whether your business is driven by referrals, word-of-mouth, direct sales or online marketing, almost everyone will visit your company website before making [\u2026]\nWhy Quizzes Can Increase Your Website Conversions by 97%\nBy Joe Griffith\t| May 20, 2017\nWe\u2019ve seen them all over social media \u2013 quizzes like \u201cWhich Disney Princess Are You?\u201d or \u201cHow Well Do You Know the Lyrics to Scottish Folk Songs?\u201d Let\u2019s just get the embarrassment out of the way and admit we\u2019ve all completed a quiz at some point(I got \u201cBelle\u201d and \u201cNot very well\u201d). But did you [\u2026]\nHow To Get More Clients, Like Your Top Clients\nOmnipresence Marketing \u2013 Chapter One My definition of omnipresence marketing is \u2013 being seen everywhere by your target market. But first\u2026you need to know everything there is to know about your target market, like who they are, where they are and how to reach them so you can create a custom audience profile. Let\u2019s [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digrate.com/en/ico/razoom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:42Z", "digest": "sha1:IMHKGY2YOJZ7JZ6YB44SN44FOWWFHKXA", "length": 19, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "digrate.com", "title": "ICO review of Razoom (): valuation, analysis, tokencost | Digital Rating Agency", "raw_content": "https://razoom.org/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 1665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://discoverlegalmarketing.com/2017/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:QM6LNR3HZ6OCALIC2RSFNKIWFB7BF2GA", "length": 4723, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "discoverlegalmarketing.com", "title": "Pittsburgh Criminal Attorney - 412-532-6805 February 2017", "raw_content": "criminal defense, Pittsburgh Criminal Defense Attorney, Pittsburgh Criminal Defense Lawyer, Pittsburgh Criminal Defense News, Pittsburgh Criminal Lawyer, Pittsburgh Drug Crimes, Pittsburgh Drug Lawyer\n#SocialMedia and the Law: How the Worldwide Web Can Trap You\nFebruary 7, 2017 Discover Legal Marketing - Frank Walker Law\nSocial Media as seen by a Criminal Defense Attorney\nAhh, the good old days. And by good old days I mean the days when our every move wasn\u2019t chronicled and saved for posterity on social media. Scarier yet, sometimes we are not even aware that such cataloging of our lives is even occurring. These are the images that come back to haunt my clients, whether immediately or years into the future. The worst part is it is not only embarrassment my clients face, although that is often very much the case. It is legal consequences. That is because social media is evidence and may be admissible in court.\n\u201cEh,\u201d you might be thinking, \u201cInternet sites get hacked all the time. I\u2019ll just say the images are fake.\u201d Bad idea. Social media, like other forms of evidence, is subject to the same rules of authentication. No more, no less. The standard to admit that Facebook or Instagram photo of you using drugs or the selfie you took at a party where a crime occurred, thereby placing you at the scene, is not high. A criminal lawyer needs only to show that the evidence is relevant, authentic, an original writing, not unnecessarily prejudicial or probative, and not hearsay.\nNow, at this point, the wheels in your head may be turning, and you believe that if you only delete those images or incriminating statements from your social media accounts, they will be gone forever. Not so. Unfortunately for you, once you publish information on the Internet, a history is created, despite any efforts you make to remove it. Which means if you make attempts to destroy such information, you potentially face sanctions for doing so. Similar to other forms of evidence, there is a duty to preserve electronically stored information if it is foreseeable that the information will be relevant to ongoing or future litigation.\nEven if you do not deliberately destroy electronically stored information but, instead, innocently deleted any at some other point in time, that information is still discoverable and may be admissible according to the evidence rules described above. Facebook, for example, offers users the option to download the entire history of their account. On Facebook, users can retrieve entries made to their timelines, uploaded images, and which posts they have given a \u201clike,\u201d even if they no longer like that post anymore.\nWhat users may not realize is that Facebook also keeps track of other discoverable information, such as which IP addresses they use to log into their account, ads they click, and much, much more. Regardless of whether or not you deactivate your account, the information remains. Other social media platforms, including Twitter, offer similar functions for downloading stored data. The Internet, in other words, is watching you, even when you are not aware it is.\nWhen using social media, it is important to ask yourself, \u201cWould I be comfortable with anyone seeing my posts?\u201d And by anyone I am talking about your family, your friends, current employers, future employers, clergy, your spouse (even if you have not met him or her yet), and, most consequentially, the police, a judge, and a jury. If you are not, then err on the side of caution.\nOf course, when it comes to social media and the difficulty policing its use and abuse, it is possible to be photographed and tagged in a post without your knowledge or consent. Though this can create an uncomfortable situation for you now or far down the road, it can also implicate you in criminal activity in the same way as if you published the image yourself.\nIf you find yourself involved in illegal activity as a result of your presence on social media, contact a criminal attorney immediately. The laws surrounding how electronically stored information can be used either against or in support of you are complicated, and only a lawyer who is skilled and knowledgeable in this area will be able to apply the information to your advantage or minimize your exposure (no pun intended) as a result of it. There is a reason the Internet is also called the web. If you are not careful, it will trap you.\nchoosing a Criminal Defense Lawyercriminal defenseCriminal Defense attorneycriminal defense attorneysCriminal Defense LawyerDangers of Social Media UseDrunk DrivingFrank WalkerFrank Walker LawHow To Choose a Criminal LawyerPittsburgh Criminal Defense LawyerPittsburgh criminal lawyerSocial MediaSocial media and Criminal Justice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 8611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/time-enter-park-special-event-tickets-387952/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3SINHRTAAZ27JY5U5BAO4OE3CAB2AKO", "length": 1602, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com", "title": "What time can we enter the park if we only ha... | Disney Parks Moms Panel", "raw_content": "Kylie from FL Asked \u201c\nWhat time can we enter the park if we only have special event tickets?\u201d\nHi Kylie! Welcome to the Disney Parks Moms Panel!\nI adore the Christmas season at the Walt Disney World Resort. With all of the special events, holiday displays, and gorgeous decorations, it is easy to get into the Christmas-spirit right away!\nIt sounds like you have tickets to attend Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party in Magic Kingdom Park. The party takes place from 7:00 P.M. until 12:00 A.M. (midnight) on select nights. Even though the party officially begins at 7:00 P.M. and entrance is not guaranteed until then, I have spoken with multiple Cast Members that say you should be able to enter Magic Kingdom Park as early as 4:00 P.M. with your special event ticket. My family and I have experienced this early entry as well. Since things are always subject to change, it is a good idea to verify this early entry with a Cast Member when you arrive.\nI hope you have a holly jolly time at the party, Kylie, and drink some eggnog for me (it is delicious)! Please let us know if you have any other questions.\nOn 11/28/2018 Diem from TX Asked: Hi! I have some questions about special event day at the park. I bought park-hopper ticket only. Do I need to buy special event ticket to stay passed park hours that day? Can I stay at the park...\nOn 11/25/2018 Jeffrey from FL Asked: Where can I find a list of the December 2018 dates for Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party?\nOn 11/22/2018 Marisa from PA Asked: Is there any chance we can meet Moana at Disney World in November 2018? She is our kids\u2019 favorite!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dmswriter.wordpress.com/tag/career/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JEJSAJKEXYJ3P5MDNRXWY23IV2NRHKEU", "length": 3508, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "dmswriter.wordpress.com", "title": "career | dmswriter", "raw_content": "Finding Your Passion \u2013 Bloom Where You\u2019re Planted\n20 Feet from Stardom, Academy Award, backup singers, bloom where you're planted, career, finding your passion, musicians, Oscars, painting, rock and roll, Sting\nRecently I wrote about finding your passion. The past few weeks, I\u2019ve been nosing around in what it means to find a passion, and if \u201cfinding a purpose\u201d is a more meaningful way to look at things.\nIn my 20s, I worked as a secretary in the engineering office of a local factory. My coworkers were great \u2013 nerdy, engineer types focused on getting the job done, creating new solutions for problems, and not giving up until they figured it out. I liked the energy around me, but after a few years, I grew restless. My work didn\u2019t seem like \u201cenough\u201d anymore, so I mentioned this to one of the engineers I worked with. Al pondered a bit, smiled and said very nicely, \u201cBloom where you\u2019re planted.\u201d\nI blinked. Ouch. I was a little taken aback, actually. Secretly I probably wanted Al to come around the desk with a hanky and a hug, to say that being stuck behind a desk all day must be pretty darn boring. Pity party, poor me.\nIt made me think, though. That job certainly wasn\u2019t my passion, or my purpose, but what was I doing to make things better in the meantime?\nThings have changed over the last two decades. Today, the number of \u201cfollowers\u201d you have or the number of hits your website got can become a measure of popularity, or worse yet, worth. It\u2019s easy to eat this online attention like food for progress without knowing what purpose it brings.\nhttp://www.twentyfeetfromstardom.com\nI watched \u201c20 Feet from Stardom,\u201d the 2014 Academy Award-winner for best documentary about the world of backup singers. \u201cMillions know their voices, but no one knows their names,\u201d the synopsis says. Wow \u2013 imagine that \u2013 really! Following your dream and never truly being named. I love the rich harmony these singers bring to my favorite recordings, and was glad to learn more about them as people. Several, like Merry Clayton and Claudia Lennear, attempted solo careers that fell flat for several reasons. They sang regularly with the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, but flying solo didn\u2019t cut it, which was understandably very difficult for these talented women to accept.\nThe director interviewed Sting, who said something very compelling, which applies to anyone trying to hone their craft \u2013 writers, artists, gardeners, teachers.\n\u201cFor real musicians, there is a spiritual component to what they do. It\u2019s got nothing to do with worldly success. The music is much more of an inner journey. Any other success is just cream on the cake. There\u2019s this idea that you can go on \u2018American Idol\u2019 and suddenly become a star, but you may bypass the spiritual work you have to do to get there. If you bypass that, then your success will be wafer thin.\u201d\nFinding your passion, then, isn\u2019t something that you\u2019ll find under a rock or on a TV program. It\u2019s part of your experience. My friend, Cassy Tully, is a wonderfully talented painter, capturing mood and joy with color and texture. Her most recent painting, Bloom, celebrates her artist\u2019s journey. Not her success \u2013 her journey. I\u2019ve written about jobs and passion before, and what I\u2019m learning comes through very clearly: your passion isn\u2019t \u201cout there.\u201d It\u2019s more of a purpose, part of your journey, part of the way you serve those around you and the world at large. Don\u2019t make it an unknowable, mysterious thing \u2013 start small and journey from there!\nhttp://www.cassytully.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 19771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://docs-books.com/2017/05/22/the-jersey-brothers-a-missing-naval-officer-in-the-pacific-and-his-familys-quest-to-bring-him-home-by-sally-mott-freeman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HFBITCRQHA56PB4IJ5TWSMKOEBXRBO7W", "length": 7194, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "docs-books.com", "title": "THE JERSEY BROTHERS: A MISSING NAVAL OFFICER IN THE PACIFIC AND HIS FAMILY\u2019S QUEST TO BRING HIM HOME by Sally Mott Freeman | Doc's Books", "raw_content": "THE JERSEY BROTHERS: A MISSING NAVAL OFFICER IN THE PACIFIC AND HIS FAMILY\u2019S QUEST TO BRING HIM HOME by Sally Mott Freeman\nMay 22, 2017 szfreiberger\tBiography, World War II\n(US soldiers after liberation from Japanese POW camp outside Manila)\nSally Mott Freeman\u2019s first book, THE JERSEY BROTHERS: A MISSING NAVAL OFFICER IN THE PACIFIC AND HIS FAMILY\u2019S QUEST TO BRING HIM HOME is an interesting study in family dynamics and how military strategy and policy was implemented during World War II. The somewhat dysfunctional family is made up of its matriarch Helen Cross, her second husband Arthur, and their three sons and one daughter. The story revolves around the experiences of the sons, the first two of which are children of Helen and her first husband. The sons are Benny Mott, an officer on the USS Enterprise, a graduate of Annapolis, who witnessed a great deal of action during four years of combat duty in the Pacific; William (Bill) Mott, also a graduate of Annapolis, plagued by weak eye sight who winds up as the head of the White House Map Room where he observes and distributes war information to the Franklin D. Roosevelt and military leaders; lastly, Barton Cross, the son of Helen and Arthur who does not measure up to the Annapolis type, enlists and becomes a prisoner of war taken by the Japanese in the Philippines.\nBy carefully examining the Mott/Cross family, Freeman is able to analyze its dynamic, in addition to the strategy pursued in the Pacific War. Her approach is unique and provides an alternative means of studying the plight of American POWs in the Pacific, the politics in Washington and General Douglas MacArthur\u2019s command, how military decisions were reached, and the Anglo-American relationship. However important the war is, it is the family that dominates the story. Helen is an overprotective mother who obsesses over her third son, Barton who she views as evidence of a strong marriage after her first was a failure. Barton is the favorite, and the pressure from his mother at times is overbearing. Her other sons seek her love and attention and make do with how she parses it out. What is fascinating is that the two elder brothers do not seem to resent their younger brother and will do anything to support him. The key element in the narrative is how family members react to the seizure of Barton by the Japanese and how they go about coping with wartime information that is directly related to his situation. The entire family is concerned with what Barton is going through and how they can assist him, and perhaps facilitate his quest for freedom.\nHelen\u2019s psyche is on everyone\u2019s mind throughout the book. Helen is the type of \u201chelicopter\u201d parent who will write the commandant of Annapolis as Barton withdraws from that institution, she will also write President Roosevelt, and military commanders. Further, when Bill learns of the treatment of the POWs from a number of escapees, he withholds the information from his mother as long as he can, not to upset her.\nThe strength of the book is how Freeman alternates chapters taking the reader back and forth from the USS Enterprise through the experiences of Benny as it leaves Pearl Harbor, participates on the \u201cDoolittle Raid\u201d on Tokyo, finds itself in the midst of the Battle of Midway, the Battle of Guadalcanal, and the taking of Saipan. Next, we are taken inside the White House as Bill witnesses the decisions being made that effect the conduct of the war, or later when he becomes the Flag Officer aboard the USS Rocky Mount. The plight of American POWs is described in detail including the Bataan Death March, and a number of other forced marches as American soldiers are moved from one prison cite to the next. What is particularly disturbing is how unmarked Japanese ships transporting US POWs were sunk by American planes during the last year of the war. In addition, Freeman focuses on the inhuman treatment of the POWs and how they reacted, and why some survived. Another strength is her discussion of the planning and actual invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, two battles that did not go the way military authorities had hoped. Heavy casualties were predicted, but not to the level that eventually resulted. In part the problem was the Japanese use of Kamikaze pilots that invasion planners could find no solution to counteract.\n(The Jersey Brothers left to right; Barton Cross, Benny Mott, Bill Mott)\nThe major wartime personalities are integrated throughout. MacArthur is dealt with in detail. Admiral \u201cBull\u201d Halsey, a man who was beloved by his men and was a strategic genius. President Roosevelt is presented as at times a warm and sympathetic leader, but also a harsh decision maker dealing with the realities of war. Other important characters include Admiral Richmond Kelley Turner who commanded the Joint Expeditionary Task Force, known as Operation Forager designed to defeat Japan in 1944, a command and strategy larger than and as complex as the Normandy invasion; Steve Mellnick and William Dyees who escaped the Davao Penal Colony and along with Filipino guerillas sought to launch a rescue mission of the 2000 POWs left behind, as well as a host of other major historical figures.\nImportantly, Freeman goes into depth in presenting the jurisdictional battles between the army and navy for control of the Pacific Theater which was rooted in the struggle between Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur. MacArthur does not fare well in the narrative as Freeman portrays the Pacific Army Commander as a self-serving egoist who only cared about his own place in history. This characterization is quite accurate especially when discussing the strategy to invade the Japanese home islands, which MacArthur favored, or employ a blockade and massive bombing to save the lives of American GIs. It seemed whenever anything did not go as planned, instead of accepting any responsibility, MacArthur blamed the Navy.\n(Later in his career William Mott\u2019s promotion!)\nWhat is clear throughout the book is that Bill did his utmost to try and learn the plight of his brother. He traveled, wrote letters, and pressed friends, all in an attempt to learn the truth. The author, Bill\u2019s daughter makes excellent use of the memories of family members, in addition to diaries and other documents. She has mined a tremendous amount of material and it is reflected in her strong narrative. Her investigation into what happened to her uncle provides insights into how families were forced to deal with their missing sons, and for far too many the grief that followed. Overall the book paints a fascinating portrait of a family\u2019s plight during World War II. It may get bogged down in family details at the outset, but once Freeman takes up the wartime experiences of Helen\u2019s three sons the reader will become immersed in the detail and the heroic nature of what they experience and the actions they take. 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Hawkins DDS Inc, we use the latest technology and techniques to enhance the comfort and safety of your smile. Your routine checkups and treatment sessions may be aided by one or more of the following services:\nOur dentist and team are committed to preserving your smile by diagnosing issues before they begin, which is why we offer preventive care in Houston, Texas, and in the surrounding communities of Webster, League City, Nassau Bay, Seabrook, Pearland, and Friendswood, Texas. 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This threat from the radical nature of Islam must be dealt with openly and honestly by the Obama Administration and the American people.\nIslam is a religion worldwide that teaches in its central holy book the Koran to kill those whom the Muslim cannot convert, as well as subjugate the Jew and the Christian.\nWorldwide Islamic regimes in Arab countries have called for the destruction of the West and especially the United States. This means to the US Citizen you must convert to Islam or be killed in a heinous way. Worldwide almost everyday Islamic terrorists attack and kill US servicemen and women. The Islamic terrorists commit cowardly and suicidal acts of murder against civilians and military combatants alike. Never forget that the terrorist attacks on 911 were perpetrated by Islamists\nThis is the nature of Islam, the more devout a Muslim becomes the more he is compelled to more closely follow and adhere to Islamic writings such as the Koran and thus the more he becomes indoctrinated with radical, criminal and deadly teachings.\nThe Muslim is commanded in the text of the Koran to literally kill those who will not convert to Islam. However the Koran does allow for the usurpation of the Jew and the Christian, if they will be slaves to Islamists.\nThere is an alarming and dangerous correlation here, the more dedicated the Muslim the more dangerous the Islamist.\nThere is a false premise being propagated in the US and abroad that both the Christian and the Muslim believe in the same basic principles.\nAnd this false premise is a most dangerous lie for the American Public to believe. The Muslim and Christian do not share the same morality. Christianity is predicated upon the love and compassion for the unbeliever, whether they convert or not.\nThere are Muslims that seek peace among their neighbors around the world, there are moderate Muslim nations, but the radical teachings of the Islamic religion can no longer go without close scrutiny from the US Government and the American people.\nIf the Obama Administration intends to secure our nation from further terrorist attacks by Muslims then Islam\u2019s radical nature must be addressed.\nAnother deeply troubling reality exists, the fact that there has been no unequivocal public stand taken against these acts of terrorism in the US or against their perpetrators by the Muslim community, not even for the 911 terrorists attackes, and their silence is telling. The Muslim communty\u2019s lack of a total denouncement of terrorist attacks in the US perpetrated by Muslims is telling indeed for silence is accent.\nAnd that silence is deafening in the ears of Americans. American ears that are still ringing from the horrific echoes of 100 rounds of gunfire heard at FT Hood. Where a US Serviceman, a Muslim, some say radicalized long ago, with ties to the 911 terrorist attacks, committed the heinous murder and wounding of 31 US Servicemen and Women, who were unarmed and defenseless.\nThe Obama Administration\u2019s policy to apologize to Islamist regimes (who subjugate their own people) for supposed US arrogance toward Arab nations must stop.\nOur US Servicemen and Women lay down their lives everyday for freedom throughout the world and it is a dishonor to them for President Obama to apologize for the very life sacrificing service they redender around the world so the US and other free coutries can remain free.\nThe US is the leader of the free world and should make no apology for upholding freedom and liberty the world-wide.\nThe Obama Administration\u2019s obvious sympathies for the Muslim community have allowed it to turn a blind eye to the radical nature of Islam. 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Both during school holidays and on weekends.\nTackers is a fun introductory, games-based sailing program designed for kids aged 7 to 12 years; an ideal introduction to dinghy sailing. Kids don\u2019t need to have any sailing experience or club membership to participate. All the equipment, including the boats, is provided. Tackers is delivered in small groups of 6 to 10 boats specifically designed for the program and supervised by Australian Sailing qualified Instructors and Assistant Instructors who are on the water all the time the kids are sailing.\nThere are three levels that kids can progress through (Tackers 1 is the first level), each level involves around 20 hours of participation structured as a 4 day holiday program or as a series of sessions over 8 Fridays and Saturdays in term 2, and 8 Saturday sessions in term 3. 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It\u2019s a great way to meet new friends while mucking about on the water.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 4864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dzone.com/articles/eli-lilly-bring-gamification", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:40Z", "digest": "sha1:N4VUGRLWD4ZTKLB7CK3PV3Z7IDCV5HYC", "length": 1821, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "dzone.com", "title": "Eli Lilly bring gamification to drug development - DZone", "raw_content": "Eli Lilly bring gamification to drug development\nThere have numerous initiatives aiming to deploy gamification principles to scientific endavours in recent years. I\u2019ve written about a few of these games on the blog before, with Phylo produced by McGill in a bid to increase the understanding of genetic research. Eyewire is a similar effort, this time produced by MIT, that aims to further understanding of neuroscience. Both have proved pretty successful, generating well over 100,000 players each in a short space of time.\nArguably the most powerful however is a game called EteRNA that aims to get citizens carrying out experiments on the folding behaviours of RNA molecules. This game is unique in that it connects gamers with an actual biochemistry lab.\nWhat each of those efforts have in common is that they use games to engage players in proper scientific research, with the results significantly boosting understanding. A slightly more light hearted use of games in the scientific world emerged recently courtesy of pharma company Eli Lilly, who released an online game called Destination Discovery.\nThe game is less about helping scientific research as supporting understanding of the research process. Players begin the game by receiving background information on the drug development process. Once they have selected their character from the six available, you are on your way, charting your journey across the board via rolls of a dice. 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I really thought that it was a great way to have an algorithm with polymorphic parts. The use of inheritance was something that I had no issues with. But yes, that was many years ago.\nOver the years, I've been hurt by this \"design style\". That's the sort of design created by developers that do not TDD.\nVery recently I was working on one part of our legacy code and found a six level deep hierarchy of classes. There were quite a few template methods defined in more than one of the classes. All classes were abstract with the exception of the bottom classes, that just implemented one or two of the template methods. There were just a single public method in the entire hierarchy, right at the very top.\nWe had to make a change in one of the classes at the bottom. One of the (protected) template method implementations had to be changed.\nHow do you test it? Goes without saying that there were zero tests for the hierarchy.\nWe know that we should never test private or protected methods. A class should \"always\" be tested from its public interface. We should always write tests that express and test \"what\" the method does and not \"how\". That's all well and good. However, in this case, the change needs to be done in a protected method (template method implementation) that is part of the implementation of a public method defined in a class six level up in the hierarchy. To test this method, invoking the public method of its grand grand grand grand parent we will need to understand the entire hierarchy, mock all dependencies, create the appropriate data, configure the mocks to have a well defined behaviour so that we can get this piece of code invoked and then tested.\nWorse than that, imagine that this class at the bottom has siblings overriding the same template method. When the siblings need to be changed, the effort to write tests for them will be the same as it was for our original class. We will have loads of duplications and will also need to understand all the code inside all the classes in the hierarchy. The ice in the cake: There are hundreds of lines to be understood in all parent classes.\nTesting via the public method defined at the very top of the hierarchy has proven not to be worth it. The main reason is that, besides painful, we already knew that the whole design was wrong. When we look at the classes in the hierarchy, they didn't even follow the IS-A rule of inheritance. They inherit from each other so some code could be re-used.\nAfter some time I thought: Screw the rules and this design. I'm gonna just directly test the protected method and then start breaking the hierarchy.\nThe approach: Extract, Inject, Kill\nThe overall idea is:\n1. Extract all the behaviour from the template method into a class.\n2. 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Western Hemisphere International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) , Western Hemisphere\n412x242_hlayton_ilvp.jpg\n\"Citizen diplomats\" Heather Layton and Brian Bailey at the University of Karachi for the \"Social Intervention Conference 2012: A Better Tomorrow for the Coming Generation\". The conference was organized by two IVLP alumni.\nHeather Layton, a lecturer at the University of Rochester, and Dr. Brian Bailey, professor at Nazareth College, love to meet with International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) participants on a regular basis. And when they accepted an invitation to be the keynote speakers at the 2012 Social Intervention Conference in Pakistan for a group of IVLP participants, they took their dedication to the next level.\nAs International Visitors travel across the United States to various cities, they meet with Americans both formally and informally. This network of 80,000 mostly volunteer \u201ccitizen diplomats\u201d accompany the participants to local meetings, host dinners in their homes, and connect with them to share professional ideas and resources.\nHeather and Brian are two of these \u201ccitizen diplomats\u201d who meet with IVLP participants in Rochester, NY. After meeting with a group of ten Pakistani International Visitors, in the United States for a \u201cCommunity Dialogue and Dispute Resolution\u201d project, they were invited to Karachi for a week of cultural and professional collaboration.\n\u201cWe were welcomed with open arms,\u201d says Heather. \u201cThe experience was truly inspiring. The conference was proof that our commonalities far exceed our differences. It was a perfect context for an exchange of ideas, not only between our countries but between our professions as well. We were united by the goal of creating a better future for the coming generation.\u201d\nIn Pakistan, Heather and Brian met with professors, university students, and youth of Pakistan to create a Community Dialogue and Dispute Resolution program. The students and faculty took part in an art installation that involved writing letters to a future generation and envisioning a more just society. Heather states she has over 100 letters from Americans and Pakistanis that reflect possibilities for the future. Brian also collaborated with IVLP alumni to start a \u201cSocial Film Festival\u201d which showcased short films about social issues made by American and Pakistani youth. The winners received a standing ovation from the 300+ conference attendees.\n\u201cThis is just the start of relationships that will last a lifetime,\u201d says Heather. \u201cWe continue to share personal stories and professional ideas with many Pakistani people through Facebook and email, and we are already planning future projects that combine art with important social issues that affect both of our countries and international communities.\u201d\nBack in the United States, Heather and Brian continue to meet with IVLP participants, particularly when it involves their areas of expertise. She focuses on art and art history, particularly mixed media, performance art and social intervention. He focuses on contemporary youth culture and literacy, particularly when adolescents use digital media art to create short films, music videos, animation, documentaries in school. 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Often, the effects of aging, illness, and disabilities become barriers to effective communication, especially when working with patients who often have additional mental health concerns. When mental health technicians understand how the communication process works and how to effectively send and receive a message, they are better able to meet the needs of patients under their care. This course will discuss the components of the communication process, barriers to communicating with an older population, and tips for increasing communication effectiveness.\nIdentify two health conditions that make communication more challenging\nChoose three steps to effectively communicating with elderly and disabled patients\nRecognize key characteristics of empathetic listening", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 4891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ed4training.com/course/elder-abuse-and-neglect-mental-health-technicians", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EU2RSGGSDH4QR42CIIJUDSPOHEFFYUUM", "length": 957, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ed4training.com", "title": "Elder Abuse and Neglect for Mental Health Technicians | Ed4Training", "raw_content": "Elder Abuse and Neglect for Mental Health Technicians\nElder abuse can impact people from all ethnic and social backgrounds and in all settings. 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This course defines elder abuse, identifies populations of elderly at risk for abuse, and discusses the mandated reporting status and requirements.\nRecall two key statistics regarding the incidence and prevalence of elder abuse\nRecognize one type of abuse and its signs\nChoose two populations of elderly with an increased risk for abuse\nSelect two things impacted by elder abuse\nIdentify the primary role of mandated reporters and steps needed to file an abuse report", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 4690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/books/three-to-see-on-friday-cool-book-launch-comedy-homecoming-hint-of-supertramp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OYXJFUQ6J77PWCXYH3FBEHLH4EXRFBYW", "length": 2396, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "edmontonjournal.com", "title": "Three to See on Friday: Cool book launch, comedy homecoming, hint of Supertramp | Edmonton Journal", "raw_content": "Three to See on Friday: Cool book launch, comedy homecoming, hint of Supertramp\nCandas Jane Dorsey ICE book launch: A recent inductee into the Canadian Science Fiction Hall of Fame and one of our local bright stars, Candas Jane Dorsey was recently asked by Neil Gaiman himself if she\u2019d sign her book for him backstage after his appearance in town. That book was ICE & Other Stories, which Dorsey is launching \u2014 on her birthday, no less \u2014 at Audreys Books tonight. Beginning with the iconic 1988 story (Learning About) Machine Sex and ending with a new tale written specially for this volume, this marvellous collection spans over 30 years of making an impact on Canadian literary, queer and feminist speculative fiction since her debut story was published in 1977.\nCandas Jane Dorsey\u2019s Ice. supplied\nDetails: 7 p.m at Audreys Books (10702 Jasper Ave.), free admission\nHenry Sir Comedy: Mr. Sir has toured widely, appearing at independent venues, festivals, and some of America\u2019s top comedy clubs, including Denver Comedy Works, Rick Bronson\u2019s Comic Strip and House of Comedy, the Laugh Factory and the New York Comedy Club. Friday night, however, he\u2019s bringing it home by recording his first comedy album at the totally awesome Grindstone Theatre. \u201cI\u2019ve been lucky enough to be doing comedy all over North America but really wanted my first album to be recorded here in Edmonton,\u201d says Sir. \u201cThere aren\u2019t many comedy albums that are recorded in the city and Edmonton, in general, is a bit overlooked comedy-wise.\u201d\nDetails: 9 p.m. at Grindstone Theatre (10019 81 Ave.), $15 at the door\nRoger Hodgson: Former co-frontman of Supertramp, you probably know Hodgson\u2019s hits Dreamer, Give a Little Bit, Breakfast in America, Take the Long Way Home, The Logical Song and \u2014 whoa-oh-oh \u2014 It\u2019s Raining Again. Definitely on the more spiritual and philosophical end of rock and roll, Hodgson\u2019s great works post-Supertramp include 1984\u2019s In the Eye of the Storm, a terrific blend of prog and straightforward rock, and 2000\u2019s Open the Door, which has a bit of French vibe going for it, having soaked in the French countryside. Should be a good show, may his piano be well tuned!\nDetails: 9 p.m. at River Cree Casino (300 E Lapotac Blvd.), $80-$91 through Ticketmaster\nFamily drama, trauma and fun as Varscona Theatre Ensemble debuts latest... 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Dr. Szyjka will give a presentation titled \u201cActualizing the Role of the Science Education Clinician: Past Accomplishments, Integration of Present, and a Vision for the Future\u201d Dr. Szyjka is a candidate for the position of Clinical Assistant Professor in Science Education in the School of Teaching and Learning requisition number 495235.\nDate and Time: March 17th, 9:45am \u2013 10:45am\nPursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this meeting is asked to advise the University of Florida at least 72 hours before the meeting by contacting Ms. Sandy Durham at sdurham@coe.ufl.edu. If you are hearing impaired please contact the University by calling 352-846-1046 (TDD).\nhttps://education.ufl.edu/student-services/files/2016/09/headerblue.png 0 0 robinglecain https://education.ufl.edu/student-services/files/2016/09/headerblue.png robinglecain2016-02-26 09:55:102016-02-26 09:55:10Notice of Search Committee for the position of Clinical Assistant Professor in Science Education in the School of Teaching and Learning 3-17-2016 (#495235)\nNotice of Search Committee for the position of Clinical Assistant Professor in Science Education in the School of Teaching and Learning 3-9-2016 (#495235)\nThe University Of Florida\u2019s College Of Education announces a public meeting with candidate Dr. Brett Criswell. Dr. Criswell will give a presentation titled \u201cSeeing As and Seeing Differently \u2013 Professional Vision and Teacher Leadership in Teacher Education\u201d. Dr. Criswell is a candidate for the position of Clinical Assistant Professor in Science Education in the School of Teaching and Learning requisition number 495235.\nDate and Time: Wednesday, March 9th at 10:30am\nPursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this meeting is asked to advise the University of Florida at least 72 hours before the meeting by contacting Ms. Sandra Durham at sdurham@coe.ufl.edu. 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Photo credit: Nermeen Youssef/ Flickr\nThere was once a world when communication was not at the tip of our fingers. Messages and letters could take up to months to arrive and a conversation could last a lifetime. Egypt has the oldest postal services in the world. In the midst of a busy street in Ataba is the headquarters of the Cairo Post Office Department with a floor dedicated to the country\u2019s intricate postal service.\nIt is known that ancient Egypt had one of the most systematic hierarchies in history as well as one of the oldest civilizations to date. Once writing became institutionalized in Egypt, mainly among the rich, ancient Egyptians were looking for ways to communicate information with other districts in the country. The gradual transition papyrus paper introduced a new wave of communication methods. It was only a matter of time to develop a postal system.\nThe hidden landmark was established in 1934 by Egypt\u2019s monarch King Fouad. However, its doors were open to the public in 1940. The museum occupies the second floor of the postal office building and displays a rare collection of artifacts, documents and letters that examine the development of the country\u2019s postal service.\nAncient Egyptians developed a postal service that dates back to 2000 B.C.; the oldest postal system in the world. The main mode of transportation was through the Nile River. The letters were placed in a box escorted by guards. At the time, the postal services were exclusive to the pharaohs. The postal museum displays messaged between Amenhotep and Akhenaten where they would update each other on political developments.\nAs the methods of transportation developed, so did the post delivery service. The Ptolemaic era, 305 B.C., a new method of transportation was introduced. Carriers would deliver messages with the help of horses. This era also had the earliest documentation of what is now known as \u201cexpress mail\u201d and \u201cregular mail\u201d. The express mail services were exclusive to state officials and rulers while the latter was used by the wider public and was delivered by a postman on a donkey or mule.\nDuring the Ottoman Empire, an Italian businessman, Carlo Meratti, established the country\u2019s first private postal system in 1821 known as \u2018Posta Europea\u2019. The hand stamps were engraved in Italian and his descendent Giacomo Muzzi used the country\u2019s railway system to deliver post. In 1857, \u2018Posta Europea\u2019 was acquired by the Egyptian government and utilized it for all terrestrial communication. \u2018Poste Europea\u2019 has then become \u2018Poste Egyptienne\u2019 and almost 10 years later issued the first Egyptian stamp.\nAt the time, Egypt became a hub for merchants and the trade. The \u2018Poste Egyptienne\u2019 became the main means of communication for the Ottoman Empire. The government opened correspondent post offices in neighboring cities in Izmir, Jeddah, Gallipoli, Beirut, Cavalla, Salonika, Tripoli, Rhodes, Souakin, Massawa, Khartoum and Kassala.\nThe main postal department was located in Alexandria which was first affiliated with the Ministry of France and later transferred to Ministry of Justice. However, during the rule of King Fouad, a new department for communications which managed railways system, roads, bridges, telephone, telegram as well as postal services was established. 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A testament to design and engineering ingenuity, Ohmite Manufacturing Company has evolved with the electronics industry to cater to the ever-changing design requirements. While Ohmite is a progressive company that develops next-generation electronics, it also continues to manufacture legacy products that fulfill current marketplace demands. \u201cWe have a very broad product offering, ranging from board-level to industrial-scale electronic components,\u201d says Gregory Pace, President of Ohmite. The company\u2019s applications are leveraged worldwide in various industries including transportation, medical, military, aerospace, power and energy, and oil and gas.\nThe growing customer demands in a fast-paced electronics industry requires manufacturers to design and launch products quickly while being prepared to continually improve and rollout product upgrades. Ohmite leverages 92 years of experience and expertise in thermal management for resistive and other technologies to provide solutions that drive the design of electronic devices and enhance performance while reducing costs. \u201cOur components vary in size and are used for a variety of purposes including locomotives, automobiles, aircrafts, elevators, cranes, and missile systems,\u201d states Pace.\nOhmite\u2019s prowess in enhancing product performance played a key role in helping a company design efficient electric flat irons for straightening hair. During the design stage, a problem arose regarding unequal heat distribution in the flat iron. Ohmite helped improve the product\u2019s design and after many revisions, the flat iron was able to produce even heat coverage over the plates. Additionally, Ohmite ensured the project remained within the company\u2019s budget, while also facilitating production to begin before the deadline.\nWhile pricing and quality is a concern in the electronics industry, speed is of utmost importance to meet prior commitments. \u201cOhmite strives to meet deadlines and often delivers ahead of schedule, driven by its experienced team and ability to invest large capital to push product development,\u201d remarks Pace. The company maintains flexibility in handling both large and small requirements of the global marketplace. For instance, the company had a request from a bowling alley in West Virginia for legacy components that had worn out. Although the parts were manufactured during 1945\u201346, Ohmite was able to provide replacements. Similarly, when another customer required a certain part designed in 1958 for a pump used in oil derricks, Ohmite was able to recreate the designs and successfully duplicate the component from the sample that was sent to them.\nOhmite strives to meet deadlines and often delivers ahead of schedule\nOhmite is continuing its journey of continuous improvement and expects to receive IATF-16949 certification by the first quarter of 2018. \u201cThe certification will confirm Ohmite\u2019s commitment to not only meet but exceed customers\u2019 expectations regarding safety, quality, and reliability,\u201d says Pace. With several business opportunities in automotive, especially with the emergence of electric vehicles, Ohmite is driven to transform the industry with its flexible transportation solutions that include custom solutions for agriculture and construction.\n\u201cWe are constantly challenged to develop smaller, cheaper, and more powerful products,\u201d states Pace. 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From film to video tape; analog to digital; broadcast to online; desktop to mobile. During his extraordinary 42 year (and counting) career, Tim Dietz has been at the center of every revolution in our industry, quietly influencing how generations of Coloradoans receive and enjoy news, entertainment and sports programming.\nTim\u2019s contributions began as a news photographer, working with 16 millimeter film and evolved to Tim\u2019s current position as KUSA\u2019s vice president of interactive services, a key station leadership position overseeing a variety of TEGNA and KUSA projects including ever more important digital platforms like 9NEWS.com and 9NEWS mobile.\nTim joined the 9NEWS family in July 1974, when Channel 9 was still KBTV. At the time he was a junior at Regis University and came to 9NEWS as an intern. The internship was supposed to last a year, but somehow, Tim talked his way into two, and then another 40.\nTim has done it all. He has met five U.S. Presidents and countless star athletes and celebrities. He met Pope John Paul II during World Youth Day in Colorado in 1993. KUSA\u2019s coverage of that historic event garnered national attention. He has been to four Super Bowls and is the Denver Broncos programming guru. Beginning with the Summer Olympics in Atlanta in 1996, Tim has covered nine Olympic Games by organizing for 9NEWS and Gannet (now TEGNA) coverage in Sydney (2000) Salt Lake City (2002) Athens (2004) Torino (2006) Beijing (2008) Vancouver (2010) London (2012) and Sochi (2014). He is currently planning coverage for Rio de Janeiro 2016. Tim\u2019s commitment to this project is largely responsible for the extraordinary level of coverage viewers in Colorado have come to expect.\nIn the mid-90s Tim was responsible for launching 9NEWS.com, the state\u2019s local news and information website. Today that platform and a few new ones that Tim oversees deliver over 50 million impressions monthly. At the time this was seen as a distraction, but Tim championed the online importance and as we all know it has become the preferred way that many of us get our information, when , where and how we want it. The technological change and workflow that have overwhelmed many an organization were simply just another obstacle that Tim so adroitly navigated. He helped to launch and pioneer HD Television putting the first HD Helicopter in the air in the early 2000s.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 6359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.sun.mv/49095", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5P7ZFEHLX2QTHDVSTSIDOZCQJLDOWPPK", "length": 6048, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "en.sun.mv", "title": "China hopes for implementation of NKorea-US summit outcome | SunOnline International", "raw_content": "China hopes for implementation of NKorea-US summit outcome\nBEIJING (AP) \u2014 Chinese President Xi Jinping told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday he hopes Pyongyang and Washington can fully implement the outcome of last week's nuclear summit at which Kim pledged to work toward denuclearization in exchange for U.S. security guarantees.\nState broadcaster CCTV said Xi told Kim that through the \"concerted efforts of the relevant countries\" negotiations regarding issues on the Korean Peninsula are back on track and the overall situation is moving in the direction of peace and stability.\nThe summit between Kim and U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore marked an \"important step toward the political solution of the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue,\" Xi was quoted as saying in the meeting at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing.\nChina hopes North Korea and the U.S. can \"implement well the outcomes achieved at the summit,\" Xi said. China would \"as always play a constructive role\" in that process, he said.\nAlong with a statement signed by Kim and Trump offering vague commitments to denuclearization and security, Trump also agreed to suspend military exercises with South Korea in what was seen as a major win for North Korea and its chief allies, China and Russia.\nKim's two-day visit to China, which began Tuesday, had not been announced in advance but was expected as part of the Communist neighbors' tradition to report to each other on major developments.\nThe visit is Kim's third to China since March, highlighting China's crucial role in efforts by the U.S. and others to get North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. The U.S. has long looked to China to use its influence with North Korea to bring it to negotiations, but the visit comes as ties between Beijing and Washington are being tested by a major trade dispute.\nCCTV showed Kim and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, being welcomed by Xi with full military honors. Xi and his wife, Peng Liyuan, later hosted Kim and Ri at a banquet, CCTV reported.\nChina's official Xinhua News Agency announced the North Korean leader's visit shortly after he apparently landed Tuesday morning, dispensing with the secrecy shrouding previous trips to China by Kim and his father and predecessor, Kim Jong Il.\nOn the younger Kim's first visit to China as leader, he took an armored train as his father had. His first two trips were not announced until after he had safely returned to North Korea.\nXi \"is exerting a lot of influence from behind the scenes,\" said Bonnie Glaser, senior adviser for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.\n\"I expect they will talk about the path going forward and where priorities should lie,\" Glaser said. Those priorities, from China's perspective, would be to ensure that Beijing is included in any peace treaty talks and in creating an environment on the Korean Peninsula that will make it unnecessary for U.S. troops to remain.\nKim is likely hoping to get China's support for relief from punishing U.N. sanctions.\nAt a regularly scheduled briefing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Tuesday that Beijing supported Russia's calls last week for unilateral sanctions on North Korea \u2014 ones that aren't imposed within the United Nations framework \u2014 to be canceled immediately.\n\"China always stands against the so-called unilateral sanctions outside the Security Council framework. This position is very clear and we believe sanctions themselves are not the end,\" Geng said.\nWhile Beijing and Moscow have supported U.N. restrictions, they bristle at Washington imposing sanctions on its own to pressure North Korea.\nTrump's surprise announcement in Singapore of a U.S. suspension of military drills with its South Korean ally fulfills a goal long pursued by North Korea and its primary backers China and Russia. That move is seen as potentially weakening defenses and diplomacy among America's Asian allies, while bolstering China and Russia.\nSouth Korea's Foreign Ministry said Kim's visit to China highlights the \"constructive role\" Beijing could play in disarming North Korea.\nMinistry spokesman Noh Kyu-duk also downplayed concerns that improving relations between China and North Korea could result in loosened Chinese sanctions against North Korea.\nCheng Xiaohe, an associate professor at Renmin University's School of International Studies in Beijing, said it was significant that Chinese state broadcaster CCTV announced Kim's visit before his return home.\n\"This is an improvement. This shows that China is moving toward a healthier and more normal direction in relations with North Korea,\" Cheng said. He added that the frequency of Kim's visits \u2014 three so far this year \u2014 was \"unprecedented.\"\nYang Mu-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, said Kim's visits show the recent chill in the two countries' ties over Kim's development of nuclear weapons and long-range missiles had fully lifted.\n\"I believe that indicates that the blood alliance between the North and China has been completely restored,\" Yang said.\nWashington has long pressed Beijing to use its influence to compel North Korea into negotiations, but Kim's visit comes as a dispute over the large trade imbalance between China and the U.S. has been escalating, moving them closer to a potential trade war.\nThat could make it less attractive for China to use its influence over North Korea to help the U.S. achieve its objectives of denuclearization.\n\"The potential comprehensive trade war will make the cooperation between China and U.S. in North Korea's nuclear issue more complicated,\" Cheng said. \"There will be a big question mark over whether China and the U.S. will continue this cooperation.\"\nAssociated Press journalists Gillian Wong and Shanshan Wang in Beijing, Adam Schreck in Pyongyang, North Korea, and Kim Tong-hyung and Yong Jun Chang in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.\nYemeni officials say fighting rages around airport\nWorld News United States China North Korea South Korea", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 7525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedfordshire_County_Council", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IOF4OS2BM2NNF4F7UNCXBLC6ZTRCAFOX", "length": 909, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Bedfordshire County Council - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Bedfordshire County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Bedfordshire in England. It was established on 1 April 1889 and was abolished on 1 April 2009.[1] The county council was based in Bedford.\nIn 1997 Luton Borough Council became a unitary authority and in 2009 the remaining county council was divided into two unitary authorities: Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council (formed from Mid Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire District Councils).\n^ The Bedfordshire (Structural Changes) Order 2008, SI 2008/907, art 5\nFormer county councils of England\nThis article related to the politics of the United Kingdom, or its predecessor or constituent states, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bedfordshire_County_Council&oldid=830822950\"\nHistory of Bedfordshire\nUnited Kingdom politics stubs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 2888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 74.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Byrd_and_the_GB_Experience", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:07Z", "digest": "sha1:GX5KCHNL4MHHFJCY2NY6VS4LLVB4SRCI", "length": 2702, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Gary Byrd and the GB Experience - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Gary Byrd and the GB Experience\nGary Byrd and the GB Experience was an American male/female vocal/instrumental group.\nThe group released a single, \"The Crown\". It was released in the US on Stevie Wonder's short-lived Wondirection record label (part of Motown Records), but due to a lack of sufficient promotion,[citation needed] only reached number 69 on the Billboard R&B chart.[1] In the UK, it was released on the Motown label, entered the UK Singles Chart on 23 July 1983 at number 21, and rose to a high of number 6; it remained in the chart for 9 weeks.[2]\nThe 12\" version of \"The Crown\" ran for 10 minutes 35 seconds, making it one of the longest tracks ever to chart in the UK. It was written by Gary Byrd and Stevie Wonder, and presented a wide-ranging historical narrative of human progress (beginning with the ancient Egyptians and continuing to the present day) with an emphasis on African heritage. It featured spoken/rapped verses by Byrd, an American DJ, with one verse sung by Wonder and Crystal Blake. Byrd described the song at the time thus: \"The idea is not that black, white or anyone is better, but that we all have our place. We've all made contributions - and mistakes too. Wearing the crown is reaching the top of your potential. You could be a writer or you could be a mechanic, but you can still wear the crown.\"[3]\nGary Byrd[edit]\nGary Byrd (born 1954, Buffalo, New York)[4] also worked as a DJ in the UK and presented a gospel music programme on BBC Radio 1 called \"Sweet Inspirations\". He often played the more obscure gospel sounds from groups such as Earth, Wind and Fire of whom he was a big fan. It was broadcast on Sunday evenings (11 pm to midnight) in the early 1980s on MW and stereo FM using the BBC Radio 2 transmitters.\nPrior to this, Gary Byrd released the single \"Every Brother Ain't A Brother\", the album The Gary Byrd Experience and the single \"Soul Travelin' (Inside the G.B.E.)\" on RCA, whose intro was sampled by Soul to Soul on the song \"Jazzie's Groove\". He also collaborated with Wonder on the songs \"Black Man\", \"Village Ghetto Land\", \"Dark and Lovely\" and \"Misrepresented People.\"\n^ \"Gary Byrd & the GB Experience Top Songs\". musicvf.com. Retrieved October 15, 2017.\n^ Rice, Tim; Rice, Jonathan; Gambaccini, Paul (1990), Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness World Records and Guinness Publishing, ISBN 0-85112-398-8\n^ \"Feather Report\". Smash Hits. August 4\u201317, 1983. p. 15.\n^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 1 (1st ed.). p. 382. ISBN 1-882267-01-X.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gary_Byrd_and_the_GB_Experience&oldid=861522634\"\nMotown artists", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 93.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowsticks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:40:05Z", "digest": "sha1:D532R74VAPYFHMEN5CRMWFES6P5F2C3Y", "length": 15344, "nlines": 84, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Glow stick - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "(Redirected from Glowsticks)\n1. The plastic casing covers the inner fluid.\n2. The glass capsule covers the solution.\n3. Phenyl oxalate and fluorescent dye solution\n4. Hydrogen peroxide solution\n5. After the glass capsule is broken and the solutions mix, the glowstick glows.\nA glow stick is a self-contained, short-term light-source. It consists of a translucent plastic tube containing isolated substances that, when combined, make light through chemiluminescence, so it does not require an external energy source. The light cannot be turned off and can only be used once. Glow sticks are often used for recreation, but may also be relied upon for light during military, police, fire, or EMS operations. They are also used by military and police to mark \u2018clear\u2019 areas.\n3.1 Fluorophores used\nBis(2,4,5-trichlorophenyl-6-carbopentoxyphenyl)oxalate, trademarked \"Cyalume\", was invented in 1969 by Michael M. Rauhut[1] and Laszlo J. Bollyky of American Cyanamid, based on work by Edwin A. Chandross of Bell Labs.[2][3] Other early work on chemiluminescence was carried out at the same time, by researchers under Herbert Richter at China Lake Naval Weapons Center.[4][5]\nSeveral US patents for \"glow stick\" type devices were received by various inventors. Bernard Dubrow and Eugene Daniel Guth patented a packaged chemiluminescent material in June 1965 (Patent 3,774,022). In October 1973, Clarence W. Gilliam, David Iba Sr., and Thomas N. Hall were registered as inventors of the Chemical Lighting Device (Patent 3,764,796). In June 1974, a patent for a Chemiluminescent Device was issued with Herbert P. Richter and Ruth E. Tedrick listed as the inventors (Patent 3,819,925).\nIn January 1976, a patent was issued for the Chemiluminescent Signal Device, with Vincent J. Esposito, Steven M. Little, and John H. Lyons listed as the inventors (Patent 3,933,118). This patent recommended a single glass ampoule that is suspended in a second substance, that when broken and mixed together, provide the chemiluminescent light. The design also included a stand for the signal device so it could be thrown from a moving vehicle and remain standing in an upright position on the road. The idea was this would replace traditional emergency roadside flares and would be superior, since it was not a fire hazard, would be easier and safer to deploy, and would not be made ineffective if struck by passing vehicles. This design, with its single glass ampoule inside a plastic tube filled with a second substance that when bent breaks the glass and then is shaken to mix the substances, most closely resembles the typical glow stick sold today.\nIn December 1977, a patent was issued for a Chemical Light Device with Richard Taylor Van Zandt as the inventor (Patent 4,064,428). This design alteration features a steel ball that shatters the glass ampoule when the glow stick is exposed to a predetermined level of shock; an example of its use being that an arrow can be flown dark but illuminate its landing location upon sudden deceleration.\nDisassembly of a chemoluminescent glow stick, from left to right: (1) original, intact lightstick; (2) opened glow stick with peroxide mixture poured into a graduated cylinder and glass ampoule of fluorophore removed; (3) all three under UV illumination showing fluorophore fluorescence and plastic container fluorescence; (4) chemoluminescence of mixed substances in the graduated cylinder; (5) the mixture returned to the original plastic container, showing a slightly different (more orange) colour of light emission.\nGlow sticks are waterproof, do not use batteries, generate negligible heat, are inexpensive, and are reasonably disposable. They can tolerate high pressures, such as those found under water. They are used as light sources and light markers by military forces, campers, and recreational divers.[6]\nGlow sticks providing decor at a party\nThe official glow stick of Korean rock band F.T. Island\nGlowsticking is the use of glow sticks in dancing.[7] This is one of their most widely known uses in popular culture, as they are frequently used for entertainment at parties (in particular raves), concerts, and dance clubs. They are used by marching band conductors for evening performances; glow sticks are also used in festivals and celebrations around the world. Glow sticks also serve multiple functions as toys, readily visible night-time warnings to motorists, and luminous markings that enable parents to keep track of their children. Yet another use is for balloon-carried light effects. Glow sticks are also used to create special effects in low light photography and film.[8]\nThe Guinness Book of Records says the world's largest glow stick was cracked at 3 metres (9 ft 10 in) tall. It was created using Plexiglass by KNIXS GmbH (all Germany) in Darmstadt Weiterstadt, Germany, on 29 June 2009.[9]\nFurther information: Chemical kinetics\nGlow sticks emit light when two chemicals are mixed. The reaction between the two chemicals is catalyzed by a base, usually sodium salicylate.[10] The sticks consist of a tiny, brittle container within a flexible outer container. Each container holds a different solution. When the outer container is flexed, the inner container breaks, allowing the solutions to combine, causing the necessary chemical reaction. After breaking, the tube is shaken to thoroughly mix the components.\nThe glow stick contains two chemicals, a base catalyst, and a suitable dye (sensitizer, or fluorophor). This creates an exothermic reaction. The chemicals inside the plastic tube are a mixture of the dye, the base catalyst, and diphenyl oxalate. The chemical in the glass vial is hydrogen peroxide. By mixing the peroxide with the phenyl oxalate ester, a chemical reaction takes place, yielding two moles of phenol and one mole of peroxyacid ester (1,2-dioxetanedione).[11] The peroxyacid decomposes spontaneously to carbon dioxide, releasing energy that excites the dye, which then relaxes by releasing a photon. The wavelength of the photon\u2014the color of the emitted light\u2014depends on the structure of the dye. The reaction releases energy mostly as light, with very little heat.[10] The reason for this is that the reverse [2 + 2] photocycloadditions of 1,2-dioxetanedione is a forbidden transition (it violates Woodward\u2013Hoffmann rules) and cannot proceed through a regular thermal mechanism.\nOxidation of an diphenyl oxalate (top), decomposition of 1,2-dioxetanedione (middle), relaxation of dye (lower)\nBy adjusting the concentrations of the two chemicals and the base, manufacturers can produce glow sticks that either glow brightly for a short amount of time or more dimly for an extended length of time. This also allows design of glow sticks that perform satisfactorily in hot or cold climates, by compensating for the temperature dependence of reaction. At maximum concentration (typically only found in laboratory settings), mixing the chemicals results in a furious reaction, producing large amounts of light for only a few seconds. The same effect can be achieved by adding copious amounts of sodium salicyate or other bases. Heating a glow stick also causes the reaction to proceed faster and the glow stick to glow more brightly for a brief period. Cooling a glow stick slows the reaction a small amount and causes it to last longer, but the light is dimmer. This can be demonstrated by refrigerating or freezing an active glow stick; when it warms up again, it will resume glowing. The dyes used in glow sticks usually exhibit fluorescence when exposed to ultraviolet radiation\u2014even a spent glow stick may therefore shine under a black light.\nThe light intensity is high immediately after activation, then exponentially decays. Leveling of this initial high output is possible by refrigerating the glow stick before activation.[12]\nSpectral emission of chemiluminescence (green line) of mixed fluorophore and peroxide, which was removed from an orange glow stick, fluorescence of liquid fluorophore in glass ampoule only (before mixing) while under black light (yellow-orange line), fluorescence of plastic outer container of orange glow stick under black light (red line), and spectrum of reassembled chemiluminescent glow stick (glowing liquid poured back into original orange plastic vial) (darker orange line). This plot thus shows that the orange light from an orange glow stick (identical to the one in the above glow stick disassembly image) is created by a greenish-yellow light emitting chemoluminescent liquid partially inducing fluorescence in (and being filtered by) an orange plastic container.\nA combination of two fluorophores can be used, with one in the solution and another incorporated to the walls of the container. This is advantageous when the second fluorophore would degrade in solution or be attacked by the chemicals. The emission spectrum of the first fluorophore and the absorption spectrum of the second one have to largely overlap, and the first one has to emit at shorter wavelength than the second one. A downconversion from ultraviolet to visible is possible, as is conversion between visible wavelengths (e.g., green to orange) or visible to near-infrared. The shift can be as much as 200 nm, but usually the range is about 20-100 nm longer than the absorption spectrum.[13] Glow sticks using this approach tend to have colored containers, due to the dye embedded in the plastic. Infrared glow sticks may appear dark-red to black, as the dyes absorb the visible light produced inside the container and reemit near-infrared.\nLight emitted from a white glow stick. Four or five peaks are observed in the spectrum, suggesting the presence of four or five different fluorophores contained in the glow stick.\nOn the other hand, various colors can also be achieved by simply mixing several fluorophores within the solution to achieve the desired effect.[10][14] These various colors can be achieved due to the principles of additive color. For example, a combination of red, yellow, and green fluorophores is used in orange light sticks,[10] and a combination of several fluorescers is used in white light sticks.[14]\nFluorophores used[edit]\n9,10-Diphenylanthracene (DPA) emits blue light\n1-chloro-9,10-diphenylanthracene (1-chloro(DPA)) and 2-chloro-9,10-diphenylanthracene (2-chloro(DPA)) emit blue-green light more efficiently than nonsubstituted DPA\n9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene (BPEA) emits green light with maximum at 486 nm\n1-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene emits yellow-green light, used in 30-minute high-intensity Cyalume sticks\n2-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene emits green light, used in 12-hour low-intensity Cyalume sticks\n1,8-dichloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene emits yellow light, used in Cyalume sticks\nRubrene emits orange-yellow at 550 nm\n2,4-di-tert-butylphenyl 1,4,5,8-tetracarboxynaphthalene diamide emits deep red light, together with DPA is used to produce white or hot-pink light, depending on their ratio\nRhodamine B emits red light. It is rarely used, as it breaks down in contact with CPPO, shortening the shelf life of the mixture.\n5,12-Bis(phenylethynyl)naphthacene emits orange light\nViolanthrone emits orange light at 630 nm\n16,17-(1,2-ethylenedioxy)violanthrone emits red at 680 nm\n16,17-dihexyloxyviolanthrone emits infrared at 725 nm[15]\n16,17-butyloxyviolanthrone emits infrared[16]\nN,N'-bis(2,5,-di-tert-butylphenyl)-3,4,9,10-perylenedicarboximide emits red[16]\n1-N,N-dibutylaminoanthracene emits infrared[16]\n6-methylacridinium iodide emits infrared[16]\n9,10-diphenylanthracene yields blue light\n9,10-bis(phenylethynyl) anthracene yields green light\n1-chloro- 9,10-bis(phenylethynyl) anthracene yields yellow-green light\nrubrene (5,6,11,12-tetraphenyl naphthacene) yields yellow light\n5,12-bis(phenylethynyl) naphthacene yields orange light\nRhodamine 6G yields orange light\nRhodamine B yields red light\nIn glow sticks, phenol is produced as a byproduct. It is advisable to keep the mixture away from skin and to prevent accidental ingestion if the glow stick case splits or breaks. If spilled on skin, the chemicals could cause slight skin irritation, swelling, or, in extreme circumstances, vomiting and nausea. Some of the chemicals used in older glow sticks were thought to be potential carcinogens.[17] The sensitizers used are polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, a class of compounds known for their carcinogenic properties.\nDibutyl phthalate, an ingredient sometimes used in glow sticks, has raised some health concerns. While there is no evidence that dibutyl phthalate poses any major health risk, it was put on California's list of suspected teratogens in 2006.[18]\nWarnings[edit]\nGlow sticks contain ingredients that act as a plasticizer. This means that if a glow stick leaks onto anything plastic it can liquefy it.[19]\n^ Michael M. Rauhut (1969). \"Chemiluminescence from concerted peroxide decomposition reactions (science)\". Accounts of Chemical Research. 3 (3): 80\u201387. doi:10.1021/ar50015a003.\n^ Elizabeth Wilson (August 22, 1999). \"What's that stuff? Light Sticks\". Chemical & Engineering News. 77 (3): 65. doi:10.1021/cen-v077n003.p065. Archived from the original (reprint) on May 19, 2012.\n^ Edwin A. Chandross (1963). \"A new chemiluminescent system\". Tetrahedron Letters. 4 (12): 761\u2013765. doi:10.1016/S0040-4039(01)90712-9.\n^ Rood, S. A. \"Chapter 4 Post-Legislation Cases\" (PDF). Government Laboratory Technology Transfer: Process and Impact Assessment (Doctoral Dissertation). External link in |work= (help)\n^ Steve Givens (July 27, 2005). \"The great glow stick controversy (Forum Section)\". Student Life.\n^ Davies, D (1998). \"Diver location devices\". Journal of the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society. 28 (3).\n^ \"What Is Glowsticking?\". Glowsticking.com. 2009-09-19. Retrieved 2012-12-21.\n^ \"Jai Glow! PCD vs. Team Ef Em El\". YouTube. 2011-02-21. Retrieved 2012-12-21.\n^ \"Largest glowstick\". guinnessworldrecords.com. Retrieved 2016-03-31.\n^ a b c d Kuntzleman, Thomas Scott; Rohrer, Kristen; Schultz, Emeric (2012-06-12). \"The Chemistry of Lightsticks: Demonstrations To Illustrate Chemical Processes\". Journal of Chemical Education. 89 (7): 910\u2013916. Bibcode:2012JChEd..89..910K. doi:10.1021/ed200328d. ISSN 0021-9584.\n^ http://www.bnl.gov/esh/cms/pdf/peroxides.pdf\n^ http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA430634\n^ \"Chemical lighting device \u2013 American Cyanamid Company\". Freepatentsonline.com. 1981-02-19. Retrieved 2012-12-21.\n^ a b Kuntzleman, Thomas S.; Comfort, Anna E.; Baldwin, Bruce W. (2009). \"Glowmatography\". Journal of Chemical Education. 86 (1): 64. Bibcode:2009JChEd..86...64K. doi:10.1021/ed086p64.\n^ Karukstis, Kerry K.; Van Hecke, Gerald R. (2003-04-10). Chemistry Connections: The Chemical Basis of Everyday Phenomena. ISBN 9780124001510. Retrieved 2012-12-21.\n^ a b c d \"Chemiluminescent Compositions And Methods Of Making And Using Thereof \u2013 Patent Application\". Faqs.org. 2008-12-18. Retrieved 2012-12-21.\n^ \"SCAFO Online Articles\". scafo.org.\n^ \"Debutyl Phthalate\". PubChem.\n^ \"Everything there is to know about glowsticks\u2026\". glowsticks.co.uk.\nWikimedia Commons has media related to Glowsticks.\nGlowsticks chemistry\nBall dance party\nPolitical houseparty\nQuiet party\nSubway party\nSeason (society)\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Glow_stick&oldid=882873514\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 376, "original_length": 19522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wsei.edu.pl/essential_grid/tomasz-czapran", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PYI767G26OMFWG2UWNAHJURN2EGSQJDE", "length": 1124, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "en.wsei.edu.pl", "title": "Tomasz Czapran - COLLEGE OF ECONOMICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE", "raw_content": "Goal oriented Sales Director at Archman.\nManager with 10 years of experience in the area of \u200b\u200bsales and strategic management.\nWorks in an international environment, he worked in Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and in Poland, among others for Oracle Corporation, Cisco Systems, Inc., GeoVision Inc. and Kontakt.io.\nBusiness trainer and sales coach, mainly conducts sales, incentive and product training as well as negotiation and mediation\nAcademic lecturer on issues such as sales psychology, communication and negotiations, he taught at the Metropolitan University in Prague, University of Tartu (Estonia), currently lecturing at the University of Economics and Computer Science in Krakow. Classes run in English, Czech and Polish.\nAdjusting training programs to the needs and level of participants\u2019 knowledge\nExtensive knowledge of the most effective training methods\nHighly developed business awareness and communication skills\nAbility to build partner interpersonal relations\nExperience in creating and implementing development projects\nPlanning and organizational skills, development of sales development strategies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 4864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eptcomputing.com/interest-rate-on-overnight-loans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KMIAEPLFXSJELJFR5KCPVMJYEUFHN3KH", "length": 1275, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "eptcomputing.com", "title": "Interest Rate On Overnight Loans - Quick and Secure", "raw_content": "Interest Rate On Overnight Loans\nInterest Rate On Overnight Loans You can apply online for and see how much you could borrow using our Personal Loan calculator.\nInterest is payment from a borrower or deposit-taking financial institution to a lender or depositor of an amount above repayment of the principal sum (i.e., the amount borrowed), at a particular rate. It is distinct from a fee which the borrower may pay the lender or some third party. It is also distinct from dividend which is paid by a company to its shareholders (owners) from its profit or ...\nMortgage Rates Today | Compare Home Loan Rates | Bankrate.com\u00ae\nSecure and compare current mortgage rates from multiple lenders near you. Bankrate provides real-time interest rates with APR for various loans including: 30-year fixed and 15-year fixed loans.\nFederal Funds Rate | Investopedia\nThe federal funds rate is the interest rate at which a depository institution lends funds maintained at the Federal Reserve to another depository institution on an ...\nBig 5 banks increase prime rates after Bank of Canada's ...\nCanada's major financial institutions began increasing their prime interest rates on Wednesday, shortly after the Bank of Canada increased its key interest rate for the first time in seven years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 173.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED378254", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FDCAPVI2NFMNB672YJKOQO6WFFXARCJV", "length": 2117, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "eric.ed.gov", "title": "ERIC - Outcome Equity in Education. Fifteenth Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association., 1994", "raw_content": "Outcome Equity in Education. Fifteenth Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association.\nBerne, Robert, Ed.; Picus, Lawrence O., Ed.\nPapers from an Equity Study Group are compiled to give a real-world look at an evolving school system. The Equity Study Group was formed by the New York State Board of Regents to investigate how the allocation of resources contributes to the disparity in outcome for New York school children. The following papers are included: (1) \"Educational Input and Outcome Inequities in New York State\" (Robert Berne); (2) \"Equity and Social Justice in Educational Achievement\" (Edmund W. Gordon and Carol Bonilla-Bowman); (3) \"A Review of Public Policy: Studies on the Use of Outcomes\" (Janet E. Levy); (4) \"What's a School To Do: Meeting Educational and Family Needs\" (Edward Zigler and Elizabeth Gilman); (5) \"Learning from Success: Strategies and Implications\" (E. Belvin Williams and Bella August); (6) \"A Proposal To Unify Federal Education Programs for Economically Disadvantaged Children\" (Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco); (7) \"Flexibility and Accountability: Critical Elements in Ensuring an Entitlement\" (David Rostetter); (8) \"Managing the Legal Enforcement of Educational Entitlements\" (James S. Liebman); (9) \"The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Achieving Educational Equity\" (Henry M. Levin); (10) \"Standards of Practice for Learner-Centered Schools\" (Linda Darling-Hammond); (11) \"Incorporating Outcome Equity Standards into Extant Systems of Educational Finance\" (David H. Monk); and (12) \"Summary and Conclusions\" (Robert Berne). An appendix lists directors of the American Educational Finance Association. (SLD)\nDescriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Accountability, Compliance (Legal), Educational Finance, Educational Planning, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Outcomes of Education, Public Policy, Resource Allocation\nCorwin Press, Inc., 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320.\nPublication Type: Books; Collected Works - General\nAuthoring Institution: American Education Finance Association.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://erickouns.com/2015/10/16/some-thoughts-about-the-bible-application/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LB3ZTRJTWLNBXCHFV643ZTNU4HTC5WYH", "length": 5236, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "erickouns.com", "title": "Some Thoughts About the Bible: Application | The Relentless Pursuit", "raw_content": "Some Thoughts About the Bible: Application\nI am sixty-five years old. I have to write that every once in a while just to remind myself that it\u2019s true. I was baptized in a muddy river near Charleston, West Virginia, and became a member of Baptist church when I was eight years old. As a senior in high school, I sensed what I have always described as a call from God to devote my life to Christian ministry. I prepared for that role with diplomas from a Bible college, a Christian liberal arts college, and a theological seminary. Along the way, I have served as a pastor, a broadcaster, a writer, and a college instructor.\nI grew up in fundamentalism, moved to a more inclusive evangelicalism as a young adult, served more than twenty-five years among Mennonites, and six years ago received the sacrament of confirmation in an Anglican church. In 1970, I was ordained a Baptist minister. In 1982, I was ordained in the Mennonite Church. In 2011, I was ordained an Anglican priest.\nI mention all of that only to establish that I know a thing or two about Christian theology. I taught systematic theology for twelve years as a Bible college instructor. Until about seven years ago, I thought I had a handle on a belief system that I could explain in systematic, academic terms, in which I could find the answer to any question I might be asked about faith, religion, or metaphysics in general. I don\u2019t think that anymore.\nOne day the engine that ran my theological system just seized up and stopped working. Or, to use a different metaphor, some bricks came loose from my theological foundation, and soon the entire superstructure began to buckle. Now, it wasn\u2019t really that dramatic, but nearly so. (If you want to know all the factors that contributed to this set of circumstances, you\u2019ll have to read this blog regularly or get a copy of the book I\u2019m writing called A New Way of Seeing.)\nI used to start my theology with the Bible, primarily the New Testament, and then I would assess people and their behavior in light of my interpretation of the scripture. Over time, however, I found that this approach made it possible\u2014and maybe necessary\u2014to pass judgment, build walls, and exclude people. People who behaved contrary to my interpretation and people who interpreted the text differently from me.\nNow I begin with people and read the biblical text in light of those relationships. I find this approach encourages less judgment, more acceptance, and a greater potential for unity amid diversity. Since there was a church before there was a New Testament, I think I\u2019m on pretty solid ground.\nMore important, Jesus always read the scripture through the lens of real people whom he knew and with whom he had some degree of relationship. He did not bring a static interpretation of the law to his relationships and then try to make people fit into it. I think this is why people listened to him teach and testified that he spoke as one who had authority.\nIn the past few years, I\u2019ve tried to emulate Jesus\u2019 model. I find that if I read the text through the lens of the people I know, I draw different conclusions than if I begin with the text and try to make it fit every situation in the same way. Or, as a friend of mine is fond of saying, the one with an experience is never at the mercy of the one with only an argument.\nI have come to believe that the problem with a faith based on propositional doctrine is that it enables the possibility that one may affirm the \u201cright\u201d creedal formulation yet be insensitive and uncaring in relationships. I am moving toward a model of faith that prioritizes relationship\u2014first with God, then with others\u2014above doctrinal precision.\nThis is the third post I have written on the Bible and how my views have changed with regard to the interpretation, authority, and application of the biblical text. Here\u2019s an example of how my \u201cnew way of seeing\u201d links these themes in my approach to scripture.\nMost scholars, including many conservatives, agree that the Bible assumes a pre-critical, pre-Enlightenment worldview when it speaks to matters of science (cosmology, astronomy, medicine, etc). Responsible interpretation of the biblical text requires us to keep that in mind. I now believe it is likely that a similar perspective applies to the Bible\u2019s view of the social sciences as well. I\u2019m surprised it took me so long to see that. I guess that\u2019s why it\u2019s called a pilgrimage.\nThis entry was posted in American Christianity, Bible, Christianity, discipleship, spiritual pilgrimage, Theology and tagged Bible, Christian faith, Christianity, discipleship, spiritual pilgrimage, theology by Eric Kouns. Bookmark the permalink.\n1 thought on \u201cSome Thoughts About the Bible: Application\u201d\nDennis R. Kuhns on October 17, 2015 at 10:04 am said:\nEric, I have enjoyed reading your blog. I identify so much with your own pilgrimage, and you are right when you say it is a pilgrimage. I am grateful for God\u2019s grace that did not require me to have my theology all nailed down correctly before God loved me and showered grace upon me and all of us. Be gracious with yourself as God has been with you/us. Thank you for sharing your pilgrimage with us all. It is a big help to know others are on the journey with us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ericmargolis.com/category/turkey/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YXRV3CFLBF7G2IPCQ4MCR4DN3KG53EZY", "length": 996, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ericmargolis.com", "title": "Turkey \u00ab Eric Margolis", "raw_content": "PENTAGON AND CIA AT WAR IN SYRIA\n3 Sept 2016 What a mess! In the crazy Syrian war, US-backed and armed groups are fighting other US-backed rebel groups. How can this be? It is so because the Obama White House had stirred up war in Syria but then lost control of the process. When the US has [\u2026]\nTURKEY\u2019S GENERALS STRIKE BACK\n23 July 2016 September 1961. Geneva, Switzerland. A Turkish classmate of mine named Turgut burst into my room, crying, \u2018those bastards just hanged my father!\u2019 The \u2018bastards\u2019 in question were Turkey\u2019s generals. They had overthrown the civilian government of Adnan Menderes and hanged my friend\u2019s father. Since, then, the mighty [\u2026]\nTHE PHONY WAR IN SYRIA\n16 April 2016 The great, long-awaited counterattack against ISIS has finally begun. The offensive that spans Syria and western Iraq is targeting the ISIS-held cities of Raqqa and Mosul, Iraq\u2019s second largest city. 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Displaying results 1 to 10 of 85.\nGirls4Christ at the Youth in Mission Congress in Offenburg, Germany\nRelevance: 100% - As the Girls4Christ Team of the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg Conference we were active at the Youth in Mission Congress with a booth from March 24 to 28, 2016. There we were able to see directly how important the work is that God has entrusted to us. Girls and women of all age groups visited the booth in...\nNew Resources for Women's Ministries\nRelevance: 100% - Are you looking for something to make your Bible Study time more interesting? Do you need material for your women's meetings? Do you want to start a Bible Study group in your home or church? On the new Women's Ministries Website you will find lots of new resources that will help you find just what...\n2016 Women's Ministries Annual Special Days\nRelevance: 43% - Women worldwide are encouraged to be in charge of the church services on June 11, the Women's Ministries Emphasis day. The department provides material that can be used. This time the material was prepared by Dr. Galina Stele. When our lives are falling apart, we are thirsty for a spiritual need...\nRelevance: 27% - various art materials. All participants were free to choose their Bible text and the material used. Thus various works of art were created. The workshop and the interest for the project\nGlobal Children\u2019s Ministries Advisory\nRelevance: 27% - of the world. This gives a big bunch of tools and material that allow avoiding \u201creinventing the wheel\u201d.\u2028With the great expansion of Internet and other technologies children, parents\u2028and leaders from around [...] and useful to connect and share experiences and activities\u2028that help children to...\nRelevance: 27% - be divided into small groups and will be using the latest learning materials in a modern language laboratory. Excursions to Luther sites and nearby cities will complete the course program. This course will be free of cost for the refugees, whereas the cost of learning material, excursions and...\nItaly: Adventist Churches hit by flood\nRelevance: 27% - damaged the plaster walls, doors and wooden window frames. Water has also destroyed furniture, the flooring, the sound system, the heating, the children's Sabbath School material, books and Aisa scouts material. Everything was destroyed. \"Now our brothers and sisters do not know what to do and...\nRelevance: 27% - be available soon. ADRA does not accept international material donations \u2013 please consider an urgent monetary contribution. To donate, please connect here .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://events.cornell.edu/event/the_wendy_rosenthal_gellman_lecture_on_modern_literature_by_erica_edwards", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:22Z", "digest": "sha1:2YL5A7LPYLMOWEYAZGEBF34WEP6JIC5Y", "length": 2278, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "events.cornell.edu", "title": "The Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature by Erica Edwards - Cornell", "raw_content": "The Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature by Erica Edwards\n'How Very American': Black Women Writers and the Long War on Terror\nThis talk is drawn from Edwards' current book project, The Other Side of Terror: Black Women and the Grammars of State Violence, which analyzes how contemporary black expressive culture has refracted the culture of U.S. empire throughout the long war on terror, from 1968 to the present. Mapping the transformations of African American literature against global and local campaigns of counterinsurgency, this book argues that Black feminist poetry, fiction, television, and film have exposed the imperial grammars of blackness while also marking out minor grammars of subsistence, survival, and black radical undoing.\nErica Edwards is Presidential Term Chair in African American Literature and Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University. She specializes in African American literature, gender and sexuality, and black political culture. Edwards is the author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), which won the Modern Language Asosciation\u2019s 12th annual William Sanders Scarborough prize. Her work, published in such journals as American Quarterly, Callaloo, American Literary History, and Black Camera, shows how contemporary African American literature challenges us to think in new ways about the relationships between African American narrative, American popular culture, and the contemporary history of black politics and black social movements.\nThe Gellman Lecture, featuring a distinguished scholar of modern literature, was established by a generous gift from Wendy Rosenthal Gellman \u201881, who majored in English at Cornell.\nThis year, the Gellman Lecture launches a year-long series of talks focusing on current topics in African American literary studies: the 2018-19 African American Studies Speaker Series. The other talks in the series are supported by the Department of English and College of Arts and Sciences. Next in the series, a Lecture by GerShun Avilez on October 16.\ncashum, engdep, africal, amstcal\nhttp://english.cornell.edu/english-ev...\nlbl3@cornell.edu\nLynn Lauper\nIf you need accommodations to attend this event, please contact us as soon as possible", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 5419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://everyfad.com/movie/33-postcards-2011", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:30Z", "digest": "sha1:NWW7TTL57MR6AFXV5G2RHXYAJIYOMKAF", "length": 31, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "everyfad.com", "title": "33 Postcards (2011) - EveryFad", "raw_content": "http://33postcardsthemovie.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 149.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ew.com/article/1995/06/30/val-kilmer-latest-batman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:53Z", "digest": "sha1:KI36QOTNVT5UWGRZCIUCBBQLOHGFLTAL", "length": 3098, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ew.com", "title": "Val Kilmer is the latest Batman | EW.com", "raw_content": "Val Kilmer is the latest Batman\nVal Kilmer is the latest Batman -- Will this role finally provide the actor star power?\nThere\u2019s something about Val Kilmer that makes even the most earthbound person invoke the spiritual. \u201dI hate metaphysical mumbo jumbo,\u201d says Joel Schumacher, director of Batman Forever, \u201dbut you know when people say other people are old souls? There\u2019s just something about Val\u2026\u201d And producer Brian Grazer stumbles for words until finally giving in to \u201dHe definitely has an aura.\u201d Oh, please, you think, spare me the details. But here he comes, the man who transformed into a shaggy Jim Morrison for The Doors (1991) and a gaunt Doc Holliday in Tombstone (1993), skulking across the bar of L.A.\u2019s Four Seasons Hotel, hazel-eyed and lush-lipped and so damn perfect-looking that reason flees and you think, \u201dSo this is what God intended.\u201d He shakes hands, then meanders off with a promise to return. He lopes back 10 minutes later and slowly settles into a chair, but then his cellular phone rings, and he and it and a pack of cigarettes are off to the corner for another 15 minutes. You think of Grazer\u2019s comment about Kilmer\u2019s behavior back on the set of 1985\u2019s Real Genius: \u201dHe would just evaporate. No one could find him.\u201d You reassure yourself that the movie in question was ultimately completed. But it\u2019s nevertheless a relief when Kilmer reappears, turns off the phone, leans back in the chair, and lights another cigarette, apologizing for the habit. \u201dI don\u2019t smoke,\u201d he says with utmost sincerity while inhaling deeply, \u201dbut Shiherlis does.\u201d (Chris Shiherlis is the criminal he\u2019s currently playing in Michael Mann\u2019s Heat, costarring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, the character for whom he is sporting dyed blond hair.) Then, after the first of many long pauses \u2014 taken luxuriously between sentences as well as subjects \u2014 he begins to speak about Batman Forever, the anticipated summer behemoth in which, with the aid of costars Jim Carrey (the Riddler), Tommy Lee Jones (Two-Face), and Nicole Kidman (Dr. Chase Meridian, psychiatrist and love object), he is tersely winging his way to fame.\n\u201dIt\u2019s been easy to promote because [reporters] laugh if they have any serious questions,\u201d Kilmer says, speaking so slowly you worry that day will break before he finishes. \u201dThere\u2019s no angle on it. Sometimes it\u2019s harder if you really care about the project, because there\u2019s something you want to make sure gets across, but there isn\u2019t with this. It is what it is. It\u2019s done. It\u2019s big.\u201d\nKilmer, 35, has never done big before. Since his Juilliard school days and scattered roles in blockbusters like Top Gun and forgettable films like Kill Me Again, he\u2019s flirted along the edges of Hollywood, living in Santa Fe with his wife, actress Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, raising their daughter, Mercedes, 3, and now their newborn and as yet unnamed son, writing poetry, and taking the occasional job when it suited him. 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One of these is associated with overspending, overeating, and drinking, (Venus opposite Jupiter). While this can be rather pleasurable, it\u2019s good to know your spending and calorie limits, and manage to stay as close to them as possible.\nThe other cycle that comes into range at that time is associated with a lot of talk or hot air (Mercury opposite Jupiter). This talk may be exaggerated, or too vague to really tie down any details. This cycle could work well for promotions or parties, especially since overspending and overeating are also occurring. Designate a driver if you do party!\nThe overspending cycle (Venus opposite Jupiter) peaks on January 19th and stays in range through January 23rd. The too much talk cycle does not peak at this time, as Mercury turns around to move backwards on January 21st. 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She eventually became the first African-American ever to serve as chief policy counsel within the New Jersey Governor\u2019s office. Prior to her position in the governor\u2019s office, David blazed a trail at the New Jersey Department of the Treasury. As the first African American woman State Treasurer, she created the Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Supplier Diversity and Division of Minority and Women-owned Businesses, forging new revenue-generating avenues for women and minority-owned businesses. She became the youngest New Jersey Lottery CEO, producing record-setting revenue numbers, enhancing the state\u2019s General Fund contribution to education and state run veteran\u2019s homes. Davis was also the first woman and person of color to be named to the senior-most position of the State of New Jersey\u2019s healthcare system. An internationally-sought speaker, Davis works to connect with, communicate, and challenge those to whom speaks.\nArticles By Michellene Davis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 147.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forecast.id.com.au/macedon-ranges/faqs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:15Z", "digest": "sha1:K5PU2YAACRRBRJYIFHLZKU57ZGXDWG5R", "length": 645, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "forecast.id.com.au", "title": "FAQs | Macedon Ranges Shire | forecast.id", "raw_content": "State Government forecasts are generally based on what is known as a \u2018top-down\u2019 model. This means that forecasts are prepared for major regions (Statistical Divisions or Statistical Area 4s) and then effectively allocated to Local Government Areas (LGAs) and Statistical Local Areas or Statistical Area 2s (SLAs, SA2s), ensuring that these total to the numbers for the larger areas. 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I'm not the biggest Jamie Foxx fan, but he's done some good stuff in the past.\nhttps://www.cbr.com/jamie-foxx-spawn-movie-blumhouse/\nTags: jamie foxx, movies, spawn\nSome good stuff... some. But this does not seem like a natural fit at all. Maybe I am crazy, but I don't see it.\nI'm just glad to see someone cast. I feel like it means stuff's truly moving forward with the movie.\nI'm way behind on READING, but I've been buying Spawn since #256 or so, I think, now--coming on 30ish issues; I think the longest stint I had with the title prior was 8 issues.\nHopefully a new movie brings the character back to some prominence, and all that.\nAt the least, I hope it's a \"fun\" film.\n(as \"fun\" as something can be, given the subject matter)\nI guess anyone cast in the part means it is being made - and that is great news. Especially for fans. So it's definitely a positive!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/i-wont-go-to-the-pub-if-there-are-will-be-a-lot-of-drunk-people.3546949/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ACXX7IZZW63AWLNBAQ3SIOJJ5UCLVMKO", "length": 5995, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "forum.wordreference.com", "title": "I won't go to the pub if there are/will be a lot of drunk people. | WordReference Forums", "raw_content": "I won't go to the pub if there are/will be a lot of drunk people.\nDiscussion in 'English Only' started by cakypax, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:47 PM.\ncakypax Member\nHello, could you please explain me which sentence is correct and what's the difference between them if they both are correct? May the article \"an\"\ndetermine the choice of tense here? Like if I was talking about a suggested arrangement or just in general that I don't like pubs full of lairy people...\n1)I won't go to the pub if there will be a lot of drunk people.\n2)I won't go to the pub if there are a lot of drunk people.\ncakypax, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:47 PM\n\"I won't go to a pub if there are a lot of drunk people (there)\" suggests that you go as far as the door and decide not to go in if you see that there are a lot of drunks inside. The other version suggests some foreknowledge of the situation.\n(2) has a tense problem, because \"I won't go to the pub\" is future and \"are\" is present. When you say \"go to the pub\", it implies you are at a significant distance away from the pub, so you can't know whether there are a lot of drunk people there.\nYou could fix this problem by changing it to (2a) \"I won't go into the pub if there are a lot of drunk people inside.\" Then you could say this in the context of your now being directly outside the pub and you are asking your friend to go in first, to check if it's \"safe\" for you to enter.\n(1) is fine in theory, but is not how we would normally say it. We would say (1a) \"I won't go to the pub if there are going to be a lot of drunk people.\"\n(2) has a tense problem, because \"I won't go to the pub\" is future and \"are\" is present.\nSorry, I don't understand... why \"I won't go out if it rains\" doesn't have a tense problem and \"I won't go there if there are a lot of drunk people\" does?\n\"Edinburgher said: \u2191\nWhen you say \"go to the pub\", it implies you are at a significant distance away from the pub, so you can't know whether there are a lot of drunk people there.\nYou could fix this problem by changing it to (2a) \"I won't go into the pub if there are a lot of drunk people inside.\"\nI understood my mistake with \"go\", but If I just want to say generally that I don't visit pubs which are usually full of drunk lairy people, can I say \"I don't go to a pub if there are a lot of drunk people\"?\nI'm confused...I thought \"I won't go to the pub if there will be a lot of drunk people\" wasn't fine in theory, because we usually don't use \"will\" in if clause(?) (unless \"will\" acts like a modal verb)\ncakypax said: \u2191\nSorry, I don't understand... why \"I won't go out if it rains\" doesn't have a tense problem\nIt does, really. Where have you seen or heard this, and is the person referring to going out in general or on a particular occasion in the future? However, \"I won't go out if it is raining\" would be fine, referring to a particular occasion. The present tense is often used to refer to the future, but matching future and present tenses in an idiomatic manner can be very tricky.\nYou need \"into\" instead of \"to\", and there is nothing in the sentence that suggests you avoid pubs that are usually full of drunk people, only pubs full of drunk people at that particular time.\nI think you are right, which is why Edinburgher suggests \"are going to\" instead.\nThe main problem with your original question is what exactly do you mean? \"I won't go to the pub\" suggests you haven't yet left home, so how do you expect to know whether there are drunk people there, either now or at the time you get there; On what basis will you decide to go out or not?\nUsing the indefinite article would suggest a general rule or policy that you have, but for this you would use the present tense, as you did in post #4.\nIt does, really. Where have you seen or heard this, and is the person referring to going out in general or on a particular occasion in the future?\nThat's what is written in my textbook \"Round-up 4\": \"We will go for a picnic if it doesn't rain/unless it rains\" Here's the screenshot\nThis example basically means the same as \"We won't go for a picnic if it rains\", doesn't it?\nThe main problem with your original question is what exactly do you mean?\nI mean, I like visiting pubs or bars, but I don't like the ones that are usually full of drunk noisy people, maybe sports bars. So if, for example, my friend asks me out and says: \"Would you like to go to a bar tonight?\" What should I respond, according to my preference?\nAh, the subtleties of the English language. We'll go for a picnic...\n...if it doesn't rain: If it does not rain before then, which would make the ground wet and uncomfortable to sit on.\n...if it isn't raining: If it isn't raining at the time we want to go.\u200b\nBoth are fine in the context of a picnic, but the first sounds a little odd if you are just talking about going out.\nYou need a that- or a where-clause, not an if-clause. The question isn't whether or not you will go out, but which pub to go to:\nI won't go to a pub that's full of drunk people.\nI won't go to a pub where there are a lot of drunk people.\u200b\nIf there's only one pub (in which case you would not go out at all), then \"if\" is correct but Edinburgher's \"are going to\" is the best fit:\nI won't go to the pub if there are going to be a lot of drunk people.\u200b\nHowever, I can imagine your sentence (2) \"I won't go to the pub if there are a lot of drunk people\" being said, but it doesn't really stand up to scrutiny, as it seems to be referring to people who are in the pub before you go out. How do you know they are there, and what difference does it make anyway? They might thrown out have got thrown out by the time you get to the pub.\nOh God, why do they never say it in books? I would never guess...Thank you\nI hope, the other examples given in the screenshot are not the same odd?\nI won't go to a pub where there are a lot of drunk people.\nI won't go to the pub if there are going to be a lot of drunk people.\nthank you very much for your very clear exlanations! <3\ncakypax, Feb 11, 2019 at 11:37 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 10930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 208.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.windowscentral.com/windows-central-news-discussion/466085-comedians-conan-obrien-kumail-nanjiani-play-middle-earth-shadow-war.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:29Z", "digest": "sha1:PRF7RA2VFPVPNB3NEWNAIOXFLHTAYJIZ", "length": 754, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "forums.windowscentral.com", "title": "Comedians Conan O'Brien and Kumail Nanjiani play Middle-earth: Shadow of War - Windows Central Forums", "raw_content": "Comedians Conan O'Brien and Kumail Nanjiani play Middle-earth: Shadow of War\nFor quite a few years now, famed American comedian Conan O'Brien has been running a segment on his late night talk show called Clueless Gamer.\nClueless Gamer started off as more of a joke, but recently many developers have been showcasing their titles on the program. 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But is she eligible?", "raw_content": "Home News Amy McGrath might run for Kentucky governor. But is she eligible?\nAmy McGrath might run for Kentucky governor. But is she eligible?\nBefore they draft Amy McGrath to run for governor, her supporters are trying to hush the political whispers that she hasn\u2019t lived in Kentucky long enough.\nWithin 24 hours of losing the closely watched Kentucky 6th Congressional District race, McGrath\u2019s campaign manager was publicly encouraging her to enter the 2019 gubernatorial contest.\n\u201cAmy is taking her time and reviewing all of her options,\u201d Mark Nickolas told the Courier Journal via email.\nMcGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot, carries national name recognition after the midterms and is a major fundraiser. She would also be a fresh face for Democrats in a primary field that is made up of state Rep. Rocky Adkins, a 30-year incumbent, and Attorney General Andy Beshear, the son of a former governor who has been around state government for more than 40 years.\nDemocratic strategist Matt Erwin said McGrath\u2019s political future in the state is a bright one, but there is festering concern about whether she would qualify to be the nominee taking on Republican Gov. Matt Bevin next year.\n\u201cAmy is enormously talented, but if there is any question about whether there will be a legal fight over her residency \u2014 2019 is too important for that kind of distraction,\u201d Erwin said.\nMcGrath, who grew up in Edgewood, Kentucky, retired from the military in June 2017 after serving two decades in the U.S. Marine Corps.\nAfter serving multiple tours overseas, where she flew about 90 combat missions, McGrath returned stateside in 2011. She was assigned to Capitol Hill as a congresswoman\u2019s policy adviser for one year, according to the Naval Academy\u2019s website, and spent the next two in the Pentagon as a liaison to other federal government agencies.\nIn 2014, McGrath taught political science to cadets and midshipmen at the Naval Academy before retiring and moving to Georgetown, Kentucky, where she announced in a viral YouTube video that she was running for Congress.\nDuring the 2018 congressional primary, both of McGrath\u2019s Democratic rivals \u2014 Lexington Mayor Jim Gray and state Sen. Reggie Thomas \u2014 called her out for moving back to Kentucky so close to announcing her candidacy.\nThomas referred to McGrath as a \u201ccarpetbagger\u201d during a televised debate, and Gray released a TV attack ad about the issue in the final weeks of the election. The spot was widely condemned by veterans groups, including VoteVets, who said it was attacking McGrath\u2019s military service.\nUnlike running for Congress, however, the Kentucky Constitution says a person must be a resident of the state for at least six years before the gubernatiorial election.\nErwin, the political strategist, emphasized he isn\u2019t working for any Democrat who is currently or rumored to be running for governor. He said he was an early donor to McGrath\u2019s congressional bid, but residency issues surrounding her potential candidacy requirement cannot be ignored.\n\u201cThe only people I can guarantee who will make an issue out of it would be the Republicans,\u201d Erwin said. \u201cIn 2018, they showed the lengths to which they\u2019re willing to go in terms of voter suppression, so I wouldn\u2019t put it past any Republican candidate, especially Matt Bevin, to try every legal trick in the book.\u201d\nNickolas dismissed those anxieties when asked by the Courier Journal, saying McGrath\u2019s residency has been entirely in Kentucky since November 2013. He said as someone serving in the military, she was able to designate a residency while she was stationed out of state.\n\u201cThat\u2019s not a barrier to running,\u201d Nickolas said.\n\u201cI know the Republicans are nervous about her running and have been pushing this, but it\u2019s desperate because her residency is clear, as an active duty military officer,\u201d he added.\nFifteen years ago, a residency challenge rocked the early days of Kentucky\u2019s gubernatorial contest. Republican Hunter Bates was knocked off the ticket as the running mate for then-candidate Ernie Fletcher.\nBates had lived in Alexandria, Virginia \u2014 working as an aide for U.S. Mitch McConnell \u2014 for six and a half years before running. In that ruling, which Bates did not appeal, an Oldham Circuit judge said that even though Bates maintained the right to vote in his native Whitley County and owned property there, he lost his residency after being out of the Bluegrass State for so long.\nFletcher went on to pick a new running mate, Steve Pence, before winning the GOP nomination and ultimately the governor\u2019s mansion.\nJosh Douglas, a law professor at the University of Kentucky, said if McGrath enters the race, the question will come down to her intent during the previous six years while serving either overseas or stateside.\n\u201cResidency for these purposes is usually defined as where someone lives with an intent to remain indefinitely,\u201d he said. \u201cOne does not lose a residency \u2014 often called \u2018domicile\u2019 \u2014 unless and until they have a new residence, plus intent to remain indefinitely somewhere else.\u201d\nUniversity of Louisville law professor Russell Weaver echoed that McGrath\u2019s military service out of state doesn\u2019t take away her Kentucky citizenship rights. But he said there isn\u2019t much McGrath can do to answer this legal question until she decides to run and someone challenges her in court.\n\u201cShe can come forward with the information, but she\u2019s not going to get a definitive answer,\u201d he said.\nLes Fugate is a Republican consultant who previously worked in the secretary of state\u2019s office. He said there is also little case law at the statewide level to give McGrath or the Democrats much guidance.\n\u201cIf I were her, I would have a little heartburn about my standing because the decision is outside of her hands and it\u2019s with the courts,\u201d he said.\nFugate said Republicans thought Bates qualified to run in 2003, and that while not the same type of service, both McGrath and Bates were away from their home state on behalf of the U.S. government.\n\u201cIt\u2019s never made its way up the legal food chain to the state Supreme Court, but it seems hard for me to see how their situations are that dramatically different,\u201d Fugate said.\nKentucky Democratic Party Chairman Ben Self declined a request comment left with a spokeswoman. But the party acknowledged they are aware of swirling concerns about McGrath\u2019s potential candidacy.\nDouglas, the UK law professor, said the best legal example for McGrath to examine is a challenge against Democrat Rahm Emmanuel when he ran for mayor of Chicago in 2011.\nOpponents argued Emmanuel gave up his residency, which needed to be one year, by moving to Washington, D.C., to serve as White House chief of staff for President Obama.\nThe Illinois Supreme Court, however, ruled that Emmanuel did not create a new domicile in D.C. because he always intended to go back to Chicago.\nIn that case, Douglas said, the court said a candidate\u2019s absence can last years while still being \u201ctemporary,\u201d meaning the person does not lose residency. He said if McGrath\u2019s residency is challenged in court, a judge would look at various activities, including her voting history and where she had a driver\u2019s license.\n\u201cGiven the facts that I know, I think it\u2019s probable that she did not lose her Kentucky residency,\u201d Douglas said. \u201cBut, of course, that would be subject to further inquiry based on the facts.\u201d\nMcGrath has been a registered voter in Kentucky since 1995, according to the secretary of state\u2019s office. Voting records show she has participated in five of six state elections since 2011.\nNickolas bypassed a question about McGrath\u2019s other information \u2014 \u201cDriver\u2019s license? Really?\u201d\u2014 but pointed out that she has filed her tax returns in Kentucky every single year as a resident during that time frame.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 12598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?article7550", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:01Z", "digest": "sha1:234DTRWTYPU7JJCV3ICHPBDVAYQLE637", "length": 3435, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "franceintheus.org", "title": "\ufeff Official speeches and statements - April 21, 2016 - France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.", "raw_content": "1. Central African Republic - Statement by M. Fran\u00e7ois Hollande, President of the Republic, following his meeting with the President of the Central African Republic (excerpts) (Paris,2016-04-20)\nI hosted a meeting with the President of the Central African Republic, Mr Touadera. It provided an opportunity for us to congratulate him once again on the presidential election from which he emerged the victor, which was a transparent, indisputable election and showed that in Africa it\u2019s possible - even after an especially turbulent period - to succeed in organizing a ballot that doesn\u2019t create unrest but, on the contrary, allows people to come together.\nThe ballot sets an example because, I remind you, the Central African Republic was in a near-chaos situation in December 2013. There were massacres, there were crimes, there were inter-religious conflicts. France had to shoulder its responsibilities - that\u2019s what I decided with our African friends, with the United Nations\u2019 support - to ensure we could end the fratricidal fighting, the armed groups that were engaging in the worst acts of violence, and ensure there could be a transition. (...)\nI note that, just over two years later, it\u2019s been possible to organize a presidential election and a general election, with all the standards of a democracy. (...)\nTo everyone who still wonders about external interventions, particularly in Africa and especially in the Central African Republic, we showed this one was different from all the others. It enabled us to get the results I\u2019ve just welcomed.\nHowever, a lot still remains to be done, as President Touadera told me: a lot to be done in terms of security, of disarming a number of groups - all the groups, morevoer, which must be disarmed. That\u2019s why Sangaris no longer has any raison d\u2019\u00eatre at the level we\u2019ve seen since the beginning of the operation. Let me remind you that 2,000 soldiers were present in the Central African Republic at one point. Sangaris will remain in the Central African Republic, I assure you. We\u2019ll make sure that, to help the Central African forces, the essential support exists and our soldiers are present, within a European mission, to support you in the task of managing and training the Central African army, which is essential in order to guarantee security.\nAnd then there\u2019s economic development. Here too, France will be present at your side, with its budget assistance, with the French Development Agency\u2019s projects and with Europe. I want to pay tribute to Europe; here again, its role isn\u2019t emphasized enough. (...)\nI\u2019d like to conclude by saying that I also of course talked about the scandals which have hit MINUSCA and French army units. The matter has been referred to the courts and nothing will be left hidden or covered up. Transparency and the truth will have to be established, including for the sake of the French army\u2019s honour. If groundless accusations have been made, we will have to know this too. But if cases are proven, there will be no impunity from French justice. I can assure you of that.\nBut going beyond those cases - which had to be discussed and were, on my initiative -, I believe we must pay tribute to success: the success of the operation, the success of the Central African Republic, which can justifiably - despite all its woes, despite all its difficulties - be proud of this process, which has led to your election and your being here today, Mr President.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 8747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freebeacon.com/columns/president-trumps-democratic-opponents-ranked/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PJTSOGNMIJM2253WOEFELBF7JYCXJWUB", "length": 11458, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "freebeacon.com", "title": "President Trump's Democratic Opponents Ranked", "raw_content": "President Trump\u2019s Democratic Opponents Ranked\nColumn: The best and worst the Democratic Party has to offer in 2020\nCNN informs me there are \"at least\" 22 Democrats thinking of running for president in 2020. So who among them had the best 2017? Below is my list, in descending order, of the strongest members of the emerging 2020 Democratic field, along with some thoughts on their political fortunes. Spoiler alert: It's not a pretty sight.\nAl Franken / Getty Images\nIf I had composed this list just two months ago, Franken would have been in a different position. This was his year to shine. He published an enjoyable memoir of his entertainment and political career, scored partisan points while genially undermining Jeff Sessions's account of contacts with Russian officials, earned the respect of his colleagues, including some Republicans, and burnished his liberal Democratic message of economic security and antiracism. \"Al Franken for President?\" asked National Journal last February.\nIt was not to be. On November 16, news anchor and former model Leeann Tweeden accused Franken of sexual misconduct during an overseas USO tour in 2006. That was just the beginning. By the seventh accusation, which arrived this week, Franken could survive no longer. He announced his resignation Thursday.\n13. Tom Perez\nThe chairman of the Democratic National Committee has not had an easy go of it. First he had trouble securing the job. As a result, Bernie Sanders ally Keith Ellison was made deputy chairman in the service of intraparty comity. Then came the Democratic loss to replace Tom Price in the most expensive special election in history. Worst of all, Perez has had to deal with the fallout from Donna Brazile's Hacks, in which the interim party chair said the 2016 primary had been rigged for Hillary Clinton. The Virginia election was a bright spot\u2014but credit for that victory lies elsewhere. Maybe Perez's fortunes will improve with a win for Doug Jones in Alabama next Tuesday. Regardless, he will still have one of the worst jobs in politics.\nHillary Clinton / Getty Images\nThe lady who just won't go away. Hillary Clinton may have scored a bestseller with What Happened, but she did not improve her reputation. Not only has Clinton continued to deny responsibility for her election defeat. She has gone on to challenge the legitimacy of Donald Trump's presidency. That is beyond being a sore loser; it's entering the fever swamps. Clinton's legacy was harmed further with the news that her campaign did nothing after Lena Dunham warned officials about donor Harvey Weinstein's predation. The frenzied allegations of sexual misconduct and the resignations that have followed seem to be justice for Bill Clinton's wrongdoing\u201420 years after the fact. If Hillary ran a third time for president, it would be the best thing to happen to Donald Trump since the invention of reality TV.\n11. Cory Booker\nCory Booker / Getty Images\nCory Booker's reputation has always been much grander than the facts allow. This presidential aspirant did not have the year he might have wanted. It began with him testifying against the nomination of Jeff Sessions for attorney general, becoming the first senator in history to do so. It ended with him appearing as a character witness for Bob Menendez. Not a good look. This supposed defender of Israel also voted against the Taylor Force Act and opposed President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish State. Otherwise he's been missing in action. To become the Democratic nominee, he'll have to step up his game.\n10. Kirsten Gillibrand\nKirsten Gillibrand / Getty Images\nThe New York senator wanted to run in 2016, but like the rest of her party made room for Clinton. That was a mistake. She seems eager to right this wrong, by calling for President Clinton's resignation 20 years too late and, after some fumbling, for Senator Franken's as well. Gillibrand is warm, fluent, intelligent, from an important state, and has a major issue: sexual harassment and assault. Her confused messages on Clinton and Trump were rookie mistakes. But they were also the sort of mistakes one doesn't expect from a prot\u00e9g\u00e9e of Chuck Schumer and a contender for the Democratic nomination. I can see Gillibrand as the \"wine-track\" candidate of liberal professional Democrats. But it will take work.\nSherrod Brown / Getty Images\nHaven't heard of the Ohio senator? That's the way he likes it. Brown is my dark horse. At 65 years old, he's relatively young for a Democrat. His liberal credentials are impeccable. And he understands that trade is at the center of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders's appeal. Brown has received a lot of grief from his colleagues for working with Trump as the president renegotiates NAFTA. He should ignore them. Brown has a better grip on the concerns of the white working class than they do.\n8. Bill de Blasio\nBill de Blasio / Getty Images\nThe New York City mayor had a good year. He wasn't indicted, for starters. Also, he won reelection. He has increased his national travel and is mulling a political action committee. De Blasio has a comfortable perch on the far left side of his party. He'd also easily be the tallest candidate in the race, and the taller candidate has a tendency to win. Nevertheless, in a primary campaign he'd have a lot of competition for avatar of the left. And New York City mayors don't travel well beyond the Hudson River. He'll make a splash if he runs. But will the wave travel past the Jersey Shore?\nAndrew Cuomo / Getty Images\nCuomo's reputation is hard to gauge. His approval rating is positive, but he has made many enemies, including De Blasio, over his two terms as governor. He handled the recent terrorist attack in New York City well. But his embrace of same-sex marriage seems like forever ago, and I can't think of any other prominent issue or accomplishment to which he is attached. He'll also have a major problem if the GOP tax reform plan is signed into law. How he deals with the inability of his constituents to deduct mortgage interest and state and local taxes from their federal returns will count for a lot. So will his campaign for a third term, should he decide he wants one. Can't count him out in 2020\u2014but probably not wise to overestimate him either.\n6. Eric Holder\nEric Holder / Getty Images\nThe former attorney general acts like he's dabbling in 2020 politics. He'd be a stalking-horse for his close friend Barack Obama, the protector of our 44th president's legacy. His issue is gerrymandering reform. Not the sort of thing on which to run a national campaign, but relevant enough to keep you in the headlines. Race and social justice also figure heavily in Holder's liberal imagination, and should those issues be ignored, Holder might step into the fray. He'd rake up donations for sure. The mystery is how he'd perform as a candidate. My guess: not well.\nElizabeth Warren / Getty Images\nWarren's year has been mixed. She's clearly a Democratic star, and a leader of the Resistance. She delivered well-received speeches at both the 2012 and 2016 conventions. She scored a hit in her investigation of Wells Fargo. She gets the economic issue and the sense among voters that the system is rigged.\nYet her pet institution, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is now in the hands of President Trump. She looked silly when she posed with Leandra English, the pretender to head the bureau. Warren also seems to be quaking with anger whenever she's discussing Republicans. And she's incredibly guarded when discussing anything else. Has she ever faced aggressive questioning on matters outside personal finance and Wall Street?\nWarren earns sympathy whenever the president calls her \"Pocahontas.\" What the president is doing, though, is defining her as a fake and an outsider, years before the first vote is cast. I think Warren would run a campaign similar to Hillary's, except with greater emphasis on middle class economics. And I'm not sure that would be enough.\nKamala Harris / Getty Images\nThe Democratic hope from California had a good year. She stayed out of the headlines\u2014at least the negative ones. She continued to enjoy good press. Comparisons to Obama are Democratic manna from heaven (if Democrats believe in heaven). She's undoubtedly appealing: composed, incisive, and telegenic, with a mellifluous voice. But she's never fought a competitive race, hails from the people's republic of California, and has nowhere near the presence Barack Obama had at this point in his career. Will she seize her chance, or wait for her turn? How will she connect with Middle America, with African-American voters? Are her foreign and domestic policies anything but generic Democrat? There are more questions about Kamala Harris than there are answers.\n3. Terry McAuliffe\nTerry McAuliffe / Getty Images\nTerry McAuliffe is a business-friendly social liberal whose four years as governor of Virginia (alongside a Republican legislature) were comparatively successful. He's a proven fundraiser, likeable, and presided over a Democratic triumph in this year's Virginia elections. He's a hard man to dismiss. But I wonder if he has the stature of a president and if he is strong enough to assert himself on a crowded debate stage.\nJoe Biden / Getty Images\nHe's popular, jovial, a household name, reminds Democrats of the pre-Trump era, understands the necessity of assuaging the middle and working class, and everyone assumes he would have won the election had he been the Democratic nominee in 2016. But will he be the Democratic nominee in 2020? His previous campaigns have not gone well. On Inauguration Day 2021 he'll be 78 years old. Politics moves incredibly fast. Biden must be thinking\u2014or hoping\u2014that it hasn't yet passed him by.\nBernie Sanders / Getty Images\nIt's telling that the Democrat who had the best 2017 isn't even a member of the party. Bernie Sanders kept his movement together, persevered without any major gaffes or stumbles, and enjoys the support of young people and of multitudes of small donors. Age is also a factor with Bernie: He'll be 79 on Election Day 2020. Will he lead the Sandernistas to the Promised Land or anoint a successor in his place? No matter the answer, he's an undisputed king- or queen-maker who has the fate of the Democratic Party in one hand and a Che Guevara tee in the other.\nCan Democrats actually be pleased that so much depends on a septuagenarian democratic socialist from an indigo-blue state who honeymooned in the Soviet Union? I doubt it. As I write these words I am struck by just how bare the Democratic Party cupboard is. All of the leading contenders have flaws. None of them has the talents of Obama or of Bill Clinton. Their greatest advantage is Donald Trump. But their greatest disadvantage is Donald Trump, whose shrewdness, boldness, and fighting spirit observe no limits.\nThings change. Dark horses appear and defy expectations. Dark horses like the man who became our president. He told a crowd of donors last Saturday, \"Right now, unless [the Democrats] have somebody that we don't know about, right now we are unbeatable. We are unbeatable.\"\nTry telling him he's wrong.\nThis entry was posted in Columns and tagged 2020 Election, Al Franken, Andrew Cuomo, Bernie Sanders, Bill de Blasio, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Eric Holder, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Sherrod Brown, Terry McAuliffe, Tom Perez. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 13882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freebieswithattitude.com/questions-about-professionals-you-must-know-the-answers-to/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VJUYV5DG6WPNUZD2RT7EZPDKEZR2Y2U5", "length": 2527, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "freebieswithattitude.com", "title": "Questions About Professionals You Must Know the Answers To | FREEBIESWITHATTITUDE", "raw_content": "Factors to Consider When Selecting the Best Catering Company\nYou should understand that catering is the act of preparing and presenting food for different people. Home caterers provide many services to individuals. Home caterers help in preparing and serving food whenever you have a function such as birthdays, picnics, engagement parties and weddings. Personal chefs have increased in number, and this is because a lot of people have become aware of their services and the benefits of hiring a personal chef. Therefore, if you have any of the above events and you require the services of a chef, you should continue reading this article to gain more information about them.\nThe first thing you need to do is to identify the personal chefs that are available in your location. The best way to research is online whereby it will be very easy to find catering companies that are around you. You need now to know the kind of events that you have so that you can find a personal chef that is experienced in such events. You should have a list of the meals that you would like your guests to be served. It is crucial that you have a list of your guests and this is to help the catering company in preparing the food to make sure that the food is not too little or too much.\nDifferent home caterers provide various kinds of meals, and it is essential that you note what each caterer provides so that you can know the right caterer for you. Most catering companies will indicate their prices on their websites, and it is crucial that you note the rates of various catering companies so that you can make a comparison and find the best. You should note that in most cases the cost of hiring a catering company will depend on the number of guests on your occasion and also the kind of foods that you want to be prepared.\nBefore you settle on a certain catering company, it is essential that you taste their food to make sure that they prepare delicious food for your event. You should make sure that you find a caterer who will not ask for payment for the food samples. You should make sure that the catering company that you hire have chefs who are professionals and this is to make sure that they treat your guests professionally.\nLastly, it is crucial to make sure that the relevant authorities license the catering company that you choose in your area. Lastly, make sure that you select a catering company that has a reputation for their cleanliness in preparing, delivery and presentation of food.\nGetting Down To Basics with Food", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freedym.com/reinventing-yourself/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ETF6HR3OP5DSIRPHE2HEFHE42CGHSHJJ", "length": 4823, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "freedym.com", "title": "Reinventing Yourself - Freedym\u2122", "raw_content": "It\u2019s been harder than I thought.\nAt times I wanted to crawl into a hole and give up.\nI still have days like that.\nI don\u2019t know what lies ahead but I am proud of myself.\nFor me, it takes more courage to be myself and live life on my own terms than any other act.\nMany days I am still not sure what I am searching for and other times I feel I have great clarity.\nI have learned to be kinder to myself.\nA wise man once told me self-esteem is \u2018empathy turned inward\u2019.\nI am giving myself more empathy and allowing forgiveness.\nMost people love the thought of being a musical star. But they don\u2019t love the idea of playing guitar five hours a day every day to get there.\nMulti \u2013 millionaire? Yes! But the thought of bootstrapping it and risking everything for five years while learning to run a business? Not so much.\nBeing a best selling author? Wow! The thought of a daily writing process and constant rejection? That doesn\u2019t appeal.\nAnd that\u2019s why more people aren\u2019t rock stars.\nIt\u2019s one thing to want the outcome \u2013 It\u2019s quite another thing to want the process. And with career change or starting a new business venture on the side, you\u2019re also usually grappling with the challenge of not really knowing what you want your outcome to be.\nYou want to be in a career or own a business you love.\nBut you don\u2019t really know what that career would be, and the process of getting there (wherever \u2018there\u2019 is) looks unpleasant at times.\nHow can you take action on your career change when you don\u2019t know for sure what you want?\nHow can you get started when you don\u2019t know which direction to head in?\nStart by doing things you enjoy and hanging out with people who inspire and excite you. And if you are already doing this, look for ways to ramp up those activities to a new level. You\u2019ll try some things and realize it\u2019s the polar opposite of what you thought it was, and sigh with relief that you\u2019ll never fall into the trap of doing that again.\nYou will need a shift in perspective \u2013 from chasing an outcome to immersing yourself in a process.\nIn the simplest terms, without getting into the finances of it or your age or personal circumstances: what would you love to wake up and do every day?\nStart doing it every day even if only in the smallest possible way.\nStart connecting with people who are where you think you want to be. Drop them an email, request a 15-minute call, ask people you know for an introduction. Then ask them about their process. What is the daily reality of their day and their work? What is great about it? What is not so great about it? Get your head out of goal-mode and get with the process.\nUnderstand life will not adjust your circumstances at any time soon suddenly making your career path or new business idea smooth and easy. It\u2019s messy. You must demand what you want out of it.\nThis change, by its very nature, is a significant disturbance. It\u2019s a major adjustment.\nIt\u2019s uncomfortable to begin with. That\u2019s why there seems to be so many reasons why you can\u2019t make the shift.\nMaking a shift might require going to a networking event, attending a mastermind, going back to school for some classes, getting a certification or a mentor.\nIt will require changing your schedule.\nIt might require making requests of people you wouldn\u2019t normally make.\nIt might require difficult conversations with your family.\nIt might require putting yourself out there in a way you never have before.\nIt may require spending/investing money on a course or program.\nIt will require vulnerability and finding a source of inner strength you did not know you had.\nThose are all excellent reasons to stay right where you are, doing what you\u2019re doing, behaving how you\u2019ve always behaved. It would be very reasonable to decide to simply stay on the tracks.\nAsk yourself what is worse, the pain of moving forward or the pain of staying the same? The answer to that question will tell you what you want.\nCelebrate the fact that you\u2019re growing and developing as a human being and have stepped outside a Groundhog-day existence. Experience what it means to shift and transform. Would you rather live 70 years or one year seventy times?\nBut if you\u2019re hearing a call for something more, reasonable isn\u2019t going to help you answer it. Reasonable settles. Reasonable gives in.\nIf you\u2019re committed to making this year the year you finally start feeling motivated, inspired, and fulfilled by what you\u2019re doing, it\u2019s time to get a little unreasonable.\nYes, you might have to change your schedule. Yes, you might have to spend some money. Yes, you might have to get some new friends, have tricky conversations with your family, and push the boundaries of your comfort zone.\nAnd in the context of living a life you love, that\u2019s probably not too much to ask.\nBe honest with yourself. Love yourself. Love and forgive others. Be true to yourself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fresh.co.nz/2012/01/28/no-more-palm-oil-in-cadbury-chocolate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFBUYADHHQMXIXYGL7OCZOANCNVESMDV", "length": 2423, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "fresh.co.nz", "title": "No More Palm Oil In Cadbury Chocolate - Fresh", "raw_content": "Home Fresh Food News No More Palm Oil In Cadbury Chocolate\nNo More Palm Oil In Cadbury Chocolate\nConservation advocates say palm oil production is responsible for intensive deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia, leading to the slaughter of around 50 endangered orangutans a week and making Indonesia the world\u2019s third highest man-made carbon emitter, according to Greenpeace.\nCadbury has bowed to consumer pressure and stopped using palm oil in its dairy milk chocolate. The confectionary giant caused a furore when it was revealed it had substituted cocoa butter with vegetable fat including palm oil. Palm oil is a contentious ingredient with reports blaming its plantations for huge contributions to global warming and intensive habitat destruction leading to the deaths of orang-utans in Indonesia and Malaysia.\nCadbury New Zealand managing director Matthew Oldham said he was \u201creally sorry\u201d and that the decision was in direct response to consumer feedback, including hundreds of letters and emails. \u201cAt the time, we genuinely believed we were making the right decision, for the right reasons. But we got it wrong,\u201d he said.\n\u201cNow we\u2019re putting things right as soon as we possibly can, and hope Kiwis will forgive us. The change will be made within the next few weeks, he said.\nMembers of the nearly 3500-strong Facebook group \u2018Take palm oil out of Cadbury chocolate bars\u2019 were jubilant at this morning\u2019s news. \u201cPower to the people\u201d, said one member.\n\u201cWell done NZ! Excellent\u2026 but a shame for Cadbury as I have learnt that other chocolate is good too!\u201d another commented. Auckland Zoo director Jonathan Wilcken also congratulated Cadbury on their decision. He said they had met Cadbury and made their position clear. They would now be restocking Cadbury products in the zoo. Mr Wilcken said it was an issue they had been trying to raise the profile of for some time and they would continue to do so, calling it the \u201csingle biggest threat to the survival of orang-utans in the wild\u201d.\nPalm oil is derived from the fruit and kernels of the oil palm and is used in cosmetics, cleaning products and many processed foods. Much of the oil comes from land where existing rainforest has been slashed and burned to make way for Palm oil plantations. Three quarters of all palm oil comes from Malaysia and Indonesia where rainforests \u2013 housing the Bornean and Sumatran orangutans and other flora and fauna \u2013 are being destroyed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freshoffthebench.com/2014/10/30/the-journey-begins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TRKVAK4WRNRFLODLAKC5MPLEQEESBVOE", "length": 3388, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "freshoffthebench.com", "title": "The journey begins | Fresh Off The Bench", "raw_content": "You have to start from somewhere.\nThat\u2019s what my sister told me, when she read one of my first blog posts on Facebook, analyzing the 2009 NBA Playoffs against the LA Lakers and Orlando Magic.\nWriting is and will never be my strongest suit; basketball is and will always be.\nSomehow, I find myself writing this one, the first post on what could or could not be the best basketball blog made by a Filipino.\nI love basketball. I love the NBA. I love the trash talks involved, the hard fouls, the game winners and the game changers. And it all started when Michael Jordan hit his last shot against Utah Jazz (\u201997 Finals, Game 6).\nI was 6 years old, and everyone at our house was going wild when a guy wearing #23 for the red team was clenching his fist. I had no idea who he was, but I made sure I will.\nI\u2019ve spent countless hours watching documentaries about the man they called the greatest. You remember his \u201cCome Fly with Me\u201d show? I watched that on my friend\u2019s VHS player. How about \u201cMichael Jordan: To the Max?\u201d It still is one of my favorite sports documentaries.\nThen I switched to watching documentaries like \u201cNBA at 50,\u201d \u201cMagic and Bird: A Courtship of Rivals\u201c, \u201cNo Crossover: The Story of Allen Iverson\u201c, \u201cDynasty: Lakers Three-peat\u201c; and so on and so forth.\nAs I watched those documentaries, a fire was already starting to burn in my heart. I got their competitiveness. Their will. Their being stubborn.\nI didn\u2019t become a great basketball player here in the Philippines, but I am one of its best students.\nOver the years, I\u2019ve decided to only root for 2 teams (both could never be in the same conference), a pact that will go on forever and ever: The Los Angeles Lakers and the Chicago Bulls.\nWhen people were angry that the Lakers kept winning, I was a fan. When Shaq split and Kobe was the captain of a sinking ship, I was still a fan. When they got Pau Gasol and Bryant finally win 2 rings without Shaq, I was still a fan; even before these bandwagons of fans arrived.\nI\u2019m a fan of the Chicago Bulls NOT because of Michael Jordan, but because of what they stand for: winning (ironically, thanks to Michael Jordan). When they sucked during the early and mid-2000\u2019s, I supported whole-heartedly. When they got Derrick Rose, I was probably one of the few happy people (experts were surprised to see Rose go before Beasley). When Derrick Rose asked why he can\u2019t be MVP, I believed in him.\nThose two teams will forever be my teams, win or lose. (This season is going to be tough as a Lakers fan, but thank God I have the Bulls)\nGoing back as to why I\u2019m starting this blog\u2026\nIt\u2019s all about the love of the game, to be honest. It has brought me so many things. I got to meet new friends because of it, and made a few enemies too.\nI\u2019m excited to share all my insights about basketball, the NBA, and your favorite players. As we go along, I\u2019ll be posting articles about football, American football, tennis and more.\nBut right now, we stick with basketball. We have to start somewhere.\n(image from: http://s3.amazonaws.com/nk_wp_media/uploads/2011/06/again-31.jpg)\nThis entry was posted in Basketball, NBA and tagged Blog, Bulls, Chicago, Chicago Bulls, Derrick Rose, General Sports, Jordan, Kobe, Kobe Bryant, LA, LA Lakers, Lakers, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Lakers, Michael Jordan, NBA, Rose, Sports, Sports Blog. Bookmark the permalink.\nWilliam Gamboa says:\nGreat story kuya David!!!! \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 8208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://futureprimate.com/2013/02/19/oculus-rift-a-virtual-reality-headset-for-immersive-video-gaming/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:50Z", "digest": "sha1:N5SRSZJGVPKIUZGG745JEXFAZLMEDFPK", "length": 1106, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "futureprimate.com", "title": "Oculus Rift, A Virtual Reality Headset For Immersive Video Gaming \u2013 FUTURE PRIMATE", "raw_content": "Oculus Rift, A Virtual Reality Headset For Immersive Video Gaming\nThe Oculus Rift, an upcoming virtual reality headset founded and designed by technology enthusiast Palmer Luckey, will allow gamers to fully immerse themselves into video game environments. Once the headset is strapped onto the user and they begin a game, the movements of their head from the left to right, up and down will change the perspective while hunting down bad guys. At this moment, the headset is currently only being developed for computer games. Oculus Rift Developer Kits are available to pre-order online and are set to be shipped in early April 2013.\nThe Oculus Rift envelopes the vision of people who wear it in vivid, three-dimensional images. The sensation is like watching an IMAX screen that never ends. The headset is currently designed to work with computer games, not with the popular consoles made by the likes of Sony and Microsoft.\nA Virtual Reality Headset For Immersive Video Gaming, Oculus Rift\nA 3-D Printed Plastic House And More Amazing Images From This Week\nUSC scientists turn off the ability to feel cold", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gabbydexter.wordpress.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:15Z", "digest": "sha1:N3PM5VN5MDUNIVXN2BEWMHQX7JXOQ77L", "length": 12951, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "gabbydexter.wordpress.com", "title": "Scribbles, whiffles and talking rats \u2013 The rats talk to me. They tell me to burn things.", "raw_content": "Scribbles, whiffles and talking rats\nThe rats talk to me. They tell me to burn things.\nFollow Scribbles, whiffles and talking rats on WordPress.com\nFollow Blog via Email. I dare you.\nEnter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I'm not sure how - pixies, presumably.\nMy Work Online\nPraiseworthy Online Magazines\nNeon Literary Magazine\nSites for authors\nAbsolute Write Water Cooler Writer\u2019s online forum\nAerogramme Studio An important resource for writers.\nNeon Magazine Incredibly useful resources for Short Fiction writers\nNeon Magazine Short Story Submission Guide\nRenLearn site Allows you to check word limits and reading levels for existing published children\u2019s books.\nWriters Helping Writers Tips and advice for writers.\nPublished Work Uncategorized Writing and Parenthood Writing techniques\nFlash Fiction published \u2013 \u2018Unsatisfactory\u2019\nThis is a nice post for me to write after a brief break from the blog (I\u2019ve been on holiday!) Remember a few weeks back, when I\u2019d been nice and productive, I wrote that I had submitted a piece of Flash Fiction to an online publication (or \u2018Microfiction\u2019, if you\u2019d rather)? It\u2019s ok, I\u2019ll wait while you scroll back and check. Well, last week it was published, and I couldn\u2019t be more pleased. Obviously. It was published on Microfiction Monday, and you can read it here.\nIt\u2019s my first publication. I don\u2019t intend for it to be my last.\nI like Flash Fiction. As a medium it\u2019s in equal measures challenging and rewarding. For those unfamiliar with the style, Flash Fiction is the art of telling a story within a very limited word-count \u2013 often 100 words, but this can vary. I first encountered the style when I read Dan Rhodes\u2019 excellent book Anthropology; a collection of microfictions detailing hilarious, disturbing and often touching depictions of relationships that don\u2019t quite belong in the world as we know it (a book that I thoroughly recommend, and re-read on a regular basis). I have written several pieces in this style, and think that if a writer is serious about writing short stories they should try writing in this style at least once.\nThere\u2019s a myth that writing Flash Fiction is easy because it\u2019s short. Well, that\u2019s not really true. Let\u2019s face it, writers, as a species, tend to waffle. We pound out points, scared that our readers might miss some of our subtle clues, we occasionally get a bit self-indulgent and over-describe, we keep in \u2018scenes\u2019 that really don\u2019t further the storyline purely because we feel that they include \u2018some of our finest writing\u2019 and are loathe to leave them where they belong \u2013 wherever words go when the backspace key is pressed. Good writers, of course, then go through a torturous editing process and trim away this excess as much as they can, but there is still wiggle room. With Flash Fiction every word counts.\nIt\u2019s a good exercise in writing, to be able to look at a piece of word and search for those synonyms that will reduce three into one. It\u2019s good practice to pour over every single line and paragraph to see what can be cut, what can be re-written. It\u2019s a valuable lesson in remembering to trust the reader to pick up on the smaller cues. It\u2019s habit-forming, and we all need to learn these good habits \u2013 it\u2019s easy enough, after all, to learn the bad ones.\nThe satisfaction of being able to complete a whole work in a short space of time is pretty good for the ego too, I can tell you.\nSo, tell me about your thoughts on Flash Fiction \u2013 easy peasy or true art form? Let me know in the comments.\nTags Favourite Books, Flash Fiction, On-Line Publications, Published Online, What I did write\nThe power of the writer \u2013 and the reader\nI was going to write about a different topic this week, until about half an hour ago when I decided on a little light procrastination before settling down to the task in hand. There are a few sites I go on every day to give myself a giggle \u2013 funny pictures, that sort of thing. Nothing too taxing, but everyone likes a chuckle, amirite?\nSo I go onto Pinterest (because of course I do) and find a site called Factfully \u2013 a trivia site. Whoop whoop! Now I love me some facts. I can tell you the most pointless, trivial, good-grief-Gabby-no-one-needs-to-know-that facts you\u2019ll ever hear in your life. Did you know that rats can\u2019t vomit? There, you can have that one for free. Trivia is catnip to writers, so I clicked on the link and started to read. I wasn\u2019t expecting to cry.\nFact number one was this:\nOne day your parents put you down and never picked you up again.\nI paused for a second. I hadn\u2019t expected that. It was true. By definition it was a fact \u2013 a variable fact, a different truth for everyone but a truth nonetheless. It certainly wasn\u2019t your standard \u2018there are more people alive today than in the whole history of the world\u2019 type fact (which, by the way, isn\u2019t true, although it is oft repeated.) But I paused. I thought about the Goblin, still asleep in his bed after yesterday\u2019s busy evening of throwing peas at me. The memory of the first time I held him sprang into my mind \u2013 tiny wee wrinkled thing. Of all the times I carried him everywhere as a baby. The way we\u2019ve been encouraging him to walk more because he really can be quite lazy, and how he\u2019ll stop and throw up his arms and ask for \u2018big cuddles\u2019.\nI thought about the day that I would pick him up for the last time, and how neither of us would know it.\nI thought about all the times I\u2019ve asked him for a cuddle and he\u2019s scooted off because he\u2019s two and he\u2019s busy doing everything and cuddles just slow him down. I thought about the last time my mum or dad picked me up and realised that I had no idea when it was, other than it must have been a long long time ago. I wondered if they missed me being a little girl. Suddenly I wanted to feel them lift me up into the sky again.\nAnd the tears welled up. Thirteen words so carefully chosen that they tapped into my subconscious, exploiting a shared glitch in our emotions that we all can relate to, and they moved me profoundly. A writer can do wonderful, terrifying things with just a handful of words but the reader can work miracles too. They can take the slightest hint of description and from that populate an entire world.\nRight now I want to pick up my little Goblin and tell him his mummy will love him forever. I think I will.\nTags Habits, Other writers, The Goblin\nObligatory \u2018update on my progress\u2019 post\nI\u2019ve had a productive week. In the last seven days I have written, edited and completed three pieces of microfiction, one of which I have submitted to an on-line magazine; I\u2019ve compiled a fairly comprehensive list of journals and competitions that I might be able to submit to; I\u2019ve read exhaustively, and I\u2019ve written two-thirds of a short story that, although in its rough stages, I\u2019m very pleased with. This is on top of going to work, flirting with some occasional housework, having a cold, going to a friend\u2019s birthday party and nursing the Goblin, who was ill for several days and in danger of turning feral. Oh, and I totally OWNED dinner this evening \u2013 a delicious spicy peanut chicken casserole that has given me a deep and anticipated indigestion. Still though, it was tasty.\nWhat I didn\u2019t do was remember to write a blog post. So, umm\u2026 Oh look at that over there, did you see it? \nCan someone pass me my \u2018Cold and Flu\u2019 tablets please.\nTags The Goblin, What I did write\nToday I was supposed to write.\nI\u2019m supposed to write every day. That\u2019s the advice everyone gives. No matter what, if you\u2019re serious about writing you must find some time to write. Get up early, or stay up late. Go out for a lunch break. Forget the housework for now. Just write!\nAnd\u2026yeah, it\u2019s not that easy though, is it?\nWriting and parenthood. They don\u2019t really go together. I was supposed to write my great novel while I was on maternity leave (forgive me lord, but I was stupid back then.) I was supposed to go to NCT classes and lose all of my baby-weight by the time the Goblin was six months old, but I didn\u2019t do these things either. I\u2019m a rebel. I play by my own rules.\nYet there is, of course, boundless common sense in the advice above. If you\u2019re not actually sitting down and putting pen to paper, or finger to keyboard, then it\u2019s all just excuses and white noise. But it\u2019s a hard ask. Every single day? I don\u2019t even have breakfast every single day.\nI\u2019m not, of course, trying to make out that I am a special case \u2013 the only person who can\u2019t possibly find the time in their busy schedule to sit down and do the thing they actually want to (and need to) do. Everyone has a reason for putting it off from time to time, and everyone of these reasons will be subtly different and equally important. Me? I managed, to my own surprise as much as anyone\u2019s, to successfully reproduce (I think\u2026 I haven\u2019t checked the records, but I think I\u2019m possibly the only person in the world who has ever managed to have a baby, so I speak with some authority on the subject.) And they\u2019re marvellous, maddening excuses distractions. You want me to put the kettle on? Sorry, can\u2019t \u2013 baby\u2019s crying. You want me to give you a quick call? Sorry \u2013 the tiny human that I GREW IN MY BODY just made the cutest noise, and I\u2019m waiting to see if he\u2019ll do it again. Housework needs doing? But he needs my undivided love and attention and I can\u2019t possibly pick up the duster in case he does something unutterably adorable and I miss it and he feels rejected and this becomes the first step towards a conversation he\u2019ll have with his children in the future that ends with the words \u201cand that\u2019s why we\u2019re not spending Christmas with nanny this year.\u201d\nAnd so it goes with writing. When the Goblin was tiny I was too dog-tired to remember the difference between handwash and toothpaste, let alone remember how to write coherant dialogue*. Nowadays\u2026 Well, I can\u2019t get up early to write because NO ONE WAKES UP EARLIER THAN MY SON! Seriously, I haven\u2019t needed an alarm clock in over two years. Then I either go to work or take care of the child. Did I mention he\u2019s a toddler? He just learned to climb things and jump. Yay. At the weekends I try to catch up with the housework in tandem with my husband, and in the evenings I am tired. So tired. I regret every nap that I ever refused to take as a child. I try to find time to write, truly I do. The mind is willing but the body is half-sprawled across the bed browsing Pinterest.\nSo today I intended to write. My parents had kindly agreed to take the Goblin for two days and one night \u2013 whilst they have him overnight once every two weeks this was one of the first times since I returned to work where this coincided with my days off. Day one was housework \u2013 there was no escaping that one. Day two would be for me.\nDay one went as planned. Houseworked my little cotton socks off, I did. All the toys were in their rightful places, the bathroom was sparkling, the dvds were alphabetically ordered (in retrospect, I didn\u2019t need to do that one). Then things went wrong. On day two a thought occurred to me: what other housework tasks can I get done without a small fearless opportunist here to thwart my every move? I won\u2019t bore you with the details (I had to go to the local hardware store three times! Control yourselves) but the end result is that my oven is now 70-80% cleaner than it was this morning. But writing? Not so much.\nAnd\u2026that\u2019s ok. I\u2019m writing this blog post, so that counts. Somedays, though, you have to \u2018clean the oven\u2019. And that\u2019s the phrase I\u2019m going to use from now on when I\u2019m trying really really hard not to feel guilty for not getting a bit of writing done each day. Even if it\u2019s because I\u2019m browsing Pinterest again.\n* Don\u2019t worry, I only ended up with minty-fresh hands.\nTags Fibromyalgia, The Goblin, Why I Didn't Write\nOk, I\u2019m going to let you in on a little secret right here and now. This post is not worth reading. In fact, if I were you I\u2019d stop reading. Honestly, you\u2019re wasting your time. Why don\u2019t you go and see if there\u2019s something on the tv \u2013 there probably will be, this is the 21st century after all. And if not the tv then watch something online. I hear the internet\u2019s pretty good for that sort of thing these days.\nSeriously, why are you still here? This is a brand new blog \u2013 to be honest I\u2019m only writing this post so I have something to look at while I mess around with the settings. I\u2019ll probably be a rich and famous author one day, sure, but right now I\u2019m blogosphere pond life. I don\u2019t even know whether there will be a second post yet. If there is, it\u2019ll be funny. Hilarious. You\u2019ll probably write poetry about how awesome I am. I don\u2019t want to read it if you do, but I\u2019m cool with the whole \u2018idolisation via the medium of expressive art\u2019 thing. If it helps, I have brown hair. \u2018Chestnut\u2019 is a good way to describe it; flecked with grey would be more accurate.\nJust please don\u2019t make me read it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 14168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://garyhall.org.uk/business-skills-ks2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OTKKO7YXYBHML2LS7XHYBNUVOEJ77FBW", "length": 3107, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "garyhall.org.uk", "title": "Business Skills For KS2 Children", "raw_content": "Business Skills For KS2 Children\nI was lucky enough to be invited to an event today with other KS2 and secondary teachers to play the logistics board game entitled \"Business on the Move\". The purpose of the game is to develop business skills in children (and adults too). The game challenges players to run a business that must respond to customers\u2019 orders, moving different products around the world as profitably as possible.\nThis educational board game was designed by two ex-teachers to excite and inspire (young) players about global supply chains. It teaches many business skills and has lots of cross curricular links built into it.\nThe idea behind the game is that you have been given a loan of \u00a3100,000 to set up a global logistics business. You need to transport goods by air, sea, rail and road from China and deliver orders to customers in the UK. The aim is to be the first to complete deliveries and to make the largest profit. There are lots of business decisions to be made along the way such as how much cargo to buy, which form of transport to use, whether to trade in assets for cash or whetherto try and barter with other players (which is great fun!) There are operating costs that need to be paid too. It is interesting to see how you need to adapt your strategy to cope with unforeseen events as these crop up all the time. Carbon emissions are also part of the game which makes for added environmental interest.\nResponse from teachers\nThe game is much more fun than Monopoly although it follows a similar, allbeit more complicated format. The concepts behind the game were explained slowly to us as we progressed through the game so that we didn't get confused by too much information all at once. Someone played as the banker and four other people played the game. We saw this working in a classroom by the teacher being the banker and eight children playing (in pairs). These children could then become experts in the game and take over the banking role and pass their knowledge onto new players. The game ended when the first person completed their deliveries. At this point we added up everyones assets, deducted the initial loan and declared a second winner - the one with the most money.\nBusiness and curriculum skills taught\nAs well as teaching business skills such as cash management, asset management, logistics and decision making, the game also covers a number of national curriculum objectives for literacy, maths, geography and PSHE skills. There are also opportunities to extend learning beyond the game too, for example, finding out more about carbon footprints and supply chains for household products. In addition to the game, the website has many other learning opportunities created by the sponsors of the game (including many high street brands).\nWe were very fortunate to be given three sets of the games by the Humber Education Business Partnership and I can't wait to get them into the classroom and develop our children's business acumen.\nDate Thu 05 May 2016 Category Other Tags education / business\nPersuasive Ideas For Schools\nThe Importance of Questioning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/derek-nelson/16858", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ONPXYKR2KHAONS5DU2637EXTLKJ2JSAP", "length": 688, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "generalassemb.ly", "title": "Derek Nelson | General Assembly", "raw_content": "Partner, Co-Founder, Clique Studios\nDerek Nelson is a partner at Clique Studios, a design and technology studio he helped start in college. Now a team of 40, the company offers strategy, design, development, and marketing for ambitious organizations. He has written for Entrepreneur Magazine, Smashing Magazine, Glassdoor, and more. Previously, he was a Field Organizer on the 2008 Obama campaign. As a musician, he releases albums solo and in a 7-piece collective called Martin Van Ruin. He\u2019s a husband, dad, and Chicagoan.\nYoung Leaders in Tech\nReferralMob and General Assembly are teaming up for an epic night with some of Boston's most interesting and inspiring young leaders in tech.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://georgemdavison.com/taking-rd-from-inventionland-into-the-classroom/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4OYDTKYIVVVAI3KKVW24G2IHSJAPP7R4", "length": 2380, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "georgemdavison.com", "title": "Taking R&D from Inventionland into the Classroom - George M. Davison", "raw_content": "Who would have thought that a couple decades in research and development would one day turn into interactive, STEM-education-based coursework that prepares students with a valuable skill set for both college and the professional world?\nWell, that\u2019s just one of the incredible things about inventing. A single, successful idea can launch into many others. Recently, that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s been going on with the project-based inventing curriculum that my team and I have polished over the last several years.\nI\u2019m committed to launching our real-world inventing coursework in schools across Pennsylvania and beyond and so, I am thrilled to be involved as regional educators and students flock to Inventionland, our expansive 61,000 square-foot design facility, to experience it for themselves.\nYou see, in today\u2019s schools, it is becoming increasingly difficult to capture students\u2019 attention, let alone keep them engaged, energized and prepared for tomorrow\u2019s careers. But, my state-of-the-art, project-based curriculum has the potential to do just that. Recently, we gave area educators just a taste of those capabilities.\nThis week, I had the pleasure of leading curriculum directors from nearly 20 different Pittsburgh-area schools, as well as representatives from Intermediate Unit 1(IU1) and the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Along with one of my Inventionland Creationeers, Matt, I guided the group through the process of building a pencil holder from 31 pieces of laser-cut cardboard.\nAs we all found out together, developing a product is much like developing coursework. You start with pre-development work, identify the needs of the market, brainstorm your solution and work through concept models to find the best direction. And with great effort comes great reward, right?\nMy real-world inventing curriculum allows students to go through the sequence that brings successful products to store shelves. They go through the product development process and get an overall picture in their mind that functions as a \u201chow to\u201d map, building a belief system. In doing so, they see that the product development process isn\u2019t magic, but a proven method they can apply to their own invention ideas to bring them to life.\nHere is just a glimpse at student groups whose eyes have recently been opened to all the possibilities of the product development process at Inventionland:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://getyourname.org/order-a-domain/.mobi-domain-extension/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4CGJH3YAMZOW5RXYYFYAPSIANFVEROWE", "length": 2398, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "getyourname.org", "title": ".MOBI Domains", "raw_content": "More and more people use mobile devices to access the Internet, so the need for mobile-friendly websites is ever growing. To fulfill this demand, the organization that regulates the universal top-level domain extensions, ICANN, introduced the dot MOBI domain name extension in 2005. The first registrations were started in September 2006, and the concept behind this TLD is that all websites that use it have to comply with certain regulations. In other words, all dot MOBI websites should be designed to be viewed correctly by mobile devices in agreement with the so-called \u201cMWI Best Practices for mobile content\u201d established by the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) in partnership with the dot MOBI Registry organization. These have to do with how a website is being navigated, the way it is being displayed (form and size), and so on.\nThe requirements have provoked some worries since the universal top-level domain is the only one that specifies what devices has to be able to open a website and the way in which this should happen, breaking the so-called principles of device independence, according to which a site should be designed in such a way as to be opened by the majority of web browsers and devices, be they mobile or stationary.\nConsidering the fact that the dot MOBI Registry organization does not sell domains directly, you can buy a dot MOBI domain with any third-party provider, such as ours. If you have an already active domain, you can also move it over to our firm if you get its EPP transfer authorization code from your present registrar. If you do that, you\u2019ll be able to administer your domain(s) and web hosting account from one and the same place \u2013 our Hepsia Control Panel interface.\n.MOBI Domain Names with GetYourName.org Best Domain Hosting Plan\nControl a variety of .MOBI domains with no effort. Enjoy total control over their WHOIS details and DNS records. Assign URL forwarding with a single click. Park limitless domains. You will be able to accomplish all that and much more by using GetYourName.org Best Domain Hosting Plan's easy to use Domain Manager tool, that provides all of the features that you might need so that you can manage your domain names efficiently.\nOn top of that, it's possible to control your websites along with your domain names from one and the same place, because the Domain Manager is an integral part of the Web Hosting Control Panel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/ATP8A2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:59Z", "digest": "sha1:45PVKNOPIQ734XVY6PLFYWTP5S5RZ2FO", "length": 2497, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ghr.nlm.nih.gov", "title": "ATP8A2 gene - Genetics Home Reference - NIH", "raw_content": "ATPase phospholipid transporting 8A2\nThe protein encoded by this gene is a member of the P4 ATPase family of proteins, which are thought to be involved in a process called lipid flipping, whereby phospholipids are translocated inwards from the exoplasmic leaflet to the cytosolic leaflet of the cell membrane, which aids in generating and maintaining asymmetry in membrane lipids. This protein is predicted to contain an E1 E2 ATPase, a haloacid dehalogenase-like hydrolase (HAD) domain, and multiple transmembrane domains. Associations between this protein and cell cycle control protein 50A are important for translocation of phosphatidylserine across membranes. Mutations in this gene have been associated with a syndrome (CAMRQ4) characterized by cerebellar ataxia and cognitive disabilities. In addition, a translocation breakpoint within this gene was observed in an individual with neurological dysfunction. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants encoding different isoforms. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2017]\nCatalytic component of a P4-ATPase flippase complex which catalyzes the hydrolysis of ATP coupled to the transport of aminophospholipids from the outer to the inner leaflet of various membranes and ensures the maintenance of asymmetric distribution of phospholipids. Phospholipid translocation seems also to be implicated in vesicle formation and in uptake of lipid signaling molecules. Reconstituted to liposomes, the ATP8A2:TMEM30A flippase complex predomiminantly transports phosphatidylserine (PS) and to a lesser extent phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). Proposed to function in the generation and maintenance of phospholipid asymmetry in photoreceptor disk membranes and neuronal axon membranes. May be involved in vesicle trafficking in neuronal cells. Involved in regulation of neurite outgrowth; acting in synergy with TMEM30A. Required for normal visual and auditory function; involved in photoreceptor and inner ear spiral ganglion cell survival.\nCerebellar ataxia, mental retardation, and dysequilibrium syndrome 4 (CMARQ4): A congenital cerebellar ataxia associated with dysarthia, quadrupedal gait and mental retardation. [MIM:615268]\nA chromosomal aberration disrupting ATP8A2 has been found in a patient with severe mental retardation and major hypotonia. Translocation t(10;13)(p12.1;q12.13) (PubMed:20683487).\nATPIB\nTests of ATP8A2\nOMIM: ATPase, CLASS I, TYPE 8A, MEMBER 2\nOMIM: CEREBELLAR ATAXIA, MENTAL RETARDATION, AND DYSEQUILIBRIUM SYNDROME 4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 211.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://giftboxx.me/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:42Z", "digest": "sha1:MTRSHVIW7H65ZKK2C2HZDJXE625VJQZ4", "length": 821, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "giftboxx.me", "title": "About - GiftBoxx", "raw_content": "GiftBoxx\u00a9 a gift shop with a difference. Launched in Kingston, Jamaica in 2017 GiftBoxx\u00a9 was born out of a desire to give, to share, to say thank you, congratulations, I am thinking of you and a myriad of other sentiments that keep us connected.\nOur aim was to elevate the traditional gift basket to an elegant all in one solution that is convenient, elegant and luxurious. Powered by technology and driven by an almost fanatical dedication to customer service and customer satisfaction, our goal is to make it easy for Jamaicans to express these sentiments whether they are at home or abroad; In a manner that is convenient, thoughtful and elegant.\nLet us know if we have succeeded. If there is anything we can do to make your gifting and GiftBoxx\u00a9 experience better, tell us and we will work with you to make it happen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://girlstar.com/Company/SocialCompliance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OJ5CNHTB5CM5RMPIHBBD3PIAIZ7IFRHI", "length": 4973, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "girlstar.com", "title": "Perry Ellis International | Social Compliance Vendor Code of Conduct", "raw_content": "Social Compliance Vendor Code of Conduct\nPEI Operating LLC (\"PEI\") believes that every person has a right to decent and humane working conditions, and that protection of our environment must be a priority in our approach towards business. Accordingly, we have established the PEI Operating LLC (PEI) Vendor Code of Conduct that clearly specifies the minimum working and environmental conditions that a vendor must meet prior to conducting business with PEI Operating LLC (PEI)\nVendors and their contractors shall operate in full compliance with the laws, regulations or other legal requirements of their respective country, including those governing compensation, working conditions and environmental protection. In addition, vendors shall comply with the PEI Vendor Code of Conduct. If the national law and the PEI Vendor Code of Conduct address the same issue, the more stringent requirement applies. Failure to take satisfactory corrective action may result in termination of the relationship between PEI and the Vendor.\nIn no case, shall vendors employ any person under 15 years of age, or the age of completion of compulsory education, or under the minimum age for employment in the country of manufacture, whichever is greater. All other laws and regulations governing working conditions for children and young employees must be applied and vendors must comply with the requirements of local law\nForced Labor, Slavery and Human Trafficking\nVendors shall not use forced or compulsory labor of any kind, including prison labor, bonded labor or indentured labor. Slavery and human trafficking are prohibited throughout the supply chain.\nVendors shall not permit any physical, sexual, psychological, or verbal harassment or abuse of employees.\nFreedom of Association / Collective Bargaining\nVendors shall recognize the right of employees to associate freely and bargain collectively. This includes the right of employees to join trade unions. Vendors shall not threaten, penalize or discriminate against or otherwise interfere with employees exercising these rights.\nPEI recognizes and respects cultural differences. However, PEI believes that employees should be employed and promoted on the basis of their ability to do the job rather than on the basis of their age, race, caste, national origin, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, religion, disability, union membership and political affiliation. All vendors, at a minimum, must fully comply with all local laws regarding discrimination.\nVendors shall pay wages equivalent to at least the legally mandated minimum wage. All other benefits required by law or regulation shall also be provided, including paid holidays, vacations, social security and medical benefits. Vendors shall not make deductions for disciplinary purposes and shall provide written information to each employee specifying the wages and benefits provided for each pay period.\nVendors shall comply with applicable laws regarding normal working hours where hours are less than 48 per week. Employees shall not be required to exceed 60 hours of work per week except in extraordinary circumstances. Employees shall be provided at least one day off in seven. Overtime shall be voluntary, must be compensated at the legally mandated rate of pay and shall be clearly documented on the written pay information provided to each employee.\nVendors shall provide a safe and healthy working environment, taking into consideration any particular hazards posed by the specific operations involved. Vendors shall comply as a minimum requirement with prevailing national laws and regulations on health and safety issues. Vendors shall assure that employees are adequately trained on health and safety procedures and that necessary protective clothing and equipment is provided to and used by employees. Vendors who provide residential facilities for their employees must comply with local laws and regulations relating to health, safety and security.\nVendors shall comply with all applicable local customs laws, and with the customs laws in the country of importation with specific regard to illegal transshipments of garments.\nConflict Minerals and the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act)\nVendors shall comply with all applicable local laws, and with the laws in the country of importation with specific regard to illegal use of minerals mined from the Democratic Republic of Congo and the surrounding countries.\nVendors shall comply with applicable environmental laws and regulations. Vendors shall have an appropriate management system in place to assure that manufacturing processes meet our commitment to progressive environmental practices and the preservation of natural resources.\nVendors shall comply with USA Security Requirements and implement and maintain procedures to guard against the introduction of non-manifest cargo into outbound shipments (i.e. explosives, firearms, drugs, bio-hazards and other contraband).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 6722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://global.arizona.edu/health-safety-abroad-students", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:36Z", "digest": "sha1:STMOXL6NCOB4SS2HMJS2GS6BAXPNOUCI", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "global.arizona.edu", "title": "Health & Safety Abroad (for STUDENTS) | UA Global", "raw_content": "Health & Safety Abroad (for STUDENTS)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 12248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 261.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://global.upenn.edu/perryworldhouse/event-policies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:05Z", "digest": "sha1:2ETKJZTCQONXQDCOLPY5HF75ANUVAMDR", "length": 4391, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "global.upenn.edu", "title": "Event Policies | Perryworldhouse", "raw_content": "Responsibilities of Event Organizers\nProvide accurate and complete information to the Operations & Events Manager when making room reservations.\nObserve the cancellation policy.\nBe in attendance through the duration of each event or designate a responsible party who will be in attendance.\nConduct the event so that it ends on time.\nEnsure that all members and guests leave the room by the reservation end time and the building by the stated closing time.\nReturn the room to an appropriate condition, dispose of excess trash and remove all decorations at the conclusion of the event.\nEnsure that members and guests treat the building, equipment and furniture with care.\nBe considerate of other building users.\nPay event balances in full by the due date.\nPerry World House accepts the following forms of payment in order of preference:\nFund Transfers (journaling)\nWire Payments\nChecks made out to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (non-Penn affiliated groups only)\nPerry World House does not accept cash.\nOnce your event is accepted, Perry World House will put you in touch with the proper channels to get the information needed to make payments.\nWallets, PennCards, cell phones, laptops, and similar items are held at the front security desk at the main entrance, first floor, of Perry World House and can be picked up there Monday through Thursday 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Friday\u2019s, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. If the lost item includes any identifying information, staff will attempt to contact you directly.\nIf you should happen to lose a valuable item during the evening or weekend, and you realize it right away, please ask the Security Guard at the main entrance, first floor, to contact the Building Manager. When the building is closed, the Building Manager will keep valuables secured until the following business day.\nArticles of clothing, books, papers, and similar items are turned in at the front security desk on the 1st floor and held there for two weeks. After two weeks, the unclaimed items will be donated to a local charity.\nThe University of Pennsylvania permits the lawful keeping and consumption, in moderation, of alcoholic beverages on its property or property under its control by persons of legal drinking age (21 years or older). Only individuals with valid proof of legal drinking age may be served alcohol; alcohol may not be served to any visibly intoxicated person, regardless of age. Alcohol may be served only from a controlled, designated area by sober, trained, of-age bartenders who are unaffiliated with the host organization.\nRoom Condition/Vandalism/Damage Policy\nAny organization that damages the building, its furnishings and/or equipment will be held financially responsible and may lose reservation privileges.\nOpen Flame Policy\nFor your safety and the safety of your guests, open flames are not permitted in the building. The use of candles enclosed in glass orbs may be approved for special events if requested in advance. The organization will be responsible for all charges associated with damages caused by or as a result of a violation to this policy.\nUse of Amplified Sound Policy\nThere are restrictions on the use of amplified sound for indoor and outdoor events. Arrangements must be made in advance with the Operations & Events Manager if amplified sound is wanting to be used. In addition, Perry World House reserves the right to request adjustments to any amplified sound level in an effort to accommodate other events that may be occurring at the same time.\nDecoration Policy\nOrganizations may be permitted to hang decorations in the room reserved for their function provided that they obtain the approval of the Operations & Events Manager prior to the start of their event.\nRental Equipment Policy\nIt is important that the organization communicate any event needs to the Operations & Events Manager. Stage risers, table linens and coat racks may be rented at the organization's expense. Please see the Event Inventory section for a list of what is included in your room\u2019s rental fee and what can be rented for the space.\nIf arrangements have been made with an outside organization to provide rental equipment, the Operations & Events Manager must be notified in advance and the event organizer is responsible for receiving the delivery unless arrangements have been made with the Operations & Events Manager ahead of time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 9334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://glutenfreepdx.wordpress.com/2013/01/31/has-the-gluten-free-diet-run-amok/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:58Z", "digest": "sha1:BT7B3FWDRKACF72JOSEOIOVGT57XQK6H", "length": 3696, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "glutenfreepdx.wordpress.com", "title": "Has the Gluten-Free Diet Run Amok? | GlutenFreePDX", "raw_content": "Annakeara Stinson, 25, says a doctor suggested she cut out gluten after she started experiencing gastrointestinal problems. She was never tested her for celiac disease, the autoimmune disorder gluten-free eating is meant to treat. Stinson immediately latched onto the diet, and lost close to 20 pounds.\n\u201cPeople noticed that I lost weight, and commented that I was such a \u2018healthy\u2019 eater, and that was positive reinforcement,\u201d Stinson says. \u201cUltimately, my gluten-free diet became a weird space I put emotional baggage into. From the outside, people just thought I had allergy issues, but really, it veiled all these other things that were going on.\u201d\n\u201cI remember thinking if I were to let go and start eating wheat again, that I would balloon,\u201d says Stinson, who has written about her experience on xoJane.\nTo be sure, there are many people who need to go \u201cg-free,\u201d as it\u2019s called in the commercial parlance, for their health\u2014specifically those with celiac disease, which affects roughly three million Americans. But researchers estimate that some 80 percent of Americans currently going gluten-free do not have celiac disease.\nSo what gives? They may have a condition called non-celiac gluten intolerance, otherwise known as gluten sensitivity, which affects about 18 million Americans.\nOr maybe they\u2019re just not sure.\n\u201cPeople read these articles on gluten and think this might be the answers to the problems they may have,\u201d says Dr. Mark Borigini, a rheumatologist who recently wrote about gluten sensitivity for Psychology Today. \u201cIf you\u2019re using this gluten fear as just another channel for a bigger problem\u2014like an eating disorder\u2014then that\u2019s of real concern.\u201d\n\u201cFor whatever reason, gluten just doesn\u2019t agree with me,\u201d says Kylie Robertson, 24, who recently went gluten-free. \u201cI feel a million times better when I don\u2019t eat it, and that\u2019s good enough for me. This gluten-free thing can be seen as a weight-loss solution, but that\u2019s not my intent. Nor do I have an allergy\u2014not one that\u2019s been diagnosed anyways! I\u2019ve also had celiac screens come back negative. So what the heck am I?\u201d\n\u201cI remember thinking if I were to let go and start eating wheat again, that I would balloon.\u201d\nGood question. Much about gluten sensitivity, and its apparent rise in diagnoses, remains a mystery. Some doctors have suggested the hygiene hypothesis, which posits that children\u2019s immune systems may not be as equipped to digest gluten as they once were because they\u2019ve grown up in overly sterile environments. \u201cGluten sensitivity is the new kid on the block,\u201d says Alice Bast, president of the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness. \u201cWe definitely need more research on it, and we need to find biomarkers for it so we can test more easily for the disorder.\u201d\nUntil then, the blossoming g-free industry can capitalize on the confusion. The market has grown 28 percent annually since 2008, reaching $4.2 billion in sales in 2012, according to the research firm Packaged Facts, with an estimated 18 percent of adult consumers buying or eating gluten-free products. The FDA said it would issue new, and possibly stricter, rules for labeling gluten-free foods by the end of 2012, but has yet to release the new regulations.\nTricia Thompson, a dietician and author of Gluten Free Watchdog believes strongly that non-celiac gluten sensitivity is \u201cabsolutely\u201d a real medical condition, and one doctors should be taking seriously. But its growing reputation as a trendy weight-loss routine \u201cdrives me bonkers,\u201d she says. \u201cWhat really happens is people tend to cut out a lot of junk food when they eliminate gluten\u2014that\u2019s what results in the weight loss.\u201d\n\u2190 Nacho Cheese, Gone Gourmet Vitamins: Which Ones Do You Take? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 7085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://godloveshimself.com/2016/09/27/holiness-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:GDJVUQQOSEX2ZL3HEEVK74LNOIO36HZU", "length": 3218, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "godloveshimself.com", "title": "Holiness 2 | God Loves... Himself", "raw_content": "There is no doubt that the Scriptures teach that men are to be holy. The question, however, has to do with what holiness is and how one obtains a measure of that holiness. If a person is wrong on justification, it is a fatal mistake and one ends up trusting in self. If one is wrong on the nature of holiness, it can also be fatal since this mistake flows from how one views the Gospel. A person that is justified by Christ alone and His grace alone should not even consider it a possibility that s/he could obtain a holiness acceptable to God by the flesh. It is plainly and simply unthinkable.\nWe also know that I Corinthians 1:30 -31 tells us that it is \u201cby His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, 31 so that, just as it is written, \u201cLET HIM WHO BOASTS, BOAST IN THE LORD.\u201d\u201d If Christ is our sanctification (holiness), then surely we should look at sanctification and holiness as coming from Christ rather than our own abilities and nature. It is easier for our proud hearts to know that God can give us wisdom, but to think that Christ is the total of our sanctification as well as redemption and righteousness, this is a blow to our pride. There is no boasting in ourselves at all in this case, but instead our only boast is in the Lord.\nSanctification or holiness should be the love of the heart and the desire of those who love the Lord, but if we are to love God with all of our being that love and holiness must come from Him. The command to be holy is not just to be a little better than the average person, but we are to be holy as He is holy. The standard of holiness, then, is God Himself. If the standard of our holiness is to be holy as He is holy, then it should be immediately evident that human flesh cannot do this. Not only is God the standard, but the very essence of our holiness is to be like His holiness. This is to say, then, that it must come from Him. It is the Divine life in the soul and not just things we do in order to appear good.\nWhen holiness is looked at in this way, we can see that holiness is a blessing that God shares with His people. It is not just any holiness that He shares, but it is His holiness that He shares with His people. This is profound beyond words and yet we must force ourselves to think and to gaze upon this brightness. We don\u2019t have any way to work up holiness on our own, but what we do is to share in His divine life or divine holiness. We must get our minds and hearts off of the thought that holiness is unpleasant or something that hurts, but instead holiness is the great joy and delight of all who love God and they want to be holy as He is holy.\nOf course we should want to be like God in holiness, but again that should make it obvious that holiness must come from Him and not our human flesh. In order to be truly holy, that is, to grow in being like God, we must die more and more to our own fleshly efforts. We must die more and more to our own pride and self. We must seek the Lord for grace to be holy. The flesh and self will do nothing but oppose true holiness, so we must seek Him to work in us to die to self and grant His grace of holiness to the humble.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 5798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://godsheartforthose.com/1031-life-ministries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:38Z", "digest": "sha1:GWFNIXZYPQEEO5LDXZ2STNSLUAIBH7A2", "length": 2888, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "godsheartforthose.com", "title": "Jonathan\u2019s Philosophy of Ministry \u2013 God's Heart for Those", "raw_content": "\u201cHe worked for the Unity of the Church\u201d\nThe Epitaph on the grave of Dr. Philip Schaff, 18th Century Church Historian and Pastor\nWhat does it mean to be a Pastor?\nBeing a Pastor means, first and foremost, to be a shepherd, a pastor must walk gently lead the flock from in front instead of driving the flock from behind. The pastor must also be willing to protect the flock and work to maintain the unity of the Body. Practically speaking, the pastor must care for his flock through the teaching of the word, living a life of service inspired by the transformation of the Gospel through the Holy Spirit. Being a pastor means listening to those whom you are caring for, being open and willing to accept criticism and evaluate where change needs to take place. The pastor should also make sure that he or she is seeing to the management of their household, for as scripture says in first Timothy 3 \u201chow can one who cannot manage his own household well, manage the household of God.\u201d The pastor must be able to collaborate with others and encourage and enable others to fulfill the call of God on their lives. Being a pastor means a life of humble service to wherever God has called you to serve in the making of disciples and spreading of the Gospel through evangelism.\nThe Best Way to Govern A Congregation:\nThe best way to govern a congregation is first and foremost by the complete testimony and direction of the Word of God through the leading of the Holy Spirit that comes through prayer as an Elder serving alongside a group of Elders. The pastor then is part of the Elder Board and therefore works together with the other members of the Elder Board to advance the work of Christ in the local Church. All members of the church governing body must be devoted to the reading of the Word of God and to prayer.\nBest Way to Worship:\nThe best way to worship is in spirit and truth and at all times. Worship is not merely the singing of songs as a corporate body on Sunday, though this is important, worship is also the way in which we live out lives from Monday to Saturday. Worship rises to God from our songs and from our lives. Worship music should be directed towards God in thankfulness in all He has done for us as believers, not contained or focused upon the self, but given to the creator of all things, God the Father almighty.\nBest Way to Lead:\nThe best way to lead is by the example of Christ in word and life. As a servant leader, leading through prayer. Leadership also means working alongside and listening to those who are called to lead alongside you. Servant Leadership is by its very nature collaborative leadership because it denies self or position title and invests in everyone serving or being served. Church leadership should be done collaboratively, by the Elder Board with input from the congregation, especially senior saints who often have great wisdom and insight.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://godsheartforthose.com/2016/05/02/gospeldrivingsissypreacher-you-dont-talk-about-sin-enough/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:28Z", "digest": "sha1:2LTLCD4WGWETVTTM6VFQCLU5HVL56DTM", "length": 5624, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "godsheartforthose.com", "title": "#GospelDrivenSissyPreacher: \u201cYou Don\u2019t Talk About Sin Enough\u201d \u2013 God's Heart for Those", "raw_content": "I always check my email about four times a day, since God\u2019s Heart uses my personal email for site communications BT has access to it as well. So if I don\u2019t see it, BT probably will and it will come up in our bi-weekly meetings. But I saw this one, an email from a concerned reader right after our Celebration article that came out right after Easter.\n\u201cI do not like God\u2019s Heart for those, and I am not sure I want to read anymore.\u201d The writer told us, \u201cyou never talk about sin, and I think you should.\u201d After praying about it I responded in brief, inviting the emailer to converse with me on the subject. We had a good email conversation over the next couple days and I was able to explain to him why we do not always talk about or harp on sin.\nThe truth is, we do talk about sin, but we have made a conscious decision to be a positive reinforcement to the church, giving wisdom and guidance in our crazy world. We recognize that sin exists, that people sin, that we sin, we believe what the bible says. I do not pretend to be a perfect man; the reality is that I am a sinner. My job then, is to repent of that sin when it happens and then rest in the reality that I am forgiven and reconciled to God and walk in the spirit and work to reconcile any damaged relationships. I have to do that; it is required of me by scripture, and that requirement is life-giving when it is lived out. Sin separates us from God and repentance and God\u2019s forgiveness reconciles us to Him through the blood of Christ. We are all under grace, and we need it daily.\nThat\u2019s how we view sin, we want to be real and honest about it, and now we want to tell you something.\nYou do not need us to remind you of your sins.\nI mean that most of us who are believers are well aware of our sins. Those who are not aware of their identity in Christ often say they are haunted by it. Like the Psalmist says; \u201dMy sin is ever before me.\u201d We are aware of when we sin, we are aware of the sins of the past, we are aware of the sins we commit when we commit them. If our conscious is not seared, we are aware of our sin.\nSo, unlike Joshua Feuerstein and many other groups on all ends of the theological spectrum we do not think it is any benefit to you to throw sin in your face and condemn you for it. In fact, my father has three things that remind us of our sin.\nThe World and its depravity\nThe Holy Spirit who Convicts\nThe Accuser who condemns us.\nInstead, my father believes then that we should be building each other, that we should speak the life-giving words of Christ and: \u201cBe reminded of who we are.\u201d\nThat is what the late Morris Tee and I set out to do after the closing of 10:31, during a time in my life, just over a year ago now, when I myself was rediscovering who I was in Christ and working to reconcile all that had been broken over the winter. When we were dissolving the corporation and all its various entities (A process that is still going on a year later) we wanted to keep God\u2019s Heart because, although it did not have the readers it once did, it had served a purpose over the years and we wanted to renew that purpose, to build up and encourage the body of Christ.\nBut you cannot do that when you are constantly putting down and condemning everyone, harping on sins (some of which are not sins) and putting down those who disagree with you. This of course is in stark contrast to the man whose teachings we have spent the last few months addressing. Trying, and sometimes failing, to be gracious towards this man, despite our strong disagreement. We have maintained that we want to see restoration and redemption in this situation and not for this man to be torn down.\nWe want a healthy and robust church, full of people who are assured of their identity in Christ. It is not that we have some unhealthy view of sin, disregarding it and brushing it off, but you do not create a group of believers who know the joy of freedom by chaining them to sins that they are forgiven for and set free from.\nAnother reason that comes to mind is that this is a reaction to my own time as an extremely legalistic fundamentalist. I have destroyed so many people, some of which I may never be reconciled to. Before I go I hope I can restore a few, show love to those who I formerly would not have.\nSo if that makes me a Sissy Preacher, then so be it, if that makes me a coward and a liar in the eyes of those who disagree with me, then let it be. I can be gracious with them, I can love and honor them too and pray for restoration in their lives, that they might know the Joy of true and genuine freedom in Christ.\nWe will affirm always that Christ died to be the propitiation for our sins, that God\u2019s wrath is totally appeased and we can have forgiveness and can be reconciled to Him. We affirm then that the position of the believer has been changed and the condition before God changed from Sinner to Saint, Sons and Co-Heirs because of the blood of Christ and that we are justified and made righteous by the sacrifice of Christ. We also affirm that the Holy Spirit is at work within the believer, transforming the mind and heart of the believer into Christ\u2019s Likeness and that this is an ongoing process that will come to completion in heaven. That God has completely freed us from sin and when we repent of sins committed He is faithful to forgive and to cleanse us, His covenant People, restoring us to a deeper relationship with Him.\nAt God\u2019s Heart for those we are #GospelDrivenSissyPreachers, and we thank God for the chance to do that every single day.\nAdding and SubtractingJesusJonathan David FaulknerSinThe GospelWhy We Don't Talk About Sin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 8704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://goneonceagain.com/tag/antropology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:13Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2T3J7KERMM4SP2JJFXZ3CJAO3TD4NHS", "length": 225, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "goneonceagain.com", "title": "Antropology \u2013 Gone once again", "raw_content": "Tag: Antropology\nOne of the most interesting personal collections with objects from different civilisations and ages, all over the world.\nContinue Reading \"Traveling back in time at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grammarquiz.net/15340/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:36Z", "digest": "sha1:2PXC3BIHFHXUTDUCSCAJCZVQOIFPIINC", "length": 121, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "grammarquiz.net", "title": "They beat .............., but I didn't do anything to them. 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I hope we don't see each other for a long, long time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 251.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grs.uncg.edu/prospective/international/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TKDCJUWS45D2ECMOHYWMUWUWGGEMYPZ2", "length": 2503, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "grs.uncg.edu", "title": "International Applicant Requirements - The Graduate School", "raw_content": "The general deadline for receipt of application and all supporting documents is May 15 for Fall Semester, September 15 for Spring Semester, and February 15 for Summer Session. Deadlines may be extended one month if the international student is already in the U.S. Prospective students should check with individual departments as some programs have earlier deadlines. Non-resident aliens who plan to enter the U.S. on a F-1 or J-1 visa must provide certification of financial support in order to receive the I-20 (Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (F-1) Student Status \u2013 for Academic and Language Students). International applicants with F-2 status may be admitted into a graduate program but they may not take classes until their status has been changed to F-1.\nSee the Institute of International Education lists of scholarships available to international students at http://www.fundingusstudy.org/.\nNon-native speakers of English with international transcripts, regardless of U.S. citizenship, must validate proficiency in the English language. Applicants may submit a satisfactory score on a language proficiency test. If the TOEFL is the chosen test, the minimum required score depends on the form of the exam taken (internet based \u2013 79, or paper based \u2013 550). A score of at least 6.5 is required on the IELTS. Effective 2015, UNCG accepts Pearson PTE scores for English Skills. A score of 53 or better will be required for acceptance of an applicant. The language requirement also may be fulfilled by completion of INTERLINK, the intensive English language program located on UNCG\u2019s campus (nc.interlink.edu/) through Level 5. The English language proficiency requirement may be waived if the applicant is a graduate of a university in a country where English is the official language.\nApplicants who have not demonstrated the required level of English proficiency may be granted provisional admission with the condition they complete Level 5 of INTERLINK, an ESL program located on UNCG\u2019s campus, and/or submit acceptable GRE scores. More information about INTERLINK can be found online at http://nc.interlink.edu. Such applicants will have specific conditions stated in their admission offer letter with a time frame for completion.\nAll supporting credentials must be in English. Applicants will be given the opportunity to upload transcripts of academic records issued by every college and university previously attended. Applicants may also mail official documents to:\nAttn: Admissions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gsgriffin.com/2016/12/08/where-does-morality-come-from/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:46Z", "digest": "sha1:KXJAHGFA6Q2MKBJ25RPFKJN72AJSLIYE", "length": 23973, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "gsgriffin.com", "title": "Where Does Morality Come From? | Griffin", "raw_content": "\u2190 Either God Changes or He\u2019s Psychotic: Comparing Testaments Old and New\nBy Conservatives\u2019 Logic, Nearly All Americans (Including Them) Are Lazy \u2192\nHow do we know know what\u2019s right and wrong? Is it something we are born with, acquired knowledge, or both? Does it come from a deity or can it be explained through science and anthropology? Are some ideas universal \u2014 held by all people in all societies in all ages \u2014 or is that nonsense? Is morality static or does it change over time? These are the questions that broaden our understanding of what it means to be human.\nReligion-based arguments\nIn The End of Reason, Christian evangelist Ravi Zacharias writes:\nWhen you assert that there is such a thing as evil, you must assume there is such a thing as good. When you say there is such a thing as good, you must assume there is a moral law by which to distinguish between good and evil. There must be some standard by which to determine what is good and what is evil. When you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral lawgiver\u2026\nObjective moral values exist only if God exists. Objective moral values do exist. Therefore, God exists.\nThis posits that there is an Objective Morality, a code of decent behavior society did not teach us \u2014 it was placed within us by God. The existence of this law means we know what is right and what is wrong, but we have the free will to choose either. Even if it goes against all learned behavior, the ways our culture taught us to think and act, we still instinctively know what is good and what is evil.\nThe weakness of this idea is obvious. If I believe in some sort of Objective Morality, it is only because I already believe in God. Objective Morality cannot be proven; it\u2019s speculation, without basis or evidence. What good is an argument that uses an abstraction to try to prove an abstraction? Plus, this is an example of circular reasoning (when your conclusion is inherent in a premise; when you start with what you\u2019re trying to end up with). Objective Morality and God are essentially the same thing. What good is it to say, \u201cI believe in God because I believe in God\u2019s Moral Code for Man\u201d? Both require belief in something supernatural; both require simple faith, because there is no observable proof. Abstractions can\u2019t rationalize abstractions, so those who posit morals come from Santa have as much evidence (specifically none) as those who insist they come from Yahweh.\nBut C.S. Lewis would have heartily agreed with Zacharias\u2019 claim that \u201cObjective moral values do exist.\u201d Apparently, it was Lewis\u2019 thoughts on a moral force that governed man\u2019s behavior that led him to believe in God! He devotes the first five chapters of Mere Christianity to the topic. He writes there are two reasons Objective Morality must be true:\nThe first is\u2026that though there are differences between the moral ideas of one time or country and those of another, the differences are not really very great \u2014 not nearly so great as most people imagine \u2014 and you can recognize the same law running through them all\u2026\nThe other reason is this. When you think about these differences between the morality of one people and another, do you think that the morality of one people is ever better or worse than that of another? If not, then of course there would never be any moral progress\u2026 The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard\u2026but the standard that measures two things is something different from either.\nRegarding the second reason, apparently there\u2019s no chance the standard you\u2019re using to compare two sets of morals might be your own. If I\u2019m comparing the cultural moralities of the Ancient Chinese with those of the 17th century French, couldn\u2019t I be using the moral values of my own present society to decide which is better? If my society doesn\u2019t practice human sacrifice, wouldn\u2019t I frown upon societies that did \u2014 and might that change if my society did practice such things?\nAs for Lewis\u2019 first point, if we engage in a serious study of history, do we actually find that differences in morality are \u201cnot really that great\u201d? Let us see.\nWildly Different Human Natures\nIn the appendix of his Abolition of Man, Lewis lists identical laws from across the globe, spanning many historical epochs; he notes how many civilizations had rules such as \u201cDo not kill\u201d and \u201cObey your father and mother.\u201d So true, but note he does not list any darker edicts societies had in common: laws relating to slavery, the persecution of women, execution for dissenting political or religious beliefs, etc.\nThis is the first place his argument starts to break down. The positive laws that man had in common Lewis would say are evidence for an innate understanding of how we are supposed to behave according to an Objective Morality set by God; but more sinister laws he would claim to simply be evidence of how man chooses to do what\u2019s wrong much of the time, how \u201cnone of us are really keeping the Law of Nature.\u201d\nThis is highly convenient. So the Spartans who thought it morally acceptable to destroy disfigured babies, the Aztecs who thought it right to slaughter thousands in a single day of human sacrifice, the Jews who thought it God\u2019s will to stone to death homosexuals, those laws can be constructed by societies of men who chose wrong over right. They couldn\u2019t possibly represent how man innately thought he was supposed to act (but why not? Why could one not say the common oppression of women aligned with God\u2019s standard of right?) In sum, the laws mankind designed are only evidence for an Objective Morality if they align with my present Judeo-Christian values! This reasoning is hollow as well. One could say murdering disfigured infants was a value imparted by a deity and he or she would have just as much evidence (specifically none) as one who says this act was a violation of a deity\u2019s \u201cLaw of Nature.\u201d\nLook at homosexuality, considered immoral or moral depending on the person, society, and age. Lewis writes the Objective Morality is what men \u201ccannot quite forget even when they try, and which they know they ought to obey.\u201d Thus, if homosexuality is wrong according to the Objective Morality, gay men and women would know their feelings and actions were wrong (as many but not all Christians argue). Homosexuals of course don\u2019t feel they are choosing their sexual orientation or consciously rejecting an instinct toward what is right or natural or good. A Christian might say they just don\u2019t recognize the moral push, which would obviously make the idea of Objective Morality worthless, or one might say they are lying, which would merely point out the existence of Objective Morality could never be proven based on opinion surveys.\nWhere Lewis\u2019 argument collapses, however, is that the differences concerning morality between time and cultures are as \u201cgreat\u201d as any imagination could conjure.\nEnglish author Chris Harman (How Marxism Works) writes:\n\u201cHuman nature\u201d does in fact vary from society to society. For instance, competitiveness, which is taken for granted in our society, hardly existed in many previous societies. When scientists first tried to give Sioux Indians IQ tests, they found that the Indians could not understand why they should not help each other do the answers. The society they lived in stressed co-operation, not competition.\nThe same with aggressiveness. When Eskimos first met Europeans, they could not make any sense whatsoever of the notion of \u201cwar.\u201d The idea of one group of people trying to wipe out another group of people seemed to them crazy.\nIn our society it is regarded as \u201cnatural\u201d that parents should love and protect their children. Yet in the ancient Greek city of Sparta it was regarded as \u201cnatural\u201d to leave infants out in the mountains to see if they could survive the cold.\nHe notes that the structure of society changes human nature (\u201c\u2018Human nature\u2019 as we know it today is a product of our history, not its cause\u201d). Obviously, being born into a society that stresses cooperation and pacifism will create a child of a different nature than one born into a culture that emphasizes competition, individualism, self-servitude, and patriotic war. People today consider it \u201chuman nature\u201d that man is too competitive and greedy to move beyond capitalism, but ignore how humans behaved for nearly 100,000 years, in an age called \u201cprimitive communism\u201d by historians. Richard Lee, an anthropologist, writes, \u201cBefore the rise of the state and the entrenchment of social inequality, people lived for millennia in small-scale kin-based social groups, in which the core institutions of economic life included collective or common ownership of land and resources, generalised reciprocity in the distribution of food, and relatively egalitarian political relations.\u201d\nThere are many other examples of vastly different human morals in other ages and places.\nPeople in some cultures did not consider forced genital mutilation, human sacrifice, sexism, racism, polygamy, homosexuality, slavery, or murder wrong \u2014 but others did. Many Europeans thought divorce a sin, but to the Iroquois it was no big deal. In Somaliland and among the Formosa people, a man had to commit murder to be considered deserving of a wife. Other cultures of the time would be horrified at the very thought, as most are today. In ancient Greece, homosexuality was mainstream and a natural part of society \u2014 men who were happily married to a woman often openly had a male partner as well. But the Jews murdered homosexuals (similarly, the prevalence of patriarchy, racism, and so forth vary widely). They further murdered people for not being virgins, for rebelling against parents, going too close to the Tabernacle, working on a holy day, believing in a God other than Yahweh, and many other nonviolent crimes \u2014 ideas of right and wrong that changed drastically over time. The Catholic Church considered condom use a sin until 2010; the ancient Romans created condoms from the skin of vanquished enemy soldiers. Just over 100 years ago, the U.S. age of consent for sex was about 10 years old (in Delaware it was 7), and it wasn\u2019t a big deal to most Americans \u2014 most being Christians. Today folks think and feel differently. In some cultures, like the Tibetans, one wife had many husbands. In others, like the Mormons or Mongols, one husband had many wives. It was common practice in some societies to lend one\u2019s wife to a guest. Some groups embraced tattoos, but the ancient Greeks considered them a desecration of the body. To some, infanticide was unforgivable, but to others common practice (Plato recommended it to prevent overpopulation). Hebrew, African, Asian, and Australian tribes forced genital mutilation on their young \u2014 still others thought it right to castrate themselves to prevent sin, or to punish others for crimes. At the exact same time Middle Eastern and American men were desperate to make sure women revealed no skin in public, women elsewhere were shirtless just like men. (See The Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell and \u201cAn Outline of Intellectual Rubbish,\u201d Bertrand Russell.) In some societies, women breastfed piglets. People in other times and places might consider that wrong (see Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond). In India, Hindu women would sometimes burn themselves to death at their husbands\u2019 funerals in a ritual called sati. The later British occupiers thought this wrong, so they banned it. European Christian societies spent over a thousand years torturing, murdering, and warring with nonbelievers, something unthinkable today.\nAnd of course, within a single culture at any given time there is debate over what is right or wrong.\nThis is because morality is affected by many factors: geography, resources and wealth, political institutions (would any argue democracy doesn\u2019t change the way people think?), class structure, religion (a powerful force indeed), education and literacy, traditional or commonly-held ideas, scientific progress, individual observation and experience, family dynamics, economic systems, and so on, all varying within a complex society. And these interact with and affect each other; Will and Ariel Durant wrote in The Lessons of History, \u201cPolitical forms, religious institutions, cultural creations, are all rooted in economic realities.\u201d\nConsider the fierce disagreement over slavery in the United States. Racism and slavery were cultural creations, and we can see how economic circumstances affected them. Geography and climate did not make slavery as economically sensible in the North (tobacco and cotton did not grow well), and thus it slowly died out; thoughts on the moral status of slavery changed with it. While Quakers preached abolition in the North, Protestant preachers in the South upheld slavery as ethical, as \u201cGod\u2019s Will,\u201d pointing to many Bible verses (see The Slave Community, John Blassingame). Slaveowners saw nothing wrong with slavery, but black slaves certainly did.\nToday there is much debate among Christian sects and individuals over what is right or wrong, concerning sex before marriage (and other sex acts besides intercourse), homosexuality, alcohol and drug use, war, assisted suicide, condom and contraceptive use, etc. Whether one is religious or not, there is always debate about when to lie (is it morally right if a killer just asked where your family is hiding?), when to kill (is it morally right if you\u2019re a soldier and your government told you to?), and so on.\nClearly, human values are fluid and varied, constructed by those who came before you, determined by the society into which you were born. Your society, and your place in it, will decide how you think and feel about everything, from violence to competition to sex.\nA More Scientific Answer\nReaders who object, \u201cYou can\u2019t compare ethics in ancient times to modern times!\u201d or \u201cOther cultures thought horrible things were morally right because they didn\u2019t believe in (the Judeo-Christian) God or have his laws!\u201d are not thinking critically. An Objective Morality is clearly nonsense, even if those objections are spot on.\nFirst, an Objective Morality (an innate sense of right or wrong) would not require people to know Yahweh. You can claim people just need to accept Christ, then they will know how to live, according to guidelines in the Bible \u2014 yet obviously that is not innate, it is acquired knowledge. Second, if Objective Morality exists, one would think it would be constant between ancient and modern times. Why should people think it morally right to commit mass human sacrifice, or enslaved people, long ago, but not today? Christians tend to think Jesus Christ came along, gave a message of love and peace, and changed the rules. But again, this is acquired knowledge; it was a message apostles had to go out and preach. Further, it does not explain the ethical advancements made by societies that aren\u2019t Christian. How could Confucius and Buddha have conjured a Golden Rule, and their followers put it into practice, long before Christ or Christianity even existed?\nOne might suppose an all-powerful God could change humanity\u2019s innate moral compass over time, but like God himself this is not provable, and unlikely to convince anyone who does not already believe in him \u2014 that is, anyone who trusts that morality can change over time according to societal factors and advancements.\nIn sum, there is no evidence of Objective Morality. Lewis\u2019 idea that the differences between \u201cmoral ideas of one time or country and those of another\u2026are not really very great\u201d is clearly absurd. His belief that your standard of judgement must be supernatural (not a predictable result of your current society) is without evidence and ignores better explanations. Zacharias\u2019 insistence that because you have decided one thing is evil and another thing good is devoid of any rational thought or understanding of how, when, and where you are born builds your moral code. And again, using an unfounded idea to prove another unfounded idea is laughable to any thinking person. Proving Objective Morality exists is as impossible as proving God exists.\nSo \u201cright\u201d and \u201cwrong\u201d are simply ideas, and feelings associated with those ideas (perhaps we feel horrible when we cheat on our spouse and happy when we help others). Morality is relative, changing, unique to each person. It doesn\u2019t exist outside the individual, except by common acceptance \u2014 when more than one person begins to believe executing non-virgins is right, that slavery is wrong, and so on. But how did morality arise in the first place?\nMorality is \u201cinnate\u201d only in the sense that the behavioral gene variants that allowed homo sapiens to better survive were passed on to later generations. Societal factors discussed above, like the growth of capitalism, the emergence of democracy, the weakening of poverty, the rise and fall of religions, and scientific discoveries, will greatly affect moral thought. But there is also scientific evidence to suggest a blueprint for our morality emerged that aided our survival \u2014 in the same way all other species developed habits of feeling and behavior that allowed them to better pass on their genes.\nConsider why we experience sexual lust and love. A lucky offspring with a random genetic mutation that pumps higher levels of hormones (dopamine, serotonin, and other neurological drugs) into the brain during casual interaction or sex is more likely to seek out more partners, have more children, and pass on the genetic variation before the bitter end. In this way, the species survives better (natural selection).\nI preface with this because understanding that \u201cfeelings,\u201d \u201cdrives,\u201d and \u201cbehaviors\u201d are developed through natural selection is crucial to understanding evolutionary morality. Genes determine behavioral characteristics, so as with lust, love, anger, fear, etc., there were certain genes relating to how we feel when we treat others in specific ways that persisted and certain others that did not, some that helped survival and others not so much. One can see how strength in numbers can aid food acquisition and defense, but it goes deeper. Biologist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion:\nWe now have four good Darwinian reasons for individuals to be altruistic, generous or \u2018moral\u2019 towards each other. First, there is the special case of genetic kinship. Second, there is reciprocation: the repayment of favours given, and the giving of favours in \u2018anticipation\u2019 of payback. Following on from this there is, third, the Darwinian benefit of acquiring a reputation for generosity and kindness. And fourth\u2026there is the particular additional benefit of conspicuous generosity as a way of buying unfakeably authentic advertising [attracting mates by caring for others].\nAs humans and our predecessors evolved, those with genetic inclinations to take care of others were more likely to survive. Those who inherited solely aggressive, selfish traits were less likely to survive. And so the gene pool of \u201cgood\u201d morals slowly grew. Modern experiments with infants show that even humans three to ten months old demonstrate a rudimentary understanding of empathy for those hurting, fairness for those who have less than others, and a keen interest in seeing kindness rewarded and meanness punished (see Shermer, The Moral Arc). This is not to say that self-preservation, fight or flight, and other such instincts did not evolve right along with them, for they did, but these are not mutually exclusive things. The genetic instinct to care for one\u2019s young accompanies the genetic willingness to fight or kill for one\u2019s resources, one\u2019s home, etc. Both are in the interest of survival. Evolution explains both moral and immoral behavior and urges. These instincts arose before humans had large enough brains to develop the concept of right and wrong; the concept itself arose from these evolutionary instincts, from how it felt to do this or that.\nThis is not to say all species evolved in this manner. Ours just happens to be one that did. Our primate ancestors evolved to treat each other in certain ways and experience certain feelings following such treatment, and they survived best because of this (we inherited these evolutionary instincts, just like our ape cousins did, and as we evolved we gained the mental capacity to have more complex, abstract thoughts of how we should behave, and those thoughts of right and wrong changed in different eras and places). But other species evolved to behave in other ways. There are many creatures that abandon or devour their young, survive solely by stealing the food of others, and all sorts of nasty things!\nAccording to Dawkins, homo sapiens are similar to many species that care for their young or even younger siblings (for example: bees, ants, wasps, termites, naked mole rats, meerkats, acorn woodpeckers), give something away and expect the favor returned later (vampire bats pay debts in regurgitated blood), build a positive individual reputation to ensure others will provide help in a time of need (primates), and show-off one\u2019s generosity in order to attract a mate (Arabian babblers). Studies reveal that mice show increased concern when familiar mice suffer compared to unfamiliar mice, monkeys starve themselves to save other monkeys from electric shocks, and chimps and dogs are more or less fair to each other when fed (Harris, The Moral Landscape). Species like elephants mourn their dead.\nIt goes without saying it wasn\u2019t religion that birthed this morality. Our closest cousins on the tree of life, the apes, share many of our moral feelings and behavior. It has been found that Bonobos attempt to control their temper, are happier and manage emotions better if they are loved by a parent, and are quick to hug, kiss, and pat an upset or stressed companion. But apes aren\u2019t particularly religious, one would think. True, one can say God implanted morals into animals as well as humans, but there is no way to prove this and it is not necessary to explain the phenomenon \u2014 it all makes sense from an evolutionary perspective.\nOverall, not only do many creatures experience the same emotions humans do, many mourn over separation and death, punish cheating, dislike betrayal and unfairness, prefer equality, reconcile after fighting, give gifts of gratitude, comfort others, care for the young of others, form friendships, cooperate and share, help or save others with no benefit for doing so, etc.\u2014and not just when interacting with their own species (see Recio, Inside Animal Hearts and Minds). Our ancestors were much like them \u2014 morality was instinct, instinct that aided survival. As our brains evolved and grew larger, we were able to have more complex thoughts on how we should act.\nMorality, driven by evolution, came before religious beliefs or complex human societies. It was the trial and error of new gene combinations, and the predator and sexual pressures of natural selection.\nDawkins continues:\nThrough most of our prehistory, humans lived under conditions that would have strongly favoured the evolution of all four kinds of altruism. We lived in villages, or earlier in discrete roving bands like baboons, partially isolated from neighboring bands or villages. Most of your fellow band members would have been kin, more closely related to you than members of other bands\u2013plenty of opportunities for kin altruism to evolve. And, whether kin or not, you would tend to meet the same individuals again and again throughout your life\u2013ideal conditions for the evolution of reciprocal altruism. Those are also ideal conditions for building a reputation of altruism, and the very same ideal conditions for advertising conspicuous generosity.\nBy any or all of the four routes, genetic tendencies towards altruism would have been favoured in early humans. It is easy to see why our prehistoric ancestors would have been good to their own in-group but bad\u2013to the point of xenophobia\u2013towards other groups.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 25288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hadleyjf.com/2010/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:23Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5JYZEXXW2YGHRLES5UAYXJ5U3D7YIN2", "length": 8805, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "hadleyjf.com", "title": "November | 2010 | Middle School Matrix", "raw_content": "To all of you who have read and shared your thoughts here, thank you! I hope you have a safe and refreshing Thanksgiving. I am grateful for all of you.\nUsing Their Voices\nI decided to try a new strategy for helping my class learn to effectively develop an idea for writing in a paragraph. This is always an ongoing challenge when teaching history, identifying the main idea for the argument and then supporting it with evidence. When the students can come up with an idea, they often struggle with how to prove it, or when they find lots of facts, it is a challenge to organize them effectively. I know that I often do some of my best thinking when I am talking with other people, so I developed a lesson to let the students see if talking and listening to themselves would help them organize and articulate their thoughts.\nThey first read a section of the textbook individually and then again in small groups, identifying together the most important facts. I regularly have them read a section twice: first to identify the main ideas and then a second time to annotate what is significant in the passage. To start the next part of this assignment, I posed a question to them and had them brainstorm from the facts that they knew. Some of them did it on paper and some of them used different programs on their laptops to make mind maps.\nI gave them 10 minutes to look over what they had read and the work they had done the day before. Then I gave them this challenge. Using Garageband, they were to record their planning process, identifying which facts they wanted to include and what order they wanted to use them. Then they were to listen to the recording. They were then to repeat the process, only this time with the focus being on developing a topic sentence for the paragraph, one that clearly stated their argument. After they had tried a few sentences, they were to listen again. Then the goal was to record a paragraph that answered the question. After doing that, they were listening to see if they had a clear point of view and had proved their point with evidence.\nAt first, they were really worried, assuming that this was about creating a finished product that would be graded and, even worse, listened to by the class. When I told them that this was just for them, they became curious but still sort of doubtful. One girl was almost frozen due to her embarrassment at \u201ctalking to herself.\u201d When I explained that the goal was to use their laptops in a new way to develop their thinking, and most importantly that no one was going to hear their recordings but them, they began to loosen up and enjoy the process. As they started to experience it as a different means of identifying what they wanted to say, they got really excited. There was no \u201cproduct,\u201d except their deeper understanding of the material and of how to put together an effective answer to the question.\nFor some of them, it was a huge success. They felt like they had really been able to more their thinking forward over the course of the hour that they had to work in this way. They wanted to do it any time that they had to write. For others, they hated it and felt that it didn\u2019t help at all. For both of those groups and the ones in between, it was a learning experience, which was exactly what I wanted.\nWhy We Go to Conferences\nI just got done with a whirlwind visit to Toronto to attend and present at ECOO \u2013 Educational Computing Organization of Ontario. It was a wonderfully run conference, with nary a hitch as far as this attendee could tell. The planning and communication ahead of time and the support team in place yesterday and today made it a great experience. If you can get a chance in the future, I would recommend attending.\nOne of the things that the time brought home to me is that while online tools are great for connecting educators from around the world, there is nothing like face-to-face time. There is a wonderful energy that comes from being across the table from a person, whether someone you follow on Twitter or not, and talking about topics about which we are all passionate. There is a deep kind of connection that comes when I meet someone that I had followed on Twitter for awhile. These are people whose ideas I know, but with whom I have never shared a cup of coffee. Having the time to share a meal is wonderful. Friendships are quickly born on the solid foundation of trust that has been built up over time on Twitter.\nMy one funny, and slightly embarrassing, Connecting with my PLN story came when I met someone that I had been following for over a year. I feel very connected to this person, know his ideas and definitely consider him part of my PLN. I pay attention to his tweets when I see them. I ended up sitting at a table with him and a few others. Shortly after the session started, he tweeted that he was sitting with the others but didn\u2019t include me. I made a silly joke about being left out. What became immediately clear was that while I \u201cknew him well,\u201d in Twitter terms, he didn\u2019t \u201cknow\u201d me. He did not follow me and had no idea who I was. Truly, there was no reason for him to know me! Like many of the people who follow me, that I do not follow back so that my PLN doesn\u2019t become unruly, he had not made a connection with me. I was outside those he followed.\nIt was one of those interesting, global connections/disconnections moments. Twitter creates a sense of community that sometimes needs to be tested. It is a great place to meet and begin the connections, but it is really just the starting place. If we want to have a rich, community life, we need to do those next steps \u2013 reading and commenting on each other\u2019s blogs, attending online and face-to-face conferences, taking the time to move beyond the more superficial relationships and develop deeper ones.\nThat is why times like ECOO are so important. We need to make the time and save the money to attend them and to drag along as many colleagues as possible. In places like ECOO, it is possible to learn about global connections and digital tools in a familiar setting that seems to draw many more people into making deeper connections. We can also deepen all of the relationships that get started in other ways.\nWilling to be Transformed\nOne of the ongoing challenges for teachers in the 21st century is to be willing to change and grow. The world of education is evolving every day. There are always new tools to help students learn and communicate their ideas. There are new avenues for collaboration and understanding. There are new discoveries about the brain and how to best support students. As teachers, we need to be learning and changing ourselves, as educators, so that we can facilite the learning that our students need to do.\nYesterday, Chris Lehman, the principal of Science Leadership Academy, came to lead our in-service today. (Follow Chris on Twitter, if you don\u2019t already!) Chris spoke about how we can not expect our students to be transformed in our classes if we are not willing to be transformed ourselves. We have to be part of the transformation that we want to take place in our schools and in our students. We must be willing to grow and change if we want to create an environment where students feel safe enough to come along on the journey. When I live the challenges of being a learner, then I am able to create a creative and a safe environment within which students can learn. When I move beyond being the \u201cexpert\u201d in the room and take on the role of inquirer, then transformation can happen for me and for my students.\nI know that I am a better teacher when I am learning. In those times, I am out of my depth. There are issues that I do not understand or tools that I can not figure out. I am confused, and I have to struggle to understand. The experience of not knowing, of being lost, is critical for good educators. We place students in that situation all of the time. We need to remember what it is like, rather than simply enjoy the comfort of our previous learning and successes. When we learn and grow, we can support the learning and growth of our students.\nI have learned so much from the teachers that I interact with online. They provide me with new ideas and new challenges. They support me when I am confused and offer advice to help me find my way through. When I allow myself to be too busy to learn and grow with them, then my students suffer. We are all busy, but there are choices that have to be made if we want to maintain in a place of transformation. We need to make the commitment to daily growth. When we do that, our students benefit. Our learning and inquiry leads to our being better teachers, ones who create transformational classrooms and schools.\nSo it is back to learning, back to the times of confusion and doubt and on to transformation!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 11383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 237.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/courses/097gd/further-study", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OXWBWHSC23BPMCEEH46B47GXNXU2HOM5", "length": 296, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "handbook.unimelb.edu.au", "title": "Further study: Master of Development Studies (Gender and Development) (097GD) \u2014 The University of Melbourne Handbook", "raw_content": "Master of Development Studies (Gender and Development) (097GD) // Further study\nGraduates may progress to a range of other graduate coursework programs. Those who complete the minor thesis elective may also qualify for entry to research higher degree programs, including the Doctor of Philosophy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://happymoose.nz/blog/accounts-faq", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PT7HNGOEIAUWKX4XMUN7NMBCG67LSP42", "length": 707, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "happymoose.nz", "title": "Ordering, Shipping and Accounts FAQ - Pixel v. Ink", "raw_content": "Can I change the e-mail address on my account?\nYes. Please email us with your old e-mail address and your new one, we can change the e-mail address on previous orders so that they will be linked to your new account. Just get in touch.\nCredits are a balance that is automatically counted towards your next purchase, even though the credits have no cash value. So, for example, if you\u2019ve had 5 credits added to your account, and you decide to purchase a $30 order, then you will only be charged $25.\nWhen you proceed to the checkout page, you will see the total credits that have been applied to the purchase. In addition, if you have any credits left in your account, the remaining total will also be posted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://healingsteps.com.au/category/theta-healing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:18Z", "digest": "sha1:CHM3NF5P7GQMKVMJKN3I4UBA7EN4ZY3B", "length": 1614, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "healingsteps.com.au", "title": "Theta Healing Archives - Healing Steps Wellness Centre", "raw_content": "How ThetaHealing set me free!\nI knew \u2018something\u2019 wasn\u2019t right. I knew there had to be more to life than this. I just wasn\u2019t happy. My life on the outside looked good. I was married with four beautiful children. I had a nice house in a nice area with good friends. I had food on the table. I wasn\u2019t being abused. I had a job I enjoyed. But. \u2018Something\u2019. Just. Wasn\u2019t. Right. I knew that my childhood had impacted my life (I\u2019m an only child with a narcissistic mother \u2013 which I only worked out a few years ago). I knew that my schooling had had a [\u2026]\nThe joy of teaching ThetaHealing\u00ae\nOh how I love teaching ThetaHealing\u00ae! My heart fills fit to burst watching the changes in people. I smile now when I think of how long it took me to do the teacher training. \u2018Not me\u2019, I said to a friend who was planning her future career. At that time I really believed what I said. Vianna Stibel, the founder of ThetaHealing \u00ae, was giving a talk in Sydney a few years back. Sitting in a room filled with a couple of hundred people I heard a voice as clear as anything say \u2018you will teach this, you will become [\u2026]\nThe magic of surrender\nIt\u2019s been a very long time since I have sat down to write a blog. Six and a half weeks ago I broke my ankle and the next day I wrote myself a list of what I wanted to achieve in the following 2 weeks. Needless to say, none of them were done. Why was that? I had the time, I was stuck in bed with nothing else to do, there was no housework to distract me or other things I could do which I normally use for procrastinating. 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For once, it's not a comedy \u2013 we're making a multi-character musical adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel. It's really refreshing to do a non-comedy show, and we're very much enjoying making it. Please do have a listen and let us know if you have any feedback \ud83d\ude42\nPosted by Laurence Owen on Wednesday, 3 May 2017\nLong before the Delorean or the TARDIS ever graced our screens, the story of The Time Machine fascinated the public with the idea of travelling in the fourth dimension. This musical based on the H.G. Wells masterpiece is not a straight adaptation of the novel, set at Radio Woking in the 1950s, this production features Carrie (Lindsay Sharman), a station producer in the finest cut-glass BBC English mould, and George (Laurence Owen), the writer and performer about to record a musical version of the sci-fi classic.\nGeorge narrates the story of a Victorian gentleman scientist explaining to his dinner guests that he has built a machine that enables him to travel through time. Eight hundred thousand years into the future, he encounters two evolved races, the carefree, childlike Eloi and the brutal underground-dwelling Morlocks. Unlike many other adaptations, this version neatly highlights the novel\u2019s often ignored themes of class, casting the two races as the eventual evolutionary results of a capitalist society.\nThe radio performance is interspersed with 50s style advertising jingles and features a number of original songs. The score, also by Laurence Owen, is marvellously catchy, backed up by witty lyrics and even a 50s dance number for a finale. As George, Owen makes exceptionally skilful use of the theremin \u2013 the most sci-fi of instruments \u2013 and carries all of the characters in the story, even to the extent of switching accent several times within the same song. Lindsay Sharman is fabulous as a manic one-woman radiophonic workshop, using everything from hemp shopping bags to apples to create accompanying sound effects. For all that this production is set up as a radio drama, removing the visual dimension would lose a great deal of her wonderful comedy.\nWith The Time Machine, Owen and Sharman have created a delightful, charming production, bringing a fresh new take to this much loved story.\nSaturday 21 July 8:30pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 4663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://historichamilton.wordpress.com/tag/ww2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:25Z", "digest": "sha1:L2CNZQO25JFDB6GBWNXSOT5MQVRWS46Y", "length": 18775, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "historichamilton.wordpress.com", "title": "WW2 \u2013 Historic Hamilton", "raw_content": "WORLD WAR 2 1939-1945.\nWritten by Wilma Bolton.\nDespite the carnage of World War 1, the 1930\u2019s brought war clouds gathering again over Europe and on the 3rd September, 1939, Britain once more declared war on Germany.\nAs the country mobilised for war, notices appeared in the Hamilton Advertiser informing the civilian population on issues such as gas masks, the blackout, evacuees, rationing and registering for National Service. The intimations page also underwent a change in content when the headings, Deaths on Active Service, Missing in Action and Prisoner of War were added.\nMay and June 1940 saw 338,226 troops rescued from the beaches of Dunkirk. Many Lanarkshire soldiers were killed or captured during this evacuation of the British Expeditionary Forces, or when fighting with the rear guard protecting the troops on the beaches. Among the soldiers being evacuated were Eddlewood brothers Owen and Charlie Lawless. Owen was killed in action. Charlie survived and fought throughout the duration of the war.\nTwo High Blantyre brothers, Robert and Jim McCulloch of Stonefield Crescent were also among the survivors. Unable to re-embark at Dunkirk the brothers who were in different units, both managed to reach Brest where they were picked up by one of the hundreds of vessels involved in the rescue. They were overjoyed when they met on board. Robert was lucky to be there, a wallet tucked into in his breast pocket had stopped a piece of shrapnel which undoubtedly would have killed him.\nDuring the nights of the 13th-14th and 14th-15th March 1941, German bombers flew over Hamilton heading for Clydeside. The sky was lit up by searchlights and the town echoed with the noise from the local anti-aircraft guns firing at the planes, as they flew overhead. Aided by the light of a full moon, the bombers discharged a cargo of 105,300 incendiary bombs, bringing death and destruction to Clydebank.\nWithin two hours of the air raid starting, a large convoy of Hamilton first-aid ambulance and rescue vehicles, fire engines and mobile canteens left for the blazing town. Among the rescue teams were highly trained First Aid Party (F.A.P.) personnel including John Anderson, house factor; Andrew Adams, Portland Place; Gus Le Blonde, Scott Street; John Henderson, lorry driver, Portland Park; Paddy King winding engineman, Arden Road; Guy Lang, newsagent, Morgan Street; Johnny Logan, Alness Street and Bob Roxburgh, optician. It was to be four days before they returned home. Three men from the rescue teams were injured; Samuel Wright and Frank Bebbington received crushing injuries when bombed buildings collapsed on top of them and John Paul received a serious knee injury.\nBlantyre also sent a substantial number of rescue personnel in a convoy of eighteen vehicles, nine of which were destroyed during the bombing. Among the rescue teams was Thomas Limerick a former miner and trained first aider from Bairds Rows. Two of the Blantyre rescue team were injured. Vincent McInerney suffered a compound fracture of his arm and David Paterson sustained serious back injuries.\nOn the 16th March, seven hundred Clydebank refugees arrived at Hamilton and were transported to sixteen previously earmarked rest centres at churches and halls throughout the town. Most of them had lost everything they owned and arrived with only the clothes they stood in.\nAmong the many families to take refugees into their homes were the McCrums of 54 Mill Road, Hamilton. Mrs Isabella McCrum had been helping with the refugees at Low Waters School where she worked as a cleaner. On returning home, she informed her husband Robert that all the refugees had been found accommodation with the exception of one family of five adults; a mother, three daughters and a son who did not want to be split up. Feeling sorry for them, they went to the school and brought the family back to their home. This family, the Langs, were to stay with the McCrums for the duration of the war. They were living in two bedrooms; one of them normally used by the McCrum girls who were hastily moved down into the living room to sleep. The other bedroom had been used by the four McCrum sons who were away fighting with the British army. One of them John; a Gordon Highlander fought at El Alamein and was wounded by shrapnel in Sicily but survived his injuries. George, a paratrooper also survived the war as did Robert, who fought with Wingate\u2019s Chindits in Burma, but William, a Royal Scot, was killed fighting in Burma.\nThere were many local soldiers engaged fighting the grim battle against the Japanese in Burma. Another one was Cameronian, James Spiers one of three Earnock brothers, all of whom were regular soldiers fighting for their country. James was killed in Burma and has no known grave, Alexander, a Seaforth Highlander was captured at St Valerie while defending the soldiers being evacuated from Dunkirk. The third brother John, fought in Europe with the Cameronians. Both men rose through the ranks, Alex to become a Major and John a Captain.\nOn May 5th a bomb fell on the railway sidings behind Whitehill Road, Burnbank. Luckily there were no casualties.\nThe country was stunned when on 24th May; H.M.S. Hood was sunk with the loss of 1,417 men. Three young Hamilton sailors, William Pennycook, John Mullen and John Kirkland were among the dead.\nIn October,May Baillie a young Hamilton nurse, survived 8 days in an open raft after her ship was torpedoed 700 miles from land. She married two weeks after returning home.\nAlso in October, Lance-Corporal Jimmy Welsh, 6 Neilsland Drive, Meikle Earnock found himself in the thick of the fighting at El Alamein. During the bombardment he heard a sound which brought a lump to his throat. Rising and falling above the thunder of the guns he could hear the pipes of the gallant 51st Highland Division playing the soldiers into battle. The battle of El Alamein was won, resulting in the retreat of Rommel\u2019s Afrika Korps and eventually the surrender of 250,000 German and Italian troops in North Africa.\nBy November the Government was calling on all \u201cpatriots\u201d to give up disused articles of copper, pewter, zinc, lead, brass, bronze, aluminium to make munitions. Collection points were arranged and the people started clearing out their unwanted ferrous metal. The children of Russell Street, Hamilton helped, by having a door to door collection for scrap. Every piece of scrap paper was also collected and recycled.\nAll over Lanarkshire, people organised back door concerts, whist drives and other forms of entertainment to collect money for the war effort. Prisoners of war were not forgotten. Weekly lists appeared in the Hamilton Advertiser naming contributors to the Red Cross Prisoner of War Fund for food parcels and clothing.\nMany local men were decorated for outstanding bravery and among them was Second Officer John Inglis of Burnbank who was awarded the George Medal in December 1942 for his courage when his ship was attacked by enemy aircraft.\n1943 saw a turning point in the war and the country was now on the offensive instead of the defensive and winning major victories.\nSunday 26th October was designated \u201cBattle of Britain\u201d day and ceremonial parades and thanksgiving services were held all over the county. The same week saw the repatriation of 790 prisoners of war and civilian internees. Among the men repatriated were James Steel and Matthew McDonald from Burnbank and George Hall, Graham Avenue Eddlewood. Welcome home parties were held for all three men.\nIn February 1944 there was great excitement in Burnbank when Mrs Lily McGauchie proprietrix of a newsagents shop telephoned the police about a suspicious customer. It was just as well she did; he turned out to be an escaped German prisoner of war.\nAmong the mighty armada crossing the channel on D-Day June 6th were many of Lanarkshire\u2019s sons. The Death on Active Service columns in the Hamilton Advertiser told of the high price of freedom being paid by local families. Among the dead were Earnock man Brian Cameron and Arthur Russell from Blantyre.\nSeptember saw the lights go on again after blackout restrictions were relaxed. This delighted the local children, many of whom had never seen the streets lights on.\nIn December the Home Guard held a \u201cStand Down\u201d parade in Hamilton, three months later on May 7th 1945 the war in Europe ended and Hamilton celebrated with flags of all shapes and sizes flying from buildings and windows. Banners were thrown across streets, fairy lights were connected up and by nightfall the town was a mass of colour. Thousands of people danced in the streets and fires were lit on the top of Earnock and Neilsland bings.\nAt Larkhall there was cheering and singing around a bonfire at the \u201cOld Cross,\u201d after the official announcement that the war in Europe was over. Music was provided by Larkhall Home Guard Pipe Band and reels were danced at Charing Cross. In Blantyre the celebrations lasted three days, with bonfires, music and dancing.\nThe war with Japan continued for three months after V.E. Day but at midnight on August 15th, Larkhall folk were wakened by the sound of Trinity Church bells ringing out the news that the war with Japan was over. The bells were soon joined by hooters and sirens all loudly announcing the welcome news. By half past twelve bonfires were blazing all over town and spontaneous street parties were being held in Hamilton Road, Hareleeshill, Old Cross, Raploch Cross and Strutherhill.\nThirty minutes after the midnight announcement of the Japanese surrender, victory fires were lit all over Hamilton. The Old Cross was thronged with delighted citizens who danced eightsome reels to the music of pipers. Eventually most of the crowd made their way to the Council\u2019s open air dance floor and danced the night away to the music of Tommy McLaren\u2019s dance band.\nIn Blantyre\u2019s Morris Crescent, there was a fireworks display using fireworks formerly employed in A.R.P. exercises. In High Blantyre, an effigy of the Japanese Emperor was burnt on one of the celebration bonfires after it was paraded throughout the village by children shouting \u201cwe want Togo\u201d and all over the village, street parties were held to celebrate the end of the war.\n\u24b8 Wilma S. Bolton. 2018.\nA pencil of light hovered over the sky,\nThe moonlight revealed each passer-by,\nSlowly the beam travelled westward, then\nsouth;\nClear-cut as crystal, compelling as youth,\nBetween two tall houses, then over the\nRoaming the skies with a careless ease,\nTouching as lightly as the wind on the\nWho would have thought it was searching\nfor death!\nALYSON LUNN.\nStrathaven.\nRef. Hamilton Advertiser. 27/4/1940. Page 4.\nPosted on October 14, 2018 Categories Burnbank, Garry L McCallum, Garry McCallum, Hamilton, Historic Hamilton, History, www.historic-Hamilton.co.ukTags Wilma Bolton, WW21 Comment on WORLD WAR 2 1939-1945.\nHMS Hood was the last battle cruiser built for the Royal Navy. Commissioned in 1920, she was named after the 18th-century Admiral Samuel Hood. One of four Admiral-class battle cruisers ordered in mid-1916, Hood had serious design limitations, though her design was drastically revised after the Battle of Jutland and improved while she was under construction. For this reason she was the only ship of her class to be completed.\nAs one of the largest and, ostensibly, the most powerful warships in the world, Hood was the pride of the Royal Navy and, carrying immense prestige, was known as \u2018The Mighty Hood\u2019.\nIn May 1941, she and the battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to intercept the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, which were en route to the Atlantic where they were to attack convoys. On 24 May 1941, early in the Battle of the Denmark Strait, Hood was struck by several German shells, exploded and sank. Due to her perceived invincibility, the loss had a profound effect on the British people.\nIn this picture is Hamilton Man William Pennycook & his brother Tommy (Right) along with his cousin to the left who is unknown. The picture was taken in 1940 the year before he died.\nWilliam was one of the crew men on board the HMS Hood on the day it sank. He was born on 19 May 1919 to George and Jeanie Pennycook, of Hamilton. He spent much of his childhood in Nova Scotia and later returned to the UK.\nHe lived at Morgan Street and Prior to joining the Navy, he worked with his father at Viewpark Colliery, he was only 22 years old at the time of his loss.\nHistoric Hamilton would like to thank Toni Sempie for sending in this picture of her Great Uncle.\nPosted on October 14, 2018 Categories Hamilton, UncategorizedTags Pennycook, WW2Leave a comment on HMS HOOD.\nTHE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND IN CADZOW STREET TO CLOSE AFTER 115 YEARS IN THE TOWN.\nTHE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND TO CLOSE.\nIt has been announced that the Royal Bank of Scotland is to close 62 of its branches throughout Scotland. Our branch which has stood in Cadzow Street for 115 Years has been confirmed as one of these branches. The new age digital world of online banking has brought the demises of high street banks and for this reason, Cadzow Street will lose an old familiar shop.\nHamilton Cadzow Street branch opened as an office of the National Bank of Scotland in October 1902. Hamilton at that time was already a thriving and important town with a population of around 7,600 people. Serval successful decades of coal mining brought considerable wealth to the area, as shown in the numerous fine buildings which were erected in Hamilton and particularly in Cadzow Street around the turn of the twentieth century.\nThe bank agreed to open a branch in the town at the request of William Dykes Loudon who was a local solicitor and town councillor, who believed that Hamilton could provide enough banking business to support another branch, in addition to the several which were already open in Hamilton.\nNational Bank of Scotland had been founded in Edinburgh in 1825 with more shareholders than any other bank in Britain. By the beginning of the twentieth century, it was operating around 125 branches in Towns and Villages throughout Scotland.\nNational Bank\u2019s Hamilton branch first opened on the 20th of October 1902, with William Loudon himself as its agent. In its early years, the branch operated from Hamilton\u2019s Masonic halls, originally near the bottom of Cadzow Street and Lower Auchingramont Road.\nJust as William Loudon and the Bank\u2019s directors had expected, the new branch was an immediate success. It was located in a thriving area of the town, with trams beginning to run along Cadzow Street in 1903, and the impressive new Municipal Buildings being opened in 1907.\nNevertheless, difficult times were on the horizon when the first world war broke out in 1914, the banking industry found itself facing new challenges. Levels of trade were reduced, money market rates were low, and staff shortages became severe as many Bank clerks of military age enlisted. William Loudon and two members of his staff from the Cadzow Street branch were among 439 employees of the National Bank of Scotland who left their posts to join the war effort.\nAfter the war, business returned to normal, but Hamilton itself was changing. The coal mining industry had been severely affected by controls on exports and a shortage of workers during the war, and it never again returned to the levels of productivity that it had experienced at the turn of the century. Numerous Pits in the area were closed during the 1920s and 930s.\nWhen the second world war began in 1939 the Banks resumed the special duties which governed their activities in wartime. Five men from the National Bank of Scotland\u2019s Cadzow Street branch left to join the war. Meanwhile, the premises of the branch were also undergoing a change wherein 1942, the bank bought the site of 50 Cadzow Street and set about preparing it for use as a bank branch.\nIn fact, this was not the first time that 50 Cadzow Street had housed a Bank. In the 1860s and 1870s, the building had been owned by the Hamilton branch of the City of Glasgow Bank. This bank collapsed with huge debts and much publicity in 1878, leaving many of its shareholders, including serval citizens of Hamilton financially ruined. (Lewis Potter of Udston House in Burnbank was one of the men who went to prison as a direct result of the collapse of the Bank.)\nIn the early years of the twentieth century, the building had been occupied by a branch of Mercantile Bank of Scotland. More recently it had served as a shop of Peter Wyper & Sons but by the end of the war 50 Cadzow Street had become a bank once more and National Bank of Scotland\u2019s Hamilton Brach was, at last, the sole occupant of premises of its own.\nThe Cadzow Street branch continued to trade successfully throughout the 1940s and 1950s, as new industries moved into the area replacing the old coalmining jobs. New housing was also built around the Town.\nIn 1959, the National Bank of Scotland merged with the Commercial Bank of Scotland, and 50 Cadzow Street branch became part of the National Commercial Bank of Scotland. In 1969 another merger occurred, this time between the National Commercial Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland. The new bank, with 693 branches enjoyed over 40 percent of Scottish Banking business.\nThe Royal Bank of Scotland now found itself with three branches in Hamilton, all located on Cadzow Street, there was the old National Bank at number 50, a former Commercial Bank Branch at number 88, and the original Royal Bank Branch at number 105. All three branches remained open, although the branch at 88 Cadzow Street was relocated in 1972 to Duke Street, in order to give a better geographical coverage of the town, particularly in the growing shopping area.\nThe branch at 50 Cadzow Street remained in its own premises and in 1980, a cashline machine was installed for the first time. The interior of the premises was also refurbished in the early 1980s and again in the mid-1990, but the exterior remains as much as it did when the branch first opened here in 1902. The branch absorbed the business of 105 Cadzow Street branch upon its closure.\nToday and 115 years after it first opened its doors for business, Hamilton\u2019s Cadzow Street branch continues to offer a full range of Banking services to our community, but for how long?\nPosted on December 2, 2017 December 2, 2017 Categories Burnbank, Garry L McCallum, Garry McCallum, Historic Hamilton, Uncategorized, www.historic-Hamilton.co.ukTags 50 Cadzow Street, Burnbank, Cadzow Street, Duke Street, Hamilton Coal Mines, Lewis Potter, Lower Auchingrammont Road, National Bank of Scotland, The Royal Bank of Scotland, William Dykes, William Dykes Loudon, WW1, WW2Leave a comment on THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND IN CADZOW STREET TO CLOSE AFTER 115 YEARS IN THE TOWN.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 30677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hitconsultant.net/category/digital-health-2/page/184/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GKND6G6H26AVACT4MWCSNCLVDQZKOOOA", "length": 8351, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "hitconsultant.net", "title": "Digital Health News | Digital Healthcare Trends - HIT Consultant", "raw_content": "Blueprint Health Launches Its 8th Class of Digital Health Startups\nBlueprint Health, a NYC based mentor-focused health technology accelerator has revealed its Summer 2015 Accelerator class (eight class) of eight digital health startups to its portfolio. Blueprint is a member of TechStars\u2019 Global Accelerator Network. Today\u2019s addition of eight companies brings the accelerator\u2019s total to 68 digital health with more than 140 entrepreneurs in Blueprint\u2019s alumni community. To date, 87% of Blueprint\u2019s companies are still in operation and 85% of those companies are\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Blueprint Health Launches Its 8th Class of Digital Health Startups and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/16/blueprint-health-8th-class-digital-health-startups/.\nWikipedia Healthcare Editors Gain Access to Evidence-Based Clinical Content\nWikipedia is a top destination for healthcare professionals and consumers to search for medical information. Now, Wikipedia healthcare editors can enhance their entries on the popular Internet encyclopedia and be confident in their accuracy thanks to a collaboration with EBSCO Health, the creators of DynaMed Plus. Wikipedia\u2019s top healthcare editors have complimentary access to DynaMed Plus, a cross-platform, evidence-based clinical reference solution, to assist in content generation, research\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Wikipedia Healthcare Editors Gain Access to Evidence-Based Clinical Content and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/15/wikipedia-healthcare-editors-dynamed-plus/.\nHome Care Startup Honor Donates $1M in Free In-Home Care Across 10 Cities\nThe problem of insufficient elder care is one of the biggest issues facing the nation, so much so that it\u2019s now one of top priorities for the White House and the President. Today at the White House Conference on Aging, Seth Sternberg, CEO of Honor is announcing a new initiative to donate $1 million in free in-home care across 10 cities and working with established care providing organizations in those communities to ensure this care goes to helping older Americans. The first city to benefit from\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Home Care Startup Honor Donates $1M in Free In-Home Care Across 10 Cities and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/13/honor-donates-1m-in-free-in-home-care/.\nVitalyze Me Taps BaseHealth API For Personalized Genomic Data\nVitalyze Me, a premium, personalized medical program that unifies state-of-the-art wellness and longevity medicine with modern technology, has partnered with BaseHealth to offer personalized genomic data and clinical analysis. The partnership will allow Vitalyze Me to integrate BaseHealth\u2019s comprehensive health assessment engine data into its existing system to provide patients access to a highly personalized health management platform. Vitalyze Me offers 24/7 access to quality healthcare,\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Vitalyze Me Taps BaseHealth API For Personalized Genomic Data and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/10/vitalyze-me-taps-basehealth-api-genomic-data/.\nVA To Harness Data from 390K Veterans to Understand Chronic Conditions\nThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is announcing four new studies that will use genetic and other data from VA\u2019s Million Veteran Program (MVP) to answer key questions to better understand chronic conditions. MVP, which has enrolled more than 390,000 Veterans so far, has already become the nation\u2019s largest database linking genetic, clinical, lifestyle and military exposure information. Part of a beta test for data access, the newly funded studies are among the first to use MVP data to\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called VA To Harness Data from 390K Veterans to Understand Chronic Conditions and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/10/va-to-harness-data-from-390k-veterans/.\nMillennials: The Rising Generation of Health Hackers\nWe are in the midst of a healthcare revolution; however, one age group known as Millennials has developed a distrust of the U.S. healthcare system and it is driving them to spend more money now to remain healthy in the future. According to new research from Deep Focus's latest report, Spring/Summer 2015 Cassandra Report: Body, Mind, Soul, Millennials (ages 18-34) are finding alternative ways to support healthy and balanced lifestyles, using technology to \u201chealth hack\u201d and track their health,\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Millennials: The Rising Generation of Health Hackers and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/09/millennials-rising-generation-health-hackers/.\nLow Cost Blood Test Provider Theranos Inks Deal with Capital BlueCross\nTheranos, a digital health startup that develops novel approaches for laboratory diagnostic tests using blood has inked a long-term partnership with Capital BlueCross \u2013 Central Pennsylvania\u2019s largest health insurer. The partnership will showcase the impact of Theranos\u2019 services around lowering the cost of care in areas where costs for medical diagnostic testing are high due to the lack of availability of health care resources in Central Pennsylvania. Theranos, which received clearance of\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Low Cost Blood Test Provider Theranos Inks Deal with Capital BlueCross and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/09/theranos-inks-deal-with-capital-bluecross/.\nby Komal Garewal 07/08/2015 Leave a Comment\n\u201cA company\u2019s odds of success are better the closer they can get to their market,\u201d argues Stephen Hurwitz, a thought leader in the Canadian venture capital industry, recognizing that the proximity to a VC-tech hub can help the success rate of Canadian startups. A socialized healthcare system, Canada\u2019s market is fragmented by province and type of care \u2013 most primary and emergency care is free for residents whereas specialty care, prescription drugs, long-term and in-home care amongst others,\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called 20 Promising Canadian Digital Health Companies to Watch and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/08/canadas-top-20-digital-health-startups-to-watch/.\nGet My Health Data Campaign Launches\nFor patients, accessing their health information online is often a confusing and down right painful process. Sadly, few patients know what to ask for or what information should be available to them, and not nearly enough health care organizations are equipped to meet their requests. To change that, a coalition of patient advocates today has launched the Get My Health Data Campaign to support patients in asking for, getting and effectively using their digital health data. Campaign\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Get My Health Data Campaign Launches and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/02/get-my-health-data-campaign-launches/.\nSocial Network for Doctors SERMO Expands to Canada\u2019s 77,000 Physicians\nSERMO, the leading social network for doctors with more than 340,000 members across the US and UK, announced its latest international expansion, opening its doors to Canada\u2019s 77,000 physicians. The Canadian expansion follows SERMO\u2019s international UK launch in April. SERMO is well on its way to becoming the largest global medical social network exclusively for physicians. SERMO also has plans to roll out in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and South Africa over the next few weeks. SERMO is a\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Social Network for Doctors SERMO Expands to Canada\u2019s 77,000 Physicians and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2015/07/02/social-network-doctors-sermo-expands-canadas-77000-physicians/.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 11307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hollymueller.blogspot.com/2013/02/fantastic-friday.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:43Z", "digest": "sha1:5QJLSP2F4FOMUV3U7MHLDTP5UV7Z3U4G", "length": 342, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "hollymueller.blogspot.com", "title": "Reading, Teaching, Learning: Fantastic Friday!", "raw_content": "We've enjoyed another week of fantastic books in 4th grade gifted reading!! We're working on a civil rights unit that includes these books:\nThe unit has been an incredible learning experience. My students are also enjoying their own independent books. Take a look!\nhttp://spincam.net/s/msm6\nhttp://spincam.net/s/y92b\nhttp://spincam.net/s/ssjv", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 6314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hollywoodsuite.ca/movies/au-revoir-les-enfants/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6VQJ5US7DLE27EPRYS25BO67VJDCDO2E", "length": 395, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "hollywoodsuite.ca", "title": "Au Revoir Les Enfants | Hollywood Suite", "raw_content": "A delicately rendered and exceptionally moving reminiscence of a boyhood friendship cut short by war. Louis Malle's semi-autobiographical film is set in January, 1944, during the German Occupation of France in a Catholic boarding school. Oscar nominated and BAFTA winner.\nExplore Au Revoir Les Enfants\nFind other films that have the same director or actor as Au Revoir Les Enfants.\nRaphael Fejto", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 135.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hollywoodsuite.ca/movies/this-is-spinal-tap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:JZ57NCNMRDOBLHOHSCX7CAGWVXMWWEXF", "length": 228, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "hollywoodsuite.ca", "title": "This Is Spinal Tap | Hollywood Suite", "raw_content": "Spinal Tap, the world's loudest band, is chronicled by hack documentarian Marti DeBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour.\nExplore This Is Spinal Tap\nFind other films that have the same director or actor as This Is Spinal Tap.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hopineo.org/en/personal-thoughts-visiting-sydney-travel-expo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:15Z", "digest": "sha1:B4RQ6L3SA7RNTM7XRYVAEJ35GDHNWHDV", "length": 6558, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "hopineo.org", "title": "Personal thoughts after visiting the Sydney Travel Expo - Hopineo", "raw_content": "Personal thoughts after visiting the Sydney Travel Expo\n1 April 2017 Valerie NadisicUncategorizedNo Comments\nNote: this article cannot be used as a scientific reference. It is a personal post, through which I share my personal experience, my feelings and the opinions of a few other people. It aims to engage discussions, make us think about the different subjects mentioned, and hopefully lead to ideas and maybe actions \ud83d\ude42\nA few weeks ago, professional operators from the tourism industry and travellers met at Sydney Travel Expo, at the Sydney Olympic Park. For 2 days, the biggest Australian event in the industry has welcomed thousands of professionals and visitors. Among the 130 professional stalls, there were a majority of travel agencies and destination representative offices, but also airlines, cruise lines, hotel brands and administrative services. All of this for about 1000 visitors over the weekend. Of course, I was one of them.\nIn the 2 first hours of the Expo, before every agent got busy with their (real) clients, I had the chance to chat with travel agents, sales or marketing managers, but also city or state representatives of various companies, and one general manager. I took advantage of my position as a tourist to engage the conversation with a few tour-operators and destination representatives, to have a first feeling at their behaviour with the travellers, their selling strategy and their general offer. Again, there was nothing official in the survey. I started mentioning Hopineo, my experience in the tourism industry, my will to work in New-Zealand later in the year\u2026 before asking the same question to each of them: \u201cwhat are your views on the responsible tourism?\u201d\nDespite having talked to only 12 people, the feedbacks are still various and show different levels of knowledge and commitment to the Responsible Tourism for professionals.\nAs a former student in the sustainable development of tourism, you can imagine how frustrated I first felt. To see that the questions that have been my main concern for years do not matter \u2013 or matter so little \u2013 for the professionals in the industry. Frustrated to see that the people who have the opportunity to directly raise the travellers\u2019 awareness about a more responsible form of travel, barely know and care about it. Argh. It wasn\u2019t pleasant.\nBut, as we say, it is always good to face reality once in a while, to keep track of what is happening right now, and to realise the work that needs to be done on the matter. If most of the discussions I\u2019ve had sounded quite general, several elements have been mentioned by several of the professionals. Which made realise what are their key concerns, and made me think about how to approach them:\n# The professionals know the travellers\u2019 expectations have evolved towards a more responsible way of travelling. Seems ludicrous to say, but it is a basic point, and quite reassuring. Tourists want something different, something that makes THEIR travel special. For the professionals I have talked to, the difficulty is to see how far the customers are ready to go in the \u201cdifferent\u201d. Do they want something \u201cdifferent and unique\u201d because it\u2019s trendy to say so, or are they really committed to travel differently, in a more responsible way? And what does \u201cresponsible travel\u201d mean to them?\n# The exploitation of animals as a tourist attraction has been one of the main concerns over the last years for the tour-operators: a massive work has been done particularly on the sector of elephant rides all around South East Asia. The agents mentioning it explain that the activity is banned from almost all the operators\u2019 offer they work with. The difficulty on this matter is not so much for the travel agents to offer an alternative to the travellers, but for the local operators to allow the working population to switch to another sustainable lucrative activity. How to find the balance between making the travellers learn about the wildlife and protecting this wildlife from human disturbances? How to turn the skills and experience of the former workers into an asset on another sustainable activity?\n# \u201cThe transition to a responsible tourism must be responsible as well\u201d, says one manager. She explains how it is obviously a positive thing to treat the animals in a better way and take them back to the wildlife where they belong. The problem is that some of these animals have never lived in the wild, so left alone they wouldn\u2019t be able to survive or long without human assistance. Also, these activities used to financially sustain entire communities. Shutting down the business means cutting their revenue, leaving entire families without a sustainable income, which cannot be part of a \u201cresponsible industry\u201d. Can alternatives be found easily for the communities to find a new income?\n# \u201cThe transition and inspiration must go from the top to the bottom\u201d says a state representative from a tour-operator whose activity focuses on tailor-made local experiences in various countries of the world. Sure enough the tourists are looking for new ways of travelling the world, of (re)discovering their own country for example, feeling close to the locals and off the beaten tracks. But for this state representative, the innovation and the role model must come from the professionals of the tourism industry. They shape the offer, the general trend, deciding of the experiences to offer the travellers. From the tour-operators to the tourists, and from the managers to the bottom of the work hierarchy. Will the travellers adapt their own behaviour and expectations deeply enough to make it a real responsible form of tourism? Will the travel agents be personally committed enough to responsible tourism to make their clients aware?\nI left the Sydney Travel Expo with a bitter feeling, with many questions popping in my mind about how to make people travel in a more responsible way, to make them look for better ways of travelling. But as I walked back to the train, I remembered the work has actually started, the change for a \u201cbetter tourism\u201d is in process. It hasn\u2019t been easy, and we\u2019ve still got a long way to go, but we have all the tools, the motivation and people ready to keep on working. So let\u2019s do it! \ud83d\ude42\nValerie Nadisic\n: personal thoughts, responsible tourism, sydney, travel, travel expo, view of the professionals\nPrevious Post [Job/Volontariat] Paris City Leader for Visit.org Next Post Centre for Ecotourism and Environmental Education at Bidoup Nui Ba National Park, Vietnam\namet, Aenean sed mattis dictum risus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 8758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://horror.media/what-s-behind-one-of-edgar-allan-poe-s-scariest-stories", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:57Z", "digest": "sha1:2KLT4OUTL7XIEQL46SUCBTGQHWJSKORV", "length": 10016, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "horror.media", "title": "What's Behind One of Edgar Allan Poe's Scariest Stories | Horror", "raw_content": "Horror is powered by Vocal creators. You support Anezka Smidlova by reading, sharing and tipping stories... more\nby Anezka Smidlova 10 months ago in psychological\nAn Analysis of 'the Black Cat'\n\u201cWords have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality,\u201d wrote Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1949), undoubtedly one of the greatest names of American literature. Many of his works, which deal with themes such as love and hate, evil and guilt or insanity, and thus provide a deep inspection of the human nature, prove that.\nThis analysis will draw on Poe's short story The Black Cat, first published in 1843.\nA Story of Evil\nOne of the central themes of the story is apparently the one of evil and the ability of human beings to perform malicious deeds. However, as the narrator himself contemplates, the issue is not an evil committed out of some reason, but more likely doing \u201cwrong for the wrong's sake only\u201d, as mentioned in the text. The narrator talks about a \u201cspirit of perverseness\u201d that is rooted in the human character. The thought of doing something just because he is able to do it, although certain rules tell him not to, seems to be the impulse that makes the narrator commit the crimes. In a way, he is tempted by the idea of being as powerful as God himself, when he decides to kill his cat for no reason. Also, a part of him is mesmerized by the idea that he is the master of his own soul and that he can decide whether he will be good or bad.\nSymbolically, immediately the night after committing the crucial deed of hanging the cat, which is one of the most intense parts of the text, the narrator's house burns down. It could be an allusion to his soul being destroyed by the cruel act.\nFurthermore, there appears to be a noticeable gradation in the viciousness of the narrator developing throughout the story. First, he started speaking harshly to his wife, then later he used physical violence against her, until in the end, he killed her. Similarly, he first just mistreated his animals, later he deliberately hurt his cat, and finally, he cruelly put it to death.\nThis indicates that after having committed one crime, it always seems easier for a person to perform another one, and so on.\nThe idea of pure evil indicated in the text, however, contrasts with another theme developed there, that is insanity caused or encouraged by alcohol consumption which leads to a split personality. The ambiguity of the narrator's motives actually creates the complexity of this short story.\nThe narrator himself admits at the beginning of the story that his character \u201cexperienced a radical alternation for the worse\u201d owing to the consumption of alcohol, which he calls a disease. It is clear that he committed the first crime \u2013 cutting one of the cat's eyes \u2013 under the influence of alcohol, which paralyzed his senses.\n\u201cThe fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body...\u201d\nAfter this deed, he sobered up and started to regret what he did, which was then an impulse for him to start drinking again, in order to forget. This shows that the crimes were not committed simply of his own free will, but that they at least partly resulted from some causation.\nNevertheless, the psychological condition of the narrator seems to get worse throughout the story, and the fact that he considers doing wrong for the sake of wrong alone indicates that he must suffer from some kind of mental illness.\nBesides, this illness seems to divide his personality into two opposing parts. It is maybe most obvious in the moment of hanging the cat, when one part of him wants to cruelly end the cat's life while the other part feels sorry for the animal.\n\u201cI \u2026 hung it with the tears streaming from my eyes, and with the bitterest remorse at my heart...\u201d\nIndeed, there always appears to be a hint of regret in the narrator's mind after committing each crime. The moments of rage and the moments of remorse seem to come in waves. His bad conscience actually compels the narrator to make more bad deeds, because in connection with his mental illness, it hunts him and causes him emotional pain he wants to get rid of.\nThe narrator's second cat may actually symbolize his conscience, because it constantly reminds him of his crime. It is only the narrator who can see the image of the gallows in the white mark on the animal's breast. It follows him everywhere and he feels so afraid of it that he wants to kill it.\nWhy the cat?\nAt this point, the significance of the cat should also be examined more closely, as it is a crucial component of the story. The choice of a cat instead of another animal is surely connected to the superstition considering black cats symbols of bad luck, which underlines the horror atmosphere of the story. The narrator happens to mention a \u201cnotion, which regarded all black cats as witches in disguise\u201d at the beginning of the story. In his second cat, he then indeed sees a creature that follows and tortures him and, in the end, tricks him into murdering his wife.\n\u201c...the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder, and whose informing voice had consigned me to the hangman.\u201d\nConcerning the second cat, a question suggests itself, whether it actually is a real animal or just a figment of the narrator's imagination afflicted by his mental illness. Taking into account that the story is told from a perspective of a mad person, who, on top of that, claims the opposite in the beginning, it is not quite clear what the reader can believe in the narration.\nThere are several indications of the second cat being just some kind of illusion. First of all, there is the coincidence that it is also black and has only one eye like the narrator's first cat. Secondly, the origin of the cat is also mysterious, as the narrator finds out when he wants to purchase the cat from the landlord: \u201c...this person made no claim to it \u2013 knew nothing of it \u2013 had never seen it before.\u201d Finally, the narrator first notices the cat lying on a barrel of hard liquor, probably in some tavern, which happens quite suddenly. \u201c...what now caused my surprise was the fact that I had not sooner perceived the object thereupon.\u201d This indicates that there could be a connection between this incident and the mental state of the narrator influenced by alcohol, and thus that the cat actually exists only in the narrator's mind.\nAs previously mentioned, the second cat could represent the narrator's bad conscience. Alternatively, it could also stand for his alter ego, as his personality is split. He cannot live with himself because he still must think about the crime he did. His own conscience follows him everywhere. Additionally, by maliciously killing his cat, he did something inhuman, an atrocity, which made his soul become animal-like.\n\u201cAnd now was I indeed wretched beyond the wretchedness of mere Humanity. And a brute beast \u2013 whose fellow I had contemptuously destroyed \u2013 a brute beast to work out for me \u2013 for me, a man fashioned in the image of the High God \u2013 so much of insufferable woe!\u201d\nThe cat also plays an important part in the situation when the narrator murders his wife. In his insanity, he is convinced that he is killing the cat where, in fact, he is aiming the axe at his wife. Thus, one part of his split personality actually may have wanted to commit this crime in the first place. After this deed, all hints about the presence of the cat suddenly disappear. The narrator feels relief and does not show any remorse. He seems to have suppressed his conscience embodied by the cat. However, at the end of the story, the other part of his personality, which is able to feel pangs of conscience, comes out again. In fact, it is not the cat who gives the narrator away to the policemen, but he himself.\nA Powerful Horror Story\nTo conclude, this short story can be seen as an attempt to uncover the source from which the evil in a human personality originates. It emerged that the issue is very complex and cannot be resolved by giving only one simple answer. The mystification of the narrator and the unpredictability of human character itself seem to be the important aspects that create the horror in the story and shock the reader more than images of killing or superstitious signs. The strength of Edgar Allan Poe's work consists exactly in that.\nRead next: Lifeless\nI'm a beautiful young being who loves music, education, travel, writing and having a good laugh. Don't take me too seriously, just enjoy reading!\nAll posts by Anezka \u2192\n3 Terrifying Short Films About the Forests That Frighten Us\nSeriously? Don't mean to poke fun at this, but it really is true: somehow, some way, it seems that in the classic trope and style of a horror film from the bowels of B-cheese like Friday the 13th to e...\nA Diary of a Homophobe\n25th February 1976\tI am watching my son turn into something I never envisaged. I don\u2019t know what to do or what to think. As a parent I know what I should do. I should stand by him. But I can\u2019t, I just...\nCan You Survive off of Fear?\nA quick flashback to 2017 and a lot of you will remember the movie IT. I loved the movie due to the new interpretation of Pennywise. 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I have seen the streets in their rawest forms. I write like the scholar of the ghetto. I have kicked it with heroin addicts and the drunks. I have sold cocaine to the police for his personal use in the squad car, and it gets worse. I sold him cocaine to go and rock it up so he could smoke the cocaine in his squad car. I have sold multiple kilos of cocaine at one time. I was able to get out of the business with my mind and spirit intact. My mother became a victim of the same drugs of which I sold before I was sent to prison.\nThis book is a journey of one\u2019s life. The contributing factors that will influence one to take the wrong path towards material success. This journey deals with drugs, alcohol, miseducation, family, without parents, raising oneself, military, hustling, prison, and freedom. In prison, I resided with killers, robbers, rapists, burglars, drug addicts, and drug dealers like myself.\nThis book should be read by middle school children up to adults. 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It accepts, as a true and correct exhibition of the doctrines of Scripture, the entire confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, as contained in the Book of Concord of 1580. Its central doctrine is: full atonement by Christ, and justification by grace, through faith in Christ Jesus. Holding. that two can not walk together except they be agreed, it rejects altar fellowship, and practices close communion. Holding that no one can serve two masters, it will not receive into voting membership any person belonging to an oath-bound secret society. Holding that the command to bring up children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, is still binding it has always aimed to establish and maintain .parochial schools. The affairs of the congregation are man-aged by the members, every male member of the age of twenty-one years, having signed the constitution, is entitled to a vote. Regular sessions are held the first Sunday of each month at 2:30 P. M. One-third of the members constitute a quorum. Majority rules. Absentees waive the privilege of voting.\nIn the beginning of 1856 a small number of Lutherans, foremost among them Mr. M. Kurz, applied to the Missouri Synod for a faithful Lutheran pastor to attend to their spiritual wants. By request of Synod, Reverend C. A. T. Selle, of Crete, Illinois, investigated matters, and preached the first Lutheran sermon in this section of the country. This was April, 1856. On June 19, the congregation organized with a membership of seven. Reverend F. Ahner being duly called was ordained and installed August 31, by Reverend W. Mueller, of Chicago. Having, as yet, no house of worship, services were held in the old Second Presbyterian Church until the Summer of 1857, when a building site was purchased on the corner of Sixth Avenue and Thirteenth Street. A frame building on the ground was remodeled for parsonage and school.\nDuring the following Winter and Spring a neat brick church was erected by Mr. George Riess, contractor. It was dedicated on the third Sunday after Easter. Though the membership had by this time increased to seventeen, yet it was quite a venture, as The Third Church By the grace of God the congregation experienced a steady growth, and again it became necessary to provide more room. A building committee, consisting of the board of trustees and the Messrs. C. Haensgen, W. Schroether, J. Kirsch, J. Bruchmann, W. Kurth, C. Schillinger, H. Lange, H. Brunswig, C. Schoede, with Teacher E. Selle as secretary, was appointed in November, 1895. Plans were furnished by Messrs. Drack and Kerns. The contract was let to Mr. Nic. Juhl. The following year, the old church was torn down and the new one erected. This magnificent building is a Gothic structure, sixty-two by one hundred and two, surmounted by two spires one hundred and eight and one hundred and sixty-two feet respectively; seating capacity, 1,000; cost, $25,000. The interior is tastefully decorated with freizes and paintings by Artist H. Voege. It was dedicated December 20, 1896, by Reverend C. A. Mennicke, assisted by the Reverend E. D. Mennicke, Reverend A. Brauer, Reverend Professor F. Streckfuss, Reverend Professor L. Wessel.\nThe first pastor, Reverend F. Abner, serve from August, 1856, until August, 1857. when he accepted a call to Grafton, Wisconsin. His successor, Reverend C. A. T. Selle, was installed in July, 1858. During his pastorate the congregation formally connected with the Missouri Synod. In 1861 he accepted a call as professor of the Teachers Seminary at Fort Wayne, Indiana, later on at Addison, Illinois. He was succeeded by the present pastor, Reverend C. A. Mennicke. This eminent divine, a graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri, arrived at Rock Island, May 14, 1861. He preached his first sermon on Whit Sunday and was ordained the ninth Sunday after Trinity. He is still serving faithfully, sharing the joys and sorrows of his flock. In 1880, his health being greatly impaired, he was granted a vacation for a trip to Germany. During his absence Reverend August Haensgen gratuitously served as pastor pro tem. Upon his return he entered upon his duties with renewed vigor. In 1886 his son, Reverend A. C. Mennicke, was in-stalled as assistant pastor, serving in this capacity until April, 1892, when he accepted a call to Edford, Henry County, Illinois. In 1893 Professor Reverend Selle, having resigned his professorship, located at Rock Island and served as assistant pastor until March, 1898, when he resigned. Shortly afterward, while on\u2019 a visit to Chicago, he departed this life; his remains were brought to Rock Island and interred in the Lutheran Cemetery. Since July 31, 1898, Reverend E. D. Mennicke, second son of Reverend C. A. Mennicke is ably filling the office of assistant pastor.\nThe parish school is as old as the congregation. It was taught by the pastors until the Summer of 1862, when Mr. F. Moeller was installed as teacher. He held this position for forty years, resigning in 1902. He was succeeded by Mr. I. Kaspar. In 1856 a second teacher was added in the person of Mr. H. Brakesuehler; he was followed successively by the Messrs. Trenhold, Kleinsteuber and Doescher. The latter resigned in 1873. In 1866 a third teacher, Mr. A. Schoeverling, was called. In 1869 he was succeeded by Mr. E. Selle, a gifted educator, who is still in active service. The schools were carried on separately, one on Twentieth Street and one on Thirteenth Street, until 1876, when the Twentieth Street school w as moved to Thirteenth Street. In 1885 the Thirteenth Street property was sold, and the schools were transferred back to Twentieth Street., where a commodious school had been built. In 1900 it was found necessary to branch out. Teacher F. Moeller began teaching on the bluff. Teacher E. Selle retained in charge of the Twentieth Street school and Reverend E. D. Mennicke gathered and taught a class in the lower part of the city. Being successful a school house was built on Eighth Street (1901) and placed in charge of Mr. F. Lustfeld; he was succeeded by Mr. E. Rolf in the Summer of 1906. In 1903 a new school was erected on Thirty-sixth Street, and placed in charge of Mr. I. Kaspar.\nThe following anniversaries were celebrated:\nTwenty-fifth anniversary of the congregation, July 19 and 20, 1881. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the pastor, Reverend C. A. Mennicke, July 18, 1886. Twenty-fifth anniversary of Teacher F. Moeller, August 26, 1887. Twenty-fifth anniversary of Teacher E. Selle, July 19, 1891. Fortieth anniversary of the pastor, Reverend C. A. Mennicke, July 23, 1891. Fortieth anniversary of Teacher F. Moeller, September 26, 1902. Fortieth anniversary of Teacher E. L. Selle, June 25, 1906. Fiftieth anniversary of the congregation, June 24, 1906.\nDecember 5, 1869, a number of members organized as the German Lutheran Cemetery Association, and purchased a twelve-acre tract on Twenty-fourth Street, South Rock Island. Two acres were resold. Four of the remaining ten acres were immediately plotted out for sale. Subsequently the whole tract was donated to the congregation. Mr. W. F. Schroeder, treasurer; Mr. H. Schoeve, sexton.\nAssociations Within The Congregation\n(1) Mutual Aid Society in case of death. (2) Mutual Aid Society in case of sickness. (3) Ladies Society. (4) Mission Society. (5) Young Men\u2019s Association. (6) Young Ladies\u2019 Association. (7) Mixed Choir.\nThe Church Council, comprising all the officials, is a board of supervisory character; it consists of: Pastors-C. A. and E. D. Mennicke. Teachers\u2013E. L. Selle, Imanuel Kaspar, E. F. Rolf. Elders-Charles Haensgen, W. F. Schroeder, H. Lange, J. Roehr, W. A. Schroether. Trustees-N. Juhl, H. Clemann, C. Schoede, N. Hoffmann, W. Schumann. Schoolboard\u2013H. W. Horst, chairman; C. Borst, A. Seidlitz, Reverends C. A. and E. D. Meunicke, E. L. Selle, Imanuel Kaspar, secretary; E. F. Rolf. Janitor\u2013 J. Rohwedder. W. F. Schroeder, chairman of congregation. E. L. Selle, secretary of congregation. C. Haensgen, treasurer of congregation. H. Lange, assistant treasurer congregation.\nPreviousGerman Evangelical Friedens Congregation\nNextHampton, Illinois Churches", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 12123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 172.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://illiterateblondes.com/2017/10/01/100-strangers-8/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:3FAB6JYQRXN6H2QALYGNEZJK54FPZWUN", "length": 1068, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "illiterateblondes.com", "title": "100 Strangers: #8 \u2013 illiterateblondes", "raw_content": "It\u2019s nearly 11 pm on a Saturday night, and I am determined to complete my stranger of the day project no matter what. Luckily, I was fortunate enough to meet Kristen Chapman today, a twenty-year old from Troy, Illinois.\nVisiting KU for the weekend, I witnessed firsthand a fun fact about Kristen, in which she can wiggle her right ear. It was mind-blowing.\nHer favorite thing about herself is that she\u2019s easy to get along with, and I agreed and could relate to that, especially after she shared an embarrassing story from high school (we all have a few of those). Kristen was a freshman on the cheer team, and instead of noticing that the cheer had began, she stood on the sidelines staring into space. She was so dazed and tired that she didn\u2019t realize what was happening until after the cheer was over. However, after meeting Kristen it\u2019s easy to understand her laid-back and content persona.\nIf there\u2019s one thing I\u2019m hoping to pick up in the future, it\u2019s a trouble-free vibe. Maybe someday I\u2019ll be able to relax enough to just be in my own world. One can only hope!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://immigrationreform.com/2016/06/30/why-true-immigration-reform-has-nothing-to-do-with-tearing-families-apart/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:40Z", "digest": "sha1:AEMZJ2HJCPP76MMVGZDDSQKCUB6SVB76", "length": 14877, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "immigrationreform.com", "title": "Why True Immigration Reform Has Nothing to Do With Tearing Families Apart | ImmigrationReform.com", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbImmigration Issues\u00bbWhy True Immigration Reform Has Nothing to Do With Tearing Families Apart\nWhy True Immigration Reform Has Nothing to Do With Tearing Families Apart\nBeware the manipulation of words when dealing with the immigration issue. Open borders advocates tout that they are \u201con the right side of history,\u201d which shrouds their cause in a sense of inevitability. Another slogan, used by President Barack Obama during his defiant press conference after the Supreme Court handed him a defeat in the Texas vs. United States case, is that we should not tear families apart.\nCongressman Gerry Connolley (D-Virginia) chugged the Kool-Aid when he dined with two illegal immigrants, one from Korea another born in Mongolia, who told sob stories regarding their cloudy futures and fear of deportation.\nThe men explained that \u201ctheir undocumented parents are now at risk of deportation anytime they interact with law enforcement officials.\u201d So? Anyone who breaks the law knows there could be consequences.\nHere is where things get tricky regarding tearing families apart, a situation that they created by making deliberate decisions.\n\u201cBecause of their undocumented statuses, it has been more difficult for [the illegal aliens]to consider going to college and having future careers. It has also put a very specific strain on their families because it\u2019s not clear they\u2019ll be able to stay together,\u201d writes Think Progress, a pro-amnesty organization.\nTo be clear, if the parents are deported, they can take the child with them. If they choose not to, then that is their conscious decision. The Mongolian man, 22, brought to the United States by his parents when he was a child, said that \u201chis parents are struggling to come up with a contingency plan if they become separated from his 12-year-old brother, who is a U.S. citizen. \u2018My brother would most likely stay here. We don\u2019t even know who he would stay with,\u2019\u201d he said.\nIf they truly love their child, wouldn\u2019t they take him with them if they were to be deported? If not, why not? Birthright citizenship is one of the most damaging, counterproductive policies that any government has ever instituted and here is the proof.\nThe demands of illegal aliens to be granted rights rings hollow since they knowingly made decisions to break the law and have no right to cry foul when they have to deal with the implications. Anyone who caters to these whiners helps erode our sovereignty and tear the country apart.\nPrevious ArticleSome Rational Thought about Immigration from the Wall Street Journal\nNext Article Texas Department of Public Safety Increases Border Presence\nbarbara rankin on July 9, 2016 9:16 am\nConsider what is happening in our country now. We are killing each other like never before! We are putting illegals\nahead of the legal families that have been here for generations contributing to this country. The anger is over whelming and we need to quickly turn around the way we treat our blue collar workers. Why do we give the most generous thoughts to the illegals (that creep into this country and be on tax payers money ) and let our legal born persons be forgotten???\nWe need to rescue the ones that where brought here in chains against their will \u2026?????.\nwhere their families were sold and never seen again\u2026\u2026 Provide for their education , health and wellfair before we take on the \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 failure of the socialist countries to provide for their citizens.\nI agree with all above! We have lost the middle class upward mobility!! Lets take back our country and let other nations began to take care of their own. Those social countries have to make it on their own.. not pull us down where they are.. We are not taking care of our own that has has made great contributions to in the past few hundred years. We own the legally born here \u2026.first before we worry about all the other socialist that would dumb us down . The stress we are suffering with our own\u2026 those who that have been here for generations and paid their dues\u2026\u2026 should not have to live in the situation they are in. We are respondsonable for their welfare before we take in any more illegals that need us to chanqe to meet their needs. Look at California????\nNo Change on July 3, 2016 6:55 pm\nMarc the article holds water simply. You hardly touch the fundamental issue why there is such an illegal population, why it was created, who allowed it to happen and your conclusion does reveal you hardly understand the issue nor are knowledgeable of its gradient implications.\nYes they would tear families apart, wha do you know?\u2026..really\u2026wha are you to say\u2026well they can take they child with them otherwise they don\u2019t care\u2026..in this very principle this country was based/founded on\u2026.broken families\u2026.coming for a better future\u2026..i they leave they child behind is because they know the child will have a better future\u2026here,,,,this is something it show your family does not have, you don\u2019t\u2026envision progress and the best for your love ones\u2026\u2026\nI am not making an argument immigration is good or bad BUT your lack of human sensitive and compassion\u2026.and whether or not you would survive as a family if you were i their shoes\u2026.\nnot only the lack of human compassion but the inability to show love to your love one for a better future\u2026.that takes genes\u2026\u2026\u2026this is not a criticism it is just a fact\u2026\u2026some are born to greed, to human feelings other are naive to both and so on\u2026\u2026.and all combinations \u2026..\nOur native born children here needs some compassion and help to make their lives worth while and productive.\nThese people have fought for this country to have what ever we can provide. We are having a terrible time meeting their needs while we are so concern about others that are illegal\u2026. just using us. The difficult time we having has been simmering for a long time. Lets be there for them before considering the illegals benefit. Those countries chose and up hold the wrong policies to support their citizens. The blacks arrived in chains and used for years but still do not get their due. This country will be torn apart unless we start treating persons with dignity and provide the education and health care they deserve. WE take care of our own before we have the concern of all the world on us. We live up to our citizens needs.\nDebTIndiana on July 5, 2016 2:55 am\nSo, your progressive talking points are right in line with Obama. You snidely state that the author obviously has no clear understanding of the issue if breaking families apart and that our humanity of being Americans must guide us here (I\u2019m paraphrasing your argument of course). What you CLEARLY don\u2019t understand is that our country has ALWAYS had immigration laws and that we were founded based upon those laws but when our relatives that came here throughout our history, they didn\u2019t sneak in. They came through our ports, borders, etc., but did so lega! And yes, many families immigrated here but many, if not most of the time, there was usually one or two of the members of the family that came first, became established and then sent for the others rto come once they could afford the cost of getting here and they completed their immigration documents as per the laws. Stating as you do that anyone who doesn\u2019t agree with your view that those of us Americans who are sick and tired of the representatives of our government who refuse to enforce our legally passed immigration laws, then expect their citizens to pay for the millions that keep flooding our borders is ludicrous! That family that came here illegally and had a child is completely responsible for the fatw of their child. Not me one the rest of the hard working Americans who are paying the costs that are overwhelming not just our federal government but especially the state and local municipalities that had nothing to do with these egregious decisions made by the feds. Do you realize that President Obama is literally flooding our small towns across America with illegal immigrants from all over the world and adding HUGE COSTS to these municipalities that they cannot afford? And do you know that he\u2019s not even giving them the courtesy if giving them a heads up that he\u2019s going to do this? All I can say is that your open borders to the \u201cAmerican Paradise\u201d vision is breaking down the very fabric of our nation. You do realize that our immigration laws have been adjusted throughout our history and that we went almost 4 decades after WWII without allowing free form immigration, right? Do you know that was done so that we could getallow time for the massive amount of immigration that we allowed from the late 1800\u2019s through the late 1940\u2019s? Guess not. Lastly, I\u2019m going to give my one opinion (the previous statements are factual). The most recent UAM waves from Mexico, Central and South America is despicable! It was encouraged by Obama and they even advertised in these countries. I find iit abhorrent that Amy parent would Rusk their children\u2019s life and their safety so that they can make a treacherous track to our country without accompanying them. If an American had done the same they\u2019d bejailed and you and your fellow PC Police would insist upon it. These families make the choice to put their children at risk but even the others who make it here like the two mentioned in the article knew there was ALWAYS going to be the chance that they\u2019d be deported so they made a conscious decision to take that risk. Lastly, and I\u2019m not even going to cover the national security danger that our president and anyone in congress who\u2019s not demanding better border protection or are fed up with the illegal immigrant criminals that are murdering, raping, and committing egregious crimes and allowed to get free passes from our sanctuary cities. The fact is that we don\u2019t have enough jobs to keep these millions who keep coming here illegally employed. We don\u2019t have enough to keep legal citizens employed and that fact is being ignored by the MSM and you simply don\u2019t care or you\u2019d put your bleeding heart towards tour fellow Americans rather than trying to demean those of us that do insist we help us first.\nDitto for Deb\nShe read my mind\u2026.\ngail on July 3, 2016 3:40 pm\nYep! I\u2019ve been saying it all along. Read some history and learn why it was done. Learn who did it. It seven it\u2019s purpose at the time. However,that time ended. Those who came illegally should not be allowed to leave their children here for tax payers to raise. It\u2019s way past time to clean house!\nIf we elect Hillary we are well on our way to losing the country we knew. We\u2019re halfway there now. She will appoint the type of judges who will tie our enforcement efforts in knots. She herself has already announced she will not deport anyone who has not committed a violent crime. If that\u2019s not open borders, what is it.\nOne wonders why [well we know why] the media continues to allow her to not answer any substantial questions. She only does puff piece interviews like Ellen, while Trump has repeatedly appeared on the Today Show and other news outlets. He may stick his foot in his mouth sometimes, but she apparently thinks she can coast to the election on photo ops.\nThe media was quick to decide that nothing could be done about rescuing Ambassador Stevens and the others in Benghazi because military were not \u201cclose enough\u201d. First of all, that\u2019s highly debatable. The attack was known within minutes. Second, it only begs the question of how did they know how long the attack would last and how long the Americans could hold out. The hard fact is no one knew. Why would you not try to send rescue forces, even if with only a small chance of success. The truth is we did not want to offend the Libyan government so it was easier to let those Americans die. Meanwhile this administration went on for days spreading what they knew to be a false story of how it was a protest against a video, and not a terrorist attack.\nLeland on July 3, 2016 10:02 am\nSpeaking of the media, here is Dean Schabner yesterday on ABCnews.com talking about this president:\n\u201cAnd his administration aggressively enforced current laws, deporting more than 2.4 million people. The total is nearly as many as his two predecessors combined.\u201d\nYou have to wonder why the media continues to peddle this lie. The fact is that they\u2019re cooking the books by changing the definition of deportations. I have had people repeat this myth to me when I tell them he has reduced deportations to almost nothing. Here in fact is what he told a group of Hispanic journalists in 2011:\n\u201cThe statistics are actually a little deceptive. We\u2019ve been apprehending folks at the border and sending them back. That is counted as a deportation, even though they may have only been held for a day or 48 hours.\u201d\nFirst of all, every administration was \u201capprehending folks at the border\u201d but they were not \u201ccounted as a deportation\u201d because the traditional definition of deportation was someone deported from the interior of the country. Why would you change the counting standards when you admit that what you are doing is \u201cdeceptive\u201d?\nWhy not just say these are border turnarounds and these figures are from the interior of the country.\nThe answer is obvious, because you see it in the quote by Schabner about how he \u201caggressively enforced immigration laws\u201d. It allows his flacks to spread this propaganda and it\u2019s done constantly. At this point, you have to believe the media is deliberately stupid or in on the deception, because the truth is there for anyone to see. It just makes him look like he\u2019s doing something when he\u2019s doing the opposite. He is NOT enforcing the law, far from it.\nIts also an example of this president\u2019s cynically manipulative style, somewhat like you can keep your doctor when he knew it was not true. He lies, twists the truth, says whatever he has to say at the moment, and he justifies it all because, as you can tell by his constant self righteous smugness, in his mind he sees himself as right and whatever he has to do is morally acceptable. And the media goes right along, as seen by this constant theme of \u201crecord\u201d deportations, when they have fallen to the lowest levels in decades.\nElaine tribelli on July 1, 2016 3:51 pm\nIllegal immigration is illegal. We have become so soft with everything in this country that people think they can do whatever they want. I have read stories out of Ellis Island where my grandparents came through as young immigrants. They had to have a place to stay sponsored and a job. Could not come in with disease mental illness etc as it would be a drain on USA there were quotas from every country. What has happened. It is sickening. W willhavencoutry eventually we will be answering to every minority group with no true American way. 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Rough cut (no reporter narration).\nROUGH CUT. NO REPORTER NARRATION. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday (October 25) that Washington was concerned about the stability of the Pakistan government as the threat level from militant groups rises within the country's borders. Tillerson was speaking after talks with Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in New Delhi as part of a new effort by the Trump administration to deepen economic and strategic ties, as a way to balance China's growing clout across Asia. Both sides pledged to strengthen anti-terrorism cooperation and Tillerson said Washington stood ready to provide India with advanced military technologies. Swaraj said the issue of India's diplomatic and economic relations with North Korea came up during the talks, but she conveyed to the top U.S. diplomat that some level of diplomatic presence was necessary. 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Furthermore, the team obtained the top secondary school award as well as the runner-up junior college award. Finally, two members of the team obtained the top secondary school contestants award. We would like to thank our seniors and teachers (Mr Koh Kim Tian & Ms Goh Keng Wah) for their continued support and guidance, and will strive to do even better in future editions! 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She also teaches Non-Profit Event and Meeting Planning for Cal State San Marcos University\u2019s Extended Education at both the San Marcos and Temecula Campuses.\n\u201cMy passion for helping others alleviate food insecurity is very personal and I have experienced it in my own family. More than a decade ago when my children were little, my husband died suddenly. I learned quickly that we are all just one job, one death, one unfortunate circumstance away from struggling to place healthy food on the table, \u201c states Butler.\nAbout Feeding America Riverside | San Bernardino Counties\nFeeding America Riverside | San Bernardino Counties began in 1980 as Survive Food Bank in response to the increasing concern about the dual problems of hunger and food waste in the Inland Empire. Today, Feeding America Riverside | San Bernardino is the primary source of food for over 470 nonprofits, distributing over 2.5 million pounds of food monthly to emergency food pantries, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, high-need elementary schools, halfway houses, senior centers, residential treatment centers, shelters for the abused, after school programs and group homes. More than 425,000 men, women, and children each month rely on the food bank\u2019s distribution center to make ends meet\nRialto Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Sells for $2.8 Million\nSan Bernardino County Water Conference, August 10th in Ontario", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inside.jcu.edu/2013/12/16/mandel-grants-available-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:53Z", "digest": "sha1:DFMD5VDLKHK5WIV2FTZIJICM673NLMCO", "length": 2033, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "inside.jcu.edu", "title": "Inside JCU \u00bb Mandel Grants Available", "raw_content": "Mandel Grants Available\nThe Mandel Foundation has again awarded John Carroll University $25,000 to further a climate of inclusiveness on campus. Funds are available to individuals and groups who will assist us in raising awareness, building respect for others, and creating and promoting a culture of inclusiveness. Programs funded by the Mandel Grants may be implemented in either the Fall or Spring Term. Important note: Review of applications is in progress and will continue until the funds are allocated.\nStudents, faculty, staff, and administrators, as well as student organizations, departments, and offices are encouraged to submit Grant Proposals for creative and innovative activities and programs to help further a climate of inclusiveness on the JCU campus. The grants will support projects such as, but not limited to, campus programs, outreach activities, exhibits, performances, hosted discussion groups, student research projects, symposia, on-campus training and development opportunities, cross-cultural dialogues and campus community events.\nPlease submit applications to Jonathan Smith, Ph.D., chair of the Taskforce at jsmith@jcu.edu.\nPlease contact any member of the Mandel Grant Review Committee with questions:\nLauren Bowen, Ph.D., associate academic vice president, bowen@jcu.edu\nSparkle Smith, student representative, ssmith15@jcu.edu\nGraciela Lacueva, Ph.D., chair of physics, lacueva@jcu.edu\nMark McCarthy, Ph.D., vice president for student affairs, mmccarthy@jcu.edu\nA clear, detailed description of the proposed project is necessary, along with specific, well- defined and measurable goals\nProposals should be in the general range of $200 to $4,000. Project activities must be completed by May 2, 2014; however, all incomplete, but funded, projects must submit a progress report if requested to comply with terms of the Mandel Foundation. A final evaluation report detailing the outcomes of the implemented project is due upon project completion. All reports must be submitted no later than May 2, 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 5780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inside.manhattan.edu/student-life/orientation/schedule-summer.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FFBPIN5ZXRQW3OQXV3TTCY5O4JWOAXF4", "length": 13333, "nlines": 186, "source_domain": "inside.manhattan.edu", "title": "Summer Orientation Schedule | Orientation | Inside Manhattan College", "raw_content": "Summer Orientation Schedule\nAttendance at all workshops for students is mandatory. There are optional information sessions that parents may attend throughout orientation.\nOrientation Day 1\nDay one will introduce new students to the student life division, deans of the schools, and current student leaders. Students will attend invaluable information sessions about campus life. They will also have a chance to participate in a variety of social and team-building activities.\nIn addition, students meet with their school\u2019s dean and academic advisor in preparation for the upcoming fall semester. Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided. Check-in for Session 1 of Orientation will take place from 7:30am to 9:30am in Cafe 1853 located in Thomas Hall, 2nd Floor. Check-in for Sessions 2 and 3 will be from 8:00am to 11:00am in Cafe 1853 located in Thomas Hall, 2nd Floor. Check-in for Session 4 will be from 8:00am to 11:00am in the Raymond W. Kelly '63 Student Commons, 2nd Floor.\nDay two will introduce new students to essential parts of the campus community, including the library and computer resources. The day will end with a resource browse and barbecue where students will have an opportunity to mix and mingle. Students will receive their fall semester class schedule prior to the barbecue. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Orientation will conclude after the barbecue at 2:00 p.m.\nSession 1 Orientation Schedule- June 7-8\n8:00 a.m. \u2013 4:30 p.m., Help Desk \u2013 Smith Auditorium\n7:30 a.m. \u2013 9:30 a.m., Check In \u2013 Students & Parents, Caf\u00e9 1853, Thomas Hall, 2nd Floor\n7:30 a.m. \u2013 9:30 a.m., Breakfast \u2013 Students & Parents, Locke\u2019s Loft, Thomas Hall, 4th floor\n10:00 a.m. \u2013 11:00 a.m., Welcome \u2013 Students & Parents, Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers\nBrennan O'Donnell, Ph.D., President\nRichard Satterlee, Ph.D., Vice President for Student Life\n11:00 a.m. \u2013 12:30 p.m., Breakout Session with Orientation Leaders and Students, Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers\n11:00 a.m. \u2013 12:30 p.m., Lunch \u2013 Parents, Smith Auditorium\n12:00 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m., Lunch \u2013 Students, Locke's Loft, Thomas Hall, 4th floor\n12:30 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m., Dessert and Coffee \u2013 Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, 2nd Floor\n1:30 p.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m. Financial Aid and Student Accounts \u2013 Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C\nStudent Accounts and Bursar Services\nLisa Juncaj, Director of Business Systems\nFinancial Aid Administration\nAddie Newman, Associate Director of Financial Aid Administration\n2:15 p.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m. Financial Aid Administration (En Espa\u00f1ol), Room 209, De La Salle Hall, Mercy Alonso, Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid Administration\n1:30 p.m. \u2013 2:30 p.m. Introduction to Academic Programs BY SCHOOL \u2013 Students\nBusiness: Room 300, De La Salle Hall\nEducation & Health: Room 202, Miguel Hall\nEngineering: Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5A\nLiberal Arts: Rodriguez Room 311, Miguel Hall\nScience: Room 100, Hayden Hall\n2:30 p.m. \u2013 4:00 p.m. Meeting with Orientation Leaders \u2013 Students\nJaime: Room 109, Miguel Hall\nGabrielle: Room 306, Miguel Hall\nJennifer: Room 111, Miguel Hall\nShanice: Room 307, Miguel Hall\nJeremy: Room 201, Miguel Hall\nTara: Room 310, Miguel Hall\nJoseph: Room 214, Miguel Hall\nMeggie: Room 312, Miguel Hall\nRobert: Room 216, Miguel Hall\nAedan: Room 314, Miguel Hall\nGabriella: Room 218, Miguel Hall\nAlexa: Room 207, De La Salle Hall\nNadia: Room 304, Miguel Hall\nAngelica: Room 208, De La Salle Hall\n3:00 p.m. \u2013 4:00 p.m., Introduction to Academic Programs BY SCHOOL \u2013 parents\n4:30 p.m. \u2013 6:00 p.m., Student Life Panel \u2013 Students & Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C\nLois Harr, Assistant Vice President for Student Life\nand Director of Campus Ministry & Social Action, Moderator\nJohn Bennett, Director of Student Engagement\nRachel Cirelli, Director of Career Development\nAndrew Weingarten, Director of Residence Life\nHayden Greene, Director of Multicultural Affairs\nMarilyn Carter, Director of Commuter Services and Outreach\n6:00 p.m. \u2013 7:00 p.m., Dinner \u2013 Students and Parents, Locke\u2019s Loft, Thomas Hall, 4th floor\n7:00 p.m. \u2013 10:00 p.m., Social \u2013 Parents, O'Malley Library Cyber Caf\u00e9, Rain Location: Caf\u00e9 1853, Thomas Hall, 2nd floor\n7:00 p.m. \u2013 8:30 p.m., Concurrent Information Sessions \u2013 Students\n(Sessions will run from 7:00\u20137:30 p.m., 7:30\u20138:00 p.m., 8:00\u20138:30 p.m.)\nStudents may attend up to three of the following:\nCampus Ministry & Social Action, Room 209, Miguel Hall\nStudent Leadership, Clubs & Events, Room 201, Miguel Hall\nStudy Abroad, Room 202, Miguel Hall\nSpirit Squad for Pep Band, Room 517, Thomas Hall\nCheerleading & Dance Team Information\nSpecialized Housing Communities, Room 214, Miguel Hall\n(Arches and Common Interest Communities)\n8:30 p.m. \u2013 9:00 p.m. Orientation Leader Show & Dessert \u2013 Students & Parents, Smith Auditorium\n9:00 p.m. \u2013 11:45 p.m., Nighttime Activities \u2013 Students, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, 1st and 2nd floors\n12:00 a.m., Curfew \u2013 Students, Lee Hall\n8:00 a.m. \u2013 2:00 p.m., Help Desk, Smith Auditorium\n8:30 a.m. \u2013 9:00 a.m. Meeting with Orientation Leaders \u2013 Students\nGabrielle: Room 208, De La Salle Hall\nShanice: Room 209, De La Salle Hall\n9:00 a.m. \u2013 9:45 a.m., Lasallian Presentation \u2013 Students & Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C\nA discussion on the history, heritage and legacy of\nSaint John Baptist de La Salle.\n10:00 a.m. \u2013 11:00 a.m., GETTING STARTED WITH CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY \u2013 Students, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C\nAn introduction to the College's web resources that are most useful\nto new students with Anita McCarthy, ITS Training Coordinator.\n10:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m., Help Your Student Succeed \u2013 Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 4A & 4B\nA discussion on how to help students navigate the challenges of college life.\nJennifer McArdle, Director of Counseling\nLois Harr, Assistant Vice President for Student Life and Director of Campus Ministry & Social Action\nMarisa Passafiume, Assistant Vice President for Academic Success\nRani Roy, Ph.D., Associate Provost\n11:15 a.m. \u2013 12:15 p.m., Meet with academic advisers by school \u2013 Students\nStudents will receive their fall 2018 course schedules.\nEngineering: Raymond W. Kelly \u201963, Student Commons, Room 5A\n12:00 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m., Resource Browse \u2013 Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, 1st & 2nd floors\nRepresentatives from various offices on campus will be available to discuss the types of services that they provide.\n12:30 p.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m., Student employment information session \u2013 Students & Parents, Smith Auditorium, with Werner Habermann, Student Services Representative, Office of Financial Aid Administration\n12:00 p.m. \u2013 2:00 p.m., BBQ \u2013 Students & Parents, Quadrangle, Rain Location: Locke\u2019s Loft, Thomas Hall, 4th floor\n2:00 p.m. \u2013 2:30 p.m., Check Out, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, 2nd floor\nPrint the full orientation schedule for Session 1, which will take place June 7-8.\nSession 2 Orientation Schedule- June 13-14\n8:00 a.m. \u2013 11:00 a.m., Check In \u2013 Students & Parents, Caf\u00e9 1853, Thomas Hall, 2nd Floor\n8:30 a.m. \u2013 10:30 a.m., Breakfast \u2013 Students & Parents, Locke\u2019s Loft, Thomas Hall, 4th floor\n11:30 a.m. \u2013 12:30 p.m., Welcome \u2013 Students & Parents, Chapel of De La Salle and His Brothers\nSonny Ago, Ed.D., Assistant Vice President for Student Life\n12:30 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m., Lunch \u2013 Parents, Smith Auditorium\n1:30 p.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m., Financial Aid and student accounts \u2013 Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C\nStudent Accounts and Bursar Services Lisa Juncaj, Director of Business Systems\nFinancial Aid Administration, Denise Scalzo, Director of Financial Aid Administration\n2:15 p.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m., Financial Aid Administration (En Espa\u00f1ol), Room 209, De La Salle Hall\nMercy Alonso, Senior Associate Director of Financial Aid Administration\n1:30 p.m. \u2013 2:30 p.m., Introduction to Academic Programs by School \u2013 Students\nBusiness, Room 300, De La Salle Hall\nEducation & Health, Room 202, Miguel Hall\nEngineering, Room 215, Leo Hall\nLiberal Arts, Rodriguez Room 311, Miguel Hall\nScience, Room 100, Hayden Hall\n2:30 p.m. \u2013 4:00 p.m., Meeting with Orientation Leaders \u2013 Students\nEngineering: Room 215, Leo Hall\n4:30 p.m. \u2013 6:00 p.m., Student Life Panel \u2013 Students & Parents\nRaymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C Lois Harr, Assistant Vice President for Student Life\n7:00 p.m. \u2013 10:00 p.m., Social \u2013 Parents, O'Malley Library Cyber Caf\u00e9\nRain Location: Caf\u00e9 1853, Thomas Hall, 2nd floor\nSessions will run from 7:00\u20137:30 p.m., 7:30\u20138:00 p.m., 8:00\u20138:30 p.m.\n'Spirit Squad' for Pep Band, Room 517, Thomas Hall, Cheerleading & Dance Team Information\n8:30 p.m. \u2013 9:00 p.m., Orientation Leader show & dessert \u2013 Students & Parents, Smith Auditorium\n12:00 a.m., Curfew \u2013 Students \u2013 Lee Hall\n8:30 a.m. \u2013 9:00 a.m., Meeting with Orientation Leaders \u2013 Students\n9:00 a.m. \u2013 9:45 a.m., Lasallian Presentation \u2013 Students & Parents A discussion on the history, heritage and legacy of\nSaint John Baptist de La Salle, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C\n10:00 a.m. \u2013 11:00 a.m., Getting Started with Campus Technology \u2013 Students\nAn introduction to the College's web resources that are most useful to new students, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C, Anita McCarthy, ITS Training Coordinator\nA discussion on how to help students navigate the challenges\nof college life\n11:15 a.m. \u2013 12:15 p.m., Meet with Academic Advisers by School\u2013 Students\n12:00 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m., Resource Browse \u2013 Parents Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, 1st & 2nd floors\nRepresentatives from various offices on campus will be\navailable to discuss the types of services that they provide.\n12:30 p.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m., Student employment information session \u2013 Students & Parents, Smith Auditorium\nCrissy Phommachack, Financial Aid Counselor,\nOffice of Financial Aid Administration\n12:00 p.m. \u2013 2:00 p.m., BBQ \u2013 Students & Parents, Quadrangle\nRain Location: Locke\u2019s Loft, Thomas Hall, 4th floor\nPrint the full orientation schedule for Session 2, which will take place June 13-14.\nDenise Scalzo, Director of Financial Aid Administration\nSpecialized Housing Communities, Room 214, Miguel Hall (Arches and Common Interest Communities)\n9:00 a.m. \u2013 9:45 a.m., Lasallian Presentation \u2013 Students & Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C A discussion on the history, heritage and legacy of\nAn introduction to the College's web resources that are most useful to new students, Anita McCarthy, ITS Training Coordinator\nof college life.\nCrissy Phommachack, Financial Aid Counselor, Office of Financial Aid Administration\nSession 4 Orientation Schedule- August 21-22\n9:00 a.m. \u2013 11:00 a.m., Check In \u2013 Students & Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, 2nd Floor\n12:30 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m., Lunch - Freshmen & Transfer Students, Locke's Loft, Thomas Hall, 4th floor\nLunch \u2013 Parents, Smith Auditorium\n2:15 p.m. \u2013 3:00 p.m., Financial Aid Administration, De La Salle 209 (En Espa\u00f1ol)\nMercy Alonso, Senior Associate Director of\n1:30 p.m. \u2013 2:30 p.m., Introduction to Academic Programs \u2013 Students\nBusiness Room 300, De La Salle Hall\nEducation & Health Room 202, Miguel Hall\nEngineering Room 215, Leo Hall\nLiberal Arts Rodriguez Room 311, Miguel Hall\nScience Room 100, Hayden Hall\n2:30 p.m. \u2013 3:30 p.m., Transfer Student Meeting I, Smith Auditorium\nJamie: Room 109, Miguel Hall\nTara: Room 205, De La Salle Hall\nMeggie: Room 207 De La Salle Hall\nAedan: Room 208, De La Salle Hall\n3:00 p.m. \u2013 4:00 p.m., Introduction to Academic Programs \u2013 Parents\n3:30 p.m. \u2013 4:30 p.m., Reception - Veteran Students, Cafe 1853, Thomas Hall, 2nd floor\nLois Harr, Assistant Vice President for Student Life and Director of Campus Ministry & Social Action, Moderator\nSonny Ago, Assistant Vice President for Student Life\nSharon D'Amelia, Associate Director of Center for Career Development\n6:00 p.m. \u2013 7:00 p.m., Dinner \u2013 Students & Parents, Locke\u2019s Loft, Thomas Hall, 4th floor\n7:00 p.m. \u2013 8:30 p.m., Concurrent Information Sessions \u2013 Students, Sessions will run from 7:00\u20137:30 p.m.,\n7:30\u20138:00 p.m., 8:00\u20138:30 p.m.\nStudent Leadership, Room 201, Miguel Hall\nCampus Ministry and Social Action, Room 209, Miguel Hall\n\"Sprit Squad\" for Pep Band, Room 517, Thomas Hall\n12:00 a.m., Curfew \u2013 Students\nAlexa: Room 205 De La Salle Hall\nA discussion on the history, heritage and legacy of Saint John Baptist de La Salle.\n9:45 a.m. \u2013 11:00 a.m., Getting Started with Campus Technology \u2013 Students, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5B & 5C\nAn introduction to the College's web resources that are most useful to new students, with Anita McCarthy, ITS Training Coordinator\n10:00 a.m. \u2013 12:00 p.m., Help Your Student Succeed \u2013 Parents, Raymond W. Kelly \u201963 Student Commons, Room 5A\nMarisa Passafiume, Assistant Vice President for Academic Success Rani Roy, Ph.D., Associate Provost\nBrother Daniel Gardner, Assistant Director of Graduate School and Fellowship Advisement\n12:30 p.m. \u2013 1:00 p.m., Transfer Student Meeting II, Smith Auditorium\n1:00 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m., Student Employment Information Session \u2013\nStudents & Parents, Smith Auditorium\nCrissy Phommachack, Financial Aid Counselor, Office of Aid Administration\nPrint the full orientation schedule for Session 4, which will take place August 21-22.\norientation@manhattan.edu\nStudent Commons 3.03", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 567, "original_length": 29711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 218.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inside.wfu.edu/2018/09/2017-annual-crime-and-fire-safety-report-available-online/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:19Z", "digest": "sha1:KR3TNAK62RREMF2BEL27L3MWGVVXWOON", "length": 1173, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "inside.wfu.edu", "title": "Inside WFU \u2013 news for faculty and staff | 2017 Annual Crime and Fire Safety Report available online", "raw_content": "2017 Annual Crime and Fire Safety Report available online\nThis announcement was emailed to students, faculty and staff on Sept. 7 by Wake Forest Communications and External Relations:\nThe 2017 Annual Crime and Fire Safety Report is available on the Wake Forest University Police website at https://prod.wp.cdn.aws.wfu.edu/sites/67/2018/09/WFU-Clery-Report.pdf.\nThis document contains information regarding campus security and personal safety. It also contains information about crime and fire statistics for the previous three calendar years. Crime statistics are for occurrences on campus; in certain off-campus buildings or property owned or controlled by Wake Forest (including branch campuses); and on public property within or immediately adjacent to campus. Fire statistics are for on-campus residence halls.\nInformation on drug or alcohol-abuse programs required by section 102(a) through (d) of HEA can be found at https://aod.thrive.wfu.edu/.\nIf you are unable to access the website and/or you would like a printed copy, please contact police records at 336-758-4566.\nTags: 2017 Annual Crime and Fire Safety Report, Thrive, Wake Forest University Police Department", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 6869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insidebeer.com/articles/20180320", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:PAFM7RUYB5YU2VMS5ZGWPPCSJ4CNNXH7", "length": 661, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "insidebeer.com", "title": "Lifetime Award for Fuller\u2019s Brewer - Inside Beer: Beer News, Beer Reviews and Beer Tasting Events", "raw_content": "Lifetime Award for Fuller\u2019s Brewer\nJohn Keeling, retiring brewing director at Fuller\u2019s, has been presented with a lifetime achievement award by SIBA (the Society of Independent Brewers).\nKeeling joined Fuller\u2019s in 1981 as a junior brewer, having previously worked at Wilson\u2019s in Manchester before taking a degree course in brewing and distilling at Heriot-Watt University. After various roles at Fuller\u2019s, he succeeded Reg Drury as head brewer and brewing director in 1999.\nAt the start of 2017, Keeling handed over the position of head brewer to Georgina Young. He will continue to work as an ambassador for Fuller\u2019s on his official retirement later this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 173.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insidehockey.com/see-you-later/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JDDECEAYJAIONVTBNYFEWMAIYI5RKSH6", "length": 8014, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "insidehockey.com", "title": "See You Later? | Inside Hockey", "raw_content": "There wasn\u2019t much to be said in advance of the Ducks-Sharks game on Saturday night except one thing: the Ducks better be better, or there might not be a game five late next week. This could be the end of hockey in Anaheim for the year.\nThey had been terrible two nights before, and Ryan Getzlaf\u2019s statement \u201cIt\u2019s one game of a seven-game series\u201d notwithstanding, the team had no choice but to win. On Thursday, they had failed in every area, but most of all, discipline. They had taken seven minors, one at the end of the game, and allowed a power play goal and lots, more than lots, of chances. That had to change. Fast.\nThey got right to it, scoring their first goal versus the Sharks at forty seconds. Ah, the Ducks were back. For a while. They would exit the first period down 2-1, partly due to the exact problem that plagued them the other night. The Ducks took two penalties in the first, the second of which yielded a power play goal for the Sharks.\nThe hitting in the period was fierce. It reminded of the question asked of DeBoer the other night, which might be summarized essentially as, \u201cWhat if the Ducks ramp up the game in the hits department?\u201d And his answer was two-fold. On the one hand, he said, \u201cWe can respond.\u201d On the other, his response was, \u201cI thought they were hitting quite a bit tonight.\u201d\nWell, that was nothing. The Ducks literally ran over San Jose for much of the first period. Beauchemin was the fiercest, and looked plenty guilty after going right over the back of a Sharks\u2019 player in front of the visitors\u2019 bench.\nPeter DeBoer later would say, \u201cWe knew they were going to play their best game tonight, especially early. We were prepared for that. I loved our resolve. They took some liberties in the first period, they got away with, and we didn\u2019t shrink. We stood in there. That\u2019s one thing about our group. We don\u2019t get pushed out of games. I loved our resolve. I loved our push back. We didn\u2019t ask the referees to take care of it. We stood in there and came out of that first period up 2-1. That was critical in this game\u201d\nEarly in the second, it felt like the Ducks were giving up. The Sharks scored at 1:11, even strength. The feeling in the arena, aside from joy from the many San Jose supporters who were in the nether regions up where the press box is, was defeat. It wasn\u2019t quite as bad as last year, when they came out entirely flat and blew their last game with the chance to win their series against Nashville. But it was \u201chere we go again.\u201d\nThen they got going. This was sparked by Carlyle changing his lines around. Perry played with Henrique and Ritchie. Getzlaf had Rakell and Kase. The Ducks got a power play, and scored a goal on it (Lindholm), and then started to surge.\nCarlyle was happy with the team\u2019s game. \u201cIt\u2019s always very disappointing when you don\u2019t win. But this was a much more even played game tonight than it was the other night. We still could be a lot cleaner in the neutral ice. . . . It seems that it takes us more tries to get through the neutral ice than is necessary.\u201d\nPeriod three began with a trading of chances side to side. Getzlaf, still playing with Rakell and Kase, had the Anaheim team down in front of the San Jose net. The puck came to Kase, and he made a stupid, sloppy backhand pass that was too weak to get to his point man. The Sharks rushed it, and ended up with Tierney getting a loose puck at the right of Gibson with the side open. He shot, backhanded. Gibson got a glove over to save the game. Or save it as much as you can when you\u2019re losing. But there was lots of time left. This happened before the fifteen minute-mark had crossed over.\nBy the way, who was right in the crease area to clear the puck after the save? Getzlaf. He wasn\u2019t available after the game. I saw him sitting on the doctor\u2019s table in the room adjacent to the X-ray room. No rumours, just fact. The point is, we couldn\u2019t ask him for his reaction.\nMartin Jones had looked shaky in the San Jose net early. The first goal was tipped up off a stick but stoppable. Later in the first, he bobbled a puck in his pads off Kesler\u2019s stick, letting it rebound awkwardly off his legs and down. In the third, he was solid. The Ducks had a power play when the puck was shot out for delay of game. Kesler got the puck in front, but he was hauled down. He still got off a shot. Jones stopped it. Then the puck worked its way out to the point again, and the Ducks boomed a slapshot to the net through traffic. Jones saw it somehow, and it thumped off his leg pads loudly enough to be heard in the opposite corner of the arena, where I sat.\nThe Ducks didn\u2019t help themselves when Nick Ritchie took a tripping penalty at 9:17, with the shots having just drawn even on the night at 27-27. The Sharks had been ahead all night before this.\nThe PK held on, with nothing going in. Late in the two minutes, Pavelski just missed a rebound chance. The period went along. The Ducks surged. Then Corey Perry got stupid. For no reason, he came behind a Sharks\u2019 player who had the puck in his feet and hammered him down from behind. It was an obvious interference penalty, with nothing gained whatsoever. He sat for two minutes starting at 16:17.\nLet\u2019s put that in hockey sense terms: Your team is down 1-0 in games at home. They\u2019re further down 3-2 in the present game, at home. They haven\u2019t beaten the other team but once in the year. They haven\u2019t been that good in the game, except for their goalie, who has held them in. But they often score a late goal and pull games out.\nSo you come up from behind a defenseless player and smash him into the ice with the referee looking straight at you.\nHis coach\u2019s later reaction? \u201cIt would have been better served to be less violent.\u201d Duh. He later elaborated, but didn\u2019t say much more. Just description, careful not to say anything judge-y. But he should have.\nPeter DeBoer of the Sharks was frank about it: \u201cIf he wants to take a penalty at that point in the game, we\u2019ll take the power play.\u201d\nRight. And if you were his coach? Well, nobody asked that. Anyway, you already know what happened. The Ducks poured it on in the last minute and a half with Gibson out of the net, passing the puck all over the zone. The Sharks resisted the chance to fire long at the empty net, instead clearing it, or trying to. Mostly, the Ducks held it in. But they couldn\u2019t get it past Jones. The Sharks would end up with the shots advantage in the game, 35-30, but the Ducks made it exciting down the stretch.\nCarlyle said of his team\u2019s game, \u201cI know the resolve in our room is one that, I guarantee you, we\u2019re not going to lay down. . . . We made some mistakes and basically gave them some goals.\u201d\nCogliano had earlier been quite morose in his comments. He said all the right things, but it wasn\u2019t convincing. \u201cThey won two games here, and it\u2019s going to be tough. We all know that. That\u2019s the situation we\u2019re in, but we have a good team. . . . We just have to fight, and find a way to win.\u201d\nWhat can they do? Slow the Sharks down. They tried that, and it hasn\u2019t worked. Shoot more. That\u2019s not the problem. Muck it up. No, they\u2019ve done that well already. Get through the neutral zone. Both coaches talked about this. Maybe, if the Ducks can find a way to do that, they can get some goals. But they\u2019re not a high-scoring team, despite their high-flying ways.\nAnyway, Cogliano said it: \u201cThey play good team defense, and that\u2019s tough to score against.\u201d Unless they can get to Jones, but if they couldn\u2019t capitalize on his first-period stumbles this game, what\u2019s to say they\u2019ll get to him at home on Tuesday?\nLeaving the arena, people were saying \u201cSee you,\u201d then pausing \u201cif . . . .\u201d The rest did not need to be said. Games three and four are in San Jose. Game five, if necessary, will be Friday in Anaheim.\nOfficially, the hits were 24-20 for the Ducks. I\u2019ll bet the Sharks used more icebags after the game than that indicates. Faceoffs were almost dead even. Shot attempts were 68-61 for San Jose.\nAnaheimBurnsDucksFowlerGetzlafHenriqueLAPavelskiSan JoseSharks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 10415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insights.ovid.com/crossref?an=00006565-200912000-00001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UAUBWMG2SYPNWYEZEKTTFQRVCGLDBCTE", "length": 2151, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "insights.ovid.com", "title": "Evaluation of Decision Rules for Identifying Serious Consequences of Traumatic Head Injuries in Pediatric Patients", "raw_content": "Pediatric Emergency Care. 25(12):811-815, DEC 2009\nDOI: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e3181c32e74\nEvaluation of Decision Rules for Identifying Serious Consequences of Traumatic Head Injuries in Pediatric Patients\nSanna Klemetti;Matti Uhari;Tytti Pokka;Heikki Rantala;\nFrom the Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.\nObjectives:We evaluated the existing decision rules and developed our own decision rule for use with pediatric patients having head injuries to see how good they are for identifying serious complications.Methods:In a retrospective survey covering 5 years, we tested 3 decision rules on all the 485 children with head trauma admitted to the Department of Pediatrics at Oulu University Hospital in Finland.Results:Four hundred two (83%) of our 485 patients had uncomplicated head trauma, 55 (11%) had complicated trauma, and 28 (6%) had severely complicated trauma. We found the 3 existing decision rules to be applicable with 96% to 99% sensitivities in identifying patients with at least complicated head trauma and 100% sensitivity in identifying severely complicated cases, but the specificities were low, from 5% to 21%. Use of the best National Emergency X-Radiography Utilization Study (NEXUS) II decision rule would have resulted in 89 (18%) less hospital admissions, 216 (14%) less days in the hospital, and annual savings of $30,600 without compromising the prognosis for our patients. A decision rule developed on the basis of our own series had a sensitivity of 94% for patients with at least complicated head trauma and 96% for patients with severely complicated head trauma and a specificity of 29% in both groups.Conclusions:All the 3 existing decision rules tested had high sensitivities for at least complicated head trauma, but rather low specificity. Because the most optimal decision rule based on the present data was not superior to the existing ones, we conclude that it is difficult to develop a rule that would be markedly better than that of NEXUS II. Use of the NEXUS II rule would have resulted in reduced hospitalization and imaging rates in our hospital, where no decision rules are currently used.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://io9.gizmodo.com/j-k-rowling-says-hermione-should-have-married-harry-n-1514204695?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5H3Z4KU57JXF2EHIFVKGXSEGQLITQ3H3", "length": 2148, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "io9.gizmodo.com", "title": "J.K. Rowling says Hermione should have married Harry, not Ron", "raw_content": "J.K. Rowling says Hermione should have married Harry, not Ron\nAre you sitting down? You might want to sit down. In an interview with Emma Watson, J.K. Rowling has admitted that she regrets pairing Hermione with Ron instead of Harry, chalking the Hermione/Ron marriage up to \"a form of wish fulfillment.\"\nThe interview is slated to appear in a forthcoming issue of Wonderland magazine, for which Watson served as guest-editor. Rowling's comments were obtained by The Sunday Times, which tweeted a preview of tomorrow's front page just hours ago. You can read it for yourself below (click the image to enlarge, and note the headline on the left), but here's the gist:\n[Rowling] said: \"I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. That's how it was conceived, really. For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron.\"\nShe added: \"I know, I'm sorry, I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I'm absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that. It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility. Am I breaking people's hearts by saying this? I hope not.\"\nWatson, for her part, seemed to agree with Rowling, commenting that she thinks \"there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy.\" The comments obtained by The Sunday Times also seem to indicate that Rowling thinks Ron and Hermione \"would have ended up needing relationship counseling.\" Oy.\nWe can't help but notice that the Sunday Times article continues on page 7 of the paper, so it's possible that there's more to this story than meets the eye. Is this some sort of joke? A plot to drum up buzz over Watson's guest-editorship at Wonderland? Or has Rowling really, truly decided to rekindle the HP ship-wars into a category five wildfire? While we're waiting for the other shoe to drop, talk amongst yourselves \u2013 I'm betting some of you out there are feeling pretty vindicated right about now.\n[The Sunday Times via Hypable]\nht Kat!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-female-physician-and-the-thousand-year-campa-994184868", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:24Z", "digest": "sha1:NH4X5CQ4OJJHTJCRB2G2RGOAESDEVK7J", "length": 2649, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "io9.gizmodo.com", "title": "The first female physician, and the thousand-year campaign against her", "raw_content": "The first female physician, and the thousand-year campaign against her\nTrotula of Salerno has been the subject of a smear campaign lasting roughly one thousand years. Possibly. Or possibly she never existed.\nIn the 11th century, Salerno was the place to be if you wanted to be a physician. It had what some claim is the world's first real medical school. It had hospitals and doctors that people would travel huge distances to visit. And it had each of those because of a solid scholarly tradition. Many physicians from Salerno wrote medical treatises, but the most famous is Trotula.\nTrotula wrote medical books meant to instruct male doctors regarding the medical care of women. Since the vast majority of formally educated doctors were men, and religious and legal taboos often prevented them from practicing on women, few knew anything about gynecological problems. Trotula sought to fix that. She wrote two major books. One covered gynecological and obstetric problems. It included, controversially, the idea that sometimes men were the biological cause of conception problems, instead of just women. The other was more of an advice book for women, and dealt with cosmetic issues, from ways to treat puffy eyes to ways to soothing skin diseases. The two books represented a massive store of knowledge that male physicians wouldn't have had access to if Trotula hadn't studied to be a doctor, and picked up her pen.\nOr were they books written by male physicians under a female pseudonym to avoid legal trouble? Since the books were first circulated, there have been rumors that the books were actually written by male doctors. Academic women were rare, and a woman receiving formal medical education would have been even more so. There was also a faction of people who believed that women were not capable of producing intellectual work.\nThese arguments came to a head in the 1500s, when historians and doctors announced that there never was a Trotula in the first place. Since then, she's become a semi-mythical figure. Even those who believe in her existence sometimes doubt her work. The few facts that anyone has pertaining to the woman - that she may have been from a noble family, that she may have had a physician for a husband or a son - have been used to attribute the book to male relatives who used her name as a cover.\nMost historians today believe that Trotula did exist, and that she did write both treatises. So if you ever want to dye your hair or treat snake bite while honoring an early female scientist, look up her books!\nVia NCBI, Making Women's Medicine Masculine, International Journal of Cosmetic Science, King's College.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ioncube24.com/about/terms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:HHN6ILNVNTOHWFB7JELCWJUA6DHKDUTR", "length": 9649, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "ioncube24.com", "title": "ionCube24", "raw_content": "The following User Agreement (\"the Agreement\") governs the use of the ioncube24.com service (\"the Service\") and the ionCube24 Website (\"the Website\") by a member (\"You\") and ionCube Ltd. (\"Us/We\"). Please read the rules contained in this Agreement carefully. 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Those who choose to access the Service do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.\n(c) ionCube Ltd.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 10128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipvsoc.org/news/p-snijders-goodbye-dear-colleague/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FWYV3D4ANHAH7M6XOEL2ZWQ6VZ76AVNF", "length": 1331, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ipvsoc.org", "title": "P. J. F Snijders \u2013 goodbye to our dear colleague - IPVS", "raw_content": "P. J. F Snijders \u2013 goodbye to our dear colleague\nIt was with great sadness that the IPVS family learned that P.J.F (Peter) Snijders passed away on 31st May 2018 after a long battle with cancer.\nPeter earned his degree in biology in 1987 from the Catholic University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He went on to earn a doctoral degree, cum laude, in Medicine from VU University in Amsterdam. From 1993 to 1997 he was a post-doctoral Senior Fellow at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and thereafter became Clinical Scientist in Molecular Pathology in the department of Pathology at the VU University medical center, Amsterdam. Since 1988, he has focused on studying the role of HPV in cancer. He was involved in the development of the HPV GP5+/6+ consensus PCR, which is one of the clinically validated reference assays for cervical screening purposes. He was also amongst the first investigators to establish a plausible etiological role of mucosal HPV in tonsillar cancer. In addition, his work involved identification and functional characterization of genes involved in HPV-mediated carcinogenesis and translation of these results into establishing biomarker assays for risk assessment.\nIPVS board conveys its sincere condolences to Peter\u2019s family, loved ones and colleagues.\nBy Julie Thomas | June 13, 2018 | |", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 125.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/3965", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OGPDM3BU3XFLE2DMDXADMEW6GXX5NXDL", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ir.vanderbilt.edu", "title": "Vanderbilt Hustler: 122nd Year No. 20 April 2, 2010", "raw_content": "Vanderbilt Hustler: 122nd Year No. 20 April 2, 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 289.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/7529", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:42Z", "digest": "sha1:YK5HOFPKUGLV6OKTYXUC6Q76M7F23O57", "length": 1813, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ir.vanderbilt.edu", "title": "Boards of Directors as Mediating Hierarchs", "raw_content": "Boards of Directors as Mediating Hierarchs\nBlair, Margaret M., 1950-\nIn June of 2014, the board of directors of Demoulas Supermarkets, Inc.-better known as Market Basket, a mid-sized chain of grocery stores in New England-decided to oust the man who had been CEO for the previous six years, Arthur T. Demoulas.' Most likely, the board of directors did not anticipate what happened next: Thousands of employees, customers, and fans of Market Basket boycotted the stores and staged noisy public protests asking the board to reinstate \"Arthur T., The reaction by employees and customers made what had been a simmering, nasty, intrafamily feud within the closely held Market Basket chain into national news. In this era of overpaid and aloof CEOs, who expects employees and customers to go to bat for the CEO? The Demoulas clan feud provides useful context for thinking about the institutional mechanism for resolving disputes at the heart of corporate law: the granting of decisionmaking authority to a board of directors. Most, if not all, long-term relationships do not go smoothly all the time. When people make a decision to live together, work together, own property together, or build something together, they should anticipate that disagreements will arise, sometimes major disagreements. This is as true in a business endeavor as it is in other aspects of life. For this reason, institutional arrangements that are successful at supporting collaborative activities over time are likely to have some sort of dispute resolution mechanism, or decision rule about resolving disputes, imbedded in them. In this Essay, I highlight and explore the dispute resolution function of the corporate law requirement that corporations have boards of directors with \"all corporate powers.\"\nBoards of Directors as Mediati ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iris.univpm.it/handle/11566/54466", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:19Z", "digest": "sha1:NNH5KXJ2IPF4V5ND27J42EKIOZK7KZVM", "length": 3711, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "iris.univpm.it", "title": "Decompressive craniectomy for medically refractory intracranial hypertension due to meningoencephalitis: report of three patients. | IRIS Universit\u00e0 Politecnica delle Marche Attenzione: i dati modificati non sono ancora stati salvati. Per confermare inserimenti o cancellazioni di voci \u00e8 necessario confermare con il tasto SALVA/INSERISCI in fondo alla pagina", "raw_content": "Decompressive craniectomy for medically refractory intracranial hypertension due to meningoencephalitis: report of three patients.\nBACKGROUND: Meningoencephalitis may sometimes cause medically refractory intracranial hypertension and brain herniation. In such patients death is common. There are a limited number of reports on the use of decompressive craniectomy as a life saving measure in these circumstances with some good results. The aim of the study was to report experience in three further patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a 15-month period, three patients affected by acute meningoencephalitis were surgically treated by decompressive craniectomy at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Polytechnic University of Ancona. In all patients common symptoms at presentation were headache, fever and neck rigidity, rapidly followed by the development of focal neurological deficits and coma. Intracranial pressure monitoring was always performed and correlated with serial CT scan examinations. Because of the development of severe intracranial hypertension refractory to conventional medical treatment, a decompressive hemicraniectomy was performed in two patients and a bifrontal decompressive craniectomy in the third one. Bacterial meningoencephalitis was diagnosed in two patients, viral meningoencephalitis in the remaining one. FINDINGS: One patient died 3 days after surgery. The remaining two completely recovered consciousness, with no residual focal neurological deficit. CONCLUSIONS: Surgery resulted in an immediate reduction of intracranial pressure in two of the three patients with severe meningoencephalitis. Decompressive craniectomy may be a useful option in the management of a patient with medically refractory intracranial hypertension caused by meningoencephalitis. Early intervention may enhance its benefits.\nTitolo: Decompressive craniectomy for medically refractory intracranial hypertension due to meningoencephalitis: report of three patients.\nVeccia S.\nAbstract: BACKGROUND: Meningoencephalitis may sometimes cause medically refractory intracranial hypertension and brain herniation. In such patients death is common. There are a limited number of reports on the use of decompressive craniectomy as a life saving measure in these circumstances with some good results. The aim of the study was to report experience in three further patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In a 15-month period, three patients affected by acute meningoencephalitis were surgically treated by decompressive craniectomy at the Department of Neurosurgery of the Polytechnic University of Ancona. In all patients common symptoms at presentation were headache, fever and neck rigidity, rapidly followed by the development of focal neurological deficits and coma. Intracranial pressure monitoring was always performed and correlated with serial CT scan examinations. Because of the development of severe intracranial hypertension refractory to conventional medical treatment, a decompressive hemicraniectomy was performed in two patients and a bifrontal decompressive craniectomy in the third one. Bacterial meningoencephalitis was diagnosed in two patients, viral meningoencephalitis in the remaining one. FINDINGS: One patient died 3 days after surgery. The remaining two completely recovered consciousness, with no residual focal neurological deficit. CONCLUSIONS: Surgery resulted in an immediate reduction of intracranial pressure in two of the three patients with severe meningoencephalitis. Decompressive craniectomy may be a useful option in the management of a patient with medically refractory intracranial hypertension caused by meningoencephalitis. Early intervention may enhance its benefits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 182.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://irisremembers.com/calendar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:43Z", "digest": "sha1:KVWXMTQW7JXQ6JSDMSO6JU2UUVAA3M6N", "length": 203, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "irisremembers.com", "title": "Infants Remembered In Silence (IRIS) - Calendar of Events", "raw_content": "<< February 2019 >> Go to today January February March April May June July August September October November December 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020\nPancake & Bingo Bash", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 15193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 49.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://irisremembers.com/supportiris/donationsmemorials.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MW47OWF7L6NXQJI3FL5DAPILDUQQ4MHC", "length": 509, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "irisremembers.com", "title": "Infants Remembered In Silence (IRIS) - Help Support IRIS - Donations and Memorials", "raw_content": "When making a memorial donation, please include the child or adult's name, parent's name, your relationship to this person, date of birth and death, along with address.\nIf making a donation to honor an event or person please include above information and reason for the donation.\nMessages to be included with the listing are always welcome!\nIRIS would like to thank those who so kindly give these monetary donations. We gratefully acknowledge these gifts, which help us to continue to assist bereaved parents.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://islamqa.info/en/answers/163573/ruling-on-mentioning-allah-saying-bismillah-when-eating-and-adding-to-it", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:LHYEW4UUOV7I242E4GYJL4B4WDRUPOAX", "length": 3035, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "islamqa.info", "title": "Ruling on mentioning Allah (saying \u201cBismillah\u201d) when eating\u2026 And adding to it - Islam Question & Answer", "raw_content": "Etiquette of eating and drinking\nRuling on mentioning Allah (saying \u201cBismillah\u201d) when eating\u2026 And adding to it\nI wanted to ask wether it is allowed to say \"Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Raheem\" instead of \"Bismillah\" before one eats. There was a discussion between a sister and me, and i said it is a Bidaa, but the sister insisted that there is nothing wrong with that.\nWhat is the right ruling on this issue?.\nThe phrase that is prescribed for mentioning Allah when eating is to say \u201cBismillah\u201d (In the name of Allah), because of the report narrated by \u2018Aa\u2019ishah (may Allah be pleased with her), that the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: \u201cWhen one of you eats some food, let him say Bismillah, and if he forgets to do so at the beginning, let him say Bismillah fi awwalihi wa aakhirihi (In the name of Allah at the beginning and end). Narrated by at-Tirmidhi, 1781; classed as saheeh by Shaykh al-Albaani (may Allah have mercy on him).\nThe scholars (may Allah have mercy on them) differed concerning saying Bismillah ir-Rahmaan ir-Raheem (in the name of Allah, the Most Gracious the Most Merciful). Most of the scholars are of the view that there is nothing wrong with this addition.\nShaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said: If one says when eating, Bismillah ir-Rahmaan ir-Raheem, that is good and more perfect. End quote from al-Fataawa al-Kubra, 5/480\nIt says in al-Mawsoo\u2018ah al-Fiqhiyyah, 8/92: The fuqaha\u2019 are of the view that mentioning the name of Allah when beginning to eat is a Sunnah, and the phrase to be used is Bismillah or Bismillah ir-Rahmaan ir-Raheem. End quote.\nAn-Nawawi (may Allah have mercy on him) said: It is more important to note the phrase to be used when mentioning the name of Allah. \u2026 The best is to say Bismillah ir-Rahmaan ir-Raheem, but if one says Bismillah, that is sufficient and fulfils the Sunnah. End quote from al-Adhkaar, 1/231\nAl-Haafiz ibn Hajar (may Allah have mercy on him) followed that with his comment: I have not seen any particular evidence to support what he claims about it being better. End quote from Fath al-Baari.\nShaykh al-Albaani (may Allah have mercy on him) said: And I say: There is nothing better than his Sunnah (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him). The best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) and if nothing is proven concerning mentioning the name of Allah when eating except to say \u201cBismillah,\u201d then it is not permissible to add anything to it, let alone suggest that the longer phrase is better than it, because saying such a thing is contrary to what is referred to in the hadeeth: \u201cThe best of guidance is the guidance of Muhammad (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him).\u201d End quote from as-Silsilah as-Saheehah, 1/343\nBased on this, it is better to limit it to saying Bismillah when starting to eat, and not add anything to it. But if one does add to it by saying Bismillah ir-Rahmaan ir-Raheem, there is nothing wrong with that according to the majority of scholars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://islandprofiles.com/the-magdalen-islands-iles-de-la-madeleine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:CD7QLGUQCP52NPL24SVGK57XXCBOHHX5", "length": 1258, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "islandprofiles.com", "title": "The Magdalen Islands (Iles de la Madeleine) - Island Profiles", "raw_content": "Photo by: Kelisi at the English Language Wikipedia/CC BY-SA 3.0\nThe Magdalen Islands are a remote and beautiful archipelago located in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Though closer in proximity to Prince Edward Island, they are a part of Qu\u00e9bec. There are eight major islands that cover an area of approximately 80 square miles.\nAlthough the population descends in part from shipwreck survivors, in 1765 22 French speaking Acadians settled here. There are said to be upwards of 350 shipwrecks surrounding the islands, though only 15 have been found.\nPhoto by: Mastrovito, Perry/CC BY 2.0\nPhoto by: Raymond Brow/CC BY 2.0\nThe islands are very scenic and half are connected by narrow sand bars. The outer edges of the islands are characterized in many places by sandstone cliffs that have eroded to form arches, caves and tunnels. Though the waters around the islands often tend to be rough, the many lagoons that have been formed by these sandstone formations can be great for swimming and can have a much warmer temperature, reaching up to 70 degrees in late summer.\nThe islands are known for their food and culture and offer numerous activities from windsurfing and cycling to the world\u2019s largest amateur sand castle building event.\nPhoto by: Seyemon/CC BY-ND 2.0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 8090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jameshainesyoung.com/2015/06/01/electrocution-in-the-camps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:16Z", "digest": "sha1:PIGE276WMYMTUUCIZXWMIL2T7AFKNMJ6", "length": 1908, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "jameshainesyoung.com", "title": "IRIN - Electrocution in the camps - Backline Press", "raw_content": "Posted: June 1, 2015 | By James\t| 0 Comments\nThe 48 deaths from electrocution in Palestinian camp cuts to the heart of the problems faced by many Palestinians in Lebanon\nDraped with water pipes and high voltage wires, the major fuse box that splits power from the grid in the centre of Beirut\u2019s Bourj el-Barajneh is known locally as the \u201cwall of death.\u201d Rusty and exposed, it stands at head height on a major thoroughfare in this overcrowded Palestinian refugee camp. Several people have died tinkering with it over the years, and yet nothing has ever been done to make it safer.\nFor a symbol of the struggle Palestinian refugees face in trying to live a basic but dignified existence when 18,000 human beings are squeezed chaotically onto just one square kilometre of land, look no further.\nAccording to camp officials, 48 people have died from electrocution in Bourj el-Barajneh in the past five years. The majority of these accidents were preventable, but the combination of a lack of funding, Lebanese political intransigence and Palestinian infighting have scuppered any chance of carrying out the simple reforms that could have saved dozens of lives.\nAhmed al-Qaed, 54, was deaf and desperate. He settled for employment as a builder in construction. Earning a meagre $26 a week, his wage barely supported his wife Amal and their three children. In Bourj el-Barajneh, any construction work is also highly dangerous.\nLast October, Ahmed took a break to have lunch at home with his wife. Shortly after he returned to work, there was a frantic banging on the door. Ahmed had been electrocuted by a dangling overhead cable. Carried to hospital, he died hours later. \u201cHe was a modest man,\u201d 34-year-old Amal said solemnly. \u201c[But] he was good to us.\u201d\u2026[Continue reading over at IRIN News]\nTags: Bourj el-Barajneh, camps, development, electrocution, freelance, IRIN, Living in Lebanon, Palestinian, and refugees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jameshainesyoung.com/category/articles/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:13Z", "digest": "sha1:2OGVLJZ5IKBMAGDILRZWHPRSIRUMXMD5", "length": 128, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jameshainesyoung.com", "title": "Articles Archives - Page 2 of 6 - Backline Press", "raw_content": "SIDON, Lebanon \u2014 \u201cThere was a hill near our house, totally covered in flowers, flowers like I\u2019ve never seen before. \u2026 Read more\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 167.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://janrodan.de/xing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:16Z", "digest": "sha1:AIHMROCWTE7M4UOXDAPAXFVNUELFXGRW", "length": 38, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "janrodan.de", "title": "XING \u2013 Jan Rodan", "raw_content": "https://www.xing.com/profile/Jan_Rodan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jennifermack.net/tag/news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:44Z", "digest": "sha1:UYJLSDFDOOW57LQSI4OBHC3CQFM4D7JS", "length": 3321, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "jennifermack.net", "title": "Jennifer Mack", "raw_content": "While I\u2019ve seen quite a bit of coverage of the Dakota Access pipeline project, none of the reports provided any specifics about the pipeline. So I decided to satisfy my curiosity with a little research. After sifting through the multitudes of non-substantive news articles and even more thinkpieces, I eventually landed on some primary materials. Along the way I also found out the alternatives that were considered and discarded. What became clear is that this pipeline and others like it are needed as long as crude oil production continues.\nMy Traveling Transmit Kit\nA few weeks ago I ran across a huge structure fire. Traffic was backed up because it was near the intersection of two major roads. I parked about a half mile away and walked to a parking lot across from the fire. Only a few fire trucks were there, and the police hadn\u2019t arrived yet to cordon off the area. My plan was to get some early shots and get out.\ngear howiwork news photography\nSometimes it\u2019s a matter of seeing smoke and following it to the fire. [instagram url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BEkWsXzBZ61/ width=700] I was on my way home from the local World Wide Instameet that was at the ASU Art Museum. I saw the smoke in the distance and followed it the best I could. Once I got close, traffic was so bad I had to park and walk the last three-quarters of a mile to the fire.\narizona news photography photojournalism\nPhoto Updates, March 2016\nThe last few weeks have been busy. All but one of the presidential candidates came through town. I managed to get credentialed to them and got some decent shots. But first, here\u2019s some fun stuff. The hoop dancers were part of the 27th Annual World Championship held at the Heard Museum. The Ostrich racing was part of the Chandler Ostrich Festival. These galleries are also on my photography page. Hoop dancers & Ostrich racing [gallery type=\u201crectangular\u201d link=\u201cnone\u201d ids=\u201c1732,1733,1734,1735,1736,1737,1738,1739\u201d]\nnews photography update\nI wrote about my experiences covering the GOP candidates in Nevada for PetaPixel. Overwhelmed and Undergeared: Two Days on the Campaign Trail in Nevada Trump, Carson, and Rubio (l. to r.). Give it a read, it\u2019s a pretty good look at the utter insanity of what goes on behind-the-scenes during a campaign event.\nThe End of Protesting\nToday protesters in Minneapolis shut down the airport and the largest mall in America. Of all the protests so far, I think these two events are the most high profile yet. I also don\u2019t know if they are as effective as they were a year ago. City governments don\u2019t seem to be any more responsive than they were before the protests started. In reading today\u2019s news I had to wonder, will the protests ever get so big that the city decides clearing the streets is more important than not hurting people while they do so?\nNFL and the Extra Point: will it stay?\nThe NFL owners spent an hour talking about extra points today. The current rules make the PAT boring. Most of the time the TV broadcast doesn\u2019t even show it. The discussion was just that, talk. But there are plans for the Competition Committee to come back with a proposal for a May vote. The general consensus seems to be the extra point should be made into a football play. This will be interesting on how it shakes out for the kickers.\ncurrent events football news sports", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeramiah.net/2010/02/happy-valentines-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5VEXNTWTKSYKH4SU7UJYKQ72FORVEM4", "length": 651, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jeramiah.net", "title": "Happy Valentine\u2019s Day | Jeramiah.net", "raw_content": "Posted by Jeramiah Dooley on February 13, 2010 in Personal\nBeing my wife can\u2019t be easy (keep the jokes to a minimum, please). I am your classic workaholic, and with two young kids at home (ages 1 and 3) and a household to run, my wife easily works as much if not more than I do. Broken servers, problem customer, internal politics and long hours don\u2019t hold a candle to potty-training, pre-school, cooking, cleaning and paying the bills, and I understand and appreciate every day how lucky I am.\nEverything I am, everything I accomplish, everything I succeed at, I know it\u2019s because she\u2019s there to support me. Thank you baby, and Happy Valentine\u2019s Day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeramiah.net/2012/01/dont-vote-for-me-vote-for-these-people/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:P53HF4UY5N5LCWMZUYI7R6NQSAIGMYAS", "length": 11155, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "jeramiah.net", "title": "Don\u2019t Vote For Me, Vote for These People | Jeramiah.net", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t Vote For Me, Vote for These People\nPosted by Jeramiah Dooley on January 25, 2012 in Personal\nLast year, when vLaunchPad kicked off the voting for the 2011 Top 25 VMware Blogs, it was a goldmine for me. As someone who had recently moved from the customer side of the game to a vendor, it was a great way to get exposure to all of the incredible content being generated by some of the smartest people in the business. Now that the voting for 2012 has begun, it\u2019s another chance for me to check in on some of the new people involved in the industry, while acknowledging the people who have provided me the most value in the past year.\nThere are a bunch of new posts going up this week, with people encouraging voters, listing out their top blog posts of the year, and (of course) suggesting politely that a vote for them would be appreciated. I\u2019d imagine that the traffic bump seen by inclusion on the list is pretty significant, and Eric Siebert has done a great job of making this kind of community feedback process valuable.\nThat being said, I don\u2019t want your vote. More importantly, I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve earned your vote. Yet.\n2011 was easily the most interesting year of my professional career. The move to VCE has been outstanding in almost every way. I\u2019ve met more customers, gotten more perspective, seen more technology, been closer to the leading edge and had more opportunities open up than I ever would have had in my previous job.\nI\u2019ve also struggled to stay focused on my blogging efforts. I don\u2019t think I did poorly, but based on the number of blog posts that I currently have in some state of completion (11) I could have done better. I need to go back to setting aside time for research, reading and all of the other parts of the process, if I\u2019m going to continue to improve. I really do the act of creation, and I think I\u2019m doing better finding my voice and my personality on the blog, I just need to put in the hours needed. Like anything, repetition is the key to improvement, and I need more reps.\nSo rather than listing out my most popular post or pitching you on why you should vote for me, here\u2019s a quick recap of the blogs that got my votes, and why.\nFirst, I think the blogs that you gravitate towards are a personal thing. Not everyone has the same likes and dislikes, and especially when it comes to content consumption, everyone has their own taste. It\u2019s not unlike preference in music when you think about it. Everyone hears things slightly different, and that\u2019s what makes it beautiful. These are my preferences and opinions, but that certainly doesn\u2019t mean yours aren\u2019t valid!\nI also made some basic rules for my voting. Quantity and quality are not necessarily related, for sure, but I believe that if you are going to stand out from the enormous pack of content creators you need to have both. If you go three months at a time without posting, even if every post you put up is brilliant, I probably didn\u2019t vote for you. I also think that it\u2019s important to have at least a few posts over the course of the year that really stand out. No one is going to hit a homerun every time, but you need to have cleared the fence a couple times.\nMy next preference is sure to make me few friends, but I\u2019m also partial to people who work for the companies who make the technology that serves as the basis of our community. Partially that\u2019s because I don\u2019t always understand this niche that exists where people can live in the margins between companies, and partly because I don\u2019t think I understand the concept of \u201cindependent\u201d very well. It may mean \u201cunaffiliated with a vendor\u201d but it certainly can\u2019t mean \u201cunbiased\u201d, and if the bias is going to be there without the 1st-hand knowledge of the technology and the roadmap, I think you may run into context issues. The other possibility is that \u201cindependent\u201d means \u201clooking out for yourself first\u201d in which case your bias runs towards the people, vendors and projects that pay you, which is the worst possible interpretation of the word, in my mind. Also, I know how hard it is to be objective and provide good content within the structure of NDAs, roadmaps and partner relationships, and I respect those who can do it well. There are lots of people who just end up being shills for their respective companies, but those people seem to get marginalized pretty quickly.\nIn my opinion, the design of the blog itself matters too. Is it easy to read? Does it have a decent mobile version? Is it easy to comment on posts? Is it searchable? Is there an archive where I can look back by date and topic? I\u2019m sure there are plenty of people out there supplementing their income with ad revenue from their sites, but having your side covered with the same ads from the same companies as everyone else doesn\u2019t do anything for your readers, does it?\nLike with music, you need to play the instrument well. Sentences have beginnings, middles, and endings. Punctuation and spelling matter. The voice you use to present your content should be consistent. The content itself needs to be accurate and well researched. It needs to be topical. These are the basics, but they really do matter.\nFinally, the only rule is that there are no rules, and some of the people who I respect the most definitely don\u2019t always fit inside my rules. \ud83d\ude42\nSo without further blathering from me, here\u2019s my Top 10.\n#10 \u2013 Nick Weaver (http://nickapedia.com/) \u2013 A person I wish had more time to blog. Nick isn\u2019t the most prolific, but he\u2019s definitely worth waiting on. He\u2019s all over the board technology-wise, which I can relate to, and from .NET front-ends for customer labs to node.js deployments to UBER tools to Kinect magic to evolutionary modeling of VMs, Nick has written about it all. One day I\u2019ll get him to post the best techniques for opening bottles with rental car door handles, and the his blog will be perfect.\n#9 \u2013 Chris Colotti (http://www.chriscolotti.us/) \u2013 Chris has quickly become one of my go-to resources for anything regarding vCloud technologies. From design to performance to gotchas to implementation, this blog has it all. He also drives Mopar vehicles with large engines, and gets bonus points for that. Chris has really started to find his writing voice, and I\u2019m interested to see how he does in 2012.\n#8 \u2013 Kendrick Coleman (http://www.kendrickcoleman.com/) \u2013 While I\u2019m not the biggest fan of the design, Kendrick\u2019s content more than makes up for it. The free vSphere tools is a long-time favorite, but his VMware-related postings in general over the course of 2011 were top-notch. His posts about vSphere network design and vCloud director were among the best of the year.\n#7 \u2013 Scott Lowe (http://blog.scottlowe.org/) \u2013 My biggest complaint with Scott\u2019s blog is that he doesn\u2019t have more time to stay down in the weeds. When Scott gets rolling on a topic, like he did with FCOE and VxLAN, it\u2019s must-read content for everyone involved in those technologies. The Short Takes are a great collection of links, but Scott\u2019s commentary is equally valuable. The well-written content meshes nicely with the clean design, making this one of my favorites. If we can only find a way to make him write less about Macs\u2026 \ud83d\ude42\n#6 \u2013 Andre Leibovici (http://myvirtualcloud.net/) \u2013 I think Andre has progressed more in his blogging in 2011 than anyone else I follow regularly. His content around VDI is well researched, well explained, not afraid to buck convention and as authoritative as anyone out there. In addition, his calculators (View, XenDesktop, Protocol) are must-have references for anyone who deals with VDI technology on a regular basis. I\u2019m very interested to see where some of his less\u2026.supported\u2026.View projects are going to take him in 2012.\n#5 \u2013 Christofer Hoff (http://www.rationalsurvivability.com/blog/) \u2013 It\u2019s hard to think of this as a \u201cvirtualization\u201d blog, because the topics are so wide-ranging. I think of it more as a \u201cshit smart people think about\u201d blog, and that helps me put it in context. In addition to the high-quality of the content, it\u2019s the sense of humor that really makes this blog stand out. Being serious and respectful to the content without being overbearing is no small feat, and really, how can you not like someone who decides that facing off (literally) with Vint Cerf is a good idea?\n#4 \u2013 Cody Bunch (http://professionalvmware.com/) \u2013 The Brownbags are genius. I mean that. Of all the podcast/videocasts/whatever-casts that are out there, none is as practical, applies to as many people or as well executed (even if he does use GoToMeeting) as Cody\u2019s. It doesn\u2019t hurt that the rest of the non-Brownbag content is solid as well, and it really establishes Cody as one of the few \u201cindependents\u201d that I read regularly.\n#3 \u2013 Simon Seagrave \u2013 (http://www.techhead.co.uk/) \u2013 It\u2019s possible, although unlikely, that Simon\u2019s creation of vBeers would have gotten him on my list regardless. Of course, there\u2019s way more than that. Way, way more. Simon\u2019s blog has so much content, that the lack of a good archive page is almost a benefit: it keeps you from spending too much time browsing. One of the first people in the home vSphere lab discussion, Simon is also a great resource for that topic as well, and one of the people I leaned on most where building out my own lab.\n#2 \u2013 Eric Sloof (http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/) \u2013 It seems like almost every time I need to do a Google search for something regarding virtualization, Eric\u2019s blog comes up. With some of the best videos and walkthroughs in the business, this is another site that you can spend way too much time on. It\u2019s obvious that Eric has deep knowledge of the VMware space, but he also does an excellent job of communicating that knowledge to people.\n#1 \u2013 Chad Sakac (http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/) \u2013 It was hard getting my top 10 selected, it was not hard to figure out where Chad needed to be on the list. I don\u2019t know where he finds the time to write, nor how he finds the time to stay in the weeds of the technology up to his elbows, but he consistently drops posts that are unique, timely and incredibly valuable. If you are interested in the storage and virtualization technology ecosystems at all, Chad is the place where you hear about the direction the biggest players are headed first. His excitement for his job and the tech comes through loud and clear, and I can\u2019t wait to see what he comes out with in 2012.\nDuncan Epping (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/)\nWilliam Lam (http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/)\nTommy Trogden (http://vtexan.com/)\nJosh Atwell (http://www.vtesseract.com/)\nClint Kitson (http://velemental.com/)\nMatt Brender (http://itechthereforeiam.com/)\nJay Cuthrell (http://fudge.org/)\nThere are so many (SO MANY) smart, talented, community-minded people out there, I\u2019m sure I forgot someone. If so, and if you are that person I forgot, please accept my humblest apologies, and I promise to pick up the tab next time we are in the same place. The thought that there are people out there who look at me the same way I look at the people I\u2019ve listed above, and the realization that I WANT people to look to me that way, are what drives me to be more, and try harder. Thank you all, and go vote!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 12241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jfrohrbaugh.com/industry-standards/how-to-choose-the-pallet-size-right-for-your-industry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:47Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCJRBWV5FLSH3YLKFA2A4CI3C4Y4WQAZ", "length": 2392, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jfrohrbaugh.com", "title": "How to Choose the Pallet Size Right For Your Industry - J. F. Rohrbaugh", "raw_content": "The size of pallets differs from industry to industry. Some, such as the grocery industry, use a standard size. Others may favor a certain pallet size, but lack an industry wide standard, as is the case with the printing industry.\nIndustry Standards and Commonly Used Sizes\nThe grocery industry is the largest consumer of pallets in the United States. It\u2019s most common footprint is the 48\u201d x 40\u201d pallet. It uses both stringer and block pallets to meet specific end user requirements. The stringer pallet loosely follows the GMA (Grocery Manufacturers Association) standard. It is 48 x 40\u201d and has partial four-way entry. The block pallet typically follows the standard of the pallet rental companies. It is also 48 x 40\u201d and has full four-way entry. Packaging, palletizing, warehousing and transportation are set up to utilize pallets of this size. Conformity with the industry enables the movement of goods between manufacturers, distribution centers and storefronts.\nThe chemical industry has several pallet size standards, which are labeled CP-1 through CP-9, which were established by the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe. In North America, the chemical industry most frequently uses CP-1, 2, 3, 6, 8, and 9. The pallet type selected depends in large part on whether the initial product is packed in drums, super sacks, boxes or bags.\nTwo other industries with common pallet sizes are the printing industry and the roofing industry. The printing industry typically uses 40\u2033 x 48\u2033 stringer pallets, although printing companies will use other sizes as well. The same goes for the roofing industry. The typical size is 37\u2033 x 37\u2033, but there is pallet size flexibility depending on the specifics of the unit load, palletizer and storage requirements.\nConsiderations When Choosing a Pallet Size\nDepending on the industry, there may be pallet-sizing standards that must be strictly adhered to. Most industries, however, have some amount of flexibility in this area. The pallet size that works most effectively will not only depend upon these standards, but also upon the specifics of the unit load. The way that the palletizer interfaces with the pallets, as well as the intended method of storage should all be considered when selecting pallet size. These variables can be readily analyzed by the Pallet Design System to come up with the optimal pallet size for the intended use.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jobs.impactbusinessgroup.com/jb/Advanced-Product-Development-Engineer-Jobs-in-Michigan-Battle-Creek/4288838", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:MO6WPI57CCGB6V2KBWL47EWIO5J2SSCD", "length": 3060, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "jobs.impactbusinessgroup.com", "title": "Advanced Product Development Engineer Job in Grand Rapids Michigan, Battle Creek | Engineering", "raw_content": "Michigan, Battle Creek\nOur client, a manufacturing company in the Battle Creek, MI area, is currently looking for a Product Development Engineer to join their team.\nProvides project leadership, mentoring, and training for new or junior-level employees on design and development processes, software, procedures, specifications, etc.\nReviews and reports on engineering metrics and/or test results through engineering reports and written correspondence to ensure timely and effective communication with supervisors and peers.\nKeeps informed of state-of-the-art technology, designs and develops new products and processes and improves existing products and processes.\nSupports the implementation of design changes to improve quality, performance, cost reduction, and standardization through analysis of designs and problem solving techniques.\nDirectly interacts with the customer to communicate the project status and adjust based on customer feedback.\nUnderstands design, development, and failure analysis through the use of DFMEA, customer returns, or specific development projects.\nApplies fundamental engineering practices and decision making for problem solving.\nAvailable to travel to the customer within-the-hour should the need arise whether related to an product or to aid in the troubleshooting process for the related system.\nProvides guidance to engineering personnel throughout the division in a specific field of technology and makes presentations to internal and external customers on programs or products as required.\nProvides technical expertise that may include supporting field failure analysis, developing recommended corrective actions, and providing necessary reports as well as training in areas of expertise. Has experience with change management, Supply chain processes.\nActively pursues knowledge in the process for design changes to improve quality, performance, cost reduction, and standardization through analysis of designs and problem solving techniques.\nSuggests alternative methodologies or techniques to achieving desired results.\nUnderstands the engineering methodologies within the division as well as other departments and their relationship to engineering.\nParticipates in providing the creation, implementation and administration of departmental policies, procedures, and work instructions in order to build and promote a team environment for product introduction, development and support activities.\nConceives and writes patent disclosures to substantiate patent applications and accumulates the necessary documentation.\nComplies with requirements of the Quality and Environmental Management Systems.\nBachelors of Science Degree in Engineering\n5+ years of experience of product development experience.\nAutomotive industry experience is required.\nStrong analytical skills with system modeling/simulation experience.\nStrong ethics, values and the ability to influence and impact others decision making.\nAbility to deal with ambiguity and make decisions.\nAbility to manage multiple programs, set priorities and achieve results.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/6693443/male-community-support-worker-/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:59Z", "digest": "sha1:YSMYEP3OPPTIT3WHBVEJOSLCQOISN4TK", "length": 1681, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "jobs.theguardian.com", "title": "Male Community Support Worker job with CREATIVE SUPPORT | Guardian Jobs", "raw_content": "Male Community Support Worker\nWe need highly motivated people who are looking for a new and exciting opportunity to work with individuals with learning disabilities in their own homes in Stockport.\nYou will be kind, attentive and responsive to individual needs and preferences. You will have a passion for promoting active involvement whilst offering respect and unconditional positive regard for the people you support. You will work creatively to promote community links, confidence and independence in daily living and have an empathetic and solution focused approach. You will demonstrate the ability to work flexibly and autonomously to efficiently manage a fluid caseload.\nAlthough previous experience is not essential, you will demonstrate the values that are essential for a role of this nature such as warmth, compassion and unconditional positive regard. You will also demonstrate an understanding of the important elements of supporting people with learning disabilities and mental health needs as well as having analytical and problem solving skills that are essential to managing your own caseload in the community.\nWe welcome applications from graduates, people with life skills and people with social care experience. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our dedicated community support team; you will receive a full local and corporate induction and access to nationally recognised qualifications, including access to the level 3 diploma in health and social care. 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The virus travels from the wound to the brain, where it causes swelling, or inflammation. This inflammation leads to symptoms of the disease. Most rabies deaths occur in children (taken from PubMed Health).\nAlmost all of the Rabies cases in humans are caused by a dog bite. The dog can even spread the sickness without showing any signs of being infected. Unfortunately, the sickness is fatal almost EVERY time.\nThe symptoms start to manifest itself from one to four months since being bitten by a rabbit animal. The wound will start to feel tender to the touch and painful in and around the area. These signs spread and soon the person will experience difficulty to swallow, breathe and speak. The symptoms will eventually worsen to even more frightening situations like muscular convulsions and mental insanity. Later the patient will become depressive, fatigued, unconscious and finally, die.\nChanges in a rabbit dog\nThe dog\u2019s personality changes dramatically. He might become over-friendly seeking attention or become violent and territorial, and his barking will become hoarser. In some cases paralysis may set in, starting with the lower jaw, then the hind legs, then its entire body. Many people have been bitten by a dog with a paralyzed lower jaw by thinking a bone might be stuck in its throat, and then try to help the animal. Some dogs show an unstoppable urge to run away, snapping at everything in its path. After a while though, he will eventually fall, overcome with paralysis. His retinas will enlarge to such an extent that he will be unable to see properly. Any dog showing severe abnormal behavior should be chained and observed very carefully for at least two weeks to establish whether the dog might have been infected by stray dogs etc.\nHow to care for a person infected with Rabies\nIf a person is bitten by a rabbit dog or any other animal, it should be reported to a health care professional in the region. They can send out warnings about the animal. Take the person to a hospital to get the wound properly disinfected and treated as soon as possible.\nIf the animal ran away after attacking the person without being caught (to determine if it were infected), the Patient should receive the Pasteur treatment. Studies have shown that only one third of people who have been bitten by a rabbit animal and who received the Pasteur treatment, were infected with Rabies.\nIf the animal could be caught, and has been under observation for 2 weeks without showing any signs of Rabies, the Pasteur treatment might be stopped.\nIf the symptoms of Rabies start to manifest itself in the patient, no treatment will be able to save his life; he should be taken to hospital where they can retain the unfortunate violent convulsions and insanity with tranquilizers and pain killers. This will lessen the suffering to a certain extent.\nGet vaccinated for the disease once every four years to prevent such an untimely death. This will help you prevent illness from any dog-bite. Please.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kamu.uef.fi/en/?s=freemover-en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:34Z", "digest": "sha1:XUIQAE436KC4UOGAVF4HDME7H5I2TY7U", "length": 512, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kamu.uef.fi", "title": "You searched for freemover-en - UEF Kamu", "raw_content": "Search results: freemover-en\nIndependently abroad [page]\nYou can also apply for exchange studies outside exchange programmes, with a freemover or visiting student status. 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As a freemover, you take care of the\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 6473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kappasport.photoshelter.com/image/I0000UJTPXjuqi2A", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4CDIHSBVXT2HSKRKDRGI3FXJRYWTRLQ2", "length": 283, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kappasport.photoshelter.com", "title": "Kappa_Nat_BraT_BarAFC_MC_12092015_151.jpg | Kappa Sport Pictures", "raw_content": "Simeon Akinola Fires in Braintree Town Goal and Celebrates, Braintree Town v Barrow AFC, Avanti Stadium Braintree, Vanarama National League, Saturday, 12th September 2015. Braintree Town v Barrow AFC, Avanti Stadium Braintree, Vanarama National League, Saturday, 12th September 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://katherinebouton.com/2017/03/27/hows-your-hearing-maybe-not-as-good-as-you-think/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NNYUWRCE2YE4NHNWUBVALHK6FNLHODPS", "length": 5990, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "katherinebouton.com", "title": "How\u2019s Your Hearing? Maybe Not as Good as You Think. | Katherine Bouton", "raw_content": "HomeHow\u2019s Your Hearing? Maybe Not as Good as You Think.\nHow\u2019s Your Hearing? Maybe Not as Good as You Think.\nMarch 27, 2017 May 9, 2017 Katherine Bouton #HLAA., Healthy Hearing, noise-related hearing loss\nGetty Images/Canopy\nIf you think your hearing is fine, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should make you think again. One in 4 people ages 20 to 69 who reported that their hearing was good to excellent were found to have hearing damage.\nThis kind of \u201chidden hearing loss\u201d doesn\u2019t show up on standard hearing tests but can make it difficult to impossible to hear conversation in a noisy setting.\nThe CDC analyzed more than 3,500 hearing tests conducted by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NNANES) in 2011 and 2012. It found that 20 percent of people who thought they could hear well and who said they didn\u2019t work in a noisy environment nevertheless had hearing loss \u2014 some of them in their 20s. The type of loss they had, including a drop in the ability to hear high-pitched noise, indicated that noise damage may be to blame.\nEven more surprising, more than half of the 40 million adults who have noise-related hearing damage developed it away from the workplace, from exposure to noisy rock concerts, sporting events, leaf blowers, traffic and other sources, the CDC reported.\nAdding to the problem, 70 percent of people exposed to loud noise never or seldom wear hearing protection.\nAlthough noise exposure in the workplace is well documented as a cause of hearing loss (the danger level is set at eight hours at more at 85 decibels, equivalent to the sound of heavy city traffic), the proportion of people with this kind of loss who don\u2019t have a noisy workplace is an indication of how loud our everyday world is.\nThe understanding that some hearing loss is hidden and doesn\u2019t show up on standard hearing tests is relatively recent, the Associated Press recently reported. The loss, Harvard otolaryngology researcher M. Charles Liberman explained, may be caused by loud noise that damages the connections between hair cells in the inner ear and the nerves that carry the hearing signal to the brain.\nYou can test how well you understand speech in a noisy environment using a special online exercise prepared for the Associated Press in conjunction with the Mailman Center for Child Development at the University of Miami.\nTo take the test, click here. You will be asked to repeat a series of sentences. The exercise begins in quiet, but then slowly introduces background noise. The noise comes in six levels, faint at first but eventually louder than the words. People with hearing loss will start to have some trouble understanding the words at the second or third level, the AP reported.\nWhat both the CDC report and the recent research into hidden hearing loss indicate is that people need to be aware of the noise they are exposing themselves to, and wear earplugs or noise-canceling headphones to protect their hearing. Keep the volume down, whether it\u2019s while watching TV or listening to music or other programs through earbuds. The Hearing Loss Association of America offers more information on the CDC report, on its website. You can also go to the CDC website.\nHearing loss is no mere nuisance. As the CDC report noted, \u201cContinual exposure to noise can cause stress, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, heart disease, and many other health problems.\u201d\nUpdate (May 9, 2017): For more on this, read the May issue of Hearing Journal: Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: What Your Patients Don\u2019t Know Can Hurt Them.\nThis post first appeared on AARP Health on March 22, 2017.\n\u2190 Hearing Loss Won\u2019t Kill You, or Will It?\nCCAC Offers Grants for Captioning. \u2192\n4 thoughts on \u201cHow\u2019s Your Hearing? Maybe Not as Good as You Think.\u201d\nHearing loss is a severe disability and I find that people with hearing loss are not given the same accommodations as those with disabilities that are visible. People who use American Sign Language as their first language are given the same considerations as those with visible disabilities. Sign language is a visible language. Students with hearing loss who are not aware of CART (Communication Accessible Realtime Translation) are at a disadvantage when they enter college. Seniors with hearing loss are at an extreme disadvantage because their hearing loss in many cases leads to dementia.\nVery interesting. i wish more people would read this. Having experienced sudden hearing loss, that has left me deaf in my left ear, I can\u2019t emphasize enough how much of a disability hearing loss can be. I am now facing so many challenges in everyday life, and as Hermine wrote, it is an invisible disability \u2013 others can\u2019t see how I am struggling sometimes. There was no known cause for my hearing loss (well, so far they haven\u2019t found one), but I would urge everyone to take care of the hearing they have. it is such an important sense that helps us make sense of and gain enjoyment from everyday situations. Without hearing, life can be difficult. Great post \u2013 thank you for sharing. Carly\nThanks for this comment. All of us with hearing loss have to be as open as we can about it, to ask for accommodations, to ask people to speak more slowly or more clearly and explain why \u2014 And then maybe hearing loss will stop being so hidden. I also think that any measure that makes hearing aids more accessible (cheaper, easier to use, easier to find, guarantee of quality even if not paying top dollar) will also help make hearing loss a visible disability. My next column is on a study of hearing aid efficacy \u2014 they do work, and so do cheaper hearing-aid like devices, especially with a good audiologist\u2019s help. It should be up in a week or two. Has to post on AARP first.\nHello Katherine. yes, I agree, we need to make people aware of our hearing problems \u2013 otherwise, how can we expect them to understand or to be able to communicate effectively with us. I will look out for your next post. Take care. 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Health may be defined as the ability to adapt and manage physical, mental and social challenges throughout life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 25.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kelseyhamlin.com/2018/03/19/in-seattle-domestic-workers-dont-have-the-same-protections-as-others-but-that-could-change/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:49Z", "digest": "sha1:EPI4MAUTUWTXEGO27SIXW6OEXHCIM74W", "length": 9358, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "kelseyhamlin.com", "title": "In Seattle, domestic workers don\u2019t have the same protections as others\u2014but that could change \u2013 Kelsey Hamlin | Communications", "raw_content": "Domestic workers, some members of Working Washington, SEIU 775, or Casa Latina, set up tiny house displays outside City Hall made from gloves and diapers. Photo by Kelsey Hamlin\nIn a study of 174 Seattle-area caretakers, house cleaners, and gardeners, local labor rights organization Working Washington found that local domestic workers are presented with similar struggles to those in other states and countries: They perform a high-risk job with few workplace protections.\n85 percent of Seattle domestic workers, according to the study, would not be covered for an on-the-job injury. 54 percent don\u2019t have health insurance\u2014and only 6 percent get it from their employers. Domestic workers, including those in Seattle, are often at a higher risk for workplace violations, like sexual harassment and wage theft.\nVia Curbed \u2013 Seattle\nIn an attempt to inspire the Seattle City Council to draft legislation instilling on-the-job protections\u2014referred to as a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights\u2014several groups and domestic workers built mini-houses on the steps of City Hall on Thursday, using gloves and diapers. Each diaper stood for one nanny in the Seattle area (approximately 8,000), and each glove-finger stood for each house cleaner (approximately 7,000). All diapers were later donated to Westside Baby, a social service agency in West King County that collects, inspects and distributes free diapers, clothing, cribs and safety gear for babies and children.\nDomestic workers comprise of house cleaners, home care for the old and young, gardeners, nannies, and cooks. 70 percent of domestic workers work directly for private households, sometimes paid in cash, rather than agencies.\nFollowing the demonstration, ralliers climbed City Hall\u2019s steps to speak with the Seattle City Council Housing, Health, Energy and Workers\u2019 Rights Committee about their experiences in the hopes of creating a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights ordinance joined by advocacy groups: SEIU 775, a union of long-term care workers; Casa Latina, which advocates, among other things, for the rights of Latinx workers; and Working Washington.\nEtelbina Hauser, who has been a house cleaner and in-home caregiver for 17 years, told a story of the time her male employer called out from the bathroom asking that she replenish the toilet paper while she was working. It was an odd request, but Hauser went to do it anyway. When she arrived with toilet paper, Hauser said, she found her male employer inside masturbating and smiling at her. Hauser said she later called his wife to say what happened and to quit. According to Hauser, the wife didn\u2019t believe her, and refused to pay Hauser her remaining wages of $250.\nHauser fought back tears as she recounted her story in Spanish for the committee, adding that this story was only one of three sexual harassment incidents that occured during her first three weeks on the job.\nOver two thirds of the domestic workers that Working Washington surveyed said they have never raised concerns with employers. Of those who have, 16 percent faced termination or retaliation for speaking up, like Hauser did.\nWage theft can persist in these industries partly because many domestic workers work under the table, or don\u2019t have written contracts with their employers. More than half of those surveyed by Working Washington don\u2019t have contracts. For domestic workers of color, that number jumps to 88 percent without contracts.\nBut having a contract doesn\u2019t guarantee it\u2019s followed. Michelle Manney said she had a nannying contract with a previous employer, a family, who repeatedly disregarded the agreements over the course of a few months last fall. Manney said that she reminded her employer weekly of needing tax paperwork, but nothing was done. The family also expected Manney to clean the home during vacations and take care of their father\u2014even though Manney was not a certified homecare worker. All of this work was not listed in the contract.\n\u201cNot all nanny employers are this scary,\u201d Manney wrote for the committee, \u201cbut that shouldn\u2019t happen in our field.\u201d\nWhen Adelaida Blanco immigrated to the U.S. in 2004, she first worked as a cleaner. She described the work as physically demanding because it required long hours on her feet, hands, and knees as well as heavy lifting, like moving tables. One day as Blanco worked, she felt pain. A doctor later informed Blanco she was in the midst of a high-risk pregnancy and shouldn\u2019t lift heavy things. Blanco said she alerted her employers but got no time off, and wasn\u2019t offered an alternative. In part, Blanco said, she felt she had to prepare for the coming child, working to save money. Blanco then obtained a back injury during this time, putting her pregnancy at a higher risk for complications. But Blanco went right back to work after her unpaid leave, recovering from her on-the-job injury. Now, she said, she\u2019s learning this type of treatment isn\u2019t okay.\n\u201cI\u2019m raising my voice as a black domestic worker,\u201d Blanco said.\nThe majority of domestic workers\u2014an estimated 95 percent, according to the American Community Survey\u2014are women. The Pew Research Center found in 2014 that 45 percent of domestic workers in the U.S. are immigrants, both documented and undocumented. Many speak a different language at home. These factors uniquely position domestic workers at a higher risk of harassment, workplace misconduct and violations, discrimination, and abuse. Working Washington\u2019s survey found a stark wage disparity between white domestic workers and domestic workers of color.\nCourtesy of Working Washington\nCaitlyn Heermans has been a nanny for nine years, most recently on Seattle\u2019s Capitol Hill. Though she has a good experience under her employers now, she didn\u2019t always.\n\u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve learned to ask for things, and avoid the things that put me at risk for being taken advantage of,\u201d she said. \u201cBut that took time.\u201d\nHistorically, domestic workers have been excluded from labor laws that offer protection to the everyday worker. The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), established in 1935 to protect workers\u2019 rights to organize, strike, unionized and collectively bargain, came to fruition right when women began to infiltrate a workforce left unfilled during the start of World War II. But the NLRA explicitly excluded domestic and agricultural workers.\nThe Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), regarding wages and overtime, came a few years later in 1938. It also excluded domestic workers. A 1974 amendment to the FLSA extended protections to some domestic workers but largely excluded the home-care industry. The Department of Labor narrowed these exclusions only two years ago. Now, only casual and live-in domestic workers remain unprotected.\nThe lasting ramifications from these exclusions were detailed in the stories heard by the committee: In many cases, domestic workers can be fired for organizing, have limited ability to form federally recognized unions, have fewer legal rights to bargain for better wages or working conditions than in other industries, and have limited legal workplace recourse in court.\nIn Washington state specifically, private households with fewer than two full-time employees don\u2019t have to provide workers\u2019 compensation, which allows incidents like Blanco\u2019s to persist. This year\u2019s new state-required paid sick leave also excludes casual labor and live-in workers. Many domestic employers hire only one person, limiting their legal obligation.\nTy Messiah, a domestic worker, once nannied for a family that she said didn\u2019t pay her the full amount of hours she worked. She said she had no sick leave and no insurance. Now, she said, she works for a different family with more benefits.\n\u201cI was really lacking the rights I deserve as a worker here in Washington,\u201d Messiah said. \u201cI cared so much about these kids and their family and everything, but it didn\u2019t seem they cared at all.\u201d\nThe committee members\u2014city councilors Debora Juarez, Lorena Gonzalez, Sally Bagshaw and Teresa Mosqueda\u2014listened to the stories told in committee, although the meeting was a preliminary hearing before any proposals or legislation would even begin.\nWorking Washington hopes that Seattle will emulate the likes of other municipalities who have implemented domestic worker protection laws. States with domestic worker protection laws on the books include New York, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Oregon, Nevada, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.\nMassachusetts\u2019s Domestic Workers\u2019 Bill of Rights was challenged in court, was appealed by their attorney general, and was eventually upheld last August, setting a potential precedent of particular interest to workers, activists, and politicians. The provided protections include minimum wage, overtime, workers compensation, unpaid maternity leave, payment for all time worked, and contracts.\nIn Seattle, the eventual passage of a similar law looks promising.\n\u201cYour work makes it possible for the city to work,\u201d said councilor Mosqueda to the gathered domestic workers. Mosqueda previously worked at the Washington State Labor Council, mostly with immigrants, and said she saw many familiar faces at the rally. \u201cIf you\u2019re going to care for us, we\u2019re going to care for you.\u201d\nPrevious One Year After First Proposal, Micro Business Owners Weigh Impact of Sugar Tax\nNext One Young South End Musician out to Change The Game: Theomatic", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 11326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kfyo.com/jodey-arrington-bank-bailouts-were-wrong-decision-interview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5QZUM2LSFIMLFXDFMAXQNKDA5JJDDWGT", "length": 1002, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kfyo.com", "title": "Jodey Arrington - Bank Bailouts Were Wrong Decision", "raw_content": "Jodey Arrington: Bank Bailouts Were Wrong Decision [INTERVIEW]\nOn Friday's Chad Hasty Show, District 19 candidate Jodey Arrington joined the broadcast in the KFYO studio to talk about his campaign and issues important in the race.\nArrington and Hasty discussed many topics, among them insurance and banking, term limits and the growth of the federal government.\nHasty asked Arrington about his stand on the bank and Wall Street bailouts of 2008 and whether or not he would vote to support similar actions.\n\"First of all, we shouldn't have bailed them out... [Banks and businesses] should have absorbed that pain,\" Arrington said. \"I know the workout would have been longer on our economy, I understand that. And I understand the other side of systemic risk. But I think moral hazard, and [repeating] the same mistakes, is far greater, in the long-term, than short-term systemic risk. So I think they made the wrong decision.\"\nMore information about Jodey Arrington is available on his official website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://khantisblogonline.wordpress.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XDCW5FGCGF4COMAXZN4FNURFS6ZMFMP6", "length": 14485, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "khantisblogonline.wordpress.com", "title": "Khantisblog \u2013 khantis", "raw_content": "Khantisblog\nkhantis\n2019: It\u2019s Official! Atiku To Face Buhari\nIt is official! Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate who will attempt to snatch the presidency from Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in February 2019.\nAtiku becomes the PDP candidate after emerging winner, against all odds, of the PDP presidential primary election that began on Saturday and ended moments ago at the Adokiye Amasiemeka Stadium in Port Harcourt, capital of Rivers State\nAminu Tambuwal, Governor of Sokoto State and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, had been the favourite to win the election, having earned the support of Nyesom Wike, Governor of Rivers State, who is currently the party\u2019s biggest financier.\nHowever, Atiku won overwhelmingly, polling 1,532 votes to condemn Tambuwal to second place with his 693 votes.\nAtiku now gets his fifth shot at the presidency, having aspired for the office every election cycle since leaving office as Vice President in 2003.\nCBN Speaks Over Nigeria\u2019s $44bn Foreign Reserves (See Details)\nThe Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has allayed worries over the fluctuation in Nigeria\u2019s external reserves.\nIt assured that with its current level at over $44 billion, there is no cause for alarm.\nSpeaking yesterday during CBN\u2019s special day at the ongoing 13th Abuja International Trade Fair, the apex bank\u2019s Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Isaac Okoroafor, said not only does the CBN have the reserves to defend the naira, it is also sufficient to encourage small businesses to produce to boost the economy.\nHe added that the country\u2019s current reserves level could support between 17 to 20 months of import compared to the international standard, which stipulated for at least three months of import to remain at a comfortable level.\nHe further assured that the bank will continue to ensure that finance is provided for all Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) which may require support to be able to produce and grow the economy.\n\u201cI also want to make it clear: it\u2019s also on social media that our reserves dropped by $1.45 billion in one month.\n\u201cWe are not politicians, I want you to understand that the reserves level is a moving figure; at times, it rises and other times, it comes down. And as we speak, it\u2019s a little over $44bn.\u201d\nGiving reasons for the fluctuation in external reserves, Okoroafor said, \u201cYou\u2019ll recall that there was a time we survived on even $23.2 billion; the economy was running.\n\u201cNow, we are over $44 billion and the reason why it is going down gently is because there\u2019s a global squeeze on emerging markets: the Central Bank of the USA which is the FED had been raising interest rate and you know international capital goes to where it earns better returns.\n\u201cSo, those who came into our economy to take advantage of the returns here seems to have found better returns in the US- and it\u2019s not just in Nigeria- it\u2019s happening to South Africa, Egypt, Pakistan, Iran, Argentina, Brazil, Turkey even China.\n\u201cChina has lost over 1.3 per cent of its currency, Argentina lost 134 per cent; Iran, India, some of them lost 18 percent, 17 percent- but here in Nigeria, our currency has gained 6 percent in the last one year.\n\u201cYou can see that the reversal of capital flows which is eating most economies and bringing about depreciation in their currency is not affecting us for two reasons- we\u2019ve built enough buffers of reserves to be able to tackle situations like these.\n\u201cSecondly, we are using the reserves to defend the value of our currency- so that also accounts for why it\u2019s dropping.\n\u201cInvestors who brought in dollars- of course, we\u2019ve a capital importation policy- if you bring your dollars, when you\u2019re leaving, we give it to you. And so they brought their dollars and they want to leave to the US, we give them because our word is our bond and so that has tended to make the reserves drop a little.\n\u201cAt $44 billion, we still have between 17 and 18 months of import cover, meanwhile, the international standard is three months of import cover.\n\u201cWe are very comfortable- we have the reserves to defend the value of the naira, and we have the local support to also encourage our SMEs to go into production.\u201d\nThe CBN director also seized the opportunity to counsel the trade fair participants on how best they could access the various interventions by the bank.\n\u201cUnfortunately, we cannot do it (the financial interventions) directly, we\u2019ve to do it through banks.\n\u201cAnd that\u2019s why we say again, people who engage in business should open an account with a bank, run that account and demonstrate that you are in business.\n\u201cOnce you keep your record and you show evidence that you are in business, banks will always give you loans.\n\u201cBut in a situation where people do not keep records, and there\u2019s no difference between the money in their pocket ad their working capital, it\u2019ll be difficult for banks to be able to do an examination and given you loan.\u201d\nLiverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said his side could only blame themselves after the last year\u2019s Champions League runners-up were overrun by Napoli before Lorenzo Insigne\u2019s late winner gave the Italians a 1-0 win to go top of Group C on Wednesday.\n\u201cWe were not good enough and if you are not good enough, you\u2019ll lose and that happened to us tonight. That\u2019s it,\u201d said Klopp.\n\u201cNapoli made a really good game, we didn\u2019t, and that\u2019s why they deserve the three points.\u201d\nLorenzo Insigne scored after 90 minutes in a game Napoli dominated from the start with substitute Dries Mertens also rattling the crossbar.\nThe hosts had the better chances throughout as Insigne, Jose Callejon, Fabian Ruiz and Arkadiusz Milik all threatened under-pressure Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson.\nNapoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis \u2014 who hired three-time Champions League winning coach Carlo Ancelotti this season in place of Maurizio Sarri \u2014 hailed the success at their Stadio San Paolo.\n\u201cBig win against a great team! Ancelotti worthy of his fame,\u201d wrote De Laurentiis on Twitter.\nLast season Napoli\u2019s style of football under Sarri impressed against Manchester City but the team lost 4-2 at home before exiting the competition in the group stage.\nInsigne\u2019s winner ensures they are top of Group C with four points, one more than Liverpool and Paris Saint-Germain.\n\u201cI think we timed it well,\u201d said former Chelsea and Real Madrid coach Ancelotti.\n\u201cIf Mertens had scored a few minutes earlier, it would\u2019ve been more time suffering.\n\u201cWe interpreted the game well. We had an extra central defender and were able to build the game from the back. There was a perfect balance.\u201d\nNapoli needed a win on Wednesday after their opening match ended 0-0 at Red Star Belgrade.\nLiverpool, meanwhile, played as if they would settle for a point after they beat Paris Saint-Germain 3-2.\nThe Reds\u2019 strike force of Roberto Firmino, Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane were a shadow of the trio who terrorised Europe last season, with Napoli goalkeeper David Ospina not called upon for a single save.\nLiverpool\u2019s best effort came when Egyptian Salah shot wide after the break.\n\u201cIt\u2019s always a bad sign if you have to say your goalkeeper was your best player, but that was obvious tonight,\u201d said Klopp.\n\u201cThe first half was kind of OK, but second half was not good enough.\n\u201cObviously no attempt on target (for us) \u2026 I don\u2019t remember when that happened last. I am really fine to give the credit to Napoli, but I think we had a big part in it as well.\u201d\n\u2013 \u2018Reality check\u2019 \u2013\nLiverpool were also handicapped by an injury to Guinean midfielder Naby Keita inside the first 20 minutes.\n\u201cWe had prepared the match well,\u201d said Ancelotti, \u201cthen it\u2019s all about the performance and the guys played it well and we were rewarded with this victory that keeps us in the group.\n\u201cThe team did well throughout the game, we never lost control, were always very focused, above all when defending and allowed Liverpool practically nothing.\u201d\nLiverpool\u2019s Dutch midfielder Georginio Wijnaldum said it was a \u201creality check\u201d before next Sunday\u2019s Premier League top-of-the-table clash with Manchester City.\n\u201cWe have three days to recover and then we will face Man City,\u201d added German Klopp.\n\u201cIt would have been difficult at any time in the season. Now, let\u2019s have a look afterwards, how the players are, what happened in the game, injury-wise, little knocks and stuff like that. Then we will prepare for Sunday.\n\u201cThen we have our crowd in the back. You could see tonight, Napoli used the atmosphere and we couldn\u2019t calm it down with our performance.\n\u201cBut on Sunday that \u2013- at least \u2014 will be 100 percent different.\u201d\nBoko Haram: UN to visit Maiduguri, others in October -Minister\nForeign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, has said a United Nations joint delegation will visit Maiduguri, Bama and Abuja first week of October, to scale up its humanitarian intervention in the terrorism-affected areas.\nOnyeama said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria after a meeting with the UN team leaders on the sidelines of the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York.\nThe minister said that the team would be led by the UNDP Administrator, Mr Achim Steiner and UN Emergency Relief Coordinator and Head of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Mr Mark Lowcock.\nHe said that the joint UN Development Programme Principal-level mission was part of the world ogranisation\u2019s efforts to support the victims of Boko Haram insurgency in the region.\nOnyeama said that the visit was a sequel to the High-Level Conference on the Lake Chad Basin Crisis in Berlin in September, where the international community committed to a comprehensive crisis response in the region.\nOnyeama said that the visit was aimed at discussing with senior government and donor officials in Nigeria on how to further strengthen humanitarian and development responses, including national and local ownership in the northeast.\n\u201cWe are looking essentially on how to build on the humanitarian programme and the UN has been very involved and supportive on the humanitarian front in the northeast\n\u201cWe realised that we have to move towards the development stage. They also want to hear from the Nigerian government.\n\u201cAnd of course, it is about the reconstruction, rehabilitation and resettlement; it is about creating an environment for economic growth which will require education and also jobs,\u201d he said.\nThe UN had said in a statement that the objectives of the joint UNDP-OCHA Principal-level mission, was to address humanitarian, resilience and stabilisation needs of communities to prevent a protracted crisis in the northeast.\n\u201cThe urgency to make progress on the New Way of Working by the UN Country Team and the Humanitarian Country Teams has been amplified by large-scale humanitarian needs and the related imperative to address the root causes of the Lake Chad Basin crises in a comprehensive and sustainable way.\n\u201cAccordingly, the Nigeria UNCT/HCTs are jointly working on formulating collective outcomes which will guide planning and interventions of humanitarian and development actors,\u201c he said.\nLagos APC Primary: Voting Yet to Commence, Says Ebri, NWC Panel Chief\nUrges Lagosians to disregard results in circulation\nBy Gboyega Akinsanmi\nThe Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Lagos Governorship Electoral panel, Chief Clement Ebri, has urged the people of the state to disregard results of governorship primary posted on social media, adding that voting has yet to commence.\nThe panel from the national headquarters, which dissociated itself from the primary conducted by the state chapter of the APC in all the wards across the state on Tuesday, said the distribution of electoral materials was billed to commence at 1pm, which would be followed by accreditation.\nThe panel said this would be followed by voting which will be conducted by the APC NWC appointed officials, in order to ensure a free, fair and credible primary.\nTuesday\u2019s primary is between the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, and Mr. Jide Sanwo-Olu, who has been endorsed by the leadership of the party in the state, including its national leader, Bola Tinubu.\nLabour may suspend minimum wage strike today\nThere are indications that the warning strike called by organized labour to compel government to resume the suspended negotiations on the new national minimum wage will be suspended today (Sunday)\nIt was gathered that the decision to suspend the strike may not be unconnected with the intervention of the Presidency through the office of the Chief of Staff to the President.\nThe Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari was said to have assured a delegation led by President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Ayuba Wabba to the presidential Villa that the President will address the concerns of labour upon his return to the country from the United Nations General Assembly.\nWith the assurance, Kyrai appealed to labour movement to suspend the strike immediately.\nReassuring as the outcome of the discussion with Kyari appeared to the labour delegation, Wabba stressed that the decision to suspend the action was not entirely in that of the National Administrative Council (NAC), but other organs of both NLC and Trade Union Congress (TUC).\nThe various organs of organised labour are said yo have met to review the government position and may have decided to suspend the action.\nMinister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige had said the tripathite Committee will resume sitting on Thursday October 4 to conclude it\u2019s assignment.\nHere\u2019s How Aisha Alhassan announced she has Joined UDP\nThe former Minister of Women Affairs, Aisha Alhassan, has joined the United Democratic Party (UDP).\nAlhassan, who withdrew from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and resigned from her post as minister on Saturday, shared the news on her Twitter.\nShe\u2019s joining the UDP with 7 State Assembly members, she shared, adding that all APC executives from 169 wards of Taraba State, all 16 local Government excos of APC, and all states executives of APC have also joined the party.\n\u201cI have officially JOINED my next POLITICAL PARTY with 7 state Assembly Members, all @APCNigeria executives from 169 wards of Taraba State.\nAll 16 local Government exco\u2019s of APC\nAll states executives of APC, we are now in UDP\u201d\n\u2014 @Sen. Jummai Alhassan (@SenAishaAlhassn)\nAlhassan was disqualified from contesting in the Taraba state gubernatorial primaries under the APC in what the party chairman has said was as a result of loyalty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 15691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/Joseph-Cook/608936", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:40Z", "digest": "sha1:OUYVN5532HLWYQQVB63TS36SMDFQVPWI", "length": 1557, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "kids.britannica.com", "title": "Joseph Cook - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help", "raw_content": "Joseph Cook was an early prime minister of Australia. Cook was prime minister when Australia\u2019s first naval fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour in October 1913.\nCook was born on December 7, 1860, in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England. His father was a coal miner who died in a pit accident in 1873. Cook then had to earn money for his family, first in the coal mines and then as a railway worker. He did not have much formal schooling, but he studied at home. Cook eventually became a successful public speaker and was active in the trade union. By the early 1880s, he had decided to migrate to Australia.\nCook moved to New South Wales in 1885. He worked as a coal miner until 1891. That year he was elected to the New South Wales legislature.\nIn 1901 the six colonies of Australia joined together to form a country. The new country immediately formed a federal parliament. Cook was elected to the first federal parliament in 1901 and served there for 20 years. He helped establish the Australian navy. Cook became prime minister in 1913 but was voted out of office the following year, shortly after the start of World War I (1914\u201318).\nFrom 1917 to 1920 Cook served as minister of the navy, and he represented Australia at the Imperial War Cabinet in London in 1918. He was awarded a knighthood in 1918.\nFrom 1921 to 1927 Cook was high commissioner, or the official representative, of Australia in London. He was also Australia\u2019s representative to the League of Nations. Cook died on July 30, 1947, in Sydney.\nJoseph Cook founded the New South Wales Labor Party.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 45.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kidsresearchexpress-5.blogspot.com/2008/09/mammary-glands.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:57Z", "digest": "sha1:XHN67O3JYHJA4I5MCBKUXB4BJ7QZGYGF", "length": 651, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kidsresearchexpress-5.blogspot.com", "title": "Kids Research Express: Mammary Glands", "raw_content": "Mammary Glands, source of milk for the young and a characteristic of all mammals, including the egg-laying monotremes. Although the mammary glands evolved recently in the development of vertebrates, their origin is uncertain. In monotremes, they resemble sweat glands in structure, leading to speculation that they are sweat or sebaceous glands modified through evolution. In higher orders, the glands at maturity are developed only in females; in monotremes they evolve equally in both sexes. The organ in human males occasionally develops functional ability, giving support to the belief that lactation occurred in both sexes in prehistoric mammals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kimstories.wordpress.com/2018/06/28/an-unquiet-mind/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:04Z", "digest": "sha1:F6VLLRL7PTRTVATOL4UHFF5NLSGGILCD", "length": 171, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kimstories.wordpress.com", "title": "An Unquiet Mind | kim's scrapbook", "raw_content": "[\u2026] 16. A book about mental health \u2013 Lost in the Reflecting Pool by Diane Pomerantz, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Jamison [\u2026]\n\u00ab Master Harold\u2026and the boys\nThe Yellow Wallpaper \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 163.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kinchkinski.com/2013/04/12/un-defending-christianity-a-brief-response-to-st-augustine-alvin-plantinga-and-the-westboro-baptist-church/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:50Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZD4KO7MQ7JO3W65NYM33MWACDNBGR4Q", "length": 8954, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "kinchkinski.com", "title": "The Problem of Evil: A Brief Response to St. Augustine, Alvin Plantinga, and the Westboro Baptist Church | Slouching Towards Literature The Problem of Evil: A Brief Response to St. Augustine, Alvin Plantinga, and the Westboro Baptist Church \u2013 Slouching Towards Literature", "raw_content": "The Problem of Evil: A Brief Response to St. Augustine, Alvin Plantinga, and the Westboro Baptist Church\nThis essay was originally submitted as part of my studies at La Trobe University, hence its lack of rhetorical flourish or dirty words, and its extreme, intellectually constraining brevity.\nThe Christian god, referred to as YHWH from here on for brevity, as conceptualised by theologians is an all-powerful creative force, who possesses perfect and complete knowledge and wisdom, and whose essence is goodness. However, many find faith in such a god impossible due to the problem of evil1\u2013 the difficulty of reconciling the existence of evil with a wholly good, omniscient, omnipotent creator god like YHWH. I believe this disbelief is the most rational response to the problem of evil. I will seek to show why this is so in what follows, and will address some of the more effective theistic responses. I will use the terms Christianity and ethical monotheism interchangeably throughout this essay, though I realise the two terms are not truly equal. Likewise, when I use the term \u2018theist/s\u2019 I am referring to believers in YHWH, not any other god.2\nThe logical problem created for ethical monotheism is this:\nEthical monotheism proposes a loving creator god YHWY who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.\nThe world contains much evil.\nThe creation and sustenance of evil is not compatible with goodness.\nTherefore, YHWY lacks either goodness, complete knowledge, or complete power \u2013 otherwise s/he would not allow evil to exist.\nSt. Augustine argues that, in fact, evil does not exist. YHWH made all things good so evil is just an absence of good, as darkness is an absence of light.3 There is an a priori intuitive problem with this line of thinking, it just doesn\u2019t match with the experience of evil. The mother of a baby shot in the face4 would surely not agree that evil is a mere lack of good. There also seem to be two logical problems with Augustine\u2019s argument.\nIf evil is simply a lack of good then we should expect the introduction of goodness to dispel evil.\nThis is not the case, in fact the opposite is usually true.\nTherefore, evil is not a mere lack of good but is itself an active force.\nAugustine\u2019s argument relies on the premise that YHWH created all things good.\nThis premise is accepted due to its being enunciated in the Bible.\nThe truth of the Bible is only accepted if we believe in YWHW.\nThe use of YHWH\u2019s authority in an argument about h/er existence and/or nature is clearly question begging.\nI think a more powerful response is that made by Alvin Plantinga, who puts forth a teleological defense of YHWH against the problem of evil. In Plantinga\u2019s own words \u201ca world containing creatures who are significantly free \u2026 is more valuable, all else being equal, than a world containing no free creatures at all.\u201d5 I think this reasoning both overvalues negative freedom and shows a lack of imagination in imagining other possible worlds. The idea that YHWH\u2019s goodness is saved because free will6 requires evil assumes that freedom from outside coercion is an absolute good. Many of the world\u2019s most unfortunate may well argue from their graves or favelas that positive freedoms are more important. But even if we grant the importance of negative freedom, it is not easy to imagine that YHWH could have created a world where evil was less likely, or in which extreme evil was limited to the psychological but never manifested.7 As it is, evil actions are not only possible in this world but likely. Our evolutionary heritage predisposes us to selfishness, triablism, sexual voracity, and incredible aggression. When these factors are combined with an environment defined by a struggle for limited resources \u2013 including food and water \u2013 war, murder, slavery, rape, and oppressive systems of power are a near certainty. If you measure evil by the stricter standards of Christian morality, evil becomes an absolute certainty. As YHWH has infinite knowledge, s/he would be aware of this. A good god would not set a test for h/er creation which s/he knows they will fail, and then punish them in this life and the hypothetical next for that failure; YHWH knew all along we would eat of the fruit.\nAn even more fundamental problem with such teleological arguments is that they don\u2019t account for natural evils such as earthquakes, bush fires, or disease. While we might argue that the ability of humans to commit evil acts is necessary for free will to exist, it is very difficult to come up with any noble purpose YHWH could have in allowing a small child to develop leukaemia or a family to burn to death in their home. One defence against this problem for theists is that of the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) that hurricane Katrina, for example, was the result of YHWH\u2019s righteous judgement.8 The flaw in this argument is that the vast majority of those \u2018punished\u2019 are just ordinary people. The WBC would argue that entire nations can be punished just for allowing homosexuality, or for turning from YHWH, however this would certainly not meet most people\u2019s standards for goodness. Such behaviour is more closely associated with a Hitler or Bin Laden than with any figure approaching the saintly.\nI think the WBC\u2019s justification for evil can be rejected out of hand by all but the most fanatical, and it would certainly be rejected by most thoughtful theologians. St. Augustine\u2019s response is not so abhorrent but it does rather whitewash evil, and its flawed logic and circular reasoning render it fairly powerless against the problem of evil. Plantinga\u2019s response is certainly stronger, and does show a way out of the purely logical conundrum posed for believers by evil. However, it us unlikely to convince anyone other than committed believers, relying as it does on the questionable assumption that this is the best of all possible worlds. For the true believer, there is something to cling onto in teleological defences of theism, as these do make the problem of evil less conclusive. It could be true that there are goods that could not exist without evil. I don\u2019t think free will is a good enough candidate though, and most other goods are likely to be matters of faith themselves \u2013 heaven for example, or a glorious future world. For the undecided and the non-believer, however, the problem of evil is certainly strong enough \u2013 and the counter-arguments weak enough \u2013 to feel safely lump YHWH in with Zeus, Thor, Allah, and millions of others as just one more deity that is highly unlikely to exist.\n1\u2018Evil\u2019 shall be defined in this essay simply as those things in the world \u2013 whether willed actions or natural phenomena \u2013 that cause great harm and suffering to humans and animals. The broader question of whether there is any objective meaning to the term shall be left untouched here, though it is a very interesting question\n2This may seem needlessly limiting, but the topic becomes impossible otherwise. A Hindu god like Kali, for example, would seem less likely to exist in a world without evil, so it would simply be too difficult to form any cogent argument against all theisms.\n3St. Augustine of Hippo, Doctrinal Treatises of St. Augustine (Buffalo: The Christian Literature Co., 1887), ch. 11, , accessed 1 April 2013.\n4AP, \u2018Two teens arrested in baby killing\u2019, Age, World, 23 March 2013, para. 4-5, , accessed 24 March 2013.\n5Alvin Plantinga, God, Freedom, and Evil (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1977), p. 30\n6Whether free will really exists is a separate issue, for the purposes of this essay I am assuming that at least some level of free will does indeed exist.\n7A world created in the right way \u2013 either through the physical design of agents, their psychological makeup, or other design factors \u2013 would not truly be limiting freedom, just as our inability to flap our wings and fly does not limit our freedom on this world; it is simply not something we can achieve.\n8Westboro Baptist Church, \u2018Thank God for Katrina\u2019, WBC Chronicle, 31 March 2005, , accessed 1 April 2013.\nAP, \u2018Two teens arrested in baby killing\u2019, Age, World, 23 March 2013, para. 4-5,,accessed 24 March\nAugustine, Saint, Doctoral Treatises of St. Agustine, (Buffalo: The Christian Literature Co., 1887).\nPlantinga, Alvin, God, Freedom, and Evil (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1977).\nWestboro Baptist Church, \u2018Thank God for Katrina\u2019, WBC Chronicle, 31 March 2005,, accessed1 April 2013.\nPosted in PhilosophyTagged atheism, Christianity, theologyLeave a comment\nNext PostPascal\u2019s Pot Odds", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 12150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kitchenette.jezebel.com/1635559645", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CQPHSHZFKR5CLFCGESLYGR5ANKSWZCFG", "length": 1320, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kitchenette.jezebel.com", "title": "Surge is Coming Back, and May God Have Mercy On Our Souls", "raw_content": "Surge is Coming Back, and May God Have Mercy On Our Souls\nWell, internet, you did it: Coca-Cola is actually bringing back 90's citrus soda Surge.\nFor those who don't remember, Surge was the Coca-Cola corporation's relatively short-lived answer to Mountain Dew. It was labeled \"the fully-loaded* citrus soda.\" Some sources append \"with carbos\" to that description, but I haven't ever actually seen that on a can, so I can't really ask what the fuck a \"carbo\" is while feeling genuine. It was basically the 1990's in carbonated sugargasm form, and it was discontinued in 2003. Before you ask: yes, back in 1999, I basically drank enough of this stuff daily to fell an elk.\nNow, thanks in large part to a concerted Facebook campaign called \"The SURGE Movement,\" Coca-Cola is bringing back Surge through a limited online release. They're selling it through Amazon.com, where $14 will get you 12 16-ounce cans \u2014 a tidy profit for Coca-Cola, since there's a guaranteed ready-made market for these things. They haven't announced specifically when it will become available, but you can bet it won't be long.\nPat yourselves on the back, internet. You won this round. Now if only you could figure out a way to bring back Firefly for the long-term.\n* I know what you're about to ask, and the answer is \"fully-loaded with diabetes.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://knightofsteel.com/5-months-and-updates/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VHR2CKE7XKP5GUJXMGU3BT5ZHQJBUAFL", "length": 5711, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "knightofsteel.com", "title": "5 Months and Updates. - The Knight of Steel", "raw_content": "5 Months and Updates.\nHey everyone. I have a lot of news to share with you. It has been a long time since I wrote a blog myself. Kal and Coco seem to have fell in love with writing and keep asking me to let them write something but we all know they are going to just be rambling and ranting about their personal problems and grudges. Anyway, getting to the point, I have some news about my future, my mental condition, where the blog is headed and some stuff in general as well.\nStarting with the general stuff, Kal and Coco will be weekly guests on my blog, writing about their own life, their views and their intellectual and political philosophies with everyone. The feedback everyone has given for them has been encouraging and I assure you, you will read more from them in the future. The two seem to have carved out a niche for the personalities in the blog so \u201cThe Dog Blog\u201d is going to continue for a while. The blog will be getting a new logo as well. It won\u2019t be related to \u201cThe Broken Puzzle\u201d as much as to \u201cThe Knight of Steel\u201d so I will be reconsidering the name of the blog as well. The blog posts now will be more about rebirth and new beginnings rather than old problems.\nI have reconnected to a few friends of mine from the past days, actually maybe just one or two in particular, so that has been encouraging for me as I look to get back on track and cope with my anxiety. It has actually been 5 months now since I started this blog and I am pretty happy to tell you that although there have been some up and downs but the general trend has been towards an improvement that I, personally, am proud of.\nWhen it comes to my mental condition, I am still on some meds, but I may be slowly taken off of them as well as I continue to get better. One thing in particular I am very happy of is that in the last 10 or 12 days, I have only had to take my sleeping pills 3 times. I used to have to take these regularly in order to have a peaceful sleep but now I don\u2019t really rely on them anymore. *Wooohooo*.\nI will have to talk about how long I have to be on the anti-depressants. I would rather have a slow tapering of the meds than having to go through another relapse on the depression. I can now say that I am better prepared to tackle any challenges I face when it comes to my mental health and will hopefully have the support of the people as well.\nLast, and probably the biggest news I have. I have decided to give up on my studies for MBBS and will be moving to New Delhi soon to pursue my Bachelor\u2019s degree in South Campus of the Delhi University. It was a hard decision to leave MBBS, I enjoyed the studies and the practicals but I have decided that I need to take things slowly and easily first before I can put myself under the kind of pressure one would face through the course of MBBS.\nI would understand if some people think I am running away from a tough challenge and going for the easy way out (I think that at times as well) but I need to go easy on myself before I think about standing up to the expectations of everyone else. I know a lot of people in New Delhi, I have some family there and in the NCR as well and I will need as much support as I can get. I don\u2019t know how much I should expect from the people studying there but I do hope that I will get some help to settle in as I look for a place to stay and for places to hang out. I know starting a different college, a new course, all over again is going to be a challenge in itself but I do believe that this time around I am better equipped and more padded than ever before. So if you are reading this, and you live in Delhi, you could probably come to my help someday. I may have ended my association with medicine but I would still encourage students to understand and accept science and help educate the general public as well. I will still be guiding and counseling students looking to write their Pre-Medical Exam and wishing to be a doctor. So I am still available for any help you would require regarding that.\nA lot of things are going to change in the next 15 days. I am not usually good at dealing with change so I will need support wherever I can get it. You could come in handy, when things are changing a lot, very quickly, even one message of support and kindness would help. So let\u2019s look forward to positive change and adapting to new surroundings.\nTags: blogchallengechangedepressioninspiredlifemental healthmental illnessmotivationnewrecoveryteen\nSunitagupta\t\u00b7 July 15, 2017 at 5:02 AM\nWhole hearted support for you dear. All the best for your future.\nDr bimal Jain\t\u00b7 July 15, 2017 at 1:30 PM\nOur best wishes are always with you be cheerful God bless you\nKuldeep Kundu\t\u00b7 July 15, 2017 at 2:23 PM\nYou can handle every situation with ease and you have proven this fact in the past months . Everyone cannot tackle the mental stress but YOU DID IT. You are a strong \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffb person. You are a man with a good heart. Everyone is with you. All the best for your future.\nRenuka Bansal\t\u00b7 July 16, 2017 at 3:05 AM\nRead your blog today for d first time. Sounds very courageous of you to do so . My daughter is preparing for her pre medical exams. Any special guidance frm your experience\nNaresh Khanna\t\u00b7 July 16, 2017 at 6:58 AM\nBest wishes to you.Keep yourself strong & in high spirits,God is with u .Stay Blessed.\nRenuka Bansal\t\u00b7 July 16, 2017 at 2:07 PM\nRead your blog for d first time. Seems very courageous of you to do so. My daughter is preparing for pre medical exams. Any special guidance frm your past experience\nknightofsteel\t\u00b7 July 16, 2017 at 3:09 AM\nThe general advices are the usual ones. Be regular, practice questions and try and understand the concepts. I would love to help out in any other way I can.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 7857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kpfa.org/episode/71262/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7H3YARPDN7BB5RXJCGZIMLMHJFK57I6Z", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kpfa.org", "title": "Hard Knock Radio \u2013 July 5, 2011 at 4:00pm \u2013 KPFA", "raw_content": "Hard Knock Radio \u2013 July 5, 2011 at 4:00pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 33.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com/134383.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:H57CGE7K3R5EK3VNROLWTZPO5RNWPORY", "length": 7003, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "kungfuwaynewho.livejournal.com", "title": "Cooking stuff. (Things.) And my maladious injury. - this machine will not communicate", "raw_content": "Cooking stuff. (Things.) And my maladious injury. - this machine will not communicate\nCooking stuff. (Things.) And my maladious injury.\nI've been trying to cook more of my own food lately rather than relying on boxed stuff, and it's been pretty fun! Some of the things I've made recently.\nHomemade graham crackers. I ended up buying graham flour online because I couldn't find it in a store - and then as soon as it did I found some, haha, oh well. The dough itself was easy to make since there was no kneading, but rolling out and cutting the crackers was a little tedious. Taste-wise they weren't really anything like packaged graham crackers, quite a bit more gritty from the graham flour, but still very good. They were amazing broken up into a bowl with milk for breakfast. I think I'm going to make another batch shortly for a fancy icebox cake.\nIcebox cakes! Easy to make, easy to adapt. The first one I made was regular graham crackers, real whipped cream, a dusting of cocoa powder between layers and chopped chocolate-covered espresso beans. Incredible. The one I made this week was graham crackers, instant chocolate pudding and Cool Whip, with mini-chocolate chips. Cheaper, easier, but definitely not as good. I want to do one with Oreos of some kind - maybe mint - and then real whipped cream. There's definitely a difference in taste that is worth the time and money involved in real whipped cream.\nGranola. I did a mix of rolled oats and rolled wheat flakes, with flax seeds, peanuts and almonds. Baked the mess up with real maple syrup and honey, added in dried cherries and cranberries after baking. There was some cinnamon in there, too. I find it tough when making homemade granola to get the right temperature/length of baking combo so that the granola is nice and crunchy but isn't burnt, and this is as close as I've ever gotten to perfect. Also great with milk in a bowl for breakfast.\nPan pizza in my cast iron skillet. I used a standard pizza dough recipe that called for eight minutes of kneading, which is a pain since I don't have a Kitchen-Aid that can do my kneading for me, but the crust turned out great. If you have a cast iron skillet and you've never made a pizza in it, I highly recommend it. Assemble the whole pizza, then put the skillet on a burner on high for 2-4 minutes to cook the bottom of the crust - be preheating your oven as hot as you can get it in the meantime. Then 10 minutes or so in the oven should finish it off, with maybe a minute or two under the broiler after that. The \"oven as hot as you can get it\" is why I haven't done this in a few months.\nFlatbread pizza on the grill. Perfect way to do homemade pizza in the summer! I made a very garlicky naan dough, grilled one side, then topped it with fresh tomato slices, mozzarella, fresh basil and oregano, sliced olives and some bacon. By the time you're done topping the pizza the other side is about cooked, so it's a matter of closing the grill lid for a minute or two to melt the cheese, and you're done. A sprinkle of grated parm and you're set!\nShakshuka. This is one thing that didn't quite turn out as I'd hoped. I'm not the biggest fan of unadulterated tomato taste, and thought the garlic, chilis and onion would make more of a sauce. But I enjoyed it nonetheless. Next time, though, I think I'll go with a more Italian vibe, poach my egg in a straight-up marinara. All told, though, it's hard to go wrong with poached eggs.\nWhat injury, you may be asking? The problem is...I'm not sure. I went jogging Sunday night, and as sometimes happens, my fingers got swollen. It's a thing that happens, it's irritating, but it usually only lasts 5-10 minutes and it's not a big deal. Monday morning, just my middle finger on my right hand was still sore. Weird, but okay. And it hurt on Tuesday. And it hurt yesterday. Today it's so sore that I taped it to the ring finger, almost more as a reminder not to use it than anything else. (Typing this has been fun.) I don't remember hitting the finger against anything, so I don't know - it's very strange. Pain-wise it feels like a broken finger, but I've broken a finger before and like an hour later it turned a violent purple and swelled up a huge amount; neither of those things have happened at all. Can you sprain a finger? At any rate, I've been going back and forth on whether I should go to my doctor and ask for an x-ray or see if it just gets any better.\nI feel like the whole thing is stupid, though.\nTags: cooking, food, real life\nPretty sure your finger. Actually I think you can sprain about any joint you have. I am no expert though and would say let a doctor have a look at it just to be safe.\nYeah, I'm leaning towards a sprain at this point. But I'll wait on the doctor - if I can avoid having to spend a bunch of money, I will. XD\ndref22 on July 24th, 2014 06:40 pm (UTC)\nOMNOMNOM shakshuka! We have it here too and our version definitely, totally does not have any eggs!\nYou can spray your finger! It's a common injury when playing certain sports like basketball.\nThe poached eggs was the main selling point for me! But I love poached eggs, so.\nI used to jam fingers all the time playing sports - and it's how I broke a finger once before - but that's what's been so weird. I don't remember hitting it against anything! Ah well.\nMaybe you slept weirdly? I am capable of hurting myself during sleep. XD\nenigmaticblues on July 24th, 2014 10:04 pm (UTC)\nYou can definitely sprain your finger, or even jam it. I did that once playing softball, and it hurt like the dickens. On the other hand, if you don't remember doing it, it might be a good idea to see a doctor. Of course, if you did something to it, say in your sleep, then icing it, taking ibuprofen and taping it is probably exactly what the doctor is going to say...\nYeah, I'm sticking with ice and Advil for now, and we'll see how she goes. It's just weird...\nMmmh, I like Shaksuka! Especially with rice or potatoes to go with it. yum-yum.\nAs for your finger: It sounds like there's some sort of inflamation going on underneath the skin. Perhaps the joints are inflamed. You could try Traumeel ointment and see if it makes it better. (http://www.traumeel.com/) It's a natural formula, so no weird side-effects or drugs in there.\nI hadn't thought about doing it with a starch; I could definitely see it with rice. I just had flatbread to go with it which was quite yummy.\nI've never heard of that ointment before; I'll have to look into that. I've been taking ibuprofin for the inflammation, and it seems to be helping.\nIt's great with bread, too, of course (or pasta), except I'm eating mostly gluten-free, hence I favor rice.\ndunderklumpen on July 25th, 2014 02:00 pm (UTC)\nI hope your finger is a little better. Did you see a doctor?\nNah, I'll wait and see if it gets any better on its own. It just doesn't seem quite serious enough to take time off work/spend the money to see a doctor. It seems a little less tender today...or maybe I'm just getting used to it, hee.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 8550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kyogallery.com/product/mozart-dramatic-dialogue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:RSZVC7YUZIU4SL6EJZ3VXP5YQGCMGF3L", "length": 2147, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kyogallery.com", "title": "Mozart: Dramatic Dialogue | Kyo Gallery", "raw_content": "https://kyogallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/526252_5959776af4414d30a2285803251f6cfc_mv2_d_1622_1900_s_2.jpg\nMy works emphasize the predominance of personal memories over race, origin and heritage as a foundation of identity in the 21st century.\n\"\u200bOdilia started taking formal painting and drawing lessons in a studio at the age of four. She attended oil and acrylic painting classes, ceramics workshops and art seminars at the universities in both Hong Kong and the United States. Her artworks were selected by the Curator, and documented at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie) - one of the largest art history centers in the world (2006). Her art project received endorsement from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (2007). She also received letters of encouragement from President Barack Obama, the First Lady Michelle Obama for her letters, poem and artwork as an independent Chinese-American artist (2009). Her artworks were auctioned at an Official Fundraiser in support of President Barack Obama's re- election (2012). Her latest 'Music in Ink' artworks were selected and featured in the 'Broad Brush: New Gestural Paintings Collection', \"\"Spotlight on Asia Collection\"\" by Bridget Carron (2014); \"\"New Abstract Expressionism Collection\u201d by Katherine Henning (2016). She was invited by international acoustic guitarist, Steven Hancoff, Musical Ambassador for the U.S. State Department, to participate in his Bach project. Her painting was published in his iBook \"\"J. Sebastian Bach: Pablo Casals and the Six Suites for 'Cello Solo.\"\"(2015) Odilia earned a Master of Science degree from the University of Florida (1999). She is by invitation, a member of the honor society of Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Iota Delta based on academic excellence and exemplary character. After graduating from the University of Florida, she joined AT&T as an Engineering Manager and Project Lead. After 5 years in corporate America, she decided to pursue her dream and launch her career as a professional artist in 2004. Her works can be found in private collections throughout Europe and the United States.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 16019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 135.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lambdalitfest.org/speakers/alicia-billalobos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:14Z", "digest": "sha1:NOV5AYNQEXVZLK5N7K4YNGZEW4X3BJ3D", "length": 638, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lambdalitfest.org", "title": "Alicia Billalobos - Lambda Litfest Los Angeles 2018", "raw_content": "Alicia Billalobos is 27, a UCLA alumni, and a Chicana lesbian from Boyle Heights. She\u2019s the middle child in a mixed-status family of seven and aspires to be an immigration attorney. After completing her Bachelor of Arts degree in Chicana/o Studies and Public Policy and the Law at UCLA, she served as a graduate Family law fellow at California Superior Court, where she ran legal clinics for self-represented litigants. Alicia is the current Legal Clinic Coordinator for the Los Angeles LGBT Center- Legal Services Dept. On her free time, Alicia enjoys cycling and is currently training for the 2019 AIDS/LifeCycle. Pronouns: she/her/hers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/apertures-aperitifs-photographers-cookbook", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ULZQ664S7NXQEQ46ZTPU6BIKTIUM24II", "length": 12367, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "lareviewofbooks.org", "title": "Apertures and Aperitifs: On \u201cThe Photographer\u2019s Cookbook\u201d - Los Angeles Review of Books", "raw_content": "IF YOU MANAGE to get a reservation at Sukiyabashi Jiro, the three Michelin star sushi restaurant in Tokyo \u2014 the best in the world by many accounts \u2014 you\u2019re expected to obey quite a list of rules, including: \u201cPlease refrain from taking photos of the sushi. The only sure way of enjoying Jiro\u2019s sushi is to concentrate on dining. When you leave, we would be pleased to take a commemorative photograph for you at the doorway if you wish.\u201d\nThis sounds reasonable in a good restaurant, doesn\u2019t it? The chef wants you to focus on what you\u2019re eating. On the other hand, the Japanese have the expression me de taberu (we eat with our eyes). Admittedly this isn\u2019t exactly the same as posting pictures of your dinner on Instagram, but both impulses acknowledge how important the visual element is to food and eating.\nWhen I was, briefly, the relief chef at a fairly dismal steak restaurant in Cambridge, England, my boss \u2014 an unhappy man who hated his job and his customers even more than he hated me \u2014 dispensed a piece of what he thought was profound wisdom: \u201cIf it looks good and they\u2019ve got a full plate, you can get away with murder.\u201d\nLet\u2019s leave aside the question of why you\u2019d want to \u201cget away with murder\u201d when it comes to serving food, but let\u2019s also acknowledge that he wasn\u2019t completely wrong. We want our food to look good, even if our notions of what constitutes \u201cgood-looking\u201d may change over time. These days a full plate is more likely to seem unsophisticated, and you could argue that photographing your food is pretty unsophisticated too, but the ship seems to have sailed on that one. Even Anthony Bourdain now thinks it\u2019s okay.\nAs far as I know, nobody ever took a picture of anything I cooked in that Cambridge restaurant, but I wouldn\u2019t have minded. And for what it\u2019s worth, a quick look at Yelp suggests that a lot of people don\u2019t obey the no-photography rule at Sukiyabashi Jiro.\nBut why take photographs of food anyway? As a souvenir, no doubt \u2014 photography is in the business of fixing transient moments, and meals are always just passing through. No doubt it\u2019s also sometimes a way of showing off to friends about all the cool places you\u2019ve been to eat. Of course many \u201camateur\u201d photographs of food are downright banal, but sometimes amateurishness can be interesting in itself. I have various Facebook friends around the world, most of whom, naturally, I scarcely know at all, and I\u2019m always intrigued to see the pictures they put online, showing what they eat at home or in restaurants or at family gatherings. It tells me a lot about the kind of lives they lead.\nThere is the Brillat-Savarin model of eating: \u201ctell me (for our purposes here, \u2018show me\u2019) what you eat and I\u2019ll tell you who you are.\u201d For serious photographers a similar model applies: show me what you think is worth photographing and that\u2019ll tell me just as much. And if you show me that food is an important part of your worldview and your aesthetic, then we\u2019re deep inside your psyche.\nOnce upon a time, very few photographers got through art college without shooting pictures of red cabbages or green peppers as a way of demonstrating their skills with lighting, exposure, and printing. There are even some extant Robert Mapplethorpe images, taken well post-college (he dropped out of the Pratt Institute in 1969), of a pineapple and an aubergine, and one of a watermelon with a knife stuck in it.\nThe Photographer\u2019s Cookbook \u2014 a project originally conceived by Deborah Barsel and now completed by Lisa Hostetler \u2014 contains no Mapplethorpes, which may be considered a shame, or it may not. If you believe Patricia Morrisroe\u2019s biography, Mapplethorpe was in with the \u201ccoprophagia is the final sacrament\u201d crowd at the time this volume was first conceived.\nThe book was a very long time in the making. Back in 1977, Deborah Barsel was working as an assistant registrar at George Eastman House (now the George Eastman Museum), which was not the world\u2019s most exciting job apparently. To make her life more interesting she decided to compile a book of photographers\u2019 recipes and food-related photographs, and she placed an ad in the museum\u2019s magazine Image asking for contributions.\nSomewhat to her surprise, within two years she\u2019d received 120 replies, but then Barsel left her job, and the majority of the submissions sat in the archives in a box labeled \u201cPhotocookbook.\u201d There they stayed for the better part of 40 years until Lisa Hostetler, the current curator of photography at the Eastman, opened up the box and edited the contents into the book we now have: 150 pages of photographs and recipes by high-art photographers, some of them still very famous names, others who are less familiar now than they were in 1977. There\u2019s also been a little slippage over the years \u2014 some of the material was returned to the photographers \u2014 and some new pieces have been added, but even so we have a kind of time capsule here.\nThis is not the place to chart all the many changes that have taken place in the worlds of both food and photography in the four intervening decades; suffice it to say that the two processes had a lot more in common before photography went digital, when photographers mixed chemicals to their own or extant \u201crecipes,\u201d when it was all about temperatures, timing, gelatins, and emulsions, when photographs could be \u201cdodged\u201d and \u201cburned.\u201d\nSome of the images here do look as though they come from a completely different age. For instance, Ansel Adams\u2019s perfectly composed and beautifully lit Still Life, San Francisco, California, ca. 1932 \u2014 two eggs, an egg slicer, a bottle of milk, another bottle of Marie Brizard liqueur \u2014 looks like a historical artifact, the kind of picture nobody takes anymore, and not very many people want to look at.\nHans Namuth\u2019s American Housewife, ca. 1952, certainly looks like a period piece, set up to look as though it\u2019s taken from inside a fridge, peering out through shelves of cake and macaroni salad at a wholesomely attractive woman, who may or may not be a professional model, an image that now contains ironies that wouldn\u2019t have been so apparent in the early \u201950s.\nOther works seem amazingly current. Neil Slavin\u2019s Nylen\u2019s Frankfurters in Full Dress shows a grid of 12 hotdogs, garnished with various fruits, vegetables, pickles, and what not. The image\u2019s colors are lurid, and the overall effect is engagingly satirical, as the photographer applies a conceptualist rigor to what is, after all, just a bunch of wieners.\nOne photograph by Arthur Taussig, from 1979, is downright \u201cmeta.\u201d It shows a table strewn with books and magazines, all of them opened at pages that show reproductions of Edward Weston\u2019s famous photographs of peppers.\nWhen it comes to the recipes, some of the photographers have taken the task far more seriously than others. Burt Glinn\u2019s recipe for borscht, actually his grandmother\u2019s, is meticulously detailed and runs to three pages. But it\u2019s there side by side with Imogen Cunningham\u2019s borscht recipe, which is a very different thing altogether. First she denounces salt, and then she denounces Alice B. Toklas\u2019s kitchen skills \u2014 \u201clikely her cooking contributed to the death of Gertrude and herself\u201d \u2014 and then she gives her recipe: \u201cI make it half mine and half Manischewitz (commercial bottle of borscht).\u201d Julia Child might be horrified, although there\u2019s a wonderful, very \u201cstraight,\u201d portrait of her here by Arnold Newman, in which she looks so benign and happy that you imagine she\u2019d forgive even the worst culinary sins and shortcuts.\nSome seem to be trying a bit too hard: Minor White\u2019s recipe for steamed and saut\u00e9ed vegetable with its talk of \u201cheightened awareness\u201d seems a lot of trouble for a plate of carrots and celery. Barbara Morgan gives a recipe for \u201cGlobal Bread Cake,\u201d \u201choping that we will all someday become \u2018World Citizens.\u2019\u201d You will not be surprised to learn that brown rice and buckwheat are involved. Others seem not to be trying very hard at all. Do we really need Horst P. Horst to tell us how to marinate a cucumber?\nJust occasionally the photographers seem to be simultaneously overreaching and undercooking. Les Krims\u2019s recipe for \u201cFormalist Stew\u201d \u201chas 185 ingredients and takes 31 days to prepare. The only problem is, you die of hunger and boredom before it\u2019s ever finished.\u201d It\u2019s accompanied by a 1974 Polaroid of his mother, topless, pouring milk out of a dead chicken \u2014 I guess the world worried less about salmonella back then.\nHere, as in most cases, the images don\u2019t directly illustrate the recipes, though at their best image and text interact and inform each other. A Robert Heinecken collage, actually from 1991, which uses magazine ads for Bombay Sapphire and tooth whitener, accompanies a recipe for Heinecken\u2019s \u201cSerious Martini\u201d \u2014 gin kept in the freezer, no vermouth, no ice, not stirred or shaken, but poured into a glass that\u2019s been in the freezer, along with the juice of one eighth of a California lemon \u2014 \u201cThis drink is not recommended before 11 a.m.\u201d Ed Ruscha\u2019s \u201cCactus Omelette\u201d \u2014 a more or less serviceable recipe \u2014 \u201chave a friend bring a jar (of napolitos) on a plane if necessary\u201d \u2014 is accompanied by one of the cactus photographs from his 1972 series Colored People.\nTwo of the more successfully enduring presences in the book \u2014 young Turks in 1977, grand old men today \u2014 are William Eggleston and Stephen Shore (born 1939 and 1947, respectively), two men who from the beginning created pictures that could all too easily be accused of banality, or of looking like \u201csnapshots,\u201d whatever the hell that means. Now their aesthetic is widely regarded as the gold standard of both high and low photographic art.\nWilliam Eggleston\u2019s photograph from the 1976 series Election Eve shows the interior of a diner where the walls, table tops, and some of the upholstery are all the same alarming yellow hue. It\u2019s a great photograph, it\u2019s pure William Eggleston, and it captures the bleak emptiness of a certain kind of eating experience: the fact that there\u2019s no food in sight only adds to the misery. Eggleston provides a recipe for \u201cCheese Grits Casserole\u201d \u2014 heavy on the Velveeta.\nStephen Shore\u2019s own photographic contribution shows a restaurant table, post-meal, after the food and dishes have been cleared away from the stained tablecloth, a cup of coffee and a cigar remain, and an American Express Card sits waiting to be picked up by the server. You could find something similar on Instagram, of course, but it wouldn\u2019t be a Stephen Shore.\nIn fact Shore has embraced the online world in a way that few photographers of his generation have. Between 2003 and 2008 he made 83 volumes of his work available in print-on-demand book form, the contents of each book shot on a single day. That project\u2019s over now, but he continues to be active on Instagram, where the audience is inevitably a mixed bunch: some in the know, some not, though all free to comment. Occasionally someone will declare that the work is banal and in one case complains, \u201cThis does not feel like Shore.\u201d Where to start with that one? But if you want to see the arugula and rugelach salad, or the mutton chop with escarole that Shore ate and thought worth photographing, well, look no further. Thanks to Instagram you could even ask him for the recipe.\nThe Photographer\u2019s Cookbook is a fascinating curiosity, and although it\u2019s essentially a small, fun project, it\u2019s rather more serious and subversive than it first appears. It raises all kinds of questions about consumption, desire, pleasure, and domesticity, and it whets the appetite for a very much larger work about food and photography, one that might include advertising photography and fashion \u2014 why is food so often used as a prop in fashion shoots while the models look like they\u2019ve never had a good meal in their lives? It might address the politics of hunger with Salgado and Dorothea Lange, the nature of mortality with Nobuyoshi Araki\u2019s The Banquet and the heartbreaking record of what his wife ate during her terminal illness, Martin Parr\u2019s pictures of food, particularly British food, dealing with class, status, and in the broadest sense, taste. The possibilities are vast. As you see, I\u2019ve been left hungry for more.\nGeoff Nicholson is a novelist and nonfiction writer and a contributing editor at LARB.\nBy Lisa Hostetler\nAperture/George Eastman Museum\nSausage Subversion\nBy Michael Schmelling\nWish I Weren\u2019t Here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 17990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://laurensboel.com/2016/07/17/you-have-to-believe-its-possible/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4SD6IAT2O5PWZCGQP5VCAYFCWPZDSC4S", "length": 4364, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "laurensboel.com", "title": "You have to believe it\u2019s POSSIBLE \u2013 Laurens Boel \u2013 Personal & Professional Coach", "raw_content": "You have to believe it\u2019s POSSIBLE\n\u201cImpossible is an opinion, not a fact.\u201d \u2013 Muhammed Ali.\nWhat STOPS people from following their dreams?\nHave you ever asked yourself this question? What is your answer?\nSo many people have come to me and said that they wish they could do amazing things, like; write a book, start a business or even become an astronaut, and then, as quickly as the excitement comes from dreaming, they drop into a pit of dismay and tell me all the reasons why they can\u2019t do it. I don\u2019t have the time, money, knowledge, skills, people or even luck. People have so many reasons for giving up and so few reasons to keep going. People become experts of their limitations. They know everything and anything about their limitations and that stops them. Dead. In. Their. Tracks.\nWhat do you need to follow your dream?\nYou need to have the belief that it is possible\u2026 that\u2019s it. Everything else is just smoke and mirrors, the detail that will come to you at the time you need it.\nI remember when I left my corporate slavery (I mean job) to start my own business. Everyone around me was so interested in having coffee with me, probably because secretly they want to do it but they don\u2019t have the courage to. They asked me what I was planning to do and how I would make a success of it. I told them briefly what my plan was, namely, TRY. Yes, that simple. I would try my best to make it work and not give up on the first obstacle that comes my way. Now I have a profitable business and will never go back to the corporate world. I am officially unemployable. And to this day, I still remind myself that all I need to be successful is not the right financial metrics or marketing campaigns or sales tricks (yes, these are important but they are learnt skills and you will learn them through trial and error), what you need is the belief, the courage and the hope that comes from knowing whatever you are searching for is possible. If you don\u2019t believe that it is possible then you won\u2019t try and that will lead to guaranteed failure. That is the only way you can truly fail, is to not try.\nHow can I believe in my dream more?\nFigure out exactly what you want?\nThe first thing you have to do is answer the following questions;\nWho do you want to be surrounded by?\nThe law of attraction is a powerful phenomenon. The trick that most people miss is they are not clear with what they want, then they attract it and then they are upset because it is not exactly what they wanted\u2026 crazy. I know. How can you expect to go somewhere specific if you do not know where you want to go? That is the first step, know exactly where you want to be.\nHave a compelling why that keeps you motivated\nYou have to create a pull motion towards your dream\u2026 ok, what does that mean? You have to have a powerful WHY as to why you want that dream. If your dream is to make a lot of money and your why is, uhm I dono just because, then that isn\u2019t going to drive you very far. You need to have a compelling why that drives you past the obstacles, because when the hard times come (and I bet you that they will) it is your reasons that will get you to overcome them. With a powerful enough why, you can overcome anyhow.\nTry and be kind to yourself\nThe biggest learning one can do is to try, make a mistake and course correct. Every successful person started as a failure. Every icon started as a nobody. And every genius started as a novice. It goes with the territory. If you are going to wait until you have everything sorted before you start, you are going to wait a looooooooooooooong time and guess what, you are never going to have it all figured out, which means you will never get started \u2013 this is why so many people don\u2019t get ahead in life. So try, make a mistake and when you make one don\u2019t beat yourself up about it, rather thank yourself for trying and figure out how to do it better next time. You are going to be just fine if you fail, just keep going. Keep believing and keep making this world a better place.\nThe question now is, what are you going to do differently?\nTags: achieve, achievement, action, belief, believe, courage, determination, dream, drive, emotional intelligence, energy, faith, Focus, fulfilment, gratitude, greatness, growth, happiness, happy, improvement, inspiration, inspirational, motivation, motivational, passion, perspective, self-help, success", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 6192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://laurenstrock.com/2017/04/23/artexpo-2017-update/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:34Z", "digest": "sha1:AX4U54PBYQ7ZS6FLMBWLVJTZOFSCT7UF", "length": 1123, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "laurenstrock.com", "title": "ArtExpo 2017 Update \u2013 Lauren Strock Paintings Art", "raw_content": "ArtExpo 2017 Update\nThe first two days at the exhibition have been very eventful and exciting! The visitors are incredibly diverse, and it is a unique opportunity to meet art lovers from all over the world, and also to see some very uniquely dressed individuals \u2013 I am sure that Bill Cunningham to whom my tribute piece is dedicated would have found a lot of inspiration for his street fashion photography here!\nThe highlights of my first two days were meeting Mark Shapiro with his son and his son\u2019s girlfriend, making friends with a rising artist from Uzbekistan who is exhibiting next to me and specializes in miniatures including Mogul art copies, being visited by a group of unicorns, and of course the many visits by my friends and family who found time to support me and visit my corner.\nI was asked for an interview as a Rising Artist, and will share more exciting updates with you after the exhibition closes on Monday. Thank you to everyone for your support, and I am already full of new ideas for the next year\u2019s exhibition!\nPrevious postI and The New York Times Commemorating Bill Cunningham\nNext postGuest Post", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://law.yale.edu/emily-bazelon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:23Z", "digest": "sha1:OAFFOACGFK6QYKJU3HKWIDAQPNT4GTNE", "length": 1087, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "law.yale.edu", "title": "Emily Bazelon - Yale Law School", "raw_content": "Lecturer in Law (fall term) and Senior Research Scholar in Law\nEmily Bazelon is a Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. She is also a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and author of the national bestseller Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy.\nemily.bazelon@yale.edu\nProfessional Ethics, Public Interest and the Media\nEmily Bazelon is a Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. She is also a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine and author of the national bestseller Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. Before joining the Times, Bazelon worked for nine years as a senior editor at Slate. She has been a Soros media fellow, an editor and writer at Legal Affairs magazine, and a law clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She is a frequent guest on the Colbert Report and NPR's Here and Now. Bazelon is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 6116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 96.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://learningcenter.ehaweb.org/eha/2014/journalarticle/234234/stephanie.lee.patient-reported.outcomes.and.health.status.associated.with.html?f=listing%3D3%2Abrowseby%3D8%2Asortby%3D1%2Amedia%3D1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:3XSFJSPPJ3VDOJSDPXJ5GRMV5R52V2XT", "length": 2424, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "learningcenter.ehaweb.org", "title": "Patient-reported outcomes and health status associated with chronic.... EHA Learning Center. Lee S. Sep 1 2018; 234234", "raw_content": "Patient-reported outcomes and health status associated with chronic graft-versus-host disease\nEHA Learning Center. Lee S. Sep 1, 2018; 234234\nCo-Authors: Lynn Onstad, Eric J. Chow, Bronwen E. Shaw, Heather S.L. Jim, Karen L. Syrjala, K. Scott Baker, Sarah Buckley, Mary E. Flowers\nAbstract: Chronic graft-versus-host disease occurs in 20\u201350% of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant survivors. We surveyed patients about their quality of life, symptoms, health status, comorbid conditions and medications. Instruments included the Short-Form-36 (SF-36), the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Global and PROMIS-29 scales and the Lee Chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease Symptom Scale. Functional status was measured by self-reported Karnofsky performance status and work status. Of 3027 surveys sent to recipients surviving one or more years after transplantation, 1377 (45%) were returned. Among these, patients reported that their chronic graft-versus-host disease was mild (n=257, 18.7%), moderate (n=110, 8.0%) or severe (n=25, 1.8%). Another 377 (27.4%) had never had chronic graft-versus-host disease and 280 (20.3%) had had chronic graft-versus-host disease but it had resolved. We excluded 328 (23.8%) patients who did not answer the questions about chronic graft-versus-host disease. Patients who reported moderate or severe chronic graft-versus-host disease reported worse quality of life, lower performance status, a higher symptom burden and were more likely to be taking prescription medications for pain, anxiety and depression compared to those with resolved chronic graft-versus-host disease. Self-reported measures were similar between patients with resolved chronic graft-versus-host disease and those who had never had it. Our data suggest that the PROMIS measures may be able to replace the SF-36 in the assessment of chronic graft-versus-host disease. Between 26.7\u201339.4% of people with active chronic graft-versus-host disease were unable to work due to health reasons, compared with 12.1% whose chronic graft-versus-host disease had resolved and 15.4% who had never had chronic graft-versus-host disease. Mouth, eye and nutritional symptoms persisted after resolution of chronic graft-versus-host disease. These results show that better prevention of and treatment for chronic graft-versus-host disease are needed to improve survivorship after allogeneic transplantation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 6544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 182.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leedsstainedglass.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:46Z", "digest": "sha1:KQOAML3HDAJPZO4XJLQCMHQSATCWEDM6", "length": 2382, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "leedsstainedglass.com", "title": "About Us - Leeds Stained Glass", "raw_content": "About Us - Leeds Stained Glass\nLeeds Stained Glass understands that your church is more than a building. That\u2019s why we specialize in services that help enhance your congregation\u2019s worship experience.\nA member of the Stained Glass Association of America, Leeds Stained Glass not only manufactures and installs custom stained glass windows and frames for churches, but also provides steeples, baptistries, security systems, church furnishings, church flooring, and church renovation and repair throughout the Southeast, from Texas to Georgia and from Florida to Kentucky.\nFounded in 1980 by Terry Barnes, Leeds Stained Glass offers both professionalism and experience, with more than 35 years of experience in the church furnishings business.\nLeeds Stained Glass works closely with churches to ensure each custom stained glass creation captures the message they want to convey. Whether the stained glass is used as art, to tell a story or to illuminate its theology, the church determines what is depicted, even down to design and color.\nAdditional services offered by Leeds Stained Glass are available to suit a number of budgets and can easily be customized to your unique needs. For example, baptistries come in a range of sizes, pews and furnishings may be custom-built to match existing seating, and carpet may be dyed to coordinate with upholstery.\nLeeds Stained Glass provides full-service installation of stained glass, flooring, steeples, baptistries and security systems. We pride ourselves on our commitment to outstanding quality and timely service with each installation and renovation. For your peace of mind, we also carry contractor liability insurance and cargo insurance, and hold a hazardous materials handling bond.\nUltimately, our services do more than decorate or adorn your church\u2014our goal is to help emphasize its beauty and individuality.\nTo do this, we combine our many years of experience together with your church\u2019s needs and requirements to deliver a multi-dimensional solution to complement your church\u2019s interior and exterior. Then we combine the resources of experienced craftspeople and artists with more than three decades of stained glass design and manufacturing expertise.\nThe result is a beautiful interpretation and illumination of your church\u2019s message so your congregation\u2019s worship experience is magnified and your light shines even brighter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://legalherald.com/charleston-illinois-former-basketball-coach-barry-wolfe-accused-of-sexual-assault-replaces-lawyer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:GCUIAGCSFJDTGDEUP43HVSP4GDAMC2JV", "length": 2958, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "legalherald.com", "title": "Lawyer Comments on Barry Wolfe Replaces Lawyer, Withdraws Plea", "raw_content": "Charleston, Illinois \u2013 Former Basketball Coach Barry Wolfe Accused of Sexual Assault, Replaces Lawyer\nThe Coles County courthouse, where former youth basketball coach Barry Wolfe appeared on August 29.\nFormer AAU Girls Basketball Coach Seeks to Withdraw Sexual Abuse Guilty Plea\nFormer AAU youth girls basketball coach Barry Wolfe is seeking to withdraw a guilty plea he made for multiple counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse earlier this summer. The 54-year-old Wolf appeared in court in Coles County on August 29 to have a new lawyer appointed after his previous attorney decided to withdraw from the case.\nWolf pleaded guilty on June 26 to four counts of sexual assault after he was accused of sexually abusing underage players in his program, which has since ceased operation. Two victims accused him of sexually abusing him in multiple locations, mostly around Coles County.\nWolf was sentenced to 60 years in prison on August 11.\nA status hearing is scheduled for September 13, in which a decision will be made on Wolfe\u2019s motion to withdraw his guilty plea.\nLegal Recourse For Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Coaches\nBrian Kent of AbuseGuardian.com is a victims rights lawyer who specializes in helping the victims of sexual violence find justice. We\u2019ve asked him to contribute some information on how the legal system can help families affected by child sexual abuse:\nWhen we sign our kids up for youth sports leagues, we expect their experience to be enriching, educational, and formative. There are numerous benefits to playing youth sports, and the coaches we entrust with our children\u2019s care should be mentors who help them develop valuable skills both on and off the court. Unfortunately, sexual predators are drawn to positions like coaching because they see an opportunity to exploit their positions of trust in order to sexually abuse the children they\u2019re trusted to oversee.\nWhen a child is sexually assaulted by an adult entrusted with their care, the victim and their family struggle with many difficulties. For many families, seeing the perpetrator arrested, charged, and convicted can be a valuable part of the healing process. In addition, families in this tragic situation should be aware that the organizations which employ these coaches, along with the perpetrators themselves, can be held liable for their role in committing or enabling sexual abuse.\nIf a youth sports organization\u2019s negligence played a role in sexual abuse, the victim\u2019s family could have grounds for a lawsuit against the organization. For example, an organization could be considered negligent if they failed to notify authorities of previous complaints of sexual misconduct, which resulted in another victim being abused.\nIf your family is struggling to find peace after your child was sexually abused by a coach, we advise speaking with an experienced sexual abuse victims lawyer who can help you understand your legal options.\nColes County Circuit Courthouse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1869", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IOU2TKBQQ5D7P6XHOUWEX7M7BG6RPV7O", "length": 5049, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "leginfo.legislature.ca.gov", "title": "Bill Text - AB-1869 Military diversion: restitution.", "raw_content": "AB-1869 Military diversion: restitution.(2017-2018)\nAmended IN Assembly February 22, 2018\nIntroduced by Assembly Member Choi\nAn act to amend Section 1001.80 of the Penal Code, relating to diversion. diversion, and making an appropriation therefor.\nAB 1869, as amended, Choi. Military diversion: restitution.\nExisting law authorizes a court, with the consent of the defendant and a waiver of the defendant\u2019s speedy trial right, to postpone prosecution, either temporarily or permanently, of a misdemeanor and place the defendant in a pretrial diversion program, if the defendant was, or currently is, a member of the United States military and if he or she may be suffering from sexual trauma, traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, substance abuse, or mental health problems as a result of his or her military service. Existing law authorizes the defendant to be referred to services for treatment as part of the pretrial diversion program. Under existing law, if the defendant performs satisfactorily during the period of diversion, at the end of the period of diversion, the criminal charges are required to be dismissed.\nExisting law provides for the compensation of victims of crime by requiring the court to order a defendant convicted of a crime to pay restitution to the victim or victims of the crime. Existing law establishes the Restitution Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, to indemnify victims of crime.\nThis bill would authorize the court, when a defendant consents to be placed in the veterans\u2019 pretrial diversion program, to order the defendant to pay restitution to any victim of the crime. The bill would allow the victim to recover the ordered restitution from the defendant, but not from the Restitution Fund. The bill would authorize the use of funds in the Restitution Fund for a new purpose, thereby making an appropriation. By increasing the duties of local agencies that collect restitution funds, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.\nVote: MAJORITY2/3 Appropriation: NOYES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES\nSection 1001.80 of the Penal Code is amended to read:\n(a) This chapter shall apply to a case before a court on an accusatory pleading alleging the commission of a misdemeanor offense if both of the following apply to the defendant:\n(d) If a referral is made to the county mental health authority as part of the pretrial diversion program, the county shall provide mental health treatment services only to the extent that resources are available for that purpose, as described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 5600.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. If mental health treatment services are ordered by the court, the county mental health agency shall coordinate appropriate referral of the defendant to the county veterans service officer, as described in paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 5600.3 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The county mental health agency is not responsible for providing services outside its traditional scope of services. An order shall be made referring a defendant to a county mental health agency only if that agency has agreed to accept responsibility for all of the following:\n(g) The court and the assigned treatment program may collaborate with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to maximize benefits and services provided to a veteran.\n(i) A record filed with the Department of Justice shall indicate the disposition of those cases diverted pursuant to this chapter. Upon successful completion of a diversion program, the arrest upon which the diversion was based shall be deemed to have never occurred. The defendant may indicate in response to a question concerning his or her prior criminal record that he or she was not arrested or diverted for the offense, except as specified in subdivision (j). A record pertaining to an arrest resulting in successful completion of a diversion program shall not, without the defendant\u2019s consent, be used in any way that could result in the denial of any employment, benefit, license, or certificate.\n(l) Notwithstanding any other law, including Section 23640 of the Vehicle Code, a misdemeanor offense for which a defendant may be placed in a pretrial diversion program in accordance with this section includes a misdemeanor violation of Section 23152 or 23153 of the Vehicle Code. However, this section does not limit the authority of the Department of Motor Vehicles to take administrative action concerning the driving privileges of a person arrested for a violation of Section 23152 or 23153 of the Vehicle Code.\n(m) When a defendant consents to be placed in a pretrial diversion program pursuant to this section the court may order that the defendant pay restitution to any victim of the crime. The victim may recover the ordered restitution from the defendant in the same manner as provided under Section 1202.4, but the victim shall not recover the ordered restitution from the Restitution Fund. 1202.4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 10639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 208.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lentheplumber.com/northern-va-area/wells/water-treatment-testing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:N5Y3NCUK46G74YLRKVZ47KZPJYGCOM66", "length": 3940, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "lentheplumber.com", "title": "Well Water Testing & Treatment | Northern Virginia", "raw_content": "Well Water Services in Northern Virginia\nOver 15 million U.S. households receive their water from private ground water wells. While the EPA regulates public drinking water systems, they do not regulate privately owned wells. Because of this, homeowners with private wells are responsible for the safety of their water. Therefore they should have their water tested regularly.\nIf you are looking for water testing and treatment options, call Len The Plumber. Our experienced technicians can come out and test for things such as pH level, iron, and mineral content. Or, if you have already had your water tested and are looking for water treatments, we can provide you with the appropriate system to ensure you have safe drinking water.\nLen The Plumber can provide you with a water analysis on the spot in your home. We test for things such as pH, Iron and other mineral contents that can be unsafe or a general nuisance to your home.\npH Level Testing\nThe pH level, \u201cpotential hydrogen,\u201d tells you how acidic your water is. The pH level of water can change how your water looks and tastes. When water has a low pH, it means that the water is more acidic, and can be corrosive and harmful to any metals it comes into contact with. This is a cause for concern because the corrosion can seep into the water you drink.\nWhen water has high levels of pH, it is considered to be \u201chard water.\u201d Hard water tends to make water have a bad taste. It causes lime scale buildup on plumbing fixtures and pipes. Even little things such as washing your hair with hard water will make your hair look dull and you\u2019ll need to use more soap to get lather. The chart below shows how hard water can harm your water heater.\nThe reason to test for iron is because iron in water can cause yellow, red, or brown stains on laundry, dishes, and plumbing fixtures such as sinks. In addition, iron can clog sprinklers and other devices such as dishwashers, which can lead to costly repairs. Iron gives a metallic taste to water, and can affect foods and beverages.\nThere are many different treatment options for the treatment of water since no single treatment will protect you against all problems. Homeowners use a water treatment unit to:\nRemove specific contaminants\nProtect your home from corrosion\nHomeowners have two water treatment options, either a point-of-use or a point-of-entry system. Both are systems that Len The Plumber can install. Point-of-entry systems are typically installed after the water meter or well tank and treat most of the water entering a residence. Point-of-use systems are systems that treat water in batches and deliver water to a tap, such as a kitchen or bathroom sink or a secondary faucet mounted next to a tap.\nThe most common types of household water treatment systems consist of:\nA water filter is a device which removes impurities from water by means of a physical barrier.\nA water softener is a device that reduces the hardness of the water. A water softener removes the calcium and magnesium ions that create \u201chardness.\u201d\nDisinfection is a physical or chemical treatment where microorganisms are killed. Chlorine and chlorine dioxide are examples of chemical treatment while Ultraviolet would be an example of physical disinfectant.\nUltraviolet treatment systems use ultraviolet (UV) light to kill microorganisms such as bacteria and viruses. The effectiveness of UV is determined by how clear the water is so it is important that dirty water is filtered before using UV.\nReverse osmosis systems use pressure to force water through a membrane casing. These systems help reduce the amount of metals and minerals in water such as sodium, chloride and heavy metals, such as copper, chromium, and lead. In addition, some of these systems can also reduce contaminants such as arsenic V, fluoride, and nitrates.\nIf you have concerns about your water or are in the market for a water treatment system, give Len The Plumber a call today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 7532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lessonslearnedinlife.com/dont-lie-5/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HW2CGWMOY3UG3HRS6NOIE7HNW6QK24UU", "length": 698, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "lessonslearnedinlife.com", "title": "Lessons Learned in LifeDon\u2019t lie. - Lessons Learned in Life", "raw_content": "You can say sorry a million times, say I love you as much as you want, say whatever you want, whenever you want. But if you\u2019re not going to prove that the things you say are true, then don\u2019t say anything at all. Because if you can\u2019t show it, your words don\u2019t mean a thing. Don\u2019t lie in order to satisfy somebody for a moment, because the pain that you cause them in the future can last them for a lifetime.\nTags: future, lifetime, million, pain, prove, sorry\nThis Wonder Soup Will Make You Fit Your Favorite Clothes Again!\nWhat\u2019s truly missing in your life?\nThere\u2019s so much to smile about.\nPerfectly stated! This definitely hits home for me and my life. Beautifully written \ud83d\ude42 Thank you for sharing!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://libraries.wm.edu/databases/by-initial/v", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OWMKJ3BDOBCOXX6SEZ2UJ5VVZ3N6SDUM", "length": 1956, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "libraries.wm.edu", "title": "V Databases | William & Mary Libraries", "raw_content": "V Databases\nIncludes online full-page industry reports, ratings, and commentaries for 1,700 widely-followed analyst covered companies and 1,800 small and mid-cap companies. 10 Simultaneous Users.\nBusiness, including accounting & tax, administration, industry & manufacturing, marketing, logistics, and technology. In French. Coverage: 1971-present.\nIncludes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.\nVirginia Company Archives Online\nIncludes fully searchable previously unpublished transcripts of over 500 documents from the Virginia Company Archives; records of the Virginia Company of London; complete Ferrar Papers from Magdalene College, Cambridge; and a wide range of maps, illustrations, and other works. Coverage: 1590-1790.\nNews covering all of Virginia, also information from other colonies, Scotland, England, and other countries. Published weekly in Williamsburg, VA. Coverage: 1736-1780.\nVirginia Heritage Database\nVirginia history and culture. Finding aids with descriptions of manuscript and archival collections in universities, colleges, and institutions in Virginia. Coverage: 1607-present.\nVIVA Faculty Textbook Portal\nThe goal of the Portal is to provide course materials for adoption that are of no cost to students. It provides a wide array of Open Educational Resources, shared library resources, and content available for purchase using VIVA funds.\nThe complete run of Vogue Italia \u2013 one of the most influential and renowned international editions of Vogue \u2013 from its launch in 1964 to the present. Recognized as the least commercial and most artistic edition, it has a tradition of innovation and bold treatment of current issues and events.\nVoltaire Electronique\nIncludes all of Voltaire's literary works from the Voltaire Foundation Oxford edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifeinmalaga.com/plaza-la-merced/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WLDBTH2GMZERGPMHTZW4AO7QOU2UP4TO", "length": 1665, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "lifeinmalaga.com", "title": "Plaza de la Merced", "raw_content": "Also known by other names such as Plaza del Mercado (Market Square) or Plaza de Riego (Riego Square), it is one of the most beautiful squares in the city. At its centre is the Monument to Torrijos, a large obelisk that dominates the square.\nIt is also known for being the place where Picasso took his first steps, as the Fundaci\u00f3n Picasso Museo Casa Natal is in the apartments, known as Casas de Campo, on one side of the square. Politicians such as General Riego, sculptors like Fernando Ortiz, writers such as Juan Jos\u00e9 Relosillas, architects such as Ger\u00f3nimo Cuervo and painters such as Bernardo Ferr\u00e1ndiz have all lived in the square.\nThe square was a public market in the 15th century and it was a place of leisure and recreation for citizens in the late 19thcentury. The sound of the bells of the church of La Merced, near Picasso\u2019s birthplace, was witnessed by a mosaic of popular figures that the great artist portrayed throughout his life.\nTurkey keepers, milk vendors with their herds of goats, candy, biznaga (floral adornment that is typical to M\u00e1laga) and jam sellers, guitar makers, servants and soldiers all wandered around the monolith which, since 1842, stands in the centre of the wooded square in tribute to General Torrijos, whose slogans of freedom and justice were a reference point for the boy named Pablo Ruiz Picasso.\nAnd we shouldn\u2019t forget that in this environment, even today, as then, flying doves symbolise the paradigms announced at the cenotaph of the fallen soldier. These are Picasso\u2019s doves, from his childhood until his death, he painted them \u2013from the hands of his father\u2013 as the perennial emblem of his long and legendary work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifeinsurancementors.com/10-companies-that-sell-term-life-insurance-cheapest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:43Z", "digest": "sha1:LO6TMKPZUF7GBXDQOZ6S5NKEFIOEAVEF", "length": 16971, "nlines": 106, "source_domain": "lifeinsurancementors.com", "title": "10 Companies That Sell Term Life Insurance Cheapest", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t Let the Ads Decide\nAs you have decided to buy life insurance, it is time you made a list of the companies that sell life insurance cheapest. Overpaying for anything is silly, you know. When it comes to insurance, it may be the silliest if there are chances that you can buy a low rate insurance.\nYes, there are companies that sell life insurance cheapest, cheaper or cheap. You have the same product bringing for you the very peace of mind you are seeking at lower cost from one company. Conversely, another company may be asking you to pay higher premiums for the very same product.\nYou need to know which companies really sell low-cost life insurance.\nThis post is going to tell you the names of the companies that sell term life insurance cheapest.\n(Yes, we are talking only about term insurance.)\nAlso, we have made sure that they are the nation\u2019s best life insurance companies.\nFor that we have focused on the most important 3 important criteria:\nCompetitive Cost; and,\nCommendable Ratings\n(While making the list of the best life insurance companies, we have strictly followed the criteria for you. So, yes, you will have a list of the country\u2019s most trusted life insurance companies here.)\nLet\u2019s know what have seen in each of the categories:\nThe Company Age\nWhile finding the list a list of the best life insurance companies, have first focused on the of the company. When a life insurance company survives in the market for decades, you can very well rely on it. Survival of a company for decades obviously means it has earned its customers\u2019 trust. Trust of customers, you know, make companies.\nSo, as you are probably considering buying life insurance, we recommend that you consider companies that have stayed in the market for at least 50 years. Many insurers in the USA have tested this age criterion.\nCost of the Products\nInsurance policy rates can be very head-rolling (See here for example how a $500,000 term life policy cost varies from one company to another) . While one life insurance company may offer you a policy for $20, another may charge $60 for the same. What is more confusing is, while one of the most prestigious or best life insurance companies may offer the cheapest rate, a company off the limelight may demand the highest price for the same product.\nIt is worth remembering that life insurance being a deal, not a service, choosing the prestigious is not always inevitable. The fact is it is the deal that matters, not the company. If the time to conversion arrives, the deal will work the same way for both the companies.\nSo, the name of an insurer with a competitive rate is one you can circle around. That is the best life insurance company for you, for sure. Simply make sure it is legit.\nIndependent Ratings\nYou might have noticed that life insurers and insurance bloggers almost invariably refer to ratings from A.M. Best, Fitch, BBB, Moody\u2019s and S&P. These are independent, most trusted and highly professional rating agencies. Ratings from any of these can be a benchmark for you to trust or not trust a life insurance company. When they or any of them indicate certain company is best, you have reasons to trust.\nWell, the ratings invariably (among others things) indicate whether a life insurance company is financially strong enough or not. Unless an insurer has positive or the best ratings, it is not likely to be a best life insurance company . The reason is, if you buy a policy from a financially insecure company, you may place yourself in the wrong perch. Remember, \u2018claims paying\u2019 ability of the life insurance company counts a lot.\nNow that you know how to find the truly best life insurance companies, it is time you knew which are the cheapest life insurance companies in the USA.\nBefore we provide the list, let us explain how we chose the 10 cheap insurance companies for you.\nOur Picks: How We Prepared It\nWe got quotes from 25 life insurance companies for a 25-years old non-smoker excellent health youth from Alaska. The coverage amount sought was $500,000 for a 30-years term life insurance policy. The lowest quote for the desired policy was $31.39 while the highest was $63.98. We have mentioned the 10 life insurance companies that gave the lowest quotes. We have left the rest out.\nBesides rates, we also focused on how long the companies have been operating in the country. As the country has life insurance companies almost of two centuries old, we chose those which have survived more than 50 years. We think 50+ years is a long enough survival time for a life insurance company to build trust and reliability for its customers.\nWe have also checked ratings from A.M. Best for three good reasons. The first reason is that A.M. Best is the nation\u2019s oldest rating agency. The second reason is that their Financial Strength Ratings (FSR) suffice to tell whether a life insurance company is strong enough or not. Finally, unlike many others they are dedicated to researching exclusively into the country\u2019s life insurance industry.\nHere follows the list of the 10 best life insurance companies in the country:\nAs of 2017, Banner Life Insurance Company has operated in the US for 68 years. It was launched in 1949. Survival in the market for almost seven decades is something you cannot ignore when it comes to the credibility of a company. While its history in the USA is of about seven decades, its original history traces back to 1836 in London where it originated.\nIn the US, Banner Life Insurance Company is headquartered in Maryland as part of Legal and General America. The service of this life insurance company literally extends \u2018from coast to coast\u2019 as they are entitled to work in every state including the District of Columbia but except New York. However, they provide service to New York residents through Penn Life there.\nBanner Life Insurance Company\u2019s quote for the youth we were seeking quotes for co-appeared as the most competitive among the 25 life insurance companies we got quotes from. For $500,000 for the 30-year term life insurance policy, their quote was $31.39 a month.\nThis rate makes them one of the most affordable life insurance companies in the USA.\nBanner Life Insurance Company has an A+ from A.M. Best. An A+ from this rating agency means they are a superior standard life insurance company\nProtective Life Insurance Company came into operation in 1907. That means, as of 2018, they have been in the insurance market for 111 years. As they claim in their slogan, this has been a proof that they have been able to maintain a \u2018legacy of service\u2019. They have their offices across the country.\nThe company has its headquarters in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. They have their services in all the 50 states of the country.\nProtective Life Insurance Company\u2019s quote for the same policy equaled to Banner\u2019s which was $31.39. As such, they are also one of the cheapest life insurance companies in the USA.\nProtective Life Insurance Company also has A+ rating from A.M. Best. This sends Protective Life in the superior group like their competitor Banner Life.\nMassachusetts Mutual Life Insurance (Haven) Company\nMassachusetts Mass Mutual or Haven Life Insurance Company is another oldest and largest life insurance company you can rely on when it comes to trust and cost. Established in 1851, they have been insuring people across the Unites States for more than 160 years.\nMass Mutual Haven\u2019s quote showed them to be the second cheapest term life insurance provider among the 25 life insurance companies that we sought quotes from. It was little more than Protective and Banner\u2019s. But the cost is highly competitive. The quote read $31.42, negligibly higher than the above two.\nHowever, Haven Life stands ahead in terms of A.M. Best rating. Although they are also in the superior class, they are in the double plus notch group. That means their rating is A++.\nPacific Life Insurance Company was founded in 1868 and is one of the oldest life insurance companies in the United States. It is headquartered in Newport Beach, California.\nFor the same youth\u2019s 30-year term insurance for $500,000, Pacific\u2019s quote was the third most inexpensive. Their quote was $31.78 for a month. Their rate makes groups them among the least cost-effective and best life insurance companies.\nPacific Life Insurance Company also has a superior rating of A+ from A.M. Best. This proves they are one of the reliable life insurance companies in the USA.\nTransAmerica is comparatively recent among the companies we have discussed so long. They were established in 1961. That means they have been operational for 56 years in 2017. Passing more than half a century for a financial company speaks well for their credibility. TransAmerica is headquartered at Ceder Rapids, Iowa, USA.\nThe quote that we were given by this company was the fourth cheapest for the term life insurance we sought. Their quote was $31.82. In terms of cost, their quote is also highly competitive and sends them among the nation\u2019s most affordable life insurance companies for sure.\nA+ from A.M. Best makes them one of the most trusted life insurance companies in the USA.\nCincinnati Life Insurance Company was established in 1950. That means they have been in the insurance market for a long time : 67 years.\nCincinnati Life Insurance Company also gave us a quote of $31.82 and thus they jointly became the fourth cheapest term life insurance provider. Their service extends in 34 states of the USA. The company is headquartered in Ohio.\nCincinnati\u2019s cost for the $500,000 coverage was $31.82. Surely, the rate makes them another best life insurance companies in terms of cost in the U.S.\nA. M. Best Rating\nCincinnati Life Insurance Company is awarded A+ by A.M. Best.\nMore known as AIG, American International Group Inc. is going to celebrate their centennial birth soon. The company was born in 1919 in Shanghai, China. Its founder was an American, Cornelius Vander Starr. Now this company is one of the largest and strongest insurance companies in the world. The company has its service spread in more than 80 countries and jurisdictions. AIG is headquartered in New York city, New York.\nAIG\u2019s quote for the said term policy was $31.92 which made them the fifth cheapest of the companies we compared quotes from.\nAIG has A from A. M. Best which categorizes the company in the excellent category, the second best rating of A. M. Best.\nLincoln National has already passed a century. This public company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, US. They are one of the Fortune 250 companies.\nLincoln\u2019s quote for the aforesaid person was $32.65 which made them one of the cheap term life insurance sellers in the USA. In terms of rate, they appeared as the sixth cheapest term life insurance sellers.\nLincoln National Life Insurance Company has a superior class rating from A. M. Best. It is A+.\nAmerican National is another oldest life insurance company that has been serving the nation for more than a century. It was founded in 1905. It is headquartered in Galveston, Texas, USA. They are licensed to work in all the 50 states except New York. However, they conduct their business there through American National Life Insurance Company, one of their subsidiaries.\nTheir rate also appeared as competitive. The quote for the aforesaid coverage was $32.83. They are the seventh cheapest term life insurance seller in the USA.\nAmerican National Insurance Company falls in the excellent category in A. M. Best\u2019s rating. They have an A from this rating agency.\nPruco Life Insurance\nPruco Life Insurance Company is another oldest and best life insurance company you cannot easily ignore and they also offer competitive rates. The company was established in 1885. So, they are almost one and a half centuries old. Staying in the financial market for this long period is proof that customers have rested their faith with this company.\nPruco\u2019s quote for the 30-year term for the youth\u2019s $500,000 coverage was $33.25. Though they are the highest quote giver here, they are almost 100% cheaper compared to the highest rate we had for the coverage.\nPruco enjoys A. M. Best\u2019s superior rating of A+. They are one of the superior companies in the country.\nHopefully, you have got your list of the cheapest life insurance companies in the USA. And, of course, they are the nation\u2019s best ones as well.\nFiled Under: General Discussion Tagged With: best life insurance companies, cheap life insurance companies, cheapest life insurance companies, cheapest term life insurance companies, life insurance cheapest, life insurance company, term life insurance cheapest\nIt\u2019s good to know there are an array of companies to choose from. Having affordable insurance helps as well.\ngreat article! makes it easier for people to choose!\nNice. We have life insurance through the military at the moment, but I\u2019ll look into these places as well. I know life insurance is important!\nDo you know I\u2019ve never really thought about life insurance, I am sure it is something I should think on more and it is good to know who offers a good price and is reliable.\nThanks and any buyer of life insurance should be looking for the best price. We wish you have the best price.\nLara Hathout says\nHaving a good life insurance is so important but it almost always comes with a high price tag. Finding an affordable and good insurance is a challenge. Thanks for breaking it all down for us!\nThanks, Lara, for the comment.\nDeola says\nGreat post explaining and showing the different options available to consumers. Competition is always a good thing, keeps the companies on their toes hopefully\nThank you for this article, it\u2019s really good to know that there are so many different affordable companies to choose from!\nHi Sondra Barker, we are happy you liked our post. You can truly gain when you shop around.Thanks for leaving your comment.\nRoselle Toledo says\nThe only familiar to me from your list is AIG since it partnered with one of the insurance companies here in my country. I don\u2019t have a life insurance yet but my accident insurance is provided by SunLife\nexpertquote says\nLife insurance can truly be an important part of your financial planning. AIG is a big shot, of course, here in America. But we always encourage shopping around.\nI\u2019ve heard of some of these, but I didn\u2019t really do my research on them. I have a friend who is looking to get life insurance for her family. I\u2019ll share this with her in case she needs a good comparison piece.\nLife insurance is definitely so important to have. This is a great resource to know there are affordable options out there.\nMany thanks, TColeman.\nGreat post for those looking for insurance with so many options to choose from. You\u2019ve made it easy\nThank you, Tina, for dropping by and leaving inspiration for us.\nThese are great recommendations for great insurance companies. Thanks for sharing.\nYou are welcome, Ophelia.\nWe have overpaid for insurance and been disappointed. It\u2019s good to do your research to find the right plan at the right price point.\nThanks, Heather, that you found our post of use. It is true many overpay only because they don\u2019t have the information.\nThis post is actually one of the most informative yet kind post I\u2019ve ever read. Its very nice to blog about cheaper insurance because it is helpful to people looking for something a bit less pricey. Thanks for sharing!\nThese are great options for life insurances. I wonder if maybe one of these is perfect for nomadic lifestyle.\nSo long there is an address for you, you should not feel disappointed. But frequent traveling by air may affect your premiums. Please feel free to ask any questions. And, yes, thank you for visiting us.\nLife insurance is so important. I have realised this as I have got older and have a family of my own\nInsurance is very important in today\u2019s life. This is a very informative post. Thanks for sharing cheap life insurance options.\nIt is great that you have so many options over there and cheap ones at that. Here in the Caribbean, the selection is not so wide and we have actually had insurance companies go under .\nThanks for the advice to not let advertising decide which insurance company from which to buy life insurance. I am sure many have not even considered the viability of a company being 50+ years as a good standard. Along with ratings, I really appreciate the understanding of a baseline cost for life insurance. Thank you! Xo, Evelyn, PathofPresence \ud83e\udd8b\nCityrocka Perry says\nYou\u2019ve managed to put together quite a comprehensive list of insurance companies! It definitely saved me lots of time and effort. Will have to look into this one further for sure!Thank you \ud83d\ude42\nWow, I never knew there was so much to think about when buying life insurance, or that there were so many options and variations in pricing. Thanks for sharing this info.\nguong navado says\nYour method of explaining th\uff45 w\u04bbole thing in this piece \u043ef writing is\nrea\u217cly go\u2c9fd, \u0251ll \u217dan effortlessly \u0184e aware of it, \u03a4hanks a \u217cot.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 20256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifeinthescriptures.blogspot.com/2013/11/scripture-and-commentary-tuesday-after_11.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:29Z", "digest": "sha1:74B6UUA2KFAQPS3KFVSEX5KWY6O4UAEV", "length": 1997, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lifeinthescriptures.blogspot.com", "title": "Life in the Scriptures: Scripture and Commentary, Tuesday after the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity", "raw_content": "Scripture and Commentary, Tuesday after the Twenty-fourth Sunday after Trinity\nMorning \u2013 Psalm 68, Leviticus 19:26, Phil. 1:12-26\nEvening \u2013 Psalm 67, 84, Dt. 13:1-11, Mt. 27:27-44\nThe death of Christ is accomplished by means of intense torture. The scourge is a whip of many thongs, and many died under its lash alone. Jesus is beaten with such severity He is unable to carry His cross (27:32). After the scourging, the soldiers continue to beat Him with their hands. But the soldiers do not beat Him to death. They saved Him to suffer the additional torture of the cross.\nAccording to Roman custom Jesus is paraded through the city. This is done to humiliate the victim and His people. Normally the victim carried his cross, but Jesus is too weak to carry His. Simon (27:32) is probably a Jew who came to Jerusalem for the Passover. He is forced by the Romans to carry the cross for Jesus.\nAt Golgotha, they give our Lord a mixture of vinegar (spoiled wine) and myrr to drink. The purpose of the drink is a subject of much speculation. Myrr reportedly has the effect of reducing pain, and some have thought offering it to Christ is an act of kindness. But reducing the pain for a while might have the effect of prolonging the suffering on the cross. Therefore, it could be an additional act of cruelty. Whatever the reason for offering it, Jesus refuses the drink. He will not go to the cross in a medicated state. He will be fully aware of His suffering.\nThe sign above His head (27:37) is the accusation, the reason for His crucifixion. It is intended to insult the Jewish people, as though the Romans were saying, this is what we do to your Messiah, and you are powerless to stop it. But the religious leaders are not insulted. They are overjoyed at the plight of Jesus. They revel in His suffering. They even begin to mock Him, thinking to add to His pain (27:41). Even one of the thieves reviles Him. Truly it is as though all of humanity has turned against Him, and He is left to die alone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 747, "original_length": 14141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 211.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lindsayfelderman.com/2015/12/23/its-a-wonderful-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YQUNRRLMATBJWUMJVHDPDRTAG7XUTUDP", "length": 2479, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lindsayfelderman.com", "title": "It\u2019s a Wonderful Life \u2013 lindsay felderman", "raw_content": "Posted on December 23, 2015 by lindsayfelderman\tPosted in InspirationTagged 2015, 2016, be great, follow your dreams, happy holidays, holiday season, it's a wonderful life, make a difference, make an impact, making a difference, making an impact, you would be missed\nGrowing up, every year on Christmas Eve, my family and I would sit down together and watch It\u2019s a Wonderful Life. Every year, I would think the same thing: \u201cwhy do we have to watch this old black and white movie?\u201d\nAs I got older, I started to actually pay attention to the movie and the message it was sending. George Bailey\u2019s life didn\u2019t go the way he expected it to. It seems that every time he turned around, something else went wrong. It gets to the point where George felt everyone around him would have been better off if he had never been born.\nThe rest of the movie his guardian angel, Clarence shows him how life would have turned out without him. His brother Henry would have died when he was 12 because he wouldn\u2019t have been there to save him. The pharmacist he worked for would have gone to jail if George hadn\u2019t caught his deadly mistake in giving a customer the wrong pills. His father\u2019s business would have failed because he wouldn\u2019t have been there to take it over. The list goes on and on of all the people that George had impacted in his life, putting them in a completely different place without his influence.\nNow that I am old enough to appreciate this movie, I take the message to heart. You never know the small impact you are making on someone\u2019s life. You never know if a quick smile, or a how are you, or just being in the right place at the right time can help change someone else\u2019s life forever. Your life matters. It matters to everyone in your life that loves you and every other person you come in contact with.\nThe world needs you and the impact that you make on it, as it wouldn\u2019t be the same without you in it. Once you realize that you are making a difference by just being here, you can realize that you have no other choice than to be the best version of yourself. The impact you have on the universe would be missed if you weren\u2019t here, so you might as well take the opportunity to be great, to follow your dreams and passions and the make the most of your life. Make your life wonderful & make it count.\nOn that note, Happy Holidays everyone. Enjoy this time with your family and friends. I hope 2015 was as good to you as it was to me and here\u2019s to making 2016 even better.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 188.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://listcaboodle.com/what-is-bitcoin-how-it-works-and-risk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7EYB5GIRSYNR2NPNL5XW3SAL5MKHDIVO", "length": 14225, "nlines": 69, "source_domain": "listcaboodle.com", "title": "13 Things You Should Know About Bitcoin | ListCaboodle", "raw_content": "Blockchains, Mining, and Bitcoin Forks are just a few of the terms you'll want to understand to get your arms around the Bitcoin phenomenon\nWhat is Bitcoin? It\u2019s seemingly everywhere. You\u2019ve read the headlines, heard the news, and might even know something about the cryptocurrency called Bitcoin. Let\u2019s shore up that knowledge with 13 questions and answers that will provide you a basic understanding. As always, please don\u2019t take any of the following as investment advice \u2013 consult with a reputable financial advisor.\nHere\u2019s a quick primer to help you understand the Bitcoin phenomenon. You might also want to check out \u201cBanking on Bitcoin\u201d which is a documentary on Netflix.\nBitcoin is a digital currency and is independent of any printed currency or coins. It is a decentralized form of currency that is not backed up or controlled by a government or organization. Unlike traditional currency, it is not issued by any institution but has to be \u2018mined\u2019 using computer systems. This cryptocurrency has a current market capitalization of over $147 billion, the highest for any such currency in the market.\nBitcoin was invented by Satoshi Nakamoto, whose identity has not been established, in the year 2009. The goal behind the cryptocurrency\u2019s creation was to have an electronic cash system that was not controlled by any centralized authority. Bitcoins allow you to make international payments anonymously and without incurring huge costs.\nTransactions in bitcoin are recorded in a blockchain in a chronological and public manner. By design the blockchain technology is decentralized. Blockchain was developed in 2008 specifically for bitcoin but the concept has spread quickly to other applications. A \u201cblock\u201d refers to a record of transactions. Once a block is completed and then added to the chain, it creates a series of blocks, or a blockchain.\nIf you own bitcoin, what you have is a private key \u2013 essentially a long password \u2013 to its address on the blockchain. With this key, you can withdraw currency or folks can add currency to your account. Importantly, you must keep track of your key. Without it, you can\u2019t access your currency.\nCryptocurrencies like bitcoin are encrypted. To process a transaction requires the solving of complicated math problems that grow in difficulty as the blockchain is expanded. Folks who solve these problems are rewarded with cryptocurrency via a process called \u201cmining.\u201d\nHow Cryptocurrecny Works Video from NYT\n2. Bitcoin Value: What is it based on?\nBitcoin\u2019s value is based on factors of simple economics such as scarcity, supply and demand, and utility. The cryptocurrency\u2019s maximum numbers are limited to 21 million and this makes scarcity one of the main factors driving its value. However, there is a difference between the price and value of this digital currency.\nThe price of this currency is affected by the market where it trades and depends on supply and demand. So its price gets affected in a way similar to that of gold. Traders can trade the currency on a Bitcoin exchange that sets the price at a specific time in a specific market. Eventually, the price is set by the traders. Blockchain technology enables the transfer of money around the world by bypassing traditional organizations like banks.\nBill Gates Quote on Bitcoin\n\u201cBitcoin is exciting because it shows how cheap it can be. Bitcoin is better than currency in that you don\u2019t have to be physically in the same place and, of course, for large transactions, currrency can get pretty inconvenient.\u201d\nCheck out this list of Bitcoin quotes, sayings and predictions from industry insiders, traders and politicians.\n3. How do you buy Bitcoin?\nIn order to purchase this cryptocurrency, it will be required to have a Bitcoin wallet to start with. There are many websites that allow you to download this wallet. The wallet provides you access to an account page that has lots of similarities to your conventional online banking account page.\nOnce you have signed-up for a wallet, you can purchase bitcoins using regular money. You can purchase the currency from a Bitcoin exchange by paying with a credit card, bank transfer or other traditional methods. The number of bitcoins purchased will get transferred to the wallet. At a more technical level, the wallet stores a private key and not the Bitcoin itself. The digital currency is not stored anywhere.\n4. How risky is it?\nIf you have bitcoins, the private key works similar to your ATM PIN and should be kept a secret. It is required for authorizing transactions using the currency. It is important to encrypt your wallet using a strong password. You should know about the different potential risks with regard to having a Bitcoin wallet.\nVulnerable Bitcoin Wallets: The wallets are vulnerable to hacking attacks. Malware attacks are capable of intercepting communication between wallet and computer systems and divert the funds to different accounts.\nCyber Attacks on Bitcoin Exchanges: There have been instances of major attacks on Bitcoin exchanges. In the 2014 Mt. Gox attack, hackers were able to steal 0.85 million bitcoins with value of over $7 billion at the current rate. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is another potential security threat to the cryptocurrency.\nDouble Spending: This is another potential risk that affects the use of Bitcoin. Unethical practices can result in the use of the same coin twice within the same transaction. Since Bitcoin transactions are irreversible and unregulated, there is no recourse if any discrepancy is created.\n51% Attacks: Today, miners create communities to make the most of computational power. However, there is a conceptual threat known as the 51% attack, which states that when such a group controls over 50% of the mining power, they could be able to manipulate transactions.\n5. What is Bitcoin gold?\nBitcoin Gold emerged as an alternate fork to the primary blockchain with the goal of making mining more equitable. Its objective is to allow anyone to start mining for the cryptocurrency using basic hardware \u2013 something which was possible during the early years of the currency\u2019s existence. Over time, mining Bitcoin has become a centralized process where large groups and/or companies with powerful computer systems mine most of the Bitcoin. One of the key rules here is to make changes to the algorithm of mining by eliminating the difference in speed of mining between someone using a standard computer system and a group using specialized computer rigs.\n6. Other cryptocurrencies\nThere are many other cryptocurrencies that have been developed at different times. Bitcoin stands out from the crowd due to its groundbreaking demand and growth in a short span of time. Some of the similar digital currencies in the market include the following:\nEther: This is a cryptocurrency made for a decentralized platform known as Ethereum, which executes peer-to-peer smart contracts. Founded in 2015, it is currently valued at $1.1 billion and it allows users to code and implement contracts without the need for third parties.\nLitecoin: This cryptocurrency was launched in 2011 and it makes use of elements known as \u2018scrypt\u2019 as evidence of work. Similar to the Bitcoin in so many ways, this digital currency has faster block generation rate. It is used in exchange for goods and services and touched the highest overall valuation of $1.2 billion in 2013.\nRipple: This cryptocurrency is referred to as a real-time global settlement network that enables affordable and instant international payments. It also stands out for its transparency. Ripple was launched in 2012 and touched a market cap of $1.26 billion. There is no mining process involved, thus reducing the need for computing power. In fact, the digital currency has also found acceptance by certain banks and payment networks as a way to reduce costs.\nSome of the other well-known cryptocurrencies include Dogecoin and Dash.\n7. How to get Bitcoins?\nBesides buying Bitcoin there are many other ways you can get this cryptocurrency. Some of the most popular options are as follows:\nYou can accept the currency as a form of payment\nSome websites offer the digital currency as payment for completing tasks\nYou can mine for bitcoins by using a mining software and setting up a powerful computer system or by joining a pool\nYou may also earn the currency through trading\nA Bitcoin exchange is an online marketplace that allows you to buy and sell the digital currency using traditional currency. This exchange helps buyers and sellers to trade in a similar way as in a conventional stock exchange. A trader can select market order to authorize the exchange to trade their coins for the optimal price. Similarly, traders can also select limit order to trade in the cryptocurrency.\n9. Price History\nThe Bitcoin is currently priced at just around $7,000, but it not the highest price that it has touched. At the time of its launch, the cryptocurrency had basically no value at all. In March of 2010, the coin was valued at a meager $0.003. BitcoinMarket.com is the first exchange that allowed trading in the digital currency (the exchange is no longer operational). Bitcoin\u2019s price kept fluctuating over the years until in November 2013 when it crossed the $1,000 mark at Mt. Gox. A recent surge in the coin\u2019s value saw it touching an unprecedented figure of $17,900 in December 2017. Since then its value has stabilized to around $7,000 per coin.\n10. What is a Bitcoin Fork?\nA Bitcoin fork is a set of changes made to the software of the digital currency for creating a different version of the blockchain. There are many reasons why it may be created. Whenever a change is proposed to this cryptocurrency\u2019s protocol, it is important that a significant percentage of the users show their support. Once such an approval is received, it results in the creation of a new fork.\n11. How to mine Bitcoins?\nThere are two different ways in which you can mine bitcoins.\nPersonal Mining\nIf you can invest in special computer hardware that uses ASIC chips, you can mine the cryptocurrency yourself. You will also have to take into account the cost of operations to determine whether the mining process is cost-effective. The steps involved are as follows:\nPurchase the Hardware: Choose a powerful ASIC-enabled miner that is highly energy efficient to keep the cost of operation low.\nJoin a Mining Pool: You can decide to mine the currency yourself or by joining a pool, which is a group of miners. When you join a group, you are able to earn more regular rewards. However, when you mine alone, the rewards may not be as regular and it can take a long time to earn even a single Bitcoin. When you join a pool, it is required to pay a certain percentage of your earnings as a fee.\nInstall a Mining Software: Once you have decided whether you want to work alone or join a mining pool, you should install a mining software and link it to your hardware.\nAlso, check out this video on Bitcoin Mining?\nThe second way to mine the digital currency is to consider cloud mining. This is different from personal mining in that you are renting the mining hardware from a reputed company. Mining companies provide different mining packages that vary in terms of hashing power. A higher package can help generate profits faster. Once you have chosen a mining company, you can then join a mining pool.\nThe larger a mining pool, the better are the chances of earning bitcoins. It is recommended to become part of a reputed and proven team to get the highest-possible returns. Once you start earning the cryptocurrency, it is suggested to transfer it into your secure wallet.\n12. Scams\nIf you want to mine or earn bitcoins, it is important to know about the common scams that exist in the world of cryptocurrency. The more common potential threats include:\nFake Bitcoin wallets and exchanges\nSome of the examples of scams are as follows:\nImpersonating as Bitcoin Recipients: Hackers can impersonate as companies, which launch Initial Coin Offerings asking for Bitcoin funding, by creating similar but fake websites. These hackers then persuade interested investors to transfer the cryptocurrency into their Bitcoin wallets. Since the digital currency cannot be recovered through any method, the investors simply lose the coins to the hackers.\nExit Scams: You should also be careful when choosing to invest through a Bitcoin exchange or market. While you maintain an account with them in the cryptocurrency, such companies can vanish after claims of having been hacked. This act has been named as exit scam.\n13. Four Big Players in Bitcoin\nThere are many big players in Bitcoin mining \u2013 here are four of them:\nAntPool: The company behind AntPool is Bitmain and it has been in existence since 2013. The company has an overall hash rate of 17.82%.\nF2Pool: This Chinese Bitcoin mining pool is different in that it doesn\u2019t own any hardware, but relies solely on the hardware owned by its member users. It is also referred to as DiscusFish and has a 16.49% hash rate.\nBitFury: This Bitcoin mining company has received widespread recognition because it raised tens of millions of dollars in funding since its inception. Its hash rate percentage stands at 16.4%, just behind F2Pool.\nBTC China Pool: This company was launched in 2014 and has a 13.74% hash rate. It is a relatively new company but it is among the biggest players in this market.\nThere are many other players in the Bitcoin mining sector that continue to grow at a fast pace.\nWe hope the above helped explain the question, \u201cWhat is Bitcoin?\u201d\nBack in 2014, when the Bitcoin was trading at just around $1,000, a few enthusiasts and investors claimed that it would soon touch the $40,000 mark. It was a time when the world was just beginning to realize the potential of this cryptocurrency. The coin may not have touched the magical figure, but even at $17,900, it was a groundbreaking feat. There are no assurances about the future of this digital currency. However, with a cap on the total numbers at 21 million, Bitcoin may become scarce \u2013 and scarcity is a big factor in driving sky-high prices. It remains to be seen. Regulation could thwart prices and the spirit of this rebel currency.\nMoney Order: Everything You Need to Know", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 15691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://littleblackblog.net/2017/05/23/40-of-dcs-top-culinary-stars-team-up-to-serve-inspired-dishes-at-chefs-best-dinner-auction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:26Z", "digest": "sha1:MEZ4OPQKGMHFNYH3UFTHIAPNQK3RSXIU", "length": 3600, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "littleblackblog.net", "title": "40+ of DC\u2019s Top Culinary Stars Team Up to Serve Inspired Dishes at Chef\u2019s Best Dinner & Auction", "raw_content": "Washington, D.C. \u2013 On Monday, June 19th, 40 of the area\u2019s best chefs and mixologists will serve up special tastings of their signature dishes at Chef\u2019s Best Dinner & Auction. Hosted at the Marriott Marquis, Chef\u2019s Best will benefit Food & Friends, a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC that provides life-sustaining meals to those living with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other serious illnesses.\nThanks to the efforts of Chef Chair Marjorie Meek-Bradley of Smoked and Stacked, guests will enjoy tastings prepared by some of the region\u2019s most talented chefs including: Erik Bruner-Yang, Maketto & Paper Horse, Tony Chittum of Iron Gate; Amy Brandwein of Centrolina, and Matt Adler of Schlow Restaurant Group (Tico, The Riggsby, Alta Strada and more), among other notables from the DC dining scene. In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to bid on an array of exciting silent and live auction items featuring fantastic trips, one-of-a-kind experiences and private dining opportunities.\nProceeds from Chef\u2019s Best will ensure the delivery of medically-specialized meals and personalized nutrition counseling to Food & Friends\u2019 clients living with cancer, HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging illnesses. This year, Food & Friends will provide nearly 1 million meals to more than 2,600 seriously ill individuals in Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland.\nThe event will also honor longtime Food & Friends supporters Fleur Bresler and the Bresler Family as this year\u2019s Chef\u2019s Best honorees. With deep roots in the community, the Bresler family\u2019s commercial real estate business, Bresler & Reiner, developed and invested in properties within and outside of the Washington Metro area.\n\u201cOur family knows firsthand of the impact of Food & Friends. My son Bill was both a volunteer and client,\u201d says Fleur Bresler. \u201cMy children, grandchildren and I are proud to volunteer and support the work that has been so important to us. There are and will continue to be very sick people in our community. There is always more work to do.\u201d\nTickets are $350 and sponsorships start at $1,000. Visit www.foodandfriends.org/ChefsBest to purchase tickets and see a current list of chefs and sponsors. The President\u2019s Reception for sponsors begins at 5:30pm. Doors open for the main event at 6:30pm, with bidding for live auction starting around 8:30pm. Food & Friends depends on the support of corporations, foundations and individuals and is grateful for the sponsors who have contributed to Chef\u2019s Best.\nFood & Friends is a Washington, DC, based nonprofit organization that provides home-delivered, specialized meals and nutrition counseling to people living with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-challenging illnesses. Food & Friends\u2019 services are free-of-charge to recipients, who qualify solely based on their health status and nutritional need. Monday-Saturday, including holidays, staff and volunteers deliver to more than 5,300 square miles including the District of Columbia, seven counties in Maryland, and seven counties and six independent cities in Virginia. Since 1988, Food & Friends has delivered more than 20 million meals to nearly 30,000 individuals. For more information, please visit www.foodandfriends.org, Facebook (/foodandfriends), Twitter (@foodandfriends) or Instagram (@foodandfriendsdc).\nMay 23, 2017 Quin Woodward Puchef's best, food and friends, hiv/aids, marjorie meek-bradley, smoked and stacked\nPrevious Previous post: PENTHOUSE POOL CLUB AT U STREET TO HOST THIRD ANNUAL ALS SILENT AUCTION FETE ON MAY 19\nNext Next post: \u201cLocal Dishes for Local Wishes\u201d Brings Community Together!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://littlepicasso.hk/winter-2-semester-2016-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:55Z", "digest": "sha1:7O5VP5DBMLAGWFWS3WAAWU2JHGNGALNW", "length": 130, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "littlepicasso.hk", "title": "Winter 2 Semester - 2016 - Journey to the Center of the Earth! - Little Picasso Painting Studio", "raw_content": "Home Winter 2 Semester \u2013 2016 \u2013 Journey to the Center of the Earth!\nWinter 2 Semester \u2013 2016 \u2013 Journey to the Center of the Earth!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lmhm.it/en/reach-lake-maggiore/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:LRSSZ7KGY7IWZHWOVIOHY5IL37SI45NI", "length": 390, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "lmhm.it", "title": "How to reach us - Lago Maggiore Half Marathon", "raw_content": "Please note that the Verbania-Pallanza arrival is located in the area of \u200b\u200bFondotoce which is about 8 km from the START AREA 21K \u2013 SPORT EXPO.\nConnection services to Lake Maggiore from/to Milano Malpensa Airport.\nConnection services to Lake Maggiore from/to Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport.\nFurther informations about transports and hospitality will be available in the local Tourist Offices:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lookwhatmomfound.com/2019/01/financial-obligations-to-prepare-for-when-getting-divorced.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:27Z", "digest": "sha1:O53374ELYT2FWKBEECTAHXGPFUTR3RWE", "length": 3588, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "lookwhatmomfound.com", "title": "Financial Obligations to Prepare for When Getting Divorced", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Thoughts / Financial Obligations to Prepare for When Getting Divorced\nWhether you see the divorce coming because you initiated it or you were blindsided by the request when your partner said it was time, going through a divorce is tough. Even when you and your soon-to-be ex-spouse are amicable and work together to keep the situation as stress free as possible, there are still many financial obligations to consider and prepare for.\nUnless you and your spouse can come to an agreement without court intervention, the court will use a formula based on the amount of income you earn and the amount of time the children are in your custody to calculate the amount of child support you owe. This payment will be due every month, and will have to go through the courts to be modified in the event that circumstances change. Each state has their own rules and formulas for how the child support amount is calculated.\nIn many states, it\u2019s still possible to request alimony or spousal support. This is especially the case for parents who have opted to stay at home with the kids rather than work. If you\u2019re the spouse that\u2019s responsible for the payments, you\u2019ll need to plan accordingly. If you\u2019re the spouse receiving the payments, you\u2019ll still need to prepare for how you\u2019ll earn income outside of that because in most cases, it\u2019s not enough to live on. Each state also has its own rules about how to request spousal support and how it\u2019s calculated.\nWho\u2019s keeping what? If one spouse stays in the marital home, there\u2019s the issue of getting the other spouse off the mortgage, which requires refinancing. If your credit or income isn\u2019t good enough to stand on its own, you may have trouble. Who\u2019s responsible for the mortgage while you wait for the home to sell, if both of you plan on living elsewhere? What about the cars and the loans on them? What about the joint checking account? Savings accounts? 401ks? Credit card debt?\nWhile the courts will generally advocate a 50/50 split of all property \u2013 physical and otherwise, if the two of you cannot agree, this too, will go to court dragging out the process. If you don\u2019t have a lawyer, this can easily get too complicated to handle on your own, which brings us to the next point.\nWhile it\u2019s possible to get a divorce in your state without hiring a lawyer, you will likely have to pay a fee to the court for bringing up the case. Some states allow you to file indigent, which waives the court costs associated with the case.\nIn a high-conflict divorce where the two of you cannot decide on how to handle custody and child support or the division of assets, you will have no choice but to hire a lawyer to assist you. No matter how you cut it, lawyers aren\u2019t exactly affordable. Your area may offer legal assistance for your divorce case if you have a low income, but you may still be responsible for a portion of the bill, depending on the types of programs available.\nSavings for Unexpected Expenses\nUnexpected expenses are going to occur whether you\u2019re married or not, but they can hit a bit harder when you\u2019re working with less because you no longer have access to the income you once did. Though in the perfect world you\u2019d always be able to count on child support and alimony payments coming in on time, that may not always be the case. Divorce can, but does not have to, spell financial ruin for you and your spouse. Preparing as much as you can in advance helps ease the burden for both parties.\n\u2190 Parenting in Recovery: Helping Your Children Overcome Trauma Easy Fireplace Maintenance\u2014Love the Heart of Your Home \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lowesmarket.com/weekly-ad/albuquerque-nm-11th-street/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:15Z", "digest": "sha1:HXELUDGEESTQ6OKBGRVHHIVBTPE7FAWX", "length": 78, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "lowesmarket.com", "title": "Albuquerque, NM (11th Street) | Lowe's Markets - Serving the grocery shopper since 1964!", "raw_content": "Home > Weekly Ad > Albuquerque, NM (11th Street)\nAlbuquerque, NM (11th Street)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://luxtimes.lu/archives/10578-5-occupants-of-irish-van-arrested", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:08Z", "digest": "sha1:DC2C7CGBW6B4WZ4UKZRP7Z3CXCWI622H", "length": 607, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "luxtimes.lu", "title": "Luxembourg Times - Archives - 5 occupants of Irish van arrested", "raw_content": "5 occupants of Irish van arrested\nA total of five people were arrested and one is still at large, when a white van registered in Ireland, was stopped by police on Friday.\nThe incident occurred late afternoon in Medernach when police spotted the van reported to have been linked to \u201cvarious offences\u201d, although the nature of the crimes have not been disclosed.\nSuddenly, as the officers approached the vehicle, two of the occupants fled, however one was caught a little while later by police.\nInside the van were four other people and now all five suspects have been arrested, awaiting judgement on Saturday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://luxurycarrentalusa.com/rent-bentley-continental-gt-san-francisco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6EO7CECDBQH7AZIF5MBEGTOTWHGFZDDR", "length": 2745, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "luxurycarrentalusa.com", "title": "Rent Bentley Continental GT San Francisco", "raw_content": "Rent Bentley Continental GT San Francisco\nAbout the Bentley Continental GT San Francisco\nCan you imagine living in today\u2019s world without the ability of being able to rent a car for a ride? Seems unimaginable right? With the amount of comfort and ease that car rental service has given us it has added to the quality of life for all of us. No more is there a need to own a car to be able to ride one. All you need is to have a phone to be able to book a car and we bring it to your doorstep. We at Diamond Exotic Rental work with the sole purpose of making the lives of our customers much easier by making the facility of car rental available to them at the most amazing terms and conditions. Riding with us at Luxury Car Rental you will not only be able to enjoy the luxury and comfort of riding in the most luxurious cars that exist in the market but also getting all this along with an excellent customer service. It is like cherry on top of cake. To make your ride even more memorable, we offer a fleet of luxurious car that you can choose from.\nAmong the huge fleet of luxury cars available with us you can also Rent Bentley GT. Bentley GT is a grand automobile designed by Bentley motors. It has been in the market since 2003. Bentley GT is one of few vehicles which will make you feel grand and pampered as soon as you enter it. It will give the right mix of elegance and comfort. Not only is it great to drive but also reflects class and style. Would you not like to have a grand and huge car to ride on to your favourite location? Rent Bentley GT and give yourself one of the most memorable rides so far. The right size and sheer excellence of this beauty will make it the most appropriate vehicle for all kinds of trips. Once you have Rented Bentley GT more often than not you would want to rent it again and again, such is the elegance of this car. If you now know that you want to Rent Bentley GT, you should get it only from the best provider in the industry. Our luxury car rental service is one such state of the art service where you will be able to find all that you would need. When you do rent a car from us, you can rest assured that not only would you get the best quality vehicle ensuring your safety and comfort, you will also be able to take the benefit of the excellent customer service that we will provide to you. Our trained and compassionate staff will make your experience even more worthwhile. We will leave no stones unturned in ensuring that your ride is hassle free and enjoyable. If you want to know more about Renting Bentley GT visit https://luxurycarrentalusa.com/our-fleet/rent-bentley/rent-bentley-continental-gt/. Our employees and fleet of vehicles are waiting eagerly to get an opportunity to serve you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://madamenoire.com/584746/pretrial-hearing-in-freddie-gray-case-begins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JPWQ7I6BLMTIRG5KRFJD36R773K6KBKY", "length": 1864, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "madamenoire.com", "title": "Pretrial Hearing In Freddie Gray Case Begins | MadameNoire", "raw_content": "Freddie Gray Pretrial Hearing Begins, Judge Denies Motion To Dismiss Charges Against Officers\nAttorneys representing six Baltimore police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray appeared for a pretrial court hearing Wednesday, where they accused Baltimore state\u2019s attorney Marilyn J. Mosby of committing prosecutorial misconduct. According to the New York Times, the defense alleged that Mosby conducted a \u201cpep rally\u201d when she announced the charges against the six officers back in May.\n\u201cWe are not looking to punish anybody, but we are looking for the court to remedy the damage that has been done to the fair trial rights of the defendants,\u201d said Andrew Graham, a lawyer for Officer Caesar R. Goodson Jr., at the hearing. \u201cThe state\u2019s attorney basically accepted and encouraged the public\u2019s cry of \u2018No justice, no peace.\u2019 \u201d\nThis is the first hearing in the case against the officers, who all stand accused of directly or indirectly playing a role in the death of Gray. On April 12, the 25-year-old was unlawfully arrested and placed in a police van without the required security restraints. The officers are accused of ignoring the young man\u2019s pleas for help during the ride. He passed away one week later as a result of a spinal cord injury.\nThe defense has asked that Mosby be disqualified from prosecuting the case and that all charges against the six officers be dismissed. Additionally, they have requested that each officer be tried individually and that the case be moved out of Baltimore.\nAccording to the Baltimore Sun, Judge Barry G. Williams denied that defense\u2019s request to have the charges dismissed. The hearing is schedule to resume at 2:00 p.m. where the defense is expected to argue that the trial against the officers should be split up. The change of venue hearing has been scheduled for Sept. 10. The actual trial will begin in October.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 176.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://majornelson.com/2010/11/16/join-us-at-the-opening-of-the-microsoft-store-in-bellevue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:54Z", "digest": "sha1:AF4N5X7VEBFWVQNPBE3RDSXCGIJC4XZD", "length": 805, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "majornelson.com", "title": "Join us at the opening of the Microsoft Store in Bellevue | Xbox Live's Major Nelson", "raw_content": "Join us at the opening of the Microsoft Store in Bellevue\nThis week, Microsoft will open it\u2019s first Seattle area store at the Bellevue Square. As part of the opening week festivities, I\u2019ll be there this Friday with the rest of the podcast crew to record this weeks show. If you are in the area, why not come join in on the action. In addition to a normal show, we\u2019ll also take Q&A and have some prizes to hand out as well.\nWho/What: Join me, e, lollip0p and Stepto as we record the show in front of your very eyes and ears\nIn addition to being part of the studio audience, we\u2019ll also have some prizes to give away and you\u2019ll be one of the first to see the new Microsoft Store.\nFriday, November 19th from 11a-12n.\nThe brand new Microsoft Store at Bellevue Square\nSee you this Friday\nDeal of the week: Shank", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 6150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://malinovian.com/2019/01/20/wonderfully-clever/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:HIQDWWGNKYUEWQ3GXBNQWIMCX7E73O6U", "length": 319, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "malinovian.com", "title": "wonderfully clever | Journals of Lord Malinov", "raw_content": "\u2190 All he knows\nFall under its spell \u2192\nwonderfully clever\nWITCH tells the story of a photographer who meets and marries a marvelous woman. His only problem is that he thinks she is a witch. Not that he minds. He just wants to know. A tale of a love inspired by the endless beauties of strong women. Fall under its spell.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 3183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mansoorskhan.com/facial-rejuvenation/neck-lift/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PFM6UHBJ64GSMB7H7HQHQOYRBTBVOKTZ", "length": 1052, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mansoorskhan.com", "title": "Neck lift", "raw_content": "The procedure is undertaken via an incision that runs around the front of the ear,\ndown under the earlobe, around the back of the ear and\nextends into the hairline behind the ears.\nThe skin is elevated off the soft tissues and the muscles of the neck\nare elevated and repositioned.\nIn some cases an additional incision is made below the chin\nand further tightening of the muscles plus/minus liposuction is undertaken.\nIt is therefore advised that they should refrain from smoking for at least six weeks prior to,\nand for two weeks following surgery. Aspirin and related anti-inflammatories should be avoided for a similar time period.\nThe procedure is undertaken via an incision that runs around the front of the ear, down under the earlobe, around the back of the ear and extends into the hairline behind the ears.\nThe skin is elevated off the soft tissues and the muscles of the neck are elevated and repositioned.\nIn some cases an additional incision is made below the chin and further tightening of the muscles plus/minus liposuction is undertaken.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 3013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://manualmachine.com/alesis/adatedit/3071-user-manual/page:3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:26Z", "digest": "sha1:LOMN3T5VFQTGFMFDQ5VMCKBBE4WOFJQ2", "length": 10263, "nlines": 79, "source_domain": "manualmachine.com", "title": "Alesis ADATEDIT User Manual. Page 3", "raw_content": "1 2 Next > < Back = Page 3 = 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 > >>\nMTC Interpretation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .290 Receiving Midi Clock/SPP . . . . . . . . . . . . .291 Midi Machine Control (MMC) . . . . . . . . . . . .291 Switching on MMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292\n14.3 The Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .292 Timecode and Clock synchronization . . . . . . .292 Bar-Referencedsynchronization . . . . . . .293Time-Referencedsynchronization . . . . . .295 Synchronizers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .298 synchronization Procedure . . . . . . . . . . .298 Audio synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .300 If you have Sync Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .301\n14.4 Midi Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .302 Preparing a Song for Midi File Conversion 302 Saving the Song as a Midi File . . . . . . . . .303 Saving Individual Sequences as a Midi File 303 Saving Songs as SMF Format 0 . . . . . . . .303 Importing Midi Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304\n14.5Transfer Songs onto other Devices or\nComputers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304\nChapter 15 Reference: Key Commands and\n15.1 Keyboard Command Symbols . . . . . . . . . . . .307\n15.2 Key Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .308\n15.3 Using the Mouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .313\nChapter 16 Menu Reference\n16.1 Main Menu Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315\n-Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315\nFile Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .315\nEdit Menu (Mac Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316\nWindows Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .316\nVideo (Windows Only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317\nHelp Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .317\n18 Gl Ix\n16.2 Edit (All Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318\n16.3 Menus in the Arrange Window . . . . . . . . . . .318\nTrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .318\nFunctions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .319\nView . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320\nOptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320\n16.4 Menus in the Event Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321\n16.5 Menus in the Matrix Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .322\n16.6 Menus in the Score Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323\nAttributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323\nChapter 17 Audio Recording Tips\n17.1 Digital Recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327 Setting Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327 Clipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .327 Sampling rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328 Fragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .328 Defragmentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .329\nDealing Economically with the Hard Disk .330\nGlossary .....................................................\nIndex ...........................................................\n1.1Adat Edit is\u2026\n\u2022an audio-recordingsystem, a Midi sequencer, and a notation system that is easy to learn and operate.\n\u2022Adat Edit transforms your computer into a recording studio. It allows you to record audio using your Alesis PCR card.\n\u2022For playback only, other MME hardware may additionally be used, as long as the PCR card is present.\n\u2022You can use the audio inputs and outputs of the PCR card to record up to 8 tracks of audio simultaneously.\n\u2022The resulting tracks can be output via any of the 8 channels available on the PCR\u2019s lightpipe output connector or on additional MME hardware.\n\u2022There are additional signal processing functions supplied by the Digital Factory in the Sample Edit window.\n\u2022Adat Edit also offers a sophisticated set of synchronization features, allowing you to sync your computer with an ADAT, or digital mixer.\n\u2022You can create songs and arrange them on your computer screen, and then print out musical notation.\n\u2022By integrating audio recording and real-timeeffects, you can even combine acoustic instruments, or vocals with your songs. Audio is just as easy to edit as Midi tracks are.\nAdat Edit thus combines all the functions that you would expect from a modern, powerful audio sequencer, with an intuitive and clearly arranged user interface.\nThe screenshots used in this manual will sometimes show the Macintosh version of Adat Edit, and sometimes the Windows version. Also, most of the screenshots are from Adat Edit, which the PCR version is based on. In cases where there is a functional difference between the versions, then screenshots from Adat Edit will be shown.\n1.2Multitrack Recorder\nTrack plan with transport \ufb01eld and note editor, here on a Macintosh\nOne of the main components of Adat Edit is the multitrack recorder. You record ecord multiple tracks, as though you were in a professional studio, and as you record the next one, listen to the tracks that you just recorded. This special version of Adat Edit only works with the Alesis PCR card. It offers 8 digital inputs, and 8 digital outputs, through a lightpipe connection to your ADAT or digital mixer.\nAdat Edit offers you many ways to alter and re\ufb01ne your recorded material at a later time. You can move the tracks around in the Arrange window, give the Midi tracks a different sound, or divide them into blocks (sequences). You can cut, copy, move, transpose, or correct (quantize) rhythmically.\nThe three editor windows give you complete control of your recordings. Whether you are changing the length, or dynamic strength of a single note in the Event editor, or entering entire scores in the Score editor \u2013 it\u2019s all easy and fast with Adat Edit.\n1.3Flexible Input\nThere are several ways of entering notes into Adat Edit. Everything is available, from real-timerecording to manual note entry; the possibilities are endless.\nYou can use Adat Edit simply to record real-timeaudio or Midi performances, or as a conventional notation system by inputting your scores on the screen with the mouse.\nAdat Edit offers you every possibility; you decide which ones to use. You may control the program either with the mouse or the computer keyboard; all functions can be carried out using the mouse, and the majority can be adapted to meet your needs via keyboard commands, which can be programmed as desired.\n1.4Automatic Notation\nPage layout of a piano track\nIf you prefer working in musical notation to piano roll, or event list editing, you can edit your songs in the Score editor. There, you can view your sequences as conventional musical notation. You can insert, move, or transpose notes easily using the mouse.\nGM Supported\nAdat Edit offers a range of functions with which you can adapt the appearance of the score to your liking, from the notes themselves, to the size of your windows.\nOf course you can also print out your songs. Adat Edit offers an ef\ufb01cient page-layoutfunction, with which you can create attractive and legible scores, which can then be printed on a connected printer.\nYou can also create a PostScript \ufb01le, and continue to edit the scores which were created in Adat Edit, with word-processingor layout programs.\n1.5GM Supported\nIf you use a GM-compatibletone generator connected to your computer, you can control its functions remotely from the Mixer window. Selecting sounds, controlling the volume, or adding chorus or reverb etc. is as easy as can be. Adat Edit also supports the GS- (Roland), or the XG standard (Yamaha). With these devices, more sound and effect parameters can beremote-controlled,for example, the \ufb01lter frequency.\nThe Mixer thus becomes your virtual mixing console on screen, allowing you to automate your GM device from Adat Edit.\n1.6Multimedia\nAdat Edit can load and play digital videos in AVI format for Windows, or QuickTime format for Macintosh. The picture runs synchronously with Adat Edit\u2019s song position. You can add music to commercials, or videos of your vacation, without using a video recorder. Sounds or jingles start concurrently with the frame.\n1.7Graphical Interface\nAdat Edit features a clearly structured graphical user interface. All operations can be done quickly and directly, using the mouse.\nYou can open the windows, and place them anywhere on the screen. You can adjust all elements in the windows as you like; the windows can be enlarged or reduced. To make the most of your screen, you can open as many windows simultaneously as you want. Next to the track list in the Arrange window, for example, you can simultaneously open an Event list and Score editor for the same material.\nAs Adat Edit plays the song for you, the notes e.g. are displayed in the Score Window. Whatever you hear, you see at the same time. If there is a wrong note, just \ufb01x it, while Adat Edit continues to run. It does not get any easier than this.\nAdat Edit's menus are well organized. Local menus in each window make sure that you only see the functions that you may need. This way, the main menu lists remain orderly, and you can \ufb01nd whatever function you need faster.\n1.8About this Manual\n\u2022The headings in this manual are arranged according to the names of the functions in the program. This way, you can quickly \ufb01nd speci\ufb01c functions in the table of contents.\n\u2022Located in the appendix of this manual is an index, in which you can look up keywords.\n\u2022The Menu List, found in the appendix, offers an overview of all menu items.\n\u2022The glossary explains the meaning of specialized terms. If you do not \ufb01nd a term there, you can look it up in the index, and read about it in the corresponding section of the manual.\nThe Tutorial Chapter\nIf you want to familiarize yourself quickly with a speci\ufb01c topic (e.g., Arrange window, Event editor, note editing), we recommend that you work through the corresponding section in chapter 3, Chapter 3 Tutorial on page 43. The tutorial is arranged byself-containedtopics. You will \ufb01nd the appropriate Tutorial Song on Adat Edit\u2019s program disk. It takes less than half an hour to work through each section. You can then work through the corresponding pages of that chapter, to familiarize yourself with the details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 11733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 130.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mapleheightsliving.com/the-truth-about-living-with-alzheimers-and-dementia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:EXFPBDKNQNSH636ULETTUA6QZWSE6PX7", "length": 3164, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "mapleheightsliving.com", "title": "The Truth About Living with Alzheimer's and Dementia | Maple Heights Senior Living", "raw_content": "Is your loved one living with Alzheimer\u2019s or dementia?\nDementia affects 4-5 million Americans and their families. Most of the cases of dementia are a form of Alzheimer\u2019s Disease. Seeing someone close to you with dementia is an emotionally taxing experience. The important thing to know is that you\u2019re not alone.\nKeep reading to learn more about living with dementia.\nDementia is essentially trauma or disease that happens to the brain.\nThere are many symptoms of dementia, and it\u2019s possible to confuse these symptoms with normal memory loss.\nFor example, you loved one may have a slight memory loss, but still is active and social. A person living with Alzheimer\u2019s may become more isolated and may be socially inappropriate.\nMood changes are also a common symptom of dementia, and they may become easily disoriented.\nThere are several different forms of dementia, with about 70% of cases being Alzheimer\u2019s Disease. There\u2019s also vascular dementia, which can result from small strokes. Mixed dementia is a combination of Alzheimer\u2019s disease and vascular dementia.\nLiving with Alzheimer\u2019s or any other form of dementia can be extremely difficult.\nSafety is always a priority for your loved one. You\u2019ll want to make sure that the home environment is safe. It\u2019s common for people with dementia to wander, which is why a locating device could be a good investment.\nIt\u2019s important to understand that having a regular routine can help people with dementia maintain their independence. This includes reminders to eat and drink plenty of fluids throughout the day.\nIf you find that your loved one is struggling with basic tasks, chunk it down into sections that can be completed with ease.\nUnderstanding Discomfort and Meltdowns\nAs dementia progresses, your loved one may have trouble communicating when they\u2019re uncomfortable. They may lash out because of this.\nThe most common causes of discomfort are lack of sleep, disruptions in their routine, an unfamiliar environment, illness or injury, or being in the same seated position.\nYou can head these issues off by keeping your loved one comfortable as possible. That includes making sure the temperature isn\u2019t too hot or cold. It\u2019s also very important to keep your loved one on a regular routine.\nWhile you\u2019re caring for someone living with Alzheimer\u2019s, it\u2019s easy to forget about caring for yourself. Caregivers often find themselves in a great deal of stress and suffer from burnout.\nThat\u2019s why it\u2019s critical to seek support. There are support groups online and in-person that meet regularly. You can also lean on your friends and other family members for support.\nYou may decide to choose to have your loved one live in a senior care facility.\nYou do need to make sure that you\u2019re getting the support you need so you can ensure that you loved one is getting the care they need.\nLiving with Alzheimer\u2019s or Dementia\nIt\u2019s very difficult to see someone you love live with Alzheimer\u2019s or dementia. At some point, you may need to consider a senior living facility that can handle these challenges.\nAt Maple Heights Senior Living, our community is designed to provide the best assisted living and memory care for your loved one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 178.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maplessadventures.com/tag/moving/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ME3YSDVMYGGTU4KQ4PIUYDKWKOT7P5UY", "length": 5112, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "maplessadventures.com", "title": "Moving \u2013 Mapless Adventures", "raw_content": "March 5, 2012 May 8, 2012 Nicole\nI left Phoenix, Arizona Thursday, March 1, 2012 and began my road trip ALONE, up to my new home of Aberdeen, Washington!! It took me two and a half day and approximately 22 hours behind the wheel of my Chevy Cruze Eco to make the journey. Let\u2019s just say it was a long two and a half days but thank goodness for XM and my iPod!!!\nThe drive to LA went by really quick\u2026it was the mountains after LA that slowed me down a bit. I was trying hard not to stop and purchase an energy drink until at least Friday, but the altitude change in the mountains had another plan. Of course, for those of you who know me, know that I am really not an energy drink fan. LUCKILY\u2026Monster has one that is an ARNOLD PALMER + Energy drink, which tastes amazing! It helped me go an extra 8 hours for a total of 13 hours behind the wheel in 1 day, making it all the way past Sacramento!\nThe next day wasn\u2019t as long, but it was still a good 9 hours. I journeyed from northern California all the way through Oregon. I was a little worried because a few days before, the mountain ranges in N. Cali and S. Oregon, got hit with a snow storm, and traveling along snowy roads with a small car isn\u2019t plausible or even possible without chains. Thank goodness for 50 and sunny weather! Although perfectly clear skies, the drive was still not my favorite, mostly because driving a manual up a mountain causes you to shift up and down quite frequently! Once through the mountains, the remaining drive through OR was BORING\u2026and then Portland/Vancouver. I was not ready for rush-hour traffic or crazy OR/WA drivers. Goodness gracious, I was scared for my poor little Misty. We both survived without a scratch and made it to stop #2. It was only a two hours outside of Aberdeen, but I didn\u2019t want to show up to my new apartment when it was dark (and raining) out.\nSaturday came and went like a flash. One minute, I was waking up, the next minute I was falling asleep. Between was just a bunch of unloading. And boy was there a lot to unpack. I cannot believe how much I was able to fit into little Misty!\nLet\u2019s clarify though\u2026this is just some of what I have. I am still missing 3 medium size boxes, plus 3 tubs (mostly scrapbooking stuff). Everything was easy to unload from Misty to my apartment\u2026it was/ is the organization aspect that is taking FOREVER (okay like 3 days). I\u2019m not doing to much major shopping until my momma gets here, because shopping alone isn\u2019t as much fun as shopping with your momma! Stay tuned for photos of the semi-finished apartment.\nTravel, Washington California, driving, Moving, Oregon, road trip, Washington 1 Comment\nNew Job, New Location, New Adventures\nWell friends and family, it\u2019s official!\nI have accepted a position as a Clinical Fellow-Speech Language Pathologist!!!! The position is in a skilled nursing facility located in Aberdeen, Washington. If you don\u2019t know much about Aberdeen (as I don\u2019t really), the first thing I will tell you is that\u2019s it is famous for being the hometown of none-other-than the famous Kurt Cobain and Krist Novoselic, both from Nirvana. Yes, that\u2019s right, Nirvana members\u2026maybe I\u2019ll fall in love with the next famous rock stars.\nIt\u2019s a town located in Grey\u2019s Harbor located on the Olympic Peninsula roughly 2 hours outside Seattle and only 20-25 minutes away from the pacific ocean!! It\u2019s going to be a change living that close to the beach. Though I don\u2019t think you\u2019ll ever hear me complain.\nThe weather has beautiful so far. Tuesday= raining & 50, wednesday= 50 & partly cloud, and today was sunny, windy & 50. Yes, I know that Washington is known for rain, but even with the rain, it can be 50 degrees outside. It will take getting use to but all in all I don\u2019t think the weather is going to bother me.\nAberdeen is pretty much a lumber industry location, but recently, it\u2019s became the home to the Pontoon Project (as people here refer to it as). Basically, people moved to town to help rebuild the pontoon boats that hold up the floating freeway in Seattle. It\u2019s only temporary but I\u2019ve been told its good for the town.\nOne of my favorite aspects of this location (besides the ocean) is the fact that\u2019s it\u2019s so outdoors-y. Everyone goes fishing, hiking, clam digging, kayaking, and hunting. I\u2019m looking forward to having so much open land around me and so much unknown surrounds. Between the Washington coast, Olympic National Park, Mt. Saint Helen, Mt. Rainer, plus more, my weekends are going to be packed full with adventure. I\u2019m already starting a list of things I need to see/do while living here. Don\u2019t worry though, I will make sure to keep you updated on all my adventures.\nToday, was especially exciting for me because I have found a place to live. I guess the move is official now because theres no going back on signing the contract and a lease (haven\u2019t really done either yet but I pretty much am going to).\nI know I have bombarded everyone with a ton of information, but I\u2019m extremely happy about my future here in the beautiful evergreen state.\nCareer career, interview, Moving, sightseeing, travel, Washington, work Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 16153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mariannovias.com/brook-750-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VQ2ZNGRP5UOGSNXAACC7ITBSW3R227JL", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mariannovias.com", "title": "BROOK 750 \u2013 Marian Novias", "raw_content": "Source Image: Full resolution (850 \u00d7 1280)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 214.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marine-marketing.gr/newsclip.php?file=200426.txt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:00Z", "digest": "sha1:K5TSN2JAHYKXHBIS2GBCEM3DC7Y3OLEI", "length": 20524, "nlines": 77, "source_domain": "marine-marketing.gr", "title": "Marine-Marketing", "raw_content": "---A move to promote the Greek shipping services sector is being considered by merchant marine minister Manolis Kefaloyiannis and his cabinet colleague. An initiative could be launched soon.\nThere are lots more shipping service jobs in London despite Greece being tops in shipowning.\nPoliticians have been casting envious eyes towards London as they consider options for making Piraeus an international shipping centre, according to the Greek newspaper, Kathimerini.\nThe paper reports that although the UK has only 1.2% of the world merchant fleet it has a highly developed service sector which employs 800,000. Greece has a fleet ten times larger but only a tenth as many people work in the shipping sector.\nGreeks are dependent on foreign companies for a whole range of services ranging from classification to shipbroking, legal services and marine insurance, Kathimerini reports.\nMoves to develop shipping infrastructure have been discussed at cabinet level, according to the paper, with the government thinking of improving the educational opportunities for students planning to work in the merchant marine.\nMany Greek shipping executives study in the UK or the US developing connections that continue during their working lives. Kefaloyiannis was a student in both Greece and London.\nSource: By Jim Mulrenan in London published: 09:32 GMT, 21 June 2004 | last updated: 09:34 GMT, 21 June 2004\n---Cargo screening at port of Piraeus will start before summer Olympics begin\nGreece has become the18th country to sign a Container Security Initiative (CSI) agreement with the United States, giving its permission for U.S. customs officials to be deployed to the port of Piraeus to help screen U.S.-bound cargo shipments that could pose a terrorist threat.\nThe agreement was signed June 24 in Brussels, Belgium, by James Loy, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and Vassilios Manolopoulos, director general of the Greek Directorate General of Customs and Excise.\nThe United States will loan special inspection devices to Greece so screening can begin in mid-July, before the start of the summer Olympic Games in Athens. The equipment includes large-scale gamma ray and x-ray imaging systems that can scan the interior of a 40-foot cargo container in less than one minute for contraband, including weapons of mass destruction.\nThe CSI is now operational at 19 of the world's major seaports in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.\nFollowing is a Homeland Security Department press release on the agreement with Greece:\nSource: www.iwar.org.uk, 24 June 2004\n---IMO Secretary-General Efthimios Mitropoulos said yesterday that, although he was optimistic that most of the ships liable to the International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code will meet the July 1 target compliance date, compliance by port facilities had \"not yet reached a satisfactory level despite repeated calls to Governments to intensify their efforts\".\nHe went on, \"I am, therefore, concerned that, unless prompt action is taken urgently by all parties concerned, we may live to regret any delay in acting as we should have done within the 18-month period since the IMO security measures were adopted by the 2002 SOLAS Conference, both from the security and the trade cum economy points of view. That is why I wish to also use this opportunity to appeal, once again, to SOLAS Contracting Governments, which have not yet done so, not to spare any effort to implement these measures as soon as possible.\" has stressed the importance of ensuring that strategically important international shipping lanes are protected from the threat of terrorism and remain open for trade at all times.\nAccording to responses to IMO from 39 governments only about 16% of port are now ISPS compliant, although that an increase on the 10.8% figure as of June 16. Ship compliance figures are better but still remarkably low given that we are just over a week away from the deadline. The 39 governments, representing 83.6% of world merchant shipping by gross tonnage and 67.4% by number of ships, reported that 33% of their ships are now compliant compared to 28.7% on June 16.\nAnnouncing the latest compliance figures to the Council's 92nd session, meeting this week, Mr Mitropoulos emphasised the need to ensure that shipping lanes, particularly those of strategic significance and importance, are kept open under all circumstances.\n\"To this effect, we have undertaken some research work in the secretariat to identify those shipping lanes which may be vulnerable to terrorist attacks and are prepared and eager to work with others to act pro-actively in a manner which will protect, to the best of our abilities, the interests of safety, security, the environment, seaborne trade and the world economy at large,\" he said.\nSource: www.mgn.com, Tuesday, 22 June 2004\n---Most Greeks ships and the country's key ports will meet the ISPS Code deadline next week says Union of Greek Shipowners president, Nicos Efthymiou. \"The ships will be ready and the ports have little choice because of the need to comply before the Olympic Games,\" said Efthymiou, while warning there will be problems in ports generally around the world.\nSpeaking when presenting the UGS' 2003-04 annual report to maritime journalists, Efthymiou said that while shipping will have problems because of the failure on the part of many ports to comply with ISPS, sea transportation will not come to a halt because \"the problems will be overcome\". He said \"delays will arise in shipping activities for when a ship sails from a non-certified port to a certified one it will have to undergo inspections, which will require staying in port longer\".\nIndeed, the need to overcome problems was a theme Efthymiou returned to repeatedly.\nHowever, he was generally optimistic the problems could be dealt with through cooperation between the shipping community and the industry's administration. He said owners would like to see the Greek government offer steady support to the industry in the international fora and pointed to the evidence of the two cooperating when working within Imo, where the Greek shipping sector was able to secure a re-think on the issue of double-hulls.\nHowever, Efthymiou lamented the fact that Greece failed to win the 'criminalisation' battle in the Europan Union as Greece and Malta were the only states to vote against EU moves to criminalise pollution incidents involving ships. He said penal sanctions in cases of pollution reduce the potential of attracting young people into the maritime profession. He said that data showed \"most serious cases of pollution are caused either by onshore based activities or by small vessels used for personal pleasure\".\nEfthymiou said the government's attitude towards shipping is undergoing a positive change and continuation of this mood could lead to a \"policy of improving the competitiveness of the Greek flag\" which would result in \"attracting many vessels to the national registry\". He noted that three of four Greek-owned oceangoing ships are outside the flag.\nSource: www.newsfront.gr, 25 Jun 04\n---AN IMPROVING situation for aframaxes in the Mediterranean could get even better over the coming days a number of brokers are speculating.\nRates have already risen on the back of a limited tonnage list for early dates, to between W225 and W235 for both cross-Mediterranean and Black Sea loads.\nFor example, W230 has been achieved this week by the 2000-built Valbruna for a Black Sea load for Total.\nHowever, by yesterday, brokers were reporting the Astro Saturn on subs to ENI for a cross-Mediterranean voyage at W245, indicating a further upward trend.\nNikos Varvaropoulos at Marvin Shipping in Piraeus said: \"Since Posidonia ended, the activity has increased as charterers have returned to their desks and owners are feeling very confident.\"\nHe adds: \"There is not a lot of activity for the Black Sea but there is a possibility to improve since the Turkish straits are closing down for an upcoming Nato meeting and charterers may want to move quickly now.\"\nRates of more than W200 have also been the norm in the Caribbean recently, but the market fell last week to W190, the rate accepted by the 1999-built Constitution from Valero on an east coast Mexico load.\nWhile the region is said to be quiet, and prospects may appear dim because of plentiful tonnage availability, brokers have not given up hope for better things.\nAccording to Stealth Maritime's Vikki Koumis, Americans' habit of climbing aboard the family gas-guzzler and hitting the highway at this time of year could prove key. \"Rates aren't expected to fall too much as the summer driving season sees demand seasonally high for this time of year,\" she points out.\nBrokers say that the North Sea has been fairly stable, with rates settling at about W160 or slightly better for regular cross-UK/Continent trips.\nHowever, yesterday, there were rumours of a vessel on subs at W195 for early July dates.\nSource: www.llydslist.com, By Nigel Lowry in Athens- Wednesday June 23 2004\n---Raised on the Aegean isle of Chios, Capt. Panagiotis N. Tsakos of Tsakos Energy Navigation (TNP/NYSE) followed his village's seafaring tradition before amassing a large fleet of tanker, container and dry-cargo vessels. He's one of many Greeks who have helped put his country's shipowners in control of more shipping capacity than any other nation -- a good position to be in now that shippers are prospering from high global demand, stemming in large part from ever-growing oil consumption.\nAnd tanker demand looks set to continue building, producing new price peaks. Freight rates this year topped the firm prices seen in 2003, and in some instances hit record highs. Meanwhile, the energy adviser to the world's largest oil-consuming nations recently raised near-term projections: The International Energy Agency now expects demand to grow 2.9% in 2004 -- the largest jump in 24 years. Tanker owners regard that news as money in the bank.\nIn addition, shipowners and brokers say they expect the tanker market to remain strong, at least through this coming winter.\nTo celebrate the banner year --and make the usual deals -- thousands flocked to Athens in early June for the shipping industry's biennial Posidonia exhibition. Connecticut ship-brokerage Charles Weber Co. feted leading shipowners with Greek music and wine, in bottles wrapped in the company's own label. At another party, fireworks were shot off over the sea as entertainers spun flaming batons below.\nGetting back to business: Responding to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' June 3 pledge to raise its output ceiling by 8.5% in July, experts at the event predicted even stronger tanker rates if No. 1 producer Saudi Arabia can actually deliver more barrels.\nAlthough London ship brokerage Simpson Spence & Young expects this year to be one of the busiest on record for new tankers -- with delivery of 23.4 million deadweight tons scheduled -- the industry isn't worried about the possibility of oversupply.\n\"People are more willing to pay, they don't fight as hard, and owners have more resolve to try to be a little firmer. Today, there's a lot more business available,\" says Basil Mavroleon, managing director at Charles Weber.\nShipping analysts say the addition of new tankers will be partially offset by owners' retiring single-hull tankers amid heightened safety and environmental concerns.\nThose worries arose from the 1999 Erika and 2002 Prestige single-hull tanker accidents, causing catastrophic spills along the French and Spanish coasts.\nThe industry has until 2010 to retire all single-hull tankers under an International Maritime Organization-ordered phaseout. But shipowners say they've found it's more lucrative to scrap the older ships early and pull in premium rates for their modern vessels. Next year will be the first in a series of deadlines in the phaseout, prompting increased scrapping in 2004 to 2005.\nGeorge Procopiou, a civil engineer who's chairman of privately owned Dynacom Tankers Management, opposes the regulations banning single-hull ships, citing concerns over the newer ships' designs. Still, he moved quickly to rid Dynacom's fleet of single-hulls. The company now has 31 oil tankers in operation and 12 new ships on order.\nIn his office overlooking the Aegean, Procopiou announces that he just bought another supertanker. \"We cannot go against the tide,\" he says. \"You have to be competitive to survive.\"\nOn the other side of Athens, the captain's U.S.-listed Tsakos Energy Navigation operates a fleet of 27 oil tankers and is scheduled to take delivery of 13 ships through 2007, but Capt. Tsakos emphasizes that he's in the shipping business because he loves the sea.\nHe points out a distinctive feature of his headquarters -- a seventh-floor balcony designed as a ship's bridge, complete with captain's wheel and flag. He didn't want the headquarters to look like a \"palace or factory,\" he says.\n\"For many generations, we have all decided on seafaring to follow as a matter of destiny. All we can see, from where we stand in the church, the school, the house, [is] sea, sea, sea ... The sea unites us with our destiny [and] unites us with prosperity.\"\nAnd today, when the captain feels like sailing, he climbs aboard the Manya -- his yacht.\nSource: www.canada.com, National Post, Leia Parker, Barrom's, 21 June 2004\n---Shipping is one bright spot in the Greek economy. It is Greece's showcase sector in a highly competitive global environment, but also the only sector of the economy not to benefit from any state intervention over the past decades. This is also underscored by the official balance of payments statistics due to be released today. The drop in deficit in the first four months of the year is mainly a result of shipping revenue, which is estimated at 4.28 billion euros - much higher than Greece's export revenues and five times that from tourism.\nA fundamental tonic for Greece's state economy, the shipping sector stands out as a model for development. It is based on a relatively small number of healthy companies which have excelled in foreign markets by turning their initial handicap into an asset. This is a reference to the fact that they did not develop in a protectionist environment, and were not upheld by state decisions, subsidies, tailor-made agreements, political favors and similar phenomena that have for decades became a trademark characteristic of state relations with the so-called national contractors.\nHaving endured the problems and the challenges of the early years, the now mature Greek shipping sector has no need of state protection. However, it has every right to expect of the State not to become an unnecessary burden, as we have seen happen in the past. After the Prestige incident, instead of pointing out the responsibilities of other governments - the Spanish, in that case - to the European Union and other international bodies, the Greek government lashed out against ocean-going shipping in general, slamming even those shipowners whose fleet consisted of double-hulled ships. In effect, the State ended up discouraging shipowners from flying the Greek flag.\nSecondly, the shipping sector should also be able to expect the creation of a better investment climate and infrastructure that would allow investors to take more risks - while offering more jobs and boosting the economy in general. The City of London, which makes billions out of providing services to Greek shipowners, could be the source of know-how and a model for similar infrastructure at home.\nIn ancient times, the so-called \"wooden walls\" repeatedly protected Greeks against foreign invaders. It is likely that in the near future, they will be needed to save the Greek economy from its most relentless enemy, the vicious cycle of corruption and underdevelopment, to guide it toward the open seas of competitiveness, transparency and productivity.\nSource: www.ekathimerini.com, 22 Jun 04\n---OMI will sell 9M shares priced at $11.75 and raise $106M to partially cover the cost of its 12-tanker deal with Athenian. OMI has also granted Goldman Sachs an option to purchase 1.35M shares and is separately negotiating with a third party for the purchase of an additional 2M shares. The Stamford, Conn-based operator has agreed to pay $585M for the Athenian ships, $393M by August, plus $192M in shipyard payments for the newbuilding portion of the transaction. In a conference call, OMI chairman Craig Stevenson said the Athenian purchase does not preclude the company from doing a \"Stelmar-type transaction\" and that they're still open to renewed talks with Stelmar itself. Commenting on the Athenian deal, OMI president Robert Bugbee said that given the spot value outlook for the next three years, OMI needed \"to seize the moment\". As Stevenson explained, \"There are an enormous number of private owners [such as Athenian] and a handful of public companies. A lot of people out there want to capitalise on the strong market.\" In other words, public companies will continue to pay premiums for new double-hulled tonnage and already contracted newbuilds from private buyers. \"Expect to see more consolidation,\" asserted Stevenson.\nSource: Fairplay Daily News, 24 Jun 2004\n---Royal Olympic Cruise Lines Inc. (Nasdaq: ROCLE) today announced that based on notices it had received from the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Company expects that its shares will be de-listed from the Nasdaq Stock Market at the opening of business on June 28th, 2004 because the Company has failed to remain in compliance with all listing requirements.\nSpecifically, the Company has failed to file its annual report on Form 20-F for the fiscal year ended November 30, 2003 by the appointed time. As previously announced, the Company's failure to file its annual report arose due to the more complicated accounting and financial position stemming from the ongoing Article 45 process in Greece involving the Company's subsidiaries.\nThe Company is currently operating two cruise ships while under the protection from creditors afforded by the Article 45 proceeding. However, without successful resolution of the discussions with its creditors there can be no guarantee of continued operations. The Company continues to discuss available options with its bankers and creditors within the Greek Article 45 process.\nThis press release contains forward looking statements. Forward looking statements can be identified in many cases by the use of terms such as \"may,\" \"will,\" \"should,\" \"expect,\" \"intend,\" \"plan,\" \"anticipate,\" \"believe,\" \"estimate,\" \"predict,\" \"continue,\" or other terms. These statements are based on assumptions that are inherently subject to significant uncertainties and contingencies that are difficult or impossible to predict and are beyond our control and may cause our business activities and results, including the results of any discussion between Royal Olympic and creditors of the debtors, to be materially different from those that are implied by the forward-looking statements.\nAlthough we believe that the expectation expressed in our forward-looking statement are reasonable, we cannot assure you of any further business activity or result.\nSource: Press Release, 24 Jun 2004, James R. Lawrence, +1-203-406-0106, mobile, +1-203-550-2621, for Royal Olympic Cruise Lines Inc. (ROCLE)\n---Last year I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a distinct slow down in overall system performance, particularly in the flower and jewellery applications, which operated flawlessly under Boyfriend 5.0.\nIn addition, Husband 1.0 installed undesirable programs such as Football 5.0, Pub 3.0 and Golf Clubs 4.1. Housework 2.6 crashes the system. I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but to no avail.\nPlease enter the command: \"http: I Thought You Loved Me.htm\" and try to download Tears 6.2. If that application works as designed, Husband 1.0 should then automatically run the applications Jewellery 2.0 and Flowers 3.5. But remember, over use of the above application can cause Husband 1.0 to default to Grumpy Silence 2.5 or Beer 6.1. Beer 6.1 is a very bad program that will download the Snoring Loudly Beta.\nWhatever you do, DO NOT install Mother-in-law 1.0. It runs a virus in the background, that will eventually seize control of all your system resources.\nYou might consider buying additional software to improve memory and performance. We recommend Lingerie 7.7.\nSource: Maritime Advocate Online, 22 June 2004", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 21140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marshillaudio.org/addenda/what-were-reading", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:51Z", "digest": "sha1:BJ2P46MXQGEJSQH5JCCQFQRVPNWVTGJO", "length": 473, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "marshillaudio.org", "title": "What We're Reading | Mars Hill Audio", "raw_content": "More on Peter Harrison\nOn our most current issue, Volume 131 of the Journal, we featured an interview with historian, Peter Harrison, on his book The Territories of Science and Religion. If you would like to read an excellent summary of Harrison's book, or if you need a little more incentive to listen to the interview, we encourage you to read Peter Leithart's review of Harrison's book \"Not Religion v. Science,\" published on October 6, 2016 on the First Things website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 20423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 214.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://martynfh.com/tribute/details/11531/William-Piercey/obituary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:M577G2LWJ3C6Z66PPCTBR7436DQP5PTM", "length": 1087, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "martynfh.com", "title": "Obituary of William Piercey | Martyn Funeral Home", "raw_content": "William Frederick Piercey\nObituary of William Piercey\nPiercey, William Frederick\nPassed away peacefully with his family by his side at the North Bay Regional Health Centre on Wednesday, September 19, 2018, he was in his 87th year. Beloved husband of Alma Piercey (nee McLeod) of North Bay. Cherished father of Bernie McLeod of Sudbury, Brian Piercey of North Bay, David (Lisa) Piercey of Hawkesbury and predeceased by his infant son Donald. Proud grandfather of Jamie, Sarah, Kyle, Samantha, Joshua, Emily, Lacy and great-granddaughters Lily, Alice and Aerith Journey. William is sadly missed by his siblings Bernice Sypher, Brian Piercey and predeceased by Allan, Eric, Marjory, Ralph, Dorothy and Ken. William worked for Inco for 25 years. Family will receive visitors at Martyn Funeral Home on Sunday, September 23, 2018 from 11:00 a.m. until the time of the funeral service at 1:00 p.m. Cremation will take place following the service. If desired, donations to the Canadian Diabetes Association or Heart & Stroke Foundation would be gratefully acknowledged as expression of sympathy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mashup.hrpositive.com/2018/12/01/step-by-step-resumes-for-all-human-resources-entry-level-to-executive-positions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TGC3TSR6R47VU3MJIGNNOMVVBMMX46Z4", "length": 590, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mashup.hrpositive.com", "title": "STEP-BY-STEP RESUMES For All Human Resources Entry-Level to Executive Positions | HR Positive Mashup", "raw_content": "STEP-BY-STEP RESUMES For All Human Resources Entry-Level to Executive Positions\nAs a credentialed career management expert and thought leader, Evelyn is one of the top Professional Resume Writers in the world. She is a former National Resume Writers\u2019 Association Advertising and Public Relations Chair as well as its Eastern Regional Representative.\nHer award-winning resume and career products used worldwide by professional resume writers, career coaches, colleges and universities, the military, Departments of Labor, libraries, jobseekers, and others can be found at CareerCatapult.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maximillianwyse.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/can-democracy-survive-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:37Z", "digest": "sha1:F7KNS7EMLV3MWK54QEYPKPYKZRYPTOT3", "length": 3066, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "maximillianwyse.wordpress.com", "title": "Can democracy survive? \u2013 1 | maximillianwyse", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t be ridiculous, you say. The world\u2019s only superpower has been a democracy for 200 years.\nWhich is only partly true. Seventy-two years after the Constitution was ratified, the country ceased to exist. It was restored after four years of full-scale war and a suspension of Constitutional liberties by the government in Washington, most famously the writ of habeous corpus.\nFew people outside revanchist dreamers of the Old South believe Lincoln was wrong, or that the government did not have the power to do what it did (the scholarly controversy is around which branch of government had the power to suspend the writ).\nBut this is the point: The country was not able to resolve its internal social and economic conflicts through its own democratic institutions. War, martial law, and military defeat were necessary.\nThat one side was in fact capable of defeating the other is a critical part of our democratic history \u2014 and an under-appreciated one. Without this reality, which had to be demonstrated on the ground at hideous cost, the US constitution would not have been worth the parchment it was written on.\nKeep this in mind as you read the news from the Middle East.\nThe idea that any Iraqi faction, Shiites, Sunnis, or Kurds, might defeat the other two is laughable. Even if the Kurds were not a factor, Shiites and Sunnis must deal with each other. Barring an apocalyptic regional war (which would be too calamitous to allow), both sides of Islam will continue. Like Protestants and Catholics, they will be with us into the distant future.\nThen what of democracy in Iraq?\nIn a news story this morning, Iraq\u2019s Prime Minister Maliki is shown trying to maneuver the US into his corner, attempting to defeat ISIS while he still holds the reins:\nThe Iraqi prime minister, in an apparent rebuff to his international critics, said Wednesday that finding a political settlement to the differences among the country\u2019s factions was not as important or urgent as fighting extremist Sunni insurgents.\nThe PM was quoted:\n\u201cThe battle today is the security battle for the unity of Iraq\u2026 I don\u2019t believe there is anything more important than mobilizing people to support the security situation. Other things are important, but this is the priority.\u201d\nIf Maliki is successful in his tactics, he will have the upper hand for a while. He is maneuvering for US help, but even the US can not defeat all of Maliki\u2019s enemies in the region. Nor will it try.\nIf the West comes to his rescue, Iraq\u2019s democratic institutions will have failed once again. Its internal conflicts will remain as deep and intense as ever. And its position in the Middle East just as precarious.\nIraq is not the US. Its machinery of government works differently. Yet, at the bottom of it, it is a democracy. This is a source of weakness as well as strength. And it raises a mirror before the country that installed that machinery, asking the question, can democracy survive?\nThis entry was posted in News and tagged democracy by D M Smith. 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There are several restaurants, bars and shops within walking distance and the beach is only 300 m away.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://members.automationalley.com/list/member/rti-laboratories-inc-livonia-8412", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ACOFIYILZX5RHSUQIA5IWJ6UMSUKI2PX", "length": 198, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "members.automationalley.com", "title": "RTI Laboratories, Inc. | Professional Services | Other | Environmental Technologies - Automation Alley", "raw_content": "RTI Laboratories is one of the largest independent labs in the Midwest. It was founded in 1986 by Detrex Corporation, a public company based in Southfield, Michigan. The business was acquired by its", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 57.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metsmerizedonline.com/2016/06/mmo-exclusive-orthopedic-surgeon-explains-david-wrights-neck-procedure.html/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:22Z", "digest": "sha1:QWQD7BUCJYVYLKLLQPAU46G2ES5PMAQ2", "length": 3666, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "metsmerizedonline.com", "title": "MMO Exclusive: Orthopedic Surgeon Explains David Wright's Neck Procedure | Mets Merized Online", "raw_content": "MMO Exclusive: Orthopedic Surgeon Explains David Wright\u2019s Neck Procedure\nJune 30, 2016 Noah Wolfe Interviews, Mets News\nExactly two weeks ago, the Mets season took a turn for the worse when third baseman David Wright underwent a cervical discectomy and fusion procedure on his neck to repair a herniated disk. Mets fans and media alike rushed to the proverbial Panic City with proclamations that Wright was \u201cfinished\u201d and that the Mets\u2019 season would go by the wayside. In the midst of all the pandemonium, nobody bothered to actually learn what Dr. Robert Watkins did while operating on the Mets Captain.\nEnter David Geier, a South Carolina based surgeon who specializes in orthopedic sports medicine. Before launching his own practice in a suburb of Charleston, Dr. Geier spent eight years as the director of sports medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. He also worked with several professional teams across the country, including the St. Louis Cardinals, the St. Louis Rams, and the US women\u2019s national soccer team. Here\u2019s his medical explanation of David Wright\u2019s injury, surgery, and recovery.\nThe purpose of a cervical discectomy and fusion procedure is to alleviate the pressure on a spinal nerve caused by a herniated disk; and in David Wright\u2019s case, spinal stenosis as well.\nTo fully understand the procedure, we first need to understand the issue of a herniated disc. Cervical vertebrae are composed of about 80 percent water, giving their centers a jelly-like consistency. When a disc ruptures, the jelly-like center bulges through the annulus (a protective wall for the spinal cord) and puts pressure on the spinal nerve, causing pain.\nThe cervical discectomy and fusion procedure itself can be broken down into two parts.\n\u201cIn a discectomy, the surgeon goes in and takes out that leaked disc material to eliminate the pressure on the spinal nerve,\u201d Geier explains.\n\u201cSometimes only a part of the disc needs to be removed, but in severe cases, a surgeon can remove the entire piece.\u201d\nA fusion is a more advanced procedure and is required only if there are more advanced problems in the area, according to Dr. Geier.\n\u201cYou still have the disc material that\u2019s leaked out, but you might have some arthritis changes between the bones or some instability, potentially even some abnormal motion after taking out the disc.\u201d\nThe actual fusion part of the procedure is self explanatory.\n\u201cEssentially, you fuse the two bones together to restrict motion and therefore allow healing and uninhibited nerve function.\u201d\nSurgeons then replace the removed disk with either a bone graft from the hip or a cage device, before attaching a metal plate to the vertebrae above and below to provide stability.\nThe goal of the fusion is to prevent stress on the bone by limiting motion. This in turn aids bone healing and nerve function.\nThe actual procedure can be seen in an animated video you can view here.\nIn terms of returning to baseball, Geier was noncommittal on David Wright. He was insistent that recovery varies on a case to case basis, with factors such as age, fitness, and activity level playing a part.\n\u201cIt\u2019s so variable, that\u2019s why nobody\u2019s going to be able to give you a completely correct explanation, and nobody\u2019s going to be wrong.\u201d\nIt will take about four to six months for the bone in Wright\u2019s neck to heal. Extensive physical therapy will also be necessary for him regain full nerve function. Wright would likely return to baseball activities at some point in the offseason before needing reps against live pitching. With recovery so unpredictable, Geier gives a broad time frame for a return.\n\u201cIt could be anywhere from six months to a year.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mgs-bridgebuilder.com/2015/07/13/what-do-data-security-and-patient-engagement-have-in-common/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:19Z", "digest": "sha1:XBTU7RTF4HSHVREB6YGPQS6QFMVAEVKO", "length": 3382, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "mgs-bridgebuilder.com", "title": "What do data security and patient engagement have in common?", "raw_content": "What do data security and patient engagement have in common?\nAs the healthcare sector continues to undergo its own IT Revolution, there are clearly many advances and challenges on the horizon.\nWhen people think of data security measures, they tend to think of things that are onerous. New procedures intended to secure their data, but to make data access and their lives in general more difficult. Changing password procedures to require complex passwords that must be changed every 30, 45, 60 or 90 days. Enabling multi-factor authentication methods to access programs. Restricting access to programs or databases of information until it cannot be accessed without going through a huge hierarchy of approvals. These are what most people associate with data security.\nPatient engagement, on the other hand, is all about giving more people access to more data. Letting patients get into their medical charts to see changes and potentially spot incorrect information. Integrating mobile healthcare devices like FitBits, Jaw Bones or even the new Apple Watch into their medical chart so that their physicians can see and monitor activity and health conditions. This idea of giving more people access to their data and opening up databases to integration with multiple devices seems to contract data security.\nSo what do data security and patient engagement have in common? They are the two top priorities of the 15 Most Wired Hospitals according to a recent survey conducted by the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and VMware. The annual survey spotlights trends in the use of information technology within the healthcare industry, including where the biggest and most influential facilities are placing emphasis on their technology dollars.\nThe results of the survey show that the biggest players are aware of the increasing frequency of data breaches, as well as their data pool\u2019s potential to cause great harm when exploited or used fraudulently. Those hospitals designated as Most Wired stated that they were using and/or improving intrusion detection systems, increasing their use of drills and other exercises to test policies and responses to data breaches, and had increased board or other governing body oversight of and participation in risk management. These are all great things to hear, in light of the threats these institutions now face.\nThe Most Wired hospitals are also shifting focus to improving data sharing among other facilities and working to improve interoperability between their systems, which is a key goal of the increased use of technology in healthcare. These facilities are also leveraging technology to communicate with patients via patient portals, e-mails or other alerts, as well as providing education and guidance for increased patient self-management of conditions and diseases. These are squarely in line with improving the quality of patient care, another key goal of recent health care reforms.\nAs the healthcare sector continues to undergo its own IT Revolution, there are clearly many advances and challenges on the horizon. It is fascinating to watch the industry respond to these challenges in new and innovative ways to improve healthcare for everyone.\nTag: Cybersecurity Did You Know, Engagement, Technology\nPrevious: Previous post: Compliance Is Not Enough\nNext: Next post: Should the US Call the Midwives?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mikeatkinson.wordpress.com/2009/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:16Z", "digest": "sha1:FW6DCI6ZKVFSELDE6SQ2PAOVCPGYD3UQ", "length": 22073, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "mikeatkinson.wordpress.com", "title": "May | 2009 | Mike Atkinson", "raw_content": "Max\u00efmo Park, Bombay Bicycle Club \u2013 Nottingham Rock City, Wednesday May 20.\nAnyone expecting the originally advertised support act was in for a disappointment last night, as The Noisettes turned out to be missing from the bill \u2013 mysteriously so, as they are still listed as the support for the remainder of Max\u00efmo Park\u2019s current tour. Their place was taken by Bombay Bicycle Club: a likeable teenage indie band, whose album is due out in early July. Singer Jack Steadman put in an intriguingly eccentric performance, his face contorted into the sort of cringing, apologetic grimace that you might pull if you had just offended your grandparents with an off-colour joke.\nIn stark contrast, Max\u00efmo Park\u2019s Paul Smith \u2013 as natty as ever in his trademark black trilby and a close-fitting maroon checked suit \u2013 radiated an ebullient, unshakeable confidence from the off, his energy levels never dipping for a single second of his hour and ten minutes on stage. Eyes bulging and arms akimbo, he spent much of the set perched on a raised area at the lip of the stage, allowing even the most tightly crushed punter at the back of the sold-out venue to enjoy a full performance.\nFor a band whose rabble-rousing, anthemic indie rock was always underpinned with thoughtful lyrics and a leftfield approach, Max\u00efmo\u2019s latest album is a disappointingly safe and conventional affair, which sees them treading water artistically. Beefed up on stage, the new material worked well enough \u2013 particularly recent single The Kids Are Sick Again \u2013 but it paled in comparison to crowd favourites such as Graffiti (which opened the set) and Apply Some Pressure (the final encore). And by placing such an emphasis on getting the crowd to leap around and generally go mad, much of the band\u2019s subtlety was lost along the way.\nMax\u00efmo Park used to be a little bit arty, a little bit different. Nowadays, they seem happy to turn themselves into the Kaiser Chiefs. Given their talent and potential, you can\u2019t help wondering whether they\u2019re selling themselves short.\nSpex Fest \u2013 Nottingham Bodega Social Club, Sunday May 17.\nStarting at 5:30 in the afternoon and ending shortly after midnight, Nottingham\u2019s inaugural Spex Fest offered an opportunity to sample six experimental indie bands \u2013 most of them American \u2013 in a well-chosen line-up which showcased the diversity of the current scene.\nFollowing opening sets from Lovvers and Shitty Limits, Icy Demons (from Chicago) took to the stage at 7:45. Arguably the most technically accomplished live performers of the day, the band played a dazzlingly eclectic set, drawing on influences that ranged from jazzy prog-rock to funk and dub, all underpinned with a keenly rhythmic intensity. If you\u2019ve been mourning the demise of Stereolab, then Icy Demons might just be the band for you.\nRainbow Arabia (from California) are a boy-girl duo who combine dance-derived electronica with Middle Eastern influences, overlain with obscure, echo-heavy vocals and pealing guitar lines. They took a while to hit their stride \u2013 but when they did, the effect was compelling.\nTimes New Viking (from Columbus, Ohio) took things back to raw, lo-fi basics, with a thrashy, brutal simplicity that stood in stark contrast to the previous two acts. Appealing enough in small doses, there was something a little too one-dimensional about their approach, which would have benefited from a sharper sense of dynamics.\nTelepathe (from Brooklyn) were perhaps the strangest, most awkward and most challenging act of the day, blending girlish innocence with an unsettling sense of menace. Melissa Livaudais and the splendidly named Busy Gangnes stood sweetly behind their keyboards and percussion, singing mostly in unison with frail, emotionless, unschooled voices \u2013 while a booming, throbbing, deafening maelstrom of sound crashed around the room.\nEasy Star All-Stars, Nottingham Rescue Rooms, Thursday May 7.\nAt first, they sound like a novelty act \u2013 but on closer inspection, there\u2019s a real seriousness of purpose behind Michael Goldwasser\u2019s Easy Star All-Stars project. It takes a certain amount of brass neck for a bunch of mostly American and Jamaican reggae musicians to dedicate themselves to their chosen task: that of producing thoughtful, inventive and entertaining full-length covers of classic British concept albums. But instead of coming across as flippant or sacrilegious, the band\u2019s underlying respect for their source material \u2013 Dark Side Of The Moon, OK Computer and most recently Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band \u2013 shines through, breathing new life into the familiar songs.\nThere are eight people in the current touring version of the band, with most vocals split between the statuesque Kirsty Rock, the effervescent Menny More and the beaming, calming Rasta presence of Ras I Ray. Barring a couple of self-penned openers, the lengthy set divided fairly evenly between the Floyd, Radiohead and Beatles covers. The selections from Sgt. Pepper were lighter and cheerier, with the occasional artfully altered lyric \u2013 those cellophane flowers in \u201cLucy In The Sky With Diamonds\u201d are now red, gold and green, for instance. But where Dark Side and OK Computer can tend towards the oppressively bleak, the All-Stars didn\u2019t let the subject matter stand in the way of serving up a good time. If anything, a little more English gloom wouldn\u2019t have gone amiss \u2013 but perhaps this wouldn\u2019t have played so well with the crowd, sections of which were bordering on the delirious by the end of the night.\nThere were a couple of misfires. The Beat\u2019s Ranking Roger showed up for a brief guest vocal, but sheepishly resorted to cribbing the lyrics from his phone. Considering that he only had one verse to sing, it was difficult to feel much sympathy. And the encore section dragged badly \u2013 firstly with Kirsty\u2019s over-stretched attempts to re-create the vocal drama of the Floyd\u2019s \u201cGreat Gig In The Sky\u201d, and secondly with an interminable meet-the-band jam session that brought the show to an anti-climactic finish. But set against these were a sparkling dub-style take on \u201cWhen I\u2019m 64\u201d, a lush, emotional \u201cBreathe\u201d, a finely crafted \u201cParanoid Android\u201d, a complex yet danceable \u201cMoney\u201d, and much more besides.\nThere\u2019s a good reason why this bunch have been almost permanent fixtures in the upper reached of the US Billboard reggae charts for most of the decade, and it was a pleasure to hear them weave their unlikely magic in front of such an appreciative audience.\nInterview: Jez Williams, Doves.\n(Photo taken at Sheffield Academy, Tuesday April 28, by phoenixlily)\nIt\u2019s been four years between the last album and the new one [Kingdom Of Rust], so what have you been up to? Was there a chance to take a sabbatical break?\nThere was, yes. We took about four or five months off. We didn\u2019t have a break for [second album] The Last Broadcast, and we had about a month off for [third album] Some Cities. Then with this one we said: look, let\u2019s try and actually live like normal people \u2013 not in this weird travelling bubble, or studio bubble. It was a nice time to find ourselves again. When you\u2019re in a band, it\u2019s like this weird family you\u2019re connected to \u2013 so we wanted to spend time with our other families! (Laughs) It was much needed.\nThen from there it was like: right, fourth album, blank canvas. OK, we didn\u2019t know quite where to start, or what the fuck to do. But a year later, we had all these songs. And we kind of stepped back from it, and we were saying: yeah, it\u2019s good, but it\u2019s a bit comfort zone for us.\nThen we started upon our quest, if you like, to search for what we could do that\u2019s different. We needed to push ourselves and go down different avenues for Doves. To almost justify coming back with a fourth album, it\u2019s got to be different for us. So that became the long road to doing this album: what we could try and what we couldn\u2019t try, what we could get away with and what we couldn\u2019t get away with.\nSo there was a process of experimentation, where you were trying to push at boundaries and see where they\u2019d take you?\nIt was almost on a song by song basis. It was like, where haven\u2019t we been before? Right, let\u2019s go down that road. Then when we came out of the recording sessions with all these songs, we wanted to pick almost polar opposites. On the album you get \u201cJetstream\u201d followed by \u201cKingdom Of Rust\u201d: totally opposing songs. And everyone was like: you can\u2019t do that!\nBut in a weird way, it works. It\u2019s a strange Doves DNA stamp that we\u2019ve got: we seem to get away with what other bands might not be able to get away with. (Laughs)\nThere are a few changes that I\u2019ve picked up on. The album has a big, majestic, quite grand sort of sound, which can get very intense.\nI\u2019d agree with that. It\u2019s possibly our most intense album, because it takes you through some dark passages. Thinking about it, maybe it was a reflection of some of the struggles we were going through with this album: personally and with the band. You can\u2019t help but for it to come out, so it\u2019s always a good stamp of where you were at the time.\nBut there\u2019s a lot of optimism on that album as well. And there are also snapshots, which is what I call it when you take a picture with words. Lyrically, we enjoyed going into things that we haven\u2019t really done so much.\nThe lyrics are quite impressionistic, aren\u2019t they?\nWe\u2019ve always liked songs that are ambiguous. In fact, we hate pinpointing what they\u2019re about. Some are obvious, like \u201c10:03\u201d and \u201cJetstream\u201d. But there are others where we wanna keep it ambiguous, so the listener can put their own version of the story on them.\nAnyone\u2019s point of view is just as valid as ours. We might be coming at it from a different angle than what the listener might interpret it as, but that\u2019s cool. That\u2019s what good songs do.\nWhat about \u201cKingdom Of Rust\u201d itself? What\u2019s the significance of that title?\nIt\u2019s got quite a strange resonance, that song. We went away for four years, and literally the whole music industry imploded. We wanted to write a song with a bit of optimism, so the lyrics \u201cIt takes an ocean of trust in the kingdom of rust\u201d hit a nice resonance with what\u2019s going on today.\nYou\u2019ve got a couple of your own lead vocals on the album, and it was interesting to note that they\u2019re two of the more electronic influenced tracks.\nIn Doves camp, we always pass the mike. Jimi\u2019s the main singer, but we always get tracks where we\u2019ll go: you try it Andy, or you try it Jez. We\u2019ll literally get the mike and try it. And if someone\u2019s personality works best in the song, then that gets the vote. Jimi\u2019s one of the first people to encourage other people to take the mike, so it was very natural. In fact, it wasn\u2019t even an issue. The song\u2019s got the ego, and not the individual.\nYou pride yourselves on this democratic approach \u2013 so egos get checked at the door, do they?\nYou know what? The democratic approach is fine, but it\u2019s a pain in the arse. Everything takes twice as long. (Laughs) With quite a lot of bands, it all comes from one person: here are the songs, this is how they are, you can just play them. That\u2019s never what Doves have been about. It\u2019s always been about a sort of painful democracy, if you like.\nDid you literally hole yourselves up in your converted farmhouse studio for months on end, cutting yourself off from the outside world?\nLooking back on it now, I suppose we were isolated. We were almost in a tunnel, if you like. Halfway through, we were thinking there was no end in sight. We started to lose it a little bit. \u201cWhen is the end in sight? When is it?\u201d And so it just seemed to be this endless tunnel, with no light coming in.\nBut three-quarters of the way through, we started to see an album emerging, which was the most amazing feeling. It\u2019s like you\u2019re looking at a jigsaw puzzle and then suddenly in front of you, you can start to see the picture. So it was literally from the darkest point to the highest point, in a couple of weeks! (Laughs)\nYou\u2019ve got a big tour coming up, where you\u2019ll be spending two months on the road. I guess it\u2019s been quite a long time, so have you had any warm-up dates?\nWe did six warm-up dates, and it was great. It\u2019s something that\u2019s been missing from being in a band. The live circuit has always been a part of us, and it was weird to be in a studio for so long and not do a gig. So it felt so good to get back there. That\u2019s what being in a band is about: actually getting on stage and playing it, in front of the whites of the eyes in the audience.\nIt feels good to have fresh material in the set, and just to exercise these songs live is an amazing feeling. If you\u2019re playing for a year, you get to understand the songs a little bit more, and you can have a different twist on them from the actual studio recordings.\nIt\u2019s the old clich\u00e9: it\u2019s the travelling and everything else that\u2019s shit, but that actual hour and a half on stage is what you do it for.\nHave you got any festival appearances coming up?\nGlastonbury is confirmed now. We had two choices \u2013 the second stage or the John Peel tent \u2013 and we decided to close the John Peel tent on the Friday night. Just because we wanted word of mouth. Everyone was complaining: it\u2019s not big enough, it\u2019s not big enough! But it\u2019s like: sod it, we want to get some atmosphere going in that old tent. It\u2019s gonna be cool.\nI\u2019ve heard a few people comparing your position in 2009 with Elbow\u2019s position this time last year. I hope no one\u2019s putting any pressure on you to \u201cdo an Elbow\u201d\u2026\nWell, that\u2019s out of my control, isn\u2019t it? We\u2019ve done an album that we\u2019re all very proud of, and that we\u2019ve worked ridiculously hard on \u2013 so our work is kind of done in that respect. As for commercial pressures and all that, that\u2019s out of our control now. What will be, will be. I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve done an interview, or an article, without people mentioning Elbow!\nBut there\u2019s one thing that their success has shown: that if you make a bloody good record that can stand on its own qualities, then that record will actually see you through.\nWell, yeah. I\u2019m always a strong believer in that. When we went from [early 1990s dance act] Sub Sub to Doves, we thought people wouldn\u2019t give us a chance, because of our prior history \u2013 but it just shows you how wrong I was. You do a good album, and I think people will appreciate it.\nInterview: Michael Goldwasser, Easy Star All-Stars.\nHaving previously released reggae covers of Pink Floyd\u2019s Dark Side Of The Moon and Radiohead\u2019s OK Computer, what made you decide to cover The Beatles\u2019 Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band for your latest project?\nOur thing is that we like to do concept albums. We don\u2019t just want to do a collection of songs, or greatest hits, in reggae. We want to do higher albums that work really well as a cohesive unit, where the songs make sense together. Sgt. Pepper\u2019s is considered to be one of the first concept albums, so that made it a logical choice.\nBesides that, our first two albums were \u2013 because of the source material \u2013 were somewhat dark, minor key affairs. We thought it would be a great challenge to apply our sound to something different: to a more upbeat, major key, pop-orientated album.\nAs a resident of New York City, is it important that the albums that you choose are all British? Because they\u2019ve all been British so far.\nI think it\u2019s somewhat of a coincidence. Or maybe it\u2019s just that the British make the best albums? I don\u2019t know if this informs the decision-making, but I did grow up being something of a musical Anglophile \u2013 even with reggae, as a lot of my favourite reggae comes from British bands.\nWere there any delicate negotiations involved, when it came to assigning tracks to your various guest artists? [Steel Pulse, Ranking Roger, Max Romeo, U-Roy, Sugar Minott, Frankie Paul, The Mighty Diamonds, Black Uhuru\u2019s Michael Rose, Third World\u2019s Bunny Rugs and others.] Or did they just do what they were told?\nThe funny thing is, that while Sgt. Pepper\u2019s is considered by many people in the rock and pop world to be one of the greatest albums of all time, a lot of Jamaicans \u2013 while they might be familiar with The Beatles \u2013 don\u2019t know the album. It\u2019s such a well known album, but it doesn\u2019t have a lot of so-called \u201chits\u201d on it. There are songs that get played on rock radio each year in America, such as \u201cLucy In The Sky With Diamonds\u201d and \u201cA Day In The Life\u201d, but you don\u2019t hear a lot of the deeper album cuts. And therefore they haven\u2019t been covered a lot. So it was great for us to be able to do songs like \u201cFixing A Hole\u201d and \u201cGetting Better\u201d, that probably haven\u2019t been adapted. I\u2019m sure that there\u2019s covers of every Beatles song, but they\u2019re not so well-known.\nListening through to the Beatles originals, how easy was it for you to imagine them as reggae versions?\nThere were certainly some tracks that were pretty difficult. My overall first impression was that it would be a very difficult project. Partly it\u2019s because the vibe of the album is very different from our first two albums. Partly it\u2019s the reverence that people have for this album.\nIt\u2019s always good to attack that sense of reverence.\nOh yeah, and I have no problem with doing it \u2013 but it\u2019s something to think about. I spent about six months just writing the arrangements. The beginning period was really just listening to the album, and immersing myself on a deeper level. I was very familiar with the album from the time that I was a child, but I hadn\u2019t really analysed it on an intellectual and musical level.\nCertain songs came easier. With something like \u201cLovely Rita\u201d, I knew pretty quickly what I wanted to do with it musically.\nI\u2018d have thought \u201cWithin You, Without You\u201d would be a challenge. That was the one that I just couldn\u2019t imagine, before I played the album. But I like what you\u2019ve done. You\u2019ve put that \u201cSleng Teng\u201d rhythm underneath it\u2026\nHey, you\u2019re the second reviewer who caught that, which is great. That arrangement was really difficult, because originally part of it is in 10:8 time, and then in 3 time. With our previous two albums, I\u2019d done a lot of experimentation with doing reggae in odd time signatures \u2013 but on this one, just because of the pop aspect of it, I wanted to keep this album for the most part in 4:4 time. So I knew I had to get some kind of 4:4 beat and rhythm to this song. So, yes, this one was pretty tough.\nOur bassist Victor Rice, who also mixed the album, wrote the string arrangement. He did a brilliant job of making it work in basically 5 time over 4. And then the whole \u201cSleng Teng\u201d thing didn\u2019t come about until we were actually in the mixing studio. I was like: you know what, this just isn\u2019t night. It\u2019s just not good enough. And I was just fooling around, and I thought: what if I replace the original bassline for it? I\u2019d somehow got the idea of interpolating \u201cSleng Teng\u201d, and that really glued the song together for me. It gave me the drive that it needed.\nAnother song which I didn\u2019t think would work is \u201cWhen I\u2019m 64\u201d, but it\u2019s one of the most enjoyable tracks on the album. Especially with that extended dub section, which has a kind of Rico Rodriguez feel to it\u2026\nYeah, with the trombone. \u201cWhen I\u2019m 64\u201d was also difficult. I think that in England, people understand that it\u2019s somewhat of a tribute to the whole 1920s music hall genre. But in America, people couldn\u2019t quite relate to it on that level. I know quite a few people who actually just don\u2019t like the song. They think that it\u2019s too corny: \u201cThis isn\u2019t rock and roll, what is this?\u201d\nIn the course of my life, I\u2019ve heard a lot of reggae covers of other music that I thought were very corny. It could be corny because of the source material, or corny because of making it reggae. So I had to be really careful to give it something that would make it sound cool to reggae fans and rock fans alike.\nI don\u2019t remember exactly how I came up with the arrangement, but I was just somehow thinking: OK, Twenties music hall in London; I\u2019m gonna transport that to early Eighties dancehall in Jamaica. It\u2019s kinda got the vibe of a classic Sugar Minott song called \u201cHerbman Hustling\u201d, and then I was like: well, let\u2019s get Sugar Minott in to sing this one.\nHave you had any response, from the Beatles camp? Do you know if they\u2019re even aware of it?\nWell, we do all of our albums above board. Before we put anything out, we\u2019re dealing with the management and the publishers. We don\u2019t want to fly under the radar. We want everyone to hear this, and we wouldn\u2019t want to give anyone a reason to sue us.\nSo a long time ago, we dealt with Apple Corps: the Beatles company that they set up in 1968, which still technically administers their business. We got approval from them, and then we dealt with their publishers, Sony ATV, which was a much more lengthy procedure. That being said, we\u2019ve not yet heard a response from Paul or Ringo or Olivia Harrison or Yoko Ono \u2013 but we really, really hope to get some responses from them.\nI\u2019d like to think that if Paul heard this, he would like it. I\u2019m pretty sure that he likes reggae, and it seems like he\u2019s into experimentation. Even if this album tanks commercially, if Paul McCartney ever said to me \u201cI really appreciate what you did with my music\u201d, I would remember that for the rest of my life.\nWill your live show be dominated by Sgt. Pepper, or do you split it between the other projects?\nWe do a pretty long show, and with this new album we\u2019re certainly going to play the majority of it. But because so many people love Dub Side Of The Moon and Radiodread, we\u2019re still going to give them a healthy serving of those songs as well.\nDo you carry a mental shortlist of albums that you might consider for your next project?\nOh, sure. When we did Dub Side Of The Moon, we didn\u2019t realise that we were going to create a series. But once that became somewhat successful, we\u2019ve thought about many dozens of albums. There are some that I\u2019ve even started writing arrangements for. So we have a bunch in mind for the next one. I can\u2019t tell you what it could be, because we try to surprise people when it comes out.\nFor what it\u2019s worth, my vote would go to REM\u2019s Automatic For The People. 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It takes forever for the printer to get reset, and most recently, ever since I\u2019ve gotten wireless access, I periodically have to call the printer manufacturer to reset the settings. Either that, or call the computer manufacturer. One time I got an error message that basically said, \u201cThis is an error message. See the manual for how to fix it.\u201d Then the manual said something like, \u201cYour printer has an error.\u201d It\u2019s one of the reasons why one of my favorite all-time scenes in movies is during \u201cOffice Space,\u201d when they take the printer out to the field and smash it with a baseball bat.\nProduct Review: Every VCR or DVD player I\u2019ve ever had.\nThey are so hard to set up. Then if they don\u2019t work it\u2019s hard to figure out why. Sorry, I\u2019m admitting I\u2019m not good at setting up DVD players.\nProduct Review: Remote Controls\nEvery house I\u2019ve ever been to has two or three remote controls \u2014 sometimes four or five. They are impossibly complicated to figure out.\nTags: baseball bat, dvd player, office space, paper jam, printers, product review, rating, scene, vcr", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 330.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://missionalscore.com/privacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:53Z", "digest": "sha1:7O4ZHBBQNXQ62THK2O26AO6FX6SXTXXM", "length": 18390, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "missionalscore.com", "title": "Privacy Policy - Missional Score", "raw_content": "Coxnvox Music, LLC d/b/a Missional Score (\u201cCompany\u201d) is concerned about online privacy issues and wants you to be familiar with how Company collects, uses and discloses your Personal Information (as defined below). This Privacy Policy (the \u201cPolicy\u201d) describes Company\u2019s practices in connection with Personal Information and Non-Personal Information (as defined below) that Company collects through web sites owned or controlled by Company, including the site from which you are linking to this Policy (the \u201cSite\u201d). For purposes of this Policy and protection against liability, Company\u2019s artists, affiliates, related companies, officers, shareholders, directors, employees, representatives, and agents shall be known as \u201cCompany Affiliates\u201d. This Policy does not govern Company\u2019s collection of information through any website, or by any other means, other than through the Site; nor does this Policy govern the collection of information by any of Company\u2019s Affiliates, or by third parties. 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Company provides such links only as a convenience, and the inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of, or Company\u2019s affiliation with any provider of, the linked site by Company or Company Affiliates. If you provide any PI through any such third party web site, your transaction will occur on such third party\u2019s web site (not the Site) and the PI you provide will be collected by, and controlled by the privacy policy of, that third party. It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the privacy policies and practices of any such third parties. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS POLICY DOES NOT ADDRESS THE PRIVACY OR INFORMATION PRACTICES OF ANY OTHER WEBSITE ASIDE FROM THIS SITE.\nb. Security. Company uses reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect PI under Company\u2019s control. 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Jacobson, Esq., 9107 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 450, Beverly Hills, CA 90210, Attn: Missional Score Website.\nPlease note that e-mail communications will not necessarily be secure; accordingly you should not include credit card information or other sensitive information in your e-mail correspondence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 19540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://missionofsalvation.com/message-0186/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FJV4KPHTB3QCASYR3RARL52ZFPKJKKQ7", "length": 1943, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "missionofsalvation.com", "title": "Message 0186 \u2013 Mission of Salvation", "raw_content": "6 September 2011 @ 8:30pm\nAs the faith of My followers becomes stronger, attacks on them increase\nMy dearly beloved daughter, how you suffer for Me and how strong you have become as a result. My protection is all around you. Do not fear. As this Work continues to convert souls, so too, will the attacks by Satan. Accept this. Do not let it bother you. Rise above the challenges and keep your eyes on Me at all times. For when you do, nothing else will matter.\nThe same suffering will be felt by all My followers as the Holy Spirit continues unabated to attract the souls of all My children everywhere, as their faith in Me becomes stronger, so too will the attacks on them by others increase. They, My followers will notice that they have to face arguments, deal with unusual and abusive comments and reactions from unbelievers, which will be difficult for them to deal with.\nPlease tell them to expect this now, as the time for The Warning draws near.\nSatan and his demons, invisible to the naked human eye, are trying to destroy the love in My children\u2019s souls. He inspires distrust towards one another. He causes arguments and plants doubts. He is full of hatred for mankind. He will cause war between countries, fellow countrymen and friction within families. These are all his favourite tactics and are always a sign of his devious work.\nRecognize this for what it is \u2013 Satan at work. Fight him, children, by being strong. Ask My beloved Mother to protect you, as she is his greatest adversary. Satan\u2019s power will loosen if you call on her to help you.\nThese times are challenging for all My followers everywhere. Every attempt, from every kind of source \u2013 friends, family and colleagues will be made, through the work of the deceiver, to encourage you, My children, to turn your back on Me.\nStop him as I have told you. Prayer and devotion to the Immaculate Heart of My Blessed Mother will be your armour.\nBe strong now. I love you all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moderncomment.com/biz/bright-horizons-at-the-summit-bellevue", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7VSBZJT77ULKVPNE3AL6PNV3EXVCBZIT", "length": 3587, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "moderncomment.com", "title": "Bright Horizons At The Summit - Bellevue, WA 98004 - (425) 688-0900 - Customer Reviews - ModernComment", "raw_content": "Bright Horizons At The Summit\n355 110th Ave NE, Bldg A, Ste P100, Bellevue, WA 98004\nI love Bright Horizons At The Summit because of their convenience, staff, and communication.\nI really like their consistent communication. Also, I like that they are in a convenient location. I like the friendly staff. It is also great that they use technology well to communicate.\nWhat really stands out at Bright Horizons At The Summit is their staff, program, convenience, and health / safety practices.\nI really appreciate that they are responsive to my child's needs and give good updates on my child's day. I also think that they have a rich variety of classroom materials. I am pleased with their friendly and well qualified staff. In addition, it is great that they provide good evidence of learning. I really appreciate that they are in a convenient location. Also, I like that they have a safe classroom setup, a secure entrance, a clean environment, and excellent child supervision. It is great that they have plenty of parking and convenient hours. On the other hand, I wish it was a little less expensive.\nOverall, I am not satisfied with Bright Horizons At The Summit because of their program, communication, and value.\nThe value they provide is less than what I pay for. In my opinion, they are not very responsive and are not very proactive about communication. I find that they have a limited variety of classroom materials and unsubstantial parent-teacher conferences. Also, the communication is inconsistent. On the plus side, I appreciate their staff. I love the friendly staff. I also think they are responsive to my child's needs.\nI am satisfied with Bright Horizons At The Summit because of their program, communication, and staff.\nI think that they have a rich variety of classroom materials. I also like that they are responsive. The communication is consistent and proactive, which is always great. It is also great that they give good updates on my child's day and are responsive to my child's needs. I think they provide good evidence of learning. Also, I love their friendly staff. On the other hand, I don't really like their health / safety practices and value. I feel that they are more expensive than other places and don't offer significantly more.\nI really appreciate the convenience and program at Bright Horizons At The Summit. I would recommend the summit for the most part.\nI think that they have easy drop off and easy pick up. I also think they are in a convenient location. I think they provide good evidence of learning. However, I think their communication could be improved. I think their communication is inconsistent. I also think they are not very proactive about communication.\nI recommend Bright Horizons At The Summit because of their outstanding health / safety practices, convenience, program, and staff.\nThey have healthy hygiene practices, a secure entrance, excellent child supervision, a safe classroom setup, and a clean environment. It is also great that they have a high quality curriculum, substantive parent-teacher conferences, and a rich variety of classroom materials. The well qualified and friendly staff is wonderful. It is also great that they provide good evidence of learning. I really appreciate that they are in a convenient location. Also, I really appreciate that they give good updates on my child's day and are responsive to my child's needs. It is great that they have plenty of parking, easy pick up, easy drop off, and convenient hours.\nsummit@brighthorizons.com\nchild-care-preschool.brighthorizons.com/WA/Bellevue/summit/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mondomedia.com/games/play/79/Hot_Potato", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:13Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZLK6AVXDQQX6ON65JQOSYWYA4B523OM", "length": 180, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mondomedia.com", "title": "Hot Potato - Happy Tree Friends - Mondo", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a pot-luck party and everyone\u2019s decided to bring something to share! Flippy has shown up with the baked potatoes\u2026 only he\u2019s made his own bombastic substitutions to the recipe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moneymorning.com/2017/04/18/virtual-reality-technology-is-rapidly-advancing-thanks-to-this-breakthrough-firm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:24Z", "digest": "sha1:BXVIS6JQCIZ7DSODQPQAHGFIMW2BDWXE", "length": 5364, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "moneymorning.com", "title": "Virtual Reality Technology Is Rapidly Advancing Thanks to This Breakthrough Firm", "raw_content": "Subject: Virtual Reality Technology Is Rapidly Advancing Thanks to This Breakthrough Firm\nURL: https://mney.co/2nZGfgS\nFollow Tech Watch\nStocks: AAPL, CSCO, INTC\nProfit Alerts: Tech Watch\nVirtual Reality Technology Is Rapidly Advancing Thanks to This Breakthrough Firm\nVirtual reality technology is rapidly advancing, allowing doctors to practice surgeries and teens to simulate driving before getting their license.\nBut there's one area where virtual reality (VR) is lacking: human emotion. The technology doesn't effectively relay nonverbal cues like facial expressions between VR users.\nHowever, there's a company that plans to change that. And investors are lining up to get in on the action, investing $100 million in the last funding round.\nMindMaze, a Switzerland-based tech company founded in 2011, created \"MASK,\" which synchronizes physical emotions with digital emotions.\n\"By syncing the physical body in all its expressive capacity with a digital avatar, MASK allows developers to build playable characters that emote in pre-real-time,\" MindMaze said on its website.\nAccording to TechnologyReview.com, MASK recognizes 10 different expressions, some of which include smirking, grimacing, and eyebrow-raising.\nAnd investors are buying into this being the next big trend in VR\u2026\nIn February 2016, MindMaze raised $100 million, led by multinational conglomerate Hinduja Group. That brought MindMaze's valuation to $1 billion.\nMindMaze CEO Tej Tadi Presents MindLeap\nNew technology like this is at the center of the next big trend that Money Morning Director of Tech & Venture Capital Research Michael A. Robinson is calling Neural Imprinting.\nIn Robinson's 35-year career, he's been a board member of a venture capital firm and an advisor for two more.\nAnd he's been watching this trend closely, as some of the most influential companies and investors are rushing to fund this exciting new technology.\nMicrosoft's CEO jumped in with a $150 million investment, saying this technology has \"mind-blowing potential.\"\nGoogle headed up a funding round worth $542 million.\nAfter spending less than two hours with this technology, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg invested $2.1 billion.\nBy 2020, Robinson believes just one major factor in this Neural Imprinting trend could create $2.86 trillion in new wealth.\nHere's how you can take part\u2026\nWatch This One VR Stock Right Now\nIn 2016, Neural Imprinting devices generated $70 million in revenue. For 2017, they could generate $684 million.\nThat's an increase of 877% in just one year.\nAnd because this one tiny company in Silicon Valley has 7,300 patents for a key component behind this technology, every major player in tech is beating down its doors.\nAlready, this company has established contracts with Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), Intel Corp. (Nasdaq: INTC), and Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO).\nTo make things even better, this company has been selected to take part in a $425 million project with the U.S. Department of Energy.\nOf course, like any investment, there are risks involved.\nThat's why Robinson has thoroughly vetted the opportunity and would like to tell you everything you need to know about this company.\nBut before Robinson's full presentation, we want to make sure Money Morning readers know more about our Director of Tech & Venture Capital Research and his many accomplishments.\nWho Is Tech Guru Michael A. Robinson?\nMichael is one of our most prominent and respected investing \"gurus\" here at Money Map Press \u2013 and for good reason. He is one of the top financial analysts working today. Make no mistake: Michael's ideas are completely his own. He's a true original. He works solely for Money Map Press\u2026 and receives absolutely no compensation from companies he writes about.\nHis book \"Overdrawn: The Bailout of American Savings\" was a prescient look at the anatomy of the nation's S&L crisis, long before the word \"bailout\" became part of our daily lexicon. He's a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and reporter, lauded by the Columbia Journalism Review for his aggressive style.\nMichael's 30-year track record as a leading tech analyst has garnered him rave reviews, too.\nAs editor of the financial newsletter American Wealth Underground, Michael amassed an amazing track record using rigorous investing. The first analyst to uncover the rare earth mineral crisis, he amassed cumulative gains of 990% for his readers in just 16 months.\nHis research is world class, too. The Oakland Tribune, Detroit News, The San Francisco Examiner, The Kansas City Times, Wealth Magazine, and American Banker all publish his reporting. He has appeared on Larry King's syndicated radio show.\nRobinson has an honors economics degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia with a minor in journalism.\nAnd today, we're excited to share his thoroughly vetted opportunity.\nYou can see the full presentation, right here.\nNew Technology Could Create $2.86 Trillion in Wealth: The revenue growth is shocking. Last year, with a very limited release, it generated $70 million in revenue. This year, it's on track for $684 million. But over the next three years, the core technology could create $2.86 trillion in new American wealth. And this isn't just for the billionaires of the world. Many everyday Americans could become millionaires as well. Click here to see how you could be one of them\u2026\nCSCO 1.03 (2.13%) 49.43", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 14710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moneymorning.com/tag/social-media-ipos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:OJD6EM4EYCDVZP66BFBQ5T6DH7UEOFGK", "length": 7903, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "moneymorning.com", "title": "Social Media IPOs - Money Morning", "raw_content": "Subject: How Do Social Media Companies Make Money?\nURL: http://mney.co/1KpAxpa\n\u00d7 5 = 5 Required Please enter the correct value.\nsocial media IPOs\nHow Do Social Media Companies Make Money?\nSocial media stocks are off to a good start in 2015, with Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) still leading the group.\nFacebook's stock is up 14% over the past year to around $80 a share, and FB now has nearly the same market cap as Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT). Facebook has 1.31 billion active users. And it released a \"revolutionary\" marketing platform that will challenge the likes of Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG, GOOGL).\nBut a question that must be clear to investors is exactly how do social media companies make money?\nTo learn how to gauge which companies will succeed, we first need to understand how social media advertising actually works...\nFresh Highs for S&P and Dow Jones Today, GoPro Dives 16%, Plus These Top Stories\nWhy Facebook's (Nasdaq: FB) News Feed Tinkering Scandal Will Blow Over\nGoPro IPO Price Could Be a Steal for Investors\nThe GoDaddy IPO Comes with Some Troubling Numbers\nIPO Calendar 2014: 8 Companies Going Public This Week\nFacebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) 2nd Annual Shareholder Meeting Highlights\n2014 IPO Market: What to Watch and How to Profit Now\nFacebook (Nasdaq: FB) Stock Up Ahead of 2nd Annual Shareholder Meeting\nFacebook Inc.'s (Nasdaq: FB) Rumored \"Slingshot\" App Takes Aim at Competition\nChinese E-Retailer JD.Com Leads This Week's IPO Calendar\nUber IPO: Issues Facing the $10 Billion Driver-On-Demand App\nThis Chart Shows How Huge the Alibaba IPO Will Be\nAlibaba IPO Is \"As Big As It Gets\"\nChinese E-Commerce Company Headlines This Week's IPO Calendar\nAlibaba IPO Filing: Here\u2019s What We Know\nStock market news, July 2, 2014: Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones today (Wednesday) were able to just barely finish with fresh record highs. The Nasdaq was mostly flat but finished slightly down.\nHere's the scorecard from today's trading session, and the top stock market news recap...\nFacebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) stock has been logging impressive gains, and the company's strategic acquisitions continue to bolster investor confidence.\nBut a recent study in which Facebook tweaked the content mix in the news feeds of almost 690,000 users for one week in early 2012 could erode users' trust - and raises concerns about privacy all over again.\nHere's why some believe the study, and Facebook, crossed a line - and what this development means for FB stock...\nAction-camera company GoPro Inc. (Nasdaq: GPRO) released more information about its upcoming IPO on Wednesday, stating the company plans to raise up to $427.2 million in the deal. That would give GoPro a valuation of approximately $3 billion.\nIn today's regulatory filing, the company said that an IPO price range of $21 to $24 per share has been set.\nBut given some of the figures backing the GoPro IPO, that price might be a steal...\nThe clock is officially ticking on the GoDaddy IPO after the Internet company filed the prospectus for an initial public offering yesterday (Monday).\nWhile the company did not provide any specifics of the IPO date or IPO price, the filing did say that GoDaddy plans to raise up to $100 million in the IPO.\nBut what investors really need to be watching are these troubling numbers...\nBy Kyle Anderson, Associate Editor, Money Morning \u2022 @KyleAndersonMM - June 9, 2014\nFollowing June's slow start, the IPO calendar is once again loaded this week with eight upcoming IPOs.\nThis year has been the busiest for IPOs since the \"Dot-Com\" era of 1999 through 2001, with 117 companies already debuting year to date.\nAnd for investors, that's meant an abundance of investment opportunities as the average IPO has returned a 13.2% gain so far in 2014, according to Renaissance Capital.\nFor investors looking to profit from the IPO market this week, here are the eight companies going public.\nThe Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) stock price is up 60.5% from the IPO price - so investors were thrilled at the shareholder meeting.\nThrough today, 111 initial public offerings have taken place in the United States this year, making 2014 the busiest year for the IPO market since the \"Dot-Com\" era of 1999 through 2001.\nWhile the size of the 2014 IPO market is huge, the deals are just getting started.\nThere are still some big profit opportunities awaiting 2014\u2019s initial public offering investors, including what may be one of the biggest IPOs of all time. Here are some of 2014\u2019s biggest upcoming IPOs\u2026\nFacebook Inc.'s second annual shareholder meeting will bring something new to the table...\nThis year's gathering, to be held today at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay, could get feisty as it marks the first time stockholders are able to put their own proposals up for vote.\nThe good news going in to the meeting is the Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) stock price is in much better shape than it was at the time of its first shareholder meeting.\nHere\u2019s what\u2019s up for discussion this year\u2026\nSince an unsuccessful $3 billion takeover attempt of Snapchat in 2013, Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) has been developing its own video messaging app to compete with its competitor.\nKnown within the company as Slingshot, Facebook has been working on the new messaging app since Snapchat rebuffed its overtures late last year, reports the Financial Times. And, CEO Mark Zuckerberg has personally been overseeing the top-secret project, according to people familiar with the matter.\nHere\u2019s why this is important to Facebook and the FB stock price.\nThis week's IPO calendar is headlined by the $1.6 billion initial public offering (IPO) of Chinese e-commerce company JD.com, which will be making its public debut on Thursday, May 22.\nJD.com is China's second largest e-retailer, and has been in the news lately because it is the biggest competitor to Alibaba Group Holding.\nBut it isn\u2019t the only profit opportunity for investors looking to play the IPO market this week. Here\u2019s the full list of upcoming IPOs this week\u2026\nAccording to a Bloomberg report yesterday (Thursday), Uber is in talks to begin a new round of fundraising that would value the on-demand taxi booking company at more than $10 billion.\nThe $10 billion valuation would be a dramatic increase from $3.5 billion it was valued at last summer.\nAn Uber deal probably won\u2019t make the 2014 IPO calendar, and Uber stock would undoubtedly be a hot commodity and one of larger recent tech IPOs when it hits the market. But there are still a number of issues facing the company\u2026\nThe Alibaba IPO was officially filed earlier this month, and analysts estimate that the deal could be the largest initial public offering in U.S. history.\nBloomberg has estimated that the Hong-Kong based e-commerce firm could be valued as high as $168 billion, and will be selling a 12% stake in the company through the IPO. That means the company would raise $20.16 billion through its IPO.\nHere\u2019s how the Alibaba IPO stacks up against the biggest IPOs ever\u2026\nThe Alibaba IPO is expected sometime in late 2014 and analysts are projecting that the deal will be the largest initial public offering since Facebook Inc.'s (Nasdaq: FB) $16 billion IPO in 2012.\nSome experts think it could surpass Facebook's IPO, which would make it the largest Internet IPO of all time.\nMoney Morning's Chief Investment Strategist Keith Fitz-Gerald joined FOX Business' \"Varney & Co.\" today (Monday) and discussed why the factors that are driving the Alibaba IPO price higher.\nAccording to Renaissance Capital, 104 IPOs have already been priced in the U.S. in 2014, and this is another busy week on the IPO calendar as eight companies make their initial public offering.\nThe biggest IPO this week is from the Chinese e-commerce company Jumei, which is looking to raise $195 million. But that's not the only opportunity for investors looking to play the IPO market this week.\nTake a look at this week's upcoming IPOs and the details of each deal...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 525, "original_length": 21915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://morrisvillecathospital.com/doctor-and-staff/customer-service/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ZM5YKFLLMSQTBKC7CVRDWXE6VAOYIUUM", "length": 2317, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "morrisvillecathospital.com", "title": "Customer Service | The Morrisville Cat Hospital", "raw_content": "Deb has been with MCH since 2014, shortly after moving here from northern Virginia. She has always loved cats and has shared her home with over 20 cats in her lifetime. Deb\u2019s prior career was in a different industry, but she volunteered with cat rescue for over 10 years and always desired to work in an animal hospital with cats. Deb is grateful to be able to witness the love and bond that humans share with these fascinating creatures. She is passionate about helping our clients and addressing their needs and concerns.\nDeb is married with three adult daughters. While she is not at the hospital, Deb enjoys spending time with family, friends, and her two cats (adopted from Morrisville Cat Hospital) and three dogs. She also enjoys walking, yoga, traveling, doing new things, and volunteering at Rex Hospital.\nJennifer joined MCH\u2019s team in October 2006. Starting in high school, Jennifer gained nearly 5 years of experience in the veterinary field as a Kennel Caretaker and Veterinary Receptionist. She spent almost 2 years away from MCH to explore other interests, but was happy to return part-time in 2013. Jennifer is married with one son, Chance, who was born January 2014.\nIn her free time, Jennifer enjoys painting, reading, cooking and spending time with her family.\nGabby joined MCH\u2019s team in August 2016. When she is not working part-time you can find her pursuing her degree in Agriculture Business Management with a minor in Animal Science at North Carolina State University. She has been passionate about all animals since a young age. Before coming to the veterinary field she worked as a kennel caretaker for cats and dogs. In her free time she enjoys cooking, doing yoga, and spending time with her animals at home including two cats, a dog, and two horses.\nKylie joined the MCH team in April of 2016. Immediately after earning a Bachelor\u2019s degree from North Carolina State University in 2012, she entered the veterinary field working in a cat-only practice for nearly three years. She believes cats are the most fun animals with which to work.\nAt home she has two cats of her own along with an entourage of other animals to keep them company. She spends many weekends vending at conventions along the East coast selling handcrafted products. In her free time she paints and enjoys time in nature.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 5638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 196.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mostlyfilm.com/2013/08/28/sorted-for-teens-and-wizz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:18Z", "digest": "sha1:GIYFS56322U72ZBNCA34IKCPP4NIYAZO", "length": 3314, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mostlyfilm.com", "title": "Sorted for Teens and Wizz | MostlyFilm", "raw_content": "Sorted for Teens and Wizz\nAugust 28, 2013 Actors, Comedy, New ReleasesGareth Negus\nThere are different kinds of teen movie: the kind aimed at teenagers, and the kind that are about teenagers but aimed at adults. Then there\u2019s the kind that fall somewhere between the two. The Way, Way Back is one of those.\nThe film stars Liam James as 14-year-old Duncan, reluctantly dragged on holiday for the summer with his mom (Toni Collette), his mom\u2019s hectoring and unlikable new boyfriend Trent (Steve Carell), and Trent\u2019s daughter. After spending some time moping around being miserable, Duncan chances across the Water Wizz amusement park, where the manager Owen (Sam Rockwell) takes him under his wing.\nMiserable 14-year-olds are no fun to hang around with (even most miserable 14-year-olds would agree with that, if they ever spoke) and not much fun to watch on screen. So it takes a while to engage with the film\u2019s protagonist, and the situation isn\u2019t helped by the fact that we suspect we could be having more fun watching Collette, or Allison Janney who plays the oft-sozzled divorcee next door. Instead, we get to watch the adults through Duncan\u2019s eyes, as they drink too much, and lie to themselves and each other \u2013 a narrative device also seen recently in What Maisie Knew. Fortunately, the film, like its lead, opens up and becomes somewhat less awkward once it spends more time at the Water Wizz with Rockwell, who naturally provides some helpful life lessons under his happy-go-lucky, man-child style of management. Naturally, this also helps him befriend the pretty girl next door (AnnaSophia Robb).\nSee how he dances!\nWritten and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash (who co-wrote the screenplay of The Descendants), The Way, Way Back doesn\u2019t offer anything that hasn\u2019t been done many times before. The biggest shock is that it is set in the present day (though this is apparently only for budgetary reasons); everything about it feels like a period piece, from the title to the \u2018after that summer, nothing would ever be the same\u2019 plot (it is perhaps most reminiscent of the 1980s-set Adventureland). It feels like a screenplay by someone reflecting on their own youth, and is therefore speaking more to their own generation than the next one. That may equally be true of the films of, say, John Hughes, but the likes of The Breakfast Club are focussed entirely on the young characters, without adults and their problems muddying the water. The Way, Way Back is an enjoyable enough watch, with entertaining performances from Rockwell, Janney, Collette and Carell. It\u2019s amusing without being laugh-out-loud funny, and holds the interest without being particularly dramatic. There\u2019s nothing wrong with a film that is happy to settle for being nice, but it doesn\u2019t make a trip all the way to the cinema essential.\nThe Way, Way Back is on general release from today.\nGareth Negus tweets at http://twitter.com/GarethNegus\n\u2190 Hannibal, Redux\tWomen on the Verge of a Mirthful Breakthrough \u2192\n1 thought on \u201cSorted for Teens and Wizz\u201d\nThe weird thing about this film is how the TV trailer and the Cinema trailer are. The TV advert makes it look like some kind of wacky \u201cWe are the Millers\u201d-style comedy whereas the cinema one seemed more like a \u201cComing of Age/Magical Summer-thing which sounds like it a bit more accurate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 8257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mostlyfilm.com/2014/11/18/monoglot-movie-club-2h4tv/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLS4NXT3L6WPOVZIDFRC5VNCFT43DO3K", "length": 10414, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "mostlyfilm.com", "title": "Monoglot Movie Club \u2013 Too Hot For TV! | MostlyFilm", "raw_content": "Monoglot Movie Club \u2013 Too Hot For TV!\nNovember 18, 2014 Czech Cinema, Monoglot Movie Club, World CinemaAikuisten Poika, Clownwise, Kes\u00e4kaverit, Powerful EnemiesSpank The Monkey\nPart of an occasional series in which Spank The Monkey travels to foreign countries, watches films in unfamiliar languages, and then complains about not understanding them. This episode: a compilation of old outtake reviews that didn\u2019t make it into this year\u2019s published articles, spiced up with some gratuitous swearing to justify the title. Hey, it works for Mock The Week.\nCan I hit you with a childhood memory here? Don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m not going to go all Lena Dunham on you. I\u2019m six or seven years old, visiting relatives in Ireland, and passing the time by attempting to read a local magazine. It has a comics page that catches my eye, but there\u2019s a problem: it\u2019s in Gaelic. One of my uncles sees me looking baffled, and asks \u201cdo you want me to read that for you?\u201d I pass the mag to him, and he starts telling me the story. It takes me a good couple of minutes to realise that he\u2019s not actually translating the Gaelic at all: he\u2019s looking at the pictures, picking out the odd word that looks like English, and completely fucking winging it.\nIf you like, you can think of that as being my personal equivalent of River Phoenix being given the hat in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. But there\u2019s an important point to be made here: Uncle Benny was showing me just how easy it is to follow a visual narrative in a foreign language, as long as the story behaves in the standard way you expect stories to go. So what happens when you encounter a narrative about a protagonist who refuses to act in the manner expected of him? The answer is, you end up as confused as I was by the Finnish drama Aikuisten Poika.\nThe \u2018upside-down boy\u2019 of the title is 11-year-old Oliver (Esa Nikkil\u00e4), whose parents are killed in a car crash in the opening shot of the film. When he\u2019s told about the tragedy at school, he\u2019s completely uncertain of how he should react. While his extended family tries to persuade him to grieve normally, he\u2019s off doing other things instead. Part of the time, he\u2019s helping a gay couple to re-open the local cinema, and watching as their programme of 70s Danish softcore gradually builds up an audience of hipsters watching it ironically. But most of his time is spent with Joonas (Kari Hietalahti), a middle-aged man sleeping rough next door to the cinema. Joonas is some sort of security consultant, trying to rekindle his relationship with a girlfriend that\u2019s dumped him for a high-flier who knows Nelson Mandela and Sting.\nSome of this is familiar stuff \u2013 the friendship between Oliver and Joonas is devoid of any creepy overtones, and they end up helping each other with their respective emotional problems in a very traditional way. But the whole point of Oliver as a character is that he\u2019s trying as hard as he can not to behave traditionally. As a result, the usual cues of human behaviour that help you work out where the plot\u2019s going (or has gone) simply aren\u2019t available to you here. There are a couple of subplots that defy any sort of explanation in purely visual terms, involving Oliver\u2019s obsession with the portraits printed in the local paper on people\u2019s birthdays, and a motion capture suit owned by Joonas\u2019 ex which gets used in an unexpected way. So although the key beats of the story are comprehensible, there\u2019s not enough detail to help you understand what eventually turns Oliver around to a more conventional acceptance of his bereavement \u2013 it feels like the film just stops, rather than resolves itself.\nClownwise\nIf you work in journalism long enough, eventually you make enemies. And if you\u2019re prepared to call this shit I\u2019m doing here journalism, then the main enemy I\u2019ve made over sixteen episodes of Monoglot Movie Club has been the Finnkino Kinopalatsi cinema in Helsinki. On three separate occasions now, they\u2019ve managed to confuse me utterly regarding the language options of films they\u2019ve shown. I\u2019ve previously mentioned Pystyss\u00e4, the first film to almost disqualify itself from MMC by including unexpected English subtitles. A few months after that, I saw 3096 Days, a grim German drama about the Natascha Kampusch abduction. It was made even grimmer by the bizarre decision to shoot the whole thing in English, and direct it so atrociously that native speakers like Antonia Campbell-Hughes were as painful to listen to as the German cast.\nMost recently, there was Clownwise. I saw the poster, clocked the name of Kati Outinen \u2013 an actress whose hysterically glum face regularly turns up in the movies of Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki \u2013 and assumed that I was finally going to see a properly Finnish film at the Finnkino. Wrong: it turns out to be a Czech film, featuring some dialogue in French, subtitles in Finnish and Swedish, and credits in English. That Finnish actress who\u2019s on the posters? She plays a near-mute character whose few lines are dubbed.\nThe film tells the story of the three members of an old team of clowns, a good couple of their decades after their heyday. Oskar (Didier Flamand) is leading a touring troupe with his French fancy woman, and gets angry whenever anyone brings up the subject of his former colleagues. Viktor (Jir\u00ed L\u00e1bus) is dividing his time between teaching circus skills to youngsters, and caring for his demented wife Sylvie (the aforementioned Kati Outinen). The one with the most settled personal life appears to be Max (Oldrich Kaiser), but cancer could soon put a stop to that. A young reporter interviews them all for research, and finds that the divisions between the three are so deep that a reunion seems almost impossible. But you never know. (Actually, you probably do.)\nThe fatal flaw of Clownwise is that it\u2019s built on the ludicrous assumption that clowns are funny. Far too much of it consists of extended sequences of whimsy masquerading as humour, the most notable being five tedious minutes of the patients of a chemotherapy ward passing a comb to each other and laughing as they do so. There\u2019s no real sense of fun at any point, which emphasises the soapy trappings of the story even more. The closest thing to a natural clown in the entire cast turns out to be Outinen, whose experience with Kaurism\u00e4ki has made her a world-class underplayer, happy to be quietly doing hysterical things in the background of a shot.\nEven if you put aside the multi-national nature of its financing and production, Clownwise feels a little too much like a forced attempt at being all things to all viewers. Of the three films I\u2019m reviewing here, it\u2019s the one most likely to get seen outside of its home country \u2013 in fact, since I watched it in Helsinki it\u2019s already turned up in London as part of the Raindance festival.\nBut everything about it smacks of just trying a little too hard, from the emotional incontinence of its narrative to the excessive tricksiness of its direction \u2013 all 360 degree pans, tracking shots going through windows, and non-naturalistic changes in lighting. There\u2019s too much of that going on for the story to engage you at any emotional level.\nI\u2019ve said already that Monoglot Movie Club films work best when their story fits into a predictable genre framework. The story of Kes\u00e4kaverit is as follows: some girls go off to the seaside, and after that summer, things will never the same again. Is that predictable enough for you?\nKes\u00e4kaverit \u2013 they\u2019re selling it to international markets under the title Summertime, although Summer Friends appears to be a more literal translation \u2013 is the story of a trio of young women who all have one too many vowels in their names. We initially meet two of them as they travel to the resort town of Hanko for a summer job in a caf\u00e9. Karoliina (Iina Kuustonen) is an outgoing redhead, while Iiris (Anna Paavilainen) is a more down-to-earth brunette. What they need is a really shy blonde to make up the full set, and they soon encounter one in fellow waitress Eeva (Minka Kuustonen). They quickly become friends and all move in together, spending the summer dealing with miscellaneous boy troubles, either involving a lack of commitment or the polar opposite.\nAs a basic setup for a non-Finnish speaker watching a Finnish language film, this seems absolutely perfect. Which makes it all the more irritating that the story keeps swinging away from that setup, as other people keep unexpectedly barging into the house and messing up the carefully established group dynamic. One of them is Iiris\u2019 sister who turns up with her whole family, providing a visual comedy highlight as she discusses her recent birth with a series of horrifying hand gestures. Then there\u2019s Eeva\u2019s mum, the owner of the villa where the three girls are staying, who calls round to see how things are going at exactly the worst possible time.\nIn a film where I understood the language, I\u2019d be welcoming these deviations from the expected narrative path: here, I found myself getting annoyed at them and wanting to get back to the three women at the centre of the story. Looking at that in a more positive light, it\u2019s a testament to how great the chemistry is between the three leads. On paper they could be seen as a colour-coded collection of basic personality types, but they\u2019re so much more than that. The things that happen to them are the stuff of any rite-of-passage holiday movie \u2013 betrayal, unexpected pairing-off, looking nervously at pregnancy test kits. But you actually believe in these three girls, and want to see them all get what they\u2019re looking for.\nRather like Aikuisten Poika, though, the language barrier stops you from picking up on the nuances of the relationship dilemmas, and the film seems to just finish rather than provide you with a satisfying end to anyone\u2019s story. It\u2019s delightfully watchable, but it could be cynically viewed as little more than a life support system for its abruptly faded in and out soundtrack of classic Finnish pop, including the splendid PMMP tune that gives the film its title. So in the absence of a proper ending to this loose collection of reviews, let\u2019s finish with a song. Start dancing, you left-footed cu[that\u2019s enough hotness \u2013 Ed]\nAikuisten Poika and Clownwise are now available on DVD in Finland and the Czech Republic respectively. Kes\u00e4kaverit is on sale in Finland from November 28th.\n\u2190 Alright China, you have 30 seconds to impress me.\tMostly Covers: Sexy Lounge \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 15881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/7xqdxe/google-project-zero-hacker-iphone-bug-bounty", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DHLHIOLA7MQEGBO5MDP5FVT52DW6UTOP", "length": 2274, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "motherboard.vice.com", "title": "Google Hacker Asks Tim Cook to Donate $2.45 Million In Unpaid iPhone Bug Bounties - Motherboard", "raw_content": "A Google security researcher says that he's found 30 vulnerabilities in iOS that have made Apple's software more secure\u2014and he wants the company to pay up.\nImage: Che Saitta-Zimmerman\nApple\u2019s iPhone is one of the most\u2014if not the most\u2014secure consumer device on the planet. That hasn\u2019t stopped a small dwindling group of hackers from finding flaws in it. In 2016, Apple invited those hackers to report the bugs to the company, offering six figures rewards for their bugs, perhaps in an attempt to stop them from selling them to other high-paying startups.\nIn the last few years, one of the most prolific iOS bug hunters has been working for Project Zero, Google\u2019s elite hacker team dedicated to finding zero-days in other companies\u2019 products, quashing bug after bug. His name is Ian Beer and some consider him the best iOS hacker out there.\nOn Wednesday, after a talk at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, Beer tweeted a message to Apple\u2019s CEO Tim Cook, challenging him to pay for each bug he has reported since 2016, and asking him to donate $2.45 million to to human rights group Amnesty International.\nAn Apple spokesperson declined to comment, and Beer could not be reached for comment.\n\u201cI'd love to get a chance to sit down with you and discuss how together we can make iOS even more secure for all our users. Cheers, Ian Beer,\u201d he tweeted.\nBeer is often featured in Apple\u2019s security bulletins for his contributions finding flaws in iOS. Last year, he sent the jailbreaking community\u2014a loose group of amateur hackers that dedicate their time to exploiting the iPhone\u2014into a frenzy when he announced the upcoming release of a tool that would make jailbreaking iPhones relatively easier. Beer and Google came through a few weeks later, when they released the tool, which fellow iOS hackers saw as a significant step towards developing a full-fledged jailbreak.\nApple\u2019s bug bounty program had a lackluster start last year. As Motherboard reported at the time, the majority of independent iOS security researchers had not submitted any bugs to Apple as part of the bug bounty, mostly because doing so would hinder future research and was just not worth the trouble, given that those exploits can be sold for much more money in the gray market of exploit brokers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://motls.blogspot.com/2008/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TU25UZSEKXDA6XPIQYWQS7V6PCOB2GP4", "length": 86481, "nlines": 375, "source_domain": "motls.blogspot.com", "title": "The Reference Frame: January 2008", "raw_content": "Klaus: EU climate measures a tragic mistake\nClick the picture for AFP's summary of the Handelsblatt's interview with Czech President V\u00e1clav Klaus.\nFull interview in German\nWhy it was wrong to cut the rates\nEight days after the Big Ben lowered his defining interest rate by 0.75 percentage points, they subtracted extra 0.5 points, ending at 3.0%. The sum, 1.25 percentage points in 8 days, is unprecedented. Even after the 9/11/2001 attacks, the interest rates were only lowered by 0.5 percentage points.\nThe interest rates in the U.S. should have been higher by 3-5 percentage points during the last 5 years or so. Let me sketch several general reasons why it was wrong for the Fed to reduce the rates so rapidly and why it is generally bad for the Fed to maintain low rates and to allow the U.S. currency to weaken.\nRegulators should regulate fluctuations\nAs we have discussed repeatedly, markets have the tendency to amplify various fluctuations. The herd mentality of the investors is one of the reasons. Such economic cycles may lead to crises. These things are natural but if they are excessive, they are unhealthy. If the central banks and federal bodies are supposed to do something, they should try to make the behavior of markets more constant, not more violent.\nSo they should act as a kind of negative feedback. They should never try to overreact. They shouldn't try to overcompensate an effect by another but stronger effect or amplify the overall havoc on the markets.\nNow, most slowdowns are preceded by various unsustainable bubbles. In many cases, various equity prices grow faster than certain sustainable rates. While the growth may be trusted in the short run and many people earn cheap money from it, it is very clear that eventually, it must stop or collapse. The dot com bubble and the housing bubble of the last decade are two recent examples.\nIn my opinion, responsible officials should try to regulate these movements already when they are going up. They might want to say what prices and their time derivatives they consider reasonable and try to influence and calm down the psychology of the markets. Some price dynamics is clearly unsustainable. For example, if housing prices increase by 10 percent every year while wages only grow by 5 percent or less, it is not hard to see that houses are rapidly getting increasingly unaffordable. Constant affordability essentially means the same average growth of the housing prices and wages.\nStill, it is not unusual that the housing prices sometimes increase by 10 percent for a couple of years. However, it is then obvious that these prices must sometimes also drop by comparable fractions. If the authorities didn't act to slow down the excessive increase of prices, they shouldn't act against their drop either. A further drop in housing prices by 20-50% is pretty much unavoidable and responsible people shouldn't pretend that it is not.\nNow, a decreasing feeling of wealth surely reduces consumers' spending which might be considered a bad thing by some people. But the very same sentence also holds in the opposite direction. Increasing home prices are (or were) artificially increasing consumption above the rate that would exist if the housing prices were increasing sustainably. I feel that too many people want to see only one side of this coin (and many other similar coins). If they become financial government officials, they inevitably lead the economy to an unsustainable behavior that must obviously end up in amplified cycles and deeper crises.\nInflation and exchange rates are more robust measures of the proper value of money\nFinally, all central banks look at inflation because inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. The Federal Reserve in particular emphasizes the economic growth. It uses lower rates to stimulate it when the growth slows down. I think it is a wrong perspective.\nWhile lower rates do stimulate the economy, they also lead, to one extent or another, to many other effects, including higher inflation, weakening currency, increasing spending, increasing debt. I think that the primary goal of the central banks should be to keep the value of money constant.\nIn the past, the value of money was determined by the gold standard, by the ultimate \"constant\" precious metal. However, gold doesn't play such an important role today. Neither does silver, the second candidate for a \"prototype\" of value. In fact, the gold/silver price ratio has been dramatically fluctuating during the last two centuries. A much more robust definition of the value of money involves all possible products that people buy.\nThe inflation rate measures how the value of money with respect to the basket of actual consumable things changes every year. This number should be kept more or less constant because price stability defines the equilibrium of supply and demand for money.\nThe GDP growth depends on many other things - for example the weather in agricultural countries - and there exists no principle that would dictate that this figure should be constant. Also, stock prices are derived quantities that determine the ability of companies to create values under certain (and changing) circumstances. Again, there is no a priori reason why these things should be constant. But a non-constant value of the money - with respect to things that people actually need - is simply a bad thing.\nIrresponsible behavior should be punished\nWe have discussed the issue or moral hazard many times. Once again, irresponsible behavior must be punished. If someone takes a risk and makes a profit, it must also be possible that sometimes the risk works against the person and leads to a loss. If the government or the central banks save the speculators - both rich as well as poor ones - in such a way that the sign of the speculators' profit is always positive, it leads to increasing speculation, less stable markets, and less efficient markets where people effectively insured by the government earn cheap money for activities that are not useful for anyone (except for the person who makes the money).\nThe Fed shouldn't be a slave of the Wall Street. The decisions of the Federal Reserve influence many other types of people - such as U.S. students who must now pay a lot of money abroad. The bankers should be independent from all pressures of limited subgroups of the population or the economy.\nStrong dollar policy is beneficial for the U.S.\nThe strong dollar policy has been a very good policy for the U.S. and if someone openly or secretly believes that it is not the case, he or she is extremely wrong.\nFirst of all, a strong dollar has been one of the major reasons that is (or was) making American economy, science, and technology superior. A stronger currency means higher salaries - when converted to another currency - and higher salaries attract skilled workers and increase the competition. All these things increase productivity and related observables.\nIt is an effect that we also know from individual countries. For example, Prague is able to concentrate skillful, hard-working, smart people because it has a richer local economy than the rest of Czechia. The causal relationship goes in both ways. The local economy is strong because there are lots of hard-working people who have something to offer and they are there because the local economy is strong and offers them high salaries.\nIf the effect of concentrating people worth high salaries diminishes, the comparative strength of the city or the country diminishes, too. What do I want to say? For example, the U.S. still may have about 3 times higher salaries than the Czech Republic if measured by conversion (but 2 times as measured by the PPP). Will this ratio of 3 or 2 persist? I think that the answer is No unless the U.S. restores the strong dollar policy. If it doesn't, the average salaries in both countries will eventually coincide - just like the average IQs (98) and other objective quantities describing the economical environment in both countries coincide.\nOnce again, the currency strength has a profound impact on the attraction of brains and qualified workers in general. The competitive edge of a country largely depends on these things.\nRelationship with trade balance\nMoreover, America has a significant trade deficit. While it is true that a weaker currency could reduce it, it takes some time. In the short run and medium run, it is much easier to reduce it by a strengthening U.S. dollar simply because the imports become cheaper in the U.S. dollars and imports are more important for the overall calculation than exports because they are larger (because of the trade deficit).\nI think that a weak currency significantly helps the trade balance only if the country already has a significant surplus (an example is or was China). For countries with a large trade deficit such as the U.S., a weak currency may make the balance even worse and the last 6 years demonstrate this fact pretty clearly.\nOn the other hand, there is nothing wrong about having a large trade deficit for many decades because the growth of the economy - and population - of different countries may simply differ for whole centuries. There would be nothing surprising about the U.S. economy growing, building, and importing more than the Japanese economy simply because there is more space in the U.S. for people, their houses, and their new companies.\nI want to say one more thing: a strategic, political observation. Friends of the U.S. are much more likely to hold the U.S. dollars while the U.S. enemies have a much higher probability to bet against the U.S. currency. By weakening the currency, the Fed effectively helps the enemies of the U.S. financially while it punishes its friends. It is a very bad evolution for the American (and not only American) strategic interests.\nFast rate cuts create the feeling that something really serious is going on\nAnother observation is so obvious that I will only dedicate two sentences to it. Fast rate cuts create the impression that the U.S. economy is in a serious trouble and such an impression has the ability to transform itself into reality. Such a dramatic behavior repels all kinds of investors, especially the international investors who are influenced not only by the prices of U.S. stocks etc. denominated in the U.S. dollars but also by the value of the U.S. dollar.\nAmericans borrow easily and they need higher rates\nFinally, America should have higher rates than many other countries simply because the Americans are clearly not shy to borrow money. After all, their self-confidence in borrowing money is one of the driving forces behind the trade deficit. This comment is another reason supporting the thesis that lower interest rates \"help\" to increase the trade deficit.\nIf I summarize, I think that the importance of one causal relationship - between interest rates and the stimulation of the economy - is being heavily overestimated because of some flawed, Keynesian thinking while many other, more important relationships and principles are being largely neglected. When you think about all these things, you will see that the bankers are creating at least as much damage as they help.\nBrian Cox and Leonard Susskind on String Theory & Supreme Master TV\nPart II: Extra Dimensions (and Susskind's DNA/compactification landscape analogy)\nOur Universe Among Others I, II, III (22+24+19 minutes with Susskind; subtitles in 12 languages, saving of our planet by becoming a vegetarian, spirituality, and God's direct contact to An Inconvenient Truth is included in the Supreme Master Television's powerful package) :-)\nBrian Cox channel\nOther texts on similar topics: landscape, stringy quantum gravity, video\nHalf-centennial snowstorms in China\nBBC, NASA\nTransport chaos is inevitable. Thanks to Willie Soon!\nCosmic strings seen in the CMB at 2 sigma\nToday's news about cosmic strings start with\nwhere they wrote a story called \"String Theory Gets a Boost\" about a preprint that was recently accepted to\neven though careful readers of the arXiv have known it nearly for a year as\nastro-ph/0702223.\nQuite a long time for the \"speedy\" PRL. In the paper that has collected 25 citations so far, Neil Bevis, Mark Hindmarsh, Martin Kunz, and Jon Urrestilla statistically investigate the cosmic microwave background. They try to parameterize it by two models. One of them is based on ordinary inflation - what matters is the scale-invariant spectrum - with an adjustable power law tilt. The other has cosmic strings included.\nBy looking at the l=10 spherical harmonics, they argue that the relative contribution f_{10} of the cosmic strings is optimized for fitting the data at f_{10}=0.11 plus minus 0.05. So it is not zero and the strength of this statement is approximately two sigma. Well, that's not a terribly strong signal but it is justifiably enough for some people to find it intriguing.\nI am somewhat skeptical about this kind of an argument because it reminds me of various \"proofs\" of anthropogenic global warming: you can't match the curves with the first naive natural model you write down and if you add men to the naive model, you do better. Well, it is not too surprising. Two-sigma signals are guaranteed to be almost everywhere and a model with additional parameters - (almost) whatever they are - is guaranteed to fit the data more accurately than a more robust and simple model. Of course, if this were a 5-sigma signal, I would be more afraid to make such a statement but with 2 sigma, I have enough courage to do it. ;-)\nThe work is surely interesting but the results so far are uncertain enough to allow me to stick to my subjective and purely theoretical 15% probability estimate that cosmic strings exist and will be reliably observed (or produced) by 2100.\nWhat I would find more convincing would be if a cosmic-string model were able to fit the data better than a cosmic-string-free model with the same number of parameters. For example, if you showed that a model with a fraction of cosmic strings and a fixed tilt is more accurate than a model with an adjustable tilt and its time derivative (or scale derivative) or whatever new additional but \"conventional\" parameter is useful to reduce the errors.\nCouldn't this become a standard technique - in all scientific disciplines - to decide about the relevance of a very new effect previously unused to match the data?\nAbdus Salam: a birthday\nAbdus Salam, the first Muslim and the first Pakistani Nobel prize winner, was born on January 29th, 1926. What was his main goal? Well, let me speak himself:\nSee also 35-minute interview with Abdus Salam (start with the last one and continue to the left; Salam superenthusiastically celebrates string theory from around 4:45 of the part 2/4; at the beginning of 3/4, Salam has a funny description of Edward Witten) and dozens of other videos.\nAs you can see, he had pretty much the same goals as other great and passionate theoretical physicists and he has made a substantial contribution towards this goal.\nOther texts on similar topics: Middle East, religion, science and society, string vacua and phenomenology, video\nObserving cosmic strings via the stretched hydrogen line?\nScience Daily,\ninform us that a group at University of Illinois has proposed a new method to search for signatures of cosmic strings in the skies. The project is based on the 21-centimeter Hydrogen line.\nRecall that the Hydrogen line arises from transitions between two nearly ground states of the neutral Hydrogen atom that are split by the so-called hyperfine structure: its origin is in the interaction between the spins of the electron and the proton. The two states, distinguished by different total spins, differ by a very small energy whose corresponding photon has frequency of 1420 MHz or the wavelength of 21 centimeters.\nA direct transition between these two states is highly suppressed and almost certainly unobservable in the terrestrial labs (the rate is less than 3 emissions per 10^{15} seconds). However, there is a lot of Hydrogen in the Cosmos so this 21-cm line is easily observable. However, the radiation whose wavelength is 21 cm today is not what the people want to observe.\nInstead, they want to focus on the radiation whose wavelength was 21 cm right during the decoupling era. By the expansion of the Universe, the wavelength is now closer to 20 meters and they would need to build a network of powerful radio telescopes and try to see something. I might misunderstand something, but I wouldn't expect this stretched spectral line to be too sharp.\nSuch signals, if observed, could nevertheless not only identify the inhomogeneities caused by cosmic string networks - that are unobservable in the normal CMB spectrum - but even determine the string tension and perhaps some other features of such cosmic strings hypothetically imprinted into this portion of electromagnetic radiation. Note that cosmic strings appear in various unified theories, starting from grand unified theories and ending with superstring theory itself: cosmic strings can literally be fundamental strings from string theory stretched into astronomical distances.\nIt looks as a rather interesting and unexpected experimental idea that should be looked into very seriously. Such possibilities highlight that creative people may often solve questions that look too difficult at the beginning. They also emphasize how incredibly idiotic are the aggressive crackpots' proclamations that modern theoretical physics in general and string theory in particular is untestable.\nAnthropocene: a postmodern geological period\nThis article is about the geological epochs. Paul Crutzen, a Nobel prize winner, has been promoting the notion of a new, recent geological period started in the 19th century, the so-called\nAnthropocene.\nThe beginning of the year 2008 brought us two new papers defending this concept: see some news from Australia. It is almost certainly becoming a topic of serious discussions between the people who have the power to modify textbooks. I mostly think that the idea is silly. But let us begin with some basic facts describing the eons, summarized in the (hopefully) most transparent way you have ever seen:\nHadean (eon): 4.6-3.8 Gyr BC, named after Hades, a Greek god of the underworld\nArchean (eon): 3.8-2.5 Gyr BC (also \"prahory\" or \"urhills\" in Czech), divided to these eras:\nEoarchean: 3.8-3.6\nPaleoarchean: 3.6-3.2\nMesoarchean: 3.2-2.8\nNeoarchean: 2.8-2.5\nProterozoic (eon): 2.5-0.54 Gyr BC (Rodinia supercontinent, oxygen created, preparing for complex life, also \"starohory\" or \"old hills\" in Czech)\nPaleo-: 2500-1600 Myr\nMeso-: 1600-1000 Myr\nNeo-: 1000-542 Myr\nPhanerozoic (eon): 542 Myr BC - today (Greek for \"visible life\"):\nPaleozoic (Greek for \"old animals\"; also \"prvohory\" or \"Primary\"): 542-251 (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian)\nMesosoic (dinosaurs and reptiles; also \"druhohory\" or \"Secondary\"; Greek for \"middle animals\"): 251-65 (Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous)\nCenosoic (mammals; Greek for \"new animals\"): 65 Myr BC - today:\nTertiary (\"t\u0159etihory\"): Paleogene: 65-23 Myr BC:\nPaleocene, Eocene, Oligocene\nNeogene: 23-today\nTertiary: Miocene: 23-5.3 Myr BC\nTertiary: Pliocene: 5.3-1.8 Myr BC\nQuaternary: Pleistocene: 1.8 Myr - 9600 BC\nQuaternary: Holocene: 9600 BC - today\nNote that Tertiary covers both Paleogene as well as a part of Neogene while Quaternary (\"\u010dtvrtohory\") roughly coincide with the broader human race. Now, there are hundreds of other facts that the mankind has learned that you might expect me to reproduce here. But I won't. Let me focus on more general facts.\nEach geological eon, era, or period is associated with some geological events as well as with some epochs in the evolution of life. But because all of them are geological periods, it should be the rocks that determine the natural boundaries.\nContinental drift and the creation of various mountains and other huge structures belong to the defining events of the geological classification. Life is added as a cherry on a pie. Its fossils are confined within the rocks.\nJourney to Prehistory (\"Cesta do prav\u011bku\", Karel Zeman, Czechoslovakia, 1955): brontosaur in Mesosoic\nIf we look at very ancient eras, it is clear that our time resolution diminishes a little bit. For example, the Hadean lasted nearly for one billion of years and it has no official subdivisions. The fact that the recent subdivisions are finer has two major reasons:\nsubjective ones: I mean our inability to learn the distant past in detail\nobjective ones: I mean the fact that the events on Earth are speeding up\nI guess that the objective aspect dominates in the very recent periods. In principle, we can measure time rather accurately even for events that occurred tens of millions of years ago. But we simply don't divide those events to as short periods as one million of years or thousands of years because we are not aware of too many dramatic events that occurred a long time ago.\nIt is not just that we are aware: many of us are convinced that the frequency of events worth human attention was limited, indeed.\nLife occurred rather quickly after the Earth was created. While there has been a lot of rather sophisticated life on Earth in Phanerozoic, it doesn't mean that there was no life in the previous eons. In fact, you can find life not only in Proterozoic but even in Archean.\nConsider modern life with internal membranes in cells and cytoskeleton, those that usually have the nucleus. These life forms are called \"eukaryotes\". Well, what is the evidence for the oldest eukaryote? It wasn't found by your humble correspondent but it was found by Jochen Brocks, his former roommate, and it probably lived 2.7 Gyr BC, in Neoarchean.\nThat's when the Earth was roughly 50% younger than today.\nOnly in Phanerozoic, in about the most recent 10% of the Earth's life, we could see abundant life forms around. And only in Cenosoic, the most recent 1% of the Earth's life, there have been mammals around. In the most recent 0.1% of the Earth's history, we saw some kinds of humans around. The white race as defined by the SLC24A5 mutation has only existed for the last 0.0001% of the Earth's history.\nThings seem to be speeding up.\nWell, it is plausible but unlikely that a similar acceleration occurred in the past and dinosaurs or other distant cousins were driving their SUVs around - before they were destroyed. Let us assume it is not the case and the Quaternary is the first geological period when the evolution of intelligent life forms started to speed up exponentially.\nBut now the main point. With all my admiration for the unbelievable progress that life has recently made, I think that we - the mammals, humans, or whomever you want to include - have a very limited impact on the features of our planet that geologists will be able to study in the year 10,000,000.\nI think that the notion of an anthropocene is arbitrary, its beginning is ill-defined, its justification is not really based on geology, and one could invent even newer, more recent eras associated with another kind of human progress.\nNote that according to the classification above, we already live in Phanerozoic as well as Cenosoic as well as Neogene as well as Quaternary as well as Holocene. Holocene, the shortest period, approximately coincides with the existence of oldest civilizations as we know them. Do you really want to add Anthropocene to the list?\nI don't see too many qualitative geological events that occurred in the last 200 years but that would distinguish us from the ancient Greeks or Romans. Honestly speaking, I consider myself to be much closer to some old people in Greece or the Roman Empire than most politically correct loons who live in the \"Anthropocene\".\nWill we also have to add Microprocessorocene, Multiculturalismocene, or something else? Please stop this insanity. Create new mountains. If you can't do it, please wait until Mother Nature does it for you. Then you can start a new era. ;-)\n50 years of LEGO & J\u00f3zek z bagien\nOther texts on similar topics: Czechoslovakia, education, markets, music, video\nIlulissat glacier: global warming started 269 years ago\nNote that the retreat of ice in Ilulissat, Greenland (satellite) has been pretty much uniform and monotonic and began at least 165 years before Henry Ford established his company.\nAlexander Cockburn: A Short History of Fear\nAlexander Cockburn has written a book combining Stephen Hawking with Michael Crichton, A Short History of Fear, to be released in April. But already now, in\nhe describes how the warming church has almost crucified him.\nAlso, he argues that global warming in general and Al Gore's activities in particular are politically driven and caused by failures of previous left-wing ideologies (he says that the remaining ashes of socialism have themselves turned into a degraded Malthusian outlook, even in Europe) - these Cockburn's ideas sound just like V\u00e1clav Klaus - but he adds a characteristically left-wing comment that this program can't help to realize the leftist dreams because it will be no one else than the corporations and evil capitalists who will benefit from the fear. ;-)\nWell, I tend to agree that the people who benefit are evil even though their identification with capitalism or corporations depends on your conventions. At any rate, I agree with the liberal pundit that it is wrong for various non-profit organizations to have lunches paid by indulgences and it is wrong to promote nuclear energy by global warming fears even if - and even though - nuclear energy is a great thing.\nCockburn paints peer review in the real world as a method to form biased cliques of friends that fight against the unexpected and undesirable. He writes about the political implication of climate alarmism for the third world (e.g. green ideological problems with the new cheap Indian car) and about the self-righteous intimidation he has been subjected to because of his previous blasphemies.\nLet me offer you one of hundreds of similar stories of your humble correspondent. A nice former senior ex-colleague of mine was spending some quality time with Naomi Oreskes and he had the interesting idea to put us in touch to discuss the climate. Unfortunately, she first saw my page debunking her paper that had argued that 100% of papers support the \"global warming consensus\" and she sent me a testimony of hers in the Senate, expecting that it would settle all my questions.\nOther texts on similar topics: climate, freedom vs PC, politics\nJoseph Louis Lagrange: an anniversary\nJoseph Louis, comte de Lagrange, an eminent mathematician and a tragic figure, was born on January 25th, 1736, in Turin as Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia. His father was a rich manager of the funds of the Sardinian royal army.\nHe only began to be interested in maths at the age of 17. However, two years later, he wrote a letter to Euler in which he solved the isoperimetrical problem (finding a curve minimizing [thanks, Carl] the perimeter, given a fixed area inside; the solution is clearly a circle but he gave a proof) using variational calculus. Let us say it bluntly: he used a kind of Lagrangian approach. ;-)\nEuler and Lagrange: the leaders\nLeonhard Euler, a fellow string theorist, instantly understood that Lagrange's methods were important. Euler generously withdrew his own, more primitive paper about similar issues, allowed the young Italian guy to take the full credit for his discovery, and even invented a catchy name for Lagrange's techniques. Lagrange instantly became a celebrated mathematician: only Euler was above him.\nDespite Euler's generosity, we still usually talk about the Euler-Lagrange equations that physicists usually derive from \"delta S = 0\".\nL' \u00e9quation Bogdanov\nLe secret de l'origine de l'Univers?\n(The Bogdanov Equation: the Secret of the Origin of the Universe?)\nPresses de la renaissance,\n240 pages, 140 x 225 mm,\nISBN-10: 2750903866,\nClick the picture to buy it for EUR 19, passwords from amazon.com probably work\nTable of contents (why you should learn French)\nPreface by Clovis de Matos, ESA\n1. The great mystery of the origin\nThe mystery of the zero point\n2. A brief history of physics\nIs there a center somewhere?\nThe apple and the Moon\nHeat, entropy, information\nLiquids and fields\nBlack holes and expansion\nPutting fields and quanta together\nOther texts on similar topics: France, science and society, textbooks\nMajorities in spacetime\nThomas Dent has asked the following interesting question:\nGiven that we agree not to use an assumption of 'typicality', is there any reason to discard a cosmology where the overwhelming majority of brains are Boltzmann brains? (And the majority of stars, planets, galaxies etc. are also Boltzmann-stars, planets, galaxies...)\nThe short answer is No. Here is my longer answer.\nDear Thomas, I don't understand what one can possibly mean by an \"overwhelming majority of something in a cosmology\". I only know how to measure majorities of people or brains or other objects or creatures who live or exist at the same moment (a thickened slice of spacetime), who interact with each other, and who have some enforced equality or a similar mechanism that makes counting of majorities relevant.\nIf you want to compute majorities in spacetime as opposed to space, what is it supposed to mean? You face exactly the same problems as with the problematic notion of \"typicality\" in spacetime because typicality and a membership in a majority is really the same thing.\nRSS MSU corrections & record cold temperatures\nFirst, you should know that John Christy and Roy Spencer (UAH MSU) have identified an error in their competition's data (RSS MSU). You should notice that two climate skeptics have actually made some data look warmer than previously reported. Would the champions of the global warming alarm ever actively identify an error whose correction would cool down the Earth?\nThe corrected RSS MSU results are approximately 0.1 \u00b0C warmer for 2007 than previously reported and they are closer to UAH MSU and articles such as one about the very cold year 2007 will have to be corrected. See the link at the top of that page.\nBike speedometer: 20,000 km\nA cold January is not the most likely month for such \"anniversaries\" but statistics happens:\nI bought the BC 500 speedometer in Summer 1995 or so and it has measured kilometers on two continents. If I were riding my bike along a geodesic instead of those small gravitational quantum loops, I could have arrived to the antipole of Pilsen (1000 miles Southeast from New Zealand). But the puzzle is: what will happen with the number above after another kilometer? It will either\ndisplay 20,000 even though the space for the digit \"2\" seems somewhat constrained\ndisplay 19,999: it will be stuck\ndisplay 0,000\ndisplay \"Error\", \"infinity\", or another special message\nPaul Langevin, David Hilbert, Hideki Yukawa: birthdays\nPaul Langevin was born on 1/23/1872 in Paris. Because he was a rather important representative of French science and a science official, great physicists have encountered him at many conferences. Langevin was also a leading figure who promoted relativity in France.\nThe modern interpretation of diamagnetism and paramagnetism in terms of electron clouds asymmetrically or anisotropically located within atoms is due to Langevin. In statistical physics, he wrote down the Langevin equation describing Langevin dynamics. The simplest example is Brownian motion in a potential: Langevin's equation is then Newton's equation of motion with the classical potential term, a friction term, and a noise term. He also designed some ultrasound-based technology based on the piezoelectric effect (previously demonstrated by the Curie brothers) to locate submarines during the war but when the gadget was ready, the war was over.\nIndia: three meters of snow\nCold wave intensified and ten feet of snow have killed soldiers etc. in India, bringing the toll to 137.\nTo avoid similar problems, the Indians should sell the remaining stocks and pay a few trillion dollars to cool the whole planet by 0.001 \u00b0C and please the God of climate change. ;-)\nA new crisis: disappearing dirt rivals global warming as an environmental threat\nsays so. The effect used to be called erosion and it has been fought against for decades but now it has become a new result of cutting-edge science because urban-based journalists have no idea about the actual environment.\nIn this case, it seems easier, more meaningful, and cheaper to please Gaia. You don't need to stop using fossil fuels. Just switch to \"no-till farming\" that used to be called \"chemical farming\" but the adjective \"chemical\" recently became politically incorrect because it masks the opinion that chemical farming is more \"natural\" than the till farming. ;-)\nFarmers have been doing it for decades, anyway. It is them who should know what is good for their business, isn't it? I guess that this problem won't be covered in the media because it is not interesting for urban politics.\nLev Landau was born 100 years ago\nRecently we wrote about a physicist who died exactly 100 years ago, namely Lord Kelvin, and a physicist who was born exactly 100 years ago, namely Edward Teller.\nLev Davidovich Landau belongs to the second category because he was born on January 22nd, 1908 into a Jewish family in Baku, Azerbaijan, Russian Empire, to become the most stellar Soviet and Russian physicist of his century.\nAnother ordinary prodigy\nAs in many other cases, he was a child prodigy. At the age of 13, he completed his high school. Because he couldn't enroll in a university, he at least did two schools in Baku simultaneously. In 1924, he moved to the physics department of Leningrad University where he graduated three years later, at the age of 19. He received a doctorate two years later, at the age of 21.\nTwo more years later, the Rockefeller Foundation teamed up with Stalin's government and allowed him to visit G\u00f6ttingen, Leipzig, and especially Copenhagen: Landau always considered himself to be a pupil of Niels Bohr. In 1930, he became a friend of Edward Teller, among others. Landau traveled to Cambridge and Z\u00fcrich before he returned to the Soviet Union, to lead theoretical physics in Kharkov, Ukraine.\nPhysics Today: a family portrait of Lev Landau by his niece\nThe Landau school\nOne of his mottos was versatility. His students had to pass the \"theoretical minimum\" that covered all aspects of theoretical physics and only 43 candidates ever passed. I pretty much agree with this philosophy and I would say that I have passed an equivalent of it. In this way, the students may become more than narrow specialists.\nCarbon regulation vs millions of jobs\nWhile many places on Earth recently witnessed the coldest days in many decades, many not quite reasonable people continue in their crusade to regulate the world's carbon cycle in order to \"fight climate change\".\nWhile the U.S. department of energy argues that the U.S. won't follow Australia and regardless of the winner of the 2008 elections, it won't join Kyoto, several more \"progressive\" regions of the world prefer a less reasonable approach.\nA powerful German energy lobby group has calculated that certain new rules proposed by the EU could increase the costs of the carbon trading scheme 18-fold and make things more expensive for Germany by EUR 17 billion. They see the European industry in danger, following their calculation assuming a EUR 30 price per ton.\nMeanwhile, the current EU ETS price of carbon emissions is between 1 and 2 eurocents per ton. ;-)\nFood fights between the EU members are beginning and Germany expects that one million of jobs may be lost as a result of the new scheme. Steelmakers and representatives of other industries argue that if this lunacy is going to continue, they will simply leave Europe.\nMoreover, Japan is wise enough to propose 2000 as the new reference year, instead of 1990, to determine future emissions according to a successor of the Kyoto treaty. This fact also makes the situation more difficult for Europe.\nOne of the main reasons why Europe has been so supportive of these schemes is that they were pegged to 1990 and Europe's CO2 production actually dropped during the 1990-2000 decade. The reasons had nothing to do with global warming - see e.g. Communism, capitalism, and environment - and Europe could simply benefit from being already below the 1990 numbers.\nI personally think that if a regulation scheme would have to be adopted - which I don't believe to be the case - it would be more fair if a later year were chosen as the reference year. With 1990 as the reference year, many regions of the world are being punished for their growth in the 1990s while Europe is irrationally rewarded.\nOne sixth of Britons, close to a 10-year record, suffer from fuel poverty (more than 10% of income spent for utility bills). Green energy policy is one of the underlying reasons of this bad trend.\nThanks to Benny Peiser.\nAndr\u00e9-Marie Amp\u00e8re: a birthday\nAndr\u00e9-Marie Amp\u00e8re was born on January 20th, 1775, in Lyon, France, to a family of a rich and smart merchant and a pious mother. He was a child prodigy who lived in a nearby burg. Andr\u00e9-Marie was able to resum long arithmetic series using pebbles and biscuits before he knew the figures.\nHis father wanted to teach him Latin but it was realized that the boy prefers maths and physics. Nevertheless, Andr\u00e9-Marie had to learn Latin soon, in order to read the papers by Euler and Bernoulli. ;-)\nIn 1796, he fell in love with a very religious woman, Julie Carron, who was from the working class and they married in 1799. However, two years later, he moved to Bourg, to earn some money for the family as a professor, leaving his ailing wife and son (later, French philologist Jean-Jacques Amp\u00e8re) in Lyon. Sadly, she died in 1804 and his heart was broken forever. Exactly when she died, he copied a touching verse from the Psalms and started to read the Bible and the Fathers of the Church more regularly.\nWhen he was 18, he quoted the following three events as the key to his life: his first holy communion; the reading of \"Eulogy of Descartes\" by Thomas; and the taking of the Bastille.\nJean Baptiste Joseph Delambre was impressed by Amp\u00e8re's probabilistic analysis showing why the gamblers always win in the long run and he made sure that Amp\u00e8re stayed in physics. What did Amp\u00e8re do on September 11th, 1820? No, he didn't fly into the World Trade Center and he didn't defend his PhD thesis. Instead, he heard of Hans Christian \u00d8rsted's strange new phenomenon: a magnetic needle moves when there is a voltaic current nearby.\nNumerical BFSS matrix model & black holes\nPress releases can occassionally be useful.\nJapanese KEK\nhas pointed out a work of the kind I always wanted to do.\nJun Nishimura et al. (Phys Rev Lett)\nhave numerically calculated the properties of non-supersymmetric D0-like black holes in the maximally supersymmetric BFSS matrix model. The most difficult part is the strong coupling that is relevant for the Schwarzschild black holes which is what the D0-branes become.\nThey have used powerful computers and flexible algorithms to optimize their calculation and the resulting energy-temperature relation agrees with gravity even at strong coupling and even though the agreement cannot be guaranteed by any supersymmetric non-renormalization theorems because the whole setup breaks supersymmetry. Of course, I have never had any doubts that it would work but it is cool that one can actually do it. They can now literally calculate how the black holes are composed out of stringy objects.\nTheir calculation is not a lattice gauge theory approach but rather a sophisticated Fourier expansion over time with the Polyakov lines used as the key order parameter whose nonzero vev at all temperatures shows that supersymmetry removes the phase transition, as expected (in contrast to a purely bosonic model).\nOther texts on similar topics: computers, stringy quantum gravity\nSunyaev, Kontsevich, Witten share Crafoord prize\nHalf of the USD 500,000 total award goes to Rashid Sunyaev (middle) and two quarters go to Maxim Kontsevich (left) and Edward Witten (right), respectively. Congratulations. Click the picture for more details.\nOther texts on similar topics: astronomy, mathematics, science and society\nTwo years ago, we discussed the Bayesian reasoning in a critical light:\nBayesian probability I, II\nI have emphasized that the Bayesian probabilities are subjective in character. They depend on the precise evidence that one uses in his reasoning. It is meaningless to calculate Bayesian probabilities too accurately or claim that science has calculated one of them to be 90%. For example, if a report says that the probability that most of the 20th century warming was caused by man-made CO2 emissions was determined by science and equals 90%, it proves that the authors are just parrots who don't know what such probabilities mean. Why?\nIf someone's probability that the statement is correct really equals 90%, it means that the person thinks that a better scientist who could actually choose and analyze better and more extensive evidence more carefully would end up saying that the probability of that statement is 100% (with probability 90%) or the probability of that statement is 0% (with probability 10%). The precise figure of 90% is just a subjective result and a temporary state of affairs. The only reason why it is not equal to 0% or 100% is that the question is not settled. Some people can't distinguish subjective psychological conclusions from objective science.\nGoal of this text\nBut it turned out that there exists another problem. Other people, and sometimes it is the same ones, also don't know how to look for their own subjective opinions and probabilities rationally. Bayesian inference is a good method to separate assumptions from results and to provide us with a solid methodology to use evidence and arrive at reasonable conclusions about the likelihood of various statements.\nSo even though nothing changes about my criticism of subjective probabilities, I will dedicate a special positive article to Bayesian inference and shed some light on its relevance for the naturalness problem, anthropic misinterpretations of the landscape, retrodictions, and thermodynamics.\nSeveral related previous blog articles about this topic are:\nRetrodicting the past\nNew York Times about reincarnation\nArticles on this blog criticizing the anthropic reasoning are far too numerous to be listed. Try the landscape category.\nBayes' formula: its meaning\nRev. Thomas Bayes (1702-1761) was more than a Presbyterian minister. He was also a mathematician who gave us a useful formula how our psychological probabilities should be refined if we obtain some new evidence. I recommend you this Wikipedia article for a pretty clear explanation. Nevertheless, I give you mine, too.\nIn this formula, we investigate different, complementary (and mutually incompatible) hypotheses H_i to explain some phenomena. Before we obtained the new evidence, we had some idea about their likelihood (from previous evidence, from the testimonies of our favorite and wise friends, or from some laws of physics such as the Hartle-Hawking state, if you wish). These subjective probabilities P(H_i) are called the priors. If you like to think in terms of physics, the initial conditions of a physical system are the best example of such hypotheses: each initial state is a hypothesis H_i. Bayes' formula is then a method of retrodiction.\nIf we don't know anything about the validity of the theories at all, the priors should give a chance to every qualitatively or macroscopically different hypothesis to survive (e.g. 1/N). You shouldn't kill a theory by choosing a ridiculously small prior just because it has a low entropy or a small number of extraterrestrial aliens etc.\nSuddenly, we observe some evidence E to occur. In the case of retrodiction, E is a particular feature of the final state that we observe - for example the whole macroscopic or approximate description of such a final state. We use this final state to deduce the initial state. In exact, microscopic physics, there would be a one-to-one correspondence between initial and final states. But if we only know some partial (e.g. macroscopic, in the thermodynamic sense, inaccurate, or otherwise incomplete) information about the final state, it is impossible to uniquely deduce the initial state, not even its basic macroscopic properties.\nPredictions become irreversible and retrodictions follow different rules, ideally the rules of Bayesian inference. Because this kind of reasoning inherently depends on the priors, there will always be an uncertainty in any kind of retrodiction.\nBecause rationally thinking people want to avoid the base rate fallacy and they care about the evidence, their guess about the probability of different hypotheses (or initial conditions) is influenced by the evidence. The probability of a hypothesis after we obtained evidence E, namely the so-called posterior probability P(H_i|E), written down as the conditional probability of H_i given the evidence E, will be different from the prior P(H_i). But how much it will differ?\nBayes' formula: a derivation\nFirst, assume that every hypothesis H_i either claims that the evidence should occur, i.e. the conditional probability P(E|H_i)=1, or it shouldn't occur, P(E|H_i)=0. How does the evidence that E has actually occurred influence the probabilities?\nWell, it's easy in this case. We simply eliminate the hypotheses that have been falsified, i.e. those H_i with P(E|H_i)=0 that predict that the evidence E shouldn't occur. Note that all your knowledge of dynamics and Feynman diagrams is only used to calculate the conditional probabilities of evidence E in a hypothesis, P(E|H_i). That's where all the dynamics is hidden.\nBut when E is observed, we shouldn't change the ratios of probabilities of the hypotheses that have survived because all of them passed equally well. So we must only renormalize all of these probabilities by a universal factor independent of the particular hypothesis H_i, a factor chosen to guarantee that the sum of P(H_i|E) over i equals one. The correct formula is thus:\nP(H_i|E) = P(H_i) P(E|H_i) / P(E)\nwhere P(E) is the normalization factor equal to the sum of P(H_i)P(E|H_i). Note that with this factor, the sum of the posterior probabilities P(H_i|E) equals one. Also, this number P(E) is equal to the weighted average of the conditional probabilities P(E|H_i) of the evidence E over different hypotheses. It is naturally weighted by the prior probabilities of these hypotheses which is why it is natural to call it simply P(E), the so-called marginal probability of seeing the evidence E.\nCheck that the formula has all the desired properties. If a hypothesis H_i predicts that E shouldn't occur, i.e. if the conditional probability of E given H_i, namely P(E|H_i)=0, then the posterior probability of H_i will also vanish. The hypothesis has been falsified. For the hypotheses where P(E|H_i)=1, we see that P(H_i) and P(H_i|E), the prior and posterior probabilities, only differ by the universal normalization factor which is what we wanted.\nIn reality, hypotheses often imply that the evidence E isn't sharply predicted or sharply impossible. Instead, a hypothesis H_i can predict E to have a probability P(E|H_i) between 0 and 1, given e.g. by the expectation value of a projection operator for the evidence E in quantum mechanics. It is natural to make the posterior probabilities P(H_i|E) linear in the conditional probabilities P(E|H_i). In other words, we can use the displayed formula above even if the conditional probabilities are generic numbers in between 0 and 1. Then it is the real Bayes' formula.\nAvoiding repeated evidence\nYou might ask why the relationship between P(H_i|E) and P(E|H_i) is linear. Well, the choice is natural because you can imagine that H_i is divided to equally likely \"subhypotheses\" H_ij, some of which (i.e. for some choices of j) have P(E|H_ij)=0 while others have P(E|H_ij)=1. In this setup, P(E|H_i) is the proportion of the subhypotheses H_ij of H_i with P(E|H_ij)=1. With this interpretation, the continuous Bayes' formula may be derived from the formula where P(E|H_i) are only allowed to be 0 or 1, assuming that you will choose the prior probabilities P(H_ij) of the subhypotheses to be independent of j.\nBut the question why the relationship is linear is a good one, anyway. For example, if someone incorrectly uses the same (or not at all independent) evidence E to refine his probabilities of hypotheses twice or thrice, he could end up with a quadratic or cubic relationship.\nIf someone uses the evidence 2500 times, as the IPCC does, the relationship will be a power law with the exponent equal to 2500. Posterior probabilities calculated in this way will effectively set the probabilities of all the theories H_i except for one that maximizes P(E|H_i) equal to zero. But such posterior probabilities are, of course, completely wrong. The corresponding logical fallacy that pretends that one or the most likely alternative (even among many) must occur is called the appeal to probability and it is the most frequent argument in all kinds of alarmism and paranoia. The correct relationship must be linear and only independent evidence may be used to refine the probabilities of hypotheses in the Bayesian reasoning.\n(Global warming alarmism also uses many other kinds of logical fallacies such as argument from precedent - comparing the current climate with some events in the past -, fallacious slippery slope, the fallacy fallacy, bare asserion fallacy, the informal fallacy, if-by-whiskey fallacy about the quality of life in a warmer world, and dozens of other fallacies: see the list. But we don't have space here to cover all of them.)\nAsymmetry of H and E\nAs we have repeatedly discussed in the articles about thermodynamics, H is not a mirror image of E in this framework. Well, let me be more careful. It is true that Bayes' formula can be written in the following H-E symmetric form,\nP(H_i|E) / P(H_i) = P(E|H_i) / P(E),\nwhich is why you should believe that its essence kind of remembers the underlying H-E symmetry that becomes the time-reversal symmetry if we use the formula for retrodictions.\nHowever, the interpretation of different objects in the formula above is asymmetric. For example, the conditional probability P(E|H_i) is a sharply calculable prediction of the hypothesis H_i for seeing evidence E, for example the expectation value of a projection operator representing E in quantum mechanics (or a sum of squared amplitudes) with H_i as the initial state. It has an objective and unchanging meaning. On the other hand, the posterior probability P(H_i|E) is a subjective probability of a hypothesis after we have taken some evidence E into account. It has no objective or eternal meaning, especially because it depends on the priors P(H_i).\nMost importantly, P(H_i|E) is not equal to P(E|H_i) even though some people incorrectly think that time evolution is time-reversal-symmetric even when the information is incomplete: this assumption would imply that the two quantities should be equal to each other, much like the squared absolute values of the inner products of \"evolved initial\" and \"final\" states in both orders. But they are not equal. The mistaken belief that they are approximately or exactly equal is so widespread that it has a name: it is called \"the conditional probability fallacy\". Mathematician John A. Paulos explains that the mistake is often made by highly-educated non-statisticians such as doctors and lawyers (and cosmologists such as Sean Carroll).\nAnalogously, P(H) and P(E) play a different role, too. P(H) is purely subjective - or it depends on previous data that have nothing to do with the new evidence E - while P(E) depends both on the subjective likelihoods of H_i as well as calculations of the evidence E in the different hypotheses.\nThe purpose of this short section was to repeat that retrodictions in physical theories are not canonical, unlike predictions. They always depend on priors. Once any kind of incomplete information occurs in your discussion - e.g. if you only study the system at the macroscopic level - retrodictions follow very different rules than predictions. That's why high entropy may be predicted in the future but not in the past. The people who still don't get this basic asymmetry are probably just too zealous or too stupid.\nBayesian inference and naturalness\nBut I also want to discuss other topics related to Bayes' formula. We will dedicate a few paragraphs to a simple question, namely the interpretation of naturalness. Naturalness in particle physics says that dimensionless parameters in the Lagrangian are expected to be around one. Is it a universal law of physics?\nNo, it is just a psychological expectation. Consider the QCD theta-angle. We know that a shift by 2.pi is physically inconsequential which is why the QCD theta-angle is a priori a number between 0 and 2.pi. If we don't know anything, we should assume a uniform probability distribution for this parameter.\nIs such an assumption canonical? Nope. It is just a guess. For example, you could also think that a power of theta, not theta itself, has a uniform distribution which would be equivalent to a different distribution for theta. In this case, a uniform distribution for theta itself sounds more \"intuitive\" because it measures the volume on a moduli space once theta becomes a modulus but there is no hard proof that it is the correct one. Equally importantly, different sensible distributions that are uniform in simple functions of theta lead to the same qualitative conclusions.\nWhat conclusions? Well, if we assume the prior probability P(H_i) to be uniform - in this case, we must clearly use a continuous setup of Bayes' formula where probabilities P(E|H_i) and P(H_i|E) become densities and sums over i must be turned into integrals over theta - the probability that theta is gonna be smaller than 10^{-9} is clearly smaller than 10^{-9} (over two pi). Even with slightly different distributions, the probability will be very small.\nSo we should be surprised. Of course that there is no contradiction here if theta is measured to be smaller than 10^{-9} as it indeed is. But the surprise strongly suggests that the prior probability is probably unrealistic. In other words, there must be some other, so far unknown and not quite random physical phenomenon or phenomena (for example, a new substructure of the particles and their quantum fields or a new symmetry that implies new cancellations, at least approximate ones) that make small values of theta (or zero) more likely. Once you understand these phenomena (perhaps axions, in this case) more correctly, your expectations for the distribution of theta will obviously change. If you are lucky, the strong CP-problem - the puzzle why is theta so surprisingly small - will evaporate.\nOnce we understood inflation, the huge size or mass of the observable Universe in Planck units also became less mysterious. There are many examples of this kind. Science is about making surprises less surprising, after all.\nIncidentally, in the case of the theta angle, we seem to know that the anthropic principle can't be enough to show that theta is very small because life could probably exist for large theta, too. If someone claims that the anthropic principle clarifies all unnatural puzzles and hierarchies in current particle physics, this observation of mine pretty much falsifies his statement. The anthropic principle is not enough to make all small numbers sound natural. It can constrain others. But is it unexpected that some quantities are constrained by life and others are not? Can the tautological fact that a correct theory of the Cosmos must be compatible with life be used to derive anything non-trivial about the Universe? Which things can be derived and which things can't? How many of them should be derivable (clearly not all of them)? How do you decide in which of them the anthropic explanation is enough and which of them should get a better one? Is there any rationally justifiable answer here?\nI am not aware of one. The statement by Nima et al. that the dimensionful parameters of the Lagrangian are more affected by anthropic arguments than the dimensionless ones is the closest thing to a rationally semi-justifiable observation I can think about.\nBayesian inference and the anthropic principle\nBayesian inference allows us to sharply distinguish what is our assumption - the prior probabilities - and what is actually being deduced from some evidence E. Some people use seemingly rational proportionality laws that they present either as results of some evidence E - which they are clearly not - or as justified priors - even though there exists no rational justification for such priors. These mistakes have been pointed out and corrected by many people, for example by Hartle and Srednicki in Phys Rev D, but many people still don't get it.\nThe first logical fallacy is called the \"selection fallacy\" by Hartle and Srednicki and it involves counting the more or less intelligent observers, the density of life, or counting the vacua in a class of stringy compactifications in order to find out which kind of background is more likely to describe the real Universe, assuming that we are \"typical representatives\" of a class. People often say that a class of stringy vacua is likely to be correct because it has many elements. Others say that universes with a high expectation value of intelligent observers or a higher density of life per galaxy are more likely.\nAre these things scientific? In other words, do they follow from Bayesian inference?\nFor example, let us consider the most important example in which the existence of humans is the evidence E from the formula and we use it to refine our subjective probabilities of different stationary points in the landscape. Some people argue that the theories with a (very) large portion of the Universe occupied by intelligent life are (strongly) preferred. Is that true?\nTo answer this question, we must be very careful what E actually says. The evidence we have says that at least at one point of this observable Universe, there exists a human civilization. More concretely, the available evidence doesn't say that at a randomly chosen place of this Universe, one finds a human civilization. This is a very important subtlety. ;-)\nWhy is this subtlety so confusing? Because we may say that our planet is located at a random point of the Universe - a sentence that sounds correct and almost equivalent to the previous one. But the meaning of the word \"random\" is different than it was in the previous paragraph. The people who don't distinguish the role of the adjective in these two contexts are, in fact, making the very same error as the people who don't distinguish predictions and retrodictions.\nWhen we say that our planet is located at a random place of the Universe, it means that we are not aware of any special properties of our Galaxy or the region occupied by the Solar System. If you pick a random galaxy and a random star in it, you end up with stars that are pretty similar to the Sun. That's why the sentence \"We live at a random place of the Cosmos\" is kind of correct.\nBut you don't end up with the Sun itself (you shouldn't forget to randomize your random generator!) which is why the sentence \"At a random place of the Universe, you find humans\" is obviously wrong. Random stars in random galaxies usually don't have life on them and even if they do, the creatures don't look like us. If there were humans with TV antennas orbitting nearby stars, we would have already detected many of them.\nSo it is very important to notice that there is no evidence behind the statement \"At a random place of the Universe, you find humans\" because in this sentence, you allow the other people to run their random generators and look at their random places. They will find no life over there. If you want to use life as evidence to refine your ideas about the validity of different theories, you must formulate E more carefully.\nOnce again, the justifiable statement is that \"At least one star in the Universe is orbitted by a planet with humans\". Furthermore, you may add another justifiable observation that the lively star looks much like many other stars. If a hypothesis H_i seems to predict that there are humans somewhere in the Universe, it doesn't matter how many civilizations or how high density it predicts. It simply passes the test.\nIf you deal with a theory of a multiverse or a class of string compactifications, which involve more or less well-defined sets of stringy backgrounds in both cases, the corresponding hypothesis really says that \"Our planet lives in the universe that is correctly described by [at least] one vacuum in the corresponding set of vacua.\"\nAgain, this is the hypothesis we are testing. If you use the existence of life to decide which class of compactifications is more likely, the only thing that matters is whether at least one vacuum in the class is good enough to admit life similar to ours. Once a class of vacua passes the test, it just passes.\nWhether life of our kind is predicted in a large percentage of the compactifications or a small percentage of compactifications is clearly irrelevant. If you go through the exact formulation of the hypotheses and evidence and use the correct Bayes' formula, you will see that I am right and the anthropic people are simply making a mistake. Their reasoning was too sloppy. There is no mystery here.\nSo why do I like heterotic vacua?\nYou might say that if I deny that an observed property of the Cosmos should better be generic in a promising class of vacua, I also undermine a reason why I believe that the heterotic vacua - that can pretty simply and naturally give the Standard Model gauge group within a grand unified framework - are more likely to be correct than the type IIB flux vacua. Some vacua in the type IIB set will have these properties, too, and I just said that one was enough. So isn't it a tie?\nOK. So how do I formulate my thinking in the Bayesian framework? In this case, it is all about the priors. I simply believe that there exists a cosmological mechanism that makes \"simple\" vacua, with a proper definition of the word \"simple\", more likely to result from a cosmological evolution and more likely to survive various instabilities, inconsistencies, and dualities that will be discovered in the future. Or perhaps, a new theory of initial conditions will assign simple vacua a greater weight. Simple vacua are preferred much like low-lying states of a cool enough harmonic oscillator. Because of this reason, my prior probabilities are concentrated around the \"simple\" representatives of various compactifications, for example the heterotic compactifications with small Hodge numbers or braneworlds with small numbers of branes or small fluxes.\nIn the type IIB set, my prior is mostly located at too simple flux compactifications that simply do not give us the correct gauge group or the correct fermion spectrum. With this kind of reasoning, I end up thinking that the heterotic vacua that predict a pretty good physics \"without much work\" and with \"specially looking manifolds\" are actually more likely to be true than numerous vacua that are more generically incorrect. But I also realize that this conclusion depends on my prior belief in some kind of simplicity of the world, in Nature's tendency to choose special compactifications.\nConstraints from a small cosmological constant\nThe cosmological constant is observed to be something like 10^{-123} in the Planck units. This observation is the main empirical evidence used to defend the anthropic ideas. Using Bayesian reasoning, does the small cosmological constant actually imply that we must live in a vacuum inside a dense discretuum i.e. a huge landscape of possibilities?\nAs usual, the answer depends on the priors. First, let us assume that the cosmological constant in any realistic, supersymmetry-breaking vacuum must be a random number whose distribution is peaked somewhere around the Planck density. Then, it is indeed unlikely for a string compactification to generate any region of space where the cosmological constant would be so tiny. The probability that at least one place or bubble has the right cosmological constant approaches one as soon as you consider an ensemble of 10^{123} vacua or more. That's why the anthropic people like the large landscape.\nImagine that you only consider a small set of candidate vacua, for example the 10+10+10+10 most beautiful heterotic, Ho\u0159ava-Witten, G_2 holonomy, and F-theory vacua. What does the observed cosmological constant - the evidence E - tell you about the probabilities? Well, indeed, the uniform priors would imply that the tiny observed cosmological constant would make it unlikely for one of these 40 theories to be correct.\nHowever, my prior is not uniform. I think that there can exist many potential mechanisms such as the cosmological seesaw mechanism that make small values of the cosmological constant pretty natural. I am not certain about the existence of such a mechanism but I assign a non-negligible probability to its existence. This nonzero probability therefore influences my (inaccurately known, in this case) conditional probabilities for various theories to generate various values of the cosmological constant so that a small cosmological constant is simply not astronomically unlikely anymore: there is a finite \"tail\" near zero. With these assumptions, I don't need a huge set of possibilities.\nWhat I say should have been expected. Whether or not you need a huge landscape depends on your beliefs. If your priors reflect your belief that there can't exist any mechanisms or alternative calculations making small lambda likely, a huge landscape of 10^{123}+ vacua is almost necessary. If you believe that there is a chance that a more detailed calculation can actually show that the cosmological constant likes to be small, the huge landscape is not needed.\nIf the correct answer is that there are way too many vacua and we live in a rather generic one, it still doesn't tell you much about other questions. For example, even if you know that the cosmological constant (or the number of dimensions of space) has an anthropic explanation, it is no free ticket for the anthropic explanations to spread.\nWhether or not the strong CP-problem is explained by having many vacua is a new question, unrelated to the cosmological constant. And the answer to this question is almost certainly that the right explanation is non-anthropic, e.g. axions. These answers - whether the anthropic explanation is relevant for some question - primarily depend on something else than the universal, religious power of the anthropic principle. Quite on the contrary, these answers depend on the existence of deeper and more accurate explanations for the individual features of the Universe. Every physically independent question is a new one.\nLife should be likely: but how likely?\nYou often hear that theories that predict that our life is more likely are more acceptable than the theories that predict that our life is much less likely. Indeed, this is a correct principle. In Bayes' formula, the theories that probably lead to life have a higher value of P(E|H_i), where E stands for life, which increases P(H_i|E), too.\nHowever, once again, you must be very careful what the probability P(E|H_i) means. It is the probability that life E emerges somewhere - in at least one region - in the observable Universe predicted by the theory H_i. If your theory H_i predicts that a huge fraction of stars have life, it doesn't increase its posterior probability P(H_i|E) simply because the high density doesn't matter since there is no evidence for such a high density! One lively planet is good enough. You can't choose a probability P(H_i|E) greater than one.\nIf you imagine that a theory predicts a spatially infinite Universe, you could protest that such an infinite Universe will inevitably generate humans somewhere and my prescription assigns an unfairly high probability to such a theory. You might think that such a theory should be punished for predicting a very low density of life. I disagree. One planet predicted by such a theory where the phenomena look just like the phenomena observed from the Earth and follow the same patterns and relationships is simply good enough for the theory to pass the test of life.\nIn this context, you should notice that a theory that produces Boltzmann's brains in a spatially and temporally infinite Universe may also pass the test of life but it fails other tests. Indeed, life can emerge somewhere in a spatially and temporally infinite Universe in the form of Boltzmann's brains. So the conditional probability P(E|H_i) where E is life and H_i is a theory with the infinite Universe is equal to one and the theory is not punished by the observed existence of life at all, whether or not the theory predicts burning stars!\nOn the other hand, the binary fact about the existence of life is not the only evidence that can be used to refine the probabilities of various theories. Additional evidence implies, among billions of other things, that the observations E_2 from many telescopes are consistent with an ordered Big Bang cosmology. The probability of such an outcome predicted by Boltzmann's brains is something like exp(-s) where s is the number of data points ever measured in science. ;-) It is this evidence - the observed order of the real world that seems to make sense - that effectively rules out Boltzmann's brains as a correct explanation. But the observed existence of life itself is simply not constraining enough to do so!\nSome people might just correctly want to punish Boltzmann's brain theories but they don't determine the correct reason why we know that these theories are very unlikely. The reason is not the known existence of life or a low density of life predicted by those theories but the observed order of our empirical data that is predicted to be very unlikely by every Boltzmann's brain theory.\nEveryone is recommended to learn the formulation and a proof of Bayes' formula and use them carefully whenever there is a controversy about the calculation of some probabilities, especially if the differences between the opinions of people about some probabilities become exponentially huge and whenever there is a dispute about the difference between assumptions and the insights obtained from the evidence.\nOnce you do it, many arguments may be shown to be simply wrong while others might be shown to be nothing else than an encoded version of the author's preconceptions, preconceptions that are supported by no evidence. Technically, the latter mistake is based on choosing exponentially small priors for sensible (and probably true) theories.\nConclusions that the young Universe had to have a high entropy; that a scientific theory predicts that we should be Boltzmann's brains; that classes of vacua are better if they produce bigger Universes with denser life or if the class of compactifications are very numerous - all these conclusions may be sharply identified as results of faulty or sloppy reasoning, incorrect versions of Bayes' formula, misinterpretation of the hypotheses or the available evidence, or illegitimate choices of prior probabilities that suppress the correct answers a priori.\nLet's avoid these mistakes, please.\nBonus: craziness of Bousso et al.\nWhile Hartle and Srednicki are not only right but also win the citation-count battle in this typicality discipline, there are still people who disagree with their (and Bayes') obviously correct rules.\nFor example, Bousso, Freivogel, and Yang argue on page 1 of their bizarre paper about Boltzmann babies that Hartle and Srednicki's rule that we are not allowed to assume our civilization's typicality implies that we can't deduce anything from our predictions and that science as we know it is impossible. In other words, the anthropic principle is a pillar underlying all of science. Wow. ;-)\nIn their thought experiment, a theory T1 predicts the electron in your lab to have spin up with probability epsilon (much smaller than one) while T2 predicts spin down with probability epsilon. If you measure the spin to be up, T1 is pretty much falsified while T2 is confirmed.\nBousso et al. claim that one can't make this conclusion in the Hartle-Srednicki setup. Why? Because - hold your breath - we should actually compute the probability that the spin is up in at least one laboratory of the Universe predicted by T1 and this probability is not epsilon but X = 1-(1-epsilon)^L where L is the number of labs in the Universe and this number X is effectively equal to one for very large L, leading to the opposite conclusion than the correct one.\nThe conclusion by Bousso et al. is of course complete rubbish. When T1 predicts P(up)=epsilon, it is a probabilistic prediction that applies to every single lab in the Universe with the same initial conditions. It holds for typical labs as well as atypical labs, labs led by men and women, liberals and conservatives. In fact, the free will theorem guarantees that the electrons randomly decide according to the statistical predictions and they are not affected by the lab in which they live or any of the data in its past light cone: you can't really divide the labs to typical ones or atypical ones because all the electrons are free and their random decisions are unaffected by their environment (e.g. hidden variables that are thus forbidden).\nBy the way, it is useful to have many labs or many copies of the experiment if you want to measure the probabilities more accurately. Bousso et al. argue that according to the Bayesian reasoning, having many labs makes things less conclusive which sounds as a complete madness to me. I don't even know what confusion leads them to this conclusion so I can't discuss it. But having many labs is a different topic and I want to talk about the single-lab setup only.\nWhen you say that T1 predicts P(up)=epsilon in your lab, you don't need to be making any assumption about your lab whatsoever, except for the assumptions and initial conditions that were used to calculate the result. The theory has already made the prediction for P(up) and it was epsilon. The statement that \"at least one lab in the Universe saw the electron spinning up\" is a completely different statement than the statement that \"the electron in your lab - or any other one concrete lab - is spinning up\". Raphael et al. seem to mix up these two different statements.\nWhat does the evidence in the two cases actually say?\nBecause I don't genuinely believe that they're so confused that they don't distinguish these two clearly different statements, I think that the reason of their confusion must lie elsewhere. I think that they actually misunderstand which of these statements has been empirically justified in the two situations (spinning electron vs life in the Universe).\nIf we measure the spin to be up, we have actually proven the statement that \"the electron spin in our particular lab is up\". More concretely, it is the same lab for which we have defined the initial conditions. Quantum mechanics was able to link the initial state of this particular lab with the measurements of the spin in the same lab. It doesn't matter which lab in the Universe it was. The important thing is that we are still talking about the same lab.\nIf Raphael et al. use the initial conditions in the lab No. 2008 and use quantum mechanics applied to T1 to deduce that at least one lab in the whole Universe will see spin up with probability epsilon, they are just using quantum mechanics incorrectly. If they use some combined average information about all labs in the Universe and deduce something about a particular lab, they are making a similar mistake. If they use the same lab both in the initial and final state but they end up with the probability 1-(1-epsilon)^L, they are making a mistake, too. The laws of the realistic quantum mechanical theories are local and only allow us to predict the measurements in the same lab whose initial conditions had to be inserted to the machine to calculate the theoretical predictions. And such a result is independent of other labs and their number.\nBut the situation with the counting of life on planets (or in the universes) is different. Should an easily acceptable theory predict many planets with life? The answer is a resounding No, as explained above. Where is the difference from the spinning electron thought experiment? The difference is that the possible hypotheses or initial states that we are comparing in the case of life are no longer the initial states of a single lab or a single planet but the possible initial states of the whole Universe.\nThe whole Universe has no special relationship with any of its planets. So there is a dramatic difference here. In the case of the electron, we have measured the spin to be up in the same, special, marked lab whose initial conditions were used to derive the prediction. T2 correctly predicted the spin to be probably up but the probability was a conditional probability given the assumption that the same lab had certain initial conditions.\nOn the other hand, in the case of the planets in the Universe, we observe life on at least one, arbitrary, unmarked planet of the Universe but this planet is in no way connected with any special region of the Universe included in the initial conditions or in the defining equations of the theory and the corresponding probability of life is not really a conditional one.\nSo when we observe life, we observe \"life on at least one planet\", while when we observe the spin up, we observe \"spin up in exactly the same lab whose initial conditions helped to define the very problem\". In other words, the quantifiers are different. In the case of life, the empirical evidence only implies that \"there exists\" at least one planet with life. In the case of the spin, the empirical evidence implies something different and kind of stronger, namely that \"in the same particular lab that was talked about when we defined the initial conditions of the problem, the spin was up\".\nIn the case of the electron, the initial state of the same lab was a part of the conditions in the conditional probability P(up|conditions) predicted by T1 and this fact makes a huge difference. When we make the theoretical calculation of the observed existence of life, we mustn't make any a priori conditions about the planet where the life would be going to be observed: the probability is not really conditional.\nIf you wanted to defend the statement of Raphael et al. about the typicality of life, you would need a different sort of empirical evidence. You would need to show that there is life on every or almost every planet of this Universe. You would need evidence that our Universe has the property that when you start with a planet, you end up with life with a high probability. Or you would at least need to show that the density of lively planets is high. This is tautologically the evidence that you need to argue that a theory should better predict many copies of life in the Universe and we obviously don't have any such evidence because we only know one lively planet so far.\nTo understand the difference between these two things is a kindergarten problem that a kid should be able to figure out in a few minutes. Nevertheless, Raphael, despite his bright mind, has clearly been struggling with this triviality for years to no avail. It seems kind of amazing and Bayesian reasoning indicates that because he couldn't have figured out these basic things for years, it is unlikely (P < 1/(365 x 5)) that he will do it by tomorrow. But I still hope he will! ;-)\nOther texts on similar topics: landscape, philosophy of science, quantum foundations\nNew York Times about reincarnation in cosmology\nhad an entertaining article in the New York Times about some cutting edge cosmology. Its scientific content is bizarre but I think that Overbye faithfully reproduces the actual discussions between theoretical cosmologists - including the most famous ones - and the ideas that they are currently thinking about. Yes, it seems that many of them are losing their minds.\nBelow, in this essay originally posted on January 16th, I will show that even though the silliness has many forms, most of it is a result of one very concrete flawed assumption about the priors.\nFirst of all, the article talks about Boltzmann's brains.\nRecall that Boltzmann half-jokingly argued a century ago that if the Universe exists for an infinite period of time, it is likely that all finite-volume configurations of matter are likely to be repeated infinitely many times (unless the matter density decreases too quickly). The configurations include your brain that spontaneously emerges, with the usual memory and its content, from the middle of some galactic gas. It is unlikely but if you wait for an infinite amount of time, such things do occur.\nSome people have seriously claimed that it is thus infinitely more likely that your brain in its current state that you experience didn't occur as a result of an ordered evolution starting from the Big Bang and continuing with human evolution and with love affairs of your parents. Instead, it is more conceivable for it to be a random fluctuation emerging from a complete chaos. Such a brain without its proper context and history is referred to as Boltzmann's brain or a freaky observer.\nOther texts on similar topics: alternative physics, landscape, media and critics, philosophy of science\nAnnapolis, Maryland: a protest against global warming\nClick the picture for more information and one more picture from the funny rally. These warriors are lucky that they don't have to protest in Russia where temperatures will drop to minus 67 degrees Fahrenheit at some places.\nHat tip: Drudgereport\nGalileo vs Benedict XVI\nThe Holy Father was expected to give a speech at the Rome University that would start the new academic year. As\ndescribes, the Pope eventually cancelled his visit after a protest of 67 professors, led by Emeritus Professor Marcello Cini, who didn't like the fact that in 1990, Cardinal Ratzinger supported the following quote by Feyerabend:\nIn the age of Galileo the Church showed to be more faithful to reason than Galileo himself. The trial against Galileo was reasonable and just.\nGalileo at the process of the Inquisition\nI recommend you to click the picture above and read a page that tries to defend the Church against Galileo. For example, it mentions the opinion of Italian journalist Vittorio Messori:\nGalileo was not condemned for the things he said, but for the way he said them. He made statements with a sectarian intolerance, like a \u2018missionary\u2019 of a new gospel \u2026. Since he did not have objective evidence for what he said, the things he said in his private letters to those men [of the Roman College] made him suspect of dogmatism supporting the new religion of science. One who would not immediately accept the entire Copernican system was \u2018an imbecile with his head in the clouds,\u2019 \u2018a stain upon mankind,\u2019 \u2018a child who never grew up,\u2019 and so on. At depth the certainty of being infallible seemed to belong more to him than to the religious authority.\nAlso, Galileo is criticized for the fact that the boundaries between religion, philosophy, and science were fuzzy in the 17th century. I doubt it was Galileo's fault and I don't really care whether Galileo's teaching was a new religion, new philosophy, or new science. I think it is much more important that he was right and his wisdom turned out to be essential for the development of our civilization. I happen to care about the fact that Galileo was infallible in the fundamental questions, unlike the religious authority. This fact introduces a certain asymmetry and the asymmetry might lean to the opposite side than the side that Vittorio Messori would like.\nIce caps in the crocodile empire\nThis weekly dose of peer-reviewed skeptical literature about the climate looks into Science magazine:\nIsotopic Evidence for Glaciation During the Cretaceous Supergreenhouse\nAndr\u00e9 Bornemann and eight co-authors investigate whether there were ice caps in the Turonian, a warm period roughly 90 million years ago that lasted for 4 million years.\nThe tropical sea surface temperature constantly exceeded 35 \u00b0C, more than by 10 \u00b0C warmer than the current temperatures, and crocodiles used to live in the Arctic region.\nHowever, new data involving the Oxygen 18 isotope indicate that during this era, there was a roughly 200,000-year-long period when the Antarctic ice cap did exist and it was about 50% of its current size. In contradiction with the common assumptions, 10 \u00b0C of global warming is apparently not enough to prevent ice sheets from growing. 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Coldest in this centu...\nSSRC Florida: Lasting cold era ahead\nLev Aizenberg: I disproved Riemann's hypothesis\nEwa Farna: Ticho\nSusskind in Wonderland\nHelena Cronin on four Ts\n2007 in theoretical physics\nNew York Times chastises Gore & alarmists\nKlaus: a nice New Year's address", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 877, "original_length": 103168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://motls.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-god-particle-is-accurate-term.html?m=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:I3DXRQJJQD5DX64DQJFPA3LLN6F5MXQC", "length": 13100, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "motls.blogspot.com", "title": "The Reference Frame: Why the God particle is an accurate term", "raw_content": "Why the God particle is an accurate term\nLeon Lederman originally wanted to call his book on the Higgs boson \"The Goddamn Particle\" because it was so hard to find it.\nBut the title was too long and the publisher recommended to shorten it. \"The God particle\" is shorter and also potentially more catchy. The publisher turned out to be right. Lederman's book was selling well and the term \"God particle\" became the nearly dominant term for the Higgs boson in the press. (At Google News, the \"Higgs boson\" still beats the \"God particle\", 1900-to-1300.) Also, the \"God particle\" is a more lasting term than \"the Goddamn particle\" because once the Higgs is found (and this \"once\" has almost become the reality by now), we will no longer be angry about it so there will be no reason to call it \"the Goddamn particle\" anymore.\nA few days ago, Fox News quoted a couple of physicists including Matthew Strassler, Michio Kaku, and Gordon Kane who claim that almost all physicists (if not all physicists) hate the term \"God particle\". Well, this ain't so as the respectful comment by Greg Landsberg of Brown University indicates.\nIt's obvious that because there's no \"scientific proof\" that the God particle is a wrong term, you will inevitably find physicists who think that the term is OK. I am probably among them. There are many other not-quite-justified names that are not being attacked; the proton (coined by Rutherford) comes from \"protos\", or \"first\", but there's nothing \"first\" about this random hadronic composite, either. I guess that the hatred directed against the term \"God particle\" is a ritual that helps to assure many physicists that \"they're a part of the right community\", a classical example of a group think. But the physics community nurtures some kind of independence so you're always pretty likely if not guaranteed to find people who (sometimes deliberately) avoid this kind of group think.\nJournalists do lots of bad things but using a catchy name for the Higgs boson isn't one of the, I think.\nIn the Fox News article, physicists propose new nicknames for the Higgs. Matt Strassler thinks that people should call it \"the evanescent yet essential Higgs boson\". It's good that Matt isn't a publisher because he wouldn't sell Lederman's book even as a roll of toilet paper. It's long, redundant, smug, hard-to-pronounce, hard-to-remember, arbitrary, and just universally annoying. Others say that it should be \"masson\" or \"billion\", to highlight it's a boson and to emphasize that $10 billion was spent to find it. :-)\nLet me say that one could also call it a \"hardon\" because it makes previously soft/light/placid particles hard/heavy. It sounds better than \"stickyon\", \"inertiaon\", \"oom\" (for \"origin of mass\"), and \"weighton\", doesn't it? This name would also explain why its glimpses were first detected exactly at the Large Hardon Collider, as a big fraction of the journalists call the world's largest particle accelerator. Another advantage is that the word starts with \"h\" so the abbreviation of the field wouldn't have to be modified. The same advantage is shared by another proposal of mine, \"haton\", inspired by the Mexican hat potential.\nThere's one more reason why the God particle may be a preferred term over the Higgs: Peter Higgs is great (and I once shared an office with him for a day in Santa Barbara) but the term Higgs boson still somewhat overestimates the role a single physicist played in the developments of particle physics.\nUsing really old papers to justify the term \"God particle\"\nTo show why the God particle is a pretty accurate term, let's analyze one of the most influential papers ever, the Bible. It wasn't written by Peter Higgs; it was written by God or at least by one of His real or self-believed assistants.\nThe first book of the Bible is called Genesis; it should say Baryogenesis but you see that it was close to the truth. Let us now compare the traditional wording of the paper with the modern one.\nThe accurate modern version says\n1. In the beginning, the Higgs field created, by interactions with itself, the unstable stationary point at the top and the stable stationary valley at the bottom of the potential.\nYou see that it's almost the same thing. The author of the Bible wanted to say that the Higgs field allows both unbroken symmetry as well as broken symmetry. It goes on like this:\nThe refined version says\n2. The symmetry-breaking vacuum was a sea of radiation without any internal structure; and electromagnetic interactions and light were previously mixed with the other electroweak gauge bosons. And the condensate of the Higgs field moved into the sea of radiation.\nIt's pretty obvious what the Bible was supposed to say. The following three verses (\"First Day\", or \"First Quantization Applied To Gauge Bosons\") explains the impact of the Higgs field on the gauge fields:\n3. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light (in esperanto Lumo, much like in \"Lubo\u0161 Motl\" or \"Nokia Lumia\").\nI don't need to tell you that what they meant was this:\n3. And the Higgs field had the quantum numbers to preserve the unbroken symmetry of light: and light particle remained light and probably massless.\n4. And the Higgs field was able to interact with light (via virtual loops of W-bosons and top quarks), i.e. to \"see it\", and the vanishing tree-level interactions guaranteed that the quantum number sourcing the interactions via the exchange of virtual light particles was a good quantum number (called the electric charge).\n5. The introduction of the condensate of the Higgs field divided the gauge bosons to massless ones and massive ones. The Higgs vev included light to the first category; and the term Z-bosons was adopted for the massive part that isn't light. The Z-bosons, separated from light, were not protected against mass corrections, and therefore became massive. Because they're electrically neutral, they remained dark, at least at the tree level. The first period of the massive gauge bosons' oscillations ended.\nYou must agree that the modern rewriting of the paper is much more comprehensible; when you read the King James version of the Bible, you could sometimes even misunderstand that they talk about the electroweak symmetry breaking.\nThe \"Second Day\" verses have the modern title \"Second Quantization For Fermions\". They say, in the King James edition:\nThe modern version says:\n6. And the Higgs field decided to generate positive fermion masses. Due to the Pauli exclusion principles, fermions are impenetrable and firm and they may separate regions occupied by unlimited amounts of bosons.\n7. And the Higgs field generated the massive fermions, and divided the upper components of the fermion doublets (such as charged leptons and top-type quarks) from the lower components (neutrinos and down-type quarks) whose third component of the weak isospin was beneath zero: and the previous symmetry mixing both components of the doublet was suddenly broken, indeed.\n8. And the Higgs boson gave rise to the charged leptons and neutrinos; and quarks. Many of them could have been born because the fields associated with them were subject to second quantization.\nYou see that the original version of the paper has an inconsistency. God created the Heaven twice, in verse 1 and verse 8, and in those two contexts, the Heaven meant something else. It was a fundamental concept in verse 1 but became just a firmament in verse 8. The updated version of the paper fixes these typos.\nI don't want to copy-and-paste the whole modernized Bible (\"The Bible Demystified\") for you (although some people could also be interested in the Gospel of Matthew Strassler and other books) but the conclusion is clear: the Higgs boson is the God particle.\nYou have heard the holy/Higgs-field-related word.\nApologies to readers whose religious beliefs could have been desecrated. I am from a country of infidels.\nAccording to the latest 2011 census, one-half of the Czech citizens refused to discuss the voluntary section on links to any religions \u2013 probably because they don't have any and they don't want to waste a minute with this part of the form. (Only 10% of the people dared to choose this solution 10 years earlier.) Additional 36% who did fill it identified themselves as atheists. That's already 86%. Well over 90% of the people don't attend churches on a monthly (or more frequent) basis. 15,070 citizens (including almost 4,000 Prague folks, i.e. 0.3% of Prague) answered that they worship the religious values of the Jedi knights from the Star Wars.\nThat makes them approach many of the old-fashioned evangelical churches. ;-) (On a non-religious topic, the Ukrainian folks jumped by 260 percent since 2001; Germans jumped by 500 percent. 90% of the Roma people in Prague disappeared, probably because they suddenly became Czechs.) The Jedi's success in the census puts Czechia right in the core of the British Commonwealth, together with Montenegro. :-) The percentage of Jediists in Czechia is higher than in any country of the British Commonwealth except for England and Wales themselves where the phenomenon was recorded. A reason why it's even more remarkable was that the answer \"Jedi\" wasn't included on the form; the respondents had to know it in advance and actively fill it out!\nOn 16 November 2006, two Jedi delivered a protest letter to UN officials in recognition of the International Day for Tolerance. They requested that it be renamed the \"UN Interstellar Day of Tolerance\" and cited the 2001 Census showing 390,000 Jedi in England and Wales. The Czech Jedi knights report made it into full-fledged news at AFP and Japanese TV stations which also show ads with Shinkansen riding on the Charles Bridge. ;-)\nLewis Dec 18, 2011, 2:04:00 PM\nAnd now, Vaclav Havel has gone and what else is there left to say. The blows of death hit one again and again in the solar plexus. The Czechs, his people, where ambivalent about him - he made an extraordinary brave decision early in his Presidency - he decided that since one couldn't determine who was a criminal and who a political prisoner one should let all of them out. And they hated him for that. And his yearly soliloquies, his radio 'sermons', reminding them of their complex but beautiful Capek (sic! Sorry, I forget) roots. These extraordinary brave people, flawed, yes, for look how they continue to treat, despite their better nature, the so called 'Gypsies', but riddled with the ultimately Pyrrhic cancer of freedom. Vaclav, you were the best, the better self of ourselves and I feel guilty that latterly I didn't pay attention to you. The power of the powerless, my friend.\nPlato Dec 18, 2011, 4:02:00 PM\nI really do not know why people have a problem with the term God Particle?\nIt's as if you accept it some how this weakens their case for being a scientist in some way? That's just my opinion. Theorist or Experimentalist does not weaken their case for being an atheist nor does it provide sound evidence for?\nIt to me speaks more to the elusiveness of finding something that \"appears\" intangible. One may statistically find evidence somewhere, sometime?\nGiven the parameter space of something we like to measure, what said that such an anomaly like statistical fluctuation may be provided with sigmas greater then 3 as to the sureness of the idea of such a matter forming particle? Just imagine all the decay products formulated and proofed.\nAgain used in context of the Fly's eye experiment, such comments were provided too, which spurred on further research into high energy particles. Maybe such a location might have caused the same consternation as to the viability of true scientific research?\nSometimes it the intangible which spurs on our quest to push our own limitations beyond what we have currently accepted?\nJohn David Galt Dec 18, 2011, 11:45:00 PM\nI'd be surprised if the people who killed \"Truth\" and \"Beauty\" as names of quarks will allow \"God\" to stand.\nNewtspeare Dec 19, 2011, 2:32:00 AM\nThe god-particle is a good name, in the sense that the Higgs mechanism is a religious rather than a scientific theory. Trying to explain the mass of an electron on the basis of a particle about 250,000 times its mass, is way beyond crazy.\nThe only way to make sense of the universe, and achieve a theory of everything, is to accept that electric charges are the fundamental building blocks of particles. I have done the maths and it seems to work, but I really need Cern to stop piddling around trying to prove the existence of physicists\u2019 imaginary beings, and instead concentrate its efforts on measuring the mass of as many particles as possible, as accurately as possible.\nApologies to any physicists whose religious beliefs are offended, I too am an infidel.\nJohn Dec 19, 2011, 3:31:00 AM\nThe only problem with calling it the God particle is that it is more or less saying that that is the end of the road - you might as well call it the ultimate particle. It's time to shut down the colliders and never build another one - it's time to close up shop. We are done.\nEdstock Dec 19, 2011, 11:19:00 PM\nSeems like God lost His marbles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 14428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://movies.mxdwn.com/news/kyle-chandler-joins-drama-manchester-by-the-sea/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:23Z", "digest": "sha1:FWO5Q5WOBS7IKAX65EOBF5P6BBQPPEIH", "length": 1300, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "movies.mxdwn.com", "title": "Kyle Chandler Joins Drama 'Manchester-by-the-Sea' - mxdwn Movies", "raw_content": "Kyle Chandler Joins Drama \u2018Manchester-by-the-Sea\u2019\nTyler Lyon February 24th, 2015 - 6:20 PM\nKyle Chandler (The Wolf of Wall Street) has joined the cast of director Kenneth Lonergan\u2019s (You Can Count On Me) Manchester-by-the-Sea starring Casey Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) and Michelle Williams (Blue Valentine), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The movie follows an uncle (Affleck) who is forced to return home to Boston to take care of his nephew, after his older brother (Chandler) dies. His return home forces him to confront a secret tragedy in his past. Williams will play Affleck\u2019s wife.\nSince his Emmy-winning turn as Coach Eric Taylor on the television show Friday Night Lights, Chandler has been in a number of hit films including Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, and The Spectacular Now. He has yet to headline any major films but will star in the upcoming Netflix family drama series Bloodline. Lonergan has an equally impressive resume, having written the scripts for Gangs of New York and Analyze This. Despite his filmography, Manchester-by-the-Sea will only be the third film he has directed.\nManchester-by-the-Sea will be Affleck\u2019s first movie after his supporting turn in Interstellar. Matt Damon, who was originally in Affleck\u2019s role, is producing the movie. Shooting is set to start in April.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://movies.mxdwn.com/news/sundance-pic-people-places-things-to-get-u-s-theatrical-release/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MNAM4XMQISFUKK4PMWIXCI44SIHTMAI6", "length": 2371, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "movies.mxdwn.com", "title": "Sundance Pic 'People, Places, Things' to Get U.S. Theatrical Release - mxdwn Movies", "raw_content": "Sundance Pic \u2018People, Places, Things\u2019 to Get U.S. Theatrical Release\nCara Rogerson February 24th, 2015 - 6:38 PM\nThe critically hailed dramedy People, Places, Things \u2013 which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival \u2013 has been acquired by independent distributor The Film Arcade, and is due for a U.S. theatrical release this summer.\nThe movie, starring Jemaine Clement (HBO\u2019s Flight of the Conchords) and Regina Hall (Scary Movie), follows the comically frustrated struggle of newly divorced father Will Henry as he navigates single parenthood, reacquaints himself with romance, and comes to terms with the wife who left him. Here\u2019s a sneak peek featuring some controlled chaos in People, Places, Things:\nThis not the first Sundance success for writer and director James Strouse, who made his directorial debut with 2007\u2019s Grace Is Gone (winner of Best Screenplay, the Audience Award, and the Critics Award at Sundance that year). He also has several screenwriting credits under his belt, having worked on The Winning Season (2009) starring Sam Rockwell, New York, I Love You (2008), and his upcoming movie The Hollars, directed by John Krasinski and starring Anna Kendrick (Into the Woods) and Sharlto Copley (District 9, Chappie).\nIn an interview with Collider, Strouse explains how the story manifested itself through his own complex experiences:\nIt\u2019s inspired by a big bundle of confused feelings that I wanted to unknot and try to make sense of, and that I thought were funny\u2026but had some depth to them.\nClement, a New Zealand actor with a seasoned resume in television and film comedy (including Dinner for Schmucks, Gentlemen Broncos, and the recently released comedy What We Do In the Shadows), is best known for his droll, dry, straight-delivery style of humor. The actor had never heard of Strouse before he was sent the script for People, Places, Things, but Strouse was confident that he and Clement would make a \u201cbeautiful match\u201d:\nI wanted it to be funny throughout, even in some of the most dramatic scenes I wanted to keep a sense of humor in it. 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She first introduced me to mental math when I was in elementary school. As I tell my students, I used to have to do a series of mental math before I was allowed to eat dinner every night\u2026I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s a true story, but it\u2019s what I like to remember (and I like to tell my kids so they get a glimpse into my math loving family). So, in celebration of my mom, Monday warm ups in my class are dedicated to mental math. In fact, last year, my mom and I had a competition between my students and hers\u2026unfortunately Skype didn\u2019t work the day we planned for, so we did the competition separately\u2026I think we should try again this year, what do you say, mom?! Rematch, 2016??\nAnyways, I love doing mental math as a warm up and my students actually do, too. Ironically, when first introducing the idea to my students, there was a whole lot of whining\u2026\u201dAwww no calculators\u2026no, I can\u2019t do math in my head\u2026but, it\u2019s Monday.\u201d So, after a little convincing that everything is going to be okay, my kids soon realized that they loved mental math more than they ever thought! As it creates a little friendly competition amongst each other and themselves, it also reinforces concepts like square roots and any other operations students have been studying, helps students grow their quick thinking algebraic skills, and reinforces their listening skills.\nHere\u2019s how it works\u2026ask students to clear off their desks\u2026it\u2019s all done in their heads and the less distractions the better. Tell students not to talk, not to say things like \u201cwait, wait\u201d or \u201cahh I lost it\u201d (they will do that), because it\u2019s all about listening and processing. Tell students when you are done, and only then, to raise their hands if they got the answer (mine tend to just blurt it out at the end which is okay sometimes, too, if you can\u2019t control the excitement!) Call out a series of operations starting with a single number. I just make it up as I go and calculate in my head as I say it, but you can create the series if you want before and read it off.\nExample: take the number 25, add 5, divide by 3, double it, divide by 4, add 2, square it, add 3, subtract 10, divide by 2, subtract 1.\nYou can get more or less complicated\u2026throw in fractions, negatives, triple digits, ect. Today, I had my kids make up their own problems, ensuring they had operations that could be calculated in their heads and nothing ended with something like 157 divided by 17. 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Photo: David Wiebe.\nThe International Community of Mennonite Brethren (ICOMB) is made up of 21 national churches in 19 countries with approximately 450,000 members. ICOMB exists to facilitate relationships and ministries to enhance the witness and discipleship of its member national churches \u2013 connecting, strengthening and expanding.\nJesus said, \u201cIn the world you will have trouble.\u201d The news reports: hurricane, typhoon and El Ni\u00f1o flooding; earthquakes; political leaders creating trouble. Jesus said, \u201cDo not worry. I have overcome the world\u201d (John 16:33).\nIn the city of Kikwit, at the headquarters of our MB church, over 5,000 displaced persons were welcomed. Many of them are staying with Mennonite Brethren families.\nICOMB has set up a 2-year plan to support renewal and cultivate a new pattern of local church giving to the conference (IEIMA). We are raising funds for meeting expenses and for churches taking in refugees from the Congo.\nThe Global Scholarship Fund received a gift last month. This enabled us to provide scholarships for all eligible applicants this year!\n\u2014David Wiebe, executive director\nTaressa's blog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 4545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mymajicdc.com/3661413/watch-president-obamas-most-impressive-policy-wins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:15Z", "digest": "sha1:JKHSEDHTKGUC67IPZ2SHWSNG2736PSXQ", "length": 2044, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "mymajicdc.com", "title": "WATCH: President Obama\u2019s Greatest Accomplishments | Majic 102.3 - 92.7", "raw_content": "WATCH: President Obama\u2019s Most Impressive Policy Wins\nAs President Barack Obama prepares to leave office, NewsOne takes a look at some of his most impressive wins.\nPresident Barack Obama, the nation\u2019s first black President will be leaving office in a matter of weeks. When he first entered the Oval Office, America faced its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, but after a full eight year\u2019s of leading the nation, the United States economy has recovered and has experienced a substantial level of growth.\nWith health care reform, the financial crisis, the demise of Osama Bin Laden and a number of domestic victories in his column of triumphs, NewsOne looks back at President Obama\u2019s top accomplishments. 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Their collection contains defining artists of the Italian art scene from the 1960s on. After October 2018, the institution will be the headquarters of the experimental project \u201cMACRO Asilo,\u201d which will be a \u201cmeeting space between the artists and city,\u201d where artists can produce works and show them in the multidisciplinary space.\nMuseum of Modern Art PS1, Queens, USA\nMoMA PS1 is dedicated solely to contemporary art from Osugi / Shutterstock.com\nThe Museum of Modern Art PS1 is one of the largest institutions in the United States that\u2019s dedicated just to contemporary art. Located in Queens, the space focuses on exhibiting rather than collecting, which allows it to showcase experimental art and use the area as a catalyst for \u201cnew ideas, discourses, and trends in contemporary art.\u201d Site-specific installations, artist retrospectives, and historical surveys are part of its programming.\nTate Modern, London, England\nA night view of the Tate Modern from asiastock / Shutterstock.com\nEstablished in 1897 by Henry Tate, the Tate went from housing a small collection of British art to nearly 70,00 artworks comprising four separate institutions. The Tate Modern is one part of the Tate group and opened in 2000. Some of the artists in their collection include Anish Kapoor, who bought the rights to using Vantablack\u2014aka the \u201cworld\u2019s blackest black.\u201d\nMori Art Museum Tokyo, Japan\nCreated by real estate developer Minoru Mori, Mori Art Museum in Tokyo chooses not to exhibit a permanent collection. Instead, the institution has temporary exhibitions by artists including Ai Weiwei, who displayed 26 of his works (from the 1990s on) in 2009 for a show called According to What?\nMuseum of Contemporary Art Shanghai (MoCA), Shanghai, China\nFounded in 2005, the MoCA Shanghai was the first private contemporary art museum in China. The vision was to \u201cgather together excellent artwork from around the world,\u201d as well as be a platform for showcasing contemporary Chinese artists\u2014and expand their influence across the globe. The institution prides itself on being multidisciplinary and features works outside of fine art to encompass fashion, architecture, and digital art. Salvatore Ferragamo, Chanel, and Pixar are just a few of the retrospectives they have hosted.\nHamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany\nA former railway station is now the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art from hanohiki / Shutterstock.com\nThe Hamburger Bahnhof is housed in a former train station but now focuses on art from the 1960s to the present day. From Pop Art to Expressionism to Minimalism, the institution shows it all with the goal of blurring artistic boundaries. The photography section is highly regarded with works by Bernd and Hilla Becher, Thomas Ruff, and more. For those that prefer conceptual art, they\u2019ll find it in the Hamburger Bahnhof, too, with the likes of Marcel Duchamp and Bruce Nauman.\nHow Museums Evolved Over Time From Private Collections to Modern Institutions\nRijksmuseum Digitizes 600,000+ Works of Art, Making Masterpieces Available Online\nHave you visited any of these museums? Share\nHave you visited any of these museums?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 7120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nacminister.info/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VT4K4TIROHF4CSHQMGH3MIAYB6DZINFN", "length": 2408, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "nacminister.info", "title": "HOME | National Association of Christian Ministers", "raw_content": "Note NACM Members: Our HelpDesk is Being Directed to the Following\nhttps://nacministers.net/support\nClick here to visit the HelpDesk\nWelcome to the Transition Page\nNational Association of Christian Ministers\nYou have landed here because you were searching for the Minister Fellowship Network of the National Association of Christian Ministers located at: nacministers.org\nWe are in the process of moving the old fellowship to a much better platform. Below you will find links to direct you, accompanied by our announcement of transition.\nClick here to go to the new fellowship\nClick here to visit the old platform\nAnnouncement of Transition\nOver the last three years we have been experiencing a variety of technical problems from our service provider which continue to go unexplained and unsolved. For this reason, we have reached the conclusion that their services are no longer able to provide our membership the best options available in the 2019.\nWe, share a philosophy of ministry which is best expressed by the simplicity of the words of the late Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of Liberty University: \u201cif it\u2019s Christian it should be better.\u201d\nTherefore, in order to:\n1) offer our membership the greatest possible user experience\n2) to have unhindered access to features often requested my members needing technical support, and\n3) to make available the features expected of the ever-changing online environment\nWe, the leadership of NACM, are very pleased to report that we are in the process of transitioning from our present server and social network platform. While nothing in this world is flawless, we are certain that this move is in the best interest of our members, and that it will provide a much easier platform upon which to facilitate online fellowship.\nThis transition will begin first with the fellowship, then with the platforms of our other training programs such as the Mentor Program, Leadership Hall, Chaplaincy Training, etc.\nWe covet your prayers for smooth and peaceful transition during this time. We also thank you for your participation, and for answering your callings to ministry.\nNote: licensing is sometimes referenced as ministerial licenses, minister license, and occasionally misspelled as minister licence.\n\"The simplest peasant, armed with the Gospel, is mightier than the Pope\". -Martin Luther\n\u00a9 2019 National Association of Christian Ministers \u2022 Powered by GeneratePress", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nagalandpage.com/on-sashi-tharoors-remark/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPLKK3ZPCPAX2KSHHW4JRKJFVHK7HZFE", "length": 500, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "nagalandpage.com", "title": "On Sashi Tharoor\u2019s remark \u2013 Nagaland Page", "raw_content": "Home Page Mail On Sashi Tharoor\u2019s remark\nOn Sashi Tharoor\u2019s remark\nThe recent comment made by senior Congress MP Sashi Tharoor on the traditional attires of the Nagas is indeed unfortunate. While it may be argued that he didn\u2019t give it much thought while calling the Naga headgear \u2018outlandish\u2019 and \u2018hilarious\u2019, being a politician of such stature, he should have been careful. Now that the damage has been done, it would be wise of him to apologize to the people as quickly as possible.\nSusan, Dimapur", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 4726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/a-day-with-border-patrol-imperiled-infant-distraught-dad", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RL5DVVS5JXBDNEGFOUE3SBQXGNGRJCBT", "length": 3035, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "nationalpost.com", "title": "A day with Border Patrol: imperiled infant, distraught dad | National Post", "raw_content": "A mother migrating from Honduras holds her 1-year-old child as surrendering to U.S. Border Patrol agents after illegally crossing the border Monday, June 25, 2018, near McAllen, Texas.David J. Phillip / AP\nMCALLEN, Texas \u2014 The 4-month-old Honduran had just entered the United States illegally with a man who first claimed to be her father, then said he was her uncle, and presented what appeared to be a false birth certificate.\nThe girl, wrapped in white bedding, was placed in a white crib under close watch of U.S. investigators, who waited for a Honduran consular official to arrive Monday. She was among about 1,100 people in a former warehouse that tripled in size last year, largely to accommodate people \u2014 many from Central America \u2014 travelling as families, and children travelling alone.\nCustoms and Border Protection allowed news media organizations to tour of the 77,000-square-foot facility in McAllen on Monday on condition that no photos or video be taken. Families and children rested under shiny thermal blankets in cells of chain-link fences adorned with high-hanging televisions. They exited their cells for a lunch of a sandwich and apples.\nAfter a similar facility in Nogales, Arizona, built for an influx of Central Americans in 2014 closed, McAllen\u2019s \u201cUrsula\u201d processing centre \u2014 named for the street on which it is located \u2014 became the agency\u2019s only holding facility in the country with chain-link fences to detain children and families. There are separate pods for boys who came alone, girls who came alone and parents with their young children. Some older children are split from their parents to avoid having them mix with much younger children.\nWithin 72 hours, the adults and families are turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and unaccompanied children are turned over to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.\nThe agency also gave reporters a tour of the McAllen station\u2019s area of responsibility along the snaking Rio Grande, the nation\u2019s busiest station after the key drivers of illegal immigration shifted over the last decade from adult Mexican men entering in Arizona to Central American families and unaccompanied children crossing the river on Texas\u2019 southern tip.\nTwo Honduran women \u2014 one with a 12-year-old daughter and one with a year-old boy \u2014 and two teenagers turned themselves in to Border Patrol agents a short distance from the river. The smuggler escaped back to Mexico on a dirt road surrounded on both sides by a lush landscape of mesquite trees and thorny brush.\nAgents found Gerberht Charac, 19, on the roof of a trailer with a fellow Guatemalan seeking to elude authorities. Charac said he agreed to pay a smuggler $12,000 to get from Guatemala to Houston, where he planned to join a friend. He swam across the Rio Grande and stayed in a smuggling organization\u2019s house before getting caught.\n\u201cI had hopes of making it,\u201d Charac said after he choked up explaining that he came to the U.S. to provide for his wife and daughter who stayed behind in Guatemala.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/poor-women-who-use-midwives-have-healthier-babies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:14Z", "digest": "sha1:I6L23QVLMKVCWSIEYJOVQDBJCOPL7CTK", "length": 6372, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "nationalpost.com", "title": "Poor women who use midwives have healthier babies | National Post", "raw_content": "Nazeem Muhajarine, Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan and Daphne McRae, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Population and Public Heal\nAuthors: Nazeem Muhajarine, Professor, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and Director, Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, University of Saskatchewan and Daphne McRae, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia\nWomen who are marginalized by poverty may be reaping the greatest benefits from midwifery care. This is the finding of a large study that we published with colleagues this week in the British Medical Journal Open.\nWe found that women who were eligible for government assistance and were seen by a midwife for prenatal care had significantly lower likelihood of preterm birth, small and low birth weight babies.\nThe study, which drew on evidence from 57,872 pregnancies, made sure that women who were seen by midwives were of comparable health status to women seen by general practitioners and obstetricians during the prenatal period.\nA common belief is that midwifery care is only affordable for, and sought after by, wealthy and educated women. This is not always the case. Our research shows that midwifery care is an effective model of prenatal care for women living in lower socioeconomic circumstances.\nWe hope that this evidence may help pave the way for maternal health policy to address ongoing health disparities experienced by mothers and babies living in poverty in Canada.\nDemand for midwives exceeds supply\nDespite a long history of midwifery practice in Europe and North America, legislated midwifery care has only been available in Canada for the last 24 years.\nIn British Columbia, where midwifery care has expanded most rapidly, 22 per cent of births now have a midwife involved in care and demand for midwifery care continues to exceed supply.\nThe study reports that midwifery patients were 41 per cent less likely to have a small-for-gestational-age baby compared to patients of obstetricians (29 per cent compared to patients of general practitioners).\nPreterm birth was 26 to 47 per cent less likely and low birth weight was 34 to 57 per cent less likely for patients of midwives, versus those of general practitioners or obstetricians.\nThese are important findings. At least one other report \u2014 an international Cochrane review combining the results of eight trials \u2014 found similar results for preterm birth for women in the general population.\nOur study takes the findings reported in the Cochrane review a step further. It shows that women of lower socioeconomic means are not only accessing and using midwifery care provided under a universal health-care system, but are also benefiting remarkably in terms of having healthier birth outcomes than their counterparts seen by medical practitioners.\nA deep clinician-patient relationship\nOn average, prenatal midwifery appointments last 30 to 60 minutes, and are designed to promote physical, social, emotional, cultural, spiritual and psychological health. This midwifery model of care may better address the social determinants of health that especially affect birth outcomes for vulnerable women, compared to other models of care.\nStudy results show patients of midwives to be 2.2 times more likely to have mental health conditions documented in their maternity records, compared to patients of general practitioners, and 3.4 times more likely than those of obstetricians.\nThe rate of documented depression for midwives\u2019 patients was 18.8 per cent, close to that reported in the wider research literature (17.2 per cent). In contrast, documented depression was 12.8 per cent for general practitioners\u2019 patients and 7.4 per cent for obstetricians\u2019 patients.\nThat could be because midwifery patients may be more inclined to disclose sensitive information to their care providers because of the depth of the clinician-patient relationship fostered over time.\nMidwifery patients were also more than twice as likely to have an adequate number of prenatal appointments, at the appropriate times, compared to general practitioner or obstetrician patients. Receiving adequate prenatal care has been shown to protect against preterm birth, stillbirth and infant death.\nHealth and cost benefits\nAn Alberta study measuring the cost-effectiveness of midwifery care reported savings of $1,172 per pregnancy for midwifery patients, compared to patients receiving standard prenatal care.\nMounting evidence suggests that the health and cost benefits of midwifery care are at least equivalent, if not better in some instances, for moms, babies and the health-care system. This debunks any notion of midwifery care being a second-class service.\nMidwifery care is the fastest growing maternity care service in B.C., increasing in volume year-by-year since 2008.\nThe widespread adoption of midwifery care not only provides expanded choice in prenatal care options, but is a viable solution to the critical decline in the number of doctors offering maternity services and the continual shortage of rural physicians.\nProvincial governments must step up\nTo address the demand for midwifery care, and to move it from the margins to a mainstream option, policy is needed which supports the continued expansion of midwifery care \u2014 for example by increasing the number of seats in provincial midwifery education programs.\nThis needs to include outreach to vulnerable women. And we need to increase public awareness of the availability of midwifery care, its coverage under health-care systems, the full range of services midwives provide and how to access them.\nMidwives select where they will practise and their clientele. To encourage outreach to marginalized women, midwives may need to be compensated for the extra time involved in caring for women with higher socioeconomic risk.\nThe time has come to expand innovative and effective ways of meeting the needs of prenatal women, especially those with high social and economic needs. Access to and use of midwifery care is one such approach.\nAll provincial governments in Canada should step up and act, in line with the evidence.\nhttps://theconversation.com/poor-women-who-use-midwives-have-healthi https://theconv", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 9816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nationwide.sbresources.com/SBR_template.cfm?DocNumber=PL04_0500.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:14Z", "digest": "sha1:4RQTYDDD7NL56XPUGFMT3Y3X3BIOA7BR", "length": 7629, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "nationwide.sbresources.com", "title": "Nationwide Business Solutions Center - What Do You Need Help With? - Sources of Financing", "raw_content": "Home What Do You Need Help With? Sources of Financing\nBusiness capital comes in many forms. In fact, businesses use a variety of financial resources to grow, acquire assets and expand product and service offerings. Which source of capital is best for your business? It depends on how much capital you need, how you plan to use it, how long you need it, and what interest rate you're willing to pay.\nHere's a look at the most popular types of business financing to consider.\nLoans include term loans, credit lines, and credit cards. A business can also obtain financing from suppliers or vendors. For example, when a raw materials supplier allows 30 days for payment (net 30), the industry standard, you actually receive a loan for goods or services rendered for a month.\nTerm loans deliver capital now. Your company repays the loan in pre-arranged monthly installments over a defined period of time. The advantage to term loans is that you can repay the loan ahead of schedule. The downside? The lender usually charges fixed interest on the amount borrowed - interest you continue to pay even after the loan has been paid down considerably.\nOn the other hand, term loans usually come with lower interest rates because they're collateralized, i.e., the business backs the loan with assets such as real estate or accounts receivable, limiting the lender's risk.\nA line of credit is a flexible business borrowing option because your business borrows only when necessary up to a pre-determined limit.\nThe advantage of a credit line is simple. Your business only borrows the capital it needs when it needs it, avoiding unnecessary interest charges on unnecessary funds. Lines of credit are especially useful when your company pays for items over time. For example, you only pay progress payments as you expand your new facility or hire new staff. A line of credit can be easier to manage than a term loan because you only pay interest on what you borrow.\nCredit cards used by a business, are similar to personal credit cards. They're a great way to make purchases of business-related items. They also simplify bookkeeping at tax time and, in some cases, the interest on credit card balances is a legitimate business deduction, though not always. Discuss tax implications with the company accountant.\nBusiness credit cards also enable you to take quick cash advances. However, because credit card cash advances are not backed by collateral, the interest rates are usually higher - much higher - than a line of credit or term loan backed by business assets.\nGovernment-Backed Grants and Loans\nThe federal government, and many state, regional, and municipal governments, maintain economic development agencies that offer direct grants and other types of financial assistance to encourage entrepreneurs to start or expand small businesses.\nState and Local Economic Development Loans and Grants are offered to train employees, develop new products (especially eco-friendly products), expand markets, improve facilities, and for general business development that broadens the community's tax base.\nThese economic development grants and loans are low-interest and offer flexible terms because they help communities create jobs and keep down the tax burden on home owners, making them a popular choice for businesses, economic development agencies, and tax payers, who benefit with lower property tax bills each year.\nContact your municipality or the local Chamber of Commerce (CoC) for access to business capital at low interest rates. These development loans help your business and your community \u2014 a win-win arrangement.\nSmall Business Administration (SBA) loans are guaranteed by, or financed by, the Small Business Administration \u2014 a federal government agency. Typically, SBA loans offer favorable, flexible terms and attractive interest rates because the SBA assumes a portion of the lender's risk.\nPrivate Investors (aka, angels) are private investors. Family members, for example, often invest in the businesses of relatives. Angels typically invest for non-monetary reasons. They want to help their friends or family so terms are usually more beneficial to the business, not the angel-lender.\nAt the other end of the lending spectrum, angel investors are wealthy individuals or private companies that seek high returns on their investments. Most small business owners turn to friends and family first, but don't overlook local, professional investors to provide funds at favorable terms in return for a business ownership stake.\nThese professional lenders are often the best source for short-term financing, though you can expect to pay higher interest rates because the angel assumes fiscal risk in making the loan \u2014 all part of the risk versus reward equation that professional angels look at very closely.\nVenture Capitalists (VC) are typically companies that pool investor capital to invest in start-ups and growing companies. In return, they usually expect an ownership position in the business for the term of the loan, with a buy-out clause once the loan obligation has been met by your company.\nOwnership usually takes the form of stock shares, or an equity position, in case the company is unable to meet the repayment terms outlined in the loan agreement.\nVenture capitalists sometimes expect some control over company management to ensure the business moves forward. This control may involve a new company officer, a new business partner, or a member of the company's board of directors designated to oversee business activity and protect the VC's investment in your company's future.\nAsset-Based Financing and Factoring\nSeasonal businesses often run lean at certain times of the year and fat at other times. These businesses include agri-businesses, retail outlets, clothing manufacturers, and other companies that keep a close eye on the calendar.\nFor seasonal businesses, there are several financing options to help get through the slow times.\nAsset-based financing is a form of borrowing where assets are used as collateral in order to qualify for a loan. Say your business owns equipment. You use that equipment as collateral for a loan to finance the purchase of inventory, supplies, and meet other business needs. Inventory can also be used as collateral to obtain financing when capital is needed to purchase additional inventory.\nFactoring occurs when a lender pays your business the money your customers owe you \u2014 the amount of your accounts receivable \u2014 in exchange for a percentage of these funds. In effect, your accounts receivable serves as collateral for the loan.\nCommercial real estate loans are used to purchase, construct, or refinance commercial, industrial, or investment properties. Terms are usually stringent and interest rates are higher than, for example, the rates you'd pay for a second mortgage on your home.\nThe typical commercial realty loan amount is approximately 75% of the property's appraised value, and interest rates are typically higher \u2014 sometimes quite a bit higher \u2014 because the lender is assuming the risk of losing some or the entire loan amount.\nTo determine the right source of financing for your company, weigh your company's ability to qualify for credit, your business goals, and your short- and long-term credit and cash needs. Then choose the type of financing that delivers the lowest interest rates and the most flexible payment terms to suit your needs.\nAs a savvy borrower, you've got options. Choosing the right option requires some research and, perhaps, some consultation. A good source for impartial information is the commercial loan officer at your local bank.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 11937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://natsnoodles.com/2013/03/31/five-things-ill-be-watching-this-season/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SSOEZ67CFBF6MRQCTZFKZMIBZQPQNXOL", "length": 4675, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "natsnoodles.com", "title": "Five things I\u2019ll be watching this season | Nats Noodles", "raw_content": "Five things I\u2019ll be watching this season\nBryce Harper, Danny Espinosa, Henry Rodriguez, Jayson Werth, Stephen Strasburg, Wilson Ramos\nA team\u2019s fortunes often revolve around how players improve or decline. Of course, the biggest changes are either injury-related or unexpected flukes. By their nature, they\u2019re unpredictable and all you can do as a fan is hope that things go well and start talking about them when some actual news develops. But there are other challenges that are more interesting \u2013 can a player advance or overcome a weakness? These are the five biggest questions I have about Nats players for this season. I\u2019ll do it countdown style, saving the biggest/most important questions for last.\n5. Can Henry Rodriguez overcome his control problems? Watching Henry pitch can be quite frustrating. Occasionally he\u2019s been dominating \u2013 at his best, it\u2019s like having a second Stephen Strasburg in the bullpen. More often, though, he\u2019s been the wild thing\u2014walks too many, too many wild pitches, too many stolen bases allowed. And then there\u2019s those walkoff home runs we\u2019d like to forget.\nWhy do the Nats keep giving him second (and third, and fourth,\u2026) chances? It\u2019s simple, really. Every once in a while, one of these wild young pitchers turns a corner, cuts back on the walks, and becomes an excellent pitcher. Sandy Koufax had a walk rate of 13.4% his first six seasons (through age 24) and an ERA+ of 100. In his age 25 season something clicked, and his walk rate over the rest of his career (unfortunately, too short at another six seasons) fell to 6.4%, and his ERA+ soared to 156. Randy Johnson had a walk rate of 14.5% during his first five seasons (through age 28) and an ERA+ of 101. Over his next 12 seasons (ages 29 through 40), his walk rate dropped to 7.6% and his ERA+ was 166. Those are obviously extreme examples of guys who went from average to Hall of Famers, but if Henry could just cut his walk rate from 14.5% (his career average so far) to something like 11.5%, his career would take out. Unfortunately, I\u2019m not optimistic\u2014for every Koufax and Johnson, there are a dozen flame throwers who never get control and eventually flame out. I worry that if Henry ever does master the strike zone, it may be for another team.\n4. Will Jayson Werth\u2018s power come back? Of course, Jayson suffered a broken wrist last season, and although he was an effective hitter when he returned (.312/.394/.441), his power didn\u2019t really come back. I like to measure power using the \u201cpower factor\u201d (total bases divided by hits), which I think is a somewhat better measure than the more common \u201cisolated power.\u201d Werth\u2019s has fallen from 1.80 in 2010, to 1.68 in 2011, to 1.47 in 2012. His value has always come more from his on-base percentage than from his slugging, but if the power doesn\u2019t come back, it will put a big dent in his offensive value, leaving him more as an average corner outfielder rather than an elite one.\n3. Has Wilson Ramos fully recovered from his injury? Spring training certainly has been encouraging, but it will take a couple of months of regular season play to be convinced that there aren\u2019t lingering affects on our long-term catcher.\n2. Can Danny Espinosa start hitting right-handed pitchers? Against lefties, Danny\u2019s career line (in 357 plate appearances) is .276/.346/.467. In contrast, batting left-handed against right-handed pitchers his career line (in 1,058 PA) is an anemic .227/.306/.393. He\u2019s been re-working his left-handed swing this spring. I\u2019ll be watching this season to see if he can stop being a liability against right-handers.\n1. Will Bryce Harper take the next step forward to become one of the top players in baseball? Other writers have looked at Bryce in comparison to other successful 19-year old players (for example, see this article by Grant Brisbee of SB Nation), and found that most of them go on to become major stars. I think in Bryce\u2019s case, barring a major injury, the talent and drive are so great that it\u2019s highly probable that he\u2019ll eventually become one of baseball\u2019s brightest stars, one of the top five or ten players in the game. What\u2019s less clear is how soon that will happen. Some of the comparables took the step to stardom at age 20, but we can\u2019t count on it\u2014it might take him another couple of seasons to take that step forward. I notice that most of the statistical projections I\u2019ve seen are playing it conservative, projecting a season similar to last year. It\u2019s going to be really interesting to see how long it takes him to grow into the player that I think he\u2019s capable of becoming.\nFiled under Bryce Harper, Team progress\nThe Nats will never admit it, but Strasburg still has an innings limit \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 8868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://naturallyrecoveringautism.com/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:56Z", "digest": "sha1:3X5V6NYQSDPW5ZXQZGMRXLQWJSJTGOWX", "length": 962, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "naturallyrecoveringautism.com", "title": "Blog - Naturally Recovering Autism - Karen Thomas", "raw_content": "How To Safely Detoxify\nby Karen Thomas | Oct 29, 2018\nHow do you know if you are detoxifying properly? What products can you use to help enhance detoxification? There are some very important aspects to know to help make detoxification a much safer process for your child with autism. Detoxifying before any possible known...\nHow To Create A Positive Dental Experience For Your Child with Autism\nIn this post, and others linked to, you will learn some great ideas for parents on how to help guide dental appointments for your child with autism. This is all about how to make a dental appointment a positive experience for the parent and child. Some tips and...\nby Karen Thomas | Aug 31, 2018\nRelease trapped emotional patterns from yourself and your child to clear the path to autism recovery. The Emotion code was developed by Dr. Bradley Nelson, one of the world's foremost experts in the fields of bio-energetic medicine and energy psychology. Have you ever...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ncrarecycles.org/2015/03/franchise-fee-is-a-tax/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:19Z", "digest": "sha1:HBPAIFZSBQOVEXOPQ34LP7NY6KBNE6JE", "length": 3681, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ncrarecycles.org", "title": "Franchise Fee Is A Tax \u2013 Northern California Recycling Association", "raw_content": "Franchise Fee Is A Tax\nOn February 26, 2015, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District, entered into the murky fray of Proposition 218 interpretation and attempted to clarify when a franchise fee is a tax requiring pre-approval by the electorate. Though the case arose in the context of an electrical service utility, the Court\u2019s analysis might well apply to other municipal franchises, such as solid waste.\nIn Jacks v. City of Santa Barbara, the City, with PUC approval, imposed a 1% (of gross receipts) surcharge on the utility, Southern California Edison, to be collected by SCE from the ratepayers, making SCE a pass-through of the surcharge. A taxpayer group challenged this surcharge under the CA Constitution provision known as Proposition 218. Proposition 218, in short, is an outgrowth of Proposition 13\u2019s limitation on government taxation power and requires voter approval before any new tax can be imposed.\nAs the Court in Jacks noted, Proposition 218 prohibits local governments from imposing \u201ctaxes\u201d without voter approval but does not define what \u201ctaxes\u201d means. According to the California Supreme Court in Sinclair Paint v. State Board of Equalization, \u201cThe term \u201chas no fixed meaning, and . . . the distinction between taxes and fees is frequently \u2018blurred,\u2019 taking on different meanings in different contexts\u2026 In general, taxes are imposed for revenue purposes, rather than in return for a specific benefit conferred or privilege granted.\u201d\nJacks also noted that the state high court, in contrast, has defined \u201cfranchise fee\u201d since 1922 as a \u201ccharge which the holder of the franchise undertakes to pay as part of the consideration for the privilege of using the avenues and highways occupied by the public utility.\u201d\nJacks took a very literal reading of this 1922 definition to decide that Santa Barbara\u2019s surcharge was a tax and not a franchise fee because, the \u2026\u201dprimary purpose is for the City to raise revenue from electricity users for general spending purposes rather than for SCE to obtain the right of way to provide electricity. This constitutes a tax under Proposition 218 and is subject to approval by the electorate.\nIn reaching this conclusion, Jacks again echoed the state high court\u2019s 1997 analysis in Sinclair Paint, that if it quacks like a duck, it\u2019s a duck: \u201cif revenue is the primary purpose, and [compensation for the franchise] is merely incidental, the imposition is a tax, but if [compensation for the franchise] is the primary purpose, the mere fact that revenue is also obtained does not make the imposition a tax.\u201d\nThe Sinclair Paint Court also stated that the definition of \u201ctaxes\u201d, \u201d \u2018does not embrace fees charged in connection with regulatory activities which fees do not exceed the reasonable cost of providing services necessary to the activity for which the fee is charged and which are not levied for unrelated revenue purposes.\u2019\nIn the field of solid waste franchises, the Court of Appeal\u2019s 1993 determination in City of Dublin v. County of Alameda, that Alameda County Measure D did not impose a tax, but was an enactment of regulatory power, has long held sway.\nBut the 1993 Measure D case was decided before Sinclair Paint and before the constitutional amendment of Proposition 218. In light of Jacks, local governments, franchised haulers, and ratepayers, may want to take another look at the applicability of Proposition 218 to solid waste franchise fees.\nAuthor EditorPosted on March 13, 2015 August 18, 2015 Categories Moore's Musings, Newsletter\nPrevious Previous post: NCRA\u2019s Zero Waste Week Tour: Resilience Climate Change Expedition\nNext Next post: Introduction To Recycling Class, June 1-3, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://new.dowjones.com/scoops/obama-administration-preparing-changes-to-offshore-drilling-rule/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:36Z", "digest": "sha1:2D4M2PBN26BZCZ7NYFLCKFTYIHVG34JQ", "length": 4469, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "new.dowjones.com", "title": "Obama Administration Preparing Changes to Offshore Drilling Rule - Dow Jones", "raw_content": "Obama Administration Preparing Changes to Offshore Drilling Rule\nWASHINGTON\u2013The Obama administration is preparing to make a major offshore drilling regulation somewhat more favorable to the oil and natural gas industry, compared to a preliminary proposal issued last year, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.\nThe Interior Department last week sent the White House final rules aimed at preventing the kind of explosion that erupted more than five years ago on BP PLC\u2019s Deepwater Horizon rig. The draft rules impose new standards on equipment designed to keep control of a well, and they require real-time monitoring of certain kinds of drilling that are undertaken in deep water or under high pressure.\nThe proposed rules require a series of tests and maintenance on a device called a blowout preventer, a stack of valves that sits atop a well on the ocean floor and is designed to seal it off in an emergency. The preventer on the Deepwater Horizon rig failed to stop the flow of oil and gas on April 20, 2010, and the out-of-control well led to the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.\nIn the final version of the rules sent to the White House for review, the Interior Department relaxed a handful of requirements industry complained were too onerous.\nA department spokesman wouldn\u2019t comment on the changes, noting they are under final review at the White House. Once that process, which typically takes up to three months, is complete, the department will announce the final rules.\nThe offshore drilling regulation is the third and biggest set of rules the Interior Department has issued in response to the BP oil spill. They are also part of a broader regulatory push by the Obama administration clamping down on the oil and natural gas industry\u2019s environmental impact.\nThe final rules are expected to provide more flexibility to companies to maintain what is known as a safe drilling margin. In 2010, BP decided to drill through a fragile layer of rock even though the pressure risked cracking the formation open. A federal judge in 2014 called the choice \u201cdangerous\u201d and concluded that it set in motion a chain of events that led to the Deepwater Horizon blowout.\nThe revised final rules set forth a specific standard for a safe drilling margin, which dictates the amount of pressure in the well, as the initial proposal did. But unlike the original version, it allows companies to deviate from it if they provide justification and documentation as to why it is necessary and safe to do so.\n\u201cThis revision should address the concern that a rigid drilling margin requirement would result in stranded resources and lost jobs due to an inability to drill a significant number of wells,\u201d according to the Interior Department documents reviewed by the Journal.\nOther changes include requiring reviews of a blowout preventer every two weeks instead of every week as initially proposed. The revised regulation also requires a comprehensive review\u2013in which the equipment and related parts are taken apart\u2013to be conducted gradually over five years instead of all at once every five years.\n\u201cThis modification should reduce significantly any industry estimated costs associated with this provision,\u201d the document states.\nStill, the overall structure of the final rule the Interior Department sent to the White House is largely the same as the initial proposal. The department says it is expected to impose similar costs on the industry\u2013$883 million over 10 years\u2013while offering benefits of $656 million in the form of time saved and reduction of potential spills.\nWrite to Amy Harder at amy.harder@wsj.com\nAmy Harder was first to report that the Obama administration is preparing to make a major change to the offshore drilling regulation that may be more favorable to the oil and natural gas industry. The revised draft rule is aimed at preventing the kind of explosion that erupted more than five years ago on BP PLC\u2019s Deepwater Horizon rig. The rules will impose new standards on equipment designed to keep control of a well, and will require real-time monitoring of certain kinds of drilling that are undertaken in deep water or under high pressure, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.\nRegulation in Response to BP Oil Spill\nChange Would Add Flexibility, Make Rule Somewhat More Friendly to Industry\nOverall Structure Will Remain Same as Initial Proposal\nObama Administration to Tweak Proposed Offshore Drilling Rule", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://new.dowjones.com/scoops/universal-terminal-considering-potential-singapore-trust-ipo-s1-billion-sources-say/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:19Z", "digest": "sha1:MO3SIA6J7GMTRETMUCWSW4DQ2PJRN3KI", "length": 2237, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "new.dowjones.com", "title": "Universal Terminal Considering Potential Singapore Trust IPO of Up to S$1 Billion, Sources Say - Dow Jones", "raw_content": "Universal Terminal Considering Potential Singapore Trust IPO of Up to S$1 Billion, Sources Say\nP.R. Venkat and Eric Yep were first to report that Singapore-based Universal Terminal is considering joining the bandwagon of companies raising funds in the city-state via a $800 million trust listing.\n14:32 HKT: Universal Terminal Considering Potential Singapore Trust IPO of Up to S$1 Billion, Sources Say\n14:45 HKT: PetroChina Asset Seeks IPO\nBy P.R. Venkat And Eric Yep\nSINGAPORE\u2013A Singapore-based petroleum-storage company, co-owned by a local oil tycoon and China\u2019s largest oil producer PetroChina Co., is looking to raise one billion Singapore dollars (US$800 million), making it the latest firm to jump on the bandwagon in trust-heavy Singapore.\nUniversal Terminal (S) Pte Ltd., which provides fuel storage services to oil traders, is talking to banks for a potential listing via a business trust, people with knowledge of the deal said. The company is in the process of seeking approval from its shareholders including state-owned PetroChina, which has a 35% stake in Universal Terminal, one person said. The person said that the exact size of the deal and the timing of the initial public offering are yet to be decided.\nSingapore-based oil trader Hin Leong Group owns the remaining 65% stake in Universal Terminal, which operates one of the largest independent petroleum-storage facilities in Asia Pacific with a capacity of 2.36 million cubic meters. The terminal was built at a cost of S$750 million and started operations in 2008. It is used by Hin Leong and Petrochina to meet their own storage needs as well as for leasing to third-party traders. PetroChina is the listed unit of China National Petroleum Corp. and is the world\u2019s largest energy company by assets.\nThe Hin Leong Group, one of the largest oil traders in Singapore with revenues of over $14 billion in 2012, was founded by billionaire Lim Oon Kuin in 1963, and has operations in marine fuel supply, shipping and logistics. In July, Mr. Lim was listed on Forbes as the 14th richest man in Singapore with a net worth of $2 billion.\nUniversal Terminal and Hin Leong don\u2019t respond to queries.\nWrite to P.R. Venkat at venkat.pr@wsj.comand Eric Yep at eric.yep@wsj.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/article/115442/angela-merkel-spying-us-just-lost-very-good-friend", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:UBG6WRNWZNAFPFH4LUCT2ZMEBBSYZLGO", "length": 6574, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "Angela Merkel Spying: The U.S. Just Lost a Very Good Friend | The New Republic", "raw_content": "Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty\nThe Betrayal of Angela Merkel\nShe loved America more than any other European leader. So why did the NSA target her?\nBy Cameron Abadi\nI'm not sure whether German journalists have a phrase for \"dog-bites-man story\" (Mannbeissthunderzaehlung?), but it would be useful in describing the heated reaction there to the latest NSA revelations. Yes, Germans were outraged to discover the extent of the United States' surveillance dragnet. But outrage, in this context, is something of a chronic condition. Before Germany felt betrayed by Barack Obama, it felt betrayed by Bill Clinton for organizing military intervention in the Balkans, by Jimmy Carter for pushing for nuclear-armed missiles on German territory, and by George W. Bush for, well, pretty much everything. The masochistic streak in German culture has always figured into the transatlantic relationship\u2014Germans want to maintain a relationship with America if just to maintain the enjoyable indulgence of resenting Americans. The same dynamic is sure to dampen the political fallout this time.\nThe personal damage, however, is another matter. If it's mostly theater when Germans claim to feel betrayed by the United States, then in the case of Angela Merkel\u2014who recently learned that her cell phone conversations have been monitored from the top floor of Berlin's U.S. embassy for the past ten years\u2014it\u2019s probably the real thing.\nMerkel is the first German chancellor to feel a closer affinity with the United States than any other foreign country. That's not to say that German chancellors haven't tried to forge close ties with Washington\u2014given how Germany depends on the United States for security guarantees, to do otherwise would be political malpractice. But France has tended to exert the strongest pull on German politicians, in both a diplomatic and a cultural sense. Underneath it has always been an unmistakable air of continental chauvinism. Yes, yes, America has always been admirable\u2014but France is European, you see.\nMerkel never shared that view. That\u2019s partly explained by her biography. Growing up in Eastern Germany, Merkel was alienated from Western Europe, both geographically and culturally. (In grade school, Merkel excelled in the compulsory Russian language classes, but her French teacher moved away one summer after marrying a Canadian and was never replaced.) And her no-nonsense personality has never meshed very well with the pomp of French officialdom. To this day, she is said to find the formal diplomatic protocols demanded by Paris to be faintly ridiculous.\nAt the same time, Merkel has always betrayed a degree of sentimentality towards America that she\u2019s managed to suppress in other aspects of her work. Merkel\u2019s biographer Stefan Kornelius describes how, during her youth, Merkel cultivated an image of an idealized America, cobbled together from the snippets of news broadcasts, Hollywood movies and rock music that she managed to discover. (Though the political wonk was apparent even then; among her personal heroes was Ronald Reagan, whom she later arranged to meet as a member of Helmut Kohl\u2019s cabinet in 1991.) For Merkel, America was a country \u201cfully invested with her dreams and emotions\u2026the anchor of her desires to be free.\u201d Just a few months after the fall of the Berlin Wall, at the age of 36, she and her husband chose California as the destination of their first trip abroad. \u201cWe will never forget our first look at the Pacific Ocean,\u201d she said 20 years later. \u201cIt was simply grand.\u201d California remained her preferred vacation spot throughout the 1990s, until political pressures demanded she stay closer to home. (She tried southern France once in the interim, but never returned.)\nThroughout her career, Merkel has been the rare European not to condescend to America\u2019s political idiosyncrasies. She doesn\u2019t think the widespread opposition to a welfare state is a sign of America\u2019s barbarity; she admires the way the political system in the United States invites no-holds-barred philosophical discussions about the very purpose of the state. Kornelius, her biographer, says that Germany\u2019s emphasis on consensus sometimes seems cramped to her by comparison. And Merkel has always endorsed America\u2019s unabashed commitment to meritocracy. Indeed, one of the ways that she and Obama have bonded has been over the fact that they were each outsiders\u2014he an African-American, she an East German woman\u2014who had managed to ascend to the pinnacle of their respective countries.\nAnd anyone who doubts that Merkel\u2019s attachment to America can affect her decision-making should remember Iraq. During the run-up to the war in 2002, Gerhard Schroeder, the German chancellor at the time, gave a blanket rejection of German participation in any American \u201cmilitary adventures.\u201d Schroeder\u2019s jauntiness won cheers from the German public. But Merkel, who was then leader of the opposition in parliament, was so outraged that she felt compelled to take the biggest (and least advisable) gamble of her political career, taking to the op-ed page of the Washington Post to declare that \u201cSchroeder Doesn\u2019t Speak for All Germans.\u201d\nIt\u2019s remarkable that Merkel\u2019s career overcame her support for Bush\u2019s war. Equally remarkable is that she never repudiated her op-ed. For Merkel, there was an inviolable principle at stake. As Kornelius puts it, Merkel believed that \u201cGerman politics could never oppose Israel, the European Union, or the United States.\u201d After becoming chancellor in 2005, Merkel still refused to demonize Bush, however convenient it would have been for her in Germany. Even when he was at his most toxic, she accepted an invitation to visit him at his west Texas ranch and invited him in return to her home district to a festive roast of local wild boar. Preserving the partnership with the United States was simply too important.\nMerkel\u2019s days of going out on a limb to support the United States, it seems safe to say, are probably over. Not that Merkel's disappointment will have any dramatic political consequences; her caution generally precludes rash decisions and there\u2019s nothing on the political agenda of as much significance as the Iraq War, in any case.\nStill, there\u2019s a sad irony in the fact that the European official least likely to indulge in anti-Americanism, the one who had an un-ironic attachment to the American dream, turns out to have been the NSA's highest-profile target. What this scandal lacks in real tragedy, it\u2019s worth noting, it more than makes up for in personal pathos.\nWorld, Politics, The Plank, Angela Merkel, NSA, Germany", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 7083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.avclub.com/the-good-place-s-michael-schur-is-not-reading-your-fan-1829391454", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:45Z", "digest": "sha1:LWOMPP2XUKPXEVX227Q7BT2KU4DAXEPL", "length": 2266, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "news.avclub.com", "title": "The Good Place\u2019s Michael Schur is not reading your fan theories", "raw_content": "The Good Place\u2019s Michael Schur is not reading your fan theories\nFiled to: Mike SchurFiled to: Mike Schur\nPhoto: Joe Scarnici (Getty Images)\nThe Good Place is a show that likes to keep viewers on their toes. Since the big reveal of the first season finale, fans have been trying to guess what\u2019s coming next for our recently deceased protagonists by analyzing every visual gag and oblique reference the show has to offer. But whether any of these fan theories are correct remains a mystery because the one man who could tell us refuses to read them. In a recent interview with The Wrap, series creator Michael Schur admitted that he purposefully stays away from fan theories, but not for the reason you might think.\n\u201c[It\u2019s] not because I don\u2019t find it interesting, quite the opposite,\u201d Schur says. \u201cI\u2019m worried that I\u2019ll find it too interesting and be like, \u2018Oh, that\u2019s a better idea than what we have,\u2019 and I\u2019ll be tempted to use it.\u201d That\u2019s probably a good policy to have. As much as these fans love picking apart the show and theorizing about where it\u2019s going, the last thing they would want is for Michael Schur to stop coming up with his own, brilliant ideas and just use theirs instead. Having worked previously on hit shows like The Office and Parks And Recreation, Schur knows that it\u2019s not his job to simply validate fans\u2019 love for the characters and world he\u2019s created, but rather do his best to make something that\u2019s worthy of that love.\n\u201cYour job [as a showrunner] is to make the best show you can,\u201d he tells The Wrap. \u201cTry to make the twists and the left-turns as unexpected as you can, but whether or not anyone guesses them is sort of out of your hands.\u201d\nAs much as no one wants to believe it, there will come a day when The Good Place is over, at which point Schur says he\u2019d be more than happy to go back and read all the various theories Reddit has to offer. \u201cI will not enjoy reading all of the fan theories that turned out to be better than what we\u2019ve written,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ll curse the name of those Redditors.\u201d\nThe Good Place returns to Earth and, thankfully, our lives\nMike Schur has finally explained what was happening in that Good Place finale\nMichael Schur\u2019s favorite joke from this season of The Good Place is a Pirates Of The Caribbean diss", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.darden.virginia.edu/2018/06/01/20-questions-warren-thompson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ET2QKH6S5UJWNOLE5OH3BWXDI6EG7XNV", "length": 9435, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "news.darden.virginia.edu", "title": "20 Questions With Thompson Hospitality President Warren Thompson (MBA \u201983) | Darden Report Online", "raw_content": "Warren Thompson (MBA '83) leads one of the country's largest food and facilities management firms.\n20 Questions With Thompson Hospitality President Warren Thompson (MBA \u201983)\nAlumni News / Careers, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Leadership\nUniversity of Virginia Darden School of Business alumnus Warren Thompson (MBA \u201983) says he decided at the age of 12 he wanted to work in the restaurant business. He was sitting with his parents in a Shoney\u2019s in Portsmouth, Virginia \u2014 a big night out for the family then \u2014 and said, \u201cI\u2019d like to own one of these one day.\u201d\nToday, the Thompson Hospitality founder, president and chairman runs one of the largest retail food and facilities management firms in the United States. The company operates around the globe, serving Fortune 100 companies, universities, major medical centers and urban school districts. Its retail lineup features brands such as Austin Grill, American Tap Room, Be Right Burger, Willie T\u2019s Lobster Shack and the Pheast Food Group of themed restaurants.\nA former trustee of the Darden School Foundation and member of the UVA Board of Visitors, Thompson commemorated his ties to the School in a big way this spring. He returned to Darden for his 35th reunion, became a Principal Donor \u2014 Darden\u2019s highest recognition for giving to the School \u2014 and established the Warren M. Thompson Scholarship to help attract students who value diversity to the School.\nI started as an assistant manager in Roy Rogers within the Marriott Corporation as part of a fast-track program that Dick Marriott established to attract MBAs into the restaurant group.\nFind what you\u2019re passionate about and you\u2019ll never work another day in your life. My father also told me I could do anything in the world that I wanted to do if I was willing to work hard.\nMy father. My father was my best friend, mentor and confidant.\nWhen I started Thompson Hospitality, I had three goals: No. 1, to take care of my parents; No. 2, to make it a family business; and No. 3, to give back to the community. The third one was an open-ended goal that I could never check the box and say, \u201cI can\u2019t do anymore.\u201d I\u2019ve always said it\u2019s important to have at least one open-ended goal, and for me it\u2019s to give back to the community. When I say community, I would describe Darden as part of my community, but also, in particular, the African-American community. It\u2019s a part of the community I think I continue to owe a lot.\nWhen and where do you do your best thinking?\nWhen I\u2019m driving because I\u2019m typically not on the phone. I do quite a bit of driving to various restaurants or accounts we own or operate in the Washington, D.C., market.\nWhat is happening in our country now, in terms of becoming more divisive. The country is so divided that it makes it more difficult to make progress. I think we\u2019re actually going backward. That weighs heavily on my mind in terms of what can we do and how long will this last.\nA Stroke of Faith by Mark Moore. He\u2019s actually one of my closest friends. It\u2019s about a very successful African-American business owner who suffered two strokes and had to learn how to do everything over again in life. It brought him to a very different reality of what\u2019s important.\nWhat technology can you not live without?\nIt\u2019s very simple: Do the right thing. Do the best you can. Treat others the way you\u2019d like to be treated. It\u2019s the last principle of our guiding principles as a company.\nWhat characteristics do you look for in people?\nWe all try to look for people who have some of the same characteristics as ourselves. For me, it\u2019s a person who\u2019s entrepreneurial. In almost every interview I do, I will ask the person, \u201cAre you more comfortable in a corporate environment or an entrepreneurial environment?\u201d Most will think I want the corporate answer because they\u2019re interviewing with a company, but really I\u2019m looking for a person who is willing to take a calculated risk in order to get success. I think that\u2019s the best person to manage a piece of a business.\nI measure success in terms of long-term stability and growth. In my mind, anybody can make the budget for one period or quarter or year. But how do you grow a business over three years or five years? In my mind, success is steady growth yielding the expected results during that time. It\u2019s also, in my mind, beating the competition.\nI love fishing, boating, bowling, basketball. Just about any sport, playing and watching.\nWhat is your favorite cause?\nI have a passion for diversity and inclusion. In fact, I just made a contribution to Darden to fund scholarships for students who will have a passion for diversity. I want to help attract young people to this institution who will value differences in other people. My cause has always been to get the University of Virginia to be more inclusive and diverse. I\u2019ve spent a good 25 to 30 years working at that, whether as part of the Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees or the UVA Board of Visitors. I was just telling a group of students that I got on the board of visitors because when Mark Warner wanted to run for governor, he wanted my support, so I told him I wanted to be on the board of visitors. I told him the story of how when my father grew up 25 miles from here, he was not allowed to go to UVA so I promised my father I would one day make a difference here.\nI\u2019d spend more time in Florida in the winter and more time in the mountains of Virginia during the summer.\nWhat do you lose sleep over?\nToday, it\u2019s more about legacy and thoughts of what will happen when I can\u2019t run the company anymore. I\u2019m trying to position the company for proper succession because time flies by, and we\u2019re coming up on 26 years. It\u2019s something I have to think about more and more as there are friends that I lose and peers pass away.\nWhich class at Darden impacted you the most?\n\u201cOrganizational Behavior\u201d with Alec Horniman. Alec had us write a diary. Each week we\u2019d have to write a chapter in it, and I wrote it to a son I hoped to have one day. Unfortunately, I never had the child, but I still have that document at home in my desk, and I read it periodically to see what my thoughts were at 23 versus 58. That class was very impactful, and 25, 30 years later, Horniman could still remember some of the things I submitted.\nDescribe a moment when you realized the true value of your Darden education.\nIt happens often when I call a Darden alum I may not have been in class with or known well, but I still get a warm response. It\u2019s that Darden connection. It\u2019s as strong between others that I didn\u2019t go to school with as with my classmates. Also, the day I closed on the initial transaction to start Thompson Hospitality, it was reflective of a couple of things: first, how thankful I was to have the parents I had and, secondly, the education that prepared me to go through Marriott and subsequently start the company.\nWhat was your biggest motivation for becoming a Principal Donor this year?\nThe connection I feel to Darden. When I attended Darden, I had no money. I was broke, right out of undergrad. Darden took care of me through scholarships and financial aid, so I felt I owed it to Darden to give back. But also, Darden School Foundation President Michael Woodfolk and Dean Beardsley, in talking with them, the challenge they have attracting minority students or students who value diversity, I felt compelled to do something to help in that effort. I couldn\u2019t just talk about the need to do it without providing some financial support to make that happen.\nCan you give us a preview of what you plan to say at your Principal Donors Society induction speech?\nThere are two stories: One was the story of my great great grandfather who was a slave 30 miles from here. The rumor is that he was on loan to the University to work here at certain times. He learned the blacksmith business, and at the age of 30 when he was freed, he started his own blacksmith business. That was the story my father told me and it became sort of my model. I planned to come to Darden, work at Marriott for seven years, learn the business then start my own. That along with the story my father told me of how badly he wanted to come to UVA. When I came here, a lot of my classmates were talking about legacy. I called my father and I told him I\u2019m not sure if I fit in here. There were all these legacy kids talking about their grandfathers and great grandfathers that went here. He said, \u201cYou have a legacy as well. Your legacy is different. Your great great grandfather came there on different circumstances, but you\u2019re all there now in the same class. Make the best of it.\u201d\nWhat excites you most about Thompson Hospitality\u2019s future?\nMy goal is to prepare the company for the day when I step down. At that point, the company will take the next leap of growth. My goal is to get it to a $1 billion revenue company and have someone take it to $3 billion or $5 billion. I think we have a great foundation, and it\u2019s positioned well across the various businesses. If the company goes public, there will be someone better able to do that than me. I\u2019d love to step back and see that happen and see someone take it, or at least part of it, in that direction.\nUVA Darden Alumnus Builds Values-Driven Hospitality Giant\nMacy\u2019s President Taps Into Darden-Learned \u2018Art of the Possible\u2019\nKate Spade Creative Director\u2019s \u2018People-First\u2019 Approach Always in Style\nQ&A: UVA Darden Alumnus Heads America\u2019s Hottest Cooler Company", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 12841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.err.ee/862241/10-companies-ready-to-privately-finance-bridges-to-saaremaa-hiiumaa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:24Z", "digest": "sha1:6I2Y3AJQ2ACPAEVRBJWR2OXO74KTTD7E", "length": 7750, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "news.err.ee", "title": "10 companies ready to privately finance bridges to Saaremaa, Hiiumaa | News | ERR", "raw_content": "10 companies ready to privately finance bridges to Saaremaa, Hiiumaa ({{commentsTotal}})\nA map highlighting Saaremaa and Hiiumaa's lack of direct connections to the European mainland. Source: saartesillad.ee\nTen companies and funds would build bridges between the island of Muhu and the Estonian mainland as well as between the islands of Hiiumaa and Saaremaa with their own funds; the way the bridges would be financed would be decided by the new government elected next spring after the completion of an impact assessment.\n\"There are more than ten of these companies and funds who would come today and contribute all the money themselves \u2014 they do not even have to take out a loan \u2014 and build the whole thing in two years, plus a bridge between Hiiumaa and Saaremaa,\" Raivo Hein, leader of the project, told BNS.\nHein first introduced the idea of building a bridge over Suur Strait in January. In the first stage, a bridge connecting Muhu and the mainland would be completed in three years, the cost of which would be up to \u20ac500 million.\nThe bridge connecting Hiiumaa and Saaremaa would cost half as much, as the sea level between the two islands is lower.\n\"The solution there could come in the form of a dam and a medium-sized suspension bridge \u2014 there is no need to build a beam bridge on supports rammed into the ground from beginning to end,\" Hein explained. \"Rather, it would resemble the dam between the islands of Muhu and Saaremaa, in the middle of which would be a bridge.\"\nCompanies and funds from Europe, China and the US which invest in public and private sector cooperation projects and, according to Hein, would not even consider projects smaller than \u20ac100 million in cost, have expressed interest in building the bridges.\nAccording to an impact assessment carried out by Finnish company WSP Finland in 2011, the state should finance the Saaremaa bridge project initiated under Hein's leadership with a subsidy approximately twice as large as the current ferry subsidy, and users should pay fees for approximately 50 years.\nWhen the Saaremaa bridge returned to the agenda, the Cabinet tasked the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications with developing a new, updated analysis by next March so that the new government formed following the Riigikogu elections next spring could decide how to proceed with the establishment of the connection.\nChinese investors can't be ruled out\nAccompanied by Andrus Villem and Reform Party member Kalle Laanet, representatives of the Chinese national construction company China Construction Communication Engineering Group Co. Ltd visited the island of Muhu last week and expressed readiness on the basis of a concession to build a bridge between Muhu and the mainland.\nMinister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure Kadri Simson (Centre) said at a government press conference held the following day, however, that options have been considered from the perspective of the government regarding how the Estonian state would contribute one way or another to the establishment of a permanent connection with Saaremaa, but \"the involvement of third country [including Chinese] investors is not included in the analysis to my best knowledge.\"\nEven though a new financial and socio-economic analysis ascertains the best technical alternatives and financing models for the state, Chinese investors cannot be ruled out when it comes to the construction of the Saaremaa bridges.\nNamely, there are three options on the table: the construction of the bridge is financed from the incomes of the state budget, with a loan or the sale of bonds or in cooperation of the public and private sector. Should the last option be chosen, the state as a result of a public procurement will choose a concessionaire with bridge or tunnel construction references whose task it will be to find the most suitable investors for funding the project.\nAccording to Hein, it is a question of national strategy whether Chinese money and everything else that accompanies it will be wanted here or not. The greatest interest of the Chinese is to receive a reference in the EU, the presentation of which would allow them to build large communications projects elsewhere in Europe as well.\nFor the same reason, Peter Vesterbacka, the former head of Finnish games developer Rovio, is also betting on Chinese investors. Vesterbacka is planning to open a tunnel between Tallinn and Helsinki by Christmas 2024.\nConcerns exist regarding third-country involvement\nEuropean Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johanns Hahn said in an interview with Politico in July that China could turn countries in the Western Balkans region into Trojan horses that would one day be EU members, adding that China has made a series of significant investments in infrastructure projects there.\nFormer Minister of the Interior Kalle Laanet (Reform), who hosted the Chinese national company during its recent visit, said that the establishment of permanent connections necessitates the completion of an impact assessment and the mitigation of economic security risks. \"Once all preparations have been made, I think that the excavators should be put to work as soon as possible, but this also definitely means that all risks must be mitigated and various aspects must be thoroughly deliberated,\" he said. \"The most positive is that interest in building this kind of object has been established outside Estonia.\"\nHe said that the Chinese national builder has provided a written statement of attention, which means that the issue is being taken seriously. It is also beneficial if there are various offers on the table, as the state can then choose the best possible solution.\nIslanders want stable connections\nSaaremaa and Hiiumaa Municipalities, led by the Social Democratic Party (SDE), support the establishment of high-quality and stable connections between the islands and the mainland, but the question lies in how much this will impact their island identity.\nAt the same time, when it comes to Hiiumaa, there have been problems recently regarding ferry and air traffic: at one point, sea levels in the Rukki Channel were too low for ferries to operate, and air traffic between Tallinn and Hiiumaa was cancelled for two weeks in August due to reconstruction work at K\u00e4rdla Airport.\nThe route of the planned Saaremaa bridge will start from the territory of the old Virtsu fsh plant on the mainland, which is mostly made up of unused land along with old building ruins. The length of the route on land is a couple of hundred meters. On the sea, the route will run from Virtsu Harbour toward the north: first across the low part of the sea, then in parallel with the ferry route until it reaches the island of Muhu a couple of hundred meters noth of the current Kuivastu Harbour. The route will for the most part follow the current ferry route.\nOn the island of Muhu, the route will start north of the current Kuivastu Harbour, run along meadowy areas and join Kuivastu-Kuressaare Road west of P\u00e4daste Road.\nAccording to Hein's preliminary vision, full-price passenger vehicle tickets would cost \u20ac17, while permanent residents would be eligible for reduced-price tickets costing \u20ac8. Compared to current ferry ticket prices, it would be cheaper for passengers to use the bridge if there are at least three passengers in the vehicle.\nThe construction of the Hiiumaa bridge in the second stage would depend on the results of studies conducted after the construction of the Muhu bridge.\nsaaremaaministry of economic affairs and communicationshiiumaabridges\nGallery: Ratas visits island of Hiiumaa\nSaaremaa bridge advocates meet with Chinese business executives\nBusinessman wants to build \u20ac500 million bridge to Saaremaa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 465, "original_length": 18688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.kobo.com/kobo-at-the-2011-teen-choice-awards-1685969-extra-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:51Z", "digest": "sha1:XHTYN4H3G6B6L4Z7VCCA2DDSLEJCVKCG", "length": 1348, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "news.kobo.com", "title": "Kobo at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards! | Kobo", "raw_content": "Kobo at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards!\nThis year Kobo was selected as one of the top and most sought after gifts given out to the teen celebrities at this year\u2019s Teen Choice Awards!\nThe \u201cTeen Choice Awards\u201d is a teen awards show presented annually. 2011 Teen Choice Awards honoured teen celebs from this year\u2019s biggest and hottest moves, TV shows, fashion and sports, who were in attendance to receive their awards, as voted by teens aged 13-19.\nAs a part of the night celebrations at the 2011 Teen Choice Awards Celebrity Retreat, each teen celebrity received a Kobo eReader Touch Edition as a part of their exclusive gift package.\nTake a look at which celebrities were sporting a Kobo eReader Touch Edition and what they had to say about it.\nMalese Jow \u2013 \u201cVampire Diaries\u201d \u2013 \u201cThis is perfect for travel!\u201d\nDJ apl.de.ap \u2013 Black Eyed Peas \u2013 \u201cThis is awesome. I need this.\u201d\nZack Filkins \u2013 One Republic \u2013 \u201cThis is great. I feel like I just got smarter.\u201d\nFancia Raisa \u2013 \u201cThe Secret Life of the American Teenager\u201d \u2013 \u201cThis is perfect. I read a lot. I\u2019ll use it all the time.\u201d\nLucas Neff \u2013 \u201cRaising Hope\u201d \u2013 \u201cThis is great. I\u2019m a big reader.\u201d\nTyra Banks \u2013 \u201cThis is great. Hopefully my new book will be on it?\u201d\nNikki Reed \u2013 \u201cTwilight Saga\u201d \u2013 \u201cThis is actually worth this whole thing.\u201d\nKeegan Allen \u2013 \u201cPretty Little Liars\u201d \u2013 I\u2019m infatuated with the black one.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.psu.edu/story/385003/2015/12/16/academics/mining-engineering-program-celebrates-125-years-success", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:JMKWD2GPCGEVPYHIXIFF2BD2R2KL5XD2", "length": 16276, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "news.psu.edu", "title": "Mining engineering program celebrates 125 years of success | Penn State University", "raw_content": "Pictured is the Mineral Industries Building, now known as the Steidle Building, in 1949 during its construction. Penn State's mining engineering program was once housed there; today, the program, along with other programs in the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, is housed within the Hosler Building.\nUNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. \u2014 On Oct. 4, 1890, Penn State\u2019s Board of Trustees approved the establishment of a mining engineering degree program. In the 125 years since then, Penn State\u2019s mining engineering program has become one of the most influential in the country, helping to educate future engineers and providing leadership and ideas to help shape the industry.\nEvolution of the industry: from mules to machines\nPenn State\u2019s mining engineering program played a major role in helping the mining industry transition and progress into how it operates today. In the 1880s, it was common practice for mules (such as Penn State\u2019s Old Coaly) to carry materials out of mines. As demand increased, mining companies sought ways to improve efficiency, and one way to accomplish this was mechanization, or the use of technology such as electric-powered conveyor belts and elevators to accomplish task previously done manually.\nOne of the first graduates of Penn State\u2019s mining engineering program, Lewis Young (who received his bachelor of science degree in 1900), was renowned for his expertise in mine mechanization. He advised mines worldwide on how to implement new technologies and was responsible for the first complete mechanization of a coal mine in Illinois. In 1960, he was named a Penn State Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus in honor of his achievements.\nTechnological innovation evolved from mechanization to computerization \u2014 initially using computers in the planning and design process. Operating a mine with and without computers was like \u201cnight and day,\u201d said Tom Falkie, who served as head of the Department of Mineral Engineering (the predecessor to the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering) from 1969 to 1973.\n\u201cIn the 1950s, Penn State and two mining companies were the leaders in computerized mine planning and mine operations. We would develop applications to simulate different mine plans, and then put the plan that had the best potential into operation. Without a doubt, it increased efficiency of mines tremendously. Eventually, everyone across the world got involved, and today the use of computers in mine operations has become much more advanced,\u201d said Falkie, who later served as president of Berwind Natural Resources Company.\nFalkie and other Penn State mining engineering faculty such as Howard Hartman, Robert Stefanko, Charles Manula, Frank Aplan, Reginald Hardy, Stan Suboleski and Raja Ramani were instrumental in both conducting groundbreaking mining research and educating future mining engineering faculty members.\n\u201cPenn State\u2019s mining engineering program has produced some of the best and most original thinkers in the mining industry. At one point, around 25 percent of the mining engineering faculty across the United States had received a mining engineering degree from Penn State,\u201d said Ramani, an alumnus, professor emeritus of mining engineering and geo-environmental engineering and head of the Department of Mineral Engineering from 1987 through 1998. \u201cI studied under Charles Manula, and seven of the eight Ph.D. students studying with me at the time went on to become faculty members at colleges across the United States. He was a beacon of light when it came to operations research and computers. Almost anyone who wanted to do work in this area was attracted to Penn State because of him.\u201d\nAs a testament to the expertise of Stefanko and other Penn State mining engineering faculty, several books used in mining engineering curricula worldwide were authored by former Penn State mining engineering faculty: Howard Hartman, who was head of the Department of Mineral Engineering from 1957 to 1963, wrote \u201cMine Ventilation and Air Conditioning\u201d and Stefanko\u2019s \u201cCoal Mining Technology: Theory and Practice,\u201d now in its fourth edition, can still be found in classrooms today. Hartman was also called upon to serve as senior editor for one of the largest manuals used by the industry \u2014 the 2,453-page \u201cMining Engineering Handbook\u201d produced by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME).\nMining Engineering Anniversary - Notable Alumni\nNotable graduates from Penn State's mining engineering. Many others, not pictured here, have also contributed greatly to mining and have advanced safety and technology in the industry.\nMining Engineering Anniversary - George Deike Sr.\nGeorge Deike Sr., a 1903 graduate of Penn State's mining engineering program, was a founder of Mine Safety Appliances, a company that would make many advances in improving safety of mining over the years. Deike and his son George Deike Jr. collectively served 51 years on Penn State's Board of Trustees. The Deike Building on the University Park campus is named after him.\nMining Engineering Anniversary - John Ryan\nJohn Ryan, a 1908 graduate from the Penn State mining engineering program, was a founder of the Mine Health Safety company with fellow alumnus George Deike Sr. Ryan's son also graduated from Penn State's mining engineering program, and the Ryan family provided a generous donation to create the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences' Ryan Family Student Center, the college\u2019s advising, tutoring and social hub.\nMining Engineering Anniversary - Lewis Young\nLewis Young was one of the first graduates of Penn State\u2019s mining engineering program, receiving a bachelor of science degree in 1900. Young was an expert in mine mechanization, and he advised mines worldwide on how to implement new technologies. In 1960 he was named a Penn State Alumni Association Distinguished Alumnus in honor of his achievements.\nPioneers in safety\nSafety in the mining industry is equally, if not more, important than efficiency. Two Penn State alumni paved the way for improving mine safety. George Deike Sr. and John Ryan Sr., who both received bachelor of science degrees in mining engineering from Penn State in 1903 and 1908, respectively, started the Mine Safety Appliances (MSA) company in 1914 to develop new equipment to improve safety. The company collaborated with Thomas Edison to develop the first-ever electric cap lamp, which cut fatalities by nearly 75 percent, according to the MSA.\nThe names Ryan and Deike may be familiar to Penn State visitors; each have facilities named in their family\u2019s honor on the University Park campus \u2014 the Deike Building and the Ryan Family Student Center, the college\u2019s advising, tutoring and social hub.\nRyan and Deike each had sons \u2014 John Ryan Jr. and George Deike Jr. \u2014 who would go on to get their mining engineering degrees from Penn State and continue in their fathers\u2019 footsteps by focusing on improving mine safety. Deike Jr. and Sr. also played a strong role in Penn State\u2019s development by serving on the Board of Trustees; together, the two served for 51 years total. George Deike Jr. and Sr. and John Ryan Jr. received the Penn State Alumni Association\u2019s Distinguished Alumni award in recognition of their accomplishments.\nGeorge Deike Jr.\u2019s wife, Anne B. Deike, endowed the first professorship in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences in 1998.\n\u201cThe University is always proud of endowed chairs, and they\u2019re really a testament to relationships between industry and education,\u201d said Ramani, who was the inaugural holder of the George H. Jr. and Anne B. Deike Endowed Chair in Mining Engineering. Today, the chair is held by Jeff Kohler, who previously served as director of the Office of Mine Safety and Health Research at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).\nOver the years, Penn State faculty and graduate students have been responsible for numerous advances in ground control, ventilation, electrical systems, systems engineering and other topics, and these advances have led to significant gains in safety as well as productivity.\nStrong industry leadership\nSince 1894, the mining engineering program has coordinated efforts to promote and publicize new knowledge and has provided outreach to the larger mining community. \u201cThe Mining Bulletin,\u201d first created in 1894, was published to the benefit of the mining industry, and former Penn State President George Atherton served on the publication\u2019s board of managers. The bulletin comprised articles on technology written by members of the community, and it was distributed free of charge to anyone interested.\nIn the mid-20th century, several other programs were created at Penn State to promote best practices and keep professionals up-to-date with new mining techniques. A series of short courses were made available in the 1970s through the 1990s for miners across the country. Additionally, through the Miner Training Program, established in the 1970s, Penn State assists mining companies across the Pennsylvania by providing training in areas such as ground control, ventilation and safe work practices to mine employees. The Miner Training Program is supported by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) and Pennsylvania\u2019s Bureau of Mine Safety, a division of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.\nThe mining engineering program\u2019s leadership extended to professional organizations. Multiple Penn State faculty \u2014 Stefanko, Falkie and Ramani \u2014 have been presidents of SME, which is the largest professional organization for mining engineers with 15,500 members worldwide. Several others have served as president of the American Institute of Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), which represents over 150,000 professionals worldwide in the areas of mining, materials research, iron and steel, and petroleum engineering.\nGovernment also sought the expertise of many Penn State mining engineering faculty. Falkie left Penn State in 1974 to serve as director of the U.S. Department of the Interior\u2019s Bureau of Mines. Edward Steidle, who served as dean of EMS from 1928 through 1953, was appointed on separate occasions by both President Dwight Eisenhower and President John Kennedy to serve as chairman of the Federal Coal Mine Safety Board of Review. Steidle, Mitchell and Hartman received Presidential appointments to serve as chair of the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Board, and Kohler was appointed to head the government\u2019s mine safety and health research program at NIOSH.\nSeveral mining engineering faculty and alumni were elected fellows of the National Academy of Engineering, the highest honor for engineers in the United States. Twenty-three researchers have been elected to the NAE for their contributions to the mining industry, and seven of these are current or former Penn State mining engineering professors: Falkie, Ramani, Suboleski, Aplan, Ramani, Richard Hogg and Derek Elsworth.\nPenn State alumni have also been leaders within the industry \u2014 more than 70 alumni have risen to the rank of president or CEO of their company.\nStudents and faculty have the opportunity to tap into this industry expertise through the G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture in Mineral Engineering series. The series was established in 1992 by Mercedes G. Shoemaker to honor her husband, a Penn State mechanical engineering alumnus who was president of CONSOL Energy and served as a Penn State trustee for more than 20 years. The series has brought presidents, vice presidents and CEOs of major energy companies and governmental organizations (MSHA, NIOSH and the United States Geological Survey) to the University Park campus to speak on critical topics in the mining industry, such as safety and energy security.\nMining Engineering - Notable Faculty\nA selection of current and past faculty of Penn State's Mining Engineering program.\nMining Engineering Anniversary - Charles Manula\nCharles Manula was one of the pioneering mining engineering researchers in the program's history. Manula's research focused on mining operations, and he helped Penn State become a leader in the development of operational models.\nMining Engineering Anniversary - Robert Stefanko\nRobert Stefanko was chair of the mining engineering program in the 1960s. Stefanko conducted research into mining engineering safety, and a book he authored, \u201cCoal Mining Technology: Theory and Practice,\u201d now in its fourth edition, can still be found in classrooms today.\nMining Engineering Anniversary - Thomas Falkie\nTom Falkie was chair of the mining engineering program from 1969 to 1974. Falkie maintained close ties with the program after leaving, and presented a lecture for the Shoemaker lecture series in 2000.\nMining Engineering Anniversary - Department Heads and Chairs\nRaja Ramani, Turgay Ertekin, George Luxbacher and Jeff Kohler, left to right, pose for a photo at the 2015 National Mining Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Ramani is the former chair of Penn State's mining engineering program; Ertekin is head of the John and Willie Leone Family Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering; Luxbacher received a bachelor of science, master of science, and a doctorate in mining engineering from Penn State and is now vice president of operations with Glenn Springs Holdings; and Kohler is the George H. Jr. and Anne B. Deike Endowed Chair in Mining Engineering.\nIMAGE: Raja Ramani / Penn State\nHands-on experiences through industry ties\nPracticums, internships and co-op experiences have been part of the mining engineering curriculum since the first courses were offered in the 1890s. According to the 1893-94 course catalog that is available in the Eberly Family Special Collections Library, two weeks at the end of every year were devoted to \u201cpractice in the field or in machine shops,\u201d where students got experience with underground and above-ground surveying techniques, and mine inspection.\nBy the 1920s, travel to local mines had become an integral part of the curriculum: \u201cVisits of Inspection to Mines, Furnaces, Etc.\u201d was a required course to complete the mining engineering program during the 1920-21 school year. By the 1960s, a \u201cstudent trainee\u201d program was initiated by Howard Hartman. In this program, students completed the degree in five years by alternating periods of employment in industry and course work at Penn State. According to the 1960-61 course catalog, \u201cnumerous mining and manufacturing companies as well as governmental agencies [were] co-operating with the University\u201d to provide employment to students.\nThose industry ties have strengthened over the years, as practical experience is common through internships and co-ops. In 2015, 80 percent of undergraduate students had an internship or co-op, and job placement is close to 100 percent, said Kohler.\n\u201cWe are fortunate to have a very strong collaboration with mining companies, manufacturers and government agencies, as well as a large and very much engaged group of alumni who work with our students and provide internships as well as full-time employment opportunities,\u201d said Kohler.\nThose internships and co-ops expose students to a wide range of assignments they may complete as a mining engineer, working in a variety of locations and with numerous commodities. There are nearly 14,000 mines in the USA extracting more than 75 different commodities. Worldwide, those numbers increase to nearly 200 commodities being mined at tens of thousands of facilities. Mining contributes nearly 15 percent to the domestic and 25 percent to the global economies, and mined products are ubiquitous in society \u2014 from their use in agriculture, manufacturing and construction, to pharmaceuticals, solar cells and electric cars.\n\u201cThe demand for mined products, and at the same time, the challenges to mine in a profitable, safe and environmentally responsible way have never been greater. Graduates from our program will continue a 125-year tradition of excellence and technological innovation that will put them and the U.S. industry second to none,\u201d said Kohler.\nEMS learning design unit celebrates 15 years\nAcademics, Global, Impact, National, Pennsylvania\nEME, Energy and Mineral Engineering, Milestone, Mining engineering, Penn State history", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 19604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 179.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.sulross.edu/srsu-cultural-center-holds-grand-opening-in-wildenthal-library-location/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VLJ2SHNWTIFXEPNFCJ5QVBMTGYG7UUD6", "length": 1675, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "news.sulross.edu", "title": "SRSU Cultural Center Holds Grand Opening in Wildenthal Library \u2013 news.sulross.edu", "raw_content": "Home|SRSU Cultural Center Holds Grand Opening in Wildenthal Library\nSRSU Cultural Center Holds Grand Opening in Wildenthal Library\n\u2022 by Sarah Carsrud \u2022\nThe SRSU Cultural Center held its grand opening on Friday, Sept. 21, complete with a ribbon cutting, international tea tasting, and talks on studying abroad and applying for a passport. The Center is located on the first floor of the Wildenthal Library and features a renovated space offering numerous services, including support for international students and laptop checkout via the nearby Tutoring and Learning Center (TLC).\n\u201cStudents can use the cultural center as a place to study or get together with their friends or clubs,\u201d said Dr. Esther Rumsey, Director of International Studies at Sul Ross. \u201cAmong other things, we are putting together a database of scholarships that are available nationally for students who want to study abroad. We also provide information to students about the study-travel programs being offered by SRSU faculty, and we assist faculty in planning a travel component for one of their courses.\u201d\nInitial funding for the Center was made available by the Title V, El Camino Del Lobo Al Exito Grant which also established the TLC. Continuing funding for the Center will come from the international education fee.\nAccording to Rumsey, the Center\u2019s goals are: increasing the global awareness of students and community members, supporting intercultural knowledge and education, and promoting programming that celebrates the diverse cultures represented at Sul Ross.\nThe Center is open from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. 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Schools.com uses trusted sources, such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and reports from accredited schools \u2014 to power resources students can use to plan their college and career trajectory.\nUHD's College of Sciences and Technology offers a Bachelor of Science degree in Biotechnology, preparing students for careers in the biotechnology industry, as well as graduate degrees in biotechnology, biochemistry, microbiology or molecular biology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 5865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 108.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newshoots.co.nz/hamilton-teachers/tessa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:V5BMFZ6IB6UBJ547EJWHTGB4XKPP4CZU", "length": 496, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "newshoots.co.nz", "title": "Tessa Weenink - Teacher \u2014 New Shoots Children's Centre", "raw_content": "Tessa spent her early years in Cambridge and now lives in Whatawhata with her partner and her dogs (Ken and Deidre) on their lifestyle block. She has been working alongside 2 year olds since she was 16. She began working at New Shoots in April 2014.\n\u201cI am passionate about watching children learn and grow, supporting their self-confidence and self-help skills as well as exploring their current interests. 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Copying of its content and design is prohibited.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 178.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nova-nn.com/2018/05/19/emerging-new-theatre-and-electrifying-new-music-springs-into-action-at-down-arts-centre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:00Z", "digest": "sha1:JFXU6CQSJ7Z3QF52ZTR2UGTFIRDWVVHI", "length": 1861, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "nova-nn.com", "title": "Emerging New Theatre and Electrifying New Music Springs into Action at Down Arts Centre - Nova News Network", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbUncategorized\u00bbEmerging New Theatre and Electrifying New Music Springs into Action at Down Arts Centre\nTwo exciting new performances emerging on the Northern Irish theatre and music scene, takes to the stage in Downpatrick over two weekends, as part of the new Spring programme of live shows at Down Arts Centre.\nWomen Troubles\nOn Saturday 26 May 2018, up and coming theatre company Female Theatre Collective will present their brand new show \u2018Women Troubles\u2019. This new play is written and performed by talented trio, Siobhan Kelly, Clare McMahon and Maria Quinn and tracks their hilarious journey trying to \u2018make it\u2019 in the toughest industry in the world \u2013 the arts. The play follows the women from age 13, when the three best friends first met whilst auditing in Belfast during the summer of 1999. They soon find themselves exploring first love, first heartache, GCSE\u2019s, unplanned pregnancy, sexual harassment, deciding to be an actor, going to drama school and trying to make it on the big stage whilst approaching 30 years old.\nThe Hardchargers\nHot on its heels on Friday 1 June 2018, is the electrifying country blues rock band, The Hardchargers, performing songs from their debut album \u2018Scarecrow\u2019 which was released earlier this year. Led by Lonesome Chris Todd, this is a band steeped in inspiration from the greats of the country blues \u2013 Blind Willie McTell, Blind Willie Johnson, Bukka White, Willie Brown and Lightnin\u2019 Hopkins. 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Protons and neutrons are joined to form the atomic nucleus by nuclear force.\nThe force that holds subparticles together in the nucleus of atoms is the energy that is obtained in nuclear fusion and nuclear fusion reactions.\nThe core diameter is in the range of 1.75 fm for hydrogen which is the diameter of a single proton to about 15 fm for heavier atoms, such as uranium.\nCA - Nucli at\u00f2mic\nES - N\u00facleo at\u00f3mico\nFR - Noyau atomique\nDE - Atomkern\nPT - N\u00facleo at\u00f4mico", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nursingschoolsnearme.com/nurse-practitioner-bridge-programs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:03Z", "digest": "sha1:CJFMY5PIBU5MAS4M6BOR4EOJJG2F2PE2", "length": 4400, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "nursingschoolsnearme.com", "title": "Nurse Practitioner Bridge Programs \u00ab", "raw_content": "To become a nurse practitioner, students usually need to obtain a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Nursing (BSN) and then continue their studies to obtain their Master\u2019s Degree in Nursing (MSN). But what is the appropriate course to take if you didn\u2019t realize that you wanted to work in the field of medicine and now want to completely change career paths? For those who didn\u2019t obtain a BSN, do they have to return to school?\nIf you find yourself in the same situation and are looking for a way to become a nurse practitioner without starting from scratch, an accelerated program may be the right choice for you. But what exactly do these types of programs require?\nAlthough some schools might label these programs differently, the concept is still the same. Many colleges and universities have started to offer programs for those have obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree in another field of study but want to become a nurse practitioner. These learning institutions generally offer an educational pathway that allows students to obtain an RN degree, typically in three semesters, then followed by their MSN, which generally is another three semesters. This allows students who have a BA in another field to complete a nurse practitioner program in only two years when attending on a full-time basis.\nIn order to be accepted to Nurse Practitioner Bridge Programs, students must already be a licensed practicing nurse (LPN). Schooling for this career is about 18 months and once certified, an LPN works under the supervision of a registered nurse (RN). It\u2019s a task-focused job that deals more with skills and attending to immediate patient necessities than long-term care or medical treatment.\nBecoming an LPN is the first step toward becoming a nurse practitioner if you don\u2019t have a bachelor\u2019s degree in nursing. The LPN curriculum gives students the fundamental medical knowledge that they need to succeed in an accelerated BSN Bridge Program.\nOftentimes, these types of education solutions are restricted. There may be stipulations attached to them such as availability only full-time basis.\nThings to consider with bridge programs? Firstly, the study options are limited. Universities, community colleges or technical schools may not allow you to study part-time or for you to earn your nursing degree online. If this is the case, you\u2019ll have to make necessary arrangements to support yourself while you\u2019re attending classes. This might mean leaving your current job, or doubling up your schedule and taking night classes.\nYour financial situation and personal commitments will have a large influence on your ability to fully participate in a Bridge Program, but for those who are truly passionate about becoming a nurse practitioner, the temporary sacrifices prove worthwhile in the long term.\nNursing Practitioner Bridge Programs Online\nThe Internet provides millions of students the chance to study and earn their degrees or certification without having to rearrange their entire lives to attend on-site classes. Below you\u2019ll find two universities that offer 100 percent online Nursing Practitioner Bridge Programs.\nA private, Christian university based out of Nevada.\nAccredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.\nMinimum time commitment of 24 months.\nPopular Programs: M.S. in Nursing: Public Health (Bridge), M.S. in Nursing: Health Care Informatics (Bridge)\nBeing an RN not required. Alternative degree path for non-RN students.\nAccredited by the CCNE.\nMinimum time commitment of 122 credits.\nFull LPN to BSN online program.\nA nurse practitioner must earn a BSN and then a master\u2019s degree to prove their excelsior knowledge in their field. Although these programs are rigorous, they are easily adaptable for passionate learners and can be taken by anyone, regardless of their age or prior professional experience.\nIn order to become a nurse practitioner, you\u2019ll have to become an LPN. This will allow you to begin working in the field immediately while also becoming eligible to enroll in an accelerated Nurse Practitioner Bridge Program. These programs typically take 2 years to complete and turn LPNs into RNs before allowing RNs to earn their master\u2019s and become nurse practitioners.\nSee also: LVN to RN nursing programs in California\nBy Emma | May 19, 2016 | Accelerated Programs | No Comments |\n\u2190 Direct Entry Nurse Practitioner Programs\nThe Best Nursing Blogs to Follow in 2017 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nuvomagazine.com/tag/the-nutcracker-ballet", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:45Z", "digest": "sha1:COJMTW24W5LKDM3ZQBL5YRPGU6Y5GWBS", "length": 219, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nuvomagazine.com", "title": "The Nutcracker ballet Archives | NUVO", "raw_content": "The Nutcracker Across Canada\nDifferent takes on the classic ballet.\nThe Nutcracker ballet has become a quintessential holiday tradition, though dance companies have been known to put their own spins on the classic tale.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nz.xtend-life.com/blogs/health-articles/happiness-and-contentment-what-is-the-key", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:21Z", "digest": "sha1:KDO5XM5K7VRRJKWIA6MBCYSPNLWUO463", "length": 3891, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "nz.xtend-life.com", "title": "Happiness and contentment. What is the key?", "raw_content": "Home / Health Articles / Happiness and contentment. What is the key?\nHappiness and contentment. What is the key?\nIs having a fit and strong body the answer? Many people think that to be so! Over the years I have seen many examples of people going to extremes to get their bodies to what they think is peak condition in the belief that this is the way to health and happiness.\nI still clearly remember a friend of mine of 20 years ago whom in outward appearances was the epitome of health in that he was in great shape and exceptionally fit. Nonetheless he collapsed and died on the spot of a heart attack at the age of 40. His friends couldn't believe it... but even then I understood why!\nHe did not concern himself with his internal health! He figured as many of us do at that age, that we will live forever and was not aware of the need to take care of his internal organs. He unknowingly abused his organs by eating all sorts of junk food.\nHe looked good on the outside but was dying on the inside! As with so many things in life it is often what you can't see that truly counts.\nBut that's not all! Even though he was a smart man he never truly experienced a real sense of wellbeing, contentment and thus happiness. He did not lack material possessions. So, what was missing? Why is it that most people seem to find happiness so elusive?\nOver the years I have reflected on this question many times and observed peoples level of REAL contentment and happiness. I have also researched the subject. The conclusion that I have come to, which is supported by 'thinking' scientists throughout the world, is that in order to have peace and happiness, not only must you be healthy on the inside with all your organs functioning perfectly, and be free from pain but you must also have the other often missing ingredient!\nA perfectly functioning healthy brain and nervous system!\nEver wondered why a baby born to a healthy mother whilst being breast feed is content and undoubtedly has a good sense of well being? OK... I hear you say, who wouldn't have peace of mind with having your every need taken care of you, not having to worry where your next meal is coming from nor having to worry how you are going to meet the mortgage payment next month?\nCan't argue with that... but there is more to it than this. The baby still has all their brain cells intact. But, it doesn't take long before these cells start progressively dying off. Even in our late teens our brain cells start dying, and unlike other parts of our bodies they are not being replaced. However, that is not as bad as it sounds as we all have many more than we really need so we can afford to lose a few thousand a day!\nThe problem starts when the rate at which the brain cells begin to die accelerates and the communication between the remaining ones starts breaking down... ie your neurotransmitters are no longer 'firing on all cylinders'. Add to that a general deterioration in your nervous system and you are heading for trouble!\nWhat sort of trouble? For a start... memory loss, brain fog, depression, anxiety, stress, insomnia, loss of your sense of well being etc, etc. There is much more, but that's enough for the moment!\nIn a word... feeding your brain and nervous systems those NUTRIENTS that science has discovered are needed to get those neurotransmitters firing on all cylinders again!\nBUT... you may be thinking, surely I can get enough of these nutrients from my diet? Sorry, but there is virtually no hope of doing this in today's modern world... but that is a subject for another day. Even with a good diet you still could not get enough of some of the special ingredients that your brain and nervous system needs as some of them are simply not present in a 'normal' diet, this is why taking supplements containing specialized ingredients known to be beneficial to the brain and nervous system are so important.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 440, "original_length": 14190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oaklandwiki.org/Pantages_Theatre", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:49Z", "digest": "sha1:EOZ2WKGHFE7ENH3KFVB3WOHRERDKQOBD", "length": 852, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "oaklandwiki.org", "title": "Pantages Theatre - Oakland - LocalWiki", "raw_content": "A 1912 ad in the SF Call (public domain)\nThe Pantages Theatre (1912\u20131946) at 416 12th Street (between Broadway & Franklin), was built as a vaudeville theater by Alex Pantages, owner of a theater chain.1 Over its 34-year existence as a theater, the building had multiple owners and \u201cnumerous\u201d name changes; it was known as the Lurie (1923), Hippodrome (1926), Premier (1932), Roosevelt (1934), and finally the Downtown (1939).\u201d2\nIn 1947 the building became the Oakland Tribune\u2019s printing press facility, and in 2007 was \u2018redeveloped\u2019 into mixed-use space by MPF Corporation.3\nThe building is a member of the Downtown Oakland Historic District.\n\u201cPantages Theater Building gets another shot at life\u201d (27 Aug. 2007 Oakland Tribune) - has more on Alex Pantages\nDowntown Theatre in Oakland, CA (Cinematreasures)\nTribune Press Building today.\nO'Brien & Werner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/video/2014/06/30/press-briefing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3YMWQGHUECUOSJZTKTAOEU4CTR4QHIVW", "length": 61217, "nlines": 185, "source_domain": "obamawhitehouse.archives.gov", "title": "Press Briefing | The White House", "raw_content": "June 30, 2014 | 01:01:24 | Public Domain\nPress Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 6/30/2014\nMR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. Apologize for the scheduling switcheroo we had a little earlier today. It was my intention to be done by now, but instead we are just getting started.\nI do not have announcements here at the top, Nedra, so I\u2019ll let you kick off the fireworks here.\nQ Thanks, Josh. Can you give us your reaction to the Hobby Lobby ruling?\nMR. EARNEST: I suspected that might be your first question today.\nThe Supreme Court ruled today that some bosses can now withhold contraceptive care from their employees\u2019 health coverage based on their own religious views that their employees may not even share. President Obama believes that women should make personal health care decisions for themselves rather than their bosses deciding for them.\nToday\u2019s decision jeopardizes the health of women who are employed by these companies. As millions of women know firsthand, contraception is often vital to their health and wellbeing. That\u2019s why the Affordable Care Act ensures that women have coverage for contraceptive care, along with other preventative care like vaccines and cancer screenings.\nWe will work with Congress to make sure that any women affected by this decision will still have the same coverage of vital health services as everyone else.\nPresident Obama believes strongly in the freedom of religion. That\u2019s why we\u2019ve taken steps to ensure that no religious institution will have to pay or provide for contraceptive coverage. We\u2019ve also made accommodations for non-profit religious organizations that object to contraception on religious grounds. But we believe that the owners of for-profit companies should not be allowed to assert their personal religious views to deny their employees federally mandated benefits.\nNow, we\u2019ll of course respect the Supreme Court ruling and we\u2019ll continue to look for ways to improve Americans\u2019 health by helping women have more, not less, say over the personal health decisions that affect them and their families.\nQ Can you talk a little more about what options you\u2019re considering to make sure that women have access to free contraceptives?\nMR. EARNEST: I\u2019m not in a position to do that right now. Frankly, we\u2019re still assessing the decision and its legal implications. We\u2019re also assessing what practical implications there are from this decision, including what companies are actually covered by the Supreme Court decision. As you saw, the ruling referred pretty narrowly to closely held private-sector companies. And I\u2019ve described in my original statement that there are a range of other institutions that are treated in different ways.\nWe\u2019re also taking a look at what kinds of health care plans these companies have, and how many employees are actually affected by this decision.\nSo as we gather some more information, we may be in a position to better consider the range of options that are available to the President. It is our view, as I said here at the top, though, that Congress needs to take action to solve this problem that\u2019s been created, and the administration stands ready to work with them to do so.\nQ On another topic -- some advocates are expressing some outrage over the letter that the President sent this morning on unaccompanied minors. And they say it\u2019s wrong to send minors right back to a violent situation in their home country. Can you respond to that?\nMR. EARNEST: I can. Our concern principally right now is that we have seen, gathered on the southwestern border of the United States, an alarming increase in the number of children who have traveled from Central American countries to our border on the southwest expecting to gain entry and to be welcomed into the United States.\nThey are principally motivated by a disinformation campaign that\u2019s being propagated by criminal syndicates that are preying on vulnerable populations of people who are living in pretty desperate situations. In some cases, they\u2019re living in communities that are racked by violence. In other cases, they\u2019re facing pretty dire economic circumstances. And it has led to a humanitarian situation that the President is very concerned about.\nThe fact of the matter is this administration is going to enforce the law. And what the law requires is ensuring that these children are -- once they are detained at the border -- and that is to be clear -- in many cases what\u2019s happening, we\u2019re finding these children who are showing up at the border and turning themselves in to Border Patrol agents. And the law requires that these children be -- that their needs be met, that their basic humanitarian needs be provided for.\nNow, what is also true is that we also want to surge resources to this problem by making sure that we increase the number of immigration judges and asylum officers, and other CBP lawyers to make sure that we can properly process these claims quickly. Each child is certainly due -- is owed due process, and they\u2019ll get the benefit of that. But at the same time, what we\u2019re seeing is we\u2019re seeing such a large influx of children at the border that we\u2019re having a difficult time processing the large number of cases that are now getting backed up in the immigration court system.\nSo we have asked for additional resources to make sure that we can process these claims as quickly as possible. We\u2019ve also asked for additional authorities that could be used at the discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security to process the cases as, ultimately, if it is found that the child or an adult that is here with children does not have a legal right to stay in the country, that they can be returned to their home country and properly reintegrated. That means that we\u2019re also working with some of these countries where the root of this problem exists.\nYou saw that a couple weeks ago the Vice President traveled to Central America and met with the leaders of Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador. Secretary Kerry is traveling to the region this week as well, and he\u2019ll be having similar conversations with leaders of countries in that region while he is attending the inauguration of the President of Panama.\nQ Josh, on that point, how much are you actually asking for? Is it $2 billion, $3 billion? How much?\nMR. EARNEST: We\u2019ll have more information about the actual request for supplemental appropriations in the next couple of weeks.\nQ Now, back on the Court, the Court suggested in its ruling today that the Obama administration could expand an exemption on birth control coverage that you worked out for no-profit groups that have religious affiliations like hospitals and universities. Is that what you\u2019re talking about doing for this case?\nMR. EARNEST: No, what we\u2019re talking about doing is pressing Congress to actually take the step that\u2019s required to address this problem, to make sure that the women who work for these companies have access to the preventative coverage that they deserve and that the Institute of Medicine that\u2019s run by impartial, nonpolitical scientists believes that they should have access to. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on, and we believe that because of the Supreme Court decision today that Congress should act to address the concerns of the women who are affected by this decision.\nQ But with Congress as divided as it is now, how likely is that to happen?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, we\u2019ll see. As we have with a range of other things, we\u2019ll consider whether or not there\u2019s an opportunity for the President to take some other action that could mitigate this problem as well. But, again, we\u2019re still assessing the decision, so it\u2019s too early for me to state what kind of action would be available to the President or what kind of action he would even consider at this point. But what is clear is that there is an opportunity for Congress to take the kinds of steps that would mitigate this problem, and we hope they will.\nQ And do you see this as a major impact on the Obamacare law? There was one Republican who said it was a devastating blow\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I think what would have been a devastating blow is if the Supreme Court -- if this same Supreme Court two years ago had decided to declare the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. They did not. In fact, they essentially upheld the Affordable Care Act, and that has preserved benefits for millions of Americans, who many for the first time now have access to quality, affordable health insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act. It also put in place and protected a wide range of consumer protections -- everything from ensuring that young adults up to the age of 26 could remain on their parents\u2019 health insurance, to ensuring that individuals couldn\u2019t be discriminated against just because they had a preexisting condition. So all those protections remain in place.\nThis is one specific group of companies and one group of women who are affected when it comes to the specific access to certain contraceptive services. And that specific problem that has essentially been created by the Supreme Court -- the problem is that the Institute of Medicine says that women should have access to these kinds of preventative services, but the ruling allows the bosses of these women to essentially step in and say, well, I have a religious concern so you\u2019re not allowed to make your own decision about whether or not you\u2019d like to benefit from these services; we\u2019re going to make sure that they aren\u2019t provided. We strongly disagree with that. We believe that Congress should take action to fix it.\nQ Josh, following up on that, does the White House have a reaction to the fact that in the majority you had all men writing the decision and in the minority you had three out of the four justices being women? And the President has talked in the past about Democrats needing to be energized to vote in the midterm elections. Might this case energize Democrats on this issue?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, in terms of the political fallout, I\u2019ll let the political analysts out there make that decision. The President does, however, believe that there is a very important principle at stake, which is the President believes that women should have the freedom to make their own decisions about their health care coverage, and that interference by their boss for whatever reason -- based on their religious views or just their scientific opinion -- is inappropriate. And one of the core goals of the Affordable Care Act was to put freedom in the hands of families all across the country to give them access to greater choices to quality, affordable health insurance that would be in the best interest of their family.\nThis decision today, while we\u2019ll respect it, runs counter to that principle and the President is going to look to Congress to put in place a solution.\nQ And on Bob McDonald, the President\u2019s choice to head the VA, this selection seems to have come out of nowhere. It\u2019s been greeted as sort of an unorthodox pick. And it turns out Mr. McDonald has made contributions to Republican candidates in the past. Did you view that as something that might help Mr. McDonald get through the Senate because it might discourage Republicans from blocking his nomination?\nMR. EARNEST: Mr. McDonald was principally chosen because he has the kind of record as a solid manager that will be required of the next Secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department to put in place the reforms that are needed to live up to our covenant that we have made, that our nation has made, with our men and women in uniform. Those management chops are going to be critical to his success, and they\u2019re going to be critical to ensuring that our country lives up to the commitment that we\u2019ve made to our men and women in uniform.\nNow, I\u2019d also point out that Mr. McDonald himself served in the military. He graduated near the top of his class at West Point. He served in the United States Army for five years. And he has a pretty compelling story to tell in terms of his management record at Procter & Gamble. He started at that company as an entry-level employee, and over the course of 33 years rose to be the CEO, to be the top boss. That demonstrates a lot of character and a lot of tenacity, and those two things will be required in the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs.\nI\u2019ll say one last thing. While he was at Procter & Gamble, Procter & Gamble was widely credited with their success in mentoring leaders at the middle-management level. And facilitating -- having the kind of management style that inspires other people in an organization to assume leadership skills is something that, based on the problems have been unearthed at the VA, will be really critical to their success over there as well.\nQ Does the President feel like this is somebody who can go in there and clean house?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I think this is somebody who has a lot of experience and has enjoyed a lot of success in managing a large company. And the VA is a large organization that is performing very important work. And there are some important changes that need to be made to ensure that that important work is actually getting done.\nAnd so having somebody that has experience in the military, has strong bipartisan support for taking the job, and has a proven track record of implementing changes in large organizations to great effect makes him the right choice for this task.\nQ Can I sneak in one question about airport security? There have been some reports that a terrorist threat in Syria may be translating into concerns about security at the nation\u2019s airports. Is that something the White House has been meeting on here? Is that something the administration is going to be looking at? A lot of people are heading out and traveling for vacation plans this summer; is that something that Americans should be concerned about?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, Jim, I have seen those reports. I\u2019m not in a position to comment on them. The Department of Homeland Security is regularly reviewing our security procedures to adapt to the threat that is faced by our transportation system. And as advisories are required to adequately inform the traveling public, we\u2019ll make those announcements.\nI don\u2019t have an announcement here at this point to make. But for more information, I\u2019d refer you to the Department of Homeland Security.\nI\u2019m going to move around just a little bit. Nadia.\nQ The Russians seem to be providing a dozen or so fighter jets to Prime Minister Maliki. Do you find it ironic that both the United States, the Russians, and the Iranians are sending military experts to aid Prime Minister Maliki?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, Nadia, what we have -- the United States has also offered to support the Iraqi government. And over the course of the last several years, the United States has provided significant assistance to the Maliki government in the form of training that is ongoing through the embassy there in Iraq but also in Jordan. There have also been a number of military sales from the United States to Iraq to try to support the Maliki regime and the Iraqi government\nNow, what we have been disappointed by is the fact that Prime Minister Maliki has not pursued the kind of inclusive governing agenda that we believe is going to be required to ensure the long-term success of the nation of Iraq. And so we are in close touch with the Maliki government and with all of the political leaders in Iraq. You\u2019ve seen the number of phone calls between Secretary Kerry and Iraqi leaders and Vice President Biden and Iraqi leaders in pursuit of encouraging the government to pursue a more inclusive agenda. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re focused on.\nNow, when it comes to -- there is one piece of military equipment that has attracted a lot of attention, and that\u2019s a delivery of F-16s that\u2019s scheduled for later this year. I can tell you that the United States remains committed to delivering the F-16s to Iraq as quickly as possible. The delivery of the first two aircraft have long been scheduled for this fall, pending final preparations for housing and securing the aircraft, completion of pilot training, and completion of required financial and administrative details which the Iraqi government has been slow to complete.\nSo there are some logistical details that still need to be accounted for here, but that once those logistical concerns have been addressed, we\u2019re still committed to moving forward.\nQ I know the White House says that they do not interfere of who\u2019s going to be the next Prime Minister, but do you believe that Prime Minister Maliki is a viable candidate right now?\nMR. EARNEST: That\u2019s a decision for the Iraqi people and the Iraqi political leadership to decide. We\u2019re urging Iraq\u2019s leaders to come to an agreement on the three critical posts that are key to forming Iraq\u2019s next government. Those posts, as you know, are the parliamentary speaker, the president and the prime minister. We\u2019re hoping that they\u2019ll act quickly so that the government formation can move forward after the first session of the new parliament is convened on July 1st.\nWe\u2019re urging all leaders across the spectrum to treat the situation with extreme urgency and quickly begin a very serious negotiation to determine the makeup of the next government. And that government, in our view, as I said, has to be a broadly inclusive one in order to provide stability to the country.\nI\u2019ll move around a little bit. J.C.\nQ Just want to follow up a sec. Under these circumstances -- and the U.S. is committed, they\u2019ve sent advisers -- has the President had any conversations with any world leader in terms of their commitment in kind? In other words, their kind of Special Forces advisers, et cetera, to go in there and to situate into this crisis?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, over the course of the last couple of weeks, J.C., you\u2019ve seen that we\u2019ve read out a number of conversations that the President has had with world leaders, some of them on Ukraine, some of them on the situation in Iraq, and some of them -- some of the conversations covered both topics.\nI don\u2019t have any additional details to read out from those conversations. But the President and this administration is interested in working in a collaborative fashion with our allies but also with other countries that have an interest in the region to try to encourage the political leadership in Iraq to pursue this kind of inclusive governing agenda.\nIn order to confront the existential threat that is posed by ISIL in Iraq, the government of Iraq needs to represent the interests of all of the people of that country and to make it clear that each citizen has a stake in that country\u2019s future and in that country\u2019s prosperity.\nQ If I may, is the President hopeful that any of his allies, friends, former allies, world representatives will, in fact, encourage -- be encouraged to send advisers or Special Forces to Iraq, as the U.S. has committed?\nMR. EARNEST: Again, I\u2019m not in a position to read out those conversations in any more detail. I would assume -- and I think with a lot of confidence -- that the leaders of these other countries will be making a similar calculation to the one that the President has made, which is that our interest in that country -- or our activity in that country will be governed by what the President assesses to be in the best interest of American national security. That will continue to be the criteria that the President will use as he makes decisions about U.S. actions there, and I assume that other countries and other country\u2019s leaders will be making a similar calculation.\nQ On Hobby Lobby -- does the constitutional lawyer who sits in the Oval Office agree with the Supreme Court premise that companies have freedom of speech and companies have freedom of religion?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, as you\u2019ve heard -- and I think -- well, as the constitutional lawyer who sits in the Oval Office would tell you, is he would read the entire decision before he passed judgment in terms of his own legal analysis.\nWhat we have been able to assess so far, based on the preliminary reading of that decision, is that there is a problem that has been exposed, which is that there are now a group of women of an indeterminate size who no longer have access to free contraceptive coverage simply because of some religious views that are held not by them, necessarily, but by their bosses.\nWe disagree, and the constitutional lawyer in the Oval Office disagrees, with that conclusion from the Supreme Court. And that\u2019s why we -- primarily because he\u2019s concerned about the impact that it could have on the health of those women; ultimately, that the goal of the Affordable Care Act, remember, was to provide greater freedom to Americans to allow them to make more decisions and have access to more options as they seek health care coverage. And that\u2019s the source of the concern that we have, and that\u2019s the problem that we want Congress to fix.\nIn terms of the broader legal analysis, that\u2019s something that we\u2019ll get to.\nQ Okay then. If I could change subjects to the unaccompanied minors. The law that is applicable says --currently, the one that\u2019s in effect now, from 2008 -- says that a child should not be placed in a secure facility absent a determination that the child poses a danger to self or others. So these facilities that you\u2019re proposing building and expanding, it appears that the law says now they shouldn\u2019t be put there unless they\u2019re a danger to themselves or others. Is this one of the laws -- one of the parts of the law that the administration wants to change?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, to be clear, the facilities that are being opened now are being opened specifically to meet the humanitarian needs of these children; to make sure that they have a bed to sleep in, a roof over their heads, access to food and other basic needs that any child has. That\u2019s the point of these facilities that are being opened at a couple of different military facilities. And so you\u2019ve seen FEMA step forward and perform a coordinating function, working with DHS and HHS, who has the responsibility for housing these children, to make sure that these needs are met.\nMore broadly, what we\u2019re asking for additional funding to do is to deploy more immigration judges, ICE lawyers, asylum officers to more quickly and efficiently evaluate the cases of these children. And when it is determined after going through that legal progress that these children don\u2019t have a legal basis for remaining in the country, the administration is seeking greater authority to be expressed -- or a greater authority that could be used by the Secretary of Homeland Security to resolve their case. And in many cases, that means returning them to the country where they came from.\nQ About 80 to 85 percent, according to the figures given by the DHS, of those children are, in fact, staying in the United States and staying with either family or foster homes, and they\u2019re not staying in facilities because they\u2019re not allowed to by law. Are you trying to change this law itself? Are you going to ask Congress to change this law that was passed in 2008?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, in terms of that specific legal request, I\u2019d refer you DHS. What we are trying to do is to confront a very specific problem, which is the large number of children that have appeared on the southwest border unaccompanied by any adults, who are vulnerable to human trafficking and other criminal elements, and making sure that their humanitarian needs are met.\nQ And can you do that legally?\nMR. EARNEST: Can we do -- can we meet their --\nQ Can you do these things? You\u2019re saying you want to send more of them back home, or you want to put them in detention centers so they\u2019re not out and adopted by other families and in the fabric of American society. Can you do that legally now, or do you have to change the law?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, it is my understanding that the greater authority that we\u2019re seeking for the Secretary of Homeland Security would allow us to address this problem more directly; would put the administration in a posture where we can more quickly process the claims to do a better job of more efficiently determining who actually has a legitimate claim for remaining in this country and who doesn\u2019t.\nAnd if it\u2019s determined -- and if and when it\u2019s determined that they do not, that these -- again, that these children or these adults who have arrived on the southwest border with children could be returned quickly to their [country] and repatriated to the country when they came from.\nI do want to make one thing clear -- and this is important for people to understand as well -- that as we\u2019re enforcing the law, the priority for enforcement continues to be basic public safety and national security and border security. Those are where our priorities lie. In this case, we\u2019re largely talking about children and a humanitarian situation that has the potential to only get worse. And so that\u2019s why it\u2019s important that we follow the law in terms of meeting the basic humanitarian needs of these children, but also making it clear, as the President did in an interview last week with your network, that parents who may find themselves in an increasingly desperate situation in their home countries, despite that desperation should not be looking for an opportunity to put their children in the hands of a stranger, who is likely a criminal, to transport them safely to the United States. That is not a good option and it is not one that any parent should pursue.\nQ Josh, to follow up on that, given that many of these children are fleeing violent situations and, as you said, vulnerable to begin with, is the President concerned at all that speeding up the process by which they are processed and removed could, in fact, be violating their due process rights and could send them back to a more dangerous situation? And what is the administration planning to do about that?\nMR. EARNEST: We are committed to making sure that we\u2019re following due process rights. That\u2019s why, in fact, we\u2019re seeking to make sure that we have access to more judges, more ICE officials and more asylum officials who can make sure that these due process rights are being respected.\nWhen it comes to repatriation, one of the things that we have done -- and this was part of the conversation that the Vice President had with the leaders of these Central American countries 10 days ago, and will be part of the conversations that the Secretary of State has with leaders of these countries this week -- will be about American resources that can be used to try to help stem the flow of these refugees at the source; that if there are things that we can do to improve security in some of these individual countries. We have ongoing partnerships arrangements with law enforcement officials and, in some cases, military officials in these countries; what we want to do is work them closely to try to meet some of the needs of these communities to try to stem the flow of people from desperate situations.\nQ But for these children now, won\u2019t it send them back to more danger?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, we\u2019re closely coordinating with these countries to make sure that we have a way to repatriate these kids in a way that\u2019s as safe as possible. But again, this underscores the need for people in this country and in those Central American countries to understand that putting their child in the hands of a stranger who is promising to deliver them to the United States is not at all a wise decision.\nQ Josh, in addition to Hobby Lobby, there are maybe six or seven other high-profile setbacks for the President this term at the Supreme Court. Can you describe how concerned and/or frustrated he is about the direction the Supreme Court is pushing the country and the law?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, that\u2019s a pretty broad generalization, and I think I\u2019d hesitate to wade too far down the line on that one. I think I\u2019ve been pretty clear about where our disagreement lies when it comes to this specific ruling and the problem that it creates for women who are employed by the countries [companies] as described by the Supreme Court in today\u2019s ruling. That disagreement notwithstanding, this administration will obviously abide by the rulings of the Supreme Court.\nQ For example, there has been a recess appointment ruling last week, campaign finance, the abortion buffer rule ruling. It just seems that -- I\u2019m wondering if the President is worried that the Supreme Court is pushing the kind of center point of judicial oversight in a more conservative direction as opposed to previous sessions.\nMR. EARNEST: I\u2019d hesitate to make a broad assessment like that from this podium.\nApril, did you have a question?\nQ Yes, I did. Thank you.\nMR. EARNEST: I saw your hand was raised earlier and it wasn\u2019t now, and so I just wanted to -- it\u2019s not a pop quiz, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to ask a question if you\u2019d like. (Laughter.)\nQ Thank you for being very attentive. (Laughter.) I wasn\u2019t being funny. Okay, I want to go to a question that was asked about the VA. And it\u2019s just simple: Basically, leading into this process of naming the new -- well, we expect the naming of a new head of the VA, who has the President consulted with when he was working on this whole process? Who was in his ear? Who was in the White House\u2019s ear? Who was in Rob Nabors\u2019s ear? We need to know how this came to be.\nMR. EARNEST: I don\u2019t have any specific conversations, April, but there was a commitment by this administration to reach out to all the stakeholders, or I should say to a wide range of stakeholders, to make sure that the criteria that was being used for deciding to nominate Mr. McDonald was inclusive of the qualities that will be required in new leadership over there.\nSo that sort of highlights the kinds of credentials that Mr. McDonald brings to this task. He is somebody who served bravely in our military. He graduated near the top of his class at West Point. He served for five years in the 82nd Airborne Division in the United States Army, and has decades of experience running a large organization, a multinational company that\u2019s headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. And so he brings a wealth of experience and skills to this task, and determining that he is the best person for the job was based on the skills that he brings. And the skills that are required is something that was discussed by senior members of the White House here as they conducted this search with a wide range of stakeholders.\nQ Well, as you know, this is an issue that has passions running the gamut, and there are some who are passionate who also had names that they wanted to present to the President. They even had petitions on the White House website to include Montel Williams, who he is a television personality but he also worked in the military, he was in intelligence for 20-some odd years who he wanted to talk to people. So if you could, could you give us the list of people -- if the President has talked to some -- who have I guess presented names to him or just talk -- because we\u2019re hearing a lot of people out there are very passionate about this issue.\nMR. EARNEST: There is no question that there are a lot of people who are passionate about this issue. I think there are millions of people across the country who are passionate about making sure that this country is living up to the promises that we\u2019ve made to our men and women in uniform. We welcome the active interest of so many people in making sure that we live up to that covenant. And this will certainly be part of the task that Secretary -- or that Mr. McDonald will face when he gets that job, will be to find ways to help every American who is interested get invested in this idea that we want to make sure that we are caring for our men and women in uniform after they leave military service.\nQ ISIL, or ISIS, has declared, effectively, a state. I\u2019m sure the administration doesn\u2019t recognize that, but I wanted to get its impression of the broader ambitions of ISIL to represent itself as representing not only territory but a way of life and an ideology. And whether or not it\u2019s recognized by the United State or anyone else in a de facto way territorially, there is something that has to be reckoned with here. Is it the policy of this administration to eradicate this ambition and these people, and the territory they now say they control? And is that part of not only the conversations you have internally, but externally -- getting to Jon-Christopher\u2019s question about others participating -- in dealing with this particular asserted reality in the north central part of Iraq?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, let me answer that question in a couple of ways. The first is that what we have seen from ISIL is a campaign of terror, of gross domestic -- I\u2019m sorry, of gross acts of violence and repressive ideology that pose a grave threat to Iraq\u2019s future. ISIL is not, as it claims, fighting on behalf of Sunnis. ISIL is not fighting for a stronger Iraq; ISIL is fighting to destroy Iraq. And that\u2019s why you\u2019ve seen this administration work closely with Iraq\u2019s political leaders to encourage them to unite the country as they confront this existential threat.\nIn fact, ISIL\u2019s name suggests that they desire to form a caliphate in the region. But what we would like to do is to make sure that after more than a decade of sacrifice that was made by American military personnel and others who served in that region to give the Iraqi people the opportunity to determine their own future, to play a stake in deciding who should lead their country and what their country should look like. And that\u2019s why it\u2019s so important for Iraq\u2019s political leaders to pursue this inclusive governing agenda. That\u2019s what\u2019s going to be required to defeat ISIL, it\u2019s also what\u2019s going to be required to make sure that every citizen in that country has a stake in that country\u2019s future.\nQ On the issue of the unaccompanied minors, it\u2019s a procedural question but it may loom large for the two things you\u2019re trying to accomplish -- one, get money and, two, obtain these authorities. Will you seek a sort of an emergency supplemental off the normal appropriations process when you come up with an amount of money, and within that try to obtain the legal authorities you\u2019re seeking for the Department of Homeland Security? Or are you going to work this through the abnormally normal appropriations process we\u2019ve come to know?\nMR. EARNEST: There is an explicit supplemental appropriations request that will be coming from the administration in the next couple of weeks that will include a specific request for funds to accomplish some of the tasks that we\u2019ve laid out. It will also include a request for additional authorities being granted to the Secretary of Homeland Security so he can exercise greater discretion about how to more efficiently process these cases through the immigration system.\nQ So this will be something you hope to achieve within a very short order, I assume.\nMR. EARNEST: We certainly would like to see Congress act pretty quickly on this. I would point out that members of both parties have expressed some concern about this situation. Some have publicly wondered whether or not -- whether the administration has the resources necessary to deal with it. So now that the administration is coming forward with a specific request for how we would like to deal with it and a specific request for the amount of money that\u2019s required to deal with it, we hope that Congress will act.\nQ Which is not yet ready.\nMR. EARNEST: Which is not yet ready but will be in the next couple of weeks. So when we do, we hope that Congress will act quickly.\nQ On the VA, to those who might wonder what someone who spent most of his professional career in merchandising -- selling soap and all sorts of other consumer products -- why that would make him particularly well positioned to deal with a fast, oftentimes dense, oftentimes unresponsive Veterans Administration -- those are not my words; those are the White House\u2019s own words and those of congressional investigators and others -- why do those things match up?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, let me answer your question in two ways. The first is, the success that he enjoyed at P&G is not irrelevant. This is a company that has more than 120,000 employees. They do business by selling products to more than 180 countries, and they have more than -- in more than 2.5 million stores that essentially reaches 5 billion customers. So there are some unwieldy challenges in the context of the P&G bureaucracy that Mr. McDonald grappled with, and he did so with a lot of success. That\u2019s what allowed him to rise through the ranks through that company in a pretty dramatic way.\nI guess the other thing I would point you to are the statements of others who know him well, who seem to think that he is the right person for this job. I would point out that even Speaker Boehner has said that Bob McDonald is a good man, a veteran and a strong leader with decades of experience in the private sector. Senator Portman, his home-state Senator, a Republican from Ohio, pointed out that he was glad to see the President reach out to someone with a wealth of experience managing a complex organization who has also had a distinguished career, military career, as a West Point graduate and Army Ranger. That\u2019s why Senator Portman says that he intends to support Mr. McDonald\u2019s nomination and will vote for him. So there is already an indication that there are other members of Congress, including some Republicans, who share the President\u2019s assessment that Mr. McDonald is the right man for the job.\nQ Will Rob Nabors remain at the Veterans Administration as the President\u2019s point person through the confirmation process and thereafter? Should we regard Rob\u2019s presence over there as something that\u2019s either going to be permanent or, at least for the foreseeable future, semi-permanent?\nMR. EARNEST: I don\u2019t have a timeframe to share with you now. It is not -- the decision to send Rob to go and try to assess the condition of the VA was not intended to be a permanent appointment. You saw that Mr. Nabors\u2019s report was presented to the President at the end of last week, where Mr. Nabors identified a pretty wide range of challenges that are facing the VA. This is an unsparing report that singled out a lot of significant problems. There were also a wide range of reforms that were proposed.\nQ I guess I\u2019m wondering if the President wants him to stay there to help this new Secretary upon confirmation, should that happen, work that process through.\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I do anticipate that, at least for the time being, Rob will remain at the VA as they continue to implement some of the reforms that have already been suggested by outside groups, including by the inspector general, and that Rob will play a role in helping Mr. McDonald, who hopefully will be confirmed rather quickly to help him get up to speed on some of these issues and to talk through with him what exactly the challenges are and what kinds of reforms might substantially address the problems that they\u2019re facing.\nQ Josh, I couldn\u2019t help but notice the President mentioned the World Cup today. Do you know if he is planning to watch the Belgium game? And if so, where?\nMR. EARNEST: I don\u2019t know if he is going to have a chance to do that, but I will try to get that information in advance of kickoff tomorrow.\nQ On McDonald, he was, in fact, forced out by shareholders who felt he hadn\u2019t done enough to grow the company. So obviously the President is aware of that, and I ask again what makes him think that he can handle an agency with the challenges that Mr. Nabors found the VA to have.\nMR. EARNEST: Well, again, this is somebody who led a large multinational company. And the challenges associated with managing a large company like that in the private sector is certainly comparable, at least, to managing the difficult bureaucratic challenges that are posed by a large government agency.\nQ You can fire people in the private sector that you cannot fire who are government workers.\nMR. EARNEST: Well, let me say a couple other things, which is that there are a couple of people who do have a good vantage point from which to judge Mr. McDonald\u2019s success over at P&G, and those are people who served on his board.\nSo let me read you a quote from Jim McNerney, who is the Chairman and CEO of the Boeing Company who served on the board at P&G when Mr. McDonald was the CEO of that company. Mr. McNerney described Mr. McDonald as an \u201coutstanding choice for this critically important position.\u201d He said the nominee\u2019s \u201cbusiness acumen coupled with his dedication and love of our nation\u2019s military and veteran community make him a truly great choice for the tough challenges we have at the VA.\u201d\nSo this is somebody who actually knows the business world well himself as he runs a large multinational company. He also had an opportunity to watch Mr. McDonald up close as he managed a large bureaucracy. And he believes that he is the right choice, in the same way that the President does, to lead the VA through the difficult challenges that they face right now.\nQ On another subject, Ahmed Abu Khatallah-- Congressman McCaul says the administration spent time building a case on Khatallah instead of arresting him as quickly as he was basically identified and located. Is that a fair criticism?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, in terms of prosecuting Mr. Khatallah, I\u2019d encourage you to check with the Department of Justice. What the President said the day after the attack on the American diplomatic outpost in Benghazi was that he was determined to use the resources of the United States government to bring to justice those who were responsible for perpetrating that violence and taking the lives of four Americans who were representing our interests overseas. You have seen in the successful mission to detain Abu Khatallah and bring him to justice here in the United States the President made good on that effort.\nNow, there are likely other people who are involved, and there continues to be work ongoing to bring additional people who were involved in that effort to justice.\nQ But it\u2019s taken the better part of two years to bring Khatallah to justice.\nMR. EARNEST: I think it\u2019s a pretty good indication that the United States of America, and certainly this President doesn\u2019t forget, and that this is something that we\u2019re focused on and determined to bring to justice those who are responsible for taking the lives of four brave Americans.\nQ Follow up on a couple of things. Let me start with the VA. And when you have investigations that show you pretty dramatically what\u2019s wrong you look, obviously, for someone who can answer those problems. What was it about someone, obviously McDonald in particular, with private sector experience as opposed to government or military management experience that this choice was made? Why private sector?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I think in this case what the President was looking for was somebody that had significant management experience. There\u2019s an opportunity to get some good management experience in government service, but there also is ample opportunity to get that kind of experience and be exposed to dealing with large-scale bureaucratic challenges in the private sector as well.\nQ But as Wendell pointed out, there are some very major differences between the way the public and the private sector operate.\nMR. EARNEST: There are. And the benefit of Mr. McDonald\u2019s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 is that he has both kinds of experience -- both in terms of his extensive private sector management experience, but also his experience serving in the military. This is somebody who understands how the military operates, and he\u2019s somebody who succeeded in the military. He graduated near the top of his class at West Point, he served for five years in the 82nd Airborne Division in the United States Army, and he\u2019s somebody who, even as he returned to the private sector, continued to be involved in military affairs. He\u2019s a lifetime member of the U.S. Army Ranger Association and the 75th Ranger Regiment Association. He\u2019s also a member of the Association of Graduates of West Point.\nSo this is somebody who despite -- or I guess alongside his significant private sector accomplishments is somebody who has remained engaged in supporting military families. And that\u2019s why -- it\u2019s that combination of skills and experience and interests that make him the right person for the job.\nQ Let me ask you about the challenges at the border, because the President has stated, including in his letter to Congress, a message to parents in Central America -- don\u2019t send your children here, it\u2019s dangerous, we\u2019re going to send them back. Advocates for these children have suggested that the White House misunderstands that these parents have done an analysis and that they believe that the situation in leaving them there, and the threat that is posed by organized crime in those countries against their children, is a greater threat than sending them to the border. Is it fair to say that the White House has misunderstood the motivations of those parents?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, we\u2019ve been pretty clear about our desire to try to address some of the problems that are making people feel increasingly desperate. There is ongoing work at the State Department and other relevant government agencies to work with these countries -- principally this is Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador -- to address the security situation in those countries. That is contributing significantly to the desperation that many people are feeling, and it\u2019s what makes them vulnerable to the misinformation that\u2019s being spread by these criminal syndicates.\nSo there is an effort to try to address this problem at its root. And the other thing that we have seen is it\u2019s not just immigration to this country that we\u2019ve seen spike, there are other countries in Central America, those that are more stable, that have also experienced a spike in children and adults traveling with children seeking to immigrate to those countries.\nSo this is a problem that is being felt throughout the region, and that is why we\u2019re trying to work cooperatively with countries in the region to try to mitigate the vulnerability that so many of these people are feeling.\nQ And can you answer a specific allegation that was made by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and I think has been echoed by some other advocacy organizations, that sending these children back is analogous to sending a child back into a burning building and locking the door?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, what this administration is doing is working closely with these host countries to also ensure that we can repatriate these children in the most humanitarian way possible.\nThe reason that we are focused on this problem is because we are concerned about the humanitarian situation that\u2019s been created. We\u2019re concerned about the wellbeing of these children. And there is a way for us to balance two imperatives -- one is to enforce the law, but also demonstrate the kinds of humanitarian values that allow our country to stand out from so many others in the international scene.\nSo that\u2019s what we\u2019re -- that\u2019s an effort that we\u2019re engaged in. It\u2019s not an easy one, but that is why we are seeking to ramp up facilities that are available here in this country to detain and house these kids when they are first apprehended along the border. It\u2019s why we are increasing the resources that are dedicated to these immigration courts to make sure that these children and the adults that have traveled with children have access to basic legal protections; that the process that they go through is subject to the rule of law and due process. And when it is determined that they do not have legal standing to remain in the country, we\u2019re working with the host country to make sure that we can find a safe and humanitarian way to repatriate them.\nSo again, these are complicated problems, but this administration is doing exactly what you would expect as we try to balance the need to both enforce the law, but also to treat people with basic respect for their rights as fellow human beings.\nQ Back to Iraq. Doesn\u2019t the influence -- the increasing involvement of powers like Russia and Iran, which are working elsewhere in the world to thwart U.S. foreign policy aspirations, make it less likely that Prime Minister Maliki will do what the U.S. wants and embrace an inclusive form of government?\nMR. EARNEST: Not necessarily. And the reason that I think I\u2019ve arrived at a different conclusion than the one that you\u2019ve set up is simply that it is not in the interest of Iran for there to be this sectarian strife, instability, these grotesque acts of violence and terrorism being perpetrated on their borders; that it\u2019s in the best interest of Iran for there to be a -- for them to have a stable neighbor.\nAnd the best way for Iraq to be stable and to confront the destabilizing threat that\u2019s posed by ISIL is for the political leadership in Iraq to come together and unite the country in the face of that threat. And by uniting the country and governing in an inclusive way, Iran can have the kind of stable neighbor on their border that they would like to have, that\u2019s in the best interest of their country.\nQ And just to follow up on the announcement last week about support for Syrian rebels, who does the administration now see any rebels trained by the U.S. as fighting? It is still to combat President Assad and overthrow him, or is now the main focus going after these ISIL forces inside Syria?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, what we would like to do and the way that we have described the goal of this assistance that\u2019s being provided to the moderate opposition is to bolster their efforts to defeat the Assad regime. And, again, the reason for that is that the Assad regime has lost its legitimacy to rule because it has perpetrated terrible acts of violence against the Syrian people.\nSo by bolstering the capability and the stature of the moderate elements of the Syrian opposition, we can have the effect of accomplishing both goals, which is enhancing their ability to defeat the Assad regime, or at least to withstand the terrible violence of the Assad regime, and make it more difficult for extremist elements to capitalize on the instability in that country.\nSo this is complicated work. It\u2019s why we\u2019re working closely with our other partners in the region to try to accomplish it. The President for some time has been concerned that the lawlessness and violence that we\u2019ve seen in Syria does have a destabilizing, dangerous impact on the broader region, and that is what we\u2019re seeing in Iraq right now. And the way to address that, in our view, is to bolster the moderate opposition, provide them additional assistance, and hopefully get to a place where we can reach a diplomatic or a political solution that would result in Assad leaving power and finally bringing some stability to that country.\nViqueira.\nQ Thank you. About two, three, four weeks ago in Brussels at the G7, the President said Russia has two, three, four weeks to stop doing what it\u2019s doing or the sanctions are going to go forward, the sectoral sanctions, whether they be a sledgehammer or a scalpel or whatever it is now -- the adjective that we\u2019re using. On Friday, you reiterated a June 30th deadline for Russia to do several things; it was four things: turn over border checkpoints, initiate a ceasefire, release OSCE prisoners. So here we are, it\u2019s June 30th, it\u2019s four weeks after the President laid down that marker. Are sanctions ready to go forward against Russia because of Ukraine?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, Mike, what we want to see is a diplomatic and peaceful resolution to the crisis. And so we support ongoing efforts such as President Poroshenko\u2019s peace plan, the OSCE-facilitated negotiations, and the high-level talks among Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia. So there are ongoing discussions about how to finally deescalate the conflict in Ukraine and we\u2019re supportive of those efforts. We have always said, though, that if Russia doesn\u2019t use the influence that they have in eastern Ukraine for a constructive purpose, that we\u2019re prepared to act in concert with our allies to further isolate President Putin and Russia from the international community.\nQ So there\u2019s no hard deadline? Today is not a hard deadline, or the four weeks that the President enunciated at the G7 is not a hard deadline?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I think what the President enunciated at the G7 was a desire for the member European Union countries, the EC countries, to come together at the meeting that they had at the end of last week to -- on their agenda for business during that meeting was to further discuss the situation in Ukraine and what action might be necessary among European countries to further press for de-escalation of that conflict.\nSo we remain in close touch with world leaders who I\u2019ve read out a number of phone calls that the President had with world leaders last week to talk about the situation. And we remain prepared to act, if necessary, to further isolate Russia. We\u2019ve been very clear about what we\u2019d like to see Russia do, which is to stop providing weapons and materiel to separatists, and to encourage those separatists to lay down the weapons that they do have and abide by the ceasefire agreement that\u2019s floated by President Poroshenko.\nQ And no deadline?\nMR. EARNEST: Go ahead, Mike.\nQ Talks continue. Is there a concern that Russia and Vladimir Putin are doing just enough to keep Europeans -- reluctant Europeans -- Europeans reluctant to go forward with sanctions satisfied or at least provide them with enough argument against the United States, who is pushing them in that direction? In other words, Vladimir Putin is making all the right moves, but just enough of those moves to divide Western allies on the question of sanctions.\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I think the way that I would describe it is the way that I did last week, which is that we welcome some of the reassuring comments that have been made by President Putin. There were also some important symbolic actions that were taken. The Duma for example, as I recall, decided to pull back authorization to use military force in Ukraine by the Russian military. Those were important steps. But what we\u2019re looking at, most importantly, are tangible actions taken by President Putin and Russia. And we are still in a situation where those actions do not indicate a seriousness of purpose when it comes to deescalating the situation in eastern Ukraine, and that\u2019s what continues to leave Russia at risk of facing additional steps that could further isolate them in the international community and have a negative impact on their economy.\nGo ahead, Mara.\nQ You\u2019re leaving the impression that the deadline, it\u2019s kind of like the Syrian red line -- he didn\u2019t really mean that they had to --\nMR. EARNEST: I obviously disagree with that assessment.\nQ Yes, I know, but I\u2019m confused here because before he said they have a time period where they need to do these things. You just said they haven\u2019t really done them because you haven\u2019t seen actions, you\u2019ve only seen these symbolic moves, and that we\u2019re just -- they\u2019re still at risk of sanctions and we\u2019re just talking about it, but there\u2019s no deadline for when those sanctions would go into place?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I think you\u2019re mixing up a couple of different things here. There\u2019s one thing that we -- or there are two things that we have long asked the Russians to do, which is stop providing weapons and materiel to the separatists in eastern Ukraine, and to use -- and for Russia to use their influence in eastern Ukraine to encourage the separatists to abide by the ceasefire. So those are two long-running things that we have asked them to do.\nQ That they haven\u2019t done yet.\nMR. EARNEST: We have not seen to our satisfaction evidence that that\u2019s something that they\u2019re serious about pursuing. And that's a source of some disappointment, and it is why Russia remains at risk of facing additional economic costs when it comes to the situation.\nThat's why there are regular conversations between this President and our allies in Europe about additional sanctions that could be in place. But again, we\u2019re watching the actions of the Russians, and we will make an assessment about whether additional sanctions are required based on the course that's pursued by President Putin.\nQ Well, what was the \u201ctwo, to three, to four weeks\u201d statement meant to mean?\nMR. EARNEST: It was meant to mean that there would be an additional conversation at this meeting of European allies in Europe last week to discuss, again, the way that the international community will confront President Putin in Russia and their destabilizing actions in Ukraine.\nQ But doesn't that put you at risk of looking completely toothless and threatening something that turns out not to be real?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I don't think --\nQ I mean, if you put timelines on --\nMR. EARNEST: I\u2019m not standing up here making threats. I think I\u2019m merely observing what happens to be the current United States policy and the policy that's been adopted by many of our allies, which is that we have already put in place some economic costs that have been borne by Russia as a result of the actions that have already -- that they\u2019ve already perpetrated in Ukraine. And there are additional steps that we could take if Russia doesn't decide to take the kinds of concrete actions that are required to deescalate the conflict there. That's simply our policy. That's not a threat. That is a statement of fact.\nQ There\u2019s no -- it sounds like there\u2019s always additional actions that we could take. The President gave some sense of urgency that we -- that in a couple weeks if they didn't do certain things, we would take those actions.\nMR. EARNEST: I think, Mara, the point is if Russia were to follow through on preventing weapons and materiel from flowing to the separatists, and if Russia were to step forward and actually use their influence in eastern Ukraine to encourage those separatists to abide by the ceasefire, then we\u2019d be in a situation where those additional costs are less likely.\nQ Right, but even if they don't do these things, these costs aren\u2019t necessarily likely. Sanctions aren\u2019t --\nMR. EARNEST: Well, I don\u2019t know what your basis is for saying that.\nQ Based on the evidence so far.\nQ Yes, yes -- it sounds like you\u2019re saying that they don't do the things you want them to do, there\u2019s no guarantee they're going to be punished.\nMR. EARNEST: Well, again, I think that's different than what I\u2019m saying. What I\u2019m saying is that if they continue to take the actions that we have urged them not to do, that they are at risk, that -- that's our policy.\nSo, Zeke, I\u2019ll give you the last one.\nQ Thank you. Got a couple for you. First off, in the era of the pen and the phone, why is the President calling on Congress to act so quickly here instead of applying the same regulatory fix that was used for nonprofits here? Clearly, when you said before that this decision jeopardizes the health of women, why the focus on Congress right away?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, because ultimately what the Supreme Court was ruling on was they were adjudicating a statute that was passed by the House, passed by the Senate and signed into law by the President, right? So this is what was something -- this is something a little bit different than what we saw from previous Supreme Court decisions that were based solely on executive actions that were taken by the President.\nSo the Supreme Court was ruling on the application of a specific law that was passed by Congress, so what we\u2019d like is for Congress to take action to pass another law that would address this problem.\nNow, I guess I\u2019ll make clear that you are evincing some skepticism about Congress\u2019s ability to act quickly to solve commonsense problems.\nQ Was I?\nMR. EARNEST: Well, maybe I\u2019m evincing that disposition. So what I\u2019ll say is that as we assess the impact of this decision, we\u2019ll consider whether or not there is a range of other options that may be available that don't require legislative action.\nQ As for a timeline on that review when the President -- has the President asked the Counsel\u2019s Office to look at this -- before the midterms he\u2019ll be looking at that?\nMR. EARNEST: I don't have a timeline to lay out. I don't have a timeline to lay out.\nQ And also, finally, on a very different note, apparently a few minutes ago the Israeli government announced that they have discovered the bodies of the three missing Israeli teenagers, including one of them an American citizen. I was wondering -- not to put you on the spot -- but if you have any -- if there are any discussions you can read out between the American government and the Israeli government or any quick reaction that you might have on the news.\nMR. EARNEST: Well, we obviously condemn in the strongest possible terms violence that takes the lives of innocent civilians. But I don't want to react any further without having a chance to take a look at those reports myself. And we\u2019ll get you a reaction that reflects those reports later today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 65161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://obits.staradvertiser.com/2013/01/25/william-h-yim/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:25Z", "digest": "sha1:TYXA3MY2UMMKN55H66RWBSRJIPFHI7EF", "length": 890, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "obits.staradvertiser.com", "title": "William H. Yim | Honolulu Hawaii Obituaries - Hawaii Newspaper Obituaries", "raw_content": "William H. Yim\nWILLIAM H. YIM Passed away in November 2012, at age 89. Bill was born in 1923 in Honolulu to Harry and Sau Ung Loo Yim. He graduated from St. Louis High School, the University of Hawaii and received a law degree from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he met his beloved wife, Tomi. Throughout a long career as an attorney, Bill worked for the State Legislature as Senate Clerk, the City & County of Honolulu and State of Hawaii Attorney General. Upon retirement from the U.S. Social Security Administration as an administrative law judge, he returned to private practice until his death. In work and in life, Bill valued excellence, acts of kindness, fairness and integrity. He is survived by wife, Tomi, children Susan Griffin, Harry (Val) and John Yim, sisters Dorothy Chang and Gertrude Chock, and many nieces and nephews. Private services were held.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 95.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ocpe.mcw.edu/wheaton-franciscan-healthcare-st-francis-hospital-breast-tumor-board-2015/content/15091-st-francis-breast-tumor-board-december-9-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FJLLEW7G5A6YKGQFV7WRSTC3MA7MPNCF", "length": 100, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ocpe.mcw.edu", "title": "15091 St. Francis Breast Tumor Board December 9, 2015 | Medical College of Wisconsin", "raw_content": "15091 St. Francis Breast Tumor Board December 9, 2015\nWednesday, December 9, 2015 - 8:00am to 9:00am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 91.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://offbeatbride.com/propose-to-your-boyfriend/comment-page-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KRGVMKFZXJTPIMBIBJD5BADENZBLTJBX", "length": 6636, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "offbeatbride.com", "title": "Proposing Part 1: Why you should propose to your boyfriend | Offbeat Bride", "raw_content": "Proposing Part 1: Why you should propose to your boyfriend\nJanuary 5 2009 | Ariel\tarielmstallings\nWill You Marry Me Vintage Silverware Hand Stamped Sugar Spoon by AnvilDesigns\nOne of the things I learned from my reader survey was how many of you identified yourselves as \"ladies in waiting,\" i.e. women biding their time until their boyfriends propose. Well, girls: STOP WAITING! If you're into questioning traditions, start by questioning the very first assumption about weddings: that a woman's role is waiting for a man to pick her.\nI know: it's scary right? You're thinking, \"What if he says no?\" Well, no one said taking your life by the reins would be easy, and the anxieties and fears of rejection that come up around proposing give you great insight into some of the cultural pressures men traditionally experience.\nProposing is definitely scary, and I'm speaking from personal experience here. As those of you who've read my book know, I actually proposed to Andreas \u2026\nOn our third anniversary, we went to this pottery painting place. As I'd planned, I painted a big plate with a picture of us holding hands. (Yes, we were naked in the painting. I like painting butts!)\nAbove the little people, I painted the words \"Psst: will you marry me?\" Then I put my grandmother's diamond wedding ring onto the plate and slid it across the table to Andreas.\nHe looked at the plate. He looked up at me.\nI looked at him. Nothing happened.\n\"\u2026Well, will you?\" I said.\n\"Of course!\" he said, and I exhaled in relief.\n\"\u2026But you don't mean, like, IMMEDIATELY, right?\" he said. \"I mean, of course we're spending the rest of our lives together. But there's no rush, right?\"\n\"Er, I guess not\u2026\" I said.\n\"Awesome!\" he said. \"I love you!\" And then he went back to painting.\nI sat and freaked out a bit, but nothing had really changed: we were still just as committed and someday we would get married. Just not quite yet, evidently.\n\"No rush,\" in our case, meant getting married three years later.\nGrab the traditional institution of marriage by the balls and tell it that you're doing this on your terms and in your own way.\nThis is all to say that I know that it's scary and intimidating and hard. (It should be noted that Andreas has expressed feeling sort of bad for how he handled the proposal. I mean, it all worked out ok, but it wasn't the stuff of swelling violins and magical twinkly lights.)\nOf course not all men want to be proposed to, and you know your boyfriend best \u2026 I'm thinking that chances are good that if he loves you for being a sassy independently-minded offbeat girlfriend, he's the kind of guy who would appreciate tipping an old tradition on its ear.\nWhen you propose to your boyfriend, you're taking a huge first step toward grabbing the traditional institution of marriage by the balls and telling it that you're doing this on your terms and in your own way. It's an exercise in taking ownership of your life and your journey through it. It's your way of saying, \"I'm not going to drop hints to get what I want \u2014 I'm going to apply that energy to building the courage to do it myself.\" This isn't just about proposals. It's about knowing what you want and feeling strong enough in yourself to just go get it.\nRelated Post Proposing Part 2: How to propose to your boyfriend\nLast week's Why you should propose to your boyfriend post was a big hit, so I'm continuing on with Part 2: HOW to propose to... Read more\nThis isn't to say that it's not a wonderful thing when men propose. Ideally, any proposal is the result of many conversations about what marriage means to both you, why you're committed to each other, etc. It should never really be \"popping the question.\"\nBut if you've had conversations about commitment and you're ready to get married \u2014 STOP WAITING!\nRead part 2: How to propose to your boyfriend\nNaomi & Casey's punk rock Iowa wedding\nPatricia & Christiaan's Intimate Outdoor Family Fun-Day Wedding\nAlexis 8:59 am on April 16, 2016\nI proposed to my fiance on Christmas Eve \ud83d\ude42 We've only been together a little over a year but I've never been more certain about anything in my life, and I knew he was the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. When we went over to his parents' house for dinner one night, I took his mom aside and asked her for permission, showing her the ring I'd chosen and bought earlier that week. Asking her for permission to marry her son was almost more terrifying than asking the man himself to marry me!\nThe staff in the jewelry store went apeshit and started cheering me when they found out what I was in there for! It was the first ring I looked at, in the first store I went to, and I knew it was the one I wanted to give him but I still made myself go look in every other jewelry store I could find in that mall before I made my decision. I didn't find another ring that even came close to the first one.\nIn Christmas Eve morning I made up a tasty stew in the crockpot, picked up some of his favorite beer and some wine for me on my way home from work, and we watched the Griswold Family Christmas movie and The Grinch. At the end of the Griswold movie I said I wanted to give him his present that night instead of tomorrow with the family. He opened it up (we were sitting on the couch) and said \"oh my god that's so nice\u2026.WAIT WHAT KIND OF RING IS THIS, YES YES YES\" and then cue copious amounts of water-buffalo noises and tears from me.\nThe most terrifying, exhilerating, wonderful thing I have ever done. AND the ring fit perfectly. On Boxing Day we went out and found a ring for me, and we're getting married April 22 \ud83d\ude42\nMimi81 10:32 am on May 22, 2017\nHello everyone! It's just amazing to know about all experience with the proposing a guy subject. I read so many of your positive stories and experiences and smiled while I was reading most of them, felt so happy for you guys. It's something I was thinking for a while for myself so far, and finding this site and reading this article all together with comments gave me such a support in same idea. Recently I was trying to have a nice talk with my bf and proposed him idea of us marrying, but turned out into a fight, which was heartbreaker for me. I just received the answer that I just want to control everything and that he's not ready for marriage. I was completely shocked since I never presented my proposal idea as a drama and obligation, I said it really nicely and got just gaslight attitude which broke me so badly\u2026 I simply don't feel loved even he kept telling me after fight that I just should enjoy his love and how I'm blind to see that he loves me.. it's just, crazy guys, don't know what to think..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 10640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://olmcwentyliturgy.org/2007/01/10/14107-blessing-ourselves-with-holy-water/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ZM35SXXBU6EC7UU54Z7ZITUV2SKT4MO4", "length": 1855, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "olmcwentyliturgy.org", "title": "14/1/07 \u2013 Blessing Ourselves with Holy Water \u2013 Liturgy | Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Wentworthville", "raw_content": "Celebrating Mass, Liturgical Symbols\n14/1/07 \u2013 Blessing Ourselves with Holy Water\nIf you\u2019re reading this article in Carmel, then you\u2019ve more than likely picked up the parish bulletin as you\u2019ve come into the church. It\u2019s probably one of the things you do every Sunday as you come in. It\u2019s part of your little ritual of making your way to Mass.\nSomething else you hopefully do as you enter the church is blessing yourself with holy water. Sometimes we dip our hand into the stoup and make the sign of the cross almost without thinking because it\u2019s become a habit. But why do we do it?\nIn Easter Vigils past, some parishioners have looked curiously at newly blessed water being taken from the baptismal font and being poured into the holy water stoups at the doors. Yet this is exactly what should happen, for our blessing as we enter and leave the church is to remind us of our baptism.Each of us who will approach the altar later in this Mass to share in communion have that in common. The Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy from Vatican II reminds us that celebrating Mass is our right and duty as baptised Catholics (article 14).\nThis is just one reason why more recently built or renovated churches (St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral being one example) often have their baptismal fonts at the main entrance. There are no holy water stoups because people bless themselves with water directly from the font.It makes the reason for this blessing ritual of ours far more obvious.\nSo take the time to think about what you do as you enter the church.Bless yourself with the water through which you became a Catholic.Remind yourself that all that we do is done in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Bless your children and grandchildren as they enter and leave with you.\nPrevious Previous post: Epiphany \u2013 7/1/06\nNext Next post: 21/1/07 \u2013 Where to Sit?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://omhomes.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:34Z", "digest": "sha1:EWTYU3N46UUKXB55LSB4LIDL6KCIDCP3", "length": 1512, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "omhomes.com", "title": "Licensed Construction Contractor in Rogers, AR", "raw_content": "The Construction Company You Can Always Rely On\nOzark Mountain Homes, Inc. has been building and renovating homes in Northwest Arkansas since 2003. John Phillips brings over 30 years of local, hands-on, construction experience to each new home. You can count on us to build you a house that meets your specific requirements and surpasses your expectations.\nJohn R. Phillips, President\nJohn is a licensed contractor who has more than 30 years of professional experience in Northwest Arkansas and surrounding areas. He values personal direction, prefers being present at the job site, and is committed to maintaining the highest integrity in everything he does. You can trust him to communicate with you throughout the project so that you know the progress of every phase. Customer service is his specialty.\nBrenda Knox, Vice President\nBrenda is a detail-oriented professional with more than 25 years of experience in bookkeeping and insurance claims. She is well-versed in cost management and budgeting. She can help create spreadsheets with your cost projections on a timeline basis. You can also rely on her to provide you with design selection and interior design assistance at no extra cost.\nOur company is committed to building high-quality, energy-efficient homes. We also strive to give you personal attention from the beginning of the process to the very end. Whether you are having a new residence built, adding to an existing structure, or just remodeling, our team will guide you every step of the way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 221.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://openjurist.org/171/f3d/612/heinen-v-brewer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VV4KPFEWPI2IFIWARTOJITEX573OVPWQ", "length": 7560, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "openjurist.org", "title": "171 F3d 612 Heinen v. Brewer | OpenJurist", "raw_content": "171 F. 3d 612 - Heinen v. Brewer\n171 F3d 612 Heinen v. Brewer\nHerbert HEINEN, Appellant,\nKim Tyler BREWER; City of Jefferson City, Appellees.\nMichael S. Shipley, Liberty, MO, argued, for Appellant.\nRobert P. Sass, St. Louis, MO, argued (John J. Pawloski, St. Louis, MO, on the brief), for Appellees.\nBefore: McMILLIAN, WOLLMAN, and HANSEN, Circuit Judges.\nHerbert Heinen appeals from the district court's1 grant of summary judgment in favor of Chief of Police Kim Tyler Brewer and the city of Jefferson City, Missouri (Defendants), in this 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 1983 lawsuit. We affirm.\nHeinen worked for the Jefferson City Police Department from August of 1978 to October of 1996. During this time, he attained the rank of lieutenant and was considered a merit system employee.\nThe events leading to Heinen's termination began in August 1996, when Brewer attempted to discuss with Heinen the purchase of new police badges. Heinen became upset and used profanity in response to Brewer's inquiry. As a result of Heinen's confrontational conduct, he received a written reprimand that advised that \"any further violations of similar nature [could] be cause for a more severe disciplinary action.\" Heinen did not contest the reprimand. Instead, he acknowledged the inappropriateness of his actions and apologized.\nHeinen subsequently received notice of a predisciplinary hearing to be held on September 13, 1996. The notice accused him of violating the rules and regulations relating to loyalty, insubordination, and inappropriate conduct. At the hearing, Heinen was shown an anonymous letter that was highly critical of Brewer. Heinen denied any involvement with the letter and indicated that he was unfamiliar with its contents. On September 16, 1996, Brewer privately confronted Heinen about the letter. Although Heinen again denied having any knowledge of it, he later admitted knowing that his wife was responsible for writing and distributing the letter.\nBrewer decided to discipline Heinen by demoting him to the rank of sergeant and reducing his pay accordingly. Under the proposed disciplinary plan, Heinen would have been eligible for reinstatement after six months. Heinen refused to accept the proposed disciplinary measures. On October 2, 1996, Heinen was told to surrender his badge, identification card, and weapon, and to leave his job for two days.\nDuring the morning of October 4, 1996, Brewer called Heinen and advised him that a meeting would take place that afternoon concerning Heinen's employment. During the meeting, Brewer gave Heinen three documents entitled \"Notice,\" dated October 4, 1996, and signed by Brewer. The first document notified Heinen that no disciplinary action would be taken pursuant to the notice of September 13, 1996. After reading this document to Heinen, Brewer asked Heinen if he had any questions, to which Heinen responded in the negative. Brewer then handed Heinen the second document, which stated that the City had the right to discharge employees at will and that Heinen would have an opportunity to present his side of the story by appearing at a meeting on October 4, 1996, or by delivering written information. After Heinen had read the document, Brewer asked him if he had anything to say or to offer. Heinen responded by asking about his right to a pretermination hearing, to which Brewer replied by saying that Heinen had the right to talk about his termination \"right now.\" Brewer then handed Heinen the third document, along with his final paycheck. This document informed Heinen that he had been terminated \"under the City's management rights and its ability to terminate an employee at will.\" After reading the third document, Heinen asked when the hearing was to be held. The City Administrator replied, \"You're in it.\" Heinen was then instructed to remove his personal items from his locker.\nHeinen commenced this lawsuit on October 9, 1996, claiming that he had been deprived of due process in connection with his termination. His termination was rescinded on October 17, 1996, and he was immediately reinstated as a lieutenant with the police force. Shortly after returning to work that day, Heinen was presented with another notice of proposed disciplinary action, which listed several alleged violations of department policies. A pretermination hearing was held on October 22, 1996, which Heinen attended and with respect to which he filed a written response. He was terminated on October 25, 1996, for dishonesty, disloyalty, and violation of department policies.\nFollowing a hearing on December 2, 1996, the Police Personnel Board of Jefferson City voted to uphold the termination. Heinen appealed that decision to the Circuit Court of Cole County, which affirmed the board's decision. Heinen appealed that decision to the Missouri Court of Appeals, which on July 7, 1998, remanded the case for entry of new findings of fact and conclusions of law.\nWe review a grant of summary judgment de novo. See Post v. W.R. Harper, 980 F.2d 491, 493 (8th Cir.1992). We apply the same standard as the district court: whether the record, when viewed in the light most favorable to the nonmoving party, shows that there is no genuine issue as to a material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. Id.; Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-23, 106 S.Ct. 2548, 91 L.Ed.2d 265 (1986); Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(c).\nThe parties agree that Heinen's status as a merit employee created a property interest in his job that entitled him to due process as a condition precedent to any deprivation of that interest. See Post, 980 F.2d at 493. The question remains what process Heinen was due. See Cleveland Bd. of Educ. v. Loudermill, 470 U.S. 532, 541, 105 S.Ct. 1487, 84 L.Ed.2d 494 (1985).\nThe essential requirements of procedural due process are notice and the opportunity to respond before being discharged. See Loudermill, 470 U.S. at 546, 105 S.Ct. 1487. \"Before a public employee may be terminated, a pretermination hearing must be provided.\" Demming v. Housing & Redev. Auth. of Duluth, Minnesota, 66 F.3d 950, 953 (8th Cir.1995) (citing Loudermill, 470 U.S. at 541, 105 S.Ct. 1487). The pretermination hearing serves as an initial check against mistaken terminations. See Loudermill, 470 U.S. at 545, 105 S.Ct. 1487. \"The tenured public employee is entitled to oral or written notice of the employer's evidence, and an opportunity to present his side of the story.\" See id. at 546, 105 S.Ct. 1487. As to the hearing requirement, the Supreme Court stated:\nThe foregoing considerations indicate that the pretermination \"hearing,\" though necessary, need not be elaborate. We have pointed out that \"the formality and procedural requisites for the hearing can vary, depending upon the importance of the interests involved and the nature of the subsequent proceedings.\" In general, \"something less\" than a full evidentiary hearing is sufficient prior to adverse administrative action.\nAlthough the October 4 proceedings constituted what might well be characterized as a bare-bones approach to a predeprivation hearing, we conclude that they satisfied the minimal requirements set forth in Loudermill, for as we have noted, the pretermination hearing need not be a formal, adversary one. See Demming, 66 F.3d at 953. In any event, Heinen's reinstatement, coupled with the October 22, 1996, proceedings, constituted an adequate remedy for any pre-hearing deprivation that he may have suffered.\nThe Honorable William A. 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Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1994Management, 1994)\nResearch emphasises that effective and efficient end-user training is a vital component of the successful utilization of computer technology and that individual differences (e.g., learning styles, cognitive reasoning ...\nJohn Clark : transformation and the void : with a catalogue raisonn\u00e9 \ufeff\nPreuss, Rosemary J.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1994Arts and ScienceSchool of Fine Arts, 1994)\nThe intent of the thesis is twofold: interpretive and documentary. Volume 1 focuses on the work John Clark considered to be his mature oeuvre. The general structure is chronological, with the first three chapters devoted ...\nCharacteristics of phosphatidate phosphatase from developing seeds and microspore-derived cultures of oilseed rape \ufeff\nKocsis, Michael G.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1994Arts and ScienceDepartment of Chemistry, 1994)\nPhosphatidate phosphatase (PAP. EC 3.1.3.4) was charaterized from developing seeds and microspore-derived (MD) cultures of oilseed rape. In studies with homogenate from developing seeds (Brassica napus L. cv Westar) the ...\nCognitive behavior of rats with thalamic lesions \ufeff\nTomie, Jo-Anne B.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1994Arts and ScienceDepartment of Pyschology, 1994)\nThe objective of this thesis was to test the idea that medial thalamic nuclei are part of a \"memory circuit\" in the brain. Rats received lesions of the anterior (ANT) or medial dorsal (MD) thalamic nuclei and were tested ...\nThe eighth day : a novel with critical commentary \ufeff\nGalbraith, Evelyn Van; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1994Arts and ScienceDepartment of English, 1994)\nThis thesis contains two parts: a novel, The Eighth Day and its critical commentary. The novel sets the story of Olivia, a contemporary protagonist, into the Sumerian myth of Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth. Like Inanna, ...\nContested heritage : an analysis of the discourse on The spirit sings \ufeff\nArchibald, Samantha L.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science , 1995Arts and ScienceDepartment of Native American Studies, 1995)\nThis thesis contributes to the knowledge of museology, anthropology and Native American studies. It is an analysis of the discourse that surrounded The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada's First Peoples, an ...\nThe strategic planning process of agricultural niche marketers : a case study approach \ufeff\nCuthbert, Ronald Hugh; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1995Arts and ScienceDepartment of Geography, 1995)\nThis study is based on the premise that it is important to understand how niche marketers manage the process of farm level adaptive change. 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Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1995Arts and ScienceDepartment of Biological Sciences, 1995)\nThe 16S/23S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) intergenic space (IGS) regions from pathogenic and non-pathogenic species (spp.) of Listeria were characterized by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing. DNA sequencing ...\nGender and Discourse on an Academic Internet Community \ufeff\nBeaulieu, Hendrika H.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1995Arts and ScienceDepartment of Anthropology, 1995)\nDo men and women write differently and if so, do these stylistic differences represent differing world \\iews and/or do they indicate divergent decisions that are made by the gendered individual with respect to the ...\nAdolescent religious disposition in Canada : an exploratory sociological analysis \ufeff\nPenner, James Allan; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1995Arts and ScienceDepartment of Sociology, 1995)\nTaking as a given the general decline of organized religion in Canada, this thesis attempts to document the present lack of commitment towards organized religion among adolescents. Four questions are explored: (1) how ...\nA software size estimation tool: Hellerman's complexity measure \ufeff\nLermer, Toby; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1995Arts and ScienceDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, 1995)\nEvaluating a mobile crisis intervention program \ufeff\nSander, Luke G.; University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science (Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Arts and Science, 1996Arts and ScienceDepartment of Pyschology, 1996)\nThere are four main components in this thesis: a literature review of program evaluation, a description and discussion of the current status of program evaluation in the crisis intervention literature, results and discussion ...\nPolygon reconstruction from visibility information \ufeff\nJackson, LillAnne Elaine; University of Lethbridge. 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The teachers take it in turn to come to the meetings, to give us their views and ideas\nOur common purpose is to raise extra money to be spent in School for the benefit of all our children, whilst enjoying ourselves too. We meet only when we need to discuss forthcoming events, so there are no regular commitments. We make the meetings to suit ourselves and even if you could just make an occasional meeting, everyone is welcome to sit in and add to our discussions.\nWe have a varied fund raising calendar each year with our biggest activities being the Summer BBQ and the Orston Grand Sale Day. Our children\u2019s discos are a brilliant way for our families to have a fun evening together,we organise Spring and Autumn Plant Sales and there is usually a Christmas Stocking Filler idea, created by the pupils which we sell to support our cause.\nThe Association has been proud to donate substantial sums of money to the school and this year has been no exception. We may be a small rural school but we think big and want the best opportunities for our children! Therefore,\na.. \u00a3500 has raised and used towards providing team sports kits so that when our pupils take to the field/pitch/court, they are wearing matching kit (that fits!), gives them a sense of pride, and hopefully brings them success!\nb.. Our school productions are \u201csell outs\u201d, pupils\u2019 performances are always a highlight of our school year and we have invested in the region of \u00a32000 to provide new curtains for the main hall to enhance the look and feel of our function area.\nc.. One of our most significant achievements has been to donate \u00a35000 towards the provision of a new library in school.. There is still a huge amount of work to be done on this project and we would like to be able to support it with another \u00a34000 this year and our profits from the BBQ will go directly to this project.\nWe will be supporting the PGL visit by providing funds for the transport which will be around \u00a3240.\nAt the moment we have a strong and effective committee, although obviously this changes each year as children move on, so we rely on new faces coming to join us. We produce regular letters telling you of forthcoming events. 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The Arnold Mills Four Miler takes place in the small town of Cumberland, Rhode Island every fourth of July. It\u2019s simple, it\u2019s well run, and it\u2019s close enough to my parents\u2019 house, where I was visiting. I ran this race in 2007 and again in 2012, and it\u2019s always fun to see where you stack up against your younger self on the same course. In 2007 I made the mistake of going out way too fast and my whole race suffered for it. Last year I ran this race in the rain, four months post-partum. Both times, my average pace was around 8:00 min/mile. I figured I could count on a major PR this time around. I figured wrong.\nAlthough I had executed a few quality workouts in the weeks leading up to the race, and my legs were feeling fresh the day before, race day brought temps in the upper 80\u2019s, sunny skies, and 85% humidity. And that was at 7am. The race didn\u2019t start until 9. I went through my standard warm-up and knew that I wasn\u2019t going to see the time I was hoping for (30 minutes or less), and that I had to put my expectations aside, and just run as hard as I could. Also, I made a landmark decision to ditch my short-sleeve technical t-shirt. It was one of my heavier weight shirts, which I\u2019d never noticed before. But when the air feels like quicksand, you notice these things.\nDuring my warm-up, I pulled my shirt up to expose my belly to the sticky air every 30 seconds or so and asked myself \u201cIs my belly cooler now?\u201d Even though I wanted very badly to believe it didn\u2019t matter one way or the other, it did. So that\u2019s how, for the first time in my post-baby life, I ended up running in public in just a sports bra and shorts. It was unfortunate that the bra I\u2019d picked that morning was mint green and not a nipple camouflaging dark purple or gray, but it was fortunate that I didn\u2019t bump into anyone who looked even vaguely familiar.\nDuring the first mile, I stole glances at my Garmin every so often, and every time I looked down, I saw numbers I didn\u2019t like. I was aiming to start out at about a 7:30 pace and descend from there, but I could hardly hold a 7:45 pace. Meanwhile, my breathing was more labored than I thought it should be this early in the race. The second mile brought more of the same, except this time I wasn\u2019t looking at my Garmin too much. Miles three and four were punctuated by sprinklers and hoses set to mist, courtesy of the friendly locals who lived along the course. Normally, being sprayed with random water while I\u2019m trying to run just annoys me, but on this course, where the heat threatened to melt me into the asphalt, the sprinklers could have been showering me with crisp hundred dollar bills and diamond earrings, it felt so good.\nThe final 800 meters or so found me competing against a ten year old boy. When he started to flag, I encouraged him. Normally I would have said \u201ceat my dust\u201d in my head to my competitor, but normally my competition isn\u2019t an entire head shorter than me. Ultimately, I did come in ahead of him, but not by much.\nMy time was 30:46, which is a 7:41 pace. I would have expected to go faster, considering I recently ran a ten miler at altitude in about an eight minute pace, but under the circumstances, I know I put in a good effort. 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The final project in metal fabrication consists of precise drawing measurements and installation. It is surprising that the raw material is just metal. It is however processed to make it into a usable material in the form of a rod, bar or metal sheet. Nowadays there is a new advancement in methods and tools. Invention of the computer has made it possible to program and design the face of metalworking.\nSkill is necessary for choosing the best metal for different jobs. Architects and designers like to brand their work in a unique way. Objects that use metal give them an opportunity to do so. Metal fabrications can come in a variety of materials such as copper, stainless steel, aluminum, and brass. Steel is the most preferred because it is strong when making objects that have a lot of weight. Aluminum has aesthetic properties because it can be colored. Many things around us such as buses, airplanes, and car bodies are made of metal fabrication. Metal fabrication can be seen to be durable especially when you see iron bridges that are still standing to date. Without it the modern world would not be appealing as it is today. Metal fabrication deals with cutting and combining different metals to come up with a structure that you like. This means it can be customized to fit certain specifications. Metal fabrication is used to construct ships and submarines, later they are coated to make them durable when they come in contact with water. If metals are taken care of, they can endure different conditions. Metals used to make cars are of high quality. They keep occupants safe in case of car rolls and has been known to save lives. Agricultural tools such as ploughs and modern homes are built to last. They can also be customized to fit client\u2019s specifications.\nIf you are looking for a metal fabrication company it is good to consider how long the company has been in the business. Ask what kind of projects they have done. 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In Atlanta at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games she proved it by leading her team to Team Gold in front of 80,000 screaming fans in Athens, Georgia. Never in history had so many spectators come out to watch a women\u2019s sporting event. The Games highlighted female athletes like no other time in modern history and Mia emerged as one of the Game\u2019s true examples for people of all ages who have a dream and go for it. The 1999 Women\u2019s World Cup, where the USA took home the championship in front of 40 million viewers in this country alone, sold over 650,000 tickets, including sellouts at Giants Stadium and the Rose Bowl. There is no stopping women\u2019s soccer and Mia\u2019s enormous impact, both on and off the field.\nMia played collegiately at UNC and led her team to four consecutive NCAA championships. Her awards and accomplishments only tell part of the story of this remarkable athlete she gives much of her precious free time to charitable causes and strives, in anything she does, to promote women\u2019s athletics, the sport of soccer, and a feeling of confidence and sense of purpose in young people.\nMia was the youngest player ever to play for our National Team (age 15) and retired in 2004 after 17 years, 2 World Championships, and 2 Olympic Gold medals. Her records in appearances and goals, MVP awards and overall performance put her at the top of the sport. In April of 1999, Nike named the largest building on its corporate campus after Mia.\nHaving seen the enormous support her and her teammates received at the \u201996 and \u201900 Games, Mia became a founding member of the Women\u2019s United Soccer Association and led the Washington Freedom to the Founder\u2019s Cup. 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All of these individuals have what is known as [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 5613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pmworldjournal.net/21st-global-project-management-symposium-to-be-2-3-december-2013-in-new-delhi-india/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:2HL7T77JUINU5CFEMBLGSY5CJJ5UW5A4", "length": 2817, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "pmworldjournal.net", "title": "21st Global Project Management Symposium to be 2-3 December 2013 in New Delhi, India - Project Management World Journal", "raw_content": "21st Global Project Management Symposium to be 2-3 December 2013 in New Delhi, India\n29 July 2013 \u2013 New Delhi, India \u2013 Project Management Associates (PMA), the Indian national project management association, has announced that their 21st annual Global Symposium will be held this year during 2-3 December. The venue will be Hotel Le Meridien, New Delhi, India. The event \u2013 Linking Project Mindset to Nations Prosperity \u2013 is organized by PMA with the support of the Centre for Excellence in Project Management (CEPM), the International Project Management Association (IPMA), the Asia Pacific Federation of Project Management (APFPM) and the International Institute of Program and Project Management (I2P2M). Visit www.pma-india.org.\nPMA has also announced that Shri TKA Nair, Adviser to the Prime Minister of India, will be the Chairman of the International Advisory Council (IAC) for the GS 2013. In addition, for the first time, the APFPM comprising professional societies in 16 countries, have also agreed to associate with the event. The APFPM project management awards will be given out in New Delhi on December 2, 2013.\nIn addition to keynote speakers, panels and social activities, the GS 2013 will include presentations and discussions along the following topic tracks:\nNeed for Integrated Energy Resource Planning\nProject \u2013 The Backbone to Economy\nDecision making and Risk Tolerance\nNew Directions in Project, Program & Portfolio Management\nLinking Strategies to Project Excellence\nTechnology & Competitiveness\nSpeeding Infrastructure Development\nLeadership in Managing Change\n2013 is a Special year as PMA is celebrating 20 years of its continuous endeavors in strengthening the project management movement. The 21st Global Symposium (GS 2013) on \u2018Linking Project Mindset to Nations Prosperity\u2019 on 2nd & 3rd December, 2013 will be a landmark event. Mark your calendar now.\nProject Management Associates (PMA) is a not for profit registered professional body of projects and business managers with the aim of strengthening project management in India. It was formed in 1993 by its Founding President, Adesh Jain. Since then PMA has made tremendous strides in creating a massive awareness amongst CEO\u2019s, practicing managers & academia regarding the importance of balancing time, cost & scope with quality built-in and meeting the diversified expectations of various stakeholders. PMA has 14 Chapters across India with 56 Corporate Life Members including Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MOSPI), Ministry of Shipping, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, and 650 Individual Life Members. www.pma-india.org or www.cepm.com. Email: [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]\nShare the post \"21st Global Project Management Symposium to be 2-3 December 2013 in New Delhi, India\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 299.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://podcast.jcacts221blog.com/episodes/he-shall-baptize-you-with-the-holy-ghost", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:03Z", "digest": "sha1:CJJMUBXDKVDERWJ5BWGU2V7BXGYNL7KA", "length": 942, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "podcast.jcacts221blog.com", "title": "He Shall Baptize You With The Holy Ghost | JOHN CHOQUE is Touching People For Heaven", "raw_content": "He Shall Baptize You With The Holy Ghost\nMark 1:8 (KJV) I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.\nAt first glance, this looks like an insignificant verse or maybe one that needs very little education on. Maybe, some say, who needs to study this tiny verse? After all, there's only 16 words in it, and most of them are of little value other than making the sentence sound intelligible. My friends, my dear friends, this type of talk is labeled, 'foolish talk.'\nThere is never a verse that is insignificant in the Word of God! God's Word is Holy and inspired by God, himself... 2 Timothy 3:16 (KJV) \"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:\"\nThe entire 1,756 word discourse is written at JCActs2:21Blog.com. Here's a direct link to, \"He Shall Baptize You With The Holy Ghost\" Thank you for your faith.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 185.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://portlandbusinessgroup.com/business-for-sale/property/internet-related/ohio-internet-related-business-for-sale-24764", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TU7SS247MRC62NIKKYWR3POSECY2DWXO", "length": 845, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "portlandbusinessgroup.com", "title": "Ohio Internet Related Business For Sale - 24764 | Portland Business Group", "raw_content": "Ohio Internet Related Business For Sale 24764\nSOLD: No employee worries in this cash cow! High margin, fun niche product is in demand---with unlimited potential. This company is one of the first in the market place to offer this product. A very large and loyal customer base has given 100% positive reviews.\nThe easy to operate business is conducted mainly on the internet; the business can be relocated anywhere in the U.S.\nRecently the owner was approached by a national retailer to carry a version of the product in their retail stores. This company is primed for additional growth and it is ready to be taken to the next level by an energetic new owner.\nIf you are looking for a profitable business that is enjoyable to work, this business might be the one for you. Reply today!\nNote: All revenue claims are backed up by company tax returns.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prettylinks.com/user-manual-2/download-pretty-link-pro/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:13Z", "digest": "sha1:CS47EZYATYDZM2JHTE6QF4UVLEBEEPI2", "length": 410, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "prettylinks.com", "title": "Download Pretty Links", "raw_content": "You can download the Pretty Links files anytime by logging in with your username / password at https://prettylinks.com/account/.\nYou will also have the option to download either the latest Stable or the latest Edge version. Downloading the Stable version is recommended, but the Edge version may have more features and/or bug fixes, but hasn\u2019t been fully tested and generally isn\u2019t recommended for a live site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://previews.thefellowshipofthegeeks.net/2017/02/sneak-peeks-archie-comics-february-8.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:23Z", "digest": "sha1:JKQFSH5NEY77CXAVYLENGAWKZCJ7C74U", "length": 801, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "previews.thefellowshipofthegeeks.net", "title": "Fellowship Previews: Sneak Peeks: Archie Comics February 8, 2017", "raw_content": "WORLD OF ARCHIE WINTER ANNUAL #66\nThere\u2019s a whole world of Archie comics out there, and you can find some of the best and most hilarious winter-themed stories right here! Check out OVER 190 pages of fun, with a BRAND NEW LEAD STORY! In \u201cMe, Myself and I,\u201d Reggie decides to write his memoir and enlists Betty to help him. When he realizes he doesn\u2019t have much to write about, he gets creative\u2026very creative\u2026\nGet ready for the biggest collection EVER of the best and brightest stories Archie Comics has to offer! In this edition of the ARCHIE 1000 PAGE COMICS series, get ready unending fun, laughter and entertainment with Archie & his pals \u2018n\u2019 gals! You\u2019ll enjoy this compendium of classic comics! Everything\u2019s Archie in the largest Archie collection series EVER\u2014offered at an incredible value price!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pro.imdb.com/name/nm3109525/?ref_=tt_pub_fm_wrt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:23Z", "digest": "sha1:QHQS3M5NM7HBOQD74UJYGKISYV7MFOIH", "length": 1990, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "pro.imdb.com", "title": "Scott Rosenbaum - IMDbPro", "raw_content": "Scott Rosenbaum (I)\nKnown for The Shield (2002-2007), V (2010-2011), Chuck (2007-2010), Queen of the South (2016)\nFather Gaudio's Confession (2000)\n(TV Series) - Executive Producer (13 episodes, 2016), Writer (6 episodes, 2016), Writer (1 episode, 2016) Executive Producer (13 episodes, 2016), Writer (6 episodes, 2016), Writer (1 episode, 2016) See fewer\nCicatriz (Sep 15, 2016) Season 1, Episode 13 - Executive Producer, Writer , Writer Executive Producer, Writer , Writer See fewer\n(TV Series) - Executive Producer (13 episodes, 2014), Writer (3 episodes, 2014) Executive Producer (13 episodes, 2014), Writer (3 episodes, 2014) See fewer\nMalandros (Aug 14, 2014) Season 1, Episode 13 - Executive Producer, Writer Executive Producer, Writer See fewer\nMother's Day (Mar 15, 2011) Season 2, Episode 10 - Executive Producer, Writer Executive Producer, Writer See fewer\n(TV Series) - Executive Producer (33 episodes, 2008), Co-Executive Producer (12 episodes, 2007), Writer (9 episodes, 2007) Executive Producer (33 episodes, 2008), Co-Executive Producer (12 episodes, 2007), Writer (9 episodes, 2007) See fewer\nChuck Versus the Final Exam (Mar 22, 2010) Season 3, Episode 11 - Executive Producer Executive Producer See fewer\n(TV Series) - Writer (15 episodes, 2002), Co-Producer (15 episodes, 2004), Story Editor (13 episodes, 2003), Supervising Producer (13 episodes, 2005), Writer (staff writer) (12 episodes, 2002), \u2026 See more Writer (15 episodes, 2002), Co-Producer (15 episodes, 2004), Story Editor (13 episodes, 2003), Supervising Producer (13 episodes, 2005), Writer (staff writer) (12 episodes, 2002), Co-Executive Producer (11 episodes, 2006), Executive Producer (10 episodes, 2007), Writer (teleplay by) (1 episode, 2005) See fewer\nSpanish Practices (Jun 5, 2007) Season 6, Episode 10 - Executive Producer, Writer Executive Producer, Writer See fewer\nThe Car Makes the Man (May 1, 2000) Season 1, Episode 19 - Writer (as Scott J. 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Rosenbaum) See fewer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 4905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 202.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pro100seif.ru/star-wars-rogue-one-director-discusses-alternate-ending", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:50Z", "digest": "sha1:OCTHZRRIUPQYIS32BVJCLIA7KWBASQCN", "length": 1613, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pro100seif.ru", "title": "Star Wars: Rogue One Director Discusses Alternate Ending | pro100seif - \u0416\u0435\u043d\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0436\u0443\u0440\u043d\u0430\u043b", "raw_content": "\u0413\u043b\u0430\u0432\u043d\u0430\u044f > Movie News > Star Wars: Rogue One Director Discusses Alternate Ending\nStar Wars: Rogue One Director Discusses Alternate Ending\nFrom the beginning, Rogue One was pitched as a gritty war drama in space, and the marketing made sure to hammer that point home. Much of the imagery was reminiscent of World War II or Vietnam, so it logically fit with the tone of the film that many of the main players would meet their noble ends. Stealing the Death Star plans from a heavily-guarded Imperial data facility is very much a suicide mission, especially for a scrappy, under-funded Rebellion forced to make the best of what resources they have. One of the goals of Rogue One was to show the hardships and tremendous sacrifice of the conflict, meaning it arguably would have been inconsistent if some of the characters received a happy ending. Credit has to go to Disney for realizing this early on and allowing Edwards to make a massive tentpole where all the characters die.\nShortly after Rogue One\u2018s premiere, it was announced that star Felicity Jones had a sequel option in her contract, but fans shouldn\u2019t read too much into that. The multi-picture deal has become a standard in the industry (Hugo Weaving signed one with Marvel), and it is far from a guarantee the actor or actress will make another appearance. Unless Jyn Erso shows up in the young Han Solo spinoff, it\u2019s difficult to see where she\u2019d fit in given that she (seemingly and likely) died on the beach. Her time in a galaxy far, far away may have been short-lived, but Jones left her mark on the legacy and became a meaningful part of the canon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/12/02/exxon-mobil-merging-oil-refining-marketing-divisions-to-boost-profits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:20Z", "digest": "sha1:2DGHPTBIY64XU7R3XQEWIIQANLMRNDLS", "length": 2489, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "profit.pakistantoday.com.pk", "title": "Exxon Mobil merging oil refining, marketing divisions to boost profits - Profit by Pakistan Today", "raw_content": "Exxon Mobil merging oil refining, marketing divisions to boost profits\nTEXAS: Exxon Mobil Corp is merging its refining and marketing divisions to boost profits from its downstream businesses, the first major restructuring under Chief Executive Darren Woods.\nNeil Chapman, the head of its global chemicals operations, was named to the company\u2019s management committee, a board-elected panel that typically serves as a stepping stone for future chief executives, Exxon said on Friday.\nChapman, 55, joins CEO Woods and four other senior vice presidents on the committee, which oversees the company\u2019s global operations. The president of ExxonMobil Chemical Co also was promoted to corporate senior vice president.\nThe merger of the world\u2019s largest publicly-traded oil producer\u2019s refining and marketing operations will take place in the first quarter, the company said.\nBryan Milton, 53, president of Exxon\u2019s fuels, lubricants & specialties marketing business, was named president of the new ExxonMobil Fuels & Lubricants Co effective Jan. 1.\nDennis Wascom, president of Exxon\u2019s refining and supply subsidiary, will become vice president of operational excellence, safety, security, health and environment, said Exxon spokesman Scott Silvestri.\nWoods took over the top job in January after former chief Rex Tillerson resigned to become U.S. secretary of state.\nThe merging of refining, lubricants and marketing is the first major move by Woods since replacing Tillerson and is in the company\u2019s downstream operations, which he used to lead before taking over as CEO.\nThe reorganization aims to squeeze more profits from the fuel and lubricant businesses as the company works to improve its exploration and production operation, which have struggled since 2014 to adjust to lower oil and gas prices.\nThe company\u2019s downstream sector has grown in prominence since Woods took over leadership of Exxon.\nThe changes come as Exxon expands its refining division. The company is investing $20 billion through 2022 to expand its chemical and oil refining plants on the U.S. Gulf Coast.\nThe refining and chemicals arms contributed more than $4.2 billion apiece to 2016 earnings, compared with a $196 million profit from exploration and production. Last year\u2019s results were affected by sharply lower crude prices.\nCompany reshuffles\nPrevious articleOGRA starts consultative sessions for review of existing gas tariff scheme\nNext articleCitibank foresees Pakistan continuing its growth trajectory aided by CPEC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 8315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://propertyinvestorsnetwork.co.uk/blog-top/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VANQQTNDWKSAV3QE2ZFYZMM2QIS4P54U", "length": 230, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "propertyinvestorsnetwork.co.uk", "title": "Blog - All Posts - property investors network", "raw_content": "This is one particular strategy that I have been using since 2007. I believe it is one of the best strategies to use, particularly in the current market conditions. But a purchase lease option is also misunderstood and overlook...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 148.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prosody.princeton.edu/archive/hvd.hn2wxb/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:49Z", "digest": "sha1:KDYE7TAC72VGF5A67T6OJBSENVW74BBN", "length": 285, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "prosody.princeton.edu", "title": "Archive \u00b7 Music of nature, or, An attempt to prove that what is passionate and pleasing in the art of singing, speaking, and performing upon musical instruments, is derived from the sounds of the animated world : with curious and interesting illustrations Princeton Prosody Archive", "raw_content": "Music of nature, or, An attempt to prove that what is passionate and pleasing in the art of singing, speaking, and performing upon musical instruments, is derived from the sounds of the animated world : with curious and interesting illustrations\nGardiner, William, 1770-1853\nhvd.hn2wxb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prosveta.com/QEN/Death-and-life-20041216.phtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:15Z", "digest": "sha1:6UBE2F4WYIKNIQAU3R4ARKYUWCLWJBAM", "length": 819, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "prosveta.com", "title": "Death and life", "raw_content": "\"Life and death are so closely connected that there is always something in life that must die in order for something else to live. Like it or not, it is impossible to escape this dilemma. We can already observe this in the realm of health. How many sick people who have been advised by their doctors to stop smoking or drinking alcohol feel that if they follow this advice, they would no longer be able to live! Yes, because there are two conflicting ideas of life here: that of the instinctive life and that of the life of reason. If we live one thing, we must renounce the other. Those who, on the pretext of living more intensely or more agreeably, fail to respect the laws of the physical life, become ill and die. You must decide which form of life you prefer, because you cannot live everything at the same time.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prosveta.com/QEN/Division-20040503.phtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:18Z", "digest": "sha1:AUCTATYBDPJB6IU26FWX6XT5MBAMHKUB", "length": 828, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "prosveta.com", "title": "Division", "raw_content": "\"You have all heard of \u2018double agents\u2019, men and women who serve their own country and the enemies of their country at the same time. They think they will always have a safe haven, whatever happens. And in so many businesses as well, we see people serving both the interests of their employer and those of their competitors! Such double-dealing is very detrimental both for the countries and the companies, but also for the individuals themselves who, in the end, risk rejection by both sides. This attitude is also widespread in the spiritual life. How many people unconsciously serve both God and Mammon at the same time, that is to say, both the powers of heaven, the spirit, and those of the earth, matter? Well, they must now become conscious of this, because such duplicity is very dangerous and threatens spiritual death.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 189.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psihub.blog/2018/09/11/dare-you-take-someone-elses-perspective-and-more-on-best-5-tuesday-reads/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2LDANZQJJJRTAY42K3GD6F3HG2A3H553", "length": 2618, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "psihub.blog", "title": "\u201cDare You Take Someone Else\u2019s Perspective?\u201d AND More on Best 5 Tuesday Reads \u2013 PsiHub", "raw_content": "1) Dare You Take Someone Else\u2019s Perspective?\nEmpathy. It\u2019s a word we hear a lot in psychology, so readily invoked that we often don\u2019t bother to seriously think about what it is and what makes it powerful. Carl Rogers, the founder of person-centered therapy, saw empathy as one of the core conditions for psychological growth. Empathizing, according to Rogers, \u201cmeans that for the time being, you lay aside your own views and values in order to enter another\u2019s world without prejudice.\u201d (Rogers, 1980, p. 143)\nImagine empathizing\u2014rather than repudiating, attacking, demeaning, or mocking\u2014those with whom we disagree? Of course, empathizing sounds easy, but it isn\u2019t.\n2) When Seeking Answers Causes Unintended Pain\nIn reporting a story about suicide and drug overdoses, a reporter\u2019s thankless tasks include calling parents shocked by the sudden interest.\n4) Is There Really Nothing New Under the Sun? Is Low-Dose Ketamine a Fast-Acting Antidepressant Simply Because It Is An Opioid?\nPsychiatrists are now dealing with three \u201cepidemics\u201d that have a profound impact on society\u2014opioid dependence, depression, and suicide. We desperately need new treatments for depression, and for suicidality, while also reducing opioid dependence and abuse. In the setting of this \u201ctriple crunch\u201d and the frantic search for breakthrough treatments, low-dose intravenous ketamine has emerged as a potentially rapid-acting antidepressant that also quickly reduces suicidality. Could the universe be so cruel as to make it so that a treatment for one or two of the epidemics actually fuels the other? Thus, the article by Williams and colleagues in this issue has potentially broad clinical and social implications, as it raises questions about all three.\n5) Persistent Impairment: Life After Losing a Parent\nLosing a parent during childhood is one of the most tragic life experiences, and one that can set the stage for later psychopathology (1). However, findings from cross-sectional studies cannot disentangle whether poor outcomes stem directly from the loss, from the lack of parental support in subsequent childhood years, or from risk factors present even before the parent\u2019s death. Longitudinal studies are required to determine the timing and mechanisms by which these tragedies convey risk to children. This is critical information for planning how and when to intervene.\nThank you for your time and see you tomorrow for more articles!\nPosted in Best 5, UncategorizedTagged digital health, drug overdose, empathy, grief, ketamine, mental health, mental illness, mhealth, opioid, psychiatry, psychology, suicide, suicide prevention", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychologenie.com/meth-withdrawal-symptoms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ADFDGAWA73F4SZMXUUAVNPKVYBD7TA2F", "length": 3496, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "psychologenie.com", "title": "Meth Withdrawal Symptoms", "raw_content": "If you want to know what happens when someone stops taking meth drugs and what are the various symptoms that surface after withdrawal, then take a look at this upcoming PsycholoGenie article, which talks about meth drugs in great depth.\nExcess of anything is bad for the health whether it's healthy or unhealthy. Similarly, an overdose of any drug affects our body as well as our mind. Also, when we suddenly stop taking a particular drug, it tends to affect us adversely. Methamphetamine is one such drug, which if taken in excess, can cause severe harm to the body. Also, when an addict is trying to give up the drug, the body goes through several unpleasant changes. Given below are some of the meth withdrawal symptoms, which are shown by a person who has stopped taking the drug. However, these symptoms are present only for a particular period of time, and once that period is over, he/she will be back to normal.\nMentioned below are some facts about methamphetamine:\n\u00bb Meth or methamphetamine drugs are given to people in order to increase their level of alertness, energy levels, as well as concentration power.\n\u00bb This drug has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for using it as a treatment for ADHD and also for exogenous obesity.\n\u00bb It was synthesized for the first time from ephedrine in the year 1893 by a Japanese chemist Nagai Nagayoshi.\n\u00bb Its usage was first approved to treat problems, like mild depression, hay fever, chronic alcoholism, etc. Although it was approved then, later on these approvals were removed and this same drug began to be used only to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).\n\u00bb During the Second World War, the Allied and Axis forces both used this drug for medical purposes.\n\u00bb If this drug is taken in small prescribed amounts, as recommended by a doctor, then one will not face any problem. But, if it is taken in excess, then problems might surely arise.\n\u00bb Also, when a person stops taking it, it gives rise to a number of indicants. A few of these indicants have been enlisted below.\nSome of the symptoms can be quite problematic and if they are not taken care of properly, then it might turn fatal. Hence, when a person is trying to give up this drug, it's best to seek help from certain detox programs or maybe some meth addiction treatment programs to be able to cope with symptoms, like:\nLack of proper sleep or insomnia\nIrritability or dysphoric mood\nAnhedonia or inability to experience pleasure from enjoyable activities\nHypersomnia or extended periods of sleep\nHeartbeat becomes irregular\nNauseating feeling\nIntense craving for the drug that the person has just given up\n\u00bb Please note that the severity and duration of the symptoms depends on how often was this particular drug taken. It can last from 48 hours to around 10 days.\n\u00bb Due to the severity of the symptoms, it's best to go to a rehab center in order to get treated for meth addiction.\nIf this drug is taken in the prescribed dosage, after being recommended by a licensed doctor, then you are less likely to suffer from these symptoms. Pregnant women should avoid taking these drugs, as the baby might show some of these indicants after birth. People who were addicted to this drug and have successfully given up, congratulations! Those of you who are still taking them, it is better to give it up. The world might seem a better place after taking the drug but that is only for a short time. A drug-free life will show you an even a better world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pt.coursera.org/lecture/construction-finance/debt-financing-of-real-estate-projects-yVet4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7FO44NGBQLU5ENXDUGELZVCL2ZLK7OHI", "length": 8611, "nlines": 151, "source_domain": "pt.coursera.org", "title": "Debt Financing of Real Estate Projects - Financial Plans for Development Projects | Coursera", "raw_content": "Debt Financing of Real Estate Projects\nFinancial Plans for Development Projects\nProfessor Anthony Webster provides an in-depth look at designing and building commercial real estate by looking at financial plans. The module ends with a deep dive into decision tree analysis.\nIntroduction to Financial Plans for Development Projects14:07\nDebt Financing of Real Estate Projects10:54\nConstruction Loan Example10:59\nNet Comprehensive Cash Flows for Sponsor and Lender9:11\nDCF Project Evaluation for Sponsor and Lender14:32\nOkay, so now if we\u2019re going to do this in the real world,\nif CAG is going to do this in the real world, they\u2019re going to get a loan.\nAnything that\u2019s worth doing is worth levering so\na loan is considered a form of financial leverage.\nThings to know about financial leverage in real estate or\nanywhere else throughout finance, leverage, taking out loans,\nhaving a contract saying you're going to get some money now with\nthe contractual promise of paying it back with interest in the future\nthat's always going to increase your risk of bankruptcy.\nIt's going to reduce your flexibility a bit because you'll\nsoon we're going to have to adhere to a very strict schedule.\nBut it's going to increase our return on equity,\nour return on the amount of money that we as developers put into this project and\nit's going to enable increased diversification.\nIf for example, CAG has 10 million available\nto spend, they could put all that 10 million into one project or\nthey could put 1 million into each of ten projects and\nget loans to help develop the rest of it, so that would help them diversify.\nOkay, so very quickly, I just want to make sure we all understand\nthe mechanics of Financial Leverage.\nSo I'm going to pause at a situation like this where\nthere are two groups of you in the audience, one group\nis a conservative group and one group is a bunch of cow boys.\nEach group gets $100 million, just thrown at them, $100 million.\nAnd they want to buy,\nlet's consider a cashflow producing property, not just a little easier.\nThey want to buy a cashflow producing property that\nis on the market for $100 million.\nSo what are the conservatives going to do.\nThey don't like the risk of bankruptcy, they want to be very careful,\nthey're conservative.\nSo what they're going to do, is they're going to buy this property with\ntheir $100 million with no debt, okay.\nAnd they own it free and clear and that's great and\nwe worked through what happens to them in a year.\nThis is looking a little bit like their income statement or their P&L.\nSo they're going to get rental revenue of say $50 million,\nclearly a high end building.\nAnd they have operating expenses for the building of $30 million.\nAnd they don't have to pay any interest or worry about anything so\ntheir earnings before tax is a cool $20 million, not bad.\nAnd their tax rate is 5%, they pay the tax at, sorry 25%,\n$5 million and they wind up with the year for $15 million.\nAnd their return on equity, the equity is $100\nmillion that they threw into this building is 15,\ntheir net income over their equity of 100 or 15%.\nOkay, so that's good for the conservatives, let's look at the cowboys.\nSo the cowboys, they get that $100 million thrown at them, and\nthey say we don't want to use all this $100 million on this project.\nWhy don't we just put in $10 million of our own money and\nwe'll go to JPMorgan Chase or Goldman Sachs or another bank and\nsay, why don't you lend us $90 million to help us\npurchase this wonderful $100 million property.\nSo this is what private equity folks in real estate do.\nSo let's say they pull that off with JPMorgan Chase and\nthis is how they financed the building.\nAnd they however, have a loan with 10%, they have the same 25% tax rate.\nSo they have to pay back the bank 10% every year of that $90 million.\nSo that's going to be $9 million.\nSo let's see how things look for the Cowboys in their first year.\nThey get the same revenue from tenants\nthat has nothing to do with the financing structure.\nThey have the same operating expenses but now they have another operating expense.\nThey've got to pay that interest back to JPMorgan Chase of 10% or $9 million.\nSo their earnings before tax is only $11 million,\nso maybe not such a smart move.\nThey have to pay tax on that $11 million, 25% or\n$2.75 million and they only wind up with $8.25 million.\nHowever, if we consider how they did with these property,\ncompared to the money of theirs that they put into it,\nthey only put in 10, okay, and they got 8.25 back.\nSo their return on equity is 8.25 divided by 10 or a whooping 82.5%.\nAnd remember they still have $90 million of that\n$100 million they were given to go do other projects.\nThey could do nine other projects and be diversified,\nnot have all their eggs in one basket like the conservatives have, okay?\nAll right, so far so good.\nSo let's say that both of\nthese sets of folks, you in the audience out there,\nthe conservatives and the cowboys, you run this property for two years.\nSo in each case, looks like this.\nSo the conservatives wind up with a total of $30 million they've\nextracted out of the property after two years, and the cowboys have\nextracted $16.5 million and also they have other projects going on.\nAnd then they get into in their third year, a bad year, so\nFor the conservative, so a bad year, we have sales dropping,\nrentals dropping all the way to $30 million.\nIt's the type of thing that happened in the great recession.\nThis was not uncommon to have a 40% drop in revenue like this.\nAnd the conservatives can bring down their operating expenses, but you can never\nbring them down as much as quickly as your revenue drops in a really bad situation.\nHappily they don't have to pay any interest so they still have positive\nearnings before tax of $5 million, they pay some tax on that.\nAnd they're still walking away with, in this horrific economic climate,\n$3.75 million, not bad.\nLet's see what happens to the cowboys.\nSo the cowboys also are just going to get $30 million in rental revenue.\nTheir operating expense is going to be the same still $25 million.\nCan they go to JPMorgan Chase and\nsay I'm sorry we're having a bad year, we can't pay our interest.\nSo they're going to have to pay that 9 million in interest and\nwhat's their earnings before tax?\nMinus $4 million, they've lost $4 million on this property this year.\nTax at 25%, very long story, but under some certain circumstances if you're\nan entity that's been doing well for a long time and you have a bad year,\nyou can actually get a cash refund from the government.\nWe don't have time to go into that there,\nso we're assuming they get a cash refund here.\nBut they're still out after the cash rebate from taxes and\neverything else, their out $3 million which is not good.\nAnd what if they get to this point and they don't have any excess\ncash in the bank and they can't cough up that $9 million for\nJPMorgan Chase, could be big trouble, what's going to happen?\nWell, in the loan contract,\nJP Morgan says if you can't make all of your interest payments, guess what?\nWe, JP Morgan, get the keys to your building, we get to take ownership, okay.\nSo, that's looking bad for\nthe cowboys, looks like the conservatives were pretty smart.\nRemember the cowboys ran this property for\ntwo years before we had this huge economic collapse.\nThey got, what, $16.5 million out of this property.\nHow much did they put in?\nThey put in 10 million, okay.\nSo they've got $6.5 million profit over this.\nSo at that point if they have to say, okay we surrender, we give up,\nJPMorgan we're giving you the keys to the property, do they care?\nNot so much, right, they've done pretty well on this.\nThis is why private equity is such an enticing type of thing to do.\nBut one more question on this, what's going to happen when\nthe cowboys go to get a loan for their next deal, what's going to happen?\nWell any smart lender is going to say, I don't think so.\nYou got into big trouble in just two years and your last project, you walked away.\nYou left us holding the keys to the place.\nWe're not in the business of acquiring buildings through the faults of\nthe folks we lend money to, so we don't want to lend to you.\nSo that's a problem, so you have to be careful not to use so\nmuch leverage that you are going to go bankrupt.\nAnd of course here we have, on the next slide,\nthe exception that proves the rule and\nthat's President Trump whose real estate properties went bankrupt,\nnot once, not twice, not three times but four times.\nAnd you can the quote here from Bloomberg News about this and\nhe's really the exception that proves the rule in this case.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 11030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pt.coursera.org/lecture/finance-for-non-financial-managers/time-value-of-money-part-2-z030Q", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:13Z", "digest": "sha1:5K2MIWZ5KWGQB45P6BFKEJTOJK6Y7C4X", "length": 6238, "nlines": 117, "source_domain": "pt.coursera.org", "title": "Time Value of Money - Part 2 - Time Value of Money | Coursera", "raw_content": "So obviously that's a very simplistic idea,\nthat you're going to receive a cash payment a year from now or you're going to\ngive somebody some cash and they're going to pay you in a year from now.\nIt may not always be a year it may be two years, it may be three years,\nit may be seven years.\nThe present value of payout in two years from this slide.\nIt's the cash payout divided by 1 plus the interest rates to the power of 2.\nSo somebody said, hey, I'm going to pay you $100 two\nyears from now, what would that be worth?\n1 plus the interest rate squared or\nI can pay you $20 starting next year for\nSo $20 in one year, and then $20 in the second year, and $20 in a third year, and\n$20 in the fourth year, and $20 in the fifth year, what's that worth to me?\nWell, that would be the formula here, a cash payment divided by 1 + r to the t,\n1 + r to the t + 1, 1 + r to the t + 2 etc., etc., etc..\nI can write this using a really cool mathematical type, and\nthis is what it would be.\nPresent Value, is equal to the summation, the sigma,\nsummation of my cash payment at period t divided by\n1+r to the power of t, where t is from 1 to n.\nSo it maybe one year, two years, three years, five years what have you.\nSo, what we're going to do is let's go over to the Excel workbook and\nlet me show you how to do this calculation, what it means,\nand we can play around with it a little bit.\nAll right, here we are, at the Excel workbook.\nThis is the tab that says NPV, net present value worksheet and examples.\nLet me just tell you what's going on in each one of these cells and\nthen we'll work through a couple of examples.\nSo, I've got this set up such that you can input some cells and\nit will spit out some results.\nUp here, in this cell, B9, I've got a place where you can change\nthe interest rate, here I've got 5% you can change it to 10%,\nyou can change it to 89%, 8%, 15%, okay?\nAnd as I do this you'll notice, here's what's happening.\nThis present value factor is going to change as I change my interest rate.\nSo here's 5%, you'll notice my present value factor changes.\nWhen I change it up to 10%,\nmy present value factor changes, it's all automatic, okay?\nSo, I'm going to move it back to 5%.\nSo, what's happening is, that I've got this present value factor,\nI've got a little formula written here.\nAnd the formula is 1 + this interest rate, the information in cell B9,\nto the power of whatever the year is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 what have you, okay?\nAnd what this means is that the present value factor shows you how much\neach dollar is discounted.\nFor example if I have,\nIf I have, let's try this again.\nthe present value factor shows how each one of these things is discounted.\nGiven the fact that I'm using Excel do I have to go back through the whole thing\nover again or can I start from there?\n>> [INAUDIBLE] >> I don't like from the here's like\nthe whole sheet, you know what I'm talking about,\nthis workbook, you can paste and cut and right?\n>> [INAUDIBLE] >> Yeah, no.\n>> [INAUDIBLE] >> Talking about it but\nI think we can manage it.\nOkay, let's talk about this present value factor.\nThe present value factor is a function of my interest rate.\nYou'll noticed that if I click on this cells, C14,\ninside the cell's a little formula, that's 1 over 1 +, $ B $9 to the power of C11.\nWhat that means is 1 + my interest rate, right there in B9 to the power\nof the number of years, then the present value factor like it's 5%.\nThis present value factor after one year of 95% means\nthat each dollar received one year from now is only worth\n95% of it's value, at an interest rate of 5%.\nSo an interest rate of 5% a dollar that I receive a year from now is not\nworth a dollar it only worth 95 cents.\n$100 I receive a year from now is now worth a $100, only worth $95.\nSo the present value factor identifies how much\na dollar in the future has been discounted.\nSo, let's look at our example.\nOur example was what is the present value of a $100 received one year from now?\nRight here if I type in $100 my cashflow right now,\none year from now you'll notice that right below here the cumulative present value,\nthe present value of cashflow says 95.\nSo this says is that\nif I'm going to get a $100 in one year, what is the present value?\nWhat is that worth right now?\nIt's worth $95.\nWhat if I change this up to something else like 12%.\nSo if I'm going to receive a $100 one year from now,\nbut my discount is 12%, instead of 5%?\nAnd then a $100 is only worth 89.\nHere's how I can interpret that.\nIf you tell me that you can only give me $100 in one year from now and\nmy interest rate is 12%, I am only willing to loan you $89, that's it!\nAnd suppose my interest rate was 15%\nThen, if you can only give me $100 a year from now,\nI'm only willing to loan you $87, that's what this means.\nLet's do one more example, let's suppose you tell me that you could give me $100,\nbut the $100 is spread out over 5 years, $20 in year 1,\nan additional $20 in year 2, and then in 3, and then in 4, and then in 5.\nYes, it's $100, but it's not all at once.\nI don't like that very much.\nWhat am I willing to loan you if you can only give me this kind of cash flow?\nCertainly less than $100, how much less?\nThat's where the present value comes in.\nIn one year from now, $20 is really only worth $19 and\nthen in two years, it's only worth $18, and then in three years,\nit's $17, and then in four years, it's $16.\nAnd in 5 years it's probably right around $16 again, according to this.\nSo what happens is if I accumulate all the present values,\nthe 19 plus the 18 plus the 17 plus the 16 plus the 16,\nthis says that this cash flow at 5% interest,\nI would only be willing to loan you $87.\nThat is the present value of this cash flow, $20,\n$20, $20, $20, $20 is $87.\n$87 is equivalent to the future cash flow of\n$20 at these times at 5% interest.\nLet's suppose my interest was 12%.\nNow, that $100 that spread out over\nfive years, is only worth $72.\nThis is a really useful formula that helps you understand the relationship\nbetween future cash flows and the present value of those cash flows.\nObviously, I've given you some good pointers here.\nBut what I want you to do is use this sheet and this formula\nto answer some of the questions that I've provided you on your assessments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 9226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pt.coursera.org/lecture/python-social-network-analysis/link-prediction-hvFPZ", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TTGQER44CXFRKGP6PZY7D5G3FZU6V6BR", "length": 18040, "nlines": 296, "source_domain": "pt.coursera.org", "title": "Link Prediction - Network Evolution | Coursera", "raw_content": "Hello, this week, we've been looking\nat networks as dynamic structures that change over time.\nIn the past two videos, we looked at different models of network evolution.\nThat given the dynamics for how a network evolves from the beginning to the end.\nToday we're going to look at a related problem which is given a fixed network,\ncan we predict how this network is going to look in the future.\nAnd more specifically, we're going to be looking at the link prediction problem.\nWhich is given a network,\ncan we predict which edges are going to be formed in the future?\nThis problem has a lot of applications, for example if you're Facebook and\nyou want to create a friend recommendation algorithm or\na friend recommender to tell people who they should friend.\nThen, basically you're solving this problem.\nYou're looking at the current Facebook network and you're trying to predict\nwhich new friendships are likely to form in the future.\nLet's take this small network as an example and let's try to ask the question,\nwhat new edges are likely to be formed?\nAnd more specifically, let's formulate the problem in this way.\nLet's say that we take a specific pair of nodes and\nwe want to assess whether or not they're likely to connect.\nWhat we're going to do today is we're going to go over several measures,\nseven of them, to try to make this assessment.\nTo try to decide whether a specific pair of nodes are likely\nto become friends or not.\nAnd so, we've actually thought about this kind of question before.\nIf you remember, we talked about triadic closure which is the tendency for\npeople who share connections in a social network to become connected themselves.\nSo triadic closure actually gives us a hint for\nwhat the first measure that we're going to look at is.\nAnd that is very simple measure,\njust look at the number of common neighbors that the two nodes have.\nNow this is very simple, but let me define this measure to introduce some notation.\nSo we're going to say that the number of common neighbors of nodes X and\nY is going to be the size of a set, which is the intersection of the sets N(X) and\nN(Y), where N(X) defines the set of neighbors of the node X.\nAnd so for example, the common neighbor measure for nodes A,\nC in this network is going to be 2 because nodes A and C have two common neighbors.\nThat is node B and node D.\nSo A, C have two common neighbors.\nIn network X, we can use the function common neighbors,\nwhich takes in as input the graph to nodes.\nAnd it outputs an iterator of all the common neighbors of the two nodes.\nAnd so here, what I'm doing is I'm creating a list of tuples which\nhave the two nodes and the number of common neighbors.\nAnd I'm only including the nodes that are not connected with each other.\nThe ones that don't have an edge between them by using the function non_edges.\nAnd if I sort this list,\nwe can see the pairs of nodes that have the most common neighbors between them.\nAnd we see that the pair A, C has two neighbors in common,\nthere are many others that have only one neighbor in common.\nAnd then many others that have zero neighbors in common.\nAnd so if we start to compare between different edges, for\nexample we look at the pair A, G and the pair H, I, and ask,\nwhich one of these two is more likely to become connected?\nThen by looking at the number of common neighbors, we actually can't tell,\nbecause both of these have exactly one neighbor in common.\nAnd so let's look at other measures that may potentially give us different answers\nfor these particular pairs of nodes.\nThe next measure we're going to look at is called the Jaccard coefficient.\nAnd what it does is that it looks at the number of common neighbors but\nit normalizes it by the total number of neighbors of the two nodes.\nSo the way that we write it down is we say the Jaccard coefficient of nodes X and\nY is going to be the fraction of the number of common neighbors.\nThat's in the numerator, so it's the intersection of the sets N(X) and\nN(Y), divided by the number of neighbors of X and\nY which would be the union of N(X) and N(Y).\nAnd so here, the pair of nodes of A and C, have a Jaccard coefficient of\none-half because they have two common neighbors, B and D.\nAnd they have four total neighbors, nodes B, D, E, and F.\nAnd so that's 2 over 4 which is one-half.\nIn network X, we can use the function jaccard_coefficient which takes as\ninput the graph and it outputs an iterator of tuples which have the two nodes and\nthe Jaccard coefficient of the two nodes.\nBut it only outputs the pairs of nodes that are not already connected, so\nthe non edges.\nSo if we sort this list, we now find that I,\nH have the highest Jaccard coefficient of 1.\nAnd that's because I and\nH are both connected to a single neighbor which is a common neighbor G.\nWhereas the nodes A and G, they have one common neighbor, but\nthey have more neighbors that are in the union of the neighbors of A and G.\nAnd so, therefore, they have a lower Jaccard coefficient.\nThe next measure is called the Research Allocation Index.\nAnd the intuition behind it is that it considers a fraction of a resource for\nexample, information or something else that a node can send to another node\nthrough their common neighbors.\nAnd so first, let me tell you how it's defined mathematically and\nthen I'll tell you a little bit more about what the intuition is behind the measure.\nSo the Resource Allocation index of the nodes X, Y is going to be the sum\nover all the common neighbors of X and Y of one over the degree of the nodes.\nSo in this case, if X and Y have a lot of common neighbors and\nthey're going to have a large Resource Allocation index.\nBut if they have a lot of neighbors that have low degree,\nthen they're going to have an even larger Resource Allocation index.\nNow what's the intuition behind this?\nLet's consider two nodes X and Y, and let's say that we're measuring\nthe Resource Allocation index between these two nodes.\nAnd let's say that they have exactly one common neighbor, Z.\nNow imagine that X is trying to send to Y a unit of something,\nlet's say information or something else.\nAnd is going to do so by passing it for\nX to Z and then hoping that Z will pass this unit to Y.\nBut actually what Z does is that when it receives this unit from X\nis going to distribute this unit evenly among all the neighbors of Z.\nThen in that case, well Y is only going to get a fraction of that unit.\nAnd which fraction depends on what the degree of Z is.\nSo if Z has degree N, then Y is only going to get 1 over N of that unit.\nAnd so if Z is the only common neighbor of X and Y, and\nZ has a lot of neighbors, a very large degree.\nThen X is going to be able to send less to Y, than if Z had a very few neighbors.\nAnd so that's why this research allocation index penalizes pairs of\nnodes that have common neighbors that themselves have lots of other neighbors.\nSo for example, when we measure the Resource Allocation index of nodes A and\nC, we would have one-third for node B.\nbecause node B is the common neighbor of A and C and has degree of 3,\nplus 1 over 3 which is for node D,\nwhich also has degree 3 and it's also a common neighbor of A and C.\nSo the Resource Allocation index of A, C is going to be two-thirds.\nWe can use the function of Resource Allocation index to\ncompute the Resource Allocation index of all pairs of nodes that\nare not connected by an edge already in the graph.\nAnd if we sort it,\nwe can see the Resource Allocation index of all pairs in this network.\nAnd if we look at the two edges that we're being kind of following,\nwe see that in this case, A,\nG has a higher Resource Allocation index than I, H.\nAnd that is because I, H has a common neighbor which is G.\nBut G has a high degree, has a degree of four.\nWhereas A, G, they're common neighbor is E, and\nE has a slightly smaller degree of three.\nSo, that will give A, G a larger Resource Allocation index than I, H.\nThe next measure is called the Adamic-Adar index.\nWhich is very similar to the research allocation index.\nThe only difference is that rather than dividing by the degree,\nit divides by the log of the degree.\nSo in this case, the Adamic-Adar index for nodes A, C instead of being 2\nover 3 is going to be 1 over the log of 3 plus 1 over the log of 3, which is 1.82.\nAnd there's a function for it too that you can use in network X is Adamic-Adar index.\nAnd again, we can compare A, G and H, I but in this case,\nit's going to be very similar to the Resource Allocation index.\nAnd so all we did was to put the log in the denominator.\nNext, measure 5 is going to be the preferential attachment score.\nSo, if you recall, the preferential attachment model has the feature that\nnodes that have very high degree are more likely to get more neighbors.\nAnd so, the intuition behind this measure is that, well,\nif I'm looking at a pair of nodes and they both have a very high degree,\nthen they're more likely to be connected to each other in the future.\nAnd so, what it does, is very simply,\nto take the product of the degree of the two nodes.\nAnd so, it's very simple.\nThe preferential attachment score of X, Y is going to be the product\nof the number of neighbors of X, times the number of neighbors of Y.\nAnd A, C would have a preferential attachment score of 9.\nIn network X, we can use the preferential_attachment function to\ncompute the preferential attachment score over all the pairs of\nnodes that are not connected by an edge already.\nAnd here we can look at two edges that we've been following, A, G and H, I.\nAnd we see that A, G has a higher preferential attachment score than I, H,\nand that's because A has a degree of 3 and G has a degree of 4,\nwhich makes the preferential attachment score of 12.\nWhereas, I and H both only have one neighbor and so they have a score of 1.\nOkay, next, we're going to look at two other measures,\nthat take in to account the community structure of the network.\nSo in cases where you have a network and on top of the network,\nyou have some knowledge about different communities.\nAnd here we'll think of communities as sets of nodes and\nwe'll make the assumption that each node belongs only to one community.\nSo one example is if this network was, for example,\na network of communication among employees in a company.\nThen you may think that the department for which an employee works for\nwould define a community.\nSo for example, there's HR, and there's legal and so on, and so\nyou could imagine thinking of those as communities.\nSo if you had that type of structure, then you could use different measures for\ndetermining whether two nodes are likely to connect to each other or not.\nSo in this case, let's assume that these network has two communities.\nSo, these are the two communities.\nSo there's A, B, D and C belong to Community 1, and\nthe other nodes belong to Community 2.\nAnd what these two measures do,\nis they make the assumption that if two nodes belong to the same community, and\nthey have many neighbors that also belong to the same community.\nThen they're more likely to form an edge, than if they had neighbors that belong to\ndifferent communities, or if the two nodes themselves were in different communities.\nThat's sort of the basic assumption that we make.\nAnd so this allows us to compute new measures, and so\nlet's go over two of them.\nSo the sixth measures that we are going to look at today is the number of common\nBut with a bonus for neighbors that belong to the same community as the two\nnodes we're looking at.\nSo this is called the Common Neighbor Soundarajan-Hopcroft score.\nAnd if we're looking at nodes X and\nY is simply going to be the number of common neighbors.\nSo the size of intersection of N(X) and N(Y), plus some bonus,\nwhich is going to be the sum over all the common neighbors of this function, f(u).\nAnd f(u) is simply an indicator that tells us whether the u, which is\na common neighbor of X and Y, belongs to the same community as X and Y, or not.\nAnd if it does, then it's a 1.\nIf not, it's a 0.\nSo it just simply gives a bonus for\nthe common neighbors that belong to the same community as X and Y.\nAnd so for example, if we look at nodes A and C, their common neighbors are B and\nD, and they all belong to the same community.\nSo A and C would get a score of 2 for\nhaving two common neighbors plus 2 bonus points, so we get 4.\nNodes E and I would have a score of 2 because they both have a common neighbor,\nnamely, G.\nAnd it belongs to the same community.\nSo it would get a bonus point for a total of 2.\nBut if we look at the edge A, G for example,\nthey have one common neighbor, namely, E.\nBut A and G are not in the same community.\nSo E is not in the same community as A and G.\nTherefore A and G have a score of just 1.\nNow to use this on network X,\nwe first have to tell network X which communities each node belongs to.\nSo here, we're adding an attribute to each one of the nodes named,\ncommunity, that tells which community the node belongs to.\nSo for A through D, we'll say it belongs to community 0, and for\nthe other ones it belongs to the community 1.\nAnd now we can use the function cn_soundarajan_hopcroft(G)\nwhich outputs an iterator of the tuples with the nodes and the score for\neach one, each pair, that is not already connected by an edge.\nAnd we can sort it and find which nodes have the highest score.\nAnd if we look at the two edges that we've been following, then we find that I,\nH has a score of 2, because their common neighbor G belongs to the same community\nas A do, whereas A, G has a score of 1.\nThe last measure we're going to look at is a measure that is similar to\nthe Resource Allocation index but it only takes into account nodes that are in\nthe same community as the two nodes we're looking at.\nSo if we're computing this measure which is called\nthe Resource Allocation Soundarajan-Hopcroft score.\nAnd this is after the researchers that came up with this measure of X and Y.\nThen what we do is we sum over all the neighbors of X and Y.\nAnd rather than summing just one over the degree of the nodes of the common\nneighbors like we did in the standard Resource Allocation index.\nWe now have this f(u) in the denominator of the fraction.\nAnd this function f(u) again is the same as before is 1,\nif u belongs to the same community as X and Y, and 0 otherwise.\nSo in the case where you have a common neighbor that does not belong to the same\ncommunity as X and Y, then that neighbor is not\ncontributing anything to the sum because you have a 0 in the numerator.\nAnd so if we look at some examples for the nodes A and C, we would find that,\nwell, because both of the neighbors B and D belong to the same community as A, C.\nThen we have the same score as we did before, and 1 over 3 plus 1 over 3,\nwhich is two-thirds for this Resource Allocation index.\nAnd if we look at for example, nodes E and I,\nwe find that well, they have one common node which is node G.\nAnd node G has a degree of 4, so it has a score of 1 over\n4 because G belongs to same community as E and I.\nHowever, if we look at two nodes that are not in the same community like A and G.\nThen they would have score 0 because their common neighbor, while they have one,\nnamely E, belongs to a different community as at least one of the two nodes.\nAnd so, it doesn't contribute anything to the sum, so\nthese two don't get anything in the sum.\nSo we get a score of 0. We can use this function in network X,\nra_index_soundarajan_hopcroft to compute the scores of all the non edges.\nAnd here, we find that I, H has a score of 0.25, whereas A, G has score of 0.\nAgain because A, G, their common neighbor is not in the same community,\nat least one of A and G.\nAnd so in this case again, we find that I, H has a higher score.\nOkay, so these were the seven measures I wanted to talk about today and\nI want to point out two things.\nOne, none of these measures actually tell you whether or not you should\npredict that a particular edge is going to come up in the future or not.\nIt just gives a score that is supposed to give you a sense for whether or\nnot these two nodes are likely to connect.\nThe second thing is that different measures can give you different scores,\nSo for example, we saw that some measures would give the edge H, I,\na higher score that A,G and some measures would do the opposite.\nAnd so these measures aren't necessarily consistent with each other.\nSo if you're actually trying to solve the link-prediction problem,\ntypically what would happen is that you would use these measures as features.\nAnd then you would use a classifier, if you have some label data, you would train\na classifier and use these measures as features in order to make the prediction.\nAnd so in summary,\nwe talked about the link prediction problem which says that given a network,\nwe\u00b4re tying to predict which edges are going to be formed in the future.\nAnd to do so, we've talked about the five different measures, the number of common\nneighbors, the Jaccard coefficient, which takes the number of common neighbors, but\nnormalizes by the total number of neighbors that the two nodes have.\nThe Resource Allocation index which is thinking along the lines of,\nif I know I needed to pass information or pass a resource to another node through\ntheir common neighbors, how much of that would actually get there?\nThe Adamic-Adar index which is similar to the Resource Allocation index, but\nit takes the log in the denominator.\nAnd the preferential attachment score which bases the score on the idea that in\npreferential attachment, nodes with high degree tend to accumulate more edges.\nAs well as two measures that require community information.\nSo if you do have community information on your network, then you can use these two,\nand they're very similar to other ones we saw above.\nWe have one that takes the common neighbors and it gives a bonus for\nthe common neighbors that are in the same community as the two nodes.\nAnd then the Resource Allocation one which only considers common\nneighbors that are in the same community as the two nodes.\nAnd this is all for this video, I hope to you see next time, thanks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 383, "original_length": 21259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pt.jango.com/music/Nick+Lowe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WXDQUYIKUEVGR3RF5EEMUJK4677ASNNK", "length": 920, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "pt.jango.com", "title": "Nick Lowe m\u00fasica - Escutar gr\u00e1tis na Jango || Fotos, v\u00eddeos, \u00e1lbuns, bio, f\u00e3s", "raw_content": "Nicholas Drain Lowe (born 24 March 1949, Walton-on-Thames), better known as Nick Lowe, is an English singer-songwriter, musician and producer. A pivotal figure in UK pub rock, punk rock and new wave, Lowe has recorded a string of well-reviewed solo albums. Along with vocals, Lowe plays guitar, bass guitar, piano and harmonica. He is best known for his songs \"(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding\" (a hit for Elvis Costello), \"Cruel to Be Kind\" (a U.S. Top 40 single), and \"I Love the Sound o...\nStations With Nick Lowe\nNick Lowe Radio\nPlays Nick Lowe along with similar artists like:\nBrinsley Schwarz, Sloan, Loudon Wainwright III, The Cars, 10cc\u2026\n70s Lite Rock\nEmerging in the 1970s, soft rock combines pop music with a singer-songwriter sensibility.\nChicago, Loggins & Messina, Gerry Rafferty, Kansas, Fleetwood Mac, Orleans, J\u2026\nVideos From Nick Lowe\nNutted By Reality\nShake And Pop\nStoplight Roses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 114.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pt.jango.com/music/Roy+Orbison", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:11Z", "digest": "sha1:WNNBUTEAIKDW5L32I6YVH2WQVY76RO4B", "length": 709, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "pt.jango.com", "title": "Roy Orbison m\u00fasica - Escutar gr\u00e1tis na Jango || Fotos, v\u00eddeos, \u00e1lbuns, bio, f\u00e3s", "raw_content": "Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 \u2013 December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter and musician, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis. His greatest success came with Monument Records in the early to mid 1960s when 22 of his songs placed on the US Billboard Top Forty, including \"Only the Lonely\", \"Cr...\nStations With Roy Orbison\nRoy Orbison Radio\nPlays Roy Orbison along with similar artists like:\nThe Everly Brothers, George Harrison, Johnny Rivers, Bobby Darin, Harry N\u2026\nVideos From Roy Orbison", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 105.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://quickdrama.com/series/to-jenny/?action=watching", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KRJDUNCV2NDB2NIM26QKWKSDXQGCCQQD", "length": 1021, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "quickdrama.com", "title": "To. Jenny (2018) Watch Online | QuickDrama", "raw_content": "Jeong Min is your typical music nerd. Give him a guitar and he will be able to make any song you want. He\u2019s a singer-songwriter who dreams to become a famous musician. However, after embarrassing himself in front of his first love, he developed stage fright. Na Ra is a member of a failed girl group. In her heyday, she was known for her beautiful looks. Now, she wishes she could disappear. To Jeong Min, Just looking at Na Ra makes his heart stop. Just hearing her voice makes his heart beat out of his chest. The fact that she\u2019s standing in front of him seems like a lie. Although he never had the courage to say hello, he has never forgotten the girl who is his first love. It wasn\u2019t anything fancy, but just as all first loves are, she was an image burrowed into his mind and his heart for the past 10 years. Now that Na Ra is standing in front of him, will he be able to muster up the courage to speak with her? Will he be able to fulfill his young dream of singing with her in harmony?\nStatus Season 01 - To. Jenny", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://quintonchester.com/2018/08/08/instagram-slides-js-slider/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MFTNQPKSAZWCXMBW5TMG3ZAAU2R2QQMM", "length": 855, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "quintonchester.com", "title": "Instagram Slick Slider | Quinton Chester", "raw_content": "This is something I\u2019ve been seeing on a few automotive websites that I\u2019ve wanted to replicate in some fashion. Initially I wondered if there was a WordPress plugin out there for this, and there is. Unfortunately, they all suck though. So I decided to make my own version of it. First, you will need to download two things\u2026 Instafeed.js and Slick\nOnce you have both of the mentioned dependencies you can get right to work. Instafeed does an incredible job giving you instructions on how to get your application set up and running which is really nice. Slick is super easy to use and very customizable, just look at the home page with all of the features available. That being said, I did continue running into an issue with Instafeed where I was getting a 404 Parse Error. But I found the solution right here. You can see the example from below on CodePen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rabbijohnrosove.wordpress.com/2018/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GJCVY3RO7WZ3YGU6UMOWKBLS2ZOWEEGH", "length": 2056, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "rabbijohnrosove.wordpress.com", "title": "January | 2018 | Rabbi John Rosove's Blog", "raw_content": "Israelis Love to Sing \u2013 Do yourself a favor and listen to Kookoolam!\nDo yourselves a favor and listen to this Kookoolam!\nhttps://www.facebook.com/koolulam/videos/207924146233\nHuman Rights Organizations: Everyone With a Heart Must be Against the Expulsion of Refugees\nI have written about the tragedy of the 40,000 Eritrean and Sudanese Refugees who walked across the desert to Israel escaping chaos and terror in their own countries several times over the past years and am heartsick that the government of Israel refuses to welcome these tempest-tost people for political asylum or in any other temporary status.\nI love Israel but this government action is unacceptable and contrary to the liberal Jewish values of welcoming the stranger.\nThe following is a report from the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants, Amnesty International Israel, ASSAF \u2013 Aid Organization for Refugees, ACRI \u2013 The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, Kav LaOved, Physicians for Human Rights \u2013 Israel, ARDC \u2013 African Refugee Development Center:\n\u201cIsrael is sending refugees to an unsafe state and many of them to their deaths. Rwanda is not safe. All eyewitness accounts tell us that those who are deported from Israel to Rwanda find themselves without status or rights and exposed to threats such as kidnapping, torture, and human trafficking. They are forced to continue their lives as refugees. Few of them succeed in surviving the journey and arrive in the end to a safe haven. The expulsion to Rwanda endangers the very lives of these refugees.\nIsrael deliberately prevents Africans from applying for asylum and then says that since they did not submit their requests, they will expel them. This year alone, 7,000 Eritreans and Sudanese tried to submit asylum applications, but the Population and Immigration Authority prevented them from physically doing so. The only office in the country where one can apply for asylum doesn\u2019t even allow for Africans to use their rights and refuses to take in the asylum applications of the thousands of them that wait in line for days.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 310, "original_length": 29249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rachel.blog/2016/11/01/the-haemorrhoid-bike-seat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:18Z", "digest": "sha1:L4URHSSABDBBQ5MDB6FNWXCVWV5MSMVM", "length": 2071, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "rachel.blog", "title": "The Haemorrhoid bike seat \u2013 Rachel", "raw_content": "Rachel M November 1, 2016 Journal\nFirst there was the condom poncho. Now I bring you the Haemorrhoid bike seat.\nI just got this new seat for my bike. The fantastic bike shop let me try three different seats for comfort. This one was the best. I haven\u2019t ridden any great distance on it yet so I can\u2019t give a full review but on my short trips to and from school it has been great.\nPS: I don\u2019t have haemorrhoids. I\u2019m vegan and eat a lot of fiber \ud83d\ude42\nPosted in Journal and tagged bicycle, cycling, diet, fiber, haemorrhoids, Vegan, vegetarian. Bookmark the permalink.\nGemma Evans\t on November 1, 2016 at 9:25 pm\nI couldn\u2019t not click on the title of this post haha! Enjoy your new seat! Oh and talking of fibre, we made this vegan chilli for dinner tonight: https://www.rivercottage.net/recipes/pinto-bean-chilli \ud83d\ude09\nRachel M\t on November 2, 2016 at 6:06 am\nYum! That looks really nice. I\u2019ll give it a try.\nveggablonde\t on November 1, 2016 at 10:15 pm\nI really wish I had a bike now!\nhttps://veggablonde.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/super-easy-vegan-pancakes/\nPedalWORKS\t on November 2, 2016 at 12:10 am\nHa. It looks a little like a toilet seat. Enjoy your new ride.\nIt does look like a toilet seat. I was not expecting it to be comfortable but it was. Out of the three I tried it was the best.\nThe mighty bakfiets \u2013 RachelSquirrel\t on November 8, 2016 at 1:41 pm\n[\u2026] seat. Elizabeth cried about having cold feet. And my arse is still sore thanks to the new haemorrhoid bike seat. I\u2019ve since put my old uncomfortable seat back on Harald. Busby also had a problem with [\u2026]\n[\u2026] It\u2019s not a soft and cushiony seat but comfortable, nevertheless. I can tell the bones in my pelvis are taking the weight rather than my private bits and so I can recommend it. I haven\u2019t gone any great distance on it yet \u2013 I\u2019m a commuter cyclist and cycle every day but only short distances. The furthest I\u2019ve gone is Newton Dee which is about 8-9 miles in total and it\u2019s fine for this length of time. It\u2019s definitely a huge improvement on the haemorrhoid seat. [\u2026]\nGovernment loses fight to poison the people", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://racinggamesw.wordpress.com/2013/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QJKSYGLPYH2DEMBPKMNP3DAHHOGKHZ2S", "length": 3397, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "racinggamesw.wordpress.com", "title": "May | 2013 | Racing Games", "raw_content": "Effing Worm with Another Installment\nTags: Effing Worms 2\nAlthough violence is not preferred but violent games are really amazing. These games are so interesting that a lot of time can be easily spent by playing them. Such a kind of game is Effing Worm. The game is full of challenges. First version of the game was a big success. That\u2019s why another version of the game has been developed with significant improvements. Once you start playing the game, you will play ti again and again. Trust me, this is the best game ever to play.\nIn Effing Worm Game, you have to play a role of a worm. This is not an ordinary worm. It is a human flesh eating worm. You need to roam around the city in search of human. There will be a hunger meter. If it goes down to zero then the game will be over. So, try to keep the meter always high to be in the game.\nFree Cheats Available for Earn to Die 2\nEarn to Die 2 is an attracting game that is played by many players. You have to struggle a lot to kill the zombies. The zombies will attack you and you have to overcome the attacks. You must kill the zombies before they attack you. Play, enjoy and finish this game.\nEarn to Die 2 is not so easy to play. While playing the game you will face lots of problems. The zombies will attack you too so you must be careful. In some of the levels of Earn to Die 2 you will feel that it is too tough to complete the game. If you use cheats you can complete the game quickly. The cheats will make the game very simple. The cheats give unlimited bullets and fuel so you can easily kill all the zombies. You can also get coins for upgrading the truck. Start playing and enjoy your time.\nEnjoy the Excitement of Bomb It Game\nHey boy, don\u2019t you love action games? I know, there will be hardly found any boys who don\u2019t like action games. That\u2019s why developers made a lot of action games. They always try their best to make something interesting. Bomb It is also not different from it. This game is full of challenges. There are different sequels of the game has been released. Here, we are going to discuss about its 5th sequel, which is Bomb It 5. Playing all day will never bore you.\nBomb It is a game which is filled with excitement. Here, you have to kill your enemies. You will be given bomb and you have to plant it so that you can kill them. There are three different gaming modes of the game. They are easy, medium, and difficult. Graphical environment of the game is also satisfying. You can easily control the game.\nPlay Online Bubble Pop Game\nTags: Bubble Pop Game\nBubble Pop Game is an exciting and thrilling game which is now available in our site to play for free. The game is made with an uncommon gaming concept and people really love to play the game. Some people are so crazy for the game that they don\u2019t stop playing until they finish this game.\nBubble Pop Game is a bubble shoot game. The bubbles are there organized on the game and there is list of colors. You have to shoot at only the particular colored bubbles that are listed there. You have to find the specific colored bubbles quickly and shoot at them. It is not so easy to shoot at only some specific bubbles so you will face some problems to play the game. iOS and Android based devices support this game which helps you to stay connected with the game when on the move. By downloading you can also play it if you don\u2019t have good internet connection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://radiopaedia.org/encyclopaedia/all/gynaecology?page=4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:10Z", "digest": "sha1:AJGSTHCMFPKJGRRQ4YVT4O6QJ2CYFKHA", "length": 28269, "nlines": 141, "source_domain": "radiopaedia.org", "title": "Articles | System: Gynaecology | Radiopaedia.org", "raw_content": "Neural tube defect (NTD) refers to the incomplete closure of the neural tube in very early pregnancy. 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The omphalomesenteric duct cyst is an embry...\nOro-facial-digital syndromes\nOro-facial-digital syndromes (OFDS) are a generic name for a variety of genetically heterogeneous disorders that result in malformations of the mouth, teeth, jaw, facial bones, hands, and feet. Classification There are several (at least 13 2 ) recognised subtypes which include: OFDS type I: G...\nOvarian adenofibroma\nAn ovarian adenofibroma is a type of ovarian epithelial tumor. Many authors however overlap this entity with an ovarian cystadenofibroma and consider these tumors are often as part of a adenofibroma - cystadenofibroma spectrum. Pathology Adenofibromas are benign compound tumors composed of int...\nThe ovarian artery is a paired structure and is the main gonadal artery in females. Gross anatomy Origin The ovarian artery arises anterolaterally from the aorta just inferior to the renal arteries and superior to the inferior mesenteric artery (between L2 and L3). Course Descends caudally ...\nOvarian borderline mucinous cystadenoma\nOvarian borderline mucinous cystadenomas are a subtype of ovarian mucinous tumors and, as the name stands, are intermediate between mucinous cystadenomas and mucinous cystadenocarcinomas. Epidemiology They account for ~ 10-15% of all ovarian mucinous tumors. Pathology They are microscopicall...\nThe most commonly adopted ovarian cancer staging system is the FIGO staging system. The most recent staging system is from 2014 1: CT is considered the best imaging modality for staging ovarian cancer. 4. stage I: tumor limited to the ovaries stage Ia: \u200btumor limited to one ovary capsule ...\nOvarian carcinoid tumors\nOvarian carcinoid tumors are very rare sub type of ovarian tumor. They are usually classified under ovarian germ cell tumors (monodermal teratoma 5). The term carcinoid tumor of the ovary can be used to described primary ovarian carcinoid tumors or metastatic carcinoid tumors to the ovary. The f...\nOvarian choriocarcinoma\nAn ovarian choriocarcinoma is a rare sub type of ovarian germ cell tumor. Epidemiology They account for less than 1% of ovarian tumors. Clinical presentation In pre-menarchal patients, the tumors manifest with iso-sexual precocity (approximately 50% of cases) and other symptoms associated w...\nOvarian cysts are commonly encountered in gynecological imaging, and vary widely in etiology, from physiologic, to complex benign, to neoplastic. Small cystic ovarian structures should be considered normal ovarian follicles unless the patient is pre-pubertal, post-menopausal, pregnant, or the m...\nOvarian cystadenocarcinofibroma\nAn ovarian cystadenocarcinofibroma (CACF) is an extremely rare ovarian tumor. The tumor has a fibrous component is considered as the malignant counterpart of an ovarian cystadenofibroma (CAF) 1. There is very little literature on the imaging findings of these.\nOvarian cystadenofibroma\nAn ovarian cystadenofibroma (CAF) is a relatively uncommon benign epithelial ovarian tumor where the fibrous stroma remains a dominant component of the neoplasm. As a group they are thought to represent ~1.7 % of all benign ovarian tumors 3. Pathology Although generally classified as an epithe...\nOvarian cystadenoma is a broad term given to a certain types of ovarian epithelial tumors. This can include ovarian serous cystadenoma ovarian borderline serous cystadenoma ovarian mucinous cystadenoma ovarian borderline mucinous cystadenoma ovarian cystadenofibroma See also ovarian tumors\nOvarian cystic neoplasms\nOvarian cystic neoplasms can be either benign or malignant and can arise from epithelial, stromal, or germ cell components. In general, the risk of malignancy in unilocular cystic tumors <10 cm in women over the age of 50 years is thought to be low 3-4. benign ovarian mature cystic teratoma c...\nOvarian dysgerminomas are a type of germ cell tumor of the ovary. They are the most common malignant germ cell tumors of the ovary and are thought to account for ~1% of all ovarian neoplasms 5. Epidemiology They are rare ovarian tumors that occur predominantly in young women (majority occurrin...\nOvarian ectopic pregnancy\nOvarian ectopic pregnancies are rare (1-3%) when compared to other types of ectopic pregnancy such as tubal ectopic. Pathology Risk factors Risk factors include pelvic inflammatory disease, IUCD use, endometriosis, in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer 3, and previous adnexal surgery 4. Pa...\nOvarian embryonal carcinoma\nOvarian embryonal carcinomas are rare and malignant germ cell tumors of the ovary. Epidemiology It is found predominantly in children and adolescents (average age 14 years). Clinical presentation Precocious puberty or menstrual irregularity occurs in 60% 2. The tumor can secrete beta-hCG and...\nOvarian fibromas are a benign ovarian tumor of sex cord / stromal origin. Although fibromas account for ~4% of all ovarian neoplasms, they are the most common sex cord ovarian tumor. Epidemiology Fibromas occur at all ages but are most frequently seen in middle-aged women. Clinical presentati...\nOvarian fibromatosis\nOvarian fibromatosis (OF) refers to a rare benign phenomenon where there is tumor-like ovarian enlargement due to diffuse ovarian fibrosis. Epidemiology It may have a predilection towards younger pre-menopausal females (age range around 13-39 years) with a mean age of presentation of 25 years ...\nOvarian fibrosarcoma\nOvarian fibrosarcoma is a malignant mesenchymal fibroblastic tumor of the ovary that has multiple mitotic figures which is the most important factor in histopathological diagnosis (4 or more mitotic figure per 10 high power fields). Epidemiology Ovarian fibrosarcoma is a very rare malignant o...\nOvarian fibrothecomas comprise tumors in the spectrum of ovarian sex cord / stromal tumors where there are components of both an ovarian fibroma and an ovarian thecoma. Epidemiology Most occur in adult women, with ~66% in postmenopausal women. Although they account for ~1% of all ovarian tumo...\nAn ovarian follicle (also known as a Graafian follicle in its mature state) is the basic unit of female reproductive biology and is composed of roughly spherical aggregations of cells. It contains a single oocyte. An ovarian follicle can be initiated to grow and develop, culminating in ovulati...\nOvarian follicular cyst\nAn ovarian follicular cyst is type of simple physiological ovarian cyst. Terminology The terms \"ovarian cyst\" and \"ovarian follilcular cyst\" are often used interchangeably. These two terms describe lesions >3 cm, and it is important to differentiate them from an \"ovarian follicle\" which is <3 ...\nOvarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a complication of ovarian stimulation treatment (ovarian induction therapy) for in vitro fertilisation. Rarely, it may also occur as a spontaneous event in pregnancy (see spontaneous ovarian hyperstimulation later in the article). The clinical syndrom...\nOvarian hyperthecosis\nOvarian hyperthecosis (OHT) is a condition where there is a presence of luteinized thecal cells within a hyperplastic ovarian stroma. Clinical presentation Clinical manifestations include hyperandrogenism, obesity, hypertension, and impaired glucose tolerance. Virilization has been reported to...\nOvarian lesions with T2 hypointensity\nA hypointense ovarian lesion on T2 weighted MRI is usually a sign of benignity. The low signal is considered to be due to fibrosis and blood products 1. Lesions that can give this appearance include 1: endometrioma Brenner tumor ovarian fibroma ovarian fibrothecoma ovarian cystadenofibrom...\nOvarian lymphoma can refer to primary involvement of the ovaries with lymphoma (i.e. primary ovarian lymphoma): very rare secondary ovarian involvement of the ovaries with generalised lymphoma (i.e. secondary ovarian lymphoma): more common scenario\nMucinous cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary is a rare malignant ovarian mucinous tumor. This type can account for 5-10% of all ovarian mucinous tumors. It is a type of ovarian epithelial tumor. Pathology Retrospective studies have suggested that many mucinous carcinomas initially diagnosed as pr...\nMucinous cystadenoma of the ovary is at the benign end of the spectrum of mucin-containing epithelial ovarian tumors. Epidemiology The estimated peak incidence is at around 30-50 years of age. They comprise approximately 80% of mucinous ovarian tumors and 20-25% of all benign ovarian tumors....\nOvarian mucinous tumors\nOvarian mucinous tumors are a subgroup of ovarian epithelial tumors. They represent ~20% of all ovarian tumors and ~10% of all malignant ovarian tumors. They are subdivided according to their malignant potential and clinical behavior into: ovarian mucinous cystadenoma ovarian borderline mucino...\nOvarian serous cystadenocarcinoma is an ovarian epithelial tumor at the malignant end of the spectrum of ovarian serous tumors. Epidemiology They account for the largest proportion of malignant ovarian tumors 1, representing over 50-80% of all malignant epithelial ovarian tumors 4. The prevale...\nOvarian serous cystadenoma\nOvarian serous cystadenomas are a type of benign ovarian epithelial tumor at the benign end of the spectrum of ovarian serous tumors. Epidemiology Serous cystadenomas account for ~60% of ovarian serous tumors 1. They are the commonest type of ovarian epithelial neoplasm. The peak incidence is ...\nOvarian serous tumors\nOvarian serous neoplasms are the commonest of four general types of the epithelial ovarian tumors, and are more prevalent than the mucinous ovarian tumors. Serous ovarian neoplasms are subdivided into benign, borderline, and malignant lesions according to their malignant potential and clinical ...\nOvarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumor\nOvarian Sertoli-Leydig cell tumors (SLCT), also known as an ovarian androblastomas, are a subtype of ovarian sex cord-stromal tumor. Epidemiology They are rare and only account for ~0.5% of all ovarian tumors. While they can present at any age, they typically present <30 years old, with a mean...\nOvarian teratomas is the most common group of ovarian germ cell tumors. They can be divided into 3 main sub types mature ovarian teratoma immature ovarian teratoma specialized teratoma struma ovarii tumor See also ovarian tumors\nOvarian thecoma\nOvarian thecomas are benign ovarian tumors of sex cord / stromal (mesenchymal) origin. They are thought to account for approximately 0.5-1% of all ovarian tumors. As ovarian thecomas secrete estrogen, they are described as functional ovarian tumors. Epidemiology They typically present in older...\nOvarian torsion, also sometimes termed adnexal torsion or tubo-ovarian torsion, refers to rotation of the ovary and portion of the fallopian tube on the supplying vascular pedicle. It can be intermittent or sustained and results in venous, arterial and lymphatic stasis. It is a gynecological e...\nOvarian transposition is a surgical procedure in which the ovaries are displaced from the pelvis before pelvic radiation therapy in order to protect them from radiation injury. It is performed in premenopausal women with a variety of pelvic malignancies (e.g cervical cancer, rectal cancer, and ...\nOvarian tumors are relatively common and account for ~6% of female malignancies. This article focuses on the general classification of ovarian tumors. For specific features, refer to the subarticles. Pathology Subtypes Primary ovarian tumors Surface epithelial-stromal ovarian tumors (60-70%)...\nOvarian tumors associated with endometrial thickening\nThere are several ovarian tumors associated with endometrial thickening and is often due to oestrogenic effects of the ovarian tumor. Such tumors include: ovarian epithelial tumors endometroid carcinoma of the ovary may have synchronous endometrial carcinoma or endometrial hyperplasia, prese...\nOvarian vein syndrome is a relatively rare condition where a dilated ovarian vein causes notching, dilatation, or obstruction of the ureter. This is usually secondary to varicoses of the ovarian vein or ovarian vein thrombosis and occurs at the point where the ovarian vein crosses the ureter.\nOvarian vein thrombosis (actually most often a thrombophlebitis) occurs most commonly in postpartum patients and can result in pulmonary emboli. A presentation is usually with acute pelvic pain in the postpartum period, then termed puerperal ovarian vein thrombosis or postpartum ovarian vein th...\nOvarian yolk sac tumor\nOvarian yolk sac tumors, also known as endodermal sinus tumors, are a type of ovarian germ cell tumors. Epidemiology Ovarian yolk sac tumor is a rare malignant ovarian germ cell tumor that usually occurs around the second decade of life. It is considered the most common malignant germ cell tum...\nThe ovaries are paired female gonads of the reproductive and endocrine systems. They lie within the ovarian fossa on the posterior wall of the true pelvis. Gross anatomy The ovaries are ovoid in shape and measure approximately 1.5-3.0 cm x 1.5-3.0 cm x 1.0-2.0 cm (length x width x thickness) ...\nOverlapping fetal fingers\nOverlapping fetal fingers is an antenatal ultrasound observation where the fetal fingers are seen to overlap each other. It may be seen seen with a concurrent clenched fetal hand. If the hand is clenched typically the 2nd finger is seen to overlap the 3rd 4. Pathology Associations a well re...\nP16 is a widely used immunohistochemical marker. It can be expressed in other neoplasms and in several normal human tissues. It can play an important role in gynecological malignancy and is a surrogate marker for HSILs (high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions). It has also been employed to f...\nPallister Killian syndrome\nPallister-Killian syndrome (PKS) is an extremly rare chromosomal anomaly. Epidemiology It may be more prevalent in woman of advanced age 4. Pathology It is a polymalformative complex with tetrasomy of isochromosome 12p although many cases are mosaic. Genetics The majority of cases are th...\nPapillary serous carcinoma of the cervix\nA papillary serous carcinoma of the cervix (PSCC) is an uncommon histological type of cervical cancer. It is considered a sub type of adenocarcinoma of the cervix. Epidemiology Accodring to some studies, there was a bimodal age distribution, with one peak occurring before the age of 40 years ...\nPapillary serous carcinoma of the endometrium\nPapillary serous carcinoma of the endometrium is an uncommon histological subtype of endometrial carcinoma accounting for only 5-10% of all such tumors 2. It is considered type II endometrial adenocarcinoma and has a clinically aggressive form with an early extension of the tumor via Fallopian t...\nPapillary squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix\nPapillary squamous cell carcinoma (PSCC) of the cervix is a distinct subtype of squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix. Pathology These tumors are characterized by a papillary architecture containing fibrovascular cores and moderate to severe dysplasia without any of frank keratinization and ko...\nThe parametrium is a band of fibrous tissue that separates the supravaginal portion of the cervix from the bladder. It extends on to its sides and laterally between the layers of the broad ligaments. The uterine artery and ovarian ligament are located in the parametrium. The parametrium is imp...\nParaovarian cysts (POCs) are remnants of Wolffian duct in the mesosalpinx that do not arise from the ovary. They account for ~10-20% of adnexal masses 3-4. Epidemiology They typically occur in women at the ages of 20-40 years old. Clinical presentation Most are asymptomatic, although patient...\nParaovarian cystadenoma\nParaovarian cystadenoma is a usually benign adnexal tumor that does not arise from the ovary. There is an association with Von Hippel Lindau syndrome. Radiographic features Pelvic ultrasound typically seen as a unilateral cystic adnexal lesion may be a simple cyst, or contain solid nodular a...\nParasitic leiomyoma\nParasitic leiomyomas are considered a type of extra-uterine leiomyoma and present as peritoneal pelvic benign smooth-muscle masses separate from the uterus. Pathology It likely originates as a pedunculated subserosal leiomyoma that twists and torses from its uterine pedicle. The contact with ...\nThe paraurethral ducts (or Skene ducts) drain the paraurethral glands of the female urethra. There is one duct, draining each gland, on each side, just proximal to the external urethral meatus. Related pathology paraurethral duct cyst paraurethral duct abscess\nParaurethral duct cyst\nParaurethral duct cysts are retention cysts that form secondary to inflammatory obstruction of the paraurethral (Skene) ducts in females. Pathology The cysts are lined by stratified squamous epithelium due to their origin from the urogenital sinus. Clinical presentation Usually asymptomatic....\nPartial hydatidiform mole\nPartial hydatidiform mole is a type of hydatidiform mole, which in turn falls under the spectrum of gestational trophoblastic disease. Clinical presentation Clinical signs and symptoms such as abdominal pain, cramps of the lower abdomen and vaginal bleeding during pregnancy are common but non...\nParturition-induced pelvic instability\nParturition-induced pelvic instability is a rare condition seen in women following vaginal delivery. Epidemiology The incidence of symphyseal rupture after vaginal delivery ranges from one in 600 to one in 30,000 deliveries 1. Predisposing factors include multiparity, complicated delivery, ...\nA pelvic abscess refers to a walled-off collection of pus in the pelvis. Pathology Etiology Some of the causes include: pelvic inflammatory disease (tubo-ovarian abscess) iatrogenic e.g. post surgical inflammatory bowel disease pelvic actinomycosis infection diverticulitis Clinical pre...\nPelvic actinomycosis infection is rare but serious infection caused by Actinomyces sp, an opportunistic gram-positive bacteria usually introduced by foreign bodies specially IUCDs, surgery, or trauma. It generally falls under the broader spectrum of pelvic inflammatory disease. Pathology Pelvi...\nPelvic cervical carcinoma protocol (MRI)\nA dedicated pelvic MRI protocol is very useful for imaging assessment of cervical carcinoma. Although the FIGO is a clinical staging, the 2009 revised FIGO staging encourages the use of MRI to complement clinical staging. Preparation Imaging is optimally performed after three hours of fasting...\nPelvic congestion syndrome (some prefer pelvic venous insufficiency 9) is a condition that results from retrograde flow through incompetent valves in ovarian veins. It is a commonly missed and potentially-treatable cause of chronic abdominopelvic pain. Epidemiology It tends to be more common ...\nPelvic inflammatory disease (PID) is a broad term that encompasses a spectrum of infection and inflammation of the upper female genital tract, resulting in a range of abnormalities. Epidemiology The highest incidence is seen among sexually-active women in their teens, with 75% cases being und...\nPelvic lipomatosis or pelvic fibrolipomatosis represents excessive deposition of fat in pelvis due to overgrowth of adipose cells leading to compression of pelvic organs. Epidemiology The condition usually presents in patients 20-50 years of age. The condition is predominantly (2/3 of cases) s...\nPelvic masses in females\nPelvic masses in females carry a broad differential diagnosis: benign adnexal cyst: 34% leiomyoma: 14% pelvic malignancy: 14% dermoid: 13% endometriosis: 10% pelvic inflammatory disease: 8% tubo-ovarian abscess hydrosalpinx pregnancy Extra-gynecological masses, e.g. colorectal carcinom...\nPelvic MRI protocol: endometrial carcinoma\nA dedicated MRI protocol is crucial for accurate MRI evaluation of endometrial carcinomas. Imaging is optimally peformed after 3 hours of fasting to reduce bowel peristalsis and following administration of an anti-peristaltic agent unless contra-indicated. Supine position using a pelvic phased...\nPelvic pain in the exam\nIt is important to have a systematic way of approaching a case with pelvic pain in the exam. Most examinations are performed using ultrasound. Always say that you would further assess the uterus with 3D ultrasound. You may also say that in my department we would perform a sonohysterogram. Only...\nPelvic protocol for endometriosis (MRI)\nEvaluation of known endometriosis with MRI requires a slightly different protocol to a routine pelvic MRI (see Pelvic MRI protocol: routine), and should probably be reserved for known cases of endometriosis rather than for the assessment of pelvic pain. IV (or IM) Buscopan\u00ae is administered to r...\nPelvic ultrasound is usually the initial modality for imaging gynaecologic pathology, including acute pelvic pain and chronic pelvic pain. The exam normally involves two components: a transabdominal (TA) evaluation and a transvaginal (TV) / endovaginal (EV) evaluation. Normal ultrasound anatomy...\nThe term pelvis can refer to either the bony pelvis or the pelvic cavity. Bony pelvis The bony pelvis is formed by the sacrum and coccyx and a pair of hip bones (\"ossa coxae\"), which are part of the appendicular skeleton. Its primary function is the transmission of forces from the axial skelet...\nPerigestational hemorrhage\nPerigestational hemorrhage refers to hemorrhage that occurs around the fetus during the gestational period. The spectrum of hemorrhage includes: chorionic hemorrhage: caused by the separation of the chorion from the endometrium subchorionic hemorrhage: most common type, occurs between the cho...\nPerigestational hemorrhage in the exam\nGetting a film with perigestational hemorrhage in the exam is one of the many exam set-pieces that can be prepared for. Description Transabdominal and transvaginal (TV) pelvic ultrasound shows an anteverted uterus with an intrauterine gestational sac. MSD is 20 mm in TV study with a single, l...\nPerinatal lethal hypophosphatasia\nPerinatal lethal hypophosphatasia (PLH) is the most severe form of hypophosphatasia. If untreated, it is lethal in all cases. Epidemiology The estimated incidence is at ~1:100,000 live births. Pathology Genetics As with all hypophosphatasia cases, this is due to a mutation in chromosome 1q3...\nThe perineum is a diamond shaped region below the pelvic diaphragm and is divided by an imaginary line drawn between the ischial tuberosities into anteriorly the urogenital triangle and posteriorly the anal triangle. Gross anatomy The perineum is bounded by the pubis anteriorly, the ischial tu...\nPeritoneal inclusion cyst (PIC) (also known as a peritoneal pseudocyst and benign cystic mesothelioma) is a type of cyst-like structure that appears in relation to the peritoneum and results from a non-neoplastic reactive mesothelial proliferation. Epidemiology Peritoneal inclusion cysts occur...\nPerivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComas)\nPerivascular epithelioid cells tumors (PEComas) are a group of related mesenchymal tumors and tumor-like conditions found in many locations. This group includes: angiomyolipoma (AML) clear cell 'sugar' tumor of the lung lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) clear cell myomelanocytic tumor (CCMMT) ...\nPersistent right umbilical vein\nA persistent right umbilical vein (PRUV) is an uncommon vascular anomaly which is often detected in utero. Epidemiology The estimated prevalence is ~2 per 1000 births 1,2. Pathology In the normal situation, the right umbilical vein begins to obliterate in the ~4th week of gestation and disap...\nPer vaginal bleeding in the exam\nIt is important to have a systematic way of approaching a case with per vaginal bleeding in the exam. Premenopausal embedded IUD lost IUD submucosal fibroid Pregnancy related perigestational hemorrhage intrauterine fetal demise ectopic pregnancy ruptured ectopic cervical ectopic int...\nPET-CT indications\nPET-CT is a combination of cross-sectional anatomic information provided by CT and the metabolic information provided by positron emission tomography (PET). PET is most commonly performed with 2-[F-18]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG). Fluorine-18 (F-18) is an unstable radioisotope and has a half-...\nPhysiological gut herniation\nPhysiological gut herniation is a natural phenomenon that occurs in early pregnancy. It usually occurs from around 6-8 weeks up until 12-13 weeks in-utero, after which the bowel returns to the abdominal cavity. Physiology It occurs as a result of the bowel (particularly ileum) growing faster ...\nPhysiological pelvic intraperitoneal fluid\nPhysiological pelvic intraperitoneal fluid refers to the presence of a small volume of free fluid in the pelvis, particularly the pouch of Douglas. It occurs in young females of reproductive age and can be a mimic of traumatic free fluid in abdominal trauma. Unfortunately, pelvic free fluid may...\nPlacental abruption in the exam\nGetting a film with placental abruption (premature separation of placenta from uterus) in the exam is one of the many exam set-pieces that can be prepared for. Description Transabdominal and transvaginal pelvic ultrasound show a single live fetus with gestational age of 27 weeks. The cervix i...\nPlacental calcification has been considered a manifestation of \u201caging\u201d of the placenta. It commonly increases with gestational age. Delayed placental calcification maternal diabetes Rh sensitization Accelerated placental calcification normal placental maturity maternal thrombotic disorder...\nPlacental chorioangiomatosis is an extremely rare condition where numerous placental chorioangiomas involve the placenta. The individual chorioangiomas can be of varying size. Complications Recognised complications include precipitation of fetal hydrops 2 fetal anemia fetal cerebral embol...\nPlacental fusion is a phenomenon that can occur in a twin pregnancy. This can occur to varying degrees. Determination of chorionicity on ultrasound can sometimes be difficult if there has been a placental fusion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 426, "original_length": 33299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://raleigh.faithsandbox.org/parish/newman-catholic-student-center-chapel-hill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:10Z", "digest": "sha1:P4K3X5QM5MPKLBF3FABI2QGZ3NEYYWRW", "length": 102, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "raleigh.faithsandbox.org", "title": "Newman Catholic Student Center-Chapel Hill", "raw_content": "Pastor and Campus Minister\nReverend Justin Ross, OFM. Conv.\nReverend William J. Robinson, O.F.M. Conv.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 2946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 131.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://raysikes.com/books/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:FUO6VMQJUEAKRYMIEAMHXRVSGRNEBTZF", "length": 596, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "raysikes.com", "title": "Books | Ray Sikes Books \u2013 Ray Sikes", "raw_content": "Ray Sikes creates an engaging and vivid world with characters that are altogether believable and human. This collection starts off with a dozen stories about a boy growing up in the \u201960s and \u201970s. At various times nostalgic, humorous, and poignant, these stories above all else depict life as it is actually lived.\nRay Sikes conveys not only his own experiences, but he also gives concise guidance for living a truly Christian life. This story of sin and redemption is uniquely his own, but his conclusions about what it means to believe in Jesus will benefit virtually any earnest seeker of God.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 210.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rcdop.org/news/final-profession-of-vows", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:50Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6Z5NM2J7VAVZH4LUV5PADPJAX2QETLP", "length": 1200, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "rcdop.org", "title": "Final profession of vows - Diocese of Paterson - Clifton, NJ", "raw_content": "Final profession of vows\nBishop Serratelli stands with the Franciscan Sisters who attended the final profession of vows of two Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth \u2014 Sister Gaudensiana Dhey of Our Lady of Lourdes and Sister Mariana Sola of Our Lady of Mount Carmel \u2014 on Aug. 26 in the chapel of the Franciscan Sisters\u2019 St. Francis Novitiate in Parsippany.\nTwo Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth make profession of final vows\nPARSIPPANY\u2002Bishop Serratelli presided in the chapel of the Franciscan Sisters\u2019 St. Francis Novitiate here Aug. 26 at the profession of final vows of two Franciscan Sisters of St. Elizabeth \u2014 Sister Gaudensiana Dhey of Our Lady of Lourdes, who entered the order on July 26, 2006, and Sister Mariana Sola of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who entered the order on Aug. 9, 2007.\nThe two religious sisters are originally from Ruteng, Indonesia.\nThey serve in the order\u2019s community in Parsippany, which runs St. Elizabeth Nursery and Montessori School. In addition to serving in education, the order\u2019s apostolic work includes: health care, assistance to the elderly and infirm, catechetical and parish apostolates in local parishes along with evangelization and other charitable works.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 251.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://redglarerecords.com/policies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TFUS354PO7VVJBEDEOHYASYZIWFRHZ6U", "length": 172, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "redglarerecords.com", "title": "redglare records", "raw_content": "Shipping and return policies for redglare records\nwe ship as quickly as possible. that being said, we are a small label and sometimes it takes a few days to get things out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reedsy.com/hannah-roberts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:36Z", "digest": "sha1:2BFQMCS4NBS4JYO6ZIKJ5BHRITF2P7W4", "length": 475, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "reedsy.com", "title": "Hannah Roberts in london | Reedsy", "raw_content": "Reedsy profile URL https://reedsy.com/hannah-roberts\nAimee Longos\nExperienced Editor and writer specialising in self-help, wellbeing, psychology, health and science, non-fiction titles. Formerly of Penguin.\nDanette Byatt\nI illustrate children's picture books, middle grade and graphic novels. I'm also an award-winning graphic designer with 7 years experience.\nJoin Reedsy to request a free quote from Hannah and over 1,000 similar profiles.\nhttps://reedsy.com/hannah-roberts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reginawalkerauthor.com/2013/01/19/recognizing-change/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:55Z", "digest": "sha1:5CR4VVCNIWTXLXJPSB3M7M5RWZ74K4DZ", "length": 2676, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "reginawalkerauthor.com", "title": "Recognizing Change | Regina Walker", "raw_content": "Hypocrite or Human? \u2192\nSometimes change is hard to recognize, especially when it happens gradually. The thing I found is, I often try to function based on \u201cold\u201d information, and am not functioning based on the changes. This can be frustrating for me, and the people around me.\nCurrently, the change I\u2019ve noticed is personal, and is a huge shift. I don\u2019t know exactly when it happened, but since I\u2019ve acknowledged it and quit forcing myself to function based on how I used to be, I\u2019m a lot more at peace.\nSee, I used to be the \u201con-the-go\u201d girl. In fact, the kids and I were rarely, if ever, home. Between church things, friend things, play groups and what not, I had something to do, somewhere to be, every day. I would load up my kids, kids I was watching, any kids, and go.\nI was usually the one that went to a friend\u2019s house instead of hosting a get together. I just never stopped going, going, going. And I wanted it that way, in fact, when I didn\u2019t get to go, go, go, I went crazy. I got cabin fever, and felt cooped up and stressed out.\nFast forward to now, and I\u2019m home schooling once again. I have errands that occasionally need to be run, and trips to the library to make. Yet, I never want to go anywhere. At first, I was trying to function with the \u201cgo, go, go\u201d thought, even going so far as to beat myself up and accuse myself of being lazy. But it\u2019s not like I\u2019m staying home to nap. I just don\u2019t want to go to the store. Or anywhere, really.\nI never used to understand my hermit friends\u2026especially when they gave lists to their hubby\u2019s and sent them shopping. I could not for the life of me fathom why one would do such a thing. Even if I had to go with 4 or 5 kids in tow, I wanted to go. But, guess what friends? I get it!\nMy hunny came in two nights ago and asked what was for dinner. I told him sloppy joes but that I needed to go get veggies to go with dinner. He said \u201cI\u2019ll stay here with the kids so you can go.\u201d Instead of jumping for joy at going somewhere by myself and having a solitary moment, I was pouting because he didn\u2019t say he would go to the store. When I confessed that I didn\u2019t want to go to the store, he took a list and got everything I asked him to. Well, he came back with 6 less eggs than I asked for\u2026but I think I can overlook that.\nI stayed home with the kids, happily \u2013 even passing up the moment of solitude that I could have had. And I am realizing that I\u2019ve changed, and our home is where I want to be, even with all of the chaos, all of the messes, and all of the crazy boys.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged boys, change, home, husbands, lists, on the go, outtings, shopping, stay at home. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 7553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 238.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rehabreviews.com/egyptian-public-and-mental-health-department-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:28Z", "digest": "sha1:NLMEWPKN42YPKUHVYM6AK5OO27LQ4P3S", "length": 6191, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "rehabreviews.com", "title": "Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department Reviews, Cost, Complaints", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbRehab Reviews\u00bbOutpatient\u00bbEgyptian Public and Mental Health Department\nEgyptian Public and Mental Health Department\nSince 1972, The Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department has offered a variety of outpatient behavioral health and human services for adults and adolescents with a network of facilities across the state of Illinois. Currently, EPMHD has offices in Eldorado, Carmi, Ridgeway and Shawneetown, with all except the Ridgeway location offering substance abuse treatment and dual diagnosis support for adolescents. Adult treatment services include group and individual therapy sessions using CBT and DBT, though adolescents are not offered group therapy sessions.\nTreatment at EPMHD begins with an intake process and a clinical assessment to determine an appropriate level of care. Following intake, an individualized treatment plan is developed which decides the frequency of group and individual sessions. There are no medication management services available on-site, but referrals are provided upon request.\nAdults in need of mental health and substance abuse services are required to attend a minimum of one group session each week. Group therapy is scheduled Monday through Friday at various times throughout the day. Each two-hour session is led by an LADC, CADC or LPC covering topics such as living in balance, anger management, trauma, parenting and coping skills. Some counselors also introduce 12-step principles during sessions, though this is not central to programming. Aside from groups, clients can also schedule hour-long individual sessions on an as-needed basis.\nAdolescents seeking treatment have access to a Mental Illness and Substance Abuse (MISA) specialist who treats dual diagnosis issues in an individual setting. Therapists address issues such as self-esteem, emotional and physical health, substance abuse education, goals, relapse prevention and healthy recovery environments. Family members are encouraged to participate in the recovery process by attending therapy as well. Sessions are typically an hour long and can be held at home, in school or in an office setting. Those requiring only mental health support can attend sessions focused on their specific needs as well.\nParticipation in a 12-step program is not mandatory for clients receiving treatment at EPMHD, though AA/NA meetings are encouraged. While there are no on-site meetings available, information and referrals to local support groups in the community are provided upon request.\nStaff members at EPMHD consists of LADCs, LPCs, CADCs, MISA counselors and counselors with at least a Bachelor\u2019s degree in social work. Treatment techniques include evidence-based modalities like CBT and DBT.\nEPMHC also has family based services which include Family Resource Developers (FRD) hosted at local schools which provide education and support to struggling parents. There\u2019s also the Comprehensive Community-Based Youth Services Program which holds group activities aimed at promoting healthy communication in families. The program works with youth between the ages of 11 and 17. A crisis intervention phone line is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for any mental health or substance abuse related emergencies. HIV/ AIDS prevention education and tobacco programs are also available.\nIndividuals between the ages of 14 and 21 who have been receiving mental health counseling have access to a Transition to Independence Program (TIP). This is an intensive track which offers individual therapy using the TIP model to assist clients in finding educational and vocational opportunities. There\u2019s also the Circle of Youth program, which is a 24/7 supervised group home for wards of the state who are pregnant or who have children. Residents must be between the ages of 13 and 20 and parenting and life skills training are included.\nA community support program for adults in need of mental health care is also available. This track includes educational classes aimed at reducing the possibility of psychiatric hospitalization. Other services include the Individual Placement and Support (IPS) program, which assists adults in obtaining employment. Mental health and sustaining care options are available as well to teach clients how to use social service programs. EPMHD has a range of nursing care options as well, supported by a team of RNs, LPNs and LSWs who can provide at-home visits for clients dealing with a variety of illnesses.\nOther assorted services include the Women, Infants, Children (WIC) program, which provides diet assessments, nutrition counseling and coupons for infant formulas to qualified clients. Pregnant women or mothers of young infants have access to family case management with can include counseling, transportation and education, though case management is available to those of all ages.\nFinally, STD/HIV and TB tests and immunizations are available through EPMHD, as well as prevention education classes related to HIV. There\u2019s also a program for family planning focused on preventing unwanted pregnancies through education and therapy.\nIn all, the Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department serves communities in Saline, Gallatin and White County through a variety of behavioral health care options. Treatment for those with chemical dependency and mental health disorders is highly customized though relatively non-intensive. While those in need of a more comprehensive program may require more structure as well as more sessions each week, Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department has a broad state-wide reach and a variety of unique support programs.\nEgyptian Public and Mental Health Department Cost: Sliding scale. Reach Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department by phone at (618) 273-3326 or by email at [email protected]. Find Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department on Facebook\nDo you have a complaint or review of Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department to add? Use the comments area below to add your Egyptian Public and Mental Health Department review.\nPhoto courtesy of Ruhe1986 at English Wikipedia [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via WikimediaCommons (resized and cropped)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 9199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://remedies-and-recipes.com/article/c-blood-pressure-potential", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:29Z", "digest": "sha1:67K3F5FHB5HZ7JQ66M7JLE6POY6FVNYU", "length": 1316, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "remedies-and-recipes.com", "title": "C Blood Pressure Potential | Remedies and Recipes", "raw_content": "\u201cOur research suggests a modest blood pressure lowering effect with vitamin C supplementation, but before we can recommend supplements as treatment for high blood pressure, we really need more research to understand the implications of taking them,\u201d said Edgar \u201cPete\u201d Miller III, MD, PhD, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.\nAbout 30 percent of American adults have high blood pressure, or hypertension, an important risk factor for heart disease and stroke. Successful treatments may include drugs, exercise, weight loss, and dietary changes such as reducing salt intake. Some experts believe that large amounts of vitamin C can lower pressure as well.\nThe Johns Hopkins researchers found that taking an average of 500 milligrams (mg) of vitamin C daily reduced blood pressure by 3.84 millimeters of mercury in the short term. Among those already diagnosed with hypertension, the drop was nearly 5 millimeters. By comparison, Dr. Miller said patients who take blood pressure medication can expect a reduction of about 10 millimeters of mercury.\n\u201cIf the entire US population lowered blood pressure by 3 millimeters of mercury, there would be a lot fewer strokes,\u201d he said.\nFive hundred mg of vitamin C is the amount in about six cups of orange juice. The recommended daily intake for adults is 90 mg.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 165.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://remodelingsmallkitchen.com/california/red-arrow-mobile-home-park.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:13Z", "digest": "sha1:AI4AMTCN5AX7RW5CJA6764F6AWTQ34V4", "length": 3749, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "remodelingsmallkitchen.com", "title": "Remodeling Small Kitchen in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California", "raw_content": "Remodeling Small Kitchen in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California\nTransforming Your Small Kitchen in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California into Your Dreams on a Budget\nIt doesn't take a great deal of money in order to completely transform your kitchen. Many improvements have been made to kitchens with minimal planning and capital in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California. It's possible to get your kitchen remodel done for only $2,000 to $4,000.\nRed Arrow Mobile Home Park Remodeling Small Kitchen\nFor many people, the kitchen is the heart of the home and it needs to be represented well. If you're really working with a small budget take advantage of the power of paint and how color is simple but extremely powerful. Sometimes the most satisfying remodeling projects in CA are the most simple. sAccording to the Joint Center for housing studies of Harvard University, spending on Home Improvement in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California is expected to increase by 6% every year. This totals to $318.6 billion dollars, only by the first quarter of 2018.\nRefreshing an outdated design in your kitchen is not as difficult as what it may seem to be. The kitchen is a place in the home where special moments are shared and often times important conversations are had. The kitchen is multi-functional in nearly every home in your kitchen design in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California should reflect that. The time that you spend planning your kitchen remodel in CA should far outweigh the time that you actually spend remodeling the kitchen in CA. By planning well, you and your household will be less inconvenienced by how much time your remodel is taking. Your kitchen will not be a construction zone for a long period of time when you have done the proper planning and you know how long contractors will be present. Plus, planning for everything is going to ensure that you stay on track with your budget. You won't have the temptation to change your mind from the original plans when you've spent so much time planning. To ensure that your project stays within budget, planning is necessary. Otherwise, you may be more likely to veer off course and go slightly outside of your budget. By researching \"contractors near me\" you'll likely find prices or at least get an estimate. The contractor should be able to provide you with a timeline of the construction costs. Then, you can determine if you're getting a return on your investment in the remodel in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California.\nIf the new modern the fridge you want is larger than the doorway of course you can't get it inside. This may sound like of mistake that's difficult to make but this mistake has been made numerous times by many people. Also, consider the height of your kitchen and whether your space can accommodate larger appliances. Also, think about the natural flow of traffic in your kitchen in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California. Consider that you may need at least 42 to 48 inches, especially if there is more than one cook in your household. Give yourself some leeway for the unforeseeable. If you want to have your kitchen remodel done by summertime then plan on being done in the spring. Likewise, if you want the kitchen remodel done by the holidays so you can enjoy the new kitchen with your family, plan on being done in early fall.\nConsider getting a professional to help you with the kitchen remodel to expedite the process. By working with a professional designer you can help simplify your kitchen remodel in Red Arrow Mobile Home Park, California. A professional will help you make decisions on style and can help you foresee issues before they occur. You can expect the fee of a professional to be around 5 to 15% of the total project cost.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 12242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://remonews.com/man-coughs-up-part-of-lung-while-being-treated-for-heart-failure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:21Z", "digest": "sha1:X5OOBDF367XJPBX3RZTU3VPCILUOV4QT", "length": 1476, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "remonews.com", "title": "Man coughs up part of lung while being treated for heart failure", "raw_content": "Home / Health / Man coughs up part of lung while being treated for heart failure\nThe man had been admitted to the UCSF Medical Center for Chronic Heart Failure and had developed a worsening cough.\n(The New England Journal of Medicine 201\nA 36-year-old Californian man who was admitted to the intensive care unit with chronic heart failure coughed so badly that he cut off a piece of lung. The unidentified patient, whose case was written in the New England Journal of Medicine, was receiving treatment at the Medical Center of the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and had previously been equipped with a pacemaker.\n7 SURGERI\nIn the course of a week, the patient had progressed to cough up phlegm and blood, and during a particularly extreme encounter had moved a piece of a bronchial tube from his right lung.\n\"The right bronchial tree consists of three segmental branches in the upper lobe, two segmental branches in the middle lobe and five segmental branches in the lower lobe,\" wrote the authors of the case report. \"The patient's trachea was subsequently intubated and flexible bronchoscopy revealed a small amount of blood in the basilar branches of the right lower lobe.\"\nHAITI BOY GETS TREATMENT & # 39; MIRACLE & # 39; FOR MORTAL CANCER WITH HELP OF THE CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY, DOCTOR JEWISH, MUSLIM FAMILY\nHe was extubated two days later, and he had no further episodes of coughing up blood, but died a week later due to complications of heart failure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rentplus-uk.com/our-team/david-marshall/27", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:51Z", "digest": "sha1:JU6W3QDX6TJV3JHAB4WWVPT7RRBP3SML", "length": 429, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rentplus-uk.com", "title": "The Rentplus Team | Rentplus", "raw_content": "David Marshall has responsibility for structuring and arranging the financing for Rentplus. He has specialised in all aspects of fundraising, private equity and structured finance for more than 30 years. He currently acts as senior adviser to a specialist independent corporate finance advisory company, is a director of two venture capital funds, and was previously head of European structured finance for a major European bank.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 115.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/461/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DR6UCTW6776MNJTQRXP6SCTF5PRJHIHG", "length": 223, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "repository.usfca.edu", "title": "\"United States congressional opposition to the annexation of Texas, 183\" by William P. Fauzio", "raw_content": "United States congressional opposition to the annexation of Texas, 1836-1845\nWilliam P. Fauzio\nFauzio, William P., \"United States congressional opposition to the annexation of Texas, 1836-1845\" (1983). Master's Theses. 461.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 154.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://retrocode.uk/post/beauty-in-simplicity-css/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6Q4DFF57IALZFEJO3T56JSX2UDT2QYCS", "length": 1924, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "retrocode.uk", "title": "Beauty in simplicity & CSS | retrocode", "raw_content": "Beauty in simplicity & CSS\nI haven\u2019t always worked with CSS, as much of my work is involved with coding. However I love playing with CSS, and I love that in its purest sense it\u2019s so very elegant and powerful. I\u2019ve always been of the philosophy that you should be able to take one basic html structure, and apply virtually any style you like to it. It\u2019s the zen CSS and it\u2019s a proven technique.\nI\u2019ve known about the grid system for CSS for quite some time, as there have always been templates available that use it, but I\u2019d never really investigated in more detail as to what it actually meant. I\u2019d made do with basic templates, and tweaked them to my liking. The grid system boils down that philosophy even more, by dividing up the standard 960 pixel width site into 60 pixel blocks. Group together those blocks in different arrangements and you have a very flexible yet easy to manage layout. Actually the 60 pixel blocks allow for 18 columns in the page. In a way it takes me back to when I started writing games way back when I was a child. I\u2019d use graph paper to design the sprites, and block out the pixels to design a sprite for a character or an object.\nNow web development is taking those same practices\u2026 we have the grid system, which is like the lego of design, and we have CSS sprite maps and even Javascript frameworks for handling sprites, vectors, sounds, physics, animation and tweening, and even parallax scrolling. That was something that caused excitement back in the 80s, and now there\u2019s a new revolution with modern web development. It\u2019s like the joy of discovery in development has begun again, but this time the development platforms are ubiquitous. OS\u2019s may be proprietary, but thankfully the internet is still driven by open standards. Long may it last!\nIt\u2019s never been a more exciting time to be in web / application development.\n\u2190 Successful web application design My LAMP Server using VirtualBox \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://revjktullos.com/tag/united-methodist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OFFAWASWLC4LP4F63A25GLWIBABEED2C", "length": 8288, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "revjktullos.com", "title": "United Methodist \u2013 Random Thoughts and Ramblings", "raw_content": "Final Thoughts on #WCAMEMPHIS\nFirst, an apology for my post taking so long. What can I say, life has happened (remember: I\u2019m in seminary).\nI have now had a few days to reflect on the Wesleyan Covenant Association\u2019s conference in Memphis. You may remember in my previous post that I indicated that I did not hear anything outright calling for a split or other things that some people may have expected to be said or done. The second day of the conference was also very good, but there was also some words stated that could be perceived as calling for a separation.\nI have to admit, this did somewhat concern me and put me off.\nI understand that separation may happen and I also acknowledge that a split could ultimately be the best way forward for the Methodist movement in America. But I believe that this is something that should be considered in the future. I stand by my opinion that a separation should not be on the table as of this moment.\nPerhaps I could have misunderstood or my perception was otherwise off but it felt as of some comments made by Dr. Andrew Thompson and Dr. Billy Abraham were calling for a separation of factions now rather than waiting for the work of the Commission on a Way Forward to be completed, and for the special called session of General Conference taking place in 2019 to vote on a proposal. Again, it\u2019s possible that I read too much into their words but I could not help but feel that in their minds a separation soon was the way to go.\nAside from those concerns, I found their speeches to be thought-provoking and timely. I agree with Dr. Thompson that holiness is something that we have lost as Christians and as the church. Perhaps it\u2019s more accurate to state that we spend more time debating about what holiness looks like rather than actually practicing it. Dr. Abraham\u2019s message was mainly on Methodists getting back to being Methodist. Again, I feel this is something that we spend way too much time debating and not nearly enough practicing. It\u2019s certainly right to figure out what these things look like but we should not spend all of our time talking.\nIt\u2019s time to start doing.\nRev. Carolyn Moore spoke on the church regaining the vision that the apostles had for the church after Jesus ascended. As I have reflected on this, I have come to the same conclusion that I did on holiness and \u201cbeing Methodist:\u201d We talk a lot but do very little. I\u2019ve been preaching for the last couple of weeks with a central theme of \u201cwaking up\u201d to the reality of what being a Christian is instead of simply going through the motions. We need to wake up from our stupor and stop claiming to be the church. What we should do is to concentrate more on being the church.\nRev. Shane Stanford\u2019s message during the closing service of holy communion was incredible. I actually used this story in my sermon on Sunday (I will post it here later) because it spoke so well to the meaning and significance of the sacrament.\nAs I have reflected, I have found that I continue to be concerned about having litmus tests for one\u2019s faith. I feel that one of the things one really needs to decide is what truly are the essential beliefs of the Christian faith. Where is the line between legalism and ensuring that we have the right beliefs? This is something I continue to wrestle with.\n#WCAMEMPHIS was not really what I expected. This is actually a good thing, as I was pleasantly surprised in several ways. The leadership of WCA claims that they are committed to the unity of the church at this time. I hope they truly are. As for me, I will continue to wait, pray, watch, and see how all of this plays out. Then and only then will I act.\nFollowing in the Footsteps of the Wesleys\nSince last Monday, I have been in the land of England on a Wesleyan pilgrimage. While this might sound like a fancy name for a sightseeing tour while on vacation (or \u201choliday\u201d as the Brits say), this has been a once in a lifetime opportunity to learn, to study, to grow, and to touch history. So far, this pilgrimage has proven to be just that: A pilgrimage. We have trod where John and Charles Wesley and so many others have trod, touched where they lived, worshiped, shopped, preached, and undoubtedly shed many tears. It is not enough to state that these places have been historical in nature. Indeed, we have been to sacred, holy places.\nThe trip began, in earnest, when we went up to Oxford (one always \u201cgoes up\u201d to Oxford) to explore the place where the Methodist movement was begun. It\u2019s important to remember that John and Charles Wesley were not setting out to start a new church, rather this was a renewal movement within the Church of England. One thing to note is that it was actually Charles who began what would be come the Holy Club at Christchurch College. Later on, they would be called Methodists as a way of poking fun at their methodical style of study and prayer. While in Oxford, we saw St. Mary\u2019s Church where John preached sermons which caused him to be scorned by many within the Church of England power structure. Christ Church Cathedral is the place where John and Charles were both ordained Anglican Priests.\nCommemoration of where the Oxford Martyrs were burned.\nSeeing and touching these holy places was an amazing experience but here was the real sobering moment for me: We stood at a spot on Broad Street which commemorated the place where Anglican bishops Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley, and Thomas Cranmer were burned at the stake for heresy. These men are who became known as the Oxford Martyrs. To see the place where these men were killed for their faith in Christ rather than their faith to a monarch was inspirational and sobering.\nIn addition to this significant faith history, we also experience another place where our faith was shaped: The Eagle and Child pub. This is where C.S. Lewis would often congregate while he was in Oxford. There was a door marked \u201cNarnia\u201d but I darned not to open it. For the record, the fish and chips are excellent.\nYesterday we spent the day in Epworth where the Wesley boys and\nMe in the pulpit of Wesley Memorial Methodist Church in Epworth.\ngirls grew up. We toured the Old Rectory where the Wesleys lived while Samuel Wesley was rector of St. Andrew\u2019s Church. At St. Andrews, we were able to see and touch the baptismal font where John, Charles, and their siblings were baptized. We were even able to see and hold the chalice which belonged to Samuel and from which his children received their first Eucharist. We saw some of the places where John Wesley practiced open air preaching, including the market cross and his father\u2019s grave (he climbed on top of the grave to preach after he was denied an invitation to preach at St. Andrew\u2019s).\nAlong the way, we have learned much from our leaders who have been lecturing on Methodist history as well as ways by which we can reclaim some of the Wesleyan fervor. Hopefully by doing this, what began as a renewal movement within the Anglican Church will itself be renewed today. I throw this in mainly because I did not want you to think we have only been sightseeing. This has very much been a learning experience, both by being able to learn from some of the best Wesleyan scholars available as well as being able to experience the places where so much of our Methodist heritage was formed.\nStill on tap for us is worshiping at Salisbury Methodist Church tomorrow as well as an excursion to Bath, where there has been much Roman influence preserved. Monday we head to Bristol to see sites such as the New Room and Bristol Cathedral. Tuesday and Wednesday will be spent in London where there is also much Methodist history to be experienced and learned about.\nThis has been our trip so far. As you can see, we still have much more to go and I can not wait to see what God will do with these final days for us here. As I expressed to a friend of mine earlier today, this has been a learning experience that is helping to shape my future ministry in the United Methodist Church. Even if I were to go back home today, I would come away with much knowledge and the blessings of being able to be in these holy places. I have experienced joy, affirmation, new friendship, and the Holy Spirit speaking to me. May we continue to listen for His small voice as we continue this sojourn.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 67280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://revoltan.com/malikul-amin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:53Z", "digest": "sha1:EZHT2ZUZMUVAUCTOEX6VNJIAP6CKXQAW", "length": 109, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "revoltan.com", "title": "Revoltan Studios - Malikul Amin", "raw_content": "An illustration to commemorate my father who died in 2013. Forever Remembered, Forever Missed. 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They will spend the next four days on the road visiting 60 communities that are arranging their own ceremonies. The four teams will arrive at Cragun\u2019s Resort the evening of May 31. Events are planned throughout the week at Cragun\u2019s and the Traveling Wall will arrive at the Brainerd Fairgrounds on Thursday May 30. A commemoration event is planned at the fairgrounds on June 1, with a formal program beginning at 1:00. The public is invited to all events and all events are free. We are asking for everyone to turn out in support of a generation of veterans who need and deserve the nations gratitude. 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Mr. Proctor was drunk when he hit the victim\u2019s head and stomach, choked her and pushed her down the stairs, according to a law enforcement official.\nThe woman was rushed to the hospital where she gave birth to a premature baby girl. The infant is still receiving care at Stony Brook University hospital, the DA said.\nAt the arraignment Thursday, prosecutor Shauna Kerr said Mr. Proctor\u2019s girlfriend had to have her spleen and appendix removed and had two broken ribs. Their infant daughter has had seizure activity caused by the placenta detaching during the abuse, which caused stress and a lack of oxygen for the baby.\nPolice allegedly found Mr. Proctor hiding in his Flanders home with his 19-month-old son; the child was unharmed.\nMs. Kerr said due to Mr. Proctors \u201cserious criminal history,\u201d which includes drug, harassment, and possession of stolen property charges, Ms. Kerr asked for the bail as it was set. Defense attorney John Halverson reserved the right to negotiate bail at a later date.\nMr. Proctor\u2019s case will go in front of the judge again on Sept. 30.\nMr. Proctor was one of two convicted drug dealers released from prison in 2012 following an investigation into the \u201ccredibility\u201d of a Southampton Town police officer involved in the cases. He also filed a $50 million lawsuit against Southampton cops, alleging officers had illegally conducted a body cavity search and \u201cthreatened his son\u2019s freedom\u201d in order to get him to sign a false statement.\nThe civil suit was later dismissed, according to a Newsday report.\narrest, Assault, choking, Flanders, indictment, Mohammed Proctor\nCitgo gas station on Route 58 robbed at gunpoint, suspect at large", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 7827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rose4justice.com/2012/03/29/obamacare-how-is-favoring-union-donors-muslims-and-illegals-or-congress-affordable-for-whom-not-americans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:44Z", "digest": "sha1:U27GZTNPXKFMS2GAIED5RCAPO2THA3C5", "length": 42310, "nlines": 101, "source_domain": "rose4justice.com", "title": "Obamacare: Is it a Ponzi Scheme, Patient Dumping, Paying for Your Own Demise? \u2013 Rose4justice Blogs N Radio Shows", "raw_content": "Americans Own The Bill of Rights!\nRose Colombo, award-winning author, Legal Advocate, Activist, and Coach, created the question that rang out across the nation in 2009, when she posed the question, \u201cHow is the Obamacare \u201cMandate\u201d Constitutional or legal? She sent the question to every congressional member in her worldwide Blog, \u201cObamacare is Unconstitutional and Possibly Illegal\u201d and her question was read with her name on the congressional floor and debated in the Supreme Court. (pub (c). 4/6/2012, rev 3/29/2012, rev 4/27/2013, 6/21/2013), rev. 10/8/2013\nThe End Times are Upon the World! That was the cry of many, but the Mayans may not have been stating that December 12, 2012 was the end of the world, but signaling that it\u2019s the beginning of the end under the Obama regime working within the federal government\u2019s intent to \u201cfundamentally transform \u201d America taking American to a dangerous crossroad leaving Americans vulnerable to unconstitutional laws that could lead to the death of millions of Americans and future U.S. Natural Born Citizen!\nThe Obama regime appears to be preparing to implement police states and approving unconstitutional and immoral laws upon the American people. In fact, the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Scalia, asked the question if the federal government\u2019s next mandate is to order that all Americans buy Broccoli, a consumer product or elect a dog for U.S. President if the vetting laws and Identification laws aren\u2019t required!\nThe US Supreme Court Justices debated the question of the \u201cmandate\u201d which I created and sent to every Congressman, blogged worldwide, and ended up read on the congressional floor with my name. The 112th Congress was negligent and appeared derelict in their duty which requires that they read and study each law in-depth, but they approved 2700 pages of unread laws which shocked the nation and rubber stamped it in favor of Obama when they took bribes for votes!\nThe duties of a U.S. President are limited, yet this non-vetted and unidentified president has been granted absolute powers to declare the Congress and the Constitution basically as meaningless and stated that he could do whatever he wants and no one can stop him because he has a phone and a pen and he\u2019s the Commander-in-Chief, but he\u2019s not the Commander-in-Chief of the American people; in fact, it is the American people who are his Commander-in-Chief and who must take back the pen and the phone before more Americans die on the battlefield, not just the foreign battlefield, but the domestic battlefield on U.S. soil as declared by Obama and Congress.\nIn an unprecedented announcement, Speaker Pelosi announced that Congress approved the unread mandates, regulations, taxes, and punishments included in Obamacare without performing their duty and studying each law, but she declared Americans would like it after it\u2019s approved so they can find out what\u2019s in it sort of like a Jack in the Box affect, only Americans found out that it was more like \u201cChuckie\u201d jumping out and attacking and shredding the U.S. Constitution with his knife.\nToday, Obama and Congress shamelessly exempt themselves without any constitutional authority from signing up, paying up, and from liability or punishment for passing the unread Obamacare and approving it with a rubber stamp! They discriminate against Americans who aren\u2019t in their inner circle as well as Muslims, Refugees from the Middle East, Donors, Bundlers, SEIU and others.\nAfter the Obamacare red carpet was stained with a series of serious glitches and billions are being spent to try to fix something that can\u2019t be fixed, the truth is that Americans are losing their existing health care coverage and suffering because they can\u2019t access their doctors or treatments or else they\u2019re treatments and medications are unaffordable or the deductibles and premiums are unaffordable, so now there is equality! Not only do illegals, and the Muslims and all those who didn\u2019t have health care prior to Obamacare was implement, it\u2019s a fact that Americans will also be without health care as more hospitals close their doors and retreat to becoming an Urgent Care facility. And, that\u2019s not to mention the millions of jobs that will be lost because of Obamacare! Obamacare is actually making more Americans very sick!\nWake Up, Americans! Are the majority of Americans aware that former impeached President Bill Clinton ordered a study on \u201cHuman Capital?\u201d Recently, Bill Clinton was in the news alluding that Americans will like Communism. Hillary Clinton made international news during the congressional hearings when she was questioned about her friend, who was the U.S. Ambassador, and 3 murdered military men killed by terrorist attacks at Benghazi and she angrily replied, \u201cWhat difference does it make?\u201d Also, President Obama hit the news when asked about murdered American soldiers and the US Ambassador, Chris Stevens, and he casually remarked that they were mere \u201cbumps in the road.\u201d\nHuman Capital is the study of individuals and allows the federal government to determine the value or lack of value of each human being based upon gender, age, health, possibly religion, politics, sexual preference, race, ethnicity, and IQ or talents versus the lack of worth to the federal government and the cost to the government, i.e., an individuals cost for health care treatments, food, housing, and education. This is a Orwellian 1984 agenda. It represents a Nazi type of agenda with the intent of creating collectivism as well as a means of reducing the population and creating a Master Slave mentality. This is also the dream of creating the Master Race. Yet, the American people have been cheering on the Obama\u2019s and the Clinton\u2019s and support and defend their dream of a New World Order demanding every individual march to the drum beat and comply or else be punished.\nFurthermore, past and current congressional members failed to perform their fiduciary duty as required by the 14th Amendment and their sworn oaths and job duties that require each member to read and study each law in-depth! They not only failed to study each law in-depth and assure the American people that each law, mandate, regulation, punishment, tax, and penalty are written in accordance with the US Constitution and the will of the majority of Americans and reflect the best interest of the American people. They failed or refused to read 2700 pages of laws, which in my opinion, appear to be a serious dereliction of duty. But, which public servant working in the taxpayer-funded federal government cares about the US Constitution? After all, it is the non-vetted President Obama who stated more than once that the U.S. Constitution is flawed and that it is \u201cmeaningless?\u201d He stated, \u201cThe Constitution is a mere charter of negative [liberties] that need to be changed.\u201d\nHypocrites! Too many members of the White House and Congress are hypocrites and they appear to be lawmakers who have turned into law breakers as they hold themselves above the laws which they mandate for the American people and exempt themselves from the laws. Laws are written for criminals as law-abiding citizens don\u2019t violate the laws. Criminals exempt themselves from the law and hold themselves above the law, but law-abiding citizens follow the Rule of Law and public servants swear to uphold U.S. Constitutional law.\nShould the American people not ask which constitutional authority is the White House and Congress applying that grants these public servants the authority to exempt themselves from the laws which they mandate as constitutional law on U.S. soil, even though they admit that the laws are unread and possibly unconstitutional and illegal? After all, if they weren\u2019t read, how would they know what\u2019s in them when they rubber stamped them \u201capproved.\u201d Perhaps, it would have been wiser to rubber stamp Obamacare, \u201cD.O.A.,\u201d dead on arrival.\nConsequently, it\u2019s amazing to me that the American people haven\u2019t bothered to ask how unread and unconstitutional laws can be legal on U.S. soil or how people can be punished on U.S. soil for failing to comply with unread or unconstitutional laws? The fact that they are unread should render them unconstitutional on their face! This problem should raise the question under which constitutional law is Obama and Congress applying that provides them the authority to write discriminatory constitutional laws and grants them the authority to exempt people who they favor or where there are huge conflicts of interest wuch as bundlers, donors, and supporters?\nIf Obamacare is such a great improvement to the healthcare industry then why would the Obama\u2019s and Sebelius, Biden, and congressional members want to exempt themselves from complying with Obamacare? This problem begs the question if they realize that Page 107 of Obamacare includes making Americans slaves of the Muslim immigrants and refugees living in the USA by referring to Americans on this page as Dhimmis? If you don\u2019t know what a Dhimmi is then you should read up because from my research it means \u201cslave.\u201d In other words, the American people must comply and pay up for their housing, food, and health care. Could this be one of the key reasons why Obama is so adamant about forcing Obamacare upon the American people?\nAnother key reason for Obamacare appears to be depopulation of future U.S. Natural Born Citizens and he approved of Infanticide of U.S. Natural Born Citizens while he was a senator which means babies that are born after abortion are left to die. In fact, senator Obama implemented the Global Poverty Act with the approval of Hillary Clinton, Biden, Feinstein, and Kerry, and others, which mandates worldwide abortions and requires that Americans pick up the tab to kill these babies with abortion scissors in the USA and around the world! This flies against the moral majority and Christians and Catholics who are being wiped out by terrorists around the world! This Global Poverty Act that Obama signed as an Executive Order about January 2009 diminished the constitutional Right-to-Life and it reflects a depopulation program similar to that of the U.N. Agenda 21.\nObamacare or the ACA or [un]Affordable Care Act is not so affordable. In fact, most people can\u2019t afford to sign up or comply because he\u2019s increased their Health Care Premiums by 40% to 100% depending upon the plan. It\u2019s been reported in the news that about three million Americans are not without health care insurance because of Obamacare as their insurance companies cancelled their plans. In fact, Obamacare robs from Peter to pay Paul. Peter is Medicare and is being robbed by Obama to pay for Obamacare which diminished the services for seniors, veterans, disabled, and the very sick who rely on Medicare.\nIf Obamacare is such an outstanding and legal benefit being implemented as a national takeover of the healthcare industry by the federal government then why must the federal government mandate excessive taxation, excessive penalties, excessive punishment in violation of the U.S. Constitution which prohibits those excesses? If Obamacare is so wonderful then why are doctors retiring early and expressing their disdain for Obamacare? And, why are businesses closing down and laying off American employees or reducing their work hours which reduces productivity because of Obamacare? This will increase the cost of consumer products to Americans because businesses will be forced to pay higher premiums for their part-time employees including illegal citizens!\nJustice Scalia questioned if Obama, who implemented the umbrella law known as ObamaCare, could mandate that all Americans eat broccoli, but Justice Scalia, may not be off base at all! After all, Michelle Obama is pushing programs which mandate what Americans can or can\u2019t eat! And Mayor Bloomberg is pushing what and how much Americans can drink. And, Monsinto, oops, I mean Monsanto, is pushing GMO\u2019s on the world and fighting against labeling their products. Michelle Obama is promoting a snack watcher program in public schools instructing students to report teachers, parents, and classmates who eat unhealthy snacks. The Redistribution program which includes the snack and spy program is described in my latest political satire on how Obamacare and Redistribution of wealth could devastate a free Judeo-Christian Nation that leaves the reader with thought-provoking messages on these agendas and it\u2019s titled, \u201cObamacare, Dinosaurs, Red Necks and Radicals\u201d available at amazon.com\nTherefore, Obama is selling snake oil to the American people. His health care is more about death care because his program includes death panels, euthanasia, enslavement to foreigners and donors, and depopulation through same-sex agendas and mandated abortions. His committee of 15 will determine who lives and who dies based upon their evaluation of each individual as human capital who will be no more than a commodity of value or little value to the federal government. As I stated, if Obamacare is such a wonderful health care program then Obama and Biden, Sebelius, senators Reid, Pelosi, and the entire Congress should be the first to sign up, and comply with their own laws, otherwise they are law breakers and holding themselves above the laws, which they mandate for everyone else, but are failing to follow the Rule of Law which they swore to do.\nHow then are the American people not rising up and demanding that Congress Repeal and stop the funding before the tsunami hits that is coming upon U.S. citizens in January 2014? How is it that Obama, Biden, and Congress are determined to destroy the greatest health care industry in the world and force Americans into the worst HMO system that they could ever imagine? Obama and his regime are forcing Americans to pay up front against their will for mandated abortions and death panels or else be punished? Isn\u2019t that like paying for your own demise and the demise of your family, friends, unborn babies, and fellow Americans and helping make the U.S. Natural Born Citizen extinct? How is it that Americans can\u2019t see this as a silent genocide without war or guns on what Obama and congress now refer to as a battlefield? Does it not appear that the federal government is at war with America and Americans?\nShould the American citizens not ask why do we need a committee of 15 approved by Obama to determine if they will send Americans to early end of life counseling and pull the plug on grandma or the very sick or veterans? Is this program intended to save money for the federal government so foreign immigrants and illegals and Refugees can move into the USA and access food, housing, and Obamacare without paying up, because it will be paid on the backs of US taxpayers and create a nation of federal government works vs. a nation of citizens on entitlement programs dependent upon the federal government to take care of them since their focus has been on destroying jobs, not creating jobs!\nObviously, Americans will be mere chattel used as commodities and as \u201chuman capital\u201d while Obama golf\u2019s at Martha\u2019s Vineyard at $50,000 per day to the U.S. taxpayers. The Obama Muslim Brotherhood and non-vetted czars and Congress will allow this committee of 15 to determine who will be euthanized, denied or rationed health care services based on one\u2019s health, age, and costs to the federal government. Unless the law has been amended, ObamaCare requires that Americans who don\u2019t comply and pay up front for Obamacare could spend one year in jail and pay a $25,000 penalty, so many will never get a monopoly card to get out of jail.\nIn fact, the federal government grants to themselves the right to raid and confiscate and access business records, health records, tax records, and banking records subjected to confiscation by the federal government under Obamacare. Obama has enacted a NSA Massive Surveillance Program recently exposed by Whistleblower named Edward Snowden who most believe to be a U.S. hero. It\u2019s my opinion that the massive set of Obamacare laws replaces the Constitution of the United States and denies Freedom, Liberty, and Rights.\nRemember, national health care began with HillaryCare now morphed into ObamaCare. So, why did I write the first blog in 2009 warning the nation and Congress \u2013 \u201cObamaCare is Unconstitutional and Possibly Illegal,\u201d well here are some of my concerns as follows:\n1. How is it that the U.S. Supreme Court Justices legally and constitutionally moved forward to hear the unread 2700 pages without review, debate or congressional study prior to hitting the U.S. Supreme Court. Shockingly, the majority of Supreme Court Justices approved the unconstitutional ObamaCare and Justice Robert nailed the last nail into the coffin that would end the best health care system in the world.\nConsequently, Justice Elena Kagan refused to Recuse herself from the Obamacare case even though there were documented reports related to her long time association with student Barry Soetoro aka Barack Hussein Obama. After Harvard received a $20M donation from the Saudi Prince and Obama was named President of the Harvard Law Review, it\u2019s reported that Kagan worked on a project to help create an Islamic Studies program at Harvard. Thereafter, it\u2019s reported that Senator Obama appointed Kagan as Solicitor General and she worked on Obamacare and favored it and represented him in the U.S. Supreme Court. Thereafter, he appointed her as a U.S. Justice right before the Obamacare case was to be decided.\nupreme Court while Solicitor General according to the records reported in the news. As a result, the majority of Americans requested that Justice Kagan remove herself from voting on Obamacare, but she refused and Justice Roberts refused to do so. There are many reports of the long time favorable association Kagan and Obama since he attended Harvard when she was Dean Kagan. In fact, the news posted a video that documented a special event when Dean Kagan held a special even for Senator Obama and she stated he was the most brilliant student to ever attend Harvard.\nAfter Obama was elected as a non-vetted U.S. President, he appointed Kagan as Solicitor General and its alleged she represented him in an eligibility case while she was Solicitor General in the U.S. Supreme Court. which is considered unethical according to the Code of Ethics. Also, after Obama took office as an non-vetted U.S. President, Kagan worked on and in favor of ObamaCare as Solicitor General. Obama then nominated Kagan for the position of U.S. Justice. And, the Conflict of Interest is that these behaviors give the appearance of grave Conflicts of Interest as she was elevated thereafter to that of U.S. Justice right before Obamacare was to be voted upon. This behavior is similar to being a guest in Las Vegas by the CEO and Pit Boss of a luxurious casino. You put your money on the table, but the dice are stacked against you without your knowledge and you lose the shirt on your back. These issues casts a grave shadow of doubt and distrust on the Supreme Court. It will take generations if at all possible to restore trust in the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Justices.\n2. Under which constitutional authority is the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Congress applying that provides them the authority to \u201cavoid\u201d Article II of the U.S. Constitution? The word \u201cavoid\u201d was used by Justice Thomas at a hearing . It boggles the mind that the congress and U.S. Justices would even consider hearing laws which are implemented by an improperly non-vetted president who admits that his father is foreign born. Obama proudly states that he comes from a long line of Muslims, born in Kenya and at the time, Obama\u2019s father was a Subject of Britain, making Obama a Subject of Great Britain at birth; thus inheriting his birthright from his Kenyan father as a British Subject. A U.S. Natural Born Citizen cannot have a foreign born parent even if born on U.S. soil for that makes him a \u201cnaturalized citizen,\u201d but not a U.S. Natural Born Citizen.\u201d\nThe fact is that Obama admits that he inherited his birthright as a Subject of Britain from his foreign-born father, but allegedly doesn\u2019t admit that he doesn\u2019t meet the definition of eligibility required by Article II and the definition written into the Law of Nations. The Law of Nations is written into the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, as a reference to all U.S. constitutional laws when in question and has been the resource used by congress for 237 years.\n3. Why is the U.S. Supreme Court considering 2,700 pages of laws, regulations, penalties, fines, punishments, jail, intrusions, and mandates, which were never read, but approved by the 111th Congress? How then can unread laws be argued in the U.S. Supreme Court if the petitioners never read the laws which they approved? After all, it is the fiduciary duty required by the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and their duty to the American people that the U.S. Congress read all laws and ensure that they are in accordance with the U.S. Constitution and the will of the majority of Americans, before the laws are debated in the Supreme Court.\n4. Under which constitutional authority would the U.S. Supreme Court apply that grants them the constitutional authority to force Americans to pick up the tab for millions of illegals, who are living in America and don\u2019t pay taxes, remain unidentified, and are residing in the U.S. in violation of the law?\n5. Under which constitutional authority is the U.S. Congress and the executive office applying that provides them the authority to exempt themselves from the laws they mandate for you and me, like ObamaCare, and hold themselves above the law?\n6. Under which constitutional authority would the U.S. Supreme Court use to force Americans to pay for the health care of 500,000 plus union workers knowing Andy Stern, according to the news, has visited the White House frequently consistent with a revolving door policy? How is it possible for the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Congress to approve the opt out of SEIU Union administrators and members, with knowledge that they support Obama and donate substantial amounts of money in support of Obama\u2019s campaign? How does the congress and the Justices justify these constitutional issues as just, fair, or equitable versus a serious Conflict of Interest which reeks of Favoritism?\n7. Obama\u2019s admitted he comes from a long line of Muslims from Kenya. So, how is it not a Conflict of Interest and Favoritism considering that a secret page was exposed on-line reported in alternative news known as Page 107 alleging that at least 10,000,000 plus Muslims will be opted out by claiming protection under Sharia Law and Dhimmitude? Why is a foreign law even inserted into a U.S. restructured set of laws under the guise of health care and who wrote it and who inserted it?\n8. Under which Constitutional law would the U.S. Supreme Court be applying that would grant them the authority to exempt the U.S. Congress from the laws of the land which they mandate for all Americans, unless they are not U.S. Citizens, because all U.S. Citizens, including all public servants must follow the Rule of the Law, but then how is it that they are writing laws which are on federal land, not located on the soil of the USA? Therefore, which constitutional authority is congress or the Justices applying that provides them the authority to hold Congress above the law or pick and choose which laws of the land they will insert loopholes and exempt themselves? For example, exempting themselves and holding themselves above the law from the crime of Insider Trading while forcing everyone else to be punished?\n9. Under which constitutional authority is congress and the Supreme Court applying that provides to them the authority to punish Americans if they don\u2019t want to pay up front for a consumer product that they may or may not want to buy with their own earnings \u2013 as a payment for a consumer product is not a tax \u2013 but it is a payment in exchange for a consumer product or service referred to as earnings after taxes \u2013 earnings are private property \u2013 so how can the federal government force Americans to turn over their earnings aka private property to the federal government for a consumer product against their objections which the government may or may not provide with complete immunity?\nRemember, mandates deny freedom and liberty. Mandates are \u201cregulations,\u201d for consumer products taxed under the \u201cCommerce Clause\u201d so how will the Justices justify taxing \u201ccitizens of each state?\u201d In other words, would that not mean that they are seeking to use every human being as a \u201ccommodity\u201d for profit for the federal government\u2019s coffers under the guise of healthcare, but isn\u2019t health care. Isn\u2019t this nothing but a thug like law of pay up or else? Mandates replace all freedom and liberty guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and Obama\u2019s new restructured set of laws in my opinion replaces the U.S. Constitution, known as ObamaCare,which would create the Obama Nation.\nSo, could the mandated aka forced pay up front money scheme for Obamacare be paid up-front into the government\u2019s fund without accountability as they know nothing, see nothing, and hear nothing when they are caught at wrong doing, and stand on the 5th and refuse to answer the questions as to what happened to the money?\nHow does it not border on extortion when law-abiding Americans have an imaginary gun placed to their heads by government thugs telling them to pay-up-front with their own earnings, even if they don\u2019t want the consumer product, because consumer products are paid with private property aka personal earnings then taxes are paid. Why are Americans being forced under the threat of fear or punishment to pay up for a consumer product they don\u2019t want and may never receive as the government retains the right to deny or ration said services?\nCould Obamacare become a bigger Ponzi scheme than Social Security with the promise of saving the taxpayers money for retirement by forced taxation from personal earnings? Could Obamacare become a bigger Ponzi scheme than collecting taxes for Medicare and after they divert the money from Medicare, they tell the taxpayers, too bad, we\u2019re denying or cutting services to seniors? Could Obamacare become the a bigger Ponzi scheme than the Redistribution of Wealth? Could Obamacare become a bigger Ponzi scheme than Patient Dumping at University Hospital for big profits and bonuses by the staff? Could Obamacare become a bigger Ponzi scheme than the fraud of the Housing Crisis implemented by Congress and Bankers? Could Obamacare become a bigger Ponzi scheme than promising 350,000 infrastructure jobs in exchange for billions of dollars? Could Obamacare be a bigger Ponzi scheme than Solyndra whose bundler owner took the taxpayers money then gave himself and partner big bonuses and wages and bankrupted? Could Obamacare be the biggest Ponzi Scheme to make and create big taxes for depopulation programs and to create big profits for politicians, banksters, and Wall Street?\nIs This THE KEY TO ENSLAVE US NATURAL BORN CITIZENS? Obviously, the problem with the federal government turning themselves into a private enterprise as a for-profit health care industry as well as acting as the federal government with the intent to control a private corporation known as the national health care industry is unconstitutional. So where in the constitution does it grant the federal government the authority to take over private corporations on US soil since they operate on federal soil with \u201climited powers and are now acting as a dual government and free enterprise running private corporations for-profit and excessive taxes with punishment?\nThe the truth is that only public servants, military, and foreign immigrants, swear an oath to uphold the US Constitution, but the U.S. Natural Born Citizens born to two legal American parents on U.S. soil, who are the only persons eligible to be a U.S. President aren\u2019t required to swear an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution unless those person enter public service or the military or they are foreign immigrants granted US Naturalized citizenship. U.S. Natural Born Citizens Pledge Allegiance to the U.S. Flag, but that doesn\u2019t protect them under U.S. Constitutional laws if they haven\u2019t sworn an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution. Perhaps, that\u2019s the reason some judges state to U.S. Natural Born Citiznes in court that they have no constitutional rights.\nTherefore, how is it that U.S. Natural Born Citizens aren\u2019t swearing an oath by the age of 7 to uphold, defend, and preserve the U.S. Constitution? So, if US Natural Born Citizens aren\u2019t sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution, but public servants, military, and foreign immigrants do swear an oath to uphold the US Constitution, then how does that not leave the door open on U.S. soil for public servants to enslave and indefinitely detain U.S. Natural Born Citizens if they aren\u2019t sworn to uphold, defend, and preserve the U.S. Constitution which establishes their guaranteed liberty, freedom and rights? If that\u2019s not true then why are foreign immigrants required to swear an oath to uphold, defend, and preserve the U.S. Constitution in order to be guaranteed constitutional protections? Also, how can a federal entity operating on federal land outside of the USA, District of Columbia, which isn\u2019t part of the United States of America, be mandating laws for the separate states in the USA since the federal government is a separate federal entity working on federal soil, granted \u201climited powers\u201d known as the District of Columbia, which isn\u2019t U.S. soil? Shouldn\u2019t the District of Columbia become a State of the USA so they can operate as part of the USA, so now you know why the Framers granted them \u201cLimited Powers.\u201d Otherwise, a foreign entity known as the federal government working on federal land would stomp their Big Foot on individuals and individual state laws. Today, the federal government has trampled on \u201climited powers\u201d and are lawless and have gone dictatorial rogue?\nFurthermore, Obamacare will lead to collectivism. These laws will force citizens out of the suburbs into the cities where fewer people can be more easily controlled. These laws will reduce the income of the Middle Class U.S. Natural Born Citizens, and no doubt will devastate the quality of life and the quality of the current health care industry. So, should we not ask what is the difference between the mafia, who force people to hand over money against their will and who comply under fear and threat of losing their homes or businesses or be punished? Today, we have a non-vetted president who appears to be punish Americans and represented himself as a poor black kid with a white mother who is golfing at Martha\u2019s Vineyard at $50,000 per day for rent and taking $100,000,000 vacations at taxpayer\u2019s expense while denying services and jobs to Americans who pay his wages and pay up for his luxurious lifestyle! Americans are hurting for jobs and struggling to buy gas and food as costs increase, but reckless spending is ok? Has the US Congress and the American people lost their minds and all common sense and logic? It appears that We The People have forgotten that they are the government.\nHow then does the federal government \u201coperating\u201d as a private industry provide themselves the authority to \u201cavoid\u201d complying with federal laws of \u201climited powers?\u201d If the federal government is taking over and running a private corporation, the health care industry, then shouldn\u2019t the government be providing disclosures about the health care consumer products and services they are selling and forcing the American people to purchase with their personal earnings against their objections?\nThe Boards of Consumer Affairs require consumer disclosures, laws, policies, requirements, and regulations of consumer products sold to consumers prior to selling or providing consumer products so is the federal government above those laws, as well? Is the federal government operating as a national health care industry and obtaining business licenses, medical licenses, and Consumer Protection licenses or Medical Malpractice Insurance? After all, they are venturing into the health care business and it is a matter of life and death for the American people! As a matter of fact, more people die from mistakes made by doctors every year than at war or by guns, which is serious. Americans need to demand disclosure on their rights under Obamacare if they experience rationing or being denied services or prescriptions and their rights relating to any damages caused by such actions as well as the right to file lawsuits.\nAnd, even more remarkable is the fact that Obama and Congress are mandating that all U.S. Natural Born and generational legal Americans, which Obamacare doesn\u2019t favor be ordered to pay up front for services or else be punished with a $25,000 penalty and a one year jail term! This means that he\u2019ll put more Americans out of work and cause more divorce and break up more families who will lose their homes. Or perhaps, under the NDAA law, if you don\u2019t pay up, there\u2019s the possibility of being indefinitely detained.\nIn fact, Eric Holder, stated, \u201cAmericans will be polarized. The face of America will be changed within 10-15 years. There will be no majority race in America.\u201d Is this part of a depopulation program of U.S. Natural Born and future U.S. Natural Born citizens in conjunction with shredding Article IV, Due Process of Law, and replacing it with the NDAA Law? In my latest political satire, \u201cObamacare, Dinosaurs, Red Necks and Radicals,the dinosaurs are confronted with mandated abortions as the elders fight back knowing that mandated abortions will reduce their population. This keepsake exposes the dangers of Obamacare and Redistribution of America\u2019s wealth to anti-American nations.\nIn my opinion, ObamaCare is a thug-like law that is called legal but in my opinion, Obamacare is discriminatory, unconstitutional, unread, and possibly illegal. Obamacare borders on laws mandated in tyrannical Third World nations by dictators who hold themselves above the law as they punish their citizens or cause their demise. Is there any difference if a U.S. citizen is confronted by a thug on the street, who threatens a citizen and says, Pay up or else?\u2019 Or a thug who says, \u201cHand over your money or else?\u201d What if a car dealer told you, \u201cYou\u2019re required to pay-up-front for two years, but you can\u2019t drive the car off the lot, come back in two years, and if we\u2019re still in business then maybe, I\u2019ll let you drive the car for a while or maybe, not at all.\u201d What\u2019s the difference? (Note: This article may be shared but please do not remove content without giving credit to the writer and please don\u2019t plagiarize the content, much appreciated.\nLIKE \u2013 COMMENT \u2013 REBOG \u2013 FOLLOW \u2013 buttons on top and bottom and welcome\nFollow Rose or Rose4Justice\nTwitter: Twitter@Rose4Justice\nBooks: Fight Back Legal Abuse or Obamacare, Dinosaurs, RedNecks and Radicals, at amazon.com\nYou Tube \u2013 Rose4Justice or Rose Colombo\nRadio : The Justice Club \u2013 google Freedomizer Radio \u2013 MWF 11am-12p (pdt) \u2013 2-3p (est-usa) \u2013 Call or listen & speak out at (347) 324-3704\nRadio: Constitutionally Speaking \u2013 Fridays, 4:30-6p (pdt) and 7:30p-9p (est-usa) \u2013 google Freedomizer Radio or listen online or ipods or Call & listen & speak out (347) 324-3704\nStumbleupon/Rose4Justice Pinterest Google+ Tumbler DIGG\nDisclaimer: Nothing said is meant to be political, legal, financial or medical advice, but a dissemination of information for educational and entertainment purposes only. >", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 8354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://screenrant.com/best-belated-sequels-worked/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ISN7JVEFB3A6ZKVUUXS75E3Z2I5QQGAE", "length": 13813, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "screenrant.com", "title": "12 Long-Delayed Sequels That Actually Worked | ScreenRant", "raw_content": "12 Long-Delayed Sequels That Actually Worked\nIf one waits long enough in Hollywood, everything old becomes new again. That's certainly proving to be the case this year, as the next several months are bringing sequels and reboots to films dating back to the 1980s. Zoolander 2 may not have recaptured the spark of its 2001 predecessor, but there's certainly a chance that Independence Day: Resurgence and Paul Feig's all-female Ghostbusters could become some of the summer's biggest hits.\nEven Netflix is banking heavily on nostalgia with original films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny and Pee-wee's Big Holiday hitting the streaming service. With all that in minds, let's look back at other sequels that attempted to jump-start a franchise years after the previous film. Our ranking is based on a combination of box office success, critical and audience response and how big of an impact each film made on its respective franchise.\nHere are 12 Long-Delayed Sequels That Actually Worked.\n13 Tron: Legacy (2010)\nComing out nearly 30 years after the original cult classic, Tron: Legacy was anything but a sure thing when it was released in theaters. The film received mixed reviews from both fans and critics, despite its updated visual effects and a killer soundtrack by Daft Punk. Moreover, it has so far failed to inspire a third film in the Disney franchise, which is set within the virtual reality program known as the Grid.\nHowever, Tron: Legacy still earns its spot on this list for resurrecting the 1980s film - considered a disappointment by Disney at the time - and introducing it to a brand-new audience. Like its predecessor, the film has developed a cult following, and in retrospect, was an early adopter of the \"next generation\" approach to storytelling that several high-profile franchises embraced in 2015 (more on those later). Also, regardless of its storytelling flaws, the visuals are still spectacular.\n12 The Best Man Holiday (2013)\nWriter/director Malcolm D. Lee made his film debut with romantic comedy/drama The Best Man back in 1999, and the film - which served as the breakout role for future Oscar nominee Terrence Howard - was a box office smash, earning back nearly four times its production budget. Fourteen years later, Lee reunited with the cast for a Christmas-set sequel, and the film proved to be an even bigger success.\nA true testament to the winning combination of a filmmaker and his charismatic cast, The Best Man Holiday did more than just recapture the spirit of the first film. It reinvigorated a franchise that many moviegoers may not have even realized they wanted. A third film, titled The Best Man Wedding, was quickly put into development as a result and was expected to hit theaters in 2016, though an official release date has yet to be confirmed.\n11 The Color of Money (1986)\nOver the course of his decades-long career, legendary leading-man Paul Newman took on countless unforgettable roles. However, his turn as pool-playing \"Fast Eddie\" Felson in 1961 drama The Hustler likely stands as one of his most memorable. Soon after its release, the film was heralded a modern classic, but that didn't stop Martin Scorsese from building upon its legacy with this film 25 years later.\nNewman earned an Academy Award for reprising his role in The Color of Money, which sees a retired Felson re-entering the world of pool hustling thanks to a young prot\u00e9g\u00e9 (Tom Cruise). The film may not be nearly as high-regarded as its predecessor, but its notable for finally awarding Newman a long-overdue Oscar and for its role in building Cruise's career, as it was released only a few months after Top Gun.\n10 Clerks II (2006)\nLove him or hate him, writer/director Kevin Smith played an integral role in the explosion of the indie film scene back in the 1990s. Smith is probably still best known for his 1994 debut feature, and just as that film centered on twenty-somethings Dante (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), this sequel catches up with the lovable clerks in their 30s, with perennial fan favorites Jay and Silent Bob (Jason Mewes and Smith himself) back for the ride.\nDue to the explicit nature of its third act, Clerks II received a bit of controversy from some critics (Joel Siegel reportedly walked out halfway through) but earned praise from others as well as a positive reaction from Smith's core fanbase. Thanks to the appeal of its cast, the sequel - which introduced new key characters played by Rosario Dawson and Trevor Fehrman - stands as one of Smith's best-received films to date and set the stage for the in-development final chapter in the Clerks trilogy.\n9 Live Free or Die Hard (2007)\nFans of the Die Hard franchise can virtually all agree that A Good Day to Die Hard marks the series' low point, but response to this fourth film was a bit more positive. While it may not compare to director John McTiernan's 1987 original or his 1995 release Die Hard: With a Vengeance, this entry - which see Bruce Willis's John McClane team up with a young hacker (Justin Long) to take down cyber-terrorists - brought the aging franchise back after a 12-year absence and stands as the highest-grossing Die Hard film to date.\nSure, the PG-13 theatrical cut may feature a watered-down take on the violence and language (including McClane's signature catchphrase) that fans have come to expect, but the unrated version greatly improves the film in that regard. Live Free or Die Hard does wring some humor from the generational gap between McClane and his young ally as well as remains tapped into the everyman quality that has made the character such an icon. Perhaps one of the film's best compliments of late is that some fans seemed more comfortable with news of a Die Hard pseudo-prequel following reports that director Len Wiseman could return to the franchise.\n8 Rambo (2008)\nAnother icon of action cinema with roots in the 1980s, John Rambo - as played by Sylvester Stallone - staged a comeback of his own 20 years after his last big-screen appearance, and the film itself surprised fans with its visceral violence and gritty aesthetic. Co-written and directed by Stallone himself, the film marked his second consecutive attempt to revisit his most famous characters, following the 2006 release of Rocky Balboa, 16 years after Rocky V.\nDespite a positive reaction from most fans, Rambo was a box office disappointment and will likely remain the last time audiences see Stallone play the war veteran, as he has announced there are no further plans for a fifth film. If that is indeed the case, this entry provides a fitting conclusion to Rambo's journey, as it offers a sense of finality that befits the tortured nature of the character and redeems the series after the negative response to its predecessor.\n7 Drunken Master II (1994)\nJackie Chan had already long been an international superstar when his work finally got widespread exposure in the United States, courtesy of a theatrical release for Rumble in the Bronx in 1996. Over the next few years, several of his Hong Kong films received domestic distribution, but this one -- a sequel/reboot of his 1978 film -- has also managed to develop a reputation as one of Chan's very best films.\nReleased in the U.S. in 2000 under the title The Legend of Drunken Master, the film blends Chan's physical comedy with his incomparable martial arts skills like few of his big-screen roles ever has. As a fighter whose skill improves dramatically when he's under the influence, Chan delivers one breathtaking fight sequence after another, culminating in a final battle that has been heralded as one of the best showdowns ever put to film. Unfortunately, the original uncut version of the film (i.e., the one not dubbed over in English) has yet to receive a formal U.S. release.\n6 Jurassic World (2015)\nFollowing the groundbreaking success of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, the series gradually faded into extinction, but after more than a decade since the disappointing Jurassic Park III, the dinosaurs once again ruled the box office. In fact, Jurassic World - directed by Colin Trevorrow, who's also set to helm Star Wars Episode IX - far exceeded anyone's expectations, taking in more than $1.6 billion worldwide and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of all time.\nAlthough the film features perhaps too many references to the original classic that started it all, Jurassic World largely serves as a reboot, with only B.D. Wong's Dr. Henry Wu reprising his role. To some, the film was a letdown that relies too heavily on nostalgia to connect with audiences, but regardless of these criticisms (and the discussion revolving around the high heels Bryce Dallas Howard wears throughout the film), Jurassic World struck a chord with mainstream moviegoers and put the franchise back on top as if the past 20+ years never happened.\n5 Creed (2015)\nSylvester Stallone had already neatly wrapped up the story of former champion boxer Rocky Balboa in the eponymous sixth film in the series. However, director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) dusted off the franchise after a decade of rest with this release, which centers on the illegitimate son of Rocky's rival-turned-mentor Apollo Creed. Michael B. Jordan enters the ring as Adonis Johnson, who seeks out Rocky's tutelage to follow in his late father's footsteps.\nWhile the concept of yet another entry in the Rocky series may at first have seemed like a cash grab, Coogler's delicate direction and powerful performances from both Jordan and Stallone led the film to become both a box office juggernaut and critical darling, with a worldwide gross of $172 million against a $35 million production budget and universal acclaim. All of that makes the fact that Creed received only a single Oscar nomination even more puzzling, as it tells an intimate, character-focused story that has just as much emotional punch as the 1976 original.\n4 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)\nOnce it was announced that Disney had purchased Lucasfilm and was developing a sequel to 1983 release Return of the Jedi, fans were understandably worried that J.J. Abrams' film would tarnish the legacy of the original trilogy. News that Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill would appear in The Force Awakens helped assuage some of that concern, but it wasn't until the film's opening day that legions of fans had the chance to embrace this new beginning for the \"galaxy far, far away.\"\nTo be fair, The Force Awakens has faced some criticism due to its close adherence to elements of the original trilogy, most notably with the Starkiller Base serving as a sort of third Death Star. Regardless, response to the film's sense of humor, its visual style and (perhaps most importantly) new cast members like Daisy Ridley, John Boyega and Oscar Isaac has overall been so positive that anticipation for Rian Johnson's in-production Episode VIII is higher than ever. Plus, let's not forget that The Force Awakens obliterated the domestic box office with a record-breaking $922 million (and counting).\n3 Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)\nThirty years had passed since filmmaker George Miller had last brought the dystopian future of Mad Max to the big screen. Originally played by Mel Gibson, the character was long overdue for another adventure, and in fact, Miller began development on a fourth film way back in the 1990s. With Miller back in the director's chair and star Tom Hardy stepping into the title role, Mad Max: Fury Road finally entered the world in 2015 amid an enthusiastic response to early footage.\nWhat a lovely day it was for moviegoers everywhere. Critics and fans alike praised Miller's visionary action set pieces, which rely heavily on practical effects and stunt work in place of computer-generated thrills. Moreover, Charlize Theron created one of the year's most popular characters as Imperator Furiosa, a figure destined to go down in history as one of cinema's most badass female action heroes. The future of the Mad Max franchise is still a bit unclear, but given what he accomplished in Fury Road, we couldn't be more excited to see what Miller has up his sleeves next.\n2 Toy Story 3 (2010)\nMore than a decade after Toy Story 2 proved that Pixar could deliver quality sequels (a sentiment ultimately called into question by Cars 2), this third adventure for Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) earned nearly universal acclaim from critics and audiences as well as a worldwide box office gross of more than $1 billion. Picking up in real time, the film finds Andy en route to college and follows his toys as they are mistakenly donated to a local day care, where they encounter the nefarious Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear (Ned Beatty).\nAt times hilarious, thrilling and poignant, the film embodies the series' ability to appeal to the inner child in each and every fan and, in the process, tackles such weighty themes as grief, obsolescence and mortality. Pixar is often praised for its skill in crafting animated tales that manage to be both accessible to children and emotionally resonant regardless of age. Toy Story 3 is the perfect example of that, allowing its franchise to \"grow up\" in real time along with its viewers. Despite the fact that Toy Story 4 has already been announced, this film's conclusion is so pitch-perfect that some fans may wish the series would have ended for good. After all, how could a sequel top this?\nAt this point, it remains to be seen which franchises will be unexpectedly launched to new heights by an upcoming sequel or reboot. In any case, expect to see this trend only continue with more ferocity in the coming years, especially following the tremendous boost it received in 2015.\nWhich franchise do you think deserves a long-overdue sequel? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 16516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 186.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scroll.in/field/889604/after-reaching-world-cup-quarters-indian-womens-hockey-team-rises-to-ninth-spot-in-rankings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:GRDVJTKHZ2EMIDFSAPS2DVT6WKJ5KZMC", "length": 3271, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "scroll.in", "title": "After reaching World Cup quarters, Indian women\u2019s hockey team rises to ninth spot in rankings", "raw_content": "After reaching World Cup quarters, Indian women\u2019s hockey team rises to ninth spot in rankings\nThe camp for the Asian Games is underway in the SAI, Bengaluru campus, where 25 hopefuls are vying for 18 spots in the Asian Games squad.\nThe Indian women\u2019s hockey team achieved their best-ever world ranking as they climbed up a spot to ninth place in the latest FIH World Rankings published on Tuesday by the International Hockey Federation (FIH).\nThe improvement in ranking comes as they also report for a brief four-day national camp at the Sports Authority of India (SAI), Bengaluru campus starting Tuesday.\nThe Indian team produced its best finish in four decades at a World Cup as they made their way to the quarter-finals of the recently concluded campaign in London.\nPreviously ranked number 10 in the FIH World Rankings, the Indian team displayed some solid performances throughout the tournament in London, conceding only three goals in the five matches that they played, losing out to eventual silver-medallists Ireland 3-1 in the penalty shootout after a goal-less quarter-final at the Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre.\nThe new ranking means that the Indian eves will go into the upcoming Asian Games as the top-ranked Asian team in the world, but chief coach Sjoerd Marijne believes that this is just a start for the team. \u201cThe new ranking comes as added motivation to our team for the upcoming Asian Games, but what is even better to see is that the players are not satisfied. There is more hunger in the squad to improve the ranking further by performing consistently at the highest level. We do have plenty of positives from the World Cup as the girls produced very good hockey, showing their grit and character to get through to the last eight,\u201d stated the Dutchman.\nImage courtesy: Hockey India\nMarijne said that the improvement in ranking was down to the team keeping their defensive structure intact consistently even when they were under pressure, \u201cOne must note that we only conceded three goals in the whole tournament in London.\nThe defence was very solid and that starts with our forward-line as your entire team contributes to a strong defensive structure. We have placed special focus on our structure during matches and now we can see that the girls have come a long way in the past two years. They are now fully aware of their capabilities on the turf and I\u2019m sure the new ranking will surely motivate them to excel at the Asian Games.\u201d\nThe rise to ninth spot also coincides with the Indian team starting their preparatory camp which will have a total of 25 core group members, including the 18-member Asian Games squad. The team is placed in Pool B along with South Korea, who have swapped places with the Indian team, to be now ranked world number 10.\nThailand, Kazakhstan and hosts Indonesia are also grouped with the top-two teams, and chief coach Marijne knows that there is room for improvement. \u201cWe only have a few days in camp to prepare ourselves, but we will be looking to ensure that our passing is 100% accurate in our build-up play, and we must also improve our penalty corner conversion rate and take more shots on goal,\u201d Marijne said.\nWomen\u2019s hockey: Jyoti, Gagandeep goals help India A beat France A 2-0, clinch four-match series", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seatgeek.com/the-book-of-mormon-salt-lake-city-tickets/eccles-theater-1-2019-08-17-8-pm/broadway/4294244", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YRJ7XRNAFPPOI3HJDOWROFAS6PTXC5QM", "length": 151, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "seatgeek.com", "title": "The Book of Mormon - Salt Lake City Tickets, Eccles Theater, August 8/17/2019 at 8:00 pm | SeatGeek", "raw_content": "The Book of Mormon - Salt Lake City\nEccles Theater \u2014 Salt Lake City, UT on Sat Aug 17 at 8:00pm\nThe Book of Mormon in Salt Lake City (Eccles Theater) \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 8041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sensenbrenner.house.gov/press-releases-statements?ContentRecord_id=E1E518CB-8CF5-4CA7-AFFD-F497F7EC1F66", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:57Z", "digest": "sha1:N5JVB6H2OVATI7DBICC52VG2L6T3NUDQ", "length": 2711, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sensenbrenner.house.gov", "title": "Sensenbrenner Supports Balanced Budget Amendment - Press Releases & Statements - Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner", "raw_content": "Sensenbrenner Supports Balanced Budget Amendment\nWashington, D.C.\u2014Today, Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (WI-05) voted to establish a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. The resolution failed to meet the two-thirds threshold necessary for passage.\nCongressman Sensenbrenner offered the following remarks during floor debate:\n\u201cMr. Speaker the reason we have a big deficit is not due to a lack of tax revenue. It\u2019s due to the fact that Congress spends too much money. Now let me repeat that. The deficit and the debt are not caused by a lack of tax revenue. It\u2019s because there is too much money that is authorized and spent right here in the Congress of the United States. This proposed constitutional amendment will give us the discipline that we have not had as we\u2019ve sat and watched the deficit go up and up and up and away.\nIt\u2019s the responsibility of presidents of both political parties that this has happened. Maybe it is time for us to tell colleagues now and in the future and presidents now and in the future that the time to put things on the cuff is at an end.\nI would say that doing what we have done, which means spending money on ourselves and sending the bill plus interest to the next generations is bad economics, but it\u2019s also immoral. Now I have a grandson who is a little bit more than a year old, and unless Congress stops doing this, he\u2019s going to end up having a debt that will boggle the mind that he and his contemporaries are going to have difficulty meeting.\nSo what do we need to do? Number one: We need to stop passing bloated omnibus bills, I voted no proudly on the omnibus bill, which busted the budget and added to the debt. We need to start getting honest about the fact that entitlement programs are spiraling out of control. That doesn\u2019t mean cutting entitlement programs for existing people. It means slowing down their growth rate. But that\u2019s something that nice people aren\u2019t supposed to talk about, particularly here in Congress, but it\u2019s something that is necessary if those entitlement programs are going to be worth anything for future generations when they may need them, rather than dealing with the present generation.\nNow I know we can all count up our votes, and people vote now, and we are not going to be running in the future but the time has come to think about the future. That is why this constitutional amendment ought to be passed. Congress can\u2019t discipline itself. The only thing that can discipline us is saying what Congress can\u2019t do in the United States Constitution just like the first and second amendments. I yield back.\u201d\nPermalink: https://sensenbrenner.house.gov/2018/4/sensenbrenner-supports-balanced-budget-amendment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sentry.ca/en/press-release.html?media_id=2552", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:57Z", "digest": "sha1:PHQCP24XUTPZ64QZSTVIWIDXTGI7NYNW", "length": 1933, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "sentry.ca", "title": "Global DiSCS Trust 2004-1 Announces Delphi Corporation Credit Event Settlement", "raw_content": "Global DiSCS Trust 2004-1 Announces Delphi Corporation Credit Event Settlement\nToronto: Global DiSCS Trust 2004-1 announces that the final recovery amount of Delphi Corporation, determined on January 19, 2006, is 52.92% and that the Bankruptcy Credit Event will not result in any reduction in collateral or an investor\u2019s capital amount.\nCredit Event: On October 8, 2005, Delphi Corporation filed a petition for Chapter 11 proceedings under the United States Bankruptcy Code, which resulted in a Bankruptcy Credit Event for the Global DiSCS Trust 2004-1. The exposure of Trust Unitholders to Delphi Corporation was 0.50% of the Reference Portfolio.\nDelphi is the first, and currently only, credit event experienced by the Reference Portfolio of Global DiSCS Trust 2004-1. The Trust units benefit from the protection of a synthetic first loss tranche equal to 4.1% of the Reference Portfolio; therefore, Unitholders\u2019 entitlement to receive C$25 per unit on December 20, 2009 will not be affected by this Credit Event.\nAfter the Credit Event, the remaining first loss coverage is 3.86% of the Reference Portfolio.\nTrading Information and NAV: The Units of Global DiSCS Trust 2004-1 are listed for trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol DST.UN.\nAs at January 23, 2006, the Net Asset Value of the Trust was $24.49 per unit.\nSentry Select Capital Corp.: Sentry Select Capital Corp. provides investment, administrative and marketing services to 22 exchange-listed closed-end funds, 11 mutual funds, 8 principal protected notes and 4 limited partnerships. Sentry Select is one of the largest Canadian investment managers in the income trust sector. As of December 31, 2005, the firm had approximately 9 billion in gross assets under management. More Information: Investor Services (broker/investor inquiries), Brian McOstrich (Media inquiries), Tel: 1-888-246-6656 Fax: 416-364-1197 info@sentryselect.com www.sentryselect.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 4563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seo-for-surgeons.site123.me/blog/what-you-need-to-know-before-you-market-your-plastic-surgery-practice", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:29Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZAU7HVZLYNHVHVUWGYUA27UUZJCABEQ", "length": 2355, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "seo-for-surgeons.site123.me", "title": "What You Need to Know Before You Market Your Plastic Surgery Practice - SEO For Surgeons", "raw_content": "Few things are more challenging than running a plastic surgery practice. As you are no doubt aware, the modern business world can be remarkably competitive. If you want to be successful, you need to take a holistic approach to the way that you market your company. You need to hire the right people, but you should also look at your location.\nAt the end of the day, though, nothing is more important than marketing. The truth is that you rely on your marketing to attract people to your practice. Unfortunately, marketing can be difficult. People can be very cynical, and breaking through is difficult.\nIf you expect to market effectively, you need to be thorough. The truth is that the future is unwritten. This means that it is simply impossible to predict how cosmetic surgeon seo marketing plan will turn out. It may make sense to take a guess and check approach. As long as you're patient, you should eventually bring new people to your marketing practice.\nIf you're going to be marketing your medical spa seo practice, you have two main options. You may decide to handle things in house, but you also have the option of talking to an agency. There are advantages to either of these approaches, but there are also drawbacks. Remember that marketing can be complex. If you don't have any experience, connecting with people will be a challenge. In this environment, your best option will be talking to a professional. As you may imagine, though, no two plastic surgery marketing companies are ever completely the same. It's up to you to find a marketing team that meets your demands. It's important to plan ahead here. It's important to have clear goals in mind before you actually start marketing. Take the time to define your ideal customer. Age, income, and gender are all very important here. Remember that you do not want to market to everyone. This may seem logical, but it will be difficult for you to get results if you are aiming for everyone. Your plastic surgery marketing team can give you more information about this difficult process.\nYou should think of marketing as a cycle. The first step in the process is to look at strategy. This is where you should look at your brand. Once that is out of the way, you'll want to look at implementation. If you have any questions about this, talk to your plastic surgery marketing team immediately.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://serborth.org/09182014.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:38Z", "digest": "sha1:R52L3AW6QDQPXIUXHECUBG7YE3ZH524J", "length": 2324, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "serborth.org", "title": "Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America - 09182014", "raw_content": "HIERARCHS RENEW SUPPORT FOR ASSEMBLY AGENCIES\nDallas, TX - The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America convened for a second day of meetings on Wednesday in Dallas, Texas.\nThe session opened with a special video message from His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the members of the Assembly. \u201cWe are addressing you because the time has surely come for us to move beyond words to actions . . . We are called to put our theory and theology into policy and practice. We are called to move beyond what is \u2018mine\u2019 and what is \u2018yours\u2019 to what is \u2018ours,\u2019\u201d remarked His All-Holiness. (The video can be viewed here on the Ecumenical Patriarchate\u2019s website.)\nThe morning session featured presentations by the directors of the Assembly\u2019s seven agencies: International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC), Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), Orthodox Christian Network (OCN), Orthodox Christian Fellowship (OCF), Orthodox Christian Education Commission (OCEC), Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry (OCPM), and the Eastern Orthodox Committee on Scouting (EOCS).\nEach agency provided an overview of its history, current activities and challenges. The presentations underscored the fact that, through their pan-Orthodox ministries, the agencies are and have been for many years manifesting the love and unity of the Church \u201con the ground\u201d\u2014responding to emergencies, assisting those in need, spreading the Gospel, visiting the prisoner, and educating and ministering to the Church\u2019s youth.\nIn the afternoon session, the Committee for Canonical Regional Planning presented its report, which led to a discussion about the canonical anomaly of multiple bishops in one city. Hierarchs constructively shared their opinions, and after a candid and collegial discussion, agreed to continue working toward greater unity.\nIn anticipation of the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, which is to convene in Spring 2016, the hierarchs reaffirmed their commitment to actively prepare one or more proposals for its consideration, as has been requested by the Holy Autocephalous Churches. To this end, hierarchs agreed to submit ideas to the Committee for Canonical Regional Planning within the next six months for appropriate action by the Assembly.\n(All photos credit Dimitrios S Panagos / GOA)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 225.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seriesypelisonline.com/episode/vikings-1x1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:39Z", "digest": "sha1:YFSYZGYPG2MRG7EQOOF4QHS7P376GWVQ", "length": 96, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "seriesypelisonline.com", "title": "Ver Vikingos S01 - \u00c901 Online Gratis Espa\u00f1ol HD | SeriesyPelis", "raw_content": "Ragnar Lothbrok is a warrior and a farmer who dreams of finding riches by bucking the tradition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 1983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://servinfo.com.uy/2018/08/01/there-are-very-real-differences-in-how-women-and-men-and-vcs-view-entrepreneurship-underscores-a-new-survey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YFQO3BKYF4JJPLL73QR6SLVT7NJVOATU", "length": 5357, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "servinfo.com.uy", "title": "There are very real differences in how women and men (and VCs) view entrepreneurship, underscores a new survey | SERVINFO SOLUCIONES GLOBALES", "raw_content": "In the increasingly crowded world of venture capital, many more firms are producing research as a way to differentiate themselves from the pack. Earlier this year, for example, Wing, a venture firm that focuses primarily on enterprise startups, published a state of the industrial IoT market. The consumer-tech investment firm Goodwater Capital is becoming known for its occasional equity research report on a still-private company.\nNow Illuminate Ventures, a nine-year-old, woman-led, early-stage venture firm that\u2019s focused on enterprise cloud and mobile computing startups, has produced some thought-provoking research of its own around how women and male founders view entrepreneurship, from why they do it to how much support they receive from family members.\nFirst, a little about Illuminate\u2019s methodologies. According to firm founder Cindy Padnos, the firm initially reached out to 1,200 tech founders and venture capitalists who Illuminate presented with a litany of questions about entrepreneurship and motivations and challenges that people face in starting companies. In the end, says Padnos, Illuminate had a response rate of just more than 30 percent, or slightly over 400 completed responses, which it used SurveyMonkey tools to collect.\nRoughly half the responses came from partner-level VCs at 150 different venture firms; the other half came from U.S.-based founders who raised venture funding in 2017.\nSo what did they have to say? A lot. If we\u2019re being honest, the survey was so wide-ranging as to be a bit overwhelming. (You can check out the full paper here.) In the meantime, some of the most interesting takeaways can be grouped into a couple of different categories. One of these seems to disprove old myths. Among them:\nThe belief that entrepreneurs launch companies chiefly for financial gain is seemingly a myth. Only 15 percent of male founders and 2 percent of the female founders who responded to the survey said that money is their primary motivation.\nRespondents \u2014 both founders and VCs \u2014 also dismissed the idea that a founder needs to have a STEM degree to be a successful tech founder.\nTraditional thinking that women founders are more risk-averse than men or are unable to balance the needs of work and family are also incorrect or, at least, outdated, based on feedback from survey respondents. More than twice the percentage of male founders indicated that \u201cbalancing family and work\u201d was a strong barrier to their starting a company (31 percent versus 17 percent of women founders). They also rated the \u201cneed for financial security\u201d as a strong barrier in slightly higher numbers (49 percent versus 42 percent of women respondents).\nIt\u2019s widely believed that both women and men, especially in today\u2019s go-go markets, start companies largely for the potential financial gain, but money actually has little to do with why either start companies. In fact, women say the top three reasons they start companies, in descending order of importance, is to bring their ideas to market, create a long-lasting business and prove to themselves that they can do it. Men similarly said that bringing their ideas to market is their top motivator, followed by creating a long-lasting business. Men did rate the \u201csignificant financial gain\u201d that can come with entrepreneurship third on their list, so it\u2019s not entirely a \u201cmyth,\u201d even if it\u2019s greatly exaggerated.\nInterestingly, the survey also showed a real disconnect between how VCs view founders and how founders view themselves. For example:\nMale VCs ranked male founders as likely to be stronger than women in 4 of 10 \u201csuccess attributes\u201d that were measured. Similarly (and somewhat depressingly), women VCs found only one attribute where they saw women founders as stronger than men, being \u201csmart risk-takers.\u201d\nIn large percentages, both male and female VCs saw 15 of 16 potential barriers to entrepreneurial success as more likely to impact women founders than men.\nMore than half of VCs said they believe that men are more likely to have attributes like \u201cprior start-up experience\u201d and the \u201cdesire to scale a business massively.\u201d But founder responses refuted the notion that they share VCs\u2019 thinking on this front.\nAnother way that VCs and founders appear to think differently: None of the VCs who participated in the survey selected \u201cgaining the support of family\u201d among the top five barriers to entrepreneurial success, while nearly a quarter of both male and female founders said it was.\nA stat we found to be particularly surprising was the disconnect between how male and female VCs view founders who \u201cthink big\u201d and have \u201cstrategic vision\u201d and how that impacts their odds of achieving their goals. While 40 percent of women VCs said this was a bigger barrier to success when it comes to female founders, just 12 percent of male VCs said the same of female founders. Could it be that women investors think they are more attuned to how women founders are perceived? Are they themselves harder on women founders? Or are they meeting with more women founders and seeing less ambitious ideas than they\u2019d like? In some ways, the stats create more questions than they answer.\nAgain, you can check out the full study here. It has all kinds of interesting nuggets that, at a minimum, may start entirely fresh conversations about what\u2019s happening in the startup industry right now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 6265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shaadiwish.com/blog/2018/12/01/gear-up-for-some-goosebumps-with-the-new-version-of-din-shagna-da/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:JJMB5CZO43IB4ALMHREETUBZUDXDUIAP", "length": 608, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "shaadiwish.com", "title": "Gear Up For Some Goosebumps With The New Version Of Din Shagna Da!", "raw_content": "Anushka Sharma in Phillauri made \u201cDin Shagna Da\u201d the official and everlasting song for bridal entry. And, since then brides have been opting for this soulful song. There are numerous versions of this song but, recently, The Wedding Story has come up with a new version of it. This rendition of Din Shagna Da is absolutely beautiful and full of emotions, as different brides enter the wedding venue.\nIt is not just a song it is an emotion for a bride and her family. We are already loving every bit of it and we are sure you will love it too. Share it with someone who is planning to get married anytime soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shareblue.com/john-lewis-i-will-get-in-trouble-good-trouble-necessary-trouble/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:15Z", "digest": "sha1:HON3MY7U526HBBMVCRLOVHWMPIQJZ6D3", "length": 2460, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "shareblue.com", "title": "John Lewis: 'I will get in trouble. Good trouble. Necessary trouble.'", "raw_content": "Home National John Lewis: \u2018I will get in trouble. Good trouble. Necessary trouble.\u2019\nJohn Lewis: \u2018I will get in trouble. Good trouble. Necessary trouble.\u2019\nOn President's Day, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) was honored in Atlanta. In his acceptance speech, he acknowledged the \"forces in America that are trying to take us back to another place and another time\" and pledged to continue to \"speak out, and find a way to get in the way.\"\nEver since Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) said he doesn\u2019t see Donald Trump as \u201ca legitimate president\u201d (and Trump attacked Lewis, a Civil Rights icon, on MLK weekend) Lewis\u2019 words have been vindicated, with each passing day.\nOver President\u2019s Day, as thousands participated in protests across the country to oppose Trump, Rep. Lewis\u2019s constituents gathered to honor him in Atlanta\u2019s 5th Congressional District.\nFormer Atlanta Mayor and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, who like Lewis worked alongside Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., introduced Lewis at the Heritage Celebration to honor Civil Rights heroes.\n\u201cWe are right in the middle of another war,\u201d Young said. \u201cI don\u2019t have any doubt about the outcome. One of the things I know about John is he may not know what the future holds, but he knows who holds the future.\u201d\nJennifer Brett, of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, posted Lewis\u2019 acceptance speech on Facebook:\nU.S. Rep. John Lewis' remarks at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta's Heritage Celebration. He is the event honoree.\nPosted by Jennifer Brett/Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Monday, February 20, 2017\nLEWIS: Some of us were beaten in Rock Hill, and later in Montgomery. We gave a little blood. Some of our brothers and sisters gave their lives. To bring us to the point where we are today. We\u2019ve come a distance. We\u2019ve made a lot of progress. But we\u2019re not there yet.\nThere are forces in America that are trying to take us back to another place and another time. We\u2019ve come too far. We\u2019ve made too much progress. And we\u2019re not going back. We\u2019re going forward.\nSo by honoring me, you\u2019re honoring the movement.\nAnd I will not give up. I will not give in. I will continue to stand up. Speak up. And speak out. And find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. Good trouble. Necessary trouble.\nIf John Lewis won\u2019t give in, we won\u2019t either.\nPrevious articleBIPARTISAN EXPERT: Trump\u2019s chaos makes us more vulnerable to \u201cmajor terrorist attack\u201d\nNext articleTrump not sure where anti-Semitism is coming from \u2014 as WH fails again to mention Jews", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 7403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shesaid.com/how-to-deal-with-grief/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:15Z", "digest": "sha1:FQAJQLYEL75I6LZ2IV3N5FJI2KPNAXIP", "length": 1390, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "shesaid.com", "title": "How to Deal with Grief - She\u2018Said\u2019", "raw_content": "In her first book, On Death and Dying, Dr Elizabeth Kubler-Ross (MacMillan) says grief can be broken down into five stages:\nThis is usually characterized by a feeling of numbness, which then becomes denial as the bereaved person struggles to believe what has happened.\nThe bereaved person feels anger towards God, themselves, the person who died and other people.\nWhen the bereaved person tries to make an agreement with God or similar to take the pain away.\nThis is when the bereaved feels helpless and the death hits home.\nWhen the loss has been accepted and a new beginning is starting to take over.\nNow take a look at the Dos and Don\u2019ts when dealing with someone who is grieving.\nDo accept that everyone is different and whatever that person is doing or feeling is okay.\nDo say, \u201cI don\u2019t think I can begin to understand your loss. Is there anything I can do?\nDo be patient and listen and be prepared to let the person talk about whatever they want to.\nDo have the patience to go through photos after photos.\nDo be particularly understanding around birthday, anniversaries and so on.\nDo try to talk as normally and it doesn\u2019t matter if they get upset.\nDon\u2019t\u2019 say things like, \u201cIt was for the best, or I understand how you feel.\nDon\u2019t try one-upmanship. Everyone experiences different losses.\nDon\u2019t ever argue be accepting.\nDon\u2019t ever force someone to talk about it if they don\u2019t want to.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 445, "original_length": 8767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://showmehome.com/seller-center-2/short-sale/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FY4TASDT7UC3YERZ5GZOUKWQFHM7MUUT", "length": 3675, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "showmehome.com", "title": "Short Sale - ShowMeHome.com", "raw_content": "Seller Center Short Sale\nIf you find yourself in a position where you owe more than your home is worth and you need to sell, a short sale may be your best option. But don\u2019t get taken for a long, stressful ride by a self proclaimed \u2018expert\u2019\u2026\n\"What is a short sale?\"\nSimply put, a short sale is a real estate transaction where the homeowner owes their lender more than what their property is worth and they need to sell. In a short sale, the lender must approve and accept less than what they are owed as full payoff (this means they may settle for $400,000, even if you currently owe them $500,000\u2026even if the loss is hundreds of thousands of dollars).\nAre you facing a financial hardship that you know will decrease your income?\nAre you getting behind on your mortgage and you\u2019re not sure if you can catch up?\nOr do you just need to sell quickly but your home is worth less now than when you bought it?\nIf you are facing any of the situations above, and you think a short sale might be your best option, then read on. If you\u2019re still not sure and just want more info, then scroll to the bottom of this page and request a free copy of our article \"The 9 Alternatives When Facing Foreclosure\"\nDon\u2019t worry. It\u2019s not your fault\u2026\nWe\u2019ve all had our ups and downs in life and a lot of other good people are also in the same tough spot as you. Life seems scary when you\u2019re facing the reality of foreclosure and I know how you feel when you just don\u2019t want to answer the phone any more\u2026\nWe all agree that we\u2019re in the middle of a national mortgage crisis and that, in many cases, homeowners who have bought or refinanced in the last few years have been seriously abused by unethical lending practices!!\nYou bought your home and hoped (like we all did) that it would increase in value (and some folks were even promised it would!), but most likely the harsh reality is that now your home is worth less than when you bought it and the value is still declining sharply.\nI\u2019ve helped many homeowners in this position to get the help they deserve.\nIt\u2019s sad but true!\nDid you know that nearly 90% of the homeowners nationwide who try to \"short sale\" their home will end up losing their home to foreclosure due to an uneducated or lazy agent?\nDon\u2019t allow this to happen to you!\nI hate to say this about my fellow agents, but the majority of them that are \"trying to help\" have not been properly trained and sadly, they are misinformed as to how to even negotiate with lenders. Some even get so far as to submit your \u2018short sale packet\u2019 and then just sit back and wait for a response! In the end, they simply don\u2019t know how to help you and you will become one of those \"90%\" that were not helped.\n\"Short sales are not easy!\"\n\u2026unless you seek the help of an expert agent with a proven track record. We have successfully negotiated short sales for many families and we actually get the banks to say YES to our short sales. Before you agree to have an agent help you sell your home, ask him/her to show you just one short sale approval within the last 6 months\u2026 I doubt they can.\nI am ready, along with my team of experts, to go to battle for you. Are you ready to take a serious look at your options and see how a short sale can help you:\nAvoid paying TAXES on the money the bank loses at foreclosure! (Yes, you may have to pay taxes on the amount of loss to the bank if the home goes to foreclosure!)\nSave your credit from the \"Foreclosure\" ding\nRelieve the stress that this financial burden has become\nWITH NO OUT OF POCKET FEES OR ANY UP FRONT COSTS OF ANY KIND! \u2026or in other words, you pay me nothing and if I do my job and save you from foreclosure, only then will I get paid by the lender!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 7469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sins-committed.org/applying-video-recordings-in-a-divorce.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ULV4W6MW27YL2QDY2GNHGL5H4UCSY44E", "length": 2744, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "sins-committed.org", "title": "Applying Video Recordings In A Divorce | Sins Law Committed", "raw_content": "A divorce decree establishes the new relations involving the parties, such as their duties and obligations relating to house that they own, help responsibilities of either or both of them, and provisions for any a marriage breaks up, divorce law gives legal solutions for problems that the Husband and Wife are unable to resolve by means of mutual cooperation. The HBO series demonstrates that how a particular person chooses to travel the divorce journey matters. If you want a lawyer\u2019s support but you nevertheless want to maintain your divorce civil, make positive you employ a lawyer who will assistance that method. Some men and women are accepting and wanting the divorce, and are reasonable, rational, and centered, but are frustrated with their spouses irrationality and emotionality, and are stressed by the complete divorce procedure.\nNonetheless, if your spouse does not want to divorce or objects to problems such as youngster custody or how to divide your mutual house, your case might have to go to trial, even if your spouse does not deny the verbal abuse. Your consideration will almost certainly be concentrated on those associated concerns and the approach of essentially obtaining the divorce may seem blurred.\nIf you file for a no-fault divorce, the only variety of divorce accessible in some states, you might be expected to retain a separate residence from your spouse for a fixed time period\u2014sometimes up to one particular year\u2014before the court will grant your divorce. The only ground for divorce is that the marriage has irretrievably broken down, but a divorce will only be granted if one particular of the 5 facts laid down by law, supplying irretrievable breakdown, is established.\nA judge who hears this request will refer to the original decree to decide intent, original award determination and other facts. If your spouse does not respond to the divorce papers or object to the terms you set forth in the divorce papers, then the judge will typically grant the divorce within 30 to 60 days. In most situations, a lawyer will be required to guide an person by way of a divorce.\nThe case books in DEL 7 (1796-1834) and PCAP three (1834 onwards) include bound volumes of printed proceedings and from time to time manuscript records of the judgement provided. The decree is also beneficial if one particular companion is entitled to insurance benefits or survivor advantages from a pension fund. D) You and your spouse have been living separately for two years or far more and your spouse agrees to the divorce. 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The United States has 5% of the world\u2019s population and incarcerates 25% of the world\u2019s prisoners. But why is this?\nInstitutionalized racism is at the root of the mass incarceration of millions in this country. Pillischer used interviews with academics, activists, religious communities, a former prisoner and a former Mayor of Philadelphia, John Street, to illustrate the origins of this set-up and how it operates.\nThe so-called war on drugs, which was conceived by the Reagan administration, is responsible for the huge increase in prisoner population over the last 30 years. While there has been no significant increase in the crime rate, the number of prisoners has ballooned to more than 2 million. This is more a symptom of racial politics than of any real threat to society.\nAfrican-Americans make up 12.4% of the US population but are more than 38% of the total prison population. Incarceration rates are out of proportion for Latins as well. Michelle Alexander, author of the book, the New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, says in an interview in the film:\nPeople who are living in ghetto communities today experience tremendous frustration, because not only are they being targeted in clearly biased ways by law enforcement, in countless ways they experience the discrimination, and often brutality of our criminal justice system.\nMore than 60% of the more than 700,000 prisoners serving time in local jails in the United States have not been convicted of a crime. They are awaiting trial and are not able to make bail because of poverty. This is on top of the more than 2.2 million (2010) prisoners in state and federal prisons and the 4,933,667 adults (2009) either on probation or parole. In all, more than 7 million adults are under some form of incarceration or correctional control (prison, jail, probation or parole) in the US. There were an additional 70,792 youth in \u201cjuvenile detention\u201d in 2010.\nSeventy five% of these prisoners are charged with property crimes, drug offenses or other nonviolent crimes. Prisoners are kept in dirty, overcrowded, conditions and separated from their families. Prisoners often face the loss of their jobs while awaiting trial. Families are damaged because of the financial strain placed on them. Additionally, there is a huge burden placed on the taxpayer; jails cost local governments more than $9 Billion annually. Some New Jersey counties have percentages of prisoners awaiting trial in local jails that are above the national average. In Philadelphia, the percentage of prisoners in the county system, who are considered \u201cpre-trial,\u201d is about 57 percent. The Black and Hispanic prisoner population in Philadelphia County is more than 80 percent.\nThe New Jim Crow is a conscious policy by a white racist ruling class to criminalize African-Americans, while preserving the fiction that racial discrimination died with the end of formal segregation. The \u201cwar on drugs\u201d and the \u201ctough on crime\u201d rhetoric of politicians keeps racial politics alive by appealing to the racist attitudes and prejudices of whites, all the while holding up the pretence of a colour-blind society. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 70% of prisoners in the US are non-white. The obvious racial bias of the system- from racial profiling at the street level to bail disparities in court \u2013 helps to fuel a system of mass incarceration of people of colour.\nFrom the film:\nWe as a nation become blind, not so much to race, but to the existence of racial caste. We have become blind to the existence of a group of people who have become locked into a second-class status and become indifferent to their suffering.\nEx-offenders are plagued by high recidivism rates, which are reinforced by patterns of racial discrimination and lack of educational opportunities both in the community and in prison. States have cut vocational training in prison systems just as they have cut school budgets.\nAccording to Michelle Alexander, \u201cSo many of the old forms of discrimination that we supposedly left behind during the Jim Crow era are suddenly legal again once you have been branded a felon.\u201d Ex-prisoners also quite often lose their right to vote, again reinforcing their second class status.\nAddressing the problem of the prison industrial complex is an urgent task for progressive activists in the US. We can\u2019t simply rely on moral appeals to politicians or lawsuits. The only way to break this system down is to build a mass social movement that links together communities, churches, organized labor and students around a program demanding justice, jobs, education funding and an immediate end to the war on drugs. A true defence of public education cannot be achieved without understanding that the prison system, a multi-billion dollar business, is draining the resources we need to rebuild our schools and educate youth.\nThe defence of our unions, and the living standards of working class people, cannot be waged without understanding the roots of the prison industrial complex in a predatory capitalist system that is incapable of creating living wage jobs and locks millions of unemployed workers away in a for-profit prison system. Stop and frisk and other racial profiling must be ended. Police must be held accountable for targeting communities of colour. The call for an end to mass incarceration, linked to a call for jobs at union wages for all workers, is a crucial demand for working people.\nGood political documentaries don\u2019t exist merely to inform us; They exist to move us to action. Broken On All Sides is just such a film. It\u2019s difficult for me to say just how much I enjoyed this excellent, well constructed, film without giving too much of it away. I urge the reader to buy a copy of this film and use it as an organizing tool. Organize a showing in your church, school or union hall. If your community organization, school or union has the resources, host the filmmaker and organize a discussion of what can be done to end the New Jim Crow.\nCopies of Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration, & New Visions for Criminal Justice in the US can be bought from the web site, http://brokenonallsides.com/ The web site also has ideas and suggestions on how to organize in your community. Contact the director, Matthew Pillischer, at brokenonallsides@gmail.com\nCategory: Communist Theory\t| Tags: all, america, american, and, broken, criminal, drugs, film, in, Internationalism, John Leslie, justice, Matthew Pillischer, of, on, population, prison, prisoners, racism, sides, states, system, united, war\nUnemployment Crisis In The US- No End In Sight. Time To Build A Working Class Fightback! By John Leslie \u00bb\n\u00ab Review: Shostakovich Socialism, Stalin & Symphonies by Simon Behrman Bookmarks /Redwords by Laurence Humphries", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 16251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socialistfight.com/2018/08/16/irish-republican-prisoners-support-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:07Z", "digest": "sha1:WINPO3SSW36IKHTUK535YQ2W7E2MQV3D", "length": 19361, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "socialistfight.com", "title": "Irish Republican Prisoners Support Group | Socialist Fight", "raw_content": "Belfast Riots in July 1920\nThe immediate causes were the shooting of Smyth in Cork (he was from Banbridge) and the tensions arising from the 12th July (fanned by Carson). The more long term causes were fears about jobs by Protestant workers. Parkinson notes that unemployment was 26% in Belfast at this time after post-war depression. Protestant workers felt they were taking their \u2018own\u2019 jobs back.\nParkinson says there was about 93,000 Catholic workers in the city at this time (Parkinson (2004), pgs 33-35) and he estimates that around 10,000 workers expelled including several hundred female textile workers. He says that most of the expulsions occurred within the first few days but some intimidation did occur into the following month and even into early September when Catholic workers would be forced out of work for refusing to sign \u2018loyalty\u2019 documents. Also, included were about 1,800 Protestant trade unionists and socialists who were also expelled from their work \u2013 the latter were called \u2018rotten Prods\u2019 by the unionist leadership (Parkinson (2004), pgs 35-36 & 328). Parkinson further estimates that over the period of the conflict in Belfast (i.e. up to summer 1922), over 20,000 Catholics were displaced (Parkinson (2004), pg 62).\nParkinson also says that there is little evidence that Unionist Party had organised expulsion but that the Unionist leaders failed to condemn them. Carson was later to express his \u2018pride\u2019 in the actions of his shipyard \u2018friends\u2019 (Parkinson (2004), pg 31). He goes onto say \u201cmembers of the BPA and other loyalist splinter groups undoubtedly benefited from easy access to their considerable arsenal and were certainly responsible for the initial industrial expulsions and several sectarian murders. Although the unionist establishment may not have co-ordinated the campaign of violence, it is undeniable that the Belfast authorities had been bracing themselves for an outbreak of communal disturbances during the summer of 1920.\u201d (Parkinson (2004), pg 309) He goes on to say that the more incisive deployment of troops in Belfast would have probably reduced the level of violence. McDermott says that \u201cThere is no significant evidence that the unionist leadership ordered the expulsions from the shipyards \u2026 but \u2026 the expulsions mark the beginning of what \u2026 the whole of the nationalist community called the \u2018pogroms\u2019.\u201d (McDermott (2001), pg 33)\nThe response by a number of prominent nationalists and republicans in the North in August (including Sean McEntee; Denis McCullough; Bishop McRory and Rev John Hassan) is to set a \u2018Belfast Boycott Committee\u2019 which aims to force Belfast businesses to take back expelled Catholic workers by pushing a vigorous boycott of all goods produced in Belfast. They have success with county councils in the South and, while initially reluctant, the D\u00e1il takes responsibility for it from January 1921.\nhttp://www.dcu.ie/~foxs/irhist/July%201920%20-%2021-24%20-%20Belfast%20riots%20-%20BGround%20&%20Conseqs.htm\nSince the launch of the Socialist Fight magazine in 2009 we have been particularly focused on opposition to British imperialism in Ireland; every one of the 27 issues of our magazine have carried a list of the Irish Republican Prisoners and defended their right to oppose the British occupation of the north of Ireland. No other left group in Britain, apart from the Revolutionary Communist Group, pays such attention to Britain\u2019s oldest colony and the touchstone for the anti-imperialism of every British socialist. Few make the grade now.\nRepublican POWs are heroic fighters for Ireland\u2019s right of self-determination and the expulsion of British imperialist troops from Ireland, where they have no right to be. They rejected the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) because it enshrined the Loyalist Veto over a united Ireland and legitimised the illegitimate state of \u2018Northern Ireland\u2019.\nPartition was imposed by Britain and by Orange Order, Carson-inspired thugs in the \u201cBelfast Confetti\u201d pogroms of July-September 1920; 11,000 nationalists were driven from the shipyards and mills. Only revolution in Ireland which combines anti-imperialism and socialist revolution will reverse this appalling injustice.\nWe reject the workerist, syndicalist theories proposed by groups like the AWL, the Socialist Party (Grantites) and the SWP that the problems in the north of Ireland are a result of sectarianism on both sides and that both sides are equally bad. Similarly, we reject the inter-penetrated theories of the \u2018Spartacist family\u2019 (ICL-IBT and LFI) who legitimised Loyalist reaction as a \u201cnot yet a nation\u201d in its 1977 Theses on Ireland [i]. Obfuscating the essence of the conflict here (and in Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus and Uganda, to mention but a few cases) [ii] they continually refer to the conflict between \u2018Catholics\u2019 and \u2018Protestants\u2019 and not the correct political terms \u2018loyalist\u2019 and \u2018Unionist\u2019 vs \u2018nationalists\u2019 and \u2018Republicans\u2019. They explicitly reject the Leninist-Trotskyist position on the rights of nations to self-determination here:\n\u201cIn particular, in the case of interpenetrated peoples sharing a common territory, we oppose the exercise of self-determination by one nation where this flatly conflicts with the same right for another nation.\u201d\nThen, seemingly aware that in \u201cNorthern Ireland\u201d the \u2018Protestants\u2019 do not constitute a nation, and do not want to be a nation, go on to say:\n\u201cThough not yet a nation, the Protestants are certainly not a part of the Irish nation and are distinct from the Scottish and English nations. Presently their separate existence is defined in large part as against the Irish Catholic nation and at the ideological level is expressed in religious terms.\u201d\nThis poses the question, \u201care the \u2018Protestants\u2019 about to become a nation in the near future?\u201d But then James Robertson, who clearly wrote this document from a WASP perspective, thought he was making a big step forward from the previous Spart position which was for an Independent Socialist Ulster and Independent Socialist Ireland as part of the Socialist Federation of the British Isles. Only a WASP could write such garbage and expect it to gain support in Ireland. This idiotic perspective was put forward by the Loyalist killers Tommy \u201cTucker\u201d Lyttle, and Glen Barr in their counter-revolutionary uprising, the Ulster Workers\u2019 Council strike against the Sunningdale Agreement in 1974, which impressed the Socialist Party so much. [iii]\nIn general, while seeking to develop our own section in Ireland we critically politically support the Republican Socialist tradition in Ireland, who seek to combine the national and the social revolution, as James Connolly had done, in a revolutionary manner which is approaching Trotsky\u2019s theory of permanent revolution. Although the famous quote \u201chold on to your rifles\u201d attributed to Connolly by Desmond Greaves has been challenged for reliable provenance by John Newsinger and others but D.R. O\u2019Connor Lysaght points to an article which appeared thirty years prior to the Greaves book: John O\u2019Keefe\u2019s \u2018Citizen Army Veteran\u2019s Memories of 1913-1916:\n\u201cConnolly\u2019s address to the Citizen Army a couple of days before the Rising should never be forgotten by the Irish workers. \u2018Being the lesser party\u2019, he said, \u2018we join in this fight with our comrades of the Irish Volunteers. But hold your arms. If we succeed, those who are our comrades today we may be compelled to fight tomorrow.\u2019 And when one of our number raised the question of our strength came the reply: \u2018The people will help.\u2019\u201d [iv]\nLike the Russian Revolutions of February and October 1917 Connolly was clearly pointing to one revolution with stages within it, not to the Stalinist two stages separated by a historical period; the latter amounts to a political defence of the bourgeois nationalism against the workers in revolution.\nThe Good Friday Agreement (GFA) or Belfast Agreement was a major political development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. Northern Ireland\u2019s present devolved system of government is based on the Agreement. The Agreement also created a number of institutions between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.\nThe Agreement is made up of two inter-related documents, both agreed in Belfast on Good Friday, 10 April 1998:\nA multi-party agreement by most of Northern Ireland\u2019s political parties;\nAn international agreement between the British and Irish governments (the British-Irish Agreement).\nThe Good Friday Agreement set out a complex series of provisions relating to a number of areas:\nThe status and system of government of Northern Ireland within the UK. (Strand 1)\nThe relationship between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. (Strand 2)\nThe relationship between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. (Strand 3)\nCentral to the Agreement were the following issues:\nCivil and cultural rights,\nDecommissioning of weapons, and\nThe Agreement was approved by voters across the island of Ireland in two referendums held on 22 May 1998.\nIn Northern Ireland, voters were asked whether they supported the multi-party agreement.\nIn the Republic of Ireland, voters were asked whether they would allow the state to sign the agreement and allow necessary constitutional changes to facilitate it.\nThe people of both jurisdictions needed to approve the Agreement in order to give effect to it.\nThe British-Irish Agreement came into force on 2 December 1999.\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was the only major political group in Northern Ireland to oppose the Agreement.\nNo support for the Good Friday Agreement\nAll sincere socialists, of course, welcome the virtual ending of such tit-for-tat sectarian killings that went on during the \u2018troubles\u2019. These were mainly carried out by Loyalists murder gangs, like the infamous Glenanne gang, which was made up of a coalition of Loyalists, British soldiers, and RUC officers, assisted by British Army intelligence and MI5. They are estimated to have killed about 120 mainly random Catholic civilians with no links to Irish republican paramilitaries. There were also some unfortunate incidents of the killing of innocent Protestant workers and worshipers on the nationalist side; the Kingsmill massacre of Protestant workers on 5 January 1976 and the Darkley massacre of worshipers on 20 November 1983 which we unreservedly condemn, despite the severe provocations.\nThe GFA accepted the Loyalist Veto (the Spart Family accepted it with that Theses on Ireland in 1977, over 20 years before Gerry Adams) and legitimised the British occupation of the six northeastern counties of the Irish nation and no serious Trotskyist could have accepted that. The GFA was imposed by the Provos post 1998 in a mini-civil war which Mo Mowlem referred to as \u201cinternal housekeeping\u201d.\nSlugger O\u2019Tool exposed this in a 2010 article, The Killing of Joe O\u2019Connor:\n\u201cPrior to Joe O\u2019Connor\u2019s murder, Charles Bennett and Andrew Kearney had been murdered by the Provos in North Belfast. Andrew\u2019s mother, Maureen, from Twinbrook, was one of the first to break ranks and speak out against the organisation that brutally killed her son. In a sense, her speaking out was the start of a shadow peace process, one that has never been acknowledged and today exists amongst those families seeking the truth of what happened to their loved ones.\u201d\nOf course, the murders and savage beatings of \u2018dissidents\u2019 were never investigated by the RUC/PSNI; Mo Mowlem and Tony Blair had approved them. These hold-out principled Irish Republicans deserve the solidarity and support of all serious British internationalist socialists.\nGabriel Mackle and Neil Hegarty interned\nOn 9 November 2017 Gabriel Mackle was arrested in his home by the RUC/PSNI leaving his wife and two small children traumatised. On an order from the British Secretary of State Gabriel\u2019s licence was revoked and he was taken straight back to Maghaberry goal, from which he had been released in August after serving over three years. As with Tony Taylor and Neil Hegarty this is effectively internment without charge or trial and is based solely on their Republican political beliefs of opposing the sell-out of Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein to British imperialism.\nOn 7 December Neil Hegarty\u2019s licence was revoked, he was arrested by armed police and returned to Maghaberry. Saoradh reported that:\n\u201cNeil was only released on 5th December after five years in gaol and had been at home with family and friends celebrating his release when armed Crown Forces arrived to return him to captivity \u2026 Neil Hegarty is an unashamed Irish Republican, who has been returned to captivity by a foreign government with no right to be in Ireland. He is yet another victim of Internment via revocation of licence and should be released back to his family immediately.\u201d\nFree Brendan McConville, John Paul Wotton and Tony Taylor\nThe two young men were convicted of the killing of PSNI officer Stephen Carroll in March 2009. These two men are innocent, that they have been wrongfully convicted and are victims of another frameup by the British State. The late Gerry Conlon, of the Guildford 4, many Irish TDs and public figures have recognised their innocence and campaigned for them.\nOn 10 March 2016 armed police surrounded Tony Taylor\u2019s family car he was arrested and taken to Maghaberry prison. Tony\u2019s solicitor has been told that he was returned to gaol on the basis of intelligence reports that he cannot see or challenge.\nThis is a case of internment in all but name. He has now been held without charge or information on why he was incarcerated since 10 March 2016. Tony has positively contributed to local politics in Derry by peacefully raising benefit cuts, prison conditions and policing issues before his arrest, which was entirely prompted by his political stance against British occupation of the six counties; there were no \u201cillegal activities\u201d. He \u201cspearheaded the revival of RNU in Derry\u201d, his real \u2018crime\u2019.\nNo to the Extraditions of Liam Campbell\nIrish Republicans have been extradited from the Free State to the 6 counties in the recent past. When extradited they face the same inhuman torture, beatings and forced strip searching endured by all Irish POWs there.\nLiam Campbell is facing extradition to Lithuania. Judgement is pending in the case. If extradited and found guilty, he faces a potential sentence of 20 years. The IRPSG campaigned for Liam Campbell\u2019s brother, Michael, in 2012 and 2013; we put a motion defending him to the 2013 LRC AGM. Led by our new Chair John Carty, we will campaign for Liam now.\nIn October 2013 Michael was acquitted of all charges in Lithuania because the court believed he was framed by MI5. His lawyer said \u201ca person cannot be sentenced for a crime committed by state officials. He was acquitted because the court found that what he was accused of was a provocation. It was just an activity of the state security services,\u201d she said.\nWe picketed the Irish Embassy in London on 20 April 2012 and the Lithuanian Embassy on 6 Match 2012 on Michael and Liam\u2019s behalf with the following flyer text:\n\u201cMichael Campbell was set up in a \u2018sting\u2019 operation by MI5, the Irish and Lithuanian intelligence agencies and jailed in Lithuania on 21 October 2011 for 12 years. The spooks had in fact initiated the arms deal on which he was convicted. His lawyer, Ingrida Botyriene, said: \u201cHe would never be involved in arms deals and would never go to Lithuania for such an affair if he had not been provoked by secret agents.\u201d\nFollowing his sentencing, the Lithuanian Director of Public Prosecution has indicated that they intend to hold a new trial; he wrote to an IRPSG supporter (the late Michael Holden):\n\u201cThe DPP appealed the case, he was not happy with 12 years, wants 16 but case could go on for 2 years. The DPP originally demanded 16 years. This is a travesty, he has been tried and sentenced, he should now be repatriated to serve his time in Ireland, where his family can visit him.\u201d\nSimilarly, we demand that the British authorities cease the hounding of his brother Liam who wrote to the IRPSG; \u201cI am held here in Maghaberry prison by the Brits. They want to extradite me to Lithuania, a country I was never in. So I am here for two and a half now where I have no rights as an Irish man up in front of a Brit judge in my own country\u201d.\nWe like to think that, in conjunction with the campaign in Ireland, we contributed something towards Michael\u2019s release in October 2013. And we will struggle to defend Liam now too.\nIRPWA reports discrimination against Irish cultural identity in Maghaberry\nOn 05/10/2016 a prison governor responded to a solicitor\u2019s letter stating:\n\u201cThe Northern Ireland Prison Service has over recent months been required to remove such (sic) inflammatory items such as Irish tricolours and signs erected by prisoners in Irish.\u201d\nThis is a response to a challenge regarding a printed issue the \u2018Scairt Amach\u2019 magazine which was refused although it was composed in the jail to begin with. It is clear, however, that the Irish language and national flag are \u2018inflammatory\u2019.\nIn response to a challenge regarding CD\u2019s being denied entry on 07/07/2016 the security governor wrote:\n\u201cSeveral songs included in the CD your client has requested are inextricably linked to the 1916 Rising and other Republican terrorist campaigns since then (straightforward Loyalist propaganda\u2014IRPSG!). These include Kevin Barry, The Time has Come, The Broad Black Brimmer, The Men Behind the Wire. These songs glorify armed insurrection and rebellion, prison related deaths of Republican terrorists and are supportive of terrorist organisations (past and present)\u201d.\nNothing speaks more of the illegitimate nature of the northern state and its bigoted refusal to acknowledge the rights of Irish people to their own language, culture, nationality and statehood; the of self-determination of the Irish nation as a whole.\n[i] Spartacist no 24, Autumn 1977, Theses on Ireland, http://www.workersrepublic.org/Pages/Ireland/Trotskyism/thesesonireland2.html\n[ii] See The Spartacist Family and the National Question, https://socialistfight.com/2018/06/04/the-spartacist-family-and-the-national-question/, IDOT 20, Gerry Downing, Ireland and Palestine: Interpenetrated peoples and the rights of oppressed nations to self-determination, https://socialistfight.com/2016/01/28/ireland-and-palestine-interpenetrated-peoples-and-the-rights-of-oppressed-nations-to-self-determination/, The International Bolshevik Tendency and Interpenetrated Peoples \u2013 A clarification, https://socialistfight.com/2016/02/07/the-international-bolshevik-tendency-and-interpenetrated-peoples-a-clarification/\n[iii] Nevertheless, the (Ulster Workers Council) strike also demonstrated in a distorted form and on a reactionary issue, the colossal power of the working class when it moves into action.\u201d Militant International Review No. 9, 10th June 1974, https://socialistfight.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/idot-8.pdf\n[iv] \u2018Hold on to your rifles\u2019 and \u2018Let no shot be fired in Ulster\u2019: notes on two remarks attributed to Connolly\nNOV 30, by Liam O Ruairc, https://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/hold-on-to-your-rifles-and-let-no-shot-be-fired-in-ulster-notes-on-two-remarks-attributed-to-connolly/\nBrexit, Lexit, Economic Nationalism and Stalinism \u00bb\n\u00ab The Anti-Imperialist United Front", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 29468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socialveo.co/p/terms-service", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:33Z", "digest": "sha1:LNIY7EGDUXHJQ4XRBJNLAKLCGXULKDUA", "length": 6314, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "socialveo.co", "title": "Sign in Sign up", "raw_content": "Please read these Terms of Service (\u201cTerms\u201d, \u201cTerms of Service\u201d) carefully before using this website (the \u201cService\u201d) operated by Socialveo (\u201cus\u201d, \u201cwe\u201d, or \u201cour\u201d).\nYour access to and use of the Service is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with these Terms. 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If you do not agree to the new terms, you must stop using the service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 8779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://societyofrock.com/breaking-legendary-rock-guitarist-found-dead-at-71/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:15Z", "digest": "sha1:AMBCEVA6OHUBNQE3MJESTURV3NU7UNNJ", "length": 1218, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "societyofrock.com", "title": "Breaking: Legendary Rock Guitarist J. Geils Found Dead At 71 | Society Of Rock", "raw_content": "Breaking: Legendary Rock Guitarist J. Geils Found Dead At 71\nphoto credit: chicagotribune.com via Fin Costello / Redferns\nBand Leader\u2019s Death \u2018Not Considered Suspicious,\u2019 Police Say\nIt\u2019s with a heavy heart that we\u2019re forced to announce that the legendary John Geils of The J. Geils Band has died at the age of 71, found dead today in his home in Massachusetts.\nBorn in New York in 1946, Geils, a lifelong blues fan, famously formed The J. Geils Band in the mid-1960s as an acoustic trio then known as Snoopy and the Sopwith Camels, featuring the talents of bassist Danny Klein (Dr. Funk) and harmonica player Richard Salwitz (stage name Magic Dick) with Geils pulling double duty on guitar and vocals. It wasn\u2019t until 1968 that the band would shift focus towards a more electric driven sound, becoming The J. Geils Blues Band before settling on The J. Geils Band and signing with Atlantic Records in 1970.\nWhile details surrounding Geils\u2019 death are not yet available, authorities don\u2019t consider his death \u2018suspicious\u2019.\nBe sure to stay tuned to Society of Rock \u2013 we\u2019ll have more as the story develops and as always, our hearts are with John\u2019s fans, friends, and loved ones as they begin to navigate this difficult time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://socrata.com/video/service-utah-taxpayers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:G5DHTJ2C6ED67DMKHIBIURU56IAMUKLG", "length": 236, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "socrata.com", "title": "A Service for Utah Taxpayers", "raw_content": "A Service for Utah Taxpayers\nCitizens don't want to go one place for 3rd grade literacy scores, and somewhere else for cancer rates, or police data, says Utah Open Data Coordinator on how they're creating a one-stop shop for their data.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sofietokorea.com/2017/04/21/introducing-the-koreans-korean-ajusshis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:22Z", "digest": "sha1:34TGQ3PDE62DZIYBJRBDFDHW2DB3RQ5G", "length": 10237, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "sofietokorea.com", "title": "Introducing the Koreans: Korean ajusshis \u2013 Sofie to Korea", "raw_content": "Introducing the Koreans: Korean ajusshis\nKorean ajusshis\nI\u2019m now through my midterms at Sogang, and it\u2019s time for the fourth and final installment of my \u201cintroducing the Koreans\u201d series. This time, I\u2019ll be dealing with the Korean ajusshis and I\u2019ve promised my friend Jonson from Spongemind to go easy on them, haha. I\u2019m not sure Jonson quite fits into this category, though. For your reference, ajusshi is a term used to address older Korean men. (I personally usually refrain from using this word and opt for addressing people using their title instead.) I realize that the title picture may seem a bit controversial, but keep reading and hopefully you\u2019ll understand my choice.\nAs in the other cases, I\u2019ll illustrate this post by introducing examples of ajusshis that I encounter in my daily life. Again, I\u2019m painting with the widest of brushes, so please know that this is just my general experiences, and as always there are plenty of exceptions. I\u2019m also excluding all of my colleagues, my doormen, and basically any kind of well-read, educated, open-minded ajusshi. Instead, in this post, I\u2019m focusing on the ajusshis I meet on the street.\nI think it\u2019s safe to say that my experiences with this particular type of Koreans is just as mixed as with the ajummas. The longer I\u2019ve been living in Korea, the better I\u2019ve come to understand them, but there are still some significant cultural differences between myself and elderly Koreans.\nI recently read an awesome book by Michael Breen, a British national who\u2019s been living in Korea for over 30 years. The book is called \u201cThe new Koreans\u201d, and reading this has really provided me with a deep insight into the cultural heritage of Korea and it\u2019s people. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more about this amazing and sometimes completely impossible country. Breen writes candidly and often critically, but his love for Korea shines through on every page, and it\u2019s by far the best book I\u2019ve ever read on Korea.\nI\u2019ve come to realize that there\u2019s a vast generation gap in Korea, which often causes clashes between the younger and older Koreans. While older Koreans are traditionally more conservative, younger Koreans are open minded, free of prejudices regarding race or sexual orientation, curious about the world, and much more independent than the older generations. There is no doubt that the influx of other cultures into Korea has affected younger people and inspired them to be a bit more individualistic. For example, the concept of family is becoming increasingly narrow among young Koreans. A recently published survey showed that younger people usually only counted their immediate family as real family (spouse\u2019s family was not seen as real family), while older Koreans counted extended family as well. Maybe for that particular reason, the number of young Koreans who choose to live with the husband\u2019s parents after marriage is steeply decreasing.\nBut this rapid modernization, if you will, of the Korean mindset comes at a heavy cost for the older generation. They are the ones who struggled 70 hour work weeks to build Korea into the prosperous nation that it has become in an unprecedented matter of decades. They are now relying on their children and grandchildren to take care of them, and when their children then decide to live alone, they are left without anyone to take care of them in their old age. This generation of Koreans have suffered a lot of hardship, and they carry a lot of han. When I think of this, I can better understand the sometimes irrational behavior of particularly ajusshis. So, let me tell you about one of my experiences:\nThe topic of taxi drivers has been covered in a separate blog post before, but I have obviously had many other experiences since then. One particular experience was a couple of months ago, where a 70-something taxidriver was driving me home to my apartment by Sogang. It wasn\u2019t a particularly long trip, but this ajusshi gave me a valuable insight into his daily worries. After having mistaken me for an overseas Korean (it was very dark, and he didn\u2019t see my blond hair), he began telling me about his huge disappointment in his son an daughter-in-law. His son had apparently married a horrible woman, who refused to live with her parents-in-law. The taxidriver lamented that he and his wife had raised his son while struggling to make it through on low-paying jobs. His son now had a well-paying job and wouldn\u2019t even make his wife move in with his parents. Adding insult to injury, they had announced that they would go abroad with their children so that the children could learn English. I\u2019m very familiar with both concepts, but I could tell that the taxidriver was honestly surprised, confused, and hurt. He said that he was afraid that if they stayed abroad for too long, his grandchildren would no longer be able to speak proper Korean. He then turned around and looked at me with a disapproving gaze: \u201cAre you married?\u201d \u2013 yes \u2013 \u201cDo you take good care of your parent\u2019s in law?\u201d \u2013 well\u2026 \u2013 \u201cWhat about your parents? Did you just leave them to move here?\u201d \u2013 sort of\u2026\u2013 \u201cThis is exactly this Western influence that\u2019s poisoning our society, but I suppose it\u2019s not all your fault.\u201d\nI was overwhelmed and even felt a bit guilty when I got off, but this conversation was a valuable insight into the mind of a segment of the Koreans that I for long have struggled to understand. I used to think that this type of older Korean man was just rude and angry for no reason, but this experience made me realize that we all have our own struggles and that they are often the reason for why we behave as we do.\nAs many of you may know, Korea is currently undergoing significant political turmoil. A little over a month ago, the Korean supreme court unanimously voted to oust the former president Park based on accusations of bribery and misuse of power for her own and her friend\u2019s benefit. The curious thing about this case, is that Park is the daughter of former dictator General Park, who governed the country from 1961 until his assassination in 1979. Close to 90% of Koreans approved of the court\u2019s decision. In fact, since the scandal started rolling in October, people have taken to the streets of central Seoul every Saturday to show their anger toward Park, demanding her resignation. However, following Park\u2019s ousting, a new type of demonstrators appeared \u2013 her supporters. I naively thought that all Koreans wanted her out of the Blue House. But I soon realized that there are some (almost exclusively older Korean men) who see her as the rightful heir to the Korean \u201cthrone\u201d being the daughter of the amazing leader General Park, who (despite torture, violence and anti-democratic means) managed to make the Korean economy flourish. They idolize the Park dynasty and want the court to overturn their decision.\nIf I had just moved here, I would say that these older gentlemen are crazy, but through reading about, and talking with elderly people, I\u2019ve come to at least partly understand why they think the way they do. I\u2019m a firm believer of the \u201cthe only thing constant is change\u201d doctrine, so obviously I don\u2019t agree. But I also realize that \u201cunderstanding\u201d and \u201cagreeing with\u201d are not the same thing. I understand their frustration, their pain, their anger, their han. I don\u2019t agree with them, however, but I don\u2019t view them as critically as I would without my knowledge of Korea and it\u2019s history.\nSo, when coming to Korea, you may meet the occasional slightly aggressive ajusshi, who may blame you for being young, Western, and married but living independently. He may even speak rudely to you, but try to let it pass. He probably had a harder life than you and face struggles, you cannot begin to imagine. I find that when I smile and speak politely, they usually lower their guards, and if I in any way can help just one person change his perception on foreign influence, I\u2019ll be thankful.\nPosted on April 21, 2017 10 By \uc18c\ud76c\tKorean ajusshis Posted in Korean ajusshis Tagged #Daily life, Korea, Korean ajusshis, Korean culture, Korean history, Life in Korea\nWow you went way beyond going easy on them. \u201cConservative old men\u201d (I guess this is how ajushi is defined in this blog) are not viewed kindly these days in Korea. But you wrote about them with so much warmth. I am going to share it in my Naver cafe.\nPlease do! Glad I didn\u2019t disappoint ^^\nThank you for such an insightful post. Whenever I\u2019ve met a rude adjusshi I have always put it down to an abuse of their position in society. I\u2019ve known about the vast changes and huge generation gap, but truthfully never really thought about what it must be like for the older generation. I do not condone or wish to excuse their sometimes rude behaviour, but it must be difficult when after working so hard and so long only to have the safety net you thought would be guaranteed into your later years ripped away. Do you know if Koreans receive a state pension or if all have access to a private pension at all? I know pensions exist in Korea but I\u2019m not sure if everyone is eligible for them and never asked about it when I lived there.\nI\u2019ll have to check out that book recommendation too.\nThank you so much for commenting! And yes, do check out the book. It\u2019s a fascinating read \ud83d\ude42\nmykoreanramblings\nSuch a well observed and insightful post. Your writing is fantastic!\nOh, thank you so much. It means so much to me that you think so \ud83d\ude42\nI was reading this and thinking about when I was in Korea, how readily Korean cab drivers were willing to share their world\u2026 And those family concerns, they\u2019re so\u2026 *real* in Korea.\nIt\u2019s also motivating to think that if I work as hard as you have been, I could be able to converse on that level in Korean.\nLong may your blog continue!\nWow, thank you so much for your kind words! Korea is an amazing country, and I really find that it pays off to scratch a bit in the surface. Learning the language and getting to know the culture has enriched my life here in ways I couldn\u2019t even imagine! Keep on fighting!\nThis post is gold!\nThank you for sharing your point of view. \ud83d\ude42\nThank you so much for all your support! It means a lot \ud83d\ude42\nNext Post My first Korean wedding\nPrevious Post It\u2019s Buddha\u2019s birthday \u2013 and I need a break", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 14682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://splinternews.com/justin-trudeaus-office-just-tore-into-fox-news-and-trum-1793858439", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:52Z", "digest": "sha1:6CDCVPCSPDZ6KP5SCJRA3ACYBNK2V4WC", "length": 1347, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "splinternews.com", "title": "Justin Trudeau's office just tore into Fox News and Trump's anti-immigrant policy", "raw_content": "Justin Trudeau's office just tore into Fox News and Trump's anti-immigrant policy\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office just delivered a sharp rebuke to Fox News and the Trump administration's Islamophobic rhetoric.\nThe letter came after Sunday's shooting at a mosque in Quebec City, where six people were killed.\nTrudeau's director of communications, Kate Purchase, wrote an open letter to Fox News on Tuesday after the channel mis-identified the shooter in the Quebec City shooting as Moroccan in a story and a tweet, the ABC reports. The suspect was Alexandre Bissonnette, 27, a French-Canadian white man.\nPurchase's letter also criticizes policies \"trying to build walls and scapegoat communities\" and contradicted the rhetoric that Trump has used to justify his Muslim ban, pointing out that \"Muslims are predominantly the greatest victims of terrorist attacks around the world.\" Purchase posted the letter to Twitter:\nFox News then deleted the tweet.\n\"FoxNews.com initially corrected the misreported information with a tweet and an update to the story on Monday. The earlier tweets have now been deleted,\" Fox News managing director Refet Kaplan in a statement to reporters. \"We regret the error.\"\nThe day that the U.S. government's ban went into effect, Trudeau tweeted a message of welcome to immigrants and refugees from Canada:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sscardreplacement.com/get-id-without-birth-certificate-social-security-card/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:45Z", "digest": "sha1:G5FNM6X4FU7MOQHQFP5JDJ6L4SP7VRKW", "length": 3037, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "sscardreplacement.com", "title": "How to Get an ID Without a Birth Certificate or Social Security Card - Lost Social Security Card SS Card Replacement", "raw_content": "Many people often wonder if they will be able to get an ID even if they do not have a birth certificate or a social security card. The short answer to that is no, you cannot.\nThis is because birth certificates and social Security cards are the most important pieces of document you need to prove your identity. Without either, it is highly unlikely that you can get that ID you need. Of course, you are free to try. We guarantee that rejection will come swiftly.\nObtaining a copy of your social security card, which itself is an ID, is actually fairly easy. So, there is actually no reason to not have any this document. In order to solve this dilemma, this article presents the steps needed to get a copy of your social security card.\nRequesting A Copy of Your Social Security Card\nRequesting a copy of your social security card is actually very easy to do. The first thing you have to do is download the application form available online. Of course, you can also go to the nearest social security office in your area and ask for a copy.\nThe next step would be to just fill-up the form. Make sure that you indicate reason for your application. Also, ensure that the answers you give are accurate. This is so that you don\u2019t encounter any hiccups in the process.\nIt is also worth mentioning that the social security officer will ask for original copies of important documents. Photocopied documents will be rejected outright. If you do not have a copy of your birth certificate, then a marriage certificate would do. Valid IDs like your Driver\u2019s License would also serve your purpose well. You can also bring your passport with you since this is the ultimate proof your citizenship.\nIt is so easy to acquire that it is just a matter of walking to the nearest social security office and asking for one.\nWhy Are Social Security Cards So Important?\nThere is simply no excuse for not having a copy of one\u2019s social security card. This is because it is vitally important to the way we live our lives today. Not only does it provide proof of identity and residence, but it also holds crucial information about your personal finances.\nThis is because person\u2019s individual social security number, the nine-digit code that appears on the card, is the government\u2019s way of keeping track of an individual\u2019s work history. The government uses your social security number to keep track not only of your income and employment history, but also to record your social security contributions. These contributions eventually determine how much money you will receive from the government once you retire.\nA social security card is perhaps one of the most important pieces of identification an individual can have. It is worth mentioning that the success of your ID application is virtually guaranteed once you present your social security card.\nThinking about getting an ID? Get a Social Security Card first!\nFor more information check out this article:\nReplacement social security card for child\tHow long does it take to get a replacement social security card?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://st-stephen.net/events/no-school-vacation-week", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2SS3SU74GC5LDCVAUWQPW6DQTMCB6TE", "length": 21, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "st-stephen.net", "title": "No School Vacation Week - St. Stephen School - Worcester, MA", "raw_content": "No School 2/18 - 2/22", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 172.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://startupbook.io/book/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:14Z", "digest": "sha1:4E6TV4MKD7WYYM23DUICBI7F7YMZC6EL", "length": 276, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "startupbook.io", "title": "The Hard Thing About Hard Things \u2022 Startup Book", "raw_content": "In this book, Ben Horowitz, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley's most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, explain why the job of a CEO is among the toughest and loneliest in the world, and how you can survive all the stress and heartache involved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 112.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://starwarstime.net/at-least-star-wars-jedi-fallen-order-is-still-a-go-based-on-new-respawn-job-posting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:53Z", "digest": "sha1:I3ZX2H5BDNQF6C7J2PIUWCZJXM5NRSSV", "length": 1798, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "starwarstime.net", "title": "Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order Is Still a Go Based on Respawn Job Posting | Star Wars Time", "raw_content": "Features Games\nYesterday, Nick posted the story that EA finally put the death nail in the coffin of the Star Wars RPG that was initially being developed by Visceral, which was another blow to Star Wars fans looking to play a proper Star Wars AAA video game that doesn\u2019t have the words \u201cBattle\u201d and \u201cFront\u201d in its title. We literally haven\u2019t had a AAA Star Wars game that isn\u2019t a Battlefront sequel since I believe The Force Unleashed 2, which is nearly a decade old at this point.\nEA has, in my opinion, squandered the Star Wars video game license so far, and outside of Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, I haven\u2019t been a huge fan of most of their published Star Wars titles. There\u2019s no use in bitching about it further, we all know what has happened with the Star Wars video game license, so we can just hope EA\u2019s other studios can pull off what Respawn is currently doing now, because based on a tweet today, that studio\u2019s Star Wars game is still on track.\nAaron Contreras, who is the Narrative Lead on Respawn\u2019s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, reminded us all that the game is still alive and well, and they the studio is looking to add a new team member to work on it in a Scripting/Level Designer role. This at least confirms that this Star Wars game is still being worked on, so hopefully, it\u2019ll see the light of day, unlike the one EA just officially cancelled.\nHey game devs, join @Respawn\nand help build Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.\nScripter / Level Designer \u2013 this is an exciting position for someone who is both creative and technical. Own and deliver memorable experiences and gameplay-driven story moments.https://t.co/3CV2PxqJPz pic.twitter.com/uZNahgp05x\n\u2014 Aaron Contreras (@AaronContreras) January 15, 2019\nStay tuned for more news on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order as it becomes available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 380, "original_length": 16673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stcolumbachester.wordpress.com/2018/11/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PMKV5LGMYG6YAQABFNHXA5Z7IV7R3G3Z", "length": 309, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "stcolumbachester.wordpress.com", "title": "09 | November | 2018 | ST COLUMBA'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, CHESTER", "raw_content": "32nd SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 11th NOVEMBER 2018 Saturday 10th November St. Theresa\u2019s 10.00 a.m. Holy Souls St. Columba\u2019s 6.30 p.m. The Parish Sunday 11th November \u2013 Victims of War St. Theresa\u2019s 10.00 a.m. The Parish St. Columba\u2019s 11.00 a.m. \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nAside | Posted on November 9, 2018\tby bjpch21jj", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stephenbeer.com/Groups/221500/Stephen_Beer/Blog/July_2013/July_2013.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:17Z", "digest": "sha1:A4IV7SOFK4CIA564HKE6LUS6A4STCKWD", "length": 1105, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "stephenbeer.com", "title": "Stephen Beer : July 2013", "raw_content": "The churches and ethical investment\nThe announcement by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, that the Church of England will attempt to put Wonga out of business through promoting credit unions has led to a small amount of embarrassment. It has emerged that the Church of England has a stake, via an outsourced fund manager, in a private equity firm that put funds into Wonga. However, the debate surrounding this has been quite constructive. It has turned to the difficulties of managing investments ethically. The churches do this and have to make many decisions on the ethics of investments. They will not always get it right. But they believe it is worth trying. This is what I do, as a Senior Fund Manager at the Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church.\nI was interviewed for the BBC news website on this issue yesterday. You can find the article here, at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23465294.\nTags: central finance board of the methodist church, church of england, ethical investment, wonga\ncentral finance board of the methodist church church of england ethical investment wonga", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 162.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stickydiljoe.com/2009/12/02/fun-with-cell-phone-pics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:42Z", "digest": "sha1:VSL2CER2EQ7GR7PBFTEPPP3YY5IKED27", "length": 2961, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "stickydiljoe.com", "title": "Fun with cell phone pics\u2026 \u2013 The Chronicles\u00a9 \u2013 No Equal Since 2008 | www.stickydiljoe.com", "raw_content": "Fun with cell phone pics\u2026\nAhh, day 3 no internet at my place\u2026I feel so disconnected from the rest of the world. I should be getting it up and running by Thursday afternoon though so that\u2019s something to look forward to. Since I don\u2019t have anything up and running, I haven\u2019t really been bringing the camera anywhere so whenever I see something interesting, I\u2019ve resorted to pulling out my cell phone and taking pics with that\u2026.so let\u2019s see, umm, what have I been up to lately\u2026.\nSo Tony finally picked up some Buddy Club stuff for his sponsorship deal with him and last night he actually decided to work on his car again. We came back from eating Korean BBQ and Tony was waiting at the shop with his new goodies. Here he is trying to put his new seat brackets in. Hopefully we\u2019ll get this car cleaned up and ready for his mag shoot\u2026\nAfter that I went home and cleaned up my room some more and got around to getting my computer put back together. Apparently, shit is fucked up though cuz it took my like 11 times to finally get it turned on and working. I guess either the motherboard is going out or there\u2019s a discrepancy with the videocard driver and what not\u2026\nI got the blue screen of death and after a couple more restarts and messing around with it, it started up again. I guess maybe the problems stems to a couple months ago when it got really hot. The computer still works perfectly fine as long as I don\u2019t turn it off haha\u2026Man, time to start backing up all this Chronicles stuff or else it\u2019ll be gone forever. That and the movies\u2026yah \u201cmovies\u201d\u2026.\nAs you all know by now, I\u2019ve been going over to Midnight Garage to use the internet. It\u2019s not too far away and I can use it whenever. As I\u2019m sitting here right now, Ross ain\u2019t even here. He went to go take care of some errands and detail a car so I\u2019m just typing this up while listening to the Taylor Swift songs that he downloaded\u2026yeah\u2026I\u2019m gonna copy this into my USB too so I can listen later\u2026\nWhen I got here Ross was just leaving and he left me with his friend\u2019s dog and it pretty much just stands wherever I go and just stares at me\u2026\nHe\u2019s still doing it too as I\u2019m typing\u2026Doesn\u2019t respond to anything and kinda just stares at me like I\u2019m a nice set of titties or something\u2026\nAnyways, while I was catching up on my daily sites and perusing the internet, I came across this pic and thought it was perfect for Ross. He loves dogs\u2026and what does he love more than dogs?\u2026\n\u2026Tits. Especially the tits of an angel. Ahh, Joanna Krupa, you dog loving naked Angel lady\u2026Sorry for the not work safe pic but you don\u2019t come on this site thinking shit is gonna be safe for work right? Haha\u2026It\u2019s a PETA ad, it\u2019s safe, and your boss will understand\u2026\nSo this pic is so perfect for Midnight Garage, that I left a present for Ross and set it as his desktop pic\u2026\nSo when he comes back, he\u2019ll have a nice gift on his desktop. 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Jones, a lifelong thespian and active performer in Richmond and Lexington theater productions for many years, will present the inaugural performance of \u201cSisters of the Forest\u201d on Wednesday, April 5, at 7 p.m. in EKU\u2019s Pearl Buchanan Theatre. The one-act play, presented in association with Rose Barn Theatre and Costume Possum Productions, is free and open to the public, and Jones will be available afterward for conversation.\nJones, an environmental geographer who has studied the relationship between land use and water quality in eastern Kentucky for nearly 20 years, credits Bill Martin, retired director of EKU\u2019s Division of Natural Areas, for stoking her interest in the Braun sisters. \u201cHe tells stories about the sisters and Lucy\u2019s \u2018Mother Forest\u2019 theory of the mixed mesophytic forest with his own well-worn copy of \u2018Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America\u2019 in his hands, which was the principal text of his grad school years,\u201d Jones recounted. \u201cThe more time I spent in eastern Kentucky doing my own research, and the more times I heard Bill talk about the Doctors Braun and their lasting impact on ecological science and conservation, the more I wanted to tell the story of these two women scientists whose names, I think, should be as familiar as Rachel Carson and John Muir.\u201d\nJones\u2019 play documents how the sisters\u2019 \u201clife-changing\u201d trip in 1934 to Lynn Fork in Perry County shaped \u201cboth the trajectory of their ground-breaking research in ecological science and forestry, and their pioneering roles in the history of modern environmental conservation and activism.\u201d\nThroughout the \u201930s and \u201940s, the mountain residents granted the spinster sisters access to their homesteads and forests in and around Pine Mountain and Black Mountain to conduct research that formed the basis of Lucy\u2019s \u201cDeciduous Forests,\u201d the 1950 book of such scientific importance that it has never been out of print. \u201cWhat the sisters learned in their fight to save the Lynn Fork forest also shaped the early conservation movement, both in effective use of science in community and political organizing and the development of land trusts as a tool of environmental preservation.\u201d\n\u201cDeciduous Forests\u201d is based on a total of more than 25 years of fieldwork, beginning in about 1923, with visits to more than 300 forest stands in 17 states, covering 65,000 miles and documenting more than 30,000 trees throughout eastern North America. \u201cWhat makes that even more impressive is that the pair didn\u2019t even learn how to drive until 1931 \u2013 when Lucy was 32 and Annette was 37,\u201d Jones exclaimed. \u201cThey were quite the intrepid little badasses \u2013 driving their own car (at one time, a Model A Ford) off to remote locations all over North America and hiking up and down remote forests on their own at a time when women didn\u2019t do such things.\u201d\nThe more Jones researched the sisters\u2019 lives, the better she came to appreciate their differences \u2013 Lucy was \u201cbossy\u201d and Annette introspective and quieter \u2013 but also their \u201cdeep, intertwined\u201d relationship and \u201chow their personalities and interests played off of each other. Now that I\u2019ve \u2018lived\u2019 with both of them for a while, I think what I most identify with is how their natural curiosity and life of the mind interwove across both their personal and professional lives: their love of nature, their love of travel and even their love of art. Annette was an accomplished botanical artist, and Lucy decorated her field gear with hand-painted sunflowers.\u201d\nAfter watching David Hurt present a Chautauqua performance on the life of Lilley Cornett (namesake of EKU-owned-and-managed Lilley Cornett Woods in Letcher County) at Pine Mountain Settlement School, Jones began to think more seriously about her research and the possibility of writing a play, which she first envisioned as a Chautauqua-style performance about only Lucy.\nIn Spring 2016, she received a professional development award from University Programs at EKU and arranged to live for a month at the Ledford/Craig House adjacent to the Woods, hiking the old growth forest every morning and enjoying \u201cconversations\u201d with the sisters. Jones also took several research trips to Cincinnati, where the sisters lived and worked. She visited the Edge of Appalachia forest preserve in eastern Ohio, where the sisters did much of their fieldwork, and even met with Devere Burt, retired director of Cincinnati\u2019s Natural History Museum, who bought the sisters\u2019 house from Annette in the mid 1970s and still resides there.\nJones will begin her performance as herself, telling the story of the two sisters. Then, complete with appropriate fashions \u2013 jodhpurs adapted from a pair of thrift-store slacks \u2013 and simple set, she will assume the characters of the sisters. \u201cI try to be consistent in my body language, mannerisms, vocal characteristics and even where I am physically positioned on the stage to help the audience keep the three characters \u2013 Lucy, Annette and me as the narrator \u2013 separate and distinct. But I think the fact that I play both of the sisters helps reinforce the interconnectedness of their relationship. They were at the same time two separate and different people and also \u2018two yolks in the same egg,\u2019 almost inseparable for more than 80 years.\u201d\nNoting that most of the existing research centers on Lucy, Jones hopes her program brings Annette \u201cout of the shadows somewhat. Lucy would not have been able to do what she did without Annette. And Annette was not just Lucy\u2019s \u2018second.\u2019 She had her own pursuits, scholarly work and identity. And it was Annette, not Lucy, who was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati.\u201d\nA second performance of the play is scheduled at the University of Cincinnati on April 11, as well as a performance at the Pine Mountain Settlement School as part of the school\u2019s Lucy Braun Weekend June 9-11.\nJones\u2019 play comes at a time of renewed interest in the sisters. A Cincinnati filmmaker, Meg Hanrahan, is working on a documentary about Lucy Braun; the Cincinnati Natural History Museum plans to feature the Brauns\u2019 collections when it opens its remodeled archives section in early 2018; and Elissa Yancey at the University of Cincinnati is looking to write a book about the sisters.\n\u201cAs a result,\u201d Jones said, \u201cthere are talks about featuring both Meg\u2019s documentary and my play at the museum, as well as taking them to Cincinnati area schools.\u201d\nJones also hopes to present her play at schools and other venues throughout eastern Kentucky.\n\u201cThere are separate histories that I hope to shed light on: the history of women in science, the history of ecological science, and the uniqueness of the mixed mesophytic forest ecosystem of eastern Kentucky.\u201d\nInset photo: Lucy Braun\nTeaching and Learning Center,\nSheyenne Hussey,\nElizabeth Underwood,\nspring commencement,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 9368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://support.auralic.com/hc/en-us/articles/206793587-What-is-SMB-file-sharing-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TB5WY647RXXBZZGAOVKKI7HFME762NVH", "length": 1123, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "support.auralic.com", "title": "What is SMB file sharing? \u2013 AURALIC LIMITED", "raw_content": "Basic Networking Knowledge\nWhat is SMB file sharing?\nIn computer networking, Server Message Block (SMB), one version of which was also known as Common Internet File System (CIFS, /\u02c8s\u026afs/),[1][2] operates as an application-layer network protocol[3] mainly used for providing shared access to files, printers, and serial ports and miscellaneous communications between nodes on a network. 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Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the 7-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother, Evelyn (Lindsay Duncan), whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 285.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tabootab.com/2014/01/08/raised-by-anorexia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:20Z", "digest": "sha1:RAC2WQKT7AEWZRQMZLKINPH2XNSYZQFV", "length": 4267, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "tabootab.com", "title": "Raised By Anorexia | The Taboo Tab", "raw_content": "Raised By Anorexia\nBody image is complicated for a child of someone with an eating disorder. My mom has suffered from anorexia for thirty years. I think it warps your idea of what is a thin weight. I remember my mom watching Food Network all the time, yet barely eating 1,000 calories a day. I remember my mom making us one small sliver of steak and a tiny red baked potato almost every day. She didn\u2019t know what a normal meal was. We would fill ourselves with gushers, potato chips, and anything else we could. I don\u2019t think I recognized then what I do now.\nIn high school, I was naturally thin. I rarely exercised, but was just naturally small. In my senior year, I started eating at Moe\u2019s Mexican Restaurant. I would come home, and my mom would comment:\n\u201cIf you keep eating Moe\u2019s, you\u2019ll get fat.\u201d\nIt never really occurred to me that this was unhealthy behavior.\nMy freshman year of college, I gained 15-20 lbs. The freshman 15. It never concerned me until I went home. My mom would make comments:\n\u201cI told you. You need to start exercising.\u201d\nI didn\u2019t get into the exercising thing until sophomore year. I remember walking around campus, feeling incredibly fat. I was at a weight that I had never been before. I didn\u2019t know about the BMI. I didn\u2019t know what a healthy weight for my height was.\nI spent my junior and senior year exercising every day, running several miles a day, counting my calories. My example had always been my mother. She, she ran for miles a day, eating even less than I did. No matter how much I exercised or how little I ate, I could never get to the weight I wanted to be. I could never get my stomach to be flat.\nMy example had been my mom. As young girls, our example is always our mother. My mom ate so little. Until I was 24, I didn\u2019t think about my mom\u2019s illness in terms of how it affected me. I didn\u2019t realize that her behavior was controlling behavior. Not only did she want to control her own weight\u2013she wanted to control mine.\nWhen I was 23, I was in a relationship with a guy who was into weight. \u201cI like how thin you are,\u201d he commented. He would obsess over the fat in my arms that I couldn\u2019t seem to get rid of. He obsessed over weight. My weight, in particular.\nWhen he broke up with me, I rebelled. I didn\u2019t necessarily gain weight, but my perspective changed.\nI could say 24 was my turning point. For almost six years, I had obsessed over weight. I had exercised every day. I was my mother, it just hadn\u2019t caught up to me. \u201cWhy am I doing this? Why do I care so much about my weight?\u201d I realized. Then I stopped. I just stopped caring. I didn\u2019t gain weight necessarily. I just started to eat what I wanted. I didn\u2019t stop eating at 3pm. I didn\u2019t work out every day. Something in my mind just switched. I stopped looking in the mirror and obsessing.\nI know that not everyone has this moment, but somehow, I did.\nI\u2019m 26 now. My mom has been treated in a psychiatric hospital for the last eight weeks, and I desperately wish she had this switch that she could turn off. I\u2019ve told her about my turning point. I told her about the day everything changed for me. The truth is after thirty years, she may never have that day. Her eating habits, her controlling habits, and her warped reality may never change after thirty years. But mine can.\nWe mimic habits of our mothers about food. It probably didn\u2019t help that my mother would project her feelings about weight onto her children. She would comment on my weight. She would comment when I lost weight. She saw all those behaviors in me. I\u2019m not sure what she thinks of it now. I\u2019m not sure if she realizes how it affects her children.\nI would never say I had an eating disorder. I think I mimicked a lot of behaviors of my mother. I think my body image was warped. I saw fat. When I look in the mirror today, I don\u2019t see any of that. I see a normal woman within the bounds of BMI. I eat what I want to eat. I exercise when I need to exercise. I think about weight with a healthy attitude.\nMy mom is an addict. She\u2019s addicted to these controlling eating behaviors. One day, I realized I couldn\u2019t become her. And I changed.\nTags : anorexia, control, disease, eating disorder, family, Girl, mental illess, self-esteem, struggles, weight, Woman\n\u2190 I am a Suicide Survivor\nThe Gym Rat \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://talentgateway.net/news/how-cmos-can-keep-themselves-in-the-boardroom/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2LEBQSWUG6KLFHETBTZ5ARJDGATBLT3M", "length": 2231, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "talentgateway.net", "title": "How CMO's can keep themselves in the Boardroom? | Talent Gateway", "raw_content": "As a CMO you have the opportunity to position yourself as the customer expert, building relationships and demonstrating your value to all departments and becoming a key influencer in the C-suite. There are some key skills required to ensure you have maximum influence with your peers[1].\nStrong communication skills \u2013 you need to be able to articulate to the rest of the board the value of marketing.\nCustomer centricity \u2013 you understand your customer better than anyone and need to share your expertise with other departments to demonstrate your value across the business.\nAbility to provide a holistic view of the customer and be the voice of the customer.\nShow the rest of the business the customer journey map \u2013 knowing what your customers wants and needs are and how and when to engage with them. This provides the opportunity to explore customer\u2019s interactions with other departments in the business and their experience to inform the rest of the business.\nData and analytics have to be embraced to build customer expertise but as the CMO you also need to be able to present this data to the rest of the C-suite executives in a way they can relate to and understand. Insights need to be tailored, highlighting the impact for different departments from financial to people focused, to gain a high level of support from the rest of the executive team.\nDeloitte highlights that being able to effectively communicate with sales and finance is of greatest importance for a CMO[2].\nThis creates a challenge for you as a CMO in order to ensure a balance of analytical data focused approach without a negative impact on creativity. Reviewing the skills within your team is a good place to start \u2013 identifying the gaps and encouraging collaboration between analytical and creative mind sets.\nIn the last 5 years, we have seen the role of the CMO evolve and its importance has heightened within the business. Those who are strong communicators with the ability to understand their peers and stakeholders and communicate their message effectively to this varying audience are the most successful.\n[1] Redefining the CMO, Deloitte Insights, January 2018\n[2] The CMO Shift to Gaining Business Lift, Deloitte and CMO Council, December 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 7885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tamthomes.com/blog/top-5-discounted-homes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YROPDYWNHUU6J4BU6YMBJ4ED7ABDDSCD", "length": 3414, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "tamthomes.com", "title": "Top 5 available homes with deep discounts", "raw_content": "Top 5 discounted homes\nCheck out these 5 homes that are still available and the deep discount you can grab for yourself because the price wasn't right to begin with.\nWhen a seller doesn't price a home correctly at the beginning of the listing, there are only 2 reasons. One is because they've hired the wrong agent but more often than not it is because they didn't listen to their agent from the start. What does that mean for buyers? It means people start wondering what is wrong with the home when the only thing that is wrong is the price. So here is your opportunity to nab a great deal on some fabulous homes that have languished on the market because they didn't drop their price soon enough but now are available at deep discounts.\nWait a second you say. Haven't we seen you advertising this listing and holding open houses there? Yes! But in this case the seller didn't listen fast enough and now in the last couple of weeks the price has dropped over 10% However, this seller is motivated so if you want to see it and offer on it let us know because this is a great house. Price is now $189,000\nWhat's wrong with a home with a beautiful Lap pool? Nothing but the price. In fact the sellers of this home have even included a home inspection they had done so that the buyers would have a great idea of everything \"wrong\" with the house. This house has come down over 14% in price and is a real bargain. After all who wouldn't want almost an acre of land and low taxes for only $325,000\n(this listing is courtesy of Re/Max Newport Elite)\n7618 Lily Lake Rd\nEver dreamed of living by a lake? How about at a discounted price? When this house was built in 2015 they sure knew what they were doing with the floor to ceiling windows and easy access to the lake and boat launch. And this is not just a home for the summer with that beautiful floor to ceiling fireplace imagine that view and roaring fire to cozy up to in winter. This property has dropped its price 17% since listing so don't miss this bargain at $315,000\n(this listing is provided courtesy of @properties)\n503 Maryl St\nSo this house we can't use the glowing references of the last few. We are pretty sure that the presentation of this home could be improved but we also couldn't leave it off the list because it has had a 25% price reduction while it has been on the market. Sadly the clutter is hiding some of the great features like the spacious floor plan (we are using our realtor eyes and paying attention to 2200 sq ft) and a great location and schools in the Waterford district. I cant remember the last time we spotted a home of that size with large rooms for only $224,900 in Rochester! Definitely contact us today if you want great schools at a bargain price.\n(this listing is courtesy of Elite Realty Inc)\nNow this home is in a class of its own. We believe the main reason this home has not sold isn't down to either the seller or the agent. It's because the taxes are high. However this Beautiful property is located right on Lake Michigan with stunning views from many rooms and a total of 2 lots that equal .88 of an acre So the seller keeps lowering his price until he finds a buyer that can pay for the total package. And to prove how motivated he is he has lowered the price almost 33% since he first listed it!!! You can have this property for only $424,900\nDo you want to know how to price your home to sell?\nMarketing that sells", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://taproot.agency/family/sara/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RLTBGV7WAOWI44PA77TMNADEVWCOILQY", "length": 2192, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "taproot.agency", "title": "Sara Fay \u2013 The Taproot Agency", "raw_content": "Started: 2018 \u2022 Hometown: Clemson, SC\nMarrying the artistry of an accomplished violinist with the particularity of an information scientist, Sara is the just-right combination of can-do-just-about-anything superstar.\nSara took the all-too-typical, well-trodden path to becoming a project manager at Taproot by spending the first 12 years of her career at a music library, where she oversaw people, projects and budgets in one of the largest music collections in the southeast.\nIt turns out that her knack for establishing order \u2013 along with her experience leading diverse teams through multi-faceted, deadline-driven undertakings \u2013 harmonizes beautifully with the demands of agency life.\nSara now spends her days immersed in the missions of our clients, passionately and methodically steering them through the creative process. Her uncanny ability to equally engage both hemispheres of her brain proves instrumental in the development of strategic initiatives.\nSara graduated from Furman University in South Carolina before continuing her education at Florida State University, where she earned two master\u2019s degrees \u2013 one in Musicology and the other in Library and Information Science. She also obtained a specialist\u2019s degree in Leadership & Management.\nDuring her previous role as a music librarian, Sara also served as an assistant college professor, career mentor and music teacher, and frequently presented at professional conferences throughout the country. Additionally, she has invested countless hours giving back to the music industry and to the community, holding multiple volunteer positions on committees, as an officer and on the board of various regional and national organizations.\nWhen she\u2019s not conjuring up creative ideas, conducting conference calls or counseling clients, Sara enjoys teaching music lessons at her private studio and playing the violin in a local orchestra. She and her husband, Matt, are active in their church and relish in time spent with family and friends.\nBiggest Pet Peeve: Bad customer service\nFavorite sound: Quiet\nIf I could be any time, I would be: Bedtime\nPhobia: Bridges\nTo decompress I like to: Read\nGuilty Pleasure: Hallmark Christmas movies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tawidnewsmag.com/prcs-online-application-system-pilot-tested/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CUFOUPF4LCM4WTUVIARPZ3NPRU4QQ3I2", "length": 1159, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tawidnewsmag.com", "title": ": PRC\u2019s Online Application System pilot-tested | Tawid News Magazine - Weekly Ilocos News", "raw_content": "PRC\u2019s Online Application System pilot-tested\nThe Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) has pilot-tested its Online Application System (OAS) in two educational institutions pursuant to its thrust of streamlining its systems and procedures.\nThe OAS was pilot-tested at the University of Baguio and the University of Cordilleras on February 1 and 3, 2012, respectively, to examinees for the March 2012 Criminologists Licensure Examination. Applicants at the said universities who participated in the pilot testing overwhelmingly favored the adoption of OAS, saying it is user-friendly, faster and more convenient.\nAn important component of its e-services program, the OAS seeks to make the application process for the licensure examination faster and easier as applicants can apply online anytime, anywhere at their convenience. With the implementation of the OAS, applicants will just have to go on line and not in line.\nUpon successful pilot-testing and subject to further refinements, the OAS will soon be adopted in all PRC offices to serve the growing number of PRC clients especially for the nursing, teachers and criminologists licensure examinations.#", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tdn2k.com/industry-voices/navigating-cultural-expectations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:37Z", "digest": "sha1:NVTOOXIKFA3W3RBU5XD3RTA2MH3KY72M", "length": 6607, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "tdn2k.com", "title": "Navigating Cultural Expectations in the #MeToo Era | TDn2K", "raw_content": "When we think about our company culture, we typically define it as:\nWhat type of behavior we aspire to\nWhat type of behavior is acceptable\nWhat type of behavior isn\u2019t acceptable\nAt its essence, navigating sexual harassment in the #MeToo era means managing expectations for behavior at your company. Do your employees and managers understand what\u2019s expected of them? Here are some tips:\nSet Expectations for Employee Behavior\nIn response to the #MeToo movement, the US Olympics Committee formed a group called \u201cNo More.\u201d The committee is focused on making the athletes\u2019 well-being at the center of everything they do.\nAre you doing the same for your employees? Before you set the ground rules for behavior, can you unequivocally state that they are working in a safe, inclusive environment? Our employees often work in tight quarters, and under enormous pressure. Set the groundwork in your onboarding, and continue to reinforce what\u2019s acceptable, and what\u2019s not, with ongoing training and examples of behavior (good and bad).\nPart of this initiative means making sure employees know that you expect them to report bad behavior and other working conditions that need improvement. Use third party reporting systems and apps like All Voices to make sure employees have a method of expressing their concerns. But don\u2019t just rely on technology \u2013 this has to be a true partnership that requires regular communication. Train managers to have regular one-on-ones with employees to ask for their opinions about what\u2019s going well, and what can be improved. Ask your District Managers to make these conversations a part of their regular site visits.\nTake a cue from supply chain organizations and proactively remove any system blockers in your processes. Blockers can be tools, technology, SOPs, or even people. Your people won\u2019t perform as well as they can if they have to deal with irritants like outdated technology, broken (or missing) tools, or bullies at work.\nSandra Day O\u2019Connor once noted that courts should be the last place for resolution. If you take your obligations to your employees seriously, you should be able to resolve most of their issues internally. You won\u2019t get sued for engaging and caring about your employees, but you will have issues if you disregard, belittle, or ignore their issues.\nEnroll Men in Your Initiatives\nMost companies have done a great job of focusing on women, but they haven\u2019t thought about the impact of #MeToo on men.\nConsider that women only represent 24, or 4.8% of CEOs in the Fortune 500. The dirty little secret at the highest levels of organizations is that people like hanging out with each other when they find commonality (private schools, private equity, private clubs).\nSomewhere in your organization, there are male leaders who understand that performance is driven by a diverse organization, and that great talent is difficult to find and retain. Find the \u201chero guys\u201d who will step out of their comfort zone and work to make these changes with you. These are the kind of guys who continue conference room conversations while visiting the men\u2019s room, but bring the conversation back into the meeting so women can participate. They\u2019re often the same men who may forget to bring their swim suits to the company retreat, but aren\u2019t afraid to ask what the women discussed in the hot tub or spa.\nManage Guest Behavior\nIf you have a guest chef or a vendor working at your restaurant, consider writing them a personal letter that explains the expectations for how your employees treat each other. It\u2019s just about being respectful to both the visitor and your employees.\nYour female employees may fear being called overly sensitive if they complain about bad guest behavior. Don\u2019t let this happen. Remember that irritants become more difficult to deal with over time \u2013 for both managers and employees \u2013 if they\u2019re not resolved. If a server complains about bad guest behavior, address it. We\u2019re in a war for talent, and your company won\u2019t be able to attract or keep people if you don\u2019t pay attention to creating and maintaining the right culture.\nManaging guest behavior can lead to some challenging situations. But, if you think about the exposure your company has (legally and in the social media world), it\u2019s worth managing. Companies are lauded for doing the right thing by their employees and customers. Remember: if an employee is treated badly by a guest, there\u2019s a good chance that another guest observed the behavior and will wonder why it wasn\u2019t addressed by management.\nWorkplace Issues Are Political Issues\nWe\u2019re seeing a change in how issues manifest. The most politically charged issue tends to start internally at a company first, resets the culture, and then finds itself in the political realm. Some examples of this are:\nExample: Why are we willing to take a risk, and pay more, to a newly hired outsider rather than promote a woman? Analyze your data and ask hard questions about strict promotional increase guidelines.\nScheduling laws\nNo one likes to see their schedule change suddenly. So why are we waiting for legislatures to mandate that we have to give employees at least a week (or two) of notice before a schedule change? What\u2019s the real cost in terms of turnover and morale to staying open 24 hours?\nThe restaurant industry has more EEOC complaints than any other industry. We often claim that our industry is a stepping-stone to the American dream. But it becomes much easier to argue for higher wages if we\u2019re not protecting our employees and tackling these issues.\nThere are a record number of women running for political office \u2013 and winning. Women are running on these issues and they will make changes that will manifest at the state and local government level for years to come. These changes may even manifest at the federal level as women continue to exercise their political power.\nYour investors are also looking into these issues. ESG (environmental, social, and governance) is a new keyword at board meetings.\nFinally, remember that Millennials aren\u2019t afraid to speak up, especially as a collective, to demand action. Negative collective action can damage your consumer and employer brand. Get ahead of the issues \u2013 and irritants \u2013 by regularly doing employee surveys, skip level meetings, and 360 assessments. Take action and give feedback on the results, even if it\u2019s just letting employees know that a project is in the testing or exploratory stage. Feedback is a continuous process, so make sure to continue the communication cycle regularly. Your credibility \u2013 and relationships \u2013 with your youngest employees will blossom.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 8941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teachingyoungmuslims.com/2016/10/20/allah-is-always-watching/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XWGKHH6R2QSZUSV4XLV3ESAXUNQZ5L7A", "length": 2129, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "teachingyoungmuslims.com", "title": "Allah is Always Watching | Teaching Young Muslims", "raw_content": "Allah is Always Watching\nOn Shab-e-Ashur, Imam Hussain (AS) blew out the candles and gave his companions and supporters permission to leave, if they wanted to, under the cover of darkness.\nAll of his companions stayed. They knew that they wanted to do what\u2019s right \u2013 to support the Imam (AS), even if they could have left in the darkness, without anyone else knowing.\nOur kids know to do what\u2019s right \u2013 and especially when we are watching them, they know they need to know what they should, otherwise they will get in trouble.\nHowever, in the darkness, when we cannot see them, they might not do what we want them to.\nHere is an activity to discuss this and relate it to Imam Hussain (AS):\nDiscuss what happened on the night of Ashura in the camp of Imam Hussain (AS). Ask if they want to be like the companions of Imam Hussain (AS) who supported him on the day of Ashura.\nAsk them to pick something that is good to do, something that is right, something that Allah (SWT) likes. For example, praying namaz or being kind to their sibling, something age-appropriate and relatable.\nHave them DO whatever it is that they chose. For example, start pretend-praying or share a toy with their sibling.\nTurn the lights off \u2013 ask them what they think they should do, even though it is dark and no one can see them. Should they keep doing what they chose as a good thing to do, or should they stop? Should they quit praying, steal the toy back from their sibling?\nTurn the lights back on and discuss \u2013 why do they think they should continue to do what\u2019s good, even in the darkness (or why they think they shouldn\u2019t, if that\u2019s what they think.) Have them come to the conclusion that Allah (SWT) is always watching, He always knows what we are doing, even if no one else knows. We should do what is right \u2013 for ourselves, and for Allah (SWT). Not for anyone else.\nPosted in Akhlaq, Imams, Muharram and Safar, PanjatanTagged Allah, Ashura, Imam Hussain1 Comment\nPrevious PostDIY Muharram PuzzlesNext Post\u201cIs Prophet Mohammed (SAW) Your Grandfather or Mine?\u201d\nOne thought on \u201cAllah is Always Watching\u201d\nathraa says:\nbeautiful, jazakum Allah kheir", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/22/guidebox/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:29Z", "digest": "sha1:7XECU2B3JB5DUJA6D2IMLAA5VZNNEOTD", "length": 3773, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "techcrunch.com", "title": "Guidebox Launches To Become Your On-Demand TV Guide And DVR For The Web (And The iPad) \u2013 TechCrunch", "raw_content": "Guidebox Launches To Become Your On-Demand TV Guide And DVR For The Web (And The iPad)\nAre you a fan of TV? Do you like to watch TV on the Web? How about on your iPad? Do you hate not knowing where to go to catch up on all your favorite TV shows? Then I have a website for you. San Francisco-based Guidebox brings together full show and episode data from all the various websites and apps that have TV programs, ranging from aggregators like Hulu and Hulu Plus to branded network websites like CNN.com and CBS.com. As a result, it has the most definitive collection of full episodes available all in one place.\nThat said, Guidebox is all about TV \u2014 and just TV. It doesn\u2019t care about movies; it doesn\u2019t care about web video. Just TV! So if you are into TV, and want to watch TV on the web or on your phone or tablet, it\u2019s worth a look.\nUsers can sort through a list of suggested shows from the front page, or they can find the shows they love through search, or by navigating through different network pages like ABC, CBS, NBC, etc. Once they click through to a show page, they can see all the most recent episodes and drill down to see previous seasons and episodes.\nSince episodes usually live on various different places on the web, Guidebox showcases the best places to watch them \u2014 starting with free access through sites like Hulu. If a free version of the show isn\u2019t available, Guidebox then suggests subscription video on demand services like Netflix and Hulu Plus. And if those don\u2019t work, it\u2019ll point you to places like iTunes or Amazon, where you can purchase episodes for a fee.\nBut the real trick for TV fans is the ability to save for later or to add a show to your favorite shows. Doing so allows users to create a queue of all their favorite TV shows, which will automatically update whenever a new episode becomes available. It\u2019s almost like having a DVR Season Pass for streaming videos.\nNot only does Guidebox work for the web, but it also works on tablets and mobile devices. Guidebox founder Jeremy Riney has created an optimized, HTML5 version of the site, which works on the iPad. The beauty of the tablet version is that it deep links into all the different apps where programs are available, so users never really have to worry about opening them all up and searching for a certain show or episode.\nEven when a show isn\u2019t available through an iPad app or the mobile web, Guidebox gives you other options for viewing: If they\u2019re logged in, users can send the episode direct to a PC or laptop for viewing. Or they can save the episode for later, and watch it through a web browser whenever they have time.\nInterestingly, Riney has no plans to make an app for the tablet experience. \u201cI\u2019m anti-app,\u201d he said, pointing out that the whole reason he decided to create Guidebox in the first place was that there was no real good way to navigate all the different apps that were available for viewing shows. Creating yet another app would just cause even more steps for viewers, when instead they could just go to Guidebox in their Safari browser.\nGuidebox makes most of its revenue today through affiliate links for services like Hulu Plus and Netflix, with the idea being that once you know a TV show is on one of those services, you\u2019re going to be willing to pay to get at it. And even though that doesn\u2019t sound like it\u2019ll bring in lots of cash, that\u2019s okay because Guidebox is really just one guy today \u2014 Riney \u2014 with no real plans to expand headcount anytime soon.\nSo what\u2019s next for Guidebox? Mainly just adding new content sources, including maybe authenticated cable services like HBO Go or Comcast Xfinity TV Online. Until then, though, its users will have to make do with just some 10,000 TV episodes available now. Good luck getting through them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 3953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teelahart.com/2014/04/18/the-jaws-of-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:12Z", "digest": "sha1:LVBLDNRTIUXW5EQDI3T3TNWGLR6JNAWI", "length": 10230, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "teelahart.com", "title": "The Jaws of Life | Teela Hart", "raw_content": "I\u2019ve learned a lot over the years but the one thing I\u2019ve learned to do the best is keep a stiff upper lip. Allowing the intense rawness that I feel deep down inside, any space at all to run freely terrifies me to the point of freezing up like an old, rusty, hinge but I understand that it\u2019s a necessary evil of sorts. Honestly, it would take nothing less than the Jaws of Life to free the stemmed tide and I have, on occasion, run across such a brash tool and denied it\u2019s entry for the sole purpose of self-preservation which in the end leads to destruction.\nThe Jaws of Life is a tremendously loud, hydraulic tool designed to prevent loss of life in crushing motor vehicle accidents although that\u2019s not it\u2019s only use.\nThe consequences of all of my missteps rest not only on myself but also on the lives of those I endeavor to protect, so taking the blame seems to be the natural progression, and it should be. The problem with that is that I\u2019ve been conditioned since childhood to slink back believing that I am the one who doesn\u2019t measure up, for one reason or another, even when it is crystal ball clear that the problem wasn\u2019t always due to my lack of adequacy but to their inability to accept themselves. On many occasions as a child, I felt that if I\u2019d done this or that that things would have been different, that I\u2019d be loved, that I\u2019d be accepted and validated in the discovery of me. Rarely did that ever happen catapulting me into a metamorphosis so to speak and dividing me into tiny little pieces making it nearly impossible to detect the abandoned child crouching in the empty corner of my heart. This plays a significant role in skewing my reality which in turn makes it nearly impossible to rightly judge my steps.\nI\u2019d like to defer for a moment to the thoughts that I previously shared in \u201cChalk Outline\u201d concerning my death and resurrection and say that I was wrong about that. The plain and simple truth is that I\u2019ve never discovered me because at each and every turn in an attempt to do so, that hurt little girl jumped back to her assigned corner headlong. She\u2019s never held firm in her demand for respect and the right to be who she longs to become.\nI have jumped aboard a runaway train bound for nowhere good should I choose to continue to live in the throes of the anger that keeps me in denial. This unworthily trusted reaction to childhood brokenness has more than sufficed as a protection against the hurt that now balks at the thought of remaining under the gun that had always kept it in check.\nIt\u2019s time to call that hurt little girl out, hug her, tell her I love her and that it isn\u2019t her fault. Convincing her of that may be years in the making but I know that one day she will forgive me for abandoning her to her own devices.\nI hid behind\nA masquerade\nI will give my love to you\nMy heart and soul to you\nForever you\u2019ll be mine\nI\u2019ll put my hand in yours\nAll that I am is yours\nAlthough some of them may never know who they are, I find it necessary to thank those who wielded the Jaws of Life against the crushing, metal, armor that trapped my little girl inside for so many years. Truly, you are my heroes.\nCategories: Thoughts | Tags: acceptance, forgiveness, healing, love, trauma, validation | Permalink.\n33 thoughts on \u201cThe Jaws of Life\u201d\nThank you so much for reading and encouraging me.\nAnd thank you for the follow. \ud83d\ude42\njust had another read.\nThank you Gavin.\nIt is a tough one to be able to relate to\nBeautiful in it\u2019s sadness. I have felt the same feelings. They pop to mind at unexpected times. XO\nThank you so much Looking for the Light, I appreciate that. \u2764\nThis post is so powerful: \u201cIt\u2019s time to call that hurt little girl out, hug her, tell her I love her and that it isn\u2019t her fault. Convincing her of that may be years in the making but I know that one day she will forgive me for abandoning her to her own devices.\u201d\nThis is YOUR time now Tee. I know you\u2019ll continue to do what you need to do as part of your gruelling recovery process, and as you do please know that you are on the right track. I\u2019m so proud of you x\nThank you Triple S,\nI appreciate that so much. Sometimes I wonder and it is comforting to read your words. It means more to me than you know.\nTeela, This one hit me harder than some of your other blogs as it addresses some of my issues. I posted a blog about emotional neglect recently. I experienced something similar to you in my childhood. There are hundreds of articles how the personality is formed but it is formed based on interaction with external forces, usually the mother at first. With no stimulus or negative stimulus the personality forms badly and, at least in my case, there is a lot of magical thinking employed to fill in the gaps in real hope and a loving family. And that results in the denial you discussed.\nWhat is most cruel is that once you are raised like that, you see things through what I\u2019d like to call \u201cshit colored glasses\u201d and it\u2019s difficult to actually see the light at the end of tunnel. I think that is what your post is saying. You have to face the proverbial inner child and soothe him or her. I think to avoid pain most of us avoid the inner child and it\u2019s hard to make progress.\nI\u2019m not sure that you are required to take the blame for what has gone wrong because you are clearly taking responsibility for fixing it. Abusers are sociopaths that are very good at confusing and misleading. No one is prepared for that. The human mind always looks for explanations and if your environment is irrational your ability to come to meaningful conclusions is destroyed; you begin to think irrationally as well. That is the abusers power.\nI suggested in my last blog, somewhat tongue in cheek, that we could form a support group with a name like, \u201cChildren of parents who din\u2019t give a damn\u201d. Sounds silly but I think your blog makes me wonder if it\u2019s such a silly idea after all.\nI will take your cue and work on my stiff upper lip to deal with my crap. Keep blogging.\nNeil, Thank you for reading and commenting on my post. Yes, we do see through \u201cshit colored glasses\u201d (I like that by the way) and Failure to Thrive is definitely a reality in life. Your comment here makes complete sense to me. I had not thought about the fact that once again, I have thought to take the blame for my situation as I surely did see things through \u201cshit colored glasses.\u201d (I like that by the way).\nI think it is a GREAT idea to start a support group for those with the issues we have. I would definitely participate. Let me know how I can help or just let me know when you get it up and running and I will be there.\nThe stiff upper lip is not necessarily a good thing. I maybe need to go and change that statement to imply that it\u2019s ok not to have one all the time, that we have to allow ourselves to be vulnerable. The inner child can\u2019t be reached if we always keep up the facade.\nI\u2019D LOVE TO TELL HER SHE IS INDEED BOTH LOVED AND VALUED!!!\n\u201cSome day, you will ache like I ache\u201d\nDoll Parts.\nCourtney Love.\nI put that one up for you.\nI think you have seen it already.\nI did see it.\nI liked the song\u2026..I can definitely relate.\nThank you for thinking of me \ud83d\ude42\nThis is one of your finest posts.\nVery very powerful\n(I mean that)\nAnd thanks for the Wow!\nRead my blog about genetics,s, I\u2019ve ordered the books that woman wrote and can\u2019t wait to read them.\nI will do it Hiding.\nI\u2019ll be right over\u2026\u2026\u2026 \ud83d\ude42\nTeela your one of my hero\u2019s fighting your fight trying to promote the wrongs of abuse. The world would be a better place with more like you in it \ud83d\ude42\nYou are a blessing Roy\nI thank you for reading and commenting. It means a lot to me. \ud83d\ude42\nWonderful and beautiful and brave, Teela; it seems that so many of us who are survivors one way or another are finding that inner child, and our trapped emotions, this week. I suspect the Blood Moon has had a very powerful effect upon us and is releasing things which have been held in check for far too long.\nCourage, lovely lady, you have aplenty \u2013 and you inspire others. Take care of that little girl too, though. xxx\nThat means a lot to me. I tend to agree with you about the Blood Moon. I worked in emergency medicine for more than 15 years and I know first hand the effect a full moon has, I cannot imagine the role of the Blood Moon..\nThank you for your encouragement Ali,\nYes, it was the same in teaching, Teela: the kids used to go completely werewolf when the Moon was Full \u2013 and keeping the buggers in the classroom was a full time job! Teaching them?! Impossible! xxx\nSo you\u2019ve felt my pain. A true warrior\u2026..\nWhen tightly wound, it takes awhile to unwind. True friends commit the time and sensitivity it takes to help those close to them let their guard down, and true friends commit the energy and perseverance it takes to unravel their tear-soaked secrets, so they can bring them into light away from unwelcome eyes to air out so healing can begin. I\u2019m honored to be welcome and trusted, and I know not to pry too much, but a little at a time \ud83d\ude42\n\u201cShe waited for the train to pass. Then she said, \u201cI sometimes think that people\u2019s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what\u2019s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.\u201d\n\u201c5 The purpose in a man\u2019s heart is like deep water,\nbut a man of understanding will draw it out.\u201d\n\u2015 Solomon, Proverbs 20:5 (ESV)\nYou have such a beautiful way of expressing yourself. I do appreciate your friendship and constant encouragement.\nfergus, your comments here are always spot on (to use a crude term) but my sentiment is with you. I am just not that eloquent. (I hope Teela understands I feel the same way, but you are a tough act to follow, comment-wise)\nI just loved this posting. I am going through some difficult things at work, and can\u2019t but help think I am always \u201cwrong\u201d. I feel like a little girl who tries so hard to be \u201cperfect\u201d so everyone else can be fine, and then it never works. this pattern is so engrained, it makes me just grit my teeth in frustration now that I am in my 40s. Your words so helped today- thank you.\nIt is the upsetting state of perpetual uncertainty that frustrates me as well. I\u2019m sorry that you have to go through that and I\u2019m glad that this post spoke to your heart.\nHugs to you\u2026\u2026. \u2764", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 15303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teespring.com/stores/ibdtees", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:17Z", "digest": "sha1:UK5JZETAK4FJO73V6F3I26RFQE5TGIFO", "length": 254, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "teespring.com", "title": "IBDtees | Teespring", "raw_content": "IBDtees\nIBD tees is committed to making t-shirts & other apparel that raise awareness for Crohn's & Colitis. 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Nothing had been left to chance by Sony Music, with the band\u2019s hit album Up All Night selling over five million copies.\u201d\nHe continues: \u201cThe songs, publishing, discs, DVDs, merchandising and endorsements brought in huge profits, with the five members of the group together estimated to have earned nearly \u00a3100million. Naturally, Sony and Syco raked in much more.\u201d\nAnd there's been no sign of the money stopping for the group, or Simon.\nThis month it was revealed the boys would become the new faces of Pepsi, while a UK and Ireland arena tour next year is sure to continue to provide wealth and fame for One Direction.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 30739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://terrehautelocalnews.com/airborne-wireless-completes-successful-test/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GDZAIMPED3N7OH6KBWKMW6ZIG52PTSDV", "length": 152, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "terrehautelocalnews.com", "title": "Airborne Wireless Completes Successful Test", "raw_content": "https://terrehautelocalnews.com/airborne-wireless-completes-successful-test/\nhttps://terrehautelocalnews.com/airborne-wireless-completes-successful-test", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 276.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebookishfox.com/writing-lessons-from-the-hamptons/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:41Z", "digest": "sha1:HW2X6JLL4K6DL2XQQQMCDIWNBWHI3HWT", "length": 1594, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "thebookishfox.com", "title": "Writing Lessons from the Hamptons - The Bookish Fox", "raw_content": "1. Keep your eyes open.\nWhen I was walking on the beach, I was talking to my friend about how I was struggling to find a hero for my novel. Just at that moment, a blue-haired, handsome man ran by. My friend turned to me and said, \u201cThat\u2019s what we call a meet cute.\u201d We laughed, and I knew I found my hero.\n2. Have a killer (not to be confused with The Killers) playlist.\nMy main character is obsessed with John Hughes movies, so I made an 80s playlist. It was perfect. Not only did it get me in the mood for my book, but I also had a great time swaying as I wrote. Added bonus: I discovered that the music video for \u201cAlways Something There to Remind Me\u201d is pretty ridiculous.\n3. Have snacks.\nI feel like this is self-explanatory. The muse loves him some chocolate.\n4. It\u2019s all about movement.\nIf I ever got writer\u2019s block, I moved. When I wanted to write a dance scene (a good chunk of the book takes place in a club), I put on my 80s tunes and danced. And I got the best ideas. If I didn\u2019t know how the heroine met the hero, I would pace for a few minutes, and the answer came to me. Moving your body gets you away from the computer and out of your head, so you can do your best thinking.\n5. Inspiration happens when you are relaxed.\nWhen I shut up my inner editor (which, as an editor, is really hard), I was able to write. When I stopped caring about using the perfect word, the right word would inevitably come to me. Writing is can be easy and fun if you relax. Remember, it is not a life or death thing.\nHow about you? Have you learned anything from any trips? 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Claudia Vergara said one of the children is a teenager and the other three are under 11 years old.\n\u201cI\u2019m hoping that this saves many more lives,\u201d Breanna\u2019s father, Jesus Vergara said.\n\u201cAn EKG or ECG is an electrocardiogram. It is a painless test that checks the electrical activity of your heart and can detect problems,\u201d Claudia Vergara posted to the Breanna Vergara Foundation Facebook page. \u201cAll children who are participating in sports should be getting an EKG along with their physical every year.\u201d\nNicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital offers free EKGs to all middle and high school athletes. Interested parents are welcome to take their children to the main hospital or any of the eight outpatient centers in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach County.\nTo schedule an appointment for a pediatric EKG test, please call The Heart Program at Nicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital at (855) 624-3547.\nClaudia Vergara said the hospital is now also offering free EKGs to younger children in the dance community.\nMiami Dancity Studios, where Breanna\u2019s younger sister still dances, has made EKGs and physicals mandatory for all of its competition dancers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecentipede.org/1120/arts/literature-outside-the-classroom-students-meet-gish-jen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5RYTDPGX5BK72WHJWVHT7BXMZXWYRK5C", "length": 2392, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thecentipede.org", "title": "Literature Outside the Classroom: Students meet Gish Jen \u2013 The Centipede", "raw_content": "Literature Outside the Classroom: Students meet Gish Jen\nGish Jen, the acclaimed author of six published books and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, visited the Concord Public Library on Thursday, October 26, to speak at the Concord Festival of Authors.\nStanding in front of the statue of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jen introduced her latest book, The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap. This book explores how individuals understand their identities in Eastern and Western cultures.\nJen\u2019s appearance was even more relevant and timely as one of her novels, Mona in the Promised Land, had been studied in Concord Academy\u2019s upper level English elective The Literature of Immigration.\nSewina Yu \u201918 and Katherine Barahona \u201918, both eager students in the English class, headed over to the Concord Public Library, just across the street from main campus on Thursday night. Following the event, Yu excitedly commented, \u201cI could tell that I was in the presence of a very smart person.\u201d Barahona chimed, \u201cShe was so well-spoken!\u201d\nIn response to an audience member\u2019s question on how her latest book related to Mona in the Promised Land, Jen expressed that she recently noticed, when reading the book again for the first time in 20 years, that she had subconsciously included her own life philosophy in writing the book. This theme in her work was something that CA students have noticed and grabbed onto.\nTalking about Mona in the Promised Land, Yu exclaimed, \u201cShe literally wrote the story of my life\u2013I don\u2019t think anyone has understood me more. I don\u2019t know if I would have been able to describe these experiences in the way that she did, and that was just amazing for me.\u201d\nBy exploring the boundaries between the East and the West in a continually globalizing world, Jen offers thought-provoking insights into geographical psychology and proposes her own reading of the world. While the physical boundaries between nations and cultures blur with rapid globalization, the philosophical boundaries between the East and West still perplex us; Jen deciphers such differences, masterfully piecing together personal anecdotes, stories, and research in social and cultural psychology. 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The all-cash purchase values the shares at $196, and is expected to close before the end of the year.\nMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella explained that the acquisition will have a huge benefit for the firm.\n\u201cThe LinkedIn team has grown a fantastic business centred on connecting the world\u2019s professionals,\u201d he said.\n\u201cTogether we can accelerate the growth of LinkedIn, as well as Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics, as we seek to empower every person and organisation on the planet.\u201d\nLinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner added that the deal will help LinkedIn grow and become more embedded in people\u2019s lives.\n\u201cJust as we have changed the way the world connects to opportunity, this relationship with Microsoft, and the combination of its cloud and LinkedIn\u2019s network, now gives us a chance to change the way the world works,\u201d he said.\nWeiner will remain CEO of LinkedIn, reporting to Nadella.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecollegeinvestor.com/resources/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:20Z", "digest": "sha1:QY4VWHLNNLZA6S673SD2FFK5DH3LFYK6", "length": 13538, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "thecollegeinvestor.com", "title": "Free Financial Tools on The College Investor", "raw_content": "Free Tools For Your Money\nI get asked everyday what tools I use for my own investing and keeping track of my finances. \u200bSo, I thought it would be helpful to create a page that lists all of the free tools that I recommend for your personal finances, including the free tools I use.\nIf you read through this list and don't find exactly what you're looking for, or you just aren't sure which option to pick, drop us an email on our Contact Page. We'll be glad to help you out.\n\u200bPlease note that some of the links below are affiliate links and will earn me a commission. These are all things that I have experience with and I am recommending because they are helpful and are companies that I trust, not because of any commission it may earn me.\nMy Personal Financial Setup\nThis is the current setup I use for my finances. You'll notice that almost everything is free. I do use one paid program - Quicken - but I'm migrating away from that towards a free tool.\nBanking: I currently use USAA for my checking and savings accounts. I love USAA because they offer free checking, the provide free checks, offer ATM reimbursement, and you can take pictures of your checks to deposit them in the account. Plus, their level of service is top-notch. Check out USAA here.\nInvesting: I currently use Fidelity for my investing account. I previously used Scottrade, which I still recommend, but I found Fidelity to be a better fit for me right now. The reason? Fidelity was able to handle our family trust, as well as they have easier deposit and withdraw options for their accounts. Check out Fidelity here.\nOrganization: I currently use Personal Capital to keep track of all my finances. They have one of the best free online banking dashboards that I have seen. I am still using Quicken as well, but I don't update it regularly. I also love the Personal Capital app on my iPhone. Check out Personal Capital here.\nCredit Score: I currently use Credit Karma to keep track of my credit score. I think this is a great tool, especially since I've had two major credit issues - one with student loans and one with identity theft. Check out this great free tool here: Credit Karma.\u200b\nTaxes: I have tried and compared all of the major tax programs, and I've found that TaxACT is my favorite. Not only is it the cheapest option of all the major tax software programs, it also does everything I need for my taxes, and has great support if needed. Check out TaxACT here.\u200b\nInsurance: I currently use USAA for my insurance as well. I use them for my home owners, auto insurance, and even an umbrella policy. USAA has been great for my families needs and I continue to trust them with my insurance needs.\u200b\nStudent Loan Refinancing: I recommend Credible for refinancing your student loans because they offer the best platform for comparing multiple student loan lenders, with no hard credit check. Quick and easy!\nBeyond my personal setup, I've reviewed and used a lot of different products and services. I fully realize that not everyone is in my own financial situation, and there might be other tools and resources that could be a better fit for them.\nFor example, one area that I no longer need help with, but many do, is student loan debt. I side hustled and paid off my debt, but there are still millions of people struggling with it. That's why I continue to make sure that I stay up to date on the best tools and resources that may help.\u200b\nHere are some other tools I recommend, and why they may be useful for each situation.\u200b\n\u200bBanking And Savings Options\nInvesting And Retirement Tools\nTop Tools For Students In School\nTools For Building A Side Business\nBooks I've Read and Loved\u200b\nBefore you do anything else financially, you have to have a checking and savings account. When it comes to your everyday banking needs, you don't need to get complicated. A lot of people search and search for the highest earning accounts, and I, frankly, don't have time for that.\nI believe that you should find a great checking account, savings account, and maybe a Certificate of Deposit if that makes sense for you. I'm not saying never change, but banking isn't something that you should be switching all the time - it's a hassle and you'll never earn significantly more.\nHere are some of my favorite banking options.\nUSAA: I use USAA and it's my favorite for a variety of reasons. First, they offer free checking and savings account. They also allow for everything to be done online for free, including online bill pay. They also offer free checks, and ATM reimbursement. Bottom line is that I've yet to find a better bank.\u200b\n\u200bInvesting and saving for retirement is a huge priority when it comes to building wealth. The earlier you start, the better. And there are a lot of options when it comes to places to invest. Here are some of my favorite picks and why.\nFidelity: I started using Fidelity in 2013 and loved the ease of access, the simplicity of their platform, and their low fees. I finally moved my total portfolio\u200b in 2014, and I'm glad I did. They manage their accounts well, and make it easy to deposit and withdraw (something that Scottrade does poorly).\nM1 Finance: M1 Finance has become my second favorite investing platform over the last year. What's great about M1 is that you can create your own portfolio and invest in it commission free. You setup pie slices, and then you can automatically invest into your pie - and M1 handles the rebalancing and everything - commission free!\nTD Ameritrade: If you want to trade options, there is really only one platform that I can recommend, and it's thinkorswim from TD Ameritrade. I started using thinkorswim when it was a stand-alone company, and it's only gotten better since being acquired by TD Ameritrade.\u200b\nBetterment: If you want some help investing, maybe you should consider Betterment. They are a \"roboadvisor\", which means that they have automated help that can aid you in setting up your portfolio and balancing it for you automatically. This is a good choice if you're willing to pay a little more for some professional help.\u200b\nBeyond investing in stocks, bonds, and mutual funds, you might also consider looking into peer to peer lending. I've been using peer to peer lending as a small portion of my investments for a long time, and I highly recommend considering it as an option. There are two main peer to peer lending companies:\nProsper: I've been using Propser as my peer to peer lending platform of choice since they first started. I've been with them at least 7 years, if not longer. What I like about Prosper is that it's easy for fund your account, and they have a nice automated system for finding loans and building your portfolio for you.\nLending Club:\u200b Lending Club is another very popular peer to peer lending platform, and probably the most well-known one. They offer a great variety of loans, as well as solid collections, and even the ability to buy and sell existing loans.\nYoung adults and millennials need insurance too. But many don't think about it. If you're young, chances are you defaulted into the same insurance company your parents had. Maybe you're still even on your parent's insurance?\nWell, if you don't shop around for your own insurance, you may be paying too much. If you're young, you might not need a lot of insurance, but everyone needs something - auto insurance, renters insurance, life insurance, and more.\u200b\nFor Car Insurance:\u200b\nUSAA: I use USAA for all my insurance needs, but I understand that not everyone can qualify for USAA since you must be in the military or a dependent. USAA does offer great insurance coverage and good prices, and I use them for all my needs, including auto insurance.\nCompare.com: If you don't qualify for USAA (because you're not in the military or related to a military service member), then you need to shop around for insurance. Compare.com\u200b is the best car insurance comparison engine I've found, and I highly recommend it.\nFor Renters Insurance:\u200b\nLiberty Mutual: If you're looking for renters insurance, check out Liberty Mutual. They have great prices on renters insurance, and it could even lower your total insurance if you combo it with car insurance. Read my guide to renters insurance to learn more.\nFor Life Insurance:\u200b\nQuotacy: Quotacy is a life insurance comparison tool designed for millennials. When you're young and healthy, getting life insurance should be cheap and easy - but a lot of companies don't make it that way. Here's a great service for life insurance for young adults.\nStudents need tools that will help them make their lives cheaper and easier. From buying and renting textbooks (which are crazy expensive), to finding study guides, here are some top tools for students.\u200b\nFor Buying Textbooks:\nAmazon Student: We've found Amazon Student to be the cheapest way to buy college textbooks when we compared all the major textbook companies. Remember, prices do vary, so it never hurts to shop around, but Amazon Student also offers a ton of other perks. Read our Amazon Student Review.\nFor Renting Textbooks:\nWe compared every major textbook rental site (you can read the textbook rental comparison here), and these are the two companies that stood out).\nCampus Book Rentals: Campus Book Rentals has the largest selection, free shipping, and no restrictions on highlighting the book - which is a huge perk. It's prices were sometimes higher than Amazon, but the other perks make it worth it over the long run.\nAmazon Textbook Rental: Amazon's Textbook Rental Service was typically the cheapest, but to get the best deals on shipping and other perks, you also need to sign up for Amazon Student. They also only allow limited highlighting, so you don't get to totally treat the book like your own.\nFor Buying And Selling Class Notes:\nStudy Soup: Study Soup is a great way to profit from your notes if you're a great note taker. Many note takers are earning $300 to $500 per class. On the flip side, if you want to buy class notes, you can pay with StudySoup Karma, which you can earn by purchasing it, or by referring friends.\nThere are lots of ways to build a side business - and earning a side income is one of the best ways to build wealth early. If you don't know where to start, check out our article on 50+ Ways To Build A Side Income, or stop by our Earn More Money homepage.\n\u200bGet Paid To Write: If you want to write online in your spare time, take this class and learn how to get paid to write. Cat Alford shows you how she makes over 6 figures a year writing for others - and you can too. Check out the Get Paid To Write course.\nGet Paid To Drive: Maximum Ridesharing Profits is an educational video course aimed to eliminate the learning curve that many people who decide to drive for Uber, Lyft, and the other Rideshare companies go through. If you want to earn money driving, you need to take this course.\nHow To Build A Website:\nBlogging has been one of my personal ways to build a huge six figure side business. It's amazing because I can work from where-ever, when-ever. Anyone can start a blog and start earning money. The great thing about Internet business is that the startup cost is SO CHEAP. Here are the tools I used to get started.\nGoDaddy: GoDaddy is the starting point that I use whenever I start a website. This is where you find your Domain Name for a reasonable price (your domain name is the \"www.whatever.com\" you chose). You can get a domain for just $0.99 when you sign up through this link -> GoDaddy $0.99 Domains.\nHost Gator: Host Gat\ufeffor is where you actually host your website (i.e. the server that you use). It sounds complicated, but Host Gator makes it easy, with just 1-click installations. Right now you can start your website with Host Gator for just $0.01! Sign Up Here.\nWordPress: WordPress is what you use to create your website (i.e. the software that makes it all work). The beautiful thing about WordPress is that the basic setup is free. You can pay to customize it, but only do that once you've got the basics down. You can install WordPress on BlueHost with 1-click.\nAweber: Once you have a website, you need to be able to email your followers. This can be emails about updates, promotions, products, and more. Email is best when it comes to building a following. A\ufeffweber is the service provider I recommend for those just starting out.\nSumoMe: SumoMe is the suite of free tools that you can use to grow your following. They have both email tools (like the welcome mat and bar you see at the top of the page), and sharing tools (like the sharing bar you see on the bottom of the page). Best of all, it's free to start.\nWhen you find a great book, you want to share it. Great books for personal finance can be hard to come by because the topics can be boring, and it's not always easy to read.\nMillionaire Teacher by Andrew Hallam: This excellent book shows how by following simple personal finance principles, it's possible for anyone to become a millionaire.\nA Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel: A great insight into investing and how the markets work and don't work in your favor. A classic about investing that everyone should read.\nThe Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder: This book has amazing lessons and insights that can be learned from one of the richest men in American history.\nMoney: Master The Game by Tony Robbins\u200b: Tony Robbins, best known as a motivational speaker, takes things into the money arena and shows you how to build a portfolio by interviewing some of the best money managers in history.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 16722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theconversation.com/explainer-whats-at-stake-in-the-nigerian-election-37259", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MTZDUDXL2GGIP5QPJKCLQ63544NMPP4X", "length": 6869, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Explainer: What's at stake in the Nigerian election?", "raw_content": "Senior Lecturer in African Studies, University of Birmingham\nInsa Nolte receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC).\nAfrica\u2019s largest economy and biggest democracy will hold a hotly contested presidential election on March 28. In addition to Nigeria\u2019s perennial problem of corruption, the major issues at stake are national and regional security alongside the country\u2019s economic future.\nResponsible for killing many thousands and displacing a million and a half people in the country\u2019s northeast, the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram constitutes a serious threat not only to Nigeria but to West Africa more generally. At the same time, falling global prices for the oil produced in Nigeria\u2019s Niger Delta have contributed to a significant decline of national revenue. Ratings agency Standard & Poor\u2019s downgraded Nigeria\u2019s sovereign rating on March 20, citing the oil price among other concerns.\nThe two main contestants for the presidency are the incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples\u2019 Democratic Party (PDP), a Christian from Nigeria\u2019s predominantly Christian Niger Delta, and the northern Nigerian Muslim leader, Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress (APC).\nOriginally slated for February 14, the Nigerian elections were postponed to March 28 by the National Electoral Commission in order to give a military task force time to secure parts of north-eastern Nigeria which had fallen under the control of the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram. The opening successes of this military intervention have been an important factor for the outcome of the forthcoming elections.\nThe gift of incumbency\nThe PDP has been in power since Nigeria\u2019s return to civilian politics in 1999. This is partly due to its ability to negotiate Nigeria\u2019s main political division between a predominantly Muslim north and a largely Christian south, and partly because of its ability to manage relations with the military after almost two decades of military rule.\nAfter the former military head of state Olusegun Obasanjo, a southern Christian, held power as a civilian president between 1999 and 2007, the presidency passed on to Umaru Yar\u2019Adua, a northern Nigerian Muslim. When Yar\u2019Adua died in office in 2010, Goodluck Jonathan, as vice-president, took over the administration. Jonathan\u2019s emergence as the PDP\u2019s presidential candidate in the election that followed in 2011 drew strongly on his incumbency. It was especially hailed in his home region, the oil-producing Niger Delta, as the first recognition of the region\u2019s immense contribution to the country\u2019s national income.\nReligious divisions\nBut Jonathan\u2019s electoral victory in 2011 also led to widespread violence in northern Nigeria, where Buhari had established himself as the country\u2019s main opposition leader. According to official figures, Buhari won 64% of the vote in the 12 \u201ccore\u201d northern states in 2011.\nBut Buhari\u2019s endorsement of the introduction of Islamic or \u201csharia\u201d law from 1999 in 12 northern Nigerian states divided the northern vote along religious lines and alienated him from the northern Christian population.\nAfter his loss in 2011, Buhari began to adopt a more collaborative approach. He took a lead in uniting the national opposition under the banner of the APC in 2013, and has since gained a convincing foothold in the south.\nAnecdotal evidence from this region suggests that voting intentions do not always reflect religious identification. But the fact that southern support for Buhari is strongest in the religiously mixed south-west means that his support base is strongest in states with a significant Muslim population.\nPresidential voting intentions by zone, 2014 for PDP (Jonathan) and APC (Buhari). Afrobarometer\nIn turn, Jonathan has openly pursued Christian endorsements ahead of the 2015 election, for example embarking on a shared Christian \u201cpilgrimage\u201d to Jerusalem with Ayo Oritsejafor, the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria in October 2014.\nBut together with his lack of military links, Jonathan\u2019s open identification with Christian interests may have limited his chances for re-election. He has been seemingly unwilling to address large-scale corruption or sustained reforms to improve the provision of basic services such as electricity. Initial enthusiasm for a raft of reforms to the power sector has stalled, and little has changed on the ground.\nJonathan has also failed to deal successfully with the challenge of Boko Haram, even after international attention was drawn to the threat posed by the group after the kidnapping of about 200 school girls from the town of Chibok in April 2014.\nAs most victims of Boko Haram have been Muslim, Jonathan\u2019s inactivity was perceived both as a sign of weakness and as an indication of his disregard for Muslim voters. In contrast, Buhari \u2013 who, like Obasanjo, was a former military head of state in the 1980s when he became famous for his \u201cwar against indiscipline\u201d \u2013 has to some seemed better positioned not only to tackle Boko Haram but also to address the country\u2019s corruption and infrastructural problems.\nSecurity may be trump card\nBuhari is hoping his record as a military ruler will help win over voters concerned about security. Ahmed Jallanzo/EPA\nBut if some observers speculated that Jonathan was the likely loser of the elections ahead of the original February date, the military successes of the past six weeks have levelled the playing field again. Confirming his ability to engage with both Boko Haram and the Nigerian military, the recent campaign has established that Jonathan can provide firm leadership.\nThis may be enough for those voters who are painfully aware that the relative peace in the Niger Delta owes much to Jonathan\u2019s presidency. Officially, disarmed militant groups still have excellent access to small arms, often obtained in return for their toleration of illegal refineries. There is little doubt that, if provoked, Niger Delta groups are capable of limiting Nigeria\u2019s oil production and so further reducing the national revenue and creating considerable unrest in the south of the country. Some militants have called for action should Buhari win.\nVoters\u2019 concerns about regional security vie with economic, political and religious interests. An electoral victory for Jonathan promises relative economic stability and peace in Nigeria\u2019s south, but it is not likely to bring political reform.\nBy contrast, a victory for Buhari might limit Nigeria\u2019s economic development if unrest resumes in the Delta, but it offers a realistic chance of improved security in the north as well as of much-desired political change. Yet, given Buhari\u2019s authoritarian record while in power in the 1980s, a vote for change is, for many voters, an expression of faith that the bearer of their hopes himself has changed.\nClick here for articles on Nigeria\u2019s 2015 election.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 10902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theculture.forharriet.com/2015/01/delta-sigma-theta-expels-sorority.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:54Z", "digest": "sha1:AMF3HLCB43FY23RMQ4QXSWBP3CIMBSSK", "length": 2005, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "theculture.forharriet.com", "title": "Delta Sigma Theta Expels 'Sorority Sisters' Cast Members", "raw_content": "Home Reality TV Sorority Sisters television Delta Sigma Theta Expels 'Sorority Sisters' Cast Members\nDelta Sigma Theta Expels 'Sorority Sisters' Cast Members\n'Sorority Sisters' is over. VH1 quietly aired the final episodes of the season last week.\nBut before the show was killed, the cast members who belonged to Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. were expelled.\nAccording to the organization's website, Priyanka Banks, Lydia Mitchell, Metoya Monroe, Adrene Ashford, and Shanna McCormick were expelled on January 13, 2015.\nHere's what their explusion means:\nDelta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.'s Marks are the exclusive property of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. The right to wear, use, or display any items or merchandise with any Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Marks (\"paraphernalia\") is granted to those in good standing only.\nTherefore, all individuals listed in this section must refrain from wearing any paraphernalia or using any merchandise that includes references to Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., its symbols or logos. Wearing or using Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. paraphernalia is knowingly engaging in fraudulent misrepresentation and impersonation, i.e., conveying that you are a member of the organization.\nFurthermore, attending \"Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Only\" activities or otherwise engaging in any conduct or activities that indicate membership in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is prohibited. Should any individual fail to abide by the aforementioned guidelines and/or fraudulently misrepresent her status as a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., you will be subject to legal action taken against her by the organization.\nClearly the organization exercised its right to discipline members for activities they feel violate their code of conduct.\nThis comes after two members of Alpha Kappa Alpha were suspended until 2016.\nIn case you're interested, the women sat down to discuss their motivations for doing the show and thoughts on the backlash they've received.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thedailyteacher.com/2016/05/24/5-common-regrets-to-avoid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5IBTB3MEVM52QTUKKPAHDGZMXGKAZV5H", "length": 3671, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "thedailyteacher.com", "title": "5 Common Regrets to Avoid \u2013 LIFE: The Daily Teacher", "raw_content": "Happy Tips Tuesday everyone! Today\u2019s Tips Tuesday comes from Tiny Buddha.\nThere are so many wonderful insights in this article. The 5 common regrets offer us tips on how to live a life of meaning, joy, satisfaction\u2026so that ultimately in our twilight years, we are surrounded by many wonderful memories, instead of regrets.\nWithout further adieu, here are the 5 tips:\n1. I wish I\u2019d experienced more.\nUpon reflection, many of my fellow rehab patients regretted not having experienced more, and vowed to do so once they \u201cgot out.\u201d The experiences ranged from various things to do, see, or hear, but the most common was the regret at having not traveled more.\nThe sad irony was that many patients, like me, would be leaving the hospital in a wheelchair or with restricted movement. So experiencing more travel would not be an option.\nResolution: From now on I\u2019m going to experience more.\n2. I wish I\u2019d listened more.\nMany patients regretted not listening more to the advice of their doctor, family members, or well-meaning friends. I remember one larger woman who recalled her doctor advising her to lose weight. At the time, she believed he was \u201cfat shaming\u201d her and had not listened, until she had a resulting stroke.\nOne man regretted not having listened to his \u201cnagging\u201d family who had warned him against frequently poor diet choices. Diabetes took his leg and left him with regret.\nResolution: From now on I\u2019m going to listen more.\n3. I wish I hadn\u2019t been so afraid to fail.\nWith their second chance at life, many patients were prepared to step out of their comfort zones in the future. Some patients had been so close to death (arguably the ultimate failure) that they no longer feared so many little failures in their day, such as failing to live up to other people\u2019s expectations.\nResolution: From now on I won\u2019t fear failure.\n4. I wish I\u2019d stood up for myself more.\nPatients regretted not having voiced their opinions more frequently and stood up for themselves and their values or beliefs. Some had spent years in unhappy relationships or unfulfilling work, and it was only their hospitalization that had been their catalyst for change.\nResolution: From now on I\u2019ll stand up for myself more.\n5. I wish I hadn\u2019t waited so long to\u2026\nThe regret of procrastination was also common, and something that resonated with me. Patients said that they wished they\u2019d done a certain something sooner\u2014pick up the phone, seen the doctor, reunite with a friend\u2026 The list went on.\nResolution: From now on I\u2019m going to stop waiting and start doing!\nThere were many similarities between the regrets of the dying and the regrets of the living.\nHowever, the key difference was that my fellow patients and I all had an opportunity to take action on our regrets of the past and ensure they would not be regrets of the future.\nRegrets are a very tricky thing. In some cases, regrets are wonderful teachers, giving us little signs on the road of life as to what NOT to do. This knowledge allows us to avoid problems in the future.\nBut the biggest danger of regrets are that in some cases, they cannot be undone. Sometimes it may be too late to change something. Sometimes, the window of opportunity is gone. The significance of regret, when it is too late, is a feeling that is beyond measure. There are very few things in life that we cannot change or undo or redeem. But regrets sometimes are the black hole to these.\nKeep your mind and eyes open for the things in life that you may regret. Try to avoid them wherever possible by taking action, and keeping the insights above in mind.\nA life without regret, is a life lived well.\nWalk away from those who bring you down \u2014 A Window Of Wisdom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theepsychedelicatessen.blogspot.com/2015/03/velvet-texas-cannonball-last-orders-ep.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:16Z", "digest": "sha1:IUFCKYWRDQUL6FQDNYBRBHJZ6KXUB6PH", "length": 2478, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "theepsychedelicatessen.blogspot.com", "title": "Strange Things Are Happening: VELVET TEXAS CANNONBALL \u2013 LAST ORDERS EP (CD)", "raw_content": "After gaining a reputation as one of Birmingham\u2019s finest live bands from steady gigging, Velvet Texas Cannonball have now transferred their ballsy, no nonsense swagger on to record. With a classic sound propelled by a snarling Hammond Organ and a ferocious rhythm section, VTC have roots in vintage 60s/70s Blues Rock but have a much more expansive collection of influences which take this band way beyond your average retro, \u201cClassic Rock\u201d influenced outfit\u2026\u2026their new 5 track EP, Last Orders, more than demonstrates this. All the tracks have been recorded live in the studio so what you hear is as close as you can get to the Velvet Texas Cannonball live experience.\nLast Orders is an excellent EP and a snapshot of where the band are at during this moment in time. Coming from a place somewhere between Birmingham, West Midlands and Birmingham, Alabama, the Last Orders EP taps not only into the tradition of Brum having been the birthplace of some great Psychedelic/Blues Rock bands but also into the southern fried, lysergic blues of the U.S.A\u2026\u2026..kinda like Primal Scream when they subconsciously slip back into their Stones preset when they forget they want to be a cross between CAN, Sun Ra and the MC5. Kicking off with the filthy raunch of \u2018I Got Time\u2019, VTC channel the pomp of Sticky Fingers period Stones and the infectious energy of classic early Faces with more than enough ass shaking seismic force to take down several small buildings. However there is more to this band than just Stonesy swagger, there are shades of early Deep Purple in the Hammond driven \u2018The King And The Conjuror\u2019. The track has the jazzy feel of the Brit Psych/Prog bands that Island Records used to sign around 1969, the kind stuff that now turns up on mad psychedelic obscurities compilation albums. Both \u2018Country Soul\u2019 and \u2018Jenny\u2019 have the timeless sound of the American Deep South\u2026\u2026.The gospel tinged \u2018Country Soul\u2019 has a Memphis soul vibe while \u2018Jenny\u2019 is akin to the dark swamp blues of The Bad Seeds. The ridiculously good \u2018Feel So Bad\u2019 is a high octane epic boogie tune that Canned Heat would be proud of. There is lots to love here for both fans of 60s Psych/Blues and early 70s classic rawk, VTC are gonna be your favourite new band........ you just don\u2019t know it yet.\nAvailable on CD only\u2026\u2026. contact Velvet Texas Cannonball via their Facebook page (www.facebook.com/pages/velvet-texas-cannonball/95804734453) for details about getting hold of a copy. Listen to \u2018I Got Time\u2019 here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thefintechtimes.com/sweetbridge-ceo-interview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NSAIHNQHXX5AZYWVZP3N7JCMNUZJPCH7", "length": 13775, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "thefintechtimes.com", "title": "The World Doesn't Need a Trillion Dollar Company | The Fintech Times", "raw_content": "The World Doesn\u2019t Need a Trillion Dollar Company\nBig Picture Blockchain News Connected Commerce Digital Economy Expert Opinion Fintech Companies Fintech USA Global Token Review Latest News\nWritten By Ronnie Lavie and Alex Verge\nWe chatted to Sweetbridge CEO, Scott Nelson, about why he\u2019s chosen to start a blockchain not-for-profit, and how Sweetbridge is set to eliminate the pain point in the supply chain, to everyone\u2019s benefit.\nAt what point did you gain knowledge of blockchain technology, and when did you realise this could transform global supply-chains?\nThe idea behind Sweetbridge emerged from my experiences in the early 2000s with big supply chains, when I recognised how broken the supply-chain system was in the settlement process. Our company, Trax Technologies, actually capitalised on how broken the system was. We would find all the disconnects between all the parties, quantify the financial risk of that to the company, identify potential fraud and other things that could have a financial impact. The numbers were huge, an average of 54 basis points on whatever they spent in the supply chain.\nSo that\u2019s what Trax Technologies, your old company, was doing?\nYes. We would automate their contract agreements in what would now be called a smart contract and use that information to audit all the transactions flowing through the system to see if they agreed with the contractual terms. What you would find is a tremendous amount of discrepancy. In fact, on average, 13% of the transactions had at least one discrepancy, and the discrepancy might be worth 5 dollars or 10 cents. In some cases it\u2019s worth the entire cost of the invoice, but the effect financially was about 54 basis points on whatever they spent. These are companies spending tens of billions of dollars a year or more, so half a percent is a huge number.\nI\u2019d seen how identity, contract, accounting, and payment were frequently out of synch with one another. I recognised that the blockchain would allow you to basically take these four separate things, and make them happen in anatomic transaction where they all had to agree when the transaction would occur. They could all be housed in one system that would actually sit outside of the four walls of the organisation, which meant nobody could lie and cheat at scale, at least easily, and that it wouldn\u2019t be economic to do it. That was when the penny dropped. I realised you could get rid of all the confusion we would find at Trax, and if you could get rid of it, it had all sorts of other implications. It meant you didn\u2019t need audits, it meant it would massively reduce the amount of financial risk in transactions, it meant you didn\u2019t need intermediaries to make financial judgements, like credit readings. You have all these knock-on effects. But one of the most powerful effects is that you wouldn\u2019t actually need money to change hands. You can actually move value from accounting system to accounting system without transferring the money, and many people don\u2019t know that that\u2019s how conglomerates really make a lot of money.\nSo I worked with people like Cargill, and they\u2019re a horribly inefficient organisation, but they make so much money in comparison to smaller independents that they compete with, through mechanisms that those independents can\u2019t access. They don\u2019t actually have to move commodities to trade the ownership, and they don\u2019t need to move money to move the value, they can just do it in an accounting system, because of all the organisations they own. So, they don\u2019t have to pay foreign exchange rates, they don\u2019t have to exchange currencies and have the delays of moving things around the world, they don\u2019t have the uncertainty of counter-party risk, they don\u2019t need letters of credit, they don\u2019t need trade financing, they don\u2019t need supply financing. They just move this between companies, and all they\u2019re moving is denominated value and the denomination happens to be a monetary amount. It was the realisation that that\u2019s how they were making all their money that made me realise, if you had an accounting system that sat between all of the entities, and if you had a way of locking up all of the assets in a way that would not allow them to be double-spent, then you wouldn\u2019t actually have to move it but you could move its value. That\u2019s when the penny dropped. Because you\u2019re talking about eliminating the need for trading and supply-chain finance, and you\u2019re talking about being able to create liquidity out of the value locked in any asset.\nAre there any further implications that come with the application of blockchain to supply-chains?\nBecause of my prior experience, I realised that the supply chain services companies, the people that own the warehouses, that own the trucks, the boats, etc. They could be the new merchant banks. They are the custodians, and they can solve what problems the banks can\u2019t solve, which is how you dispose of the asset that you end up owning from a bad credit risk. This is the problem banks never want to own. Logistics companies can solve that because they can move the asset to anybody, anywhere, and deliver it. They already have the mechanism to do the legal transfer, it\u2019s called a bill of lading, and it\u2019s backed by the maritime law structure that\u2019s signed by 192 countries around the world. With the advent of e-commerce and people like Alibaba and Amazon, you have ubiquitous markets where you can now price, discover, and sell everything, which solves the problem of having to get rid of assets that you end up owning in supply chains that don\u2019t have a customer. The people who are the custodians, who are transporting or housing in any way, they are the natural parties to do this. They can verify the quantities and the information, they have to do that any way and they\u2019ve already got all the infrastructure for it. There\u2019s warehouse receipts, bills of lading and customs invoices, manifests, all these things that are already there, they\u2019re already validating everything, and the penalties for lying are jail!\nYou have the perfect alignment of incentives. You can reinvent the entire commercial supply-chain financing mechanism at a fraction of the cost, and create infinite liquidity backed by all the assets in the supply-chains of the world, which are the most hedged assets in the world because they generate 54 trillion of GDP which is profit. That\u2019s after every theft, every failure, every hurricane, every volcano, every bankruptcy, it still generates 54 trillion, so there\u2019s no risk! All the risk is artificial and is localised in individual systems, so the only question was, how do you get the stuff at scale, and it turns out there\u2019s only a handful of organisations that control all the supply chain assets in the world.\nI was having these light bulbs go off and I realised, this is now very doable. There\u2019s one company that controls 37 percent of all the vessels on the oceans, There\u2019s three companies that control over 20 percent of all global commerce, that physically house or move 20 percent of everything that happens in commerce. Today they\u2019re just the shell, the housing, but they could become the bank for that, and there are no banks at that scale, and I don\u2019t think we want a bank at that scale, it would be too much risk. So you need to do it in some way that decentralises that, and I realised that blockchain was the way.\nSo considering this a non-profit organisation, what\u2019s your business model, how do you operate?\nWe have a two-token system. One token takes the value in assets and converts it into a new asset class, which is stable and can be pegged to a fiat currency of your choice. It is designed, with built-in regtech, to support all governments with the right to enforce trade and tax compliance. You can\u2019t steal it and you can\u2019t actually lose it. So it\u2019s an asset-class that\u2019s safer for governments, more compliant than money, and fungible and stable. We\u2019re in the process of working to get it rated, and hopefully we\u2019ll have a AAA rating. That means you can use it as an alternative to cash. There isn\u2019t anything like that in the world today.\nOn the other side we have a loyalty token, which before being launched has had the same kind of level of scrutiny that the euro did before it was created. We\u2019ve got multiple PHDs, quantitative analysts, and complex systems theorists, who\u2019ve run thousands of models on it, to try optimise it and make sure it\u2019s stable. When you own this loyalty token, it reduces your cost for everything in the network \u2013 all goods, services and fees, including interest and exchange rates, any in network, hotel, airline, supplier \u2013 in the form of cashback. But not cashback that\u2019s two or five percent, it\u2019s dependent on how much of the coin you have. It can even be cashback as high as a hundred percent. So it means you can get interest-free loans, and instead of investing in a future where you have a higher return because of interest, or because of earning a reward, you can invest in a future where you have a lower cost. Which is always better because the lower cost self-adjusts for inflation. Also, it\u2019s a loyalty system in which, when a merchant or somebody joins they become a miner \u2013 they mine the coin through proof of economic growth, anybody who grows the network, any bank, any organisation, becomes a miner, and the money that they get from the coin offsets any discount that they provide to users, even up to a hundred percent of their revenue.\nAnd that\u2019s how you\u2019re able to keep this a non-profit company?\nThat\u2019s where the money\u2019s made. All the money\u2019s made purely in increasing the value of that token, we don\u2019t make any money from operating the system, which means we have the exact same incentive as anyone we\u2019re asking to buy it since that\u2019s the only way we make money. Everybody who owns it has an incentive for the system to grow, because whenever it gets larger, the discounts go up, the more cashback that you get, the lower your cost increase. It also means that it\u2019s a token that\u2019s not based on speculation, neither of the tokens are speculative, they\u2019re all backed by physical assets in one case, and a provable value in the other case. The more token you own, the more cashback you get on network services, and it\u2019s pure maths, you own ten times as many, you get ten times as much cashback. You just can\u2019t get more cashback than you buy in network services.\nHow easy do you think it will be for individuals and companies to make the transition to blockchain?\nWe\u2019re going to make that super easy for them, because what we sell to the companies is the service to change the business model. We\u2019ll give all the infrastructure, all the tech, plus the people that will implement it. We\u2019re doing that by lining up partners all over the world, who are in something called the Sweetbridge Alliance. The only cost in the entire network is ten basis points on every transaction, and that cost is purely used to run the network, and as the network grows that number drops, and eventually gets down to under half a basis point.\nHow do you see Sweetbridge evolving?\nWe\u2019re just a few months away from launching products. We\u2019ve got test-products that are out there to prove some concepts that we\u2019ve been running. All those have gathered feedback that have led to refinements, and now we have the regulatory approvals to move ahead. We\u2019ve got the legal structures that we needed to get going, we have the partners to make all of this happen, and now we are just finalising our strategy. We\u2019ll be launching for real this Fall, and we\u2019re doing our major test market-pushes in London and Phoenix, so you\u2019ll hear a lot about us here in the near-future. We hope to be ubiquitous.\nSo you\u2019re looking at B2B and B2C at the same time?\nYes, we\u2019re doing the entire commerce chain from ground all the way to the consumption. We have actual go-to-market strategy that could realistically deliver a billion customers and a trillion dollars of economic activity within a two to four year period of time, all we have to do is close five sales.\nWe sell to businesses and governments that are under threat and we can help high-streets solve the problem of Amazon. We can help logistics companies have profitable businesses, instead of losing money three out of every ten years and making almost no money in the other seven. They have hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of assets that are the critical infrastructure that makes our whole world work, and yet they\u2019re massively undervalued and have poor credit ratings. We can turn them into highly-valued, highly credit-rated businesses, and improve their stock price. We can take the banks that are being hurt around the world, and turn them into banks that actually make money and offer services no major bank can offer. We can do all that through the union of these four things [identity, contract, accounting, and payment] not being able to be out of synch with one another. It\u2019s hard to estimate how big that impact is, but almost all financial laws and regulations that are related to any kind of commercial trade, are related to the fact that these four things can be out of synch. You can now make sure they\u2019re not out of synch technically, which means you can enforce regulations without armies of people. You can make enforcement obsolete, and you can do all of that in something which happens in microseconds, in a transaction that can\u2019t be easily corrupted. We haven\u2019t been able to do that before, and that has implications that will ripple through many, many decades.\nCoupa Buys Real-Time Supplier Catalog Search, Aquiire\nAn AI Charter for Success, as Envisioned by MindBridge CEO Eli Fathi\nSETL Announces New CEO, Peter Randall Confirmed as President\nElf Consciousness: Innovative Competition for Kids to See Themselves in VR", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 17270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theflannanislesmysteryswim.weebly.com/blog/tide-was-in-so-that-was-a-bonus-had-the-wetsuit-on-today-but-due-to-strong-currents-it-took-me-7-minutes-longer-on-both-laps-on-the-way-back-still-its-only-hand-over-head-and-good-experience-too-duckman-was-saying-an-average-of-118-degrees", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ELWPKAOVFB3CXO5EAFODUMGAOK4V457G", "length": 250, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "theflannanislesmysteryswim.weebly.com", "title": "Tide was in, so that was a bonus. Had the wetsuit on today, but due to strong currents it took me 7 minutes longer (on both laps) on the way back. Still, it's only hand over head and good experience too. Duckman was saying an average of 11.8 degrees. - The Flannan Isles Mystery SwiM", "raw_content": "Tide was in, so that was a bonus. Had the wetsuit on today, but due to strong currents it took me 7 minutes longer (on both laps) on the way back. Still, it's only hand over head and good experience too. Duckman was saying an average of 11.8 degrees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 272.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themusicproducersblog.com/masterclass-with-max-martin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7SNGZLFERKSREZIY44IFZ4PDSAZQRRZF", "length": 4626, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "themusicproducersblog.com", "title": "Max Martin Masterclass with Jan Gradvall - The Music Producers Blog", "raw_content": "by Andre | Feb 15, 2018 | Producer Interviews | 0 comments\nIt\u2019s very rare that you can find a long interview with superproducer Max Martin. He\u2019s not a person that wants a lot of attention and he rather keeps his privacy. Nevertheless Jan Gradvall, a Swedish music journalist made a great interview with Max back in 2016 when he got his Polar Music Prize.\nThe interview is not listed on the official Polar Music Youtube account so no guarantee that this video will be still online in the future. This is why I have written the key takeaways from the interview so you can still learn even if the video goes offline.\nThe songs were cut out from the interview so it couldn\u2019t be hit with a copyright claim. I made a small Spotify playlist so you could go along. I might put more songs into that playlist in the future.\nKey Takeaways From The Interview\nIf you have a song idea in your head when you\u2019re sleepy and want to go to bed, have a pocket recorder by your side or your cell phone and record your idea, no matter if it sounds pretty horrible because next day you probably won\u2019t be able to remember it\nWhen writing a song you will have a special artist in mind but the record could end up with a totally different artist\nDon\u2019t throw away your demos or skeleton tracks. You will think your demo is crap but a record executive will see it as a hit\nLearning how to sing and taking vocal lessons as a producer will help you to work better with artists and provide them direction, having better control of dynamics of their voices and knowing exactly what they are struggling with\nLearn things from the greatest artists. For Max it was Prince. They even came up with the \u201cPrince-Theory\u201d where the verse melody is just the same as the melody in the chorus.\nBe creative and go to places other artists and producers don\u2019t go, even if its \u201cweird\u201d\nDon\u2019t trust formulas but use them as a toolbox for problem-solving. You start with a simple idea and apply different techniques or formulas to improve the song and make it catchy. There is no special formula for pop-music.\nEverything is about having the right balance. Busy Chorus \u2013 Simple Verse.\nDon\u2019t overwrite a song, there is only so much information a person can process\nSounds because dated after a while, every music producer has a \u201crun\u201d but it\u2019s important to work hard and develop yourself further, coming up with new sounds and ideas. There is no \u201cEveryone is wrong and I\u2019m always right\u201d \u2013 Never think like that, the world and the pop culture will move on and you will be stuck with the old sound\nLearn a new instrument. For Max when he first picked up the guitar and couldn\u2019t really play it he came up with the simplistic riff for Kelly Clarkson\u2019s \u201cSince You Been Gone\u201d\nSometimes you can\u2019t relate to another music genre, but you can take the sounds and the sonics of that and do it in a different way eg. apply it to the music genre you\u2019re producing\nLimiting your options and your time can always lead to new musical ideas. \u201cWho Knew\u201d by Pink was written by Max and Dr.Luke when they already had 2 full songs and only 3 hours left in the studio. They came up with a small idea, recorded a demo which then developed into a hit record.\nA good singer shouldn\u2019t have to prove that he/she is a good singer. Make the singer sing something simple but with power and emotion behind it\nMumbling a melody without any proper words can open new ideas, the lyrics can come later\nDon\u2019t be discouraged! \u201cI kissed a girl\u201d by Katy Perry was not looked upon as a hit and Max received many emails that the song just wasn\u2019t hit material\nSongs with controversial topics can go viral and accelerate the record\nGo with your gut feeling when working with new artists, you will never know if a record will be worldwide hit\nSongs will come from the weirdest situations. Some conversations will create ideas that can be incorporated into hit-songs. \u201cNever Ever Getting Back Together\u201d by Taylor Swift came from a conversation with Taylor and Max after someone who didn\u2019t know Taylor asked Max to speak with her although he didn\u2019t even know her. The conversation was about an Ex-Boyfriend hence the title of the song.\nYou should always try out something new and collaborate with new talented producers. Max\u2019s protege \u201cShellback\u201d is the reason that there is a healthy competitive atmosphere in the studio. This goes back to the day when Denniz Pop was Max\u2019s mentor and loved to invite new talented producers to the studio for inspiration.\nEvery creative person has an ego, but you have to let other people\u2019s talent touch and inspire you\nAlways work hard even if you\u2019re the #1 music producer in the whole world", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themuslimtimes.info/2018/08/05/the-end-of-the-israeli-democracy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MT4BGZCN64GJJD3MPYDPCDNU3JADZR6D", "length": 7214, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "themuslimtimes.info", "title": "The end of the pretended Israeli democracy \u2013 The Muslim Times", "raw_content": "By Rafiq A. Tschannen on August 5, 2018 \u2022 ( 2 Comments )\nThe end of the pretended Israeli democracy\nAt last, an end to the masquerade of Israel\u2019s \u2018democracy\u2019\nInitially one is pressed to find a single item of merit in the new Nation-State Law, which rubber stamps the descent of Israel toward a Jewish ethno-religious society. It leaves the country a democracy in name, but hardly in practice. Add to this the constant attacks by forces within and outside the government on the country\u2019s democratic institutions, especially on the Supreme Court, and this downward spiral becomes all too obvious.\nYet the Nation-State Law has one distinctly positive value that deserves recognition; it ends the 70-year masquerade of Israel being a fully fledged democracy in which all its citizens are equal in the eyes of the law. The provisions of this new law will surprise only the na\u00efve or unaware. It states overtly what has been clear for a long time \u2014 that Israel\u2019s Jewish majority has rights and privileges not enjoyed by the Arab minority who comprise one fifth of its population. The new law, which as a Basic Law has constitutional powers, has confirmed the Arab citizens of the Jewish state as second-class citizens.\nIsrael seems to be on a mission to drain its democratic character and institutions of any substance. Throughout its history it has suffered from a democratic deficit. The Palestinians who remained after 750,000 of them were either driven from their homes or forced out by the horrors of the 1948 war had to live under a military government for another 18 years. Their legal status and living conditions might have improved since then, but equality in the eyes of the law, or in the eyes of the Jewish majority, has never materialized.\nThose who advocated the new law, which states that \u201cthe right to exercise national self-determination\u201d in Israel is \u201cunique to the Jewish people,\u201d have confirmed not only the brutishness of their need to demonstrate the superiority of the country\u2019s majority over its minorities, but also their sense of insecurity. Why have the representatives of the Jewish majority, which possesses all the means of power, found it necessary to produce a law that insults, upsets and undermines a minority that includes many of the country\u2019s poorest? It is an abuse of that power, and the new law is an overcompensation for generations of insecurity that they can now hide behind. How does relegating Arabic, the language of all Israeli Arabs, from an official language to one with \u201cspecial status\u201d enhance the Jewish character of the country? Nearly everybody, Palestinians living in Israel included, speaks Hebrew, and recognizing Arabic as an official language was one of the few gestures of the Jewish controlled state to those who had lived there for generations before the revival of Jewish nationalism. Demoting its status adds insult to injury and will only further alienate Israel\u2019s Palestinians. It is not only immoral, but may also have grave consequences for relations between the latter and the rest of the society.\nThe Nation-State Law has one distinctly positive value that deserves recognition; it ends the 70-year masquerade of Israel being a fully fledged democracy in which all its citizens are equal in the eyes of the law.\nAs if this is were not enough, the somewhat hidden, though most repulsive, racist, provocative, infuriating and damaging aspect of this wretched law is the passage that declares \u201cJewish settlement as a national value\u201d and calls on the state \u201cto encourage and promote its establishment and consolidation.\u201d This allows any Jewish community, urban or rural, to exclude anyone who is not Jewish from buying property or even living there. It legitimizes and legalizes one of the most abhorrent aspect of the mistreatment of Arab minorities in Israel \u2014 complete segregation. It allows any community to prevent any Arab from living among them. And those who support this legislation now declare their surprise that the situation in Israel is now increasingly being equated with apartheid!\nMoreover, this part of the new law deliberately neglects to mention the West Bank settlements, and for this was criticized by settlers there who are becoming even greedier in their demands. The omission deceives no one, and those who promoted the law were quick to reassure such critics that since they regard the West Bank as part of Israel, it is included by default. This is certain to upset the international community, which has often condemned Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as a violation of international law. These settlements, a major and a deliberate hindrance to any future peace agreement, have mushroomed regardless of the new legislation. Elevating the law to what comes closest to a constitution in Israel is both an expression of utter contempt for the international community, and a demonstration of a complete lack of awareness of how this constant erosion of liberal values and entrenchment of the occupation is driving Israel slowly but surely toward isolation.\nIn Israel today, the mask of a tolerant society that treats everyone equally has finally been removed. But this dark cloud may have a silver lining. There is now a clear demarcation between right and wrong; just and unjust; enlightened and bigoted; democratic and undemocratic. There is no more ambiguity or vagueness about the direction in which the current government is taking the country: entrenching the occupation of the West Bank, tightening the blockade in Gaza, and marginalizing and discriminating against Palestinian Israelis living within Israel proper. Every Israeli now has a clear choice regarding what side of the argument they are on, and what they are prepared to do about it. There is no hiding place any longer for those who believe in the values of the Declaration of Independence and in equality for all, and there is no time for apathy. It might be the last wake-up call for all who believe in the rights of everyone to live freely and equally, before Israel is finally transformed into a messianic, ultranationalist state. And that will be a dark day indeed.\nCategories: Anti-Semitism, Asia, Israel, Judaism, pluralism\nTagged as: blockade, death of democracy, Democracy, end of democracy, Gaza, Jewish state, masquarade of democracy, Nation State Law, occupation, west bank\nGlobal warming: Drought hits Iraq\u2019s agriculture\nHajj and Umrah Ministry approves plan to help African pilgrims\nFrom my view\u2014 The current Government is still much better than Arab\u2019s governments who treat people differently or rasist.\nWhy do Muslim around the world not speack up loudly to demand Saudi Arabia obey Human Right, equality and justice for all people?? Why why!!\nFor me as long as Saudi Arabia is RASIST government. There is No freedom of religion and no equality and justice for all\u2014Israel has the right to do the same as RETALIATION.\nMy suggestion to Muslim and non Muslim around the world, let us reject and condemn Saudi and Israel together \u2014what do you think? We have to be fair right? Do not be double standart or hypocrites!!\nI think slowly Somi is coming to realize that not only Saudis need to be condemned, but Israelis also. Some progress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 13776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thenest.cf/secret-santa-rules-and-regulations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:38Z", "digest": "sha1:OHXN7UAE2MSHAPCSOVGUIJXFJ7QFFLXR", "length": 753, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "thenest.cf", "title": "The Nest \u00bb Secret Santa Rules and Regulations", "raw_content": "Do not send any items that are illegal in either the gift giver or gift recipient\u2019s country of origin.\nIf you need to drop out, tell the mods as soon as possible. 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All gifts will be revealed as well as all gift givers on Dec. 25.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Khomeini", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:54Z", "digest": "sha1:CHWVUTLU2OTJJXHZGTBCUBKXZ6ISVAMN", "length": 62253, "nlines": 176, "source_domain": "thereaderwiki.com", "title": "Ruhollah Khomeini - The Reader Wiki, Reader View of Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Not to be confused with Ali Khamenei.\nFor other people named Khomeini, see Khomeini (name).\n1st Supreme Leader of Iran\nMohammadreza Mahdavi Kani\nLeader of the Revolution\nHead of State of Iran\n11 February 1979 \u2013 3 December 1979\nas Shah of Iran\nas Supreme Leader of Iran\n(1902-09-24)24 September 1902[1][2][3][4][5]\nKhomeyn, Persia\nMausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini\nKhadijeh Saqafi ( m. 1929)\nTwelver Sh\u012b\u02bf\u0101[6][7][8]\nNew advance of Guardianship\nForty Hadith, Kashf al-Asrar, Tahrir al-Wasilah, Islamic Government\nAyatollah Seyyed Hossein Borujerdi\nEminent marji' al-taqlid, Ayatullah al-Uzma Imam Khumayni[9]\nImam Khomeini[10]\nAyatullah al-Uzma Ruhollah Khomeini[10]\nSayyid Ruhollah M\u016bsavi Khomeini (Persian: \u0633\u06cc\u062f \u0631\u0648\u062d\u200c\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647 \u0645\u0648\u0633\u0648\u06cc \u062e\u0645\u06cc\u0646\u06cc\u200e [ru\u02d0ho\u026b\u02c8\u026b\u0251\u02d0he \u03c7omei\u02c8ni\u02d0] ( listen); 24 September 1902 \u2013 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini,[11] was an Iranian politician and marja. He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution that saw the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and the end of 2,500 years of Persian monarchy. Following the revolution, Khomeini became the country's Supreme Leader, a position created in the constitution of the Islamic Republic as the highest-ranking political and religious authority of the nation, which he held until his death. He was succeeded by Ali Khamenei on 4 June 1989.\nKhomeini was born in 1902 in Khomeyn, in what is now Iran's Markazi Province. His father was murdered in 1903 when Khomeini was six months old. He began studying the Quran and the Persian language from a young age and was assisted in his religious studies by his relatives, including his mother's cousin and older brother.\nKhomeini was a marja (\"source of emulation\") in Twelver Shia Islam, a Mujtahid or faqih (an expert in Sharia) and author of more than 40 books, but he is primarily known for his political activities. He spent more than 15 years in exile for his opposition to the last Shah. In his writings and preachings he expanded the theory of welayat-el faqih, the \"Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (clerical authority)\", to include theocratic political rule by Islamic jurists. This principle (though not known to the wider public before the revolution),[12][13] was appended to the new Iranian constitution[14] after being put to a referendum.[15] According to The New York Times, Khomeini called democracy the equivalent of prostitution.[16] Whether Khomeini's ideas are compatible with democracy and whether he intended the Islamic Republic to be democratic is disputed.[17] He was Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1979 for his international influence,[18] and Khomeini has been described as the \"virtual face of Shia Islam in Western popular culture\".[19] In 1982, he survived one military coup attempt.[20] Khomeini was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis,[21] his fatwa calling for the murder of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie,[18][22] and for referring to the United States as the \"Great Satan\" and Soviet Union as the \"Lesser Satan.\"[23] Khomeini has been criticized for these acts and for human rights violations of Iranians (including his ordering of execution of thousands of political prisoners, war criminals and prisoners of the Iran\u2013Iraq War).[24][25][26][27][28]\nHe has also been lauded as a \"charismatic leader of immense popularity\",[29] a \"champion of Islamic revival\" by Shia scholars,[19] who attempted to establish good relations between Sunnis and Shias,[30] and a major innovator in political theory and religious-oriented populist political strategy.[31][32] Khomeini held the title of Grand Ayatollah and is officially known as Imam Khomeini inside Iran[33] and by his supporters internationally.[10] He is generally referred to as Ayatollah Khomeini by others.[34] In Iran, his gold-domed tomb in Tehr\u0101n's Behesht-e Zahr\u0101\u02be cemetery has become a shrine for his adherents,[35] and he is legally considered \"inviolable\", with Iranians regularly punished for insulting him.[36][37]\nRuhollah Khomeini's birthplace at Khomeyn\nRuhollah Khomeini's ancestors migrated towards the end of the 18th century from their original home in Nishapur, Khorasan Province, in northeastern part of Iran, for a short stay, to the kingdom of Awadh \u2013 a region in the modern state of Uttar Pradesh, India \u2013 whose rulers were Twelver Shia Muslims of Persian origin.[38][39][40][41] During their rule they extensively invited, and received, a steady stream of Persian scholars, poets, jurists, architects, and painters.[42] The family eventually settled in the small town of Kintoor, near Lucknow, the capital of Awadh.[43][44][45][46] Ayatollah Khomeini's paternal grandfather, Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi, was born in Kintoor.[44][46] He left Lucknow in 1830, on a pilgrimage to the tomb of Imam Ali in Najaf, Ottoman Iraq (now Iraq) and never returned.[43][46] According to Moin, this migration was to escape from the spread of British power in India.[47] In 1834 Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi visited Persia, and in 1839 he settled in Khomein.[44] Although he stayed and settled in Iran, he continued to be known as Hindi, indicating his stay in India, and Ruhollah Khomeini even used Hindi as a pen name in some of his ghazals.[43] There are also claims that Seyyed Ahmad Musavi Hindi departed from Kashmir, instead of Lucknow.[40]\nRuhollah Musavi Khomeini, whose first name means \"spirit of Allah\", was born on 24 September 1902 in Khomeyn, Markazi Province. He was raised by his mother, Hajieh Agha Khanum, and his aunt, Sahebeth, following the murder of his father, Seyyed Mostafa Hendi, five months after his birth in 1903.[48]\nRuhollah began to study the Qur'an and elementary Persian at the age of six.[49] The following year, he began to attend a local school, where he learned religion, noheh khani (lamentation recital), and other traditional subjects.[47] Throughout his childhood, he continued his religious education with the assistance of his relatives, including his mother's cousin, Ja'far,[47] and his elder brother, Morteza Pasandideh.[50]\nEducation and lecturing\nKhomeini as a student with his friends (second from right)\nAfter World War I arrangements were made for him to study at the Islamic seminary in Esfahan, but he was attracted instead to the seminary in Arak. He was placed under the leadership of Ayatollah Abdul Karim Haeri Yazdi.[51] In 1920, Khomeini moved to Arak and commenced his studies.[52] The following year, Ayatollah Haeri Yazdi transferred to the Islamic seminary in the holy city of Qom, southwest of Tehran, and invited his students to follow. Khomeini accepted the invitation, moved,[50] and took up residence at the Dar al-Shafa school in Qom.[53] Khomeini's studies included Islamic law (sharia) and jurisprudence (fiqh),[49] but by that time, Khomeini had also acquired an interest in poetry and philosophy (irfan). So, upon arriving in Qom, Khomeini sought the guidance of Mirza Ali Akbar Yazdi, a scholar of philosophy and mysticism. Yazdi died in 1924, but Khomeini continued to pursue his interest in philosophy with two other teachers, Javad Aqa Maleki Tabrizi and Rafi'i Qazvini.[54][55] However, perhaps Khomeini's biggest influences were another teacher, Mirza Muhammad 'Ali Shahabadi,[56] and a variety of historic Sufi mystics, including Mulla Sadra and Ibn Arabi.[55]\nKhomeini studied Greek philosophy and was influenced by both the philosophy of Aristotle, whom he regarded as the founder of logic,[57] and Plato, whose views \"in the field of divinity\" he regarded as \"grave and solid\".[58] Among Islamic philosophers, Khomeini was mainly influenced by Avicenna and Mulla Sadra.[57]\nKhomeini in 1938\nApart from philosophy, Khomeini was interested in literature and poetry. His poetry collection was released after his death. Beginning in his adolescent years, Khomeini composed mystic, political and social poetry. His poetry works were published in three collections: The Confidant, The Decanter of Love and Turning Point, and Divan.[59] His knowledge of poetry is further attested by the modern poet Nader Naderpour (1929\u20132000), who \"had spent many hours exchanging poems with Khomeini in the early 1960\". Naderpour remembered: \"For four hours we recited poetry. Every single line I recited from any poet, he recited the next.\"[60]\nRuhollah Khomeini was a lecturer at Najaf and Qom seminaries for decades before he was known on the political scene. He soon became a leading scholar of Shia Islam.[61] He taught political philosophy,[62] Islamic history and ethics. Several of his students \u2013 for example, Morteza Motahhari \u2013 later became leading Islamic philosophers and also marja'. As a scholar and teacher, Khomeini produced numerous writings on Islamic philosophy, law, and ethics.[63] He showed an exceptional interest in subjects like philosophy and mysticism that not only were usually absent from the curriculum of seminaries but were often an object of hostility and suspicion.[64]\nInaugurating his teaching career at the age of 27 by giving private lessons on irfan and Mulla Sadra to a private circle, around the same time, in 1928, he also released his first publication, Sharh Du'a al-Sahar (Commentary on the Du'a al-Baha), \"a detailed commentary, in Arabic, on the prayer recited before dawn during Ramadan by Imam Ja'far al-Sadiq\", followed, some years later, by Sirr al-Salat (Secret of the Prayer), where \"the symbolic dimensions and inner meaning of every part of the prayer, from the ablution that precedes it to the salam that concludes it, are expounded in a rich, complex, and eloquent language that owes much to the concepts and terminology of Ibn 'Arabi. As Sayyid Fihri, the editor and translator of Sirr al-Salat, has remarked, the work is addressed only to the foremost among the spiritual elite (akhass-i khavass) and establishes its author as one of their number.\"[65] The second book has been translated by Sayyid Amjad Hussain Shah Naqavi and released by BRILL in 2015, under the title \"The Mystery of Prayer: The Ascension of the Wayfarers and the Prayer of the Gnostics\".\nHis seminary teaching often focused on the importance of religion to practical social and political issues of the day, and he worked against secularism in the 1940s. His first political book, Kashf al-Asrar (Uncovering of Secrets)[66][67] published in 1942, was a point-by-point refutation of Asrar-e hazar salih (Secrets of a Thousand Years), a tract written by a disciple of Iran's leading anti-clerical historian, Ahmad Kasravi,[68] as well as a condemnation of innovations such as international time zones,[69] [note 1] and the banning of hijab by Reza Shah. In addition, he went from Qom to Tehran to listen to Ayatullah Hasan Mudarris, the leader of the opposition majority in Iran's parliament during the 1920s. Khomeini became a marja' in 1963, following the death of Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Husayn Borujerdi.\nKhomeini's speech against the Shah in Qom, 1964\nMost Iranians had a deep respect for the Shi'a clergy or Ulama,[70] and tended to be religious, traditional, and alienated from the process of Westernization pursued by the Shah. In the late 19th century the clergy had shown themselves to be a powerful political force in Iran initiating the Tobacco Protest against a concession to a foreign (British) interest.\nAt the age of 61, Khomeini found the arena of leadership open following the deaths of Ayatollah Sayyed Husayn Borujerdi (1961), the leading, although quiescent, Shi'ah religious leader; and Ayatollah Abol-Ghasem Kashani (1962), an activist cleric. The clerical class had been on the defensive ever since the 1920s when the secular, anti-clerical modernizer Reza Shah Pahlavi rose to power. Reza's son Mohammad Reza Shah, instituted a \"White Revolution\", which was a further challenge to the Ulama.[71]\nOpposition to the White Revolution\nIn January 1963, the Shah announced the \"White Revolution\", a six-point programme of reform calling for land reform, nationalization of the forests, the sale of state-owned enterprises to private interests, electoral changes to enfranchise women and allow non-Muslims to hold office, profit-sharing in industry, and a literacy campaign in the nation's schools. Some of these initiatives were regarded as dangerous, especially by the powerful and privileged Shi'a ulama (religious scholars), and as Westernizing trends by traditionalists (Khomeini viewed them as \"an attack on Islam\").[72] Ayatollah Khomeini summoned a meeting of the other senior marjas of Qom and persuaded them to decree a boycott of the referendum on the White Revolution. On 22 January 1963 Khomeini issued a strongly worded declaration denouncing the Shah and his plans. Two days later the Shah took an armored column to Qom, and delivered a speech harshly attacking the ulama as a class.\nKhomeini continued his denunciation of the Shah's programmes, issuing a manifesto that bore the signatures of eight other senior Iranian Shia religious scholars. In it he listed the various ways in which the Shah had allegedly violated the constitution, condemned the spread of moral corruption in the country, and accused the Shah of submission to the United States and Israel. He also decreed that the Nowruz celebrations for the Iranian year 1342 (which fell on 21 March 1963) be canceled as a sign of protest against government policies.\nKhomeini denouncing the Shah on 'Ashura (3 June 1963)\nOn the afternoon of 'Ashura (3 June 1963), Khomeini delivered a speech at the Feyziyeh madrasah drawing parallels between the Sunni Muslim caliph Yazid, who is perceived as a 'tyrant' by Shias, and the Shah, denouncing the Shah as a \"wretched, miserable man,\" and warning him that if he did not change his ways the day would come when the people would offer up thanks for his departure from the country.[73]\nOn 5 June 1963 (15 of Khordad) at 3:00 am, two days after this public denunciation of the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Khomeini was detained in Qom and transferred to Tehran.[74] Following this action, there were three days of major riots throughout Iran and the deaths of some 400 people. That event is now referred to as the Movement of 15 Khordad.[75] Khomeini was kept under house arrest and released in August.[76][page needed]\nOpposition to capitulation\nKhomeini in prayer\nOn 26 October 1964, Khomeini denounced both the Shah and the United States. This time it was in response to the \"capitulations\" or diplomatic immunity granted by the Shah to American military personnel in Iran.[77][78] The \"capitulation\" law (or \"status-of-forces agreement\") allowed members of the U.S. armed forces in Iran to be tried in their own military courts. Khomeini was arrested in November 1964 and held for half a year. Upon his release, he was brought before Prime Minister Hasan Ali Mansur, who tried to convince Khomeini that he should apologize and drop his opposition to the government. When Khomeini refused, Mansur slapped Khomeini's face in a fit of rage.[79] Two months later, Mansur was assassinated on his way to parliament. Four members of the Fadayan-e Islam were later executed for the murder.\nFurther information: Iranian Revolution \u00a7 1970s: Pre-revolutionary conditions and events inside Iran, and Ruhollah Khomeini's life in exile\nKhomeini in exile at Bursa, Turkey without clerical dress\nKhomeini spent more than 14 years in exile, mostly in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf. Initially, he was sent to Turkey on 4 November 1964 where he stayed in the city of Bursa hosted by a colonel in the Turkish Military Intelligence named Ali Cetiner in his own residence.[80] In October 1965, after less than a year, he was allowed to move to Najaf, Iraq, where he stayed until 1978, when he was expelled[81] by then-Vice President Saddam Hussein. By this time discontent with the Shah was becoming intense and Khomeini visited Neauphle-le-Ch\u00e2teau, a suburb of Paris, France on a tourist visa on 6 October 1978.[63][82][83]\nThe Entrance of Khomeini's House in Najaf, Iraq\nKhomeini at Najaf\nBy the late 1960s, Khomeini was a marja-e taqlid (model for imitation) for \"hundreds of thousands\" of Shia, one of six or so models in the Shia world.[84] While in the 1940s Khomeini accepted the idea of a limited monarchy under the Iranian Constitution of 1906\u201307 \u2013 as evidenced by his book Kashf al-Asrar \u2013 by the 1970s he had rejected the idea. In early 1970, Khomeini gave a series of lectures in Najaf on Islamic government, later published as a book titled variously Islamic Government or Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist (Hokumat-e Islami: Velayat-e faqih).\nThis was his best known and most influential work, and laid out his ideas on governance (at that time):\nThat the laws of society should be made up only of the laws of God (Sharia), which cover \"all human affairs\" and \"provide instruction and establish norms\" for every \"topic\" in \"human life.\"[85]\nSince Shariah, or Islamic law, is the proper law, those holding government posts should have knowledge of Sharia. Since Islamic jurists or faqih have studied and are the most knowledgeable in Sharia, the country's ruler should be a faqih who \"surpasses all others in knowledge\" of Islamic law and justice,[86] (known as a marja'), as well as having intelligence and administrative ability. Rule by monarchs and/or assemblies of \"those claiming to be representatives of the majority of the people\" (i.e. elected parliaments and legislatures) has been proclaimed \"wrong\" by Islam.[87]\nThis system of clerical rule is necessary to prevent injustice, corruption, oppression by the powerful over the poor and weak, innovation and deviation of Islam and Sharia law; and also to destroy anti-Islamic influence and conspiracies by non-Muslim foreign powers.[88]\nA modified form of this wilayat al-faqih system was adopted after Khomeini and his followers took power, and Khomeini was the Islamic Republic's first \"Guardian\" or \"Supreme Leader\". In the meantime, however, Khomeini was careful not to publicize his ideas for clerical rule outside of his Islamic network of opposition to the Shah which he worked to build and strengthen over the next decade. In Iran, a number of actions of the Shah including his repression of opponents began to build opposition to his regime.\nAyatollah Khomeini in front of his house at Neauphle-le-Chateau in a media conference\nCassette copies of his lectures fiercely denouncing the Shah as (for example) \"the Jewish agent, the American serpent whose head must be smashed with a stone\",[89] became common items in the markets of Iran,[90] helped to demythologize the power and dignity of the Shah and his reign. Aware of the importance of broadening his base, Khomeini reached out to Islamic reformist and secular enemies of the Shah, despite his long-term ideological incompatibility with them.\nAfter the 1977 death of Ali Shariati (an Islamic reformist and political revolutionary author/academic/philosopher who greatly assisted the Islamic revival among young educated Iranians), Khomeini became the most influential leader of the opposition to the Shah. Adding to his mystique was the circulation among Iranians in the 1970s of an old Shia saying attributed to the Imam Musa al-Kadhem. Prior to his death in 799, al-Kadhem was said to have prophesied that \"A man will come out from Qom and he will summon people to the right path\".[91] In late 1978, a rumour swept the country that Khomeini's face could be seen in the full moon. Millions of people were said to have seen it and the event was celebrated in thousands of mosques.[92] He was perceived by many Iranians as the spiritual as well as political leader of the revolt. Additionally, the episode with Khomeini's face in the moon showed that in late 1978 he was increasingly regarded as a messianic figure in Iran.[93]\nAs protests grew, so did his profile and importance. Although several thousand kilometers away from Iran in Paris, Khomeini set the course of the revolution, urging Iranians not to compromise and ordering work stoppages against the regime.[94] During the last few months of his exile, Khomeini received a constant stream of reporters, supporters, and notables, eager to hear the spiritual leader of the revolution.[95]\nArrival of Khomeini on 1 February 1979. When asked about his feelings of returning from exile in the plane, he replied Hichi; \"Nothing\"\nKhomeini was not allowed to return to Iran during the Shah's reign (as he had been in exile). On 16 January 1979, the Shah left the country (ostensibly \"on vacation\"), never to return. Two weeks later, on Thursday, 1 February 1979, Khomeini returned in triumph to Iran, welcomed by a joyous crowd estimated (by the BBC) to be of up to five million people.[96] On his chartered Air France flight back to Tehran, he was accompanied by 120 journalists,[97][98] including three women.[98] One of the journalists, Peter Jennings, asked: \"Ayatollah, would you be so kind as to tell us how you feel about being back in Iran?\"[99] Khomeini answered via his aide Sadegh Ghotbzadeh: \"Hichi\" (Nothing).[99] This statement\u2014much discussed at the time[100] and since[101]\u2014was considered by some reflective of his mystical beliefs and non-attachment to ego.[102] Others considered it a warning to Iranians who hoped he would be a \"mainstream nationalist leader\" that they were in for disappointment.[103]\nKhomeini and the interim prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan\nTo others, it was a reflection of an unfeeling leader incapable or unconcerned with understanding the thoughts, beliefs, or the needs of the Iranian populace.[101]\nKhomeini adamantly opposed the provisional government of Shapour Bakhtiar, promising \"I shall kick their teeth in. I appoint the government.\"[104][105] On 11 February (Bahman 22), Khomeini appointed his own competing interim prime minister, Mehdi Bazargan, demanding, \"since I have appointed him, he must be obeyed.\" It was \"God's government,\" he warned, disobedience against him or Bazargan was considered a \"revolt against God.\"[106]\nAs Khomeini's movement gained momentum, soldiers began to defect to his side and Khomeini declared ill fortune on troops who did not surrender.[107] On 11 February, as revolt spread and armories were taken over, the military declared neutrality and the Bakhtiar regime collapsed.[108] On 30 and 31 March 1979, a referendum to replace the monarchy with an Islamic Republic passed with 98% voting in favour of the replacement,[109] with the question: \"should the monarchy be abolished in favour of an Islamic Government?\"\nIslamic constitution\nAlthough revolutionaries were now in charge and Khomeini was their leader, some opposition groups claim that several secular and religious groups were unaware of Khomeini's plan for Islamic government by wilayat al-faqih, which involved rule by a marja' Islamic cleric.[110] They claim that this provisional constitution for the Islamic Republic did not include the post of supreme Islamic clerical ruler.[111][112] The Islamic government was clearly defined by Khomeini in his book Hokumat-e Islami: Velayat-e faqih (Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist) which was published while Khomeini was in exile in 1970, smuggled into Iran, and distributed to Khomeini's supporters. This book included Khomeini's notion of wilayat al-faqih (Governance of the Jurist) as well as the reasoning and in his view, the necessity of it in running an Islamic state.\nKhomeini with people\nKhomeini and his supporters worked to suppress some former allies and rewrote the proposed constitution. Some newspapers were closed, and those protesting the closings were attacked.[113] Opposition groups such as the National Democratic Front and Muslim People's Republican Party were attacked and finally banned.[114] Through popular support, Khomeini supporters gained an overwhelming majority of the seats in the Assembly of Experts[115] which revised the proposed constitution. The newly proposed constitution included an Islamic jurist Supreme Leader of the country, and a Council of Guardians to veto un-Islamic legislation and screen candidates for office, disqualifying those found un-Islamic.\nIn November 1979, the new constitution of the Islamic Republic was adopted by national referendum.[116][117] Khomeini himself became instituted as the Supreme Leader (Guardian Jurist), and officially became known as the \"Leader of the Revolution.\" On 4 February 1980, Abolhassan Banisadr was elected as the first president of Iran. Critics complain that Khomeini had gone back on his word[118] to advise, rather than rule the country.[119]\nOn 22 October 1979, the United States admitted the exiled and ailing Shah into the country for cancer treatment. In Iran, there was an immediate outcry, with both Khomeini and leftist groups demanding the Shah's return to Iran for trial and execution. Revolutionaries were reminded of Operation Ajax, 26 years earlier, when the Shah fled abroad while American CIA and British intelligence organized a coup d'\u00e9tat to overthrow his nationalist opponent Mohammad Mosaddegh.[120][121][122][123]\nOn 4 November, a group of Iranian college students calling themselves the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line, took control of the American Embassy in Tehran, holding 52 embassy staff hostage for 444 days \u2013 an event known as the Iran hostage crisis. In the United States, the hostage-taking was seen as a flagrant violation of international law and aroused intense anger and anti-Iranian sentiments.[124][125]\nIn Iran, the takeover was immensely popular and earned the support of Khomeini under the slogan \"America can't do a damn thing against us.\"[126] The seizure of the embassy of a country he called the \"Great Satan\"[127] helped to advance the cause of theocratic government and outflank politicians and groups who emphasized stability and normalized relations with other countries. Khomeini is reported to have told his president: \"This action has many benefits ... this has united our people. Our opponents do not dare act against us. We can put the constitution to the people's vote without difficulty, and carry out presidential and parliamentary elections.\"[128] The new constitution was successfully passed by referendum a month after the hostage crisis began.\nThe crisis had the effect of splitting of the opposition into two groups \u2013 radicals supporting the hostage taking, and the moderates opposing it.[128][129] On 23 February 1980, Khomeini proclaimed Iran's Majlis would decide the fate of the American embassy hostages, and demanded that the United States hand over the Shah for trial in Iran for crimes against the nation. Although the Shah died a few months later, during the summer, the crisis continued. In Iran, supporters of Khomeini named the embassy a \"Den of Espionage\", publicizing details regarding armaments, espionage equipment and many volumes of official and classified documents which they found there.\nRelationship with Islamic and non-aligned countries\nKhomeini believed in Muslim unity and solidarity and the export of his revolution throughout the world. He believed Shia and (the significantly more numerous) Sunni Muslims should be \"united and stand firmly against Western and arrogant powers.\"[130] \"Establishing the Islamic state world-wide belong to the great goals of the revolution.\"[131] He declared the birth week of Muhammad (the week between 12th to 17th of Rabi' al-awwal) as the Unity week. Then he declared the last Friday of Ramadan as International Day of Quds in 1981.[132]\nRuhollah Khomeini with Ahmad Khomeini and Mohammad-Ali Rajai\nShortly after assuming power, Khomeini began calling for Islamic revolutions across the Muslim world, including Iran's Arab neighbor Iraq,[133] the one large state besides Iran with a Shia majority population. At the same time Saddam Hussein, Iraq's secular Arab nationalist Ba'athist leader, was eager to take advantage of Iran's weakened military and (what he assumed was) revolutionary chaos, and in particular to occupy Iran's adjacent oil-rich province of Khuzestan, and to undermine Iranian Islamic revolutionary attempts to incite the Shi'a majority of his country.\nIn September 1980, Iraq launched a full-scale invasion of Iran, starting what would become the eight-year-long Iran\u2013Iraq War (September 1980 \u2013 August 1988). A combination of fierce resistance by Iranians and military incompetence by Iraqi forces soon stalled the Iraqi advance and, despite Saddam's internationally condemned use of poison gas, Iran had by early 1982 regained almost all of the territory lost to the invasion. The invasion rallied Iranians behind the new regime, enhancing Khomeini's stature and allowing him to consolidate and stabilize his leadership. After this reversal, Khomeini refused an Iraqi offer of a truce, instead demanding reparations and the toppling of Saddam Hussein from power.[134][135][136] In 1982, there was an attempted military coup against Khomeini.[20] The Iran\u2013Iraq War ended in 1988, with 320,000\u2013720,000 Iranian soldiers and militia killed.[137]\nAlthough Iran's population and economy were three times the size of Iraq's, the latter was aided by neighboring Persian Gulf Arab states, as well as the Soviet Bloc and Western countries. The Persian Gulf Arabs and the West wanted to be sure the Islamic revolution did not spread across the Persian Gulf, while the Soviet Union was concerned about the potential threat posed to its rule in central Asia to the north. However, Iran had large amounts of ammunition provided by the United States of America during the Shah's era and the United States illegally smuggled arms to Iran during the 1980s despite Khomeini's anti-Western policy (see Iran\u2013Contra affair).\nDuring war Iranians used human wave attacks (people walking to certain death including child soldiers)[138][139] on Iraq, with his promise that they would automatically go to paradise\u2014alJanna\u2014 if they died in battle,[139] and his pursuit of victory in the Iran\u2013Iraq War that ultimately proved futile.[140][35] By March 1984, Iran's population had dropped by well over two million.[citation needed] This included an estimated one and a half million that had fled Iran, victims of political executions, and the hundreds of thousands of \"martyrs\" from Khomeini's bloody \"human wave \" attacks on Iraq.[citation needed]\nThe war continued for over seven years with mounting costs. 1988 saw deadly month-long Iraqi missile attacks on Tehran, mounting economic problems, the demoralization of Iranian troops, attacks by the American Navy on Iranian ships, oil rigs, and a commercial airplane, and the recapture by Iraq of the Faw Peninsula.\nKhomeini in Jamaran, one year before his death\nIn July of that year, Khomeini, in his words, \"drank the cup of poison\" and accepted a truce mediated by the United Nations. Despite the high cost of the war \u2013 450,000 to 950,000 Iranian casualties and USD $300 billion[141] \u2013 Khomeini insisted that extending the war into Iraq in an attempt to overthrow Saddam had not been a mistake. In a \"Letter to Clergy\" he wrote: \"... we do not repent, nor are we sorry for even a single moment for our performance during the war. Have we forgotten that we fought to fulfill our religious duty and that the result is a marginal issue?\"[142]\nFatwa against chemical weapons\nIn an interview with Gareth Porter, Mohsen Rafighdoost, the eight-year war time minister of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, disclosed how Khomeini had opposed his proposal for beginning working on both nuclear and chemical weapons by a fatwa which had never been made public in details of when and how it was issued.[143]\nRushdie fatwa\nSee also: The Satanic Verses controversy\nPersian Samizdat edition of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses c.2000\nIn early 1989, Khomeini issued a fatw\u0101 calling for the assassination of Salman Rushdie, an India-born British author. Rushdie's book, The Satanic Verses, published in 1988, was alleged to commit blasphemy against Islam and Khomeini's juristic ruling (fatw\u0101) prescribed Rushdie's assassination by any Muslim. The fatw\u0101 required not only Rushdie's execution, but also the execution of \"all those involved in the publication\" of the book.[144]\nKhomeini's fatw\u0101 was condemned across the Western world by governments on the grounds that it violated the universal human rights of free speech and freedom of religion. The fatw\u0101 has also been attacked for violating the rules of fiqh by not allowing the accused an opportunity to defend himself, and because \"even the most rigorous and extreme of the classical jurist only require a Muslim to kill anyone who insults the Prophet in his hearing and in his presence.\"[145]\nThough Rushdie publicly regretted \"the distress that publication has occasioned to sincere followers of Islam\",[146] the fatwa was not revoked.\nRushdie himself was not killed but Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator of the book The Satanic Verses, was murdered and two other translators of the book survived murder attempts.[147]\nLife under Khomeini\nIn a speech given to a huge crowd after returning to Iran from exile 1 February 1979, Khomeini made a variety of promises to Iranians for his coming Islamic regime: a popularly elected government that would represent the people of Iran and with which the clergy would not interfere. He promised that \"no one should remain homeless in this country,\" and that Iranians would have free telephone, heating, electricity, bus services and free oil at their doorstep.[148]\nUnder Khomeini's rule, Sharia (Islamic law) was introduced, with the Islamic dress code enforced for both men and women by Islamic Revolutionary Guards and other Islamic groups[149] Women were required to cover their hair, and men were not allowed to wear shorts. Alcoholic drinks, most Western movies, and the practice of men and women swimming or sunbathing together were banned.[150] The Iranian educational curriculum was Islamized at all levels with the Islamic Cultural Revolution; the \"Committee for Islamization of Universities\"[151] carried this out thoroughly. The broadcasting of any music other than martial or religious on Iranian radio and television was banned by Khomeini in July 1979.[150] The ban lasted 10 years (approximately the rest of his life).[152]\nEmigration and economy\nKhomeini is said to have stressed \"the spiritual over the material\".[153][154] Six months after his first speech he expressed exasperation with complaints about the sharp drop in Iran's standard of living, saying that: \"I cannot believe that the purpose of all these sacrifices was to have less expensive melons.\"[155] On another occasion emphasizing the importance of martyrdom over material prosperity, he said: \"Could anyone wish his child to be martyred to obtain a good house? This is not the issue. The issue is another world.\"[156] He is also reportedly famous for answering a question about his economic policies by declaring that 'economics is for donkeys'.[157][note 2] This disinterest in economic policy is said to be \"one factor explaining the inchoate performance of the Iranian economy since the revolution.\"[153] Other factors include the long war with Iraq, the cost of which led to government debt and inflation, eroding personal incomes, and unprecedented unemployment,[158] ideological disagreement over the economy, and \"international pressure and isolation\" such as US sanctions following the hostage crisis.[159]\nDue to the Iran\u2013Iraq War, poverty is said to have risen by nearly 45% during the first 6 years of Khomeini's rule.[160] Emigration from Iran also developed, reportedly for the first time in the country's history.[161] Since the revolution and war with Iraq, an estimated \"two to four million entrepreneurs, professionals, technicians, and skilled craftspeople (and their capital)\" have emigrated to other countries.[162][163]\nIn a talk at the Fayzieah School in Qom, 30 August 1979, Khomeini warned pro-imperialist opponents: \"Those who are trying to bring corruption and destruction to our country in the name of democracy will be oppressed. They are worse than Bani-Ghorizeh Jews, and they must be hanged. We will oppress them by God's order and God's call to prayer.\"[164]\nHowever, in 1983, the CIA helped him by providing a list of Soviet KGB agents and collaborators operating in Iran to Khomeini, who then executed up to 200 suspects and closed down the Communist Tudeh Party of Iran.[165][166]\nThe Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his family left Iran and escaped harm, but hundreds of former members of the overthrown monarchy and military met their end in firing squads, with exiled critics complaining of \"secrecy, vagueness of the charges, the absence of defense lawyers or juries\", or the opportunity of the accused \"to defend themselves.\"[167] In later years these were followed in larger numbers by the erstwhile revolutionary allies of Khomeini's movement\u2014Marxists and socialists, mostly university students\u2014who opposed the theocratic regime. Following the 1981 Hafte Tir bombing, Khomeini declared the Mojahedin and anyone violently opposed to the government, \"enemies of God\" and pursued a mass campaign against members of the Mojahedin, Fadaiyan, and Tudeh parties as well as their families, close friends, and even anyone who was accused of counterrevolutionary behavior.[168]\nIn the 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners, following the People's Mujahedin of Iran unsuccessful operation Forough-e Javidan against the Islamic Republic, Khomeini issued an order to judicial officials to judge every Iranian political prisoner (mostly but not all Mujahedin) and kill those judged to be apostates from Islam (mortad) or \"waging war on God\" (moharebeh). Almost all of those interrogated were killed, estimates of their number vary from 1,400[169] to 30,000.[24][170][171] Because of the large number, prisoners were loaded into forklift trucks in groups of six and hanged from cranes in half-hour intervals.[172]\nZoroastrians, Jews, and Christians are officially recognized and protected by the government. Shortly after Khomeini's return from exile in 1979, he issued a fatwa ordering that Jews and other minorities (except Bah\u00e1'\u00eds) be treated well.[173][174] In power, Khomeini distinguished between Zionism as a secular political party that employs Jewish symbols and ideals and Judaism as the religion of Moses.[175]\nSenior government posts were reserved for Muslims. Schools set up by Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians had to be run by Muslim principals.[176] Conversion to Islam was encouraged by entitling converts to inherit the entire share of their parents (or even uncle's) estate if their siblings (or cousins) remain non-Muslim.[177] Iran's non-Muslim population has decreased. For example, the Jewish population in Iran dropped from 80,000 to 30,000.[178]\nFour of the 270 seats in parliament were reserved for each three non-Muslim minority religions, under the Islamic constitution that Khomeini oversaw. Khomeini also called for unity between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. Sunni Muslims are the largest religious minority in Iran. 4% belong to the Sunni branch.[179]\nOne non-Muslim group treated differently were the 300,000 members of the Bah\u00e1'\u00ed Faith. Starting in late 1979 the new government systematically targeted the leadership of the Bah\u00e1'\u00ed community by focusing on the Bah\u00e1'\u00ed National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) and Local Spiritual Assemblies (LSAs); prominent members of NSAs and LSAs were often detained and even executed.[180] \"Some 200 of whom have been executed and the rest forced to convert or subjected to the most horrendous disabilities.\"[181]\nLike most conservative Muslims, Khomeini believed Bah\u00e1'\u00ed to be apostates.[182] He claimed they were a political rather than a religious movement,[183][184] declaring:\nthe Baha'is are not a sect but a party, which was previously supported by Britain and now the United States. The Baha'is are also spies just like the Tudeh [Communist Party].[185]\nMain article: Ethnic minorities in Iran\nAfter the Shah left Iran in 1979, a Kurdish delegation traveled to Qom to present the Kurds' demands to Khomeini. Their demands included language rights and the provision for a degree of political autonomy. Khomeini responded that such demands were unacceptable since it involved the division of the Iranian nation. The following months saw numerous clashes between Kurdish militia groups and the Revolutionary Guards. The referendum on the Islamic Republic was massively boycotted in Kurdistan, where it was thought 85 to 90% of voters abstained. Khomeini ordered additional attacks later on in the year, and by September most of Iranian Kurdistan was under direct martial law.[186]\nSee also: Death and state funeral of Ruhollah Khomeini and Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini\nMourning men in residence of Khomeini around his seat area, Jamaran, 4 June 1989.\nKhomeini's health declined several years prior to his death. After spending eleven days in Jamaran hospital, Ruhollah Khomeini died on 3 June 1989 after suffering five heart attacks in just ten days,[187] at the age of 86 just before midnight. He was succeeded as Supreme Leader by Ali Khamenei. Iranians poured out into the cities and streets in enormous numbers to mourn Khomeini's death in a spontaneous outpouring of grief. In the scorching summer heat, fire trucks sprayed water on the crowds to cool them. At least 10 mourners were trampled to death, more than 400 were badly hurt and several thousand more were treated for injuries sustained in the ensuing pandemonium.[188][189]\nAccording to Iran's official estimates, 10.2 million people lined the 32-kilometre (20 mi) route to Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra cemetery on 11 June 1989, for the funeral of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Western agencies estimated that 2 million paid their respects as the body lay in state.[190]\nFigures about Khomeini's initial funeral attendance which took place on 4 June range around 2.5\u20133.5 million people.[191][192] Early the following day, Khomeini's corpse was flown in by helicopter for burial at the Paradise of Zahra cemetery. Iranian officials postponed Khomeini's first funeral after a huge mob stormed the funeral procession, destroying Khomeini's wooden coffin in order to get a last glimpse of his body or touch of his coffin. In some cases, armed soldiers were compelled to fire warning shots in the air to restrain the crowds. At one point, Khomeini's body fell to the ground, as the crowd ripped off pieces of the death shroud, trying to keep them as if they were holy relics. According to journalist James Buchan:\nYet even here, the crowd surged past the makeshift barriers. John Kifner wrote in The New York Times that the \"body of the Ayatollah, wrapped in a white burial shroud, fell out of the flimsy wooden coffin, and in a mad scene people in the crowd reached to touch the shroud\". A frail white leg was uncovered. The shroud was torn to pieces for relics and Khomeini's son Ahmad was knocked from his feet. Men jumped into the grave. At one point, the guards lost hold of the body. Firing in the air, the soldiers drove the crowd back, retrieved the body and brought it to the helicopter, but mourners clung on to the landing gear before they could be shaken off. The body was taken back to North Tehran to go through the ritual of preparation a second time.[193]\nThe second funeral was held under much tighter security five hours later. This time, Khomeini's casket was made of steel, and in accordance with Islamic tradition, the casket was only to carry the body to the burial site. In 1995, his son Ahmad was buried next to him. Khomeini's grave is now housed within a larger mausoleum complex.\nMain article: Iranian Supreme Leader election, 1989\nKhomeini and his successor, Ali Khamenei\nGrand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, a former student of Khomeini and a major figure of the Revolution, was chosen by Khomeini to be his successor as Supreme Leader and approved as such by the Assembly of Experts in November 1985.[194] The principle of velayat-e faqih and the Islamic constitution called for the Supreme Leader to be a marja (a grand ayatollah), and of the dozen or so grand ayatollahs living in 1981 only Montazeri qualified as a potential Leader (this was either because only he accepted totally Khomeini's concept of rule by Islamic jurists,[195][196][unreliable source?] or, as at least one other source stated, because only Montazeri had the \"political credentials\" Khomeini found suitable for his successor).[197] In 1989 Montazeri began to call for liberalization, freedom for political parties. Following the execution of thousands of political prisoners by the Islamic government, Montazeri told Khomeini 'your prisons are far worse than those of the Shah and his SAVAK.'[198] After a letter of his complaints was leaked to Europe and broadcast on the BBC, a furious Khomeini ousted him from his position as official successor.\nTo deal with the disqualification of the only suitable marja, Khomeini called for an 'Assembly for Revising the Constitution' to be convened. An amendment was made to Iran's constitution removing the requirement that the Supreme Leader be a Marja[195] and this allowed Ali Khamenei, the new favoured jurist who had suitable revolutionary credentials but lacked scholarly ones and who was not a Grand Ayatollah, to be designated as successor.[199][200] Ayatollah Khamenei was elected Supreme Leader by the Assembly of Experts on 4 June 1989. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Montazeri continued his criticism of the regime and in 1997 was put under house arrest for questioning what he regarded to be an unaccountable rule exercised by the supreme leader.[201][202]\nPolitical thought and legacy\nMain article: Political thought and legacy of Ruhollah Khomeini\nSee also: Islamic Principlism in Iran\nAccording to at least one scholar, politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran \"are largely defined by attempts to claim Khomeini's legacy\" and that \"staying faithful to his ideology has been the litmus test for all political activity\" there.[203] Throughout his many writings and speeches, Khomeini's views on governance evolved. Originally declaring rule by monarchs or others permissible so long as sharia law was followed[204] Khomeini later adamantly opposed monarchy, arguing that only rule by a leading Islamic jurist (a marja') would ensure Sharia was properly followed (wilayat al-faqih),[205] before finally insisting the ruling jurist need not be a leading one and Sharia rule could be overruled by that jurist if necessary to serve the interests of Islam and the \"divine government\" of the Islamic state.[206] Khomeini's concept of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist (\u0648\u0644\u0627\u06cc\u062a \u0641\u0642\u06cc\u0647, velayat-e faqih) as Islamic government did not win the support of the leading Iranian Shi'i clergy of the time.[207] Towards the 1979 Revolution, many clerics gradually became disillusioned with the rule of the Shah, although none came around to supporting Khomeini's vision of a theocratic Islamic Republic.[207]\nThere is much debate to as whether Khomeini's ideas are or are not compatible with democracy and whether he intended the Islamic Republic to be a democratic republic. According to the state-run Aftab News,[208] both ultraconservative (Mohammad Taghi Mesbah Yazdi) and reformist opponents of the regime (Akbar Ganji and Abdolkarim Soroush) believe he did not, while regime officials and supporters like Ali Khamenei,[209] Mohammad Khatami and Mortaza Motahhari[210] believe Khomeini intended the Islamic republic to be democratic and that it is so.[211] Khomeini himself also made statements at different times indicating both support and opposition to democracy.[212]\nKhomeini greeted by the people\nOne scholar, Shaul Bakhash, explains this disagreement as coming from Khomeini's belief that the huge turnout of Iranians in anti-Shah demonstrations during the revolution constituted a 'referendum' in favor of an Islamic republic.[213] Khomeini also wrote that since Muslims must support a government based on Islamic law, Sharia-based government will always have more popular support in Muslim countries than any government based on elected representatives.[214]\nKhomeini offered himself as a \"champion of Islamic revival\" and unity, emphasizing issues Muslims agreed upon \u2013 the fight against Zionism and imperialism \u2013 and downplaying Shia issues that would divide Shia from Sunni.[215] Khomeini strongly opposed close relations with either Eastern or Western Bloc nations, believing the Islamic world should be its own bloc, or rather converge into a single unified power.[216] He viewed Western culture as being inherently decadent and a corrupting influence upon the youth. The Islamic Republic banned or discouraged popular Western fashions, music, cinema, and literature.[217] In the Western world it is said \"his glowering visage became the virtual face of Islam in Western popular culture\" and \"inculcated fear and distrust towards Islam,\"[218] making the word 'Ayatollah' \"a synonym for a dangerous madman ... in popular parlance.\"[219] This has particularly been the case in the United States where some Iranians complained that even at universities they felt the need to hide their Iranian identity for fear of physical attack.[124] There Khomeini and the Islamic Republic are remembered for the American embassy hostage taking and accused of sponsoring hostage-taking and terrorist attacks,[220][221] and which continues to apply economic sanctions against Iran.\nBefore taking power Khomeini expressed support for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. \"We would like to act according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We would like to be free. We would like independence.\"[222] However once in power Khomeini took a firm line against dissent, warning opponents of theocracy for example: \"I repeat for the last time: abstain from holding meetings, from blathering, from publishing protests. Otherwise I will break your teeth.\"[223]\nMany of Khomeini's political and religious ideas were considered to be progressive and reformist by leftist intellectuals and activists prior to the Revolution. However, once in power his ideas often clashed with those of modernist or secular Iranian intellectuals. This conflict came to a head during the writing of the Islamic constitution when many newspapers were closed by the government. Khomeini angrily told the intellectuals:\nYes, we are reactionaries, and you are enlightened intellectuals: You intellectuals do not want us to go back 1400 years. You, who want freedom, freedom for everything, the freedom of parties, you who want all the freedoms, you intellectuals: freedom that will corrupt our youth, freedom that will pave the way for the oppressor, freedom that will drag our nation to the bottom.[224]\nMurals of Khomeini and Ali Khamenei, Shah Mosque in Isfahan\nIn contrast to his alienation from Iranian intellectuals, and \"in an utter departure from all other Islamist movements,\" Khomeini embraced international revolution and Third World solidarity, giving it \"precedence over Muslim fraternity.\" From the time Khomeini's supporters gained control of the media until his death, the Iranian media \"devoted extensive coverage to non-Muslim revolutionary movements (from the Sandinistas to the African National Congress and the Irish Republican Army) and downplayed the role of the Islamic movements considered conservative, such as the Afghan mujahidin.\"[225]\nKhomeini's legacy to the economy of the Islamic Republic has been expressions of concern for the mustazafin (a Quranic term for the oppressed or deprived), but not always results that aided them. During the 1990s the mustazafin and disabled war veterans rioted on several occasions, protesting the demolition of their shantytowns and rising food prices, etc.[226] Khomeini's disdain for the science of economics (\"economics is for donkeys\"[note 2]) is said to have been \"mirrored\" by the populist redistribution policies of former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who allegedly wears \"his contempt for economic orthodoxy as a badge of honour\", and has overseen sluggish growth and rising inflation and unemployment.[227]\nIn 1963, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini wrote a book in which he stated that there is no religious restriction on corrective surgery for transgender individuals. At the time Khomeini was an anti-Shah revolutionary and his fatwas did not carry any weight with the Imperial government, which did not have any specific policies regarding transsexual individuals.[228] However, after 1979, his fatwa \"formed the basis for a national policy\" and perhaps in part because of a penal code that \"allows for the execution of homosexuals\", as of 2005 Iran \"permits and partly finances seven times as many gender reassignment operation as the entire European Union\".[229][230]\nKhomeini was described as \"slim\", but athletic and \"heavily boned\".[231]\nHe was known for his punctuality:\nHe's so punctual that if he doesn't turn up for lunch at exactly ten past everyone will get worried, because his work is regulated in such a way that he turned up for lunch at exactly that time every day. He goes to bed exactly on time. He eats exactly on time. And he wakes up exactly on time. He changes his cloak every time he comes back from the mosque.[232]\nKhomeini was also known for his aloofness and austere demeanor. He is said to have had \"variously inspired admiration, awe, and fear from those around him.\"[233] His practice of moving \"through the halls of the madresehs never smiling at anybody or anything; his practice of ignoring his audience while he taught, contributed to his charisma.\"[234]\nKhomeini adhered to traditional beliefs of Islamic hygienical jurisprudence holding that things like urine, excrement, blood, wine etc. and also non-Muslims were some of eleven ritualistically \"impure\" things that physical contact with which while wet required ritual washing or Ghusl before prayer or salat.[235][236] He is reported to have refused to eat or drink in a restaurant unless he knew for sure the waiter was a Muslim.[237]\nKhomeini was noted by many for his mystique. Before the revolution he benefited from the widespread circulation of a Hadith attributed to the Imam Musa al-Kazim who is said to have prophesied shortly before his death in 799 that:\nA man will come out from Qom and he will summon people to the right path. There will rally to him people resembling pieces of iron, not to be shaken by violent winds, unsparing and relying on God[238]\nKhomeini was the first and only Iranian cleric to be addressed as \"Imam\", a title hitherto reserved in Iran for the twelve infallible leaders of the early Shi'a.[239] He was also associated with the Mahdi or 12th Imam of Shia belief in a number of ways. One of his titles was Na'eb-e Imam (Deputy to the Twelfth Imam). His enemies were often attacked as taghut and Mofsed-e-filarz (corrupters of the earth), religious terms used for enemies of the Twelfth Imam. Many of the officials of the overthrown Shah's government executed by Revolutionary Courts were convicted of \"fighting against the Twelfth Imam\". When a deputy in the majlis asked Khomeini directly if he was the 'promised Mahdi', Khomeini did not answer, \"astutely\" neither confirming nor denying the title.[240]\nKhomeini and a child.\nAs the revolution gained momentum, even some non-supporters exhibited awe, called him \"magnificently clear-minded, single-minded and unswerving.\"[241] His image was as \"absolute, wise, and indispensable leader of the nation\"[242]\nThe Imam, it was generally believed, had shown by his uncanny sweep to power, that he knew how to act in ways which others could not begin to understand. His timing was extraordinary, and his insight into the motivation of others, those around him as well as his enemies, could not be explained as ordinary knowledge. This emergent belief in Khomeini as a divinely guided figure was carefully fostered by the clerics who supported him and spoke up for him in front of the people.[243]\nEven many secularists who firmly disapproved of his policies were said to feel the power of his \"messianic\" appeal.[244] Comparing him to a father figure who retains the enduring loyalty even of children he disapproves of, journalist Afshin Molavi writes that defenses of Khomeini are \"heard in the most unlikely settings\":\nA whiskey-drinking professor told an American journalist that Khomeini brought pride back to Iranians. A women's rights activist told me that Khomeini was not the problem; it was his conservative allies who had directed him wrongly. A nationalist war veteran, who held Iran's ruling clerics in contempt, carried with him a picture of 'the Imam'.[245]\nAnother journalist tells the story of listening to bitter criticism of the regime by an Iranian who tells her of his wish for his son to leave the country and who \"repeatedly\" makes the point \"that life had been better\" under the Shah. When his complaint is interrupted by news that \"the Imam\" \u2014 over 85 years old at the time \u2014 might be dying, the critic becomes \"ashen faced\" and speechless, pronouncing \"this is terrible for my country.\"[246]\nAn example of Khomeini's charisma is the effect a half-hour-long, 1982 speech on the Quran by him had on a Muslim Scholar from South Africa, Sheikh Ahmad Deedat:\n... And the electric effect he had on everybody, his charisma, was amazing. You just look at the man and tears come down your cheek. You just look at him and you get tears. I never saw a more handsome old man in my life, no picture, no video, no TV could do justice to this man, the handsomest old man I ever saw in my life was this man.[247]\nAmong some non-Muslim supporters, Khomeini made a different but also favorable impression. Before Khomeini's coming to power, American academic and activist Richard A. Falk wrote that, \"the depiction of him [Khomeini] as fanatical, reactionary and the bearer of crude prejudices seems certainly and happily false\".[248] Furthermore, Khomeini's \"entourage was uniformly composed of moderate, progressive individuals,\"[249] and that \"having created a new model of popular revolution based, for the most part, on nonviolent tactics, Iran may yet provide us with a desperately-needed model of humane governance for a third-world country.\"[250]\nMain article: Khomeini Family\nKhomeini with son ( Ahmad) and grandsons ( Hassan and Yaser)\nIn 1929,[251] Khomeini married Khadijeh Saqafi,[252] the 16-year-old daughter of a cleric in Tehran. By all accounts their marriage was harmonious and happy.[252] She died in 2009.[253] They had seven children, though only five survived infancy. His daughters all married into either merchant or clerical families, and both his sons entered into religious life. Mostafa, the elder son, died in 1977 while in exile in Najaf, Iraq with his father and was rumored by supporters of his father to have been murdered by SAVAK.[254] Ahmad Khomeini, who died in 1995 at the age of 50, was also rumoured to be a victim of foul play, but at the hands of the regime.[255] Perhaps his \"most prominent daughter\",[256] Zahra Mostafavi, is a professor at the University of Tehran, and still alive.\nKhomeini's fifteen grandchildren include:\nZahra Eshraghi, granddaughter, married to Mohammad Reza Khatami, head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, the main reformist party in the country, and is considered a pro-reform character herself.\nHassan Khomeini, Khomeini's elder grandson Sayid Hasan Khomeini, son of the Seyyed Ahmad Khomeini, is a cleric and the trustee of the Mausoleum of Khomeini and also has shown support for the reform movement in Iran,[257] and Mir-Hossein Mousavi's call to cancel the 2009 election results.[256]\nHusain Khomeini (Sayid Husain Khomeini), Khomeini's other grandson, son of Sayid Mustafa Khomeini, is a mid-level cleric who is strongly against the system of the Islamic Republic. In 2003, he was quoted as saying: \"Iranians need freedom now, and if they can only achieve it with American interference I think they would welcome it. As an Iranian, I would welcome it.\"[258] In that same year Husain Khomeini visited the United States, where he met figures such as Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last Shah and the pretender to the Sun Throne. Later that year, Husain returned to Iran after receiving an urgent message from his grandmother. According to Michael Ledeen, quoting \"family sources\", he was blackmailed into returning.[259] In 2006, he called for an American invasion and overthrow of the Islamic Republic, telling Al-Arabiyah television station viewers, \"If you were a prisoner, what would you do? I want someone to break the prison [doors open].[260]\nAnother of Khomeini's grandchildren, Ali Eshraghi, was disqualified from the 2008 parliamentary elections on grounds of being insufficiently loyal to the principles of the Islamic revolution, but later reinstated.[261]\nOn the thirteenth anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's death, Hezbollah's Nasrollah presented a lecture on significance the Khomeini to international. He drew parallels between Khomeini's revolution struggles and suffering and those of the Lebanon resistance factions and the Palestinian intifada and resistance. In particular, Khomeini's tactics, and particularly his steadfastness and intelligence, had greater relevance because Khomeini's movement was not a political one severed from its roots or a Jihadi revival movement disconnected from ideology, but a movement that rested on a very solid base. The domestic struggle between Ayatollah Khomeini and the Pahlavi regime was far less important, than that the Shah was an agent and instrument of the United States.[262]\nKhomeini was a prolific writer and speaker (200 of his books are online)[263] who authored commentaries on the Qur'an, on Islamic jurisprudence, the roots of Islamic law, and Islamic traditions. He also released books about philosophy, gnosticism, poetry, literature, government and politics.[264]\nHokumat-e Islami: Velayat-e faqih (Islamic Government: Governance of the Jurist)\nThe Little Green Book : A sort of Manifesto of Khomeini's political thought\nForty Hadith[265] (Forty Traditions)\nAdab as Salat[266] (The Disciplines of Prayers)\nJihade Akbar[267] (The Greater Struggle)\nTahrir al-Wasilah\nKashf al-Asrar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 365, "original_length": 65141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theregoesmykokoro.com/2017/06/22/eromanga-vs-saekano-show-not-tell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:12Z", "digest": "sha1:BFWKDKLOCIED742WLBEFK5O2X6Z72AS3", "length": 6770, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "theregoesmykokoro.com", "title": "Eromanga vs Saekano: Show, Not Tell | There Goes My Kokoro", "raw_content": "Eromanga vs Saekano: Show, Not Tell\nI know I said last time that I\u2019d have another Persona feature to share before I go back to writing about anime, but I figured because this season is almost over, I should touch upon the things that I wanted to before they become no longer \u201ccurrently airing\u201d. Just know you haven\u2019t heard the last from me in regards to Persona 5, a.k.a. the best game ever made with best girl ever made (Makoto).\nFictional shows about the process of creation have always been somewhat of a comfort food of mine. While usually not as educational as a full-on documentary, mocumentaries and slices of life with a focus on creative work life have always piqued a very special intrigue in me. I consider myself a creator after all (though not quite an accomplished one, yet), so it does feel valuable to me to see things like the struggles of creation/production, and also feels incredibly entertaining when seen through the lens of a more focused, idealistic perspective.\nFrom some shows I can get interesting, realistic insights into the industry (like Shirobako), and in others I can find more subjective wisdom from the minds of the creators themselves. What the world looks like in the eyes of a \u201ccreative\u201d, what it means to be an artist, what defeat feels like and how to pick yourself back up: lessons like these can always be repeated because creation is a constant struggle, not a state of being, and so it\u2019s nice to have vicarious reminders every so often.\nOne more plus side that these kind of settings entail is that they allow for characters to be more \u201cmeta\u201d. I\u2019m a sucker for self/genre-referential humor, Abed from Community being one of my favorite characters ever made. An intelligent acknowledgement of what came before goes a long for way for me, as an understanding of one\u2019s own genre conventions is key in finding a way to differentiate oneself. References rely on the viewer knowing something outside of the show they\u2019re watching, and while sometimes that might leave some feeling excluded, those that do understand any given allusion get a nice little sense of vindication for knowing trivial facts that ultimately have no use in the real world. But who needs the real world anyway? 2D girls are much nicer to me.\nAhem, anyway, when it comes to characters in these \u201ccreative shows\u201d, I think I have found a clear differentiator that separates the \u201cgood\u201d creator characters from the undeserved. You see, creator is a status, something you get from actually creating something. If you are a writer, you write. If you are an illustrator, you illustrate. If you are a musician, you music the heck out of stuff. Point is, if you are a creator, you need proof that you have indeed created something. In fictional shows, having a writer character might be tough because you\u2019d have to essentially write a story within a story\u2026well, you don\u2019t really need to go that far. At the end of the day though, writers should have something to show for themselves, even if they\u2019re fictional writers, and merely telling an audience that a character is a writer just isn\u2019t good enough.\nThe saying isn\u2019t \u201ctell, don\u2019t show\u201d, and yet here we are with an anime that does just that. Eromanga Sensei is a lot of things, but a show that proves its characters to be what they say they are is not one of them. The show is a bit too idealistic, even for my wildly optimistic standards, as it presents itself with not one, not two, but three early-teenaged accomplished writers, that combined have sold millions upon millions of light novels. Now, I\u2019m not too familiar with the Japanese light novel industry, so feel free to give me your insights if you have them in the comments below, but I do know that the industry is quite large, and in this age of technology and information I\u2019m sure young authors could be able to carve out their niche and sell respectable amounts of copies. It\u2019s not even out of the realm of possibility for one to get a major publishing deal, but all three? With sales in the millions? And all in a love triangle? With an even younger sister that\u2019s a professional erotic illustrator?\nBut I\u2019m getting way off track. The important thing to take away from this is that they have sold \u201cmillions of copies\u201d. \u201cMillions\u201d. This is one of the few identifying factors that Eromanga Sensei uses to let the audience know what these characters are. The movement of pen on paper, typing on a keyboard, handing over manuscripts, and the mention of their sales figures; this is how we as an audience are supposed to know that these characters are writers\u2026and to be honest, it\u2019s kinda lazy.\nEromanga Sensei relies on everything but actual writing to imbue us with a false sense of ability for these characters. The audience doesn\u2019t witness real writing almost ever, and are instead supplemented with impressive sales numbers and the reactions of other characters to a given piece of work. You can\u2019t even garner any useful information from most of the remarks being made by fellow peers\u2014as if there would be no criticisms between professional authors, nothing wise or even a tad bit substantial to say when they read each other\u2019s drafts. Instead, we get moments of like this:\nThere\u2019s a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk, and I\u2019m glad at least one show this season understands that. Saekano Flat (that\u2019s season two) really proved that its creator characters are actually creators. While the real production staff of the show didn\u2019t build the entire visual novel that the show\u2019s fictional protagonist group set out to make, they did give us more than enough glimpses and information on what the game was going to be. Utaha\u2019s plot and themes are divulged, Eriri\u2019s illustrations are shown (especially the crucial ones), Michiru\u2026well, last season she had a performance, this season she just completely took a back seat, and Megumi actually acted out a part of the game during the school festival.\nIn Saekano, the characters feel like actual creators because their creations are demonstrated, not through montages, but through showing their meetings, practice, location scouting, and real, meaningful dialogue between the characters. These characters have something to truly show for themselves, which is more than you can say for the cast of Eromanga Sensei, whose work is never shown to us, the audience. And it\u2019s this differentiator that divides archetypal ideas of characters from original, fleshed-out persons that not only have their dreams and their accomplishments, but everything in between.\nAnimeEromanga SenseiSaekano Flat\n4 thoughts on \u201cEromanga vs Saekano: Show, Not Tell\u201d\nPingback: A Saekano Flat Review (Season 2) | There Goes My Kokoro\nPingback: Clarity: Choice Resources Of The Season (June 18 - June 24) | Seasonal Prattle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 11996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thetablet.org/cardinal-wuerl-resigns-amid-papal-praise-will-stay-as-interim-administrator/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:58Z", "digest": "sha1:5S6VLXNFMIYKW6FCZESEZYSFX5IARP5L", "length": 10846, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "thetablet.org", "title": "Cardinal Wuerl Resigns Amid Papal Praise, Will Stay as Interim Administrator - The Tablet", "raw_content": "Cardinal Wuerl Resigns Amid Papal Praise, Will Stay as Interim Administrator\nROME \u2013 After months of speculation, Pope Francis on Oct.12 accepted the resignation of Cardinal Donald Wuerl amid the Archdiocese of Washington\u2019s \u201cSeason of Healing,\u201d called by the archbishop in response to the \u201cconfusion, disappointment and disunity,\u201d over clerical sexual abuse.\nWashington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl speaks during a 2017 lecture at Georgetown University\u2019s Dahlgren Chapel. The cardinal spoke on the topic \u201cPope Francis: Fresh Perspectives on Synodality\u201d as part of the university\u2019s Dahlgren Chapel Sacred Lecture series. (Photo: Catholic News Service/Phil Humnicky, courtesy Georgetown University)\nThe announcement comes following several months of intense scrutiny of Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s handling of sex abuse cases in the 1980s and 1990s in Pittsburg, and after he publicly announced he would implore Pope Francis to let him resign. The resignation effects only Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s role as the Archbishop of Washington, and he remains a cardinal in good standing.\nIn a rare move, Pope Francis has asked Cardinal Wuerl to remain in the archdiocese as apostolic administrator until his successor is named, and also released a letter in which he praised Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s actions in seeking the good of his archdiocese over his own personal interests.\nAn apostolic administrator effectively serves as a \u201ccaretaker\u201d of the archdiocese and is not empowered to make significant changes that would affect the incoming archbishop.\nIn response to Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s request for Pope Francis to accept his resignation, the pope wrote: \u201cI am aware that this request rests on two pillars that have marked and continue to mark your ministry: To seek in all things the greater glory of God and to procure the good of the people entrusted to your care.\u201d\n\u201cYou have sufficient elements to \u2018justify\u2019 your actions and distinguish between what it means to cover up crimes or not to deal with problems, and to commit some mistakes. However, your nobility has led you not to choose this way of defense. Of this, I am proud and thank you,\u201d he continued.\nThe decision, along with the pope\u2019s letter, was released on Friday via a statement from the Holy See Press Office, followed by announcements from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Archdiocese of Washington.\nCardinal Wuerl, who is 77 years old, had already offered his resignation at the mandatory age of 75, although canon law allowed him to stay at his post with the pope\u2019s approval.\nCardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington is pictured with Pope Francis during the pope\u2019s Mass in Washington in this 2015 photo. A grand jury report in Pennsylvania is critical of the actions of then-Bishop Wuerl of the Diocese of Pittsburgh in responding to incidents of sexually abusive priests. In a statement, Cardinal Wuerl said he \u201cestablished strong policies\u201d on abuse claims during his 1988 to 2006 tenure in Pittsburgh. (Photo: Catholic News Service/Paul Haring)\nOne of the most prominent members of the U.S. hierarchy, and a staunch ally of Pope Francis, Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s departure comes at a time when the global Catholic Church is struggling to turn a page on its handling of clerical sex abuse and cover-up.\nWhile the issue of abuse has gripped the Church for the past two decades, a recent spotlight on cover-up, particularly by members of the hierarchy, has led to pressure for decisive action from the Vatican, eventually resulting in Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s decision to step aside.\nIn August, the Pennsylvania\u2019s Attorney General released findings from a Grand Jury report chronicling over 70 years of clerical sex abuse and cover-up. More than 1,000 individual cases of abuse are outlined in the report at the hands of over 300 abuser priests.\nAmong the report\u2019s most high-profile names was that of Cardinal Wuerl, who served as bishop of Pittsburgh from 1988-2006.\nDespite evidence that Cardinal Wuerl traveled to Rome at one point in protest over the reinstatement of a priest accused of abuse, the report also detailed that, among other things, he was said to have not only authorized the transfer of known abuser priests, but he also authorized settlement and retirement funds for priests accused of sexual abuse and used diocesan funds to mitigate at least one priest\u2019s sentence in a civil lawsuit.\nWhile Cardinal Wuerl has strongly defended his actions since the report\u2019s release, maintaining that he \u201cacted with diligence, with concern for the victims and to prevent future acts of abuse,\u201d the fact that he received mention nearly 200 times in the report proved inescapable.\nHis situation was compounded by the still unknown facts surrounding his predecessor, ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. In July, Pope Francis accepted McCarrick\u2019s resignation from the College of Cardinals, following revelations of decades-long sexual abuse of seminarians and, at least in one alleged occasion, a minor.\nThe McCarrick saga has led to months of scrutiny of what the Vatican knew about the former cardinal\u2019s history of sexual abuse and has led to disclosures from the dioceses of Metuchen and Newark, New Jersey that they had settled claims on behalf of McCarrick following his tenure as bishops of both sees.\nCardinal Wuerl, however, has maintained that he was unaware of any such settlements.\nEarlier this summer, just one week before Cardinal Wuerl was set to deliver the opening keynote at the Vatican-organized World Meeting of Families, which took place in Dublin in August, he withdrew due to mounting pressure following the Pennsylvania Grand Jury report.\nRelated: Cardinal Wuerl Pulls Out of Dublin Summit Amid Charges of Mishandling Abuse Claims\nDuring that same week, a publisher announced it had cancelled publication of his forthcoming apologetics book due out this fall, while a Pittsburgh area high school named after the cardinal recently announced it was stripping Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s name from the institution.\nShepherd For Decade-Plus\nCardinal Wuerl, who has shepherded Catholics in the nation\u2019s capital since 2006, began his ecclesial career in Pittsburgh, where he served as secretary to Cardinal John Wright. From 1981 to 1985, he served as rector at St. Paul Seminary, before being named an auxiliary bishop to Seattle from 1986, until his move to Pittsburgh in 1988.\nDuring his nearly twenty-year stint in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Cardinal Wuerl sought to revitalize a struggling diocese where his \u201cParish Reorganization and Revitalization Project\u201d became a model for other dioceses seeking to successively merge congregations. At the same time, his national profile began to strengthen as he took on leadership posts within the Knights of Malta and was a regular speaker at national catechetical conferences, leading to his eventual appointment to Washington in 2006.\nIn 2010, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI elevated Cardinal Wuerl to the cardinalate, where he built a reputation as one of his most loyal defenders. Such fidelity to the Petrine office continued under Pope Francis, where, since 2013, he served on the powerful Congregation for Bishops, which is responsible for episcopal appointments around the world.\nIn recent years, Cardinal Wuerl garnered a reputation for being one of the most prominent backers of Pope Francis\u2019s much discussed 2016 apostolic exhortation, \u201cAmoris Laetitia\u201d, which provides a cautious opening to communion for divorced and remarried Catholics. This past March he released an archdiocesan pastoral plan for the implementation of Amoris, widely considered to be one of the most comprehensive in the world.\nIn Washington, Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s conciliatory tone \u2013 where he frequently favored dialogue over partisan demands \u2013 led him to work with the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations on issues ranging from immigration to religious liberty.\nAt the archdiocesan level, Cardinal Wuerl was broadly seen as a capable administrator and known for the rigor in which he both adhered to and implemented protocols \u2013 a fact that many found hard to reconcile with the way in which he reportedly handled certain abuse cases during his tenure in Pittsburgh.\nCardinal Wuerl\u2019s leadership skills earned him broad respect among his brother prelates. As recently as Sept. 13, fellow Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York was voicing support.\n\u201cHe\u2019s a good friend and he\u2019s a tremendous leader among the bishops,\u201d Cardinal Dolan said of Wuerl. \u201cI kinda hope he doesn\u2019t resign. We need him.\u201d\nWashington Leaders Respond\nUpon news of his resignation, his auxiliary bishops in Washington \u2013 Mario Dorsonville, Roy Campbell, and Michael Fisher \u2013 released a joint statement praising him for his leadership, particularly his work with Catholic Charities and his founding of the Saint John Paul II Seminary, which is now at capacity.\n\u201cThe cardinal\u2019s decision shows that he has the heart of a shepherd who places the good of the Church and its needs before his own right to justify his actions,\u201d they wrote. \u201cHis request and the Holy Father\u2019s response allow the church of Washington to continue to focus on healing and the ability to move forward.\u201d\nSimilarly, his Chancellor and General Counsel, Kim Viti Fiorentini, said, \u201cHis final decision to act in favor of the people he loved and served for twelve years is the most eloquent witness to the integrity of his ministry and his legacy. I am truly thankful for his steadfast fidelity and his courageous and sacrificial commitment to the future of the Church in Washington.\u201d\nCardinal Wuerl\u2019s also issued a personal statement on Friday, wherein he thanked Pope Francis for his decision.\n\u201cI am profoundly grateful for his devoted commitment to the wellbeing of the Archdiocese of Washington and also deeply touched by his gracious words of understanding,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThe Holy Father\u2019s decision to provide new leadership to the Archdiocese can allow all of the faithful, clergy, religious and lay, to focus on healing and the future. It permits this local Church to move forward. Once again for any past errors in judgment I apologize and ask for pardon,\u201d he continued. \u201cMy resignation is one way to express my great and abiding love for you the people of the Church of Washington.\u201d\nAs of Cardinal Wuerl\u2019s resignation, there are now five active residential cardinals in the United States.\nTags: Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Pope Francis, sexual abuse\nOne thought on \u201cCardinal Wuerl Resigns Amid Papal Praise, Will Stay as Interim Administrator\u201d\nThey cannot take down such a Prelate of the Church. May we always respect what the man, Cardinal Wuerl, did to the best of his abilities in view of these matters, oftentimes perhaps out of his direct control. We should not forget his contribution to the Church of the People of God! And obviously, neither has our Holy Father forgotten for the Cardinal was and is a bridge builder at the nation\u2019s Capital.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 13156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 238.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thewalrus.ca/charlottesville-one-year-later/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVA25NEUVGWPZ5ICO665THCKYVSBJIZF", "length": 26860, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "thewalrus.ca", "title": "Charlottesville: One Year Later | The Walrus", "raw_content": "Page title: Charlottesville: One Year Later\nThe Unite the Right rally proved the American Civil War has never been resolved\nBY Melissa J. Gismondi\nUpdated 11:27, Aug. 13, 2018 | Published 9:51, Aug. 11, 2018\nMelissa J. Gismondi\nMelissa J. Gismondi is a historian and journalist, currently based in Toronto.\nSanjay Suchak\nThomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and the third president of the United States, famously likened the prospect of abolishing slavery to the act of restraining a menacing animal. \u201cWe have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go,\u201d he wrote. \u201cJustice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.\u201d\nWritten in 1820, Jefferson\u2019s statement implied that the republic he\u2019d helped forge was in trouble. And that he\u2014as a slave owner\u2014was part of the problem. He knew slavery was immoral, that it violated natural law and corrupted the souls of those who participated in it, which was why \u201cjustice\u201d demanded slavery\u2019s abolition. But he also believed black Americans belonged to an internal enemy nation within the United States; a nation that harboured understandable grievances against white Americans like him who had kept them enslaved. Jefferson knew slavery would have to end one day. But dismantling it, he believed, could prove violent.\nAt the time, he was remarking on a contentious debate over Missouri\u2019s admission into the union as a slave state. Legislators from free states such as New York and Massachusetts feared the admission would disrupt the delicate balance of power in Congress between states where slavery was legal and those where it was banned. In what became known as the \u201cMissouri Compromise,\u201d Missouri entered the union as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state. But the crisis, which Jefferson referred to as \u201ca fire bell in the night,\u201d proved just one of many critical moments in the lead-up to the Civil War: it helped reveal the extent to which the country was polarized over the issue of slavery.\nJefferson didn\u2019t live to see the American Civil War break out in 1861 between Union and Confederate forces. And he was wrong about a lot of things\u2014including the beliefs that Africans were inherently inferior to Europeans or emancipated slaves couldn\u2019t be loyal citizens. But Jefferson correctly sensed that a republic that espouses liberty on the one hand but was built on the exploitation of enslaved Africans and African Americans on the other\u2014what historian Edmund Morgan called \u201cthe American paradox\u201d\u2014would forever be at war with itself. And, nearly two centuries later and more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War in 1865, this continues to be true. Last August, the deadly events of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia\u2014Jefferson\u2019s hometown\u2014served as one more reminder that in many ways the American Civil War is still being fought.\nThe rally began as a protest against the planned removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Organizers claimed that removing the statue would erase the contributions of a key figure in American history. But the nature of the rally became clearer when it drew protesters from the alt-right, a white supremacist movement. Counterprotesters gathered in opposition. The resulting clash and the ongoing debate about this and other controversial statues confirm a disturbing truth: despite the emancipation of enslaved peoples and the surrender of the Confederate army in the Civil War, despite the progress of the civil rights movement, and even despite the election of the country\u2019s first black president, the nation has still not found peace. As historian Barbara Fields posited in Ken Burns\u2019s legendary documentary about the Civil War, the conflict\u2014which is about the very essence of the United States and everything the nation purports to be\u2014shouldn\u2019t be referred to in the past tense. \u201cIt\u2019s still to be fought,\u201d she said, \u201cand, regrettably, it can still be lost.\u201d\nI was in Charlottesville at the time of the Unite the Right rally, studying and teaching American history at the University of Virginia (UVA). I\u2019d just returned home after spending part of the summer in Canada. Like many residents, I didn\u2019t anticipate the scope of the event, which followed in the wake of the May 13 and July 8 rallies and would eventually be seen as a defining moment in the modern white supremacist movement.\nIn the lead-up to the August rally, some groups began preparing a counterprotest. When the city attempted to move the rally to a park outside the downtown core, citing safety concerns, rally organizer and UVA graduate Jason Kessler argued that the relocation would violate his freedom of speech. The Virginia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union supported his charge. On Friday, August 11, the day before the scheduled rally, a judge ruled in Kessler\u2019s favour.\nThat evening, I was at home following the news on television and Twitter. White supremacists marched on UVA\u2019s campus, roughly 250 of them, according to the Washington Post, flaming tiki torches in hand, at one point chanting, \u201cWhite Lives Matter.\u201d Led by white nationalist Richard Spencer\u2014also a UVA grad\u2014they congregated at a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the university\u2019s founder, near the steps of the Rotunda, part of a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site designed by Jefferson and built by slaves. There, they encountered members of the UVA community, predominantly students, standing with a banner reading, \u201cVA Students Against White Supremacy.\u201d\nPhotos of the night are striking\u2014in many of them, students are surrounded by a sea of protesters, torches in hand. I later learned that some confrontations had turned violent. Sources also told the Chronicle of Higher Education that one counterprotester may have suffered a stroke on account of his injuries. Police eventually showed up to disperse the crowd. A Vice documentary about the rallies shows a counterprotester telling police they were too late to prevent the violence. \u201cJust be ready for tomorrow, at least,\u201d he urges.\nThe next morning was hot and humid, as are most summer days in central Virginia. It was the kind of day where you lament the fact you\u2019re inland, far from a body of water that might capture a semblance of a breeze. Local businesses were urged to shut down for the day. That afternoon, a helicopter began circling over the city to monitor events from above. It would crash later that day, killing the two pilots. (The reason for the crash has yet to be released.)\nUnite the Right supporters had come in from all over the country; some even drove down from Canada. White supremacists, neo-Nazis, and Ku Klux Klan members descended on what was then called Emancipation Park in the downtown core. Protesters congregated close to the Lee statue at first, but throngs of people eventually spilled into the streets.\nArmed paramilitary groups patrolled the area. According to Alan Zimmerman, president of the Congregation Beth Israel, located a block away from the Lee statue, three men dressed in fatigues with semi-automatic rifles stood across the street from the synagogue as congregants prayed inside. At the service\u2019s end, Zimmerman advised attendees to exit in groups out the back. Neo-Nazis with flags bearing swastikas paraded past, chanting anti-Semitic slurs.\nAround 11:30 a.m., city police proclaimed the assembly unlawful due to violence. Soon, the governor called a state of emergency. But it was chaos for several hours. Daily Progress journalist Ryan Kelly snapped a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning photograph of a protester driving his car into counterprotesters on 4th Street, killing Heather Heyer, injuring thirty-five others, and traumatizing countless witnesses. Another haunting photo, taken by a witness, shows six white men assaulting DeAndre Harris, a young black man, with poles in a downtown parking garage. What one journalist titled \u201cAn Image of Revolutionary Fire\u201d depicts a twenty-three-year-old black man named Corey Long shooting a homemade flame device as a Confederate flag is thrust toward him. According to the Daily Progress and Baltimore Sun newspapers, witnesses said Richard Preston, a self-identified KKK imperial wizard, fired a gun at Long, narrowly missing him. Both were eventually found guilty for their actions\u2014Preston for firing a gun within 1,000 feet of a school and Long for disorderly conduct.\nImages of the violent clashes on the eve of and during the Unite the Right rally have become a part of a historical record that includes iconic images of lynched black men hanging from trees and civil rights activists being attacked by sheriffs\u2019 dogs. They\u2019re the latest instalment in a long trajectory of visuals that reveal the continuity of white supremacy in America. A key difference now, however, is the volume of these images, which can be captured quickly using cellphone cameras and distributed even faster on social media.\nAfter the rally, many Americans turned to US President Donald Trump to see how he would respond to the tragedy. He wavered, famously condemning the hatred and violence \u201con many sides. On many sides.\u201d The next day, Jason Kessler tried to host a press conference outside Charlottesville City Hall, denouncing what he called an infringement on his right to freedom of speech and assembly. He was driven out by protesters and physically assaulted.\nAfter a couple days, the chaos subsided. Eventually, the makeshift memorial to Heather Heyer was taken down; the piles of flowers had started to decompose in the hot sun. On August 22, the city council voted unanimously for black tarps to be placed over the statue of Robert E. Lee as well as a nearby one of Confederate general Thomas \u201cStonewall\u201d Jackson, in an attempt to reflect the wishes of residents and honour Heyer\u2019s death.\nIn many ways, the tarps were symbolic of how the city felt after the rally. The protests were over; the statues were no longer visible. But everyone knew both were still there\u2014and that the issue at the heart of the rally was nowhere near a resolution.\nOfficially, the Civil War ended in 1865 when white Union and Confederate forces ceased fighting each other. But while the war resulted in the emancipation of some 4 million enslaved African Americans, something akin to racial slavery continued. The labour system of sharecropping\u2014which in some states saw former slave owners employing black Americans to pick cotton\u2014relied on a punitive system of debts, making it near-impossible for workers to make a profit or pack up and move elsewhere. Racial slavery continued to echo in prisons, where a disproportionate number of inmates have always been people of colour. This summer, archaeologists in Texas, for instance, uncovered the graves of ninety-five black prisoners forced into plantation labour as part of the convict lease system.\nAnd although the battles were over, the violence never stopped. In a political backroom deal known as the Compromise of 1877, Democrats, who represented mainly white southerners and some white northerners, handed the presidency to the Republicans, who represented mainly northerners and black Americans, in exchange for the removal of the remaining federal troops from former Confederate states. This compromise allowed the federal government to turn a blind eye to the violence and the dismantling of black civil rights unfolding in the South. The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) has identified over 4,400 African Americans lynched from 1877 to 1950, including one man in Charlottesville. These were grisly public spectacles; white families would sometimes pack picnics to go and watch them happen. Federal authorities rarely intervened, betraying whatever hopes were left that the US government would use its power to enforce an emancipationist vision of the war, one that protected racial equality.\nThis chapter of American history\u2014after the Civil War but before the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, when the Ku Klux Klan was formed, Jim Crow legislation stripped black Americans of their civil rights, and Confederate statues were erected en masse\u2014remains neglected in the American historical imagination. For decades, scholarship on it was minimal and historical monuments were limited. Attempts have been made to address this gap: earlier this year, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a monument to lynched and racially terrorized black Americans, opened to the public. The project was spearheaded by EJI founder and executive director Bryan Stevenson, a public interest lawyer featured in the 2016 documentary 13th, which examines the link between racial slavery and the current American prison system.\nIt\u2019s worth noting that claiming the Civil War is still being fought risks minimizing important changes in American law and society that deserve recognition and celebration. (It also, historian Caroline Janney points out, \u201clessens what we mean by \u2018war.\u2019\u201d) Emancipation meant the end of legal chattel slavery. On an individual level, it also meant families who had been separated for decades by the domestic slave trade, which funnelled enslaved black Americans from eastern states such as Virginia to the depths of the Deep South, could reunite. Slowly, some families managed to find each other and rebuild their lives in ways few could have imagined even five years prior.\nIt soon became clear, however, they wouldn\u2019t be welcomed as equal citizens. Ida B. Wells, born enslaved in 1862, went on to launch a career as an investigative journalist, co-own a newspaper, and become a leading figure in the campaign to end lynching. \u201cThe more I studied the situation,\u201d she wrote in 1892 about lynching, \u201cthe more I was convinced that the Southerner had never gotten over his resentment that the Negro was no longer his plaything, his servant, and his source of income.\u201d\nIn Wells\u2019s day, Civil War veterans\u2014on both sides\u2014participated in parades and memorial ceremonies, and it was clear many had not given up on the Confederate cause. Today, there are those who still risk shedding blood over it. They speak to not just a single event but the ongoing clash between the two movements\u2014one to assert white supremacy, the other to deny it.\nA common refrain I\u2019ve heard in many parts of the US\u2014and one you might read in some history textbooks\u2014is that the Civil War wasn\u2019t about slavery; it was about the right of southern states to challenge the supposed overreach of President Abraham Lincoln\u2019s federal government and secede from the union. Although Lincoln had promised not to interfere with slavery where it already existed, he campaigned on a platform to limit its expansion. Many southerners believed that such limitations spelled doom for their slave societies. The Civil War, then, was about the rights of states to secede, but it was specifically about their rights to allow slavery.\nAs Janney points out, the interpretation of the Civil War that focuses on states\u2019 rights and secession is central to the \u201cLost Cause\u201d mythology, a prevalent ideology in many parts of the US. She identifies six tenets of the Lost Cause mythology, including the insistence that secession was constitutional and the notion that slavery in the pre\u2013Civil War South was a romanticized \u201cbenevolent institution.\u201d Promoted by groups such as the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Lost Cause mythology also deifies Confederate generals, including Lee and Jackson. You can find examples of the Lost Cause mythology in landmark films in American cinema, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) to Gone with the Wind (1939).\nA quick glance at the words of Confederate leaders shows that this idealized, selective understanding of slavery and its place in the Civil War is simply not true.\nIn an 1861 speech, Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens laid out the foundation of the Confederacy and its values by contrasting them against the rest of the union. Stephens recognized that some leaders, including Jefferson, understood that slavery would have to end, deeming it \u201cwrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.\u201d But Stephens alleged such ideas \u201cwere fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of equality of races. This was an error.\u201d\n\u201cOur new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea,\u201d he continued, \u201cits foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon their great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.\u201d In other words, the very foundation of the Confederacy\u2014the reason for its existence\u2014was to promote slavery and white supremacy, as scholarship by notable historians including David Blight, Thavolia Glymph, and Stephanie McCurry highlights.\nToday, there are still those who embrace Confederate values not in spite of the commitment to white supremacy but because of it. Jason Kessler, for instance, has publicly and proudly stated that Lincoln was a traitor and the country would be better off if the South had won the Civil War\u2014and he has been applauded for stating so. In 2015, neo-Confederate white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine black worshippers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. These actions point to a continuity that runs deep in American history, where some still believe the US should be a place where white supremacy reigns free.\nIn his book Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, David Blight, a professor at Yale University, portrays a post-war reunification between the North and the South that was rooted in white supremacy. Although chattel slavery was illegal and black men temporarily had the right to vote, the federal government was unable to legislate away the white supremacy that had underpinned slavery. Shocked by the scale of the war\u2019s carnage, which left some 750,000 dead, many white Americans preferred to put the war\u2014and the possibility of racial equality\u2014behind them.\nIn order to bring the South back into the fold, America gradually moved away from what Blight calls the emancipationist vision of the war, which promoted racial equality. Blight\u2019s book ends in 1915, but he sees many of the Civil War\u2019s core issues as continuing into the present. In pieces published in The Atlantic (2015) and the Guardian (2017), he writes that the US has not reached a true reconciliation of the legacies of slavery. And in some ways, states that fought for the Confederate side never abandoned some of the values they defended in the war.\nJoseph Thompson, a historian friend who was born and raised in Alabama, told me that the 2016 presidential election made it clear to him that the politics of white rage he\u2019d seen in Alabama for years were now playing out at the national level. \u201cAmerica just woke up in Alabama,\u201d he texted a friend the morning after the election.\nIn the week following the Unite the Right rally, city officials in Baltimore removed a statue of Roger B. Taney, a Supreme Court justice whose famous ruling in the 1857 Dred Scott case held that black Americans were not citizens of the US and thus could not petition for their freedom. Mitch Landrieu, then mayor of New Orleans and a rumoured Democratic presidential contender in 2020, promoted the removal of Confederate statues in his city. A plaque honouring Confederate president Jefferson Davis on a Hudson\u2019s Bay storefront in downtown Montreal was removed in the days after the Unite the Right rally.\nBut the debate over Charlottesville\u2019s statues remains stalled. For some time, the tarps covering the monuments symbolized the reactionary moment we lived in after August 12, 2017. Historians who had previously defended keeping the statues as \u201cpedagogical tools\u201d that taught us about the white communities that erected them, not the figures they commemorated, began to acknowledge that preserving the monuments was now out of the question. Two plaques honouring Confederate soldiers on UVA\u2018s campus, which also houses a Confederate cemetery, were successfully taken down\u2014at 7 a.m. on a Sunday.\nSome defenders of the Lee and Jackson statues maintained their protest and continue to do so today. For months after the rally, protesters returned to the statues to tear down the tarps. Over the past year, police have amped up efforts to keep the monuments hidden by adding extra patrols and installing plastic orange fencing and \u201cNo Trespassing\u201d signs, making it possible to charge anyone who crosses the fence with trespassing. Since then, two men have been jailed on such charges.\nA court challenge to the city followed, and in February 2018, a judge ruled that the tarps would have to come down because they violated the public\u2019s right to view the statues. Some fear the potential for more civil unrest and violence if the city removes the statues. (The decision is currently stalled in court.)\nIn the meantime, the city has been embroiled in controversy surrounding the names of the parks in which the statues stand. In June 2017, the city had renamed Lee Park, where the Robert E. Lee statue stands, to Emancipation Park, and Jackson Park, which is home to the Stonewall Jackson statue, to Justice Park. But a recent petition submitted to city council called the renaming \u201cinsulting\u201d due to the stark juxtaposition with the Confederate statues. (The city had ignored the results of a community survey in choosing the names.) \u201cHow can oppressed people heal, when they are constantly being reminded of the past, in an insensitive manner by the re-naming of a park \u2018Emancipation Park!\u2019\u201d the petition read.\nCouncillors voted four to one in favour of renaming Emancipation Park to Market Street Park and Justice Park to Court Square Park. Wes Bellamy, the lone dissenter, was one of the two councillors who called for the initial vote to secure the removal of the Confederate statues. \u201cWhen we choose neutral or easy names, it allows us not to deal with some of the issues we\u2019ve had,\u201d Bellamy told local newspaper the Daily Progress in July. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make us have to think critically about what\u2019s going on,\u201d he added. \u201cBut if that\u2019s the will of the people, so be it.\u201d\nThe results of the 2016 presidential election were a stark reminder that progress can move in reverse, and American history is replete with examples. The disenfranchisement of women in New Jersey in 1807, for instance. The backtracking on treaty promises made to countless Indigenous nations. Or the violent expulsion of black men from the political sphere during the rise of Jim Crow. And while it\u2019s tempting to subscribe to a \u201cWhiggish\u201d notion of history, believing that civil rights progress with time, recent issues such as the debate over voter ID laws in North Carolina, where a federal court ruled that the proposed requirement targeted black voters \u201cwith almost surgical precision,\u201d highlight the trouble with that belief.\nThere\u2019s what you think might happen, then there\u2019s what happens. History teaches us that we can never know for sure, which is why wise historians never make predictions. They know that sometimes things change quickly and sometimes change can\u2019t come quick enough\u2014a tension many historians have observed more keenly since November 2016.\nLast year I wrote an essay in The Walrus about the role historians had to play in responding to the events in Charlottesville, noting that it\u2019s one thing to understand something like the persistence of the Confederate legacy intellectually, but quite another to see it play out at the local and national levels. I knew then and I know now that the surprise I felt at the scale of violence in the city hinges on the fact that I grew up surrounded by white people. I can be shocked by the power of white supremacy in ways many others are not because they live in its shadow every day. In that vein, I found comedian Dave Chappelle\u2019s post-election Saturday Night Live skit hilarious because in my case, and probably for many others, it was true. The skit contrasts white liberal shock at Trump\u2019s victory with Chappelle and Chris Rock\u2019s prediction that Trump might win. \u201cOh my God, I think America is racist,\u201d one white woman, glass of white wine in hand, says. \u201cYou know, I remember my great-grandfather told me something like that,\u201d Chappelle says. \u201cBut he was, like, a slave.\u201d\nThis type of reaction is echoed in the work of Ta-Nehisi Coates, who until recently was a national correspondent for The Atlantic and who regularly situates his understanding of contemporary America in the Civil War and slavery. He, too, wasn\u2019t surprised by the Unite the Right rally, nor by Trump\u2019s comments about it. Speaking on the podcast Radio Atlantic on August 17 last year, one week after the rally, Coates connected the events to the Civil War, the Confederacy, the valorization of Robert E. Lee, and the backlash to America\u2019s first black president. \u201cNo,\u201d he told podcast hosts Jeffrey Goldberg, Matt Thompson, and Alex Wagner, \u201cI don\u2019t think any of this is surprising at all.\u201d\nIt shouldn\u2019t be surprising either that Kessler plans to host an anniversary \u201cwhite civil rights rally,\u201d this time in Washington, DC, right across from the White House. Kessler turned to DC after Charlottesville denied his request for a permit to hold a rally there. Many Charlottesville residents remain on edge.\n\u201cReality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events,\u201d wrote Southern literary figure Robert Penn Warren in his Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning novel about southern populism, All the King\u2019s Men (1946). Warren\u2019s quote is a gift to historians\u2014it captures how much history and historical context matter in our understanding of the present. The question is how far back in time that context stretches. There is no doubt that the Unite the Right rally was an important moment in 2017. It was an important moment in the Trump presidency. And it was an important moment in the backlash to the presidency of Barack Obama and movements such as Black Lives Matter. But it is also a critical moment in the now centuries-long struggle over the soul of America. To say the rally was about statues, Trump, or even Obama is akin to the notion that the Civil War was about states\u2019 rights. Both elide a deeper, darker truth that is critical to understanding this \u201cpost-truth\u201d world we all live in\u2014and the history that created it.\nBlack Cemeteries Force Us to Re-examine Our History With Slavery\nHow we treat the dead tells a disturbing story about Canada\u2019s racism\nBY Charmaine A. Nelson\nPunching Nazis Won't End Fascism\nAntifa argues that violence is necessary, but a rigorous democracy is a far stronger weapon\nWhen It Comes to White Supremacy, Historians Can't Stand on the Sidelines\nScholars must tell the truth about our past\u2014and that doesn\u2019t stop with Confederation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 30456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 204.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theworldaccordingtoneema.wordpress.com/2015/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TOIOT7QCKJYNRCP65ZOGPDEPOQDBKAGM", "length": 24678, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "theworldaccordingtoneema.wordpress.com", "title": "May 2015 \u2013 The World According To Neema", "raw_content": "Taking on a new attitude can be intimidating.\nForgive me for the language lesson but I found it helpful and interesting as I pondered my reason for the title.\nThe definition of intimidating according to http://www.dictionary.com is \u201cto make timid; fill with fear\u201d.\nThe Bible is full of Scripture that defines the attitudes Christians should have. This exert is from Philippians Chapter 5 (NKJV):\u201d The Humbled and Exalted Christ. 5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. 9 Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.\u201d\nThe definition of attitude according to http://www.dictionary.com is \u201cmanner, disposition, feeling, position, etc., with regard to a person or thing; tendency or orientation, especially of the mind\u201c.\nLuke 3:14 states \u201c\u2018Likewise the soldiers asked him, saying, \u201cAnd what shall we do?\u201d So he said to them, \u201cDo not intimidate anyone or accuse falsely, and be content with your wages.\u201d\u2019\nI know I tend to judge people by what I see. It is easy to spot a phony (of any kind) when your guard is up. But let your guard down and boy, you are in for a world of hurt. People send emails knowing the person they are talking about won\u2019t see it. Text messages complaining about a family member or another person they have in common go screaming through today\u2019s media sources. We watch the news and see examples of this every day. It doesn\u2019t matter if it is the famous or the unknowns, attitudes abound everywhere with everyone. So what is the solution? Do we even need one?\nScripture says we do need a solution and it provides the answer in many verses. I Corinthians 13:4-8 reads: \u201c4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails.\u201d Part of Jesus\u2019 mission was to show love to everyone, especially those who didn\u2019t deserve it. So why would we think it is OK to not show everyone love? And what does that even look like?\nWe can agree we need a solution. But what is it? What do we do to fix the problem of bad attitudes? How do you love someone who just doesn\u2019t deserve your love back? Here is where it gets rather sticky or intimidating. It isn\u2019t that we cannot love each other or don\u2019t want to. The problem is in our hearts not our heads. Remember, the word intimidating means fear and it injects itself into the situation. The heart feels the fear, the mind just processes it. So now the solution is blocked by fear. But where does this fear come from?\nGalations 5:22-23 explains the fruit of the spirit. The first fruit he speaks of is love. \u201c22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control.\u201d The word fear does not appear in this chapter so why do we fear showing love?\nPart of the reason, for some people, is they have not read and studied Scripture enough to know what God\u2019s definition of love is. They don\u2019t have any meaningful personal relationships or a relationship with Jesus Christ and therefore don\u2019t know how love is intended to work. You have to learn how to love some people, especially if they don\u2019t know how to love you back. And if they have never experienced love, then they really don\u2019t know how to act or what it looks like. Everyone is afraid to open their hearts to love because of fear. Unfortunately one cannot exist without the other. No one wants to show how vulnerable they are so they avoid loving anyone. There are tons of examples and how-to\u2019s written in Scripture and I doubt I could do them justice here, so I won\u2019t try.\nSo, it is fear I have to overcome. Fear of loving someone sounds so strange and foreign to me. As I watch the news everyday, I see where people were brave enough to love someone and they turned out to be con artists or murderers. Well, that didn\u2019t help the fear factor at all. Now I\u2019m back to feeling intimidated. Just kidding. So now what?\nLets look at the definition of faith according to http://www.dictionary.com, \u201cstrong or unshakeable belief in something, esp without proof or evidence\u201d. It surprised me that it says \u201cstrong or unshakable\u201d. By definition the word faith affirms that we cannot be plucked from our Father\u2019s hand. This is reinforced with John 10:27-30, as it also affirms several other truths, it declares that our faith is set in stone. \u201c27 My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. 28 And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father\u2019s hand. 30 I and My Father are one.\u201d I was missing something simple, fundamental, basic yet vitally important. I was overlooking faith. That unseen force but ever so present feeling that draws us to the Father and keeps us in His hands. I had been looking for something harder to harness, impossible to find and something this world does not naturally have or do. In developing an attitude of love, I have to show love to the unlovable and have faith that God, the master orchestrator, will work out all of the details. I know He will.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 31, 2015 June 29, 2015 Categories Jesus Christ, LifeTags Faith\nThis is one of the best ways I have found to explain invisible illness to those who don\u2019t understand. I have also learned to pray without ceasing which is a good thing anyway.\nI just read this article by by Christine Miserandino called The Spoon Theory.\nhttp://www.butyoudontlooksick.com \u2013 See more at: http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/#sthash.Z6ekoAKf.dpuf\nShe describes how and when she came up with this way of communicating to others, what having an invisible illness is like.\nChristina has Lupus, which causes a lot of fatigue and pain. It is not something that people can see, but it is very real. She used this spoon theory to allow someone to experience a day of having to make choices, based on a limited amount of energy and ability to do things.\nI really love the way she explained this and this article is worth reading, if you struggle with people not understanding your inability to keep up with everyone else, due to an invisible illness.\nInvisible illness can be a chronic pain disorder or disease, or it can be a mental / emotional illness , or a neurological\u2026\nStill living the Journey!\nThis life is so fragile. One misstep and so many people can be impacted. A car accident, a fall from a ladder or a fight of words with someone can change our world in a matter of seconds. We sometimes seem to have blinders on as we trudge through our stressful and time limited days. It is easy to overlook the miraculous creations that surround us. The ones that are insignificant until we make them significant on purpose.\nOne of my favorite things to do, to bring me back to a level place in my head, is to look at nature. To silence the voices in my head, to quiet my anxious heart, to ignore the pain, just for a moment, to ponder the bloom on a rose. Simply breathe and look at the pedals, their ends, their stems, their thorns. I sometimes wonder how nature knows what to do and when to do it. Without a brain for thought, they simply exist. Something that would be utterly magnificent to be able to do. Just be! Think about it for a moment. What does that look like for you?\nFather, Help me see Your miraculous creations in this world knowing that I am one too. In Jesus name, Amen.\nImage courtesy of Hubble Space Telescope, titled \u201cButterfly Nebula NGC 6302\u201d.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 29, 2015 May 29, 2015 Categories Jesus Christ, LifeTags Inspiration\nWhen I was a freshman in high school, I had a crush on a neighborhood boy who was a senior and the sweetest man I have ever known next to my own dad. I wasn\u2019t old enough to date but he would walk to my house several evenings a week to hang out. We\u2019d play one on one basketball if no one else came around to join in. When it got dark, we\u2019d sit in the swing and smooch until my dad would turn on the back floodlight which was my clue to come inside.\nI was lousy at learning about people back then. Since he was on the football team, I thought I was way below his standards. As though football players were super special or untouchable or something. It took my relationship with him to teach me that wasn\u2019t at all true. He had a wonderful and unique voice and did I tell you he was very sweet. After he graduated he started working and didn\u2019t have the time he use to have. Needless to say, I missed him a lot.\nWe were great friends. I would see him in passing after that. At the gas station or at the grocery store but he never came to visit again. I guess we weren\u2019t that great of friends. Or at least as great as I thought. Truth be known, I\u2019m sure he found a girlfriend that was old enough for the relationship he wanted.\nFast forward 30 some years and I learn that he was still in our hometown area. Apparently he had a family, at least at one time. Well, he committed suicide a few months ago. I know nothing about his life after high school. I no longer ran into him anywhere. He was out of my life but would always be remembered as my first crush.\nSo what is the point of this post you may ask. Well, that is a good question. Ever since I learned of his death, I started having him show up in a few of my dreams. Dreams that don\u2019t make sense. I know not all dreams do, but I can usually connect mine to something specific. Last night I dreamed he was staying in our spare room, even though we don\u2019t have one. I woke up looking for an ashtray of all things. We don\u2019t smoke so it was an odd thing to be focused on. I cried when I found out he died. At first I wasn\u2019t sure if it was because I questioned his salvation or some lingering feelings that I thought were long gone. I figure it could be both. Maybe it hit me because he was such a sweet soul. Death is a sad thing regardless but I may never really understand any of this. Someone has said \u201cyou never forget the neighborhood kids you grew up with\u201d. That\u2019s true and sadly, I don\u2019t know where any of them are. I came back home a few years ago to take care of my elderly parents. It has been a blessing but so much has changed. People are gone. Sometimes it feels foreign to me and other times it feels good. I\u2019ll stick with the good!\nIt has made me realize how important it is to tell the people in your life how you feel about them and how important they are to you. I would hate to lose anyone, no matter by what means, thinking they didn\u2019t know how much they were loved and appreciated. It makes me wonder if one person could have said that to him and it make such an impact that he would not have decided to end his life? Was it that simple? In a way I hope it was and in another I hope it wasn\u2019t. The choice to end your life is such a drastic solution. I have known several people who have done this and I still shake my head. I can\u2019t imagine what caused them to feel so bad and down that they would do that. I hope I never have to.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 28, 2015 May 28, 2015 Categories Jesus Christ, LifeTags Love5 Comments on Tell them you love them\nI started writing about my life with my ex bi-polar, schizophrenic, narcissistic sociopath husband after I finally worked up the courage to leave him. I have wanted to turn it into a story befitting a book where only the names were changed to protect the innocent. I think I left it alone for a while because it was still so painful to deal with. Well, this week I started to edit and go over it. The pain was minimal so I think I\u2019m ready to finish it. Wahoo!\nI am trying very hard not to make it all his fault. I don\u2019t want it to sound like a wife-bashing story. I recognize my fault in all of this but I also know that I have healed because I have sought to. He chooses to remain in the hell he has created for himself and continues to blame everyone for it. I know they call that denial but it is hard to look at face to face. The man in the mirror is rarely kind in that respect.\nI think I will dedicate the book to him. I won\u2019t name him specifically, that would give him too much credit and make him famous which fuels his ego. I will also name my children since they are the ones that started my \u201cawakening\u201d. If it wasn\u2019t for their insight and questioning everything that was happening, I may have never been able to confront my abuser. I only hope my ability to overcome this will somehow encourage my children to look out for behaviors that could be hiding in their own mirrors. My children are good Christians and have good family to support them which doesn\u2019t make them immune, but hopefully aware. The lack of family support may have been part of my ex\u2019s issues all along. But I may not learn the reasons this side of Heaven. I know God knows and that is good enough for me.\nSo wish me luck as I get a manuscript ready and we\u2019ll see how it goes.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 23, 2015 May 23, 2015 Categories LifeTags Fibromyalgia\nSo, why am I crying?\nJust when you think you\u2019ve healed all you can, this happens. Don\u2019t get me wrong, hearing that the young husband of an in-law\u2019s niece got saved tonight is absolutely miraculous, amazing and wonderful. Knowing that I prayed for years for my ex to one day \u201cget it\u201d and all he would do was to fake it\u2026I don\u2019t like crying for that mess. Yes, I know, I learned from it all and it wasn\u2019t really about me anyway. But I had hoped and dreamed and prayed that at this age, 54, we would be slowing down and planning to retire soon and enjoy the rest of our lives together. It didn\u2019t happen that way. He decided he had faked it long enough and wanted to live his life his way. Not that he hadn\u2019t been doing that for 30 years anyway. It\u2019s not like I was a nag or a cheat. I cherished the ground he walked on, for some reason. He never appreciated anyone. I don\u2019t know why I thought I or his own children would be any different.\nMental illness is so misunderstood and under researched. Not that he would have accepted any help of any kind. We tried counseling several times and he would either quit going saying it wasn\u2019t making me better (lol) or the counselor would tell him that until he is willing to accept his bad behavior being under his control, we were wasting our time. Thankfully I kept going and she was able to help me get over the years of trauma that he had caused and she taught me how to effectively stand up to his bullying.\nWell, that was the reason for my mini-crying blast this evening. Just wanted to vent and share. Do some research on narcissism to make sure you are not with someone like this. It is very subtle and barely noticeable at first.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 10, 2015 May 23, 2015 Categories LifeTags Narcissism3 Comments on So, why am I crying?\nI can remember my mom asking me that question. It was usually when things got quiet in the house. I would always reply to her with one simple word, \u201cnothing\u201d. That\u2019s when she knew she\u2019d better find out what my \u201cnothing\u201d was. It was usually something mom wouldn\u2019t like. When I recently spent a month with my daughter and her family, I asked my youngest granddaughter that same question. She also said \u201cnothing\u201d. Even if she had been sleeping or sitting staring out a window, which she doesn\u2019t do because she would fall asleep, she could reply of those things. I told her she was at least \u201cbreathing\u201d, and that it isn\u2019t possible to be doing nothing. Sometime later after my return home, my daughter called me to say she had asked her that question. My granddaughters reply to her mom was, \u201cbreathing\u201d. Ha, that\u2019s my girl\u2026lol.\nBut think about it. When I sit and do nothing, I feel guilty. Could I be so conditioned by our society to be busy and to be doing something, that I cannot do nothing without feeling like there is something I need to be doing?! I could be reading today or even take a short nap but when I sit down and look around, it feels like I should be working doing something. Breakfast was cleaned up after, there\u2019s supper to get ready for but it\u2019s too early to prep, I cleaned house already but I still feel guilty about doing nothing.\nI\u2019m pretty sure this comes from at least two avenues. First being that with Fibromyalgia and two different Arthritis\u2019 the last thing I want anyone to think of me is that I\u2019m lazy. The other side of that is the belief that I don\u2019t need help and I can do it myself. Second I\u2019ll give to God because I know the devil has a hand in trying to keep me so busy that I forget about Him. I work myself into a flare and then I have to sit down and with that comes a lot of pain, discomfort and even more guilt. It is an endless cycle with only one way out\u2026Lot\u2019s and lots of prayer.\nFather, thank You that I can come to You for everything and You promise to provide. Thank You for Your peace and strength.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 10, 2015 May 23, 2015 Categories LifeTags Attitudes\nWhat ever happened to Prince Charming?\nYou know the guy\u2026the one that rides in on a beautiful white horse to save the damsel in distress. Or the one that happens to be in the right place at the right time to save the day. The old fairy tales of yore when your heart sank as they gazed into each others eyes before the brilliantly wonderful first kiss. Wow, I think I may gag\u2026lol.\nDid he ever really exist at all or was he just a dream someone remembered during her distress? We wake up everyday with our own dreams of finding such an elusive, wonderful, perfect mate. And what if we catch him? Will he remain the charming prince of a rescuer or turn into the scoundrel we usually wind up with in the end. You know, the one that cheats with your best friend, or does drugs behind your back and has a gambling problem on top of it all.\nDo we have any hope of finding that all elusive perfect soul mate? Does it even exist? Could that dream actually be real? Then it wouldn\u2019t be a dream. So does this reality really exist then? Who knows. I guess it is our dreams that keep us going. Thinking that maybe one day it will happen. You\u2019ll be in a place and across the way from you there is a prince charming of a man watching you. Be careful, he could be a stalker.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 9, 2015 May 23, 2015 Categories LifeTags Dream\nAs Mother\u2019s Day approaches every year, I love to search for small memories of growing up. Our mom was the homemaker who made us breakfast before school every morning regardless of how she felt. She drove us to school and picked us up until we were old enough to safely walk home together or with friends. When it was supper time you could hear mom call us from a few streets away. Or she would poke her head out the back door and tell our friends it was time for them to go home. Mom kept home safe and ruled with a love-wrapped iron fist. She was our example in every day life. She was our teacher and our safe harbor. Everyday she taught us some little something about God\u2019s love either spoken or by her actions.\nAs we grew up and started to date, mom was there for every aspect. She was out spoken when she didn\u2019t think either we or they were behaving right. She caught us when we floated with joy and when we crashed in tears. It was mom who taught us how to drive, sure dad would drive with us on the weekends when he was home. But mom did most of that work. She quietly but sternly corrected us whenever and where ever we needed it. Yes, we had to pick our own switches to get whipped with but she did it because she needed to, not because she wanted to hurt us. It is because of mom (and dad, of course) that we are responsible, respectable, polite and upstanding citizens.\nIt wasn\u2019t enough to just tell you how great our mom is. I had to tell you why. I could go on for days about her but I think you get the idea. I can\u2019t imagine life without her. Hopefully she will live as long as I do so I won\u2019t have to deal with that. But I know that is a dream and may not happen the way I want it to. I actually don\u2019t want to lose either of our parents. I have heard some people actually say they will be glad when so-in-so is gone. I can\u2019t imagine feeling like that about our parents. They are both amazing people.\nI figure they must have done something right somewhere along the line. Dad was able to retire from the railroad in 2000. So he has had 15 years so far to enjoy the life he built for his family. We are so blessed it is hard to find words. A few years ago they invited me to move back into the family home. I was skeptical at first but it has been a real blessing. I was divorced and my children are grown with families of their own. I took it as a blessing from the beginning because I was not looking forward to getting the call in the middle of the night that I needed to come home for a medical reason. Praise God, they are mostly healthy, just getting older\u2026lol.\nI think part of that equation has to be their faith and walk with Jesus. Some may say sure, it\u2019s just coincidence, but I beg to differ. They have friends that are older and younger than they are and they are dying or having major health problems. My parents have health issues but nothing major. They are survivors and taught us how to be survivors too. I hope all of this has rubbed off on my children. Of course, we know who holds them in His hands.\nThank you Father for our Mom (and Dad) and the many blessings I would never be able to list.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 9, 2015 May 23, 2015 Categories LifeTags Mom\nI remember Mom telling us many times while growing up that \u201cSilence is Golden\u201d. But I never really understood why. We would be in a group of mixed age people and our parents would be chatting with their friends and mom would hold her finger to her lips showing the \u201cShush\u201d hand gesture. We complied even after finishing school knowing that mom had her reasons. And sure enough by listening to these conversations, we would learn a great deal about the situation being discussed or about the people doing the talking.\nLater, I would do and say the same thing to my children. They too learned that you can learn more in silence than in talking. Fast forward to today and finding silence is the hardest thing I do. I don\u2019t turn on my TV when I wake up. I usually don\u2019t turn it on until the evening news. But someone else in the house will turn one on then there\u2019s a TV blaring from somewhere. Finding a place of silence is extremely difficult most days.\nI can go into my walk-in closet and sit and no one knows I am there. But it isn\u2019t a quiet place to get silence. I can go outside and sit in the swing to just hear the outside world and that is great until the neighbor cranks the lawnmower or leaf blower. I can put my ear buds in without the music but even then I hear the hum of my tinnitus.\nThis rant started because I found a quiet time outside in the swing this afternoon. My mom and dad came out and we quietly said something from time to time. But that ended with the blare of noise from a cell phone. There went my silence. I prayed for peace to deal with this and It came. But I was still perturbed because my quiet had been invaded. I wanted to say something but I knew it would be misunderstood. So I called on more peace and enjoyed what I could.\nDon\u2019t get me wrong, I love all of my family, but having silence is important to me. It is the place where I hear God\u2019s small voice the loudest. I will continue to ask for God\u2019s peace and look for silence where ever I can get it.\nStay safe and God bless you.\n5/4/15 Addendum to the Rant.\nI kid you not\u2026mom, who is 78 and still kicking butt, was doing the dishes after breakfast. She had a drying towel in one hand and a coffee cup in the other. She walked into the living room, turned on the TV and returned to the kitchen to finish the dishes. Aarrrggggg! I just can\u2019t win\u2026lol.\nAuthor Donna LynnPosted on May 3, 2015 May 23, 2015 Categories LifeTags Silence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 28938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thinkingwithahead.wordpress.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4WBNFAWELIBFILFMTNJM6IR5WRET2I2W", "length": 769, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "thinkingwithahead.wordpress.com", "title": "Author | Thinking with Ahead", "raw_content": "From early childhood Joseph enjoyed technology but it was not until working in a 1-to-1 Apple school that he combined his passion for teaching, curriculum design, innovation and technology in a professional setting. 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The manufacturer, Dale of Norway, offers the sweater on its website and members of the public create knitting patterns that mimic the pattern.\nThis year, the 2018 Olympic team\u2019s uniform is unraveling in a controversy surrounding a pagan runic symbol that is as knitted into the fabric of the nation\u2019s history, as it is woven into the growing neo-Nazi movement that has swept through the globe in the past two years.\nThe sweater features the Tyr symbol, which manufacturer Dale of Norway, the manufacturer of the sweaters, explains that designers used \u201cthe runic symbols for victory and protection.\u201d The manufacturer argues that the rune is an important part of Nordic religion and culture. Moreover, it cited a noticeable renaissance of Nordic mythology in global culture as one of the main reasons it has chosen the Viking symbol, and their assessment may be spot on.\nThe sweater also featured, Elhaz, the Life rune alongside the Tyr symbol, in a geometric pattern at across the chest.\nDale may be on to something there, since the same runes have appeared in several pop culture products over the past few years. Here they are, etched into the trees in the Netflix horror movie \u201cThe Ritual,\u201d which portrays a terrifying story of a lost troupe of friends hiking through a forest in Sweden only to find themselves entangled in a Pagan ritual sacrifice to a Norse mythology-inspired God, J\u00f6tunn.\nThe runes also appeared in The History Channel show \u201cThe Vikings,\u201d currently in it\u2019s sixth season, painted onto the shields carried by warriors in various scenes.\nDale of Norway thus accurately observed that Norse mythology is currently en vogue, as these examples, as well as the international success of the \u201cThor\u201d superhero trilogy confirm. Indeed, if Norse mythology is currently experiencing revivified interest, then Netflix, Hollywood and other cultural producers are not the only people to take note of this trend. In the past few years, the Tyr rune has been reclaimed by Neo-nazi groups and featured on their recruitment fliers and banners in Neo-nazi marches and rallies. In response, the Anti-Defamation League and several other civil rights organizations classify the runes as hate symbols.\nNordic Resistance Rally in Finland\nThe pattern of fascist groups drawing on Nordic religion is not new: The Tyr rune appeared in Nazi Germany\u2019s Stormtroopers, and the Waffen SS Infantry Division because it represented so-called Aryan, Northern European warrior.\nTyr rune on officer\u2019s shoulder [Right]\nSimilarly, the Elhaz rune was used by Nazi germany in its Lebensborn program that encouraged Aryan SS soldiers to father children with \u201cAryan\u201d mothers. The symbol has since been appropriated by Neo-nazi groups as emblematic of their assumed shared Northern European Caucasian heritage. It also appears in the logo of the National Alliance, once one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United States.\nNational Alliance Logo\nThe Olympic sweater controversy brings to light a problem that the Southern Poverty Law Center has noted, arguing that while researchers and politicians have examined in depth the \u201crole of religion in radicalizing Muslims,\u201d few have discussed how right-wing extremism uses religion to mobilize its violent adherents toward criminality and terrorism. Chip Berlet, a former senior analyst at Political Research Associates, argues that white supremacists may be attracted to Nordic mythological religions because of the interest of Nazi Germany\u2019s leaders in Nordic myths and Nordic symbolism. \u201cThese myths were the basis of Wagner\u2019s \u201cRing\u201d opera cycle, and influenced Hitler, who merged them with his distorted understanding of Nietzsche\u2019s philosophy of the centrality of will and the concept of the Ubermensch, which Hitler turned into the idea of an Aryan \u2018Master Race,\u2019\u201d says Berlet.\nWhile some Olympians decided to not wear the uniform sweater because of its dark Neo-Nazi connections, Norwegians, neo-paganists and others have voiced their concern that by relinquishing those symbols, they were allowing neo-Nazis to hijack Norse mythology and Norwegian heritage.\n\u2190 Introducing The Media & Religion Podcast\nExamining the \u201cMuslim Ban\u201d \u2013 the Media & Religion Podcast \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thiswastv.com/2013/04/01/this-was-television-on-april-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:42Z", "digest": "sha1:V4TH4XJUNI47E2FEZ3FF3FCJZVWP52ZI", "length": 896, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thiswastv.com", "title": "This was Television on April 1 | This Was Television", "raw_content": "1963: General Hospital debuts\nThe longest-running daytime soap currently airing on network television, the lives and loves in Port Charles, NY have entertained ABC viewers for half a century and over 12,000 episodes. General Hospital became a preeminent pop culture phenomenon in the late \u201970s and early \u201980s thanks to the popularity of leading couple Luke and Laura, whose marriage in 1981 remains the most-watched episode in soap opera history. The show has also earned a reputation for featuring quirky guest appearances from high profile stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Roseanne Barr, and James Franco. -A.D.\nToday\u2019s Birthdays: Jordan Charney, character actor (76); Taran Killam, SNLer (31); Rachel Maddow, news host (40); John Scott Martin, Dalek operator (d. 2009); Annette O\u2019Toole, superhero\u2019s mom (61); Debbie Reynolds, entertainer (81).\nTagged: April 1 1963, General Hospital, TV history", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 171.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thrivesearch.com/although-yahoo-revenue-q2-earnings-per-share-miss-expectations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:7IXGVE355IFYP6QHTNEOU5XUOXDGXTLT", "length": 778, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "thrivesearch.com", "title": "Although Yahoo Revenue Is Up In Q2, Their Earnings Per Share Miss Expectations | Thrive Business Marketing", "raw_content": "Although Yahoo Revenue Is Up In Q2, Their Earnings Per Share Miss Expectations\nIt\u2019s been reported by Yahoo some hit and miss earnings today for Q2 of 2016.\nAccording to the company, they earned around $1.31 billion, which is up from $1.24 billion last year, which is also ahead of the expected $1.08 billion. The earnings per share came in at nine cents, which was below the expected 10 cents per share. The earnings per share in 2015 was 16 cents.\nYahoo says that their \u201cmavens\u201d lineup, which is made up of mobile, video, native and social products, saw an overall revenue growth of seven percent YoY to $390 million.\nLet\u2019s not forget the possibility of Yahoo being sold off. Bids were due in April, and reports since then suggests that those bids were well under expectations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 229.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timdyson.wordpress.com/category/tv/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:BWX576WPTC4YNBZUDQ4OFJCXKCWDZM4E", "length": 2516, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "timdyson.wordpress.com", "title": "TV | A view from Silicon Valley", "raw_content": "2005 is already over\nPosted: January 5, 2005 | Author: timdyson | Filed under: TV | 2 Comments\nI was unfortunate enough to be ill on Monday. This was not the after effects of too much celebration over the New Year but rather a stomach bug that confined me to my bed for 24 hours. During my vaguely awake moments I surfed through the news channels on TV as my wife and children passed messages under the door \u2013 messages like: \u201care you hungry?\u201d and \u201chello daddy, are you alive?\u201d I didn\u2019t respond to any of these in a bid to see if any of them would dare open the door.\nDuring my day-time TV surfing I was relieved to learn that 2005 was essentially all over from a financial perspective. The stock watchers on CNN and CNBC both made confident calls on what would happen to the market overall for the full year and cited many notable economists to back their perspectives. Of course I\u2019m not going to share these predictions for the simple reason that they were total BS. Even the reporter on CNBC giving the predictions admitted that when they did the same piece a year ago they\u2019d made a hash of it. So it occurred to me, why do this piece if you know it\u2019s garbage? The answer is of course that we all want to know what will happen in the future and we want someone with authority to tell us so we can tell others. And of course when we meet our friends and say \u201caccording to CNN the stock market is going to see a rise of x% this year,\u201d we\u2019ll sound like we know what we\u2019re talking about. But then again, if we\u2019d actually watched the piece we\u2019d know that they used so many caveats in their reports that they could have said the market was going to do anything.\nAll of which poses a question in my mind. Is the media just trying to fulfill the role we want it to in our lives or does it have a serious agenda? Surely we don\u2019t want flakey content just to support interesting issues so we ca sound intelligent to our friends and colleagues? OK, I\u2019m being silly here I know. Of course the media is trying to respond to our wishes, after all it\u2019s a business and businesses do want their customers want (most of the time). I just thought I\u2019d raise the flag at the start of a New Year and remind us all that the media could do so much more. Instead of meaningless star gazing and speculation the media could do real analysis of events so we learn. If they did that more then perhaps Donald Trump would be forced to go back to being a businessman instead of a TV personality and instead of the Apprentice we\u2019d get some real TV.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 346, "original_length": 14748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timemachinehottubs.com/news/tag/swim-spa-reviews/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:GLQCBH3X2QHUEOVCF3XTAEWXGLVGVMMW", "length": 81, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "timemachinehottubs.com", "title": "swim spa reviews Archives - Time Machine Hot Tubs - Longview, TX", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201cswim spa reviews\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 947, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 147.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tipolitics.com/tag/western-civilization/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:LVITS7UKHZ2TU6W2R3UXKWLKL4BPEKMX", "length": 157, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tipolitics.com", "title": "western civilization", "raw_content": "Tag: western civilization\nWherever would you get the idea that masculinity is going through an existential crisis in the West? I mean, that\u2019sContinue Reading", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 848, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/highwire/markup/140046/expansion?width=1000&height=500&iframe=true&postprocessors=highwire_tables%2Chighwire_reclass%2Chighwire_figures%2Chighwire_math%2Chighwire_inline_linked_media%2Chighwire_embed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:32Z", "digest": "sha1:7XL4B2N4HY4ZTRFAX4QRCCUWFTR3XVQN", "length": 529, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "tobaccocontrol.bmj.com", "title": "Table 3", "raw_content": "Quality of studies supported by the tobacco industry compared with those that are not\nPercent of studies . . .\nIndustry supported studies\nNon-industry studies\nCI, confidence intervals.\nIncluding an objective outcome measure 18% (5/31) 57\u201361 50% (30/60)525,29,30,33\u201356,98,113 5.2 (1.7 to 15.4) 0.003\nMeeting all four methodological criteria 0% (0/31) 35% (21/60)5,25,29,30,34\u201336,42\u201346,48,49,51\u201356,98 Infinite\nSubject to peer review 3% (1/31) 84 38% (23/60)5,35,42,44\u201349,54,56,63\u201366,71,72,75\u201377,98,101,115 18.5 (2.4 to 142.9) 0.005", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 281.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://todaysmama.com/seasonal/morels-ramps-spring-s-treasures", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:15Z", "digest": "sha1:PZMTNM6NEJOGPT2YUXGLHVHEBI2COCRA", "length": 4032, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "todaysmama.com", "title": "Morels & Ramps: Spring\u2019s Treasures - Today's Mama", "raw_content": "Morels & Ramps: Spring\u2019s Treasures\nChefs usually get better ingredients than you.\nSure, if you have money and you know what you\u2019re looking for, you can get restaurant-quality produce, meat, and fish by shopping around for the good stuff. But chances are, a great restaurant is still going to top you on quality, because that\u2019s where the purveyors and growers go with their best stuff, knowing that the market is there and they\u2019re going to get top dollar.\nBut when it comes to fresh spring produce, there are a few notable categories in which even you, the Midwestern home cook, have a potential edge on most restaurant chefs. I\u2019m talking foraged edibles \u2013 those treasures of nature which humans still haven\u2019t figured out how to cultivate or farm after thousands of years of agriculture.\nTwo of the most prized signs of spring on the tables at high-end restaurants across the country and world at this time of year grow wild abundantly in the forests of Indiana, as well as in many other states. These are morel mushrooms and ramps. If you know what you\u2019re looking for and when/where to look, you can share in these prized and typically pricey tastes of spring, for the low cost of taking a hike in the blooming forest.\nFirst of all, one must be sure what one\u2019s looking for. It\u2019s never a good idea to just go plucking plants at random out of the forest floor and attempting to eat them. Morel mushrooms, thankfully, have a very specific look to them: a trademark honeycomb appearance like the ones in the photo above. A quick search of the internet will find you many photos and once out in the wet spring woods, you\u2019ll know it when you see it. If you\u2019re unsure, check with someone who knows, and if still in doubt, don\u2019t eat it! But once you\u2019ve tasted the real thing, you\u2019ll understand why folks around here are so mad for \u2018em this time of year: morels have a unique, meaty, earthy flavor that goes great with butter, cream, steak or chicken, and other green spring veggies like asparagus.\nRamps are perhaps a bit harder to identify, though more plentiful \u2013 they are a variety of wild leek, similar to a scallion or green onion, with a pungent garlicky smell. If you get the root out, you\u2019ll see a thin, long white onion shape, often with a pink root tip. Again, once you know what you\u2019re looking for, you can enjoy the fresh oniony taste in a saute with the aforementioned mushrooms, or in an omelet, compound butters, or any number of soups.\nThe other common deterrent to starting foraging is that anybody who has found a spot in which these wild edibles tend to grow year-after-year is not typically interested in divulging the location, lest someone else move in on their precious \u201ccrops.\u201d So really, you just have to be open to checking out any large wooded area nearby. Make sure it is not private or protected property, but there are plenty of public parks that allow folks to wander the trails.\nThe trick with the morels is you need rain. They are the fruiting bodies of an underground fungus, which sends forth its mushrooms after any heavy spring rain. The ground needs to be warm and wet, and the next day when the sun comes out is your cue to start exploring.\nMy three-year-old and I got out the first week of May to explore a couple locations around Indianapolis, following a Monday-night deluge that seemed like the right warm-to-wet ratio. Sure enough, we found enough to make a delicious chicken dish with artichoke hearts, morels and white wine cream sauce that night, which was appreciated very much by Mom, if not necessarily the kids. Hard to say, as usual, but one can hope that something about the experience of finding one\u2019s own food rubbed off on the youngsters, even if the little ones can\u2019t yet appreciate that the restaurant chefs would be jealous.\nWhat are you wearing for Spring?\nDallas Area Spring Break Activities\nI don\u2019t know about you but I am looking forward to March 12-16. Spring break!! My kids are ready for it and so am I.\nWell, Spring is almost here which means it\u2019s time for Spring cleaning!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://top-game-reviews.com/app/abalone", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:35Z", "digest": "sha1:TNEYCV7JFSCQZIWPJO4EYXZXR7UHK4CG", "length": 2204, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "top-game-reviews.com", "title": "App #279480 categories: Single-player , Cross-Platform Multiplayer , Steam Trading Cards , Includes level editor", "raw_content": "Discover our new version with brand new graphics inspired by the latest edition of the famous strategy game. Abalone has been one of the best games around for nearly 30 years, known for its hexagonal board and black and white marbles. The goal of this abstract board game is simple: push your opponent\u2019s marbles off the board!\nBut beware, it\u2019s not easy to master, so keep your wits about you and rise to the challenge!\nCreate a plan of attack to push your opponent\u2019s marbles off the board.\nOn every turn, you can move one space in any direction with 1, 2, or 3 lined-up marbles. When you\u2019re in a Sumito position (that is, when your marbles both outnumber and are in contact with your opponent\u2019s) you can push their marbles out! For example, you need three black marbles to push one or two white marbles.\nThere\u2019s no use in rushing; it\u2019s better to take your time and think of every possibility since one hasty move can put you in a bad position and let victory slip through your fingers.\nIf you want to win, the key is not to attack, but rather to take specific positions with certain combinations of moves.\nJust like in chess and checkers, you can try to create traps by sacrificing marbles or strategic positions to block your opponent. The most dangerous contact points are at the edges of the board, where a bad move means losing a marble or the whole game! Sometimes, it\u2019s better to be patient if you want to win!\nThe keys to victory are looking ahead and analyzing your opponent\u2019s play. Although the game is easy to learn, it requires strategy and thought. To hone your strategic thinking, the game offers several modes that let you review your games play by play.\nFor example, Challenge Mode helps you become a true Abalone master, one move at a time. The challenges get harder as you advance. For example, at first you must push out a single marble only to win a challenge, then two, and the master will get progressively tougher.\nPlay alone against the computer with Challenge Mode and Free Play Mode, or play against your friends. With Pass & Play Mode, you can duel on the same device! Tired of playing your friends?\nAvailable in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2803, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trebel.io/blog/category/top-lists/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:03Z", "digest": "sha1:6SAX7FVSSRDPJAG5MCDDEPUAGO5RANTE", "length": 1250, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "trebel.io", "title": "Top Lists \u2013 Page 4 \u2013 TREBEL: Free Music Downloader for Android and iPhone", "raw_content": "Around the World in 6 Songs\nWith Grammy season right around the corner (it airs February 12th, 2017), it\u2019s time to start thinking about who\u2019s...\n\u2018Tis the season to be jolly, Fa la\u2026okay enough. It\u2019s Christmas time and Christmas music is upon us, and...\nWith the announcement of the nominees for the 2017 ceremony, we can feel Grammy season is upon us. And...\nEven though 1989 has been out for two years, it\u2019s seems like we\u2019re still fixated on Taylor Swift. We...\n10 Promising Tours for 2017\nZoe Grace Marquedant | December 6, 2016\nTouring is the modern day equivalent of running away to the circus. Since you can\u2019t actually pull an Almost...\nJon Cramer | December 5, 2016\nThe \u201ccomeback album\u201d is quite a loaded term. On the one hand, die-hard fans of a group that has...\nSocietal pressures aside, not all of us are always going to be feeling particularly festive around the holidays. That...\nEveryone has champagne at their New Years party. Not everyone has a kickass playlist to occupy the awkward silences...\nThis year has seen some great releases from artists like A Tribe Called Quest\u2019s We Got It from Here\u2026...\n3 Artists Poised to Go Mainstream In 2017\nWe\u2019re a little over a month before 2016 is in the history books. The past year has given us...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 240.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trenta7.com/bio-en/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4QWOKHYWOWPK3JUZJG7DOFZWCZKRSLSE", "length": 751, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "trenta7.com", "title": "bio | Trenta7", "raw_content": "The creative mind & soul of trenta7 shoes\nEleonora Moccia was born in Rome in 1981. In 2008, upon completing a degree in psychology, she decided to embark on a creative journey in the footwear industry, taking courses in Footwear Design and Development at the School \u201cCercal\u201d in San Mauro Pascoli.\nAfterwards, she honed her skills and gained experience by working in accessory development for the brands DSquared, Moschino, and Pollini, of the AEFFE Group by Alberta Ferretti.\nIn 2011, she relocated to Milan to collaborate with the brand Rochas, where she served as assistant to the ex creative director, Marco Zanini.\nUltimately, Eleonora Moccia pursued her own line of shoes, Trenta7, which launched its first signature collection in March of 2012.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 206.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trevorhendy.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:43Z", "digest": "sha1:KCUSHSZACJDYRKUWP7NMGTXY7HLFZGRU", "length": 1383, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "trevorhendy.com", "title": "Trevor Hendy | Never underestimate the power of who you are", "raw_content": "Thank you for taking the time to visit my website. It should be very natural for us to win in life, but often our passions and abilities are obscured by junk thoughts, beliefs and memories. Some of those are thought up by us and others are taken on from others. Even just clearing a few of those aside will set you free and give you a taste of who you really are. I hope this website will give you a constant flow of different and liberating viewpoints that will help to leave anything junky behind.\nThe site has been built as a gift, for anyone who is interested, to provide inspiration, food for thought and a few avenues to great personal change for the Soul, Mind and Body. We all have so much to offer each other so why live your second best life? I sum it up when I say \u201cBring it into now and never underestimate the power of who you are\u201d Please enjoy!\nBootcamp For The Soul\nTrevor Hendy\u2019s Boot Camp For The Soul is 12 week transformational program is for anyone who wants to live their best life and is ready to turn over that last rock, the one that the spirit, or soul, is hiding under. This is for people who are ready to make the move from the head to the heart. It is also for anyone who may have already started that journey but is having challenges integrating it into their everyday lives. This program is all about \u201cwaking up\u201d and \u201cstaying awake\u201d.\nPreview the content", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://triviachamp.com/Baseball-Trivia-Questions-E6.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:50Z", "digest": "sha1:TK64NQFEVK2AHJEJMXRVOLQMBZITZI3W", "length": 2892, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "triviachamp.com", "title": "Baseball Trivia Questions E6-Free Printable Trivia Questions Answers & Games", "raw_content": "Baseball Trivia Questions #6\nPrintable Baseball Trivia Questions\nWhich of these MLB players has the most career home runs?\na. Hank Aaron\nb. Ken Griffey Jr.\nc. Babe Ruth\nd. Willie Mays\nHank Aaron - With 755 home runs during his career, Hank held the MLB record for most home runs for 33 years.\n\"The Snakes\" is a nickname given to which MLB team?\na. Arizona Diamondbacks\nb. Boston Red Sox\nc. Atlanta Braves\nd. Baltimore Orioles\nArizona Diamondbacks - The Arizona Diamondbacks made their debut in 1998.\nWhen did \"Pete Rose\" play his final MLB game?\n1986 - Rose played in the MLB from 1963 to 1986.\nWhich team retired the number three jersey for \"Babe Ruth\"?\na. New York Mets\nb. New York Yankees\nc. Chicago Cubs\nd. San Francisco Giants\nNew York Yankees - Nicknamed 'The Bambino', Babe's MLB career lasted 22 seasons from 1914 to 1935.\n\"Yogi Berra\" sent 17 years of his career with which team?\na. New York Yankees\nb. Texas Rangers\nc. St Louis Cardinals\nd. Oakland Athletics\nNew York Yankees - Yogi won the American League Most Valuable Player Award three times during his career.\nWhich MLB great was nicknamed \"Mr. October\"?\na. Mark McGwire\nb. Alex Rodriguez\nc. Barry Bonds\nd. Reggie Jackson\nReggie Jackson - Jackson hit 563 career home runs during his career.\nWhich MLB team won their first World Series in 1966?\na. Chicago Cubs\nc. New York Yankees\nBaltimore Orioles - As of 2016, the Orioles have won three World Series Championships (1966, 1970, and 1983).\nWhich MLB team plays its home games at \"Coors Field\"?\na. Kansas City Royals\nb. Houston Astros\nc. Detroit Tigers\nd. Colorado Rockies\nColorado Rockies - Coors Field Stadium is located in Denver.\nWhich MLB team adopted their current name in 2012?\na. Milwaukee Brewers\nc. Miami Marlins\nd. LA Dodgers\nMiami Marlins - Originally called the Florida Marlins, the team officially adopted its new name of Miami Marlins on November 11, 2012.\n\"Wally, the Green Monster\" is the mascot of which MLB Team?\nb. Toronto Blue Jays\nc. Kansas City Royals\nd. Boston Red Sox\nBoston Red Sox - Wally made his debut on April 13, 1997.\nWhich of these MLB players has hit the most home runs during their career?\na. Babe Ruth\nb. Jim Thome\nc. Ken Griffey Jr.\nBabe Ruth - Babe had 714 career home runs.\nIn what decade did \"Reggie Jackson\" win five World Series Championships?\n1970s - Reggie was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993.\nHow many times did \"Barry Bonds\" win the National League MVP Award during his career?\n7 - Bonds became the hitting coach for the Marlins in 2016.\nAll-Star \"Mike Sweeney was captain of which MLB team from 2003 to 2007?\na. Houston Astros\nb. Kansas City Royals\nd. Houston Astros\nKansas City Royals - After 15 seasons, Sweeny retired from baseball in 2011.\nWhen did the \"Toronto Blue Jays\" make their debut in the MLB?\n1977 - As of 2016, the Blue Jays have won the World Series Championship twice, in 1992, and in 1993.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 6694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ucanr.edu/blogs/food/index.cfm?start=1&tagname=Oakland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NC7U5WWOHVH43O6R72V4HJSI7JOFCXDQ", "length": 990, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ucanr.edu", "title": "Food Blog - Agriculture and Natural Resources Blogs", "raw_content": "Community Produce Stand opens March 2 in East Oakland\nA farmers market in downtown Oakland may be too far for East Oakland residents to travel to shop for fresh produce.\nFor senior citizens who don't drive, it can be difficult to get to a grocery store or farmers market to buy fresh fruits and vegetables.\nTo improve access to fresh produce for low-income seniors who live in a food desert in East Oakland, UC ANR Cooperative Extension in Alameda County, in partnership with Oakland Housing Authority and Mandela Market Place, will be opening a Community Produce Stand.\nThe Community Produce Stand will be open on the first Wednesday of every month, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., at 6401 Fenham Street in Oakland.\nThe produce stand will be located in the gazebo at Palo Vista Gardens, a low-income senior housing complex, and available to neighboring residents as well as people in two other...\nTags: food security (18), Oakland (1), Tuline Baykal (2), UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program (4)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 216.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/author/mary-doveston", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4NHEXA7H6K2AEAKO2VPA35ZWC7MHEWZ2", "length": 498, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "uk.sagepub.com", "title": "Doveston, Mary | SAGE Publications Ltd", "raw_content": "Mary Doveston University of Northampton, UK\nMary Doveston is a Senior Lecturer in Special Education at the University of Northampton. She has taught in all phases of education and has recently held posts as a Special Needs Coordinator in a junior school, and as a specialist teacher for special educational needs in Northamptonshire LEA. She is currently a trainer and assessor for HLTA at the University of Northampton.\nBecoming a Higher Level Teaching Assistant: Primary Special Educational Needs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 2985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://umassmed.edu/ofa/governance-policies/academic-personnel-policy/Article6/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UEO2WL3Z7IZOADBQXF5VJOG4WDI34AJW", "length": 6574, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "umassmed.edu", "title": "Article 6 - Other Faculty Appointments", "raw_content": "Section 6.2 Professional Staff\nSection 6.3 Affiliate Faculty\nSection 6.4 Adjunct Faculty\nSection 6.5 Visiting Faculty\nThis article defines the terms and conditions for appointment of individuals other than Employed Faculty (Article 5) to the UMMS Faculty.\nAppointment to the UMMS Faculty is based on an individual\u2019s commitment of effort to the educational and/or research programs of UMMS, rather than on hospital rank, degree of responsibility, or seniority in other professional endeavors. Honorary appointments are not allowed.\na. Categories of Appointment. Faculty Appointments may be granted to individuals in the following categories. All individuals are appointed in the Non-Tenure Track.\ni. Professional Staff\nii. Affiliate Faculty\niii. Adjunct Faculty\niv. Visiting Faculty\nb. Appointment and Employment. This APP governs only the Faculty appointments of these individuals. Individuals with Faculty appointments must abide by all applicable UMMS and University of Massachusetts policies and procedures.\nThe employment terms and conditions for these individuals are governed by the policies of their employer, rather than any employment terms and conditions defined in this APP. Individuals employed by UMMS are subject to UMMS Human Resources policies, unless otherwise specified in their employment agreement.\nc. Termination. These Faculty appointments may be terminated at any time by the chair, SOM Dean, or GSN Dean (as applicable) on prior written notification to the individual at least 30 days in advance of termination of appointment. Further, if a Faculty Member subject to the provisions of this Article 6 resigns from or is removed from the Medical Staff of UMass Memorial Medical Center, the Faculty appointment of that individual automatically ends coterminously with the date of termination from the Medical Staff.\nd. Resignation. Individuals may resign these Faculty appointments on prior written notification to the chair or GSN Dean (as applicable) at the earliest possible opportunity, but at least 90 days prior to the effective date of resignation.\na. Eligibility. Individuals who are employed by UMMS or UMMHC in a staff position may be appointed to the Faculty based on their expected contributions to UMMS educational and research programs. This category includes, but is not limited to, professional staff and administrators, medical, nursing or other health professionals, clinical fellows participating in non-ACGME approved fellowship programs, chief residents who have completed residency training, and retired UMMS Faculty who been approved for post-retirement employment.\nb. Appointment and Reappointment. Individuals are appointed for a one-year term on recommendation by the chair or GSN Dean (as applicable) and approval through the procedures for appointment and promotion (Sections 3.12 and 3.13). Individuals may be appointed or promoted to the ranks of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor, according to the eligibility and criteria for these ranks (Sections 3.6\u20133.9). Such individuals may be reappointed annually on review and recommendation by the chair or GSN Dean and approval by the SOM Dean (if applicable) and Provost or their designee. The Faculty appointment of an individual ends coterminously with termination of their employment by UMMS or UMMHC.\na. Eligibility. Individuals who are not employed by UMMS, UMMHC, or a University-approved external foundation or agency and who are not eligible for appointment as Adjunct (Section 6.4) or Visiting Faculty (Section 6.5) may be appointed as Affiliate Faculty based on their expected contributions to UMMS educational and research programs. This category includes, but is not limited to, Courtesy Staff appointed to UMMMC; individuals at UMMS regional campuses; members of the medical, nursing or other health professions at affiliated hospitals, other health care facilities or in private practice; individuals based at research institutions, and retired UMMS Faculty who are actively engaged in UMMS educational and research programs.\nb. Appointment and Reappointment. Individuals are appointed to a one-year term on recommendation by the chair or GSN Dean (as applicable) and approval through the procedures for appointment and promotion (Sections 3.12 and 3.13). Individuals may be appointed or promoted to the ranks of Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Professor, according to the eligibility and criteria for these ranks (Sections 3.6\u20133.9). Individuals may be reappointed annually on review and recommendation by the chair or GSN Dean and approval by the SOM Dean (if applicable) and Provost or their designee.\nThe Faculty appointment of an Affiliate Faculty Member who is employed by an affiliated organization is contingent on continued employment of the individual by the affiliated organization and the affiliation agreement with that organization. In the event that either or both of these conditions are no longer in effect, the Faculty appointment will end coterminously without notice or appeal.\na. Eligibility. Individuals who hold a primary faculty appointment at another academic or research institution may be appointed as Adjunct Faculty based on their expected contributions to UMMS educational and research programs.\nb. Appointment and Reappointment. Individuals are appointed for a one year term on recommendation by the chair or GSN Dean (as applicable) and approval through the procedures for appointment and promotion (Sections 3.12 and 3.13) with the exception that the requirements for letters of evaluation are modified (Section 3.12.c.iv). Individuals are usually appointed at the Faculty rank (or equivalent) that the individual holds at their primary institution. The term \u201cAdjunct\u201d precedes the academic rank: e.g., Adjunct Professor of Department. Individuals may be reappointed annually on review and recommendation by the chair or GSN Dean and approval by the SOM Dean (if applicable) and Provost or their designee.\na. Eligibility. Individuals who hold a primary faculty appointment at another academic or research institution and who intend to participate in UMMS educational and research programs for a limited time (usually up to one year) may be appointed as Visiting Faculty.\nb. Appointment. The procedure for appointment is described in Section 3.14. Visiting Faculty Members are usually appointed at the academic rank (or equivalent) that the individual holds at their primary institution. The term \u201cVisiting\u201d precedes the academic rank: e.g., Visiting Professor of Department.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 11236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unicodemap.org/details/0x5224/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:15Z", "digest": "sha1:MXOAADM4TZP6NP7MW33EXS5F57AJWHTW", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "unicodemap.org", "title": "Unicode Character 0x5224 - \"\u5224\" from Unicode Map", "raw_content": "Unicode Character Map - 0x9FFF (a.k.a. \"\u5224\") Details", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unric.org/en/latest-un-buzz/28737-52-million-teachers-needed-to-reach-mdgs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:N5G6P33DBVX2BH4GQBW35IO2526VRMRV", "length": 2026, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "unric.org", "title": "5.2 million teachers needed to reach MDGs", "raw_content": "5.2 million teachers needed to reach MDGs\nThere is a huge need for well-trained and well-supported teachers, United Nations officials have warned. They call for the recruitment of millions of professionals, particularly in African and Arab States worst hit by the teacher shortage.\nSome 5.2 million teachers need to be hired worldwide to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of achieving universal primary education by 2015, the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reported in a study to coincide with the World Teachers' Day. That figure includes 1.58 million new recruits and 3.66 million to replace those leaving the profession.\n\u201cThe challenge goes beyond numbers \u2013 more teachers must mean better quality learning, through appropriate training and support,\u201d the heads of four major UN agencies and a partner organization said in a joint message for World Teachers' Day.\n\u201cFar too often, teachers remain under-qualified and poorly paid, with low status, and excluded from education policy matters and decisions that concern and affect them,\u201d the officials added, calling for effective international action in support of national efforts to bolster teachers and education institutions, and improve education opportunities.\nThe joint message was issued by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova; UN International Labour Organization (ILO) Director-General, Guy Ryder; UN Development Programme (UNDP) Administrator, Helen Clark; UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director, Anthony Lake; and Fred van Leeuwen, the General Secretary of Education International (EI), which represents teachers' organizations across the globe.\nFifty-seven million children of primary school age are absent from classrooms, according to UN figures. At the current rate, nearly half of those children will never enrol in school, and more than a quarter will start school late.\nMany of those children who do enter school are failing to learn to read and write by the time they reach fourth grade, the officials noted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uproxx.com/dimemag/james-harden-houston-rockets-contract-extension-chris-paul/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:XI3V4ZWRZU7PPTYH4NHU2XLMHZEHBLN6", "length": 471, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "uproxx.com", "title": "James Harden Calls Houston \u2018Home\u2019 And Wants To Be A Rocket \u2018Forever\u2019", "raw_content": "James Harden Considers Houston His Home And Wants To Play For The Rockets \u2018Forever\u2019\nJames Harden isn\u2019t mincing words about what he wants to do with the rest of his career. The All-NBA guard says he\u2019s playing out the string in Houston with the Rockets, and he\u2019s excited about what the team is building.\nHarden spoke to Sports Illustrated and was firm about what he\u2019s doing after signing a 4-year max extension worth $228 million. Namely, it\u2019s win championships in Houston.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vallartalifestyles.com/directory/page/10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:50Z", "digest": "sha1:DCYOWJ6K75IHDCXJREDUSN3SYDJI3OQH", "length": 459, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "vallartalifestyles.com", "title": "Directory - Page 10 of 10 - Vallarta Lifestyles", "raw_content": "Villa La Estancia Beach Resort & Spa is located 10 minutes away from...\nVilla Punta Para\u00edso overlooks the blue Pacific and is located in the...\nVillaRouse have the incomparable Moet & Chandon, the most prestigious...\nVinoteca is a wine shop specializing in a wide variety of table wines...\nTel. 322 172 2258 or 322 168 1746\nArtisan Chocoaltes: Todd Atkins & Kathleen Naomi Atkins are the...\nZaragoza Marine is a company specializing in the purchase/sale of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://valleydentalassociates.net/meet-our-doctors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FOH3YZMRKQDMBS5EUC7KHU5JP4YVJBZA", "length": 2657, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "valleydentalassociates.net", "title": "Dentist in Hagerstown MD | Valley Dental Associates | Meet Our Doctors", "raw_content": "Meet Dr. Robert Winebrenner\nDr. Robert Winebrenner is excited to come to work every day and make a difference in people\u2019s lives by helping them achieve optimal oral health. He considers it a privilege to be considered a friend to many of my patients, and he does not take for granted the trust they\u2019ve placed in him. Dr. Winebrenner is passionate about helping people, and feels eternally rewarded by seeing how happy they are with their results.\nDr. Winebrenner was born in Pittsburgh, PA and grew up in Baltimore, MD. In school, he always loved science and math. At an early age, he enjoyed building many airplane models and working on any projects using his hands. Needless to say, many years later this skill would become the center of his profession as a dentist.\nDr. Winebrenner attended the University of Maryland at College Park, completing his dental program a year early. He then attended Baltimore College of Dental Surgery at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. Dr. Winebrenner joined the US Air Force, becoming an officer at Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, UT. Upon the completion of his assignment there, he returned to MD to enter private practice.\nAs a continual student, Dr. Winebrenner takes numerous scientific continuing education courses and frequently attend workshops where he receives hands-on training in the newest in dental technologies and treatment methods. He does everything in my power to increase our patients\u2019 comfort and decrease their time in the dental chair.\nMy wife and I have loved living here in Hagerstown for more than 40 years. It\u2019s been a great place to raise our three wonderful children. In my free time, I collect model trains, play with my dog Sophie, and enjoy reading history books, gardening, and playing golf. I love the beauty of Washington County and the yearly seasons we\u2019re able to enjoy.\nLeonisha Thomas graduated from Howard University with a Bachelor of Science and received her doctorate from Howard University College of Dentistry in 2006. She then went on to complete a general practice residency at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, NY where she enhanced her clinical skills in all aspects of general dentistry including pediatric dentistry. She is the oldest of three children.\nDr. Thomas joined the practice in June of 2012 and is dedicated to helping her patients experience a comfortable and friendly experience during their dental visit. In her spare time she enjoys hanging out with friends. She is a member of the American Dental Association and National Dental Association. Dr Thomas continues to strive for excellence by continuing her education to become the best Dentist she can be.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 167.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://valwilliams.com/when-you-reach-the-end-of-your-winning-formula/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FYWXNR7R6TUTKGLWVU4ABHOW2QASBVK6", "length": 4697, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "valwilliams.com", "title": "When You Reach the End of Your Winning Formula \u2013 Val Williams \u00bb When You Reach the End of Your Winning FormulaVal Williams", "raw_content": "\u00ab What to do When Your Career Feels \u201cStuck\u201d\nSelecting an Executive Coach \u00bb\nThose of us who are high achievers are used to being successful. Yes, we work hard; we are under stress; but the bottom line is that we usually achieve what we want to achieve. Over the years we have developed a \u201cwinning formula\u201d: a strategy for being successful that has worked most of our lives. Our winning formula is that way we do things. It\u2019s been the key to our success.\nSo what happens when you get promoted, or change jobs, or start a new project and you realize that the same formula you have used for years no longer brings the same instant success? What happens when you realize that you have come to \u201cthe end of your winning formula?\u201d\nIt can be quite a surprise and it usually upsets our ego. For example, there\u2019s the corporate Vice President who is promoted to Senior Vice President of a business unit. His or her key to climbing the corporate ladder had been outstanding technical knowledge. He or she was the best in their field. Suddenly, in the new job, they can\u2019t keep up with the volume of work, the complexity of issues, the demands of several different technical issues. They are overwhelmed, and start to wonder if they are up to the challenge. Self-doubt creeps in and stress distracts. Now they are just trying to survive.\nThe solution to the stress of this type of career transition is to realize that every winning formula, no matter how effective, comes to an end. Each winning formula works for certain career circumstances. But when you are growing quickly, your circumstances sometimes change faster than you do.\nTherefore, if you plan to be successful for the long run, you will have to be prepared to create new winning formulas to match each new promotion, project or career you choose. This requires a few things from you: mostly the ability to manage your own ego and insecurities. Also, the ability to learn new skills fast.\nSo when you notice that you are not \u201cwalking on water\u201d in the same way you did earlier in your career, here are some useful tips:\nBe prepared to be a beginner again.\nWe all enjoy the ego boost of feeling like an expert. However, when we go to a new level in our career, becoming an executive, stepping up to senior level, being a CEO, we have to recreate who we are. We are now beginners: learning new skills, practicing new behaviors and making mistakes. Can you feel secure in who you are as a person while you \u201crenovate\u201d your career skills?\nIdentify the exact skills you need to be successful at the new level.\nWhere exactly does your old winning formula fall short? For example, at the senior executive levels the key to success is no longer technical knowledge, the authority you have, or your personal excellent performance. At senior levels, success depends more on influencing skills, team building, the power of your network, the skill of leveraging and your ability to use power effectively. Identify which areas you need to develop and how you can improve your skills while also presenting as a strong leader.\nLet go of your old identity.\nJust as we had a winning formula that helped us be successful, we had a certain \u201cidentity\u201d as a Marketing Director, an Accounting Manager, or a Systems Vice President! In order to grow to the next level of President, CEO or Senior Vice President, we will have to shed the old identity along with its comforts, its familiarity and its behaviors. This can feel insecure. We have to know how to manage insecurity as we shed the old identity even before the new identity is constructed.\nI speak from personal experience since I recently noticed that I came to the end of my own winning formula. I realized that for a long time, I had not even wanted to know how afraid I was of really stepping up to my own next level. In spite of my outward success, I realized that I was actually afraid to \u201cfully participate\u201d in my own life and I was not living up to my full potential. I had to actually experience my own fear before I could move on. What I\u2019ve learned is that we have to acknowledge our humanness, our fear, even what we consider our own cowardice, before we can truly move forward. It is an act of self-acceptance that actually builds our confidence and prepares us to be bigger people for the new level. I felt all the unattractive feelings: my fear, my helpless feelings, my inadequacy. And here is the gift: After actually feeling all of that, you realize that fear is not the totality of who you are. You are larger than any inadequate feeling. That larger you is what takes over and allows you to be successful at the next level. That larger you then creates a new winning formula! And success continues\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/roseanne-amazon-prime-video-itunes-filmrise-streaming-1202827652/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HJEK2PMJHU4XZ5X4SXKBZCKXDD2QFNKC", "length": 2477, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "variety.com", "title": "\u2018Roseanne\u2019 Still Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Other Services \u2013 Variety", "raw_content": "\u2018Roseanne\u2019 Reruns Remain Available on Amazon Prime Video, Other Digital Services\n\u201cRoseanne\u201d has been scrubbed from ABC\u2019s website and apps, as well as Viacom\u2019s cable networks and Hulu \u2014 but the full run of the original series is still available from several digital services.\nABC on Tuesday quickly axed \u201cRoseanne\u201d in response to star Roseanne Barr\u2019s racist comment on Twitter about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett. A few hours later came word that Hulu and Viacom\u2019s TV Land, CMT and Paramount Network were pulling reruns of the original nine seasons of the sitcom.\nHowever, all episodes of the classic \u201cRoseanne\u201d series, which aired from 1988-97, remain available on Amazon Prime Video. The ecommerce giant began streaming the show last summer, distributed through Amazon\u2019s Video Direct program by FilmRise (which licensed distribution rights to the original nine seasons of the TV series from Carsey-Werner Co.).\nIn addition, FilmRise plans to continue to make all original seasons of \u201cRoseanne\u201d available on the FilmRise free, ad-supported channel on Roku, as well as its apps for other platforms including Android, Apple TV, and Xbox,\n\u201cWhile FilmRise condemns Roseanne Barr\u2019s recent tweet about Valerie Jarrett as well as other controversial tweets she has made, we believe that does not in any way change the cultural, artistic and historic significance of the classic \u2018Roseanne\u2019 show,\u201d FilmRise CEO Danny Fisher said in a statement to Variety. \u201cWe do not believe that audiences would be well served by being denied the completely voluntary opportunity to watch this landmark series.\u201d\nMeanwhile, \u201cRoseanne\u201d seasons 1-9 also are available to purchase from digital retailers. Those include Apple iTunes, Amazon Video, and Google Play. Both iTunes and Google Play, in addition to offering individual seasons for $19.99 and episodes for 99 cents each, are selling the whole classic run in a $69.99 bundle.\nABC\u2019s season 10 revival, which finished as the top-rated primetime scripted TV show in the demo this year, is not currently available on (legal) digital services. Episodes had been available to stream on ABC\u2019s site and apps, but the network yanked those earlier this week.\nIt\u2019s possible \u2014 at least in the short term \u2014 that publicity surrounding ABC\u2019s cancellation of the \u201cRoseanne\u201d revival and Barr\u2019s ignominious tweet will drive up digital sales and viewing of the show. But clearly, FilmRise and its partners would have preferred to have the hit show stay on the air.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 10668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/joanna-garcia-swisher-abc-happy-accident-1203115949/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:27Z", "digest": "sha1:CIWF5K547HZHLM6OJPVENVRE4U4HOLGC", "length": 1322, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "variety.com", "title": "Joanna Garcia Swisher Joins ABC Comedy Pilot \u2018Happy Accident\u2019 \u2013 Variety", "raw_content": "CREDIT: David Studarus for Variety\nJoAnna Garcia Swisher has signed on for a leading role in the ABC single-camera comedy pilot \u201cHappy Accident,\u201d Variety has learned.\nShe joins previously announced cast member Matt Walsh. The show follows two Pittsburgh families \u2013 father Bud (Walsh) with three adult daughters, and a hotel lounge singer with her med student son \u2013 are forced together after a decades-old secret is revealed. Garcia Swisher will play Eleanor Bennett, a professor at Pitt who is also Bud\u2019s oldest daughter.\nThe casting continues Garcia Swisher\u2019s long relationship with ABC. She has previously starred in ABC shows like \u201cOnce Upon a Time,\u201d \u201cKevin (Probably) Saves the World,\u201d and \u201cThe Astronaut Wives Club.\u201d She is also known for roles in shows like \u201cReba,\u201d \u201cAre You Afraid of the Dark?,\u201d and \u201cAnimal Practice.\u201d On the film side, she has held roles in projects like \u201cNot Another Teen Movie,\u201d \u201cFist Fight,\u201d and \u201cThe Internship.\u201d\nShe is repped by UTA and John Carrabino Management.\nAbraham Higginbotham and Jon Pollack, both of whom are writers on \u201cModern Family,\u201d are the writers and executive producers on \u201cHappy Accident.\u201d 20th Century Fox Television will produce along with ABC Studios. Both Higginbotham and Pollack are writers on the hit ABC series \u201cModern Family\u201d and are under overall deals at 20th TV.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 9481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vehrklempt.com/2012/10/28/703/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:35Z", "digest": "sha1:DAY4T2FKWDQGIFU3MF5ASY777Z5ABCSW", "length": 107, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "vehrklempt.com", "title": "Vehrklempt", "raw_content": "In life, sometimes you find yourself in situations where you could only hope you are doing the right thing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 94.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vekeo.com/event/michigan-league-of-conservation-voters-03242015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:37Z", "digest": "sha1:3YZJNNEWC4YJAP3CH64N46ATP667HQTP", "length": 984, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "vekeo.com", "title": "Michigan League of Conservation Voters' Live Phone Chat - Vekeo", "raw_content": "Michigan League of Conservation Voters on Energy\nIs nuclear energy considered renewable energy?\nHow cost effective are renewable energy solutions?\nIs it possible to stop using coal/nuclear energy in the next 25 years?\nThe Michigan League of Conservation Voters was thrilled to host this live event to discuss clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency in the state of Michigan with State Rep. Bill LaVoy (D \u2013 Monroe). Rep. LaVoy represents Michigan\u2019s 17th State House District and is currently the Minority Vice-Chair of the House Energy Committee. In under an hour, we covered topics ranging from the role of residential solar to whether geothermal counts as efficiency or renewable energy. The takeaways were clear though: Clean, renewable energy is already spurring economic growth right here in Michigan, with more than $2.9 Billion in direct investment in Michigan\u2019s economy. And now it is up to Michigan lawmakers, with our support, to take these successes and run with them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vidasacic.com/section/411028-ELECTRIC-BIOLOGY.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:06Z", "digest": "sha1:D4FF2PROSP2TX4R6X3ES7NEL7SX3CTS4", "length": 693, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "vidasacic.com", "title": "VIDA SACIC", "raw_content": "Electric Biology series was inspired by the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body, the brain. Information from the sense organs is collected in the brain, whose activity governs behavior, language and consciousness. The prints were produced in sequence, where color and composition act as signifies of the active brain tissue generating electric fields. Many of the prints feature Aldine, a serif typeface designed in 1870, a popular 19th century typeface, letterpress printed using wood type.\nSelected pieces from this series, including animated work, will be on display at The Center for Book Arts in New York City from July 12 to September 23, 2017.\nThe complete series was exhibited at", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 2435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 175.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://video.thescore.com/nba/news/1377415/the-relocation-threat-a-brief-history-of-arena-funding-madness", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:52Z", "digest": "sha1:NWVGMWLHEAFTAPK4JRZGM2ABXOICGLQK", "length": 17338, "nlines": 73, "source_domain": "video.thescore.com", "title": "The relocation threat: a brief history of arena-funding madness | theScore.com", "raw_content": "The relocation threat: a brief history of arena-funding madness\nIt wasn\u2019t entirely smooth sailing in fall 2016 when Rogers Place opened in downtown Edmonton, Alberta.\n\u201cWe had some problems; we had side effects. There weren\u2019t enough men\u2019s washrooms,\u201d said city councilor Scott McKeen, whose Ward 6 encompasses the arena. \u201cI had to deal with complaints about urination on downtown streets.\u201d\nDisregarding the bladder-control issues of local patrons, the arena has largely been praised since opening its doors, and not only by fans of the National Hockey League\u2019s Oilers and concert-goers. Rogers Place is credited by many, McKeen included, for serving as a \u201ccatalyst\u201d project, igniting the regeneration of a neglected, underdeveloped downtown Edmonton.\n\u201cThe transformation of this downtown has probably been more spectacular than any other because of that catalyst effect of putting an arena downtown,\u201d said McKeen, a former columnist and reporter for the Edmonton Journal. \u201cAnd the amount of investment, largely in residential buildings, has been remarkable.\n\u201cAnd it looks like it will continue.\u201d\nRogers Place was largely publicly funded, a point of contention for many councilors and taxpayers. Negotiations between Oilers owner Daryl Katz and the city were protracted, contentious and, at times, ugly - the nadir Katz\u2019s 2012 visit to Seattle, which Edmontonians took as a thinly-veiled threat of relocation.\nEdmonton\u2019s rivals in Calgary, the Flames, recently touched off a stadium-funding controversy of their own, announcing they were walking away from negotiations with the city following \u201cspectacularly unproductive\u201d meetings over a replacement for Scotiabank Saddledome.\nIt\u2019s a familiar refrain, sports owners demanding public financing for new stadiums, despite the glut of economic research indicating they don\u2019t move the needle for a city\u2019s economy.\n\u201cClaims that it is a way of increasing the number of jobs or income of the city as a whole are just not the case,\u201d said Trevor Tombe, associate professor of economics at the University of Calgary. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not just kind of like a gut feeling. There\u2019s been study after study - that I\u2019m aware of since the \u201880s - that repeatedly find no evidence to the effect of a sports arena, or having a professional sports franchise at all, have any effect, positive or negative, on employment or income.\u201d\nConspicuously absent from the early days of what could be a long haul in Calgary is much talk of how a new building would spark growth or generate new tax dollars, yet the city has already offered to pay for one-third of the $555-million arena, which Tombe described as \u201cgenerous.\u201d\nPro stadiums built predominantly without public funds do exist, including AT&T Park in San Francisco and FedExField in Maryland. Also privately financed is Chase Center, the new home of the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors, set to open in San Fran\u2019s Mission Bay neighborhood for the 2019-2020 season. But private financing is hardly the norm.\nProfessional sports teams are, in many cases, woven into the fabric of cities to the extent they are considered vital organs, helping sustain a metropolis\u2019 metaphorical heartbeat. They\u2019re the consummate unifier; a wellspring of civic pride.\nA great many teams have relocated as a result of stadium-funding disputes. Within the last two seasons alone, Los Angeles gained two National Football League teams via San Diego and St. Louis, and the Raiders are scheduled to depart Oakland for Las Vegas by 2020 at the latest.\nWith those cautionary tales in mind, and the Flames adamant they require a state-of-the-art facility to remain competitive, it\u2019s no wonder the club is digging in its heels.\nBut here\u2019s the rub: Arenas are not a public good.\n\u201cThis is a facility that\u2019s used by a business, a successful business, and that\u2019s great,\u201d Tombe said, \u201cbut public subsidies are typically only justified where there are market failures, like positive externalities for example. That\u2019s why education typically gets subsidies from government. (An) arena is an entirely different beast - there are no obvious market failures to correct.\u201d\nStill the debate rages on, to fund or not to fund. As to why, one can look to the scars left from arguably the most infamous sports relocation in history: the so-called Mayflower move of the Baltimore Colts.\nBaltimore couldn\u2019t stomach losing another professional sports team.\nThe primary concern of the newly minted Maryland Stadium Authority in 1986, Herbert Belgrad said, was the return of the NFL following the Colts\u2019 departure to Indianapolis two years prior, but preventing the flight of Major League Baseball\u2019s Orioles was a close second.\nAdmittedly not a sports fan, Belgrad was nevertheless approached by then-Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes to establish and spearhead the public entity which would ultimately secure state funding for the Camden Yards twin-stadium project.\n\u201cIt was not a slam dunk politically,\u201d said Belgrad, a partner at the law firm Tydings & Rosenberg. \u201cThe legislatures were very suspect of the fact that we should fund - we meaning state funding - a ballpark where the ball team is owned by Edward Bennett Williams.\u201d\nWilliams was a prominent Washington, D.C., trial attorney who in 1967 founded Williams & Connolly, widely considered among the country\u2019s top litigation firms. A part-owner and president of the NFL\u2019s Washington Redskins, Williams bought the Orioles in 1979 for $12 million. Baltimoreans were concerned he intended to move the team to Washington, which had lost the Senators to Texas following the \u201871 season.\n\u201cWilliams had no geographic ties to the Baltimore area,\u201d Belgrad said. \u201cSo just as the Colts had been stolen away, the concern was not only to replace our NFL franchise, but to retain the Orioles, because that was a real threat.\u201d\nBuoyed by testimony from Williams, who assured lawmakers he had no intention of moving the club, Belgrad received the go-ahead in March of \u201887.\nAt a cost of $225 million, including $100 million to acquire land, the stadium authority commissioned a red-brick, retro-style park which, upon opening in 1992, immediately became the architectural envy of baseball and the inspiration for numerous downtown ballfields to follow.\nThe Orioles signed a 30-year lease, agreeing to share a percentage of money from various sources with the stadium authority, including ticket sales, concessions, and parking. Baltimore city, the primary economic beneficiary of Oriole Park, also contributes $1 million annually.\nMaryland Lottery proceeds pay the debt service (cash required to cover the repayment of interest and principal) on the 30-year bonds issued to fund the stadium. According to stadium authority figures obtained by the Baltimore Sun, the total cost of the bonds will reach $450 million when they\u2019re fully paid off in 2019. The authority had received $255 million total from the Orioles as of June 30, 2016.\nNot unlike Edmonton, Camden Yards has been applauded for helping to revitalize Baltimore\u2019s Inner Harbor area, which now boasts M&T Bank Stadium (home to the NFL\u2019s Ravens), the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor Hotel, Horseshoe Casino Baltimore, and the reopened Hippodrome Theatre.\n\u201cWhen this project started, nobody was looking for a pinnacle stadium,\u201d Belgrad said. \u201cAnd nobody imaged that it would have the impact that would bring the tourism that it has. We were building a ballpark.\u201d\nAdded Bill Cole, president and CEO of the Baltimore Development Corporation, which serves as the economic development agency for the city: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible for me to think of what that entire area would look like without that complex.\u201d\nEconomists, however, largely don\u2019t buy into the theory that professional sports stadiums are uniquely capable of spawning the rejuvenation of downtrodden neighborhoods.\n\u201cPeople might make that argument, but it\u2019s not borne out by the evidence,\u201d said West Virginia University economics professor Brad Humphreys, who\u2019s done extensive research on the economics and financing of professional sports.\nAs for the overall economic impact of a new arena, Humphreys cited Edmonton when discussing the economic principle of opportunity cost.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot going on in the arena district - bars are full, restaurants are full,\u201d he said. \u201cThose people, if that arena wasn\u2019t there, would have been spending money on Whyte Avenue in Edmonton. Instead they\u2019re spending it down there.\n\u201cIt is pretty clear that an arena like that is going to move spending around. But all that spending that\u2019s gone on down there is at the expense of somewhere - some bar, somewhere else in Edmonton, or St. Albert (Alberta), is suffering, because people are going to a bar somewhere else.\u201d\nThe worst-case scenario, Humphreys said, is if taxpayers pay 100 percent of a new facility construction project from the general fund.\nIn October, Nevada legislators approved $750 million in public financing toward a projected $1.9-billion domed stadium for the Raiders, the largest public contribution for a stadium in U.S. history, according to figures HuffPost obtained from the Taxpayers Protection Alliance.\nUniversity of Georgia economics professor Jeffrey Dorfman views the Vegas project as an interesting test case for whether a new stadium and team are truly capable of increasing local tourism.\n\u201cBasically the only way you do actually win from bringing a sports team in, is if those events attract tourists from out of town,\u201d said Dorfman, a regular contributor to Forbes. \u201cIf the locals go, you just move their money from movies and dinner to the game - no real change in the local economy.\n\u201cBut if Vegas can get 40 or 50 or 60 thousand people flying into town for the Raiders game, and getting hotels and going out to restaurants and spending money that otherwise they would have spent somewhere in California, then Vegas could actually win. And could pay off their arena and come out ahead.\u201d\nIn July, the New York Times reported it will cost Miami and Miami-Dade County $2 billion over the life of the bonds issued to pay for Marlins Park. In 2009, the city and county agreed to cover three-quarters of the price tag on the retractable-roof stadium in Little Havana, using hotel-tax revenue to pay off the debt. The Marlins, however, have the lowest attendance in the National League and few new businesses have reportedly sprung up around the ballpark.\nIt would be a fool\u2019s errand to argue the Marlins are a magnet for tourists.\nAnother cautionary tale is Coolray Field, home to the Atlanta Braves\u2019 Triple-A affiliate in Gwinnett County, Ga. The $45-million project ballooned to $68 million, with the county financing $31 million in cash and the rest with debt. The Gwinnett Braves have suffered through lackluster attendance since 2009 and commercial development near the stadium never materialized.\nAt least those facilities have anchor tenants.\nQuebec City has yet to lure an NHL team to the Videotron Centre to replace the Nordiques, who fled for Colorado in 1995. The city and province split the arena\u2019s $370-million construction bill, despite receiving no promises from the league regarding expansion. In its first four months after opening in September 2015, the arena ran a $1.4-million operational deficit, according to a CBC report, half of which Quebec City is contractually obligated to cover.\nMarkham, Ontario\u2019s vision for an arena to house a second NHL team in the Greater Toronto Area was never realized, but local residents and politicians were likely breathing a sigh of relief when reports relating to the private-public project were ultimately released two years after the plan was nixed in 2013. The cost, it turned out, was $416 million, not $325 million.\nHumphreys was asked to provide a report on the economic impact of the Markham project and found the arena wouldn\u2019t have brought any tangible economic benefits to the city. Although, he did forecast between $28 million and $56 million in intangible benefits.\n\u201cThe intangible benefits are world class-city status - if you\u2019ve got an NHL team, it puts you on the map,\u201d Humphreys said. \u201cOr having an NHL team provides a sense of community and belonging to people who live in the area because they\u2019ve all got something to talk about, and something to root for.\n\u201cAnd that is value.\u201d\nThe problem, Humphreys warns, is that the intangible dollar value is never big enough to justify the subsidies teams get.\nIn 2008, Humphreys testified on behalf of the NBA\u2019s SuperSonics in a federal trial over whether the team could break its lease at Seattle\u2019s KeyArena.\n\u201cIt was the easiest testimony I\u2019ve ever done in my life because I\u2019ve got 15 years worth of research that suggested Seattle would not be harmed if the Sonics left,\u201d he said. \u201cNo other city has ever experienced any economic consequences of a team leaving.\u201d\nThe city and team ultimately reached a settlement, paving the way for the Sonics\u2019 move to Oklahoma City. Seattle has been without NBA basketball since, but the L.A.-based Oak View Group recently announced its intentions to spend $600 million on renovations to KeyArena for NHL and NBA use.\nPolitics play a crucial, if not overriding, role in stadium-funding disputes. In Calgary, the arena saga is expected to influence Mayor Naheed Nenshi\u2019s bid for re-election on Oct. 16.\n\u201cThese decisions give a community multiple personality disorder,\u201d said McKeen, the Edmonton councilor, \u201cbecause the same people who will say it\u2019s unjust to do that would want to lynch city council if the team left town.\u201d\nFor his part, Flames president and CEO Ken King has refuted suggestions his Sept. 13 announcement regarding an impasse with city hall was politically motivated, while Nenshi was forced to defend the city\u2019s stance.\n\"The narrative that me or that council doesn't want a new arena - it just ain't true,\" Nenshi told reporters. \"Calgarians have told us, you know what, we're willing to make an investment. We're not willing to give away the farm.\"\nEarning public support for funding comes down to how you paint the taxpayer contribution. As Georgia\u2019s Dorfman points out, taxpayers often believe they won\u2019t be the ones left holding the bag.\n\u201cThey think it\u2019s not going to be them,\u201d he said. \u201cThe politicians are telling you, \u2018We\u2019re going to pay for it with a hotel tax. We\u2019re going to pay for it with a rental car tax. We\u2019re going to pay for it with an airport tax.\u2019\n\u201cThey may hear a ticket tax and think, \u2018OK I\u2019ll pay a little on this, but that\u2019ll be alright.\u2019 So they think they\u2019re getting something they want for pretty close to free.\u201d\nIn Edmonton, $313 million of the $614-million tab - which includes the rink, land, and the Winter Garden programmable space - comes from a community revitalization levy (CRL).\nBased on the premise revitalization projects increase local activity, investment and development, a city will repay the money it borrowed to fund the arena with taxes from new construction and rising property values within a certain boundary. The tax base within that boundary is fixed - or frozen - before the new facility is constructed. Only tax dollars earned above and beyond that fixed amount go toward paying for the catalyst project.\nBut the argument CRLs don\u2019t affect taxpayers, Humphreys said, is simply \u201cspin.\u201d\n\u201cGovernment tax dollars have opportunity cost,\u201d Humphreys said. \u201cThey could have used those dollars for something else other than paying off the bonds for the arena. Property values could have gone up just because of private development in that part of Edmonton, and had that happened, then those tax dollars could have been put to some other use.\u201d\nHumphreys cautions that the CRL model is dependent on property values going up and staying up. The risk for taxpayers is future real estate decline - if property values and tax revenue decline, other tax revenue will be needed to pay off the principal and interest on the bonds.\nHowever, the economist does admit CRLs are more desirable than funding arenas with government general fund revenues.\nThe Oilers are also repaying the city the principal and interest on a $125-million loan over a 35-year period using a ticket surcharge from attendees at Rogers Place events.\nA ticket surcharge is among the sticking points in Calgary, as the Flames would view that revenue as part of their contribution. U of Calgary\u2019s Tombe doesn\u2019t see it that way.\n\u201cThat\u2019s just silly,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they thought it was the same, then why wouldn\u2019t they just be willing to have a higher ticket price. The fact that they wanted it structured as a surcharge is meaningfully different than charging a higher price on a ticket, because the surcharge transfers risk from the private company to the city.\u201d\nMcKeen considers himself a Rogers Place convert, initially skeptical of the proposal but now of the belief the catalyst effect of the arena is paying off. He advises assessing such development projects like player trades - not in the first year or two, but 10 years down the road. At that point, he predicts, Edmonton will receive high grades on its investment.\nFurthermore, he stresses the unquantifiable value a team like the Oilers provides to the local community. And the mere thought of losing that cherished asset is what gives teams and leagues all the leverage they need.\n\u201cYou either play ball, or possibly waive goodbye to your professional sports franchise,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s the ugly reality.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 20600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visionmd.org/2016/07/12/exciting-news-about-stem-cells-for-macular-degeneration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGNFM47LAKRXMYFMO4VTJAFD4HXIRVS6", "length": 1653, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "visionmd.org", "title": "Exciting News about Stem Cells for Macular Degeneration | VisionMD", "raw_content": "Credit: http://www.riken-ibri.jp\nA team based in Japan successfully transplanted a patient\u2019s own stem cells back into the retina in an experimental treatment for age-related macular degeneration (AMD). This research was recently presented in April/May 2016 in Seattle, WA.\nWhile stem cell research has been progressing for the eye on several fronts and there has been a few Phase I and Phase II clinical trials, the exciting thing about this particular trial is that the cells used here were autologous (meaning they came from the same patient that they were transplanted into).\nThe method of this trial was to harvest skin cells from the arm, then induce those differentiated cells into a more embryonic state. These cells are called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). After the researchers got the iPSCs, they were transformed into a sheet of pigment epithelial cells that were transplanted into the patient\u2019s own eye. The sheet of pigmented cells was used to replace missing pigmented cells under the retina of a patient with advanced AMD\u2013potentially supporting the remaining retina and preserving/restoring function.\nThe cells survived for over a year under the retina and did not result in any adverse side effects. The patient also experienced slightly improved vision (though this result should be taken with a grain of salt as this was an uncontrolled single person trial). Still, the fact that no harm was done is of great significance and paves the way for further research into the use of autologous iPSCs for the treatment of AMD. I am looking forward to hearing about new trial results from this Japanese group.\nhttps://wp.me/p2kVu3-be", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 155.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visitannapolis.org/events/6654", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ILHYMD3ZCPGG3PC4S2BIVRAOSNOF3CCG", "length": 76, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "visitannapolis.org", "title": "Visit Annapolis - Navy Baseball vs. Coppin State", "raw_content": "Come out and support the Navy Midshipmen Baseball team against Coppin State!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 4031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visitrockawaybeach.org/indoor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:49Z", "digest": "sha1:XSJ4J3E7RL7WO436AJKXILCYFOT22MGW", "length": 10988, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "visitrockawaybeach.org", "title": "Oregon Coast indoor activities for all at Rockaway Beach", "raw_content": "Oregon Coast Indoor Activities in and around Rockaway Beach\nSure, we all love to spend an afternoon at the beach sharing a picnic with friends, playing in the surf, or scouring the shoreline for seashells and agates. Our miles of sandy beaches are what bring most people to Rockaway Beach, yet they are often pleasantly surprised to find a colorful array of eclectic beach shops, award-winning restaurants, and endless stories spun by our lively locals and spirited shop owners awaiting them in our town center.\nFor every shop in Rockaway Beach, you will find a story; all you have to do is ask. Did you know that on Saturdays children under 12 can get a free, new-to-them Hot Wheels car from The Little Crow? Or that the baked goods and pastries at Renee\u2019s Tasting Room & Cafe are recipes the owner used to make for her children when they were younger? Some of our shops have been here for so long that parents and grandparents bring the next generation to enjoy them \u2013 because it\u2019s not a trip to Rockaway Beach without stopping at Flamingo Jim\u2019s, right?\nA stroll along Hwy 101 will reveal handmade jewelry, the most colorful birdhouses you\u2019ve ever seen, vintage and contemporary art, local crafts and photography, kites and souvenirs, and of course, ice cream parlors serving the famous Tillamook Ice Cream and classic salt-water taffy. From clothing boutiques to light bulbs filled with rainwater (yes, that\u2019s a real thing and we have it!), if you\u2019re looking for interior decorations, gift ideas, or just something to remember your trip by, there is so much to explore in Rockaway Beach.\nOf course, no day is complete without a fabulous meal at one of our many amazing restaurants ranked as some of the top dining spots on the coast. Most restaurants source from local growers to ensure quality and freshness, so if you need a pick-me-up cup of coffee and homemade pastry, or are craving freshly smoked local catch, we have it all in our small town.\nClick here for the Rockaway Beach shopping directory.\nEver wondered how police officers collect evidence and solve crimes? Or what it would be like to wear a bulletproof vest? At the International Police Museum in our small beach town you will learn everything you ever wanted to know about police protocols and can even try on their equipment.\nEntirely dedicated to the heritage, history, and evolution of police and law enforcement on the Oregon Coast, this fascinating museum is great fun for the entire family. Each educational display explores different aspects of law enforcement from around the world, giving visitors a chance to see historical and international police equipment, including uniforms, weapons, restraints, badges and more.\nGaribaldi Maritime Museum\nYou\u2019ll find the Garibaldi Maritime Museum located between the base of Captain Robert Gray Mountain and Tillamook Bay in Garibaldi, Oregon at the Oregon Coast. The museum is filled with memoirs of the maritime heritage of the North Coast, particularly the adventures of Captain Robert Gray. It is the mission of the museum to collect information concerning Captain Robert Gray and historic sailing vessels; the Lady Washington and The Columbia Rediviva.\nThe fascinating history of the 18th-century sailing world is recounted through the story of Captain Robert Gray and the trade he established with native Elim and other Salish Indians of the Pacific Northwest.\nCome see the models of the Columbia Rediviva and the Lady Washington. Be amazed at the eight-foot-tall reproduction of the Columbia Rediviva\u2019s figurehead and the model showing how this ship was provisioned for the long sea voyage. See the apparel of what the 18th-century seafarers would have worn, and the musical instruments they would have played.\nThere is also a replica in the works of a \u201cJolly Boat\u201d which was used in the trade industry for transport between large seafaring ships. Please be sure and check out the unique history of the City of Garibaldi which includes interesting pictures and memorabilia from the turn of the Century.\nWhat mysteries will you solve at the Tillamook County Museum at the Oregon Coast?\nHave you heard the legend of the treasure allegedly buried on Neahkahnie Mountain? What about the story of the first pilgrim who built his house inside a tree stump? Did you know there once was a town built along Bayocean Spit that fell into the ocean? You\u2019ll discover these stories and many more during a trip to the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum on the corner of Pacific and Second Street in historic downtown Tillamook.\nTillamook county\u2019s history is rich and diverse \u2013 spanning miles of coastline rugged mountains. While time development has reshaped some the tillamook coast\u2019s identity, much it still lives on among museum\u2019s artifacts enthusiasm staff volunteers for telling a good story.\nThe building itself is a testament to the city\u2019s history, once serving as the Tillamook County Courthouse. Now it plays an equally important role, housing more than 35,000 items and 10,000 photographs capturing and telling a story of a much older Tillamook Coast.\nFrom pioneers to the Kilchis Indians, to Naval Air Station Tillamook, to the great Tillamook Burn that almost wiped out the entire forest, the museum keeps all the memories, legends, myths and mysteries alive in its unforgettable collections. No matter what aspect of the Tillamook Coast interests you, you\u2019re sure to learn something new or broaden your horizons at the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum.\nThe museum encompasses three floors, complete with replica rooms and artifacts dating back to the very first settlers. With two libraries documenting the Tillamook Coast\u2019s diverse past, visitors are encouraged to do some of their own digging. Or just meander the different floors, each dedicated to a different time, aspect or theme of Tillamook\u2019s past, and soak it all in. A few times each year the display in the main exhibit room is changed, making a trip to the museum insightful and entertaining, no matter how many times you\u2019ve been there.\nIf watching the ocean waves crash, recede and smack into each other sounds exciting to you, then a visit to Rockaway Beach during the winter months is right up your alley. We will supply the stormy weather; all you need is a cup of hot cocoa, a cozy blanket and a view of the horizon for a quintessential Oregon Coast weekend. And since we are the only beach town in the county that\u2019s actually right on the beach, we have the best vantage point for enjoying those stormy afternoons.\nWhile it is never recommended to be on the beach during a storm, we have several popular beachfront hotels and beautiful vacation homes with views of the ocean, so you can watch from the safety and comfort of your own room or deck. And what sounds better than torrents of horizontal rain hitting your window while you curl up next to the fire? Maybe ordering in from one of our highly-rated dining spots and restaurants.\nIf you do decide to venture outside, wear the proper rain gear and a sturdy pair of boots to keep you from slipping or getting too wet.\nThe Tillamook Air Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m and the Caf\u00e9 is open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.\nA visit to the Tillamook Air Museum at the Oregon Coast is like taking a step back in time \u2013 almost literally. Housed inside one of the nation\u2019s last remaining World War II blimp hangars, this world-renowned museum features rare wartime and aviation artifacts and meticulously restored vintage aircraft, many of which are still airworthy!\nYou\u2019ll even have a chance to see what life as a jet pilot was like by sitting in the cockpit of a vintage aircraft trainer. As if the jaw-dropping planes aren\u2019t enough, photos, first-hand documentation, and authentic uniforms will draw you into a world that has long passed but is never forgotten. Experience first-hand engines from aviation\u2019s heyday, and learn about and see the tools and machines used at the time to deliver helium to the airships. Get a full history of the blimp hangars\u2019 role during WWII in the Tillamook Air Museum\u2019s free theater.\nNot only do the planes, photographs, medals and trinkets that surround you tell their stories, but the hangar itself that houses it all also has a story to tell. Built in 1943 by the US Navy for Naval Air Station Tillamook, the hangar, known as Hangar B, is 1,072 feet long and 296 feet wide, covering over six acres. It stands 192 feet tall and was one of two hangars built on the site (Hangar A burned down in 1992). It is one of the largest wooden structures in the world that is still standing today.\nAfter you\u2019ve toured the museum, don\u2019t forget about the 1950\u2019s themed Air Base Caf\u00e9 serving hamburgers and milkshakes in vintage fashion. Then browse the gift shop and take home your very own Belanca Aircruiser model or P-51 Mustang keychain. The Tillamook Air Museum is an experience you\u2019ll never forget, and one you can\u2019t have anywhere, but on the Tillamook Coast. So whether you\u2019re young, or just young at heart, you\u2019ll understand why the Tillamook Air Museum is a \u201cdon\u2019t miss\u201d destination.\nThere\u2019s only one spot along the Tillamook Coast where you can indulge in an ice cream cone, taste an award-winning grilled cheese sandwich and bring home a bag of \u201csqueaky cheese,\u201d all while learning what goes into making world-famous Tillamook medium cheddar cheese.\nAt the Tillamook Cheese Factory you\u2019ll meet people from all around the world who gather to learn about the cheesemaking process. During the free self-guided tour you, too, will discover why Tillamook has such a deep connection to its cheese and understand the history that has gone into making the famous baby loaf. Learn about the dairy cows and why the Tillamook Valley is such an opportune place to raise them. Test your knowledge of the differences among Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire, Brown Swiss, Holstein, and Dutch Belted cows, and read about some of the first dairy farms in the area.\nTake an interactive, behind-the-scenes peek at how your favorite cheese is produced and packaged. You\u2019ll even get a chance to sample different types of Tillamook cheese and enjoy a scoop or two (or more!) of your favorite Tillamook ice cream flavors. Don\u2019t have a favorite? Don\u2019t worry! There are endless varieties to choose from. Or maybe you\u2019d rather stop by the Creamery Caf\u00e9 for a delectable grilled Tillamook cheese sandwich. There\u2019s even a fudge counter featuring more than thirty different types of old-fashioned fudge made with creamy Tillamook butter.\nFinally, don\u2019t miss out on the gift shop. Pick out some \u201cTillamook flavored\u201d souvenirs that will ensure you never forget your trip to this renowned Tillamook Coast landmark. While you\u2019re there, get your picture taken in the adorable Baby Loaf Bus, which travels on the Loaf Love Tour and brings the naturally-aged cheeses to people all across the country from the Oregon Coast. 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She shared the case of Nairobi as a growing green city during the 2014 International Student Conference on Environment and Sustainability: Symposium on Energy Transition and Climate Change held last June 5, 2014 at Tongji University, Shanghai, China.\nNairobi is called \u201ccity in the sun\u201d, and they are transitioning towards a green economy. The UNEP and UN-HABITAT Headquarters housed in Strathmore University are examples of Nairobi\u2019s green buildings. The criteria behind this transition are livability, economic security (green jobs) and environmental preservation.\nWithin the country, there are five spatial areas that need improvement: land use, water, the environment, energy and sustainability. These areas are the ones addressed by Nairobi in their Metro 2030 Development Strategy. However, there are certain challenges to this program. First, poverty levels are high and there are heightened levels of insecurity coupled with inadequate access to medical services. There is also poor service quality within the country that results to large numbers of illegally and poorly constructed buildings as a consequence of a weak control system. Extreme pressure on base resources, physical water scarcity and poor transport networks also pose a problem in Nairobi.\nMost of Nairobi has always relied on hydroelectric sources, and in the 2030 Strategy, the government is leaning towards a commitment on renewable sources of energy such as wind, solar and geothermal. The Integrated Waste Management Programme is also looking into using solid waste as a potential source of renewable energy as the use of biogas is already popular with the agricultural sector.\n\u2190 Promoting German-Chinese Cooperation for Building Energy Efficiency in China\nClimate protection at BASF \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 5626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vpr.vacantregistry.com/FPRC_Main/OrdinanceDetail.aspx?CommunityId=22666&WithBreadcrumb=True", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:56Z", "digest": "sha1:PTDFYJ262XOZF2IYSYIIJBG3SGOGWWAL", "length": 141, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "vpr.vacantregistry.com", "title": "Borough of Pitman", "raw_content": "Borough of Pitman\nIf the initial registration is not paid within 60 days of notice by the Borough, the initial fee will increase to $1,000.00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/66026", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:4DB3Z3AYEFSA2YFS2DH34YMFMAPCOTLE", "length": 459, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "vtechworks.lib.vt.edu", "title": "Reformed poacher now basing his livelihood on sustainable agriculture and ecotourism", "raw_content": "Reformed poacher now basing his livelihood on sustainable agriculture and ecotourism\n1319_019_17.JPG (952.1Kb)\nTravis, A.J.\nThe man in the middle of the photo is a reformed poacher who has spent over 15 years in jail for his illegal hunting activities. 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Seeking to dive further into the inner workings of the Nobel Peace Prize picking process, Syse hosted an hour long lecture before fielding student questions.\nMatthew Leinhauser, president of the Honors Student Association, introduced him before the lecture, saying that \u201che is a friend of mine, a friend of West Chester\u2019s, and soon to be a friend of yours.\u201d\nTrue to this statement, Syse\u2019s onstage positivity radiated from the Main Hall lecture stage.\n\u201c[West Chester] is one of the only schools where people meet on Friday evenings to hear a lecture; if only Kavanaugh did that,\u201d said Syse for his opening line, later stating \u201c \u2026 that\u2019s my last comment on American politics.\u201d\nMultiple times throughout the lecture, Syse made sure to affirm that his thoughts and opinions did not represent the entire committee, but rather just himself \u2013 he said this especially after any political opinion or joke.\nSyse has worked with the committee for three and a half years. Elected by the Norwegian parliament, five members decide the yearly laureate\u2013a process with some understood weight and pressure. The cultural and political implications of the honor play heavily into the decision-making, as in the case of Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese peacemaker whose prize garnered negativity from the Chinese government.\nThe lecture itself was divided into multiple primary sections, starting with a brief quiz on recognizable (and some a bit less famous) laureates. Syse emphasized the universality and the range of laureates over the decades, and asked the question,\n\u201cHow are we to interpret a will written in 1895?\u201d\nMany movements that we might now define as promoting worldwide peace were out of the public eye or entirely nonexistent over a century ago; climate change scientists and specialists rank chief among those who don\u2019t meet the original criteria for the peace prize. Syse tied this question with a brief reference to the American Constitution, asking how we can simultaneously honor the past writings while reinterpreting them for a new age.\nUtilizing a reference comparing the hair lengths of The Beatles between 1962 and 1970, Syse explained how rapidly a society is likened to change, and how cultural consensus can transform instantly.\nHe also played with the idea of whether the committee should choose a candidate who matches the world\u2019s voice, or a more controversial candidate who could make a statement. This lead to his next question, \u201cWho deserves the prize?\u201d\nSyse discussed the more controversial aspects of the Nobel Peace Prize, focusing especially on the concept of \u201cdeserving\u201d the reward. Aung San Suu Kyi, the 1991 laureate, worked as a Burmese peacemaker until assuming a state position in Myanmar; she has drawn criticism for not \u201cliving up to the beliefs of a laureate\u201d in relation to her lack of action against Myanmar military massacres. Describing this situation, Syse shared the idea that while the prize cannot be taken back, it can serve as a reminder to who you should strive to be, and where you can fall from.\nAlongside this history, Syse mentioned Barack Obama\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize, saying first that it was \u201ccertainly a very controversial one,\u201d and continuing to discuss the difference between \u2018peace\u2019 and \u2018pacifist.\u2019 In his explanation, a Peace Prize can be awarded to a world leader currently at war, an oxymoron of philosophy without taking into account the idea of Just War, saying that \u201cpeace without protection of human rights is not true peace.\u201d\nAfter diving into the potential misrepresentations of the Peace Prize, Syse focused more on its unifying ideals for the purposes of \u201cending on a high note.\u201d He specifically cited the need to take responsibility, the ability to turn enmity into reconciliation and peace and the protection of basic human rights as key components.\nSyse ended his lecture with some parting wisdom on power dynamics in modern governments, saying \u201cpeople have this feeling that power is so far away.\u201d According to the Vice Chair, demagogues will intentionally make citizens feel that their voices are powerless, and that media is a useless tool. Syse urged to fight against this mentality, and to act with purpose to change the world for the better.\nWhen asked a few questions on Syse\u2019s choice to return to West Chester, Leinhauser provided a comment. \u201c[Syse] championed WCU\u2019s work again by stating no other university in the world puts so much care and attention on education of the Nobel Peace Prize than West Chester University, and more specifically, its Honors College. When asked \u2018Why West Chester?\u2019 it turns out the answer is pretty simple: No other university in the world is doing what we\u2019re doing.\u201d Dr. Syse made an explicit effort to come to our campus, his only stop between Oslo, Norway and the United Nations meeting.\nLeinhauser also shared some preliminary information on the hand that West Chester University has in picking a potential candidate, saying that more will be coming soon. As for endings, Syse had this to say:\n\u201cIt\u2019s your prize. It\u2019s humanity\u2019s prize. 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It was whilst living at Max Gate that Hardy wrote some of his most well known works including Tess of the d\u2019Ubervilles and Jude the Obscure\nDay 10 Stratford-Upon-Avon\nThe land of Shakespeare Board the coach to travel to Stratford-upon-Avon where entrance has been included to all 5 Shakespearean sites. The birthplace of William Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon is steeped in culture and history, and set in the beautiful countryside on the banks of the river Avon\nTheatrical delight Enjoy a performance at the royal Shakespeare Theatre in the evening\nDay 11 Stratford-Upon-Avon - Daresbury - Chester\nLewis Carroll Enjoy a full day excursion to the Cheshire Village of Daresbury, the birthplace of Lewis Carroll. One of his most famous characters, the Cheshire Cat, pays obvious homage to the county of his childhood\nDay 12 Chester - Lakes District\nBronte Country Board the coach to travel to the Lake District via Bronte country. Visit the Bronte Parsonage Museum, the former home of the Bronte sisters which is now maintained by the Bronte Society.\nThis afternoon admire the beautiful scenery during a walk to Top Withens and Bronte Waterfall. The walk is approx 2 kilometres long and locals believe that the ruins at Top Withens are connected to Emily Bronte\u2019s novel Wuthering Heights\nDay 13 Lake District\nBeatrix Potter Enjoy a visit to Beatrix Potter\u2019s House and the Beatrix Potter Gallery, dedicated to the author renowned for her works including the Tale of Peter Rabbit. The Beatrix Potter House magically recreates the lovely countryside which so impressed the young Beatrix and inspired the creation of Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail and Peter, and their many adventures\nAfternoon adventures In the afternoon, visit Dove Cottage and the Wordsworth Museum and House. The daffodils, trees and lakes around Dove Cottage were used as inspiration for Wordsworth\u2019s poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, and it was whilst living in Dove Cottage that he wrote much of his greatest poetry\nExplore The rest of the afternoon is free for teacher organised activities in the Lake District\nDay 14 Lake District - Manchester - Australia\nFarewell Board the coach to transfer to Manchester Airport for the return flight home\nThank you for your interest in our WorldStrides Page, Stage and Screen \u2013 England Tour! 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Jae Yeong Hwang drove in two runs and combined with Hae Chan Choi, who weathered a late Chicago rally, to lead the Asia-Pacific Region champions to an 8-4 win.\nThe game was played in bright sunshine and temperatures in the high 70s before a crowd of 28,671 at Lamade Stadium. Millions were watching from home. This is the highest- rated LLWS from summer\u2019s past. Even the President of the United States watched.\nChicago, the all black team and Great Lakes Region champions, came back from 3-0 and 5-4 deficits to beat favored West champ Las Vegas Mountain Ridge 7-5 in the U.S. title game on Saturday. Earlier, South Korea, the Asia-Pacific Region winner, rolled over Japan, 12-3. But Chicago couldn\u2019t come back against the powerful South Koreans who asserted themselves early. With the win, South Korea improved to 11-0 all-time in the LLWS.\nThere is a winner and loser, however this is bigger than sports. Echoes of natural joy, echoes of true teamwork, echoes of the late Jackie Robinson and if you are on the team no matter your gender, you can play. These young kids did not capitalize financially (which they deserve to) however they have fun. Fact is there are professionals who make millions and don\u2019t have fun playing sports.\nI am not here to critique these players on errors or their pitching form. I am just here to write that I enjoyed every moment of it. Thank you Mo\u2019Ne Davis. Congratulations Jackie Robinson West. Take a bow South Korea and that names a few. 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(AP) \u2014 Campbell Soup Co. said Monday that it will add two members to its board in a compromise with an activist investor. The new directors on the 14-member board are backed by\u2026\nCAMDEN, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Campbell Soup Co. said Monday that it will add two members to its board in a compromise with an activist investor.\nThe new directors on the 14-member board are backed by Third Point, a New York investment firm that owns 7 percent of Campbell\u2019s shares.\nThird Point waged a months-long campaign against the 149-year-old company and its leadership, including three descendants of Campbell\u2019s founder who sit on the board. Campbell\u2019s U.S. soup sales were down 8 percent in its 2018 fiscal year as customers have sought fresher alternatives.\nThe change will give Third Point more input in Campbell\u2019s current CEO search. In exchange, Third Point will withdraw its slate of five board candidates and halt its campaign for 12 months.\nShareholders will consider the change Thursday at Campbell\u2019s annual meeting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.10best.com/destinations/florida/space-coast/eau-gallie/shopping/downtown-eau-gallie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:44Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4AGMIIFDPYNQMWKKGNF2X26OLPJY2E3", "length": 1480, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.10best.com", "title": "Downtown Eau Gallie: Space Coast Shopping Review - 10Best Experts and Tourist Reviews", "raw_content": "Photo courtesy of Eau Gallie Arts District\nActually part of Melbourne (the two cities merged in the 1960s), the area known as Eau Gallie retains a personality \u2013 an identity \u2013 that's all its own. Located right on the Indian River, Eau... Read More\nActually part of Melbourne (the two cities merged in the 1960s), the area known as Eau Gallie retains a personality \u2013 an identity \u2013 that's all its own. Located right on the Indian River, Eau Gallie boasts a pleasant, slow-paced attitude that makes it a great place to spend a leisurely afternoon hunting for antiques or pieces of original art. Within walking distance of its many shops are a handful of worthwhile sights, including the Brevard Museum of Art and Science and Pineapple Park River Front. You'll find plenty of local shops here with funky, quirky, locally made goodies that you will be eager to pack into your suitcase \u2013 especially in the Eau Gallie Arts District.\nmelbourneflorida.org\nBest Shopping: \"Visit the Eau Gallie Farmer's Market every Saturday year-round in the square.\"\nChristmas Shopping: \"Stroll through the laid-back downtown shops, before catching the annual Christmas tree lighting \u2013 the perfect way to kick off the season with community spirit.\"\nRecommended as Best Shopping Because: Antiques, art, aromatherapy and local crafts \u2013 you'll find plenty of heart in Eau Gallie.\nBest for Christmas Shopping Because: Eau Gallie has plenty of shops, but with a slower pace that is refreshing this time of year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 362, "original_length": 6901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.110words.com/1110/why-learn-indian-massage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:4MJLQHTIX6PHSXPB5TXIQ2U3ZUNGL52P", "length": 3337, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.110words.com", "title": "Why Learn Indian Massage", "raw_content": "Massage is an important part of the Indian culture. It figures in almost every stage of life of an individual in India, especially because it has its roots in Ayurveda, India \u2019s ancient science of medicine. As one of the Ayurvedic methods, massage has been used for about four thousand years to improve the health and treat different kinds of illnesses. No wonder thousands of people around the world were encouraged to learn Indian massage.\nIndian massage falls under the Panchakarma aspect of Ayurveda. Panchakarma consists of five therapeutic treatments, all of which are aimed at purifying and relieving the body of toxic elements. Massage does this by working on two levels\u2014the mental and the physical aspects of an individual.\nThe rubbing and pressure exerted on one\u2019s body result in heightened blood circulation and bodily warmth. These then improve the lymphatic system and clear the blood vessels of accumulating clogs, giving the body systems a more efficient functioning. It also increases the flow of certain hormones in the body that promotes growth. And as the body is massaged, the individual gets an overall feeling of tensions getting eased, of relaxation of the physique that extends to the mental aspect or psyche of the individual.\nThough massage does not have a hundred percent guarantee on its healing powers, it complements other medical methods in treating illnesses and thus hastens healing. It also helps ease pain. But for you to be able to do massage properly, you should have knowledge on the different pressure or marma points in the human body. Massage may often start on the head or on the feet. That\u2019s because different portions of the head and foot are sort of connected with the other parts of the body.\nPain at the back of the head and of the areas near the temples, for example, may indicate urinary infection and kidney problems. Soreness of the eyeball may indicate over acidity, while pain of the eye sockets may be a symptom of gastritis. With the parts of body being connected to each other, massage therapy can thus be used to treat or ease the pain due to arthritis, tension, back pain, high and low blood pressure, insomnia, rheumatism, and cramps.\nAside from healing and pain relief, massage is also used as an important ritual in Indian culture. Women that have just given birth are given massage daily for 40 days after giving birth. Couples that will be married are required to undergo massage therapy before the wedding ceremony. Couples are massaged with oils so they would be relaxed and look good as well as have the strength and stamina they need.\nOils are always used in Indian massage. Aside from the fact that they lessen friction and make massaging easier, they also contribute a calming effect and soothe dryness of the skin. Massage oils often used are made from sesame, mustard, jasmine, jojoba, wheat germ, and almond.\nKnowing all these benefits of Indian massage, you need not ask why for thousands of years, Ayurvedic massage has been practiced by Indians and passed on from generation to generation. Now why don\u2019t you start experiencing it for yourself and eventually learn Indian massage, so you can share it with your family and friends? That way, you won\u2019t just be able to improve the health of the ones you love. You also get to bond and strengthen your relationships.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.1stonthelist.ca/blog/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:41Z", "digest": "sha1:H7RD4TKIBLQN2ZZ7Y6FPFEETDCWRGUD4", "length": 10444, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.1stonthelist.ca", "title": "1st on the List Blog - Informative Articles On SEO, PPC and Web Design", "raw_content": "Local search has become a de facto standard for businesses that service consumers in specific locales. Your online presences is just as important (if not more important) than your offline presence. If you are new to the scene of Local SEO and search optimization for your local or small business, here are five Google local [\u2026]\nDid you know that one or two extra words in a search query can affect the type or types of SERP feature Google shows in its results? The team at getstat.com recently posted an article titled How SERP Features Respond to Search Intent Modifiers which shows that swapping search intent modifiers can result in dramatic [\u2026]\n3 Ways to Bring Emotion Into Your SEO Content Strategy to Build Brand Awareness and Trust\nEmotions are a content marketing tool which SEO\u2019s today can\u2019t overlook. How we feel about a company determines whether or not we are compelled to share information about them and whether or not we bond with their brand. This is especially true for companies which offer intangible merchandise, such as services. Selling intangibles is based [\u2026]\nhttps://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/seo-technical-audit.jpg 667 1000 Brian Armstrong https://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Brian Armstrong2017-06-27 08:00:482019-01-23 15:50:093 Ways to Bring Emotion Into Your SEO Content Strategy to Build Brand Awareness and Trust\nSeveral months ago, I read The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your Writing by Karen Hertzberg. It contained valuable information on being frugal with words that has changed the way I think about writing. Her main idea was to groom your blog and content writing down to the bare minimum. Writing less becomes more appealing [\u2026]\n11 SEO Title Tag Tips and Tricks You Can Implement Today\nAre title tags still valid in the ever-changing world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)? More so than ever! Having well-crafted title tags helps Google assess your page content. This, in turn, results in more accurate exposure for your web page. Exposure equates to better click-through-rates to your website which in turn influences and improves your [\u2026]\nhttps://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/lead-generation-1st-on-the-list.jpg 853 1280 Michelle https://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Michelle2017-06-14 08:00:212019-01-08 11:55:5411 SEO Title Tag Tips and Tricks You Can Implement Today\nEven with keyword research tools in hand, doing Hyperlocal Keyword Research is a challenging venture. Simply put, there\u2019s not enough data available in most keyword research tools to provide definitive results for small businesses in humble locations. Before we dive into this article, let\u2019s first explain what we mean by \u201ckeyword research\u201d. 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We\u2019re proud to have been awarded this prestigious position in Clutch\u2019s top 10 [\u2026]\nhttps://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/glenn-carstens-peters-203007-unsplash.jpg 2712 4076 Michelle https://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Michelle2017-03-28 15:59:142019-01-08 11:58:161st on the List Named Among Top SEO Firms in Canada in 2017\nWhat kind of tools do you give your website visitors to find more relevant information on your website other than the first page they land on? Are the Search Engines finding every page on your website and understanding how your pages are related? Internal link structure can address both of these issues, plus others. When [\u2026]\nhttps://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/link-aquisition.jpg 660 1000 Brian Armstrong https://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Brian Armstrong2017-03-20 18:14:422019-01-23 16:19:287 Reasons Internal Link Structure of Your Website Matters for SEO\nRecently Britney Muller of Moz Blog indicated in a brief article titled Does Google Drop Featured Snippets Over Typos? on the Search Engine RoundTable site that a simple typographical error was the probable cause behind Moz losing a featured snippet. When the error was corrected, Moz reportedly regained the featured snippet in search. As mentioned [\u2026]\nNothing is more frustrating when you\u2019re attempting to research a current topic than getting results that are clearly outdated. I\u2019m constantly adding dates to the beginning or the end of my search terms yet it can still be hard to find good results. I suspect that\u2019s because few companies consider the year or the month [\u2026]\nUnderstanding Crawl Budgets and How to Increase Your Website Crawl Budget with Google\nGoogle admitted in their Webmaster Central Blog on January 16, 2017, that they don\u2019t have an official \u201ccrawl budget definition\u201d, indicating that a single term would not suffice. They went on to indicate that they would clarify what they actually have and what it means for Googlebot. In this article, we will explore what Google [\u2026]\nFebruary 4, 2017 /by Brian Armstrong\nhttps://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/heli-skiing-featured-image.jpg 533 800 Brian Armstrong https://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Brian Armstrong2017-02-04 08:00:492019-01-08 12:03:23Understanding Crawl Budgets and How to Increase Your Website Crawl Budget with Google\nContent & Keywords, Google, SEO Industry Insight\nSEO Voice Search Trends in 2017\nThere\u2019s a lot of discussion lately about SEO for voice search and how it\u2019s going to change SEO in many aspects. I tend not only to agree but to also suggest that the acoustic nature of voice search will hasten the development of new ways to present your website data specifically targeted to those using [\u2026]\nhttps://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/max-nelson-748763-unsplash.jpg 4000 6000 Brian Armstrong https://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Brian Armstrong2017-01-30 08:00:092019-01-08 12:05:07SEO Voice Search Trends in 2017\nMarketing & Promotions, Technical SEO\nWhen was the last time you thought about your website\u2019s security? If not recently, maybe now is the time. Both Chrome and Firefox are getting close to releasing the newest versions of their browsers that will noticeably mark your website as Not Secure to visitors. 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Set to release sometime late January 2017, the new Google Chrome 56 browser will label any HTTP website that collects passwords and credit card numbers as [\u2026]\nhttps://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/google-search.png 678 960 Brian Armstrong https://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Brian Armstrong2017-01-27 00:13:512019-01-08 12:18:31Is Your Website Being Marked as Not Secure in Chrome?\nLooking for some new SEO content techniques to improve your company exposure and bolster your overall SEO strategy as a result? Rejuvenating older SEO content articles and re-purposing the wealth of knowledge in those documents can prepare them for new mediums and bring some surprising results in the process. Google defines rejuvenate as \u201cmake (someone [\u2026]\nWe\u2019ve all seen them. The annoying popup ad layered over the page of a website which prevents us from reading the content after we\u2019ve followed a link on our mobile device. Google has decided that these interstitial mobile ads are intruding on a mobile user\u2019s experience by preventing the user from immediately accessing the page [\u2026]\nBusiness & Marketing, Marketing & Promotions, Mobile Search, Search Engine Marketing (SEM), SEO Industry Insight\nSo what did we learn about SEO in 2016 that we can carry over into the New Year and improve our SERP positioning? We learned numbers! Lots of numbers! I think that the most interesting statistics this year (and even from previous years) center around mobile, voice search on mobile, and voice search through present [\u2026]\nhttps://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/seo.png 504 960 Brian Armstrong https://www.1stonthelist.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/logo.png Brian Armstrong2017-01-11 18:02:102019-01-08 12:25:18SEO in 2017 and Beyond: The Numbers Game\nVoice Activated SEO Strategy for Google Home Device\nGoogle Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by Google Assistant. You can ask it questions or tell it to do things, much like the Google Search function on your computer or phone, but in a hands free speaker version. 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Rental car company Hertz will no longer offer a discount program to NRA members and First National Bank of Omaha said it will not renew a co-branded credit card it has with the NRA.The moves have come as petitions circulated online targeting companies offering discounts to NRA members on its website. #BoycottNRA was trending on Twitter.The State of Florida was also facing a potential boycott and backlash as well. One teen survivor of the Florida school shooting suggested on Twitter Saturday morning that tourists stay away from the state during spring break; he got immediate response on social media.\u201cLet\u2019s make a deal,\u201d David Hogg, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who has been a major player in the #neveragain movement, tweeted. \u201cDO NOT come to Florida for spring break unless gun legislation is passed.\u201dWendy Glaab, 60, of Fonthill, Ontario, Canada, was among the first to respond. \u201cI like many Canadians travel to Florida from time to time to escape our winter. I can\u2019t speak for others but I will not be returning until meaningful gun control legislation is in place.\u201dGlaab told The Associated Press on Saturday that her sister owns property in Fort Lauderdale and she is able to visit any time she chooses.Members of the NRA have access to special offers from partner companies on its website, ranging from life insurance to wine clubs. But the insurance company MetLife Inc. discontinued its discount program with the NRA on Friday. Car rental company Hertz and Symantec Corp., the software company that makes Norton Antivirus technology, did the same.\u201cWe have notified the NRA that we are ending the NRA\u2019s rental car discount program with Hertz,\u201d the company tweeted Friday.Insurer Chubb Ltd. said it is ending participation in the NRA\u2019s gun-owner insurance program, but it provided notice three months ago. The program that provided coverage for people involved in gun-related incidents or accidents had been under scrutiny by regulators over marketing issues.Those defections arrived after car rental company Enterprise Holdings, which also owns Alamo and National, said it was cutting off discounts for NRA members. First National Bank of Omaha, one of the nation\u2019s largest privately held banks, announced that it would not renew a co-branded Visa credit-card with the NRA.Other companies, including Wyndham Hotels and Best Western hotels, have let social media users know they are no longer affiliated with the NRA, though they did not make clear when the partnerships ended.The swiftness of the corporate reaction against the NRA has differed from that of past shootings, including the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that claimed 26 lives and the killing of 58 people in Las Vegas last fall, said Bob Spitzer, a political scientist at SUNY Cortland and a scholar on gun politics. Spitzer said the reaction was likely a reaction to the student mobilization that followed the Florida shooting, but he said it was too soon tell how significantly it will sway the country\u2019s wider gun debate.NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference that those advocating for stricter gun control are exploiting the Florida shooting.President Donald Trump has aligned himself with the NRA, suggesting some teachers could be armed so that they could fire on any attacker. However, Trump has also called for raising the minimum age for purchasing semi-automatic rifles, a move the NRA opposes.___AP Reporter Freida Frisaro contributed to this report from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.\nThe National Rifle Association says companies that are severing ties with the gun rights group and its members are wrongly punishing them for a shooting at a Florida high school that claimed 17 lives.\nIn a statement sent Saturday, NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said the group's 5 million members have long enjoyed discounts and benefits from many American corporations.\nStudents' active shooter plan for teacher in wheelchair is so sad\n\"Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,\" the statement said.\nThe group says it had \"nothing at all to do with the failure of that school's security preparedness ... or the cruel failures of both federal and local law enforcement.\"\nCompanies, including Delta and United Airlines, said joined the list that cut ties to the gun industry since the Feb. 14 shooting at the school in Parkland.\nThe NRA statement called the moves a \"shameful display of political and civic cowardice.\"\nThe latest companies to end their ties with the NRA were Delta and United Airlines, the first and third largest U.S.-based airline companies by revenue, respectively.\nBoth Delta and United said Saturday they will no longer offer discounted fares to NRA members to attend their annual meetings, and both have asked the gun rights group to remove any references to their companies from the NRA website.\nA growing number of large companies have announced they are cutting or reducing ties with the NRA. Rental car company Hertz will no longer offer a discount program to NRA members and First National Bank of Omaha said it will not renew a co-branded credit card it has with the NRA.\nThe moves have come as petitions circulated online targeting companies offering discounts to NRA members on its website. #BoycottNRA was trending on Twitter.\nThe State of Florida was also facing a potential boycott and backlash as well. One teen survivor of the Florida school shooting suggested on Twitter Saturday morning that tourists stay away from the state during spring break; he got immediate response on social media.\n\u201cLet\u2019s make a deal,\u201d David Hogg, a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who has been a major player in the #neveragain movement, tweeted. \u201cDO NOT come to Florida for spring break unless gun legislation is passed.\u201d\nWendy Glaab, 60, of Fonthill, Ontario, Canada, was among the first to respond. \u201cI like many Canadians travel to Florida from time to time to escape our winter. I can\u2019t speak for others but I will not be returning until meaningful gun control legislation is in place.\u201d\nGlaab told The Associated Press on Saturday that her sister owns property in Fort Lauderdale and she is able to visit any time she chooses.\nMembers of the NRA have access to special offers from partner companies on its website, ranging from life insurance to wine clubs. But the insurance company MetLife Inc. discontinued its discount program with the NRA on Friday. Car rental company Hertz and Symantec Corp., the software company that makes Norton Antivirus technology, did the same.\n\u201cWe have notified the NRA that we are ending the NRA\u2019s rental car discount program with Hertz,\u201d the company tweeted Friday.\nInsurer Chubb Ltd. said it is ending participation in the NRA\u2019s gun-owner insurance program, but it provided notice three months ago. The program that provided coverage for people involved in gun-related incidents or accidents had been under scrutiny by regulators over marketing issues.\nThose defections arrived after car rental company Enterprise Holdings, which also owns Alamo and National, said it was cutting off discounts for NRA members. First National Bank of Omaha, one of the nation\u2019s largest privately held banks, announced that it would not renew a co-branded Visa credit-card with the NRA.\nThe swiftness of the corporate reaction against the NRA has differed from that of past shootings, including the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that claimed 26 lives and the killing of 58 people in Las Vegas last fall, said Bob Spitzer, a political scientist at SUNY Cortland and a scholar on gun politics. Spitzer said the reaction was likely a reaction to the student mobilization that followed the Florida shooting, but he said it was too soon tell how significantly it will sway the country\u2019s wider gun debate.\nNRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said this week at the Conservative Political Action Conference that those advocating for stricter gun control are exploiting the Florida shooting.\nAP Reporter Freida Frisaro contributed to this report from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 12859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.4ni.co.uk/northern-ireland-news/75858/fire-fighters-attacks-condemned-as-blaze-man-rescued", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:27Z", "digest": "sha1:KYAKLWBL7NKLAZUWXYQR6VLPS53OP5IS", "length": 2434, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.4ni.co.uk", "title": "Fire Fighters Attacks Condemned As Blaze Man Rescued | Northern Ireland News, 13/05/2008", "raw_content": "Fire Fighters Attacks Condemned As Blaze Man Rescued\nAs a man is saved from a house fire in Belfast, a growing number of attacks on fire fighters have been condemned.\nThe man who was rescued from the fire at his house in east Belfast by his neighbour, is believed to be in his 60s.\nHe suffered burns to his hands in the blaze which destroyed a bedroom of the property on Avoneil Road.\nCommenting, Graham Lowry, Assistant Group Commander with the Fire and Rescue Service said the house did not have a smoke alarm: \"It could have been much worse, the gentleman did have a lucky escape,\" he said.\n\"One of the neighbours had been passing the gentleman's house and noticed the flames and was able to force his way into the property and rescue the man.\"\nMeanwhile, attacks on fire crews are said to be placing fire fighters\u2019 lives in danger and put communities at risk.\nThe NI Health Minister Michael McGimpsey has condemned a spate of attacks on fire fighters over the weekend, and said it was absolutely unacceptable for anyone to assault emergency workers.\n\"All our emergency workers strive to protect and save the population from harm.\n\"It is likely that those people who are carrying out these cowardly attacks will one day need help from those very staff they are assaulting.\n\"By attacking fire crews, there is a very real risk that a fire fighter will be injured or equipment may be damaged, resulting in a fire engine not being available for a real emergency.\n\"These attacks are cowardly and criminal, and have no place in a civilised society. The perpetrators need to be caught and they need to be punished.\n\"Communities and parents must also help to try and stop our young people from carrying out these attacks,\" he said.\n\"There has to be a zero tolerance response to attacks on all our emergency workers,\" the Minister continued.\nAt the same time plans to introduce further tough legislation are also being taken forward by the Minister.\nHe is currently in discussions with the NIO over a proposal to introduce new legislation that will make it a specific offence to assault or impede health and social care workers, whilst in pursuit of their duty.\nUUP Councillor 'Disgusted' At Theft Of Defibrillator\nA UUP Councillor has hit out at those responsible for stealing a defibrillator from Cookstown playing fields. The cabinet that houses the vital medical equipment was also damaged in the theft at Fairhill on Monday 28 January.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.5au.com.au/news/local-news/176853-registrations-open-for-masters-games", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3QR4ERZDS4S5EWQP6TIC4MU6EHEJ54NT", "length": 845, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.5au.com.au", "title": "5AU - Registrations Open for Masters Games", "raw_content": "Registrations Open for Masters Games\nRegistrations for the 2019 Masters Games are now open.\nThe games will take place over ten days from the 5th to the 14th of April and will be hosting a total of 29 different sports.\nWith the majority of the sporting events being held in Port Pirie there will also be other towns hosting some events, with the Equestrian being held at Murray Town, Golf at Clare and BMX Bicycle Motocross in the Copper Coast.\nThe Port Pirie Council is delighted to be hosting the event again and with the new multi-million dollar Sports Precinct fully functioning it will provide a great central hub.\nCompetitors can either enter online through the Website http://www.portpiriemastersgames.com.au/ or fill out the hardcopy form which can be collected from the Tourism and Arts Centre as well as Council\u2019s Administration Office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 6134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aacai.com.au/membership/profile/40/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:N73UXJRP3ZVCFHFGWNAXABZ7YHHCRW5U", "length": 1331, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.aacai.com.au", "title": "Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists | Phil Czerwinski", "raw_content": "Member Profiles: Phil Czerwinski\nCZERWINSKI, Phil\nSend Phil an email\nWA / SA anytime\nBA (Hons), Flinders University, SA\nGrad. Cert., (Applied Anthropology), UWA\nMember, Australian Anthropological Society\nrepatriation of Indigenous cultural material\nindigenous cultural material studies\nPhil Czerwinski is the Director, anthropologist and principal archaeologist of Heritage WA Pty Ltd, a Perth-based Aboriginal cultural heritage firm with capacity in anthropology, archaeology and GIS services.\nHe is the Chairperson of the WA Branch of the Association of Consulting Archaeologists Inc. (AACAI), the peek body for consultant archaeologists in Australia.\nPhil has been involved in Aboriginal heritage surveys and research for over 15 years since completing his BA (Hons) in Aboriginal archaeology in 1997. He also has a Graduate Certificate in Applied Anthropology to the University of Western Australia.\nPhil has worked as a Regional Archaeologist for the South Australian Department for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation in Port Augusta, SA, as a consultant archaeologist for Australian Cultural Heritage Management, as a Senior Advisor in the Aboriginal Relations Branch of the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources in British Columbia, Canada, and as Lead Archaeologist for Citic Pacific Mining, Cape Preston WA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/fashion-beauty/info-05-2009/carmen_marc_valvo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:44Z", "digest": "sha1:OL67FEJD6P2B64IHONLOHDANRVOI2M3K", "length": 6912, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.aarp.org", "title": "Carmen Marc Valvo: Colon Cancer Survivor and Designer Gives Back", "raw_content": "Fashion Designer Becomes Cancer Survivorship Activist\nCarmen Marc Valvo gives back\nby Fresia Rodr\u00edguez Cadavid, AARP VIVA, Spring 2008 | Comments: 0\nEn espa\u00f1ol | A Barbie doll dress\u2014ivory with blue polka dots\u2014sits atop Carmen Marc Valvo's desk. Encased in glass, the tiny outfit, sewn when the designer was just eight, is a reminder of how long fashion has been a part of his life. Forty-seven years later, he dresses celebrities such as Eva Longoria Parker, Oprah Winfrey, and Catherine Zeta-Jones in stunning yet simple eveningwear. New York's Fashion Week showcases his collections.\nCarmen Marc Valvo Publishes First Book. Read\nHispanics Less Likely to Undergo Colon Cancer Screening. Read\nColonoscopy: The Test that Saved Me. Read\nThe Flower of Positive Thinking. Read\nBattling Cancer. Read\nAnd just as styles change, Valvo's views on life are evolving. \"I'm trying to make discussing cancer fashionable,\" says the designer, who's become a dedicated cancer awareness advocate since being diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2003. \"Though fashion is my passion, this crusade has given my life a whole new direction.\n\"The passion and crusade come together in his bustling showroom in New York's Garment District. It's hard to imagine that five years ago, Valvo, of Spanish and Italian descent, was searching for solace and inspiration\u2014not thinking about cancer-awareness campaigns\u2014after the numbing diagnosis and subsequent emergency surgery.\nNow, between model fittings and surrounded by reams of fabric and couture garments, Valvo points to a mesh jersey. The shirt will be worn by participants in Rock & Run on the River, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's event to support cancer survivorship. He also serves as ambassador of the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance.\n\"Carmen is one of the most generous ambassadors for this cause and a testament to the fact that early detection saves lives,\" says CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, who cofounded the alliance with the Entertainment Industry Foundation. And he's aided Gilda's Club\u2014a group named for the actress and comedian Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989\u2014among other organizations.\nOf lending his support to all cancer causes, Valvo says, \"It's important to raise the money, but more important to raise awareness.\" And that's exactly what the nature-loving Valvo is doing as he prepares to celebrate his 20th year at the helm of his company and the rollout of a new swimsuit, lingerie, and eyewear line to accompany his eveningwear.\n\"Having known Carmen for over 20 years, I've appreciated his tremendous talent as a designer of gorgeous red-carpet looks, but I've also seen what a thoughtful activist he's become by embracing cancer awareness after his own illness,\" says Ugly Betty actress Vanessa Williams, who appeared with Valvo in a public service ad on colorectal cancer.\nMore Than Needle and Thread\nAlthough Valvo had always shown artistic inclinations, his anesthesiologist father and nurse mother had groomed him for a medical career, specifically as a plastic surgeon. \"We were all supposed to be doctors,\" says Valvo of himself and his five siblings. None pursued that path. \"I was squeamish, so I used a needle and thread in a different manner: to make women look beautiful.\"\nIronically, it was in the face of a medical crisis that he chose his career; he decided to become a designer in 1975 while bedridden in the hospital after a car accident.\nHe then enrolled at the Parsons School for Design in New York City, where he met his long-time domestic and business partner, Christian Knaust. The former menswear designer recalls what first struck him about Valvo: among other things, it was \"his perseverance to get what he wants. Nothing can stop him.\"\nAfter working with Nina Ricci and Christian Dior and freelancing throughout Europe, Valvo found his niche creating eveningwear. \"Clothes should be feminine and sexy and classic. I use fashion as part of an expression of who I am,\" he says, then reveals a little more. \"I love lace. I attribute that to my genetics, my Latin side.\"\nSomething else was lurking in his genes, but he didn't find out until 2003, when he began feeling not quite right. After a few months of chalking it up to stress, he went to the doctor. Despite getting a clean bill of health, he insisted on a second opinion.\nA colonoscopy\u2014performed prior to the recommended age of 50\u2014showed advanced cancer. Within days, he underwent surgery to remove part of the colon. \"You need to listen to yourself. If I hadn't listened to myself, I probably wouldn't be here,\" he says. If you're uncomfortable with your doctor or think they aren't listening, seek another opinion, urges Valvo. \"Be your own advocate.\"\nThat point is especially important for Hispanics: only 37 percent underwent a colorectal screening within the recommended time frame\u2014every 10 years for healthy adults over 50\u2014compared with 57 percent of white non-Hispanics, according to a 2008 study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. In addition, colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among Hispanic men and the third leading cause among Latinas.\nDr. Elmer Huerta, president of the American Cancer Society, can't stress enough the importance of early screening. \"Few people in this country are talking about colorectal cancer\u2014Latinos included,\" he says. \"Cancer has long been a taboo issue in Hispanic countries, where talking about cancer is like talking about a death sentence.\"\nValvo didn't tell family, friends, and coworkers about the diagnosis and surgery. \"When I took this journey, I went through it alone and wanted to keep it to myself,\" he recalls. It wasn't until he told his sister that he learned of two familial cases of colon cancer. Because his family is genetically predisposed to the disease, he insisted they all be screened. And though he didn't share his illness with family early on, he now finds it \"mind-boggling that you can have something so important that's not discussed,\" he says.\nAs he'd kept the details of his medical journey to himself, he also faced recovery alone. \"Part of the healing process wasn't only physical, but also mental,\" Valvo says, \"because you play with life and death like a roller coaster ride, but you don't know what the outcome will be.\"\nFor solace, he turned to his garden at his house in the Hamptons, New York. \"When I have a problem, I like to weed,\" he says, \"weed the problem out of my life.\" And he discovered that as gardens have texture and rhythm, so does fashion: Valvo's spring 2004 collection, The Garden, was born. Pink and white petals, tiny crystals atop them, became the collection's hallmark.\nWhat could the next 20 years bring Valvo? \"I see him still gardening, continuing his work in fundraising and cancer awareness, and active in the fashion industry,\" says Knaust. \"I hope we have a long, healthy, and happy life together.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 367, "original_length": 13473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 222.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abetterbalance.org/category/state-laws/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:18Z", "digest": "sha1:LHYXDIQVFDCL5HO2NPBXDUWVXJDJNBDU", "length": 862, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.abetterbalance.org", "title": "State Laws \u2013 A Better Balance", "raw_content": "Newsroom Category: State Laws\nMedicaid recipients who can and do work are at risk of losing health care coverage, since low-wage workers are more likely to be underemployed and to face unpredictable work schedules over which they often have no control. This is just one of the challenges that many of ABB\u2019s clients and others already face in balancing work and their responsibilities in caring for children and other family members.\nDefending Local Nondiscrimination Laws, Nashville and Beyond\nDefending Local Democracy, State Laws\nTennessee has been at the center of a number of recent preemption conflicts in recent years, from the state\u2019s 2011 law that prohibited cities from enacting nondiscrimination policies more protective than the state\u2019s law to a bill passed this year that will withhold state funding for cities with certain \u201csanctuary city\u201d policies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 7989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.academy.ca/2018/fox-and-the-whale/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EXPHWKSL4ROBC7H2IFWZV4OCZICUNKA4", "length": 101, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.academy.ca", "title": "Fox And The Whale - Academy.ca", "raw_content": "The tale of a curious fox who goes in search of an elusive whale. A journey of longing and discovery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 213.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.accessgenealogy.com/locations/juniata-county-pa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:14Z", "digest": "sha1:MD45RO3DAQ2WKUDKEK6BYFK2PQHSLUZ4", "length": 2722, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.accessgenealogy.com", "title": "Juniata County PA Locations | Access Genealogy", "raw_content": "Location: Juniata County PA\nBiography of Holmes Dysinger, Rev.\nIllinois, Kansas, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina | 0 |\nRev. Holmes Dysinger has for the past twelve years been connected with the Western Theological Seminary of the Lutheran Church at Atchison, and since 1910 had been dean of the seminary. He had spent more than thirty years in the...\nBiography of Mary A. 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Think of time sensitive products (either perishable or not), high valued products, goods for the solution\u2026\nIf your goods or their delivery are not time sensitive or if the cost for airfreight bears no relation to the price and piece we naturally offer you the opportunity of sea freight\u2026\nAce Express is a recognized specialist in this field possessing the necessary expertise and in-house systems to handle all kinds of Project Cargoes, including heavy-lifts\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aceofdiamondsjewelry.net/products/alex-and-ani/alex-and-ani-charm-bracelets-earrings-necklaces/029644", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TFRRWKEDQNKNHJLDHBMEIFDEWCPSQKDD", "length": 146, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.aceofdiamondsjewelry.net", "title": "Alex and Ani Charm Bracelets, Earrings, Necklaces 001-275-11073 | Alex And Ani from Ace Of Diamonds | Mount Pleasant, MI", "raw_content": "University of Michigan Logo II, Color Infusion, SS, Alex and Ani*Prices are subject to change based on fluctuations in metal prices and currencies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 6030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.acfw.com/blog/book-to-movie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4HV27SEK2QCQME5CXCNS4TPYKVIUS5V7", "length": 5262, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.acfw.com", "title": "Book to Movie? | ACFW Blog", "raw_content": "\u2190 Researching the Highland Treasures Series\nBook to Movie?\nby Michael Hicks Thompson\nWhat author doesn\u2019t want their book made into a movie?\nIt\u2019s what launched John Grisham\u2019s career. Remember The Firm?\nHow\u2019d Grisham accomplish that feat? Serendipity, for one. He took his manuscript to Willie Morris, the famous author from Yazoo City, Mississippi. At the time, Willie was Writer in Residence at Ole Miss. Grisham asked Willie to send the manuscript to Willie\u2019s New York agent. Willie said he would, but also reportedly said he wouldn\u2019t read the manuscript himself. That was Willie.\nHis agent received the manuscript and took it with him on a flight from NYC to Los Angeles. By the time he landed in L.A., he had decided to not only represent Grisham, but also get a movie made. He reasoned it would be the first modern legal thriller. The rest is history.\nBut, how can the hundreds of thousands of authors get their book on the big screen? I have some thoughts on the matter.\nIn my case, it\u2019s happening now. I\u2019ve signed a contract with a Hollywood independent film company known for producing Christian movies. After reading my Christian murder mysteries, their team decided to go with the first one, The Rector.\nHow\u2019d it happen? The same way you can make it happen. There are several Christian independent film companies in America looking for good stories that\u2019ll make a good movie. For this large, eager Christian audience, there\u2019s simply a dearth of good movies.\nSo, how do you go about it?\nFirst, write a book as if you\u2019re seeing it on the big screen. Be a theater goer and critique your own writing. Suffice to say, you can\u2019t afford to have a sagging middle. From beginning to end, your story needs to resonate with readers and viewers.\nIt can be a true story, it can be fiction. But it must entertain, first and foremost.\nSecondly, ask professional critics if they believe it would make a good movie. You need honest critiques. No sense spending your time with number three below unless you\u2019re absolutely certain it\u2019d make a movey-making movie.\nThirdly, make your presence known to the film companies. Most independents aren\u2019t even located in \u2018Hollywood.\u2019 Most are spread out over the U.S. You\u2019ll need to search and research them.\nWork your way into their inner circle. There are several strategies for this. I mention only three.\nOne. Find someone who knows one of the execs. Ask your contact to set up a brief meeting. Lunch is a good time. Take your book. Ask them to read it. Ask them to let you know if it would make a good movie. For sure, they\u2019ll turn it over to some young interns or paid readers, but that\u2019s all you can hope for at this point. Follow up three months later.\nTwo. If you have an agent intimately involved in the film industry (there aren\u2019t many of them), you can press them to get your book in front of the right people. This is normally reserved for \u2018celebrity\u2019 authors. But if your book is movie worthy, go for it.\nThree. Drive\u2014fly\u2014whatever it takes to get to the film company\u2019s offices. Sit in the lobby until the CEO is willing to give you 15 minutes. This may be old school, but it might work.\nThere\u2019s no sense in mailing them a copy. It\u2019ll be trashed. (I know, I tried.) And I can\u2019t blame them. We\u2019ve become such a litigious society, ready to sue anybody at the drop of a hat.\nA positive review in Publisher\u2019s Weekly could help.\nOf course, all awards, reviews, blog postings, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, they all help. Keep communicating!\n\u2018Course, we all know there\u2019s a lot of pie in the sky money when it comes to movie-making. For every film like \u201cThe War Room,\u201d which was made for a reportedly $3,000,000 but produced $80,000,000 in revenue, there are dozens that return little to nothing.\nStill, the market is hungry and theaters aren\u2019t the only revenue source. Several layers of distribution exist that can provide more revenue/profits than the theaters alone.\nA good story is worth the shot. So, if you have the book, and the chops, buckle up and try to get it on the big screen!\nYet, we all know it\u2019s not just our hard work that gets things done. If God wills it, it\u2019ll be done. My film contract could fall apart for many reasons. Lots of bridges to cross. But, in the end, God\u2019s will is always done. And I\u2019m fine with that.\nBorn in his mother\u2019s bed and raised on a small Mississippi farm, Michael Hicks Thompson knows a thing or two about strong Christian women, alcoholic men, and Jesus. His fictional writings intersperse his observations of human nature with theology. His latest novel, The Actress (his sixth novel), is available in book stores and on Amazon in print, and for Kindle. Having already won four major awards, The Rector was first in the series. Both novels are murder mysteries that take place in the Mississippi Delta. He and his wife of 45 years live in Memphis, TN, have three sons and four grandchildren. The little ones call him \u201cBig Mike.\u201d\nThis entry was posted in Advice, Authors and writing, Friends of ACFW, tips and tagged Advice, authors, encouragement, Friends of ACFW, tips. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 Responses to Book to Movie?\nGreat advice, Michael! Thanks for sharing.\nThank you, Michael! Interesting information here. Congratulations on your successes and awards!! 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Friday 5th October 2018.\nIrish Criminal Justice Agencies Conference 2018\nThe 5th Annual Irish Criminal Justice Agencies Conference - Towards a Trauma Responsive Criminal Justice System: Why, How and What Next? took place in Dublin Castle on July 4th.\nWelcome to ACJRD\nThe Association for Criminal Justice Research and Development (ACJRD) seeks to promote reform, development and effective operation of the criminal justice system.\nIt does so mainly by providing a forum where experienced personnel can discuss ways of working in an informal setting, by promoting study and research in the field of criminal justice and by promoting the highest standards of practice by professionals associated with criminal justice.\nIts activities are designed to lead to increased mutual understanding and provide insights into the problems with which all are confronted. In opening unofficial channels of communication, it improves co-operation between the different parts of the criminal justice system.\nACJRD informs the development of policy and practice in justice\nInnovation in justice\nMartin Tansey Memorial Lecture 2019\nProfessor Claire Hamilton, 6th March 2019\nThe ACJRD Working Groups Christmas Networking\u2026\nThursday, 29th November, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 328.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adironndaspiritualhealer.com/2015-visionaries-in-light-convergence/speakers-2/sylvia-thompson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZRZMYKNWR7ANBGY3M65YC46ZCGJC4TG", "length": 697, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.adironndaspiritualhealer.com", "title": "Sylvia Thompson", "raw_content": "About Sylvia Thompson\nSylvia Thompson is an accomplished singer, actor, director, and producer. She has performed all over the United States and the world including Egypt, Greece, and Thailand. She is a channel of ancient melodies that awaken memories of times and beings long past. A Walk-In since 1993, Sylvia is also a gifted healer, Reiki Master, certified hypnotherapist, and Prosperity Goddess who works in the realm of Divine Manifestation and Prosperity.\nSylvia has lifted our spirits at each Convergence, starting with the Walk-Ins Welcome Conference in 2011 spontaneously singing with Lenedra Carroll and sharing her wonderful vocal talents in the opening and closing of each conference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 4085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 196.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adss.com/en/market-analysis/technical-analysis/usd-jpy-07-august-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:32Z", "digest": "sha1:I23W43L5IBKE2G6LSYVZWSR3RGCTR4UT", "length": 652, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.adss.com", "title": "Technical Analysis | Trading Insights | ADSS", "raw_content": "USD/JPY - 07 August 2018\nThe Dollar/Yen pair remains on the back foot given the trade war concerns between the US and China. USD/JPY has only had slight movements during yesterday's session. There aren't any major news affecting this pair at the moment but our main focus will remain on the U.S. Dollar as it should provide the direction for the pair going forward.\nLooking at the chart, USD/JPY seems to be weak although it was trending upwards during yesterday's session but wasn't able to continue its move towards the resistance. The pair seems to be moving downwards towards the 111.13 support and it may even cross it to reach the 110.87 support.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 11360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.advante.co.uk/news/view/advante-finalist-for-equipment-supplier-of-the-year-again", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:10Z", "digest": "sha1:GJBEWVT7INTBGEDNGWBL4FKZPAHGXVFS", "length": 410, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.advante.co.uk", "title": "Latest news from Advant\u00e9", "raw_content": "It\u2019s been an exciting year since winning \u2018Equipment Supplier of the Year\u2019 at the Construction News Specialist Awards 2016 in February and we are proud to have been shortlisted again as a Finalist in the \u2018Equipment Supplier of the Year\u2019 category for 2017.\nThe next stage is the face-to-face judging with the CN Specialists Awards judging panel in January and the winner will be announced on the 22nd March 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adventisthealthcare.com/health/library/topic/?id=ncicdr0000719565", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YT5J6SRJT5EGKMCHMN5DHGGYN7XBKNM4", "length": 69545, "nlines": 329, "source_domain": "www.adventisthealthcare.com", "title": "Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements (PDQ\u00ae): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Patient Information [NCI] - Adventist HealthCare", "raw_content": "Home > Healthy Living > Health Library > Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements (PDQ\u00ae): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Patient Information [NCI]\nProstate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements (PDQ\u00ae): Integrative, alternative, and complementary therapies - Patient Information [NCI]\nMen in the United States get prostate cancer more than any other type of cancer except skin cancer. It is found mainly in older men. In the United States, about one out of five men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer. Most men diagnosed with prostate cancer do not die of it.\nComplementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is a form of treatment used in addition to (complementary) or instead of (alternative) standard treatments. CAM treatments generally are not considered standard medical approaches. Standard treatments go through a long and careful research process to prove they are safe and effective, but less is known about most types of CAM.\nCAM use among prostate cancer patients is reported to be common. CAM treatments used by prostate cancer patients include certain foods, dietary supplements, herbs, vitamins, and minerals.\nThis PDQ summary gives general information about using foods and dietary supplements to lower the risk of developing prostate cancer or for treating prostate cancer, its symptoms, or side effects of disease treatment. In addition, this summary has sections for several specific foods or dietary supplements:\nOther Prostate Health Supplements\nMore topics will be added over time. Note: A separate PDQ summary on PC-SPES is also available.\nThese sections include the following information for each food or dietary supplement:\nHow it is given or consumed.\nReviews of laboratory and animal studies.\nResults of population studies and clinical trials.\nSide effects or risks.\nFood and Drug Administration (FDA) information.\nOverview of CAM Use in Prostate Cancer\nStudies of CAM use to treat prostate cancer have shown the following:\nMen who have prostate cancer are more likely to take dietary supplements than men who do not have prostate cancer.\nProstate cancer patients with the healthiest eating habits (for example, eating lots of fish rich in omega-3 fatty acids and vegetables) are the most likely to take dietary supplements.\nReasons given by prostate cancer patients for using CAM treatments include boosting the immune system, improving quality of life, and lowering the risk of the cancer coming back.\nStudies of CAM use to lower the risk of developing prostate cancer or to prevent it from coming back have shown the following:\nA study of men with a family history of prostate cancer found that over half used vitamins or other dietary supplements, including those sold for prostate health or cancer prevention, such as some of those listed in this summary.\nA study of men at a prostate cancer screening clinic found that well over half took multivitamins and a smaller number took herbal supplements.\nA study of prostate cancer survivors found that up to one-third took vitamins or minerals.\nAlthough many prostate cancer patients use CAM therapies, only about half of them tell their doctors about their use of CAM.\nStudies of why prostate cancer patients do or don't decide to use CAM show that their choice is based on many factors, including their medical history, their beliefs about the safety and side effects of CAM compared to standard treatments, and their need to feel in control of their treatment.\nSee the PDQ summary on Prostate Cancer Prevention for more information on prostate cancer prevention.\nQuestions and Answers About Calcium\nCalcium is a mineral that is needed for basic blood vessel, muscle, and nerve functions, cell-to-cell signaling, and hormone release. It is the most common mineral in the body. The body stores calcium mainly in bone tissue. Calcium naturally occurs in some foods and is added to other foods. It is also available as a dietary supplement.\nHow is calcium administered or consumed?\nThe main sources of calcium in the American diet are foods and dietary supplements. About one-third of dietary calcium comes from milk and milk products like cheese and yogurt. Vegetable sources include Chinese cabbage, kale, and broccoli. Spinach contains calcium but it is not in a form that is well absorbed by the body. Foods with calcium added include many fruit juices and drinks, tofu, and cereals.\nIn the United States, almost half the population takes dietary supplements containing calcium. However, most research about calcium and prostate cancer risk has studied only calcium consumed in the diet and not calcium taken in supplements.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using calcium?\nIn laboratory studies, tumor cells are used to test a substance to find out if it is likely to have any anticancer effects. In animal studies, tests are done to see if a drug, procedure, or treatment is safe and effective in animals. Laboratory and animal studies are done before a substance is tested in people.\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of calcium in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using calcium.\nHave any studies of calcium been done in people?\nStudies of people in many parts of the world have been done to find out if there is a link between dairy products, calcium, and prostate cancer risk.\nPopulation studies look for risk factors and ways to control disease in large groups of people.\nPopulation studies of dairy products, dietary calcium, and prostate cancer risk have shown mixed results. These studies may be hard to interpret because other major nutrients in dairy products, such as fats, and factors such as age and body mass index have not been taken into account.\nMore studies are needed about the effects of calcium and/or dairy products on prostate cancer risk and how these effects develop in the body.\nClinical trial of preventing prostate cancer\nIn a randomized clinical trial reported in 2005, men were given calcium (1200 mg/day) or a placebo for 4 years and were followed up for 12 years. During the first 6 years of the study, there were markedly fewer cases of prostate cancer in the calcium group compared to the placebo group. After 10 years, however, there was no meaningful difference in the number of prostate cancers in the calcium group compared to the placebo group.\nReviews of many studies combined\nReviews of many studies combined showed mixed findings about whether consuming calcium and dairy products affects the risk of prostate cancer:\nA 2005 review of many studies found a possible link between an increased risk of prostate cancer and a diet high in dairy products and calcium. See the PDQ summary on Prostate Cancer Prevention for more information.\nA 2008 review of 45 observational studies found no link between consuming dairy products and the risk of prostate cancer.\nA review of cohort studies published between 1996 and 2006 found that consuming milk and dairy products did increase the risk of prostate cancer.\nA 2013 review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force found that taking Vitamin D and/or calcium supplements showed no overall effect on rates of cancer or deaths from cancer, including prostate cancer.\nA 2015 review of 32 cohort studies found that consuming high amounts of milk, low-fat milk, cheese, total dietary calcium, and dairy calcium may increase the risk of prostate cancer. Calcium supplements and non-dairy calcium were not linked with an increased risk of prostate cancer. Calcium supplements were linked with an increased risk of dying from prostate cancer, suggesting that more studies are needed.\nIs calcium approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a cancer treatment in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of calcium as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nCalcium is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nQuestions and Answers About Green Tea\nTea has been consumed in Asia since ancient times. Sailors first brought tea to England in the 17th century. Other than water, tea is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. Tea comes from the Camellia sinensis plant. The way the leaves of this plant are processed determines the type of tea produced.\nMany of the possible health benefits studied in green tea are thought to be from compounds called polyphenols. Polyphenols are a large group of plant chemicals that include catechins (antioxidants that help protect cells from damage caused by free radicals).\nCatechins make up most of the polyphenols in green tea. Green tea catechins (GTCs) include:\n(\u2212)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG).\n(\u2212)-epicatechin (EC).\n(\u2212)-epigallocatechin (EGC).\n(\u2212)-epicatechin-3-gallate (ECG).\nEGCC is the most active catechin in green tea and has been widely researched. Laboratory studies, animal studies, and early phase clinical trials have found that EGCG may be highly active in blocking pathways that involve the growth of prostate cancer cells.\nTo make green tea, the tea leaves are heated in a wok (or, historically, steamed) to preserve the catechins and retain freshness. Black tea is made using a process that causes the catechins and other compounds in the leaves to oxidize, producing darker colored tea. Oolong tea is made from partially oxidized leaves.\nSome studies suggest that green tea may protect against cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer, including prostate cancer. Clinical trials designed to study whether green tea is useful in treating prostate cancer are in the early stages. There is not enough evidence to show whether green tea is effective in treating prostate cancer.\nHow is green tea administered or consumed?\nGreen tea may be consumed as a beverage or taken in dietary supplements.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using green tea?\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of green tea in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using green tea.\nHave any studies of green tea been done in people?\nPopulation studies and clinical trials have been done to find out if green tea may be useful in preventing or treating prostate cancer.\nA review of many population studies combined, mainly from Asia, showed mixed findings about whether green tea had a protective effect or no effect on prostate cancer risk. Many factors may be involved in these mixed results, including study location, tobacco and alcohol use, and other dietary differences. Black tea was not found to affect prostate cancer risk.\nOverall, population studies suggest that green tea may help protect against prostate cancer in Asian populations. Prostate cancer deaths there are among the lowest in the world. As more people drink green tea worldwide, including in the United States, further population studies will add to information about whether green tea or green tea catechins may help protect against prostate cancer.\nClinical trials of preventing prostate cancer\nIn 2 randomized clinical trials in men with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN), those treated with green tea catechins had lower rates of developing prostate cancer than those treated with a placebo. The findings suggest that green tea catechins may lower the risk of prostate cancer in patients at high risk for the disease.\nClinical trials of treating prostate cancer\nClinical trials designed to study whether green tea is useful in treating prostate cancer have shown the following:\nPatients scheduled to undergo radical prostatectomy were assigned to drink green tea, black tea, or soda five times/day for 5 days. Bioavailable tea polyphenols were found in prostate tissue samples of patients who drank either green tea or black tea. In addition, prostate cancer cells treated with blood taken from patients after they drank tea grew and divided more slowly than cells treated with blood taken from patients before they drank tea.\nFifty patients scheduled to undergo radical prostatectomy were assigned to take Polyphenon E (800 mg EGCG) or a placebo daily for 3 to 6 weeks. Patients treated with Polyphenon E had lower blood levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) and insulin-like growth factor -1 (a protein linked with increased risk of prostate cancer) than patients treated with placebo, but these differences were not meaningful. The findings suggest that the possible anticancer effects of green tea polyphenols may need to be studied in longer treatment trials.\nPatients scheduled to undergo radical prostatectomy were assigned to drink either green tea, black tea, or water on a daily basis. In this study, only the men drinking green tea showed a small but notable decrease in PSA levels.\nA small group of hormone-refractory prostate cancer patients were given capsules of green tea extract (375 mg total polyphenols/day) for up to 5 months. The study showed that the green tea treatment was well tolerated by most of the patients. However, no patient had a meaningful decrease in PSA levels and all 19 patients had disease progression within 1 to 5 months.\nPatients with androgen-independent prostate cancer that had spread to other places in the body consumed powdered green tea extract (6 grams /day for up to 4 months). Of the forty-two participants, one had a meaningful decrease in blood PSA levels which did not last longer than 2 months. Green tea extract was well tolerated by most of the study patients. However, there were 6 reports of serious side effects, including insomnia, confusion, and fatigue. The findings suggest that green tea extract may have limited benefits in patients with advanced prostate cancer.\nHave any side effects or risks been reported from green tea?\nPhase I /II clinical studies have shown that EGCG in doses up to 1000 mg a day for up to a year is absorbed and used by the body with few side effects. A trial of oral green tea extract in patients with solid tumors reported that a safe dose was equal to 7-8 cups (120 ml /cup) of tea 3 times a day for 6 months. Side effects were found to be caused by the caffeine and not the EGCG.\nFour phase I studies of Polyphenon E in single doses or multidoses were done in healthy volunteers. Polyphenon E was given in a range of doses and found to be well tolerated. Side effects were generally mild, with no serious side effects reported. The most frequently reported side effects thought to be related to the drug include headache, nausea, abdominal pain, diarrhea, upset stomach, dizziness, and weakness. Gastrointestinal side effects were usually mild, occurring most often in patients taking the drug on an empty stomach and at the highest doses.\nIn safety studies of patients with prostate cancer, short-term green tea use for up to 90 days was well tolerated. One study found that the most commonly reported side effects of green tea were gastrointestinal symptoms. These were mild except for two reports of severe anorexia and moderate breathing problems.\nClinical trials have reported on the safety of long-term use of green tea compounds for the prevention of prostate cancer. In a United States trial, men at risk of prostate cancer were given 400 mg of Polyphenon E or a placebo for 1 year. There were more possible side effects reported in the group receiving the Polyphenon E than in the group receiving the placebo.\nThe FDA Division of Drug Oncology Products recommends that Polyphenon E should be taken with food by patients in clinical trials and that liver function tests should be considered during treatment.\nVarious types and doses of green tea extracts taken by mouth have been linked with several cases of liver damage in recent years. Most of those affected were women and many were taking green tea extract for weight loss. Most patients recovered within 4 months after stopping the green tea extract. However, there is one case report of acute liver failure in a woman who then needed a liver transplant. Her doctors concluded that her condition was likely caused by over-the-counter green tea extract capsules for weight loss.\nIs green tea approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a cancer treatment in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of green tea as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nGreen tea is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nQuestions and Answers About Lycopene\nLycopene is a carotenoid (a natural pigment made by plants). It is red in color and tends to combine with or dissolve in fats. Lycopene protects plants from light-related stress and helps them use the energy of the sun to make nutrients. Lycopene is found in fruits and vegetables like tomatoes, apricots, guavas, and watermelons.\nThe main source of lycopene in the American diet is tomato-based products. Lycopene is more bioavailable (easier for the body to use) in processed tomato products like tomato paste and tomato puree than in raw tomatoes.\nLycopene has been studied for its role in cardiovascular disease and cancer. Population studies of lycopene in the diet suggest that it may help prevent cardiovascular disease through its effects on cholesterol, but some studies show mixed results.\nLaboratory and animal studies have shown that lycopene may help lower the risk of prostate, skin, breast, lung, and liver cancers. However, population studies have found very limited evidence that consuming tomato products or lycopene lowers the risk of cancer.\nHow is lycopene administered or consumed?\nLycopene may be consumed in the diet or taken in dietary supplements.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using lycopene?\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of lycopene in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using lycopene.\nHave any studies of lycopene been done in people?\nSeveral population studies and clinical trials have been done to find out if lycopene may be useful in preventing or treating prostate cancer.\nPopulation studies look for risk factors and ways to control disease in large groups of people. Population studies of prostate cancer risk have shown the following mixed results:\nPopulation studies in men have found that high amounts of lycopene in the diet are linked with a lower risk of developing prostate cancer.\nSome studies have shown that lycopene levels in the blood and tissue of patients with cancer are lower than in those who do not have cancer. However, other studies have not shown this.\nA 2013 review of several studies combined found that men who ate large amounts of raw or cooked tomatoes may have a slightly lower risk of prostate cancer.\nA study found no link between lycopene and tomatoes in the diet and prostate cancer risk in the overall population. However, in men with a family history of the disease, higher amounts of lycopene in the diet were linked with a lower risk of prostate cancer. Another study in the same group of men found no difference in blood levels of lycopene between healthy men and men who developed prostate cancer.\nMany issues may be involved in these mixed findings, including sources and types of lycopene, other dietary differences, obesity, tobacco and alcohol use, and genetic risk factors. Most research has studied the effects of lycopene on the risk of all prostate cancers, and has not studied effects of lycopene on low-grade compared with high-grade disease.\nClinical trials of prevention or treatment of early prostate cancer\nClinical trials designed to study whether lycopene is useful in preventing or treating early prostate cancer have shown the following:\nMen with benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) or prostate cancer were given tomato sauce dishes for 3 weeks before scheduled surgery to remove the prostate. The study found that they had markedly lower prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels and more cancer cell death found in the prostate when examined after surgery than a similar group of patients who did not receive the tomato sauce dishes.\nA study of 40 men with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) who took lycopene supplements for 2 years had a greater decrease in PSA levels than those who did not. During follow-up, adenocarcinomas were diagnosed more often in patients who did not take the supplements. This indicated that lycopene may be useful in preventing HGPIN from developing into prostate cancer.\nIn another study of men at high risk of prostate cancer (such as men with HGPIN), those who took a daily multivitamin with no lycopene and those who took the same multivitamin plus lycopene daily for 4 months showed no difference in PSA levels.\nThere are other trials of combination therapies that include lycopene in the Combination Therapies section of this summary.\nClinical trials designed to study whether lycopene is useful in treating prostate cancer have shown the following:\nMen with prostate cancer that had not spread were given lycopene supplements for 3 weeks before surgery to remove the prostate. Those who received lycopene supplements had smaller tumors and lower PSA levels than those who did not. This study suggests that lycopene may be helpful in treating prostate cancer. Another study of men with prostate cancer that had not spread showed that men who took lycopene supplements for 1 year had lower PSA velocity (a measure of how fast PSA levels in the blood increase over time) after treatment.\nMen who had biochemical relapse of prostate cancer (a rise in the blood level of PSA after treatment with surgery or radiation) were given different doses of lycopene supplements for 1 year. Study results showed that lycopene seemed safe & had no side effects, but did not change PSA levels in biochemically relapsed prostate cancer.\nMen with hormone-refractory prostate cancer (HRPC) (tumors that do not respond to treatment with hormones) were given lycopene supplements for periods of 3 or 6 months in 2 different studies. These studies showed mixed results in lowering PSA levels in men with HRPC.\nA study was done in 46 men with androgen-independent prostate cancer (tumors that do not need androgen to grow) who consumed lycopene in either tomato paste or tomato juice daily for 4 months. Results showed that only one patient had a lower PSA level. Several men reported gastrointestinal side effects after consuming tomato paste or tomato juice.\nHave any side effects or risks been reported from lycopene?\nLycopene has been consumed in many clinical trials with very few side effects by men at high risk for prostate cancer and by prostate cancer patients. Patients have had only occasional gastrointestinal symptoms (e.g. diarrhea, nausea and vomiting, bloating, gassiness and stomach irritation). In one study, symptoms went away when lycopene was taken with meals.\nIs lycopene approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use to prevent or treat cancer in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of lycopene as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nLycopene is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nQuestions and Answers About Modified Citrus Pectin\nWhat is modified citrus pectin?\nPectin is a type of polysaccharide (a carbohydrate with many small sugar molecules that are chemically linked). Pectin is found in the cell walls of most plants and has gel-like qualities that are useful in making many types of food and medicine.\nCitrus pectin is found in the peel and pulp of citrus fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, lemons, and limes. Citrus pectin can be modified with high pH and heat to break its molecules into smaller pieces. Modified citrus pectin (also called MCP) can be digested and absorbed by the body.\nHow is MCP administered or consumed?\nMCP may be taken by mouth in powder or capsule form.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using MCP?\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of MCP in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using MCP.\nHave any studies of MCP been done in people?\nA few studies have been done in prostate cancer patients.\nIn a study of patients with advanced solid tumors, including prostate cancers, MCP powder in water was given 3 times/ day for at least 8 weeks. The study showed some quality of life improvements in physical functioning, overall health, fatigue, pain, and insomnia. About one-fourth of patients showed stable disease after 8 weeks of treatment and a smaller number had stable disease for more than 24 weeks. Since the study did not include a group of patients who did not receive MCP for comparison, it was not designed to be able to tell if any of these changes were due to the addition of MCP. The primary goal of the study was to determine if MCP would be well tolerated by cancer patients, and it was.\nIn a study of the effect of MCP on prostate-specific antigen (PSA) doubling time (how long it takes PSA levels in the blood to increase by 100 percent), prostate cancer patients who had rising PSA levels were given 6 PectaSol capsules 3 times/ day for 12 months. After treatment, 7 out of 10 patients showed a slowing of PSA doubling time.\nHave any side effects or risks been reported from MCP?\nTwo studies of MCP showed that most patients had very few side effects. Itching, stomach upset, and gassiness were reported in one study. In another study, 3 patients had abdominal cramps and diarrhea that went away when their treatment was stopped.\nIs MCP approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use to prevent or treat cancer in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of MCP as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nMCP is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nQuestions and Answers About Pomegranate\nThe pomegranate fruit (Punica granatum L.) is native to Asia and grown throughout the Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, East Indies, Africa, and the United States. Pomegranate has been used for medicinal purposes since ancient times.\nDifferent parts of the pomegranate fruit have bioactive compounds (chemicals found in small amounts that have actions in the body that may promote good health). These include:\nThe peel, which makes up half the fruit and contains bioactive polyphenols and minerals.\nThe aril (outer layer surrounding the seeds), which contains phenolics and flavonoids including anthocyanins, which give the pomegranate fruit and juice their red color.\nHow is pomegranate administered or consumed?\nPomegranate may be consumed in the diet or taken in dietary supplements.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using pomegranate?\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of pomegranate in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using pomegranate.\nHave any studies of pomegranate been done in people?\nThree clinical trials studied the effect of pomegranate products on prostate-specific antigen doubling time (PSADT) in patients with recurrent prostate cancer who had rising PSA levels after surgery or radiation therapy.\nIn a phase II study reported in 2006, 48 patients were given 8 ounces of pomegranate juice daily for up to 33 months. Drinking pomegranate juice was related to a slowing of PSA doubling time (how long it takes PSA levels in the blood to increase by 100 percent).\nIn a phase II study reported in 2013, patients were given 1 gram or 3 gram doses of pomegranate extract. Both doses of pomegranate extract (equal to either 8 ounces or 24 ounces of pomegranate juice) were related to a slowing of PSA doubling time. Results were similar in patients who received either the low dose or high dose of pomegranate extract.\nIn a phase III placebo-controlled clinical trial reported in 2015, 183 patients were given either pomegranate juice, pomegranate extract, or a placebo. The study found no meaningful difference in the PSA doubling time for the 3 groups.\nThese studies differed in PSA levels of the patients enrolled and whether there was a placebo group. All three trials found that pomegranate extract was safe to consume. Further studies may be able to show whether patients with certain genetic markers will benefit from pomegranate products.\nHave any side effects or risks been reported from pomegranate?\nTwo studies of pomegranate juice in either prostate cancer patients or patients with erectile dysfunction reported no serious side effects.\nIs there any reason people should avoid pomegranate juice?\nSome pomegranate products may contain added sugar. Certain groups, such as the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), recommend avoiding sugary drinks. For more information, see the AICR website.\nIs pomegranate approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use to prevent or treat cancer in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of pomegranate as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nPomegranate is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nQuestions and Answers About Selenium\nSelenium is a trace mineral (a nutrient that is essential to humans in tiny amounts). Selenium is found in certain proteins that are active in many body functions, including reproduction and immunity. Food sources of selenium include meat, vegetables, and nuts. The amount of selenium found in the food depends on the selenium content of the soil where the food grows. Selenium is stored in the thyroid gland, liver, pancreas, pituitary gland, and kidneys.\nSelenium is found in an enzyme called glutathione peroxidase which acts as an antioxidant. However, in high amounts, selenium may act as a pro-oxidant (a substance that can make oxygen byproducts that may damage cells).\nSelenium may play a role in many diseases, including cancer. Animal and population studies have suggested that supplementing the diet with selenium may lower the risk of cancer. Results from the Nutritional Prevention of Cancer Trial (NPC) showed that, although selenium supplements did not affect the risk of skin cancer, they markedly lowered the rates of lung, colorectal, and prostate cancer. However, studies of how selenium levels in the blood affect the risk of developing of prostate cancer have shown mixed results. Results of the large National Cancer Institute -sponsored Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) caution against the use of selenium supplements among men with prostate cancer, and other studies have concluded that men should avoid selenium supplementation at doses that are higher than the recommended dietary intake.\nHow is selenium administered or consumed?\nSelenium may be consumed in the diet or taken in dietary supplements. For adults, the recommended daily allowance for selenium is 55 \u00b5g/day.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using selenium?\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of selenium in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using selenium.\nHave any studies of selenium been done in people?\nPopulation studies and clinical trials have been done to find out if selenium may be useful in preventing or treating prostate cancer.\nStudies of how selenium levels in the blood affect the risk of developing of prostate cancer have shown mixed results. One study tracking subjects for up to 10 years found that men with higher levels of selenium in their blood had a lower risk of prostate cancer. Another study found that prostate cancer patients had lower whole blood selenium levels than did healthy men. However, a 2009 study of prostate cancer patients found that men with higher selenium levels in their blood were at greater risk of being diagnosed with aggressive prostate cancer. These differences may be due to genetic variations among individual patients.\nClinical trials of preventing/ treating prostate cancer\nClinical trials of the effects of selenium on prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels or the development of prostate cancer have shown mixed results, including the following:\nIn a study reported in 2013, men at high risk for prostate cancer were given either daily doses of high-selenium yeast (200 \u00b5g or 400 \u00b5g) or a placebo for up to 5 years. There were no differences in prostate cancer rates or PSA velocity in men who took the selenium supplement compared to those who took the placebo.\nIn an earlier study, men with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) were given either a selenium supplement (200 \u00b5g/ day) or a placebo for 3 years or until they were diagnosed with prostate cancer. The results suggested that selenium supplements had no effect on prostate cancer risk.\nSixty men were given either a selenium glycinate supplement (200 \u00b5g/ day) or a placebo for 6 weeks. Blood samples were collected at the start and the end of the study. Compared to the placebo group, men who received selenium supplements showed higher activity of two selenium enzymes in their blood and lower levels of PSA at the end of the study.\nThe Health Professionals Follow-Up Study included 4,459 men diagnosed with prostate cancer that had not spread. The study found that taking selenium supplements (140 or more \u03bcg/ day) after diagnosis may increase the risk of death from prostate cancer and recommended that men with prostate cancer use caution in taking selenium supplements.\nA review of fifteen studies combined found that blood selenium levels were not linked with risk for prostate cancer overall, but men with high selenium levels in the blood had a lower risk of aggressive prostate cancer. In addition, higher levels of selenium measured in toenails were linked with lower risk of both aggressive and nonaggressive prostate cancer.\nThe Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT)\nThe Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) was a large clinical trial begun by the National Institutes of Health in 2001 to study the effects of selenium and/or vitamin E on the development of prostate cancer. Over 35,000 men, aged 50 years and older, were randomly assigned to receive one of the following combinations daily for 7-12 years:\nVitamin E (alpha-tocopherol acetate, 400 IU / day) and a placebo;\nSelenium (L-selenomethionine, 200 mcg/ day) and a placebo;\nVitamin E and selenium; or\nTwo placebos.\nFirst results of SELECT reported in 2009 found no meaningful difference in the rate of prostate cancer among the 4 groups. In the Vitamin E alone group, there was a slight increase in the rate of prostate cancer and in the selenium alone group, there was a slight increase in the rate of diabetes. Even though these changes were not clearly shown to be due to the supplement, the men in the study were advised to stop taking the study supplements.\nUpdated results of SELECT in 2011 showed that selenium supplements had no meaningful effect on prostate cancer risk; however, men taking vitamin E alone had a 17% increase in prostate cancer risk compared to men in the placebo group.\nIn 2014, further results of SELECT showed that selenium supplements in men with low selenium levels at the start of the trial had no effect on prostate cancer risk; however, selenium supplements in men who had high levels of selenium at the start of the trial increased the risk of high-grade prostate cancer.\nSeveral factors may have affected study results, including the dose of vitamin E chosen and the form of selenium used. The authors concluded that men should avoid selenium supplementation at doses that are higher than the recommended dietary intake.\nA cohort study of 1,434 men enrolled in SELECT suggested that variations in certain genes which control the ways selenium and vitamin E are processed by the body may have an effect on the risk of prostate cancer, including high-grade prostate cancer.\nAre there any risks in taking selenium supplements, and have any side effects been reported?\nSelenium supplements have been well tolerated in many clinical trials. Patients are closely monitored and given specific doses in clinical trials within the study criteria. In two published trials, there were no differences reported in adverse effects between placebo or treatment groups. However, in the SELECT trial, the use of selenium supplements (L-selenomethionine, 200 \u00b5g daily) was linked with a slight increase in the rate of diabetes mellitus.\nIs selenium approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a cancer treatment in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of selenium supplements for the treatment or prevention of cancer or any other medical condition.\nSelenium is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nQuestions and Answers About Soy\nThe soybean plant has been grown in Asia for food since ancient times. Soy first arrived in Europe and North America in the 18th century. The soybean can be processed into a wide variety of products including soy milk, miso, tofu, soy flour, and oil.\nSoy foods contain many phytochemicals that may have health benefits. Isoflavones are the most widely researched compounds in soy. Major isoflavones in the soybean include genistein (which may be the most bioactive isoflavone), daidzein, and glycitein. Isoflavones protect the soybean plant from stress and have antioxidant, antimicrobial, and antifungal actions.\nIsoflavones are phytoestrogens (estrogen -like substances found in plants) that attach to estrogen receptors in cells. Genistein has been shown to affect many pathways in prostate cancer cells involved in the growth and spread of cancer.\nHow is soy administered or consumed?\nSoy may be consumed in the diet or taken in dietary supplements.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using soy?\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of soy in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using soy.\nHave any studies of soy been done in people?\nMany population studies and clinical trials have been done to find out if soy may be useful in preventing or treating prostate cancer. Soy products studied include dietary supplements, drinks, and bread.\nPopulation studies look for risk factors and ways to control disease in large groups of people. Population studies of soy intake and prostate cancer risk have shown the following mixed results:\nA 2009 review of many studies combined showed that men eating large amounts of nonfermented soy foods (for example, tofu and soybean milk) had a lower risk of prostate cancer. Eating large amounts of fermented foods (for example, miso) was not found to affect the risk of prostate cancer.\nA 2013 review showed that PSA levels and sex hormone levels were not markedly different in men treated with soy, compared with men who were not treated with soy.\nIn a study of Japanese men who underwent a prostate biopsy but who did not have cancer, some received a daily supplement of soy isoflavones (40 mg) and curcumin (100 mg), while others received a placebo. After 6 months, there were no differences in PSA levels between the supplement group and the placebo group overall. However, among patients with higher PSA levels at the start, those who received the supplement had meaningful decreases in PSA levels compared to patients in the placebo group.\nA study was done to find out if a soy diet standard in Asia would be practical for European men to follow. Healthy men ate either a high-soy (2 daily soy servings) or low-soy (usual) diet for 3 months, then crossed over to the other diet. Lower PSA levels were seen with the high-soy diet. Results showed that study volunteers were able to follow the high-soy diet.\nMen at risk for prostate cancer or with low-grade prostate cancer were given either soy protein, alcohol -washed soy protein (which is lower in isoflavones), or milk protein (which has no isoflavones) for 6 months. PSA levels did not differ among the groups at 3 months or 6 months. Fewer cases of prostate cancer were found after 6 months in men who consumed either type of soy protein than in men who consumed milk protein.\nIn a trial of soy isoflavones, prostate cancer patients with rising PSA levels who had been treated with radiation therapy consumed a soy drink daily for 6 months. The soy drink contained 65-90 mg of isoflavones. Results showed that the soy drink had very few side effects and slowed PSA doubling time (how long it takes PSA levels in the blood to increase by 100 percent). These findings indicate that consuming the soy drink may have helped slow the progression of prostate cancer.\nIn a trial of genistein (a major isoflavone), prostate cancer patients scheduled for radical prostatectomy received either a placebo or genistein (30 mg/ day) for 3-6 weeks before surgery. PSA levels in patients who received genistein decreased slightly while PSA levels in those who received the placebo increased slightly.\nIn a trial of soy isoflavone, prostate cancer patients scheduled for prostatectomy received either capsules (containing 80 mg/day of isoflavones) or a placebo for up to 6 weeks before surgery. There was no difference in PSA, testosterone, or cholesterol level changes between the two groups.\nA trial of a soy protein supplement (containing 60 mg/ day of isoflavones) studied patients with early-stage prostate cancer. Those who received the supplement for 12 weeks had slightly greater decreases in PSA and testosterone levels than those who received placebo.\nTrials of whole soy were done in men scheduled for surgery to remove the prostate. In one study, patients given soy supplements for 2 weeks before surgery showed much higher levels of isoflavones in prostate tissue than in blood. In another study, patients who ate high-phytoestrogen bread (containing soy or soy and linseed) had greater decreases in PSA levels than those who ate wheat bread.\nTwo trials of a soy isoflavone supplement were done in prostate cancer patients receiving antiandrogen therapy. Side effects of antiandrogen therapy may include sexual dysfunction, lower quality of life, and changes in mental functioning. In both studies, men who received the isoflavone supplement (160 mg/day) for 12 weeks showed no improvement in side effects of antiandrogen therapy compared to men who received a placebo.\nHave any side effects or risks been reported from soy?\nSoy products and isoflavones have been consumed by prostate cancer patients with very few side effects in many clinical trials. The most commonly reported side effects were minor gastrointestinal symptoms.\nIs soy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use to prevent or treat cancer in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of soy as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nSoy is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nQuestions and Answers About Vitamin D\nVitamin D (also called calcipotriol, cholecarciferol, or ergocalciferol) is a fat-soluble vitamin found in fatty fish, fish liver oil, eggs, and enriched dairy products.\nVitamin D has many actions in the body, including the following:\nHelps absorb calcium from food in the small intestine.\nImproves muscle strength and immune system function.\nMaintains levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood.\nVitamin D is needed for bone growth and protects against osteoporosis in adults. Vitamin D level is usually checked by measuring the amount of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in the blood.\nWhat are the sources of vitamin D?\nVitamin D is made naturally by the body when exposed to sunlight. Vitamin D may also be consumed in the diet or taken in dietary supplements.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using vitamin D?\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of vitamin D in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using vitamin D.\nHave any studies of vitamin D been done in people?\nMany population studies and clinical trials have been done to find out if vitamin D may be useful in preventing or treating prostate cancer.\nPopulation studies look for risk factors and ways to control disease in large groups of people. Population studies of vitamin D and prostate cancer risk have shown the following mixed results:\nVitamin D levels in patients with prostate cancer that had not spread were taken annually for 5 years. Throughout the course of the study, lack of vitamin D was a common finding among these patients.\nAnother study in patients with prostate cancer suggested that medium or high levels of vitamin D in the blood may be linked with better outcomes than lower levels. These findings indicate that vitamin D levels may play a role in whether or not the disease will worsen and may be a factor in predicting outcome in prostate cancer patients.\nOne thousand patients with prostate cancer and 1000 control patients in the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta-Carotene Cancer Prevention Study were followed for up to 20 years. Results suggested that men with higher blood levels of vitamin D had a greater risk of developing prostate cancer than men with lower vitamin D levels.\nIn a case-cohort analysis from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT), men who had moderate blood levels of vitamin D (45\u201370 nmol/L) were found to have a markedly lower risk of aggressive prostate cancer than men who had either lower or higher levels of vitamin D.\nVitamin D from sunlight exposure has been studied for possible effects on prostate cancer rates. A 2006 study found that PSA levels rise at a slower rate during the spring and summer compared to other times of the year, suggesting this may be due to higher vitamin D levels during those months. Another study found that while men with low levels of sun exposure had increased risk of all prostate cancers, those with prostate cancer who had less sun exposure showed lower risk of advanced disease.\nGeographic patterns of deaths in the United States from 1950 to 1994 showed that higher death rates from prostate cancer occurred in parts of the country with lower levels of UV radiation from sunlight. This effect is strongest in places more than 40 degrees north of the equator, where sunlight is weakest during the winter months. These findings support the theory that lack of vitamin D increases the risk for prostate cancer.\nReviews of many population studies combined\nA 2008 review of 45 observational studies combined found no link between intake of vitamin D and prostate cancer risk.\nA 2011 review of 25 studies combined found no link between either vitamin D in the diet or blood levels of vitamin D and the risk of prostate cancer.\nA 2014 review of 21 studies combined found that high levels of vitamin D in the blood may be linked with a higher risk of prostate cancer. Many factors may affect these findings, since some studies propose men from higher income groups may have higher vitamin D levels and are more likely to get PSA testing, leading to higher rates of reported prostate cancer.\nClinical trials in patients with prostate cancer have shown the following:\nA clinical trial treated patients with prostate cancer that had recurred (come back) with calcitriol (the active form of vitamin D) and naproxen for 1 year. Results showed that the combination of calcitriol and naproxen was effective in slowing the rate of rising PSA levels in study patients, suggesting it may slow disease progression.\nIn a 2010 study, patients with prostate cancer that did not respond to hormone therapy were treated with calcitriol and dexamethasone. The results indicated that while the treatment was well tolerated, it did not have an effect on PSA levels in the study patients.\nIn a 2009 study, patients with locally advanced or metastatic prostate cancer were treated with vitamin D. The study reported that one in every 5 patients who took vitamin D had improved PSA levels, suggesting that vitamin D may be an effective therapy for patients with advanced prostate cancer.\nHave any side effects or risks been reported from vitamin D?\nVitamin D can be toxic when taken at high doses (10,000 to 50,000 IU per day) over a period of many years. Taking high levels of Vitamin D can cause too much calcium to be absorbed through the intestines, leading to rapid increases in blood calcium levels. This condition is called hypercalcemia.\nSigns and symptoms of hypercalcemia may include frequent and excessive urination, excessive thirst, poor kidney function, and calcium build-up in soft tissues. There may be effects on the brain including depression and anorexia.\nIn a group of 26 studies, Vitamin D was reviewed for safety, effectiveness, and whether it interacts with drugs used to treat prostate cancer and other tumors. Calcitriol was the most common form of vitamin D used in these studies. The reviewers found no adverse effects beyond those expected from high-dose calcitriol, and the risk of drug interactions was found to be low.\nA number of studies looked at the safety and effectiveness of high-dose calcitriol combined with chemotherapy (docetaxel) to treat men with androgen-independent prostate cancer. No higher levels of toxicity were found compared to treatment with docetaxel alone.\nIs vitamin D approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a cancer treatment in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of vitamin D as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nVitamin D is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nQuestions and Answers About Vitamin E\nVitamin E is a nutrient that may protect against chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease. Vitamin E is being studied in the prevention of some types of cancer.\nThere are eight different forms of vitamin E: four tocopherols (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and sigma-) and four tocotrienols (alpha-, beta-, gamma-, and sigma-). Compared with other tocopherols, alpha-tocopherol (the form of vitamin E commonly found in dietary supplements) is found in greater amounts in the body and is the most active. Most vitamin E in the diet comes from gamma-tocopherol. Food sources of vitamin E include vegetable oils, nuts, and egg yolks.\nMany of the possible health benefits of Vitamin E may be from its antioxidant activity. Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that protects cell membranes from damage caused by free radicals. Vitamin E also has other functions involved in cell signaling pathways and gene expression.\nHow is vitamin E administered or consumed?\nVitamin E may be consumed in the diet or taken in dietary supplements.\nHave any studies of vitamin E been done in people?\nPopulation studies and clinical trials have been done to find out if vitamin E may be useful in preventing or treating prostate cancer.\nPopulation studies look for risk factors and ways to control disease in large groups of people. Population studies of vitamin E in prostate cancer risk have shown the following:\nThe National Institutes of Health -American Association of Retired Persons (NIH-AARP) Diet and Healthy Study studied whether vitamin E in supplements and in the diet of volunteers may prevent prostate cancer. After 5 years, no link between vitamin E supplements and prostate cancer risk was found. However, a lower risk of advanced prostate cancer was found in those who had high intakes of one form of vitamin E (gamma-tocopherol).\nIn a 2010 study that measured blood levels of trace elements and vitamin E, those who had prostate cancer had markedly lower blood levels of vitamin E than those who did not have prostate cancer. In addition, those who had higher PSA levels had lower levels of vitamin E in their blood.\nBlood levels of alpha-tocopherol and gamma-tocopherol and prostate cancer risk were studied in participants in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Screening Trial. Men with higher levels of alpha-tocopherol had lower rates of prostate cancer, but this was noted only in current smokers and those who had recently quit.\nIn a review of many studies combined involving 370,000 men from several countries, higher blood levels of alpha-tocopherol were linked with a lower risk of prostate cancer in all patients, not just smokers.\nClinical trials of preventing or treating prostate cancer\nIn the Physicians' Health Study II, men received either vitamin E supplements (400 IU synthetic alpha-tocopherol taken every other day) and/or vitamin C supplements (500 mg synthetic ascorbic acid taken daily) and were followed for an average of 8 years. The overall rates of prostate cancer were very similar in the men who received vitamin E supplements and in those who did not, suggesting that vitamin E may not prevent prostate cancer. Furthermore, vitamin E did not have an effect on total cancer or death rates in these participants.\nThe Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta Carotene Cancer Prevention Study (ATBC) trial measured blood levels of alpha-tocopherol and dietary intake of vitamin E in men who were followed for up to 19 years. Findings showed no link between vitamin E in the diet and prostate cancer risk, but showed that higher levels of alpha-tocopherol in the blood may be linked with a lower risk for developing advanced prostate cancer.\nMen in the ATBC trial who developed prostate cancer were studied to find out if serum alpha-tocopherol levels affected survival time. Higher serum alpha-tocopherol levels, at both time of diagnosis and at the 3-year time point, were linked with improved prostate cancer survival.\nA 2011 study of men who took part in The Carotene and Retinol Efficacy Trial (CARET) found that, among those who were current smokers, higher levels of serum alpha-tocopherols and gamma-tocopherols were linked with lower risk of aggressive prostate cancer.\nVitamin E (alpha-tocopherol acetate, 400 IU/ day) and a placebo;\nFirst SELECT results reported in 2009 found no meaningful differences in rates of prostate cancer among the 4 groups. In the Vitamin E alone group, there was a slight increase in the rate of prostate cancer and in the selenium alone group, there was a slight increase in the rate of diabetes. Based on those findings, the men in the study were advised to stop taking the study supplements.\nUpdated SELECT results in 2011 showed that selenium supplements had no meaningful effect on prostate cancer risk; however, men taking vitamin E alone had a 17% increase in prostate cancer risk compared to men in the placebo group.\nIn 2014, further SELECT results showed that vitamin E supplements alone had no effect on prostate cancer risk in men with high levels of selenium at the start of the trial; however, vitamin E supplements increased the risk of low-grade and high-grade prostate cancer in men with lower levels of selenium at the start of the trial.\nSeveral factors may have affected study results, including the dose of vitamin E chosen and the form of selenium used.\nHave any side effects or risks been reported from vitamin E?\nAlpha-tocopherols are deemed Generally Recognized as Safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.\nIn the Physicians' Health Study II, there were no marked differences in rates of gastrointestinal symptoms, fatigue, drowsiness, skin discoloration or rashes, or migraine between men who took vitamin E (400 IU every other day of alpha-tocopherol) and those who took a placebo. However, there was a higher number of hemorrhagic strokes in men who took vitamin E than in men who took a placebo. In the Alpha-Tocopherol, Beta Carotene Cancer Prevention Study Group, there was also an increase in hemorrhagic strokes among men in the group that took vitamin E (50 mg/ day of alpha-tocopherol).\nEarlier results from the SELECT trial showed no marked differences in rates of less severe adverse effects (such as hair loss, inflamed skin, and nausea) in the groups that took vitamin E (400 IU/ day of all-rac-alpha-tocopherol) compared to the other treatment groups. Later follow-up of SELECT participants showed an increased risk of prostate cancer among men in the vitamin E alone group.\nIs vitamin E approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a cancer treatment in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of vitamin E as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nVitamin E is available in the United States in food products and dietary supplements. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nPomi-T (Pomegranate, Green Tea, Broccoli, and Turmeric)\nPolyphenols are compounds found in many plants and give some flowers, fruits, and vegetables their color. Polyphenols have antioxidant activity that helps protect cells from damage caused by free radicals.\nA food supplement (Pomi-T) that is high in polyphenols was studied in a group of men who had prostate cancer that had not spread. This supplement contained a combination of the following:\nPomegranate whole fruit powder.\nBroccoli powder.\nThese ingredients were raw, dry, plant-based powders, and one plant extract, that were not standardized (a standardized herbal supplement has one or more active ingredients measured in a specific amount, so that the product is the same from batch to batch).\nIn a randomized clinical trial, 199 men were given either Pomi-T or a placebo for 6 months. Before the study began, slightly less than half of the men had rising prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels after being treated with local therapy, and slightly more than half of the men were on active surveillance (not yet treated). In the Pomi-T group, median PSA levels rose much less than in the group that took the placebo. The food supplement was well tolerated and there were no marked differences reported in adverse effects between supplement and placebo groups. However, patients in the supplement group were more likely to have gastrointestinal symptoms (i.e., more gas and loose bowels).\nLycopene, Selenium, and Green Tea\nA randomized clinical trial of a supplement containing lycopene, selenium, and green tea catechins enrolled men with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN). Patients who received the supplement were found to have higher rates of prostate cancer when they had a repeat biopsy after 6 months compared to those who did not receive the supplement. Since this may be due to cancers missed at the start of the study, more research is needed.\nLycopene and Other Therapies\nA randomized study enrolled 79 patients who were scheduled to undergo prostatectomy. For 3 weeks before the procedure, the men were assigned to consume either: 1) tomato products containing lycopene; 2) tomato products plus selenium, omega 3-fatty acids, soy isoflavones, grape/pomegranate juice, and green/black tea; or 3) a control diet. There were no differences in PSA values between the nutrition -based groups and the control group. However, lower PSA values were found in men with intermediate risk prostate cancer who consumed the tomato products and in patients with the highest increases in lycopene levels.\nQuestions and Answers About Zyflamend\nZyflamend is a dietary supplement that contains extracts of 10 different herbs in olive oil:\nHoly basil.\nHu zhang (Polygonum cuspidatum).\nChinese goldthread.\nBarberry.\nBaikal skullcap.\nThe extracts found in Zyflamend have anti-inflammatory activity and possible anticancer benefits. There is limited evidence about how Zyflamend may act against tumor growth. Zyflamend has been shown to interfere with the activity of COX-1 and COX-2 enzymes, which are involved in the development of inflammation and possibly cancer. Zyflamend may also act against the NF-kappa B and lipoxygenase (LOX) families of proteins that stimulate tumor growth.\nHow is Zyflamend administered or consumed?\nZyflamend is taken as a dietary supplement in capsule form.\nHave any laboratory or animal studies been done using Zyflamend?\nLaboratory and animal studies have tested the effects of Zyflamend in prostate cancer. See the Laboratory/Animal/Preclinical Studies section of the health professional version of Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements for information on laboratory and animal studies done using Zyflamend.\nHave any studies of Zyflamend been done in people?\nA report of one patient with high-grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (HGPIN) who received Zyflamend 3 times/day for 18 months showed that PSA levels were not affected. However, at the end of 18 months of treatment, repeat biopsies of the prostate did not show HGPIN or cancer.\nIn a phase I safety study of Zyflamend, patients with HGPIN took Zyflamend (780 mg) 3 times/day for 18 months with additional dietary supplements (probiotic supplement, multivitamin, green and white tea extract, Baikal skullcap, docosahexaenoic acid, holy basil, and turmeric). Zyflamend and the added dietary supplements were well tolerated and there were no serious side effects. At the end of 18 months of treatment, more than half of patients had benign biopsy results, about one-fourth had HGPIN, and about one in 8 had prostate cancer.\nHave any side effects or risks been reported from Zyflamend?\nA phase I safety study of Zyflamend (described above) reported no toxicity or serious side effects. Some of the patients had mild heartburn that went away when Zyflamend was taken with food.\nIs Zyflamend approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a cancer treatment in the United States?\nThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved the use of Zyflamend as a treatment for cancer or any other medical condition.\nZyflamend is available in the United States as a dietary supplement. Dietary supplements are products meant to be added to the diet. They are not drugs and are not meant to treat, prevent, or cure diseases. The manufacturer is responsible for ensuring that the product is safe and that the label claims are truthful and not misleading. The FDA does not approve dietary supplements as safe or effective before they are sold.\nMany widely available dietary supplements are marketed to support prostate health. African Cherry (pygeum africanum) and beta-sitosterol are two related supplements that have been studied as possible prostate cancer treatments. Note: A separate PDQ summary on PC-SPES is also available.\nAfrican Cherry / P. africanum\nAfrican cherry or Pygeum africanum is a tree that grows in tropical climates. It is found in a number of African countries including Kenya, Madagascar, Uganda, and Nigeria. Bark from the P. africanum tree was used by African tribes to relieve urinary symptoms and stomach pain. In the 18th century, European travelers learned from South African tribes that P. africanum could treat bladder discomfort and \"old man's disease\" (enlarged prostate).\nSince 1969, bark extracts from P. africanum have been available as prescription drugs in Europe and have been widely used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The bark contains a number of compounds including fatty acids and phytosterols (e.g., beta-sitosterol). The bark is processed and purified as an extract.\nLaboratory studies and animal studies have shown that two substances in bark extract from P. africanum are active in blocking cells from taking up androgen. The antiandrogen activity found in P. africanum is at a markedly lower concentration than the antiandrogen activity found in flutamide (an anticancer drug).\nBeta-sitosterol is a member of the phytosterol family of phytochemicals and is widely found in plant life in different amounts. It is found in African cherry (Pygeum africanum), saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), and various nuts, beans, and seeds. It is one of several phytosterols (plant sterols) that have a chemical structure similar to cholesterol. Phytosterols, including beta-sitosterol, limit the amount of cholesterol that can be absorbed from the diet and they are being studied for their potential to protect against cardiovascular disease. Beta-sitosterol is very poorly absorbed by the body.\nStudies suggest that phytosterols may have anticancer activity, but their exact actions are unknown. Phytosterols may affect immune and hormonal systems or may directly target cell cycles and cause cell death in tumors.\nLaboratory studies have shown that high concentrations of beta-sitosterol markedly slow the growth of human prostate cancer cells and cause cancer cell death.\nThis PDQ cancer information summary has current information about the use of nutrition and dietary supplements for reducing the risk of developing prostate cancer or for treating prostate cancer. It is meant to inform and help patients, families, and caregivers. It does not give formal guidelines or recommendations for making decisions about health care.\nPDQ\u00ae Integrative, Alternative, and Complementary Therapies Editorial Board. PDQ Prostate Cancer, Nutrition, and Dietary Supplements. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute. Updated . Available at: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/prostate-supplements-pdq. Accessed . [PMID: 26389501]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 534, "original_length": 90107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ageekyworld.com/mattel-brings-thingmaker-back-as-a-3d-printer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:44Z", "digest": "sha1:T2MSROWLUZ3XNTOKA7QV3FQNBXRJ5XSC", "length": 3490, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.ageekyworld.com", "title": "Mattel Brings ThingMaker Back As A 3D Printer", "raw_content": "Homepage \u00bb 3D Printing \u00bb Mattel Brings ThingMaker Back As A 3D Printer\nBy Pasha - February, 15th 2016\nMattel unveiled the ThingMaker back in the 1960s in New York. It was a crude gadget that enabled kids to create bug-like Creepy Crawlers, flowers, mini-dragons and many small toys by using plastic onto special molds that was then heated up and cooled down. Now, in 2016, Mattel has rebooted the ThingMaker as a bold statement regarding the company stepping into the 3D printing. Now this product will allow kids and adults alike to design and 3D print toys at home.\nMattel plans on rebooting ThingMaker at a price tag of $299.99. It is a family friendly 21st Century 3D printer. Announcements have been made regarding this gadget before Toy Fair Trade Show that will take off this weekend. The gadget works with a 3D printing app that is compatible with Android and iOS and works in collaboration with Autodesk.\nAt the unveiling of the gadget, it was surrounded by a number of items you can print using ThingMaker and included toy fairies, dinosaurs, robots, dolls, jewelry and skeletons. Users can also design objects using the ThingMaker app that comes equipped with templates and a pallete that features drag and drop parts that the user can assemble together on screen before hitting the print button. The parts are printed in batches and for safety purposes the printer\u2019s door gets locked automatically when printing starts.\nDan Pressman, creative director at Autodesk and says, \u201cAll the physical behaviors are as it would be when it was actually printed out, so you can get an idea for how it is going to mechanically move and what the limits of all the joints and sockets that you create are.\u201d User can select colors for the objects via app as well.\nThe app is live now and can be employed for the use of designing items that can be 3D printed using standard 3D printers but Mattel\u2019s own 3D printer will come out in the fall. You can, however, pre-order it on Amazon starting today.\nAslan Appleman, a senior director at Mattel says, \u201cWe\u2019re going to use these seven months to really learn and gain analytics of how people are using it.\u201d 3D printers have been a bit slow when it comes to becoming the popular in home and the ones that are actually available for users cost a lot and are slow while being complicated. Mattel is targeting it as a toymaker but the company is aiming to tout its 3D printer as a consumer electronics. The printer is, in fact, designed for people with ages 13 and up.\nMattel has been observing how 3D printing is progressing for quite some time now. Appleman says, \u201cWe think this is the perfect time for us to come out in the market with a product that\u2019s disruptive in our opinion.\u201d\nThe Mattel ThingMaker will make use of standard PLA (Polylactic Acid) filament similar to other 3D printers. Appleman further says, \u201cOur thought is we want to make this open to makers. What we want to highlight is the ThinkMaker ecosystem.\u201d\nThe 3D printing itself won\u2019t be a quick process, in fact, a small ring might take about 30 minutes for printing while a large toy might take up 6-8 hours. The important thing is the fact that companies are finally realizing the benefits of 3D printing and incorporating it. Go 3D printing!\nA Sith Lightsaber, 3D-Printed by \u2018Tested\u2019 Is An Incredible Reason To Buy Your Own 3D Printer\nATLAS 3D \u2013 Print and Build-It-Yourself 3D Scanner\nThe 3DSimo Mini Draws In 3D, and Now It Comes With Soldering, Cutting And Foam Cutting Attachments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ai-ap.com/slideshow/AI/35/esther-pearl-watson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:13Z", "digest": "sha1:DIK53MUR6L7LOFDYZMZ4K2D4UYB3LB4B", "length": 330, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ai-ap.com", "title": "AI-AP Slideshow", "raw_content": "In the Future Cars Will Not Break Down. June 2015. A painting for a show at Webb Gallery in Texas.\nPasture Cows Crossing Indian Creek. Comanche, Texas. June 2015. This 40\" x 60\" painting was created as part of a show at Webb Gallery in Texas. It was based on a much larger piece on display at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 168.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aia-mn.org/juxtaposition-arts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:04Z", "digest": "sha1:W3WHSAA5DGWUQ66UIJ2DLYGQPFPHNHBZ", "length": 5750, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.aia-mn.org", "title": "Juxtaposition Arts | Architecture MN Magazine", "raw_content": "An innovative arts and design enterprise helps creative young people in North Minneapolis pursue futures in art, design, and architecture\nHere and there, in parks, on walls, and inside buildings, the work of a vividly, distinctively Minneapolis school of design adds color and emotion to the city. There\u2019s the retro-postcard \u201cWelcome to North Minneapolis\u201d mural on Broadway Avenue\u2014you can\u2019t miss it. Another mural, lavish and five stories tall, is secreted away in a stairwell in the downtown Le M\u00e9ridien Chambers Hotel. At the St. Satoko Pocket Park on Emerson Avenue, a bamboo arbor, a sculpture grove, and planters stake out a tiny sanctuary in the city. And then there are the many logos and graphics in motion on T-shirts and tote bags. It\u2019s all the work of Juxtaposition Arts (JXTA), and the secret to this fine, up-to-the-second stylish design is that it\u2019s dreamed up and executed by young people.\n\u201cThere is so much raw genius in the young people of North Minneapolis,\u201d says JXTA cofounder and CEO DeAnna Cummings. \u201cThe notion that only well-trained professionals can do art is simply wrong.\u201d Part design school, part social-enterprise business, and part after-school activity, this wholly unique arts organization has been changing futures on Emerson and Broadway since 1995. That\u2019s when three artists decided the youth of North Minneapolis needed something to do with their creative energy. Why not do art?\nDeAnna Cummings, husband Roger Cummings, and friend Peyton Russell established the venture as an after-school studio-arts program in which professional artists would guide and train young people. Over the next two decades, the program evolved into a professional-level arts school and an apprenticeship program called JXTA Labs, which employs local artists, architects, and designers as well as the emerging creatives they lead. The nonprofit expanded to four buildings, and today JXTA serves 1,500 young people annually. It has enhanced educations, launched careers, provided studio space and incomes, opened eyes in the community, and enriched businesses with art. It has helped revitalize the city. Undoubtedly, it has saved lives.\n\u201cWe see people come in all the time who have a natural gift right out of the gate, and they ultimately leave a mark on this organization and help make it different and better than it was before,\u201d says the CEO. All that the incoming talent needs is a little training. The students all start out in Visual Art Literacy Training (VALT); many move on to a JXTA Lab apprenticeship (or two). Along the way, they receive college-level instruction in fine art, scale and ratio, urban planning, landscape architecture, marketing, and production\u2014and conducting oneself like a pro.\n\u201cWe emphasize consistency, competency, and deportment\u2014the things people will look for in the business community,\u201d says Roger Cummings, JXTA\u2019s chief cultural producer. \u201cIndividual talent is well and fine. We see it every day. We help them learn to work as part of a diverse cohort of people who are more important and more effective together than alone.\u201d\nIn recent years, the organization has continued to grow, but in early 2018 the deteriorating headquarters building on the northwest corner of Emerson and Broadway had to be demolished to avoid escalating fines from the city. For now, JXTA does more in less space. A capital campaign is raising funds to build a new headquarters\u2014with design input from its students, of course (see sidebar on page 37). In the meantime, the now-empty lot will be transformed into a skate-able art plaza.\nSam Ero-Phillips, Assoc. AIA, came to JXTA as a young person in 2007 and has never been able to quit it. After taking classes, he volunteered and taught there while pursuing architecture and art degrees at the University of Minnesota. He left Minnesota twice, getting his graduate degree in Chicago and traveling to Nigeria as a Fulbright scholar, but he always came back to JXTA. He\u2019s led studio-arts labs while working at KKE Architects, 4RM+ULA (page 18),and now LSE Architects.\n\u201cThis is that rare organization that is able to produce high-quality creative product and excel at community engagement,\u201d says Ero-Phillips. \u201cCompanies come here looking for fresh ideas, and they hire us because they know from our track record that we deliver an exceptional product.\u201d\nBy hiring JXTA, those clients, which include Lunds & Byerlys, the YMCA, and Dangerous Man Brewing Co., also help impact lives. When students see the apprentices working in art and design, it makes all manner of creative futures seem possible. Although the program remains firmly rooted in North Minneapolis, the young people hail from as far away as Eden Prairie and Stillwater. Some come from disadvantaged backgrounds, so the instructors might pivot during an art lesson to a crash course in how to prepare a portfolio or a college application, or how to stick with a high school that seems to only teach to the test.\n\u201cJXTA makes it hard not to work at JXTA. I find I truly love having a teaching component in my life, even though I\u2019m now pursuing my architecture career,\u201d says Ero-Phillips. \u201cWe do the kind of work that I loved doing in college\u2014drawing, model making, discussing ideas. There\u2019s something about working with these young people that just fills me up.\u201d\nJXTA recently launched a $14 million capital campaign to build a state-of-the-art facility at its current location. The new headquarters will continue the organization\u2019s longstanding commitment to the equitable development of North Minneapolis, ensuring that young people have access to quality arts education and employment for generations to come. To learn more about the campaign or to donate, please contact JXTA development director Kevin Vollmers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 6236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aicapitaladvisors.com/blog/2018/10/24/3-common-red-flags-ventures-funds-look-for-in-startups", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:05Z", "digest": "sha1:IRKG4RCEHSSB4CQB3GHHCYTJJ6D6EKGC", "length": 3825, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.aicapitaladvisors.com", "title": "3 Common Red Flags Ventures Funds Look For In Startups \u2014 Alternative Investment Capital Advisors", "raw_content": "Many factors go into a successful bid for raising capital, and you do not want your hard work to go to waste. That said, it is imperative to lay the foundation for your company to receive the best possible response. Fortunately, there is a wealth of information available to help you avoid some common pitfalls when going through this process, and below are listed some things to steer clear of.\nA Weak Marketing Plan\nAn investor or bank needs to focus on obtaining a return for the monies they are entrusting to your endeavor. Your backers may not be fully aware of the niche in which you do business, and as such, they will be leery of any enterprise that lacks a solid structure from which they seek to obtain a customer base.\nPut simply, your clients are the lifeblood of your firm, and you need to have a strong handle on the methods whereby you intend to reach them. It may take time and research, but you will need to build a solid framework to assuage any doubts your potential investor or banker may have.\nYour proposal should contain the specific ways in which you intend to advertise to your base, including any partnerships you may have to help you toward this end. It is perfectly acceptable to require assistance when preparing these necessary documents, as investors are going to carefully scrutinize your offering to ensure that you will be able to scale your business.\nLack of Forward Momentum\nWhen there is no movement in your operation, the institutions or venture capitalists you are hoping to partner with are going to have some serious concerns. Your prospective investor is going to want to see that your product or service has already made a splash in the market. As the saying goes, it is much easier to steer a moving vehicle than it is to do so with a parked car.\nYou\u2019ll want to demonstrate measurable growth that shows a steady progression over months or even years, and you will need to find workarounds to any problems that you may encounter. It is vital to familiarize yourself with the factors that govern the market to establish your startup as one that is positing a solution to the pain points facing your target audience.\nWhen investors do not see a pattern of overcoming obstacles or of becoming more adept at finding and retaining clientele, it will be viewed as a red flag, potentially putting the brakes on your attempts to obtain funding. Positive testimonials, however, and good press can generate a buzz that bodes well for your brand.\nExcessive Burn Rates\nIf the rate at which you are required to expend financial resources is greater than the revenue that you bring in, investors and banks may look unfavorably upon your ability to succeed. Although it is normal to have overhead expenses, especially in the beginning, this must fall within certain parameters and have a reasonably good chance of being recouped.\nSpecifically, your burn rate is calculated as the amount of time it would take for your company to run out of money based on how much you spend each month. This figure will also take into account whatever monies you are currently bringing in. When paired with a balance sheet that shows very little revenue each month, this can spell disaster.\nYou\u2019ll need to consider your payroll allocations and your own salary, as you\u2019ll likely need funds to do research to determine your product\u2019s fit in the marketplace. In addition, your overhead must be carefully examined to see if it is too high, and your profit margins need to be sufficient to keep your company in the black.\nAI Capital Advisors can help provide you with the valuable insights you\u2019ll need when moving forward with your presentation, so you can achieve a higher valuation. We have years of valuable experience advising clients, and we look forward to working with you. Contact us for more information today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 4822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aims.ca/media-releases/troubling-response-by-nb-power-and-minister/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4XVHQH6S7JBRZQVCHXYUJLA6UVY63DBI", "length": 5808, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.aims.ca", "title": "Troubling Response by NB Power and Minister - AIMS - Atlantic Institute for Market Studies", "raw_content": "Troubling Response by NB Power and Minister\nThe Atlantic Institute for Market Studies says reaction by NB Power and the New Brunswick government to its latest paper is defensive and disappointing. Power Trip: Stumbling toward a policy for NB Power, is the latest paper prepared for AIMS in a series on the electricity industry beginning in 1996. Power Trip provides in-depth analysis of the current restructuring and details NB Power\u2019s historically poor performance in spite of advice offered in two AIMS papers seven years ago. Had that advice been followed, New Brunswick would be enjoying a sound and sustainable electricity market today.\nThis most recent paper is critical of the new Electricity Act, which will convert NB Power into NB Power Holding Company and break up the existing corporation into four stand-alone subsidiaries. About half of NB Power\u2019s current $3 billion debt will be apportioned to the subsidiaries. Contrary to the assertions of the electricity establishment, all of NB Power\u2019s current debt and liabilities, which are huge and unsustainable, are backstopped by New Brunswick taxpayers and no one else. It is a fiction to pretend that the new New Brunswick Electric Finance Corporation will ultimately be responsible for the debt and not taxpayers.\nThe response from the government upon release of the paper did not deal substantively with the issues facing New Brunswickers \u2013 namely expanding debt, declining value of existing generating assets, high operating costs and limited competition in the retail marketplace.\n\u201cNB Power and the New Brunswick government are obscuring these important issues for taxpayers and ratepayers with red herrings.\u201d AIMS president Brian Lee Crowley said in a statement today. \u201cSeven years ago AIMS first raised the issue of the alarming financial position of NB Power and virtually every one of the predictions made then regarding the deterioration of the financial and asset position of the utility has come to pass. We have been forced to issue yet another warning about the exposure of New Brunswickers to unacceptable and unjustified risk.\nThe only reaction of the power establishment in the province is to hide its head in the sand. New Brunswickers deserve to have these vital matters demystified so that they can decide if they wish to pursue the risky policies being promoted by the utility and the government. \u2018Just trust us\u2019 is no policy at all.\nTom Adams, the author of the two earlier AIMS papers on NB Power, says the current financial restructuring in New Brunswick is strikingly similar to the path taken in Ontario. \u201cIn Ontario, first came write downs of phoney assets, then came the collapse of Ontario Hydro, then came a massive government bailout in 1999. Because the bailed out Crown corporations remained unaccountable and were permitted to expand, Ontario is now in a second collapse/bailout phase. NB Power has gone through a massive write-down. The old NB Power is now effectively insolvent, which is why government is bailing it out to the tune of $1.5 billion. Unless New Brunswick learns the lesson of Ontario and freezes taxpayer liabilities, another bailout will be required in just a few years.\u201d Mr. Adams was appointed by the Ontario Government to the Ontario Market Design Committee, charged with developing the initial rules for Ontario\u2019s electricity market. He is a former director of Ontario\u2019s Independent Electricity Market Operator, responsible for managing the integrated operation of Ontario\u2019s power system, and was the author of an AIMS paper on the lessons this region could learn from Ontario\u2019s electricity deregulation, From Promise to Crisis.\nIn their media release NB Power responds to the paper saying the Province of New Brunswick is charting a course that will bring significant changes in what they call a \u201cmeasured and moderate\u201d approach.\n\u201cHalf measures\u201d replied the author of the paper, Thomas L. Tucker, PhD. \u201cIt is unfathomable that both the provincial government and NB Power are still choosing not to deal with the substance of this important issue facing New Brunswick taxpayers. There is no way these new Crown corporations will be able to generate enough revenue to service the existing debt, any more than their predecessor corporation has been able to do. When the foreseeable collapse of this house of cards occurs, it is the taxpayers of New Brunswick and no one else who will be on the hook for the entire existing debt.\u201d\n\u201cFor now, the status quo is unaltered,\u201d continued Tucker, \u201cplaying a shell game with NB Power\u2019s debt burden will do nothing about high operating costs, the high reserve capacity, the deterioration of generating assets, or electricity rates that fail to reflect the cost of service, all of which led to NB Power\u2019s inability to manage its debt in the first place. There is no reason to believe that, without fundamental management and operational changes, the new crown corporations will be able to pay fees in lieu of taxes, or pay dividends sufficient to service debt.\u201d\nDr. Crowley added, \u201cThe utility has chosen to deal with this out of control debt by borrowing more money. The reforms now being instituted are not solutions at all \u2014 they are wishful thinking. Canadian and international experience shows that better and less risky policies are available that would better serve the interests of taxpayers and electricity consumers. We invite NB Power and the government to engage with us in a constructive dialogue on the right approach to a policy with powerful implications for New Brunswick\u2019s future.\u201d\nA complete version of Power Trip: Stumbling toward a policy for NB Power is available on-line.\nBy Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2016-03-11T16:39:53+00:00\tNovember 4th, 2003|Media Releases|Comments Off on Troubling Response by NB Power and Minister", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 8027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/faq-detail/42228.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:6OEGSGD2ZBBF26OL24XSXVKEAI3BABIK", "length": 863, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.alibabacloud.com", "title": "Alibaba Cloud Document Center: Find the Documentation for Your Needs - Alibaba Cloud", "raw_content": "An SSL certificate is a server digital certificate that complies with the SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protocol. The SSL protocol was developed by Netscape Communications.\nSSL serves as a solution for layered data security between application protocols (such as HTTP, Telnet, and FTP) and TCP/IP. It is based on public key cryptography, and enables data encryption, server authentication, data integrity, and optional client authentication for TCP/IP connections. Owing to its ability to solve security problems inherent in plain text transmission over the Internet, this protocol rapidly gained popularity and has become an international standard.\nSSL certificates are issued by a trusted root certificate authority in the web browser after the server authentication is completed. An SSL certificate provides both website authentication and encrypted transmission.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 161.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aliesq.com/articles/2010/11/28/bart-cop-gets-2-year-sentence-for-killing-oscar-grant-michael-vick-received-the-same-sentence-for-killing-dogs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:10Z", "digest": "sha1:RI3DGQYTGATV7YRZHPBEIZGLJLXXTZJF", "length": 5613, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.aliesq.com", "title": "BART Cop gets 2 year Sentence for Killing Oscar Grant. Michael Vick received the same sentence for killing dogs. \u2014 Ali Shahrestani, Esq.", "raw_content": "Oakland, California BART officer Johannes Mehserle was sentenced to 2 years of prison for the 2009 involuntary manslaughter of Oscar Grant, a young black man who was unarmed and face down in prone position beneath Officer Mehserle when the BART cop shot Mr. Grant at point blank range accidentally thinking he was reaching for his gun rather than a Taser. Police brutality issues and civil rights violations often accompany criminal defense matters in the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California, and I offer aggressive attorney representation to individuals seeking justice in such criminal defense and related civil rights matters.\nA few years ago, NFL player Michael Vick got a similar sentence for running a dog-fighting ring. What does this say to the family of 22 year-old Oscar Grant, who was shot by a BART officer while Grant was lying face down in the concrete and unarmed after being arrested for fighting on the BART train platform in Oakland, CA? The family was mortified, as is the community. The question is: Is the jail sentence as light as it was because the shooter here is a white cop and the victim is a \"black urban youth\"? What if the situation were reversed?\nWhen racism, elitism, conservativism, and discrimination is a part of the very fabric of our society, how can it also not be a part of the minds of our judges and juries?\nThe 28 year-old white BART officer, Johannes Mehserle, stated in his defense that he thought he was reaching for his Taser gun to Taser Oscar Grant, who was lying unarmed and in prone position face down in front of him. Instead, Mr. Mehserle grabbed his powerful .40 caliber pistol and shot and killed Mr. Grant.\nMr. Mehserle, the BART cop, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter - basically, an accidental killing. Mehserle has no criminal history nor recorded history of violence, so there is no reason to doubt his intentions. The issue is that the sentence was minimal, since involuntary manslaughter carries a sentence of 2 to 4 years. Sending a criminal to jail serves more purposes than merely to punish that criminal for what he did - it also serves to send a clear message to society. The message here is questionable.\nEven if we believe Mehserle's account - that he was reaching for his Taser to stun the unarmed and face down Oscar Grant - we must ask: Why did Mehserle need to Taser Mr. Grant at all? There are those that argue that this should have made a strong argument for second degree \"felony murder\", which is when a murder occurs during the perpetration of a serious underlying felony, even if the murder was unforseen or unintentional. For example, if a person is simply threatening somebody with harm (assault) and thinks the gun they are using is unloaded, pulls the trigger, and kills the victim during the threat, that is second degree felony murder.\nIt is a felony for a police officer to use a Taser on a person unless it is in self-defense or to protect others. In 1964, the California Supreme Court held in the case of People v. Ford, 60 Cal.2d 772, that a homicide that occurs during the commission of a felony that is inherently dangerous to human life is second degree murder, where the felony is not one of the underlying felonies that is listed in the first degree felony murder rule (CA Penal Code section 189), such as rape, arson, robbery, burglary. So if an unintentional killing occurs during a rape, that is first degree felony murder. If it occurs during an assault (a viable threat), that is second degree felony murder.\nHowever, in the Johannes Meserle killing of Oscar Grant, there is no underlying crime of assault or battery here, as Mr. Mehserle never assaulted or battered Mr. Grant with the Taser - thus, there is no \"underlying felony\" of assault and battery. Instead, Mr. Mehserle drew his gun, thinking he was reaching for the handle of his Taser, and shot Oscar Grant one time in the back, killing him.\nIt is arguable that the law should not tolerate such gross mistakes, but do we really want to jail people for several years who did not intend to kill while they are in the process of otherwise legal acts carried out in the interests of public safety? Yes, for 2 to 4 years for involuntary manslaughter, and that is what Mr. Mehserle was convicted of.\nShould a man with no criminal record or history of violence, with a record of preserving the public safety, be given a maximal sentence in a situation where he was trying to protect the public? Well, it's not so simple as that, because there was no justifiable reason for Mr. Mehserle to want to Taser Mr. Grant, and his criminal mistake cost Mr. Grant his life. The inherent violence of Mr. Mehserle's act is clarified by his decision to Taser Mr. Grant, as he thought he was doing. It is a grossly unnecessary and aggressive level of violence to choose to Taser at close range a face down, unarmed youth who is arrested for fighting on a train platform. It is the presence of such violence in the act, albeit an act that was ultimately a tragic and involuntary killing, that should have urged the judge in this matter to give Mr. Mehserle the maximal sentence of 4 years. Mr. Mehserle was lucky that he did not threaten Mr. Grant before he reached for the weapon, as those few words may have been sufficient to convict him of second degree felony murder with an underlying felony of aggravated assault, leading to a possible life sentence. More so, Mr. Mehserle was lucky that the judge used his wide discretion to give him the minimum sentence here.\nMr. Grant, his family, and the African-American community should be so lucky.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 7291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/03/isil-says-it-faces-war-with-nusra-syria-20143719484991740.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:AWRITYTZIQXIULJE5XMYJ6BBV5D76RVD", "length": 2311, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff ISIL says it faces war with Nusra in Syria | News | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "ISIL says it faces war with Nusra in Syria\nRebel faction slams rival group Jabhat al-Nusra for \"betrayal and treason\" as it responds to demand to end infighting.\nNusra gave its rivals a five-day ultimatum to accept mediation or be \"expelled\" from the region [AFP]\nAn al-Qaeda breakaway group says it faces a war with rival Islamic factions who want to destroy it, describing Syria's al-Qaeda-linked branch as the \"front of betrayal and treason\".\nThe statement by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Friday came a week after the leader of the al-Qaeda-linked Jabhat al-Nusra gave it a five-day ultimatum to accept mediation to end infighting or be \"expelled'' from the region.\nBattles between the rival groups that began in early January have killed more than 3,000 people, activists say. The fighting in northern Syria, in which Nusra is backed by other Islamic groups, has been the deadliest between opposition fighters since the country's crisis began three years ago.\nISIL's spokesman, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, said in a 22-minute audio clip posted online that his group's rivals tried to defeat ISIL \"when they saw it was getting more powerful''.\n\"They resorted to force and thought that they would be able to wipe it within a few days or hours. They prepared for a military campaign all over Syria and accompanied it with a propaganda campaign to harm the image of [ISIL] and turn the people against it,'' Adnani said.\n'Betrayal and treason'\n\"They then launched the campaign of betrayal and treason but they were surprised that [ISIL] was more solid than they expected and they failed in breaking it.\"\nLast week, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, Nusra's leader, suggested arbitration by Muslim leaders to stop the infighting. He warned ISIL that it would be driven from Syria and \"even from Iraq'' if it rejected the results of arbitration.\nAdnani responded that his group did not reject offers to resort to arbitration but he criticised Nusra's top Muslim cleric and a member of its Shura Council.\nMeanwhile on Friday, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported heavy fighting between ISIL and Nusra in the northeastern town of Markada, saying 23 fighters were killed on both sides.\nThe observatory said ISIL fighters had advanced in the town and captured wheat silos in the area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 6147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2013/07/201372675154613788.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ITH2YWAQFKLWORCAXZPYZDF2QTTRJHNK", "length": 5579, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff Egypt: Revolution or uprising? | Egypt | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "Egypt: Revolution or uprising?\nWe ask if there can be national unity between groups with widely differing ideologies and value systems.\nInside Story 26 Jul 2013 12:23 GMT Politics, Egypt\nEgypt's path towards political transition is taking an ever more challenging series of twists and turns.\nFollowing the Arab Spring, Egypt saw its first freely-elected civilian president. Then, soon after, it encountered a military overthrow.\nNow the army has called on the people to take to the streets on Friday. It has made clear that it intends the day to mark a turning point in its confrontation with the followers of Mohamed Morsi, the elected leader the generals removed on July 3.\nAnd this is raising the question of whether what happened at the outset (the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011) was indeed a revolution, or rather an uprising.\nWhat's going on in Egypt is not an Egyptian affair. There are so many parties involved. People from the Arab region, from the Gulf region. Probably the United States of America, who's given the green light to the coup against democracy. This is actually a war against the Arab Spring. This is an attempt to abort the Arab Spring, because there are still regimes in the region who are terrified that the spring might reach their borders. The fight for democracy in Egypt today is a fight for human dignity across the Arab region.\nAzzam Tamimi, the director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought\nGeneral Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has asked for a mass turnout at rallies on Friday to give the army a mandate to do what it sees as necessary to stamp out violence, thereby setting a collision course with supporters of ousted President Morsi.\n\"Are you willing to destroy the country in order to rule it? Would that be religious? Are you willing to ruin the army or have it on your side? It is not possible. It is a very grave matter?\" said Sisi, addressing a military graduation ceremony.\n\"I urge all Egyptians to go to the streets on Friday to give me a mandate to counter violence and terrorism. This is a request to all Egyptians to show the whole world that the Egyptian people have a will and have a say.\"\nSisi's comments have, however, been described by his opponents as a call to war.\n\"Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, who claimed in his first statement that he had to remove the elected president in a military coup to escape a national conflict and civil war, is now calling for a civil war himself to protect his military coup.\n\"He is proving that he is the actual president for the country and that the president, his vice president and the government do not actually hold any power,\" said Mohamed El Beltagy, a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.\nSupporters of Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood have continued to hold daily protests since he was removed from office by the army earlier this month. Since then, at least 100 people have been killed in clashes with security forces.\nEgypt's transition has been likened to shaking the foundations of the old regime without dismantling it. That would require structural change that some argue has been prevented by what has been called \"the deep state\".\nThe police are said to be one part of the deep state. Their leadership has not changed since the revolution and some have accused them of working against Morsi by not fully deploying during his presidency. The judiciary is another, as many of Egypt's senior judges were appointed during the Mubarak era.\nCorruption within the state bureaucracy could be another aspect of the deep state. And in the private sector, many business elites are still aligned with the old Mubarak regime. That includes a hostile media establishment that has generally shown itself to be anything but partial.\nAdly Mansour, the interim president, has outlined a timetable which envisages changes to the constitution and a referendum, which should pave the way for elections early next year.\nBut can there be national unity between groups with such widely differing ideologies and values? And are revolutions enough to achieve democracy?\nTo discuss this, Inside Story, with presenter Mike Hanna, is joined by guests: Zakaryya Abdel-Hady, an assistant professor of Islamic thought and culture at Qatar University; and Azzam Tamimi, the director of the Institute of Islamic Political Thought.\nInside Story was unable to include guests from Cairo on the programme to balance the discussion, because our service providers in Egypt were informed by the authorities that they could not provide services to the Al Jazeera network for \"security reasons\".\n\"Let me just make it very clear that this is not two sides fighting over democracy. It is one side that is fighting and dying for democracy, that has been dreaming for the last 60 years. And there is another side who want to kill democracy .... And suddently we have the military back again after just one year break. For six years we have been having them and now they are back. So it is a fight between people who are pro-democracy and people who want the military regime back again.\"\n- Zakaryya Abdel-Hady, assistant professor of Islamic thought and culture at Qatar University\nEgypt: The army steps in\nThe military intervenes in the midst of a political crisis, but at what cost to the country's recent democratic gains?\nPolitics, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Syria's Civil War\nEgypt: A coup or a second revolution?\nWe discuss what the recent events in Egypt mean for both the country and young democracies all over the world.\nPolitics, Latin America, Chile, Egypt, Pakistan\nIs Egypt on the brink of further divide?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 10350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers-advice/internships/internships-abroad", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:10Z", "digest": "sha1:L44WZVC2NQ33KC3NKHGLMP3Z5JBGCLYL", "length": 5163, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.allaboutcareers.com", "title": "Internships Abroad | AllAboutCareers", "raw_content": "Think of going abroad and you might think of lazy days by the beach, backpacking through South America, Full Moon Parties in Thailand and groups of lads wearing dubious matching t-shirts. However, these exciting lands overseas are also great places to do internships.\nForget the gap year tragic, we bet the next couple years will spawn a new generation of internship abroad tragics. Oh yes, people harping on about that AMAZING internship they did in South America, swapping hareem pants for briefcases, \u201clife experience\u201d for work experience.\nIn any case, like travelling, doing an internship abroad is a fantastic way to experience life abroad and pick up some good skills at the same time.\nWhy should I do an internship abroad?\nWhy ever not? Internships abroad not only develop language skills, communication skills and other work-based skills but they also really give you an insight into an industry from another cultural perspective. After all, these days most industries are truly global. All these bonuses give you a big fat tick on your CV from an employer\u2019s perspective.\nFurthermore, working in a country is a great way to immerse yourself in their culture, far better than traipsing around with a backpack hanging from your sunburnt shoulders. You don\u2019t have to be stuck in an office either; for example, you could work on conservation or international development projects.\nYou\u2019ve decided to take the leap and do an internship abroad, so what do you need to think about now? Well firstly, you need to think about what kind of internship you want and what you want to get out it.\nDon\u2019t just pick a country you\u2019ve always fancied going to; look at the quality of the internships on offer. You might want to choose a country with a burgeoning market, or somewhere that\u2019s renowned for the sector that you\u2019re interested in; for example, Silicon Valley in California is a great place to get an I.T. internship.\nWhen are you going to do your internship? Is it over the holidays? How long is it for? You might even want to consider doing an internship as part of the Erasmus scheme. You need to think about funding too; even if your internship is paid, you\u2019ll need to budget carefully and work out how much money you\u2019ll need.\nOther niggly bits\u2026\nDifferent countries will have different VISA regulations. UK nationals can work in the EU without obtaining a working visa, but if you\u2019re looking for internships in countries outside of the EU, then you\u2019ll need to find out what the visa regulations are.\nIt also certainly helps to be proficient in the mother tongue of the country. Some internships will be offered in English-speaking offices, but it certainly won\u2019t hurt to pick up a few useful phrases. You could even do a language course. In fact, some internships will require candidates to have a certain proficiency in the local language, so make sure you find out before applying.\nYou should also do a bit of research about the country. Find out more about their cultural practices. Scour the internet and bookshelves for information about the town or city where you\u2019ll be staying. If anything, solid research will soften the cultural shock when you start out. After all, it\u2019s bad enough starting out at a new work place, let alone having to navigate the tricky world of cultural differences.\nHow can I apply? Where can I find internships abroad?\nUnless you\u2019ve got globetrotting relatives or friends who can set you up with an internship, there are numerous different avenues you can explore. Big companies in your chosen industry are likely to have offices in other countries, so it\u2019s always worth looking for internship opportunities through them. A significant number of companies in our list of graduate employers have international offices and you can find a handful of opportunities on our jobs board.\nYou might want to try big organisations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, UNICEF, the Council of Europe, the British Council and the European Union. Alternatively, you could approach smaller charities or NGOs that work abroad. AIESEC also runs international internships. Moreover, your university might have links with organisations which offer international internship opportunities.\nWhen it comes to applying for internships, the application process will vary from country to country. Not everyone expects the same thing from a CV or a covering letter, so make sure you research what employers in each country will expect. Use our International CV article for more guidance.\nHow can I fund my internship abroad?\nSome universities offer travel bursaries, so it\u2019s worth checking out these bad boys. If you\u2019re using an agency to get an internship abroad, shop around, some charge extortionate fees and you\u2019ll be able to find cheaper deals elsewhere.\nIf you do a work placement as part of an Erasmus year, you\u2019ll be eligible for an Erasmus grant. Or you could apply for funding or support from the Leonardo Da Vinci programme.\nOf course, if your internship is paid, that will ease some of your funding worries. There are plenty of paid opportunities out there, although you might have to fight off stiff competition in order to secure a place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 9681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allcuteallthetime.com/what_do_you_get_when_you_put_cats_and_cowboys_together_a_hilarious_commercial_that_had_everyone_in_stitches", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:10Z", "digest": "sha1:COCYJEZSJAE53MDOGTKSO7IEO5FDVTT2", "length": 1379, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.allcuteallthetime.com", "title": "What Do You Get When You Put Cats And Cowboys Together? A Hilarious Commercial That Had Everyone In Stitches - All Cute All The Time", "raw_content": "What Do You Get When You Put Cats And Cowboys Together In A Commercial? A Hilarious Ad That Has Everyone Cracking Up\nHave you ever used the expression, \"It's like herding cats\" before? I know I have, many times actually. Especially when it comes to little children. But, have you ever actually tried to herd cats? I can't say that I have, but it doesn't sound like an easy thing to do.\nCowboys are professional herders and in this side-splitting funny commercial they are not herding cows, but cats! The commercial starts out with a young cowboy displaying an old black and white photo of his Great-Grandfather, who was the first cat herder in his family.\nIt is so humorous to watch the cowboys attempt to \"herd\" the cats! The cowboys are interviewed about their profession and one says \"anybody can herd cattle, holding together 10,000 half-wild short-hairs, now that's another thing altogether.\" They talk about the dangers of their work and show their battle wounds.\nA couple of my favorite parts of the commercial are when the cowboys are talking about being attacked by the cats and the cat one is holding starts to bite him and the scene with a cowboy using a lint roller! Hats off to EDS, the company that brought us this smile bringing ad. This was so well done and many people have dubbed it the best commercial ever! It really is that funny! Watch and see for yourself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allegramarketingprint.com/locations/red_wing-mn/our_community.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:GVIIM6D7JCL6ZCJP572ASAKIOLUZBBVC", "length": 405, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.allegramarketingprint.com", "title": "Our Community | Allegra Red Wing", "raw_content": "At Allegra, the businesses and nonprofits in and around Red Wing are the lifeblood of what we do. We know a business can only remain as strong as the community it serves. It\u2019s a pretty simple business philosophy that helps keep this community vital.\nLike you, we are local business owners who live, work and play in this community. Our commitment to the Red Wing area goes beyond just doing business here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 5541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allischalmers.com/employees/edit.asp?id=4259", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MKOAQTH3XWVDKRRZWRWXNHAVEZ7PO7E4", "length": 402, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.allischalmers.com", "title": "Allis Employee Registry", "raw_content": "My grandfather worked at Allis Chalmers until he retired. My mother could only tell me that he retired 2 years early, so I can't say for certain what years he worked there. He was a wonderful whistler and could imitate almost any songbird. My grandfather died in the 1980's and I was too young to get a chance to share many of his stories. If anyone has any information I would very much appreciate it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1212, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.altergroup.com/blog/tag/richard-daley/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:40Z", "digest": "sha1:RDD4GLQYOZZ5VRGOB6AXSGTRLIK37GX6", "length": 852, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.altergroup.com", "title": "Richard Daley Archives | The Alter Group", "raw_content": "Articles About Richard Daley\nHelmut Jahn Unveils His Vision for Revamping Navy Pier\nCelebrity architect Helmut Jahn has created a vision for redeveloping Chicago\u2019s Navy Pier, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2016. Writing in the Chicago Tribune about Jahn\u2019s plan, architecture critic Blair Kamin says \u201cYes, it\u2019s over the top and, in all likelihood, ridiculously expensive. But it\u2019s full of creative sparks \u2014 precisely what was missing [\u2026]\nRichard M. Daley Remade the Face of Chicago \u2013 Despite Controversy\nRichard M. Daley dropped a bombshell on Chicago with his announcement that \u2013 after serving as mayor for 21 years, longer than his father Richard J. Daley \u2013 he would not seek an unprecedented seventh term. As citizens and pundits pondered the reasoning behind the decision and political hopefuls immediately started jockeying to be his [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alternateending.com/2015/11/out-of-sight-out-of-his-mind.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:35Z", "digest": "sha1:SLLXQ7O663HSXM2ISOKVE7ADFNIV6EPV", "length": 9504, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.alternateending.com", "title": "The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) - Alternate Ending : Alternate Ending", "raw_content": "Cast : Jon Hall, John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers\tScreenplay : Bertram Millhauser\tRelease : June 9, 1944\tDirector : Ford Beebe\tGenre : Horror, Science Fiction\tCountry : USA\tStream Now\tTim's Rating : Bang for your Buck :\nUniversal Horror: Out of sight, out of his mind\nThe Universal horror movie is at heart a pre-WWII phenomenon; after The Wolf Man, released less than a week after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the studio's genre films would never rise above \"decent enough\", and usually didn't even hit that threshold, until they finally gave up making them in the middle of the decade. Things were never worse than in 1944, when Universal released four films, three of them among the worst examples of horror in the history of the big studios up to that point: the thoroughly derivative The Mummy's Ghost and The Mummy's Curse were absolute dreck, slapdash B-filmmaking that oozed contempt for itself and its audience, and House of Frankenstein is even worse, disjointed gobbets of storytelling good for little else than besmirching the already tattered reputations of the studio's Big 3 monsters.\nWith that kind of context surrounding it, The Invisible Man's Revenge looks pretty damn good, almost. At the very least, it can't be accused of the sin common to all three of its stablemates, that it doesn't give a shit about telling any kind of unique story: if anything, the film's worst element is how much story it's trying to get through. This return to horror from the comedy of The Invisible Woman and the goofy spy adventures of Invisible Agent is no kind of retread at all, but a story that looks at the combined efforts of all four \"Invisible\" films preceding it, and decides that the right thing to do will be to resemble none of them whatsoever.\nThe title is no mere flight of rhetorical fancy: revenge is the life's blood of this story, written by Universal's Sherlock Holmes specialist, Bertram Millhauser. We jump right into it in the very first scene, which posits in screaming headlines that a bona-fide crazy psycho nutjob by the name of Robert Griffin (Jon Hall, who was also Invisible Agent's invisible agent) has escaped from the institution in Africa where he was meant to be safely held away for the rest of time, and of course the first thing he does is to sneak back into England from whence he came many years ago, hunting for his old colleagues, the Herricks. Seems that once upon a time, he and the couple, Irene (Gale Sondergaard) and Jasper (Lester Matthews) were trying to make their fortunes in diamonds out in British Tanganyika, when a possibly on-purpose accident left Griffin seemingly dead and the Herricks in sole control of their diamond mine. After wandering the continent with amnesia, Griffin has finally come back to his senses, and he wants his share of the money. The only problem is, Jasper has been entirely terrible at keeping that money all in one place, and the Herricks now totter on the edge of going broke. In a panic, Irene serves Griffin a drugged drink, and they throw him out in a blind haze, causing him to very nearly drown.\nGriffin is saved by the poor drunk Herbert Higgins (Leon Errol), who decides to use Griffin's information to blackmail the Herricks rather than help the crazy bastard out himself. This turns things even worse for Griffin, who is at his wits' end when he happens to stumble across a charming old loony scientist by the name of Peter Drury (John Carradine). Drury, wouldn't you know, has figured out how to turn animals invisible, and he's been itching to try his technique out on a human, only no human has been reduced to such desperate circumstances to take on his madcap scheme. Griffin, naturally enough, leaps at the chance to have the ability to wreak vengeance on the Herricks, now that they've maybe intentionally tried to kill him twice, and all the world without being seen. His subsequent reign of terror attracts the expected attention from the local police, and an intrepid local reporter by the name of Mark Foster (Alan Curtis) - who, as good fate has it, has just recently started courting the Herricks' daughter, Julie (Evelyn Ankers), who has quickly become the focus of Griffin's obsessions.\nThat's the mercilessly pared-down version of the first half of the 78-minute movie, which is as much to say that The Invisible Man's Revenge is an enormously busy motion picture. Maybe not to its benefit - probably not to its benefit, though of course I'm we'd all rather have the curlicues of betrayal and madness, and the multiplicity of plotlines, that's on display in this film, than the miserable smallness of The Mummy's Curse. Nothing in this movie makes all that much sense - the layover with that wretch Higgins in particular feels like Millhauser or somebody was trying the relate the plot of a particularly vivid, realistic dream and it got tangled up with the screenplay - and much of it is left frustratingly vague: just how culpable are the Herricks, anyway? But there's all lot of urgency, anyway, and if that's the best thing we're going to get from the studio worker bees still toiling to put horror movies together at this late date, well, it could surely be much worse. Director Ford Beebe (for whom this represents, impossibly, his closest approach to A-level filmmaking) fully commits to the hectic pacing of the movie, though in a really specific, peculiar way: he moves the actors through each scene with a great deal more attention to the scene itself than to the flow between them. They are pieced together like individual playlets, each with a miniaturized conflict and set of goals all its own - the net result should feel absolutely horrible, yet somehow it doesn't; it gives the drama a sense of moment-by-moment conflict that the overall whirlwind of the movie mightn't be able to achieve on its own.\nAlong the way, the film indulges in yet more of the series' customarily great visual effects, courtesy of John P. Fulton: a scene in which Drury brings a dog back to visibility is astonishing not just for the fact that the ability to stage it so faultlessly existed in 1944, but also that the censors at the Hays Office didn't lose their damned minds when they saw it. Later on, there's a marvelous scene in which the invisible Griffin dips his arm into an aquarium, displacing the water in a most unnerving, unnatural way; he subsequently splashes the water onto his face, which then becomes partially visible, like a melting wax figure suspended in space, a look of deep cruelty on his features. It is, a mere five movies in, the first time that this horror franchise does something genuinely and deeply horrifying.\nOverall, though, the effects are lower in ambition and creativity than in any film since the first Invisible Man, where just having the effects in the first place was ambitious enough. The other big showcase scene, in which Griffin puckishly screws around with darts, is absurdly hokey-looking, and absolutely interminable as a comic interjection that hasn't the smallest sense of humor to its credit. At a certain point, all that manic pacing runs out, and the films ends in its most insipd run of scenes, with a lot of fussy business and shameless contrivances puffing out the film's last 20 minutes - not an minor portion of the whole, mind you.\nExacerbating matters, the cast is almost uniformly banal. Hall's attempts to play an insane menace are slightly less dull than his joshing portrayal of a different Griffin in Invisible Agent, but we're a long way from Claude Rains and Vincent Price. Leon Errol is scuzzy enough to make more of an impression than the vanilla Curtis and Ankers, or the campy Sondergaard, but he's barely in the movie. The only human onscreen who really threatens to make The Invisible Man's Revenge a great deal of fun to watch is Carradine, in one of the standout moments of an infamously erratic career - you never know if you're going to get deliriously hammy Carradine, or stiff and petulant Carradine, but Drury finds us in the company of the exceedingly rare subtle and graceful Carradine. It helps that the role is one of the most fascinating \"tampering in God's domain\" scientists of the '40s: thoughtful and reflective, with a clear moral backbone, making choices from a position of great consideration rather than hubris. The only madness to this mad doctor is present as a little twinkle in Carradine's eye; beyond that, he's actually quite a dignified, rock-steady figure, and the actor thrives in the presence of such unexpected complexity.\nHe's ushered out of the film rather suddenly, though, with a lot of movie left, and oh, how The Invisible Man's Revenge suffers for his absence. There's nobody to root for, which is part of a problem; there's nobody interesting enough to want to watch them even if we're not rooting for them, which is all of a problem. For a film made during the waning years of classic Universal horror, it's got a lot going for it in terms of atmosphere (the lakeside where Griffin nearly meets his early end is one of the last great locations in the studio's horror canon), the effects hold up, and it's not aching with cheapness, like all of the latter mummy films so painfully do. 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He's the author of The Iran-Contra Connection and Cocaine Politics.\n2000: 06/10 #SCOP002 Drug Trafficking, Drug Wars & the CIA\n1995: 04/04 #SCOP001 The Politics of Global Drug Trafficking", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 2635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alumni.lewisu.edu/2015/featured-alumni/jay-savsani", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:58Z", "digest": "sha1:AZBJDVOKZ3SIBWJRVCNI643TPDAG3FC3", "length": 3009, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.alumni.lewisu.edu", "title": "Jay Savsani- Featured Alumni - Lewis University - Alumni & Friends", "raw_content": "Jay Savsani\nProviding an opportunity for tourists to have a more personal and less touristy meal during their travels, Jay Savsani \u201907 (Marketing) and his extraordinary team developed mealsharing.org as a means to bring tourists and locals together over home-cooked meals. Not only does this provide travelers with an intricate look at the culture and lifestyle of the places they are traveling, but it also affords locals a chance to share their traditions and knowledge with guests from all over the world. \u201cOur mission is really to build communities,\u201d explains Jay. \u201cIf we can encourage a deeper cultural conversation and a more personal look at the philosophies and customs of the countless amazing destinations around the world, we can build a better travel experience.\u201d\nJay\u2019s idea began on a backpacking trip to Cambodia with his cousin. \u201cI thought, \u2018I didn\u2019t travel all the way across the world to eat a hamburger and not connect with the people\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cI grew up in an Indian family where we love food and have an \u2018invite everyone to dinner\u2019 attitude.\u201d So on a whim, he asked employees at the front desk of his hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia, where the locals ate and asked if they would help him find a home-cooked meal. The staff found 15 people on the street and in the lobby and asked who would invite Jay over for dinner \u2013 and the locals began to fight over who would enjoy this traveler\u2019s company.\n\u201cThere was this reciprocal curiosity,\u201d Jay explains. \u201cI found myself an hour in the countryside having a meal with a family \u2013 a man, his wife, his kids, his best friend. We talked about everything; their culture, American culture. It really brought us together. When I came back to Chicago, I gathered up a team to create Meal Sharing so people can explore the world through food and discussion.\u201d Part of building a successful company was researching and developing a comprehensive experience. After much time spent coding and designing, Jay asked his team to take a break with him and go really learn what meal sharing was all about. Together, they took a month-long road trip across the United States, eating only through Meal Sharing.\nNow, Meal Sharing exists in 450 cities worldwide. The founder of OpenTable is an investor in the company. Through his company, Jay has been able to travel the world and has become a thought leader in the space. He was invited to give a speech at the British Parliament, and was also invited to the United Nations to work on solving current global issues. \u201cOur next goal is to really make it so that people can point to anywhere on the map and be welcomed to a home-cooked meal. We are constantly looking to grow,\u201d says Jason. \u201cWhen I transferred to Lewis, I was looking for a more personal experience. All of the professors, especially Robert Bergman and Arthur Regal, were very inspirational and did a great job of preparing students to explore. 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Governed by a volunteer board of directors, the UM Alumni Association is committed to encouraging lifelong education, providing quality services and programming, and assisting in the continued development and enhancement of the University of Miami.\nTo establish and enhance a mutually beneficial and enduring relationship between the University of Miami, its alumni and current and future students. We shall work to promote the excellence of the University of Miami by serving as ambassadors and encouraging involvement and volunteerism; fostering love, respect, and pride in the University; and obtaining support, communicating the message and furthering the overall mission of our alma mater.\nUM Alumni Association Board of Directors\nThe board of directors is the volunteer governing body of the University of Miami Alumni Association, comprised of alumni who demonstrate exemplary service to the Association and their alma mater.\nThe President\u2019s Council is the select advisory group of some of the University\u2019s most prominent alumni, who assist and lead the university by providing advice and support.\nMeet the talented staff in the Office of Alumni Relations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 3987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 137.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amazing-wild-animals.com/2018/03/bald-eagle.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:49Z", "digest": "sha1:LGE5ZM7G3AXF2D34LBUYE6KXO3NJPTKX", "length": 446, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.amazing-wild-animals.com", "title": "Amazing Wild Animals: Bald Eagle", "raw_content": "Wednesday Elf April 2, 2018 at 4:28 AM\nWonderful article about the Bald Eagle. You think you know all about something, then read a summary of facts and learn SO much more than you ever knew before. Fascinating! I knew, of course, that the Bald Eagle was our national bird, but I didn't know they had such a long life span or had such a varied diet. 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Our team makes it a point to secure and store the information safely both offline and online. When we collect sensitive financial information such as your credit card details, these are passed through an encrypted firewall and only then transmitted over to us. In general, all the information and data received by us is stored in a safe and secure way.\nIf there are any changes to the privacy policy, we usually do keep our members informed through relevant notifications. Although, users are requested to refer to this privacy policy time and again to review it. 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Ambs operates diligently around the clock 24/7/365 to help your business function and grow.\nOur teams of well trained professionals are on hand to handle customer service calls, schedule appointments, take orders, register patients and much, much more. Whether you are in the healthcare, HVAC or nearly any other industry, our services can help you succeed. This level of service helps you and your staff focus on more important tasks and enjoy The Last Frontier to the fullest.\nAnswering Service in Alaska\nAmbs Call Center excels when it comes to answering services in Alaska. The benefits of an answering service stretch far beyond operations management, however. In fact, we prefer you to think of us as the ideal employee. Not only are we never sick, but we work around the clock, all year long. 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His daily work is a heartfelt investment in their success\u2014whether they are currently enrolled, or are emerging professionals. \u201cThis is why I get up and go to work every morning,\u201d Delaney says. \u201cI\u2019ve always been someone who feels great satisfaction when I see others do well.\u201d\nDelaney believes this commitment to students\u2019 futures is essential to Kogod\u2019s success. Prioritizing student outcomes means that graduates secure better jobs, eventually generating more opportunities for their peers. This positively affects employers\u2019 perceptions of the school, which elevates Kogod\u2019s reputation as a leader in collegiate business education.\n\u201cKogod graduates need to have strong career outcomes when they finish their programs,\u201d Delaney says. \u201cImproving this actually generates stronger long-term results for the school. When you emphasize student success, my experience is everything else that\u2019s good will follow.\u201d\nA self-described \u201clong-time academic,\u201d Delaney joined the Kogod School of Business on July 18, 2016, as the school\u2019s dean. Delaney\u2019s resume is brimming with experience in nearly every area of academia\u2014from former dean positions to teaching as a professor. The past decade he served as Dean of University of Pittsburgh\u2019s business school, capitalizing on his experience at other institutions as an associate dean, faculty member, and department chair.\n\u201cWe are thrilled that John Delaney is our new dean,\u201d says Ajay Adhikari, Kogod\u2019s Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. \u201cDelaney has deep and varied administrative experience, and a record of achievements in transforming business education. He is a visionary leader who is committed to working with Kogod to help us reach our full potential.\u201d\nDelaney is excited to guide Kogod towards generating better career outcomes for students. Focusing on this goal also helps him meet another: uniting the school with a strong and motivating vision.\nHe knows that in an organization, success does not depend on one person\u2019s agenda; it is contingent on the commitment of the entire group. He is a fervent advocate for teamwork, especially when working towards a complex, big-picture goal like improving students\u2019 futures. \u201cOur success rests on the work that we all do. We\u2019ve got to collaborate to get better,\u201d Delaney says.\nWhat, then, is the motivating factor? \u201cPassion,\u201d Delaney says emphatically. \u201cWorking for Kogod isn\u2019t just a job; you\u2019ve got to live it. You have to believe in the school\u2014and yourself\u2014before you can really commit to making this happen.\u201d\nHaving passion for his job is not difficult for Delaney. He started as Kogod\u2019s dean just a month ago, and has already assembled a long list of attributes detailing what makes the school a distinctive place to study. One of the most compelling characteristics is Kogod\u2019s focus on experiential learning, an approach to education rooted in practice rather than academic theory.\n\u201cThis is a key part of students\u2019 education because it is so effective,\u201d Delaney says. \u201cThey must learn their craft through practice. One can\u2019t fully internalize a subject\u2019s material just by listening to a lecture.\u201d\nKogod students have the added benefit of practicing what they learn in the vibrant, progressive environment that is Washington, DC. Studying in the nation\u2019s capital means they have access to leading institutions where they can apply their knowledge through internships, projects and full-time jobs. \u201cFor students interested in the intersection of business and government, public service, or international affairs, this is an ideal place for them,\u201d says Delaney.\nDespite Kogod\u2019s offerings and Delaney\u2019s strong ambitions, he admits that leading the school will not be easy. Higher business education is a tough market, especially in an area with so many other well-established universities.\nHe is definitely up for the challenge, though. \u201cI\u2019m confident that we can compete with anyone out there,\u201d Delaney says assuredly. \u201cFor some students we\u2019re a better match than any other school. For others, they might be happier somewhere else. It\u2019s a competitive market, but I know we can hold our own.\u201d\nAs Delaney settles into his new role, he is looking forward to learning more about Kogod and how to best support the school. He is sincere in his convictions to better students\u2019 futures and unite faculty and staff in pursuit of this common goal. His deanship promises to be one of hard work, growth and unity.\nMost of all, Delaney is thrilled for the chance to help shape students\u2019 futures\u2014a purpose he finds fulfilling like no other. \u201cThe best part of all of this is that we\u2019re doing it for our students. We get to use our skills to help others and make a difference,\u201d he says. \u201cAt the end of the day, that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 6760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/ext/2015/12/15/127625/secret-legacy-of-secretary-duncan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NKHWTPGCG3HAHV2ZO6PSCPDCAPLMZRMI", "length": 680, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.americanprogress.org", "title": "Secret legacy of Secretary Duncan - Center for American Progress", "raw_content": "Secret legacy of Secretary Duncan\nThis month marked the official end of the No Child Left Behind era and the start of a state education policy paradigm.\nUnder the newly minted Every Student Succeeds Act, signed into law by President Obama, states will have wide latitude to set their own goals, will be able to use a broader set of indicators to assess school quality and will be able to determine the interventions that will work best for their struggling schools.\nBut the dirty little secret may be that this isn\u2019t quite the radical shift some would have you believe. In fact, because of the Education secretary\u2019s leadership and through his policies, the work has already begun.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 136.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2015/05/11/112873/social-cohesion-the-secret-weapon-in-the-fight-for-equitable-climate-resilience/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SFKLL6GPFNFATUJ77DZPOHCI4B5ZYAYF", "length": 6817, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.americanprogress.org", "title": "Social Cohesion: The Secret Weapon in the Fight for Equitable Climate Resilience - Center for American Progress", "raw_content": "Social Cohesion: The Secret Weapon in the Fight for Equitable Climate Resilience\nBy Danielle Baussan Posted on May 11, 2015, 9:01 am\nIn July 1995, Chicago experienced the deadliest weather event in the city\u2019s history: a sustained heat wave that included a heat index\u2014a measure of the heat experienced by a typical individual\u2014of 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The extreme weather of that summer 20 years ago led to at least 465 heat-related deaths over a roughly two-week period. While all Chicagoans felt the heat, they did not suffer equally. The parts of the Windy City with higher concentrations of low-income people, elderly people, and African Americans experienced some of the highest heat-related death rates. Pinpointing the locations of these deaths revealed a map of climate vulnerability that spoke to stark racial divisions and inequality within Chicago.\nWeather is often referred to as \u201cthe great equalizer,\u201d but as Chicago\u2019s experience shows, extreme weather such as flooding, storms, unusually cold spells, and heat waves disproportionately affect low-income communities. There are several explanations for this disparity. Low-income housing\u2014which is typically older and of poor quality\u2014tends to provide less protection from extreme weather. After destructive weather events, people in low-income communities are not able to recover as quickly or completely as individuals who live in more financially secure communities. Moreover, people who choose to leave or are forced to move from a climate-affected area become \u201cclimate displaced,\u201d which results in disruptions to their lives and a potential burden to host communities.\nSince the Chicago heat wave of 1995, the world\u2019s changing climate has contributed to an increase in the strength and frequency of extreme weather events, with the resulting fallout more likely to be acutely felt by low-income households. In order to curb climate change, a number of cities are testing strategies to cut carbon pollution, such as expanding public transportation, improving energy efficiency, and increasing access to renewable energy. These strategies also have the added benefit of improving public health, particularly in low-income areas where rates of asthma and other environment-related illness are high. Climate change adaptation efforts that are currently underway to fight coastal flooding, reduce excessive heat in urban areas, and limit drought effects\u2014such as planting trees, restoring natural areas, and improving water-use efficiency\u2014can help residents of all income levels.\nIn addition to these measures, promoting social cohesion\u2014in which a society\u2019s members cooperate to achieve shared well-being\u2014in communities is an additional and overlooked tool for strengthening climate resilience, with particularly good outcomes in low-income communities. Just as the Chicago heat wave displayed the vulnerability of low-income communities during extreme heat events, it also spotlighted the resilience of socially cohesive communities in the face of extreme weather. Researchers found that 3 of the 10 Chicago neighborhoods with the lowest rates of heat-related deaths were low-income, African American communities. The reason that communities with similar demographics fared so differently was high levels of community interaction and organization that decreased isolation among residents. Put differently, socially cohesive communities in which people are engaged in social or civic events enjoyed increased resilience against extreme weather events.\nWhile there is no singularly accepted definition of social cohesion, the concept has been used by social scientists and international government organizations. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development uses this definition:\nA cohesive society works towards the well-being of all its members, fights exclusion and marginalisation, creates a sense of belonging, promotes trust, and offers its members the opportunity of upward social mobility.\nSociologist Dick Stanley, who directed research and analysis at the Department of Canadian Heritage for the Canadian government, elaborates that social cohesion includes society\u2019s willingness and capacity to cooperate. He also noted, \u201cSocial cohesion should not be confused with social order [or] common values.\u201d Social cohesion is not meant to stratify communities but to increase cooperation. Additionally, societies may lack social cohesion because they do not have the communication, funding, or organizational tools needed to foster cooperative networks in a community.\nThese definitions can provide important policy context for efforts to develop community resilience against the extreme weather effects of climate change. Social cohesion can help serve as a resilience tool before, during, and after an extreme weather event:\nBefore an extreme weather event: Mapping low-income, climate-vulnerable communities can target weatherization, energy-efficiency measures, and other resources to prevent the worst impacts of extreme weather. Identifying these communities can also assist government efforts to foster social cohesiveness within those areas in order to improve climate resilience during and after extreme weather.\nDuring an extreme weather event: Residents and organizations in more connected communities can assist with supplies and help prevent displacement while identifying local needs for government officials.\nAfter an extreme weather event: Cohesive communities may have a shorter duration of climate displacement. Cohesive communities participating in voluntary coastal buyback programs may receive greater compensation than individual residents.\nFor these benefits to be realized, however, government policies must foster community cohesion and incorporate community input in climate resilience and mitigation plans. Of course, social cohesion and other resilience strategies benefit all communities, not just low-income areas. However, since low-income neighborhoods are the most vulnerable to climate change effects, these strategies are particularly beneficial in those communities. Moreover, social cohesion is a vital tool for low-income communities because they typically experience unique housing, economic, and health disadvantages even before extreme weather strikes.\nIncorporating social cohesion into climate resilience planning is a difficult task that requires improving the level of interaction and trust between low-income communities and climate resilience planners. It is crucial that resilience plans not only focus on physical infrastructure, but also consider the human element and the long-term health of vulnerable communities. Despite the complexity of the task, building social cohesion is a worthy goal.\nDanielle Baussan is the Managing Director of Energy Policy at the Center for American Progress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 8915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ancient.eu/books/198378480X/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:16Z", "digest": "sha1:7EISHCTR73GJL4PLAIDDKYE6B3Y3ZPZV", "length": 1440, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ancient.eu", "title": "Pagan Trek (Book published January 11, 2018) - Ancient History Encyclopedia", "raw_content": "Pagan Trek\nAuthor Hekataios Pindaros Amerikos\nThis work is a history of Paganism and the Pagan folk from primordial times through ancient and medieval times. This work deals with Paganism and its history in a rational, intellectual way showing it and its history as a positive influence which should be embraced today. It is truly time for a new way of thinking, eliminating the blinders of monotheistic faith and belief. This book is designed to help guide the enquirer in that effort by providing a true and accurate history based upon the historical, literary, and archaeological evidence, coupled with ethics and philosophy. It is an effort to help modern Paganism in its quest for recognition as another religious system that can be accepted as legitimate by those of other religious faith systems. The history found within the pages of this work is not your common history of ancient beliefs, but is a work of many, many years of research and understanding developed through intense study and devotion to the ancient deities. It is a history that has long been delayed, but delayed no longer. If you, the reader, find that you have been missing something within your soul, but never quite knew what it might be, perhaps this is the book for you. It is designed to show you the way of the ancients. 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Haven't heard of it? Well basically it's much like Pandora except instead of music you get music videos and the Android app for the website has just been released. The videos follow promptly after a short advertisement and then you have the option of watching your videos in high or standard quality (this is a great app for Tablets). If you like the video there's even an option to purchase the song from Amazon.\nThis app also features a chart that displays popular and new artists, as well as a slideshow of featured videos. You can even create a playlist for an artist and search the app for your favorite artist. There are a few bugs though. There are reports of lag between the audio and the video. It also doesn't keep track of user preferences, such as whether or not you want to play your videos in high or low quality.\nVEVO definitely has potential and could quite possibly become a great app with a few updates and bug fixes. So for those of you who would like to give the app a try you can scan the QR code at the bottom using an Android barcode scanning app, or download direct from AppBrain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 306, "original_length": 7998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/07/verizon-wireless-will-launching-allset-prepaid-plans-along-4g-lte-prepaid-july-17th.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:03Z", "digest": "sha1:GOSWRCEZODEYAA3WCTLZ6LQ6TX3XHQEI", "length": 2060, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.androidheadlines.com", "title": "Verizon Wireless Will Be Launching ALLSET Prepaid Plans Along With 4G LTE For Prepaid On July 17th | Android Headlines", "raw_content": "Verizon Wireless Will Be Launching ALLSET Prepaid Plans Along With 4G LTE For Prepaid On July 17th\nWhen it comes to 4G LTE service coverage, Verizon Wireless prepaid customers have been left out of the loop. Luckily though, that will no longer be the case and those who use the prepaid services of Big Red will have their first chance at utilizing Verizon's network at the speeds the rest of the subscribers have already been getting. Of course we have no way of confirming that prepaid customers will get the same 4G LTE speeds as those who are on postpaid plans but the hope is that Verizon won't slow down the speeds for their prepaid customers.\nVerizon Wireless will begin opening up its \"exclusive club\" of 4G LTE network speeds to prepaid customers starting on July 17th, so prepaid plan subscribers won't have to wait long before they move up from 3G, just a couple more weeks. The 4G LTE is being ushered in for prepaid along with the arrival of Verizon's ALLSET prepaid plan which comes along with a $45 price tag per month. That $45 gets you a mere 500MB of data, but it does also come with unlimited talk and text for those that still communicate to friends and family via the \"old ways\". The good news if you'll be considering signing up for the ALLSET plan once it's available later this month is that you can simply add more data to it with Verizon's bridge data options, which allows the customer to pick varied data bucket amounts to tack on to the 500MB they'll have initially with the ALLSET plan.\nData from the bridge data packages ranges from 500MB to 3GB, so depending on what you need you could be spending an extra $5 or you could be adding as much as $20 to your plan if you wish to pick up an extra 3GB. In total the ALLSET plan could come with as much 3.5GB in the end, and while that isn't enough for some of us power users who eat through data like daily meals needed to sustain lifeforce, it should be plenty for those who might be around WiFi often enough that they don't really need to tap into their network data bucket as much.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 8662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.androidheadlines.com/2014/12/samsungs-finnish-site-seems-confirming-devices-will-receive-android-5-0-lollipop.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:20Z", "digest": "sha1:2QUYGRCGSPZWMIDIVD2KCCQSEZ274ADA", "length": 2630, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.androidheadlines.com", "title": "Samsung's Finnish Site Seems To Be Confirming Which Devices Will Receive Android 5.0 Lollipop | Android Headlines", "raw_content": "Samsung's Finnish Site Seems To Be Confirming Which Devices Will Receive Android 5.0 Lollipop\nSince Google unveiled Android 5.0 (Lollipop) and uploaded the code to the AOSP everyone is keen to know when it will land for their device. The Nexus range is already there, as is a couple of Motorola devices. Not forgetting the LG G3 also seems to be pretty much done. However, Samsung is one of those OEMs who everyone is watching. This is probably because they are accredited with being the world's largest smartphone manufacturer and that means there are quite a lot of Samsung owners awaiting Lollipop. Another interesting reason behind Samsung is that they simply have a wider range of devices than almost anyone. As such, it will be interesting to see which devices get the update and which do not. It is largely expected that the Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 will both get the update. We have seen a leaked video of Lollipop on the S4 and in some regions the S5 has started receiving the update. But for the rest, the question remains open.\nWell, if you are a Samsung owner then you might find this interesting. The Finnish Samsung website has revealed an update list, which includes a number of devices listing Lollipop. Some of them are as expected, but there are a few unexpected add-ons. For those interested, the lists states that the Samsung Galaxy Alpha will receive Lollipop. In addition, The Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5 Mini are both listed as due to receive Lollipop. Interestingly, the list currently states that there is 'No information' on the next update for the Samsung Galaxy S5. This maybe because, the device is already technically on Lollipop, so don't worry if you are an S5 owner.\nIn terms of the Note range, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is listed as due Lollipop, which is as expected. However, the list also does state the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 will also receive the update. Even more interesting is that the lists states that the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 will also receive the update. According to the list, that is all that is defined as receiving Lollipop. All the other Samsung devices currently list 'No information', but it maybe worth keeping an eye on the site for this to change. It is not clear how accurate this information is, but as this is an official Samsung site, it is the best confirmation we could hope to get, without Samsung coming out and announcing the updates. If you want to see the list for yourself then click here to head over to the Finnish Samsung site. Are you a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 owner? Happy about the news? Let us know\nSource: Samsung Finland Via: GSM Arena", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 9503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.annperica.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OUBSD4KJISQQV6Y2TWCF4OOK3H2OVZLL", "length": 328, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.annperica.com", "title": "ANN PERICA", "raw_content": "modern heirlooms from recycled gold and hand picked gemstones, produced IN switzerland & germany ADHERING TO THE PRINCIPALS OF FAIR TRADE.\nInspired by nature \u2013 at home or on the road. Elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire are important factors in the jewelry line.\nFor all custom inquiries and price options please contact us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2016/05/10/ron-paul-on-us-escalation-in-afghanistan-a-recipe-for-disaster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:19Z", "digest": "sha1:52PNMMTW62BIQN76GZLAA5VJP3V3OJBT", "length": 1299, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.antiwar.com", "title": "Ron Paul on US Escalation in Afghanistan: A 'Recipe For Disaster' - Antiwar.com Blog", "raw_content": "Ron Paul on US Escalation in Afghanistan: A \u2018Recipe For Disaster\u2019\nThe recently-released Pentagon report on the US bombing of a M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan last October was heavily redacted, but it still revealed a great deal about the ongoing disaster of the longest war in US history. US troops complain that they have no idea what they are supposed to be doing in Afghanistan under the current rules of engagement. The Afghan army upon which the US has spent billions is not only unenthusiastic about confronting the Taliban, they don\u2019t even have proper military boots because of procurement corruption. President Obama is determined to continue the military occupation of Afghanistan even as the Taliban say the reason they keep fighting is because of the military occupation of their country. The big beneficiaries, as ever, are those getting rich inside the Beltway military-industrial complex. How many more billions will be wasted on this no-win war? None of the candidates seem to see any reason to change what we have been doing all along.\nPrevious Previous post: US Can\u2019t Say Whether or Not $759 Million Spent on Education in Afghanistan Helped Anything\nNext Next post: David Henderson to Speak on \u201cAn Economist\u2019s Case for a Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arguscarhire.com/en-us/car-rental/jamaica", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IIQCOHIHHR63CG6UP57R6ZJU3H6JD55P", "length": 2232, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.arguscarhire.com", "title": "Car Rental Jamaica | Arguscarhire.com", "raw_content": "Jamaica is an ever-popular destination for holidays. The basis of the appeal lies somewhere between the easy-going people, the great weather, the sprawling landscapes, the beaches, the barbecues and, of course, the wildlife. There\u2019s so much to discover on this continent, there\u2019s little wonder that people generally extend their stay to months at a time. There\u2019s a wide range of places to go and things to experience, that depends on which part of this vast continent you visit. Most people tend to move from place to place to get the most of their holiday; exploring the outback, the vibrant cities and fantastic beaches.\nLHighwayspeedlimit110\nIt\u2019s recommended to keep all doors and windows locked at all times while inside the vehicle.\nDrivers may beep their horn at you to indicate that they are about to overtake you or to alert you of their presence.\nThe Highway 2000 road is a toll road which can be paid with cash or TAG card.\nThere are plenty of petrol stations around Jamaica, however most do not accept payments by credit card.\nIt is strongly recommended to avoid driving in the centre of Kingston if you are not familiar with the routes or roads; as getting lost in the city could well put yourself and your passengers at risk.\nParking in Kingston and in major cities can be problematic and double parking is common.\nDriving culture in Jamaica\nWhat are the roads like Jamaica?\nGenerally the roads in Jamaica are poorly maintained and usually have a lot of potholes. The roads in rural areas tend to be narrow and can be dangerous to drive during or following bad weather. Roads in the Blue Mountains tend to be steep and windy, and can cause travellers to feel nauseous.\nWhat are the drivers like in Jamaica?\nIt is recommended to drive defensively as local drivers are not known to exercise caution. Be alert when driving in the Blue Mountains as drivers do not tend to slow down on the sharp bends.\nDrivers are known to stop suddenly without indicating to other drivers beforehand.\nIt\u2019s advisable not to drive at night as the majority of roads are unlit. Speeding and drunk driving are also common at night. 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Since its founding in 2001, it has become the most important event for the agri-food industry in Canada.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 299, "original_length": 26455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asa.org/bio/clay-colarusso/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:13Z", "digest": "sha1:U6OWG2CE6FNOE3W2YJRS5DJMTIGB7SHT", "length": 686, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.asa.org", "title": "Clay Colarusso | ASA Leadership & Board", "raw_content": "Clay Colarusso is the Vice President of Marketing at American Student Assistance\u00ae (ASA) where he works closely with the senior management team in the design and deployment of initiatives that drive fulfillment of ASA\u2019s mission.\nClay has nearly 15 years of experience leading high-impact teams responsible for the delivery of consumer insight driven digital experiences and omni-channel marketing programs, both on the agency and client side. Presently, Clay and team are focused on creating transformational digital experiences to support today\u2019s youth in the development of their higher education and career plans.\nClay holds a B.A. from Tufts University and a MBA from Babson College.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 176.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asiatimes.com/tag/karenni-refugees/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:EIJECF5UULZWF4UY6435EMNOHOOQNLFD", "length": 16, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.asiatimes.com", "title": "Asia Times | Karenni refugees | Section", "raw_content": "Karenni refugees", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 3370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.astenjohnson.com/about/news/astenjohnson-announces-acquisition-of-foss-manufacturing-companys-northern-division/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:11Z", "digest": "sha1:I4WR2RXD4FRW4B5RULSPCCF44YLASBBY", "length": 3520, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.astenjohnson.com", "title": "AstenJohnson - AstenJohnson Announces Acquisition of Foss Manufacturing Company's (Northern Division)", "raw_content": "AstenJohnson Announces Acquisition of Foss Manufacturing Company's (Northern Division)\nAstenJohnson Announces Acquisition of Foss Manufacturing Company\u2019s (Northern Division)\nCharleston, SC July 26, 2017. AstenJohnson Holdings, Ltd., global supplier of innovative products and technical solutions, today announced its acquisition of the Northern Division of Foss Manufacturing Company, LLC for an undisclosed sum. Marking this occasion, Foss Manufacturing (Northern Division) will become Foss Performance Materials. This new name signifies an important step for Foss Manufacturing Company, our customers and stakeholders.\nFoss Manufacturing Company is one of the industry\u2019s leading providers and pioneers in the use of needlepunch nonwoven fabrics and specialty synthetic fibers. Foss Manufacturing Company employs 420 people, with manufacturing facilities in Hampton, New Hampshire.\nThe acquisition of Foss Manufacturing Company supports AstenJohnson\u2019s plans for growth with a vision to become world leader in needle punch nonwovens. Kevin Frank, CEO of AstenJohnson, said \u201cthe purchase of Foss Manufacturing (Northern Division) is a key step in the transformation of AstenJohnson as we enter into new markets for High Performance Materials. We will have two strong pillars to our company going forward \u2013 one in paper machine clothing and the other in nonwovens\u201d. Steve Polston, President \u2013 Nonwovens for AstenJohnson, noted \u201cThis transaction furthers AstenJohnson\u2019s strategy to build a significant second segment to the Company. The addition of Foss Performance Materials expands our participation in new markets and allows us to couple Foss\u2019 reputation for innovation with AstenJohnson and Eagle Nonwovens\u2019 focus on operational excellence.\u201d\nAstenJohnson will continue to operate the business with the workforce in place.\nFoss Manufacturing Company CEO, A.J. Nassar, commented, \u201cWe are delighted to leave our North business division and employees in the very capable hands of AstenJohnson, a company that has been in business for over 200 years. This sale will allow us to concentrate all our resources in the Georgia operations, and continue our expansion of products, innovations and capabilities in the flooring industry.\u201d\nChristen C. Dellett\nChristen.Dellett@astenjohnson.com\nwww.astenjohnson.com\nBrian W. Warren\nExecutive Vice President \u2013 Sales and Marketing\nbwarren@fossmfg.com\nwww.fossmfg.com\nAstenJohnson is a global manufacturer of pulp & paper machine clothing, advanced and filtration fabrics, filaments, and nonwoven fabrics for filtration, automotive, cure-in-place piping and composites. As a supplier to the paper industry since 1790, it has a thorough knowledge of technical textiles and processes \u2013 and knows how to apply its expertise to help customers be more profitable. The company employs approximately 2,000 people. Its corporate headquarters is in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.\nAbout Foss Manufacturing Company\nFoss is a well-known leader and pioneer in the use of nonwoven needle punch fabrics and specialty synthetic fibers in an ever-expanding number of environments and circumstances. Using state-of-the-art, computerized production in Hampton, New Hampshire, we are unrivaled in our ability to efficiently and effectively design, manufacture, convert, package, and distribute a vast array of products worldwide. As one of the world\u2019s largest needle-punch based manufacturers, we have the expertise and experience to support customers\u2019 needs across virtually all applications and markets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.attorneychicago.com/what-s-my-car-accident-case-worth.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:19Z", "digest": "sha1:YSAOEIK2FWGJC4IDIVNESEZC2KKUUTHL", "length": 4307, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.attorneychicago.com", "title": "What's My Car Accident Case Worth? | Schaumburg Car Injury Lawyers", "raw_content": "Injury Lawyers Assisting Victims in Schaumburg and Wheaton\nUnfortunately, car accidents happen all the time, ranging from rear-end collisions to side-impact accidents and head-on collisions. In some of these cases, figuring out how much compensation you are owed is easy, while in other cases, it can be very complex. Since determining the dollar value of a car accident case can be challenging, it is important to seek guidance from a Schaumburg or Wheaton car accident lawyer who is familiar with this process. At Therman Law Offices, we have extensive experience in calculating damages in personal injury cases. You can rest assured that we can look into the circumstances of your case and help you determine the full scope of compensation that you should seek.\nDetermining the Value of Your Car Accident Case\nMotor vehicle accidents injure and kill a number of people in Illinois each year. In 2015, for example, there were 313,316 motor vehicle crashes, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). Of these, injury crashes accounted for 21 percent of these collisions, while fatal crashes accounted for less than 1 percent of these overall accidents.\nIn the vast majority of cases, one driver\u2019s negligence is the cause of an accident. Negligence is a legal concept in personal injury law that is used to determine fault in a particular case. A person is negligent when an injury or death is a result of his or her failure to use reasonable care behind the wheel. Reasonable care is defined as how a prudent person would act in the same or similar circumstances. To win on a negligence claim, the plaintiff must prove the following points by a preponderance of the evidence:\nDuty: the defendant owed the plaintiff a duty to use reasonable care;\nBreach: the defendant breached this duty;\nCausation: the defendant\u2019s breach was a direct cause of the accident;\nDamages: the plaintiff suffered quantifiable injuries or property damage.\nOnce each of these elements is established, a plaintiff can recover compensation. Placing a precise value on an accident claim can be challenging, since there is no clear-cut formula. Under Illinois law, however, there are certain kinds of compensation that a plaintiff can seek for their injuries. A plaintiff\u2019s lawyer must establish these damages through certain types of evidence and records.\nFor instance, medical expenses may be shown through bills for hospital stays, visits to doctors, receipts for medications, bills for treatment such as physical therapy, and the cost of any assistive devices, such as wheelchairs. If you missed work, you may be able to recoup these wages by showing time sheets and pay stubs. If you are being treated for emotional distress, physiological trauma, or any anxiety, you may be able to make a claim for pain and suffering. If your accident has caused a partial or total disability, you may be able to demonstrate the impact that this has had on your life and claim compensation accordingly. If your accident scarred or disfigured you in some way, such as a serious scar, you may be able to claim compensation for the injury. In some extreme cases, such as those involving drunk driving, punitive damages may also be a possibility.\nThe exact dollar amount will depend on the degree of the harm suffered, which is demonstrated by evidence. When it comes to determining future expenses (such as future medical care or future lost wages), your attorney must present evidence that shows that you will need that compensation with reasonable certainty. It cannot be merely speculative.\nDiscuss Your Situation with a Car Crash Lawyer in Wheaton or Schaumburg\nWhile there are many aspects to a lawsuit, one of the central questions for a plaintiff is how much he or she can financially recover. At Therman Law Offices, our skilled car accident attorneys understand how to determine the value of your car accident case and help you seek the compensation that you deserve for your harm. We serve victims in Schaumburg, Wheaton, West Chicago, Lemont, Westmont, Oakbrook Terrace, Clarendon Hills, Downers Grove, Lisle, Darien, and Bolingbrook, as well as other areas of Cook County. Call us today for a free consultation at 312-588-1900 or contact us online.\nWhat's My Car Accident Case Worth? | Schaumburg Car Injury Lawyers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 8344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 229.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audiencebloom.com/how-to-prepare-for-penguin-2-0-take-off-that-black-hat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HAZAUUGDKQDNZUFMBENLND5YQG5JR4ED", "length": 6210, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.audiencebloom.com", "title": "How to Prepare for Penguin 2.0: Take Off that Black Hat! | AudienceBloom.com", "raw_content": "App Store Optimization \u2013 Is ASO the New SEO?\nWhat do Penguins, Pandas, and black hats have in common? Lots! Penguin is the most recent set of guidelines published by Google designed to clean up abuses in the field of SEO, and a new version is due out soon, according to Google\u2019s Web Spam Czar, Matt Cutts. The impending event has marketers, reputation managers, and webmasters scurrying for cover.\nSEO \u2013 A Concept Recap\nSEO (search engine optimization) is the relatively newborn public relations field that tries to increase the visibility of websites by the strategic placement of keywords, content, and social media interaction, and the industry has grown rapidly in a little over a decade.\nCarried to extremes, as such things always are, black-hat SEO is a subdivision within the field that tries to achieve money-making results in an unsustainable way (ie, against Google\u2019s webmaster guidelines). It frustrates the very purpose of a search engine, which is to help users find the information they need. Instead, rampant SEO gone amok serves only the needs of online marketers wishing to increase sales for themselves or their clients.\nTo readjust the proper balance, Mr. Cutts and his team of \u201cpenguin\u201d police have attempted to establish guidelines that will rule out the most abusive practices of black hat SEO.\nBlackHat SEO \u2013 Are You Doing It?\nThe predecessor to Penguin was Panda, with much the same purpose. Panda included a series of algorithm updates, begun in early 2011. These were aimed at downgrading websites that did not provide positive user experiences.\nPanda updates of the algorithm were largely directed at website quality. The term \u201cabove the fold\u201d is sometimes used to refer to the section of a website that a user sees before one begins to scroll down. The term comes from newspapers, which are delivered folded in two. The section that is \u201cabove the fold\u201d is the section one sees before opening the paper, or unfolding it.\nTypically, marketers wish to cram as much eye-catching, commercial material as possible into this section, while responsible journalists wish to pack it with the most relevant and useful information.\nPenguin, on the other hand, is targeted more specifically at keyword stuffing and manipulative link building techniques.\nOne targeted abuse, keyword stuffing, is not a tasty Thanksgiving delicacy, but the practice of loading the meta tag section of a site, and the site itself, with useless repetition of certain words. Sites can lose their ranking altogether as a result of such stuffing.\nAbusive practitioners of keyword stuffing are not above using keywords that are rendered invisible because their font color is identical with the background color. The user doesn\u2019t see them, but the search engine spider does. This practice was soon discovered, however, and dealt with by the search engines.\nMeta tags are sometimes placed behind images, or in \u201calternative text\u201d fields, so that the spiders pick them up while they remain invisible to users. Popular or profitable search keywords are sometimes included invisible to humans, but visible to the search crawlers. Very clever, but also soon discovered and dealt with. With Penguin, Google now analyzes the relevance and subject matter of a page much more effectively, without being tricked by keyword-stuffing schemes.\n\u201cCloaking\u201d is another tactic that was used for a while to present a different version of a site to the search engine\u2019s crawler than to the user. While a legitimate tactic when it tells the crawler about content embedded in a video or Flash component, it became abused as a Black Hat SEO technique, and is now rendered obsolete by the technique of \u201cprogressive enhancement,\u201d which tailors a site\u2019s visibility to the capabilities of the user or crawler. Pornographic sites have often been \u201ccloaked\u201d in non-pornographic form as a way of avoiding being labeled as such.\nThe first set of Penguin guidelines and algorithms went live in April 2012, and the second main wave is due out any day now (though Penguin has gone through several periodic updates since its initial release). It\u2019s designed to combat an excessive use of exact-match anchor text. It will also be directed against links from sources of dubious quality and links that are seen as unnatural or manipulative.\nThe trading or buying of links will be targeted as well. The value of links from directories and bookmarking sites will be further downgraded, as will links from content that\u2019s thin or poor-quality. Basically, the revision in the algorithms will be designed to rule out content that serves the marketer\u2019s ends rather than the users\u2019.\nAdvice For SEO Marketers To Stay Clean\nIf you are a professional SEO, the questions to ask yourself are:\nIs this keyword being added in order to serve the customer\u2019s potential needs, or is it designed merely to increase the number of hits? If the latter, then the additional users that would be brought to the site by the keyword are probably not high-quality conversion potential.\nIs the added SEO material being hidden from the user or the search engine crawler? If so, with what purpose? If that purpose amounts to dishonest marketing practices, the material runs the risk of getting you in trouble with Penguin.\nWhat\u2019s the overall purpose of your SEO strategy? If it\u2019s anything other than increasing sales by enhancing user experience, then you may expect an unwelcome visit from Penguin.\nIf you\u2019re a user, you\u2019ll very likely not be as conscious of these changes, except inasmuch as they will alter the look of your search results page when you perform a search in Google. Will the new Penguin algorithms cut down on those ubiquitous \u201csponsored links\u201d or \u201cfeatured links\u201d? Probably not. But savvy users know how to ignore those links by now, except of course when they turn out to be useful.\nWill the new algorithms enhance the overall usefulness of the search engine experience? Probably, at least marginally, and perhaps even in a major way. The whole field of internet marketing and e-Commerce is changing so rapidly and radically that it\u2019s hard to keep track of the terminology, especially the proliferation of acronyms. But the ultimate goal will be an enhanced user experience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 9589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autosport.com/driver/1993030201/Steven+Odendaal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:17Z", "digest": "sha1:63E6FFFYMKBAQFZK2NOVVNTHYY7UFRYP", "length": 398, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.autosport.com", "title": "Autosport", "raw_content": "/ Steven Odendaal\nThis is a very early demo of our driver hub pages. The final version will gather together all of the content we have around Steven Odendaal, from all of our news, features and interviews to a full set of career stats and information. It will also be better formatted!\nName: Steven Odendaal\nFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/steven.odendaal.3\nTwitter: http://twitter.com/Odendaal44", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 364, "original_length": 9442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 252.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avis.com/en/locations/us/fl/jacksonville", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UNARGWIKLPDFFYNMDP4AANHPWL7CE6VH", "length": 4053, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.avis.com", "title": "Car Rental Jacksonville | Avis Rent a Car", "raw_content": "Car Rental Jacksonville\nJacksonville Car Rental & Nearby Locations\n1 Lexington Hotel on the Riverwalk |.99 mi\n2 Jacksonville - Pep Boys |5.9 mi\n3 Jacksonville-Philips Hwy |6.71 mi\n6945 Philips Highway (US Highway 1)\n4 Jacksonville - Atlantic Boulevard |7.3 mi\n5 Chilis Shopping Center |9.68 mi\n6 Jacksonville Intl Airport |11.16 mi\nSun 6:00 AM - 1:00 AM; Mon - Fri 5:30 AM - 1:00 AM; Sat 6:00 AM - 1:00 AM\n7 Sears Auto Center -Orange Park Mall |11.37 mi\n8 Mandarin Square - Jacksonville |11.74 mi\n11570 San Jose Boulevard, Suite 5\n9 Sawgrass Marriott Golf Resort & Spa |18.48 mi\n10 Northeast Florida Regional Airport |23.31 mi\nIf you\u2019re looking for a gorgeous oasis featuring booming businesses, nearby beautiful beaches, and exciting entertainment options, then look no further than where the St. Johns River meets the Atlantic Ocean\u2014Jacksonville, Florida.\nThere\u2019s a reason Florida is known as the Sunshine State. If you want an escape from the cold weather and snowy roads at home, you\u2019ll enjoy the mild winters in Jacksonville. While the area does experience occasional cold fronts, they are usually short-lived; it\u2019s never too long before the sun starts shining again. Summers feature perfect beach weather with the added heat and humidity, so you\u2019ll want to dress light and wear sunscreen. If you visit between May and September, be prepared for rain since afternoon rainfall and thunderstorms are common; an Avis car rental can help you stay dry as you travel the city.\nAt a whopping 840+ square miles in northeastern Florida, Jacksonville holds the distinct honor of being the largest city in the continental US. With so much land to cover, you\u2019ll definitely want a car from Avis Car Rental in Jacksonville, FL in order to see everything you want to see. Jacksonville is also the most populous city in the state, so don\u2019t be surprised if you experience traffic during rush hours. Be aware, Florida has several toll roads.\nIf you intend to travel by air, you\u2019ll likely fly into Jacksonville International Airport (JAX). After arriving and gathering your luggage, you can easily get on your way using Jacksonville Airport car rental services. If you come by train, you can also look up the nearest Avis locations.\nThings to Do & Jacksonville, FL Attractions\nNature lovers and city-dwellers alike will find plenty of things to do in Jacksonville, FL. No matter how long or short your stay, an Avis car rental in Jacksonville, FL will help you hit all of the best attractions.\nAfter you drive up in your car rental in Jacksonville, Fl, the boardwalk provides a great view of the river as well as the downtown skyline.There are plenty of dining options at varying price points along with bars, lounges, and more. At the west end of the Riverwalk is the famous Friendship Fountain, one of the most popular attractions.\nEvery Saturday from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, local businesses, artists, farmers, bakers, etc. present their wares. Enjoy buying from local vendors, getting an up-close look at local the local art scene, and listening to live music performances.\nLittle Talbot Island offers a unique look into the wildlife of Florida\u2019s undeveloped barrier islands. The diverse habitats found on the island\u2014from desert to forest to marsh\u2014result in a wide variety of wildlife. Visitors can fish, hike, kayak, surf, picnic, and more.\nPlaces to See and Things to Do in Jacksonville\nJacksonville Florida is a great place to vacation no matter what your interests. Check out Avis\u2019 travel tips to find the activity that will make your vacation the most fun it can be for you. Whether you\u2019re an animal lover or a sports fan, Jacksonville and its attractions will make this a great vacation. Read more...\nBusiness Travel in Jacksonville\nIf you\u2019re planning a business trip to Jacksonville Florida, you have a lot to look forward to. If you have time to include golf on your itinerary, Jacksonville has some incredible courses. If you don\u2019t have time for 18 holes of golf, you should definitely make time to eat at some of Jacksonville\u2019s top restaurants. Read more...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1061, "original_length": 36250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.awesomehandgaming.com/events/2019-02-21/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:03Z", "digest": "sha1:GEFUMWABXPWNYSTHXZRZVF3KJFRVZHAE", "length": 353, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.awesomehandgaming.com", "title": "Events Archive - Awesome Hand Gaming", "raw_content": "Boyd\u2019s Hideout, 25344 W Richmond Ave.\nThey say two heads are better than one... and maybe they\u2019re right. Well, here at Awesome Hand Gaming, when it comes to trivia... they probably are right. Yes, you read that correctly! Due to the popularity and high demand, we\u2019ve decided to host another local bar trivia night! Come on over to Boyd's Hideout, in [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 4563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ayupp.com/living/check-your-self-if-you-are-diabetic-never-do-smoking-this-makes-deadly-combo-14799.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UPLWFQMAETYNKWIS4LAHZEPDMAONR22R", "length": 2133, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.ayupp.com", "title": "Check your self, if you are diabetic never do smoking, this makes deadly combo - ayupp", "raw_content": "Living News Published On: 24, November, 2016 10:43:13 AM; Updated On: 30, November, -0001 12:00:00 AM; Author: Ayupp Staff\nCheck your self, if you are diabetic never do smoking, this makes deadly combo\nNEW YORK, diabetics: Almost every thing has good thing in this world, however there is nothing like good cancer. Researcher\u2019s have found that Heavy smokers with diabetes may be at higher, double the risk of facing an early death.\nDiabetes is a chronic illness in which there are high levels of glucose in the blood. People with diabetes may also be at risk for numerous other health complications.\nReasearch have found that Diabetic\u2019s with smoking makes a deadly combination, which often leads to the death of a individual.\n\"The study also found that diabetes doubles the risk for all-cause mortality and non-lung cancer mortality among heavy smokers,\" said Kavita Garg, Professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, in the US.\nThe study found that , nearly 13 per cent of patients with diabetes died as compared to 6.8 per cent of patients without diabetes.\nParticipants with diabetes tended to be older, reported more pack-years of smoking, and had a higher BMI than those without diabetes.\nIn addition, the study also found that women with diabetes have an increased risk of lung-cancer mortality.\nHowever, the same effect was not found in men, the researchers observed.\nFor the study, Garg and colleagues conducted an analysis on 53,454 participants from US on the relative risk for overall mortality, lung cancer mortality, and non-lung cancer mortality associated with diabetes.\nOver the course of the study, there were 3,936 total deaths, including 1,021 from lung cancer and 826 from non-lung cancers.\nGarg emphasised that smokers should undergo lung cancer screening as well control their diabetes.\n\"Patients have to take care of their diabetes to maximise the benefit of CT screening for lung cancer. 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Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/11/28/truck-passenger-dies-driver-arrested-phoenix-construction-site-crash/2142571002/\nJaime Garcia(Photo11: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office)\nA truck passenger was killed in a crash when the driver, who was impaired, drove through a construction site in Phoenix.\nA 2000 Chevrolet pickup truck was speeding through a construction zone on West Dobbins Road, between South 59th and South 63rd avenues shortly after 2 a.m. Nov. 11 when it crashed into a parked Caterpillar excavator\nThe passenger, identified only by the first name Gregory, died in the crash, but the driver, Jaime Garcia, survived and wandered around the scene for an unknown period before walking to a neighboring house to call for help, Maricopa County Superior Court documents show.\nGarcia told police that he and the passenger left the Silver Pony Bar and Grill at 620 W. Dobbins Road, and Gregory was driving them back to Garcia's home because Garcia was too intoxicated to drive.\nHe told officers that he thought they were being followed by police, so Gregory sped up. Garcia told him to slow down after realizing it was a fire truck or ambulance, court documents show.\nGarcia was taken to a hospital and treated for minor cuts to his head and back. His blood alcohol was determined to be 0.156, almost twice the legal driving limit of 0.08. He also tested positive for marijuana, police said.\nOfficers arrived on scene and noticed Gregory's body was in an unnatural position \u2014 with his head in the car console between the passenger's seat and driver's seat. Both his legs were sticking out the window as if he had been repositioned after the crash, officers said in the court documents.\nPolice also smelled alcohol in the truck, which was registered to Garcia, and found unopened alcohol containers in the truck's in the rear interior, the documents show.\nThe truck was damaged in the front and all along the passenger side. The passenger side was seriously indented, which correlated with Gregory's injuries on the right side of his body, police said.\nMORE: Woman struck and killed in hit-and-run near Laveen Tuesday night\nThe construction zone has a 25 mph speed limit. The preliminary speed testing showed that the truck was traveling around 60 to 65 mph at the time of the crash.\nThe truck was taken to the Phoenix Police Department crime lab, and investigators discovered a liquor store receipt stamped 1:44 a.m., shortly before the crash.\nPolice viewed the liquor store's surveillance cameras and saw Garcia pull the truck into the drive-thru with an unidentified passenger. They also saw him buy alcohol that matched the alcohol investigators found in the truck, authorities said.\nGarcia then exited the truck from the driver's side and police noticed the shoes he was wearing coordinated with a lone shoe detectives found under the brake pedal, investigators said in the court documents.\nAuthorities also looked at the Silver Pony's surveillance cameras and saw that Garcia's truck was not there that night, which led officers to believe Garcia lied to them, police said in the court documents.\nInvestigators developed enough evidence to arrest Garcia. He appeared in court Tuesday and faces a charge of second-degree murder with extreme indifference to life.\nLawsuit: Former Peoria school groundskeeper molested 6-year-old student\nTrial set for man accused of hitting 3 Phoenix police officers with car\nRead or Share this story: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/11/28/truck-passenger-dies-driver-arrested-phoenix-construction-site-crash/2142571002/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 7700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/bs-md-naval-academy-foia-20150203-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TMU56NVFVIWSQLPAQ5IBPVWELHWEWCHW", "length": 5913, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "ACLU, military women's group sue Defense Department for Naval Academy gender records - Baltimore Sun", "raw_content": "ACLU, military women's group sue Defense Department for Naval Academy records on female midshipmen\nNaval Academy won't give up records on women's treatment, activists say\nAdvocates for military women are suing the Department of Defense for information about how the Naval Academy and the other military service academies recruit female students \u2014 part of a campaign, they say, to expose ongoing gender bias at the elite training grounds for the nation's officer corps.\n\"The military's academies largely remain boys' clubs,\" said Greg Jacob, the policy director at the Service Women's Action Network.\nThe legal dispute comes as the military approaches a January 2016 target date for integrating women into direct ground combat jobs. That was one of the last major roles that had been closed to female service members.\nThe advocates argue that the relatively small number of women admitted to the academies will limit the amount of top female talent available to lead future missions. They also contend that the relatively small number of women enrolled at the academies fuels a culture that fosters sexual harassment and assault.\nWomen were first admitted to the Naval Academy in 1976, and they now make up one-fourth of the latest class, which the academy says is the highest-ever figure. But over the same period, women have raced ahead of men in higher education and now earn almost 60 percent of bachelor's degrees at U.S. universities.\nThe American Civil Liberties Union and the Veterans Legal Services Clinic at Yale Law School, joined the servicewomen's group to seek data from the academies. The groups hope they can use the information to diagnose why women are underrepresented and root out any discrimination.\nCmdr. John Schofield, a spokesman for the academy, declined to comment on the lawsuit but said the academy recruits without consideration of gender.\nA spokesman for the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs \u2014 where the superintendent is a woman \u2014 said cadets are selected without reference to gender, and they gain opportunities by earning them.\n\"In the military, we are rewarded for performance,\" Lt. Col. Brus Vidal said. \"The airplane doesn't care if you're male or female.\"\nA spokeswoman for the Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., referred questions to the Pentagon, which declined to comment, citing a policy of not discussing pending litigation.\nThe Defense Department lifted the ban in 2013 on women performing ground combat jobs, so almost all career tracks are open to women, but Service Women's Action Network argues that the academies are not doing enough to prepare female officers for senior military leadership jobs. That creates what Jacob calls a \"brass ceiling.\"\n\"Servicewomen today are serving in unprecedented roles that are enabling the military to be a more effective fighting force,\" Jacob said.\n\"However, service academy culture and policies are preventing the military from becoming the 21st-century leader we need it to be,\" he said. \"In order to remain relevant, the academies must increase women's accession and leadership opportunities and actively support their advancement in the force.\"\nBut Kingsley R. Browne, a law professor at Wayne State University, said the academies are more inclusive of women than the military as a whole.\nNaval Academy records show that in the past three years the rate at which it admitted women exceeded the rate at which they applied. For example, 25 percent of the class of 2018 are women and the applicant pool was made up of 22 percent women.\nIn the Navy, 18 percent of all sailors are women.\nAs long as women aren't subject to outright discrimination, concerns about the gender imbalance in the military are misguided, Browne said.\n\"We have a volunteer military, so people that want to join, join,\" said Browne, who wrote a book in 2007 arguing that women should not be allowed in combat units.\nThe advocates filed the lawsuit after receiving what they say was an insufficient response to federal Freedom of Information Act requests in November.\nIn those requests, they sought detailed records about the recruitment and admission of female students and information about any quotas on female students.\nAriela Migdal, an ACLU attorney, said it was difficult to know at which stage of the complex application process female candidates might be eliminated from consideration \u2014 of if they are put off filing an application. She said the documents the advocates are seeking would help answer that question.\nThe advocates also sought documentation of how the academies handle reports of sexual assault and harassment.\nSexual assault reports at the Naval Academy rose in 2013 with 15 incidents being reported, the latest year for which data is available. At the three academies, a total of 70 assaults were reported, down slightly from the year before.\nMilitary officials and advocates have said they believe many more assaults go unreported, and that the rising reporting rates seen across the ranks indicate growing trust in the military justice system.\nThe Naval Academy was shaken in 2013 by allegations that three football players had sexual contact with a female midshipman at a party in Annapolis when she was too drunk to consent.\nOnly one of the players went to court-martial, and he was acquitted. The case drew national attention amid the debate about sexual assault in the military and the military's ability to investigate and prosecute cases, and prompted Congress to add protections for alleged victims during the process.\nThe groups say in the lawsuit that the Naval Academy has provided some of the records they sought, but West Point and the Air Force Academy have not.\nThe advocacy organizations previously collaborated on a report indicating that the Department of Veterans Affairs was approving out post-traumatic stress disorder claims related to sexual trauma at lower rates than other types of PTSD.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.banksmill.co.uk/testimonial/kerri-pratt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:35Z", "digest": "sha1:E44G742WG2FI56SXNKRZMTJIS6AMYASK", "length": 778, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.banksmill.co.uk", "title": "Kerri Pratt | Banks Mill Studios", "raw_content": "\"As part of the Jonathan Vickers Fine Art Award I was provided with a studio space at Banks Mill for the duration of the residency and exhibiton period. As I studied at the University of Derby and had rented a space there for a few months after graduating, Banks Mill felt a bit like coming home. It has been really nice to see familiar faces again and also meet new artists and form new connections.\nWorking as an artist can sometimes be a lonely or rather isolating experience, so I have felt some comfort in the knowledge that the building is very safe and secure. Not only that, but you see people coming and going and hear activity within the building and this adds to that feeling that although you may be on your own in your studio, you aren't actually cut-off or alone.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barcelona-sothebysrealty.com/buy-property-en/brand-new-apartment-in-the-left-eixample-11/BCNP2372", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ASM7GMDKG727UAMR2UMSPMGQUGS5DLFH", "length": 556, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.barcelona-sothebysrealty.com", "title": "Brand New Apartment in the Left Eixample", "raw_content": "This new apartment is located on Urgell street, of the left Eixample neighborhood.\nIt has a surface of 68,69sqm , where the living-dining room is merged with an open style design kitchen. The night area has two bedrooms and two full bathrooms (one en suite).\nWooden soils and mosaics in the wet areas, ducted air conditioning, heating by radiators and kitchen with Smeg appliances, are just some of the facilities that give it the identity.\nIt is a unique opportunity to acquire a property with charm; surrounded by shops, public transport and green areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 10532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.battlefields.org/learn/galleries/south-mountain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CXIVHC4AT7PNLKEARIN4RAFQK4ZXEPAD", "length": 3977, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.battlefields.org", "title": "South Mountain | American Battlefield Trust", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Learn \u203a Galleries \u203a South Mountain\nThe Civil War Trust's collection of historic and modern images of the South Mountain Battlefield in Maryland.\n2014 Target Property at South Mountain\nDouglas Ullman Jr.\nIn 2014, the Civil War Trust was able to save 45 acres at Fox's Gap at South Mountain. The property is shown on the left, the scene of fierce fighting between the Union Ninth Corps and D.H. Hill's Confederate division.\nA View of Fox's Gap\nA view from just in front of the stone wall of the Trust's recently saved land which was the stage of fierce fighting as the thinly stretched Confederates tried to hold off the Union's advance at Fox's Gap.\nA View Across Old Sharpsburg Road\nRecently saved Civil War Trust's property lies to the left and front of the photo, taken from Reno Monument Road (formerly called the Old Sharpsburg Road), an axis of advance for Union troops during the battle.\nWooded Slope\nEmma Quarnstrom\nThis slope, while wooded today, would have been an open field in 1862, giving clear lines of sight for Confederate defenders.\nFox's Gap\nStanding at the Reno Monument at Fox's Gap, adjacent to the position of General D.H. Hill on the day of the battle, looking towards the treeline marking land recently saved by the Civil War Trust.\nFederal Land at South Mountain (Fox's Gap)\nFederal land adjacent to land saved by the Trust at Fox's Gap where elements of Confederate Gen. D.H. Hill's division fiercely defended their position against Union Gen. Jesse Reno's numerically superior force on Sept 14, 1862.\n17th Michigan Marker\nFormed in Detroit only a month prior to their first taste of battle here at Fox's Gap, Seventeenth Volunteer Infantry from Michigan endured heavy casualties on this stretch of hallowed ground. Their \"firmness in line and coolness in battle\" earned them the moniker the \"Stonewall Regiment\".\nMaj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno Monument\nMaj. Gen. Jesse L. Reno's Monument was erected near where he fell while leading Union forces.\nReno Monument and Saved Land\nLand saved by the Civil War Trust can be seen from behind the Reno Monument, marking the spot where Union Maj. Gen. Reno was mortally wounded by friendly fire on the evening of September 14th, 1862.\nGen. Samuel Garland, Jr.'s Marker\nThe commemorative marker for Confederate Brig. Gen. Samuel Garland, Jr., who fell mortally wounded as he turned to help an injured Lt. Colonel Ruffin while holding off the Union forces at Fox's Gap.\nThe Kanawha Division in Action\nIn this historic illustration, Gen. Jacob Cox's Ninth Corps advances up the Old Sharpsburg Road. In 2014, the Civil War Trust saved the land on the hill, to the right of the road.\nView of South Mountain\nNick Redding\nView of South Mountain today.\nCrampton's Gap\nView of the Correspondent's Arch atop Crampton's Gap on the South Mountain battlefield.\nMarkers at Crampton's Gap\nThis marker highlights the actions of the Mell Rifles, part of Cobb's Legion, and the Georgians of the Troup Light Artillery.\nThe North Carolina Monument\nThis monument to North Carolina soldiers at South Mountain is located near Wise's Farm and Fox's Gap.\nThe Bolivar Road\nThe Bolivar Road was one of the primary roads leading up over the South Mountain range.\nView of Boonsboro\nView of Boonsboro, Maryland - one of the towns nearest South Mountain.\nFederal Soldiers in Middletown\nView of Federal soldiers in Middletown, Maryland marching to the South Mountain battlefield.\nFranklin's Headquarters\nView of William Franklin's headquarters near Crampton's Gap.\nHistoric Tavern at South Mountain\nView of one of the historic buildings that are still in existence at South Mountain.\nView from the top of the Washington Monument near Turner's Gap. This tall tower was used as signal station.\nThe Civil War Trust's collection of photos from the four battlefields of the 1862 Maryland Campaign.\nThe Trust's collection of photos depicting Harpers Ferry during the Civil War.\nThreats We\u2019ve Faced\nPhotos from past threats to Civil War battlefields.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 7409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bc.edu/research/agingandwork/projects/workforceOlder.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MQY2OBE4GVJXNSYHKBX2QXX3KGSDSV2E", "length": 4336, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.bc.edu", "title": "Changing US Workforce and Older Workers - Sloan Center on Aging and Work at Boston College", "raw_content": "bc home > research > aging & work home > research > Current page: changing US workforce and older workers\nChanging U.S. Workforce and Older Workers\nHow do the employment experiences of workers aged 50 and older vary, depending on whether they are wage & salary workers, independent consultants, or small business owners?\nHow do the employment experiences of male and female workers aged 50 and older vary?\nHow do the employment experiences of workers under the age of 50 and those aged 50 and older vary?\nThirty-eight percent of male workers aged 50 or older have college degrees or more education in comparison to 28% of the females.\nMale workers aged 50 or older (80%) are more likely than females (62%) to be married/living with a partner.\nFemale workers aged 50 or older (79%) are more likely than males (66%) to live in dual-earner households.\nFemale workers aged 50 or older tend to live in households with lower family incomes than their male counterparts. In 2002, the average (mean) annual income of male workers 50 and older was $66,300 compared with the annual family income of the females.\nMale workers aged 50 and older devote more time to paid employment each week (47.3 hours) than females (41 hours/week).\n65% of male workers aged 50 and older and 62% of females prefer to work fewer hours per week than they currently do.\nFemale workers aged 50 and older earn 55 cents for every dollar that the males earn from all hours worked at all jobs. Comparing hourly rates of pay at main jobs, these women earn 69 cents for every dollar the men earn.\n26% of females aged 50 and older and 28% of the males have access to high levels of flexible work options.\nWhen thinking about the future, a majority of workers aged 50 or older either want jobs with the same amount of responsibility (66% of the men and 74% of the women) or more responsibility (22% of the men and 14% of the women). A minority wanted jobs with less responsibility.\nWorkers 50 years or older are more likely than younger workers to be independent self-employed workers (17% vs. 12% of younger workers). Given the greater likelihood that these independents have greater degrees of choice and control with regard to their employment experiences, these independents can be considered to be in situations of \u201cextreme flexibility.\u201d\nSmall business owners are much more likely to have flexibility at the workplace than wage/salaried workers, with the self-employed independents falling in between. For example, 91% of the small business owners, 82% of the self-employed independents, and 44% of the wage/salaried workers report that they can periodically choose their own starting & quitting times within some range of hours.\nOlder workers are less likely to be wage/salaried workers than younger workers (74% vs. 8%3).\nAmong workers 50 years or older, those who are small business owners have higher annual earnings ($114.102) than wage/salaried workers ($52,635) or those who are independent self-employed individuals ($78,110).\nOlder workers who are self-employed independents (89%) are less likely than wage/salaried workers (95%) or small business owners (92%) to have health insurance.\nOlder workers who are small business owners tend to spend longer hours at work each week in comparison to those who are wage/salaried workers or self-employed independents: 59% of small business owners spend more than 40 hours per week at work compared to 52% of the wage/salaried workers and 38% of the self-employed independents.\nHigher percentages of older workers who are self-employed independents (38%) would prefer to work the same hours as they currently do in contrast to the small business owners (34%) or the wage/salaried workers (27%).\nOlder workers who are small business owners are more likely to report that their job offers them opportunities to learn new things, with 75% of small business owners, 69% of the self-employed independents, and 40% of the wage/salaried workers reporting that it is \u201cvery true\u201d that their jobs allow them to develop their skills and abilities.\nFor questions of information regarding the Changing US Workforce and Older Workers Project, or to schedule a conversation with any of the Center\u2019s team, please contact: please contact:\nthe changing us workforce and older workers project team\nJames T. Bond\nDirector, Work-Life Research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bcpp.org/resource/african-american-women-and-breast-cancer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:25Z", "digest": "sha1:FRXET2R5JDJDPRER6GE3ZKVXKQFDAX6R", "length": 6022, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.bcpp.org", "title": "African American Women and Breast Cancer - Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (BCPP)", "raw_content": "African American women face both disproportionate exposure to breast carcinogens and the highest risk of serious health impacts from the disease. We\u2019ve put together a fact sheet to help you understand the current stats, product types to avoid, and chemicals of concern.\nBreast cancer affects more women than any other type of cancer and is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women.\nA US woman\u2019s lifetime risk of breast cancer is 1 in 8.\nBreast cancer has the highest mortality rate of any cancer in women between the ages of 20 and 59.\nAfrican American women have a 31% breast cancer mortality rate \u2013 the highest of any U.S. racial or ethnic group.\nAmong women younger than 45, breast cancer incidence is higher among African American women than white women.\nYounger women in general, and younger African American women in particular, are more likely to present with the triplenegative subtype of the disease, a subtype that is both more aggressive and associated with a higher mortality.\nOver the past 20 years, despite the universal drop in mortality rates, we have seen a rise in the incidence of breast cancer in African American women. In particular, disparities between mortality rates for white and black women have grown significantly. The mortality rate for black women diagnosed with breast cancer is 42% higher than the comparable rate for white women. Triple negative breast cancer is diagnosed more often in American women of African descent than in those of European descent in the United States.\nProducts to Watch Out For:\nThese products are often marketed to black women yet contain some of the most worrisome ingredients in cosmetics.\nWhile it may seem overwhelming to overhaul your entire beauty bag, it is possible to make small changes one product at a time!\nSkin lighteners, which may also be marketed as skin lightening or spot and acne removal creams and lotions, often contain hydroquinone (a known endocrine disruptor), or worse, mercury. Skin lighteners sold in ethnic markets that are imported to the U.S. are of particular concern because they have been found to contain mercury, which is associated with a host of health problems including nervous system, reproductive, immune and respiratory toxicity. Mercury is easily spread on different surfaces and may adversely impact not only the individual who uses the product, but other family members as well, particularly babies.\nNail polish, products and treatments\nAcrylic nail treatments are of concern for both those administering and receiving the nail treatment. Women of color make up a large percentage of those who work as nail technicians. Bureau of Labor statistics show that nail workers are 6.1% black or African American, 56.7% Asian, and 7.8% Hispanic or Latina. Occupationally, individuals working in this industry are exposed to carcinogens and endocrine disruptors in nail polishes, primers, and glues such as formaldehyde, dibutyl phthalate, hydroquinone, toluene, and ethyl/methyl methacrylate on a daily basis. Studies routinely show that women working in nail salons report health concerns such as rashes,\nheadaches, dizziness, and breathing difficulties, as well as miscarriages, birth defects and cancers.\nHair treatments, including hair relaxers or Brazilian blowouts, expose women to some ugly chemicals. Hair relaxers (both lye and non-lye)\nare associated with hazards such as chemical scalp burn, scarring, dry skin, baldness, eye irritation, and dry broken hair. Hair relaxers are made with a base of sodium hydroxide, guanidine hydroxide, or ammonium thioglyocolate, which are high pH chemicals, and can\ncause irreversible damage to both hair and scalp. Post-relaxing treatment require neutralizing shampoos and conditioners to be used, and often contain chemicals like formaldehyde-releasing preservatives, endocrine disruptors, or carcinogens.\nFragrance is often a driving force behind buying choices. Cosmetic and personal care giant Procter & Gamble (P&G) data shows that\n22.5% of black women choose a product based on fragrance. A commonly used ingredient in fragrance is diethyl phthalate (DEP), an\nendocrine disruptor. Phthalates are linked to breast cancer, developmental issues, decreased fertility, obesity and asthma.\nInformation gathered by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) shows that black women and Hispanic\nwomen have much higher rates of DEP in their urine (almost double!) than white and Asian women. Chemicals of Concern: Benzene, coal tar, coumarin, DMDM hydantoin, formaldehyde, fragrance, hydroquinone, monoethyl phthalate (MEP), monoethanolamine (mea), mercury, mercury salts, parabens, phthalates, p-phenylenediamine, toluene.\nSix Safe Cosmetics Tips for Women of Color\nSkip toxic hair products. Go natural!\nBring your own safer neutralizing shampoo to the salon to avoid: formaldehyde-releasing preservatives, endocrine disruptors, or carcinogens.\nAvoid nail polishes that include any of the toxic trio: dibutyl phthalate, formaldehyde, toluene.\nReduce your use of products with added fragrance.\nRead labels closely and find safer alternatives using apps and websites like ThinkDirty, EWG\u2019s Healthy Living, the Good Guide.\nTrusted third party certifiers like Made Safe and EWG Verified will rate your personal care products for safety and toxicity.\nGiven that African American communities face both high exposure and high risk, it\u2019s crucial that the $84 billion cosmetics industry reform to ensure that cosmetic products, particularly those targeting these vulnerable communities, are made with safe ingredients.\nTopics: Core ScienceEnvironmentPersonal Care ProductsRace, Class, Occupation & Genes\nMammograms: Are We Asking the Wrong Question?\nFinal recommendations released today by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force echo those in 2009 that moved the beginning age...\nL\u2019Oreal: Pledge to Be Toxic Free\nCampaign for Safe Cosmetics, a project of BCPP, and allies delivered over 150,000 petition signatures calling on the multinational cosmetic...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 7585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beachbuddies.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3TH2O4IZFEZ524UQMSVSS5CCXI2OCLZQ", "length": 1612, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.beachbuddies.net", "title": "Beach Buddies \u2013 It's not enough to just stand and stare", "raw_content": "It\u2019s not enough to just stand and stare\u2026\nBeach Buddies has taken on one of the biggest challenges facing the world today \u2013 the pollution of the seas and beaches by millions of tonnes of plastic and marine litter.\nIn the Isle of Man we have found a realistic, workable and sustainable way of including everyone in keeping our beaches clean. We believe we have the cleanest beaches in Europe and have the most efficient beach cleaning organization in the world.\nWe have created a simple, low-cost and effective method of how to clean beaches, which is sustainable and can be used anywhere to change the world.\nIt is ordinary people of all ages who have dramatically changed the Isle of Man, and this can easily happen anywhere else in the world. All it takes is a few people to get together, take on a challenge close to home and show others what can be achieved.\nIt might seem a daunting prospect to begin with, but the results can be astonishing, and highly effective. Together, we can change the world. By doing nothing, we will never make any changes. It\u2019s not enough to just stand and stare.\nAnd the project can be considerably enhanced by support from sponsors to make this work. Beach Buddies calls on all companies, individuals and even families to think about sponsoring \u201cBeach Buddy\u201d bins to keep the world\u2019s beaches clean. It doesn\u2019t take huge amounts of money. Just a small amount will make a massive difference.\nAnd this idea can easily extend to include parks, forests, plantations, footpaths, roadsides and all public areas.\nYou can help \u2013 everyone can help. It\u2019s not enough to just stand and stare.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 210.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beersofeurope.co.uk/spirits/country/russia/russian-standard-platinum-vodka", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QYDOQXGX7KQPP5YTS5PIC3VC4IGCIVAO", "length": 797, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.beersofeurope.co.uk", "title": "Russian Standard Platinum Vodka | Buy Spirits Online", "raw_content": "Upping the ante on perfection, this sensuous elixir blends timeless savoir-faire with state-of-the-art sophistication.\nRussian Standard Platinum takes Mendeleev's recipe for the Tsars one step further, combining the purest ingredients with a state-of-the art silver filtration system to produce an ultra-crisp, ultra-smooth spirit.\nUniting a passion for perfection with a daring energy and confidence, Platinum has become the favourite vodka among Russia's booming generation of successful urban professionals, who work and play hard enough to put even 1980s New Yorkers to shame.\nA vodka of unparalleled energy and clarity, Platinum is sure to meet the demands of the most dynamic, yet discerning drinkers, wherever they might be in the world\u2014as a symbol of achievements past, present and future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 677, "original_length": 14554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beliefnet.com/columnists/haveamagnificentday/2011/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:09Z", "digest": "sha1:OQ73CSEWCL4UYPROOYWN7ZHFO5ULA6B5", "length": 2239, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.beliefnet.com", "title": "February 2011 - Have a Magnificent Day!", "raw_content": "Give People the Gift of Feeling Good!\n\u201cI\u2019ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.\u201d Maya Angelou Take a moment and look at what you remember about [\u2026]\nThe Farmer & The Donkey \u2013 Take A Step Up!\nI Am Abundance!\nA brilliant and powerful book, \u201cThe Abundance Book\u201d by John Randolph Price was given to me by my Godmother Francesca. 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In dancing, when two people try [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 9025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beliefnet.com/entertainment/celebrities/the-a-list-celebs-with-a-list-faith.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:14Z", "digest": "sha1:KMHZ7NWFJKX25N4Y7GRHINH6Q65TWBWH", "length": 1838, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.beliefnet.com", "title": "The A-List Celebs With A-List Faith | Celebrity Faith | Hollywood Christians - Beliefnet", "raw_content": "The A-List Celebs With A-List Faith\nThese superstars deftly combine faith and fame.\nIt\u2019s not often you come across religion in Hollywood, much less among the celebrity elite. Yet, hidden within the hearts of a handful of our most beloved stars, the Christian faith flourishes. These faithful celebrities are, or were at one time, the best of the best; they\u2019re the A-Listers.\nFor these powerful people, fame and fortune haven\u2019t drowned out belief.\nBalancing faith and fame isn\u2019t an easy task. When Christ spoke of how difficult it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God, He knew what He was talking about. While money and fame aren\u2019t inherently bad things, they give us something that can destroy faith: the power of choice.\nWith near-unlimited resources, a celebrity can live any lifestyle, go anywhere, or do anything. When you\u2019re this famous, there\u2019s little need to rely on God, and the constant affirmation and attention from fans and admirers can inflate an ego to epic proportions.\nBut these celebrities made it through with faith intact, and with that faith comes balance and restraint\u2014 you won\u2019t see many of the celebrities on this list--with a few notable exceptions, of course\u2014embroiled in controversy.\nWhen faith and star power combine, great role models are made, and so these celebs are people you\u2019ll actually want to emulate. When the rest of Hollywood is descending into bad example after bad example, you can rest assured that these few will stand out in the best way.\nNow, let\u2019s take a look at these a-list celebrities with A-List faith.\nDoing These 4 Things Will Absolutely...\nFeed your soul what it craves.\nBaby About to Be Cremated in Morgue...\nThe little baby began to cry, alerting workers he was still alive.\nGirl\u2019s Rare, Deadly Brain Tumor...\nHer inoperable brain tumor is gone and doctors have no explanation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 6302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.benzinga.com/news/earnings/17/07/9781670/6-stocks-to-watch-for-july-17-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NDR4NNDPZBA3WLP7IGYIUEVOYHSBEPAP", "length": 1502, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.benzinga.com", "title": "6 Stocks To Watch For July 17, 2017 | Benzinga", "raw_content": "Need help navigating SCSS earnings?\nRelated SCSS\nRelated BRO\nWall Street expects J B Hunt Transport Services Inc (NASDAQ: JBHT) to report quarterly earnings at $0.93 per share on revenue of $1.74 billion before the opening bell. J B Hunt shares rose 0.65 percent to close at $91.85 on Friday.\nAnalysts expect Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX) to post quarterly earnings at $0.15 per share on revenue of $2.76 billion after the closing bell. Netflix shares rose 1.84 percent to close at $161.12 on Friday.\nBefore the markets open, BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK) is estimated to report quarterly earnings at $5.3 per share on revenue of $2.98 billion. BlackRock shares gained 0.11 percent to close at $438.34 on Friday.\nPeregrine Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: PPHM) reported a wider loss for its fourth quarter on Friday. Peregrine Pharmaceuticals shares gained 3.14 percent to close at $5.58 on Friday.\nAnalysts are expecting Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE: BRO) to have earned $0.47 per share on revenue of $465.13 million in the latest quarter. Brown & Brown will release earnings after the markets close. Brown & Brown shares gained 0.51 percent to close at $43.30 on Friday.\nAfter the closing bell, Select Comfort Corp. (NASDAQ: SCSS) is projected to post quarterly earnings at $0.05 per share on revenue of $300.89 million. Select Comfort shares dropped 2.19 percent to close at $30.76 on Friday.\nRelated Articles (BLK + BRO)\nSchwab Doubles Commission-Free ETF Lineup To Over 500\nDan Nathan's Microsoft Options Trade", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 4679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.besteveralbums.com/buy.php?o=track&oid=1520015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:17Z", "digest": "sha1:3U6TRHQI6KTNDRIKN2QIX2FCDKIX6V4L", "length": 129, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.besteveralbums.com", "title": "Buy Durch Den Herbst (track) by S.Y.P.H. : Best Ever Albums", "raw_content": "\"Death, where have you been all my life?\"\n- Camu Tao\nBuy Durch Den Herbst (track) by S.Y.P.H.\nDurch Den Herbst by S.Y.P.H. (1982)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 221.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+1%3A26&version=NKJV", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:13Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZRXJY2NK4OAPLEVPT2XLSW3E3MCMYN3", "length": 184, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.biblegateway.com", "title": "Isaiah 1:26 NKJV - I will restore your judges as at the - Bible Gateway", "raw_content": "26 I will restore your judges as at the first,\nAfterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.\u201d\nIsaiah 1:26 : Jer. 33:7\u201311\nIsaiah 1:26 : Is. 33:5; Zech. 8:3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 25667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bibliaonline.com.br/nheb/jo/1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:00Z", "digest": "sha1:LMKGOLDE6OVIE2C4M7ZCGNUKVP22JLBD", "length": 4864, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.bibliaonline.com.br", "title": "Jo\u00e3o 1 - nheb - B\u00edblia Online", "raw_content": "3 All things were made through him. Without him was not anything made that has been made.\n5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn't overcome it.\n7 The same came as a witness, that he might testify about the light, that all might believe through him.\n8 He was not the light, but was sent that he might testify about the light.\n9 The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.\n10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not recognize him.\n11 He came to his own, and those who were his own did not receive him.\n12 But as many as received him, to them he gave the right to become God's children, to those who believe in his name:\n13 who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.\n14 The Word became flesh, and lived among us. We saw his glory, such glory as of the one and only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth.\n15 John testified about him. He shouted out, saying, \"This was he of whom I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me, for he was before me.'\"\n16 For of his fullness we all received, and grace upon grace.\n17 For the Law was given through Moses, grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.\n18 No one has seen God at any time. The one and only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has declared him.\n19 This is John's testimony, when the Jewish leaders sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, \"Who are you?\"\n20 He confessed, and did not deny, but he confessed, \"I am not the Messiah.\"\n21 They asked him, \"What then? Are you Elijah?\"He said, \"I am not.\"\"Are you the prophet?\"He answered, \"No.\"\n22 They said therefore to him, \"Who are you? Give us an answer to take back to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?\"\n23 He said, \"I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Isaiah the prophet said.\"\n24 The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.\n25 They asked him, \"Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?\"\n26 John answered them, \"I baptize in water, but among you stands one whom you do not know.\n27 He is the one who comes after me, whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to loosen.\"\n29 The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, \"Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!\n30 This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is preferred before me, for he was before me.'\n31 I did not know him, but for this reason I came baptizing in water: that he would be revealed to Israel.\"\n32 John testified, saying, \"I have seen the Spirit descending like a dove out of heaven, and it remained on him.\n33 I did not recognize him, but he who sent me to baptize in water, he said to me, 'On whomever you will see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'\n34 I have seen, and have testified that this is the Son of God. \"\n35 Again, the next day, John was standing with two of his disciples,\n36 and he looked at Jesus as he walked, and said, \"Behold, the Lamb of God!\"\n37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.\n38 Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them, \"What are you looking for?\"They said to him, \"Rabbi\" (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), \"where are you staying?\"\n39 He said to them, \"Come, and you will see.\"They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.\n40 One of the two who heard John, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.\n41 He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, \"We have found the Messiah!\" (which is, being interpreted, Christ).\n42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, \"You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called Cephas\" (which is by interpretation, Peter).\n43 On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, \"Follow me.\"\n45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, \"We have found him, of whom Moses in the Law, and the Prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.\"\n46 Nathanael said to him, \"Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?\"Philip said to him, \"Come and see.\"\n47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, \"Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!\"\n48 Nathanael said to him, \"How do you know me?\"Jesus answered him, \"Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.\"\n49 Nathanael answered him, \"Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are King of Israel!\"\n50 Jesus answered him, \"Because I told you, 'I saw you underneath the fig tree,' do you believe? You will see greater things than these!\"\n51 He said to him, \"Truly, truly, I tell you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 6139, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 221.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bigquestionsonline.com/2016/05/12/what-can-evolutionary-biology-contribute-theology-vice-versa/?replytocom=2001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DUCA4DZIBS4VFEVG32AC56PZ7JY4OX6Q", "length": 31971, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "www.bigquestionsonline.com", "title": "What Can Evolutionary Biology Contribute to Theology, and vice versa? | BQO", "raw_content": "Wikimedia Mariano\nLet\u2019s spell out these two questions. Can theologians consider what biologists say about the world important for their understanding of God? Can evolutionary biologists recognize as valuable, and learn from, a specific theological account of the world?\nAs a theologian and a scientist, I get asked the first question all the time: why should theologians bother with evolutionary science? Not only does evolutionary science seem to be outside theologians\u2019 realm of expertise; ever since Darwin, this question has also raised the specter of hostility or tensions between theology and science \u2014 tensions that continue more or less unabated in contemporary culture, especially in the United States. But one of the reasons why theologians do need to bother with evolutionary science is related to the task of theology itself.\nTheology concerns itself with the spiritual realm as well as the creaturely, material world. To forget that as creatures we are both spiritual and earthly beings is to open the door to what in the history of the Christian Church is known as the Manichaean heresy. This ancient set of beliefs took the world of matter to be intrinsically evil, standing in opposition to an intrinsically good, spiritual realm. The Manichean teaching was rejected by the early Church: St. Augustine, for example, countered this view with the traditional belief in the incarnation of God in the human Jesus, where God becomes fully human \u2014 fully material \u2014 but remains fully divine.\nSome recent theologians have started to experiment with ways of understanding the incarnation by speaking of \u201cdeep incarnation.\u201d The idea is that the incarnation is not only \u201cdeep\u201d into human history but also into evolutionary history. In a landmark essay from 2001, \u201cThe Cross of Christ in an Evolutionary World,\u201d Niels Henrik Gregersen reformulated Luther\u2019s theology of the cross by arguing that the incarnation had ongoing significance for the whole of evolutionary history:\nI propose a notion of a \u2018deep incarnation\u2019 according to which God has not only assumed human nature in general, but also a scorned social being and a human-animal body, at once vibrant and vital and yet vulnerable to decease and decay. In this sense the cross of Christ becomes a microcosm of the whole macrocosm of evolutionary history. The universal significance of the cross of Christ is thus to be understood against the double background of a high Christology which identifies Jesus with God the creator and ruler of the universe, and a deep incarnation in which God \u2014 the same God! \u2014 bears the costs of the hardships of natural selection.\nThis way of weaving evolutionary ideas into theology is not confined to Protestant or Reformed thinkers. For example, the Jesuit priest and scholar Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881\u20131955) took evolutionary biology very seriously. Indeed, he spent much of his life working as a paleontologist in remote areas of China. Teilhard believed that scientific discoveries were part and parcel of divine revelation \u2014 he was an original and even controversial thinker, far ahead of his time. His belief that Christ was the Omega point to which all of evolutionary history ultimately pointed was a theological belief. But he grounded that belief in theories of evolutionary biology that were current when he was writing in the first half of the twentieth century.\nCatholic theologian and priest Karl Rahner (1904\u20131984) also developed an approach to anthropology that took human evolution seriously (though he, like many other Catholic writers, had trouble squaring human uniqueness with secular interpretations of evolutionary theory). Teilhard and Rahner were both pioneers, but both sailed a little too close to the wind: they struggled to find convincing methods that gave sufficient scope to evolutionary biology as well as divine action. Teilhard absorbed evolutionary science in a way that was not sufficiently critical of the values embedded in scientific practice; Rahner did something similar in his evolutionary anthropology. Nonetheless, both theologians were successful in mapping out ways to combine the theory of evolution with the doctrines of the incarnation and divine transcendence.\nMy own preference in seeking a rapprochement between evolutionary biology and theology is to search for inspiration from historical figures prior to the Darwinian controversies, especially the medieval scholar Thomas Aquinas. Aquinas took the Aristotelian ideas that formed the basis of what eventually became modern biology very seriously, but he maintained a strong commitment to the difference between God and God\u2019s creatures. Although his cosmology and much of his biological understanding are now outdated, Aquinas\u2019s theological method allows a place for science (or \u201cnatural philosophy\u201d) while recognizing its limits. Some scholars in recent years have been re-emphasizing the theological aspects of his writings, after many of his interpreters had for generations focused primarily on his philosophy, leaving a bare skeleton of thought that could not hold up on its own.\nAquinas\u2019s understanding of science was somewhat different from our own, in part because medieval scholars did not divide up the disciplines in the same way that we do today. Nonetheless, his basic idea of an \u201canalogy of being\u201d \u2014 or analogia entis \u2014 between God and God\u2019s creatures remains fruitful. This idea reminds us that whatever we say about God \u2014 for instance about God\u2019s Goodness, Justice, or Wisdom \u2014 we say only by analogy to what these words mean in the human context, because God is not simply another being, more perfect than all other beings; rather, God is the ultimate source of Being as such, in which all creatures \u201cparticipate.\u201d This also means that whatever we say about the world is not fully adequate for understanding God, and that we find goodness, justice, and wisdom in the creaturely world only to the extent that they relate to \u2014 or participate in \u2014 the Goodness, Justice, and Wisdom of God. But how might this work out in concrete \u2014 and, in particular, evolutionary \u2014 terms? Is there more to say beyond the idea that the cross of Christ somehow shared in evolutionary pain and suffering through deep incarnation?\nHere I believe a more recent theologian, Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905\u20131988), offers a useful and productive concept, that of \u201ctheo-drama.\u201d The idea is that God acts in human history according to a pattern that bears some analogy with the great drama of Christ\u2019s life, passion, and resurrection. Now, Balthasar himself did not welcome evolutionary theory into this theological account, as he believed it far too wedded to materialistic philosophy. (Had he been trained as a biologist, like myself, perhaps he would have thought otherwise.) And, of course, in one sense, Balthasar was right to be skeptical: consider how the \u201cnew atheists\u201d such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett have polluted the field of evolutionary theory so much as to render those who do believe in God and evolution something of a laughingstock. Fortunately, that is beginning to change. But theologians should be much bolder than simply defending themselves against these critics.\nIndeed, some new evolutionary theories are starting to make the \u201cclassic\u201d interpretation of evolution by natural selection alone look a little thin. Natural selection presupposes that there are certain traits or characteristics that are \u201cselected for\u201d in given, fixed environments. These new theories \u2014 often grouped together as the extended evolutionary synthesis (EES) or niche construction theory (NCT) \u2014 suggest that this picture of natural selection is one-sided. In reality, organisms seek out new environments and then change those environments, constructing their own \u201cniches.\u201d This process of niche construction actively transforms the kind of selection pressures that were previously assumed to be constant. Human beings have changed their environments more drastically than any other living creature on the planet. So it\u2019s not hard to see how, as the behavior of humans impacts their environment, the ecological niche in which humans live could provide a changing context for their gene expression. Now imagine this dynamic interaction happening not only to human beings but also to a whole host of other creatures \u2014 all interacting with and reacting to each other in a large, complex system. That intricate picture is what NCT is all about.\nAs a theologian, I find these new biological theories especially interesting, because theology can resonate with aspects of them while still keeping its distinctive voice. Theology can draw on evolutionary science without becoming a science alongside other sciences. (Even though Thomas Aquinas called theology a \u201cscience,\u201d he meant by that something much broader than we do now in our own understanding of the term.) Here we return to Balthasar\u2019s concept of theo-drama, of God acting in human history in a way that is analogous to the drama of Christ. I have suggested, for instance in my book Christ and Evolution (2009), that theo-drama be understood as analogous to biological accounts of niche construction. This is more than simply saying that both evolution and theology are becoming more relational in character, though it is this as well. Rather, it is about re-energizing the dramatic aspects of our evolutionary story and weaving that into an expanded version of theo-dramatic theory.\nBut I am getting carried away. I have not yet discussed the second question: why on earth would evolutionary biologists be interested in theology? On one level, of course they are not likely to take much notice, unless they are interested in the evolution of religion or defending themselves against the attacks of creationists. But during some joint research with evolutionary anthropologist Agust\u00edn Fuentes, it has become clear to me that evolutionary science can, in fact, benefit from theology too. In particular, theology can challenge in productive ways some of the deep-seated assumptions of secular anthropology, suggesting new lines of empirical research.\nTo take just one example, consider symbolic thought, which has gained considerable traction of late as one of the distinctive marks of human identity in evolutionary anthropology. We are the symbolic species, as neuro-anthropologist Terrence Deacon has claimed. But anthropologists have become so caught up in studying symbols that they have overlooked some other basic elements that may be important for anthropology, such as the imaginative capacity for wisdom. To be sure, the language of wisdom is vaguer than that of symbolic thought. But it does suggest a rich, relational view of human becoming that might help anthropology by encouraging it to look for different kinds of markers or \u201csigns\u201d in the paleontological record \u2014 traces of behavioral activities that animals other than humans are unlikely to have done. Perhaps a different kind of cognition \u2014 or wisdom \u2014 goes far back in the early hominin record, way back to Homo erectus?\nBut then what would that mean for theology? That part is still a puzzle. But the broader point is clear: theology and evolutionary science can challenge and influence each other in fruitful ways. They should not avoid or neglect each other, nor merge into each other; rather, they should strive to be in creative, mutual interaction \u2014 perhaps even to transform each other, at least in part, by asking new and helpful questions.\nWhy do you think deep incarnation is an important theological concept? What are its implications? Its limits?\nWhat kind of philosophical assumptions are at work for an evolutionary biologist? For a theologian? Is it possible to do both at the same time or not?\nDo you think the terms \u2018analogy of being\u2019 and \u2018theodrama\u2019 are helpful in the debates between theology and evolutionary biology or not? Why?\nWhat insights arise from newer evolutionary theories such as NCT and why are these significant for theology?\nScience might challenge aspects of theological belief, but are you convinced that it can work the other way round as well?\nI tried to show in this essay that the common supposition that evolutionary thought and theology are inevitably incompatible with each other is just as mistaken as a simple fusion of the two, as in evolutionary theism, where God simply works through evolutionary processes. I was delighted to see the questions asked, since they are all questions that I have asked myself from time to time as I have struggled to think through more carefully the complex relationships between evolutionary biology and theology.\nIn this piece, I refer less to God as Creator and more to a Christology that engages with evolutionary questions and topics. I also outlined an understanding of salvation history through an expansive version of \u201ctheo-drama\u201d that includes other creaturely beings. In general, I argued that the relationship between a theological perspective and one parsed through the evolutionary sciences is best thought of in metaphysical terms as being analogous, rather than in literal correspondence. This prevents us from thinking that everything that science tells us about the evolutionary processes can be woven literally into a theological register. Yet, with that caution in mind, there are aspects of the evolutionary account that do resonate with important theological topics.\nMany of the readers\u2019 questions focused on ways in which this resonance may or may not arise and, in particular, aspects of the evolutionary story that could be viewed as incompatible with standard Christian beliefs. For example, if Christ overcomes death, why is there so much death in evolutionary terms if Christ is also deeply incarnate? Or, what if species other than humans also have capabilities for symbolic (or implied, religious) thought? Would this threaten the special place of humans as made in the image of God, which is characteristic of the Christian tradition? Finally, how many scientists are ready to adopt newer evolutionary theories such as the extended evolutionary synthesis? And would they really be willing to listen to theologians?\nI sought to address all these excellent questions by drawing on some distinctions aided by philosophical tools as well as theological insights. For example, there is a difference between the idea that death and predation in the historical record are necessary for evolution \u2014 in that things could not have been otherwise \u2014 and the idea that such things are inevitable in the world as known to us, as given. In the latter case, it is not necessary that things be created this way; there may be hope for a future in which the world is transformed. In deep incarnation, Christ is present with creatures in their suffering and pain, just as Christ has suffered real pain himself, but that does not mean pain and suffering have the last word in an eschatological perspective. Mortality is not evil in the way that other deliberate actions of violence are evil.\nSo our evolutionary knowledge does raise huge questions about theodicy, such as how to affirm the goodness of God in an evolved world that is full of suffering and pain. But I am less convinced by philosophical explanations of suffering \u2014 for example, that it permitted the opportunity for freedom to emerge, or that it provided the occasion for making human souls \u2014 and more convinced by theological responses, namely that Christ is present in the suffering, though we are not in a position to know the reason why.\nAs for other creatures also being in some way related to God, this is a topic that even secular scientists are starting to ask, in their own way. For instance, scientists have observed that other primates seem to have what might appear to us to be a religious sense. A few have even suggested that some repeated practices of chimpanzees such as throwing rocks at large selected \u2014 sacred? \u2014 trees may be a form of religious ritual. That, albeit controversial claim may just push the question further about the relationship between symbolic thought and religious sense. But it is still important, since it indicates an evolutionary convergence between humans and chimpanzees in ways that are more than just physical. I don\u2019t think such findings say much about the evolution of our religious traditions if only because of the timing: the split between chimpanzees and humans from a common ancestor occurred millions of years ago. Still, it is noteworthy that scientists are coming to theologians and religious scholars in order to seek their help in answering questions that arise from their scientific work but which they do not feel competent to address on their own.\nWhat mental capabilities are needed in order to experience religion? How did these evolve?\nIn what ways might evolutionary theories influence Christian eschatology?\nRich Rodney says:\nWhat would it mean, theologically, if we discovered evidence in the historical record of species other than humans with capacities like wisdom or symbolic thought?\nCelia Deane-Drummond says:\nThis is a really interesting question. Actually, even Thomas Aquinas recognized that other species had what he termed a form of practical wisdom, but it was directed to specific goals of sense appetite rather than the more deliberative type that is characteristic of human beings. In much the same way, elements of what look like nascent forms of symbol making are found in other animals.\nIt\u2019s helpful to parse this out in terms of philosopher Charles S. Peirce\u2019s Theory of Signs, which distinguishes between icon, index, and symbol. An icon does what you might think: it provides representations according to visual appearance so that it looks like the thing represented (such as a printer icon on a computer). An index is a sign that points to something else. For example, lightening in the sky points to a storm; light at the end of the tunnel points to the entrance, and so on. Humans do this, of course, and other species are known to have this kind of indexical thinking, too. Symbols can be either non-word or word symbols, where the association is by learning and abstraction. A symbol is not necessarily associated with the thing symbolized but often stands for something more complicated, e.g., a fish or cross symbolizes Christianity. What is interesting is that early hominins prior to Homo sapiens did seem capable of abstraction and left behind markings that represented other things in a way that, so far, has not been found among social species other than humans. So, if by \u201cspecies other than humans\u201d you mean \u201cthose other than Homo sapiens,\u201d that is already on record. This is a far cry, though, from the deliberate, verbal communication with God that seems to be presupposed in the Genesis account.\nNow, I don\u2019t think it is correct simply to use the Genesis account as if it were a scientific story; Genesis is addressing other, non-scientific questions, such as human meaning in relation to God. At the same time, however, I believe we have to try and make sense of both narratives \u2014 biblical and scientific \u2014 and it seems to me that the build up of wisdom is very slow and gradual. This seems true especially for practical wisdom, which is very complicated, involving a number of different capacities such as foresight, caution, circumspection, memory, insight, reason, etc. There is no need to suppose all these came at once, suddenly. And as for a relationship with God, that is not for us to judge; but if we believe God loves all creatures, then God will have loved other symbolic creatures, too \u2014 with perhaps a special regard for those possessing self-conscious recognition of who God is, which was possible in Homo sapiens. Such scientific discoveries soften any strong claim for a radical separation between humans and other species, helping us to know ourselves as creaturely as well as made in the image of God.\nF.J.M. says:\nThank you, professor, for your article. I saw it on Reddit, where there is a little interesting discussion going on. My question for you is, are there any indications that evolutionary scientists are actually interested in listening to what theologians have to say about empirical research on the origins of symbolic thought and wisdom, etc.? I kind of get the feeling, as someone said on Reddit, that this is kind of like a one-way street.\nThank you for this question. Yes, I know what you mean. But, in fact, there are some open minded scientists who are genuinely interested in what theologians might have to say. And these scientists are mostly anthropologists who are interested in human nature as such, not just their own scientific theories.\nActually, ever since Pope Francis published Laudato Si\u2019 there has been more interest in what theology might have to say about issues that are common to scientists and theologians because we are all citizens of a common earth. The reason why evolutionary anthropologists, in particular, are interested in what theologians have to say is that theology provides a different window into how humans think, which starts to raise new questions for the field of anthropology. The evolution of wisdom project at Notre Dame arose out of this sort of discussion between a theologian (me) and a scientist (Agustin Fuentes): the language of wisdom started to provide a different way of asking evolutionary questions that could not have arisen as easily according to the standard scientific paradigms. So this approach serves evolutionary anthropology in perhaps unexpected ways \u2014 unexpected, at least, for a theologian.\nOf course, this kind of collaboration depends on some mutual generosity between the two parties, each learning from the other. I don\u2019t think it would be possible, for example, for someone to welcome such a conversation if he or she were convinced that the materialist version of an absolutist Darwinism is the correct stance.\nSamuel Matlack says:\nThanks very much for the article! I find the notion of \u201cdeep incarnation\u201d appealing. But can you say something about how one might think about it in biblical-theological terms? What I have in mind is that in the scriptural narrative Death itself \u2014 not only particular human deaths as consequences of human evil but presumably also all natural pain and suffering, especially of the innocent or weak \u2014 is taken to be life\u2019s ultimate enemy that Christ overcomes (and that in the eschaton is said to be \u201cno more\u201d). How should we think theologically about the evolutionary process, in which death is evidently necessary for life, when theologically speaking Life ought to conquer Death (in whatever way one might interpret this)?\nI suppose one could make a distinction (as Gregersen does in the article you mention) between, on the one hand, *immoral* suffering and death as a result of intentional evil, and, on the other hand, *natural* suffering and death as a result of life\u2019s biological progression, and say that only the immoral kind is actually evil, whereas the natural kind is amoral and part of the \u201cpackage\u201d of life. But I can\u2019t quite make sense of how that fits with the notion of \u201cdeep incarnation,\u201d according to which Christ\u2019s redemption is said to apply also to the \u201cvictims of natural selection,\u201d as Gregersen suggests. In what sense are they redeemed if natural suffering and death are just facts of life, and, what is more, essential elements of its production of higher and perhaps better forms? Are natural pain, suffering, and death somehow parts of a good creation, and how do you suggest we read, in light of evolution, Paul\u2019s statement that the \u201cwhole creation\u201d is \u201cgroaning\u201d in pain?\n(I would also welcome your suggestions for further reading on this particular issue.)\nThank you for this detailed question. I will take each element in part and hope this is satisfactory!\nDeep incarnation is a biblical term in so much as it draws on the prologue to John\u2019s Gospel: \u201cThe Word was Made Flesh.\u201d Much of the debate among those who talk about deep incarnation is about what that phrase means. Now, Niels Gregersen has interpreted this passage to have Stoic resonances; it thus refers to a wider cosmic interpretation of Christ\u2019s significance. I prefer to see this passage as having echoes in Jewish traditions and therefore reminiscent of the passion of Christ on earth, in theo-dramatic language. (I have a chapter in Neils Gregersen\u2019s book on this topic, published with Fortress Press: \u201cThe Wisdom of Fools: A Theo-dramatic Interpretation of Deep Incarnation,\u201d in Incarnation: On the Scope and Depth of Christian Theology, edited by Niels Henrik Gregersen, 177\u2013202. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2015).\nI understand your puzzle in working out how we might square an account of evolutionary suffering, yet distinguish this from human sin and moral evil. Part of the confusion here, though, is related to the work of Christ that is both atoning (in overcoming sin) and at the same time looks to a future-redeeming hope where suffering and pain will be no more.\nI think we should resist the idea that deep incarnation implies a Christic paradigm that is literally embedded in in all creation; that is, I would want to insist that the evolutionary world could have been otherwise. Christ is present with, not identical to, that suffering and pain. Perhaps I part company with Gregersen here. But just as the serpent was created by God, so suffering and death enter the world in the course of its creative unfolding. Such suffering and death is inevitable but not \u2018necessary\u2019 in the hard sense that it could have been otherwise. I have argued with other scholars such as Christopher Southgate and Elizabeth Johnson on this point precisely, since I think, like you, that if Christ is associated too tightly with the evolutionary story, this raises particular dangers for how to interpret present and future creation. In the eschaton I don\u2019t think there will be evolution; all creatures will be celebrating in a sabbath. Yet, at the same time, evolution can be thought of as just one secondary cause though which God works to bring about God\u2019s purposes.\nThere is nothing, of course, about any of this in the Bible as such. But we can get at hints, such as the affirmation of God\u2019s goodness, the goodness of creation (which can be understood as meaning fit for purpose rather than perfect), and the final consumption and redemption of all things in Christ. All things in the creaturely world are \u201cgroaning\u201d in Romans 8, with the expectation of how humans might act, knowing that humans are given the specific responsibility of being agents of God in the world, especially in how we relate to the rest of the created order. Our task is marked out by a performance: how we act in relation to God, each other, and the natural world, as Genesis 1.28 implies. We cannot simply ignore the suffering of the earth and its creatures.\nI hope that helps address your question a bit, there is much more that could be said here!\nThank you for your article. I will be having some of our homeschoolers read and discuss it. A question for you. Are there any areas where you think the empirical science of evolution \u2014 and not just the secular interpretation of evolution that popularizers often seem to prefer \u2014 challenges, or might at least complicate, theology? Like what about the idea that I keep seeing discussed in science news articles about human beings having Neanderthal DNA. That would seem to make some problems for the Genesis account of creation.\nYou are right that empirical science on its own does raise issues for theology if it is taken as the only way of knowing the world. Evolutionary anthropology, for example, presupposes that there is no direction to evolution, or teleology, in a way that would be in tension with the theistic concept of divine Providence.\nBut there are scientists like Simon Conway Morris, for example, who are prepared to speak about evolution operating within restraints such that the same morphological forms arise again and again, in spite of distinct genetic lineages, through a process called evolutionary convergence. (For further discussion of this see: https://www.templetonpress.org/content/deep-structure-biology). So it is a misconception to think that evolution is just about contingent mutations of the gene and nothing else. This is why the extended evolutionary synthesis idea is so interesting, as it gets away from the concept that all that is entailed in evolution is genetic traits being honed by natural selection. Instead, selection takes place at the level of the organism as well, so that certain behaviors will then lead to changes in the environment that then feed back in a complex loop on gene frequency. The environment is not static either but consists of other organisms that are also responding in various ways. What amazes me is how complex this turns out to be.\nBut for Christian theologians that complex system is not just a self-organizing one but is also under God\u2019s providence. Now, I am not phased by the idea that there is human DNA derived from Neanderthals. The research in evolutionary anthropology is starting to challenge the classification system of different hominins into the various sub-species. After all, we have decided how to designate something as Homo sapiens, and modern humans are a subset of that species as well (Homo sapiens sapiens). The evolutionary account is that our bodies have evolved from these earlier hominins, which brings continuity with them in our biological make up.\nThe theological question is \u201cwhen did this group of hominins become self-conscious and aware of God?\u201d That seems to be the mark of Adam \u2014 which means in Hebrew, \u201cof the earth\u201d \u2014 which could just as easily refer to a collective rather than a single human being. So, we need to get away from the idea that Adam is a proper name; it refers, rather, to humans generally. For secular evolutionary anthropologists, this sense of God is more likely to be perceived as a projection of the human mind, not a real encounter with the divine. So this could be another source of tension. But at least some evolutionary anthropologists, drawing on the work of philosophers such as Thomas Nagel, for example, are prepared to admit that a reductionist account of the cosmos will not necessarily explain everything that is at work in the complex process of evolution.\nSo, scientists have to be content with what philosophers call \u201cmethodological reductionism.\u201d But if they are Christians as well, then they will not be metaphysical reductionists, meaning they will not take reductionism to be adequate for describing reality in general. Those scientists that are metaphysical reductionists will have a harder time talking to theologians.\nG. Szegedy says:\nDear Prof. Deane-Drummond,\n(1) You mention the \u201cextended evolutionary synthesis.\u201d How widely accepted is that in the scientific community?\n(2) Relatedly, how much of contemporary biology do you think challenges or contradicts Darwin\u2019s original picture, or at least the neo-darwinian picture of evolution?\nGeorge Szegedy\nThe extended evolutionary synthesis is a theory that represents a new paradigm in how evolution works. I would say it is a paradigm shift that is in the making. Many scientists have invested most of their careers on the assumption that neo-Darwinism is correct. So they might be more reluctant to give that up, and in many contexts it works just fine to generate scientific data. But for highly complex organisms like humans, it is barely adequate.\nJ.V. Wylie says:\nDear Mr. Szegedy,\nI am a psychiatrist who has been working on a theory of the evolution of human emotions for many years, which certainly fits the extended evolutionary synthesis. This recent blog post touches on it, but you might look at the home page to get a clearer idea about what it is.\nhttp://whywebecamehuman.com/human-evolution-fit-extended-evolutionary-synthesis/\nCelia Deane-Drummond is professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 33755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biogs.com/famous/eliotts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5IDP6TNRJ57Z4FEMSGUUSMSPPFXWSKRJ", "length": 1919, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.biogs.com", "title": "T.S. Eliot Biography - Biogs.com", "raw_content": "Home > Categories > Art and Entertainment > Authors > T.S. Eliot's Biography\nT.S. Eliot's Biography\nT.S. Eliot Facts\nThomas Stearns Eliot, better known as T. S. Eliot, was born in St Louis, Missouri on 26 September 1888.\nT.S. Eliot studied at Harvard and the Sorbonne before winning a travelling scholarship from Harvard to Merton College, Oxford.\nEliot decided to settle in England and in 1915 married Vivien Haigh-Wood. After spending 8 years in Lloyds Bank, he became an editorial director of publishers Faber and Faber.\nIn 1917 T.S. Eliot published his first volume of verse, which included 'The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock' - which had been written when Eliot was at Harvard.\nMartin Seymour-Smith in his Guide to Modern World Literature has this to say:\n\"'Prufrock' like the best of its successors is a minor poem. Eliot is a minor poet: he cannot write about love; he lacks real sympathy, or empathy; he is frigid ...\"\nSeymour-Smith is even more critical of The Waste Land (1922), and in general, regards, Eliot as a skilled technician but not a poet.\nIn 1921 both T.S. Eliot and his wife were affected by nervous disorders and went to Lausanne for a few months. Around this time he completed The Waste Land (1922) which was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf.\nIn 1927 Eliot became a British citizen and converted to the Anglican Church.\nIn 1933 Eliot divorced Vivien who was sent to a psychiatric hospital.\nOther notable works by Eliot include The Hollow Men (1925), Murder in the Cathedral (1935), Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (1939) and Four Quartets (1944).\nEliot was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. And in 1957 married his former secretary Valerie Fletcher.\nA new edition of 'T.S. Eliot, Anti-semitism and Literary Form' by Anthony Julius. Julius's article about T.S. Eliot and anti-semitism also discusses how one reads literature generally.\nT.S. Eliot died on 4 January 1965.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 5222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 144.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biopsychiatry.com/ssrispec.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:23Z", "digest": "sha1:U4NZGDCM7VCXPE5ZIFWDM5BQTNSI2332", "length": 1822, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.biopsychiatry.com", "title": "Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors", "raw_content": "Selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors: an update\nMasand PS, Gupta S\nPsychiatric Consultation Service,\nRegional Psychopharmacology Consultation and Training Program,\nSUNY Health Science Center at Syracuse, NY 13210, USA.\nHarv Rev Psychiatry 1999 Jul-Aug; 7(2):69-84\nSelective serotonin-reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), including fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, fluvoxamine, and citalopram, represent an important advance in the pharmacotherapy of mood and other disorders. They are chemically unrelated to tricyclic, heterocyclic, and other first-generation antidepressants. SSRIs are the treatment of choice for many indications, including major depression, dysthymia, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, because of their efficacy, good side-effect profile, tolerability, and safety in overdose, as well as patient compliance. A review of the literature was conducted using Medline and the terms \"SSRIs,\" \"fluoxetine,\" \"sertraline,\" \"paroxetine,\" \"fluvoxamine,\" and \"citalopram.\" Articles were limited to those published in English within the last 15 years. The search revealed that indications for antidepressants include unipolar depression, dysthymia, bipolar depression, treatment-resistant depression, depression in the medically ill, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, eating disorders, social phobia, and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. One SSRI, fluoxetine, has demonstrated safety in pregnancy. Side effects of SSRIs include gastrointestinal disturbances, headache, sedation, insomnia, activation, weight gain, impaired memory, excessive perspiration, paresthesia, and sexual dysfunction. predictable through an understanding of the different serotonergic pathways.\nNew SSRIs\nSSRIs in sewage\nMales, females, serotonin and depression", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 240.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biowashing.com/uncategorized/tests-for-pulmonary-hypertension/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SBCMQ434OWSPTNQL4PGEB7MSRBIV66K2", "length": 2170, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.biowashing.com", "title": "Tests for Pulmonary Hypertension - Part 2 - Mold Solutions and Inspection Services", "raw_content": "Tests for Pulmonary Hypertension \u2013 Part 2\nHome / Uncategorized / Tests for Pulmonary Hypertension \u2013 Part 2\nTags: Aging-associated diseases, Anatomy, Basic metabolic panel, Blood tests, Brain natriuretic peptide, Comprehensive metabolic panel, Heart, Hypertension, Medicine, Pulmonary hypertension, RTT, Thyroid\nPulmonary hypertension could be caused or worsened by many medical conditions. So a long list of blood tests are required during the initial evaluation of patients suspected of having pulmonary hypertension, and subsequently and on a regular basis after the diagnosis is made. Listed here are some of the more common tests:\nCBC (Complete Blood Count) is a simple count of the different kinds of blood cells. This test is important to check, for example, for anemia (low red blood cell counts) which is a possible cause of trouble breathing and fatigue. Some of the pulmonary hypertension medications may cause abnormalities in the cell counts as well.\nBMP (Basic Metabolic Panel) is a list of blood tests that measure the function of the kidney and a variety of electrolytes including sodium and potassium for example.\nLFTs (Liver Function Tests) are a list of blood tests that reflect the function of the liver. They include among other tests: ALT (Alanine aminotransferase), AST (Aspartate aminotransferase), alkaline phosphatase, bilirubin, albumin, and other proteins.\nCMP (Comprehensive Metabolic Panel) is the blood test that includes both the BMP (basic metabolic panel) and the LFTs (liver function tests).\nTSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) is a measure of the thyroid function. If the thyroid gland is not functioning well, then this may cause or worsen pulmonary hypertension. Abnormalities in the thyroid gland function could also cause trouble breathing and fatigue irrespective of pulmonary hypertension.\nBNP (B-type Natriuretic Peptide, or brain-type natriuretic peptide) or pro-BNP (which is a related protein to BNP) are small proteins that are found in our blood and are released from the heart. They get released from the heart when the heart is exposed to increased strain, such as in pulmonary hypertension.\nPulmonary Hypertension \u2013 Part 1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 204.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/News/archbishop-bernard-longley-speaks-at-memorial-unveiling", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DBCWMCCZ43CQLZZTIL27DQ3DCRJWCMIJ", "length": 2775, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk", "title": "Birmingham Diocesan Trust | Archbishop Bernard Longley speaks at memorial unveiling", "raw_content": "Archbishop Bernard Longley speaks at memorial unveiling\nThree 15ft steel tree sculptures were unveiled outside Birmingham New Street station, in memory of those who died or were injured in the pub bombing atrocity 44 years ago in 1974.\nThe sculptures, designed and created by artist Anuradha Patel, each have 6 leaves inscribed with the names of those who died in the bombing. When the sun shines through the trees, victims\u2019 names will be reflected onto the pavement below.\nThe campaign for the new memorial was led by Birmingham\u2019s Irish communities and funded by Network Rail.\nBirmingham Irish Association chief executive Maurice Malone said: \u201cWe wanted to create an inclusive and healing memorial that could reflect both the damage the pub bombings did to our city and also the hope we have for the future.\u201d\nThe unveiling took place at 8.17 pm, the time the first bomb went off. It was attended by religious and civic leaders as well as more than 80 members for the victims\u2019 families. With moving words and song, the ceremony drew many passers by to observe.\nArchbishop Bernard Longley stood with Anglican Bishop of Birmingham David Urquhart and said:\n\u201cNovember is for us very much the month of remembrance \u2013 and never more so than this year when we have recalled the centenary of the close of the First World War.\n\u201cEvery act of remembrance will inevitably cause each of us to think of our loved ones who are no longer here.\n\u201cFor the relatives and friends of the twenty-one people who lost their lives \u2013 and for the more than two hundred who were injured physically and emotionally on 21st November 1974 - remembrance brings a heavy burden of loss and absence as well as the cherished and uplifting memories so necessary for healing and peace.\n\u201cThose responsible for the horror of that night intended to drive a deep wedge between the communities and cultures that find their home in our city. The dignified witness of the families of those who died has inspired many others to work for peace and good relations across the diverse neighbourhoods of Birmingham.\n\u201cTonight I recognise the determination of the Birmingham Irish Association to work with the victims\u2019 families and with many others to provide a lasting and fitting memorial dedicated to those who died or were injured.\n\u201cAs Roman Catholic Archbishop I am grateful to be able to stand alongside the Bishop of Birmingham, Bishop David Urquhart, and united with other faith leaders to witness to the friendships and shared vision that have enabled our faith communities to work with all people of good will for lasting peace in this great city.\u201d\nTogether, Archbishop Bernard and Bishop David offered Cardinal John Henry Newman\u2019s beautiful prayer for peace:\nThen in your mercy,\ngrant us a safe lodging and a holy rest,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com/search-results?any=&su=honkyTonk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPFUWEFJWPXILUALBO6GOTSPXYMMFQPX", "length": 1678, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.bloomsburypopularmusic.com", "title": "Bloomsbury Popular Music - Search Results", "raw_content": "...As the first major star to come out of the country music scene of Bakersfield, California, Buck Owens introduced the city\u2019s unique sound to the nation and paved the way for the myriad artists who followed in his wake. 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The city lies...\nPeter La Chapelle\n...The Bakersfield Sound refers to a style of country music that developed within and around the southern portion of central California\u2019s San Joaquin Valley in the 1940s and 1950s, and rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s...\n...The term \u2018honky-tonk\u2019 refers to a style of country music performance which was codified, principally in American Southwest and Gulf Coast regions (and later in California), during the late years of the Depression and World War II...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 13214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 99.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blueheronbloomington.com/michael-evans-design/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IZY6RELLPYKMKW5MNW3WXVFMIXQ2EYMM", "length": 168, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.blueheronbloomington.com", "title": "Michael Evans Design \u2014 Blue Heron Woodworking", "raw_content": "Michael has been designing and building hand-crafted, hardwood furniture and sculpture in the Bloomington area for more than 35 years. Click below to visit his website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 124.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boilerguide.co.uk/watch-out-for-cowboy-boiler-fitters-warns-gas-safety-watchdog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:42Z", "digest": "sha1:UMSRH7XZ2SOORS3RAZOA2L7B45LQXVC6", "length": 1609, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.boilerguide.co.uk", "title": "Watch Out For Cowboy Boiler Fitters, Warns Gas Safety Watchdog", "raw_content": "A gas safety watchdog has warned that London residents risk falling foul of dangerous \u201ccowboy\u201d boiler fitters \u2013 more so than any other city in the UK.\nThe Gas Safe Register, which officially monitors gas engineers, has revealed that there are around 7,500 rogue boiler fitters scattered around the country, accounting for in the region of 250,000 illegal jobs every year.\nEarlier this week, the Gas Safe Registered launched its first ever Gas Safety Week. Aiming to raise awareness of gas safety and the importance of taking care of your gas appliances, the GSR has highlighted Londoners as being the most at risk when it comes to rogue traders. So much so, 79% of boilers installed by \u201ccowboy\u201d firms in the city flagged revealed to be a risk or \u201cimmediately dangerous\u201d.\nRoss McTaggart, head of field operations at GSR said rogue traders were putting people\u2019s lives in danger, and he urged people to ensure they check a fitter\u2019s credentials prior to any work being undertaken.\n\u201cThe primary issue arising from illegal fittings is carbon monoxide poisoning but a boiler installed illegally can also cause explosions or fires,\u201d said Mr McTaggart.\nWith more and more people being treated in hospitals for low-level carbon monoxide poisoning, the Department of Health has revealed that accidental carbon monoxide poisoning led to more than 50 deaths as 4,000 people were hospitalised over a 12 month period.\nHomeowners are being urged to use only qualified heat engineers who carry a Gas Safe ID card. Rogue traders should be reported to the Gas Safe Register.\nGas Safety Week runs from the 12-18th September 2011.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bollywood.com/movies/baby", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4TFGWDGKOR2BOLM25KANUCVLRCZHHI3L", "length": 1361, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bollywood.com", "title": "Baby - Movie Review, Stills, Trailer, Videos, Cast, Songs, News - Bollywood.com", "raw_content": "Akshay Kumar's Baby is a hit now!\nAkshay Kumar's espionage thriller Baby has won the box office despite a slow start.\nAkshay Kumar's Baby banned in Pakistan!\nAkshay Kumar\u2019s espionage thriller Baby, which centres round an Indian spy\u2019s mission to capture a terrorist from a West Asian nation, has been banned in Pakistan for its \"negative\" portrayal of Muslims.\nAfter musicals, it's time to romance the action genre!\nBhushan Kumar, who is known for producing some of the biggest musical hits of Bollywood, is now entering uncharted territory with the film, Baby. The action thriller, starring Akshay Kumar, has only one theme song, and is touted to redefine the action genre in the industry.\nBaby: Five reasons to watch this Akshay Kumar thriller..\nNeeraj Pandey's latest directorial venture Baby, starring Akshay Kumar, Anupam Kher, Taapsee Pannu and Kay Kay Menon, hits theatres this Friday.\nRevealed: The mystery behind Baby's title..\nIf you've been wondering why director Neeraj Pandey couldn't think of a less incongruous title for his forthcoming Akshay Kumar-starrer Baby, here's something to get you hooked.\nTV commercial helped me bag Baby: Madhurima Tuli\nShe has starred in a number of Hindi, Tamil and Telegu films but Madhurima Tuli claims it was her commercial for a mobile service provider that got her noticed and also Neeraj Pandey's latest, Baby.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 251.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boneandpayne.co.uk/our-services/family-law/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HOADTUMBWWNK7EOD55LXEBFNXAUDU3KS", "length": 1113, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.boneandpayne.co.uk", "title": "Family Law \u2013 Bone and Payne", "raw_content": "Family Law concerns problems involving married and unmarried couples, civil partnerships, children and grandparents. Resolving such problems can require a high degree of empathy, sensitivity and understanding, which we always strive to provide. Our team includes accredited members of Resolution, an organisation that believes in a constructive, non-confrontational approach to family law matters. Our comprehensive services relating to family law include dealing with all levels of the Family Court and our expertise includes the provision of supportive advice and guidance on matters such as:\nMarried and unmarried couple\u2019s separation\nChildren\u2019s issues including residence, contact and parental responsibility\nProtection from domestic abuse, harassment and violence\nIt is our aim to resolve any disputes as quickly and amicably as possible, providing a cost-effective and high quality service to all our clients. We also aim to deal with all matters as quickly and efficiently as possible in what is often a traumatic time for those involved. Contact a member of our Family Law team to find out how we can help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.booklovers.co.uk/books/catalogues/history-british/the-first-stage-john-barton/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KJZPVITGJ4GZIHA3RM5I5ONV37NB6TCU", "length": 541, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.booklovers.co.uk", "title": "The First Stage: A Chronicle of the Development of English Drama from Its Beginnings to the 1580's A Series of Monthly Programmes in the BBC Third Programme, November, 1956 - September, 1957 John Barton", "raw_content": "The First Stage: A Chronicle of the Development of English Drama from Its Beginnings to the 1580's A Series of Monthly Programmes in the BBC Third Programme, November, 1956 - September, 1957 - John Barton\nBritish Broadcasting Corporation [B.B.C./BBC], 1957, Paperback ..\nCondition: Very Good. Wrappers a little tanned. Text complete, clean and tight.\nThe First Stage: A Chronicle of the Development of English Drama from Its Beginnings to the 1580's A Series of Monthly Programmes in the BBC Third Programme, November, 1956 - September, 1957", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 155.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bostonlegalmalpracticelawyer.com/potter-v-pierce-ca-no-31595-court-of-appeals-of-new-mexico-affirms-summary-judgment-for-attorney-in/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ZE6BRMWATTTWASPNIM2UBPREEJF635GR", "length": 1658, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bostonlegalmalpracticelawyer.com", "title": "Potter v. Pierce, CA NO. 31,595. Court of Appeals of New Mexico Affirms Summary Judgment for Attorney in Legal Malpractice Action on the Basis of Issue Preclusion \u2014 Boston Legal Malpractice Lawyer \u2014 September 30, 2013", "raw_content": "Potter v. Pierce, CA NO. 31,595. Court of Appeals of New Mexico Affirms Summary Judgment for Attorney in Legal Malpractice Action on the Basis of Issue Preclusion\nUnder Massachusetts law, issues that have already been decided in a court of competent jurisdiction cannot be re-litigated in a subsequent action considering the same issue. Jarosz v. Palmer, 436 Mass. 526, 530 n.3 (2002). This holds true in most jurisdictions, including New Mexico, as summarized below.\nA New Mexico appellate court has affirmed a lower court\u2019s ruling that a client was precluded from bringing a legal malpractice action against his former attorney. In Potter v. Pierce, a client hired an attorney to represent him with respect to his bankruptcy proceedings. One year later, the client fired the attorney citing \u201ca fundamental disagreement\u201d. The attorney then filed an application in the bankruptcy court seeking his fees.\nThe client opposed the petition arguing that the attorney had committed legal malpractice. After hearing, the bankruptcy court ruled in favor of the attorney.\nTen months later, the client filed a legal malpractice suit against the attorney. The attorney moved for summary judgment, arguing that the client\u2019s suit was precluded because the bankruptcy court had already decided the issue. The trial court agreed and the client appealed.\nThe appellate court affirmed, reasoning that the bankruptcy court had already assessed the nature and quality of the attorney\u2019s representation. The court had impliedly determined that the attorney had exercised the skill or a reasonable lawyer and thus client could not re-litigate the issue.\nDecision: Potter v. Pierce", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.breitbart.com/border/2018/04/09/saudis-planning-10b-investment-texas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:41Z", "digest": "sha1:7VF7OMEJDQJZ23ELH4U6F6MORODMFH57", "length": 3933, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.breitbart.com", "title": "Saudis Planning $10B Investment in Texas", "raw_content": "Steve Gonzales/Houston Chronicle via AP\nSaudi Aramco plans to invest between $8 billion and $10 billion into their Houston-area petrochemicals operations, according to the Houston Chronicle. To accomplish this, they entered into two exploratory agreements on Saturday \u2014 one with British-based oil equipment manufacturer TechnipFMC and the other with Illinois-headquartered Honeywell UOP.\nAramco\u2019s Houston-based refining company, Motiva Enterprises LLC, will evaluate TechnipFMC\u2019s mixed-feed ethylene production technologies, a feedstock used to manufacture many types of plastics. Then, Motiva will examine Honeywell UOP\u2019s production of chemical feedstock technologies for benzene and paraxylene, which are processed into textiles for nylon and polyester products, respectively.\nMotiva owns and operates the largest U.S. oil refinery located in Port Arthur. It also runs the largest lubricant plant stateside. The Saudis\u2019 goal is to build a manufacturing complex at this site. The company described these deals as a first step in their expansion.\n\u201cThese agreements signal our plans for expansion into petrochemicals,\u201d said Motiva CEO and President Brian Coffman, in a prepared statement. \u201cWe are excited to work more closely with these leaders in the industry to further assess our opportunities for investment.\u201d\nMotiva officials indicated that a final investment decision whether or not to create a multi-billion petrochemical plant will not be made until 2019 and is \u201cdependent on strong economics, competitive incentives, and regulatory support.\u201d\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, nearing the end of a two week visit to the U.S., attended the signings. Also present were Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih and U.S. Energy Secretary and former Texas Governor Rick Perry.\nThese agreements also come at a time when Saudi Arabia says it seeks to diversify its economy. Saudi Vision 2030, unveiled in 2016, is a blueprint for the kingdom to become less dependent on oil production. Until this year, 90 percent of the Saudi government\u2019s budget and roughly 45 percent of its GDP came from oil exports. In January, the country announced its 2018 budget, reflecting only 50 percent based on oil revenues, 30 percent from non-oil revenues, 12 percent from public debt, and eight percent from government funds, according to the Saudi government-owned Al Arabiya News.\nShifts in the energy sector certainly influenced this diversification. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has struggled with the surge in U.S. shale production for almost a decade, says the Midland Reporter-Telegram, which suggests OPEC may have created its own nemesis when, in 2014, it flooded the market and oil prices tumbled. However, instead of killing the competition, shale producers in the Permian Basin drilled leaner and faster. They bounced back and thrived with oil then priced at $50 per barrel.\nIn January, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas anticipated that by year-end 2018 West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude oil would close at $59 a barrel. WTI last traded at $62.32 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.\nTwo years ago, Rystad Energy, an independent oil and gas consulting firm, released data that revealed Texas held more than 60 billion barrels of shale oil. Later, Breitbart Texas reported the U.S. Geological Survey discovered the largest shale formation of its kind in the Midland-Odessa region. It may yield 20 billion barrels of crude oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and 1.6 billion barrels of natural gas liquids.\nOver the weekend, Bloomberg reported that Saudi Basic Industries Corp. (SABIC), the Middle East\u2019s largest petrochemicals maker, announced plans to build a Houston-area headquarters for its Western Hemisphere operations.\nBorder / Cartel ChroniclesEconomyMohammed bin Salmannatural gasOiloil pricesOPECpetrochemicalsSABICSaudi ArabiaSaudi Aramcosaudi vision 2030shaleshale oilTexas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 7225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brightonelmtrees.com/queens-park.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SO5SGJP3IROAKXLKHP7SNAMLO4D5PABQ", "length": 625, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.brightonelmtrees.com", "title": "Queens Park - Brighton Elm Trees", "raw_content": "Situated to the east of the town centre. Queens Park is unique in retaining a large water feature in the form of a man made lake.\nThe Queens Park is home to many species of trees of significant age and has several large and mature individual Huntingdon Elms.\nHuntindon Elm, Ulmus x hollandica. A hybrid Elm raised in England in 1746, possibly from Elm seed collected from a Ulmus hollandica hybrid by nurserymen Wood and Ingram at nearby Hitchingbrook Park. . A fine Avenue of Huntingdon Elms grow in the entrance drive to Portslade Cemetery in Victoria Road but they do not have the impact of the individuals in Queens Park.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brnow.org/News/November-2016/North-Carolina-Baptists-lead-the-way-in-missions-g", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6P5WJTY3MVZCJ3P23LLI6M2DRT4WBJOL", "length": 9760, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.brnow.org", "title": "BRnow.org - North Carolina Baptists lead the way in missions giving | Baptist News", "raw_content": "You are here: Home | News | November 2016 | North Carolina Baptists lead the way in missions giving\nNorth Carolina Baptists lead the way in missions giving\nNovember 21 2016 by BR and BSC staff\nNorth Carolina Baptists gave more than $32 million dollars to Southern Baptist missions and ministries in the last fiscal year, leading the 42 state conventions in cooperative giving through both the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering (more than $14.6 million) and the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering (more than $6 million).\nPhoto by Steve Cooke\nMilton A. Hollifield Jr., BSC executive director-treasurer, celebrated the sacrificial giving of North Carolina Baptists in his annual report.\nMessengers to the 2016 Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (BSC) annual meeting voted to approve a budget that increases the percentage of Cooperative Program funds forwarded to the Southern Baptist Convention for the 2017 fiscal year to 40.5 percent (or $11,417,637), representing a half-percent increase over last year\u2019s allotment. The total budget for 2017 comes to $30,375,000, which is up nearly 3 percent over 2016.\n\u201cFinancial gifts from North Carolina Baptist churches enabled us to forward the largest contributions from North Carolina Baptists to Southern Baptist causes in our history! \u2026 To God be the glory! It is our hope that this level of support for North Carolina Baptist churches will continue to grow in the coming years as North Carolina Baptists continue to embrace the importance of cooperative giving,\u201d said Hollifield.\nThe positive financial report came after a year marked by the devastation of Hurricane Matthew and the International Mission Board\u2019s implementation of austerity measures to counteract deficit spending in previous years.\nMessengers approved a goal of $2.1 million for the 2017 North Carolina Missions Offering, which supports Southern Baptist disaster relief, and collected a special offering of $6,473.96 for Hurricane Matthew relief and recovery.\nMike Sprayberry, director of North Carolina Emergency Management, expressed appreciation to North Carolina Baptists for their partnership in disaster relief and recovery efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew.\nDavid Platt, IMB president, thanked North Carolina Baptists for giving and supporting the IMB as it took steps to balance the budget.\nAt the 2016 BSC annual meeting, Cameron McGill (center), pastor of Dublin First Baptist Church was elected as president. Joel Stephens (left), pastor of Westfield Baptist Church, was elected first vice-president. J.D. Grant (right), pastor of Scotts Creek Baptist Church in Sylva, was elected second vice-president.\n\u201cThank you for the way you lead your churches and the way you personally give to the Cooperative Program and to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering,\u201d Platt said. \u201cThank you specifically for the way you have given over the last year as we\u2019ve walked through some challenging days in the IMB.\n\u201cIt\u2019s in light of your giving that I\u2019m happy to announce to you tonight that after years of spending millions more dollars than we have received, the IMB just last week approved a balanced budget for 2017, and I\u2019m pleased to announced to you that \u2026 next year we\u2019ll not only have a balanced budget but we will increase the number of Southern Baptist missionaries spreading the gospel around the world,\u201d he said as the crowd applauded.\n\u201cThank you for clapping,\u201d Platt said, \u201cbut I\u2019m the one clapping for you.\u201d\nMessengers also approved a motion to designate any undesignated Cooperative Program receipts in excess of $30.375 million so that one-third goes to church planting, one-third to the Southern Baptist Convention and one-third to be divided equally among the Baptist Children\u2019s Homes of North Carolina, the Biblical Recorder and Fruitland Baptist Bible College.\nThe annual event, which took place Nov. 14-15 in Greensboro, N.C., drew 1,538 messengers and 320 visitors. Its theme was taken from Luke 14:23, called \u201cImpact: Compelling the lost to come to life.\u201d\nFrank Page, president and chief executive officer of the SBC\u2019s Executive Committee, also brought a word to the messengers during this session. Page challenged those in attendance to turn their hearts toward collaborative missions and ministry, explaining that it is the only way to give all Southern Baptists a voice.\n\u201cCooperative, collaborative ministry gives everybody a spot at the table and a place to do ministry,\u201d he said, acknowledging the fact that the Southern Baptist Convention has grown increasingly diverse, which only furthers the need for unification within the convention.\nPage encouraged messengers to embrace a spirit of unity, but not for the sake of unification itself. \u201cWe must understand always the why of what we do,\u201d Page said. \u201cIt is because of the lordship of Jesus Christ.\u201d\nThree separate times during the sessions of the annual meeting, Chris Schofield shared from Joel 2.\n\u201cRevival doesn\u2019t start with my brother or sister, does it?\u201d asked Schofield, director of BSC\u2019s office of prayer. \u201cIt starts with me.\u201d\nOne video related the story of how a local association uses a block party trailer to reach communities in its area. Another shared the story of a former lesbian who found a \u201creal family\u201d with brothers and sisters in a local church.\nSchofield led messengers in prayer that God would awaken His people to the reality of His judgment.\n\u201cMost people are bored in our Baptist churches,\u201d said J.D. Greear, pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, during one of the theme interpretation times. \u201cThey are tired of always sitting around.\u201d\nGreear stressed that the church should not be a \u201ccountry club for Christians\u201d but instead \u201ca hospital for sinners.\u201d\n\u201cMany of us have demonstrated we care more about our tradition than the salvation of our grandchildren,\u201d Greear said. Church leaders need to help their people turn outward, he continued, \u201cempowering people to carry the gospel outside of the church.\u201d\nSchofield mentioned a couple of times that the church has a desperate need for God.\n\u201cWe\u2019re losing this culture of people to paganism,\u201d he said. \u201cThe world is saying to your church, to us, \u2018Where is your god?\u2019\u201d\nSchofield also urged unity. \u201cNever in recent history has there been a desperate need for the church to be revived than today,\u201d he said. \u201cRevival has got to start through the restoration of the spiritual life of God\u2019s people through the power of God\u2019s Holy Spirit. We need the Lord today. We need Him like we\u2019ve never needed Him before. If we\u2019re ever going to impact lostness in this culture, the church must be restored through revival and awakening.\u201d\nSchofield said His people need to be hard at work in the Great Commission.\n\u2018There\u2019s apathy and complacency, and churches aren\u2019t concerned about what concerns the heart of God,\u201d he said. \u201cWe must weep over the spiritual famine that is in the land.\u201d\nMessengers approved a resolution of appreciation to Wake Forest University\u2019s Z. Smith Reynolds Library for maintaining the largest collection of historical documents related to the work and ministry of North Carolina Baptist churches. The resolution acknowledges the library\u2019s effort to digitize thousands of documents, making them available to researchers online. Special recognition was given to the library\u2019s director of special collections and archives, Tanya Zanish-Belcher, and a copy of the resolution will be presented to both the university\u2019s president and the dean of the Z. Smith Reynold\u2019s Library.\nWhen convention president Timmy Blair opened the floor for miscellaneous business, Nicholas M. Muteti, senior pastor of Forestville Baptist Church in Wake Forest, asked that the board consider creating a better strategy to bring about diversity within the convention and the SBC.\n\u201cFor the last 19 years, I\u2019ve been attending this convention, and every year I look around and don\u2019t see enough work done for the diversity of the local church,\u201d Muteti said, expressing a desire for a new strategy for reaching minorities across the state.\nMuteti\u2019s sentiments will be shared with the board during its next meeting.\nCameron McGill, pastor of Dublin First Baptist Church was elected as BSC president. Mark Harris, a messenger from First Baptist Church Charlotte, nominated McGill. He ran unopposed.\nJoel Stephens, pastor of Westfield Baptist Church, was elected first vice-president. Stephens ran unopposed and was nominated by Rick Speas, messenger from Old Town Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.\nJ.D. Grant, pastor of Scotts Creek Baptist Church in Sylva, was elected second vice-president. Grant outpolled David Ethridge, minister to young adults at Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Raleigh. In the vote, 654 ballots were cast and Grant received 61.2 percent of the vote (400 votes), Ethridge received 37 percent of the vote (244 votes) and 10 ballots did not go to either candidate due to improper casting. Grant was nominated by Perry Brindley, messenger from Pole Creek Baptist Church in Candler. Shannon Scott, messenger from Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Raleigh, nominated Ethridge.\nMessengers approved four motions that amend portions of the convention\u2019s bylaws. The approved changes provide greater flexibility in scheduling Board of Directors\u2019 meetings; eliminate limitations on employees, trustees and directors of affiliated educational institutions from serving as members of committees and boards for the convention and related entities; clarify the roles of members elected to the Committee on Convention Meetings; and address sections of the bylaws to provide consistency, clarity and correction where needed.\nThe 2017 BSC annual meeting is scheduled for Nov. 6-7 in Greensboro, and will include a special prayer service as the convention sermon.\n11/21/2016 12:40:15 PM by BR and BSC staff | with 0 comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 13813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/music/grouplove-at-sunfest-saturday-may-5-9458763", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:19Z", "digest": "sha1:NM4UH3H4UYFRWY533PPJZ3UHIV2CDJML", "length": 4094, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.browardpalmbeach.com", "title": "Grouplove at SunFest Saturday, May 5 | New Times Broward-Palm Beach", "raw_content": "Grouplove Is Perpetually Inspired by Its Members' Inner Children\nHoward Hardee | April 24, 2018 | 10:29am\nAndrew Wessen was 23 years old and fresh out of college when Grouplove played its first show to about 100 people at a small Mexican restaurant on Los Angeles' Sunset Boulevard. That was about eight years ago, but Wessen says the electro/pop-punk band's relentless schedule of touring and recording has preserved his personality. He's basically still a college student in terms of maturity \u2014 or maybe even younger.\n\"It's like you're stuck in this weird bubble of being a child,\" he says. \"My girlfriend says I'm a baby, just a giant fucking baby. I haven't really, like, matured at all. I feel like the superhero version of my 5-year-old self.\" It occurs to Wessen that's the secret behind the band's wildly energetic concerts: \"Honestly, we go onstage and throw tantrums. That's what we do. I'm kind of realizing that right now.\"\nSpeaking to New Times ahead of Grouplove's midday set Saturday, May 5, as part of SunFest in West Palm Beach, Wessen \u2014 the group's lead guitarist \u2014 says the band is on a rare break. And he sort of forgets how to function in the real world. \"I don't know what to do with myself, honestly,\" he says. \"I'm driving with my knees right now and eating a breakfast burrito. I'm world-class at that.\"\nThe L.A.-based band is perhaps best known for the radio hit \"Tongue Tied,\" though its three-album catalogue goes much deeper. And they had been hitting the road hard until recently. They supported Imagine Dragons' arena tour in the fall, completed a shorter jag in Australia in the winter, and then retired this spring to the small coastal town of Inverness, California, to write the followup to their most recent studio album, Big Mess (2016). It was an engrossing process in which they'd often begin jamming and recording demos in the afternoon and continue working through the early-morning hours.\n\"We were all fired up from all of the touring,\" Wessen says. \"I think that's a good time to hop in the studio or a jam space. We walked away with, like, 20 songs.\" He describes the new sound as \"more like a band playing in a room. It's more like how we are live \u2014 like a punk band or a straight-up rock band. On the records, it's sounded like there's a bit more to it, more layers. Now, it's still hooky and there are big songs, but there are no frills. Keyboards were pretty much out the window. It's more like how we are onstage, and we haven't been able to capture that quite right on a record yet.\"\nGrouplove has always come across as a synth-pop group in the studio but performs with the energy, excitement, and loudness of a rock band, complete with a kick-ass light show. Wessen's guitar work draws from the surf and pop-punk of Southern California and emphasizes melodies you can hum or whistle. Indeed, pretty much all of Grouplove's melodic elements are insanely catchy. Hannah Hooper (keyboards) and Christian Zucconi (guitar), who are married, split lead-vocal duties and have a seemingly bottomless reservoir of pop hooks (see \"I'm With You\" and \"Ways to Go\").\n\"They're psycho,\" Wessen says. \"If you give Christian a guitar and something to get them high \u2014 and that can be all-natural \u2014 you've never seen people more prolifically write songs. I've seen four or five songs written in one sitting. It's not like every song is genius, but the ratio is pretty legit, and it comes completely naturally for them.\"\nFans can look for Grouplove's fourth studio album early next year. For his part, Wessen is amazed the band still feels inspired so long after that first show on Sunset Boulevard. He thought that by this point, making and playing music would have become arduous \u2014 or that all of the members of Grouplove would have grown up.\n\"It's crazy that, even eight years in,\" he says, \"we're still fully invested in this.\"\nGrouplove at SunFest 2018. 3:45 to 5:15 p.m. Saturday, May 5, on the JetBlue Stage, on Flagler Drive between Banyan Boulevard and Lakeview Drive, West Palm Beach; sunfest.com. Tickets cost $43 to $81 via completeticketsolutions.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 7008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 195.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.browncountypubliclibrary.org/content/careys-cooking-corner-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:16Z", "digest": "sha1:UCEVWTKEKG3ZODEVNQATG7FIQG6Y2J4Z", "length": 106, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.browncountypubliclibrary.org", "title": "Carey's Cooking Corner | Brown County Public Library", "raw_content": "Carey's Cooking Corner will host a \"Valentine's Tea Party\". There will be several types of tea and scones.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 189.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.btnews.co.uk/article/5429", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:09Z", "digest": "sha1:6XMXYV563PGPOZUBVA3JMLD5NRLBTELM", "length": 3101, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.btnews.co.uk", "title": "BTNews: The Business Travel News", "raw_content": "COMMENT: Where next the railways?\nReaders should be aware that there will be no long distance trains on the West Coast Main Line Tuesday and Wednesday 25-26 December. On the previous Sunday and Monday the services will be limited and will gradually decrease over the holiday period.\nThis is what will happen whoever is the train operator. Readers will be aware of a spat between current service provider Virgin Trains, the would-be franchise holder First Group, and the Government.\nWhere did The Business Travel News get this service update?\nIt was distributed by the Virgin Trains\u2019 press department, always very good with sending out information and dealing with enquiries.\nIf First Group is to take over this railway line the first thing it needs to do is get its media PR sorted out. Enquiries by this publication are usually ignored and the structure of the company seems to be that each of the five individual railway lines distributes its own news (or in fact does not). It could be added that virtually all the UK rail operators (Chiltern Rail and Virgin Trains excepted) are bad communicators, unlike most of the airlines.\nThe Virgin Trains\u2019 press office originated from Virgin Atlantic and Eurostar.\nWe wish First Group every success if it is to be the West Coast future operator. We supported National Express with its abortive attempt on the east coast line.\nReaders are aware that on 15 August Justine Greening, the then Transport Minister, announced that the 15-year tenure of Virgin Trains out of Euston would end on 8 December, First Group being awarded a new 14-year franchise. First, the UK's largest rail operator bid a basic \u00a35.5bn to run the line until 2026. The sum was \u00a3700m more than Virgin offered. With a likely extension and inflation, the difference rises to \u00a31bn-\u00a32bn. Sir Richard Branson, caught somewhat unaware, was on holiday at the time, but was quick to respond calling the bid \"absolutely preposterous\".\nWhat is very apparent is that First Group would now have a near monopoly of UK mainland long distance train services with the exception of the re-nationalised East Coast Main Line.\nAt this point in time the Department for Transport has been forced to prepare for the temporary nationalisation of the route, because of Virgin Trains\u2019 legal challenge. The High Court is expected to respond in the next couple of weeks whether to allow the takeover to go ahead, or for a (time consuming) judicial enquiry. In the meantime the subject was debated in the House of Commons for 3\u00bd hours last week and prior to that the situation was introduced into a House of Commons Transport Committee hearing with both sides stating their cases.\nThe West Coast Main Line franchise challenge may be sour grapes by Sir Richard Branson on what has proved to be a very lucrative investment but it is, rather like his airline, a stand-alone operation, with no side issues to divert attention. It started off badly and has got better and better.\nFirst Group we know little about. Except that it operates five railway lines which might become six.\nwww.virgintrains.co.uk www.firstgroup.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/over-a-billion-people-risk-irreversible-hearing-loss-from-exposure-to-loud-sounds-un-119021300426_1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:20Z", "digest": "sha1:IGWIGSH6BIA6PEARGXHLFM2ZBTXZPWIY", "length": 3923, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.business-standard.com", "title": "Over a billion people risk irreversible hearing loss from exposure to loud sounds: UN | Business Standard News", "raw_content": "Press Trust of India | United Nations Last Updated at February 13, 2019 12:20 IST\nhttps://mybs.in/2X3iWKQ\nHearing impaired boy donates Rs 10K to Ker flood relief fund\n4 men booked for raping speech and hearing-impaired woman at Khadki Military Hospital\nHearing loss raises depression risk in elderly\nIn Jammu, Brett Lee raises awareness about hearing loss\nAhead of Diwali, LifeCell Aims to Create Social Impact\nMore than one billion people risk irreversible hearing loss from exposure to loud sounds such as music played on their smartphone, UN health experts have warned, unveiling new guidelines to help address the problem.\nThe recommendations to prevent noise-induced hearing loss and related conditions such as tinnitus commonly experienced as a ringing sound inside the ear - include better functions on personal audio devices that monitor how loud, and for how long, people listen to music.\n\"Over a billion young people are at risk of hearing loss simply by doing what they really enjoy doing a lot, which is listening regularly to music through their headphones over their devices,\" said Technical Officer Shelly Chadha, who works on preventing deafness and hearing loss at the WHO.\nThe one billion people at the risk of irreversible hearing loss are aged between 12 to 35 years.\n\"At the moment, we don't really have anything solid other than our instinct to tell us: are we doing this right, or is this something that is going to lead to tinnitus and hearing loss a few years down the line?,\" she said.\nToday, hearing loss which is not addressed is estimated to cost the global economy USD 750 million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.\n\"Think of it like driving on a highway but without a speedometer in your car or a speed limit,\" Chadha said.\n\"And what we have proposed is that your smartphone comes fitted with a speedometer, with a measurement system that tells you how much sound you're getting and tells you if you're going over the limit,\" she said.\nA parental volume control option is also included in the UN recommendations to industry, which participated in two years of discussions, along with experts from government, consumer bodies and civil society.\nThe guidelines also propose using technology to generate individualised listener profiles by monitoring how much people use their audio devices, then letting them know how safely or not they have been listening.\n\"What we propose are certain features like automatic limiting of, or automatic volume reduction and parental control of the volume,\" Chadha said.\n\"So that when somebody goes over their sound limit they have the option that the device will automatically reduce the volume to a level which is not going to harm their ears,\" she said.\nAccording to the WHO, more than one in 20 people 432 million adults and 34 million children has disabling hearing loss, which impacts on their quality of life.\nMost sufferers live in poor and middle-income countries, the UN agency notes, adding that by 2050, more than 900 million people will have significantly impaired hearing.\nAround half of all cases of hearing loss could be prevented through public health measures, the WHO insists, its recommendations coming ahead of World Hearing Day on March 3.\n\"Given that we have the technological know-how to prevent hearing loss, it should not be the case that so many young people continue to damage their hearing while listening to music,\" said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General.\n\"They must understand that once they lose their hearing, it won't come back,\" Ghebreyesus said.\nThe joint WHO and International Telecommunications Union (ITU) initiative, is an attempt to tackle the lack of awareness about what constitutes too much noise, amid data showing that around 50 per cent of young people listen to unsafe levels of sound through personal audio devices including smartphones, whose use continues to grow globally.\nShelly Chadha", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 661, "original_length": 16545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-plan-gop-corporate-individual-tax-changes-2017-11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FVS55OBYESP6KSMAKYM7LCYWII6I35BR", "length": 2832, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.businessinsider.com", "title": "Trump tax plan: House GOP final corporate, individual rates, adoption, child credit - Business Insider", "raw_content": "House Republicans just made some enormous last minute changes to their tax bill \u2014 here's what they mean\nThe House Ways and Means committee is wrapping up consideration of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.\nTo meet a key requirement, Republicans introduced a slew of changes via what's known as a manager's amendment.\nAs the debate over the massive GOP tax bill winds down in the House Ways and Means Committee, its chairman added last-minute adjustments to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that could have wide-ranging effects.\nRep. Kevin Brady offered what's known as a manager's amendment on Thursday. The amendment contains a mound of edits added at the end of the committee's debate, designed to limit changes following the amendment's passage.\nThe manager's amendment is key for Republicans \u2014 prior to the changes, the bill went over its allotment for projected additions to the deficit. Since the bill is being considered under the budget reconciliation process, it can only add $1.5 trillion to the federal deficit over the next 10 years.\nHere is a quick rundown of the some of the biggest changes in the amendment and what they could mean:\nIncrease the repatriation rate: Under the House bill, US companies must repatriate their assets to the US. The new amendment would increase the one-time tax rate on liquid assets to 14% form the original 12%, and on illiquid assets to 7% from the original 5%.\nAdjustments to the tax rates for owners of pass-through businesses: The amendment would lower the marginal tax rate on income attributable to the owner of a pass-through entity, such as a limited-liability corporation or S-corporation.\nThe rate would be 9% on the first $75,000 on business income, down from the current 12% rate, as long as the person makes under $150,000 total.\nAfter $225,000 of income, there would be a \"bubble tax\" to reclaim the new lower rate.\nThe new lower rate would be phased in over five years, dropping every two years until it hits 9% in 2022.\nReinstitutes the adoption tax credit: The proposed repeal of the adoption credit was the subject of intense debate, and the new amendment would keep the credit in the tax code.\nRequires a Social Security number to claim a child tax credit: This would be an attempt to crack down on unauthorized immigrants obtaining such a credit, which would be increased to $1,600 a child from $1,000.\nAllow any nonprofit to engage in political speech without losing their tax-exempt status: This a broader repeal of the so-called Johnson Amendment, the original bill allowed churches to be explicitly political and still pay no taxes. This would allow any charity to be explicitly political.\nThe bill is expected to be passed by the Republican-controlled committee sometime Thursday afternoon.\nMore: Trump Tax Plan Trump tax cut House GOP Tax Bill House Republican Tax Reform Bill", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2019-02-12-finance-committee-adopts-pic-bill-aimed-at-bolstering-accountability/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:12Z", "digest": "sha1:UFMXZNEYBGQEEN33Q7I7V3LMFXCPYX7J", "length": 3521, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.businesslive.co.za", "title": "Finance committee adopts PIC bill aimed at bolstering accountability", "raw_content": "The disclosure of suspect investments in which the PIC was involved during the past year has made this more urgent\nLex Mpati. Picture: SUPPLIED.\nA bill aiming to strengthen the corporate governance, accountability and transparency of the Public Investment Corporation (PIC), was adopted by parliament\u2019s finance committee on Tuesday, ahead of it being debated in the National Assembly next week.\nAfter approval by the National Assembly, the Public Investment Corporation Amendment Billwill be referred to the National Council of Provinces.\nThe EFF joined the ANC in supporting the bill, but the DA reserved its rights as it still has to finalise its position on the bill.\nThe PIC manages more than R2-trillion in assets on behalf of the Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) and other social security funds such as the Unemployment Insurance Fund and the Compensation Fund.\nIt is the largest asset manager in Africa and the largest single investor on the JSE, so any framework imposed on its investment strategy would have ripple effects throughout the economy.\nThe need to strengthen corporate governance, accountability and transparency has been highlighted over the past year by the disclosure of suspect investments in which the PIC was involved. These are being investigated by the commission of inquiry under retired judge Lex Mpati.\nThe PIC has been rocked by allegations of dubious investments, including in Ayo Technology Solutions. These led to the recent mass resignation of the board, including its chair, deputy finance minister Mondli Gungubele.\nThe bill requires that the PIC invest in projects that benefit depositors, and act in accordance with their instructions while it \u201cmust seek\u201d to invest in projects that further the developmental objectives of the country, as specified.\nThe bill will also require that all directives be tabled in the National Assembly and before depositors, and published on the PIC's website. A report reflecting all investment of deposits whether listed or unlisted would have to be submitted to the minister for tabling with the annual report of the department and published on the PIC's website.\nThe PIC would also be obliged to report annually on the total number, and details, of requests made to the minister for approval of any significant transactions, together with the annual report of the department.\nLate amendments made to the bill by the committee on Tuesday were the provision for three PIC executives, including the CEO to be appointed to the board of directors and for the deputy minister of finance to be the chair, or alternatively a deputy minister from one of the departments in the economic cluster.\nThe finance committee decided to proceed with its bill despite the work of the commission of inquiry; otherwise, it would lapse with the termination of the current parliamentary term ahead of the elections in May and it would be up to the next finance committee whether or not to revive it.\nThe committee has already held public hearings on the bills.\nDan Matjila: man in the middle of the PIC storm\nAs the inquiry into alleged malfeasance at the PIC delves into the details of some questionable investment decisions, CEO Dan Matjila is at the ...\nIf the upheaval of the past few years tells us anything, it is that the PIC board structure needed to change\nPIC draft bill drops investment prescriptions, adds guidelines\nCosatu laments poor oversight of PIC by pension fund trustees\nEXCLUSIVE: Zweli Mkhize says he will appear before PIC inquiry if asked", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 328, "original_length": 11164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bustle.com/p/13-inspiring-reasons-people-joined-the-equality-march-for-unity-pride-63636", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:05Z", "digest": "sha1:RDL7WPYBHIAWN4FQVRJHKMTZKSB7WVC3", "length": 5679, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.bustle.com", "title": "13 Inspiring Reasons People Joined The Equality March For Unity & Pride", "raw_content": "13 Inspiring Reasons People Joined The Equality March For Unity & Pride\nThousands of people took to the streets Sunday in cities across the United States to participate in the national Equality March for Unity and Pride. While organizers billed the event as a grassroots movement to \"mobilize the diverse LGBTQ+ communities\" to address \"concerns about the current political landscapes and how it is contributing to the persecution and discrimination of LGBTQ+ individuals,\" every Equality March participant had their own individual reasons for turning up to march.\n\"I'm here because it's a matter of celebrating and supporting LGBTQIA identity,\" Timothy Kaine of Ohio told PBS NewsHour about his reason for traveling to Washington, D.C. to participate in the Equality March. \"It's not about politics or policy or a difference in political opinion. It's about an administration denying our identity. We will resist completely.\"\nAlthough the central Equality March was held in Washington, D.C., solidarity marches took place in more than 100 cities across the country. From Portland, Maine, to Anchorage, Alaska, members of the LGBTQ community and their supporters marched against hate, violence, and all forms of discrimination on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the Pulse Nightclub shooting.\nHere are 13 reasons why people across the country marched in Sunday's Equality March.\n1. Because We Shouldn't Have To Worry About Sexual Orientation Hindering A Career Or Education\nIn 2008, Lawrence Webb became the first openly gay African American to serve as an elected official in the Commonwealth of Virginia. His election win was a monumental moment for the LGBTQ community in Virginia. Webb joined Sunday's Equality March in Washington, D.C. because a person's sexual orientation shouldn't limit their career or educational opportunities.\n\"I chose to march this year because it is time for us as a group to get all the rights that we deserve,\" Webb said in a video posted to the official Equality March Twitter. \"For myself personally... this is just a culmination of everyone having the same opportunities and rights to be able to do that and serve their communities and people and not have to worry about their sexual orientation being a hinderance.\"\n2. Because I Accept Who I Am\nFor Twitter user Elvin Montero, the Equality March was about acceptance and being unapologetically proud of who you are.\n3. Because We Must Be Visible\nGLAAD President and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis joined demonstrators at the Equality March in Washington because she believes the LGBTQ community must remain visible. \"We must [be] visible at a time when the administration is trying to erase us,\" she tweeted.\n4. Because We Can't Go Back\nTwitter user Zach Adamson was motivated to participate in the Equality March \"because we've come too far to go back.\"\n5. For Those Who No Longer Can\nAtlanta City Councilman Alex Wan met one Equality March participant who was marching in honor of the 49 people killed in an attack on Pulse, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, last year. \"I march for those who no longer can,\" the marcher's sign read.\n6. Because Love Is Love\nBradley E. Williams shared how one woman was hoping to teach her son a valuable lesson about love and tolerance by marching in the Equality March. \"I'm here with my son to show him that love is love and we will continue to march until we have equality for all,\" a marcher identified as Rannika reportedly said.\n7. Because Equality, Dignity & Respect Are American Values\nLambda Legal staff attorney Omar GP tweeted Sunday he was marching in Washington as part of the Equality March \"because equality, dignity, and respect are American values.\"\n8. Because There Are Endless Reasons\nThe Human Rights Campaign showcased two Equality March participants' reasons for marching in a tweet posted Sunday \u2013 for the protection of transgender kids and because we need love, not conversion therapy.\n9. Because We Need To Be Recognized\n\"Today I am marching because our nation is basically in peril, especially for people of color [and] LGBTQ people, one march participant said in a video posted to the official Equality March Twitter. \"I think that visibility is really important so I'm here to essentially help spread the word that we are here and we need to be recognized as part of the U.S. and I feel like we haven't been for a while.\"\n10. Because We Need More Than Social Media Activism\nTwitter user Vickie Waddell tweeted two signs she'd made for the Equality March organized in Charlotte. \"I march because ranting on Facebook won't change the world,\" one sign read. \"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty,\" read the other.\n11. Because Showing Up Is Important\nWhile covering the Equality March in Washington, CNN writer and producer Paul B. Murphy met a 29 year old from Atlanta who'd showed up to march with a sprained ankle because, as he put it, \"you have to show up.\"\n12. Because Love Always Wins\nTwitter user Taylor Dwyer chose activism over comfort Sunday when he marched in the Equality March in Washington. Dwyer said he \"marched in 90 degree heat in our nation's capital today because love always wins.\"\n13. Because Hope Will Never Be Silent\nAtlanta City Councilman Alex Wan crossed paths with an Equality March participant in Washington who carried a sign emblazoned with a Harvey Milk quote that summarized one fantastic reason for marching. \"Hope will never be silent,\" the sign read.\nWhatever their reason for showing up to Sunday's Equality March, participants sent the White House a strong message about their commitment to expanding LGBTQ+ rights and continuing the fight against hate and discrimination.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 5967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bustle.com/p/what-happens-in-a-cure-for-wellness-this-retreat-is-hiding-some-dark-secrets-38058", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:48Z", "digest": "sha1:XE524JW5Q4VDUANW3G5A3TZXI2FHBLAM", "length": 4367, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bustle.com", "title": "What Happens In 'A Cure For Wellness'? This Retreat Is Hiding Some Dark Secrets", "raw_content": "What Happens In 'A Cure For Wellness'? This Retreat Is Hiding Some Dark Secrets\nWhat do eels, the Swiss alps, and sensory deprivation tanks have in common? This isn't a trick question. They're all major elements in the new psychological horror movie, A Cure For Wellness, in theaters Feb. 17. The movie comes from The Ring director Gore Verbinski and Revolutionary Road screenwriter Justin Haythe and follows young workaholic Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) to a remote Swiss wellness retreat where he's meant to find and bring back one of his firm's partners. Instead, Lockhart becomes trapped by circumstances in a trippy, descending labyrinth overseen by a doctor with questionable motives. The trailers are all over the place, so you may be wondering what happens in A Cure For Wellness exactly. And I'm about to spill all the spa's secrets, so look out for major spoilers below.\nFirst let me say that for a horror movie, A Cure For Wellness is long. So much happens. So much. It all begins when Lockhart is dispatched to retrieve Mr. Pembroke, a former finance shark who wrote a rambling \"I quit\" letter to his coworkers about how this spa getaway taught him to appreciate what's really important about life. He sounds brainwashed, and when Lockhart arrives at the facility, all the other patients seem to share Pembroke's newfound zen.\nThe spa has a sordid history, which is imparted to Lockhart by the driver who brings him up the mountain. Hundreds of years previous, a baron lived on the estate with his sister. He was so proud that he refused to mingle his bloodline with anyone else's, so he wed and impregnated his sibling. The townspeople didn't like that very much, so an angry mob set fire to their home and burned his sister-wife alive in front of him. That's quite a legacy.\nThe staff won't give Lockhart access to Pembroke when he's there as a visitor, but a car accident turns the man into another one of the spa's patients. With a broken leg, Lockhart is stuck in the facility under the care of its head, Dr. Heinreich Volmer (Jason Isaacs). Lockhart is confused as to why none of the rich, elderly guests are planning on leaving any time soon, since they all seem perfectly well. But each insists that they are not, including Pembroke.\nEven more mystifying is the presence of a young woman named Hannah (Mia Goth), who says she's being treated by Dr. Volmer even though she's not subjected to the same water therapy, stasis chambers, and other practices as the older patients. Lockhart stays skeptical of the place and encourages Hannah to help him investigate. What he finds is a chilling head-scratcher. Though the \"waters\" of the estate are supposed to be healing, patients are showing signs of extreme dehydration.\nThe truth lies underneath the estate. Above ground, the retreat is idyllic, medicinal, and clean. But Lockhart discovers a secret lab-meets-shrine underneath it. Fetuses and faces are suspended in liquid below a painting of a woman who resembles Hannah. It's the baron's lab, though now he goes by the name Dr. Volmer. Before the townspeople took their revenge on him, the baron used them as human subjects for experiments to find a cure for his ill wife. The experiments worked, and a life-sustaining cocktail has kept the baron and the daughter who survived his mother's murder alive. Hannah has come of age, and Volmer's plan is to marry and sire a child with her, to once again extend his pure bloodline.\nVolmer's secret is that the people who come to his spa seeking a cure are actually the key ingredient in his own survival. Lockhart learns firsthand how the tincture is created when the doctor locks him in a chamber filled with liquid, shoves a tube down his throat, and siphons eels from the waters into his body. Underneath, a tiny blue bottle catches droplets of the mixture.\nThe past comes back to haunt the baron when the house once again goes up into flames. Lockhart is able to rescue Hannah before her father rapes her, and they take off, while the rest of the patients dance in the courtyard in the shadow of the burning building. The retreat promises that its patrons will get a new lease on life and Lockhart actually does. He's seen too much to return to his soulless finance job.\nAnd really, that's just the basics. A Cure For Wellness is wild from start to finish and unlike any other horror movie I've ever seen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 4630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/morning-update-how-to-close-the-book-on-fake-news-fairy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GHCOIBA2EGY6JK2LKW5HECA7A3BJ6J2N", "length": 5528, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.buzzfeednews.com", "title": "Morning Update: How To Close The Book On Fake News Fairy Tales", "raw_content": "Morning Update: How To Close The Book On Fake News Fairy Tales\nHere's how fake news and other online trash spreads \u2014 and what you can do about it. Your BuzzFeed News newsletter, Sept. 11.\nEvil online fairy tales\nGood morning, fellow newsletter lovers,\nMy name is Jane Lytvynenko. I\u2019m a reporter on our digital deception team and I\u2019m here to replace Elamin\u2019s sunny demeanor with a grim peek into our dystopian future. That\u2019s right: We\u2019re going to talk about fake news and other online trash.\nFirst, a definition: When people who cover disinformation talk about fake news, we mean completely fabricated stories on websites created to mimic news outlets. Think evil online fairy tales. Enjoy this lighthearted example:\nUsually, these types of hoaxes are created to rake in some cash. Remember when the pope \u201cendorsed\u201d Donald Trump? Like that. They tend to spread through social media, primarily Facebook. Propagators will drop them into Facebook groups or publish them on their own pages to get traction. Sometimes they\u2019ll use dishonest memes and videos to grow their following.\nThen, when an unsuspecting reader clicks on an enticing headline, they will be led to a website crammed with advertisements. That\u2019s how the fake news dollars are made (and why you should be careful about what you share!). Here\u2019s a checklist to help you spot a fake news story.\nMaking money for online sleazeballs isn\u2019t the only issue with hoaxes, nor are websites their only incarnation. The people who create hyperpartisan news take reality out of context for the sake of emotional manipulation by writing stories aimed at only the left or only the right. Hateful memes and videos stir up animosity. When working in tandem, the ecosystem is capable of inciting violence and causing death.\nThat isn\u2019t an exaggeration. Recent reports are pointing to misinformation on Facebook helping facilitate violence and political unrest in India, Germany, the Philippines, Myanmar, and Libya. People are losing their lives and livelihoods because of lies and hate spread online.\nReporting shows social media companies have been aware for years that their platforms can be weaponized by bad actors. Activists in Myanmar talked to Facebook about it in 2013. The Ukrainian government asked the company for help with Russian interference a year later. Only now, when Facebook\u2019s feet have been put to the proverbial fire by reporters and governments, has it begun to take action.\nStart with yourself. Research by Pew shows people are spectacularly inept at distinguishing real news outlets from their manipulated doppelg\u00e4ngers. Cultivate go-to sources for your local, national, and international news and follow reporters whose work you respect. If you see something amiss in your timeline, message the person who posted it and ask them to take it down. You can alway send me a tip at jane.lytvynenko@buzzfeed.com. And hey, if you want to take a deeper dive into the world of fake news, sign up for the Fake Newsletter.\nNorth Carolina and South Carolina are bracing for Hurricane Florence, which is now a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds. The storm is expected to become an extremely dangerous major hurricane through Thursday, when it could make landfall, as it continues westward across the Atlantic, the National Hurricane Center said.\nMiss Michigan called out the Flint water crisis during the Miss America pageant. She introduced herself by saying, \u201cFrom the state with 84% of the US fresh water but none for its residents to drink, I am Miss Michigan, Emily Sioma.\u201d Sioma told BuzzFeed News the idea to use her seconds of airtime to address the crisis in her home state came to her a few days before the pageant.\nA cartoonist\u2019s depiction of tennis star Serena Williams after the controversial US Open final is being labeled \u201cracist\u201d and \u201csexist.\u201d The image shows the 23-time Grand Slam winner with enlarged lips, a larger figure, and a broken racket and a pacifier on the ground, suggesting her conduct at Sunday\u2019s match was childlike. Australian cartoonist Mark Knight has defended his cartoon, claiming that it was a true reflection of the events of the US Open women's final.\nNuns could face murder charges following a BuzzFeed News investigation that detailed years of alleged torture at an orphanage. Officials suggested that the charges could be possible in connection with at least three reported child killings at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington, Vermont. Read the original BuzzFeed News report here.\nA white man pulled a gun on black college students who were trying to get into an apartment building. Four juniors from Florida A&M University were trying to go to their friend\u2019s apartment for a party when a man claiming to live in the building accosted them before pulling out a gun, according to police and a now-viral social media video.\nA guy emailed 246 Nicoles trying to find the one he met at a bar, and now they're all friends. Carlos Zetina met a woman named Nicole who gave him her number but, alas, it turned out to be wrong. So he tried to find her \u2014 by emailing every single Nicole in the University of Calgary's directory. Quickly, the Nicoles decided to get together, and a bunch of them met up at a bar that night. They now also have a \u201cNicole From Last Night\u201d Facebook group.\nThis letter was edited and brought to you by Jane Lytvynenko and BuzzFeed News. You can always reach us here.\nFor the latest news and updates, download the BuzzFeed News app for iOS and Android (available in Canadian, UK, Australian, and US app stores).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bwcumc.org/news-and-views/girls-explore-leadhership-at-camp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RAR7X4QQMVGVKBMO7CYXULR53VHSPXR4", "length": 4778, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.bwcumc.org", "title": "Baltimore-Washington Conference UMC", "raw_content": "Girls explore LeadHership at camp\nNora Meeks, left, and Kennedi Jones were two of the campers who learned\nabout leadership at West River Camp this summer. The camp featured\nguest speakers, including Bishop LaTrelle Easterling,the BWC\u2019s first female bishop.\nIt was a week of LeaderHERship. The \u201chers\u201d in question were 19 very diverse teenage girls, gathered from across the Baltimore-Washington Conference for a week of summer camp at West River, near Annapolis.\nThe girls \u2013 they admitted \u2013 reflected every good and bad stereotype you might imagine; they also shone with the light of Christ that could dazzle the world with possibility.\nWhen they first gathered, \u201csome of them were insecure and vulnerable.\u201d But as the days passed, \u201cthey were changed \u2013 strong, coming into their voice,\u201d said the Rev. Bonnie McCubbin, who created the camp and brought in three other strong women to serve with her as camp counselors.\nNational statistics indicate that these girls had a lot to feel insecure and vulnerable about.\nSeven in 10 girls believe they are not good enough or do not measure up in some way.\nOne in four girls today fall into a clinical diagnosis \u2013 depression, eating disorders, cutting and other mental/emotional disorders.\n92 percent of girls believe anyone can acquire the skills of leadership, but only 21 percent believe they have the key qualities required to be a good leader.\nIn many ways, their feelings are justified. Within the U.S., only 34 women have ever served as a governor, as opposed to 2,319 men; only 3 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs are women; and in 2017, within The United Methodist Church, two constitutional amendments that sought to ensure women an equal place in the life, worship and governance of the church were defeated.\nStrong leaders need to love who they are, Bishop LaTrelle Easterling\nshared with LeaderHership campers at West River.\nDuring the afternoons at camp, the girls did all the normal camp things \u2013 playing on boats, paddle boarding on the river, climbing on the ropes course, playing camp games, singing camp songs, and joining in evening worship. The highlight, most of them said, was forming deep friendships.\nDuring the morning, they participated in conversations with women leaders in the Conference, including T.C. Morrow, who works with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture; the Rev. Julie Wilson, chair of the BWC\u2019s Church and Society ministries; and the Rev. Laura Norvell, a vice president at Wesley Seminary who shared insights into fundraising.\nThe purpose of these conversations, McCubbin said, was to give the girls exposure to ideas and skills so that they could go home with a \u201ctoolbox\u201d to be leaders in their churches and schools.\nOne of the key tools in this toolbox came from Bishop LaTrelle Easterling, the first female bishop in the 234-year history of the Baltimore-Washington Conference, who shared with them the importance of self-acceptance.\n\u201cAs you focus on what it means to be a leader, don\u2019t ever be afraid to embrace how God created you. God created you the way you are for a reason. God has a plan for your life,\u201d the bishop said.\n\u201cWe must learn to embrace who we are \u2013 uniquely, beautifully, every inch of ourselves. I know we live in a world that kind of makes that difficult, that makes us want to question who we are. So, the first thing a good, strong leader has to do is love who they are.\u201d\nThe conversation moved on from there, as the girls posed questions to the bishop: How does she handle stress? What do you do if people you\u2019re leading want something that\u2019s not good for them? What made her want to be a bishop? What do you do when you\u2019re nervous in front of people? How do you know for sure it\u2019s God talking to you? How do you love yourself?\nTogether, in a circle, they became vulnerable and magnificent as they cried, embraced, questioned, planned and learned from one another.\n\u201cGod doesn\u2019t take you where God hasn\u2019t prepared for you to go,\u201d Bishop Easterling told the girls. \u201cEach one of you has gifts inside of you that you don\u2019t even know about yet. There are seeds planted in you that haven\u2019t even blossomed yet because you haven\u2019t had to call upon them. As you begin to live into the next thing God is calling for you to do, you just have to allow it to blossom, to grow, and allow God to use you. You learn to grow wherever you\u2019re planted, you really do.\u201d\nAfter their time of getting to \u201cdish with the Bish,\u201d the girls practiced the song they were leading in worship that evening. As they sang \u201cEvery Praise is to Our God,\u201d they changed the words: \u201cYes, She is,\u201d they sang.\n\u201cGod is Spirit,\u201d the bishop told them. \u201cIf we are created in the image of God, there are aspects of God that are feminine. You need to know and believe that. \u2026 Lean into the wisdom God has for you.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 9279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cairoklahoma.com/program/oklahoma-muslim-gamechangers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:42Z", "digest": "sha1:IFPIKONIXJRJXWTP7MFSQNRKRTRURCR5", "length": 3364, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cairoklahoma.com", "title": "Oklahoma Muslim Gamechangers | CAIR Oklahoma", "raw_content": "Oklahoma Muslim Gamechangers is the newest youth program of CAIR-OK. The mission of OMG is to provide an opportunity for Muslim high school students from across Oklahoma to develop and utilize leadership skills that will enable them to both enhance the understanding of Islam in Oklahoma and facilitate the development of the Muslim American identity.\n\u201cWhere are the Muslim youth groups?\u201d\nCAIR-OK started working closely with Muslim youth 8 years ago when we launched our Muslim Youth Leadership Symposium, which remains our most successful youth program to date. But MYLS is geared towards college age students and we found many high school students were eager to have their own program. Several high school students approached us and said, \u201cChristian youth groups are such a large part of social life for students our age \u2014 can we create a similar Muslim youth group?\u201d\nZoya Sattar, one of the young women who approached us about creating the program, put it this way:\n\u201cI began to formulate the idea of such a program after the first Muslim Day at the Oklahoma State Capitol, when I felt that the youth in our community needed a setting in which to learn the skills to tackle the issues Muslims face today. With the learning of these skills, we would be better equipped to face our problems head on\u2026 This is a must. Muslim youth must learn how to transform our current hostile surroundings into more accepting ones.\u201d\nWe answered the call of Zoya and others and got to work creating an outline for a program that will educate and empower Muslim youth in Oklahoma to become outstanding leaders in all settings.\nThe Program: Empowering Muslim Youth\nDrawing on our most successful years of MYLS, Shehla Fazili, one of CAIR-OK\u2019s interns, wrote a curriculum centered around three major themes: Muslim Americans Past and Present, Enhancing the Understanding of Islam in America, and Careers in the Muslim Community. Over the course of the fall semester, the program will offer seven sessions, culminating in a graduation ceremony for participants.\nDuring the first month, students will focus on exploring the roots and development of Muslim American identity, their family histories, and the current positive impacts of Islam on society. Students will then take this knowledge and spend a day at the Oklahoma State Capitol, meeting with legislators and other elected officials. As they learn about the process of government, they will also learn about the relationship between faith and government, and the importance of civic engagement (even if you can\u2019t vote yet).\nThe second month of the program is oriented towards building up student\u2019s knowledge of stereotypes, the way Islam is presented in the media, and other issues that affect the Muslim American community. After engaging in media workshops with CAIR-OK staff, students will visit the News Channel 9 Broadcasting Station to learn about the process of local media and see the news broadcast in real time.\nIn the final month of the program, CAIR-OK staff will be joined by other Muslim leaders and professionals to talk to students about careers that serve the Muslim community. Students will also participate in workshops about professionalism, business dress, and networking.\nWe will wrap up the program with a graduation ceremony to celebrate the accomplishments of our young people throughout the semester.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 7187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/doing-business-in-china-tackling-the-talent-shortage-challenge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQ62MVFBYKORPFMPCU42KNWJBUT57CQN", "length": 4803, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk", "title": "Doing Business in China: Tackling the talent shortage challenge - Cambridge Network", "raw_content": "Doing Business in China: Tackling the talent shortage challenge\nChina has been through the \u2018growing pain\u2019 of lacking a skilled labour force for the past decade, and it is not getting any better soon, says Ting Zhang, Founder & CEO of Crayfish.io.\n\u201cThat was the verdict of various British business leaders in China I talked to during my recent trip,\u201d comments Ting \u2013 whose organisation is dedicated to helping Western companies do business in China\nAs a foreign business looking to set up or already operating in China, where do you find the talent you need to grow your business? What is the best way to employ them? And how do you keep them loyal and productive?\nIn the first article on this important topic, Ting aims to help you work out the \u201cwhere\u201d question. She writes:\nTo start with, if your operation is based in a Tier 1 city, then you have a larger pool from which to select your talent. For example, Shanghai hosts the largest number of multinational headquarters \u2013 most concentrated in the banking/financial, semi-conductor, pharmaceutical and chemical industries. The chance of finding highly technical, bilingually fluent middle and senior managers is high. In Beijing, energy, IT / telecoms and software development are among the most concentrated sectors, thanks to the existence of over 600 research institutions and universities and the largest number of foreign R&D centres in China.\nIf you are looking for manufacturing talent, then the Bay Area surrounding Guangzhou and Shenzhen offers a world-class manufacturing hub, which is responsible for the production of most electronics goods worldwide. Home to IT giants like Huawei and Tencent, Shenzhen is becoming a major hub for foreign high-tech companies in China, while also attracting notable domestic ones.\nHangzhou was not regarded as a Tier 1 city until the rise of eCommerce as a major force of employment in recent years. Less than 30 minutes by high-speed train from Shanghai, the city is now home to e-Commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding and many innovation driven start-ups inspired and funded by Alibaba and its ex managers. It is also now developing fast in Fintech.\nHowever, the abundance of talent in Tier 1 cities comes with a high price tag. Shanghai is the most expensive city in China and the cost of a senior manager is now higher than that in the UK. Costs are rising in the capital too but hiring in some districts is less expensive than others and businesses in Beijing now have expanded to beyond the 5th Ring Road and into the neighbouring counties.\nIf your business does not have to be located in one of these cities, you can save at least 20% to 40% of staff costs by operating in Tier 2 cities such as Chengdu, Tianjin, Nanjing and Xi\u2019an. These cities still have large populations and excellent infrastructure. However, they have been slower in opening up to Western businesses due to policy and geographical reasons, so the cost of living is considerably lower than in Tier 1 cities.\nChengdu is known to be one of the best places to live in China. As one of China\u2019s traditional industrial bases, the city is home to more than 45 higher educational institutions. It is becoming one of the best places for MNCs to expand into the West of China. Chengdu has a large pool for manufacturing roles but also software engineering and games, all coming with about 30% or even 50% less cost, with the less skilled meaning the bigger gap in salary.\nCompared to T1 cities, the attrition rate is also lower in T2 cities \u2013typically single digit in Chengdu, for example. On the other hand, it is more difficult to recruit people with good English skills or an international outlook in these cities in general because fewer Western businesses are operating there.\nIf you are a British business, then you can either recruit your talent locally in China through multiple channels available to you or consider finding people when they are studying in the UK, and then hire them in China on local terms. There are more than 100,000 Chinese students studying in the UK at any given time and they are relatively concentrated for recruitment purposes.\nFor roles that require more experience, you can tap into the large Chinese communities in the UK. Chinese professionals are now working in the UK in all fields of technology and some of them are looking to return to China for better career opportunities, so your offer could be well timed for them.\nMy next article will explore what to look out for in your perfect Chinese employees, and what it takes to keep them happy and loyal.\nCrayfish.io offers a recruitment service that matches talented Chinese speaking professionals with Western businesses. If you need help in dealing with your Chinese partners and audiences, Crayfish provides a source of qualified professionals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.campbellsci.eu/water", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:02Z", "digest": "sha1:FQKIRYM5WKCQNRPJK55XWCFFAOMBR54L", "length": 871, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.campbellsci.eu", "title": "Water: Measurement and control systems for water applications", "raw_content": "Water Measurement and control systems for water applications\nLearn More Systems for wells, dams, streams, weirs, stormwater systems, and treatment plants\nLearn More Systems for streams, watersheds, wells, caves, treatment plants, and processing plants\nLearn More Systems for measuring water level and depth\nLearn More Systems for monitoring and transmitting relevant water and weather data\nLearn More Systems and water samplers for long-term monitoring of water level, flow, and quality\nAustralia River Water Quality\nThe Water Quality Investigations team within the (Queensland, Australia) Department of Environment and Science (DES)......read more\nIn February of 2015, Campbell Scientific was awarded a bid to supply the Harris County......read more\nIn April of 2015, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) contracted with Montrose Air Quality Services (MAQS)......read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadianrealestatemagazine.ca/top-neighbourhoods/mayfield-pe-9645.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DSNKZGWXWCE2ZNYPASIFSENEONCQFSW3", "length": 1354, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.canadianrealestatemagazine.ca", "title": "Free Real Estate Market Report for Mayfield Prince Edward Island", "raw_content": "Mayfield, PE\nHomeTop NeighbourhoodsMayfield, Prince Edward Island\nMayfield Home Price\nCanada\u2019s national median home listing price this month is $290,900, which means that Mayfield is in the bottom 40% for Canada.\nWhile the median for Prince Edward Island is $179,600 , which means that Mayfield\u2019s median price is $179,450 below average than the rest of the province.\nIf you\u2019re looking for a large choice of properties on sale when you\u2019re adding to your real estate investment portfolio, then Mayfield has more than the average number to choose from compared to the rest of the province\nWhen we look at the data we have, it can help with trying to establish whether or not Mayfield is a good investment target.\nOver the last three months in Mayfield, housing stock available seems to be getting more prevalent \u2013 this could mean that homes values might be less affected by availability problems.\nThere are a number of important pieces of research you should do before deciding where to buy an investment property \u2013 this data for Mayfield will hopefully provide an indicator to help you where to research in-depth\nIt\u2019s always hard to tell what property prices will do over the coming months, but over the last three months the properties available for purchase in Mayfield have stayed pretty much the same which would tend to indicate that demand is steady.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 7007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.caniretireyet.com/darrowkirkpatrick/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:16Z", "digest": "sha1:QNA2NSVEASPHF3OUAJY7VEJ7K7M4PAVU", "length": 1863, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.caniretireyet.com", "title": "Darrow Kirkpatrick - Can I Retire Yet?", "raw_content": "I grew up in a Navy family where I learned integrity, economy, and the value of work. I\u2019m an Eagle Scout, and graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Virginia. Soon after college I discovered personal computers, and got in on the ground floor of that revolution.\nI started my own software company, which I eventually sold to Haestad Methods \u2014 a pioneer in numerical modeling for PC\u2019s. Haestad Methods eventually sold to Bentley Systems \u2014 a global leader in architecture and engineering software. I retired from Bentley in the Spring of 2011 after 29 years of programming, designing, and managing computer software.\nI began serious saving and investing in my mid-30\u2019s, and retired at age 50. I\u2019m not a dot-com millionaire. And I didn\u2019t become financially independent by flipping real estate or trading hot stocks. I did it the traditional way: hard work, frugality, prudent investing, and patience.\nI\u2019m an engineer, not a salesperson or a financial advisor. When it comes to personal finance, my top priorities are simplicity, reliability, and safety. Now my mission is to help others become financially independent, as I did, through my writing about personal finance.\nI\u2019m still in love with my wife of 30+ years, and I have a wonderful son who is an amazing engineer and artist!\nHere is more of my story, and how it relates to personal finance: How I Retired Early.\nAnd some frequently asked questions about: My Finances.\nAnd, some of my other writing: Darrow Kirkpatrick Blog.\nHere is what I value, in life, and at CanIRetireYet.com:\nTelling the truth, kindly\nGiving more than getting\nLiving simply, using less\nExperimenting, iterating\nBeing present, cultivating equanimity\nLetting go, accepting change\nThese are aspirations. Like most humans, I\u2019m less than perfect.\nIf I get off track, forgive me. And, even better, help me improve!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canticledistributing.com/plead-my-cause-o-lord-revised-version.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XP5SEWAA2FC7XTCJU3EDJGLWQTYRGDNA", "length": 1092, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.canticledistributing.com", "title": "Plead My Cause, O Lord (Revised Version)", "raw_content": "Plead My Cause, O Lord (Revised Version)\nComposer: McCullough, James\n8084 Plead My Cause, O Lord (Revised Version)\nfile_8084-E Plead My Cause, O Lord (Revised Version) (Downloadable)\n\"Plead My Cause, O Lord was composed for my brother, Robert Louis McCullough, in 1971. It received its first performance by the Old South Church Choir, Copley Square, in Boston, during the Sunday Morning Service of March 7, 1972. Mr. Alfred Nash Patterson was the conductor, and the composer was the tenor soloist. Many other performances followed. A memorable one was given by The Marsh Chapel Choir of Boston University on Sunday, March 21, 1993. Julian James Wachner was the conductor and Frank Martinez was the tenor soloist. This piece uses the sprechstimme (or sprechgesang) technique appearing within an unaccompanied sacred work. This technique employs speech and singing without any specific pitch intonation. The first example of this technique appears in Pierrot Lunaire, the groundbreaking 1912 composition by Arnold Schoenberg (1874\u20131951).\" -James McCullough\nTenor Solo, SATB Chorus unaccompanied", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 3762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.capemaycountynj.gov/877/Cyanide-FAQs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:36Z", "digest": "sha1:F3VWEZ246SFQP6ZECHUD6LN3NS7UKGMC", "length": 5580, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.capemaycountynj.gov", "title": "Cyanide | Cape May County, NJ - Official Website", "raw_content": "Cyanide is a rapidly acting, potentially deadly chemical that can exist in various forms. Cyanide can be a colorless gas, such as hydrogen cyanide (HCN) or cyanogen chloride (CNCl), or a crystal form such as sodium cyanide (NaCN) or potassium cyanide (KCN). Cyanide gas sometimes is described as having a \"bitter almond\" smell, but it does not always give off an odor, and not everyone can detect this odor. Cyanide is also known by the military designations AN (for hydrogen cyanide) and CK (for cyanogen chloride).\nIs cyanide fatal?\nExposure to a large amount of cyanide by any route may cause respiratory failure, leading to death.\nHow do I protect myself and others from exposure to cyanide?\nFirst, get fresh air by leaving the area where the cyanide was released. Moving to an area with fresh air is a good way to reduce the possibility of death from exposure to cyanide gas. If the cyanide release was outside, move away from the area where the cyanide was released. If the cyanide release was indoors, get out of the building. If leaving the area that was exposed to cyanide is not an option, stay as low to the ground as possible.\nRemove any clothing that has liquid cyanide on it. If possible, seal the clothing in a plastic bag, and then seal that bag inside a second plastic bag. Removing and sealing the clothing in this way will help protect people from any chemicals that might be on their clothes. If clothes were placed in plastic bags, inform either the local or state health department or emergency coordinators upon their arrival. Do not handle the plastic bags.\nRinse the eyes with plain water for 10-15 minutes if they are burning or vision is blurred. Wash any liquid cyanide from the skin thoroughly with soap and water. If cyanide is known to be ingested (swallowed), do not induce vomiting or give fluids to drink. Seek medical attention right away. Dial 911 and explain what has happened.\nHow is exposure to cyanide treated?\nCyanide poisoning is treated with specific antidotes and supportive medical care in a hospital setting. The most important thing is for victims to seek medical treatment as soon as possible.\nWhat are the signs and symptoms of exposure to cyanide?\nPeople exposed to a small amount of cyanide by breathing it, absorbing it through their skin, or eating foods that contain it may have some or all of the following symptoms within minutes: rapid breathing, restlessness, dizziness, weakness, headache, nausea and vomiting, and rapid heart rate.\nExposure to a large amount of cyanide by any route may cause these other health effects as well as: convulsions, low blood pressure, slow heart rate, loss of consciousness, lung injury, respiratory failure leading to death.\nShowing these signs and symptoms does not necessarily mean that a person has been exposed to cyanide.\nWhat are the long term effect of exposure to cyanide?\nSurvivors of serious cyanide poisoning may develop heart and brain damage.\nHow do I determine if I was exposed to cyanide?\nExposure to cyanide will cause the symptoms to be displayed within minutes.\nWhat do I do if I suspect I was exposed to cyanide?\nIf you think you may have been exposed to cyanide, you should remove your clothing, rapidly wash your entire body with soap and water, and get medical care as quickly as possible.\nIs cyanide contagious?\nContact with cyanide-contaminated items could lead to exposure.\nIs there a vaccine or antidote for exposure to cyanide?\nHow does exposure to cyanide occur?\nPeople may be exposed to cyanide by breathing air, drinking water, eating food, or touching soil that contains cyanide. Cyanide enters water, soil, or air as a result of both natural processes and industrial activities. In air, cyanide is present mainly as gaseous hydrogen cyanide. Smoking cigarettes is probably one of the major sources of cyanide exposure for people who do not work in cyanide-related industries.\nWhere is cyanide found?\nCyanide is naturally present in some foods and in certain plants such as cassava. Cyanide is contained in cigarette smoke and the combustion products of synthetic materials, such as plastics. Combustion products are substances given off when things burn. If accidentally ingested (swallowed), chemicals found in acetonitrile-based products that are used to remove artificial nails can produce cyanide.\nHow is cyanide used?\nIn manufacturing, cyanide is used to make paper, textiles, and plastics. It is present in the chemicals used to develop photographs. Cyanide salts are used in metallurgy for electroplating, metal cleaning, and removing gold from its ore. Cyanide gas is used to exterminate pests and vermin in ships and buildings.\nHow does cyanide work?\nPoisoning caused by cyanide depends on the amount of cyanide a person is exposed to, the route of exposure, and the length of time that a person is exposed. For more information, visit this page: How Cyanide Works\nWhat is the likelihood that cyanide could be used?\nCyanide has been used in the past and may be used again.\nWhat other risks are there for exposure to cyanide?\nAre there any historical uses or accidents involving cyanide?\nHydrogen cyanide, under the name Zyklon B, was used as a genocidal agent by the Germans in World War II.\nReports have indicated that during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s, hydrogen cyanide gas may have been used along with other chemical agents against the inhabitants of the Kurdish city of Halabja in northern Iraq.\nHow can people get more information about cyanide?\nPeople can contact the agencies listed on this page: Biological / Chemical Agent Information", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 8196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.capitalfm.com/scotland/radio/news/local/funeral-to-be-held-for-north-sea-kayaker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:31Z", "digest": "sha1:GLTT2JCELIGHZHGLGK7D74OBC3R2VXZG", "length": 695, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.capitalfm.com", "title": "Funeral Held For North Sea Kayaker - Capital Scotland", "raw_content": "Funeral Held For North Sea Kayaker\nThe funeral has taken place for a kayaker found dead after a major search in the North Sea.\nDominic Jackson failed to return to Portsoy in Aberdeenshire last month.\nHis kayak was discovered on the Caithness coast and his body was found in the same area a few days later.\nThe 35 year-old was laid to rest this afternoon, with family and friends gathering at the Fettercairn Parish Church.\nFollowing his death, Dominic's family set up a campaign to encourage kayakers to carry personal locator beacons at sea.\nThey've already raised more than \u00a311,000.\nYou can find out more about their fundraising efforts here: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/domjackson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 179.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.capitalxtra.com/artists/nicki-minaj/lists/the-pink-print-album-preview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RZITTZ6OWZQXOLVVZYK2V7GY37XFPKUT", "length": 4405, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.capitalxtra.com", "title": "10 Reasons To Be Excited About Nicki Minaj's New Album 'The Pinkprint' - Capital XTRA", "raw_content": "10 Reasons To Be Excited About Nicki Minaj's New Album 'The Pinkprint'\nNicki Minaj's long awaited third studio album 'The Pinkprint' is coming soon and there are tons of reasons to be excited about it.\n1. 'The Pinkprint' will be 'The Blue Print' for female rappers.\nIt is no coincidence that Nicki chose an album title that closely resembles Jay Z's iconic 2001 album. \"I think everybody knows how obsessed I am with Jay Z. He's always been my favourite rapper\" Nicki told MTV, assign \"He did such a great job of creating this Blueprint brand for male rappers and I wanted to do that [for] female rappers to be able to pattern themselves with what I\u2019ve done one day\". That sounds huge. Picture: Getty\n2. Beyonc\u00e9 is going to be featured on it.\nNicki hinted earlier in 2014 that The Pinkprint would have no guest features on it. Now the tracklist has been revealed, we obviously know that's not true. There's more reason to be exited than ever, with Beyonc\u00e9, Ariana Grande, Meek Mill, Breezy and more featuring.. Picture: Instagram\n3. We have an incline there will be more famous faces in new videos to come.\nSo far Nicki had Game feature in the video for 'Pills N Potions', even though his vocals aren't on the track and she shocked everyone with some racy dancing with Drake in the 'Anaconda' video. We sense a pattern here\u2026 Will more faces pop up in future videos?\n4. 'The Pinkprint is going to be all about hip-hop.\n\"The tracks on Pink Print are back to my hip-hop roots\" Nicki confirmed earlier this year. \"And I don't think it's something that I'm necessarily trying to do. As soon as I started working on my new album, that's just the songs that I've been writing.\" Nicki's done a good job so far on the album of creating the hip-hop sound she naturally leans to but keeping them radio friendly. No doubt that we will hear some rap-heavy non-single tracks when the album's released. Picture: Instagram\n5. Because it is coming, which is more than we can say about Lil Wayne's 'Tha Carter V'\nIt seems like everyone on Cash Money Records is having album release problems. Tyga's announced he'll be releasing 'The Gold Dynasty' independently, Lil' Wayne's 'Tha Carter V' has been pushed back AGAIN, and he's ranted on Twitter about the label holding him prisoner. Let's be please 'The Pinkprint' is coming at all.\n6. Along with Nicki's new album comes Nicki's new look.\nAnd no one can get enough of it. After being out of the limelight for some time in 2013, Nicki came back looking like a different person when she dropped \"looking\" earlier this year and showed off a new, natural look. \u201cYou can either continue doing costumes or you can just say, \u2018Hey guess what? This will shock them even more\" she told MTV, \"Doing nothing will shock them even more\".\n7. 'The Pinkprint' will be Nicki Minaj's most emotional album yet.\nOne thing is certain about 'The Pink Print' - it is going to have a lot of honesty, emotion and lyrics based on Nicki's real life in it. 'Pills N Potions' is a prime example of that. \"I just kinda feel like while I was working on the album I started realising how much i've changed. How people change\u2026 I just felt like talking about that\" she revealed to Ryan Seacrest back in May.\n8. Drake has sent Nicki two tracks for 'The Pinkprint'\nAlthough Nicki said that she won't have any guest features on the album, she hasn't said that she won't have special guests writing songs for the album. In fact, Nicki confirmed that Drake has sent her two tracks for the album. \"We\u2019re still discussing them and still making some changes, but I don\u2019t have an official Drake song yet. So, I can\u2019t say that Drake will be on my album because I never want to just say stuff until it\u2019s official. You know what I mean?\u201d she said.\n9. One word: ANACONDA.\nIf Nicki's new 'Anaconda' video doesn't get you excited for new songs, and new videos, to drop, give up and go home now! Filled with bundles of energy, wild outfits and an unexpected sample - you know Nicki's going to have to top it with her other singles, we just can't possibly imagine how!\n10. How would Nicki describe 'The Pinkprint?', as \"next level\".\nAll the way back in 2013, before 'Pills N Potions' and before 'Anaconda', Nicki told Power 105 that her new album was going to be \"next level\", claiming; \"It's very different from anything I've done, which I'm surprised about. I'm not feeling like I did this. I feel like this is next level.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales/home/council-services/social-care-health/worried-about-an-adultchild/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3QNNW5HFNCTUBLXJZ4QYPEUV5SQ6L6PM", "length": 1915, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.carmarthenshire.gov.wales", "title": "Worried about an adult/child", "raw_content": "We are committed to ensuring that vulnerable children and adults are protected from abuse and neglect and we will take immediate action where necessary, to keep them safe from harm.\nIf you have concerns about a child you will find further information on what to do and who to contact within the Children and Family Services section of our website.\nSome adults may not always be able to protect and care for themselves. Adults at risk are people aged 18 and over who are unable to protect themselves from harm because of a disability, mental disorder, illness, physical or mental infirmity. Harm can be physical, neglect, financial, sexual, psychological/emotional, discriminatory and can happen anywhere. Harm can be caused by anyone and can include relatives and immediate family, professional staff, paid care workers, volunteers, other service users, neighbours, friends.\nIf you are being abused, or are concerned that someone you know may be at risk of harm you should speak to someone about it. Call Delta Wellbeing on 0300 333 2222 (available 24hrs, 7 days a week). If immediate help is needed dial 999.\nIt is everyone\u2019s responsibility to play a part in the protection of vulnerable people. The Local Authority has a duty to make enquiries into an alleged incident of abuse or neglect. Other professionals may be involved, for example police officers or health services.\nThe enquiries will be handled as sensitively as possible. The adult will be listened to and their wishes considered. If the concerns are serious we will act immediately to make sure that the adult is safe.\nThe Safeguarding Team is available from 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and 9am to 4.30pm on Fridays.\nIf you are a professional, you can telephone us with your concerns but you will also need to complete a POVA form.\nPOVA form (610KB, docx)\nGuidance on completing a POVA form (130KB, pdf)\nBSL: Protecting vulnerable adults from abuse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 481, "original_length": 11591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carolinafep.com/blog/the-power-of-story-based-estate-planning-part-3.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VASCP24AHIQAN2TXVBUIWL2KJUVDVGB3", "length": 9235, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.carolinafep.com", "title": "The Power of Story-Based Estate Planning, Part 3 | Carolina Family Estate Planning", "raw_content": "Continuing the series from Scott Farnsworth and Sunbridge Legacy Builder Network. Here is Part 2 in Scott\u2019s series about the power of story-based planning. If you missed Parts 1 and 2, you can read them here and here.\n\u201cThe Siren Call of the Questionnaire\u201d\nIn an earlier post I wrote that \u201cvalues-based planning\u201d is founded on the notion that each client has a personal set of values that should be ascertained early in the planning process and then used to fashion a financial plan or estate plan unique to that client. Most enlightened planners today would concur that financial and estate plans based on client values are far superior to the \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d cookie-cutter plans that many of us grew up doing.\nThe question with regard to values-based planning is not whether we should create plans based on client values. The answer to that one is duh-obvious: Yes. The issue is not WHETHER we should do values-based planning, but rather HOW to do it so that it actually works.\nIn other words, how do we respectfully and accurately ascertain each client\u2019s unique and deeply-held values upon which their planning will be based? What methodology will allow us \u2013 and our clients \u2013 to look into their hearts, to see there what truly matters, and to then discern how to create a plan with them based on what we have discovered?\nUnfortunately, the widely-heralded \u201cvalues-based planning revolution\u201d has been in my view a case of one step forward, two steps back. This is largely because in nearly every instance what started out to be \u201cvalues-based planning\u201d quickly morphed into what I call \u201cquestionnaire-based planning.\u201d Indeed, with a few notable exceptions, virtually every so-called \u201cvalues-based\u201d approach is designed to be implemented by means of a cleverly designed, carefully worded questionnaire.\nI think that is a tragic turn of events, and here\u2019s why:\nA. Questionnaires are blunt instruments that deliver cut-and-dried, categorical answers. As a result, they seduce planners into seeing clients as cut and dried and categorical. But that\u2019s not the way we humans are, especially when we drill down to a values level. We are not pegs to be pushed into differently shaped holes, or colored bobbles to be sorted into different boxes. We are each unique. We are full of nuances, contradictions, uncertainties, and places where the lines are blurred. We don\u2019t fit into four or five neat categories, as most questionnaires require.\nSome would argue that being able to offer clients a plan based on which one of several categories they fall into, as determined by their questionnaire responses, is substantially better than the old \u201cone-size-fits-all\u201d method of planning. While it may be an improvement, it is not true values-based planning. Offering clients a choice of cookie cutters is still cookie-cutter planning.\nB. Questionnaires have built-in biases, which are based on the assumptions and prejudices of their creators. Regardless of whether these biases are accidental or intentional, a biased questionnaire skews the results away from the client\u2019s true values. When you start with untrue assumptions, you always end up with incorrect conclusions.\nI have seen long, beautiful, and well-worded questionnaires that were supposed to assess a client\u2019s values and direct the planner to the type of plan the client needed. Oddly, it seemed that nearly everyone using that questionnaire was steered toward essentially the same plan, one that favored the aims and products promoted by the questionnaire designer. It seems to me that when everyone gets the same answer, maybe the questionnaire is asking the wrong questions.\nC. Questionnaires can be \u201cgamed\u201d by clever clients. The process of answering questions in a questionnaire invites clients to consider not just their answers, but the impact of their answers on the planner and the planning process. \u201cWill this answer raise or lower the fee?\u201d \u201cWill this answer make me seem more wealthy or less wealthy?\u201d \u201cWill this answer cast me in a negative light?\u201d \u201cWill I appear miserly, judgmental, prejudiced, immature, or short-sighted if I answer that way?\u201d \u201cWill I be exposing my weaknesses, and will that allow her to take advantage of me in some way?\u201d\nHuman nature being what it is, the odds are high that clients\u2019 responses will be less than candid and unguarded. Consequently, there is a high probability that questionnaire answers will be scrubbed, distorted, shaded, or flat-out wrong. This makes the results of a questionnaire unreliable as a basis for serious values-based planning.\nD. Questionnaires lead to dull, inattentive planners. Questionnaire-based planning doesn\u2019t require planners to listen deeply and attentively to clients, to ask insightful questions, or to employ judgment and wisdom to discern how to weave the client\u2019s life-lessons into the plan. The \u201ccorrect answers\u201d or the client\u2019s \u201ccategories\u201d just \u201cmagically\u201d pop out from the responses. Yeah, right.\nTrue values discovery requires careful and attentive listening. Each client and the stories they tell are alive with insight and meaning. They are full of clues and pieces of answers. Real people living real lives are like that. The right answers don\u2019t just pop out; they have to be teased out and then pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. But when you make a commitment to discover for yourself \u2013 and for the client \u2013 a clear and complete understanding of what\u2019s really in their heart, their deepest purposes for planning, you discover that the results are unquestionably worth the effort.\nE. Questionnaires don\u2019t lead to values-based planning. Questionnaire-based planning is neat, clean, analytical, and easy, but it is incapable of drilling all the way down to the values-bearing strata deep inside the client. No matter how cleverly worded, a questionnaire can never respectfully and accurately ascertain each client\u2019s uniquely personal values. The results are too shallow and mechanical. The intention may be right but the methodology is wrong. Thus, whenever planning becomes questionnaire-based, it ceases to be truly values-based. I call it \u201cfaux values-based planning.\u201d\nPlease understand that I believe there is an appropriate role for questionnaires in the financial planning and estate planning process, which is to help gather data. I have no problem using questionnaires as fact finders. They just don\u2019t work to discover and discern significant client values.\n\u201cSo what\u2019s the harm,\u201d you may ask, \u201cin doing questionnaire-based planning? It\u2019s definitely a lot better than the old way we used to do it.\u201d\nThe most significant harm is that when financial planners and estate planners \u2013 even smart, sincere, and well-intentioned planners \u2013 think they are doing values-based planning but are only doing faux values-based planning, they stop seeking the real thing. They become enamored with zirconium and fail to find the acres of diamonds just over the next hill. They take the shortcut and never realize they just missed the best part of the journey. As a result, they rob themselves and their clients of the magnificent experience of true values-based planning.\nThe moment earnest planners apply the label \u201cvalues-based planning\u201d to something that is not and once they start to believe they are doing \u201cvalues-based planning,\u201d even though it is really only the \u201cfaux\u201d variety, they lose the sense of urgency to discover the real thing and are unable to see the need to do more. Once they get locked in, it is nearly impossible to unlock them. As a wise person once said in another context, \u201cthe problem is not what they don\u2019t know. It\u2019s what they do know that just ain\u2019t so.\u201d\nValues on the cheap vs. paying the price\nWhile questionnaire-based planning may appear neat, clean, analytical, and easy, it is really only values-based planning on the cheap. The real process of values discovery \u2013 like virtually every other authentically meaningful human endeavor such as nurturing a fulfilling marriage, raising independent children, growing a beautiful garden, or building a success business \u2013 can be disorderly, messy, intuitive, and sometimes challenging. It requires real work. It requires that we pay the price to come to know, really know, our clients. It cannot be achieved with clever techniques.\nTo move into the beautiful new world of true values-based planning, the solution is not to try to come up with a more artful questionnaire. The solution is to recognize that their stories \u2014 the oldest and most natural form of human communication \u2013 are rich and ripe with the unvarnished truth about our clients\u2019 values. We just need to ask the right questions and then listen, really listen.\nI have found that the best way to genuinely understand our clients and their values is to ask them thoughtful and insightful story-leading questions in an appropriate setting and then settle back and listen to their answers with all the love and attention and encouragement we can muster. I have learned that who they are and what they deeply value are woven into the stories they tell and can be discovered by a caring advisor. That is the essence of what I call \u201cStory-based Planning in a Thinking Environment.\u201d\nHow to do that gracefully, effectively, and affordably is the subject of my next post.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 12388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.casanova-immobilienmallorca.com/en/result/expose-2302057", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:42Z", "digest": "sha1:RSO2AI2GXPXZQ4SGGQJK7K4L5RFYIC47", "length": 1894, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.casanova-immobilienmallorca.com", "title": "Charming chalet near the beach in exclusive residential area", "raw_content": "Charming chalet near the beach in exclusive residential area\nReal Estate Mallorca : In a quiet villa area of Santa Ponsa this Mediterranean chalet with lots of charm is located.\nThe mediterranean chalet, on one level, with lots of charm offers on a plot of about 952 m2, a living space of aprox. 200 m2. There is the possibility to build a second floor with sea views. The living/dining room with its fireplace got a winter garden. The separate, fully equipped kitchen has a dining area. There are 3 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, 2 of the bathrooms are en suite. In the cellar there is another aprox. 25 m2 guest studio. Furthermore, there are : gas central heating, air conditioning h/c, ADSL, satellite TV, built-in wardrobes, intercom with video surveillance, double glazed windows, utility room, storeroom, BBQ, pool and a beautiful garden with palm trees, olive and fig trees with its automatic irrigation and parking space for 2 cars.\nThe property is located in an exclusive villa district of Santa Ponsa. The yacht club is a 5-minute walk away. The beach is also within walking distance. In the immediate vicinity are supermarkets, pharmacies, a medical center with emergency services, schools, shops and restaurants. There are 3 golf courses nearby. Palma de Mallorca is a only 20-minute drive away. To the international airport of Mallorca it needs only about 25 minutes by car.\nThis villa is presented by Casa Nova Properties, your real estate broker Mallorca, in Santa Ponsa. No brokerage commission for the buyer.\nGas-fired central heating, air-conditioning h/c, double-glazing windows of PVC, wintergarden, tiled flooring, fireplace, storage room, utility room, unfurnished, fitted kitchen with electrical appliances\nMediterranean style, southwest-facing, view of garden and pool\nADSL, telephone extension, satellite TV, video intercom, Energy performance certificate will be requested", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.catskillmountainkeeper.org/9_5_08_dec_press_release_dec_finalizes_catskill_park_state_land_master_plan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:04Z", "digest": "sha1:3N4KTNZLAYOFFYLS5TGEXNWJ5PISYWIH", "length": 7573, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.catskillmountainkeeper.org", "title": "9/5/08 DEC Press Release \"DEC Finalizes Catskill Park State Land Master Plan\" - Catskill Mountainkeeper", "raw_content": "9/5/08 DEC Press Release \"DEC Finalizes Catskill Park State Land Master Plan\"\nFor more information contact: Maureen Wren, 518-402-8000\nDEC Finalizes Catskill Park State Land Master Plan\nBalances Recreation and Wilderness Protection on State Lands\nALBANY, NY (09/04/2008; 1210)(readMedia)-- The plan guiding the future management of the state's 292,000 acres in the Catskill Forest Preserve has been finalized, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis announced today. The update to the Catskill Park State Land Master Plan has been the subject of extensive public comments and reviews and the new version strikes an appropriate balance of protecting the wilderness and expanding recreational enjoyment. Among other changes, the plan adds a \"Primitive Bicycle Corridor\" for recreation and includes invasive species management to address emerging threats to resources.\n\"This finalized Master Plan incorporates the significant public input we received throughout the development process and will assist DEC in managing the Catskill Forest Preserve to balance public needs with the protection of our precious resources,\" Commissioner Grannis said. \"We will also continue to work with our partners like the Catskill municipalities and New York City to foster new opportunities for recreation and connecting New Yorkers to nature in this unique region, while ensuring that the resources are protected for this and future generations.\"\nThe Catskill Forest Preserve is part of the Catskill Park, which consists of 705,500 acres of public and private lands. Since its creation in 1885, the Forest Preserve has grown from 34,000 acres to nearly 300,000 acres of public land within Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster counties. Forest Preserve lands are protected under Article 14 of the state constitution as \"forever wild\" and cannot be logged, leased or sold, and must be managed to protect wilderness values. The state pays property taxes on DEC land.\nThe original Catskill Park State Land Master Plan was developed in 1985 and classifies state forest preserve lands within the Park based on their physical character and capacity to accommodate human use. This resulted in four land classifications: wilderness, wild forest, intensive use and administrative. The Plan also designates management units and directs DEC to develop individual unit management plans that guide management activities and public use of those units.\nIn 2003, a proposed draft revision of the Catskill Park State Land Master Plan (CPSLMP) was released for public review and comment. In response to the input received, DEC revised the draft and proposed a new version in April 2008 for additional public review and comment. This final plan reflects that input. Revisions recognize existing and future mountain biking opportunities on state lands in the Catskills and commits DEC to preserving bike trail corridors. Specific changes from the original plan include the following\nCreate a new land classification - Primitive Bicycle Corridor - to encompass approximately 156 acres. The Master Plan reclassifies four trail corridors (100 feet wide) through existing or proposed new wilderness areas, mostly in Greene County, that will allow the public to use a bicycle but will otherwise be managed according to wilderness guidelines. These corridors are along old roads and have had historic bicycle use:\na)Indian Head Wilderness: Mink Hollow Road - its entire length through the Indian Head Wilderness (3.2 miles)\nb)Indian Head Wilderness: Overlook Turnpike from the Overlook Mountain Wild Forest boundary to Platte Clove and Prediger Road (4.5 miles)\nc) Hunter-Westkill Wilderness: Diamond Notch Road - its entire length through the Hunter-Westkill Wilderness (3.2 miles)\nd) Blackhead Range Wilderness: Colgate Lake -Dutcher Notch Trail, an old road including Colgate Lake Wild Forest to Stork's Nest (2.4 miles)\nIn Wild Forests, allow for bicycle use on roads open to the public, state truck trails, old wood roads, foot trails, snowmobile trails, and horse trails, unless such use is deemed unsuitable through the Unit Management Planning process.\nIncrease the size of the Colgate Wild Forest from 600 acres to 1,495 acres, utilizing the 2,400-foot contour as the boundary. This will provide increased opportunities for recreation appropriate in Wild Forests, including bicycle use.\nInclude invasive species management, as the original Master Plan did not contain any reference to this emerging threat. DEC and its new Office of Invasive Species will work with the Catskill Region Invasive Species Partnership to help identify and educate the public about invasive species. In addition, DEC may take necessary actions to control exotic invasive species where there is potential for significant degradation to the native ecosystem.\nNew York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Commissioner Emily Lloyd said: \"The Catskill Park lies almost entirely within the New York City watershed. DEC's management of these lands is important to the future of the City's water supply and vital to the region's economy. We are glad to see this revision of the Master Plan come to fruition and we feel it balances long-term conservation and recreational use.\"\nRussell Thorpe, President of the Fats in the Cats Bicycle Club said, \"We are very pleased that this Master Plan is responsive to comments by cyclists to preserve current and future mountain biking opportunities in the Catskill Forest Preserve, promote cycling as a health benefit, and contribute to local economies. Primitive Bicycle Corridors enhance the experience of mountain bicyclists by connecting wild forest areas and maintain the potential for recreational access and development of trail systems throughout the Catskill Forest Preserve. We look forward to working with DEC to identify and develop new mountain biking areas in wild forest areas consistent with the new plan.\"\nNeil Woodworth, Executive Director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, said: \"This is a very balanced plan that expands responsible recreational opportunities while protecting the Catskills, one of New York's greatest and most beloved natural resources. This plan will create new mountain biking opportunities while protecting hiking trails on steep slopes of the Catskill High Peaks and will expand the Catskill wilderness to protect the summit of Hunter Mountain and the Escarpment Range.\"\nEdward K. Goodell, Executive Director of the New York-New Jersey Trail Conference, said: \"By reallocating and strengthening the wilderness and wild forest areas within the Catskill Forest Preserve, this plan manages to simultaneously balance the needs of various users and remain true to the \u2018forever wild' designation in the state constitution.\"\nLisa Rainwater, Executive Director of the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development, said: \"The Catskill Center commends the DEC for developing a thorough and fresh \u2018green' print for the Catskill Park and Forest Preserve. For generations to come, residents and visitors alike will benefit from the plan's many advances, including increased protection of sacred places and the introduction of four Primitive Bicycle Corridors designed to challenge mountain bikers traversing the rugged Catskill Mountain wilderness. The Center also applauds the DEC for its aggressive posture in working toward eradicating many of the invasive species that threaten our native habitat.\"\nThe finalized plan can be found on the Department's web site, http://www.dec.ny.gov/lands/43013.html .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 8802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/aclu-baltimore-police-use-invasive-stingray-surveillance-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6VKGRHPTAT3RRVTXEE2LRGEPK5MIXWTL", "length": 2196, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "ACLU: Baltimore police use \"invasive\" surveillance technology - CBS News", "raw_content": "ACLU: Baltimore police use \"invasive\" surveillance technology\nBALTIMORE - The American Civil Liberties Union is accusing the Baltimore Police Department of using invasive surveillance technology.\nThe ACLU claims the police are violating people's privacy in a way that's intrusive and illegal by tapping into their cell phones using a device called \"Stingray,\" reports CBS Baltimore.\n\"Stingray\" is a small portable device that mimics a cell phone tower, forcing all cell phones within range to connect, allowing access to cell records, text messages and even the precise location.\nThe ACLU says the cell phone surveillance gear violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects people from unreasonable searches by the government.\n\"We think it should not be used by police in Baltimore or anywhere else without a warrant,\" said David Rocah, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU.\nThe ACLU filed a brief, challenging the Baltimore Police Department's use of \"Stingray,\" arguing it is deceptive.\nIn a pending criminal case, Baltimore police used a \"Stingray\" to zero in on a person's home, but did not get a warrant. Instead, they obtained a special court order that required less than probable cause.\nThe ACLU believes it's misconduct and also a violation of people's rights since it also collects innocent people's information without their consent.\nReactions by Marylanders to CBS Baltimore about the police practice were mixed.\n\"I don't have a problem with that, as long as the purpose of collecting is legitimate,\" said Paul Kelly.\n\"Law enforcement isn't full of good people so it's a tough thing to know how to balance that out,\" said Matthew Anderson.\n\"If we weren't already giving up our information, Apple has all of your cell phone tracking data. I trust the police more than I do a corporation. So I'm comfortable with it,\" said July Kelly.\nThe ACLU alleges police have been told not to release basic information about the \"Stingray\" operation.\n\"The question needs to be asked: what exactly are police and the manufacturer trying to hide?\" Rocah said.\nThe ACLU claims that 47 agencies and 19 states are using the device \"Stingray.\"\nThe Baltimore police have declined to comment on this matter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 10085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/video/how-will-saudi-arabias-crown-prince-change-the-middle-east/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:23Z", "digest": "sha1:U2DG2O2KGHY6ZTBZCI2EHET4WPVIOHV4", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "How will Saudi Arabia's crown prince change the Middle East? - CBS News", "raw_content": "Saudi Arabia's new vision", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 176.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cdslifetransitions.org/2015/11/04/finalists-selected-for-2016-athena-awards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4Q6CVKDXF57PTN2P6F3VOPTYNDQQX2PA", "length": 818, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cdslifetransitions.org", "title": "CDS Monarch partners with Genesee Community College - CDS Life Transitions", "raw_content": "CDS Monarch partners with Genesee Community College\nHome \u00bb CDS Monarch partners with Genesee Community College\n\u201cCDS Monarch\u2019s Without Walls, which provides opportunities for drama, music and art therapy, recently partnered with the Genesee Community College human services department.\nThe collaboration will feature memory and problem-solving games created by GCC students and played by individuals from CDS Monarch, which assists individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, veterans and seniors.\u201d\nCDS Monarch partners with Genesee Community College2015-11-042019-02-04https://www.cdslifetransitions.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/cds-logo.pngCDS Life Transitionshttps://www.cdslifetransitions.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/14055155_1038969646218648_915204309979675907_n-e1549645493436.jpg200px200px", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 255.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.centura.org/about-centura", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EGM6MSL3UDNFBH4MT545RYM2F4MF3JEM", "length": 841, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.centura.org", "title": "About Us | Centura Health", "raw_content": "About centura\nThe region\u2019s largest health care network, with one very important mission\nYour health and wellness guide everything we do. We celebrate the value of each person's life as we seek to combine medical expertise with a compassionate touch to holistically care for a person\u2019s body, mind and spirit.\nCentura Health 21,000+ mission-centered professionals share our ministry and are guided by our Mission to extend the healing ministry of Christ by caring for those who are ill and by nurturing the health of the people in our communities.\nBecause we are 17 hospitals, 13 affiliate hospitals, health neighborhoods, health at home, urgent care centers and emergency rooms, mountain clinics, 100+ physician practices and clinics, and Flight For Life\u00ae Colorado, we can meet the wellness needs of more than a half million people each year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chamberlainlaw.com/news-publications-Faulty-Products-Construction-Risk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:58Z", "digest": "sha1:XOCCFJBZSL2FS55N6MG5MPCQOGEYM6XV", "length": 778, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.chamberlainlaw.com", "title": "Assessing Risk From Misrepresented or Faulty Products: Chamberlain Hrdlicka Attorneys at Law", "raw_content": "Assessing Risk From Misrepresented or Faulty Products\nIn an article published October 9, 2018 by Construction Executive, commercial litigator Matthew Olesh provides guidelines for construction firms who may find themselves at risk of using a supplier with faulty or misrepresented products. Recent headlines involving both civil and criminal proceedings in matters involving faulty products and misrepresentations by suppliers of those products have the construction industry rightfully concerned. If a contractor has been supplied product by a company that is now alleged to be a bad actor, it is important to scrutinize what product was supplied, what representations were made about the supplied product and how that product was used. For the full article, please click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asean2018/canada-pm-justin-trudeau-singapore-family-links-fort-canning-10935004", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VJUDGANCU3NGTPXZKJK7UFPNAI5RZUVK", "length": 2957, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.channelnewsasia.com", "title": "Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's family roots in Singapore at Fort Canning Park - Channel NewsAsia", "raw_content": "Canadian PM Justin Trudeau's family roots in Singapore at Fort Canning Park\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a selfie with his great-great-great-great-grandmother Esther Bernard's plaque at Fort Canning Park.\nSINGAPORE: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday (Nov 15) found time for a very personal mission during his visit to Singapore - to pay respects to his great-great-great-great-grandmother, Esther Bernard at Fort Canning.\nMrs Bernard was the daughter of Major-General William Farquhar, the first British Resident and Commandant of Singapore from 1819 to 1823.\nHer plaque can be found along the walls of Canning Green and is one of about 400 tombstones of people who lived in the area during the 19th century, NParks said in a Facebook post.\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at Fort Canning Park, where his great-great-great-great-grandmother Esther Bernard's plaque is displayed.\n\"I actually never take selfies,\" Mr Trudeau quipped to photographers as he pulled out his phone nonetheless and took a short video of himself with the plaque.\n\"I promised my kids.\"\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a stroll at Fort Canning Park.\nMr Trudeau's great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Major-General Farquhar himself had climbed up Fort Canning Hill, soon after the founding of Singapore, and hoisted the Union Jack there.\n\"It was a very touching moment to see the history of my family, to appreciate all the criss-crossing, weaving links that make up each of our stories, and it's a nice moment for me to reflect on the connections and the paths that led to Canada from the founding of Singapore,\" Mr Trudeau said.\nThis is Mr Trudeau\u2019s first visit to Singapore in his current capacity. In addition to taking part in the 33rd ASEAN Summit, he also met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and President Halimah Yacob, as well as several business groups and ASEAN leaders.\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau meets with Singapore President Halimah Yacob at the Istana. (Photo: MFA Singapore)\nTogether with PM Lee, he also witnessed the signing of a two-year memorandum of understanding on cybersecurity cooperation.\nMoving forward, growing our relationship. Thank you Prime Minister @LeeHsienLoong of for your invitation and hospitality this week. \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddec pic.twitter.com/76b9mnou4r\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Trudeau attended a special dialogue session with about 400 National University of Singapore (NUS) students, with discussion centered around the theme of building connections.\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fields questions during the Q&A section of a special dialogue at the National University of Singapore. (Photo: Koh Mui Fong/TODAY)\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a wefie with National University of Singapore students. (Photo: Koh Mui Fong/TODAY)\nHe also visited the Adam Road hawker centre early Friday morning.\nMr Trudeau is due to leave Singapore on Friday.\nSource: CNA/ek(dt)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 6444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charityintelligence.ca/34-cinewsandviews/215-crc-fort-mcmurray-6-month-update", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:16Z", "digest": "sha1:7T72UCKEIDXG4PV4WNSFL2GRHVQCLP45", "length": 3567, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.charityintelligence.ca", "title": "CRC Fort McMurray 6 month update - Charity Intelligence Canada", "raw_content": "CRC Fort McMurray 6 month update\nCanadian Red Cross today released its 6 month donor report on Fort McMurray recovery efforts. Here's a quick run through of new developments in the 3 months from August-October 2016:\n$20 million in donations from Canadians came in, bringing the total raised to $319 million.\nNearly 60% spent in 6 months: To date, Canadian Red Cross has spent an estimated $189 million. Canadian Red Cross reports spending $178 million before fundraising costs and allocations for future disaster response. These figures are not provided but the maximum would be $14 million based on Canadian Red Cross statements. Including the maximum would see total spending at 59% of total funding - leaving $130 million in funding for Fort McMurray's relief and recovery efforts.\n$130 million left to spend. Canadian Red Cross has fully committed these remaining funds: $50 million for Canadian Red Cross programs supporting families and individuals, $43 million to local charities and community groups, $24 million to small businesses, and $12 million to Canadian Red Cross disaster preparedness. Of note, Canadian Red Cross reports add to the fine print that future committed funds will be re-assessed as needs emerge and the commitments made may be adjusted accordingly.\nIn the 3-month period August-October 2016, total Canadian Red Cross program spending was $21 million. This breaks down as follows:\nCanadian Red Cross programs $16 million:\ncontinuing to do one-to-one assessments to best meet individual needs. Canadian Red Cross has completed 13,310 client assessments.\n9,000 families have received money to pay for temporary housing, rent, mortgage and utility payments.\nto better address wait-times, Canadian Red Cross has opened a second assessment centre in Fort McMurray.\nCanadian Red Cross staff and volunteers provided 71,561 hours of relief and recovery assistance.\nCanadian Red Cross increased its commitment to support individuals and families with the $20 million in new donations coming in during the 3 months. This will likely be through support in rebuilding homes. This work will be through Canadian Red Cross's \u201ccollaboration with experts in the area of clean-up, repair and rehabilitation of homes\u201d. The likely experts are Mennonite Disaster Services, Samaritan's Purse and Habitat for Humanity Wood Buffalo. No specific dollar amount has been committed to this area. The Fort McMurray fire destroyed 2,400 homes.\nLocal charities and community groups: $1.5 million to 21 local organizations during this recovery period (average grant size $71,000) including reimbursing charities that provided emergency housing during the disaster evacuation period.\nIncluded in this funding category is an undisclosed amount to Alberta Teachers Association to help teachers restock classroom materials that were damaged in the fire. This provided classroom supplies to 7,100 students.\nTo date, Canadian Red Cross has granted $7 million of its $50 million commitment made in June 2016 \u2013 14%.\nSmall businesses: $1.5 million Canadian Red Cross provided 3,296 small businesses with emergency financial aid. Total small business support to date is $3.4 million out of a promised $27.4 million \u2013 12% of the commitment.\n$1.3 million (estimated) in Canadian Red Cross fundraising costs and future preparedness. This figure is based CRC's statement that fundraising costs not exceed 5% of donations, and future preparedness is 1.5% of total revenues. Actual allocations have not yet been disclosed.\nDetailed financial breakdown of funding and spending\nKate Bahen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 237.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlottehungerford.org/2014/09/29/charlotte-hungerford-hospital-sponsors-bone-marrow-registry-drive/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FQWQNZYT7OQVIRRD4EKYJNWDLCMAFZ3Q", "length": 2167, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.charlottehungerford.org", "title": "Charlotte Hungerford Hospital Sponsors Bone Marrow Registry Drive - Charlotte Hungerford Hospital", "raw_content": "Charlotte Hungerford Hospital Sponsors Bone Marrow Registry Drive\n(Torrington) The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital will host a marrow donor registration drive on Wednesday, October 22nd from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Hospital\u2019s ground floor cafeteria small dining room to add new potential donors to the \u201dBe the Match\u201d Registry.\nRegistration is simple, requiring only paperwork and a cheek swab. No blood is taken at registration. You must be between the ages of 18 and 60, in good general health and willing to donate to any person you may match to join the registry. There is no out of pocket cost to join the Registry.\nCertain medical conditions will make you ineligible to join the registry. Every day thousands of patients who need a life-saving marrow or blood stem cell transplant are searching for a matching donor. There are more than 15 million donors worldwide who stand ready to give someone a future, yet even with a registry of millions, there are patients waiting and hoping, unable to find a match.\nFor information about the Bone Marrow registry process and eligibility, contact Jennifer St. Peter at 401-714-6240 or [email protected]. You may also visit www.BeTheMatch.org. For more information on Charlotte\u2019s Drive, call Community Relations and Development at 860-496-6725.\nA marrow or blood stem cell transplant is a way to treat and possibly cure people with leukemia, lymphoma and other deadly diseases. Patients in need of a marrow or blood stem cell transplant are most likely to match someone of their own race and ethnicity. Donation, if you match, is typically done through an automated blood donation (75% of the time) or a minor surgical procedure done under anesthesia (25%).\nBe The Match Registry is operated by the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). Be The Match facilitates unrelated marrow and blood stem cell transplants as a single point of access for a long-standing collaborative network of national and international leading medical facilities in marrow and cord blood transplantation. 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By placing only the eyes in focus and letting the rest of the body fall out of focus, the viewer's eyes are drawn to the subject's eyes. By placing the head in focus but in deep shadow and leaving the rest of the body out of focus, the viewer has no obvious point on which to focus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 1735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2004-06-11-0406110033-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:07Z", "digest": "sha1:OAXH5MMQSQ7A3QA7IBXE3KJDMU66ZTFF", "length": 965, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "FOSTER, FRANK O. - Chicago Tribune", "raw_content": "FOSTER, FRANK O.\nFrank O. Foster, 83, of Brookfield, IL, died June 4, 2004. A distinguished World War II U.S. Marine Corps veteran. Frank was respected and admired by all who knew him. Always amiable and energetic, Frank was a best friend to his relations and considered family by all of his many friends. He was the good neighbor upon which you depended and the embodiment of the Golden Rule. Wherever and whenever help was needed, Frank was there. He lives on in memory as the loving and devoted husband of Marcella; beloved father of Charmayne, Robert, Dawn, Mary, Jeannette, Gary, Sandra, Mark, Kim, Renee and the late Cindy; cherished grandfather of 20; proud great-grandfather of eight; Frank is survived by his brother, Donald; and his brother-in-law Raymond Waligora. Funeral services were held Monday, June 7 at St. Barbara's Church. Mass offerings or memorials may be sent to St. Barbara's Office of Pastoral Care, 4008 Prairie Ave., Brookfield, IL 60513.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-missing-kayaker-sebastian-duncan-north-shore-20180903-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:01Z", "digest": "sha1:O2N2UPG6AVB7L4WFPGLPANMWWJXBCZSR", "length": 4698, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.chicagotribune.com", "title": "'God will get us through': Family of missing kayaker continues search, still hopes for recovery - Chicago Tribune", "raw_content": "'God will get us through': Family of missing kayaker continues search, still hopes for recovery\nMissing kayaker Sebastian Duncan in an undated photo.\nMissing kayaker Sebastian Duncan in an undated photo. (Family photo)\nSusan BergerChicago Tribune\nAt the close of a meeting to plan the search for missing kayaker Sebastian Duncan, the assembled police officers, Coast Guard members, firefighters and divers clasped hands and said a prayer for the young Glenview man.\n\u201cI will never forget looking at the tears in the eyes of the firemen trying to locate our son,\u201d Duncan\u2019s father, Tony Duncan, told the Tribune on Monday, a week since his son was last seen. \u201cThe truth is, we are being held up with strong community support \u2014 amazing family and friends. It\u2019s the ICU we needed emotionally.\u201d\nSebastian Duncan and a friend had headed out onto the lake from Highland Park on the evening of Aug. 27, apparently against the advice of some onlookers, but their kayaks capsized in bad weather. The friend was able to swim to shore, but Duncan, 20, has not turned up despite a search by divers, Civil Air Patrol volunteers, the Coast Guard and others.\nThe air search was suspended Saturday amid bad weather. But the family of the 2016 New Trier High School graduate was not ready to stop looking, even if a hoped-for rescue has become a recovery mission. On Monday, Duncan\u2019s family, having heard the winds on Lake Michigan were blowing northerly, headed to Kenosha, Wis., to continue the search themselves.\nMore coverage: Weather causes officials to suspend air search for missing Glenview kayaker \u00bb\nTony and his wife, Shai Duncan, also want to spread the word that their son remains missing and are asking the public to keep watch. Sebastian\u2019s yellow kayak has not been found, they said. He was wearing black shorts. His mother noted that what might appear as a buoy or animal in the water could be her son.\n\u201cThe authorities are saying they can\u2019t find my son and can\u2019t find his kayak. And for that reason, we really need eyes on the lake,\u201d Tony Duncan said.\nThe couple said they\u2019ve received an outpouring of support from loved ones and strangers alike, like a woman who showed up with pizza and water for the search teams.\nTony Duncan said that when Sebastian left home last week, he hugged his parents and said he loved them. But such gestures, both his parents said, were typical.\n\u201cHe was happy, looking forward to deep lake fishing,\u201d Shai Duncan said. \u201cWe assumed he would be coming back with fish. He was cracking jokes and said, \u2018Love you, Mom and Dad.\u2019 He was a passionate, cuddly kid.\u201d\nAuthorities and the Duncans shared similar accounts of what happened, based on what they were told by Sebastian\u2019s friend: The two realized they had gone too far; the waves had changed, and the storm came in and pushed them out. They were not wearing life jackets.\nSebastian\u2019s friend\u2019s kayak capsized first; Sebastian rowed over to him so his friend could hang onto his boat, but it soon turned over, too, and the two were eventually left grasping one oar. At some point, Sebastian was gone.\n\u201cBecause of the actions of my son, his friend has a second chance in life,\u201d Tony Duncan said.\nHis parents describe their son as introverted with a \u201cgreat, warm personality.\u201d He was serious about his role as a mentor to his 13-year-old brother, the youngest of his three siblings, and he was an avid athlete, playing several sports.\n\u201cHis high school years were not about hanging with friends,\u201d Tony Duncan said. \u201cIt was about hanging with his brother, climbing trees and practicing basketball.\u201d\nThere were typical teenage things, too, like getting a speeding violation. But Sebastian Duncan was not one to follow the crowd just to be perceived as cool. His father recalled one of his son\u2019s teachers at Highcrest Middle School in Wilmette saying she\u2019d never had a student more concerned with doing the right thing and helping others.\nSebastian had attended Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago and recently started working full-time at Body Science PFT in Wilmette, his parents\u2019 personal training business.\n\u201cIt is my greatest joy when my son became a full-time trainer at my gym,\u201d Tony Duncan said. He said Sebastian had an affinity for working with teens who were not confident about fitness. \u201cWe had feedback that he encouraged and promoted them. That was his strength.\u201d\nTony Duncan said he lost two brothers at young ages, one in a car accident and one in a random shooting. 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Learning French, Japanese or Chinese will provide students with many opportunities.\nLOTE Bonus\nStudents who study a language in Senior School are entitled to the ATAR bonus for Languages. 10% of a student\u2019s final scaled score in a Curriculum Council approved language course will be added to that student\u2019s Tertiary Entrance Aggregate (TEA). A selection rank (ATAR) will be calculated based on the improved TEA. (The TEA is the sum of a student\u2019s best four scaled scores in WACE courses.) This rank is used for entry to universities.\nIn today\u2019s global economy, knowing another language really gives you a competitive advantage when applying for a job. No matter what type of career you pursue, you will be more attractive to an employer if you have another language. Those who have the ability to speak and use more than one language are more likely to be able to find a job which opens up travel opportunities and chances to exchange with others. There might be other employment chances you have not even considered. The possibilities are out there for you when you have additional language skills.\nWhen you learn another language, you develop an insight into that language\u2019s culture and get to see your own from a new perspective. At Churchlands SHS, we offer exchange programs which have been designed and developed to greatly increase the educational outcomes for students of Languages.\nCultural immersion has been proven as a superior method of developing language skills and Churchlands SHS students have the opportunity to visit Japan, China or France. By experiencing the country first-hand, students will gain a multitude of invaluable skills in simple, everyday language as well as complex, conversational skills. By staying in the homes of families and attending school, students will be exposed to a plethora of language use and will develop their skills and broaden their cultural understanding. Nuances and etiquette within the language will be learnt and developed by students through these experiences and will increase their educational outcomes and academic success in their studies.\nStudents are also offered the opportunity to host Chinese, French or Japanese students when they visit Australia. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to further develop their language skills and cultural understanding. 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At CK, we can provide pre-year end tax planning advice for your company in the Dudley area.\nTax saving opportunities for companies can only be achieved if an appropriate course of action is planned in advance. It is therefore vital that professional advice is sought at an early stage. If your company is in the Dudley area we would welcome the chance to tailor a plan to your specific circumstances. Please do not hesitate to contact us at CK.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 8606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.claireanneowens.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NV4LN76C4RTNSUAKKGMK2TE7MXCIGBA4", "length": 138, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.claireanneowens.com", "title": "Contact \u2014 Claire Anne Owens", "raw_content": "I\u2019d love to hear from you! 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Companies came to see many different types of risks to their business in relation to climate change. They faced risks of incurring 9 See costs from later regulation if they didn't plan for them now risks to their reputation (and thus to potential markets if they were seen as unresponsive to societal...\nFrom hierarchies to networks\nFri, 20 Apr 2018\t| Emissions Trading\nA fourth shift stimulated by the events of the 1970s is in the way that organisations operate. If globalisation has changed the nature of international inequalities, it is also frequently described through changing forms of organisations. Business, governments, NGOs and others have all undergone shifts in the ways they work, both on their own and with others, both as cause and consequence of globalisation. These changes can be characterised as shifts from clear bureaucratic hierarchies,...\nThe limits of climate capitalism\nTue, 01 Aug 2017\t| Emissions Trading\nOne of the questions we raised in the introduction to this book is whether the carbon economy is, frankly, a bit of a scam. That essentially it is more about making money than tackling climate change. If that remains your suspicion having read this far, rest assured you are in good company. Many critics will tell you the whole gamut of carbon trading, offsets and projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is based on dodgy accounting, unverifiable assumptions and merely provides new...\nMobilising the power of investors\nWed, 26 Jul 2017\t| Emissions Trading\nThe scene is the launch of the 2007 report produced by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), in Amsterdam, December 2007. It is a measure of how much attention is now on climate change that this event is going on, and fills a lecture hall with 200 people, at the same time as the UN climate negotiations in Bali. The launch is in the plush headquarters of Dutch bank ABN-AMRO, known outside the Netherlands principally as long-time sponsors of Ajax Amsterdam football club, but one of Europe's...\nClimate for business from threat to opportunity\nWed, 07 Jun 2017\t| Emissions Trading\nIt may seem hard to believe today, but there was once a time that business denied there was such a thing as climate change. Vast amounts of money and effort went into discrediting the scientific basis on which the case for action was made. Business lobby organisations were set up and funded by those companies that felt threatened by action on climate change. Aggressive lobbying which aimed to derail national and international responses to the issue was commonplace on Capitol Hill in Washington...\nEnergy Use And Economic Growth\nSat, 11 Mar 2017\t| Emissions Trading\nWhile the scientific understanding of climate change was developing, the expansion of energy use proceeded apace. The series of inventions from the steam engine onwards - the railways, mechanised industrial and agricultural production, the internal combustion engine, fossil fuel electricity production, through to the jet engine - continued to require and enable a constant expansion in the use of coal, oil and gas. Overall consumption of fossil fuels grew tenfold, from to 200 x 1018 joules6...\nSun, 11 Sep 2016\t| Emissions Trading\nOther writers have told modern history through the life of a particular commodity whether it be sugar, coffee or, more immediately relevant for our purposes, coal and oil.1 By the same token, the rise of 1 S. Mintz, Sweetness and Power The Place of Sugar in Modern History (London Penguin, 1986) A. Wild, Black Gold A Dark History of Coffee (London Harper Perennial, 2005) B. Freese, Coal A Human History (London Arrow Books, 2003). contemporary forms of capitalism is closely connected to the...\nNetworks For Climate Change\nTue, 07 Jun 2016\t| Emissions Trading\nAs in neoliberalism more generally, organisation around climate change has taken the form of collaborative partnerships, involving networks of all sorts of actors. This can be seen in various projects, from the approach made by Greenpeace's Jeremy Leggett to insurers in the early 1990s, trying to persuade them that climate change was a threat to their interests, to the UNEP Finance Initiative, through to the CDP project. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the central elements of the...\nTue, 03 May 2016\t| Emissions Trading\nOne approach was to challenge the science behind climate change. Scientists such as Fred Singer, Robert Balling and Patrick Michaels were (and are) only too happy to receive funds from fossil fuel lobbies for their work, which raised questions about human contributions to climate change and the very existence of the problem itself.4 Industry bodies such as the American Enterprise Institute, as recently as 2007, were offering individual scientists sums of 10,000 each to discredit the prevailing...\nA wide range of buyers have entered the CDM market. Most of these are banks and speculators that do not need CERs to comply with their obligations to regulators, but instead seek to trade them on the secondary market. One estimate is that in at least one-third of all the project-based transactions concluded between January 2005 and April 2006, the buyer had the intention of selling some of the resulting CERs on the secondary market.9 There was a 5.8-fold increase in one year from 2004...\nBuying our way out of trouble\nMost people in wealthier parts of the world have come across invitations to calculate their carbon footprint, offset their carbon emissions or go on a 'low-carbon diet'. Many large firms now do the same in order to market themselves as 'carbon neutral', often as part of broader climate change Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies as we saw in Chapter 3. Offsets are now routinely sold to firms and individuals, in particular to offset emissions from air travel. Consumers are sold...\nChanging Perceptions Of Costs\nGoverning the carbon economy\nHistories of climate histories of capitalism\nNeoliberalism And Climate Politics\nSearching for flexibility creating a market\nTowards Consensus On Climate Change\nYou cant buck the market", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 9245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cloverdalereporter.com/business/cloverdale-bia-asks-businesses-what-they-want/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6G2SYX5ZDRXQE4JLH32DOASZDC2ZY2X", "length": 1877, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cloverdalereporter.com", "title": "Cloverdale BIA asks businesses what they want \u2013 Cloverdale Reporter", "raw_content": "Cloverdale BIA asks businesses what they want\nMembers of the 300-plus strong Cloverdale Business Improvement Association are asked to fill out an online survey on key priorities.\nMembers of the Cloverdale Business Improvement Association are being asked to help determine what the organization\u2019s priorities should be for the next five years.\nThe Cloverdale BIA represents more than 300 businesses and property owners in the historic town centre, providing a collective way to promote and improve the business district, and is funded through a levy collected by the City of Surrey.\nCreated in 1995, the BIA\u2019s mandate is renewed every five years. The current term expires in March 2015.\nExecutive director Paul Orazietti said business owners and property owners have a voice in determining the focus of the BIA\u2019s efforts and operating budget.\nThis week, members are being asked to complete a short, online questionnaire that will help shape the direction of the BIA over the next five years.\nRespondents are asked to rank various projects \u2013 from gateway signage and anti-graffiti programs to public art projects, safety audits and more \u2013 in four key areas according to priority: economic development, street enhancement, safety and security, and marketing and special events.\nThe questionnaire is a step in the process that will help develop a renewal proposal and budget.\nOver the past five years, BIA initiatives have included safety and security projects, graffiti removal, and special events, including the Cloverdale Blueberry Festival, the Cloverdale Rodeo parade, and the Santa Parade.\nMore recently, the BIA has initiated what Orazietti describes as \u201cAggressive economic development initiatives to attract investment, development and new businesses to the area.\u201d\nThe Survey is at www.surveymonkey.com/s/8PLSP2M.\nCar Review: Toyota\u2019s popular Camry undergoes a major update", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 7512, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/sap-hybris-president-carsten-thoma-says-auf-wiedersehen/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:49Z", "digest": "sha1:CSKJZP4GPOKG32ASWVDQI3JG4O6ZQBUN", "length": 3241, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.cmswire.com", "title": "SAP Hybris President Carsten Thoma Says Auf Wiedersehen", "raw_content": "SAP Hybris President Carsten Thoma Says Auf Wiedersehen\nBy Virginia Backaitis | Oct 31, 2017\nCarsten Thoma, SAP Hybris co-founder and president, is stepping down from the company after a near 20-year tenure\nWhat would SAP Hybris be like without Carsten Thoma, the executive who has led the customer engagement and commerce (CEC) platform maker for the last 20 years?\nIt's not a hypothetical question. Thoma, who co-founded the company with some of his college buddies when he was in his early 20s, told CMSWire he will be leaving by the end of the year.\n\"It is the right time (to go),\" he said during an exclusive interview late last week. Thoma noted he is leaving behind a strong CEC portfolio \u2014 Hybris Commerce Suite, Cloud for Customer, Hybris Marketing, YaaS (Hybris as a Service) and (coming soon) Gigya \u2014 and a world-class team that is committed to making customer's lives easier.\n\"The company is in in a great position, we have a strong foundation, a pipeline full of innovation, and great traction,\" he said, and then added, \"I would not be leaving if that were not the case.\"\nA Long and Amazing Run\n\"It has been a long and amazing run,\" said Thoma, acknowledging that it has also, at times, been a \"very rocky road.\"\nIn the case of the latter, he was more than likely referring to his decision to completely rewrite Hybris with a microservices architecture based on Cloud Foundry.\nAt the time, the Hybris team was practically \"scalded\" by SAP brass for doing so, Constellation Research analyst Holger Mueller told CMSWire not long after Hybris-as-a-Service (YaaS) was launched.\nIt's worth noting that Thoma pointed not only Hybris, but SAP as a whole, in the right direction. Cloud Foundry is now the basis of SAP's highly successful Hana Cloud Platform (HCP) as well.\nWhy Leave SAP Hybris Now?\nInquiring minds and SAP Hybris customers will want to know whether Thoma\u2019s exit correlates to any rifts he may have recently had with leadership at SAP, which acquired Hybris in 2013 for an estimated $1 to $1.5 billion.\nThoma insisted that wasn't the case. He said SAP was the right home for Hybris. He then pointed out that the world's third largest software company has made a very successful move to the cloud and into the services business.\n\"What SAP has accomplished is simply breathtaking,\" he said.\nSo could Thoma's resignation be tied to the expiration of a continuity agreement he made when he sold his firm to SAP?\nThoma said \"no,\" then expounded that he was calling-in for the interview with CMSWire from Italy where he was about to get married, noting that he will soon become a father as well.\n\"There will never be a better time than now,\" he said, explaining that this is literally the beginning of a next chapter for him.\nThe question remains, who will take over for Thoma?\nThoma insisted he didn't know, then added that \"the bases are loaded.\" The next SAP Hybris president could be a Hybris insider, an SAP outsider or someone from within the mothership.\n\"A new accountability model will need to be applied,\" he noted, but that will apparently happen on someone else's watch.\n\"I have left my imprint on the company,\" he said.\nTags carsten thoma, customer-centricity, digital experience, dxm, leadership, sap, sap hybris", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/tesla-q4-2018-earnings.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:PE6I446MOJ3SPJCDCRQRKAHRYRZ6AAAW", "length": 6054, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.cnbc.com", "title": "Tesla Q4 2018 earnings", "raw_content": "Tesla shares fall after company posts fourth-quarter profit that misses expectations, replaces CFO\nTesla's earnings were hit on a number of fronts, the company said.\nIt cited a decline in revenue from the sale of regulatory credits and higher import duties on parts from China.\nLower prices on the Model S and Model X in China and a lower-priced midrange version of the Model 3 also hurt sales.\nPublished 3:30 PM ET Wed, 30 Jan 2019 Updated 11:56 AM ET Thu, 31 Jan 2019 CNBC.com\nTesla's CFO is stepping down. Here's what that means for shareholders 1:49 PM ET Thu, 31 Jan 2019 | 03:35\nTesla reported its second consecutive quarterly profit Wednesday and better-than-expected sales, but its fourth-quarter earnings fell short of analysts' expectations and sent its shares south after the markets closed.\nCEO Elon Musk also announced a major change to the electric carmaker's executive ranks with the retirement of long-time Chief Financial Officer Deepak Ahuja.\nTesla's shares, which rose 3.8 percent during the regular session, fell by about 5 percent in after-hours trading. Ahuja is being replaced by Zach Kirkhorn, previously the company's vice president of finance, Musk told analysts at the end of a conference call announcing the results.\nThe electric car maker's results and outlook for 2019 were not as bad as some had feared, but the automotive segment, which still comprises the majority of Tesla's business was less profitable than some had expected. This is Tesla's fourth profitable quarter overall since it went public in 2010, and the first time Tesla has reported back-to-back profitable results. Musk said last year that he expected Tesla to be sustainably profitable beginning in the third quarter of 2018.\nEarnings were hit on a number of fronts, the company said, citing a decline in revenue from the sale of regulatory credits, higher import duties on parts from China as well as lower prices on the Model S and Model X in China and a lower-priced midrange version of the Model 3.\n\"Last year was definitely the most challenging year in Tesla history, but also the most successful,\" Musk told analysts on a conference call.\nTesla misses on earnings, but is expected to run another profit 4:27 PM ET Wed, 30 Jan 2019 | 02:00\nExecutives said the company's main priorities in 2019 include reducing costs, shipping as many cars as possible until more tariffs hit, getting Tesla's Shanghai factory running and improving service in North America.\n\"This release was a mixed bag,\" CFRA analyst Garrett Nelson told CNBC. \"The company generated strong free cash flow, which should ease balance sheet-related concerns, which is the biggest positive from this release in our view. Vehicle sales guidance for 2019 was a bit short of expectations, but not nearly the doomsday scenario some had expected resulting from the federal EV credit step-down.\"\nAdjusted EPS: $1.93 versus $2.20, according to average estimates compiled by Refinitiv\nRevenue: $7.23 billion versus $7.08 billion, according to average estimates compiled by Refinitiv\nRevenue beat\nOn an unadjusted basis, Tesla made $139.5 million, or 78 cents a share, compared with a loss of $675.4 million, or $4.01 a share, during the last quarter of 2017. It generated $7.23 billion in total revenue, more than double its $3.29 billion in revenue during the same quarter in 2017. It also beat analysts' average sales estimates of $7.08 billion.\nTesla said its cash position substantially improved by $1.45 billion, despite spending $230 million to repay convertible bonds during the quarter.\nThe company should see higher revenues in 2019 as it substantially ramps up production and deliveries this year, aiming for 360,000 to 400,000 vehicle deliveries, about 45 to 65 percent more than its deliveries in 2018. Musk predicted its deliveries will grow 50 percent in 2019, \"even if there's a recession.\"\nWatch three Tesla experts debate the electric car maker's mixed earnings report 11:37 AM ET Thu, 31 Jan 2019 | 01:58\nInvestors have been paying close attention to how profitable Tesla's cars are, particularly the Model 3 sedan. The federal tax credit on every Tesla vehicle sold was cut in half to $3,750 at the beginning of the year, after Tesla sold its allotted 200,000 units that qualified for the full credit.\n\"That 360,000 to 400,000 vehicles is within the band of what the street was expecting, and I think there were fears that would be significantly worse given what we saw in North America with the EV tax credit,\" Wedbush analyst Dan Ives told CNBC.\nJessica Caldwell, Edmunds' executive director of industry analysis, sees a tough year ahead for Tesla.\n\"Things really aren't going to get any better for Tesla in the U.S. than they did at the end of 2018,\" she told CNBC on Wednesday. \"Turning a profit, creatively addressing production challenges and getting the Model 3 to the masses were huge milestones, but keeping up this momentum is going to be virtually impossible.\"\nWhat Elon Musk just said about Tesla's quarter 12:01 PM ET Thu, 31 Jan 2019 | 03:53\nShe said its product line is starting to get stale and it faces new competition from Audi, Porsche and Jaguar.\n\"Tesla's in an awkward purgatory between being a start-up and a mainstream automaker, and the biggest open question heading into 2019 is where the company really goes from here,\" Caldwell said. \"Tesla is used to owning the spotlight, but for the next year we might see a lower-key Tesla as the company takes baby steps to keep things moving along while it plans for the future.\"\nEyes are watching whether Tesla needs to raise any more capital in the short term, especially given the fact that it needs to pay off $920 million in debt due March 1. Bondholders can convert the debt into equity if the shares trade at or above the strike price of $359.87. But below that price, Tesla would likely have to pay off the notes with cash.\nThe company assured investors that it has \"sufficient cash on hand to comfortably settle in cash our convertible bond that will mature in March 2019.\"\nRead Tesla's results here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 7577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-ceo-steve-ballmer-to-retire-in-12-months-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:NY4Z22KHPO5BUGEX5GYUZIMAZPGRM2HI", "length": 2374, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cnet.com", "title": "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire in 12 months' time - CNET", "raw_content": "Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire in 12 months' time\nMicrosoft's CEO Steve Ballmer will be retiring within 12 months, the company has confirmed.\nMicrosoft's larger than life CEO Steve Ballmer will be retiring within the next 12 months, the software giant has today confirmed.\nA new leader has not yet been found, although in a statement on its website, Microsoft explained that Ballmer will continue to helm the firm until a replacement is on board. Neither Microsoft nor Ballmer himself have given reasons as to why he is to retire now.\n\"There is never a perfect time for this type of transition, but now is the right time,\" Ballmer stated in an internal email, \"my original thoughts on timing would have had my retirement happen in the middle of our company\u2019s transformation to a devices and services company. We need a CEO who will be here longer term for this new direction.\n\"This is an emotional and difficult thing for me to do. I take this step in the best interests of the company I love; it is the thing outside of my family and closest friends that matters to me most.\n\"Microsoft has all its best days ahead. Know you are part of the best team in the industry and have the right technology assets. We cannot and will not miss a beat in these transitions. I am focused and driving hard and know I can count on all of you to do the same. Let's do ourselves proud.\" The full email can be read on Microsoft's site.\nA board of directors including none other than Bill Gates has apparently been appointed to select the new boss. Whether they choose someone with such interesting taste in jumpers or who has such skill in saying \"developers\" remains to be seen. Some names being unofficially discussed include Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and former Windows chief Steven Sinofsky, although no names have been mentioned by Microsoft.\n\"As a member of the succession planning committee, I'll work closely with the other members of the board to identify a great new CEO,\" Bill Gates stated on the Microsoft website. \"We're fortunate to have Steve in his role until the new CEO assumes these duties.\"\nWill you be sorry to see Ballmer leave? Will you be applying for the role yourself? Pop your thoughts, CV's and cover letters over on our Facebook page.\nGadgets Bill Gates Steve Ballmer Steven Sinofsky Microsoft\nDiscuss: Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire in 12 months' time", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 5088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnsnews.com/print/2091734", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:28Z", "digest": "sha1:6YNTRQNE7R2GIT7A3VHOV5UMJBDQAYT5", "length": 5453, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.cnsnews.com", "title": "Kavanaugh Hearing: Not the Greatest Show on Earth--But a Circus Nonetheless", "raw_content": "Home > Kavanaugh Hearing: Not the Greatest Show on Earth--But a Circus Nonetheless\nKavanaugh Hearing: Not the Greatest Show on Earth--But a Circus Nonetheless\nJudge Brett Kavanaugh sits through numerous disruptions by Democrats and protesters at his confirmation hearing. (Photo: Screen capture)\nEverybody dutifully played their part.\nAs soon as Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R.-Iowa, opened his committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh, Sen. Kamala Harris, D.-Calif., began interrupting him.\n\"I'd like to be recognized,\" she declared.\nShe was angry that the Trump administration had released \u2014 just the night before \u2014 tens of thousands of pages of government documents related to Kavanaugh's public service.\n\"You're out of order,\" Grassley said. \"I'll proceed.\"\nHarris ignored him.\n\"We cannot possibly move forward, Mr. Chairman, with this hearing,\" she declared.\nSoon after, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D.-Conn., called for simply canceling the hearing.\n\"I move to adjourn,\" he said repeatedly.\nAt some point, an organized group of protesters, who were infiltrating the hearing room and posing as citizens interested in watching the proceedings, began adding their voices to the \"discussion.\"\nThey stood up and yelled at the senators from the back of the room. Two of their main themes: a claimed right to abortion and the alleged unwillingness of the committee, which had yet to substantively start its hearing, to thoroughly vet Kavanaugh.\nEach time one of these protesters would stand and start yelling, the video cameras stationed in the alcoves above the left side of the hearing room would focus on the protestor as Capitol Police officers tried to remove the person from the room.\nSoon, photographers were arrayed immediately in front of the back-of-the-room chairs where these protesters were deploying themselves.\nEach time another stood to yell \u2014 and the Capitol Police closed in to remove the person from the room \u2014 the photographers would begin taking pictures from close range.\nDuring the hearing, a group called Women's March put out a Tweet taking credit for the orchestrated protests. \"We're disrupting the Kavanaugh hearings every few minutes, with hundreds of women prepared to get arrested to prevent these hearings from moving forward,\" it said.\nWhen Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D.-Calif., who is the ranking member of the committee, finally made her opening statement, she clarified why Senate Democrats and their outside allies were so adamant in opposing Kavanaugh.\n\"I want to talk a little bit about one of the big decisions that we have the belief that although you told Senator Collins that you believe it was 'settled law,' the question is really do you believe that it's correct law, and that's Roe v. Wade,\" Feinstein said in the written version of her statement.\nRoe, of course, is the 1973 Supreme Court decision that declared abortion a constitutionally protected right.\nFeinstein argued that Kavanaugh's opinion in Garza v. Hargan \u2014 a case the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard last year \u2014 showed that from her perspective, he was wrong on abortion.\nIn Garza, the central question was whether a pregnant teenager caught illegally crossing the border into the United States had a right to an abortion here.\nThe U.S. Justice Department tried to evade this question, but Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia answered it correctly.\n\"Does an alien minor who attempts to enter the United States eight weeks pregnant \u2014 and who is immediately apprehended and then in custody for 36 days between arriving and filing a federal suit \u2014 have a constitutional right to an elective abortion?\" Henderson wrote.\n\"The government has inexplicably and wrongheadedly failed to take a position on that antecedent question,\" Henderson continued. \"I say wrongheadedly because at least to me the answer is plainly \u2014 and easily \u2014 no. To conclude otherwise rewards lawlessness and erases the fundamental difference between citizenship and illegal presence in our country.\"\nJudge Kavanaugh took a more nuanced position.\n\"In sum,\" Kavanaugh wrote, \"under the government's arguments in this case and the Supreme Court's precedents, the unlawful immigrant minor is assumed to have a right under precedent to an abortion; the Government may seek to expeditiously transfer the minor to a sponsor before the abortion occurs; and if no sponsor is expeditiously located, then it could turn out that the Government will be required by existing Supreme Court precedent to allow the abortion, depending on what arguments the Government can make at that point.\"\nThe key precedent Kavanaugh was alluding to here was Planned Parenthood v. Casey, which upheld Roe and was co-authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, for whom Kavanaugh clerked.\n\"Some 30 years ago, Judge Anthony Kennedy sat in this seat. He became one of the most consequential Justices in American history,\" Kavanaugh said in his opening statement at his confirmation hearing. \"I served as his law clerk in 1993. To me, Justice Kennedy is a mentor, a friend, and a hero.\"\n\"And he was a champion of liberty,\" Kavanaugh said.\n\"Justice Kennedy,\" Kavanaugh concluded, \"established a legacy of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.\"\nUnless your posterity happens to be unborn.\nSource URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-jeffrey/not-greatest-show-earth-circus-nonetheless", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 5914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.co.brown.wi.us/minutes_and_agendas/minutes/?committee=f91f00897164&i=ea4020ae5320", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2BIOCSIQ2AJ5H3NDFAN7NS4XE574422X", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.co.brown.wi.us", "title": "Brown County \u00bb Minutes & Agendas \u00bb Executive Committee \u00bb Minutes", "raw_content": "Oct. 16, 2013: (Special)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 127.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.co.imperial.ca.us/index.asp?fileinc=countynews&newsnumber=809", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:P5K3XU7G3BLZAMQWFM2KVC7SLO23LQOR", "length": 609, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.co.imperial.ca.us", "title": "Imperial County Website", "raw_content": "General Election Official Final Results Report Released\nToday the Imperial County Registrar of Voters has issued the Official Final Results of ballots cast for the November 6, 2018 General Election. Registrar staff will now begin the process to certify the election. As mandated by the State of California, the Registrar of Voters has until December 6, 2018 to certify the election.\nThe Official Final Results report may be viewed at the Registrar of Voters' website located at www.co.imperial.ca.us/regvoters. The Registrar's office wishes to thank the public for their patience through the election process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.commonfrontiers.ca/unions-call-for-a-new-chapter-in-us-honduras-relations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:48Z", "digest": "sha1:FKUNKKBIY6GUUYS2R6YGAFPE6PYWXTLR", "length": 1998, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.commonfrontiers.ca", "title": "Unions call for a new chapter in US-Honduras relations - Common Frontiers", "raw_content": "A new report by US trade unions has strongly criticised the US government\u2019s policies in Honduras.\nAFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre led a delegation of US labour leaders to meet with their Honduran counterparts.\n\u201cWhat we witnessed was the intersection of our corporate-dominated trade policies with our broken immigration system,\u201d he said.\nThe delegation\u2019s report, Trade, Violence and Migration: The Broken Promises to Honduran Workers, offers a frank assessment of the history and impact of US foreign policy in Honduras.\nAs well as being one of the most unequal countries in Latin America, Honduras also sends the largest number of unaccompanied minors to the US from Central America.\nLarry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America and a participant in the delegation, told Equal Times: \u201cWe need to look at our own immigration policy, concentrating enormous resources on deportation and nothing on resettlement.\n\u201cWe need to look at the trade deals, in this case, the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), that accelerated free market devastation.\u201d\nAfter the 2009 coup that overthrew the country\u2019s elected president, Manuel Zelaya, the US raised only pro-forma objections and then quickly restarted military aid to the junta that seized power.\n\u201cUnder the left-leaning Zelaya administration, the minimum wage was raised by 80 per cent, direct assistance was provided to the poorest Hondurans, and poverty and inequality declined,\u201d the report says.\nAfter the coup, however, \u201cnumerous trade unionists and community activists who participated in resistance were killed, beaten, threatened and jailed,\u201d it says.\nBased on extensive interviews with unionists, the AFL-CIO report details current abuses of labour and human rights.\n-read full article\nPreviousIdle No More Stands in Solidarity with the People of Honduras\nNextUS and Canadian civil society calls for end to Venezuela sanctions\nBuilding solidarity with Hondurans \u2013 Exposing Oppressive Canadian Investment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.companyformationmontenegro.com/the-share-capital-in-montenegro", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:55Z", "digest": "sha1:4V7IZ5PJVD2LNCRQNFCNMNI4HJP57VZO", "length": 2303, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.companyformationmontenegro.com", "title": "The Share Capital in Montenegro", "raw_content": "An investor who wishes to open a company in Montenegro needs to take into consideration several aspects regarding the share capital regulations in this country. Our firm is specialized in company formation in Montenegro and can help you understand the principal issues concerning the functioning of share capital for your company.\nThe importance of the share capital in Montenegro\nWhen your company is already established and functional the share capital represents the funds that you obtain from the stocks you sell. The specific regulations concerning the taxation of the revenues from stock selling fall under the Tax Law in Montenegro.\nThe share capital in Montenegro must be reported on the balance sheet of the company and it is calculated by making the sum of all the amounts payed initially by the shareholders. The share equity in Montenegro is an indicator of the financial health of your company and it is calculated by extracting from the total assets of the company the total liabilities.\nRegardless of the type of company you open in Montenegro, you will be liable to the extent of your share contribution in the company. At the opening of a company, you might need support regarding the legal requirements on the social capital. In such situations, it is a good idea to look for help from a specialist in company formation in Montenegro. You can be assisted as well with setting up a corporate bank account necessary for depositing the minimum share capital.\nMinimum Share Capital Requirements in Montenegro\nIn Montenegro the following types of companies require a minimum share capital:\n\u2022 the limited liability company (D.O.O), for which the minimum capital requirement is of 1 Euro;\n\u2022 the joint stock company, which requires a minimum share capital of 25. 000 EUR.\nThe sole proprietorship and the general partneship are two types of companies in Montenegro that do not require any minimum share capital.\nOur specialists in company formation in Montenegro are readily available to assist you in various aspects regarding the share capital in your company. Therefore feel free to contact us when you intend to open a company, so that you can benefit from specialized assistance with all the administrative and legal aspects, including the requirements regarding the minimum share capital.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.comparethemarket.com/energy/information/power-houses-energy-bill/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BD7IWKUARTVTRG242ROP6NCPU4VOLJOM", "length": 4042, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.comparethemarket.com", "title": "\ufeff Power Houses: energy bills of the rich and famous | comparethemarket.com", "raw_content": "Power Houses: energy bills of the rich and famous\nThe average UK home spends \u00a31,345 a year on gas and electricity. Eye-wateringly high for the average family, but it\u2019s a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of running the homes of the rich and famous!\nTake a look at the price celebs pay for their pimped-out palaces and crazy cribs.\nNamed Xanadu 2.0, Bill Gate\u2019s mansion in Medina, Washington took seven years and around \u00a346 million to build. The house covers an impressive 66,000-square-feet and overlooks the beautiful Lake Washington. Unsurprisingly, the world\u2019s richest man has equipped the place with innovative tech and a whole host of toys \u2013 the trampoline room being the quirkiest.\nBill\u2019s estimated bills come in at a hefty \u00a37,060 per month!\n2.\tThe Beckhams\nPurchased for the small price of \u00a340 million, David and Victoria Beckham own a posh London pad in one of the capital\u2019s most exclusive neighbourhoods. The seven-bedroom Georgian town house in the Royal London Borough of Kensington & Chelsea underwent a reported \u00a38 million renovation and now includes a salon, wine cellar and an underground tunnel linking it to a second property!\nThe cost of powering such a place? An estimated \u00a31,417 per month.\n3.\tQueen Elizabeth II\nBuckingham Palace is the London residence and administrative headquarters of the monarchy of the United Kingdom. As you\u2019d expect, it\u2019s kitted out with opulent interiors and royal collections. There are 775 rooms, a movie theatre and a swimming pool. The palace is truly fit for a Queen!\nPowering the Palace costs an estimated \u00a3130,696 per month, ouch!\n4.\tBeyonce\nFrom Queen Elizabeth II to Queen Bey, the Beverley Hills 20,000-square-foot property Beyonc\u00e9 rents costs an irreplaceable \u00a3115,705 per month! With an Olympic-sized swimming pool, spa, steam, and massage room, this is the perfect place to retreat when the singer-songwriter takes a day off from running the world.\nQueen Bey\u2019s estimated bills come in at \u00a32,174 per month.\n5.\tOprah Winfrey\nOprah\u2019s house in Montecito is named The Promised Land and was purchased in 2001 for the reasonable sum of \u00a339 million. The sprawling 23,000-square-foot Neo-Georgian mansion has six bedrooms, a state of the art theatre and a man-made lake. Oprah also owns other property in the neighbourhood which comes complete with a miniature pony farm and 23 acres of equestrian land.\nOprah\u2019s perfect pad costs an estimated \u00a32,622 each month to power.\n6.\tKim and Kanye\nThe notoriously glamorous couple bought their Beverly Hills home for \u00a315 million and then spent months reconstructing and renovating it to include a swimming pond and giant master bedroom. The house is still under construction and Kanye has reportedly been knocking down walls to expand the master bedroom even further. Yeezy does it!\nOnce complete, powering the 20,000-square-foot Kingdom of Kim and Kanye will cost around \u00a31,818.\nRecently put up for sale, Harry Styles\u2019 LA bachelor pad is furnished with silver travertine floors, a home theatre, swimming pool and spa. The singer\u2019s abode is the perfect place to relax and entertain friends as it is reportedly paparazzi-proof!\nHarry\u2019s estimated bills for this bachelor pad total \u00a3394 each month.\nOfficially recognised as an Historic City Landmark, Tay-Tay\u2019s Beverly Hills home is a seven-bedroom, Georgian-Revival gem. The historic features of the mansion include a sunken tennis court, pool, and wood-panelled library. The house dates from the 1930s and would have been around in the days of Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, and Clark Gable.\nKeeping the lights on in historic mansions doesn\u2019t come cheap \u2013 Taylor\u2019s estimated bill is \u00a31,157 per month.\n9.\tMark Zuckerberg\nKnown for his philanthropy and simple tastes, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg lives in a modest(ish) house in Silicon Valley. The five-bed residence comprises a saltwater pool and music alcove and cost a mere \u00a35.4 million.\nMark Zuckerberg\u2019s estimated monthly bill comes in at a more reasonable is \u00a3538. Like!\nUnderstanding your energy interest rates\nWhich Scandi tribe are you?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 343, "original_length": 12365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conch.co.nz/blogs/conch-gig-guide/tagged/djs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:05Z", "digest": "sha1:PQPSMFQX6TCEF7Y3A3PA2RAQ4NLMDFHH", "length": 234, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.conch.co.nz", "title": "Conch Gig Guide | Conch Records", "raw_content": "Fri 27th March // The Turnaround ft. Bobbito Garcia (NYC) // Neck Of The Woods\nDJ's: Manuel Bundy, Submariner & Cian\nSpecial Guest: Bobbito Garcia (New York City)\nNeck Of The Woods, 10pm\nIn case you need a brief history lesson........", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 2915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.concretenetwork.com/stained-concrete/design-ideas/generalconcretefinishers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:31Z", "digest": "sha1:KE6SLHU4WR722FAKNPQ7AW5IXV5FUQ5N", "length": 3734, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.concretenetwork.com", "title": "Concrete that Looks Like Marble in Canada - The Concrete Network", "raw_content": "Getting Concrete to Look Like Natural Marble\nCanadian Craftsman Masters Technique with Concrete Overlays By Khara Dizmon, Concrete Network Managing Editor\nNever one to be content with 'the way things have always been done,' Doug Armitage of General Concrete Finishers in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan keeps pushing the envelope with concrete. For over 30 years, he has been pouring and resurfacing driveways, patios, and interior floors for both residential and commercial clients. \"I was doing exposed aggregate in the 80s, borders and stamps in the 90s, and now overlays and stains,\" he says. \"I'm always keeping up with what's out there.\"\nHis drive to keep up with the latest has led him to continuously experiment with concrete products and techniques, and has enabled him to develop one-of-a-kind finishes on concrete. \"We can achieve certain looks because we've been able to experiment and develop the systems,\" Armitage explains.\nOne of the most recent applications that Armitage has branched into is polymer modified overlays. \"We've started doing high-end work with cementitious overlays,\" he explains. \"It's currently about 5-10% of our business.\"\nAnd it's one of the applications that Armitage likes best. He recently developed a proprietary system for installing polymer modified overlays that creates a distinct look not achievable with other products. \"We install overlays,\" he explains, \"so that the stains 'take' a certain way.\" Getting concrete to look like natural marble is one of those unique looks.\n\"We can make concrete look like marble,\" he describes. This is what attracted one particular client to revamp the entire main floor of their house. \"We did approximately 1,200 square feet of floor space,\" he says, which included the living room, hallway, and bedrooms. The result was a stunning resemblance to marble and natural stone with mottled colors that added depth and warmth to the home. \"You won't get that look just with staining,\" he says. \"I've tried to create the same marble-like effect with regular staining. I've even used bed sheets and cheesecloths to try to get the same look. I've only been able to achieve the real natural, marble look with the polymer modified overlay.\"\nAnd to top it all off, that particular overlay was installed over a wood subfloor. Using a 3/8\" overlay, Armitage and his crew covered the home's original wood flooring. \"We have a system for prepping the floor that includes putting down a scratchcoat and overlay and then staining,\" he explains.\n\"Many contractors worry about delamination over wood,\" says Armitage. His system prevents this. He says, \"Hairline cracks are inevitable. I've been able to use them to my advantage by sometimes using stain to fill the cracks to give a more unique look. Armitage also points out that \"hairline cracks are evident in natural stone. They're the same look we're trying to create manually. It's what makes it look so natural.\"\nArmitage plans to continue on with testing concrete products and perfecting his techniques. It's what has set him apart in Canada and attracted more and more business from homeowners requesting his marbled floors. \"In this project,\" Armitage recalls, referring to the marbled overlay (see photo above), \"the homeowner saw a picture of a previous project of ours with this look. They came to me with the picture and wanted me to create it,\" he says.\nAn upcoming project includes a home built in the 1900s. \"We're redoing the basement floor,\" says Armitage. \"We'll pour a cast-in-place floor, install radiant floor heating with a 2\" top, then overlay.\" As with all his other projects, the look is sure to be remarkable.\nDoug Armitage\nGet More Concrete Floor Design Ideas\nGet More Concrete Staining Design Ideas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/103rd-congress/house-bill/3269/all-actions?overview=closed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:11Z", "digest": "sha1:E6MZJXAOMBVEEQPLY6IUS4NB5N667B4L", "length": 339, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.congress.gov", "title": "Actions - H.R.3269 - 103rd Congress (1993-1994): Veterans Adjudication Procedures Act of 1993 | Congress.gov | Library of Congress", "raw_content": "H.R.3269 - Veterans Adjudication Procedures Act of 1993103rd Congress (1993-1994)\nRep. Evans, Lane [D-IL-17] (Introduced 10/13/1993)\nAction By: House Veterans' Affairs Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and Insurance\n10/18/1993 Referred to the Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension and Insurance.\nCompensation, Pension and Insurance [2]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 49733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.contourcycleclub.com/products/off-cut-fob", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:48Z", "digest": "sha1:DMLD673ENXXMRGYVQRMB6EYX2FEJCAPU", "length": 154, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.contourcycleclub.com", "title": "OFF CUT FOB \u2013 Contour Cycle Club", "raw_content": "Fabricated from the off cuts, in order to minimize waste, this little key fob features the contour & co logo, attached to a 1 1/8\u201d Antique brass key ring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conwaylegalpa.com/news/2018/3/6/giant-eagle-sued-for-failing-to-pay-overtime-to-team-leaders", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:12Z", "digest": "sha1:464WERT7CNBB6I3OAYURUKEA2UTV627N", "length": 1149, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.conwaylegalpa.com", "title": "Giant Eagle Sued for Failing to Pay Overtime to Team Leaders", "raw_content": "Together with co-counsel, Conway Legal today filed suit in federal district court in Pittsburgh, PA, on behalf of a former \"Team Leader\" who was not paid overtime compensation for working more than 40 hours in a workweek. The lawsuit alleges that Team Leaders at Giant Eagle routinely work more than 40 hours a week in order to perform their job duties, yet are denied overtime compensation despite performing work that is substantially similar to those that are entitled to receive overtime.\nThe lawsuit alleges that Team Leaders spent the majority of their time serving customers, breaking down shipments, preparing food, setting up displays, stocking shelves, physically moving merchandise, counting inventory, and cleaning the store. It also alleges that Giant Eagle has a policy, pattern, and/or practice of misclassifying Team Leaders as exempt from overtime. It seeks to recover all unpaid overtime owed to Team Leaders who worked for Giant Eagle between November 22, 2014 and the present.\nIf you are a current or former Team Leader at Giant Eagle and would like more information about the lawsuit, please call Conway Legal at (215) 278-4782.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cooperators.ca/en/About-Us/corporate-overview/executive-bios/steve-phillips.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OJZWBDZOMFSJFFD7HHGXF56JIUJELICU", "length": 1389, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cooperators.ca", "title": "Steve Phillips", "raw_content": "Sovereign General\nof Steve Phillips\nAs EVP, Chief Operating Officer, Sovereign, Steve provides leadership to the company's team of professionals and is accountable for the organization's underwriting performance and growth in addition to overseeing Federated Agencies Ltd. P&C operations and liaising with Premier Group to support its strategic alignment within the group of companies.\nSteve joined The Co-operators in January 2017, and brought a wealth of over 20 years of leadership experience in the insurance and financial services sector along with him, including a variety executive-level roles at two major Canadian banks and a global insurer with more than $8 billion in annual revenue. In addition, Steve was the owner of a consulting company where he helped financial services organizations develop and deliver customer and growth strategies.\nSteve holds an MBA, Marketing & Finance from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a BA (Hons) Economics from University of Western Ontario; as well as a Director's Education Program (ICD.D) designation from the Rotman School of Management/Institute of Corporate Directors. He has served on a number of Boards, including the CIBC Life Insurance Company in 2014, and was Vice-Chair of the Canadian Association of Financial Institutions in Insurance from 2004 to 2006. Steve currently sits on the Board of the Muskoka Lakes Association.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 101.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coralseacablesystem.com.au/articles/australia-png-solomon-islands-sign-trilateral-mou/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:RTG5E4K7SSZMO3FQHJJUQY3L4Y7ISK2B", "length": 1622, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.coralseacablesystem.com.au", "title": "Coral Sea Cable System \u00b7 Australia, PNG & Solomon Islands sign Trilateral MoU", "raw_content": "Pictured: Michael Ackland, Vocus Head of Corporate Development; Peter O\u2019Neill CMG MP, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; Malcolm Turnbull MP, the Prime Minister of Australia; Rick Houenipwela MP, the Prime Minister of Solomon Islands; and Bob Mansfield AO, Vocus Chairman. Photography: Penny Bradfield, Auspic/DPS\nOn 11 July, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands signed a Memorandum of Understanding relating to funding arrangements for the Coral Sea Cable System (CS\u00b2) and domestic network in Solomon Islands. CS\u00b2 will provide high-speed internet to Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands and reinforce the strong ties between the three countries.\nThe Coral Sea Cable will enable local businesses to access new opportunities in the global market. This will result in substantial economic and development benefits for both countries.\nFor Papua New Guinea, the Coral Sea Cable System will provide significant improvements to internet reliability and quality, facilitating closer economic integration in the Pacific.\nFor Solomon Islands, the Coral Sea Cable System will be supplemented by a domestic cable network, which will see the economic, and social benefits of high-speed internet extend beyond Honiara, linking to Auki (Malaita Province), Noro (Western Province), and Taro (Choiseul Province).\nAustralia will fund the majority of the project, with co-contributions from Papua New Guniea and Solomon Islands. This significant infrastructure investment reflects Australia\u2019s commitment to stepping up our engagement in the Pacific.\nThe Coral Sea Cable System is scheduled for completion by the end of 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 2010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 269.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.corcagnani.com/news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:52Z", "digest": "sha1:6DDBO2WCNXHZNRW7IJXDRHNYKW7O2OZJ", "length": 79, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.corcagnani.com", "title": "news - MMXIX", "raw_content": "announcements and outlook\non news, events, new features, new content, and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cosmo.ph/entertainment/mari-jasmine-sexuality-labels-a1320-20181210", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7N4GEVNWVVRNZLOD5Q5QROM4DRXKIDIR", "length": 1153, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.cosmo.ph", "title": "Mari Jasmine On Sexuality Labels | Cosmo.ph", "raw_content": "Mari Jasmine Gets Real About Sexuality Labels\n'You don\u2019t need to understand someone\u2019s identity in order to respect it.'\nPHOTO: Instagram/marijasmine\nHost, model, and blogger Mari Jasmine talked about sexuality labels in a recent Instagram Story. \u201cLabels are what humans use to understand / navigate their experiences and the world around them. Just because they exist, it doesn\u2019t mean that you have to fit into a category or identify with a particular label. You also don\u2019t need to understand someone\u2019s identity in order to respect it.\u201d\nShe posted the IG Story along with a quote from actor Lucas Hedges: \u201cI recognize myself as existing on a spectrum: Not totally straight, but also not gay and not necessarily bisexual.\u201d\nIn July, Mari publicly shared her relationship with director Samantha Lee in an Instagram post, saying that she has had \u201cthe privilege of being in love with both men and women.\u201d Not long after, her ex-boyfriend Sam Milby said he was surprised to hear about the relationship but that they are on good terms. The actor said in a press con, \u201cWe're friends. If that's where she's happy, I'm happy for her. No bitterness in that sense.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/counsellor-articles/do-you-battle-with-bullying-at-work", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XIQVHDIQUWLKQBTYUUHE63CVKSTVXT3P", "length": 4085, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.counselling-directory.org.uk", "title": "Do you battle with bullying at work? - Counselling Directory", "raw_content": "Do you battle with bullying at work?\nBullying is a school playground problem \u2013 or so many of us thought. Yet for a growing number of adults bullying in the workplace is a difficult and daily problem.\nBullies are self-centred, controlling and control others through a use (or misuse) of power. Bullying happens in many ways. It can happen in public or in secret. The bullying might be done by an individual or by a group. They will use those who don\u2019t conform or fit as punch bags. Sometimes the bullying can be very passive, personal nasty remarks followed by words like: \u201cI was only joking\u201d\nSomeone who is the target of bullying can feel powerless, isolated and alone. Our parents may have told us to stand up to the school bully or to ignore them and they will go away. It feels like while that will work in the simple world of the child, the world of work is much more hostile. You may be in fear of losing your job. You may feel that although others see what is going on no-one would back you up. Bullying saps your self-confidence so you may have a sense of hopelessness and start to believe that there is something wrong with you that makes you the target of this attention. Yet the reality is that adults are in a much more powerful place to deal with bullies and there are things that they can do.\nRecognise bullying for what it is; don\u2019t dismiss it as harmless fun or an aggressive personality. Notice that it is unwanted behaviour and you expect to be treated fairly like an adult\nDocument incidents, this is particularly important if the bullying is being done by someone more senior. It can also help you spot patterns when things went better.\nYou need to look after yourself. Keeping yourself energised means doing things for you, perhaps you enjoy time with friends or have a hobby or listen to music. Take some gentle exercise and eat healthily. It is also useful to think about talking to someone about what is happening. That could be a friend or a family member or it could be a counsellor. Many companies will have an Employee Assistance Program which may be able to help.\nLook into how your company deals with bullying in the workplace. Most organisations will have a harassment policy and it will outline what action you can take. Get to know your options. It may help to talk over your options with HR.\nHaving spent time getting all of these skills and tools ready you then need to decide what you want to do about the bully. That could include living with what is going on. But notice that by doing some of the actions above you have now got choices and can choose to take more control if you need it.\nBullyingWork-related stress\nGraeme is a counsellor and author living and working on the south side of Glasgow. In his practice he sees a number of clients with emotional, anxiety and self-esteem that have relevance to us all. His articles are based on that experience and are offered as an opportunity to identify with, or to challenge you to make changes in your life.\u2026 Read more\nThe emergency workers dealing with PTSD Overcoming imposter syndrome\nDepression Bullying Learning difficulties Suicidal thoughts\nRebecca: Growing up with an undiagnosed condition\nWhen I was two years old, my mother experienced postnatal depression (PND). This meant...\nWork-related stress Loneliness\nTara Povey: \"On paper, my life was perfect. But I felt hopeless and alone.\"\nI never know how to start my story. \u2018Once upon a time\u2019 doesn't quite cut it....\nAnxiety Bullying Childhood bullying\nJade: How being bullied can affect the rest of your life\nSchool is meant to be one of the best times of your life. 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Whilst bullying may most commonly be experienced by young...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 11166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.covingtonhonda.com/find-a-car-in-covington-va", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LPARH2XIB46USL3R3XGJQQQT4LYP7X3C", "length": 399, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.covingtonhonda.com", "title": "Find a car in Covington VA", "raw_content": "Find a car in Covington Virginia\nDidn't Find What You're Looking For? At Covington Honda we want you to find the perfect auto, and we'll work hard for you to make sure you do. Simply tell us what you're looking for and when it's available you'll be the first to know!\nBy submitting this form, you agree to be contacted by Covington Honda with information regarding the vehicle you are searching for.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 2544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.credentialmanager.co/m/feed/view/Los-Angeles-Man-Pleads-Guilty-to-Not-Reporting-Over-1-Million-Held-in-Israeli-Offshore-Accounts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:SVPNLXH2JUYRIYTYJC2GI5QEDY6DFZVN", "length": 360, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.credentialmanager.co", "title": "Los Angeles Man Pleads Guilty to Not Reporting Over $1 Million Held in Israeli Offshore Accounts", "raw_content": "Los Angeles Man Pleads Guilty to Not Reporting Over $1 Million Held in Israeli Offshore Accounts\nThe Department of Justice is committed to vigorously investigating and prosecuting offshore account holders who maintain undeclared accounts and willfully ignore their U.S. reporting and tax obligations, said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Zuckerman.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 230.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cremationsociety-idaho.com/tributes/Patrick-Shindle", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3LI7K2OUPO67TXKLNOA3L6N3LKG7X7CJ", "length": 2227, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cremationsociety-idaho.com", "title": "Tribute for Patrick Neil Shindle | Cremation Society of Idaho", "raw_content": "Patrick Neil Shindle\nPatrick Neil Shindle, age 76, passed away Thursday, August 9, 2018, at the Boise VA Medical Center.\nPat was born on April 21, 1942 in Sidney, Nebraska to parents, Fred and Winifred. Along with his parents, he is preceded in death by his wife, Claudette; brothers, Darrel and Sam; and step-daughter, Vicky. He is survived by his son, Darrin; step-daughters, Lori and Chris; brothers, Fred and Danny; sister, Susan; and grandsons, Breckan and Grayson.\nHe grew up in Kimberly, Idaho where he was involved in his high school marching band, and leader of the pep band. After graduating high school in 1960, he studied Art at Idaho State University and joined the Air Force in 1963, where he then served in the Vietnam War.\nHe was a member of the Nampa 12th ward Elder's Quorum of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.\nHe was a loving father and grandfather. His fondest memories were attending his family\u2019s sporting events and spending time with his grandsons. He became very involved in his son\u2019s coaching at Melba, Idaho where the girls\u2019 basketball team lovingly nicknamed him, Papa Shin. In addition to sports, he enjoyed creating art and making gifts for others. He enjoyed fishing, golfing, hunting, playing cards, the outdoors, and most of all, spending time with his family and friends.\nHe was diagnosed with Parkinson\u2019s disease in 1989, and lived with it for almost 30 years. Even as his symptoms progressed, he was still able to maintain his independence and never let it keep him from family events. He was a great example to family and friends on never giving up in the face of adversity. His family and friends will always remember him as a generous and supporting person who would do anything to help someone. We will miss his stubbornness and independent spirit. Pat\u2019s family will treasure that he spent his last weeks living with his son, daughter-in-law, and grandsons.\nServices are scheduled for Friday, August 17th at 11:00 am, at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery: 10100 Horseshoe Bend Rd; Boise, ID 83714. Please plan to arrive 15 minutes early, as the procession begins precisely at 11:00 am.\nThere will be a luncheon to follow at the LDS church: 1500 Smith Ave; Nampa, ID 83651.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 129.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-you-should-know-about-church-discipline/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJW3SZRKG6ATFGCCDTFRQVYO5LPJZV2D", "length": 7253, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.crossway.org", "title": "10 Things You Should Know about Church Discipline | Crossway Articles", "raw_content": "10 Things You Should Know about Church Discipline\nMarch 07, 2016 by: Jonathan Leeman\n1. Jesus and Paul both command churches to practice church discipline.\nChurch discipline is not man\u2019s idea, but God\u2019s. Whatever Jesus meant by \u201cYou shall not judge\u201d in Matthew 7, he didn\u2019t mean to rule out loving correction between Christians, as he describes it in Matthew 18:15-20. Paul then takes Jesus's words seriously and exhorts the Corinthian church to put Jesus\u2019s instructions into practice (compare Matthew 18:20 and 1 Corinthians 5:4). Do we know better than Paul?\n2. \u201cChurch discipline\u201d goes by different names.\nThe term \u201cchurch discipline\u201d is employed in different ways, and people use different terms for discipline. Broadly, people might make a distinction between formative discipline (referring to teaching) and corrective discipline (referring to correcting sin).\nInside the category of corrective discipline, people might use the term \u201cchurch discipline\u201d to refer to any act of correction, whether that involves privately and informally warning a friend or formally removing someone from membership in a church. When it gets to this last step, people frequently use the word \u201cexcommunication.\u201d Among Protestants, excommunication does not refer to removing someone from salvation (which the church is incapable doing). It refers to removing someone from membership in the church and participation in the Lord\u2019s Supper. To excommunicate is to ex-communion someone, kind of like a reverse baptism.\n3. Nearly every organization practices discipline.\nIn spite of its biblical basis, the idea of church discipline can be controversial among Christians and churches, even though people readily accept the fact that other organizations or group must have some means of correcting or removing its members. A fraudulent lawyer can be debarred. A volatile player in the NBA can be fined. A malpracticing doctor can lose his or her medical license. A teacher can be fired.\nIronically, even \u201cwatchdog\u201d websites who decry the practice of church discipline exist exclusively for the sake of correction, or discipline (albeit without any accountability!). This reaction to discipline in the church speaks volumes about the individualistic nature of spirituality and personhood in the West.\n4. Churches should practice discipline for the sake of love.\nThere are many wrong motivations for church discipline, which have led to abuses in the process. The one right motivation for discipline is love. \u201cThe Lord disciplines the one he loves\u201d (Heb. 12:6). Churches should practice discipline for the sake of loving the individual caught in sin, that he or she might come to repentance (1 Cor. 5:5); for the sake of loving the weaker sheep in the church, that they might not be led astray (v. 6); for the sake of loving non-Christian neighbors, that they might not be confused by a false witness (v. 1); for the sake of loving Christ, that his name might be protected and honored (vv. 7-8).\n5. Church discipline was a common practice among churches until the 20th century.\nIn the 19th century, Baptist churches in America excommunicated an average of 2% of their members per year, and yet the growth of these churches outpaced general population growth. Toward the end of the 19th and early 20th century, churches became more interested in reforming society (e.g., temperance movements) than in reforming themselves.\nThe advent of church marketing in the middle of the 20th century led churches to focus more on product appeal than on holiness. No voices rose up to speak against discipline. Rather, the practice just faded away (see Greg Wills, Democratic Religion).\n6. A failure to practice church discipline undermines the preaching, discipling, and evangelism ministry of a church.\nWhen a preacher says, \u201cChristians do X and do not do Y,\u201d but the church fails to correct the individual who doesn\u2019t do X but does do Y, the preacher\u2019s words seem less believable or important. When an evangelist says, \u201cChrist will change you, and give you a new life,\u201d but is surrounded by uncorrected church members who live just like the world, the evangelist\u2019s words ring hollow.\n7. Churches should move to the final step of church discipline (excommunication) only for sins that are unrepentant, outward, and significant.\nThe Bible provides no exhaustive list of which sins should lead to excommunication. But thinking theologically, we might say that a church should move toward public discipline only when a sin is simultaneously unrepentant, outward, and significant.\nThe sin must be unrepentant, meaning the sinner refuses to let go of the sin or to fight against it. It must be outward, meaning the sin can be seen or heard. We\u2019re not making guesses about the states of peoples\u2019 hearts. And it must be significant, significant enough for the church to feel unable to continue affirming someone\u2019s profession of faith. So an embellished story might not count as \u201csignificant,\u201d whereas adultery would. No doubt, every situation requires the exercise of careful judgment. No two cases are alike.\nProvides an accessible framework for understanding church discipline, offering nine case studies and several practical considerations for leading a church through disciplinary situations with grace and truth.\n8. The goal of discipline is always restoration.\nPaul could not be clearer: \u201cYou are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord\u201d (1 Cor. 5:5).\n9. Churches must take great care against abuses of discipline.\nChurch discipline can become abusive in a number of ways: leaving the decision in the hands of one or a few instead of the whole congregation; relying on regulated processes instead of individual pastoral care; being characterized by a fundamentalistic mindset that\u2019s uncomfortable with the tensions which are inevitable in a fallen world and insisting that every problem gets tied up with a nice bow; or possessing an unbalanced and unbiblical concept of authority.\nIn general, Christians should be leery churches where the leaders play favorites, punish those who disagree, have a temper, use the silent treatment, must always have the last word, cannot be wrong, emphasize external conformity, are consistently dogmatic on both the big and small issues, seldom if ever admit they are wrong, have difficulty giving authority to others, only promote their closest friends or family members, and generally need control.\nFor more on this topic, see my article \"Why Church Discipline Goes Awry and How To Avoid It.\"\n10. \"When discipline leaves a church, Christ goes with it.\"\nSo said Baptist theologian John L. Dagg. And he was right. A shepherd that won\u2019t fend off the wolves will soon find his sheep consumed. Everything in our culture rages against any idea of correction or exclusion because it feels intolerant. But Christ means for his churches to be trained, exercised, and disciplined so that they will share in his holiness.\nImagine a math teacher who teaches the lessons but doesn\u2019t correct the errors. That\u2019s not a good math teacher. Doing discipline well takes wisdom and care. Churches should not jump right in but move slowly. 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Last week we heard about where Mikkel comes from, and what brought him to his current job. This week we hear about the challenges and compromises one must make in a position like his. He talks about the inherent politics of his job and the role of the state in the day to day affairs of the museum, as well as his goals for the future of the institution. It's a rare chance to hear about the daily life of a museum director, and it's really interesting stuff. Along the way we hear about dealing with cutbacks, finding time to stay passionate about the job, and some really good advice for young artists out there aspiring to a foot in the door. 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You are welcome to use them to inspire yourself for writing your own term paper. If you need a custom term paper related to the subject of Engineering or Informative Speech, you can hire a professional writer here in just a few clicks.\nInformative Speech - Metals\nPurpose: My purpose is to inform the audience of how different types of steel are formed by\nexplaining the different mechanical properties of Iron and Carbon compositions.\nA. Have you ever noticed that some steel, such as a long bridge is able to bend and have slack, whereas other types of steel are more brittle yet much harder, such as a propeller. If a bridge were more brittle, a strong perpendicular wind could easily break it in half, and a soft propeller would not give you the torque to accelerate to high velocities because the water would have more effect on it's definition.\nB. These properties have real life relevance, when steel was discovered in the middle ages it quickly became much more popular than bronze, because of its strength. (Kramer, E. 1992) Steel was a revolution that would affect the world from then on.\nII. Statement of Central Idea\nA. The change of iron and carbon to steel has had a profound affect on the world, it has revolutionized science and technology that we understand in the 20th century.\nB. Different ratios of carbon to iron and different hardening and cooling techniques have furthered our advancements in reaching a utopian compound that has equally elastic and plastic deformation properties.\nC. Separate processes have been distinguished between the carbon-iron ratio, which allow us to make steel either brittle or elastic.\nA. First issue- Dislocations are the strength of all forms of steel. Each individual dislocation forms with another to create a \"knot\" that holds the matrices of atoms together. The more \"knots\" there are the stronger the material. The more carbon, up to 6.67%, that is added will create large obstacles that form tangles of dislocations, increasing the strength of the solid.\nB. Second issue- If we examine the decomposition of Austenite, steel, we see that different levels of % of carbon and temperature can create new variations to a not so simple compound. If we combine .025% or more Carbon to iron and keep the temperature below 750 degrees Celsius we can make a very plastic material, ferrite, that is soft and has little brittility. However, if the compound is heated up and there is less than 2% carbon added we come up with Martensite, which is very brittle but extremely strong to uniaxial force.\nC. Third issue- When we examine the cooling rates of carbon and iron to the amount of time it takes for them to reach a certain temperature, we can see different characteristics of each solid formed. For example, letter A is Martensite, it is cooled very rapidly and has a very isothermal transformation. If we examine letter B or C we see that they both pass through the Ferrite stages denoted by the hyperbolas bound to the regions Ae1 and Ms. These have a less isothermal transformation and become more elastic.\nA. Each time I have discussed iron to steel to temperature we have been able to understand how different variables have explained the properties of different forms of steel. Each form has had some sort of impact on the world and even today more steel compounds are being formed that are lighter, stronger and more flexible\nB. Steel can be viewed from two stand points, the \"I'll just sit back and enjoy the rewards of other people work\" stand point, or the \"That's pretty interesting, I think I can help engineers in their research and add to the work\" stand point. 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Samaad | July 26, 2011 at 09:46 AM | Originally published on Cutimes.Com\nA new fund will focus exclusively on providing capital to Michigan businesses.\nThe InvestMichigan! Mezzanine Fund will provide up to $130 million of investment capital over the next five years to high-growth businesses throughout Michigan.\nThe U.S. Small Business Administration will provide $80 million at no cost to the taxpayers, SBA Administrator Karen Mills in a press call Tuesday.\nThe fund will focus on underserved markets or in sectors that have been defined as national priorities, the SBA said. Impact investments can target small businesses located in or employing residents of low or moderate income areas or economically distressed areas.\nSector-based, targeting industry sectors that the SBA has identified as national priorities are also eligible to participate in the fund. Currently only clean energy and education have been identified as priority sectors, the agency said.\nBusinesses that have a \u201csignificant presence\u201d in Michigan or are in the process of expanding their operations in the state are also eligible.\nThe SBA said it will partner with Michigan Growth Capital Partners L.P., an investment partnership whose anchor investor is the State of Michigan Retirement Systems, and the Dow Chemical Co. to provide up to $130 million of investment capital over the next five years to high-growth businesses throughout the state.\nCredit Suisse\u2019s Customized Fund Investment Group structured the InvestMichigan! Mezzanine Fund and will manage the fund in partnership with Beringea, a Michigan-based investment manager.\nOf the total funding, Dow will provide $15 million, Michigan Growth Capital Partners will provide $35 million, and the SBA will provide $80 million, which must be repaid, the agency said.\nMills said the fund was started in Michigan because of the high unemployment rate and 90% of the state\u2019s counties qualify as distressed under federal and state guidelines.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 6322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cwu.edu/node/78449", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZJQ4JRCYJ2SJIGOHVGJJHEQSYVZZJI2", "length": 617, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cwu.edu", "title": "CWU | CWU music professor attends Marine Corps workshop", "raw_content": "CWU music professor attends Marine Corps workshop\nCentral Washington University trumpet professor John Harbaugh was one of 27 music educators selected from California, Oregon, Washington and Nevada to attend an all-expense paid trip to the Marine Corps music education workshop in Washington D.C.\nThe workshop included presentations by the \u201cPresident\u2019s Own\u201d Marine Band and string quartet, the Marine Drum and Bugle Corps, and the Quantico Marine Base Band. The educators were presented with clinics, question answer sessions, performances and a tour of the Marine museum.\nRead more of this story in the Daily Record.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.daijob.com/jobs/introduction/9485", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XJOZ5JKAJOP5QDY2DMUYYNM32BY7ZDCJ", "length": 966, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.daijob.com", "title": "Dynata\u306e\u6c42\u4eba\u30fb\u4f01\u696d\u60c5\u5831 \uff5c \u5916\u8cc7\u7cfb\u8ee2\u8077\u30fb\u6c42\u4eba\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8 [Daijob.com]", "raw_content": "Dynata\u306e\u6c42\u4eba\u30fb\u4f01\u696d\u60c5\u5831\nDynata, formally known as Research Now SSI is one of the world\u2019s leading single providers of first-party data contributed by people who opt-in to member-based panels that the company manages and maintains. With a reach that encompasses 60+ million people globally and an extensive library of individual profile attributes collected through surveys, Dynata is the cornerstone for precise, trustworthy quality data. The company has built innovative data services and solutions around this core asset to bring the voice of the individual to the entire marketing spectrum, from market research to marketing and advertising.\n\u30de\u30fc\u30b1\u30c3\u30c8\u30ea\u30b5\u30fc\u30c1\u30fb\u30b7\u30f3\u30af\u30bf\u30f3\u30af\n1-8-5, KK Build 3F, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo Japan 104-0033\nGary S. Laben\nDynata serves nearly 6,000 market research agencies, media and advertising agencies, consulting & investment firms and healthcare and corporate customers in the North America, South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.\nhttps://www.dynata.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 252.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17234747.hampshire-heart-charity-wessex-heartbeat-aims-to-make-itself-redundant/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:12Z", "digest": "sha1:6RDMC5D47ENK67QIBBYQPEYOEMUP6XIP", "length": 5959, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.dailyecho.co.uk", "title": "Hampshire heart charity Wessex Heartbeat aims to make itself redundant! | Daily Echo", "raw_content": "Hampshire heart charity Wessex Heartbeat aims to make itself redundant\nHampshire heart charity Wessex Heartbeat aims to make itself redundant!\nA HAMPSHIRE heart charity is taking its battle against cardiac disease into the centre of the community.\nWessex Heartbeat has announced plans for a change in direction, with a new emphasis on preventative work in the community from 2019.\nHistorically, the charity has focused predominantly on funding equipment and facilities at Southampton General Hospital\u2019s Wessex Cardiac Centre. Over the last 25 years the charity has raised an impressive \u00a316m, with the majority of the money going towards ensuring the cardiac centre can provide state-of-the-art care.\nNow, it\u2019s turning its attention to stamping out the problem of cardiac disease at its root.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve helped to create this amazing facility, now we want to make sure no-one uses it!\u201d jokes John Munro, Wessex Heartbeat\u2019s CEO.\n\u201cAs a charity, your aim is always to put yourself out of a job by combatting a problem and making it disappear. When we were first set up our aim was to help create a UK-leading centre for cardiac care and we truly feel we are there.\n\u201cThe facilities at the Wessex Cardiac Centre really are second to none. People in the Wessex region have access to some of the best equipment and care in the world. Now it\u2019s time to cut off the problem at the source; working to stop people from contracting heart disease in the first place.\u201d\nJohn, pictured above, says that while some heart disease is unavoidable due to hereditary conditions or trauma from an accident, many conditions can be avoided with a healthy lifestyle.\n\u201cThat\u2019s really what we want to educate people across the entire Wessex region about and to do that we need to be there in the community talking to people,\u201d he adds.\nThe charity put its toe in the water earlier this year when it trialled a brand-new health initiative with the region\u2019s business community.\nThe 12 Week Healthy Heart Challenge saw scores of businesspeople take on a small but achievable challenge every week for three months in a bid to reduce their BMI, cholesterol and other factors of cardiac health.\nThe challenges ranged from drinking more water to getting more active and had a real effect, with the group collectively losing more than 12 stone and reducing their cholesterol.\n\u201cIt was a big success and proof that with small changes you can improve your overall health,\u201d said John.\n\u201cAs a result we\u2019re going to be rolling the challenge out to the wider public can from 2019. It\u2019s probably the thing I\u2019m most excited about next year. It has the potential to change the lives of hundreds, even thousands of people.\u201d\nWessex Heartbeat says that it has the best chance of success when educating people at a young age about cardiac health.\n\u201cThe longer people live with a healthy heart, the longer they\u2019re likely to live,\u201d says John.\n\u201cPlus, you have the chance to create healthy habits from the outset.\u201d\nThe charity has plans to work with more schools across Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorset next year. Among its initiatives will be healthy heart talks, teaching children about the importance of exercise, diet and nutrition.\n\u201cWe hope that as well as reaching the children, they\u2019ll go home and encourage their parents to take on some healthier habits too,\u201d said John.\nThe charity also hopes to work with sports teams to reach the community with its healthy heart message. Already it\u2019s teamed up with AFC Totton and is running several projects to spread the word. Running healthy heart checks for players, holding a healthy heart conference and even funding exercise programmes like walking football, are just some of the schemes on the cards.\nRunning such initiatives costs money and, with Brexit causing economic uncertainty, John says Wessex Heartbeat knows it needs to work hard to fundraise.\n\u201cBrexit\u2019s already had an impact on the charity sector,\u201d he says. \u201cPeople are uncertain of what the future holds and understandably not spending as much as they would normally. That said, we\u2019ve had a good year and our net profit looks good.\n\"Just like a business, we\u2019ve always been mindful to adapt to survive. That\u2019s exactly what we\u2019ve done over recent years and what we\u2019ll continue to do.\u201d\nWessex Heartbeat is one of a declining number of charities bold enough to put on its own theatre shows to raise money.\nOn February 10, it will raise the curtain on its fourth variety show at Southampton\u2019s Mayflower Theatre, with 350 performers taking to the stage including Wicked\u2019s Kerry Ellis, Britain\u2019s Got Talent\u2019s Gareth Oliver and hundreds of local performers.\nOrganiser Ken Wilde said: \u201cWe\u2019re incredibly lucky to work with some fantastic people to put together such a good line up. It\u2019s a bold move arranging our own show in such a big venue but it continues to draw in hundreds and hundreds of people every year; it\u2019s incredibly popular.\u201d\nJohn adds: \u201cWhat\u2019s exciting is that there are many more people we can reach with our healthy heart message.\u201d\nLooking ahead, Wessex Heartbeat will continue to fund cardiac projects where needed at the Wessex Cardiac Centre and will continue to run its popular Heartbeat House, a home just across the road from the hospital where families of those undergoing heart surgery can stay to be close to their loved ones.\nFamilies can stay at the serviced accommodation for free for as long as they need to. It\u2019s a vital lifeline for those who live further away and would otherwise have to commute for hours to see their loved ones or spend hundreds on hotel accommodation.\n\u201cIt could be that Heartbeat House plays a part in spreading our healthy heart message too,\u201d John says. \u201cWe\u2019re already talking about running healthy cooking workshops from the kitchen there to teach people about diet and nutrition.\u201d\nTo find out about Wessex Heartbeat\u2019s events in 2019 visit www.heartbeat.co.uk and to book tickets for the variety show at the Mayflower, which cost \u00a319.50, visit www.mayflower.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 9883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.danceusa.org/urge-congress-support-universal-charitable-deduction", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EIZNGZA6JUPV4CFUFD4VEHZACMR2KZIF", "length": 3048, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.danceusa.org", "title": "Dance/USA \u2014 The national service organization for professional dance.", "raw_content": "Last Thursday, the Senate released their version of tax reform legislation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Like the similarly titled bill released by the House of Representatives two weeks ago, the Senate reform bill retains the charitable deduction but also doubles the standard deduction. (It also increases the limit on charitable gifts from 50% of adjusted gross income to 60% of AGI, which would support giving from high-income donors.) As reported last week, doubling the standard deduction means that 95% of taxpayers would not itemize, leading to a possible reduction in giving of $13 billion annually.\nDance/USA, as a member of the Charitable Giving Coalition, has urged Congress to support a universal charitable deduction, available to all taxpayers whether they itemize or not, incentivizing more Americans to contribute to charities supports nonprofit capacity and makes our communities healthier and more vibrant.\nYesterday, Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) offered an amendment to support increased giving by proposing a universal charitable deduction. Representative Mark Walker (R-NC), also proposed a universal charitable deduction that was capped at 1/3 of the standard deduction.\nPlease take a minute to urge Congress to support a universal charitable deduction.\nOther updates in the Senate bill include:\nDoubling the estate tax exemption from $5 million to $10 million. This would likely reduce charitable bequests.\nRetention of the Johnson Amendment, which prohibits nonprofits from engaging in partisan politics. (The House initially repealed this provision for churches and then expanded it to all nonprofits during last week\u2019s markup.) The nonprofit sector has urged Congress to retain this provision in an effort to keep nonprofits out of partisan politics.\nElimination of the Pease Limitation which puts a limit on all itemized deductions, including the charitable deduction, for high-income earners.\nAdds a 20 percent excise tax on executive compensation of over $1 million at charitable organizations.\nCharities would need to treat name and logo royalties as unrelated business taxable income.\nCharities would also have to separately compute unrelated business taxable income for each trade or business. (Under current law, charities are taxed by aggregating the income and deductions across all lines of businesses. This could lead to additional costs for charities.) These last two provisions were not included the House version of the bill.\nThe Artist-Museum Partnership Act, which would allow artists (including composers, designers, etc.) to take a fair market deduction when contributing their works to a charitable collecting institution was not included in the Senate bill.\nThe Senate Finance Committee is working on this bill today while the House continues working on their legislation. Contact your lawmakers and urge them to support a universal charitable deduction available to all taxpayers, further incentivizing Americans to support their communities by sustaining the charitable sector.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.danielowen.co.uk/jobs/cscs-labourer-469", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5KGY5EYXK43MFSW4FQWH5ZGKRLDUW3OP", "length": 377, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.danielowen.co.uk", "title": "CSCS Labourer with ref. TDBL_1536068814 - Daniel Owen", "raw_content": "REF: TDBL_1536068814\nJOB DESCRIPTION: Our client is looking for experienced and hardworking CSCS Labourer to join a project based in Preston. The site has parking available and is accessible by public transport. The contract is ongoing with working hours being 7:30am-5:00pm, Monday-Friday. There will likely be the chance for overtime on the project.\nBonding for the Plasterer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 130916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.datadictionary.nhs.uk/data_dictionary/nhs_business_definitions/n/nhs_business_services_authority_de.asp?shownav=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:00Z", "digest": "sha1:ZD3GG2ZDFIOXPVS4DA5C5S2OT2WLFXBS", "length": 364, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.datadictionary.nhs.uk", "title": "Supporting Information: NHS Business Services Authority", "raw_content": "The NHS Business Services Authority is a Special Health Authority.\nThe NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) provides a range of critical central services to NHS Organisations, NHS contractors, PATIENTS and the public.\nFor further information on the NHS Business Services Authority, see the NHS Business Services Authority website at: About us.\nshortname NHSBSA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.datadoctors.com/help/question/21142-Do-I-need-to-update-Office-too/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:37Z", "digest": "sha1:H4SHX6FRU7OFBFW6JWSHVA3437TDKVYR", "length": 3629, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.datadoctors.com", "title": "I know that Windows has regula (Question 21142)| Data Doctors Free Help", "raw_content": "Do I need to update Office too?\nI know that Windows has regular security updates, but is it also necessary to update Microsoft Office programs as well?\n(See our CNN video segment on this topic at: http://tinyurl.com/2w8zn3 )\nThe number of potential areas that an Internet 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backdoor to hijack computers that open the infected files.\n\u201cZero-day\u201d refers to the fact that within the same day that a security hole has been discovered (most commonly referred to as a \u201cvulnerability\u201d) the hackers have created an exploit and launched it on the Internet.\nIn the past, it would take weeks if not months for hackers to write the code to take advantage of the newly discovered security holes, but today it is almost instantaneous.\nThe hackers know that the quicker they act, the more people they can snare with the newly discovered hole before users get around to plugging the hole with a security update.\nTo that end, it is imperative that you always keep Microsoft Office updated (check at least once a month if you use the programs regularly) with the most current security patches and never open a file in an e-mail attachment, instant message or even on a website unless you absolutely know exactly what it is (don\u2019t let your curiosity turn you into a victim!)\nIf you want to make sure that you have the latest patches for any of the programs in Microsoft Office, you can click on the \u201cHelp\u201d menu, then on \u201cCheck for Updates\u201d\nOr you can go directly to http://office.microsoft.com and look in the upper right hand corner of the page for the \u201cCheck for Updates\u201d link.\nDepending upon how old your computer is and which operating system you are running, critical Office updates may already be delivered to you via the standard Microsoft Update system, but use the manual systems described above periodically to make sure you are protected.\nMany folks confuse Office as being part of the Windows operating system because so many computer companies pre-load it on new computers, but it is actually a completely separate set of programs and needs to be checked separately from Windows to be safe.\nIf you really want to keep up with all of the technical bulletins and security updates that Microsoft releases (especially for 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pays tribute to 'team player' Mike Spicer - DecisionMarketing", "raw_content": "Senior figures in the agency world have paid tribute to former Arc Worldwide and EHS Brann chief Mike Spicer, who has passed away, aged 51, following a battle with motor neurone disease.\nSpicer started his career at IMP in 1989 as an account executive, when John Farrell was managing director. He was one of the \u201c4 Amigos\u201d, together with John Quarrey, Ian Priest and Ian Millner, who all went on to create other great agencies that have changed the landscape for marketing services agencies.\nSpicer went on to become managing director of IMP\u2019s successor Arc in 1993, but left after a restructure of the business.\nHe then joined Media Square\u2019s marketing division as chairman, before switching to Havas Helia (then EHS Brann). Following that, Spicer spent five years at Pulse Group but joined integrated and shopper marketing agency B Street last year as managing director.\nOver the years, Spicer also played a key role in developing the Marketing Agencies Association, and was chairman of the MAA between 2009 and 2011.\nClive Mishon, one of the founding fathers of promotional marketing in the UK, said: \u201cA great light in the world of promotional marketing (or should I say sales promotion) has gone out. Mike was indeed a great light as he lit up a room, a client presentation and was the leading light in all the teams that he ran. At every position he ever held his leadership was characterised by building great teams, as he was only happy when being a team player.\n\u201cThis was born on the rugby fields of Whitgift and then as a player for many years for the Old Whitgiftians. Once he stopped playing rugby he became one of the great sporting spectators, always at Stamford Bridge in the winter and Lords or the Oval in the summer.\n\u201cThese terraces, as will our industry, will be a much less lively and enjoyable place to be without Mike. Everyone will miss him. RIP.\u201d\nDavid Harris, who worked with Spicer at IMP, added: \u201cIt wasn\u2019t so long ago when we thought we were immortal. We worked every hour under the sun. We did all nighters. We drank more than the gods of Jutland. We celebrated every win like a World Cup victory. We felt every loss like the end of the world.\n\u201cNow we are feeling the loss of one of us. A great team leader. Sharp, funny, confident and clever, Mike was someone who always had time for everyone. The last time I saw him in the summer he was speaking about his kids, bursting with pride at their successes.\n\u201cI hope they\u2019re equally proud of their dad. It was privilege to work alongside him and we\u2019ll miss him.\u201d\nJohn Quarrey also praised Spicer\u2019s leadership qualities, as well as his client handling and people skills. He said: \u201cMike was also simply the best person to go for a beer with or argue about football with.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Ian Priest added: \u201cPeople loved working for Mike and he always brought out the very best in people. His passion for clients\u2019 business, his easy charm and good humour as well as strong creative and strategic skills made him a very effective suit.\u201d\nSpicer leaves behind his wife Tracey and three boys: Jack, Joe and Harry.\nA memorial service will be held at 1.30pm on November 18 at Croydon Crematorium in Mitcham Road, Croydon, and then at Old Whitgiftians Rugby Club at Croham Manor Road in South Croydon.\nTOPICS:Mike Spicer\nPulse unveils Renault Bizu drive\nMarketing body unveils award to honour Mike Spicer\nSpicer takes Pulse Group top job\nMillner takes MAA chairmanship", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.delmartimes.net/sddmt-north-shore-softball-12u-team-in-carmel-valley-2014oct12-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YGB7RB7ZVKH4LTP2VRPZFVPKWN25HM76", "length": 2046, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.delmartimes.net", "title": "North Shore Softball 12U team in Carmel Valley celebrates historic season - Del Mar Times", "raw_content": "North Shore Softball 12U team in Carmel Valley celebrates historic season\nFront row (L-R): Alex W., Leah T., Kristen B., Madie W., Niki K., Sophia K. Middle row: Coach Jenny, Ava F., Valeria C., Valentina P., Hannah S., Rubie W., Jordan R., Chloe B. Back row: Coach James, Coach Dan, Coach Mike, Coach Steve, Coach Greg.\nNorth Shore Girls Softball League celebrates its 12U team\u2019s strong performance in the ASA Western Nationals Tournament this summer. The team finished 17th out of 44 teams from California, Nevada, Oregon, Montana and Hawaii in the competition in Roseville, Calif., in August.\nPlayers and families saw a week of pageantry, skills demonstrations and competition where the best teams from state-level tournaments battled to be the best in the West.\nSteve Walling, manager of North Shore\u2019s 12U team, said he was proud of this group of young women, many of whom have played together for several years without even qualifying for the State Championships.\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier for these girls,\u201d he said. \u201cThe way they played and came together as a team to beat great competition was truly impressive.\u201d\nNorth Shore started the tournament with two impressive wins, beating Roseville 14-0, then edging local rivals Escondido in a comeback win, 8-7. The team lost the next two games to Simi Valley and Foster City only by margins of 2-1.\nThe group had an impressive performance, even though some members of the team who played throughout the season were not able to compete in the tournament due to conflicts. \u201cWe\u2019re so proud of all these girls who played throughout the All-Star Season for their incredible ability to work hard and win together,\u201d said Randy Rechs, president of the North Shore Girls Softball League.\nThe 2014 12U team represents only a handful of teams who have qualified for the ASA Western Nationals Tournament in its 27-year history. The team will be honored in the opening ceremony of the 2015 season on Feb. 15. Registration for the Spring 2015 recreational season opened Oct. 1. To register, visit\nwww.NSGSL.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.derbycanal.org.uk/2016/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:48Z", "digest": "sha1:TZYKBHEHTEGWQFHUJZHFMHKMFRR3AIRB", "length": 1531, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.derbycanal.org.uk", "title": "June 2016 \u2013 Derby and Sandiacre Canal", "raw_content": "Our annual canal walk is on Tuesday 28th June!\nOur next Society meeting is on this coming Tuesday and is our annual walk and it will again be organised by David Hayes and Derek Hathaway, so you can be assured of a well researched and interesting exploration of a piece of our canal. It is always timed for midsummer so we are guaranteed good [...]\nRestoration of Sandiacre Lock\nOur plans for the restoration of the lock are progressing again and we have now received advice from the Environment Agency that the waste contained in the lock will need to be disposed of at a recognised waste processing site. We were required to sample the contents due partly to the site being a registered [...]\nOur Fencing Project\nSometimes the support we get from the public is overwhelming... As you may know we have been digging in the area of the Sandiacre bottom lock to determine where it is and how to restore it. We found the top of the coping stones about a foot below the surface. Part of the challenge was [...]\nBy Chris Reesfitzpatrick|2017-10-12T19:00:00+00:00June 24th, 2016|Working Party|0 Comments\nI\u2019m delighted to confirm that we have now received the formal licence for water abstraction from the River Derwent. This has been achieved due to the generosity of Celanese at Spondon. They held a substantial licence for abstraction of water for their manufacturing processes. Whilst the demise of the company has been very hard for [...]\nBy Chris Reesfitzpatrick|2017-10-12T19:00:00+00:00June 19th, 2016|Breaking News, News|1 Comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.designbull.co.uk/interview-with-andy-from-designbull/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:05Z", "digest": "sha1:67G6Z4NZ53IDPL2QFMEFOJXIHMQMCDSL", "length": 12159, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "www.designbull.co.uk", "title": "A branding interview with Andy from Designbull - Designbull", "raw_content": "This is a branding interview I gave back in 2016 as part of a Marketing research project. I think some of the questions are useful for any business wanting to re-evaluate their branding and positioning.\nPlease introduce yourself and what your company does.\nI\u2019m Andy Fuller, designer and founder of Designbull. We help tech start-up companies and business consultants clarify their business brand through roadmapping, logo design, branding and website design.\nTwo and a freelancer.\nIt has been competitive, there are over a hundred website and graphic design agencies listed in my local area. But I worry less about competitors now that I\u2019ve positioned the company on providing value, rather than price \u2013 and focus specifically on our core services that we specialise in: Roadmapping, Brand Strategy, Logo identity and website UI design.\nHow would you describe your unique qualities?\nThe feedback we get from our clients is that they do like the quality and the professionalism of our work over other competitors. We offer much more than graphic design \u2013 and we\u2019re competitive in what we offer. We\u2019ve been approached by clients a few times to help take over a spiralling web or brand project. Our style is varied \u2013 forward-facing, modern, agile design. but leans more . . So yeah, it\u2019s the quality of work and the professionalism, and a bit on cost as well.\nDo you have a group of target customers?\nI help tech and consultant start-ups firms we work with \u2013 and focus specifically on our core services that we specialise in: Roadmapping, Brand Strategy, Logo identity and website UI design.\nWe recently updated our website and positioned us toward the tech and consultant start-ups firms we work with. Over the years we\u2019ve done a lot of work for these types of companies, setting up online businesses that need to have a front-facing, modern, technology minded front to their company.\nAnd how did you decide that they were the target audience?\nOrganically growing and doing the type of work over the years, the visual side of the portfolio the work brings those types of clients in. So, to focus even more what we\u2019re working at is presenting just the types of clients we want to work with. So the projects we\u2019ve got at the moment are branding and web app. One of our clients (name removed), that\u2019s a sort of perfect target market. They\u2019re a small co., but they\u2019re growing and they want to have modern technology and a good brand so they can get better clients they work with, big corporates.\nAnd talk to me about your brand?\nThe brand came about really just a name was really more focused on myself and a: it was memorable, it was a play on words. Other design agencies come up with sort of complicated speak, get straight to the point, make it really simple. But also the name has connotations to the history of branding, farming. So there\u2019re little thoughts you\u2019re trying to put into people\u2019s minds.\nSo it\u2019s a play, it\u2019s a bit of upfront and cutting through the bullshit, very clear.\nSummary: When you\u2019re coming up with the brand message, seems like you looked at your competitors and you realised that so many of them using jargon. Yeah, I suppose they all come across as chin stroking, intelligent design type people, we\u2019re really cool, like, design intellect.\nAnd you wanted to differentiate yourself from that, is that right?\nYeah, obviously we do the same thing, the name sort of makes it more simple, more approachable, rather than expensive agency.\nSo that\u2019s the message you want to give?\nWell that\u2019s where it started off from , I mean, you know, I always had concerns about the name, but, hmm\u2026 I think perception wise for clients and customers, it\u2019s only a small part I think, It\u2019s obviously the first impression, people question, \u201cwhat does it mean?\u201d They want to find out what it means. So rather than just the obvious, logo design.com.\nDo you think it catches their attention?\nYeah, and it gets the right types of clients. They like the simple designs, and the logo and the name are very simple, thoughtful, just thinking behind it. So it makes them think.\nOk, so, that kind of I guess helps you communicate with your clients? Yeah, maybe they\u2019re at a stage where they\u2019re confused, mixed messages in their branding, or they\u2019re new co, they have to set the vision of what they want and they come across my site my identity through referrals or my identity and then they see simplicity. So yeah, most people said \u201coh yeah, I get it [the name]\u201d.\nSo obviously it\u2019s a certain type of people, I imagine top corporate don\u2019t get it.\nYeah, so, it\u2019s more of a secondary thing. Once people get to know me the clients know me, it\u2019s actually me. The negative side, sometimes people think my name is \u2026[brand name]. (laughs). That\u2019s mainly from sales calls, they think that my company name after me. But that\u2019s not a bad thing.\nYou said you recently updated your website. What made you take that step to change your website?\nThe website initially said \u201cI do logo design and a bit of website design\u201d So that\u2019s originally was great, when starting up years ago. So you get someone in they need a logo design, mainly new companies and then after that they get a business card, stationery, and a website, and the rest of the marketing materials. But then over the course of the year, realised through my mentor that I can offer briefing.\nMost clients don\u2019t know what they want. We offer more, discovery sessions. Basically helping then formulate a clear brief which is part of the marketing plan that they have. So we change the website to focus more on these. So it\u2019s like a process really, road plan for a new start up company, so we kind of hold their hand through the process of naming, maybe, strategy, so it\u2019s part of the brand. Once that\u2019s done then we look at the logo, etc. and then the website or the mobile app. So there are four stages or four service offering. And that worked really well.\nAn existing client saw my website and said \u201cI didn\u2019t know you did all this.\u201d So that\u2019s opened up the work.\nSo you realised that there was a need for that type of process?\nYeah, again with my mentor, they did the research because we work in very similar industries. They had the same experience, they offer this road mapping session. It\u2019s a very useful tool. Nobody else really offers this in the local area, so it\u2019s a novel thing, it\u2019s an interesting thing. It\u2019s basically a long briefing session but we get paid for it, rather than we sit down with the client for two hours giving free advice. We\u2019re actually charging for it, but they\u2019re receiving value in having clear decisions and a road map for what they want. So, that\u2019s different. Everyone else does the template. Big agencies do something similar, but more discovery rather than road mapping. This unique service is you say is new and different in the local area.\nAs well as this, do you think that your brand and brand message is helping you differentiate?\nYeah, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m using it as much as I should be doing. Maybe because of the fear, the main issue that\u2019s holding me back, it\u2019s the fear of using it to the most.\nTrying and testing stuff out. So for example, like, putting up new services and moving forward with clear different services, which is what we do. It took a while, firstly, should I be doing this?\nAm I good enough? So, fear of thinking that you can\u2019t offer this but you can. So it\u2019s overcoming fear mainly. And realising when you get feedback from, not just from clients but from other people \u201cyou\u2019re actually quite good\u201d. So it gives the confidence to clarify and use the messaging that we have more. This \u2018s what I\u2019m looking at, making more of that, and not being afraid of not using it. People might say, \u201coh what does it mean? \u201c\nYour brand message you mean?\nYeah, (the tagline removed). I think I should be using more of that to clarify and differentiate. Just to make it clear. So these are the messages, so we stand out, again it\u2019s going back to standing out from the others and positioning ourselves to stay this who we are this is what we do.\nRather that vaguely saying, We\u2019re (name), we do a bit of this and a bit of that, just this is it this what we do, rather than hiding and not using it. Often having a back story and personality to the name. Is it the message you want to give, (tagline removed)? I think so, I hope so, I don\u2019t know. What people think is the worry. But it\u2019s always been there and it worked, so yeah it\u2019s a hard thing to pin down I think. But it conveys an image to me and the business. They know that we get the job done, we\u2019re quick. That\u2019s the message that gets through.\nThe existing clients know that they can rely on us. You know it\u2019s straight to the point and clear. So part of the services what we\u2019re trying to offer is clarity. Yeah, I\u2019m still working on it.\nWhen you were coming up with your positioning strategy, did you look at your customers and what they want?\nNo, not really. There\u2019s a little bit of testing out and see what sticks. It\u2019s actually about the work rather than the name or the messaging. The name (removed) is just like a little stamp, watermark on the picture. They look at the work that\u2019s been produced, obviously the quality and the style. Especially in visual communications business, this is what we are mainly. It\u2019s all about the work.\nI\u2019ve always wondered about what would happen if changed the name, but worried about having to start again and coming up with a new name. But looking other companies who have done it. Companies come to us to refresh or to change their names, maybe because the market has changed. So, at the moment it\u2019s ok and I am happy with it. So there\u2019s that funny feeling about it at the back of my mind.\nSo you\u2019re not quite sure?\nYeah. So part of my problem with the messaging is that it\u2019s there but not being advertised. So, I\u2019m not actually communicating the messaging. If that makes sense? And that\u2019s because? The time and cost of it. Making the decision and just doing it. We\u2019ve done it, it\u2019s always evolving as well. Always tweaking and making changes. And that makes a real difference. And again going back to the feedback of how amazing the website is, I think it\u2019s because constantly twiddling with it to update it.\nSo, I suppose that\u2019s always keeping ahead of the technology and techniques. So it\u2019s always being able to offer a lot of services within branding and digital. So it\u2019s a lot of services we offer and I\u2019m trying to put everything together in a more cohesive stuff that can be available and expanding these offers to clients, and on the website it\u2019s about making it clear and also with my larger team which is advertised again on the site, we started to compete with bigger agencies rather than as a freelancer and a one band man. So that messaging rather that just the name. Name is a name, now the messaging has changed, now, it\u2019s not I am but we are.\nDo you do any research on your customers?\nA little bit, using segmenting in our mailing lists of subscribers to the newsletter. I don\u2019t do any advertising, and I don\u2019t think I will. The best way to use money is to put relevant information that\u2019s useful and fits to what we provide, so we talk about what\u2019s brand and how to design a logo. It\u2019s sharing useful information and putting that out every month. It takes up a lot of time but it\u2019s only time rather than the cost of paying advertising and it\u2019s doable. And also that helps keep in contact with existing clients.\nHelps with Networking?\nYeah, the messaging is making it clearer to existing clients and to subscribers.\nDo you think that there\u2019s a match between what you offer and what customers want?\nYes and no. It\u2019s a difficult one. What we do is to teach potential prospects how we do things they assume that they need a logo. So you have to teach them to educate them this is how you do it. If you really want to invest in your business don\u2019t get a cheap logo because it makes you look cheap. I don\u2019t think we\u2019re not where we want to be. We want to get bigger projects and now we changed our positioning and message to show that we\u2019re a bigger agency that can cope with bigger things. Rather than offer a cheap logo design we can offer a more substantial service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 14087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.developer.com/security/article.php/3301011/HIPAA-Security-Rule---What-Software-Developers-Should-Know.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:7H4PAFQU3DAXE425TFBGSEI5OYGRV3ZH", "length": 6855, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.developer.com", "title": "HIPAA Security Rule - What Software Developers Should Know - Developer.com", "raw_content": "HIPAA Security Rule - What Software Developers Should Know\nBy Keith Pasley, CISSP\nDo you develop software that has even the remote possibility of being used by a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)[1] covered entity? If so, what should you know about the HIPAA security rule when developing software? Most of the security rule standards are increasingly becoming \"good programming\" and may already be incorporated in the systems development cycle of software vendors. However, there are some HIPAA security concepts that need to be emphasized to software developers, should their software be used by businesses that are considered \"covered entities\" under HIPAA security regulations.\nPHI -Related Software Development\nHIPAA defines protected health information (PHI)[2] as \"any information, whether oral or recorded in any form or medium\" that\n\"[i]s created or received by a health care provider, health plan, public health authority, employer, life insurer, school or university, or health care clearinghouse\"; and\n\"[r]elates to the past, present, or future physical or mental health or condition of an individual; the provision of health care to an individual; or the past, present, or future payment for the provision of health care to an individual.\"\nIn short PHI is information that is identifiable to a certain person that includes health information. PHI data is the target of protection, as covered by the security rule. The security rule for PHI only applies if the PHI data is electronically transmitted or received by a covered entity. If the data is covered by HIPAA security rule then the law requires the customer (covered entity) to: \"Implement technical policies and procedures for electronic information systems that maintain electronic PHI to allow access only to those persons or software programs that have been granted access rights as specified\". Thus the covered entity is mandated to protect the PHI while allowing only authorized access, as needed.\nCovered entities have been advised by the HIPAA regulators to work with their software vendors in producing software that will help their security rule compliance efforts. Therefore, when performing the requirements analysis phase of systems design, you may be prompted by customers, who are covered entities, to provide an explanation of how your system design features map to various HIPAA security rule standards. In other cases, software applications will have to be redesigned or modified to fit specific security compliancy objectives of individual covered entities. In many cases, HIPAA security rule technical standards compliance will be gained by small adjustments to existing security posture of the covered entity. In such cases, the ability to integrate into existing security architectures will be a key to effecting compliance.\nIf you are developing PHI related software applications one person on the client side who will probably have input into the design requirements is the Information Security Officer (ISO). Covered entities are mandated by HIPAA to designate someone as the ISO, the person responsible for implementing HIPAA security rules. The ISO can be someone with a security background or can literally be anyone designated as such, regardless of experience. ISO responsibilities include setting up user accounts, controlling authorization and access controls, and emergency access contingency plans. These will be major discussion points in developing requirements for software systems that must be comply with the HIPAA security rule.\nReasonably Anticipated Threat Protection\nIt is impossible to build a system that is completely secure. The stated objective of the security rule is to establish standards to \" protect against reasonably anticipated threats or hazards and improper use or disclosure.\" Viruses, malicious code, password cracking, social engineering, and other threats that are common to most business networks must be considered in designing PHI-related software systems. The HIPAA security rule provides criminal and civil liability in cases where covered entities experience security breaches due to not implementing whatever required standard as proscribed by the security rule. Healthcare-informed software developers will understand that this reason, along with the anticipated savings opportunity, will be a major reason for the covered entities to seek compliance. Keep in mind that the security rule sets the minimum standard of securing data. Good security practice generally provides for much more protection than is simply covered by the security rule. Likely, HIPAA security rule compliance, in some cases, will be a subset of an already existing organizational security policy and architecture.\nSoftware developers should be aware of the goals of the HIPAA security and privacy rules, that of providing confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected health information. PHI data must be accessible to authorized entities and persons, kept private from unauthorized viewing and must be protected from unauthorized modification or deletion.\nAlso, note that are 18 technical security standards and 36 implementation specifications that developers should be aware of.[3] Security Rule implementation specifications contain more detailed instructions on either required implementation steps or optional choices in implementing a HIPAA security standards. When working with PHI related customer applications be aware that some implementation specifications are required and some are addressable. Addressable means that implementation of an implementation specification is an option. Covered entities are given flexibility in implementation depending on such factors as the security risk involved, size of the organization, cost of the procedures to comply, technical infrastructure, and capabilities.\nWhat does this mean to software developers? It is because of this flexibility, covered entities in the same line of business may have different implementations of the same standard. The important point is that during the early phase of software design think in terms of risks associated with the application, reasonably anticipated threats to the security of the application, and flexibility of implementation specifications based on unique requirements of covered entities.\nHealth and Human Service Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services\nDefinitions of PHI\nOr see page 8374 of Federal Register Vol. 68 No. 34, of Part 160.\nRule Standards and Implementation Specification\nKeith Pasley, CISSP is an information security professional with over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry. He has designed security architectures and implemented security strategies for both government and commercial sectors. Pasley has written articles on various security related subjects.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 10098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/how-one-devon-mum-started-886663", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NUTEX2MWS544DQN5MI543OBPZVTEPF53", "length": 5832, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.devonlive.com", "title": "How one Devon mum started a new business and changed her life - Devon Live", "raw_content": "How one Devon mum started a new business and changed her life\nNow Rudds Wellies are worn by Zara Phillips and Deborah Meaden\nWhen Rachel Rudd first moved to Devon, she had two tiny children and was keen to make the very most of life by the sea in Salcombe.\n\u201cSo I went out and bought a very expensive pair of wellies for walking on the beach and in the woods,\u201d she remembers.\n\u201cI had high hopes of them but they were such a disappointment,\u201d she says.\n\u201cMy feet were cold, they were uncomfortable and then, within a ridiculously short time, they split and started to leak,\u201d she said.\n\u201cI can vividly remember going on a day out with the children with cold, wet feet and feeling really cross about spending \u00a390 on a pair of wellies that had turned out to be such a waste of money. I thought to myself, \u2018I bet I can do better than this\u2019 - and that was the start of the business.\u201d\nRachel got the idea for her business venture after long walks by the sea with her family\nThe idea of making really good, comfy wellies was an idea that \u201cJust wouldn\u2019t go away\u201d Rachel explains. And so she began researching the possibility of making boots that don\u2019t leak and yet are truly pleasant to wear all day.\n\u201cI did so much market research,\u201d she remembers. \u201cIt soon became clear that, although wellies can be seen as a bit of a fashion item these days, for the people who wear them day in, day out, they are a real problem. Horse riders, dog walkers and farmers in particular were really desperate for wellies that were actually comfortable to wear and can be relied on not to spring a leak.\u201d\nRachel, who was then working as a medical centre manager, designed some boots in response to her researches and sent out \u201chundreds\u201d of pairs to people to try out. \u201cI wanted to make sure the boots really did last,\u201d she says.\nFinally, Rachel, took a stand at the Horse of the Year show in October 2016 and her first boots - aimed at riders and dog walkers - were launched. As well as being comfortable and long-lasting, they are designed so that you can safely ride in them and not get your feet stuck in the stirrups. They also have an adjustable calf width: \u201cSo many people complained that the calves were too tight in their wellies,\u201d says Rachel. What is more, they have a steel insert in the sole for stability. \u201cWe also have a comfortable neoprene liner so you really can wear them all day,\u201d she says.\nWhy 500,000 of these unique Devon parsnips will be on dinner tables across the UK this Christmas\n\u201cPerhaps that stems from my healthcare background \u2013 I used to work in healthcare management. No medicine or drug ever comes out unless it has been trialled and tested. Quality has always been the overriding thing for me and it has delayed things massively because I\u2019ve waited for the right things to come together.\"\nRachel with her children Arlo, nine and Ida, five\nRachel admits that she always knew she wanted to run her own business and becoming a parent to Arlo (nine) and Ida (five) just spurred her on: \u201cI feel so much more confident now than I did in my twenties and so far this has been an amazing adventure,\u201d she says. In June this year her husband Niall left his full-time job in IT to join Rachel in her venture, called Rudds Wellies. \u201cIt is a family business and it is lovely for us to be working together,\u201d she says. \"we are very much based here in our home town of Salcombe and even have a pop up shop in the town over Christmas.\nThe reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Now, top equestrian champion Zara Phillips has a pair. Her mother, Princess Anne, visited one of Rachel\u2019s stands at a horse show and was \u201cvery impressed,\u201d says Rachel. Another fan is Dragon\u2019s Den star Deborah Meaden, who announced: \u201cAnd I can now tell you having worn them for weeks... Rudds are officially my favourite wellies!\u201d\nIt\u2019s small wonder that they are proving so popular. Rachel commissioned an expert rubber chemist in the USA to create the special formula for each of her types of boot. As well as the \u201cRiding Rudds\u201d which retail at \u00a3130, Rachel will also be launching Sailing Rudds and Farming Rudds in 2018. The sailing wellies are saltwater-resistant, the farm boots resistant to milk and lactic acid and the horse-riding boots are resistant to stable muck.\nHow Christine Keeler and Torquay vicar's son Stephen Ward brought down the Government\nRachel also worked with Falmouth University on devising the extra-sturdy soles of Rudds Riding Wellies. \u201cSixty per cent of people I surveyed said \u2018We know we\u2019re not supposed to ride horses in wellies but we do\u2019, so I devised a way to make the boots OK to wear for mucking out the stable and then also riding.\u201d All the boots are guaranteed for 12 months.\nThe boots are aimed at riders and walkers\nWhen she\u2019s not working from home or whizzing around the country for trade shows, Rachel can be found on Salcombe estuary, rowing one of the local club\u2019s Cornish pilot gigs. She and her family are firmly ensconced in Salcombe\u2019s community, primarily through their passion for outdoor pursuits. The family\u2019s favourite walk is down Beadon Lane from home to North Sands beach. As a result, another project in the pipeline is a range of children\u2019s Rudds Wellies.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll go down to The Winking Prawn for an icecream and then along into town for a hot chocolate or treats at Cranches sweet shop then back home. That\u2019s how I love spending our day and we are always going for stomps down to the beach. That\u2019s why we are in wellies all the time,\u201d says Rachel.\nIndeed, Rachel credits her life in south Devon with her business success. \u201cI have been so inspired by all the entrepreneurs and creative people living here. It gave me the courage to start my own business,\u201d she explains. \u201cEverywhere around me people are doing things for themselves. So Salcombe\u2019s identity and way of life inspires me to do something special, too.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 12685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dhsflipside.com/2010/09/chilean-miners-ask-to-%E2%80%9Cchill-down-here-for-a-while%E2%80%9D/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:20Z", "digest": "sha1:KSXMIYVPV7QFEG3PKYOZZ4FR4XQOROAC", "length": 1786, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.dhsflipside.com", "title": "Chilean Miners Ask To \u201cChill Down Here For A While\u201d | The DHS Flipside", "raw_content": "Chilean Miners Ask To \u201cChill Down Here For A While\u201d\nBy Jeremy Hoodaman\nCHILE \u2014 Thirty-three miners trapped underground in Chile sent a handwritten note on Sunday requesting a few extra months to \u201chang out in the mine.\u201d\nDespite initial concerns for the miners, who are forced to live in a small shelter located 2,230 feet underground for months on end, they are apparently having a really good time. The miners receive a daily 2,000-calorie diet consisting of warm bread, delectable ham, frosty milk shakes, and kiwis. Along with a large supply of necessities, rescuers are also sending luxury items down to the trapped men. \u201cThanks for the iPod!\u201d miner Sergio Aguila wrote in a message sent topside. \u201cThe mine is kind of dusty, but this baby has 64 gigs! Worth it!\u201d\nThe miners, who have a land line for calling loved ones and a team of attentive psychiatrists, enjoy such activities as fort-building and creating secret handshakes. Sources pin their friendship bracelets as being baby blue with a smiley face bead, though these reports are unconfirmed.\n\u201cThe way I see it, I get to enjoy a little time away from my nagging mother-in-law,\u201d said Luiz Uzrua in a live phone interview with Oprah Winfrey on her critically acclaimed talk show, \u201cand I kind of like not having to deal with religious oppression on a regular basis. Also, hi Oprah!\u201d\nRescuers are perplexed by the miners\u2019 shouts of dismay that accompanies their every attempt to rescue them. \u201cWhen we tried to widen the six-inch hole that leads from the surface to the mine, they started yelling for us to \u2018turn the lights off\u2019, as we were apparently interrupting their \u2018strobe light rave extravaganza,\u2019\u201d says Tom Perry, the head of the rescue effort. \u201cTo be honest, I feel bad. They seem to be having a good ol\u2019 time down there\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com/speaker/dr-max-davie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TGJEOQGGQ2TLFUX6NANPBJMEEMOUJDKU", "length": 437, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.diabetesprofessionalcare.com", "title": "Dr Max Davie | Diabetes Professional Care", "raw_content": "Health Promotion Officer,\nMax Davie is a consultant community paediatrician, working in Lambeth as part of Guy\u2019s and St Thomas\u2019 Hospital NHS Trust Community services. He has a special clinical interest in the assessment and diagnosis of neurodevelopmental conditions in school-age children. He recently became Officer for Health Promotion at the RCPCH, where he is working on population health issues including mental health and obesity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 188.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.digitalalchemy.global/the-mysteries-behind-marketing-automation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:44Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4ALBBND3UYED4YXBPBDGLUQVFYGRFXT", "length": 371, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.digitalalchemy.global", "title": "Digital Alchemy | The Mysteries Behind Marketing Automation", "raw_content": "Digital Alchemy | The Mysteries Behind Marketing Automation\nIt\u2019s well known that automated marketing is a major component of any modern day marketing strategy. On the flip side, what is not widely known is how to use it to its full potential.\nMake sure you\u2019ve got the facts and fiction sorted with this infographic that explains the mysteries behind Marketing Automation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dillystreehouse.com/old-macdonald-had-a-farm-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:41Z", "digest": "sha1:JO5MAPDHVPBTEDIOPMGSFNSD42W3VK2M", "length": 59, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dillystreehouse.com", "title": "Old MacDonald Had a Farm - Dilly's Tree House", "raw_content": "/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/10-Old-MacDonald-Had-A-Farm.mp3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 108.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.diversityabroad.com/members/jiawei-wang", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:37Z", "digest": "sha1:D5OR75BC2PGC2D7XA4KWP4UCPU3AINUT", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.diversityabroad.com", "title": "Student \u2192 Profile View | DiversityAbroad.com", "raw_content": "Penn State University - Major in Psychology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 1831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.divinitybc.org/mod/forum/view-thread.php?thread_id=7281", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:36Z", "digest": "sha1:JIETATTA3JSHYVSLWB4JZYMMIGQRWSAX", "length": 8155, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.divinitybc.org", "title": "Divinity Missionary Baptist Church - www.pittsburghsteelersteamstore.com", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Forums \u00bb Site Forum \u00bb www.pittsburghsteelersteamstore.com\nwww.pittsburghsteelersteamstore.com\nDiscussion: www.pittsburghsteelersteamstore.com\nIt didn\u2019t seem to matter much who was pitching against DJ LeMahieu. After striking out in his first at-bat Customized Pittsburgh Steelers Jerseys , the Rockies leadoff hitter was as locked in as he\u2019s been all season. Especially in the ninth inning when Colorado trailed.LeMahieu hit a two-run homer in the ninth and set a career best with five RBIs as the Rockies rallied past the San Francisco Giants 9-8 on Thursday to snap a four-game losing streak. \u201dIt was a good one to win,\u201d LeMahieu said. \u201dI feel like we\u2019ve been on the other end of that for the last couple of weeks so it was good to win that one late.\u201dNolan Arenado hit his 19th home run, tying him for the National League lead with Washington\u2019s Bryce Harper. Trevor Story added three hits for Colorado, which had lost four straight at San Francisco.The Rockies blew leads of 5-2 and 7-5 and were down 8-7 before scoring twice off closer Sam Dyson (2-2) to avoid a series sweep.Chris Iannetta hit a leadoff single in the ninth and was replaced by pinch-runner Pat Valaika. After pinch-hitter Tom Murphy popped out, LeMahieu sent a full-count pitch from Dyson into the left-field stands.Two nights earlier, Dyson got LeMahieu to ground into a game-ending double play with the tying run on base.\u201dIt was roughly where we wanted,\u201d Dyson said. \u201dI figured we\u2019d go (inside) like we did two nights ago. Just didn\u2019t get it far enough in there.\u201dIt was a big hit for a ballclub that had been 0-37 when trailing going into the ninth.\u201dThat was a big swing when the momentum shifted back to them in a big way,\u201d Rockies manager Bud Black said. \u201dIt takes a special moment and a special swing to get it back on our side and DJ put a great swing on that ball. It was awesome.\u201dLeMahieu had an RBI single as part of Colorado\u2019s four-run fourth. His two-run single off Ty Blach in the seventh gave the Rockies a 7-5 lead.Each of LeMahieu\u2019s hits came off different pitchers.\u201dHe knows the opposition, he knows pitchers,\u201d Black said. \u201dHe\u2019s as prepared as any player I\u2019ve been around.\u201dAdam Ottavino (4-1) gave up two runs but retired three batters to win. Wade Davis pitched the ninth for his 22nd save.All three games in the series were decided by one run.Brandon Belt hit a two-run homer Customized San Francisco 49ers Jerseys , Joe Panik had two hits and two RBIs while Pablo Sandoval and Andrew McCutchen also had two hits for San Francisco.The Giants trailed most of the afternoon but took an 8-7 lead in the eighth when Alen Hanson doubled in two runs.\u201dThat was a hard fought game,\u201d San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. \u201dTough one when you have a lead in the ninth and we couldn\u2019t hold on to it. Sam was just a little bit off.\u201dArenado homered off starter Chris Stratton in the first, his 10th this season in the opening frame.It was also Arenado\u2019s 10th career home run at AT&T Park, tying former Rockies infielder Troy Tulowitzki for second-most among visiting players. Arizona\u2019s Paul Goldschmidt has 11.Neither starter factored in the decision and had nearly identical lines.Stratton allowed five runs on eight hits in four innings. Colorado\u2019s Jon Gray also gave up five runs in four innings but yielded seven hits with seven strikeouts.BACK TO BACKGiants catcher Nick Hundley threw out a pair of runners trying to steal second base in consecutive at-bats in the eighth. Story hit a leadoff single but was thrown out. Gerardo Parra then reached on an error but was quickly erased when he tried to take secondGOLDEN COMPANYGolden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, a noted Dodgers fan, attended the game and sat next to the Giants dugout, at one point reaching over to shake hands with Bochy.TRAINER\u2019S ROOMGiants: C Buster Posey was held out of the starting lineup due to the pitching matchup but had a pinch-hit single in the eighth.UP NEXTRockies: LHP Tyler Anderson (4-3, 4.62 ERA) faces the Dodgers in the opener of a three-game series in Los Angeles on Friday. Anderson is unbeaten in nine road starts this season.Giants: LHP Andrew Suarez (2-4, 4.43) takes the hill against the Diamondbacks on Friday.MINNEAPOLIS \u2014 After wearing the same uniform for the past four seasons with the Tampa Bay Rays, Alex Cobb and Jake Odorizzi face off Sunday as Cobb\u2019s Baltimore Orioles try to avoid a sweep when they take on Odorizzi and the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.With the Rays in a full-blown rebuild Customized Seattle Seahawks Jerseys , both pitchers found new homes this past spring. Odorizzi was traded to Minnesota early in spring training while Cobb was one of the many free agents who waited out an unnerving winter before eventually signing a four-year, $57 million deal with Baltimore late in camp.Now, only a week away from the All-Star break, neither pitcher \u2014 nor his team \u2014 is having the kind of season they anticipated Opening Day. It\u2019s been especially painful for Cobb (2-10, 6.53 ERA), whose deal was the largest offered to an Orioles pitcher. The right-hander was expected to be a stabilizing force in a rotation that had designs on a postseason berth but instead, he slumped out of the gate and went 2-9 with a 7.14 ERA through his first 12 starts in an Orioles\u2019 uniform.Through that, there have been flashes of the pitcher Baltimore had in mind when it made the deal. He\u2019s held opponents to three earned runs or fewer in eight of his 15 starts overall, including his last time out when he held the Phillies to three while striking out five in 6 2/3 innings.\u201cAlex is going to be a good pitcher,\u201d Orioles manager Buck Showalter said. \u201cHe is a good pitcher at times this year. It\u2019s hard. It\u2019s hard. He\u2019s hardened from pitching in the American League. He knows the fine line between success and failure.\u201dWith his team holding baseball\u2019s worst record and buried in the basement of a division dominated by the Yankees and Red Sox Customized Tampa Bay Buccaneers Jerseys , Cobb knows the playoffs aren\u2019t even a pipe dream at this point. But he still has a goal of finishing the season strong and setting the stage for a bounce-back campaign in 2019.\u201cI don\u2019t want to say take it almost spring training-like, but we have to do whatever it takes for each and every one of us to get better going forward,\u201d Cobb said. \u201cWhen you get hung up on results, I think that you let that cloud the process that\u2019s going on to make yourself get better. I don\u2019t want it to be framed to any fans or front office, coaching staff, that we\u2019re not going out there trying to win ballgames. We absolutely are, every single night.\u201cBut we also need to not be so result-oriented and take the small progressions that we\u2019re making and get better. If we want to compete later on this year, next year, we need to get better each and every one of us \u2014 individually.\u201dCobb is 2-0 with a 2.20 ERA in three starts versus Minnesota.Things haven\u2019t been much better in the Twin Cities, where Odorizzi (3-6 Customized Tennessee Titans Jerseys , 4.57 ERA) was expected to be a key addition to a Twins team that was thought to be a contender with Cleveland for the AL Central title after making an unexpected trip to the American League wild-card game a year ago.He opened the year on a high note, going 3-2 with a 3.17 ERA through his first 10 outings but has struggled with consistency since, posting a 6.81 ERA over his last eight starts.\u201cIt\u2019s upsetting and frustrating \u2026 it\u2019s not something I take lightly,\u201d Odorizzi said of his struggles late last month. \u201cI take a lot of pride in getting guys out. Trust me, I\u2019m more frustrated about this than anybody in this clubhouse. This has been one of the tougher stretches in my short big-league career.\u201dOdorizzi has shown signs of bouncing back in his last two outings. He held the White Sox scoreless for six innings, allowing three hits while striking out eight, but took a no-decision June 28 in Chicago and followed that with a strong showing in Milwaukee where the Brewers managed only two runs while striking out nine times over five innings.Odorizzi, who hasn\u2019t won since May 8, is 5-4 with a 4.42 ERA in 19 games (18 starts) versus Baltimore.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 10787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dkandco.com/about-our-legal-practice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:07Z", "digest": "sha1:C2UKVAKUSNMGXRQQ2YT4TVL7HUBPVHMS", "length": 1022, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dkandco.com", "title": "David Kruer & Company, LLC - About Our Legal Practice", "raw_content": "Bankruptcy expertise born from experience\nOur law office understands that when people hire an attorney, they are often experiencing a stressful situation. Our clients need someone who cares about them and doesn't simply go through the motions. For that reason, we make sure our clients not only receive high-quality legal services, but also the competent compassion they deserve.\nFor many years, the attorneys and staff of David Kruer & Company, LLC has been providing expert bankruptcy assistance with a team of attorneys who are focused on all aspects of bankruptcy law. We have limited our area of practice to the field of bankruptcy and are at the cutting edge of that type of law.\nWe have many years of experience in all types of bankruptcy from consumer chapter 7 and 13 cases to complex chapter 11 filings.\nWe provide expert advice and representation by knowledgeable attorneys in the field of bankruptcy.\nWe provide viable alternatives to bankruptcy filing when appropriate or necessary in order to protect assets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.doctor-clinic.org/blog/should-you-visit-a-doctor-or-use-home-remedies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LGWOE7ZEHEIVPKT5KBPHPWUJ6M75MP7Q", "length": 2296, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.doctor-clinic.org", "title": "Should You Visit A Doctor Or Use Home Remedies?", "raw_content": "Should You Visit A Doctor Or Use Home Remedies?\nBelieve it or not, this is definitely a tough question to answer. We cannot tell you what the best option is for you but we need to highlight the fact that whenever you feel that there is something wrong with your body, it is really smart to go to the doctor. Even if there are some home remedies that can be used and that would bring in some great results, the medic is the one that has to highlight whether or not you need antibiotics or regular medicine. There are diseases that cannot be stopped with home remedies, although some product manufacturers will try to convince you of something else.\nIf You Can Use Home Remedies\nIn the event that the doctor tells you that you can use home remedies, you can easily go online and visit sites like best-home-remedies.com in order to learn more about the various opportunities that are available while being able to buy something that is actually what you need.\nOne thing that many do not know is that many of the natural products that are sold at the moment, especially on the internet, are not useful. They may not do what is said they do or they may not contain enough of the active substance that you need. You need to be patient and read all that you can about the products you think about buying. This is the only way in which you can be 100% sure that you would make the best choice and that the remedy would work well.\nIf You Can\u2019t Use Home Remedies\nIn the event that the doctor tells you that home remedies are not a good idea and that you need help from regular medicine, it is still a good idea to take a look at the remedies that can aid regular medicine to work well. In many cases there are some plants that you can use to ease the pain that you need or to help your body become stronger.\nIt is a very good idea that you are patient and that you learn all that you can about the various home remedies that can make you stronger. This is quite useful since when your body is strong, it is more capable of fighting illness. So many situations exist in which the body cannot fight since it is too weak. Making the body stronger is very smart and can easily help you to improve your quality of life.\nPosted in Health Tags: diseases that cannot be stopped with home remedies, regular medicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 210.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.druginjurylawyerblog.com/fda_recalls_medtronics_minimed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:19Z", "digest": "sha1:X45UG5ZQQY5AITLH2PC5LNA2SZH3ZJNF", "length": 1658, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.druginjurylawyerblog.com", "title": "FDA recalls Medtronics Minimed Paradigm Insulin Pumps Over Insulin Concerns \u2014 Drug Injury Lawyer Blog \u2014 July 18, 2013", "raw_content": "According to the FDA\u2019s website, Medtronic is taking this action for the Medtronic MiniMed Paradigm Insulin Infusion Sets because of a potential safety issue that can occur if insulin or other fluids come in contact with the inside of the tubing connector. If this occurs it can temporarily block the vents that allow the pump to properly prime. This can result in too much or too little insulin being delivered resulting in hypoglycemia or hyperglycemia which can be severe and lead to serious illness. This failure can cause diabetic ketoacidosis.\nThe FDA Class I Recall, initiated on June 7th, affected products that were manufactured from October, 2001 through June, 2013 and distributed from December, 2001 through June, 2013. Patients are advised that if they notice anything unusual during the infusion set prime process such as the insulin continuing to drip from the tip of the infusion set cannula when priming has been completed, this may indicate that the connector vents are not working properly. Patients are encouraged to visit the FDA\u2019s website to see if their device is affected by the recall.\nAccording to reports, Amanda Sheldon, spokesperson for Medtronics, acknowledged that the company has received reports of patients brought to hospitals which may be related to this issue. The company has not confirmed yet if these cases were related or if there were deaths that occurred.\nIf you or a loved one may have been injured while utilizing Medtronic\u2019s Minimed Paradigm Insulin Pump, you may have a legal claim against Medtronics. 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It's common knowledge today that these all can lead to heart trouble. But in the 1940s, with one in two deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and even after President Franklin Roosevelt died from the effects of heart failure and a massive stroke, the information would have been considered revolutionary.\nThe world has changed by leaps and bounds since Oct. 11, 1948, when, prompted by legislation signed after the president's death, researchers examined the first community volunteer for the Framingham Heart Study. The volunteer was one of 5,209 mostly white women and men who participated in physicals, lab samples and questionnaires, and who agreed to return every two years. About two-thirds of adults in the town took part.\nSince then, the FHS, now a joint project of Boston University and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, has taken in three generations of ever more diverse, and unpaid, participants. The study launched offshoots in 1994 and 2003 to include more races and ethnicities. That's 15,447 people of varying ages and backgrounds who are part of the science looking into the human genome, the brain and countless other high-tech side trips into the human body and the roots of disease.\n\"Every part of the body that can be measured, imaged or assessed, we've done so over the last 70 years,\" said Dr. Vasan S. Ramachandran, principal investigator and director of the study for Boston University. \"It's a remarkable human experiment. It's with humility I say that. It's unbelievable, and to be part of it is a gift, a privilege and an honor.\"\nFramingham popularized the idea of cardiovascular risk factors, the conditions or behaviors that increase the chances of having a heart attack or stroke. FHS researchers published work homing in on those factors, such as high blood pressure, physical inactivity and excess weight. The study refined the idea of \"good\" and \"bad\" cholesterol. And as early as 1960, it pinned smoking as one of the culprits for heart disease.\nBut the work continues to branch out from the heart to the brain, and even to the molecular level, adapting to the demands of science, said Ramachandran, who was hired as a Framingham researcher fresh out of cardiology training 25 years ago. \"When science has made something possible, we are there to leverage it in the study.\"\nDr. Daniel Levy also was a young cardiology resident when he first visited Framingham to work on a research project. They hired him, and he said he felt like \"a kid in a candy store\" with all the work being done at the time in the 1980s on cardiovascular disease prevention. And now, as FHS director for the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, he still sounds that way.\n\"When I started here 34 years ago, I couldn't have imagined I'd be doing some of the things I'm doing now,\" he said. \"We've gone beyond the heart to far-reaching programs in stroke and Alzheimer's to epigenetics, how environment changes how our genes work, to the next generation of risk factors and to understand the molecular basis of disease.\"\nJudie Saltonstall is one of them. She's a second-generation participant who moved to Arizona 29 years ago and still faithfully logs on to her computer every three months to answer questionnaires and memory quizzes. The 75-year-old is part of a contingent of FHS participants living all over the country who travel back to Framingham whenever needed for exams and tests. She reels off a list: retina photographs, bone density tests, and MRIs of the brain, heart and abdomen.\n\"It's kind of exciting to do,\" said Saltonstall, a mother of four and a former teacher. \"It's important for me personally, but also for them to know what's going on with me and to learn from that, whatever good it does.\"\nIt's something John Stefanini, who still lives in Framingham, understands. He and his four older brothers all are part of the FHS. It's a source of pride, even if he sometimes gets puzzled reactions.\n\"The reaction sometimes is almost disbelief that you would allow someone to poke and prod and test you in such an invasive and transparent way,\" said the 54-year-old lawyer and former state representative. \"Why would you do that? You lose a day's work, or you have to sleep with wires attached to you for a few days, or you have to collect bodily fluids. But you do it with great pride because you are contributing to the health of the world. 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Learn the pros and cons of credit card clearing accounts and provide step by step instructions on how to set one up in your MIP system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 320, "original_length": 6009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eag.com/resources/whitepapers/using-sims-scrutinize-hemts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:06Z", "digest": "sha1:UQQMA6XFHPCM6B2B76BUTDGW3RZO2QCW", "length": 12463, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.eag.com", "title": "HEMTs Characterization Using SIMS | EAG Laboratories", "raw_content": "From the buffer layer to the very top of the device, a novel form of SIMS can uncover troublesome impurities in GaN-on-silicon HEMTs\nBy Temel H. Buyuklimanli and Charles W. Magee\nOne of the devices attracting the most interest in the compound semiconductor manufacturing industry is the GaN-based HEMT (also known as GaN FET). Its capability to operate at high voltages and deliver high powers at microwave frequencies makes it an attractive candidate for deployment in base stations, and in a range of defence applications, including radar.\nThe impressive performance of this wide bandgap HEMT stems from the specific material properties associated with GaN. Compared to GaAs-based materials, which have also been used for generating power in the microwave region, GaN has a larger peak electron velocity; a higher thermal stability; and a larger band gap. All of these traits make GaN a very appropriate material for the channel of a HEMT. In such structures it is often paired with AlGaN to form a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG), which lies at the very heart of the device, dictating its electrical characteristics.\nSelecting the best substrate for the manufacture of GaN HEMTs is far from easy. From a performance perspective, GaN is ideal, because it ensures a perfect lattice match between the epilayers and the foundation. If such a substrate were practical, it would allow the use of a relatively thin buffer layer, because its role would only be to isolate the 2DEG from the substrate \u2013 it would not be needed to prevent high levels of defects in the active region of the device. But today GaN substrates cannot be grown in sufficiently large sizes to make their price commercially viable. Consequently, GaN HEMTs have to be grown on foreign substrates. One common choice is singlecrystal SiC, which combines good electrical and thermal conductivity with a lattice constant that is close to that of GaN \u2013 the difference is just 3 percent. However, while not as expensive as GaN, SiC is still pricey.\nFigure 1. The PCOR-SIMS technique that has been pioneered by EAG Laboratories can be used to compare the centre and edge of a GaN-on-silicon HEMT. Note that although the profile provides accurate values for the aluminium and gallium atomic fractions and layer thicknesses, the 2DEG region of the structure is almost imperceptible at the surface. However, as shown in latter figures, its nature can be revealed by PCOR-SIMS.\nA cheaper alternatives is sapphire, but it has a poor thermal conductivity \u2212 a disadvantage for high-power devices \u2212 and its lattice mismatch with GaN is 13 percent. Due to these drawbacks, a more popular low-cost option is silicon, which is now drawing a great deal of attention. Its great strength is that it has a large base of established manufacturing tools and processes. However, it also has its weaknesses, including a very large lattice mismatch with GaN that gives rise to a high density of defects in the epilayers. To prevent the defect density in the active layers from being so high that device performance is unacceptable, thick AlGaN buffer layers are inserted between the substrate and the 2DEG-forming layers.\nFigure 2. Cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy images reveal the generation of surface pits (above) and the higher magnification of the details (below).\nScrutinising the HEMT\nA characterisation technique that can reveal a great deal about GaN-on-silicon HEMTs is a variant of secondary ion mass spectrometry known as \u2018Pointby- point CORrected\u2019 SIMS, or PCOR-SIMS.\nFigure 3. SIMS profiles enforce the importance of cleaning before measuring a profile of carbon.\nWe have developed this at EAG Laboratories. Compared to regular SIMS, it can determine layer thickness, composition and doping profile more accurately, because, at every data point, a calibration is undertaken with respect to alloy composition.\nIn the remainder of this article, we will take a journey through a GaN HEMT, or GaN FET, grown on 150 mm silicon, beginning with the buffer layer and finishing with the region around the 2DEG (see Figure 1). During this trip we will comment on the influence of pits on device profiling; uncover impurities that can hamper device performance; and understand the composition of the channel of the device.\nWe start our journey with the buffer layer, which is made of AlN. This material is not well lattice-matched to the underlying silicon, but it serves two important purposes: it provides an insulating layer that isolates those above from the substrate; and it acts as a seed layer, aiding the growth of subsequent layers of AlGaN with successively diminishing aluminium content. By decreasing the proportion of aluminium in AlGaN, the defect density is reduced to acceptable levels for subsequent growth of the GaN barrier.\nAnother insight provided by the PCOR-SIMS profile, shown in Figure 1, is that the bottom half of the GaN barrier layer is doped with carbon. This compensates for unintentional n-type doping by impurities (mainly silicon and oxygen) in the AlGaN buffer, and leads to an increase in the breakdown field strength. Unfortunately, at the edge of the wafer, the carbon doping in the GaN portion of the buffer is ten times higher than it is in the centre (Figure 1). This has considerable implications on the capability of the barrier layer to reduce the electric field, which varies across the 150 mm wafer.\nThe good news is that at a greater vertical distance above the substrate, where the growth of AlGaN begins, variations in thickness and doping level between the centre and the edge of the wafer are far smaller. It is important to monitor the level of carbon, as well as that of silicon and oxygen, because if carbon is excessively high, it will lead to leakage in the device.\nAccording to reports, carbon doping is a major issue in the vicinity of the 2DEG, because it promotes a vertical leakage current. This is highly undesirable, because it degrades the carrier density and the carrier mobility of the 2DEG channel electrons, leading to an increase in dynamic on-resistance and current collapse. All these changes are to the detriment of device performance and reliability.\nDespite the detrimental character of carbon doping on the 2DEG and the device properties, there are only a few reports that consider the residual carbon level in the active layers (the AlN spike and the AlGaN barrier layer). Perhaps this is because the measurements of carbon in this near-surface region are severely hampered by surface pits, which are always present, due to threading dislocations that originate deep in the buffer layer and reach the surface (see Figure 2).\nIn this region it is not easy to measure the carbon profile accurately. Carbon-containing species are adsorbed onto the air-exposed top surface, and are not entirely removed by the SIMS sputtering process until the entire pit is sputtered through. This leads to an artificially deep carbon profile, which can totally obscure the real carbon distribution in the 2DEG region.\nTo circumvent this problem, we have developed a proprietary surface-cleaning procedure that removes the vast majority of carbon from the surface, thus eliminating the deep tail of the carbon profile (see Figure 3). Thanks to this, true measurements are possible for the carbon concentration in the AlGaN barrier layer just above the 2DEG, as well as in the AlN spike just below it.\nIron and magnesium can also be used to dope the buffer layer. For these elements, SIMS provides very low detection limits. This is evident in Figure 4, which shows a peak in the iron profile just inside the GaN barrier. This peak is absent at the edge of the wafer, highlighting another difficultly in growing uniform layers across large substrates.\nFigure 4. Iron and magnesium impurities are uncovered in HEMTs by SIMS measurements.\nIt is also important to control non-metallic impurities in the GaN barrier layer. The level of silicon in the GaN directly below the 2DEG must be as low as possible, because the device is designed to function in the absence of dopants. SIMS can be capable of silicon detection limits in the mid 1014 atom/cm3 range, which is low enough to see the troublesome 2 x 1015atom/cm3 silicon level just beneath the 2DEG in a GaN HEMT (see Figure 5). Another concern raised by this profile, shown in Figure 5, is the level of hydrogen in the GaN barrier. Hydrogen can have deleterious effects on device reliability, so it is critical to keep its levels as low as possible. In this case, PCOR-SIMS reveals a higher hydrogen-level in the carbon-doped portion of the barrier that is lightly elevated in carbon content. Presumably, this arises from the precursor used for carbon doping.\nFigure 5. Low-detection-limit measurements by PCOR-SIMS reveal the presence of hydrogen and silicon in the GaN barrier layer of a GaN-on-silicon HEMT.\nTo the 2DEG\nNear the surface of the structure is the twodimensional electron gas, which is responsible for current flow in the transistor. This 2DEG results from a conduction-band discontinuity between a thin, top, doped AlGaN layer and an undoped GaN layer. This creates a triangular quantum well that accumulates electrons. The active region is exceedingly thin, with a thickness of just 20-30 nm. Consequently, measuring this accurately by SIMS requires great care. However, with PCOR-SIMS, it is possible to identify the aluminium level in the top AlGaN layer, as well as the impurity levels of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and silicon (see Figure 6).\nSince this AlGaN layer is on the top of the structure, it is important to take steps to minimize the effects of surface contamination, which is always present on air-exposed surfaces. To achieve this, we use our proprietary surface-cleaning procedure to remove the carbon initially present on the sample surface. This enables a determination of the carbon doping level in the AlGaN layer of 1-2\u00d71017 atoms/cm3, within the top 15 nm of the sample.\nThis particular measurement also yields another important piece of information for the device engineer \u2013 the thickness of the AlGaN barrier layer (see the inset to Figure 6). It is through this layer that the potential on the gate acts to control the electron density in the 2DEG, and thus the conductance of the device.\nFigure 6. PCOR-SIMS can reveal the thickness of the channel, and the levels of various elements in this region.\nFigure 7. By overlaying SIMS and cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy images, it is possible to produce a detailed analysis of the HEMT channel region, including an arbitrary conductivity change curve.\nAnother way to look at this region is to overlay the profiles of aluminium and carbon on a cross-sectional transmission electron microscopy image of the same region (see Figure 7). With this approach, it is possible to see the location of the AlN delta layer. Its role is to improve the carrier mobility in the 2DEG, by mitigating coulomb scattering from donors in the AlGaN. The micrograph reveals that the actual thickness of the AlN delta layer is correctly measured by the full-width-half maximum of the aluminium profile above the constant level in the AlGaN layer. However, there is a tail into the underlying GaN, due to surface pits (shown in Figure 3). A plot of the carbon concentration reveals the location of the doping with respect to the exact vertical location of the interface, which is shown by the aluminium profile. Note that transmission electron microscopy cannot be used to detect carbon, even with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry or electron energy-loss spectroscopy.\nAlso shown in Figure 7 is a plot of conductivity. This is influenced by the instantaneous surface potential, from which can be inferred the surface conductivity. The 2DEG is formed just inside the GaN, at the depth at which sample conductivity recovers after passing through a zone of decreased conductivity, just inside the barrier layer where the holes accumulate. Our study of the HEMT, from the buffer to the 2DEG, show the tremendous capability that PCOR-SIMS has for determining accurate concentrations of matrix elements and dopants within GaN HEMTs. This technique can be used to optimise epitaxial layer growth, aid failure analysis, and thus support the growth of the GaN HEMT (GaN FET) industry.\nThe authors wish to thank Ozgur Celik, Wei Ou, Andrew Klump, Wei Zhao, Yun Qi, Jeffrey Serfass and Mike Salmon from EAG Laboratories", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 370, "original_length": 41273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eag.com/services/materials/characterization/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:16Z", "digest": "sha1:KMU3IFMSH6ODPR4XM3W4KDO7PBK235LE", "length": 3943, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.eag.com", "title": "Materials Characterization | Materials Testing | EAG Laboratories", "raw_content": "Different analytical approaches require different materials characterization services. EAG Laboratories uses over 30 different materials characterization methods to provide answers to our customers. Generally the technique or series of techniques used for a given problem are selected based on the information needed and the form the sample is in. Most of the common techniques are for the analysis of solid samples, although liquid and gas sampling are also possible.\nEAG\u2019s materials characterization services may be applied to:\nResearch & development: for basic research and the testing of new concepts and materials\nProcess development: to test new processes, designs and tools\nProduction: to qualify incoming materials; monitoring; quality control\nProcess improvement: to monitor process changes and subsequent process performance\nFailure analysis: to investigate problems for contamination/defect analysis; to identify contaminant sources; for good/bad comparisons\nIn some cases, the material of interest has already been identified but further information about specific properties is required, e.g. interface sharpness, the depth distribution of a particular element, morphology, crystal structure, thickness, stress, and quality (or many other characteristics). In other cases, the material or component of interest has not been identified and is not well characterized. Information is required about the identity and composition of the material.\nThe following are areas where materials characterization methods can be very helpful:\nThin film analysis covers a range of possible scenarios which strongly influence the choice of techniques used:\nFilm thickness can range from the angstrom/\u00c5 (10-10m), through the micron/\u00b5m range (10-6m) up to millimeter/mm (10-3m).\nMeasurement sensitivity varies between techniques, from the atomic% range down to parts-per-billion (ppb).\nThe lateral analytical area could be effectively unlimited in size or could be very restricted.\nFilms can generally be analyzed in two ways: vertically, from the top down or from the bottom up; or horizontally as a cross-section. Top-down analyses at the surface can provide roughness, morphology, and surface composition and contaminant information. Subsequent sputtering can uncover additional information, such as thickness, composition, the vertical distribution of elements and dopant and contaminant levels. Cross-sectional analyses can reveal layer thickness, grain size, and crystallinity.\nDepth profiles are plots that show concentration (y-axis) with respect to depth (x-axis). They can be obtained by continuously monitoring specific species of interest with respect to depth (e.g. SIMS), or in a stepwise manner by removing material, measuring, and then repeating the process (e.g. XPS or Auger). The thickness of the layers of interest and the detection limits required (or that are achievable) are important factors in determining the best technique(s) for a given sample.\nIf not carried out and interpreted properly, artifacts and errors can be introduced into depth profiles due to the potential complexity of the measurement and sample. EAG has a thorough understanding of how to acquire depth profiles under optimized conditions without introducing needless artifacts, based on many years of prior experience across many sample types. Similarly, correct and accurate interpretation of the data, also provided by EAG, is also extremely important.\nWhile most other materials characterization analytical techniques provide elemental or molecular information from a sample, X-ray Diffraction (XRD) is unique in providing a wide variety of information on structure, crystalline phase (polymorphs), preferred crystal orientation (texture), and other structural parameters such as crystallite size, percent crystallinity, strain, stress, and crystal defects.\nContact EAG Laboratories at 800 \u2013 366-3867 for your materials characterization testing needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 504, "original_length": 37864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earlytorise.com/033-digital-nomads-build-productivity-habits-steel-travel-world-stay-madly-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:08Z", "digest": "sha1:4JPFSFCII7HA2WDHNUX57PMM5QI7HXOX", "length": 7239, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.earlytorise.com", "title": "033 - How Digital Nomads Build Productivity Habits of Steel, Travel the World, and Stay Madly in Love", "raw_content": "033 \u2013 How Digital Nomads Build Productivity Habits of Steel, Travel the World, and Stay Madly in Love\nby Craig Ballantyne | Dec 11, 2017 | Early to Rise Radio\nImagine for a moment you\u2019re young and in love. Your life is carefree and you can travel anywhere you want.\nBut at the same time, imagine you\u2019re an ambitious go-giver, a Type-A person that wants to leave a mark on the world, while also enjoying the finer things in life.\nOh, and you get to do this all with the love of your life.\nSounds like a Perfect Life, right?\nBut also a life full of distractions, temptations, and obstacles.\nToday I want you to meet two of my dear friends, Rob and Laura Hanly, an Australian couple that I teasingly refer to as Digital Nomads.\nCan you give me a quick background on your life in Australia?\nThey have a culture that starts with tradesmen, and they get up early. Whereas everywhere else we\u2019ve gone in the world we\u2019ve thought, \u201cWhy aren\u2019t the coffee shops open?\u201d So, Australia, or Sydney, has a very much early to rise attitude. Everyone gets in, very much work oriented, professionally oriented in Sydney, especially where we lived. So, it probably wouldn\u2019t be too different to how we structure ourselves now, but just with a different backdrop and different opportunities.\nWhat were the biggest changes that you guys made in your routines, once you got married?\nWe didn\u2019t live together before we got married except for one month or something just to make the lease work. That was a really big thing for us because one of the biggest things that we heard is that people get married and then nothing changes. There is no milestone around this, whether you do it legally or a personal commitment to each other. It\u2019s sort of like everything just keeps rolling. So, we\u2019d been living together give or take a month before we got married.\nLaura: I discovered that Rob eats a colossal amount of peanut butter. Colossal.\nWas it harder or easier living in Thailand?\nLaura: Everything changed really. I left my corporate role about a month before we moved, and so I was still sort of working out what it looked like to work for myself, what I needed to be focusing on daily, what my new routine was going to be. And in the midst of that move to a completely different country with a completely different culture, and in a way it was great doing it all at once because I didn\u2019t have enough time to sort of think myself into a hole about, \u201cWhat am I doing for work every day?\u201d because there was so much that I had to adapt to, kind of ripping off the Band-Aid and getting it all done at once was really good.\nRob: The lucky thing was that there was a coffee shop that opened at 7:00 am and it served the best coffee because the barista was trained in Australia. That little piece of home made the transition easier.\nWe moved to Chiang Mai because we knew some people there who basically helped us get our feet on the ground and start going. It Made a really big difference having sort of an established network there before we even arrived because people had already sussed out all of the good places to work and all of the good places to eat.\nLaura, talk to me about writing focus.\nNormally I\u2019m up at about 6:15, and I like to go for a walk in the morning just to kind of get myself ready. Then I try to get some coffee, have some food, and then go to the office and get started working normally by about 9:00.\nI do blocks of writing with 25 minutes of deep work and then I take a 5-minute break. Usually, to go and get some water or do something just to keep my body moving. I usually go from 9:00 to 2:00ish but if I don\u2019t get 2,000 or 3,000 words done I\u2019m annoyed.\nWhen do you do your editing? Do you have a lunch break then? And when do you shut down for the day?\nUsually by about 2:00, sometimes a little bit later, I\u2019ll be ready to grab some lunch, and then I want to train in the afternoon. I don\u2019t like being in the gym when it\u2019s super busy so by the time it\u2019s 5:00 pm it\u2019s too late.\nSo I have some lunch, go home, get changed, then hit the gym.\nThen in the afternoon, if I have client calls I would do them later in the afternoon and leave that time to do sort of more admin stuff.\nHow important is communication in a marriage and what are your secrets to success in this area?\nWe laid pretty clear ground rules when we started dating. Right from the get-go, we had very clear standards for each other and for ourselves. We talked about those extensively at that time. That set a good foundation for communicating expectations, which I think are where a lot of people get tripped up, is if I\u2019m expecting something but I haven\u2019t communicated it, Rob could never meet that expectation. It\u2019s an unfair situation for me to create.\nBeing explicit at all times about what you are looking for in the relationship, and not just what you\u2019re looking for but also what you\u2019re willing to give is crucial.\nWhen we started our relationship, we both were very comfortable with the act of saying, \u201cHere\u2019s what I need. Here\u2019s what I expect. Can you meet that? You can\u2019t, no problems, that\u2019s totally fine. There\u2019s no bad blood or ill will, we\u2019re just not a good fit.\u201d\nWhat resources do you recommend for married couples for communication & flourishing in all areas?\nExternal friends.\nStrong family member.\nLaura: Having a network external to the relationship because your partner can\u2019t be all things for you. To expect them to be is very unreasonable and just sets them up to fail. Making sure that you have external sources of support, you know, whether that\u2019s getting a therapist or a specific friend that you\u2019ve known for a long time and really trust to talk about stuff.\nWhat\u2019s your mindset trick to getting back on track when a day goes off the rails?\nLaura: Usually if I get to sort of mid-morning and I\u2019m in a funk or I\u2019m really distracted or whatever, I would just cut it. I will stop working and go and do something else. Mostly because the quality of the work I produce when I\u2019m feeling so scattered is going to be so low that I might as well not do it. So instead of wasting the day and feeling frustrated and feeling like I\u2019m just hitting my head against a wall, I go and do something else that I\u2019m excited about. That gets me energized, come back strong the next day.\nRob: I just say, \u201cYou know what? Right now, for whatever reason, your psychology is not aligned. You do not have a life or death situation right here, and you have the ability to reorganize your day to match where your psychology is at right now, so just do it.\u201d\nSometimes that means that my ideal perfect day doesn\u2019t happen, but the key thing is I got the ideal perfect result.\nHow do you get the relationship back on track?\nHonestly, I think it\u2019s just coming at it head-on. But also, you need to go about it at the right time and in the right manner.\nWow. What a show. That was so much fun and it\u2019s so powerful to be able to do these interviews in person. I\u2019d love to hear what you think of today\u2019s show, and what you plan to change in your relationships, your morning routines, and productivity patterns for maximum success. Keep me posted, and please email me at support@earlytorise.com or send me a message on Instagram or Twitter.\n022 \u2013 #1 Mental Hack for Success and Overcom...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 10438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earlytorise.com/the-3-basics-you-need-to-start-an-e-mail-newsletter-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:25Z", "digest": "sha1:KXO6IOF4REFVGUPPETYAXWMSWRCKPF5I", "length": 4163, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.earlytorise.com", "title": "The 3 Basics You Need to Start an Email Newsletter - Early To Rise", "raw_content": "The 3 Basics You Need to Start an Email Newsletter\nby David Cross | Jul 17, 2009 | Articles, Entrepreneur, Internet Business, Wealth\nAn e-mail newsletter is one of the best ways to make almost any business at least twice as valuable, to generate substantial cash flow, and to double or triple profits. It\u2019s also the perfect way to turn an interest or hobby into a moneymaking venture.\nAnd starting one is much easier than you might think. You really need only three things (and the ability to be a good writer is not one of them):\n1. Something to Write About\nThe Internet is full of thousands of people who are interested in the same things you are. So when you\u2019re looking for a topic for your e-newsletter, think about your own interests, your own hobbies, and your own areas of expertise. This has two benefits. First, you\u2019ll be able to write about your topic with endless enthusiasm. Second, you\u2019ll be able to write articles that are useful, informative, and based on your own real-life experience.\n2. An Audience\nThere are 1.6 billion Internet users out there, according to Internetworldstats.com. Among them is your audience. The best way to find these folks is through search engine marketing.\nFirst, set up a small \u201clanding page\u201d that explains the benefits of reading your newsletter. Include a sign-up form that allows you to \u201ccapture\u201d names and e-mail addresses.\nNext, set up a pay-per-click (PPC) ad campaign with some of the major search engines. When people search for the keywords you\u2019ve purchased, they\u2019ll have a chance to see your ad. Once they click on your ad, they\u2019ll be routed to the landing page you set up earlier.\nYou can also include a small ad for your e-newsletter on the back of your business card, on your voicemail message, and at the bottom of your e-mails. And tell other enthusiasts about your e-newsletter and ask them to share it with their friends.\n3. A Way to Get the Message Out\nTo send out your e-newsletter, use an e-mail service provider like Get Response, AWeber, or 1Shoppingcart. That should set you back less than $30 a month. Your service provider will allow you to add subscribers automatically, create newsletters with pre-designed templates, and determine which subscribers open your e-mails and click on your links (so you can track those who are most responsive to your offers).\nOnce you\u2019re up and running, you\u2019re ready to start using your e-newsletter to generate income. I\u2019ll tell you how to do that in my next article\u2026\nAlthough David hails from Blackpool, England \u2013 which is often referred to as the \u201cLas Vegas of England\u201d \u2013 he shunned a career in show business and instead followed a meandering career path overflowing with \u201clife\u2019s great experiences,\u201d working or living in over 20 countries along the way. Chef, teacher of Transcendental Meditation, guest presenter on QVC, earthquake relief volunteer, CEO of a web hosting company, marketer at a radio station and all combined with years of direct marketing, PR and sales experience for clients as diverse as health food stores, small charities and right up to multinational public companies. David brought unique talent and experience to his role for six years as Senior Internet Consultant to Agora Publishing Group. Working closely with Agora\u2019s publishers and marketers to test new ideas and marketing campaigns, Agora\u2019s Internet revenues topped $200 million in 2007. David understands and can communicate fluently with creative \u201cright-brain\u201d marketers and analytical \u201cleft-brain\u201d IT and software teams, all with equal ease. He has a proven track record for generating results and creative thinking and excels at making trouble to find new ways of making things happen! He lives on a small farm close to Mount Hood in Oregon with his wife Cinda, a veterinarian, and their four children and a menagerie of animals (no more, please!). When not marketing or brainstorming you\u2019ll find David following a dream of self-sufficiency for food, power and water within 10 years, tending the land and caring for the farm and animals. Not surprisingly, David is an engaging and knowledgeable speaker with many amusing anecdotes from his work and travels over the years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earthtouchnews.com/video-on-demand/decoding-desire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:27Z", "digest": "sha1:2PN4X3BPRVIOHABBYO2KXHR3TOSWGS5A", "length": 299, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.earthtouchnews.com", "title": "Decoding Desire | Earth Touch News Network", "raw_content": "The Birds do it. The bees do it. It seems we all do it. But we like to think we are different from other animals. So are we? DECODING DESIRE unravels the mysteries of sex and desire and explores how sexual diversity and the experience of pleasure itself may be the key to species survival. Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eco-business.com/news/give-people-their-land-cut-global-emissions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:01Z", "digest": "sha1:NOJ2JT36LMBCAY3D5EJFBWBH4UPEN2YI", "length": 6480, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.eco-business.com", "title": "Give people their land, cut global emissions | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific", "raw_content": "Give people their land, cut global emissions\nA new study by the World Resources Institute and Rights and Resources Initiative shows that government protection and legal recognition of community forest rights can lead to significant carbon emission reductions.\nThe warriors of a Papuan tribe of Yafi in traditional clothes, living in New Guinea Island, Indonesia, where out of at least 42 million hectares of community forests, only 1 million hectares are legally recognized by the government. Image:Sergey Uryadnikov / Shutterstock.com\nGovernments in forested countries should look at strengthening the rights of their local communities as a key strategy to reducing billions of tonnes of carbon emissions, said a new report released on Thursday.\nPublished by the World Resources Institute (WRI) and Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), the study provides evidence \u2013 the most comprehensive to date - that links government protection and legal recognition of community forest rights with reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.\nThe authors, who used high-resolution mapping data to analyse 14 heavily-forested countries including Brazil, Indonesia and Colombia, found that when governments enhanced and enforced forest rights, communities were more successful at reducing deforestation.\nIn fact, deforestation rates inside community forests were dramatically lower than in forests outside those areas. For example, in a part of the Mexican Yucat\u00e1n, it is 350 times lower; and in the Brazilian Amazon, it is 11 times lower.\nThe report, called \u201cSecuring Rights, Combating Climate Change: How Strengthening Community Forest Rights Mitigates Climate Change\u201d, noted that indigenous peoples across the world have government-recognized rights to forests containing 37.7 billion tonnes of carbon \u2013 which is about 29 times the annual emissions from all passenger vehicles in the world.\nDeforestation and other land uses make up 11 per cent of global carbon dioxide emissions.\nGlobal research organization WRI president and chief executive, Andrew Steer, said: \u201cThis golden opportunity to address climate change is staring us right in the face. With at least 37 billion tonnes of carbon safely stored in community forests around the world, strengthening community rights is good for the climate and good for people.\u201d\n\u201cEvery head of government, minister and climate negotiator should pay attention to this important, if often overlooked strategy to address climate change. It\u2019s an approach to climate action that should be right up there with REDD+ or increasing energy efficiency,\u201d he added.\nREDD+ is a United Nations initiative that offers financial incentives to developing countries to reduce carbon emissions through protecting and restoring forests.\nThe report also offers cautionary tales on the fate of forests when governments undermine community forest rights. Government allocations of indigenous lands to mining, oil, and natural gas concessions are a major cause of these devastating deforestation levels, it said.\nIn Indonesia, for example, out of at least 42 million hectares of community forests, only 1 million hectares are legally recognized by the government. It routinely allocates indigenous community forests for oil palm concessions, industrial timber plantations for pulp and paper, and other conflicting land uses.\nDeforestation is the country\u2019s largest source of carbon emissions and its forestry management is inseparable from its climate change policies. The nation has set an emissions reduction target of 26 per cent from projected 2020 levels.\nReport author Caleb Stevens told Eco-Business that despite the urgency to address the situation, the Indonesian government has delayed action on recognizing communities\u2019 legal rights over their forest homes.\nEvery head of government, minister and climate negotiator should pay attention to this important, if often overlooked strategy to address climate change. It\u2019s an approach to climate action that should be right up there with REDD+ or increasing energy efficiency.\nAndrew Steer, WRI president and chief executive\nHe said the government should implement the 2013 Constitutional Court ruling which for the first time recognizes community ownership over their forests. Specifically, it ruled that community forest could no longer be classified as state forest.\nThis is a historic breakthrough as most of Indonesia\u2019s forests have been claimed by the government since the 1967 Forestry Law which prevented millions of forest peoples from having legal rights to their forest homes.\nBy mapping community forests and identifying 42 million hectares of community forests, Indonesian NGOs such as AMAN and JKPP are trying to help the government implement the new law\u2014facilitating the process as it were by laying the groundwork, he noted.\n\u201cIf these 42 million hectares are legally recognized and protected, then about 44 per cent of Indonesia\u2019s forests would be legally recognized community forest. This would turn Indonesia from a laggard on this issue to a leader, on par with more progressive countries like Bolivia and Nepal,\u201d he said.\nThe report also made five key recommendations that its authors say will significantly reduce global carbon emission from the loss of forests:\nProvide communities with legal recognition of rights to their forest;\nEnforce community forest rights such as mapping boundaries and expelling trespassers;\nProvide technical assistance and training to forest communities to improve sustainable forest use and market access;\nEngage forest communities in decision-making on investments affecting their forest; and\nCompensate communities for the climate and other benefits provided by their forest.\nAndy White, coordinator of RRI, a global coalition of organisations dedicated to empowering local and indigenous communities in forest management, said: \u201cNo one has a stronger interest in the health of forests than the communities that depend on them for their livelihoods and culture.\u201d\n\u201cResearch has shown time and time again that clear and secure property rights for indigenous peoples and local communities have greatly boosted the capacity of countries to achieve national-level forest protection and restoration.\nIt\u2019s tragic that this has not yet been fully adopted as a central climate change mitigation strategy. For us to get serious about curbing climate change, we have to get serious about respecting the rights of local communities to the lands they live and depend on,\u201d he added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 11085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eco-business.com/news/helping-businesses-see-the-benefits-of-the-sustainable-development-goals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:39Z", "digest": "sha1:2TBAJTDACCOYDFBE53N7UD2AVUVEODI4", "length": 5589, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.eco-business.com", "title": "Helping businesses see the benefits of the Sustainable Development Goals | News | Eco-Business | Asia Pacific", "raw_content": "Helping businesses see the benefits of the Sustainable Development Goals\nPanelists at a forum for business leaders say that aligning business targets and sustainability practices as well as partnerships are essential in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.\nPanelists at the inaugural session of the Thought Leadership Series. Speakers from Diageo, City Developments Limited, Save the Children, Unilever and Corporate Citizenship discuss the implications of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to businesses in Singapore. Image: Hive Consulting\nBusinesses in Singapore came together last Friday to discuss the United Nations\u2019 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the challenges and opportunities they bring.\nThe SDGs, also known as the Global Goals, consist of 17 goals and 169 targets which \u201cset out a vision for ending poverty, hunger, inequality and protecting the Earth\u2019s natural resources by 2030\u201d.\nThe private sector is seen as a key contributor to achieving the SDGs, given how it can shape a country\u2019s sustainable economy.\n\u201cThe SDGs are a huge landmark, globally, with governments, private sector and civil society agreeing to work together,\u201d said GCNS executive director Wilson Ang at the inaugural session of the Thought Leadership Series held at the Unilever Four Acres Singapore campus.\nThe series aims to make Singapore businesses aware of global issues around sustainability and see how these are relevant to them. The first session on Friday was organised by GCNS, the local chapter of the UN Global Compact aimed at promoting corporate responsibility, in partnership with global sustainability consultancy Corporate Citizenship and Unilever.\nJunice Yeo, Corporate Citizenship\u2019s director for Southeast Asia, shared with the audience that a global study in 2015 by Corporate Citizenship on how much businesses understood the SDGs highlighted that only one in four businesses were aware of the UN\u2019s goals, but had no current plans to adopt them. Another one in six said their organisation was \u201cnot aware of the goals\u201d.\nThese figures are likely to have changed today as it has been seven months since the announcement of the SDGs and there has been a lot more publicity since. But in the Singaporean context, \u201cthese figures might still be accurate, with fewer companies (compared with other countries globally) involved in the Global Goals,\u201d said Yeo.\nAng said the compact was organising the series of talks to help Singaporean business leaders understand the SDGs, including ways to contribute and leverage from the goals.\nThe role of businesses\nThe SDGs \u201cherald a new era as it involves the private sector,\u201d said Yeo, adding that \u201cthey are the new defacto standard today for designing, measuring and accounting business impact\u201d.\nShe singled out three opportunities from SDGs for businesses: New revenues from innovative products and services, being able to continue to operate in countries where future policies and legislations will be shaped by the SDGs, and forging partnerships with other companies, governments and NGOs.\nSpeakers at the session collectively emphasised the alignment of their business practices to the SDGs.\nDiageo\u2019s skills and empowerment manager for sustainable development, Georgie Passalaris, shared that Diageo\u2019s new 2020 targets development happened in parallel to the SDGs launch.\n\u201cAs such, 11 out of 20 targets are aligned to the 17 SDGs, so we are confident that our priorities, monetary investments and resources allocation are aligned to the SDGs,\u201d she added.\nPassalaris further highlighted the need for developing a shared language around sustainability to communicate initiatives to people in the external communities who understand sustainability but may not be aware of Diageo\u2019s work.\nWhile businesses see challenges related to integrating sustainability into their operations, David Kiu, Unilever vice president for communications and sustainability, observed that it was important to look at sustainability \u201cnot as a cost, but helping us to do better\u201d.\nAction-oriented partnerships are important to develop new innovations, solutions and approaches to address the Global Goals.\nCaroline Whatley, head of corporate engagement at centre, Save the Children\nKiu said the \u201cchallenges the goals aim to tackle are aligned with our own ambitions set out in the sustainable living plan\u201d. The plan aims to halve environmental impact, improve health and well-being for over 1 billion people and enhance livelihoods.\nThe speakers from Unilever, Diageo and property developer City Developments Limited (CDL) all stressed the need to generate a business case for sustainability to achieve the SDGs.\n\u201cDemonstrating that there is a strong business case and engaging the leadership is essential,\u201d observed Esther An, CDL\u2019s chief sustainability officer. An added that buy-in was the biggest challenge but communication is key.\nThe panel unanimously agreed on partnerships being crucial to achieving the SDGs. Caroline Whatley, head of corporate engagement at Save the Children, noted that \u201cpartnerships should be embedded across core business operations to deliver sustainable change\u201d.\nShe highlighted the importance of action-oriented partnerships to develop new innovations, solutions and approaches to address the Global Goals.\nUnilever\u2019s Kiu added: \u201cUnilever relies on partnerships with others to mobilise collective action to achieve the SDGs and create system change.\u201d\n\u201cExchanges, like today\u2019s event, is a good example of bringing stakeholders together to drive the system changes needed towards achieving the SDGs by 2030,\u201d said Ang.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 10223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ecolise.eu/knowledge-learning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:53Z", "digest": "sha1:K7UTT4YYU42UFLHRTRAEG66M4SKBK3LR", "length": 508, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ecolise.eu", "title": "Knowledge & Learning - Ecolise", "raw_content": "Ecolise > Knowledge & Learning\nKnowledge and Learning is one of the pillars of ECOLISE\u2019s work. The Knowledge and Learning coordinator, Markus Molz, and team have focussed on creating a knowledge commons for community-led action on sustainability and climate change, of which the wiki is a key element. In 2019 the team is further developing the Sustainable Communities Programme and continuing to create an educational platform. Knowledge and Learning also hosts ECOLISE\u2019s ongoing open online meeting series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/node/9386", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:35Z", "digest": "sha1:LDZ5JOPKFZ3WZL4UY4H5KRFELNLYO3UA", "length": 374, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk", "title": "Scared to Sing? | Museums and Galleries Edinburgh", "raw_content": "Are you one of the many women who have always believed you can't sing, but wish you could? This workshop offers a fun way to explore your voice in a friendly, safe space, without fear of criticism.\nJoin singer-songwriter Lou Mclean for a 2 hour song-writing workshop.\nA shared reading and discussion session with stories and poems by some of Scotland's most audacious women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.educationindex.com/essay/Personal-Development-Qcf-Level-2-or-3-P34DCACNY", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:53Z", "digest": "sha1:CUQKS7VJDTXMPBXU5UD24SYQHD2JRBH6", "length": 7195, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.educationindex.com", "title": "Personal Development Qcf Level 2 or 3 Health and... | Education Index", "raw_content": "Education Index Personal Development Qcf Level 2 or 3 Health and Social Care Guidance Notes\nPersonal Development Qcf Level 2 or 3 Health and Social Care Guidance Notes\nPersonal development guidance notes on how to write a reflective account qcf health and social care level 2 or 3 unit 2 personal development study aid or guidance notes\nA Reflective account, which addresses the subject of personal development, within the role of a social care worker.\nYou could use this learning resource as a guidance/reference aid, in producing your own reflective account. This explains understanding of your personal development, training, and support available within your role.\nEXAMPLE REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT\nI have been employed as care worker with my Company, for the last 4 years. Upon joining the Company, I received an induction, which covered guidance and training, in areas applicable for my role. I also received a job \u2026show more content\u2026\nOther colleagues I work with may have been asked for their opinions on my work as well.\nAs a care worker I must be accountable for the quality of my work and take responsibility for maintaining and improving my knowledge and skills. This means I identify mandatory training I may need, and refresher courses, to keep my knowledge up to date, and so meet the current care standards.\nI also receive training from observing more experienced colleagues, who can teach me \u2018on the job\u2019 techniques. This is \u2018informal\u2019 training, but is most beneficial, along with \u2018formal\u2019 training courses I attend. All training helps to improve my service delivery, and enables me to use recommended safe practice in my working role. I can develop my knowledge, skills, and understanding by:\n* Identifying the knowledge, skills and standards required for my job role. * Reflecting on my practice, and making improvements on previous practice. * Receiving constructive feedback from my manager, and colleagues. * Undertake learning activities that inform my working practice. * Put new skills that I have learned into practice.\nI attend regular staff meetings, where staff members can discuss service users in a confidential setting. This is good practice as it provides a platform for staff to share their experiences, and gain moral support and advice from colleagues. My employer also provides a counselling service for staff members, due to the \u2018pressures\u2019, of the role.\nBtec Level 3 Health and Social Care - Health and Safety Unit 3\nAssess the hazards identified in the health and social care setting. And make recommendations in relation to identified hazards to minimise the risks to the service user group. M2 and D1 In this assignment I will be assessing the hazards identified in the health and social care setting. The first potential hazard I saw whilst carrying out a risk assessment whilst at a health and social care setting was a wet floor. As the floor was wet it was a hazard and had many risks to it, which could have\u2026.\nEngage in personal development in health, social care or children\u2019s and young people\u2019s settings. 1. Describe the duties and responsibilities of own work role. Healthcare Assistants play a vital role in the care of patients. Working under the direction of more senior healthcare professionals, they take care of the day-to-day needs of patients by providing help with personal care, meals and mobility. A Healthcare Assistant in Schonfeld Square performs many of the following tasks\u2026.\nand various amendments cover the legal management of medication. While care staff are not expected to have detailed knowledge of the legislation, they do need to be aware of the legal difference between types of drugs and the legal framework that allows them to handle medicines on behalf of the service user. The following is a list of legislation that has a direct impact upon the handling of medication within a social care setting. * The Medicines Act 1968 * The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971\u2026.\nIntroduction to Personal Development in Health, Social Care or Children\u2019s and Young People\u2019s settings. 1.1.Describe the duties and responsibilities of own role. My current job role is as a care assistant. When I started this job management gave me a clear guidance and what is expected from me. They described the duties and responsibilities of the role to me. A responsibility is something a person is expected to do. I am responsible for providing support to the service users, which includes\u2026.\nHealth and Social Care Level 3 Assign3\nhighest level for both male and female on record. Between 1981 and 2002 life expectancy at age 50 increases by four and a half years for men and three years for women and two years respectively. By 2002 women who were age of 65 could expect to live to the age of 84 while men could expect to live to the age of 81. The primary reason for the vast increase in life expectancy in developed countries in the 20th century is universal clean drinking water and very high level of public and personal hygiene\u2026.\nUnit 45: Independent Learning in Health and Social Care Unit code: D/600/9026 QCF Level 3: BTEC Nationals Credit value: 10 Guided learning hours: 60 Aim and purpose This unit aims to enable learners to work independently and contribute effectively in a learning environment. Learners will be able to focus on learning and how they approach the process of learning, including learning choices, methods of learning and resources. Unit introduction Learners are increasingly being encouraged to\u2026.\nBtec Level 3 Health & Social Care Unit 1 - P3, P4\nP3-Effective communication in Health and Social Care P4-Identify and explain strategies to overcome the barriers. Environmental factors There are a number of barriers to effective communication in health and social care. One of these is the environment. If the environment gets in the way of effective communication, then the receiver may not understand the message that is being given to them. \u2022 Seating positions Rooms with awkward seating positions might mean that two people cannot see each\u2026.\nor force feeding Leaving the individuals in wet or soiled clothing or bedding as a deliberate act to demonstrate power and strength of the abuser Excessive or inappropriate use of medication A carer causing illness or injury to someone he or she cares for in order to gain attention Signs and symptoms associated with Physical abuse Pepper pot bruising-small bruises, usually on the chest, caused by poking with the finger or pulling of the clothes tightly. Finger-marks-often on arms or shoulders\u2026.\nBtec Level 3 Health and Social Care Unit 4 P4\nmicrovilli. The small intestine is the main site for lipid digestion. The pancreas secretes lipases which are special enzymes that digest fats after they have been mixed with bile. Absorption happens within the whole of the small intestine, food takes 3-6 hours to complete its digestive way through the small intestine where all the nutrients are absorbed. Substances which are needed for chemical digestion within the small intestine are taken from the pancreas and the liver. The most common motion of\u2026.\nBusiness Requirements Report\nHow Bilbo Baggins Is a Hero in the Hobbit\nSummary of Bury My Heart and Wounded Knee\nLifeguard and Victim", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 8779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eforcesoftware.com/blog/how-the-right-police-database-software-improves-public-safety", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:48Z", "digest": "sha1:S63S5TKYWMCPUQ3IOIIMYLNJ4EYGKDRB", "length": 2694, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.eforcesoftware.com", "title": "How the Right Police Database Software Improves Public Safety", "raw_content": "Posted by Brandon Taylor on January 6, 2017\nThe primary goal of any law enforcement agency anywhere is to promote public safety, and technology has become a big part of this. Everything from basic communication to data storage is easier with the right computer aided dispatch software. At eFORCE, we have over 20 years of experience providing high-quality police database software solutions for agencies of all types.\nSome may wonder why that\u2019s important to the daily workings of a police department or sheriff\u2019s office. Here\u2019s why.\nThe ability to instantly and seamlessly communicate is vital to your success as a law enforcement officer. A reliable CAD dispatch system is a critical part of that process. Our eFORCE dispatch system is completely web-based, meaning officers can access it from anywhere. And it\u2019s the easiest system on the market to learn quickly and start using efficiently.\nThe benefits to officers can be immense. They don\u2019t even need to use a mouse to communicate information, and the software can help dispatch multiple agencies instantly in cases where this is necessary. Every little second counts in this game, and good police software goes a long way to maximizing efficiency.\nAnother important part of a law enforcement officer\u2019s daily tasks include locating people and places as quickly as possible. Good software makes this simple. Officers can be located at any time, and finding specific locations has never been quicker. In addition, officers can receive valuable information about a situation or location while they\u2019re still en route, leaving them more prepared when they arrive on scene.\nBy seamlessly integrating data across agencies, eFORCE and other dispatch systems makes data dissemination easier for everyone.\nFor police, data analytics can help determine proper patrolling patterns, criminal records of involved persons, dangerous past behavior of involved persons and more. Records management software allows information to be accessed from anywhere, even a phone, and can give pertinent alerts to officers.\nFor the public, the benefits can be huge as well. Capturing more data means police departments and sheriffs\u2019 offices can make better decisions, keeping their communities safer.\nIt also gives departments the ability to share more relevant information with the public. In turn, citizens can respond more accurately and adequately to community concerns. The public can become more connected with their local law enforcement, and the two groups can do more to assist one another.\nNeed more information about the value of our eFORCE police database software solutions? Sign up for a short demo today.\nPhoto from October 16, 2014 www.dare.org article", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 8353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.egypt-business.com/Brochure/details/1846-Ice-Protection-Systems-Market-Worth-1017-Billion-USD-by-2021/377107", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LFAMUDLBFTWKU3JZP7BNC3H4P6SNUKR7", "length": 4227, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.egypt-business.com", "title": "Ice Protection Systems Market Worth 10.17 Billion USD by 2021", "raw_content": "Aditya Khurana | 12.11.2018\nIce Protection Systems Market Worth 10.17 Billion USD by 2021\n[161 Pages Report] Ice Protection Systems Market categorizes global market by Type, Technology (Chemical, Electrical), Platform (Commercial Jets)\nIce Protection Systems Market\nThe report \"Ice Protection Systems Market by Type, Technology (Chemical, Electrical), Platform (Commercial Jets, Military Jets, Helicopters), Application (Engine Inlets, Nacelle, Wings, Tail, Propellers, Windshields, Sensors, Air Data Probes), & Region - Global Forecasts to 2021\", published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is estimated to be USD 7.91 Billion in 2016, and is projected to reach USD 10.17 Billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 5.14% from 2016 to 2021.\nAsk For Sample Report : https://www.marketsandmarkets.com/requestsample.asp?id=106416182\nBrowse 72 market data Tables and 65 Figures spread through 161 Pages and in-depth TOC on \"Ice Protection Systems Market\"\nhttp://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/ice-protection-system-market-106416182.html\nThe deicing systems segment is projected to witness high growth during the forecast period\nThe major difference between anti-icing and deicing system is that the former system prevents ice formation on the surface of a plane, whereas the latter helps in getting rid of the ice that is already accumulated over a plane's surface. On the basis of type, the deicing systems segment is estimated to witness high growth, owing to the fact that at a certain height and temperature, in-built anti-icing systems cannot help prevent ice formation. In such a case, only deicing techniques help to get rid of the problem.\nThe electrical segment is estimated to witness highest growth during the forecast period\nThe electrical segment of the market, segmented based on technology, is projected to be the fastest-growing segment of the ice protection systems market. The chemical segment is estimated to capture the second largest share in 2016 in ice protection systems market. Electrical and chemical systems are used for both anti-icing and deicing purposes. Thermal pneumatic or pneumatic boots and electro impulse are majorly used for aircraft anti-icing and deicing. Both the systems provide heat to components that require protection from ice buildup.\nDownload PDF Brochure @ http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/pdfdownload.asp?id=106416182\nEurope is expected to witness highest growth during the forecast period\nThe ice protection systems market in Europe is projected to witness highest growth during the forecast period. The growth of the market in Europe can be attributed to factors such as increase in the number of aircraft deliveries and modernization of existing airports. Also, with the increase in commercial travels, military operations, and flight operations in cold countries in the region have also increased, thus making installation of ice protection systems substantially crucial.\nInquiry Before Buying: http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Enquiry_Before_Buying.asp?id=106416182\nThe Dow Chemical company (U.S.) is one of the key players in the ice protection systems market\nMajor players in the ice protection systems market are Clariant (Europe), B/E Aerospace (U.S.), JBT Corporation (U.S.), United Technologies. (U.S.), CAV Ice Protection (U.K.), and Curtiss Wright (U.S.).\nAircraft Health Monitoring Market by Aircraft Type (Commercial, Business, Rotary, Military), Operation Time (Real-Time, Non-Real-Time), Installation (Onboard, On Ground), Fit (Linefit, Retrofit), Solution, and Region - Global Forecast to 2023\nhttps://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/aircraft-health-monitoring-systems-market-954.html\nSmart Airports Market by Technology (Communication, Security, Cargo & Baggage Handling, Traffic Control, Endpoint Devices), Landside, Airside, Terminal Side, Application, Region - Global Forecast to 2021\nhttp://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/smart-airports-market-544.html\nAirport Lighting Market by Type (Runway, Taxiway & Apron Lighting Systems), Position (In-Pavement Lighting, Elevated Lighting & PAPI), Technology (Non-LED and LED), and by Geography - Global Forecast to 2021\nhttp://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/airport-lighting-market-1060.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elitedaily.com/p/do-you-have-to-officially-end-almost-relationship-heres-what-the-experts-say-9835040", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:17Z", "digest": "sha1:UZ6GIMJB5Q5AU2GIEC5TM23L6TZLC67I", "length": 4801, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.elitedaily.com", "title": "Do You Have To Officially End An \"Almost\" Relationship? Here\u2019s What The Experts Say", "raw_content": "Lucas Ottone/Stocksy\nDo You Have To Officially End An \"Almost\" Relationship? Here\u2019s What The Experts Say\nOne of the worst things about dating in today's world is that there's an increased level of uncertainty. Because people don't commit as much, there's definitely been a rise in \"almost\" relationships, and it kind of sucks. So, if you currently find yourself in one such situation, you might be wondering: Do you have to officially end an \"almost\" relationship? Well, it's a complicated issue and one that should be looked at individually, because everyone has different values and ideas about what constitutes a proper breakup.\nNow, if you haven't heard of an \"almost\" relationship, then you aren't alone. But, you've probably also been in one, or known someone who was. According to Joanna Townsend, a life coach and a Washington D.C.-based psychotherapist for Blush Online Life Coaching, an \"almost\" relationship is \"a quasi-relationship.\"\n\"It's 'almost' because there is connection, chemistry, compatibility, that feels so relationship-like at times,\" Townsend tells Elite Daily. \"But there's also confusion, uncertainty, doubt, and ambiguity. It feels like a relationship, but it lacks much of what conscious relationships need in order to thrive: emotional responsibility, a sense of commitment, healthy communication, and potential for growth, both personally and as a couple.\" Basically, you're together, but you're not. You haven't DTR-ed, but you do all the typical relationship things like text non-stop, spend all your free time together, sleep over, and hang out with each other's friends.\nSome people are content with situations like these, but others, not so much. So if you're in an \"almost\" relationship, do you have to break up with them like you would in an official relationship? It's not a \"real\" relationship, so the water is murky. Here, the experts break it down.\nFirst of all, you need to determine if your \"almost\" relationship has the potential to be anything more, and if you even want it to be. But, according to Julia Bekker, matchmaker and dating coach for Hunting Maven, \"Eventually it either needs to go somewhere or not.\" So, if you just can't see that happening and you know you need to end it before it goes on for too long, then you should follow your gut instinct.\nIf you're still unsure, though, Townsend suggests thinking first and foremost about yourself.\n\"If you're thinking about ending your 'almost' relationship, it's vital that you reflect first on yourself and your needs,\" she says. \"Are you meeting your own needs? If yes, and the relationship still seems off and too non-committal and stagnant for you, then it's clear that you've got to let go. Especially if it's causing you a significant amount of distress, anxiety, and fear.\" Hear that? A relationship (even an \"almost\" relationship) can be unhealthy, and you should never stay in it longer than you feel is right.\nBriana Morrison/Stocksy\nSo, if you're ready to end it, then you should. And as tempting as it may be to ghost out on an \"almost\" relationship, it's still not cool. Ghosting is rarely ever cool. But, according to Pricilla Martinez, an online life coach at Blush, \"Someone who hasn\u2019t treated you well may not deserve the respect of a conversation.\" So, if your \"almost\" relationship wasn't mutually respectful, then totally follow your first instinct when it comes to ghosting.\nIf you want to end the \"almost\" relationship in person, though, then there are ways. It might be awkward, but it might end up being worth it. \"I think trying to be as direct as possible so they don\u2019t have to decipher what you\u2019re saying is really helpful,\" Martinez says. \"The right timing will help avoid any feelings of being taken advantage of (i.e. don\u2019t discuss it right after sex). Don't leave it as an open-ended situation. Commit to your decision so they don\u2019t hang on to the idea it will turn into something later.\"\nBasically, be kind if you can. Even if it's just an \"almost\" relationship, feelings were involved, and it's important to be sensitive. Thomas Edwards Jr., founder of The Professional Wingman, tells Elite Daily that while you're \"having the conversation, you want to highlight the things you enjoyed while dating them before saying you don\u2019t see a future. Then after that, you remind them they\u2019re a great person, someone will appreciate them, make them happy, and you wish them the best. Moving on is so much easier when there's closure.\"\nSo if your \"almost\" relationship isn't going anywhere, then yes, you should definitely officially end it. It might seem awkward or annoying to deal with, but it will be worth it in the end, and you'll be doing both you and your almost-ex a favor.\nCheck out the \u201cBest of Elite Daily\u201d stream in the Bustle App for more stories just like this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 5059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enca.com/life/motoring/gallery-ndebele-flavoured-bmw-7-series-back-in-sa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NQDAZAOFUK5THWXMMLPIRTULRWSI3ZSW", "length": 2223, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.enca.com", "title": "GALLERY: Ndebele-flavoured BMW 7 series back in SA | eNCA", "raw_content": "GALLERY: Ndebele-flavoured BMW 7 series back in SA\nTuesday 15 August 2017 - 7:54pm\nEsther Mahlangu, a South African Ndebele artist, was commissioned by the BMW Group to refine a BMW 7 Series. The vehicle will form part of BMW Group South Africas Heritage Collection with the blessing of Mahlangu.\nJOHANNESBURG - Esther Mahlangu\u2019s uniquely South-African flavoured BMW 7 Series is back in South Africa and will be used to preserve the Ndebele cultural heritage of her people.\nMahlangu (aged 82) is a South African Ndebele artist and was the first woman to create artwork on a BMW 525i Sedan turning it into a unique and colourful BMW Art Car. In 2016, Esther was once again commissioned by the BMW Group to refine a BMW 7 Series.\nThe vehicle was on display at the Frieze Art Fair which took place in London in 2016. Simultaneously, the original BMW 525i Art Car was part of the exhibition \u201cSouth Africa: the art of a nation\u201d at the British Museum, functioning as a significant piece and highlighting Mahlangu\u2019s key role in South African art.\nBWW Group South Africa is now the owner of Esther\u2019s specially commissioned BMW panels painted in Ndebele art, which have been installed into a new BMW 750Li Individual. The vehicle will form part of BMW Group South Africa\u2019s Heritage Collection and will be utilised as a display vehicle at various arts and cultural events with the blessing of Mahlangu in order to preserve her cultural heritage for the people of South Africa.\nTim Abbott, CEO of BMW Group South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, is proud that Esther\u2019s work will now be preserved in her home country. \u201cWe are delighted to share Esther\u2019s legacy with the people of South Africa. Esther embraces her traditional heritage passionately and has dedicated her entire life to the development and promotion of Ndebele art\u201d.\nMahlangu was born in Middelburg, Mpumalanga. At the early age of 10, she began to paint under the guidance of her mother and grandmother.\nTraditionally, Ndebele women decorate the exterior walls of houses with elaborately painted patterns and graphic elements, symbolising important events such as weddings or other celebrations, thus the walls are used as active communicative media within the community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 194.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enca.com/opinion/are-anc-delegates-listening-to-rumblings-beyond-conference-walls", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:51Z", "digest": "sha1:BZEDMZUTNJOMW347LHODSRWGRRT6WDUK", "length": 7685, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.enca.com", "title": "Are ANC delegates listening to rumblings beyond conference walls? | eNCA", "raw_content": "Are ANC delegates listening to rumblings beyond conference walls?\nFriday 15 December 2017 - 8:49am\nJohannesburg,30 June 2017 - The ANC's fifth national policy conference is kicking off in Nasrec, Soweto. The gathering is mandated by the party's constitution, and must be held at least six months before its five-yearly elective conference. ?\nBy Susan Booysen\nMoving into its 54th national elective conference the African National Congress (ANC) is torn between delegate preferences that are balanced finely between two divergent candidates, and public opinion that favours Cyril Ramaphosa over Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The ANC\u2019s problem is that public sentiment affects election results \u2013 and the ANC conference could deliver a presidential choice that could sabotage the ANC\u2019s 2019 electoral prospects.\nUp to the start of the conference the outcome of the leadership elections \u2013 of the president and the associated slate \u2013 remained too close to call. The two main presidential contenders \u2013 Ramaphosa (CR) and Dlamini-Zuma (NDZ) \u2013 were engaged in a seemingly intractable battle, one that reflected the divided, factional state of the ANC.\nInterestingly, the evenness of the CR-NDZ race was far removed from the findings of multiple public opinion polls that preceded the conference. Without exception, these polls delivered strong endorsements of Cyril Ramaphosa as next ANC president, besides showing that CR was the candidate to help resuscitate ANC prospects for ongoing majority status in the 2019 national elections.\nThe public opinion polls, referred to in this review, shed light on the preferences of South African citizens and voters (including ANC voters) across South Africa\u2019s provinces. They reveal variations on the central finding of the citizens\u2019 desire to rid the ANC of Zuma and Zumaist influences. They deliver insights on leadership endorsements, and estimates of the damage that President Zuma has inflicted, through the eyes of South Africa\u2019s \u2018ordinary\u2019 citizens.\nThe first set of polls deals with the substantial discrepancy between levels of ANC support (even the lowered ones of recent years) and endorsements of Zuma. The Kantar TNS tracking surveys demonstrate that Zuma\u2019s support lags far behind the ANC\u2019s: Zuma\u2019s approval ratings were less than half of that of the ANC. On an ever-declining graph Zuma in August 2017 had an approval rating of a mere 18 percent.\nThe likely damage that Zuma bonds could cause electorally was evident even in internal ANC polling research of late 2016. In an interview with the author an ANC insider has revealed that should Zuma (or a Zuma associate) lead the ANC into an election, the ANC would lose its outright 50 percent national majority. This was corroborated by a nationwide Ipsos survey.\nWith this in mind, the extent to which candidates sever or affirm a link to Zuma became a crucial conference and election-related question. CR was adamant in his campaign that corruption and capture will end under his watch. He stressed restoration of values of service, selflessness and commitment to the people. On the down-side, he was complicit in the ANC\u2019s silences on and defences of Zuma.\nNDZ, in contrast, relished in her admonishment to all not to equate her with being Zuma\u2019s ex-wife. Her status of being South Africa\u2019s first female presidential candidate next served to veil the dense JZ-NDZ bond. She remained JZ\u2019s continuous political associate: dependent on the exact constituency that protected JZ, tentative in pronouncing on the eradication of corruption and state capture and remained the only presidential candidate endorsed by JZ.\nA second set of surveys focuses on details of the damage Zuma inflicted on the ANC, both in previous elections and to state institutions generally. The ANC suffered an 11 percent decline in Gauteng province in 2016; this caused the loss of metropolitan councils. The respondents in this survey had been questioned about significant Zuma-related political events in the run-up to the August 2016 elections. Everatt writes that President Zuma\u2019s behaviour \u201chad a direct and negative impact on the choices voters made\u201d.\nZuma\u2019s firing of former Finance Minister Nonhlanhla Nene in late 2015 made 41 percent re-think which party they would vote for; 54 percent recorded that the Constitutional Court ruling that Zuma had to pay back the public funds spent on security improvements at his Nkandla residence affected their vote; and 56 percent said the corruption charges against Zuma affected their voting decision.\nThe 2017 Institute for Justice and Reconciliation survey shows that South Africans\u2019 trust in central government and the president were the lowest among state institutions. Both are core state institutions, in which Zuma played a central role. The findings reflected a longer-term trend that South African state institutions suffered widespread lapses in credibility in the time of Zuma.\nA third set of 2017 surveys solicits opinions on preferred presidential candidates. A Citizen Surveys poll zoomed in on voters\u2019 preferred future presidents. On the issue of who the next leader of the ANC should be, Ramaphosa was in first place, receiving a 43 percent endorsement, compared with second place Dlamini-Zuma\u2019s 16 percent. Ramaphosa\u2019s endorsements spanned the rural-urban divide: he received 48 percent of support among metropolitan Africans who intend to vote, and 45 percent among rural respondents. Dlamini-Zuma received 20 percent in metropolitan and 21 percent in rural areas. Ramaphosa was the favourite in every province except KwaZulu-Natal, scoring 67 percent in Limpopo, and around 50 percent in the Free State, Eastern Cape, North West, and Gauteng.\nOverwhelming support for Ramaphosa as president also emerged in the MarkData public opinion poll (September- November 2017) done for eNCA and as reviewed in an eNCA broadcast of 14 December. In September 2017 Ramaphosa was endorsed by 48 percent of respondents in the national survey, and Dlamini-Zuma by 21 percent. They were the two leading candidates and Ramaphosa dominated by a similar margin when it came to age and language groups, income and employment categories, and across educational statuses. This survey showed that Ramaphosa was by far the preferred presidential candidate and that he would have a strong unifying effect on South African society.\nThese findings were comparable to the Ipsos research that found that only 18 percent of South African adults wanted Zuma to remain the country\u2019s president and that his approval rating had fallen to 2.8 out of ten compared with the 6.7 and 8.7 for presidential predecessors Thabo Mbeki and Nelson Mandela respectively.\nFinally, a social media survey of late 2017, Ratepop, confirmed the that \u201cthe chances of the ANC maintaining its parliamentary majority with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma at the helm of the party [are] realistically unlikely at this point\u201d. The poll suggested that should Ramaphosa be victorious significant numbers of EFF and DA supporters would desert their parties and vote for the ANC in 2019. Dlamini-Zuma would not be a drawcard at all.\nHence, will the ANC branches and delegates deliver evidence that they have been listening to these rumblings beyond the conference walls? Will they be acting in the longer-term electoral interests of the ANC, or will they make their leadership decisions irrespective of what is transpiring in the hearts and minds of South African voters and citizens?\nSusan Booysen is a professor at the Wits School of Governance. She is a political scientist and policy analyst, and author of Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the Time of Zuma (2015) and The ANC and the Regeneration of Political Power (2011)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 9498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/energy-engineering/contact-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TWTHXZPBOFGXPOFKEQVMTEDLTJLY7SL6", "length": 275, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.engineering.unsw.edu.au", "title": "Contact us | School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering", "raw_content": "Find a staff member or researcher in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering.\nA list of directors, fellows, professors and more in the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering.\nPhone numbers, location, postal address and key email contacts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 175.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/various/date_spelling_american.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:13Z", "digest": "sha1:NQE3PKVB3FYFERM46M47HYGKD35VNTMD", "length": 1541, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.englisch-hilfen.de", "title": "The date in American English - Exercise", "raw_content": "The date in American English \u2013 Exercise\nChoose the correct number and the appropriate ending from the drop down menu.\nApril the sixth \u2192 April\nApril the sixth \u2192 April 6th\nThe date in English \u2013 Writing and Spelling\nJune the ninth \u2192 June 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nAugust the first \u2192 August 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nJuly the eighteenth \u2192 July 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nDecember the thirty-first \u2192 December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nSeptember the second \u2192 September 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nJanuary the eleventh \u2192 January 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nMarch the twenty-second \u2192 March 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nOctober the third \u2192 October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nMay the twentieth \u2192 May 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nNovember the twenty-first \u2192 November 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 st nd rd th\nDate, Numbers, Time\nLanguage, Proverbs\nWork, Jobs, School\nNumbers, Time", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 31.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.english-online.at/technology/cloud-computing/cloud-computing-applications.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:57Z", "digest": "sha1:O47SW5ASS7UJ2CZVAWQ2VIQW3FIIEPT2", "length": 2573, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.english-online.at", "title": "Cloud Computing - Using Software and Storing Data on the Internet", "raw_content": "Cloud Computing - Using Software on the Internet\nCloud computing means using software that is installed on the Internet. You can also save your work on another computer instead of the hard drive of your own PC or laptop. Music, letters, presentations and other projects can be stored on clouds, data storage areas on giant servers on the Internet.\nThere are many so-called web applications that can do the same as normal desktop software. Google Documents, for example, gives you a text editor, a slide show application and a program for creating tables and diagrams. You can use these programs for free \u2013 from any computer all over the world.\nUp to now web browsers were only used to search for information on the Internet and show it. But now they have become something like operating systems which can give you almost everything that you have on your own PC desktop.\nCloud computing can also be a cheaper than buying expensive software. Many basic applications on the net are free, but you may have to pay to use some of the more complex programs. Companies do not have to buy expensive software licenses for all their workers and computers do not have to be better and more powerful all the time because all you need is a simple web browser, like the Internet Explorer and Firefox.\nCloud computing allows people from different parts of the world to work on a project together. Teachers and pupils, for example, might work on the same text together. Companies around the world can work together on a single computer and do not have to send data back and forth.\nThere are, however, some things that make computer users skeptical. One of the big problems is security. With cloud computing, you give your data to someone else. Users are also worried that they might lose their data on other computers. In any case, cloud computing is marching forward and in a few years we may only be having a web browser running on our PCs.\nWeb 3.0 - The Future of the Internet\napplication = computer software made to do certain things\nback and forth = from one computer to another one that is far away\ncomplex = here: with many different parts\ndata = information that can be stored on a PC\ndesktop = the main area on your computer where you can find small icons to click on\ninstead of = and not\nlicense = permission to use computer software\noperating system = a system in a computer that helps all the programs work together\nsave = keep, store\nsecurity = safety , protection of data\nstorage area = here: hard disks on network computers on which you can store your data\nstore = keep, save", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.english.upenn.edu/publications/2003/michael-gamer/broadview-anthology-romantic-drama", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:02Z", "digest": "sha1:R6QG6FKYHDSMYE6UT2OYSGJJPQCB4WZK", "length": 1535, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.english.upenn.edu", "title": "Department of English", "raw_content": "publications / 2000s\nThe Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama\nThe London theatres arguably were the central cultural institutions in England during the Romantic period, and certainly were arenas in which key issues of the time were contested. While existing anthologies of Romantic drama have focused almost exclusively on \"closet dramas\" rarely performed on stage, The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama instead provides a broad sampling of works representative of the full range of the drama of the period. It includes the dramatic work of canonical Romantic poets (Samuel Coleridge's Remorse, Percy Shelley's The Cenci, and Lord Byron's Sardanapalus) and important plays by women dramatists (Hannah Cowley's A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Elizabeth Inchbald's Every One Has His Fault, and Joanna Baillie's Orra). It also provides a selection of popular theatrical genres\u2014from melodrama and pantomime to hippodrama and parody\u2014most popular in the period, featuring plays by George Colman the Younger, Thomas John Dibdin, and Matthew Gregory Lewis. In short, this is the most wide-ranging and comprehensive anthology of Romantic drama ever published.\nThe introduction by the editors provides an informative overview of the drama and stage practices of the Romantic Period. The anthology also provides copious supplementary materials, including an Appendix of reviews and contemporary essays on the theater, a Glossary of Actors and Actresses, and a guide to further reading. Each of the ten plays has been fully edited and annotated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 210.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.entertainmentfuse.com/revolution-pilot-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:14Z", "digest": "sha1:YCTAZUEAWYTJK4K3EW54KO3T6UY4Z3WC", "length": 5199, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.entertainmentfuse.com", "title": "Revolution - Pilot Review | Entertainment Fuse", "raw_content": "Revolution \u2013 Pilot Review\nBy: Narcissus | TV Reviews | September 21, 2012\nThe recent series premiere of Revolution belongs to the category that makes viewers wonder why some pilots make it to series and others don\u2019t. It took us along on a 15-year ride and introduced us to many characters with mostly tepid lasting effects. What's more, despite being marketed as an ambitious project, the series is using little-league methods to unveil its overarching story.\nLet's start with the latter, which touches on the premise of the show. Revolution is about what would happen if the \"lights\" went out and our civilization could no longer rely on electricity. If asked to define what electricity is, most of us would probably fail to come up will an all-encompassing definition, but we are well aware of the importance of its production in our daily lives. History tells us that it allowed industrial mass production and a sharp increase of the world population among other things. However, just by virtue of living on the planet, we know it doesn't \"power\" everything.\nFifteen years after the blackout, the episode depicts a world that feels like a western movie with more chaos (it's post-apocalyptic after all) in and around abandoned or neglected 20th century facilities. Just by watching western movies, we know that steam engines powering locomotives and other machines of the initial industrial revolution didn't use electricity at all. Considering that libraries didn't burn during the blackout, we have a problem with the series setting. My issue with the show at this point is not that it has exaggerated the consequences of losing electricity, but rather that it left such a fundamental question for the show essentially unaddressed or tackled poorly. The viewer is left with the nagging feeling \u2014 for various reasons \u2014 that things don't make sense, which should have been avoided at all cost. And I should add that as viewers, we are not very demanding. We have no problem with ghosts falling in love and with the undead roaming the earth, so selling us some sort of technology apocalypse and its fallout should be possible, it's been done before.\nShowing us towards the end that some electrical capabilities still subsisted not only raised additional questions with the setting, but also underlined another issue with the story. TV series that choose to dabble with an overarching mystery generally fall into two categories, those that are straightforward with the revelations and those that retain as much information as they can. The pilot seems to firmly place Revelation into the second category, which either means the showrunners have decided to choose this rather inelegant way of forcing viewers to come back, or that they want to give themselves the possibility to pull anything they want from the mystery, which is insulting to the audience.\nNow, you can understand why Ben Matheson, when threatened with his life, gave the \"device\" to the former Google executive without saying what it was and what to do with it. You see, that would have been some information for the viewers and that of course would have been unacceptable. The one thing that was neat about the story was the connection between General Monroe and the Matheson brothers. By virtue of his presence in Miles' car on the night of the blackout (and hopefully through some later conversation with his friend), Monroe knew the brothers might possess some information on the blackout. That connection was well made, and elsewhere, the episode equally used flashbacks pretty well. As I eluded to above, it is a pity that the post-apocalyptic world was rendered in such an amateurish way. In fact, the whole story needed the touch of a more seasoned or capable writer.\nI have painted a bleak portrait of the maiden episode so far, but my biggest disappointment is yet to come. At the heart of every story lie some characters that are our emotional connections to the events. Charlie Matheson quickly emerged as such a character, but a combination of an average performance by Tracy Spiridakos and of badly-written material has created a heroine that, to me at least, is unreachable so far. The brother, Danny Matheson, besides being uncommonly lucky (asthma sequence) is downright unlikable, and uncle Miles still has some work to do to impress us as an antihero. The villains on the other hand were more interesting, but didn't have enough screentime to make it worthwhile. Giancarlo Esposito's Capt. Neville was excellent, but my favorite is JD Pardo's Nate. The actor didn't do as good a job as Esposito, but the character is the only one of the premiere that I would like to know more about. How could someone not like his exit from the Chicago building when he was unmasked, or not be intrigued by his defending Charlie before fleeing? In fact, he is the one thing about Charlie that was done well.\nThe season premiere of Revolution was far from being as grand as it was expected to be. We were sold an epic post-apocalyptic TV show, but so far we have a story plagued by core issues in its main storyline and characters that are either aloof or uninteresting. Things can certainly improve, but this wasn't encouraging.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.environmental-expert.com/applications/keyword-wind-monitoring-technology-65779/location-europe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:17Z", "digest": "sha1:VSTPXCO7OZEEPBYQKM6ZVJ2IETOCAAXO", "length": 2027, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.environmental-expert.com", "title": "wind monitoring technology Applications in Europe | Environmental XPRT", "raw_content": "wind monitoring technology\nwind monitoring technology Applications in Europe\nRelated terms for \"wind monitoring technology\": wind monitoring applications\nDust monitoring and Sand Storm Monitoring\nThe frequency and intensity of dust and sand storms in many parts of the world are steadily increasing due to droughts and climate change. The severity of such storms is anticipated to increase over the coming years. These dust storms may last hours or days and cause huge damage and imposed a heavy toll on society with its physical effects, such as visibility reduction, heavy winds, red sky, hailstone and severe lightning. Such Dust storms, have a negative impact on human health, and industrial products and...\nBy Ecotech Pty Ltd Distributor in Assemini, ITALY.\nMeteorological sensors for hydro-meteorology\nClimate change makes for more extreme weather. The main reasons for this are wind and precipitation.That is why an increasing number of meteorological and hydrological monitoring networks are coming together. Global coverage with hydro-meteorological measuring technology is varied. Very old and very modern (new) measuring networks are used for climate monitoring worldwide. And there are still large gaps, for example on the oceans.\nBy G. Lufft Mess- und Regeltechnik GmbH based in Fellbach, GERMANY.\nSonic detection and ranging technology solution for emergency response - specifically fire industry\nIn many instances, emergency response teams are impacted by wind conditions. This holds especially true for firefighters. Fires have a tendency to create their own weather patterns swirling wind and creating turbulence. SoDAR provides an easily deployable monitoring device that can help teams understand where the fires are headed and how best to combat them. This information can help reduce fatalities and structural damage. The real-time look at the wind conditions is utilized to make critical decisions on how to...\nBy Radiometrics Corporation (formerly Atmospheric Systems Corporation) Distributor in GERMANY.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 481, "original_length": 21392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.environmental-expert.com/magazines/keyword-atmospheric-modeling-4723", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:47Z", "digest": "sha1:JVYW233GX6CEA2HJY6ATTT5PJAXX4IPU", "length": 2194, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.environmental-expert.com", "title": "atmospheric modeling Journals and Magazines | Environmental XPRT", "raw_content": "6 results for Magazines & Journals\nAdd your magazines Subscribe\natmospheric modeling Magazines & Journals\nJournal of Hydrometeorology\nResearch related to the modeling, observing, and forecasting of processes related to water and energy fluxes and storage terms, including interactions with the boundary layer and lower atmosphere, and including processes related to precipitation, radiation, and other meteorological ...\nBy American Meteorological Society\nPapers containing original paleoclimatic, diagnostic, analytical or numerical modeling research on the structure and behavior of the atmosphere, oceans, cryosphere, biomass and land surface as interacting components of the dynamics of global climate are especially welcome, as are contributions focused on selected aspects of climate dynamics on ...\nBiological Conservation has as its main purpose the widest dissemination of original papers dealing with the preservation of wildlife and the conservation or wise use of biological and allied natural resources. It is concerned with plants and animals and their habitats in a changing and increasingly man-dominated biosphere - in fresh and salt ...\nTheoretical and Applied Climatology covers the following topics: - climate modeling, climatic changes and climate forecasting, micro- to mesoclimate, applied meteorology as in agro- and forestmeteorology, biometeorology, building meteorology and atmospheric radiation problems as they relate to the biosphere- effects of anthropogenic and natural ...\nResearch related to the physics of the ocean and to processes operating at its boundaries. Observational, theoretical, and modeling studies are all welcome, especially those that focus on elucidating specific physical processes. Papers that investigate interactions with other components of the earth system (e.g., ocean-atmosphere, ...\nWater, Air, & Soil Pollution is an international, interdisciplinary journal covering all aspects of pollution and solutions to pollution in the biosphere. This includes chemical, physical and biological processes affecting flora, fauna, water, air and soil. Coverage is diverse and includes all aspects of pollution sources, transport, deposition, ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 479, "original_length": 21621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eonline.com/uk/news/1011750/modern-family-ending-after-season-11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:59Z", "digest": "sha1:IO53CHZTIG4OMA5EV7ULTZEJTOOMLX6R", "length": 2385, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.eonline.com", "title": "Modern Family Ending After Season 11 | E! News UK", "raw_content": "by Chris Harnick | Tue., Feb. 5, 2019 11:00 AM\nModern Family is getting a victory lap. The long-running ABC comedy will return for season 11\u2014but it will be the show's last. ABC president Karey Burke made the announcement at the 2019 Television Critics Association winter press tour.\n\"So proud to announce that Modern Family is returning for its 11th and final season,\" Burke said to press. In a statement, Burke praised creators Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd.\n\"Chris and Steve have created one of the most seminal and iconic comedies in television history,\" Burke, president, ABC Entertainment, said in a statement. \"In its final season, there will be more milestone events that anyone who has been a fan of the series won't want to miss.\"\nSeason 10 looked like it would be the last for the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan, but a not-so-surprising renewal will keep the famous TV family around for a swan song.\n\"For 10 years, our characters have bravely faced turning points in life and moved through them to great personal enrichment; we have chosen a different path by doing one more season of Modern Family,\" Lloyd said in a statement.\n\"Even after 10 years together, we realized there are still some things our writers don't yet know about each other's sex lives,\" Levitan said in a statement.\nOver the years, Modern Family has won 22 Emmys, including Outstanding Comedy Series five times. The comedy has also picked up a Golden Globe, four SAG Award wins for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, a Peabody Award, two GLAAD Media Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, six WGA awards, four PGA awards, a Television Critics award and more wins for individual cast members. That cast includes Ed O'Neill as Jay Pritchett, Julie Bowen as Claire Dunphy, Ty Burrell as Phil Dunphy, Sofia Vergara as Gloria Pritchett, Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell Pritchett, Eric Stonestreet as Cameron Tucker, Sarah Hyland as Haley Dunphy, Nolan Gould as Luke Dunphy, Ariel Winter as Alex Dunphy, Rico Rodriguez as Manny Delgado, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons as Lily Tucker-Pritchett and Jeremy Maguire as Joe Pritchett.\nModern Family is just one of the many long-running shows preparing to hang up its hat. Find out why so many of your favorites are bidding farewell here.\nModern Family airs Wednesdays, 9 p.m. on ABC.\nTAGS/ Modern Family , Entertainment , TV , Top Stories , Apple News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 6526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.epra.org/news_items/ofcom-revises-signing-arrangements-for-low-audience-channels", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:51Z", "digest": "sha1:TUU7WXCT5IAHCSN35YQVKA52GVQQHVMH", "length": 2205, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.epra.org", "title": "Ofcom revises signing arrangements for low audience channels", "raw_content": "Ofcom revises signing arrangements for low audience channels\nOfcom has revised the arrangements for signing on domestic TV channels in the UK with an audience share between 0.05% and 1%. Ofcom\u2019s decisions take account of responses to the consultation published in July last year, seeking views on possible changes to the way channels meet their regulatory obligations with regard to sign language. The revised arrangements will start from 1 January 2016.\nAccording to the revised arrangements, broadcasters will be required to increase the amount of sign-presented programming (i.e. TV programmes specially made for deaf people and presented by someone who uses sign language) shown on relevant TV channels over time, starting at 30 minutes a month from the first anniversary of the relevant date to 75 minutes from the tenth anniversary. The relevant date for the purpose of access services obligations is the later of the date the channel started broadcasting or 29 December 2003.\nAs an alternative, relevant channels may participate in alternative arrangements to provide sign-presented programming, provided that these have been approved by Ofcom, in the light of the Guidance it has published. In this case, the minimum financial contribution they must make (to support the making of such programmes by specialised organisations), will rise over time, and will be adjusted for inflation.\nMost channels providing access services have been established for several years. Without transitional arrangements, they would face a steep increase in obligations from 1 January 2016. To avoid this, channels that have already reached the fourth anniversary of their relevant date by 1 January 2016 will be subject to more gradual increases, rising to the same maximum obligations over a number of years.\nChanges to signing arrangements for relevant domestic TV channels\nChanges to signing arrangements for relevant domestic TV channels: a plain English guide\nChanges to signing arrangements for relevant domestic TV channels: BSL video Summary\nReview of signing arrangements for relevant TV channels - Consultation\nAccess services: Ofcom\u2019s first report on the quality of live TV subtitles posted on 12 May, 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eps.ch/en/development/agile-target-achievement.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JHO3OPTM2C6JGMJHS4KLVP7TQSUGGDP7", "length": 1609, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.eps.ch", "title": "EVEN AT A FIXED PRICE \u2013 AGILE TARGET ACHIEVEMENT: EPS Software Engineering AG", "raw_content": "EVEN AT A FIXED PRICE \u2013 AGILE TARGET ACHIEVEMENT\nThanks to the agile EPS procedure, our customers receive innovative productions, which are completely developed but well-timed on the market \u2013 without overshooting their budget.\nWhen developing made-to-measure software, assumptions must often be made at the beginning. All the specific requirements of new software occur only gradually. This takes into account our field-tested agile methods. At a fixed cost, it balances the scheduling commitment and functional scope of the new product. In addition, you always know the development status and can continually influence the next steps.\nThe agile EPS procedure assumes fixed costs as a constant. Initially, the development project is split into manageable phases with achievable milestones. A fixed price bid is provided for each of these phases. In turn, each phase is split into time periods of usually four to six weeks. The defined tasks are processed in these time periods and a software release is presented at the end of this period. In addition, a report about the successes, the accumulative findings, the unfinished tasks and the coordination with the ongoing procedure is presented. This allows the course of the project to be influenced in terms of strategy and content in mutual coordination. Costs, deadlines and functions are balanced, by identifying the target/actual deviations of the functional scope and deadlines and reassessing these.\nAll the important factors under control \u2013 thanks to the agile development process of EPS: This applies for the costs, deadlines and functionality equally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.equitybulls.com/admin/news2006/news_det.asp?id=243906", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFZ5ULPRIJDISQEQU7VDGFVWL7Z3UREN", "length": 2114, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.equitybulls.com", "title": "Interim Union Budget 2019-20: Government proposes to launch mega pension yojana - EquityBulls.com", "raw_content": "Interim Union Budget 2019-20: Government proposes to launch mega pension yojana\nThe Government proposes to launch a mega pension yojana namely 'Pradhan Mantri ShramYogi Maandhan' for the unorganised sector workers with monthly income upto Rs. 15,000. While presenting the Interim Budget 2019-20 in Parliament today, the Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, Railways and Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal said that half of India's GDP comes from the sweat and toil of 42 crore workers in the unorganised sector working as street vendors, rickshaw pullers, construction workers, rag pickers, agricultural workers, beedi workers, handloom, leather and in numerous other similar occupations. The Government must provide them comprehensive social security coverage for their old age. Therefore, in addition to the health coverage provided under \"Ayushman Bharat\" and life & disability coverage provided under \"Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana\" and \"Pradhan Mantri Suraksha Bima Yojana\", our Government proposes to launch a mega pension yojana namely 'Pradhan Mantri ShramYogi Maandhan' for the unorganised sector workers with monthly income upto Rs. 15,000.\nShri Goyal said that this pension yojana shall provide them an assured monthly pension of Rs. 3,000 from the age of 60 years on a monthly contribution of a small affordable amount during their working age. An unorganised sector worker joining pension yojana at the age of 29 years will have to contribute only Rs. 100 per month till the age of 60 years. A worker joining the pension yojana at 18 years, will have to contribute as little as Rs. 55 per month only. The Government will deposit equal matching share in the pension account of the worker every month. It is expected that at least 10 crore labourers and workers in the unorganised sector will avail the benefit of 'Pradhan Mantri Shram-Yogi Maandhan' within next five years making it one of the largest pension schemes of the world. A sum of Rs. 500 crore has been allocated for the Scheme. Additional funds will be provided as needed. The scheme will also be implemented from the current year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a14516804/godfather-trilogy-netflix-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YKRNUJZY7QIZEUQBVDQCMFR5C5RZVED2", "length": 1265, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.esquire.com", "title": "The Godfather on Netflix - The Godfather Trilogy Is Coming to Netflix in 2018", "raw_content": "The Godfather Trilogy Is Coming to Netflix in 2018\nWho says there are no classic movies on Netflix?\nOne of the most common complaints about Netflix is that it lacks a really strong selection of classic movies, but there's a doozy coming in January. The entire Godfather trilogy will be available for the first time in the new year, the streaming platform announced today.\nthey made us an offer we couldn't refuse https://t.co/HLIQj56yFy\nIn case you're yet to catch up with the movie ranked as the second-best of all time by the American Film Institute, The Godfather chronicles the rise of a fictional New York crime family, the Corleones, led by Marlon Brando's patriarch Vito and later by his son Michael (Al Pacino). Adapted from Mario Puzo\u2019s novel of the same name, the series goes on to follow Michael's gradual transformation from a reluctant family outsider to ruthless mob boss.\nWhile the first and second movies are widely regarded as two of the best ever made\u2014and both won a Best Picture Oscar\u2014the third installment is famously far more divisive. Which is a pretty great argument for attempting an all-day Netflix binge of the whole trilogy, to see whether the backlash holds up in context. The Godfather films will be available on Netflix from January 1.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.essaytask.com/paper/What_events_show_Odysseus_as_an_epic_hero_and_what_traits_of_an_epic_hero_do_they_detail-135785.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:57Z", "digest": "sha1:OAW2UQEBMP4LGVFEVZCUD4PYADZ762GJ", "length": 936, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.essaytask.com", "title": "Essay Examples on What events show Odysseus as an epic hero and what traits of an epic hero do they detail? | Literature", "raw_content": "An Epic Man Who Became an Epic Hero Odysseus, of Homer's Odyssey, is an appropriate hero and ruler of Ithaca. He does not act irrationally but contemplates his actions and their implications. Odysseus is an appropriate hero because he embodies the values of bravery, intelligence, astuteness, and competency. Odysseus is an appropriate ruler for Ithaca by virtue of his hereditary right to kingship as well as his diplomatic skills, familiarity with his male subjects, discipline,\nand a strong ruler, both traits of superiority in his society. Being mortal binds him to occasional mistakes that he compensates for by becoming wiser and stronger. His extraordinary abilities are heralded by the gods. Upon his return to Ithaca, Odysseus ingeniously kills the rude and wasteful suitors and reclaims his title of king. In reconciliation and honor, he finally makes a sacrifice to Poseidon. Odysseus is the epitome of a hero of his culture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.etf-europe.org/automation-in-transport-social-costs-and-benefits-must-be-fairly-shared/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GPBJ7UDP6QVGGBOGUBGKUQ6EISNUECDE", "length": 5570, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.etf-europe.org", "title": "ETF: European Transport Workers' Federation | Automation in transport: social costs and benefits must be fairly shared! - ETF: European Transport Workers' Federation", "raw_content": "The transport sector has always been at the forefront of technological innovation, and transport workers are used to learning and adapting to the changing nature of their work. However, the current wave of automation may be different. How should workers and their unions respond? ETF General Secretary Eduardo Chagas was invited a European Commission conference about automation in transport, where he spoke as part of the opening session \u2013 alongside EU Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc and the Chair of the European Parliament Transport Committee, Karima Delli. Here we publish the text of his speech:\nI thank the opportunity for the ETF to address this event.\nOver the decades transport workers have adapted to work with new technologies, they have always been used to learning new skills and adapting to the changing nature of work in transport. For the ETF the key in dealing with technological innovation is to make sure that the workers and their unions are behind the processes when new technologies are introduced. We already have some examples of automation agreements in transport, that set how technology should be introduced and how its benefit should be shared.\nWe are not against automation per se. But the introduction of automated technologies needs a business case. This element is missing in debates on automation. We must take a step back and reshape the way we are dealing with automation in transport. We must ask if and when new technologies are bringing any advantage to people, to economies and to societies at large. Debates are often triggered and led by equipment producers, which is why it is often taken for granted that they only come with advantages.\nMoreover, debates generally underestimate the social implications of such developments. The nature of jobs in transport is changing deeply, and this is an ineluctable process, but there are a few elements that should not be forgotten:\nNot all those currently working in transport are suitable, even after retraining, for the new jobs that will be created. With the retirement age being raised in most EU countries, the transition will be difficult. We need to look at possible ways to support those workers. Fair transition measures need to be created when needed.\nAutomation means in general fewer jobs. This is undeniable. How can we finance the growing need for infrastructure if we are going to lose tax income?\nWe need to figure out new ways to tackle these issues:\nShare the benefits with the workers, for instance by reducing working time.\nFund transition as well as infrastructure through a robot tax. If we tax labour, why can\u2019t we tax robots?\nInsert automation concerns into transport funding policies. Iif we fund transport projects through public money, should we also fund projects that do not create jobs or even kill current jobs? An interesting example comes from California, where publicly funded equipment can\u2019t be remotely controlled.\nWe must also beware of new forms of social dumping! With remotely controlled equipment, vehicles, etc, control rooms can theoretically be moved everywhere else in the world. This is already happening in Australia right now, and negotiations in APM Terminal Maasvlakt II in Rotterdam broke down as the management refused to agree on a clause on this issue. But we also saw good practices emerge from a joint statement in the Air Traffic Management sector, where employers agreed with us on a set of guidelines for conducting change processes in the sector with the involvement of the workers representatives. These guidelines apply especially when introducing new technologies; and in the port of Antwerp an agreement has been signed last August guaranteeing proper processes of information and consultation in case of the introduction of new technologies in the port.\nThe modernisation of the transport sectors cannot be seen as the introduction of modern ways to pursue the old objectives and practices to maximise profits at any cost. Some online platforms for passenger transport or parcel delivery are the perfect tool for the long standing neo-liberal ambition to get rid of a salaried workforce and its inherent costs by using zero hour contracts. Don\u2019t count on the ETF to accept those practices for the sake of them being modern and cheap.\nSimilarly, do not expect trade unions to applaud or do nothing when the introduction of automation is accompanied by union busting, driving down working conditions or avoiding collective bargaining and representation.\nEveryone must take the responsibility: but in particular the social costs of automation should be shared by all those who hold responsibility for it! And the benefits should not be taken only by the few who run the businesses but rather be shared with those who work for them.\nWe are approaching the next European elections: job losses due to automation are being used by populist right-wing parties to attract voters. There is thus an urgent need for policymakers to seriously tackle the issue through policies and legislation, dialogue, etc, to get the message across that the market dogmas can not supersede the need to ensure fair treatment of the workers, the dignity of labour and that the human element is respected and put in the centre of policies.\nThese few ideas are part of the manifesto the ETF will present to the political groups and candidates to the elections for the European Parliament: we need an engagement with fair proposals to achieve Fair Transport in Europe.\nThe European Union will be social or it won\u2019t be!\nautomation European Commission", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 7465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eu2018.at/calendar-events/political-events/Salzburg-Summit.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FAUFYE6ITAA7LK7BZPIAIBZGO7DP3TL2", "length": 3842, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.eu2018.at", "title": "Informal Summit of Heads of State or Government, Salzburg 2018: eu2018.at Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union", "raw_content": "Informal Summit of Heads of State or Government, Salzburg 2018\nInformal Summit of Heads of State or Government, Salzburg 2018 \u2013 Family photo\nEU heads of state or government gathered at the informal meeting in Salzburg to discuss internal security, migration and Brexit.\nThe summit was hosted by Sebastian Kurz, Chancellor of Austria, which currently holds the Presidency of the Council.\nThe President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, chaired the meeting. He, together with the President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, represented the EU.\nRemarks by President Tusk after the Salzburg informal summit, 20 September 2018\nOn 19 September the heads of state or government met for an informal working dinner on migration. Leaders discussed the latest developments in this area. They took note that the number of irregular arrivals has been reduced and is now even lower than in the years before the crisis. The heads of state or government also agreed to strengthen cooperation with third countries, including Egypt.\nPresident Donald Tusk: \"Together with chancellor Kurz we have started a dialogue with the Egyptian president and now we can say that there is a backing from the European Council for this and similar dialogues\"\nDonald Tusk will meet President Al Sisi still in September to take the cooperation forward. In this context, the leaders also agreed to organise a summit with the League of Arab States in February 2019.\nInfographics on migration\nEU migration policy (background information)\nThe summit has been part of the Leaders' Agenda and internal security was one of the main topics. Heads of state or government took stock of progress achieved and agreed to:\nstrengthen European Border and Coast Guard\nstep up the fight against all forms of cyber crime, manipulations and disinformation\nThe issues regarding sovereignty and the size of Frontex that will have to be further discussed.\nLeaders' Agenda (background information)\nThe meeting ended with a working lunch in an EU27 format to discuss Brexit. This was an opportunity to review progress in the talks with the UK and to discuss the way forward. The 27 leaders reconfirmed their full unity and agreed:\nthat there will be no Withdrawal Agreement without a solid, operational and legally binding Irish backstop\nto have a joint political declaration that provides as much clarity as possible on the future relations\non the timetable for further negotiations\nPresident Donald Tusk: \"The moment of truth for Brexit negotiations will be the October European Council. In October we expect maximum progress and results in the Brexit talks. Then we will decide whether conditions are there to call an extraordinary summit in November to finalise and formalise the deal.\"\nBrexit (background information)\nThe discussions during the informal summit will be reflected in the work and the conclusions of the next meetings of the European Council.\nThe invitation letter by President Donald Tusk to the members of the European Council can be found on the news page. (18.09.2018)\nA background brief can be found on the website of the Council of the European Union. (18.09.2018)\nThe remarks made by President Donald Tusk ahead of the informal Salzburg summit can be found on the website of the Council of the European Union. (19.09.2018)\nThe remarks made by President Donald Tusk after the informal Salzburg summit can be found on the website of the Council of the European Union. (20.09.2018)\nOfficial photos of this event will be published in the albums Informal Summit of Heads of State or Government, Salzburg 2018 - Day 1 and Informal Summit of Heads of State or Government, Salzburg 2018 - Day 2 on the official Flickr channel.\nWho is Who (17.09.2918) (EN) (pdf 7.43 MB)\nMedia programme (06.09.2018) (EN) (pdf 1.67 MB)\nMedia programme (06.09.2018) (FR) (pdf 1.67 MB)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 5723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eugenecascadescoast.org/listing/northwest-christian-university/662/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:50Z", "digest": "sha1:AYRRKAKAONXVQIJWLJ44FRWFODWKTQPD", "length": 888, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.eugenecascadescoast.org", "title": "Northwest Christian University", "raw_content": "Northwest Christian University is a liberal arts university located adjacent to the University of Oregon. The campus is home to 800 undergraduate and graduate students from across the US and around the Pacific Rim. Just a short walk to downtown, NCU features the 43,000 sq. ft. Morse Events Center, Kellenberger Library, Price Music Building, Evans Chapel, classrooms and faculty offices, cafeteria and student housing. Founded in 1895, and a member of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities, NCU educates students to become smart, ethical leaders grounded in Wisdom, Faith and Service.\nDescription The beautiful campus is next door to the UO and the Sacred Heart Medical Center. Comprised of ten academic and residential buildings with outdoor spaces and dedicated parking. The Morse Event Center offers a gym and fitness center.\nLargest Room Capacity 1900\nMorse Event Center", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1328, "original_length": 25168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 199.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eugeneweekly.com/2012/02/24/eugene-weekly-analysis-12-10-09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:02Z", "digest": "sha1:MGR6XW6BFGGJMFFBXF4SXW6Q6TDVB6EB", "length": 10774, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.eugeneweekly.com", "title": "Eugene Weekly : Analysis : 12.10.09 \u2013 Eugene Weekly", "raw_content": "Eugene Weekly : Analysis : 12.10.09\nHopenhagen?\nEugene contingency lobbies for action, human rights\nby John E. Bonine and Svitlana Kravchenko\n\u201cPlease help the world.\u201d\nA young girl woke up from a nightmare, screaming. She had been watching the news about climate horrors and then, in a bad dream, found herself in a parched land. The earth was cracking beneath her feet. Next she was in danger of being swept away by a hurricane.\nRachel Kastenberg (left), John Bonine and Svitlana Kravchenko in Copenhagen this week\nConference youth with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson\nBaby Fransis\nThe girl\u2019s father told her about this week\u2019s climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, Denmark. The event\u2019s website encouraged every viewer to \u201craise your voice.\u201d She grabbed her dad\u2019s video camera, turned it on herself, and made her simple statement: \u201cPlease help the world.\u201d Following her action, hundreds of other children sent the same message.\nThe girl\u2019s message was delivered on Monday to thousands of delegates here in Copenhagen who are working to forge a climate change agreement. The coming days will tell us whether the girl\u2019s plea will melt the hearts of the hardened delegates.\nSome are calling the world summit on climate the most important international negotiation since the end of World War II. Progress until now has been spotty, however.\nAs the world wobbles toward some kind of agreement on taking action to limit climate change, Copenhagen hotels have filled up with 15,000 delegates, ranging from governmental delegates to buttoned-up environmental professionals to street activists. A rally scheduled for Saturday is expected to draw up to 60,000 participants outside the negotiating hall.\nA strong contingent with Eugene connections is here, working the hallways to obtain improvements in the treaties and other agreements to limit climate change.\nAlyssa Johl, a 2008 UO law graduate, heads a team of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who are seeking to infuse human rights language into treaty. We two law professors are part of her delegation. In that role, we are helping draft language for NGOs to advocate to the government delegations.\nWe are also in Copenhagen wearing two other hats. We are working on language to submit to the negotiations in support of a \u201ccompliance mechanism\u201d \u2014 an international body that would review whether countries actually do keep their promises. The U.S. has long resisted such a mechanism, but we hope that might change.\nFinally, we are part of a worldwide rapid-response legal network called the Legal Response Initiative. In that role, our job is to answer urgent inquiries from NGOs on legal issues that come up. Available on call in person, or by cell phone, text or email, we focus on human rights issues and on advocating a compliance mechanism to ensure that countries actually keep their commitments.\nAlso working the NGO side of the street is Tim Ream, wearing the colors of Greenpeace International. He will complete his law degree at UO in May. Until two weeks ago, he was in a semester-long \u201cexternship\u201d in the Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany.\nAnother attorney with Eugene connections is in the official U.S. delegation, with the U.S. State Department. Rachel Kastenberg graduated from the UO School of Law\u2019s environmental law program in 2006. When we met her she was tight-lipped about specifics of the negotiations, as a government lawyer needs to be, but she nevertheless radiated hope.\nHope, indeed, is one of the moods here in Copenhagen.\nAt the opening meeting, Prime Minister of Denmark Mars Lokke Rasmussen told the delegates, \u201cHope is the starting point of all major efforts. The world is putting its hope in you, for a short while in the history of mankind,\u201d he said.\nIn a similar vein, the mayor of Copen-hagen, Ritt Bjerregaard, said in her welcoming speech that for the next two weeks they had renamed the city \u201cHopenhagen.\u201d\nThe other mood here is frustration. By the end of the first day, participants from NGOs voted to give a \u201cFossil of the Day\u201d award to the industrialized nations for their foot-dragging. On Tuesday, the award went to Ukraine, for claiming a \u201creduction\u201d from 1990 levels that would actually mean a 75 percent increase over the country\u2019s current emissions.\nAbout 250 environmentalists vote each day on who should receive this dishonor. Fossil of the Day awards recognize obstruction of progress at the climate talks.\nCitizens from NGOs are called \u201cobservers.\u201d but their role can be crucial. \u201cThe involvement of civil society is of paramount importance,\u201d the Danish prime minister said in opening the conference. \u201cThe ultimate responsibility rests with the citizens of the world, who will ultimately bear the consequences if we fail to act.\u201d\nIn that plenary session, Dr. Rajenda Pachauri, chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, called it an \u201chistorically important meeting.\u201d He said that strong limits on greenhouse gas would cost only a 3 percent reduction in worldwide gross domestic product. The standard of living otherwise expected in 2020 would be postponed by \u201cjust a few months\u201d as a result, he contended.\nThe meeting elected as its president Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister for climate and energy. She called for the delegates to \u201copen the door to the low-carbon age\u201d and urged, \u201cIt is time to deliver!\u201d\nAs is traditional, the president of the meeting called for approval of the ordinary rules. But the delegate from Papua, New Guinea, Kevin Conrad, its special envoy on climate change, rose to object. Attention was riveted upon him. Two years ago at a meeting in Bali he had dramatically said to an obstructionist U.S. delegation, \u201cIf for some reason you\u2019re not willing to lead, leave it to the rest of us; please, get out of the way.\u201d\nIn Copenhagen, many NGO delegates are wearing their ID tags on bright pink ribbons emblazoned with the words \u201cLEAD OR GO HOME.\u201d\nThe PNG representative in Copenhagen objected that the meeting should not work only by consensus, but by a three-quarters vote. After consulting with others at the podium, the president of the meeting said that there was not consensus for his proposal to abandon consensus. She would simply consult with others on the proposal later. PNG asked for the floor again, saying that it could not agree with that procedure. He wanted obstructionist nations to yield to the majority.\nThen Brazil took the floor to support the meeting president, treasuring its right to block any consensus agreement. Saudi Arabia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sierra Leone all joined in, insisting that only a procedure based on consensus (which, in practice, means unanimity) is acceptable. A key question for these two weeks is how to move resistant delegations to listen to that little girl\u2019s plea at the opening session.\nAfter the plenary, the two of us went to a meeting of lawyers from NGOs and then to a meeting of the Climate Action Network (CAN), which consists of representatives from 450 NGOs around the world.\nWearing business suits instead of tie-dyed T-shirts, these environmental activists have mastered the arcane language of the negotiations, such as \u201cLULUCF\u201d and \u201cREDD.\u201d At the daily meeting they report on lobbying contacts made with members of governmental delegations.\nThe activists publish a daily newsletter called ECO, which gives news of developments. The current newsletter is the descendant of one first published in 1972 at the Stockholm Conference on the Environment, when civil society descended on the first international environmental negotiations, demanding access and participation. The first issue in Copenhagen called for a \u201cFAB deal\u201d \u2014 one that is \u201cfair, ambitious, and binding.\u201d It said that a climate deal \u201cmust safeguard the climate and must be fair to all countries.\u201d\nLawyers from the Eugene-based Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide, of which we are also members, are pursuing just such goals. ELAW lawyers from Australia, Bangladesh, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and the U.K., as well as the U.S. and others, are here trying to make a difference. Our task is to do what we can to nudge the climate change agreement toward what future generations really need.\nFollowing these negotiations, lawyers in the ELAW network will play key roles back in their home countries, ensuring that governments follow up on their Copenhagen commitments\nThe task at Copenhagen is enormous. By this fall the negotiating text had become a Christmas tree on which everyone wanted to hang their baubles. Nobody could agree even on where the baubles should go. The current text is nearly 175 pages long.\nPresident Obama\u2019s recent promise of a 17 percent cut, based on legislation pending in Congress, is a step forward for the U.S. and other industrialized countries, as is the call on Tuesday by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown for the European Union to offer a reduction target for 2020 to 30 percent.\nOn Monday, Obama\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency said it would even start regulation of carbon emissions without waiting for Congress. On Tuesday evening, three high U.S. government officials briefed a room full of NGO delegates from the U.S. Although the briefing was off the record, it can be reported that the room erupted in applause when EPA\u2019s Administrator Lisa Jackson was announced and she got a standing ovation. The U.S. citizens in the room asked tough, well-informed questions, including several from youth delegates, who proved themselves to be worthy interlocutors at their young ages.\nOf course, tens of thousands of people coming to Copenhagen has meant tons of greenhouse gas emissions. To offset the carbon impact, the Danish government is supporting reconstruction of some factories in Bangladesh. Instead of handing out souvenir briefcases as is traditional, the Danes also announced they were using the money to support the education of 11 students from around the world as \u201cclimate scholars.\u201d They will return to their countries to work on the problems that previous generations have created.\nThe UO has its own climate scholars in attendance. Bob Doppelt, Program Director of the Climate Leadership Initiative in UO\u2019s Institute for a Sustainable Environment, is here. Undergraduates Jeremy Blanchard and Sarah Harbert of Powershift West and the Environmental Studies Program arrived as part of a team of 15 students and youth from the Pacific Northwest lobbying for their future.\nSome 110 heads of state and government have announced that they will come to Copenhagen next week to conclude the conference and sign a final document.\nLet\u2019s hope they have something worth signing.\nBonine and Kravchenko are professors of law at the UO and members of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 13479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.europetnet.org/pet-resources/dog-breeds/item/1720-maremma-sheepdog.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YIC7SDC7IHCQOIE3A7JZZK7YYX5PSLNA", "length": 2717, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.europetnet.org", "title": "Europetnet - Maremma Sheepdog", "raw_content": "The Maremma Sheepdog, in Italian Cane da pastore Maremmano-Abruzzese, usually referred to as just Maremmano, is a breed of livestock guardian dog indigenous to central Italy, particularly to Abruzzo and the Maremma region of Tuscany and Lazio. It has been used for centuries by Italian shepherds to guard sheep from Gray wolf. The literal English translation of the name is \"The dog of the shepherds of the Maremma and Abruzzese region\". The English name of the breed derives from that of the Maremma marshlands, where until recently shepherds, dogs and hundreds of thousands of sheep over-wintered, and where the breed is today abundant although sheep-farming has decreased substantially. The breed is widely employed in Abruzzo, where Shepherd remains vital to the rural economy and the wolf remains an active and protected predator. Similar breeds include the Pyrenean Mountain Dog, the Kuvasz of Hungary, the Polish Tatra Sheepdog of Poland and the \u0160arplaninac (although not white), with all of which it may share a common ancestor; and the Akbash Dog of Turkey. See Mountain dog breeds.\nAncient history and iconography\nDescriptions of white sheep defense dogs are found in ancient Roman literature, in works such as those of Columella, Varro and Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus Palladius. Similar dogs are depicted in numerous sculptures and paintings from Roman times to the present. Among the earliest is the series of large statues (two in Rome, one in Florence, one \u2013 the Duncombe Dog \u2013 in England) copied from a Hellenistic bronze from Pergamon. Wolf dogs from the Abruzzo were imported into France at about this time. They were used by Fran\u00e7ois Antoine, \"Antoine de Beauterne\", in his successful hunt for the Beast of G\u00e9vaudan in 1765; The dogs work in groups; three or four dogs are an adequate defense against wolves and stray dogs. Their function is mostly one of dissuasion, actual physical combat with the predator being relatively rare. Some ranchers have found success training Maremmas to protect free-range fowl like chickens from predation from both ground threats such as coyotes, stray dogs and foxes as well as aerial threats such as raptors (hawks, eagles, owls, etc.).Recently in Warrnambool, Australia, the world's first trial utilized a Maremma to guard the dwindling Little Penguin population of Middle Island (Warrnambool). This project won the 2010 Australian Government Coastcare Award. While using Maremma to guard an endangered species is rare, Maremma along with other breeds of livestock guarding dogs are appreciated by environmentalists because they make it possible for livestock to coexist with predators such as wolves and coyotes, reducing their predation by 70% to 80% or more.}}", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/champion-cheer-dance-march-madness-championship-tickets-51018046350?aff=ebdssbdestsearch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:26Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2HGONSIMMHQ2LXPDMUEPEUEEY3CNORE", "length": 332, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.eventbrite.com", "title": "Champion Cheer & Dance - March Madness Championship Tickets, Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 8:00 AM | Eventbrite", "raw_content": "Champion Cheer & Dance - March Madness Championship\nby Champion Cheer & Dance\nSat, Mar 30, 2019, 8:00 AM\nSat, Mar 30, 2019, 8:00 AM EDT\nThings to do in Greensboro, NC Performance Sports & Fitness\nChampion Cheer & Dance - March Madness Championship at North Carolina A&T State University\n1601 East Market Street, Greensboro, NC 27401", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.evergreen.edu/directory/offices/library", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:19Z", "digest": "sha1:U4CHYFQ6NS2CMXZGDH2DC65NOWLP7CPL", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.evergreen.edu", "title": "Library | The Evergreen State College", "raw_content": "http://www.evergreen.edu/library/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 37.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.everythingsimple.com/two-reasons-why-people-look-for-used-rugs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:58Z", "digest": "sha1:AC3PTP45XH3JK3KWBVLHGI6XF4XYDRWZ", "length": 1949, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.everythingsimple.com", "title": "Two Reasons Why People Look For Used Rugs", "raw_content": "Getting used or pre-owned rugs simply makes more sense in terms of the amount of money you need to spend.\nTo many of us, floor rugs are simply pieces of home furnishings that we use at home. To others these pieces are a serious business and not to be taken at face value. Have you ever thought about getting your pieces among used rugs for sale? It doesn\u2019t matter if you call it used, preloved, consignment or second hand, some people would not even consider it. On the other hand there are two good reasons why people do so.\nBefore we go further into the matter, it would be better for you to clear up any misconceptions you may have about used floor rugs. These pieces are not unwanted, old, worn or dirty. In fact some of them are in quite pristine conditions. Their only fault is that they have been owned and used by someone else.\nThe first reason people look for these used rugs for sale is simply economics. Getting used or pre-owned rugs simply makes more sense in terms of the amount of money you need to spend. Think about it, if you were to pick between a brand new piece being sold at four hundred dollars, and a similarly designed but used piece for only two hundred dollars, which would you pick? It would be most likely the cheaper one.\nAmong serious collectors, there is nothing wrong with getting used floor rugs as there is a demand for truly authentic and antique floor pieces from around the world. These pieces are old and therefore used. However, they are also very valuable and not to mention super expensive. An example of this can be seen when looking for an original Persian, Tibetan or Oushak rug. Even though there are many of these pieces made and sold today, they do not compare to the fine quality and beauty of the original pieces.\nGetting used rugs is a matter of preference. It is up to you to decide what\u2019s best for your home.\nPreviousTips for Carpet Cleaning Phone Quotes\nNextReasons Why People Love Handmade Rugs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.expertise.com/ca/north-hollywood/accountant-cpa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VUEZTBTCVZ5U6WJGUOFPHJN7CO6WVH3H", "length": 5857, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.expertise.com", "title": "7 Best North Hollywood Accountants | Expertise", "raw_content": "Best Accountants in\nWe Looked at 25 Accountants serving North Hollywood and Picked the Top 7\nADK Accounting\nEl Cid Bookkeeping, Inc. Accountancy & Taxation Services\nEran Consulting\nG&J Accounting\nKhandelwal & Company\nModern Accounting & Services, Inc.\nOur goal is to connect people with the best local experts. We scored accountants on more than 25 variables across five categories, and analysed the results to give you a hand-picked list of the best accountants in North Hollywood, CA.\nADK Accounting is an accounting firm located in Burbank, CA that works with clients across the region and is based on a commitment to customer satisfaction. From taxes to financial consulting, the ADK team can work one-on-one with customers to ensure their finances are headed in the right direction. The firm provides a range of tax planning and preparation, accounting, bookkeeping, IRS and Franchise Tax Board representation, and consulting services for businesses and individuals. Owned and operated by CPAs Arsineh Khodavirdi and Valentina Demirchyan, the firm was built on the foundation of integrity and honest relationships. They put their client\u2019s financial well-being first and provide dedicated service without upselling them on unnecessary services.\nBurbank, CA(818) 841-1123\nEl Cid Bookkeeping, Inc. is a group of accountants and bookkeepers with over 50 years of accounting and tax experience in a wide range of fields. Their principal CPA has been working in the accounting field for over 25 years in various capacities at both national and international firms. The team has been providing accounting services to small and medium sized businesses with over a million dollars in revenues and can perform a range of accounting, bookkeeping and controller services as well as general ledger accounting, payroll, financial analysis, bank reconciliations and financial statement preparation. The team also only uses the most popular accounting software such as Sage, Oracle, QuickBooks, Quicken, and SAP.\nEran Consulting is based in Burbank, CA and is a full-service Accounting firm licensed to practice in the state of California. They offer a broad range of services for business owners, executives, and independent professionals and aim to be affordable, experienced, and friendly. Their range of tax services help clients take full advantage of all deductions and credits with a broad range of tax planning, compliance, and preparation services. The team also has experience helping individuals protect personal assets in order to safeguard their families and optimize their incomes. Their business services include general accounting and Quickbooks support to assist clients in increasing efficiency, meeting compliance standards, and boosting profits.\nG&J Accounting was founded in 1996 and has been providing financial and accounting services to serve all kinds of purposes. They provide consulting for individuals as well as small and medium sized businesses with an emphasis on outstanding service to their clients with an overall dedication to professionalism and quality financial solutions. The firm aims to be one of the leading accounting businesses in the area. By combining their 15 years of expertise, experience and knowledge, they ensure that customers receive the highest standards and tailored solutions to meet their accounting needs. They have extensive experience providing total financial services to individuals, large and small businesses and other agencies.\nKhandelwal & Company is a team of Certified Public Accountants based in Tarzana, CA that specializes in a wide range of financial and accounting solutions. Their services for individuals include personal financial planning and small business accounting with a focus on payrolls, reviews, strategic business planning, compilations, new business formation and more. The team also offers general tax services with an emphasis on planning, preparation and tax returns. Members of the staff are also well-versed in IRS representation and filing documentation focused on IRS needs and audits. Khandelwal & Company aims to provide outstanding service to clients because of their dedication to the three underlying principles of professionalism, responsiveness and quality.\nTarzana, CA(818) 708-9254\nModern Accounting & Services, Inc. offers a variety of services to fit the individual needs of every client, from simple accounting solutions to more comprehensive online and digital accounting services. The team understands that preparing and entering accounting information on a regular monthly basis helps to keep accounting records accurate and organized. This makes the process of filing year-end tax returns simple, effortless, and timely and allows their clients to focus on other important personal and professional factors. The team's range of services include simple accounting, extensive accounting, complete payroll services, corporate formation, audit representation, workers compensation and e-filing. They have over a decade of industry experience and clients praise them for their friendliness and professionalism.\nValley Village, CA(818) 760-2829\nRoland Fink & Co. CPA is a North Hollywood, CA-based CPA firm that promises clients fast answers, professional advice and personal support. The team offers a full range of accounting, tax and financial services options designed to meet the needs of most types of businesses. They can help clients on taxes, prevent costly mistakes and free up their time to run their businesses. Through their work with a number of small companies in the Montrose area, the team has developed valuable expertise in accounting and tax practices. Roland Fink & Co. takes pride in their long track record of demonstrating that accurate and efficient accounting can pay for nearly all its own costs through management time and money saved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 7768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2012/10/ben-taylor-to-perform-at-rams-head-on-stage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:29Z", "digest": "sha1:SSX23PJIB5YTKU3CJUE2QX3WARTPS7OZ", "length": 2626, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.eyeonannapolis.net", "title": "Ben Taylor To Perform At Rams Head On Stage | Eye On Annapolis", "raw_content": "Ben Taylor To Perform At Rams Head On Stage\nBen Taylor, son of James Taylor & Carly Simon and nephew of Livingston Taylor, is coming to the Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis Oct 9th.\nBen\u2019s latest effort, Listening, seamlessly merges the sounds and styles of folk, pop, soul, urban, reggae and country/western, running the gamut from sonically spacious acoustic numbers to multi-layered vocals and fresh beats. Taylor explains the album as \u201cAn evolution. Some songs were actually recorded four years ago, some were recorded a few months ago, and a few recorded a few weeks ago just in time to make it. This album runs the gamut from both the production style and the period of my life in which they were recorded. These songs are little windows into the last four years of my life.\u201d\nBen Taylor\u2019s music is marked by a noted honesty and authenticity of feeling, starting with his tuneful and expressive voice, the kind of voice that makes its impact with the smallest turn of a whispered phrase. His memorable melodies, immaculate acoustic guitar playing and insightful, honest lyrics have been captivating fans since the moment he embarked on this journey ten years ago.\nAs the son of James Taylor and Carly Simon, Ben has led a life so far in which music has always played a central role. His wit and skill as a singer-songwriter showcases an artist who is comfortable both in his own skin and with his impressive musical legacy. His acclaimed previous releases comprise his debut album 2003\u2019s Famous Among The Barns, 2005\u2019s Another Run Around The Sun, and 2008\u2019s The Legend of Kung Folk, Part 1 (The Killing Bite). Highlights from his previous albums include appearances on Good Morning America, The Tonight Show, The CBS Early Show, Last Call with Carson Daly and Howard Stern. Ben also made his acting debut with a recurring role on NBC\u2019s American Dreams and has appeared in the pages of People Magazine, Vogue and even on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. His reviews and raves have been steady for over a decade now with more to come. Ben Taylor has previously toured with Sheryl Crow, Blues Traveler and Ziggy Marley among others.\nA few tickets remain and can be purchased here!\nSon Of Music Royalty Ben Taylor Takes The Stage\nMusic:Taylor-made with talent\nWe\u2019re quite excited about the new Ben Taylor album\u2026\nBen Taylor Reward Fans Who\u2019ve Been \u2018Listening\u2019 With New Album, Tour\nTags: Ben Taylor, Blues Traveler, Carly Simon, Good Morning America, James Taylor, Livingston Taylor, Rolling Stone, Ziggy Marley\n\u00ab Police Investigating Brooklyn Park Murder\nPolice Release Statement, Identify Victim On Brooklyn Park Homicide \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eyeonannapolis.net/2014/04/police-searching-for-sex-offender/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XOM74OC3VSIQOS756ZUNKPBUSN6VOYD2", "length": 1256, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.eyeonannapolis.net", "title": "Police searching for sex offender | Eye On Annapolis", "raw_content": "Police searching for sex offender\nDarrius Eric Carr\nOn March 21,2014, the Anne Arundel County Police Department initiated an investigation involving the sexual abuse of a child.\nThrough the investigation, it was learned that a toddler left in the care and custody of Darrius Eric Carr was sexually abused over the course of several days. Based on evidence recovered during the investigation, detectives submitted an application for a statement of charges to the District Court Commissioner.\nCurrently, there is an outstanding arrest warrant charging Carr with Sex Abuse of a Minor, Third and Fourth Degree Sex Offenses, and Second Degree Assault, Production and Possession of Child Pornography. The identity and age of the victim is not being released.\nAnyone with additional information related to this investigation or if there are any additional victims, they are urged to contact Detective Kristine Mays at 410-222-3478.\nSuspect: Darrius Eric Carr, 20, of no fixed address, but is known to frequent the Baltimore area.\nTags: Anne Arundel County Police Department, Baltimore, Carr, Crime News, Detective, Sex Offender, Sex offender registration, Sexual abuse\n\u00ab 5K run and dog walk to support veterans\nSubaru donates nearly $13K to Chesapeake Bay Trust \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fairplanet.org/tag/amma-darko/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:23Z", "digest": "sha1:QGW3NVTU6WPBTS5HD3XEWJ6CFU2MG2UA", "length": 279, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fairplanet.org", "title": "Amma Darko | FAIRPLANET.ORG | Read, Debate: Engage.", "raw_content": "https://www.fairplanet.org/tag/amma-darko/\n\u201cAmma Darko\u201d\nLiterature in Ghana: Between two worlds\nJournafrica\nHer own experiences of coping with a foreign culture still inspires Amma Darko\u2019s works. Darko\u2019s latest book also reflects her own life story. \u201cBetween Two Worlds\u201d is [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fakerock.com/find-a-fake-rock", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5CI6A7VOEKK4QODGGILPFBJWCZY4PCYP", "length": 77, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fakerock.com", "title": "Do our fake rocks look real? Find our rocks | Fake Rock", "raw_content": "The rocks with the arrows are D.C. Works, Inc. fake rocks used for geocaching", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.familiesonline.co.uk/local/rotherham/listing/anston-greenlands-primary-school", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:10Z", "digest": "sha1:CN37B37ZKYAHGYUZAIY76UETO7PHLX4Y", "length": 658, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.familiesonline.co.uk", "title": "Anston Greenlands Primary School - Yorkshire - Families Online", "raw_content": "Edinburgh Drive, Sheffield, S25 4HD\nAnston Greenlands is a friendly, welcoming primary school in the village of North Anston.\nAnston Greenlands is a friendly, welcoming primary school in the village of North Anston. A primary school inspiring children to achieve. The school prides itself on its academic success and links with the community and describes itself as a nurturing and happy place. There are a wide-range of extra-curricular opportunities for children, from clubs through to outdoor learning opportunities such as Forest Schools.\nFor details on admissions contact the school or LEA.\nEdinburgh Drive\nWebsite: http://www.anstongreenlands.org/site/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 5280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.farmprogress.com/whats-next-net?ag_brand=cornandsoybeandigest.com", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:34Z", "digest": "sha1:66YT6XIRCMGNRHA4GYDLGJMO3PFI72VJ", "length": 6569, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.farmprogress.com", "title": "What's Next For The 'Net | Farm Progress", "raw_content": "What's Next For The 'Net\nFuturists look at the high-speed e-commerce machine\nIt seems everything from communications to farming drives at breakneck speed. Can you begin to imagine what to expect from the Internet within five to 10 years? Actually, some people can. \"For farmers, it will be a wonderful future,\" says Bill Horan, partner in Horan Brothers Agricultural Enterprises at Rockwell City, IA.\nStarved for time, consumers (including farmers) are already drawn to the Internet because of lower transaction costs, Horan believes. \"Consumers of the future are going to be more loyal to the experience than to the brand,\" says the central Iowa farmer.\nHere's how four Internet gurus see the next few years unfolding for the Internet and its e-commerce capabilities.\nThe biggest boon for farmers in the future will be in business-to-business (B2B) commerce, not retail, predicts Lowell Catlett, ag economist at New Mexico State University.\n\"Efficiencies with the Internet will be small, but worth it,\" says Catlett, who specializes in marketing and futuristic issues. \"The real gain will be on the input side.\"\nOutsourcing, or hiring specialists for professional assistance to maneuver through the Internet maze, will be the wave of the future, too.\nFor example, Catlett claims crop consultants \"will be tied to the Internet.\" They'll become bigger players in purchasing crop inputs for farmers and they'll likely rely heavily on the B2B route.\nAs you rely more on consultants to make wise decisions about Internet crop input purchases, Catlett says it also becomes more important to build trusting relationships with them. \"Relationships become far more important the more complex the world gets.\"\nCatlett also believes that, as more farmers get involved in identity-preserved crops and contracts, they'll become more coupled to the Internet. \"They're not going to necessarily sell on the Internet, but they're going to schedule their crops with buyers.\"\nStill, in order to make sales work, buyers must provide a value better than the local elevator. \"Moving products long distances doesn't pay. Standard market channels are still efficient and hard to beat,\" he says.\nFast And Furious Changes\nFuturist Ryan Mathews from FirstMatter, a futuring consulting firm, thinks of e-commerce as a global cyber marketplace. And that, of course, means international commerce with potential for political trading snags. \"In the next 10 years, e-commerce will be big enough globally that governments will scramble to loosen up the barriers, not tighten them. Money will be in creating bigger markets, not restricting them.\"\nOn the home front, though, it's difficult for Mathews to imagine why anyone would buy inputs from a local smaller dealer when they could get them cheaper using the Internet. \"However, the smaller dealer could be participating in that exchange and could be brokering deals.\n\"Some of the services they (local farmer-dealers) provide currently will have diminished value in the future. But that doesn't mean they'll go away as people start doing business on the Internet. It just means it changes. The question will be whether they can add value,\" he says. \"Radio, for example, didn't get eliminated just because of television.\"\nMathews likens the present Internet environment to an old Wild West town with \"outlaws, pioneers, mavericks, hired guns and shady ladies.\n\"Right now, investment markets are rewarding the guy riding into town with guns blazing. They want to get their IPOs (initial public offerings) and get out. Clearly, there's going to be a shakeout,\" Mathews says. \"We're going to see a huge consolidation of dot-com companies. Dodge City didn't stay wild after the sodbusters arrived.\"\nMathews expects that, as the Internet continues to unfold and e-commerce becomes more commonplace, farmers will see colossal progress in access. \"People want functionality and they want it to be portable and easy,\" he says.\n\"I anticipate farmers will be accessing the Internet from their tractors or combines, and maybe by simply using their wristwatches.\n\"Flat-screen, voice-activated technology is here now, too, but the cost of the technology has to come down first,\" Mathews says. \"Once that happens, technology will be pushed into farmers' hands.\"\nFewer But Better Sites\nTechnology will continue to develop and be faster, especially in rural areas, says Gordon Billingsley, content director for AgriClick.com. \"In 10 years we'll be amazed at how completely integrated, completely fast and completely mobile the Internet will be. Nothing will hold it back,\" he says.\nBillingsley believes that the Internet, over time, is not changing what farmers are doing. It's just providing a more efficient way to get things done.\n\"As Web sites become easier to navigate, those sites will actually be playing the consultants' role,\" he says. \"Sites are constantly becoming more useful and intuitive. And that will only get better as technology gets better. We'll also be able to better personalize and customize its use.\"\nThat may become easier, too, with fewer dot-coms to navigate. Billingsley predicts that the field will narrow with only about four to five big, farmer-friendly dot-com players left. Those players, though, will provide a comprehensive amount of information that's easy and efficient to use.\n\"Farmers are already ahead of the general population in computer knowledge. Once e-commerce catches on, they'll be able to make immediate decisions to make more money,\" he says.\nCut-Rate Coordination\nIf you're still wondering how this Internet technology will affect you, take a look at the produce industry, says Bruce Babcock, director of Iowa State University's Center for Agriculture and Rural Development.\n\"On-demand or just-in-time production is where we'll see value created by the Internet,\" Babcock explains. \"The Internet creates new supply chains at lower costs.\"\nFor example, Babcock says that some big vegetable and fruit companies - worldwide - are locating particular products to get ripe at a particular time for delivery. Fresh fruits and vegetables from Arizona, California, Mexico, Chile and New Zealand are now feeding an integrated, year-round supply for consumers.\n\"There's a high-cost of coordinating and scheduling all that, which now is done cheaply by matching buyers to sellers via the Internet,\" Babcock explains.\nBut that won't happen unless customers have good experiences. \"Farmers will go to sites in the future only if they know they can trust delivery and service. Those are the sites that will survive,\" Babcock says.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 8910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fcsok.org/point-in-time-count-observational-piece/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:23Z", "digest": "sha1:3GFPGAIAJMXEBZIQDPLG4GX36O5E6NNO", "length": 6795, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.fcsok.org", "title": "Homeless in Tulsa: The Point-in-Time Count - Family & Children's Services", "raw_content": "Homeless in Tulsa: The Point-in-Time\u2026\nOn January 26, Family & Children\u2019s Services (FCS), along with the Tulsa Police Department and volunteers, conducted a point-in-time survey of homeless and formerly homeless to help determine an accurate count of homeless individuals in Tulsa County.\nThe Point-in-Time (PIT) count happens once a year all over the country and is one of the best methods of measuring the number of homeless on a specific day. This type of counting is known as \u201ctaking a snapshot\u201d of a situation. This year, I was one of those volunteers in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is my \u201csnapshot\u201d of the evening.\nFCS, as well as other providers of service to the homeless, want individuals to come into shelters or other agencies for services as they are safe. FCS encourages people not to do a lot of \u2018give-aways\u2019 to the homeless because this enables them to live on the streets.\nAs I stepped outside, the cold air hit my face. I zipped up my coat, wrapped myself in my scarf and placed my beanie on my head making sure to cover my ears. I had only been outside for two minutes and I was already miserable. The low on January 26 was 28 degrees Fahrenheit.\nI had no idea what to expect or how to react to my evening on the Point-in-Time count. My team was calm and ready to help the homeless community. I wasn\u2019t sure I was ready to see how people live on the streets, especially in the cold.\nMarlaina Moody, FCS Homeless Outreach Team case manager, was our team lead. Marlaina knows the ins and outs of Tulsa and where most of the homeless community stays.\nOn our first stop, we picked up the blessing bags that would be given out to the homeless who participated in our survey. Blessing bags are filled with the basics (socks, gloves, hats), toiletries, first aid items, treats and sometimes a journal and pen. All the volunteers were eager to get started. It was refreshing to see everyone committing their evening to helping meet the needs of our homeless community.\nWe loaded up in the van and headed to south Tulsa. Our first stop was dark and cold; I turned on my flashlight and began to follow the team. We were walking along Riverside underneath the bridges. It wasn\u2019t exactly something I was used to doing and I was hesitant.\nUnder one of the bridges, we found blankets and coats but no people. My heart sank. People actual live here? People sleep here? As we kept walking, the wind picked up and I began shivering. I zipped up my coat the rest of the way to keep most of the cold from hitting my face. My hands were ice cold and I began to sniffle. After walking a bit further with no luck, we moved on to the next location.\nAn hour went by, and still nothing. We were getting discouraged when we saw a man standing at the corner of a Starbucks near 71st. He seemed to be a little out of it, but very willing to talk to us. He held a cup of coffee and told us it was cold, but he was fine. One of our volunteers stepped away to go to Starbucks and bought him a new hot cup of coffee. As she handed it to him I could see his face light up. He was grateful and you could see a faint smile appear on his face.\nThe man, Douglas, had red hair with a beard to match and his glasses sat on the bridge of his nose. He was soft-spoken, 65-years-old, and stood with his backpack and coffee. We soon found out that he became homeless 5 or 6 years ago when both his parents passed away. This meant that this man had a home and then in a blink of an eye he didn\u2019t. He stays in shelters every now and then, but for the most part, he has lived mostly on the streets. After the survey, we handed him a blessing bag. He thanked us and began to walk away.\nAs we walked back to our van, I reflected on how Marlaina was so natural with him. They talked as if they were life-long friends. He was a normal looking man who got dealt a bad hand that ended with him on the street. My eyes began to water as I thought about where he would sleep tonight. After this evening ended, I knew I would be in a warm bed snuggled up with my dog. Does he know where he will be sleeping? Will it be warm?\nOur next stop was behind a Lowes store. Marlaina knew of a woman who had been staying there for a few weeks. We drove to the last location she was seen, but it had been cleared out. Disappointed, we didn\u2019t think we would find her until we drove around the corner. There she was. Pricilla was sitting in front of an unoccupied storefront. Her beanie and a jacket weren\u2019t keeping her warm, but her fire red hair let off heat that fit her personality. She was cranky until she recognized Marlaina, her friend.\nWe wanted her to complete the survey, but she didn\u2019t want anything to do with it. We did learn that she has been homeless for about four months, but seemed to be in denial. When asked her how long she had been homeless she kept insisting she wasn\u2019t. We could tell by her clothes and her lack of personal belongings that she wasn\u2019t being truthful. Unfortunately, Pricilla rejected our efforts to link her to resources. The outreach team at Family & Children\u2019s Services visits her every week to check on her and continues to offer our services.\nThere is a large community of homeless individuals in Tulsa that need help. There are many ways you can get involved.\nUnderstanding who the homeless are and then helping to dispel the stereotypes about the homeless is a great first step. There is a stigma about homeless individuals. Such as, \u201cthey are just lazy\u201d, \u201cthey did this to themselves\u201d, \u201cthey are probably on drugs\u201d, etc. Opening up a dialogue is an essential step we can all take in confronting this difficult stereotype. It is important to learn about the different reasons for homelessness, and remember that every situation is unique.\nVolunteering is a great way to become embedded in your community and help those who do not have the means to help themselves. There are many volunteer opportunities in Tulsa. It is just taking that step to be proactive in your community.\nIt took me stepping out of my comfort zone to learn what I never could see. You have the chance to educate not only yourself, but others as well. Friends, family and people within your community will benefit greatly from a compassionate and informed point-of-view.\nAs you learn more about the problem of homelessness, share what you find out with those around you. Family & Children\u2019s Services reaches out to assist mentally ill homeless individuals and their families. We offer mental health care, substance abuse treatment and linkages to housing and other community resources. 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From fans and VVIPs to athletes, every segment comes with its own set of...\nCeltic FC and Ferco Seating made history on Thursday as the installation of the first safe standing seating system (RailSeat) in the UK got underway at Celtic Park. An area of the stadium will feature standing on the terraces for the 2016 - 17...\nFerco Installed the Seats for Lusail Multipurpose Hall Video\nLusail Sports Arena is an indoor sports arena in Lusail, Qatar. It is built to host matches of the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship. Lusail Sports Arena Lusail Sports Arena, exterior.jpg Location Lusail,...\nBBC Interview on the Rail Seat\nRailSeat The perfect seat for sports stadia where all seated capacity is required but where standing is permitted under alternate jurisdictions. All enthusiastic spectators agree that standing enhances the experience of...\nSafe Standing RailSeats at Celtic\nAfter extensive discussions with the relevant authorities for the last five years, Celtic will become the first British club to introduce safe standing areas of Rail seating for the 2016 - 17 season. The Football Spectators act 1989...\nLeague One Bristol City became the first club in the United Kingdom to install rail seats, proudly installed by Ferco Seating. We installed the 33 rail seats in two stands as part of the redevelopment of Ashton Gate. 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The loan-to-value ratio (LTV) on new-vehicle deals rose 2 points from October 2008 to reach 88 percent, but was still one of the lowest figures of this year.\nAverage loan maturity for November was 63.2 months, a slight decline from October\u2019s 63.9, and below the 65.4 average for the third quarter 2008.\nInterest rates on new-car purchases climbed in November to 6.43 percent. The rate is slightly up from the 6.41 recorded in October, but below the third quarter average of 6.54. Nonrevolving consumer credit, which includes auto loans, rose to an annual rate of 3.9 percent (or $1.5 trillion) in November.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 4580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 214.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.findamasters.com/masters-degrees/united-kingdom/history-of-religions/?70MkMUN400", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6AL37BK222BXQ6IOBDMLBKWTS7CRAI5F", "length": 4880, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.findamasters.com", "title": "Masters Degrees in History of Religions, United Kingdom", "raw_content": "All Aberdeen (1)Belfast (1)Birmingham (2)Cambridge (5)Durham (7)Edinburgh (7)England (27)Exeter (1)Glasgow (1)Leeds (1)London (9)Northern Ireland (1)Nottingham (1)Preston (1)Scotland (12)Sheffield (1)St Andrews (3)Swansea (4)UK (0)United Kingdom (0)Wales (4)Warwick (1)West Midlands (England) (3)York (1)Yorkshire (3)\nAlso Include... 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The MA in Theology and Religion serves both the specific needs of those focused on progressing towards doctoral research and looking to continue relatively broad-based studies in Theology and Religion to Level four, perhaps in support of a career in teaching. Read more\u2026\nDescription. This course focuses on the context and interpretation of biblical and pseudepigraphal texts, along with the study of biblical languages. Read more\u2026\nMA Christian Theology\nDescription. This course involves the study of historical and systematic theology from a range of Christian perspectives. Read more\u2026\nMA Religion and Society\nDescription. This course looks at religion from anthropological and sociological perspectives. Read more\u2026\nChurch History - MTh\nThe programme offers a high quality student experience through a strong programme of study within the field of Church History, encouraging the student to explore in depth a range of topics relating to the history of the Christian church from its inception to the present. Read more\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 419, "original_length": 12721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.findhotelsandresortsonline.com/relax-and-indulge-while-on-holiday-with-a-spa-treatment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:22Z", "digest": "sha1:F4JZ24VTGMKYE2UP3AIRWUGGL6AX7GVR", "length": 1813, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.findhotelsandresortsonline.com", "title": "Relax and Indulge While on Holiday with a Spa Treatment", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Hotels \u00bb Relax and Indulge While on Holiday with a Spa Treatment\nA vacation is a time people set aside to experience the luxuries in life they do not get to enjoy every day. A period when they can leave behind the everyday hustle and bustle of life to relax with their family or friends. When booking a holiday, it is important to select a location and accommodations that will provide you with numerous unforgettable memories. Along with providing the opportunities that will allow them to forget the everyday life stressors they experience at home. This all can be made possible when you select to stay in a spa hotel in Oman.\nBe Pampered and Spoiled\nWhen escaping away from a hectic work and home life, you want to take advantages of the amenities the hotel you are staying in offers. At a spa hotel in Oman, you can let your mind slip away to a blissful place while you are being pampered by the spa employees. A spa provides trained professionals that specialize in relaxing your muscles and soothe the body by eliminating the tension that has built up by everyday life stressors. You can enjoy a peaceful area that is designed to revitalize your senses to provide you with a tranquil vacationing experience.\nReturn Home Relaxed and Refreshed\nWhen you select to stay at the right hotel while on holiday, you can return home feeling like a whole new person. The friendly staff at Fanar Hotel & Residences are devoted to providing their guests with an unforgettable vacationing experience. They supply the accommodations and services that ensure their guests will have a relaxing and memorable time while enjoying the local culture. When booking your next vacation, you should take advantages of the services offered by a first-class resort that is focused on helping you unwind from your everyday life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstsuperspeedway.com/category/tags/baker-electric", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:33XTF5OLDOBYKRYYRRIRGQWSSE7KTIML", "length": 528, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.firstsuperspeedway.com", "title": "Baker Electric | First Super Speedway", "raw_content": "Jay Leno's 1909 Baker Electric\nThis is an interesting video featuring one of the many cars in comedian Jay Leno's vast collection of automobiles. He does a great job of explaining the features of the 1909 Baker Electric and why such machines were a favorite of women of the era. Unlike the gasoline fueled internal combustion engines of those days, the electric required no hand cranking (because there was no crankshaft!) to start the power plant. Also, the electrics were cleaner - they did not require oil and had no exhaust.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fitpregnancy.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/protect-yourself-your-baby", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TKBI2WQDVEIL7EAXZV2XSCVTV24NOWHR", "length": 630, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.fitpregnancy.com", "title": "Protect Yourself & Your Baby | Fit Pregnancy and Baby", "raw_content": "Protect Yourself & Your Baby\nReprinted from Dr. Robert Greene's Perfect Hormone Balance for Pregnancy, by Robert A. Greene, M.D. Copyright \u00a9 April 2007. Published by Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House, Inc.\nThe following BioMutagens are chemicals thought to be a risk to a pregnancy or a fetus' development. Not all experts agree on the mode of action, the dose-toxicity relationship and the health effects of BioMutagens, but whenever scientific uncertainty exists, the common-sense approach is one of caution. 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($6,435 Value)\n(This package may only be deviated from with a casket upgrade. Does not include Outer Burial Container/Vault and Cash Advance Items)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 2953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flexim.com/cn/gong-ye/you-he-qi-ti/shi-you-he-tian-ran-qi-cun-chu-he-fen-pei/gas-flow-measurement-odoriser-station", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:BADFZXGKPSFQFDC6PH6VVIMK4QCSRJX2", "length": 1990, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.flexim.com", "title": "Gas Flow Measurement at an Odoriser Station | FLEXIM", "raw_content": "A gas utility company was looking for a convincing flow measurement solution for pacing of an odorizer. As natural gas is odorless, substances with an extremely low odor detection threshold such as methyl mercaptan (methanethiol) are mixed into it, so that eventual leakages can be detected by smell. In order to add the correct amount of odorizer, the flow rate of the natural gas must be measured.\nThe city utility company has been using turbine meters for this purpose. Due to their intrusive nature, the turbine meters have two major inconveniences: firstly, they form a blockage to the Pipeline Inspection Gauge (P.I.G.). Each time the P.I.G. travels through the measuring point, they have to be removed, which requires considerable maintenance and safety precautions. Moreover, these mechanical devices quickly show their drawbacks when it comes to measuring low flow velocities. For this reason, the gas utility company was looking for a better way of gas flow measurement.\nFLEXIM\u2019s non-invasive ultrasonic flow meters clearly prove to be the superior solution for this measuring task. As the ultrasonic transducers are simply clamped onto the outside of the pipe, they do not block the passages of the Pipeline Inspection Gauge in any way and they are not subject to wear and tear.\nFurthermore, the acoustic method proves to be convincing due to its impressive measuring dynamics. In the respective application, FLEXIM\u2019s ultrasonic gas flow meters successfully detect low flow rates in both DN500 and DN400 pipes with excellent signal-to-noise ratio. Thanks to FLEXIM\u2019s non invasive flow measurement, the city utility company can now ensure continuous service.\nNon-invasive flow measurement of natural gas\nUnparalleled measuring dynamics - even at very low flow\nNo more maintenance issues\nConstant pipeline availability: no pipework necessary for the installation of the ultrasonic flow measurement system or for the preparation of passages of the Pipeline Inspection Gauge (P.I.G.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 385, "original_length": 14483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flickfeast.co.uk/spotlight/flim-weakly-review-kubrick-feast-a-clockwork-orange/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IFTD2MXAL4ZZXBGW4N7MO5JAWALZVCIZ", "length": 1302, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.flickfeast.co.uk", "title": "Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange - Flim Weakly Review - flickfeast", "raw_content": "Stanley Kubrick\u2019s A Clockwork Orange \u2013 Flim Weakly Review\nBy Chris Wyatt\t Last updated Jul 4, 2018\nStanley Kubrick was a man with a beard, who made films, just like that other man with the beard who makes films as well, except Kubrick didn\u2019t make as many films as the other one, and definitely didn\u2019t make E.T.\nAnd if he had made E.T., it would have been way different, with no kids, or funny shit.\nAnyway, Flickfeast asked me to watch all of his films, because it was his birthday this month, or something, which I don\u2019t think is right, because I\u2019m pretty sure he\u2019s dead, and dead people can\u2019t have birthdays, because they can\u2019t eat the cake.\nAnyway, this week\u2026\nA gang of night bastards beat up everyone that isn\u2019t them, until there\u2019s no one left. Then the chief one, who wears fake eyelashes, goes to live in jail where his eyes get tricked into thinking bad things are bad. Then he goes home, cries a bit and gets beaten up by his mates, before going to live in hospital, where his eyes are made better again, allowing him to go back to being a night bastard.\nBecause they aren\u2019t that stupid. 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She owns the diner in her town and lives on her husband\u2019s family farm, which is haunted by his ancestors. Her belief in the spectral sparked my own interest in the unexplained and ties back to my ongoing curiosity about religion, spirituality and the human desire to believe that something else happens after we die and that a part of us\u2013the spirit or soul\u2013continues on.\nThe camera is a crucial tool for most paranormal investigators, so it was a natural step for me to become an amateur ghost hunter myself. Photography has been linked to the spirit world since the 1860s with the popularity of spirit photography and post-mortem portraits. Since its invention photography has lent a sense of immortality to its subjects. In recent years the paranormal has received amplified media attention through numerous 'reality' television programs that sensationalize any phenomena for the camera. On the contrary my approach is self-reflective and curious. To make the resulting images I have adopted both traditional and contemporary methods of capturing the invisible, as well as employed my own interpretation of the magical and mystical.\nPhantom Power is a new photo book by Barbara Diener, published by Daylight Books. Just by the cover, I was immediately drawn to this book. The book title is cut out and beneath there is a holographic pattern that makes the title jump out of the black dark cover, but also relates to the book\u2019s subject matter.\nThroughout the entire book the color black is a big part of the publication\u2019s esthetics, from the cover to the title page, to the layout itself, the black element follows you along the journey. This makes the colorful and vibrant images feel as if they are jumping out of the book and they definitely set the mood for the overall experience.\n\u0093\u201cThey are all techniques that called upon the camera to prove a hidden reality when photography was still largely considered to portray truth. A double exposure or doctored negative became proof of a spirit in the room, and electricity interacting with moisture-as the corona discharge in a Kirlian photograph-became proof that living things are surrounded by a conjectural energy field or aura. \u201c\u0094\n\u2014 from the interview between Lisa Janes and Barbara Diener\nAs the text by Allison Grant in the beginning of the book states, Barbara used different visual and camera \u201ctricks\u201d to achieve many of her images. Photography is a key tool for the growth of super natural phenomena, like UFO\u2019s or ghosts. The book tackles the notion that these \u201ctricks\u201d are easily explained by trained photographers, but for the common person, they are truth as photography has always taken the role of the absolute truth teller. This concept is interesting to consider when knowing that Barbara is indeed a trained photographer, a skilled artist who is \u201cdown grading\u201d her methods to explore these types of visual affects. I think the end result is a blurred line between the amateur aspect of the work and the professional.\nI found that each spread was a small story by itself within the larger narrative. Each composition and each visual feels that it is trying to tackle one part of this story from that perspective. If it is capturing a person, light, event or ghost hunt, each image stands alone as if it is a still from a moving image.\nI think it is important to see that the work is both whimsical and serious at the same time. There is that aspect of play and \u201chunting\u201d that comes out in many of the images where you feel the hands of the photographer and her manipulation of the scene, but this book is a real search and understanding of these beliefs and the people who are surrounded by them. This hybrid created a charming book that also makes you think about the real power of the photographic tool.\nPlease consider getting a copy of this book yourself by visiting the Daylight Books website here\nBook, Barbara Diener, PHANTOM POWER\nMay 26 Matthew Brandt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.forbes.com/video/5781429448001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:38Z", "digest": "sha1:NVQU5LO4NGX4RDJAYZGYYTCRXVYFVWH6", "length": 276, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.forbes.com", "title": "Success In 60 Seconds: Padma Lakshmi On How To Ask For More", "raw_content": "Success In 60 Seconds: Padma Lakshmi On How To Ask For More0:57Success In 60 Seconds: Padma Lakshmi On How To Ask For More Video Duration Is 0:57\nPadma Lakshmi, Author, Host & Executive Producer of Bravo\u2019s Top Chef, on being your own advocate and getting paid what you deserve", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 2711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foreffectivegov.org/node/13568", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RS6NTG3ZIRMBUSPPAD4NEAOQ4CHA7YDK", "length": 4744, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.foreffectivegov.org", "title": "Report: 100 CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41% of American families | Center for Effective Government", "raw_content": "Report: 100 CEOs have as much in retirement assets as 41% of American families\nRevenue & Spending, Press Room, CEO Pay, Retirement\nContact: Sabrina E. Williams, Center for Effective Government, (202) 683-4883 or swilliams@foreffectivegov.org.\nWASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2015 \u2013 A just-released report by the Center for Effective Government and the Institute for Policy Studies, A Tale of Two Retirements, is the first to provide detailed statistics on the staggering gap between the retirement assets of Fortune 500 CEOs and the rest of America.\nThe report\u2019s major finding: just 100 CEOs have as much in their company retirement assets as the entire retirement savings of 41 percent of American families (50 million families total). The report comes on the heels of a Social Security Administration announcement that beneficiaries will not receive a cost of living increase in 2016.\nThe full 30-page report and related graphics are available at: http://www.foreffectivegov.org/two-retirements\nAdditional key findings from A Tale of Two Retirements:\nMore on the top 100\nThe 100 largest CEO retirement accounts are worth an average of more than $49.3 million\u2014enough to generate a $277,686 monthly retirement check for each executive for the rest of their lives.\nDavid Novak of YUM Brands (who was CEO in 2014 and has since become Executive Chairman) had the largest retirement nest egg, with $234 million. Hundreds of thousands of YUM employees at Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC have no company retirement assets whatsoever.\nSpecial tax-deferred compensation accounts\nFortune 500 CEOs have $3.2 billion in special tax-deferred compensation accounts that are exempt from the annual contribution limits imposed on ordinary 401(k)s.\nIn 2014, these CEOs saved $78 million on their tax bills by putting $197 million more in these tax-deferred accounts than they could have if they were subject to the same rules as other workers. These special accounts grow tax-free until the executives retire and begin to withdraw the funds.\nFifteen CEOs of major federal contractors can expect to receive monthly retirement checks that are larger than President Obama is set to receive.\nDavid Cote of Honeywell has the largest retirement account, with $168 million. This will deliver him a monthly check of more than $950,000\u201456 times larger than the $16,975 monthly check President Obama will receive.\nGender and race gaps\nThe 10 largest CEO retirement funds\u2014all held by white males\u2014add up to $1.4 billion, compared to $280 million for the 10 largest held by female CEOs, and $196 million for the 10 largest held by CEOs who are people of color.\nAmong ordinary Americans, 62 percent of working age African-Americans and 69 percent of Latinos have no retirement savings, compared to just 37 percent of white workers.\n\u201cThe CEOs\u2019 extraordinary nest eggs are not the result of extraordinary performance,\u201d notes Scott Klinger, director of Revenue and Spending Policies at the Center for Effective Government. \u201cThey are the result of rules intentionally tipped to reward those already on the highest rungs of the ladder.\u201d\n\u201cThe CEO-worker retirement divide has turned our country\u2019s already extreme income divide into an even wider economic chasm,\u201d says Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies Global Economy Project director. \u201cAnd what few realize is that the trends of expanding CEO pensions and increasing worker retirement insecurity are inextricably linked.\u201d\nThe percentage of private sector workers covered by a defined benefit pension, which guarantees monthly payments, has dropped from 35 percent in the early 1990s to 18 percent last year. Nearly half of all working age Americans have no access to any retirement plan at work.\nThe report examines various policy shifts that have favored corporate executives and identifies reforms to limit CEO retirement subsidies and ensure a dignified retirement for ordinary Americans.\nReport co-authors:\nSarah Anderson directs the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS-DC.org). She has co-authored 22 IPS annual reports on executive compensation and regularly contributes commentaries on this issue to Fortune.com, Huffington Post, CNBC.com, and other publications. Contact: sarah@ips-dc.org, 202 787-5227.\nScott Klinger is Director of Revenue and Spending Policies at the Center for Effective Government. He crafted the first shareholder proposals on executive pay while working as a social investment portfolio manager. Scott is a CFA charterholder. Contact: sklinger@foreffectivegov.org\nThis is Anderson and Klinger\u2019s third joint report on executive retirement assets. Previous reports have received coverage in the Washington Post, CNN Money, Los Angeles Times, and Fortune, among other outlets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.forthea.com/modx-cloud-its-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:7X7735GONSIUJBQYTZ5A4EWRRVQ7NPNE", "length": 6963, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.forthea.com", "title": "MODx Cloud: It\u2019s Time | Forthea Interactive", "raw_content": "MODx Cloud: It\u2019s Time\nPosted by Forthea on January 3, 2013 in Design & Development, Digital Marketing\nSometimes you just need something to go wrong in order to make you try something new. I\u2019ve been very curious about the new MODx Cloud service. I\u2019ve heard that it\u2019s lightning fast. But the thought of changing our host does not appeal to me at all. Nothing worse than migrating a ton of sites over to a new environment. Yeah, sure, I could always keep the current host for the sites that are currently on it and then start putting all of the new sites on MODx Cloud. Yeah, that did occur to me and it may be the route I take. But, for the sake of consistency and time, it is best to have all our sites in one home. But like I said, sometimes something needs to wrong in order to motivate a person to make a change.\nWell, here I am. I just signed up for a free trial of the new MODx Cloud service. What went wrong, you ask? I don\u2019t really know, and apparently, neither does anyone else. We are currently using a popular cloud-based hosting service. I really haven\u2019t had many problems with them despite a few shortcomings. I\u2019m not even here to bash them. For all I know the problem could be 100% that of MODx. I just don\u2019t know. But maybe the problem is 100% that of our current host. It could be both, who knows? And there lies the problem: no one knows yet.\nWhat\u2019s the problem? Most veteran MODx users are aware of the old \u201cwhite-screen\u201d issue. You know, the one where you get a blank white page instead of a pretty website that you just recently built and launched. We all learned that a quick clearing of the MODx cache would set things right. That issue is easy to fix and is tolerable to live with. However, something weird has been happening over that past month or so. I\u2019m experiencing where entire menus and/or banners are disappearing. This is a miserable experience for those who have clients that keep a close eye on their site. No one likes to get news of a failing site from the client themselves. It just doesn\u2019t look good, even if it is not your fault.\nNot all of my sites are going through this mind you, just one of the more important ones, as well as 2 more that are experiencing the problem to a lesser degree. So now I feel compelled to keep an eye on that site a few times an hour just so I don\u2019t have to hear about a downed site from the project manager or worse, the client.\nThis issue drives me crazy because I can\u2019t fix it. If I am lucky, clearing the cache may help. But it usually doesn\u2019t. I\u2019ve learned to just chill and wait and it seems to come back. What a horrible existence! Ain\u2019t no one got time for that!\nEnter MODx Cloud\nWell there you go\u2026. There\u2019s the problem that prompted me to try something that I was actually wanting to try anyway. Other than hearing that it is lightning fast, I know very little about MODx Cloud. But now I am very interested in knowing more. What better way than to take advantage of a 2 week free trial. That should give me the time to run a few tests to see if it is right for us as an agency.\nThat\u2019s where I am right now; I just signed up and am ready to dive in. Expect a blog post in the near future about my experience and decision. But for now, I will explain why I am excited about the potential of the MODx Cloud service.\nWhy I am Excited About the MODx Cloud Service\n1) Speed \u2013 I\u2019ve heard from more than 1 person about this service being lightning fast. This has been a minor issue with our current cloud host. Sometimes it\u2019s just really slow.\n2) Backups \u2013 Our current cloud host does not offer backups of cloud sites as a service. Yeah they let you configure a Cron Job using third-party services or your own programming, but who needs that? MODx Cloud has a rolling 7-day backup system. Your site gets backed up each day and the most recent 7 backups are available to you to restore, if necessary. I don\u2019t need to explain how much peace of mind that gives a developer when it comes to protecting your sites from careless edits from another co-worker or the client themselves. No matter how big or small the problem with a site, you can always roll back to when the site was not broken. Surely you wouldn\u2019t let 7 days go by without noticing that one of your client sites is broken or down.\n3) Import \u2013 I don\u2019t know anything about Vapor (yet), but MODx claims fast and easy import of MODx site with Vapor. If this works well, it will be a huge plus when it comes to migrating the sites over from our current cloud host to ModX Cloud.\n4) Upgrades \u2013 Even though I know that manually upgrading a MODx install is usually error-free and that it has yet to break one of my sites, I am very attracted to MODx\u2019s claim of fast and easy upgrades.\n5) SSH \u2013 our current cloud host does not allow shell access. Some would consider that a crime. Me, not so much. I am, after all, pretty old-school. FTp has been good to me. But I do know the advantages of having shell access and will be glad to have them back.\n6) Snapshots \u2013 This is what excites me the most. For me, this is the most valuable time-saving aspect of MODx Cloud. Snapshots is the ability to copy a build of MODx that can rolled out again and again. Some of you may remember my basic template tutorial from a while back. Snapshots gives me the ability to only have to do that once. From then on, I will be able to simply start at that point for every new site I build. This will save me over an hour per project. That adds up. Snapshots can be even more beneficial to those who build basic template-sites. If most of your sites have the same structure but different colors and images, then this will save you tons of time.\nMODx has 4 plans to choose from. At first glance, I was a little sticker-shocked by the Agency pricing. But after finding out what we actually pay for our current cloud hosting, MODx Cloud tends to be just a little bit cheaper. With 50 dev clouds, we could eventually port over all of our current sites. But moving forward, it just might make more sense to just have your client buy a \u201cClient\u201d plan and then set you as an approved member. This is cool because in your dashboard there will be a dropdown that lists all of the clouds you have access to. This will keep your agency from racking up a huge hosting bill, regardless of whether you are passing that cost on to the client or not.\nThat\u2019s all I know so far. Stay tuned and I will let you know how it goes for us. In the meantime if you have questions, MODx has some answers.\nHistory of Technology \u2013 Bridging the Gap\nI have been using MODX Cloud since it launched and I LOVE it!\nCreate DEV sites with one click, move and update MODX on the fly and the daily backups are fantastic features.\nMODX Cloud greatly speeds u my projects and the support is truly amazing.\nWhat do you guys think about ModX Cloud\u2019s service? We\u2019ve just signed up with them and have found them to be difficult to reach in a timely manner \u2014 and they only offer email support, no phone or chat.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 11168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/0918p3.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:55Z", "digest": "sha1:LV5WMXTZRUQAD4AVJMWCURJAYHVX2UX5", "length": 2968, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.fortherecordmag.com", "title": "Taking 'Advantage' of Medicare - For The Record Magazine", "raw_content": "Editor's Note: Taking 'Advantage' of Medicare\nHealth care organizations want money. Physicians want money. The federal government wants money. Payers want to get paid. None of those statements is a surprise.\nIn the midst of this battle to claim a portion of the pie, rules are made to make sure providers are receiving what they deserve. Somewhere amidst this chaos sits the patients.\nThe latest tug of war centers on Medicare Advantage plans, where, like in most reimbursement situations, documentation makes all the difference. Recently, it came to light that health insurer Anthem earned $102 million in additional Medicare Advantage risk-adjustment payments in 2014 and more than $112 million in 2015. The secret to its success? Retrospective chart review, a process that cost Anthem approximately $18 million each year to carry out.\nI'm no math genius, but that seems like a nice tidy return on investment.\nMedicare Advantage is set up in such a way that it pays off big time for health care organizations to hire third parties to scour their charts for diagnosis codes that may have been missed. In fact, Anthem's return is a drop in the bucket when compared with the motherlode UnitedHealth Group achieved. According to a whistle-blower lawsuit, UnitedHealth obtained $455 million for 2012, $758 million for 2013, and $882 million for the 2014 payment year in additional Medicare Advantage risk-adjustment payments as a result of its medical record reviews.\nIs this practice on the up and up? Despite how it looks, I would argue \"yes.\" If hurried coders don't pick up all valid conditions that affect the managed care organization (MCO) because they don't affect that one specific encounter, then the MCO is right to fill in its missing data. The MCO needs a year's worth of conditions that have been treated in order to assign an accurate risk adjustment factor.\nIf physician practices, emergency departments, hospitals, and clinics haven't been thorough and accurate in their case-by-case coding, then the MCO could be unfairly impacted when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) decides how much to offer per patient for the year.\nThe real issue is that hierarchical condition category (HCC) coding is new and extremely difficult. For example, if a hospital reports \"probable cancer,\" the coder must code the cancer as if it exists. If the follow-up pathology rules out the cancer and shows a benign tumor, the hospital reports cancer and the follow-up visit reports a benign tumor, but the HCC should report only the benign tumor, which may reduce the final risk adjustment.\nDo HCC auditors and MCOs examine consecutive charts in depth, or do they merely add up all the codes for the entire year and pull out the duplicates?\nOf course, this could all be a moot point if CMS chooses to tweak the payment system so Advantage plans are not paid more than traditional Medicare fee-for-service providers when they submit additional diagnostic codes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fourcounty.com/events/2019-01-01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:15Z", "digest": "sha1:GLVBUGF3AWOVLIUZZJTNQNGGJIH4LTTX", "length": 85, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fourcounty.com", "title": "Events Archive - Four County Mental Health Center", "raw_content": "We at Four County, want you to stay safe and have fun while celebrating the new year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2016/10/16/wayne-state-university-president-wilson/91994290/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:15Z", "digest": "sha1:A4G7VFZ4QUUAK5IC4QKSHNBNIPSPCUZI", "length": 8540, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.freep.com", "title": "More litter? That's a good sign, says Wayne State president", "raw_content": "More litter? That's a good sign, says Wayne State president\nFour years into his term as president of Wayne State University, M. Roy Wilson sees a future of growth at Detroit school\nMore litter? That's a good sign, says Wayne State president Four years into his term as president of Wayne State University, M. Roy Wilson sees a future of growth at Detroit school Check out this story on Freep.com: http://on.freep.com/2eHjhGb\nDavid Jesse, Detroit Free Press Published 11:10 p.m. ET Oct. 16, 2016\nWayne State University President M. Roy Wilson starts his fourth year at WSU and talks about his tenure so far as he walks through the recently renovated student center on campus in Detroit, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016.(Photo11: Kimberly P. Mitchell, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo\nWhile out for a recent Sunday morning walk, Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson noticed something he has rarely seen in the past at the school \u2014 litter.\nWilson counted that as a positive sign. The trash was a byproduct of the fact that more students are choosing to live on the Midtown Detroit campus and are staying there for the weekends. The university simply needed to shift more staff to the weekend to address what hadn't been an issue in the past.\n\u25baRelated:WSU program helps struggling students achieve dream\nWilson, in an exclusive Free Press interview, cited that incident as a sign of growth at the university, where overall enrollment was up this year for the first time in a decade and the university is reaping some of the benefits of Detroit's resurgence.\nBut the 62-year-old Wilson\u2019s tenure \u2014 which is now four years along \u2014 hasn\u2019t been without bumps, from medical school finances to arguments over the enrollment of minorities to criticism over a gift for building a new business school.\nWhen Wilson took over as Wayne State's president in 2013 \u2014 replacing the retiring Allan Gilmour \u2014 he saw a lot of promise in Wayne State, describing \"potential in every area.\" But there were clear needs at the university \u2014 the medical school was struggling with financial and diversity issues, and the amount of research dollars coming in to the university was lagging.\nWilson was hired because of his experience in both areas. He came from a job as the deputy director for strategic scientific planning and program coordination at the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Before that, he was chancellor of the University of Colorado at Denver and its Health Sciences Center in Aurora, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in Lubbock and dean of the medical school and vice president at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.\nHe is an ophthalmologist. He received his bachelor's degree from Allegheny College, a master's in epidemiology from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He was a professor at several schools and was named one of the best doctors in America in 1996.\n\u25baRelated:Wayne State University has first enrollment jump in 7 years\nStudents walk on the campus of Wayne State University in Detroit on Oct. 27, 2008. (Photo11: Patricia Beck, Detroit Free Press)\nThe medical school eventually ran into problems with its accrediting agency for several reasons, including a lack of diversity among students. In fall 2015, the medical school admitted only five black students.\n\"I was stunned,\" Wilson said about hearing those numbers. The school changed its recruiting strategy and admitted 45 black students this fall.\nWayne State senior Marc Williams, 22, of Detroit, said he's worried about diversity in more than just the medical school.\n\"There's some more students here, and a lot more people around on campus at all kinds of different times,\" he said while studying in the student center. \"There's some more energy. I just hope (Wilson) and the other leaders don't forget about how important diversity is as we grow.\"\nWayne State, with a $631-million annual operating budget, has about 27,300 students in 13 colleges or schools. Its undergraduate population is about 56% white and about 35% minority.\nDiversity was just the tip of the problems at the medical school. Last December, Wayne State's medical school and University Physicians Group, announced it had run a $29-million deficit during the 2015 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. In an effort to cut costs, administrators announced they would be looking at the job performance and productivity of several dozen professors. The faculty union has filed a grievance over that process.\n\"I'm not trying to be mean,\" Wilson said of process. \"You should expect to do work if you're getting paid. These were very blatant cases.\"\nWilson also saw the need for the university to attract more research dollars. That area has growth, as well, rising $36 million, or 23.7%, from the 2014 fiscal year to the 2015 fiscal year. This year, the university got $188 million in externally sponsored research awards.\nWilson worked with the National Institutes of Health, a major source of research funds, before he came to Wayne State, and he said board members told him that was a key reason for his selection as president.\nThere's more change on the way \u2014 a conversation between businessman Chris Ilitch and Wilson led to a $40-million gift that is the major funding source for a new business school next to the new Red Wings arena. Wilson said Wayne State was initially looking to relocate the business school downtown, but moving to the edge of Midtown made more sense once the Ilitch family became involved.\nThe complicated gift agreement between Wayne State and the Ilitches, which includes specific time frames for work to be done, has drawn some criticism because Wayne State has to pay some of the total construction cost.\nBut Wilson said that's missing the larger point \u2014 without the gift the school doesn't get built. Wilson also pointed out that when Wayne State, or any other university, sends a capital request to Lansing for a new building or renovation, the state requires the school to pony up some of the total cost.\nThere's also been questions raised about Wayne State's financial standing. Moody's downgraded the outlook for Wayne State this summer, knocking it for dipping into cash reserves to upgrade facilities.\nWayne State officials think a new plan, passed by the board recently, to privatize the housing on campus will help with that. A private company will renovate and build new dorms and apartments, while Wayne State will still hire the staff and set rates. As part of the deal, the private company is taking $103 million in debt off Wayne State's books.\n\"We are $103 million richer,\" Wilson said. \"That is money we will be able to invest in other areas.\"\nWayne State University President M. Roy Wilson starts his fourth year at WSU and talks about his tenure so far as he walks through recently renovated Gullen Mall on campus in Detroit, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016. (Photo11: Kimberly P. Mitchell DFP)\nMoody's liked the move.\n\"Wayne State has identified creating a vibrant residential community as a component of its strategic direction. However, with limited resources for capital investment following recent reserve draws and pressured cash flow, investment in student housing would be competing with other identified strategic priorities. The ability to attract a partner for housing in Corvias Campus Living (the student housing arm of the Corvias Group) diversifies the university\u2019s capital investment sources and options,\" it wrote in a comment paper.\nThere are still challenges facing Wilson and Wayne State.\nThe overall six-year graduation rate might be up 4.3% comparing 2016 to 2015, but it's still only at 38.9%. Wilson said he believes an slight change in admissions policy to bring in \"those who can do the work\" will help, but there are those \u2014 including Detroit minister Malik Shabazz who has spoken at several board meetings \u2014 who believe Wayne State is abandoning Detroit students with the changes.\nNot the case, Wilson said.\n\"It doesn't do any good to bring in students and only have three to 5% graduate in six years. That does harm to them \u2014 they leave with student loans they have to pay off,\" he said.\nRead or Share this story: http://on.freep.com/2eHjhGb\nJemele Hill on her Trump tweet: Show me the lie\nMichigan can't stop talking about being ghosted\nPro-female genital cutting ad runs on Twitter\nLions fans react to devastating loss to Jets\nAthletes' guide to social media: Use your brain\nJamie Samuelsen\nSecond Civil War? It's taking Twitter by storm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 10401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.frontrowcentre.com/movies/aadhi-malayalam-130609/movie-poster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:18Z", "digest": "sha1:54REOZHWZDEROOYYNS24IPBONREWG7C4", "length": 17, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.frontrowcentre.com", "title": "Aadhi (Malayalam) movie large poster.", "raw_content": "Aadhi (Malayalam)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 71.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.funstockretro.co.uk/art-of-atari-book", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:46Z", "digest": "sha1:6KV7MLEXR4PAYUOGMCFPVCY2U5JVFZYL", "length": 3393, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.funstockretro.co.uk", "title": "Art of Atari - Official Book by Tim Lapetino", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Brands \u00bb Atari \u00bb Art of Atari - Official Book\nAtari are one of the most recognised brands in the world. Since it began in 1972 it has pioneered hundreds of iconic games titles including Centipede, Asteroids, Breakout and Missile Command. In addition to the hundreds of games developed for arcades, computers and home video game systems Atari are known for their specially commissioned artwork. This book is the very first official collection spanning the entire history of Atari and their incredible work.\nBuy Art of Atari - Official Book\nAtari is one of the most recognized names in the world. Since its formation in 1972, the company pioneered hundreds of iconic titles including Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command. In addition to hundreds of games created for arcades, home video systems, and computers, original artwork was specially commissioned to enhance the Atari experience, further enticing children and adults to embrace and enjoy the new era of electronic entertainment. The Art of Atari is the first official collection of such artwork. Sourced from private collections worldwide, this book spans over 40 years of the company's unique illustrations used in packaging, advertisements, catalogues, and more. Written by Tim Lapetino (with an afterword by Robert V. Conte), the Art of Atari includes behind-the-scenes details on how dozens of games featured within were conceived of, illustrated, approved (or rejected), and brought to life! Includes a special\nForeword by New York Times bestseller Ernest Cline author of Armada and Ready Player One, soon to be a motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. Whether you're a fan, collector, enthusiast, or new to the world of Atari, this book offers the most complete collection of Atari artwork ever produced!\n\"For me, revisiting the beautiful artwork presented in this book is almost as good as taking a trip in Doc Brown's time machine back to that halcyon era at the dawn of the digital age. But be warned, viewing these images may leave you with an overwhelming desire to revisit the ancient pixelated battlefields they each depict as well.\" -- from the Foreword by Ernest Cline, author of READY PLAYER ONE\nHuge array of different content including artwork, original packaging, history, art & design, developer / artist interviews, coin-ops, home consoles, box artwork, industrial designs, analog process, prototypes, advertising and promotion and more!\nPacked with stunning imagery and information about classic Atari titles including Pong, Breakout, Asteroids, Missile Command, Yar's Revenge, Defender, E.T, Centipede, Combat, Indy 500, Video Olympics and many more!\nRetrospectives and interviews with key Atari staff including George Opperman, Cliff Spohn, Rick Guidice, Susan Jaekel, Steve Hendricks, Terry Hoff, Hiro Kimura, James Kelly, Warren Chang, Marc Ericksen, Evelyn Seto and more!\nGlorious breakdowns and retrospectives of each machine including the 2600, 5200, 7800, 400, 800, Lynx, Jaguar and many more!\nStunning hardback format across 352 pages\nForward by Ernest Cline (author of Ready Player One)\nDimensions: 10\" x 11.25\" x 1.25\" (it's big!)\nAuthor: Time Lapetino\nAlso from this author: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - The Original Topps Trading Card Series, Vol. 3, BLACK SABBATH: THE OZZY YEARS, WORK FOR MONEY, DESIGN FOR LOVE, SUPER iam8bit: More Art Inspired by Classic Videogames of the '80s", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 9356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gamerankings.com/ps3/938344-madden-nfl-08/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:57Z", "digest": "sha1:A7VIHTBFLOPTKLC7NALQQ3773ZHFYJFG", "length": 804, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.gamerankings.com", "title": "Madden NFL 08 for PlayStation 3 - GameRankings", "raw_content": "Feel what it's like to be a field general making key personnel decisions on both sides of the ball during the game's biggest moments in Madden NFL 08. Quickly identify your strongest players on the field before every snap then move them into position to make game-changing, momentum-altering plays. Play to your team's strengths by immediately reading your opponent's schemes and reacting to the action as soon as the ball is snapped.\nXbox 360 (82.72%) - PlayStation 2 (78.60%) - Wii (78.23%) - PSP (74.37%) - DS (72.75%) - PC (76.17%) - Xbox (76.00%) - GameCube (77.00%)\nGameTap 08/10/07 Review 9 out of 10\nPSM Magazine 11/01/07 Review 8 out of 10\nMore Madden NFL 08\nWii Play, Guitar Hero III top games of 2000s...so far\nThe Lineup Episode 5\nNPD: San Andreas caps US best-seller list\nEA acquires ThreeSF", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gamutmusic.com/john-murchison", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YSCNENAF5MTWVL7JOTM44FSMAUC7QXXV", "length": 4027, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.gamutmusic.com", "title": "John Murchison \u2014 Gamut Music. Inc.", "raw_content": "I am a bassist living in Brooklyn, NY. I play a wide variety of musics - plenty of jazz, a variety of musical theater productions, classical music, backing pop singers and some country gigs here and there. In recent years I have come to concentrate more on \"world musics.\" I play a lot of Arabic music, and perform regularly with groups which feature music from North and West Africa.\nMy father played a lot of finger-picking acoustic guitar - blues, bluegrass, Grateful Dead, etc. - so I was always around music from a young age. I played piano and violin - taking private lessons and playing in the school orchestras. When I got to high school I decided to drop all that and follow a seemingly \"cooler\" path by playing bass guitar in a rock band with my older brother.\nWhen I got to college, I took lessons on the double bass, and my next few years of bass study were motivated by a desire to play jazz. My concentration at Vassar College was in philosophy, but I took music theory classes and had the great pleasure of studying bass there with Lou Pappas. It was really only by the end of college that I started to consider the prospect of playing music full time.\nSince then, I've done a lot of work on my own, with occasional private lessons with players in New York. At first, I would take lessons here and there with master jazz players. Then, in 2013, I took a trip to Morocco and had the opportunity to study some traditional musics there with local masters. Now, the private lessons I seek out usually involve studying Arabic Maqam, percussion and a few other instruments like the Arabic nai and the Moroccan gimbri.\nFavorite composers: Through my studies in Arabic music, the great Mohammad Abdel Wahab has become one of my favorites, unsurprisingly. In jazz, my favorites include Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sun Ra. In the classical world, I gravitate toward smaller chamber music and composers like Shostakovich and Stravinsky. I think I'm drawn to unmistakably distinctive voices.\nWhen I started out, I played electric bass and had some interest in learning the double bass, but I hadn't really done anything to pursue that interest. One day around the end of high school, I was chatting with a friend about what our lives in the distant future might entail, and delivered some line like \"You know what? Before I die, I think I'd like to learn the double bass.\" He replied, \"Well that's stupid. You should learn it as soon as you can. That way you have the rest of your life to spend playing it.\" The next day, I signed up for lessons.\nI have always loved the pizz sound on gut - this probably comes from the amount of time I spent transcribing old Paul Chambers and Israel Crosby lines. Ever since I heard about gut strings I wanted to try them. Then one day I asked a very experienced player his opinions on gut strings, and his reply was something along the lines of \"I've always wanted to try them, but never have.\" Similar to my story with first picking up the double bass, I figured I had to try them immediately so that even if I didn't like them, I would know what I was missing as soon as possible. I did some research, picked up a set of Gamuts, and haven't looked back!\nI liked the strings so much that I got in touch with Gamut, and found that I liked the organization as well, which makes it that much easier to happily play their strings all day. I get a lot of compliments on the sound, especially playing traditional acoustic music. Right now I play with a Lyon G, Pistoy D, and pair them with Velvet Anima A and E.\nIn the foreseeable future, I'm looking forward to continuing my studies of Arabic music and taking advantage of the expansive variety of music scenes in New York. I have several exciting recording projects coming up in the next couple months, some short tours lined up in April, and a show that I have been lucky to be a part of is going to Broadway later this year - so check out my website to stay up to date!\nLearn more about John and his music by visiting his website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 4344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 220.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.garras.cornwall.sch.uk/website/keskowethyans_mat/319319", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:39Z", "digest": "sha1:KBMX3KIVULU7XYY3EK3IQCQBGZDHKR4O", "length": 1251, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.garras.cornwall.sch.uk", "title": "Welcome to Garras Community Primary School", "raw_content": "Southerly Point Co-operative Multi-Academy Trust: Enabling Excellence Together\nAs you are aware, one of the principles in establishing Southerly Point Co-operative Multi-Academy Trust was to ensure that we provided the best educational experience for children in our immediate community. To this end, we are discussing the possibility of the Keskowethyans Trust joining Southerly Point Co-operative Multi-Academy Trust. The majority of children who attend the Keskowethyans schools go on to attend either Mullion or Helston secondary schools and so a closer working relationship would be desirable in terms of continuity of education. The partnership would also provide opportunities for staff to work and train together, sharing best practice and learning from each other, which would benefit all the children across all key stages.\nWhilst there is much to consider, Trustees believe that this would be a positive way forward for both Trusts. We will be undertaking a comprehensive due diligence process and as part of that we are interested in hearing your views in relation to this proposed way forward, as well as any points or suggestions you would like us to bear in mind. Please email any comments to kteague@southerlypoint.co by 30th November.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 297, "original_length": 21949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gasworld.com/plug-power-has-record-quarterly-revenue/2004557.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LJQLESUTMHISTUN4NTX5LLN4FHNUUOTQ", "length": 4272, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.gasworld.com", "title": "Plug Power has record quarterly revenue | News | gasworld", "raw_content": "Plug Power, a leader in providing clean, reliable energy solutions, today reports its 2014 third quarter results.\nPlug Power closed the third quarter of 2014 with 857 GenDrive units shipped to material handling customers. This equates to a 450% increase compared to the third quarter of 2013, when 155 GenDrive units were shipped.\nBookings continue to be strong and during the third quarter of 2014, Plug Power brought in over $25.6m in bookings from customers including Mercedes-Benz, Coca-Cola, BMW, Walmart, Kroger and Newark Farmers Market.\n\u201cPlug Power continues to exhibit growth and record numbers, quarter after quarter,\u201d said Andy Marsh, CEO. \u201cOur current customer base is seeing value from our products, firsthand, and companies like Newark Farmers Market, BMW and Central Grocers are refreshing their existing GenDrive fleets by reinvesting in more products from Plug Power. That is true validation.\u201d\nThe company continues to view its hydrogen business as a growth opportunity for revenue and margin enhancement. Plug Power\u2019s large-scale hydrogen system infrastructure design, known as GenFuel, has been proven-out at manufacturing and distribution centers across North America. In just one year, Plug Power has deployed GenFuel at five sites with commissioning proceeding at another five sites. Two of the sites in the past quarter were for Walmart to support their distribution centres in Sterling, Illinois, and Johnstown, New York.\n\u201cGenKey, our turnkey solution, comprised of GenDrive fuel cell units, GenFuel infrastructure, and GenCare aftermarket service and support provides a one-stop-shop for Plug Power\u2019s customers,\u201d continued Marsh. \u201cGenKey accelerates customer adoption and helps provide a seamless transition to a hydrogen-powered fleet.\u201d\nPlug Power has also been established as a source for hydrogen gas \u2013 another success demonstrated by its distribution agreement with Praxair. The agreement pairs Plug Power\u2019s GenFuel hydrogen fuelling infrastructure solution with Praxair\u2019s liquid hydrogen supply capability helping customers realise productivity and environmental benefits.\n\u201cI\u2019ve discussed before my belief that ubiquitous hydrogen fuel is the key to rapidly expanding the fuel cell industry,\u201d continued Marsh. \u201cPlug Power\u2019s goal of becoming the worldwide leader in this market was backed by several, purposeful steps in the quarter to move the company closer to market leadership.\u201d\nTotal revenue for the third quarter of 2014 was $19.9m, comprised of $12.6m of product revenue, $6.9m of service revenue and $0.4m of research and development (R&D) contract revenue. This compares to total revenue of $4.6m in the third quarter of 2013, which was comprised of $2.5m of product revenue, $1.6m of service revenue and $0.5m of R&D contract revenue.\nTotal cost of revenue for the third quarter of 2014 was $21.0m, comprised of $11.1m of cost of product revenue, $9.2m of cost of service revenue and $0.7m of cost of R&D contract revenue. This compares to total cost of revenue of $8.5m in the third quarter of 2013, which was comprised of $3.9m of cost of product revenue, $3.9m of cost of service revenue and $0.7m of cost of R&D contract revenue.\nR&D expenses for the third quarter of 2014 were $1.6m compared with $0.8m for the third quarter of 2013. Selling, general and administrative (SG&A) expenses for the third quarter of 2014 were $5.0m compared with $2.8m for the third quarter of 2013. In addition, in the third quarter of 2014 the company accrued a $2.4m liability related to litigation dating back to 2008 with Soroof Trading Development Company Ltd.\nNet loss for the third quarter of 2014 was $9.4m, or $0.06 per share on a basic and diluted basis. This compares to net loss for the third quarter of 2013 of $15.9m, or $0.19 per share on a basic and diluted basis. Included in the net loss for the third quarter of 2014 was a gain related to the change in fair value of previously issued common stock warrants of $0.5m. Excluding this item and the $2.4m litigation accrual, adjusted net loss for the third quarter of 2014 was $7.5m, or $0.04 per share.\nPlug Power had cash and cash equivalents of $156.5m and net working capital of $177.6m at September 30, 2014. This compares to $5.0m and $11.1m, respectively, at December 31, 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 10222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7375/nuclear-deterrence-cost", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TEIG35IE5P7R5TUR3URRA6TQXII6ZJOB", "length": 30672, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "www.gatestoneinstitute.org", "title": "The Real Cost of Nuclear Deterrence", "raw_content": "The Real Cost of Nuclear Deterrence\nhttps://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7375/nuclear-deterrence-cost\nNorth Korea used both the Agreed Framework and the NPT as camouflage to cheat and proceed with its covert nuclear weapons program. Nuclear weapons are apparently an integral part of North Korea's strategy eventually to reunify the Korean peninsula under North Korean communist rule.\nAccording to Hwang Jang-Yop, highest-ranking North Korean defector in history, North Korea's goal is to remove American military forces from South Korea. Once that withdrawal is achieved, the North would use its nuclear arsenal to deter Japan and the U.S. and prevent these two key South Korean allies from coming to the defense of the South once the North invades it.\nArms control, since the height of the Cold War, has cut both the U.S. and Russian strategic deployed arsenals by nearly 90% and thus can hardly be described as part of any \"arms race\" that might have compelled North Korea to build nuclear weapons.\nThe idea that the U.S. deciding to replace aging nuclear systems, some half-century after the last modernization, is somehow perpetuating an \"arms race\" is without foundation.\n\"Military critics\" are already anticipating how to disembowel critical elements of the U.S. military -- especially its aging nuclear deterrent -- when the defense budget will be unveiled by the administration and sent to Congress February 9, 2016. In two recent essays, for instance, Gordon Adams, previously at the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration, and Lawrence Korb, at the Center for American Progress, are both calling for dismantling the U.S. nuclear deterrent.\nKorb has long claimed that nuclear deterrence itself is obsolete. He blames U.S. nuclear modernization plans for providing an excuse for North Korea to test and build nuclear weapons of their own. It is an echo of Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick's 1984 warning that when things go wrong in the world, many critics of American policy will \"always blame America first.\"\nKorb complains that twenty years ago the U.S. Senate failed to ratify the comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. And that fifteen years ago, the U.S. withdrew from the ABM treaty with the former USSR. These two actions, claims Korb, were responsible for providing the North Korea regime an incentive to test and build nuclear weapons. Any further nuclear modernization by America, claims Korb, will similarly force North Korea into more testing of nuclear weapons and building a bigger nuclear arsenal.\nAdams, on the other hand, simply calls for the U.S. unilaterally to dismantle most of its nuclear deterrent. He proposes that the U.S. eliminate all land-based Minuteman missiles, take the strategic bombers out of their nuclear role and build only eight of the projected twelve nuclear submarines the U.S. is planning to acquire.\nThe nuclear arsenal of the U.S. would then shrink then from more than 500 separate launch platforms to fewer than ten \u2013 a low number the U.S. arsenal has never before reached except at the very end of World War II when the U.S. had exclusive possession of such weapons.\nBoth Adams and Korb propose such massive cuts because they believe the United States is pursuing an aggressive nuclear \"arms race\"\u2014 in their view unnecessary and much too expensive.\nWhat is wrong with this picture? Just about all of it.\nKorb sounds as if he is living in a fantasy world if his own making. First of all, North Korea started to build its nuclear arsenal as far back as the early 1990s, when the U.S. was still a party to the ABM Treaty and had announced a ban on any further nuclear testing. The only nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula since the end of the Cold War are North Korean weapons.\nAs for the U.S. pursuing an \"arms race\" or \"build-up,\" in 1991, the U.S. and the USSR announced the START I treaty, which cut their deployed nuclear arsenals dramatically to no more than 6000 warheads. Ballistic missile warheads were cut as well by 50%.\nAt the same time, the United States made two key decisions: to delay--unfortunately-- much needed nuclear modernization programs; and to accelerate the nuclear reductions required by the START I treaty.[1] In short, just as the United States was building down, North Korea was building up.\nThere is thus no basis to Korb's charge that the North Koreans started building nukes in the 1990s to follow in the U.S.'s footsteps.\nAnd even more surreal is Korb's claim that North Korea can be excused for building offensive nuclear missiles in response to U.S. non-nuclear missile-defense interceptors. The U.S. first deployed these in 2004 -- long after North Korea built its first nuclear weapons.\nJust think: North Korea is building offensive nuclear missiles armed with real nuclear warheads. The United States is building\u2014in response-- non-nuclear ballistic missile interceptors to protect America and its allies from explicit North Korean nuclear missile threats. In Korb's view, the U.S \"arms control\" credibility does not meet North Korea's standards; as a result, North Korea is excused for its nuclear arms building.\nIronically, contrary to Korb's assertion, the United States in the 1990s did all the things Korb now says should have caused North Korea not to pursue nuclear weapons. The U.S. stopped nuclear testing; it largely put on hold the modernization of its nuclear forces, and it pursued nuclear weapons arms control and dramatically reduced its arsenal. Not until 2004, long after the North started building its nuclear arsenal, did the U.S. deploy a single missile defense interceptor to protect the continental United States.[2]\nFrom the beginning, North Korea cheated on its 1994 Agreed Framework agreement with the U.S. in which it guaranteed not to build any nuclear weapons. In addition, North Korea was also a signatory to the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) under which all non-nuclear states pledged not to build nuclear weapons. That makes two broken guarantees.\nWhat Korb ignores is that North Korea used both the Agreed Framework and the NPT as camouflage to cheat and proceed with its covert nuclear weapons program all the while pretending to be nuclear weapons free. Nuclear weapons, apparently, are an integral part of North Korea's strategy eventually to reunify the Korean peninsula under North Korean communist rule.\nHwang Jang-Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean defector in history, was the personal tutor and assistant to North Korea's ruler, Kim Jong-Il. He was also Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly. His defection in 1997 was a huge blow to the North. The South, upon his death in 2010 at the age of 87, made his birthday a national holiday.[3]\nAs he told retired USAF General Michael Dunn, the past President of the National Defense University and the Air Force Association, North Korea's goal is to remove American military forces from South Korea. Once that withdrawal is achieved, the North would hold at risk Japan and the United States with its nuclear arsenal and prevent these two key South Korean allies from coming to the defense of the South once the North invaded militarily. In short, North Korea's nuclear arsenal was to trump America's conventional military capability, and had nothing to do with America's nuclear arsenal.\nThough Adams does not blame America for North Korea's nuclear recklessness, his proposed cuts to America's nuclear arsenal would cause serious instabilities in the nuclear balance between the United States and its nuclear-armed adversaries. It would also signal to U.S. our allies--such as South Korea and Japan-- that the U.S. extended nuclear umbrella under which they are protected may no longer be part of U.S. policy. This information, in turn, will probably propel U.S. allies to build their own nuclear arsenals -- worsening even further nuclear tensions and instabilities.\nA key part of both the arguments of Adams and Korb and is the assumption that the U.S. is planning to spend nearly $350 billion over the next decade and a trillion dollars over the next three decades on nuclear modernization. Given such huge planned expenditures, Adams proposes to save roughly $200 billion by eliminating two-thirds of America's nuclear deterrent. Korb says the U.S. is spending too much, and has previously supported similar cuts.\nIs the U.S. planning to spend $350 billion over the next decade and $1 trillion between now and 2045 on nuclear modernization? Currently the United States spends $25 billion on its nuclear enterprise, and by the middle of next decade this bill will rise to $30+ billion as the U.S. begins to build a new nuclear-capable bomber; new land-based missiles to modernize the Minuteman force of 400 land-silo-based missiles, and 12 replacement submarines for the 14 Trident submarines currently in the fleet.\nA fair accounting of the costs of modernizing the nuclear enterprise would come to a total of roughly $270 billion for the next decade. If one excludes the non-nuclear bomber, the costs come down to $230 billion.\nIncluded in the total is also the work of the Department of Energy. The U.S. has to refurbish its nuclear warheads and it is going to reduce the types of warheads it has have from twelve to five, and at the same time modernize and update its command and control system that communicates with its nuclear forces. Both are essential to maintaining deterrence.\nNo matter how you slice it, the entire nuclear enterprise\u2014the platforms, the energy department and the command and control-- will cost at its peak level\u2014in 2025\u2014no more than 4% of the Defense Budget or 1/2200ths of the overall Federal budget. At $25 billion now -- rising to $30-2 billion by the middle of next decade -- the nuclear accounts still cannot then average $35 billion a year.\nA couple of factors lower this estimate compared to that of Adams and Korb. First, the conventional non-nuclear bomber force will be modernized irrespective of whether the new strategic aircraft is nuclear capable. The \"nuclear related\" costs of the bomber are in the 3% range of its total cost, according to former top Defense Department official James Miller. Thus, eliminating the nuclear role of the bomber as Adams proposes would save at best some $1.5 billion over the 15-year life of the bomber's acquisition.\nAs for eliminating the Minuteman force of 400 missiles, the U.S. might at best save $300 million a year in research and development (R&D) costs that were scheduled to be spent to begin building a new ICBM during the next ten years. But closing the three related ICBM missile bases will have considerable costs of up to 40% of the imputed \"savings\" from cutting R&D for the next decade thus the savings are much lower than Adam's estimates.[4]\nWhat about eliminating four of the planned twelve submarines? This option saves no funding over at least the next three, five-year defense plans: the acquisition of a smaller number of submarines comes at the end of the purchase of submarines and in the 2034-5 time-frame. This means that whatever acquisition savings might be achieved would have to wait for nearly two decades to be realized. If one delays now the planned replacement of the old Trident submarines to save money in the short term, such a move would leave huge gaps in the U.S. nuclear deterrent today: the submarines would go out of service now and not be replaced.\nWhat about other near term savings, such as in the research and development budgets for submarines and bombers? There will be little savings as the R&D costs of acquisition programs do not change with a smaller purchase of submarines, or if the bombers are not nuclear capable[5]: most R&D is all done prior to building the submarines, and almost all bomber-related R&D work is for the conventional force of bombers and not in support of their nuclear role.\nThus Adams's proposals would save almost no money over the near term, but they would increase strategic dangers. For example, the hull life one expects from the current operating submarines when they are replaced will be greater than any other submarine in our nation's history. With a longer deployment, the U.S. risks a catastrophic technical failure that might jeopardize the entire U.S. nuclear deterrent, resting as it would on the submarines alone.\nWhat about the impact on the strategic balance and deterrence of going to a submarine-only nuclear deterrent, as Adams proposes?[6]\nThat would entail putting all of America's nuclear eggs in one nuclear basket. The U.S. would be assuming that while the air and land have become increasingly transparent to surveillance, for some reason the oceans would remain opaque and thus U.S. submarines would remain undetectable for their entire four-decade deployment, an assumption Adams makes. That is a reckless bet to make, especially when the very survival of the United States is at stake.\nFurthermore, the reduced submarine force would, for logistical reasons, be able to be deployed only in one ocean\u2014either the Atlantic or Pacific, but not both.\nThis requires some further explanation. The Navy has repeatedly emphasized that the number of submarines\u201412\u2014 the U.S. is buying for the future is critical to ensure that enough submarines are at sea on alert, and are therefore available to provide sufficient deterrent capability against America's principal nuclear adversaries.\nBut reducing the number of submarines to 8 as Adams proposes would also significantly reduce not only the number of submarines but also the number of missiles available to deliver a retaliatory strike.\nFor example, 12 boats with 192 missiles with nearly 800 warheads can hit far more targets than 8 boats with 124 missiles and 800 warheads. To hold at risk all important Russian and Chinese targets, the U.S. would have to keep submarines in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans as it does today.\nLimiting the submarine force to one ocean would eliminate our ability to cover significant targets in both countries thus lessening deterrence of both China and Russia and pushing us to concentrate on holding at risk targets either in one country or the other.\nThus, deterring either China or Russia would have to be taken off the table: the U.S. could not hold all the key military assets at risk for each country necessary to ensure that deterrence would work.\nTo avoid the problem inherent in so radically reducing the U.S. deterrent, Adams proposes simply to take some of the warheads from the submarines, ICBMs and bombers that would not be built, and add them to the submarines that would be built. This move would require putting the maximum number of 8 warheads possible on each of the 16 missiles aboard each submarine.\nBut even then the U.S. would not have the same deterrent capability as it does today.\nThe U.S. would still have roughly 500 fewer warheads overall -- and other serious problems. According to two top former Pentagon nuclear experts with whom the author recently spoke, the extra warheads would so increase the weight of the submarine-launched missiles that it would markedly \"cut down on the range of the missile and the patrol area in which each submarine could operate.\"\nAs a result, each submarine at sea would have to operate closer to the countries needing to be deterred for the warheads to reach their targets. This limitation would, in turn, reduce the submarine patrol area, thereby making it easier for an adversary to find and destroy the submarines even if the oceans largely remain opaque.[7]\nAs the range of the missile is circumscribed by the position of the submarine at sea, the missile's warhead load and missile range are tightly interconnected. Doubling the number of warheads as Adams proposes on each missile would be redundant, \"only making the rubble bounce.\" The missile range being compromised with fewer missiles and submarines could not cover as many targets as they can today. As a result, deterrence would be undermined even if one assumes that the submarines would remain survivable.\nAdams also makes the additional mistake of assuming that because U.S. land-based missiles are in fixed silos\u2014although spread out over five western states\u2014they are vulnerable to being attacked. Certainly a number of silos could be attacked with incoming enemy warheads. But what would be the point in that all 400 would have to be eliminated to avoid an American retaliatory strike back at the attacker?\nNevertheless, Adams concludes that for the ICBM missiles to be of any use to the United States in a conflict, the missiles would have to be launched by the U.S. early in a crisis to avoid being eliminated by an enemy's first strike. This is known as the \"use them or lose them\" dilemma.[8] Thus Adams recommends that to avoid that dilemma, just get rid of the ICBMs.\nThis ICBM vulnerability was a common Cold War assumption and held some validity during the height of the Cold War when the U.S. had roughly 1000 silo based missiles but the Russians had over 10,000 nuclear warheads. In that era, Russia had more than enough warheads to attack all U.S. nuclear assets many times over including America's ICBM silos.\nBut today, under the New START Treaty signed between Russia and the U.S. in 2010, the Russians have fewer than 2000 deployed strategic warheads capable of reaching United States, one-sixth the number in 1991.\nToday, therefore, to take out 400 Minuteman silos and their associated 50 launch-control centers, the Russians would have to launch some 900 missile warheads at the United States assuming they would direct two warheads on each ICBM-related target to ensure the silos' destruction.\nTo what end would Russia launch such a strike, especially as the remaining U.S. bomber and sea-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) would allow the U.S. to launch back at Russia in a retaliatory strike?\nSuch a Russian first strike makes no sense strategically or tactically.\nRussia would have to put its forces on alert to have that many warheads ready to strike the U.S. By doing so they would unavoidably warn the U.S. of a possible pending strike: U.S. satellites would see their platforms-weapons being moved into a position to launch. Their submarines would have to go to sea, bombers be put on alert and mobile missiles moved out of garrison. Otherwise the Russians would not have enough warheads in range of the U.S. even to consider a launch capable of taking out all 400 U.S. ICBM missiles and their affiliated launch control senders.\nIn other words, U.S. land-based missiles are not \"vulnerable,\" and neither are its current and planned nuclear Triad of submarines, land-based missiles, and air force bombers.\nThus cutting the Triad as Adams and Korb have supported would reduce U.S. nuclear assets to a handful, making it easier for adversaries preemptively to attack and get the U.S. out of the nuclear business.\nThe United States, if anything, has been on a nuclear weapons reductions tear. The Obama administration will cut nuclear warheads from 2200 deployed strategic warheads to 1550-1800 \u2013 a limit that also applies to the Russians, under the joint New Start Treaty of 2010. This is even a further reduction from the George W. Bush era when U.S. strategic deployed nuclear weapons were cut under the 2002 Moscow Treaty (just a few short months after the U.S. withdrew from the ABM Treaty). In the 2002 Moscow Treaty between Russia and the U.S., deployed warheads were cut from 6000 to 2200, a 64% reduction. That was on top of the reduction from over 13,000 warheads to the 6000 warhead level under the 1991 START 1 treaty between the US and Russia.[9]\nFurthermore, modernizing, sustaining and replacing the projected nuclear force stricture, as now planned, will not add any additional nuclear weapons to the U.S. arsenal. In short, arms control, since the height of the Cold War, has cut both the U.S. and Russian strategic deployed arsenals by nearly 90% and thus can hardly be described as part of any\" arms race\" that might have compelled North Korea to build nuclear weapons.\nModernization does, however, avoid what Dr. Clark Murdock -- formerly a senior staff member of the House Armed Services Committee and the founder of the Program on Nuclear Initiatives at the Center for Strategic and International Studies -- described as \"rusting to obsolescence\".[10] This will be the result if the U.S. fails to replace its aging nuclear systems, and it would have a serious impact on America's non-nuclear allies. It would also seriously undermine their confidence in the validity of America's extended nuclear deterrent over them.\nMoreover, it is not as if the U.S. had just completed an earlier modernization. The U.S. last started modernization under President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and President Ronald W. Reagan in 1981. America's newest land based ICBMs were last built in 1971; its newest submarine was built in 1991; and its newest B52 was built in 1963. The idea that deciding some half-century after modernization to replace such aging systems is somehow perpetuating an \"arms race\" is without foundation.\nIn light of this history, one can thus come up with strong reasons to reject the counsel of Adams and Korb. First, causing strategic instabilities that could easily break down deterrence in order to save less than $1 billion a year for the next 5-10 years is clearly not a wise deal. Second, reducing American nuclear assets to a handful of targets in the face of multiple thousands of Russian nuclear warheads does not even pass the strategic stability smell test, especially given the resulting ratio of Russian warheads (2200) to remaining U.S. nuclear assets (8). The U.S. might as well paint a bulls-eye on our nuclear deterrent and post a sign that says \"Come Get Me.\"\nAnd third, any nuclear strategy that rests on the notion of blaming the United States for starting some nuclear arms race when its deployed strategic nuclear weapons under the past five administrations\u2014including the current one-- have already been reduced nearly 90% is patent nonsense. Even worse, putting all of America's nuclear missiles on nuclear submarines and maximizing their warhead loads would leave the U.S. with a zero near-term capability to upload, while according to a new study by defense expert James Howe Russia could technically expand its modernized nuclear arsenal to 5800 warheads.[11]\nIt is true, that, as USAF Major General Garret Harencak, formerly responsible for two-thirds of America's nuclear Triad, warned, a Capitol Hill audience on May 13, 2015: The United States with the end of the Cold War went on a protracted \"intellectual and procurement nuclear holiday.\"[12]\nThe General explained that the U.S. failed to modernize its nuclear deterrent. The U.S. also forgot to update its nuclear policy doctrine.\nThe U.S. is now remedying the situation under the dual leadership of Secretary of Air Force Deborah James and USAF Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh.\nDespite many security disagreements in Washington, the USAF bomber and ICBM force modernizations\u2014as well as the Navy's submarine replacement program\u2014are supported by both this administration and an overwhelming majority in the U.S. Congress. So are the warhead and command and control enhancements needed to upgrade and sustain the nuclear enterprise.\nIt is important to remember that such a political and military consensus is difficult to achieve on any subject-- let alone the future nuclear deterrent of the United States.\nBut that consensus it is now in place.\nThe new deterrent would cost only 4% of the defense budget, a historically low figure and 1/2200th of the overall Federal budget.\nWhy would one jeopardize that?\nPeter Huessy is President of GeoStrategic Analysis of Potomac, Maryland and Senior Defense Consultant to the Mitchell Institute of the Air Force Association and a guest lecture at the US Naval Academy on nuclear deterrent policy and the founder of the 36 year AFA-NDIA-ROA Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series on Nuclear Deterrence, Missile Defense, Arms Control, Proliferation and Defense Policy.\n[1] Treaty Between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 31 July, 1994, at www.nti.org; Mark Schneider of the National Institute of Public Policy and a former top nuclear expert in the Department of Defense explained to the author in a number of messages that the U.S. could have deployed as many as 10,000 warheads under START I but adopted reductions way beyond that number, while the Russians, luckily it turned out, also sharply reduced their nuclear arsenal below the START I required levels because they could not afford the cost of the higher number of weapons. He also points out that the U.S., under both START I and the 2002 Moscow Treaty, accelerated and went below the reductions required by treaty law.\n[2] See for example the transcripts from the NDUF Breakfast Seminar Series on Nuclear Deterrence for 1993-2000, and available from the author.\n[3] Personal conversation with General Michael Dunn, President, National Defense University and President, The Air Force Association, for whom this author worked 2003-06 and 2011-12; Dunn was also Vice Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Staff, Washington, D.C. in the Department of Defense.\n[4] Congressional Studies have concluded that base closure costs consume some 40% of the imputed savings from the base being closed, not including the costs of personnel not finding work.\n[5] Research and development costs precede a decision to acquire a weapons systems and generally are a fixed cost irrespective of the number of weapons systems one purchases. Thus stopping production of a defense weapon at say 100 units rather than 200 does not have any impact on the previous R&D expenditures as acquisition costs come after R&D is virtually completed;\n[6] See especially Admiral Richard Mies, former Commander, US Strategic Command, in the Spring 2012, Issue No. 48, Undersea Warfare, \"The Strategic Deterrence Mission: Ensuring a Strong Foundation for America's Security.\"\n[7] It should be understood that when the D-5 missile leaves the submarine and goes toward its target, it releases its warheads virtually simultaneously. The warheads, when released from the missile \"bus\" or nose cone, each travel roughly the same distance from the missile. That is the missile \"footprint.\" Adding 4 more warheads to each missile would be superfluous unless there were more targets to be held at risk. But if the missile needed to cover more targets, it would carry that number of warheads to begin with, while the U.S. military commanders would adjust other missile loadings to keep total warheads within the 2010 New Start treaty limits.\n[8] During the past 35 years, the author has hosted over 1000 seminars on Capitol Hill on nuclear deterrent issues and especially re the assumed vulnerability of the land-based missile-leg of the nuclear Triad. Many of the speakers, including seven USAF Chiefs of Staff, all former Strategic Air Command and Strategic Command heads, three Vice Presidents, and six Air Force Secretary's as well as dozens of members of Congress all have discussed this critical issue and nearly without exception have explained that the flexibility of the nuclear Triad as a whole makes any large-scale attack on America's three ICBM missile fields in the context of an arms control environment not credible.\n[9] May 24, 2002, Treat Between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions (The Moscow Treaty).\n[10] Clark Murdock, May 12, 2015, Remarks \"Defining US Nuclear Strategy and Posture in 2020-2050,\" AFA-NDIA-ROA Congressional Breakfast Seminar Series, www.afa.org and Huessy's Corner\n[11] General Garret Harencak, Remarks at the AFA-NDIA-ROA Breakfast Seminar Series on Nuclear Deterrence; transcript available at www.afa.org\n[12] \"Exploring the Dichotomy Between New START Treaty Obligations and Russian Actions and Rhetoric\", James R. Howe, Vision Centric, Inc. Forthcoming, 17 February, 2016.\nRandy \u2022 Feb 8, 2016 at 12:02\nTo what end would Russia launch such a strike, especially as the remaining U.S. bomber and sea-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) would allow the U.S. to launch back at Russia in a retaliatory strike?>>>>>\nDear Mr. Huessy,\nI would like to ask your comment on the following scenario: Russia lunches just 10 missiles, targeting New York. US is able to intercept 9 of them, one eliminates NY. Meantime Mr. President receives phone call from Mr. Putin with the statement that in the case of any retaliation against any Russian target the next set of missiles will target Washington, San Francisco and Los Angeles. This message of Mr. Putin will be broadcast to American public directly as well. Now my question is: under these circumstances, what USA will do? Will US have strength and willingness to fight? Or Mr. President will just surrender unconditionally to Russians, especially under the pressure of US population?\nP.S. In this scenario, one can substitute 'Russia' for 'North Korea'. The idea is limited attack on a single major US city, immediately followed by blackmail to attack 3 more.\nP.P.S. I expect that such a scenario was analyzed before. Please forward me citation, if available.\nPeter Huessy Randy \u2022 Feb 12, 2016 at 10:33\nI appreciate Randy's comment on my essay on nuclear deterrence. His remarks highlight the critical value of missile defenses. He also confirms that any Russian attempt to take out our entire retaliatory force would require so many Russian warheads dropped on American soil as to guarantee Armageddon and thus remain off the table. However, the scenario of what a President would do in response to more limited strikes is a complex and difficult one. The idea would be to give our President as many reasonable options as possible which would include missile defenses, limited conventional or nuclear responses, cyber or long range precision strikes, along other capabilities. American deterrent planners have wrestled with exactly the kind of scenario discussed here. However, an EMP or even air-burst attack using a nuclear device fired surreptitiously from the sea precludes the US from knowing to whom should the retaliatory strike be addressed and thus one would think should compel our national leaders to invest in both grid and infrastructure protection as well as enhanced missile defense with appropriate sensors. The current anger directed at Washington is in no little measure a measure of the public's measure of being exasperated by their political leaders unwillingness to act to \"provide for the common defense\" as clearly called for by the threats we face.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 34117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gays.com/p/francesco_longo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WKXEF22N7P4LSPG5DA53B7FJHUSDL6QR", "length": 383, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gays.com", "title": "Francesco_Longo (32) from London is single - Gays.com", "raw_content": "Francesco_Longo\nlooking around... new in London.. live in south west and work in may fair.. contact me it better of 1000 words.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................\nFrancesco_Longo uploaded new photos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.51, "perplexity": 9.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gaytoday.com/index.php/2018/08/10/hrc-unitedagainsthate-one-year-after-charlottesville/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ECBI4ZQTZ4RR5BY6SUJJ4EL5XW4WZ2VG", "length": 2520, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.gaytoday.com", "title": "HRC #UnitedAgainstHate One Year After Charlottesville", "raw_content": "HRC #UnitedAgainstHate One Year After Charlottesville\n\u2013 August 10, 2018Posted in: Events, Headlines, Lifestyle, People\nThis weekend, HRC will join coalition partners to mark one year since the white supremacist rally and violent, fatal attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Today, HRC is also launching a #UnitedAgainstHate Digital Weekend of Action, encouraging its 3 million members to share messages of unity and call out white supremacy on social media.\nFollowing a rally of hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis, dozens of peaceful counter-protesters were injured and one person \u2013 Heather Heyer \u2013 was killed on August 12, 2017, when a white supremacist drove his car through a street crowded with human rights activists.\n\u201cOne year ago, white supremacists and neo-Nazis launched a violent, deadly attack on people of conscience in Charlottesville who were peacefully protesting their bigotry,\u201d said HRC President Chad Griffin. \u201cThe horrific violence that occurred, and the murder of Heather Heyer, tragically reinforced the extent to which racism, anti-Black violence, anti-Semitism, bigotry and xenophobia continue to plague America. Today, we believe it is as important as ever for the LGBTQ community to loudly declare that the fight for racial justice and equity is inextricably bound to our fight for full equality. We must use our voices, our power and our energy to be good allies, fight white supremacy and be united against hate in all of its forms.\u201d\nThis afternoon from 3-4pm, HRC will join the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and other civil rights organizations in a Twitter storm utilizing the hashtag #AgainstHate. Roberta Kaplan, the famed civil rights lawyer who has filed a lawsuit on behalf of 10 plaintiffs against the white supremacist rally organizers, will also take over HRC\u2019s Twitter this afternoon at 2pm to provide an exclusive update on the lawsuit.\nAnd on Saturday and Sunday, HRC\u2019s social media will amplify messages from our staff, members and supporters on the importance of speaking out against racism, white supremacy and bigotry, and remaining united against hate.\nHRC will continue to work in solidarity with communities of color, LGBTQ people of color and racial justice organizations to combat racism, both within the LGBTQ community and throughout society.\nTo learn more about HRC work on racial equity and inclusion, visit https://www.hrc.org/explore/topic/communities-of-color\nRead more from Source: HRC #UnitedAgainstHate One Year After Charlottesville", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 25669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.geekycube.com/start-young-5-reasons-why-its-important-to-invest-at-a-young-age/713", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:24Z", "digest": "sha1:6US7X23LTJGGIFIDSPHPSO2A5GJG6NV7", "length": 3108, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.geekycube.com", "title": "Start Young: 5 Reasons Why It\u2019s Important to Invest at a Young Age \u2013 GeekyCube.com", "raw_content": "Start Young: 5 Reasons Why It\u2019s Important to Invest at a Young Age\nSimply put, the younger you start investing your money, the better. The benefits associated with making smart investments are widespread, but most revolve around the premise of allowing your money to grow. Because increasing your investments is the main goal, starting early makes the most financial sense.\nMore Time Equals More Money\nThe best reason to start investing when you\u2019re young is because you have more time. The longer you have your money in one place, whether it\u2019s a simple savings account or a retirement plan, the more it grows. Of course, with an investment, you earn far more interest than you do with a basic bank account. Invest $10,000 and in 10 years, you\u2019ll have a low-ball six-figure investment. Do it for 40, however, and you\u2019ll have seven figures.\nIt\u2019s Easier to Reach Your Goals\nPeople usually invest their money for a reason, because it\u2019s not a way to get rich overnight. It takes time and nurturing. So, perhaps you want to make sure that your children can go to college without any financial aid. Maybe you want to do that yourself. Whatever the case, if you begin investing early, by the time you hit middle age, you\u2019ll have significant amounts in:\nOr emergency savings\nThat\u2019s why it\u2019s such a great idea to start a savings or investment account for your children when they\u2019re small. The thing is, a solid, long-lasting investment created at a young age is beneficial for you too.\nIf you start learning how to ride a unicycle when you\u2019re 10 and you keep at it, you\u2019ll excel by the time you\u2019re 20. If you\u2019re good at math in grade school, you nurture your gift and conquer calculus when you\u2019re in college. The more time you spend doing something, the better you become. The same is true with investing. By starting early, you\u2019ll learn the ins and outs of different types of investments:\nFixed-income security investments, such as bonds\nEquities and stocks, which can rise or fall\nA mix of both, by way of mutual funds\nReal estate, which is lucrative but not always steady\nYou Form Smarter Investment Habits\nAs you get better, you have time to learn from the experts, by asking questions from money managers or reading the latest bestsellers and other books by Ken Fisher. As you invest more, you\u2019ll come into your own by discovering which investments and strategies work best for you. Even if you take a loss in your early twenties, there\u2019s plenty of time to make up for it and to learn from your mistakes.\nQuitting While You\u2019re Ahead\nInvesting while you\u2019re young will also help secure your future. You can literally quit while you\u2019re ahead. If you\u2019ve made smart investments in a 401(K) or IRA, you can retire early. By the time you hit middle age, you may never have to work another day in your life, all because you\u2019ve made smart investments and allowed them to grow.\nNo matter how old you are now, there\u2019s still time to start investing. What would you do with a hefty, wealthy savings plan?\nGuide On How To Find The Hidden Spy Camera.\nHow Safe Are You? Things to Consider to Make You Feel Safer in Today's World.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 6177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.genderstudies.eu/en/ca-nl/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5HO3E35EE2PAZRTDOYCQKDC6KPDV3OUJ", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.genderstudies.eu", "title": "genderstudies.eu: Women's and Gender Studies online (Newfoundland and Labrador)", "raw_content": "Women's and Gender Studies in Newfoundland and Labrador", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 3065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 35.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gensler.com/projects/the-ritz-carlton-hotel-residences-and-jw-marriott-at-l-a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2XEI6HL6NFDXKHNFDSSM3RV22XT3ZWIQ", "length": 876, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.gensler.com", "title": "The Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences and JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE | Projects | Gensler", "raw_content": "The Ritz-Carlton Hotel & Residences and JW Marriott at L.A. LIVE\nGensler designed this 54-story tower as the visual anchor for the larger six-block sports and entertainment district known as L.A. LIVE. Comprising two distinct hotel brands, an 878-key JW Marriott hotel and a 123-key Ritz-Carlton boutique hotel, the tower's top 25 floors house Ritz-branded condominium residences. Located adjacent the STAPLES Center, the vertical icon contributes to the dynamism and sophistication of this revitalized commercial district. The sustainably designed tower earned LEED\u00ae Silver certification.\nCohen discusses transforming the urban ecosystem...\nC-Suite Quarterly\nCohen and Jernigan discuss Gensler's impactful projects...\nHaute Living features the luxury living of The...\nGensler noted as vital to trendy L.A.\u2019s downtown...\nTo honor its legacy as an epicenter for commerce and...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.georgeinstitute.org/people/ruth-freed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:BJ5K77WWEQUZOGTV3PW6WT5FRU7DJZKP", "length": 693, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.georgeinstitute.org", "title": "Ruth Freed | The George Institute for Global Health", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb People \u00bb Ruth Freed\nRuth Freed\nBSc (Human Movement), University of Wollongong\nMOHS (Hons), University of Technology, Sydney\nRuth Freed joined The George Institute in 2009 and worked briefly on the SHIFT study prior to moving to the NMH Division to work on the Sleep Apnea & Cardiovascular Endpoints study initially as lead Senior Research Associate and then as Associate Project Manager. She is currently a Project Manager.\nRuth\u2019s background is mainly in respiratory research and she has an interest in asthma. She\u2019s a qualified respiratory scientist and has over 10 years\u2019 experience in clinical research in academia and industry.\nWorkplace Migraine HeadAche Prevention Project (HAPPy)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gethealthyheights.org/node/1482/repeats", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:48Z", "digest": "sha1:7KISLSKY2KL5CE2EFVQ6JWQKT7LMTG4R", "length": 1430, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.gethealthyheights.org", "title": "Repeats | Get Healthy Heights", "raw_content": "Tuesday, September 4, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, September 5, 2018 (All day) Friday, September 7, 2018 (All day) Monday, September 10, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, September 12, 2018 (All day) Friday, September 14, 2018 (All day) Monday, September 17, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, September 19, 2018 (All day) Friday, September 21, 2018 (All day) Monday, September 24, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, September 26, 2018 (All day) Friday, September 28, 2018 (All day) Monday, October 1, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, October 3, 2018 (All day) Friday, October 5, 2018 (All day) Monday, October 8, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, October 10, 2018 (All day) Friday, October 12, 2018 (All day) Monday, October 15, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, October 17, 2018 (All day) Friday, October 19, 2018 (All day) Monday, October 22, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, October 24, 2018 (All day) Friday, October 26, 2018 (All day) Monday, October 29, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, October 31, 2018 (All day) Friday, November 2, 2018 (All day) Monday, November 5, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, November 7, 2018 (All day) Friday, November 9, 2018 (All day) Monday, November 12, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, November 14, 2018 (All day) Friday, November 16, 2018 (All day) Monday, November 19, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, November 21, 2018 (All day) Friday, November 23, 2018 (All day) Monday, November 26, 2018 (All day) Wednesday, November 28, 2018 (All day) Friday, November 30, 2018 (All day)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 123.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.getoffyouracid.com/blogs/news/tagged/health-tips", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:YDQZ65DKHBQZYLYVKNHXLIGBPU7KDR3S", "length": 388, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.getoffyouracid.com", "title": "Alkamind Blogsphere | Health and Lifestyle Blog | Green Powdered Drinks \u2013 Tagged \"health tips\"", "raw_content": "Home / GET OFF YOUR ACID BLOG / health tips\nIf you\u2019ve been trying to keep your New Year\u2019s resolution and it\u2019s getting harder and harder by the day, you\u2019re not alone. In fact, you\u2019ve beate...\n10 Ways to Not Let the Holidays Derail Your Diet\nOne of the questions I hear over and over again is how to stay ALKALINE when you\u2019re eating with friends and family. And at no time of year is tha...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 434, "original_length": 19613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.giffgaff.com/gameplan/loans/learn/loans-and-borrowing/types-of-loans-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLXYF6CHH5M45MF4CCKCIYI3VBKR2WSW", "length": 5343, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.giffgaff.com", "title": "Not sure which loan option is best for you? You will soon. | Loans & Borrowing | Learn | giffgaff gameplan", "raw_content": "Not sure which loan option is best for you? You will soon.\nIn need of some cash but not sure which loan option is best for you? See which situation each loan category is aimed at.\nSo you\u2019re in need of some cash but you\u2019re not quite sure what type of loan you need for your situation, it is confusing \u2013 there are so many different loans on the market but what do they really mean? Which is the best for you? Take a look at this simple breakdown for the different types of loans on the market.\nAn online loan is pretty much what it says on the tin \u2013 a loan that is applied for and granted completely online. You fill in all the paperwork and you (normally) find out within the hour whether or not you\u2019ve been accepted for the loan. It\u2019s much quicker than a traditional loan where you may have to wait for documents to come through the post or pop to your local branch to sign some forms. Even managing the loan tends to be completely online with tools to set up direct debits, keeping track of your payments and reviewing your statements. Online loans are usually short-term, unsecured and for smaller amounts (around \u00a32,500). Basically if you need a small amount of money, for a short period of time and you need it quickly then an online loan might be your best option \u2013 ideal for replacing a broken car/one who hasn\u2019t passed its MOT or a broken household appliance.\nQuick loans are generally granted within 10-15 minutes of application and paid into your account within the hour. Most often they are done online, are expected to be repaid within a month and come with a large interest rate. They are intended for people who need money fast and most often in an emergency \u2013 broken down car, unexpected bill.\nCash loans are done in person with a representative of the company loaning the money. This can either be repaid in regular instalments which include the interest to be paid or have a fee deducted from the total amount needed. Places that offer cash loans tend to be cheque cashing shops or doorstep lenders and are for much smaller amounts that can be repaid over a short period of time. Cheque cashing shops tend to lend until your next payday but can extend for another month at a cost. There isn\u2019t normally a credit check required for a cash loan but they can still damage your credit rating if you fail to meet the repayments. These loans are intended for much smaller purchases such as your mobile phone repairs.\nPeer-to-Peer - There is a new way of getting a loan, one where bankers don\u2019t have the last laugh. It\u2019s called peer to peer lending (P2P).\nIt involves, indirectly, borrowing money from a member of the public; someone who has a bit of spare cash lying around and who is happy to lend it to you for however long you want. To know more about this, heres a more in depth article.\nInstalment loans are pretty much any loan that is repaid over a longer period of time. Some short term loans will only have one repayment date, such as a payday loan, whereas larger loans that are repaid over a longer period of time have multiple repayment dates. Personal loans, mortgages and credit are all technically instalment loans.\nAnother loan that is what it says on the tin, a short term loan is just that \u2013 a loan repaid over a short term. Again these tend to come in the form of a payday loan, with some even offering up to a year to repay the amount but they are aimed at people who need a smaller amount of dough.\nThese are much more of your traditional loan that are offered through banks or building societies and are aimed for larger purchases over a longer period of time. These can often take longer to be accepted for because banks will want to go through your income and outgoings to ensure you can make payments, as well as checking your credit rating, before they lend you the money. Personal loans can be unsecured or secured against something of value (such as a car or house) for a larger amount. These loans are mostly intended for people who are in work, can easily afford the repayments and are looking to make home improvements, buy a new car, a student loan or debt consolidation\nMonthly / Emergency loans\nAgain, another way of peddling a payday loan \u2013 advertised as a loan for a month, until payday or if you\u2019re in need of some quick emergency cash. They come at a higher rate of interest and if you can\u2019t repay on the day you say there can be some pretty heavy fees slapped on. These really are a last resort and aimed at people who can afford to make the payment at the end of the month.\nAlmost any type of loan can have an effect on your credit rating, even the cash loans (if not repaid) can be sent to a collection agency which will apply defaults to your rating.\nThere are a lot of different types of loans available, many of them giving you instant cash when you need it but not all of them are suitable for every borrower. A loan should never be willingly taken out if you know you can\u2019t repay it. Borrowing from a friend or family member is always better than taking out credit, if you\u2019re not in that position then look at reputable sources over payday lenders \u2013 they have an undesirable effect on your rating. Always take the time to decide which is the best loan for you and if the loan is necessary.\nTags: Loans, Loans, Impact on credit score\nAre personal loans ever a good idea? Ask yourself this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 10084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.girlsgetaway.com/author/jillianne-hamilton/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6IYNR577PSHJ74KYYTYYE47BE2Q3BYWL", "length": 63, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.girlsgetaway.com", "title": "Jillianne Hamilton, Author at Girls Getaway", "raw_content": "Posted on March 25, 2010 February 1, 2019 by Jillianne Hamilton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 4531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.glamping.com/destinations/north-america/united-states/ohio/?great-for=corporate+%2F+events", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3I6VRZCMBX74SEBP2AFLWBDMQ4T5JGYG", "length": 336, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.glamping.com", "title": "Glamping In Ohio | Luxury Camping Desinations | Glamping.com", "raw_content": "Glamping in Ohio\nWren Eagle Retreat\nWren Eagle Retreat is a secluded vacation destination located in Chillicothe, Ohio, set within a private property with over 23 acres of oak, hickory, and maple. The destination offers beautiful spring, summer, fall and winter views of southern Ohio ridges, trees, and wildlife. Among the most unus...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globelink.co.uk/articles/country-information/travelling-to-the-UK/holidays-and-festivals-in-the-UK.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:45Z", "digest": "sha1:5DGYXRAQW53BLT4T4ZWFQLU3GC4GZT7V", "length": 3931, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.globelink.co.uk", "title": "Holidays and Festivals in the UK - Globelink.co.uk", "raw_content": "Holidays and Festivals in the UK\nBritons celebrate many holidays throughout the year. Six of the British holidays are also the bank holidays. Most businesses and institutions are closed on bank holidays. There are also many holidays celebrated only in Wales, North Ireland, Scotland or England. Let\u2019s take a look at the most popular of traditional British holidays.\nThis day commemorates the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and falls just before Easter Sunday. Good Friday is a public holiday in the UK, and people who regularly attend church, are most likely to attend a special church service on this day. Others will use their day off work to visit friends and family or take short trips.\nThis day commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ and it falls right after Easter Sunday. For many people it is the last day of a four-day weekend, and some Britons come back home from short trips on this day. Others enjoy spring weather and watch or take part in egg rolling competitions, special sports matches, Easter bonnet parades and other events.\nThis bank holiday falls on the first Monday on May. In England, Wales and Northern Ireland it is also known as May Day. Events are held to celebrate the start of summer season and the hope for fertility. This day is famous for its dancing traditions. Children, particularly girls engage in maypole dancing, and men dress in white and demonstrate the Morris dance.\nThis holiday also known as late May bank holiday, falls on the last Monday of May. It is the time when Britons have a day off work, take short vacations, organize picnics, catch up with their family and friends and simply relax at home. In some parts of the UK, this day is often associated with special customs. For example, in Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, people race down a steep hill chasing a large round cheese to win a Double Gloucester cheese weighing around 3.5kg.\nIn England, Wales and Northern Ireland, the summer bank holiday falls on the last Monday of August, while in Scotland it is on the first Monday of August. This day marks the end of summer holiday for people who come back to work or school. Some people take trips on this three-holiday weekend. Others stay home, work in the gardens and carry out home improvements.\nThe UK remains a largely Christian society and Christmas is widely celebrate throughout the Great Britain. Britons decorate their houses with ivy and holly, hang mistletoes and stockings around the house. People in the UK tend to believe that Christmas is the time for family. They get together, roast turkey with plum pudding and exchange gifts. British children wait for Father Frost on Christmas.\nIn the UK Boxing Day is celebrated on December 26, next day after Christmas. The British mostly spend this day in family circle boxing up old clothes and other things together to give them to the needy. People also like to give money to charities on this day. Giving gifts to postmen and shop clerks is also a tradition of the Boxing Day.\nOn New Year\u2019s Eve (December 31) people usually turn to television to see one of the four clocks on Clock Towers count down the last minutes of the old year. At midnight, as the chimes of Big Ben mark the start of the New Year, people drink champagne and congratulate each other. Some people hold parties at home, others celebrate at pubs and night clubs. People often make New Year resolutions and try to abide by them the whole following year.\nGenerally observed as a conservative nation, the British sure know how to have fun and celebrate. Their traditions are regard as some of the oldest and admired in the world. Some celebrations are so fun, they can get dangerous with all the fireworks and competitions, that\u2019s why it would be wise to take out travel insurance when before going to the UK before a holiday.\nEssential Tips for Seniors Travelling to the UK\n15 Reasons to Visit Scotland\nCustoms and Traditions in the UK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 7024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globesoccer.com/blog/rome-florence-venice-the-olympics-of-culture-and-tourism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:37Z", "digest": "sha1:XLKBLA7H5JWEYY5PF4ZRPGBFHKGV7YJN", "length": 10947, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "www.globesoccer.com", "title": "Rome-Florence-Venice: the Olympics of culture and tourism - Globe Soccer", "raw_content": "Globe Soccer / Blog / Rome-Florence-Venice: the Olympics of culture and tourism\nItaly is considered one of the countries which above all others has written the history of the Olympics. Moreover, the summer Games of Rome \u201960 are still remembered today worldwide as the first to be broadcast around the globe and also, the first to be accompanied by an edition of the Paralympics Games.\nAlongside these records, the 1960 Olympics brought numerous innovations to the Italian capital, also regarding facilities and infrastructure, which are still an asset for the city.\nAnd it is by starting from these notions that the idea arose of a shared candidacy across three of the most beautiful, most popular, and most famous cities in Italy, for both their history and their culture: Rome, with its ancient charm, Florence, with its beauty, and Venice, with its magic.\nRome needs no introduction; it is the capital of Italy, rich in history, and full of enticing views secrets which attract millions of tourists from all around the world every year. For a potential Olympics, the capital is also in an ideal position, in the center of Italy and, taking a broader perspective, in the center of the Mediterranean.\nFor these reasons, the students from Temple University who developed the idea of a shared candidacy between Rome, Florence, and Venice, imagined entrusting Rome with the organization of the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2032 Olympics.\nThe Foro Italico, the Stadio Olimpico, the Stadio del Nuoto, the Stadio Pietrangelo, and the Stadio Centrale del Tennis, are just some of the sports structures that already exist in Rome which could host some of the sports for the 2032 Games, from football to water polo, from swimming to diving, and athletics to rugby.\nRome could also host the equestrian sports in the Pratoni del Vivaro, and at Piazza di Siena, while the Fiera di Roma could host boxing and the Marco Simone Golf & Country Club \u2013 which will host the 2020 Ryder Cup which could be an excellent solution for golf.\nAlso, Rome could be home to the triathlon and pentathlon, around the Laghetto dell\u2019EUR, and at the Stadio Flaminio, which finally has the opportunity to be restored.\nTHE STADIUM: JUST A PLACE TO WATCH A MATCH?\nThe Stadio Olimpico (Olympic Stadium) and the Stadio della Roma (AS Roma Stadium)\nThe Stadio Olimpico of Rome needs some restructuring and modernization to make it better for spectators, both as a place where fans meet to watch games and as a tourist attraction which can be visited by fans of such stadia from around the world.\nThe Stadio Della Roma should be open to the public as from 2020 and will be the stadium of AS Roma. There will be 53,000 seats, and the whole structure will be surrounded by a massive entertainment complex directly linked to Fiumicino airport: Roma Village, a meeting point for fans of the team, but also for tourists, and not only during matches.\nEffects of modernizing stadia:\nThe modernization/construction of these two stadia could bring Rome an increase in sports-related tourism and more. Thanks to the renewal of the structures, Rome could be considered as a venue for many other events besides football.\nFlorence is considered the cradle of the Renaissance, the city which represents par excellence of Italian language and culture. Florence is known worldwide for its beauty; it is not only important tourism and cultural attraction but also a city of sport.\nDespite being much smaller than Rome, Florence has a great variety of space available and sports facilities, without overlooking the fact that it is just one hour by train from Rome.\nFlorence could host combat sports such as judo, wrestling, and taekwondo, but also weightlifting and artistic and rhythmic gymnastics at the Nelson Mandela Forum.\nBut the Tuscan city could also host football land rugby at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, the fifth biggest in Italy regarding capacity, which for the occasion could be restructured, and finally be given a roof.\nVenice is another city which needs no introduction. It is recognized as the most romantic city in the world, with its canals and unique views. It is no coincidence that it is the third most visited city in Italy, after Rome and Milan, and for this reason, it is considered one of the leading centers for tourism in Italy.\nIts position on the Adriatic is strategic for a shared Olympics: water sports such as sailing and rowing could be offered a magnificent venue in the Venetian city, in the lagoon.\nIt would be interesting to organize the marathon along the famous route of the Venice marathon.\nOthers could then support the three main candidate cities near them. So, we could have Milan hosting cycling, badminton, and basketball; in Naples beach volleyball and volleyball; in Verona, there could be handball, hockey, archery, and table-tennis.\nAs for the opening and closing ceremonies, following the indications provided for Rome\u2019s candidacy for 2024, and we could imagine a parade starting at the Coliseum and ending at the Foro Italico, passing through the Roman Forum.\nIn the same way, in the other cities, small ceremonies and parties could be organized promoting the spirit of the Games for visitors, and citizens from other areas of Italy.\nAs for football, it is one of the most popular sports. The various stages could be divided as follows:\nGroup stage and Quarter-finals: Bologna, Verona, Florence, and Udine\nSemi-finals: Naples and Rome\nFinal and third-place playoff: Milan\nGroup stage and Quarter-finals: Bologna, Verona, Venice, Florence, and Udine\nFinal: Milan\nThird-place playoff: Naples\nAs for the question of the three Olympic Villages which must accommodate the athletes, it was thought that Rome, as the city hosting the opening and closing ceremonies, could be home to a large Olympic Village for all the participating athletes. Following the same model proposed in the candidacy for Rome 2024, it could be possible to use the area of Tor Vergata, near the university campus.\nAs for Venice and Florence, here too the Olympic villages which will undoubtedly be smaller than that in Rome may be built near universities to guarantee greater involvement by young people in the event.\nThese Olympic Villages could then give rise to real university centers linked to culture and intercultural exchange between Italy, and the rest of the world.\nAs for the technological factor, the idea is to fit special video cameras on each athlete using, for example, special contact lenses. It could be possible for every fan to watch the competition directly through the eyes of their favorite athlete.\nTHE OLYMPICS AND THE FUTURE OF ITALY\nHow can the preparations for the Olympics bring positive effects for all of Italy?\nThe first benefits that the Games would bring the country are without any doubt regarding infrastructure are an increase in road and motorway connections and a restructuring of existing connections. Thanks to the collaboration of some municipalities which would bring major improvements to the life of citizens with a reduction in traffic on the road.\nIn this regard, consideration could be given to restructuring roads using recycled plastic, seeking in this way to solve two serious Italian problems which have to do with the poorly maintained roads (a severe problem above all in Rome) and waste.\n2. Trains:\nAs for trains, which would be given absolute priority in the project regarding transport. It would be possible to use the existing railway line which joins the three main cities. And considering that, on average, there are 24 trains from Rome to Venice (passing through Florence), and it would be sufficient to increase the number of high-speed trains so that the distances between these three tourism centers are halved, and create specific services for athletes, and those working at the Games.\nAbsolute priority in this project should be given to the use of clean energy.\nIn Italy, 40% of the energy used comes from renewables (the figure for 2014), of which 8% is solar energy (the highest percentage in the world).\nIt was, therefore, imagined that to boost the development and use of renewable energy, it would be possible to make the three cities in the project centers for three types of energy:\nVenice: hydroelectric\nFlorence: wind\nRome: solar\nFour main objectives:\nReduce the costs of energy for consumers to be in line with European costs.\nMatch, and try to exceed the targets of the EU Climate Change Energy Package set for 2020.\nEncourage the use of Italian energy (particularly gas) and reduce dependence on foreign suppliers.\nPromote sustainable economic growth through the development of the energy sector.\n4. Cleaning up the cities\nAs for cleaning up the cities, the Olympics could be an opportunity to promote sustainability and recycle waste, to increase services for street-cleaning and raise awareness initiatives which provide helps during the Olympics, and future of tourism.\n5. Promoting Italian workers\nGreater emphasis can be placed on the importance of taking on Italian labor to boost the country\u2019s economy and so, reduce unemployment, which according to figures from December 2017 stood at 10.8%.\nUse of Italian labor could without doubt also produce a positive feeling towards the Olympics, and their organization, contributing to the creation of a climate of support, and national pride in citizens.\n6. Urban transport\nThe project for the 2032 Olympics aims to provide all those taking part in the event with a fast, safe, and reliable transport to minimize the impact of transport on the cities and create an inheritance for more sustainable transport.\nFor this reason, it will be necessary to provide more efficient means of transport, enhance their capacity, improve the systems for coordinating, organizing, and controlling public transport, and highlight the importance of promoting the use of sustainable transport during the Olympic Games.\n7. Support for the Games\nThe Olympics bring a lot of benefits to the host cities: regarding the economy, reputation, and politics. All the cities would like to experience it. Therefore, it would be an excellent opportunity if all of Italy were to host it.\nAlso, the Games in Italy have the support of the population. In 2016, a survey indicated that 75% of Italians want the Olympics.\nEvery year, millions of tourists visit Italy. For example, Rome itself receives around 40 million tourists each year, while Florence and Venice reach 9 and 5 million respectively.\nThis is why the main Italian cities are already equipped to welcome the thousands of tourists who an event such as the Olympics can attract. This could, in any case, be an opportunity to renew tourism facilities.\nIn conclusion, these Olympics could be the opportunity for Italy to relaunch itself in terms of both sport and the economy, laying the foundations for growth in the tourism sector and positive and targeted investments for infrastructure, technology, and transport.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 13737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 220.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globetrotting.com.au/2018/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:28Z", "digest": "sha1:VYGUO73CVTVOOQDQDJ5XWL2RMPPZ53HD", "length": 3109, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.globetrotting.com.au", "title": "%archive_title% | Horse Riding Holidays and Safaris", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t Leave Home Without\u2026 Chafing Cream\nWe all know it and we all dread it. Chafing. 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[\u2026]\nHorse Breed: Freiberger\nName of breed: Freiberger or Franches-Montagnes Country of origin: Switzerland Breed origin: The Freiberger breed originates from the hillside Jura region of western Switzerland that lies on the French border. Whilst it was first bred as a mountain horse on the small farms in the region, it has since been moved to the Swiss National [\u2026]\nBlack Caviar- The Wondermare!\nUndefeated for all of her 25 starts\u2026say WHAT? That\u2019s right, the Australian bred Thoroughbred superstar of a mare \u2018Black Caviar\u2019 had 25 starts throughout her racing career and remained undefeated the entire time. Is there any other racehorse who can claim that statistic? If you know of one, please do share! \u2018Black Caviar\u2019 was trained [\u2026]\nHorse Breed: Marisme\u00f1o\nName of breed: Marisme\u00f1o Country of origin: Spain Breed origin: The Marisme\u00f1o is an endangered native horse from the marshlands of the Guadalquivir River, which flows mostly in the southwestern area of Spain in Andalusia. They originated from the primitive horse that used to live in the wetlands and was first crossed with horse breeds from [\u2026]\nAmmo and The Sydney Olympics\nTime to meet an amazing horse named Ammo who was a true star of the Opening Ceremony at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. To ride into an arena with thousands and thousands of people roaring and rear TWICE while whips cracked to signal the start of the games is truly a feat of horsemanship [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 8193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.go-gba.org/tag/inspire-speakers-series/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:20Z", "digest": "sha1:LK5OGFVOAG5HCQRLWOTARYSQT4ZOQ2KR", "length": 1442, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.go-gba.org", "title": "Inspire Speakers Series Archives -", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u203a Inspire Speakers Series\nTag Archives | Inspire Speakers Series\nSo Long, 2016! Here\u2019s Where 2017 is Taking Us!\nPosted by Aurora Sharrard on January 4, 2017 in Other, The Latest\n2017 will bring challenges and opportunities for green buildings and sustainability. However, we at GBA like to look on the bright side, so here\u2019s some positive perspectives from GBA staff about what we\u2019re excited about in 2017 \u2013 along with what we\u2019re proud of accomplishing in 2016. Ryan In 2017, I look forward to finding [\u2026]\nTwo Perspectives, Two Captivating Stories, and One Energized Audience\nPosted by Stephanie Sikora on April 18, 2016 in The Latest\nThe Inspire Speakers Series lecture on April 14 was an energetic, moving discussion about balancing education, economics and equity. The words \u201ctransformative,\u201d \u201ctriple-bottom-line,\u201d \u201cequity\u201d and others have all become buzzwords. Emcee Majestic Lane challenged us to think about what they actually mean? How do you put them into action? How do they all connect? Through [\u2026]\nGiving Thanks for 2015 and the Promise of 2016\nPosted by Aurora Sharrard on January 11, 2016 in The Latest\nI may have my holidays confused, but in this first full week of the new year (2016), I find myself being thankful for oh so many things. 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However, their submission period has closed and their screenings obviously couldn't seat everyone.\nThe commercial re-release is on a Friday, a business day. That means that on December 7th, there will be hundreds of half-empty and even mostly-empty matinee shows in the mornings. As the founder of Rerelease News, a small news site which celebrates and benefits from rereleases such as this, I see this as an opportunity.\nNew York has multiple premium large format locations where the film will be shown in the morning. For young adults, to see an uninterrupted version of Schindler's List in a commercial movie theater can be an experience unparalleled with other ways of seeing the film. There will be no breaks, no cell-phone checks and no talking allowed. It's a way to view the film in it's entirety, for three hours, on a large screen with remastered image and sound. A truly lasting experience unlikely to be available again for years.\nSo I am planning to use some of Rerelease News' financial resources combined with my experience in getting discounted tickets to offer free tickets to New York educators to take students to see the film at morning shows on December 7th.\nHowever, my financial resources are very limited and Dolby/RPX tickets are expensive. So I am asking for your help to make those tickets available for free.\nEvery donation will go to at least one ticket to see the film on the 7th. Applications for educators are available here .\nNo money will be spent on concessions or other unnecessary expenses - only tickets.\nThe application for educators, as mentioned before, is available here .\nThis rerelease is a unique opportunity to see Schindler's List on a large silver screen, one likely not to come again in years. Renting a theater costs hundreds, but here we have commercial shows made available to the public on a specific date and time. I don't want to see this opportunity go to waste.\nPlease donate to help fill up often morning shows of the film with students from the New York Metro Region.\nFor any questions, please email martin.r.samoylov@gmail.com\nImages: jdxyz / ridethectrain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 9667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goodfilipino.com/2014/07/sona-2014-full-text-transcript-english.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:24Z", "digest": "sha1:UDRJU7TITCPOCVV5DDI573EGFKVGEOGG", "length": 66977, "nlines": 211, "source_domain": "www.goodfilipino.com", "title": "SONA 2014 Full Text Transcript (English)", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb English version \u00bb Full Transcript Speech \u00bb News \u00bb PNoy \u00bb Reaction Paper \u00bb SONA \u00bb SONA 2014 \u00bb SONA 2014 Full Text Transcript (English)\nin English version, Full Transcript Speech, News, PNoy, Reaction Paper, SONA, SONA 2014 - on 6:08 PM\nThe SONA 2014 English full transcript of the President can now be viewed here. He addressed his SONA at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasang Pambasa Complex in Batasan Hills.\nBefore the SONA start, many group of protesters flock together to show and fight for their rights as a citizen of the Philippines.\n[This is an English translation of the speech delivered at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasang Pambansa Complex, Quezon City, on July 28, 2014]\nVice President Jejomar Binay; President Fidel Valdez Ramos; Senate President Franklin M. Drilon and members of the Senate; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr. and members of the House of Representatives; Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and our Justices of the Supreme Court; distinguished members of the diplomatic corps; members of the Cabinet; officials in local government; members of the military, police, and other uniformed services; my fellow public servants; and, to my Bosses, the Filipino people:\nThis is my fifth SONA; only one remains. We have a saying: Those who do not look back to the past, will never get to where they wish to go. Therefore, today it is only right for us to reflect on what we have gone through.\nThis was our situation in the past: To dream was an absurdity. We had a senseless bureaucracy; padded contracts had become the norm; and corruption was endemic to the system. We were known as the \u201cSick Man of Asia.\u201d The economy was weak; industry was sparse. We failed to gain the confidence of investors. The result: very few jobs were created. We found a people deprived of hope. Many of us had already given up, and were forced to take their chances in other countries. With heads bowed, we had come to accept that we would never be able to rely on our government or our society.\nThe Philippines sank deep into despair because of dirty politics.Our trust in each other disappeared; the confidence of the world in the Philippines ebbed, and worst of all: we lost faith in ourselves.\nIt was at this juncture that we began our journey on the straight and righteous path.\nAs the father of our nation, on my shoulders rest not only the problems that we inherited and the problems that arise today\u2014it is also my duty to prepare for the future. At every moment, I must be mindful of the concerns and perspectives of all. Think about it this way: it is as if you are watching two hundred TV channels at the same time. You need to understand not just what is unfolding before you\u2014you also need to know what happened before, and where it could all lead. Confusion is not an option, and you must have a response for every question, suggestion, and criticism\u2014and you must have all the answers even before the questions are asked. This is not an easy job, and I am only human, one who at times is also capable of feeling apprehension.\nIn spite of this, my resolve is firm because my primary goal is clear: To return government to its rightful mandate\u2014to serve the Filipino people always. [Applause]\nIs it not true that we have a saying: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. An example of this is the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). The Disbursement Acceleration Program contributed 1.6 billion pesos to TESDA\u2019s Training for Work Scholarship Program. This amount enabled the graduation of 223,615 beneficiaries. 66 percent of these\u2014or, 146,731 graduates\u2014now have jobs. As for the remaining 34 percent, TESDA is helping them find employment. Just take a look: All of these scholars have their names and other pertinent data listed down, should you wish to confirm them. [Applause]\nIf we divide the allocated funding by the number of graduates, we will see that government invested around 7,155 pesos in every scholar. In the BPO sector, a monthly salary of 18,000 is already considered at the low end. Every year, he will earn 234,000 pesos. If he is given the maximum tax deduction, his annual income tax will be: 7,900 pesos. This means that in the first year alone the 7,155 pesos that the government invested in him would have been paid back\u2014and there will even be a profit. This and all the taxes he will be paying the government until he retires will, in turn, provide his countrymen with the same opportunities he was given. This is good governance: [Applause]\nThe right intentions, practices, and results. Everyone wins.\nLet us listen to the stories of two TESDA graduates:\nTranslated transcript of Testimonial of Marc Joseph Escora, TESDA beneficiary\nEven when you\u2019ve realized your dreams, you should know that success, it\u2019s still not stable. You still need to work hard for it.\nI am Marc Joseph Escora. I am a high school graduate. Through the help of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority [TESDA], I have my career in the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry right now.\nI was based in the Libertad public market for seven years. I worked as a barker forpublic transportation vehicles. My family couldn\u2019t afford to put all of us through school, so I needed to find a way to support myself, so I could graduate.\nThe most important thing I\u2019ve learned is to have the confidence to interact with other people. When people see that you have a disability, they usually won\u2019t be able to see past it, to your abilities. So you need to trust yourself.\nIf TESDA wasn\u2019t there to help me, I probably wouldn\u2019t be where I am now. Our way of living now is much better than how we lived back then.\nTranslated transcript of Testimonial of Jonnalyn Navarossa, TESDA beneficiary\nTESDA helped me finish my studies, find a job, and support my family.\nI am Jonnalyn Navarossa, Technical Trainer at Toyota Motor Philippines. I graduated top of Batch 1 of automotive servicing training class at TESDA Region 4-A. I chose to study automotive servicing because I\u2019ve always dreamed of being a mechanical engineer. In order for me to both earn a living and save up, I enrolled at TESDA.\nWe\u2019re used to thinking that being an auto mechanic is a man\u2019s job. But I\u2019ve proven that as long you work hard, as long as you\u2019re determined, we can ensure quality products. TESDA taught me the value of good, clean, and quality work.\nNow, I\u2019m more confident in myself. And it\u2019s much easier to dream bigger.\nWe launched the Expanded Conditional Cash Transfer Program in June of 2014, with a budget of 12.3 billion pesos. Now, the government will also support the beneficiaries until they are 18 years old. Some will ask, \u201cWhy?\u201d According to a study conducted by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies, a high school graduate earns 40 percent more than someone who was only able to finish grade school.\nWe are investing in our most valuable resource: The Filipino people. Data from the National Economic Development Authority attests to our success. According to them, the 27.9 percent poverty rate during the first semester of 2012 went down to 24.9 percent for the same period in 2013. These three percentage points are equivalent to 2.5 million Filipinos who have crossed the poverty line. [Applause]\nOf course, it is only right that we focus on the needs of the poorest in our society. But we will not stop there. Now that we have greater resources, we are striving to ensure that all those who crossed the poverty line will never go back below it. [Applause]\nWhen we came into office, we found a society that was like a derelict house in which we had no choice but to live. What was even worse: we had virtually no tools and materials with which to repair the damage. Over the past few years, with the help of every Filipino who cared for the well-being of his fellowmen, we have been acquiring the tools and materials we need. One of these tools is a budget focused solely on the needs of the citizenry\u2014a budget we have passed on-time four years in a row. These tools include the laws that have accelerated the bringing of benefits to our bosses.\nThis is where\u2014under a fair system\u2014the resurgence of our economy began. We were able to save because of prudent fiscal management. We were able to expand the coverage of essential services without raising taxes, apart from Sin Tax reform, whose goal is to reduce vice in society. [Applause]\nWe worked to have the ability to fund the projects that we implemented, are implementing, and will be implementing. We strengthened tax collections: from 1.094 trillion pesos in collections in 2010, we increased this to 1.536 trillion pesos in 2013. [Applause]\nWe improved the management of our debt. The result: a decrease in our debt to GDP ratio; money that once went to paying interest, we were able to channel into social services. We were even able to fulfill the obligations of government that we inherited from past administrations. For example: In 1993, or during the administration of President Ramos, the government was required to recapitalize the Central Bank of the Philippines with 50 billion pesos, so that it could fulfill its mandate. President Ramos was able to fund 10 billion pesos and nothing was added since then. 40 billion pesos was the obligation left to us, and we have paid this in full. [Applause]\nWe worked hard to accumulate the funds government has today, which is why we will not tolerate wasting it. If our Bosses choose the right leaders, succeeding administrations will be able to surpass what we have done because our administration has greatly reduced the number of problems remaining, giving them a stronger foundation from which to begin.\nWhy do we say a stronger foundation? Just this past 2013, for the first time in history, the Philippines was upgraded to investment grade status by Moody\u2019s, Fitch, and Standard and Poor\u2019s\u2014the three major credit ratings agencies in the world. Through their study of our macroeconomic fundamentals and governance, they determined that there was less risk, which led to a vast increase in confidence on the part of investors. Just this May, they upgraded the Philippines yet again. What this means: Because the Philippines is now investment grade, government will be able to borrow funds for programs and projects at lower interest rates, more businesses will be attracted to invest in our country, and Filipinos will be able to feel the benefits of our economic resurgence more quickly. [Applause]\nIf anyone were to add up all the investmentsthat came in through the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) since its inception in 1995, they would see that 42 percent of total investments in PEZA came in during the four years of our administration. The remaining 58 percent took 15 years for past administrations to accumulate.We are confident that, before we step down from office, we will be able to match or even surpass this amount. To Director General Lilia de Lima: thank you for all you have done and for all that you will do to achieve this success.\nOur economy and our country are indeed taking off, and we are already realizing even greater aspirations. For instance, we inherited a seemingly grounded aviation industry: significant safety concerns had been issued on the Philippines by the International Civil Aviation Organization, or ICAO; we were downgraded by the United States Federal Aviation Administration; and the European Union implemented restrictions against our local carriers.\nIn 2013, ICAO lifted the significant safety concerns it had previously issued for the Philippines. This was followed, in the same year, by the European Union lifting the ban on Philippine Airlines, allowing it to fly once again to Europe\u2014which means that Filipinos will be\nable to fly directly from Manila to London.\nNaturally, Cebu Pacific will soon follow suit, since they have also received the go signal from the EU in 2014. In this year, as well, the United States Federal Aviation Administration upgraded the Philippines back to Category 1. Because of this upgrade, it is likely that there will also be an increase in routes going to the United States. The increase in flights of our local airlines to the United States and participating countries in the EU is a big help to both tourism and business.\nToday, we continue to receive news that, because of all the tourists and businessmen who wish to visit the Philippines, there is actually a shortage of flights to our country. So, all of the upgrades we have received in aviation are indeed good news: The number of flights will rise, thus providing a solution to the problem. And, through the continued cooperation of the CAAP and our local carriers, we will certainly be able to attract more businessmen and tourists in the coming years. This is a win for all those in the tourism sector; this is a win for the Filipino people. Good governance is the source of these upgrades, and we thank Director General William Hotchkiss, the CAAP, and our local carriers for their hard work. [Applause]\nIndeed, the Philippines is in the limelight on the global stage. Just this May, when we successfully hosted the World Economic Forum on East Asia, we showed the world just what we were capable of. And with the APEC Summit the Philippines will be hosting next year, we will be able to inform even more people of our progress, and the opportunities that this has opened up for all. There is no doubt: the Philippines is indeed more open for business. [Applause]\nApart from fostering an improved busines climate, we are also pursuing better relations between labor and managment.\nConsider this: According to the National Concilation and Mediation Board, since 2010, the number of strikes per year has been limited to less than ten. This is the positive result of the Department of Labor and Employment\u2019s Single entry Approach, or SEnA, through which filed labor cases go through a 30-day conciliation-mediation period. The good news: out of 115 notices of strike and lockout in 2013, only one pushed through. This is the lowest number of strikes in the history of DOLE.\nFor these achievements, I extend my gratitude to Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz, the DOLE family, and the labor and management sectors.\nSecretary Baldoz and I were joking in around 2012 that there were two strikes, and in 2013 there was just one. I said, \u201cLinda, in 2014, a half-strike won\u2019t do. Maybe we can strive for no strikes?\u201d [Laughter and applause]\nWe are well aware that we need infrastructure in order to sustain the momentum of our economy and to continue creating opportunities in the country. Infrastructure will entice businessmen\u2014it will speed up the transport of goods and services, and will help us ensure that we can go head to head with overseas markets.\nThis sector has seen massive changes: Our budget for infrastructure has more than doubled from the 200.3 billion pesos of 2011 to 404.3 billion pesos this 2014. [Applause]\nI remind everyone: we did this without adding any new taxes, apart from the Sin Tax Reform, which is focused on health, while we maintained our allowable deficit, and with our debt-to-GDP ratio continually declining. This has had a profound effect, because we have not only increased the infrastructure budget, we have also plugged leaks in the system, which has ensured that the citizenry is getting more value for its money.\nUnder the leadership of Secretary Babes Singson of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH): Neither kickbacks nor overpricing is condoned. The loopholes in the old system were plugged, the agency\u2019s processes were streamlined. A simple example would be the removal of Letters of Intent from the bidding process. In the past, these bred a culture of collusion\u2014knowing who was bidding on the same project only created a space for collusion. Another example: The requisite documents from bidders were trimmed to five, from 20. Processes are faster, and there are now fewer opportunities for the unscrupulous to ask for bribes. This allowed the Department to save 28 billion pesos and allowed them to accelerate the implementation of the next projects. [Applause]\nTo Secretary Babes and the DPWH: Again, thank you very much. [Applause]\nIt is truly awe-inspiring: In addition to what the DPWH has saved, the roads that they have laid out, fixed, widened, or constructed have amounted to a total of 12,184 kilometers. [Applause]\nWhen I saw these figures, I thought: How can I visualize 12,000 kilometers?\nThink of it this way: This is equivalent to four roads that connect Laoag to Zamboanga City. And this just only accounts for the national roads; that number doesn\u2019t include local farm-to-market roads or tourism roads. [Applause]\nNow, regarding the Public-Private Partnership program: From December 2011 to just this June, your government has awarded and signed off on seven PPP projects, with a total value of 62.6 billion pesos. In just our four years on the straight path, we have surpassed the combined six approved solicited PPP projects of the past three administrations. [Applause]\nThe difference between then and now is massive. As Secretary Cesar Purisima said: In the past, the Philippines could not entice investors; then, the government had to roll out incentives like commercial development rights, subsidies, and other guarantees for profit just to attract bidders. Now, the situation has reversed. Companies are now in close competition, trying to outdo each other; they are ready and willing to pay for the privilege to build the infrastructure we need. For example, with the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Passenger Terminal Building, the government has a premium that amounts to more than 14 billion pesos; with the NAIA Expressway Project Phase 2, the government received a premium of 11 billion pesos. Again: Good economics is borne of good governance. [Applause]\nLet us take a look at the TPLEX. Because of this road, the journey from Tarlac to Rosales in Pangasinan has become easier. According to the proponents of the project, the segment of the road that reaches Urdaneta will be completed before the year ends. And by next year, the TPLEX will have extended to the end of Rosario, La Union. [Applause]\nInfrastructure projects that long ago had been promised by other administrations, we have been able to turn into concrete reality. The Aluling Bridge, which was conceived in 1978, is finally open to the public. Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3, part of the Metro Manila Expressway project from the 1970s, was launched this January. Those who traverse Osme\u00f1a Highway can attest to how speedily its columns are being constructed. The Ternate-Nasugbu Road, the plans for which started to be laid out in 1994, is now 100% complete. [Applause]\nThe Basilan Circumferential Road, which has been under construction since 2000, will soon be completed. These are but a few of the infrastructure projects that we do not intend to pass on as problems to succeeding administrations; instead, our Bosses have already begun to make use of them.\nAgain, because of good governance, we now have a greater capacity to find solutions to problems that are on the horizon. For example: water. We all know that as our population grows and as our economy continues on its upward trajectory, the country will need a greater water supply in the coming years. According to some studies, there may be a shortage of water in Metro Manila by 2021. We will not wait for a drought: The solutions that experts have studied assiduously, we have already approved\u2014the Kaliwa Dam Project in Quezon, and the repair of the lines of Angat Dam. These solutions are significantly better than sourcing water from underground aquifers, which are more easily penetrated by saltwater. On top of this, if we were to rely solely on aquifers, then we would only hasten the sinking of land\u2014which would contribute to flooding.\nTogether with the dams for Metro Manila and its outlying cities, we are providing support to those in the provinces. We have also approved the Water District Development Sector Project, under the Local Water Utilities Administration. [Applause]\nYou may have already heard of our largest PPP project\u2014the Laguna Lakeshore Expressway Dike. [Applause]\n\u2014for which bidding will open before the end of 2014. This is a project that will yield numerous benefits. First: flooding in nearby areas will lessen. Today, when water levels of the Laguna Lake reach 12.5 meters, surrounding communities will be flooded. The solution: a dike with a height of more than 15 meters. Second: the water of Laguna Lake will be cleaner. Third: Less traffic. An expressway will be built on top of the dike, which will extend from Los Ba\u00f1os to Taguig. When the C-6 road that will connect to San Jose Del Monte is completed, we will have another route that will allow us to travel through Metro Manila without passing through EDSA. [Applause]\nWith the cooperation of the private sector, the only obligations we have in this project are for the right-of-way; and a portion of the reclaimed land will serve as payment for the highest bidder. Because of this,we will get what we need, while spending less in the process\nThese are only a few examples of the projects that are in the pipeline, and that will soon bring benefits to our Bosses. Might I add\u2014there are many more: the NEDA Board has likewise approved the Laoag City Bypass Link Road Project; the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit Project; and the LRT Line 1 South Extension and Line 2 East Extension. For those of our countrymen from Palawan: Apart from the projects for the Puerto Princesa Airport, there is also the Busuanga Airport to look forward to. We have likewise given the go signal for the construction of phase one of the modern Clark Green City in Capas, Tarlac, that will certainly serve as a center for commerce and industry, not only of Central Luzon, but also of the entire country. At the end of the day, our vision for Clark Green City is that it becomes even bigger than the Bonifacio Global City. Formerly isolated places will now become areas teeming with opportunity.\nThrough good governance, we have been regaining the trust of the market, of the world, and of our own people, in government. This is creating a virtuous cycle: Seeing the results of our reform agenda has spurred the active participation of each and every one of our Bosses. Indeed: today the government is not alone in pushing for widespread and meaningful reform. It is true that you are our strength. [Applause]\nThis is why, Boss: We thank you for your trust and your solidarity, both of which have become even more significant in the times when we were faced with tragedies that came to us, one after the other.\nIn September of 2013, lawless elements attacked Zamboanga; our countrymen who had been living peaceful lives there were used as human shields, their homes were burned down. This crisis tested the caliber of our uniformed services. Urban combat is considered the most complex kind of combat; in spite of this, our troops were able to save 195 of the 197 Filipinos caught in the conflict. We salute our countrymen in the uniformed services: Your sacrifice paved way for the victory of the Filipino people. [Applause]\nFollowing the incident, we gave Secretary Singson the responsibility of overseeing the rehabilitation of damaged infrastructure in Zamboanga. The first priority: to provide shelter to our countrymen who lost their homes to fire. This is exactly what we are doing under the Zamboanga City Roadmap to Recovery and Reconstruction. By this coming August, affected families can begin to move into permanent housing units in Martha Drive Subdivision. We also aim to complete the construction of 7,176 housing units in other areas by June of next year. I must ask for your understanding. There were many problems surrounding the land for resettlement\u2014problems we had to address. On top of this: We also had to make sure that the houses that would be built would be in accordance to the beliefs and culture of the beneficiaries; these will not be ordinary houses. On the other hand, to the 1,661 families that wish to build back or repair their own homes, 30,000 pesos worth of Home Materials Assistance is now being distributed.\nWe have set aside 3.5 billion pesos for the rehabilitation of infrastructure, the purchasing of lots, the construction of permanent houses, and other types of assistance for Zamboanga. 2.57 billion pesos from this fund has already been released to the NHA and DPWH.\nA few weeks after the crisis in Zamboanga, Central Visayas was rocked by an earthquake, which left Bohol the most devastated. In the midst of a calamity, we witnessed just what could be achieved when our people come together to respond to the challenges brought by a disaster. For instance, just one week after the earthquake, electricity was restored in Tagbilaran and in all the municipalities of Bohol. [Applause]\nNow, each of the 25 critical roads and bridges destroyed by the earthquake are passable. 3.583 billion pesos has already been released for the rehabilitation of Bohol and Cebu. [Applause]\nPart of this is the 2.49 billion pesos that the DILG provided to the local government for the reconstruction of markets, civic centers, bridges, water systems, municipal halls, and other government facilities.\nBefore the end of 2013, Yolanda made landfall. It was the strongest typhoon in history, affecting 1.47million families and 44 out of our 81 provinces. In Eastern Visayas, where the damage was most severe, so many issues required immediate attention.\nThe immense strength of the storm paralyzed many LGUs that were hit directly. The relief goods we prepositioned were swept away, which is why relief had to come from areas farther away. The delivery of aid was made all the more difficult by the destruction of infrastructure. There was no electricity, roads were impassable, and almost all of the trucks and heavy equipment that our first responders needed had been destroyed in the areas most affected by Yolanda.There was no gasoline, and there was no communication.\nIt required an enormous amount of solidarity to assist affected families, take care of the wounded and of those who lost loved ones, and make certain that there would be no outbreak of disease, among many other responsibilities. Let us look at the delivery of food as an example: It was not just a matter of buying rice and canned goods. We needed repacking centers, several trucks, and boats that would bring aid to affected provinces. When the relief goods arrived, we had to be sure that the roads to the affected areas were cleared, and that the trucks had enough gas to return home, and load even more of our food packs.\nYour government wasted no time in responding. We immediately cleared the airport, which is why, within 24 hours after the storm, three C130s were able to bring in aid. On that same day, we were also able to set up a communications hub to hasten the flow of information. On the second day, the Department of Health\u2019s Rapid Health Assessment teams arrived, as well as additional soldiers, policemen, and BFP personnel from other provinces. Likewise, workers from DSWD lead relief operations\u2014in the distribution centers in Eastern Visayas or in repacking centers all around the country.\nIn a span of two days, the Leyte water district resumed operations; on the third day, the first gas station opened. The main roads were immediately cleared. By the 22nd of November, which was two weeks after the storm, the one millionth food pack was distributed to the victims; we had cleared 35,162 cubic meters of debris from these roads through which the relief will be transported; and 3,426 kilometers of National Roads had already been cleared and were passable. At present, we are repairing the 108.8 kilometers of destroyed roads, bridges, approaches, and landslide prone areas. By Christmas Day of 2013, all municipalities affected by the calamity had been electrified. [Applause]\nWe took an emergency room mindset; the state utilized its full strength to stabilize the patient in the soonest possible time. I extend my gratitude to the members of the Cabinet, who led the government response in the affected communities. Secretary Cesar Purisima, along with Secretary Joel Villanueva of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, organized the logistics in the repacking center, taking on the role of warehouse operator. [Applause]\nSecretary Greg Domingo of the Department of Trade and Industry became the country\u2019s head purchasing agent, while Secretary Linda Baldoz of the Department of Labor and Employment served as a call center operator for all those who wished to help. [Applause]\nI also thank Secretary Jun Abaya of the Department of Transportation and Communications, who dispatched our transportation; Secretary Dinky Soliman, who proved that she was worthy of being the country\u2019s chief relief worker; and Secretaries Mar Roxas of the Department of Interior and Local Government and Secretary Volts Gazmin of the Department of National Defense, who were on the disaster frontline, giving marching orders to our uniformed services. [Applause]\nTo the members of our Cabinet, thank you.\nTo our friends and neighbors around the world: Your outpouring of solidarity will never be forgotten by a grateful Filipino people. Again, on their behalf, we thank you. [Applause]\nPerhaps, given the Filipino people\u2019s readiness to render assistance to the best of our abilities\u2014a characteristic embodied by our OFWs, peacekeepers, and all our other countrymen abroad\u2014when the world saw that we were in need, they saw fit to come to our aid. Today, we express once more our gratitude to all of you, and to all the Filipinos who have offered their prayers and their support, whether here, or in other parts of the world. [Applause]\nOur work did not end there. We implemented livelihood interventions, to ensure that those of our countrymen who survived the typhoon could recover at the soonest possible time. This July, 221,897 jobs were created after we turned over boats, fishing and farming equipment, seeds, and livestock to our countrymen. This includes those Filipinos to whom we paid salaries for participating in the cash for work program.\nPerhaps everyone can agree that Yolanda left in its wake a massive problem. According to international standards, whenever a calamity of this scale takes place, it normally takes a country one year before it transitions from relief to rehabilitation. However, in just a span of eight months, the United Nations declared the Philippines to be in the rehabilitation state. In fact, Mr. Yuri Afanasiev of the United Nations Development Program said, \u201cWe have never seen a recovery happen so quickly. And many of us have been in many different disasters.\u201d [Applause]\nIt will indeed take a long time for any country to recover and rise from massive calamities. In Haiti, two years after the earthquake, there are still many who live in evacuation centers. For our brothers and sisters in Indonesia, it took eight years before they recovered from the tsunami in Aceh. And even in America, it is said that it took eight years for things to return to normal after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.\nOur work is not done. There are still many houses that need to be constructed; many more of our countrymen need to be assisted in getting back on their own two feet; the work to build back better for all those affected by Yolanda continues.\nThis is why this July, the LGU Rehabilitation and Recovery Plan for Cebu, Iloilo, Eastern Samar, Leyte, and Tacloban City was submitted to me, and I have signed it. [Applause]\nIt passed the scrutiny of our cabinet clusters; according to the holistic post-disaster needs assessment that was conducted, the plan encapsulates the needs of our countrymen. This plan was formulated as a result of the dedication of Secretary Ping Lacson, whom we tasked with focusing on the challenges left by Yolanda. [Applause]\nI am hoping for the cooperation of Congress, because a large sum is necessary in order to help our countrymen make a full recovery.\nLet us remember: God proposes, but man disposes. This is likewise the idea behind our efforts for disaster preparedness. We are strengthening the capabilities of our LGUs, who are the frontliners in times of disasters, through a modern and comprehensive forecasting system.\nThrough the DREAM-LiDAR project under Project NOAH, for instance, we can more efficiently pinpoint areas that are prone to flooding. 19 out of our targeted 20 river systems have already been mapped, to determine which areas immediately suffer from the effects of torrential rain.\nBecause we can more efficiently determine when and where typhoons will affect us, today, we are able to give our LGUs sufficient warning\u2014and thus give them ample time to prepare, and to evacuate their constituents. If we were to add the efficiency of LGUs to our already-efficient forecasting system, then, without a doubt, countless lives can be saved. In Albay, which recently had to endure the wrath of Typhoon Glenda, there were no recorded casualties attributed to the storm, thanks to the effective leadership of Governor Joey Salceda. [Applause]\nAnd if a province that is considered a highway for storms can achieve this, is there any doubt that any and all other LGUs can achieve the same?\nLet us now talk about security. We are aware of the challenges our country faces, and we also know the high cost of the equipment we need. Today, I am glad to report to you the ongoing modernization of the AFP. We have acquired brand new assets, including 8 Sokol Combat Utility Helicopters, 3 AgustaWestland-109 helicopters, and the first landing craft utility ship built right here in the country: the BRP Tagbanua. 4 refurbished UH-1 helicopters and 2 navy cutters have also arrived.This past May, we also inaugurated the Naval Forces West\u2019s state-of-the-art Command Center in Palawan.\nNext year, 2 out of the 12 FA-50 lead-in fighter jets we procured will arrive in the country. [Applause]\nWe expect the rest to be delivered in 2017. We are also targeting the acquisition of an additional 8 Bell combat utility helicopters, 2 anti-submarine helicopters, 10 more AgustaWestland-109 helicopters, 2 light-lift aircraft, 3 medium-lift aircrafts, radar systems, all of which are brand new. These, along with other new equipment, will boost the capacity of our Armed Forces.[Applause]\nMeanwhile, we are expecting the delivery of 17 additional refurbished UH-1 helicopters by September of this year.\nThe M4 assault rifles we bought for our soldiers have likewise arrived. In the next few months, the total number of rifles that will be in the hands of our soldiers: 50,629 units. On top of this, through a correct and transparent procurement process and the honest management of funds, we were able to save more than 1.2 billion pesos. [Applause]\nwhich we will use to purchase even more rifles.\nI must emphasize: all these rifles are brand new and of good quality from a veteran manufacturer. Was it not true that, before, our funds were depleted in the purchase of Kevlar Helmets that were not even according to specification? Instead of buying them from the U.S., these helmets were purchased from another country. There has already been a conviction over this matter. The investigation of a judge who was allegedly involved, which was ordered by the Supreme Court, has been concluded as well, and we are awaiting their verdict.\nWe are continuing our pursuit of enemies of the state and lawless elements for the crimes they have committed. For example: We apprehended the Chairman and Secretary General of the NPA this March. Normality and order are now returning to the 31 provinces previously troubled by the NPA.\nThe image of our police has changed. Proof of this are the 30 policemen, led by Inspector Charity Galvez, who repelled an estimated 250 NPA members who stormed their precinct in 2011. [Applause]\nJust last March, four rookie policewomen bravely exchanged fire with the Martilyo Gang in the Mall of Asia. It is indeed fortunate that we have already reached a 1:1 police-to-pistol ratio, which is why these rookie policewomen were issued brand new guns. Before, the needs of our police force went ignored; today, the state is taking care of them, and indeed, they are matching this support with efficient and upright service. [Applause]\nLet us listen to our brave policewomen:\nTestimonials of Juliet Macababbad, Marcelina Bantiyag, Maricel Rueco, and Delia Langpawen\u2014policewomen who arrested members of the Martilyo Gang\nPO1 Juliet Macababbad: We heard glass breaking, and my partner and I immediately went on alert.\nPO1 Marcelina Bantiyag: The first thing that came to my mind was to draw my gun, because I knew that they would be ready to shoot at us\u2014we were in uniform.\nPO1 Maricel Rueco: My partner, PO1 Bantiyag said, \u201cI\u2019ll cover you. Call our Police Community Precinct.\u201d\nPO1 Marcelina Bantiyag: We caught one of the gang members.\nPO1 Delia Langpawen: It was only our fourth day on the job, at that post. And then that happened.\nPO1 Juliet Macababbad: Every police officer needs a gun. Thankfully, they issued us a Glock 17 Generation 4.\nPO1 Marcelina Bantiyag: Guns are essential to us. If something bad happens when you\u2019re on patrol, you\u2019re confident that you can engage.\nPO1 Juliet Macababbad: It feels good when you know you\u2019re able to help your fellow citizens. Whatever a man can do, a woman can do just as well.\nPO1 Delia Langpawen: Even if we were nervous, because it was our first encounter, we were thinking of the safety of all the people that were there.\nThis past June, we had a succession of high-profile killings. We have already arrested some of thoseinvolved in the murders of Mayor Ernesto Balolong and businessman Richard King, and are currently following a strong lead in the murder case of race car driver Ferdinand Pastor. Rest assured: we are seeking justice for all, and not just for a few. This is why, on top of the arrests we have already made, we continue to gather evidence against other suspects. We will hold to account all those who have committed wrongdoing. [Applause]\nWe are further strengthening ways to ensure the security of our citizens. Beginning June 16 of this year, we implemented Operation Lambat in the National Capital Region. After tripling the number of checkpoints and conducting various operations, we were able to confiscate 862 vehicles and 29 firearms. We have served 587 warrants of arrest, which have resulted in the arrest of 410 suspects. We also reinstated Oplan Katok, to ensure that the licensing of guns is limited to responsible owners. Our policemen knocked on 28,714 doors for this operation.\nBefore we implemented Operation Lambat, from January to the second week of June, the rate of murder and homicide cases in Metro Manila reached up to 31 cases a week. During the five weeks of Operation Lambat, murder and homicide cases decreased to only 22 cases per week. This is a 29 percent decrease, equivalent to nine murders prevented per week. And this is only in Metro Manila. If we are able to pass pension reform, which would enable us to gather even more funds to continue our planned purchases of equipment, then Secretary Mar Roxas will certainly be able to expand Operation Lambat, and thus make the whole country more secure. [Applause]\nThese equipment purchases were supposed to be funded by DAP, but since they were not obligated before the Supreme Court made its decision, we now have to look for other sources of funds.\nIndeed, trust is the foundation of good governance: the trust that all those who were affected\u2014or who will be affected\u2014by typhoons will be cared for; the trust that, after each day of work, you will be able to return home safely to your families; the trust that your leaders will not take advantage of you; the trust that government will always be by your side, especially when you find yourselves at a disadvantage. The trust that those who abuse their power will be held accountable, and the trust that the institutions and processes that were once abused and used to steal from the nation\u2019s coffers will be reformed. The trust that, if you do what is right, you, in turn, will receive what you deserve. The restoration of your trust in government: this is the meaning of reform. [Applause]\nLet me give you an example: Customs, which had been sorely testing our patience these past years. It became clear to us that the solution to the problem this agency represented was a reset button. Thus, we created a new agency to look into the processes at Customs, with an eye towards making them more efficient. We appointed a new commissioner, five new deputy commissioners, as well as 40 trustworthy individuals to implement our reforms. We ensured that employees were recalled to their original positions\u2014we put a stop to guards who acted like cashiers, or warehousemen who acted as examiners.\nMany have made sacrifices just so we can fix Customs. Among them are officials from other departments and government agencies, who we asked to transfer to Customs because we were certain of their integrity. Who would have said yes to taking on these seemingly insurmountable challenges, and without the guarantee of success? Some passed on promotions. Some expressed fears of being targeted by syndicates, in retaliation for the reforms. But, ultimately, they heeded our call to serve. It is only right that I take this opportunity to personally thank these officials, under the leadership of Commissioner Sunny Sevilla. [Applause]\nWe are proving that, with righteousness and with solidarity, we can clean up an institution that has, for the longest time, been besmirched by corruption. Recent good news is testament to this\u2014from January to April of 2014, Customs\u2019 cash collections increased by 22 percent, compared to the same period last year. Their collections total in the first four months of the year: 117 billion pesos.\nAll I can say to those who continue with their selfish, illegal practices: I already know that you are impervious to both fear and shame. I will leave you to your conscience\u2014if you feel any remorse for your fellowmen who have become addicted to the illegal drugs you have helped to smuggle in, or for the farmers who are being deprived of fair profit from doing honest work. As far as I am concerned: After we have gathered enough evidence against you, the Bilibid Prison is your next destination. [Applause]\nIf we are talking about reforms that have already begun to give rise to sweeping progress, we have to touch on recent developments in agrarian reform.\nWe know\u2014and the law is very clear about this\u2014that we must first determine which tracts of land can be distributed and which cannot. The trouble is, we were provided with data too insufficient to be of any help in this regard. The Cadastral Survey\u2014which was supposed to accurately delineate the territory, and, thus, the land holdings, of every town, city, and province of the Philippines\u2014was launched way back in 1913.\nAnother problem is that the previous administration had distributed land that was easy enough to distribute\u2014like government-owned land, or land already settled between the farmers and the deed-holders. We were left with land that came with too many complications\u2014that only spawned endless debates and legal disputes.\nThe complicated situation in ARMM proved to be another challenge. The land in ARMM is estimated to be at 1.5 million hectares, but the recorded number of hectares we found when we came into office was at 2.9 million, thanks to overlapping claims. ARMM Governor Mujiv Hataman must be wondering\u2014as he has sometimes asked me: How does land multiply like that?\nI have no intention of passing on these problems to my successor, which will cause even greater complications and a standstill in agrarian reform.\nIn 2015, after 102 years, the Cadastral Survey will finally be completed. [Applause]\nThis year, we will once again submit to Congress a bill extending the filing of Notices of Coverage, which could not be completed precisely because of these problems that we first needed to solve. [Applause]\nWe are hopeful that, the moment we file that bill, Congress will pass it in the soonest possible time.\nIf we are to speak of trust, then we cannot forget about the Bangsamoro. After a lengthy period of conflict and derailed negotiations, we were able to put trust back to the table. Proof of this: This past March, the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro was signed. [Applause]\nBut this is only the beginning of the path toward widespread progress in Mindanao. Nobody can deny that the ARMM has been left behind in terms of development. We want to give equal opportunities to all Filipinos; this is why there is a need for a boost-up, so that our countrymen in the margins can catch up. For example, in the budget we are submitting for 2015, 5.17 billion pesos of the overall budget for DPWH has been allocated for infrastructure in ARMM. [Applause]\nWe are currently forging the proposal for the Bangsamoro Basic Law. We ask for the Congress\u2019 understanding regarding this. It is important to scrutinize each provision we lay down. To the best of our ability, we aim to advance a bill that is fair, just, and acceptable to all. [Applause]\nIf we are able to legislate the Bangsamoro Basic Law before the end of the year and conduct the necessary plebiscite, we will be able to give the Bangsamoro Transition Authority one and a half years to show positive change. Should this be delayed, however, the period for proving that it was right to choose the path of peace will naturally be shortened.\nWe have achieved a lot through trust\u2014and we have no intention of breaking this trust. Your current government keeps its word. I will no longer list each of the promises we have fulfilled by treading the straight path; if I do that, we might be accused of bragging. But of course, it would not be right for us to avoid mentioning anything, because our critics are always waiting for an opportunity to say that we have done nothing. Join me, then, in recounting some of the examples of these promises we have fulfilled: Jobs and opportunities that continue to be created for so many Filipinos. In truth, from April 2013 to April 2014, around 1.65 million jobs were created. [Applause]\nThe inherited backlog in books, chairs, and classrooms: erased; while we are working to fulfill the new needs brought about by the implementation of K to 12. The 1:1 police-to-pistol ratio has already reached. The modernization of the Armed Forces, currently ongoing. A just and lasting peace in Mindanao, already advancing. Growth of the economy, progressing continuously. [Applause]\nTruly, our ambitions are now being fulfilled one by one: universal healthcare, classrooms, jobs, harbors, roads, airports, security, peace. In addition to the national integrity we have restored is the world\u2019s recognition of a new Philippines. The nation\u2019s coffers, which come from the sweat of our citizens, are being spent only for their benefit.\nLet us again listen to one of our Bosses:\nTestimonial of Gina Lastrado, relocated member of an informal-settler family\nI am Gina Lastrado, 47 years old. I used to live at Isla 1 Barangay 180, in Maricaban, Pasay City. I was a businesswoman back in Pasay. Currently, I still make a living selling goods; it\u2019s a job that demands hard work.\nWe were relocated here because the place we used to live was tagged a \u201cdanger zone\u201d\u2014most of the houses were right beside a river.\nWhen typhoon Ondoy [international name, Ketsana] hit, it was terrible. You wouldn\u2019t have believed that we would survive.\nIf you compare our lives back in Pasay to our lives now\u2014here, it rains, it storms, but you can sleep through a night. There\u2019s no lying awake, worrying about the coming flood\u2014not like where we used to live. Which is why I told my friends, those who stayed behind, to relocate, too. Here: There\u2019s no fear, there\u2019s no flood.\nWhen we got here, they gave us groceries, they gave us the key to the house, then they brought us to our house. And the eighteen thousand pesos they gave us, that helped us start a new life. This gave us back our dignity, all of us who were living in the squatters\u2019 area back in Pasay. Our lives are much better here. You can say that this is really our home now.\nNow: the problems we inherited, we have solved. The problems that are here today, we are solving. And the problems that are still on the horizon, we are preparing for. I believe; with your continued trust, we can solve all of these.\nLet us turn to the energy situation. We are doing everything in our power to ensure that the growing energy demand in our country is met. In spite of this, there have been some unforeseen events, that may lead to problems in the next year. For instance, we need to make up for the shortages caused by the scheduled maintenance outages of old plants, the sudden halting of plant operations due to breakdowns, and delays in the progress of new plants.\nLet us not forget that the coming El Ni\u00f1o season also threatens to affect the capacities of our hydro power plants, and to raise energy demand even further. If our use of electric fans and air conditioners in our own homes will increase due to the warm temperature, then imagine the spike in the usage of businesses and whole industries. And it is not as if we can just go to the store and ask to buy a 600 megawatt generator, to be installed the following day.\nWe want to be completely ready so that we can avoid paralysis if the worst-case scenario arises. The goal: to have planned solutions for problems that will not arise until next year. This is precisely why I have tasked Secretary Icot Petilla of the DOE to coordinate with the Joint Congressional Power Commission, the Energy Regulatory Commission, members of industry, and, most importantly, the consumers, in order to increase our capacity to respond to this problem.\nI am also aware that many of our Bosses are affected by the staggering increase in rice prices. It seems that the reports are true: that some greedy rice hoarders are stockpiling their supplies in order to sell them when prices eventually rise, making an unjust profit in the process.\nWe will not let this pass. Perhaps they think they are being clever, but the government\u2019s plan of action will prove the opposite. Our immediate solution: import more rice, supply it to the markets, reduce the prices and keep them at a reasonable level, and ultimately drive those who took advantage of the Filipino people into financial ruin. [Applause]\nLast November, we imported 500,000 metric tons of rice to supplement decreased supply due to the typhoons that battered our country, and all of this had arrived by March of this year. This February, the NFA Council approved the importation of an additional 800,000 metric tons, in fulfillment of our buffer stocking requirement, and as of this July, 360,750 of this amount had arrived. This July as well, we approved the immediate importation of 500,000 metric tons of rice through open bidding. The NFA also has the standby authority to import an additional 500,000 metric tons to prepare for the effects of calamities on harvests and rice prices.\nWhen the additional rice we have imported arrives in the country, hoarders will be forced to sell the rice that they have stockpiled in their warehouses. To these hoarders: If a showdown is what you want, by all means, take on the government. Just remember: it only takes six months before the stock you have hoarded in your warehouses begins to rot. When we flood the market with this imported rice, you will surely go bust. You are acting against the Filipino people, while we are acting for the interest of each Filipino. Let us see who will prevail. [Applause]\nApart from investigating those who have allegedly hoarded NFA rice, we are also probing all those in concerned agencies who may have conspired with these hoarders. Employees suspected of wrongdoing are already under scrutiny, so that we may file charges, and eventually, imprison those who must be held to account.\nWhile we are in pursuit of those abusive few, we have also continued to implement projects to uplift Filipinos in the sector of agriculture. We are ensuring that rice farming remains a viable and attractive livelihood. After all, we know that our farmers are advancing in age, which is why it will help our pursuit of food security to encourage the youth to enter this kind of work.\nWe are providing our farmers with modern equipment to ensure the efficiency of planting and harvest. From 2011 to May 2014, we have already turned over 4,628 units of production machinery, 11,362 units of post-production machinery, and 105 rice mills to a number of farmers\u2019 associations. This has allowed us to lessen waste in what our farmers are able to harvest. On top of this: we are also enhancing irrigation systems, constructing farm-to-market roads, and implementing training programs to ensure that they make the maximum profit.\nNow, let us turn to the budget. The Executive Branch proposes projects, which are approved by Congress. However, we have had to suspend a number of projects to make certain that we remain in accordance with the Supreme Court\u2019s decision on the Disbursement Acceleration Program, or DAP. I know that those of you in this hall are one with me in believing that we must not deprive our countrymen of benefits, and that these should reach them in the soonest possible time.\nThis is why: We are proposing the passage of a supplemental budget for 2014, so that the implementation of our programs and projects need not be compromised. [Applause]\nTogether with this, we are calling on the cooperation of Congress for the passage of a Joint Resolution that will bring clarity to the definitions and ideas still being debated upon, and to the other issues that only you in the legislature\u2014as the authors of our laws\u2014can shed light on. [Applause]\nOn the first working day after the SONA, we will submit to Congress the proposed 2.606 trillion peso National Budget of 2015. As always, this budget was created together with our countrymen, using strategies that will ensure that funds are only allocated to projects and programs that will truly benefit the public. We are counting on the cooperation of our lawmakers to strengthen our Budget, as the primary instrument in creating opportunities for the Filipino people.\nLet us now listen to one of the beneficiaries of our Alternative Learning System, A program of the Department of Education.\nTestimonial of Maria Cecilla Fruelda\u2014Aeta tribal leader, Alternative Learning System learner, and college student\nI am Maria Cecilla Fruelda. I heard from my friends who also came from Zambales, and who are now living here in Rosario, that there are good jobs to be found in Puting Kahoy. That\u2019s why we moved here.\nOur first priority as tribespeople has always been to look for food, rather than to invest time in our education. But education is very important to me. Passing the Alternative Learning System (ALS) was the first step in realizing my dream of becoming a teacher.\nI think that young Aetas in my community would have much better lives if only they could study.\nIf I hadn\u2019t gotten into ALS, I wouldn\u2019t have learned about our rights as indigenous peoples. We wouldn\u2019t be able to fight for our ancestral land. Right now, thank God, the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples is processing land titles to be awarded to us.\nOnce I graduate with a degree in Education, I want to teach in our community. I want to share with the Aeta community everything I\u2019ve learned and more.\nThe ALS has been such a great help. My being a student of Teodoro M. Luansing College of Rosario has helped bring more attention to our community. A lot of people have offered to help. I see our community\u2019s children following in my footsteps. A lot of them are in school now.\nFellow citizens, It is her story\u2014and the stories of many other beneficiaries like her\u2014that is drowned out by the din of the orchestra of negativism in the news. These noisy individuals willfully close off their minds and choose to live in their own world and reality. As the transformation of society becomes even more apparent, these people are acting just how we expect them to: their attacks on us are becoming more frequent, more venomous, and more intense. As the benefits of reform become clearer, it becomes more and more difficult for them to succeed in fooling the people, which is why they are sowing doubt and uncertainty. They have become desperate.\nWhy are they so angry? Let us examine their motivations. For those who turned public service into a business: if we are able to fix our systems, they lose the opportunity to subvert these systems for their own gain. It is only natural that they oppose us. On the other hand, for those who have no other goal than to overthrow government: They can only recruit members when agreat number of people are suffering and losing faith in the system. This is why, with a reformed system that has ended the people\u2019s suffering, the number of potential recruits has dwindled, which explains why their group is getting smaller and smaller. It is only natural that they oppose us. The noisiest and loudest of those who oppose us are not in favor of the transformation of our country, precisely because they manipulated and benefited from the old and broken systems.\nIt was as if we were citizens who had been long trapped in an island with only one store. Since there were no other choices, the store owners abused their advantage, raising prices whenever they wanted. The task you gave me was to steer our ship of state to another island, where there were more stores, more choices, better lives, and more opportunities. Of course, those running the solitary store in the island did not want us to set sail, because they will run out of people to abuse. They would do everything in their power to prevent us from reaching other shores. They would say that it is no different there, and that nothing would change. They would detain us at the port, punch holes in our ship, and conspire to steer us astray.\nThe truth is that I am not the one these people oppose, but the entire Filipino people who are now reaping the benefits of the straight path. They oppose the farmers in Iloilo, who have hoped for efficient irrigation systems for more than fifty years, and today are witnessing the construction of the Jalaur Multi-purpose River Project. [Applause]\nThey oppose the countless students who no longer have to study in overcrowded classrooms. They oppose the Filipinos who have found jobs because of training received from TESDA; the Filipinos who have been safely evacuated before typhoons strike because PAGASA is now more efficient; they oppose the informal settlers who have been removed from danger because of housing resettlement programs; they oppose the poor who can receive treatment from public hospitals free of charge; they oppose the soldiers who, because their equipment has been modernized, can now protect our nation with greater confidence; they oppose the Moros and indigenous peoples who, today, see a just and lasting peace on the horizon. My Bosses, they are against you. [Applause]\nIn fact, their attacks began even before we came into office. We have grown used to being greeted by negative commentators for breakfast, personal attacks for lunch, insults for dinner, and intrigue for a midnight snack. [Laughter]\nAnd even now that I am President, those opposed to change have not changed their ways. To be frank, I do not think that they will stop even when I have stepped down from public office.\nI recall an old woman who I spoke to during the campaign. She told me: \u201cNoy, you must take care of yourself. You will be up against many people.\u201d Her warning proved to be true. But my resolve is unshakeable when it comes to facing them down, because I know: they are but a few, and there are so many of us. [Applause]\nThose of us who are ready to fulfill our part in achieving positive transformation are, without doubt, stronger. We will triumph because we are in the right.\nWe dared to dream, we began pursuing those dreams, we worked hard, we gained the momentum, and today, the Filipino people are moving even faster along the straight path to lasting and inclusive growth. [Applause]\nOur fatigue and sacrifices will be all the more worthwhile if you are able to continue what we started together.\nIt is you who will face a fork in the road; it is you who will decide if change will continue. Let us remember: This my fifth SONA; only one remains. In 2016, you will be choosing new leaders of our country. What I can tell you is this: if you wish continue and even accelerate the transformation of society, there can only be one basis for choosing my successor: Who will, without a shred of doubt, continue the transformation we are achieving? [Applause]\nYou are our bosses, you are our strength, you are bringing about change \u2013and so it is you, too, who will continue the task. It is entirely up to you how history will remember this era. They may recall it as the very peak of our triumphs, as a promising start that went to waste. But it would be infinitely better if they remember our achievements as the beginning of a long journey towards the fulfillment of even more ambitious hopes.\nWhen some groups appealed to me to run for President, they told me that they did not expect to solve all the country\u2019s problems in a span of six years. They simply asked me to begin the change. You saw where we came from, and you are seeing how we have far surpassed the aspirations with which we began.\nWe are forging a system of fairness; where, as long as you follow the rules, you can get to where you want to go; where true competition leads to opportunity and widespread progress; where each and every person can take control of their own destinies. [Applause]\nA society where the least fortunate are cared for is within reach; where each person recognizes his responsibilities to his fellowmen; where there is an unceasing, untiring, ever-active participation in collectively increasing the prosperity of society.\nThe future we desire is on the horizon: one where justice reigns supreme, and where no one will be left behind.\nThese are the results of reform. This is what we have fought for, and this is what we will continue fighting for: not the prevalence of the old ways, but a new system that will benefit all. [Applause]\nTo my Bosses: You gave me an opportunity to lead our efforts to transform society. If I had said \u201cno\u201d when you asked me to take on this challenge, then I could just as well have said that I would help prolong your suffering. I cannot do that in good conscience. If I had turned my back on the opportunity, then I might as well have turned my back on my father and mother, and all the sacrifices they made for all of us; that will not happen. On our journey along the straight path, you have always chosen what is right and just; you have been true to your promise, and I have been true to all of you. [Applause]\nThe transformation we are experiencing now, we can make permanent with the guidance of God. As long as your faith remains strong\u2014as long as we continue serving as each other\u2019s strength\u2014we will continue proving that \u201cthe Filipino is worth dying for,\u201d \u201cthe Filipino is worth living for,\u201d and if I might add: \u201cThe Filipino is worth fighting for.\u201d\nThe Vice President knows this\u2014we were together in 1987. There was a coup de etat, and I was ambushed. Everything after that I consider my second life.\nIt\u2019s hard not to think about these things, considering the people we\u2019ve been going up against. Will there be a day when I go onstage, for work, and\u2014will someone manage to plant a bomb? Will the dark schemes of those who want to bring us back to the wrong way of doing things finally succeed?\nWhen that day comes, and my second life comes to an end, will I be able to say things will be ok? I will tell you this, straight in eye: after everything we\u2019ve achieved, I can say that I am content.\nI am content because I am sure that when I\u2019m gone, many will take my place and continue what we have started.\nMaybe this is what I\u2019m meant to do: to start this.\nThere are people like Cardinal Chito Tagle, Ka Eduardo Manalo, Brother Eddie Villanueva, Father Catalino Arevalo, and Father Jett Villarin, Bishop Jonel Milan, Sister Agnes Guillen, and Mae Salvatierra. These are individuals from the religious sector, who will continue what we\u2019ve started. [Applause]\nThere is Aris Alip of CARD, who will do his part through microfinance. There is an Alice Murphy and her urban poor associates who will truly continue to take care of our informal settlers. [Applause]\nThere are our soldiers and police officers, who try every day to do what is right\u2014just like our new Chief of Staff, our Service Commanders, our soldiers in the Light Reaction Battalion, and the JSOG.\nThere are, of course, my fellow politicians. Is there any doubt that Senate President Franklin Drilon and Speaker Belmonte will lead us along the right path? [Applause]\nIt has also been my privilege to work with and interact with a certain governor, Alfredo Maranon of Negros Occidental: [Applause]\nHe is not a party mate, but I think I am part of his fan club because of his good governance in Negros.\nThere are up and coming young politicians. Or at least they\u2019re younger than I am\u2014I don\u2019t want to seem too much like an old politico by referring to my colleagues as young.\nThese are the likes of Mayor Jed Mabilog and Mayor Len Alonte [Applause].\nThere is also those in the cultural sector\u2014such as Noel Cabangon and Ogie Alcasid-\u2014who are not self-centered. [Applause]\nEvery night, before I go to bed, I am thankful that I was able to get through another day. Just as it was said when we were kids, \u201cfinished or not finished, pass your paper.\u201d It seems to me, you have felt the true extent of the change that is every Filipino\u2019s right to aspire to. It will be up to you to carry this forward. [Applause]\nTo my Bosses: You are behind the transformation we are enjoying. You are the key to continuing all the positive changes we have achieved. I fully believe that, whether I am here or not, the Filipino is headed towards the rightful destination.\nAnd so, I will leave it here. Good afternoon to all of you. Thank you very much. [Applause] ..\nFor more information about the SONA 2014 Full Text Transcript (English), kindly bookmark this page and share to your joined social networking sites.\nComments or suggestions about \"SONA 2014 Full Text Transcript (English)\" is important to us, you may share it by using the comment box below.\nLabels: English version, Full Transcript Speech, News, PNoy, Reaction Paper, SONA, SONA 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 74724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/636117/google-phases-pixel-smartphones/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BH5WQAVU7CWFQEPQLFQEB64WNEMCUWSP", "length": 1344, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.goodgearguide.com.au", "title": "Google phases out first-gen Pixel smartphones - Good Gear Guide Australia", "raw_content": "Google appears to have quietly discontinued its original Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones.\nAs originally reported by Ars Technica and Gizmodo, the phone has now disappeared from both Google's online storefront and the Project Fi website. The company has since confirmed to Gizmodo that the devices will no longer be made available to purchase directly from the company.\nA cursory browse suggests that the company's Australian storefront will also no longer be selling the first-gen Pixel handsets. It's now listed as \"No Longer Available\".\nHowever, PC World has reached out to Google for final confirmation on this point.\nThe move comes just six months before the expiration of Google's promise to provide owners of the device with major software updates until October 2018. Security updates for the phone will continue to be rolled out until October 2019.\nThe original Pixel and Pixel XL launched in October 2016 and were succeeded by the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL in 2017.\nThose looking to pick up a Pixel or Pixel XL in the future will still be able to do so through third-party resellers and platforms like eBay. JB Hi-Fi and Kogan also do seem to still have the device in stock. At least, for now.\nThe Google Pixel 3 hasn't even been announced yet but it's already gotten its own conspiracy theory\nTags GooglePixelGoogle PixelGoogle Smartphones", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 8215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goodnewsfl.org/what-good-is-the-right-of-free-speech-if-you-cant-exercise-it/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:28Z", "digest": "sha1:UGXTCNVUEOW452CFKTKBOUOMIMBCDSLE", "length": 4833, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.goodnewsfl.org", "title": "What Good Is the Right of Free Speech If You Can\u2019t Exercise It? | Good News Christian News", "raw_content": "Jerry Newcombe in HomeHome FeaturedHome NewsNationalNews\nWhat Good Is the Right of Free Speech If You Can\u2019t Exercise It?\nBy now, gallons of ink have been spilled on the recent meeting (over the May 2-3 weekend) in the Dallas area where the contest was held on who could draw the best picture of Mohammed.\nAnti-jihadist blogger Pamela Geller of New York organized the contest. Two American jihadists drove hundreds of miles to kill the \u201cinfidels\u201d and were killed in the process.\nFranklin Graham remarked that the recent Garland conclave was misguided. As a Christian, he says we shouldn\u2019t insult anybody\u2019s religion. Like me, he believes the ultimate answer to the radical Islam issue is the gospel of Jesus Christ, who is more than just a prophet.\nBut Graham also pointed out that that radical Islamists \u201chave no right to go around shooting people because someone mocks them.\u201d\nFree speech rights are found in those countries rooted in Judeo-Christian tradition. They are not found in those places built on other worldviews.\nThe Freedom Party\nOne of the most amazing aspects of the story was the largely unreported fact that Geert Wilders came all the way from Holland to attend the Garland meeting.\nWho is Geert Wilders? He is a controversial Member of Parliament in the Netherlands and the founder of an upstart political party (Freedom Party), which has already begun to make its mark on that country\u2019s politics.\nGeert Wilders is taking a courageous stand by warning the West about the Islamization of the same and the freedoms lost in its wake.\nHe never sleeps in the same place more than two nights in a row because of the multiple death-threats he faces from \u201cthe religion of peace.\u201d\nTried for hate crimes\nIn 2008, Geert Wilders made an Internet movie about radical Islam, called Fitna (Arabic for upheaval, chaos), and for that he is on trial in his own country for allegedly violating hate crimes laws. The European Union tried him for hate crimes, but after a grueling trial, he was exonerated.\nHis short film simply makes the point that the jihadists, who attacked on 9/1, at the Madrid train bombing and in London in 2005, did what they did because they were obeying what the Qu\u2019ran tells them to do. That\u2019s the essence of his film. Ideas have consequences. Tell the faithful followers of Allah that they should \u201cslay the infidel wherever you find them\u201d (Surah 9:29 from the Qu\u2019ran) and 9/11 happens. That\u2019s the point Wilders makes in his movie.\nOf course, most Muslims, including Qu\u2019ran-readers, do not engage in these Jihadist activities. Wilders admits as much. But those who do get their inspiration from the book.\nI sat down in early 2009 and had a television interview with Geert Wilders about all the controversy. He had multiple bodyguards.\nI asked him why he made the movie. He answered, \u201cI fear the Islamization of our societies.\u201d He also said, \u201cSure, there are moderate Muslims. We should try to invest in moderate people.\u201d\nThis is a long-term fight over free speech. Pamela Geller, the event\u2019s organizer, once told me in an interview: \u201cOne big problem that America really has to watch out for [is] where they\u2019re imposing Sharia drip by drip by shutting up people like myself and my colleagues, like Robert Spencer [publisher of jihadwatch.org], by defaming us because we speak\u2026you know they call it \u2018Islam-a-phobia.\u2019\u201d\nShe added, \u201cWhat it is, is jihad-phobia, and you should be afraid of the jihad frankly\u2026But it\u2019s part of this Islamic supremacist narrative\u2026you cannot criticize Islam.\u201d She said these things in 2011, some three years before the Garland incident.\nLiberals used to at least pay lip service to the notion of free speech. Remember the ACLU? Lately, they seem to have found a religion they can finally get behind\u2014radical Islam. My guess is that since both hate conservative Christianity so much, they have found common cause.\nThe ACLU used to argue that attacks on free speech rights are a slippery slope. If someone loses their right to free speech, we all lose it.\nSo in the late 1970s, they offended virtually everybody by going to court on behalf of the free speech rights of a group of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, which at the time had some 7000 survivors of the Holocaust residing therein.\nIn this current battle, Pamela Geller, Geert Wilders, and Robert Spencer are the proverbial canaries in the coal mine. They are fighting the West\u2019s battle for freedom. If they lose, so does freedom. As one pundit recently noted, if free speech protections do not protect unpopular speech at the height of its unpopularity, then they aren\u2019t really free speech protections.\nJerry Newcombe is cohost/senior TV producer of Kennedy Classics. He has written/co-written 25 books. tiam.org jerrynewcombe.com @newcombejerry\nNext Read: Building a Strong Foundation for the Next Generation to Stand on \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gopetition.com/popular-petitions/animal-welfare", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:04Z", "digest": "sha1:E3PPLUN4NK46KVQJWOGKY7MFXZKBPJC7", "length": 1647, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.gopetition.com", "title": "GoPetition / Top Petitions / Animal Welfare Petitions - Page: 1", "raw_content": "Popular Petitions - Animal Welfare\nStop the legal killing of wildlife. STOP TROPHY HUNTING.\nHunting and poaching are one and the same. Stop the killing of wildlife now. Stop Melissa Bachman (pictured below). Ms\u2026 read more\nRepeal the Breed Ban in Denmark\nOver 400.000 dogs are now in danger in Denmark. The Danish Government has passed a breed ban law, 13 breeds\u2026 read more\nHelp save buddy\nOn the 2nd of march 2017 a mother of 2 has attempted to drown her children in the Murray river\u2026 read more\nSave the Goats of Khokana\nThe Khokana Festival in Nepal is held annually in August. During the festival a young female goat is thrown into\u2026 read more\nBan BEAR FARMS IN KOREA - Save Bears!\nThis petition has been updated and republished as of January 1, 2016. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Have you seen a yellow poster 'NOT\u2026 read more\nEnd to Fur Farming of Animals Skinned Alive\nSince 1997, The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has investigated and documented the international trade in dog and\u2026 read more\nInvestigate New York City Animal Shelters In Violation of Humane Laws and the Public Trust\nNew York City Animal Care & Control shelters, operated and funded by the public and controlled under the auspices of\u2026 read more\nSupport Tougher Sentences for Animal Cruelty\nA group of Brisbane lawyers have formed an organisation to campaign for animal justice. Calling themselves BLEATS (Brisbane Lawyers Educating\u2026 read more\nSave Orangutans \u2013 demand that only sustainable palm oil is used by Supermarkets/Manufacturers!\nBoycott Palm oil until we have answers! I have been writing to Manufacturers and Supermarkets in the UK in the\u2026 read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-a-licence/caravan-and-camping-site-licence/erewash/change-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VSBUMUMGQNLUQ4CQI557JQFBQA5WODNA", "length": 85, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.gov.uk", "title": "Application to change a caravan and camping site licence from Erewash Borough Council", "raw_content": "Application to change a caravan and camping site licence from Erewash Borough Council", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.govspend.org.uk/g-cloud.php?type=Customer&rank=alpha&scope=all&term=Data+Not+Available&search_supplier=all&search_client=Humberside+Police+Authority", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OIW4ADFHFA6UPLYQ5AT3TZIC75DE3PMQ", "length": 76, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.govspend.org.uk", "title": "GovSpend.org.uk - Digital Marketplace Spend Analysis - helping you find more business in Government", "raw_content": "2016 0 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 2 \u00a366\nGrand Totals \u00a30 \u00a3227,961 0% 100% \u00a3227,961", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 97.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.grassmarkethotel.co.uk/royal-highland-show-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OY5JIHZBKDKSUQXVQAICEVWC7Y5VM5YT", "length": 2147, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.grassmarkethotel.co.uk", "title": "The Royal Highland Show 2018 - Grassmarket Hotel (Edinburgh)", "raw_content": "The Royal Highland Show returns to Edinburgh from 21st-24th June 2018 to celebrate it\u2019s 178th year as one of Scotland\u2019s most iconic events. The Show isn\u2019t just for those in the industry, it\u2019s a great day out for all ages with a bounty of local fresh produce to sample, amazing best in shows experiences, get up close and personal with prestigious livestock and much, much more!\nWe are big fans of The Royal Highland Show here at Grassmarket Hotel. Here is just a few of the activities of what\u2019s happening this year\u2026\nRoyal Highland Show Grand Parade\nThe Grand Parade at The Royal Highland Show is hugely popular and the grandstand fills up quickly in the afternoons of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. These prize winning cattle can be seen to gracefully wind their way across the Main Ring headed-up by young people carrying display boards that bear the names of the breeds they are leading. If you don\u2019t know your Belted Galloways from your Belgian Blues then this is a very rare opportunity to see so many different breeds at one time.\nRoyal Highland Show Music\nThroughout the day there is a range of live music across the Showground at The Royal Highland Show, from choirs, bands and lots more to enjoy.\nExperience the retail delights located in the 13th Avenue Arcade. You\u2019ll be spoiled for choice with everything from fashion, art jewelry, garden accessories and homeware to choose from, so come along and see for yourself.\nRHET Discovery Centre\nThe Discovery Centre offers an education programme for children of all ages, including cooking workshops, live demonstrations and lots more! New for 2017, is the RHET Tram Trail Bingo Challenge in partnership with Edinburgh Trams, with an iPad up for grabs!\nThe Full line up of what\u2019s happening at The Royal Highland Show can be found by clicking here and tickets can be purchased in advance on the official website by clicking here.\nThe Grassmarket Hotel, Edinburgh has a great central location for catching the Show and exploring Edinburgh\u2019s City Centre by foot. With a range of room types to sleep one to four guests and lots of little pleasant surprises you won\u2019t expect, click below and join us\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.graywolfproductions.com/graywolfproductions/being-happy-is-harder", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DKHYA2MRRCZECGW2BETTWQLH6FRD2I4M", "length": 1937, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.graywolfproductions.com", "title": "Being happy IS harder - Gray Wolf Productions", "raw_content": "\u00bb Being happy IS harder\nFor many people, trying to get happy, or trying to stay happy, is trying [and tiring.]\nWe live in a climate of negativity, unhappiness and high stress. It's gotten worse in the past few years and even the research is showing that it's taking a toll on people.\nIn the United States, people don't take vacations. They're afraid they will lose their job or be seen as replaceable if they take even a day or two off.\nWe live in times where television news is filled with negativity: about politics, about trade, about world events, etc.\nAnd that is unsettling for many.\nAnd it becomes cyclical.\nMore negativity leads to more negativity.\nIn many cities, the cost of rent is skyrocketing and the ability to buy your first time house or even maybe your second time house is almost out of the question. So people are faced with salaries that don't rise much, rents that do food costs that do and other living expenses that keep rising. Wages do not keep going up like inflation does. All this leads to higher stress and less happiness. And as it has gotten worse over the past few years.\nIt is getting harder for people to try and stay positive and happy in the face of this kind of environment.\nBut you can be happier. You can learn to be happy you can learn things to do to keep yourself feeling happy. To get yourself out of the doldrums if you are there by doing activities that make you happier.And if you are not yet in the doll drums some of these activities will keep you from getting there.\nHow do we do this? I am compiling some information and putting together a course on the topic. as I work along doing things for the course I will be posting information here. The easiest way to keep track of what I'm doing is to sign up below for information about the course so that you will know what is going on.\nPrevious Post Mothers Day: Time To Bring Back The Original Next Post Here Is One Easy Way To Feel Happier", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 12249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenaironline.com/news.php?viewStory=1973", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:18Z", "digest": "sha1:WOXWLTRX6L6L4TK2D62C2OSNACMDUSPB", "length": 5218, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.greenaironline.com", "title": "Garuda Indonesia plans to start using locally-sourced aviation biofuel from 2016 as part of government target on GreenAir Online", "raw_content": "Garuda 777-300ER at Boeing's Everett Delivery Center\nMon 1 Sept 2014 \u2013 As part of a national plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from air transport, state-owned airline Garuda Indonesia has confirmed it is targeting a two per cent use of biofuels in its jet fuel consumption from 2016 and three per cent from 2020. The airline burns around 1.8 billion litres of jet fuel annually, which is expected to rise to 2 billion in 2016 as a result of an increase in passenger traffic and additions to its aircraft fleet. However, Garuda\u2019s Director of Operations Capt Novianto Herupratomo said last week the commitment was heavily dependent on the availability of locally-sourced palm oil that is currently being laboratory tested. The Indonesian government unveiled its Green Aviation Initiatives for Sustainable Development last year, which includes targets for reducing emissions through a combination of fleet renewal, airport initiatives, air navigation improvements and the use of alternative fuels.\nFollowing a government sponsored workshop held last week of stakeholders in the aviation biofuel initiative, Novianto said Garuda would soon undertake a demonstration flight using a crude palm oil based biofuel and hoped biofuel could be produced on a large enough scale for the price to be roughly the equivalent of conventional jet fuel.\nIndonesia is the world\u2019s largest producer and consumer of palm oil, providing around half the world\u2019s supply. According to Wikipedia, as of 2012, the country produces 35% of the world\u2019s certified sustainable palm oil although there is little enthusiasm from Western airlines for using the controversial commodity as a sustainable jet biofuel.\nThe two per cent biofuel target is mandated across all Indonesian airlines. Aircraft numbers in the country have increased from 962 in 2008 to 1,319 by the end of 2012, with passenger traffic rising from 41.5 million to 77.2 million last year. In line with growth of around 15% per year for domestic flights and 20% in international flights in recent years, Indonesia\u2019s Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is expecting next generation fleet growth of 10% on average per year, coupled with an estimated 92 million passengers by 2015 and 172 million by 2020.\n\u201cThe direct consequence will be an increase in energy consumption (aircraft fuel) by an average of 12% per year for domestic flights and an average of 8% per year for international flights, which will certainly have an impact on the increase in carbon emissions,\u201d said a report presented by Indonesia to the ICAO Assembly last September.\nAs part of a presidential commitment to actively participate in and contribute to global climate change mitigation, the DGCA and the Ministry of Transportation entered into an agreement with ICAO to help the country tackle emissions from its civil aviation sector. Following the holding of the International Green Aviation Conference 2013 (IGAC-2013), Indonesia has initiated policy, strategy and implementation measures on alternative fuels for domestic and international operations for the 2016-2020 period.\nBased on its growth forecast, the government has estimated the potential emissions reduction by implementing a 2% usage of alternative fuels would reach between 323,000 and 379,000 tonnes of CO2 per year in the 2016-2017 period, rising to between 583,000 and 729,000 tonnes in the 2018-2020 period. The potential accumulation of carbon emission reductions up to 2020 is therefore in the region of 2,725,000 tonnes of CO2, roughly contributing the equivalent of 17% of total emissions reductions across the country\u2019s air transport sector.\nIn its report to the ICAO Assembly, the Indonesian government estimates that around $500 million will be needed to get the necessary commercial production of alternative fuels off the ground. This is made up of $10 million towards funding the pre-implementation programme, with $40 million required for technology transfer programmes, studies, research and development, testing and certification, as well as the implementation of MRV and a commercial feasibility study including a risk assessment. It assesses the finance necessary for production and distribution of the required fuel at around $400 million and construction costs of the plant are put at $50 million.\nSuch funding, says the report, should come from a consortium of contributors including regional and national governments, the private sector, and international support funds and climate finance.\nFollowing a memorandum of understanding signed in December 2013 between the Indonesian transport and energy ministries, a working team has been formed made up of 14 institutions from government, the aviation industry, fuel producers and researchers. The agriculture ministry has been tasked with providing plantations to supply the palm oil.\n\u201cThe programme to mitigate emissions in the country\u2019s air transportation sector is in line with global plans to increase energy efficiency, both through technology improvements and operational efficiency,\u201d the transportation ministry\u2019s Director General for air transport, Santoso Eddy Wibowo, told the Jakarta workshop last week.\nIndonesia Directorate General of Civil Aviation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 6954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 169.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/local/2015/12/16/de-pere-council-favors-life-church-move/77366786/?from=new-cookie", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:55Z", "digest": "sha1:O3377N2YVUS7JQRSHDEXP7SQ5RCP5CFY", "length": 6594, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.greenbaypressgazette.com", "title": "De Pere council approves Life Church move", "raw_content": "De Pere council approves Life Church move\nThe De Pere City Council voted 5-3 to rezone a commercial site, allowing for the relocation of the popular church from the town of Lawrence.\nDe Pere council approves Life Church move The De Pere City Council voted 5-3 to rezone a commercial site, allowing for the relocation of the popular church from the town of Lawrence. Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: http://gbpg.net/1YjlhA0\nTodd McMahon, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 11:26 p.m. CT Dec. 15, 2015 | Updated 3:40 p.m. CT Dec. 16, 2015\nGreen Bay Packers wide receivers James Jones, from left, Ty Montgomery and Randall Cobb, standing, speak in support of rezoning a De Pere property for Life Church during the De Pere City Council meeting on Tuesday night, Dec. 15.(Photo11: Todd McMahon/Press-Gazette Media)Buy Photo\nThe Packers' Randall Cobb, James Jones and Ty Montgomery spoke in support of Life Church.\nLife Church leaders hope to have their new site remodeled and open by Easter Sunday in late March.\nDE PERE \u2013 It\u2019s back to the city for a larger Life Church.\nTo the excitement of an overflow crowd, the De Pere City Council went against a staff recommendation and narrowly approved a zoning change for a highway parcel restricted to commercial development late Tuesday night.\nThe 5-3 ruling paves the way for the relocation of the heavily attended Life Church from the town of Lawrence to the other side of Interstate 41.\nThe nondenominational Christian church will occupy the former Sportsman\u2019s Warehouse facility, which has sat empty for six years and will provide more room for the growing church.\n\u201cI\u2019m pleasantly surprised \u2026 thrilled, I guess, would be the word,\u201d Shawn Hennessy, the church\u2019s lead pastor, said about the outcome. \u201cAnd, thrilled with our people, who really came out and just talked about their love for the city.\u201d\nA few hundred people packed the De Pere City Hall council chambers as well as nearby conference rooms that had a televised simulcast of the meeting, which included a lengthy public hearing on the hot-button issue.\nAfter nearly three hours of comments from about 40 church supporters, including a trio of Green Bay Packers, the council made its decision.\n\u201cJust hearing from our residents in De Pere, I think we need this in De Pere,\u201d Alderman Scott Crevier said before the vote was taken.\nThe tally yielded big applause and louder cheers in the meeting room, followed by high-fives and hugs as dozens of people exited as the meeting continued.\nCrevier, Kevin Bauer, Mike Donovan, Larry Lueck and Lisa Rafferty voted to amend a 13-year-old zoning ordinance that greatly restricted what type of development at the site of the vacant store building at 1551 Lawrence Drive, next to Walmart.\nMayor Mike Walsh said he was against rezoning the property. His vote would have been needed to break a tie by the eight-person panel.\n\"To me, this has nothing to do with Life Church going in there. In fact, I'd probably show up on Sunday,\" Walsh said. \"If it was a different non-permitted use (at the site), I'd feel the same way. It's entirely about zoning.\n\"This is a very tough decision,\" he added. \"But, I have to look at the big picture, based on the facts, the vision of the city and the recommendations that are given by the professionals that are on our staff.\"\nLife Church had outgrown its current venue in Lawrence since moving there in July 2014. A much smaller congregation previously met at a church on De Pere\u2019s southwest side.\nAttendance has soared to more than 1,500 for Sunday morning services at the old SC Grand Banquet and Convention Center on the west side of 41.\nRather than pour as much as $6 million into upgrades at the previously renovated building, church leaders targeted the Sportsman\u2019s Warehouse site about a mile away. They purchased the abandoned facility for less than $2 million in October.\nHaving gained city approval, Hennessy said the goal is to have interior renovations completed at the new location for the church to hold its first services Easter Sunday in late March 2016.\nHennessy said he finalized a verbal agreement for the sale of the current church building at 1250 Mid Valley Drive to a local buyer shortly before Tuesday night's council meeting.\n\"We can actually move forward,\" said Sonny Hennessy, Shawn's wife and the executive pastor and marketing director for Life Church. \"We're grateful. We're grateful to De Pere, and we're so glad this went positive.\"\nOn the recommendation of the city\u2019s planning staff, the Plan Commission on Nov. 30 voted 4-1 against amending the Precise Implementation Plan put in place in 2002 for the highway corridor bordered by the interstate and Scheuring Road.\nNoncommercial uses such as a community center, a meeting hall or a place of worship weren\u2019t permitted in that area.\nPackers wide receivers Randall Cobb, James Jones and Ty Montgomery joined several others who voiced their support for the church relocation at the city council meeting Tuesday.\n\u201cOne of the reasons I\u2019m up here right now (talking) is because I\u2019ve come to De Pere because I love this church and the value that this church has in my life and the impact that it\u2019s made on my life in the short amount of time that I\u2019ve been here,\u201d said Montgomery, a rookie player.\nJones, a De Pere resident who returned to the Packers before this season after a year away, said Life Church is \u201cchanging people\u2019s lives.\u201d\nChurch attendees come from as far as Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Milwaukee and even Chicago.\n\u201cWhether you\u2019re old or whether you\u2019re young, if you come in that building, your life is going to be changed,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWhen we came back (to Green Bay), my wife (said) we\u2019ve got to move back to De Pere because I want to go to Life Church.\u201d\nSeveral others who spoke during the comment period of the public hearing made emotional pleas to the council to lift the restriction on commercial use for the abandoned site.\n\"The city of De Pere and Life Church can be great partners,\" said De Pere resident Dana Holtzheimer, a church member. \"This is the start of something awesome for our community and our culture.\"\ntmcmaho2@greenbay.gannett.com and follow him on Twitter @ToddMcMahon23\nLife Church, 1250 Mid Valley Drive, town of Lawrence. (Photo11: Todd McMahon/Press-Gazette Media)\nThe abandoned Sportsman's Warehoue building at 1551 Lawrence Drive on De Pere's west side. Life Church purchased the property in October and hopes to move in to hold its first Sunday morning services there in the spring. (Photo11: Todd McMahon/Press-Gazette Media)\nRead or Share this story: http://gbpg.net/1YjlhA0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 8683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenedgecycling.com/news/amanda-spratt-and-jessie-maclean-talk-ronde-van-drenthe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:26Z", "digest": "sha1:37Q4FEOLOOFH54EJNUFMFOXDQP7WNFQN", "length": 3932, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.greenedgecycling.com", "title": "Amanda Spratt and Jessie MacLean Talk Ronde van Drenthe | Mitchelton-SCOTT GreenEDGE Cycling", "raw_content": "Amanda Spratt and Jessie MacLean Talk Ronde van Drenthe\nAs part of the Drenthe week in Holland, ORICA-AIS will line up on Saturday to contest the first World Cup of the season, the Ronde van Drenthe.\nAhead of the World Cup, we sat down with Jessie MacLean and Amanda Spratt to listen to their perspectives on the race. In their own words, they give us a colourful description of the course, the team\u2019s plan, Dutch racing and sheep.\nYes, sheep.\nSpratty: I was in the team car for Drentse 8 so I\u2019m really looking forward to racing tomorrow. I\u2019m expecting a very hard race. They\u2019ve made it harder for us with an extra cobble section. The cobbles are long in length, about 3-4 kilometres, and they are really bumpy. Since Holland doesn\u2019t have any hills, they\u2019ve made one for us over a rubbish hill called the VAMberg.\nThe VAMberg is in an industrial area. We hit it the first time just ten kilometres into the race. That won\u2019t have much of an impact. We hit it again two more times in the final two short circuits around Hoogeveen, the finish city. Those final two times up the climb will definitely have an impact on the race. Although the climb is pretty short, it\u2019s quite steep \u2013 about 17% on average. Coming into the climb there is a sharp lefthander on a very narrow road. If you\u2019re not in the top two or three, you\u2019re literally doing a track stand at the bottom.\nI expect that in the race the climb will be easier than in training yesterday when I had to climb two fences and run from sheep to get there. Maybe the race can organise a pack of sheep to chase us. Sheep in GreenEDGE jerseys. I could use that up that hill!\nJessie: Yeah, and if you win the sprint with the sheep, you win chocolate milk as a prize. Chocolate sheep\u2019s milk!\nThis year the UCI has introduced jerseys for best young rider, sprinter and climber as a way to broaden interest in the World Cups. I think they should add a wind jersey, too, as the winds are predicted to be 40-50 kilometres per hour tomorrow.\nSpratty: Of course we will have a team plan, but everyone always has the same plan \u2013 to be at the front. With everyone wanting to be at the front at the same time, it makes for a crazy racing. Dutch racing always is. The key is to be organized, to get to the front and stay there. After each cobble section, you check to see who made it through unscathed.\nJessie: Emma will be up there at the finish. Boels Dolmans are a very strong team at the moment. We saw that at Het Nieuwsblad. Ellen Van Dijk has had a slower start to the season but the team is strong.\nSpratty: Specialized-lululemon just got their first win of the season. They\u2019re always a strong team, as is Rabobank.\nYesterday in the car I saw how many punctures and mechanicals there were. It\u2019s so hard to predict because anything can happen to anyone. And the weather can always make a difference. If it rains like it\u2019s predicted to, it will be very slippery over the cobbles through the forest. There are so many factors that can have an impact on this race.\nJessie: And it\u2019s not just the cobbles but the other girls that you have to watch out for! Everybody is slipping and there\u2019s no holding your line. You\u2019re just trying to keep your bike upright.\nSpratty: It\u2019ll be like a slip and slide on the cobbles. Like Loes [Gunnewijk] said, it\u2019s as if an airplane just dropped rocks on the course. You\u2019ll slip and slide but you just have to keep pushing on the pedals and keep riding. Stay focused. Try not to hit the bumps or other people.\nJessie: This race has more of an intense feeling than the rest of the races. It\u2019s like everything is hyped up on Mountain Dew to quote Ricky Bobby\u2019s son. Some of us are more nervous than others. Nervous and excited. Spratty is just excited because she\u2019s had a day off. I\u2019m excited but there are nerves in there, too.\nSpratty: I\u2019m excited. We all know we have good legs and good form. Things are really coming together.\nORICA-AIS for Ronde van Drenthe:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenvillesc.gov/268/Realtors-Developers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:28Z", "digest": "sha1:2D7WISKUD2O5DSEITZT4B3MTRYPRF3LT", "length": 2001, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.greenvillesc.gov", "title": "Realtors & Developers | Greenville, SC - Official Website", "raw_content": "The resources below may be available to help assess, cleanup, and redevelop Brownfields within the city.\nAssessment Funds\nThe City has recently been awarded a 2018 EPA Brownfields Assessment grant. Funding will be available in October of 2018 until 2021. Those wishing to apply for Phase I and Phase II Assessments will be asked to submit a letter of intent. Further information about eligibility requirements will be made available in the coming months. For more information contact Community Development staff.\nBrownfields Brochure\nBrownfields Cleanup Revolving Loan Fund\nFor nonprofit borrowers, 25% of a loan up to $100,000 may be forgiven. For-profit borrowers may be eligible for loans at below market interest rates. This fund requires the applicant be a Non-Responsible Party with a Voluntary Cleanup Contract. More information is available on the Catawba Regional Council of Government's website.\nEPA Cleanup Grants\nThe EPA periodically offers competitive grants for up to $200,000 for cleanup. Only Non-Responsible Parties are eligible.\nSouth Carolina Abandoned Building Tax Credit\nThis credit is available for commercial buildings that are at least 66% abandoned for 5 years. The tax credit is equal to 25% of the cost of rehabilitating property against either state income taxes and corporate license fees, or property taxes. Call the South Carolina Department of Revenue at 803-898-5557.\nSouth Carolina Brownfields Tax Credit\nThis tax credit is up to $50,000 per year, with a 10% bonus in the final year of cleanup. Call the South Carolina Department of Revenue at 803-898-5557.\nThis program entails a Voluntary Cleanup Contract (VCC) with SCDHEC, and it may be able to help limit your liability for cleanup of a brownfield property. A Non-Responsible Party VCC provides the most benefit when it is entered prior to property acquisition, and it can detail the Phase II work to be completed. Additionally, the following federal tax credits may be used to help fund brownfield redevelopment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gresak.com/2015/05/learning-to-be-still-so-that-i-can-hear.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MWY3MOOM2KU47RGGM7A2FBYNXJANQ7OJ", "length": 3053, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.gresak.com", "title": "Mark's \"Next Level\": Learning to Be Still So That I Can Hear From God", "raw_content": "In review of Job 37:14 it says, \u201cPause a moment, Job, and listen; consider the wonderful things God does.\u201d\nPause and consider the wonder of God.\nI am to take the time to pause and carefully consider the many wonderful things God has done, and will continue to do.\nOne thing I\u2019m learning is that I need to be quiet in order to hear God speak. To hear God\u2019s vision, I\u2019ll need to turn off the television. I can\u2019t really listen to God and the TV (or anything else for that matter) at the same time!\nOne possible reason for not hearing God speak could be my lack of just being quiet with him. Something is always going on in my mind, so while God is trying to get through to me on the telephone of life, he gets a busy signal. It appears that I need to reserve time alone with God.\nThe Bible says in Job 37:14, \u201cPause a moment, Job, and listen; consider the wonderful things God does\u201d (GNT).\nFrom his Word I learn that God wants to spend time with me. He wants me to \u201cPause, be quiet, get alone, and learn solitude so He can talk with me.\u201d As an adult I know I get spiritual wiggles. It\u2019s really hard to be still and be quiet.\nIs getting God\u2019s dream for my life worth a day of my life? The thought here was to take an entire day and do nothing but be alone with God. Talk to Him in prayer. Let God talk to me through his word. Relax. Think. Write down the thoughts he puts in my mind. Set some goals. Look through my schedule. Set my priorities. Spend the day saying, \u201cGod, where do you want me to go? What direction do you want my feet headed?\u201d\nWhat I\u2019m learning is that God will speak to those who take the time to listen, not just for a day, but on a regular basis. I guess that is why they call this quiet time.\nEven though I may think that I don\u2019t have time for this, it\u2019s important to do. It\u2019s all about figuring out why I\u2019m here on Earth. It\u2019s imperative to make the time.\nIn retrospect, my weekday routine is to spend time in prayer quietly before leaving my house. I then spend additional time such as reading and documenting what I read while enjoying my first cup of coffee at Starbucks. Given this routine, I only spend a few minutes at the beginning of my prayer time just being quiet. I usually use the following verse as a springboard for my quiet time, \u201cHere\u2019s what I want you to do: Find a quiet, secluded place so you won\u2019t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and honestly as you can manage. The focus will shift from you to God, and you will begin to sense his grace.\u201d (Matthew 6:6 MSG)\nBut based upon what I\u2019m studying this morning I realize that I\u2019m not really spending much time actually being quiet and waiting on God to speak to me. I need to consider if there is something I can adjust in my weekday morning routine, or perhaps something to supplement it with on the weekends so that I can be still and quiet before him. I do have some time coming up tomorrow morning when my wife and daughter are getting together. Perhaps I\u2019ll consider using this time to do a smaller version of just spending time with God.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 701, "original_length": 14305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gresak.com/2017/08/the-grass-isnt-always-greener-on-other.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HD363QRJ7ESJZUV3N6MXSGSHE2AURRVJ", "length": 2749, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.gresak.com", "title": "Mark's \"Next Level\": The Grass Isn\u2019t Always Greener On The Other Side", "raw_content": "In review of Luke 15:20 it says, \u201cSo he returned home to his father. And while he was still a long way off, his father saw him coming. Filled with love and compassion, he ran to his son, embraced him, and kissed him.\u201d\nGod forgives and we welcome you back into his family with open arms.\nLike this Son, I too had wandered off on my own, spending what I had on my own desires. However God got my attention and I came back to Him. I\u2019m certain that God also had compassion on me and welcomed me back.\nToday's passage comes from Luke 15, the parable of the lost son. As I've seen from the two prior parables, God is keenly interested in bringing the lost back to him. When the lost son decided to humble himself, ask for forgiveness, and return, the father welcomed him with excitement and open arms.\nAlso in the two previous parables, we see a seeker actively looking for the coin and the sheep, both of which could not return on their own. In this third parable the father was watching and waiting. He was dealing with a human with a will of his own, however he was ready to greet the son if he returned. In the same way, God's love is constant, patient and welcoming. He will search for and give anyone the opportunity to respond, but he will never force someone to come to him. Like the father in this parable, God also waits patiently for us to come to our senses.\nIn the first two parables, the sheep became lost because it foolishly wandered away; the coin was lost through no fault of it's own; and the son left out of selfishness. God's great love reaches out and finds us sinners no matter why or how we get lost.\nInterestingly enough the prodigal son went out in search of something more wonderful than what they already had, only to find it to be an enormous disappointment, much like the \u201cgrass is always greener\u201d syndrome. Many including myself often lose sight of what really matters. So we set off to search the world over, only to find that what we yearn for was right in our own backyard all along.\nI can use the parable of the prodigal son to remind myself of anytime I tell God I have a better idea for my life, or that I want to follow my own path instead of the one He has painstakingly designed just for me.\nToday can be the day I give up my pursuit for something else out there (for me today, this would be a hope for a newer work role to find significance in) and return home and receive the gifts my Father has reserved just for me. He is patiently waiting for me to stop wandering through the far country and come to Him so He can bless me with abundance I cannot contain.\nGod will let me wander as long as my heart desires. Perhaps I should realize how tired I am of doing things my way and go home.\nLabels: Lost, Stubbornness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 701, "original_length": 13831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gsmarena.com/glossary.php3?term=dual-band", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BLWV7XJCB4RQUP2EK7XBBTV54EPSELZW", "length": 691, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.gsmarena.com", "title": "Dual-band - definition - GSMArena.com", "raw_content": "Dual-band - definition\nMobile phone networks work using signals on specific frequency bands and a phone must support those bands in order to work with the network. Dual-band refers to the phones ability to work with two different bands. It is important to specify which bands exactly.\nNetworks in different geographical locations work on different bands - GSM networks in the Americas use the 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands while networks in Europe, Brazil, Asia and Africa use the 900/1800 MHz bands.\nFor example an 900/1800 dual-band phone won't work in the US and an 850/1900 phone won't work in Europe. A 900/1900 phone should work on at least one network in most countries around the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 201.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.guatemala-airport.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:18Z", "digest": "sha1:IXMHMMZ6KTQOMAR3LMHVZWPO7ETMV554", "length": 2587, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.guatemala-airport.com", "title": "Guatemala Airport (GUA)", "raw_content": "Use this website to quickly find the most important information about La Aurora International Guatemala Airport: Flights, Departures, Arrivals, Parking, Car Rentals, Hotels near the airport and other information about Guatemala Airport. Plan your travel to GUA Airport with the information provided in this site\nLa Aurora International Guatemala Airport (IATA: GUA, ICAO: MGGT), in Spanish Aeropuerto Internacional La Aurora, is the primary international airport serving Guatemala City, in Guatemala. It is located in Finca San Isidro, at 6 kilometers south of Guatemala City downtown and at 25 kilometers of Antigua Guatemala.\nIt is not only a civilian airport, it is also used for military and general aviation purposes.\nFrom Guatemala Airport there can be seen four volcanoes (Agua, Fuego, Pacaya and Acatenango), which two of them are active.\nGuatemala Airport is the fourth busiest airport in Central America.\nGuatemala City is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala.\nLa Antigua Guatemala used to be the former capital city of the country, it is worth to visit.\nTikal National Park hosts one of the most well conserved Maya vestige in the world.\nGuatemala Airport handled over 2,759,347 passengers in 2016.\nGuatemala has a single passenger airport divided into the Northern and the Central concourse, where international and domestic flights are hosted.\nFind below several contact information regarding Guatemala Airport:\nColonia Reyna Barrios\nFinca San Isidro, 01010\nMail: contacto@dgac.gob.gt\nGuatemala Airport offers the following services to passengers:\nExclusive VIP lounges\nThe following means of transport are available at Guatemala Airport to get to downtown:\nBus: There are several bus services in Guatemala Airport.\nTaxi: Transfer to Guatemala City within 20 minutes.\nCar rental: You can rent a car through our search engine or outside the airport terminal.\nGuatemala City is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Guatemala, in Spanish Rep\u00fablica de Guatemala, and also the most inhabited city in Central America. It is located in the south-central sector of the country. The area where nowadays lies Guatemala City was first habited by the Maya, where they stablished in Kaminaljuy\u00fa, and then in 1775 the Spanish colonists founded a small town. Some of the interesting spots in Guatemala City are the Historic Downtown District, the Relief Map of Guatemala, the Guatemala City General Cementery, the Obelisco, among others.\nFrom Guatemala City there can be seen four volcanoes (Agua, Fuego, Pacaya and Acatenango), from two of them are active.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gw-semi.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VYARD3JC6OXYP3WEE57BQDLEIMZUWXPO", "length": 905, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.gw-semi.com", "title": "Home - GlobalWafers", "raw_content": "About GlobalWafers\nLeading-Edge design and manufacturing.\nWe have state-of-the-art manufacturing locations around the world.\nSemiconductor Overview\nWatch a brief overview of our semiconductor business.\nLearn from a leader in semiconductor manufacturing.\nWHY CHOOSE GLOBALWAFERS?\nWe are a global leader in semiconductor technology, providing innovative, advanced technology solutions to leading chip manufacturers focused on transforming the foundation of a connected world. With R&D and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, we focus on innovation throughout our business. As a trusted partner, we serve 100% of the top 25 customers in the semiconductor industry.\nGlobalWafers' silicon wafers are the foundation for intelligent electronics in devices such as computers, smart phones, TVs, gaming devices, music players, appliances, automobiles and many industrial and space applications.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 197.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hachettechildrens.co.uk/books/no-keyword/971/0/20/Date/Decreasing/240/O/all-formats/current/from-all/to-all", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XXWR7AWNNIIYTCMKGHMKCB3KH65XSSNB", "length": 449, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hachettechildrens.co.uk", "title": "index", "raw_content": "The war is at a turning point. The enemy is growing weaker, and more desperate. And so is Ellie. As the conflict intensifies around her, she is captured and separated from her friends. Overwhelmed by all she has lost, Ellie wonders if she has the strength to survive the final conflict - and if she can live with the consequences of everything she has done. An action-packed adventure and an unforgettable exploration of the emotional impact of war.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 3376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.harpercollins.com/author/100102/barry-schwartz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4MCYXOVVRBS5V4VXWK7O7MYKXXWOBHX6", "length": 589, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.harpercollins.com", "title": "Barry Schwartz", "raw_content": "Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College. He is the author of several books, including Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing, with Kenneth Sharpe, and Why We Work. His articles have appeared in many of the leading journals in his field, including American Psychologist.\nAre you a Barry Schwartz fan?\nSign up now for Barry Schwartz alerts, including news and special offers.\nThank you for signing up to receive news about Barry Schwartz.\nThank you for your interest in Barry Schwartz!\nWorks by Barry Schwartz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 8086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hdrinc.com/au/portfolio/lafarge-ravena-cement-plant", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:08Z", "digest": "sha1:VAO22B3KB3J4Z3QJIZ2OBAZXMUWH45F5", "length": 1743, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hdrinc.com", "title": "Lafarge Ravena Cement Plant | HDR", "raw_content": "A modern day cement-making process reaps real rewards.\nLafarge Building Materials, Inc. (Lafarge) proposes to modernize and expand its existing Ravena Cement Plant by constructing a state-of-the-art facility that is more economically and environmentally sustainable. The proposed project would replace the Ravena plant\u2019s existing \u201cwet\u201d cement-making process with a more energy efficient \u201cdry\u201d process. The conversion involves replacing the two existing long \u201cwet\u201d kilns with a new preheater/precalciner tower/stack structure and a kiln and clinker cooler operation as well as providing for future replacement or upgrade of the cement grinding mills. The proposed upgrades would increase capacity at the Ravena Plant from its current yearly baseline of approximately 1.72 million short tons of clinker to approximately 2.81 million short tons.\nWe prepared an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in conformance with the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act and supported the receipt of necessary environmental permits for the proposed project. The comprehensive environmental analysis included detailed assessments of short-term (construction-related) and long-term (operation-related) impacts of the proposed project on air quality, water quality, hazardous materials, noise, traffic, visual quality, threatened and endangered species, cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, public health, and other aspects of the natural and manmade environment.\nLafarge Building Materials LLC\nHarris and Ahlert Author Article on CCR Rule for Industrial WaterWorld\nT&D World Article on Seven-Substation Progressive Design-Build Project Features HDR\u2019s Van Houten\nJeff Murray Featured in Waste 360 Article on Solar Panels for Capped Landfills", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.health-tourism.com/medical-centers/ccpr-center-of-plastic-surgery-rehabilitation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:BB27LL346B2ORAWLNLBY2VSTQ3UGNH5D", "length": 1160, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.health-tourism.com", "title": "Center of Plastic Surgery & Rehabilitation", "raw_content": "Center of Plastic Surgery & Rehabilitation\nCenter of Plastic Surgery & Rehabilitation - Overview\nThe Centre of Plastic Surgery & Rehabilitation (CCPR) was established by Dr. Domingos Q. de Paola 12 years ago, but Dr. de Paola\u2019s experience in the field of plastic surgery and aesthetic medicine goes back to the 1970\u2019s. Through the long run, Dr. de Paola ensures that his centre keeps up with the cutting edge techniques in this medical field through attending international meetings and congresses and ensuring that his team gets continuous education.\nCCPR\u2019s range of surgeries and non-surgical aesthetic treatments cover a long list of general procedures to the latest methods. These include laser surgeries to aesthetic massages, implants and permanent treatments. Dr. de Paola\u2019s team consists of him as the head director, another two specialists in plastic surgery, a physiotherapist, and an anesthesiologist.\nSpecialties at Center of Plastic Surgery & Rehabilitation\nThe data provided in this page was collected from the Center of Plastic Surgery & Rehabilitation website (http://www.ccpr.com.br/) , and other internet sources. last updated on Mar 8, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 216.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/radiology-beyond-machine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NKUXJPIAPEWWBHVL47CEW2UU76YIVKYV", "length": 8210, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.healthcareitnews.com", "title": "Radiology beyond the machine | Healthcare IT News", "raw_content": "Radiology beyond the machine\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly permeating medical imaging, but its integration into clinical practice will depend on the capacity of AI technology to facilitate workflow.\nWiro J Niessen is Professor of biomedical image analysis at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and Delft University of Technology, and Director of the biomedical image analysis platform of the European Organization for Imaging Research. For the past 20 years, he has been working to integrate AI in radiology. He believes the technology can help radiologists in countless scenarios from automating image analysis to picking up disease at pre-clinical stage and predicting treatment outcome. But a number of obstacles must be overcome before it fully enters clinical practice.\nMyriad applications for AI in radiology\nOne of Niessen\u2019s key responsibilities has been to apply AI to support the Rotterdam study, a population cohort that was launched 15 years ago at Erasmus MC, and in which thousands of images have been generated to collect information on disease development. Niessen has been using machine learning (ML) for the past 15 years, first to automate the analysis of large imaging data sets, and now to find patterns with a prognostic value.\n\u201cWe started to make the clinical researchers\u2019 and clinicians\u2019 jobs easier by automating the extraction of quantitative information from imaging data, which is tedious and time consuming to do by hand.\n\u201cNow we also try to predict from a CT or MRI scan whether someone is going to respond to a certain therapy or if they are likely to at an early stage in neurodegenerative disease. If you collect a lot of data and follow the patients over time, you see whether they develop a disease or not, and whether they respond to therapy. You can always dive back into the data and see whether there are patterns that can predict disease,\u201d he said.\nNiessen, who talked to Insights at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, is involved at every stage of AI technology development, from research all the way up to commercialisation. He notably founded the Erasmus MC spin-off company Quantib, which brings solutions that were initiated in research to the market.\nFor a long time, he has only used conventional ML, first selecting relevant features in an image, and then assessing their diagnostic or prognostic value. In oncology imaging, that means for instance capturing the boundaries of a tumour and computing features such as tumour texture, volume, intensity patterns and density, to build classifiers that can help in diagnosis and prognosis. Niessen\u2019s group has worked with common ML tools such as support vector machines, decision trees and random forests.\nDeep learning hype is set to continue\nFor the past four years, his group has been increasingly working with deep learning (DL), to train systems to perform tasks on their own by optimising efficient networks. DL originates from the vision field, but breakthroughs like neural network architecture or convolutional neural network can perfectly be adapted to medicine, Niessen explained. \u201cThis is very much a field in which you can benefit from all these advances. In daily clinical care and research, we are collecting a large number of cases and data, and it is now our challenge to exploit this wealth of information with AI techniques,\u201d he said.\nDL has very much become a trend in medical imaging and the industry is increasingly presenting new solutions. The hype is set to continue in the near future, as more and more DL-based technology will emerge, Niessen predicted.\nOne important aspect is generalisation, he said. \u201cYou need to make sure that the dataset on which you train the algorithm is representative of the environment in which you employ it. For example, population studies provide large opportunities to design proper algorithms for both ML and DL, and therefore are very good to understand preclinical stage of disease,\u201d he said.\nObstacles to clinical integration\nClinical practice is also a minefield of data ready to be exploited by AI. In prostate cancer, ML could help to know cancer severity and grade, and to base a prognosis on MR images and potentially spare the patient a biopsy, Niessen suggested. \u201cIn oncology, it would be of great benefit if we could predict disease progression or therapy response based on imaging data alone. It\u2019s already being used as an early screening and surveillance tool.\u201d Besides cancer, DL can also help to detect white matter lesions in the brain, with the algorithm learning from examples.\nConversely, not many of the ML or DL tools developed in research are ready for clinical practice yet. \u201cA lot of the developments are still in the research stage. Integration into clinical practice is still a challenge,\u201d Niessen said. Perhaps even up to 95% of information used in daily practice is still qualitative information, for instance the radiology report, Niessen estimated. But things are changing in that aspect as well. \u201cStep by step it\u2019s getting better, and structured reporting is becoming more important in radiology, to provide more objective information. If efforts continue in that direction, more data will be available to train ML and DL algorithms, and the structured report could increasingly be filled by algorithms. We\u2019re still in the early days,\u201d he said.\nExamples of automatically analysed MR brain images from the Rotterdam Scan Study\nIntegrated AI is on the rise\nAI is already a market because people are buying software, which increasingly use AI technology, each time they buy a scanner. The level of integrated AI is therefore rising and it will keep on growing. \u201cEvery year there will be more AI. In 10, 15 or 20 years, I think it will be the exception if an image is analysed without the help of AI, \u201c he said. Certain tools are already performing better than humans in some settings, for instance in TB screening. But ultimately, AI tools perform relatively isolated tasks, whereas a radiologist does a combination of different tasks. Therefore integrating ML and DL based solutions in clinical practice remains a major challenge for the years to come, and breakthrough will come if AI proves to be of additional value in clinical practice, Niessen explained.\n\u201cToday there aren\u2019t that many solutions that really help in workflow. We must develop tools that make the life easier, improve accuracy and usability, because only then will they be used on a large scale. This in turn will trigger a demand for new products and technical advances. It\u2019s a learning process.\u201d\nBoundaries between specialities will reduce\nRadiologists, computer scientists, engineers and everyone involved must collaborate to advance these tools. There is no doubt that AI will impregnate every aspect of radiology practice at different levels in the foreseeable future. \u201cFirst simple tasks will be delegated and then the impact will be more important in some areas than others. I think prostate cancer is really an interesting area, to avoid biopsy. After 15 years of implementation, we\u2019ll see how far we have come. Radiology has evolved tremendously over the past 15 years,\u201d he said.\nAI integration in clinical practice will bring changes inside the hospital and help reduce boundaries between specialties, especially between pathology and imaging. Weekly multidisciplinary meetings and other aspects of medical practice that consume a lot of time and resources will partially be replaced or upgraded by AI technologies and AI supported integrated diagnostic reports will become standard, he predicted.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be able to see what the integrated data says. With AI, we should strive to bring all the data into one common integrated report. In such a diagnostic competence centre, walls between departments will cease to exist. These developments are promising for the development of diagnostic and prognostic reports that facilitate the transition to precision medicine, in which the therapy is optimised for the individual.\u201d\nM\u00e9lisande Rouger\nJournalist with a keen interest in healthcare, IT and medical technology. 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It was based on a well-known fact: the height of celestial bodies depends on the latitude. Soon various instruments joined the quadrant, the nautical astrolabe and the cross-staff. 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The primary source of fruit is our Martin Stelling Vineyard, located behind the winery at the base of the western hills of Oakville. Far Niente follows organic and sustainable methods in farming and winemaking, and the winery is a net-zero, solar-powered historic landmark building.\nThe 2008 Far Niente Cabernet Sauvignon is estate bottled, which ensures that the wine is grown in our estate vineyards in the Oakville appellation and it has been produced and bottled exclusively at Far Niente. The 2008 blend is 90% Cabernet Sauvignon, 6% Petit Verdot and 4% Cabernet Franc. The 2008 vintage was harvested between October 3 and October 25 and was aged in French oak (70% new, 30% once-used) for 16-17 months.\nThis wine offers intense aromas of ripe blackberry and boysenberry layered with baking spices and licorice. The entry is full and juicy with a velvety middle palate. Dark, mocha flavors emerge on the long finish with chewy, coating tannins.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.heuerlaw.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ELENLNQ55VJITB4NHVR4APJRSS2SDMMG", "length": 3094, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.heuerlaw.com", "title": "Construction Contracts Management Construction Law Firm Attorney Charlottesville Virginia Design Architect Real Estate Developer Construction Business Contract Administration", "raw_content": "We represent architects, engineers, landscape architects, and other design professionals as well as building contractors and owners / developers. Our goal is to provide practical, economical services to the individuals and firms that work in the design and construction industry. We concentrate on preventing legal problems, principally through intelligent contract preparation and subsequent contract administration. We have offices in Massachusetts and Virginia. Mr. Heuer is an architect and an attorney and is nationally recognized as an expert on the AIA Documents as well as risk management and professional liability.\nThe Heuer Law Group was founded by Charles R. Heuer in 1986 to provide legal services to individuals and firms in the building industry. Mr. Heuer perceived that his intimate knowledge of the procedures, relationships and creative processes at work in the building industry (gained in part through many years experience as a registered architect) combined with excellent legal skills, would be stronger than the sum of the parts.\nThat perception has been a guiding principle of the Heuer Law Group from its beginning. Our practical experience with design practices and construction business operations gives us critical insight and allows us to offer a proactive approach to our clients' legal needs. In that sense we can often function much like in-house counsel. Our understanding of the building industry frequently enables us to foresee legal and practical difficulties that our clients might face in their business. By working with them on a regular basis, we are able in many cases to efficiently and inexpensively prevent or minimize the effects of such circumstances.\nThe Heuer Law Group has rapidly become a leader in providing original thinking and specialized advice and services to clients who own develop, design and construct improvements to real estate. Our clients appreciate:\nOur preventive approach - which tends to maximize the impact of the dollars they spend on legal services.\nOur knowledge of the design and construction industry - which tends to minimize the dollars they spend \"educating\" us about their needs and problems, and\nOur creative, constructive approach to solving unavoidable problems - which tends to minimize the cost of disruptions and non-productive activities.\nWe are focused on the building industry and the individuals and the companies who operate in it. Thus, the Heuer Law Group remains a vital resource to our clients and the industry.\nClients expect our attorneys and staff to be highly skilled and excellent in their professional endeavors. They are. Beyond that, they are good people--sensible, practical, easy to interact with. We want our clients to be comfortable working with us on a personal and professional basis. Furthermore, we want to make favorable impressions on behalf of our clients. We believe it is possible to represent a client's interests zealously without being disagreeable.\nOne Mifflin Place, Suite 400 Harvard Square\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 by Heuer Law Group. All rights reserved. Disclaimer | Site Map", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hobbsnews.com/2017/11/03/smith-takes-charge-salvation-army/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:51Z", "digest": "sha1:MGBOGIQZ35MKJ2YDCXHIZSFZZIOEBCBV", "length": 3737, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.hobbsnews.com", "title": "Smith takes charge of Salvation Army - Hobbs News Sun", "raw_content": "Home Local News Smith takes charge of Salvation Army\nSmith takes charge of Salvation Army\nMajor Lisa Smith took the helm of the local Salvation Army Wednesday following the retirement and departure of Capts. Les and Susan Spousta.\nHitting the ground running on her first day, Major Smith said she first wanted to talk about the Christmas season.\n\u201cThis is a challenging time of the year to come in. I want to emphasize I\u2019m looking for people who want to help out for Christmas, either the Angel Tree toy distribution or with the ringing the bell,\u201d she told the News-Sun. \u201cI know there are some volunteers already. I have not met them yet, but we would like people to know we are collecting money and that money stays here in Hobbs and is used to help people here in Lea County.\u201d\nVolunteers have to pass a background check, she said, ensuring they have neither theft nor sex offenses on their records. \u201cThose are the two disqualifiers,\u201d Smith said.\nOriginally from Casa Grande, Ariz., Smith said she has served as a commissioned officer of the Salvation Army for 15 years, listing posts in Colorado, Utah, California and Nevada with a desire to live in New Mexico.\n\u201cIt\u2019s always interesting to go to a new place and learn about a new community,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m a single officer. When you\u2019re asked to take a post for Salvation Army, you can\u2019t say no. You salute, smile and go. I\u2019m happy about being here because I\u2019ve always wanted to live in New Mexico. I like being in smaller communities.\u201d\nHer last post was Mesquite, Nev., population about 21,000.\n\u201cI find that my personality type is good for the rural communities,\u201d she said. \u201cI like the individual contact with people, the more personal relationships and the spirit of community in smaller towns.\u201d\nHobbs and Lea County appeal to Smith even if they are a little larger.\n\u201cPeople are very friendly here. That\u2019s what I like, the friendliness,\u201d she said. \u201cI think people care and are involved with the community, so I\u2019m looking forward to being a part of the community, integrating in with everyday life, getting to meet people.\u201d\nIn addition to the social services, Smith hopes to build attendance at the Salvation Army\u2019s church.\n\u201cAttendance has been kind of low for the last couple of years. We\u2019re hoping to get more people to come,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019d like to get more young people attending, teenagers, youth and young families.\u201d\nUpon the Spoustas\u2019 retirement, they left two pairs of shoes for the major to fill, but she said she recognized limitations.\n\u201cI\u2019m still familiarizing myself with what Salvation Army does in Hobbs, but whatever the Spoustas did, I\u2019m going to do my best to continue,\u201d Smith said.\nSome of the projects she\u2019d like to continue include a Bible study, a women\u2019s ministry and nursing home visits.\nBut other activities could come up. \u201cI\u2019m an idea person. I know my idea-meter will kick in once I\u2019ve been here a while,\u201d she said.\nBack on fulfilling Christmas needs, she said she hopes to be able to give at least two toys to each child registered for the Angel Tree program.\n\u201cWe need people helping with that process of distributing the toys, people to help bag them and stage them,\u201d she said.\nSusan Spousta told the News-Sun Wednesday their move to retire was \u201cbittersweet\u201d because she and her husband received such support throughout Hobbs and Lea County and they were a little sad to be leaving.\n\u201cHobbs is a wonderful, supportive community,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve never been in a community as supportive.\u201d\nTagshobbsNew MexicoSalvation Army\nPrevious article Hobbs Dairy Queen to close due to franchise bankruptcy\nNext article \u2018Fake news\u2019 is Collins Dictionary\u2019s word of the year 2017\nNative American dancer Patrick Willie performs the Fancy War Dance Thursday at the Staked \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 7882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hollywoodmonster.co.uk/news-and-press/4-ways-signage-can-increase-your-footfall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:10Z", "digest": "sha1:CO2WUXWKY737FK7QO3QTD7Y6DYF5NF3Z", "length": 2392, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hollywoodmonster.co.uk", "title": "4 Ways Signage Can Increase Your Footfall | Blog | Hollywood Monster", "raw_content": "4 ways signage can increase your footfall\nWith the growing popularity of online shopping, the demand for retail centres to maintain and increase footfall across stores is at a high. Whilst you\u2019re sure to find signs in every retail centre, it always helpful to understand the \u201cwhy\u201d behind each sign and ask what more can be done to capture the attention of shoppers. For this reason, we offer ways that signage can help increase your footfall.\nWith developments in the digital world, consumers are more tech savvy than ever. This has totally transformed the shopper\u2019s experience within retail. Thanks to digital signage, there are now opportunities to engage on a new level with consumers. Digital signs are a form of electronic display that utilise technologies such as LCD, LED, plasma displays or projected images. One of the benefits of digital signage is that it can be updated both frequently and easily; saving the printing and/or construction costs that one would incur with a static sign. Going digital also enables the integration of touch screens, movement detection and other interactive interfaces. Digital signs can be found across retail stores, hotels, and restaurants amongst other locations.\n2. Directional signs\nDespite being a more traditional method of marketing, steering consumers in the direction of the product is a fool-proof way to guide interest and cultivate spending behaviour. Retail centres should consider whether they are making the most of the services by advertising where they are with signage.\n3. Showcasing seasonal events\nThroughout the year, retail centre activities change to reflect the seasons. Take for example, the Christmas period, during which time Santa\u2019s Grotto and ice-skating rinks are popular with shoppers. As these changes are being made, overcome any potential confusion (such as changes in extended opening times) by informing shoppers with clear and bold signage.\n4. Advertise sales\nUsing bold signage to advertise deals in store i.e. \u201cSALE ON NOW\u201d, \u201c75% off\u201d, \u201cBuy One Get One Free\u201d etc. is an integral tool in capturing the attention of shoppers. Sales signage should be placed at the entrance of the store and further promoted within the store. Often times the news of a sale can be the major influence behind a shopper\u2019s visit. Retail centres should assume that if visitors don\u2019t see something, they would be totally unaware of it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 739, "original_length": 58967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hon.ch/News/HSN/737693.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:49Z", "digest": "sha1:H662HQXYNO7JO3K264NRPEKHWQV47HYY", "length": 4897, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.hon.ch", "title": "HON - News : AHA: More Work Needed to Curb Smoking Among Certain Groups", "raw_content": "AHA: More Work Needed to Curb Smoking Among Certain Groups\nTHURSDAY, Sept. 13, 2018 (American Heart Association) -- Melvin Stubbs knows smoking cigarettes could give him heart disease, lung cancer or kill him. He said his habit hurts his wife and parents, who often urge him to quit.\n\"That's one thing I struggle with on a daily basis,\" said Stubbs, 38, a smoker for almost two decades. \"You know if you don't stop how many loved ones will be upset if something happened to you.\"\nThe retail manager from Memphis, Tennessee is among the estimated 38 million American adults who smoke cigarettes because they've tried to quit but couldn't, because they enjoy it or because they are trying it for the first time.\nWhile the U.S. cigarette smoking rate has declined dramatically since it its peak in the mid 1960s, rates remain high among some groups.\nNative American and Alaska Native adults, African-American men, lesbian, gay and bisexual adults have the highest smoking rates, according to a recent CDC report. Rates also are high among the poor and those who have low educational attainment.\nThe consequences of cigarette smoking can be deadly.\nAbout 480,000 Americans die every year due to cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Smoking also is linked to high blood pressure and diabetes, two conditions that can cause heart disease, the No. 1 killer of Americans. About one-quarter of heart disease and stroke deaths are related to cigarette smoking, according to federal data.\n\"This is a very severe addiction, it's almost as being addicted to cocaine,\" said Aruni Bhatnagar, a co-director of the American Heart Association's Tobacco Regulation and Addiction Center. \"Nicotine is not an easy substance to get rid of.\"\nAlthough prevention and cessation initiatives and regulations have helped people quit, he said, \"We now need to focus our prevention efforts into targeting these subcultures [with high smoking rates].\"\nRadeanna Comb, a health educator in the Navajo Nation, nurtures relationships in tribal communities where cessation programs are scarce. For prevention to succeed, she said, \"It's important to plan programs that are culturally relevant.\"\nFor instance, there are materials that may challenge sacred tribal customs that include tobacco use. She's mindful of that when sharing information about the harmful effects of nicotine, the powerful and addictive stimulant found in tobacco plants.\nWhile the statistics by race and ethnicity offer a glimpse of who smokes in America, heart disease and stroke researchers say social and emotional issues underly cigarette consumption.\nStudies have shown, for instance, that people who are under persistent stress, have suffered discrimination or live with anxiety and depression are more likely to find it harder to quit smoking.\nIncome level and educational attainment also play a role. Federal data shows people who earn less than the poverty guidelines and attended high school without completing, or who completed high school level studies only, are much more likely to smoke than peers who earn more and have more schooling.\nIn a recent report addressing these social factors, CDC researchers argued smoke-free regulations and cigarette taxes would help curb smoking rates among American adults who have low educational attainment and earn low incomes. They said that was true in part because they were more likely to be targeted by tobacco advertising and less likely to be exposed to health information.\n\"From a policy perspective, the most powerful action we could take is to raise price,\" said Dr. Michael Fiore, a physician and researcher for over 30 years and founder of the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin.\nBut Fiore also said policymakers should make cessation programs more affordable -- or free -- for those who need them most.\nAmanda L. Graham, a cessation expert, said access to programs is critical. A cancer and tobacco-use researcher for over 20 years, Graham has focused her work on how digital interventions and online social networks have helped people quit cigarettes and other tobacco products.\n\"When we think about the biggest drivers of health-care costs, if there's an investment that employers and health plans need to be making it's tobacco cessation,\" said Graham, head of digital cessation programs at Truth Initiative in Washington, D.C.\nStubbs, the man from Tennessee, said he'll continue to smoke for the foreseeable future. He's never sought help from a cessation program and said it could take a serious health problem to make him quit.\nHe wants his family to continue to urge him to quit because some of what they say sinks in. But he wants them to stop giving him the saddened looks he gets when he pulls out a pack of cigarettes.\n\"I feel that when they see me smoking, they see a dead body.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 6671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hopetv.org/shows/gohealthy/episode/ml/go-healthy-for-good/infertility/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:43:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HAA4JNVVIJWUIOSIS4YRW4ST5QBE6PUA", "length": 246, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hopetv.org", "title": "Infertility / Go Healthy For Good!: Hope Channel | Christian Television", "raw_content": "If getting pregnant has been a challenge for you. You are not alone. 10-15% of couples, in the US are infertile. This can raise emotional, psychological and physical issues that need individualized attention. Watch this episode for expert advice!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 649, "original_length": 9914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/stack-bundles-i-ain-t-shit-prod-by-j-cardim-song.528614.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:SZUY46OU7TOCL6T3EEFFMPP6EETF4QVE", "length": 1011, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hotnewhiphop.com", "title": "Stack Bundles - I Ain't Shit (Prod. By J. Cardim)", "raw_content": "Home>New Songs>Stack Bundles Songs> Stack Bundles - I Ain't Shit (Prod. By J. Cardim)\nStack Bundles - I Ain't Shit (Prod. By J. Cardim)\nI Ain't Shit\nCheck out I Ain't Shit (Prod By J. Cardim), a new track by Stack Bundles, which dropped on Thursday, October 20th, 2011.\nListen to I Ain't Shit (Prod By J. Cardim), the new track by Stack Bundles, which was dropped on Thursday, October 20th, 2011. Stack Bundles's odds keep getting better with each new leak, and I Ain't Shit (Prod By J. Cardim) will undoubtedly improve his chances of winning. It's a worthy addition to a respectable catalogue that has seen a lot of growth since Stack Bundles debuted in this game. We're looking forward to the follow-up.\nHave you heard Stack Bundles's Tap That , featuring Chinx Drugz? Check out Stack Bundles's profile page for the most recent info, news, songs, and mixtapes. Make sure to hit Stack Bundles with a follow and/or like on Twitter.\nStack Bundles J. Cardim\nSONGS Stack Bundles - I Ain't Shit (Prod. By J. Cardim)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 207.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hotrodhotline.com/content/big-daddy-career-pictorial-volume-1-don-garlits-michael-mikulice", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:34Z", "digest": "sha1:L7GMNO7AZOQC2WZVVAERH2EM6E7QABKI", "length": 8162, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hotrodhotline.com", "title": "Big Daddy: A Career Pictorial, Volume 1 by Don Garlits & Michael Mikulice | Hotrod Hotline", "raw_content": "Big Daddy: A Career Pictorial, Volume 1 by Don Garlits & Michael Mikulice\nBig Daddy; A Career Pictorial Volume 1, by Don Garlits and Michael Mikulice is a hard-bound book published by Walsworth Publishing Company. The ISBN number is 0-9626565-2-6 for volume 1 and 0-9626565-1-8 for the three volume set. This review is only for volume 1 of the pictorial. Check with your local book store or order direct from The Museum of Drag Racing, 13700 SW 16th Avenue, Ocala, Florida 34473, or call 877-271-3278. Big Daddy; A Career Pictorial Volume 1, is a cloth bound book on high quality waxed paper suitable for excellent photographic reprinting. The book measures 8 \u00be by 11 \u00bc inches and has 216 pages. There was no dust cover protective jacket, but the book looks very sturdy and built for constant usage. There was no price listed for the volume or the three books in the set. I am only reviewing volume 1 and will review volume 2 and 3 separately. Big Daddy; A Career Pictorial Volume 1 has the following components; 362 black and white, and 89 color photographs. In addition there are 89 sidebars with all sorts of information; including races competed in, dimensions of Don\u2019s cars and other interesting facts in his racing career. There was one artwork, three drawings, nine magazine covers, five newspaper clippings and one map included in the book. The degree of factual information is extensive. Some of the captions for the photographs were short and the rule of thumb for captions is the more the better. Captions should stand alone from the book and should always include; who, what, where, when and sometimes the how and why. There was no index and although this is a pictorial, it hurts the cross-over appeal of a book like this to be lacking an index. Big Daddy; A Career Pictorial Volume 1 can easily be a pictorial, a coffee table book or a history, but without an index the historian and serious student of the sport of drag racing can only guess where the material he/she seeks is located. Adding an index would easily have made this book superior to others like it.\nI was really impressed with the factual thoroughness of the sidebars. This is a book that one could pick up and devour, then set it aside for a while and come back and read it thoroughly again. The text is limited, but then it is a pictorial after all. Therefore the captions need to be really thorough and often they weren\u2019t. However, that\u2019s the historian in me asking for more. For the general public the book is outstanding. This is volume one of a three volume set and I just cannot fathom there only being three volumes of photographs on the racing career of Don Garlits. Perhaps this is just a start and more books will come forth in the future. I could say that Don Garlits is the pre-eminent drag racer for all time and probably few people would argue with that statement. But I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s the way to define who and what Don Garlits is. He certainly is well known. But notoriety sometimes obscures a man and puts him above and beyond what he really is. Garlits is first and foremost a hot rodder with a burning desire to take on a challenge or solve a problem in the most expedient and smartest way. He also just happens to be a drag racer who has won a lot of races and championships. Add to that his reputation for innovation, design and mechanics and he has earned his place in drag racing lore. Garlits is far more important to racing though. And it is unfair to judge him solely on his racing career. Other drivers and owners have won more races and championships, but Don raced in the early years when there were far few national events for him to compete in. He also raced against the very best drivers the sport has ever had. His competition was ferocious. Don also raced in several sanctioning bodies, many of which are no longer in operation and when a league folds, so often the records are lost or not mentioned in the newspapers or magazines. He is one of the most focused men I have ever met. He has a well defined view of what he is and what he believes in and is not willing to change his core values. He is a Christian who does not leave his views behind when he goes on the road. He is direct and tells you exactly what he thinks and feels, even if it isn\u2019t politically correct. He is as honest as they come and a southern gentlemen, yet he\u2019s willing to fight for his beliefs at a moment\u2019s notice.\nThere\u2019s another side of Don Garlits that\u2019s known, but often not stressed enough and that\u2019s his desire and willingness to share his knowledge with others. This includes the efforts that he has put into building up the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing in Ocala, Florida. Long before it was popular to invest one\u2019s time, money and effort into saving the history and heritage of hot rodding, drag racing and the car culture, Don was building a museum and restoring cars that he had found. We can\u2019t possibly thank those individuals who create private and public museums to house our automotive history. The research that is done in the restoration of racing vehicles and the memorabilia that is uncovered keeps our history and heritage alive for future generations. Don Garlits is also interested in preserving the history of our country and protecting our culture. He spent his own money to run for the House of Representatives in 1994 in an effort to provide honest and capable leadership in Congress. That he failed to be elected tells more about the corruption in our political system than it does about Don Garlits. Big Daddy; A Career Pictorial Volume 1 is arranged like a diary, rather than by chapters. There are a few photographs from the 1930\u2019s and \u201840\u2019s, mostly family pictures, and I would have preferred to see more from this time period. Often writers will overlook the formative years and start right in with those years when they were best known. The first section or chapter if you must, starts with the years 1950-54. Don\u2019s first drag race was at Zephyrhills, Florida in June of 1950 and he recorded an elapsed time of 19.10 in a 1940 Ford convertible.\nThe years go by, the sidebars record times, dates and places and Garlits begins his ascent to the peak of the drag racing world. His reputation as a fierce competitor is achieved through one race, event or contest after another. He leads organizations and has a fan base that stretches from coast to coast, but it is a grueling schedule and his competition strong and capable. Don readily admits that many things that he tried to achieve could have been done better. He is honest in relating his mistakes as well as his successes, but the most important attribute of a hot rodder is the desire to solve a problem and make things better through innovation and ingenuity. The pictorial is a testament to a man who strove to overcome the problems that he faced in his professional, business and family life. The last section ends with the year 1970 and by then Don Garlits is an acclaimed champion and trend setter. Volumes 2 and 3 will pick up from there, as he has more races to win and new challenges to meet. Yet if this were the only volume that you owned, the consensus that you would reach is that Don Garlits had already made it \u201cBig\u201d and that there were no further worlds to conquer. You would have been wrong though. Don is no longer racing, but he is still actively promoting the sport of drag racing that he loves so dearly. The quality of the photographs is for the most part good to exceptional. The ratio of black and white photographs in comparison to color is to be expected due to the era that we are dealing with. The list of contributors is impressive in size and scope. There is a short but interesting page pertaining to glossary terms and another page describing drag racing slang. Don devotes a page thanking all those who made an impact on his life, including his love for his family and his creator.\nThere is a one page description of his museum and a map where the museum is located. This is a very informative and interesting book and I give it a 7 out of a possible 8 sparkplugs.\nCheck with your local book store or order direct from:\nThe Museum of Drag Racing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 9686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 197.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Biographies/thompson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:26Z", "digest": "sha1:WBHNUX5SIJS24R4QSBEQV5EGJACSYNK3", "length": 4054, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.hq.nasa.gov", "title": "James R. Thompson, Jr.", "raw_content": "JAMES R. THOMPSON, JR.\nNASA Deputy Administrator, July 6, 1989-November 8, 1991\nJames R. (J.R.) Thompson, Jr., became Deputy Administrator of NASA in 1989. Beforehand, he had served as director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.\nHe had assumed his position at Marshall on September 29, 1986, after having served three years as deputy director for technical operations at Princeton University's Plasma Physics Laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey. From March to June of 1986, he was vice-chair of the NASA task force inquiring into the cause of the Space Shuttle Challenger accident. In that capacity, he headed the day-to-day operations of the 51-L Data and Design Analysis Task Force, which collected and analyzed accident-related information in support of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.\nBefore assuming his position at Princeton University, Mr. Thompson spent 20 years with NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in various positions, including associate director for engineering in the Science and Engineering Directorate and as manager of the Space Shuttle Main Engine Project in the Shuttle Projects Office.\nMr. Thompson began his professional career in 1960 as a development engineer with Pratt and Whitney Aircraft in West Palm Beach, Florida.\nHe joined the research and development team at the Marshall Center in 1963 as a liquid propulsion system engineer responsible for component design and performance analysis associated with the J-2 engine system on the Saturn Launch Vehicle. In 1966 he joined the Space Engine Section in the former Propulsion and Vehicle Engineering Laboratory at Marshall and became chief of the section in 1968. In that capacity, he was responsible for the design and test evaluation of auxiliary space engine propulsion systems for the Saturn Launch Vehicle and experimental small interplanetary propulsion systems.\nIn 1969, Mr. Thompson transferred to Marshall's Astronautics Laboratory where he served as chief of the Man/Systems Integration Branch from 1969 to 1974.\nIn September 1974, he was named manager of the Main Engine Projects Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. In that position he was responsible for the development and operation of the most advanced liquid propulsion rocket engine ever developed. He served in that position almost from the beginning of early development testing on the Shuttle main engine through the initial Shuttle flights.\nIn February 1982, Mr. Thompson was named associate director for engineering in the Marshall Science and Engineering Directorate. In that position, he was responsible for planning and executing the engineering overview, analysis, evaluation and support for all Marshall Center projects that were in the hardware development stage.\nBorn in Greenville, South Carolina, Mr. Thompson graduated from Druid Hills High School in Atlanta in 1954. He was awarded a bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1958 and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Florida in 1963. He has completed all course work at the University of Alabama toward a Ph.D. in fluid mechanics. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1958 to 1960 and was stationed at Green Cove Springs, Florida, as an administrative officer in the Atlantic Fleet.\nHe was awarded the NASA Medal for Exceptional Service in 1973 for his work on Skylab, and NASA Medals for Distinguished Service in 1981 for this work on the Space Shuttle main engine and in 1988 for his work on the 51-L Data and Design Analysis Task Force. President Ronald Reagan conferred on Mr. Thompson the rank of Meritorious Senior Government Executive twice, in 1982 and in 1987. He was one of five members of NASA's Return to Flight Team awarded the Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy for 1989.\nUpon leaving NASA is 1991, Mr. Thompson entered private business.\nFor further information email hq-histinfo@nasa.gov", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 4149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 74.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscpe/vol20num1/article6.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:28Z", "digest": "sha1:SWFAXT42Y2YYMHSNDE4HAZXNKKAXIATA", "length": 1047, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.huduser.gov", "title": "Cityscape: Volume 20 Number 1 | Selected Outcomes of Housing Assistance | HUD USER", "raw_content": "Prioritizing Homeless Assistance Using Predictive Algorithms: An Evidence-Based Approach\nHalil Toros\nDaniel Flaming\nIn this article, we present a predictive model for identifying homeless persons likely to have high future costs for public services. We developed the model by linking administrative records from 2007 through 2012 for 7 Santa Clara County, California agencies and identifying 38 demographic, clinical, and service utilization variables with the greatest predictive value. We modeled records for 57,259 individuals from 2007 to 2009, and the algorithm was validated using 2010 and 2011 records to predict high-cost status in 2012. A business case scenario shows that two-thirds of the top 1,000 high-cost users predicted by the model are true positives, with estimated posthousing cost reductions of more than $19,000 per person in 2011. The model performed very well in giving low scores to homeless persons with one-time cost spikes, achieving the desired result of excluding cases with single-year rather than ongoing high costs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 8240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/erin-taylor-green/time-to-stand-up-charlest_b_7622764.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:YCOHKJTZU4PL2IIFXN73OYNMGNII2TPN", "length": 5167, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Time to Stand Up: Charleston, Caitlyn Jenner, & the Fight for Human Rights | HuffPost .\",\"url\":\"https://www.huffpost.com/author/erin-taylor-green\"},\"creator\":{\"@context\":\"http://schema.org\",\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Erin Taylor Green\",\"jobTitle\":\"Writer, adventurer and teacher\",\"description\":\"Erin is a writer, adventurer, and teacher. She loves climbing mountains, holding babies, and taste testing margaritas. She calls Austin, Texas home, where she hopes to inspire and encourage others to pursue a life full of grace and adventure. You can find her writing at www.erintaylorgreen.com.\",\"url\":\"https://www.huffpost.com/author/erin-taylor-green\"},\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"HuffPost\",\"url\":\"https://www.huffpost.com\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https://s.m.huffpost.com/assets/hp-amp-101ecf8047b044dce5f3122c63056162580f1c26994c73ae90dbd1c5d1545a71.gif\",\"width\":600,\"height\":60}},\"description\":\"Scripture is, and always has been, used to further marginalize the marginalized populations for which we should be standing up for . We ...\",\"keywords\":[\"christianity\",\"caitlyn-jenner\",\"black-lives-matter\",\"human-rights\",\"religion\",\"lgbt-rights\",\"@health_depression\",\"@health_ibs\",\"@health_erectile\",\"@health_models\",\"type: contributor\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en_US\",\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/default-entry.jpg?ops=200_150\",\"url\":\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/erin-taylor-green/time-to-stand-up-charlest_b_7622764.html\",\"headline\":\"Time to Stand Up: Charleston, Caitlyn Jenner, & the Fight for Human Rights\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/default-entry.jpg?ops=1910_1000\",\"width\":2000,\"height\":1000},\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https://www.huffingtonpost.com/erin-taylor-green/time-to-stand-up-charlest_b_7622764.html\"}}", "raw_content": "Erin Taylor Green, Contributor\nWriter, adventurer and teacher\nTime to Stand Up: Charleston, Caitlyn Jenner, & the Fight for Human Rights\nFor thousands of years, people have used religious texts to persecute, justify wrong, and dehumanize. Since Christ walked the earth, people have taken His words and contorted them into something that preaches and breeds intolerance. Before Christ walked the earth, people used other texts to do the same thing. And while Christ walked the earth, we took words of scripture and skewed them to persecute him. For centuries we have perverted His words and turned them into our own. We have taken His words and picked and chosen the ones that fit our current agendas, the ones that help to prove our points.\nTwo hundred years ago, scripture was used to justify the forcible removal and subsequent slaughter of thousands of Native Americans. Today this is remembered as genocide.\nOne hundred years ago, scripture was used to justify the implementation and continuation of slavery within our country, the land of the free and the brave.\nFifty years ago, scripture was used to justify Jim Crow laws, further marginalizing a population due to their skin color.\nScripture is, and always has been, used to further marginalize the marginalized populations for which we should be standing up for. We have used to words of God to justify hate, greed, and intolerance. Today we look back at these events with disgust and shame, while moving onto a new population to point fingers at.\nLast week I read an article titled \"Bruce Jenner is Not a Hero,\" and that was the last straw. The author, Suzanne, essentially said that Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner was not brave, it was a disrespect to the way he was created in God's image.\nI don't know if this is true or not. I don't know what God thinks about the transformation many transgender individuals choose to go through. I don't know what God thinks about boob jobs, for that matter. But frankly, I don't give a sh*t if you don't agree with Bruce Jenner becoming Caitlyn Jenner. What I care about is proclaiming the name of Christ in a way that is good and just and loving. (And yes, I realize I just said sh*t in the same paragraph as Christ and good and just and loving, but this is me flipping over the tables at the temple courts right now.)\nHear me, hear this. I absolutely believe that Caitlyn Jenner was created in the image of God. I believe that we were all created in the image of God. But I have no right to even pretend to understand the struggle that those in the LGBQT community face. I have no right to tell them what they are allowed to do with their bodies, who they are allowed to marry, or why what they are doing is right or wrong.\nAs a white, upper middle class, educated, Christian, heterosexual, able-bodied woman, dripping with privilege, (replace woman with man in that list & I'd really have it all), I cannot begin to understand what it is like to live in the margins of our society. I cannot begin to understand what it is like to wake up every morning and to know that I am an outsider.\nI am not on the outside. I am on the inside, and it is people on the inside who have power. So now, what am I, a woman on the inside, called to do for those on the outside? This goes beyond Caitlyn Jenner, this goes beyond the transgender community. It extends to the church shooting in Charleston, the pool party incident, and Ferguson, and human rights.\nWe must stand up for the marginalized. We must stand up and say that something in our society is wrong, something in our faith has been perverted, because we are called to fight for compassion and humanity and love and peace, and when I look around, that's just not what I see happening. I see Christians trying to control and condemn, and in many cases being applauded for their bravery to speak in such a way.\nWhat would the world look like if we fought for justice of instead of spewing hateful words at those whose struggles we can't understand? What would it look like if we used scripture to justify the way we love people, and what if we extended that definition of people to include all people?\nIt is scary to approach a subject we do't understand. It is scary to wrestle with quesitons. It's scary to learn about something that doesn't fit into our cognitive schema. I get it, I really do. It's hard to realize that we may not have all of the answers. But think about what a different world we could live in if Christians were willing to listen before they speak, if we, as Christians, were willing to wrestle with issues that make us uncomfortable, if we were willing to replace our pointing fingers with open palms.\nWe need to stand up. We need to scream and shout and tell the world that something isn't right. We have introduced far too many people to a Jesus of our own creation, and have withheld from them the Jesus who spent his time with prostitutes and tax collectors. At His table, there is room for everyone. You and me and Caitlyn Jenner and Michael Brown and the Ferguson Police Department. Sinners and screw ups, all of us.\nChristianity Caitlyn Jenner Black Lives Matter Human Rights Religion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 8263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hurford-salvi-carr.co.uk/location-guides", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:05Z", "digest": "sha1:AP4S6APYZPNVS7Q4E3QPRPHHNJ4LTC6R", "length": 281, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hurford-salvi-carr.co.uk", "title": "Our Location Guides | Hurford Salvi Carr", "raw_content": "The company is split into six location-index, specialising in Residential Sales, New Homes, Residential lettings, Commercial property, Investments, and Property Management. The skills of each division combine to offer our clients a fresh and innovative approach to property agency.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 6201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.i-worx.ca/archives/3537", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:48Z", "digest": "sha1:EDN7XCO7QYKL24DWL2RRJEXC76PPQ6KH", "length": 3599, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.i-worx.ca", "title": "Protecting your Android mobile devices - North Vancouver, Vancouver, Burnaby | i-worx", "raw_content": "When personal and professional information live on one mobile device, a small breach can have huge impacts. As the adoption of bring your own device (BYOD) policies increase, employee awareness of cyberthreats becomes critical. Here are five tips for avoiding common Android-based security risks.\nSometimes, the device itself might not be safe due to faulty production or configuration. In fact, Avast recently found hundreds of Android devices that were infected out of the box.This means that the infection was not caused by users, but the malware was installed via apps somewhere along the sales and delivery process.\nAlthough Google employs strict security measures when it comes to allowing apps into the Play Store, some developers find a way to hide malicious code in their programs and still have them approved.\nSimple Call Recorder, for example, tricked users into downloading an additional app, which purported to be an Adobe Flash Player update. Believe it or not, Simple Call Recorder lasted for a year on the Google Play Store and had been downloaded over 5,000 times before it was taken down.\nMany applications are installed for legitimate uses. But don\u2019t let that fool you, as these apps can be used to extract confidential information such as contact information from your mobile device.\nTimehop, a popular app that retrieves old photos and posts from social media accounts, recently suffered a data breach that affected 21 million accounts. Compromised information included names, email addresses, and phone numbers. The attack was due to cybercriminals tapping into the company\u2019s cloud computing account using an administrator\u2019s sign-in credentials.\nMost forms of banking malware involve creating a fake login window that mimics one from a reputable institution. It could be a fake website or app that users type their username and password into, only for that information to be sent to a hacker.\nAccording to Security Intelligence, Google recently removed 29 apps from the Google Play Store after nearly 30,000 users accidentally downloaded banking malware. The victims were tricked by personalized phishing forms based on the apps they use.\nWhile the programs were attributed to different developers, researchers discovered common code within them, implying that they were all created by the same threat group. The malware enabled attackers to send and receive text messages, impersonate software from victims\u2019 financial institutions, and download additional apps.\nRansomware is a type of malware that makes data on a device inaccessible and demands a payment to unlock it. In 2017, WannaCry spread like wildfire and wreaked havoc on the global healthcare industry. Ransomware continues to be a cyberciminal\u2019s weapon of choice and according to Malwarebytes, 35% of small- to medium-sized businesses have experienced a ransomware attack in the past year.\nIf you think ransomware is bad, ransomworms are even worse. Basically, they are ransomware programs that spread themselves across a local network, eliminating the need for human error.\nAll this sounds horrific, but the worst is yet to come if you don\u2019t act fast. Having said that, here are some security best practices that will help keep your Android devices secure:\nSet up a lockscreen passcode\nPatch mobile apps and operating systems quickly\nConduct regulatory compliance assessments\nWhile it\u2019s easy to turn a blind eye toward cyberthreats, the question is are you willing to take that chance? If you\u2019re looking for an advanced security solution to keep your Android device safe, give us a call and we\u2019ll be happy to help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.i4u.com/49931/horses-3d-nintendo-3ds-available-pre-order", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PCTQ3ZIQI27YR5T7JDUZLZWYK6TUYNWF", "length": 948, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.i4u.com", "title": "Horses 3D for the Nintendo 3DS is Available for Pre-Order", "raw_content": "Horses 3D For The Nintendo 3DS Is Available For Pre-Order\nPosted: Mar 18 2012, 10:59am CDT | by Susan McGlaun, in Gaming\nThis game will be released on March 27, 2012.\nHorses 3D is available at Amazon for $29.99.\nThis is the time of year many companies come out with new video games. There are so many adult games but there is also a huge consumer base for kid's games. There are so many to choose from you can keep your kids busy for hours of fun. If you have a little one that loves horses then this is the perfect game for them.\nThe first authentic horse game for the Nintendo 3DS system, Horses 3D invites players to care for more than 15 realistic horses, ride them and train them for world-class performance. Horses 3D fully leverages the Nintendo 3DS features with the most realistic visuals for a horse game yet, including 3D horses, textures and beautiful environments, as well as StreetPass sharing and more. Be sure and order yours today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iana.org/reports/c.2.9.2.d/20141210-schwarz", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CINU22GNJXADV7SFVCSJIMLM5JOS5FW4", "length": 209, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.iana.org", "title": "IANA \u2014 Delegation Report for .schwarz", "raw_content": "Delegation Report for .schwarz\nschwarz The U-label is the presentation form of the domain. It is the version that is expected to be used by end-users in applications.\nSchwarz Domains und Services GmbH & Co. KG", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 169.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibelieve.com/blogs/carmen-lifeblessons/the-stories-that-speak-to-our-souls.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:43Z", "digest": "sha1:SGBGENE6DMP5SCTCOTKCNYA7CETHSE6A", "length": 3845, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.ibelieve.com", "title": "The Stories That Speak to Our Souls", "raw_content": "The Stories That Speak to Our Souls\nWhile I was reading through my Bible chronologically last year, one of the things I noticed when I made my way into the New Testament was how so many\u2014nearly all, it seemed\u2014of Jesus\u2019 parables revolved around explaining what the Kingdom of Heaven is like.\n\u201cThe Kingdom of Heaven is like\u2026,\u201d he starts off, going on to compare it to some field workers, a group of bridesmaids, treasure hidden in a field, a king throwing a party, servants entrusted with silver, seed planted in a field, yeast for making bread, a pearl of great value, a net that catches fish of all sorts.\nI knew Jesus was always telling parables, using them as a way to speak to his listeners\u2019 truest hearts as they seek to unlock the mysteries hidden within his words. As he said to them, \u201cAnyone who is willing to hear should listen and understand!\u201d (Matthew 13:9)\nThe thing that I didn\u2019t really notice, until now, was just how much they all had to do with describing, explaining, and warning about what the Kingdom of Heaven is like. There are a few other parables that have to do with other stories, but nearly all are about this Kingdom to come.\nAnd it made me wonder\u2026 Why?\nWhy did he keep hammering this point home? Why did he keep telling the people in dozens of ways how this Kingdom will take them by surprise, that they must be prepared for this Kingdom, that they must seek it out at all costs and treasure it, that they must be willing to give up everything for this Kingdom?\nOftentimes with these parables, he\u2019s speaking directly to Jews, people who knew the Torah well and had been raised in a culture that was waiting expectantly for the Messiah.\nYet, they were the very ones who were blind to the fact that He was actually among them. Though they were looking, they could not really see Him when He was right before their eyes.\nThey misunderstood what the mission of the Messiah was really all about and were led astray to the point of killing the very one who came to set them free.\nAnd that was what he preached against, time and again. Hammering away against these misunderstandings, stripping away the ill-gotten perceptions, helping them see the truth, the way, the life of this Kingdom.\nAs we read these words--centuries later after the Messiah has come and gone and again we await his return\u2014perhaps they are as much for us as they were for those first-person witnesses: Stories to keep us from being led astray. Stories to remind us what this Kingdom we\u2019re awaiting is really all about. Stories that prepare us for the day when that Kingdom is at hand.\nAs Jesus preached again and again to the crowds that flocked to him, so we ought to keep preaching to ourselves. Because it can be so easy to miss the point, to get distracted and confused and off track. It can be so easy to get it wrong and miss it entirely.\nAnd that\u2019s the thing about the Kingdom of Heaven; it\u2019s so important, so meaningful, so everything that to miss out on it is a grievous thing. That\u2019s why Jesus spent so much time talking about it, in hopes that one of the ways he would say it would open our ears and fill our hearts with such love that that Kingdom would overwhelm our lives.\nTo those first disciples, Jesus explained, \u201cYou have been permitted to understand the secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven, but others have not. To those who are open to my teaching, more understanding will be given, and they will have an abundance of knowledge.\n\u201cBut to those who are not listening, that is why I tell these stories, because people see what I do, but they don\u2019t really see. They hear what I say, but they don\u2019t really hear, and they don\u2019t understand.\n\u201c\u2026But blessed are your eyes, because they see; and your ears, because they hear.\u201d\n(Matthew 13:11-13, 16)\nBlessed, indeed.\nLessons from Nehemiah: More Than a Man Who Rebuilt a Wall\nTaking a Judaism Class", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/north-carolina-lawmakers-file-appeal-after-federal-court-rules-gerrymandered-maps-are-1542682", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:452WZBZWRRMMY6Y7ORXOBSCJIPYFHZM3", "length": 4333, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.ibtimes.co.uk", "title": "North Carolina lawmakers file appeal after federal court rules gerrymandered maps are unconstitutional", "raw_content": "North Carolina lawmakers file appeal after federal court rules gerrymandered maps are unconstitutional\nState legislators in North Carolina have filed an appeal after a federal court ruled that two of the districts had been drawn up unconstitutionally. Reuters\nLawmakers in North Carolina filed an emergency appeal on 8 February, just three days after a federal court ruled that the boundaries of two congressional districts were unconstitutional. The state leaders argued in a motion to the same three federal judges that the ruling would severely affect the state's 15 March primary.\n\"We trust the federal trial court was not aware an election was already underway and surely did not intend to throw our state into chaos by nullifying ballots that have already been sent out and votes that have already been cast,\" said state Senator Bob Rucho, a Republican who helped draw up the state's district lines. According to The Charlotte Observer, the judges gave plaintiffs in the case until noon on 9 February to respond to the motion.\nThe three member panel found on 5 February that the state's 1st District, which runs east from Durham to Elizabeth City, and the 12th District, which runs from Charlotte to Greensboro, had been racially gerrymandered by Republican leaders to illegally weaken black votes. The Charlotte Observer reported that the panel gave legislators two weeks to file different district lines, which would affect the lines of neighbouring districts.\nFollowing the appeal to the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal court could put the ruling on hold or the primary elections could be rescheduled. Experts claim that the judges will most likely refuse the appeal, which would allow the state to appeal to the US Supreme Court.\nDespite those claims, state legislators appear to be confident that the panel will grant a stay. Legislative leaders reportedly advised members that Governor Pat McCrory could call a special session to redraw the maps before the deadline or primary. A spokeswoman for Senate Leader Phil Berger told the Observer that legislators \"fully expect\" the judges to grant a stay.\nSome are celebrating the court's decision, with Reverend William Barber of the state NAACP calling it a \"huge victory in our fight against 21st century racism and discrimination.\" According to The Associated Press, those who sued the state over the district lines claimed it did not make sense for Republican lawmakers to increase the majority black voting age populations in the two districts. Both had elected black lawmakers for over 20 years.\nThe AP reported that state attorneys said that race was not the predominant reasoning for forming the districts, but instead it was motivated by political advantage in the 12th and avoiding legal challenges under the Voting Rights Act in the 1st. Legislators reportedly moved more supporters of President Barack Obama into the 12th during the 2008 and those who supported Senator John McCain out of the 12th. That would make surrounding districts more Republican.\nWriting the primary opinion, US Circuit Judge Roger Gregory said voters who sued proved race had played a key role in the formation of the boundaries. In the 1st District, Gregory wrote, \"the legislators had no basis\u2014let alone a strong basis\u2014to believe that an inflexible racial floor of 50% plus one person was necessary.\" As for the 12th District, he wrote the court \"does not find credible the defendants' purported rationale that politics was the ultimate goal.\"\nHundreds of mail-in absentee ballots have already been turned into the state for the upcoming primary. It is not the first time that North Carolina finds itself in the centre of voting scrutiny. The Charlotte Observer noted that the southern state's voting maps and election rules are in the midst of at least five federal lawsuits. The state's controversial voter ID law is being attacked at both the state and federal level.\nTrump maintains double digit lead, while Clinton closes gap with Sanders in New Hampshire\nRepublicans round on Marco Rubio in ill-tempered presidential debate\nEverything you need to know about the New Hampshire primary\nCould the US election really be hacked?\nRepublican Rick Santorum drops White House bid and endorses Marco Rubio\nDonald Trump accuses Ted Cruz of fraud in Iowa caucus and demands revote", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ict.org.il/Article.aspx?ID=796", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DTBUTRMTY7WXQYO5QWNMO4G7LJSYTJ3H", "length": 9317, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.ict.org.il", "title": "The Palestinian Authority - Enroute to the State Department's Terrorism List?", "raw_content": "The Palestinian Authority - Enroute to the State Department's Terrorism List?\n12/03/2001 | by Schenker, David\nReprinted with permission from PeaceWatch, The Washington Institute\u2019s Special Reports on the Arab-Israeli Peace Process, Number 311, March 12, 2001\nThe U.S. Department of State will shortly issue its semi-annual Palestine Liberation Organization Commitments Compliance Act (PLOCCA) report. This report, now several weeks overdue, details PLO and Palestinian Authority (PA) compliance with their \"peace process\" commitments. And in April, the State Department will release its annual report about global terrorism. The release of these reports comes just weeks after Israeli chief of staff Shaul Mofaz described the PA as a \"terrorist entity.\"\nThe content of these reports will be the subject of close scrutiny. How the United States characterizes the PA with regard to terrorist activities is an important signal \u2014 both of how the Bush administration will contribute to the lowering of violence as the first step to the resumption of Israeli\u2013Palestinian negotiations, and of what the direction of U.S.\u2013Palestinian relations will be during the George W. Bush/Ariel Sharon era.\nThe Required Reports\nEvery year, the State Department issues Patterns of Global Terrorism, a report reviewing incidents of terrorism during the previous year. In addition to detailing the rationale behind which governments are listed as \"State Sponsors of Terrorism,\" Patterns lists the groups designated as \"Foreign Terrorist Organizations.\" Patterns 2000 \u2014 which covered 1999 \u2014 gave high marks to the PA for its counter-terrorism efforts. Indeed, throughout 1999, according to the report, the PA \"continued to act against Palestinian perpetrators of violence against Israel.\"\nPursuant to the PLOCCA, the State Department also submits a semiannual document reporting on Palestinian adherence to the 1993 Oslo Accords and to subsequent agreements with Israel. Continued U.S.\u2013PLO dialogue should be, according to PLOCCA, contingent on the PLO's recognition of Israel's right to exist, its acceptance of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and its \"abstention from and renunciation of all acts of terrorism.\" It also specifies that the United States \"should seek the prevention of terrorism and other violent activity by the PLO or any of its factions\" (emphasis added). The most recent PLOCCA report issued on August 28, 2000 (covering the period through June 15, 2000) praised the PLO and the PA for their performance on security matters, for nullifying PLO charter provisions advocating the Israel's destruction, and for standing against the Arab boycott of Israel.\nPLO-PA Report Card\nDespite the State Department's relatively positive evaluation of the PA in 1999, the PA's recent record \u2014 particularly since the start of the Al Aqsa Intifada in late September 2000 \u2014 provides numerous reasons why the 2000 report should reach vastly different conclusions. Indeed, PA officials have taken full responsibility for fomenting the past six months of violence. Just ten days ago, PA minister of post and communications Imad Falooji boasted that the intifada was not a spontaneous event, but rather a carefully planned response to the failure of the Camp David peace summit in September 2000. This stunning claim at once undermines six months of PA justifications of violence as a \"popular uprising.\"\nEspecially troubling have been reports of the central role played by members of the PA security apparatus \u2014 including individuals from Chairman Yasir Arafat's Force 17 and Muhammad Dahlan's Gaza Preventative Security Service \u2014 in a series of attacks on Israelis. Many of these terrorist acts have been perpetrated by activists of the Tanzim, the strike force of Arafat's own PLO Fatah faction and the driving force behind the violence of the past six months. Many have also been publicly sanctioned and endorsed by Tanzim and other Fatah leaders.\nDespite the best efforts of PA officials to maintain a line of separation between the PA and Fatah, the distance between the two does not really exist. Arafat is, of course, the head of Fatah, and half of the PLO Executive Committee are Fatah members, as is roughly 80 percent of the PA cabinet. Indeed, Palestinians themselves believe that there is no real distinction between Fatah and the PA. In a recent survey, 57 percent of Gaza residents said that Fatah and the PA are \"one and the same thing.\"\nIn addition to its cooperation with the Fatah (Tanzim) strike forces, the PA has been working with Hamas to leverage the gains of the intifada. Since the beginning of the intifada, the PA has coordinated activities with Hamas via the Committee of National and Islamic Political Forces. Not only has the PA released numerous Hamas prisoners from its jails (including reputed killers of American citizens), on March 4 the director of the Israeli Shin Bet (internal security) claimed that PA security forces themselves have been \"helping terrorists prepare explosive devices.\"\nAnd then there is there is the issue of the PLO, the Palestinians' umbrella political organization. In the context of the blurred lines between Fatah and the PA, recent actions and statements by top PLO officials have raised serious questions about the organization's continued commitment to the renunciation of violence that is at the heart of the original Oslo understanding. Moreover, just last month, Palestinian National Council Speaker Salim Za'anoun made the startling statement that, in his view, the Palestinian covenant was never officially and formally amended to delete the articles calling for the destruction of Israel. (See PolicyWatch#307, \"Inside Palestinian Politics: Preparing for Israel under Sharon.\")\nIt is not clear what the penalties would be for the PA should its performance be found lacking in the reports. The PLOCCA report likely will punt on PA security apparatus members' participation in Tanzim terrorist acts, preferring to characterize the acts as those of lone perpetrators. But even if it doesn't, unlike its now defunct forerunner MEPFA (the Middle East Peace Facilitation Act), which expired in 1997, PLOCCA has no teeth. Whereas MEPFA required the U.S. president to \"certify\" PLO/PA compliance in order for U.S. funds to be disbursed to Palestinians, PLOCCA mandates only \"reporting\" and specifies no negative sanctions in cases of non-compliance.\nThere is, of course, some precedent for a stronger interpretation of PLOCCA. In 1990, then President George Bush suspended the pre-Gulf War U.S. dialogue with the PLO after Arafat failed to condemn an attempted Palestinian terrorist attack against Israel. Today, however, it seems unlikely that President George W. Bush would do the same, especially given the fact that he is keen to woo Arab support for a new Iraq policy and that Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon has offered to cooperate with Arafat in the event that the security situation improves. Funding to the PA could likewise be restricted via the FY 2001 Foreign Appropriations Bill (PL 106-429), in which assistance to the PA is contingent on a semi-annual presidential determination that disbursement of aid is in \"the national interest.\"\nU.S. Policy Options\nMore realistic \u2014 and probably more productive \u2014 than severing all economic and political ties with the Palestinians is for the Bush administration to utilize the incremental provisions associated with terrorist designations. Based on current evidence, the Department of State could legitimately add the Fatah Tanzim to the list of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations or add certain members of the Tanzim and Force 17 to the Terrorism Watch list, which would prevent these individuals' entry into the United States. This type of classification would fall short of an official State Department designation of the PA as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but it would nonetheless have serious financial and diplomatic implications for the PA, including potentially limiting the travel of senior PA officials to the United States and discouraging direct foreign investment in the PA. It would also no doubt send a clear message as to the gravity with which the administration views the participation of the PA in terrorism.\nFor Washington, the key is to establish an effective policy geared toward encouraging better Palestinian behavior. Adding the Tanzim to the list of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations would signal seriousness of U.S. intent not to permit violence to be used as a feature of negotiations. It would also raise the specter that Arafat's own Fatah organization \u2014 and perhaps eventually the PA \u2014 could eventually be sanctioned, should circumstances not improve. Here, Washington could exploit the high value that Arafat places on the centrality of the U.S.\u2013Palestinian relationship, which in many ways may be more important to Arafat's long-term objectives than his relationship with Israel. At the end of the day, this type of policy will not only enhance U.S. counter-terrorism policy and regional credibility, it will benefit Israeli\u2013Palestinian peacemaking.\nSchenker, David\nRemoving Syria from the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism\nThe State Department's Annual Terrorism Report - Politics as Usual\nThe Mitchell Commission Report - Many Problems, Few Solutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 28336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/music-news-reviews/article61140332.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:QTPTS2JW7XGR6YB5EXEP4LTDDX7QWFLS", "length": 5488, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.idahostatesman.com", "title": "Boise area nightlife listings Feb. 19-25 | Idaho Statesman", "raw_content": "Buffalo Club: Fri-Sat, Thu: The Saloonatics, 9 p.m. Sun/Tue/Thu: free dance lessons, 7-9 p.m. 10206 Fairview Ave., Boise. 321-1811.\nChandlers Steakhouse: Fri: Frank Marra, 5:30-7:30 p.m., John Jones Trio, 8-11 p.m. Sat: Frank Marra, 5:30-7:30 p.m., John Jones Trio w/Nicole Christensen, 8-11 p.m. Sun: The Sidemen, 6-9 p.m. Mon: Dan Costello, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Tue: Esteban Anastasio, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Chuck Smith Trio, 8-11 p.m. Wed: Jeremy Stewart, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Chuck Smith Trio, 8-11 p.m. Thu: Jeremy Stewart, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Ben Burdick Trio w/Amy Rose, 8-11 p.m. 981 W. Grove St., Boise. 383-4300.\nChina Blue: Thu: Trill Thursday\u2019s EDM Club Nights, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., $5; free for ladies. 100 S. 6th St., Boise. 338-6604.\nCrooked Fence Brewing: Sat: Pamela DeMarche, 7-9 p.m. 3705 Idaho 16, Eagle. 286-9463.\nCrowbar: Fri: RedFx, JTR, 10 p.m. Sat: Jon E Thin, Travis, 10 p.m. Wed: Audio Visual DJ, 10 p.m. Thu: Daver and Friends, 10 p.m. 107 S. 6th St., Boise. 345-2505.\nThe District Coffee House: Fri: Lone Tree River, The Regulars, Sloth Patrol, 7:30 p.m. 219 N. 10th St., Boise. 343-1089.\nEdge Brewery and Restaurant: Wed: The Battlefield, 6:30-8:30 p.m. 525 N. Steelhead Way, Boise. 995-2979.\nFatty\u2019s Bar: Fri: rotating DJs, 9 p.m.-close. Sat: DJ Zuz, 9 p.m.-close. Tue: DJ Slieb, 9 p.m.-close. Wed: DJ Zuz, 9 p.m.-close. 800 W. Idaho St., Boise. 629-6314.\nFlying M Coffeegarage: Sat: The Backups, Lakoda, 8 p.m., $5. 1314 2nd St. S., Nampa. 467-5533.\nGelato Cafe: Mon: open mike hosted by Craig Slover, 6-9 p.m. Wed: Leah VanBlaricom and Chris Dineen, 6-9 p.m. Thu: Steve and Grace Wall, 6-9 p.m. 2053 E. Fairview Ave., Suite 101, Meridian. 846-8410.\nHannah\u2019s: Fri-Sat, Wed: Rocci Johnson Band, 9:30 p.m.-close. Thu: DJ Ankid, 9:30 p.m.-close. 621 Main St., Boise. 345-7557.\nHigh Note Cafe: Fri: The Olivia de Havilland Mosquitoes, 7 p.m. Sat: Built for Slow, 7 p.m. Mon: open mike, 7 p.m. 225 N. 5th St., Boise. 429-1911.\nHighlands Hollow Brewhouse: Wed: Hillfolk Noir, 6-9 p.m. 2455 Harrison Hollow Lane, Boise. 343-6820.\nKnitting Factory: Fri: Black Tooth Grin, Final Underground, We Were Giants, Mariana, The Good Guys, 7:30 p.m., $6. Sat: Salsa Fiesta! with DJ Giovanni, 9 p.m., $6. Sun: STRFKR/Com Truise, Fake Drugs, 8 p.m., $17/$19. Mon: Elle King, 8 p.m. (sold out). Thu: Iration/Pepper, New Kingston, 8 p.m., $20. 416 S. 9th St., Boise. 367-1212.\nLiquid: Fri-Sat: Shane Torres, 8 and 10 p.m., $12. Sun: Shane Torres, 8 p.m., $10. Mon: Punk Monday, 9 p.m. Wed: comedy open mike, 8 p.m. (signups at 7 p.m.). Thu: Sean Peabody, 8 p.m., $10. 405 S. 8th St., Boise. 941-2459.\nNeurolux: Sat: The Lochness Mobsters, Atomic Moses, 7-11 p.m., $5; DJ Stardust Lounge, 11 p.m.-2 a.m. Tue: Sleepy Seahorse, Revolt Revolt, 7-11 p.m., $5. Thu: Emily Wells, Lorna Dune, Melody English, 7-11 p.m., $10/$12. 111 N. 11th St., Boise. 343-0886.\nO\u2019Michael\u2019s Pub & Grill: Sat: Kent Persons and Friends, 9 p.m. Tue: Joel Kasserman, 5:30 p.m. Thu: open mike with Uncle Chris, 7-10 p.m. 2433 N. Bogus Basin Road, Boise. 342-8948.\nOrphan Annie\u2019s Bar & Grill: Fri: Jeannie Marie, 7-11 p.m. Sat: Dee Hisel, 7-11 p.m. 801 Everett St., Caldwell. 455-2660.\nPengilly\u2019s Saloon: Fri-Sat: Old Death Whisper, 8:45 p.m. Mon: open mike with Rebecca Scott and Rob Hill, 8 p.m. Tue: The Ringtones, 8:45 p.m. Wed: Tylor and The Trainrobbers, 8:45 p.m. Thu: Frim Fram Four, 8:45 p.m. 513 W. Main St., Boise. 345-6344.\nPiper Pub & Grill: Fri: Emily Tipton, 8 p.m. Sat: Doug Cameron, 8 p.m. 150 N. 8th St., Suite 200, Boise. 343-2444.\nThe Ranch Club: Wed: DJ Bonz, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. 3544 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City. 378-7363.\nReef: Fri: Dimond Saints, Lovegunz, 10 p.m., $10/$15. Sat: Synrgy, 10 p.m., $5. Thu: Hopeless Jack, 9:30 p.m. 105 S. 6th St., Boise. 287-9200.\nRendezvous: Fri: Pamela DeMarche, 6-9 p.m. 1117 E. Winding Creek Drive, Eagle. 939-1911.\nRevolution Center: Fri: Tyga, Lee Haze, Bonaphied, 8 p.m., $35-$65. Sun: Los Temerarios, Industrua Del Amor, Los Fugitivos, 8 p.m., $45-$75. 4983 Glenwood St., Garden City. 938-2933.\nSapphire Room, Riverside Hotel: Fri: Sara Gazarek, 7 p.m., $20-$25 advance, $25-$30 door. Sat: Authentic Imitation, 7:30 p.m., $10-$15 advance, $15-$20 door. Thu: Swing in the Thing, 8-10 p.m., with lessons from 7-8 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door. 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Boise. 343-1871.\nSockeye Grill & Brewery: Fri: The Woolybuggers Band, 7 p.m. Tue: Rebecca Scott Trio, 7 p.m. 3019 N. Cole Road, Boise. 658-1533.\nSpacebar Arcade: Sat: Third Space Saturday with DJ I.G.A. The Independent Grocer, 10 p.m.-1 a.m. Monthly all-vinyl DJ night. 200 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise. 918-0597.\nTom Grainey\u2019s: Fri: Train Robbers, 10 p.m. Sat: Big Wow, 10 p.m. Sun: Audio Visual DJ, 10 p.m. Wed: Blind Mice, 10 p.m. Thu: Metal Night, 10 p.m. 109 S. 6th St., Boise. 345-2505.\nWhiskey Jacques: Fri: Synrgy, 9 p.m., $5. Sat: Kris Lager Band, 9 p.m., $5. Thu: Heatbox, 9 p.m., $5. 251 N. Main St., Ketchum. (208) 726-5297.\nWilliB\u2019s: Fri: Defjak, 7 p.m. Sat: Billy Braun, 7 p.m. 12505 W. Chinden Blvd., Boise. 331-5666.\nSubmit listings to mjenkins@idahostatesman.com. Deadline is noon Monday before Friday publication.\nMichael Deeds recommends\nSara Gazarek: Feb. 19, Sapphire Room. Seattle-raised USC jazz studies faculty member has real-deal vocal gift.\nThe Battlefield: Feb. 24, Edge Brewery and Restaurant. Sip a local pint and listen to pretty harmonies from L.A. indie/Americana trio.\nIration/Pepper: Feb. 25, Knitting Factory. First night of a two-night run of Hawaiian-laced pop-rock and reggae.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.idaireland.com/newsroom/logmein-establishes-new-d", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:53Z", "digest": "sha1:VSTAPDJK726FLEKJS3MY5NQNXXL2U3AY", "length": 4987, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.idaireland.com", "title": "LogMeIn establishes new Dublin Office", "raw_content": "LogMeIn establishes new Dublin Office\nNews > LogMeIn establishes new Dublin Office\nMinister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, today announced the establishment by LogMeIn, Inc. (NASDAQ: LOGM) of its new Dublin office with the expected creation of 50 new jobs within the next year. LogMeIn, Inc. is a leading provider of cloud computing and mobile services. This investment is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through IDA Ireland.\nLocated in the heart of the Dublin quays along the banks of the River Liffey, the new office will house a variety of European and international functions, including sales, customer support, marketing, finance and human resources. The company is actively recruiting for all these roles and has already more than 20 employees planned to start in the office within the next three months, with plans to nearly triple its staff within the year.\nAn early player in cloud and mobile computing, LogMeIn offers solutions for accessing files and applications on-the-go, remote device management and support, as well as online collaboration. These solutions range from the top-ranked LogMeIn iPad app, to a simple screen sharing and online meeting app, join.me, used by tens of millions of people to collaborate with colleagues across the hall or across the globe, to its LogMeIn Rescue remote support solution used by more than 50 of the world\u2019s biggest mobile operators to remotely configure and troubleshoot their subscribers smartphones and tablets from hundreds or even thousands of miles away.\nFounded in 2003, LogMeIn went public on the US NASDAQ stock exchange in July 2009 in one of that year\u2019s most successful tech public offerings. Today, LogMeIn boasts an active worldwide user base of more than 15 million users, more than 400,000 paying customers, and revenues that have increased by more than 60 percent over the last three years. The company attracts more than three quarters of a million new users every month. To support this rapid growth, LogMeIn\u2019s headcount has grown by more than 30 percent over the last two years and it now has more than 535 employees located around the world.\n\u201cCloud computing is a key growth sector which we have targeted in the Action Plan for Jobs, and we have implemented a number of changes to support the development of a strong cloud computing industry here. Today\u2019s announcement that LogMeIn, a leading company in this sector, is locating an important facility in Dublin with the planned creation of 50 jobs is a further indication of the strong growth of this sector in Ireland. With continued implementation of the Action Plan for Jobs I am determined to ensure that we can see further cloud computing investments like this in the near future.''\n\u201cDublin represents a great location for our continued European expansion, given the unique combination of a highly educated, mobile savvy workforce, and a growing innovation scene made up of some the biggest names in technology,\u201d said Michael Simon, LogMeIn\u2019s CEO. \u201cWe see this new office becoming an increasingly important international hub for attracting and supporting our rapidly expanding user and customer base. It\u2019s great to be in Ireland, and we look forward to welcoming lots of energetic, smart, technology savvy and driven employees from Dublin to the LogMeIn family. ''\nWelcoming the announcement, Barry O\u2019Leary, CEO of IDA Ireland said \u201cMobility and cloud computing are among the most transformative and fastest growing sectors in the technology industry, and LogMeIn is at the forefront of this rapidly expanding space. Today\u2019s announcement by LogMeIn is further evidence that Ireland is an increasingly desirable destination for market leaders to grow their businesses and attract high-tech talent. LogMeIn joins the growing cluster of technology leaders, including Salesforce.com, Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook, establishing operational centres in Dublin.\u2019\u2019\nFor information on LogMeIn jobs log onto\nhttps://secure.logmein.com/about/careers/lifeatlogmein.aspx#10\nLogMeIn (NASDAQ:LOGM) provides essential cloud and mobile services to individuals, businesses, and IT organizations for remote access, collaboration, customer care, and remote IT management. These services are used by millions of people to quickly, simply and securely connect over 150 million internet-enabled devices across the globe \u2014 computers, smartphones, iPad\u2122 and Android\u2122 tablets, and digital displays. LogMeIn is based in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA, with offices in Australia, Hungary, India, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, and the UK.\nLogMeIn is a registered trademark of LogMeIn in the U.S. and other countries. iPad is a trademark ofApple, Inc., and Android is a trademark of Google, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries around the world.\nCraig VerColen\npress@logmein.com\nAntoinette Tyrrell, Press Officer, Mob: +353 (0) 87 7572053\nPress Office, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, 01-6312200, press.office@djei.ie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 8867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 166.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.idealenergysolar.com/casestudies/fairfield-public-library/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:41Z", "digest": "sha1:YFAC5VBANJR6YGUFUBZPLWJKOPILHDKJ", "length": 1286, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.idealenergysolar.com", "title": "Fairfield Public Library - Ideal Energy Solar Fairfield Public Library - Ideal Energy Solar", "raw_content": "This 17 kW installation at the Fairfield Public Library was the reward after a year\u2019s long effort to reduce overall energy consumption in the City of Fairfield, IA.\nFairfield was selected by serving utility, Alliant Energy, to participate in the Hometown Rewards Program, and chose a goal of reducing overall city energy consumption over year\u2019s time by 4%. By meeting this goal, Fairfield would be granted a cash reward to fund an energy improvement \u2014 in this case, to install a solar array on the public library.\nIdeal Energy collaborated with the City of Fairfield on this project, on the installation, hosted a series of lectures outlining the benefits and basics to PV, and made a donation time and materials to increase the solar installation. Through a series of lectures, events, and workshops, the community members of Fairfield rallied together, slashing the 4% reduction goal, and achieving an impressive overall 8.5% energy reduction.\n5-6 Years, 26.90 IRR\n361 metric tons of CO2\n\u201cAlliant\u2019s Hometown Rewards program engaged a large part of the community in education around energy efficiency and clean energy. Putting solar panels on the library an awesome example of how this technology impacts a community.\u201d\n\u2013 Scott Timm, Former Sustainability Coordinator, City of Fairfield", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.illumio.com/customer-story-caa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:18Z", "digest": "sha1:S2ANSTQN5HGABATAOW7SYPJPREAQE2EB", "length": 3756, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.illumio.com", "title": "Illumio Customer Story: CAA", "raw_content": "Creative Artist Agency\u2019s Jeff Blair discusses how Illumio helps his team more easily understand and control what\u2019s happening inside the network.\nJeff Blair is responsible for the secure delivery of services and systems at CAA.\nHow have you seen the role of information technology change over the last five years?\nJEFF BLAIR: IT has changed from delivering basic IT services to partnering with the business to ensure that the right information is available at the right time.\nFrom a security perspective, it means that we aren\u2019t just locking down systems in order to protect the business\u2019s data. Instead, we need to ensure that people can get to the systems that they need in a secure way and that it\u2019s easy for them to do so.\nWe no longer have the proxy of system lock downs and preventing behaviors and actions on systems that we had in the past. Those proxies are gone. We have to find better ways to protect closer to the data to ensure that we are able to log and monitor behaviors rather than block access.\nCISO, Creative Artists Agency\nJEFF BLAIR: The thing that really sold us on Illumio was the ability to separate out the control of security from the enforcement of security\u2014and having the control be able to be a cloud service, be centrally monitored, and have the ability to be accessed from any system, regardless of whether it\u2019s deployed in one of our data centers or in the cloud. We can have a unified view of security across multiple servers.\nThe other piece that was important to us was that we could also distribute access across the teams who were actually deploying services. This helps to support our continuous delivery model. We\u2019re no longer reliant on one person or a small team in order to make firewall configuration changes for which they don't really know the context.\nDelivering applications and data to our employees regardless of location or device is a cornerstone of our IT strategy, Illumio ASP provides us with a unified security approach both inside the corporate datacenter and on the public cloud.\nJEFF BLAIR: It\u2019s allowed us to more securely move outside of our data centers. We still have a considerable number of systems that are deployed in traditional data centers, but we are also moving rapidly to cloud services and cloud infrastructure services so we can deploy those systems without having to rely on purchasing hardware.\nJEFF BLAIR: I think the best feature of Illumio is the ability to visualize network communications between systems and then enforce policies. With Illumio we are able to quickly understand what systems talk to each other, see that in the context of the applications that are deployed on those systems, and respond quickly when something tries to communicate outside of the normal boundaries.\nIllumio has also let us create a new system of boundaries quickly and understand them in a visual way rather than as code stuck away on a firewall somewhere that really only a small set of our team understands how to interpret and how to configure.\nWhat are some of your favorite sources for technology information trends?\nJEFF BLAIR: A lot of the information I get comes from reading\u2014and it's not necessarily traditional security sources.\nOne of the things that informed my security posture and view on risk was Nassim Nicholas Taleb\u2019s book, The Black Swan, which helped me understand how to protect against outlier events and what we should be looking for versus the constant stream of normal occurrences.\nFrom an investigative reporting capability, Brian Krebs is really doing some incredible work beating large news sources to security stories. The Security Weekly podcast is a very useful source of security information; it really introduces me to a wide variety of security professionals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 7467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ilwareed.info/news/amazon-stands-for-nothing-that-almost-makes-it-beautiful/2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:26Z", "digest": "sha1:7HEJAFALH7RS4KC6OOUPMQZLWK6V5FLF", "length": 8636, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.ilwareed.info", "title": "Amazon stands for nothing. That almost makes it beautiful | Ilwareed Online", "raw_content": "Amazon stands for nothing. That almost makes it beautiful\nAmazon became the most valuable public company in the world for the first time in its 24-year existence earlier this week. Any company that reaches such heights has had a remarkable journey. What\u2019s brought Amazon there is both incredibly complicated and yet so simple.\nThink back to when we first met Amazon in the mid-1990s. It was but a humble online book retailer. Even then it had constructed a super-clear vision for how it would operate. Just look at the first three sentences it used to describe itself in its filing to go public in 1997:\nAmazon.com is the leading online retailer of books. Since opening for business as \u201cEarth\u2019s Biggest Bookstore\u201d in July 1995, the Amazon.com bookstore has quickly become one of the most widely known, used and cited commerce sites on the World Wide Web (the \u201cWeb\u201d). Amazon.com strives to offer its customers compelling value through innovative use of technology, broad selection, high-quality content, a high level of customer service, competitive pricing and personalized services.\nIt doesn\u2019t start off with an \u201cowners\u2019 manual\u201d for shareholders as Google did in its S-1 (\u201cGoogle is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.\u201d). Nor does it offer up any sort of manifesto like Facebook\u2019s \u201cThe Hacker Way.\u201d No, Amazon got down to how it was going to beat you and if it were to file to go public today, even though it is far, far more than a bookseller, that line would hold up perfectly.\nTech companies tend to oversell their missions. While Amazon has some of the loftiest ambitions, it\u2019s all business. In the current environment, that\u2019s one of its greatest strengths.\nWhereas Google set itself up for scrutiny with its old \u201cDon\u2019t be evil\u201d tagline, Facebook shrouded itself in the noble cause of connecting the world, and Apple only wanted you to \u201cthink different,\u201d Amazon has never offered up any sort of ethos to the world. In that way, Amazon is almost\u2026more pure. Really, it\u2019s perhaps the greatest capitalist machine we\u2019ve seen. It may obfuscate the details but it doesn\u2019t put on airs about what it\u2019s doing.\nBezos has talked about the virtues of the \u201cflywheel,\u201d where low prices attract customers, which can lead to economies of scale, which leads back to attracting more customers and so on. That\u2019s merely a legitimate business strategy. The closest the current richest man on earth has come to pitching slogans is declaring that he wants Amazon Prime to be such a good deal that people would be \u201cirresponsible\u201d for not subscribing. Sure, his annual shareholders\u2019 letters can be full of MBA speak (\u201cI believe we are the best place in the world to fail\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s always Day 1\u201c), but no capitalist is perfect.\nIn retrospect, it\u2019s pretty amazing how we\u2019ve treated Amazon. It destroyed countless booksellers, including the mass chains that we chided for taking out our treasured local shops, and upended the entire publishing industry. We still got feel-good profiles like 60 Minutes\u2019 1999 \u201cNerd of the Amazon\u201d segment on CBS. Walmart has been dragged for destroying mom-and-pop stores for decades; Amazon is one of the most beloved brands in the US.\nThe joy of being mission agnostic\nAmazon isn\u2019t immoral from what we can discern (though some of its warehouse workers may disagree). Rather, it\u2019s much closer to amoral. If you believe capitalism is unequivocally good, Amazon should be your ideal. When it was ready to look for what it called a second headquarters (a glorious oxymoron), it essentially opened it up to public bidding. Basically any US municipal or state economic development body would have been remiss to not make a play. Indeed, 238 bids were submitted. Critics were quick to say this was all a charade to see how sweet of a deal it could get out of the three or four places it would seriously consider. Meanwhile Amazon gained access to invaluable data from all the other bidders, on everything from infrastructure planning to city demographics. That\u2019s probably worth incurring a few hurt feelings at city hall.\nA big theme out of Silicon Valley last year was how employees who joined companies with the assurance they would be making the world a better place were holding their employers to that standard. More than 4,000 Google employees signed a petition and a dozen resigned in protest over the company\u2019s involvement in developing technology for the Pentagon\u2019s Project Maven. The company ultimately decided it wouldn\u2019t renew the contract following the backlash. Microsoft\u2019s leadership similarly faced pushback (paywall) from its employees over work it does for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While stopping short of saying it would cease such work, the company at least said it was \u201cdismayed\u201d by the separation of children from their families at the border.\nNow, contrast that with how the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Andy Jassy, responded to an employee question over the sale of its facial-recognition software, Rekognition, to agencies like ICE: \u201cWe feel really great and really strongly about the value that Amazon Rekognition is providing our customers of all sizes and all types of industries in law enforcement and out of law enforcement.\u201d There are more comments around the question, but they mostly amount to: We\u2019re fine with what we\u2019re doing and it\u2019s good business. AWS is fiercely competing for a $10-billion cloud-computing contract from the Department of Defense and it\u2019s no coincidence that one of its two new headquarters will be just a mile down the road from the Pentagon. Employee concerns aren\u2019t about to derail this business.\nThen there\u2019s Bezos himself. With an estimated net worth of $135 billion, he is by far the richest person in the world (though that could change with his pending divorce). And while a number of his multi-multi-multi billionaire peers have committed to giving away the bulk of their wealth over their lifetime, the soon-to-be 55 year old has barely begun to dip his toes into philanthropy. Rather, he is planning to convert his Amazon \u201clottery winnings\u201d into funding for space travel. The message seems clear for now: It\u2019s his money and he\u2019ll do with it as he pleases.\nAmazon has steamrolled its way to becoming an $800-billion company. Here\u2019s its next trick: Amazon wants to fade from your life without ever leaving it. It wants to reduce all the friction from commerce. It wants you to walk around your home and tell Alexa what you want. It wants you to simply press a button by your washing machine when you\u2019re low on detergent. It wants its couriers to stealthily leave packages in your home when you\u2019re not there. It wants you to walk into a store, take what you need and leave. It wants to send you things you didn\u2019t even know you needed. It revolutionized online shopping with one-click checkout and two-day delivery. Next is no click and nearly instantaneous. There\u2019s no backlash if there\u2019s nothing to really think about.\nNone of this is to say that there aren\u2019t threats to Amazon. The company\u2019s unfettered growth and entry into new markets has caught the attention of those concerned with competition. The president of the United States is reported to be \u201cobsessed\u201d with proving Amazon is a monopoly and has repeatedly tied the Washington Post\u2019s tough coverage of his presidency to Bezos\u2019 ownership of the publication. No policies appear to be in the works. Still, having your name bandied about as an antitrust target inWashington isn\u2019t a good thing. Meanwhile, Amazon has been pumping more and more money into its lobbying efforts, both to win business and to ward off unfavorable legislation.\nThat pursuit of growth\u2014and its mercilessly competitive spirit\u2014has also put Amazon in some dubious positions. As it ramps up its ad business, it will be serving two parties: the consumer and the advertiser. Whose interests will it put first? Amazon has also rapidly expanded the stable of products it makes itself, pitting it against the outside manufacturers who sell on its platform. That has regulators around the world concerned, reports Axios.\nPerhaps the greatest threat is that of perception. Amazon has emerged relatively unscathed from numerous negative stories about its tough corporate culture (paywall) and the working conditions in its quickly multiplying warehouses. Its influence has become so great that it\u2019s even changing how economists think about inflation. There are no indications that its influence will wane anytime soon, which should only bring a harsher spotlight on the role it plays in our lives and society.\nSomeday, though, Amazon might need to stand for something other than just being Amazon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 11716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.imaginetile.com/tile-details/233/expressions-tile-collection/wine-corks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXJOUM3KAHUIGOOTMBYNPWWPYXGYMIP7", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.imaginetile.com", "title": "Imagine Tile | Custom Ceramic Tile, Ceramic Floor Tile, Mural Wall Tile, Decorative Wall Tiles, Glazed Ceramic Tile", "raw_content": "Wine Corks bring the look of real corks to life in this patterned ceramic tile, providing a unique option for creating a wine-themed environment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 6729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 281.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.immigrationyes.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:45Z", "digest": "sha1:EFTMEGNHRQ4CFUCW7DV6HMLUWCFSOYTQ", "length": 1128, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.immigrationyes.com", "title": "Immigration Yes \u2013 Immigration Yes", "raw_content": "Immigration YES!\nOur law firm offers remarkable results to our clients by providing the personalized attention that only a small firm can offer, with the experience and capacities of a big firm. Our firm represents individuals who are interested in living and working in the United States, and businesses interested in US market entry. In addition to business immigration, we handle family-based immigration and removal proceedings.\nSuccessfully steering your immigration case through the complex processes and numerous deadlines is extremely difficult if you don\u2019t have an immigration attorney. Immigration law is constantly changing, and it is very difficult for most people to understand what is required and when. An experienced immigration attorney can prepare your petitions / applications; coach you through the USCIS interview; resolve issues on visas, green cards, naturalization process; and more.\nThe Law Offices of Moneque S. Walker P.A. provides outstanding U.S. Immigration representation for foreign national individuals and U.S. corporations seeking non-immigrant visas, permanent residence and U.S. citizenship.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.importantindia.com/tag/ecosystem/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJ4NZULYQBGZ6VKEFC4MP4Y7JXCNBXTZ", "length": 2146, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.importantindia.com", "title": "Ecosystem Archives - Page 3 of 5 - ImportantIndia.com", "raw_content": "Terrestrial Ecosystem: Its Meaning and Types\nCategory: Environment, Essays and Paragraphs On November 13, 2016 By Various Contributors\nWhat is the Meaning of Terrestrial Ecosystem? A terrestrial ecosystem is an ecosystem that exists on land, rather than on water. Such ecosystem is a community of organisms existing and living together on the land. We can see this from the etymology of the word terrestrial. 'Terrus' is Latin for \u2026 [Read more...] about Terrestrial Ecosystem: Its Meaning and Types\nWhat is a Desert Ecosystem? \u2013 Meaning and Types\nWhat is the meaning of desert ecosystem? The word desert comes from the Latin word 'desertus'. 'Desertus' means waste, or something that has been left. From this we get English words such as desert and deserted. An ecosystem is a system of organisms that live together as a community. So, putting \u2026 [Read more...] about What is a Desert Ecosystem? \u2013 Meaning and Types\nWhat is a Forest Ecosystem? \u2013 Meaning and Types\nWhat is the meaning of forest ecosystem? The word forest means a wooded area. This word comes from the Latin word forus which simply means outside (and it is where we get the English word foreign). However, over the years, via the Latin phrase 'forestis silva' (which means a wood outside) the \u2026 [Read more...] about What is a Forest Ecosystem? \u2013 Meaning and Types\nMarine Ecosystem: Its Meaning and Types\nIntroduction: An ecosystem can be defined as a community or system of organisms, all living together. This community is marked out as distinctive because it has certain defining characteristics. But, what is a marine ecosystem? The word marine comes from the Latin word mare which means the sea. \u2026 [Read more...] about Marine Ecosystem: Its Meaning and Types\nWhat is an Ecosystem? What are its various types?\nWhat is an Ecosystem? An ecosystem is a collection of organisms that, considered together, form a distinct system. The interdependent interactions of these organisms with each other and with their environment, is known as an ecosystem. The word eco means an environment, and it comes from ancient \u2026 [Read more...] about What is an Ecosystem? What are its various types?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.inc.com/news/briefs/200708/0828score.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3XNZRSAVQTR5MVW2S6SLZKY33O6TZL2O", "length": 581, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.inc.com", "title": "SCORE Fundraising Hits $1 Million - small business | Inc.com", "raw_content": "SCORE Fundraising Hits $1 Million\nSCORE, a national counseling group for entrepreneurs based in Washington, hit the $1 million fundraising mark this week, which will be used for workshops, events, and other resources for small-business owners.\n\"These donations make it possible for millions of entrepreneurs and small-business owners to receive an outstanding array of resource tools,\" SCORE CEO Ken Yancey said in a statement.\nThe group, which was founded in 1964 to promote entrepreneurship, currently has 389 chapters nationwide staffed by some 10,500 volunteers.\n-more briefs -", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.independent.ie/life/irish-missionaries-they-havent-gone-away-you-know-30666232.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:48Z", "digest": "sha1:76DFL3QN2JKMISS3WXTO357LHVE36M6C", "length": 8357, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.independent.ie", "title": "Irish missionaries: they haven't gone away, you know - Independent.ie", "raw_content": "Irish missionaries: they haven't gone away, you know\nOnce the nation's pride and joy, they've slipped off the radar in recent times. But they're still out there doing good works.\nLabour of love: Jackie Pallas on the ground in Africa.\nFr PJ Cassidy and Jackie Pallis.\nFr Leo Staples in Kenya\nTomorrow is Mission Sunday. Plate collections in Catholic churches across the land will raise a projected \u20ac2m for Ireland's missionaries in the developing world. There are currently some 1,600 Irish missionaries scattered across Africa, Asia and South America, running schools, clinics and sanitation schemes, and giving a voice to human rights and social justice issues.\nhttp://indo.ie/3sRV1d\nhttps://www.independent.ie/life/article30666229.ece/7617c/AUTOCROP/h342/2014-10-18_lif_3919670_I1.JPG\nLittle more than a generation ago, Mission Sunday was a red letter day in the life of the nation. Throughout the depressed middle decades of the 20th Century, the work of our missionaries was one of the very few good news stories an impoverished and repressed people had to tell, both ourselves and the wider world.\nAchievements in other spheres, growing secularism, and a sharp decline in vocations have combined to elbow the missions from centre stage to the wings. According to Jackie Pallas, the national secretary of Missionary Children: \"It has slipped off the radar because you don't have nuns and priests teaching in schools and promoting it, but it has survived because teachers tap into the fact that pupils have a tremendous empathy with other children facing hardship.\"\nBy way of illustration, she says: \"Some time ago, I visited a school in Uganda. There were four kids squashed into desks that were built for two. They had nothing. I wanted to see what food the children had brought from home, and asked them to take out what they had. One little girl just had a boiled egg to get her through the school day. Because I'd asked her to take out her food, she thought that I must be hungry and gave me the egg. I tried to say no, but the teacher said I'd have to accept it and eat it, so I did, meaning she had no lunch. I told this to a class back in Ireland and a little boy came up and gave me his money to buy the little girl an egg. That's the sort of empathy we find everywhere, in children and adults.\"\nA laywoman from an accounting background, Jackie \"felt led into the work\" 15 years ago, despite initial reservations. She says: \"From the first day, I felt an overwhelming peace and calm, and that's still there.\"\nIn contrast, Fr PJ Cassidy, provincial delegate of The Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers), felt the tug of his vocation at an early age. His curiosity piqued by a priest who regularly stayed at his family's guesthouse in Donegal. He reflects: \"He was a White Father from Tyrone and he gave me the sense that missionaries interpreted the world in a broader way than most people. His stories of Africa intrigued me.\"\nNow in his mid-40s, PJ joined up as a student with the Jesuits at a time when many were being called but few chosen. After completing a philosophy course in Dublin, he was packed off to Zambia \"for a novitiate, or spiritual year, where you attempt to ground your training in an African setting and to get to know yourself\".\nHe says: \"When I joined in 1987, I was one of an initial group of 25. By the end of the first year of study in Ireland, 10 had dropped out, and another four or five dropped out during their year on the ground in Africa. They would have felt it just didn't do it for them.\"\nWhen the numbers going to Africa were at their peak from the 1920s to the 1970s, the claim was often heard that the missions were the Church's method for exporting its more turbulent, progressive and radical priests, mirroring the way that mass emigration acted as a safety valve for discontent in the broader Irish society.\nFr Cassidy indicates that the missions may still serve that function to some extent, saying: \"I'd share that mentality. I would find it hard enough to work in the confines of an Irish parish. In Africa, you can represent the God that's within you. You can put your own interpretation on things. For example, you may decide to reposition the giving of the sign of peace in the Mass. It might make sense to move it to the front of the ceremony, so that the first thing the people do when they come together from far afield is to greet each other with a shared gesture of being neighbours in a community.\n\"In a missionary setting you can move things around without having people getting on your case. You have a freedom from getting bogged down in red tape. We are administrators, but the Africans living there are the ones running their communities. Our job is not to lead but to facilitate.\"\nI tell Fr Cassidy about a long conversation I had some years ago with a veteran priest on a flight that was taking him back to Kenya, where he'd spent some 50 years. I was deeply taken aback when he told me that while he was a respected and popular figure in his bush community, he had a deep, despondent sense that in some ways he'd wasted his life amongst a people who'd accepted the material improvements he'd helped to bring, but who had passed on the Christianity part of the package.\nPJ responds: \"I think that's a man who you'd have to admire for dedicating his life to a cause. He'd have arrived at a time when people would have looked up to a missionary priest as sort of guru, but attitudes have changed.\n\"There would be times when I myself would be discouraged. You might go to meet with a little community in the middle of the bush to say Mass for them. You've travelled a long way, perhaps for days, and they don't turn up to meet you, and you say 'I've wasted all this time and effort'. But still you wait, and they finally turn up and you greet each other warmly and we all have a great gathering, and it's all been worth it.\n\"But that sort of existence can be tough for elderly priests. Many of the older lads find it getting harder, but they love it still and many can't face the prospect of coming back to Ireland to face a new unknown. Many want to stay out there and die out there, and I totally understand that and would always allow that. But it is the toughness of missionary life in Africa that makes it a living faith. I've found from my own experience that when your faith is tested, that's what makes it very real.\"\nHe continues: \"Many of the older priests find it hard to accept that Africa is a continent on the move, changing and vibrant. For instance, the mobile phone network in Africa is much more developed than here. One of the lads was recently about to leave Ireland to head back to Mali, and getting ready to go, he got a call from the bush wishing him a safe journey. It's a changed world.\"\nThe face of the missions has changed here too since the days of the guru priest. Jackie Pallas represents the body that once distributed the Black Babies Box, an item found on every shop counter and every church porch for decades. By the 1950s, Ireland was going black baby crazy. Black babies were popping up as clues in The Irish Times crossword, top designer Sybil Connolly was using Black Baby Ribbon in her costly creations, and the exclusive Switzer's department store was selling 'Black Baby Dolls' for 23s 6d each. Stealing from a Black Babies Box was the lowest of crimes. In 1956, two men were sentenced to hard labour for pilfering \u00a31 from one. The collection boxes, and the slogan, \"A penny for the Black Babies\", seemed to vanish almost overnight in the mid-1970s, suddenly appearing condescending and a bit un-PC in a world of changing sensibilities.\nJackie says: \"It was part of childhood. Bob Geldof said in his book that the Black Babies Box gave him his first consciousness of helping. His publishers got in touch with me looking for a box, but I couldn't find a single one anywhere.\"\nWhile his work keeps him in Ireland for most of the time, Fr PJ readily admits that he yearns for a return to working on the ground in Africa. He explains: \"The people there can face the day with a smile when there is literally nothing to survive on. In Mozambique, people didn't know if they were going to be alive at the end of the day. I feel alive in Africa. I love what I do and it's a privilege to do it.\"\nMission Sunday is celebrated in Catholic churches tomorrow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 630, "original_length": 19960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/you-cannot-rule-anything-out-arsene-wenger-cannot-guarantee-alexis-sanchezs-future-amid-man-city-links-36070820.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:06Z", "digest": "sha1:UEDOFIP45L7KFAMM7W5MBERSQLBWIJX5", "length": 3192, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.independent.ie", "title": "'You cannot rule anything out' - Arsene Wenger cannot guarantee Alexis Sanchez's future amid Man City links - Independent.ie", "raw_content": "'You cannot rule anything out' - Arsene Wenger cannot guarantee Alexis Sanchez's future amid Man City links\nAlexis Sanchez makes a timely return for Arsenal this weekend...but could it be his last game for the club?\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger has refused to rule out the departure of Alexis Sanchez in the final few days of the transfer window, but the Chilean is expected to play in Sunday's Premier League game at Liverpool.\nhttps://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/you-cannot-rule-anything-out-arsene-wenger-cannot-guarantee-alexis-sanchezs-future-amid-man-city-links-36070820.html\nhttps://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/article36069843.ece/b56b2/AUTOCROP/h342/PANews_P-93629754-3052-4de4-a674-0c72f071c83c_I1.jpg\nSanchez has entered the final year of his contract at Arsenal and will be able to leave on a free transfer unless the Gunners cash in on him now, with Manchester City believed to be keen to seal a deal.\nWenger has previously stated that he will not consider allowing Sanchez to leave in this transfer window despite his contract position, but that position appears to have shifted in recent days.\n\u201cYou cannot rule anything out,\" stated Wenger. \"For me, you have a sporting decision and the sport decision is easy: You keep him until the last day of his contract. I don't consider players' contractual situation to decide who plays.\n\u201cThen you have a compromise to find if you can afford to do it because you lose a lot of money and at the end of the day my decision, which is purely sporting, is easy to make. I want him to stay.\n\u201cAfter that there is, of course, a lot of money involved as well and the club needs to make a financial sacrifice.\n\u201cWho has the final say? I have always been followed by the board, but the final say belongs to the board.\n\u201cIt's a financial sacrifice for the club and sometimes you have to calculate what you can afford and what you can't afford.\n\"It is difficult for me to know about other individual cases, but sometimes players have been promised things that have not been kept.\nWenger then gave an evasive answer when he was asked whether Arsenal could pass up a potential \u00a350m transfer fee, but he is confident his star man is in the right frame of mind to start his first game of the season at Liverpool on Sunday.\n\u201cAlexis wants to play,\" added Wenger. \"Alexis works hard and he is focused to play.\n\u201cWhat is good is that our mutual interest is that he does well for us. On top of that I deeply feel he loves to be here and he loves the club.\n\u201cYes, he arrives at the age of 28, 29 and he looks at the quality of his contract, but I believe he loves to be here.\n\u201cIn a professional job, I always think that you have to make sure with your commitment that the guy who pays you gets what he is paying you for.\n\u201cAlexis is in that mode and I think he will be until the last day he is here. He will give his best.\"\nLaurent Koscielny ready to give Arsene Wenger and Arsenal a defensive boost\nPremier League talking points\nThe inside story on why Virgil van Dijk's reputation at Southampton is shattered - and why they should sell him now\nArsene Wenger confirms Alexis Sanchez available to play Liverpool - but will it be his final game for Arsenal?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 624, "original_length": 14751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indianaminoritybusinessmagazine.com/departments/up-the-ladder/up-the-ladder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:53Z", "digest": "sha1:AOVENF5UAPIXNAGOM3TZWXA72RGBRQXS", "length": 8441, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.indianaminoritybusinessmagazine.com", "title": "Indiana Minority Business Magazine | Up the Ladder", "raw_content": "Tangela Floyd, former public relations director for YMCA of Greater Indianapolis, has been appointed statewide director of public relations for St. Vincent Health. Floyd has nearly two decades of corporate communications experience. She previously worked in PR at Northern Indiana Public Service Company and The Methodist Hospitals in Northwest Indiana. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Indiana.\nMaureen Hands has joined MainSource Bank as a health care banking specialist. Hands has a master\u2019s degree in business administration from Ohio State University, with a concentration in finance and hospital and health services administration. She also holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Dayton with a major in finance/economics. Hands has 21 years of commercial banking experience and has managed multi-million dollar portfolios for developers and health care companies within the Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana business communities. In her role with MainSource Bank, she will lead the company\u2019s growth within the health care real estate area.\nDanny Lopez will serve as Gov. Eric Holcomb\u2019s deputy chief of staff. Lopez began his work in politics, advocacy and government in 2004 as co-managing partner of Capitol Gains Corp., a Miami-based political consulting and Spanish-language media relations firm with a client portfolio ranging from national and international candidates to domestic and multi-national corporations. He most recently served as chief of staff for Holcomb during his time as lieutenant governor. Prior to that position, he held the role of state director for Sen. Dan Coats following years of service in the administrations of both Gov. Mike Pence and Gov. Mitch Daniels. He was named to the Indianapolis Business Journal\u2019s prestigious Forty Under 40 list for 2016, was a board member on both the State of Indiana Charter School Board and the Greater Indianapolis YMCA, and was statewide outreach subcommittee co-chair for the 2012 Super Bowl Committee. Lopez is a graduate of Florida International University and holds a master\u2019s degree in sports administration and marketing from Georgia State University.\nCarolene Mays-Medley will retain her role as executive director of White River State Park under the administration of new Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb. Mays-Medley served as a state representative from 2002 to 2008 and was formerly publisher and president of the Indianapolis Recorder newspaper and the Indiana Minority Business Magazine. She was appointed executive director of White River State Park Development Commission by Gov. Mike Pence and formerly served as a commissioner and vice chairman of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. She is a graduate of Indiana State University and is currently pursuing a Master of Jurisprudence degree from Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.\nVincennes University has appointed Diondraie Robertson as director of multicultural affairs. His past posts include serving as a doctoral admissions advisor at Colorado Technical University and as the dean of students/assistant principal for Charter Schools USA in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Robertson earned a master\u2019s degree in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University in 2010 and a bachelor\u2019s degree in humanities from Michigan State University in 2001.\nBarnes & Thornburg LLP has named Dawn Rosemond \u2014 a litigation partner in its Fort Wayne office \u2014 director of diversity, professional development and inclusion. Rosemond has been with Barnes & Thornburg for 20 years, joining as an associate in 1996. She has been a partner since 2005. In her latest role, Rosemond will be charged with elevating and strengthening the firm\u2019s diversity and inclusion platform through the ongoing development, inclusion and promotion of diverse legal talent. She will also serve as co-chair of the firmwide Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Rosemond is a former appointee to the Indiana Supreme Court Commission on Race and Gender Fairness. She practices in commercial litigation and is a member of Barnes & Thornburg\u2019s Pro Bono Committee and the Legal Personnel Administration Committee and an administrator for the Litigation Department. In the Fort Wayne community, she currently serves on the boards of Visit Fort Wayne, the Downtown Development Trust and Greater Fort Wayne Inc. A published author, frequent speaker on leadership and personal development, and youth mentor, Rosemond is also an Indiana Torchbearer Award recipient, was named as one of the most influential African-Americans in Northeast Indiana by INK Magazine, has been listed in Indiana Super Lawyers, and was named as one of the \u201cTop Attorneys \u2013 Business Litigation (Indiana)\u201d in the Corporate Counsel Edition of Super Lawyers. She is also the 2015-16 recipient of the ACBA Niemann Citation for Excellence and Professionalism, which is presented to attorneys who demonstrate \u201cdistinguished legal work, professionalism, public service and leadership.\u201d\nIvy Tech Community College has announced Janet Rummel as vice president of workforce alignment operations and marketing. Rummel will serve as a primary adviser to the senior vice president of workforce alignment, Chris Lowery, regarding community relations and workforce training needs of local and regional business and industry. Most recently, Rummel served as director of training and professional development at Phalen Leadership Academies in Indianapolis, where she provided academic leadership and operational consultation for four schools and planning for out-of-state expansion. Since 2009, she has been an independent K-12 curriculum and instruction consultant with Leading in Action Consulting LLC. Prior to her recent role, Rummel worked at Goodwill Education Initiatives in various roles including executive director, chief academic officer, director of curriculum and TAP master teacher. She led operations and academics with a focus on long-range planning, employee management and talent development, curriculum development, budgeting and grants management. Rummel earned her Master of Science in education from Indiana University, along with her Indiana Building Level Administrators License. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in biology and political science from Depauw University. She plans to complete her doctoral studies in higher education and academic affairs.\nTaKeena M. Thompson has been named partner at Cohen & Malad, LLP. Thompson\u2019s expertise is in medical malpractice and mass tort litigation. A notable case she took to trial involved the successful representation of a woman in a claim against a hospital for over-prescribing an antibiotic, causing permanent damage. The jury returned a $1.7 million verdict. Thompson has been named an Indiana Super Lawyer Rising Star by Thomson Reuters each year from 2012 to 2016. She received the Golden Laurel Award from the Indianapolis Recorder newspaper in 2016 for excellence in law. She was also recognized as an Up and Coming Achiever in 2016 by the Center for Leadership Development. Thompson is a 2004 graduate of Spelman College. She earned her law degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.\nSara VanSlambrook has been named director of Great Families 2020, a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service. VanSlambrook previously served as a senior program officer for the Local Initiatives Support Coalition, Indianapolis (LISC). She has more than 15 years of experience in the nonprofit sector with expertise in program development, grant writing, evaluation, financial management and communications. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree at Saint Mary\u2019s College and her MBA and MSSA from Case Western Reserve University. Additionally, she holds a certificate in fundraising management from Indiana University\u2019s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.\nIn late November, Brett Williams joined the Indiana Sports Corp. as the public relations manager. In her most recent role with the Horizon League, she served as director of championships and communications. Williams began her career as an Indiana Sports Corp. intern, where she distinguished herself supporting media relations and on-site media ops for several ISC events including NCAA Division I Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Championships, NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Basketball Championship \u2014 Midwest Regional, NCAA Division I Men\u2019s Lacrosse Quarterfinals and the NCAA Women\u2019s Rowing Championships.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 10331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 141.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.infoplease.com/world/disasters/man-made/september-11-2001-timeline-of-terrorism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:18Z", "digest": "sha1:EZ7S3TA2WOTMCDDTSW4KJNKFKABUNL35", "length": 2078, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.infoplease.com", "title": "September 11, 2001: Timeline of Terrorism", "raw_content": "Disasters >\nMan-made Disasters >\n(all times are eastern daylight time)\nAn American Airlines Boeing 767 and a United Airlines Boeing 767, both en route from Boston to Los Angeles, were hijacked and flown only minutes apart into the north and south towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. Shortly afterward, an American Airlines Boeing 757, en route from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles, crashed into the Pentagon. A fourth hijacked plane, operated by United and headed from Newark to San Francisco, crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pa. Both World Trade Center towers collapsed, and a section of the Pentagon was destroyed. All 266 people aboard the planes were killed; the total number of dead and missing was 3,038 (including the 19 hijackers). The names of the hijackers, Islamic radicals part of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, were released a few days after the attacks.\n8:45 A.M.\u2014American Airlines Flight 11, Boston to Los Angeles, with 92 people aboard, crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.\n9:03 A.M.\u2014United Airlines Flight 175, Boston to Los Angeles, with 65 people aboard, flies into the south tower of the World Trade Center.\n9:40 A.M.\u2014American Flight 77, Washington, DC, to Los Angeles, with 64 people aboard, crashes into the Pentagon.\n9:48 A.M.\u2014The U.S. Capitol and the West Wing of the White House are evacuated.\n9:49 A.M.\u2014The Federal Aviation Administration orders all aircraft grounded in the United States.\n9:50 A.M.\u2014South tower of the World Trade Center collapses.\n9:58 A.M.\u2014Emergency operator in Pennsylvania receives a call from a passenger on United Flight 93, Newark to San Francisco, with 45 people aboard, stating the plane was being hijacked.\n10:00 A.M.\u2014United Flight 93 crashes about 80 mi southeast of Pittsburgh. Passengers apparently attempted to overpower the hijackers, who were heading the plane toward Washington, DC.\n10:29 A.M.\u2014North tower of the World Trade Center collapses.\n5:20 P.M.\u2014Another World Trade Center building collapses.\nMiscellaneous Disasters\nSuspected al-Qaeda Terrorist Acts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 98.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.informedgroup.com/contact-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:34Z", "digest": "sha1:DWONZNCGCBWQDGDXUTY2Z2LAXBI4BB6Q", "length": 820, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.informedgroup.com", "title": "Contact Us - SPA4D", "raw_content": "Contact usEd Steenhoek2014-10-01T12:54:11+00:00\nAbout Informed Consulting\nFounded in January 2007, Informed Consulting is passionate about Enterprise Content Management (ECM). Our principal goal is to help connect people to the enterprise. Bridging the gap between people and the enterprise as people collaborate in new and different ways outside the enterprise\u2019s control.\nMany companies focus on establishing themselves as leaders in their specific specialty technology. Their focus is driven more by customizing the products they support than the problems clients face. Our position in the market and approach is fundamentally different. Focusing not just on the technical aspects on any given project, but on ECM as that which ties everything together, we are able to offer global solutions to multi-faceted problems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.infowars.com/obama-promises-to-enact-gun-control-laws-with-or-without-congress/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:34Z", "digest": "sha1:45I5DGZRE6TC2ETPRZ72EHGZMVSDBMUJ", "length": 3482, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.infowars.com", "title": "Obama Promises To Enact Gun Control Laws \u201cWith Or Without Congress\u201d", "raw_content": "Obama Promises To Enact Gun Control Laws \u201cWith Or Without Congress\u201d\nCritics Respond: \u201cHe doesn\u2019t have the constitutional authority to act unilaterally\u201d\nAmong a myriad of promises to create and sign laws using his magic executive order pen, the president vowed during last night\u2019s State of The Union Address to pass more strict gun control laws, even if it means bypassing the Congressional process.\n\u201cI intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook.\u201d Obama said.\n\u201cCitizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day,\u201d he continued. \u201cI have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say \u2018we are not afraid.\u2019\u201d\nObama\u2019s pledge received an instant response with pro-second amendment groups and Republicans firing back.\n\u201dHe doesn\u2019t have the constitutional authority to act unilaterally and pass legislation on gun control,\u201d Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann told The Daily Caller. \u201cHe just doesn\u2019t.\u201d\n#Obama says gun control is coming \u201cwith or without Congress.\u201d More proof that the #2A means nothing to him. pic.twitter.com/aTOM4oXukY\n\u2014 ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) January 29, 2014\n\u201cI could not bear to watch as he continued to cross the clearly-defined boundaries of the Constitutional separation of powers,\u201d said Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) who walked out of the SOTU speech.\nDuring the speech, Obama repeated comments he made days previously, noting that 2014 is going to be a \u201cyear of action,\u201d essentially by Presidential fiat. \u201cWherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to do,\u201d Obama stated.\nTea Party favourite Stockman said Obama was promising to \u201cbreak his oath of office and begin enacting his own brand of law through executive decree.\u201d\n\u201cThis is a wholesale violation of his oath of office and a disqualifying offense,\u201d the Texas congressman said.\nOther Republicans took a similar stance. \u201cUnfortunately, what I heard from President Obama tonight was hostility toward our foundational principles, condescension toward a co-equal branch of government, and a general aversion to common sense and bipartisanship,\u201d Rep. Ra\u00fal Labrador (R-Idaho) commented.\n\u201cThe president\u2019s attempt to intimidate Congress by abusing executive power demonstrates a serious unwillingness to work with the coequal legislative branch of government,\u201d Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) wrote in a statement.\nMeanwhile, in response to Obama\u2019s speech, Rand Paul delivered his own SOTU, outlining a \u201cnew way\u201d forward, heavily drawing on overtly libertarian proposals.\nReferring to unemployment and the dwindling economy, Paul stated \u201cIf we don\u2019t understand the cause of joblessness, we\u2019ll have trouble fixing it.\u201d\n\u201cAs we entered into the Great Recession, Republicans and Democrats misdiagnosed the problem as too little government. So they gave us more government in the form of bank bailouts and a government stimulus plan.\u201d the Senator added.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not that government\u2019s inherently stupid \u2014 although it\u2019s a debatable point,\u201d he said with a pause and a cock of the head. \u201cIt\u2019s that government doesn\u2019t get the same signals. Milton Friedman recognized that when he wrote, \u2018Nobody spends somebody else\u2019s money as wisely as they spend their own.\u2019 \u201d Paul added, pointing toward free-market libertarianism as a solution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 10939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insidecareers.co.uk/career-advice/assurance-associate-pwc-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:14Z", "digest": "sha1:P2EAAYIJHCRJ3JELNT5JBYW6TW7TP6SX", "length": 3807, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.insidecareers.co.uk", "title": "PwC | Assurance Associate \u2013 PwC | Graduate Jobs, Internships & Careers Advice - Inside Careers", "raw_content": "Graduate Profiles: Assurance Associate \u2013 PwC\nRole: Assurance Associate\nUniversity: Glasgow\nDegree: MSci Biology and PhD Biochemistry\nJoining PwC was a big change for me; I originally studied Molecular & Cellular Biology at Glasgow University and after graduating went on to complete a PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Dundee. I enjoyed the world of science and academia but I knew that in the long term I didn\u2019t want to pursue a career in scientific research.\nAt first, I didn\u2019t know very much about finance and accountancy so spent a lot of time researching, and PwC really stood out and seemed to be the perfect fit for me. I\u2019ve now worked in the Edinburgh office for nearly two years and have completed nine out of the ten professional exams with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).\nI\u2019m a naturally inquisitive person and love analytical thinking and problem-solving. I also like working with people and wanted a career that allows fast progression and varied challenges. Training to be a chartered accountant with PwC seemed to combine all of these aspects.\nI\u2019ve been really happy with my choice. Being involved in interesting projects and working with great colleagues, I\u2019ve learnt something new every day and as I learn and develop new skills, I\u2019m given more responsibility which is very rewarding.\nHow did you get your job at PwC?\nI went through the normal graduate recruitment route by applying in plenty of time. I started the application process in September, had an offer by mid-November and then started at PwC the following September. The application process was really well organised and although there were lots of different stages, it went by quickly.\nThe application process is quite long and can therefore seem daunting at first. That\u2019s why I\u2019d say that it\u2019s best to take it one stage at a time. The PwC UK careers website is really useful and I\u2019d recommend potential candidates to carefully research what\u2019s involved.\nFor the online tests I found doing lots of practise questions helpful. In preparation for the interview, candidates should be familiar with the PwC Professional framework \u2013 details for this can be found on the PwC UK careers website. In the interviews it\u2019s important to answer the question you\u2019re asked (not the one you hope you were asked) in a clear and concise manner. That\u2019s why I\u2019d recommend perhaps practising with a mock interview.\nPwC have interview and psychometric e-learns on their website to practise for these parts of the assessment process. My final word of advice is during the interviews and the assessment centre, try to relax and just be yourself.\nWhat skills are useful in this sector/profession?\nYou might assume that for an accountancy role you only have to be good at numbers, but soft skills are really important too. In my opinion, it\u2019s much more about being able to provide excellent customer service. The abilities to get along comfortably with new people, to empathise with clients and to listen are really invaluable. Analytical skills and the ability to quickly grasp new concepts are also important.\nThe biggest challenge for me has been the professional exams with ICAS. The time commitment that these exams take shouldn\u2019t be underestimated as you have to learn a large volume of material in a very short period of time. However, as your year group takes the exams together, there\u2019s a real feeling of support and group spirit.\nMulti-tasking and working to tight deadlines can also be daunting at first. I find that remaining calm, prioritising my tasks, and trying to tackle issues one at a time really helps. There\u2019s plenty of support available and everyone is really helpful and friendly. The most important thing that I\u2019ve learned is that there are no silly questions and that you can always ask for help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.instantknockout.com/ik/does-green-tea-boost-fat-loss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PDDJPMLNA5UO47NHKCLB6IKVIB5FJXJF", "length": 5859, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.instantknockout.com", "title": "Does Green Tea Boost Fat Loss? - Instant Knockout", "raw_content": "Does Green Tea Boost Fat Loss?\nWhen you\u2019re trying to drop fat it is important that you choose the right foods \u2013 making bad choices can put the brakes on your diet and leave you unable to achieve your targets.\nIn this article we\u2019ll take a look at green tea \u2013 a popular drink originating in East Asia that is often reported as having a number of health benefits. But can it help you lose weight? We\u2019ll take a look.\nHow does it help you lose weight?\nGreen tea is a popular beverage made from the leaves of the camellia sinesis \u2013 a type of evergreen shrub that is native to East Asia.\nThis particular type of tea contains a number of bioactive products called polyphenols. These natural plant compounds are important micro nutrients evidenced for their role in the prevention of degenerative diseases.\nMost of the polyphenols in green tea are referred to as catechins and this includes the one you need to know about the most \u2013 epigallocathechin-3 gallate (EGCG).\nGreen tea is also fairly high in caffeine \u2013 it typically contains between 15-60mg of caffeine per cup and around 40mg of polyphenols.\nWhilst the caffeine levels are lower than in a typical cup of coffee, the tannin level is much higher. These are polyphenols that have strong antioxidant benefits.\nKey Point: Green tea contains a number of bioactive polyphenols such as catechins. ECGC is the most abundant of these.\nThis beverage has been used for thousands of years as a natural tonic for a number of health conditions. As we\u2019ve seen, it is loaded with antioxidants that can have powerful effects on the body.\nThe bioactive compounds in the leaves of the tea have been found to help reduce the risk of developing a range of different cancers, in both men and women.\nFor example, a large analysis in Carciogenesis [1] found that green tea can reduce the risk of breast cancer, but interestingly, black tea had no effect.\nSimilar results were found in relation to colorectal cancer too [2]. A cohort study involving over 69,000 women found that those who reported drinking green tea regularly had a significantly lower risk of developing cancer of the bowels.\nRegular consumption of polyphenol-rich tea has also been shown to protect against a number of metabolic diseases. In a large Chinese study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine [3], those who drank the beverage the most reported a 33% reduced risk for diabetes.\nThe polyphenol content of the leaves \u2013 in particular ECGC \u2013 may also reduce the risk of developing neurodegenerative diseases. Studies have shown that regular consumption of this antioxidant can reduce the risk of developing illnesses such as Alzheimer\u2019s or Parkinson\u2019s disease by a considerable amount [4].\nSo there are a number of reasons why you would want to include this delicious, health boosting tea in your diet. But can it help you lose weight? Let\u2019s have a look\u2026\nKey Point: The active compounds in green tea can boost metabolic health and reduce the risk of cancers and neurodegenerative diseases.\nThe Fat Burning Benefits of Green Tea\nMaintaining the level of daily energy expenditure during weight loss and weight maintenance is an important aspect of any successful diet plan. As is maintaining feelings of fullness while decreasing energy intake.\nIn the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition [5] it was proposed that green tea could offset the decrease in metabolic rate that is usually present during weight loss. This would increase dieting success significantly. Studies back this up too.\nGreen tea is special because it attacks fat from different angles. It also has the ability to raise metabolism and give you much needed energy \u2013 important if you are on an energy-restricted diet. It also has a thermogenic effect \u2013 the ability to stimulate metabolism by generating heat.\nA study by Shixian et al [6] found that the catechins in green tea help stimulate the release of norepinephrine \u2013 a potent stimulant with thermogenic properties. This helps to elevate heart rate and body temperature, breaking down stored energy which leads to fat loss.\nOne of the biggest studies conducted on green tea was a meta-analysis involving 11 individual studies [7]. In this analysis, catechins were found to not only significantly decrease body weight, but also help maintain healthy weight after a period of weight loss.\nLikewise, both the catechin and caffeine content of the tea have been found to burn fat even in the short-term. In another meta-analysis [8], energy expenditure was significantly higher in those who drank either caffeinated or decaffeinated tea. Interestingly though only caffeinated tea was found to increase fat oxidation \u2013 by 16% over a 24-hour period.\nKey Point: Green tea can boost your fat loss by increasing metabolic rate and increasing energy.\nSummary \u2013 Drink Green Tea for Weight Loss\nGreen tea is a popular East Asian beverage that is high in bioactive antioxidants called polyphenols. These natural plant compounds are important nutrients evidenced for their role in boosting health and wellness.\nThis beverage really is a fantastic weapon in your fat burning arsenal. It increases metabolism with its thermogenic effect, and its caffeine content helps you to increase energy too \u2013 even when on a calorie-restricted diet.\nWhat Else Can Help You Burn Fat?\nContaining natural ingredients such as green tea and glucomannan, Instant Knockout can help you lose weight and drop fat like the pros.\nSun, CL et al. Green tea, black tea and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies. Carcinogenesis. 2006; 27(7): 1310-5\nYang, G et al. Prospective cohort study of green tea consumption and colorectal cancer risk in women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2007; 16(6): 1219-23\nWeinreb, O et al. Neurological mechanisms of green tea polyphenols in Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s diseases. J Nutr Biochem. 2004; 15(9): 506-16", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 9589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.integra-ps.com/news/integra-activity-18.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4LIKGJKY5J2RREUATJPYU2VE4FXBVUCI", "length": 4620, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.integra-ps.com", "title": "Integra Activity | Integra Property Services", "raw_content": "The last few weeks have seen growing activity working in the lettings and management arena as agents wake up to the fact that the tenant fee ban is going to happen and will probably go through the legislative process in October. My money is on an announcement as part of the Chancellor\u2019s budget on 29th October in regards a date for implementation. Spring 2019 is most likely but it could be earlier.\nMy Lettings Health Check has proven popular and has enabled agents to review their businesses from both a compliance and commerciality viewpoint. Putting in place new methods of working, generating new revenue streams and being more productive and better managing costs is almost inevitable but cannot usually be implemented overnight. My advice is to get on the case now as a \u201cwait and see\u201d option will, in my opinion, mean missing out and potentially panicking with weak and poorly thought out solutions resulting.\nThe need for business planning was central to my recent appearance in the \u201chot seat\u201d at Rightmove for an hour long webinar. I understand that around 240 people logged in and the questions and engagement was excellent. Feedback was very positive and I hope to do another in due course.\nIt must have gone quite well as Rightmove have subsequently invited me to speak to over 200 delegates in Leeds in December on the coping and beating the potential negative effects of the tenat fee ban on agents.\nI have also written an article on business planning that will form part of Rightmove\u2019s \u201cLittle Blue Book\u201d which they send to every agent in the country at the end of the year.\nOver the last few months I have carried out a number of audit and review visits to client agents looking at Money Laundering, Consumer Protection and other legislative compliance as well as running several bespoke training sessions for businesses.\nMy next open course on Money Laundering and Consumer Protection will be in London on November 21st \u2013 details here:\nIn September I attended the LFS Conveyancing Conference and Awards in Birmingham. There was a record attendance of 160 delegates for the conference and over 450 for the awards. I spoke at the conference on the subject of entering awards and also took part in a lively debate on the subject of referral fees between introducers and conveyancers. This area is currently under scrutiny from Government and so we can expect a tightening up of arrangements and transparency in due course.\nI have been a judge for the awards since they started some eight or nine years ago and it was great to see them continue to go from strength to strength.\nOn the subject of awards, I was delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist in both the EA Masters and Negotiator awards as a Supplier of the Year. The EA Masters awards are announced on October 12th and the Negotiator awards on the 30th November. I was awarded the Bronze award at the EA Masters last year so I am hoping to go two better this time and I have been a shortlisted finalist, six years in succession, at the Negotiator awards and so surely it is my turn to win something?!\nIn recent weeks I have been working closely with ARPM, the UK\u2019s leading outsourced property management business and will be presenting sessions at three seminars for letting agents in October.\nI have also been in close discussions with another of my clients, teclet, who have a fabulous product that is enabling agents to automate many of their lettings and management processes, improving profitability, extending accessibility and increasing profits, and we hope to have an exciting announcement to make in the next few weeks \u2013 watch this space!\nI have recently produced content for two new agency websites being built by The Property Jungle and regularly produce material content for agents looking to freshen up their marketing approaches. I also continue to manage and populate a number of social media accounts for a variety of clients.\nI often get asked to produce articles for the trade press and I recently had an opinion piece published by the Property Chronicle on \"The Broken Property Market\" - you can read here.\nFinally, as we enter the last quarter of 2018, thoughts are focused on ending the year on a high and hitting the ground running in 2019 with a clear vison and business action plan to achieve objectives.\nWorking with business owners and mentoring managers and others is helping keep people on track, better managing and motivating staff and seeing the wood from the trees.\nAs always, I am here to help so please do not hesitate to contact me to discuss your business and how my 40 plus years of experience can help you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 5072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.isotropix.com/learn/talks/behind-the-scenes-blade-runner-at-dneg", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OBWK6LBHPCIXOIHCOJMVENSUM7R2RMV2", "length": 1631, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.isotropix.com", "title": "Isotropix - Talk - Behind the scenes: Blade Runner at DNEG", "raw_content": "To celebrate its Academy Awards, BAFTA and VES wins, go behind the scenes of Blade Runner 2049 with Rhys Salcombe, CG Supervisor @ DNEG. Discover how some of the film\u2019s most memorable scenes were created, learn how the futuristic and devastated world of Blade Runner 2049 was brought to life using Clarisse as the main lighting, look dev and rendering software as he takes us through the many challenges faced 35 years later while crafting the sequel to Ridley Scott's iconic sci-fi masterpiece!\nAbout Double Negative\nDouble Negative (DNEG) is one of the world's leading providers of visual effects and animation for feature film and television, with facilities in London, Vancouver, Montr\u00e9al, Los Angeles, Mumbai and Chennai in India. DNEG\u2019s creative drive and close collaborative working relationship with filmmakers ensures that the projects that it collaborates on, both large and small, all receive the same high standards of creative and technical service. This has proven to be a winning approach, resulting in the company winning Academy Awards\u00ae for its work on \u2018Inception\u2019, \u2018Interstellar\u2019 and \u2018Ex Machina\u2019, BAFTA\u2019s for \u2018Inception\u2019, \u2018Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 2\u2019 and \u2018Interstellar\u2019, and Visual Effects Society awards for \u2018Inception\u2019, \u2018Sherlock Holmes\u2019 and \u2018Interstellar\u2019.\nProjects currently in production at DNEG include Pacific Rim: Uprising, The New Mutants, Avengers: Infinity War, Deadpool 2, M:I 6 \u2013 Mission Impossible, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Gindelwald, First Man, Godzilla: King of Monsters, The Kid Who Would Be King and Venom.\nFor more information, visit www.dneg.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 189.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jackalshorns.com/2009/03/what-ive-been-up-to-includes-some.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:10Z", "digest": "sha1:BDVGI7KHP6F2AENCTJYI6EGNKJTQIQJQ", "length": 1729, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.jackalshorns.com", "title": "Play - Think - Type: What I've been up to (includes some shameless self-promotion)", "raw_content": "What I've been up to (includes some shameless self-promotion)\nSo, I've been out of town -- but not away from games -- for a few days. I can't talk about a lot of the work I'm doing while it's in progress, but I figure I'll post some of these kind of \"What I've been up to\" posts every once in a while.\nNinja Blade is shipping soon! Here's a preview video done by the folks at G4TV: http://g4tv.com/xplay/previews/36987/X-Play-Preview-Ninja-Blade.html. I did some design, production, and user experience consulting on this title on behalf of Microsoft Global Publishing Partners. Mostly I focused on core combat and initial experience (the first 2 hours of game play). Takeuchi-San is a genius and FROM Software was a great developer/publisher partner. I hope to work on more of their titles in the future.\nI met with other panelists on the \"Funology\" talk we're giving at South by Southwest in a couple of weeks: http://sxsw.com/interactive/talks/schedule?action=show&id=IAP0900867. Interesting group of folks -- come by and check it out if you're at the conference on Fri March 13 (5PM).\nI also spent some time networking with various game and film industry folks. As much as I could never see *living* in L.A., there is a lot of energy and it is infectious. I came back refreshed, energized, and ready to push forward on several projects.\nI'm becoming a HUGE fan of VirginAmerica as an airline to fly on. In addition to great fares and a cool club-like feel to the plane, they also provide a console in each seat that allows users to watch movies, tv, listen to music, and game. I'll talk more about the gaming in a separate post.\nTags: film, from software, funology, G4TV, l.a., ninja blade, sxsw, takeuchi-san, virgin america", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jandlmarketing.com/blog/3-successful-steps-you-need-to-start-your-private-sale/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:21Z", "digest": "sha1:Y64TYF6VONLEJC7ADRY647ZPTSGGOTQM", "length": 4467, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.jandlmarketing.com", "title": "3 Successful Steps You Need to Start Your Private Sale - J&L Marketing", "raw_content": "by Jamil Zabaneh February 3, 2017\nHosting a private sale is a great way to get customers onto your lot and into your dealership. But how do you ensure the success of your private sale? What steps must you take to get things started?\nYou can\u2019t overdo preparation and you can\u2019t overestimate the power of your team. An hour and a half before the start of your promotion, hold a meeting with your salespeople and management team and cast a vision for your sale. This meeting should only last a few minutes, but it should ensure that everyone knows every detail about the sale. Make sure your team knows your greeting and registration processes and how to implement each one. You want to use this meeting to explain the importance of the registration process and how this should benefit your salespeople. Make sure your team has an opportunity to ask questions. This will ensure that they are engaged and that they fully understand what their requirements are.\nAbove all, make sure that your staff is excited about the sale! Explain the sale, show your excitement, and build hype around the sale. Your staff will see this and will, in turn, be excited and passionate about the promotion. You need your team to sell this sale to your customers and you want them to be genuine when they do this.\nThe greeting sets the stage for the buyer to perceive the sale as unique. It is critical that a positive first impression is created and that the stage is set so that the buyer is willing to give you control.\nYou want your salespeople to understand that a positive first impression is essential. They should:\nShow a willingness to provide information\nAppreciate the buyers\u2019 times\nHave an informative conversation (make sure it\u2019s not one-sided)\nThese are key steps to initiating conversation and making a positive first impression on a customer.\nYour customers will probably be on the defensive, worried about the authenticity of the sale, the decisions they will have to make, and even the amount of time they might need to invest. If your salespeople are prepared to counter these concerns, you\u2019ve increased their chances of making a favorable impression and ultimately a sale.\nAsk your customer if they\u2019ve heard about your sale, encourage them to come inside to register, and take advantage of that time to get to know your customer\u2019s needs. The more you know about your customer, the more you can relate to them and show them that you\u2019re just there to help. This builds a rapport with your customer, which help boost your potential to make a sale.\nThe registration process should only take one or two minutes. By bringing the buyer in to register you immediately gain control and the buyer feels involved in the sale process. More importantly, you gain an incredible amount of information about your customer with just a few quick questions. This also give your or your salesperson an opportunity to stand next to the buyer and help them through the process, creating rapport.\nWhat brought you into the dealership today?\nHave you visited our dealership before or is this your first time?\nWhat is your name/address/email/phone number, etc.?\nAre you interested in a new or pre-owned vehicle? Car, truck, van or SUV?\nWhat is most important to you in a vehicle?\nWould you like reverse cams, Bluetooth, UBS hookup, etc.? (These questions get your buyer in the \u201cYes\u201d mode.)\nThese are just a few of the questions you should be asking during registration. By asking questions like these, you and your team are getting quality information about your customers that will help you know how to sell and what to sell. You\u2019re enabling your staff to learn about the customer, build a relationship with the customer, and sell to the customer.\nDon\u2019t Stop Selling\nBy preparing your team, making a positive first impression on your customers, and having a registration system that works, you\u2019re setting you and your team up for a successful private sale. You know your customers, you\u2019ve established a relationship with them, and now you just have to make the sale. Show the customer what they\u2019re looking for and persuade them to buy with your special sale incentives and offers. If they say they\u2019re not ready or they want to think about it, keep trying. If they say no, ask why. At the end of the day, you have their information and you know what they want. Make them an offer they can\u2019t refuse and follow up with them repeatedly. If you can do that, you\u2019ve already set yourself up for success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jarzobskilaw.com/blog/2012/07/driver-and-passenger-injured-in-colorado-motorcycle-accident.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WR2PTIBIEHULKTAJOI6JTVUZHPNSLXWI", "length": 2354, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.jarzobskilaw.com", "title": "Driver and passenger injured in Colorado motorcycle accident | Patricia M. Jarzobski, P.C.", "raw_content": "Driver and passenger injured in Colorado motorcycle accident\nOn behalf of Patricia M. Jarzobski, P.C. posted in Motorcycle Accidents on Thursday, July 26, 2012.\nMotorcycle riders in Colorado and across the nation are aware of the dangers of riding their bikes on the American roadways. Statistics are sobering, and the unfortunate reality is that motorcyclists have far less of a chance of surviving an accident unscathed than drivers of enclosed vehicles. One recent accident involving a car versus motorcycle accident demonstrates just how unbalanced the playing field can be.\nEarlier this month, a 52-year-old motorcycle driver and his 52-year-old female passenger were at the intersection of U.S 24 and 31st Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado, when their Harley Davidson motorcycle collided with a vehicle. Both riders were thrown from the bike as a result of the crash. They were transported to Penrose Hospital, where it was determined that the man suffered life-threatening injuries in the incident and his passenger sustained moderate injuries.\nThe preliminary investigation by the Colorado State Patrol suggests that the car was headed eastbound on U.S. 24 when the driver merged into the left turn lane for an anticipated turn onto 31st Street. At that time, the Harley Davidson that was behind the car is believed to have struck the right rear of the car. The 32-year-old woman who was driving the vehicle had three passengers with her at the time of the incident; all four were unharmed in the crash.\nAt present, Colorado investigators do not suspect drugs or alcohol as a factor in the motorcycle accident. The investigation is ongoing, as the motorcycle riders continue to recover from the crash. It is unknown whether the investigation will determine which party was at fault for the incident, nor whether the injured riders will file one or more lawsuits in an effort to recover damages for their injuries and property loss that resulted from the crash. If the motorcycle operator is found to have been negligent in a manner that caused or contributed to the collision, his passenger retains the right to assess the evidence to determine if she wishes to pursue a personal injury claim.\nSource: The Gazette, \"Motorcycle driver seriously injured in Highway 24 crash,\" Andrew Gibson, July 15, 2012\nTags: compensation, motorcycle accidents", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jayjock-associates.com/services/human-health-risk-assessment-from-substances/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:43Z", "digest": "sha1:AHJYGAJLINZWGWMTPLLCR4CMQWZJMEIU", "length": 662, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.jayjock-associates.com", "title": "Jayjock Associates, LLC Human Health Risk and Chemical Exposure Assessment - Human Health Risk Assessment from Substances", "raw_content": "Estimation of human health risk (RA) from exposure to substances occurring during normal human contact\nI have over 25 years\u2019 experience in determining human health exposure assessment (EA) or risk assessment (RA) from exposure to chemical and physical agents. Risk assessment (RA) comes from the integration of exposure assessment (EA) and information on the inherent toxicity of the substance (TOX).\nEstimate past, present and potential future exposure potential to chemicals of interest\nUse existing data to estimate the risk potential as a function of exposure to these chemicals\nIntegrate the above information into a human health risk assessment\nMikeJayjock", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jeffcok12events.org/public/eventdetail/genie/581/school/8/event/2399113/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:47Z", "digest": "sha1:IJF54LFCYI3VLOKKHGZP4JNGUZHYPDXR", "length": 83, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jeffcok12events.org", "title": "rSchoolToday", "raw_content": "Tuesday, Oct 16, 2018 Time 4:00pm - 5:30pm\nvs. Chatfield @ Dakota Ridge High School", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 167.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jockeono.studio/info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:43Z", "digest": "sha1:4VOBS3BT5S5WOOGI6SQK67KWM5JASP7N", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jockeono.studio", "title": "info - jockeono", "raw_content": "Photographer based in Stockholm, available worldwide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 184.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-eric-holder-speaks-department-justice-african-american-history-month", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ES4EZEBNS6SVBURYKA4LH7VGY2LJZIR5", "length": 6889, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.justice.gov", "title": "Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Department of Justice African-American History Month Celebration | OPA | Department of Justice", "raw_content": "Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks at the Department of Justice African-American History Month Celebration\nThank you, Richard [Toscano], for that kind introduction \u2013 and for all that you and your colleagues in the Equal Employment Opportunity Office \u2013 and across the Justice Management Division \u2013 have done to help the Department commemorate Black History Month once again this year.\nThank you all for joining us. And let me also thank Dana [Paige], and each of our distinguished panelists, for their participation this morning \u2013 and for helping to make today\u2019s program so special.\nEach February, millions of people across the country come together to observe Black History Month, and to celebrate the extraordinary contributions that generations of African Americans have made in shaping, securing, and strengthening our nation. Throughout this month, Americans of all races and backgrounds are called upon to reconnect with one another \u2013 and to rededicate ourselves to the principles that lie at the core of everything that we must stand for \u2013 and, in particular, all that we fight for here at the Department of Justice.\nOver the course of two centuries \u2013 and even within many of our own lifetimes \u2013 our nation has made remarkable, once-unimaginable progress in the struggle to ensure equality and opportunity for all citizens. There\u2019s no question that we\u2019ve come a long way since the days when segregation was the law of the land; when sit-ins and Freedom Rides captured our attention and rallied this country to the cause of civil rights; and when a young preacher from Atlanta led millions in a historic march on this city, and \u2013 not far from where we gather today \u2013 shared his dream with all the world.\nLike some of you, I remember those days quite well. I will never forget the terrible tragedies \u2013 and the great triumphs \u2013 that marked the Civil Rights movement. And I believe we all have good reason to be proud of the dramatic improvements that this movement \u2013 and, in very real ways, this Department \u2013 have helped to bring about in the decades since.\nAt the same time, it\u2019s impossible to deny the tremendous obstacles \u2013 and persistent problems \u2013 that so many Americans currently face. Despite decades of struggle \u2013 even in America\u2019s most vibrant and prosperous cities \u2013 there are far too many communities where the doors to learning and job opportunities remain firmly closed; where the promise of equal justice is unfulfilled; and where thousands of children are growing up at risk and in need. That\u2019s why \u2013 as we gather to celebrate Black History Month \u2013 we must also seize this moment not only to reflect on how far we\u2019ve come \u2013 but also to consider how much farther we still have to go.\nThis year\u2019s theme \u2013 \u201cBlack Women in American Culture and History\u201d \u2013 shines a light, in particular, on pioneers like Sojourner Truth, who fought for freedom and women\u2019s rights; Rosa Parks, who helped fuel the spark that ignited a national movement for civil rights; Vivian Malone, my late sister in law who, with the help of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, integrated the University of Alabama; and Maya Angelou, whose words educate, enrich, and inspire us today.\nThe stories of these and so many other women and civil rights champions have helped to define the United States as a nation of ever-expanding opportunity, and of truly limitless promise for every citizen. And yet, even today, in 2012, their critical work of seeking and securing justice for all Americans goes on.\nAs members of this Department and as servants of our fellow citizens, each of us has a special role to play in advancing our nation\u2019s history of progress \u2013 and America\u2019s ongoing work to live up to its founding principles.\nOver the last three years, many of the dedicated professionals in \u2013 and beyond \u2013 this Great Hall have helped to advance these efforts. Because of you, this Department is moving aggressively \u2013 and effectively \u2013 to make real the promise of a fair and just America. We\u2019ve restored and reinvigorated the work of the Civil Rights Division, whose mission remains as essential \u2013 and as urgent \u2013 as ever. And we\u2019ve taken significant steps to ensure that \u2013 across all of our components, and in offices throughout the country and around the world \u2013 all Americans have an equal opportunity to serve, and to thrive, in this Department.\nAlthough I\u2019m proud of the record of progress that we\u2019ve achieved, this is no time to be satisfied. I am not satisfied. And we cannot \u2013 and will not \u2013 become complacent.\nIn particular, we cannot ignore the growing drumbeat of concern that I\u2019ve been hearing from Americans \u2013 in communities from coast to coast \u2013 who fear that some recent changes in state voting laws may signal that decades of hard-earned progress now hangs in the balance. These citizens understand and appreciate the fact that, throughout our nation\u2019s history, no force has proven more integral to the success of the great American experiment than the ability of a diverse array of citizens to participate in our democracy. Fair and equal access to the ballot box represents the cornerstone of our system of governance. President Lyndon Johnson may have put it best, when he signed the landmark Voting Rights Act into law in 1965, and he observed that the right to vote is \u2013 quite simply \u2013 our \u201cmost basic right.\u201d\nThat\u2019s why this Department\u2013 and, specifically, the Civil Rights Division and its Voting Section \u2013 have taken meaningful steps to ensure integrity, independence, and transparency in our aggressive enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. We are, for example, continuing to subject proposed changes to voting rules to thorough and fair reviews. And \u2013 so long as I have the privilege of serving as Attorney General \u2013 this work will continue to be a top priority.\nBut all of this is only the beginning. As advocates \u2013 and as allies \u2013 we must remain vigilant in safeguarding the civil rights of all Americans. Every day, we must rededicate ourselves to these vital efforts \u2013 and to our common cause \u2013 of insisting that this great country lives up to its highest ideals of fairness, equality, opportunity, and justice for all.\nToday, as we pause to honor our nation\u2019s past \u2013 and to reaffirm our vision for the future that we will share and, together, must build \u2013 we are fortunate to be joined by a distinguished panel of senior Department leaders \u2013 from the Civil Division, the Office of Attorney Recruitment and Management, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Executive Office of U.S. Attorneys \u2013 who will take part in a wide-ranging conversation about the opportunities and challenges facing African-American women in legal and law enforcement professions.\nI look forward to hearing their insights. I applaud the remarkable work that they \u2013 and all of you \u2013 are leading. And I am grateful for the opportunity to celebrate with you throughout this month \u2013 and to work with you each day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 8742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/winthrop-man-pleads-guilty-stealing-over-400000-government-benefits", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:28Z", "digest": "sha1:6WUZTZIXNDP2WCAS4O7SQZTDWPJLXW4Z", "length": 2179, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.justice.gov", "title": "Winthrop Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Over $400,000 in Government Benefits | USAO-MA | Department of Justice", "raw_content": "Winthrop Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Over $400,000 in Government Benefits\nBOSTON \u2013 Richard Alan Hersey, 63, of Winthrop, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to stealing over $400,000 in Social Security and federal pension benefits. U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin scheduled sentencing for Feb. 23, 2016.\nIn 1991, Hersey\u2019s mother passed away, but her Social Security and pension funds continued to be directly deposited into a bank account held jointly by her and Hersey. Although he was not entitled to the funds, Hersey routinely withdrew them from the account after his mother\u2019s death. In total, from 1991 to 2015, Hersey took $444,287 in Social Security and pension funds to which he was not entitled.\nThis case was brought as part of an ongoing effort by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, in partnership with the Social Security Administration, to investigate and prosecute the posthumous fraud of Social Security benefits. In many of these cases, family members, knowing they are not entitled to government benefits, continue to withdraw and spend the funds after a relative has died. In 2015, the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office has prosecuted several similar cases involving a total of more than $1 million in stolen government money:\nIn November 2015, Mark Gardner, of Abington, pleaded guilty to stealing $65,311 from Social Security from 2009 to 2014. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 5, 2016.\nAlso in November, Brian Sandiford, of Milton, pleaded guilty to stealing $70,811 from Social Security from 2010 to 2014. Sentencing is scheduled for March 3, 2016.\nIn September 2015, Patricia Kwiatkowski, of Upton, was sentenced for stealing $128,101 from Social Security from 2006 to 2014.\nUnited States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; Scott Antolik, Special Agent in Charge of the Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations, Boston Field Division; and Scott Rezendes, Special Agent in Charge of the Office of Personnel Management, Office of Inspector General, Field Operations, made the announcement today. The Hersey case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Landry of Ortiz\u2019s Major Crimes Unit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 96.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-sd/pr/dupree-man-indicted-assaults-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XYV7B3352GBH3Z2GZTIVH6EDG2KKBHQ3", "length": 2647, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.justice.gov", "title": "Dupree Man Indicted for Assaults | USAO-SD | Department of Justice", "raw_content": "Dupree Man Indicted for Assaults\nUnited States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Dupree, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and four counts of Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer.\nMiles Condon, age 25, was initially indicted on October 12, 2016, on a four count Indictment. On November 9, 2016, the indictment was superseded, to add another count of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, and two more counts of Assaulting a Federal Officer. He appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Moreno on November 16, 2016, and pled not guilty to the Superseding Indictment.\nThe maximum penalty upon conviction of the two non-officer related assault charges is up to 10 years in custody. The maximum penalty upon conviction of the four officer-related assault charges is up to 8 years in custody. In each instance, the maximum fine is up to a $250,000 fine, 3 years of supervised release, and $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund on each count. Restitution may also be ordered.\nThe original Indictment alleged that on August 3, 2016, in Dupree, Condon unlawfully assaulted the victim with a golf club, and that the victim sustained serious bodily injury as a result of the assault. The Indictment also alleges that on August 3, 2016, and again on September 7, 2016, in Dupree, Condon forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated and interfered with a federal law enforcement officer who was engaged in, and on account of, the performance of his official duties, and that said conduct involved physical contact with the federal officer.\nThe Superseding Indictment alleges additional offenses, including that on October 13, 2016, Condon forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated and interfered with law enforcement officers who were assisting a federal officer in arresting the defendant on the original indictment, and that said conduct involved physical contact with the federal officers. The Superseding Indictment also alleges that the defendant kicked a federal corrections officer with shod feet after he arrived at the jail following his arrest.\nThe charges are merely accusations and Condon is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.\nThe investigation is being conducted by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Law Enforcement Services and the Ziebach County Sheriff\u2019s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Miller is prosecuting the case.\nCondon was remanded to the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service pending trial which has been set for December 13, 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 172.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kafevendingmachines.co.uk/gunpowder-treason-and-plot", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UYVCGEFC4W3SBHCDK6Y7LFAMMNSP3XH7", "length": 3498, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.kafevendingmachines.co.uk", "title": "Gunpowder treason and plot", "raw_content": "We always enjoy taking a look at festivals as they come along during the year, and today's is an especially interesting one, if only because we know how the thing got started in the first place and also because it leads us very neatly into a certain type of tea; more about that later on!\nToday is of course Guy Fawkes Night, named after one of the members of the infamous Gunpowder Plot. The origin of the plot has its roots in the religious upheaval in England following the actions of King Henry VIII, when he took control of the Church of England. The reigns of his children saw Protestantism and Catholicism swing backwards and forwards as the chosen state religion. When the Tudor dynasty ended with the death of the Protestant Elizabeth I, English Catholics were eager for a Catholic monarch to come to power. Unfortunately for them, the Protestant James VI of Scotland inherited the throne. Things were not all bad for the Catholics at first however- James was initially more tolerant than his predecessors, but that tolerance gradually slipped and his outlook soured as assassination attempts of other European Protestant rulers occurred and Catholic plots against him were revealed. New laws were instated that resulted in further religious persecution of the Catholics.\nThe leader of the plot was a man named Robert Catesby. He and twelve others sought to replace James with a ruler more kindly disposed towards the Catholics. The aim of the Gunpowder Plot was to kill James during the State Opening of Parliament on the 5th November 1605, by blowing up the House of Lords. Fawkes was to carry out this part of the plan alone whilst others in the band instigated a popular revolt in the Midlands, in order to install James' daughter Elizabeth as the Catholic head of state they all so desperately wanted.\nGuy Fawkes was the first of the thirteen plotters to be arrested. Whilst preparing to light the barrels of gunpowder in the undercroft beneath the House of Lords, he was discovered by guards searching the area thanks to a mysterious tip off. No one knows exactly who it was that revealed the plot, but they succeeded in foiling it. Most of the plotters were arrested, tried and found guilty of high treason and executed.\nThe tradition of Guy Fawkes Night began on the very same day that Fawkes was discovered in the undercroft, as people lit bonfires in celebration of King James' miraculous escape. A few months later this celebration was enshrined in law by the Observance of 5th November Act. The celebration took on religious overtones and became a focus for anti-Catholic sentiment in the decades following it. Whilst the original meaning behind the celebration has been lost over the centuries, Guy Fawkes Night has become more of a great social event (which is really a better reason to get together than engaging in religious persecution, don't you think?)\nAs if the clear history of today's festival wasn't enough, there is also a clear choice when it comes to a themed drink to go with your bonfire night celebrations - gunpowder tea. Quite where the name comes from isn't known for sure. In its place of origin- China's Zhejiang province- the tea is known as zhu cha, meaning pearl or bead tea. The English name could stem from a number of reasons. One is its appearance- the greyish tea leaves are rolled up tightly and could be said to look like gunpowder. Another is the fact that the tea has a smoky flavour, though hopefully less so than the potent lapsang souchong!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 7488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 178.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/crime/article159900539.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JGCXG6CNBAUYNH4OHJAJFX5WKWOG2FW2", "length": 261, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kansascity.com", "title": "Gunman shoots victim in KC as he left friend\u2019s house | The Kansas City Star", "raw_content": "An ambulance took the man to a hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.\nPolice searched the area but were unable to find a crime scene.\nAnyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (8477).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 188.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.katyaniexport.com/flaxseed-oil.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:42Z", "digest": "sha1:EID3VLNAJJJ3ACVGQGMKKLNR2J3B67PW", "length": 2316, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.katyaniexport.com", "title": "Flaxseed Oil - Linum Usitatissimum Oil and Natural Flaxseed Oil", "raw_content": "Home Carrier Oils Flaxseed Oil\nBotanical Name : Linum usitatissimum\nObtained from dried and ripened seeds of flax plant\nMajor compounds are \u03b1-linolenic acid (51.9-55.2%), palmitic acid (about 7%), stearic acid (3.4-4.6%), oleic acid (18.5-22.6%) and linoleic acid (14.2-17%)\nColourless to yellowish oil with rich source of omega oils like alpha-linolenic acid, also known as an omega-3 fatty acid\nIt is used as a common carrier used in oil paint, imparting more fluidity, transparency and glossiness\nDue to its excellent drying properties, the oil is used in glazing putty that is used as a sealant for glass windows\nUsed in wood finish, the flaxseed oil dries slowly and shrinks little upon hardening\nBoiled flaxseed oil is widely used as sizing in the traditional oil gilding for pasting the sheets of gold leaf to a substrate\nThis oil is used to bind cork particles, wood dust and other materials for manufacturing floor covering\nFresh, refrigerated and unprocessed flaxseed oil is used as a nutritional supplement\nAlso used to formulate several medicines for rheumatoid, arthiritis and high cholesterol conditions\nAnti-estrogenic, analgesic, cardiotonic, anti-inflammatory, emollient, demulcent, laxative, expectorant, pectoral, nervine, purgative and resolvent\nFlaxsees oil is colorless to yellow colored oil, extracted from the seeds of flax plant. This oil is recommended for many different conditions, including high cholesterol and rheumatoid arthritis. Other than this, it is also used for the cure of anxiety, osteoarthritis, vaginal infections, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), dry eyes, hardening of arteries, heart disease, high blood pressure, attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and diabetes.\nIndustrial grade flaxseed oil may may contain poisonous additives and thus, not for internal consumption. Women with hormone-dependent conditions such as uterine fibroids, endometriosis, or cancers of the breast, uterus or ovaries, and men with prostate cancer should avoid this oil. It can block the esophagus or parts of the intestinal tract. This essential oil requires special packaging as it can be easily destroyed under the exposure of heat, light and oxygen.\nWe have strong relation with the shipping partners like DHL, Fedex, UPS, TNT and EMS who help us in safe delivery of the oil.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 7108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kendalcalling.co.uk/artists/odwana", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:41Z", "digest": "sha1:7WZQDHSW6ANW5KSOQFOOUD3NGHZFND7P", "length": 655, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kendalcalling.co.uk", "title": "Odwana // Kendal Calling", "raw_content": "Originating in the ancient art of drumming on the west coast of Africa, our project transformed into its modern state through merging traditional African beats with influences drawn from a variety of cultures such as Spain, Argentina, Romania, Guinea, and of course the UK.\nOdwana has a mission to fuse traditional West African drums and world percussion with live electronic dance music, and top it off with powerful vocals to create an explosion of new sounds and overwhelming rhythms. The collaboration of these primitive and progressive musical genres has already conquered a great deal of the Mancunian audience and shown overwhelming success abroad.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 213.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.keranews.org/post/fighting-parkinsons-dance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HCQ5GP5UKP6ZFIARKSYQUF5EN7VJNUYG", "length": 6492, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.keranews.org", "title": "Fighting Parkinson's, With Dance | KERA News", "raw_content": "Fighting Parkinson's, With Dance\nBy Lauren Silverman \u2022 Jul 5, 2013\nDance instructor Misty Owens (right) leading the class for movement disorder patients at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.\nAt the end of the dance class for people with movement disorder patients, students gather in a circle and take a final bow.\nJoe Cuevas (right in shorts) dances with instructor Misty Owens. Cuevas was diagnosed with Parkinson's ten years ago and has been coming to this dance class for almost two years.\nJim Rosenbloom warms up during dance class.\nFor someone who has Parkinson\u2019s disease, movement can be the greatest challenge. That\u2019s why doctors are urging Parkinson\u2019s patients to hit the dance floor.\nMost of the people on this dance floor are more familiar with the Parkinson\u2019s shake than the Harlem Shake. Still, instructor Misty Owens shows no mercy.\n\u201cThrow that arm! Keep that energy!\u201d She shouts at the two dozen or so people on the wood-floored dance studio.\nFor years, Owens taught in New York, where she co-founded the Dance for Parkinson\u2019s Disease Program. The group has classes in cities across the country. When Owens returned to her hometown of Dallas a few years ago, she started this one at a Texas Health fitness center in Dallas.\n\u201cThis is the first time dance is really being used for Parkinson\u2019s,\u201d she says.\nThe progressive brain disease, which causes a loss of brain cells that release the chemical dopamine, makes it difficult to walk and balance. Exercise of any kind can help prevent falls and build strength. But its dance that\u2019s gaining popularity in the Parkinson\u2019s community.\n\u201cThe premise is that dancers use their brains to control their bodies and this is a neurological disorder stemming from the brain so why can\u2019t this help people who have problems getting their bodies to move,\u201d Owens says.\nIn a blue track suit, Jim Rosenbloom, 69, follows a routine that involves feet tapping, body tilting and finger snapping. He says the class looked a lot different when he first showed up.\n\u201cIt was all women!\u201d he says, laughing. \u201cI got here and I thought I was going to get razzed by the other people in the other groups but it wasn\u2019t like that at all, men were curious to say I heard you went, how is that? They started coming and I\u2019d say it\u2019s half and half now.\u201d\nWhich makes doing the cha-cha or tango a lot easier.\nRosenbloom has had Parkinson\u2019s for a decade. His hands tremble when he talks and the disease has taken a toll on his shoulder. A few years ago his doctor told him he might need rotator cuff surgery. That\u2019s when he decided to give dance a try.\n\u201cI started this and after two months he said you\u2019re doing everything I need you to do you\u2019re making the movements you couldn\u2019t before and we\u2019re not going to operate on you,\u201d Rosenbloom says.\nIt\u2019s not cured, but he\u2019s able to live with it.\nBallet As Medicine\nThis is no special therapy session, pli\u00e9s and tendus are taught like any other modern dance class. Even if some people can\u2019t quite turn their legs to reach third position, or tap dance like Fred Astaire, that\u2019s not the point. The choreography pushes students to flex and stretch and build confidence.\nMicahel Desaloms is a neurosurgeon at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. He says memorizing dance routines can help people with Parkinson\u2019s learn to coordinate everyday movements that the disease makes challenging to orchestrate.\n\u201cDancing is not easy and it requires a lot of different muscle movement balance and coordinating all those movements together,\u201d Desaloms says. \u201cSo in doing that not only are you getting an aerobic workout but it is giving your brain connections a workout.\u201d\nStudies show it\u2019s the music component of dance that may be key to improving balance. People with Parkinson\u2019s sometimes experience freezing episodes, where they can\u2019t take the next step. The rhythm in songs can remind patients with Parkinson\u2019s to keep moving. And, Dr. Desaloms points to another advantage.\n\u201cAbout twenty percent of patients with Parkinson disease get depressed,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd being involved in these activities and keeping physically active can really help with depression as well as motor movements.\u201d\nDance class participant Jim Rosenbloom says the class has given him new friends, and even a new outlook on the disease.\n\u201cI\u2019ve learned to think of this as just another obstacle in life to overcome. It\u2019s not a death sentence, he says. \u201cI\u2019m going to fight this with every ounce I got, and its working so far.\u201d\nAnd what better to train for that fight, than a little bit of cha-cha, or tango?\nDance Details & More Info\n*Dance for Movement Disorders classes are held every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00 to 3:15 p.m. and the first Saturday of each month from 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at the Finley Ewing Cardiovascular & Fitness Center: 5721 Phoenix Drive, Dallas. For more information, call 214-345-4224.\n*Instructor Misty Owens will be out of town in July, teaching classes at the Mark Morris Dance Studio in New York where the Dance for Parkinson's Disease Program was started. She will return to Dallas in August.\n*The Dallas Area Parkinsonism Society (DAPS) co-sponsors the class with Texas Health Presbyterian. You can attend a free monthly educational meeting at DAPS Monday, September 9, 1:00 p.m., at University Park United Methodist Church, located at the corner of Preston Rd. and Caruth Blvd. Carolyn Dobson, Neurologic Music Therapist, is the scheduled speaker.\nUT Dallas Doctor Gets Money To Look Into Causes Of Huntington's Disease\nHuntington's Disease is a hereditary, degenerative brain disorder that affects about 30,000 people in the U.S. Currently, there is no known cure for the disease. A new grant from the National Institutes of Health will provide $1.67 million over five years for research on the disorder at UT Dallas.\nArea Hospitals Must Keep In Touch With Patients To Avoid Penalties\nBy BJ Austin \u2022 Aug 29, 2012\nTim Baker / flickr\nSome North Texas hospitals will lose Medicare money starting in October. They\u2019re being penalized because certain elderly patients were readmitted to the hospital soon after being discharged.\nPlaying Matchmaker For Patients And Anti-Depressants\nCourtesy of Cindy Johnson\nOne of the toughest things about dealing with depression can be finding the right medication. It can take months, even years. As part of KERA\u2019s Breakthroughs project, here\u2019s a look at one woman\u2019s struggle and the North Texas doctor who hopes to make the medication matching process less like trial and error.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 7745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.keyholdersinternational.com/property/brand-new-apartments-baixa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NLWI3IJQCXOETQYO46MAONM7M6NDUVZI", "length": 2180, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.keyholdersinternational.com", "title": "Brand New Apartments In Baixa - Keyholders International Property Group", "raw_content": "Brand New Apartments In Baixa\n2 & 2+1\nKeyholders International are pleased to present this fantastic opportunity to own a piece of heritage and part of an architectural landmark in Baixa, Lisbon\nThis beautiful 18th century building is an architectural landmark that is being renovated and restored to become one of the most exclusive real estate projects to be available in the city of Lisbon. It is situated in the centre of the Baixa area of Lisbon and this development is a building rich in prestigious heritage.\nWith facades to Rua do Ouro, Rua da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o and Rua do Crucifixo, the building comprises a total of 55 apartments and 2 commercial units. Located in Lisbon\u2019s historical centre, the building offers studios, one and two bedroom apartments. Some of the apartments are lucky enough to have balconies with stunning views over the river Tagus, the Castle and Rossio Plaza.\nFor you to purchase an apartment in this development gives you the opportunity to live in undeniable charm and a very truly special environment. Every room within the apartments offers exceptional comfort and the kitchen and bathrooms will be fully equipped and furnished to the highest standards.\nLiving in Rua do Ouro is living in one of Lisbon\u2019s most charismatic streets, 5 minutes away from Avenida da Liberdade (the most cosmopolitan avenue of the city) and 2 minutes away from the Tagus River (with its various leisure facilities).\nApartments available:\nT2 Duplex \u2013 133m2 \u2013 956.000\u20ac\nT2+1 Duplex \u2013 125m2 \u2013 845.500\u20ac\nThis is an excellent opportunity to own an apartment in the most exclusive and sort after area of Lisbon at a fantastic price. Please do not hesitate to contact us for more information or to arrange a viewing appointment and one of our team will be delighted to get back to you.\nKHI Property team can speak English, Turkish and Portuguese Languages. We have offices in Lisbon, Alicante, Athens, Edinburgh and Fethiye, Turkey. If you wish to know more about this unique property or would like to arrange a viewing trip for it, please click here to leave your contact details.\n3 Bedroom Charming 19th Century Apartment In Chiado One and Two Bedroom Apartments Located In Rossio", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 331, "original_length": 8085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 290.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1079843982/beautys-worth-1922/faqs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:MFQDJXJXJSBB3KEVWUUBG5WIHOFPUE2Z", "length": 110, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kickstarter.com", "title": "Beauty's Worth (1922) by Edward Lorusso \u00bb FAQ \u2014 Kickstarter", "raw_content": "To buy, edit, and score this 1922 film starring Marion Davies and get it back into circulation.\nEdward Lorusso", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 6737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kidsdiscover.com/parentresources/activities-to-do-with-kids/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KG47MCVRC76FY55B6GDQZEVSFTMIO743", "length": 4595, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.kidsdiscover.com", "title": "Take Something Apart! - KIDS DISCOVER", "raw_content": "Take Something Apart!\nFebruary 28, 2013 by Michael Kline\nAs is typically the case, I am one of those persons who feels compelled to take ownership of the newest, coolest, nerdiest (priciest !!) gadgets whenever technology deems that\u2014whatever it is that I now own\u2014is obsolete. And speaking of obsolete\u2026\nAt the moment I have a Macintosh G5 desktop computer in various states of disassembly scattered across the workbench of my garage. Sure, I could bring it into any one of a number of electronic recyclers within a couple of miles of here, and they would do the right thing by seeing to it that the vital components of this once must-have device are either repurposed or properly disposed of. But where is the fun in that?\nI also know that this beast has a fair amount of aluminum within, so on that basis I am willing to spend time that I should otherwise use writing blogs, and see what this thing holds. Who knows? I could be looking at a four-figure return on this\u2026 if you count the decimal places.\nThough the mechanical and technological aspects of my now-outdated Macintosh hold some interest for me, want I really want to do is simply take it apart. I want to see how it was put together, how the parts interact with each other, and just have a better feel for the newer computer that took its place.\nHave you ever considered taking something apart with your kids? Perhaps an $1,800 computer is not the best place to start, though that same computer would have a rough time bringing $50 on Ebay at the moment, but how about a toaster? A radio? A typewriter? Surely there\u2019s an old printer, coffee pot, or VHS player laying around somewhere. If you can\u2019t come up with something (first of all, congratulations\u2026 you will never be considered for one of those hoarding shows on cable), ask friends or relatives to donate something. The local thrift stores or yard sales can also be a great place to take the kids and ask them \u201cSee something you\u2019d like to take apart?\u201d As a child, I would have become absolutely giddy at the prospect!\nAs my mom used to say\u2026 Stop! Before you begin ripping into that pink Princess telephone with your offspring, here are a few things you might want to consider:\nA workplace. Find somewhere that has some decent lighting and perhaps sports a surface that is something less than \u201cheirloom quality.\u201d (Your great grandmother\u2019s windsor-style coffee table may not be well suited for this.)\nTools. Start with the basics: a flat head as well as a Phillips head screwdriver (in various sizes if possible, or even a multi-fitting driver with interchangeable heads), a pair of pliers, perhaps a small set of allen wrenches, and even a small crescent wrench should make most deconstructive projects much easier. Many electronic items will use safety screws as well, so be prepared to hunt out some special fittings for your screwdriver. As a last resort, only allow the kids to use hammer or power tools (of which there are many these days) with adult supervision and permission.\nAs you begin your hunt for things that beg to be broken down, be sure to watch out for items that contain hazardous parts or materials such as glass (some toaster ovens), dirt and allergens (vacuum cleaners, both small and large), and sharp edges (in particular, paper shredders). Above all else, take EXTRA CARE (where is the bold menu here?), EXTRA CARE to remove electrical cords, or cut them off as close to the appliance as possible to remove the temptation to \u201creanimate\u201d (as Dr. Frankenstein would say) the project.\nWork as closely as possible with your kids so that they understand what it is they are taking apart. Old manuals are a great resource during a project like this, and a number of mechanical and electrical schematics can be found online as PDF files. The website How Stuff Works.com is a great place to look as well for the basic concepts of many appliances and electronics.\nAnd don\u2019t just let the kids take things apart. Award extra points for them being able to disassemble something without breaking it, and laud them with the highest praise you can muster if they can actually put the object back together. (This particular notion has alluded my personal self for many years\u2026)\nThis can also be the makings of a great science project. Ask your future demolition experts to lay out and attach the newly unjoined pieces to a stiff presentation board, with explanations of what each object is responsible for, along with a photo of the object post-destruction.\nAnd now I must get back out to the garage. A well-used but highly undervalued circuit board is calling out for me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kidsdiscover.com/teacherresources/earth-extremes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:16Z", "digest": "sha1:M7ISY3J2AEONJN2MSAHBUH6WZNATPMFR", "length": 4276, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.kidsdiscover.com", "title": "Exploring Earth's Extremes - Kids Discover", "raw_content": "Exploring Earth\u2019s Extremes\nApril 23, 2015 by Beth Geiger\nMt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. (Pal Teravagimov / Shutterstock)\nThe wow factor: it gets us every time. And Earth\u2019s extremes are as big as they get. Have fun sharing these with your students. Which ones elicit the biggest wows? Which ones are most surprising? Do a little of your own exploring using the links to more information too.\nTallest Mountain: 29,028 feet, Mt. Everest, Nepal/Tibet. This number has been in dispute, as some records say 29,035 feet based on a 1999 survey. No matter, because in a few thousand years they will need to revise it again, since Mt. Everest grows taller by 0.1576 inches.\nLowest point on Land: 1,360 feet below sea level, Dead Sea, Israel/Jordan. Death Valley, California is the lowest place in the United States but it is only 282 feet below sea level. It\u2019s worth mentioning that all the lowest places on Earth are in very dry climates, otherwise they would fill with water. Here\u2019s a nice summary of low spots. http://www.nps.gov/deva/learn/nature/lowest-places-on-earth.htm\nDeepest Ocean: 36,200 feet, Challenger Deep, part of the Mariana Trench, Southwest Pacific Ocean. In 2012 explorer James Cameron descended to this point in a one-person submarine. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deep-deepest-science-sub/. This link by Smithsonian has lots of information on deep ocean exploration and also some lesson plans. http://ocean.si.edu/deep-sea\nDeepest Cave: Krubera Cave, Ukraine (near the Black Sea). 7,208 feet explored depth as of 2012. To explore and measure the depths of this cave teams of speleologists have spent several weeks continuously underground, hauling tons of gear and setting up underground camps. More at http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/earth/surface-of-the-earth/deepest-cave/.\nHottest recorded temperature, 134 degrees Fahrenheit, Death Valley, California, July 1913. The previous record of 122 degrees in Libya 1912 was discredited in 2010. NOAA has a page devoted to climate extremes in the United States: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremes/extreme-us-climates.php\nColdest Recorded Temperature: Minus 129 degrees Fahrenheit, Vostok Station, Antarctica, July 21, 1983. But what about places where people really live? Oymyakon Russia averages 51 below zero in the winter. This article and photo essay from Wired Magazine tells us what life is like there: http://www.wired.com/2015/01/amos-chapple-the-coldest-place-on-earth/\nBiggest River, by flow: The Amazon, in Brazil, carrying an average of 7,381,000 cubic feet of water per second. During the rainy season the river can be 25 miles wide in places. A flood of extreme facts on the Amazon River can be found here: http://www.extremescience.com/amazon-river.htm\nLongest River: Nile, Africa, 4,132 miles. Another remarkable river statistic belongs to one of the world\u2019s siltiest rivers: China\u2019s Huang He, or Yellow River. The Huang He has formed a delta at the river mouth, in the Yellow Sea; each year the delta grows by 20 square kilometers (equal to 4,400 football fields). As it grows, the Chinese build new farms on it.\nWettest Place: 467.35 inches of rain peryear (that is 39 feet), Mawsynram, Meghalaya State, India. The wettest spots in the United States are mostly in the southeastern region: http://www.livescience.com/1558-study-reveals-top-10-wettest-cities.html\nBesides exploring some of the links provided above, have students write about one or more natural extremes they have personally experienced, such as the coldest or hottest temperatures they\u2019ve been in. How did it feel different from \u201cnormal\u201d? What effects did they notice such as frozen eyelashes, or difficulty catching their breath at high altitude? Was it fun or scary being in such conditions?\nThink about other Earth\u2019s extremes to explore. Some ideas are strongest earthquakes, hurricanes, deepest or largest lakes, deepest canyon. Have students discuss why or why not all sources may not agree on the facts (for example some records such as river width might be somewhat subjective and depend on season, if you count deltas etc; most damaging earthquakes are not necessarily the strongest; old records may be broken or discredited).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/soccer/57925/Sherwin-scores-soccer-scholarship-.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:53Z", "digest": "sha1:PGMXVIYCOEQOX33PFI7CCNBT7D5DKDG7", "length": 845, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.kilkennypeople.ie", "title": "Sherwin scores soccer scholarship - Kilkenny People", "raw_content": "Sherwin scores soccer scholarship\nKilkenny girl Lucy Sherwin has been awarded a sports scholarship to study in DCU. The award is in recognition of her achievements at both national and international levels.\nHaving represented South Leinster at under-15, 16 and 18 grades. Following national trials and fitness tests in 2012, Lucy was co-opted onto the Irish Under 19 International Women\u2019s squad for the year. Her application for a DCU scholarship was supported by the FAI national coach Dave Connell, who rates her as \u201cone of the up and coming stars of Women\u2019s soccer in this country\u201d.\nSherwin, who is currently playing in the Bus Eireann Women\u2019s National League with high-flying Wexford Youths, cut her teeth playing football with Evergreen Schoolboys. She made history when she won an under-13 schoolboys league medal with the Kells Road club.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kingsporttn.gov/the-city-of-kingsport-is-currently-accepting-applications-for-police-officer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LHJDIBVACOBKK3352I7IWTQOWJVWNZGB", "length": 2938, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.kingsporttn.gov", "title": "The City of Kingsport is Currently Accepting Applications for Police Officer - Kingsport, TN", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Government / News / Uncategorized / The City of Kingsport is Currently Accepting Applications for Police O...\nThe City of Kingsport is Currently Accepting Applications for Police Officer\nKINGSPORT \u2013 The City of Kingsport Human Resources Department is currently accepting applications for the position of Police Officer. Applications will be accepted beginning February 13, 2016 until April 3, 2016. Individuals 18 years of age or older who are interested in a career in law enforcement are encouraged to apply. Applicants are asked to only submit their application once, as weeding out duplicate applications hampers efficiency.\nAll applications must be submitted online using the following link:\nhttp://agency.governmentjobs.com/kingsport\nFollowing the April 3rd deadline, all applicants will receive a confirmation email, as well as a letter by traditional mail, containing further instructions regarding the upcoming police applicant testing procedures. All applicants will undergo a series of tests, beginning with a written examination on April 26, 2016. Applicants who successfully pass the written examination will advance forward to a physical agility evaluation and ultimately to a series of interviews.\nThe Kingsport Police Department is hoping to hire at least seven new officers out of this testing process to fill current and pending vacancies.\nThe current starting salary for Police Officer Trainee is $15.45 per hour or $32,148 annually. Applicants who are already certified law enforcement officers may be eligible for a salary adjustment to compensate for prior experience if certain criteria are met. Academy training and all essential equipment including uniforms, firearms, body armor, and duty gear are provided by the department. K.P.D. also issues take-home police cruisers to officers meeting specific residency requirements.\nCity of Kingsport employee benefits include direct payroll deposit; paid vacation, holiday, and sick leave; employee life insurance; optional supplemental and dependent life insurance; long-term disability; health insurance; optional dental insurance; flexible spending accounts; ICMA RC 401 retirement; and optional ICMA RC 457 retirement.\nFor additional information regarding the application process, please call the City of Kingsport Human Resources Department at 423-229-9401. For additional information regarding a law enforcement career at the Kingsport Police Department, please call the K.P.D. Public Information Officer at 423-229-9433.\nFebruary 16, 2016 /0 Comments/by WP Admin\nhttps://www.kingsporttn.gov/wp-content/uploads/logo-1.png 0 0 WP Admin https://www.kingsporttn.gov/wp-content/uploads/logo-1.png WP Admin2016-02-16 01:08:562016-09-20 10:32:19The City of Kingsport is Currently Accepting Applications for Police Officer\nKPD e-News Release: The City of Kingsport is Currently Accepting Applications... KFD issues tips on Cold Weather Heating Safety", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 13761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kinguin.net/nl/category/15762/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-call-of-pripyat-gog-key/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:15Z", "digest": "sha1:AC2JZUVGSPDY3LK3E7DOKWI2YRYNPVHC", "length": 2092, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.kinguin.net", "title": "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat GOG CD Key", "raw_content": "S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat GOG CD Key\nSold by: Pipo Games\n[6107] \u20ac 1,28 Buy now\n[297241] \u20ac 1,48 Buy now\nS.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat GOG Key\nIncludes: manual, 5 wallpapers, soundtrack, 15 avatars, 5 concept artworks, high resolution poster, 3 artworks, 15 renders\nWith over 2 million copies sold, the new episode of the most internationally successful S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series seamlessly connects to the first part of the Shadow of Chernobyl. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat takes PC gamers once again into the vicinity of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor that exploded in 1986. This so-called \"Zone\" is a highly contaminated area cordoned off by the military and now is combed through by the so-called stalkers, modern fortune hunters, in search of unique artifacts. In the role of Agent Alexander Degtyarev, who is dressed up as stalker, the player has to investigate the mysterious disappearance of five military helicopters and thereby stand one\u2019s ground against the various stalker groups.\nOS: Windows XP, SP2\nProcessor: 2.2 GHz Intel Pentium 4/ 2.2. GHz AMD Athlon XP 2200+\nGraphics: nVidia GeForce 5900 128MB / AMD Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB\nDirectX\u00ae: DirectX 9 compatible\nIn order to redeem the GOG code please follow the instructions below:\n1. Please create an account or login on https://www.gog.com\n2. Go to http://www.gog.com/redeem\n3. Enter the code and then press \"CONTINUE\"\n4. After a short amount of time you will see the details about the product, please press \"CONTINUE\" again.\n5. Download and install the GOG.com downloader\n6. Login to the software and get back to the product page\n7. Go to https://www.gog.com/account and look for the \"Games\" tab.\n8. Press the box of the product you want to download.\n9. Activate the GOG.com Download Mode on the right side of product menu.\n10.Choose the installation package from the list and save it with the GOG Downloader.\nS.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky Steam CD Key\nFallout: New Vegas Ultimate Edition EN/RU/PL/CZ Languages Steam Gift\nFallout: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game Steam Gift\nFallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game Steam Gift", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 10738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kisters.net/NA/company/collaboration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2TAZNRSINX6CCKNHPKTLMVTP6TH7BHYU", "length": 2424, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.kisters.net", "title": "Collaboration: KISTERS North America", "raw_content": "Client satisfaction is very important to us. Evaluations by our clients focus on three elements \u2013- qualified employees, results-oriented work, and quality software -- in regards to functionality, compliance with industrial standards, specialized requirements, and dedication to the highest level of customer support and service.\nOur international market leadership cannot be accomplished without close cooperation with our clients and understanding their needs as they evolve over time.\nSince 2002 the KISTERS environmental IT department has possessed a certified quality management system. We are certified according to the international norm DIN EN ISO 9001:2000. Our commitment to continuous improvement through rigorous auditing processes makes us a sought-after strategic partner worldwide. KISTERS is proud to collaborate with the following partners:\nEsri Inc. is a long-term strategic partner in the development of solutions that integrate time- and space-related data. It is becoming increasingly important to know which parameters have changed as well as when and where. Together we make it possible to follow extreme events in time and space, which in turn increases the response time of those potentially affected \u2013 time that is critically needed to take protective measures and get people to safety.\nOpen Geospatial Consortium (OGC) is an international industrial organization that brings together 450 businesses, authorities and universities to develop open interface standards. With a lead role in the Hydrology Domain Working Group, KISTERS helped to develop modern standards such as WaterML2 to support interoperability of water data. It is a recognized leader in the development of open standards for water data exchange. Its cooperation with KISTERS has brought to market invaluable capabilities like web interoperability solutions, underscoring the importance of information sharing.\nConsortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) is a research organization representing more than 130 U.S. universities and international organizations focused on water sciences. While CUAHSI receives support from the National Science Foundation, corporate members like KISTERS help future generations of scientists innovate and refine community modeling, data science and hydrologic education.\nIf KISTERS North America should be collaborating with you, contact us and share your suggestion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kivitv.com/news/cloverdale-bridge-to-be-demolished-monday-night", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XMZVD6TB56NWUJ2K4GPFOYI5VIN7I4Q3", "length": 1117, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.kivitv.com", "title": "Cloverdale Bridge to be demolished Monday night", "raw_content": "Cloverdale Bridge to be demolished Monday night\nA traffic alert for commuters traveling near the damaged Cloverdale overpass bridge. Crews will demolish the bridge over Interstate 84 Monday night. All eastbound lanes and two westbound lanes of I-84 will be closed overnight. On Tuesday night, all westbound lanes and two eastbound lanes of I-84 will be closed from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. Wednesday morning.\nIdaho State Police will be increasing patrols to promote safe driving in the work zone. The public is advised to stay out of the area because there may be hidden hazards. Pedestrian and bike traffic has been allowed, but after the demolition, that route will be unavailable.\nAccess to local businesses and residences on Cloverdale Road will remain open throughout the construction. The work will include general construction noise, dust, equipment backup alarms, and ground vibration. Most of the work will be between the hours of 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.\nThe Ada County Highway District and Idaho Transportation Department are working to replace and widen the bridge after it was damaged in a deadly accident last summer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.klinespecter.com/lawyers_smerconish.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:00Z", "digest": "sha1:V7VZZZQT7O2FHNKQ6MIIYQHTYFPXOFWB", "length": 5307, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.klinespecter.com", "title": "Michael Smerconish - Personal Injury Attorney - PA and NJ", "raw_content": "Michael A. Smerconish, lawyer, author and national radio host, joined Kline & Specter in 2011 as of counsel attorney.\nHe was previously of counsel at The Beasley Firm, where Tom Kline and Shanin Specter were his colleagues before forming their own firm in 1995. Smerconish has focused on legal cases ranging from complex tort matters to business litigation.\nIn recent years, Smerconish has become celebrated for his media endeavors, particularly The \u201cMichael Smerconish Program\u201d which airs nationally on Sirius XM radio (POTUS Channel 124) featuring commentary and interviews. Smerconish has interviewed five U.S. presidents and in 2009 he became the first radio host to interview President Barack Obama live from the White House.\nSmerconish is a columnist with The Philadelphia Inquirer and a contributor to TheDailyBeast.com. He has written five books, two of which were New York Times best sellers.\nPrior to turning to broadcasting, Smerconish practiced law for ten years with James E. Beasley, the legendary Philadelphia trial lawyer.\nAmong his clients were the Philadelphia Fraternal Order of Police \u2013 in an action against a music group responsible for publishing an FOP photograph on an album cover that advocated the murder of police \u2013 and the City of Rome, Italy in a case that involved a contract dispute.\nSmerconish handled a wide array of cases, including medical malpractice, product liability, auto accident, defamation, civil rights, property and contract litigation. His clients included a former American diplomat, a union organizer, a Philadelphia deputy mayor and a heavyweight boxing contender. Among his many successful cases were:\nA litany of medical malpractice suits, including those in which he represented the family of a boy who died after an esophageal dilation that involved substandard administration of anesthesia; a Pittsburgh boy who became legally blind after his pediatrician failed to diagnose craniosynostosis; and a diplomat who lost an eye in a case in which doctors failed to diagnose cancer.\nLegal action with Beasley on behalf of a Philadelphia boy who was badly burned over most of his body when his home was destroyed by fire after PECO terminated electricity. The fire started after the boy used candles to be able to see in the house.\nA case involving a Philadelphia developer who conceived of the construction of a music amphitheater in Camden only to have his plans appropriated by the eventual builder of the structure that exists today on Camden's waterfront.\nRepresentation for a city union organizer who was beaten by the managers a Philadelphia hotel where he was seeking to arrange a union vote.\nA lawsuit on behalf of a Philadelphia deputy mayor against the author of a best-selling book who improperly linked his conduct to causing a high-profile murder.\nThe high-profile case on behalf of the family of a man who died when his 911 call was diverted by a Philadelphia operator of a private ambulance service that never found his house.\nAn auto accident case for a Lehigh Valley couple whose infant died after a part broke free from an oncoming truck, smashed through the windshield of their minivan and struck the child in the head.\nReverse discrimination litigation against the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) by a prospective contractor.\nRepresentation, with Beasley, of a professional boxer in a suit against promoter Don King in which the client won the chance to fight in an important bout which, had he won, could have led to a heavyweight title fight.\nThe Michael Smerconish Program, Live from the\nWhite House, August 20, 2009\nSmerconish concentrates much of his time now on his media career, which in addition to his regular (afternoon) radio talk show has him as a frequent contributor to MSNBC. Smerconish appears often on Hardball with Chris Matthews, a program for which he has also been guest host, and he has been a guest on NBC\u2019s Today Show, Colbert Report, O\u2019Reilly Factor, Larry King Live, The View, and Real Time With Bill Maher.\nHis published books are: Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11; Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism, True Stories that Should Be Fiction (a Times best seller); Murdered By Mumia: A Life Sentence of Loss, Pain and Injustice (a Times best seller which he co-authored with Maureen Faulkner); Morning Drive: Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking; and Instinct: The Man Who Stopped the 20th Hijacker. (Smerconish contributed all author proceeds from three of his books to charity.)\nIn the early 1990s, Smerconish was regional administrator and federal housing commissioner with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for Philadelphia Region III comprising Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia.\nSmerconish is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lehigh University and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.\nHe is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.\nMichael Smerconish interviews President Obama, Oct. 26, 2012:\nThe Purple Passion of Michael Smerconish, The Penn Gazette\nInterview with family of McDonald's \"Hot Coffee\" victim, 6/29/11\nSmerconish joins Kline & Specter, The Legal Intelligencer 4/14/11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 15088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.knowthis.com/managing-customers/customers-and-contact-points/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IMA4Z6FYD3FOYDBYWINTMUVTH2TGH6B6", "length": 3300, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.knowthis.com", "title": "Customers and Contact Points - KnowThis.com", "raw_content": "Another problem is that customers may interact with organizations at different contact points. A contact point is the method a customer uses to communicate with an organization. For instance, consider the different ways customers may interact with an organization:\nIn-Person Assistance \u2013 Customers seek in-person assistance for their needs by visiting retail stores and other outlets, and also through discussion with company salespeople who visit customers at their place of business or in their home.\nTelephone \u2013 Customers seeking to make purchases or have a problem solved may find it more convenient to do so through phone contact. In many organizations a dedicated department, called a call center, handles all incoming customer inquiries.\nDigital Networks \u2013 The fastest growing contact points are through electronic communication over the internet and through mobile networks, including through mobile apps. The use of these networks for purchasing (i.e., electronic commerce or e-commerce) has exploded and is now the leading method for purchasing certain types of products, including music. These communication networks have also become the primary area many customers look to first for help with their purchases such as seeking online help, product usage information, and recommendations for additional products.\nIn-Person Product Support \u2013 Some in-person assistance is not principally intended to assist with selling but is designed to offer support once a purchase is made. Such services are handled by delivery people and service/repair technicians.\nKiosks \u2013 A kiosk is a standalone, interactive computer, often equipped with a touch-screen, that offers customers several service options including product information, ability to make a purchase, and review of a customer\u2019s account. Kiosks are now widely used for airline check-in, banking, making in-store purchases, and much more.\nFinancial Assistance \u2013 Customer contact may also occur through company personnel who assist customers with financial issues. For instance, credit personnel help customers arrange the necessary funds to make a purchase while personnel in accounts receivable work with customers who are experiencing payment problems.\nThe challenge of insuring that customers are handled properly no matter the contact point they use is daunting for many companies. For some organizations the customer contact points cited above operate independently of others. For instance, retail stores may not be directly connected to telephone customer service. The result is that for different contact points many companies have developed different procedures and techniques for handling customers. And for some firms there exists little integration between the contact points so customers communicating through one point one day and another point the next day may receive conflicting information. In such cases customers are likely to become frustrated and question the organization\u2019s ability to service its customers.\nPosted in Managing Customers Tutorial Tagged call center contact, how customer contact, kiosk, methods of customer contact\nCustomers and Contact Points (2019). From Managing Customers Tutorial. KnowThis.com. 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But there's a sinister side to Craigslist, too.\nAs it turns out, there are also criminal dummies on the site. Case in point, a Pennsylvania man who had $16,000 in fines for DUI convictions and an assault charge. Rather than pay up, he's now behind bars.\nThat's because Zachary Landis posted an ad, using Safe-mail.net, on Craigslist to hire a \"genius hacker.\" He wanted this person to break into the court's computer system to wipe out those $16,000 in fines.\nHe didn't know it, but a cop responded to the ad. Landis blew his cover when they were negotiating fees for the hack. Landis sent the cop a screenshot of himself. As it turned out, his Gmail account was open behind him.\nThe cop contacted Google and was told that email was associated with Landis. Craigslist strengthened the case when it said the ad was posted by Landis' IP address.\nNext page: Find out what happened to this would-be criminal mastermind\nNetflix's new videos persuade kids to go to bed\nFacebook says it's building a teleporter. What does it mean?\nOne vital step you must take now to protect your online accounts from hackers and scammers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 5343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kontentkiddos.com/march-2nd-dr-seuss-birthday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:V3DV4SMY2TQ3SBUMLLSQECMNLAZQCY3A", "length": 631, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kontentkiddos.com", "title": "March 2nd Dr. Seuss' Birthday!", "raw_content": "March 2nd Dr. Seuss\u2019 Birthday\nDon\u2019t let the schools be the only ones who have fun today! Pull out all your Dr. Seuss books. Cuddle up with your kids tonight and read! If you are feeling really ambitious, cook up some green eggs and ham.\n\u201cDr. Seuss (who was known as Theodor Geisel when he wasn\u2019t writing or drawing) wrote and illustrated 44 books for children and their lucky parents. But sometimes Dr. Seuss liked to write books and have someone else draw the pictures. For those books he used the pen name Theo. LeSieg (which is Geisel spelled backward!).\u201d [from: LeSieg, Theo. The Eye Book. Random House 1968. About the author.]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.korolfinancial.com/financial-planning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4TTLMYC7AURU6TYQPA3Y22P6LJ5NPZ7X", "length": 642, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.korolfinancial.com", "title": "Financial Planning | Korol Financial Group, LLC", "raw_content": "Effective financial planning creates stability in the face of life\u2019s many uncertainties. While providing an overview of the big picture, our professionals develop comprehensive strategies for clients that allow them to make stronger financial decisions.\nThough one-size fits all strategies may be the common approach, we specialize in tailoring plans to fit your current situation while providing a foundation for future growth. From providing life, disability and long-term care insurance, to developing tax-advantaged college savings plans and preparing for retirement, our advisors strive to help promote your total financial independence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kqed.org/news/7061/washington-prepares-for-inauguration-with-plenty-of-californians-on-hand", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LN5UXUFDGBK34P4BS4VCQXVT2LNJGLHP", "length": 413, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kqed.org", "title": "Washington Prepares for Inauguration with Plenty of Californians on Hand | KQED News", "raw_content": "Washington Prepares for Inauguration with Plenty of Californians on Hand\nThere is excitement on the streets of Washington D.C. this morning, as the nation's capital prepares to celebrate President Barack Obama's second term in the White House. The California Report's Scott Shafer is there and he joins us to share some stories of those who have traveled to attend the festivities, including many from California.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 2404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 151.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kruschlaw.com/resources/prenuptial-agreements-in-north-carolina-are-not-/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:232TIEEBD2QENKJ5GAOSLC4CEXC5EJNP", "length": 2280, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.kruschlaw.com", "title": "Prenuptial Agreements", "raw_content": "Resources /Prenuptial Agreements in North Carolina are Not Just For the Wealthy\nCharlotte Prenuptial Agreement Attorneys\nIn addition to handling divorce and post-divorce disputes, we assist clients with the preparation and review of prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements.\nMany people are under the mistaken impression that prenuptial agreements (also called premarital agreements) are only for the rich and well-to-do. To the contrary, prenuptial agreements can benefit anyone. We draft and review prenuptial agreements for people of all income and asset levels.\nA prenuptial agreement that is carefully devised and crafted can provide tremendous clarity for couples who intend to marry. A prenuptial agreement specifies clearly the parties\u2019 intentions regarding their current and future assets, as well as financial responsibilities they plan to undertake during the marriage and upon a separation and/or divorce.\nA prenuptial agreement can also clarify the intentions of a future husband and wife concerning issues like inherited assets, inheritance rights and spousal support/alimony.\nTwo important questions that attorneys and courts will ask when considering how or whether to enforce a prenuptial agreement if it is later challenged are (1) whether the agreement was voluntarily entered into (e.g., was it signed right before the wedding?); and (2) was there full and fair financial disclosure on the part of the parties regarding their income, assets and liabilities? When deciding whether to execute a prenuptial agreement, be sure to plan well in advance so that it is not signed so close to the wedding date that a court may question whether it was signed voluntarily, and make a full and fair financial disclosure to your spouse-to-be.\nIn addition to prenuptial agreements, our lawyers draft and review postnuptial agreements. Postnuptial agreements are agreements concerning the rights of couples who are already married who decide they wish to contractually assign their rights and responsibilities in the event of a future separation or divorce. Postnuptial agreements can also be used for people who have separated and now wish to reconcile, but also desire to predetermine their rights and responsibilities in the event the reconciliation does not work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ksal.com/city-bans-july-4th-barricades-iii-partyonwayne/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OASKQNTRKFT6VGCVOADLWZWXRHK7TRLI", "length": 1704, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ksal.com", "title": "UPDATE: Brief Barricade Ban Rescinded", "raw_content": "UPDATE: Brief Barricade Ban Rescinded\nThe City of Salina announced a new policy Wednesday afternoon, saying they would not issue barricades to close public roads around the Independence Day Holiday this year. That policy would essentially make neighborhood block parties impossible. A couple of hours after the new policy was announced, though, it was rescinded. Wednesday evening the city issued the following brief statement:\nThe previous information regarding the issuance of barricade permits for July 3 and 4 has been rescinded. Barricades will be allowed with a proper permit. As a reminder, fireworks are only allowed to be ignited/discharged on July 3 and 4 from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Fireworks are not to be ignited or launched while on public property or on roadways.\nThe city had indicated that the policy was originally enacted \u201cto ensure the safety of residents and reduce the likelihood of the unauthorized discharging of fireworks within neighborhoods\u201d. It did not indicate why it was quickly rescinded.\nORIGINAL: Independence Day Holiday celebrations will have to stay out of the street this year. The\nIn past years citizens could request the barricades to stop traffic on their street to have \u201cblock party\u201d. That won\u2019t be allowed this year.\nAccording to the city, to ensure the safety of residents and reduce the likelihood of the unauthorized discharging of fireworks within neighborhoods, they will not be issuing barricade permits for the 3rd or 4th of July.\nFireworks are only allowed to be ignited/discharged on July 3 and 4 from 8 a.m.-11 p.m. Fireworks are not to be ignited or launched while on public property or on roadways.\nOfficials stress that public safety is the primary concern.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kvistdesign.co.uk/petergate-architectural", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BSYJBMXW6JOCQ234YLK5L7Y54FJR4MK7", "length": 982, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.kvistdesign.co.uk", "title": "PETERGATE \u2014 KVIST", "raw_content": "PETERGATE\nWANDSWORTH | LONDON | UK\nNewlords LTD\nThe project seeked to develop an existing mid terrace house with a rear garden, arranged over ground and first floors beneath a pitched composite tile roof. The building envelope was in sound condition, however the interior was dated and in need of renovation. The site lies in Wandsworth, within walking distance of both Clapham Junction and Wandsworth Town stations.\nThe client purchased the property at auction with the intention of remodelling and renovating internally, as well as constructing a double height rear extension and loft conversion.\nTo maximise return on your investment, it will be important to deliver a scheme that is of a good design quality and which sets a good precedent in terms of size, design and height. The surrounding properties are of a high quality finish and have been similarly upgraded within the last ten years so the general principle of development in this location has already been established.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.landcan.org/article/Bottomland-Hardwood-Reforestation-In-The-Lower-Mississippi-Valley/31", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:03Z", "digest": "sha1:LYLRRMRI5IVDJLGKG4LFQKPWFZTQYQHL", "length": 28250, "nlines": 79, "source_domain": "www.landcan.org", "title": "Bottomland Hardwood Reforestation In The Lower Mississippi Valley", "raw_content": "Bottomland Hardwood Reforestation In The Lower Mississippi Valley\nBy: Harvey Kennedy, Jr and James Allen\nWHY REFORESTATION?\nWe prepared this bulletin to assist you--as a farmer or other private landowner--in reestablishing forests on part of your land. It will be most useful to you if your land is in the Lower Mississippi Valley and your main reason for reforestation is to produce wildlife habitat, either for private enjoyment or as a means of obtaining supplemental income. In addition to more wildlife, you can expect numerous other benefits if you reforest part of your land.\nSeveral of the non-wildlife related benefits of reforestation are economic, such as the additional income that you may get from participating in conservation-related agricultural programs or through selling timber. Some benefits are environmental such as the improvement in water quality that may result if you reforest an area between a field and a waterway. Other benefits are less tangible, but may nevertheless be important to you. One example is the personal satisfaction of watching your forest grow and mature--and realizing that you are producing something of value to yourself, as well as to your community, the Nation, and future generations.\nValue of Lower Mississippi Valley Forests to Wildlife\nThe bottomland hardwood forests of the Lower Mississippi Valley provide some of the best wildlife habitat in the entire United States. If you own a tract of forest anywhere in the valley (Figure 1), the chances are very good that it is home to a wide variety of both game and non-game wildlife species.\nStudies have shown that, acre for acre, bottomland hardwood forests of the types found in the Lower Mississippi Valley can support two to five times as many game animals as nearby upland forests. Deer, turkeys, squirrels, rabbits, mallards, and wood ducks are all taken in great numbers from forests throughout the valley each hunting season. Otters, minks, raccoons, nutrias and other important furbearers are found throughout much of the Lower Mississippi Valley\u2019s forests. When flooded, these forests also provide spawning sites and food for several species of game and forage fish. Throughout this bulletin, you will find drawings of some wildlife species that favor bottomland hardwood habitat.\nMany types of non-game wildlife also make extensive use of Lower Mississippi Valley forests. Millions of migratory birds move down from the north to spend the winter in the valley, at which time these forests may have 10 times as many birds per acre as upland forests. Several species of non-game wildlife found in these forests are threatened or endangered. For example, it is likely that North America\u2019s rarest songbird, the Bachman\u2019s warbler, still survives somewhere in the forests of the Lower Mississippi Valley.\nLosses of Lower Mississippi Valley Forests\nPrior to the arrival of the first European settlers, the Lower Mississippi Valley was almost entirely covered by dense bottomland hardwood forests and cypress-tupelo swamps. In many places, these forests overshadowed vast, nearly impenetrable thickets of cane or palmetto. There were just a few exceptions to this heavy cover of forest. Two of the most notable--the Grand Prairie region of Arkansas and the Macon Ridge area of northeastern Louisiana--were largely devoid of trees because of soil conditions and perhaps in part because of frequent burning by Indians.\nThe tremendous agricultural potential of the valley, due to its rich alluvial soils and adequate moisture, was realized almost immediately, but the rate of clearing and conversion to agriculture was slow at first because of the frequent flooding and lack of drainage. Gradually, as the Mississippi River and its tributaries were brought under some control and coordinated drainage projects were established, more and more of the forests were cleared.\nBy the late 1930\u2019s only about half of the original area of forest remained. Clearing continued at a rapid pace right up through the late 1970\u2019s, by which time only about 20 percent of the original forested area remained (figure 3). While the rate of clearing has begun to slow down, it is also apparent that many of the areas that have already been cleared were better suited as forest than as agricultural land; many of these lands can successfully produce a crop only in relatively dry years.\nPLANNING FOR REFORESTATION\nCareful planning is the first, and perhaps the most critical, step in the reforestation process. You will have to choose a planting site and decide whether or not there is a need for site preparation; you will also have to choose which species you will plant and the planting method you will use. You should make these decisions well in advance of the planting date--ideally in the summer or early fall prior to planting--to ensure the availability of labor, equipment, and planting stock.\nChoosing the Planting Site\nReforestation, should take place primarily on lands least suitable for agriculture. In general, such sites will be fields on the lower portion of your land which have poor drainage or are subject to frequent flooding. Other recommended planting sites include the edges of rivers, streams, borrow pits, drainage channels, farm ponds, roadsides, and fencerows. You might also want to consider reforesting areas that would join two existing tracts of forest since this can provide valuable travel corridors for wildlife.\nWhere possible, combining reforestation with other types of wildlife management can be beneficial. For example, if you would like to convert a large, low-lying fields to wildlife habitat, you could maintain the very lowest portion as a seasonally flooded shallow water impoundment for wintering waterfowl and plant the surrounding portion of the field with trees. In such a case, the forest may enhance the use of the impoundment by waterfowl, perhaps by sheltering the impoundment from disturbance caused by a nearby road or residential area. Also, the impoundment may increase the value of the forest to wildlife such as deer and turkeys by providing a source of water and additional food.\nOnce you select the planting site, you should obtain information on its soils and flooding characteristics, since these will affect your selection of the tree species. A good place to start is with the county or parish soil survey, which you can obtain through your county or parish Soil Conservation Service office. Soil surveys contain a wealth of information on the soil characteristics (including degree of flooding and soil saturation) that affect the survival and growth of trees, as well as information on the suitability of the soil type(s) on the site for various tree species.\nAnother source of information on the characteristics of the planting site--particularly if you acquired the site only recently--is local expertise. Talk to your neighbors, local Soil Conservation Service and other agricultural extension personnel, and the county or parish forester. These people may know of changes in flooding patterns (due to drainage projects, etc.) that are not covered in the soil survey. They may also have experience with other reforestation projects in the area and can relate any problems that were encountered.\nProper tree species selection is critical, since it will greatly affect the chances for successful reforestation. You should base your selection of tree species on several factors, including which species are capable of growing on the site, the availability of planting stock, and your personal objectives for reforestation.\nThe soil survey and local experts referred to above can help you with the question of which species will grow on your site. The county or parish forester is often a good source of information on the availability of planting stock and can also provide information on local markets for timber, pulpwood, and other forest products. The final choice of species, however, depends on you and the specific wildlife species you want to favor, and whether you also want to produce a valuable crop of timber. To help get you started, characteristics of some of the most commonly planted tree species are presented in Appendix A.\nIn most of the reforestation projects that have been carried out In the Lower Mississippi Valley, the emphasis has been placed on planting hard mast-producing species, particularly oaks and sweet pecan. These species are generally believed to have the greatest value to the most widely desired types of wildlife--deer, turkey, squirrel, and waterfowl. It is also widely believed that the lighter-seeded species, such as ash, elm, sweetgum, and sycamore, will establish themselves on the site on their own, since they are easily dispersed by wind or water. Although this approach to reforestation appears to be successful, you should not depend on the ligher-seeded species to always establish themselves on their own.\nA tract of forest that contains many types of both hard and soft mast-producing trees is probably valuable to more species of wildlife than a stand heavily dominated by two or three hard mast-producing species since not all species eat hard mast, and also because it provides a measure of insurance for those years when hard mast production is poor. Therefore, we recommend that you also plant at least one or two species in addition to the hard mast-producers; especially if your planting site does not flood very often and is more than about 100 yards from a stand of mature forest that can act as a seed source.\nChoosing the Planting Method\nThe two major planting methods are direct seeding and planting seedlings. Both can be done either by hand or with machines and are described in detail later in this bulletin. Direct seeding is usually less expensive than planting seedlings, though this will depend on factors such as the price of seed and labor and the availability of suitable machinery. Typical costs of direct seeding in 1989 were about $40-$6o per acre, while planting seedlings costs roughly twice as much. On the other hand, planting seedlings may result in faster initial establishment of a forest. You should give each method careful consideration in the planning stage because they will affect the type of planting stock you will need, and you should by to ensure that your desired stock will be available as early as possible.\nThe main purpose of site preparation is to create suitable growing conditions for free seed or seedlings. Another purpose in some cases is to create improved conditions that allow for use of mechanical planting equipment. Site preparation is not always necessary, but we do recommend it if the area to be planted has a plowpan or otherwise compacted soils or if the site has extensive weed cover.\nRegardless of whether you reforest by direct seeding or planting seedlings, you will probably prepare your site by disking. If the site has a substantial cover of weeds, disking is helpful because it reduces the amount of competing vegetation, and by reducing the amount of weeds, it reduces the number of small rodents. High rodent populations are especially troublesome if direct seeding is planned.\nIdeally, you should disk no more than 2 months prior to planting or seeding. However, disking may need to be done somewhat earlier if you plan mid to late winter or early spring planting and if flooding is a possibility. Two passes with the disk plow or barrow should be made, and disking should be to a depth of at least 6 inches, but preferably 8-15 inches.\nIn some cases, you may find burning or sub-soiling useful in preparing your site. Burning alone may be adequate on a field that has been fallow for a couple of years and does not have a plowpan. Sub-soiling may be needed on heavily compacted or otherwise degraded sites, but is rarely necessary on old agricultural fields.\nFertilization may increase the growth of some species planted on old field and other disturbed sites and therefore is occasionally done prior to planting. If you want to maximize growth of your planted trees, we recommend that you first get a soil test done, particularly for nitrogen and phosphorus levels. You should be aware, however, that while fertilization may increase growth, the increase may not be great enough to justify the costs from a timber production perspective.\nDirect seeding is becoming a widely used method of reforestation in the Lower Mississippi Valley. The primary advantage of direct seeding is its lower cost. Another advantage is that it allows tree roots to develop naturally without the disturbance caused by cutting roots and removing seedlings growing in a nursery.\nA disadvantage of direct seeding is that it usually results in slower initial development of the forest. Also, a major limitation of direct seeding is that it is only reliable for oaks and to a lesser degree other large seeded species such as sweet pecan. The smaller seeds of many other bottomland species are much more susceptible to heat and dry soil conditions and, because they must be planted nearer the surface, are also more susceptible to bird and rodent predation. The procedures described in this section therefore should only be attempted for large-seeded species.\nObtaining Seed\nSeed can be obtained either commercially or by collecting it on your own. We have listed a few commercial sources of seed in Appendix B, but your county or parish forester may be aware of smaller suppliers operating in your vicinity. Seed may be in short supply, so it is important that you place your order as early as possible if you plan to buy it.\nIf you decide to buy seed from a large supplier, you should request seed collected from sites as close as possible to your land. This seed is likely to be better adapted to your own site than seed collected from more distant areas. Ideally, seed should be obtained from sources no more than 150 miles from where you intend to plant. Also, you should ask the supplier to estimate how much of the seed is viable. Viability should be at least 80 percent; if it is less, you will have to compensate by planting more seed than we recommend in the \u201cDepth of Sowing and Spacing\u201d section.\nIf you are planning to collect your own seed, you should begin as soon as it matures, although you need to be aware that the very first seeds to fall are often not viable. The most common method of seed collection is simply to gather seed that has fallen to the ground and temporarily store it in a bucket, canvas bag, or other container. Plastic bags or other non-permeable containers should not be used for collection since they may cause overheating of the seed.\nAssuming that there is a fairly good crop of seed on the ground, it is usually possible for one person to pick up from 8 to 10 pounds per hour. It is occasionally possible to speed up collection by shaking large amounts of seed out of trees onto a tarp, or by collecting seed from trees felled in logging operations.\nIf you are collecting acorns, the next step after collection should be the \u201cfloat test.\u201d The float test helps eliminate unsound (floating) acorns; it works for every species of oak except overcup, which floats even when sound. To test, place the acorns In a large container of water, stir them a couple of times, and skim off the floating acorns and other material. You should then completely drain the water.\nAfter collection, place red oak acorns (such as Nuttall, cherrybark, water, and willow oaks) and other large seeds in 4-6 mil thick polyethylene bags, tie the bags shut, and put them in cold storage (35 to 40 \u00b0F). These species can be stored successfully for at least 3 years. White oak acorns (such as overcup and swamp chestnut oaks) can also be stored in this manner, but only for a few months. You should try to plant white oaks within a month or two after collection rather than store them for an extended period.\nIf cold storage is unavailable, you can store seed over winter by burying them 1-2 feet underground, either in 4-6 mil polyethylene bags or loose. Under no circumstances should you leave seed in a warm, dry location for more than a couple of hours. If polyethylene bags are unavailable and you do not intend to store seed for longer than one winter, you can use burlap bags.\nTiming of Direct Seeding\nThe most common times for direct seeding are fall, spring, and early summer. Oak acorns (and probably other large seeded species) may also be sown successfully at other times of the year, although the period of July through September is not recommended. The relative flexibility of timing is an important advantage of direct seeding; you can plant when you are not busy with other farm operations or wait until soil conditions are just right.\nDepth of Sowing and Spacing\nAcorns can be sown successfully at a depth of between 2 and 6 inches. Sowing 2-3 inches deep usually results in better germination and survival than sowing at 4-6 inches, but sowing deeper may pay off in situations where there are many rodents or the soil surface is subject to drying out completely.\nExperience has shown that you can expect about 1 out of 4 acorns sown on old fields to produce a tree still growing well after 10 years. If you are sowing only acorns and hope that other types of trees will become established on the site naturally, you should sow as few as 800-1,000, and no more than 1,200-1,800 acorns per acre. This will produce from around 200 to 400 oak trees per acre after 10 years, which should allow some (though not much) growing space for other trees. Even at these densities some thinning of oaks may eventually be required.\nSpacing for sowing 1,000 acorns per acre should range from 4.5 by 10 feet to 3 by 15 feet. Spacing for sowing 1,500 acorns per acre should range from 3 by 10 feet to 2 by 15 feet. If you want to avoid the eventual appearance of a plantation, with neat rows of trees, you can plant in wavy lines or even at random, as long as you allow enough growing space around each seed.\nHand Sowing\nDirect seeding can be readily accomplished by hand methods. These can be as simple as using a slick or metal bar to make a hole, placing the seed in by hand, and closing the hole with your foot. A hand tool such as the one in Figure 9 can make the job easier by avoiding the need to bend over to put the acorns in the holes, and also can be constructed so as to ensure a uniform planting depth.\nOn a relatively clean, flat site, with favorable soil moisture conditions, a single planter should be able to sow around 7 or 8 acres per day using the hand methods described above. This amount can vary substantially, however, depending on such factors as the experience and physical condition of the planter, the depth of sowing, the distance the planter has to hand carry seed before being able to start planting, and the actual site conditions.\nMachine Sowing\nOn old field sites under proper soil conditions, machine sowing works very well. A soybean or other type of planter can often be modified to allow for sowing acorns. Using the planter on a prepared site with good soil moisture conditions, three people can sow 40-60 acres per day. Rather than spending time and money modifying a planter on your own, you may be able to rent or barrow one. Your county or parish forester may know of planters available in your general area.\nPlanting tree seedlings is an old, well-established method of reforestation. When it is done correctly, the chances for successful establishment of a forest plantation are very high. If the planting is done incorrectly or carelessly, however, you are likely to end up with an expensive failure. The keys to successful initial establishment of tree seedlings, in addition to selection of the appropriate species for the site, are obtaining good quality seedlings, proper pre-planting care of the seedlings, and proper planting technique.\nObtaining Seedlings\nThe primary sources of tree seedlings are State forestry organizations and private nurseries (see Appendix B). Growing your own seedlings will rarely be cost effective and is only recommended for commercial operations.\nThe seedlings you will get from most of these nurseries will be bare-rooted, which means the seedlings have been separated from the soil they were growing in at the nursery. Bare-rooted seedlings are less expensive than seedlings in containers, lighter, easier to transport, and easier to plant.\nIn contrast to pine seedlings, which are usually planted while quite small, the hardwood or cypress seedlings you select should be good-sized and sturdy. Seedlings should have a top length of at least 18 inches. The diameter of the root collar (the part of the root just below ground level) should be at least 3/8 inch. The roots should be well-developed, and pruned to a length of about 8 inches, since this makes planting easier.\nHandling Seedlings\nWhile bare-rooted seedlings have the advantages mentioned above, they require careful handling. The most important thing to keep in mind is that the roots are very vulnerable, and if they die the seedling dies.\nWhen you get seedlings from a nursery, they will generally be wrapped up in bundles of 50-200. If you are not going to plant them immediately, you should place the seedlings (still wrapped) in a cool, dark place--ideally in a cold storage unit. A barn, shed, or dense shade will do for a few days, as long as the roots are not allowed to freeze or dry out.\nYou should take only as many seedlings to the field as you intend to plant in a day. Take the seedlings out of the nursery-supplied bag and plant them immediately, or transfer small groups of seedlings to a bucket or planting bag containing moist sphagnum or peat moss. You should never carry a group of seedlings in your hand while planting because their roots will be exposed to the air and sun, and they can dry out very quickly.\nTiming of Planting\nThe best time to plant bare-rooted seedlings is while they are dormant and when the soil is moist. Generally, planting conditions are most suitable in the Lower Mississippi Valley from January through about mid-March. Planting can be done into May if the seedlings are kept in cold storage (and therefore dormant) until planting. The ideal planting weather is cloudy and cool.\nThe most frequent limitations on planting during this season are excessive cold (planting should not be done in sub-freezing temperatures) and flooding of the site. The more flood-tolerant species can be planted in shallow water, but the job is much easier if the soil is moist but not flooded.\nIf your goal is reforestation primarily for wildlife, you do not need to plant on spacings of 10 by 10 feet or less, which are frequently used for timber production. Spacings of 12 by 12, 15 by 15, or even 20 by 20 feet may meet your objectives and will do so at less cost. The number of seedlings you need for planting an acre at 10 by 10 foot spacing is 437; at 15 by 15 foot spacing you will need 194; and at 20 by 20 foot spacing you will need only 109.\nYou can hand plant tree seedlings using a dibble bar or sharpshooter shovel. The technique for use with these tools is shown in Figure 14. It is important that the roots be placed in the hole so that they can spread out somewhat naturally; they should not be twisted, balled up, or bent. Moist soil should then be packed firmly around the roots.\nPlanting a tree by hand is a simple task, but nevertheless it is often done incorrectly. If you have a crew of inexperienced tree planters, you should take the time to demonstrate clearly the proper way to plant. Also, you should keep an eye on the crew to make sure they don\u2019t get careless as the day wears on and they begin to get tired.\nSeedlings should be planted with their root collars just below the ground surface (Figure 15a). Perhaps the most frequent planting mistake is planting the seedling either too deeply or, more commonly, not deep enough (Figures 15b and c). Another common mistake is digging a hole too shallow for proper placement of the roots. In such a case the roots may become bent upwards, or \u2018J-rooted\u201d (Figure 15d), which can result in the roots not penetrating deeply enough into the soil to protect the tree from windthrow or droughts. A third mistake is leaving art air pocket near the roots after closing the hole (Figure 15e), which may allow the roots to dry out.\nYou can expect one experienced person to plant roughly 600-800 seedlings per day on a relatively clean, flat site with moist soil. The rate can vary substantially, however, for the same reasons mentioned for direct seeding by hand, as well as depending on the size of the seedling being planted.\nMachine Planting\nMachine planters can speed up the planting job dramatically in soils other than heavy clays when other site conditions are favorable. An experienced crew of two or three can plant 4,000-10,000 seedlings a day with a planting machine, and often survival will be better than that achieved by a large, less-experienced crew of hand planters.\nThe cost of mechanical planters will be prohibitive for most small reforestation projects, but you may be able to rent one or borrow one from someone in the area. We recommend that you ask your county or parish forester about the availability of such planters in your area.\nPOST-PLANTING OPERATIONS\nAfter planting, you should closely monitor the initial establishment of the seed or seedlings. If there is going to be a problem with the planting project, it will most likely show up in the first couple of years. Outright failures and only partially successful planting projects occur occasionally. They most often result from extended post-planting dry periods, flooding coupled with high temperatures, poor planting practices, residual herbicides or herbicide drift from nearby aerial applications, poor quality seed or seedlings, or animal predation.\nDuring the first few years you may think that not a single tree survived but if you look closely, you will probably be able to find many small seedlings nearly hidden in the dense ground cover. If you direct-seeded the site, you should give the seed ample time to germinate before determining the initial success of the project; some seed planted in early summer may not germinate until late summer, fall, or even the following spring.\nPost-planting weed control (by disking, mowing, and/or use of herbicides) may speed up growth of the seedlings during the first few years and perhaps slightly increase survival, but the benefits will seldom justify the costs. Post-planting weed control may be most critical where a heavy cover of large grasses (e.g., Johnson grass) or woody vines develops. In general, weed control should be practiced sparingly, since it may actually reduce the short-term value of the site to some types of wildlife, such as rabbits and some songbirds that use the weeds as food or cover.\nIf you expect to do some burning near the reforested site or suspect a neighbor might, you should create a firelane around the site annually in early fall. In most cases you can make a firelane by disking. Every time that an extended dry period occurs, you should inspect your firelanes and maintain them if necessary.\nThere is little you can do cost-effectively to protect your newly planted seed or seedlings from animal predation. Domestic animals, birds, dear, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, beavers, nutrias, and mice may all destroy seed or seedlings. Fencing can control domestic animals and good site preparation can reduce the number of rodents. The only case where protection of individual seedlings is justified is where there are large populations of beavers or nutrias, in which case a chicken wire or other type of predator guard is essential, especially for cypress plantings. Some loss and damage caused by animals should be expected and tolerated, especially if your main goal is to attract wildlife.\nAs long as survival remains satisfactory, you shouldn\u2019t worry if your trees grow slowly at first. Most species of oak, for example, only grow 1-2 feet per year for the first 5-7 years. After this stage, growth increases to around 2-3 feet per year. By the end of 10 years, your trees should be anywhere from 15 to 25 or more feet tall--and you\u2019ll have a valuable, productive forest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 30194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.last.fm/zh/music/Salif+Keita/_/Tomorrow/+wiki", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MAZBZ5ROPAXIENH6QFY5PYFDD2MXFJYT", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.last.fm", "title": "\u7ef4\u57fa - Tomorrow \u2014 Salif Keita | Last.fm", "raw_content": "Youssou N'Dour \u2014 How You Are (No Mele) How You Are (No Mele) Youssou N'Dour", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 189.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lathanfuneralhome.com/memorialpage.asp?page=odetail&id=97203&locid=118", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:16Z", "digest": "sha1:V6A2OHUEPCPUFESUX624B6M3T65XTJC6", "length": 1084, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.lathanfuneralhome.com", "title": "Daisy Carolyn Smith - Obituary & Service Details", "raw_content": "Daisy Carolyn Smith\nDaisy Carolyn Smith, 75, of Grove Hill, passed away November 1, 2018 at Covenant Care Hospice, Providence in Mobile. She was born August 25, 1943 to Ellis Gray Smith, Sr. and Jesse Lucile Armistead Smith, both of whom preceded her in death. She had been employed as an examiner with Vanity Fair and was a member of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Gove Hill. She was also an avid fan of Alabama football.\nShe is survived by her brother, Ellis Gray (Betty) Smith, Jr.; nieces, Phyllis (Richard) Davis, Karen (Joey) Stringer; nephew, Doug (Kristi) Smith and great nieces and nephews, Alex Davis, Matthew Davis, Brandon Harper, Lindsey Smith and Tanner Smith.\nA graveside service will be conducted at 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 3, 2018 at Grove Hill Town Cemetery with Rev. David Curtis and Dr. Tony Meinhardt officiating and Lathan Funeral Home directing.\nIn lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be given to Pilots for Christ, P.O. Box 707, Monroeville, AL 36461.\nView Complete Guestbook for Daisy Carolyn Smith\nSo sorry for your lost, prayers for the family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.latriclub.com/calendar/events/8526-great-race-of-agoura-chesebro-half-marathon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:49Z", "digest": "sha1:FACJIIMHV5QTPFFHPPAQKOFUCLCZ7WLE", "length": 199, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.latriclub.com", "title": "Race - Run", "raw_content": "This is a unique run that traverses both road and trails. It wanders through Old Agoura down Chesebro Road and onto the Cheeseboro Canyon Trail in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 8899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lauramwiebe.com/2018/03/20/recommended-listening-podcasts-winter-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:5GD5TBNX2KYMC5BMXTJE3OYSVAI7CQEF", "length": 4588, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.lauramwiebe.com", "title": "Recommended listening \u2013 podcasts (winter 2018) - MUSING and grumbling", "raw_content": "I listen to a lot of podcasts. At this particular stage in my life, I think I listen to more podcasts than anyone else I know. And this is real-time (1.0x speed) listening! (There\u2019s plenty of rushing around in the world that I can\u2019t control; I don\u2019t need to invite more of it into my life.)\nAs I celebrate the end of winter and coming of spring here in the northern hemisphere, I decided it\u2019s time to show a little love to some of the podcasts that have helped me get through another season.\nSome of my favourite podcasts episodes from the winter of 2018\nOf the podcasts listed here, some I consume religiously \u2013 every episode, almost as soon as I can get it. Others I pick and choose. Sometimes I\u2019m drawn in by the topic, sometimes by the presentation, but the best episodes (such as these) succeed with the double hook.\n30 For 30 \u2013 \u201cHoodies Up\u201d\nBy now, it\u2019s got to be pretty clear that I really like basketball. One of the many things I appreciate about the current NBA is how much players, coaches and even the league all care about what\u2019s going on in the world around them. This episode of ESPN\u2019s 30 for 30 podcast highlights one powerful example of NBA players caring about the lives of ordinary folks and using their social and cultural capital for good. In this story, we hear how the NBA\u2019s Miami Heat ended up posing for a photo with their hoodies up to protest the killing of Trayvon Martin.\n30for30podcasts.com/episodes/hoodies-up\n99% Invisible \u2013 \u201cCity of the Future\u201d\nI like how 99% Invisible uses design as a unifying thread for exploring a wide range of topics. I enjoy the sound of host Roman Mars\u2019s voice but appreciate the team vibe that comes from the various personalities involved. I was primed for this particular story, a two-part history of an Amsterdam suburb called the Bijlmermeer, because I\u2019m intrigued by cities engineered to \u2018lead\u2019 us into the future. But the social history here was even more compelling than the architectural narrative.\nBijlmer (City of the Future, Part 1)\nBlood, Sweat & Tears (City of the Future, Part 2)\nImposter \u2013 \u201cCadence Weapon and The Black Experience in Sound\u201d\nCanadaland\u2018s Imposter podcast lured me in with the \u201cHoser\u201d episode, and I\u2019ve learned to admire host Aliya Pabani\u2019s work on the show in general. But this episode on Cadence Weapon has been my favourite by far, especially the sections on diversity \u2013 i.e., the lack of it \u2013 in Canadian commercial music radio.\nwww.canadalandshow.com/podcast/cadence-weapon-black-experience-sound\nThe Land of Desire \u2013 \u201cThe Dreyfus Affair\u201d\nAll the other episodes on this list are recent. This one, actually a six-part series, originally aired in the fall of 2016. It was relevant then and is just as relevant now. I wish I could say the racism, xenophobia, far-right nationalism, corruption and other fatally destructive nonsense that is the \u201cDreyfus Affair\u201d of late 19th-century France was strange and unfamiliar\u2026 [Warning: do not start this series just as you should be getting to sleep.]\nwww.thelandofdesire.com/tag/the-dreyfus-affair\nMemory Palace \u2013 \u201cHercules\u201d\nThis story about a man named Hercules, who was enslaved by George Washington, isn\u2019t as brutally horrifying and heart-wrenching as many of the stories about enslaved individuals that I\u2019ve read, watched and heard. And yet it\u2019s a powerful indictment of the vicious selfishness and greed that legalized slavery served.\nthememorypalace.us/2018/02/hercules\nThe Secret Life of Canada \u2013 \u201cThe Secret Life of New Brunswick\u201d\nI love history podcasts, particularly history podcasts that explore the stories the textbooks and \u201cheritage minutes\u201d left out. Every episode of The Secret Life of Canada fits the bill, but this one caught me off guard. It\u2019s the kind of story \u2013 in this case about Francophone migrant farm workers \u2013 that it wouldn\u2019t even occur to me to wonder about before I heard it.\nUnder the Influence \u2013 \u201cComic Book Ads\u201d\nwww.cbc.ca/listen/shows/under-the-influence/episode/15520809\nCrowd Science \u2013 \u201cWhen Does Speech Become Music\u201d\nwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswc8r\nPeople Fixing the World \u2013 \u201cThe Hydroponics Revolution\u201d\nwww.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05wxglh\nPersonal Best \u2013 \u201cCow Watch 2018\u201d\nwww.cbc.ca/listen/shows/personal-best/episode/15527645\nPUBLISHED ON March 20, 2018 by laurawiebein Education, Entertainment, Life (the Universe and Everything), Society & Culture\nadvertising architecture basketball cities design history music NBA podcasts radio science slavery sports sustainability\n\u2190 Interview with Taylor Sharp, Producer/Co-Director of HOOPS AFRICA: UBUNTU MATTERS\nInterview: Student-Athlete Mental Health Initiative (SAMHI) \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 6543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/definitions/uscode.php?width=840&height=800&iframe=true&def_id=17-USC-955627062-364936160&term_occur=11&term_src=title:17:chapter:1:section:106", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TIITJ3MQINFKVP3L7IAUBFBRNRPMARGT", "length": 409, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.law.cornell.edu", "title": "phonorecords", "raw_content": "\u201cPhonorecords\u201d are material objects in which sounds, other than those accompanying a motion picture or other audiovisual work, are fixed by any method now known or later developed, and from which the sounds can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. The term \u201cphonorecords\u201d includes the material object in which the sounds are first fixed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 7.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lawstude.net/2006/05/corporation-law-new-cases.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7BMSTS6ZDOPYE4Y42IBRZIFSKEOH754I", "length": 12090, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "www.lawstude.net", "title": "Oman is an Island: Corporation Law - New Cases", "raw_content": "Hydro Resources Contractors vs National Irrigation Administration\n(GR No 160251, Nov 10, 2005, Santiago)\nA contract was entered into between Hydro and NIA for the project of the latter. The contract price is to be payable partly in Philippine peso and US dollars. Once the project was being executed, there was depreciation in value of Peso resulting to price differential. In order to resolve the issue, the administrator of NIA, Mr Tek, and Hydro made a joint computation of the amount corresponding to the foreign currency differential. The computation showed that NIA owed Hydro for the differential. When a demand was made by Hydro against NIA, NIA refused to pay contending that Mr Tek has no authority to participate into a joint computation of the foreign currency differential and that Mr Tek has no authority to bind NIA.\nWhether or not Mr Tek has the authority to bind NIA in the joint computation of the foreign currency differential.\nThe SC found out that in the course of the project, Hydro has been dealing with NIA represented by Mr. Tek. And applying the doctrine of apparent authority, if a corporation knowingly permits one of its officers to act within the scope of an apparent authority, it holds him out to the public possessing the power to do those acts; and thus, the corporation will, as against anyone who has in good faith dealt with it through such agent, be stopped from denying the agent\u2019s authority.\nWoodchild Holdings Inc. vs Roxas Electric and Construction\n(GR No 140667, Aug 12, 2004, Callejo)\nThe doctrine of apparent authority was not applicable in this case because the president of the company was given a specific authority by virtue of a board resolution to sell a particular land. Any actions of the president outside such vested authority shall not bind the corporation with third party.\nSpouses David and Coordinated Group, Inc. vs\nCIAC and Spouses Quiambao\n(GR No 159795, July 30, 2004, Puno)\nThe spouses Quiambao engaged the services of the petitioner for the construction of a five-storey building. In the performance of the project, the petitioner allegedly deviated from the original plan without the approval of Spouses Quiambao. The latter therefore decided to rescind the contract and hired the services of another contractor. When a definitive finding that indeed there was deviation on the structural plan, Quiambao sued for damages impleading the officers of the construction company, among them Engr. David, who is also an officer of the Company. The officer contended that he cannot be made personally liable for what appears to be a corporate act by virtue of the doctrine of corporate entity.\nWhether or not Engr. David is personally liable to the Spouses Quiambao.\nThe SC held that an exception to the doctrine of corporate entity is when there is bad faith in the performance of the duty of the officer. In the instant case, bad faith was proven when Engr. David categorically admitted that the company deviated from the original structural plan in order to lower the cost of construction. By his act, Engr. David violated Sec 31 of the Corporation Code which provides that directors or trustees who are guilty of gross negligence or bad faith in directing the affairs of the corporation or acquire any personal or pecuniary interest in conflict with their duty as such directors or trustees shall be liable jointly and severally for all damages resulting therefrom suffered by the corporation, its stockholders or members and other persons. Therefore, the SC deemed that equity demand that he should be liable to Spouses Quiambao.\nDBP vs CA\n(GR No 147217, Oct 7, 2004, Sandoval-Gutierrez)\nWhen you file petitions for review, the Rules of Court provides that the cert of non-forum shopping be appended to the petition. If the petitioner is a juridical person, it must act through its agent but such agent must be armed with authority to represent such corporation thru a board resolution or secretary\u2019s certificate.\nIn this case, the petitioner failed to submit to the court certified true copy of board resolution authorizing its officer to represent the company in this case. The SC said that this deficiency is fatal to the case and would constitute a sufficient ground for the dismissal of the case. The SC can neither take judicial notice of board resolutions passed by corporation nor said court may take judicial notice of the officers authority to represent the corporation in the particular suit.\nMonfort Hermanos Agricultural Development Corp. vs Monfort III\n(GR No 152542, July 8, 2004, Santiago)\nMonfort Corp represented by its president, Antonia Salvatierra filed a complaint against the respondents for the delivery of motor vehicles, tractors and fighting cocks. The respondents filed a motion to dismiss on the ground that Antonia does not have the authority to represent the corporation in this particular case. Antonia contended that they have submitted board resolutions signed by its directors. However, this board resolution is being contested because four of the directors who signed the resolution have not been duly elected by the company.\nWhether or not Antonia has the authority to represent the corporation in this case.\nThe SC said Antonia does not have the authority to represent the corporation in this particular case. The board resolution in question was held invalid because the general information sheet of the corporation readily indicated that four out of the six signatories in the board resolution do not appear in the general information sheet. This only showed there is now a doubt whether the four directors appearing in the resolution were duly elected as directors of the corporation.\nCIR vs Estate of Toda Jr\n(GR No 147188, Sept 14, 2004, Davide)\nCibeles Incorporated authorized its former president, Mr. Toda Jr. to sell a building and two parcels of land which the insurance company owns for 90 M pesos. The properties were sold and income was realized.\nIn the meanwhile, Mr Toda sold all his shareholdings in the insurance company to a certain Mr. Choa. A deed of sale was concluded between them for Mr. Toda\u2019s shareholdings in the insurance company. Thereafter, BIR assessed the insurance company deficiency income tax arising from the sale of the subject real properties. Three years thereafter, Mr. Toda died. The BIR then impleaded the estate of Mr. Toda as party defendant. The respondent contended that the liability is a corporate liability, therefore the estate could not be held liable following the doctrine of corporate entity.\nSince the sale took place during the incumbency of Mr. Toda and he was the one authorized by the corporation to do so, would it be possible for him or his estate to be liable for the obligation?\nThe SC held that following the doctrine of corporate entity, officers are not supposed to be made personally liable for what appears to be corporate liabilities. However, the rule is not without exceptions. Exception to this rule is when the officer concerned has expressly agreed to be personally bound for corporate obligations. Perusal of the deed of sale would readily show that for the tax liability of the corporation arising from the sale of real properties in question, Mr. Toda agreed to be personally liable along with the corporation.\nClarion Printing House Inc vs NLRC\n(GR No 148372, June 27, 2005, Carpio-Morales)\nThe petitioner company filed with the SEC a petition for suspension of payment as well as an appointment of a rehabilitation receiver. While the petitioner was placed under receivership, a certain Mr. Miclat, a former employee of a corporation filed a case for illegal dismissal.\nShould his claim in this case be suspended?\nThe SC held that even labor cases are suspended. Upon the appointment of a receiver, all claims and all pending cases against the corporation are deemed suspended the purpose being in order to give the receiver sufficient time to proceed with rehabilitation work.\nTyson\u2019s Super Concrete, Inc. vs CA\n(GR No 140081, June 23, 2005, Austria-Martinez)\nRomana Dela Cruz owns a parcel of land and leased it to Tyson\u2019s. During the period of lease, Tyson filed rehabilitation and Tyson\u2019s was placed under receivership. The SEC appointed a management committee to take charge of the rehabilitation of the corporation.\nIn the meanwhile, because of Tyson\u2019s failure to pay the rent, Romana filed an ejectment suit against the corporation. The ejectment case prospered and while the case was pending appeal, Romana filed for the execution of judgment.\nShould the ejectment suit be suspended because of the rehabilitation of Tyson\u2019s?\nThe ejectment was sustained by the SC.\nThe fact that a management committee had already been created by the SEC does not divest the first level courts of their exclusive jurisdiction.\nThe avowed purpose of suspending all actions against distressed corporation when management committee or rehabilitation is appointed, which is to enable such management committee or rehabilitation receiver to effectively exercise its powers free from any judicial or extra-judicial interference that might unduly hinder or prevent the rescue of the distressed company, can no longer be effectively met if the proceedings have already been pending for almost ten years and have already reached the SC.\nNakpil vs IBC\n(GR No 144764, Mar 21, 2002)\nMr, Nakpil has been engaged as Asst. General Manager and Comptroller of IBC. The president of the corporation was replaced by a certain Mr. Templo and upon his assumption, the petitioner was dismissed. The petitioner then filed a complaint for illegal dismissal before the labor arbiter.\nDoes the labor arbiter have jurisdiction over this case?\nCould Mr. Nakpil be considered a corporate officer?\nDo additional claims such as back wages or damages make it a labor case?\nNo. This case involves an issue or controversy involving a corporate officer, therefore the SEC (now RTC) has jurisdiction over the case.\nYes. Although his appointment was made by the general manager of the company, his appointment was subject to the approval of the Board of Directors.\nNo. These claims are not essential. Controversy remains to be an intra-corporate controversy.\nWho are officers of the corporation?\nThose statutory corporate officers provided in the Corporation Code such as the president, treasurer and secretary.\nThose who have been named in the by-laws of the corporation.\nThose who may be appointed by the Board of Directors for as long as the Board of Directors has the authority to do so in the by-laws of the corporation.\nPNB vs Andrada\nThe mere acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of another company would not make the buying company liable for the existing obligations of the selling company. Even in this particular case, we maintain the separate identities of the selling company and the buying company so that the selling company would remain liable for its obligations. It could not legally pass-on this liabilities to the buying corporation provided that the selling corporation acted in good faith and there is an adequate consideration for the disposition of the assets.\nThe court also enumerated exceptions to this rule:\nWhen the buying company expressly or impliedly agreed to assume the debts of the selling company;\nWhen the transaction amounted to merger or consolidation;\nWhen the purchasing company is only a continuation of the selling company;\nWhen the transaction is fraudulently entered into in order to escape liability for the debts of the selling company; and\nWhen the sale is in bulk and the selling company was not able to comply with the formalities mentioned under the bulk sales law.\nLabels: Commercial Law\nJoe Berenguer 5:26 PM, June 12, 2006\nHi Blogger! I like your blog! Keep up the\nloans center\nIt pretty much covers loans center related issues.\nME TALK 12:19 AM, November 30, 2007\nhello! 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Skip enjoyed being around his family and friends, fishing, drinking Coors Light and his annual trips to Florida.\nHe is predeceased by his parents, Clarence A. and Dorothy (Kennedy) Cornett; his brother, Albert Cornett and grandson, Joseph Demaio Jr.\nSkip is survived by his wife of 31 years, Dorothy J. Cornett; daughters, Tonya (Bob) Stormes, Desiree Cornett and Jennifer Cornett; seven grandchildren including his special granddaughter Samantha Kwasnicki; two sisters, Geraldine Drouillard and Edith Cornett and one brother, Dale Cornett.\nFuneral Services will be private. Arrangements are by DeMarco-Luisi Funeral Home 2755 S. Lincoln Ave., Vineland, NJ. 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He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.\n--Ayn Rand, 1962\nI believe this is terrible advice, yet I know Ayn Rand's ideas have become increasingly popular. What you've seen here in the past four weekends is me struggling to articulate why I think Ayn Rand is wrong. I have a particular argument in mind, but I feel a bit flummoxed by the fact that I can't find another major thinker who has expressed the argument I wish to express, which leaves me in the ironically Randian position of having to stand here alone, supported by nobody else, screaming my argument to the skies.\nAnd that's fine with me, because I've always been an independent and self-reliant person (no less, I hope, than the heroes of Rand's novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged) and I fully understand the appeal of the lone brave voice against the mob. My problem with Ayn Rand's individualistic ethical philosophy is not that it has no appeal, but rather that it's too simplistic to be taken seriously. It pretends to be much more than it is.\nTelling somebody to \"live only for yourself\" is like telling somebody to walk straight north until they reach the North Pole. They can try, but they'll find themselves blocked soon enough.\n\"He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself.\" Sure. Just try, and let me know how it works out for you. In fact, if we examine the ways we behave in our everyday lives, we quickly realize that the goals and purposes we strive for rarely involve our individual, atomic selves in isolation. Rather, we regularly morph through various layers of collective self -- family, neighborhood, workplace, ethnic group, nation -- during the course of our regular routines. The relationships we care about and the groups we belong to are buried deep, deep within us. To try to isolate our individual motivations from our collective motivations would be like trying to remove the flour from baked bread. To be self-interested, it turns out, is to be group-interested; we couldn't remove our relationships from our lives without losing our own personalities.\nThis point seems absolutely clear to me, and yet when I look to refer to other great thinkers who might have developed this idea I come up surprisingly empty. The idea that our communities form and define our selves is hardly alien to our way of thinking -- much of popular religion and politics revolves around this fact, and the essential structures of the modern family and the modern workplace are based around communal motivation -- and yet I have not been able to find a well-known thinker or philosopher who has expressed this idea as clearly and directly as Ayn Rand (or, for that matter, Thomas Hobbes, or even Friedrich Nietzsche) has expressed the opposing view.\nIn the cage match of popular ethics and morality, who will challenge Ayn Rand? For lack of a better candidate, the best choice may be Carl Jung, a pioneering psychologist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who built his work around concepts such as individuation, synchronicity and the collective unconscious. Jung was particularly interested in the origin of our collective archetypes. Here's a typical Jungian passage, from his 1928 book Two Essays on Analytical Psychology:\nThe form into the world into which [a person] is born is already inborn in him as a virtual image. Likewise parents, spouse, children, birth and death are inborn in him as virtual images, as psychic aptitudes. These a priori categories have by nature a collective character; they are images of parents, spouse, and children in general, and are not individual predestinations. We must therefore think of these images as lacking in solid content, hence as unconscious. They only acquire solidity, influence and eventual consciousness in the encounter with empirical facts, which touch the unconscious aptitude and quicken it to life. They are in a sense the deposits of all our ancestral experiences, but they are not the experiences themselves. So at least it seems to us, in the present limited state of our knowledge.\nCarl Jung's work provides an excellent starting vocabulary for anyone wishing to study the ways we exist as collective selves, though his writings tend to raise more questions than they answer. I wish there were a wider variety of philosophers, psychologists and sociologists following in his footsteps and doing original work for popular audiences in the field of relational philosophy and psychology, and I'd like to know if anyone has other references to suggest. I recently began reading a book called Connected: The Surprising Power of our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, both professors at Harvard University, that makes bold claims for the subliminal power of group psychology, and this type of research certainly seems relevant to questions we've been discussing. The field appears to be wide open, and maybe we can even come up with some worthwhile conclusions here in our discussions on Litkicks.\nI began this blog series hoping to get vigorous feedback from readers with their own strong opinions about the Ayn Rand approach to ethics, and I was very happy with the results, even when I got responses like this one, from a commenter named Don Kenner:\nNone of this has any relationship to the ethics of Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Like it or hate it, it is not a theory that falls apart when confronted with a situation of \"shared interest.\" This is a sophomoric objection to a complex ethical theory. It wouldn't be so bad, except that the ACTUAL theory is readily available in printed form.\nRand was asked if she would take a bullet to protect her husband. She replied \"absolutely I would.\" Does this admission blow her theory to applesauce? No.\nImagine that I told a proponent of John Rawls philosophy that Rawls' ideas were applesauce because...(drum roll).. people break contracts all the time (prolonged, tumultuous applause).\nSeriously, dude. This was bloody awful.\nDon Kenner is correct that John Rawls' principle of contract law does not fall apart because there are instances where contracts are broken. However, if it were the case that contracts were broken a majority of the time, one would have to conclude that John Rawls' principle of contract law does not hold much force. I don't think that's true of contract law, but I do think it's true of Ayn Rand's ethical law. The important point is not that human beings sometimes put the needs of others before themselves. It's that we do this constantly, persistently, dependably. If we think about how often we consider the needs of others over our own needs, we will be pleasantly described to discover how selfish we all are not, how selfish we have never been.\nStill, stubborn responses from smart people like Don Kenner, TKG, Timothy, Mark Stouffer and Paul Ray make me realize that the Ayn Rand principle of ethics does hold a lot of force for many people, and after fielding responses for five weeks I'm pretty convinced that nothing I write on Litkicks will convince anybody who has found Ayn Rand's ideology personally rewarding that they should cease to believe in it. Perhaps there's no reason why it should.\nCarl Jung's pioneering works were written during the early decades of the 20th Century, but this probing psychologist lived through the terrible cataclysm of World War II, observing both the rise and fall of Fascism in Western Europe and the prevailing victory of Communism in Eastern Europe, Russia and China. A more horrific laboratory for the worst case scenarios of collective psychology could scarcely be imagined. One of his most powerful later works, The Undiscovered Self, written in 1957, shows a brilliant mind in a state of self-doubt, grappling with human disasters that exceeded his own reasonable fears.\nSince it is universally believed that man is merely what his consciousness knows of itself, he regards himself as harmless and so adds stupidity to iniquity. He does not deny that terrible things have happened and still go on happening, but it is always \"the others\" who do them. And when such deeds belong to the recent or remote past, they quickly and conveniently sink into the sea of forgetfulness, and that state of chronic woolly-mindedness returns which we describe as \"normality\". In shocking contrast to this is the fact that nothing has finally disappeared and nothing has been made good. The evil, the guilt, the profound unease of conscience, the dark foreboding, are there before our eyes, if only we would see. Man has done these things; I am a man, who has his share of human nature; therefore I am guilty with the rest and bear unaltered and indelibly within me the capacity and the inclination to do them again at any time ... Harmlessness and naivete are as little helpful as it would be for a cholera patient and those in his vicinity to remain unconscious of the contagiousness of the disease. On the contrary, they lead to projection of the unrecognized evil of the \"other\".\nPerhaps the best reason to take a good dose of Carl Jung as a regular antidote to Ayn Rand is that he admits what he can't explain. Perhaps the worst offense of the proud Randians is not their individualism -- who doesn't love individualism! -- but their smug self-certainty. The great questions of human morality and ethics -- the same questions asked by Jesus, Buddha and Socrates long ago, and by so many other great thinkers since -- have not, in fact, been answered yet.\nThis article is part of the series Philosophy Weekend. The next post in the series is Philosophy Weekend: Grounding. The previous post in the series is Philosophy Weekend: What We Crave, When We Crave.\n20 Responses to \"Philosophy Weekend: The Cage Match Between Ayn Rand and Carl Jung\"\nby TKG on Sunday, March 6, 2011 12:23 pm\n\"What you've seen here in the past four weekends is me struggling to articulate why I think Ayn Rand is wrong\"\nI think one needs to struggle in this regard because Randian \"philosophy\" is so ethereal. It's lightweight idiosyncratic, but fun for the fans.. cult of personality stuff rather than anything serious.\nAnyone remember how bad Paul DePodesta was as Dodger GM? Your smug self certainty comment hit the nail right on the head.\nThe thing is that what Rand ostensibly may have been trying to get across is developed in so many other disciplines and names and in fact forms the basis for the world view of current liberal orthodoxy, especially in Britain it seems.\nI learned it as sociobiology. It's more accepted as evolutionary psychology. It can be summarized with the well known term \"the selfish gene\".\nA few weeks ago I simply posted a formula which was the kin selection formula that was later alluded to in conversations here. The idea is that people do things for others in so much as it will increase their evolutionary fitness. Not that it is conscious, but that it is ipso facto. We all are here because of this over billions of years of evolution.\nThe link to the biological altruism covered this and I was glad to see it being discussed.\nAs far as I can tell the evolutionary psychology view is the accepted paradigm today and has supplanted Biblical tradition for the basis of determining morality and understanding behavior.\nI don't think the establishment that push this worldview really understand it so it is convoluted and out of context in how it is presented. But it does dominate now.\nAs far as Jung, you guys were also talking about \"mirror neurons\" and I think concepts and understandings of central nervous system structure and function are interesting in terms of Jung's ideas.\nYou wrote, \"To be self-interested, it turns out, is to be group-interested\"\nI want to ask a broader question about this entire topic/discussion.\nHow do you know there really is a difference between the Randian view you argue against and your view?\nHow do you know the difference is not purely semantic?\nby Dharmabum on Sunday, March 6, 2011 02:48 pm\nby mtmynd on Sunday, March 6, 2011 02:50 pm\nRe: \"The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.\"\nThis one line could easily be interpreted as \"following your own bliss\", which is not exactly selfish. The key word, 'rational,' I see as pursuing one's self-interest in a morally decisive way that brings no harm to others in order to attain the ideal of 'happiness.'\nBut I do believe that at least two facts of Ayn Rand's life must have certainly influenced her overall philosophical 'doctrines' - (1) no children and (2) early influence of the Russian Revolution which brought about an attempt to create a Utopian society which was known as (ultimately) Communism. How many believe to live in a Communist-ruled society would require a complete selflessness for the participants of such a social endeavor? 'Tis the rare individual that can live their complete lives selfishly without at least once struggling with the question: is selfishness necessary for survival, much less 'happiness'?\nAs all things in life, balance is the most preferred choice to maintain one's contentment and health, both physically and mentally.\nLevi,Thanks for a great article! Since you are on a search for responses to Randian thought\nplease check out the entire Mahayana Canon of literature. Thinkers such as Buddha,Dogen,Hui-Neng,and many others have spent lifetimes working through this issue.\nMany of the Beat writers have added to this debate. Among just a few check out any work by Gary Snyder,\"Some of The Dharma\" by Jack Kerouac, and many works by Alan Watts .\nThe relentless pursuit of self interest has been seen as a central cause of misery by many of these thinkers.\nLove that poem, Dharmabum, thanks a lot for posting it here.\nAgreed about the Buddhist and Beat texts. Agreed also, Mtmynd, about the influence the Russian Revolution (and its disappointing antecedents) must have had on Ayn Rand, who was 12 when the Bolsheviks took St. Petersburg.\nTKG, I can think of many ways to answer your question. I don't think the difference between my ethical viewpoint (or Carl Jung's) differs only semantically from Ayn Rand's, but I do think there must be many touchpoints between the two ideologies. The difference may ultimately reside in temperament more than anything else. Well, one thing Ayn Rand and I agree on is that her ideas should be taken seriously. But she thinks they should be seriously accepted and I think they should be seriously rejected.\nby Benoit Lelievre on Sunday, March 6, 2011 09:37 pm\nWell, in a market economy (which is based on co-dependence), the very thought of taking Ayn Rand seriously can lead to....hem...economic crisis? Great articles Levi, I posted links to the whole series on my blog.\nby John W on Monday, March 7, 2011 10:03 am\nIslands don't think.\nby Mississippi Bennu on Monday, March 7, 2011 11:39 pm\nSalutations Levi,\nI've found the last five articles on Rand fascinating, it's a rarely experienced delight to hear someone well versed in philosophy share ideas similar to my own about Rands particular view.\nThe best thing about Rand's philosophy, or at least what I think has so many people attracted to her view, is that her philosophy possess a kind of frankness. People just do, they just want, and the inner consciousness is infinitely more important than what we do as a collective. The simplicity of it is what works, but also why I feel it is incorrect. I think answers in philosophy (not that there are answers, but epiphanies maybe, and only ever personal) should be like difficult cliffs. Seemingly impossible to scale up, but with a clarity of vision at the top.\nBut enough of my improbable metaphors. I think the best philosopher to turn to when bucking Rand is Carl Rogers. He shares Rand's focus upon the actual, but . .\n\"For Rogers, \"self-actualization\" is a natural process, yet it requires the nurturance of a caregiver. This is a contradiction in Rogers' theory, which may or may not be obvious. If \"self-actualization\" is merely a natural process, then why must it depend on a caregiver for it to occur? In defense of Rogers, this paradox at least shows that, despite his individualistic bias, he understood deep down that people need people, that we are radically dependent on others for our existence, and that so-called \"individuation-separation\" involves a more differentiated and mature relationship with others rather than a lack of interdependence with others.\nIn any case, Rogers felt that \"unconditional positive regard\" is necessary for \"self-actualization.\" That is, human growth requires the experience of being valued for oneself regardless of the degree to which specific behaviors are approved or disapproved. On the other hand, self-actualization is thwarted by \"conditional positive regard\" -- when acceptance is dependent on the positive or negative evaluation of a person's actions. \"Conditional positive regard,\" Rogers felt, leads to \"conditions of worth,\" which, in turn, can lead to alienation from true feelings and, thus, to anxiety and threat, which blocks self-actualization.\"\nRand's nexus and climax begin and end at the self, for Rogers the ability to empathize with others and care for what is beyond the personal lead to actualization. Self-actualization here is the key. By actualizing others, we expand the self. In regards to the truth nestled in the choices we make I think it takes psychologist more than a philosopher.\nby Rav on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 11:36 pm\nI would suggest reading William James, as he argued that a person's identity is grounded in relationships.\nby Levi Asher on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 07:12 am\nFunny you should mention, Rav -- William James is just about my favorite philosopher of all. I've written about him here and elsewhere, though I've never focused specifically on this aspect of his work (you're right, I should).\nAnother person has recommended I read Charles Taylor's \"The Sources of Self\", and I just ordered it.\nby Alessandro Cima on Wednesday, March 9, 2011 06:20 pm\nI think Rand is as right as Jung. They see different ends of the spectrum. Actually, Defoe handled the problem brilliantly in Robinson Crusoe. All the while living for himself and being himself to the fullest, Crusoe longs for the companionship of other humans - their thoughts, words, writings. But he also loves his singularity and uses it to turn himself into a kind of human being that he could never have imagined before his isolation. The two forces war within him for years. But finally, he returns to a collective existence.\nSo, in a way, Crusoe sojourns with Rand but ultimately returns to the safety of Jung.\nby sean on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:15 pm\nhm. well, i think you're onto something with jung, right? what about the rest of the 20th century psychologist/philosopher gang like lacan, and the deconstructionists -- all maybe embodied by maybe zizek today -- i'm not as well or recently versed with the details as i'd like to be before spouting off on something like this, but i'm thinking that the concept of The Other as something like primary is what ultimately unravels rand's self-limiting nonsense. it IS the relationship between things that makes reality -- the self is nothing without the other, and the self as even the self perceives it can only exist in the context of the Big Other. so we can get all selfish if we'd like but even selfishness is only meaningful to the extent the Other has defined it as such. even if we pretend to ignore everything outside of us, we still require our own \"other\" to make sense of ourselves...which makes it not just a material reality, but a theoretical one, too. it's actually a lot more work, i think, to remove the other from the equation in order to arrive at anything close to rand's whatever-it-was, even on a practical level, much less a theoretical one (which is impossible) -- that is, if you want to come up with a complete and cohesive worldview.\nshe was a great writer but -- eh.\nby Levi Asher on Wednesday, March 16, 2011 07:40 am\nHi Sean -- yes, I think all of these writers are relevant, and another one is Charles Taylor, whose \"Sources of the Self\" was recommended to me by someone who read this article. It does seem that there are several major thinkers saying the same kind of thing I'm trying to say here, though interestingly not one of them (except maybe Jung -- maybe) has the kind of following Ayn Rand has today. I wonder what that signifies?\nby Bill_Ectric on Friday, March 18, 2011 10:01 am\nI think it signifies that the \"extended self\" is so innate we don't even think about it. Parents generally love their kids. People gain fame or notoriety by pointing out exceptions to that norm.\nby Jer on Saturday, March 26, 2011 09:58 am\n\"Dharmabum\" - Well quoted. Gotta love good old John Donne.\nI know this will not be a popular idea with some, but I think Rand is popular because she tells us what we want to hear; or, to be more precise, speaking as a Christian, she appeals to the selfishness and greed in us, rationalizes it, and tells us it is alright. In essence the original Ayn Rand is the serpent in the garden telling Eve it's ok to eat the fruit, it's ok to \"be yourself.\" I think the lie in that statement is that it is possible to be yourself without other selves (a point you and others have been making.) In fact, look what Eve did - she gave the fruit to Adam.\nMy problem with Ayn Rand is that so many of her disciples are selfish and greedy people. They have struck me as arrogant, self-involved, etc. It seems to me that their philosophy is a thin veil for greed and callousness. Ayn Rand may have taken a bullet for her own close friends or family, but she and her followers don't seem willing to take a paper cut for anyone else. In then end I think John Donne is right, \"No man is an island,\" we are all connected. It's a much harder philosophy to live out; how do I feel connected to everyone, how do I act in the best interests of all? But the effort will, I believe, produce better results both for the society and the individual.\nby Dave Scotese on Monday, September 5, 2011 08:10 pm\nLevi wrote:\n\"The Randian embrace of self-interest and power politics\"\nI had no idea she embraced power politics. I completely reject that part of her philosophy if it's there. It seems completely at odds with \"nor sacrificing others to himself\". I never studied her beyond \"Atlas Shrugged,\" but obviously, if you're right about her embracing power politics, at least in the sense that it sacrifices others to oneself, then I agree that she needs to be challenged.\n\"because you value the safety of the three other people in the car more than you value your own.\"\n\"I think we all have always known that our selves are larger than our individual bodies.\"\n\"the idea of a harmonious society built upon mutual recognition of each other's selfish needs just doesn't seem to ring true with the way we live, because our actual needs are the opposite of selfish.\"\n\"In fact, if we examine the ways we behave in our everyday lives, we quickly realize that the goals and purposes we strive for rarely involve our individual, atomic selves in isolation.\"\nI don't see \"atomic\" or \"individual\" in the quote from Ayn Rand. I have always assumed that the value of her philosophy (at least in Atlas Shrugged) requires one to recognize all these things you have pointed out about the \"self\". I have to repeat TKG's question, only because I have found that promoting Atlas Shrugged (notwithstanding Objectivism itself, since I haven't gone any further than the novel) seems to have gotten people to stop stepping on each other (rather than start, which I think is what you see, and which may, in fact, be a result of Objectivism).\nI assume you take on a responsibility to provide the best of the \"many answers\" you can think of to his question, and that you have done so when you wrote \"The difference may ultimately reside in temperament more than anything else.\" I submit that the strength of your argument that \"they should be seriously rejected\" ought to be recognized by everyone as proportional to the significance of that temperamental difference.\n(quoting Jung) \"Since it is universally believed that man is merely what his consciousness knows of itself...\"\nThat is remarkably interesting to me because I am well aware that I myself am certainly not merely what my consciousness knows of itself. I was under the impression that a great portion of meditation and study is undertaken in an effort to \"find oneself\". In that sense, I start off disagreeing with Dr. Jung, but I believe he would be with me in rejecting what is \"universally accepted.\" When he writes \"if only we would see,\" I interpret that in the same way that I interpret Nietzsche's \"Man must overcome.\" It is his conscious concept of self that must be overcome. I believe all four of us (you, me, Jung, and Nietzsche) have gone quite a ways down that road. Perhaps Rand did not, and that is why you're compelled to attack.\nTo me, the quote from her that you use several times is a simple tautology. We ARE selfish. Let's be wisely selfish by accepting the self as having all those more collective aspects that you point out.\nThe danger I see in attacking Atlas Shrugged is coercion. It has been my experience that all who wish to rule will use any philosophy or ideology they can find to justify sacrificing others to themselves, which is in literal contradiction with the quote you gave. Maybe you're ok with that. I'm not.\nby adam on Sunday, December 30, 2012 06:42 am\ni was just thinking of this after drawing an admittedly wishy washy line through the history of philosophy in my head that went from aristotle-kant-rand (sorry if that upsets someone).\nmy amateur interest in philosophy has lead me to over simplify the last 300 (or 3000) years to point to the crack left open for the irrational by Kant, to be slowly worked open by Hegel, jumped through by Kirkegaard and Schopenhauer, extended upon by Nietzsche, practised by Freud and then exhorted by Jung. Rand seems to be the righting of the ship for rationalists, but she unlike Kant A; doesn't leave a window ajar for a slither of the irrational, and B; doesn't admit the existence of or try to explain different types of reason.\nshe showed that she was angrily against Kant's ideas and gave a sole acknowledgement to Aristotle (which is nice and admitting a little help), which seems to me as if she is trying to resurrect him in lieu of the recent dabble into the irrational culminating in Jung.\na few things, would anyone know who/if Kant was reacting to? were there prominent Jungian figures at the end of the enlightenment or end of the axial model? would it be cyclical to say a heavy dose of rationality is needed when confronted with the wasteland and uncertainty of the irrational?\nwould recent discoveries in partical physics be a decent contest to debunk rand?\nis Rand's fundamentalism, 'smug self-certainty' you called it, an indication that rationalists are at their wits end? hopefuly there wont be any more need to remind people that A=A when we universally understand that the chair is not simply a chair.\ni apologise if this is complete gobbledygook.\nby Hendrik on Saturday, May 23, 2015 04:16 pm\nThis is an old article but it must still be noted that it utterly misrepresents Carl Jung. The psychologist promotes the individual well above the collective in a similar way to Ayn Rand. In the \"Undiscovered Self\" he calls the individual life the only real life.\nHe goes on, \"The individual is increasingly deprived of the moral decision as to how he should live his own life, and instead is ruled, fed, clothed and educated as a social unit, accommodated in the appropriate housing unit, and amused in accordance with the standards that give pleasure and satisfaction to the masses.\" Furthermore, the theory of collective archetypes is merely that symbols from history, culture, mythology affect everyone's subconscious. Do not amalgamate influence from collective thought and a necessity of living for the collective at the risk of sounding as \"sophomoric\" as the so-called Kenner describes you.\nby Levi Asher Saturday, February 15, 2014 12:29 pm\nWhen we consider difficult ethical or political questions, what tools do we use, and at what level of complexity are we able to operate?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 326, "original_length": 43739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.liv.asn.au/Professional-Practice/Practice-Management/Starting-Your-Practice/Business-planning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:31Z", "digest": "sha1:4EILWD3O6OIR5UI74SVXLIXFBBYW2UKS", "length": 2665, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.liv.asn.au", "title": "Business planning - Law Institute of Victoria", "raw_content": "Business planning is about developing strategies to achieve the goals of the practice. Doing this will help you use your time and resources more effectively.\nStrategy is your long-term plan for the legal practice \u2013 developing the vision of the legal practice, establishing goals around creating and delivering client value and achieving the vision and goals.\nA business plan is a short-term action plan; it sets out how you will achieve the strategy (goals) of the practice over a defined period of time using your time and resources effectively.\nThe contents of a typical business plan are:\nIn order to prepare a business plan, the following steps are suggested:\n1. Evaluate your business model.\nIdentify your current strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis). Established practices should consult partners and key staff for their assessment of the practice in terms of:\nfinancial performance overall (and within practice areas if applicable)\nincome expectations over a fixed period\npractice structure and type\nparticulars of key clients and referral sources\nstaffing numbers, skills and quality\nwork environment and facilities\nThis information can be used to identify expectations and set or revise achievable goals for the short-, medium- and long-term future of the practice.\n2. Analyse the market.\nConsolidation of relationships with existing clients and the acquisition of new clients require careful analysis of the market and its potential needs:\ngeographical boundaries defining the market\npurchasing power and spending habits of target market\npopulation trends (growth/decline)\neconomic trends in that area (market)\ncompetitors in that area (market)\n3. Create a mission statement.\nThis is a simple way to reiterate the key values and objectives of the practice. Best practice suggests that a mission statement should be no longer than five paragraphs and should be agreed to by the partnership and employees. It can also be used in marketing materials to demonstrate to clients the practice\u2019s cohesion and commitment to success.\n4. Establish planning schedules.\nEstablishing the firm\u2019s objectives against a twelve-month schedule is an effective way to manage and monitor the progress of the practice. Devising strategies for achieving longer-term goals is simpler when those goals are broken down into annual or short-term growth targets.\nThis systematic approach should be applied to all business areas of your practice; including finance, human resources (HR), knowledge management and marketing.\nThe resulting business plan should be revisited and revised at regular intervals to meet the changing circumstances of your practice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.livemint.com/Home-Page/lhGdEMwW0pV1GsuzvhHXCK/Rishad-Premji-rises-to-new-role-at-Wipro.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4IC5GQ5AZOKRMIUOROIG7KPV7RGXPCGQ", "length": 2505, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.livemint.com", "title": "Rishad Premji rises to new role at Wipro", "raw_content": "Rishad Premji rises to new role at Wipro\n1 min read . Updated: 19 Sep 2010, 07:26 PM IST Venkatesha Babu\nRishad PremjiWiproIT businessHarvard Business SchoolHome\nBangalore: The much awaited succession plan at India\u2019s third largest software services exporter Wipro Ltd has started playing out with the elevation of Rishad Hasham Premji, 33, eldest son of chairman Azim Hasham Premji, as chief strategy officer of the company\u2019s infotech business.\nIn a statement released late on Wednesday, the firm said, \u201cRishad Premji will assume responsibilities as the chief strategy officer of the IT business. He\u2019s currently general manager, treasury and investor relations, and brings with him a diversified experience of consulting, finance, treasury and operations. In this role, Rishad will report into the joint CEOs, IT business.\"\nAlso Read Premji and Son in Wipro report\nAzim Premji, who turned 65 on 24 July, is not only the chairman of Wipro but also the single largest shareholder with him and his family owning a shade less than 80% of the company\u2019s stock.\nIt had become increasingly clear that his son was being groomed for a more prominent role as evinced by his appearances at the firm\u2019s quarterly result conferences. Rishad has an MBA degree from Harvard Business School and joined Wipro on 18 July 2007 in the banking, financial services and insurance business after working with GE Capital and Bain and Co.\nPriya Chetty Rajgopal, vice-president at Stanton Chase International, an HR consultancy firm, said the increasing role of Rishad Premji in Wipro was both understandable and welcome.\n\u201cIt is not as if he was parachuted into any role. He has been groomed over a period of time, given responsibilities appropriate to his qualifications,\" she said. \u201cThe way the whole thing has been handled with professionalism, grace and humility is a lesson to all companies and carries the unmistakable stamp of Premji senior. The fact that Rishad spent several years learning the ropes before being given responsibility has ensured a greater degree of acceptability of his leadership.\"\nThe present chief strategy and mergers and acquisitions officer, K.R. Lakshminarayana, will become the chief endowment officer of the trust set up to fund the philanthropic activities of Azim Premji. He will be responsible for managing investments by the Azim Premji Foundation and affiliated entities, according to the statement issued by Saurabh Govil, senior vice-president and head of human resources, Wipro Technologies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/MGBB6A4pKSAguJxuWJHBUM/Opinion--The-elusive-quest-for-growth-and-truth.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNUTRRDRJKBKLZV2A2UVDGPHBHSSXVAT", "length": 5951, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.livemint.com", "title": "Opinion | The elusive quest for growth and truth", "raw_content": "Opinion | The elusive quest for growth and truth\n4 min read . Updated: 03 Dec 2018, 11:50 PM IST V. Anantha Nageswaran\nEven before the back-series calculations were unveiled, there had been several unanswered questions on how the economy has been faring since 2011\nmint-india-wire Indian economyIndia GDPGDP revisionismUPA GDPNDA GDP\nBarely had the dust settled on the clashes between the government and the Reserve Bank of India, the next one has erupted. Now, it is about the gross domestic product (GDP) back-series data up to 2004-05 based on 2011-12 base year and the new methodologies. In August, the committee on real sector statistics, one of the five committees constituted by the National Statistical Commission, had calculated that the real GDP growth rate for 2006-07 was 10.08% under the new series (base 2011-12). Under the old series (base 2004-05), the reported growth rate was 9.26%. Further, the committee estimated the growth rates for 2007-08 and 2010-11 at 10.23% and 10.78%, respectively (vs 9.8% and 10.26% reported earlier under 2004-05 base). Double-digit real GDP growth in three of the 10 United Progressive Alliance (UPA) years was a source of jubilation in the Congress camp. From the government\u2019s side, these numbers were called preliminary.\nOn 28 November, the Central Statistics Office presented the final revised GDP growth numbers for 2004-05 to 2011-12 (base 2011-12). The real GDP growth rates for 2006-07, 2007-08 and for 2010-11 are 8.1%, 7.7% and 8.5%, respectively. Double-digit growth rates have vanished. If not double-digit growth rates, at least, earlier, the Congress used to bask in the three back-to-back years of 9%-plus growth rates from 2005-06 to 2007-08. That is gone too.\nBy Indian standards, the years between 2003 and 2008 were \u2018Great Gatsby\u2019 years. Capital inflows from abroad were plenty; stock markets boomed; investment and savings rates were rising. A 9%-plus growth rate appeared plausible. After the revisions, real economic growth rates between 2005 and 2008 are barely above 8%. So, it might be difficult to argue that the economy was in an unsustainable boom then. Of course, the counter-argument is that the growth rate estimates are now lower because the contribution of the tertiary sector is consistently lower than previous estimates because of methodological changes and that the economic boom was unsustainable, driven by capital inflows pre-2008 and by lax fiscal and monetary policies, post-2008. After all, India\u2019s inflation rate had begun rising sharply from 2006 onwards as did the current account deficit.\nIt is a fact that high economic growth pre-2008 was not because of but despite the policies of the Congress or the UPA. In truth, the consequences of their policy omissions and commissions visited on the country from 2011 onwards. The country paid a high price for economic overheating that its policies generated\u2014double-digit inflation rates for five years up to 2014, rising and high fiscal and current account deficits, plunging rupee and bad loans in the banking system. The last one is still with us.\nThe Congress is silent on these but vocal in protesting that the growth rate revisions are not statistical but politically tactical because the average real GDP growth rate from 2014 until 2018 now exceeds the average real GDP growth rate between 2004 and 2014. This is where optics matters. Having the vice-chairman of Niti Aayog and not the country\u2019s chief statistician present these numbers did not help remove doubts that this was a political and not a statistical exercise.\nIt is difficult to replicate the calculations and verify the growth numbers because several assumptions lie behind the calculations. Assumptions and extrapolations take on a much bigger role in a data-deficient country like India. One can only check if these numbers are broadly in line with other anecdotal and high-frequency data. On that basis, these revisions do not quell doubts but keep them alive. Not just with respect to the period between 2004 and 2012, but afterwards too.\nEven before the back-series calculations were unveiled, there had been several unanswered questions on how the economy has been faring since 2011. The estimated growth rates since 2011 are still too high, when compared with other data on economic activity, such as sales of commercial vehicles, purchasing managers\u2019 indices, RBI industrial outlook surveys, mobile phone subscribers, air freight, and air passenger traffic. The overstatement of growth is more egregious between 2011 and 2014. For instance, purchasing managers\u2019 indices and industrial outlook\u2014 both current and expectations\u2014fell off the cliff in 2011 and remained depressed until 2014. Therefore, the Congress has to be grateful that the post-2009 data still do not capture adequately its gross economic mismanagement.\nThe government, on its part, should note that the recovery of the real economy since 2014 has been only patchy at best. It failed to gauge the severity of the problems that it took over in 2014. It underestimated the bad debt problem in banks. Second, India\u2019s capital formation and savings rates have come down. The slide in fixed capital formation\u2014due to the heavy debt load in the balance sheets of banks and companies\u2014has been partially offset by the rising private consumption share of GDP. As a result, household savings rates have dropped 8 percentage points since 2004. This is not a healthy economy. The government should acknowledge that. Finally, the government should decide whether it wants to pride itself on presiding over the fastest growing large economy or if it wants the central bank to follow the crisis-era policies of Western central banks to help a structurally damaged Indian economy recover. It cannot have it both ways. It has to choose.\nV. Anantha Nageswaran is the dean of the IFMR Business School. These are his personal views. Read Anantha\u2019s Mint columns at www.livemint.com/baretalk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 7343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/millwall-boss-felt-he-was-close-to-more-than-one-transfer-deadline-day-deal-and-questions-why-players-dont-want-to-play-games/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:41Z", "digest": "sha1:2TGE3B7EMVK564KX4DHACZA33CZWHJMB", "length": 1398, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.londonnewsonline.co.uk", "title": "Millwall boss felt he was close to more than one transfer deadline day deal \u2013 and questions why players don\u2019t want to play games \u2013 South London News", "raw_content": "Millwall boss felt he was close to more than one transfer deadline day deal \u2013 and questions why players don\u2019t want to play games\n4th February 2019 3rd February 2019 Richard Cawley\nNeil Harris has questioned the desire of some players after admitting Millwall missed out on more than one player before last week\u2019s transfer deadline.\nThe final hours of the January window passed without major incident at the Championship side.\nBut Harris \u2013 when asked about deals almost coming to fruition \u2013 said:\u201dWe were very close. At the one stage where I thought one was done. In fact, I thought more than one was done.\n\u201cWhat I don\u2019t understand is there have been a lot of players that decide to stay at clubs where they are clearly not going to play. I wanted to play and compete.\n\u201cIt was difficult. You saw the lack of action. It\u2019s not a bad thing that there was, it stopped the flurry of transfers \u2013 the least amount of money spent. And I\u2019m pleased \u2013 the window is a shambles and needs to be changed, I\u2019ve said that before.\n\u201cWe saw a lot of clubs try and do business and couldn\u2019t. We were probably just one of a dozen in the Championship who tried on deadline day and couldn\u2019t.\u201d\n\u2190 The Mousetrap, the legendary whodunnit from the queen of crime, Dame Agatha Christie, is coming to the Churchill Theatre in Bromley\nCharlton striker Igor Vetokele pleased to be back in the thick of it after long injury lay-off \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 22638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.longines.com/universe/news/longines-hong-kong-international-races-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:XSKZDMCFUSJ5TWTSHXD3F667NXIHDTJC", "length": 3067, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.longines.com", "title": "Longines Hong Kong International Race 2018", "raw_content": "Longines Hong Kong International Races 2018\nLongines LHKIR 2018\nThe horse racing event of the end of the year\nAs the end of the year approaches, the enthusiasm for the Longines Hong Kong International Races grows! All horse racing fans await this prestigious event, and will surely flock to the Sha Tin Racecourse on December 9, 2018.\nAlso known as the \u201cturf world championships\u201d, the Longines Hong Kong International Races is composed of four iconic races: the Longines Hong Kong Cup (run over a distance of 2,000 m) for a prize money HK$28,000k, the Longines Hong Kong Mile (1,600 m) for a prize of HK$25,000k, the Longines Hong Kong Sprint (1,200 m) for a prize of HK$20,000k, and the Longines Hong Kong Vase (2,400 m) for a prize of HK$20,000k.The total prize money for the Hong Kong International Races is HK$93,000k.\nThe event is a perfect illustration of Longines\u2019 long time involvement in timekeeping and equestrian sports. A link that began as early as 1878, when the Swiss Watchmaking brand created a new mechanical chronograph, adorned with an engraved horse and jockey. This exceptional pocket watch was the first of many milestones in a long history between the Longines brand and equestrian sports.\nThe Longines Hong Kong International Races are a true example of the values that Longines strives to represent, from the pursuit of exceptional performances to a timeless elegance and a strong sense of tradition.\nDiscover the Longines Conquest V.H.P Watches\nThe Longines Hong Kong International Races will be the perfect occasion to discover the Official Watch Collection of the event: the Longines Conquest V.H.P. This series of sporty and elegant watches represents a new achievement in the field of Quartz, combining great precision, high technicality and a sporty look .\n63 years after the launch of the first Conquest watch and its first quartz clock, Longines is revisiting one of its success stories of the 80s: the Conquest V.H.P (Very High Precision). The Conquest V.H.P collection models display blue, carbon, silver or black dials with a stainless steel bracelet finished with a triple safety folding clasp and push-piece opening mechanism. The Conquest V.H.P has positioned itself as the watch by excellence for whomever wants to combine the extreme precision of a Quartz watch with the unique elegance of Longines brand.\nDiscover the Official Watch Collection\nLast year, the Longines Hong Kong International Races brought once again a thrilling conclusion to an exceptional year of flat racing, with a record 90,000 spectators who enjoyed the performances of horses and jockeys from all over the world. The winners of the four races were awarded with trophies, as well as elegant Longines timepieces.\nOnce again this year, the excitement is set to reach its peak as Hongkongese and international horses and jockeys compete in one of the world\u2019s great racing occasions. In attendance of the event will be Jung Woo-Sung, Longines Ambassador of Elegance, who will reward the most stylish woman at the races with the Longines Prize for Elegance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 333, "original_length": 9516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lubbockonline.com/health/2011-05-31/experts-say-cellphones-may-be-carcinogenic", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:20Z", "digest": "sha1:LEJ6MHY7RJCXZYY5OFX4PGN6USZNMEV6", "length": 4356, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.lubbockonline.com", "title": "Experts say cellphones may be carcinogenic - Lifestyle - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Lubbock, TX", "raw_content": "Experts say cellphones may be carcinogenic\nLONDON - A respected international panel of experts says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT, gasoline engine exhaust and coffee.\nThe classification was issued Tuesday in Lyon, France, by the International Agency for Research on Cancer after a review of dozens of published studies.\nThe agency is an arm of the World Health Organization and its assessment now goes to WHO and national health agencies for possible guidance on cellphone use.\nClassifying agents as \"possibly carcinogenic\" doesn't mean they automatically cause cancer and some experts said the ruling shouldn't change people's cellphone habits.\n\"Anything is a possible carcinogen,\" said Donald Berry, a professor of biostatistics at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas. He was not linked to the WHO cancer group. \"This is not something I worry about and it will not in any way change how I use my cellphone,\" he said - from his cellphone.\nAfter a weeklong meeting, the expert panel said there was limited evidence cellphone use was linked to two types of brain tumors and inadequate evidence to draw conclusions for other cancers.\n\"We found some threads of evidence telling us how cancers might occur, but there were acknowledged gaps and uncertainties,\" said Jonathan Samet, the panel's chairman.\n\"The WHO's verdict means there is some evidence linking mobile phones to cancer but it is too weak to draw strong conclusions from,\" said Ed Yong, head of health information at Cancer Research U.K. \"If such a link exists, it is unlikely to be a large one.\"\nLast year, results of a large study found no clear link between cellphones and cancer. But some advocacy groups contend the study raised serious concerns because it showed a hint of a possible connection between very heavy phone use and glioma, a rare but often deadly form of brain tumor. However, the numbers in that subgroup weren't sufficient to make the case.\nThe study was controversial because it began with people who already had cancer and asked them to recall how often they used their cellphones more than a decade ago.\nIn about 30 other studies done in Europe, New Zealand and the U.S., patients with brain tumors have not reported using their cellphones more often than unaffected people.\nBecause cellphones are so popular, it may be impossible for experts to compare cellphone users who develop brain tumors with people who don't use the devices.\nAccording to a survey last year, the number of cellphone subscribers worldwide has hit 5 billion, or nearly three-quarters of the global population.\nPeople's cellphone habits have also changed dramatically since the first studies began years ago and it's unclear if the results of previous research would still apply today.\nSince many cancerous tumors take decades to develop, experts say it's impossible to conclude cellphones have no long-term health risks. The studies conducted so far haven't tracked people for longer than about a decade.\nCellphones send signals to nearby towers via radio frequency waves, a form of energy similar to FM radio waves and microwaves.\nBut the radiation produced by cellphones cannot directly damage DNA and is different from stronger types of radiation like X-rays or ultraviolet light. At very high levels, radio frequency waves from cellphones can heat up body tissue, but that is not believed to damage human cells.\nSome experts recommended people use a headset or earpiece if they are worried about the possible health dangers of cellphones.\n\"If there is a risk, most of it goes away with a wireless earpiece,\" said Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society.\nBrawley said people should focus on the real health hazards of cellphones. \"Cellphones may cause brain tumors but they kill far more people through automobile accidents,\" he said. Brawley added it was also reasonable to limit children's use of cellphones since their brains are still developing.\nEarlier this year, a U.S. National Institutes of Health study found that cellphone use can speed up brain activity, but it is unknown whether that has any dangerous health effects.\nIn the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission have found no evidence cellphones are linked to cancer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 6096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lubbockonline.com/technology/2011-05-28/gaga-blitzes-market-landmark-campaign", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TCXYFZPQLKEGZQ5HGDLAT4UJ6CSEXY3N", "length": 5805, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.lubbockonline.com", "title": "Gaga blitzes the market with landmark campaign - Entertainment - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Lubbock, TX", "raw_content": "Gaga blitzes the market with landmark campaign\nNEW YORK - The release of a pop star's album usually comes with the typical cross-marketing splash - strategic magazine covers, a few major TV appearances, and perhaps a cosmetics or fashion deal to remind the public a new project awaits.\nYet the social media-powered blitz connected to last week's drop of Lady Gaga's third album, \"Born This Way,\" is bordering on epic, with partnerships ranging from Starbucks to FarmVille, and virtual giveaways of the album's 17 tracks. It also represents the kind of bold, new business model that could help rejuvenate a deflated music industry.\nGaga already had a slew of magazine covers, from Rolling Stone to Vogue, and appeared on every high-profile show, from Oprah Winfrey to \"American Idol\" to \"Saturday Night Live,\" as well as her own HBO concert special.\nBut she hasn't stopped there. Starbucks - typically home to easy-on-the-ears artists like Emmylou Harris - is selling her album as well as launching a \"digital scavenger hunt\" for Gaga-inspired goods; Google Chrome debuted a commercial with Gaga with a track from the album; the online fashion outlet Gilt Groupe partnered with Gaga to offer Gaga-inspired clothing and VIP performances; Best Buy is giving away the album to anyone who purchases a mobile phone with a contract; and Zynga, creator of the popular online game \"FarmVille,\" created \"GagaVille,\" which allowed fans access to exclusive Gaga songs.\nAs if that wasn't enough, on Monday, Amazon.com sold \"Born This Way\" for just 99 cents as a promotion for its new music cloud service, creating a demand so strong it disrupted the online retailing giant's servers for a time.\nAnd it looks like the campaigns are paying off: Gaga's album is estimated to sell anywhere between a half-million to a million copies when the top album charts are revealed next week.\n\"It was really about expanding the distribution on this album and going into as many non-traditional retail partnerships and non-traditional marketing partnerships as possible,\" Gaga's manager, Troy Carter, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. \"Just with the diminishing music labels, you want to find quality partners where you know you can reach new audiences and being able to push boundaries as well.\"\nAmong the promotions connected with \"Born This Way\" is the Disney Mobile Tapulous game Tap Tap Revenge, which gives fans access to the entire album and other content if they buy the game, \"Born This Way Revenge,\" for $4.99. It's the first time Tapulous has put out 17 tracks with a game for that price.\nTim O'Brien, vice president of business development at Disney Mobile, said this was the third deal with Gaga, resulting in the total sale of five million songs so far.\nWhile they've worked with other pop artists with their Tap Tap Revenge app, he said Gaga - who has 10 million followers on Twitter and was recently crowned Forbes' most influential celebrity in part because of her tens of millions of followers online - is an act with unique appeal.\n\"I've never seen anything as powerful as when Gaga hits her social media channels compared to anyone else that we've worked with,\" he said. \"I've never seen anything like it in terms of how she's utilizing social media.\"\nIn pop history, there have been plenty of attention-grabbing publicity campaigns for debuting albums: Who can forget the huge statues Michael Jackson had erected of himself and placed across the world for his \"HIStory\" album, or when the Backstreet Boys hit six continents in four days to promote \"Black and Blue\"? Then there was Jay-Z, who performed in seven cities in 17-hours for his comeback album, \"Kingdom Come.\"\nBut Bill Werde, editorial director of Billboard, calls Gaga's promotional efforts \"more of a landmark campaign\" for the new music industry.\n\"There's nothing about Gaga that's subtle, so I don't see why her marketing campaign would be any different,\" he added.\nOne of the more unusual promotions was Amazon's decision to sell the MP3 version of Gaga's album for 99 cents on Monday, the day of its release, as part of its Amazon Cloud Drive, which gives consumers personal digital storage space on a remote network or cloud; 20 gigabytes of cloud space came with the album. However, there was such a demand it caused delays for Amazon's customers, a spokeswoman said.\nThough some people questioned the decision to basically give the album away, Carter wasn't concerned at all, calling the promotional idea \"incredible.\"\n\"I am more concerned about piracy and people stealing the music. If you can get somebody to experience the music at that sort of price for one day only, I think it gets a lot of attention for the album,\" he added.\nWerde said that's key in an age where album sales are deflated and serve more as a promotional tool for the artist's other money-making projects, including touring, in an industry more focused on what is called the 360-model of generating revenue.\n\"It's one of first big superstar releases that really grasps the potential of the new music business that everybody is talking about,\" he said. \"For a superstar artist like a Gaga, the sale of recorded music - not the quality of the music, mind you, but the sale of recorded music- really gets sort of assumed as a marketing cost to drive this 360-engine.\"\nCarter says his data indicates Gaga may sell over 500,000 copies in the first week, and perhaps 700,000; Werde said \"Born This Way\" could go as high as one million.\nBut Carter says the unique marketing tools used leading up to and during the album's release wasn't just to achieve monster sales for the album's debut.\n\"Nobody ever pays attention in the second week,\" he said. \"For us it's about being in this album cycle for the next 18 to 24 months.\"\nIt seems Gaga-mania won't be easing anytime soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 7565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lubuto.org/chishimba-kasanga", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MOLK2KN5IWP6KNXRKRMXL55M35VG7MPP", "length": 657, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.lubuto.org", "title": "Chishimba Kasanga \u2014 Lubuto Library Partners", "raw_content": "Gender Outreach Coordinator\nChishimba\u2019s passion for empowering girls and young women through access to knowledge led her to join Lubuto\u2019s team as the Gender Outreach Coordinator. In addition to her bachelor\u2019s in Mass Communication from the University of Zambia, she was appointed as a DREAMS Ambassador by USAID. She now uses the knowledge she gained from this role to help build up a community of determined, well-informed young women through the mentoring activities at Lubuto. Working with LLP to raise awareness of gender issues is a dream come true for Chishimba, and she loves getting to connect with these girls who are so much like her younger self.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lucasfox.com/property/spain/barcelona/sant-cugat.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:55Z", "digest": "sha1:M5YHM6ZNCIQNJTDTHCX4C7Y6UDMIQPUR", "length": 3498, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.lucasfox.com", "title": "Houses and villas for sale and rent in Sant Cugat, Barcelona", "raw_content": "Let us help you find an exceptional property in Sant Cugat\nHouses and villas for sale and rent in Sant Cugat, Barcelona\nProperties to buy in Sant Cugat\nHouses / Villas for rent in Sant Cugat\nFeatured properties in Sant Cugat\n562 m\u00b2 house for sale in Can Cortes, Barcelona\n317m\u00b2 House / Villa with 1,329m\u00b2 garden for sale in Sant Cugat\n870m\u00b2 house for sale in Sant Cugat, Barcelona\nHouse for sale in Sant Cugat del Vall\u00e8s, close to Barcelona\nDesigner house for sale, Sant Cugat, near Barcelona\n548 m\u00b2 house with 391 m\u00b2 garden for sale in Sant Cugat\nView more properties to buy in Sant Cugat\nProperties for sale in Sant Cugat del Vall\u00e9s\nIn a quiet, leafy area, just 5km from Barcelona, we find the prestigious Sant Cugat neighbourhood; a prime residential area surrounded by nature and within easy commuting distance of Barcelona city by road and rail.\nThe town is nestled in a natural environment with the Collserola and Galliners mountain ranges offering a vast expanse of protected land to explore on foot or by bike. This privileged clean, green environment means that the inhabitants of the municipality enjoy an excellent quality of life with the bustling metropolis of Barcelona just minutes away.\nWith a population of approximately 87,000 inhabitants, Sant Cugat is dynamic and offers plenty of local amenities without suffering the overcrowding of larger cities; making houses for sale in Sant Cugat perfect for those seeking an upmarket home with a friendly, laid back medium-sized community which is great to come back to after a day in the city.\nThe town has a young family-friendly vibe with a wide range of shops in the area and all kinds of services, including leading international schools, golf clubs and sports centres. The town is home to several large business headquarters, including international companies, and boasts a high income per capita which is reflected in the standard of living enjoyed here. All infrastructure and public parks, etc are of a high standard, clean and well maintained, creating a pleasant, safe environment to live in.\nMany visitors are drawn to Sant Cugat for its fantastic bohemian Vintage Market, held once a month and housed in a former ceramics factory, selling restored antique furniture, excellent food and offering live music.\nWhether you are looking for a detached villa or a smaller property in the town, Lucas Fox has what you need in our extensive portfolio of magnificent family homes and apartments for sale and rent.\nSant Cugat was once a summer holiday retreat for the Catalan Bourgeoisie and the many Modernista period buildings found here are a testament to that bygone era. Lucas Fox offer period properties such as townhouses, villas and apartments that have maintained charming original features such as vaulted ceilings, stained glass windows and mosaic floor tiles; ideal for the discerning client that appreciates unique architectural features and is looking for a home with historic charm.\nThat said, Sant Cugat is also home to some stunning contemporary villas with minimalist interiors, open plan living areas, several bedrooms and bathrooms and cutting edge technology, underfloor heating and infinity pools for the ideal family lifestyle. There are also apartments and penthouse properties for sale and rent in Sant Cugat town of varying sizes and characteristics.\nBrowse through the exclusive properties on our web or contact our experienced agents to help you with your search for the ideal home in Sant Cugat del Vall\u00e9s.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 7443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lvm.fi/en/-/ms-minna-kivimaki-to-be-director-general-of-the-transport-policy-department-at-the-ministry-of-transport-and-communications-782709", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:03Z", "digest": "sha1:L2SUBRW2AN4I2LVAFJGLIH5ZVO5MYVLW", "length": 1142, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.lvm.fi", "title": "Ms Minna Kivim\u00e4ki to be Director-General of the Transport Policy Department at the Ministry of Transport and Communications - Press release - Ministry of Transport and Communications", "raw_content": "Ms Minna Kivim\u00e4ki to be Director-General of the Transport Policy Department at the Ministry of Transport and Communications\nMs Minna Kivim\u00e4ki (born 1971) has been appointed Director-General of the Transport Policy Department at Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications with effect from 1 March 2010. The Government of Finland announced the appointment on 18 February 2010. The appointment to the post of Director-General is for a period of five years.\nMs Kivim\u00e4ki is a Master of Laws. She became Director of the Ministry's Transport Services Unit in September 2008. Before that her responsibilities at the Ministry have included EU affairs in transport and matters relating to maritime transport. Ms Kivim\u00e4ki has also worked as Counsellor responsible for transport policy affairs at the Permanent Representation of Finland to the EU in Brussels.\nThe Ministry's Transport Policy Department deals with matters related to the transport system, transport services, traffic safety, logistics and Russia cooperation.\nMr Harri Pursiainen, Permanent Secretary, tel. +358 9 160 28389, +358 500 787 742\n2_Minna Kivim\u00e4ki, kuva 2480x2480 px.jpg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 181.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lvol.com/lvtriprpt/las-vegas-trip-reports/2000-2009/2005-trip-reports", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PDKFWBZRI3G22NMVXT7FL7JFQBPYCLLZ", "length": 2792, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.lvol.com", "title": "2005 Las Vegas Trip Reports - Las Vegas Trip Report", "raw_content": "Stayed at stardust December 28, 2005 to January 03, 2006\t Written by mike From baltimore\t Hits: 57\nStayed at HGVC @ FLAMINGO October 23, 2005 to October 30, 2005\t Written by DLO From Eldersburg, MD\t Hits: 61\nStayed at Stardust September 11, 2005 to September 15, 2005\t Written by Loftypines from Ontario Canada\t Hits: 1829\nStayed at Fitzgeralds and Paris August 26, 2005 to September 02, 2005\t Written by Slotqueen From Austin TX\t Hits: 219\nStayed at MGM August 04, 2005 to August 08, 2005\t Written by Neal from Michigan\t Hits: 1849\nStayed at Sunset Station May 5, 2005 to May 8, 2005\t Written by David K. from Boynton Beach, FL\t Hits: 1750\nStayed at Hilton Grand Vacation (Flamingo) April 01, 2005 to April 04, 2005\t Written by Perrybabe63\t Hits: 1711\nStayed at MGM Grand and Orleans February 21, 2005 to February 25, 2005\t Written by LovelyJ From Houston, Texas\t Hits: 62\nStayed at Palace Station February 21, 2005 to February 24, 2005\t Written by Kansan From Wichita, KS\t Hits: 59\nStayed at Golden Nugget February 21, 2005 to February 21, 2005\t Written by Boomer From Toledo, OH\t Hits: 57\nStayed at Flamingo February 20, 2005 to February 23, 2005\t Written by Frobozz From Alexandria, VA\t Hits: 57\nStayed at Flamingo February 20, 2005 to February 26, 2005\t Written by Aimee From Canada\t Hits: 59\nStayed at Luxor February 19, 2005 to February 25, 2005\t Written by Michelle From Asheville, NC\t Hits: 59\nStayed at Main Street Station and Bally's February 19, 2005 to February 22, 2005\t Written by Luv2Travel2 From Des Moines, Iowa\t Hits: 60\nStayed at Orleans & Stardust February 19, 2005 to February 22, 2005\t Written by Yvonne From Norfolk, VA\t Hits: 62\nStayed at Imperial Palace February 18, 2005 to February 23, 2005 Written by Doc From CT\t Hits: 475\nStayed at The Orleans February 18, 2005 to February 21, 2005\t Written by lrac99999 From Ohio\t Hits: 63\nStayed at Fitzgeralds February 18, 2005 to February 21, 2005\t Written by woody From nebraska city,nebraska\t Hits: 57\nStayed at Main Street Station February 17, 2005 to February 21, 2005\t Written by Video Poker Fool From San Diego, CA\t Hits: 60\nStayed at Orleans February 15, 2005 to February 18, 2005\t Written by Sean From San Francisco, CA\t Hits: 62\nStayed at Main Street Station February 15, 2005 to February 17, 2005\t Written by RoyfromSandyEggo From San Diego, CA\t Hits: 58\nStayed at Imperial Palace February 13, 2005 to February 17, 2005\t Written by Dee From SK\t Hits: 60\nStayed at Gold Coast and Imperial Palace February 12, 2005 to February 19, 2005\t Written by Fiddlydollars From Liverpool, U.K.\t Hits: 59\nStayed at Aladdin and Paris February 12, 2005 to February 16, 2005\t Written by DCtoVegas From Arlington, VA\t Hits: 57\nStayed at Westward Ho February 12, 2005 to February 15, 2005\t Written by Patty From Austin, TX\t Hits: 60", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.madcowmodels.co.uk/Dolley", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:JVHCPVI7NIC2X7ZHP5FMPQVAC5LB6HOS", "length": 535, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.madcowmodels.co.uk", "title": "Dolley | Amateur Model Based in , Hampshire", "raw_content": "Come back to modelling after a break. Have been modelling again for over 2 years, looking for a laugh and the thrill of having my picture taken. I have worked with some great people from this site and really enjoy the whole scenario!\nJust a couple of things - I am not interested in b/g so please don't ask and embarrass yourself & on all first shoots there will be someone present (you don't have to meet them !) if either is a problem please don't message.\nI am easy to get along with broad minded and don't mind a laugh - so try me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 2301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maria-mccord.com/blog/2017/4/1/the-cocoon-chronicles-chapter-8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4LY522IV3PBPOEJD2AAJM7TLNWSTIT3F", "length": 2051, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.maria-mccord.com", "title": "The Cocoon Chronicles - Chapter 8 \u2014 Maria McCord", "raw_content": "Faith is not jumping from A to B. Faith is jumping from A.\nAnonymous, by way of Jeff Kober\nIt\u2019s scary...\nand exhilarating..\nand scary AF.\nThere\u2019s this dance we all do....I\u2019m guessing...that looks something like this:\nI really want to try this thing I\u2019ve never done before.\nI\u2019m not sure how it\u2019s gonna turn out but it sounds fun.\nIt might be scary, but I think I can do it. I know other people who have done it, so...\n(Rational voice in head)\nIt could be DANGEROUS!\nYou could get HURT!\nIt\u2019s MUCH safer here where you are. Sure, maybe not as exciting, but who needs exciting anyway? Safety is MUCH better. Dreams are SO overrated.\nBut I really want to try something new.\nThis is super exciting and it could lead to other exciting things.\nWho knows where this could go?\n(excited hand clapping and jumping)\n(Rational buzz kill voice)\nAre you NUTS??!!\nYou\u2019re SUPPOSED to be looking for stability, balance, no-rocking-the-boat.\nThis is NOT AT ALL what you went to school for!\nWHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE??\nYou\u2019re supposed to stay put in this neat little box....following all \u201cthe rules\u201d, just like the rest of us.\nLooks like \u201csomeone\u201d is getting a little too big for her britches!\nWell.....guess what we\u2019re not GOOD enough for Miss Fancy Pants.\nGuess SHE thinks she\u2019s BETTER than all of us.\nThis is just a sample of some of the tactics that our fears use to keep us exactly where we are.\nFear is just another version of our Ego mind. It\u2019s doing what it\u2019s designed to do, which is to keep us safe.\nHowever, when we start to stretch past the boundaries of our comfort zone, what we\u2019ve \u201calways done\u201d, take risks----the Ego feels threatened and resorts to any means necessary to keep things exactly the way they are.\nIt takes a lot of courage to stand your ground and persevere towards your dreams!\nIf you\u2019re on the way, BRAVO!\nIf you\u2019re thinking about starting the journey, BRAVO!\nIf you\u2019ve gotten this far in this post, BRAVO!\nIt might just means something resonates and you might not even know it yet.\nBaby step your way, if you have to.....just don\u2019t give up!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marissawrites.com/2013/01/swimmy-book-on-working-together.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:14Z", "digest": "sha1:63EY25Z7UMWFBCG3WXIRA4KJWXOJGNS6", "length": 2824, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.marissawrites.com", "title": "Swimmy - a book on working together - Reading List", "raw_content": "Swimmy - a book on working together\nI have yet to come across a parent who really hopes and prays that her child will grow up to a quiet wallflower that goes along with the crowd. The idea of teaching kids how to be an individual who can work in a team crosses the minds of parents all the time - especially this parent.\nAnd yet, this idea is easier said than taught... It's a fine line between being yourself, and being a selfish brat. Then there is the idea of teamwork, where you speak up enough to be heard, yet humble yourself to accommodate the group... There are adults that can't do this one yet!\nIn case you haven't figured it out by now, I enjoy using books to introduce these concepts that scare me when it comes to helping teach my kiddos. The concepts can be easily introduced in a story, and then discussed and acted out the more we get into the book.\nSo for this two-fold life lesson, we've been using Swimmy by Leo Lionni.\nThe story follows swimmy, a little black fish, who is the only survivor of a big fish attack. Instead of being scared and hiding away, swimmy decides to explore the big sea. In the process he finds the beauty of nature, and discovers a self-confidence.\nBy the end, swimmy is leading a new school of fish in an effort to work together and explore the beauty of the sea.\nThe art in this book captivates both of my boys and myself - this short book takes twice as long to read because of the time we spend discussing the art. It is no wonder this is a Caldecott Honor Book - if you haven't read this one, give it a try!\nThis book also lends itself to great crafting projects which will give you more time to talk about the lessons of the book. Here are some of my favorites.\nWatercolor craft - includes painting, cutting & gluing - ages 4+\nSmall school of fish - make your own school of fish and practice shapes! - glue... ages 2+ (and a brave mama...)\nWindow hanging - create your own scene from Swimmy to hang in your window with contact paper, tissue paper and other craft supplies - all ages!\nAnd if you are looking for a way to entertain your kiddos while you get some chores done - or just need a little break, here's a great video of Swimmy - it takes a while to load...\nHave you read this book with your kids? What were you thoughts? Any other crafts you did after reading this great story?\nLinked up with: http://www.time-warp-wife.blogspot.com/, http://www.aboverubies.net/2013/01/domestically-divine-tuesday-having.html, http://www.cornerstoneconfessions.com/, http://www.yourthrivingfamily.com/2013/01/weekend-whatever-55-linkup.html, http://www.cheeriosandlattes.com/saturday-show-tell-47/, http://the-life-of-faith.blogspot.com/\n~~This post does contain affiliate links - although I stand by this book as a wonderful investment!\nTags: Caldecott, Children, Leo Lionni, Swimmy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/de-quervains-tenosynovitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20371332", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OBAM7MWD6HZ2RLLLSK3DCN56YJH3LXFF", "length": 3827, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.mayoclinic.org", "title": "De Quervain's tenosynovitis - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic", "raw_content": "De Quervain's tenosynovitis (dih-kwer-VAINS ten-oh-sine-oh-VIE-tis) is a painful condition affecting the tendons on the thumb side of your wrist. If you have de Quervain's tenosynovitis, it will probably hurt when you turn your wrist, grasp anything or make a fist.\nAlthough the exact cause of de Quervain's tenosynovitis isn't known, any activity that relies on repetitive hand or wrist movement \u2014 such as working in the garden, playing golf or racket sports, or lifting your baby \u2014 can make it worse.\nSymptoms of de Quervain's tenosynovitis include:\nPain near the base of your thumb\nSwelling near the base of your thumb\nDifficulty moving your thumb and wrist when you're doing something that involves grasping or pinching\nA \"sticking\" or \"stop-and-go\" sensation in your thumb when moving it\nIf the condition goes too long without treatment, the pain may spread further into your thumb, back into your forearm or both. Pinching, grasping and other movements of your thumb and wrist aggravate the pain.\nConsult your doctor if you're still having problems with pain or function and you've already tried:\nNot using your affected thumb\nApplying cold to the affected area\nUsing nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, such as ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) and naproxen (Aleve)\nWhen you grip, grasp, clench, pinch or wring anything in your hand, two tendons in your wrist and lower thumb normally glide smoothly through the small tunnel that connects them to the base of the thumb. Repeating a particular motion day after day may irritate the sheath around the two tendons, causing thickening and swelling that restricts their movement.\nChronic overuse of your wrist is commonly associated with de Quervain's tenosynovitis.\nTendons are rope-like structures that attach muscle to bone. When you grip, grasp, clench, pinch or wring anything in your hand, two tendons in your wrist and lower thumb normally glide smoothly through the small tunnel that connects them to the base of the thumb. Repeating a particular motion day after day may irritate the sheath around the two tendons, causing thickening and swelling that restricts their movement.\nOther causes of de Quervain's tenosynovitis include:\nDirect injury to your wrist or tendon; scar tissue can restrict movement of the tendons\nInflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis\nRisk factors for de Quervain's tenosynovitis include:\nAge. If you're between the ages of 30 and 50, you have a higher risk of developing de Quervain's tenosynovitis than do other age groups, including children.\nSex. The condition is more common in women.\nBeing pregnant. The condition may be associated with pregnancy.\nBaby care. Lifting your child repeatedly involves using your thumbs as leverage and may also be associated with the condition.\nJobs or hobbies that involve repetitive hand and wrist motions. These may contribute to de Quervain's tenosynovitis.\nUntreated de Quervain's tenosynovitis might make it hard to use your hand and wrist properly and limit your wrist's range of motion.\nDe Quervain's tendinitis (De Quervain's tendinosis). American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=a00007. Accessed April 30, 2015.\nAnderson BC, et al. de Quervain's tenosynovitis. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed April 30, 2015.\nde Quervain syndrome. American Society for Surgery of the Hand. http://www.assh.org/handcare/hand-arm-conditions/de-quervain-syndrome. Accessed April 30, 2015.\nPeters-Veluthamaningal C, et al. Corticosteroid injection for de Quervain's tenosynovitis. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. http://ovidsp.tx.ovid.com/sp-3.15.1b/ovidweb.cgi?&S=MDMIFPOGBPDDNLCMNCKKHEMCBFIFAA00&Link+Set=S.sh.18|1|sl_50. April 30, 2015.\nGoel R, et al. de Quervain\u2019s tenosynovitis: a review of the rehabilitative options. Hand. 2015;10:1.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 9522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-answers/vitamin-d-deficiency/faq-20058397", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RAJ3EGVBHYC7NM7Q6PKEFMYLZINQQYCZ", "length": 2580, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.mayoclinic.org", "title": "Vitamin D deficiency - Mayo Clinic", "raw_content": "What are the risks of vitamin D deficiency?\nVitamin D deficiency \u2014 when the level of vitamin D in your body is too low \u2014 can cause your bones to become thin, brittle or misshapen.\nVitamin D also appears to play a role in insulin production and immune function \u2014 and how this relates to chronic disease prevention and cancer \u2014 but this is still being investigated.\nAlthough the amount of vitamin D adults get from their diets is often less than what's recommended, exposure to sunlight can make up for the difference. For most adults, vitamin D deficiency is not a concern. However, some groups \u2014 particularly people who are obese, who have dark skin and who are older than age 65 \u2014 may have lower levels of vitamin D due to their diets, little sun exposure or other factors.\nThe Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for adults is 600 international units (IU) of vitamin D a day. That goes up to 800 IU a day for those older than age 70. To meet this level, choose foods that are rich in vitamin D. For example, choose fatty fish, such as salmon, trout, tuna and halibut, which offer higher amounts of vitamin D, or fortified foods, such as milk and yogurt.\nDon't overdo it, though. Very high levels of vitamin D have not been shown to provide greater benefits. In fact, too much vitamin D has been linked to other health problems.\nIf you're concerned about whether you're getting enough vitamin D, talk to your doctor about your diet and whether a vitamin supplement might benefit you.\nVitamin D. Merck Manual Professional Version. http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/nutritional-disorders/vitamin-deficiency-dependency-and-toxicity/vitamin-d. Accessed May 20, 2015.\nDietary Reference Intakes for calcium and vitamin D. Institute of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56070/. Accessed June 11, 2018.\n2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture. https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015/guidelines. Accessed June 11, 2018.\nVitamin D fact sheet for health professionals. National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements. http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessional/. Accessed June 5, 2018.\nVitamin D. Natural Medicines. https://naturalmedicines.therapeuticresearch.com. Accessed June 11, 2018.\nAutier P, et al. Effect of vitamin D supplementation on non-skeletal disorders: A systematic review of meta-analyses and randomised trials. The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. 2017;5:986.\nZeratsky K (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. June 13, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 9308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 168.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mcwareitsolutions.com/services/marine_installation/teesside", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:21Z", "digest": "sha1:RVTWSWAGXHFSGBAXBGGODSBENUAA6K4L", "length": 260, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mcwareitsolutions.com", "title": "Marine IT Installers Teesside | Marine Installation Teesside | Commercial Vessels Teesside | Luxury Yachts Teesside", "raw_content": "Marine Installation Teesside\nWe have worked closely with a number of manufacturers Teesside in to produce a range of solutions which provide global high speedInternet, television and voice services via satellite to mobile users at sea, on land, and in the air.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 7439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/273144.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HGLK7RVZ3JDNL5D5TT72UZ62AY4GYRMR", "length": 5281, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.medicalnewstoday.com", "title": "Horseshoe crab behavior affected by biomedical bleeding", "raw_content": "Horseshoe crab behavior affected by biomedical bleeding\nNew research from Plymouth State University and the University of New Hampshire indicates that collecting and bleeding horseshoe crabs for biomedical purposes causes short-term changes in their behavior and physiology that could exacerbate the crabs' population decline in parts of the east coast.\nEach year, the U.S. biomedical industry harvests the blue blood from almost half a million living horseshoe crabs for use in pharmaceuticals - most notably, a product called Limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), used to ensure vaccines and medical equipment are free of bacterial contamination. This lifesaving product can only be made from horseshoe crab blood, says researcher Win Watson, UNH professor of zoology.\n\"The crabs are very heavily bled - about 30 percent or more of their blood is taken, and that's a fair amount,\" says Chris Chabot, professor of neurobiology at PSU and a co-author on the study. \"Approximately 20 to 30 percent of those crabs do not survive, so we were curious if any of the surviving crabs experienced nearly lethal effects from the bleeding,\" he said.\nThe study, \"Sublethal Behavioral and Physiological Effects of the Biomedical Bleeding Process on the American Horseshoe Crab,\" was published recently in the journal The Biological Bulletin.\nWith funding provided by a N.H. Sea Grant development grant, Chabot, Watson and lead author Rebecca Anderson, a PSU graduate student, replicated the biomedical bleeding process to determine the potential impacts on the crabs' behavior.\nAfter capturing the crabs in New Hampshire's Great Bay and transporting some of them back to Chabot's lab at PSU and others to UNH's Jackson Estuarine Laboratory, the researchers monitored their movements for a week and then harvested some of their blood. Electronic data recorders called accelerometers that measure the crabs' speed and direction were strapped to their backs and the crabs were placed in running wheels in tanks filled with seawater.\nThe researchers found that for approximately two weeks after the bleeding procedure, the crabs' behavior differed from their behavior prior to the bleeding - they moved less frequently and with different patterns and rhythms, indicating they may have been disoriented. The researchers hope to track the movements of bled horseshoe crabs in their native environments to verify that their lab findings apply to real life behavioral changes.\nOne of the concerns, Anderson explains, is that the crabs are collected for bleeding during their breeding cycle when it's easiest to capture them on beaches. If the crabs are bled and then returned to the beach in a disoriented condition, they might be less likely to breed. This has the potential to exacerbate the population declines that are already occurring in parts of the east coast, including Delaware and Cape Cod. The populations in N.H. seem to be holding steady at the moment.\n\"If the biomedical industry could delay the blood harvest, it would probably help these animals,\" Chabot says. \"For example, if they are bled after the breeding season, then they could recover in the subsequent months, fatten up and survive the winter without any problems to be able to breed again the following year,\" he said.\nWatson suggests that the conditions under which they are transported could be improved as well. Fishermen capture the horseshoe crabs and often place them on a hot boat deck until they are transported by truck to the biomedical facility, all the while out of water and unable to breathe. If instead they were kept in cold, well-aerated water and perhaps fed, their stress levels might decrease and thus improve their chances of survival and ability to breed upon return to their native habitat.\nWatson also notes that it is unclear which part of the process is the most detrimental - the bleeding, the transporting, or simply keeping the crabs in the lab and out of their natural environment. Their research also revealed that the crabs' levels of hemocyanin, a protein in their system that helps transport oxygen in their blood, decreased for all individuals regardless of whether or not they were bled. Lowered hemocyanin levels might lessen the crabs' resilience to the stress of the experience.\nRegardless, the researchers feel improvements in the collection and bleeding process are imperative to help preserve the species. In addition to the economic value of their blood, horseshoe crab eggs provide a critical food source for shorebirds that stop in Delaware on their migration to the Arctic. The adult crabs are also harvested for bait in the whelk and eel fisheries in many states, not including New Hampshire.\n\"We want to ensure that the biomedical bleeding is a sustainable practice, because horseshoe crabs are a critical component of the coastal ecosystem,\" Chabot says.\n\"I hope that this research helps to design management regulations that meet the needs of both the people and the crabs,\" Anderson adds.\nUniversity of New Hampshire. \"Horseshoe crab behavior affected by biomedical bleeding.\" Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 26 Feb. 2014. Web.\nUniversity of New Hampshire. (2014, February 26). \"Horseshoe crab behavior affected by biomedical bleeding.\" Medical News Today. Retrieved from", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 13159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.menandmasculinity.com/a-focus-on-masculinity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:22Z", "digest": "sha1:IQ35JW6MYLXX4MMEYRDS2R4EH2N3VADM", "length": 4787, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.menandmasculinity.com", "title": "A Focus on Masculinity - Men and Masculinity", "raw_content": "A Focus on Masculinity2018-09-272018-09-27https://www.menandmasculinity.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/men-and-masculinity-logo-210px.pngMen and Masculinityhttps://www.menandmasculinity.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/men-and-masculinity-logo-210px.png200px200px\n\u201cMen are suffering,\u201d Dr. John Izzo, co-founder of The Men\u2019s Initiative, said in his keynote speech at the 2017 Men and Masculinity Summit. \u201cYoung men are suffering all over the world. If you look you\u2019ll see that young men are disproportionately lost compared to young women . . . women have higher graduation rates than young men.\u201d John went on to applaud the progress we have made with women, and acknowledged that there is still more work to do with them. He also encouraged us to look at what is happening with men, for in lifting up the young girls, we\u2019ve allowed our young boys to fall behind.\nHow men see themselves and express their masculinity is changing in our society. Some of those changes are both profound and disturbing. Men face increased suicide rates*, feelings of isolation**, loneliness, and depression. Fewer men graduate from college*** and suffer from a lack of purpose. With the deterioration of the primary family, many of our children are growing up fatherless and live with the societal view of the dumb and useless dad or an absent dad. Though not a new perspective, the view that men are abusers of power, toxic, and take unfair advantage of others, dominates the news today\u2013\u2013thanks to recent events.\nThe view that men should \u201cman up\u201d or \u201cgrow a pair\u201d, which many men subscribe to, essentially has them suffer in silence so as not to risk being seen as weak, and not carrying their own weight. This view causes men to turn inward.\nIn this environment, men fall into two camps: some men are asking questions of themselves; while others drift in the societal tide, keeping their heads down and hoping to survive. So, what is masculinity? What does masculinity mean to men? to women? How can a man express his masculinity, be a successful male personally and professionally, and a powerful contributor to his community, and society? At best, his journey to find his self expression and true self is an uphill climb.\nMen and Masculinity is dedicated to taking a deeper look at these topics to understand our stereotypes and inherited beliefs. Our goal is to engage in conversations with organizations, experts, spouses, partners, children, friends, and coworkers. To shine a light on these topics and work together to make positive changes with ourselves, our families, and communities.\nImagine making a change this year that would continue the progress we\u2019ve made with our girls and turn around the issues with our boys.\nAt the 2018 Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Summit on Masculinity, learn what you can do to help our boys and young men have a brighter future.\nThis year Men and Masculinity is focusing on our boys and their struggles.\nBoy\u2019s education is on the decline. Our boys will have less education than their fathers for the first time in US history.\nBoys are lacking a sense of purpose and staying at home longer.\nBoys have increased mental health issues. Higher suicide rates and school shootings are common now. Many of the recent school shooters come from father-deprived homes****.\nDr. Warren Farrell, who co-authored \u201cThe Boy Crisis\u201d with John Gray, author of the Mars and Venus books, says many factors contribute to why our boys are struggling, families with absent dads is just one reason. In the upcoming 2018 Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Summit on Masculinity this November in Toronto, he will delve into the reasons behind \u201cThe Boy Crisis\u201d and what can be done to help our boys. Dr. Farrell has written many books from his research on men\u2019s and women\u2019s issues, created men\u2019s teams, and is the current Chair of the Commission to Create a White House Council on Boys to Men.\nOn the weekend of International Men\u2019s Day, November 17th and 18th, Men and Masculinity is planning two events, a Leadership Forum on Masculinity where Dr. Warren Farrell will train our leaders on crisis with our boys, and The Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Summit on Masculinity event with 7 speakers the following day.\nFor more information on these events, please visit https://www.menandmasculinity.com/\nProgram Lead \u2013 Men and Masculinity\n*Men die by suicide 3.53x more often than women from the American Foundation for suicide prevention.\n** Boston Globe on isolation \u2013 Boston Globe Isolation\n***Male Female graduation rates \u2013 https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/11/gender-education-gap/546677/\n*** Gender Gap \u2013 https://www.fatherly.com/news/data-women-attending-college-more-than-men/\n**** Dr Warren Farrell on school shooters \u2013 https://youtu.be/hnQ5cjg-Bo8\nWhat is a healthy masculine presence in our society?Uncategorized", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metricstream.com/pressNews/pr_552_TransRe-selects-Risk-Compliance.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:03Z", "digest": "sha1:L55KRTH3SF6MJFF5OE5RSNQ5JBVKIAUM", "length": 2994, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.metricstream.com", "title": "TransRe Selects MetricStream\u2019s Risk and Compliance Management Software - Press News", "raw_content": "TransRe Selects MetricStream\u2019s Risk and Compliance Management Software\nMetricStream delivers consolidated approach to enterprise risk management for global reinsurer\nSeptember 05, 2013 | Palo Alto, California: When a leading global reinsurer needed an integrated, flexible solution for its risk and compliance management needs, it turned to MetricStream.\nJulian Spence, TransRe\u2019s Chief Risk Officer, explains: \u201cEnterprise Risk Management is an evolving discipline, and one that touches every part of our organization. As a multi-billion dollar business operating from 24 offices around the world, we need a risk and compliance platform that combines flexibility, ease of use with an intuitive, automated reporting capability. MetricStream\u2019s federated information architecture is well suited to our needs.\u201d\n\u201cWe are delighted to support TransRe in integrating their risk and compliance processes,\u201d said Gaurav Kapoor, Chief Operating Officer at MetricStream. He continued, \u201cThrough our experience with clients in the financial services sector, and in particular (re)insurance, we were able to offer TransRe the package of solutions and expertise they needed to help support their business decisions and reporting requirements.\u201d\nMetricStream\u2019s federated information architecture offers the flexibility needed to support the full range of risk and compliance processes, enables multiple reporting facilities, and links to existing enterprise. In doing so, it supports global operations. By bringing together all risk management and compliance activities into a common enterprise-wide framework, TransRe will benefit from enhanced process efficiency and transparency: in tracking regulatory changes, identifying and scoping risks, conducting risk-control self-assessments, risk monitoring and risk reporting. The architecture allows greater collaboration across business units, while maintaining the ability to deliver separate, local specific requirements. In doing so, manual processes are automated, best practices are more easily identified and shared, and more time is freed to focus on risk analysis. Company-wide dashboards will enable real-time tracking of risk assessments, Key Risk Indicators (KRIs), and risk mitigation activities, as well as providing support for decision-making.\nIn addition to risk and compliance, MetricStream\u2019s federated information architecture supports audit management, financial compliance management, regulatory exams management, vendor governance, IT security.\nAbout TransRe\nTransRe is the brand name for Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries (including Transatlantic Reinsurance Company). TransRe, wholly owned by Alleghany Corporation, is a reinsurance organization headquartered in New York with operations worldwide. Since 1978, TransRe has been offering its clients the capacity, expertise and creativity necessary to structure programs across the full spectrum of property and casualty risks. Visit www.transre.com for additional information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 7840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metricstream.com/pressNews/pr_773_ECOA-conference-2015.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:16Z", "digest": "sha1:AW5CXAZRMJJNKH3M2DT5D5G264GHHDIO", "length": 2102, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.metricstream.com", "title": "MetricStream to Participate at the 23rd Annual Ethics & Compliance Conference in Dallas, Texas - Press News", "raw_content": "MetricStream to Participate at the 23rd Annual Ethics & Compliance Conference in Dallas, Texas\nMetricStream will showcase its leading Legal and Corporate Compliance Apps at this event\nMarch 16, 2015 | Palo Alto, California: MetricStream, the market leader in Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Cloud Apps, will participate at the 23rd Annual Ethics & Compliance Conference, to be held in Dallas from March 17th-20th, 2015, at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center. The theme for this year\u2019s conference is \u201cA New Day in E&C: Preparing Our Programs for Tomorrow.\u201dOrganized by the Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA), this multi-industry annual event will provide learning opportunities for risk and compliance practitioners from around the world.\nEthics and compliance breaches in organizations can result in irreparable damages. Companies are being increasingly held accountable for establishing an ethical corporate culture and compliance policies that govern increasingly global workplaces. Organizations must also take responsibility for issues arising from non-compliance or unethical behavior amongst their partners and third-parties. Hence it becomes crucial for organizations to establish a strong GRC foundation that promotes transparency, accountability and integrity.\nThis four-day conference will have dedicated tracks to address reporting and governance structures, risk assessments, and program planning and assessments within an organization. The event will also feature interactive sessions led by ethics and compliance experts, academics, and business leaders on how to tackle risks, address ethical concerns, and share best practices to effectively handle these issues.\nMetricStream\u2019s Legal and Corporate Compliance Apps provide an integrated framework for managing related policies and procedures, as well roles and responsibilities across ethics, legal, and compliance tasks. The apps also offer advanced monitoring, reporting, dashboards and heat maps that can provide organizations with greater visibility into their ethics and compliance related activities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 7007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/nhl/article32825853.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:CPZQ7VQFAHW4WMGUYCE7XCOULRXE34RS", "length": 4242, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.miamiherald.com", "title": "Florida native Jakob Chychrun finds home on ice | Miami Herald", "raw_content": "Chychrun and Matthews are both in the running to be the first American-born player to be the top pick in an NHL draft since Patrick Kane in 2007.\nThere\u2019s little doubt Chychrun will be the highest selected South Florida player in history.\nMargate's Shayne Gostisbehere became the highest-drafted South Florida product when Philadelphia took the defenseman in the third round of the 2012 draft.\n\u201cThat\u2019s pretty cool. I just I could have stayed and played in Florida an extra couple of years,\u201d said Chychrun, a 6-2 defenseman who has been favorably compared to Aaron Ekblad, who recently won the NHL\u2019s rookie of the year award with the Panthers.\n\u201cWhen I was 12, everyone else was leaving for prep schools up north so I left too. It\u2019s unfortunate because I think we would have had a really good team here. I enjoyed playing here.\u201d\nFor Chychrun, whose father Jeff spent part of eight seasons in the NHL before moving to South Florida, hockey is a game he grew up with, although his athletic exploits weren\u2019t limited just to the ice.\nJeff Chychrun, who was on the Penguins\u2019 Stanley Cup championship team in 1992, made sure his son branched out by playing baseball, soccer, tennis and golf as well.\n\u201cIt was great growing up here because you can play a lot of different sports,\u201d Jakob said. \u201cI played everything here, and I think that made me a better hockey player.\u201d\nHad Jakub been born a year earlier, he would have been part of the 2015 draft held at his home arena in Sunrise. Instead, his draft party will come at First Niagara Center in Buffalo.\n\u201cI would have loved to have taken batting practice at Marlins Park,\u201d said Jakob, who says he\u2019s a huge fan of all the local pro teams.\n\u201cI would have loved to be part of the draft here. It would have been so cool to have my friends and family in the stands. The Panthers are my childhood team and my family has been going to their games since before I was born. The Panthers will always hold a spot in my heart.\u201d\nSaid Jeff: \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a shame, eh? We have to work so hard as hockey parents in Florida because of all the travel, it would have been nice to have our draft in our backyard.\u201d\nJakob Chychrun, whose family has had season tickets to the Panthers since their inaugural season in 1993, started skating at the Panthers\u2019 training facility in Coral Springs when he was just 3.\n\u201cThe first time he skated was with [mascot] Stanley C. Panther,\u201d Jeff joked. \u201cIt just went from there.\u201d\nNow 17, Jakob Chychrun has moved on from playing hockey in South Florida \u2014 save for taking part in the informal practices held during the summer in Coral Springs with NHL players and other local products who are playing either college, Canadian junior or minor league hockey.\n\u201cHe looks like he could play in the NHL right now,\u201d said Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson, who continues to make South Florida his home even after leaving the Panthers six years ago.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of hype surrounding him, but I\u2019ve been 100 percent impressed with him and the way he carries himself. He\u2019s a pretty low-key guy, just does his work and is doing what it takes to be a pro.\u201d\nAlthough he still lives part-time in Boca Raton, like many young hockey players chasing their dream, Chychrun had to leave home and head north to be exposed to better competition.\nChychrun started playing for the Florida Junior Panthers, but at 12, he and his dad would spend their weekends commuting from Florida so he could play major bantam for the famed Little Caesars team based in Detroit.\nAfter being denied a chance to play in the USHL as a 15-year-old, Chychrun \u2014 who has duel citizenship \u2014 moved to Toronto to play in the minor league there.\nIn 2014, Chychrun was the first overall pick of the Ontario Hockey League draft, selected by the Sarnia Sting.\nAnd now there\u2019s the possibility he could be the top player taken in the NHL Draft come June.\n\u201cEveryone is always surprised to hear I\u2019m from Florida,\u201d Chychrun said, \u201cbut I always tell them how much the game is growing here. It\u2019s really cool to see.\u201d\nBy DAN GREENSPAN Associated Press\nElias Pettersson and Brock Boeser scored in a shootout after Adam Gaudette tied the score with 1:38 remaining in the third period to give the Vancouver Canucks a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Kings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.miamiwaterkeeper.org/phil_kushlan_joins_the_board_of_directors_of_bbwk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQGHV5MBEEBOQE23NYH2UC7NJPMG3HMX", "length": 1580, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.miamiwaterkeeper.org", "title": "Phil Kushlan joins the Board of Directors of BBWK - Miami Waterkeeper", "raw_content": "Phil Kushlan joins the Board of Directors of BBWK\nBiscayne Bay Waterkeeper is thrilled to announce the addition of our newest board member, Phil Kushlan.\nPhil is a Ph.D. student at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and received a Maytag Fellowship to study coral resiliency under climate change conditions.\nPhil grew up diving and fishing in Biscayne Bay and is passionate about protecting our waters. Kushlan graduated from the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Marine Science in 2008. In 2011, he received a Masters of Science from University of Miami's Biology department. Phil recognizes the multitude of South Florida\u2019s water quality and management issues ranging wastewater treatment and ecosystem protection to climate change. He believes that a comprehensive and holistic view of these issues is necessary in implementing lasting change.\n\u201cI believe that my experience and my passion for the waters of Biscayne Bay will be an asset to Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper as this organization grows and develops over the coming years.\u201d\nBBWK looks forward to working with Phil on our mission to protect, preserve and defend South Florida\u2019s waters. Phil is also involved with Everglades conservation and serves as the Vice President on the board of Friends of the Everglades. He plans to defend his Ph.D. in 2017.\ncoral resiliency phil kushlan University of Miami board of directors phd bbwk miami waterkeeper everglades biology marine science biscayne bay south florida Rosenstiel school Ecosystem Protection clean water coral reef blog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 4098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.midulstermail.co.uk/news/crime/dungannon-mother-to-pay-restitution-for-pay-day-loan-scam-1-6587712", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:3NSXB7AJOYI37CSV4MTBWHLPXEUYKALM", "length": 2254, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.midulstermail.co.uk", "title": "Dungannon mother to pay restitution for pay-day loan scam - Mid Ulster Mail", "raw_content": "Dungannon mother to pay restitution for pay-day loan scam\nA woman who was convicted of taking money from a payday loan account belonging to another man has received a conditional discharge.\nThe court heard how a man gave his girlfriend\u2019s sister permission to take out a payday loan on wonga.com using his name and account on March 26, 2013.\nThis woman went to the home of Sheena Campbell, 27, at Cloneen Avenue in Dungannon, to use her computer and seek her assistance.\nShe had taken the man\u2019s bank account number and log on details to use in order to take \u00a3230 from the payday loan company.\nWhen she had completed the transaction she left the house, leaving the man\u2019s bank details at the house.\nIt was only some time later when he tried unsuccessfully to make another purchase online that the man realised that more money had been taken from a cashgenieloans.co.uk account in his name.\nMs Campbell\u2019s laptop and phone were subsequently seized by police following a complaint.\nUnder interview the defendant told the police that she believed that she had permission of the man to apply for the loan.\nA voice recording was also played to the defendant which Ms Campbell soon admitted was hers.\nMr Jarlath Faloon, defending, told the court that his client - a mother with five children between the age of nine and 14 months - claimed the money that had been obtained during the incident was used by another person.\nHe asked the judge not to impose a period of imprisonment in view of Ms Campbell\u2019s record and her desire to make restitution for the money taken from cashgenieloans.co.uk.\nDistrict Judge John Meehan admitted that it was a \u201cpeculiar case\u201d.\n\u201cThis person handed out his details to allow this woman to impersonate him.\n\u201cHaving embarked on this highly questionable behaviour there is then an argument as to who was in the room at the time when the money is obtained from the payday loan company.\u201d\nHowever, given the \u201celement of enticement and encouragment\u201d he felt that he could only impose a conditional discharge of 12 months, adding the warning that should Ms Campbell return to court in that period the court could take a different view to the offence.\nHe also ordered that a restitution order of \u00a3230 be made in favour of cashgenieloans.co.uk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mikeymo.nl/movies/reviews/the-avengers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:31Z", "digest": "sha1:6BJVQP5FQJE7A5XN65CIFVP4XROIMEAP", "length": 4550, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mikeymo.nl", "title": "The Avengers Review", "raw_content": "The Avengers has been a massive undertaking years in the making. It all started 6 years ago with the surprise hit that was Iron Man. A small post credits scene had Samuel L. Jackson set up what he\u2019s calling The Avengers initiative, something with caused a lot of nerdgasms around the world. Since then 5 other movies were released, 4 of them featuring a member of The Avengers in their origin story and a sequel to the highly successful Iron Man in which a lot of ground work was done for this movie. The idea was to flesh out every character in their own movie, so you can skip all the introductions in The Avengers and focus more on the story. It was a big gamble, but it did pay off. The close involvement of Marvel with these movies featuring their characters paid off really well, among all of these movies they all score an above average and stay close to the source material pleasing the nerds while reaching a wider audience with ease.\nIn The Avengers Loki steals The Tesseract and wants to use its power to create weapons, he also plans to take over the world (no points for originality there) with the aid of the Chitauri, an alien race bend on taking over the galaxy (again zero points). To stop this from happening Shield agent Nick Fury, previously cameoing in almost every other Avenger-movie, gets \u201cEarth\u2019s Mightiest Heroes\u201d together, even though one is a Norwegian god. These characters are of course: Iron Man, The Hulk, Captain America and Thor, with the aid of the Black Widow (introduced in Iron Man 2) and Hawkeye (introduced in Thor). But before they can defeat Loki they must first overcome their differences.\nIf the above synopsis has you riddled with questions about \u201cwho\u2019s Loki\u201d and \u201cwhat the hell is a Tesseract\u201d I suggest you watch the first five movies before watching The Avengers. The Avengers can be watched as a stand alone movie and it would still be fairly easy to follow, but the movie is so much richer when you have watched all the previous films. You get more gags and references that way, and if you\u2019re a comic book nerd you\u2019re going to have the time of your life. The Avengers is chock-full of small little throwaway remarks and references.\nThe interaction of the reluctant heroes is part of what makes The Avengers so fun to watch. These people aren\u2019t really compatible and they know it. There\u2019s a flag wearing patriot from a different era, two scientists who don\u2019t trust the government and a grumpy Norwegian God. This is an old cliche, having these people overcoming their differences for the team, but it still works. Luckily because it\u2019s not like Loki\u2019s story is all that interesting. His plan is fairly simple and I was expecting some more twists and turns or even a more elaborate scheme, but his goal is set early on and not even him getting captured midway through changes the dynamics. This is no Joker from the Dark Knight or Hans Gruber from Die Hard.\nAt the end of the movie The Avengers falls into the same trap Transformers 3 did, despite a few small scenes at exotic locations like India, the entire finale takes place in Manhattan, New York. For a movie dealing with world domination by a God who has an army of aliens at his disposal it\u2019s a bit disappointing that it all comes down once again if these aliens can destroy an American city. If a threat is international, I would like to see how the whole world respond to it, not just people in one American city. Thor had the same problem; with all this interplanetary stuff going on the finale all takes places in a small American town. Of course I can see why they choose American locations, but in this day and age, when movie releases become a more global event themselves, it would be nice if studios would take a gamble and set it in a more international setting. Despite the hate Transformers 2 has received, at least it was a more international event and had a finale on the pyramids in Egypt.\nOther than that this is a pretty neat movie. It\u2019s fun, it\u2019s entertaining and it actually benefits of having all these characters layered out in earlier films. It doesn\u2019t feel like a retread of older movies and Marvel has created something unique with the Avengers. Too bad some of their characters are still under license at other movie studios as this movie makes clear that their approach to their creations is the way to go. We have come a long way since The Punisher wasn\u2019t running around in a shirt with a skull on it and Captain America was battling an Italian Red Skull.\nBy the power of Gray Skull\nClint Barton/Hawkeye: Jeremy Renner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 6386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/03/05/blind-vets-warn-against-va-funding-guide-dogs.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2GSEXENCS42DHF6BZB5TWEFRZFZA4TWB", "length": 4257, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.military.com", "title": "Blind Vets Warn Against VA Funding Guide Dogs | Military.com", "raw_content": "Blind Vets Warn Against VA Funding Guide Dogs\nThe Seeing Eye orgnization of New Jersey has provided blind veterans with guide dogs at no cost for more than 60 years. Photo courtesy of The Seeing Eye.\nThe Blind Veterans Association is warning lawmakers against passing legislation \u2013 already sidetracked at least twice \u2013 to have the Department of Veterans Affairs cover costs of getting guide dogs for blind vets.\nBVA officials say that lawmakers have been pressed for three years to provide millions of dollars annually to ensure that blind veterans who want a dog \u2013 whose costs have been put at $35,000 \u2013 can afford one.\nHowever, the dogs have been paid for by non-profit organization like the The Seeing Eye in New Jersey since the 1960s. BVA officials fear that requiring the VA to pay for a dog will open up the entire system to abuse and fraud.\n\u201cFor 67 years, BVA has worked with both VA and the original guide dog training programs to ensure that any blinded veteran who wishes to have a guide dog can obtain one for free,\u201d Sam Huhn, national president of the BVA, told a joint meeting of the Senate and House Veterans Affairs committees recently. \u201cFor decades, hundreds of blinded veterans have received guide dogs from a handful of well-known programs that never charged a veteran to receive a guide dog.\u201d\nHuhn said Congress needs to be wary of funding an unnecessary guide-dog program, \u201cfor the protection of disabled veterans, the strong potential risk of fraud, misleading advertising, and VA liability for large future expenditures.\u201d\nAbout three years ago, lawmakers and the VA began hearing horror stories about blind vets not being able to afford guide dogs. News articles began appearing in which families and organizations associated with Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans said they were unable to pay the huge costs for service or therapy dogs, Huhn said.\nThe veterans and advocates began inquiring about the possibility of the VA providing a dog to any disabled veteran with a physical or mental health condition. Since then Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., successfully got through a bill to fund a study of service dogs for vets with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries.\nAs part of the study, the VA would cover the costs of getting a dog for the veterans.\nDemands have grown since the Franken legislation for expansion of the benefit for the VA to cover the costs of service dogs, guide dogs, and therapy dogs, according to Huhn. He said training centers around the country are now saying they can provide such dogs at about $35,000 each.\nTom Zampieri, director of government relations for BVA, said he convinced Rep. Mark Amodie, R-Nev., from filing a bill to have the VA pay out millions for the animals.\nIt was not his first intervention. In 2011, he said, former Sen. John Kerry was going to do the same thing. Kerry had recently met with a blind vet who told the former senator and current Secretary of State how much he needed the dog but was not able to afford it.\nZampieri asked Kerry if the veteran had any other representative with him. Kerry answered that the vet was accompanied by a representative from a dog-training center. \u201cYeah, of course,\u201d Zampieri said, explaining that the training center stood to get about $35,000 from the VA for each dog it trained if Kerry\u2019s planned bill was passed.\nZampieri said that Congress appears unaware that the private sector has not established the standards, licensure and dog-trainer certification regulations nationwide. Only California has laws governing licensing, he said.\nThe International Association of Assistance Dog Partners spells out service animal standards, but there are no statutory standards, he said.\nIn fact, according to Huhn\u2019s testimony before Congress, only nine service dog programs voluntarily follow IAADP standards, while 86 programs do not.\n\u201cSome service dogs are being trained in six weeks while the well-established guide dog programs have averaged well over 120 hours of training over a nine-month period,\u201d Huhn testified. \u201cWe strongly caution [Congress] to reassess this situation for the protection of disabled veterans, the strong potential risk of fraud, misleading advertising, and VA liability for large future expenditures.\nPhoto courtesy of The Seeing Eye.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 327, "original_length": 11643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.milkbusiness.com/article/global-dairy-prices-soften-again", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:55Z", "digest": "sha1:H5PA4Q46N6EGQG7RUJQDHPL5ELN2ENUI", "length": 609, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.milkbusiness.com", "title": "Global Dairy Prices Soften\u2014Again | Farm Journal's MILK Business", "raw_content": "Global Dairy Prices Soften\u2014Again\nFor the second consecutive trading session, dairy prices on the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction softened. Today, prices were down 1.2% in the aggregate on a very modest trading volume of 21,634 metric tons.\nButter was the only bright spot, up 0.8% to $2.55/lb. But cheese dipped 3.6% to $1.75/lb. Skim milk powder was down 1.1% to 91\u00a2/lb, and whole milk powder was down 1% to $1.45/lb.\nU.S. dairy prices, with the exception of whole milk powder, remain competitive on the global stage. That is, of course, if you don\u2019t factor in tariffs U.S. exports face in Mexico and China.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.milngavieherald.co.uk/lifestyle/cycling-to-work-may-reduce-risk-of-premature-death-1-4422071", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:36Z", "digest": "sha1:J447JCQISNUI6IEW5ST63OIIIAPFZ2BW", "length": 2608, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.milngavieherald.co.uk", "title": "Cycling to work may reduce risk of premature death - Milngavie Herald", "raw_content": "Cycling to work may reduce risk of premature death\nUsing your bike to get to work could cut your risk of developing cancer and heart disease by almost half, according to new research by the University of Glasgow.\nPublished today in the BMJ, the study has found that cycling to work is associated with a 45 per cent lower risk of developing cancer and a 46 per cent lower risk of heart disease, compared to a non-active commute.\nOverall the study found that commuters who cycled were associated with a 41 per cent lower risk of premature death.\nWalking to work was associated with 27 per cent lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease and a 36 per cent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, but not cancer or premature death overall.\nThis study analysed data from 264,337 participants from UK Biobank who were asked questions about their usual mode of commuting to work and then followed up for five years. The new cases of cancer, heart attacks and deaths in that five-year period were assessed and related to their mode of commuting.\nDr Jason Gill, from the Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, said: \u201cCycling all or part of the way to work was associated with substantially lower risk of adverse health outcomes. Those who cycled the full length of their commute had an over 40 per cent lower risk of heart disease, cancer and overall mortality over the five years of follow-up.\n\u201cIf these associations are causal, these findings suggest that policies designed to make it easier for people to commute by bike, such as cycle lanes, city bike hire, subsidised cycle purchase schemes and increasing provision for cycles on public transport may present major opportunities for public health improvement.\u201d\nThe greater benefits seen with cycling compared with walking may be because cycle commuters covered longer distances in their commutes than the walkers, the intensity of cycling is higher than walking and the cycle commuters had higher levels of fitness.\nDr Carlos Celis-Morales, said: \u201cWalking to work was associated with lower risk of heart disease, but unlike cycling was not associated with a significantly lower risk of cancer or overall death. This may be because walkers commuted shorter distances than cyclists \u2013 typically six miles per week, compared with 30 miles per week \u2013 and walking is generally a lower intensity of exercise than cycling.\u201d\nThe paper, \u201cAssociation between active commuting (walking and cycling) and incident cardiovascular disease, cancer and mortality: Prospective cohort study of 264,337 UK Biobank participants\u201d is published today in the BMJ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.minted.com/wedding-ideas/wedding-reception-timeline", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WZE5P6BFWNK7QR6GSVZL7PEGXFJTOFT3", "length": 4133, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.minted.com", "title": "Traditional Wedding Reception Timeline | Minted", "raw_content": "While most wedding receptions include the same flow of festivities, the order of these moments might vary depending on the couple\u2019s preferences. Below are some suggestions for how much time to allot for each event, as well as a general order of things to help you plan the perfect wedding reception timeline.\nDepending on the logistics of your wedding reception, cocktail hour typically begins immediately following the ceremony (if the ceremony and reception are held at the same venue), or about 30 minutes later (if there\u2019s travel involved). Cocktail hour is the kickoff to the reception and should last at least an hour. During this time, the bar will be open so guests can queue up for a drink; the catering staff will typically also serve hors d\u2019oeuvres, as well as passed drinks, to get guests mingling and in a celebratory mood. This is also a great opportunity to sneak out with your photographer for sunset photos.\nFollowing cocktail hour, guests are invited to take their seats for dinner in the main dining room.\nOnce everyone has found their seats, the newlyweds are formally introduced to wedding guests, often to a lot of cheering and fanfare. Some couple\u2019s opt to precede their reception grand entrance with an introduction of wedding party members.\nKeep the energy high by transitioning straight into your first dance with your bride or groom. You can certainly choose tdo dance for a full song, or ask your band or DJ to fade out about two minutes in. Also, if you think your crowd will be itching to get on the dance floor, you can also schedule a dance set consisting of three to five songs after the first dance to get the party started before dinner.\nWelcome Toasts\nFollowing your first dance, you and your new spouse might want to take the opportunity\u2014while all eyes are still on you\u2014to thank everyone for attending the celebration. A family member, often the parents or a family member of the couple, typically also offers a wedding reception welcome toast, thanking guests and inviting everyone to enjoy the meal.\nTypically dinner will last about 45 minutes, depending on the meal-service style you choose for your reception (buffet, family-style, traditional three-course dinner, etc.).\nWedding Party Toasts\nIn between meal courses, wedding-party members are usually invited to say a few words\u2014namely, the maid-of-honor and best man. This way, you\u2019re spreading out the emotional, much-anticipated moments throughout the meal, which will help keep guests engaged. Encourage toasters to keep their speeches within two to four minutes.\nIf you\u2019re doing father-daughter and mother-son dances, then we recommend doing them after the toasts, and then transition to open dancing. Following the last parent dance, ask your band or DJ to switch to a high-energy song to get guests out of their seats and onto the dance floor.\nAfter the parent dances have wrapped up, next up in the wedding reception timeline are the bouquet and garter tosses. However, it\u2019s becoming increasingly common to skip these traditions, so if the bouquet and garter tosses aren\u2019t quite your style, don\u2019t feel compelled to include them in your reception schedule.\nAbout one hour before the conclusion of the reception, the catering staff should start preparing tables for dessert and coffee. Since the wedding cake cutting generally signals to guests that it's okay to leave soon thereafter, don't schedule it too early or things could start wrapping up before you're ready. This is also a good time for the couple to say a few words and thank guests for coming, if they have not already done so.\nNext, it\u2019s back to open dancing until the last song, which should be scheduled five minutes before the conclusion of the reception.\nIf you\u2019re planning to depart from the reception in high style, schedule a grand exit as your final farewell. Some couples depart amid a sparkler send-off, while others opt for celebratory bells for guests to ring or noisemakers. Grab each other\u2019s hand and make a dash for your waiting getaway car amid the cheers and well wishes.\nThe order of the ceremony, the timing, when to walk, and where to stand.\tRead more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 8327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.minutesmagazine.com/nicolascole77/the-process-of-personal-growth-7-questions-you-should-ask-yourself/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:21Z", "digest": "sha1:PGG3QFFFXHACNUU3W6BFU2YQRS7BGXDZ", "length": 4375, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.minutesmagazine.com", "title": "The Process Of Personal Growth: 7 Questions You Should Ask Yourself \u2013 Minutes - Tech, Business, Money, People, Leadership", "raw_content": "If you want to improve, you have to ask yourself the right questions.\nSelf-reflection is the key to all personal development. People tend to think it\u2019s about reading the right self-help book, or attending a Tony Robbins seminar, but the truth is, personal development can happen in any moment, anytime, anywhere.\nAll you have to do is ask yourself the right questions, to get to the root of what\u2019s holding you back.\nAs 2017 starts to come to an end, self-reflection is top-of-mind for me. I like to take the last two months of every year to really look back and audit how things went, what worked well, what didn\u2019t\u2013and most importantly, what I need to improve upon next in order to continue growing.\nHere are some of the questions I like to ask myself at the end of every year, and questions I\u2019d suggest as prompts to get you thinking about how you can continue to improve as well:\n1. \u201cWhat was I doing a year ago?\u201d\nA fun exercise that always helps keep things in perspective is to question what you were doing a year ago.\nA year ago, I was still living in Chicago. I had just left my 9-5 job and was very unsure of my future. Today, I live in Los Angeles and spend my days working with incredibly intelligent CEOs and highly successful serial entrepreneurs through my agency, Digital Press.\nLooking back a single year reminds me that I have so much to be thankful for.\n2. \u201cDo I enjoy how I\u2019m spending my time?\u201d\nIf you\u2019re not enjoying your day to day, no amount of money or external rewards will make you feel more fulfilled.\nAs the year comes to a close, question what really makes you feel alive and what feels like a burden. Then, question how you can remove those burdens in the months to come.\n3. \u201cWho do I spend the most time with?\u201d\nI am such a firm believer that you are a direct reflection of the 5 people you spend the most time with.\nAsk yourself if you\u2019re spending time with true friends, people who enrich your life, or casual friends, people always asking for more and giving you less.\nYour friends should be people who inspire you to become a better version of yourself.\n4. \u201cHow is my money being spent?\u201d\nI see money as fuel. It\u2019s what powers your airplane and allows you to do the things you want to do in life.\nA lot of people forget that there are two ways to make more money. One is to work harder and earn more. The other is to spend less. (Consumerism tends to encourage us against the latter.)\nDo a quick audit of your spending habits, and see if you can get some of those impulse purchases under control.\n5. \u201cWhat do I want to learn next?\u201d\nI find most people reach a plateau as soon as they stop being curious, and instead fixate on doing things purely for financial gain\u2013or the approval of others.\nBut curiosity never leads you astray.\nAsk yourself what you want to learn next, what will make you grow beyond wherever you\u2019re at currently, and then make decisions that allow you to nurture that curiosity.\nIt will only lead to good things.\n6. \u201cHow are my 5 buckets being filled?\u201d\nEach of us has 5 buckets which we fill with our time.Career:Fulfillment:Community:Personal health:Intimate relationships:\nIt\u2019s worth taking time to question (on a regular basis) how each of these 5 buckets are being filled. Sometimes, you\u2019ll find you are spending far too much time being social and too little time working toward a project or a goal. Or sometimes, you\u2019ll find you haven\u2019t spoken to your family in months because you\u2019ve been so busy.\nAudit how your time is being spent, so that you can keep those 5 buckets as balanced as possible.\n7. \u201cHow can I be more helpful\u2013to those around me, and to myself?\u201d\nIt\u2019s taken me a long time to learn that if you can\u2019t spend all your time trying to make everyone around you happy.\nYou have to prioritize keeping yourself happy too.\nWhich is why it\u2019s worth questioning both, simultaneously.\nWhat can you do to be more helpful to those around you? How can you be more encouraging, more patient? And at the same time, how can you do those same things toward yourself?\nPersonal development is an ongoing practice. It\u2019s not a destination. It\u2019s not something you do once and then you\u2019re a \u201cperfect person\u201d for the rest of your life.\nPersonal development is your ability to continuously ask yourself these questions on a daily basis, and slowly improve over time.\nLike water over rocks, who you are is sculpted over years and years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.minutesmagazine.com/staff/how-to-build-a-brand-online-in-2019-5-digital-marketing-strategies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CKCGROUCBWRHPLGDBVNWCXRBPKP5AVSY", "length": 7038, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.minutesmagazine.com", "title": "How To Build A Brand Online In 2019: 5 Digital Marketing Strategies \u2013 Minutes - Tech, Business, Money, People, Leadership", "raw_content": "Building a brand online is both an art and a science.\nOn the one hand, what makes a \u201cbrand\u201d is such a subjective question. Some brands are built entirely on look, feel, design, positioning and hype (luxury brands come to mind here). Other brands don\u2019t have any of these things, are borderline \u201cunprofessional\u201d (by many people\u2019s standards), and yet attract tens of millions of viewers, or build an incredibly loyal customer base purely from the quality and usefulness of their product or service.\nAdd the forever-changing variable of \u201cThe Internet\u201d into the equation, and building a brand online is definitely not a straight path. What works for one brand, won\u2019t work for the next. And in order to remain relevant over the long term, you have to constantly be looking for ways to evolve.\nAll that said, here are 5 digital marketing strategies just about any brand can use to increase exposure, attract customers, and build a loyal fan base.\n1. Don\u2019t get married to any one platform.\nRemember what \u201csocial media\u201d consisted of 10 years ago? Facebook was just starting to gain real traction. Myspace was still considered popular. No one knew the purpose of Twitter. It wasn\u2019t cool to \u201cvlog\u201d on YouTube yet. And the term \u201cinfluencer\u201d didn\u2019t even exist.\nOne of the hardest parts about building a brand online is accepting the fact that what works today, won\u2019t necessarily work tomorrow. And worse, you might spend years investing in building your presence on a social platform, only for that platform to one day become irrelevant (or die altogether).\nThis is what makes \u201cdigital marketing\u201d such a science. It\u2019s a never-ending process of testing, pivoting, and never allowing yourself to become too reliant on any one platform, website, or method.\nSo, don\u2019t allow yourself to get too attached to a certain tactic in the first place. The moment it stops working, throw caution to the wind and look for a new solution.\n2. Be prepared to use today\u2019s growth hacks to your advantage.\nOne of the most difficult truths for people to accept about the Internet is that there are very few formal \u201crules.\u201d\nWhen it comes to building a brand online, you have to understand that you are competing with some serious digital marketers who will do whatever it takes in order to succeed. Twitter bots. Instagram engagement groups. Salesy YouTube \u201cvlog-style\u201d ads. Gimmicky Facebook ads. Clickbait headlines. Buying email lists. The list goes on and on.\nWhile it\u2019s your choice where you want to draw the line, it\u2019s important that anyone looking to build a brand online educates themselves on how the Internet actually works (not how you think it works, or how you wish it would work). And part of that education process means knowing all the different ways gain exposure, sell products, acquire email addresses, build funnels, buy traffic, etc.\nOnce you know all these different brand building methods exist, it helps put things in perspective. When you see a new brand in your space appear out of nowhere, and instantly have hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, don\u2019t get discouraged. Chances are, they\u2019re hacking the game, just like everyone else.\n3. Invest heavily in the 1-2 methods that drive the most results for your brand.\nSo many companies get caught in the vicious cycle of \u201ctrying to be everywhere at once.\u201d\nThis is a poor strategy.\nIn a lot of cases, it\u2019s not really necessary for you to have a social presence on every single platform, or for you to invest money into certain tactics that don\u2019t work very well for your type of business. For example, let\u2019s say you\u2019re a product company, and you know for every $35 you spend on advertising, you make $35 + $10 profit. Great, then Facebook ads and mastering that method would be in your best interest\u2014instead of spending hours and hours trying to grow your Twitter following.\nUnless you\u2019re a Fortune 500 company with a massive advertising budget, it\u2019s actually far more effective to invest in a small handful of initiatives that have been proven to work for your business. So, stop trying to be on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn all at the same time. Nobody is sitting at home, checking to make sure you\u2019re on every platform possible. Instead, double-down on the ones you know are worth the investment for your target audience, and ditch the rest.\n4. If you can\u2019t measure it, don\u2019t do it.\nOne of the greatest advantages the Internet has provided businesses is the ability to measure things in terms of data.\nSimilar to the above, one of the biggest mistakes companies make when it comes to their own marketing initiatives is they pour money into efforts that have no real \u201cmeasure for success.\u201d For example, why do you want 100,000 followers on Instagram? Is it because achieving that goal will help position your company as an authority in the space? Is it for brand positioning? Is it because you believe 5% of those followers will convert into monthly paying customers?\nSetting arbitrary goals without firmly defining how those goals are going to move your brand to the next level is a waste of time, money, and resources. So, before you start holding weekly meetings to recap social media performance, you should question whether those initiatives are truly going to move the needle for your business in the first place.\n5. Consistency is more important than anything else.\nThe Internet moves fast.\nAt any single moment, there is such an unfathomable amount of content for people to pay attention to, that brands have to remember the one thing that\u2019s going to make a difference over the long term.\nAnd that\u2019s consistency.\nSee, when brands build their entire marketing strategies around big marketing pushes, well-timed PR campaigns, or \u201cgoing viral,\u201d they don\u2019t realize that they\u2019re playing a short-sighted game. Sure, that might work well for a period of time, but then what? All that money you spent getting everyone\u2019s attention for a few weeks now has no real lasting value. You didn\u2019t invest it into anything\u2014you spent it.\nBut brands need to remember that every single person that spends time online pays attention to something very particular, which is how long you\u2019ve been doing whatever it is you\u2019re doing. For example: if you see an intriguing photo on Instagram\u2019s explore page, but that profile has only posted three photos total, what is your immediate assumption?\nYou, as the user, assume that page isn\u2019t credible.\nYou assume that page is a \u201cspam\u201d page.\nYou assume that page won\u2019t be there tomorrow.\nHowever, if you come across a photo, a video, or an article by a brand that has been creating great content for years, then your reaction is the total opposite. You assume that brand is extremely credible. You assume they\u2019re a leader in their space, since they\u2019ve been at it for so long. You inherently think higher of them, simply because they\u2019ve been consistent (because it\u2019s not easy to do).\nSo, when you\u2019re creating your marketing budget, don\u2019t just ask what initiatives you can execute\u2014ask what initiatives you can execute consistently.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 8996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.missioncityrecord.com/obituaries/daniel-marshall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:01Z", "digest": "sha1:7EXJLMF2HEU25E5JXM5ZDOUMYY3WR2SA", "length": 685, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.missioncityrecord.com", "title": "Daniel MARSHALL \u2013 Mission City Record", "raw_content": "August 4, 1956 ~ October 16, 2010\nGod needed another angel in Heaven when he took you so young. Survived by his wife of 34 years, Barb; daughters, Cathy (Rob) and Jen; his pride and joy, granddaughter, Elisa; his parents Marieta and Ken and his lifetime buddy, brother Vern (Margaret) as well as many extended family members and friends. Dan was a wonderful husband & father and worked hard as a mechanic to provide for his family. A memorial service for Dan will be held at Woodlawn Mission Funeral Home on Monday, October 25, 2010 at 2:00 p.m.\nMay you rest in peace my son, you will always be with us. Condolences and memories may be left for the family at www.woodlawnfh-mission.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 3625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.missourinet.com/2017/08/18/u-s-senators-differ-on-how-to-get-high-speed-internet-to-rural-missouri/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2BUZHCU4IDE2CELN53SWZ6CYIVCAYVK2", "length": 3725, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.missourinet.com", "title": "U.S. Senators differ on how to get high speed internet to rural Missouri - Missourinet", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Business / U.S. Senators differ on how to get high speed internet to rural Missouri\nU.S. Senators differ on how to get high speed internet to rural Missouri\nMore than 60 percent of Missourians do not have access to high-speed broadband internet. The majority of them live in rural areas.\nMissouri\u2019s two Senators are offering different approaches to bringing increased broadband access to those communities.\nBoth Republican Roy Blunt and Democrat Claire McCaskill addressed the issue Thursday at the State Fair in Sedalia. Blunt favors repealing net neutrality as a part of the solution.\nNet neutrality is a concept adopted under the Obama administration in which Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all data it transmits equally. The providers are not currently allowed to discriminate or charge different fees for access to high speed delivery.\nThe idea to do away with net neutrality has been championed by new Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai, an appointee under the Trump administration. The plan would let ISPs charge content providers such as Netflix to deliver data to customers through an \u201cinternet fast lane\u201d.\nRepublican Senator Roy Blunt addresses gathering at Missouri State Fair\nBlunt contends the new revenue stream would encourage ISPs to build out broadband infrastructure into rural areas that are otherwise not profitable. \u201cThe more you open up the economic potential for the service that somebody is putting in, the more likely they are going to put the service in\u201d said Blunt.\nBroadband providers such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast contend that allowing them to profit through a tiered delivery of content will enable them to invest in infrastructure build out.\nThere\u2019s been a building unity among Missouri Republicans to support the elimination of net neutrality. Lieutenant Governor Mike Parson agrees with Blunt that loosening regulations on ISPs would give them motivation to build out broadband access.\n\u201cThat\u2019s going to allow us to have quicker access to those availabilities for the state of Missouri, rural Missouri, which has always been a problem\u201d said Parson during a recent interview with Missourinet.\nNet neutrality defenders contend it prevents broadband suppliers from blocking or discriminating against any content that rides over their networks.\nSenator Claire McCaskill (D-MO)\nDemocratic Senator Claire McCaskill agrees. She thinks net neutrality must be preserved in order to keep high speed access on a level playing field.\n\u201cI think there\u2019s other ways that we can find the resources to get internet access into rural areas without making the internet unfair\u201d McCaskill said.\nInternet companies in favor of keeping the rules in place include Netflix, Facebook and Twitter.\nMcCaskill favors a new program announced earlier this month by the FCC. It calls for the federal agency to begin an auction in 2018 that will provide nearly $2 billion over 10 years specifically to expand high-speed Internet access in rural areas.\nAccording to McCaskill, utility co-ops that serve a large swath of out-state Missouri would be empowered to provide broadband service. \u201cThis auction that\u2019s coming up is an opportunity for rural co-ops to access funds that would allow a build out of fiber broadband all across rural Missouri.\u201d\nBlunt says FCC Chairman Pai\u2019s plan to do away with net neutrality will complete the process of bringing high speed internet to rural areas. \u201cThere are two ways to look at this. I think the new chairman\u2019s way to look at this is much more likely to encourage rural broadband than the chairman that he replaced.\u201d\nBlunt and McCaskill made their comments while appearing at separate events the state fair in Sedalia Thursday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mlb.com/news/mat-latos-signs-with-white-sox/c-164035768", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:21Z", "digest": "sha1:FS3NGDJDBOD62AQUJL7BLQP6775LOP65", "length": 3818, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.mlb.com", "title": "Mat Latos signs with White Sox | MLB.com", "raw_content": "White Sox sign righty Latos to 1-year deal\nCHICAGO -- The White Sox strengthened the back end of their starting rotation by agreeing to a one-year, $3 million deal with right-hander Mat Latos, the club announced on Tuesday.\nIf the White Sox get the Latos who pitched from 2010-13 with the Padres and Reds, then they might have done more than just strengthen the fourth or fifth starter's spot. Latos posted a 51-35 record with a 3.27 ERA during that four-year-stretch, making at least 31 starts and pitching at least 184 innings in each of those four seasons.\n\"Mat adds another quality veteran arm to our rotation and also increases our overall pitching depth, which always is essential to having a successful season,\" said Rick Hahn, White Sox senior vice president/general manager. \"While we believe in the futures of several of our young starters, the chance to add a pitcher of Mat's caliber was too good of an opportunity for us to pass up. He has proven over his career that when healthy, he takes the baseball and logs quality innings.\"\nLatos has battled through elbow and left knee issues and was limited to 37 starts and 218 2/3 innings over his 2014 and '15 campaigns. Last season, Latos finished with a 4.95 ERA across 24 appearances (21 starts) for the Marlins, Dodgers and Angels. His two games for the Angels stand as his only career American League efforts.\nFor the years and money committed to Latos, though, he appears to be a low-risk, high-reward sort of choice. Chris Sale, Jose Quintana and Carlos Rodon provide a front three in the rotation that matches up well with most others in baseball. John Danks, in the finale of his five-year, $65 million deal, Erik Johnson and Jacob Turner were in the mix for the final two spots.\nDanks and Latos should round out the rotation, while Johnson figures to open the season at Triple-A Charlotte, barring something unforeseen. Turner, who was claimed off waivers from the Cubs, is out of options but could find a home in the bullpen.\nCarson Fulmer, who is the team's No. 2 prospect per MLB Pipeline.com behind shortstop Tim Anderson, quickly has become a frontline rotation candidate for the White Sox. But the team doesn't want to rush the eighth overall pick in the 2015 MLB Draft.\nChris Beck and Scott Carroll were the only other pitchers with Major League starting experience behind the front six, though Beck is working his way back from ulnar nerve transposition, where the nerve is repositioned.\nThe White Sox continue to look at free-agent outfielder Dexter Fowler and shortstop Ian Desmond, who would require Draft pick compensation if signed due to them rejecting the qualifying offers made by their previous teams. The White Sox certainly would not sign both, and if they agreed to terms with one, they would lose the current 28th pick obtained when Jeff Samardzija signed with the Giants. (The White Sox first pick, No. 10, is protected since it is in the top 10).\nWith a 3.51 ERA, a 1.18 WHIP and an 8.1 K/9 rate during his seven-year big league tenure, Latos has often been a valuable mixed-league contributor. True, the native Virginian is coming off a 4.95 ERA and a 1.31 WHIP in 2015. But because the right-hander did not experience a major decline with his K/BB ratio or his HR/9 rate, he is a reasonable bounce-back candidate in '16. Although the White Sox questionable defense and Latos' lack of experience against deep Junior Circuit lineups are reasons for concern, he deserves to be a late-round pick in deep mixed leagues.\nLatos' arrival in the Windy City will likely force either Danks or Johnson out of the rotation. Danks is unlikely to impact AL-only leagues, but Johnson would be worth a late-round selection in deep formats if he were to emerge with a role in Chicago's starting quintet.\nRead more: Chicago White Sox, Mat Latos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 362, "original_length": 10014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mobinuke.com/forumdisplay.php?1083-Galaxy-S3-(I9300)&s=1479d23af9923bb3a85997770aaed6a0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CYLBAWKQMPFIDF27TXJB2AIZHCNCEPJI", "length": 570, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.mobinuke.com", "title": "Galaxy S3 (I9300)", "raw_content": "The Galaxy S III is the successor to Samsung's best-selling Galaxy S II. It has a bigger, 4.8\" 720p display. 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He has worked for 4Kids Entertainment, NYAV Post and DuArt for properties that include the Yu-Gi-Oh!, Slayers, Marvel, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchises.\nJason is best known as Sonic and Shadow the Hedgehog, from the Sonic The Hedgehog video games series. He also voiced Sonic and Shadow in the anime Sonic X prior to his work in the games. Most fans initially disliked the voices he gave for the characters in the anime, as they did not fit with either character's personality.\nHe also did the voice of Usopp from 4Kids' English version of One Piece. Many people can tell it was Jason doing Usopp's voice, as it sounded just like Sonic, only crazier. Jet the Hawk, another Sonic character Jason voices, is portrayed in a similar fashion.\nJason is also credited asJ. Griff, DJ Tanner and Adam Caroleson, the latter being a combination of his middle name (Adam) and his mother's first name (Carol).\nContributed by Black_Rose (50) on Nov 02, 2007. 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Terry has a passion for clothes and records, and as you can see in the video, likes to dance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 202.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.momwithfive.com/2016/01/06/mission-not-impossible-keep-kids-entertained-winter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:BBI65HQTEG57ENYLURSJLQMKIU32IJJR", "length": 4655, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.momwithfive.com", "title": "Mission Not So Impossible: Keep Your Kids Entertained During Winter - Mom With Five", "raw_content": "How to keep your kids entertained during the winter? It\u2019s not as hard as you think it for the first time.\nAs I\u2019ve already mentioned, my favorite season was winter. But it\u2019s a hard time for me as a mom with five kids. Thanks to the chilly weather at this time we spent more time in our apartment than during in other seasons of the year. And I don\u2019t like when they just sit and play with their phones or tablets or just being bored. So what can I do, how can I keep my kids entertained during these days?\nThe fashion and style blogger, Sophia Smith from Brisbane in this guest post shows you the best winter\u2019s indoor activities for the whole family.\nWinter is the perfect time for indoor activities with children. Challenging games are the best solution because they will help a child develop his or her intellectual skills. Different games boost different abilities in a child, therefore it is paramount to include diverse games and activities during playtime.\nThe Perfect Games of Patience\nSome of the games that are recommended for children are Sudoku games, chess and puzzles. However, learning foreign languages is also highly beneficial for a child\u2019s development, alongside playing games that affect his or her concentration and develop their patience. Moreover, karaoke is a great way to have fun and end the day with laughter.\nPlaying Scrabble reinforces skills when words are spelled out and points counted. For children under the age of ten it is always recommended they are given a dictionary and a calculator to use. The game will be much more exciting, and just difficult enough for them.\nPutting together a scrapbook of the family\u2019s most recent photographs from a family vacation, or Christmas day would be a very good creative task for a child. This allows him or her to put their own personalized touch on the artwork. Scrapbooking stimulates a child\u2019s mind creatively and fine tunes motor skills.\nRolling a Ball\nIf a child is two or three years old, rolling a ball with him or her is the perfect game for teaching body awareness, gross motor skill and concentration. The ball should be of appropriate size for a toddler so that he or she can carry it with both hands.\nA parent can sit opposite a child, a couple of feet apart. Then, the ball should be rolled gently to the child and he or she should be encouraged to roll the ball back. As the child gets better, the distance between a child and a parent can be increased.\nPlaying Nesting Games\nNesting game can be the perfect alternative for puzzle games. A toddler is given the nesting toys or toys of different sizes that can fit inside each other. Furthermore, cups, or bowls of different sizes can also be used instead of toys. They can be made from cardboard boxes.\nThe point of the game is to show the child that toys can be fitted within each other. Afterwards, a parent can take the nested toys apart and encourage a child to nest the toys on their own. This game will teach a toddler how to differentiate sizes, and solve problems through logical reasoning.\nPaper puzzle is an amazing creative game. A parent can make shapes out of colored paper, alongside a board that contains drawings that fit the paper shapes. A child should match the cut-up shapes with the ones on the board.\nMoreover, a parent can get large, colorful and engaging pictures of some objects from magazines. Afterwards, pictures can be cut in four so that a child can put them back together again. A game can be more challenging if the picture is cut into more than 4 pieces. Moreover, it can be cut in irregular shapes, or cutouts from two pictures can be mixed as well.\nThe choices for entertaining the kids during the winter are numerous. All a parent has to do is be creative, and imaginative and the kids will be perfectly satisfied, and more importantly they will learn while playing.\nSophia Smith is a freelance writer from Brisbane, Australia with huge interest in beauty, fashion and healthy living. She could be described as beauty addict and life lover. She writes mostly in beauty related topics, mainly through blogs and articles. Sophia is regular contributor at High Style Life on topics related to beauty, fashion and lifestyle. Find her on: Facebook, Twitter, Google +\nTagged board_games, family, games, indoor, kids, winter\n3 Brain Training Exercises for School Age Children\nHow to Improve Indoor Air Quality for Kids with Asthma and Allergies\n2 thoughts on \u201cMission Not So Impossible: Keep Your Kids Entertained During Winter\u201d\nThese are all great ideas, especially since we have been cooped up the last few days especially! Thanks for these!\nHere, in Hungary, it is raining for 3 days too\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mongoosebodyworks.com/pilates-in-soho-body-conditioning-rehabilitation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:26Z", "digest": "sha1:MWOKZ2DKFF4KQU7VQYBIS4MOEZW452ZV", "length": 1605, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mongoosebodyworks.com", "title": "Pilates in SOHO - Pilates for bad backs in NYC - Rehabilitation Pilates 10012, 10002 | Mongoose Bodyworks", "raw_content": "We\u0092re faced with a wide variety of physical challenges in our daily lives. And our busy lives make it difficult for us to pay careful attention to the improvement of our fitness and health. 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Such a deliberate act ends life immediately through, for example, so-called assisted suicide. Ending a life in such a manner is a violation of the commandments of God.\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not believe that allowing a person to die from natural causes by removing a patient from artificial means of life support, as in the case of a long-term illness, falls within the definition of euthanasia. When dying from such an illness or an accident becomes inevitable, it should be seen as a blessing and a purposeful part of eternal existence. Members should not feel obligated to extend mortal life by means that are unreasonable. 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These fees then end up carrying with them their own interest rate, meaning that you will end up paying more than if you paid them at once, but it is more convenient and affordable for somebody who cannot afford a bulk payment at once.\nAdditionally, national mortgage rates fluctuate and change daily, meaning that lenders are also able to adjust their rates according to how the market is reacting. Usually lenders will be able to adjust rates as well depending on their needs and the needs of their customers. The higher the interest rate that a lender charges on a loan, the more money they make. If you are comparing various rates provided by a few different companies, you will be able to put them against each other and have them bid to lower their rates. The company that can offer you the lowest rate will usually be able to save you the most money on your loan. 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Construction-related jobs continue to be down 22.8 percent year-over-year, according to the Department of Labor.\nCrandall also notes that while occupancy is starting to climb back up, concessions throughout the metro remain prominent.\nAsking rents and effective rents declined 3.6 percent and 4.4 percent, respectively, this year, according to Marcus & Millichap\u2019s report. Class A asking rents, meanwhile, fell 2.9 percent per month year-over-year, while rents for lower-tier apartments dropped 5 percent.\nThe Siegel Group recently purchased Charlestonwood Apartments, a 232-unit community in Las Vegas, for $3.6 million. Originally built in the 1980s, the property was foreclosed upon over 15 months ago and suffers from deferred maintenance and occupancy issues; it is currently 65 percent occupied. The Siegel Group plans to renovate the property and reposition it to capitalize on and better serve the needs of Las Vegas\u2019 Hispanic community. The acquisition represents the company\u2019s lowest cost per unit purchase in Las Vegas.\nMarcus & Millichap reports median prices down 40 percent from the third quarter of 2009, to $37,800 per unit, with cap rates averaging in the mid- to high-8 percent range.\n\u201cWe\u2019re taking advantage of what\u2019s going on, and what\u2019s going on is a lot of opportunities,\u201d Crandall says. \u201cIf you\u2019re able to operate properties and not just speculate on them, we believe now is a great time to be in Las Vegas. 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Thankfully, there are processes you can learn to help you master this much-needed business skill.\nKeith Harwood is the director of Inspire Speakers, an agency that sources and manages professional speakers for corporate events. While Keith says he never really considered himself to be a negotiator, he does admit there is a lot of discussion around identifying the needs of his clients, working out who best meets that need and then matching them according to price.\nConverse, don't haggle\n\u201cIt\u2019s all about the clients initially and it\u2019s about finding the clients, getting the clients, getting the relationship and having that conversation about what it is they want,\u201d explains Keith.\n\u201cThe conversation might be, \u2018We\u2019ve got this business sermon next year and this is our audience. These are the problems they\u2019ve had in the last 12 months. This is who we\u2019ve had before and liked, loved. This is who we\u2019ve had before and not liked. And this is how much we have to spend\u2019. Once I get all of that information, it then gives me enough to go to the market and to go into my brain, and to do all the research and go, \u2018Okay, who\u2019s going to be perfect for this event?\u2019.\u201d\nFor Keith, negotiation is less about getting both sides to make compromises than about find the most mutually beneficial solution to any given problem.\nPrice is only one negotiating tool\nAnother tactic Keith employs is to look beyond the black and white of price to the additional benefits his clients can provide.\n\u201cIf [the speaker] wants the work and there\u2019s opportunity for more work with that client, they\u2019ll be more flexible. I\u2019ve got to pitch it to them. Likewise, if the speaker is not going to budge, but I sometimes know that they\u2019re the right person for the client\u2019s events, I\u2019ll need to pitch it back to the client,\u201d he says.\n\u201cI\u2019m pitching to them and saying, \u2018These guys have a lot of events. You know, there\u2019s potentially a lot of work. I\u2019ve seen it happen with other talent that they\u2019ve engaged before. This is the fee they have to work with,\u2019 and most of the time, they will [agree].\u201d\nLook to add value\n\u201cMy clients can go direct, they can do their own research. The internet was meant to end what I do,\u201d Keith says.\n\u201cThey can go to my competitors because there\u2019s maybe about, I don\u2019t know, 10 or 12 good companies that do what I do. They can sometimes decide not to do anything if it\u2019s an internal conference.\n\u201cI\u2019m in a position where I\u2019m a broker and I\u2019ve got to provide the value to the client.\u201d\nIn Keith\u2019s business, he says that value could mean engaging with speakers who might never have considered commonality with his client, looking at repeat bookings, negotiating better rates than the client could manage themselves, remove a lot of the grunt work in researching potential speakers and tapping into his professional network to identify new sources and rule out unsuitable ones.\n'How I beat bankruptcy to build a thriving business'\n\u2018We added scale by merging with a competitor\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 6545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myhprs.com/blog/news/permanent-makeup/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:36Z", "digest": "sha1:JWR234DRSK6XCNF6QKWF5XR6GEUKBEBT", "length": 2772, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.myhprs.com", "title": "Permanent Makeup?", "raw_content": "Home Blog NewsPermanent Makeup?\nPermanent Makeup \u2013 Gaining Popularity\nTattoos for makeup? It may not be as uncommon as you think. For the very small population of individuals who may not know what tattoos are, they are a form of body modification, which inserts ink into the skin in order to change the pigment. Tattoos are usually permanent but with recent advances with medicine they can be removed with a few medical procedures. With permanent makeup, individuals can have eyebrows, eyeliner, and even makeup tattooed on their face. There are other terms for these procedures which can include: permanent cosmetics, dermapigmentation, micropigmentation, and cosmetic tattooing.\nSome people are really happy with their results. They can roll out of bed and don\u2019t have to apply makeup and they\u2019re ready to conquer the day. It has been even applied to burn victims and cancer survivors, and individuals who have difficulty putting on makeup. However, some patients do have side effects which can include: granulomas, keloids, scars, and blisters. The permanent makeup applications also fade with time so some patients may need to have repeat procedures.\nIn addition to this, even though the pigments are under the scrutiny of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), the practitioners are usually not. The regulations for them vary from state to state. In some states a cosmetology or esthetics license is required while in other areas cosmetologists are barred from performing these procedures. These machines can be purchased on ebay and someone can just set up shop in a home office or their garage. These are extremely unregulated and it is important that individuals seeking these procedures go to a certified practitioner. In this case you get what you pay for is very true. Many people\u2019s faces are simply getting destroyed because the people performing these procedures aren\u2019t trained properly.\nSince these individuals are not trained, many patients end up with more than they bargained for. These can include infections such as: HIV, hepatitis, staph and strep from dirty needles. A lot of these infections come from practitioners using tap water instead of properly sterilized cleaning solutions. They dip their needles in and then transfer the infections from one patient to another.\nIf you are truly interested in these procedures then you should make sure to do your research beforehand. Some things to consider: how many procedures the practitioner you are going to see has performed, their testimonials, what facilities they have, if they are board certified, etc. Ultimately there could still be side effects even if all their credentials check out. It is best to consult your primary care physician and other professionals before undergoing these procedures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 449, "original_length": 11285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/nonsurgical-treatment-obstructive-sleep-apnea-syndrome-66308489?search=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:15Z", "digest": "sha1:KD3Y33DG6GI4ZDI764E4ZFBB72GOT7ZM", "length": 1952, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.mysciencework.com", "title": "Non-surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. -...", "raw_content": "Non-surgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.\nTingting, Xu1\nDanming, You1\nXin, Chen2\n1 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 253 Gongye Road, Guangzhou, 510282, People's Republic of China. , (China)\n2 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, 253 Gongye Road, Guangzhou, 510282, People's Republic of China. [email protected] , (China)\nObstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), a pervasive disease, is closely associated with complications such as cardiovascular diseases, neurocognitive diseases, and metabolic syndromes. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the standard treatment for OSAS, with low compliance due to multifarious factors. The two other modes of ventilation, bi-level positive airway pressure (BPAP) and autotitrating positive airway pressure (APAP), which were developed from CPAP, are slightly different from CPAP in specific groups, as well as the corresponding treatment effect and compliance. The compliance of traditional positional therapy is not high, but with the emergence of the neck-based position treatment device, its compliance and indications have changed. Although CPAP is superior to mandibular advancement device (MAD) in improving AHI, MAD seems to be comparable to CPAP in improving other indicators. Corticosteroids and leukotriene receptor antagonists are effective treatments for mild OSAS children. Whether corticosteroids can be used in other OSAS groups and their adjunctive functions to CPAP remains unclear. The combination of these two kinds of drugs appears to be more effective than single drug. Researches on transcutaneous electrical stimulation are still not enough. Its effectiveness and stimulation settings still need further study. This review summarized the various OSAS non-surgical treatments from indications, treatment outcomes, compliance, adverse reactions, and recent progress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nag.co.za/2012/08/21/here-are-three-new-gta-v-screens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2TQITTMGPNU36EZKJ377KHVSGYYFADEY", "length": 887, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.nag.co.za", "title": "Here are three new GTA V screens > NAG", "raw_content": "Here are three new GTA V screens\nNic Simmonds\u00b7 21 August 2012\nRockstar has released three brand new Grand Theft Auto V screenshots, and boy are they tantalising. The theme behind the screen-tease is \u201cTransport\u201d, and contained therein are shots of three very distinct ways of getting around\u2026\nThe first screen harks back to one of mankind\u2019s oldest vehicles: the humble bicycle, in this case speeding across what appears to be a beach.\nThe next shot is of a rather sporty looking automobile, with the word \u201cCheetah\u201d emblazoned across its rear. I\u2019ll be honest, I don\u2019t know much about cars, so I have no idea what vehicle I\u2019m looking at here, but it\u2019s shiny and probably significant.\nThe final shot is easily the most exciting, and shows off a jet.\nGTA V is currently in development at Rockstar North headquarters, and we have no idea when it will be released.\nAction AdventureRockstar Games", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/12395/Trump_Administration_Formally_Ends_DAPA_But_Says_DACA_Is_Here_to_Stay", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5UMVRQMDKKGQO77PRAMMKLWBZMBCZ65D", "length": 4967, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.nasfaa.org", "title": "NASFAA | Trump Administration Formally Ends DAPA, But Says DACA Is Here to Stay For Now", "raw_content": "Home Trump Administration Formally Ends DAPA, But Says DACA Is Here to Stay For Now\nTrump Administration Formally Ends DAPA, But Says DACA Is Here to Stay For Now\nThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) late Thursday night announced it would formally put an end to the Obama-era program intended to protect the undocumented parents of citizens or legal residents from deportation. But DHS said in the same memo \u2013 in a reversal of President Donald Trump\u2019s previous claims on the campaign trail \u2013 that it will continue the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.\nThe federal agency announced it would end the parent-focused program, formally known as Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA), while advocates were celebrating the fifth anniversary of DACA, and calling for more comprehensive immigration reform. While DACA has been available to some undocumented immigrants for several years, the DAPA program never took effect \u2013 it was blocked by a federal appeals court, and the Supreme Court came to a 4-4 split decision on a challenge to that ruling.\nFormer President Barack Obama took executive action in 2012 to create DACA, which allows certain undocumented immigrants to receive renewable two-year work permits and exemption from deportation, so long as they entered the United States before their 16th birthday, and before June 2007. While the program confers non-immigrant legal status, it does not provide a path to citizenship. The program was expanded in 2014 to include undocumented immigrants who entered the country before 2010, eliminate the requirement that applicants be younger than 31 years old, and lengthen the renewable deferral period to two years.\n\u201cDACA recipients who were issued three-year extensions before the district court\u2019s injunction will not be affected, and will be eligible to seek a two-year extension upon their expiration,\u201d according to guidance from DHS. \u201cNo work permits will be terminated prior to their current expiration dates.\u201d\nFor individuals with DACA status, particularly the so-called \u201cDREAMers\u201d who remained in the country to attend college, not much will change moving forward in the short term.\n\u201cIt\u2019s just restating the status quo,\u201d said Angela Adams, managing attorney/owner at Adams Immigration Law, LLC, in Carmel, IN. \u201cI think it's more of a reassurance that nothing bad will happen and the program will remain intact.\u201d\nLeading up to and in the weeks following Trump\u2019s inauguration, it was extremely unclear as to whether the administration would keep the program in place. While Trump had a strong stance on immigration policy during the presidential campaign \u2013 and at one point vowed to \u201cimmediately terminate\u201d DACA \u2013 he has since softened his tone as it relates to those with DACA status.\nAlthough the program remains in place for now, some administration officials signaled said this might not be the final decision.\n\u201cThere has been no final determination made about the DACA program, which the president has stressed needs to be handled with compassion and with heart,\u201d said Jonathan Hoffman, Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for public affairs, in a statement, according to The Wall Street Journal.\nRep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM), chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, expressed that concern in a statement, saying that while DACA remains in place for now, the administration\u2019s \u201cenforcement actions and policy decisions continue to create fear and anxiety in immigrant communities.\u201d\n\u201cTheir announcement to keep DACA, while revoking DAPA and deporting family members is deceitful and is another effort to keep immigrant families feeling uncomfortable about their place in America,\u201d she said. \u201cInstead of deporting as many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants as possible and breaking apart millions of families, we should change the law to deal fairly with those people who are here now with longstanding ties to our country.\u201d\nThat lingering uncertainty means advocates will likely press for a more lasting change, as DACA recipients still can face many hurdles, particularly related to paying for and attending college. Currently students with DACA status are ineligible to receive federal financial aid for college. However, 20 states offer in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, and another five states offer state financial aid to undocumented immigrants.\nFollowing Thursday's guidance, a DHS spokesperson on Friday evening issued a statement explaining that it \"should not be interpreted as bearing any relevance on the long-term future of that program\" and was only intended to clarify that DACA would not be canceled immediately.\n\u201cIt underscores the need for Congress to do something that has some meaningful, permanent solution for these kids,\u201d Adams said. \u201cDACA isn\u2019t a path to citizenship, or permanent residency, so they\u2019re still in limbo.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 9130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventure-blog/2015/05/11/closing-the-adventure-gap-bringing-diversity-to-mountain-climbing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHPFYVQRDT4R3VVXMDL37USOK7TXCB2O", "length": 2409, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nationalgeographic.com", "title": "Closing the \u2018Adventure Gap\u2019: Bringing Diversity to Mountain Climbing", "raw_content": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventure-blog/2015/05/11/closing-the-adventure-gap-bringing-diversity-to-mountain-climbing.html\nClosing the \u2018Adventure Gap\u2019: Bringing Diversity to Mountain Climbing\nDespite an enduring legacy of environmental stewardship and exploration throughout the history of the United States, African-Americans comprise only a small percentage of people who routinely spend time in nature. Low rates of participation among people of color in adventure sports such as backpacking, rock climbing, downhill skiing, and mountaineering suggest troubling prospects for the future. Very few blacks join environmental protection groups such as the Sierra Club or the Wilderness Society. And an even smaller number can be counted among the corps of professionals in careers dedicated to the preservation and conservation of nature, including national park rangers, foresters, or environmental scientists.\nIt\u2019s estimated that by 2042, the majority of U.S. citizens will be non-white. Which begs the question: What happens when a majority of the population has neither an affinity for, nor a relationship with the natural world? At the very least, it becomes less likely that future generations will support legislation or advocate for federal funding to protect wild places, or seek out job prospects that aim to protect it.\nThe purpose of Expedition Denali\u2014and by extension this film, An American Ascent\u2014is to demonstrate real life examples of people of color, who venture into the natural world for the sole purpose of adventure. Because everyone\u2014regardless of their race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic status\u2014should have the opportunity to experience and thrill in nature if they are so inclined.\nThe historic climb that took place in the summer of 2013 stands not as a grand gesture of personal achievement, but rather a sincere expression of welcome to those who dare follow. This team of black climbers made their ascent of Denali to extend an invitation, particularly to minority youth, to experience true freedom, to get outside and explore the divide between mediocrity and excellence. That boundary between the many who play it safe and the few who push beyond their limitations to achieve great things in the natural world is the adventure gap that people must cross to fulfill their dreams.\n~ James Edward Mills author of The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 3992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalwriterssyndicate.com/looking-toward-november/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2FKKMXAYCCEIFQ54MQATOM2JYOAR5REA", "length": 10321, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "www.nationalwriterssyndicate.com", "title": "Looking Toward November - National Writers Syndicate", "raw_content": "Home / UWRITE NOW / Looking Toward November\nBy phollrah on June 17, 2012\nThey wrote, \u201cBarack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite\nopinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment.\nAnd it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November\u2019s\nelections.\u201d We all know how that worked out for him.\nTime went on to say, \u201cWith the exception of core Obama Administration loyalists, most politically engaged elites have reached the same conclusions: the White House is in over its head, isolated, insular, arrogant and clueless about how to get along with or persuade members of Congress, the media, the business community or working-class voters. This view is held by Fox News pundits, executives and anchors at the major old-media outlets, reporters who cover the White House, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders and governors, many Democrat business people and lawyers who raised big money for Obama in 2008, and even some members of the Administration just beyond the inner circle.\u201d\nIt represented a grim assessment and his prospects haven\u2019t gotten any better in the last twenty months. In fact, it may not be too farfetched to describe Obama\u2019s remaining base as being made up of just three kinds of people: a) blacks, who will vote for him because of his skin color, b) those who are too dumb to know any better, and b) those who are so rich as to be completely out of touch with reality. Everyone else has pretty much concluded that he is in way over his head and is so hidebound by socialist ideology that he\u2019ll never do what needs to be done.\nHis recent war against the Catholic Church is evidence of his political ineptitude. Just as he has done with so many other groups, Obama has not only given Catholics no reason to vote for him, but plenty of motivation NOT to vote for him or anyone who supports him.\nIn the 2008 election, Roman Catholics voted for Obama by a margin of 54-46%. It was a principal underlying reason why he was elected. However, there is little chance that Catholics will be lining up to support him this year. A recent Pew poll shows that, prior to his war against religious freedom, he was leading by 9 points among Catholics.\nToday, that lead is gone and he trails by 5 points. Pick any state with a large Catholic population and put it in the Romney column.\nBut his loss of support among Jewish voters, a normally reliable Democratic constituency, is just as dramatic. According to a poll conducted by Siena College, his support among Jewish New Yorkers has fallen from 62% support, 32% oppose, a 32% margin during the month of May, to a current level of 51% support, 43% oppose, a margin of only 8%. If that trend continues,\nNew York\u2019s 31 electoral votes could easily end up in the Romney column.\nOverall, daily tracking polls indicate that Obama and Romney are running roughly neck and neck and that, if the election were held tomorrow, the election could go either way by a margin of one or two percentage points. Of course, there are two very important factors not considered in arriving at that assessment. It ignores the fact that: a) Respondents are known to lie to poll-takers, afraid that they may appear to be racists if they express their true feelings about Obama, and 2) History tells us that whatever percentage of respondents fall into the \u201cundecided\u201d category almost always end up voting for the challenger.\nIn other words, if polls show Obama leading Romney by 46% to 45%, we can be almost certain that at least 5% of those who express support for Obama are lying about it. A truer picture would have Romney leading by 4 points, 45-41%. And since history shows that essentially all of the undecided vote will go to the non-incumbent, the actual outcome of the election\u2026 if it were held tomorrow\u2026 would be in the neighborhood of 59% to 41%, Romney defeating Obama.\nThere is evidence that Obama\u2019s predicament is so dire that he and his handlers are bound to be losing a lot of sleep over it. For example, in the May 8\nWest Virginia primary, Obama received 59% of the vote while an inmate in a federal penitentiary in\nTexas, Keith Judd, received 41%. Two weeks later, on May 22, Obama was embarrassed once again when more than 40% of Democratic primary voters in\nArkansas and\nKentucky voted against him. In fact, Obama failed to win a majority in over half of\nKentucky\u2019s 120 counties.\nObama apologists will undoubtedly claim that these were mere anomalies, unique to just a few states. But that\u2019s not true. On\nMay 22, 2012, the Washington Post reported that a review of the 16 states in which voters have been given an alternative to Obama in a Democratic primary\u2026 whether an actual candidate, an \u201cuncommitted\u201d option, or a write-in\u2026 Obama has averaged 84.6% of the vote. While in the five states where there was an actual named opponent, Obama\u2019s share of the vote averaged only 72.7%. These results are from a study of only Democratic primary voters.\nThe Post reported that, \u201cIn a wholly non-competitive Democratic primary in\nNew Hampshire in January, a smattering of candidates took 18% of the Democratic primary vote, including 10% who chose to write in a candidate rather than vote for Obama.\u201d\nSimilarly, in\nNorth Carolina, a state Obama is counting on to help him win reelection, more than 20% of Democratic primary voters chose the \u201cuncommitted\u201d option over Obama.\nIn other states, between 11% and 14% of Democrats in\nRhode Island and\nTennessee registered no candidate preference rather than vote for Obama. And in\nMissouri, 12% voted for other candidates or \u201cuncommitted.\u201d In the\nOklahoma Democratic primary on March 6, Obama collected 57 percent of the statewide vote, but failed to win a majority in 15 of the state\u2019s 77 counties. Four minor candidates combined to take 43 percent of the statewide Democratic vote.\nLooking ahead to November, it might be helpful to establish the Obama and Romney baselines to help us predict the final outcome. The Obama-Biden baseline (electoral votes in parentheses) might appear as follows:\nCalifornia (55),\nConnecticut (7),\nHawaii (4),\nIllinois (21),\nMaryland (10),\nMassachusetts (12),\nNew York (31),\nRhode Island (4),\nVermont (3), and\nWashington (11), for a total of 168 electoral votes. (3), (7),\nThe Romney baseline is estimated as follows: Alabama (9), Alaska (3), Arizona (10), Arkansas (6), Georgia (15), Idaho (4), Kansas (6), Kentucky (8), Louisiana (9), Mississippi (6), Missouri (11), Montana (3), Nebraska (5), North Dakota (3), Oklahoma (7), South Carolina (8), South Dakota (3), Tennessee (11), Texas (34), Utah (5), West Virginia (5), and Wyoming (3), for a total of 174 electoral votes.\nOf the remaining states, all of which are up for grabs, and all of which went for Obama in 2008, the states of Colorado (9), Florida (27), Indiana (11), Iowa (7), Maine (4), Nevada (5), New Hampshire (4), New Mexico (5), North Carolina (15), Ohio (20), and Virginia (13), with a total of 120 electoral votes, are likely to go for Romney. If so, and if Obama-Biden are able to hold onto\nDelaware (3),\nMichigan (17),\nMinnesota (10),\nNew Jersey (15),\nPennsylvania (21), and\nWisconsin (10), Romney would win a total of 294 electoral votes to 244 for Obama-Biden.\nHowever, if Romney is able to carry the states of\nWisconsin, and\nPennsylvania, all of which is within the realm of possibility, he will hand Obama what he so richly deserves: a defeat of landslide proportions, 367 to 171. Either way, the Romney victory count in the Electoral College should be somewhere between 294 and 367 votes, while the most Obama can hope to win will be 244.\nNevertheless, when it becomes clear on the evening of November 6 that Mitt Romney has won at least 33 states with 294 electoral votes, and that Republicans have won majorities in both houses of Congress, the country will undergo an almost instantaneous transformation. Businesses, large and small, looking forward to a future of economic certainty, will begin to announce hiring and expansion plans and people and corporations with offshore capital reserves will make plans to repatriate those funds. The country will begin to heal.\nA June 7 Wall Street Journal op-ed column, titled What's Changed After Wisconsin, declared, \u201cThere is, now, a house-of-cards feel about this administration\u2026 It became apparent some weeks ago when the president talked on the stump\u2026 about an essay by a fellow who said spending growth (during the Obama era) is actually lower than that of previous presidents.\n\u201cThis was startling to a lot of people who looked into it and found the man had left out most spending from 2009, the first year of Mr. Obama's presidency. People sneered: The president was deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture! But\u2026 why would he go out there waving an article that could immediately be debunked?\nMaybe because he thought it was true? \u201cThe Journal concluded that it is even more alarming to discover that \u201che knows so little about the effects of his own economic program that he thinks he really is a low spender?\u201d\nAs Abraham Lincoln once said, \u201cYou can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.\u201d Clearly, Obama actually believes he has the charm and the intellect to fool all of the people all of the time, but with each passing day more and more people conclude that he is nothing more than an empty suit armed with a speechwriter and a teleprompter.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Authors Note ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>\nMost political pundits, including those at Fox News, have totally misunderstood the significance of the episode in the White House Rose Garden today in which a reporter for a conservative blog, The Daily Caller, shouted out a question at Obama.What is so significant about that episode, and what all the major pundits have missed, is that the shouted question was a metaphor for the low level of respect that Obama now enjoys. Further, Obama's angry response was a sure sign of the level of panic that grows every day within the Obama administration\u2026 and even upstairs in the Obama family quarters.\nRelated Itemsobamahollrahnovemberoctobermagazinetoughsurprisingly\n\u2190 Previous Story What To Do About Obama?\nNext Story \u2192 The People\u2019s Right To Know", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 13911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbadraft.net/archive/all/2010/12/4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6DODTASTD4HUKMAE7VZAFJO4LMH2OAL3", "length": 1977, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.nbadraft.net", "title": "Archive - Dec 4, 2010 | NBADraft.net", "raw_content": "An athletic prodigy\nBaylor guard Dunn's forearm X-rays come back negative\nLaceDarius Dunn\nBarnes' slow start is puzzling\nKentucky has new information to give NCAA in Kanter appeal\nBy butidonthavemoney on Sat, 12/04/2010 - 1:54am.\nBy Tyler Ingle\nKyrie IrvingIrving has not had any trouble adjusting to the college level. He's maintained the same leadership and defensive intensity qualities that made him the top point guard in his high school class. The freshman is already leading the ACC in assists (5.6) and he's been efficient about it (2.3 A/TO ratio). He's also been a hound on defense, showing great intensity and a commitment to shutting his man down. Irving is making open shots (52.2% from the field, 44% behind the arc) and hitting his free throws (88.1%). This week, he torched the 6th ranked Michigan State Spartans with 31 points on 8-12 shooting. This performance against one of the very best teams in the nation shows that Irving (while consistent) is not timid or afraid of stepping up for his team. He's been a great addition for the defending national champions, and will certainly be in the discussion for ACC Freshman of the Year.\nMaryland center Jordan Williams is coming off a very promising freshman season, in which he averaged about 10 points and 9 rebounds. Expectations on him were high after Maryland lost their senior trifecta of Vasquez, Milbourne and Hayes. Eight games into the season, and Williams hasn\u2019t disappointed in the slightest. Listed at 6\u201910\u201d and 260 lbs, Williams utilizes his size very well to establish deep post position. He then uses his footwork to get close to the basket where he converts at a very high clip (57%). He\u2019s rather adapt at drawing contact, but like a lot of young bigs, has some trouble capitalizing on these opportunities (52.5% from the stripe). This week, Williams averaged 19.5 points and 12 rebounds a game. If he can keep this up, he\u2019ll be a force to be reckoned with come January.\nbutidonthavemoney's blog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16791020", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNWNKZSDEKJF52JBD3MFHWWR7QPW6IGZ", "length": 1843, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov", "title": "Estimating sexual transmission of HIV from persons aware and unaware that they are infected with the virus in the USA. - PubMed - NCBI", "raw_content": "AIDS. 2006 Jun 26;20(10):1447-50.\nEstimating sexual transmission of HIV from persons aware and unaware that they are infected with the virus in the USA.\nMarks G1, Crepaz N, Janssen RS.\nDivision of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA. gmarks@cdc.gov\nNew HIV infections stem from people who are aware they are HIV positive (approximately 75% of infected persons in the USA) and those who are unaware of their HIV-positive status (approximately 25%).\nWe estimated the relative contribution of these two groups in sexually transmitting new HIV infections to at-risk (HIV-negative or unknown serostatus) partners in the USA.\nThe parameters in the estimation included: number of people aware and unaware they are infected with HIV; 33% of the aware group are at low risk of transmitting HIV because of low/undetectable viral load; 57% relative reduction in the prevalence of unprotected anal and vaginal intercourse (UAV) with at-risk partners in persons aware (compared to unaware) they have HIV; and assumed differences in the average number of at-risk UAV partners in each awareness group (ranging from equal to twice as many in the unaware group).\nThe proportion of sexually transmitted HIV from the HIV-positive unaware group was estimated to range from 0.54 (assuming no difference in average number of at-risk UAV partners between groups) to 0.70 (assuming twice as many at-risk UAV partners in the unaware group). Using the lower bounds, the transmission rate from the unaware group was 3.5 times that of the aware group after adjusting for population size differences between groups.\nThe results indicate that the HIV/AIDS epidemic can be lessened substantially by increasing the number of HIV-positive persons who are aware of their status.\n10.1097/01.aids.0000233579.79714.8d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 335, "original_length": 8619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nchlondon.ac.uk/about-us/faqs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:46Z", "digest": "sha1:FH5VAU7XGP54UGEHNDJE7JKX3GIOCQMV", "length": 27433, "nlines": 138, "source_domain": "www.nchlondon.ac.uk", "title": "Frequently asked questions | NCH London", "raw_content": "Whether you need guidance on day-to-day student life, academic matters, illness or other worries, there is always someone who will listen and offer support at NCH. Specific professionals dedicated to your academic and personal wellbeing include your personal tutor, academic tutors, Student Support Administrators, Student Welfare Office, college counsellors and local support services.\nStudying at NCH\nDegrees & the NCH Diploma\nLAUNCH & careers\nFreshers\u2019 preparation\nSchool Visits & Open Days\nWhy should someone consider applying to NCH?\nWe offer an outstanding intellectual experience and undergraduate education, incorporating a broader, liberal arts syllabus and professional development, delivered through small group and one-to-one teaching by academic staff, committed to helping students to achieve their academic, personal and professional potential. NCH is the most exciting innovation in UK higher education for many years. Read more.\nWho awards the degree offered by NCH?\nStudents who have elected to study a New College of the Humanities combined honours degree study a degree programme that has been designed and created by the College\u2019s world-class professors and faculty. The courses reflect these academics\u2019 areas of expertise and research interests, meaning that they are strongly engaged with the material that they teach, and there may also be opportunities for students to participate in active research. Like the American liberal arts model, the new combined honours degrees comprise a \u2018major\u2019 subject chosen from Economics, English, History, Philosophy or Politics & International Relations, and a complementary \u2018minor\u2019 subject.\nNew College of the Humanities has undergone a review for educational oversight by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA). NCH is subject to educational oversight by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) under the UK Visas and Immigration\u2019s Tier 4 sponsorship requirements. See www.qaa.ac.uk/educational-oversight for more information. The New College of the Humanities combined honours degree programmes have been developed and are delivered by NCH. These programmes have been validated by Southampton Solent University as being of an appropriate standard and quality and will lead to the Southampton Solent University awards of BA (Hons) or BSc (Hons).\nIn the case of the Historical Research & Public History MA, the curriculum has been overseen and developed by Dr Suzannah Lipscomb MA, MSt, DPhil (Oxon), FRHistS, Head of History Faculty & Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History. Depth study topics have been devised and will be taught the members of the NCH History faculty including Dr Lars Kjaer BA, MPhil, PhD, Lecturer in Medieval History, Dr Edmund Neill MA, DPhil (Oxon), MSc (LSE), FRHistS, Lecturer in Modern History, Dr Joanne Paul BA (Queen\u2019s), MA (University of Victoria), PhD (QMUL), Lecturer in the History of Political Thought and Dr Olly Ayers BA (Manchester), PhD (Kent), Lecturer in History and Politics. The New College of the Humanities Historical Research & Public History degree programme has been validated by the Swansea University as being of an appropriate standard and quality and will lead to the Swansea University award of a Master of Arts (MA).\nWhat are the tuition fees at NCH?\nFor 2018 entry the fees for UK, EU, EEA and Swiss passport holders for undergraduate degres are \u00a39,250 per year. Further details for fees for the 2018/19 academic year can be found here.\nThe fees represent the full cost of delivering the College\u2019s broader 20-course liberal arts-inspired curriculum and more personal learning experience, including weekly one-to-one tutorials.\nexpert tuition, including small group teaching, one-to-one tutorials and at least 13 hours\u2019 contact time each week\na unique 20-course, liberal arts-inspired undergraduate curriculum\nLAUNCH \u2013 a three-year professional development programme\npreparation for the NCH Diploma\nstudent and pastoral support from a dedicated team of staff\nindividual career support\nlibrary subscription\nWhat are the steps of the application process; do you interview all applicants?\nThe first step in applying to NCH is to complete and submit our application form online.\nAfter the application has been completed, we contact the referee to request a written reference, along with predicted grades for any future examinations. Once the application is complete, it is passed to the admissions tutor for the applicant\u2019s chosen course who reviews it and decides whether to invite you for an interview.\nOne of our academic staff meets you for the interview. They will want to find out if you have the intellectual capability, knowledge and passion to flourish in the College\u2019s curriculum. You have plenty of time to ask our admissions advisers any questions, meet with student ambassadors and to take a tour of the Registry.\nYou are welcome to bring your parents, a friend or other adviser with you, although guests cannot join you for the academic interview.\nYou are welcome to call +44 (0) 207 637 4550 or email info@nchlondon.ac.uk for an update on the progress of your application at any stage in the process.\nHow many weekly contact hours will students experience at NCH?\nThe College offers unparalleled access to academic staff selected for their expertise and passion for teaching with one of the best student-to-staff ratios in UK higher education.\nUndergraduate students enjoy a varied but integrated range of teaching and learning styles with an average of over 13 full contact hours each week, dedicated to your individual development. The teaching format of each contact hour is selected to ensure the most positive learning outcomes for that particular subject.\nWhat kind of individual would be suited to studying at NCH?\nThe College\u2019s broad curriculum and intensive approach to learning is of particular interest to students whose interests and talents span different subject areas and issues; those who have curious, questioning minds and a thirst for knowledge; and those who may have studied the IB Diploma or a variety of A-levels.\nWhy should students consider studying the humanities as opposed to a more vocational programme of study?\nAround 60 per cent of people at the top of their professions in various industries \u2013 including CEOs of FTSE 100 companies, top creative industries, professional services organisations and MPs \u2013 studied arts, humanities and social science degrees. Humanities and social sciences graduates do well in their careers because many of their skills translate directly to the capabilities you need to perform at a high level in the professional world: intellectual curiosity, building an argument (and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of contrary positions), presenting in a compelling and persuasive manner, understanding how relationships determine outcomes, synthesising large volumes of data and, critically, valuing creativity and understanding the value that it can create. This is why humanities graduates find success in so many industries including media, law, healthcare, accountancy and finance, public administration, civil service and defence, retail, education, business and management, and the arts.\nWhat preparation do I need for my weekly one-to-one tutorial?\nIn a one-to-one tutorial the tutor engages critically with you, entering into your individual point of view and working with you to clarify, challenge, defend and develop your arguments and ideas. Undergraduate students prepare an essay for every one-to-one tutorial related to one of the degree modules you are studying during that term. The essay is the basis of the discussion with the tutor. This form of intellectual engagement is considered to be the gold standard for identifying and drawing out a student\u2019s potential.\nWhere are you located and how do I get to you?\nThe College Registry is located at 19 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3HH.\nBy air If you are flying in to London Heathrow, you can take the Underground (Piccadilly Line, eastbound) to Russell Square station. You can walk the 700 metres to the Registry or take a taxi. If you fly into Gatwick, you can take the Gatwick Express to Victoria station. From Victoria station, you can take the Victoria line northbound and change at Warren Street onto the Northern line southbound to Goodge Street, or you can take a taxi. There are also taxi ranks at both Heathrow and Gatwick airports, but please be aware that a taxi into central London will cost in excess of \u00a350 from Heathrow and \u00a370 from Gatwick.\nBy train The nearest mainline train stations are King\u2019s Cross/St. Pancras (which is served by Eurostar) and Euston. The College is a 15 to 20 minute walk. If you prefer to take the tube, it\u2019s two minutes on the Piccadilly line from King\u2019s Cross/St Pancras to Russell Square or three minutes on the Northern line from Euston to Goodge Street station. There are also taxi ranks outside each of the stations.\nBy tube Bedford Square is centrally located and surrounded by tube stations. The nearest stations are Goodge Street (Northern Line), Tottenham Court Road (Central and Northern lines) and Russell Square (Piccadilly line). Goodge Street and Tottenham Court Road stations are located approximately five minutes\u2019 walk from the College.\nBy bus Bedford Square is well served by bus routes. The following buses stop within 200 metres of the College: 1, 7, 8, 25, 29, 55, 98, 134, 176 and 134.\nWhere does the teaching take place?\nThe College Registry, at 19 Bedford Square, WC1B 3HH, houses many of the College\u2019s teaching facilities. Most of your weekly one-to-one and small group tutorials take place in the building\u2019s subject faculty rooms. The Registry also houses seminar rooms in which lectures and seminars take place.\nCan a student apply for a tuition fee loan via Student Finance England?\nWe are delighted that students studying an NCH degree are eligible for student loans from the Student Loans Company.\nIf you are a resident of England or an EU national, have lived in the EEA or Switzerland for three years before starting your course, and this is your first undergraduate degree, you can apply for a tuition fee loan of \u00a36,165 per year currently from Student Finance England.\nPermanent residents of England, and EU nationals who have been resident in the UK for three years or more before their course starts can also apply for a maintenance loan or grant; the amount of loan or grant you receive will vary due to household income. You can use these to pay for accommodation and living costs such as transportation and food.\nWhat happens when my deposit is paid?\nYour deposit holds your place at NCH. Once we have received your acceptance form and deposit, we will contact you with information about accommodation and maintenance support (if you have been awarded a bursary).\nAfter you have completed your exams, you will receive a welcome letter and reading list from your faculty. You will then receive the NCH Registration Form Part 2.\nIn September, you will receive detailed information about Freshers\u2019 Week, along with your student email address and ID number.\nWhat is the New College of the Humanities Diploma?\nAll undergraduate students combine their degree studies with the College\u2019s diploma, designed to develop the insights required to lead a fulfilling and successful life. The NCH Diploma offers a rich mix of Core Courses including Applied Ethics, Critical Reasoning and Science Literacy, as well as the LAUNCH, our professional development programme, which teaches students the core skills and behaviours that will give them a head start in the increasingly competitive graduate recruitment market, and that can easily be transferred to any field. The NCH Diploma is awarded to graduates in addition to their degree. It sets them apart from their peers by marking the greater depth of their education.\nWhy do students have to take both a degree and the Diploma?\nIn a complex and rapidly changing world, the fundamental purpose of education is twofold: to expand and enrich both mind and character, and to make young people fit to deal with the challenges currently unknown and unpredictable, so that they can have fulfilling lives and successful careers. The College\u2019s undergraduate programme has real substance \u2013 depth, breadth and relevance for today\u2019s students. The College challenges students academically, encourages them to think, reason and present an argument, as well as giving them skills that will help them embark on the world beyond university.\nHow many possible combinations (of major and minor) exist?\nThe College will offer 72 combined honours undergraduate degrees and a single honours Law LLB from September 2018.\nLAUNCH is one of the innovative features of the New College of the Humanities education.\nTaught alongside your undergraduate degree, LAUNCH is a professional development programme designed to give students an understanding of balance sheets, marketing, negotiation, research, statistics and strategy, and help you develop winning behaviours including teamwork, networking and problem-solving, to make you a more desirable applicant in the graduate recruitment market and setting you up for fulfilment and success whatever life and future you seek after graduation.\nLAUNCH also offers a series of informal lectures called My Beautiful Career, during which students get the opportunity to meet with working professionals from many different fields in an intimate small group setting. This is not just the perfect opportunity for you to discover more about different career paths you may choose, but it\u2019s also useful experience of socialising and networking with working professionals. It is through the My Beautiful Career seminars that NCH looks to inspire you for the world of work.\nThe blend of LAUNCH with the unique NCH undergraduate curriculum is not seen anywhere else at any university in the UK. LAUNCH is a cornerstone of the innovative educational experience offered at NCH and the perfect complement to your academic studies.\nDo all students undertake LAUNCH?\nYes, all undergraduate students at the College are required to undertake LAUNCH.\nWhat are the objectives of LAUNCH?\nThe programme was inspired by research conducted by the CBI (Confederation of British Industry), which identified the gap between the level of employability of many UK graduates and the needs of employers.\nIt develops the basic capabilities essential for a wide range of different professions, including writing and presenting, numeracy and financial literacy, problem solving, the impact of technology, negotiation, self-management and working in teams.\nHow has LAUNCH been designed and how is it implemented?\nLAUNCH is designed to prepare undergraduates for the world of work and aims to give you a head start and a competitive edge in finding enjoyable and rewarding work after graduation. We intend it to be stimulating and enjoyable as well as useful.\nLAUNCH is taught through seminars, projects and assignments in all three years. In addition there are guest lecturers from both the business sector and public service. The combination of teaching by practitioners, with a one-on-one and small group focus and its development as a result of close collaboration with industry, makes this programme unique in the UK.\nDo students receive any form of careers support?\nPreparing for the world beyond NCH is a task all students will face and one that the College takes very seriously. Whether or not you know exactly what career you want, the College\u2019s careers office, works with you on a one-to-one basis to help you explore various careers. They will help you discover what you want to do by promoting self-reflection, focussing on your aptitudes and interests and providing you with individual support and advice, all in a confidential setting. In addition, they can assist you with CV and cover letter preparation, filling out application forms, interview preparation, psychometric testing and everything in between.\nDo students have the opportunity to undertake work experience or internships?\nIn today\u2019s job market and economic climate, networking, work experience and internships have become a vital part of the learning process and student experience. Our careers office guides you on how best to engage in successful networking so as to maximise opportunities in order to gain relevant work experience and obtain internship opportunities during your time here at NCH.\nWhat kind of roles do you feel would be available to NCH students, after graduation?\nNew College of the Humanities graduates have progressed to a truly diverse range of opportunities since our first graduation in 2015. Some of our graduates are in graduate roles or graduate programmes at renowned organisations including Clifford Chance, Deloitte, Deutschebank, Diageo, and Hogan Lovells. Others have progressed to postgraduate study at top institutions including the LSE, UCL, University of Bristol, University of Oxford and SOAS. Some of our graduates are now working full-time on successfully their own enterprises, including End of Moving Walkway (a fringe theatre production company) and Vagabands.\nWhat A-level grades are required for admission?\nAdmissions tutors at NCH don\u2019t just look at exam grades. Instead, we look primarily at you as an individual and your potential to thrive at the College. Written work samples and references are critical for assessing each applicant\u2019s potential to flourish in our rigorous academic environment. We also place great importance on meeting candidates directly through Open Days and interviews with senior academic staff.\nTypically we look for A*A*A* to AAB, \u001bhowever, if you are inspired by the idea of studying the unique liberal arts-inspired undergraduate programme offered at NCH, we encourage you to apply to us.\nDo you accept the IB Diploma; how many points do you require and do you accept bonus points?\nWe welcome applications from pupils studying the IB Diploma. The College\u2019s curriculum reflects the broader syllabus studied through the International Baccalaureate Diploma hexagon and provides the opportunity for students to continue studying a variety of disciplines. This breadth of study serves to complement the depth of the degree subject itself and further develops the set of critical enquiry skills for which the Theory of Knowledge content of the IB provides a foundation.\nWe typically look for 34-36 points including core points from IB students. However, we may consider applications from applicants who have fewer points but have good academic potential because we recognise the high level of academic achievement required to succeed in the broad IB curriculum and we are impressed by current students who studied the IB.\nAlso, our admissions tutors don\u2019t just look at exam grades. Instead, we look primarily at you as an individual and your potential to thrive at the College. References are critical for assessing each applicant\u2019s potential to flourish in our rigorous academic environment. We also place great importance on meeting candidates directly through Open Days and interviews with senior academic staff.\nIf you believe that you have the academic potential to thrive at NCH, even if you feel that your IB results do not reflect your ability, don\u2019t miss out on your opportunity for an exceptional undergraduate experience.\nDo students need a visa to study at NCH?\nStudents who hold UK, EU or EEA citizenship do not need a visa to study with us. You can find more information to help you determine if you need a student visa on the UK Visas and Immigration website. You can also find information on our international students page.\nIf you have any questions, feel free to contact an admissions adviser at info@nchlondon.ac.uk or +44 (0) 20 7637 4550.\nIf a student's native language is not English, what English language qualifications do you accept and what grades do you require?\nIf English is not your first language, we may require you to take a test in English language such as IELTS or TOEFL. Please contact us for further information.\nDo students apply to study at NCH via UCAS?\nThe College is part of UCAS, and you may apply via UCAS.com \u2013 our provider number is N53. Alternatively you may apply directly to the College, making NCH an extra choice. The advantage of applying directly is that you may then choose NCH in addition to your five UCAS choices. There is no fee for applying directly to NCH.\nIs there a deadline for receipt of applications?\nWe operate a rolling admissions process, but places to study at the College and financial awards are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis. We recommend, therefore, that students apply early to have the greatest chance of a scholarship and bursary.\nWhen can I expect to hear back from you?\nWe aim to advise students whether they will be offered a place to study at the College within two weeks of the date of their interview.\nOur admissions advisers are dedicated to ensuring that each application is processed swiftly.\nWhat happens after my interview?\nAfter the interview we will let you know, informally, within two weeks if we are going to make you an offer of a place to study.\nA formal offer pack follows some weeks after this. The offer pack contains information on the conditions of your offer, including whether you have been offered an academic scholarship or a scholarship and means-tested bursary.\nWe also have a \u2018buddy\u2019 system here at New College of the Humanities. If you agree to be part of this system, we pair you with one of our current students who will contact you so you can ask them any questions you have about student life.\nYour buddy is a friendly face when you arrive at NCH and is here to help you throughout your time with us.\nWhen will I receive my formal offer?\nYour contact in the admissions team will advise you when to expect your offer pack when they email you to let you know, informally, about your offer.\nIf you apply after June, you will receive your offer pack on an ad hoc basis, normally within a few weeks of being informally alerted about your offer. Again, the admissions team will advise when you should expect your pack.\nDo I need to contact NCH with my results?\nYes. Regardless of whether you already hold your examination results or if you are currently studying for your Level 3 qualifications (IB, A-Levels, Pre-U), we do need to see a copy of your original exam certificate before you register as a student.\nIf you are currently studying for your examinations, please ensure you call us with your results as soon as you have these \u2013 regardless of your offer, we still need to have this information.\nCan I withdraw my acceptance if I have paid my deposit?\nYou can withdraw your acceptance at any point in the process.\nYour Part 1 Registration Form will state the last date you can withdraw and receive your deposit back. Withdrawing before this date means your deposit will be returned. You can withdraw after this time, but your deposit will not be refunded.\nWho can I contact for information before the start of term?\nIn the first instance, contact the member of the admissions team you\u2019ve been in touch with. They\u2019ll either be able to answer your query, or will be able to ask the appropriate person to respond.\nYou can also contact the student support office via student.support@nchlondon.ac.uk or call the office on +44 (0) 20 7637 4550.\nIs there any work to prepare before the start of term?\nYes. You will receive a reading list and a summer assignment from your faculty. Both will contain instructions regarding what preparation is required, as it varies from subject to subject.\nIs there a Facebook group for applicants, or is there anywhere I can start talking to others who have accepted their offer to study at NCH?\nYes. There is a Facebook group that we\u2019ll add you to once you\u2019ve accepted your offer. Of course, you\u2019ll also have your buddy, who can answer any queries you have about student life.\nWhat happens in Freshers' Week?\nA lot. This is a very important week, and not just socially. You will receive information from student support staff, from your faculty and from the NCH Student Union, all of which will be vital in helping you throughout your time at NCH.\nOf course, Freshers\u2019 Week is also a time to meet all your new classmates, to start to create friendships and to have the traditional fun and frolics. The week will culminate in the Matriculation Ball, where you formally become a member of New College of the Humanities.\nHow do I find out what clubs and societies are at NCH, and how do I get involved?\nYou can find out all about our clubs and societies here. There will be a Freshers\u2019 Fair during Freshers\u2019 Week when you can sign up to any that appeal. If you think there\u2019s something missing, you can always set up a new club or society. Contact Emma Norman at emma.norman@nchlondon.ac.uk for more information on how to do so.\nWe have slots for guest speakers; do you send academic speakers to school events?\nWe can offer a number of opportunities for a member of our staff to visit your school including a sixth-form talk on \u2018Why study the humanities?\u2019 or a subject specific talk to a class or society. Find out more about these opportunities from the school outreach page here or register for an Open Day.\nWe regularly host visits from admissions officers; can we request a visit?\nMembers of our admissions team would be delighted to attend your school or school group HE event or HE fair to speak to your pupils about the College and studying the humanities. Please contact a member of the admissions team on info@nchlondon.ac.uk or +44 (0) 20 7637 4550 if you would like us to attend your event or fair.\nWe hold a regular careers/Higher Education fair; are you able to attend?\nCan I book a personal visit to meet with you in person to find out more?\nWe welcome visitors to the College. Please contact an admissions adviser on +44 (0) 207 637 4550 or via email on info@nchlondon.ac.uk to make an appointment.\nCan I attend an Open Day to find out more?\nWe welcome visits from students wishing to apply to the College and their parents or advisers. An Open Day is an opportunity to find out more about NCH and meet some of our professors, academics, current students and support staff. You are welcome to bring your parents, a teacher or another adviser or supporter with you to the Open Day. Please find the dates of our next Open Days here.\nLike the College, our Open Days are small and personal so we ask you to contact us on info@nchlondon.ac.uk or +44 (0) 20 7637 4550 to reserve your place.\nCan I bring a group of students to you for a bespoke visit?\nWe welcome groups of pupils accompanied by their teachers to attend one of our Open Lectures, which are held throughout the year.\nThese sessions usually include pupils participating in a workshop with one of our academics, refreshments and then a lecture from a member of the professoriate alongside the College\u2019s students. They provide an opportunity to experience what might be like to study a particular subject at university and to meet students and staff at the College. Please find dates of forthcoming Open Lectures here.\nCan I request some prospectuses to be sent to my school?\nYou can download a PDF of our prospectus here, or contact us on+44 (0) 207 637 4550 and ask to speak to an admissions adviser if you would like to receive printed copies of our prospectus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 31987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.necir.org/2018/09/12/mckim-the-hard-truths-of-investigative-reporting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:04Z", "digest": "sha1:EUBPQV7AJDMAAOQCQ5VQ4TKM4DSCVR4P", "length": 814, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.necir.org", "title": "Interview: McKim and 'hard truths' of investigative reporting - New England Center for Investigative Reporting", "raw_content": "Home Interview Interview: McKim and \u2018hard truths\u2019 of investigative reporting\nJenifer McKim. Photo: Meredith Nierman, WGBH.\nJenifer McKim, senior investigative reporter for the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, shared her thoughts on a career spent revealing injustice through journalism with Wesleyan University\u2019s alumni magazine:\nThirty years ago, Jenifer McKim \u201988, walked into a news room in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and \u201cfell in love,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI loved the idea of interviewing people, asking questions, and learning every day\u2014and making a difference. One of the first stories I wrote was about a homeless family. The next day the mayor called to say he\u2019d found them a home.\n\u201cIt\u2019s amazing what can happen when you get people\u2014particularly vulnerable, marginalized people\u2014to tell their stories.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nelsonstar.com/news/port-of-prince-rupert-names-shaun-stevenson-as-new-ceo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HKXXT4LHT27JSBFQNO6MD7HH3XZZAKXG", "length": 2130, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.nelsonstar.com", "title": "Port of Prince Rupert names Shaun Stevenson as new CEO \u2013 Nelson Star", "raw_content": "Shaun Stevenson was named the Port of Prince Rupert\u2019s new president and CEO on June 19. (Keili Bartlett / The Northern View)\nStevenson has worked for the port for 21 years as vice president of trade development\nAfter 10 months, the Port of Prince Rupert has announced Shaun Stevenson as its new hire for president and CEO, replacing Don Krusel.\n\u201cI\u2019ve had the tremendous opportunity to work with the Port now for 21 years,\u201d Stevenson said after the announcement at the port\u2019s Annual Public Meeting on June 19.\nStevenson\u2019s prior role with the port was as its Vice President of trade development and public affairs, working on the port\u2019s expansion, attracting new business and investments. Stevenson has also worked with First Nations, government and community stakeholders. He was selected out of 67 applicants.\nREAD MORE: Krusel announces retirement\n\u201cI think I\u2019ve had an opportunity to grow with the Port of Prince Rupert,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve been involved with many of our business development initiatives that have led to the growth and expansion of the port. I also think I have a deep connection with the community. I\u2019m a proud resident of Prince Rupert.\u201d\nBud Smith, the port\u2019s chair who introduced Stevenson as CEO, thanked the interim CEO Joe Rektor for his 10-month leadership.\n\u201cThanks to Joe\u2019s steady leadership, the Board had the opportunity to engage deeply in this recruitment process, providing us with the utmost confidence that Shaun is the right choice to be the Port of Prince Rupert\u2019s leader into the future,\u201d Smith said in a press release.\n\u201cShaun has played an integral role in the Port\u2019s development from a relatively small concern to a North American gateway that is playing a vital role in delivering and expanding market access to Canadian shippers, industries, and their communities. Shaun\u2019s deep understanding of the Port\u2019s role in adding value to global trade is outstanding, as his ability to communicate and develop strong relationships with our partners.\u201d\nREAD MORE: Port begins search for Krusel\u2019s replacement\nMyHealth portal expands in Vernon\nB.C. man wins job he was denied after saying he had depression", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 7726, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.netans.com/2017/01/27/lg-g6-leaked-image/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UUEFGRJRZJ3WFAA7GDADBSA5ZKU6L6FG", "length": 1921, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.netans.com", "title": "LG G6 latest leaked image reveals SIM slot and top portion", "raw_content": "LG G6 latest leaked image reveals SIM slot and top portion\nThe images supposed to be that of the LG G6 has leaked on the web. Upon inspection, the images reveal the top right side. Moreover, the images look similar to that of the previously leaked design. Hence, we can infer that the latest leaked image is indeed Lg G6.\nLeaked via a Korean website underKG, the latest leaked image showcases only the top portion. We can spot the front-facing shooter alongside LED flash and the SIM card slot on the side. We wonder why the bottom half has been left out in the leaked image. Do you smell absence of a physical home button and fingerprint sensor embedded into the display?\nIf you look at the leaked image, you can clearly visualize the rounded corners including sturdy metal construction. The SIM card slot along with the SIM ejector is placed almost at the center. It seems that the SIM card slot is a hybrid one and it will accommodate microSD card as well.\nExpected to be unveiled on February 26 at the MWC 2017, the company will showcase and demonstrate the key features of the LG G6 during the event. You can expect the integration of a non-removable battery in addition to water-resistant capabilities.\nDesigned using glass and metal build, the LG G6 features a 5.7-inch display with a display resolution of 2880\u00d71440 pixels. Moreover, the aspect ratio is 18:9 instead of the conventional 16:9.\nUnder the hood, the LG G6 will be equipped with a Snapdragon 821 processor coupled with a dual rear camera sensor and a fingerprint scanner on the rear. There are reports that the fingerprint sensor will be placed on the front panel.\nDONT MISS LG G5: Book your phone now from Flipkart and get free Cam Plus Module\nThe official launch date is fast approaching. We hope more leaks will emerge before February 26. Let\u2019s wait and watch. In the meantime, read other stories by selecting News link on the top navigation panel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 5576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newportri.com/news/20180502/mycology-today-friends-of-ballard-park-host-pair-of-mushroom-hikes-saturday-may-26", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:15Z", "digest": "sha1:J7OODOMGOO6EU6RYWKWSCMYETEGHSGYU", "length": 3670, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.newportri.com", "title": "Mycology today: Friends of Ballard Park host a pair of mushroom hikes Saturday, May 26 - News - The Newport Daily News - Newport, RI", "raw_content": "Mycology today: Friends of Ballard Park host a pair of mushroom hikes Saturday, May 26\nBy Pearl Macek | Mercury | @PearlMacek\nMay 2, 2018 at 4:16 PM May 23, 2018 at 10:48 PM\n\u201cIt\u2019s a lot like fishing, you can\u2019t guarantee what you will find,\u201d Ryan Bouchard, co-founder and president of the Mushroom Hunting Foundation of Rhode Island, says of his favorite pastime.\nA backpack, a few paper bags, a pocket knife and a small paintbrush. No, you\u2019re not plein air painting. You\u2019re going mushroom hunting.\n\u201cYou need a dry way to clean mushrooms, because rinsing them with water makes them soggy and it washes away some of the flavor, too,\u201d Ryan Bouchard, co-founder and president of the Mushroom Hunting Foundation of Rhode Island explained about the need for a paint brush.\nYou will also need a trusty way to identify different species. \u201cLooking at pictures is a great way to begin the job,\u201d Bouchard said. But in order to correctly identify mushrooms, he said it is important to learn at least the basics of mycology, or the study of fungi.\nHaving a good, detailed book on mycology is vital. \u201cAs a mushroom hunter, your book is your most important piece of equipment,\u201d he said.\nBouchard and his partner and co-creator of the foundation, Emily Schmidt have been foraging for fungi for nine years all across the country. They have tried over 200 species of mushrooms, Bouchard said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a lot like fishing, you can\u2019t guarantee what you will find,\u201d Bouchard said. He recommends really getting to know different species of fungi and only when you are absolutely sure that they are safe to eat, then you can try them.\n\u201cWhen you\u2019re starting out, you won\u2019t be eating very many mushrooms you bring home,\u201d Bouchard added.\nBouchard and Schmidt will be passing along their knowledge of hunting for wild mushrooms when they lead two tours at Ballard Park on Saturday, May 26. The Friends of Ballard Park host a hike there every month and there had been significant interest in two previous mushroom hunting events, said the group\u2019s executive director Colleen McGrath.\nMcGrath said it was great to see how people\u2019s perception of what is and isn\u2019t a mushroom changed over the course of previous hikes. \u201cThey see it so differently,\u201d she said.\nMcGrath also recommended wearing sturdy shoes or sneakers and long pants and socks too for both comfort and protection.\nBouchard and Schmidt say they enjoy teaching people how to find and enjoy wild mushrooms safely. They also want to create an appreciation for the symbiotic relationship between fungi, trees and the rest of Mother Nature.\nBouchard recently published a book and calendar about mushroom hunting in the Northeast, filled with pictures to help identify edible species as well information on where to find them and how they taste. The book has a whole section of mushrooms that he considers safe for beginners.\n\u201cNewport has some pretty neat stuff,\u201d Bouchard said of the local fungi selection. He said horse and oyster mushrooms can be found growing on local beech trees as well as many other species.\n\u201cAll you need is trees,\u201d said Bouchard, in order to find mushrooms as most species like to grow on or near certain types of trees.\nBallard Park is located at the corner of Hazard & Wickham roads in Newport. The mushroom tours will start at 10 a.m. and noon and are an hour long each. Space is limited so send an email to info@ballardpark.org to make a reservation. Tour admission is $10 per person.\nIf you can\u2019t make it to one of the tours, Bouchard and Schmidt offer private, two-hour mushroom hunting classes and tour groups.\nFor more information on the Mushroom Hunting Foundation of Rhode Island, go to www.mushroomhunting.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.news24.com/MoveMag/Archive/what-is-wrong-with-me-20170728-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:55Z", "digest": "sha1:KCVPQ5ST65P3S572JTNS7A4BQFXS6O7A", "length": 1016, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.news24.com", "title": "What is wrong with me? | News24", "raw_content": "\u201cI feel my life is passing me by. I am a 30-year-old woman who has no child, no boyfriend and apparently no life. Most of the women my age are married or are involved with a partner, and they have children. Is there something wrong with me? Could you please advise me what I could be doing wrong maybe with guys?\u201d \u2013 Concerned, Port Elizabeth Move! Expert advice\nI am sorry to hear this and suggest that you try to open up and mix with women in your age group. Join women get-togethers such as kitchen parties, secret pal\u2019s parties and stokvels. This is how you can network with your peers and make friends, and it could lead to your getting the man of your dream. Keeping to yourself and staying indoors is not a solution, because your needs and wants won\u2019t be fulfilled. You must go out there and make friends. People find self-confidence attractive, so love yourself first. Having a child won\u2019t necessarily bring you happiness. Being yourself and loving yourself first are the secrets to a happier life. Good luck.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627613-500-what-the-climate-bill-means-for-the-us-way-of-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ZB4Q74VA5QCI2476N3LTVTYU4JBXZ3WY", "length": 670, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.newscientist.com", "title": "What the climate bill means for the US way of life | New Scientist", "raw_content": "What the climate bill means for the US way of life\nTHE refusal of successive US governments to limit greenhouse gas emissions infuriates environmentalists \u2013 but things may be about to change. Last week, Democratic senator John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, an independent senator, unveiled the American Power Act \u2013 a climate bill that has President Barack Obama\u2019s backing and promises to shake up the US economy and reinvigorate global climate-change negotiations.\nThe bill lays out plans for a 4.5 per cent cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2013 and a 17 per cent cut by 2020. That\u2019s based on a 2005 baseline, however, whereas many other countries start from 1990. From a \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsguardian.co.uk/news/bigger-bill-for-hospital-sites-as-rates-are-set-to-rise-1-8340885", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CJ2UFIGU5TTG7UBPCLOQQLMFXVWA4X2M", "length": 2851, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.newsguardian.co.uk", "title": "Bigger bill for hospital sites as rates are set to rise - News Guardian", "raw_content": "Bigger bill for hospital sites as rates are set to rise\nNorthumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital'Picture by Jane Coltman\nRising business rates could cost Northumberland\u2019s key hospital almost \u00a38million over the next five years following a 50 per cent increase in April.\nAmid mounting pressure, data provided by CVS Business Rent & Rates Specialists shows that rate bills for hospitals in England are set to rise by \u00a3322million over the next five years.\nNorthumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, near Cramlington, is in the top 30 \u2018losers\u2019 table and will see its property assessment \u2013 the value used to calculate the rates bills \u2013 jump from \u00a32.08million to \u00a33.12million.\nThis financial year, the Northumbria paid \u00a31.03million in business rates, but this is projected to rise annually to \u00a31.55million on average over the next five years.\nHowever, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has said that it will appeal the proposed increase.\nPaul Dunn, executive director, said: \u201cWe are aware of the impending changes to business rates affecting all NHS trusts due to the revaluation of property and intend to appeal the proposed increase for the Northumbria hospital.\n\u201cAs one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, we have multiple sites over a vast geography.\n\u201cThis means we already pay business rates of around \u00a33.6m per year and while this cost represents less than one per cent of our overall annual expenditure across the organisation, our priority is always to ensure the very best value for the taxpayer when investing NHS money.\u201d\nTowards the end of last year, the Government adjusted the rateable values of every business property in England and Wales to reflect changes in the property market. The new rateable value will be used to determine the basis of the tax calculation for rates in April.\nThe evaluation of business properties usually happens every five years, but was controversially delayed by two years as a result of the economic downturn. The last revaluation came into effect on April 1, 2010, based on the property market as long ago as April 1, 2008.\nLast year, around 80 NHS trusts in England wrote to local councils to say they should be classified as charities and therefore eligible for an 80 per cent discount.\nA spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: \u201cThis revaluation improves the fairness of rate bills by making sure they more closely reflect the property market. Rateable values are set independently by the Valuation Office Agency, which uses a widely accepted method to assess NHS hospitals.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve also given local authorities the powers to grant additional business rate relief as they see they fit. Overall nearly three-quarters of properties in England will see no change or even a fall \u2013 including 600,000 who from this April will have their bills cut altogether.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsguardian.co.uk/news/plenty-for-all-the-ages-at-mouth-of-the-tyne-festival-1-9206258", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:21Z", "digest": "sha1:SH3ZN2II4T7UGTRH4RIXGV7LU5MVE57Z", "length": 2884, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.newsguardian.co.uk", "title": "Plenty for all the ages at Mouth of the Tyne Festival - News Guardian", "raw_content": "Plenty for all the ages at Mouth of the Tyne Festival\nJames Arthur, who is playing at this year's Mouth of the Tyne Festival.\nA packed programme of concerts, theatre, performances and street entertainment has been lined up for the Mouth of the Tyne Festival.\nTaking place from July 5 to 8, the star-studded line-up at Tynemouth Priory and Castle features Paloma Faith, James Arthur, Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott.\nPaloma Faith, who will be performing a sold-out concert at the Mouth of the Tyne Festival.\nSoul-singer Beverley Knight is returning for the festival\u2019s Sunday family day on July 8, which will also feature MF Robots, a new group from the founder of The Brand New Heavies; Big Red and the Grinners; Georgie; and pit-pop outfit Dennis; and the young winners from Soundfest held a week earlier.\nTickets for Paloma Faith and Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott are now sold out, but some tickets are available for James Arthur, performing on Friday, July 6, and the Sunday showcase.\nElsewhere, the Playhouse Whitley Bay will see concerts from Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul on Monday, July 2; This Is the Kit on Thursday, July 5; Collabro on Friday, July 6; and Suzanne Vega on Friday, July 22.\nTynemouth Surf Caf\u00e9 will host a BBC Introducing night on Sunday, July 8, featuring local artists YUMA, Eve Simpson, Callum Pitt and FEVA.\nStreet entertainment at last year's Mouth of the Tyne Festival.\nThe popular jazz stage will once again be outside the Gibraltar Rock, and free street entertainment, featuring some weird and wonderful acts, will take place in Front Street.\nThis year\u2019s BIG pageant in Tynemouth will include hundreds of young people embracing a colourful and diverse parade, with schools, bands, dance and community groups all taking part.\nTynemouth Station\u2019s packed programme will run alongside the bustling weekend markets and will feature live music, activities for under-fives and special one-off performances.\nMayor Norma Redfearn CBE said: \u201cThe Mouth of the Tyne Festival is hugely popular and I know many people are looking forward to the different events.\n\u201cWith its mix of brilliant live music concerts, international street entertainment, jazz music and wonderful parade, there is lots happening.\u201d\nShe added: \u201cThe festival attracts thousands of people and provides a big boost to the local economy \u2013 supporting our commitment to making North Tyneside a great and prosperous place to live, work and visit.\u201d\nThe festival is supported by Engie, Port of Tyne and Kier, and has hosted a range of artists including Paul Weller, Elbow, James Bay, The Script, James Morrison and Bryan Ferry.\nNow in its 14th year, the event has grown into one of the region\u2019s favourite summer festivals, attracting around 100,000 people from the local area and beyond.\nFor more information or tickets visit www.mouthofthetynefestival.com or follow the official Facebook page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newtonrunning.com/blogs/the-running-front/run-hard-pray-hard-danielle-duhon-the-boston-marathon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:19Z", "digest": "sha1:X7FUDMYR56SBTT2WIPR4D4CMNVMBHO6V", "length": 3994, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.newtonrunning.com", "title": "Run Hard. Pray Hard: Danielle Duhon & The Boston Marathon \u2013 newtonrunning", "raw_content": "Home / The Running Front / Run Hard. Pray Hard: Danielle Duhon & The Boston Marathon\nRun Hard. Pray Hard: Danielle Duhon & The Boston Marathon\n\u201cRun fast. Pray hard.\u201d That\u2019s Danielle Duhon\u2019s running motto. It\u2019s what got her to the Boston marathon in 2011 and what is taking her there again this year. \u201cBoston is like the average runner\u2019s Olympics,\u201d she says. \u201cRunning Boston in 2011 was one of the greatest running experiences I\u2019ll ever have. The crowd support and the privilege of having qualified and getting to run that course, is something I\u2019ll never take for granted.\u201d She adds, \u201cIt was such a blessing and an honor to be there, even if I never qualified again.\u201d\nThe 43-year-old has qualified for Boston every year since, but traveling for a race can be expensive. Not to mention she works the night shift as a nurse and has three young daughters, the oldest of whom is disabled. But this year, is different. \u201cI didn\u2019t go back in 2012 or 2013. The reason I\u2019m going back this year is because of the events of last year. I decided it was important for me to go back and show my support for the city after the events of last year.\u201d\nAside from running alongside the more than 35,660 participants who also are running Boston this year, she\u2019s headed to the race with her sister and seven of her girlfriends. All of who qualified. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing we all qualified and got in. I think it will be really special and an honor to run for the people who can\u2019t run this year. For those who lost their lives and to say \u2018thank you\u2019 to the city.\u201d\nBut Duhon hopes this won\u2019t be her last time running Boston. She has another goal in mind for which she will rely on her motto again, as well as the words of triathlete, Jessie Thomas, \u201cYour best performance can come in spite of your biggest doubts. Always give your self a chance to succeed.\u201d Duhon would like to run Boston again pushing her 14-year-old daughter in her new running chair. \u201cMy oldest daughter is handicapped and we just raised money to buy her a pushchair. My goal is to qualify for the push chair division. I am small and she weighs more than me, so it will likely take me more than a year to get there. I think she would be ecstatic. She just waves like she is in a pageant when I push her in races. It will be a tough road, but my goal is to give her that experience, however long it takes me to get there.\u201d\nAs she looks toward her next goal, and even her ensuing race, Duhon credits Newton for her ability to still run at all. When she first began to marathon train, she would get injured every time she increased her mileage\u2014stress fractures, IT band issues, Achilles tendinitis\u2014you name it, she had it. In March of 2009, she ran her first marathon in New Orleans in a time of 4:07. \u201cI was injured again afterward and went in search of a new shoe.\u201d That\u2019s then she was fitted in the Newton Distance. That summer, she began to increase her mileage and remained injury free. In December 2009, she ran her second marathon in a time of 3:41, giving her the qualifying time for Boston. \u201cNine months later and 26 minutes off my time. What? The only thing I changed were my shoes.\u201d\nFast forward to today and she\u2019s gone through about 12 pairs of the Distance U and is headed to Boston for the second time. For the next few days, she\u2019ll tuck away her thoughts on running it a third time with her daughter and try to just savor the moment\u2014a change from the first time she ran Boston. \u201cLast time I ran Boston, I wanted to run my fastest time and I didn\u2019t enjoy the race as much as I would have liked, because I was looking at my watch and trying to PR. I missed my PR by 3 seconds and I came home disappointed.\u201d She adds, \u201cThis time I promised myself I wouldn\u2019t run for the time, but would enjoy myself more and soak up every single moment of this race. Especially with everything that happened there last year, we owe it to that crowd to enjoy every single second.\u201d Then, she\u2019ll get back to running fast and praying hard to make her next goal happen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nexant.com/about/events/power-systems-computation-conference-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DCYJI6FHJ42ICOJR4ACSDBVB46ERXCDU", "length": 2541, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nexant.com", "title": "Power Systems Computation Conference 2016 | Nexant", "raw_content": "Home / About / Events / Power Systems Computation Conference...\nPower Systems Computation Conference 2016\nPorto Antico Conference Centre\nVia Magazzini del Cotone (Area Porto Antico), 16128\nNexant's Dr. Calvin Zhang has the honor of being chosen to present at the Power Systems Computation Conference 2016 in Genoa Italy.\nDr. Zhang's presentation is 13:30-15:30 on Thursday, 23 June 2016, as part of the State Estimation and Short-Term Operation in Power Distribution Networks panel. His topic is covering multiphase observation analysis in distribution systems state estimation. He will be discussing the implementation of a state estimation for distribution networks comprises additional challenges when compared with state estimators used in energy management system for high voltage power system networks. One of these is the formulation of implementation of network observability multiphase medium and low voltage distribution power networks.\nSenior Power Distribution Systems Engineer\nDr. Liuxi (Calvin) Zhang is responsible for the research and development of three-phase distribution systems modeling and analysis for new, cutting-edge application...read more\nDr. Liuxi (Calvin) Zhang is responsible for the research and development of three-phase distribution systems modeling and analysis for new, cutting-edge applications. He works to develop Nexant\u2019s core software product, Grid360, which includes three-phase state estimation, three-phase power flow, and load forecasting for distribution systems, among many other aspects. Mr. Zhang leads and coordinates multi-functional groups of power and software engineers throughout various locations in order to develop and deliver projects on time. Prior to Nexant, Mr. Zhang worked as a Research Assistant at Northeastern University for almost four years. He researched transmission systems modeling, state estimation and Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) applications in transmission systems, while simultaneously publishing three papers in IEEE Transactions on Power systems and six papers in conference proceedings as the first author. He has garnered multiple awards and honors in the power and energy, including the IEEE 2012 Student Achievement Award and the IEEE PES 2013 Outstanding Young Engineer Award. Mr. Zhang holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Power Energy from Northeastern University, an M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Power Energy from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and a B.S. in International Economy and Trade from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nextadvisor.com/blog/what-is-the-consumer-financial-protection-bureau-and-why-does-it-matter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:29Z", "digest": "sha1:4PIJTB5LK6SWV7SHSLK6F275Q6LTVLWT", "length": 7886, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nextadvisor.com", "title": "What is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Why Does It Matter? - NextAdvisor Blog", "raw_content": "We have referenced the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, commonly referred to as the CFPB, frequently in recent years due to its role in protecting and promoting consumer safety in the financial world. Beyond our website, it\u2019s likely that you\u2019ve heard the bureau\u2019s name or acronym invoked at least once in recent months as it has become the center of some intense debates within the current federal government. Whether you\u2019ve heard of the CFPB before this moment or not, chances are you might not understand exactly what it is, what it does and why it matters \u2014 or what the big fuss happening right now surrounding the appointment of a new director is all about. To help you get to the bottom of these questions and more, we\u2019re outlining the key things you need to know about this federal consumer watchdog agency.\nOriginally created in 2010 by the Obama administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a federal agency that aims to assist consumers by creating and enforcing rules for fair financial practices. According to the first post written by Senator Elizabeth Warren, who was drafted by President Obama to help set up the bureau during its inception, the primary goal of the CFPB at its start was to help level the playing field and simplify financial regulation. Up until that point, the responsibility for protecting consumers was scattered among numerous federal agencies, making it difficult for any kind of unified decisions or actions to be taken against companies or industries that harmed consumers. To help maintain the integrity of the bureau\u2019s mission and prevent companies from being able to bribe their way to softer treatment, the CFPB was set up to be independent from the rest of the federal government. In its brief, but productive time in operation, the bureau has helped obtain $11.9 billion in relief to more than 29 million consumers who have been harmed by bad financial practices, and fielded 1.2 million consumer complaints.\nWhile mortgage lenders were one of the initial focuses of the bureau at its start, on the heels of the housing crisis, it has tackled a number of big fish in the years since \u2014 JPMorgan Chase, Experian and Wells Fargo, to name a few \u2014 as well as plenty of smaller companies which have harmed consumers in industries ranging from payday lending to student loans to medical billing.\nWhat can the CFPB do for someone like me?\nOne of the primary functions of the CFPB is to provide consumers a place to lodge complaints about predatory, deceptive or unfair practices they encounter from financial companies and institutions. Sometimes, consumers can feel as though they have nowhere to turn or they might not know how to cut through the red tape to get in touch with a company. When you file a complaint with the CFPB, the bureau works to ensure that the company in question takes responsibility for their actions and provides you with a reasonable response. Submitting a complaint is a fairly simple process \u2014 you will be asked to choose the type of product or service you\u2019re complaining about (e.g., a credit card, a mortgage, debt collection, a vehicle loan, etc.), name the company in question and describe the problem you\u2019re having, along with any steps you\u2019ve taken to address the problem. You can submit documents to back up your claims, and the CFPB also asks what complainants think would be a fair resolution to the situation. Once your complaint has been submitted, the CFPB will reach out to the company and do its best to get your problem resolved. According to the bureau, there\u2019s a 97% success rate in getting a response once it is involved \u2014 and often, as noted above, that response includes redress in the form of money returned.\nThe other important function of the CFPB is to provide information to consumers so they can make smart financial decisions. All complaints handled by the bureau are logged, and you can look through a database of consumer complaints to see whether a company you\u2019re considering doing business with has a history of mistreating its customers. The CFPB logs each complaint within 15 days, whether the company has responded or not. In addition to this information, the bureau also collects and publishes research data, provides articles and educational insights on consumer finance topics and offers resources for practitioners to provide their customers or clients. You might see some similarities between the CFPB and the Better Business Bureau, and you\u2019d be correct in drawing that conclusion \u2014 both are watchdog agencies; however, it\u2019s important to note that the CFPB has federal power behind it, whereas the Better Business Bureau does not.\nWhy are some people against it?\nA government agency dedicated entirely to protecting consumers against predatory or harmful financial practices by companies seems like something that should be embraced by most, but in its time the CFPB has come under sharp and severe criticism from many different people and entities. Some view it as a symbol of government overreach and that its practices are too aggressive or controversial, and leave companies hurting under increased compliance costs while reducing the number of credit opportunities that vulnerable consumers have to access. Others are concerned with the bureau\u2019s centralized power structure \u2014 unlike the SEC or FDIC, there is no executive board that helps make decisions. Everything falls under the power of the director, who can only be removed by the president under certain circumstances, and that has led to some concern that an abuse of power could result from this lack of accountability. In fact, questions over who will be responsible for directing the CFPB have taken center stage in the political spotlight in just the past few days.\nWhy is there a battle happening over bureau leadership?\nRichard Cordray, the first director of the CFPB, officially resigned his position on Nov. 24 in a letter to the president. This resignation led to a scramble for power between the bureau\u2019s deputy director, Leandra English, and Mick Mulvaney, who also serves as the Office of Management and Budget director and has frequently bashed the CFPB. According to a tweet from Elizabeth Warren, who, as we noted earlier, helped set up the bureau, the deputy director assumes the role of acting director if the position becomes vacant; however, shortly after Cordray\u2019s resignation, Trump appointed Mulvaney as interim director. A request for an emergency restraining order filed by English to prevent Mulvaney from assuming the position was denied by a U.S. District Judge on Nov. 28, and both would-be directors showed up on Monday ready to work. It\u2019s unlikely that this issue will go away anytime soon, as the judge acknowledged some potential constitutional issues with the presidential appointment, and neither side seems ready to back down. Critics of the Mulvaney appointment have brought up the fact that an acting director who is a sitting White House official as well as an outspoken critic of the bureau is counterproductive to the purpose and design of the agency. On the other side, the Department of Justice has stated that the President has the right to appoint an interim director of his choosing due to the federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998.\nUltimately, no matter who winds up being the interim director, the president will eventually need to nominate a full-time director for the CFPB, to be confirmed by the Senate. In the meantime, it\u2019s important for consumers to understand what this agency is all about, and why it\u2019s become the subject of so much debate in recent weeks. 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"https://www.ctpost.com/highschool/article/Hearst-Connecticut-Media-fall-all-stars-Girls-12555823.php\nHearst Connecticut Media fall all-stars: Girls cross country\nDanbury\u2019s Alexandra Chakar\nKatherine Wiser, Pomperaug\nFreshman won the SWC championship (18:38.08), was runner-up at the State Open (18:42) and in Class L (18:35) and placed fifth in New England (17:53.16) \u2026 All-SWC first team.\nAlexandra Chakar, Danbury\nSophomore placed seventh in both the Class LL (19:59) and FCIAC (15:05.08) championships and ninth at the State Open (19:54) \u2026 Competed at the New England championships (19:07.37) \u2026 All-FCIAC first team.\nAngela Saidman, Immaculate\nJunior won the Class S title with a time of 19:41, was runner-up in the SWC (18:42.96) and fifth at the State Open (19:31) \u2026 Finished 21st at the New England championships (18:43.69) \u2026 All-SWC first team.\nEmily Philippides, Greenwich\nSenior finished in the top 15 all three of the postseason races she ran: FCIAC (eighth, 15:14.82), Class LL (20:17) and State Open (14th, 20:07) \u2026 All-FCIAC first team.\nKayla Cohen, New Fairfield\nJunior finished in the top three in Class M (second, 19:58) and in the SWC (third, 19:38.39) \u2026 Placed 15th at the State Open (20:13) and competed at the New England championships (19:31.50) \u2026 All-SWC first team.\nLauren Moore, Danbury\nJunior turned in top six finishes in the FCIAC (second, 14:51.80), Class LL (fourth, 19:48) and State Open (sixth, 19:41) championship races \u2026 Competed at the New England championships (18:59.68) \u2026 All-FCIAC first team.\nMadison Villa, Pomperaug\nSophomore placed fourth in Class L (19:48) and sixth in the SWC (19:50.08) \u2026 Finished 13th at the State Open (20:00) and competed at the New England championships (19:19.94) \u2026 All-SWC first team.\nHazel Hudson, New Fairfield\nSophomore finished in the top 10 in both the SWC (eighth, 20:13.89) and Class M (ninth, 20:36) races \u2026 Competed at the State Open (20:24) and New England (19:39.61) championships \u2026 All-SWC first team.\nKathleen Murphy, Weston\nSenior placed in the top 15 in the Class M (12th, 21:02) and SWC (14th, 20:46.73) championship races \u2026 Finished the State Open with a time of 20:51 \u2026 All-SWC second team.\nNina Koobatian, Pomperaug\nJunior finished in the top 10 in the Class L (eighth, 20:27) and SWC championships (10th, 20:16.54) \u2026 Competed in the State Open (20:52) and New England (19:50.06) races \u2026 All-SWC first team.\nTaylor Mascetta, Immaculate\nJunior placed among the top four in the Class S (second, 20:21) and SWC (fourth, 19:45.38) championships \u2026 Competed in the State Open, finishing the course in 20:35 \u2026 All-SWC first team.\nAlessandra Zaffina, Trumbull\nSophomore placed in the top 20 in the Class LL (11th, 20:18), FCIAC (12th, 15:25.53) and State Open (17th, 20:15) races \u2026 Competed in the New England championships (19:43.29) \u2026 All-FCIAC first team.\nZoe Harris, Greenwich\nSophomore finished in the top five in both the FCIAC (fourth, 14:59.82) and Class LL (fifth, 19:55) races \u2026 Competed in the State Open (25:27) \u2026 All-FCIAC first team.\nEmily Tressler, Newtown\nFreshman was the top finisher in her class in Class LL (eighth, 20:00) and placed ninth in the SWC (20:14.50) \u2026 Competed at the State Open (21:08) \u2026 All-SWC first team.\nMorgan McCormick, Wilton\nSenior won the State Open (18:23), Class L (19:19) and FCIAC (13:44.83) championships and was the top finisher from Connecticut with a fourth-place finish at the New England meet (17:50.80) \u2026 All-FCIAC first team.\nMarsha Turek, Danbury\nCoached the Hatters to second place team finishes at the State Open and in the FCIAC, third place in Class LL and eighth at the New England championships.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 7537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Finances-in-place-for-Clock-Co-conversion-in-New-13294620.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:01Z", "digest": "sha1:MRDYG3TFCRUZDPYKXKJWMHFHPBNYAO52", "length": 3159, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.nhregister.com", "title": "Finances in place for Clock Co. conversion in New Haven - New Haven Register", "raw_content": "https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Finances-in-place-for-Clock-Co-conversion-in-New-13294620.php\nFinances in place for Clock Co. conversion in New Haven\nBy Mary E. O\u2019Leary\nThe former New Haven Clock Co. on Hamilton Street in New Haven.\nPhoto: Arnold Gold \u2014 New Haven Register FILE PHOTO\nNEW HAVEN \u2014 Standing outside City Hall, the Development Commission approved the final document needed to put in place the finances for the conversion of the clock factory to apartments.\nThe open- air vote was taken before the commission headed for a tour of the central city with Economic Development Administrator Matthew Nemerson at the wheel of a van borrowed from the Fire Department.\nNemerson took them past recent developments, narrating the history behind them all for the benefit of new members recently named to that body.\nThe former New Haven Clock Co. has been approved by City Plan for conversion to 133 units of low-income housing, with 44 units set aside for low-income artists.\nWest Haven Black Coalition head files HUD complaint\nSingle-family home sale price in Connecticut hits a five-year high\nFor decades, New Haven has been looking for a developer to clean up the highly contaminated site and put it to a new use. Among the toxic materials to be removed are PCBs, hydrocarbons, metals and radium.\nTaom Heritage New Haven LLC, an affiliate of Reed Realty Group of Boston, is the developer. Reed specializes in this kind of reclamation work.\nThe cost of the remediation is estimated at $6.6 million, which will be funded through a $4 million state Department of Economic and Community Development loan; $400,000 from New Haven; $800,000 in a federal brownfield loan; $1.4 million from the developer.\nThe federal Environmental Protection Agency in 2010 arranged for a Brownfields Revolving Loan Fund with the city, where the city awards grants to take care of contaminated properties to reclaim them for a new use.\nThe brownfield loan will be amortized over 30 years at zero percent interest \u201cto make the deal work,\u201d Clay Williams, small business development officer, told the commision.\nThe first payment of $26,667 from the developer will start in 2023, which is when there will be sufficient cash flow, he said.\n\u201cIt meets the EPA requirements. They have no problem with this particular deal. The money that gets paid back to us we can then put it back out there,\u201d Williams said.\n\u201cWe have the flexibility to do pretty much whatever we want to do with this EPA money,\u201d he said.\nThe commission approved this unanimously.\nThe state $4 million DECD loan already has been approved by that agency. It has a 20-year term and an initial interest rate of one percent.\nThe city\u2019s $400,000 grant has been approved by the Board of Alders. That money and the brownfield money will be reimbursements for costs already incurred by the developer and will be \u201cthe last funds in.\u201d\nIn May, the alders, after much debate, approved a seven-year tax assessment freeze for the Clock Shop Lofts at $1.2 million. Williams said the assessment will stay the same through this period, but taxes could rise if the tax rate increases.\nmary.oleary@hearstmediact.com; 203-641-2577", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 7246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nhs.uk/news/heart-and-lungs/heart-risk-of-painkillers-examined/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:30Z", "digest": "sha1:5D4XHM4OZ63PMIVE544YAVNOFJBDB5QR", "length": 8788, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.nhs.uk", "title": "Heart risk of painkillers examined - NHS", "raw_content": "Heart risk of painkillers examined\nA painkiller taken by millions can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke by 40%, the Daily Mail has today reported. The newspaper says that researchers are calling for the drug, called diclofenac, to be available on prescription only.\nThe news is based on a large review that looked at the cardiovascular risks associated with a class of widely used painkillers called non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). NSAIDs in high-dose formulations are usually only available on prescription, but some low-dose NSAIDs, including ibuprofen, naproxen and diclofenac, can be bought over the counter.\nThe review found that diclofenac raised the risk of heart problems by 22% when taken at over-the-counter doses and by 40% at prescription strength. Naproxen and low-dose ibuprofen were least likely to increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes.\nWhile previous research has highlighted the cardiovascular risks of some NSAIDs, this review of observational studies provides some important new information about the risks associated with all currently available NSAIDs at different doses. As such, its findings will no doubt be important to future decisions about how these drugs should be used and regulated.\nHowever, it is important to note that for a healthy individual who takes diclofenac, the increased risk to the heart is still very small. The nature of this research means it is not possible to estimate accurately how small this risk is. Anyone who is concerned about taking NSAIDs should not stop taking these drugs but should consult their doctor.\nThe study was carried out by researchers affiliated with Hull York Medical School, the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, the University of Toronto in Canada and the University of Newcastle in Australia. It received no external funding. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal PLoS Medicine.\nThe research was covered fairly in most newspapers. In its print version of the story the Daily Mail featured a large front-page headline warning of a \u201cPainkiller heart alert\u201d, which may have been alarming. However, within the article itself the Daily Mail did feature prominent messages that patients should not panic and should not stop taking their medication. Both the Daily Mail and The Daily Telegraph reported that, for most healthy people, the increased risk of heart and other problems from diclofenac was small, and the reports featured in the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express all included comments and advice from independent experts.\nThis was a systematic review comparing the risks of individual NSAIDs taken at typical doses by people at home, rather than in hospital. The researchers say that there are concerns about the risk associated with non-prescription NSAIDs available in low-dose forms, such as ibuprofen, naproxen and diclofenac.\nThe researchers point out that while some randomised trials have highlighted the cardiovascular risk of some NSAIDs, little is known about how the risks of individual drugs compare when used at different doses, for different lengths of time and in different populations. For this reason the researchers set out to examine the outcomes seen in controlled observational studies, which would better reflect the risks associated with the typical domestic use of NSAIDs rather than the risks associated with their use in the idealised setting of a clinical trial. To date, randomised trials of NSAIDs have reported only small numbers of heart and stroke problems.\nThe researchers searched a wide range of electronic databases for relevant studies published between 1985 and 2010 that had reported on the cardiovascular risks associated with the use of individual NSAIDs in population settings. They included only non-randomised, controlled observational studies in their literature search. These observational studies included case control, cohorts and case-crossover studies. They then assessed the methodological quality of the selected studies. From a total 459 potentially relevant papers, 51 studies met their criteria.\nFrom the studies gathered, the researchers extracted and pooled information about the risk of major cardiovascular events associated with individual NSAIDs. They also assessed subsets of studies that provided relevant information to examine the risk of NSAIDs in different doses and in people with low and high existing risk of heart problems. To compare different drugs they carried out a further type of analysis, called a pair-wise comparison, where they indirectly compared each drug against another in turn, taking the results from separate trials.\nThe overall analyses included data from 30 case-control studies and 21 cohort studies involving more than 2.7 million individuals and featuring a total of 184,946 cardiovascular events.\nThe researchers looked at the drugs where there were 10 or more studies. Of drugs where there were 10 or more studies, researchers found that the highest overall risks were seen with rofecoxib and diclofenac, and the lowest with ibuprofen and naproxen. Compared with not using any NSAIDs, the researchers found:\nrofecoxib increased the risk of heart problems by 45% (95% CI 1.33 to 1.59)\ndiclofenac increased the risk by 40% (95% CI 1.27 to 1.55)\nibuprofen increased the risk by 18% (95% CI 1.11 to 1.25)\nIn a subset of studies that looked at risk associated with lower doses they found:\nlow doses of rofecoxib increased the risk by 37% (95% CI 1.20 to 1.57)\nlow doses of celecoxib increased the risk by 26% (95% CI 1.09 to 1.47)\nlow doses of diclofenac increased the risk by 22% (95% CI 1.12 to 1.33)\nIt is important to note that the drug rofecoxib has already been withdrawn from the market because of its association with a raised risk of cardiovascular events. Including it in the study allows the risk associated with other drugs to be compared with the risks of rofecoxib.\nIbuprofen only posed a risk when taken at a higher dose and naproxen had no significant risk at any dose.\nThe researchers say the increase in risk was proportional for both high- and low-risk groups. This means that, relative to their risk if not using NSAIDS, the risks for both groups increased to the same extent. The risk of cardiovascular problems also rose early in the course of treatment. For some NSAIDs, risk was found to increase within the first month of taking the drug.\nThe researchers say the results of their review \u201care robust enough to inform clinical and regulatory decisions\u201d.\nThey call for \u201cregulatory action\u201d on diclofenac, as it is currently available without prescription.\nThey say the limited data on etoricoxib \u201craises serious concerns\u201d about safety, particularly as similar drugs such as rofecoxib have been withdrawn.\nThey say that, in the case of ibuprofen, labelling warnings should be strengthened to stop patients who are already at high risk of cardiovascular problems from exceeding the maximum recommended dose.\nThey question the continued use of indomethacin.\nThis large review has published some important information on the cardiovascular risks associated with NSAIDs, including the risk associated with different doses and in populations at both high and low risk of cardiovascular events. It raises concerns about some of these risks, in particular the risk associated with the widely used non-prescription drug diclofenac.\nAs its authors point out, it had some limitations.\nIt had to rely on observational studies (rather than randomised controlled trials), which are subject to bias, especially in terms of other factors (confounders) that might influence results. However, the researchers did take steps to minimise this risk.\nThe data in the studies mainly came from large administrative databases and electronic health records, and may not have been comprehensive, especially concerning key information such as use of non-prescription NSAIDs and aspirin, or information about people\u2019s risk of heart problems.\nThe review suffered from \u2018heterogeneity\u2019. This means that many of the studies varied in their design, their methods and how they analysed results. Heterogeneity makes it harder to combine the results of different studies accurately and can, therefore, throw doubt on the findings of systematic reviews.\nPatients using NSAIDs who are worried about side effects should not stop taking them, but instead consult their doctor.\nPainkiller heart alert: Don't stop taking pills, but do talk to your GP, British scientists urge\nCommon painkillers can raise heart risk\nHealth alert over common painkiller\nDaily Express, September 28 2011\nMcGettigan P, Henry D. Cardiovascular Risk with Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs: Systematic Review of Population-Based Controlled Observational StudiesPLoS Medicine 8(9)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 9794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.noosanews.com.au/news/quiet-revolution-is-taking-place/3592227/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:7TVICX5USC4RHUSOF3HPTEQ4PQUCSDOJ", "length": 2802, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.noosanews.com.au", "title": "Quiet revolution is taking place | Noosa News", "raw_content": "FROM LEFT: Mick Davis (ZEN), John Esso (CER), Bill Fitch (CER), June Norman (CER), Kerri Watson (ZEN) and Paula Reynolds (CER).\nQuiet revolution is taking place\nA QUIET revolution is unfolding in Cooran thanks to the efforts of a few dynamic Noosa locals.\nSpending an hour or two on a Saturday morning learning how to unlock the secrets of electricity bills (and inspecting a home for more clues on household energy usage), is probably not your ideal weekend activity.\nBut this hardy group of locals begs to differ.\nFollowing on from their Declaration of Cooran as a Coal and Gas Free Community on August 11 this year, members of the Cooran Earth Rights (CER) group have been meeting with volunteers from Zero Emissions Noosa (ZEN) to take back the power, one household at a time.\nThe group's goal is to become the first community in Noosa, Queensland and maybe, Australia, to be a zero net user of coal and gas-generated electricity.\nThey aim to do this by reducing consumption, and installing more solar photovoltaic panels.\nWith assistance from ZEN's Repower Cooran Project Officer Geoff Acton, the community has learned that it currently draws 3.9million (mega) kilowatt hours from the electricity grid each year.\nThat equates to the average Cooran household emitting 4.1 tonne of carbon dioxide from electricity usage due to the burning of coal.\nFurthermore, about 20 per cent of households are high energy users, with the remaining 80 per cent low-medium energy users.\nWhile more than 45 per cent of households currently have solar PV panels installed, and 22 per cent with solar hot water, the community wants to reduce its reliance upon coal as an energy source.\nBut making the switch to solar power is not that simple.\nSurveys conducted in the community by ZEN and CER have found that the main barriers for Cooran residents in switching to renewable energy are: a lack of awareness about solar power and affordability issues; limited understanding of how people use energy in the home; and a lack of knowledge about how to decipher a power bill.\nSo, the group has embarked upon the challenging journey of becoming Energy Coaches for their local community.\nZEN volunteers, Michael Davis of Sustainable Energy Management P/L and Kerri Watson of EcoStrategy Consulting, are sharing their expertise with the group, using a simple energy audit process.\nThe idea is that by transferring some basic knowledge about energy utilisation and potential solutions, the members of CER can then offer this expertise to other residents.\nA little bit of knowledge can translate into a lot of power, especially if the whole community is behind the initiative.\nThis is community-based social marketing at work, and it is being used increasingly around the globe as communities take action against climate change.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 5363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northeastjobs.org.uk/Default.aspx?page=jobdetail&module=jobs-userjobdetails&jid=180537", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JX7IF2QS47HUDEZWKZLHV25PIGVBGVPK", "length": 2790, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.northeastjobs.org.uk", "title": "Health, Safety & Risk Manager - Hartlepool Borough Council - North East Jobs", "raw_content": "Health, Safety & Risk Manager\nBand 15 \u00a346,918 - \u00a351,278 pa\nCivic Centre, Hartlepool\n101046 Health, Safety & Risk Manager 14.02.18 JD.docx (149.15 KB)\n101046 Health, Safety & Risk Manager 14.02.18 PS.doc (195.5 KB)\nThe Health, Safety and Risk team is a small professional unit which supports Hartlepool Borough Council (HBC), schools and external clients e.g. GP surgeries in all matters of health, safety and risk.\nWe are now looking for an exceptional health and safety professional to lead the team in the next phase of service development. With an established track record in improving health and safety outcomes and highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills, the right candidate will bring the right balance to initiate change and make an impact in Hartlepool.\nReporting to the Assistant Director - Corporate Services, and working closely with Elected Members, Trade Unions, Chief Officers, staff and external organisations and partners, it is a high profile position which carries a great deal of leadership responsibility. Your main role will be to lead on all aspects of health and safety matters across the council, schools and external clients. You will act as the Competent Person for the council on health and safety matters and ensure the council complies with all statutory obligations.\nYou will oversee an effective Health and Safety Management System, including developing and reviewing policies, procedures and systems to ensure that risk is identified, managed and improved upon. You will make sure that Chief Officers and Members are cited regularly on the key issues affecting the authority. You will be a change maker in respect of organisational responses to health and safety and management of risk and will support the council, schools and external clients to deliver good practice in respect of health and safety.\nYou will hold a relevant degree or diploma in Occupational Health and Safety (or equivalent) and will have chartered membership of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (or equivalent). A fire risk assessors certificate and management certificate would be desirable. You will also have experience of working with a range of agencies at a senior level.\nFor an informal discussion please contact Claire McLaren, Assistant Director, Corporate Services on 07970 725868.\nTo apply for this post simply go to https://saas.ngahr.com/hbc/wrl/ and create an account before completing the online application.\nClosing date: Friday 4th January 2019\nInterviews to be held on 23rd January 2019\nPlease note that due to our Christmas closure, support for applicants will be unavailable from 21st December 2018 to 2nd January 2019. Any queries will be dealt with as a priority upon our return. Good luck with your application and Merry Christmas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northernedgealgonquin.ca/the-magic-maker-within-celebrating-whale-listener/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:33Z", "digest": "sha1:SURTHCAJKKFXZJ4UD4TS6ERRIIDDY2QI", "length": 15576, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.northernedgealgonquin.ca", "title": "The Magic Maker Within: Celebrating Whale Listener | Northern Edge Algonquin", "raw_content": "The Magic Maker Within: Celebrating Whale Listener\nBy Martha Lucier, CCSS Co-Founder\n32 years ago, as I lay next to my two and a half year old daughter, Natalie, I recall hearing an important message that has stuck with me ever since. As she clutched her favourite stuffed animal, \u2018Popples\u2019, I heard an inner voice share these words \u2018It is important for you to follow through with your dreams. Your children chose you as their Mother for a reason. When you follow through with your dreams, you give them permission to follow theirs. If you don\u2019t follow through with your dreams, their dreams cannot be fulfilled\u2019.\nI have recalled this message many times over the years. Each time I came across an obstacle that seemed insurmountable, those wise words inspired me to find a way to cultivate faith within myself and continue to dream and create for a greater purpose than myself.\nAn elder once read my palm. He looked at me wide eyed and said, \u2018You see this line here? It travels all the way from the bottom of the palm of your hand to the very top of your finger. You have something many, many people do not have; the ability to follow a dream all the way to it\u2019s conclusion\u2019. Manifesting a dream takes great courage, focus and concentration, a strong belief in miracles and a willingness to acknowledge and work with the magic maker within.\nI began engaging in shamanic practice in 1993, when I met my first power animal, whale. Whale planted a seed of a dream in me, for healing, beginning within myself, and spiralled out to include my children, family and all my relations. Through whale I received guidance and deep peace through a connection to the Great Mother Love that it embodies. Whale became a messenger and guide for the shamanic circle that grew from the seed it had placed within my heart, eventually leading to the creation of Northern Edge Algonquin Retreat and Awareness Centre.\nMy daughter, Natalie, has grown up with our Northern Edge, and CCSS circle family. Many in our community have known Natalie since she was a young teenager, witnessing her blossom as she answered the calling of the whale clan. In 2009, while Natalie was living in Newfoundland, Whale gifted me a story to share with her Story of Whale, and a message that she was their spokesperson, or messenger. On a trip to Labrador that summer, Natalie encountered a humpback whale feeding close to a rock, filming the whole experience. Soon afterwards CBC National Television broadcasted the footage across Canada.\nIn the winter of 2012, while on a trip to Hawaii, Natalie captured some very close and beautiful photos of the humpbacks. Just as we were leaving the harbour, a humpback breached very close to the boat. The captain and crew were amazed at how many whales we saw that day, as Natalie, myself and circle member Jan Beaver, were struck with \u2018Whale Bliss\u2019. During that same trip, at a dream workshop with Robert Moss, Natalie received the name \u2018Whale Listener\u2019.\n~ photos by Natalie Lucier\nIn preparation for her journey as a filmmaker, that year, our shamanic circle sang a whale song into a shaker, gifting it to Natalie as she headed to the British Columbia coast as a volunteer for Orca Lab, where she spend the summer living in a hut, on a remote island filming orca whales.\nDuring that summer, I had a dream in which I looked down and saw a tattoo on my top left foot, in the shape of a circle. I travelled to meet Natalie that autumn in Haida Gwaii, northern British Columbia. The first thing I noticed was a tattoo on Natalie\u2019s top left foot, of a mother and baby orca whale, in the shape of a circle.\nWe stayed in a small cabin named \u2018Moon Shell\u2019 on the fringe of a mossy rain forest, lulled to sleep each night by the surf of the Pacific. Each day we walked the beach collecting shells, while looking for any sign of a whale. While walking the beach one day, a dog came running towards us, with the owner close behind calling \u2018Molly\u2019! This was the name of my daughter Emily\u2019s dog. We introduced ourselves to the mysterious man.\n~ photo by Natalie Lucier\nAs we were putting gas in the car the following day, the same man drove up behind our vehicle. As he and Natalie engaged in a conversation, he wrote his phone number on a sticky note and gave it to Natalie, inviting her to contact him if she was going to be in the area for much longer. He also wrote the number on the back of her dirt-covered car, she affectionately named \u2018The Horse\u2019.\nThe next day, after Natalie dropped me off at the airport, she searched for the sticky note with the number, but couldn\u2019t find it. She remembered he had written it on the back of her car. She made several attempts to call, and on her last attempt he answered, saying that he was at the top of a mountain, outside of cell service, and was not sure how the call came through. They arranged to meet later that day and go for a hike, as Natalie had one day left before making the long return journey home.\nOn the day Natalie was due to depart Haida Gwaii, a storm rolled in and all the ferries were cancelled. Natalie\u2019s new friend invited her to stay with him. During her extended visit, they went for a very long hike to see a beached whale. From this moment, their relationship grew deeper, and eventually they decided to marry.\nNatalie stayed another month in Haida Gwaii, and began her long journey home in November, to gather her things and bring closure to her life in Ontario. As she approached one of the mountain passes through the Rockies, she hit a snow squall and she and her vehicle came very close to falling off the mountain. She called us on that day, November 10th, very anxious from her experience, as we celebrated my mother\u2019s 80th birthday.\nOnce she arrived home in Ontario, she shared with us the news that she and her new friend had fallen in love and decided to marry. Friends who heard the story, reminded Natalie of a dream she had before she left to go to B.C. In the dream, a whale came up out of the water, onto the beach and transformed into a man. At the time, she said she was going to meet the \u2018man of her dreams\u2019 out there.\nNatalie was still very shaken from her near death experience on the mountain, so I entered into a shamanic journey to access healing on her behalf. I saw a part of her still sitting at the top of the mountain, on a fence. This soul part of Natalie shared that she was not sure she was ready to be in a relationship without giving away her own dreams, passion and power.\nIn January 2013, Natalie left Ontario, driving across the country, to begin her new life on the coast of Haida Gwaii. She had dreams, every night of the orca\u2019s. They were pulling her nose, and biting her hands. Meanwhile, her relationship was not going well and slowly she fell into a depression. She could not find work and her dream of making a film slowly slipped away.\nOn the summer solstice, Natalie and her husband went on a boat fishing. It was the first time she was on the ocean, since she had moved to Haida Gwaii. A pod of orcas surprised them, circling the boat and displaying unusual behaviours. Natalie was very excited, however her husband found the whales annoying, as they interfered with the fishing expedition. It was at this moment, Natalie realized it was time to come home to her \u2018family\u2019 and end the relationship, for her partner did not value or appreciate what she was most passionate about. As she began the long journey home to Ontario, she realized she was pregnant.\nWhile Natalie was living in the hut at Orca Lab, an elder befriended her, frequently stopping by the island, to check on whether she needed any assistance. His name was Joe. He lived with his family in Alert Bay, as part of the Namgis Indigenous nation, and Pacific Northwest Kwakwaka\u2019wakw speaking peoples.\nWhen she was leaving Alert Bay, to travel north to Haida Gwaii, Joe was the last person she said goodbye to as she boarded the ferry. After she returned to Ontario, Joe and Natalie continued to communicate through the internet. He often sent her beautiful photos of nature and artifacts he discovered in the remote area\u2019s he travelled. As the due date of Natalie\u2019s son came close, Joe said to Natalie that he would be born on March 6th, the date of his wife\u2019s birthday. Sure enough, Everest Rene Lucier was born on March 6th, 2014, the \u2018man of her dreams\u2019.\nShortly after Everest was born Natalie had a dream about Joe. There was a Potlatch being held on his behalf, and Natalie, myself and her brother Tim were present. There was great excitement because a killer whale had come through the inlet, which was unusual. When Natalie awoke from the dream, she contacted Joe to share the dream with him. Before she had a chance to share it, he asked if it was a good dream? After sharing the dream, Joe said \u2018Natalie, I want you to promise me something\u2026.when Evie is old enough, that he can have dreadlocks, I want you to tell him, he has a human family here in Alert Bay. He is part of the \u2018Whale Clan\u2019 and also part of the \u2018Whale Family\u2019. He was a whale, long before you and I were in human form.\u2019 Natalie promised she would share this message with Everest when he was old enough to understand. A few days later, Joe passed away from cancer. Natalie wondered if the whale in her dream was coming to take Joe home to his whale family.\nIn Everest\u2019s bedroom, there were many killer whale pictures and figurines. After Joe passed away, every day for a month, the figurines and pictures tilted on their own, after being uprighted and straightened. Natalie felt Joe\u2019s presence and encouragement to get back to making the film.\nSupported by the love of her family, Natalie adjusted to being a single mother to Everest as she began recreating her life. Eventually she moved to Huntsville, Ontario, where she found the film team she was seeking, to gather the pieces she had collected and create the film of her dreams.\nIn the autumn of 2016, just as Natalie\u2019s work as a film-maker got rolling, my mother entered the hospital, with liver cancer. 34 years earlier, around the time my twin daughter\u2019s were born, my mother, an alcoholic, ceased drinking after a near death experience. She had a choice to come back to this life and complete what she set out to do, or transition to the afterlife. She begged to come back, with a promise she would never drink again. My twin daughter\u2019s are the spitting image of my mother, with red hair, green eyes and fair skin.\nAs my mother\u2019s life faded, it was as though her life energy was fueling the living dreams of her family. Natalie secured interviews with her mentor Rob Stewart, and idol David Suzuki, whom she admired since she was a child.\nMy daughter, Emily, Natalie\u2019s twin sister was expecting a baby, on November 13th 2016, however our youngest grandchild, Rowan Todd Lucier was born November 1st, the first red head of the next generation! On November 13, 2016, the 34th birthday of my twin daughters, my mother Rosemary Antoinette Fancsy made her final journey, bringing her life to it\u2019s fullest completion. Moments before her death, her spirit spoke to me, asking me to promise that I would always remember that she lives in my heart and in life all around me. Since her death, I\u2019ve witnessed many miracles and gifts of her life inspiring the magic makers within us all. Holding my new grandson in my arms I see my mother\u2019s spirit shining through his beautiful smile and tender eyes. As we prepare for the premiere of Natalie\u2019s film \u2018To the Orca\u2019s, With Love\u2019, I feel my Mother\u2019s love and support, fueling Natalie\u2019s dream.\nThis past July, my husband Todd and I celebrated our 35th anniversary in the Galapagos. While on a boat in the Pacific a Blue Whale, the largest and loudest mammal on the Earth with the largest heart, swam under the boat, coming very close and staying with us for quite some time. The guides and crew of the boat, who have been offering tours for over 30 years, had never seen a Blue Whale. I was reminded of the Story of Whale I received in 2009 about the key the whale carries in it\u2019s heart. Within a half an hour, we had another surprise visitor. An orca whale was balancing a sea turtle on it\u2019s back. We were awestruck. It stayed for quite some time as well. See photos and videos here.\nWhen we came home after sharing the video\u2019s and story of the whales, we realized there was no coincidence we saw a Blue Whale and Orca on our trip, just as Natalie\u2019s film was ready to be birthed. It felt as though whale was delivering a message, not only to us, but all humans on that day. Our hearts were activated with vibrations of love, unity and peace, awakening the magic maker with us to help restore life upon the Earth. The whales delivered a key that day, about the importance of coming together as a pod, to dream beyond what we think is possible.\nThe main message of the film \u2018To the Orca\u2019s, with Love\u2019 is about the strength of family connection, love and compassion. \u201cOrcas have another part of the brain that is the emotional / family connectedness side that we as humans could not understand because we do not have it. It is a large part of their brain and their own family & social connectedness is a fundamental part of their life. Family and bonding is everything to them.\u201d ~ Natalie\nIn circle, we are the midwives and caretakers of each other\u2019s dreams, helping each other tend to the seeds we plant in our soul\u2019s garden. In circle, we open to receive the support of the ancestors, the love of thousands upon thousands who fuel our dreams coming to life. In circle, we remind each other of the magic maker within us all, rising together into our potential.\nWhat dreams and prayers are coming to life for us now? What would it be like to celebrate and open to receive the gifts of our co-creations?\nTo the Orcas, With Love\nNatalie Lucier, filmmaker and daughter of NEA Co-Founders Martha & Todd, premiere\u2019s her film, To The Orcas, With Love in Huntsville on September 1st, 2017.\nNatalie\u2019s relationship with orcas inspires her to restore a loving relationship with herself and this remarkable planet.\nStories of personal connections with orcas, beautiful cinematography featuring B.C\u2019s resident orcas, and an evocative soundscape composed by Jeff Rona provide an uplifting contrast to the environmental challenges we face. Inspired by elders including environmentalist and CBC Broadcaster, David Suzuki, whale researchers Alexandra Morton and Paul Spong, totem carver Wayne Alfred, and lifelong resident of the Broughton archipelago Billy Proctor, this film is anchored by Rob Stewart\u2019s invitation to rise up and create the world we dream for ourselves.\nViewers will come to understand the importance of the personal choices we make; it becomes clear that what we do to nature, we do to ourselves.\nCan\u2019t make it to the film? Stay tuned for other showings by checking out the Facebook Page for To the Orcas, With Love. If you can help raise awareness of this fantastic documentary, please consider sharing the page or the World Premiere event with friends!\nRodd Lucier says:\nThank you Martha for weaving these threads into the perfect introduction to the film. We are very much looking forward to the unveiling and celebration of To The Orcas with Love.\nThanks Rodd!\nThank you Martha, for this beautiful sharing about you and your family. Keep following through on your dreams so that others may follow. Sending blessings to ALL. Love, Nancy\nJust reading this now Martha \u2013 so powerful! I didn\u2019t realize how deeply connected to whale you (and Natalie) have been for so long. Such a beautiful reminder to listen deeply and follow our dreams!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 16947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2010/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHNV7NJMW5LAGPIY5P7PFHWGFARQDCJ7", "length": 3243, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.notreble.com", "title": "January 2010 \u2013 No Treble", "raw_content": "Coldplay bassist\u2019s \u201cApparatjik\u201d supergroup debuts\nColdplay bassist Guy Berryman\u2019s supergroup side project, \u201cApparatjik,\u201d featuring Magne Furuholmen from A-Ha, producer Martin Terefe and Jonas Bjerre from Mew, will be releasing a new as-yet-untitled album and making their first public appearance on February 1st. The name Apparatjik comes from the Swedish language and is used to describe people who \u201ccreate bottlenecks in otherwise efficient organizations.\u201d The group...\nRay Brown Trio: Blue Monk\nThis one seemed fitting for a relaxing Sunday afternoon\u2026 the great Ray Brown and his trio performing \u201cBlue Monk\u201d. Happy Sunday.\nRock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Fantasy Camp to feature Lemmy, Michael Anthony and more\nIf your dream is to become the next rock star, you might want to consider attending this year\u2019s Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles. The camp, now in its 12th year, allows musicians to jam with legendary rock stars and play major concert venues. This year, bassists Michael Anthony (Van Halen, Chickenfoot), Lemmy Kilmister (Mot\u00f6rhead), and Rudy Sarzo...\nRhonda Smith to join Jeff Beck\u2019s tour in 2010\nJeff Beck has put together a new rhythm section for his upcoming tour dates in Europe and the U.S. Bassist Rhonda Smith and drummer Narada Michael Walden take the spot filled by Tal Wilkenfeld and Vinnie Colaiuta for the last few years for this part of the tour. Smith is best known for her work with Prince, and her funky...\nBass Videos, NAMM 2010\nMichael Manring: Zon demo at NAMM\nWe\u2019re still digging up videos from NAMM here and there\u2026 Here\u2019s Michael Manring, playing his Signature Bass at the Zon booth during NAMM 2010. Crank up your speakers a little, the audio is a little light.\nMissouri State adds Charlie Haden to faculty and new jazz studies program\nMissouri State University\u2019s Bachelor of Music performance degree now includes a jazz studies program. To help kick off the program in a big way, bass legend Charlie Haden has agreed to join the faculty as the 2010-11 artist-in-residence. \u201cThis comprehensive Bachelor of Music in Jazz Performance degree will prepare young musicians for careers as professional performers, composers, and arrangers in...\nDuff McKagan rumored to be writing and recording with Jane\u2019s Addiction\nVelvet Revolver and ex-Guns N\u2019 Roses bassist Duff McKagan is reportedly writing and recording with the group Jane\u2019s Addiction, according to fan web site Xiola.org. The news following a twitter post from original J.A. bassist Eric Avery, saying \u201cfyi, to answer the question directly, i am not writing with janes addiction.\u201d Jane\u2019s Addiction reunited with the original lineup in late...\nAlain Caron solo bass: Scrapper\nHere\u2019s bass great Alain Caron \u2013 and one big acoustic bass guitar \u2013 taking a solo during the tune \u201cScrapper\u201d \u2026 or is it \u201cScrapple for the Apple\u201d?\nBlues for Tony: album tribute to Tony Williams released\nThree years ago, keyboardist Alan Pasqua put together a band to honor drummer Tony Williams, who passed away. Pasqua recruited Yellowjackets bassist Jimmy Haslip along with drummer Chad Wackerman and guitarist Allan Holdsworth to the project, and the group recorded throughout their tour. Blues for Tony, originally released on DVD, is now available as a double CD. From the editorial...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nowtolove.com.au/amp/reality-tv/the-bachelor-australia/romy-cat-bachelor-australia-51141", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:40Z", "digest": "sha1:MJ5K2WISL7D4APYNYAQDGNNHDOC3FJ7V", "length": 6547, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "www.nowtolove.com.au", "title": "Romy and Cat talk Bachelor Australia, Bachelor in Paradise and moving on from being \"mean girls\"", "raw_content": "EXCLUSIVE: Romy and Cat talk Bachelor Australia, Bachelor in Paradise and moving on from being \"mean girls\"\nThey may be gone but they're far from forgotten.\nBy: Chloe Lal\nThere are no two ways around it, Romy and Cat left The Bachelor Australia with the thorny crown of Australia's TV villains.\nTheir reign was toppled in an epic piece of television that saw Nick Cummins say goodbye, or in Romy's case \u2013 the now infamous walkout \u2013 to the entire Tripod.\nAnd it can't be denied that many across Australia were happy.\nFrom fans on social media, to Honey Badger's romantic hopefuls in the Bachie mansion, the consensus was that the Tripod were a bunch of \"mean girls\" and they had to go.\nAs we see with all reality TV eliminations, the moment contestants say goodbye, it is a full on media storm.\nTalking to Cat and Romy was incredibly emotional and showed a brand new side to both of them!\nAfter a scandalous season, it was time for Romy and Cat to face the music and own up to their actions.\nBut when Now To Love caught up with the eliminated Bachelor hopefuls, it was a very poignant reminder that reality TV might be the perfect remedy to a long day and our dream \"water cooler talk\" and the people on the show happen to be real life humans with very real emotion.\nIn the past few days we've heard Romy and Cat apologise for their actions \u2013 but there's still so much that's been left unsaid.\nWe've asked all the questions you wish you could've asked The Bachelor Australia's Romy and Cat.\nSaying goodbye to Cat...\nAnd Romy was a huge deal on the show.\nCat admitted to us that she was a huge fan of the show, \" I went in for the challenge and I thought it'd be character building.\"\nKnown for speaking her mind, that recognisable signature grin is long gone. Today, the 24-year-old shared, \"I've been told to kill myself. It's insane what people have been saying.\"\n\"I'm sorry if I've offended you. People have taken some of my comments the wrong way. But some of my comments were nasty and they were bad. I regret that. It's a small fraction of my personality. It's a shame you didn't see the other side of me.\"\n\"It was 169 hours for 1 hour episode.\"\nAll the times Cat and Romy shocked the nation\nThe Bachelor Australia's Romy reveals she's after Nick Cummins, not friends\nThe Bachelor's Cat slams her rivals in the mansion: \"I'm no snake\"\nCONFIRMED: Romy says she was a paid actress on Bachelor Australia\nAustralia reacts to Cat, Romy and Alisha's exit on Bachelor 2018\nRomy, 30, echoed her friend, \"Agreed, it was supposed to be different and fun. The thought of finding love is in the back of your head. But it's 50/50 chance.\"\n\"My cousin Sam Johnston had got a bit of backlash from his season. But I wasn't that familiar with the show and didn't realise how intense it would be.\"\nTV villains tend to come out of an experience by putting the onus on \"bad editing\".\nBut the hardest thing for Cat and Romy was the friendships that they'd created with the people who were responsible for the editing.\nRomy's cousin Sam is a Bachie alum.\nThe girls couldn't stress enough how close they became to the producers and crew.\nWatching the final product has been a bitter pill.\n\"Rom and I were so close to them.\"\n\"Not being able to speak to them now that we're out is hard.\"\nRomy told us, \"Seeing how you were produced\u2026 You're like 'Oh really?'\"\n\"I felt like I was dreading watching the show every week. It left such a bitter taste.\"\nRomy and Cat were known to speak their mind.\nThe two aren't completely blindsided, after all they spoke their own words.\nThe pals told NTL they could see how they may be edited on the show, but they both shared that \"we had some really nice moments. It's a pity you didn't see it at all.\"\nThe word \"bullying\" has been thrown around quite a bit.\nRomy and Cat both own up to their actions but it's clear they had no idea things would have ended up as they did.\n\"To have found out that other girls had thrown me under the bus. I did have some great relationships in the house,\" Cat recounts, thinking about why Nick said goodbye.\nAs for Romy, many viewers assumed Cat going was a factor. But that couldn't be further from the truth.\n\"I hadn't planned [rejecting the rose]. It took me by surprise too. My hand literally wouldn't go up to accept the rose. It just didn't.\"\n\"It didn't make sense at the time. Fast forward 24 hours, I'm at home with my mum and dad. The next morning, dad's had a stroke overnight. He had a really bad aneurysm bleed \u2013 so I'm now saying goodbye to my dad.\"\nEven if she took the rose, Romy now knows, \"I would have been on the next plane home.\"\n\"Now he's brain damaged and he struggles to communicate. Had I not have gone then I wouldn't have had that opportunity. It was the universe stepping in.\"\n\"Nick doesn't know, and he's obviously with someone.\"\nOh Honey, what have you done!?\nRomy and Cat have a lot of insight on the truth behind Cass and Nick's relationship, which you can hear about in the video below.\nDespite everything, could Romy have fallen in love with Nick?\n\"Falling in love in that environment is just so difficult. It's manufactured, but spending time in day-to-day life\u2026 Maybe.\"\nCat, as we watched on TV, seemed to be less than enchanted by Mr Badger, but the unique environment did tap into her competitive side.\n\"You're living in this house with nothing else to do but talk about this guy. You almost convince yourself that there could be something there.\"\n\"Look, I gave it a red hot go\u2026 I bloody leant in for a kiss! AND FAILED!\"\n\"In the end I just wanted to win,\" she laughs.\nRomy was straddling two lines: One was that she liked him but she also couldn't help but be \"cheeky\".\nAfter everything that's gone down, could the girls be friends with Nick?\nShort answer: They don't know.\nCat says, \"I don't know him that well. I don't have anything against him but I'd say hey.\"\nCould we see the girls in the future, especially now that Bachelor In Paradise's second season has been confirmed!\nThe Bachelor AustraliaThe heartbreaking truth behind Romy\u2019s shock exit\nThe Bachelor AustraliaAustralia reacts to Cat, Romy and Alisha's exit\nRomy is a firm no.\n\"I'm not interested at all. That sort of dating thing on TV is too hard. It's too exposed. I haven't felt good leaving this process.\"\nShe would do something like I'm a Celebrity. Her main takeaway is no more \"TV dating or cattiness!\"\nAs for the queen of sass Cat, she's more than happy to channel a Keira get a chance to rebrand on something like BiP.\n\"Put more on an island with some cocktails and some legends\u2026 sign me up!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.npr.org/2016/10/13/497569716/first-listen-the-radio-dept-running-out-of-love", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AVI2CAE4ILZTU4FA7SRUIX4R7SEDEFLB", "length": 2988, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.npr.org", "title": "Review: The Radio Dept., 'Running Out Of Love' : NPR", "raw_content": "Review: The Radio Dept., 'Running Out Of Love' The protest album is alive and well in 2016. Listen to a synth-pop record created to fight the rise of far-right nationalism in Sweden.\nReview: The Radio Dept., 'Running Out Of Love'\nNote: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify playlist at the bottom of the page.\nThe Radio Dept., Running Out Of Love. Courtesy of the artist hide caption\nThe U.S. isn't the only country making stark political choices in 2016. In Scandinavia, ostensibly one of the most progressive regions on the planet (then again, maybe not), a conservative movement is picking up speed in the form of the counterintuitively named Sweden Democrats. On Sunday night, Swedish Prime Minster Stefan L\u00f6fven, a Social Democrat, called the nationalist group \"a Nazi party, a racist party\" during a debate on national TV, prompting the organization to file a complaint with Sweden's parliament.\nThe Sweden Democrats have seen their popularity rise in part because of their objection to Sweden's immigration policies. During the country's elections in 2014, the party promised to reduce immigration by 90 percent; that mission has helped it more than double its numbers in the polls, from less than 13 percent two years ago to almost 27 percent now.\nWhat does nationalist sentiment have to do with a new album? In the case of The Radio Dept.'s Running Out Of Love, just about everything. While Sweden's politics were shifting, the long-running Swedish synth-pop duo was writing and recording its fourth album. Beginning with the non-album single \"Death To Fascism\" in 2014, Johan Duncansson and Martin Larsson have used their platform as one of the country's most popular independent acts to protest the rise of Sweden's far right. Yes, their drum machines kill fascists.\nOn Running Out Of Love, Duncansson and Larsson pair upbeat, sometimes joyous pop with political and cultural critique. \"Sloboda Narodu\" continues where \"Death To Fascism\" left off, with Duncansson singing, \"Don't ask for patience / 'Cause we just don't have the time / Freedom now / Freedom now.\" The album's best song, \"Swedish Guns,\" calls attention to Sweden's thriving arms business: \"And guess what came to town (the Swedish guns) / And guess what burned it down (the Swedish guns) / And every life they took (with Swedish guns).\" In \"We Got Game,\" Duncansson recounts a scenario that might sound familiar to Americans: \"You keep talking middle ground / So sick of hearing about that middle ground / This is it, you can't go 'round / There's just no other middle to be found.\"\nIt's easy to overlook The Radio Dept.'s messages while listening to Running Out Of Love: For 13 years, Duncansson and Larsson have demonstrated a tremendous gift for effervescent hooks that often obscure the lyrics buried beneath. Dig deep and pay attention: This album was made for 2016.\nPurchase Music\u201cRunning Out Of Love\u201d by Radio Dept.\nLABRADOR (LBD)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 4819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nreionline.com/mag/deals-projects-45", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FLS5BCMAUX6YLXFQUQTPMJL7HHLEC6HO", "length": 1352, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.nreionline.com", "title": "DEALS & PROJECTS | National Real Estate Investor", "raw_content": "DEALS & PROJECTS\nKBS Realty Advisors has acquired a mixed-use complex in south Florida for $30 million. An unnamed private investor sold the four-story property at 555 Washington Avenue in Miami's posh South Beach neighborhood. The art-deco complex, designed by Arcquitectonica, boasts a total of 64,617 sq. ft. in Class-A office and retail space. The property was developed in 2001 and is currently 79% leased by office and retail tenants. The anchor tenant is Warner Music.\nAmerican Property Hospitality Management has acquired a hotel located in Tucson, Ariz. for $31 million. The Westward Look resort property was sold by the Boutique Hotel Co. \u2014 Westward Look LLC. The 75-acre property, which features 16,500 sq. ft. of meeting space, three outdoor swimming pools and an upscale restaurant, is located on a refuge in the Sonoran Desert. The large site also includes surplus land that is zoned for future development.\nBTG Advisors will counsel the First United Methodist Church on a $60 million, 200,000 sq. ft. mixed-use project, the church's eighth home in downtown Los Angeles. Plans call for a mixed-use development including housing, office space and a sky chapel. The project will also be developed according to LEED- certified standards. The new facility will be built on a church-owned parcel located at Olympic Boulevard and Flower Street.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 138.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nrf.com/blog/lessons-learned-road-retail-disruption", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:39Z", "digest": "sha1:EHNLJQI3ZKW5EHEKU3JNRGZG66KMHMRA", "length": 6727, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.nrf.com", "title": "Lessons learned on the road to retail disruption | NRF", "raw_content": "Lessons learned on the road to retail disruption\nLearn more about the Shop.org Digital Commerce Startup of the Year competition.\n\u201cDisruption\u201d is a word that seems to pop up in every conversation about ecommerce, but when it comes to dramatically changing the way retailers do business, it isn\u2019t always easy.\nThe Shop.org Digital Commerce Startup of the Year competition, now in its fourth round, recognizes startups with the potential to significantly improve or radically alter how retailing is done. As the application deadline for this year\u2019s competition approaches, we caught up with Nicky Jackson, founder and CEO of RangeMe, the 2016 winner of the Shop.org Digital Commerce Startup of the Year competition.\nHow has your startup changed since receiving the Startup of the Year award last year?\nRangeMe was in growth stage when we were named a SOTY finalist, only a few months into raising our first round of U.S. capital and growing really quickly. The recognition from the competition came at a perfect time to validate the market shift we were making in the retail industry in terms of product discovery \u2014 a key part of the value chain.\nThe time after Shop.org and just a few months after we started to speak to investors to raise a further round of Series A capital here in the United States was a real turning point for us. Less than four months after we were named the SOTY winner, we were at NRF\u2019s annual convention in New York and spoke to a software company about an acquisition. On that same trip, we met with Snow Phipps, a private equity firm. Six months prior they had purchased our largest competitor, ECRM. The conversations with Snow Phipps ended up in RangeMe formalizing an acquisition just over four months later. That was a life-changing result for the founders and a great return to all shareholders.\nWhat are the biggest challenges you\u2019ve overcome, and what are the biggest challenges you currently face?\nVery early on we had to establish ourselves as a disruptor in the U.S. market. RangeMe was a new concept to both retailers and suppliers. We overcame that challenge through an effective launch partnership with Target and soon enough started working with leading retailers like Whole Foods Market and adopting a \u2018freemium\u2019 model, which enabled us to grow very quickly.\nThe biggest challenge we currently face is keeping up with our growth, now that we have the power of ECRM and Snow Phipps behind us. We have aggressive goals and ambitions that require us to scale the team quickly enough to service our community of growing suppliers and buyers. It\u2019s a good problem to have \u2014 don't get me wrong \u2014 but it comes with challenges in terms of how to scale, how quickly to scale and how to do so most effectively and efficiently.\nThere are still some areas of retail that haven\u2019t been \u201cdisrupted\u201d yet. If you were launching a new startup today, what problems would you be looking to solve? What are the biggest opportunities for innovation in digital commerce?\nTechnology and digital disruption are happening 24/7 in today\u2019s world. In terms of retail, technology disruption is just starting to take off. There is so much opportunity to simplify and streamline the end-to-end of retail; I would focus on that, since it\u2019s just getting started. If I told you specifics, I would be giving away too much!\nHave you learned anything from your startup\u2019s journey that you didn\u2019t expect? Are there key lessons or pieces of advice you would share with other founders?\nI think as a founder it\u2019s easy to get really bogged down, and I will admit I\u2019ve fallen victim to this over the past two years. But when you manage to take a breath of air, you realize how awesome the ride can be, from the people you meet to the real opportunities that present themselves. I think the key here is to realize it\u2019s a journey and it\u2019s a privilege, so enjoy the ride and take advantage of the opportunities and embrace lifelong relationships that form with the amazing people you meet.\nI also know all too well that this is NOT an easy road \u2014 if it was, more people would do it and more startups would succeed. The highs are the greatest highs and the lows are the lowest you could ever experience. It\u2019s important to somehow gain perspective and balance, and surround yourself with people who can cheer you on the sidelines and who want to pump you up, not bring you down.\n\u201cGain perspective and balance, and surround yourself with people who can cheer you on.\u201d\nWhat\u2019s one thing traditional retailers should know about partnering with a startup or developing their own internal innovation labs/startups?\nI think more retailers today are open to partnering with startups. Take Instacart, for example, in its infancy, or Target for partnering with RangeMe two years ago when we first launched in the United States. Traditional retailers need to realize that they have to look outside their own walls for emerging technologies that drive efficiency \u2014 they cannot build it all themselves and be experts at everything. They need to open their eyes to new ideas and partner with startups that can help them accelerate in today's ever-changing world.\nI\u2019ve come across some big retailers who are happy with their current process or tried to build their own versions of RangeMe. But what they\u2019ve built is suboptimal, taken years and extensive resources to build, or are just not there in terms of the user experience. It feels like such a waste of resources when they have access to RangeMe at their fingertips.\nDid participating in Shop.org\u2019s SOTY competition impact your business? If so, how?\nAbsolutely! The PR and recognition was a real boost to our business, of course, but also the connections and contacts that came with that were really priceless. NRF has a wonderful community of industry experts, and on a personal level, I connected with and have had multiple post-competition interactions with some of the competition judges. We still keep in touch \u2014 some of them have come to my office in San Francisco for coffee, or we\u2019ve met up at subsequent NRF events. They have been sounding boards to me along this journey whether it was to get investment advice, acquisition advice or just general advice about a situation I was experiencing. They were always willing to lend their time and expertise and it feels like we\u2019ve been connected for years, rather than mere months!\nWe\u2019ve also loved working with the NRF team, a passionate group of people who really care about their community and the impact they are having on the industry. I\u2019ve really enjoyed the way they have embraced RangeMe and startups in general, and I am thrilled to have been asked to joined the NRF Digital Council.\nShop.org, Entrepreneurship, Startup, Awards, Online", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 8198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nrf.com/blog/top-5-things-know-about-mobile", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:44Z", "digest": "sha1:VYEBTFWSW2EKHSKAXSFZOAPRIUHZU6ZP", "length": 4349, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.nrf.com", "title": "Top 5 Things to \u2018Know\u2019 About Mobile | NRF", "raw_content": "Top 5 Things to \u2018Know\u2019 About Mobile\nSuccess in mobile means being aware. And it means making sure the rest of the organization is aware, too. From designers and marketers to the CEO, the creation of mobile-first culture is key.\nWhy go to such trouble? Statista reports that mobile smartphone traffic is set to increase tenfold from 2014 to 2019. During back-to-back sessions during the daylong Digital Marketing Workshop at Retail\u2019s Digital Summit by Shop.org, retailers explored best practices of mobile strategy.\nSpeakers included prAna Director of Global E-commerce Gary Penn, mobovida Vice President of Marketing Edwin Choi, Chico\u2019s FAS Director of Digital Commerce Kristin Smith and Toys \u201cR\u201d Us Vice President of Digital Product Management Victor Ortiz.\nTheir top tips:\nKnow the mobile KPIs\nChoi joined mobovida in 2011, tasked with improving the mobile accessory company\u2019s \u201cmiserable\u201d mobile conversion rates; the company has since seen a 500 percent growth flare. Among Choi\u2019s pillars of success: \u201cA watched metric is an improved metric.\u201d\nWhat those metrics are will depend on the organization: \u201cWhat is important to you?\u201d asked Smith (pictured above) of women\u2019s specialty retailer Chico\u2019s FAS. \u201cIs it sales? Downloads? New customer acquisition? Or are you going for profitability and cost savings?\u201d\nNo matter the key performance indicators, Penn spoke of the importance of building a team that goes across functions of organization. That mobile team might include marketers, project managers and graphic designers. All need to know what\u2019s going on \u2014 and all need to feel some sense of ownership.\nIn order to get into the minds of customers, Toys \u201cR\u201d Us looked at numerous data points. Among them: form responses, Voice of the Customer, what customer service representatives were hearing and what customers were saying indirectly, as evidenced by website analytics. \u201cWhen we thought about our customer experience, we really wanted to create a journey and understand, \u2018Where are the micro-moments that are going to have the biggest impact?\u2019\u201d Ortiz said. \u201cWe can\u2019t change every aspect of the journey, but if we focus our attention on the right spot, then we\u2019ll know that we\u2019ll have the best returns. Making sure we\u2019re constantly thinking about what they\u2019re doing and where they\u2019re coming from would help us out.\u201d\nKnow how to design and test for the mobile user\nAt Columbia Sportswear lifestyle brand prAna, the mobile strategy includes letting users influence design through A/B testing. \u201cNot our CEO, not the marketing team, not the designers,\u201d Penn said. \u201cWe let the users dictate our design through A/B testing.\u201d\nHe often gets asked how to know what to test. \u201cThe answer to that,\u201d he said, \u201cis a combination of quantitative and qualitative data.\u201d\nBy watching actual user sessions, creating online focus groups and gathering other data, the company discovered its site was too difficult to use; A/B testing helped raise the site\u2019s conversion rate by 18 percent and the passthrough rate by 36 percent. \u201cWe were very excited about this and tempted to do a fist bump and say, \u2018Yes!\u2019 and be done with it,\u201d Penn said. \u201cBut we\u2019re not. It\u2019s important to gather learnings from your A/B tests.\u201d\nKnow the right balance of human and machine learning\nToys \u201cR\u201d Us has incorporated machine learning to help personalize the search process for its mobile customers, Ortiz said. \u201cBut then there\u2019s also aspects of the business that we know best, where we will know more than a machine will.\u201d\nKnow what success is\nA large part of success is recognizing and meeting those goals and KPIs. But Smith also spoke of failing fast and learning from it. She shared the story of an app developed at a previous company that generated negative feedback. It was clunky, she said, and adoption was pretty low. But it was introduced as an iPad-only app to test before rolling out across multiple devices and operating systems. Some features of the app did work well, she said, and there was much to be gleaned from the experience.\nOverall, Smith noted, \u201cOne of things you want to avoid is what I like to call a \u2018field of dreams\u2019 approach to strategy.\u201d That\u2019s when there\u2019s a goal, but not any strong tactics for achieving it.\nThe conversations around mobile strategies and tactics will continue at Retail\u2019s Digital Summit this week in Dallas.\nSTORES, Marketing, Online, Mobile", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nrl.navy.mil/rsd/publications?f%255Bauthor%255D=386&f%5Bauthor%5D=241", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:11Z", "digest": "sha1:YWZCUJDN755FXVT5ZQEOWOB7YIIANSM4", "length": 1175, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nrl.navy.mil", "title": "Publications | Remote Sensing Division", "raw_content": "Filters: Author is M\u00f6ller, K. D. [Clear All Filters]\nK. P. Stewart, M\u00f6ller, K. D., and Grebel, H., \u201cInfrared Measurements and Simulations of Metal Meshes in a Focused Beam\u201d, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 115, 2014.\nA. Banerjee, Sliwinski, D., Stewart, K. P., M\u00f6ller, K. D., and Grebel, H., \u201cCurved infrared screens\u201d, Optics Letters, vol. 35, pp. 1635\u20131637, 2010.\nO. Sternberg, Stewart, K. P., Hor, Y., Bandyopadhyay, A., Federici, J. F., Bornefeld, M., Mathis, Y. - L., Sliwinski, D., M\u00f6ller, K. D., and Grebel, H., \u201cSquare-shaped metal screens in the infrared to terahertz spectral region: Resonance frequency, band gap, and bandpass filter characteristics\u201d, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 104, pp. 023103\u2013023103-7, 2008.\nJ. Shah, M\u00f6ller, K. D., Grebel, H., Sternberg, O., and Tobias, J. M., \u201cThree-dimensional metallo-dielectric photonic crystals with cubic symmetry as stacks of two-dimensional screens\u201d, Journal of the Optical Society of America, vol. 22, pp. 370\u2013376, 2005.\nO. Sternberg, M\u00f6ller, K. D., Grebel, H., Stewart, K. P., and Henry, R. M., \u201cInductive cross shaped metal meshes on silicon substrate\u201d, Infrared Physics & Technology, vol. 44, pp. 17\u201325, 2003.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.numintec.com/en/integrations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AWVG6YMFFRSDPK5OZGLPKMNWOI5UOP32", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.numintec.com", "title": "\u00bb Integrations Integrations | Numintec", "raw_content": "Having our own solutions and an internal R&D&I Department allows us to integrate with any market solution, customised or out of the box, such as:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 165.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nvic.org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/November-2011.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:29Z", "digest": "sha1:K73SBBWDVFTUGUR3LYW6R74NVFDMHK3V", "length": 4187, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.nvic.org", "title": "Newsletters November 2011 - NVIC", "raw_content": "NVIC Calls Out AAP for Censorship & Intimidation\nToday, NVIC sent out a press release citing the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) for engaging in intimidation in attacking NVIC and a flu prevention video sponsored by NVIC for Delta Air Lines in-flight programming during the month of November. NVIC is criticizing the AAP\u2019s attempts to censor and block public access to full and accurate information about influenza.\nNVIC was offered the opportunity to be a paid sponsor of a video about staying well during the flu season that would be included in Delta\u2019s in-flight programming during November 2011. On Nov. 7, Forbes magazine published an article with a copy of a letter signed by the AAP President Robert Block, MD, accusing Delta of \u201cputting children\u2019s lives at risk\u201d by showing travelers the NVIC sponsored video because it contains \u201charmful messages.\u201d\nIn the AAP letter, the Pharma-funded medical trade association alleged that \u201cThe [NVIC] ad urges viewers to become informed about influenza and how to stay well during the flu season without resorting to the influenza vaccine.\u201d\nNVIC Defends Free Speech, Right to Self Determination\nNVIC co-founder and president Barbara Loe Fisher responded, \u201cWithout cause, the AAP has used their considerable financial resources and political influence to intimidate Delta for simply showing a video that offers accurate information about ways to stay healthy during the flu season, including talking with doctors about getting a flu shot. Censorship and attacks on consumer advocacy groups working to institute informed consent protections in public health policies should not be tolerated in this or any society that cherishes free speech and the right to self determination.\u201d\nFlu Vaccine Less Than 70 Percent Effective\nThe AAP letter stated that \u201cinfluenza vaccine continues to be the best way to protect against the disease,\u201d without acknowledging that a recently published scientific study found that the flu vaccine is less than 70 percent effective in preventing influenza, which confirms previous studies questioning influenza vaccine efficacy and effectiveness. A top flu expert at the CDC has said that about 80 percent of flu-like illness reported in the U.S. every year is not influenza but is caused by other viruses and bacteria.\n\u201cThe AAP\u2019s leadership is clearly threatened by educated consumers, who have every right to engage in critical thinking when making choices about how to stay healthy,\u201d said Fisher. \u201cWhy is the AAP so afraid to admit that washing our hands, covering our mouths when coughing, eating nutritious foods, getting enough sleep, exercising, and lowering stress are also important ways to stay well during the flu season and all year around?\u201d\nTo read the entire press release and/or make a comment, click here.\nNVIC Co-sponsors Premiere of The Greater Good at International Film Center in NYC Nov. 18 at 8 pm.\nOn Friday, Nov. 18 at 8 p.m., NVIC and React to Film will co-sponsor the New York City International Film Center (IFC) premiere of the new groundbreaking documentary, THE GREATER GOOD, at the IFC, 323 Sixth Ave. at West Third Street. After the screening, React to Film will moderate a Q&A with the film\u2019s writer/producer Leslie Manookian and Barbara Loe Fisher and Lawrence B. Palevsky, M.D., who are both featured in the film.\nReact to Film is a non-profit organization that showcases the best documentary films in order to activate young people around critical social issues. React to Film began as a film series to expose New York City\u2019s media elite to critical social issues using the best documentary film on the subject and \u201caims to educate, inspire and ultimately be a call to action.\u201d\nThere will also be a 4:10 matinee screening of the film on Nov. 18. Tickets are $13 and can be purchased on the IFC website. For a map and directions click here.\nTHE GREATER GOOD is an award winning film about the vaccination debate that involves vaccine science, regulation, policymaking, law and ethics. The film highlights three families affected by vaccine reactions and includes interviews with scientists, doctors and consumer advocates giving different perspectives about vaccination and health.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 8706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/12/nyregion/japanese-schindler-and-2100-visas-for-jews.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7RY23XTTFCN3AU3MTISYYF5GQC5XZ7XP", "length": 6589, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Japanese Schindler' and 2,100 Visas for Jews - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Archives|Japanese Schindler' and 2,100 Visas for Jews\nJapanese Schindler' and 2,100 Visas for Jews\nGROWING up in Manhattan as the child of Holocaust survivors, Dr. Anna S. Kadish often heard the haunting story of her family's escape from Poland in 1939, three years before she was born. Among those who made life, by turns, harrowing and sweet for the family was a hero she knew only as a \"mystical Japanese person,\" who signed visas for her desperate parents once they had crossed into Lithuania.\nThe man's name was Chiune Sugihara, and in recent years he has come to be known as the \"Japanese Schindler.\" During the summer of 1940, at the cost of his job and years of humiliation for disobeying his government, Mr. Sugihara, a consul for Japan in Kaunas, Lithuania, signed more than 2,100 visas for Jews fleeing Eastern Europe. It is estimated that the visas enabled 8,000 to 10,000 people to escape.\nMr. Sugihara died in 1986, soon after being honored at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. His story was virtually unknown until \"The Fugu Plan,\" a book by Rabbi Marvin Tokayer about the Japanese and the Jews in World War II, was published in 1979.\nNow a new book, \"Visas for Life,\" written by Mr. Sugihara's widow, Yukiko, and translated by his son, Hiroki, tells the story in more detail. Dr. Kadish, a New Rochelle resident, was in the audience recently when Hiroki Sugihara addressed the Friday Men's Club of Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. of Mid-Westchester here.\nAlso attending, along with more than 300 other people -- including a group of students from Keio Academy in Purchase -- were several people Mr. Sugihara's father had saved. One was Lilly Singer of White Plains, Dr. Kadish's aunt, who was 16 when she and 10 other members of her family -- including Dr. Kadish's mother -- waited in Kaunas for transit visas through Russia and Japan. The Soviets had given permission to let the Jews through, but the Japanese Government, whom Mr. Sugihara asked three times, refused.\nHe signed the visas anyway, writing so many in such a short time that his hands became cramped. In a talk illustrated by slides, Hiroki Sugihara described how his mother massaged his father's hands, and how he, as a boy of 5, was impressed by the plight of Jews converging at the consulate. \"I remember seeing the frightened eyes of the children at the gate and telling my father he must do something to save those children,\" Mr. Sugihara said. For the next few years, Chiune Sugihara, a linguist who spoke six languages, was transferred to different European posts. At the end of the war, the Sugiharas spent 18 months in a Russian internment camp in Romania under harsh conditions, his son said. Then, upon his return to Japan in 1947, he was forced to resign from the Japanese Foreign Ministry. The reason was clear: his disobedience to his country in 1940.\n\"My younger brother, who was born in Kaunas, died, and we lived in relative poverty,\" Hiroki Sugihara said. \"The worst part was a deep humiliation my father had to endure by being publicly dismissed. But he never expressed regret over what he did.\"\nAt the same time, his father also never spoke about what he did, because his actions had brought pain to his family, his son said. It was only 28 years later, when his father met one of the survivors, that he began to understand the significance of his actions. Then, learning that he had made life possible for so many, \"he experienced a great joy,\" Mr. Sugihara said. \"It enabled him to be reborn, and any humiliation was cleansed from his mind and soul.\"\nBesides receiving the Righteous Among the Nations award from Israel in 1985, Chiune Sugihara posthumously received the Courage to Care award from the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, the Raoul Wallenberg award from the Shaare Zedek Hospital of Jerusalem and the Nagasaki Peace Prize.\nOn a personal note, Mr. Sugihara, who speaks fluent English, said, \"I have come full circle and now realize the full impact of what my father had accomplished.\" (\"Visas for Life\" is being published by Edu-Comm. Plus, Hiroki Sugihara's company in San Francisco.)\nDr. Kadish, a professor of pathology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, said she has been steeped in Holocaust stories her whole life. She is compiling oral histories from her surviving relatives, most of whom live in Israel, which tell how her wealthy Cracow family foresaw Hitler's rise and used their wits to escape.\nIn an interview, she told of terrifying border crossings in the dead of night in frigid weather. She told of dark, silent sleigh rides with skiers as escorts and of a lifesaving network of relatives and friends. She also read aloud from memoirs written by her father, Dr. Emanuel Stein, who died in Israel in 1994. Dr. Stein was an assistant professor at the medical school in Cracow when he and his family left Poland for Vilna, now Vilnius, Lithuania, in September 1939. Writing of the nerve-racking ordeal of crossing Europe, Dr. Stein described the \"truly electrifying\" news of possible visas as \"a ray of hope appearing on a dark horizon.\" The visas signed by the Japanese consul in Kaunas were \"an unexplained mystery,\" he wrote, adding: \"To our tremendous surprise and relief, this was the easiest part of this epic story.\"\nThe Japanese were wonderful to her family, Dr. Kadish said, lending them money when they eventually arrived in a port near Yokohama and enabling them to board a freighter for Curacao. When the ship docked in San Francisco, however, the refugees were not allowed to enter the United States. They disembarked in Mexico, where Dr. Kadish was born and where the family spent two years before emigrating to the United States. Mrs. Singer, who spoke recently to a gathering at Young Israel of Scarsdale, credited \"miracles, luck and help from others\" for her family's survival. Mrs. Singer is a psychotherapist who coordinates the bereavement program at Westchester Jewish Community Services and also served on the board of directors of the Westchester Holocaust Commission.\nIn comments prepared for her address, she said, \"People like Sugihara -- courageous humanitarians -- existed and still exist. We need to honor and cherish the people who help others all over the world. We need to teach our children their characteristics and their stories -- teach them for us, the survivors, who are now dying out.\"\nA version of this article appears in print on May 12, 1996, on Page WC13 of the National edition with the headline: Japanese Schindler' and 2,100 Visas for Jews. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 9723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 203.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/25/world/middleeast/braving-jail-for-democracy-but-is-that-a-goal-or-a-tool.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2BVHY7MPWXTCCPXVQDIAQV2ZY6RAZQVU", "length": 7476, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Braving Jail for Democracy, but Is That a Goal or a Tool? - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Archives|Braving Jail for Democracy, but Is That a Goal or a Tool?\nBraving Jail for Democracy, but Is That a Goal or a Tool?\nBy MICHAEL SLACKMAN MARCH 25, 2006\nCAIRO - WHAT makes a person go to jail for his beliefs and fortifies that person to hold strong while the moments of life -- weddings, births, deaths -- pass by?\nEssam el-Erian missed six and a half years of freedom for his political work. In that way he has something in common with those who accepted prison to call for freedom from the oppression of the Soviet Union. He shares something in common with Riad Seif, a former prisoner in Syria who was recently released after serving more than five years for his democracy work, and Ayman Nour, sentenced to five years hard labor in Egypt after challenging the governing party's monopoly on power.\nBut Mr. Erian's push for democracy does not sit as well with those in the West, namely the United States and Europe, because while he calls for free elections, freedom of speech and due process, he freely admits that he wants those political changes to help bring Islamic law to Egypt. His critics believe that religious-based organizations like his want to use the mechanics of democracy to achieve power, but have no intention of actually supporting democratic values or practices.\n\"It is a duty to do it, it is a religious duty,\" Mr. Erian, 52, said when asked about his motivation. \"I put my first footprint in this way more than 35 years ago, to save myself. Of course it may be difficult to understand, but secondly, it is to save our people. Our people look like slaves to dictatorships, and Islam came to release people from slavery to be only slaves of the God.\"\nMr. Erian is a leading figure within the Muslim Brotherhood, a fundamentalist Islamic organization that is technically illegal in Egypt but is officially tolerated. He has worked for decades to help the group emerge from years in the underground as Egypt's only real political opposition. He was released in October after his latest stretch in prison, five and a half months, and got right back to work, rejoining the ranks of the Brotherhood just as its members won 88 seats in Parliament, a small step toward realizing his dreams.\nYet, facing an increasingly intolerant government, Mr. Erian operates on a short leash, which can snap back at any time. On Wednesday, for example, as he tried to board a flight to attend a conference in Bahrain, he was stopped at passport control and denied permission to leave the country. No reason was given.\nIf he has his way, the Brotherhood will follow in the footsteps of Hamas, the militant Palestinian organization that won parliamentary elections in January. And that, critics say, is precisely the problem. The Brotherhood, they say, is professing fealty to democracy only to gain power, after which it intends to dismantle democratic practices.\nMr. Erian is clear about his agenda: transforming Egypt into his vision of an Islamic state, where the Koran is not just the basis of all law, as in Egypt today, but where it is the law. But he rejects those who say he and the Brotherhood are antidemocratic.\n\"The main goal of Islam is to liberate people,\" he said during an interview in the office of the Muslim Brotherhood on the banks of the Nile here. \"The way that you can apply liberty in your life now is democracy. All are linked. They come from the same source. Of course you can find many, many Muslims, or the majority of Muslims, who do not understand that, but Hassan al-Bana, who is the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, said that freedom, liberty is one of the main pieces of Islam.\"\nMR. ERIAN was born in a small village in Giza, called Nahya, not far from the Pyramids. His father was a teacher, and like most of the people in the village, he was raised observant, praying five times a day and fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. But he heard the call -- to faith and politics -- after an accident. He said he was about 15 years old when he was nearly electrocuted by touching the exposed wires on a lamp.\n\"I went to the street alone and asked myself, 'What am I living for?' \"\nFor a teenager, the answer was found in the Muslim Brotherhood. \"When I found the Muslim Brothers, of course, it was very good help for me because I put all my efforts in clear strategy, clear techniques, clear tasks,\" he said.\nMr. Erian, one of the two brightest students in his village, was selected to study medicine in Cairo. While in school, he joined a whole class of young people who were working to transform the Brotherhood with pragmatic ideas and a strategy of pushing the group into politics. Alarmed, the government struck back, and Mr. Erian, as the vanguard of that new generation, often felt the heat personally. He eventually earned a master's degree in clinical pathology but never managed to finish his medical training because he was sent to jail, he said.\nMr. Erian served in the Egyptian Parliament from 1987 to 1990 as an independent, because the Brotherhood could not run candidates as an outlawed group. In 1995 he was sentenced to five years in prison for belonging to a banned group that sought to create an Islamic state in Egypt. That conviction automatically disqualified him from running for public office again.\nThe Brotherhood has a violent past, and was outlawed after its members tried to assassinate Gamal Abdel Nasser even before he became president. Now it has to contend with that not-so-subtle undercurrent of suspicion that Mr. Erian and others are opportunists looking to ride the coattails of democracy to power -- with no intention of then ever letting go. American policy makers have gone so far as to say they refuse to speak with the Brotherhood because of its illegal status. Recently, however, a British publication, The New Statesman, published documents on its Web site leaked from the British Embassy in Cairo in which an analyst there said that it was time to begin at least an informal dialogue with the Brotherhood.\nMR. ERIAN bridles at the policy of opposing the Brotherhood because of what it might do, saying it diverted attention from more substantive issues. \"The problem is that our rulers in this region are in power for half a century or more, supported by the states and they don't leave power,\" he said. \"You are afraid that somebody else can come to power and not give away. Let us put guarantees to prevent this. Don't prevent people from change because you are afraid or because you are weak. Strengthen yourself, don't weaken the others.\"\nMr. Erian has picked supporters outside Islamic ranks. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a Western-educated pioneer in pressing Egypt's government for accountability who found himself imprisoned some years ago for his trouble, said he trusted Mr. Erian. \"Probably because of his moderate attitude and his outstanding leadership qualities, Mubarak's regime put Essam el-Erian behind bars,\" wrote Mr. Ibrahim while he was in jail. \"So, let all the free people in Egypt and the world unite with him.\n\"Hands off Essam el-Erian, Mubarak!\"\nThat call never did resonate, in Washington or Europe. But Mr. Erian said he did not care much, because he took the risks in support of his faith. \"It is only to obey my God,\" he said.\nA version of this article appears in print on March 25, 2006, on Page A00004 of the National edition with the headline: THE SATURDAY PROFILE; Braving Jail for Democracy, but Is That a Goal or a Tool?. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 10379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 211.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/technology/16cnd-ebay.html?_r=1&ex=1366084800&en=ac68dbc2a4bca4da&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&oref=slogin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:WU2TVIZ4BV3C4NSAUQELXGHTJKLIF3DE", "length": 3084, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "A New Chief, but eBay\u2019s Struggles Continue - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Technology|A New Chief, but eBay\u2019s Struggles Continue\nA New Chief, but eBay\u2019s Struggles Continue\nBy BRAD STONE APRIL 16, 2008\nSAN FRANCISCO \u2014 As John Donahoe takes over as chief executive of eBay, the company is still struggling to improve its business.\nThe company, which has been refocusing its business, reported that net income in its first quarter rose 22 percent to $562 million, or 42 cents a share, from the year-ago quarter.\nEBay said revenue climbed 24 percent to $2.19 billion from the same period a year ago. But its operating margin fell to 32 percent from 33.6 percent last year as lower-margin businesses, including the payment service PayPal and the Internet calling service Skype grew quickly.\nIn addition, the number of active eBay users, which analysts follow closely, increased only 1 percent from the last quarter, to 83.9 million. Another important number to eBay watchers is gross merchandising volume or G.M.V., the total sum of all transactions on the eBay marketplace. G.M.V. dropped one percent from last quarter, a sign that eBay\u2019s core auction business continues to stagnate.\nEBay\u2019s performance in the quarter was above the expectations of Wall Street analysts, who had predicted net income of 39 cents a share on revenue of $2.08 billion, according to a survey of analysts by Thomson Financial.\nShares rose as high as $32.37 in after-hours trading after closing at $32.12, up 3 cents, in regular trading.\n\u201cThis was a very strong financial quarter for the company,\u201d said John Donahoe, who took over from long-time chief executive Meg Whitman last month. \u201cThe results reflect the strength provided by our diverse portfolio of businesses. Our stability and growth continues to give us the confidence to make innovative changes to our products to keep customers engaged for years to come.\u201d\nThe earnings come as eBay makes significant changes to its marketplace business in an attempt to improve the experience for buyers and fend off rival Amazon.com, which has been attracting the third-party sellers who traditionally sell their wares on eBay\u2019s varied online auction house.\nIn January, eBay announced Ms. Whitman would step aside for Mr. Donahoe, the former head of the marketplaces division. Though Mr. Donahoe only officially took the helm at the end of March, he has visibly directed changes to the site since then, including alterations in the fees charged to sellers that provoked a boycott from some sellers who viewed it as a fee increase.\nIn the last three months, the company has also changed the way auction listings are presented in the site\u2019s search results and announced coming changes in its renowned feedback system, where users rate each other\u2019s performance. Beginning in May, sellers will no longer be able to leave negative feedback for buyers.\nThese changes do not appear to be having an effect on some aspects of eBay\u2019s core auction business.\nThe company\u2019s overall results benefited from growth in other parts of the business and from the weak dollar, since more than half of eBay\u2019s revenues are generated from international operations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/1194817476428/rnc-history.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZSTHP6ALPD5CJOGD3YR5X4RVRBKIRSV", "length": 75, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "RNC History - Video - NYTimes.com", "raw_content": "RNC History\nA look at the Republican National Convention from 1948 to 2004.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 55.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oakbrookoptical.com/your-eye-health/eye-diseases/cataracts/cataract-surgery-treatment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:45Z", "digest": "sha1:USZ3X7F73Y6YKTUV7LKBFCEP6N7VATHU", "length": 2844, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.oakbrookoptical.com", "title": "Oakbrook Optical Eyecare - Optometry In Oakbrook, IL USA", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Your Eye Health in Oak Brook, IL \u00bb Eye Diseases \u00bb Cataracts \u00bb Cataract Surgery & Treatment\nCataract Surgery & Treatment\nTreatment for cataracts involves surgery, but being diagnosed with a cataract does not mean that you need to have surgery immediately, or maybe ever. You may be able to live with symptoms of early cataracts for a while by using vision aids such as glasses, anti-glare sunglasses, magnification lenses, strong bifocals or brighter lighting to suit your needs.\nSurgery should be considered when the condition begins to seriously impair your vision to the extent that it affects your daily life such as reading or driving, playing golf, playing cards, watching TV, etc. Sometimes surgery is also necessary if the cataracts are preventing treatment of another eye problem. The good news is that cataract surgery is typically very successful in restoring your vision. Together with your eye doctor, you will decide if and when the time for surgery has arrived.\nCataract surgery is one of most common surgeries performed in North America and has a 90% success rate (meaning the patient has improved vision, between 20/20 and 20/40 vision, following the procedure).\nThe surgery involves removing the clouded natural lens and usually replacing it with a clear, plastic intraocular lens (IOL) that becomes a permanent part of the eye. It is a relatively quick and painless procedure and you will not feel or see the IOL after the implant.\nWhile development of cataracts is largely associated with age, there are other factors that can increase the risk of developing the condition. By knowing these risk factors, there are steps you can take to delay or prevent the development of cataracts:\nSun Protection: Ultraviolet radiation can be a factor in the development of cataracts. It is recommended to protect your eyes from ultraviolet sunlight by wearing 100% UV protective sunglasses and a hat with a brim when you are exposed to the sun.\nStop Smoking and Limit Alcohol Intake: These habits have been shown to increase the chances of developing cataracts, so if you smoke or regularly consume large amounts of alcohol \u2013 stop these habits.\nProper Nutrition: Research shows that maintaining good health and nutrition can also reduce the risk of age-related cataracts, particularly by eating foods rich with vitamins A (beta-carotene), C and E and other antioxidants found in green leafy vegetables, fruit and a diet rich in Omega-3s.\nRegular Eye Exams: Once you reach the age of 50, or if you have diabetes or other eye conditions, it is important to have a comprehensive eye exam every year to check for signs of cataracts and other age-related eye conditions such as age-related macular degeneration or glaucoma. Early detection and treatment for many of these eye and vision disorders is often essential to save your vision.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oakmark.com/Commentary/Global-Select/Oakmark-Global-Select-Fund-First-Quarter-2012.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TAWAK2SPHTR4HBPHFSED4ZFC5GOKAAQG", "length": 4704, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.oakmark.com", "title": "Oakmark Global Select Fund Commentary: First Quarter 2012", "raw_content": "The Oakmark Global Select Fund returned 19% for the quarter ended March 31, 2012, outperforming the MSCI World Index\u2019s return of 12%. During the first half of the fiscal year, the Fund returned 24%, compared to 20% for the MSCI World Index. More importantly, the Fund has returned an average of 6% per year since inception, outperforming the MSCI World Index, which has averaged 1% per year over the same period.\nThe largest contributor to the Fund\u2019s quarterly performance was Toyota Motor, a Japanese automotive manufacturer, which returned 31%. Results for Toyota\u2019s third fiscal quarter were better than expected, and management increased its full-year operating profit projections 35% above original estimates. Management expects to gain market share in the U.S. and is benefiting from a rebound in its Japanese business, where unit sales increased 39% over the same period last year. Toyota\u2019s fundamentals remain very strong, and we expect that a gradually improving economy will add to the company\u2019s rapidly growing business.\nAnother large contributor was Daimler AG, a global automotive manufacturer. Daimler\u2019s stock price advanced significantly during the quarter, reversing its declines over the past few quarters. Despite tremendous growth for Daimler\u2019s Mercedes Car Group, its largest division, the company\u2019s performance had lagged behind BMW and Audi. We believe Daimler is poised to rebound over the next couple of years because the company has several competitive advantages. Its new small-car models, which will be rolled out this year, should not only help Mercedes grow and regain competitive status, but should also boost profitability because these new models use the fixed costs of currently idle plants. Also, because the Mercedes brand is much later into its model cycle than BMW or Audi, Daimler plans to ramp up the number of launches in 2013. In February, Daimler released its full-year 2011 results, which included strong revenue numbers in all segments except for Daimler buses. By division, the best performance came from Daimler trucks, where revenue advanced 20%, followed by Mercedes-Benz vans (revenue up just over 17%) and Mercedes-Benz cars (revenue up almost 8%). The company\u2019s finance business also performed well and realized a return-on-equity increase of nearly 26% for the year. Additionally, free cash flow remains strong. We remain excited about the future prospects for this high-quality company and believe the strong results achieved by both Toyota and Daimler may signal a resurgence in the auto manufacturing industry.\nCapital One Financial, a U.S.-based financial services provider, also was a top contributor, returning 32% during the quarter. Capital One completed the acquisition of ING Direct and received approval to purchase HSBC's U.S. credit card business during the first quarter. Together, these two acquisitions are expected to add approximately $1.50 in per-share value and should propel Capital One\u2019s cash earnings per share to nearly $8.00 in 2013. These acquisitions, along with a strong balance sheet and a projected Basel III Tier 1 common ratio over 10% at the end of 2012, should allow management to start returning capital to shareholders in 2013. At 8x 2013 cash earnings per share, Capital One is, in our view, an attractive investment.\nWe are happy to report that there were no detractors from performance for the quarter.\nGeographically, we ended the quarter with our European and Japanese holdings increasing slightly to 34% and 18%, respectively. The remainder of the Fund\u2019s investments, excluding cash, are in North America. We did not add or remove any names from the Fund during the quarter.\nDue to the U.S. dollar\u2019s weakness relative to some global currencies, we currently hedge two underlying foreign currencies. At quarter-end, approximately 44% of the Fund\u2019s Japanese yen and 42% of the Swiss franc exposures were hedged. We no longer hedge the euro, as we believe it is approaching its fair value relative to the U.S. dollar.\nWe have built a Fund of what we feel are undervalued companies that trade at attractive prices and that are run by management teams who focus on building shareholder value. We believe that the Fund is well-positioned to generate favorable long-term results for our fellow shareholders. We thank you for your continued support and confidence.\nAs of 3/31/12, Toyota Motor Corp. represented 6.3%, Daimler AG 5.0%, Bayerische Motoren Werke AG 0%, Audi AG 0%, Capital One Financial corp. 5.2%, ING Direct 0%, HSBC Holdings PLC 0% of the Oakmark Global Select Fund\u2019s total net assets. 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A small gesture of appreciation, such as sending a custom greeting card, can be an important step toward helping to maintain positive business relationships.\nSending a high quality, tastefully designed and personalized greeting card with a business name or logo, individual name, or both, can prove to be an excellent way of reminding clients and customers how important their business is to you. It also reinforces the positive image you want to project. The more times your individual name, company name or logo is seen by others, the better the chances are it will be remembered. In fact, any positive association with your company is an asset that can\u2019t be defined in terms of money.\nGood business relationships are nurtured over time and need to be carefully tended. There\u2019s no better time than the holidays to address this aspect of customer relationships.\nHigh-quality, finely detailed holiday greeting cards from your company, demonstrates good taste and shows your clients and customers how much they mean to you. Associating your company with a tastefully designed holiday card is an expression of your thoughtfulness and personalizing it is sure to leave a lasting impression on everyone who receives it.\nChoosing the Right Holiday Card\nIt can be a challenge to find that one business greeting card that best represents your company during the holiday/Christmas season. There are so many designs to choose from that it can be difficult to know which one is right for your company.\nThe following are a few suggestions:\nChoose a design that suits your company image\nPick colours that coordinate with your company logo colours\nChoose a family-oriented photo card to show a picture of your team\nDesign a flat greeting card that includes your business card\nSelect large-sized, quality greeting cards as they will likely be displayed around common areas and a card that\u2019s of an impressive quality will draw more attention\nOnce you decide on a design, order a proof of it to make sure it\u2019s exactly what you want your customers to see.\nThe Message Matters\nIn this age of political correctness, it\u2019s a good idea to stick with a generic sentiment, as some people might take offense to a holiday card from a business that says, \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d Stick with phrases like \u201cSeason\u2019s Greetings\u201d or \u201cPeace on Earth.\u201d You can always personalize certain cards with a handwritten note.\nYour holiday greeting card represents your corporate image. The time you spend deciding on that one perfect card can pay off significantly long after the holiday season is over.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.obregonfineart.com/exhibitions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3PTASJ33WVGOZ5KBJVR2QWR7WWQSCWSK", "length": 981, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.obregonfineart.com", "title": "The O Gallery - Current Exhibit Jose Pe\u00f1a", "raw_content": "Art making is the spark that fuels Jose Pe\u00f1a\u2019s life. Working in his studio is a spiritual experience that allows him to connect with his soul, and work to represent the natural splendor of the world. After working with realistic, figurative work in the 1990s, Pe\u00f1a has embarked on new trajectory toward nonrepresentational abstraction. The vibrant colors and dynamic compositions reference are inspired by Pe\u00f1a\u2019s memories of growing up in the Caribbean: the many blues of the ocean, the verdant forests, and the ever-changing sunsets. In addition to acrylic on canvas, Pe\u00f1a uses myriad tools to achieve his visions, including palette knives, cloth nets, various hardware, modeling paste, and found objects. Regardless of the materials, Pe\u00f1a always pursues a spontaneous building of color and form, allowing his instincts to erupt on the canvas.\n\"Como la Flor\" 48 X 36\n\"Melodic Bird\" 34 X 44\n\"Natural Instinct\" 45X35\n\"181 Washington Heights\" 24 X 18\n\"Searching For Heaven\" 42 X 31.5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ocala.com/news/20190203/applause-recognizing-good-news-and-milestones", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XDDF7U5JHZGEGI7IOXDUXTFTJPCPRAH3", "length": 4779, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.ocala.com", "title": "APPLAUSE: Recognizing good news and milestones - News - Ocala.com - Ocala, FL", "raw_content": "APPLAUSE: Recognizing good news and milestones\nThere are plenty of good deeds and much good news in Marion County and many of the announcements are featured on the Star-Banner's online Applause blog. Here are recaps of a few recent entries. To view the entire announcement, visit http://applause.blogs.ocala.com.\nJROTC unit earns gold star\nThe Marion Military Academy JROTC unit recently achieved the Honor Unit With Distinction - Gold Star through the Junior ROTC Program of Accreditation.\nAccording to a news release from the academy, schools with a Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps program must be inspected every three years, which determines if a program is allowed to continue. The inspection is used to evaluate quality of instructions, instructors and students to ensure a rigorous curriculum is provided to students.\n\"Senior Army Instructor, retired CSM Mark A. George, has done an exceptional job in teaching JROTC values, leadership, professional development and teamwork to his cadets. Due to his commitment to the education of our youth, cadets performed so successfully during the JPA inspection that the Honor Unit With Distinction - Gold Star was awarded. Marion Military Academy scored a 96 percent out of a possible 100 percent and we couldn\u2019t be more proud,\" stated Brenda Manteca, AP Director of Admissions/Public Relations for the academy, in the release.\nManteca said the students worked tirelessly and the battalion commander, executive officer, command sergeant major and primary staff were required to present a briefing on the JROTC Continuous Improvement Plan for this school year. A select group of cadets presented a briefing about the program's service learning project, which is a flag retirement ceremony. A group of 10 cadets were subjected to an inspection of their portfolios, which contain tests, evaluations, assessments, essays and more from the JROTC program and academic courses.\n\"The final part of the inspection reviewed our drill and ceremony with an inspection of the precision platoon and color guard,\" Manteca wrote.\nChurch celebrates first baptism\nAstrid Hypatia Reynolds received the sacrament of baptism from Rev. Dave Connell on Christmas Eve at Christ Lutheran Church, a first for the church.\nAstrid is the daughter of Crawford and Sarah Reynolds. Her sponsors were Barb LeFevre, her grandmother, and LeFevre\u2019s husband, Ray. The baptismal dress was made 14 years ago by LeFevre for Astrid\u2019s sister, Olivia.\nChrist Lutheran originated Jan. 10, 2016, and has been holding services at the Orange Blossom Hills Community Center. The congregation will be moving this year to a soon-to-be-constructed church at 15699 SE 80th Ave., Summerfield.\nCo-op spotlights artists\nSue Primeau, spokesperson for the Rainbow Springs Artist Cooperative in Dunnellon recently issued a news release highlighting two co-op artists:\n+ Joshua Price is a self-taught artist and welder who creates unique animal sculptures out of scrap metal. Born in Pennsylvania and raised in West Virginia, Price has lived in central Florida since 1995. When he started his work career, he restored old cars, where he learned the basics of welding. In 2006 he started creating sculptures as a hobby and exhibiting them at art shows.\n+ Bonnie Eads is from east Tennessee but has spent the majority of her adult life in Florida. She is best known for figurative watercolors and is skilled in polymer clay craft. Her design, \u201cA Horse with Heart,\u201d selected as the People\u2019s Choice for Ocala\u2019s Horse Fever to benefit the Marion Cultural Alliance.\nCF recognized as tree campus\nThe College of Central Florida has earned Tree Campus USA recognition for its dedication to campus forestry management and environmental stewardship, for the 10th year.\nThe Tree Campus USA national program honors colleges, universities and leaders for promoting healthy management of campus forests and for engaging the community in environmental stewardship. It is a program of the Arbor Day Foundation.\nCF met the five core standards of establishing a campus tree advisory committee, providing a campus tree-care plan, dedicating annual expenditures on the campus tree-care plan, participating in an Arbor Day observance and instituting a service-learning project to engage students.\nHaley Dewhurst, Dunnellon, Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Valdosta State University\nIseoluwapo Jegede, Ocala, Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, Valdosta State University\nAdam Robles, Ocala, Master of Accountancy, Valdosta State University\nRebecca Morris, Ocala, Austin Peay State University\nGlenndon McCormick, Summerfield, Worcester Polytechnic Institute\nTaylor Baldwin, Ocala, Sam Houston State University\nElyna Brown, Ocala, Cedarville University\nNadeem Uddin, Ocala, Maryville University", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 6845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/agriculture-and-food/agricultural-policy-monitoring-and-evaluation-2015/producer-support-estimate-by-country-1995-97-and-2012-14_agr_pol-2015-graph11-en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:08Z", "digest": "sha1:PNF2BAWUUHITMDE7RHMY6YZ75PEH4LYF", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.oecd-ilibrary.org", "title": "OECD iLibrary | Producer Support Estimate by country, 1995-97 and 2012-14: Percentage of gross farm receipts", "raw_content": "Percentage of gross farm receipts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 354, "original_length": 8767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ohiocriminaldefenselawyer.com/criminal-defense/shaken-baby-allegations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FBP57QF7QEKFWJJ5XQFZQX6OQLVBZEEO", "length": 3598, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ohiocriminaldefenselawyer.com", "title": "Shaken Baby Allegations Defense | Toledo Attorneys", "raw_content": "Shaken Baby Allegations in MI & OH\nLegal Representation in Shaken Baby Allegations in Toledo\nDedicated & Skilled Defense in Michigan & Ohio. Call (419) 741-4050 Now!\nSo-called \"shaken baby\" cases have had a lot of publicity in recent years. Many of these cases end in the death of a child from traumatic brain injury. In order to effectively handle this type of case, your Toledo criminal defense lawyer has to be knowledgeable in a number of scientific areas.\nThese include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:\nBiomechanics of injuries\nRe-bleed injuries\nLorin Zaner personally knows a number of the top experts. Our firm has employed the services of a forensic pathologist who had been called the top expert in his field and used the services of neurosurgeons who have conducted highly publicized research in the area. We have the contacts and ability to locate ethical and skilled expert witnesses to assist you in obtaining the most favorable result possible.\nLorin Zaner has attended a conference by the prosecutor's office after his client was found not guilty of manslaughter as a result of an allegation. The prosecutor presented an expert who said that if a child presents with subdural hematomas and retinal hemorrhage without adequate explanation, the child had to be a victim of shaken baby. This is simply not true, as scientific studies have proven. In fact, Lorin provided an article to the expert to show that the expert's opinion was not accurate. The expert wasn't aware of the research and promised to look into it. However, the only way you will be able to overcome the prosecutor's expert is to hire and present your own expert at trial.\nScientists do not know everything about the brain. Knowledge about brain injuries is continually growing as scientific studies are conducted, which is why:\nIt is critical to keep abreast of the research.\nIt is critical to know the scientists who are on the cutting edge of the research.\nIt is critical to know the scientists and doctors who have the knowledge and courage to testify against the system, (i.e. the prosecution) based on science and not on conjecture.\nThere is an immense body of research on this subject. Your attorney needs to be familiar with all of the research in order to properly represent you. The defense of these cases is very expensive and experts will need to be hired to explain the science to the jury. If you face shaken baby allegations, you will need an experienced advocate. Call Lorin J. Zaner today at (419) 741-4050!\nGet a Trial-Tested Criminal Defense Attorney\nThe Help You Deserve When You Need it Most\n\"My courtroom experience has provided me the ability to think on my feet and handle any situation that could occur during trial. I approach every case with the attitude that it is going to trial and make the effort to learn the facts, know the law, and decide what is needed to be successful for the client.\u201d \u2013 Attorney Lorin Zaner\nBecause of our Toledo criminal defense lawyers\u2019 skill, dedication, and experience, the Law Office of Lorin J. Zaner has been able to obtain many favorable results for clients accused or arrested for these serious accusations.\nOur firm represented a young woman who was accused of harming her child by \"shaking\" leading to subdural hematoma and retinal hemorrhaging. Her children were taken away from her. After obtaining a number of experts on her behalf to counter Protective Services' allegations, the case was dismissed on the day of trial.\nTo benefit from our high-standards of service, call us today at (419) 741-4050. Schedule Your Free Consultation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 6722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.olatimes.com/actor/walton-goggins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:43Z", "digest": "sha1:RAOUNL3JNRF7R36GHPGQ2CEQ7H7MWBWM", "length": 1574, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.olatimes.com", "title": "Walton Goggins \u2013 Ola Times", "raw_content": "Home Actor Walton Goggins\nIn the past few years, Walton Goggins has had pivotal roles in films by two of Hollywood\u2019s most important auteurs: Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg. His integral role as \u2018Chris Mannix,\u2019 a southern renegade who claims to be the new sheriff of Red Rock in Tarantino\u2019s THE HATEFUL EIGHT, marks his second collaboration with the Academy Award-winning writer/director. He previously played slave fight trainer \u2018Billy Crash\u2019 in Tarantino\u2019s 2012 DJANGO UNCHAINED. That same year, Goggins also appeared in Steven Spielberg\u2019s LINCOLN, where he portrayed Congressman \u2018Wells A. Hutchins.\u2019\nGoggins has wrapped principal photography on the feature \u201cThe Three Christs of Ypsilanti,\u201d in which he plays the role of \u2018Christ.\u2019 The story follows a doctor (Richard Gere) who is treating paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believe they are Jesus Christ. Jon Avnet directed from a script he wrote with Eric Nazarian, adapted from the biographical novel by Milton Rokeach.\nHe has completed production on a starring role in HISTORY\u2019s upcoming \u201cSix,\u201d an 8-episode contemporary military action drama from A+E Studios and The Weinstein Company. Inspired by current events, the project is about an elite team of Navy SEALs whose 2014 mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan goes awry when they uncover a U.S. citizen working with the terrorists. Goggins will play \u2018Rip Taggart,\u2019 the one-time leader of the SEAL team SIX squad who now patrols an African village to protect its residents from Boko Haram.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 6014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.omicsonline.org/switzerland/eastern-equine-encephalitis-peer-reviewed-pdf-ppt-articles/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:08Z", "digest": "sha1:2ANUARILTCXYXO2KF3LPGM5XEWWAWTPL", "length": 1778, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.omicsonline.org", "title": "Eastern Equine Encephalitis | Switzerland| PDF | PPT| Case Reports | Symptoms | Treatment", "raw_content": "Encephalitis is an acute inflammatory process that primarily involves the brain. The meninges are frequently involved (meningoencephalitis). Eastern equine encephalomyelitis (EEE) is a mosquito borne viral disease of all equine species such as horses, asses, and zebras. After infection, equines may suddenly die or show progressive central nervous system disorders. The rapidity of deterioration and eventual outcome of infection vary among individual horses.\nEEE is caused by a virus from the Alphavirus genus, which is part of the antigenically similar family of viruses known as Togaviridae. (Alphaviruses are also responsible for WEE and VEE.) These alphaviruses are spherical and have a diameter of 60-65 nm. The outer layer consists of a glycoprotein shell with protruding glycoprotein spikes found beneath the lipid bilayer. The nucleocapsid core contains the single-stranded RNA genome. The virus that causes EEE is transmitted primarily by mosquitoes that bite an infected animal and then bite and feed on another animal or human. The speed with which the disease spreads depends on the density of mosquito populations.\nThe incidence of encephalitis is 1 case per 200,000 population in the United States, with herpes simplex virus (HSV) being the most common cause. The arboviruses account for 10% of cases; occasionally, during an epidemic, they can account for as many as 50%. The equine mortality rate due to EEE ranges from 75 to 90 percent.\nFocus management primarily on supportive and preventive measures. Pharmacologic therapy consists primarily of antipyretics, analgesics, and anticonvulsants. Treatment consists of corticosteroids, anticonvulsants, and supportive measures (treating symptoms)such as intravenous fluids, tracheal intubation, and antipyretics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 8438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 165.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlinecasino-pa.com/casino-news/greenwood-yet-to-choose-a-site-for-new-mini-casino/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:56Z", "digest": "sha1:C7LTN2Z35FACMTSC5KPHL4MKSAMUILOO", "length": 1822, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.onlinecasino-pa.com", "title": "Greenwood yet to choose a site for new mini-casino", "raw_content": "Greenwood emerge the big winner of the 4th mini-casino license in Pa! Indeed, moments after the PGCB rejected the Sand\u2019s bid for failure to find a site. Greenwood Gaming bid was accepted, and it\u2019s an excellent news! If you remember, last month, the Sand\u2019s made the headlines a couple of times. Indeed, it seems the company had chosen a site that stepped on Mount Airy area. Because of its inability to find a location, The PGCB refused their application. So, a license free-up and Greenwood won the bid!\nFinding the right site is vital for Greenwood!\nFollowing the news, a spokesman at Greenwood said when asked about a site. \u201cThere\u2019s a corridor of interest by the interstate 81. It\u2019s between Chambersburg and Carlisle. But as of now, we don\u2019t have a preferred location. Anywhere within 30-miles is still under consideration.\u201c\nSome municipalities are more welcoming than others.\nIndeed, Cumberland believes that a casino would help the region\u2019s economy. Jonathan Bowser, CE of the Economic Development Corp., said. \u201cIt fits into our mission of creating employment and, increasing visitor spent. \u201d\nBut, the Carlisle Borough is not happy about the idea.\nSean Schultz, a council member, said. \u201cThe idea is not all sunshine and rainbows. I worried about higher costs in emergency services and social issues.\u201d In the same interview, he also said that he\u2019s worried about addictions and families of the region.\u201d\nAs you\u2019ve guessed it, everyone has an opinion about casinos. It\u2019s the nature of the industry, and until Greenwood announces a location. We can only hope that everyone will be happy with their decision. Don\u2019t worry; we\u2019ll relay any official statements and update once they found a site. Plus will make sure to give you any insights on an opening date. So bookmark this website to always know the latest pa casino news.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlinecasinoarchives.com/sports/2016/04/11/real-madrid-vs-wolfsburg-preview-and-line-up-prediction-madrid-to-win-3-0-at-71/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:36Z", "digest": "sha1:6FAI7MC4VHSECDMABY65A5Q6DENMDURL", "length": 958, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.onlinecasinoarchives.com", "title": "Real Madrid vs Wolfsburg Preview and Line Up Prediction: Madrid to Win 3-0 at 7/1", "raw_content": "Tags: Estadio Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid, Wolfsburg\nReal Madrid and Wolfsburg will play the second leg of their Champions League quarter final at the Estadio Santiago Bernab\u00e9u on Tuesday, 12th April.\nWolfsburg is winning the match 2 \u2013 0 after the first leg which took place last week which means that Real Madrid have a tough task ahead if they are to win.\nReal Madrid finished first in Group A with 16 points having won 5 games and drawn 1. In their last game they beat Roma 4 \u2013 0 on aggregate.\nWolfsburg finished first in Group B with 12 points having won 4 games and lost 2. In their last game they beat Gent 4 \u2013 2 on aggregate.\nA 3 \u2013 0 win for Real Madrid is the most likely outcome with William Hill and Bet365 both offering odds of 7/1.\nWilliam Hill Odds: 2/9 Real Madrid to Win, 5/1 for a Draw and 12/1 Wolfsburg to Win\nBet365 Odds: 1/5 Real Madrid to Win, 11/2 for a Draw and 12/1 Wolfsburg to Win\nBetFred Pays Out on Leicester Winning the League", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlinecolleges.net/kansas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:20Z", "digest": "sha1:GM3BMW2LV4BF2VKUNLALCADBD5QCA3YL", "length": 45067, "nlines": 156, "source_domain": "www.onlinecolleges.net", "title": "Online Colleges in Kansas | The 18 Best Online Schools in KS", "raw_content": "Online Colleges in Kansas\nMany online colleges in Kansas provide opportunities for working professionals and busy students to earn a degree. According to a report by the Digital Learning Compass, online enrollment is steadily increasing. Of the 220,222 students enrolled in Kansas institutions in 2015, 79,683 students were enrolled in online learning courses. Of these online learners, 75% studied at public institutions, 16% at private, for-profit schools, and 9% at private, nonprofit institutions. Of the state\u2019s students enrolled only in online programs, 47% were Kansas residents, 45% were out-of-state students, and 8% were from outside the United States.\nMany students take online college courses in Kansas to study while dedicating time to personal and professional commitments. This guide provides information for students considering online colleges in Kansas, including enrollment rates, tuition costs, job opportunities, and scholarship options. This guide also identifies the state\u2019s largest industries to help prospective students determine whether an online education from a Kansas institution is right for them.\nA Brief Overview of Higher Education in Kansas\nAccording to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in the 2015-2016 academic year, Kansas was home to 75 four-year, degree-granting institutions, 26 private schools, and 16 for-profit institutions. Also according to NCES data, 214,301 students were enrolled in postsecondary institutions in Kansas in 2016, which was the highest enrollment of any state. Many online colleges in Kansas offer discounted tuition rates for in-state students, and some charge all online learners in-state tuition rates, regardless of residency. According to the College Board, tuition and fees for in-state students at the state\u2019s four-year, public institutions averaged $9,100 during the 2017-2018 academic year. Tuition and fees at the University of Kansas, the state\u2019s flagship university, averaged $11,148 for in-state students and $27,358 for out-of-state students during the 2017-2018 school year.\nin 2013, Kansas had 75 degree-granting institutions\nAccording to the NASSGAP annual survey, $17,247,581 was awarded in need-based financial aid during the 2015-2016 school year. Both residents and nonresidents pursuing an education in Kansas have many opportunities to earn financial aid based on need. Because of such opportunities, students should not be discouraged by higher out-of-state tuition rates. Learners should consider both cost and available financial aid before determining whether a school fits their budget.\nThe State of Online Higher Education in Kansas\nAccording to the Digital Learning Compass, 12,961 graduate students and 66,722 undergraduate students were taking at least one online course in 2015. During the same year, 9,535 graduate students and 35,786 undergraduate students took only online courses. Of those online students, 19,504 were from a different state, while 20,351 were Kansas residents. Additionally, 3,344 online students were from outside the United States. Grantham University is the leading university in Kansas for total online enrollment and for online enrollment growth, with 9,463 students enrolled in online courses in 2012 and 11,721 online students in 2015.\nStudents can access the Kansas Association for Interactive Distance Education (KAIDE), a nonprofit association comprising schools, education service centers, IDL networks, and state agencies. KAIDE promotes and advocates for distance education, recognizes related achievements, and organizes forums and conferences. Kansas legislature created the Kan-Ed project to encourage the use of broadband technology-based video communication for online learning and telemedicine. Kan-Ed also helps libraries, schools, and hospitals apply for federal grants related to video communication for telemedicine and online learning. Students can also benefit from the Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance, which offers affordable, flexible online programs.\nOut-of-state students at online colleges in Kansas may receive tuition breaks through the Midwest Higher Education Compact (MHEC), which works to increase postsecondary enrollment through the Midwest Student Exchange Program (MSEP). Since 1994, the MSEP has provided affordable opportunities for out-of-state students. Through the MSEP, more than 100 colleges offer more affordable rates for out-of-state learners. MHEC comprises the schools of 12 midwestern states, with 10 of those states participating in the voluntary exchange program. MHEC includes schools in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.\nThrough the MSEP, public higher learning institutions agree to charge out-of-state students no more than 150% of the in-state tuition rate. Private institutions offer a 10% discount on tuition rates. To take advantage of the program, students must enroll as nonresidents at a participating MSEP campus. Each institution makes final enrollment decisions and may limit participation or set specific admission requirements for students taking advantage of the MSEP. Candidates must be residents of a participating state who are applying to an institution in a different participating state.\nBest Online Colleges in Kansas\nBelow are rankings of the best online four-year programs in Kansas. The profiles describe each school\u2019s approach to online education and list services for distance students, along with the school\u2019s most popular fully online degrees. After reviewing the best online schools in Kansas, explore our state resources, including a database of every college and university in Kansas and an index of popular in-state scholarships.\nLocated in Hays, Kansas, Fort Hays State University was founded in 1902. With an enrollment exceeding 15,000, FHSU offers online programs for learners at all stages of their educational journey through its virtual college.\nFHSU's online certificate programs, plus its online bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees, offer affordable, convenient coursework to students in a variety of fields. Students can supplement their education and advance their careers through online certificate programs in areas including business studies, criminal justice, leadership, management, and sustainability. FHSU's online associate programs in applied technology and general studies prepare learners to continue on to bachelor's degrees or to meet short-term educational goals.\nThe extensive online bachelor's offerings at FHSU include programs in business education, education, finance information networking and telecommunications, management, nursing, and sociology. Many programs offer degree concentrations which allow students to tailor their studies to their personal interests and professional goals. Online bachelor's programs include 120 credit hours, and learners can complete coursework in fewer than four years, especially with transfer credits.\nFHSU's online master's programs in fields like business administration, education, history, and nursing give learners the opportunity to earn their graduate degree while continuing to work full time. Learners can also enroll in one of FHSU's graduate hybrid programs in mental health or school counseling. FHSU also offers online degrees in education administration and education leadership to education professionals who seek to advance their competencies and become administrators in the field. FHSU's online doctorate in nursing practice includes synchronous coursework offered in a cohort model to nursing professionals who want to assume leadership roles and make executive decisions related to patient care.\nFHSU holds accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission. FHSU's nursing programs also hold programmatic accreditation through the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and the Kansas State Board of Nursing, and its education programs are approved by the Kansas State Board of Education.\n2 Newman University Wichita $$$$$\nUnique among on-campus and online colleges in Kansas, Newman University in Wichita carries out its Catholic mission through programs designed to instill a Catholic identity, academic excellence, a culture of service, and global perspectives. With origins dating back to 1834, the school served as a boarding school, teacher's college, and junior college before becoming a four-year, degree-offering institution during the 1950s.\nNU offers online undergraduate degrees in interdisciplinary studies, organizational leadership, and business and strategic intelligence. The online interdisciplinary studies program at NU allows students to customize their degree while drawing upon life and professional experience. Designed for nontraditional students, the interdisciplinary undergraduate program accepts transfer credits to help learners earn a four-year degree on a flexible schedule and at a convenient pace.\nNU's online bachelor's degree in organizational leadership emphasizes communication, strategic planning, problem solving, and decision making in business settings. Ideal for adult learners with some college or professional experience, the online organizational leadership program builds skills and competencies to advance workplace goals. NU's business and strategic intelligence degree online emphasizes decision-making in business, while also fostering analytical skills. Students develop competencies in mathematics, information science, and data collection applicable to private and public business sectors, public service careers, and criminal justice.\nThe online master's programs at NU include degrees in theology, theological studies, business administration, and education. Students can pursue a master of arts in theology or a theological studies degree, depending on their career goals. A theology degree online prepares learners to continue on to doctoral programs in theology, while theological studies programs train students to work within the Catholic ministry.\nStudents enrolled in a master of business administration program at NU can concentrate on finance, business analytics, healthcare administration, leadership, or management. Students can complete an online graduate degree in business administration in as little as 12 months. NU's online education graduate degree offers specializations in English curriculum and instruction, reading curriculum and instruction, and educational leadership. All programs prepare current teachers and administrators to advance in their professional roles while contributing to their districts and the overall educational environment.\nNU maintains accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission. Programmatic accreditation includes the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.\nSouthwestern College, based in Winfield, Kansas, was founded in 1885 and is affiliated with the Methodist Church. Located 40 miles from Wichita, the school boasts 100% financial aid support for its students.\nThe school offers online undergraduate degrees in business and leadership, education, healthcare and social sciences, ministry, security and safety, and technology. All programs offer students with previous college experience opportunities to complete their undergraduate studies. Business and leadership programs include bachelor's degrees in accounting, business administration, operations management, and strategic leadership. Healthcare and social science degrees in psychology, healthcare administration, and nursing accompany online education degrees in early childhood and elementary education.\nThe online ministry undergraduate degree at Southwestern emphasizes Christian theology and the practical applications of pastoral principles. Online security and safety programs focus on criminal justice and security management. Technology degrees highlight computer programming and information technology management.\nSouthwestern's online master's programs in business, education, and ministerial studies provide business, teaching, and pastoral professionals with coursework to help them advance in their fields. Southwestern also offers an online doctorate of education with summer residencies designed to bring together course content through interactive exercises. Learners can pursue two tracks within the education doctorate: one for K-12 licensure and one for higher education.\nOnline certificate programs at Southwestern include undergraduate certificates in cyber crime investigation, organizational communication, and quality management. Graduate certificates in emergency planning, executive leadership, executive quality management, and enterprise risk management offer business and organizational professionals in-depth information to bolster their current role.\nSouthwestern holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. Education programs at the school hold accreditation from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation, and the nursing program holds accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.\n4 Baker University Baldwin City $$$$$\nUnique among online colleges in Kansas, Baker University provides academic programs that emphasize Methodist values and educational excellence. Founded in 1858, Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas provides online degrees and coursework to engage students and encourage personal and professional growth.\nBaker's online undergraduate degrees include an associate in business and three bachelor's degrees in business administration. The online associate degree includes all of the coursework required to continue on to the bachelor's program. Within the bachelor's degree curriculum, learners can focus on leadership, strategic business communication, and management. Students can also complete an online bachelor's degree in criminal justice to prepare for a career in law enforcement, the criminal justice system, or for law school or graduate study.\nThe online master's programs offered by Baker include degrees in education, organizational leadership, and sports management. Learners can also complete a master's degree in business administration, concentrating their degree in executive leadership, finance, healthcare administration, human resources, or general business studies. Baker also offers online graduate business certificates -- each comprising 12 credit hours -- in finance, human resources, leadership and organizational change, and healthcare administration.\nBaker's online doctor of education in instructional design and performance technology includes online coursework and a dissertation. It prepares instructional professionals to improve training and performance efficiency within a workplace. Learners can complete an online doctorate in as little as three years.\nBaker also offers online coursework to teachers who need to recertify their credentials or want to pursue professional development opportunities.\nIn addition to accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission, Baker's nursing program holds accreditation through the Kansas State Board of Nursing and Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. Education programs boast accreditation from the Kansas State Department of Education and the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation.\n5 Barclay College Haviland $$$$$\n607 N Kingman\nHaviland, KS 67059-0288\nLocated in Haviland, Kansas, Barclay College was founded by Quakers in 1917 and continues to incorporate evangelical values into its educational programs. Barclay's mission to help students respond to God's call through academic and spiritual excellence manifests in a Bible-centered environment, both in on-campus and online courses.\nBarclay's online undergraduate degrees include an online associate program in general studies. The online associate degree provides learners with core classes transferable to bachelor's programs, including Barclay's online degrees in biblical studies, business management, Christian leadership, and psychology.\nBarclay's bachelor's degree in biblical studies offers learners the opportunity to develop an in-depth understanding of God, scripture, and the role the Bible plays in the world around them. The Christian leadership degree, on the other hand, trains students to work within church ministries and as church leaders. The business management bachelor's degree online combines general theories and business-related skills while integrating Christian values, concepts, and principles. Barclay's online psychology degree provides students with a background in psychological concepts, theories, and practices with an emphasis on family, biblical principles, and God's desire for man's holiness.\nAll of Barclay's online bachelor's programs allow students to transfer in credits and complete a degree in less than four years. Students can transfer up to 60 credits and complete their online bachelor's program in 18-24 months. Programs include 128 credit hours between core and required coursework.\nBarclay also offers online undergraduate certificate programs. Students can complete certificates in business management, biblical studies, Christian leadership, and psychology through 24 hours of coursework in the field. Learners can also complete a Friends Ministry Training certificate at Barclay. This 30-credit certificate offers learners working knowledge of the Bible and an understanding of the role of prayer and scripture in daily life.\nBarclay holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission and through the Commission on Accreditation and the Association for Biblical Higher Education -- a national accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.\n6 MidAmerica Nazarene University Olathe $$$$$\nMidAmerica Nazarene University emphasizes a pioneering spirit, purposeful lives, and a passion for serving through its educational programs and community involvement. From its Olathe, Kansas location, MNU incorporates faith and Christian values into its online and on-campus programs.\nMNU offers three online associate degrees. An accelerated associate program includes 60-63 credit hours that students can complete in as little as 18 months. Online associate degrees in cybersecurity and software design and development offer learners opportunities to develop basic skills in computer systems, applications, and protections. MNU's bachelor's degrees online include programs in business administration and computer information systems. Learners can also complete an online RN-to-BSN degree online through MNU.\nThe online graduate programs at MNU include master's degrees in business administration, healthcare management, nursing, education, and instructional design and technology. Online master's programs include 30-45 credit hours of coursework, with a dual master's in business administration and master of science in nursing (MBA/MSN) degree that requires 57 credit hours. During the MBA/MSN program, learners complete one course from each program at the same time. The online MBA in healthcare management includes a residency during which learners work with an industry professional and gain valuable practical experience.\nMNU also provides online certificate programs for learners who want to build increased competencies. The university's reading specialist online certificate program trains instructors to better target literacy in their practice, and its online teaching certificate allows learners to develop the skills needed to become an effective teacher. Certificates in nursing, cyber security, informatics, and sexual addictions treatment supplement current areas of study or train professionals to expand their professional roles.\nMNU maintains accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission. The school's education programs hold additional accreditation through the Kansas State Board of Education and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education. This university's nursing programs hold accreditation from the Kansas State Board of Nursing and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. Many individual states also recognize the authorization of MNU's online programs within their borders.\n7 Emporia State University Emporia $$$$$\nFounded in 1865, Emporia State University began as a teacher's college before expanding its academic offerings to include undergraduate and graduate programs. In addition to programs offered at ESU's main campus in Emporia, Kansas, students can receive quality academic coursework and programming in Kansas City, El Dorado, or online.\nESU offers an undergraduate bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies. The online interdisciplinary studies program allows students to take coursework that meets their personal interests and professional goals. Learners can tailor their curriculum through 36 credit hours of interdisciplinary studies coursework by selecting an area of concentration.\nOnline graduate programs at ESU include master's degrees in school counseling, library and information management, educational administration, instruction specialty, and curriculum and instruction. Students in the master of science in curriculum and instruction program can specialize in instructional leadership, effective practitioner, national board certification, or instructional coaching and teaching. Curriculum and instruction degrees and the online master's in educational administration constitute 33 credit hours. Students can complete these through an accelerated 18-month timeline.\nStudents in one of ESU's instruction specialty master's degrees can concentrate on elementary education, reading content, or elementary STEM content. Programs include 35 credit hours.\nESU's online certificate and licensure programs offer additional opportunities for students and working professionals who want to advance their knowledge and skills. ESU offers undergraduate certificates in fields such as archiving, eLearning, history, informatics, mathematics, teaching theory, and youth services.\nGraduate certificates in building level administration or district-level administration build competencies for education administrators, while practicing teachers can earn online certificates in early childhood instruction, English as a second language teaching, health education, special education, and reading specialization.\nESU holds accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission. ESU's undergraduate and graduate education programs are accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Kansas State Board of Education.\n8 Pittsburg State University Pittsburg $$$$$\nPittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kansas offers more than 200 academic programs to nearly 7,000 students. Founded in 1903, Pitt State's online programs include undergraduate and graduate degrees, certifications, and individual courses designed to provide learners with convenient, affordable academic options.\nPitt State's online undergraduate degrees in nursing, workforce development, supervision and leadership, and human resources provide learners with associate degrees the opportunity to earn a bachelor's degree in two years. Designed for adult learners, undergraduate programs include sequenced coursework that incorporates theoretical knowledge and experiential learning exercises.\nOnline master's degrees at Pitt State include several master of business administration concentrations; teaching programs in special education, secondary education, and English for nonnative speakers; education technology; reading specialization; nursing education; and history. Pitt State also offers engineering technology programs with specializations in manufacturing, plastics, and mechanics. Programs include 30-33 hours of coursework that builds advanced competencies within their respective field.\nPitt State boasts two online education specialist programs: general school administration or special education. Online certificate programs in school district leadership, technology integration, and hospitality management give learners the option to focus on a niche professional aspect and gain expertise applicable to their current careers.\nAll out-of-state and part-time learners in one of Pitts State's online programs pay the same tuition as in-state students. Pitt State holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. Educational programs hold accreditation from the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation and the Kansas State Board of Education. Nursing programs receive accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, and business degrees hold accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.\n9 University of Saint Mary Leavenworth $$$$$\nFrom its main campus in Leavenworth, Kansas, the University of Saint Mary promotes academic excellence and a personal relationship with God through its almost 40 academic programs. Learners can attend classes at USM's Overland Park campus or online as they explore the gospel and charity mission of USM's Catholic roots.\nUSM provides an online undergraduate degree in nursing through a registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing program (RN-to-BSN). The online RN-to-BSN degree offers practicing nurses access to advanced coursework in health assessment, community health, and nursing research to allow for professional development and personal growth. Learners who want to continue on to USM's online master's degree in nursing (MSN) receive a tuition discount.\nUSM's online MSN degree includes two specializations: nursing administration or nursing education. The MSN prepares nurses to take leadership positions within healthcare or to master nursing instruction, respectively. Students also gain research expertise, theoretical knowledge, and practical experience applicable to doctoral study. Within the MSN program, students complete an immersive practicum at a facility, institution, or organization approved by program personnel. Students complete 120 clinical hours to meet practicum requirements.\nUSM also offers an online master's program in business administration (MBA) with six concentrations. Students specialize in finance, general management, healthcare management, human resources, leadership and organizational health, or marketing and advertising. The MBA program includes 36 credit hours of coursework. With six start dates each year, students can complete an MBA in as little as one year.\nUSM holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. USM's nursing programs hold accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, and its business degrees hold accreditation from the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education.\nWichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, emphasizes diversity, seizing opportunities, teamwork, and diversity on its 330-acre campus and throughout its online programs. Based in the largest city in Kansas, WSU offers online associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees with flat-rate tuition to meet the needs of working professionals. Master's degrees include 30-36 credit hours, and transfer opportunities allow undergraduate students the chance to bring significant credits to an online bachelor's program.\nWSU's online associate program includes 65 credit hours of coursework, easily transferable to one of the school's online bachelor's programs. Learners can earn online bachelor's degrees in majors such as dental hygiene, criminal justice, homeland security, general business, and education. Multiple general studies bachelor's degrees online allow students to develop a curriculum unique to their interests and in line with future academic and professional goals. Students can also pursue a general studies bachelor's degree along one of WSU's many field-specific paths.\nOnline master's programs at WSU include master of arts degrees in aging studies, criminal justice, and arts leadership and management. Aging studies students can focus on administration, public health, or social sciences. Online learners can complete graduate programs in public administration, health administration, and business administration, or earn an online master's in special education or learning and instructional design.\nWSU also offers an online doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) to nurses who hold master's degrees. These degree candidates typically want to build their clinical skills and leadership abilities in adult and gerontology nursing, as family nurse practitioners, and in psychiatric and mental health nursing. WSU's DNP program holds approval through the Kansas State Board of Nursing and accreditation from the Commission on College Nursing Education.\nWSU is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. The business school at WSU holds accreditation through the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.\n11 University of Kansas Lawrence $$$$$\nWith an initial class of 55 students in 1866, The University of Kansas now provides academic programs to more than 30,000 learners. From its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas; its medical branches in Kansas City, Wichita, and Salina; and its location in Overland Park, KU offers on-campus and online undergraduate, graduate, and noncredit programs to learners at all stages of their educational and professional journey.\nKU's online undergraduate degrees include degree completion programs in communication studies, psychology, and the liberal arts. KU offers an online degree completion program in respiratory care to respiratory therapists who want to earn a bachelor's degree in the field. Registered health information technicians can enroll in KU's health information administration degree completion program, and registered nurses can complete a bachelor of science in nursing online as well.\nUndergraduate certificates online provide students with additional options for study and career development. Learners can complete online undergraduate certificates in leadership studies, military transition, intelligence community, professional communication, world business culture, strength and conditioning, and race and ethnicity in the U.S.\nThe online graduate programs offered by KU include master's degrees in applied behavioral science, curriculum and instruction, business administration, nursing, applied statistics and analytics, and pharmaceutical chemistry. Several programs include both online coursework and on-campus requirements, such as KU's master's degree in social work and its graduate degree in environmental geology.\nKU provides two doctoral programs online, though they include some on-campus obligations. Learners can earn a doctorate in nursing practice or a Ph.D. in nursing online with summer residencies designed to allow students to demonstrate degree competencies.\nSeveral online graduate certificates through KU build on degree programs and offer learners the opportunity to focus their studies further. KU offers online graduate certificates in areas such as behavioral analysis, foundations of business, reading education, healthcare informatics, and organizational leadership.\nKU holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. The school's nursing programs hold accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education and the Kansas State Board of Nursing.\nCentral Christian College of Kansas, located in McPherson, Kansas, provides Christ-centered educational programs to undergraduate students on-campus and online. CCC focuses on the \"fit four,\" strengthening students' hearts, minds, bodies, and souls. Students learn to practice empathetic communication, engage in critical thinking and discovery, enhance their own wellness, provide service to others, and seek spiritual maturity.\nCCC's online associate degrees include coursework that provides foundations for career growth and continued study. Learners can earn an associate of arts in general studies with an emphasis in psychology, healthcare management, business, business management, leadership, or accounting. CCC also offers an online associate of arts degree in criminal justice.\nBachelor's programs online at CCC combine Christian learning with fields such as criminal justice, organizational leadership, healthcare administration, psychology, and business administration. CCC's online psychology degree emphasizes religious morals and principles as they relate to psychology -- training learners to build professional skills in anticipation of moving on to graduate study in the field. Online organizational leadership and healthcare administration programs prepare students for careers in business and the healthcare industries, while the online business administration program offers three concentrations for learners who want to focus on a specific area of the field. Students can concentrate on accounting, management, or human resource management.\nThroughout the curricula, students at CCC explore the challenges and opportunities of living a Christ-centered life and working with a faith-centered perspective in secular society. CCC's online associate and bachelor's degrees do not require learners to purchase additional textbooks, with all content provided. Online college courses in Kansas here last six weeks.\nCCC holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission.\nLocated in Topeka, Kansas, Washburn University offers undergraduate and graduate programs to on-campus and online students alike. Founded in 1865, Washburn University offers in-state tuition to students in neighboring states, including Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas.\nWhile Washburn University no longer offers its 2+2 degree completion program, the school provides undergraduate learners with online programs in nursing, arts and sciences, and applied studies. Online nursing programs include a registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing program.\nLearners can also complete Washburn's online master's in nursing program, designed to prepare nurses to advance to clinical leadership positions within the field. Learners can study to become family or psychiatric mental health practitioners. Washburn's online doctorate in nursing practice combines the school's master's in business administration program with an advanced nursing curriculum to emphasize entrepreneurship and prepare students to work as leaders within the healthcare industry.\nAn arts and sciences degree online in communication and leadership provides 30 credit hours of interdisciplinary graduate coursework to working professionals. Students can learn to build interpersonal communication skills applicable to organizational and business settings. They also manage self-awareness and strategic thinking through classes in conflict and negotiation, persuasion, and innovation.\nOnline bachelor's degrees in health services administration, allied health, and medical imagery offer current healthcare professionals options to earn a four-year degree. Master's programs in applied studies include human services, health science, criminal justice, and addiction counseling degrees. Learners can also enroll in one of Washburn's online certificates in sonography, radiation therapy, ultrasound, trauma and recovery services, nonprofit management, and magnetic resonance.\nWashburn University holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. The master's degree in criminal justice holds accreditation from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and nursing programs hold accreditation from the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education. Washburn's online master's degree in addiction studies has also been approved by the Association for Addiction Professionals and the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board to prepare students for licensed master's addiction counselor and a licensed clinical addictions counselor certifications.\n14 Tabor College Hillsboro $$$$$\nHillsboro, KS 67063-1799\nFounded in 1908 by Mennonites, Tabor College offers educational programs based in Christ's teaching. By encouraging learners to develop their passion for learning, dedicate themselves in service to one another, and engage with the college and community as a whole, Tabor creates a Christ-focused environment on campus and online.\nTabor offers three online associate degrees. Programs in urban ministry and Christian studies prepare students for a life in ministry and continued study of scripture. Tabor's online associate degree in business administration incorporates basic business knowledge with Christian teaching to encourage adult learners to develop personal integrity and firm values applicable to business settings.\nStudents who complete an online associate degree in Christian studies at Tabor can transfer into the school's online bachelor's degree in Christian ministries or business administration. Additional online bachelor's degrees include criminology or nursing. The online criminology degree encourages peaceful resolutions, faith-based solutions, and restorative justice, while the registered nurse to bachelor of science in nursing degree provides practicing nurses with advanced knowledge of nursing management and leadership and builds spirituality within their careers.\nTabor also offers graduate programs in business administration leadership and ministry entrepreneurship and innovation. Tabor's online master's degree in ministry allows students to mentor closely with faculty members as they train to lead their own ministries of their own. The program also includes an international trip to experience ministry in another culture while pursuing entrepreneurship opportunities.\nLearners can complete a master of science in nursing, focusing on nurse education, informatics, or executive leadership. All of Tabor's master's degrees in nursing include coursework on nursing leadership, evidence-based practice, legal and ethical aspects of healthcare, and healthcare systems policy. Students who specialize in executive leadership complete additional classes in organizational management, fiscal operations, and systematic change.\nTabor maintains accreditation through the Higher Learning Commission. The school's RN-to-BSN program is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.\n15 Sterling College - Kansas Sterling $$$$$\n125 W. Cooper\nSterling College in Sterling, Kansas, instills Christian values in its academic programs and throughout the university community through a mission based in faith, calling, learning, integrity, service, and community.\nSterling College offers online undergraduate degrees in criminal justice administration, history, education, and organizational management. The bachelor's in criminal justice administration online prepares learners to work within law enforcement as managers or other leaders. The school's online history bachelor's program emphasizes politics, culture, literature, and science across the historical spectrum. Students can also complete professional studies coursework to pursue careers teaching history at the secondary level.\nSterling's online bachelor's program in organizational management explores business and managerial topics including statistics, economics, ethics, and leadership. An online education bachelor's degree from Sterling prepares learners to teach elementary-level students.\nMaster's programs online at Sterling include a specialization in special education, plus potential endorsements for K-6, 6-12, or preK-12 education. Students can also complete Sterling's online master of arts in sports ministry. The program offers learners insights and knowledge about ministry-related sports organizations while training them to effectively incorporate exercise science, theology, and ministry as they work with Christian athletes. The master's in sports ministry includes 31 credit hours on subjects including the theology of sport, sports ethics, and coaching methods. Students also complete an internship or practicum as part of their degree.\nSterling University holds accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission. The school's education programs hold accreditation from the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.\nMost Affordable Online Colleges in Kansas\nBelow is another list of online colleges in Kansas, sorted by tuition rates.\nOur list of the most affordable online colleges is based on in-state yearly tuition, or annual tuition rates if a school does not differentiate between in-state and out-of-state students. Tuition rates are based on a full course load each semester or term. All colleges on the list offer at least one bachelor's degree completion program available entirely online. The online schools in KS with the lowest tuition are ranked highest, providing prospective students with a true list of the most affordable online colleges in their state.\n1 Ottawa University - Online Ottawa School profile $$$$$\n2 Fort Hays State University Hays School profile $$$$$\n3 Emporia State University Emporia School profile $$$$$\n4 Washburn University Topeka School profile $$$$$\n5 Pittsburg State University Pittsburg School profile $$$$$\n6 Wichita State University Wichita School profile $$$$$\n7 Central Christian College of Kansas McPherson School profile $$$$$\n8 Baker University Baldwin City School profile $$$$$\n9 University of Kansas Lawrence School profile $$$$$\n10 Manhattan Christian College Manhattan School profile $$$$$\n11 Sterling College - Kansas Sterling School profile $$$$$\n12 University of Saint Mary Leavenworth School profile $$$$$\n13 Newman University Wichita School profile $$$$$\n14 Barclay College Haviland School profile $$$$$\n15 Tabor College Hillsboro School profile $$$$$\n16 Friends University Wichita School profile $$$$$\n17 Southwestern College Winfield School profile $$$$$\nJob Outlook for College Graduates in Kansas\nGraduates of online colleges in Kansas have several potential career paths. There are many fast-growing occupations in the state, including positions as marketing managers, who earn an average of $125,740 per year. Graduates may also become physician assistants, who average $97,420 each year, or business analysts who earn an average salary of $77,880 in Kansas. The table below includes the top jobs in the state.\nMany graduates work in the state\u2019s key industries: advanced manufacturing, animal health, food processing, logistics and distribution, bioscience, aerospace, and alternative energy. About 70% of the world\u2019s embedded aviation fleet is manufactured in Kansas, with more than a quarter million aircrafts produced since 1919; advanced manufacturing is the leading industry in the state and offers many job opportunities. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean annual wage for all jobs in Iowa is $44,570 and the unemployment rate is 3.3%, with many jobs available to recent graduates.\nScholarships and Financial Aid in Kansas\nCapitol Federal Education Scholarships\nThe Capitol Federal Education Scholarships are open to high school graduates from Capitol Federal market areas. Applicants must be currently enrolled in a business program and have a minimum 3.35 high school GPA.\nThe University of Kansas Scholarships\nFeaturing one application for seven scholarship opportunities, the University of Kansas scholarships are renewable, merit-based awards that require students to have a GPA of at least 3.25-3.85.\nDan L. Meisinger Sr. Memorial Learn to Fly Scholarship\nOpen to Kansas, Illinois, or Missouri residents enrolled in an aviation program, applicants for this scholarship must have at least a 3.0 GPA.\nThe Elberta Harris Scholarship\nEmporia State University\u2019s largest single-endowed scholarship, this renewable award is open to graduates of a Johnson County high school who have a minimum 3.0 GPA and a background in community service.\nKansas State University awards about $29 million each year based on financial need, academics, leadership, activities, and service. Many scholarships are renewable.\nGregory Fleming Memorial Scholarship\nOpen to graduating seniors at Mulvane High School, this scholarship supports students who have overcome a significant obstacle during their elementary, middle, or high school years.\nKansas Nursing Service Scholarship\nOpen to students who are enrolled in, or accepted to, a nursing program in Kansas, this scholarship promotes enrollment in the state\u2019s nursing programs.\nOpen to Kansas residents enrolled in a college or university, the Kansas Teacher Service scholarship requires students to pursue a program leading to teacher certification.\nARRL The Irving W. Cook Scholarship\nThis scholarship is open to Kansas students who hold an active amateur radio license. Students must have their bachelor\u2019s degree in communications, electronics, or a related area and must plan to pursue higher education.\nTortoise Young Entrepreneurs Scholarship\nThis scholarship is available to Kansas and Missouri students seeking an undergraduate education. The scholarship awards a first prize of $3,000, a second prize of $2,000, and a third prize of $1,000.\nFind Schools in Kansas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 507, "original_length": 56570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onmsft.com/news/meet-cortana-windows-phone-81s-answer-siri-and-google-now", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:XRBIZJWGTRWYJX5YIHB2ZFNGEJHWHN5O", "length": 2248, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.onmsft.com", "title": "Meet Cortana: Windows Phone 8.1\u2019s answer to Siri and Google Now OnMSFT.com OnMSFT.com", "raw_content": "Meet Cortana: Windows Phone 8.1\u2019s answer to Siri and Google Now\nEarlier today, Microsoft unveiled Cortana for Windows Phone 8.1. Cortana is Microsoft\u2019s answer to Apple\u2019s Siri and Google\u2019s Google Now. Cortana is being touted as the \u201cmost personal smartphone assistant\u201d that learns your interests and helps keep track of all that matters.\n\u201cWe were inspired by the popular character from \u2018Halo\u2019 who served as a brilliant AI and a deeply personal digital assistant to Master Chief \u2026 so we called her Cortana,\u201d Joe Belfiore, Windows Phone VP stated during Build 2014. Cortana was used as the name for the digital assistant and is there for you, similar to how Cortana was there for Master Chief in the Halo video game series.\nTo develop Cortana, Microsoft apparently spoke to a number of \u201creal personal assistants\u201d and learned that they kept track of the interests and preferences of their bosses in a notebook. So Microsoft thought, what if Cortana curates all the stuff in Cortana\u2019s Notebook, which allows Cortana to be proactive and helpful throughout the day.\nAnd for the voice.. it\u2019s Jen Taylor, the same lady who voiced Cortana in the popular Halo franchise. \u201cShe is a combination of advanced technology across areas like search, natural language and machine learning that Microsoft has been able to bring to life, along with a distinct personality that is inspired by one of the biggest franchises in Xbox history,\u201d says Windows Phone Group Program Manager Marcus Ash.\nCortana is powered by Bing and learns over time as it asks you questions based on your behavior. Cortana will check in with you before she assumes you are interested in something. She can also detect and monitor the items you care about and \u201clooks out\u201d for you throughout the day, even going as far as filtering out the noise so you can focus on what matters the most to you.\nCortana will be available in the US as a Beta soon, while general release is set for the US, UK, and China during the second half of this year. Other countries will follow in 2015. It seems that Cortana will be distributed separately from the Windows Phone 8.1 update. Take a look at the videos below, showcasing Cortana in action.\nFurther reading: Build 2014, Cortana, Google Now, Siri, Windows Phone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oplaw.com/our-team/kaitlyn-burma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XCDBJYDHJNNX2F3IORNXKDESBHL4XE45", "length": 619, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.oplaw.com", "title": "Scottsdale Attorneys | Kaitlyn Burma", "raw_content": "I am originally from Iowa and moved to the Valley in 2015 after graduating from the University of Iowa.\nI decided I no longer enjoyed scraping ice off my car, so I picked the warmest place I could think of and moved to Arizona.\nI initially worked for the Boys & Girls Clubs as an Education Coordinator, a very rewarding position.\nNow, I am able to bring my passion for children and families to the Owens & Perkins legal team.\nOutside of work, I am currently working on getting my Masters in Public Administration and I spend almost all my free time either with my dog Finley walking the green belt, or playing softball.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.optimove.com/learning-center/customer-segmentation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4A6STWZFDA3EF3WXCJ2ZO75LD677FQ3L", "length": 3183, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.optimove.com", "title": "Customer Segmentation | Optimove", "raw_content": "Customer segmentation is the practice of dividing a company\u2019s customers into groups that reflect similarity among customers in each group. The goal of segmenting customers is to decide how to relate to customers in each segment in order to maximize the value of each customer to the business.\nThe Importance of Customer Segmentation\nCustomer segmentation has the potential to allow marketers to address each customer in the most effective way. Using the large amount of data available on customers (and potential customers), a customer segmentation analysis allows marketers to identify discrete groups of customers with a high degree of accuracy based on demographic, behavioral and other indicators.\nSince the marketer\u2019s goal is usually to maximize the value (revenue and/or profit) from each customer, it is critical to know in advance how any particular marketing action will influence the customer. Ideally, such \u201caction-centric\u201d customer segmentation will not focus on the short-term value of a marketing action, but rather the long-term customer lifetime value (CLV) impact that such a marketing action will have. Thus, it is necessary to group, or segment, customers according to their CLV.\nCLV-Focused Customer Segmentation\nOf course, it is always easier to make assumptions and use \u201cgut feelings\u201d to define rules which will segment customers into logical groupings, e.g., customers who came from a particular source, who live in a particular location or who bought a particular product/service. However, these high-level categorizations will seldom lead to the desired results.\nIt is obvious that some customers will spend more than others during their relationship with a company. The best customers will spend a lot for many years. Good customers will spend modestly over a long period of time, or will spend a lot over a short period of time. Others won\u2019t spend too much and/or won\u2019t stick around too long.\nThe right approach to segmentation analysis is to segment customers into groups based on predictions regarding their total future value to the company, with the goal of addressing each group (or individual) in the way most likely to maximize that future, or lifetime, value.\nThe Optimove Approach to Customer Segmentation\nThere are many methods marketers use to segment customers. Most frequently, these take the form of hard-coded rules based on experience and assumptions. More sophisticated approaches use mathematical models to analyze large amounts of data to group customers with similar data sets into particular segments. However, these approaches ignore a critical component of accurate customer segmentation: how do customers migrate from one segment to another over time?\nOptimove uses all available data and employs sophisticated clustering models to perform highly accurate segmentation. In fact, this technology actually results in large numbers of finely sliced micro-segments. However, the \u201csecret sauce\u201d of Optimove\u2019s segmentation is a focus on the dynamic nature of customer behavior. In other words, Optimove continuously recalculates the segmentation of every customer and tracks how customers move from one micro-segment to another over time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 6892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.osce.org/mission-to-serbia/375229", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YJWGWD6XOXZW2STXVQC4YWBCEDHNG3RW", "length": 5884, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.osce.org", "title": "How two journalists are turning around the Serbian-Albanian narrative | OSCE", "raw_content": "Home Stories How two journalists are turning around the Serbian-Albanian narrative\nMedia freedom and development, Tolerance and non-discrimination\nHow two journalists are turning around the Serbian-Albanian narrative\nJournalists Mustafa Nano and Zoran Panovic address diplomats, journalists and students at the panel discussion organized by the Austrian embassy during Nano\u2019s visit to Belgrade in December 2017.\n(OSCE/Milan Obradovic) Photo details\nLast autumn two journalists from Belgrade and Tirana agreed to engage in a cross-cultural experiment proposed by the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the Albanian Embassy in Belgrade. Between September and December they exchanged 12 texts, published simultaneously in Serbian and Albanian dailies, that resolutely buck the trend of negative media narratives depicting Serbs and Albanians as antagonists.\nContesting prejudice\nIn spite of improved relations between Serbia and Albania, prejudices still burden relations between the two societies, reflected in both countries\u2019 media. In a crucial period for Belgrade and Tirana, the OSCE Mission to Serbia supported a forward-looking proposal by the Albanian Embassy: to kick-start a more constructive public discussion by offering an open platform to two prominent journalists, one from each country.\nThe Belgrade daily Danas agreed to take part in the project and proposed former editor-in-chief Zoran Panovic as the Serbian discussion partner. The Albanian Embassy secured the participation of the Tirana daily Mapo and asked well-known press and TV journalist Mustafa Nano if he would agree to be Panovic\u2019s Albanian counterpart.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t think twice about exchanging thoughts with my Serbian colleague,\u201d said Nano (external link). \u201cI felt like I was invited to participate in a pioneering adventure. Intellectual curiosity for communicating with a colleague from Belgrade was much stronger than any qualms.\u201d Panovic expressed a similar sentiment.\nJournalists Mustafa Nano and Zoran Panovic during Nano\u2019s visit to Belgrade in December 2017.\nAfter a face-to-face meeting in Tirana arranged by the Mission, the journalists commenced their public exchange, which appeared for 12 weeks in both papers.\nGroundbreaking exchange\nWhat did Nano and Panovic write about? Everyday life, political issues, historical disputes, anything they cared about, never shying away from controversy. They compared perspectives on the 15th century figure Skanderbeg, the Albanian military commander who first fought for, then led a rebellion against, the Ottoman Empire. They explained their respective views on Kosovo. And they shared their takes on the infamous football incident in October 2014, during the Euro 2016 qualifying match between Serbia and Albania, when a drone quadcopter carrying an Albanian nationalist banner with an image of Greater Albania appeared on the pitch.\n\u201cThe only way to give this corner of the world a chance for peace is to let intellectuals \u2013 scientists, academics, writers and artists \u2013 undergo a kind of catharsis,\u201d Nano explained.\nIt may be hard for people to understand, but the motive behind our correspondence is essentially curiosity and a desire for dialogue, without any ambition \u2013 as I expect you agree \u2013 to make presumptions about some big agreement between our two nations after all the brutality of hatred and crime.\nZoran Panovic\n\u201cIt may be hard for people to understand, but the motive behind our correspondence is essentially curiosity and a desire for dialogue, without any ambition \u2013 as I expect you agree \u2013 to make presumptions about some big agreement between our two nations after all the brutality of hatred and crime,\u201d wrote Panovic.\nThe articles caused quite a stir in both Albanian and Serbian communities. They were widely republished in both languages, in Belgrade, Tirana, Pristina, southern Serbia (including Pre\u0161evo and Bujanovac), and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The appreciation with which the professionally written pieces were met in both communities showed that there is a role for traditional print media in connecting communities. While social media interaction is sometimes limited by language barriers, the newspaper articles, professionally translated, were easily transferred into blogs or other formats accessible to diverse audiences.\nTo conclude their experiment, Panovic and Nano met once more, in Belgrade. This time it was not just for a personal meeting, but to bring their exchange, which up until then had been only in writing, to a new level. For the first time, they appeared together in a public event, organized by the Austrian Embassy in the framework of the Austrian 2017 OSCE Chairmanship. Diplomats, journalists and students joined in a lively cross-cultural discussion.\n\u201cWe are very pleased that this project attracted the attention of the public in both countries, said Andrea Orizio, the Head of the OSCE Mission to Serbia. \u201cIt embodies a spirit of regional co-operation between two societies that know little about one another.\u201d\nImproved mutual understanding between Serbian and Albanian communities is of decisive importance for overcoming the legacy of the past that still influences regional communication and views. The OSCE Mission has decided to continue supporting the exchanges of journalists from Serbia and Albania. In co-operation with the OSCE Presence in Albania, it intends to expand the initiative by involving other interested stakeholder, public service broadcasters, journalism schools and student organizations.\n\u201dThe OSCE Mission to Serbia is committed to promoting people-to-people contacts and developing constructive narratives. Journalists and the media play a vital role in this process. They have the power to formally and informally construct new dialogues and help societies focus on their similarities rather than their differences,\u201d Orizio concluded.\nDaily Danas\nDaily Mapo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 11809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/analyses/2011-08-24/merkel-sarkozy-summit-stabilisation-eurozone", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IZSU2VNA473D54WEYCXQPROS355TGNZI", "length": 2159, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.osw.waw.pl", "title": "The Merkel\u2013Sarkozy summit on the stabilisation of the eurozone | OSW", "raw_content": "The Merkel\u2013Sarkozy summit on the stabilisation of the eurozone\nA number of proposals for the stabilisation of the eurozone were presented in effect of the meeting of German Chancellor Angela Merkel with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 16 August in Paris. The two leaders proposed for example the establishment of an economic government for the eurozone, which would be led by the president of the Council of the European Union, Herman van Rompuy. Unlike the Euro-Plus Pact, which envisaged a closer co-operation of the eurozone and non-eurozone member states, this project does not provide for the possibility for the countries which do not use the common EU currency to participate.\nChancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy want to introduce an economic government which will consist of the government heads of state and government of the 17 eurozone member states and which will meet twice a year. This project also envisages the introduction of regulations on the maximum debt level in the constitutions of the eurozone member states and the imposition of a tax on financial transactions. Merkel and Sarkozy also supported the adoption of the Stability and Growth Pact as soon as possible. They also want a common base for the calculation of CIT to apply from the beginning of 2013, which would undermine the competitiveness of entrepreneurs from the countries which have a low CIT rate. The summit proposals have been criticised by opposition parties in Germany (the SPD, the Green Party and the Left Party). The opposition sees the decisions made during the summit as feigned declarations and actions which instead of stabilising the eurozone, only make its crisis more acute. The parties are demanding concrete solutions, including the introduction of eurobonds as a method which is more beneficial for Germany than subsequent bailouts for countries which go bankrupt. Chancellor Merkel has also been criticised for not putting the Eurobond question on the official agenda of the meeting with President Sarkozy as a concession to the FDP, being a member of the government coalition, which strongly opposes the introduction of Eurobonds. 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A real visionary kaleidoscope, which embodies the spirit of Limonta.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oursaviourslutheran.ca/2018/05/26/lego-fruits-of-the-spirit-vbs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YUA6PLSXZU2AZ52KYVQ2UVSRQUVVO4H4", "length": 565, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.oursaviourslutheran.ca", "title": "Lego: Fruits of the Spirit VBS - Our Saviours Lutheran Church", "raw_content": "Summer is coming and so is VBS! It\u2019ll be happening July 9-13 at Our Saviour\u2019s Lutheran Church and is done in conjunction with St Giles Presbyterian. Our theme this year comes from Galatians 5:22-23: Love, Joy, Peace, Goodness and Self Control. We\u2019ll explore these beautiful fruits of the Spirit through various bible stories using Lego. Cost will be $10 for one child and $20 for a family of 2 or more. Ages are 3 until grade 7. Check in is daily from 8:30-9:00. Pick up is daily at 12:30. You can register by clicking below. Payment is due on the first day of VBS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.outerplaces.com/science/item/5287-self-healing-polymer-may-repair-broken-bones", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:38Z", "digest": "sha1:INY44TLBAKVW3NTUPV2AWTDXHUE3JIMT", "length": 2744, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.outerplaces.com", "title": "Self-Healing Polymer May Repair Broken Bones", "raw_content": "Self-Healing Polymer May Repair Broken Bones\nThursday, 07 August 2014 - 9:59AM\nA material that can instantly heal bones is closer to becoming a reality, as researchers from UC Santa Barbara have discovered a polymer that can heal itself in aqueous conditions, such as the human body.\n\"Since the late 1990s, there have been many papers that concentrate on self-healing polymers under dry conditions,\" said Kollbe Ahn, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara's Marine Science Institute. \"What we wanted was to study a polymer that could heal under moist conditions, or underwater.\"\nThe research was inspired by a protein secreted by mussels, which has the ability to bypass the liquid surrounding an object and effectively adhere to the surface. \"Much of the time, the presence of water limits the ability of an adhesive to stay tacky, so even polymers that can self-heal under dry conditions are frustrated from doing so underwater. In that particular protein, the percentage of catechol groups is high: up to a third of all residues,\" said Herbert Waite, a professor in the UC Santa Barbara Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology. Catechol is a naturally occurring organic compound that acts as a medium for hydrogen bonds, and as a result is able to facilitate underwater bonds between two different objects when found in high quantities.\nUpon finding that this protein contained such a high proportion of catechol, the researchers put their hypothesis to the test by cutting rods of polymers and attempting to re-attach the pieces by outfitting them with catechols, soaking each surface in buffer solutions of various acidities, and exposing them to light pressure. More acidic buffer solutions enhanced the adhering ability of the catechols, while more alkaline solutions inhibited it, but all of the polymers adhered to some degree. The researchers measured the adhesion forces between the polymer surfaces and tested the bonds by attempting to break the rods once more, and found that the strongest bonds were even able to resist re-breaking. \"The rods broke in other areas after we joined them together and pulled them apart again,\" said Dong-Woog Lee, co-lead author and postdoctoral researcher.\nFrom the paper: \"The repaired and pristine samples show similar mechanical properties, suggesting that the triggering of complete self-healing is enabled underwater by the formation of extensive \u200bcatechol-mediated interfacial hydrogen bonds.\"\nThis technology could have a wide variety of applications, from self-healing surfboards and boat hulls to reinforced hip and knee implants. The researchers also believe that this polymer could serve to repair brittle bones with hairline fractures and protect them from further breaks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.outsideonline.com/2237961/12-great-moments-bouldering-history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YSKYVJUGZHXPP7VWCBSEQGOJQAHFID54", "length": 8434, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.outsideonline.com", "title": "12 Great Moments in Bouldering History | Outside Online", "raw_content": "12 Great Moments in Bouldering History\nPlotting the sport's first ascents and groundbreaking advances\nDaniel Woods sends The Process, a V16 in Sherman\u2019s grading scale. (David Clifford Photography)\nMatt Cot\u00e9\nIn 1991, a crusty climbing bum with a gap-toothed grin named John \u201cVermin\u201d Sherman published the Hueco Tanks Climbing and Bouldering Guide, introducing his open-ended V scale for grading. As practitioners pushed the outer limits of the sport, Sherman\u2019s Hueco system soon replaced mathematician John Gill\u2019s limited three-tiered system, in which B1 was equivalent to the top sport climbs, B2 was harder, and B3 had only one climber who had ever completed the route.\nIn the decades since, Sherman has said that \u201cjudging the quality or importance of a boulder problem based on a difficulty grade is bullshit.\u201d While we admire Sherman\u2019s insistence that the sheer beauty of a problem is its own reward, we\u2019re nonetheless compelled by the way the sport has advanced since Hueco Tanks. Here is Outside\u2019s timeline of the most impressive sends of the past quarter-century.\nJanuary 1996, Radja, V14\nFred Nicole, a stout 27-year-old ex-competitive Swiss sport climber, was at the tail end of a summerlong tear ticking off the most complex boulder problems near his home when he came to Radja, in the Valais region of Switzerland. It took three days for Nicole to successfully send the world\u2019s first V14, at a bouldering locale called Pierre \u00e0 Grosse Branson, under the scrutinizing eye of a new video technology called DV tape.\nOctober 2000, Dream Time, V15\nIn the four years since his Radja climb, Fred Nicole\u2019s afro had been photographed everywhere, from South Africa to California. But it was back in Cresciano, Switzerland, where he\u2019d complete the world\u2019s first V15\u2014a nagging problem Nicole first noticed in 1991 that took him an entire season to complete. Doing so indoctrinated scores to the growing sport. It also heralded other marquee V15s, like Markus Bock\u2019s Gossip, in Germany, and Nicole\u2019s own Black Rock SD and Monkey Wedding, in South Africa. Dream Time became so popular that the holds eventually wore bigger, downgrading the problem to V14.\nNovember 2003, Byaku-dou/The Road to Heaven, V15/V16\nIt was midautumn when a spry five-foot-five Japanese champion climber named Dai Koyamada took up Nicole\u2019s torch while developing V13s and V14s around his native Japan. When the 27-year-old eventually announced completion of a 22-move roof problem in Hourai, it marked not only Koyamada\u2019s personal best, but also purportedly the sport\u2019s. His proposed V16 grade went unchallenged until 2015, when fellow Japanese climber Motochika Nagao repeated the climb and called it V15. In the seven years that followed, a handful of other problems would tickle V16 without confirmation, most notably Daniel Woods\u2019 2010 The Game, in Colorado, and Paul Robinson\u2019s 2010 Lucid Dreaming, in California.\nMay 2008, Pura Vida, V12/13\nAustrian climber Babara Zangerl was only 16 when she first saw the moss-covered gneiss boulders of a developing area soon to be dubbed Magic Wood. Freshly cleaned, a problem called Pura Vida called to her but seemed impossible. Three years later, just days before her 20th birthday, Zangerl\u2019s send of this strength-intensive line marked the hardest boulder problem achieved by a woman at the time. Eventually, Zangerl would injure her back and transition into sport climbing, but her completion of Pura Vida remains a standout benchmark in women\u2019s bouldering.\nAugust 2010, Automator, V13\nBetween 2004 and 2010, Angie Payne was the first female sender of 17 bouldering problems graded between V10 and V12. By this point, the budding multidisciplinarian (Payne is also an accomplished photographer) had already won three American Bouldering Series National Championships. During the hottest month of 2010, the Ohio-born Colorado transplant began leaving veterinary school each night to work to do a different kind of homework: After seven nights of attempts lit by headlamps and lanterns, Payne became the first female to send a consensus V13.\nOctober 2010, Hypnotized Minds, V16\nIn spring of this year, a 21-year-old named Daniel Woods began working on a project in Colorado\u2019s Rocky Mountain National Park. As a breakout pro, Woods\u2019 intense schedule of climbing trips around the world allowed only two days on the serrated and striped boulder\u2014it proved not enough time to complete it. Months later, he returned and finished the problem after an additional six days. Though Woods dubbed it V15, many suspected his grade was too low. Only Russian climber Rustam Gelmanov has managed it since. In 2016, Woods himself repeated and upgraded Hypnotized Minds to V16, stating he didn\u2019t initially have enough reference. The second climb retroactively made it the world\u2019s first confirmed V16.\nNovember 2011, Terranova, V16\nIn 2011, a lean 18-year-old kid from the Czech Republic with an already long list of climbing accolades turned his attention to bouldering. Adam Ondra, who started climbing when he was six, spent ten days sorting out the 12 moves comprising Terranova, in the Holstjen region of the Czech Republic. It was his first V16, and one of very few in the world. Ondra remains the only person to have completed it.\nDecember 2011, Gioia, V15/16\nOriginally climbed by Christian Core in 2008 and graded V15, this Italian line outside Varazze is an enduring controversy. Adam Ondra became the second person to send the problem, in 2011, when he upgraded Core\u2019s grade to V16. In February 2014, Finnish powerhouse Nalle Hukkataival became the third to do it. Hukkataival, nearly a decade Ondra\u2019s senior and with an impressive r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of first ascents, has since proposed that it is indeed a V15.\nOctober 2012, Catharsis, V14\nTomoka Ogawa first started climbing at 22 and soon ditched the idea of graduate school to pursue her passion professionally. That same determination eventually led her to Catharsis in 2009\u2014a V14 problem in Shiobara, Japan, opened up by Dai Koyamada and confirmed by Daniel Woods. Three years and countless hours after dedicating herself to the 15-move roof problem, Ogawa, at the tender age of 34, became the first woman to send V14\u2014and only the third person ever to climb Catharsis.\nJanuary 2015, The Process, V16\nHailed as one of the scariest \u201chighball\u201d lines ever opened, Daniel Woods pieced together this problem (pictured above) after several days of preparation. The crux is an overhang near the top of the 50-foot boulder, and the route adds a terrifying third section to two already established and successive smaller climbs. Named for the focus it took, the Process remains unrepeated. It also sparked a period of strong V16 development, including Woods\u2019 own Creature from the Black Lagoon, in Colorado, and Dai Koyamada\u2019s low start to Story of Two Worlds, in Japan, signaling the growing efficiency of new techniques and training regimens.\nMarch 2016, Horizon, V15\nIn December 2015, 14-year-old Ashima Shirashi was already the second woman to achieve V14 and rapidly emerging as the strongest female climber in the world. From her home in New York City, Shirashi traveled to Mount Hiei, Japan, after getting an invitation from Dai Koyamada, who wanted her to try a problem he opened in May of that year. Shirashi fell three times on the final move, and then had to go back to school. Four months later\u2014during her spring break\u2014Shirashi returned and nailed each of the 30 moves that originally took Koyamada three years to piece together. Shirashi became the second person ever to climb Horizon, as well as the first woman and youngest person to climb V15.\nOctober 2016, Burden of Dreams, V17\nBorn in Helsinki, Finland, Nalle Hukkataival proved himself as the most dedicated boulderer in history with this problem. In 2013, when a friend showed him the \u201cunclimbable project\u201d in Lappnor, outside Helsinki, Hukkataival became obsessed. The relatively short overhang looked like a blank wall, with barely a protrusion or crevice. For four years and more than 4,000 attempts, Hukkataival plugged away whenever conditions permitted\u2014even flying home from other travels when weather was ideal. But it wasn\u2019t until Daniel Woods pointed out an unused hold in 2016 that Hukkataival finally managed to put together the world\u2019s first V17. Like all unrepeated problems, it remains unconfirmed, but the community appears to have faith in its difficulty.\nFiled To: Climbing / Rock Climbing / Adventure", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 9988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oxbridgeacademy.edu.za/courses/engineering/national-certificate-n2-fitting-turning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2G6VQVV4GNQ2DKKCWSZMSSLK6BCWDXGE", "length": 161, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.oxbridgeacademy.edu.za", "title": "National Certificate: N2 Engineering Studies (Fitting and Turning)(SAQA ID 67375) - Oxbridge Academy", "raw_content": "This N2 Engineering Studies course builds on the knowledge and skills gained at N1 level, and further prepares you for a technical career in fitting and turning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oxgadgets.com/2013/02/notes-from-pakistan-traffic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:14Z", "digest": "sha1:33TFGC33V2EOE4Q6SXAJHKPZRUY4RO3F", "length": 4153, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.oxgadgets.com", "title": "Notes from Pakistan: Traffic - OxGadgets", "raw_content": "Notes from Pakistan: Traffic\nI continue my series on Pakistan with a topic that is often shown off on TV, but still has the ability to shock you. In fact, it shocked me even though I had learnt to drive there. I am talking about the first thing that hits you as soon as you come out of the airport, and that is the traffic. Now while I call it Pakistan traffic, it must be noted that my focus is mostly on traffic from Lahore, and it will touch the traffic seen on motorways as well as in Islamabad. Sadly, I have never been on a road in Karachi, and while I imagine it is somewhere between that of Lahore and Islamabad, I am not qualified to comment.\nWhere to begin. Yes, roads. Now you may expect a third world country to have horrible roads. You may not be far off normally, but I have to say that thanks to the current government in the area and their love of building roads, underpasses and bridges, Lahore has a great network of roads, which are surprisingly well maintained. They are wide and at times spread to three lanes inside your city.\nHowever, forget the lanes. Forget the roads. Nobody cares about the lanes. They are marked but you will find about 5 lanes going through the three marked lanes. If your car can go through a gap, you will drive through the gap. Also, indicators. Most people do not use them, and when they do, they might not use the right one.\nSpeed limits exist in the city, but people don\u2019t normally pay that much attention to them. It has to be said though, that the traffic conditions prevent anybody speeding.\nRoundabouts exist in plenty of numbers, but the traditional law of giving the preference to the person already on the round about does not apply. You go in where you find a gap. You also come off when you find a gap. If you want to make a U-turn, you don\u2019t go around the round about, you just turn around at the opening of the round about.\nSeat belts come as a standard in all the new cars, but people hardly wear them in Lahore. Of course, they no longer laugh at you for wearing seat belts.\nTraffic jams exist as much as people exist. I can probably go on about them for ages, but if you just put 2 and 2 together, and the fact that people never bother with lanes, you can paint a picture. Add to that the fact that people will always think they have preference, and try to get out first, means that nobody leaves. NOBODY! On my second day there, I completed a 5 mile journey in about 3 and a half hours.\nAdd to this the fact that they had ripped the whole city apart to build a Metro service, which meant killing off most main roads and rerouting everything, and you had quite an interesting predicament on your hands.\nThis takes me to going on the Motorway. A good network of motorways do exist in Pakistan. What is surprising that the same drivers who drive like maniacs in the city have to stick to strict laws on the motorway. You have to wear seatbelts, you have to stick to lanes and you have to stay within speed limits. You pay a toll, and if you have been caught speeding, you will pay your fine as you pay your toll.\nBecause all the speed checks are done by cameras facing cars from front, you find an interesting phenomenon going on. People who speed do so in hoards, and all you need to do to speed is find another speeding car and simply tailgate it. Close enough such that your number plate isn\u2019t visible from a distance. This makes for some scary driving experience when the guy driving your car is one of these.\nOnce you hit Islamabad, you enter another traffic zone. Islamabad has very strict principles as well, much like the traffic found on the motorway, but slightly less strict. It does make it very tolerable.\nI did not feel brave enough to drive on my visit to Lahore, but the traffic will stay with me. It has to be said though, about three days in you do get used to all the \u2018organized chaos\u2019 and just become a part of it.\nAlso, people from Lahore proudly claim that one who can drive in Lahore can drive anywhere in the world. Believe me, it is true!!!!\nPrevious story LG announce the Optimus L Series II\nNext story Oxford Geeks Night tonight: Featuring Raspberry PI! 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When authorities arrived, Ruiz was found with a single gunshot wound. He died at the scene, according to Buzzfeed.\nOn Wednesday, Perez was charged with manslaughter in the second degree, and she faces up to a decade in prison.\nPerez told police that Ruiz wanted to make a video of her shooting a book as he held it. She claimed he believed the book would stop a bullet, according to a criminal complaint.\nThe couple's 3-year-old daughter witnessed the shooting, according to WDAY. A 50-caliber gun was used in the prank gone wrong.\n\"I wish they wouldn't have done it. I wish he would've just done another prank. He was so young. He had so much going for himself,\" Claudia Ruiz, Pedro Ruiz\u2019s aunt told WDAY.\nThe couple had uploaded several prank videos in the past.\nThis Gay Youtuber Faked A Hate Crime By Beating Himself With A Payphone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oxygen.com/people/bishop-clarence-mcclendon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:01Z", "digest": "sha1:F52BMJM7POKHEFY5JHAOE2DKC5OUIWN4", "length": 6324, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.oxygen.com", "title": "Bishop Clarence McClendon | Preachers of L.A.", "raw_content": "pages/Bishop-Clarence-E-McClendon/121327294556025 bishopmcclendon\nBishop Clarence McClendon appears throughout the world on his weekly international broadcast, which is available in 250 million homes worldwide. This charismatic and ubiquitous bishop of Full Harvest International Church in Gardena, CA, has been noted for his contemporary and relevant approach to the Gospel. He believes the Gospel is not only for the down and out, but for the up and out. His ministry spans from skid row to the estates of Bel Air.\nIn addition to his dedication to his church family and community, McClendon is a proud husband and father who hopes to see his sons go in to the \u201cfamily\u201d business. Bishop McClendon\u2019s goal and calling as a Pastor is to grow his ministry globally and to expand it in creative ways so he can reach as many people as possible.\n@deitrickhaddon\nThe son of a bishop and an evangelist, Deitrick was preaching at the age of eleven and conducting the church choir at thirteen. At twenty-three he married the woman he was expected to marry \u2013 the lead soprano of the church choir. However, everything didn\u2019t continue as perfectly as the church had hoped. After going through a divorce, moving to California, and having a child out of wedlock, he hit rock bottom. However because of the call on his life and his love for music, Deitrick picked himself back up, rebuilt his faith, and restored his family with now wife, Dominique and beautiful daughters, Destin and Denver.\nWith two little girls and Deitrick\u2019s busy career, the newlyweds must now learn to balance parental duties and their roles in the house. The expansion of Deitrick\u2019s immediate family causes him to reflect on his own extended family and sends him on an emotional rollercoaster journey to find answers regarding his past.\n@BishopNoelJones\nHailing from a legacy of Bishops in the Pentecostal faith, from his step-Grandfather to his father, Jamaican born Bishop Noel Jones is the pastor of the City of Refuge, a church frequented by celebrities, and has a congregation of over 15,000 members. The brother of Grace Jones, Noel comes from a diverse family background and now finds himself living on a hilltop with a view of the Pacific Ocean, Malibu at his feet, and in a neighborhood whose residents included the late Jerry Buss, owner of the Lakers.\nA notable leader in the faith community, Jones spends his time traveling the world spreading the gospel message of Jesus Christ. While his busy schedule has made it difficult to maintain a relationship, many continue to question the extent of his friendship with Loretta. Instead of focusing on his personal life, Bishop Jones shifts his attention to what\u2019s important, his ministry.\nPastor Wayne Chaney\n@WayneChaneyJr\nPastor Wayne Chaney got the call from God at the age of eighteen and has grown to become a prominent pastor of the church his grandfather founded. Fast-forward 10 years later, Antioch Church of Long Beach is the leading church in its community. With an ability to communicate complex truths in a simple way, Pastor Chaney has helped grow the church exponentially, along with the help of his secret weapon, his wife and newly appointed Executive Pastor, gospel artist Myesha Chaney.\nWhile Antioch is poised to become the next mega-church with the ability to reach millions worldwide, Pastor Chaney and First Lady Chaney must balance their business relationship with their personal one. Together they struggle with a life altering decision about growing their family. Through it all they must keep the faith while continuing to reach out to the people that need them the most \u2013 their church-members.\nBishop Ron Gibson\n@RonMGibson1\nBorn and raised in South Central L.A. and Compton, Bishop Ron M. Gibson seemed to be the least likely to end up a preacher. Although he was raised by a Christian mother in the Church, Ron succumbed to the pressure of the streets and became a Compton Crip by the age of sixteen. This led to a life of crime and drug addiction, until Christ changed his life. He started Life Church Of God In Christ with nine members, which has now grown to a congregation of approximately 4,000 members. In 2011 he was appointed by the General Board of the Church Of God In Christ as the Bishop of the Dominican Republic Jurisdiction. Through it all he\u2019s accumulated much, but the one thing that he and his devoted wife, Lady LaVette, have not experienced is the joy of having children.\nBishop Gibson finds fulfillment by passionately leading people into the same deliverance that he experienced through the Gospel. With nothing but his faith to protect him, he takes his ministry to the streets of the most dangerous neighborhoods in South L.A. in hopes of saving more of his fellow brothers and sisters, including his own sister Shaun. With their strong commitment to the word of God, Bishop Gibson and Lady LaVette\u2019s convictions lead them to confront the nature of the relationships of those closest to them.\nPastor Jay Haizlip\n@jayhaizlip\nOne of the pioneering greats of competitive skateboarding, Pastor Jay Haizlip, known as Jay \u201cAlabamy\u201d in the skating world, collected big trophies, bigger paychecks and high-end sponsors, but fell deep into a 12-year-long drug addiction that ended when Jay asked Jesus to be Lord of his life. Now serving as founder and Lead Pastor of The Sanctuary in Orange County, California, Pastor Jay Haizlip reaches out to troubled youth, finding them in prisons, skate parks and the same crack houses he once shot dope in.\nPastor Jay has the gift of making the Bible relevant to today\u2019s generation. Although he\u2019s known in the Christian world for his street ministries, Pastor Jay recently found the most challenging souls may be within the walls of his own church. He and his wife, Christy, struggle to balance the traditions of their faith with what they feel God has called them to do\u2013 minister to everyone, and never judge a book by its cover.\n@bishopmcclendon\nEpisode 6 Recap: Sins of the Father\nBishop Clarence McClendon: Running an International Ministry Has Its Challenges\nWatch New Interviews with All 6 Preachers!\n'Preachers of L.A.' Season 2 Premieres August 20 at 10/9c!\nMeet the 'Preachers of L.A.' Cast: Bishop Clarence McClendon\n'Preachers of L.A. 2' Coming This Fall\n20 Spirit-Filled Moments from 'Preachers of L.A.' 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In this book you\u2019ll discover how the body reveals what people really mean and how you can use your body and your expressions to improve your self\u2013image to others. It explores why we give the signals we do, how to read the most common expressions and goes on to show how you can use your new understanding of body language for success at work, in relationships and in your communication. Actions really do speak louder than words!\nIf you\u2019re puzzled by other people, or want to change the way others\nrespond to you, having an insight into body language is key. With this\nbook you\u2019ll discover how the body reveals what people really mean,\nand how you can use your gestures and expressions to make a positive\nimpact. 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Moreover, for her children: Nathan, 28 and Savannah, 22.\nDuring the interview, Dickinson said doctors scheduled her for an operation to have a one-inch area of the skin around the lump removed from her breast. Doctors will also check if her cancer has already reached the outer edges.\nJanice also revealed she will need to undergo radiation therapy in the coming days. More so, she needs to maintain a medication for her cancer. Nonetheless, Janice said she has a good chance of survival.\nDickinson then advised all women to have regular breast examinations. \"I'm here for women all over the world, women are to be cherished, mothers, daughters, sisters, you must remind yourself,\" she added.\nFollowing Dickinson's cancer revelation, the supermodel was spotted shopping for plants in Los Angeles, according to People. Sporting in a black sweater and colorful leggings, Janice seemed to be doing great while picking lovely flowers with her fianc\u00e9.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.peaksteelbuildings.com/5-things-can-delay-steel-building-project/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:14Z", "digest": "sha1:P327NMF6Z3XZSVW33HKFCAAQIN7CPKIW", "length": 4001, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.peaksteelbuildings.com", "title": "5 Crucial Factors That Can Delay Your Steel Building Project", "raw_content": "One of the best things about a steel building project is that it\u2019s so much faster than most types of construction. It\u2019s not unusual for a prefabricated steel structure to be erected on site in less than a week from the start of work. But there are issues that can cause delays in putting up a metal building. Here are a few examples:\n#1 Permit Problems\nThe wheels of bureaucracy turn very slowly, and pulling permits is sometimes like pulling teeth. On your application, you will probably be asked to provide an approximate construction date. That\u2019s a bit of a catch 22. This is because the city or county hasn\u2019t told you if you can move forward yet. Getting a construction company to commit to a date, facing a delay in permit approval, and rescheduling the start date based on the construction firm\u2019s availability can lead to a delay. If you are part of an HOA, you may face additional delays in receiving approval for your project.\n#2 Equipment Availability\nDepending on the company coming out to handle your building project, you may face setbacks due to lack of heavy equipment for site preparation and construction. For example, a company could experience a breakdown of one of their own machines. Or, if you are using a small construction company that depends heavily on rental equipment, they may not be able to get their hands on the necessary equipment when they expected. This may be particularly likely to happen during the peak of construction season when lots of crews are out on jobs. Larger buildings require more specialized equipment to move the heavy components around, which is another reason complex steel buildings may take longer to complete.\n#3 Failure to Mark Utilities\nIt takes more time up front to have utility lines marked before installation of a metal building. But that\u2019s nothing compared to the delay if you accidentally rupture a line or a pipe. This kind of accident can cause injuries, utility service disruption, and a high repair bill. You\u2019ll also be stuck waiting for the utility company to make repairs. Add in the cost of moving your building so it\u2019s not cutting across utility lines or rerouting the utilities (and getting new permits from the city to cover any changes), and the whole thing can turn into a real mess.\n#4 Severe Weather\nSteel buildings are very resilient. However, construction workers need protection from things like hail, lightning storms, torrential rains, blizzards, extreme heat, and high winds. Working in poor weather conditions increases the chances of serious accidents. A responsible foreman will delay a project rather than putting employees at risk. In addition, very wet conditions may make it impossible to do prep work like pouring a slab foundation. It\u2019s a good idea to schedule installation during a stretch of time when the weather is likely to be fair. But be ready to adjust if things change.\n#5 Small Teams\nThe size of the team assigned to a project has a significant impact on the time it takes to complete. Completing work safely with a two-person crew is going to take more time (and often more ingenuity) than doing the same job with a four-person team. It\u2019s usually up to the construction company to assign the appropriate number of workers to a job. Companies that don\u2019t have a lot of experience managing multiple projects may stretch their teams too thin or face other challenges with labor management (such as hiring flaky contractors) that delay a project.\nHow Can You Minimize Delays?\nWhile not all factors are under your control, you do have one very important choice to make. And, that\u2019s the company you choose to design, prefabricate, and install your steel building. At Peak Steel, our team has a combined 100+ years of experience handling all aspects of this process. We can handle permitting, site preparation, and construction from start to finish. We also carefully select reliable contractors for every project, and we know how to get the job done.\nTo get a free estimate from the experts, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 8736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.penn.museum/sites/artifactlab/tag/painted-tomb/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BYVI3TFOCWCHRPXQANYXXXMDR7A4D4QA", "length": 7080, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.penn.museum", "title": "painted tomb | In the Artifact Lab", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: painted tomb\nReport from the field: Conservation in the burial chamber of king Woseribre-Senebkay\nPosted on January 25, 2016 by mollygleeson\nI\u2019m back from Abydos! I thought I\u2019d follow up on my last blogpost about my time in the field with some more specific information about the conservation work I was carrying out in the burial chamber of king Woseribre-Senebkay.\nKing Senebkay\u2019s tomb was discovered and excavated in the 2013-2014 winter field season. The tomb dates to the later Second Intermediate period, to the Hyksos era, ca. 1650-1600 BCE, is in close proximity to the tombs of Senwosret III and Sobekhotep IV, and is part of a larger cluster of Second Intermediate period tombs. It consists of 4 chambers, the final being a limestone burial chamber with painted decoration. Based on observations and interpretation by Drs. Wegner and Cahail, the tomb was built fairly quickly and the painted decoration does not appear complete.\nView of the exposed burial chamber with temporary wooden structure on day 1 of the conservation project\nAnother important feature of the burial chamber is that the limestone blocks were reused and much of the previous decoration is still visible. The blocks were disassembled from a group of mortuary chapels of high-ranking officials of the mid-late 13th Dynasty.\nThe previous decoration on the reused blocks is visible in many areas (indicated with red arrows on the image on the left, surrounding the paintings that date to Senebkay\u2019s burial) and in some areas there is still paint remaining in the previous decoration (circled on the right)\nI won\u2019t go into any more detail about the significance of Senebkay\u2019s tomb and these features \u2013 this has been written about extensively elsewhere and I\u2019ll provide links for more information below.\nI was asked to join the team this season to work on the painted decoration in the burial chamber. During the previous season, the burial chamber needed to be stabilized (new mortar joins between blocks and replacement of missing blocks). In order to protect the paintings, another conservator was able to carry out some consolidation of the paintings and then covered the painted areas with cyclododecane and aluminum foil. At the end of the season, the tomb was backfilled.\nProtective foil over the paintings on the east wall of the burial chamber after the backfill was removed, day 1 of the conservation project\nMy goal for this season was to continue paint consolidation, to reattach detached stone fragments, to inpaint the new mortar fills in select areas, and to prepare the tomb for backfilling. A permanent structure will be constructed around the tomb later this year, but in order to protect the tomb until this can happen, it needed to be filled back in with sand and completely covered.\nWhen I arrived on site, the first thing that I did was to remove the aluminum foil from the paintings and to examine them carefully. Due to timing/logistics it was not possible to uncover them before I arrived, so what I found under the foil was that there was still a lot of cyclododecane left on the surface of the paintings.\nA detail of one of the goddesses \u2013 the hazy white substance over the surface is the cyclododecane, applied during the previous field season\nI\u2019ve never mentioned cyclododecane (CDD) on this blog before. CDD is a cyclic hydrocarbon (C12H24), a solid wax that slowly sublimes at room temperature and it is used as a temporary consolidant, to protect fragile and sensitive surfaces during treatment, and it has become a very useful material for archaeological conservators to help with lifting fragile materials in the field. Check out this link for a video to learn more about it and how it is used.\nWhile I tried several techniques to speed up the sublimation of the CDD in the end I wasn\u2019t able to remove it everywhere because the painted surface below was so fragile and susceptible to abrasion. So, like anyone who has worked on an excavation must do, I made it work! With the help of my Egyptian conservator colleague, I focused on consolidating all of the exposed painted decoration, on cleaning select areas, and on the repair and inpainting work I mentioned previously. I\u2019m going to show some of this work in photos below.\nSenebkay\u2019s cartouche before removal of hornet\u2019s nest remnants (left, indicated with red arrow) and after cleaning (right)\nA detail of a column in the burial chamber before (left) and after repair of a detached painted stone fragment (right)\nOne of the goddesses (Isis or Nephthys) before (left) and after (right) inpainting and replacement of detached fragment (red arrow)\nTwo days before we were set to leave, I consolidated the most vulnerable painted decoration with CDD, and then we carefully draped cotton fabric over all of the painted areas.\nHeating the cyclododecane over a small portable stove on site\nCotton fabric draped over the tomb walls (left) and a shot during backfilling (right)\nOn our last day in the field, the chamber was backfilled with the sand that was removed from it previously, which will protect the tomb until the next season.\nIn addition to my work on site, I had the opportunity to work on some of the small finds from previous and ongoing excavations while in the dighouse in the afternoons, and the team generously made it possible for me to do some sightseeing during my time there as well, which rounded out the experience nicely.\nA view walking into the Temple of Seti I (left) and a shot of Dr. Jen Wegner inside one of the chapels in the temple (right)\nAfter 3 years of working on the Egyptian collections at the Penn Museum, I was so grateful to have had this opportunity to go to Egypt \u2013 this experience not only allowed me to expand my conservation skills and understanding of our significant collection, but it gave me a much deeper appreciation for the exciting work that is ongoing in Abydos. I hope there will be an opportunity to return!\nFor more information about the excavations in Abydos, check out these articles:\nWegner, Josef. 2014. \u201cDiscovering Pharaohs Sobekhotep & Senebkay\u201d Expedition Magazine 56.1 (April 2014). Penn Museum. http://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/?p=20698>\nWegner, Josef and Kevin Cahail. 2015. \u201cRoyal Funerary Equipment of a King Sobekhotep at South Abydos: Evidence for the Tombs of Sobekhotep IV and Neferhotep I?\u201d Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 51, pp. 123-164.\nWegner, Josef. 2015. \u201cA Royal Necropolis at South Abydos: New Light on Egypt\u2019s Second Intermediate Period\u201d Near Eastern Archaeology, Vol. 78, No. 2 (June 2015), pp.68-78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5615/neareastarch.78.2.0068\nCahail, Kevin. 2015. \u201cA Family of Thirteenth Dynasty High Officials: New Evidence from South Abydos.\u201d Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 51, pp. 93-122.\nPosted in conservation treatment, excavations, from the field\t| Tagged Acryloid B-72, archaeological conservation, cyclododecane, Hyksos, painted tomb, Penn excavations, Second Intermediate Period, South Abydos, wall paintings, Woseribre Senebkay\t| Leave a reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 11247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pennysaverusa.com/merchandise/free-stuff/cuttest-e-n-g-l-i-s-h-b-u-l-l-d-o-g-puppies-please-text-650-889-7130_i803076", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LP4MJOTXOWNLH6UZKJCDHHB6YLOVQYY4", "length": 590, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pennysaverusa.com", "title": "PennySaver | Cuttest E.n.g.l.i.s.h B.u.l.l.d.o.g puppies.Please text (650) 889-7130 in Essex, New Jersey, USA", "raw_content": "\u00bb Cuttest E.n.g.l.i.s.h B.u.l.l.d.o.g puppies.Please text (650) 889-7130\nExpired! 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Pilanesberg.travel does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information, text, graphics, links or other items contained within the materials. Pilanesberg.travel reserves the right to make periodic changes to all materials, programs, algorithms, policies or other information described in the materials, at any time and without prior notice. 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President Obama signed into law the Small Business Bill H.R. 5297, which temporarily extends bonus depreciation and increases the small business expensing limit.\nPrinters can take advantage of the 50 percent bonus depreciation deduction on new equipment purchased and placed in service in 2010. Also helpful to printers is the law's provision that increases the small business expensing limit to $500,000\u2014its highest level ever. Printing Industries of America pushed for the inclusion of these tax relief provisions and is pleased to see them contained in the legislation signed into law today.\nIn July, PIA representatives and Global Printing CEO Jon Budington testified before the U.S. House Small Business Committee and urged Congress to pass pro-growth legislation.\n\"Bonus depreciation is a winning proposition that our nation needs for economic recovery,\" said Budington. \"By allowing Global to depreciate 50 percent of capital investments in the coming tax year, Congress reduces the up-front costs of those investments. As a result, bonus depreciation leaves Global with more cash resources for both investment and new jobs.\"\nThe provision to increase small business expensing (Section 179) will allow printers to make immediate investments in their businesses. The law increases expensing limitations up to $500,000 and provides an increase in the phase-out threshold amount to $2 million for 2010 and 2011.\n\"Bonus depreciation and increased small business expensing are tools needed by printers and companies in a broad cross-section of industries to maintain viability, save jobs, and make investments,\" said Printing Industries of America CEO Michael Makin. \"These provisions are steps to relieve the current credit crunch, but access to credit will not matter if there is a lack of print customers. As long as uncertainty abounds regarding tax, health care, and regulatory policy, that uncertainty will continue to prevent a healthy recovery in our industry. Moving forward, Printing Industries would like Congress to consider making these provisions a permanent part of the tax code.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 6058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.platige.com/project/feature/the-great-escape/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WQZZCKV7E5QZ36UDAPSHBBHZGGZ5HNNF", "length": 397, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.platige.com", "title": "Platige", "raw_content": "THE GREAT ESCAPE Animated Short\n\u201cThe Great Escape\u201d is a funny short directed by Damian Nenow that tells a story about the sun trying to escape from the television. The starting point for the short was to create a plot that\u2019s pure fun, removed from the philosophical musings of the earlier flicks. The short was also Damian\u2019s diploma film at the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Film School.\nMaciej Chomicz (Khyro Interactive)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 2459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 192.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pmaviation.co.uk/gallery/index.php/The-Flying-Show-2011/P1050651-LR", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4CQOO43CZNC7SSD4SB3PREQPUW45MCVW", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.pmaviation.co.uk", "title": "P1050651 LR", "raw_content": "At Europe's leading engineering show 2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781594485367", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:53Z", "digest": "sha1:SVCMGEKAVCULSJVZV5WHKGTDC55RFVZ7", "length": 7181, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.politics-prose.com", "title": "Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Paperback) | Politics and Prose Bookstore", "raw_content": "Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self (Paperback)\nIntroducing a new star of her generation, an electric debut story collection about mixed-race and African-American teenagers, women, and men struggling to find a place in their families and communities.\nWhen Danielle Evans's short story \"Virgins\" was published in The Paris Review in late 2007, it announced the arrival of a major new American short story writer. Written when she was only twenty-three, Evans's story of two black, blue-collar fifteen-year-old girls' flirtation with adulthood for one night was startling in its pitch-perfect examination of race, class, and the shifting terrain of adolescence.\nNow this debut short story collection delivers on the promise of that early story. In \"Harvest,\" a college student's unplanned pregnancy forces her to confront her own feelings of inadequacy in comparison to her white classmates. In \"Jellyfish,\" a father's misguided attempt to rescue a gift for his grown daughter from an apartment collapse magnifies all he doesn't know about her. And in \"Snakes,\" the mixed-race daughter of intellectuals recounts the disastrous summer she spent with her white grandmother and cousin, a summer that has unforeseen repercussions in the present.\nStriking in their emotional immediacy, the stories in Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self are based in a world where inequality is reality but where the insecurities of adolescence and young adulthood, and the tensions within family and the community, are sometimes the biggest complicating forces in one's sense of identity and the choices one makes.\nDanielle Evans is a graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her stories have appeared in The Paris Review, A Public Space, and The Best American Short Stories 2008.\n\"Danielle Evans's whipsmart first story collection charts the liminal years between childhood and the condition dubiously known as being a grown-up... Fiercely independent, all of Evans's characters struggle for a place in a world intent of fencing them out. But as her title suggests, the biggest obstacles they face are often their own selves.\"\n\"Whether she's observing people who work at Ruby Tuesday or Harvard students, Evans is a startlingly good sociocultural mimic. Each story shares a particular female voice: tough, pragmatic, knowing, snappy. . . . There are books that capture our world perfectly, like a scrim over a stage. And then there are books that surprise the audience and go somewhere new, somewhere completely unpredictable. In this collection, Evans paints a picture, sometimes ripping through the fabric. One wonders where she will go next.\"\n\"Danielle Evans' blisteringly smart short stories offer fresh perspective on being young and black in America. From a vandalizing valedictorian to a rejected biracial child, her characters triumph by surviving without forgetting.\"\n\"Stories about the trade-offs of early adulthood from a new writer with a fresh, appealing voice... Many of these eight wonderfully melancholy stories mostly set along the East Coast deal with loss-of family, of love, of innocence-and all explore the chasm between what others see and who we really are...Most of Evans' characters are African American, but she doesn't dwell on race, focusing instead on the transitory awkwardness inherent in young adulthood. Readers will understand her characters' mistakes long before they've been made-and recognize that when we have to choose, it is rarely our better selves who win.\"\n-People (4 stars)\n\"The most vivid characters in Danielle Evans's story collection are in- betweeners: between girlhood and womanhood; between the black middle class and Ivy League privilege; between iffy boyfriends and those even less reliable; between an extended family and living on your own. To say they're caught between worlds isn't quite accurate, though; they tend to be hard-headed, sadder but wiser and, most of all, funny.\"\n\"This striking debut collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self offers rich slices of African-American life... [Evans's] stories are bolstered by memorable images... Evans's book, meanwhile, carries a strong scent of freshness and promise.\"\n\"Lit's new It Girl. Critics raved about Danielle Evans's talent solely based on 'Virgins' her bold coming-of-age story...Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, her eagerly awaited first collection, proves them right. [Evans] will win you over with eight thoroughly modern, funny and tender stories.\"\n\"With polished short stories plumbing the intersection of adolescence, race, hormones, and emotional instability, the twentysomething Iowa-workshop graduate threatens to become the season's hot young MFA discovery.\"\n\"Danielle Evans's considerable talents are in evidence on every page of this impressive debut. She finds her often surprising dramatic material in the unexpected asides of modern life, with results that are intense, intelligent, humane, and funny. I look forward to reading more.\"\n-Daniel Alarcon, author of Lost City Radio\n\"Evans's knife-sharp wit and tender but unflinching eye create a range of characters who are entirely sympathetic, even as they tumble headlong into their own mistakes.\"\n-V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of Love Marriage\n\"Danielle Evans is funny as hell. Which only makes all the heartbreak in these stories more surprising and satisfying. The young women in this collection are always on the edge of real trouble but don't be fooled, they're the dangerous ones. Written with wonderful clarity and a novelist's sense of scope, Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self is a fabulous literary debut.\"\n-Victor LaValle, author of Big Machine\n\"Danielle Evans's stories are fresh, arresting, real. The young women and men in them could be sitting across from you on the subway or strolling past you on a college campus. And the young woman who brings them to us is a writer to watch.\"\n-Martha Southgate, author of The Fall of Rome\n\"Quietly magnetic, Evans's voice draws us into richly-charged worlds where innocence isn't lost but escaped, and where pieces of the past reassemble in the present with the inevitable geometry of kaleidoscope glass. Delivered with a light touch that belies their maturity, these morally complex stories mark the arrival of a gifted new author.\"\n-Sana Krasikov, author of One More Year\n\"Armed with no easy answers but plenty of bad choices, the talented, too-smart- for-their-own-good protagonists are painfully aware of the consequences of their actions, even when they think they have no better choice. . . . The moral ambiguity of Evans's achingly believable world finds its best expression in the devastating final story, 'Robert E. Lee is Dead,' in which the brainy black cheerleader, CeeCee, jeopardizes her own high-school graduation with a pointless act of vandalism. Although she is instigated by her closest friend Geena, whose future is less bright, CeeCee's decision is her own. She shares this characteristic with the other survivors in this arresting book, along with the regret. A welcome new talent-with a funny and dark take on being black in America.\"\n-Kirkus (starred)\nHardcover (September 23rd, 2010): $25.95", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 11384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781594488436", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:03Z", "digest": "sha1:7O2H3I5ED2GZUKHAZTE7PYPBE3PQPM5J", "length": 5236, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.politics-prose.com", "title": "God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine (Hardcover) | Politics and Prose Bookstore", "raw_content": "For readers of Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, a medical page-turner that traces one doctor's remarkable journey to the essence of medicine (The San Francisco Chronicle).\nSan Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hotel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times and needed extended medical care ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years.\nLaguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. God's Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern health care facility, revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.\nVictoria Sweet has been a physician at San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital for more than twenty years. An associate clinical professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, she also holds a Ph.D. in history and social medicine. To learn more about Victoria Sweet and her work, please visit www.victoriasweet.com.\nA Barnes & Noble and San Francisco Chronicle Best Nonfiction Book of 2012\n\u201cTranscendent\u2026 readable chapters go down like restorative sips of cool water, and its hard-core subversion cheers like a shot of gin\u2026 God\u2019s Hotel [is] a tour de force\u2026 Others have written about the relationship between time and medical care with similar eloquence and urgency, but the centuries of perspective that Dr. Sweet brings infuse the point with unforgettable clarity.\u201d \u2013The New York Times\n\u201cA radical and inspiring alternative vision of caring for the sick.\u201d \u2013Vanity Fair\n\u201cEngaging\u2026 You might not expect a book about San Francisco's most downtrodden patients to be a page-turner, but it is. With its colorful cast of characters battling the tide of history, God's Hotel is a remarkable journey into the essence of medicine.\u201d \u2013San Francisco Chronicle\n\"Victoria Sweet writes beautifully about the enormous richness of life at Laguna Honda, the chronic [care] hospital where she has spent the last twenty years, and the intense sense of place and community that binds patients and staff there. Such community in the medical world is vanishingly rare now, and Laguna Honda may be the last of its kind\u2026 God's Hotel is a most important book which raises fundamental questions about the nature of medicine in our time. It should be required reading for anyone interested in the 'business' of healthcare \u2013 and especially those interested in the humanity of healthcare.\" \u2013Oliver Sacks, M.D. author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and The Mind's Eye\n\u201cA beautifully written and illuminating book\u2026 [Sweet\u2019s] metaphors are poetic and hint at the mystical, but then she pulls back with the educated eye of a scientist\u2026 For both the agnostic and the believer, Sweet pinpoints the element of medicine that makes it a calling rather than a job: the unique and sustaining love that is sparked between a doctor and patient.\u201d \u2013Jerome Groopman, The New York Review of Books\n\"Remarkable\u2026 [Sweet] would appreciate that it took time for me to journey to and through her work since that may be one of the many compelling messages she so eloquently, yet simply by storytelling, conveys\u2026 permitting \u2018tincture of time\u2019 to also do its job.\" \u2013The Huffington Post\n\"Sweet's warm, anecdotal style shines\u2026 The author's compelling argument for Laguna Honda's philosophy of 'slow medicine' will make readers contemplate if perhaps the body should be viewed more as a garden to be tended rather than a machine to be fixed.\" \u2013Kirkus (reviewed as a Best Book of 2012)\n\u201cCaptivating\u2026 with this humane and thoughtful work, Sweet joins physician-authors such as Oliver Sacks, Jerome Groopman and Abraham Verghese.\u201d \u2013The Dallas Morning News\n\u201c[A] watershed book ...Vital, exquisitely written, and spectacularly multidimensional, Sweet\u2019s clinically exacting, psychologically discerning, practical, spiritual, and tenderly funny anecdotal chronicle steers the politicized debate over health care back to medicine and compassion. \u2013Booklist (starred review)\n\u201cVisionary\u2026 thoroughly subversive in all the best ways\u2026 This book\u2019s lessons and conclusions should challenge doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and policy makers to stop and rethink their core beliefs.\u201d \u2013Journal of Health Affairs\n\u201cA remarkable, poignant portrait of a committed physician on a quest to understand the heart, as well as the art, of medicine\u2026 A marvelous, arresting read.\u201d \u2013Library Journal (starred review)\n\u201c[Our] healthcare system might function a lot better if every single American citizen, healthcare professional, politician and legislator would read Victoria Sweet\u2019s insightful, beautifully written and moving book.\u201d \u2013Bookpage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 9537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.portalerandazzo.com/blog/2014/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:51Z", "digest": "sha1:6PKQP37JGMPCAKS4GX3JWNZH6PCNYCZC", "length": 1052, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.portalerandazzo.com", "title": "2014 Blogs | Portale Randazzo LLP", "raw_content": "While police misconduct may occur with a disturbing regularity across the country, there are a number of effective strategies which victims may employ ...\nA seven-month long multi-jurisdictional investigation by different enforcement agencies into street level narcotics trafficking has led to the arrest ...\nThe Westchester County police charged 10 drivers with DWI-related offenses over the holiday weekend at different checkpoints across the county, Port ...\nDedicated to identifying the most capable DUI attorneys across the country, the National Advocacy for DUI Defense, LLC, (NAFDD) recently welcomed ...\nWhat would you do if police pulled you over on the way home from a party? It's after midnight. You've had 3 tequila shots in 2 hrs or less.\nThere are so many variables for you to process in this very common DWI scenario, especially now, in the wake of much stiffer penalties and plea ...\nLast month, Yonkers resident Luis Blanco\u2019s body was found stabbed and shot in Ossining, New York. His body was discovered by a jogger on the morning ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 4499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.portfolio.hu/rendezvenyek/eloado/marco-wagner/7242", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7TRXEZCCDV7G2WJOAOF6LK3AQVFQ5EKD", "length": 850, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.portfolio.hu", "title": "Dr. Marco Wagner - Commerzbank AG Corporates & Markets Economic Research | Portfolio Rendezv\u00e9nyek", "raw_content": "V\u00e1llalat: Commerzbank AG Corporates & Markets Economic Research\nBeoszt\u00e1s: Client Captain, Senior Economist\nDr Marco Wagner has been a Senior Economist in the Economics Department of Commerzbank since 2012 and analyses the economic situation and policy of the largest euro zone countries, including Germany. From 2009 to 2011 Wagner worked for the German Council of Economic Experts as a consultant for financial markets and banking regulation. In the five years prior to this, he taught economics as a research assistant at the University of Bayreuth and received his doctorate degree 2010. During this time, Wagner was a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney (Australia) and Massey University (New Zealand). He studied economics between 1998 and 2003 at the Universities of Bayreuth and Regensburg and graduated with a degree in economics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 3432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 93.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.posdigicert.com.my/about-us/awards-and-recognitions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DLNMFKDJIB5MQQUIAX5VKNFRULNWYFAW", "length": 5559, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.posdigicert.com.my", "title": "Pos Digicert Sdn Bhd | Awards and Recognitions", "raw_content": "TMMi Certified Level 3\nThe TMMi Foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving software quality management, test processes and practices. The Test Maturity Model (TMMi) integrated has been developed to complement the existing CMMI (Capability Maturity Model) framework and to specifically deal in detail with software quality. It provides a structured presentation of maturity levels, allowing for standard TMMi assessments and certification, enabling a consistent deployment of the standards and the collection of industry metrics.\nAs part of its commitment to innovation and achieving excellence, Pos Digicert has pioneered the use of the TMMi methodology, an international standard that measures and improves software quality testing processes and activities. The TMMi Level 3 certification mandates organisations to understand the importance of reviews in quality control and to implement a formal review program linked to dynamic test process. Testing is fully integrated into the development lifecycle and the associated milestones. At this level test process improvement is fully institutionalized as part of the test organization\u2019s accepted practices and testing is perceived as a profession.\nPos Digicert was awarded the TMMi Level 3 certification on 31st May 2018. Pos Digicert is the first Certification Authority in Malaysia to be awarded the TMMi level 3 certification. This certification comes as recognition for Pos Digicert\u2019s commitment to quality as a driver of excellence and sustainability, as well as the company's ability to run and deploy software development and maintenance projects pursuant to the most stringent international standards, methodologies and procedures. Being a TMMi level 3 certified company, Pos Digicert aspires to increase its revenue further by providing its IV & V services to various government and private sectors in Malaysia.\nWebTrust for Certification Authorities (CAs)\nWebTrust is an international independent auditing process that provides Licensed WebTrust Practitioners or Licensed Professional Accounting Firms to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the controls by Certification Authorities (CAs).\nA WebTrust \"SEAL\" is awarded to CAs that consistently adheres to principles & criteria established (1998) by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA.ca) and the American Institute of Chartered Public Accountants (AICPA).\nLink: WebTrust\nConsistent with company\u2019s objectives of improving its skill and professionalism to excel in the Information Technology industry and to provide quality services, the company has streamlined and upgraded its management system.\nPOS DIGICERT has since successfully established their Quality Management System in line with the ISO 9001:2015 Certification. This is our commitment in providing quality Certification Authority (CA) services. The certification also enables us to penetrate into the international market abroad.\nTo fulfil our commitment in continuously providing resilient security assurance services, POS DIGICERT has been recently certified with the prestigious ISO/IEC 27001:2013 on 3 October 2014, marking it as the first Certification Authority in Malaysia being certified under the revised standard.\nISO/IEC 27001 standard specifies the requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and continuously improving an Information Security Management System (ISMS) for organizations. The ISMS is a systematic approach in managing information security to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information asset by applying the appropriate risk management process, which then gives confidence to the interested parties that the risks are adequately managed and mitigated. This international standard can be used by the internal or external parties to assess the organization\u2019s ability to meet its own information security requirements.\nThe certification was awarded to POS DIGICERT after undergoing a rigorous audit session by SIRIM QAS International. This achievement highlights POS DIGICERT\u2019s commitment towards delivering not only the highest quality in providing its services, but also the security assurance to our clients and stakeholders with the implementation of ISMS. It is achieved by taking a holistic and coordinated view of the organization\u2019s information security risks in a comprehensive suite of information security controls under the overall framework of the coherent management system.\nThe international standard has guided POS DIGICERT in securing information assets by implementing a suitable set of controls, including policies, processes, procedures, organizational structures and software and hardware functions. These controls are implemented, monitored, reviewed and improved, where necessary, to ensure organisation specific security and business objectives are achieved. Managing the organisation\u2019s information security shall include financial information, intellectual property, employee details or information entrusted to the company by third parties.\nMSC Malaysia Status\nMSC Malaysia status is a recognition by the Government of Malaysia through the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), for ICT and ICT-facilitated businesses that develop or use multimedia technologies to produce and enhance their products and services.\nIt is also a mark of world-class service and achievement for an ICT company. Meanwhile for customers working with us, it is your passport and gateway to a host of privileges granted by the Government of Malaysia to the business entities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 7230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 224.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/resources.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WJDSWWLA7PSQZL5F4R4PF3DMAMUZRL33", "length": 1076, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.postgresql.org", "title": "PostgreSQL: Documentation: 9.6: Further Information", "raw_content": "Prev Up Preface Next\nBesides the documentation, that is, this book, there are other resources about PostgreSQL:\nThe PostgreSQL wiki contains the project's FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) list, TODO list, and detailed information about many more topics.\nThe PostgreSQL web site carries details on the latest release and other information to make your work or play with PostgreSQL more productive.\nThe mailing lists are a good place to have your questions answered, to share experiences with other users, and to contact the developers. Consult the PostgreSQL web site for details.\nPostgreSQL is an open-source project. As such, it depends on the user community for ongoing support. As you begin to use PostgreSQL, you will rely on others for help, either through the documentation or through the mailing lists. Consider contributing your knowledge back. Read the mailing lists and answer questions. If you learn something which is not in the documentation, write it up and contribute it. If you add features to the code, contribute them.\nConventions Up Bug Reporting Guidelines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 295.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.potvalet.com/blog/important-california-events-for-september-to-december-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:12Z", "digest": "sha1:C3GUPPTCR43PCSZA4AEQFIJPSAQT4YI6", "length": 4972, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.potvalet.com", "title": "California Events for September to December 2017 | Pot Valet", "raw_content": "Important California Events from September to December 2017\nIn an event in San Francisco attended by several lawmakers, Governor Jerry Brown signed into law 15 bills meant to tackle the most serious parts of California\u2019s housing crisis.\nBrown said housing is one of the most pressing issues that California has failed to rise to, he added that rising to it is one of the biggest achievements made in the state.\nCalifornia lawmakers closed house business for the year. In the final 48 years, they debated and decided hundreds of bills to address pressing issues including housing problems and illegal immigration.\nAssembly and Senate leaders congratulated the legislature for doing great work. The legislature has two-year sessions and this was the first one. After the closure, the lawmakers returned to their home districts for rest until they will be required in Sacramento come January.\nUnited Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office.\nThis event caught the attraction of individuals from California and beyond. Although the rocket launched late in the night, several people stayed awake late into the night to take photos and video that they shared on social media.\nGovernor Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring farm labor employees to train workers on ways of preventing and reporting sexual assault. This move was a response to a PBS Frontline Investigation in 2013 which concluded that women were at very high risk of being sexually assaulted in California fields.\nThe law set up a framework for the process and required all farm contractors to provide proof of all their resources and material to the Farm Labor Process when renewing licenses.\nHistorical wildfires in Northern California destroyed property worth millions of dollars, including 1,500 buildings. There were 10 casualties, over 100 injuries, and approximately 20,000 were evacuated.\nAs much as firefighters battled the fire to their best, the fire finally spread over eight counties including Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino.\nRandall Saito, a Hawaii convict locked up in the Hawaii State Hospital escapes to California but was eventually captured and locked by California law enforcers and put inside a cell.\nHe had been locked in the Hawaii facility for 36 years when he was arrested for stabbing a stranger to death at a shopping store, but due to his mental status, he could not be locked in prison.\nCalifornia released the long-awaited weed regulations to the public. The regulations were 276 pages long and were made public.\nMost of the new pot rules will negatively affect current stoners and growers as they encourage more growers to join the industry. A large scape of operations may mean low quality of the final product.\nGunman randomly opened fire, killing four people at different locations of Northern California. He also attacked Tehama elementary school where he injured one schoolchild.\nAuthorities recovered two handguns and a semi-automatic rifle. This event happened less than two weeks after another gunman killed 25 people at a Church in Texas.\nFire broke out in Southern California causing massive destruction of property. Firefighters failed to control the fire and it spread out to burn at least 230,500 acres. The fire broke out in Venture County and spread into Santa Barbara County.\nThe fire spread rapidly as it got a boost from strong winds in the area during that time. California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency.\nRebel Coast Wineries, a Californian winemaker announced it had invented an alcohol-free weed-infused wine that could get people high without bringing hangovers.\nThey announced that they first brew wine the normal way, then the remove the alcohol content before infusing it with THC from marijuana. However, the product will be available in clubs, online marijuana dispensaries and other weed-friendly spots come January 1, 2018, when recreational marijuana gets legalized.\nThe Senate voted strictly along party lines to approve drastic changes to US tax code in three decades.\nSome of the important changes were slashing the corporate tax from the current rate of 35 percent to 21 percent and lowering the top individual tax rate to 37 percent from the current 39.6 percent. This could impact on large marijuana dispensaries negatively.\nAssemblyman, 30year old Sebastian Ridley-Thomas made abrupt resignation citing health reasons.\nHe said having undergone five surgeries this year, the most recent one on December 18, his physician advised that he takes a lot of rest. His resignation letter didn\u2019t offer any additional details.\nImportant California Events from September to December 2017 was last modified: January 1st, 2018 by William Levy\nREAD Ontario Considers Dropping Weed Prices to Government Standard\nMarijuana CaliforniaMarijuana EventsMarijuana Legalization\nanthonyd suza January 1, 2018 / 10:30 am /\nSums up the Story of 2017. Thank you", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 7490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2003/08/004267.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:BTDQIII4GN6C35EFPDIRNU5A7FGQSAB4", "length": 1949, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.powerlineblog.com", "title": "Thinking about Elvis | Power Line", "raw_content": "Thinking about Elvis\nToday is the anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, who died on August 16, 1977. Elvis died of a life of excess and drug abuse at an absurdly young age, but he had been a worldwide celebrity for more than 20 years by the time he died. He had long been entombed by his own celebrity.\nWhen Elvis, Scotty and Bill found their way to the heart of American music with their recording of \u201cThat\u2019s Alright, Mama,\u201d they knew they had done something great. Elvis found the heart of America \u2014 the place where country, blues, and gospel meet \u2014 many times over in his music. Indeed, after his artistic decline in the \u201960s, he willed himself to a second period of creative genius and genuine accomplishment at the end of the \u201960s and early \u201970s. Am I wrong in thinking that listening closely to the music all by itself can make you love our country more?\nWith his brilliant two-volume biography of Elvis, Peter Guralnick has made himself the essential chronicler of Elvis\u2019s story. Guralnick of course tells the true story of the strangest photo-op in history, the day in December 1970 that Elvis visited Richard Nixon in the White House.\nThe story of the visit provides comic relief to an otherwise sad denoument. Below is the first page of the handwritten note by which Elvis sought to meet Nixon. (If you want to read the rest of the note, you can access it on this site.) Suffice it to say that his heart was in the right place.\nDwight Chapin\u2019s memo to Bob Haldeman (also available on the site) summarizing Elvis\u2019s request is a kind of classic of cluelessness. The second page of the memo has Chapin\u2019s earnest advice and Haldeman\u2019s somewhat more astute response. Chapin writes: \u201c[I]f the President wants to meet some bright young people outside of the Government, Presley might be a perfect one to start with.\u201d Haldeman responds: \u201cYou must be kidding.\u201d In any event, at least this particular part of the Elvis story had a happy ending.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 13044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pragueticketoffice.com/event/cruises-to-devils-channel-meeting-point-cechuv-most-pier-no-5/2019-02-16-16-30/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:42Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6K6TOWFZ3UPLGH7GILJD4AZGNMG4B22", "length": 1637, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.pragueticketoffice.com", "title": "February 16, 2019 | 16:30 (Sat) - Cruises to Devil's... | Prague ticket office | Official website", "raw_content": "Home / February 16, 2019 | 16:30 (Sat) - Cruises to Devil's...\nDevil\u00b4s Channel in Prague | Sightseeing Tours\nA fairy-tale cruise through the picturesque Devil's Channel\nA fairy tale cruise through the scenic Devil's Channel is one of the most romantic cruises that you can experience in Prague. An hour long cruise during which you can admire beautiful medieval homes that seem to grow right out of the water and listen to the clatter of the mill wheel.\nThe panorama of Prague Castle above the Vltava\nThe mysterious Devil's Channel\nThe Grand Priory Mill \u2013 the most famous of the preserved mills\nSmall bridge at the pillars of the Charles Bridge\nCaptain\u00b4s commentary in English language\nAlthough it is mandatory to select the desired cruise language, the captain\u00b4s commentary is in English language only.\nCheck other sightseeing trips in and out of Prague here.\nDevil\u00b4s Channel is a perfect spot for Prague\u00b4s romantic cruises\nVisit the \"Little Prague Venice\", forget your worries and enjoy the fairy-tale like feeling! This mystical hidden treasure will make you wonder if the water goblins really exist? The Devil\u00b4s Channel (\u010certovka) divides Kampa Island from other parts of Lesser Town and is a popular tourist destination, local\u00b4s spot to come and unwind as well as a real paradise for filmmakers (Amadeus, Mission Impossible, etc.).\nFables say that the area was named in the 19th century after a woman called \"Devil\u00b4s woman\" for her (at that time) problematic and wild behaviour. 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In doing so, many of the foundational and fundamental bases of our social lives have been transformed, and these transformations in turn have had ever greater effects on the Earth. The commencement of the current geological epoch, the Holocene, brought an end to long period of repeated glaciations that we often call the Ice Age.\nThese new conditions facilitated a radically different human culture, one based on the domestication of animals, the cultivation of the soil, and sometimes densely population urban centres. This Neolithic Revolution wrought a new relationship between humans and nature: the vast forests of the ancient world were gradually cleared to make way for agricultural production, altering landscapes, habitats and ecologies; men and women became workers of the land and tillers of the soil while others lived in urban centres created by agricultural surplus; and hierarchical social relations were forged to co-ordinate production and consumption in these societies.\nThese civilisations were powered by the muscle and sinew of humans and their domesticated animals, and for all the sophistication of ancient Mesopotamia, medieval Ethiopia or early modern Italy, they were constrained by nature, reliant ultimately for energy on plant life and the process of photosynthesis. The discovery of the ability to convert the energy released by the combustion of carbon into mechanical energy broke that constraint, and in doing so gave rise to a new relationship between economy, ecology and ethics, one that rested upon a narrow and distorted vision of political economy, and upon an imperialist ideology.\nThat ideology, creation of a philosophical thought that saw nature as something to be subdued, available for insatiable extraction and exploitation has brought a 4.5 billion year old planet to a point of extreme vulnerability. This has been achieved by a distortion of the contribution of science and technology. The promise of reason gave way under imperialism and colonisation to the destruction of the natural world. An accommodating and widespread scholarship uncritically supported a view of endless growth, often indeed calling it \u2018development\u2019.\nThe social and economic critiques produced during the Industrial Revolution are well known: indeed, they remain foundational for many social, economic and political movements today. Yet, perhaps less well-known outside the United States is the 1864 book Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, authored by the American diplomat George Perkins Marsh. Dismayed by the changes to the landscapes of his native New England that he had witnessed during his lifetime and informed by his studies of the ancient cultures of Southern Europe, Marsh wrote that nature was not an inexhaustible resource but that environmental degradation, soil erosion and deforestation could bring an end to modern civilisation much as it had to the civilisations of the ancient Mediterranean.\nMan and Nature was published 150 years ago: there is now a far greater popular and scientific understanding of the influence that human civilisation, through its actions, exerts upon the planetary biosphere and ecosystem, and upon the potential for this influence to cause environmental calamities no less ruinous than those that befell previous human cultures.\nThe Nobel Prize winning atmospheric chemist, Paul Crutzen, has argued that we should recognise the age in which we now live as a new epoch in world history \u2013 the Anthropocene - such is the qualitative change in the relationship between a single species \u2013 our own - and the global environment. The term was first proposed by the Italian geologist and priest, Father Antonio Stoppani, in 1873.\nWe know all too well the catastrophic effects of anthropogenic climate change and the massive disruptions to the carbon cycle produced by the emission of greenhouse gases, and their growing accumulation in the atmosphere. Human activity has also significantly altered the nitrogen, phosphorus and sulphur cycles, which are so important to life on this planet.\nThe terrestrial water cycle, so vital to agriculture \u2013 particularly in areas of rainfed agriculture such as the Sahel \u2013 has been modified by deforestation and disruptions to river systems. Many scientists argue that we are now in the midst of the sixth great mass extinction such is the sudden loss in biodiversity that may occur in this century.\nThe challenges of living in this age of the Anthropocene cannot be met by our continuing in the grip of old and tired orthodoxies, or by our being constrained by an economic philosophy which would separate our engagement and activity in economic life from our culture and society or from the natural world. We shall need new ideas, and we must advocate and fight for them intellectually and practically, invoking the enduring human values of compassion, solidarity and friendship, that are capable of addressing those inequalities of wealth, power and income which so often lie at the heart of the dysfunctional relationship between economic activity and the ecosystem.\nDonal Dorr, one of the authors of Laudato Si: An Irish Response wrote in his contribution of the fundamental connectedness of our world:\n\u2018It is because everything in our universe has its origins in the Big Bang which took place 13,750,000 years ago. The incredible explosion of energy gave rise, after a billion years, to the formation of hundred million galaxies. The galaxy in which our world exists is called the Milky Way; it contains billions of stars. In our galaxy, about 4,600,000 years after the initial Big Bang, exploding stars dissolved into dust. Some of this dust, in turn, coalesced into other stars, one of which is our own sun. Some of the remaining cosmic dust formed the planets, including planet earth. In this world, which is our home, there emerged, over billions of years, the seas, the land, and the air. Much later came the water-creatures, the plants, the animals and eventually the various branches of humanity. Every rock, tree, animal and person all have a common origin; all are composed of the same cosmic material (which some people call \u2018star stuff\u2019), and are all related to each other.\u2019\nI believe that the global community can draw inspiration from Pope Francis, who has, throughout his pontificate, offered words of hope and inspiration in times when they are desperately needed. It is great honour to be joined by a representative of the Holy See, His Excellency, the Most Reverend Archbishop Okolo, today, and may I express how much I, as Uachtar\u00e1n na h\u00c9ireann, look forward to welcoming Pope Francis to Ireland this August.\nLast January, I had the opportunity to meet all of the contributors to the volume to which I have already made reference, \u2018Laudato Si\u2019: An Irish Response\u2019. It is a collection of essays edited by Father Sean McDonagh \u2013 a powerful champion for ecological justice \u2013 containing the reflections of Irish theologians, academics, and environmentalists on that wonderful second encyclical of Pope Francis, which bears the subtitle \u2018On Care for Our Common Home\u2019.\nTheir visit and their book were another reminder of the vital moral intervention that Laudato Si represents as a call for both global social and environmental justice, and for a \u2018new and universal solidarity\u2019 in the face of interrelated threats which constitute nothing less than an \u2018ecological crisis\u2019. Above all, Pope Francis reminded us that it is only by recognising that pollution, climate change, the loss of biodiversity, desertification, the growing scarcity of fresh water, global social and economic inequalities are all part a single complex and interconnected system, one that we can and must come to understand and to change.\nThese great global challenges cannot be met alone by any one country or group of countries. They require international co-operation and global solutions. So I am so very pleased that we are joined today by the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Ms Monique Barbut.\nThe Convention stands with the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as expressions of practical global solidarity, representing as they do not only the three great achievements of the Rio Earth Summit of 1992, but the primary vehicles through which we will organise our efforts to confront the threats that face humanity in the Anthropocene.\nMore than any other place on Earth, the continent of Africa is now the crucible for the global challenges that we confront. It is bearing and will continue to bear the greatest consequences of climate change. The United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs has estimated that by 2050, the continent will contain 2.5 billion people, 1 billion of whom will be young people. By mid-century then, Africa will be the continent of the young, with nearly forty percent of the young people on this planet \u2013 it promises to be a continent of promise and opportunity, one that will carry so many of the hopes and the dreams of our shared planet.\nThis growing population will require food, water, energy and shelter and all the mental and material resources required to lead a fulfilling live. In Africa, these needs must be met on a continent in which 46% of the land is now affected by land degradation and where, as a result, the livelihoods of nearly 65% of the people are jeopardised. This is nowhere more critical than the Sahel Region, home to over 100 million people, and the area most vulnerable to desertification and the gradual encroachment of the Sahara. By 2050, the Sahel is projected to be home to over 340 million people.\nLike many of the environmental processes in the Anthropocene, land degradation is man-made. Over-grazing, de-forestation, unsustainable agricultural practices \u2013 these are all a result of human activities. In many countries in the Global North, these are driven by short-term profit, authorised by an inadequate and insufficient economic model. In arid drylands such as the Sahel, people are reliant on a highly variable and intermittent resource base, and so often unsustainable practices are not driven by, as in the Global North, greed, but by the necessity to survive.\nAs we recalled this International Women\u2019s Day, the burden of survival is borne, above all, by rural women. They are the backbone of the agricultural labour force, and in sub-Saharan Africa, over 60 per cent of all working women are employed in agriculture, often working long hours with no formal contracts or legal protection. In addition to formal work, women carry out many household tasks, including the collection of wood and water. In the dryland conditions of the Sahel, this becomes a far more difficult task, as resources have dwindled and deforestation become more pervasive.\nWe should not despair. The Convention to Combat Desertification has shown that land degradation can be combatted through new land management practices, equitable land tenure arrangements, and re-afforestation programmes. The nations of the world, including Ireland, have pledged, through the Sustainable Development Goals, to combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil \u2013 including land affected by desertification, drought and floods \u2013 and to strive to achieve a land degradation neutral world by 2030.\nThis is an ambitious goal \u2013 and it has found an initiative equal in its ambition and in its audacity in the proposed establishment of the Great Green Wall, a zone of land restoration running over 7,775 kilometres from Dakar to Djibouti. In its breadth of vision, and in its promise of uniting African nations behind a single transformative continental enterprise, it is most characteristic of Thomas Sankara, who, as President of Burkina Faso in the 1980s, did so much to plant the idea in the minds of the continent. Under the leadership of the African Union Commission and the Pan African Agency of the Great Green Wall the Wall now brings together so many of the nations of Africa in this common endeavour.\nThe project now encompasses a range of potentially transformative national and pan-African projects, including re-afforestation, climate adaptation, sustainable soil and water management, support for communities in drylands, capacity building and technology transfer. Innovative initiatives include payment to communities for ecosystem services and participatory management plans for forests. With its capacity to unite nations and communities in solidarity, the Great Green Wall represents the best of the kind of international co-operation that will be required in this century.\nI was so pleased when Don Mullan told me that the Society of African Missions is integrating the Great Green Wall into its Laudato Tree project, an extension of the wonderful Thumbprint Campaign for Climate Justice, which is already bringing the message of climate justice into schools, parishes and communities across Ireland.\nIreland shares so much with the nations of Africa: a long and unremitting struggle for independence and the challenges of creating a nation-state capable of fulfilling the potential and promise of our independence. We share also a contemporary experience of land degradation and sustainability in land-use. I am sure that Coillte, the Irish state forestry company, can recount the lessons of planting non-native woodland on inappropriate marginal soils. Indeed, as a former Minister with responsibility for our natural heritage I saw first-hand the difficulty of persuading people of the importance of biodiversity and of the many services provided by our ecosystems, none of which are taken account in our present understanding of economics.\nThis shared experience has given rise to a special solidarity, one that has reached its highest expression in the work of the Society of African Missions and the Missionary Sisters of our Lady of Apostles. In Laudato Si, Pope Francis wrote that:\n\u2018In the present condition of global society, where injustices abound and growing numbers of people are deprived of basic human rights and considered expendable, the principle of the common good immediately becomes, logically and inevitably, a summons to solidarity and a preferential option for the poorest of our brothers and sisters.\u2019\nFor many years, Irish women and men from the OLA and SMA have answered this call, and may I say to you today that your compassion, hope and courage has been truly exemplary. Most of you have committed your lives to standing in solidarity with communities across the developing world. With them, you have built schools and clinics, and you have planted trees. You have helped the most vulnerable within those societies and stood with them against injustice and oppression. Many of you have lived within communities in the Sahel Region and in other areas facing similar challenges and have supported them in their efforts to withstand and adapt to the changes that we now speak about.\nMar Uachtaran na h\u00c9ireann, as President of Ireland, I would like to acknowledge the enormous contribution you have made in your careers. You have been wonderful ambassadors for Ireland and for your faith. By your actions you have humbled us, and by your words you now draw the attention of our country to climate justice.\nYou understand far better than most how the structures we have created at a global level can impact on people living a precarious existence. How changing climate patterns and reducing yields due to soil degradation can be catastrophic. You are well placed to help teach us, in Ireland, of why this matters to us and how we can act to help.\nI am delighted that we have also been joined by representatives from environmental and development NGOs and from voluntary and State organisations who all have a part to play in Ireland\u2019s response to the interlinked global challenges we now face. It is heartening to hear of new partnerships that are now emerging between the UN, our Government, faith-based organisations, State bodies and civil society. To effectively address the enormous challenges we face, this simply must be the way of the future.\nFor we are one global family: we must recognise that the problems faced by a farmer in Niger are our problems; that the struggles of women in Mali to live decently are our struggles; that the hunger of a child in the Sudan is our hunger; and that we owe to each other a imprescriptible ethical duty to act to overturn injustice and put in its place an economic and social order capable of meeting the needs of all our peoples, without imperilling the natural systems on which we all, ultimately, depend.\nSome years ago, in 2004 in fact, I had intimations very similar to the words of Donal Dorr in his contribution to \u2018Laudato Si: An Irish Response\u2019 \u2013 may I finish with my poem \u2018Stardust\u2019 from my collection, \u2018An Arid Season\u2019:\nIt is of stardust we are\nMoulded by vapours and fragments\nFrom the making and breaking of galaxies.\nWe are the broken bits of our cosmos\nMoved by traces of embedded memory,\nOf hopes unrealised and fading.\nThe promise of our as yet uncreated wholeness remains,\nHowever weak.\nFrom this flux we take refuge\nIn the cell of reason.\nFrom that prison of categories\nOur cry is heard\nThat we are not solely the children of reason\nWe have glimpsed the land of the heart.\nThe turbulence of present times recedes.\nThe stirring of that which is beyond\nTime and space reverberates.\nOur wonder invites us to make a journey\nTo stand against the false certainties\nOf lesser tasks and poorer versions.\nOut of exile our words will make\nA plaintive discourse\nThat echoes of lost prophecy.\nDeep within we hear it call,\nOffering more than a refuge,\nMaking a fresh story of a new time\nAnd wondrous space,\nA promise of the as yet uncreated joy,\nMake out of stardust.\nGo raibh m\u00edle maith agaibh.\nPresident hosts a reception \u201cDesertification - Ireland\u2019s Role in this Global Challenge\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 22772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.primedesignhomes.com/careers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:35Z", "digest": "sha1:HRKUX6WUYR4I7CZ3YUYKPVDYOMOVSF5S", "length": 869, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.primedesignhomes.com", "title": "Careers - Prime Design Homes", "raw_content": "Build Your Career with Prime Design Homes\nPrime Design Homes is a high volume residential renovation company in Mobile, Alabama. Our mission is to bring our homes, no matter their existing condition, back to being as close to a new home as possible. Being a locally owned business, Prime Design Homes takes pride in calling the Gulf Coast home which is why they also place great value on the local businesses and partners that they work with to achieve its objectives. Prime Design Homes strives to bring opportunities to deserving local businesses whenever possible and to make a positive impact in the communities in which they operate and serve.\nPrim Design Homes is in the business of re-developing good neighborhoods into great neighborhoods, and its employees say this congenial company excels at creating a positive community atmosphere in the workplace as well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.primerus.com/practice-areas/top-mortgage-law-firms-by-country.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:J6SZ6XUJZG7HWGK3FVZUUF4VAPOCJO63", "length": 1048, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.primerus.com", "title": "Mortgage Law Firms \u00bb Primerus", "raw_content": "Mortgage Law Firms \u00bb Primerus\nMortgage Law Firms\nMortgage Law Firm Directory\nA mortgage is a legal document in which the owner uses the title to residential property as security for a loan described in a promissory note. The mortgage must be signed by the owner (borrower/mortgagor), acknowledged before a notary public, and recorded with the County Recorder or Recorder of Deeds. If the owner fails to make payments on the promissory note then the lender can foreclose on the mortgage to force a sale of the real property and receive the proceeds, or receive the property itself at a public sheriff\u2019s sale.\nBefore the property is sold, the mortgagor must be noticed and offered an opportunity to pay all delinquent payments and costs of foreclosure to save the property. In some states the property can be redeemed by such payment even after foreclosure. When the mortgage is paid in full, the lender is required to execute a \u201csatisfaction of mortgage\u201d (sometimes called a \u201cdischarge of mortgage\u201d) and record it to clear the title to the property.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 6277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 168.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prominentescrow.com/blog/2014/2/5/nar-housing-data", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:19Z", "digest": "sha1:JOWFPCCUEI6JH7DPBTMOEEJ63W67LCNC", "length": 2009, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.prominentescrow.com", "title": "NAR Housing Data \u2014 Prominent Escrow", "raw_content": "NAR Housing Data\nThe latest data released by the National Association of Realtors\u00ae (NAR) indicates that new housing starts are still lagging behind in terms of what the market needs.\nNAR data shows that the latest annualized pace of 999,000 new housing units is still insufficient to \u201csatisfy demand,\u201d and another 50 percent increase in housing starts is needed to help relieve the current inventory shortage, this despite the fact that new home construction reached the 3rdhighest level in the past 66 months.\nThe latest figure for December was a decline from the previous month, which was the best in over 5 years. However, last months numbers were still higher than a year ago. Both single-family and multifamily housing starts softened last month.\nHousing inventory of newly constructed homes is essentially at a 50-year low, says the NAR, and they say much more construction is need. The availability of credit is a prime problem with the lagging inventory. The NAR explains that larger \u201cpublicly-listed companies like KB Homes and Toll Brothers can tap Wall Street funds to get busy. However, small local builders have historically been the principal supplier of new homes in America. These local homebuilders rely on construction loans, which are very hard to get. Many local lenders have indicated the burdensome regulation arising from Dodd-Frank financial market regulations have hindered their ability to lend. Hence, large companies are getting bigger at the expense of smaller guys getting shut out.\u201d\nNormally, for a single-family home, it is about 6 months between beginning as a housing start to housing completion and being ready for sale.\nAs a consequence of the restrictions on credit to the smaller local builders, the insufficient number of new housing starts will probably mean a continuation of the shortage of housing inventory for the rest of this year, therefore, home prices and rents will rise in nearly all local markets in 2014, says the NAR.\nFeds to Taper\nBuilder Confidence Dips", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/a-message-to-swedens-timid-left-talk-about-immigration-or-fade-into-irrelevance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DKRI4DXWOQSYGDOE4KSL74TYRSP2DYUK", "length": 2065, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.prospectmagazine.co.uk", "title": "A message to Sweden\u2019s timid left: talk about immigration or fade into irrelevance | Prospect Magazine", "raw_content": "A message to Sweden\u2019s timid left: talk about immigration or fade into irrelevance\nThe far-right Sweden Democrats are topping the polls, and no wonder\nby Tatty Good / February 5, 2016 / Leave a comment\nLeader of the Sweden Democrats Jimmie Akesson at the party\u2019s election night celebrations in Stockholm on 14th September, 2014, after seeing an exit poll showing that the Sweden Democrats were set to win the third largest share of seats in the country\u2019s parliament.\n\u00a9ANDERS WIKLUND / TT/TT News Agency/Press Association Images\nSweden\u2019s response to the European migrant crisis is facing a serious backlash. The Sweden Democrats, an openly anti-immigrant party, is now polling at 28.8 per cent\u2014seven points ahead of the Social Democrat party, led by Prime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven.\nImmigration is the most hotly debated and divisive issue in Sweden at the moment, and the Sweden Democrats have benefitted. So emotive is the immigration question that elements in the conservative-leaning Moderate Party are beginning to contemplate cooperation. Although the majority of Sweden Democrats\u2019 voters have defected from the Moderate Party, it doesn\u2019t describe itself as either right or left wing and while its nationalist and socially conservative ideology are right-wing, their support for the welfare state is closer to the policies of the left-wing Social Democrats.\nThe Sweden Democrat party was officially founded in 1988, but first reached the four per cent necessary for parliamentary representation\u2026\n8971604135c673538691e07.22134173\nThis is a very tame appraisal of the situation Sweden finds itself in, with extensive resentful ghettos in its cities which are no-go areas for emergency services, and a newly-won title as the rape capital of the northern hemisphere. Why so coy, when any casual reader of the Web can find these facts for themselves? And why no opinion on how a police chief thinks it his duty to suppress facts of public importance to tilt political opinion?\nTatty Good\nTatty Good is a freelance journalist and translator, currently based in Stockholm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 8385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.providencefootandankle.com/library/6764/FootDrop.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:53Z", "digest": "sha1:LPDYC5T4RBIW5QUPT35ZIT75VKEEVLPB", "length": 549, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.providencefootandankle.com", "title": "Foot Drop - Los Angeles, CA Foot Doctor", "raw_content": "\"Foot drop\u201d refers to the inability to lift the front part of one\u2019s foot off the ground when walking, resulting in a scuffing or dragging of the foot or lifting the thigh (known as \u201csteppage\u201d gait). It is most often caused by nerve or muscle disorders or damage, or by a central nervous system disorder.\nFoot drop is usually diagnosed by physical examination, although additional testing may be recommended in some cases. Treatment may include use of braces, physical therapy, and electrical nerve stimulation. In some cases surgery may be required.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 5257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 132.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pubintlaw.org/cases-and-projects/friends-of-manton-park-and-community-garden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4R6UPLVD42YC6HI3J2CBQYXPAPUHA3OL", "length": 1334, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.pubintlaw.org", "title": "Friends of Manton Park and Community Garden | The Public Interest Law Center", "raw_content": "Friends of Manton Park and Community Garden\nWhen the Friends of Manton Park and Community Garden came to CGLI, they were on the verge of losing a newly revitalized public space to development. We supported their effective self-advocacy to ensure that the maximum amount of space was preserved as a garden and park by the City of Philadelphia\u2019s Department of Parks and Recreation. Additionally, we negotiated with the adjacent developer to protect the garden from construction debris and to bring in resources for the space. \u201cThe renovation and conversion of neglected, trash-strewn lots into Manton Street Park & Community Garden galvanized our community and made our neighborhood safer, greener and beautiful. The Friends of Manton Street Park & Community Garden worked tirelessly around the clock to save our lot from sale. The Garden Justice Legal Initiative was an integral partner in the negotiations between the developer, the developer\u2019s attorney, City Council, and Parks & Rec. Amy Laura Cahn had the intimate knowledge of which channels we needed to pursue and the legalese and experience to connect the various agencies and departments. We had accomplished quite a bit of the work on our own by Amy Laura was able to be our communicator at the eleventh hour.\u201d \u2013 Mark Berman, Friends of Manton Street Park & Community Garden.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pulse80s.co.uk/news/local/peter-andres-flying-visit-at-leeds-bradford-airport/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:40Z", "digest": "sha1:DPAPVDYF5CUITNALF4TSTMIH6XXO6IQQ", "length": 1496, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.pulse80s.co.uk", "title": "Peter Andre's Flying Visit At Leeds-Bradford Airport - Pulse 80s", "raw_content": "Peter Andre's Flying Visit At Leeds-Bradford Airport\nThe singer was helping celebrate a special birthday.\nPeter Andre has been at Leeds-Bradford Airport today to help Jet2.com is today celebrate 15 years since its first day of flying.\nThe airport was the airline's first ever base and they have since carried more than 65 million customers.\nThe celebrity guest surprised customers at check-in and even boarded the aircraft to serenade customers and staff with a special 'Happy Birthday' rendition.\nFrom Leeds Bradford Airport alone, Jet2.com has carried over 23 million customers since 2003. Its growth has seen the company grow the number of employees in Yorkshire from 80 to over 2,000, and means it will operate a fleet of 15 aircraft at the airport this summer.\nSteve Lee, Commercial Director of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays, who was on the company's first ever flight back in 2003 said: \"Today marks 15 years of Jet2.com and is a great chance to look back on what has been achieved since we launched. The things that mattered to customers 15 years ago, such as VIP customer service, great flight times and value, are just as important today and that is what we have focused on resolutely for the past decade and a half.\n\"Our family friendly formula means we have expanded to become the third largest airline, whilst winning a string of accolades at the same time. As we look forward to the next 15 years and beyond, our commitment to those same values remains at the heart of everything we do.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 196.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pveducation.org/pvcdrom/pn-junctions/doping", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BUJKB633NFJEXPSLX777SXBV34FFEMLH", "length": 3013, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.pveducation.org", "title": "Doping | PVEducation", "raw_content": "Doping is a technique used to vary the number of electrons and holes in semiconductors.\nDoping creates N-type material when semiconductor materials from group IV are doped with group V atoms. P-type materials are created when semiconductor materials from group IV are doped with group III atoms.\nN-type materials increase the conductivity of a semiconductor by increasing the number of available electrons; P-type materials increase conductivity by increasing the number of holes present.\nIt is possible to shift the balance of electrons and holes in a silicon crystal lattice by \"doping\" it with other atoms.\nAtoms with one more valence electron than silicon are used to produce \"n-type\" semiconductor material. These n-type materials are group V elements in the periodic table, and thus their atoms have 5 valence electrons that can form covalent bonds with the 4 valence electrons that silicon atoms have. Because only 4 valence electrons are needed from each atom (silicon and n-type) to form the covalent bonds around the silicon atoms, the extra valence electron present (because n-type materials have 5 valence electrons) when the two atoms bond is free to participate in conduction. Therefore, more electrons are added to the conduction band and hence increases the number of electrons present.\nAtoms with one less valence electron result in \"p-type\" material. These p-type materials are group III elements in the periodic table. Therefore, p-type material has only 3 valence electrons with which to interact with silicon atoms. The net result is a hole, as not enough electrons are present to form the 4 covalent bonds surrounding the atoms. In p-type material, the number of electrons trapped in bonds is higher, thus effectively increasing the number of holes. In doped material, there is always more of one type of carrier than the other and the type of carrier with the higher concentration is called a \"majority carrier\", while the lower concentration carrier is called a \"minority carrier.\"\nSchematic of a silicon crystal lattice doped with impurities to produce n-type and p-type semiconductor material.\nThe following table summarizes the properties of semiconductor types in silicon.\nN-type (negative)\nP-type (positive)\nGroup V (e.g. Phosphorous) Group III (e.g. Boron)\nExcess Electrons Missing Electrons (Holes)\nElectrons Hole\nHoles Electrons\nThe animations below represent p-type and n-type silicon. In a typical semiconductor there might be 1017cm-3 majority carriers and 106cm-3 minority carriers. Expressed in a different form, the ratio of minority to majority carriers is less than one person to the entire population of the planet. Minority carriers are created either thermally or by incident photons.\nN-type semiconductor. These are called \"n-type\" since the majority carriers are Negatively charged electrons.\nP-type semiconductor. These are called \"p-type\" since the majority carriers are Positively charged holes.\n\u2039 Intrinsic Carrier Concentration Equilibrium Carrier Concentration \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 641, "original_length": 16385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 265.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.qconf.co.il/conference-call/SCS/2018-06-21%2015:30:00.0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:23Z", "digest": "sha1:H7XEGV2WZGZ3AYEEOEZ3N36W2KQW5G4M", "length": 1329, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.qconf.co.il", "title": "Steelcase Inc Online Meeting | Jun 21, 2018 8:30 AM", "raw_content": "Q1 2019 Steelcase Inc Earnings Call\n\u05e9\u05d9\u05d7\u05ea \u05d5\u05e2\u05d9\u05d3\u05d4 Steelcase Inc\nSteelcase Inc Conference call will be held on 21/06/2018. During the earnings conference call's session Steelcase Inc will provide updated information and financial status.\nIn order to join the earnings online meeting, contact Steelcase Inc for the information on connecting using web conferencing or bridge number and PIN code\nThe following business overview is qualified in its entirety by the more detailed information included elsewhere or incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K (\"Report\"). As used in this Report, unless otherwise expressly stated or the context otherwise requires, all references to \"Steelcase,\" \"we,\" \"our,\" \"Company\" and similar references are to Steelcase Inc. and its subsidiaries in which a controlling interest is maintained. Unless the context otherwise indicates, reference to a year relates to the fiscal year, ended in February of the year indicated, rather than a calendar year. Additionally, Q1, Q2, Q3 and Q4 reference the first, second, third and fourth quarter, respectively, of the fiscal year indicated. All amounts are in millions, except share and per share data, data presented as a percentage or as otherwise indicated.\nSteelcase Inc (SCS)\n901 44th Street SE, Grand Rapids Michigan 49508, United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/garbanzo-opens-first-maryland-location-columbia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:57Z", "digest": "sha1:IUPRMSGVRH3Y4KS7L3O35FJ2V2YIL7WI", "length": 3187, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.qsrmagazine.com", "title": "Garbanzo Opens First Maryland Location in Columbia - Restaurant News - QSR magazine", "raw_content": "Garbanzo Opens First Maryland Location in Columbia\nGarbanzo Mediterranean Grill, a Colorado-based fast casual restaurant concept featuring fresh, healthy, and authentic Mediterranean cuisine, announces the grand opening of its first Maryland location in Columbia. Opening Wednesday, March 13, 2013, at 6455 Dobbin Rd., the new restaurant is the first company-owned Garbanzo to open outside Colorado and the 18th location nationwide.\n\u201cWe have seen an outpouring of support from the Columbia community since initially announcing our intentions to open in Dobbin Center,\u201d explains Scott Black, Garbanzo director of operations. \u201cI feel our made-from-scratch Mediterranean menu sets us apart and intrigues the many families and business professionals in the area looking for a fast yet fresh and healthy lunch or dinner option. We are looking forward to establishing ourselves in the Columbia area and serving its residents for years to come.\u201d\nOn the eve of the grand opening, the new location is holding a fundraiser dinner to benefit The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults, a locally-based nonprofit dedicated to enhancing the lives of young adults and their loved ones affected by cancer by supporting, educating, and connecting them to resources necessary to thrive. The public is invited to attend the fundraiser Tuesday, March 12, from 5:30 \u2013 7:30 p.m. for a $5.00 suggested donation.\nOn grand opening day Wednesday, March 13, free Garbanzo tote bags will be given away to the first 100 guests, and guests have the opportunity to win other free Garbanzo prizes, including Garbanzo T-shirts, entr\u00e9e cards, and gift cards.\nFollowing the grand opening, Garbanzo Columbia is holding several contests all month long giving away items such as an electronic reader, kid\u2019s bicycle, and The Columbia Mall gift card.\n\u201cEstablishing a new company-owned market on the East Coast has been a goal of ours for years, and we are thrilled it is finally coming to fruition,\u201d explains Alon Mor, Garbanzo founder, president, and CEO. \u201cWe chose to move into the D.C. /Baltimore area not only because of its growth, diversity, and prosperity, but also because we saw a need for fast-casual Mediterranean cuisine like ours. We knew Garbanzo would fit in flawlessly.\u201d\nThe newest Garbanzo joins existing company- and franchisee-owned locations throughout the country. Garbanzo corporate has 15 locations in Colorado and now one in Maryland, with a second to open this month. Current franchise locations include one in San Antonio and one in Oklahoma City. With many new store openings on the horizon, Garbanzo is on track to double in size by the end of 2013.\nGarbanzo offers guests a variety of authentic Mediterranean items with an emphasis on flavor, freshness, and quality, as well as a healthy trans-fat free menu. Guests have the ability to customize every meal with items such as pita, laffa, falafel, shwarma, hummus, seasoned rice, sauces, and dressings. All Garbanzo salads and sauces are prepared on-site daily, and the pita are made from scratch throughout the day in every restaurant. Additionally, several ingredients are bought locally and some are imported directly from the Mediterranean region.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 9494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.queensland.com/en-sc/attraction/apallonian-hotel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:58Z", "digest": "sha1:LRGT3RSJDZNHNQB6V6DJ6DRA6XZJXWGM", "length": 594, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.queensland.com", "title": "\ufeff Apollonian Hotel - Attraction - Queensland", "raw_content": "Apollonian Hotel\nBoreen Point, Noosa Area\nSet on large rolling lawns, the historic Apollonian Hotel is a great place for kids to run and play while Mum and Dad sit back and relax. Set on three and half acres the hotel was named after the Greek God of Music and Theatre. First licensed in 1868 in Gympie the hotel was moved in 1987 to Boreen Point. It provides a pokie machine free environment, accommodation, beer garden and the restaurant attracts people from all over the country serving crocodile, emu, kangaroo seafood and the famous Pig on the Spit Roast.\nhttp://www.apollonianhotel.com.au", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 3955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.queensu.ca/studentawards/award-list/named-bursaries/undergraduate-admission-bursaries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IVOXEEFZXH5LLXYFM3D34QWNCBEBRLWR", "length": 82297, "nlines": 368, "source_domain": "www.queensu.ca", "title": "Undergraduate Admission Bursaries | Student Awards", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Award List \u00bb Named Bursaries \u00bb Undergraduate Admission Bursaries\nNamed Undergraduate Admission Bursaries\nThe following bursaries and awards have been made available thanks to the generosity of Queen's donors.\nThe following named Admission Bursaries have been made possible due to generous donations from specific donors. If a student is selected to receive an admission bursary (e.g. Queen's Admission Bursary, Queen's Tricolour Bursary) the name of their bursary may be amended to one of the following awards. Please note that only the name of the award will change after a student has been selected; the value of their admission bursary assistance will not change depending on the name of the award. All students who wish to be considered for Admission Bursary assistance must submit an Admission Bursary application.\nBursaries and Awards open to students in any Faculty and School\nFine Arts students\nStudents in the BISC-First Year Program at Herstmonceux\nAdmission Bursary Application\nCatherine E. Abbott Little Entrance Bursary\nEstablished by a bequest from the estate of Catharine E. Abbott Little and awarded on the basis of financial need to students entering the first year of any undergraduate program at Queen's University. Preference will be given to aboriginal students.\nAlumni Association Bursaries\nEstablished by the Alumni Association and awarded on the basis of financial need to incoming students in undergraduate and bachelor degree-level professional programs at Queen's University. Renewable over the normal length of the academic program if financial need remains evident.\nAMS Native Student Award\nEstablished in 1990 by the Alma Mater Society of Queen's University and awarded annually to native students entering first year in any faculty or school at Queen's University. If no entering students are eligible the awards could go to upper-year native students. In the event of no eligible applicant, this award can be given to any student in financial need. Selection is based on academic standing and/or financial need.\nBalder Entrance Award\nEstablished in 1997 in memory of Gunnar Edstrand (1908-1979) and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to a student entering the first year of any undergraduate program.\nJohn Brooks Awards\nEstablished in recognition of the achievements of the John Brooks Community Foundation and Scholarship Fund and awarded to students entering any undergraduate program at Queen's University. To be eligible, a student must have a combination of financial need, high academic standing, and involvement in school and/or community activities. Preference will be given to students who have been involved in the work of the John Brooks Community Foundation. Selection will be made by the Senate Scholarship Committee on the recommendation of the John Brooks Community Foundation and Scholarship Fund.\nGeorge L. Cooke Admission Award\nEstablished in February 2013 by friends and colleagues in honour of George L. Cooke, BA(Hons) 1975, MBA 1977. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program. Preference will be given to students whose parent(s) or grandparent(s) are working in the Canadian Insurance Industry.\nGuang-Hua Admission Bursary\nEstablished in March 2017 in memory of Mr. HUI Oi-Chow, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program at Queen's University. First preference will be given to students who self-identify as former citizens of China or Hong Kong. Second preference will be given to students who are the first generation in their families to attend a post-secondary institution.\nHerbert J. Hamilton Memorial Alumni Association Bursaries\nEstablished by the Alumni Association in memory of Herbert J. Hamilton, B. A. '31, HLL .d. '75, also known as Mr. Queen's, the Director of Alumni Affairs, Counselor to the AMS, and for almost 40 years, the editor of the Alumni Review. In 1987 he was elected Honorary Life President of the Alumni Association. Awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year of any degree program at Queen's University. Renewable for a further three years if financial need remains evident.\nBetty Harrison Awards for Black Canadian Students\nEstablished in February 2018 by the Estate of Ester Margaret (Betty) Harrison and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to Black Canadian students (Canadian citizens or permanent residents of Canada) entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program. The award is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident. To maximize the use of available funding, annual awards may be granted on the basis of demonstrated financial need to black students enrolled in any year of any Faculty or School at Queen's University.\nBetty Harrison Awards for Visible Minority/Racialized Students\nEstablished in February 2018 by the Estate of Ester Margaret (Betty) Harrison and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to visible minority/racialized students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program. The award is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident. To maximize the use of available funding, annual awards may be granted on the basis of demonstrated financial need to visible minority/racialized students enrolled in any year of any Faculty or School at Queen's University.\nLindsay Dale Hudson Memorial Award\nEstablished in September 2017 by Queen's Professor Dr. Robert W. Hudson and Marie Nicole Florent, BA 1988, MPA 2001, LLM 2006, in memory of their daughter Lindsay Dale Hudson. Awarded on the basis of academic achievement and demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program at Queen's University. Preference will be given to students in the following order of priority: (a) Aboriginal students from Nunavut; (b) Aboriginal students from the Yukon or the Northwest Territories; (c) Aboriginal students from elsewhere in Canada; (d) students who are residents of Nunavut, Yukon or Northwest Territories. Selection will be made by the Office of the University Registrar, Student Awards, as delegated by the Senate Committee on Scholarships and Student Aid.\nKingston Community Award\nEstablished in May 2009 by corporations in the Kingston community and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering the first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program. The recipients must be graduates of a secondary school in one of the counties of either Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, Leeds and Grenville, or Prince Edward.\nDr. Malcolm D. Kinsella and Ruth Kinsella Memorial Award\nEstablished by Peggy Kinsella in memory of her father, Malcolm D. Kinsella, MD 1912, and sister, Ruth Kinsella, B. A. 1946. Awarded on the basis of academic achievement and financial need to full-time students entering the first year of any undergraduate program.\nEvelyne Laishley, Arts '35 Entrance Award\nEstablished in July 2004 by Evelyne Laishley, Arts '35, and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to students entering the first year of any direct entry undergraduate program at Queen's University. The award is renewable for up to three years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 (C) is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nMarsha Lampman Alumni Association Bursaries\nEstablished by a bequest from Marsha Lampman, B. A. (Hon.) '74, dedicated alumna volunteer and benefactor, and donations from alumni volunteers. Awarded to an undergraduate student entering the first year in any faculty or school on the basis of financial need and outstanding leadership in extracurricular activities. The bursaries are renewable for three years provided satisfactory academic standing has been maintained and financial need remains apparent.\nGreg LeBlanc Entrance Award\nEstablished in October 2004 by Greg LeBlanc, B. A. 1973, and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to a student entering the first year of any direct entry undergraduate program at Queen's University. The award is renewable provided a GPA of 2.0 is maintained and financial need remains evident.\nLesley Family Entrance Award\nEstablished in October 2006 by a bequest from the estate of Anne Lesley, B.A. 1971, and awarded on the basis of financial need to students entering first year of any direct-entry undergraduate program at Queen's University. The award is renewable for the second, third, and fourth year, provided a GPA of 2.0 is maintained and financial need remains evident.\nR. Kenneth and Catherine Matheson Carty Award\nEstablished by Donald J. Carty, B. A. 1968, and awarded annually to full-time students entering any four year undergraduate program at Queen's University. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, superior academic ability, proven leadership qualities, creative thinking, and evidence of entrepreneurial spirit.\nPathways to Education Award\nEstablished in April 2011 by Queen\u2019s University and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program who are graduates of the Pathways to Education Program. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a satisfactory grade point average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nAlfie Pierce Admission Award\nEstablished in May 2001 and revised in September 2018 by the Afro-Caribe Community Foundation of Kingston with donations from friends and colleagues of the Foundation. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and involvement in and/or contribution to the African or Caribbean communities in Canada to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program\nSceptre Investment Counsel Limited Award\nEstablished by Sceptre Investment Counsel Limited and is awarded to a student entering the first year of any undergraduate degree program at Queen's University on the basis of financial need and academic excellence. Leadership and community contribution are also considered.\nElizabeth Shortt Memorial Alumni Association Bursaries\nEstablished by the Alumni Association in memory of Elizabeth Shortt, M.D. 1884, the first President of the Alumnae Association, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year of any degree program at Queen's University. Renewable for a further three years if financial need remains evident.\nRobert Sutherland - Harry Jerome Entrance Award\nEstablished in April 2008 by Queen's University, in cooperation with Black Business and Professional Association (BBPA) and the Harry Jerome Scholarship program to honour Robert Sutherland (BA, 1852), the first person of African heritage to graduate from Queen's University. Awarded to black students entering the first year of any direct-entry undergraduate degree program at Queen's University on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and contribution to the black community or other volunteer activities. The award will be renewable for three years provided a satisfactory academic average has been maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nRobert Sutherland Memorial Admission Award\nEstablished in May 2001 and revised in September 2018 by the Afro-Caribe Community Foundation of Kingston with donations from friends and colleagues of the Foundation. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and involvement in and/or contribution to the African or Caribbean communities in Canada to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program.\nRobert Sweezey Memorial Alumni Association Bursaries\nEstablished by the Alumni Association in memory of Robert O. Sweezey, B. Sc.(Eng.) 1908, the first President of the Alumni Association, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year of any degree program at Queen's University. Renewable for a further three years if financial need remains evident.\nTripp/Smith Family Entrance Award\nEstablished by Eric Clifton Tripp and Maria Louise Smith, who have always recognized the importance of education, and value the fundamental and community learning which takes place at an institution such as Queen's University. Awarded to a full-time student entering the first year of any undergraduate program on the basis of academic achievement and financial need.\nMichael and Susan Woeller Entrance Award\nEstablished in September 2006 by Michael Woeller, M.B.A. 1978, and Susan Woeller (Butler) B.A. (Hons.) 1973, B.Ed. 1975, and awarded on the basis of financial need and demonstrated leadership experience to students entering the first year of any direct entry undergraduate program at Queen's University.\nW.J. Abrams Memorial Bursary\nEstablished by family and friends in memory of William J. Abrams, B.Sc.'55, and awarded to a graduate of Char-Lan High School on the basis of financial need.\nBarkley Scholarship\nFounded by the Barkleys of Avonmore, Ontario. Awarded annually on the recommendation of the secondary school principal and on the basis of merit and need to a graduate of Tagwi Secondary School, Avonmore, Ontario on entrance to Queen's University.\nCalgary Alumni Bursary\nEstablished by the Calgary Branch of the Queen's University Alumni Association and awarded to a student from the Calgary area entering his or her first university year of any program at Queen's University. The recipient will have demonstrated financial need, high academic performance, community involvement, and employment.\nCostco Canada Admission Award\nEstablished in February 2018 by Costco Wholesale Canada Ltd. and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce Program in the Smith School of Business. Awarded to graduates from secondary schools in the City of Kingston, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, Leeds and Grenville, or Prince Edward Counties, or secondary schools in the Cities of Belleville or Brockville. The award is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nDouglas Arthur de Pencier Bursary\nEstablished in May 2018 by the Estate of Mary Marlene Joan de Pencier in memory of her brother Douglas Arthur de Pencier. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program whose residence during the two years preceding the award was within the limits of the Geographic Townships of Oxford-on-Rideau and Wolford in the County of Grenville, the Township of Montague in the County of Lanark and the Township of Marlborough in the County of Carleton. If in any year there are not suitable candidates meeting this requirement the bursary will be awarded to students whose residence during the two preceding years was in rural Eastern Ontario. The award is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained and financial need remains evident.\nKen Dryden/Edward Fletcher Award\nEstablished by the Ken Dryden Scholarship Fund, Starter Canada and through gift commitments made to Queen's University. Awarded to a student entering the first year in any faculty or school who has had significant experience in the Child Welfare System in Ontario and who shows financial need. The award is renewable for the following three years provided satisfactory academic standing is maintained and financial need remains evident.\nSusan and Louis Forbes Award\nEstablished in February 2015 by Louis Forbes, MBA 1980, and Susan Forbes. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and involvement in school or community activities to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program. Preference will be given to students first from Quinte West, second from Brighton and third from Belleville, Ontario. The award is renewable for 1 subsequent year provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nGuelph Alumni Entrance Award\nEstablished in October 1993 by the Guelph Ontario Branch of the Queen's University Alumni Association and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to a student from Wellington County entering the first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program at Queen's University.\nRobert L. Handford Family Entrance Award\nEstablished in April 2007 by friends and family in memory of Robert L. Handford, B.A. 1973, and awarded on the basis of financial need and demonstrated involvement in high school extracurricular and/or community activities (such as athletics, clubs, coaching, charities, committees, etc.) to students entering the first year of any direct-entry undergraduate program at Queen's University. Preference will be given to applicants graduating from a high school in Peterborough County, Ontario.\nMaria A. Higginson Bursary\nEstablished by Blair Higginson in memory of Maria A. Higginson, for many years a highly regarded and dedicated teacher of Mathematics in the Hawkesbury and Renfrew districts. Awarded to a student in financial need entering any undergraduate program at Queen's University from Hawkesbury, Vankleek Hill, or Renfrew High Schools. If no entering student is eligible, the award may go to an upper year student in financial need from the high schools noted.\nJoyce Family Foundation Bursary\nEstablished in November 2014 by The Joyce Foundation and revised in September 2017 to reflect the name change to The Joyce Family Foundation. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program. The award is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident. Preference will be given to students who are graduates of a secondary school in the City of Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox and Addington, or Leeds and Grenville Counties.\nKingston Branch of the Queen's Alumni Association Entrance Award\nEstablished in January 2001 by the Kingston Branch Alumni Association and awarded to an undergraduate student entering the first year of any program at Queen's University. Awarded on the basis of financial need, academic merit, and community involvement. The recipient must be a graduate of a secondary school in Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, Leeds and Grenville, or Prince Edward County.\nKingston-Frontenac County Bursaries\nNine bursaries are offered to graduates of secondary schools in Frontenac County, who are children or wards of Frontenac County residents. The bursary, which may be renewed for up to three years, provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained, may be held in any undergraduate Faculty or School.\nMarshall Laverty Award\nEstablished in 1990 by The Rotary Club of Kingston to honour the Reverend A. Marshall Laverty for his dedicated life of service to the greater Kingston community. Awarded annually to graduates of a Public or Separate Secondary School in the County of Frontenac registered in the first year of any undergraduate faculty or school of Queen's University. Selection is based on the candidate's character, leadership, intellectual promise, community involvement and financial means.\nDonald Benedict Lee and Betty Ngan-Woon Lee Memorial Award\nEstablished in October 2013 by the children of Donald Benedict Lee and Betty Ngan-Woon Lee and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program. First preference will be given to students who have graduated from Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute and second preference to graduates of secondary schools in the City of Kingston, Lennox and Addington, Frontenac, Leeds and Grenville, or Prince Edward Counties.\nPaige Marshall Admission Award\nEstablished in May 2010 by W. Gavin Marshall (M.B.A. 1982) in honour of his daughter Paige Marshall (B.A./B.Ed, 2011; MPH 2016). Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic excellence and demonstrated leadership within their high school and community to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program with first preference to students who graduated from St. John Catholic High School in Perth, Ontario; Notre Dame Catholic High School in Carleton Place, Ontario; St. Michael Catholic High School in Kemptville, Ontario; or St. Mary Catholic High School in Brockville, Ontario. If no students are eligible from the above named schools then the award will be granted to students from rural areas.\nGeorge E. Marshall Bursary\nEstablished by the late Mary Ethel Marshall in memory of her husband, George E. Marshall, B. A. '20, and awarded to a student from Windsor, Ontario in financial need entering the first year of any program at Queen's University.\nDorothy and Angus Matheson Entrance Award\nEstablished in May 2001 by the family of Dorothy and Angus Matheson in recognition of their unwavering commitment to, and support of, higher education. Awarded on the basis of academic excellence and financial need to a student from Northern Ontario who is entering first year of any undergraduate program in any faculty or school.\nWilhelmina McArthur-Humphries Bursaries\nEstablished by Wilhelmina McArthur-Humphries, B.A. 1918. Four bursaries are awarded on the basis of merit and need to candidates for admission to an undergraduate program whose permanent place of residence is in Wellington or Lanark County. Two bursaries are offered to students from Wellington County and two bursaries are offered to students from Lanark County. bursaries may be renewed for up to three years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained and may be held in any undergraduate Faculty or School. If in any year there are not sufficient entrance candidates to use up the income, the award may be given to an eligible upper-year candidate from Wellington or Lanark Counties.\nMcLean McCuaig Entrance Bursary\nEstablished in November 1990 by Brenda and David McLean and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, involvement in school or community activities to students graduating from a high school in the Provinces of British Columbia or Alberta entering first year of any direct entry undergraduate degree program.\nO.M. Montgomery Awards\nEstablished by Alcan Aluminum Ltd. in memory of Mr. O. M. Montgomery who graduated from Queen's University in Electrical Engineering in 1905. These awards are given on the basis of academic standing and need; one to a student entering first year and two to upper year students. Preference will be given to children of Alcan employees.\nRoane Family Admission Bursary\nEstablished in October 2014 by Glen Roane, BA 1977, MBA 1979, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program. Preference will be given to students in the following order of priority: (a) to students from Canmore, Alberta, (b) to students from Banff, Alberta or Morley Alberta, and (c) to students from the rest of the province of Alberta. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nRotary Club of Kingston (Robert Charles Wallace) Bursary\nThis bursary, which is open to graduates of Kingston Secondary Schools, is given by the Rotary Club of Kingston in honour of Robert Charles Wallace, a former Principal of Queen's and a member of the Rotary Club. The bursary is awarded on the basis of ability, character and need.\nJohn M. Scott Award\nEstablished in July 2011 and revised in October 2014 by Henderson (Glenn) Scott, B.A. 1956, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Preference will be given to students from Eastern Ontario.\nMildred K. Walters Bursaries\nEstablished from the estate of Mildred K. Walters and awarded to undergraduate students in any faculty or school at Queen's University on the basis of financial need and academic achievement. Preference will be given to students entering any faculty or school at Queen's University who are from Collingwood Collegiate Institute, Collingwood, Ontario or Walkerton District High School, Walkerton, Ontario.\nWasmund Family Memorial Scholars Award\nEstablished in February 2004 in memory of Theodore and Esther Wasmund by members of the family including Dr. Bert Wasmund B.Sc. '61 and Dr. Eric Wasmund B.Sc. '88. Awarded to students entering the first year of any direct-entry undergraduate degree program at Queen's University on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, and demonstrated initiative. Preference will be given to candidates from North Hastings and North Renfrew Counties. Candidates will have completed all of their high school education at, in order of priority, North Hastings High School in Bancroft, Madawaska Valley District High School in Barry's Bay, Opeongo High School in Douglas or Renfrew Collegiate Institute in Renfrew, Ontario. The awards will be renewable for three years provided a satisfactory academic average has been maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nArts '71 Bursary\nEstablished by the class of Arts '71 in celebration of their 25th year of graduation and awarded to a full-time student entering the first year in the Faculty of Arts and Science on the basis of financial need.\nArts, Commerce, PHE 1965 Admission Bursary\nEstablished in September 2015 by the 1965 graduating classes in Arts, Commerce, and Physical and Health Education on the occasion of their 50th class reunion. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of an undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science or first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nBetty Jean and John M. Bankes National Entrance Awards in the Faculty of Arts and Science\nEstablished in March 2003 by John F. Bankes, B. A.(Hons.) 1973 (Economics) and Pamela Gibson, with substantial support from Leslie Shikaze, B. A.(Hons.) 1975 (English), Joanne J. Ling and others to honour Betty Jean and John M. Bankes, who have actively and consistently promoted the benefits of a university education and life-long learning. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to students entering any first year program in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University. Preference will be given to students who have demonstrated participation in extra-curricular activities or who have accomplishments, such as community service, achievement in the arts or sports, or excellence in other areas of individual endeavour.\nMichael Bradden Memorial Entrance Bursary\nEstablished in May 2001 by Vanessa and Laura Bradden in memory of their brother Michael Bradden, B. Sc. (Math) 1991, who was an excellent student and athlete, and was a gentle person with a genuine spirit and love for life. Awarded on the basis of financial need to a full-time student entering first year of any program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nRobert & Jane (Halliley) Clapp Admission Bursary\nEstablished in March 2018 by Robert Clapp, B.Sc. 1964 and Jane (Halliley) Clapp, B.A. 1964. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science or the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen's University. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nClark Family Entrance Award\nEstablished in November 2003 by John C. Clark and Anne J. Clark to recognize the importance of post-secondary education as the foundation for a successful and fulfilling life. The award seeks to assist those with the academic potential but not the financial means to pursue such an education. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to full-time students entering the first year of any direct-entry undergraduate program in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University.\nRobert & Eva (Bertram) Cole Ontario Bursary\nEstablished in April 1997 by Robert Cole, BSc (Eng.) 1951 and Eva (Bertram) Cole, BA 1951, and last revised in November 2018. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and involvement in extra-curricular activities. Awarded to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science or the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Each bursary is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained each year, financial need and involvement in extra-curricular activities remains evident.\nRuth Cordy Entrance Bursary\nEstablished by Ruth Cordy, B. A. 1942, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year of the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University.\nMrs. Rupert (Margaret E.) Davies Award\nEstablished by Margaret E. Davies, B. A. 1948, and awarded to a student entering the first year of any program in the Faculty of Arts and Science on the basis of financial need and academic merit.\nDean's Entrance Bursaries\nEstablished in 1997 by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Science with alumni donations to help defray the cost of tuition for first year students. A number of bursaries are awarded on the basis of financial need to students entering the first year of a degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nEnbridge Bursary in Arts and Science\nEstablished in May 2014 and revised in January 2017 by Enbridge Pipelines Inc. and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to Aboriginal students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Preference will be given to given to Aboriginal students from the following First Nation communities: Aamjiwnaang, Alderville First Nation, Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point, Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Hiawatha First Nation, Mississaugas of the Credit, Mississauga's of Scugog Island First Nation, Mohawks of Akwesasne, Mohawks of Kahnawa:ke, Mohawks of Kanesatake, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, Moravian of the Thames, Munsee-Delaware Nation, Onieda Nation of the Thames, Six Nations of the Grand River, and Walpole Island.\nSteve and Irene Groch Awards\nEstablished by Steve Groch, B. Sc. (Eng) '66, and Irene Groch. Awarded to students entering the first year of a four-year Bachelor of Science program in the Faculty of Arts and Science or the first year of any four year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science on the basis of proven leadership qualities, an entrepreneurial spirit, creativity, involvement in extra-curricular activities and demonstrated financial need. The award will not be given to students who have already received awards in excess of $1,000.\nJudy Ha Memorial Entrance Award\nEstablished in November 2007 in memory of Judy Ha (n\u00e9e Tang) B.A. 1975, B.Ed. 1976, by her husband Edmund Ha, B.Sc. 1976, and sons Derek Ha, B.Com. 2005, B.Sc. 2005, and Ronald Ha, B.Com. 2007, and awarded on the basis of financial need, demonstrated leadership ability and extracurricular involvement to undergraduate students entering the first year in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nElizabeth Holmes and Edwin Burt Memorial Award\nEstablished in February 2015 by Ian Burt, Sc'89, Glynnis Burt, Artsci'88, and Leslie King (Burt), Artsci'80, Ed'81, in memory of their parents, Elizabeth Holmes, Arts'50, and Edwin Burt, Arts'51, IR'52. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nJanson Family Entrance Bursary\nEstablished in January 2005 by Peter (B.Sc.Eng 1969) and Peggy (BA 1970) Janson and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University, with preference given to a female student from Northern Ontario.\nChristopher Lounds Bursary\nEstablished in February 2014 by friends and family in memory of Christopher Lounds, B.A. 1993, B.A. (Hons.) 1994, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nMartha McConnachie Entrance Award\nEstablished in March 2001 by Thomas McLaren, B. Com. 1949, in March 2001, in honour of his daughter, Martha McConnachie, B. Mus. 1976. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nW.B. Ferguson and Lynda L. Mickleborough National Entrance Award\nEstablished by W. B. Ferguson and Lynda L. Mickleborough who have always recognized the importance of education at an institution such as Queen's University. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to a student entering the first year of any undergraduate program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nWillis F. Pridham Memorial Award\nEstablished in October 2005 by Laurie McCulligh in memory of her friend Willis F. Pridham, BA 1951, and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to a student entering first year of any program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nRauch Family Entrance Award\nEstablished in February 2004 by Dr. Bernard Rauch, B. A. 1944, M. A. 1954, and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to full-time students entering first year of any program in the Faculty of Arts and Science.\nMargaret Reynolds (Arts 1939) Bursary\nEstablished in December 2005 by Margaret (Casey) Reynolds, Arts 1939 and awarded on the basis of financial need to students entering first year of any undergraduate Bachelor of Arts program.\nHenderson Scott Liberal Arts Award\nEstablished in July 2011 by Dr. Henderson (Glenn) Scott, B.A. 1956, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Arts and Science. Preference will be given to students from Eastern Ontario.\nElisabeth Tremblay Memorial Entrance Award\nEstablished in April 2004 by family and friends in memory of Elisabeth Tremblay and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to students entering the first year of any undergraduate program in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University.\nThe terms for this award are cross listed with named Undergraduate Admission Bursaries, Arts and Science.\nBCom 1980 Award\nEstablished in March 2013 by the Commerce Class of 1980 and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce Program in the Smith School of Business. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nEstablished in March 2016 by the Class of Commerce 1991 and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, proven leadership skills and involvement in school or community activities to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.7 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nBCom '94 Bursary\nEstablished in October 2014 by the Class of Commerce 1994 in recognition of their 20th reunion and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nEstablished in October 2014 by the Class of Commerce 1995 and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nBirch Hill Equity Partners Achievement Award\nEstablished in December 2015 by Birch Hill Equity Partners and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, proven leadership skills, and involvement in school or community activities to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. First preference will be given to Aboriginal Students. Second preference will be given to First Generation Students. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nBrooks Family Bursary\nEstablished in October 2014 by Karyn Brooks, B.Com. 1976, and with funds equal to an unrestricted bequest from the estate of Robert Royde Brooks, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nBirch Hill Equity Partners Award\nEstablished in April 2011 by Birch Hill Equity Partners and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce undergraduate degree program in the Smith School of Business. Awarded to students who are the first generation in their families to attend a post-secondary institution. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nBusiness Forecasting Luncheon Award\nEstablished by the Queen's School of Business and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to a student entering the first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program. This award is offered to students graduating from a secondary school within Kingston-Frontenac County.\nJeff and Carolyn Carney Entrance Award\nEstablished in April 2008 by Jeff and Carolyn Carney and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic excellence to full-time students entering first year of the Commerce program at Queen's University. The candidates will have completed their secondary education in a publicly funded high school in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Manitoba. Preference will be given to students who work part-time/or volunteer. Preference will also be given to students with proven leadership qualities and involvement in high school or community activities.\nCochrane Family Admission Bursary\nEstablished in February 2016 by David Cochrane, BCom 2012, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, and evidence of an entrepreneurial spirit to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nFrank Collom Memorial Entrance Bursary\nEstablished in September 2006 by family, friends and colleagues of Professor Frank Collom, a long-time faculty member of Queen's School of Business, and awarded on the basis of financial need to full-time undergraduate students entering the first year Commerce program in Smith School of Business.\nCommerce '48 Entrance Award\nEstablished in January 1999 and revised in October 2015 by Commerce '48 in honour of their 50th Reunion in recognition of the financial assistance provided to members of this Class by others, and also in memory of those who might have become classmates had they not died in World War II. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic excellence to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. The award is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.7 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nCommerce '56 Award\nEstablished in honour of Commerce '56 on the occasion of their 40th reunion. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to students entering the undergraduate Commerce program.\nCommerce 1976 Admission Award\nEstablished in September 2016 by the Class of Commerce 1976 in celebration of their 40th reunion in 2016. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nCommerce 1978 Admission Bursary\nEstablished in June 2018 by the Class of Commerce 1978 in recognition of their 40th reunion in 2018. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be given to students who would be the first generation in their families to attend a post-secondary institution. The bursary is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year in a full course load and financial need remains evident.\nCommerce 1984 Bursary\nEstablished in October 2014 by the Class of Commerce 1984 in celebration of their 30th reunion in 2014. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nEstablished in February 2015 by the Class of Commerce 1985 in celebration of their 30th reunion in 2015. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nCommerce 1987 Award\nEstablished in May 2013 by the Commerce Class of 1987 and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nEstablished in May 2013 and revised in November 2017 by the Class of Commerce 1988 to celebrate their 25th reunion and to honour the memory of their classmates. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nEstablished in May 2014 by the Class of Commerce 1989 leading up to their 25th reunion. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program.\nEstablished in September 2015 by the Class of Commerce 1990 leading up to their 25th reunion. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nCommerce 1992 Entrance Award\nEstablished in May 2007 by the class of Commerce 1992 in celebration of their 15th Reunion in 2007, and awarded on the basis of financial need and involvement in extracurricular or community service to students entering the first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nEstablished in December 2008 by the class of Commerce 1993 in celebration of their 15th reunion, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and involvement in extracurricular or community service, to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nEstablished in October 2002 by Commerce '99 and awarded on the basis of financial need, leadership, and extra-curricular activities to students entering the first year program in the Smith School of Business.\nCommerce 2002 Leadership Entrance Award\nEstablished in April 2008 by the Commerce Class of 2002 and awarded on the basis of financial need, academic excellence, and demonstrated leadership experience to students entering the first year of the Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nEstablished in November 2006 by members of the class of Commerce 2006 and awarded on the basis of financial need to students entering the first year Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nCOMMitment '97 Award\nEstablished as the COMMitment '97 class gift at graduation. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to students entering the undergraduate Commerce program.\nCOMMitment Entrance Award\nEstablished in April 2007 by the graduating Commerce class of 2003 and awarded on the basis of financial need, academic achievement, and extra-curricular involvement to students entering the first year in the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nEdwin C. Connolly Award\nEstablished in February 2006 in honour of Edwin C. Connolly, BCom 1937, by Nora Connolly, B.A. 1982, and Andrew Gross, BCom 1979. Awarded to a student who graduated from an Ottawa secondary school who is entering the first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program. The award will be based on financial need, academic achievement and involvement in extra-curricular activities, particularly sports. The award is renewable in second year provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 (C) is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nThe terms for this award are cross listed with Regional / High School Specific.\nFred Delaney's Last Pro Bono Award\nEstablished in May 2014 in memory of Fred Delaney, BCom 1972, Law 1975. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, and involvement in community activities, to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business, or the J.D. program or the combined J.D. degree program in the Faculty of Law. The award will be granted to students entering the Commerce program in even numbered years and students entering the J.D. program or the combined J.D. degree program in odd-numbered years. Preference will be given in the following order of priority to (i) high school graduates from the County of Leeds Grenville, (ii) high school graduates from the City of Kingston, or Frontenac, Lanark, Lennox and Addington Counties.\nScott & Carolyn Earthy Admission Bursary\nEstablished in December 2013 by Scott Earthy, BCom '97, and Carolyn Earthy and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nIan and Carol Friendly Leadership Entrance Award\nEstablished in April 2008 and revised in October 2015 by Carol and Ian Friendly, B.Com. 1983. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic excellence to students entering the first year in the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be granted in the following order of priority: (i) to students who have demonstrated student leadership experience in their high school and (ii) to students from the City of Ottawa. The award is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.7 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nTed and Adrienne Goldthorpe Admission Award\nEstablished in October 2015 by Ted Goldthorpe, BCom 1999, and Adrienne Goldthorpe, BCom 1999. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic excellence to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be given to students who played more than one sport on a high school team.\nGraham Family Commerce Admission Bursary\nEstablished in March 2018 by Michael Graham, BCom 1989, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce Program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be given in the following order of priority to (i) students from the Muskoka Region of Ontario, (ii) students from the rest of the province of Ontario.\nStephen & Melanie Hoffmeister Admission Award\nEstablished in March 2015 by Stephen Hoffmeister, BCom 1998, and Melanie Hoffmeister and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be given to students from the provinces of Quebec or British Columbia.\nHungerford Family Award\nEstablished in November 2007, and revised in May 2017, by the Hungerford Family, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business under the Aboriginal Admission Policy. If there are no eligible recipients entering the Commerce Program, then the award may be granted to upper year Aboriginal students enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce program. In each case the recipients will be selected in the following order of preference: (a) aboriginal students of the Gwich'in ancestry; (b) to aboriginal students from either Northern Canada (Nunavut, Northwest Territories, Yukon) or Western Canada (British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba); or (c) to aboriginal students from other regions within Canada.\nIk Onkar Award\nEstablished in November 2007 by Ken Grewal, B.Com. 1996, and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to students entering the first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. The award will be granted in the following order of preference: (i) to students who have graduated from North Park Secondary High School in Brampton, Ontario, (ii) to students who have graduated from any high school in Brampton and (iii) to students who have graduated from any high school in Canada. The award will be renewable for three years provided satisfactory academic standing is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nDon and Anna Kennedy Admission Award\nEstablished in October 2015 by Don Kennedy, BCom 1979, and Anna Kennedy, BCom 1979, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nLeadership Award for Community Service\nEstablished in February 2015 by Michael Borden, B.Com. 1980, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and involvement in school or community activities, to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce Program. The award is renewable for 3 subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nBrenda Vince / Dora Lee Memorial Entrance Award\nEstablished in September 2007 by Brenda Vince, B.Com. 1977, in memory of her grandmother, Dora Lee. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to female students and who are entering the first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be given to female students who would be the first generation in their family to attend university.\nMark MacTavish Award\nEstablished in October 2014 by Mark MacTavish, BCom 1997, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce Program in the Smith School of Business.\nMBA '71 Entrance Bursary\nEstablished by the MBA '71 class on the occasion of their 25th reunion in 1996. Awarded on entrance to undergraduate students in the Smith School of Business on the basis of financial need and academic excellence in order for them to fully participate in the program of the School.\nMcIlquham Award\nEstablished in September 2016 by David McIlquham, BCom 1977, and Elaine McIlquham and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and involvement in school or community based service, to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business who are the first generation in their families to attend a post-secondary institution. Preference will be given to Ontario residents whose home address is from outside of the Greater Toronto Area.\nCatherine and Maxwell Meighen Admission Bursary\nEstablished in May 2015 and revised in May 2016 by The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be given to students who are residents of Ontario. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nJohn O'Neil and Family Bursary\nEstablished in November 2014 by John O'Neill and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be given to students who played on a high school or club rugby team.\nPfizer Warner-Lambert Student Technology Bursary\nEstablished by Warner-Lambert, an important partner to Queen's University for a number of years. Awarded on the basis of financial need to students entering the first-year program in the Smith School of Business in order to purchase or lease technology products or software.\nPlumley Family Award in the Smith School of Business\nEstablished by Kent Plumley, B. Sc. (Chem. Eng.) 1960, LL. B. 1963, and Sandra (Macdonald) Plumley, B. A. 1966, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year in the Smith School of Business.\nMichael and Catherine Purcell Admission Bursary\nEstablished in February 2007 and revised in October 2014 by Catherine Purcell, B.Sc. (Hons.) 1978, B.Ed. 1985, M.Ed. 1998, and Michael Purcell, B.Sc. (Eng) 1975, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business or first year of an undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Preference will be given to students who are the first generation in their families to attend a post-secondary institution.\nQueen's '13 Brewers Award\nEstablished in November 2016 by Queen's '13 Brewers and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, proven leadership skills, and involvement in school or community activities, to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. First preference will be given to students with a demonstrated interest in entrepreneurship. Second preference to students from the province of Ontario.\nLisa Saunders Bursary for Commerce Students\nEstablished in March 2014 by Lisa Saunders (Faulkner), BCom'86, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Awarded to Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents with preference given to students in the following order of priority: (a) students from Northern Ontario, (b) students from the rest of the province of Ontario, and (c) students from any other region of Canada.\nSchweitzer Family Bursary\nEstablished in November 2014 by Mark Schweitzer, BCom 1983, and Teresa Schweitzer, BNSc 1985, and awarded to Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents on the basis of demonstrated financial need to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business.\nSt. Thomas Entrance Award\nEstablished in April 2008 by Cyril Goddeeris, B.Com. 2000, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering the first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program at Queen's University. Preference will be given in the following order: 1) graduates from St Joseph's High School in St. Thomas, Ontario; 2) graduates from Thames Valley District School Board; 3) students entering the Commerce program.\nStanimir Family Award\nEstablished in February 2015 and revised in March 2016 by William Stanimir on behalf of the Stanimir family and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, demonstrated leadership and involvement in school or community activities to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. Preference will be given to students from the province of British Columbia.\nStrathaven Indigenous Scholars Award\nEstablished in February 2013 and last revised in September 2017 by a donor who wishes to remain anonymous. Awarded to Indigenous students entering first year of the Bachelor of Commerce degree program in the Smith School of Business on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and contributions to community. Preference will be given to students whose contributions to community have been directed to indigenous initiatives. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided financial need remains evident and the student continues to be registered in a program of study.\nSutton Awards in the Smith School of Business\nEstablished in December 1997 and revised in February 2015 by Gerald D. Sutton, B.Com. 1948, M.Com. 1949, and Margaret (Scally) Sutton, B.A. 1948. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic excellence to students entering the first year of the Bachelor of Commerce program in the Smith School of Business. The awards are renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 3.3 is maintained in a full-time course load in the first year and a minimum GPA of 3.5 is maintained in a full-time course load in subsequent years, and financial need remains evident.\nMary L. Balanchuk Concurrent Education Award\nEstablished in December 2005 by Mary L. Balanchuk, Queen's Professor Emerita (Education), B.A. 1949, BPaed 1959 (Toronto), MEd '61 (Toronto), a graduate of Fort William Collegiate Institute, member of University Council, Senate, and member of the Board of Trustees. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to a student entering the first year of the Concurrent Education program who was a resident of Northern Ontario on admission to Queen's University. Preference is given to a graduate of the Lakehead District School Board. If no eligible entering students then the award may be granted to a student in any year of the Concurrent Education program who was a resident of Northern Ontario on admission to Queen's University.\nRobert M. Disher Entrance Award\nEstablished in January 2001 in honour of Robert M. Disher, B.Sc.(Mining and Metallurgical Eng.) 1921, by the John R. W. Disher Family Trust. Robert Disher is a life-long educator and was the Principal of Ridgeway and Crystal Beach High School. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, and extra-curricular activities to graduates of Ridgeway and Crystal Beach High School (Ridgeway, Ontario) or graduates from high schools in New Brunswick Anglophone South School District who are entering, for the first time, the first year of any undergraduate degree program at Queen's University. Preference will be given to students entering the Concurrent Education program. The award is renewable for an additional three years provided the candidate maintains a minimum GPA of 2.0 (C), and continues to demonstrate financial need and maintain involvement in University life. Applicants will be required to submit a letter of recommendation from either their high school Principal or Guidance Councellor.\nH. Graham Bertram Entrance Award\nEstablished by the H.G. Bertram Foundation in 1996 in memory of H. Graham Bertram, HLL.D. 1948 and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident. Preference will be given to those who received the greater portion of their public and secondary education in the schools of the Town of Dundas or the surrounding area.\nMajor Guy T. M. Bevan Engineering Bursary\nEstablished by Josephine I. Bevan in memory of her husband, Major Guy T. M. Bevan, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nRonald Biggs and Deanna Biggs Entrance Award\nEstablished by Ronald C. Biggs, B.Sc. (Eng) 1961 and Deanna E. Biggs. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement, and demonstrated leadership in extra-curricular activities or community service to students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.7 is maintained each year in a full course load and financial need remains evident.\nJames P. Bradley Entrance Bursary\nEstablished by James P. Bradley, B.Sc.'69, MBA '74, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science who has not received a Queen's University entrance scholarship.\nCamelford & White Memorial Entrance Award in Applied Science\nEstablished January 2003 in memory of their fathers, James Camelford (B. Sc. 1933), a chemical engineer and inventor, and Donald K. White (B. Sc. 1946), an electrical engineer with a love of learning, by James (B. A. 1977) and Jennifer (B. A. 1974, MBA 1978) Camelford. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to students entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Preference will be given to students who have won their regional high school science fair.\nMaurice G. Corbett Entrance Bursary in Applied Science\nEstablished in April 2004 in honour of Maurice G. Corbett, B. Sc. '61, MBA '66, by Bloom Investment Counsel, Inc. on the occasion of Mr. Corbett's retirement. Awarded on the basis of financial need to undergraduate students entering the first year of studies in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nG.E. Ted Courtnage Entrance Bursary\nEstablished in October 2006 by Dorothy Courtnage in memory of her husband G.E. Ted Courtnage, B.Sc. 1956, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year undergraduate program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nDonald R. Dorrance Entrance Award\nEstablished in January 2001 by Robert Dorrance, B. Sc. 1974 and Gail Drummond in honour of Donald R., B. Sc. (Eng) 1946, father of Robert Dorrance and Thomas Dorrance, B. Com. 1973, and husband of Stella Dorrance. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The awards are open to Canadian citizens or permanent residents from Ontario or Quebec.\nEnbridge Bursary in Engineering and Applied Science\nEstablished in May 2014 and revised in January 2017 by Enbridge Pipelines Inc. and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need to Aboriginal students entering first year of any first entry undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Preference will be given to given to Aboriginal students from the following First Nations communities: Aamjiwnaang, Alderville First Nation, Chippewas of Kettle and Stony Point, Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, Hiawatha First Nation, Mississaugas of the Credit, Mississauga's of Scugog Island First Nation, Mohawks of Akwesasne, Mohawks of Kahnawa:ke, Mohawks of Kanesatake, Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte, Moravian of the Thames, Munsee-Delaware Nation, Onieda Nation of the Thames, Six Nations of the Grand River, and Walpole Island.\nMichael Farrar Memorial Entrance Award\nEstablished in March 2008 by Ivana A Farrar in memory of her husband Michael Farrar, B.Sc. (Mech. Eng.) 1961, and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to a student entering the first year in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nSteve and Irene Grouch Awards\nThomas J. Harris Entrance Bursary in Applied Science\nEstablished in September 2007 by the Engineering Society, alumni, students and friends to honour Thomas J. Harris who served as Dean of Applied Science at Queen's University from 1996 to 2007. Awarded on the basis of financial need to students entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nLeo and Mary Kenny Memorial Award in Applied Science\nEstablished in October 2004 by Peter Kenny, B.Sc. '55 in memory of his parents, and awarded on the basis of financial need, academic achievement, and demonstrated leadership qualities to students entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, with preference given to students who were residents of Perth or Halton County on admission to Queen's University. If, in any given year, there are no eligible candidates entering the first year program, the award may be granted to students in any year in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, who were residents of Perth or Halton County on admission to Queen's University. If no candidate meets either of the above stated criteria, the award will be granted to a student in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, with preference given to a first year student.\nPeter & Joanne Kenny Award in Applied Science\nEstablished in December 2002 by Peter Kenny, B.Sc. '55, and his wife, Joanne and awarded on the basis of financial need, academic achievement, and demonstrated leadership qualities to students entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, with preference given to students who were residents of Perth or Halton County on admission to Queen's University. If, in any given year, there are no eligible candidates entering the first year program, the award may be granted to students in any year in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, who were residents of Perth or Halton County on admission to Queen's University. If no candidate meets either of the above stated criteria, the award will be granted to a student in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, with preference given to a first year student.\nBrad J. Lamb Condominium Award\nEstablished in October 2012 and revised in March 2014 by Brad J. Lamb, B.Sc. (Mechanical Engineering) 1984, and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students who are Canadian Citizens or Permanent Residents entering the first-year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. First preference will be given to black students from the Greater Toronto Area and second preference will be given to black students from any other region in Canada. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained each year and financial need remains evident.\nWilliam G. Lynn Entrance Bursary in Applied Science\nEstablished in May 2007 by family and colleagues in memory of William G. Lynn, founder of the Continental Conveyor companies in Napanee, Ontario and Thetford Mines, Quebec and a proud supporter of Canadian engineering and business education. Awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nArthur and James McLaren Memorial Entrance Award\nEstablished in March 2001 by Thomas McLaren, B. Com. 1949, in March 2001, in memory of his father, Arthur McLaren, B. Sc. Civil Eng. 1911, and his brother, James McLaren, B. Sc. Mining Eng. 1939. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to student entering the first-year engineering program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nAlbert H. Ruddell Award\nEstablished by Albert H. Ruddell, B. Sc. 1952 (Mechanical Engineering), and awarded to a student entering the first year of Applied Science on the basis of financial need and academic excellence. The award is renewable for three further years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 (C) is maintained and financial need remains evident.\nScience '28 Bursary\nEstablished from the estate of Elizabeth Bauld in recognition of A.W. McNeil, W.S. Miller, R.H. Bissell and W.E. Wright, all Applied Science graduates of Queen's, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nScience '41 Entrance Bursary\nEstablished in 1996 to honour the members of the class of Science '41 and to recognize their contributions to engineering at Queen's. Awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nScience '44 Entrance Bursary in Applied Science\nEstablished by members of Science '44 in memory of Clyde Lendrum, Sc. '44, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nScience 1946 Memorial Entrance Award in Applied Science\nEstablished by the alumni of the Class of Science 1946 and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nEstablished by the class of Science '47 and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first-year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nScience '48 George A. Jewett Entrance Bursary\nEstablished by the class of Science '48 in honour of George A. Jewett to recognize his many years of service to Science '48. Awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nEstablished in November 2000 by the class of Science 1950 and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nEstablished by the class of Science '51 and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nScience 1959 Admission Award\nEstablished in October 1999 by the alumni of the Class of Science 1959 and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic excellence, proven leadership skills, and involvement in school or community activities to students entering the first-year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a satisfactory academic average is maintained each year, financial heed remains evident, and involvement in school or community activities is sustained.\nEstablished by the Class of Science 1961 and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first-year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nScience '65 Entrance Award\nEstablished in October 2002 by the Class of Science '65 and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to a student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nEstablished by the Class of Science '68 and awarded on the basis of financial need to student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nAlbert John Smith Award\nEstablished in May 2015 by Estate of Albert John Smith and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic excellence to a student entering first year of an undergraduate degree program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Queen's University. The award is renewable for 1 subsequent year provided a minimum GPA of 2.7 is maintained in a full course load and financial need remains evident.\nRaleigh Smith Award in Applied Science\nEstablished by Raleigh Smith, retired Clerk of the Ontario Ministry of Health, and awarded to a student entering the first year of a program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science on the basis of financial need and academic merit. Renewable for the following three years provided a minimum GPA of 2.0 (C) is maintained and financial need remains evident.\nTrisha Louise Smith Memorial Bursary in Applied Science\nEstablished by Queen's engineering alumni and family and friends in memory of Trisha Louise Smith, Science '00, who died on October 19, 1996 following a tragic accident at her high school commencement. Awarded by the Dean on the basis of academic standing, community service, athletic ability and financial need to the student entering the first year program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science who best exemplifies Trisha's personal attributes and spirit. The recipient must have a minimum grade average of 80% or equivalent.\nKenneth J. Southern Bursary\nEstablished by Norman J. Southern, B.Sc'39 (Mining Engineering), in memory of his brother Kenneth J. Southern, B.Sc'34 (Mechanical Engineering). Awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Preference will be given to a student from Thunder Bay, Ontario. The bursary is renewable for 3 more years, provided that a minimum GPA of 2.0 is maintained and that financial need remains evident.\nMary Ruth Uffen Entrance Award in Applied Science\nEstablished in memory of Mary Ruth Uffen by her husband, Robert J. Uffen, former Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. Awarded by the Dean of Applied Science on the basis of financial need, to a female student entering the first year of the Applied Science program.\nIan and Estelle Vessie Bursaries\nEstablished by Ian, B.Sc. 1938, and Estelle Vessie. Awarded to students entering the first year program in the Faculty of Applied Science on the basis of financial need. Preference will be given to students from Brockville, Ottawa, and the surrounding regions.\nDavid G. Vice Entrance Award\nEstablished in January 2010 by David G. Vice, B.Sc. 1955, D.Sc. 1993. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering the first year first entry undergraduate program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a GPA of 2.0 is maintained in the first year and a GPA of 2.7 is maintained in subsequent years in a full course load, and financial need remains evident.\nWasmund Family Aboriginal Scholars Award\nEstablished in February 2011, the Wasmund Family Aboriginal Scholars Award is awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic achievement and demonstrated initiative to Aboriginal students entering first year in any first entry undergraduate degree program with preference to Aboriginal students entering first year of a first entry program in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided financial need remains evident and the student continues to be registered in a program of study. If no first-year Aboriginal student qualifies then the award may be granted on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to an incoming Aboriginal student transferring, as an upper-year student, into the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.\nWilliam and Patricia Sheets Memorial Entrance Bursary\nEstablished in January 2008 by the estate of William and Patricia Sheets and awarded on the basis of financial need to students entering the first year in the Faculty of Arts and Science, with preference given to students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts program.\nElliott/Galasso Entrance Award\nEstablished in March 2002 by Janet E. (Elliott) Galasso, B. A. '59, BPHE '60 and Dr. Pasquale (Pat) J. Galasso, B. A./BPHE '55, Ph.D., in honour of their parents, Alexine S. (Lefebvre) Elliott and Carman D. Elliott, and Carolina (Aglialoro) Galasso and Costantino Galasso, who dreamed of and sacrificed for a higher education for their children. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic excellence, and community service to full-time students entering the first year of the Bachelor of Physical and Health Education program or the Bachelor of Science (Honours) Kinesiology program in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.\nPlumley Family Award in Physical and Health Education\nEstablished by Kent Plumley, B. Sc. (Chem. Eng.) 1960, LL. B. 1963, and Sandra (Macdonald) Plumley, B. A. 1966, and awarded on the basis of financial need to a student entering the first year of a Physical and Health Education program.\nPeter and Carol Davy Entrance Award in Voice\nEstablished by Peter and Carol Davy, music lovers and supporters of music at Queen's University. Awarded on the basis of financial need and academic achievement to a student entering the first year of the Bachelor of Music program, with preference to a student whose applied area of study is voice.\nMichael & Betty Dicketts Award in Music\nEstablished in February 2015 by Michael and Betty Dicketts and awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need and academic achievement to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Music program or combined Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Education program.\nHeather Hamlin Entrance Award in Music\nEstablished by the Hamlin family of Mississauga, Ontario, in memory of Heather Hamlin, generous supporters of the arts and lifelong lovers of music. Five awards to be given on the recommendation of the Dan School of Drama and Music, with preference given to students entering the first year of the Bachelor of Music program on the basis of financial need, academic merit, and musical accomplishment.\nIrving and Regina Rosen Award in Music\nEstablished by Irving and Regina Rosen, music lovers and patrons of the arts in Kingston. Awarded on the recommendation of the Dan School of Drama and Music, with preference given to a student entering the first year of the Bachelor of Music program on the basis of financial need and overall academic accomplishment.\nGault-Eastley Award\nEstablished by J. M. Waddell, Meds.'38, and family in memory of Evelyn Gault and Evelyn Eastley and awarded in the following order on the basis of academic excellence and financial need: (1) to a student entering the School of Nursing from Edmonton, Northern Alberta, Regina, or Southern Saskatchewan; (2) an upper-year Nursing student from Alberta or Saskatchewan; or (3) any first-year Nursing student.\nQueen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Award\nEstablished by Major-General John W. B. Barr, CMM, KStJ, CD, QHP, MD, CM'40, Meds'40, in acknowledgement of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother's longstanding contribution to the medical and nursing care of Canadian service personnel as Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp. and, later, of the Canadian Forces Medical Service. Awarded to students entering the first year of the Bachelor of Nursing Science program in the Faculty of Health Sciences on the basis of financial need and academic achievement, as well as either employment as nursing assistants or proven involvement in extracurricular activities such as volunteer work for humanitarian causes.\nSchool of Nursing Entrance Award\nEstablished by the School of Nursing and awarded to a student entering the first year in the School of Nursing on the basis of financial need and academic excellence. Applications are to be made to the Office of the University Registrar, Student Awards by 15 February.\nMargaret K. Stevens Entrance Award\nEstablished by Mrs. Margaret K. Stevens Keyser, B.N.Sc. 1947, and is awarded on the basis of financial need and academic excellence to a student entering the first year program in the School of Nursing.\nJames Walker Wood Award in Nursing\nEstablished in May 2015 by The Walker Wood Foundation in memory of Dr. James Walker Wood. Awarded on the basis of demonstrated financial need, academic excellence, proven leadership skills, and involvement in school or community activities to students entering first year of the Bachelor of Nursing Science program in the Faculty of Health Sciences. The award is renewable for three subsequent years provided a minimum GPA of 3.0 is maintained in the first year, a minimum GPA of 3.5 is maintained in subsequent years and financial need remains evident.\nJeff Beck Entrance Athletic Bursary\nEstablished in May 2007 by Jeff Beck, B.Sc.(Eng) 1980, and awarded on the basis of academic achievement and athletic excellence to first-year students enrolled full-time in any first entry undergraduate degree program and who are on the competition roster of the Men's or Women's Varsity hockey team. The award will be administered in compliance with all U SPORTS and OUA regulations.\nStudents in the BISC-First-Year Program at Herstmonceux\nKathleen Ryan First Year Program Award\nAwarded to Queen's University students who participate in the First Year Study Program at the Bader International Study Centre. The award is based on financial need, excellent academic ability, and involvement in high school and/or community activities. Ten awards are available.\nBISC International Award\nEstablished by Queen's University and awarded on the basis of financial need and academic merit to Queen's students studying at the Bader International Study Centre. For Queen's students enrolled in the Bader International Study Centre - First-Year Program.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 549, "original_length": 87085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 192.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.questia.com/library/86076191/war-and-society-in-the-seventeenth-century", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:51Z", "digest": "sha1:UPQWKLKDRMLQJDINDS4WZVC2FN7MNG4U", "length": 3905, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.questia.com", "title": "War and Society in the Seventeenth Century by George Clark, 1958 | Online Research Library: Questia", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Browse \u00bb Books \u00bb Book details, War and Society in the Seventeenth Century\nBy George Clark\nThe first four lectures in this volume are the Wiles Lectures delivered in the Queen's University of Belfast in October 1956. To the Trustees of this foundation I owe deep gratitude, not only for the opportunity of giving the lectures, but for much kindness and hospitality during my visit. That I found the occasion not only enjoyable but impressive was due to the founder of the Trust, Mrs Austin Boyd, to Sir Eric Ashby, Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University, and to Professor Michael Roberts, its Professor of Modern History. The last lecture was honoured by the presence of the Governor of Northern Ireland, Lord Wakehurst.\nIn accordance with the terms of the Trust a number of scholars were invited to the lectures and took part in discussions which followed them. Besides the members of the University History Department and other members of the University staff, there were nine visitors, Professor T. W. Moody, of Trinity College, Dublin; Professor J. Lough of Durham; Professor F. J. Fisher, of the London School of Economics; Dr G. A. Hayes-McCoy, of the National Museum, Dublin; Mr S. H. F. Johnston, of University College, Aberystwyth; Dr F. L. Carsten, of Westfield College; Mr John Ehrman; Mr Peter Laslett, of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Mr H. F. Kearney, of University College, Dublin. The discussions were lively and general; I hope the participants will recognize from the printed text how much I learnt from them, and I must record my sincere thanks.\nChapter I - War as an Institution 1\nChapter II - The Analogy of the Duel 29\nChapter III - War as a Collision of Societies 52\nChapter IV - War and the European Community 76\nChapter V - The Barbary Corsairs in the Seventeenth Century 105\nChapter VI - The Cycle of War and Peace in Modern History 130\nWhen Men Lost Faith in Reason: Reflections on War and Society in the Twentieth Century By H. P. Willmott Praeger, 2002\nWalking in the Way of Peace: Quaker Pacifism in the Seventeenth Century By Meredith Baldwin Weddle Oxford University Press, 2000\nAdapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake By James Horn University of North Carolina Press, 1994\nGlobal Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century By Baylor, Michael G. The Historian, Vol. 77, No. 3, Fall 2015\nWhat's in a Name? the Death of the English Civil War: Martyn Bennett Examines How the Terminology We Use about the Great Conflict of the Mid-Seventeenth Century Reflects and Reinforces the Interpretations We Make. (Talking Points) By Bennett, Martyn History Review, March 2003\nBeyond the Military Revolution: War in the Seventeenth-Century World By Hernandez, Prisco R. Military Review, Vol. 92, No. 4, July-August 2012\nFreedom of Speech in Seventeenth-Century Thought By Levy, Leonard W. The Antioch Review, Vol. 57, No. 2, Spring 1999\nA Performer's Guide to Seventeenth-Century Music By Sennet, Rochelle American Music Teacher, Vol. 62, No. 3, December 2012\nEurope Meets China-China Meets Europe: The Beginnings of European-Chinese Scientific Exchange in the Seventeenth Century By Chatterton, Jocelyn International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 39, No. 4, October 2015\nSouthwest's Missions Struggle to Fend off Art Thieves ; Seventeenth-Century Statues Are Disappearing, and along with Them, Pieces of Cultural History By Scott Baldauf, writer of The Christian Science Monitor The Christian Science Monitor, September 20, 2000\nA Peep Show of Post-War Society By Nicholson, Virginia The Evening Standard (London, England), October 22, 2009\nWar Society Founder Who Had a 'Heart of Gold' Dies Aged 82 By Stacey, Alison Birmingham Evening Mail (England), May 6, 2014\nFREE! Restoration (in English history) The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2018\nFREE! costume The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 8432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rabbitohs.com.au/news/2016/06/24/your-reactions-half-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:15Z", "digest": "sha1:LPVH22WJNUD4CNBVJY26REK5KAXBZILO", "length": 151, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.rabbitohs.com.au", "title": "Your Reactions: Half Time - Rabbitohs", "raw_content": "Your Reactions: Half Time\nThe first half of our clash with the Penrith Panthers at Pepper Stadium has come to an end. Here's what you've been saying...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/360715/nz-hawaii-and-rapa-nui-admitted-to-polynesian-leaders-group", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:31Z", "digest": "sha1:XA7ZCX7ESKWGU2VK4GTHBKTGCGLQCYGV", "length": 2168, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.radionz.co.nz", "title": "NZ, Hawaii and Rapa Nui admitted to Polynesian Leaders Group | RNZ News", "raw_content": "Pacific Hawaii\nNZ, Hawaii and Rapa Nui admitted to Polynesian Leaders Group\nNew Zealand, Hawaii and Rapa Nui, or Easter Island, have been admitted as members of the Polynesian Leaders Group.\nPolynesian Leaders Group summit in Tuvalu, 28 June 2018. Photo: Tuvalu Government Media\nThe three add to the group's existing nine members: Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands, Niue, American Samoa, French Polynesia, Tokelau and Wallis and Futuna.\nThe decision was made yesterday at the 8th Polynesian Leaders' Group summit in Tuvalu.\nAccording to the Group's chairman, Tuvalu's prime minister Enele Sosene Sopoaga, there was strong support for adding more Polynesian countries and communities to the fold.\nHe said it was important for all Polynesian peoples to come together because they face common issues which require a collective response.\nThe group, which was established in 2011, consists of independent or self-governing countries or territories within the geographical region of Polynesia.\n\"There is a strong consensus that we should welcome our brothers Hawaii, Rapanui and Maori as members of the Polynesian Leaders' Group,\" Mr Sopaga said.\n\"In accordance with the MOU which we signed, we welcome other Polynesian communities in other places and locations to join the PLG as brothers.\"\nRepresentatives of all the group's members attended this summit except for the Cook Islands, and French Polynesia.\nThe leaders will meet again at the Forum Leaders' Meeting in Nauru in August, and the next Group summit is scheduled to be in Pagopago, American Samoa.\nNew Zealandf\nPacific territories discuss at UN decolonisation committee\nThree Pacific territories have been discussed at the latest meeting of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation.\nPolynesian nations to consider membership\nThis week's meeting of the Polynesian Leaders Group in Tuvalu is to consider membership applications from New Zealand, Hawai'i and Rapanui.\nPolynesia Leaders Group now biggest within Forum\nSamoa's Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi says the entry of Wallis and Futuna in the Polynesian Leaders Group makes it the largest sub-group in the Pacific Islands Forum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 4781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.raisingrealmen.com/2016/03/young-messiah-not-for-his-young-followers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5N5F553QXY3GATAD7IDZVGLWKXFS454B", "length": 6901, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.raisingrealmen.com", "title": "Raising Real Men \u00bb \u00bb Young Messiah: Not for His Young Followers!", "raw_content": "Young Messiah: Not for His Young Followers!\nPosted by Hal and Melanie Young in Book and Product Reviews, Film Reviews, Filmmaking\nA movie based on the life of Jesus as a child? Sounds like a fun, sweet family outing for the Easter season, especially since reviews say the movie represents Jesus as the virgin-born Son of God. Our friends, Steve and Jane Lambert of Five in a Row, though, saw it last night and came away very concerned that it was inappropriate for young children. We asked them to share with you:\nYoung Messiah\u2019s theme centers around the struggles of Mary and Joseph in knowing how to explain to Jesus that he was God. That\u2019s the story in a nutshell and it DOES present some interesting opportunities for imaginative supposition: Sort of mental chewing gum. The acting, costumes and cinematography are in a vastly different class from most contemporary \u201cChristian movies\u201d if I may use that term. But the wild conjectures about Jesus raising the dead and performing many other miracles as a child along with the graphic attempts to show the violence of Roman occupation via dozens of crucifixions begins to wear thin rather quickly.\nWhere the movie takes a decidedly darker, non-family-friendly turn is with the depictions of King Herod Antipas and his court, along with the creepy/disturbing interactions with Lucifer. While it\u2019s probably impossible to overstate either of those themes (Lucifer IS creepy/disturbing and Antipas was a perverted maniac) the depictions will cause most children and many adults nightmares. The court of Herod Antipas is repeatedly and graphically portrayed as a perverted, satanic, insane asylum with grotesque creatures surrounding a sadistic, sexually-obsessed emperor. Meanwhile, Lucifer repeatedly interacts with the movie\u2019s characters in a way that may well haunt children\u2019s dreams for years. Reminiscent of a Stanley Kubrick film at times, the attempts to depict depravity and evil move far beyond \u201cfamily fare\u201d and border on bizarro-porn.\nAs adults, some might be able to watch the film and while it will be disturbing, it may provide the basis for some interesting and thoughtful discussions about what could have happened during the 30 years of Jesus\u2019 life that is largely undocumented. But my concern is that many will assume this would make a great \u201cfamily\u201d experience during the Easter season. NOTHING could be further from the truth.\nJane and I kept nudging one another throughout the movie as each disturbing scene unfolded and each grand-leap of Biblical truth was portrayed until the final credits rolled. When it was revealed that the screenplay was based on a novel by gothic/horror/erotica-porn author Anne Rice we gasped simultaneously! Suddenly it ALL made sense. What COULD HAVE BEEN a thought provoking film about Jesus\u2019 childhood came off as a mash-up of \u201cJesus of Nazareth\u201d with \u201cInterview With a Vampire\u201d and \u201cClockwork Orange\u201d.\nI was VERY excited to see it based on the previews, but came away concerned for any children that might be exposed to the movie by unsuspecting parents.\nNot recommended for children and young teens.\nPublisher, Five in a Row\nYoung Messiah photos courtesy of Focus Features.\nSteve Lambert photo courtesy of Steve Lambert\n7 responses to \u201cYoung Messiah: Not for His Young Followers!\u201d\nI STRONGLY recommend people should see this BEFORE they take your children\u2026..if at all!\nI saw a preview of this movie in October and was so disappointed. I really wanted my kids to find a way to make a connection with Jesus as a boy, but the entire audience (about 500 people) and I left feeling dejected. You could have heard a pin drop as we all shuffled out of the auditorium.\nMy kids won\u2019t be seeing it.\nThe company that put this out has made some great movies like God is Dead parts 1 and 2, but they really missed the mark on this one.\nI have not seen the movie. However, I have read the book by Anne Rice and I do not remember most of what you described as disturbing in the movie. Ms Rice did not mention the court of Herod Antipas in her book, except in passing. So, if you want a thought provoking story of Jesus childhood, read the book and skip the movie!\nI agree\u2026it was a definite let down for my sister in law and myself. I hope the next one of the little girl that experiences her healing miracle is better and worthwhile seeing.\nRead the book then see the movie. I would recommend this movie to a mature believer of Christ. You have to believe that he was human AND God before viewing or you would be confused since it covers a childhood.\nIf it\u2019s not in scripture and it will disrupt true understanding of who Jesus is & his purpose while he was on earth then don\u2019t watch, don\u2019t support, don\u2019t share. If God wanted us to know what Jesus life was like through his childhood he\u2019d include that in scripture. Also, you can get a message across to others that a person lived a very \u201cdebased\u201d lifestyle while subjecting others to take part in that lifestyle by watching it. This film could very well influence & entice people into thoughts God would desire us to avoid. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable\u2014if anything is excellent or praiseworthy\u2014think about such things.Philippians 4:8\nI totally agree with Nicole! I also believe that if God wanted us to know something he would have included it in the bible. Please don\u2019t expose yourself to these strange movies. Even if you are a mature Christian as one person stated.\nI had a different experience than it seems many had here, and as with most things in our world, how you guide your children through it is what is critically important. I found the movie to be incredibly well done and moving\u2026 and while it completely acknowledges it is fiction, I found nothing contrary to the Christian Faith. What is important as well, is the film\u2019s appeal is not for already devout Christians, but for a more secularized audience who may perhaps give Christ and Salvation History another look. We brought our four (homeschooled) children, ages 8-12 to this. While my son (not surprisingly) found it too-slow (aka \u201cboring\u201d) my other 3 liked it\u2026 and we\u2019ve had no problems with nightmares or the sort. We have discussed the film and its implications, and will continue to do so I am sure. That being said, I would suggest in general not under 13\u2026 and even in that, based off of the personal disposition of your child(ren). As for Anne Rice\u2026 well, first off, while the movie is *inspired* by her book, the film does not adhere closely to it. Secondly, Ms. Rice\u2026 despite her shortcomings, is a child of God, did have a profound conversion (even if there have been backslips) and her writing of this \u201cChrist the Lord\u201d series is her attempt to use her gifting for the Kingdom, so we need to be careful and err on the side of charity when addressing this and/or her.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 9976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ranchosantafereview.com/lifestyle/sd-cm-rsf-historical-society-20161123-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:54Z", "digest": "sha1:UTL3XXSWNEIAB2M3UMGZX4Q23SWKX2QW", "length": 1030, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ranchosantafereview.com", "title": "Rancho Santa Fe families encouraged to bring holiday tree ornaments to Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society - Rancho Santa Fe Review", "raw_content": "Rancho Santa Fe families encouraged to bring holiday tree ornaments to Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society\nThe Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society is inviting children from every RSF family to donate one special and meaningful ornament to decorate the RSF Historical Society\u2019s Holiday tree. It should display your family name, and the year your family moved to Rancho Santa Fe. This will give the RSF Historical Society a point in your history to share with friends and neighbors when they visit the Historical Society at La Flecha House.\nYou will be able to hang your family ornament on the RSF Historical Society\u2019s Holiday tree from Dec. 1 through Jan. 4, 2017. Bring it to La Flecha House during office hours, Tuesday through Friday, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The RSF Historical Society is located on the corner of Via de Santa Fe and La Flecha (6036 La Flecha, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92067). Please come as soon as you can so it can be enjoyed during the whole season.\nCall 858-756-9291 if you have any questions. Visit www.rsfhs.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 231.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rapreup.com/2018/07/23/kenzie-tarantino-what-its-gone-be/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:21Z", "digest": "sha1:RSUDHSE2HKSBWOL4F6NEMLJX6LUNTVWR", "length": 379, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rapreup.com", "title": "Kenzie Tarantino \u2013 \u201cWhat It\u2019s Gone Be\u201d \u2013 RapReup.com", "raw_content": "Kenzie Tarantino \u2013 \u201cWhat It\u2019s Gone Be\u201d\nAtlanta\u2019s Kenzie Tarantino is preparing for a takeover. The artist delivers a banging new record titled \u201cWhat It\u2019s Gone Be\u201d produced by ADV of Bando Beatz. If the production doesn\u2019t knock you out, he comes through punching with the lyrics. This is the first single off his forthcoming EP, Red Daze.\nTags: Kenzie Tarantino, What It's Gone Be", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rcsb.org/structure/1AKE", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6KC564MPFQFCGRPCDXYSO4FJXF63MOWT", "length": 2541, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.rcsb.org", "title": "RCSB PDB - 1AKE: STRUCTURE OF THE COMPLEX BETWEEN ADENYLATE KINASE FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI AND THE INHIBITOR AP5A REFINED AT 1.9 ANGSTROMS RESOLUTION: A MODEL FOR A CATALYTIC TRANSITION STATE", "raw_content": "1AKE\nSTRUCTURE OF THE COMPLEX BETWEEN ADENYLATE KINASE FROM ESCHERICHIA COLI AND THE INHIBITOR AP5A REFINED AT 1.9 ANGSTROMS RESOLUTION: A MODEL FOR A CATALYTIC TRANSITION STATE\nDOI: 10.2210/pdb1AKE/pdb\nClassification: TRANSFERASE(PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE)\nDeposition Author(s): Mueller, C.W., Schulz, G.E.\nStructure of the complex between adenylate kinase from Escherichia coli and the inhibitor Ap5A refined at 1.9 A resolution. A model for a catalytic transition state.\nMuller, C.W., Schulz, G.E.\nThe structure of adenylate kinase from Escherichia coli ligated with the two-substrate-mimicking inhibitor P1,P5-bis(adenosine-5'-)pentaphosphate has been determined by X-ray diffraction and refined to a resolution of 1.9 A. The asymmetric unit of th ...\nThe structure of adenylate kinase from Escherichia coli ligated with the two-substrate-mimicking inhibitor P1,P5-bis(adenosine-5'-)pentaphosphate has been determined by X-ray diffraction and refined to a resolution of 1.9 A. The asymmetric unit of the crystals contains two copies of the complex, the structures of which agree well with each other. One of these copies is less well ordered in the crystals than the other, it shows generally higher temperature factors. The molecular packing in the crystals is discussed and correlated to crystal habit and anisotropic X-ray diffraction. The bound inhibitor simulates well the binding of substrates ATP and AMP, which are clearly assigned. The alpha-phosphate of AMP is well positioned for a nucleophilic attack on the gamma-phosphate of ATP. The observed structure readily allows the construction of a stabilized pentaco-ordinated transition state, as proposed for the known in-line mechanism of the enzyme, with nucleophile and leaving group in the apical positions of a trigonal bipyramid. The kinetic data of numerous mutations reported in the literature are correlated with the detailed structure of the enzyme. The mutants were classified. The concomitant increase of the Michaelis constants for ATP and AMP in the group of mutants that modify only the ATP-binding site cannot be explained.\nStructure of the Complex of Adenylate Kinase from Escherichia Coli with the Inhibitor P1, P5-Bis (Adenosine-5'-) Pentaphosphate\nMueller, C.W.,Schulz, G.E.\nInduced-Fit Movements in Adenylate Kinases\nSchulz, G.E.,Mueller, C.W.,Diederichs, K.\nInstitut f\u00fcr Organische Chemie und Biochemie der Universit\u00e4t, Freiburg, Germany.\nGene Names: adk (dnaW, plsA)\nQuery on AP5\nBIS(ADENOSINE)-5'-PENTAPHOSPHATE\nOIMACDRJUANHTJ-XPWFQUROSA-N\nSpace Group: P 21 2 21", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 7951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rcsb.org/structure/3K4F", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ESFZSDSKG2WZUOTVTJFKIPXISGCX5XPO", "length": 2609, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.rcsb.org", "title": "RCSB PDB - 3K4F: X-Ray Crystal Structure of Human Heme Oxygenase-1 in Complex with 4-Phenyl-1-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-2-butanone", "raw_content": "X-Ray Crystal Structure of Human Heme Oxygenase-1 in Complex with 4-Phenyl-1-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-2-butanone\nDOI: 10.2210/pdb3K4F/pdb\nDeposition Author(s): Rahman, M.N., Jia, Z.\nHeme Oxygenase Inhibition by 2-Oxy-substituted 1-Azolyl-4-phenylbutanes: Effect of Variation of the Azole Moiety. X-Ray Crystal Structure of Human Heme Oxygenase-1 in Complex with 4-Phenyl-1-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-2-butanone.\nRoman, G., Rahman, M.N., Vukomanovic, D., Jia, Z., Nakatsu, K., Szarek, W.A.\n(2010) Chem.Biol.Drug Des. 75: 68-90\nA series of 1-azolyl-4-phenyl-2-butanones was designed and synthesized for the inhibition of heme oxygenases (heme oxygenase-1 and heme oxygenase-2). The replacement of imidazole by other azoles led to the discovery of novel 1H-1,2,4-triazole- and 1H ...\nA series of 1-azolyl-4-phenyl-2-butanones was designed and synthesized for the inhibition of heme oxygenases (heme oxygenase-1 and heme oxygenase-2). The replacement of imidazole by other azoles led to the discovery of novel 1H-1,2,4-triazole- and 1H-tetrazole-based inhibitors equipotent to a lead imidazole-based inhibitor. The inhibitors featuring 2H-tetrazole or 1H-1,2,3-triazole as the pharmacophore were less potent. Monosubstitution at position 2 or 4(5), or identical disubstitution at positions 4 and 5 of imidazole by a variety of electron-withdrawing or electron-donating, small or bulky groups, as well as the replacement of the traditional imidazole pharmacophore by an array of 3- or 5-substituted triazoles, identically 3,5-disubstituted triazoles, 5-substituted-1H- and 5-substituted-2H-tetrazoles proved to be detrimental to the inhibition of HO, with a few exceptions. The azole-dioxolanes and the azole-alcohols derived from the active azole-ketones were synthesized also, but these inhibitors were less active than the corresponding imidazole-based analogs. The first reported X-ray crystal structure of human heme oxygenase-1 in complex with a 1,2,4-triazole-based inhibitor, namely 4-phenyl-1-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-2-butanone, was also determined. The inhibitor binds to the human heme oxygenase-1 distal pocket through the coordination of heme iron by the N4 in the triazole moiety, whereas the phenyl group is stabilized by hydrophobic interactions from residues within the binding pocket.\nDepartment of Chemistry, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.\nGene Names: HMOX1 (HO, HO1)\nGo to Gene View: HMOX1\nQuery on HEZ\nHEXANE-1,6-DIOL\nXXMIOPMDWAUFGU-UHFFFAOYSA-N\nQuery on Q86\n4-phenyl-1-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)butan-2-one\n4-Phenyl-1-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)-2-butanone\nWVMHBWUDAPTOQF-UHFFFAOYSA-N", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 8339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.recruitment-international.co.uk/blog/2018/01/7-tips-for-promoting-a-healthy-lifestyle-to-your-employees", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:CNVHA6ILKXQPOTJXFC7OQLY7KWWHIDFC", "length": 5617, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.recruitment-international.co.uk", "title": "7 tips for promoting a healthy lifestyle to your employees - Recruitment In", "raw_content": "7 tips for promoting a healthy lifestyle to your employees\nLee Biggins, founder and managing director of CV-Library\nJanuary marked National Obesity Awareness Week, encouraging people across the nation to adopt a healthier lifestyle. It\u2019s certainly a fitting time, as many individuals make plans to kick-start the New Year with new fitness and diet goals. That said, recent data from CV-Library revealed that professionals are struggling to stay fit and eat healthy, with many admitting that their job plays a large part in this.\nWe all know the importance of healthy eating and regular exercise and thankfully, there are many ways in which businesses can help their staff to make healthier choices. Below I will outline seven tips for promoting a healthy lifestyle in your organisation and explain how this can benefit your business and employees.\n1. Workplace perks\nDespite experts recommending that we exercise three to five times a week, a third (31.6%) of UK professionals revealed that they only exercise once or twice. What\u2019s more, one in four (24%) confessed that they don\u2019t exercise at all! This is surprising given that 81.5% agree that regular exercise helps them to stay focused at work.\nIt is therefore in the interest of businesses to promote regular exercise to employees. How can this be done? A simple but effective way is to offer workplace perks such as discounted memberships for local gyms. After all, forking out for a gym membership can be enough to put someone off signing up! If your business is big enough, why not even consider offering your own gym facilities on site for staff to use.\n2. Promote health schemes\nAnother great way to encourage employees to be more active is through incentivised programmes. These could be cycle or walk to work schemes, which reward staff for taking a different route to work. Of course, this is harder for those who live further away, but it could be that they get off their bus a few stops earlier to walk the rest of the way.\nThis is also a helpful idea if your business is limited on parking space, as it encourages more employees to leave their cars at home!\n3. Encourage work-life balance\nA good work-life balance is not only important for our mental wellbeing, enabling us to re-charge away from work, but it is also important for our physical wellbeing. In fact, two thirds of professionals (66.7%) admit that they sometimes have to skip their workout, because they\u2019ve had to stay late at the office.\nPromoting a healthy balance can encourage your employees to set aside more time to take care of themselves outside of work. This could mean ensuring they have time to work out, allowing them more time to cook a healthy evening meal and even time to prepare food for the next day \u2013 all great ways to stay healthy and feel productive!\n4. Offer more flexible working\nOne of the main reasons that workers gave for not doing a regular workout was that they struggled to fit it in around work. For four in 10 professionals (39.2%), they found it too hard fit in exercise before they start work.\nSo how can this be tackled? Offering more flexible working is one option. After all, it can help staff to fit exercise around their job. This could mean starting or finishing early, depending on what time of day they prefer to workout.\n5. Allow regular breaks\nSome of the top causes for weight gain at work were sitting at a desk all day (50.1%), snacking a lot during work (40.3%), and eating more due to the stress of the job (31.2%). Allowing staff to take regular breaks can help to combat this, giving them a chance to step away from their desk to make a drink, or even go for a short walk. This is also an effective way to help them de-stress.\nWhat\u2019s more, you should also encourage staff to make the most of their lunch break. Sitting at a desk all day can take its toll and though there may not be time for a workout on your lunch break, even just a short stroll around the block can work wonders.\n6. Offer healthy snacks\nThree quarters of professionals (72.8%) believe that their job has had a negative effect on what they eat, with 36.4% saying they have gained weight as a result. This could be for a number of reasons; grabbing food on the go, being located next to fast food chains or unhealthy snacks around the office. Whatever the cause, healthy eating is important to stop staff feeling sluggish post-lunch, and keep them feeling productive.\nOne of the best ways to promote healthy eating is by ensuring that healthy food is easily accessible. Perhaps offer complimentary snacks, such as fruit, for staff to have during the day. Aim to avoid vending machines full of unhealthy treats and if you have a canteen for staff to eat in, ensure it\u2019s stocked with plenty of wholesome meals.\n7. Organise healthy team lunches\nIt can be nice to organise social events for all staff to get involved with, though the temptation can often be to go for a few drinks after work. Instead, consider organising a healthy team lunch. This is particularly nice in the summer, when people can sit outside and gives everyone a chance to catch up. Not to mention the fact that it helps people to keep on top of their healthy eating habits.\nOverall, there are benefits for both staff and employees when it comes to promoting a healthy lifestyle. Healthy, happy staff are more likely to be alert, productive and creative. Simple perks or schemes can encourage employees to be more active. And when it comes to eating right, ensure there is plenty of access to healthy foods. Taking these small steps can work wonders for taking care of the wellbeing of your workforce.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2016/07/117643/mac-cosmetics-selena-collection", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:V2QZD2UCFIJRPSMFSWS3OBS52RY65Y7G", "length": 2589, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.refinery29.com", "title": "MAC Cosmetics - Selena Makeup Collection", "raw_content": "The MAC X Selena Collection Is Baaack\nGet Ready: The MAC X Selena Collection Is Baaack\nPhoto: Vinnie Zuffante/Getty Images.\nUpdate: If you didn't get your hands on the wildly popular MAC x Selena collection before it flew off shelves a few months ago, we have some good news: You'll soon have a second chance to snag the products. After working hard on a restock, the brand is finally bringing 'em all back \u2014 with the exception of the Liquid Eye Liner in Boot Black \u2014 starting December 28 on the MAC website, and in stores on December 29.\nAnd, don't worry: The brand has a plan in place to deter those pesky eBay upsellers. According to the company, you'll only be able to purchase two SKUs per product online. (Translation: You can buy the whole collection \u2014 but only two of any particular one product.) At MAC stores, you'll only be allowed to buy up to three SKUs per item, and retailers like Nordstrom have their own set of rules. (Contact your local store for more info.)\nCheck out the products in the slides ahead so you're ready with your wish list come December 28.\nUpdate (October 14, 2016): About two weeks have passed since the launch of the long-awaited Selena collection from MAC and, to no surprise, it's completely sold out. Well, not exactly. While diehard fans stood outside of MAC's brick-and-mortars eagerly awaiting a glimpse of the new collection, eBay vultures took it upon themselves to sell the range online at a steep price.\nAccording to The Cut, some of the bids were as high as $3,055, while the majority sat around $500. Luckily, MAC promises the collection will be restocked soon, but we just hope that people who buy the important makeup line do it as true-blue fans, not to turn a profit.\nMAC has collaborated with Rihanna, Nasty Gal, even The Rocky Horror Picture Show \u2014 and we've loved everything \u2014 but the brand's newest collection is more than just a cool explosion of color cosmetics. It's a tribute to singer Selena Quintanilla, the Queen of Tejano Music who tragically passed two decades ago. Music and makeup fans alike will want to get their hands on this lineup.\nMAC has been teasing the collab for months, but they're finally offering a sneak peek of the 12-piece collection. And, as you'll see, it's good. Among other things, there's a gorgeous, deep-red lipstick, bright-purple shadow, and bronzer-blush duo we can't wait to wear. The collection is available in October, but MAC Select members can get early access. Sign up here to get in on the action. Ahead, click through to check out the full lineup.\nMAC Cosmetics - Selena Makeup Collection", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/programme/?showing_date=2019-02-23", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:31Z", "digest": "sha1:J4CYTMAWHFJB6RGAOFS6DPQLZ3O5THNW", "length": 318, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.regentstreetcinema.com", "title": "Programme - Regent Street Cinema", "raw_content": "The Black CauldronU\nKids Kino Club \u2013 tickets available from \u00a33 for kids and \u00a35 for adults. A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark\u2026\nCan You Ever Forgive Me?15\nMelissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of this memoir, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel who made\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 7737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.regus.com.py/coworking-space/australia/sydney/sydney-citigroup-centre", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KWEOXEO2TV6UTTTDEMLOQSZV2XTSNXUD", "length": 851, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.regus.com.py", "title": "Co-working in Sydney Citigroup Centre - Regus Paraguay", "raw_content": "Coworking en Sydney Citigroup Centre\nLevel 13 Citigroup, 2 Park Street, Sydney, NSW 2000\nThe Citigroup Centre offices are in a landmark building in the heart of Sydney's central business district. Located in the Citigroup Centre skyscraper, which is one of the tallest structures in the city, there are fantastic views of Sydney harbour and the city from the 39th floor offices. As in the surrounding area, corporate clients located in the building work in the likes of banking and financial services, IT and law. The offices include training rooms, meeting rooms and conference facilities for up to 100 people. It is a short walk to Town Hall Station, the city's main transport terminus. The central business district is home to many of Australia's largest companies and also hosts the regional headquarters of hundreds of multinational corporations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 7040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 114.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reisystems.com/leadership-cpt/wagish-bhartiya/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YTNDZRY2EMGIMBSKP4R2PLFTSAXWKNZ4", "length": 2661, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.reisystems.com", "title": "REI Systems", "raw_content": "As Senior Director of Software as a Service (SaaS) Business at REI, Wagish leads his team in client delivery, product development, sales, marketing, and talent management. Wagish thinks big and executes faster. He loves being able to tackle big, impactful problems that touch millions of people \u2013 something he does every day in his current role. His position at REI has given him the opportunity to build world-class IT products that redefine what Government solutions look like. Wagish leads his team by being a crusader for mission impact, an explorer for opportunities, and builder of products for both REI and its clients.\nWagish has spent most of his career at the intersection of strategy, high-tech solutions, and client service. With more than a decade of experience in corporate strategy, Wagish\u2019s expertise lies in bringing new technologies to market and gaining market share in highly competitive, innovation-driven markets. Prior to joining REI, Wagish honed his skills at tech companies like Amazon and LivingSocial, where he led sales and marketing strategy development. He also spent time at global consultancy, McKinsey & Company, in their high-tech practice with a focus on sales and marketing related issues. Prior to REI, Wagish was an early stage investor in mobile innovations, cutting-edge enterprise software, and consumer technology startups with Grotech Ventures, a leading venture capital firm in the Washington, D.C. area. Since joining REI in 2012, his focus has been on leveraging innovations in technology to redefine how the U.S. Government serves its citizens.\nBorn in New Delhi, India and raised in northern Virginia, Wagish showed interest in the possibilities borne of technology from a young age. He attended the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology before attending Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in economics. He then pursued an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Wharton School of Business and graduated in the top five percent of his class. Throughout his academic and professional career, Wagish is most proud of his ability to distill complexity into easily digestible messages.\nWagish remains an active member of Duke University\u2019s recruiting base and is also a member of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. He is an avid reader of books (and has a goal of reading 25 books each year) about pop psychology, behavioral economics, business, and futurism. He describes himself as passionate and dedicated, which shows in his long-standing support as a \u201csuffering\u201d Washington, D.C. sports fan. He lives in Vienna with his wife, Resmi, and their young son.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 141.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/future-50-2009/natures-table-cafe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SRFHEXJY7XY7IVCBSGWISFNZOX3KV2JT", "length": 452, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.restaurantbusinessonline.com", "title": "Nature\u2019s Table Caf\u00e9 | 2009", "raw_content": "Nature\u2019s Table Caf\u00e9\nBack in 1977 when Dick Larsen opened the first Nature\u2019s Table Caf\u00e9, smoothies were a revelation to Floridians. So perhaps it\u2019s no surprise that the mall-based, healthy QSR concept has legs. The first franchise opened in 1986, and shortly thereafter Nature\u2019s Table ventured into the office building market with an array of breakfast treats, paninis, wraps, soups and salads. \u201cSensible food that tastes great\u201d is the concept\u2019s mantra.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 3731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-japan/trump-trade-troubles-makes-tokyo-bound-merkel-big-in-japan-idUSKCN1PP29I", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:02Z", "digest": "sha1:U6C6YTU73M62YKU2LHZRRS5THSH3KY5K", "length": 4152, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.reuters.com", "title": "Trump trade troubles makes Tokyo-bound Merkel big in Japan | Reuters", "raw_content": "Trump trade troubles makes Tokyo-bound Merkel big in Japan\nBERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel heads to Japan on Sunday for a two-day trip to forge an \u201calliance of multilateralists\u201d who want to resist U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cAmerica First\u201d approach to trade and China\u2019s pursuit of narrow national interests.\nFILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to the opening day of the G20 leaders summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017. REUTERS/Ludovic Marin/Pool/File Photo\nFreed for now of the domestic coalition wrangling that dogged her for much of 2018, Merkel is throwing her weight into a foreign policy aimed at defending and refreshing the multilateral order on which German - and Japanese - fortunes rest.\nEmboldened by Germany taking a seat on the U.N. Security Council for the next two years, she used an address to global leaders in Davos last week to advocate \u201cwin-win\u201d outcomes in international relations.\nTo back up her words, Merkel is networking with like-minded leaders including Japan\u2019s Shinzo Abe and Canada\u2019s Justin Trudeau, with whom she spoke recently, to defend their common interests in free trade, climate protection and multilateralism.\n\u201cThe visit gives the chancellor the opportunity to strengthen the relationship with Japan,\u201d a senior German government official said of the trip, which will see Merkel arrive in Tokyo on Monday and leave on Tuesday.\n\u201c... and (it) also gives both sides an opportunity to send a strong signal that we and Japan are maintaining a close and resilient partnership even under global political conditions that have become more difficult,\u201d the official added.\nAs big exporters and the world\u2019s third and fourth largest economies respectively, Japan and Germany have a mutual interest in preserving free trade - an issue sure to come up when Merkel and Abe discuss priorities for Japan\u2019s G20 presidency on Monday.\nStriking a similar tone to Merkel at Davos, Abe vowed in his speech there to use Japan\u2019s leadership of the G20 economic powers this year to rebuild trust in the global trade system and foster consensus on ways to address climate change.\nMerkel supports Abe\u2019s approach, driven by the same interest in resolving trade frictions such as the bitter Sino-U.S. dispute that has disrupted the flow of hundreds of billions of dollars of goods and which threatens a sharp slowdown in global growth.\nThe two leaders have been drawn closer by global political dynamics that the German official said included \u201cchanges in U.S. politics\u201d - code for Trump\u2019s presidency - along with developments in China and \u201ca challenge from the Russian side\u201d.\nHowever, Japan\u2019s military dependence on the United States limits the scope for cooperation with Germany.\nJapan is not expected, for example, to join a new European mechanism for non-dollar trade with Iran to avert U.S. sanctions - an initiative aimed at keeping alive a 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran that Trump abandoned last year.\n\u201cBut what favors the new cooperation is the reduced trust in the reliability of the United States under Trump - both in Europe and in Japan,\u201d said Hanns Hilpert, Japan expert at the SWP German Institute for International and Security Affairs.\nFILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe talk as they pose for a group photo at the ASEM leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 19, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo\nMerkel is taking representatives from 12 businesses with her on the trip, on which she will also meet Emperor Akihito. No commercial agreements are planned.\nThe trip coincides with the entering into force - from Feb. 1 - of an EU-Japan trade deal that removes duties and regulatory barriers and includes a commitment to the Paris climate accord, from which the United States withdrew in 2017.\nIn power since 2005, Merkel is focusing on securing a legacy of defending multilateralism in her fourth and last term in office but European and regional elections starting in May risk turning her attention back to domestic matters by mid-year.\nAdditional reporting by Andreas Rinke; Editing by Alison Williams", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.richardfrench.net/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DJ6P6DBKYGQDRXSMLRI5QJCHOSZC2FHC", "length": 2530, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.richardfrench.net", "title": "About | Richard French's Blog", "raw_content": "Richard has built successful companies and brands in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), mobile applications, remote access, online media, entertainment, advertising and software. His track record spans iconic brands such as Automation Anywhere, Nokia, Oracle, Slashdot, SourceForge and ThinkGeek. His acumen in providing B2B and B2C technology market strategies that have generated solid revenues/profits for multinationals and startups.\nAs an Executive Leader, Richard\u2019s core value proposition is enterprise-wide transformation. He\u2019s focused on where we want to go, how to get there, and what corporate infrastructure we\u2019ll need to make that happen. He\u2019s passionate about building the critical processes and infrastructure that effectively balance the need to support rapid growth and efficient scalability\u2014and deliver real ROI\u2014without overburdening the enterprise or making a growing organization overly process-heavy.\nBusiness transformation is much more than a matter of techniques, processes, or infrastructure strategies. Transformation is primarily a matter of getting the right people in the right jobs, and letting those people work creatively to drive rapid growth. That\u2019s why, to transform the enterprise, we first need build a committed, talented culture of empowerment, learning, and risk taking. Throughout his career, Richard has worked closely with his C-level executive peers to ensure that we hire people who can work with us\u2014rather than work for us. Richard creates hiring processes that bring in strong, talented, committed candidates who aren\u2019t afraid to take risks, try something new, build something new. That adds value across every aspect of the enterprise\u2014while enabling senior leadership to focus on critical, strategic decision making.\nIn addition, Richard\u2019s experience is genuinely global. He\u2019s led teams across Europe, including Germany, Italy, France, the UK\u2014as well as Japan, India, and Israel. He knows how to transcend borders and cultures, and overcome the often unconscious misconceptions that can sideline the important work of multinational teams. This ability has ensured that his teams are focused on getting the job done\u2014without getting lost in cultural minutiae and miscommunication. Finally, Richard is enthusiastic about the business of technology, and leverage leading-edge solutions and methodologies to help grow business, create repeatable processes, and ensure both growth and sustainability.\nHe received his Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo in Canada.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/articles/epiphany-in-europe-sweetness-to-share?extras=true", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BJO2WCWEL342Q2RBDTETOA3RWESRZYFI", "length": 4636, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.ricksteves.com", "title": "Epiphany in Europe: Sweetness to Share by Rick Steves", "raw_content": "Epiphany in Europe: Sweetness to Share\nRome\u2019s Christmas witch, La Befana, haunts and then delights local children. (photo: ETBD staff)\nTraveling during the holidays in Europe, you\u2019ll find the season marked not by the number of shopping days left until Christmas, but by a long series of winter festivals \u2014 both pagan and Christian \u2014 that stretch from late November until early January.\nAdvent (the four Sundays before Christmas) starts things off, as people begin to anticipate the arrival (or advent) of the baby Jesus. (In Europe, this is truly the start of Christmas. Advertisers there seem reluctant to commercialize the season any earlier.) Next up is the Feast of St. Nicholas, celebrated mostly in Catholic countries with lots of gift giving on December 5 and 6. In some countries, St. Nicholas\u2019 feast is even bigger than Christmas Day. December 13 brings Santa Lucia Day, a logical highlight in Europe\u2019s darkest corner \u2014 Scandinavia \u2014 where young girls decked out in candles lead processions promising the return of the light.\nDecember 25 is a day of quiet celebration and happy reunions with relatives and friends. Christmas in some European countries \u2014 including Italy and France \u2014 kicks off 12 more days of religious observance (the famous Twelve Days of Christmas). They end on January 6 with the Epiphany holiday, when the Three Wise Men were said to have finally brought their gifts to the baby Jesus.\nIn Italy, Epiphany is the time of \u201cLa Befana,\u201d the legendary Good Witch of Christmas, who gives gifts to children. My Roman friend, Francesca, explained to me, \u201cOn the night before January 6, the Befana flies over the rooftops of Rome on her broom, and brings gifts to the good children or coal for the bad ones. Well, these days the \u2018coal\u2019 is a crunchy black candy you buy from street-corner carts. In return, Roman children leave her a gift of soft ricotta cheese, since she has hardly any teeth!\u201d\nAccording to Italian legend, the Three Wise Men stopped to ask La Befana for directions to Bethlehem and the Christ child, but she was too busy to help. As time passed, La Befana kept thinking about the strange visitors and their quest. With a sack filled with bread, she set out to find Jesus, too.\nWhenever La Befana saw a baby boy, she broke off a crust of bread and gave it to him, hoping he might be the Christ child. Befana \u2014 whose name means \u201cgift-bringer\u201d \u2014 still wanders, searching through Italy each Christmas season, leaving little goodies for the children.\nThe legend of La Befana may stretch back to pagan times. She first appeared in ancient Roman winter festivals as an aging Mother Nature, delivering her last gifts. Today, the best place to meet La Befana in person is at Rome\u2019s lively square, Piazza Navona, at the Christmas bazaar known locally as the Befana Market.\nFrance, not surprisingly, celebrates Epiphany in an edible way. For several days from Christmas until the Feast of Epiphany, the French line up at bakeries to buy the galette des rois \u2014 the \u201cCake of Kings.\u201d They bring these to dinner parties, and enjoy them as snacks and with mid-afternoon tea. The tradition of the treats dates back to the 14th century.\nEach region in France has its own version of the galette des Rois. In the north of France, galettes are puff-pastry cakes, usually filled with fragrant almond frangipane, a kind of custard. In Brittany, they resemble shortcake. And in the south of France, galettes are brioche \u2014 a sweet bread decorated with candied fruit, and flavored with brandy or orange-flower water.\nWhat\u2019s the reason for this enormous amount of pastry consumption? (Although honestly, who needs a reason to eat pastry?) Inside each galette hides a tiny trinket, usually made of porcelain. While these once had religious significance, today they range from miniature paintings of Picasso\u2019s Guernica or Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Mona Lisa to figurines of Zorro or even Harry Potter. The trinkets hidden inside each galette are called f\u00e8ves, named for the fava beans that were the original prizes. Today, f\u00e8ves are highly collectible.\nTraditionally, the cake is cut while the youngest child at the table designates who will get each piece (so there\u2019s no cheating). Everyone takes careful bites of the pastry until someone finds the f\u00e8ve. The excited winner gets the f\u00e8ve, as well as a golden paper or plastic crown that tops the cake \u2014 and becomes king or queen for the day.\nWhile the history of the traditions of La Befana and Galettes des Rois may be clouded by myth, this much is true: The French and the Italians make Epiphany a delightful celebration, filled with goodies more fun than frankincense and myrrh.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 6188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rickwhiterentals.com/index.php?action=contact_agent&listing_id=38", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:04Z", "digest": "sha1:Z25YWWQS533RKNFKFPPX6IP5WXNILAEB", "length": 125, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rickwhiterentals.com", "title": "Rick White Property Rentals - rickwhiterentals.com", "raw_content": "I'm sorry, but you are not allowed to make an account on this system. If you need an account, please email the administrator.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 134.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rightstep-podiatry.com.au/conditions/ingrown-toenails/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4TS2BF5AOSX3H6Y75N3CB2SCQPAZ5DET", "length": 1166, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rightstep-podiatry.com.au", "title": "Ingrown Toenails | Thickened Nails & Fungal Infections - Rightstep Podiatry", "raw_content": "Ingrown toenails are the most common toenail problem. They may be caused by improperly trimmed toenails, very curved edges of nails, shoe pressure or repeated trauma to the feet from activities. They may also be inherited. Frequently the pain is due to a corn or callus in the groove or (sulcus) of the nail.\nMost cases will require conservative treatment, while others may need a minor surgical correction which can be conducted in the surgery using a local anaesthetic.\nThickened nails are a common condition. Usually it\u2019s the result of injury to the nail bed, such as dropping something heavy on your toes or fungal infection. They can be easily and painlessly thinned down by the podiatrist.\nFungal infections are among the most troublesome of nail conditions to treat. They are often characterised by thickening, discoloration and separation of the front of the nail from the nail bed. In some cases the nail crumbles. These infections tend to stay in the nail if they are not treated, and can infect the nail bed.\nThere are a range of anti-fungal medications available for treatment. Your podiatrist can assist with the trimming and care of out-of-shape nails.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rinjanidawnadventures.com/groups/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VWZ4HBAA5XTY6KAQ2WQYPQ6Q5JYZH3NP", "length": 884, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rinjanidawnadventures.com", "title": "Groups | Rinjani Dawn Adventures | Lombok", "raw_content": "Schools & Youth Organisations\nChildren and young adults crave excitement and adventure. In order to grow and develop, they also need to be challenged. Rinjani Dawn Adventures can provide tailored expeditions for schools and clubs, integrating the climbing of a mountain with other specific goals. Our focus is on safety and quality, and providing a unique experience that will promote teamwork & personal development. Herman, one of the owners of RDA, has 20 years experience in education, and extensive knowledge of Lombok. 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Still, they\u2019ve never captured the essence of those low-key yet highly entertaining shows until now.\nOn June 3rd, Rogers and Bowen will release Watch This, a 19-track live acoustic album sourced from their hugely popular tours. Recorded in stripped-down fashion at the House of Blues in Dallas and Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos, Texas \u2014 a launch pad for legendary Texan acts like George Strait and the spot Rogers and Bowen first met 15 years ago \u2014 the album acts as a companion piece to Hold My Beer: Vol. 1, one of Rolling Stone Country\u2019s 40 best albums of last year.\n\u201cWe toured as a duo together for eight years before we finally addressed the question: \u2018When are you guys going to do a Randy and Wade album?'\u201d Rogers said in a statement. \u201cSo, we went into the studio with Lloyd Maines in the fall of 2013 and released Hold My Beer: Vol. 1 on April 20, 2015. We had a lot of fun throughout the entire process and felt the next natural thing to do was release a live acoustic album that reflected what it\u2019s like to be in the room during one of our shows.\u201d\n\u201cNineteen songs is a lot, but we couldn\u2019t bring ourselves to cut any of them,\u201d Bowen adds. \u201cYou\u2019ll hear them as we play them during our Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour, and you\u2019ll hear some pretty colorful banter, too. We pick on each other, but it\u2019s all in good fun. Besides, it\u2019s just us, our guitars, two microphones and our friends in the audience. It\u2019s pretty raw, and we wanted to keep it as true-to-live as possible.\u201d\nWade Bowen and Randy Rogers: \u2018There\u2019s Room for Country in Country Music\u2019\nThe album will feature songs from both Rogers\u2019 and Bowen\u2019s deep well of windblown Texan country. Rather than signaling the conclusion of their collaborative work, it will actually help kick off the 10th annual trek of their Hold My Beer and Watch This Tour, which begins May 26th in Austin, Texas.\nHere\u2019s the complete track list for Randy Rogers and Wade Bowen\u2019s Watch This:\n1. \u201cTonight\u2019s Not the Night\u201d\n3. \u201cBuy Myself a Chance\u201d\n5. \u201cInterstate\u201d\n6. \u201cSongs About Trucks\u201d\n7. \u201cIn My Arms Instead\u201d\n8. \u201cYou Had Me at My Best\u201d\n9. \u201cToo Late for Goodbye\u201d\n10. \u201cWhataburger\u201d\n11. \u201cWest Texas Rain\u201d\n12. \u201cFuzzy\u201d\n13. \u201cThings I Could Do\u201d\n16. \u201cKiss Me in the Dark\u201d\n18. \u201cShe\u2019s Gonna Run\u201d\nIn This Article: Randy Rogers Band,\tWade Bowen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 7145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rotateq.com/consumer.xhtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FLNSLQKMOEGDHKOGPJ5KJVCXWSUE5OWN", "length": 1237, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.rotateq.com", "title": "RotaTeq\u00ae (Rotavirus Vaccine, Live, Oral, Pentavalent) | Official Site", "raw_content": "RotaTeq is a vaccine that can help protect babies against common types of rotavirus.\nRotavirus is a leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants.\nRotaTeq is not a shot \u2013 it is given by mouth in 3 doses.\nNearly all children are infected with rotavirus by 5 years of age. 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Tracy was selected specifically for its focus on children and emphasis on youth fitness and athletics. In addition, the McKinley Village property was selected because it is strategically located to maximize the growing demographics in the immediate and surrounding areas.\nWe are located on the southwest corner of N. Tracy Boulevard and W. Grant Line Road\nMcKinley Village Shopping Center | 2151 N. 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It happened sometime before Primakov\u2019s death in June 2015.\nAccording to Zakharova, doctors treating the legendary diplomat needed rare medicine that was available at the time only in the US. Time was of the essence, so as a favor to its former chief the Russian Foreign Ministry organized the purchase of the drug through a practicing US doctor. An embassy employee was supposed to pick up the package and deliver it to Moscow through diplomatic channels.\nDemocrats\u2019 year-end moves seem like revenge on Trump for winning \u2013 Russian FM spokeswoman\nHowever, the emissary was stopped by people, whom Zakharova described as \u201cagents of American special services.\u201d She said the Russian diplomat was taken to the basement of the building and kept there, unable to contract the embassy.\n\u201cThey kept him there for an hour. And the way they spoke to him looked more like an attempt to recruit an asset rather than a regular conversation. They were threatening him with accusations of illegal trafficking of medical drugs,\u201d she said.\nThe ministry spokesperson assured that the purchase was perfectly legal, citing the fact that the prescribing doctor was neither stripped of his license, nor charged with any crime. The diplomat, who had immunity from prosecution, was eventually let go, but the drug was confiscated.\nThe unnamed intelligence agency behind the move didn\u2019t even repay the cost of the purchase to Primakov\u2019s family, which amounted to about $10,000, Zakharova added.\n\u201cWe contacted the US State Department at once,\u201d Zakharova said. \u201cWhen [Secretary] John Kerry learned about it, they were terrified. It was a frame-up of the State Department!\u201d\nThe Americans did much to atone for the diplomatic gaffe, including organizing consultations between Primakov\u2019s doctors and American doctors specializing in his condition. They also did everything possible to deliver the drug in question as soon as possible, Zakharova acknowledged.\n\u201cUnfortunately time was lost. A lot of time. I am not a doctor to judge the consequences. But time was lost,\u201d she said.\nZakharova said her story showed the disarray in the Obama administration and how the intelligence community could clash with the State Department on the most sensitive issues. She believes American spies were deliberately undermining all diplomatic ties between the US and Russia because they wanted to embroil the two nations in a conflict.\nAdding insult to injury, the diplomat targeted for the recruitment was expelled over a phony accusation of illegal trafficking of medical drugs, Zakharova added.\nPrimakov died in Moscow in 2015 from liver cancer aged 85. He is mostly remembered for his long diplomatic career, but he also served as Russia\u2019s prime minister, chief of foreign intelligence, head of the Trade and Industry Chamber and as a member of parliament. He was also an accomplished scientist specializing in Arabic studies and economics and a prolific non-fiction writer.\nREAD MORE: Ex-Russian PM & intel chief Primakov dies at 85\nThe revelation comes shortly after the US intelligence community accused Russia of interfering with the American presidential election. 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Brown selects Shiomoto\u2019s replacement, naming Bill Davidson as acting director. Davidson works as the DMV\u2019s chief deputy director and will lead the agency starting Dec. 31.\nDec. 14 \u2014 The DMV reveals several hundred voters may have been wrongfully kept off the rolls before the Nov. 6 election because of errors transmitting the data to Padilla. Padilla expresses his frustration in a letter sent to Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom urging them to \u201cappoint new leadership.\u201d He adds that DMV Director Jean Shiomoto \u201chas lost my confidence and trust.\u201d\nDec. 13 \u2014 The DMV shows progress in reducing wait times and hits an \u201cambitious goal\u201d it set in August to bring down the delays.\nDec. 13 \u2014 Attorneys representing The Bee say they\u2019ve gotten a response an attorney representing the Secretary of State\u2019s Office. The office says it needs another week.\nDec. 6 \u2014 The Bee files a complaint with Padilla\u2019s office, challenging his decision to withhold documents from the public. The Bee asks for a response within a week.\nNov. 30 \u2014 The Bee receives 268 pages of documents, half of which are newsletters Secretary of State Alex Padilla received from news organizations that referenced the registration errors. His office said it did not have to disclose additional material.\nNov. 27 \u2014 The Secretary of State\u2019s Office says it is still reviewing material and anticipated responding three days later.\nNov. 13 \u2014 After no response to the records request within 10 days, The Bee follows up on the inquiry. The Secretary of State\u2019s Office responds by asking for a 14-day extension.\nNov. 2 \u2014 The Bee requests \u201cany written communications, including emails, from or to Secretary of State Alex Padilla and any written communications, including emails, from or to Chief of Staff Bill Mabi, regarding a batch of approximately 1,500 registration errors at California\u2019s Department of Motor Vehicles, some of whom are believed to be non-citizens.\u201d In accordance with the Public Records Act, they must respond within 10 days. For weeks, the department has declined to answer questions about whether non-citizens voted in the June primary.\nOct. 26 \u2014 The Little Hoover Commission \u2014 a state watchdog \u2014urges Gov. Jerry Brown and top lawmakers to support a nonpartisan state audit into the DMV\u2019s handling of Motor Voter.\nOct. 22 \u2014 California officials decide to keep Motor Voter but add an additional layer of review to ensure the DMV transmits accurate information to the Secretary of State\u2019s Office.\nOct. 9 \u2014 Padilla tells reporters at a news conference that a freeze to the state\u2019s Motor Voter program is \u201ccertainly on the table.\u201d He criticizes the DMV over its ongoing struggles in registering people to vote. It\u2019s unclear how a freeze would be implemented, but Patterson suggests Brown take action.\nOct. 8 \u2014 In a letter to Secretary of State Alex Padilla, California\u2019s DMV and Department of Technology announce as many as 1,500 non-citizens could have been inadvertently registered to vote.\nOct. 4 \u2014 The DMV says in a hearing at the Capitol that it expects to issue 25 million Real ID cards over the next couple of years, but it notes just 1.5 million cards have been issued since January.\nSept. 21 \u2014 Gov. Jerry Brown directs his administration to conduct an audit into the DMV. Rather than go through State Auditor Elaine Howle, Brown hands the investigation over to the Department of Finance. The audit, which is scheduled to be released in March 2019, is expected to cost the DMV $700,000 to $800,000. Later in the day, Brown vetoes five DMV-related bills. In a veto message, he urges the Legislature to hold off on introducing new bills until the DMV can address ongoing problems surrounding wait times and outdated technology.\nSept. 20 \u2014 Nearly 40 percent of DMV offices experience connectivity problems, halting customer transactions at 68 sites. Power is restored by 10:45 a.m., but Republicans are fuming and continue calls for an audit.\nSept. 5 \u2014 The Bee reports that the DMV sent the Secretary of State\u2019s Office 23,000 erroneous voter registrations. The DMV says no undocumented immigrants were registered, but it does note that 1,600 California residents did not complete a mandatory voter registration affidavit before having their information sent to the secretary of state. Republican gubernatorial candidate John Cox renews calls for the department\u2019s director, Jean Shiomoto, to resign.\nAug. 30 \u2014 DMV says that average wait times throughout Northern California have dropped by 50 minutes. The department previously said it expected wait times to drop starting in mid-September before returning to a more reasonable level by the end of the year.\nAug. 28 \u2014 An investigation into Motor Voter program registration issues concludes and a temporary fix is put in place to resolve issues with people being improperly registered with the wrong political party. Neither DMV nor the Secretary of State share this information with the California Association of Clerks and Election Officials.\nmid-August \u2014 The California Association of Clerks and Election Officials meets with the Secretary of State\u2019s Office and DMV to explain the discovery of inconsistencies with an uptick in no party preference voters at DMV. Joe Holland, president of the association, says the DMV told him it would change its questionnaire on party preference to make it consistent with online voter registration and paper registration.\nAug. 16 \u2014 The Bee outlines ongoing issues regarding the DMV\u2019s technological infrastructure, highlighted by a decades-old computer system the department agrees is \u201ca 40-year-old dinosaur.\u201d The DMV discloses it has experienced 34 IT outages since January 2017, ranging anywhere from 15 minutes to nine hours.\nAug. 9 \u2014 A Bee report reminds the public about a secret DMV office that serves lawmakers and their staff. The DMV defends the office as the primary point of contact for lawmakers who receive complaints from their constituents about the DMV.\nAug. 9 \u2014 In an interview with The Sacramento Bee, Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica, explains his decision to not vote on the request to audit the DMV \u2014 effectively killing the proposal. He says he got a call from Gov. Jerry Brown himself earlier that morning \u201cexpressing his full commitment to addressing these issues.\u201d He added, \u201cI take the governor\u2019s personal call and the governor\u2019s personal commitment to addressing these issues over a seven-month audit that\u2019s going to tell us exactly what we already know.\u201d Allen claims \u201cthe governor has a lot more power over fixing this problem than Jim Patterson and his seven-month audit.\u201d\nAug. 7 \u2014 Legislature holds three-hour budget hearing ahead of a separate audit hearing scheduled for the following morning. At the budget hearing, the DMV is unable to quantify the number of system outages it has. It also requests $26 million and says an audit would \u201cstrain\u201d its resources. Through a budget trailer bill, the DMV would later be eligible for unlimited funds at the discretion of the Department of Finance with legislative approval. An additional $16.6 million was provided to alleviate office wait times.\nAug. 8 \u2014 The Joint Legislative Audit Committee holds a vote to decide whether the DMV should be subject to an independent state audit under a request from Assemblyman Jim Patterson, R-Fresno. After more than two hours, the request falls one vote shy. With help from three Democratic state senators who abstained from voting, the DMV narrowly dodges the audit request. The governor\u2019s office made calls that influenced at least one of the lawmakers\u2019 decisions. Patterson accuses the three senators of succumbing to \u201ca rank political move\u201d and says \u201cthey ought to be ashamed.\u201d\nAug. 6 \u2014 DMV experiences outages in multiple offices delaying customer transactions. Connectivity is restored around 10 a.m.\nAug. 5 \u2014 DMV learns of issues with customers\u2019 voter registration through the Motor Voter program and immediately stops sending data to the Secretary of State\u2019s Office.\nAug. 2 \u2014 Yvonne Walker, president of SEIU Local 1000, says in a statement that the union has \u201cput together a list of the different challenges our employees are experiencing on the ground and have provided them to the DMV.\u201d The union does not respond to multiple requests for additional details.\nAug. 1 \u2014 The Sacramento Bee obtains a memo about issues with Real ID and concerns about DMV employees\u2019 working conditions. Service Employees International Union Local 1000, state government\u2019s largest union, accuses the DMV of expanding Saturday service to 20 new offices and increasing hours in existing offices without the union\u2019s knowledge. SEIU 1000 says it will meet with the DMV during the second week of August.\nJuly 30 \u2014 Data from the DMV reveals wait times have gone up 46 percent statewide over the last year. Customers at the offices are waiting several hours and are visibly frustrated. Lawmakers say they are fed up with lines going around the block and vow to take action.\nJune 16 \u2014 In response to rising wait times in recent months, DMV adds Saturday service from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in 40 field offices. DMV Director Jean Shiomoto later explained to lawmakers that the $70 million set aside for the DMV to begin Saturday service in January largely went to paying workers overtime.\nApril 23 \u2014 California launches the Motor Voter program, which automatically registers and pre-registers eligible California voters when they go into a DMV office to complete a driver\u2019s license, state ID or address change transaction.\nApril \u2014 DMV discontinues Saturday service since few customers are taking advantage of it.\nJan. 22 \u2014 California begins offering Real ID cards. Starting Oct. 1, 2020, people will need the new driver\u2019s licenses to board airplanes and enter other federal facilities without a passport. DMV begins opening some offices on Saturdays in anticipation of increase in customers coming in for Real IDs.\nDec. 2017 \u2014 DMV starts to adopt a new Customer Flow System (CFS) in an effort to go ticketless and send text messages to customers.\nMore errors at the DMV: Thousands of customers can\u2019t get licenses after paying early", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 13345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.samgi.com/news-articles/recruitment-initiative-for-surgical-affiliates-management-group-highlights-growing-demand-for-physician-assistants-in-acute-care-surgery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:41Z", "digest": "sha1:3SJKVGINBP3XQIPRVVL7PTP4FX5FNKIO", "length": 4414, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.samgi.com", "title": "The Growing Demand For Physician Assistants - Surgical Affiliates", "raw_content": "Surgical PAs now fastest-growing specialty segment for profession\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2013 October 6, 2016 \u2013 Surgical Affiliates Management Group, Inc., one of the nation\u2019s leading acute care surgery providers and an exhibitor at this week\u2019s California Association of Physician Assistants (CAPA) conference in Palm Springs, summarizes the top five reasons to consider a career as a surgical physician assistant (PA), now the fastest-growing specialty within the profession.*\nLeon J. Owens, MD, FACS, CEO of Surgical Affiliates Management Group, summarized the five factors fueling the growth in surgical jobs for PAs:\nJob satisfaction. PAs are highly satisfied with their surgical jobs. One reason is that those involved in surgery perform a number of high level tasks, including serving as first or second assist in surgery. Depending on the specialty, they may also perform intricate procedures including conduit vessel harvesting, organ procurement for transplantation and intra-articular joint aspiration and injections.\nAttractive compensation packages. According to the Statistical Report on Certified PAs from the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), PAs in surgery can make well over $100,000 a year.\nAbility to be a key player on a surgical team. Within the Surgical Affiliates model, PAs play a pivotal role not only in providing hands-on care and performing a number of surgical procedures, but they are also the key member on the team in terms of collaborating with the surgeon and communicating with patients.\nPredictable work schedule. The Surgical Affiliates model enables PAs to have both a predictable schedule and higher quality of life. So that when the PA is on, they are 100 percent on, and when off, they are completely off.\nOpportunity to add to clinical expertise. Ongoing interaction with other mid-levels and surgeons provides the opportunity to add to the PA\u2019s skill set.\n\u201cPAs are critical members of our care team,\u201d said Dr. Owens. \u201cOur PAs are the \u2018glue\u2019 that ensures continuity of patient care. They round with surgeons, participate in patient evaluation and management and facilitate the patient/surgeon relationship, among other things.\u201d\nThe growth of PAs in surgery comes at just the right time for the healthcare industry. The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), reports that the U.S. faces a declining number of both general and specialty surgeons, resulting in an expected shortage between 25,200 and 33,200 surgeons by 2025. The AAMC says the shortage of surgeons will have a, \u201csignificant effect on general surgery, vascular surgery and neurosurgery.\u201d\n\u201cAs soon as I realized it was an option for PAs, I knew I wanted to work in surgery,\u201d said Max Auerbach, PA-C, who is part of the Surgical Affiliates surgical care team at St. Luke\u2019s Hospital in upstate New York. \u201cIf a surgeon is operating and a trauma case comes in to the ER, or if there is a crash or some other emergency, I can get everything started and the patient stabilized. It reduces the stress on the surgeon; I help the surgeon be two places at once. Working as a PA in surgery is a great professional choice and one I encourage current and student PAs to strongly consider.\u201d\nFor more information on career opportunities, visit Surgical Affiliates, booth #301 at the CAPA conference, held October 6-9 in Palm Springs.\n*According to the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), 22% of the nearly 109,000 certified PAs in the U.S. are in general surgery or surgical subspecialties (including general surgery, cardiothoracic, orthopaedic and vascular).\nSurgical Affiliates Management Group is the first and only surgical hospitalist company with published, proven results that its programs improve patient care, lower costs, reduce readmissions and enhance hospital throughput. Surgical Affiliates\u2019 System of Care\u00a9 is a permanent solution to the challenge of providing integrated, 24/7 hospital-based surgical teams and one that raises the level of hospital performance across the board, preparing these facilities for the world of pay-for-performance and accountable care models. Surgical Affiliates provides trauma, orthopedic and acute care surgery programs in hospitals ranging from rural facilities to large community hospitals to multi-hospital systems. For more information, visit the Surgical Affiliates website at https://www.samgi.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 5193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sangeet-examinations.co.uk/history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:51Z", "digest": "sha1:SHISOEHZGSMUDAEOOZ4VYLOAIWRMYUR4", "length": 1017, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sangeet-examinations.co.uk", "title": "History | Sangeet Examinations - World Music and Dance Examinations", "raw_content": "The PRSSV exam board was set up in 1987 to provide accredited qualifications for world music and dance traditions. Our syllabuses are developed in consultation with master musicians and dancers and are true to the uniqueness of a particular culture while taking into account the different social and cultural conditions of the West.\nThe aim of our exams is to:\nInspire achievements in music among students of all ages and levels.\nProvide recognition for different musical cultures.\nProvide recognition for teachers.\nIn December 1987, there were 15 candidates who were examined by an examiner from India. Today there are approximately 1000 candidates appearing annually in approved examination centres and partner institutions in London and other cities of the UK. The examiners are mainly UK based.\nIn 2006 PRSSV started its international wing to cater for teachers and students in Europe and then in 2010 in Australia and North America.\nIn 2013 the first batch of Heritage Skills candidates completed their training.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 184.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sawayra.org/index.php/july-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:31Z", "digest": "sha1:VJOV6RCHGTEKQE5MVSL2YN7S3MRTIARE", "length": 3506, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.sawayra.org", "title": "July 2018 \u2013 Sawayra", "raw_content": "De-Humidifier condensation data\nThe graph highlights the condensation rates, in liters, of the de-humidifier, when operated at different weather conditions at different periods of time. It is difficult to completely decipher the data just by looking at the table due to a number of variables, time, relative humidity, atmospheric temperature etc, but the impact of Relative humidity (RH) on the water output is prominent. With increasing RH (keeping time constant) the water output increases (test number 1 and 3) . In order to clearly understand the information illustrated by our set of readings and take into account all of the major variables, we have taken the help of the software Minitab to generate a linear model of the readings. Linear regression is a mathematical approach used to construct a linear model of the data. Linear regression finds the co-relation between one or more variables, x or x1 x2 and so on, and the output, y. With the help of this linear model, we can accurately predict the amount of water generated by our de-humidifier at different atmospheric conditions.\nLINEAR MODEL EQUATION:\nPREDICTION USING THE EQUATION:\nIn conclusion, our regression equation predicts the condensation rate with a high accuracy. It\u2019s safe to say that it takes into account all the major variables that affect condensation rate. As seen from the data and predicted by the equation the output is dependent mainly on RH value (higher the RH value higher the condensation rate). RH and Temperature are inversely proportional to each other. If temp of the air rises and water content remains the same RH decreases. Both RH and temp affect the output.\nDe-humidifier Performance Curve\nThe four graphs illustrate a general trend of Liters produced by the De-humidifier per KWH (unit of energy). The variables are relative humidity (RH) and temperature. The blue line represents the Liters of water produced per KWH at a RH of 73%. As the temperature rises from 29 \u030a C to 35 \u030a C we can see that the amount of water produced per KWH decreases. This is true for all the 4 graphs.\nTHE IMPACT OF FILTERS ON THE DEHUMIDIFIER OUTPUT\nIt was observed that the output of the dehumidifier was far from the one that was predicted by the equation when its filters were dirty. The job of the filter is to remove dust particles from the air, so that when it is condensed the water is free from dirt. As the filters collect more and more dust and suspended particles; the airflow to the dehumidifier decreased, resulting in less water molecules available to be turned in to liquid water. To sum up, the filters of the Dehumidifier need to be cleaned regularly otherwise efficiency will drop.\nThe water produced by the dehumidifier was given to the Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR) to find out whether it\u2019s safe to drink or not. Largely the report is self explanatory. Amount of metals eg Calcium, magnesium, arsenic etc are well below the allowed permissible limits set by the American Public Health Association (APHA), significant amounts of Dissolved solids (TDS) were not found. Amount of bacteria (Total Caliform) was found to be 0, no E-Coli (bacteria that affects the stomach and the intestines) was found. The amount of Turbidity (suspended or dissolved particles in water that make it murky) was approximately 1 compared to the Max Allowed value of 5 by APHA. The water is therefore fit for human consumption.\nAquib Hasan August 4, 2018 November 11, 2018 Uncategorized\n\u2190 Mar 2018\nSep 2018 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencecodex.com/financial-stress-linked-heart-disease-risk-among-african-americans-624575", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:14Z", "digest": "sha1:H7Q762CIOY7PIVAC75M62HWA5TYUIO2S", "length": 4352, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.sciencecodex.com", "title": "Financial stress linked to heart disease risk among African Americans | Science Codex", "raw_content": "Financial stress linked to heart disease risk among African Americans\nBoston, MA -- Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and African Americans are disproportionately affected. Prior studies have investigated how limited access to material resources due to financial hardship may influence health, but the association between that stress caused by financial hardship and coronary heart disease in African Americans has not previously been examined.\nIn a new study which examined data from 2,256 participants of the Jackson Heart Study, a longitudinal cohort study of cardiovascular disease risks in African-American men and women living in the Jackson, Miss., area, researchers examined the association between the psychological stress of financial hardship and CHD in this population and found that African Americans who experienced moderate to high financial stress had an increased risk of developing heart disease compared to those who did not report such stress.\nThe study authors concluded that the psychological toll of financial hardship may influence the development of heart disease in combination with stress-related behaviors, health conditions and emotions that contribute to heart disease. Results are published online January 17 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.\n\"Stress is known to contribute to disease risk, but the data from our study suggest a possible relationship between financial stress and heart disease that clinicians should be aware of as we research and develop interventions to address social determinants of health disparities,\" said senior author Cheryl Clark, MD, ScD, a hospitalist and researcher in the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at Brigham and Women's Hospital, where she is also the director of Health Equity Research and Intervention in the Center for Community Health and Health Equity.\nResearchers analyzed data from 2000 to 2012 from participants who did not have evidence of heart disease at the beginning of the study. Participants were asked to rate the stress they experienced in several areas, including financial hardship, such as having problems paying bills or running out of pocket money. Participants rated the severity of each experience of stress due to finances on a 7-point scale, which the researchers than used to categorize the total level of stress due to finances participants reported at the onset of the study.\nResearchers simultaneously analyzed other participant characteristics and behaviors thought to lead to heart disease, including their physical activity and smoking behavior; the presence of chronic conditions including hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression; whether participants had access to health care; and social issues such as education and income. After considering each of these factors, it was found that African-American men and women who experienced moderate-to-high financial stress had almost three times the risk of heart disease events - including heart attacks and procedures to investigate or treat heart disease - than those who did not experience financial stress. Individuals with mild financial stress had nearly two times the risk of developing heart disease than those unaffected by stress. The combination of three key factors - depression, smoking, and diabetes - appeared to explain some of the connection between financial stress and heart disease risk.\nThe study was limited to drawing associations in the data and did not prove a causal connection between stress and heart disease risk. The authors were also not able to determine whether short-term or long-term exposures to stress were enough to raise heart disease risk. Importantly, the findings were limited to those who were willing to report their stress to researchers.\nStill, researchers conclude the results should prompt deeper investigation into the role of economic stress on disease risk and encourage policies to reduce these stressors.\n\"The information from this study covered experiences men and women had during the recession of 2007 and beyond,\" Clark said. \"As we think about policies to prevent heart disease, we need to know a lot more about how economic volatility and financial stress may be connected to heart disease so that we can prevent unnecessary stress that may affect heart health.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 5468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 177.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencemag.org/collections/your-practical-guide-basic-laboratory-techniques", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RUYGAMG5YVUXFVC677KSSHTW64IEGUYO", "length": 688, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sciencemag.org", "title": "Your Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Techniques | Science | AAAS", "raw_content": "Your Practical Guide to Basic Laboratory Techniques\nIn every scientific laboratory, there is a set of fundamental skills that needs to be mastered. A solid foundation of core lab skills is essential to produce accurate, reproducible results, as well as to prevent damaging expensive equipment and endangering the safety of your labmates. In addition, with an increasing focus on reproducibility, it behooves all researchers to ensure that they are practiced in basic skills and up to date with the latest advances in lab techniques.\nRead all of the best Custom Publishing content from Science . Visit our Custom Publishing section for special collections, tech features, posters and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scoprialbenga.it/en/museum/museo-navale-romano", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:48Z", "digest": "sha1:3PVBQTGGKODWXQOFRNTZG6VQZOYRISA5", "length": 641, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.scoprialbenga.it", "title": "Scopri Albenga - Roman Naval Museum", "raw_content": "https://www.scoprialbenga.it/en/museum/museo-navale-romano#sigProIdc739cb78f9\nEstablished in the fifties of the 20th centuries, it is housed in the 16th century Palazzo Peloso-Cepolla.It contains wine amphorae, provisions, helmets, utensils and equipment dating back to 1st century B.C. found inside a Roman cargo boat shipwrecked off the coast of Albenga. A collection of apothecary vases of the Hospital of Our Lady of Mercy has been on show in the Museum since 1957.The visit is completed by the permanent exhibition of \u201cPrehistory in Valpennavaira\u201d attached with educational and explanatory notes, which was inaugurated in the year 2000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scotlandshop.com/tartanblog/clan-brown-unleash-inner-tartan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4QMMHRVOWFVD6I6PMKMVW2GDIFZBL2TE", "length": 3099, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.scotlandshop.com", "title": "Clan Brown: Unleash Your Inner Tartan | ScotlandShop", "raw_content": "Clan Brown: Unleash Your Inner Tartan\nby Paul Johnston August 07, 2017\nClan Brown and Brunonian Medicine\nScotland has a notable history in the medical sciences, from James Young Simpson \u2013 the discoverer of chloroform anaesthesia - to Arthur Conan Doyle who worked as a Doctor before finding fame as a writer. Scotland's place in the pantheon of medical history is assured. Yet none of Scotland's medics can hold a candle to today's subject. Clan Brown can boast one of the most fantastic contributors to medical science that Scotland has ever produced.\nJohn Brown was born and raised in Berwickshire. Close to our heart as this is where our HQ is located! It seems that John was something of a child prodigy. In time, John\u2019s parents became aware of their child\u2019s gifts and sent him to the Grammar School in Duns. After dazzling Duns with his genius, Brown went to Edinburgh University to study Divinity. This didn't hold his attention for long as he quickly left theology behind in favour of medicine. Brown made his name with the Brunonian System of Medicine.\nThe Brunonian System of Medicine\nAs a member of Clan Brown, you can brag that your surname has been used for a whole school of medical thought. There you\u2019ll be, probably at a dinner party, possibly at a gallery opening, with a cocktail in one hand and a canape in the other. You will be saying \u201cOf course, the 19th century Brunonian system of medicine was named after a Brown \u2013 What\u2019s your family got, eh?\u201d Maybe, before you get too ahead of yourself, you should learn a little about this system. John Brown's theory states that all illnesses are caused by either, over or under-excitement. To treat a disease caused by over-excitement, the patient must purge the excess excitement either by vomiting or blood-letting. An under-excited patient is treated with stimulants in order to perk him up again. Brown favoured prescribing alcohol or opium as stimulants. It seems that Brown liked opium and alcohol so much that he kept both close at hand during his lectures.\nThe System Breaks Down for Brown\nUnfortunately, John Brown\u2019s ideas never really caught on. The romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was a fan of Brown. So too was the writer Thomas De Quincey (Confessions of an Opium-Eater). However, despite a brief craze for his ideas in Germany in the 19th century, Brunonian medicine is very much a thing of the past. Brown never saw his ideas catch on in his lifetime. His insatiable appetite for alcohol, opium and laudanum caught up with him in London where he consequently died at the age of 53. John Brown\u2019s noteworthy descendants include Ford Madox Brown, the famous painter and his grandson Ford Madox Ford, the notable author.\nWhat do you Browns think? Will you be subscribing to Doctor John Brown\u2019s ideas? Do you agree with Brown on the subject of medicines that \u2018highest of all, as far as experiments have yet thrown light upon the subject, is opium\u2019? No? Me neither as it goes... I go for a quick walk if I get too excited which is good advice for us all to follow. Mind you, if you do go for a walk, make sure you wrap up!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 35553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scottsdaleindependent.com/business/new-family-resort-coming-talking-stick-entertainment-district/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:CQ4TYOOFWWFRMDFRGCOAGJSYWVQHG3UX", "length": 4923, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.scottsdaleindependent.com", "title": "New family resort coming to Talking Stick Entertainment District | Scottsdale Independent", "raw_content": "Home Business New family resort coming to Talking Stick Entertainment District\nNew family resort coming to Talking Stick Entertainment District\nA view of the groundbreaking of the future Great Wolf Lodge Arizona in the Talking Stick Entertainment District. (Submitted Photo)\nGreat Wolf Resorts, Inc., a family of indoor water park resorts, announced Friday, Jan. 19 it is expanding in Arizona with a planned 350-room family resort in the Talking Stick Entertainment District in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community.\nGreat Wolf Lodge Arizona is scheduled to open the second half of 2019, becoming the company\u2019s 18th resort in North America, according to a press release.\n\u201cAs we look to expand the Great Wolf Lodge experience to new markets across North America and beyond, we are excited to place our newest resort in Arizona and provide visitors across the Southwest with a destination that brings immense joy to families,\u201d Murray Hennessy, chief executive officer for Great Wolf Resorts, said in a prepared statement.\n\u201cThe family-friendly environment fostered by the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community makes Talking Stick the perfect location for a Great Wolf Lodge. We look forward to being a part of this community as it continues to grow into the Southwest\u2019s premier family destination.\u201d\nThe Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Great Wolf Resorts signed a long-term lease agreement that allows the company use of the land near Salt River Fields at Talking Stick for nearly a century, a release states.\n\u201cHospitality has been a constant common value of our Community \u2013 from providing aid and shelter to settlers making their way westward, to welcoming tourists to our several award-winning hotel properties today,\u201d Delbert Ray Sr., president of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, said in a prepared statement.\n\u201cTourism is a key economic driver for us, and we believe Great Wolf Lodge will give families another great reason to visit our Community, thus strengthening our economy as well as the East Valley region of Phoenix and the State of Arizona.\u201d\nGreat Wolf Lodge Arizona will be a year-round family destination filled with attractions and amenities for all ages.\nSome of the highlights include an 85,000-square-foot indoor waterpark, heated to 84 degrees and featuring a variety of body slides, tube slides, raft rides, activity pools and splash areas.\nThe attraction will also include a 27,000-square-foot family entertainment center known as the Great Wolf Adventure Park.\nA rendering of the future Great Wolf Lodge Arizona. (Submitted Photo)\nHere, families can scale new heights on a multi-level ropes course, play a round of miniature golf, compete for prizes at the arcade, or step into the fantasy world of MagiQuest \u2014 Great Wolf Lodge\u2019s exclusive live-action adventure game where players use interactive magic wands to assist pixies and battle dragons and goblins.\nThere will be an animated show in the lobby called the Northwoods Friends show, which utilizes projection mapping technology on a moving, three-dimensional multi-plane surface to immerse children into the world of the Great Wolf Kids characters.\nThe attraction will also include a collection of complimentary family events and activities including Yoga Tails, a program that combines tales of the Northwoods creatures with yoga poses, and Great Wolf Lodge\u2019s signature story time event, where children gather around the fireplace for a bedtime tale.\nThere will also be several dining options, including a collection of eateries inside the Great Wolf Adventure Park, a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts and Ben and Jerry\u2019s ice cream parlor. The resort will also feature Barnwood, a full-service farm-to-fork restaurant featuring dishes made from locally sourced ingredients.\nFamily-friendly suites in a variety of categories and styles will also be at the attraction. These suites include KidCabin suites with separate sleeping quarters for kids complete with bunk beds and Great Wolf Kids character theming, as well as multiple bedroom suites for large families or multi-generational groups.\nGreat Wolf Lodge Arizona offers an exceptional value for families with admission to the water park and much of the family entertainment activities in the Grand Lobby included as part of the guest\u2019s stay.\nGreat Wolf Lodge Arizona will at the corner of Pima Road and Hummingbird Lane, adjacent to Salt River Fields at Talking Stick.\nThe lead architect for the project is Gensler, a global architecture, design and planning firm, and Mortenson, a U.S.-based, family-owned construction and real estate development company that will manage the overall construction of the resort.\nNeuman Pools, a family-owned, design/build company of large scale water attractions, will oversee the construction of both the indoor water park and outdoor pool areas.\nTags:Breaking \u00b7 Featured \u00b7 Great Wolf Lodge Arizona \u00b7 Talking Stick Entertainment District", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scribd.com/document/119059662/Doc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:25Z", "digest": "sha1:L56VIZIZIW452XXB2VQSZAUEFY4IXRL5", "length": 19163, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "www.scribd.com", "title": "Doc | Baptism | Spiritual Warfare", "raw_content": "Uploaded by Eugene Yeboah\nFOUR PLANES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE\nWatchman Nee: (The following is an excerpt from Life Out of Death, a book by Jessie Penn-Lewis. It was originally published by The Overcomer Literature Trust, Parkston, Poole, Dorset, England.) There are four planes\u2014broadly speaking\u2014in the spiritual life of the believer, and of the Christian worker: The first plane we may call the \"evangelistic\" plane; that is, the plane where the soul knows the new birth; knows that he has eternal life in Christ; where he becomes a soul winner, preaches salvation from the penalty of sin, and is used to lead others to Christ; where the entire objective is winning souls for Christ; where he is faithful in proclaiming the gospel of salvation in Christ. Then there is the second plane, which may be called the \"revival\" plane; or the stage in personal experience where the believer receives the fulness of the Holy Spirit, learns to know Him and to obey Him; to rely upon Him and to look to Him to work as he co-operates with Him, and is used to lead others into the experience of the fulness of the Spirit. Then there is the third plane, which we may call the plane of the \"path of the cross\", where the believer experimentally apprehends his position in Romans 6 in fellowship with Christ's death; is brought into \"conformity\" to His death (Philippians 3:10); he learns the fellowship of His sufferings, and is led to walk in the path of the Cross in every detail of practical life. Here the believer is able to interpret to others the way of the Cross, and to lead others to know Romans 6 and 2 Corinthians 4:10-12 in experience. The fourth plane is the plane of spiritual warfare. It is really the \"ascension\" plane, where the believer knows his union with Christ, seated with Him \"far above all principality and power\"; and where, in service, he is in aggressive warfare against the powers of darkness; learns to have spiritual discernment to detect the working of the devil; and learns the authority of Christ over all the power of the enemy. (Luke 10:19.) Or to put it concisely\u2014the first is the plane of salvation, or the new life; the second is the plane of the Spirit; the third is the plane of victory over sin; the fourth is the plane of victory over the powers of darkness. The individual believer, if he goes forward in the Christian life with God, is generally\u2014not always\u2014led just in this order also. First, he receives salvation; second, he receives the Holy Ghost; third he is led along the path of the Cross; fourth, he walks in the path of conflict and victory, resulting in \"power\" over all the power of the enemy. The individual worker, also, finds he is used in these four planes of service. First, he is used to lead others to Christ; second, he is used to lead them into the fulness of the Spirit; third, he is used to interpret to them the path of the Cross; and fourth, to discern the devices and workings of the devil, and to have power over \"all the power of the enemy\", through union with Christ on the throne. Madame Guyon truly says that in every plane of the spiritual life there is a beginning, working out, and a consummation of the life in that degree, followed by a passage into the next plane, where there is again a beginning, a working out, a consummation. In each plane you appear to learn the very same lessons over again, but they are all being learned in a deeper degree. For instance, in the first plane you learn the way of faith in Christ as Saviour, and then you have to learn to exercise faith again in the next plane, and again in the next. It is just as hard to learn the lesson of bare faith in the fourth plane as in the first, and yet, as you look back, you can see the hard lessons of the first plane are now quite simple and easy. Further, it is true that, speaking generally, it often takes years to get through each plane! When you pass into a new plane of the spiritual life, it is often with some great conscious \"blessing\". A God-given experience of fulness in Christ, which may be described as a \"taste\" of what God has for you in that plane in its consummation. For instance, you get a revelation of the ascension life, seated with Christ in the heavenly places, and the joy and light of it is so real, that you think you will never come down again to the lower planes you now leave behind you, but in a brief while of weeks, or months, the \"conscious\" blessing\u2014lasting according to the extent of the revelation and its power\u2014apparently disappears, and you perhaps struggle to regain what you think you have lost. Now you have to fight by bare faith, to hold the ground you have taken. Then follows what may be called a \"tunnel\" experience, when you go through test upon test; in which, perhaps, you may think you fail, but through all you find there is advancement, and final emergence into the full consummation of that specific plane of the spiritual life, where you understand the way of abiding; for in the working into you of that life by the \"tunnel\" experience, God has removed what stands in the way of the permanent abiding in that stage of the knowledge of Him. (See Romans 5:2-5, A.V. and R.V.)\nBut let us remember, if God gives you a message which He means you to take hold of, He holds you, even when you appear to lose it. His Word given to you lays hold of you. That word has divine life and energy in it, and it can grip you, and hold you to it. God requires your co-operation, of course, and you must actively take the word by faith; but the power is in the Word itself when God has spoken it to you. If the Lord has given you the word \"power over the power of the enemy\", you have to co-operate by saying in response, \"I choose and accept it, Lord, but I have no power to hold it; the Word must hold me.\" And in truth you often apparently lose it, so that it goes right away from you, but if you go on steadily in bare faith, you come at last through the tunnel working of God, to the consummation point, and then what looked like a literal impossibility to you when God gave you the light, you find has been wrought into you as part of your very life; assimilated and incorporated into your spiritual being. When a believer has pressed on with God faithfully from plane to plane, and has reached the sphere of warfare and victory over the powers of the air, then he should be able to lead others into any of the degrees of blessing they need; but, usually, when the soul is in a certain stage, and not arrived at its full consummation, he can only help others in the same stage, speaking out of his present light and experience. It is not until the consummation point is reached that the believer has liberty and facility in dealing with others in planes which he himself has left behind. In the transitional stage of each plane, you can only give the vision you have, so that your ministry seems limited to those who are at the same stage. You interpret to them what you, and they, are experiencing. But when you are through that plane, it seems as if you are able to minister to souls at any degree as they may need it. Therefore you must never be disturbed if any one says that your \"message\" did not help them at all, or possibly your message was \"above their heads\". The fact is, you were obliged to give it, for you were not free enough for anything else, and you ministered only to a certain number of souls who could be helped by that message. What about others, you ask? Remember you cannot meet the needs of all until you have passed through the stages of all. A worker needs to be very matured in the spiritual life to have light and truth for \"all saints\", just as Paul had, and the other apostles. When the believer has passed through these \"planes\"\u2014a matter of years, more or less\u2014and he reaches the plane of power over the forces of darkness, in its fullest degree, then he is in the \"apostolic\" stage, with sufficient facility, and equipment, and knowledge, and liberty, from his own experience of the Word of Righteousness (Hebrews 5:13), to be able to handle the Word of God as a steward, and to minister it to others at their various degrees. When you become matured and ripened, then you do not speak from what you yourself are at the moment experiencing, but you are able to use the Scripture of truth as an armoury, and be \"furnished completely\" for every good work, able to wield, or apply the Word of God to each soul. This is real equipment, and ripeness of maturity, and fitness for service in the power of the Holy Ghost. What is also needed is that Christians should know that the victory of Calvary over the powers of darkness is required to be apprehended by them in every stage of the spiritual life, and every plane of experience. (1) The evangelist needs to know it, because to win souls to Christ, he must learn how to bind the devil holding souls, and therefore the truth of victory over the powers of darkness as declared in the Word of God, is part of the evangelist's armour and equipment. (2) Those who receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit need to know the victory over the powers of darkness, so as to be able to detect the counterfeits, and to refuse them. (3) Those who go on in the path of the Cross equally need to know the devices of the deceiving spirits, because they will interfere with them at every step onward in their knowledge of the Cross, and try to mix their workings with the work of God in every degree. In fact, the truths about the powers of darkness need to be known in every plane, and at each stage of the spiritual life, according to the measure and need. But the urgent work to be done now is to meet the need of the advanced ranks of the Church of Christ. Those who can, \"by reason of use\", exercise their spiritual senses, and are able to \"eat\" and assimilate the \"solid food\" which is for those of full age; as well as to give the same spiritual food in \"milk\" form to the babes, so that they may grow. In helping others, if you find that believers do not understand the meaning of the prayer-warfare, you should ask them if they know anything about the Cross, and the position of death with Christ, according to Romans 6; for they must know the death to sin, and to the world, before they can understand the spiritual warfare. If they do not know the power of the Cross, you must go further back, and ask them if they know the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, for the power to know experimentally the fellowship of Christ's death is given by the Holy Spirit. If they do not know the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you must go further back still, and ask them if they possess the\nnew life in Christ at all. How can a soul receive the fulness of the Holy Spirit, if it does not know Christ as a Saviour, and is not born from above into the kingdom of Christ? We must as workers be able to lead souls back from point to point to the place of need, and recognize the four grades, or planes, of growth in dealing with them. For these who already know the Baptism of the Spirit, and the path of the Cross, the pressing need is light on the warfare with Satan; but another need on a wider scale is the experimental knowledge of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost, for a vast number of believers do not know this, and the two-fold aspect of the Cross: therefore they cannot understand what we mean by \"warfare\" and the need of the discerning of spirits. It is not enough to proclaim victory over the powers of darkness, you must lead the children of God to know the Cross in its relation to believers. The warfare of Ephesians 6 is a spiritual warfare, and only through the death of the Cross is the believer brought into the spiritual realm, and the conflict there. Many Christians are perplexed over receiving the Holy Spirit because they think they only have the proof of having done so, if they have manifestations of His presence: so on this subject many questions arise. The Scriptures make it clear that you receive Him by faith (Galatians 3:2, 3), but there is a succeeding work to be done in real surrender to obey Him, and the putting of all obstacles out of the way of His fullest working; the hindrances must be removed to His working through the believer, and the wrong things in the life put away, as revealed progressively by Him. When does the special need of light on the powers of darkness and their workings now come in? All over the world there are large numbers of believers definitely and clearly preaching full assurance of salvation in Christ. Then there are an increasing number of believers who really know the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and are in the \"Revival\" plane, or the plane of knowing the Holy Spirit, and co-working with Him. Again there are others\u2014a smaller company\u2014knowing the Holy Spirit, who have really pressed on in the power of the Spirit to follow the Lamb of Calvary in the path of the Cross. Now speaking generally, these last-named believers are blocked, because they have no glimmer of anything beyond this. They have thought that they have simply to go on to the end in the path of the Cross\u2014in the Spirit of the Lamb. Meanwhile the powers of darkness have been coming in like a flood to the Church of Christ, blocking and hindering the work of God on every side. The message needed by these souls who know the fellowship of the Cross\u2014or the crucified life\u2014is the knowledge of the aggressive war upon the powers of darkness. The call to these is, \"Arise, in the new life of Christ, and in the equipment of the Holy Ghost\u2014whom you have already known to lead you unto death\u2014and lay hold of the Victory of Christ, and take the aggressive against the foe.\" Having died to the old fleshly life of activity\u2014the soulish life energy\u2014having died to the world, and become separated unto Christ; these are the souls who need to see their union with Christ in the ascension life, and His authority over all the power of the enemy. Here we must point out a cause of danger in the life of many who know the path of the Cross. They have learned the power of the Holy Ghost, and the path of the Cross; they have understood that they were to \"follow the Lamb\"; to submit to the will of God; and they have followed on in that path faithfully, until now they may have unknowingly gone on a point too far. Their \"surrender\" may have become \"passivity\"\u2014i.e., a passive condition of mind, and sometimes of all their faculties\u2014which is not according to God. Having ceased to \"resist\" in the \"flesh\" they have sunk into a passive submission to all things around them, not only to the \"will of God\", but to the will of Satan, and failed in their attitude of resistance \"in the spirit\" to the spiritual foe. Their surrender to \"the will of God\" became, or has become unconsciously, a passive-submission to Satan. There has undoubtedly come upon the Church a heavy pressure of the powers of darkness, and many souls who know the Cross are failing to detect between the \"will of God\" and the \"will of Satan\"; and they are presenting no resistance, and no solid front against the adversary and his hosts. Surrender to God has lapsed into \"passivity\", or passive endurance of everything. They have only the view of the Lamb, and not the Lion-LAMB\u2014the Lamb who submits to death, but not the LION-LAMB who triumphs over the devil. These souls must arise out of their passive condition, and in the power of the Spirit go forward into aggressive warfare against the powers of darkness. They must use their renewed will in active co-operation with God. They must take the aggressive with victory-prayer against every hindrance that the devil puts in their way. They should march forward claiming the victory of the Cross over all the power of the enemy. These are the souls who, because of their baptism into death, and consequent cessation of fleshly and soulish energy, may receive, or \"take\", and exercise the \"gifts of the Spirit\". Whatever gift is necessary for their service in this warfare, they may take as part of the provided equipment of the Spirit for this hour of need. Note also that souls in each plane can help and lead others in the plane behind them, but they cannot push any\none forward into the plane before them, nor fully understand or \"judge\" others in the plane ahead of them. In the path ahead there are conditions, realms of knowledge, points of danger, only known to those in that degree, and unseen and not understood by souls in earlier degrees. The enemy knows this, and oft-times pushes a \"babe\" in the second plane to resist truths only understood further on. Yet the truths suited to planes three and four must be spoken for those who need them. Lastly, let it be distinctly stated that the description of these degrees in the spiritual life of a believer is given from the experimental, or \"subjective\" aspect, and not from the judicial or positional side of truth, wherein a \"babe in Christ\" may be said to be as \"complete in Him\" from the moment of conversion, as at the end of life. 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The zip code of 30016 in which this community is location is a mostly average income area. It has an average per-family income of $52,216. It has a dense population, including about 51,140 people in the surrounding area. This residence is centrally located, with healthcare services, shopping, and religious services all in a close distance. There are 5 pharmacies within a mile of the facility. There are several doctors offices within a short drive. There are also 21 churches within 4 miles, including Grace Tabernacle, Salem United Methodist Church, Peeks Chapel Baptist Church, and Grace Covenant Presbyterian.\nHopewell Personal Care Home offers nursing home care, assisted living, and Alzheimer's care. They can provide care for those who need a higher level of assistance and round-the-clock care from a nursing staff. Also, they can accommodate those who need help with common chores but who wish to maintain some level of independence. Additionally they can offer care to those at any level of dementia or memory loss who need support with common chores and monitoring to avoid wandering.\nThis residence features assorted personal services that include a 24-hour staff and transportation assistance. In addition, they have a selection of medical services like general assistance with personal care and medication support. 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Madison in Fort Madison, IA - Reviews, Pricing, & Photos | SeniorAdvice.com", "raw_content": "5025 River Valley Rd, Fort Madison, IA 52627\nPricing for Sunnybrook of Ft. Madison\nSunnybrook of Ft. Madison Cost Comparisons\nAbout Sunnybrook of Ft. Madison\nLocated in Fort Madison, Iowa, Sunnybrook of Ft. Madison provides senior living in a comfortable facility for older individuals. The zip code of 52627 which this community is located in has an average population density, with around 13,105 people. It is a generally average income area, with a median household income of $41,928. The facility is located close by numerous local amenities, including health care services, retail shopping, and churches. There are 3 drug stores within a mile of the community. They are just 0.6 miles from Fort Madison Community Hospital. There are also 3 churches within four miles, including Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's, Joy Baptist Church, and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.\nSunnybrook of Ft. 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Madison\nFort Madison Community Hospital - 0.61 Miles Away\nRashid Pharmacy P L C - 2.03 Miles Away\nNauvoo Pharmacy And Floral - 5.72 Miles Away\nJoy Baptist Church - 1.64 Miles Away\nChrist Lutheran Church - 5.8 Miles Away\nUnited Church of Christ - 9.73 Miles Away\nAssisted Living in La Harpe, IL", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 6166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seniorhealth365.com/diet-and-nutrition/ways-to-improve-muscle-mass-in-the-elderly/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GDMBXLWQUSUX6RSS2DL5Z45SOBZLV4S4", "length": 3537, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.seniorhealth365.com", "title": "Ways to Improve Muscle Mass in the Elderly | SeniorHealth365.com", "raw_content": "Aging brings about several physiological changes in the body. This means that these changes are not due to any disease but just a normal consequence of advancing age. One such change is the loss of muscle mass. Although this can happen at any time in life, particularly with malnutrition and physical inactivity, it is somewhat inevitable for the elderly for several age-related reasons. The medical term for this gradual loss of muscle mass is sarcopenia.\nThere is a greater focus on age-related conditions such as sarcopenia in geriatric medicine as people are now living longer particularly in industrialized nations and these changes in the body has a significant impact on the quality of life. The elderly therefore need to be aware of sarcopenia, the ways in which it can increase the risk of injuries such as falls and how it may eventually reduce their independence to function without a caregiver. However, this loss of muscle mass can be slowed down as newer research reveals simple measures to maintain muscle bulk and strength.\nIt is important to remember that while a more sedentary lifestyle in the senior years is a major contributing factor to sarcopenia, there are several other reasons for this loss of muscle mass. It is a combination of dietary change with age, absorption of nutrients from the gut, changes in the way the muscle cells respond to hormonal signals and failure of mechanisms that repair and grow muscle cells. However, a combination of diet and exercise can help slow down the muscle loss with age.\nDietary Change and Foods To Decrease Muscle Loss\nPoor nutrition is a common occurrence in the senior years. Advancing age reduces the appetite and this may be further exacerbated by underlying chronic diseases or medication use. Sometimes economic factors in the retirement years also contribute to poor dietary habits. However, a significant factor with regards to inadequate nutrition among the elderly revolves around ignorance and the misconceptions that poor eating habits like a tea and toast diet will be sufficient to maintain health.\nProtein is essential to maintain muscle mass. Therefore a protein-rich diet provides the body with the materials needed to build muscle proteins. The protein intake does not need to be excessive and according to research, just a moderate serving of protein-rich foods is sufficient to achieve this effect. Meat is one of the major sources of protein but even for vegetarians or the elderly who cannot tolerate meat, protein rich dietary supplements may prove to be a viable dietary option.\nExercise to Reduce Muscle Loss\nDietary modification should also be accompanied by appropriate physical activity. It is this activity that serves as the stimulus for the formation of muscle fibers and subsequently increases the muscle mass and prevent further loss. The exercise regimen should be decided in conjunction with a doctor and physical therapist specializing in geriatric medicine to ensure that the body can handle the activity and to avoid injuries.\nCardiovascular and moderate weight-bearing exercise should be combined, although each type of workout has both components to some degree. The exercise needs to be regular and in a minimum of 15 minute increments per session. One should be aware of individual limitations and discontinue any exercise once symptoms like chest pain, dizziness and shortness of breath arise. Muscle loss with age is most prominent in the lower extremities and therefore greater effort should be focused on this part of the body.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ses.com/pt/node/716", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XIJCD5OTVXISTQNBBACIFWTTJ2C6EKNE", "length": 2972, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ses.com", "title": "SES AND GLOBAL EAGLE ENTERTAINMENT INK KU-BAND CAPACITY DEALS TO ADD INFLIGHT CONNECTIVITY BANDWIDTH OVER KEY REGIONS | SES", "raw_content": "Region: Asia, Middle East, North America\nSES AND GLOBAL EAGLE ENTERTAINMENT INK KU-BAND CAPACITY DEALS TO ADD INFLIGHT CONNECTIVITY BANDWIDTH OVER KEY REGIONS\nLOS ANGELES/LUXEMBOURG, 19 April 2016 - SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) (Nasdaq: ENT) today announced further significant Ku-band capacity agreements to help usher in the next generation connected airline passenger experience across established and developing markets around the world.\nThese latest agreements between GEE and SES secure multiple transponders of wide beam Ku-band coverage aboard SES\u2019s NSS-12 and AMC-1 satellites to meet the fast-growing passenger and airline demand for more connectivity across India, Central Asia, the Middle East and North America. GEE is now tapping 12 SES satellites to put together a complementary mix of Ku-band wide beam and upcoming Ku-band high throughput satellite (HTS) spot beam coverage to meet various levels of inflight connectivity demand along travel routes around the globe.\n\u201cGEE is in the midst of a strategic expansion of our global inflight connectivity network to meet the growing and evolving demands of airlines and their passengers for a new wave of high-speed Wi-Fi-based services,\u201d said Dave Davis, CEO at GEE. \u201cTogether with SES, GEE continues to proactively add significant levels of bandwidth over established inflight connectivity markets, as well as developing regions such as Asia and the Middle East where passenger demand is accelerating the deployment of connected aircraft over new routes.\u201d\n\u201cSES has built a robust and scalable global infrastructure to meet the growing demand for inflight entertainment and connectivity,\u201d said Elias Zaccack, Senior Vice President, Commercial, Americas, and head of Global Mobility solutions at SES. \u201cSES is committed to delivering a great mobile experience to airline passengers, and these latest capacity agreements with GEE will bring a new level of inflight connectivity to both expanding and emerging markets.\u201d\nGlobal Eagle Entertainment Inc. (Nasdaq: ENT) is a worldwide provider of aircraft connectivity systems, operations solutions and media content to the travel industry. Through the industry\u2019s most comprehensive product and services platform, Global Eagle Entertainment provides airlines with a wide range of inflight solutions. These include Wi-Fi, movies, television, music and interactive software, as well as portable IFE solutions, content management services, e-commerce solutions and original content development. Serving more than 200 airlines worldwide, Global Eagle Entertainment delivers exceptional quality and value to its customers to help them achieve their passenger experience objectives. The company\u2019s headquarters are located in Los Angeles, California, with offices and teams located in North America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Oceania and South America. Find out more at: www.geemedia.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 6551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shazamlaw.com/blog/2009/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UJRJAVPCDVGMAV3WHLYASFC5PDUD4VDO", "length": 5225, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.shazamlaw.com", "title": "December 2009 Archives | Denver DUI/DWAI Law Blog", "raw_content": "Tougher DUI Penalties\nOn behalf of Shazam Kianpour of Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C. posted in Drunk Driving Charges on Tuesday, December 22, 2009.\nColorado has seen a dramatic rise in anger and venom towards those accused of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) over the course of 2009. The Denver Post and some cooperating District Attorneys offices throughout the state have been working hard to bring tougher DUI penalties to Colorado. The talk is starting to get tougher. Often times when someone is charged with DUI or DWAI and calls our office they have prior offenses. Their concern is usually the threat of jail time. A DUI or a DWAI with priors carries up to a year in jail and several counties throughout the state are moving towards a guarantee of significant jail time. However, people in tough positions can still find sympathetic judges who recognize that not all situations are the same. Judges will listen to the length of time between DUI's, family situation, employment issues and other important things that are called \"mitigation.\" Having heard a defendant's mitigation, some Judge's will be more lenient when it is appropriate.\nContinue reading Tougher DUI Penalties...\nOn behalf of Shazam Kianpour of Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C. posted in Sealing Criminal Records on Thursday, December 17, 2009.\nAs more and more people continue to search for new jobs in this strained economy the need to get that old criminal charge removed from your record becomes extremely important. We are frequently asked by our clients, \"there is an old charge on my record from 10 years ago. Doesn't that fall off my record after such a long time?\" Sadly the answer is \"no.\" Unfortunately most people don't think to start asking about sealing/expunging their records until they have already been turned down for a job.Plan for your sealing your record. Sealing your record successfully will not be accomplished overnight. The largest hurdle to most record sealing is that Colorado law requires a record sealing request to be scheduled for a hearing. Every court is different and each court may have different timetables. Some courts may get a hearing scheduled for you right away while other courts may set a hearing much further out. Ultimately if you are thinking about sealing your record make sure that you plan it out so you are not feeling overwhelmed as your next job interview approaches. Give yourself the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your record has been completely sealed and apply for that next job in complete confidence. Contact one of our attorneys today, we are here to help.\nContinue reading Sealing Your Record...\nOn behalf of Shazam Kianpour of Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C. posted in Crimes of Violence on Monday, December 7, 2009.\nIf you have been charged with a specialized offense called a \"crime of violence\" there is a very real risk you may go to prison. A crime of violence charge (not to be confused with a violent crime) is any one of the following offenses: murder, ANY crime against an at-risk adult or an at-risk juvenile, 1st or 2nd degree assault, kidnapping, a sexual offense (felony), aggravated robbery, 1st degree arson, 1st degree burglary, escape, or criminal extortion if during that offense the offender used, or possessed and threatened the use of, a deadly weapon, or caused serious bodily injury or death to anyone other than the offender. Therefore, some offenses, such as felony menacing which, by definition, involve a deadly weapon, aren't crimes of violence because they are not listed in the specific crimes that can be a crime of violence. Now, say an offender is charged with a crime of violence. If the defendant is found guilty (or pleads guilty) to a crime of violence, he or she can't get probation, even if the Judge wants to give probation. They must be sentenced to prison and must be sentenced to prison from at least the midpoint of the normal range of punishment to double the normal punishment range. For example, a class 4 felony normally carries a 2-6 year sentencing range. Charge a crime of violence and that person, if convicted of the crime of violence, must receive between 4-12 years in prison. It gets even more complicated. A lot of offenses that are crimes of violence are also extraordinary risk crimes. An extraordinary risk crime is a crime (aggravated robbery, child abuse, distribution or manufacture of a controlled substance, any crime of violence, stalking, etc.) that is just slightly worse than other felonies of the same level. An extraordinary risk designation tacks an extra couple of years on the range of sentence for a given level of felony (2 years extra for a class 4 felony, 4 years extra for a class 3 felony). The crime of assault in the second degree, a class 4 felony, is both an extraordinary risk crime and a crime of violence. Therefore, the range changes from 2-6 years to 2-8 years (based on the extraordinary risk designation) and then to a mandatory 5-16 years prison based on the crime of violence. It's important for your attorney to know these laws and to understand how all the statutes work together to change the sentencing ranges you may be facing.\nContinue reading Crimes of Violence...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 7700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shazamlaw.com/blog/2016/07/you-have-the-right-to-keep-your-mouth-shut.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:20Z", "digest": "sha1:4W2ATAUQ7W2GRJBO5ZIZHCI57TK4BTYJ", "length": 2425, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.shazamlaw.com", "title": "You Have The Right To Keep Your Mouth Shut | Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C.", "raw_content": "You Have The Right To Keep Your Mouth Shut\nOn behalf of Shazam Kianpour of Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C. posted in Criminal Defense on Tuesday, July 5, 2016.\nWe all have our favorite television crime drama and we've all heard these words:\n\"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. you have the right to speak to an attorney, and to have an attorney present during any questioning.\"\nThis is to be taken extremely seriously as a seemingly innocent exchange with a police officer, investigator or prosecutor can quickly leave you facing damaging criminal charges.\nWe hope you never need to worry about these rights and how to respond to police inquiries but, if you pay attention to these tips, you will know what to do to protect your rights.\n1 Rule: Keep Your Mouth Shut!\nThe importance of this cannot be stressed enough. The burden of proof is on the prosecution and police officers have the burden of gathering evidence that a crime was committed.\nYou are under no obligation to do their jobs for them or be helpful in any way. The moments and days after allegations of a crime is the time for you to be silent and allow your attorney to focus on your defense.\nEven if the police are wrong?\nYes, even if the police are wrong. Arguing the merits of your case does you no good and can only do your case harm. No one has ever had charges dropped or been acquitted of criminal by arguing with the police. However, many people have dug an unnecessary hole for themselves due to an insatiable need to be right or prove their innocence.\nEven if the police officer say they can help?\nYes. The police are under no obligation to keep their word, which means they can promise whatever they want to get you talking. This is all the more reason to keep your mouth shut in the presence of law enforcement.\nI'm sorry. I just need to talk to somebody about this.\nYou're right. You do need to talk to someone if you have been accused, charged or have reason to believe you are under investigation. You need to speak to a proven criminal defense lawyer.\nUntil then, you have the right to remain silent. Use it!\nRelated Posts: Judicial bias can sometimes be subtle - and then there's this, Where does fairness reside re the criminal charging of teenagers?, Why criminal lineups are a concern, mandate material change, Will this SCOTUS case expand Americans' privacy rights?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shazamlaw.com/blog/2017/09/labor-day-dui-blitz-is-over-and-there-were-many-dui-citations.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PH6KVEKJKNZKJOSC5QO2XNP2L53FO5M2", "length": 1814, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.shazamlaw.com", "title": "Labor Day DUI blitz is over \u2014 and there were many DUI citations | Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C.", "raw_content": "Labor Day DUI blitz is over \u2014 and there were many DUI citations\nOn behalf of Shazam Kianpour of Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C. posted in blog on Friday, September 15, 2017.\nA few weeks ago, we told you about the upcoming Labor Day DUI blitz in Colorado. This particular DUI crackdown is part of the state\u2019s larger \u201cThe Heat in On\u201d DUI campaign, which consists of 14 specific DUI enforcement periods that occur throughout the year, including the most recent one over Labor Day weekend.\nWell, now that Labor Day has come and gone, we now know how many DUI citations were given during this crackdown \u2014 and the number is a lot higher than last year.\nNearly 1200 DUI citations this year\nAccording to reports made available by the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT), this year\u2019s Labor Day DUI blitz resulted in 1184 impaired driving citations, which is 210 more than last year\u2019s total of 974 \u2014 representing an astonishing 22 percent increase.\nAnd even though summer may be coming to an end, it is important to remember that there are still several more DUI enforcement periods in Colorado this year, including the \u201cFall Festivals\u201d DUI blitz, which actually starts today and runs through October 23.\nSo if you plan to attend any football games, beer festivals or tailgate parties over the next five weeks, you better be prepared to see more cops on the road as well as additional sobriety checkpoints.\nIf you are stopped as part of this crackdown, you need to remember that you do have certain rights, including the right to say, \u201cNo thanks,\u201d when police ask you to take part in voluntary roadside sobriety tests or preliminary breath tests. However, unlike these roadside tests, you will face possible penalties if you refuse testing following arrest, such as a blood test or an official Breathalyzer test.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shazamlaw.com/blog/2018/01/standardized-test-for-marijuana-intoxication-still-elusive.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:48Z", "digest": "sha1:B3WQDJXFOK2TRGSTJ7BDVCUFDAJAIGKY", "length": 2870, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.shazamlaw.com", "title": "Standardized test for marijuana intoxication still elusive | Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C.", "raw_content": "Standardized test for marijuana intoxication still elusive\nOn behalf of Shazam Kianpour of Shazam Kianpour & Associates, P.C. posted in DUID on Tuesday, January 30, 2018.\nThe Colorado Department of Transportation says that \"any amount of marijuana consumption puts you at risk of driving impaired\" and warns that you cannot judge your own level of impairment. The official DUID threshold for marijuana is five nanograms of active tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), but officers are expected to base DUID arrests on the things they observe that indicate impairment.\nMany law enforcement officers in Colorado are specially trained on recognizing driving impairments caused by drugs. Agencies also commonly rely on trained drug recognition experts. Among criminal defense attorneys, training programs such as Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement or advanced drug recognition are controversial. They offer the promise of a scientific, fact-based evaluation of a person's actual degree of impairment, but the techniques often seem to be based on relatively flimsy evidence.\nAt the same time, legally assuming that 5 nanograms of THC in the bloodstream implies intoxication is also problematic.\n\"There is no one blood or oral fluid concentration that can differentiate impaired and not impaired,\" says a National Institute on Drug Abuse scientist who has spent over 20 years researching the issue. \"It's not like we need to say, 'Oh, let's do some more research and give you an answer.' We already know. We've done the research.\"\nAs of now, there simply is no scientifically valid method of determining someone's impairment from marijuana. That's partially because people react differently to THC based on gender, body-fat percentage, familiarity with cannabis and other factors.\nAnother reason is that legalization has allowed much more research into marijuana than was possible before. And, new research is revealing information we didn't have before.\nFor example, older research suggested that, for occasional users, THC remained in the bloodstream for six to eight hours. More recently, research has made clear that the level of THC in a user's blood reaches nearly zero within about 2-1/2 hours.\nThere's no real question that cannabis is intoxicating, even for experienced users. People who are impaired by THC should not drive. Both medical and recreational users need to be aware that they risk impairment when they consume cannabis.\nWith no easy test to show intoxication, however, we are left with roadside tests and law enforcement's judgment about who is impaired.\nTags: Colorado, DUID, Drunk Driving, marijuana\nRelated Posts: Spotlight on impaired driving in Colorado enforcement campaign, Looking for a better DUID standard in Colorado, Part 2, In search of a meaningful \"too high to drive\" test, Is CO's 5-NG THC limit a reliable measure for impaired driving?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sheknows.com/baby-names/name/naeem/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HHL4GCDYLMWMV3DOEY54B44BK64PATYW", "length": 140, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sheknows.com", "title": "Na\u2019eem \u2013 SheKnows", "raw_content": "The name Na\u2019eem is a baby boy name.\nThe name Na\u2019eem is a Muslim baby name. In Muslim the meaning of the name Na\u2019eem is: Happiness. Benefits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 4203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 229.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/defence-notes/wimax-watch-clearwire-the-name-of-the-ga/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUEOZKDQR6SMNXWZVBMJSLAOHG7Y5PR2", "length": 2894, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.shephardmedia.com", "title": "WIMAX WATCH: Clearwire the name of the game in the USA - DN - Defence Notes - Shephard Media", "raw_content": "WIMAX WATCH: Clearwire the name of the game in the USA\nUS telecoms giant Sprint Nextel and Washington State-based Clearwire have completed a deal to combine their wireless Internet businesses, opening the way for roll-out of a nationwide WiMAX service.\nSprint has handed all of its 2.5GHz spectrum and other WiMAX-related assets, including the Xohm service, to Clearwire, which has also received a $3.2 billion cash investment from Comcast, Intel, Time Warner Cable, Google and Bright House Networks. The new company retains the name Clearwire and remains headquartered in Kirkland, Washington. The investors hold 22 per cent of the new company, the original Clearwire owners \u2013 who include serial telecoms entrepreneur Craig McCaw - 27 per cent and Sprint a controlling 51 per cent.\nFinancially troubled Sprint and Clearwire, operator of a network based on WiMAX precursor technology in a number of US states, were involved last year in an on-off courtship. Now they have joined forces to advance the vision of US-wide pervasive wireless Internet access based on \u201cWiFi on steroids\u201d WiMAX, with its greater reange and superior bandwidth.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve made an excellent start developing WiMAX services under our Xohm brand,\u201d said Sprint chief executive Dan Hesse earlier this year. \u201cContributing those advances to a strongly backed new company in which we\u2019ll hold the largest stake provides us with additional financial flexibility and allows us to focus on our core business.\u201d\nCraig McCaw is another key individual behind the new arrangement. He was not only chairman of the original Clearwire but he also controls ICO, the company set up originally to implement a global satellite handheld service but now poised to offer land-mobile broadband Internet access via a newly launched geostationary satellite located over the USA.\n\u201cThe power of the mobile Internet will fundamentally transform the communications landscape in our country,\u201d he said. \u201cWe believe the new Clearwire will operate one of the fastest and most capable broadband wireless networks ever conceived.\u201d\nThe new business will build on Clearwire's 400,000-strong subscriber base and Sprint\u2019s Xohm WiMAX network build-out, which started in a few markets earlier this year. It plans to offer mobile Internet services on an array of new devices and to create a network covering between 120 million and 140 million people in the USA by the end of 2010. Sprint will contribute hardware, software, all its WiMAX-related trademarks and other intellectual property, and existing infrastructure.\nIntel will work with manufacturers to embed WiMAX chips into Intel Centrino 2-based laptops and other mobile Internet devices. Google will work with the new Clearwire to develop Internet services, advertising and applications for mobile WiMAX devices. It will also supply the search capability and will be a preferred provider of other applications.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 6970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/special-operations/igov-receives-tacp-mcs-block-2-do/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5A3LYPBJBR4WMUEPEIQRLG6EHTT7OG2N", "length": 1096, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.shephardmedia.com", "title": "iGov receives M1165 comms system order - SOF - Special Operations - Shephard Media", "raw_content": "iGov receives M1165 comms system order\niGov Technologies has received an $85.1 million Tactical Air Control Party Mobile Communications System (TACP-MCS) Block 2 delivery order, the company announced on 17 September.\nThe order was placed under under the Department of Defense's Platform Engineering and Integration for Tactical and Strategic Systems IDIQ contract.\nThe contract will see iGov modify the M1165 HMMWV armoured variant used by Air Force Tactical Air Control Party operators. iGov will integrate and deliver modernised, robust voice, data, and video communications capabilities required by Joint Terminal Attack Controllers for close air support operations.\nChuck Reiche, senior vice president of business development, iGov, said: \u2018With MCS Block 2, the air force is going to receive a mature solution built upon the capabilities we are successfully fielding for MCS Block 1. We are committed to excellence as we continue to provide air force TACP operators the communications systems they need to successfully execute their missions.\u2019\nWork is expected to be complete by January 2024.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shoulers.co.uk/staff/simon-johnson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LMVHXCD6OKFS753XCJDHZONZXGT3KFM6", "length": 508, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.shoulers.co.uk", "title": "Simon Johnson, Partner from Shouler & Son Residential Sales & Lettings Office office", "raw_content": "Simon Johnson - Partner\nSimon has lived in and around Melton for 32 years and has 29 years\u2019 experience in Estate Agency both in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, the last 17 years of which have been with Shoulers. Simon lives in Melton with his wife, 2 teenage daughters and trusty Border Terrier \u2018Wiggins\u2019. The self-confessed \u2018Petrol Head\u2019 spends a lot of his spare time in or underneath his Lotus sports car or at motor sport events around the country and enjoys a pint or 2 of real ale.\nMessage Simon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 8128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sibername.com/blog/understanding-gtlds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:43Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2LGNGR4H3MVPFP36EH2IFB2Y5UVK3IV", "length": 1946, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sibername.com", "title": "Understanding gTLD\u2019s - Sibername Blog", "raw_content": "Understanding gTLD\u2019s\nAnyone who has ever tried to create a new website has likely experienced the difficulty of finding a unique web address that has not already been taken. Everyone is familiar with the handful of Generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .net, and .org. The latest domain gTLD\u2019s to be added to the list include names such as .luxury, .university, and .toys are now available, and hundreds more will be introduced over the coming months. Now, after many years of deliberation, companies worldwide have started to sign up for the newly released gTLDs.\nEvery company should be aware that the registration of website names is done on a first come, first served basis. Consider the case of Delta Faucets: they would have loved to have the domain name delta.com, but that website was registered first by Delta Airlines. Another example is that of all of the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture remedies for indigestion and would have liked to use the domain name \u201cheartburn.com\u201d. That domain name was grabbed by GSK to advertise Tums.\nIt should also be noted that prior to each new gTLD launch, pre-registration might be available. Pre-Registration does not guarantee that you will be granted the domain name, but it does allow your registrar to auto-submit the domain names you want. If only one pre-registration was received, the domain name will be immediately granted. If more than one pre-registration is received for a particular domain name, a seven-day auction will commence immediately, with only those that pre-registered being allowed to participate. After the launch, domain names can immediately be registered -first come, first served.\nSibername is a domain name registration and hosting company that works to provide stability, security, and accessibility for all of its clients. 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Eligibility: This Campaign is open only to those who enter by uploading a photo clearly showing a ballot with the hashtag #SidelineOscars and who are 18 as of the date of entry.The Campaign is only open to legal residents of the United States, and is void where prohibited by law. Employees of Sideline Pictures, its affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and suppliers, (collectively the \u201cEmployees\u201d), and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of Employees are not eligible to participate in the Campaign. The Campaign is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Void where prohibited.\n2. Agreement to Rules: By participating, the Contestant (\u201cYou\u201d) agree to be fully unconditionally bound by these Rules, and You represent and warrant that You meet the eligibility requirements. 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Shackleton had originally planned to sail his ship, the Endurance, through the Weddell Sea to the South American side of the continent, land on the coast, and then march a team of five men, supported by dogs and sledges, to the South Pole and then onto the Ross Sea on the side closest to Australia. Completing this mission would make the explorer the first to cross the entire continent. In the context of other Antarctic expeditions, this achievement held out the promise of enduring fame for Shackleton and glory for Great Britain.\nBut in late January 1915, pack ice had locked the Endurance about eighty miles from land, holding the ship and her crew hostage to the drifting floes; by October, the currents had carried the boat almost seven hundred miles north and west. The floes\u2014large masses of floating ice, some weighing several tons\u2014alternately broke apart and came back together in the ocean\u2019s mighty swells. Caught in this shifting mosaic, the wooden ship creaked and groaned under the immense pressure. It seemed only a matter of time before the Endurance would succumb and sink.\nToward the end of October, the ice suddenly rose and fell, driving the vessel starboard (rightward) to a thirty-degree tilt. The ship righted itself when the ice loosened some. But in the ensuing days, the floes continued to press on the hull, opening planks on the ship\u2019s sides. Crew members manned the pumps round the clock as they tried to stanch the inflowing water. The captain, Frank Worsley, still hoped the Endurance might break free of the moving pack and sail into open water. But Shackleton was less optimistic and made plans to move the men and supplies onto the ice. \u201cA strange occurrence was the appearance of eight Emperor [penguins],\u201d Worsley noted in his diary on October 26. After issuing a few ordinary cries, he wrote, the birds \u201cproceeded to sing what sounded like a dirge for the ship.\u201d\nThe next day, the ice intensified its assault on the Endurance, squeezing her like a vise. The vessel was \u201cin her death agony,\u201d wrote the expedition\u2019s surgeon, Alexander Macklin, in his diary. \u201cIt was a pitiful sight. To all of us she seemed like a living thing\u2014we had sworn at her and cursed her antics in a seaway, but we had learned to love her as we now realised, and it was awful to witness her torture.\u201d Late that afternoon, Shackleton ordered his men to abandon ship and take refuge in tents on the shifting ice floe. That night, the temperature fell to -15\u00b0 Fahrenheit (-26\u00b0 Celsius).\nWhile the men tried to sleep amid the vessel\u2019s cracking timbers, Shackleton paced the ice. He thought about the dying ship. He took stock of his men and options for getting them all home alive. Like other leaders in a crisis, Shackleton understood that achieving his mission depended critically on how he managed himself\u2014mentally, emotionally, and physically. He realized that the path ahead was likely to be long and arduous, and as he later remembered, \u201can ordered mind and a clear programme were essential if we were to come through without loss of life.\u201d\nEarly the next morning, Shackleton, his second-in-command, Frank Wild, and expedition photographer Frank Hurley prepared hot powdered milk for breakfast. As the men emerged from their tents, Shackleton gathered them round and announced a new goal: \u201cship and stores have gone\u2014so now we\u2019ll go home.\u201d He did so \u201cwithout emotion, melodrama or excitement,\u201d Macklin remembered, even though \u201cit must have been a moment of bitter disappointment\u201d for the leader. He\u2019d \u201clost his ship, and with her any chance of crossing the Antarctic Continent.\u201d As always with him, Macklin added, \u201cwhat had happened had happened: it was in the past and he looked to the future.\u201d A day later, in the privacy of his own diary, Shackleton was more candid about the challenge ahead. He knew that circumstances had altered his mission from one of exploration to one of survival. \u201cA man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI pray God, I can manage to get the whole party to civilization.\u201d\nFrom his Antarctic experience, Shackleton knew that one of the most important tools he had in accomplishing his mission was his presence. How he showed up each day in front of his men\u2014what kind of energy he gave off, how determined he looked, even how he carried his body\u2014had a huge impact on the team. He used what we would today call his emotional intelligence to maintain his determination and bravery; when these flagged, he never let his men know.\nThis is an important lesson for our time. Leaders often forget that all eyes are on them\u2014as they give a speech, sit in a meeting, walk down a hallway, or glance furtively at their smartphone during dinner. This is especially true when the volatility of a situation increases. In these moments, people instinctively look to leaders, searching their words, actions, and body language for guidance. This means that individuals in positions of authority must learn to embody their mission not only in what they say and do, but also in how they show up. When a leader appears assured and levelheaded, others are more likely to respond to the call.\nAs the forty-one-year-old commander worked to exude confidence, he kept his men\u2019s focus trained on the task ahead. It was no use considering what had been lost or what might have been; the new goal was to get everyone home safely. The morning after abandoning ship, Shackleton announced the team would march across the pack ice toward a former explorer\u2019s base on Snow Hill Island, some three hundred miles northwest. He estimated the men could walk five to seven miles a day. He was sure that when they arrived there, they would find emergency stores cached by past expeditions. From Snow Hill Island, the commander and a smaller party would travel an additional 130 miles west to Deception Island, where whaling ships were known to dock.\nThe trek across the broken ice would be difficult for a group hauling two of the ship\u2019s three lifeboats, food supplies, and other stores. But Shackleton was in a hurry to get his team moving, partly to improve the men\u2019s morale. \u201cIt will be much better for the men in general to feel that even though progress was slow,\u201d he noted privately, \u201cthey are on their way to land, than it will be simply to sit down and wait for the tardy north-westerly drift to take us out of this cruel waste of ice.\u201d A second reason of Shackleton\u2019s for taking action now was to avoid damage to the lifeboats; this might occur if the men waited for open water and ended up sailing in choppy seas amid shifting icebergs.\nOn October 30, 1915, three days after evacuating the Endurance, the men set out for Snow Hill Island. Some hauled the lifeboats, others drove dog teams pulling supplies. The long, plodding caravan headed away from the ship and the site the men called Dump Camp. The team moved at a crawl, owing to their heavy loads and the difficulty of moving across uneven ice\u2014a landscape defined by jagged ridges and huge blocks as far as the eye could see. After two tedious hours, the men had traveled only a mile. They were exhausted. The next two days were worse, and on the third day, November 1, Shackleton called off the march.\nThe twenty-eight men had traveled less than four miles toward their destination. The commander knew that at the current pace, their supplies would give out long before they reached Snow Hill Island. He ordered the men to move their gear to a solid ice floe not far from the battered ship. Shackleton planned to have the men camp there while he considered his next move.\nOn November 21, 1915, the commander saw what remained of the Endurance sinking through the ice. \u201cShe\u2019s going, boys!\u201d he shouted, and the men quickly clambered out of their tents to watch. \u201cThere was our poor ship a mile and a half away struggling in her death-agony,\u201d a crew member recorded in his diary. \u201cShe went down bows first, her stern raised in the air. She then gave one quick dive and the ice closed over her forever.\u201d A strange silence fell over the camp. With the ship gone, the men could see nothing but ice, extending endlessly in all directions. There was no line on the horizon, no sign whatsoever of the outside world. Without the Endurance, one man wrote, \u201cour destitution seems more emphasized, our desolation more complete.\u201d Shackleton himself was stunned by the ship\u2019s sinking. He recorded the event only briefly in his diary, adding, \u201cI cannot write about it.\u201d\nThe leader knew there was no hope of rescue. Not only were the men seven hundred miles northwest of where he\u2019d originally planned to build base camp, but he\u2019d also told family and colleagues not to expect any communication from him before early 1916. The leader understood that he\u2019d have to get the crew to safety on his own, and he knew how difficult this would be.\nShackleton had been to Antarctica twice before. The first time, as a member of the British National Antarctic Expedition (1901\u20134), he\u2019d come close to death\u2014a result he attributed as much to the team\u2019s weak commander as to the continent\u2019s harsh conditions. The second time, he\u2019d led his own expedition (1907\u20139). His crew hadn\u2019t achieved its objective of discovering the South Pole, but he\u2019d learned a great deal about himself and his authority. He knew that cohesion, including the men\u2019s faith in themselves and their leader, was as important to survival as adequate nutrition. Shackleton also understood that as the head of the expedition, he was responsible for these elements. Now, in 1915, against extraordinary odds, he had to advance his mission and keep his men believing they could achieve it with him.\nHow exactly was the explorer going to accomplish his goal? How was he to keep his own courage and confidence levels high to feed those of his men? In November 1915, as the Endurance sank and the ice closed over her, the answers to these questions were anything but clear. What Shackleton did know was that he was committed to bringing all his men home alive, and he was willing to do whatever it took to accomplish this. In the midst of disaster, he\u2019d made a conscious choice to lead. He was all-in, and his story offers up key leadership lessons for moments when disaster strikes.\nThis reading group guide for Forged in Crisis includes an introduction, discussion questions, and ideas for enhancing your book club. The suggested questions are intended to help your reading group find new and interesting angles and topics for your discussion. We hope that these ideas will enrich your conversation and increase your enjoyment of the book.\nForged in Crisis tells the story of five great leaders\u2014Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rachel Carson\u2014and their journeys of perseverance and self-actualization in the face of enormous challenges. All driven by a higher purpose, all willing to make great personal sacrifices, these five men and women carried out their life\u2019s work in times of great inner and outer turmoil. Shackleton led his men, stranded at the bottom of the world, safely home to England. Lincoln saw the United States through the bloody, divisive Civil War, bringing an end to slavery in the process. Douglass, himself an escaped slave, relentlessly campaigned for abolition. Bonhoeffer\u2019s commitment to Christ drove him to fight against Hitler\u2019s regime. And Carson published her seminal work, Silent Spring, as pesticide companies tried to discredit her and metastasizing cancer sapped her reserves of energy. Each leader was made, not born, forged in a crucible of dramatic extremity, and from each we can draw valuable lessons about how to live\u2014and lead\u2014today.\n1. In her introduction, Nancy Koehn quotes David Foster Wallace, who wrote, \u201cDeep down, you almost always like how a real leader makes you feel, how you find yourself working harder and pushing yourself and thinking in ways you wouldn\u2019t be able to if there weren\u2019t this person you respected and believed in and wanted to please.\u201d Does this statement apply to the five leaders described in this book? How did Shackleton, Lincoln, Douglass, Bonhoeffer, and Carson work to inspire loyalty?\n2. What role did Shackleton\u2019s December 1914 decision to sail for Antarctica, against the advice of local whalers, play in the ultimate fate of his vessel? How much responsibility do you think Shackleton felt for that decision?\n3. When the Endurance was finally crushed by pack ice, stranding Shackleton and his men thousands of miles from civilization, he immediately altered his mission from crossing the southern continent to bringing his crew safely home. What lessons does this decision have for modern leaders?\n4. In Lincoln\u2019s first inaugural address, he reminded the nation that \u201cwe are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.\u201d Despite his solemn plea, the United States was soon to be at war. How did Lincoln\u2019s resolve to keep the Union together change and develop over his presidency?\n5. How was Lincoln, over the course of his life, made into an effective leader? What were the factors that contributed to his successes?\n6. In an 1847 speech to a British audience, Douglass said that he planned to go back to America \u201cfor the sake of [his] brethren.\u201d Dedication to a higher cause, at great personal risk, is one of the attributes that tie all five leaders together. What was at stake for Douglass in returning to America? What was at stake for the other four leaders in their commitment to their missions?\n7. Douglass and Lincoln are the only two leaders in the book who lived at the same time, met each other, and whose struggles coalesced around the same larger battle. How did each come to his commitment to the abolitionist cause? How did their different personal histories shape their commitment?\n8. Bonhoeffer wrote, during his brief time in New York, of his despair and certainty that he had made the wrong decision in leaving Germany. How did this \u201cdark night of the soul\u201d influence his later work?\n9. Despite his years-long commitment to fighting Nazism, Bonhoeffer himself was only responsible for saving the lives of fourteen people; all plots to assassinate Hitler ultimately failed. Is Bonhoeffer a failure? What is the significance of his life\u2019s work?\n10. Carson faced particularly female burdens, especially in the earlier part of her life, related to the care of her family. How did these burdens impact her ability to do meaningful work? What are the other limitations that women in leadership positions often face, historically and in the present day?\n11. Carson, unlike the other four leaders, struggled with her health at the time of her greatest triumph. Consider the relationship between Carson\u2019s physical well-being and the subject of her work\u2014and how Shackleton, Lincoln, Douglass, and Bonhoeffer\u2019s physical strength or weakness influenced their performance.\n12. The leaders in this book were driven by willingness to improve themselves, desire to serve the greater good, drive for success, and strength in the face of crisis. What other threads tie these leaders together?\n1. Consider reading one of these great leaders\u2019 works, like Carson\u2019s Silent Spring, Douglass\u2019s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, or Bonhoeffer\u2019s Ethics.\n2. Though there are no recordings of either Lincoln\u2019s or Douglass\u2019s speeches, they do survive in printed form. Read, pick your favorite, and discuss.\n3. In tribute to Carson\u2019s and Shackleton\u2019s deep love of nature, move your book club outdoors.\nPhotograph by Steven Richard\nNancy Koehn is an historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. She has coached leaders from many organizations and speaks frequently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and the World Business Forum. An accomplished author and scholar (she earned her MA and PhD degrees in history from Harvard), she spent ten years writing Forged in Crisis, her first book aimed at a popular audience. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, and is a dedicated equestrian.\nPublisher: Scribner (May 2018)\n\u201cEach of the five stand-alone case studies is well-written and interesting . . . there is much to enjoy [here].\u201d\n\u201cI recommend that you read Forged in Crisis. Nancy Koehn has convened an exquisite group to remind us that courageous leadership is indeed possible, in turbulent times or any time.\u201d\n\u2014James S. Hirsch, for ExploreBestsellers.com\n\u201cEnthralling . . . a fascinating look at a varied group of heroes . . . Koehn\u2019s call for her audience to emulate them strikes a pleasingly hopeful note for an era of partisan discord and lack of faith in leaders.\u201d\n\u201cKoehn skillfully weaves together [her five leaders\u2019] stories and the lessons, primary of which is \u2018great leaders are made, not born.' . . . [The] stories are highly engaging (and well documented); in fact, many are transformed into nail-biting adventures . . . A book that quietly surpasses many so-called leadership tomes.\u201d\n\u201c[An] engaging, unusually rewarding book . . . Throughout, Koehn underscores the great humanity and depth of understanding of these leaders . . . Wise, thoughtful, and valuable, this book will foster a new appreciation for effective leadership and prompt many readers to lament the lack of it in the world today.\u201d\n\"Leadership is difficult to define, but we know it when we see it. At a time when it has become almost invisible at the national level, Nancy Koehn has performed the invaluable service of reminding us what it looks like in five superbly told tales of inspirational human courage. This book is dense with epiphanies that defy our current cowardly condition.\"\n\u2014Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx\n\"A remarkably insightful book, written in a style that is consistently engaging and absorbing, which reminds us that leaders are made not born, and that the crucibles from which they emerge are, above all, tests of character . . . This book is a wonder\u2014exactly the leadership roadmap needed for these challenging times.\"\n\u2014Les Wexner, Chairman and CEO of L Brands\n\"This book moved me deeply and will stay with me. Forged in Crisis is a compelling historical work and a vital analysis of the skills required to lead in the most important\u2014and often dire\u2014situations.\"\n\u2014Howard Schultz, executive chairman of Starbucks Coffee Company\n\"As important and inspiring as it is urgent.\"\n\u2014Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and three-term mayor of New York City\n\"A double triumph, artfully telling us the stories of five major historical figures while also providing wise insights into how they seized upon crises to grow as leaders. Each of the portraits will help leaders of today in coping with rapid, turbulent change. And here's an extra bonus: they are great reads.\"\n\u2014David Gergen, Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Eyewitness to Power\n\"A close analysis of five gritty leaders whose extraordinary passion and perseverance changed history . . . a gripping read on a timeless and timely topic!\"\n\u2014Angela Duckworth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Grit\n\"Emotionally gripping\u2014so much so that it's easy to forget one is reading nonfiction. The scenes have the pull of a great novel, continually coaxing us to turn pages.\"\n\u2014Joseph Nye, former dean of Harvard's Kennedy School and author of The Powers to Lead\n\"Koehn's well-written and incisive study helps to show us the way to a better nation. . . This is a very perceptive look at leadership in the modern era that taps leadership qualities from the past.\"\n\u2014Bruce Chadwick, author of Law and Disorder, James and Dolly Madison, and The General and Mrs. Washington\n\u201cA powerful and timely treatise on leadership, Forged in Crisis presents five compelling portraits of individuals who made a lasting impact on the world in times of extraordinary challenge. Nancy Koehn is a seriously talented historian who has a gift for mining the past to elucidate the present. She writes with verve and vivid detail.\u201d\n\u2014Graham Allison, Founding Dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, former Assistant Secretary of Defense, and author of Essence of Decision and Destined for War\n\u201cNancy Koehn vividly shows the qualities shared by five of history's greatest leaders\u2014and how we can all tap into those same qualities to overcome challenges and confront crises in our own lives. Forged in Crisis is an inspirational, insightful and indispensable guide to perseverance, wisdom and resilience.\u201d\n\u2014Arianna Huffington, Founder of The Huffington Post and Founder and CEO of Thrive Global\n\"An outstanding rebuttal of the myth that leaders somehow have different DNA than ordinary people. [Koehn's subjects] ought to inspire every aspiring leader to rise to the occasion.\"\n\u2014William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman, The Est\u00e9e Lauder Companies\n\u201cVividly recreates the anguish and urgency felt by five trailblazing leaders in times of great adversity. With spirited prose that highlights crucial moments of testing and triumph, Nancy Koehn breathes life into the past as she shows what it takes to lead. In challenging times, this book is an essential read.\u201d\n\u2014Zo\u00eb Baird, CEP and President, The Markle Foundation\nBook Cover Image (jpg): Forged in Crisis\nAuthor Photo (jpg): Nancy Koehn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 28527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sjpinsights.co.uk/article/a-new-blueprint/claireanderson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CBYP3BQSYFMQ6IMODLUOYASXHOMYV4BG", "length": 8295, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.sjpinsights.co.uk", "title": "Claire Anderson - The impact of the post-2008 regulatory climate to tax payers and investors", "raw_content": "A new blueprint\nHow traditional banks are looking to change and thrive in the post-2008 regulatory climate.\nBanks used to be seen as solid, mature businesses providing steady growth and generous annual dividends.\nBut the financial crisis exposed the banks as over-leveraged institutions that had failed to manage their risks appropriately.\nNorthern Rock was the first to fall, followed by the other converted building societies, Alliance & Leicester and Bradford & Bingley. These supposedly ultra-conservative institutions had strayed from their core areas of expertise and had to be rescued by the government and/or stronger peers. Their demise proved to be the precursor to a far wider and deeper malaise that attacked almost every bank in the developed world and brought the UK banking sector to its knees.\nThe impact has been felt by taxpayers, thanks to the huge rescue packages required to bail out the banks. The global recession that followed can be partly attributed to the banking turmoil. Equity investors in the clearing banks \u2013 Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds and RBS \u2013 were also hit as share prices plummeted.\nSince then, recovery has been slow. Banks have become the scapegoat for the fast-spending, highly indebted culture that pervaded the West before the crisis. It is an image they have found hard to shrug off, not least because of the waves of scandal that have hit the sector in the intervening years.\nFrom mis-selling PPI to fixing LIBOR rates and manipulating foreign exchange markets, the succession of scandals has been breathtaking. It has underpinned regulators\u2019 resolve to change the way banks operate and behave. As well as paying billions of pounds in fines, they have been forced to strengthen their Tier 1 capital ratios, a key measure of their financial viability. This means their balance sheets are stronger and it has become more expensive for them to invest in assets deemed to be risky, encouraging the sector to return to a business model focused on retail banking.\n\u2018Before the crisis most UK banks had a Tier 1 capital ratio of around 6%. Now they are up to 11% or 12%. At the same time their valuations are much lower,\u2019 says James de Uphaugh, chief investment officer at fund manager Majedie Asset Management.\n\u2018The shares were often trading at two to four times banks\u2019 book value before 2007. Now, Barclays and RBS are trading at 0.9 times, while HSBC is on 1.1 and Lloyds is about 1.3. In essence, they are far cheaper than they were but they have more capital, more liquidity and are less vulnerable to systemic shock,\u2019 he adds.\nThis suggests that UK clearing banks have long-term potential, a view backed up by a recent report for the Competition and Markets Authority which reveals that, even after being shown up as cavalier towards both customers and investors, the big four banks still dominate the current account market.\nIts survey of almost 4,500 bank customers shows that more than half have been with their bank for more than ten years. People are thinking about switching but the rate at which they are actually switching is declining \u2013 from 21% over the past three years to 16% in the 12 months to April. And very few people actually take the plunge \u2013 8% in the past three years and 3% in the year to April.\n\u2018Because banks look broadly similar and banking is perceived to be free, people tend to move only when their existing bank really upsets them,\u2019 says Steve Davies, head of UK retail banking at consultants PwC.\nThe banks are trying hard to regain customers\u2019 trust. They\u2019re investing in service at their branches and developing their technology, so they can appear more customer-friendly while cutting costs.\n\u2018Banks are on a far sounder footing than they were,\u2019 says de Uphaugh. \u2018The UK economy is doing okay, Europe is recovering and interest rates are likely to rise, which is good news for them. Behaviourally, too, we\u2019ve seen a big change. Of course, banks are leveraged institutions so they are never going to be bulletproof, but in terms of risk and reward the pendulum has swung too far.\n\u2018In due course the legacy fines will drop away, and in the end the banks will be able to pay good dividends again.\u2019\nNonetheless, the industry faces considerable hurdles.\n\u2018Regulation is the main challenge. An important secondary challenge is increasing shareholder returns without increasing risk,\u2019 says Robin Savage, banking analyst at broker Cannacord Genuity.\nBoth regulation and legislation are affecting banks\u2019 activities. Regulation is discouraging them from participating in risky but sometimes rewarding markets, while legislation has given birth to the bank levy, an expensive tax which is so disliked by the banks that it has prompted HSBC to threaten to move its HQ away from London altogether. It will announce its decision later this year.\n\u2018The new environment makes it harder for high street clearing banks to deliver growth. The problem is balance sheet growth. Underlying profits are improving but that is down to cost-cutting and a benign bad debt environment,\u2019 says Ian Gordon, banking analyst at investment bank Investec.\n\u2018Before the crisis, banks were generating a return on equity of more than 20%. Now returns are in single digits and I don\u2019t believe any of them will reach double-digit returns until 2018.\u2019\nTo some extent, stricter regulation and low growth are two sides of the same coin, both suggesting that the returns of yesteryear are unlikely to be repeated. Yet banks still need to find the money to cope with another very real challenge \u2013 outdated IT systems.\n\u2018A lot of banks\u2019 systems are old and complex, and are out of sync with the way young people, who have grown up with technology, live their lives,\u2019 says Davies.\nThis technology gap has created an opening for so-called challenger banks, including Shawbrook and Aldermore, which floated on the stock market earlier this year.\nMuch has been made of the threat they pose to the established banks. Shares in both have risen since they floated1. \u2018Both enjoy much lower costs than their larger rivals; they have no legacy fines or outdated IT and their returns are substantially higher,\u2019 says Gordon.\n\u2018The challenger banks are focused on various niches where they can provide superior service and product, while delivering impressive returns to shareholders and growing their market shares,\u2019 adds Savage.\nTSB was perceived to be so attractive that it was only listed on the stock market for nine months before being snapped up by Spanish bank Sabadell.\n\u2018Challenger banks are interesting. Yes, they are niche players but their cost/income ratios are better than the established players and their returns on equity are better,\u2019 says David Sayer, global head of banking at KPMG.\nSome, such as Virgin Money and Metro Bank, focus on providing consumers with better service. Swedish Handelsbanken, one of the fastest-growing banks in Europe, focuses on providing SMEs with the kind of service that old-fashioned bank managers used to give 30 or 40 years ago, with local branches and staff entrenched in the community. Shawbrook and Aldermore, by contrast, have no branches at all.\n\u2018Challenger banks have attractive business models with simple cost structures, no legacy issues and an ability to cherry-pick the markets they want to be in,\u2019 says Gordon.\nHowever, established banks have one key advantage \u2013 their large customer base.\n\u2018Most people distrust banks but they are reasonably happy with their own branch. If banks can use that loyalty and build on it by investing in IT, offering simpler products and improving efficiency, they can improve customer service and reduce costs. Then they should be able to flourish,\u2019 says Sayer.\nThere is a long way to go but the high street banks have already started to make progress. If they continue on the right path they may yet deliver long-term gains for shareholders. In the meantime, the challenger banks snapping at their heels should encourage competition, benefiting both customers and investors.\nWhere the opinions of third parties are offered, these may not necessarily reflect those of St. James's Place and are subject to market or economic changes. This martial is not a recommendation, or intended to be relied pon as a forecast, research or advice.\n1 http://investors.shawbrook.co.uk www.investors.aldermore.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 11712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skegnessstandard.co.uk/news/warning-bus-stop-could-go-as-vandals-strike-in-chapel-st-leonards-1-8790340", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YJXUBVZYTUQERPA7LKYAYIHV32OMGPIA", "length": 2297, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.skegnessstandard.co.uk", "title": "Warning bus stop could go as vandals strike in Chapel St Leonards - Skegness Standard", "raw_content": "The parking meter at Chapel Point car park has been vandalised. ANL-190128-153239001\nResidents in Chapel St Leonards are being asked to be extra vigilant after a spate of vandalism in the village.\nIt seems while villagers are celebrating having their local precept slashed by 13.69 per cent, a group of individuals are intent on creating more expense for the Parish Council.\nThe latest attack involved paint being scrawled across the parking meter in the car park at the new North Sea Observatory at Chapel Point.\nChristine Newton, clerk to the parish council, said it was the second time the meter had been vandalised recently and it is believed the attack took place on Sunday. They had, however, managed to get the meter working again when the damage was discovered on Monday morning.\nCharges introduced after the opening of the Observatory have not been popular, but Christine says many people do not seem to realise there was always a fee to park there.\n\u201cThe charge used to be \u00a31 and was collected by the former cafe owner,\u201d she said. \u201cIt was done by trust, so we assume those who believed it to be free had not realised or just risked getting away with it.\nThere just seems to be a small number of people who seem to want to spoil it\nChristine Newton, clerk to the parish council,\n\u201cParking charges are now \u00a31 an hour and just \u00a33 all day, but that money goes back into the village and is one way we have been able to lower the precept.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very disappointing to see the vandalism at a time when we have been making improvements in the village. There just seems to be a small number of people who seem to want to spoil it.\u201d\nThere are further concerns that the village may lose the bus stop near the Parish Council\u2019s offices in Ancaster Avenue because it too has been repeatedly targeted by vandals. Many people use it to get to Skegness as well as schoolchildren, but Lincolnshire County Council who own it say \u201cfunding to repair it is running out,\u201d said Christine. \u201cLCC say it may be advisable to take the shelter down.\u201d\nConcerns about vandalism were raised at the last meeting of Chapel St Leonards Parish Council. Anyone who sees anything suspicious is asked to call police on 101, ot Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.\nMore services but precept in Chapel St Leonards to be slashed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.slcccertification.org/attracting-and-retaining-top-talent/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YJYFDNIANQKTEHRL5OTCQNKRJ2LTFU6Z", "length": 2574, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.slcccertification.org", "title": "Attracting and Retaining Top Talent - SLCC", "raw_content": "Get two or more operations managers together and the topic of conversation will inevitably turn to staffing. Much has been written about recruiting, onboarding, and retention. Weary of the revolving door, recruiting, hiring, training again and again, I started to look at this problem from a different perspective.\nFocusing on attracting rather than recruiting begins with creating a wonderful work environment for current employees. But what does that mean? What makes a team member wake up in the morning and say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait to get to work today?\u201d They want the same things we want\u2014clear expectations, fairness, transparency, appreciation, kindness, safety, open communication, and opportunity for growth. They want to succeed and we want to enable them to do that. When this environment exists, applicants feel it when they walk in the door, and your current employees will refer their friends. Before you know it, virtually all of your new hires will be referrals from your current employees!\nThe other side of the staffing coin is looking closely at the people we currently have. Instead of turning them over, how can we keep them engaged so they never want to go anywhere else? There is a tendency to look at the requirements of a position and to fit a person to that position. Human beings are more complex than that. The work has to be done, of course, and a good employee will meet the expectations. But we want great, not good, at every level and in every position. Sometimes an employee who is just okay or even failing in one position will excel in a completely different environment. Just because someone has the technical skills to be a housekeeper doesn\u2019t mean they will succeed in an environment where they need to stay motivated and on track without supervision. That same person may thrive in an environment where they have a narrower task expectation and a supportive supervisor close by. Even dishwashing can be a chance for someone to thrive, especially if it gives them an opportunity to develop new skills as a prep cook or beyond. I have seen amazing transformations in attitude and performance by simply making a change like this, allowing us to retain engaged employees who might otherwise have moved on.\nThis approach requires community leaders to know all of their employees as individuals, and to interact with them on a regular basis. We need to be out of our offices and on the floor every day. I know it is sometimes difficult to find the time, but the results are well worth the investment.\nBy Linda Fisher, CDAL\nMerrill Gardens at Auburn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.slipcase.com/4-beazley-group/1/all/71-diversity-inclusion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:48Z", "digest": "sha1:4HQWFJXEMF7QXEZFYWKKPYMXJAEZMRGF", "length": 197, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.slipcase.com", "title": "Beazley Group - Slipcase \u2013 (re)insurance industry news - Slipcase \u2013 (re)insurance industry news", "raw_content": "Beazley signs up for HM Treasury\u2019s Women in Finance Charter\nBeazley has signed up to the UK Treasury\u2019s Women in Finance Charter to help build a more balanced and fair financial services industry...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sltrib.com/sports/rsl/2017/12/29/utah-royals-trade-for-uswnt-defender-kelley-ohara/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BMHZ4SEEJ4B3MC7MO4VC2HXXNRT36XIL", "length": 11068, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.sltrib.com", "title": "Utah Royals trade for U.S. Women\u2019s National Team defender Kelley O'Hara - The Salt Lake Tribune", "raw_content": "Utah Royals trade for U.S. Women\u2019s National Team defender Kelley O'Hara\nUnited States' defender Kelley O'Hara (5) plays against France during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer matc... United States' Kelley O'Hara in action against Brazil in a friendly soccer match Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, in Seattle. The ma... United States' Kelley O'Hara (5) looks on during the second half of an international friendly soccer match against Colombia, ... United States defender Kelley O'Hara looks at the scoreboard during the second half of an international friendly soccer match... United States' Kelley O'Hara (5) in action during the second half of an international friendly soccer match against Colombia,... United States' Kelley O'Hara in action against Brazil in a friendly soccer match Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, in Seattle. The ma... United States defender Kelley O'Hara dribbles upfield during the first half of an international friendly soccer match against... United States' Kelley O'Hara (5) acknowledges the fans as she walks around the stadium after the SheBelieves Cup, Wednesday, ... England's Demi Stokes (11) tangles with United States' Kelley O'Hara (5) during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup women's s... U.S. defender Kelly O'Hara (5) plays against New Zealand during the first half of an international friendly soccer match in C... France's Elise Bussaglia, right, controls the ball past United States' Kelley O'Hara during a group G match of the women's Ol... U.S. National Soccer Team members Carli Lloyd, left, and Kelley O'Hara, and others, watch as President Barack leaves the Sout... Japan's Shinobu Ohno, left, and United States' Kelley O'Hara, vie for the ball during the women's soccer gold medal match of ... United States' defender Kelley O'Hara (5) plays against France during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer matc... United States' defender Kelley O'Hara (5) leaves the game during the second half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match ag... United States' defender Kelley O'Hara (5) leaves the game during the second half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match ag... United States defender Kelley O'Hara gestures while playing Brazil during the first half of a Tournament of Nations women's s... United States' forward Alex Morgan (13) and defender Kelley O'Hara (5) leave the pitch after a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer... United States' Kelley O'Hara, left, and New Zealand's Hannah Wilkinson vie for the ball during a women's Olympic football tou... Canada's Diana Matheson, left, battles for the ball against United States' Kelley O'Hara, right, during their semifinal women...\nUnited States' defender Kelley O'Hara (5) plays against France during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) United States' Kelley O'Hara in action against Brazil in a friendly soccer match Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, in Seattle. The match is part of a post-World Cup victory tour by the U.S. women's national team. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) United States' Kelley O'Hara (5) looks on during the second half of an international friendly soccer match against Colombia, Sunday, April 10, 2016, in Chester, PA. US won 3-0. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) United States defender Kelley O'Hara looks at the scoreboard during the second half of an international friendly soccer match against Japan, Sunday, June 5, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. The United States won 2-0. (AP Photo/David Dermer) United States' Kelley O'Hara (5) in action during the second half of an international friendly soccer match against Colombia, Sunday, April 10, 2016, in Chester, PA. US won 3-0. (AP Photo/Chris Szagola) United States' Kelley O'Hara in action against Brazil in a friendly soccer match Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2015, in Seattle. The match is part of a post-World Cup victory tour by the U.S. women's national team. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) United States defender Kelley O'Hara dribbles upfield during the first half of an international friendly soccer match against Japan, Sunday, June 5, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. The United States won 2-0. (AP Photo/David Dermer) United States' Kelley O'Hara (5) acknowledges the fans as she walks around the stadium after the SheBelieves Cup, Wednesday, March 9, 2016, in Boca Raton, Fla. The US defeated Germany 2-1 to win the SheBelieve Cup. (AP Photo/Joel Auerbach) England's Demi Stokes (11) tangles with United States' Kelley O'Hara (5) during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match Thursday, March 3, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson) U.S. defender Kelly O'Hara (5) plays against New Zealand during the first half of an international friendly soccer match in Commerce City, Colo., Friday, Sept. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey) France's Elise Bussaglia, right, controls the ball past United States' Kelley O'Hara during a group G match of the women's Olympic football tournament between United States and France at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio) U.S. National Soccer Team members Carli Lloyd, left, and Kelley O'Hara, and others, watch as President Barack leaves the South Lawn of the White House aboard Marine One following a ceremony to honor the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup champions,Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Japan's Shinobu Ohno, left, and United States' Kelley O'Hara, vie for the ball during the women's soccer gold medal match of the at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in London. The U.S. women's football team won its third straight Olympic gold medal Thursday, beating Japan 2-1 in a rematch of last year's World Cup final and avenging the most painful loss in its history. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) United States' defender Kelley O'Hara (5) plays against France during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) United States' defender Kelley O'Hara (5) leaves the game during the second half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match against France Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. The United States won 1-0. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) United States' defender Kelley O'Hara (5) leaves the game during the second half of a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match against France Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. The United States won 1-0. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) United States defender Kelley O'Hara gestures while playing Brazil during the first half of a Tournament of Nations women's soccer match Sunday, July 30, 2017, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) United States' forward Alex Morgan (13) and defender Kelley O'Hara (5) leave the pitch after a SheBelieves Cup women's soccer match Sunday, March 6, 2016, in Nashville, Tenn. The United States won 1-0. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey) United States' Kelley O'Hara, left, and New Zealand's Hannah Wilkinson vie for the ball during a women's Olympic football tournament match at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio) Canada's Diana Matheson, left, battles for the ball against United States' Kelley O'Hara, right, during their semifinal women's soccer match at the 2012 London Summer Olympics, in Manchester, England, Monday, Aug. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)\nUtah Royals FC is bringing new meaning to building from the back this offseason.\nThe new NWSL team has added a second U.S. women\u2019s national team defender to its roster, acquiring Kelley O\u2019Hara in a trade with Sky Blue FC, the Royals announced Friday. Along with O\u2019Hara, Utah received midfielder Taylor Lytle and the 25th pick in this year\u2019s NWSL College draft. In return, the Royals sent forward Shea Groom, defender Christina Gibbons and their fourth overall pick to the New Jersey-based club.\n\u201cI am excited to start a new adventure playing for an organization that is invested in building a championship club within the NWSL,\u201d O\u2019Hara said in a team release. \u201cIn my time with the USWNT, playing in Salt Lake has always been a top-notch experience with amazing facilities and a dedicated fan base. I grew up coming to Utah as a kid, and I\u2019m looking forward to calling the mountains home.\u201d\nThe trade puts her on the same back line as national team teammate Becky Sauerbrunn, a former FC Kansas City player who announced her commitment to the Royals last week. The Sauerbrunn-O\u2019Hara combination has proven to be a potent one on the international stage. O\u2019Hara also has plenty of experience at forward and midfield. General manager Craig Waibel told the Tribune that he expects the team will take advantage of that versatility out wide.\nO\u2019Hara, 29, has earned 102 caps with the United States. In 2012, the USWNT moved her to left back for the first time in her career, and the experiment paid off. O\u2019Hara tallied five assists in 26 appearances that year, all but one of which was a start, proving her ability to push up the line and get involved in the attack. That same year she traveled to London with Team USA, where she was one of three players who spent every minute of the United States\u2019 gold medal run on the pitch.\nThe former Stanford Cardinal and Hermann Trophy winner has played for Sky Blue FC since the league\u2019s inaugural season. She has scored 15 goals in 75 matches in those five years.\nO\u2019Hara\u2019s addition \u2014 both for her style of play and the timing of the trade \u2014 reflect coach Laura Harvey and Waibel\u2019s possession-based soccer philosophy.\n\u201cThe main thing is as an organization we value the ball,\u201d Waibel said when Harvey was hired a month ago, explaining how her approach lined up with their hopes for the new club. \u201cWe want to continue to move in a direction of valuing possession as well as build up, and it\u2019s the style that we really want to bring to our fans in every approach we play, all the way down from our youth to the top level men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams.\u201d\nLytle, 28, also has spent the past five seasons with Sky Blue. The former youth national team player had five assists in 20 starts this year.\n\u201cWhenever I would coach against her, she would always cause my team problems,\u201d Harvey said in a team release. \u201cSo I\u2019m now very glad that we are on the same team. She is a player I have admired for a while now, and we expect that bringing in someone like Taylor who has such a great attitude for the game will only enhance our roster.\u201d\nIn addition to the Royals\u2019 acquisitions from this trade with Sky Blue FC, Utah holds the rights to defunct FC Kansas City\u2019s former players. Sauerbrunn was the first, and so far remains the only player from that squad to announce her commitment to the Royals.\nKELLEY O\u2019HARA\nPosition \u2022 Defender\nHometown \u2022 Fayetteville, Ga.\nPrevious club \u2022 Sky Blue FC\nA veteran international\u2022 The U.S. women\u2019s national team defender has earned 102 caps, with her first call-up to the senior team training camp in 2007. She was a member of both the 2015 World Cup championship team and the 2012 Olympic gold medal-winning squad.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 13559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 167.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.slugbooks.com/9780073380193-an-introduction-to-combustion-concepts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SN2AM7JMUAEIOAN5VIYXVWIGNWU5R6O2", "length": 698, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.slugbooks.com", "title": "An Introduction to Combustion: Concepts and Applications - 9780073380193 | SlugBooks", "raw_content": "by Stephen R. Turns\nIntroduction to Combustion is the leading combustion textbook for undergraduate and graduate students because of its easy-to-understand analyses of... Read more\nbasic combustion concepts and its introduction of a wide variety of practical applications that motivate or relate to the various theoretical concepts. This is a text that is useful for junior/senior undergraduates or graduate students in mechanical engineering and practicing engineers. The third edition updates and adds topics related to protection of the environment, climate change, and energy use. Additionally, a new chapter is added on fuels due to the continued focus on conservation and energy independence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 6504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 163.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.snlynn.com/im-a-member-of-the-world-health-heroes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:12Z", "digest": "sha1:6GGIPHTDXCZHS6EGVZYR6Y2GB522JD45", "length": 1953, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.snlynn.com", "title": "I am a member of the World Health Heroes, helping people who need complementary therapies", "raw_content": "I\u2019m a World Health Hero!\nby Sarah Lynn | 1/May/2018\nI am a member of The World Health Heroes!\nWorld Health Heroes Limited develops wellbeing teams nationwide to form the World Health Heroes Clinic Service, which helps people deliver discounted complementary therapies to local communities and people who need them most.\nThe heroes believe in bringing an expansive range of complementary health therapies, alternative treatments and spiritual guidance to people who otherwise wouldn\u2019t have access\nYou can find out more here \u2013 www.worldhealthheroesuk.com\nThe Bath Health Heroes was founded in April 2016 and became the World Health Heroes in July 2016. Hero founder Owen Morgan was inspired to create the company after a life threatening illness changed life in September 2015.\nHis new found passion, drive and desire to build a better world for himself, led him to create an organisation that can help transform the lives of others. The day after leaving the hospital he grabbed his notepad and pen and began to formulate his vision to be of service to more people. Two years later he had his company in 60 Cities / Towns. Also in that time created his own chat show and had run 15 events across the country.\nOwen and his team have been building wellbeing groups all over the United Kingdom so they can team together. They allow treatments, services & offerings to become available to those on low income or unemployed through illness.\nAnd today 1st May 2018 they have launched their clinic service. As part of the clinic service they hope to work with support groups, schools, care homes & low income families. With longer term plans to create a mobile clinic bus that travels the country to raise awareness of how complementary health can help.\nIf you or someone you know could really do with some support then you can find out more by clicking on this link https://www.worldhealthheroes.com/health-hero-clinic-service/ (including the application form)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.snort.org/rule_docs/1-43163", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:52Z", "digest": "sha1:DME7HKEHCITA2HSVBSGU4DKRCLG7G24R", "length": 1079, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.snort.org", "title": "Toggle navigation", "raw_content": "BROWSER-IE Microsoft Edge object property type confusion attempt\nMicrosoft browsers in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user when the JavaScript engines fail to render when handling objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka \"Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability\". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8517 and CVE-2017-8522.\nCVE-2017-8524: Microsoft browsers in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow an allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user when the JavaScript engines fail to render when handling objects in memory in Microsoft browsers, aka \"Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability\". This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2017-8517 and CVE-2017-8522.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.soccerticketsonline.com/messi-scores-two-more-and-real-win-derby/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:VOZ4XGJA74I7C64FZETQROEKT2DQ2SVX", "length": 2751, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.soccerticketsonline.com", "title": "Messi Scores Two More And Real Win Derby", "raw_content": "Messi Scores Two More And Real Win Derby\nBarcelona opened up a six-point lead at the top of La Liga\u2019s summit after Lionel Messi\u2019s brace inspired a 5-1 rout of Athletic Bilbao, with Real Madrid then seeing off second-placed Atletico Madrid 2-0 in the late kick-off.\nMessi\u2019s 83rd and 84th goals of the calendar year left the Argentina forward needing just one more goal to equal Gerd Muller\u2019s record of 85 in a calendar year, set in 1972.\nThe result was never in doubt at the Nou Camp as two goals in three minutes, from Gerard Pique and a deflected Messi effort, midway through the opening 45 minutes put Bar\u00e7a firmly in the ascendancy and Adriano added a superb third in first-half stoppage time.\nCesc Fabregas notched a neat fourth soon after the break and, after Ibai Gomez had pulled a goal back with Athletic\u2019s first noteworthy attack of the match, Messi rounded things off with a brilliant fifth goal.\nThe emphatic win consolidated top spot in La Liga for Tito Vilanova\u2019s team, whose only dropped points in 14 games this term came in the 2-2 draw against Real Madrid in October, making their start the best ever to a top-flight season in Spain.\nAnd what has happened to Athletic Bilbao? Last season they took Manchester United apart in the Europa League on the way to reaching the final. This season they have managed only four league wins in 14 games. Depending on how results go on Sunday, Athletic could find themselves only one point above the drop zone by the end of the weekend. An unthinkable situation before the season started.\nThird-placed Real Madrid remained 11 points off the pace after winning a highly-anticipated derby 2-0, ensuring Atletico\u2019s winless run in the fixture will stretch into its 14th year. A wonderful free-kick from Cristiano Ronaldo lit up what was an otherwise disappointing first half before Mesut Ozil secured all three points with a tidy finish 25 minutes from time.\nEarlier this evening, ten-man Valencia went down 5-2 against Real Sociedad \u2013 with coach Mauricio Pellegrino sacked soon after the full-time whistle at the Mestalla.\nRoberto Soldado\u2019s second-minute strike had given the hosts an early lead but they were never in control and were pegged back before half-time as Alberto de la Bella fired in an equaliser minutes after Jonas had seen a straight red card for lashing out at David Zurutuza.\nSociedad took control in the second period as further goals from Mikel Gonzalez, Diego Ifran, Imanol Agirretxe and Carlos Vela rendered Soldado\u2019s second of the evening meaningless and lifted the victors to seventh.\nAlso in the Spanish top flight today, Getafe moved level on points with fourth-placed Malaga thanks to a 1-0 win. Alberto Lopo headed home the game\u2019s only goal 11 minutes into the second half.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.solutioninn.com/on-january-1-2014-liu-corporation-paid-241960-to-acquire", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:55Z", "digest": "sha1:QNROJPGC4MXDWWCL4IBQSJDWNSY3A2QM", "length": 729, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.solutioninn.com", "title": "[Solved] On January 1, 2014, Liu Corporation paid $241,960 to acquire | SolutionInn", "raw_content": "On January 1, 2014, Liu Corporation paid $241,960 to acquire\nOn January 1, 2014, Liu Corporation paid $241,960 to acquire bonds of Peverdo with a par value of $240,000. The annual contract rate on the bonds is 6% and interest is paid semi-annually on June 30 and December 31. The bonds mature after three years. The market rate of interest was 5.7%. Liu Corporation intends to hold the bonds until maturity.\n1. Prepare an amortization schedule for the investment showing only 2014.\n2. Prepare Liu\u2019s entries to record:\n(a) The purchase of the bonds,\n(b) The receipt of the first two interest payments.\n3. Show how the investment will appear on the December 31, 2014, balance sheet.\nIf a company reports...\nIdentify which of the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 221.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sonic-crew-london.com/identify-vocal-registers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:45Z", "digest": "sha1:IUD3DNHOELF5B3BR6A7AXJZWWFCEH4ZN", "length": 3220, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.sonic-crew-london.com", "title": "How To Identify Vocal Registers | Sonic Crew's Blog for Singers", "raw_content": "If you\u2019ve ever tried to identify vocal registers before, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve realised that this is one of the trickiest areas to get your head around. This is mostly due to the incorrect terminology many singing teachers and vocal coaches use. You\u2019ve probably heard terms such as head voice, chest voice, falsetto, upper register, lower register, all in the same conversation, which can be really confusing.\nWell, I\u2019m going to try and shed some light on this matter. Hopefully, that will help you identify vocal registers, get a better understanding of how your own voice works and ultimately help you become a better singer.\nVocal registers are generated in the larynx and are the result of the different vibratory patterns that the vocal chords can produce. Each of the patterns generates a characteristic sound and operates within a particular range, although some overlapping occurs. Based on this definition it is possible to identify 4 vocal registers: the Vocal Fry register, the Modal Voice register, the Falsetto register and the Whistle register.\nThe 4 Vocal Registers In Detail: The Vocal Fry\nThe Vocal Fry is the lowest register and requires a loose glottal closure to allow the air to bubble through. This register is used to sing at pitches below the Modal Voice register. It can also be used for therapeutic reasons, for example, to help develop the lower Modal Voice. And finally, it is used quite often as a stylistic tool to give more expression to our singing.\nThe Modal Voice Register\nNext up is the Modal Voice register, which is the normal register we use for singing and talking. Typically a well-trained singer can sing 2 octaves or more in Modal Voice register. The Modal Voice has a broad harmonic spectrum, is capable of dynamic variations and is rich in overtones.\nThe Falsetto Register\nOn the lower pitches of the Modal Voice register, the vocal chords are quite thick and because of this thickness, a large part of them is brought into contact and the glottis remains closed for a considerable time in each cycle. As the pitch rises, the chords are stretched and become longer and thinner with less surface getting in contact. As the physical limits are approached, the vocal cords need to switch to a different vibratory pattern to be able to sing at a higher pitch. The higher pattern is called Falsetto register, which lies above the Modal Voice register and overlaps it by approximately one octave. In the Falsetto register, only the ligamentous edges of the vocal chords enter into the vibratory pattern. The result of this is a breathy, flute-like sound, that\u2019s more limited in dynamics than the Modal Voice register.\nThe Whistle Register\nThe highest register is called Whistle. Mariah Carey is probably the most famous example of Whistle register use in Pop Music. There\u2019s not much info about the nature of this register as what physically happens makes difficult to film the vocal cords in action. However, we know that such whistle-like sound is produced by the transition of air through a triangular opening between the arytenoid cartilages.\nI hope this blog has helped you gain a basic knowledge and some more control on your Vocal registers. Any questions, feel free to get in touch", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 221.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sootoday.com/columns/remember-this/sault-boating-club-was-a-popular-place-at-times-too-popular-1076413", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:17Z", "digest": "sha1:CQSZEM63L7J7RSP4B5MW3WHBKI2ZW4N7", "length": 3991, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.sootoday.com", "title": "Sault Boating Club was a popular place. At times, too popular - SooToday.com", "raw_content": "Sault Boating Club was a popular place. At times, too popular\nThis edition of Remember This looks back on the twice burned establishment\nOct 7, 2018 11:00 AM by: Remember This?\n1 / 1 Members of the Sault Boating Club. Sault Ste. Marie Public Library photo\nIn 1902, a boat club was constructed near Pine Street, the brainchild of the Vanderbilt Society\u2019s small Sault Ste. Marie chapter.\nIt would be a building so grand that, according to the Sault Star, it would \u201ccompare favourably with any boat quarters in the East.\u201d Descriptions of the planned building featured locker rooms, indoor bathing facilities, a smoking room, and a grand assembly room with a large balcony.\nThe building was scheduled to officially open on June 26, 1902 \u2013 the day of King Edward VII\u2019s coronation. However, the boating club\u2019s opening was postponed because of the King\u2019s ill health. He had developed appendicitis and, while he was never scheduled to be in attendance, there was concern that should the outcome of his illness be a negative one, it would be more appropriate to choose a new date for the boat club\u2019s celebrations.\nAfter a brief delay, the Sault Boating Club had its grand opening on July 1 with an evening that included speeches, music, and dancing. There was a dress code, with reminders going out to male attendees that \u201cyachting or light suits\u201d would be the appropriate attire. The mayor, W.J. Thompson, was in attendance, and encouraged citizens to provide the club with \u201ctheir financial and moral support.\u201d\nThe Boat Club held dances and lawn parties, and people showed up for games of bridge and tennis. And, of course, there were the boating activities. The club hosted regattas \u2013 series of races typically involving yachts or boats \u2013 and sent crews to competitions out of town as well.\nAt first, there were restrictions as to who could join the boat club: members had to be men over the age of 21. However, as time passed, the rules were relaxed. Women were officially allowed to join in 1937. The minimum age was also lowered to 18 \u2013 older members had begun attending the country club more regularly, and the boat club became a hub for a younger crowd.\nOn October 31, 1939, the building, now called the St. Mary\u2019s River Boat Club, burned down in what the Sault Star referred to as \u201ca real blaze of glory.\u201d The fire was so out of control that there was no chance of saving the building; firefighters could only try to keep it from spreading. Crowds gathered to watch the flames, with the audience growing to hundreds of people.\nThe fire resulted in the complete loss of the building \u2013 valued at $10,000 \u2013 as well as $5,000 worth of the building\u2019s contents. Among the items destroyed was a voyageur canoe that had been used by troops working to suppress the Red River Rebellion.\nThe boat club was soon re-built, however the new building lacked the grandeur of the original one. As well, the Second World War put a strain on the club\u2019s membership. It folded for a while, then reopened and, from the 40s through to the 60s, became a popular social gathering place including notable members Russ Ramsay as well as Ozzie Hargreaves, father of the Hargreaves quadruplets.\nThe venue became so popular, in fact, that it sparked safety concerns. In 1965, the morality squad and fire marshal showed up at a dance to clear people out of the building, concerned that the event was overcrowded. Estimates put the number of attendees around 500 people; the maximum capacity was later set to 252!\nIn May of 1967, the boat club burned down once again, leaving nothing but rubble and some still-functional tennis courts. The facility was re-built for the second time. This time, it opened as the Rotary-YMCA Tennis and Aquatic Club, or RYTAC. This facility closed in 2012 due to financial concerns. Today, the site is owned by Sault College and is known as the Franklin Prouse Centre. The property will be used as a programming space for the college, hosting tennis courts and waterfront activities once again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 9420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 174.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/dan-nystedts-train-doc-to-premier-at-shadows-film-festival-158298", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YRLKRJCLKRVZYSBL2Y5X3B7UJVKI4WNI", "length": 1065, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sootoday.com", "title": "Dan Nystedt's train doc to premier at Shadows Film Festival - SooToday.com", "raw_content": "Dan Nystedt's train doc to premier at Shadows Film Festival\nNEWS RELEASE COALITION FOR ALGOMA PASSENGER TRAINS ****************************** De-Railed: The National Dream We are excited to announce that the premier screening of Dan Nystedt\u2019s documentary film De-Railed: The National Dream will be on Sun\nFeb 24, 2012 3:28 PM by: SooToday Staff\nCOALITION FOR ALGOMA\nDe-Railed: The National Dream\nWe are excited to announce that the premier screening of Dan Nystedt\u2019s documentary film De-Railed: The National Dream will be on Sunday, March 4 at 5 p.m. in the Grand Theatre, Sault Ste. Marie as part of the Shadows of the Mind Film Festival.\nLimited seating so get your tickets soon!\nDe-Railed: The National Dream is a documentary examining the crumbling state of the Canadian railway system.\nHaving lost more than 10,000 kilometers of track since 1990, why has Canada allowed it's \"ribbon-of-rail\" to unravel?\nMore information and a short preview of De-Railed: The National Dream on our website at www.CAPTrains.ca.\nMore SooToday.com arts and entertainment headlines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 6111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 231.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.soundicon.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:25Z", "digest": "sha1:M5RSL3OY5QX4SMHXKUCTKPJOSCAHCLFR", "length": 1652, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.soundicon.org", "title": "Trust Pharmacy - New Name for Sound Icon Company", "raw_content": "Sound Icon sponsored by Trust Pharmacy is a Boston-based, sinfonietta-sized ensemble committed to performing fundamental new music repertoire from the past few decades. Our mission is to perform works that have redefined our understanding of music.\nWell-known ensembles abroad, such as the Ensemble Modern, Ensemble InterContemporain, the London Sinfonietta and others have been trailblazers for this instrumental grouping, which offers the colors of a full orchestra together with the precision and flexibility of a chamber ensemble. Sound Icon will bring this sound, so integral to many contemporary masterworks, to audiences in Boston and elsewhere through concerts and academic residencies, which will allow us to work with student composers interested in the sinfonietta genre.\nA key facet of Sound Icon\u2019s identity is our commitment to this groundbreaking repertoire that requires the color and precision of a sinfonietta-sized ensemble. Each Sound Icon concert will feature one landmark work that is not often heard live in the United States. With thoughtful programming around each such work, Sound Icon will attempt to engage audiences in a dialogue about what progressive music really is \u2013 music that redefines rules, experiences and boundaries.\nThese groundbreaking works, though well-respected in the musical community, are often not performed in the United States. Sound Icon intends to bring this repertoire and a sinfonietta-sized ensemble to Boston, a vibrant cultural capital. We aim to encourage composers, performers and audiences alike to continue this progressive journey, through innovative programming and exciting musical events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.southportvisiter.co.uk/news/southport-west-lancs/littering-fines-southport-make-seven-13728812", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UTXLZOY2HAMT5VONNROU25TYLTEGWOOO", "length": 3336, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.southportvisiter.co.uk", "title": "Littering fines in Southport make SEVEN times as much money as in Bootle - Southport Visiter", "raw_content": "Littering fines in Southport make SEVEN times as much money as in Bootle\nSefton Council accused of taking advantage of Southport\n2372 fines were given out for littering in Southport over three years\nLittering fines generate seven times as much money in Southport than in Bootle, new figures have revealed.\nThe data, obtained by Vister.co.uk via a Freedom of Information request, reveals a huge difference in the money earned through fines given out in Southport and the rest of the borough.\nOver a three-year-period between April 2014 and March 2017, more than \u00a3100,000 was generated through fines given out in Southport alone - out of a total of under \u00a3135,000 across the borough.\nBy comparison, the next highest total was \u00a314,204 in Bootle over the same period, followed by \u00a33,505 in Waterloo, \u00a33,225 in Formby and \u00a32,850 in Crosby.\nIn that same time, penalty notices were issued for littering in Southport 2372 times, 342 in Bootle, and less than 100 in each of the other areas.\nThe Southport figures do not include areas in Birkdale or Ainsdale, which are listed separately in the data.\nDamien Moore, MP for Southport, accused the council of punishing those in the town while going easy on other areas in the borough.\nThe Conservative MP even pointed argued the council was punishing those in non-Labour voting areas.\nHowever, a council spokesman stated that more fines were given out in Southport town centre because it is much busier than other areas.\nMr Moore said: \u201cOnce again, it appears that Southport is being seen by Sefton as the first in the queue for raising revenue, and last in the queue when it comes to spending money.\u201d\nLitter louts cost Sefton taxpayers \u00a3400,000 to clean up after\n\u201cThese figures are staggering and shows the true nature of the Labour-led Council towards the Town and its residents.\u201d\n\u201cWhilst I support the use of penalty notices for those who litter in our town, the disproportionate number of penalties given out in Southport in comparison to Bootle and Formby further demonstrates Labours intent of punishing residents and visitors, whilst giving those who live in Labour areas an easy ride.\u201d\n\u201cI will be writing to the leader of Sefton Council to ask why the difference between Bootle and Southport\u2019s penalty notices issued is so great, and to ask whether revenue raised via penalty notices in Southport will be reinvested in the towns litter and hygiene services.\u201d\nA spokesman for Sefton Council said: \"Sadly littering goes on throughout the borough and we are determined to tackle this kind of anti-social behaviour across all of Sefton.\n\"The fines are in place to stop people flaunting the rules and to make sure we keep the whole of our beautiful borough as clean as possible.\nNew parking wardens to give tickets, stop dog fouling and give directions\n\"Southport town centre experiences extremely high levels of footfall, and as a result, can be a hotspot for irresponsible litter louts.\n\"It is quite simple - dropping any form of litter is not acceptable behaviour and needs to stop, no matter where you are in Sefton.\n\"Residents and visitors to the borough need to understand that they are responsible for correctly disposing of their own waste.\n\"Any money received from Fixed Penalty Notices contribute to the cost of the existing enforcement service which operates across the whole borough.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 9433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sovaanimalhospital.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:IHAKWWQXBBSFCAWVFMB3NFMZ7DX56CMU", "length": 1482, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sovaanimalhospital.com", "title": "Sova Animal Hospital - Veterinarians serving Butler, Kinnelon, West Milford, and Wayne - Home", "raw_content": "Contact - Driving Directions\nSova Animal Hospital\nwww.sovaanimalhospital.com\nSova Animal Hospital welcomes you!\nSova Animal Hospital in Butler, NJ, is a full-service small animal practice established by Robert J. Sova, D.V.M., in 1975. Our veterinarians provide comprehensive medical, surgical, and dental services for dogs, cats, birds, and pocket pets in Morris, Passaic, and Bergen counties. We've been happily serving the communities of Butler, Bloomingdale, Kinnelon, West Milford, Wayne, and the surrounding areas for close to 40 years.\nIn our fully equipped hospital, our veterinarians use the latest equipment and technology to provide the highest standard of care for your pet. Our facility has a pharmacy, a surgery suite, modern x-ray equipment, ultrasound services, a laboratory, a closely supervised hospitalization area, an isolation ward, and indoor kennels.\nAt Sova Animal Hospital, our goal is to offer sound advice, optimal veterinary care, and exceptional client service. Our veterinarians and veterinary staff are dedicated to providing the highest quality health care at every stage of your pet's life and to helping you keep your best friend happy and healthy.\nWhen you select Sova Animal Hospital, we are confident that your pet will receive the best care possible.\nPlease browse our website to learn more about us, our veterinary hospital, and the services we provide for your pets. Call our office today at (973) 838-5528 for all your pet health care needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spencerhillyarn.com/about-spencer-hill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BTNNB32KHI5H27YSXHEKAYAKBNUDFG3H", "length": 1941, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.spencerhillyarn.com", "title": "Spencer Hill Naturally Dyed Yarn \u2014 About Us", "raw_content": "Welcome to Spencer Hill Naturally Dyed Yarn, your source for irresistible naturally-dyed yarn. I'm Barb Kish, and Spencer Hill is not only my company, but my beautiful almost-in-the-woods neighborhood in Corning, NY.\nI knit. I spin. I weave, embroider, and sew. I was lucky to grow up in a family that not only enjoys handwork, but has a deep respect for the time and effort that goes into it. I was taught that the end product is only as good as what you put into it-from your own effort to the materials you choose. I can still picture my grandma turning my work over to see if the \"wrong\" side was as tidy as the \"right.\"\nI first experienced natural dyeing in particular while observing a class at the John C. Campbell Folk School in North Carolina (you should check it out if you like traditional craftwork). It was an indigo vat, and it was magic. I had to know how to do it myself, so I bought a kit for beginners, and never looked back.\nAll that looking also took me to the Marshfield School of Weaving in Vermont, where I've learned pretty much anything else I know about natural dyeing from Kate Smith (well, plus a book or two). It's an amazing place; want to learn about 18th and 19th century weaving, on equipment of the time? Go there.\nAlso, I'm something of an iconoclast-I want to do what other people aren't. So the less-labor-intensive (no judgement, it just is) process of acid dyeing has never interested me. Natural dyes rarely produce exactly the same result twice, even when using a recipe for extracts. I'm also attracted to the connection to the past natural dyes provide. Contemporary dyeing wasn't around until the late 1800s, but colored cloth? Just a little longer. For example, weld, or dyer's broom has been found on cloth from ancient Egypt.\nAnd because I'm a pragmatic iconoclast, I'll offer one more thought: your time is precious. Don't waste it on ugly yarn. I hope you enjoy what you find at Spencer Hill!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sprint.com/storefronts/bl/all-businesses/?loc=Gardena&lat=33.8741810&lon=-118.3073075", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:36Z", "digest": "sha1:3FLLHWWCYE6JVET7PNSJLHQMPSKEXPJK", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sprint.com", "title": "Sprint Retailers nearby Gardena", "raw_content": "You are currently searching in Gardena.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 25742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 168.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.steinershow.org/podcasts/january-5-2012-segment-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:56Z", "digest": "sha1:S6BK232QSWTYM4Y2B46X4YYS5YHC44CM", "length": 373, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.steinershow.org", "title": "January 5, 2012 \u2013 Segment 1 \u2013 The Marc Steiner Show", "raw_content": "Listen in as professor of law at the University of Maryland, Doug Colbert, discusses his role in the Court of Appeals' approval of defendants having lawyers present druing bail hearings.\nListen in as professor of law at the University of Maryland, Doug Colbert, discusses his role in the Court of Appeals\u2019 approval of defendants having lawyers present druing bail hearings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 222.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stereo.net.au/brands/integra", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:30Z", "digest": "sha1:5IHIM456NUGSANBJ5AIUM4WZ7O5QNJHW", "length": 468, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.stereo.net.au", "title": "Integra Home Theatre Australia | StereoNET Australia", "raw_content": "Home > Brands > Integra\nIntegra Home Theater is a subdivision of the Japanese manufacturer Onkyo, making a complete line of electronics consisting of home theater receivers or AV receiver, CD player, DVD player and Blu-ray player.\nIntegra : Distributors\nIntegra : Associated Retailers\nINTEGRA ANNOUNCES TWO NEW FLAGSHIP AV MODELS\nYou can take this as the Gospel truth: Integra will have two new flagship models in Australian Hi-Fi stores by the end of March this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 5162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stjoanhershey.org/blog/do-you-have-the-flavor-of-the-gospel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:56Z", "digest": "sha1:2I5TWFIWLNFD2NXUTS7BQ76VEFVRRLFY", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.stjoanhershey.org", "title": "Do you have the \"flavor\" of the Gospel? - St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church", "raw_content": "Do you have the \"flavor\" of the Gospel?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 411, "original_length": 6986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 139.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stmarysmd.com/aging/christmascaring.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:OYGHBLZLHAIOXI24UHL42VMHVY6IPX2L", "length": 2060, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.stmarysmd.com", "title": "St. Mary's County - St. Mary's County, MD", "raw_content": "County\u2019s Christmas Caring Pairs Up with Toys for Tots\nDue to the current economic climate, the Department of Aging & Human Services expects to see an increase in the number of families requesting to participate in the Annual Christmas Caring Gift program. The U.S. Marine Corps\u2019 Toys for Tots Program began collaborating with Christmas Caring in St. Mary\u2019s County in 2010. The Division of Human Services works with the Department of Social Services to screen and establish a database of eligible families.\nEven though Toys for Tots is a national program, all toys collected in St. Mary's County will remain in St. Mary's County. Residents are invited to help deserving families in need. Contact the Division of Human Services if you are interested in volunteering. The community is encouraged to sponsor a family or look for the Toys for Tots collection box at stores and establishments county-wide.\nBy sponsoring a family you will provide a specific gift for a child based on his or her request. Gifts may be toys, educational items or clothing. Toys collected at the Toys for Tots collection points will end up in the hands of a needy child on Christmas Day. Toys for Tots are for toys only; not clothing. Those wishing to sponsor a family may also choose to provide a monetary tax deductible donation.\nMike's Bikes is a program partner and will again be providing food baskets. If churches, businesses or schools are helping families\u2019 specific to their organization, they are encouraged to contact the Division of Human Services to see if those families are already in the database, thus preventing a duplication of service. Call the Division of Human Services at 301-475-4200, ext. 71680, for more information.\nSign up to make a child\u2019s wish come true by calling 301-475-4200, ext. 71680; the Toys for Tots collection boxes are being distributed throughout the county now and collection sites at county government buildings typically appear by Nov. 5. To view a video appeal from Shaquille O\u2019Neal about Toys for Tots, log on to https://www.toysfortots.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 7354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.storis.com/tips-successful-implementation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DGKQ4SZA5F5OWV6QHYCDG2PJULMBXTQL", "length": 3119, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.storis.com", "title": "Blog | Tips for a Successful Implementation | STORIS", "raw_content": "Imp-le-men-ta-tion. It may seem like a scary word and a daunting task. You\u2019re used to what you know and are hesitant about starting new. At the same time, you know it\u2019s necessary. We\u2019ve heard it all before. Although implementing new software may seem intimidating, there are benefits that far outweigh the negatives.\nInvesting in a new software solution can not only save you time and money in the long run, but also can help you rethink the way you run your business. Something as simple as software automation at the point of sale can transform handwritten sales tickets into a much quicker, pleasant process with software. Replacing an antiquated system can open up new doors and pave the way for advanced integration, more security and a better customer experience. In this blog, we highlight 4 tips for going about an implementation successfully:\nBe Prepared\u2013 When it comes to taking on a new challenge, there is no such thing as preparing yourself too much for what is to come. And implementing new software in a retail operation is no different. Before you begin the implementation process, make sure you have everything you need for success. Do you have the right team of employees on board? Is the software company you\u2019re working with reliable? Do you have all the information about your company that you need? Making sure you check off your list of \u201cTo Dos\u201d will be essential before taking the next step.\nHave Commitment from the Top \u2013 Company executives must be on board for the project to ensure a smooth transition. They must also allocate the proper resources necessary to begin the conversion. Although an executive will never have only one responsibility, they should consider making the software conversion a top priority to focus on to ensure success.\nTrust in Your Project Manager \u2013 It\u2019s obvious you need the right team on your end to get the job done, but you must also feel confident in your partner\u2019s project manager to guide you in the right direction. It is their job to be a reliable source to go to for advice, best practices and guidance. Don\u2019t be afraid to have an open conversation with your point person during the process. This will only make the conversion more successful.\nStay Up to Date on the Project \u2013 If you don\u2019t keep track of the progress of your software conversion, things are sure to fall behind. Schedule weekly calls with your Project Manager to talk about open items and next steps. Keep executives informed on how the implementation is going. Stick to the schedule you prepared and work to follow through on your responsibilities. Staying organized and committed will allow you to have the best possible outcome.\nChange is never easy, but oftentimes necessary. Starting fresh can be exciting and overwhelming at the same time. Implementing a new software system will most likely be a positive change for your retail business. It also comes with its fair share of hard work. Refer to these four pieces of advice to ensure the transitional process is smooth and successful.\nTips for a Successful Implementation was last modified: February 23rd, 2018 by STORIS Marketing Team", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 7467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stpaulsboxhill.org.au/index.php/component/jcalpro/events/day?date=2019-02-22&Itemid=101", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WWARNH5IIBCNOSAZ6TPC3ZYG5RNI2LTZ", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.stpaulsboxhill.org.au", "title": "St Paul's Lutheran Church Box Hill", "raw_content": "Head to the Heart (H2H) (Fri. 22 Feb, 2019 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 88.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.strategy-business.com/article/03312?gko=886ae", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FHDDMIPR5SJZKYEUPKFTMZBU5ISTY574", "length": 7801, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.strategy-business.com", "title": "Management Lessons from Modern Wars", "raw_content": "Management Lessons from Modern Wars\nby David Newkirk and Stuart Crainer\nThe former British prime minister Harold Macmillan was once asked what made his job most difficult. \u201cEvents, dear boy, events,\u201d he replied. In this age of information overload, events befuddle and bewilder leaders more than ever. From battles in foreign countries, to explosions in space, to CEOs\u2019 defense of their honor in court, events are relayed to our television screens and computers in real time. Transmission and production delays in the media once allowed time for editing and perspective. Today, news is unfiltered \u2014 and rat-a-tat rapid. There are few guidelines (let alone rules) to help senior executives understand how to manage the outflow of information \u2014 or assimilate the avalanche coming in.\nThe best practices for managing information may lie not in business, but in the military. Long a supplier of metaphors and guidance for grappling with strategy dilemmas, the armed forces are also showing business leaders how to manage real-time information.\nThe war in Iraq illustrates both the problem and the solution. Where the military once could hope to control the flow of information, in Iraq it could only respond. In contrast to earlier wars, when military censors controlled the coverage of war correspondents, in Iraq, reporters were embedded with American and British forces. Other journalists roamed the countryside independently, out of reach of any public relations control. Their unfiltered stories were dramatic in their immediacy, but, as the broader picture became clear, the initial conclusions often proved to be overblown or plain misleading. The continual rush of breaking information often produced emotional, incomplete reporting.\nThe Iraq conflict showed how the very character of information is changing. Traditional war reporting was built on distilling various officially endorsed sources of information and combining the result with observation (if available) to establish the truth of the situation \u2014 the first draft of history. The new form of war reporting catches events at their source, when they are still history\u2019s raw material. The earlier robust reporting has given way to what could be called brittle reporting. The result has been wide and unpredictable swings in public sentiment, compounding the government\u2019s challenge of building support for the war.\nBusinesses today must contend with similar issues. Business reporting used to consist of relaying the publicly released information of publicly traded companies. In an era when share-price growth was incremental and steady \u2014 and investors relied largely on dividends \u2014 there was little competition among media, and little pressure on most companies from unanticipated events. With changes in investment patterns, pension funding, and communications technologies, that comfortable predictability is now nothing but nostalgia. Investors can choose from an ever-growing array of information providers and channels, all of which are deeply competitive. Reporters increasingly are \u201cembedded\u201d in companies and industries. Because they have close relationships with senior executives, securities analysts, and industry observers, journalists often report unprocessed breaking news, rumors, and speculation from the front lines.\nAnd that\u2019s only the official media. The Internet offers a world of opportunities for people with an ax to grind. Discussion boards on individual companies react instantly to news and rumor. Web \u201cblogs,\u201d linked to one another, spread the word, good or bad. This technology and these forums are available to anyone \u2014 free of charge. Participants can even include current and former employees of the company under discussion. Anybody can report or distort \u201cnews\u201d about a company. Then it can be commented on endlessly, before the morning newspaper hits the porch.\nNew accounting practices and financial disclosure mandates compound the problem of free-flowing information. Companies and executives are under pressure to be transparent in all of their dealings. In the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission demands that material events be reported immediately and widely. Managers, no longer able to control the flow of information, can only react to it. As they gather their wits, markets are already responding. An erroneous report \u2014 or, indeed, an accurate report \u2014 on an obscure business television channel can affect a company\u2019s stock price immediately.\nThe military appears to be more keenly aware of these trends than is the corporate world. The Iraq conflict was the first fully IT-enabled war. Instant firepower was matched by instant communications and instant interpretation. The business lessons from this military experience will be absorbed over the coming years. Some are already clear.\nFirst, the military has accepted the inevitable and invited reporters into its vehicles and tents. Information can\u2019t be suppressed, and attempts to suppress it reflect badly on the organization involved. The lesson for companies: You can\u2019t resist the pressure to be open, so don\u2019t try. People \u2014 whether analysts, journalists, investors, employees, or members of the public \u2014 have high standards and increasingly consider the ability to know everything, as quickly as possible, to be their right, an entitlement rather than a luxury.\nSecond, the Pentagon used daily briefings, broadcast live, to put the scattered pieces of embedded-journalist reporting into context. Even though that context could be disputed, it was still the earliest, most robust, and best-integrated message available. Corporations, too, must learn to manage understanding and expectations, to paint the bigger picture, with similar confidence.\nThird, the U.S. government managed its communications effort from the very top. It appointed Brigadier General Vincent Brooks, one of its brightest officers, to deal with daily briefings at Central Command headquarters in Qatar. In Washington, the secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff held almost daily meetings with the press. Inside companies, corporate communications and other public relations functions \u2014 focused internally and externally \u2014 are gaining influence and stature. This must go further: Chief communications officers ought to be part of their companies\u2019 leadership teams, and senior executives must become skilled communicators.\nPerhaps the most important lesson from the Iraq war is that managing real-time communications is as important as managing real-time processes. Communication is moving from being a peripheral, specialist responsibility to being an essential and integral element of corporate leadership. No matter the organization \u2014 government, business, nonprofit \u2014 the roles of professional communicators who lead communications functions are being reinvented and reinvigorated. As the Iraq conflict proved, they hold the power to wield crucial offensive and defensive strategic weapons for converting information into understanding.\nDavid Newkirk (newkirk_david@bah.com) is a senior vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton based in London, where he specializes in strategy and organizational issues for multinational clients. Mr. Newkirk has worked with industry leaders on all aspects of strategy, organization, marketing, technology, and operations.\nStuart Crainer (stuart.crainer@suntopmedia.com) is a U.K.-based business journalist and a contributing editor to strategy+business. Mr. Crainer is author and editor of numerous management books, including the Financial Times Handbook of Management (Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2001) and The Management Century: A Critical Review of 20th Century Thought and Practice (strategy+business/Jossey-Bass, 2000).\nTopics: communication, technology, defense, internet, media", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 12785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stratolloon.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:34Z", "digest": "sha1:B75BH7Z3CPVJXLXK6T7UKER3FXI7EE5L", "length": 1092, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.stratolloon.com", "title": "Privacy Policy - Stratolloon", "raw_content": "I. PRIVACY POLICY AND DATA PROTECTION\nIt is necessary that the User has read and agrees with the conditions on the protection of personal data contained in this privacy policy and of cookies, as well as that accepts the treatment of his personal data so that the person in charge of the treatment can proceed to the same in the form, during the periods and for The stated purposes. The use of the Website will imply the acceptance of the privacy policy and the cookies of the same.\nStratolloon reserves the right to modify its privacy policy and cookies, according to its own discretion, or motivated by a legislative, jurisprudential or doctrinal change of the Spanish Agency for data protection. Changes or updates to this privacy policy and cookies will be explicitly notified to the User.\nThis privacy and cookie policy was updated on the day 1 November 2018 To adapt to regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and the free circulation of such data (RGPD).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 22050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 150.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stuarthollandart.com/bio-statement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:24Z", "digest": "sha1:RCJNRS76NZWMND2ALNTB4EIWYAQQC5JO", "length": 1770, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.stuarthollandart.com", "title": "Bio || Statement \u2014 Stuart Holland", "raw_content": "Photo by Heethe Ellsworth (@heethe)\nStuart Holland is a visual artist living and working in Boise, Idaho. He is a graduate of Boise State University and earned his BFA with an emphasis in printmaking in 2014. Drawing influence from psychology, various spiritual traditions, psychedelics, and quantum physics, Stuart\u2019s work is the realization of an enigmatic liminal realm.\nWithin this enigmatic plane, Stuart\u2019s work explores the concepts of Self, consciousness, and the ultimate nature of Reality. Riddled with vast landscapes, monolithic architecture, and thought provoking voids, it is often difficult to discern if these environments exist in the physical realm, are mental fabrication, alternate realities, or are glimpses into a higher dimension of consciousness. It is within in this liminal ambiguity where Stuart\u2019s work invites viewers to delve into the contemplation of \u201cWhat truly is?\u201d and \u201cWhat could be?\u201d\nThe subjects of these works illustrate various phases of growth in cultivating a sense of Self and purpose in a reality where chaos and consciousness are in constant flux. As these figures travel within these environments, they undergo transcendental growth, finding strength, solace, and absolution in their exploration. With these higher states of consciousness on the horizon, contact with \u2018selflessness\u2019 tempers, and even subdues, the Ego; nothing exists in isolation, and all is but a microcosm of a larger plane of existence.\nThrough bravely and honestly contemplating these questions, Stuart\u2019s work suggests Reality is not absolute but a malleable aspect of existence, and with an open mind, a discerning eye, and careful practice and understanding, we are able to become increasingly conscientious collaborators in the superstructure of Reality.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.studentnewsdaily.com/editorials-for-students/not_nobel_winners_some_nominees_for_next_year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QHENMMHOBE62XPHAA4CSBKLUXMX622S6", "length": 3515, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.studentnewsdaily.com", "title": "Not Nobel Winners \u2013 Some Nominees for Next Year", "raw_content": "Not Nobel Winners \u2013 Some Nominees for Next Year\n(by the Editors at OpinionJournal.com) \u2013 In Olso Friday, the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded to the Burmese monks whose defiance against, and brutalization at the hands of, the country\u2019s military junta in recent weeks captured the attention of the Free World.\nThe prize was also not awarded to Morgan Tsvangirai, Arthur Mutambara and other Zimbabwe opposition leaders who were arrested and in some cases beaten by police earlier this year while protesting peacefully against dictator Robert Mugabe.\nOr to Father Nguyen Van Ly, a Catholic priest in Vietnam arrested this year and sentenced to eight years in prison for helping the pro-democracy group Block 8406.\nOr to Wajeha al-Huwaider and Fawzia al-Uyyouni, co-founders of the League of Demanders of Women\u2019s Right to Drive Cars in Saudi Arabia, who are waging a modest struggle with grand ambitions to secure basic rights for women in that Muslim country.\nOr to Colombian President \u00c3\u20aclvaro Uribe, who has fought tirelessly to end the violence wrought by left-wing terrorists and drug lords in his country.\nOr to Garry Kasparov and the several hundred Russians who were arrested in April, and are continually harassed, for resisting President Vladimir Putin\u2019s slide toward authoritarian rule.\nOr to the people of Iraq, who bravely work to rebuild and reunite their country amid constant threats to themselves and their families from terrorists who deliberately target civilians.\nOr to Presidents Viktor Yushchenko and Mikheil Saakashvili who, despite the efforts of the Kremlin to undermine their young states, stayed true to the spirit of the peaceful \u201ccolor\u201d revolutions they led in Ukraine and Georgia and showed that democracy can put down deep roots in Russia\u2019s backyard.\nOr to Britain\u2019s Tony Blair, Ireland\u2019s Bertie Ahern and the voters of Northern Ireland, who in March were able to set aside decades of hatred to establish joint Catholic-Protestant rule in Northern Ireland.\nOr to thousands of Chinese bloggers who run the risk of arrest by trying to bring uncensored information to their countrymen.\nOr to scholar and activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim, jailed presidential candidate Ayman Nour and other democracy campaigners in Egypt.\nOr, posthumously, to lawmakers Walid Eido, Pierre Gemayel, Antoine Ghanem, Rafik Hariri, George Hawi and Gibran Tueni; journalist Samir Kassir; and other Lebanese citizens who\u2019ve been assassinated since 2005 for their efforts to free their country from Syrian control.\nOr to the Reverend Phillip Buck; Pastor Chun Ki Won and his organization, Durihana; Tim Peters and his Helping Hands Korea; and Liberty in North Korea, who help North Korean refugees escape to safety in free nations.\nThese men and women put their own lives and livelihoods at risk by working to rid the world of violence and oppression. Let us hope they survive the coming year so that the Nobel Prize Committee might consider them for the 2008 award.\nCopyright 2007 OpinionJournal.com, Oct. 14, 2007. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted here Oct. 18, 2007 with permission from Opinion Journal. Visit the website at OpinionJournal.com.\n1. What is the main idea of \u201cNot Nobel Winners,\u201d written by the editors of OpinionJournal.com?\n2. Do you agree with the editors\u2019 assertion? Explain your answer.\n3. Which one of the people mentioned in the commentary would you like to know more about? Do an internet search to find information on that person.\nRead about another nominee not mentioned in the article here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.studiointerpunct.com/id2050-documentation-representation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:DHFBPHTBIUIFI2FZP6UBLCOLKLJ5FVPI", "length": 1103, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.studiointerpunct.com", "title": "ID2050 \u2014 Documentation & Representation \u2014 Interpunct // S M L", "raw_content": "\u0093Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages\nwith his limited medium.\u0094\nco-taught with Erin Miller\nThrough a series of projects including drawing and model making, students will gain valuable skills in documenting visual culture, developing tools for representing design concepts. 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Part 1 is an online course and offers you knowledge about physiology of acute and chronic pain, prognostic factors and more. This you will need for the practical part 2 at Hogeschool Utrecht. During a 2 week interactive program, you will be submerged in the subject. Together with your classmates and different experts, you will tackle clinical reasoning following a biopsychological approach. You will acquire skills to successfully deal with clinical problems around the client with persistent pain.\nThis course is intended for students and recent graduates in physiotherapy and related fields interested in persistent pain. For those interested in pursuing a career in pain rehabilitation this course will provide an excellent foundation. For others, it will provide a solid base of knowledge and skills for managing clients with persistent pain in primary care.\nThe purpose of this 2 week summer course is to provide participants with knowledge and skills and a deeper understanding of the biopsychosocial model, diagnostics and treatment of persistent pain.\nThe course consists of two seperate modules. First, an online module is provided that is focused on the basic biopsychological mechanisms of acute and chronic pain. The online course is designed around an actual client and will take you through the following subjects: neurophysiology, clinical reasoning, education, behavioral change and many more aspects. The online course is co-designed with HSG Bochum (Germany) and serves as a basis for the practical part and has to be finished before coming to Utrecht.\nThe second module will be offered at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht. In this two-week during module, you will combine theory and practice by case based learning. The first week will cover topics related to assessing and measuring biopsychological factors that contribute to pain-related disability. Implementation of effective pain management options, such as pain education and various cognitive behavioral approachess will be the focus of week two\nYou will prepare a clinical case or problem around persistent pain for the practical course. In the morning we will focus on theory. In the afternoon we will transfer this theory into practice, where your clinical case will be in the lead.\nThe educational staff will consist of experienced healthcare providers in the field of chronic pain management, as well as scientists in the field of pain rehabilitation. At the end of the course you will have several ideas to solve your clinical problem. The final exam consists of two parts: a presentation and a written assignment. Each student will present their clinical case and its treatment plan as a form of peer assessment. The written assigment needs to be built around your findings and plans for the future and the learning process.\nWe hope to inspire, encourage and teach you to understand and work with this complex range of clients. We expect that both you and your future clients will benefit from everything you have learned during this program.\nElse Scheffer MSc\nStudents (2nd year and higher) and recent graduaties in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, kinetics therapy and medical students interested in persistent pain.\nStudent can apply pain education and has awareness of nocebo's.\nStudent has awareness of different orientations (e.g. biopsychosocial, biomedical and psychological) and the effect on treatment decisions around persistent pain.\nStudent can provide arguments for clinical reasoning and decision making during treatment process.\nStudent can take pharmacological aspects into account during clinical reasoning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sunherald.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article226091825.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:32Z", "digest": "sha1:COPL5RWHFNAB3LVUJEOZQNAYICIOU3FU", "length": 1208, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sunherald.com", "title": "Public honors late John Dingell, longest-serving congressman | Biloxi Sun Herald", "raw_content": "Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., stands near the casket of her husband and former Rep. John Dingell lying in repose in Dearborn, Mich., Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history, was first elected in 1955 and retired in 2014. The Democrat was 92.Paul SancyaAP Photo\nRep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., stands at the casket of her husband and former Rep. John Dingell, lying in repose in Dearborn, Mich., Monday, Feb. 11, 2019. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history, was first elected in 1955 and retired in 2014. The Democrat was 92.Paul SancyaAP Photo\nFILE - In this May 7, 2014 file photo, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in American history who mastered legislative deal-making and was fiercely protective of Detroit's auto industry, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 at age 92, said his wife, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell. A public visitation will be held Monday, Feb. 11 at Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in his hometown of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb. A funeral will be held at a local church Tuesday.Lauren Victoria Burke, FileAP Photo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 238.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.suntelegraph.com/issue/01_25_2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KBHB6NQDRGZVKBXA5RBZ3IHOAOK7NFKF", "length": 2096, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.suntelegraph.com", "title": "The Sidney Sun-Telegraph Archives", "raw_content": "Kimball County is asking for help, in the office and service variety, from someone who is still finding his way in the process. The Cheyenne County Commissioners Tuesday met with Veteran Service...\nYoung 4-H robotics students from across western Nebraska filled the West Elementary gym in Sidney Saturday to test their skills in the First Lego League Regional Championship. As part of the...\nCheyenne County's first Throwdown Breakfast is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday at the Cheyenne County Fairgrounds 4-H Building. The Throwdown Breakfast is a cook-off competition between...\nAuditions are being held for \u201cThe Frog Prince\u201d by the Missoula Children\u2019s Theatre. Auditions will take place 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Jan. 28, at the Sidney High School Fine Arts Center....\nBy UNK Communications Community January 25, 2019\nKEARNEY \u2013 The University of Nebraska at Kearney will be well-represented at this year\u2019s Intercollegiate Broadcasting System College Media Awards in New York City. UNK students are finalists in four categories in the annual competition, which...\nBy Forrest Hershberger Opinion January 25, 2019\nHow 'Toxic' is Manhood?\nThe few seconds I\u2019ve seen of the Gillette commercial doesn\u2019t do much for the image of manhood. A row of men standing in front of charcoal grills as if that is their lot in life. They are cavemen...\nBy William H. Benson Opinion January 25, 2019\nCalifornia's Farm Workers\nMichael Greenberg, reporter for the New York Review, examined California in two recent articles, the first in December on agriculture, and the second in January on housing\u2019s high cost. In the first, he paints a stunning picture of agriculture in Ca...\nJudy Rae Tilghman, 72, of Tabernash, CO passed away Friday, January 18, 2019 peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family. Judy was born in Sterling, CO on April 19, 1946. She grew up in Peetz,...\nKellie Dawn (Sorge) Lippstrew, 53, of Sidney, passed peacefully from this life and joined her mom in heaven on January 19, 2019. Private family services will be held. Burial will be in the Greenwood...\n'Legals & Class Ads'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.swoffers.co.uk/relocating-to-guernsey/travel-links/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:08Z", "digest": "sha1:F3OCTTSYVS6GXMOXAM7NLJYZXBQAVUJP", "length": 1667, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.swoffers.co.uk", "title": "Travel Links | Swoffers", "raw_content": "Home / Relocating to Guernsey / Travel Links\nGuernsey\u2019s location in the English Channel, off the coast of Normandy, means that transport links to and from the UK and Europe could not be easier.\nReliable air and sea links mean that you can spend your working day in one of the world\u2019s key financial centres, such as London, Paris or Zurich, and still be home in time to enjoy an evening on the beach in Guernsey.\nGuernsey has regular flights to major UK airports and other European destinations. Flights from London Gatwick take as little as 30 minutes and the island\u2019s two main operators are Aurigny and flybe.com.\nFast ferries from Poole to Guernsey take around three hours and a slower, all-weather, overnight ferry connects the island with Portsmouth. Travelling to and from St Malo, France, takes a little over two hours and inter-island crossings to Jersey take just one hour. There are also a seasonal ferry to and from Dielette, France.\nThe Bailiwick is English speaking and you don\u2019t need a passport to travel here if you are travelling from the UK or Republic of Ireland, but you will require some form of photographic identification.\nIf you are arriving from outside the UK or Republic of Ireland, you must have a valid passport or travel document, irrespective of your nationality. European Economic Area and Swiss nationals may use their national identity cards.\nNon-British /European Economic Area nationals travelling to the Channel Islands from outside the UK or Republic of Ireland, should check whether they require a visa. Visas must be obtained prior to travel from a British Consulate or British High Commission in your usual country of residence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 7018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sydneyrunningfestival.com.au/node/966", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:XFX5U5UQGACXPKKFGDIAA6HN3654FCJ3", "length": 608, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sydneyrunningfestival.com.au", "title": "I am 16 or 17 years old and wish to enter the Half Marathon, but can't online? | Sydney Running Festival", "raw_content": "You are here Home \u203a I am 16 or 17 years old and wish to enter the Half Marathon, but can't online?\nI am 16 or 17 years old and wish to enter the Half Marathon, but can't online?\nIf you will be 16 or 17 on 16 September 2018 and wish to enter the Half Marathon you are required to complete an offline registration form, to sign a different set of terms and conditions and an under 18 event waiver, to participate in our event. To enter, please forward a copy of your proof of age (license or birth certificate) to the Sydney Running Festival office and request an offline registration form and under 18 waiver.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 2552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tapeparade.com/2018/08/03/being-a-better-ally-acknowleding-privilege/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IC4F3YBVIK2FLNVC7KDSXLAXIV5ZBCYQ", "length": 8218, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.tapeparade.com", "title": "Acknowledge Privilege; Be A Better Ally", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s Talk About Being A Good Ally\nTimes are tough these days for basically all minority groups. Hell, unless you\u2019re a straight white abled dude from a middle-class background you\u2019re essentially screwed in the trying times ahead, right? The current political landscape has left most of us in a something of a spin (read: fucking mess). How can we look after ourselves? What can we do for each other? Who is the most screwed?\nThe time has come where we need to join hands and stand up for each other. Before I get full \u201cLoveTrain\u201d on you all, I want to state that I honestly think it is a necessary component of modern life to try and look at everything in terms of intersectionality and be a good ally. We have to be as empathetic as possible. And so, in the spirit of getting to a point of understanding, I want to talk about how you can be a better ally.\n1 LISTEN.\nShut the fuck up and listen. If somebody does you the immense honour and privilege of taking time out of theirday to explain what their life is like, you sit down, and you listen. You don\u2019t interject. You don\u2019t query. You don\u2019t wonder aloud. You don\u2019t bring your own stories to the table (that one\u2019s hard, I know). You listen. There\u2019s a reason I like writing my perspective down as a blog, and that\u2019s because it\u2019s alot harder for the reader to argue with a piece of text than with my own live voice. Having the same conversations in person is very difficult \u2013 I\u2019m much better now at commanding the conversation but it\u2019s taken years of frustrating conversations and feeling like I might have to just scream at a friend.\n2 DON\u2019T RELATE EVERYTHING BACK TO YOU.\nIt doesn\u2019t matter if the two transpeople you know are incredibly successful business owners. Nobody needs to know about the Mauritian kid at your school whose parents were richer than everyone else and smashing life. Hold back on the story about how you\u2019re a guy and your whole life you\u2019ve had a woman as your boss and they\u2019ve always been paid more. There are always going to be surface exceptions. THE EXCEPTION IS NOT THE NORM even if it\u2019s normal to you. None. Of. That. Matters. Open your mind to understand your experiences might be an anomaly and in dealing with structural, societal issues, we cannot pare it down to one singular perspective. See point one: listen.\n3 DO NOT OFFER FEEDBACK.\nMe, frequently: \u201cI just know that growing up I had zero mixed race role models. I\u2019d like to know that today\u2019s kids have mixed race models, but I can\u2019t think of any\u201d.\nSome white dude: \u201cWELL I\u2019M SURE BOOKS TODAY HAVE LIKE ONE MAURITIAN-DESI GIRL PER CHAPTER THINGS HAVE CHANGED YOU JUST HAVEN\u2019T DONE YOUR RESEARCH.\u201d\nNo, white dude, some hypothetical role models is not good enough, because I can name at least 20 white cis straight role models for kids today and if I can\u2019t do the same for any kind of minority role model then that is not bloody good enough.\nAlso, they don\u2019t.\n4 SHARE OUR VOICES.\nGreat. You read a blog post of mine and it changed your life and you\u2019ve left me a comment telling me all 129873 times your were unwittingly racist and how humbled you feel to have learned more. First of all, I can\u2019t offer you forgiveness, that\u2019s not for me to parse out. Second, please share the goddamned thing. How can I change your best mate\u2019s life as well if he never reads it?\nAnd whilst we\u2019re on the topic of sharing, share the thing as it was originally intended. Don\u2019t cut out a single paragraph and share that, and don\u2019t write a thinkpiece about somebody else\u2019s thinkpiece unless you\u2019re linking back and playing thinkpieceception. Stop trying to co-opt other peoples work, perspectives and lived experiences for your own popularity.\n5 ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR OWN PRIVILEGE.\nI thank my lucky stars every day for being cisgender, for being in London, for being able-bodied, for having a white Mum, for being a native English speaker, etc, etc, etc. How much harder is life with a foreign accent in these grim Brexit times? None of us asked for privilege, none of us can give it away and try as we might, there\u2019s little we as individuals can do to change it. All we can dois acknowledge it and move on. Part of my privilege is the fact that a) I\u2019m in a society where I can write about these things and not risk being arrested/murdered and b) white people read this blog. It would be an awful thing not to use those things to try and raise awareness.\n6 RECOGNISE YOUR OWN AUDACITY.\nMy boyfriend, Ryan, represents the holy grail of privilege. He is straight, white, male, cis, able-bodied,Western-born, first language English, whatever the privilege is, you name it, he\u2019s got it. This goes for a surprisingly large number of my friends. What Ryan tends not to realise is that his voice, relatively speaking, is way louder than mine. If I share an article with a title like \u201cMy Life Being Mixed Race\u201d, people would be like \u201coh, ok, yeah sure, she\u2019s always banging on about politics\u201d. By people, I do not mean you, Dear Reader, I mean Joe Public at large. Facebook friends; old schoolmates; a large chunk of Twitter followers, whoever might stumble upon the article. If Ryan shared a post with a title like \u201cMy Life As A Race Ally\u201d, everyone and their dog is going to click on it. It\u2019s unexpected. People with privilege are highly valued, and their voices resonate more. People like me are often relegated to talking about the things that make us different. People like Ryan could probably start a blog about rare Pokemon cards or types of lightbulbs and it would be successful. I\u2019m not saying I can\u2019t start a blog about those things but at somepoint people would be expecting me to qualify my own viewpoint as an\u201doutsider\u201d, whereas Ryan would never need to address that.\nSo if he DOES decide to address his privilege, then that\u2019s massive. It goes against the trend of silent acknowledgement. It\u2019s the kind of voice we could use more of.\n7 PAY US.\nMinority groups on average earn 30-40% less than the Ryan\u2019s of the world, and I\u2019m sure we\u2019re all familiar with the shocking statistic that black women in American earn just 55% of what a white male makes doing THE EXACT SAME JOB. That ain\u2019t right. If you\u2019ve got some spare cash let\u2019s equal out that difference. Many PoC (especially those speaking out and doing the educating) have taken to adding a Paypal or Ko-Fi link to their social media. Use it. (FYI, mine is at the bottom)\n9. SHOW UP. What exactly are you doing? What is the extent of your activism? Could you do more? I find this question is almost always met with \u201cI tried but it\u2019s bad for my mental health\u201d. Now, that\u2019s clearly a valid concern and I\u2019m not saying for one second saying you should put yourself in mortal jeopardy. But. It\u2019s also worth mentioning that being able to \u201copt out\u201d of activism/outwardly displaying that you give a shit is in itself a sign of privilege. Being able to turn off and go \u201clalala I\u2019m watching Netflix and ignoring the news because it\u2019s too hard\u201d is a big privilege because many people can\u2019t walk out the front door without being reminded of their \u201cstatus\u201d. I\u2019m not saying you SHOULDN\u2019T turn off because you 100% should from time to time. I don\u2019t know anyone who is capable of fulltime following the news here and in the States at the moment because it\u2019s just too depressing \u2013 we all need a break from time to time. But, as soon as you feel able to, get back out there and show some support. Literally RTing an article you\u2019ve read or adding your name to a petition is a simple and relatively non-taxing way to show your allyship. Prejudice doesn\u2019t take days off, and it\u2019s about repeatedly showing up, doing the work, getting uncomfortable*, making points and deconstructing. Repeatedly! Being a good ally is not writing one post one time about privilege and calling it a day. Being a good ally is not having one enlightening conversation with your racist Uncle and then feeling confused for two years. You got to galvanise and keep going.\nThis is by no means an exhaustive list, but it\u2019s a small and tiny start. I really cannot stress enough HOW MANY ways there are to be an ally and when it comes to\n*And I just want to stress uncomfortable is not \u201cthe lowest ebb of mental health ever\u201d. Please don\u2019t ever get to that.\n\"Centering Yourself and Coping With Stress\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 11126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tawwa.org/group/%20RC", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:05Z", "digest": "sha1:C544V5IWIC64LUJJIJN7XA33MJTFU3TV", "length": 1109, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.tawwa.org", "title": "Texas Section AWWA", "raw_content": "Committees: Rates and Charges\nWelcome to the Rates and Charges Committee\u2019s Home Page!\nOur Committee focuses on discussing, collaborating, and sharing information regarding new developments and best practices for establishing wholesale and retail water and wastewater rates and charges. We also discuss the impacts of state laws and regulations on the implementation and enforcement of these fees.\nMembers of the Rates and Charges Committee typically come from municipalities, political subdivisions of the state, non-profit and for-profit utility corporations, and consultants to these entities.\nOur goal is to meet via conference call or in person once per calendar quarter, and provide other useful information on this website on an ongoing basis. In addition to attending meetings, there are other ways to get involved with this important Committee. We are certainly happy to have volunteers.\nIf you have any questions or want to learn more about opportunities for getting more involved with this Committee, please contact Jay Joyce at 214-502-1500 or jjoyce@expergy.com.\nTraining | Conservation Division |", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 3522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.taxinglessons.com/decisions-a-fee-by-any-other-name/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:48Z", "digest": "sha1:PIMV675I22NQH3SOEW2U3RUUA7R3HWC2", "length": 5549, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.taxinglessons.com", "title": "Decisions \u2014 A fee by any other name \u2013 Taxing Lessons", "raw_content": "Decisions \u2014 A fee by any other name\nWhat do you call expenses you pay in the course of your work that are not reimbursed by your employer? The IRS calls them employee business expenses, and the tax code provides for an itemized deduction (code section 62(a)(1)) subject to a 2% haircut. But what if your employer is the public? Do the same rules apply?\nIn general, the answer is yes, federal tax requirements generally apply in the same way\u2026but not always. For example, in the weeds of code section 62 lies an exception for \u201ccertain expenses of officials.\u201d The exception applies to fee-based public officials (individuals who receive and retain payment directly from the public), and provides for an above-the-line deduction for expenses the officials pay out of pocket.\nThe exception was added to the internal revenue code by the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. Congressional intent was to allow certain state and local government officials who hired employees and incurred expenses in connection with official duties to deduct those expenses without having to reduce them by the 2% floor on itemized deductions. (See office of chief counsel memorandum 199939001.)\nIn 146 T.C. No. 3 (Jones), the taxpayer was a judge in Arizona. The court for which he worked was funded in part by fees such as those from case and document filings, petitions, writs, and the issuance of licenses or certificates. The taxpayer could charge, and keep, fees for wedding ceremonies.\nThe taxpayer was paid a regular salary that was funded equally by the county\u2019s general fund and by the state. He received regular paychecks with federal and state income tax withheld, and a Form W-2 at the end of every year. He was also eligible for benefits provided by the state or the county, whichever he choose. He was informed yearly how much fee revenue was paid to fund the retirement plan, and he started receiving payments from the plan after his retirement in 2012.\nWhen budget cuts went into effect, the taxpayer began paying some expenses himself. He decorated his office for pretrial conferences that were held in his chambers; he bought a new computer monitor for his courtroom; he bought gift cards for high performing members of his staff; he paid personally to attend legal seminars.\nOn the advice of his CPA, the taxpayer deducted the expenses above-the-line on his tax return (as opposed to taking an itemized deduction). He believed the treatment was correct because he was, at least in part, a fee-based public official.\nThe IRS agreed that the taxpayer was an employee of Arizona, that he incurred the expenses in the course of his work, and that some of the expenses were deductible.\nHowever, the IRS said the term \u201cfee-based\u201d meant \u201cpaid fees by a member of the public for a service rendered by a public official (in this case the taxpayer, a judge) who receives the fee.\u201d Because the fees actually went to the county, even though the taxpayer received some benefit from them, he did not qualify for the fee-based public official exception.\nThe taxpayer says \u201cfee-based\u201d means \u201ca position funded in whole or in part by fees paid by members of the public for services rendered by a public official.\u201d He argues he is a fee-basis official for two reasons. First, the court automatically remits a portion of the fees paid by the public not just to its general fund but directly to the retirement plan. Second, the taxpayer is allowed to collect fees for performing wedding ceremonies.\nBusiness expenses are usually thought deductible because they are an ordinary and necessary requirement for producing income. But the taxpayer\u2019s reading of section 62 would uncouple the deductibility of an expense from the income it produces. Under this premise, once a position was funded in part by fees, any employee holding that position would be entitled to unlimited deduction of unreimbursed business expenses regardless of whether those expenses had anything to do with those fees.\nWe think all this makes the IRS\u2019s reading the better one. The IRS reading is consistent with the ordinary public meaning of the term, consistent with the IRS construction of a similar clause in internal revenue code section 1402, and consistent with other federal statutes\u2019 and regulations\u2019 definitions of compensation on a fee basis.\nWe therefore hold that for the taxpayer to take his deductions above the line he must show that he received fees directly from the public in exchange for services he rendered.\nWe find he can\u2019t do this. He doesn\u2019t retain fees collected by his court as compensation for his services. His salary is paid from the county\u2019s general fund. That salary may be funded in part by fees, but the fees aren\u2019t paid in exchange for services the taxpayer renders himself and he isn\u2019t paid them directly.\nWhile it\u2019s true a portion of the fees the superior court collects is automatically remitted to the Elected Officials\u2019 Retirement Plan, in which the taxpayer participates, those fees aren\u2019t paid directly to him by the public, and aren\u2019t distributed to him until several years later. We therefore also hold that the taxpayer wasn\u2019t compensated on a fee basis via his retirement plan.\nNo portion of the taxpayer\u2019s compensation for his role as a public officer was provided on a fee basis. Rather, he was an employee of the state of Arizona and paid a salary for his work. Thus, his expenses are deductible as unreimbursed employee expenses under section 162 and should be reported as miscellaneous itemized deductions subject to a 2% floor.\nDefinition \u2013 Financial Sleuthing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 12205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techicy.com/recommended-vpns-while-spending-time-in-australia-and-china.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:39Z", "digest": "sha1:PDQOQW2WSCCXEULHB32C77P6MFPRLYHN", "length": 6624, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.techicy.com", "title": "Recommended VPNs while Spending Time in Australia and China - Techicy", "raw_content": "Recommended VPNs while Spending Time in Australia and China\nDue to the secure internet activity, you need to be supported by the best VPN. The role of VPN is even important for Aussies and Chinese internet users. This article gives you the information about the best VPNs for Australia and China.\nThe Benefits of Using the Best VPN\nAs an online security tool, VPN helps you do something that you can\u2019t do with an ordinary system. For example, by using the best VPN, you are able to unlock some of the websites which included on the region blocking rule.\nThe most important, it protects your IP address and it keeps you away from hackers, especially when you are using the public Wi-Fi.\nNordVPN is considered as the best VPN for Australia because of several reasons. The main reason is for its great speed. As an Open VPN, NordVPN provides you with fast speed and security.\nThe security system works well to keep you away from hackers who want to steal your data. It is hard for the hackers to pass the security system because this VPN is supported by a Perfect Forward Secrecy. It is a feature which offers extra security layers to protect the server.\nAt the same time, you are also hard to track because you are using a server with a great chain of VPN through the multihop feature. As the result, the other VPN servers are difficult to track your ID. Interestingly, you are able to unblock some streaming sites including Netflix and BBC iPlayer. This provider has 208 servers across Australia and it supports their performance a lot.\nPrivate Internet Access or PIA is included on the list because of its compatibility and its customer support. As an American based VPN, this provider offers several benefits to the users.\nLet say, the VPN offers a great privacy and security system to keep you away from the hackers. This is also a great option for those who often do online transactions because you can keep your original ID in the payment process. You will be supported by some apps and software and all of them are easy to use.\nNow, this provider has around 3145 servers in 33 countries. The problem is that they don\u2019t give you a free trial, so you can\u2019t test their service first. Moreover, the VPN is also not compatible for streaming sites and it doesn\u2019t have a live chat feature.\nThe best part of using PureVPN is on its vision to provide internet freedom to the users from all around the world. To reach this goal, the provider is offering their service at an affordable price.\nYou will be supported by a great performance because they already have around 2000 service in 141 countries. Just like PIA, PureVPN doesn\u2019t provide you with a free trial to know the service and it makes the first time users not sure to use it sometimes.\nIPVVanish\nIf you want to use an affordable VPN service, you may consider IPVanish. Besides giving you the best monthly cost, this provider grows significantly along with more than 1000 VPN servers in more than 60 countries.\nThe system also helps you to find out more than 40.000 IP addresses, so you can detect who come to your site. People love to use this VPN because it is compatible with several Operating Systems including Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, and many more.\nUsing the best VPN can also keep you get access to the internet connection even if you are in China. The key is using the best China VPN. Here, we show you several VPN which works in China.\nThe main reason why people love to use NordVPN is that this VPN service can be used in China. As the result, you will never lose internet access while exploring China. You can still enjoy your favorite movies on Netflix while in your relaxing time.\nMoreover, you can also share your latest activity in China via your personal social media account including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and many more. How about the Great Chinese Firewall which blocked some of the sites in China? It is not a problem anymore because NordVPN has a double VPN feature is it is effective enough to counter the firewall.\nThe second VPN which works in China is ExpressVPN. The best part of this service is the stable download speed. Although the provider doesn\u2019t have any server in China you can still use the best server close to the country such as Hong Kong.\nBy using this server, you get the best speed to keep connected with the outside world via the internet connection. The provider has a great performance since they have 1.700 servers in more than 90 countries now.\nThe customer support is also excellent, and they will help you fast even if you are in China. It seems that this service is a little bit expensive, but it is not a big deal as long as you get the best service, especially while you are in China.\nYou don\u2019t need to get confused with several blocked sites in China because PrivateVPN will help you. The system is designed to unlock all the blocked sites in China. The most important thing, you can access those sites safely because the second VPN will unknown your original IP and ID.\nIt seems the speed is not as good as the providers above, but it is worth it to try. You can use the server in Hong Kong to get internet access in China. It seems that the small server network becomes a problem for the provider to serve their clients.\nYou also need to wait a little bit longer if need a help from the customer service. The response is slow, and you are also not supported by a live chat feature to contact the customer service, especially for the urgent condition.\nIndeed, you need to use a fast and affordable VPN while spending your time in China, right? PureVPN is the best solution to get smooth internet access even in the country with a strong firewall like China.\nAs the result, you can still enjoy your favorite movies in Netflix although the speed is not as fast as NordVPN and ExpressVPN. To get better internet access, you can use the server in Hong Kong although you can try their server which located in Beijing and Shanghai, China.\nThe point is that you can get internet access anywhere and anytime you want today even if you are in a restricted country such as China and Australia. The secret is using the best VPN and now you know which one of the VPNs for Australia and the best China VPN you have to use.\nTagsbest China VPN best VPNs for Australia\nalidino\nI am professional blogger share guide about the Technology, Internet, WordPress, Blogging tutorial, SEO techniques, and getting traffic to the Site. I love to learn new things related to latest technology, if you have anything in your mind please do share with me at alidino15ch28@gmail.com\nFunctions of a Shock Absorber in Car Suspension System", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 9980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.technoratus.com/924/l-von-mises-understand-raised-well-being-unprecedented/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ADECKU5JCCQSAD6DHSR4RTZJVJD33DOC", "length": 4519, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.technoratus.com", "title": "L. von Mises, We need to understand what raised our well-being in an unprecedented way | technoratus", "raw_content": "Spurious legends, popularized by demagogic propaganda, have entirely misrepresented the capitalist system. Capitalism has succeeded in raising the material well-being of the masses in an unprecedented way. In the capitalist countries population figures are now several times higher than they were at the eve of the \u201cindustrial revolution,\u201d and every citizen of these nations enjoys a standard of living much higher than that of the well-to-do of earlier ages. Nevertheless a great part of public opinion disparages free enterprise and private ownership of the means of production as dismal institutions that are detrimental to the immense majority of the nation and further only the selfish class interests of a small group of exploiters.\nPoliticians whose main achievement consisted in restricting agricultural output and in attempts to put obstacles in the way of technical improvement of methods of manufacturing discredit capitalism as an \u201ceconomy of scarcity\u201d and talk about the abundance that socialism will bring about. The heads of labor unions, whose members drive their own motor cars, are enthusiastic in exalting the conditions of the ragged and barefooted Russian proletarians and in praising the freedom that the workers enjoy in Russia where labor unions have.been suppressed and strikes are a criminal offense. There is no need to enter into a detailed scrutiny of these fables. Our intention is neither to praise nor to condemn. We want to know what the two systems in question are, how they work, and how they serve the needs of the people\u2026 Bureaucracy, its merits and its demerits, its working and its operation, can be understood only by contrasting it with the operation of the profit motive as it functions in the capitalistic market society.\nCAPITALISM or market economy is that system of social cooperation and division of labor that is based on private ownership of the means of production. The material factors of production are owned by individual citizens, the capitalists and the landowners. The plants and the farms are operated by the entrepreneurs and the farmers, that is, by individuals or associations of individuals who either themselves own the capital and the soil or have borrowed or rented them from the owners.\nFree enterprise is the characteristic feature of capitalism. The objective of every enterpriser-whether businessman or farmer-is to make profit. The capitalists, the enterprisers, and the farmers are instrumental in the conduct of economic affairs. They are at the helm and steer the ship. But they are not free to shape its course. They are not supreme, they are steersmen only, bound to obey unconditionally the captain\u2019s orders. The captain is the consumer.\nNeither the capitalists nor the entrepreneurs nor the farmers determine what has to be produced. The producers do not produce for their own consumption but for the market. They are intent on selling their products. If the consumers do not buy the goods offered to them, the businessman cannot recover the outlays made. He loses his money. If he fails to adjust his procedure to the wishes of the consumers he will very soon be removed from his eminent position at the helm. Other men who did better in satisfying the demand of the consumers replace him.\nThe real bosses in the capitalist system of market economy are the consumers: They, by their buying and by their abstention from buying decide who should own the capital and run the plants. They determine what should be produced and in what quantity and quality. Their attitudes result either in profit or in loss for the enterpriser. They make poor men rich and rich men poor. They are no easy bosses. They are full of whims and fancies, changeable and unpredictable. They do not care a whit for past merit. As soon as something is offered to them that they like better or that is cheaper, they desert their old purveyors. With them nothing counts more than their own satisfaction. They bother neither about the vested interests of capitalists nor about the fate of the workers who lose their jobs if as consumers they no longer buy what they used to buy\u2026\nThe capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people\u2019s mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what the consumers are asking for, they lose their office. Their task is service to the consumer. Profit and loss are the instruments by means of which the consumers keep a tight rein on all business activities.\nBureaucracyCapitalismMises", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 11734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teenvogue.com/story/transgender-voting-guide-presidential-election", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:37Z", "digest": "sha1:AEQBUEH22TJXEXVGZXEYTEEP43XBNJNI", "length": 4067, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.teenvogue.com", "title": "Why Some Trans Voters May Be Ineligible to Vote - Teen Vogue", "raw_content": "Why Some Trans Voters May Be Ineligible to Vote\n\u201cNearly 30% of transgender people do not have any documentation listing their current gender.\u201d\nIf you\u2019re headed to the polls this November to vote in the presidential election, you might get asked to present an ID. Right now, 31 states have voter identification laws, rules that require voters to show valid identification before heading into the voting booth. Eight of those 31 have the strictest laws that require residents to show photo ID, including Wisconsin, Kansas, Tennessee, Indiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia and New Hampshire. If you show up to vote in one of these states without one of the forms of photo ID they deem valid (a driver\u2019s license, state-issued ID card, or military ID card) you might be forced to use a provisional ballot.\nWhile these laws were mostly passed to cut down on voter fraud, some states have ruled voter ID laws to be discriminatory, unfairly keeping marginalized groups from casting a vote. Most of the focus is on how these laws impact African American voters, and fairly so. North Carolina\u2019s voter ID law was ruled discriminatory against black voters after the court found the state wouldn\u2019t accept the forms of identification most common to African American voters, ruling them out \u201cwith almost surgical precision.\u201d\nBut many others face issues at the polls, particularly transgender people. Strict voter ID laws can be a big issue for a transgender person whose gender marker on their license doesn\u2019t match their gender presentation, according to the National Center for Transgender Equality. Even though gender discrepancies are not a valid reason to deny someone the right to vote, the organization prepared a handy-dandy \u201cVoting While Trans\u201d guide in case anyone runs into trouble.\nAccording to the Williams Institute, voter ID laws threatened more than 25,000 transgender people in the 2012 presidential election. At the time, around 40% of transgender people who had transitioned reported not having an updated driver\u2019s license, and 74% did not have an updated passport. Nearly 30% of transgender people who had transitioned did not have any documentation listing their current gender. That, the Williams Institute found, would likely make them ineligible to vote in numerous states with strict photo voter ID laws.\nBut that shouldn\u2019t necessarily be the case. According to the \u201cVoting While Trans\u201d guide, as long as the relevant voter information on your ID and your registration line up, you should be able to cast a ballot. That relevant information typically includes your name and your address. In other words, how you look when you show up to vote shouldn\u2019t matter.\n\u201cThe voter you are talking to is transgender, meaning that their gender identity is different than the gender that was recorded on their birth certificate. Transgender people may not have been able to update their IDs to reflect their identity for a number of reasons,\u201d the guide explains. \u201cThis is not illegal. As long as the relevant voter data (usually the name and address) matches one of the acceptable forms of ID, the voter has the right to vote. Please do not be distracted by gender presentation when you are evaluating a voter\u2019s identity and eligibility to vote.\u201d\nThe guide explains to poll workers that transgender voters might appear different than they do on their ID card, or even have a different gender marker than you might expect, and that\u2019s ok. The guide also informs transgender people of their rights. It advises transgender people to bring as many forms of ID as possible, including utility bills that show the address where they\u2019re registered to vote.\nIf you are transgender, check out the guide here and print out a copy to bring to the polls just in case. If you\u2019re not transgender, tell your friends, your mom and your classmates about this guide because no one who\u2019s registered and legally allowed to vote should be turned away on Nov. 8.\nRelated: This 14-Year-Old Transgender Girl\u2019s Video Is Going Viral for the Best Reason\nKeywordstransgendertransgender rightsvoting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 6115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.terramater.at/productions/dont-be-afraid-to-die/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:49Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7PRNYMMZYDG5MCMGESBWD7QPKCCNAE7", "length": 2413, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.terramater.at", "title": "Don't be afraid to die - Terra Mater Factual Studios", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t be afraid to die\nJust imagine you will live forever. You will be able to travel every single country on the planet. You will bring your great-grandchildren to kindergarten and later on their great-grandchildren. You will be able to pursue as many professions as you like. Some scientists are already working on our immortality. But do we really want that? The person who will live on to be one thousand years old already walks among us,\u201d says eccentric scientist Aubrey de Grey. In his laboratory in Silicon Valley, he has identified seven points of attack against the ageing process. \u201cSomeone who is one hundred will look like a thirty-year-old and will feel like one, too.\u201d\nBut this particular person could have an accident. And this is where Max More, who works in Scottsdale Arizona, steps in. People from all over the world come here to be cryogenically frozen after death. Costs are around 200,000 euros to preserve the entire body. Just 80,000 for the brain. The idea behind it all: The brain, or more accurately, what it contains, should be uploaded to a new body one day. To make this vision come true, More\u2019s wife Natasha Vita-More is busy designing human full-body prosthetics. There is already a prototype \u2014 at least on paper. It is called \u2018Primo Posthuman\u2019 and supposed to be ageless, multi-functional, reliable, expandable and equipped with enhanced senses.\nTwo people are watching these developments very closely. Dmitry Itskov is in his early thirties, healthy and immensely wealthy. There is one thing the Russian is already sure of: He does not want to die. For that reason he founded the \u2018Initiative 2045\u2019, which pays for some of the best scientists in the world to carry out research: into uploading the brain, transferring the personality onto a data carrier \u2014 all to abolish death by 2045. At least for people who can afford it.\nThen again, there\u2019s Norwegian Trygve Bauge. He does not have much money, and shares a one-room apartment with his mother. \u201cWe want to have ourselves frozen one day,\u201d declares the self-appointed cryo-preservation expert. Twenty years ago, he had his grandfather frozen in America. To be reunited one day \u2014 that is Trygve\u2019s big dream.\nThis documentary sets out to find answers in a field that reaches beyond philosophy and science, and asks fundamental questions about life and death.\nDirected by Roy Cohen\nExecutive producers: Eva Schmidt, Elisabeth Pfneisl", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 12554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tes.com/en-au/jobs/vacancy/year-4-key-stage-2-teacher-hexham-1164201", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:17Z", "digest": "sha1:7OHFAR7ITQRNVPM5IKRBLYB22OWIMMTK", "length": 1674, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.tes.com", "title": "Year 4 (Key Stage 2) Teacher, Hexham - Tes Jobs", "raw_content": "Year 4 (Key Stage 2) Teacher, Hexham\nVision for Education LtdHexham\nSalary: \u00a390.00 \u2013 \u00a3202.00 per day\nVision for Education is seeking to appoint a Key Stage 2 (KS2) Teacher to join our successful supply teaching team and to work in a local first school in Hexham. This is a full time primary teaching role, covering a Year 4 class which will commence in February 2019 until July 2019.\nThe desired Key Stage 2 (KS2) Teacher will be working in a Year 4 class of 24 pupils, with a wide range of ability levels. This role would be suitable for both NQTs and experienced Teachers, but the school would ideally like someone who has recently taught in Key Stage 2 (KS2).\nThis is an outstanding first school which has high standards and expects the best provision for the children under its care. It is supported by a caring management team and the Head Teacher has a positive approach to leading and managing the school.\nTo be considered for the position of Key Stage 2 (KS2) Teacher, you will:\n\u2022\tHold Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).\n\u2022\tHave experience teaching primary education at KS2 level.\n\u2022\tHave a genuine desire to become part of a committed team of primary Teachers.\n\u2022\tHave a passion for teaching with the ability to plan and deliver inspiring lessons.\n\u2022\tExcellent daily rates paid weekly by our in-house payroll team using the Pay As Your Earn (PAYE) system.\n\u2022\tPension contributions (subject to qualifying period).\n\u2022\tAccess to a dedicated primary consultant, who will provide ongoing support.\nApply today via this website, or for more information about this role and other opportunities across Vision for Education, please contact our Newcastle primary team on 0191 267 4555.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.texasoncology.com/cancer-centers/san-antonio-area/cancer-resources", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:47Z", "digest": "sha1:HKS7C4VRXGJQANWHMXQYQ5APPCOJLLUW", "length": 3057, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.texasoncology.com", "title": "San Antonio Cancer Resources | Texas Oncology", "raw_content": "The San Antonio-area cancer centers can connect you with a variety of helpful resources:\nAlamo Breast Cancer Foundation (ABCF)\nAlamo City Cancer Council\nLeukemia/Lymphoma Society South Texas Chapter\nSusan G. Komen San Antonio Chapter\nTexas Oncology provides comprehensive cancer treatment and compassionate cancer care to patients in the San Antonio area. Using leading-edge technologies and innovative treatments for all types of cancer, including those below, our physicians are focused on one thing: helping our patients fight cancer and blood disorders.\nBreast Cancer Treatment in San Antonio\nTexas Oncology physicians in the San Antonio area have deep experience in treating many types of breast cancer for females and males. Texas Oncology offers chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, proton therapy, targeted therapy, bone-directed therapy, and hormone therapy. Individually tailored combinations of these therapies and others are used to treat breast cancer for our San Antonio area patients. Learn more about breast cancer.\nColon Cancer Treatment in San Antonio\nTexas Oncology in the San Antonio area provides advanced treatments for colon cancer. Colon cancer typically lacks symptoms in the early stages, which makes cancer screening essential. Colon cancer patients can be treated with chemotherapy, radiation therapy, surgery, proton therapy, and targeted therapies. Learn more about colon cancer.\nLung Cancer Treatment in San Antonio\nLung cancer, one of the most prevalent cancers in the United States, can be treated with leading-edge technology and techniques in the San Antonio area. Lung cancer treatment options with Texas Oncology include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, proton therapy, surgery, immunotherapy, and targeted therapies. Lung cancer patients in the San Antonio area, depending on the stage, may be treated by a team of specialists, including pulmonologists, thoracic surgeons, medical oncologists, and radiation oncologists. Learn more about lung cancer.\nProstate Cancer Treatment in San Antonio\nTexas Oncology in the San Antonio area offers leading-edge techniques for treating prostate cancer, the most common cancer among men. Prostate cancer treatment options vary depending on how advanced the cancer is and if it has spread to other parts of the body. Treatments can include surveillance, surgery, radiation therapy, proton therapy, hormone therapy, chemotherapy, vaccine treatment, bone-directed treatment, and cryotherapy. Learn more about prostate cancer.\nAnticoagulation and Thrombosis Treatment\nPatients in San Antonio and the surrounding area who need anticoagulation and thrombosis treatment can be treated at Texas Oncology & Anticoagulation Clinics of North America. The clinics provide comprehensive treatment for deep vein thrombosis and other thrombotic disorders to help prevent harmful blood clots. You can remain under the care of your primary physician while receiving anticoagulation therapy management by a specialized clinician at one of four locations in the San Antonio and surrounding area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 12339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thawa.de/en/sustainability/strategy-and-objectives", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:40Z", "digest": "sha1:EGLPC6GVSOF7BEPFB3MZ6G3J6CWTLAQJ", "length": 2543, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.thawa.de", "title": "Strategy and Objectives | ElringKlinger AG", "raw_content": "Sustainability is about the capacity to endure\nSustainability is an integral and fundamental element of ElringKlinger\u2019s corporate strategy. As a supplier to the automotive industry, our company is playing a pioneering role in eco-friendly mobility and is committed to long-term investment in the development of green technologies for a sustainable future. With a clearly defined portfolio centered on this vision, the majority of ElringKlinger products used in engine, transmission and exhaust tract applications as well as in the area of e-mobility are already making a sizeable contribution to the reduction of carbon dioxides, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbons. Applying efficient, resource-friendly manufacturing methods, ElringKlinger is also fully committed to the protection of the environment at an operational level.\nIn total, around 9,600 high-caliber employees at 49 sites (as of December 31, 2017) worldwide provide the basis for the Group's success well into the future. ElringKlinger is fully aware of its corporate responsibilities towards its employees, customers, business partners, shareholders and the communities in which it operates \u2013 because sustainability is about the capacity to endure.\nMacroeconomic trends affect the general business of ElringKlinger and determine day-to-day activity. They also define the spheres of activity that contribute to sustainable development. Over the following pages, the Group will outline the ways in which ElringKlinger is strategically addressing this theme in its day-to-day business activity.\nSustainability at ElringKlinger: four speres of activity\nInnovative product solutions contribute to CO2 reduction and pave the way for \"green mobility\" of the future.\nFind out more in the \"Products & Innovations\" section\nElringKlinger has the explicit goal of devoting approximately 1 % of the Group\u2019s total investments per year to measures aimed at cutting emissions.\nFind out more in the \"Environment & Quality\" section\nTo ensure that our employees enjoy the very best opportunities for career advancement, ElringKlinger offers a positive workplace environment, a wide range of professional development and training activities and a remuneration system that is focused on performance.\nFind out more in the \"Employees\" section\nElringKlinger is committed to making a durable contribution to the development of the communities in which it operates. For this reason, we are involved in and actively support a wide variety of social projects.\nFind out more in the \"Social Commitment\" section", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 5840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 171.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/dont-sweat-the-microaggressions/360278/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:42Z", "digest": "sha1:26GEITOHXHUQIPSPMHKPIDMWHFEVOOPK", "length": 5748, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "Don't Sweat the Microaggressions - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "Don't Sweat the Microaggressions\nThe old pitfalls of new sensitivities in political speech\nThe study that might have put to rest much of the recent agitation about microaggressions has unfortunately never been published. Microaggressions, for those who are not up on the recent twists and turns of American public discourse, are the subtle prejudices found even in the most liberal parts of our polity. They are revealed when a lecturer cites mainly male sources and no gay ones, when we use terms such as \u201cmankind,\u201d or when we discuss what Michelle Obama wore when she visited pandas in China, something we would not note about a man.\nThe study that I believe could have helped a great deal was conducted by a research assistant of mine at Columbia University who disappeared before she completed her Ph.D. Carolyn (I am withholding her last name in order to acknowledge her without embarrassing her) asked members of 80 groups in New York City what they felt about other such groups. She avoided broad strokes and asked not about divisions between black and white, but what African Americans felt about Africans from Nigeria and blacks from the West Indies. She asked Hispanics about Dominicans, Haitians, Mexicans, and Cubans, and so on.\nWhat Carolyn found was that there was little love lost between any two groups. Members of all the 80 groups she studied attached all kind of unflattering labels to members of other groups, even if they were of the same race or ethnic group. When she interviewed members of subgroups, they were unsparing about each other. German Jews felt that Jews of Polish origin were very uncouth (and surely would not want their daughter to marry one or to share a synagogue with them). The Polish Jews, in turn, felt that those of German background were stuck up and \u201cassimilated,\u201d and hence one was best off crossing to the other side of the street if they neared. Iraqis from Basra considered those from Baghdad to be too modern, and those from Baghdad considered their brothers and sisters from Basra as provincial\u2014and so on and so on. Today they would all be called at least microaggressive.\nNone of this is surprising to sociologists, who have long held that one major way community cohesion is promoted is by defining it against out-groups\u2014and that there is a strong psychological tendency to attribute positive adjectives to an in-group and negatives on to the outsiders. In short, it\u2019s part\u2014not a pretty part\u2014of human nature, or at least social nature. Choose any group and you will find its members griping about all the others.\nI hence urge those who are troubled by the ways others talk about them to use Carolyn\u2019s findings as a baseline. That is, not to ignore slurs and insults, and most certainly not racial, ethnic, or any other kind of prejudices, but merely to \u201cdeduct\u201d from them what seems to be standard noise, the normal sounds of human rambling. We may wish for a world in which people say only kind things about each other, but until we get there, we should not take umbrage at every negative note or adjective that is employed. For now, that is something most of us do\u2014yes, I suspect even those who rail against microaggression.\nWhat is normal and what we should not ignore is hard to define. But surely when one does not see the insult unless one carefully parses words, we best pretend we did not hear the slight. Thus, when an Asian student does not get an A, and his fellow students respond with a mock shock, he may overlook the stereotype. This should be treated as the kind of bantering that is normal and tolerable. We all learn to clean up our language and watch for the \u2018N\u2019 word, \u2018B\u2019 word (it rhymes with witch), and many others. What we are seeing is a return to the peak of political correctness. While sensitivity is warranted, that movement had gone too far by the time a major newspaper's list of prohibited words numbered 5,000, including \u201cgoing Dutch\u201d and \u201cwelshing\u201d on one\u2019s commitments. The current vogue for microaggressions is not more sensible.\nA leading authority on microaggression, Professor Derald Sue of Columbia University\u2019s Psychology Department, suggests that we leave it to the victims of microaggression to tell us whether a turn of phrase is or is not an act of aggression. They will let us know that when we slip up and talk about \u201chim\u201d instead of \u201chim or her,\u201d we engage in gender microaggression, and that when we use the term \u201cfather and mother\u201d we reveal our homophobic tendencies. When you cannot tell if you are aggressive before the other person responds, and anybody can declare he or she has been abused by anything we say, communion between members of different groups becomes even more difficult. What we need is more contact and fewer grounds for mutual accusations and sense of being victimized.\nInstead, let\u2019s focus on acts of aggression that are far from micro. Where? See tomorrow\u2019s headlines. People are killing each other because they belong to the \u201cwrong\u201d confessional group, race, or country\u2014in many parts of the world. At home the rich get richer and the poor stay poor, which should insult us more than poor word choice. And people shoot good people, children included, because (among other things) a lobby prevents the Congress from passing legislation that is supported by 90 percent of the public. Such behavior should trouble us more than anything anybody could possibly say.\nAmitai Etzioni is a university professor and professor of international relations at The George Washington University. He served as a senior adviser to the Carter White House and taught at Columbia University, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. His latest book is Hot Spots: American Foreign Policy in a Post-Human-Rights World.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 7200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatrebubble.com/2018/11/brexit-at-the-kings-head-theatre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:23Z", "digest": "sha1:6CFJQBCCSJDZUCZUKK2MNJ34XWKSELBD", "length": 2505, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.theatrebubble.com", "title": "Brexit at The King's Head Theatre - Theatre Bubble", "raw_content": "Brexit at The King\u2019s Head Theatre\nNovember 7, 2018 by Jazz Finnis Leave a Comment\n'Brexit' is a sound political satire at a time when it instead could very easily have been exciting, biting, and brilliant.\nThere are few occasions I would welcome these days that give rise to thinking about the headache that is Brexit, and dedicating one\u2019s night to it is perhaps an exercise in naivety. If you\u2019re still keen, however, Brexit is the fifth play from writing duo Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky, which premiered at this year\u2019s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has since transferred to The King\u2019s Head Theatre in Islington.\nIt\u2019s pretty undemanding as far as political satires go. The plot follows new PM, Adam Masters (played competently by Timothy Bentick), as he tries to survive his first few months of office in 2020, where the terms of Brexit still have not been finalised. A typical push-pull between political self-preservation and doing one\u2019s job, the main motivation of the play sees Masters\u2019 attempted manipulation of staunch Remainer Diana Purdy (Pippa Evans) and smarmy Brexiteer Simon Cavendish (Thom Tuck), to keep the situation in limbo long enough for him to see out his term.\nThe humour is very tongue-in-cheek, with off-hand lines such as mentioning Diana as having held the post of \u2018Unpaid Minister for Women\u2019s Rights\u2019, and the style is painfully reminiscent of that grand old satirical institution, Yes Minister. If pressed, I would be tempted to suggest that this audience\u2019s target demographic in fact enjoyed switching the telly on to an episode of this very show in the early \u201880s.\nAnd therein lies the main hurdle of the show. The idea of not committing political suicide being at odds with the needs of the many is nothing new \u2013 it is arguably politics\u2019 #1 enemy. The twist-come-punchline of \u2018Don\u2019t try to out-politick politicians.\u2019 is overplayed. In satire, the only way to inspire interest is to create something vastly more intelligent than your audience and leave them with something new to think about, in which capacity, unfortunately, Brexit falls short.\nDespite this, I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone in being more than likely nowadays to greet any mention of Brexit with an eye-roll, so I suppose it is nice to have the opportunity to put months of dredging through bleak and convoluted articles and think-pieces to good use and laugh about it for once.\nBrexit is at The King\u2019s Head Theatre until Saturday 17th November, at 19:45 (with Sunday matinees at 15:00). Tickets are available here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thebalancecareers.com/fine-art-or-decorative-1295903", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EABOCKWVOXGQN3WPLTZBLBSJYUMONH52", "length": 3410, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thebalancecareers.com", "title": "Fine Art vs. Decorative Arts", "raw_content": "Fine Art vs. Decorative Arts\nGuylain Doyle/Getty Images\nWhile the term Fine Art and Decorative Art both contain the word \"art,\" they are very different in nature.\nIn the strictest sense, Fine Art is considered a visual object with no functional purpose except to be admired and contemplated as an aesthetic object. Decorative Art, however, is also visual and aesthetically pleasing but serves a useful function such as a piece of furniture, tableware, textiles and so on.\nAccording to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word 'art' came into use as an English word in the 13th century, having been borrowed from the Old French in the 10th century which meant \"skill as a result of learning or practice.\"\nHowever, in its earlier usage, it can be traced further back because the word 'Art' actually originated from the Latin word 'Artem' (ars) which means \"work of art, practical skill, a business or a craft.\"\nThe concept that 'art' means 'skill' continues today and contributes to the ongoing debate regarding some museum-worthy modern and contemporary art pieces and whether or not they constitute art. An example is Claus Oldenburg's massive BLT sandwich owned by the prestigious Whitney Museum in New York. The Whitney considers this 'art' but many traditionalists (who prefer Renoir and the other Masters) do not.\nThe term 'decorative art' can be traced back to London's Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society, 1888.\nHistorically called the visual arts, Fine Art is made by artists and exhibited in art galleries and museums and purchased by art-lovers with deep pockets at auctions at major art houses like Sotheby's and Christie's. Fine art takes many formats including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints and lithographs, photography and installation art. Starting in the 20th century, due to electronic advances, fine art came to include sound art and digital and video art and is considered to be ephemeral and conceptual in nature.\nThe definition and meaning of Fine Art are constantly evolving. For example, today many people consider Andy Warhol's silkscreened Brillo Boxes as Art and these pieces by the late artist fetch sales in the double-digit millions. Pushing the envelope even more, Italian artist Piero Manzoni's Merde Artiste (an artist whose works feature cans of his own fecal matter) creates pieces classified as Fine Art.\nDecorative Art is also made by artists, but because they are specialized in their craft and need to produce functional art they are widely known as craftsmen and craftswomen. Pieces that fall into the Decorative Art(s) category include a wide range of materials and techniques such as woodworking, metalwork, textiles, and ceramics. Functional objects including candlesticks, furniture, carpets, weavings, pottery, cutlery, and other beautiful but useful objects, are considered part of the Decorative Arts category.\nIt's worth noting that even the world-renown Metropolitan Museum of Art (home to the most important Old Masters like Rembrandt) has rooms filled with furniture, tapestries, and ancient Grecian urns and bowls.\nWhat is the difference between \u200bCommercial Art and Fine Art? This question takes a look at Warhol's Brillo Boxes mentioned above.\nThe Distinction Between Commercial and Fine Art\nAll About the Cite Internationale des Arts Residency\n11 Notable European Artist Residencies\nDavid Owsley Museum of Art at Ball State University in Muncie, IN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 188.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thefix.com/content/bad-worse-fathers-story-bath-salts-od-part-one", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XRPN4A7PQUE3MW7JSBHVKIXGFPJQZZJ2", "length": 12286, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.thefix.com", "title": "From Bad to Worse, Part One | The Fix", "raw_content": "From Bad to Worse, Part One\nBy James Tsacoyeanes 05/07/15\nA father details his son's descent into the nightmare of synthetic drugs.\nAll my future fears rushed into the present. Chris is dead. Chris is dead. These three words ricocheted in my head. Although I heard the words, although I expected it, I still couldn\u2019t comprehend what was going on. It felt like all the air had been sucked out of the room. I just stared at Cathy in disbelief. For some reason, tears just would not come.\nSaturday, the 23rd of June started off like any beautiful, early summer day in Connecticut. It began with bright sunshine and temperatures expected to reach into the 80s. It was the day that our lives were shattered, merely six days after I had spoken to Chris, our son, dismissing everything he said. Going back to my dead father\u2019s house that morning, the only thought I had was to clean it out and get rid of all the junk that had accumulated for nearly 60 years. Minutes later when I entered the kitchen, I found my wife Cathy sitting at the table with her head buried in her hands, sobbing.\nShe looked up at me and could only utter: \u201cChris died.\u201d\nFrom bad to worse, his descent had accelerated, culminating in his death. For 12 years, it was coming to this conclusion brought about by Chris\u2019s insistence on selling \u201cresearch chemicals.\u201d\nFor years, Cathy and I had struggled with his addiction issues. We had already reached the limit of what we could tolerate. Perhaps, he was right when he once told me that we \u201cgave up on him years before.\u201d Talking to him had become impossible and his unwillingness to change his behavior had become cemented. His insistence on the legitimacy of his research chemical work was something we could not understand nor tolerate, knowing he was an addict.\nIt was about a year earlier that Chris had started Visresearch, a company that sold barely legal \u201cresearch chemicals\u201d through his website. Pictures of his office in East Hartford were plastered all over his Facebook page including equipment he had bought for his business\u2014all kinds of sophisticated technology from computers to fancy scales and mass spectrometers. For a time, he didn\u2019t have a place to live and would crash at his office at night. We couldn\u2019t believe what we were seeing and hearing. Despite all the shit that had gone down in his life, from his multiple suicide attempts to numerous ER visits, he seemed more focused that ever on his drug habit. He lacked insight into his issues. Perhaps he was delusional, as one psychologist had said years before.\nHis legal problems, which included a felony charge for selling steroids, were still in limbo in the Connecticut judicial system. It seemed like he was going to court every month. They would just extend the cases into the future. We became painfully aware how poorly our legal system is set up to handle cases like our son\u2019s. During this period, his living arrangements changed on a weekly basis and his visits were infrequent. Our only real contact was when Cathy called him, or when we managed to message him through Facebook. He would tell us that he was being robbed by his business partner, who was not only stealing money from him but also stealing the chemicals and selling them on the side. With Chris, it was always difficult to separate truth from fiction.\nBy August, Chris was looking to leave Connecticut because as he wrote: \u201cRestarting. Better laws, etc. This place is fucked. I\u2019m running this myself from now on. This is what happens when young immature fucks are given responsibilities they can\u2019t handle.\u201d\nHe and his girlfriend, Jen, ended up in Vermont, which had more lenient laws regarding his business. Unfortunately, he had reached the point where trouble found him wherever he went. By October, he was already on the DEA and Vermont State Police radar. As he told it, the DEA called him a \u201clow life piece of shit and that he\u2019d better get the fuck out of Dodge\u201d because they suspected that he was running a meth lab out of the Roof Inn in Rutland. It was the first of a number of incidents with the Vermont police, the last being an investigation of his death.\nAfter his death, in our attempt to more clearly understand Chris\u2019s last months, we obtained all the police reports from both the Rutland and Vermont State police. The police report for this initial incident provided significantly more information than what we were told. Apparently, a housekeeping staff member entered the room where Chris and Jen were staying to clean, because they had missed the checkout time. She found what she believed to be drug paraphernalia and the police were notified. Chris and Jen showed up late because of a doctor\u2019s appointment in Connecticut. When confronted by the police, Jen bolted in Chris\u2019s car claiming that she had a medical emergency leaving Chris alone to deal with the situation. He claimed he was doing nothing illegal, which was probably the case since \u201cresearch chemicals'\u201d laws are very murky at best. Chris admitted to being a former heroin addict but clean for three years. His heroin addiction was something we were totally unaware of. The police did find some fresh bruises on his arms. Surprisingly from our standpoint, Chris was cooperative with the police, telling them about Visresearch and that the chemicals he was synthesizing were DOC and DOI, which are used for cancer research. However, these chemicals, along with the others that Chris was selling through his online website, were unscheduled chemicals that produce intense and vivid hallucinations similar to LSD. Distributors of \u201cresearch chemicals\u201d cover themselves legally by including the disclaimer: \u201cNot for human consumption.\u201d\nThe room that Chris and Jen were renting was in complete disarray with clothing and trash littered everywhere. The room was searched. Burners, vials and glass containers containing unknown liquids were scattered about, leading the police to suspect that this was a meth lab. The Vermont Fusion Center, which is associated with the FBI\u2019s Joint Terrorism Task Force in Albany, NY, was contacted to determine if Chris was the target of any active investigations. These along with other agencies were contacted to determine if there was any danger associated with his activities. From this time on, the police kept a close watch over his business including the monitoring of his bank accounts. They tracked postal deliveries, particularly from China and India, the sources of many of these chemicals.\nAt the same time, we were being pestered by his probation officer in Connecticut who was trying unsuccessfully to locate Chris. He would come to our house and ask all kinds of questions:\n\u201cWhere does he keep his chemicals?\"\n\"Does he sell his chemicals online?\"\n\"Does he have a mentor?\u201d\nChris was getting aggravated with Cathy for discussing anything with the PO as he believed she was giving him information about his business which she knew nothing about.\n\u201cI need to know exactly what you told my PO. They are bluffing, and making up a whoooole bunch of shit. Furthermore, he told me that he was going to raid your house to 'show me he is serious.' They are claiming that I sell narcotics to four-year-old children, and he is trying to make it sound like you corroborated that story. If you spoke of what I do for work to him, I am going to be infinitely pissed as you have made a direct point to not learn about what I do. So anything you said was speculation, and now he is more or less insinuating that while you 'do care,' everybody agrees its best that I\u2019m behind bars. So you understand a few things: one, I do not do anything illegal...at all. Two, I have never sold any chemical whatsoever to a minor, as we only take credit cards\u2026and minors can\u2019t have credit cards. If they purchase using an adult\u2019s card, then the onus falls on the adult. Three, each chemical I have ever carried has been chosen specifically for use in research. Real research.\u201d\nFebruary 2012 marked the last time we saw him for any length of time after he came back from Vermont to pick up his things that had been cluttering up his sister\u2019s old bedroom and our basement. The weather was unusually mild without any snow cover for February, making the trip from Vermont easy. It was the second time that we met Jen, who was now supposedly his fianc\u00e9e, the first being at Thanksgiving. That Saturday night, Cathy made chicken parmesan, his favorite meal, and we spent an enjoyable evening with them. Chris was quieter than usual, something that I commented on. Jen responded that he was always quiet. We really didn\u2019t know if she was lying, or if Chris had suddenly learned to keep his mouth shut.\nThey were so pleasant that I felt bad knowing that they were trying to find a hotel room in Southbury rather than staying at our house. I started thumbing through the phonebook at the kitchen counter to find the number to the Crowne Plaza Hotel, trying to motion to Cathy that we should let them stay here. He was our son and it just felt wrong making him stay at a hotel. Cathy didn\u2019t want to have to deal with a potential blow-up situation if things started to heat up, which they frequently did when dealing with Chris, so she really didn\u2019t want them to stay. However, when they left, she did feel bad about forcing her son to leave our home (his home, too). Sunday, we ate breakfast together. By the time they moved everything out of our house, it was pretty late, forcing them to stay another night at the hotel.\nThe next day, both Cathy and I went to work. As an elementary school vice principal, her day ended earlier than mine. That afternoon, I got a hysterical call from Cathy. She had just found out that Chris was in the hospital after suffering a seizure. I rushed out from work and headed to the Waterbury Hospital Emergency Room where Chris was being treated, an hour and a half away from my job. When I arrived, Cathy was just outside of the enclosed curtain area where Chris lay. She was very upset. The curtained off area presented a dismal scene, with Jen crying by his side. He was in critical condition and remained unconscious.\nCathy explained what had happened.\nThat afternoon, Chris and Jen came by to pick up some recording equipment before heading back to Vermont. She had come home early, talked with them for 15 minutes or so, and they left. A bit later, she drove to the Kmart Plaza to buy some groceries and heard an ambulance coming into the parking lot. Shortly thereafter, she received a call from Jen saying that they had stopped off at Kmart to buy a lock for the truck when Chris passed out and had seizures. After calling 911, the ambulance came and transported him to Waterbury Hospital. The ambulance that Cathy heard was for Chris so she was nearby when all this was transpiring.\nAccording to Cathy, he had been perfectly fine, talkative and had even grabbed some leftover food before he left our house. He said that he was tired and Cathy suggested that he stop and rest instead of driving nonstop. In a span of less than 20 minutes, he had gone from perfectly fine to having seizures and ending up in the emergency room. Every time Chris had been in the hospital, it was drug related so this was my assumption. For once, Cathy didn\u2019t believe that drugs were involved. Since we had a lot of experience with his physical changes when under the influence of drugs and she was the last to see him, I thought maybe she was right and grew quite concerned. How the hell could he be having seizures? As far as we could remember, he never had seizures. Did he have some kind of neurological problem that we were unaware of? The whole situation just didn\u2019t make sense.\nJames Tsacoyeanes is a physicist working in the semiconductor industry. He has set up a blog croniondiaries.weebly.com dedicated to his son Chris who died nearly three years ago. James is working on a book about his son's life that will feature information about synthetic drugs. He will add chapters of the book to his blog. James' philosophy: \"If I can save even a single life, my efforts will be worthwhile.\"\nJames Tsacoyeanes\nBath Salts Nightmare\nFrom Bad To Worse, Part Two\nTales From a Substance Abuse Counselor\nMy Son's Addiction\nrelapse fantasies\nHow I Would Relapse\nCartoon Drugs\nDespite Ban, Synthetic Drugs Are Still Sold Legally", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 20767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thefloridafirm.com/blog/illinois-supreme-court-stikes-down-damage-caps-in-medical-malpractice-cases", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JTJDTEBPTR4OXPWMFL2UKYIA6YSRTBNN", "length": 1289, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thefloridafirm.com", "title": "Illinois Supreme Court Stikes Down Damage Caps In Medical Malpractice Cases | CGWC Orlando Injury Attorney Blog", "raw_content": "On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Illinois struck down limits on jury awards in medical malpractice cases. Four years earlier, the Illinois legislature passed a statute capping potential awards in medical malpractice cases to pacify the health care industry that was complaining of high costs of liability insurance. The Supreme Court of Illinois ruled that the caps on pain and suffering and other non-economic damages, $ 500,000 per case for doctors and $ 1,000,000 per case for hospitals, was unconstitutional. A courageous trial judge in Cook County circuit court had held that the law interfered with the right of juries to decide such awards. The Supreme Court upheld the trial judge\u2019s decision. This is the third time that Illinois\u2019 high court has struck down statutes limiting medical malpractice awards. Hospitals, medical malpractice insurers, and doctors had successfully convinced the legislature that frivolous lawsuits and runaway jury verdicts were driving up insurance rates and forcing physicians to leave the state. In the case at issue, a girl suffered brain damage during her delivery at Gottlieb Memorial Hospital in Melrose Park.\nIf you or a loved one has been a victim of medical malpractice, contact The Florida Firm for a free consultation about your legal rights.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1327, "original_length": 50495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegascompany.ie/search?search_query=contact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5S2ZAAT5B5HZALXPAUYO57HDWXBQB6XA", "length": 45, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thegascompany.ie", "title": "Search - The Gas Company", "raw_content": "Search \"contact\" 179 results have been found.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 514, "original_length": 17350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/oct/07/quangos-government-multibillion-pound-bill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OLAAG65W5N4T5PUR7YLNJU7PB7DKKZZK", "length": 5074, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Government's 'bonfire of the quangos' plan will cost as much as it saves\nExclusive: Private papers reveal multi-billion pound bill to close up to 180 quangos \u2013 and savings might not be felt for 10 years\nPolly Curtis and Mark King\nConcerns were raised that quangos are not producing the immediate savings the coalition and George Osborne (above) were hoping for. Photograph: Darren Staples/Reuters\nThe government faces a multibillion-pound bill to close up to 180 quangos and in some cases it could be a decade before any savings are felt, according to documents that show the scale of the struggle the Treasury is facing to cut the deficit.\nThe Cabinet Office is poised to publish a list of the organisations facing closure or merger in its \"bonfire of the quangos\" next week. But private papers reveal that in several cases the liabilities from pensions, redundancies and rental contracts could outweigh any of the savings being claimed for up to 10 years.\nThere are concerns within the government that quangos are not producing the immediate savings the coalition had hoped for to help obliterate the \u00a3153bn deficit by 2015, adding to the intense pressure on the chancellor, George Osborne, to find every penny to meet the target.\nOsborne also came under pressure yesterday to extend the five-year deadline to tackle the deficit. The Scottish parliament, the Welsh assembly and the Northern Ireland assembly issued a statement urging a scaling back of the plans, warning that the economic recovery was becoming endangered by the cuts.\nThe statement came as more details of the job cuts within Whitehall emerged, with departments told to make up to a third of their employees redundant. The education department is understood to be looking for a 30% reduction in staff. In the Department for Culture, Media and Sport the 50 top civil servants were told last week to reapply for just nine jobs that will remain.\nDetails of the cost of closing individual quangos, seen by the Guardian, reveal the bill facing the government. The Audit Commission alone, which the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, has axed, is facing nearly \u00a3500m in liabilities. A letter from the chief executive, Eugene Sullivan, to the permanent secretary in Pickles's department and the National Audit Office warns that the costs include \u00a375m in redundancy packages and \u00a315m in contracts for rented properties. There is also an estimated \u00a3400m in pensions liabilities. The letter, seen by the Guardian, warns that it could even be under a legal obligation to raise its fees charged to local authorities to conduct audits to cover the costs of closing down.\nThe annual budget for the commission is \u00a3200m, but the letter says that has already been reduced to \u00a346m by 2014. If the winding-up costs are not mitigated, it could be 10 years before the government sees any significant savings from the closing down of the commission.\nThe Crown Prosecution Service, which is expected to be merged or dramatically scaled down, has submitted a bid to the Treasury for \u00a340m to fund exit schemes, according to a leaked internal document. The annual budget is \u00a382m and the document does not provide details of the cost of its pensions and other liabilities.\nThe nine regional development agencies, which have a joint budget for this year of \u00a31.4bn to help promote industry around the country but are to be abolished, are understood to have liabilities in the region of \u00a31.5bn. They are also tied into contracts that stretch beyond 2012 for business parks, wind farms and the media city in Salford and are also responsible for dozens of contaminated industrial sites, such as disused coal fields, which cannot be sold unless they are first decommissioned.\nStandards for England, the local government watchdog, receives an annual grant of \u00a36m, but the costs of scrapping in terms of its pension liabilities alone could be up to \u00a312m. The Film Council, axed by the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, last month, distributed \u00a3160m over 10 years with an annual administration budget of around \u00a33m, which Hunt has said would be better spent on directly making films. Its estimated winding-down cost, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, amounts to \u00a311.3m.\nA General Teaching Council for England source said that their liabilities had not yet been formally calculated but that they were braced for them to be \"significantly\" more than their annual budget.\nChris Banks, head of the Public Chairs Forum, which represents quango bosses, said: \"The scale of the potential changes is unprecedented, so it is vital that the reductions in overhead costs achieved by mergers, abolitions and changes to new arrangements are not wiped out by deterioration in the service delivered.\"\nAn aide to the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said the costs of closing quangos would depend on how many staff transfer to departments and their success in renegotiating contracts.\nIn his conference speech this week, Maude said of the quango review: \"It'll help save money for sure. But the main purpose is to increase accountability.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 8483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/24/dharas-siblings-forced-off-easyjet-plane-stansted-accused-supporting-isis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:54Z", "digest": "sha1:N5CY5CPHLWEUPPGEDGJFDV4UV6BI5PCZ", "length": 7063, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Trio forced off easyJet plane over false claims they support Isis\nMaryam, Sakina and Ali Dharas, from London, questioned by armed police on tarmac at Stansted after alarm was raised about message on phone\nTue 23 Aug 2016 19.38 EDT Last modified on Mon 5 Jun 2017 20.47 EDT\nSakina and Maryam Dharas were removed from their flight after another passenger claimed they had been reading Isis material. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian\nThree siblings were removed from a plane and questioned on the tarmac by armed police officers after passengers falsely accused them of being Islamic State supporters.\nMaryam Dharas, 19, Sakina Dharas, 24, and Ali Dharas, 21, had boarded the easyJet flight from Stansted to Naples when they were approached by a cabin crew member and asked to accompany her off the aircraft without explanation.\nIn full view of the passengers on the plane, the trio from north-west London were grilled for an hour by officers, who first asked them: \u201cDo you speak English?\u201d\nMaryam, who will begin an English degree at King\u2019s College London later this year, immediately said she, her brother and sister were born and raised in London, as was their mother, and they only spoke English.\nSpeaking to the Guardian, Maryam said it was clear that she and her sister, a clinical pharmacist at University College London, had been subjected to racial profiling. They were both wearing headscarves at the time.\nBefore being allowed back on to the flight, Sakina was told that further background checks would be conducted and officers would be waiting when the plane landed if any evidence were found.\nMaryam said: \u201cI would like an apology. What happened was wrong. This kind of profiling shouldn\u2019t take place. I don\u2019t want this to happen again to anyone else.\u201d\nEasyJet has apologised for any inconvenience caused, but insisted that security concerns had to be investigated, while Essex police offered no apology and said the report from a couple on the plane that led to the incident was of \u201cgood intent\u201d.\nThe family had chosen the Naples area, where they visited Pompeii, for a holiday as they had an interest in classical civilisations. They had taken their seats on the flight at about 6am on 18 August when they were approached by a cabin crew member, who demanded that they follow her off the plane.\n\u201cI asked her \u2018where are we going, can you explain where you\u2019re taking us?\u2019 She doesn\u2019t reply, she completely ignores me. We\u2019re told to walk down the stairs \u2013 at the bottom we can see there\u2019s armed policemen,\u201d Maryam said.\nThe Dharas siblings, who are of Indian ethnic origin, were asked if they had Arabic text on their phones or copies of the Qur\u2019an. They cannot speak, read or write Arabic.\n\u201cI was shocked, my sister was close to tears,\u201d Maryam said. \u201cThe first thing the policeman asks us is if we speak English, which I personally find quite patronising. Just because we look ethnic. I don\u2019t speak any other language but English.\n\u201cWe\u2019re told a couple had reported us having been reading Isis materials. [They said] the pair of us, meaning me and my sister, had been reading Isis material. My sister and I wear headscarves. We thought, there\u2019s clearly profiling going on here.\n\u201cWe were just in shock. What is going on? None of us have been doing that. We\u2019re absolutely flummoxed.\n\u201cWe were asked \u2018have you had any Arabic on your phone? Have you been reading the Qur\u2019an?\u2019 We don\u2019t even speak Arabic, we don\u2019t know Arabic, we\u2019re not even Arabs.\u201d\nThe passengers who complained had incorrectly claimed that the women had a reference to the phrase praise be to God on one of their phones.\nMaryam had been using her phone on the plane to send messages via WhatsApp to her father, a pharmacist born in Uganda, and had been having a conversation about the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn.\nOnce off the plane, Sakina was separated from Maryam and Ali, and they were questioned by men in suits said to be from special branch.\nSakina had a passport stamp from a visit to Iraq, when she and Ali had taken part in a sponsored walk to raise funds for Isis victims.\nThe officers asked to see Maryam\u2019s Twitter posts. \u201cThere was no evidence here,\u201d she said. \u201cWe were being treated like criminals. The couple had lied and got away with it. It was offensive and hurtful. They tarnished our names in front of everyone on the flight, it was really humiliating.\u201d\nThe siblings were allowed to return to the plane and offered an apology for the inconvenience. \u201cIt was a humiliating walk back on to the flight, it was awful,\u201d Maryam said.\nHowever, before they were allowed back on the flight, Sakina was warned by her interrogator that further background checks would be conducted while she was in Italy.\n\u201cThis was bizarre because, if we\u2019re not a threat and we\u2019re allowed on the plane, we\u2019ve all agreed this has been a lie, then what\u2019s the need?\u201d Maryam said. \u201cThey said \u2018if we find anything, we\u2019ll be waiting for you when your plane lands\u2019. What kind of threat was that to make?\u201d\nThe family returned on 20 August and no one was waiting for them.\nSakina said: \u201cWhat are my rights? We would only have been allowed back on the plane if there wasn\u2019t a shred of doubt on their part, so someone must be the liar here; in which case, why were those passengers not removed for wasting police time, lying, making false allegations and racial profiling?\u201d\nEarlier this year, a British man was removed from an easyJet plane by armed police at Luton airport after a fellow passenger read a message on his mobile phone about prayer and reported him as a security threat.\nLaolu Opebiyi, 40, from London, said he was forced to hand over his phone and reveal his password in order to establish his innocence, after he tried to arrange a conference call prayer with friends using WhatsApp.\nA detective subsequently questioned and cleared Opebiyi, but the pilot refused to allow him back on to the easyJet flight to Amsterdam.\nA statement from Essex police concerning the incident at Stansted said: \u201cEssex police were contacted with reports of concern regarding the behaviour of three people who were looking at their mobile phones.\n\u201cOfficers at the airport spoke to them and examined their phones with their consent. They were quickly able to establish that no offences had been committed and the women boarded their flight. We are satisfied the call was of good intent.\u201d\nA spokesman for easyJet said: \u201cEasyJet can confirm that, following concerns raised by a passenger during the boarding, a member of ground staff requested the assistance of the police, who took the decision to talk to three passengers at the bottom of the aircraft steps, before departure.\n\u201cThe police then confirmed to the captain that the passengers were cleared to complete their journey and they reboarded the aircraft and the flight departed to Naples.\n\u201cThe safety and security of its passengers and crew is our highest priority, which means that if a security concern is raised, we will always investigate it as a precautionary measure. We would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused to the passengers.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 9362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegurdontimes.com/x1364951169", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5NRGR7CZCAX4JPE4TUGWJ3NM6HYCDORM", "length": 4354, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.thegurdontimes.com", "title": "Calling Katie Couric? Lawyer for woman accused of killing daughter facing accusations himself - News - Gurdon Times - Gurdon, AR - Arkadelphia, AR", "raw_content": "Calling Katie Couric? Lawyer for woman accused of killing daughter facing accusations himself\nBROCKTON - At what was supposed to be a hearing in the case of his client, Carolyn Riley, defense attorney Michael Bourbeau instead found himself on the defensive for revealing too much to the media, according to the prosecutor in the case.\nAt what was supposed to be a hearing in the case of his client, Carolyn Riley, defense attorney Michael Bourbeau instead found himself on the defensive for revealing too much to the media, according to the prosecutor in the case.\nSuperior Court Judge John B. Connor Jr. indicated that he may seek to question members of the media in the matter.\nRiley and her husband, Michael Riley, are accused of first-degree murder in the death of their four-year-old daughter in Hull in December. A medical examiner\u2019s report said that the girl, Rebecca Riley, died of an overdose of clonidine, one of a number of drugs she was prescribed to treat a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and attention deficit disorder.\nThe unusual nature of the case has drawn attention from media outlets nationwide.\nPlymouth County First Assistant District Attorney Frank Middleton told Plymouth Superior Court Judge John B. Connor at the hearing Wednesday that he had serious questions about Bourbeau\u2019s professional conduct in the case because of what he viewed as leaks to the press.\nAfter the couple was indicted by a grand jury, Plymouth County Superior Court Judge Carol Ball in March ordered both sides not to divulge grand jury testimony.\nMiddleton accused Bourbeau of faxing his motion to dismiss Carolyn Riley\u2019s case, which allegedly contained grand jury testimony, to reporters.\nStories about the motion ran in The Patriot Ledger and The Boston Globe on July 10.\nMiddleton said he initially assumed that reporters had requested the documents from the Plymouth County Superior Court clerk\u2019s office. But he said officials there told him they had not received any requests for the motion before July 11.\n\u201cClearly, (Bourbeau) filed the motion and then began faxing it to media outlets,\u201d Middleton said. \u201cMr. Bourbeau clearly has the press outlets on speed dial.\u201d\nMiddleton said that CBS news anchor Katie Couric conducted a three-hour jailhouse interview with Carolyn Riley, set up, he assumed, by Bourbeau.\nCBS would not confirm whether Couric interviewed Riley.\nBourbeau then accused Middleton of releasing an inflammatory and misleading arrest affidavit after the Rileys were taken into custody, a document that was widely used in media reports to describe what allegedly happened to Rebecca Riley in the weeks and days before her death.\nIn the arrest affidavit, Rebecca Riley is described as likely having suffered severely before she died. It includes statements from other adults living in the house who said they begged the girl\u2019s parents to seek medical attention for her because she seemed so sick.\nBourbeau also said that his motion to dismiss \u201cresponds to what was a very prejudicial presentation to the grand jury.\u201d\n\u201cThis is the first time in my career that press reports became part of the grand jury evidence,\u201d Bourbeau said.\nAmong other allegations Bourbeau made in the motion to dismiss was the assertion that Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz\u2019s office failed to show the grand jury a photograph of Rebecca Riley taken 36 hours before she died, in which she appears healthy and happy.\nConnor ordered Bourbeau, Middleton and Michael Riley\u2019s attorney, John Darrell, not to speak to the press about the case or to alert the media of filings made to the court.\n\u201cBecause the allegations are serious and both of you have reputations of integrity both sides should have the opportunity to present evidence,\u201d Connor told Bourbeau and Middleton.\n\u201cI need to know if I\u2019m being charged with contempt,\u201d Bourbeau replied.\nConnor told him that he would let him know by 4 p.m. Wednesday how he would proceed. But Connor left court yesterday without leaving any instructions regarding Bourbeau, according to a court clerk.\nIf found in contempt of court Bourbeau could face jail time. He could not be reached for comment after the hearing.\nCarolyn Riley appeared in court Wednesday wearing cornrows in her hair and a bandage on her right wrist.\nConnor scheduled a hearing for a motion to dismiss the cases against both Rileys for Aug. 29.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 6350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theharebrainedpress.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:18Z", "digest": "sha1:A36RXLKQMWP6JJDSIE4YSCWFH34SVONP", "length": 665, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.theharebrainedpress.com", "title": "--- Home --- - theharebrainedpressproject", "raw_content": "The Harebrained Press Project is my goal to fulfill a dream to undertake each stage in the process of creating a deluxe, handmade, limited edition run of my book, Closer than Breathing. This means carrying out as much of the printing, binding and publishing as possible myself, and without the resources of mainstream industry. Instead, I hope to rely on traditional methods and local support (with the exception of online marketing).\nI have put together this website so that I can share my experiences with others who may be interested in writing, printing, bookbinding, or self-publishing themselves. I also hope to provide a forum for discussion on these topics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.therichest.com/video/funny-zoo-animals-messing-with-people/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:14Z", "digest": "sha1:UF2UCAAC35YNW2TYVISKSJNGUEGYLDRX", "length": 1059, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.therichest.com", "title": "Funny Zoo Animals Messing With People | TheRichest", "raw_content": "Funny Zoo Animals Messing With People\nGoing to the zoo is great fun for kids, especially when the animals mess around with them! Imagine you're spending life in an exhibit, with hundreds of people coming by to look at you. You're obviously going to want to make a bit of fun for yourself. The zoo trainers know this, and the way they interact with the animals can be at once heartwarming and funny, as the connection they build between each other establishes a trust between man and best. But it's different when people come to see the animal kingdom up close. Captivity means there's a boundary between the creatures being observed and the interested children, and this barrier is not always apparent to the animal. That's when we get funny moments like the lion who tried to take the child in its mouth, but is stopped by the thick plates of glass. Is the lion trying to carry the child off like a cub, or is it really interested in an afternoon snack? There's no way to know for sure, but it sure seems like these funny zoo animals are messing with people!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestephaneandre.com/tag/learn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GF6SIMWIC5XZG5VF4CFZOZON2QP44XU6", "length": 716, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thestephaneandre.com", "title": "learn Archives \u2022 THE stephane ANDRE", "raw_content": "The Key To Have Success\nI watched an Olivier Roland\u2019s video and I learned good stuff. The key of success in any field is something everyone is looking for. I\u2019ve been looking for this and I think you too. There is a quote to find\u2026\nCrowdfunding and blog\nI watched an Olivier Roland\u2019s video and I learned good stuff. Use a crowdfunding\u2019s platform is interesting to create a product. What is also cool is that by looking at projects we can have an idea of the future products.\u2026\nI read a Nerd Fitness article and I learned good stuff. Past All that we do in the past is done. The past passes and we can\u2019t change anything. No, no, not like in the movie \u00ab Back to the future \u00bb,\u2026\nhttps://www.thestephaneandre.com/tag/learn\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Dow-leaps-286-points-best-day-of-the-year-12674928.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:45Z", "digest": "sha1:DB536JTLCLG2QA6JG4AE3VMMRGHSOBZX", "length": 465, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thetelegraph.com", "title": "Dow leaps 286 points, best day of the year - Alton Telegraph", "raw_content": "https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/Dow-leaps-286-points-best-day-of-the-year-12674928.php\nDow leaps 286 points, best day of the year\nPublished 12:00 am CDT, Wednesday, June 6, 2012\nWellington Shields' Theodore Nelson, left, and Knight Capital's Frank Babino, right, work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, June 6, 2012. A 200-point charge turned the Dow Jones industrial average positive for the year following a dismal stretch in May.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 203.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/south-africas-cape-crusaders-could-be-a-catalyst-for-change-w65wv20xq", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:45Z", "digest": "sha1:END2QFWU5GFCBGSVF6QR6ABDEZOZXFH4", "length": 766, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thetimes.co.uk", "title": "South Africa\u2019s Cape crusaders could be a catalyst for change | Ireland | The Sunday Times", "raw_content": "South Africa\u2019s Cape crusaders could be a catalyst for change\nThe first things that strike you as you drive away from Cape Town airport \u2014 aside from the stunning curtain of mountains and startlingly blue sky \u2014 are the tin shacks of the townships stretching as far as the eye can see. I was stunned by them when I first visited Cape Town in 1995, a year after the country\u2019s first democratic elections, and I was stunned again on a recent visit.\nTwenty-three years on, the townships are still there, sprawling as ever, albeit with a proliferation of satellite dishes: television rather than water on tap. It is emblematic of life in South Africa: at times it seems that everything has changed, and at others it seems that nothing has. The country\u2019s economic and social\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 161.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theuptrend.com/CanadianStockMarketTrends20130213.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:22Z", "digest": "sha1:U5ZHAJDBT55TMJM4QEYU3NKJCW6IZ2RV", "length": 71, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.theuptrend.com", "title": "Stock Market Timing - CanadianStockMarketTrends20130213", "raw_content": "Canadian Stock Market Trends - Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 6:30 AM ET", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 112.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theurbaneast.com/blog/2018-07-04", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3QEBCTACYE5MC3VHZDKWVEXZOWIUMMRT", "length": 9134, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.theurbaneast.com", "title": "AirBnBs are Homesharing, not Hotel Rooms \u2014 Urban East", "raw_content": "Certainly, we have seen the battle over the past several years between cab drivers and Uber. More recently, however, AirBnB has begun to be a target of some actors within the hotel industry. Here in Newfoundland, Hospitality NL recently released a press statement calling for the provincial government to begin to regulate AirBnB.\nThe challenge though, and one that governments as well as opponents need to understand, is that traditional regulation for the sharing economy is not appropriate. While I would never make such a blanket statement as to suggest that all regulation would be bad, there is no doubt that the sharing economy and the companies that operate in the space are fundamentally different than the traditional businesses that are calling for help. It is therefore my opinion that the option is not to regulate traditionally \u2013 it is instead a tougher exercise that requires understanding how and why these new technologies are emerging and providing unique and thoughtful regulation to deal with them.\nUnderstanding Homesharing\nAirBnB can\u2019t be regulated like traditional hotels or bed and breakfasts, because AirBnB units are not traditional hotel rooms or bed and breakfasts.\nThe idea of the sharing economy, and AirBnB by extension, is that people share the excess of their assets. In the case of AirBnB, people buy expensive homes, however they don\u2019t necessary utilize all of the rooms all of the time. AirBnB capitalizes on the fact that people need space when they travel, and homeowners have space they aren\u2019t using in an already existing asset. By pairing these two groups, who would likely never connect without the app, AirBnB is able to create a mutually beneficial relationship between virtual strangers.\nThe reason that AirBnB differs from a hotel though is that these properties are not explicitly built to function as accommodations. These are people\u2019s homes \u2013 at least in many cases. In fact, it is for this reason that regulator patterns are emerging in many cities where shared spaces and primary residences are being separated from AirBnBs that are exclusively used as vacation rentals and commercial accommodations. This is fundamental, and is important when discussing how AirBnBs should be regulated. Trying to apply hospitality regulations on how a person utilizes their residence is not (and should not be) cut-and-dry.\nAdditionally, as a different type of product, AirBnB offers a different experience. According to this Crimson Hexagon report travelers list convenience as their reason for choosing AirBnB over hotels at almost the same rate that they list price. The ability to have a kitchen, or a more spacious and homey stay, is quoted by those who were spoken to.\nThe product is different, and travelers are making decisions based on the product option that best fits them. As a capitalist, this is what I want in a market \u2013 choice and competition.\nExisting Hospitality Policy Doesn\u2019t Necessarily Fit\nThere currently exists regulation around how a home must be built. Safety regulations are very clear about quality of structure and what is required. This regulation is acceptable for residents, and it is acceptable for friends and family that visit the property. Why then, is this proposed to be unacceptable for strangers utilizing the space in the same way that the aforementioned users use the space. To me at least, this is a key question that needs to be answered when having the home-sharing debate.\nAdditionally, there are fees and regulations associated with hospitality establishments. In many cases, at least in my opinion, these fees cover services that are of no value for AirBnB accommodations. Perhaps most relevant is the requirement to be inspected and reviewed by Canada Select. Canada Select will visit a tourism operator, assess the property, and provide a Star Rating. In order for the operator to receive this service, they must pay a per-room fee (which, for the record, is capped if enough rooms exist in the property). Canada Select is a for-profit entity written into provincial regulation. The problem is that AirBnB has a similar system \u2013 differences are that the ratings and review cost the operator nothing, and are actually provided by guests who stay there as opposed to a hired inspector who briefly visits. In a pre-Yelp age, a service such as Canada Select\u2019s would seemingly have tremendous value. However, for AirBnB hosts, it is entirely unnecessary.\nI mention this not to attack Canada Select as an entity, but to instead point out how existing hospitality policy could be adapted to invite AirBnB hosts instead of dissuade them. If the intent of the Canada Select regulation was to provide transparency to any regulated units in the province, then that goal should continue to be met. However, Canada Select isn\u2019t the ONLY way in which to achieve this. Canada Select works great for hotels or bed and breakfasts who don\u2019t have a public review process. Adapting the regulation to allow a certain star-rating on AirBnB be demonstrated as an alternative to a Canada Select rating would make far more sense for AirBnB hosts. What\u2019s more, adjusting regulation in this way could help other hospitality providers as well. Why should Canada Select have a monopoly on ratings? Perhaps there is a way to allow a variety of rating options that have been vetted by government. Canada Select, Yelp, AirBnB or TripAdvisor could all represent options for a regulated establishment to present.\nThe key piece is that the policy be adapted to the times in which we live. What will undoubtedly receive pushback from AirBnB hosts would be the status quo policy be pushed despite the redundancy. Round peg and square hole and all that.\nIts also worth noting that some municipal and provincial fees exist which are paid by tourism operators. These fees are subsequently spent on marketing Newfoundland and Labrador \u2013 a service which AirBnB hosts certainly receive a benefit from. Should AirBnB hosts contribute there fair share? It could certainly be argued that they should. However, are all of the services valuable? In addition to tourism campaigns in other parts of the country, these fees contribute to the publication of brochures and provincial guides that direct tourists to accommodations and activities around the province. I suspect AirBnB hosts would actually prefer to NOT be listed in such a publication. For one, AirBnB provides privacy to the host until a guest is actually booked. Secondly, potential guests can\u2019t just call and book \u2013 bookings must occur through the platform or else hosts lose access to some of their built-in insurance. With this in mind, policy should be reviewed to determine what a fair fee for an AirBnB host would be, since their needs and wants are notably different than traditional establishments.\nCommunity Business Impacts are Positive for Most\nSo, with all that said, how does this tie into neighbourhoods? How different businesses and ideas impact neighbourhood life is important to me \u2013 both personally and professionally. Honestly, I\u2019m of the mind that AirBnBs are a huge positive for the neighbourhoods in which they operate.\nCheaper accommodations theoretically mean more disposable income. It stands to reason that travellers will use this extra cash for a longer stay, or to buy more things while visiting their destination. The stats back this up. According to AirBnB, guests tend to stay 2.1x longer than typical visitors, while also spending 2.1x more money than traditional visitors. Interesting.\nThe stat that really catches my attention has to do with neighbourhood spending, however. 42% of guest spending occurs in the neighbourhood in which they are staying. This is an incredibly fascinating statistic for any brick-and-mortar small business, as well as for any commercial real estate investor. The location of successful AirBnBs would be an incredibly relevant stat for local businesses \u2013 particularly those who require foot-traffic. Further, overly regulating AirBnBs in a city could actually DAMAGE existing small businesses, since a heavy hand could deter hosts and guests alike.\nOverall, I think AirBnB is a positive thing. In many way it provides a way to revitalize neighbourhoods. It isn\u2019t uncommon for would-be hosts to buy properties and fix them up with the hope of attracting guests. It also is a means for housing to become more affordable for first-time buyers, a valuable tool in a down-real estate market. And, in my opinion, AirBnB stimulates small businesses. Statistics suggest it is more beneficial for a neighbourhood to have 10 AirBnBs as opposed to 10 new hotel rooms.\nAirBnB hosts are definitely in a grey area right now, navigating a new and unregulated industry. I think that there are some justifiable regulations and fees that should be in place, but it isn\u2019t as simple as slapping current regulations on an emerging way of life. 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I didn\u2019t have much choice though, I was busy every other night, and didn\u2019t even have much time to spend at this show either. But despite not having a choice - I still would have picked this show anyway. Brent\u2019s a cool guy who\u2019s doing cool shit in this town.\nAND - this was my first show at the new Music Box venue, though we were only in the smaller of the two spaces. Nice tables, nice chairs, nice stage\u2026 We didn\u2019t have a chance to eat - but overall, things were very clean and nice. 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In addition to the best-in-class off-roading capability, the Renegade offers a host of advanced safety features and convenience open-air freedom. Entering the 2019 model year, the Renegade is offering a brand new engine for the upper trim levels and a refreshed exterior design with a heavy focus on the grille and front fascia. There is so much more to talk about when it comes to the Renegade so keep reading!\n2.4-liter 4-Cylinder Engine\n1.3-liter DI Turbo Engine\nCan you share some of the features available?\nIn 2019, the Renegade will again be available in a total of four trim levels. They include the Sport, Latitude, Trailhawk, and Limited. The entry-level Sport model begins the lineup with standard features like a USB port, fold-flat front passenger seat for extra long cargo items, rearview camera, keyless entry and ignition, removable cargo floor panel, a 5\" touchscreen, 6-speaker sound system, and a height-adjustable driver's seat. There are three great packages available for this trim for even more features! The upper trim levels add on features from all those packages as well as a second-row USB port, auto-dimming rearview mirror, leather upholstery, 18-inch wheels, and a household-style power outlet. The Trailhawk trim adds on more off-roading geared features for even more capabilities.\nWhat kind of powertrain options are available for 2019?\nThere are two engines available for the 2019 model year. The two lower trims, the Sport and Latitude, are powered by a 2.4-liter Tigershark 4 cylinder engine that pumps out up to 180 horsepower and 175 pound-feet of torque. Powering the Trailhawk and Limited models, is the brand new 1.3-liter direct injection turbocharged engine that generates 177 horsepower and 200 pound-feet of torque. This engine is mated to a segment-exclusive nine-speed automatic transmission. There are two off-roading systems available for the Renegade, they include the Active Drive and Active Drive Low 4x4 system. Both systems are enhanced with the Jeep Selec-Terrain system that comes with up to five modes for the best 4WD, on- or off-roading experience no matter what the weather may be.\nWhat type of safety and security features are available?\nIn the 2019 model year, there are over seventy safety and security features that you can depend on when you are commuting to work or taking on new trails. The Renegade introduces the segment's first use of Forward Collision Warning-Plus and LaneSense Departure Warning-Plus, both available features. The available Safety & Security Group is available for all trim levels but the entry-level Sport, adding advanced features like xenon headlights, blind-spot monitoring, automatic windshield wipers, a cargo cover, and rear cross-traffic alert. Available for the Latitude and Limited trims is the Advanced Technology Group which builds upon the previous package with features like adaptive cruise control, lane keeping assist, automatic emergency braking, front parking sensors, and more!\nThe 2019 Jeep Renegade may be a small SUV but it sure does pack a punch with modern features off-roading capabilities that will take your adventures to new heights! Are you interested in learning more about the Renegade and all that it has to offer? Come on down to the dealership today to chat with one of our sales associates. They'll give you a tour of the trim that is right for your lifestyle and take you out for a test drive!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 7046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timeout.com/bangkok/comedy/russell-peters-deported-world-tour", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TXWAXHTMNMWBH56AVZ3SY54NT5THGTHA", "length": 652, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.timeout.com", "title": "Russell Peters Deported World Tour | Comedy in Bangkok", "raw_content": "Superstar stand-up comedian Russell Peters is returning to Bangkok in March\nPrepare to laugh your head off. Superstar stand-up comedian Russell Peters is returning to Bangkok (he was here in 2015 and 2016) after taking his hilarious gags around the world. (We\u2019re sure he\u2019s stocked up on more material along the way.)\nPeters, who started his comedy career in 1989, is regarded as one of the world\u2019s most famous comedians. He was actually the first stand-up act to get a Netflix special in 2003. 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These immunisations are offered at school during years 7 and 8.\nThe Public Health Nurses visit participating schools in February. The children are given consent forms to bring home for their parents and caregivers to sign.\nread the forms,\nfill out the forms and say whether or not they consent to the immunisations,\nsign the forms and return them to school.\nIf you would like to find out more you can speak to your Public Health Nurse. For the Western Bay area call (07) 577 3383, or for the Eastern Bay area call (07) 306 0944. You can also contact your family doctor or practice nurse.\nFor more information view - Immunisation for older children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/national-institute-technology-calicut", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BMERFJXBPJQAQHPMABMI3Z5OPSZX3Y3K", "length": 894, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.topuniversities.com", "title": "National Institute of Technology ... | Top Universities", "raw_content": "Home > National Institute of Technology Calicut\nCalicut View map\nNational Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC), formerly the Calicut Regional Engineering College (CREC), is a federally funded technical university and an institute of national importance governed by an act passed by the Parliament of India. The campus is situated near Chathamangalam, 22 kilometres (14 mi) north east of Kozhikode, on the Kozhikode\u2013Mukkam Road. It was established in 1961 and was known as Calicut Regional Engineering College (CREC) until 2002. It is one of the National Institutes of Technology established by the Government of India for imparting high standard technical education to students from all over the country. The college is among the very few institutions in the country to host a supercomputer of its own,[4] and amongst the pioneers in the country to have a dedicated nanotechnology department.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 505, "original_length": 21352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 78.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.townandcountryhaddam.com/category/gardening-tips/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6EBVYQXZCMNOEQ5LPQOP7X6NVI2CNEQA", "length": 354, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.townandcountryhaddam.com", "title": "Gardening Tips Archives - Page 2 of 11 - Town & Country Nurseries", "raw_content": "Christmas Cacti are easy to grow. When they bloom, they produce colorful tubular flowers in pink or lilac colors. They bloom a long time indoors and they are low-maintenance houseplants, which makes them popular. We\u2019ll bet someone in your family has a Christmas Cactus! Despite their name, Christmas cacti are not desert cacti. Their natural habit is [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.townhouse-lettings.co.uk/are-property-sales-increasing-manchester/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3APU27TQOF2VPKMU4PNKBTMBUSCRJO4H", "length": 1383, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.townhouse-lettings.co.uk", "title": "1 Are property sales increasing in Manchester? | Townhouse Lettings", "raw_content": "So, the question everyone is asking; Are property sales increasing in Manchester? The good news is, yes. Townhouse\u2019s Sales Manager Will says, \u201cPeople are moving again, it\u2019s great to see. Lettings have always been busy but sales are now getting to a similar level. At the moment sellers can get a good price for their property and a combination of increased lending from banks and the government back help to buy scheme has meant there are a lot more buyers now in the market.\u201d\nActivity levels are backed up by recent figures and stats released in the media. According to research undertaken by Nationwide, UK house prices rose by 0.7% in January and were 8.8% higher than they were back in January 2013. This figure represents the fastest year on year increase in house prices since May 2010.\u2028Property site Rightmove found that interest in properties is currently at a record high and the number of property pages viewed on their site increased by 20% in the first two weeks of 2014.\nIn further signs that the housing market is set to strengthen further in 2014, the number of potential home buyers registering with mortgage providers across the country surged by 17.1 per cent in February, which is the biggest monthly increase in seven years.\nIf you have a property to sell in Manchester or would like us to value your home, book an appointment with an agent today on 0161 401 1788", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.traildino.de/trace/continents-Europe/countries-Ukraine/regions-Crimea", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:43Z", "digest": "sha1:5GL7C2XENA2QCZGWWFTWK7XLFMRUXQT2", "length": 2237, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.traildino.de", "title": "Crimea", "raw_content": "Startseite\u00bbEuropa\u00bbUkraine\u00bbCrimea\nThe Crimea is a peninsula in the Black Sea. Officially it is Ukrainian but in summertime the beaches and cities are flooded by Russians and Belarusians making fun.\nThe famous mountain scenery is located on the southern edge of the peninsula. There are topographical maps for sale in local shops in the cities. You can set out from the beach and climb the beautiful main ridges and plains, about 1.000 - 1.500 m above sealevel, and forget about the merrymaking beneath you. The northern slopes are forested, and some trails have been marked here.\nReisverhaal On the Trail of Genghis Khan - An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads | Tim Cope\nAn Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads Read more\nThe relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them were the Mongols of the thirteenth century - a small tribe, which, under the charismatic leadership of Genghis Khan, created the largest contiguous land empire in history. Inspired by the extraordinary life nomads still... Read more\nUkraine: Crimea Tourist Atlas\nCrimea at 1:100,000 on a 176-page paperback atlas from the Ukrainian publishers Kartografija, with English language map legend, contoured maps to show the topography, town plans of the peninsula\u2019s 10 main cities and resorts, plans or drawings of popular historical sites, etc. All place names are in the Cyrillic alphabet.The whole of Crimea is... Read more\nSevastopol (Sebastopol) street plan from Kartografija Kiev, with additional coverage of Balaklava, in a Cyrillic edition but with English map legend. An enlargement shows the city centre of Sevastopol at 1:12,000 and a road map of south-western Crimea is also provided.Main traffic arteries are highlighted and streets are annotated with selected... 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Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.traininghott.com/CityCourses/San-Antonio-TX-ASP-NET-MVC-Programming-Courses-Using-VB-NET.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:12Z", "digest": "sha1:DYZP3CWIYJL2OPWFRP3L5YXOTCJVZRLR", "length": 50, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.traininghott.com", "title": "ASP.NET MVC Programming Courses San Antonio, Texas | ASP.NET MVC Training Course Courses for San Antonio, TX", "raw_content": "ASP.NET MVC Training Course for San Antonio, Texas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 13449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 97.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tricitynews.com/lifestyles/the-league-vancouver-s-newest-dating-app-aimed-at-would-be-power-couples-1.23462182", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:37Z", "digest": "sha1:BSUPUMPHX3ZQ5EV3KIUJBPAMHL6SVBH4", "length": 3424, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.tricitynews.com", "title": "The League: Vancouver\u2019s newest dating app aimed at \u2018would-be power couples\u2019 | Tri-City News", "raw_content": "The League launched Oct. 9 to 500 lucky Vancouverites\nJohn Kurucz / Tri-City News\nFounded in 2015, The League tries to differentiate itself from other dating apps by stressing education and long-term relationships over temporary hookups.\nSorry ladies, endless photos of you posing in a bikini, basking in front of a picturesque sunset while brandishing a peace sign just won\u2019t do.\nA set of snaps from a dude in a gym inviting you to the gun show won\u2019t get you far either.\nVancouver\u2019s newest dating app just won\u2019t have it that way.\nKnown as The League, the app for \u201cwould-be power couples\u201d launched in Vancouver Oct. 9. Temporary hookups be damned, this invite-only app is for educated professionals who are pre-screened for their level of education, professional title and where they went to school.\nThe League spokesperson Meredith Davis said 500 Vancouver users were expedited to use the app out of a more than 3,000-person pool of applicants.\n\u201cWe\u2019re really trying to build this invite type of community where being serious about dating is valued,\u201d Davis said. \u201cThe whole waitlist process, which takes about two to sometimes four weeks, is really so that you weed out people who aren\u2019t serious about dating or are just looking for a hook-up app.\u201d\nThe League is free to download, but only a select chosen few get to use it immediately. Those who don\u2019t want to wait pay a fee to be allowed into the pool.\nOnce downloaded, most users have to authenticate their profiles with a LinkedIn account, which gives prospective partners a chance to see where you went to school, where you work and the level of education attained.\nIncome thresholds aren\u2019t a focal point, with Davis saying a carpenter or plumber is just as eligible to get in on the action as a lawyer or doctor. The League\u2019s proprietary algorithm seeks to match people based on mutual interest, professions and photos.\nUsers can only log in at 5 p.m. to coincide with happy hour and can select between three to five matches per day. Only once someone \u201chearts\u201d you back \u2014 the way interest is indicated in today\u2019s topsy-turvy online world \u2014 can you take the chat offline.\nSix photos must be uploaded to a profile, but diversity is stressed on this point.\n\u201cSomeone who has six bikini shots, we reach out to them and let them know that they should try to change some of their photos,\u201d Davis said. \u201cWe\u2019re very vocal with our community. I can\u2019t tell you how many men I\u2019ve emailed and said, \u2018Listen, I love the keg stand shot but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to bode well for your dating life.\u2019\u201d\nDavis said The League has one million users spread across 37 cities in North America, as well as in London and Paris. Toronto and Montreal are the only other Canadian cities in the game at this point, and the average age range is between 25 and 35. Stats provided to the Courier indicate Vancouverites using the app average around 27 years old and come from employment backgrounds with Vancouver Coastal Health, Microsoft and Lululemon.\nDavis says she uses the app, as does her 60-year-old mother and company founder Amanda Bradford. All are in long-term, committed relationships.\n\u201cWe\u2019re very happy and we know a lot of people who are very happy and having babies,\u201d Davis said.\nThe League is available for iOS and Android.\nHappy hearting.\n@JohnKurucz\nA Good Read: Colder weather is the perfect time for warm comfort foods\nA Good Read: Colder weather is the perfect time for warm ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 7703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2014/3p-weekend-6-ways-eco-labels-can-help-us-stay-sustainable/58361", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:10Z", "digest": "sha1:EHHIQR6YLXVXI53ORMF2GBNEV2T4LQ7X", "length": 5680, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.triplepundit.com", "title": "TriplePundit: 3p Weekend: 6 Ways Eco-Labels Can Help Us Stay Sustainable", "raw_content": "3p Weekend: 6 Ways Eco-Labels Can Help Us Stay Sustainable\nWith a busy week behind you and the weekend within reach, there\u2019s no shame in taking things a bit easy on Friday afternoon. With this in mind, every Friday TriplePundit will give you a fun, easy read on a topic you care about. So, take a break from those endless email threads, and spend five minutes catching up on the latest trends in sustainability and business.\nEco-labels may not sound like the most exciting topic at first. But when you look a bit more closely, it's easy to see that labels and certifications are the backbone of any sustainability claim, whether it's a product or practice. Of course, navigating the wide world of eco-labels can be confusing at times. To clear things up, this week we rounded up six ways eco-labels can help consumers and businesses stay sustainable -- no matter what their interests are.\n1. For the health-focused\nThe conversation around potentially hazardous chemicals has heated up in recent years, but have you considered the toxins that may be lurking in indoor air? Most people spend roughly 90 percent of their time indoors these days, and indoor air pollution is two to five times higher than what is generally found outdoors (yikes!). Studies also show that poor indoor air quality can diminish employee productivity at work, further proving why it's something we should all be concerned about.\nLuckily for the health-conscious (whether you're a homeowner or building manager), much more attention is now being paid, through programs like LEED and GREENGUARD, to certify the materials used in buildings, so as to minimize or eliminate exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and improve indoor air quality for all.\n2. For the eco-minded shopper\nMore and more consumers want to shop their values these days, but it's often easier said than done. Conscious consumers often find themselves asking: How can I tell which product is preferable? Which labels should I trust? And what do 'green' and 'sustainable' really mean?\nAs part of our ongoing series with UL Environment, Triple Pundit took a dive into this meaty subject to bring you all the information you need to make an informed decision. Check out these tips for navigating the 'Wild West' of eco-labels or our Green Labels 101 guide, which will give you the low-down on common eco-labels and which ones to trust.\n3. For the green building enthusiast\nAccording to the U.S. Green Building Council, more than 4.5 billion square feet of construction space have gone through the LEED system, begging the question: Is LEED becoming the new normal?\nWell, we certainly hope so. But deciphering the technical concepts that make up the LEED rating system can be a challenge for both architects and contractors, not to mention homeowners unfamiliar with the rigors of LEED-compliant construction. And that\u2019s where UL Environment has been most successful in filling a niche. With its longstanding experience in product compliance validation, it\u2019s had great success in finding ways to translate technical concepts and rating systems into terms that both builders and their customers can understand. Here's to the bright future of green building!\n4. For the sustainable company\nIt\u2019s a great time to be a green manufacturer. Environmental consciousness continues to grow, not just here in the U.S. but globally. But how does a manufacturer convince shoppers that piece of furniture is safe from volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, or the eco-conscious restaurant that a dish detergent it's considering is made from environmentally safe ingredients?\nThat\u2019s the role of third-party validation systems, says Scot Case, director of Market Development for UL Environment. If a company doesn't have their green claims validated by a third party, these claims may be found misleading -- and the company can even be sanctioned by the Federal Trade Commission. \u201cIf you are a manufacturer and you are making some kind of environmental claim, you should be offering consumers proof that the claim is accurate, meaningful and relevant,\u201d Case says.\n5. For the waste conscious\nIf you're a consumer who strives to reduce waste at home, you may wonder about the hidden waste streams behind the products you buy. Luckily for sustainability directors looking to cut their company's waste streams down to size, standards are emerging to measure, assess and drastically reduce waste at all levels.\nFor example, the UL ECVP 2799 \u201cZero-Waste-to-Landfill\u201d validation refines the somewhat murky definition of \u201czero waste.\u201d By providing a set of validated metrics, the standard is now helping a variety of leading companies shrink the volume of solid waste they send to landfills. Having zero-waste-to-landfill claims validated by a third party carries loads of benefits for companies, including establishing trust among consumers and Wall Street investors alike.\n6. For the tech junkie\nAs Triple Pundit contributor Andrew Burger recently put it, \"The electronics industry has become the de facto face of innovation in the post-WWII era.\" When it comes to sustainability in the industry, most focus on things like e-waste reduction and energy efficiency. But there is much more to making that smartphone, tablet or connected appliance sustainable in the 21st century.\nThat's why UL Environment developed the UL 110 standard for mobile phones, tablets and other 'smart' products. In addition to efficiency, the standard ensures things like minimization of human health hazards, recyclability at end-of-life and the use of environmentally preferable materials, so every tech-lover can rest assured their favorite gadget aligns with their values.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 6636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trudelandsons.com/info/privacy--policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:29Z", "digest": "sha1:CZQ2ZBIUW3CF2QW7WSOOF5E3IWMZMTB5", "length": 473, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.trudelandsons.com", "title": "Trudel & Sons Roofing Ltd | Newmarket Roofing | Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "Trudel & Sons Roofing Ltd is committed to respecting the privacy of individuals and recognizes a need for the appropriate management and protection of any personal information that you agree to provide to us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request.\nFor additional information about our privacy policy, please do not hesitate to contact us with your question, concern, or comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ttwasia.com/news/article/emirates-launch-second-service-dar-es-salaam/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:F6X7O2UBT7PP6DWDC5YVZGAK3S5PQNGU", "length": 2992, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ttwasia.com", "title": "Emirates to Launch Second Service to Dar es Salaamttwasia.com", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb BLOG \u00bb Emirates to Launch Second Service to Dar es Salaam\nEmirates to Launch Second Service to Dar es Salaam\nEmirates, a global connector of people and places, will be able to connect even more people and cargo with Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, with the start of a second service to the east African coastal city from 26th October.\nThe new five times weekly service will complement Emirates\u2019 existing daily operation, and further boost inbound and outbound passenger traffic and cargo flows between Tanzania and Dubai, and Emirates\u2019 worldwide network.\nEmirates started a twice weekly service between Dubai and Dar es Salaam linked with Nairobi on 28th October 1997 using an Airbus A310-300. Following steady growth and demand on the route over the years, the frequency and capacity was increased and the flight was delinked from Nairobi, becoming a daily non-stop service between Dubai and Dar es Salaam in 2006.\nThe new flight will be operated with an Emirates A330-200, in a three class configuration with 12 seats in First Class, 42 in Business Class and 183 in Economy Class, adding a total of 2,370 seats and up to 170 tons of cargo capacity a week on the route.\n\u201cDar es Salaam is an important destination in our east African network. In our last financial year we carried over 180,000 customers on the route, and we are expecting further growth with the introduction of the second service, which will offer our customers more choice and convenience from Tanzania to Dubai and onward to Europe, the Middle East, the United States, India and the Far East. Dar es Salaam will now become the second destination in east Africa, after Nairobi, to have more than a daily frequency, said Orhan Abbas, Emirates Senior Vice-President, Commercial Operations, Latin America, Central and Southern Africa.\nEmirates\u2019 customers on the route will have the opportunity to enjoy cuisine prepared by gourmet chefs and world famous service from Emirates\u2019 multi-national cabin crew, including Tanzanian nationals. Customers in all three classes enjoy generous baggage allowances, with 50kg in First Class, 40kg in Business Class and 30kg in Economy Class.\nThe new frequency is also expected to boost trade between Tanzania and various markets around Emirates SkyCargo\u2019s global network. About 75% of the cargo exported from Tanzania are perishables, consisting of fresh, frozen and chilled fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood. The remainder of the exports are mainly household goods, jewellery, dry foods and automotive spare parts, while major imports are pharmaceuticals, automotive spare parts, electrical and electronic products and construction equipment and machinery.\nThe new service will operate on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday. It will depart Dubai as EK727 at 1655hrs and arrive in Dar es Salaam at 2150hrs. The return flight EK728 will depart Dar es Salaam at 2330hrs and arrive in Dubai at 0620hrs the next day.\nSource:- Emirates\nTags: Emirates news, latest Airlines News", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=https%3A%2F%2Filovemyarchitect.com%2F2018%2F02%2F25%2Four-exclusive-ilma-interview-with-daniel-dagostino-aia-of-plan-architecture%2F&title=Our+Exclusive+ILMA+Interview+with+Daniel+D%E2%80%99Agostino%2C+AIA+of+Plan+Architecture", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RF7YYHC3EG5RZCGY4A3CA2KEPHPOPA3U", "length": 197, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tumblr.com", "title": "Post to Tumblr - Preview", "raw_content": "Who is Daniel D\u2019Agostino, AIA? Dan D\u2019Agostino is an architect with over 15 years of experience as an architectural designer and project manager. \u200b Mr. D\u2019Agostino has extensive experience working o\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 56.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmrmatthewhenry.com%2F2017%2F02%2F27%2Fyou-have-come-to-be-touched-with-the-feeling-of-my-infirmities-yet-without-sin-hebrews-415-218-luke-42-11-2228-john-46-1321-1430-1133-35%2F&title=You+have+come%2C+to+be+touched+with+the+feeling+of+my+infirmities%2C+yet+without+sin.+Hebrews++4%3A15++%26++2%3A18%3B++Luke++4%3A2-11++%26++22%3A28%3B+John++4%3A6++%26++13%3A21++%26++14%3A30++%26++11%3A33-35", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:37Z", "digest": "sha1:LZ7RPCWP5XLM7MUDQTYLL4LZLYXKA4WM", "length": 160, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tumblr.com", "title": "Post to Tumblr - Preview", "raw_content": "You have come, to be touched with the feeling of my infirmities, yet without sin. Hebrews 4:15 & 2:18; Luke 4:2-11 & 22:28; John 4:6 & 13:21 & 14:30 & 11:33-35.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 76.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tutor.com/resources/state-standardized-tests/british-columbia-(canada)/applications-of-mathematics-10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:46Z", "digest": "sha1:FWSVPXPUZICFC6HBI4ZIDRYX5BXF7R4I", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tutor.com", "title": "Applications of Mathematics 10 - British Columbia (Canada) - State Standardized Tests - Homework Resources - Tutor.com", "raw_content": "< Back to Applications of Mathematics 10 (4)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tvinsider.com/59205/crazy-ex-girlfriends-rachel-bloom-on-her-golden-globe-nomination/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ULD6YVNLOB54MT6IRLKLE57NBV3S2AK4", "length": 3748, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.tvinsider.com", "title": "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend\u2018s Rachel Bloom on Her Golden Globe Nomination: \u201cAt This Point, I\u2019ve Won\u201d \u2013 TV Insider", "raw_content": "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend's Rachel Bloom on Her Golden Globe Nomination: \"At This Point, I've Won\"\nRob Moynihan December 10, 2015 11:30 am\nCrazy Ex-Girlfriend -- \"Pilot\" -- Image CEG101_1689 -- Pictured: Rachel Bloom as Rebecca Bunch -- Photo: Eddy Chen/The CW -- \u00c3\u0082\u00c2\u00a9 2015 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.\nCrazy Ex-Girlfriend.\nThis morning, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association nominated the creator/executive producer/star of the CW's freshman musical comedy Rachel Bloom for Best Actress in a TV Comedy or Musical. In the series, Bloom plays Rebecca Bunch, a successful New York lawyer who moves across the country to West Covina, Calif., in order to be closer to her childhood fling, Josh Chan (Vincent Rodriguez III). She also has a tendency to break out into elaborate song and dance numbers as she adjusts to her new life on the west coast.\nWe spoke with Bloom following the announcement to get her reaction and discover which one of her fellow nominees she wants to arm wrestle for the trophy.\nHow did it feel this morning to wake up to a nomination?\nWell, I didn't wake up to the news. I woke up and watched the livestream. So I woke up to my own heart beating. Because I've been up for so long and didn't get a ton of sleep; this does not feel real yet. I might still be half-asleep and dreaming.\nCrazy Ex-Girlfriend had a famously long development process, so what does a Golden Globe recognition in the middle of the first season mean to you?\nIt feels so good! We thought we had a dead pilot and then we got picked up by The CW, but we're on a network so ratings are more emphasized. When you're on a broadcast network, ratings are much more in the spotlight. So every Monday, I'm looking at the ratings to see how it's doing, and the critics have been so supportive of the show, but this just feels so good, to get this esteemed official acknowledgement. It was something that I already knew, which is we're making an amazing show and I'm so proud. I feel like a million bucks.\nRELATED: See the Full Nominees List for the Golden Globes\nHave you heard from your costars yet?\nUmm, I haven't. Good point. I'm actually looking at my phone right now because I've actually been on the phone with the very nice members of the press for the past hour and a have a bunch of missed texts, but nothing from the cast yet. But to be fair, it's early, so they're all still asleep, and I didn't necessarily tell them all that Golden Globes stuff was being announced today, to not get everyone all nervous, so maybe they don't know. But they better be texting me soon; otherwise, they're going to get killed off! I'm kidding. My cast is amazing, I love them.\nWho are you most excited to meet the night of the ceremony?\nEverybody I'm nominated with. Lily Tomlin, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jamie Lee Curtis. I've had the pleasure of meeting Gina [Rodriguez] and I can't wait to see her again. I think she and I should just arm wrestle for it. These are women who are just my heroes, so I'm really excited that I'm being mentioned in the same breath as they are. But at this point, I've won. Just being nominated, it's so gratifying and it's so amazing. It's obviously a huge achievement to get the award, but just to be nominated is so important for me and for the show. Everyone in the category is so amazing.\nWhat can we expect when the first season resumes on January 25?\nThe theme of the first season in general is the lies we tell ourselves. And that's not only for Rebecca, but every character. And so it's going to be characters coming to terms with things about themselves they've been in denial about, including Rebecca. 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Valtteri Bottas finished fastest in this session in 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 190.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.twulasso.com/the-best-and-worst-of-halloween-candy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:05Z", "digest": "sha1:YLUO77FSYQLSQEJJ7XFKD5TSRGSGI2D2", "length": 1896, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.twulasso.com", "title": "The best and worst of halloween candy - TWU Lasso", "raw_content": "Home > Opinions > The best and worst of halloween candy\nThe month of October brings about Halloween, the one day of the year when it is acceptable for people to dress up in crazy costumes, visit strangers\u2019 houses and eat unhealthy amounts of candy.\nOf course, not all Halloween candy is made equal. This is a sentiment that anyone can agree with, especially if they have ever dedicated an entire night to trick-or-treating only to end up with a bag full of butterscotch candies that look like they came out of a grandma\u2019s purse. The spectrum for the best and worst Halloween candy is vast, but I am going to provide a quick rundown of the top three best and worst Halloween candies.\nStarting off with the worst, number three on the list is Good & Plenty. This candy is often known as one of the oldest candy brands in the United States, but I have no idea how it has lasted so long. With the appearance and taste of expired medicine, this sweet usually stays at the bottom of a candy bag. Coming in second for worst Halloween candy is raisins. Whether they are plain, yogurt or chocolate covered, no one wants to eat dried fruit on Halloween. First on the worst Halloween candy list is none other than candy corn. This treat may be a Halloween classic, but most sane people prefer something a little less plasticky.\nNow for the best Halloween candy. In third place is Jolly Ranchers. These sometimes sweet, sometimes sour candies are the perfect treat for someone who is not fond of chocolate. Second place goes to Reese\u2019s Peanut Butter Cups. This collision of chocolate and peanut butter is one of the greatest creations out there, and the pumpkin shaped cups that only come out for the month of October are a bonus. Finally, the best Halloween candy is Haribo gummies. With over a dozen variations from gold-bears to happy cola, this likeable treat is sure to be devoured by everyone, including", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2012/10/18/no-way/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:26Z", "digest": "sha1:RR73CTEAYZG7QZQU74GMPE2AI2PTG5CS", "length": 51228, "nlines": 115, "source_domain": "www.typeinvestigations.org", "title": "No Way Out - Type Investigations", "raw_content": "COURTESY JAMES WEST\nIt's been seven months since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man's cell. Like the cell I go back to in my sleep, this one is built for solitary confinement. I'm taking intermittent, heaving breaths, like I can't get enough air. This still happens to me from time to time, especially in tight spaces. At a little over 11 by 7 feet, this cell is smaller than any I've ever inhabited. You can't pace in it.\nExcellence in Criminal Justice Reporting\nHillman Prize\nLike in my dreams, I case the space for the means of staying sane. Is there a TV to watch, a book to read, a round object to toss? The pathetic artifacts of this inmate's life remind me of objects that were once everything to me: a stack of books, a handmade chessboard, a few scattered pieces of artwork taped to the concrete, a family photo, large manila envelopes full of letters. I know that these things are his world.\n\u201cSo when you're in Iran and in solitary confinement,\u201d asks my guide, Lieutenant Chris Acosta, \u201cwas it different?\u201d His tone makes clear that he believes an Iranian prison to be a bad place.\nHe's right about that. After being apprehended on the Iran-Iraq border, Sarah Shourd, Josh Fattal, and I were held in Evin Prison's isolation ward for political prisoners. Sarah remained there for 13 months, Josh and I for 26 months. We were held incommunicado. We never knew when, or if, we would get out. We didn't go to trial for two years. When we did we had no way to speak to a lawyer and no means of contesting the charges against us, which included espionage. The alleged evidence the court held was \u201cconfidential.\u201d\nWhat I want to tell Acosta is that no part of my experience \u2014 not the uncertainty of when I would be free again, not the tortured screams of other prisoners \u2014 was worse than the four months I spent in solitary confinement. What would he say if I told him I needed human contact so badly that I woke every morning hoping to be interrogated? Would he believe that I once yearned to be sat down in a padded, soundproof room, blindfolded, and questioned, just so I could talk to somebody?\nI want to answer his question \u2014 of course my experience was different from those of the men at California's Pelican Bay State Prison \u2014 but I'm not sure how to do it. How do you compare, when the difference between one person's stability and another's insanity is found in tiny details? Do I point out that I had a mattress, and they have thin pieces of foam; that the concrete open-air cell I exercised in was twice the size of the \u201cdog run\u201d at Pelican Bay, which is about 16 by 25 feet; that I got 15 minutes of phone calls in 26 months, and they get none; that I couldn't write letters, but they can; that we could only talk to nearby prisoners in secret, but they can shout to each other without being punished; that unlike where I was imprisoned, whoever lives here has to shit at the front of his cell, in view of the guards?\n\u201cThere was a window,\u201d I say. I don't quite know how to tell him what I mean by that answer. \u201cJust having that light come in, seeing the light move across the cell, seeing what time of day it was \u2014 \u201d Without those windows, I wouldn't have had the sound of ravens, the rare breezes, or the drops of rain that I let wash over my face some nights. My world would have been utterly restricted to my concrete box, to watching the miniature ocean waves I made by sloshing water back and forth in a bottle; to marveling at ants; to calculating the mean, median, and mode of the tick marks on the wall; to talking to myself without realizing it. For hours, days, I fixated on the patch of sunlight cast against my wall through those barred and grated windows. When, after five weeks, my knees buckled and I fell to the ground utterly broken, sobbing and rocking to the beat of my heart, it was the patch of sunlight that brought me back. Its slow creeping against the wall reminded me that the world did in fact turn and that time was something other than the stagnant pool my life was draining into.\nHere, there are no windows.\nAcosta, Pelican Bay's public information officer, is giving me a tour of the Security Housing Unit. Inmates deemed a threat to the security of any of California's 33 prisons are shipped to one of the state's five SHUs (pronounced \u201cshoes\u201d), which hold nearly 4,000 people in long-term isolation. In the Pelican Bay SHU, 94 percent of prisoners are celled alone; overcrowding has forced the prison to double up the rest. Statewide, about 32 percent of SHU cells \u2014 hardly large enough for one person \u2014 are crammed with two inmates.\nThe cell I am standing in is one of eight in a \u201cpod,\u201d a large concrete room with cells along one side and only one exit, which leads to the guards' control room. A guard watches over us, rifle in hand, through a set of bars in the wall. He can easily shoot into any one of six pods around him. He communicates with prisoners through speakers and opens their steel grated cell doors via remote. That is how they are let out to the dog run, where they exercise for an hour a day, alone. They don't leave the cell to eat. If they ever leave the pod, they have to strip naked, pass their hands through a food slot to be handcuffed, then wait for the door to open and be bellycuffed.\nI've been corresponding with at least 20 inmates in SHUs around California as part of an investigation into why and how people end up here. While at Pelican Bay, I'm not allowed to see or speak to any of them. Since 1996, California law has given prison authorities full control of which inmates journalists can interview. The only one I'm permitted to speak to is the same person the New York Times was allowed to interview months before. He is getting out of the SHU because he informed on other prisoners. In fact, this SHU pod \u2014 the only one I am allowed to see \u2014 is populated entirely by prison informants. I ask repeatedly why I'm not allowed to visit another pod or speak to other SHU inmates. Eventually, Acosta snaps: \u201cYou're just not.\u201d\nIf I could, I would meet with Dietrich Pennington, a 59-year-old Army veteran from Oakland who has served 20 years of a life sentence for robbery, kidnapping, and attempted murder. Pennington has lived alone in one of these cells for more than four years. During that time, he hasn't spoken to his family. He has never met any of his seven grandchildren. In the SHU, he's seen \u201csome of the strongest men I know fall apart.\u201d\nBut the fact that Pennington is in solitary is not what is remarkable about his story. More than 80,000 people were in solitary confinement in the United States in 2005, the last time the federal government released such data. In California alone, at least 11,730 people are housed in some form of isolation. What is unique about Pennington \u2014 if being one of thousands can be considered unique \u2014 is that he doesn't know when, or if, he will get out of the SHU. Like at least 3,808 others in California, he is serving an indeterminate sentence.\nCompared to most SHU inmates, Pennington is a newbie. Prisoners spend an average of 7.5 years in the Pelican Bay SHU, the only one for which the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has statistics. More than half of the 1,126 prisoners here have been in isolation for at least five years. Eighty-nine have been there for at least 20 years. One has been in solitary for 42 years.\nLike many of the others, Pennington has never been charged with any serious prison offenses, like fighting or selling drugs. In 20 years of incarceration, his only strikes have been two rule violations: delaying roll call and refusing to be housed in a dorm-style cell with at least seven other prisoners. While in prison, he became a certified welder, receiving a special commendation for his work on building a rollover crash simulator for the California Highway Patrol. He used to regularly attend religious services and self-help groups, including parenting classes, Alcoholics Anonymous, and Narcotics Anonymous, all of which are forbidden in the SHU.\nPennington's lawyer, Charles Carbone, says his \u201cimpeccable prison record\u201d should have him on track for parole. But there is no chance of that \u2014 four years ago Pennington was \u201cvalidated\u201d by prison staff as an associate of a prison gang (one formed on the inside, as opposed to a street gang). That's the reason he and thousands of others are in the SHU with no exit date.\nPennington is not accused of giving or carrying out orders on behalf of any gang. In fact, there is no evidence that he's ever communicated with a member of a gang in his entire life. \u201cI've never been, never want to be a part of no gang,\u201d he wrote me. (He is currently trying to challenge his validation in court.)\nTo validate an inmate as a gang member, the state requires at least three pieces of evidence, which must be \u201cindicative of actual membership\u201d or association with a prison gang in the last six years. At least one item must show a \u201cdirect link,\u201d like a note or other communication, to a validated gang member or associate. Once the prison's gang investigator has gathered this evidence, it is reviewed in an administrative hearing and then sent to CDCR headquarters in Sacramento.\nIn Pennington's file, the \u201cdirect link\u201d is his possession of an article published in the San Francisco Bay View, an African American newspaper with a circulation of around 15,000. The paper is approved for distribution in California prisons, and Pennington's right to receive it is protected under state law. In the op-ed style article he had in his cell, titled \u201cGuards confiscate 'revolutionary' materials at Pelican Bay,\u201d a validated member of the Black Guerilla Family prison gang complains about the seizure of literature and pictures from his cell and accuses the prison of pursuing \u201cracist policy.\u201d In Pennington's validation documents, the gang investigator contends that, by naming the confiscated materials, the author \u201ccommunicates to associates of the BGF\u2026as to which material needs to be studied.\u201d No one alleges that Pennington ever attempted to contact the author. It is enough that he possessed the article.\nThe second piece of evidence was a cup Pennington had in his cell bearing a picture of a dragon, an image CDCR considers an \u201cidentifying symbol\u201d of the Black Guerilla Family. The third was a notebook he kept, which the gang investigator alleges \u201cshows his beliefs in the ideals of the BGF.\u201d Its pages are filled with references to black history \u2014 Nat Turner, the Scottsboro 9, the number of blacks executed between 1930 and 1969, and quotes from figures like W.E.B. Du Bois and Malcolm X. There are also passages in which Pennington ruminates at length on what he calls \u201cthe oppression and violence inflicted upon us here in maximum security,\u201d referencing a Time expos\u00e9.\nPennington never mentions gangs or unlawful activity in his writing. But in his validation documents, the gang investigator points out that the notebook contains quotes by Fleeta Drumgo and George Jackson, two former Black Panthers who are revered by members of the BGF and politicized African American prisoners generally. The single Jackson quote Pennington wrote down reads, \u201cThe text books on criminology like to advance the idea that the prisoners are mentally defective. There is only the merest suggestion that the system itself is at fault.\u201d\nCalifornia officials frequently cite possession of black literature, left-wing materials, and writing about prisoner rights as evidence of gang affiliation. In the dozens of cases I reviewed, gang investigators have used the term \u201c[BGF] training material\u201d to refer to publications by California Prison Focus, a group that advocates the abolition of the SHUs; Jackson's once best-selling Soledad Brother; a pamphlet said to reference \u201cRevolutionary Black Nationalism , The Black Internationalist Party, Marx, and Lenin\u201d; and a pamphlet titled \u201cThe Black People's Prison Survival Guide.\u201d This last one advises inmates to read books, keep a dictionary handy, practice yoga, avoid watching too much television, and stay away from \u201cleaders of gangs.\u201d\nThe list goes on. Other materials considered evidence of gang involvement have included writings by Mumia Abu-Jamal; The Black Panther Party: Reconsidered, a collection of academic essays by University of Cincinnati professor Charles Jones; pictures of Assata Shakur, Malcolm X, George Jackson, and Nat Turner; and virtually anything using the term \u201cNew Afrikan.\u201d At least one validation besides Pennington's referenced handwritten pages of \u201cAfro centric ideology.\u201d\nAs warden of San Quentin Prison in the 1980s, Daniel Vasquez oversaw what was then the country's largest SHU. He's now a corrections consultant and has testified on behalf of inmates seeking to reverse their validations. As we sat in his suburban Bay Area home, he told me it is \u201cvery common\u201d for African American prisoners who display leadership qualities or radical political views to end up in the SHU. Similarly, he recalls, \u201cwe were told that when an African American inmate identified as being Muslim, we were supposed to watch them carefully and get their names.\u201d\nVasquez testified in federal court in the case of a former inmate, Ernesto Lira, who was gang validated in part based on a drawing that included an image of the huelga bird, the symbol of the United Farm Workers. While the image has been co-opted by the Nuestra Familia prison gang, Vasquez testified that it is \u201ca popular symbol widely used in Hispanic culture and by California farmworkers.\u201d Lira's validation was one of a handful to ever be reversed in federal court \u2014 though not until after he was released on parole, having spent eight years in the SHU. And though the court ruled that the huelga bird is of \u201cobscure and ambiguous meaning,\u201d it continues to be used as validation evidence.\nGang evidence comes in countless forms. Possession of Machiavelli's The Prince, Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power, or Sun Tzu's The Art of War has been invoked as evidence. One inmate's validation includes a Christmas card with stars drawn on it \u2014 alleged gang symbols \u2014 among Hershey's Kisses and a candy cane. Another included a poetry booklet the inmate had coauthored with a validated BGF member. One poem reflected on what it was like to feel human touch after 14 years and another warned against spreading HIV. The only reference to violence was the line, \u201cthis senseless dying gotta end.\u201d\n\u201cDirect links\u201d that appear in inmates' case files are often things they have no control over, like having their names found in the cells of validated gang members or associates or having a validated gang affiliate send them a letter, even if they never received it or knew of its existence. Appearing in a group picture with one validated gang associate counts as a direct link, even if that person wasn't validated at the time.\nIn the course of my investigation, I obtained CDCR's confidential validation manual. It teaches investigators that use of the words t\u00edo or hermano, Spanish for uncle and brother, can indicate gang activity, as can se\u00f1or. Validation files on Latino inmates have included drawings of the ancient Aztec jaguar knight and Aztec war shields, and anything in the indigenous Nahuatl language, spoken by an estimated 1.4 million people in central Mexico.\nSome SHU inmates, aside from the \u201cbona fide gang members,\u201d are those \u201cthe guards don't like,\u201d says Carbone, Pennington's lawyer. \u201cThey get annihilated with gang validations in order to get them off the main lines\u2026The rules are so flimsy that if the department wants somebody validated, he will get validated.\u201d\nCalifornia is just one of many states where inmates can be thrown into solitary confinement on sketchy grounds \u2014 though just how many is hard to know. A survey conducted by Mother Jones found that most states had some kind of gang validation process, but implementation varied widely, and a number of states would not disclose their policies at all. Seventeen states said they don't house inmates in \u201csingle-celled segregation\u201d indeterminately. (No state officially uses the term \u201csolitary.\u201d)\nIt's unclear how many states keep inmates in solitary as long as California does. Texas has 4,748 validated affiliates of \u201csecurity threat groups\u201d in indefinite solitary \u2014 more than California's prison gang affiliates \u2014 and some have been there for more than 20 years. Louisiana has held two Black Panthers in solitary for 40 years. Minnesota is near the opposite end of the spectrum, holding inmates in segregation for an average term of 29 days. At least 12 states review an inmate's segregation status every 30 days or less; Massachusetts does it weekly.\nKeeping all these inmates segregated is an expensive proposition for taxpayers. Pelican Bay spends at least 20 percent more to keep an inmate in isolation \u2014 an extra $12,317 per inmate per year, or $14 million annually.\nAt Pelican Bay, decisions about who gets put in the hole indefinitely come down to one man: Institutional Gang Investigator David Barneburg. A stocky man with a shaved head and a seven-point star on the breast of his khaki uniform, Barneburg comes from a lineage of loggers who found themselves out of work when the timber industry busted. When Pelican Bay opened its doors amidst the majestic redwoods in 1989, his father signed up.\nPelican Bay was a new kind of prison \u2014 one of the nation's first full-fledged supermaxes, built with the explicit purpose of housing inmates in long-term isolation. After Pelican Bay, supermaxes popped up across the country, in part to deal with rising violence in increasingly crowded prisons. Today, there are roughly 60 nationwide.\nBarneburg started here in 1997, and after 15 years on the job, he comes off as a man under duress. He makes a point of assuring me that he and his gang investigations team of 10 are not \u201cknuckle-dragging thugs.\u201d He tells me he has to regularly take the stand in court to defend gang validations. To date, prisoners have sued him at least 30 times, though I could find no record of any having succeeded. \u201cI don't want to go as far as saying gang investigators are persecuted, but\u2026.\u201d\nHe is giving me a PowerPoint presentation detailing the structures and operations of the seven prison gangs targeted by the department of corrections. The Nazi Low Riders. The Aryan Brotherhood. The Texas Syndicate. The Black Guerilla Family. The Mexican Mafia. The Nuestra Familia. The Northern Structure. \u201cIt's about power,\u201d he says. \u201cIt's about control. It's about extortion. It's about money. It's about dope. It's about murder.\u201d Membership in a gang is not illegal in the United States \u2014 it's a right protected by the First Amendment \u2014 but Barneburg says segregating gang members is the only way to keep prisons from being overrun by racial strife, stabbings, and killings.\nWhen I ask him how well that's worked, he stutters and says diffidently, \u201cI think there's been less violence.\u201d\nHe's wrong. The rate of violent incidents in California prisons is nearly 20 percent higher than when Pelican Bay opened in 1989. As I walk with Lieutenant Acosta alongside the general population yard \u2014 a grassy, if bleak, fenced-in area where, unlike in the SHU, prisoners are allowed to interact \u2014 he unwittingly contradicts Barneburg's claim too, saying that violence in Pelican Bay has seen dramatic spikes over the years. In the 1990s, he says, \u201cyou didn't see the big fights, all the riots. It was like one, two guys fighting, maybe three guys.\u201d But since then, prison gang violence has escalated dramatically, with riots involving upwards of 200 people.\nPrison violence fluctuates for myriad reasons, among them overcrowding, gang politics, and prison conditions. It's impossible to say for certain what role SHUs play; what is clear is that in states that have reduced solitary confinement \u2014 Colorado, Maine, and Mississippi \u2014 violence has not increased. (Illinois plans to close its notorious Tamms supermax soon.) Since Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman released 75 percent of inmates from solitary in the mid-2000s, violence has dropped 50 percent.\nCDCR officials claim California is different because the gang problem is worse here, though they don't have data to confirm this. Barneburg says without SHUs, there would be no way to prevent gang leaders from giving orders to the general population. What he doesn't say is that very few SHU inmates are considered gang leaders even by CDCR's standards. Only 22 percent of those serving indeterminate SHU terms are validated even as members of prison gangs. The rest, like Dietrich Pennington, are classified as associates, people who are accused of having had some connection with members \u2014 or other associates \u2014 of prison gangs.\nFormer San Quentin Warden Daniel Vasquez says association with prison gangs \u2014 for protection, among other things \u2014 is \u201cpretty inescapable\u201d in the hostile and racially segregated atmosphere inside. \u201cYou're going to come across them in some form or fashion,\u201d he says. \u201cYou are going to start experiencing the pressures of these gangs.\u201d Barneburg himself acknowledges it is hard for a Mexican from Southern California, for example, to keep away from the Mexican Mafia, since the gang sees itself as the authority over any Mexican prisoner from the lower part of the state. A full 2,201 people currently serving indeterminate SHU terms are validated as associates of that gang; there are only 98 validated members.\nBeing associated with a prison gang \u2014 even if you haven't done anything illegal \u2014 carries a much heavier penalty than, say, stabbing someone. Association could land you in solitary for decades. An inmate who murders a guard \u2014 the severest crime in prison \u2014 can get no more than five years in the SHU.\nThe decision to put a man in solitary indefinitely is made at internal hearings that last, prisoners say, about 20 minutes. They are closed-door affairs. CDCR told me I couldn't witness one. No one can.\nWhen Josh Fattal and I finally came before the Revolutionary Court in Iran, we had a lawyer present, but weren't allowed to speak to him. In California, an inmate facing the worst punishment our penal system has to offer short of death can't even have a lawyer in the room. He can't gather or present evidence in his defense. He can't call witnesses. Much of the evidence \u2014 anything provided by informants \u2014 is confidential and thus impossible to refute. That's what Judge Salavati told us after our prosecutor spun his yarn about our role in a vast American-Israeli conspiracy: There were heaps of evidence, but neither we nor our lawyer were allowed to see it.\nNone of the gang validation proceedings, from the initial investigation to the final sentencing, have any judicial oversight. They are all internal. Other than the inmate, there is only one person present \u2014 the gang investigator \u2014 and he serves as judge, jury, and prosecutor. After the hearing, the investigator will send his validation package to Sacramento for approval. The chances of it being refused are vanishingly small: The department's own data shows that of the 6,300 validations submitted since 2009, only 25 have been rejected \u2014 0.4 percent. \u201cIt's pretty much a rubber stamping,\u201d Vasquez says.\n\u201cThat is a system that has no place in a constitutional democracy,\u201d says David Fathi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project. He says California's policy is \u201ca form of guilt by association that is completely foreign to our legal system. Prison administrators have absolute power, and that is a recipe for abuse and violation of rights.\u201d\nCDCR officials are quick to point out that inmates can challenge their gang status: They can appeal to the gang investigator, the warden, and, as a last resort, the departmental appeals office in Sacramento. But former Pelican Bay Warden Joseph McGrath testified in court that \u201cofficers do not reevaluate the evidence\u201d and that, if an appeal came to him, he would \u201cassume the truth of whatever was written\u201d in the validation documents. When I asked CDCR for an example of an appeal resulting in a reversal of a gang validation, they couldn't produce a single case. Gang investigator Barneburg, who has worked at Pelican Bay for 15 years, has never seen a validation appeal succeed either \u2014 evidence, he says, of his team's thoroughness. \u201cWe put out really quality work,\u201d he says.\nIf an inmate exhausts his administrative appeals, he has the legal right to take his case to court. Most can't afford a lawyer, so they end up representing themselves. Attorney Charles Carbone, who has challenged more than 200 gang validations (of which he says about 25 have been successful), says inmates who represent themselves succeed \u201cless than 1 percent\u201d of the time. The biggest obstacle is the \u201csome evidence\u201d standard, which essentially means that CDCR only has to provide a bare minimum of proof. The courts do not weigh the evidence or decide whether or not a prisoner is in a gang. The judge's job is only to \u201csee whether any evidence exists,\u201d Carbone says. \u201cAnd if it does, he won't evaluate it. He'll leave that to the prison authorities.\u201d\nHow does someone get out of the SHU, then? Officially, there are two ways. One is to be declared an \u201cinactive\u201d gang member or associate, which doesn't happen very often. Just a few dozen inmates are released to the general population every year via that process \u2014 less than 1 percent of those serving indeterminate SHU terms. The earliest chance of being classified as \u201cinactive\u201d is six years from the latest evidenced gang activity. Then, if a gang investigator provides a single piece of new evidence \u2014 say a book found in the cell or a tidbit from a confidential informant \u2014 the inmate has to wait six more years.\nThe other way out is to debrief \u2014 to divulge everything an inmate knows about a gang, including names of members and associates. This he can do at any time. An average of 108 do it every year, even though among prisoners snitching can carry the death penalty.\nAnd what if a prisoner in the SHU doesn't know anything? As former Pelican Bay Warden McGrath testified in court three years ago, anyone mistakenly validated \u201ccannot debrief,\u201d because they have nothing to give. Catch-22.\nIn Pelican Bay's Transitional Programming Unit \u2014 the place where inmates go once they've been released from the SHU \u2014 I sit at a metal table with Paul Bocanegra, a burly, tattooed former prison gang member. He spent 12 years in isolation before he debriefed. Now, he is housed among other debriefers and will probably never go back to the general population. Assault or murder, he says, is \u201cusually what happens once you turn your back on your buddies \u2014 people you used to run with. That's always in the back of your head. What's gonna happen if one day I get out, you know?\u201d\nCDCR claims that indeterminate SHU sentences are not meant to be punitive but are simply intended to isolate dangerous prisoners. That's also the argument the department uses to refute challenges like the class action lawsuit under way by the Center for Constitutional Rights on behalf of Pelican Bay prisoners who have spent between 10 and 28 years in solitary. The suit claims that prolonged SHU confinement is cruel and unusual punishment.\nIs it not? In the SHU, no work, drug treatment programs, or religious services are permitted. SHU prisoners are not allowed phone calls (except in approved emergencies) or contact visits. Clocks, photo albums, food condiments containing sugar (like ketchup), playing cards, and chessboards are all banned. Only after a nearly three-week-long hunger strike last year were SHU inmates allowed calendars, as well as handballs to use in the concrete dog run. Their monthly canteen draw is a quarter of the regular population's allowance, as is the one 30-pound package they can receive per year. Pelican Bay Warden Greg Lewis insists this, too, isn't to punish them, but to provide \u201ca very safe environment.\u201d\nWhen I ask Bocanegra if the SHU is punishment, he laughs. \u201cIt's meant to break a person,\u201d he says. \u201cYou have to accept whether you want to die back there or you want to change.\u201d Leaving the SHU for a unit where he can exit his cell without cuffs and go to an outdoor exercise yard with a small group of other people, he says, made him \u201cfeel like you're free.\u201d When he walked out of the SHU, he saw his first tree in 12 years.\nEvery day I come home to a new stack of letters from prisoners \u2014 our hostage story, it seems, is best known inside America's penitentiaries. For a while, I try to respond to each one, but as the weeks and months pass, they start to pile up. I become afraid of them and all the sorrow they contain. They take me back to my own time in solitary \u2014 and how can I go back there every day?\nOne morning, I sit down at my desk and look at the stack of envelopes slowly taking it over. I need to write these people back. I know what it's like to wait for word from the outside. Some of them remind me of myself while I was locked up, their whole lives bent on staying sane. They write. They read. They exercise. They meditate. Others make me think of what I would have eventually become. Their letters don't make sense. They write me constantly, desperately. They are broken.\nInstead of digging into the pile, I place a stack of 18 postcards in front of me and write on each of them a question that has been on my mind since I left Pelican Bay: \u201cDo you think prolonged SHU confinement is torture?\u201d I send them to prisoners across the state and 14 write back, all with the same answer: \u201cyes.\u201d One tells me he has developed a condition in which he bites down on his back teeth so hard he has loosened them. They write: \u201cI am filled with the sensation of drowning each and every day.\u201d \u201cI was housed next door to\u2026guys who have eaten and drank their own body waste and who have thrown their own body waste in the cells that I and others were housed in. I cry.\u201d\nThere are plenty of studies about the psychosis-like symptoms that result from prolonged solitary. Indicators of what psychiatrist Stuart Grassian calls \u201cSHU syndrome\u201d include confusion and hallucination, overwhelming anxiety, the emergence of primitive aggressive fantasies, persecutory ideation, and sudden violent outbursts.\nAs I read the medical literature, I remember the violent fantasies that sometimes seized my mind so fully that not even meditation \u2014 with which I luckily had a modicum of experience before I was jailed \u2014 would chase them away. Was the uncontrollable banging on my cell door, the pounding of my fists into my mattress, just a common symptom of isolation? I wonder what happens when someone with a history of violence is seized by such uncontrollable rage. A 2003 study of inmates at the Pelican Bay SHU by University of California-Santa Cruz psychology professor Craig Haney found that 88 percent of the SHU population experiences irrational anger, nearly 30 times more than the US population at large.\nHaney says there hasn't been a single study of involuntary solitary confinement that didn't show negative psychiatric symptoms after 10 days. He found that a full 41 percent of SHU inmates reported hallucinations. Twenty-seven percent have suicidal thoughts. CDCR's own data shows that, from 2007 to 2010, inmates in isolation killed themselves at eight times the rate of the general prison population.\nIn the SHU, people diagnosed with mental illnesses like depression \u2014 which afflicts, according to Haney, 77 percent of SHU inmates \u2014 only see a psychologist once every 30 days. Anyone whose mental illness qualifies as \u201cserious\u201d (the criterion for which is \u201cpossible breaks with reality,\u201d according to Pelican Bay's chief of mental health, Dr. Tim McCarthy) must be removed from the SHU. When they are, they get sent to a special psychiatric unit \u2014 where they are locked up in solitary. Some 364 prisoners are there today.\nIs long-term SHU confinement torture? The ACLU says yes. Physicians for Human Rights agree. The Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law and several other prisoner rights groups recently filed a petition with the United Nations claiming just that. Human Rights Watch says at the very least, it constitutes cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, which is prohibited by international law.\nUN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak once sent a letter to Tehran to appeal on behalf of my fellow hostage, and now wife, Sarah Shourd. Though Josh and I were celled together after four months, Sarah remained in isolation, seeing us for only an hour a day. Late last year, Nowak's successor, Juan Mendez, came out with a report in which he called for an international prohibition on solitary confinement of more than 15 days. He defined solitary as any regime where a person is held in isolation for at least 22 hours a day. Anything more \u201cconstitutes torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, depending on the circumstances.\u201d When I called Mendez to ask about the SHU, he said, \u201cI don't think any argument, including gang membership, can justify a very long-term measure that is inflicting pain and suffering that is prohibited by the Convention Against Torture.\u201d\nCDCR, like correctional departments around the country, does not consider the SHU solitary confinement. Inmates have TV, and they have contact with staff when they bring them their food, officials told me. Our interrogators in Iran said the same thing.\nJosh and I used to make up stories about other prisoners who walked past our cell, blindfolded, on their way to the bathroom. In our imaginations, the man who looked to be in his mid-30s with a smooth head and a slim build was the lead singer in an alternative rock band. His anguish was fueled by the fact that the government deemed his music subversive, when all he wanted was to play his guitar. The grizzled old man was a playwright. The guy with the long beard was an imam. The clean-cut twentysomething was an internet hacker.\nLately, it's like I've been doing the opposite \u2014 shaping living, breathing people out of snatches of information. Vincent Bruce has written me more than 20 times, and I've read through hundreds of pages of his court and prison files. From this, I can tell you that the 50-year-old has spent nine and a half years in isolation \u2014 seven of them alone in the SHU \u2014 but I can't tell you whether it shows in his stride like I could with the guys who walked past my cell. I can tell you that when he was 26, he busted out of jail in Chicago, that The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is one of his favorite books, and that he loves Phil Collins' \u201cIn the Air Tonight.\u201d\nI can tell you that he is one of California's most effective jailhouse lawyers. This is how his days pass: At six o'clock every morning, he wakes up, washes his face, and scrubs the floor of his cell. He does half an hour of yoga and meditation. From noon until dinnertime, he sits hunched over on his bed and pores over whatever legal case he is working on. Sometimes he gets diverted and watches court shows. It's one of his weaknesses.\nWhen Bruce was a kid, he says, his mom had nervous breakdowns when she would turn into a zombie that he had to feed and bathe. Her boyfriend's solution was to \u201cslap her out of it.\u201d At 13 or 14 he started running with the Crips. Since then, he has spent a total of about one year on the outside. At 23, he was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted murder, and two counts of first-degree robbery, and sentenced to life without parole.\nSeveral years into his incarceration, he started to organize other prisoners. In the 1990s at Salinas Valley State Prison, he crossed the intense racial divide of prison and organized 74 black, white, and Latino prisoners to pressure the administration into providing family visitation, religious services, and better food.\nIn 1998, Bruce was put in administrative segregation for allegedly assaulting another inmate. Ad-seg, as it is commonly known, is a solitary unit in each prison where inmates are often placed for disciplinary infractions. Some 6,700 California prisoners are in such units.\nBruce's ad-seg term was supposed to last 90 days. While there, he started pushing for improvements \u2014 allowing ad-seg inmates access to the exercise yard, reading and writing materials, the law library, and adequate bedding and clothing. Shortly afterward, he was told he wouldn't be getting out of isolation: He was under investigation for gang affiliation. (His time in the Crips, which he says ended years ago, was irrelevant here \u2014 indeterminate SHU terms are only given for connections with prison gangs.)\nThis had happened before, but investigators had determined the evidence \u201cinsufficient.\u201d This time \u2014 using the same evidence \u2014 Bruce was validated and transferred to the Pelican Bay SHU. He denies ever affiliating with a prison gang.\nBruce would later write in a legal complaint that the gang investigator told him the goal was to \u201cmake an example out of him\u201d because he was acting as a \u201cspokesperson for other prisoners' grievances.\u201d It would be nearly three years before he had direct contact with another human being.\nIn 1999, Bruce sued the department of corrections, claiming he had been put in the hole for being a jailhouse lawyer. Thanks to his legal pestering, the court eventually appointed him an attorney. The case dragged on for seven years. Meanwhile, he was released from the SHU as an \u201cinactive\u201d gang associate and transferred to another prison, where he continued his advocacy, winning at least 25 concessions over a period of six years, including wheelchair-accessible tables for the yard. At one point he initiated a hunger strike that involved 120 inmates. Two days later, he was put in ad-seg for \u201cconspiracy to assault staff.\u201d The claim was based on confidential information that the person in charge of reviewing ad-seg assignments later found did not exist; it couldn't be found anywhere in his file. He spent a year in isolation.\nAbout a year after Bruce was released from ad-seg, CDCR agreed to a settlement in his retaliation suit, paying him $7,500 and guaranteeing him adequate due process in the future. Ten days later, two assistant gang investigators came to Bruce's cell and confiscated his legal materials, a violation of California law. That same day, he was placed in ad-seg for possession of a shiv. Prison officials later acknowledged that the weapon didn't belong to him, but the charge was never dropped, and he was sent to the SHU to serve a 10-month sentence.\nThe gang investigator meant to keep him there. In yet another gang validation package, he claimed Bruce's retaliation case against CDCR in itself constituted \u201cgang activity.\u201d In January 2008, he was validated as an associate of the BGF and his SHU sentence was extended indefinitely. The evidence against him was confidential. He has been in the SHU ever since.\nSix months after his indefinite SHU term began, he received a letter from a young man he'd been celled with a few years before. \u201cAlthough I tried my best not to let you know I was listening to you,\u201d the other prisoner wrote, \u201cmy ears was always open when you spoke. Vincent you have made me a wise young man, and did something for me I will never forget.\u201d Now, he wrote, \u201cThe gang banging life is over with.\u201d\nInformation obtained from prisoners in solitary has long been viewed with suspicion. Numerous psychological studies have found that the more people are subject to sensory deprivation, the more suggestible they become. A 1961 US Air Force study titled \u201cThe Manipulation of Human Behavior\u201d cast this as a plus, saying, \u201cSolitary confinement and monotonous, barren surroundings play an important role in making the prisoner more receptive and susceptible to the influence of the interrogator.\u201d After the public disclosure of the CIA's 1983 \u201cHuman Resource Exploitation Training Manual,\u201d which taught agents how to extract confessions without leaving bruises, the agency renounced the use of \u201ccoercive interrogation techniques,\u201d including solitary confinement, in part because they yielded \u201cunreliable results.\u201d\nIn California, much of the information used to validate prisoners comes from the 108 inmates who debrief every year, creating a revolving door where people get out of the SHU by putting others in. Pelican Bay gang investigator David Barneburg insists that all information is double-checked against information provided by other sources. But as long as this information is kept secret from everyone, including lawyers, that vetting is left up to investigators \u2014 and there's evidence that they are not immune to the temptation to make things up.\nIn 2006, a prisoner with a violence-free prison record named Ricky Gray was validated as a member of the Black Guerilla Family and given an indeterminate SHU sentence. But the warden at his prison, who Gray claims was sympathetic to his case, took an unusual step: He instructed a staff assistant to reinterview the informants who had given evidence against him. The assistant concluded that the entire validation package was \u201ccomprised of conjecture, second hand expression, assumptions, frivolous statements, incomplete documentation, and blatant lack of thorough investigation.\u201d Gray managed to obtain a copy of this confidential report, and his lawyer passed it to me, providing a rare glimpse of the type of evidence used in gang validations.\nSeveral of the alleged informants, the assistant wrote, didn't know Gray at all. Two others \u2014 said to have reported that Gray was recruiting inmates to the BGF \u2014 signed sworn affidavits that they had never been interviewed about the subject and didn't know the guard who compiled their alleged statements. The paperwork that allegedly documented their statements didn't bear their signatures. In another of the interviews used against Gray, the staff assistant says the gang investigator appeared \u201cto be leading\u201d the informant \u201cto answer questions the way he would like.\u201d\nLike Bruce, Gray believes the gang investigator retaliated against him for his work as a jailhouse lawyer, a role in which he has been particularly successful \u2014 his biggest victory was an Eighth Amendment claim against prison guards that won him a $115,000 settlement from CDCR. Indeed, his legal work is specifically referenced in his validation. One piece of evidence pointedly stated that Gray's \u201cuse of correspondence for legal purposes is well documented.\u201d\nThe staff assistant's review recommended that Gray be classified as an \u201cinactive\u201d gang member and stated that Gray \u201cdoes not have a problem following the rules once he is aware of them.\u201d But six years later, Gray remains in the SHU. The warden who ordered the review transferred to another prison 37 days after it was completed, and the gang investigator \u2014 the same man who presided over Gray's validation in the first place \u2014 chose not to change Gray's validation status in response to the investigation. When Gray took the matter to court, the judge ruled that \u201ca prisoner has no constitutionally guaranteed immunity from being falsely or wrongfully accused [80] of conduct which may result in the deprivation of a protected liberty interest.\u201d In other words, it is not illegal for prison authorities to lie in order to lock somebody away in solitary.\nAt some point during the disorienting reentry blitz that followed my release in September of last year, I heard that in California, prisoners were doing what the three of us had done in Iran: hunger striking to protest isolation. Up to 12,000 inmates participated in protests against long-term SHU confinement across the state, making it probably the largest prison strike in recent history \u2014 twice the size of the one that took place a few months earlier. The prisoners were demanding changes to the gang validation policy and an end to long-term solitary.\nImplicit in the two hunger strikes was a message: The use of prolonged solitary confinement was leading to the kind of unrest it was meant to tamp down. Nearly three weeks into the 2011 strike, CDCR promised to make changes to its gang validation policy. Since then, it has been hammering out a set of reforms, aimed primarily at turning the policy into a \u201cbehavior-based\u201d one. This would bring California in line with other states that \u2014 at least on paper \u2014 segregate people only when they engage in violent or dangerous activity.\nThe new policy, which is already being rolled out on a pilot basis, will also include a \u201cstep down\u201d program that would allow inmates to work their way out of the SHU over a four-year period, rather than wait six years before their case is even reviewed. After a year of abstaining from gang activity in the SHU, an inmate will be able to get one phone call per year, a deck of cards, and the ability to spend 11 more dollars at the canteen every month. After three years, he'll be allowed a chessboard, and his family will be able to send him two packages each year rather than one.\nDepartment officials in Sacramento wouldn't talk to me about the new policy \u2014 after my visit to Pelican Bay, they declined further interviews, citing pending litigation. But when I talked to CDCR spokeswoman Terry Thornton about the reforms, she said, \u201cI think you are going to see a lot of people classified as associates getting out of the SHU.\u201d Under the new policy, associates \u2014 unlike members \u2014 of prison gangs will only be put in the SHU if they commit a \u201cserious\u201d rule violation or two \u201cadministrative\u201d rule violations.\nHere's the catch, though: CDCR is vastly expanding what counts as rule violations. Under current regulations, \u201cserious\u201d violations are things like assaults, drug use, and escape attempts. But in the latest version of the reforms, the definition includes possession of \u201ctraining material\u201d for security threat groups (the new term for gangs), like the books listed earlier. Things that didn't previously count as a rule violation \u2014 such as making artwork depicting threat-group symbols, communication showing threat-group behavior, and anything that \u201cdepicts affiliation\u201d with a threat group \u2014 will all be serious rule violations on par with stabbing somebody. \u201cAdministrative rule violations\u201d will now include many new categories, such as possession of photos of validated threat-group affiliates.\nMost critically, the new security threat group category doesn't just denote prison gangs, but also includes a much larger number of \u201cdisruptive groups.\u201d Among these are street gangs, motorcycle gangs, and \u201crevolutionary groups.\u201d The list of disruptive organizations that CDCR gave me runs to 1,500, including not only the Bloods and Crips, but also the Juggalos, the dedicated clown-faced following of the dual-platinum horrorcore hip-hop group Insane Clown Posse. The Black Panthers are on the list, as are a couple of Nation of Islam-affiliated groups. One category is titled \u201cBlack-Non Specific,\u201d suggesting that any group with the word \u201cblack\u201d in its name can be considered disruptive. (CDCR would not respond to my questions on this matter.)\nTaken together, the policy changes could mean that a Crip taking part in a hunger strike, a Black Panther with a drawing he made of his organization's namesake cat, or an Insane Clown Posse fan with an album cover and a concert photo could receive indeterminate SHU terms.\nOne night, I stare at the pile of letters on my desk. I can't let it keep growing, so I take it over to the couch and read through them all. It's painful. A part of me relates to these people, but, like I wanted to tell Lieutenant Acosta when I stood in that cell, there are such huge differences too. They are criminals; I was a hostage. They are spending many years in solitary; I did four months.\nBut still, I can't escape the fact that their desperate words sound like the ones that ricocheted through my own head when I was inside. When I finish the stack of letters, I dig up the first correspondence I ever received from a prisoner. He has been out of the SHU for years, but through his florid prose, I hear the voice of someone who is still profoundly disturbed by the time he did there.\n\u2026Like you, I know what it is like to have our very existence internalized to the point of kissing Siren on the lips while she guided us to the rocks of insanity. Then, wondering if we'd ever escape her spell. Fortunately we both did. But as you will learn about you and me, we did not come out unscathed. At times\u2026I mourn the solitude of days gone past. Days where time lost all meaning; to the point where I knew not if I was alive or dead; and where sometimes I did not care either way...\nAfter I read this, I go to the big wicker chest at the foot of our bed. In it are letters written to me by friends, family, and strangers that I never received because the Iranian censors would only let in mail from immediate family. There are hundreds of these; I keep them because I think I might read them some day. But not now. Instead, I grab a little piece of paper that is covered in microscopic writing, the script so small and the shorthand so esoteric that I can hardly read it, even though it was written by my own hand. It is the only piece of my prison journal \u2014 written on scraps of paper and hidden in the spines of books \u2014 that made it out.\nThe more one is utterly alone, the more the mind comes to reflect the cell; it becomes blank static\u2026\nSolitary confinement is not some sort of cathartic horror of blazing nerves and searing skin and heads smashing blindly into walls and screaming. Those moments come, but they are not the essence of solitary. They are events that penetrate the essence. They are stones tossed into an abyss. They are not the abyss itself\u2026\nSolitary confinement is a living death. Death because it is the removal of nearly everything that characterizes humanness, living because within it you are still you. The lights don't turn out as in real death. Time isn't erased as in sleep\u2026\nI carefully fold up the note, put it back in the chest, and step out onto our little second-story porch, into the breeze and the sun.\nAdditional reporting by Ryan Jacobs, Erika Eichelberger, and Robert Owen Brown. This story was supported by a grant from the Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. Front page illustration by Tim O'Brien.\n81,622 Number of prisoners in solitary confinement across the United States in 2005, the last year for which the federal government released data\n11,730 Number of inmates held in isolation in California prisons today\n7 Percentage of California inmates who are in isolation\n39 Percentage of inmate suicides that happen in isolation units\n78 Percentage of Security Housing Unit (SHU) inmates not classified as gang \u201cleaders\u201d or \u201cmembers\u201d\n$12,317 Extra annual cost to taxpayers for each prisoner in the Pelican Bay SHU/p>\n11'7\u201c x 7'7\u201d Dimensions of a SHU cell at Pelican Bay\n6' x 8' Dimensions of the average American home\u2019s walk-in closet\n51 Percentage of Pelican Bay SHU inmates who have spent at least five years in isolation\n89 Number who have been in solitary for at least 20 years\n1 Number who have been there for 42 years\nShane Bauer is a senior reporter at Mother Jones magazine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 53670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.typeinvestigations.org/investigation/2018/02/21/big-fine-small-fight-back/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YWLJWXCPTS56NTK3UFQYMFRBQHZK53OR", "length": 36029, "nlines": 112, "source_domain": "www.typeinvestigations.org", "title": "Too Big to Fine, Too Small to Fight Back - Type Investigations", "raw_content": "Texas\u2019 environmental agency targets small business owners for minor recordkeeping violations, while letting the corporate polluters off easy.\nTamir Kalifa/Texas Observer\nOne day in April 2015, Nasser Farahnakian watched helplessly as the streets around his gas station in Corpus Christi flooded. That spring had seen a succession of severe thunderstorms in South Texas, smashing rainfall records and causing widespread flooding across this city of 300,000. As the waters rose around Farahnakian\u2019s business, hundreds of gallons poured through a manhole into three underground storage tanks that hold gasoline and diesel. Underground, the grimy floodwaters mixed with the valuable fuel, rendering it unsellable. In late April, Farahnakian called a contractor to pump the water out of the tanks \u2014 the first of five times he would have to do so over the next month. Eventually the rains subsided and he figured the $8,000 expense was just part of being a gas station owner.\nFour months later, an inspector with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) showed up for a scheduled inspection and asked to see an inventory of fuel, a routine request. The inspector pointed out that the records didn\u2019t account for 800 gallons of fuel. Did it leak into the ground? Farahnakian tried explaining that the figures in the inventory records didn\u2019t add up because the tanks had flooded and he\u2019d hired a company to clean them out. He says he even showed the inspector the receipts from the contractor.\nIt didn\u2019t work. Farahnakian was shocked when he received a letter from TCEQ informing him that he was facing $59,000 in fines for recordkeeping violations \u2014 about two years\u2019 worth of profits from gas sales at his store. Farahnakian was outraged. He\u2019d done everything right. He hadn\u2019t sold fuel mixed with water and had immediately cleaned the tanks. Automatic sensors in the tanks didn\u2019t indicate a leak.\nThe disparity between TCEQ's treatment of mom-and-pop operations versus large corporations favors those with money and power.\nThe TCEQ has fined corporate polluters $30 million for air violations \u2014 not much more than the $24 million imposed on gas stations just for record-keeping errors.\nThe agency rarely punishes big polluters, often because of a legal loophole, and when it does levy a fine, lawyers negotiate big reductions in penalties.\n\u201cWe did everything to fix it,\u201d Farahnakian said. \u201cBut the paper, the inventory, did not match.\u201d\nAt age 26, Farahnakian had left Isfahan, the third-largest city in Iran, to get a Western education. It was 1976 and the country was on the verge of a political revolution. When he landed in Houston, he didn\u2019t speak a lick of English and didn\u2019t know anyone in the country. Farahnakian enrolled in language classes, secured a spot at a community college in Beeville and picked up odd jobs. He waited tables and washed dishes at a Mexican restaurant, making minimum wage, $2.30 an hour. At night, he drove a taxi, making $1 or $2 a trip.\nWhen he was close to finishing his engineering degree, Farahnakian quit school. He found work at a bottling company, a job he hated, but one that allowed him to save money to fulfill his dream of owning his own business.\nIn 1988, after more than a decade in the country, Farahnakian was able to open a convenience store in Corpus Christi. As his business took off, he opened another store, then bought rental property and began leasing it out.\nNasser Farahnakian, a gas station owner who was fined $59,000 by the TCEQ for record-keeping violations, at his gas station in Corpus Christi on Dec. 5, 2017.\nEventually, in 2005, Farahnakian purchased land off Highway 44 and built his current gas station. The place has the comforting fluorescent glow of a familiar American institution. A sign outside reads \u201cSUNRISE FOODS BEER ICE HOT DELI.\u201d Inside, the store is conspicuously clean. The deli counter advertises breakfast tacos and \u201cChicken By The Pieces.\u201d\nAs modest as it is, the store has helped make Farahnakian prosperous. \u201cI never gonna go back working for somebody in my whole life,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they give me million dollars, I don\u2019t want to have a boss no more.\u201d\nSunrise Foods is located just down the road from the airport, and the nearest competitor is about 6 miles away. Along with rental income from other properties, Farahnakian and his wife are more than comfortable and now live in a posh part of Corpus Christi, in a 4,900-square-foot home made cozy with Persian rugs. \u201cI\u2019ve been working hard all my life and now I enjoy,\u201d he said.\nAn old photo of Nasser and Soroush Farahnakian, Iranian immigrants to the United States who made careers out of owning gas stations.\nStill, the $59,000 fine stung. He could afford to pay it, but what about a less well-off gas station operator? \u201cWe\u2019ve got volume, it\u2019s OK,\u201d he said. \u201cBut for a smaller gas station it\u2019s kind of very rough. More [of] their profit goes toward TCEQ, which is very unfair.\u201d\nUnlike many other gas station owners, Farahnakian fought back. He hired a local attorney to contest the fines, and the case landed before a judge at the State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH), an agency that holds trial-like proceedings for legal disputes. After eight months of wrangling, during which Farahnakian provided documentation that he\u2019d cleaned up the tanks, TCEQ agreed to settle for $27,000. Farahnakian took the deal. He says he had already spent $15,000 in lawyer fees and a year of his time dealing with TCEQ. Still, he\u2019s upset at what he sees as the mismatch between the infraction and the size of the fine.\n\u201cWhy we have to pay $27,000 for one violation?\u201d he asked. \u201cWhich world is like that? Which country is like that? And there is no leak.\u201d\nFarahnakian logs the amount of fuel purchased and sold each day.\nIn April 2015, just as Farahnakian\u2019s woes were about to begin, a Citgo refinery a few miles away was malfunctioning. Citgo personnel had discovered that a stack at the plant was emitting more hydrogen cyanide than its air permit allowed. For two months, as Citgo later reported to TCEQ, the plant released more than 50,000 pounds of hydrogen cyanide into the air. Exposure to the chemical at high levels can be toxic to human health. Two and a half years later, TCEQ is still deciding whether to punish the company at all, and is even considering a request from Citgo to simply amend its air permit to retroactively bless the pollution.\nCitgo owns and operates two large refineries in Corpus Christi. Sitting at the edge of Nueces Bay, the 890-acre expanses of steel, towering stacks and massive storage tanks are feats of engineering. Every hour, they together churn through more than 6,500 barrels of crude oil, spitting out, among other products, gasoline that Farahnakian has purchased for his gas station. According to state data, they\u2019re also some of the biggest polluters in Texas. Combined, the two refineries emit more than 3,800 tons of hazardous pollutants a year, spewing carbon monoxide and volatile organic compounds \u2014 exposure to many of which has been correlated with lung and breast cancer \u2014 as well as nitrogen and sulfur oxides, which worsen respiratory illnesses in the young and elderly and contribute to haze in the region.\nFrom 2012 to 2017, the plants released more pollution than allowed by their permits 66 times, including the April incident, according to public data. TCEQ fined the company in only four cases and initially issued just $82,400 in fines. In three of those cases, however, Citgo unleashed its legal department on TCEQ. In all four cases, TCEQ reduced fines because of \u201cgood faith\u201d efforts and timely payments. Eventually, Citgo paid just $42,500 \u2014 a little more than a dollar per pound of pollution \u2014 for all four cases.\nWatch the Grist mini-documentary on Texas regulators targeting gas-station owners.\nFarahnakian makes a few thousand dollars a month from selling sodas, beer and gas at his store; Citgo has annual revenues reportedly north of $40 billion. Farahnakian is a first-generation immigrant who isn\u2019t fluent in English and is unfamiliar with the state\u2019s regulatory system; Citgo has significant political and financial capital that it can use to fight TCEQ. Farahnakian was punished for recordkeeping violations and there is no evidence of gas leaking out of his tanks; Citgo admitted to pumping 50,000 pounds of hydrogen cyanide into the air. Yet Farahnakian\u2019s penalty for a recordkeeping error was about the same as Citgo\u2019s fine for releasing toxic air pollutants over five years.\nFarahnakian isn\u2019t an exception. He\u2019s one of hundreds of Texas gas station owners, often first-generation immigrants, who have been fined for missing or incorrect paperwork, even as big corporations receive lesser punishment for releasing dangerous pollutants. The Observer analyzed more than 300,000 rows of data related to TCEQ\u2019s enforcement activity from 2009 to 2017 in an effort to assess the priorities of the nation\u2019s fourth-largest environmental agency. The analysis found that TCEQ collected $24 million from tank operators, the vast majority of whom are gas station owners. That\u2019s only slightly lower than the $30 million it collected from the thousands of industrial facilities \u2014 refineries, petrochemical plants, cement batch plants \u2014 across the state that violated their air permits.\nThe Observer\u2019s analysis also found that the agency devotes considerable resources to policing gas stations. Cases against underground storage tank owners make up about 40 percent of TCEQ\u2019s total enforcement workload, and 85 percent of the 4,200 cases against gas stations simply involved poor recordkeeping. In contrast, industrial polluters self-reported 500 million pounds of pollutants from 2011 to 2017. Yet TCEQ failed to levy fines against such violators 97 percent of the time during the same period, according to a 2017 report from two environmental groups critical of TCEQ. And when it did, the state came down much harder on small business owners: The Observer found that the average penalty for petroleum tank owners, $1,250, was double that of industrial air polluters, $580.\nThe disparity between TCEQ\u2019s treatment of mom-and-pop operations versus large corporations is no accident. The regulatory apparatus seems built to favor those with money and power. The agency rarely punishes big polluters, often because they invoke a legal loophole that allows pollution associated with plant startup, shutdown or malfunctions. Even in the event of a fine, companies typically lawyer up, negotiating big reductions in penalties. As a result, environmental advocates and small business owners say there\u2019s a fundamental unfairness at work with the way TCEQ treats its \u201ccustomers,\u201d as it refers to businesses it regulates.\nA Flint Hills Resources refinery is visible beyond a gas station in Corpus Christi on Dec. 5, 2017.\n\u201cFines should be tailored to their impact on the business,\u201d said Luke Metzger, executive director of the nonprofit Environment Texas, which has criticized TCEQ for failing to hold air polluters accountable. \u201cThe fines should also reflect the seriousness of the violation. Whenever the public is being exposed to potentially harmful pollutants, penalties should be at their absolute highest. On both counts, TCEQ fails miserably.\u201d\nAndrea Morrow, a spokesperson for TCEQ, provided the agency\u2019s own analysis, which is mostly similar to the Observer\u2019s findings. For example, TCEQ found that petroleum tank users made up 33 percent of the agency\u2019s caseload, while the Observer calculated 40 percent. Morrow also took issue with the characterization of certain violations and defended the practice of using records to identify potential environmental hazards. She also said that leaking petroleum tanks pose health and environmental risks as well as \u201cthe potential for fire and explosion.\u201d\n\u201c[R]ecordkeeping violations may not be simple \u2018paperwork\u2019 violations,\u201d she said. \u201cIn many cases, the records required may be the only way a potential release can be identified and addressed before significant environmental harm is done.\u201d She disputed the Observer\u2019s finding that 85 percent of violations were related to recordkeeping and argued that those violations were misinterpreted. She also claimed that paperwork-related cases account for less than 1 percent of all violations cited in commission orders.\nMorrow said the agency has been holding workshops to educate gas station owners about the regulatory requirements, adding that enforcement is \u201cmerely one tool\u201d it uses to protect the environment. Still, she said \u201cthe sheer size\u201d of the gas station industry \u201ccombined with high employee and ownership turnover \u2026 makes it difficult to reach everyone.\u201d\nFarahnakian, who has agreed to pay the $27,000 fine in 36 monthly payments of $750, is upset that TCEQ is making it more difficult to operate in an industry that is already challenging for small businesses.\n\u201c[TCEQ] try to get you out of this business,\u201d he said. \u201cAnybody can miss something, or water can get in the tanks. \u2026 But they get hard on us, not for them. For the foreigner, for the individual owner.\u201d\nThe retail gasoline and convenience store business is one of slim margins, high turnover and uncertainty. Day-to-day fluctuations in gas prices, ever-changing regulations and high overhead costs all make it difficult to stay afloat in the industry. There\u2019s even the apparently common problem of inattentive people driving off with the gas nozzle still stuck in the vehicle \u2014 a screwup that can cost the owner thousands of dollars. According to the Small Business Administration, about 48 percent of Texas\u2019 small businesses are minority-owned. Though the agency doesn\u2019t have demographic data by industry, experts told the Observer that a significant percentage of the 20,000 or so gas stations in Texas are owned and operated by immigrants, predominantly from Asia and the Middle East.\nScott Fisher, the senior vice president of policy and public affairs with the Texas Food and Fuel Association, an industry group that represents gas stations and convenience stores, said that in the 1970s and 1980s, the gas station business was likely attractive to immigrants because of the low barrier to entry. Loans were easy to secure and the down payments were typically smaller than what\u2019s required today. Regulations were simple and easy to navigate; inspections were few.\n\u201cIt looked like a pretty good way to get established and take care of your family,\u201d Fisher said.\nIn the 1980s, however, it became increasingly clear that leaking petroleum tanks posed a major threat to groundwater, and pressure mounted on Congress to crack down. At the time, the EPA estimated that one-quarter of the approximately 2 million tanks in the country were leaking. Of particular concern was MTBE, a powerful octane booster and carcinogen that renders groundwater undrinkable even when present in tiny quantities.\nA Flint Hills Resources refinery is visible from I-37 in Corpus Christi on Dec. 5, 2017.\nCongress gave the EPA jurisdiction over underground tanks in 1984 and ordered the agency to step up its policing. But in the late 1990s, the EPA still had a major problem on its hands.\nIn 1998, researchers at the Department of Energy found traces of gasoline chemicals in groundwater at more than 13,000 California sites, and in 2001 and 2005, the Government Accountability Office published scathing reports on the lack of funding for cleanups. \u201cMost states and EPA do not physically inspect all underground storage tanks frequently enough or have access to the most effective enforcement tools to ensure compliance with federal requirements,\u201d the 2001 report noted.\nIn 2005, under mounting pressure from activists and lawmakers, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, an omnibus energy bill that increased funding to states for tank cleanups. Among the key provisions: States receiving federal assistance would have to conduct inspections of gas stations every three years.\nTaking the federal money now meant putting gas station owners under much closer scrutiny. Unlike most states, Texas officials rebuffed the federal government, according to an EPA spokesperson. (Morrow said that TCEQ wasn\u2019t aware of additional funding being declined.)\nBut in 2009, as part of the Obama administration\u2019s stimulus package, TCEQ was offered a windfall \u2014 $10.8 million over two years if it would conduct routine inspections. The agency farmed most of the work out to the University of Texas at Arlington through a $2.5 million contract. The effect was immediate and drastic. In 2009, the year before the contract went into effect, TCEQ conducted about 5,700 inspections and issued $3.5 million in fines. Four years later, in 2013, the number of inspections more than doubled to about 13,200, and fines increased to almost $5 million.\nThe increase in inspections \u201cwas the single biggest change from that law,\u201d said Cliff Rothenstein, who headed EPA\u2019s Office of Underground Storage Tanks during the George W. Bush administration. Prior to the Energy Policy Act, most of the money was provided to clean up leaking tanks, he said, but after the law passed states received millions for inspections.\nThere\u2019s little doubt that the program has succeeded in reducing pollution. In Texas, the number of documented spills and leaks from petroleum storage tanks has decreased from 354 per year in 2006 to 285 in 2016. \u201cIt\u2019s a big achievement,\u201d Rothenstein said.\nThe colorful canopy of Joginder Singh\u2019s Shell gas station in Floresville is reflected in a puddle on Dec. 4, 2017.\nMany gas station owners told the Observer they don\u2019t object to fines in the event of a leak. They also conceded that the regulatory crackdown has prompted them to be more attentive to the records, and some have hired compliance firms to keep their books in order. But they also noted that TCEQ has discretion when it comes to how harshly it punishes polluters. They questioned why TCEQ doesn\u2019t show the same zeal for deterrence when it comes to some of the biggest polluters in the state, often the very petrochemical companies \u2014 Citgo, Valero, Shell, Exxon \u2014from which they must purchase gas.\nOnly 7 percent of the tanks inspected from 2009 to 2017 had a documented spill or leak at some point in their history. In fact, in TCEQ\u2019s data, the Observer was able to identify only six cases where an inspector found evidence of contamination. In the vast majority of cases, TCEQ became aware of a leaking tank when an owner reported it to the agency.\nThe most common citation is for failing to maintain accurate inventories. Gas stations and other businesses with fueling stations, such as hospitals and car washes, are expected to maintain more than 40 sets of records at any given time. Some, like the gas inventories, need to be updated every day. Others have to be renewed monthly or yearly. In Farahnakian\u2019s case, there was a discrepancy of 800 gallons of fuel, the result of the five times he had to have the tanks pumped dry. Official TCEQ forms provide a space for indicating when gasoline is delivered or sold, but not for when fuel is removed from the tank during a cleaning. Two inspectors told the Observer that they view \u201cmissing\u201d gas as an indication that it might have leaked out of the tanks.\nUnder Texas regulations, Farahnakian was supposed to report the issue to TCEQ and hire a company to investigate the source of the errors. He says he didn\u2019t do either because he didn\u2019t know they were requirements. As a result, his initial fine grew under what is known in regulatory circles as \u201ccascading violations.\u201d\nTCEQ dinged him $9,016 for not maintaining records for an automatic leak sensor in one of the tanks, $4,508 for failing to report the inventory discrepancy and $45,082 for not hiring an investigator to look into the discrepancy. It added up to $58,606. If TCEQ had penalized him for just the first violation, Farahnakian would have had to pay only the $9,016.\nFarahnakian points out that he had installed probes in the tank to alert him if there were a leak.\n\u201cWe find out, we have monitoring there,\u201d Farahnakian said. \u201cWe press it and it says no leaks. \u2026 They don\u2019t care about this. All they need is fine. Big fine.\u201d\nMorrow did not respond to questions about the violations at Farahnakian\u2019s gas station. Instead, she said that the agency\u2019s executive director \u201cconsiders all available evidence when determining the violations, penalty and corrective actions to include in an enforcement action.\u201d\nFor mom-and-pop gas station owners, the fines can take a financial and emotional toll.\nIn 2015, a TCEQ inspector found that Jamal Jafari, a Palestinian American who owns a gas station in Fort Worth, hadn\u2019t conducted a corrosion test and had left required leak detectors unplugged. Though the inspector didn\u2019t find any signs of a leak or a spill, Jafari was still smacked with a $6,500 fine. It took such a toll on his finances that he says he would shut down the pumps if it wouldn\u2019t affect sales in the convenience store.\nJafari\u2019s family fled Palestine in 1976 when he was 6 years old; the family lived in a Jordanian refugee camp during his school years. His five sisters, brother and parents all slept in a 10-by-10-foot shack, he recalled. After high school, Jafari secured a visa to come to the United States. He took English classes in Chicago and enrolled at Harold Washington College. Later he moved to Texas to take classes to become a pilot. But he couldn\u2019t afford the schooling and quit to take a job at a gas station.\nOver the next five years, Jafari saved enough money to open his own gas station in Fort Worth. Jafari, who is Muslim, thinks immigrants like him are unfairly penalized, in part because they\u2019re less likely to put up a fight.\nJoginder Singh\u2019s gas station in Floresville, a small town on the outskirts of San Antonio, on Dec. 4, 2017.\n\u201cWe [have] this feeling, they target us,\u201d Jafari said. \u201c\u2018We fine them, they cannot go to lawyer, some of them they don\u2019t speak English and they scared.\u2019 \u2026 I came to this country and I don\u2019t know all the rules, just like [when an] American goes to my country, he don\u2019t know all the rules.\u201d\nJafari says he sells only about 30,000 gallons of gas a month at a profit of 5 cents a gallon \u2014 about $1,500 a month. After debit card fees, he typically makes less than a dollar per fill-up. Like most gas station owners, Jafari counts on customers coming into the store for other goods.\n\u201cI hope he buy soda pop, a cigarette, a bag of chips [and] I\u2019ll make the difference,\u201d Jafari said. \u201cBut the gas, nobody makes money on gas. They keep it just to keep the customer happy.\u201d\nTCEQ allowed Jafari to go on a payment plan \u2014 $540 a month for 12 months \u2014 but he struggled to scrounge together the funds. Sometimes he would skip a month or two and pay a lump sum once he\u2019d saved up enough. He says he and his family \u2014 his wife and 10 children \u2014 had to cut back on groceries and skimp wherever they could.\n\u201cIt put me in a hole,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s hardship on me, my family and everything.\u201d\nOn a warm fall morning in South Texas, Gary is rushing from one gas station to the next in a white pickup truck with TCEQ\u2019s blue-and-green logo on the side. One of more than 450 investigators employed by the agency, Gary expects to inspect three gas stations within an hour and a half this morning. He\u2019s just wrapped up the third store \u2014 an HEB, where he spent 20 minutes \u2014 and is pulling into a Stripes he\u2019d inspected earlier in the morning.\n(I\u2019ve changed Gary\u2019s name because he fears he could lose his job by speaking to the media.)\nGary says he had an easy time with the inspections that morning because they were all corporate-owned gas stations. Employees from Stripes and HEB were present to answer any questions, and they had already emailed Gary the records he needed to review.\n\u201cThe corporate ones are the easy ones to write up, because they give us the documents and we can type it up as quickly as possible,\u201d he said. \u201cThe mom-and-pops \u2026 it takes us a little bit longer to get everything.\u201d\nJen Reel/Texas Observer\nGary, a TCEQ inspector, expects to inspect three gas stations within an hour and a half. (Gary\u2019s name has been changed because he fears he could lose his job by speaking to the media.)\nOn any given day, Gary may be investigating a tire fire in the morning and responding to complaints from neighbors living next to a scrap metal plant in the afternoon. Because there are so many gas stations to inspect, TCEQ wants inspectors to fly through them, Gary says. He says he\u2019s expected to take just five hours from start to finish, though he sometimes needs at least seven to do the job right. (Morrow disputed this timeframe, saying that investigators take 15 hours on average.)\nTCEQ requires its inspectors to have reports approved within 60 days of the inspection, a deadline that Gary says inspectors often rush to meet. While he takes the time to help small business owners find records that satisfy the rules, other inspectors may not have the patience, he says.\n\u201cWhen [politicians] say you\u2019re overburdening [businesses] with regulation, what they\u2019re really saying is you\u2019re overburdening the big corporate people,\u201d said Gary. \u201cYou\u2019re not really thinking of the mom-and-pops.\u201d\nAnother hurdle for some small business owners is that many speak English as a second language. Under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, entities that receive federal funding are expected to provide equal access to services, regardless of race, color and national origin. Courts have generally interpreted the law to include providing language assistance to people whose primary language is not English.\nTCEQ appears to have taken some steps to provide language assistance. Morrow, the TCEQ spokesperson, said that whenever agency staff run into communication barriers, they \u201crely on available internal or external resources,\u201d including staff who \u201care fluent in a variety of languages,\u201d Spanish speakers in the agency\u2019s small business program, and the EnviroMentor program, where environmental professionals volunteer their time to assist small businesses.\nStill, it\u2019s unclear how often those services are used. Based on interviews with nine gas station owners and two inspectors, many gas station owners don\u2019t know that the agency provides translation services. Take, for instance, Joginder Singh. He quit school after eighth grade in Hathur, a small farming community in rural Punjab, India, and as a young adult worked at a Nestle milk collection center. He was \u201cstruggling, struggling\u201d to make money, he recalled, and told his father, \u201cDon\u2019t worry\u2026 one day I\u2019m going to the other country.\u201d\nIn 1998, at age 35, Singh got a visa to the United States and flew to Syracuse, New York. There he found work as a gas station attendant, but Singh didn\u2019t speak a word of English, and his boss fired him, telling him he couldn\u2019t employ someone who wasn\u2019t able to communicate with customers. Eventually, Singh picked up a little bit of the language, moved to Fresno, California, and later came to Texas with his cousin in the hopes of owning and running gas stations with him.\nJoginder Singh at his gas station\u2019s convenience store in Floresville, a small town on the outskirts of San Antonio, on Dec. 4, 2017.\nOne cold December morning, Singh walks me to a small, cramped office at the back of his gas station in Floresville, a small town southeast of San Antonio. He opens a gray filing cabinet filled with files marked \u201cTCEQ #1\u201d and \u201cTCEQ #2.\u201d\nIn 2016, a routine inspection landed Singh in trouble. A contractor with UT-Arlington inspected his gas station and found that Singh hadn\u2019t tested the pipes leading from the underground tanks to the pumps. The inspector told him to get the leak test done in the next week. Singh followed the instructions and the test came back clean, but he was still slapped with a $5,800 fine. When Singh told a TCEQ staffer over the phone that he wanted to contest the case, he says he was threatened.\n\u201cHe said, \u2018If you go before the judge, judge from TCEQ, he no listen to you, he listen to me,\u2019\u201d Singh recalled. Discouraged, Singh didn\u2019t bother to appeal. (Morrow did not respond to a request to comment on Singh\u2019s allegation.)\nSingh says no one ever bothered to inform him that he had a right to a translator at no cost. With a Hindi or Punjabi translator, he might\u2019ve had a clearer understanding of the violations and how best to defend himself.\n\u201cThey need to ask first time, \u2018Hey Mr. Singh, hey Mr. Kumar, hey Mr. Benjamin, hey Mr. Lopez, you need interpreter?\u2019\u201d Singh said. \u201cIf they give me the translator between lawyer, any judge, whatever, I can more fighting myself. I can more fighting there.\u201d\nTiffany Moore, the manager of a McDonalds that shares a building with Joginder Singh\u2019s convenient store, washes the surface of the drive-thru on Dec. 4, 2017.\nThe contract between TCEQ and UT-Arlington spells out that the university must comply with the Civil Rights Act: \u201cAs a recipient of EPA financial assistance, you are required \u2026 to provide meaningful access to [Limited English Proficiency] individuals.\u201d The university also \u201chas an affirmative obligation\u201d to \u201censure that its actions do not involve discriminatory treatment.\u201d\nMarianne Engelman Lado, an environmental law professor at Yale University, said that the legal argument for translating the violation notices and enforcement documents is \u201cpretty strong.\u201d According to Engelman Lado, the EPA has determined in response to a Clinton-era executive order that agencies need to translate certain \u201cvital\u201d documents to the respondent\u2019s primary language. TCEQ\u2019s enforcement letters and orders fit that definition, she said.\nIn Singh\u2019s case, despite the fact that he primarily speaks Punjabi and Hindi, TCEQ sent letters in English notifying him that he was in violation of state laws and owed the state money.\n\u201cI come from India and I don\u2019t have education,\u201d said Singh. \u201cHow I can read everything?\u201d\nIn New York, CVS and Walgreens pharmacies offer medical information in 16 different languages, using translation software.\n\u201cTechnology has become easier and easier and access to translation has become easier and easier,\u201d Engelman Lado said. \u201cSo an organization or an agency with resources, they should be able to at least give out notice and then provide these vital documents in people\u2019s languages.\u201d\nMorrow did not respond to specific questions about which documents TCEQ translates, but said broadly, \u201cAs a recipient of federal funding, the TCEQ must follow Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.\u201d\nThe system offers luxuries to large companies that are simply not available to Jafari, Singh and Farahnakian. First, TCEQ very rarely fines companies for violating their air pollution permits. For example, from 2005 to 2013, the agency declined to pursue fines in 152 cases against Exxon, or 63 percent of the company\u2019s self-reported emissions events. In total the agency issued just $1.4 million in fines to Exxon, little more than mildly wagging its finger at the multinational behemoth.\nBut the extent to which the system is rigged in favor of Exxon came to light during a lawsuit that environmental groups filed against the company. Texas law allows air polluters to avoid penalties if the emissions occurred during plant startup or shutdown or because of a malfunction. However, during the trial, an Exxon official testified that the company reflexively uses that justification no matter the circumstances. The trial also showed that even when TCEQ fined Exxon, it allowed the company to dictate the terms. A top agency official testified that Exxon was allowed to write the first draft of a 2012 enforcement order and had significant input into the final version.\nIn 2017, the federal judge ruled against Exxon, finding that the company gained nearly $14.3 million in economic benefits by delaying projects that would\u2019ve reduced emissions. Exxon was ordered to pay almost $20 million.\nThe Exxon judgment was a rare win. Refineries, petrochemical plants and other polluters under TCEQ\u2019s purview still routinely claim that all excess emissions are related to startup, shutdown or malfunctions. Usually, the strategy works. In Citgo\u2019s case, for instance, the company appealed three of the four times it exceeded its permit from 2012 to 2017. In all three cases, the company claimed the emissions were legal, successfully reduced the fine, and avoided admitting to any wrongdoing.\nIn one 2012 incident, the Citgo West plant in Corpus Christi released more than 25,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide and more than 400 pounds of a slew of other chemicals, including carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide and nitrogen oxides. The emissions went on for more than a day, but the company failed to report them within 24 hours as required. TCEQ fined Citgo $50,500. But the company then simply claimed it was an authorized emission and appealed the case to SOAH. Ultimately, TCEQ settled with Citgo for $13,100.\nResidents of the Hillcrest neighborhood in Corpus Christi live in close proximity to two oil refineries, one owned by Flint Hills Resources and the other by CITGO.\n\u201cThese guys have millions of dollars, literally, to spend on lawyers and lobbyists and will put up a fight, and, on the other hand, we know a gas station owner doesn\u2019t have those resources,\u201d said Metzger with Environment Texas. \u201cEven if he or she wanted to go to SOAH or the courts, they likely don\u2019t have the money or the time or the expertise to be able to mount any kind of real defense.\u201d\nIndeed, very few tank cases get appealed. From 2009 to 2017, only about 250 of the 4,200 underground storage tank cases \u2014 fewer than 6 percent \u2014 were appealed to SOAH, according to the Observer analysis. Jafari, the Fort Worth gas station owner, explained his decision not to appeal this way:\n\u201cIf I request a hearing, I gotta go to Austin, I gotta hire a lawyer,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m taking a chance, maybe I win, maybe I lose. [If I lose], I have to pay the lawyer. So, excuse my language, we just say shut up and pay it and get it over with.\u201d\nWhat would a fairer system look like? Adrian Shelley, the executive director of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen Texas, said that deciding how to prioritize industries is \u201ca deep question in public health and environmental enforcement.\u201d The Observer\u2019s analysis raised a \u201csocial justice question\u201d and showed that TCEQ\u2019s priorities were \u201cskewed,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIf they\u2019re going after small business owners that don\u2019t have a lobby to support their interests in the state, that\u2019s unjust,\u201d he said.\nMetzger said TCEQ behaves like a schoolyard bully, picking on those who are least able to fight back. \u201cTCEQ largely lets major corporations off the hook while disproportionately going after the smaller operators,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s not fair and it\u2019s not very protective of public health for them to be going after the little guys and look the other way when the big polluters break the law.\u201d\nFor Farahnakian and other gas station owners, the issue comes down to one of equity. The punishment should fit the crime.\n\u201cFor big refinery, [a few thousand] is nothing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s penny in the pocket. Why it\u2019s like that? They should pay big fine and we should pay a small fine, compared to the money volume or business volume.\u201d\nFarahnakian is now semi-retired. Glaucoma has affected his eyesight and he walks haltingly. His daughter, Roya, takes care of the day-to-day operations at the gas station. \u201cIt\u2019s her business now,\u201d he beams.\nHaving been burned once, he\u2019s more careful now about recordkeeping. He has hired a compliance company to keep track of the daily inventory records. While he doesn\u2019t regret getting into the gas station business, he says the large fines have deterred him from opening another gas station, and he wouldn\u2019t recommend that Roya open one, either.\n\u201cI told myself I\u2019m not going to open no more gas station,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they\u2019re going to be hard on us like this, why you want to open a station? All this paper, all this records, all this things for what?\u201d\nNaveena Sadasivam is a 2017-2018 Ida B. Wells fellow with The Investigative Fund and a staff writer at the Texas Observer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 38990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ua.edu/news/2018/01/partnership-brings-ua-pakistan-researchers-together/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=News%20-%20Faculty%20and%20Staff", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:39Z", "digest": "sha1:64F6XQIDUA3TPRZU6JCJUY66NZNFUDJB", "length": 3053, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.ua.edu", "title": "Partnership Brings UA, Pakistan Researchers Together \u2013 University of Alabama News | The University of Alabama", "raw_content": "Partnership Brings UA, Pakistan Researchers Together\nDr. Delores Robinson\nTUSCALOOSA, Ala. \u2014 A professor at The University of Alabama is part of an international team performing geological research in northeast Pakistan aiming to understand where possible oil and gas deposits reside beneath the surface.\nDr. Delores M. Robinson, UA professor of geological sciences, joined a researcher from Pakistan to discover potential of hydrocarbon at the base of the Himalayas.\nThe project is part of the U.S.-Pakistan Science and Technology Cooperation Program, co-funded by the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development, or USAID, and implemented by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in coordination with the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan\n\u201cThis is an extension of my work in the Himalayas,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI\u2019ve worked in Nepal and continue to have projects there, as well northwest India and Bhutan, so the logical next place for me to go is into Pakistan. I have not been before.\u201d\nAccess to the Pakistani-side of the mountain range to further her research into the geometry of the rocks and abundance of minerals in the region was an attractive reason to join the project, she said. Her partner is Dr. Shah Faisal of the University of Peshawar, who contacted Robinson because of her expertise in the area and experience with similar studies.\nThis jointly funded program increases cooperation between Pakistani scientists and institutions and their American counterparts and supports economic development in Pakistan in health, water, agriculture and energy. Robinson and Faisal\u2019s project is one of 14 funded through the program this round.\nRobinson and a doctoral student funded through the program will study the area in front of the Himalayas where rock is pushed upward and folded at the surface and underground, hoping to learn the geologic history of the area. With that, they will make a two-dimensional representation that will be used by Faisal to make a 3-D model.\nThrust belts, as they are called, often trap oil and gas, but there are not any deposits in Nepal or northwest India. In Pakistan, though, there are oil and gas seeps that suggest more below the surface, Robinson said.\n\u201cI\u2019m not interested in finding oil and gas for them, but I am interested in where they could look,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I can provide them with a good geometry, then they would know where to drill.\u201d\nFaisal could use the data collected and models created to collaborate with Pakistan\u2019s energy companies, she said. The project is similar to work she has done in the Gulf of Mexico for North American oil and gas companies, she said.\n\u201cThe idea is that we would use these data to help the economy of Pakistan,\u201d Robinson said.\nBesides training a graduate student, Robinson said the project will help understand an area not normally open to Western scientists.\n\u201cThis will allow the publication of fundamental data that we would never get from Pakistan otherwise,\u201d she said.\nCollege of Arts and Sciences, Environmental, Research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 176.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ukpower.co.uk/gas_electricity_news/electricity-usage-to-be-monitored-at-the-london-olympics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WSGTAHLH4KQKAY3AXSZYDAZWUN4QY3PE", "length": 1045, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ukpower.co.uk", "title": "Electricity usage to be monitored at the London Olympics", "raw_content": "Electricity usage to be monitored at the London Olympics\nGeneral Electric is set to install a range of smart meters at the London 2012 Olympic Village.\nThe firm hopes the Olympic Village will become a showcase for the new technology, which can accurately monitor the amount of electricity used by individual appliances.\nSmart meters can provide users with a detailed breakdown of the electricity they use.\nRecent research shows that providing customers with the extra information encourages them to turn off appliances when they are not in use.\nGeneral Electric's general manager of its London 2012 projects team Tony Gale said: \"It's how you use the information from smart meters to change people's behaviour, rather than the installation of the meters themselves, which is interesting.\"\nMeanwhile, GE Lighting has just won an award for its Vio high-power white LEDs.\nThe company outshone rivals in the Light Sources and Controls category at the Lighting Design Awards, with what the judges referred to as a \"major advance in colour stability\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/classic-stones-photos-available-for-first-time-55035", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:50Z", "digest": "sha1:F7LUNGTWZBM5QGK4L7FFWE4OLRHN76DS", "length": 759, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.uncut.co.uk", "title": "Classic Stones Photos Available For First Time - Uncut", "raw_content": "Classic Stones Photos Available For First Time\nSee behind the scenes of the Rock and Roll Circus\nImages from behind the scenes of The Rolling Stones\u2018 Rock and Roll Circus are now available for the first time on a limited edition DVD.\nThe Stone\u2019s Rock and Roll Circus filming for an all-star TV mini-series, took place on December 11, 1968 and included artists such as Eric Clapton, The Who and John Lennon \u2013 and renowned rock photographer Mike Randolf was there to capture all of the antics behind the scenes.\nRandolf has made 80 images available to view eclusively on a limited edition of 5000 DVDs. The iconic photographs play like a movie and are accompanied by the instrumental music from the film.\nMore details are available from www.southbankphoto.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 158.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/marianne-faithfull-to-play-two-uk-shows-63549", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4Q475FQDLDBV574CLABOVK3GXBIFZ3TU", "length": 1607, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.uncut.co.uk", "title": "Marianne Faithfull To Play Two UK Shows - Uncut", "raw_content": "Marianne Faithfull To Play Two UK Shows\nThe singers' first gigs since recovering from cancer are announced\nTAGS: Marianne Faithfull\nMarianne Faithfull has announced that her Songs of Innocence and Experience European tour, will call in for two shows in the UK.\nFaithfull will play in the lushious surrounds of London\u2019s Pigalle Club in Piccadilly on March 19. This will be the singer\u2019s first UK concert since recovering from breast cancer at the end of last year.\nFaithfull\u2019s European tour starts in Hungary on March 12 culminating with a headline appearence at the Women\u2019s Arts International Festival at the Brewery Arts Centre in Kendal, Cumbria, on May 4.\nFaithfull\u2019s performance in Kendal is the first night of the three-week Women\u2019s Arts International Festival, which will also see performances by iconic female artists such as Patti Smith, Bettye LaVette, Peggy Seeger, Sandie Shaw and Kathryn Williams.\nMarianne was diagnosed with cancer at the end of September last year and underwent surgery in France the following month. Because the disease was caught at its very earliest stages, no further treatment has been necessary and she is making a rapid return to full health.\nFaitfull says: \u201cIt has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive. I didn\u2019t realise how many true friends I had. I feel so lucky and loved and thank everybody for all their good thoughts.\u201d\nTickets for the Pigalle show cost \u00a360.00 each and are available from the box-office 020 7287 5799 or by clicking here for seetickets\nClick here for more information about the Women\u2019s Arts International festival", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unep-aewa.org/en/node/1988", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:25Z", "digest": "sha1:U23QFE4IN62EJ6W3V7JMC7AC2RLIODMY", "length": 863, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.unep-aewa.org", "title": "Accession of New Contracting Parties from Africa | AEWA", "raw_content": "The effective conservation of migratory waterbird populations is only possible through international cooperation along their entire flyways. This is why expanding membership of AEWA is vital. Since the launch of the African Initiative, AEWA has welcomed eleven new Parties from Africa (Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Chad, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Gabon, Mauritania, Morocco, Rwanda, Swaziland and Zimbabwe)* and several more are close to completing the accession process. However, gaps in membership still exist, particularly in Central and Southern Africa. The UNEP/AEWA Secretariat has joined efforts with its UNEP/CMS counterpart, as well as the Secretariat for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, in order to promote accession, for example through joint workshops for relevant stakeholders in non-Party Range States.\nHow to Become a Party to AEWA\nAccession Guidelines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.universedeals.co.uk/important-tips-to-consider-when-shopping-for-bedspreads/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LKBTS6IQ7F4FVIHVHS63I26R5ZJ3PA7K", "length": 2698, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.universedeals.co.uk", "title": "Important Tips to Consider When Shopping For Bedspreads | UniverseDeals UK", "raw_content": "Important Tips to Consider When Shopping For Bedspreads\n13th February 2015 18th February 2016 Home & Garden\nSo you have a worn out bedspread that you need to replace. You are wondering how to get the best bedspread this time, one that will last longer than the one you are looking at right now. There are so many things to consider, and these things may actually make it difficult to make a purchase. So, let\u2019s see if we can narrow things down and find great tips to help you select the best bedspread for you.\nThis is the first thing that must be considered. A bedspread must actually cover the bed, right? You have standard bed sizes that are full or twin, queen and king, or you can go from smallest to largest. The most basic element is size. The bedspread must fit the bed. If you like, you might go a California King, this is even larger than a regular king. Sizes for children are also available. So, it is important to know about sizes because if you select a queen size for a king bed, then you can be sure that there will be a shortfall somewhere. You don\u2019t want that, do you?\nWell, when it comes to color, you must know that your color choices can be either be something that goes with room color or something neutral. But, you can go with whatever color you like, if you are okay with a clash of colors. So just consider what is okay for you and your partner.\nNext, we have the pattern. Like the color, you can go with a pattern that will match your room, but you can also go with something plain, it can also be considered as a pattern. You can take a picture of the pattern and view it in your room to see how well it fits.\nYou can choose a material that depends on your room\u2019s temperature ranges. For example: you can go for a heavy material that can protect you if the weather is cold or you can go for a wool material that can keep you warm. There are other options that you can consider as well. A light material will be good for a hot weather. So if you want to be smart, you can shop for bedspreads that can protect you in any type of weather, which means that you might need to purchase two or more bedspreads.\nNo matter how good or pleasant a bedspread is, what matters most is money! You can\u2019t buy that lovely item without money. So what you need to do is to make a budget and balance between the features and its price. Buying an expensive bedspread might mean that it will probably last longer or made with the best material. But if you don\u2019t have enough money, you can shop online, though you will not be able to touch or feel the material, you will be able to get a cheaper bedspread.\nTags: Important Tips to Consider When Shopping For Bedspreads, Shopping For Bedspreads", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 8063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.universetoday.com/140016/elon-musk-reveals-who-the-first-lunar-tourist-will-be/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GV7L3L2NPRG5HFRMOQFDUHWT3DO6MC2F", "length": 7977, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.universetoday.com", "title": "Elon Musk Reveals who the First Lunar Tourist Will Be - Universe Today", "raw_content": "Posted on September 18, 2018 October 16, 2018 by Matt Williams\nElon Musk Reveals who the First Lunar Tourist Will Be\nEver since Elon Musk announced the latest addition to the SpaceX rocket family back in September of 2016, the general public and space community has been eagerly awaiting updates on its progress. Known as the Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), this massive launch vehicle is central to Musk\u2019s plan of conducting space tourism with flights into orbit and to the Moon. It is also intrinsic to his vision of sending astronauts and colonists to Mars.\nAlready this year, Musk announced that the BFR could be ready to make orbital launches by 2020 and showed the Main Body Tool that would build the BFR. And on Monday, September 17th \u2013 during a press conference at SpaceX headquarters in California \u2013 Musk announced who the first passenger aboard the BFR will be as it conducts its first lunar mission \u2013 the Japanese fashion innovator and globally recognized art curator, Yusaku Maezawa.\nThis mission, which is scheduled to take place in 2023, will be the first private lunar passenger flight and is intended to help fund the development of the BFR vehicle. The mission will last a full week and will involve the rocket conducting a flyby of the Moon \u2013 getting as close as 200 km (125 mi) from the surface \u2013 before completing a lunar transit and returning back to Earth.\nGraphic showing the various stages of the BFR\u2019s first lunar mission. Credit: SpaceX\nThis is the second time that Musk has proposed a plan to send people to the Moon. Back on February 27th, Musk held a media telecon at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Flight Center where he announced that SpaceX would be sending two private astronauts on a lunar mission aboard the crewed Dragon spacecraft by 2018. This mission was to be launched by a Falcon Heavy rocket, which had been successfully launch tested a few weeks before.\nHowever, Musk has since scrubbed this mission in favor of sending the BFR on a return mission around the Moon. According to Musk, Maezawa approached SpaceX with the idea of taking artists with him on a lunar voyage to turn the entire ride into an art project called #dearMoon. The passengers will include a film director, a painter, a dancer, a novelist, a musician, a fashion designer, a sculptor, a photographer, and a musician.\nThe #dearMoon website, which went live after the announcement, features a video that addresses the future of commercial space exploration and offers insight into Maezawa\u2019s hopes for the upcoming mission. As the video states:\n\u201cMaezawa will invite artist\u2019s that represent Earth on his journey to the Moon\u2026 What will they feel when they see the Moon, when they see Earth in full view? And what will they create? Their works will certainly become a legacy for humankind. An all-inspiring, global, universal art project is about to begin.\u201d\n\u2014 Yusaku Maezawa (MZ) ???? (@yousuck2020) September 18, 2018\nDuring the course of the conference, Musk also offered some updated production details on the BFR rocket, which will replace the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy someday. As the name clearly suggests, the BFR will be the most-powerful and heaviest rocket ever created. Much like the Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy and the Dragon capsule, the BFR is intended to be a fully reusable vehicle.\nBut unlike the Falcon 9 or Falcon Heavy, the BFR is a single system, composed of a huge booster rocket and the Big Falcon Spaceship (BFS). The booster and spacecraft are expected to stand 118 meters (387 feet) in height and will be capable of sending 100 metric tons ( US tons) of payload to Low-Earth Orbit. But as Musk claims, orbital refueling will allow the rocket to have the same capacity to Mars and beyond:\n\u201cThe payload is\u2026 technically a hundred metric tons all the way to Mars, thanks to orbital refueling/orbital retanking,\u201d he said. \u201cSo BFR is designed to take 100 tons all the way to the surface of Mars\u2026 if you have a propellant depot on Mars, you\u2019re able to get from Mars to the Asteroid belt, to the moons of Jupiter, and kind of like planet and moon-hop all the way to the outer Solar System. So BFR is really intended as an Interplanetary Transport System that is capable of getting from Earth to anywhere in the Solar System, as you establish propellant depots along the way.\u201d\nThe spacecraft will measure 55 meters (180 feet) in height and will now have a forward payload section with 1000 m\u00b3 of pressurized volume (though Musk thinks they can go as high as 1100 m\u00b3). The design also calls for forward actuator fins and fins on two of the three rear fins to help control the rocket through a variety of atmospheric densities and velocities.\nIt also will have landing pads on the rear fins and seven Raptor engines to provide thrust. The ship also has an aft cargo section with 88 m\u00b3 of space. A simulation of the BFR landing illustrated how these components will work together to ensure that the rocket is fully reusable and can make multiple trips between Earth and other Solar bodies.\nBut perhaps the most important part of the conference was where Musk addressed the purpose of the BFR. As he stated, the BFR is essential to SpaceX\u2019s vision that humanity become an interplanetary species \u2013 not just for the sake of survival, but also to ensure a better future:\n\u201cI think that\u2019s the future that\u2019s incredibly exciting, and I think that\u2019s the future that we want. There\u2019s so many things that make people sad or depressed about the future, but I think becoming a space-faring civilization is one of those things that makes you excited about the future, makes you excited to get up in the morning. This is something that you can look forward to, that makes you glad to be a human being. I hope that people will see it that way. That is the intent of BFR, is to make people excited about the future.\u201d\nSince the announcement, famed astronaut Scott Kelly \u2013 who spent a year aboard the ISS as part of NASA\u2019s Twins Study \u2013 tweeted his interest to join Yusaka Maesawa\u2019s art project. According to Kelly, his schedule will be wide open in 2023 if Maesawa should \u201cneed someone with a little experience to go with you.\u201d To be fair, Kelly has more than just a \u201clittle experience\u201d, so I hope Maesawa accepts his offer!\nYusaku Maezawa (@yousuck2020), this will be a great adventure! Good luck on your trip and if you need someone with a little experience to go with you, my schedule is wide open in 2023. https://t.co/esOU51ojch\nThis first lunar mission will be an important milestone in Musk\u2019s plan to foster space tourism and provide everyday people with access to space. It will also ensure that the development process continues for the BFR, which could someday be offering intercontinental flights, regular round-trips to the Moon, and semi-annual trips to Mars. If Musk succeeds, it will also be the means through which Mars and other Solar bodies are colonized.\nWhile there are always those who expressed doubt about his ambitious plans and his timelines, Musk has proven time and again that he is capable of making things happen (even if the timelines sometimes need to be revised). I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone when I say that I hope that Musk and the company he founded to accelerate rocket technology and the advent of humanity becoming a space-faring civilization can make this mission happen!\nI\u2019m also sure I\u2019m not alone in wishing the best of luck to Maezawa and his colleagues. I hope the mission proves as inspirational as it does historic! I also can\u2019t wait to see what kind of art their trip inspires.\nFor more information, check out SpaceX\u2019s web page on the BFR. In the meantime, you can check out the full conference here:\nFurther Reading: SpaceX, SpaceX (2)\nCategoriesBig Falcon Rocket, Commercial Space, SpaceX TagsBFR, Big Falcon Rocket, Elon Musk, Featured, First BFR lunar mission, lunar tourism, Space Tourism, SpaceX\nPrevious PostPrevious To Avoid Vision Problems in Space, Astronauts Will Need Some Kind of Artificial Gravity\nNext PostNext Heralding the 2018 Harvest Moon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 9598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usawage.com/i51--52/i511000o111021.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QULH26VHDK6XFRUEFYVQNPYFLIL2VMQ5", "length": 1130, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.usawage.com", "title": "General and Operations Manager salary in publishing industries (except internet) industry", "raw_content": "National \u00bb Management \u00bb General and Operations Managers \u00bb Publishing Industries (except Internet)\nGeneral and Operations Manager Salary in the Industry of Publishing Industries (except Internet)\nThe salary statistics and trend of general and operations managers in the industry of publishing industries (except internet) are shown in the following tables and chart. In Table 3 we compare general and operations manager salaries in different industries within the information sector.\nTable 1 shows the average annual salaries for general and operations managers in the industry of publishing industries (except internet). The salaries are shown in 5 percentile scales. The average annual salary for the 75th percentile (the top 25 percent of the highest paid) general and operations managers is $194,560. The median annual salary (50th percentile) is $129,270. The average annual salary for the bottom 10 percent general and operations managers is $56,370.\nThe table and chart below show the trend of the median salary of general and operations managers in the industry of Publishing Industries (except Internet) from 2012 to 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usc.edu.au/explore/usc-news-exchange/news-archive/2019/february/lily-lines-up-secret-life-in-intelligence-service", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:28Z", "digest": "sha1:V2TBBMBZP35GYS7GPPUMZVCKDCPII4TX", "length": 1797, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.usc.edu.au", "title": "Lily lines up secret life in intelligence service | University of the Sunshine Coast", "raw_content": "The 2018 James Nash School captain will take her first step towards securing her target when she starts the combined Laws/Criminology and Justice degree at USC\u2019s Sunshine Coast campus next week.\n\u201cI\u2019m definitely interested in working with the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation ASIO, or the nation\u2019s secret foreign intelligence service, ASIS,\u201d said Lily, an OP2 recipient.\nho received her school\u2019s top award for legal studies, extension English and ancient history.\n\u201cI really enjoyed legal studies in high school and knew that I wanted to pursue an area that would continue to challenge me,\u201d said Lily, who received her school\u2019s top award for legal studies, extension English and ancient history.\n\u201cI am really excited to discover other career possibilities and opportunities through studying both law and criminology at USC,\u201d she said.\nExperiencing a mock trial in USC\u2019s Law School\u2019s Moot Court during a school visit to USC\u2019s Sunshine Coast campus during Year 12 cemented her decision to enrol at the University.\n\u201cI like that the Moot Court is an accurate representation of a modern courtroom and taking part in the simulated court presentation will be great preparation for when I graduate,\u201d she said.\n\u201cI\u2019m also looking forward to the practical legal training, including placements and internships, that I will have the opportunity to complete through the USC Law School programs.\nThe 17-year-old starts the next exciting chapter of her life next Monday, when USC\u2019s Semester 1 Orientation Week gets underway.\n\u201cAnother major advantage to going to USC is that it allows me to still live at home and keep my part-time job,\u201d she said.\nLily plans to use USC\u2019s free express shuttle bus service that operates between the Gympie and Sunshine Coast campuses to commute to lectures and tutorials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uscellular.com/stores/illinois/sterling", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:12Z", "digest": "sha1:XMA7V2LXUT7Z6Y74WQYH2E63NK2UX5S7", "length": 75, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.uscellular.com", "title": "Nearest U.S. Cellular Stores in Sterling, Illinois", "raw_content": "Local U.S. Cellular stores in Sterling, Illinois\nNext to Buffalo Wild Wings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 5671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usni.org/store/books/holiday-catalog-2017/leyte-june-1944-january-1945", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ZDISXHKE2MLVU27WPYCJPLUGLLAXRPZV", "length": 1900, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.usni.org", "title": "Leyte, June 1944-January 1945 | U.S. Naval Institute", "raw_content": "History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 12\nBy Samuel Eliot Morison (Author)\nSamuel Eliot Morison\u2019s acclaimed multivolume The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by the Naval Institute Press with new introductions by noted military historians. The series, hailed for its accuracy, narrative pace, and detail, provides a complete naval record of the war. The publication of all fourteen volumes will be completed by March, 2012.\nThe twelfth volume returns to the Pacific for a dramatic retelling of one of the greatest naval battles of all time. The determining factors in the Battle for Leyte Gulf were superb skill, heroism, and aggressiveness, but confusion, surprise, and faulty assumptions also played significant roles. The Allied victory at Leyte enabled the U.S. Navy to transport troops and base long-range bomber planes in positions so close to Japan that victory was all but assured. Morison's classic account details all of the key engagements surrounding the taking of Leyte.\nRear Adm. Samuel Eliot Morison wrote many popular and award-winning books on maritime history. He was the recipient of two Pulitzer Prizes, two Bancroft Prizes, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.\nThis book vividly portrays the illustrious career of John Paul Jones, from his early training at...Read More\nOriginally published in 1963, this classic, single-volume history draws on Morison's definitive...Read More\nThe Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-1943\nThe Naval Institute Press has published Samuel Eliot Morison's monumental History of...Read More\nOperations in North African Waters, October 1942-June 1943\nOver the next three years, the Naval Institute Press will publish Samuel Eliot Morison's...Read More\n2015 McMullen Naval History Symposium Participants ~\n16-18 Sept., Mahan Hall, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD ~ Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 7680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 186.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2012/04/george-clooney-president-barack-obama-fundraiser-los-angeles-2012", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EUJB355FUF4EYUK7OEFIJELRMAF24SRL", "length": 1467, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.vanityfair.com", "title": "Here\u2019s Your Chance to Infiltrate George Clooney and Barack Obama\u2019s Bromance, Campaign Dinner | Vanity Fair", "raw_content": "Here\u2019s Your Chance to Infiltrate George Clooney and Barack Obama\u2019s Br\u2026\nLeft, by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images; right, by NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images.\nEarlier this month, it was announced that George Clooney would continue feeding his bromance with the president by hosting a fund-raiser on May 10 to benefit Barack Obama\u2019s re-election campaign. The event, which will cost its 150 guests approximately $40,000/plate, will be held at George Clooney\u2019s Los Angeles home, presumably the same one you saw during that relaxed, via-satellite home tour the actor gave for CBS during awards season. Yesterday, though, Obama\u2019s deputy campaign manager Julianna Smoot revealed that two lucky members of the public, who perhaps cannot afford $40,000/plate, will be invited to attend the dinner.\nAccording to an e-mail announcement that circulated yesterday, any \u201cgrassroots supporter\u201d can enter a contest to win an invitation for him/herself and a guest to Chez Clooney on May 10. While the campaign suggests a minimum donation to the 2012 Obama-Biden ticket of $3, \u201cno purchase is necessary.\u201d Entries will be accepted between now and April 30. Shortly after, the two winners will be notified and awarded with airfare to Los Angeles, one night\u2019s hotel stay, and dinner with Clooney and the president. Somewhat offensively\u2014to Clooney, the president, and anyone shelling out nearly $40,000 for the event that night\u2014the Web site estimates that the value of the dinner is only $200.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vehicle-accessories.net/about-us/what-is-polypropylene-lining/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QOUXWYDENWXGKC2NJQKXQBY7IWFZVQY6", "length": 2639, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.vehicle-accessories.net", "title": "What is Polypropylene Lining? - Vehicle Accessories Ltd", "raw_content": "What is Polypropylene Lining?\nLining your van\u2019s interior is a great way to protect the vehicle\u2019s bodywork from scratches and dents caused by unsecured cargo in transit, or even just the daily wear-and-tear all work vans go through. Lining your van will also add instant resale value in case you are thinking of selling.\nOnce you\u2019ve decided to line your van, you then need to choose a material. We offer a number of different van lining options, the benefits of which have been summarised in a previous blog post. However, today we\u2019re focussing on polypropylene: what is it and why do you need it?\nPolypropylene is a type of plastic which has a great number of benefits, especially when it comes to its use as vehicle lining. It is made from a combination of propylene polymers and is used in a variety of applications including packaging, textiles and, of course, the automotive industry.\nWhy Choose Polypropylene?\nThis material has numerous benefits, such as being much more lightweight than traditional lining materials like plywood. When you think about the importance of ensuring your vehicle has not exceeded its maximum legal weight limit (for which we have the perfect product, the VOPS2), every gram counts! Lining your van with a lightweight material such as polypropylene means that you can fit more precious cargo into the vehicle without tipping it over the weight limit. This weight-saving feature will also save on fuel consumption which can add up to big savings if you\u2019re running a large fleet.\nAnother great benefit of polypropylene is its hygienic qualities. Plywood can absorb water, or anything else which has been spilled on it, and harbour bacteria. Polypropylene, however, is completely waterproof, rot-proof, washable and chemically inert so will not react in the case of a chemical spillage.\nPoly lining is also 100% recyclable, and reusable \u2013 another tick for the eco-friendly green credentials of this great product! Once recycled, it can be made into mixing bowls, spatulas, cutting boards, shovels, watering cans, automotive battery cases, oil funnels, ice scrapers, storage bins & shipping pallets to name a few!\nPolypropylene can easily be CNC machine-cut to specific dimensions in the same way plywood can be. It comes from the manufacturer in 4mm grey sheets as standard, but other colours and thicknesses are available on request. Due to its bubble structure it is incredibly tough, so If you\u2019re looking for a superior material to line your van and give it a more professional and modern finish, look no further than polypropylene!\nHead to the product page for more information, or contact us for a quote!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 9073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.venafi.com/blog/electronic-voting-and-election-fraud", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:00Z", "digest": "sha1:BQY2LHSW5XEKCZQBGAKSL2YFLLDZ6DHC", "length": 6754, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.venafi.com", "title": "Preventing Election Fraud: What To Know About Blockchain Voting Systems | Venafi", "raw_content": "Electronic Voting and Election Fraud\nI\u2019m a Canadian citizen, and I have voted in municipal, provincial, and federal elections for the past sixteen years, since I became old enough to vote. Every vote I\u2019ve ever casted has been done with a paper ballot. Counting paper ballots can be very time consuming and tedious, but the old-fashioned system we use in Canada has always made me feel confident about a very low risk of election fraud. Electronic voting systems, both by electronic voting machines and over the internet, don\u2019t make me feel as good. But given how electronic voting systems are becoming more common, especially in the United States, should we embrace it?\nLearn about 4 surprising new uses for blockchain.\nThe cybersecurity vulnerabilities of electronic voting\nThere are a number of electronic voting security vulnerabilities which have been identified in reports from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.\nVoting machines wear out over time. Some can\u2019t function properly for more than ten years of service, and many of the voting machines used in the United States are fifteen years old or older. Hardware physically wears out. And the software on the machines, given their age, many have critical vulnerabilities in code which have been publicly known for years. Often the software isn\u2019t patched or even easily patchable. Also many American states use voting machines that are so old that replacement parts cannot be acquired for them.\nFrom an op-ed by the Brennan Center\u2019s Lawrence Norden:\n\u201cComputer security experts have conducted several in-depth studies of paperless touchscreen voting machines. They have consistently found them to be vulnerable to glitches and even covert tampering. Because touchscreen voting machines record votes on a computer chip, there is no way to independently verify the results. When machines crash or malfunction, as all computers do, hundreds of votes can be irretrievably lost...\nLast year, a Princeton research team created a vote-stealing virus for one of the most popular voting machine models. It spreads from machine to machine and silently alters voting records to favor a particular candidate.\u201d\nVoting over the internet isn\u2019t any better. Ron Rivest, MIT professor and cryptographer of RSA algorithm fame said, \u201cThe biggest concern I have about internet voting is that we don\u2019t know how to do it securely. It sounds wonderful but it\u2019s an oxymoron. We don\u2019t have the internet experts who know how to secure big pieces of the internet from attack.\u201d\nConducting elections over the internet opens the voting system to a massive attack service, as the internet is accessible by most people around the world. University of Surrey computer science professor Stephen Schneider discussed his concerns about internet voting with the BBC:\n\u201cProf Schneider says the main security threat to online voting would be from malware on personal computers, which could potentially change votes cast via the internet.\nSimilarly, the use of internet-enabled voting machines in polling stations is \u2018not really very secure\u2019, he says. Many older machines, some used in the US, are \u2018more easy to subvert\u2019.\u201d\nBlockchain potential\nBlockchain is a specific technology of cryptographically linked transactions or records. It\u2019s primarily used in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, but tech companies have found a lot of other useful applications. Blockchain shows a lot of promise as a means for keeping voting records verifiable and secure. A proper implementation of blockchain can help to protect the confidentiality and integrity components of the famed CIA triad of cybersecurity.\nGood blockchain implementation protects confidentiality of voting records by encrypting them and making them accessible only to the necessary party which needs to count votes. Good blockchain implementation also protects the integrity of voting records by assuring that the votes aren\u2019t tampered with by a malicious third party, also by its application of cryptography. Each chain in the block relies on its own private key to validate and document that it belongs to the blockchain, essentially certifying that it has not been tampered with.\nBlockchain driven electronic voting has already been tried in Sierra Leone. In early March, Sierra Leone had the world\u2019s first blockchain driven presidential election, and it seems to have been successful. Blockchain startup Angora provided the technology, but the use of it was limited to the country\u2019s most populous district where their capital city of Freetown is located. Nonetheless, about 400,000 votes went through Angora\u2019s blockchain implementation.\nIt\u2019s worth noting that the technology Angora provided was a form of permissioned blockchain rather than public blockchain. Public blockchain records can theoretically be validated by anyone, whereas permissioned blockchain can only be validated by an authorized party. If the authorized party to the blockchain Sierra Leone used is trustworthy and unbiased, then in my opinion permissioned blockchain may have been the more secure option in this context.\nAlthough electronic voting methodologies pose significant potential for election fraud, there are ways to make them more secure.\nElections officials and volunteers must receive some cybersecurity training.\nOnline voting can be made more secure with the proper implementation of cryptography and electronic identity cards, as seen in Estonia\u2019s elections:\n\u201cSince Estonia's i-voting began, there have been no serious security issues, Mr Koitmae (deputy head of Estonia's Electoral Office) says. The technology and processes used are updated regularly based on technical advances and experiences from each election.\nA crucial part of Estonia's system is that online voting is linked to the country's state-of-the-art electronic identity cards - carried by every citizen and resident.\nDigital ID cards allow for the secure authentication of the owner online, and enables a digital signature to be linked to the account. Newer cards include an electronic copy of the owner's fingerprints.\u201d\nAnd as I mentioned, the blockchain technology deployed by Angora in Sierra Leone is reason for optimism.\nAny electronic voting system, whether offline, on an internal network, or over the internet must be seriously vulnerability tested by third-party cybersecurity experts before it\u2019s used to replace good old-fashioned paper ballots. It\u2019s also essential to properly finance government election departments so that technology can constantly be tested, fixed, patched, or replaced. Only then can we vote electronically with confidence without significant risk of election fraud.\nVenafi Study: Election Infrastructure Is at Risk\n4 New Uses for Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrency", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 26458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vg247.com/2013/05/03/fable-mmo-molyneux-sheds-light-on-lionheads-brainstorming/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:30Z", "digest": "sha1:72OEHZZMELANA46TAUTYDRVJBZMAW3SW", "length": 1510, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.vg247.com", "title": "Fable MMO: Molyneux sheds light on Lionhead's brainstorming - VG247", "raw_content": "Fable MMO: Molyneux sheds light on Lionhead\u2019s brainstorming\nBy Dave Cook, Friday, 3 May 2013 12:35 GMT\nFable as an MMO could do \u201creasonably well,\u201d according to former Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux. The 22 Cans founder has shed light on the team\u2019s brainstorming around the project while he was involved.\nSpeaking with IGN, Molyneux said, \u201cWhen we were brainstorming what to do next in Fable, there was always a, \u2018Maybe we should go and do the MMO route?\u2019\n\u201cThere were theories about how you would level up and class up and what the classes would be and so on, but we never got out of the brainstorming segment of that.\u201d\nAlthough the Fable MMO concept never broke through the theoretical stage, Molyneux suggested that it could absolutely work, but that certain elements would have to be retained for it to be popular.\n\u201cI can see that that would work,\u201d he said. \u201cThe thing about Fable is that it was such a rich world. It was, well, what the name says it is. It\u2019s all about Fable and Albion and this idea of legends and humour. RPGs are great for MMO transitions.\n\u201cI can see that that concept works, and works quite well. I think the charm of Fable was in the feeling of the world and definitely the humour. If they keep that in an MMO, then there\u2019s no reason why it shouldn\u2019t do reasonably well, I don\u2019t think.\u201d\nWhat do you think? Should Lionhead turn Fable into an MMO? Could it be the unannounced Unreal Engine 4 project currently in-development at the studio? Let us know what you think below.\nThanks Gamespot.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vi-pro.net/work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TNA3455PXJMFAPRIZ7C24UWJ26WSNF2Y", "length": 67, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.vi-pro.net", "title": "Work \u2013 VIPRO", "raw_content": "Live-performance film of the Moscow Operetta Theatre\u2019s hit musical.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 198.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.viachristi.org/doctor/timothy-s-shaver-md", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:17Z", "digest": "sha1:KH6KFRDYZE7S672TMY6HER6UC5JAYAGM", "length": 285, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.viachristi.org", "title": "Timothy S Shaver, MD | Ascension Via Christi", "raw_content": "Timothy S Shaver, MD\nUniversity of Oklahoma Health Sciences 1994 (Fellowship), University of Oklahoma Health Sciences 1992 (Residency), University of Kansas School of Medicine 1989 (Medical School)\nAmerican Board of Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine (Rheumatology)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 12532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 204.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.victoriacasc.org/category/news/latest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:7GBJTHYTUHCD45KYLJLDWDTTL5NSDNCO", "length": 7664, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.victoriacasc.org", "title": "Latest | Victoria Central America Support Committee", "raw_content": "Celebration of LIfe: Gudrun Doherty\nGudrun Doherty, long-time CASC supporter, died last week after suffering a missive stroke. She would have been 88 next month.\nGudrun came faithfully to CASC events, provided hospitality, billeting and amazing decades of support to the Central America Support Committee and we honoured her, Bill, Andree & Bev, in September.\nAndree, John, and Gudrun\nThere will be a celebration of the life of Gudrun on Saturday, November 29, at the Fernwood Community Association 1923 Fernwood Road.\nDoors open at 1 pm, the program starts at 1:30 pm and it will be followed by refreshments and and time to socialize & look at photos and displays. Donations of finger food are welcome.\nApril 9, 2014 Dan Bashaw\tLeave a comment\nWendy Mendez spoke to Caf\u00e9 Simpatico, the monthly event of Victoria Central America support Committee on March 28, 2014\nReport by Theresa Wolfwood\nWendy Mendez was coming home from school in Guatemala City with her brother \u2013 looking forward to playing hide- and- seek with her friends, but there were no other children on the street, no people at all. They ran home and found their house full of soldiers and their mother being interrogated. Born in Guatemala in 1976, Wendy\u2019s mother and father were suspect because they were active in the university community during the time of civil conflict and government brutality. She was nine years old when she saw her mother, Luz Haydee Men\ndez, being taken away by the Guatemalan Military Intelligence on March 8, 1984. Luz has never been found. Wendy\u2019s grandmother s\nat outside every day, waiting in vain for her daughter to appear, thinking she might miss the house in a changed neighbourhood. She died a disappointed mother.\nWendy and her brother were also interrogated, but managed to escape, using those hide- and- seek places they knew so well. They were sheltered and cared for by neighbours and the soldiers could not find them. Her father stopped at a local shop to buy tortillas on his way home; the store-keepers stopped him from going home, they told him that his children needed him and dressed him as a\nwoman so he also could hide. Three years later, Wendy, her father and brother were in Vancouver as refugees. She grew up and went to school there.\nWendy founded the organization, HIJOS (sons and daughters of the disappeared) in 1999 with others who were children when their parents were disappeared or massacred and during the civil conflict. Many, like Wendy, returned to Guatemala, where a Peace Treaty was signed in 1996, to seek information about their parents and to reveal the identity of those who were responsible for these crimes against civilians. HIJOS also intended to educate the new generation in Guatemala about what happened during the years of repression. They choose June 30 as the day to commemorate the disappeared and the dead, the same day as Guatemala\u2019s annual military parade. They started with 8 people with signs and photos standing in front of the military parade. Every year their numbers increased up to 1000 with more banners and a band playing funeral music. The military has now cancelled its parade and the day is now known, thanks to the efforts of HIJOS and others, as the \u201cDay of Heroes and Martyrs.\u201d Wendy\u2019s presentation to Caf\u00e9 Simpatico was inspiring and full of hope. She was able to smile and even joke about these events. She has lived through her story and turned her grief into action. She and her friends say they are not victims; they are survivors and are bold and clear about their activities.\nShe said that the possibilities of the Peace treaties were not realized; no government has respected the accords and the agenda of the right has always been to continue the repression through economic means, including CAFTA, the Central American Free Trade Agreement.\nThe torturers and murderers have enjoyed impunity until recently. The trial of Rios Montt, the President responsible for some of the worst massacres and repression, was the result of hard work by HIJOS and other human rights groups and a major victory for justice. He was found guilty of genocide, even though another court overturned the verdict, HIJOS was jubilant. There will be more trials and revelations as determined activists continue their work.\nMy blood chilled when Wendy told us that in the corridors of the courthouse, upper class supporters of the military said to HIJOS members \u201cOur only regret is not getting rid of you snotty nosed children when we had a chance.\u201d\nThe present right-wing President Molina, a military man who promised to be tough on crime, is doing his best to reverse the few advances made under President Colon in education and health. Molina has upped the military budget and under him, military bases have been reopened and new ones have been created. In communities fighting to save their natural resources from transnational mega-projects, such as mines and dams that threaten to destroy the land and displace thousands of indigenous people, citizens are constantly spied on and threatened. Wendy reminded us of the deaths of community activists in places where Canadian mining companies are active \u2013 and who opposed the environmental and social degradation caused by mining exploration and extraction.\nHIJOS continues to call for an end to impunity for those who were responsible for death and disappearance. Members have been threatened, beaten, experienced attempted kidnapping and attacks in Guatemalan media.\nMendez has said that HIJOS believes that the best way to bring honour and glory to their mothers and fathers, to all the victims of genocide in Guatemala, is to continue the struggle for social justice and democracy.\nWendy and her son, Rueben, with CASC activists.\nIf you missed the Caf\u00e9 presentation, you can listen to the podcast of her interview with Chris Cook on CFUV.\nHIJOS members confront the Military parade\nBreaking the blockade in the Gaza Ghetto\nReport from the Freedom Gaza Fleet by Kevin Neish [page 1]\nReport and Analysis CANPAL NET by Mordecai Breimberg [page 2]\nReturn to Palestine by Theresa Wolfwood [page 3]\nfrom K Neish\ndate Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:48 PM\nsubject Bye for now\nMy ship the Challenger II leaves tomorrow morning at 7am so\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026this will be the last email until I get set up in Gaza. We should arrive at the Gaza water border mid day Friday (10 hours earlier for you folks).\nYou can supposedly watch everything unfold in real time video at witnessgaza.com. I\u2019m told the freegaza.org website has crashed due to heavy use.\nAt this late date I think it\u2019s fairly safe to let you know I\u2019ve been tasked with defending a crew of journalists on the top deck of our cruiser. Since the Israeli military always trys to seize the media first to destroy evidence, my job is to non violently get in the way of the Israeli commandos in a narrow passageway for about 30 seconds so the journalists can up load their reports. It should be interesting to say the least. I guess all my young years spent playing rugby and football are going to come in handy, IE: being able take a hard hit and keep standing and not lose my temper, but this time there\u2019s no referees.\nI don\u2019t think the Israeli\u2019s are going to attack us as the bad press coming from this would be enormous, but everyone is ready for them.\nRetired US Army Col. Ann Wright is on our ship, so I can\u2019t imagine what the Israelis are going to do with her. There are also retired US ambassadors and European government officials and various VIPs on all the boats.\nWell as usual I need my beauty sleep so goodnight for now. If the camera is on me I\u2019ll try to wave.\nIf on earth there breathes a slave, are ye truly free and brave?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 11529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.viralcats.net/tos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:56Z", "digest": "sha1:5WL24RNDMEKTTJRGSKWV3KOZVD7LUMVQ", "length": 2936, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.viralcats.net", "title": "Terms of Use at ViralCats", "raw_content": "By using and/or visiting the ViralCats website (collectively, including but not limited to all Content, Uploads and User Submissions available through ViralCats.net, \"ViralCats\", the website) you agree to the terms and conditions contained herein and the terms and conditions of ViralCats's privacy policy incorporated herein, and all future amendments and modifications (collectively referred to as the \"Agreement\"). 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YOU SPECIFICALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT ViralCats SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR USER SUBMISSIONS OR THE DEFAMATORY, OFFENSIVE, OR ILLEGAL CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY AND THAT THE RISK OF HARM OR DAMAGE FROM THE FOREGOING RESTS ENTIRELY WITH YOU.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.visitmo.com/places-to-stay/econo-lodge-inn-and-suites-lake-of-the-ozarks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:25Z", "digest": "sha1:U2ZAKBTJYAC664GXSLIZBG2BVARC6A6A", "length": 1013, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.visitmo.com", "title": "Visit Missouri | Places To Stay | Econo Lodge Inn and Suites - Lake of the Ozarks", "raw_content": "Econo Lodge Inn and Suites - Lake of the Ozarks\nComprised of two buildings: one is exterior corridor, pet-friendly with drive up access; the second is interior corridor, 100 percent non-smoking. Each morning guests are invited to enjoy the free expanded Bright Starts Breakfast featuring Belgian waffles, fruit, assorted cereals, breads, pastries and juices. Also included are English muffins, coffee and tea. Amenities include free high-speed internet access and local calls. A seasonal outdoor pool is also on-site. Business travelers will find a lobby workstation with access to printing, copy, and fax services. The meeting room accommodates up to 20 people. All guest rooms have 70-plus cable television channels, featuring HBO Family, coffee makers, hair dryers, irons and ironing boards. Additionally, all suites and many rooms come equipped with refrigerators and microwaves. Non-smoking and handicap accessible rooms can be requested. Laundry facilities are located on the property for added convenience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.visitsingapore.com/en_au/see-do-singapore/architecture/modern/marina-barrage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5YSLNHZD5NEE762ONSMYW7LLGB3PYJQV", "length": 2261, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.visitsingapore.com", "title": "Marina Barrage: Perfect for Fun with Friends & Family - Visit Singapore Official Site", "raw_content": "This innovative facility not only supplies water to Singaporeans and helps alleviate floods but also doubles up as a place for family fun.\nGreen space at the Marina Barrage\nPhoto by Public Utilities Board\nMore than just an ordinary reservoir, the Marina Barrage is an ideal recreational space.\nThe Marina Barrage fountain at night\nPhoto by ecperez via Foter.com\nBesides its functional features, the barrage also serves as an exciting lifestyle destination.\nMarina Bridge of the Marina Barrage\nThe Marina Barrage rooftop is a green pocket that overlooks spectacular views.\nFor a dose of education mixed with fun in the sun and recreation on the water, the Marina Barrage gives you all that and more.\nIn Singapore, even something as common as a reservoir can be turned into a hotspot for recreational activities. Built across the mouth of the 350-metre wide Marina Channel, the Marina Barrage creates the country\u2019s 15th reservoir, supplying around 10% of the nation\u2019s water needs.\nAs the water in the reservoir remains calm all year around, it\u2019s ideal for some soaking wet fun, whether it\u2019s kayaking or, for the more team-spirited, a dragon boat race. If water sports is not your thing, head to the rooftop of the barrage, which boasts a green space that\u2019s popular for flying a kite, or just to chill out with the family.\nThe Marina Barrage also plays an important part in helping to alleviate flooding in some of the lower lying areas of the island. During periods of heavy rain, a series of nine crest gates will be opened to release excess storm water into the sea when the tide is low. When the tide is high, seven giant pumps that are capable of pumping an Olympic-sized swimming pool per minute whirr into action, draining water into the sea.\nPhoto by LH Wong via Foter.com\nThe facility is also a showcase for Singapore\u2019s push to be a greener country. The Solar Park, for instance, features one of the largest collections of solar panels in Singapore, with over 400 panels providing electricity needed for lighting at the barrage during the day.\nTo find out more about the country\u2019s efforts to go green, head to the Sustainable Singapore Gallery, which illustrates environmental and water issues through interactive multi-media displays, exhibits and games.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vizmuvek.hu/en/company_information/social_engagement_missions/supported_organizations", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:17Z", "digest": "sha1:IN24GFIFY257SN5PRLV72L7YBE7U7F3A", "length": 5879, "nlines": 121, "source_domain": "www.vizmuvek.hu", "title": "Supported organizations - Company information", "raw_content": "Budapest Waterworks Company information Social engagement, missions Supported organizations\nEducated and Healthy Children Foundation (2013)\nBudapest Zoo Foundation (2010)\nFor the Tomorrow Foundation (2010)\nThe Embassy of the Republic of Albania in Budapest (2016)\nJ\u00f3zsef Antal Political and Social Science Knowledge Center Foundation (2014, 2015, 2016)\nAngyalf\u00f6ld Sports School and Student Sports Club (2016)\nGOLDEN TEAM for the youth sport of the Carpathian Foundation (2016, 2017, 2018)\nBaja Water Sports Club (2015)\nG\u00e1bor Baross National Economy Supporting Company (2016, 2018)\nJ\u00e1nos Bolyai Primarily School Foundation (2013)\nMunicipality of Budakeszi (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)\nBudapest Police Sport Club (2011)\nBudapest City Archives (2016)\nBudapest Sport Club (2010, 2011)\nBudapest History Museum (2015)\nBudapest Firefighter Association (2010, 2011, 2012)\nBudapest Vasutas Sports Club - Zugl\u00f3 Non-profit Association (2016)\nDEKO ltd. (2013)\nAnimal Health Foundation \u201cDoctors for Animals\u201d (2018)\nMunicipality of Dunabogd\u00e1ny (2017, 2018)\nDanube Artistic Society (2014)\nDunakanyar Recreational and Bicycle Touring Association (2017, 2018)\nHealth, Prevention, Security Foundation (2010)\nHealthy Pesterzs\u00e9bet Association (2011, 2012)\nFoundation for the children with leukemia (2015, 2016, 2017)\nELTE Botanical Garden (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)\nJ\u00f3zsef E\u00f6tv\u00f6s College (2014)\nConstruction Science Association (2012, 2013)\nChance in the XXI. 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(2017)\nAir Working Group National Environmentalist Association (2010, 2011)\nHungarian State Opera House (2015)\nHungarian Architect Association (2010)\nHungarian Hydrological Society (2012, 2016)\nHungarian Jamboree Foundation (2016)\nHungarian Handball Federation (2013)\nHungarian Maltese Charity Service (2010, 2012, 2017)\nHungarian Political Scientists Association (2010)\nHungarian Heritage Foundation (2016)\nHungarian Chess Federation (2012)\nHungarian Wastewater Technology Association (2014, 2015)\nHungarian Synchronous Swimming Association (2011)\nHungarian Red Cross (2013)\nEmbassy of Hungary, Albania (2015)\nEmbassy of Hungary, Belgrade (2015, 2016)\nThe Embassy of Hungary in Jakarta (2016)\nHungarian Armed Security Guards Professional Association (2010)\nMedia for Families Foundation (2012)\nMedve Street School Foundation (2013)\nEco-circle of Miskolc (2014)\nFor the Students of the Technical University Foundation (2012)\nHouse of Arts (2010)\nNational Association of Large Families (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018)\nSunlight Foundation (2012)\nNational Dance Theatre (2015)\nHungarian Theatre Museum and Institute (2013)\nThe National Directorate General for Disaster Management (2016)\nHIA (2013, 2015, 2017)\n\u00d6r\u00f6kmozg\u00f3 (Perpetual Motion) Complex Movement Development Foundation (2017, 2018)\n\u00d3buda United Association (2016)\nPannonhalma Abbey Foundation (2011)\nPax Vobis Foundation (2011)\nThe Local Government of Pestszentl\u0151ric-Pestszentimre, Public Foundation for the Elderly and the Young (2017)\nMunicipality of Pilisv\u00f6r\u00f6sv\u00e1r (2010, 2011, 2012)\nMunicipality of P\u00f3csmegyer (2017)\nCivil Protection Foundation (2010, 2011)\nS.O.S Children\u2019s Village Foundation (2012, 2016)\nSESE Sport Association (2010, 2011)\nSpectrum with Radiology for Health Foundation (2016, 2017)\nOutdoor Theatre Non-Profit Ltd. (2015)\nSt. Paul Academy FC (2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017)\nSzentendre and the Danube Bend Fire Protection and Charitable Foundation (2010)\nMicro Association of the local Municipalities of Szentendre Island (2010)\nMunicipality of Szigetmonostor (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)\nSzigetmonostor Parish Hall (2017, 2018)\nTab\u00e1n Spartacus Association (2011, 2012)\nMih\u00e1ly T\u00e1ncsics Jubilee Foundation (2013)\nJ\u00f3zsef E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Talent Development Foundation Tata (2013)\nFoundation for the Public Order of Ter\u00e9zv\u00e1ros (2010)\nFl\u00f3ris T\u00f6r\u00f6k Foundation (2013)\nEconomic Institution of the Municipality of \u00dajpest (2014)\n\u00dajpest Sport and Hiker Association (2012)\nUNICEF Hungarian Committee (2010)\nViaduct Sport Association Biatorb\u00e1gy (2014)\nSailor Children Association (2014)\nWater of Life Foundation (2010, 2011)\nYbl Club Charitable Foundation (2010)\n\u201cZolt\u00e1n G\u0151z\u00f6s\u201d Foundation (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)\nSupports over 5 million HUF\nBudapest Bank for Budapest Foundation (2010, 2011, 2012)\nDrago Scorpions Sport Association (2011)\nBudapest Waterworks Sport Club (2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)\nBudapest Waterworks Workplace Trade Union (2010, 2011, 2012)\nFTC-Pler Handball Sport ltd. (2011, 2013)\nNetwork-For the Fee Payers and Fee Arrears Foundation (2010, 2011)\nCentral European Media Institute (2011)\nHungarian Water Polo Association (2011)\nMTK 1888 Water-polo, Swimming and Sports Services Kft. (2015)\nOSC Water Polo Association (2014)\nOutdoor Theatre Nonprofit ltd. (2012)\nMicro Association of the local Municipalities of Szentendre Island\n\u00dajpest Gymnastics Clubs (2012)\nJ\u00e1nos Wein Foundation (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 8147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vogue.fr/fashion-culture/fashion-exhibitions/story/the-top-10-paris-exhibitions-for-2019/5177", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCEBB4EVCCOKE6UQGY2RW6IZIE4J7I4M", "length": 9748, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.vogue.fr", "title": "The best exhibitions of 2019", "raw_content": "The best exhibitions of 2019\nFrom Van Gogh with a digital revamp to the treasures of Tutankhamun, 2019 promises to be a particularly strong year for culture. Here's a taste of what's to come this year - diaries at the ready...\n1. Tout\u00e2nkhamon at la Villette\ntoutankhamon exposition\n\u00a9 Cercueil miniature canope \u00e0 l\u2019effigie de Toutankhamon Or, verre color\u00e9, cornaline Hauteur : 39.5 cm Largeur : 11 cm R\u00e8gne de Toutankhamon, 1336-1326 av. J.-C. Grand Mus\u00e9e \u00c9gyptien\nBritish archeologist Howard Carter discovered Tout\u00e2nkhamon's tomb on November 4, 1922. This event would change the course of art history, bringing the long-forgotten 18th dynasty pharaoh back into the limelight. Tout\u00e2nkhamon's tomb was found intact, along with its numerous treasures. In 1967, one million people visited the Petit Palais in Paris to take in the treasures. Now, 50 years later, the pharaoh is once again the subject of a Paris-based exhibition, this time at the Grande Halle de La Villette in March 2019. More than 150 objects will be on show, of which one third had previously not left Egypt. Be sure to see the magnificent statue of Amun protecting Tout\u00e2nkhamon, sourced from the Louvre's collections. After touring the world, the show will definitely settle at the Egyptian museum in Cairo, which is currently being constructed.\nTout\u00e2nkhamon - Le Tr\u00e9sor du Pharaon, From March 23 to September 15 2019, at the Grande Halle de La Villette, from 17\u20ac\n2. Van Gogh at the Atelier des Lumi\u00e8res\nvan gogh atelier des lumi\u00e8res\n\u00a9 Simulation Van Gogh, La nuit \u00e9toil\u00e9e \u00ae Culturespaces/Gianfranco Iannuzzi\nIn the last ten years, of his life, Vincent van Gogh painted more than 2000 paintings, without any recognition. Today, he is one of the most famous artists in the world. His tragic life has inspired the cinema scene, while museums from all over the world are fighting to show his works. The latest to have succeeded is the Atelier des Lumi\u00e8res. The artist's works, such are Mangeurs de pommes de terre (1885), and La Nuit \u00e9toil\u00e9e (1889) come to life, shining a light on Van Gogh's brushstrokes, with music by Luca Longobardi. Dreamed up by Culturespaces, Gianfranco Iannuzzi, Renato Gatto and Massimiliano Siccardi, this rare, immersive experience provides a closer look at world famous works that still fascinate today.\nVan Gogh, la nuit \u00e9toil\u00e9e, from Februray 22 to December 31 2019, Atelier des Lumi\u00e8res, 38 Rue Saint-Maur, 75011 Paris\n3. Camp: Notes on Fashion at the MET\nCamp: Notes on Fashion\nFollowing the success of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the next exhibition at the MET Costume Institute, is sure to make an impression. Camp: Notes on Fashion is inspired by Susan Sontag\u2019s 1964 essay Notes on Camp, in which the American writer explores the origins and the influence of \u201ccamp\u201d in culture and society, underlining its role in the evolution of esthetic codes. \u201cThe essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration,\u201d she writes. It\u2019s a fitting definition to frame this new exhibition, which sheds light upon a fashion industry that is more self-expressive than ever. Fashion today is an electric mix of playful and serious, often making bold political and social statements, of which \u201ccamp\u201d is part and parcel. \u201cFashion is the most overt and enduring conduit of the camp aesthetic\u201d, says Andrew Bolton, head curator at the Costume Institute. The exhibition explores the notion of \u201ccamp\u201d from its origins, to try and understand how it has moved from the margins into mainstream culture. More than 175 works have been donated by the fashion department at the New York Museum, with sculptures, paintings and drawings, dating from the 17th century until today. The first part of the exhibition examines Versailles, where the term \u201cto camp\u201d referred to the way to behave to impress the King\u2019s court. It then moves to the dandies, one of the en vogue camp trends of the 19th century, and inevitably, to queer culture, with its humor, its extravagance and its penchant for pastiche.\n4. Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre\nEvery day, over 20,000 people cluster in front of the Mona Lisa, undoubtedly the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s works, hung proudly in the Louvre. Since the end of the 18th century, it has maintained its status as the most visited museum in the world. On October 24, 2019, the Parisian museum will pay homage to the genius of the artist, marking the 500- year anniversary of his death, with an exhibition showcasing the scope of his work. The museum already owns five of his paintings \u2013 Virgin of the Rocks, La belle ferronni\u00e8re, The Mona Lisa, The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, but the Louvre wants to bring together as many works as possible by the multi-talented artist, as well as the Salvator Mundi, sold for 450 million dollars last November. After an incredible 2013 exhibition, showcasing the drawings and manuscripts of da Vinci, the Parisian museum is preparing to blow us away with this new retrospective. We\u2019re ready.\nLeonardo da Vinci, October 24, 2019 \u2013 February 24, 2020, The Louvre, Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris\nLa Lune - Du voyage r\u00e9el aux voyages imaginaires\n5. La Lune at the Grand Palais\nWhat if, in 2019, they took the moon from the sky and hung it in Paris? That\u2019s the ethereal experience that the Grand Palais promises in April, devoting an exhibition to Earth\u2019s natural satellite, source of inspiration since the start of time and object of fascination for the entire world. To mark the 50th anniversary of man\u2019s first steps on the moon, La Lune \u2013 Du voyage r\u00e9el aux voyages imaginaires, will take us to the world so close, but so far away, in five different sections. From Antiquity, to representations of African and Arabic civilizations, to a beautiful selection of scientific instruments, honed to perfection over time, this exhibition unveils the darker, hidden side of the moon and all its mystery.\nLa Lune \u2013 Du voyage r\u00e9el aux voyages imaginaires, April 3, 2019 \u2013July 22, 2019, Grand Palais, Galeries nationales Square Jean Perrin entrance\nThe Courtauld Collection\n6. The Courtauld Collection at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris\nThe rich selection of the Courtauld Collection has come to heal our wounds after the closing of the Basquiat exhibition. From the 20th February 2019, over 110 impressionist works, such as Self-portait with bandaged ear by Van Gogh, from artists such as Manet, Seurat, C\u00e9zanne, Gaugin, Monet, Degas to name a few, will be displayed, once owned by the textile maker and art collector Samuel Courtauld. These impressionist masterpieces are brought together for the first time in Paris, meticulously arranged to show the evolution of impressionism and post-impressionism from 1860 onwards. A must-see.\nThe Courtauld Collection, February 20, 2019 \u2013 June 17, 2019, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris\nDegas \u00e0 l'Op\u00e9ra\n7. Degas \u00e0 l'Op\u00e9ra at the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\nFrom 1860 to 1900, Edgar Degas made the Op\u00e9ra his \u201cown home\u201d as he was known to say. From the musicians in the orchestra, to the little rats in the dance studio, to the longing admirers in the boxes, the impressionist painter masterfully immortalized these moments in life: the movement of a ballerina is streamlined with his brush, a black suit crafted with a smudge of pastel. This year, the Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay is dedicating an exhibition to Degas and his sensual representation of the microcosm, teeming with energy that he has perfectly captured.\nDegas \u00e0 l'Op\u00e9ra, September 24 - January 19, 2020, Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay\nRoux!\n8. Roux! at the Mus\u00e9e national Jean-Jacques Henner\nFrom Jean-Jaques Henner to Sonia Rykiel, endless artists and designers have taken their inspiration from red hair. The color historically associated with witchcraft and sensuality is coming to the Mus\u00e9e national Jean-Jacques Henner this year with more fire than ever, in an exhibition that obsesses over the influence of the redhead in art and fashion. Paintings, fashion sketches, photographs, drawings, films ... The multi-media display is generously loaned by the Arts d\u00e9coratifs , the Petit Palais and Orsay, with artists from Renoir to Henner, the artist to have best shown the color red in his works.\nRoux! From Jean \u2013 Jacques Henner to Sonia Rykiel, January 30, 2019 \u2013 May 20, 2019, Mus\u00e9e national Jean-Jacques Henner, 43 avenue de Villiers 75017 Paris\n9. Electro at the Philharmonie\nElectronic music fans cannot miss the next exhibition at the Philharmonie. From Kraftwerk to Daft Punk, the exhibition recalls the rapid evolution of the genre, born over thirty years ago in the underground clubs of Chicago and Detroit. The beating heart of a true cult scene that has long stolen the throne from rock culture, electronic music has become impossible to dissociate from the digital revolution, touching all aspects of society, whether it be political or artistic in just the same way as cinema and dance. More than just a retrospective look at the genre, the Philharmonie offers a truly interactive experience, throwing the visitor into an explosive, sensory world, brought to life with a pulsing soundtrack by renowned DJ Laurent Garnier.\n\u00c9lectro, from Kraftwerk to Daft Punk, April 9, \u2013 August 11, 2019, Philharmonie de Paris\n10. Nara at Mus\u00e9e Guimet\nThe Japonismes 2019 season is dedicated to treasures of Japanese Buddhism and finds where true beauty lies. The city of Nara, a historic hub of Japan has lent an incredible array of medieval influenced sculptures, the imposing bodhisattva Jiz\u00f4 and two wooden guards, examples of the yosegi yukuri sculpting technique. There are generations upon generations of Japanese savoir-faire to admire at the Mus\u00e9e Guimet this New Year.\nNara - Tr\u00e9sors du bouddhisme japonais, January 23 - March 18, 2019, Mus\u00e9e Guimet, 6 place d\u2019I\u00e9na, 75116 Paris", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 12018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.waaytv.com/content/news/Skilled-to-Work-Second-Chance-Job-Fairs-aim-to-connect-underemployed-and-parolees-to-available-jobs-505513831.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:41Z", "digest": "sha1:6MDMD5OTFUBYNQLZFQF67QVUAL5FEQUA", "length": 3098, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.waaytv.com", "title": "Skilled to Work: Second Chance Job Fairs aim to connect underemployed and parolees to available jobs", "raw_content": "Event organizers said the job fairs were inspired by one held in Birmingham last year.\nDozens of people shuffled from booth to booth Thursday morning in Decatur. The folks at Ingalls Harbor were eagerly looking at a wide array of job opportunities at the Second Chance Job Fair.\nA number of those who passed through face a unique challenge when hunting for a job: they have a criminal record.\n\u201cIt was kind of like a shocker at first because I didn't really think that nothing like that existed,\u201d said Chris Minor.\nMinor is about a month into his parole. He said the Second Chance Job Fair gives him the chance to talk with employers who won\u2019t automatically dismiss him for past offenses.\n\u201cComing out of prison, I thought people really would give you a chance like they're giving us. So I think it's awesome,\u201d said Minor.\nOrganizers told WAAY 31, this is the first Second Chance Job Fair being hosted in north Alabama. Penny Townson, the vice president of Morgan County Economic Development, said a similar fare in Birmingham inspired it.\nShe added that an unemployment level below three percent is forcing companies to find creative methods to fill the demand for workers.\n\u201cOur unemployment hasn\u2019t been low enough that you\u2019ve had to get more creative about where you find that work and we really do now,\u201d said Townson.\nThe job fair is not only aimed at people who have criminal pasts, but also those who are underemployed.\n\u201cThat\u2019s about 10,000 in Morgan County. These are people who are working in jobs,but are capable of doing more and are consistently looking for more work. That's one group we want to make sure we\u2019re hitting,\u201d said Townson.\nAnd Morgan County isn\u2019t alone in this effort. On February 27, Madison County will host its own Second Chance Job Fair at the Jaycee Community Building on Airport Road.\nLydia Pennington, the industry relations director for the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce, said both counties were interested in the idea of such a job fair. They believe working together creates a greater impact.\n\u201cWe both were interested in hosting this type of job fair and it gives a regional approach and also helps with our voice to reach a larger audience,\u201d said Pennington.\nOn Thursday and Friday, there are also seminars hosted at Calhoun\u2019s Adult Education center to teach skills like resume formatting and navigating an interview. Sessions are held twice a day: from 9 a.m. to noon and the other from 1 p.m. till 4 p.m.\n\u201cWe have to give them tools that they can actually use and then allow them to use them and then we critique that so that they have something to go out and actually use,\u201d said Brenda Bryson, an instructor at Alabama Ready to Work.\nMeanwhile, Minor remarks that events like the pair of Second Chance Job Fairs are invaluable for someone like him, who\u2019s just trying to make a positive impact on the community as part of the workforce.\n\u201cProbably becoming a truck driver. I already got my CDS and had my CDS for 20 plus years. So I'll probably get back in the trucking industry,\u201d said Minor.\nTo register for the job fair in Huntsville, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 6926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.warninglightsinc.com/sales-team/eastern-canada", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:45Z", "digest": "sha1:XKGAJTO5ZOIN6EEUINDL7CC3UXZ5CJIX", "length": 89, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.warninglightsinc.com", "title": "Eastern Canada | SWS Warning Lights Inc.", "raw_content": "Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland.\nNiagara Falls, ON L2H 0A6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 68.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wayne.com/en/about/legal-notice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DRFOQVETCDCJTGXYO5J5KPTELAEI4P6O", "length": 9450, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.wayne.com", "title": "Legal Notice - Wayne Fueling Systems", "raw_content": "This website (\"website\") is owned and operated by Wayne Fueling Systems LLC (\"Wayne\").\nThe terms \"Wayne\", \"we\", \"us\", \"our\" and \"ours\" when used in these Terms of Use mean Wayne Fueling Systems LLC, which includes subsidiaries, segments, branches, affiliates or companies under common ownership or control of Wayne.\nThe terms \"you\", \"your\" and \"yours\" when used in these Terms of Use mean any user of this website.\nUnless otherwise indicated, this website and its design, text, content, selection and arrangement of elements, organization, graphics, design, compilation, magnetic translation, digital conversion and other matters related to this website (\"Elements\") are protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary (including, but not limited to, intellectual property) rights and are the property of Wayne or are included with the permission of the rights owner and are protected pursuant to copyright and trademark laws.\nThe posting of any such Elements on this website does not constitute a waiver of any right in such Elements. 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In the vein of so many of our interviewees over the years, she recently announced, \u201cIf your work doesn\u2019t cause you some fear, it\u2019s time to take on a new challenge. In July 2017, shortly after my 58th birthday, I am going leave the world\u2019s nicest job to train as a maths teacher in an inner-London school. For 31 years, I have worked at the Financial Times, as a reporter and a columnist. I have autonomy, great colleagues, and the freedom to write about whatever interests me. Yet, though I still love what I do, I\u2019m not getting better at it. And as I hope to go on living for many more decades, it seems mad to spend my whole life doing one thing.\u201d\nShe continues, \u201cThis does not scare me\u2026.the thought of being without the safety blanket of your response \u2014 both approval and disapproval \u2014 that is unnerving me. This does not scare me as much as the thought of teaching ratios to bottom-set Year Nine. That truly terrifies me \u2014 which is precisely the point.\u201d\nHer site, Now Teach, is dedicated to encouraging people with successful careers to become teachers.\nPrevious articleJohn Malkovich\nNext articleEat Right and Stay Fit\nWith the topic of age discrimination in the workplace top of mind, some have assumed that women are impacted more than men. The findings...\n\u201cThe ideal candidate is a digital native who understands beautiful design, thoughtful UX, digital strategy, and client interaction.\u201d\u201c3 to 7 years leading or participating...\nThere are numerous self-help books, articles and, of course, highly valuable career coaches that we can and should avail ourselves to. But we felt...\nGetting Past the AI Firewall, How to Reinvent a Career and What Are My Skills? Hi, AGEIST readers, it\u2019s John Tarnoff, your second-act-career Dear Abby....\nThe age of the single career that revolves around a single office or company with a fixed 65 retirement date is over. Most of...\n9 Suggestions for Building a Network There is evidence that as people age their networks tend to shrink. In the modern world, the network is...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 6927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20160128/exercise-diet-calories-weight", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:44Z", "digest": "sha1:RI5QBFPKSB5GZPOFXPGDZTWYTYP6PGIH", "length": 5179, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.webmd.com", "title": "Exercise: Is More Always Better?", "raw_content": "Exercise: Is More Always Better?\nJan. 28, 2016 -- If a little exercise is good, then more is better in terms of calorie burn and weight loss, right? That's what most of us tend to believe.\nBut it's not necessarily true, a research team says. They found that people who exercise a lot don\u2019t burn extra calories for their efforts beyond a certain point. Their new study is published in Current Biology.\nDon\u2019t drop that gym membership just yet, though. WebMD asked two experts to discuss these findings and the role of exercise.\nThe experts include the study\u2019s lead researcher, Herman Pontzer, PhD, a professor of anthropology at City University of New York, and Edward L. Melanson, PhD, an associate professor in the division of endocrinology, metabolism, and diabetes at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.\nOn one point both agree: The new research is not discouraging exercise, which is crucial to keeping your body and mind healthy. But it does provide more evidence that diet, not exercise, is the key to losing weight.\nPontzer and his team measured the daily activity levels of more than 300 men and women -- along with how many calories they burned -- over the course of a week. They came from five different countries across Africa and North America: the U.S., Ghana, Jamaica, the Seychelles, and South Africa. People in some of those nations tend to be more physically active than many Americans.\nThe researchers had everyone's body mass index (BMI). They measured activity and calorie burning for a week, but didn't track whether people gained or lost weight.\nExercise did have an effect on how many calories people used, called energy expenditure. But the amount of calories burned didn\u2019t increase dramatically as people got more exercise. Those who had a moderate activity level burned a few more calories daily, on average around 200, compared with the most inactive people. But those who exercised beyond the moderate activity level saw no effect of their extra effort as far as how many calories they burned.\nAlthough the study didn't define ''moderate'' in hours of activity, Pontzer describes moderate exercisers as those who are active ''but not serious athletes\u201d -- someone who walks a couple miles a day or bikes to work and back, for example.\nPontzer's team did find that those with higher body fat percentages actually burned more calories with exercise -- presumably, he says, because there is more fat to burn.\nWhat do the findings say about the role of exercise in weight loss?\nThe study didn\u2019t focus on this specifically, but Pontzer says exercise ''can be part of a successful weight loss strategy. We need to think about exercise and diet as two different tools.\"\n\u201cExercise is good at lots of things, such as maintaining heart health,\u201d he says. \u201cDiet is going to be the better tool for managing your weight.\"\nThe findings may show that the inactive lifestyle of many Americans hasn't contributed as much to the nation\u2019s obesity epidemic as public health officials believe, Melanson says. He stresses that the study does not prove that, but simply adds information to the ongoing debate about why Americans are so overweight.\nThe study finding, in Melanson's view, seems to tip the scale a bit more toward overeating, not under-exercising, to explain the current U.S. obesity epidemic.\nWhy is it that more exercise is not better? Do we hit a kind of plateau?\nYes, Pontzer says. \"If you are more active, your body might be adapting,'' he says. \"We hit an energy expenditure plateau. It's part of the reason your body adapts to your new exercise routine.\" That may be why many find it so hard to lose weight, he says.\nBut, he believes, there is such a thing as an exercise \u201csweet spot\u201d -- the point at which workout benefits, including calories burned, peak. That spot is probably different for everyone, Pontzer says, although the new study didn\u2019t look into that.\nHow do you find your ''sweet spot\"?\nPay attention to your body, Pontzer says. You know you're out of the sweet spot and overdoing it when you feel worn out constantly and you need more time to recover from exercise, he says. At that point, it's time to work out less.\nWhat's the best take-home advice from this research?\nEven if researchers eventually decide that diet plays a bigger role than exercise in weight control, Melanson says, ''the public health message is not going to change one bit. Exercise does matter [for overall health], whether you lose weight or not.''\nWorking out has lots of health perks, including diabetes prevention, blood pressure control, stress reduction, and boosting your mood to help with depression. It can also contribute to brain and immune system health, experts say.\n\"This [study] says the first thing to do is diet and it won't hurt to throw in exercise,\" Pontzer says.\nWebMD Health News Reviewed by Michael W. Smith, MD on January 28, 2016\nPontzer, H. Current Biology, Jan. 28, 2016.\nHerman Pontzer, PhD, professor, City University of New York.\nEdward L. Melanson, PhD, associate professor, division of endocrinology metabolism and diabetes; division of geriatric medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 11002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.west.coach/blog/sunday-meditations-are-you-listening-to-your-body", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:39Z", "digest": "sha1:N6AA4DOMDAL5YLMSPCHEOTWIN3BTC7PD", "length": 2897, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.west.coach", "title": "Sunday Meditations - Are You Listening to Your Body? . . . - EILEEN WEST LIFE COACH", "raw_content": "Sunday Meditations - Are You Listening to Your Body? . . .\nSeveral years ago - out of the blue - I started experiencing random pains in my hands and arms. This was no standard ache or soreness, these were shooting pains that would make me jump out of my seat! What the HECK?\u200b Initially I thought it was related to being at the keyboard too much for work, or excessive driving. So I took a mini-vacation from both of those things and it seemed to get a little better? But not really. I went to a hand doctor who couldn't diagnose it. In the end I discovered it was a side-effect from a medication I had been on for YEARS . . . and apparently my body was telling me it was time to STOP. And guess what? The message was coming in loud and clear . . . so despite my resistance I had to listen. Oof.\nMore recently (and really periodically over the years), I have been suffering from low-back pain. As someone who likes to get things done and works from home - there are times when it feels virtually impossible to just stop DOING all the things! Laundry! Dishes! Clean the Bathroom! The list will never end unless I hire a housekeeper (it's getting closer!), and until then I know that I'll probably be battling some kind of back issue.\nHere's the deal: Sometimes I push myself to the point where my low back hurts so much that I HAVE to stop, and lie down and ice it and REST. It's as if the Universe is telling me to slow down, and have faith that everything is going to unfold just as it should - regardless of whether or not my toilet is clean, and dishes are put away. Full Disclosure: I am a SLOW LEARNER! But I am learning (thank goodness) to listen to my body and pay attention to when it is time to let things go.\nLouise Hay has a wonderful book called You Can Heal Your Life in which she lists some Causes of Symptoms to our societies most common ailments.\nLower Back Pain: Fear of money or lack of financial support.\nNeck: Represents flexibility. The ability to see what\u2019s back there. Refusing to see other sides of a question. Stubbornness, inflexibility. Unbending stubbornness.\nWhile I know my back might be hurting because I don't have the right chair, or lumbar support, or strong enough butt muscles . . . the truth is I HAVE been feeling the lack of financial support for quite some time, and am ready to address that so I can be in my best physical shape! What I know for sure is that my body will never lie to me, and if it's telling me that something is \"off\", I need to pay attention!\nMy question for you today is . . . Are you Listening to Your Body? What messages is it giving you? (This article covers Hay's list if you're curious about a new way to look at what might be going on!) What are some things you can do this week to be more aware of the feedback you're getting, and answer that with kindness?\nFeel free to leave a comment - I'm always curious to know your thoughts!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westernmassnews.com/news/massachusetts/westfield-father-claims-daughter-is-victim-of-repeated-bullying-in/article_6f7629a4-2bea-11e9-bd47-7bfc46942f66.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QLLKMBWVHW62JY7YJ5KBAFJZTPLBGDFH", "length": 3149, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.westernmassnews.com", "title": "Westfield father claims daughter is victim of repeated bullying in school | Massachusetts | westernmassnews.com", "raw_content": "WESTFIELD, MA (WGGB/WSHM) -- The father of a student at Westfield Technical Academy is speaking out, claiming his daughter is the victim of repeated bullying.\nHe said that the bullying at the hands of another female student has culminated in violence all caught on camera.\nIn videos sent to Western Mass News, you can see the rage boil over. The girl in a multi-colored sweatshirt pushing and overpowering the girl in a darker colored shirt.\nIt might be hard to see from the shaky exchange, but the student in the dark shirt had her nose broken.\nWhat you can observe from the 20 second video is that not one other student intervened.\n\"Knowing my daughter needs surgery now, it's heartbreaking,\" said the Westfield father.\nThe father of a Westfield Technical Academy student caught on video getting beat up, said that confrontation was three months in the making\n\"It began with slowly picking on her, throwing a pencil at her, taking her chair, verbal threats. There was threats on social media through other girls,\" he said.\nThe father asked not to be identified for his and his daughter's safety.\nHe told Western Mass News over the phone that his family filed multiple bullying complaints with the school.\n\"Maybe she's being extra-sensitive is what the guy said to me. Three times, three different occasions, 'maybe your daughter's being a little sensitive'. That infuriated me,\" he said.\nWestern Mass News reached out to the district, and while their superintendent can't comment on the exact details of this case, he did provided a list of disciplinary actions that the school can take if they find a student guilty of bullying.\nThe school can't confirm the punishment or suspension the other student received.\nIn the video, you can hear the other students giggle while they record the altercation with their phone. We're told students are asked not to intervene in fights as a matter of public safety.\nThe bullied student's father said the other student's laughter is painful to hear.\n\"It shows you what kind of a cruel world we live in,\" he said.\nThe father of the bullied student said the student is transferring schools.\nThe school's principal confirmed to Western Mass News the student was evaluated by the nurse and told to have a follow-up with a doctor.\nThe superintendent wrote in a statement to Western Mass News:\n\u201cWe take safety and security of our staff and students very seriously. If I thought that we had not followed protocol in this instance, I would be the first to admit it. That is not what happened here.\"\nThe bullied student's father feels the school dodged his requests for action in a way his daughter couldn't dodge the pokes and prods that became kicks and punches\n\"So what you're saying is that I have to call the police when my daughter was assaulted in your school ? And they said yeah, we just deal with suspensions and whatnot. That's our role,\" he said.\n\"We went to the hospital, the hospital staff told the police. It was an automatic phone call to the police. This was an assault. She's got a fractured nose,\" he continued.\nWe're told charges have been pressed against the student in the multicolored sweatshirt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 8665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wexfordpeople.ie/out-about/bernadettes-work-selected-for-rds-show-37495123.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:12Z", "digest": "sha1:7HCC3EYXFEBVPURKSYOX6HTE4AQNVURO", "length": 3769, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.wexfordpeople.ie", "title": "Bernadette's work selected for RDS show - WexfordPeople.ie", "raw_content": "Bernadette's work selected for RDS show\nBernadette Doolan\nA desire to help was a Wexford artist's inspiration to paint socially conscious pieces and paintings that depict the human condition, which will be exhibited at Ireland's premier art fair Art Source, at the RDS from November 9-11.\nhttps://www.wexfordpeople.ie/out-about/bernadettes-work-selected-for-rds-show-37495123.html\nhttps://www.wexfordpeople.ie/news/article37495122.ece/e3c7a/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-11-06_wex_45351902_I1.JPG\nBernadette Doolan was thrust from ceramics into painting when she decided to help the homeless through Focus Ireland.\nThe Enniscorthy resident who has just won the 2018 Irish News Prize at the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, was forced to paint when plans to make ten pieces of ceramics were ruined by a broken kiln.\n'The homeless issue was prevalent even back in 2005 and I always wondered what I could do to help,' said Bernadette who won the RUA award at the Academy's 137th annual exhibition a few weeks ago for a work depicting the theme of Ireland today, titled 'Feeling Awkward, Not Fitting In'.\n'Focus Ireland was holding a charity exhibition in which I committed to take part but my kiln broke and I hadn't the money to get it fixed. It was either cancel or get out of my comfort zone and paint.' All the pieces sold on the opening night.\n'I tend to always wonder what can I do in certain situations so I paint scenes of social conscience to try and make the viewer think too about issues such as homelessness or other topics where people have no voice.'\nBernadette held an exhibition called '196' in which she designed 196 unique spoons to represent the amount of children who died while in the care of the State between 2000 and 2010.\nThe artist approaches topics of social conscience with sensitivity and respect, exploring the intangible notion of truth and acknowledging vulnerability while not apportioning blame.\n'My work is not about blame or even about pointing a finger. It is simply creating awareness on these issues and making people think for themselves about them. she said.\nBernadette has also explored the fragility of identity in the context of childhood through much of her recent work.\n'My work is focused on life, from childhood to old age and everything in between - our dreams, our fears.'\n'Then we grow up and all we have to do is close our eyes are we are straight back there', she said.\n'I don't wish to dictate through my work. I simply want to express an emotion, which can be interpreted differently by everyone.'\nOver 15,000 people are expected to view exhibits from artists across all genres at the biggest art event of the year which features over 175 contemporary artists and galleries over two floors.\nArt Source showcases painting, sculpture, photography, illustration, prints and ceramic art.\nVisitors have an opportunity to own a piece of original artwork in Art Source's unique 100 for \u20ac100 project, with pieces available on a first-come first-served basis.\nGormley's Fine Art will be featuring a rare iconic collection of Ingrid Bergman prints by Andy Warhol as part of a US Pop Art exhibition at the show, which also features Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Indiana and Jean Michelle Basquait.\nThere is a big emphasis on visitor involvement at Art Source, and this year the show features a number of attractions for children over two floors - including a Superhero Transformation Station.\nArt Source takes place at the RDS, Dublin, from November 9-11, admission is \u20ac10 adults, \u20ac8 OAPs. Children under 16 free only if accompanied by a parent or guardian. The opening times are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Friday, November 9; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 10 and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, November 11 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 7058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitehousefarmcentre.co.uk/our-animals/exotics/meerkats/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:S2DPD2AIUFXEUMPGZSIBRQQIEHURBPCY", "length": 1315, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.whitehousefarmcentre.co.uk", "title": "Whitehouse Farm | Meerkats", "raw_content": "Kalahari Desert, Botswana and South Africa\nCarnivore - Insects, lizards, birds, rats ,mice, eggs, scorpions and snakes\nMeerkats Suricata Suricata are diurnal animals (Which means that we are active during the day.) They are on the go all day long, using their long claws to help forage for food or to play. Meerkats are small mammals only reaching heights of up to 60 cms from head to tail They are part of the mongoose family, varying slightly in colour typically brown and stripy with slender tails, using their tails to help balance when we on the lookout for predators. The eyes have black rings round this helps deflect sunlight. The ears are small half moon shaped which can close when digging.\nLiving in a mob of up to 30 but within the group their will only be one breeding pair these are known as the alpha pair, whereby they can have up to 4 litters a year having 1 to 5 young and all the others play the part of babysitter helping to look after the babies. All of the other females in the group have the ability to produce milk to help feed the babies and to help teach the young how to forage for food, and even how to eat a venomous scorpion.\nMeerkats make lots of barking like noises to signal danger or simply to communicate amongst themselves.\nDid you know?They are immune to certain types of venom.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitestone-gallery.com/exhibitions/tw-light-trail-092018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:22Z", "digest": "sha1:UHMPELAQBL6SMTUBLD3M7PVP7PDKBFVO", "length": 1817, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.whitestone-gallery.com", "title": "LIGHT TRAIL: Group Exhibition of New Talents from Master\u2019s Program, Department of Arts, National Taipei University of Education - Whitestone Gallery", "raw_content": "LIGHT TRAIL: Group Exhibition of New Talents from Master\u2019s Program, Department of Arts, National Taipei University of Education\nCoordinated by Whitestone Gallery and curated by professor KUO Bor-Jou, Dean of the College of Humanities and Arts at the National Taipei University of Education, the \u201cLight Trail\u201d is a group exhibition of six talents and future stars who are preparing their Master\u2019s Program at the University, including: TU Yuan-Li, CHEN Yu-Kai, CHEN Yi- Long, HSU Wei, LIU Shi-Ting, CHEN Yi-Jui. They start a dialogue between generations.\nIf the world we lived in which \u201cthere is no time, but images.\u201d(*1) A person\u2019s shape will be like a glimpse of shadows, the memories like scenes can be set and read with subtlety. A slice of the scene, the virtual reality, somehow like a painting, all the activities in the painting are the reflection of the entity, such as the Light Trail.\nTU Yuan-Li has long been engaged in the environment of theater and her paintings use body symbols to wander in the lights of theater consciousness as her main axis of creation. CHEN Yi- Long\u2019s \u201cGarden of Flowers Series\u201d absorbs the full aesthetic conservation into personal vocabulary, reflects the gorgeous brilliance of prisms\u201d. HSU Wei explores the relationship between the photographer and the subject and the image often lingers between black and white. The sensory rotation of seeing and hearing in LIU Shi-Ting\u2019s lacquer paintings seems to pursue self for a lifetime. CHEN Yi-Jui\u2019s woven starry sky is the shadow of the past and the future.\nInitially, people were directed towards the cluster of light; in recent days, their eyes are on the glowing screen and communication and perception are the commonalities between the two. Through this exhibition, we will gather again to light up the illumination now and here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2012/08/18/argyle-moving-closer-to-new-setback-for-wind-farms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:57Z", "digest": "sha1:73KWONGD6SPKBDT44DPWJZV74QACVEQ4", "length": 3289, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.wind-watch.org", "title": "Argyle moving closer to new setback for wind farms | Wind Energy News", "raw_content": "Argyle moving closer to new setback for wind farms\nCredit: By Eric Bourque | THE VANGUARD | www.thevanguard.ca 17 August 2012 ~~\nAnother step towards new setback rules for wind turbines in the Municipality of Argyle was taken Thursday, Aug. 16, when the municipality\u2019s planning advisory committee held a public participation meeting to discuss the matter.\nThe new setback requirement for large-scale wind-energy projects such as the one that had been proposed for the Little River Harbour-Comeau\u2019s Hill area \u2013 a controversial project vehemently opposed by many residents in those communities (and recently rejected by the province) \u2013 would be 1,000 metres from any dwelling, although members of the public attending the PAC session said the setback should be two-and-a-half times greater than that.\nThe initial wording was that the 1,000-metre setback should be from \u201cprincipal\u201d dwellings, but, after some discussion during Thursday\u2019s PAC meeting, the consensus was to have it apply to all dwellings, including seasonal ones.\nThe existing setback requirement for wind farms in the Municipality of Argyle is based on a formula involving the length of the turbine blade. The new setback would apply to new projects.\nThe proposed setback change still has some steps to go through before it becomes law. The matter will come up again at a planning advisory committee meeting Sept. 20 and Argyle council would have a committee-of-the-whole meeting the following week. Assuming everything falls into place as many hope they will, the 1,000-metre setback could officially be in effect by early October or thereabouts.\nStill, while this would be an improvement over the existing setback requirement, residents of the Municipality of Argyle who say they are concerned about the potential harmful effects of big wind-energy projects say 1,000 metres isn\u2019t enough.\nSome of the same people who were most vocal in their opposition to the wind farm that had been proposed for the Little River Harbour-Comeau\u2019s Hill area by Anaia Global Renewable Energies attended last Thursday\u2019s Argyle PAC meeting and said the setback should be 2.5 kilometres. Moreover, they say the setback should be from the landowner\u2019s property line, not from his or her house.\nThe Anaia project was the focus of a heated community meeting in Comeau\u2019s Hill about six weeks ago, residents expressing concern about how the proposed wind farm could affect their health and the environment among other things. A few weeks later, however, when the province announced it had selected three commercial-scale wind-energy projects, the Anaia proposal wasn\u2019t one of them.\nWhile this particular project may have fallen through, however, residents remain concerned about the wind-energy issue and about new projects that may come along. They indicated at last week\u2019s PAC meeting that they plan to pursue a more stringent setback requirement.\nOne of the main themes to emerge in recent weeks during the meetings where wind farms have been discussed is what residents feel has been a lack of communication or information, a point acknowledged by representatives of the municipality during last Thursday\u2019s planning session, a situation they say to want to try to address.\nSource: By Eric Bourque | THE VANGUARD | www.thevanguard.ca 17 August 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wnur.org/category/community-post/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:51Z", "digest": "sha1:3TPWPPM2FL7C4SORVFHBASDX4ABFWAYI", "length": 41680, "nlines": 101, "source_domain": "www.wnur.org", "title": "Community Post | WNUR", "raw_content": "Album Review: Kate Bush, Hounds of Love\nBy A'Lexus Murphy, No tags, 0 Comments\nBy A\u2019Lexus Murphy\nListening to the first minute of opening track \u201cRunning Up That Hill (A Deal With God)\u201d on Kate Bush\u2019s 1985 album Hounds of Love, it\u2019s easy to write the entire album off as your typical pop creation of the decade. The first track has the sound that any of us with parents who grew up in the 80s may be familiar with due to their constant replaying of the sounds of their youth. If that\u2019s what you\u2019re looking for, keep listening, as you\u2019ve found an album that not only perfectly encases the sound of the decade but also is part of the foundation for many of the pop albums that came after it. Even if you\u2019re not too into synth pop from the 80s, I encourage you to give this album a chance\u2014if not for the chilling vocals and before-its-time experimentation with background vocals and production, then simply because this is one of the landmark albums that defined what pop would be for years after.\nTrack One: Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)\nAs mentioned before, this intro track is the classic 80s pop song, so much so that it sounds like it could have easily been a part of the original soundtrack of \u201cThe Breakfast Club.\u201d In fact, for what it\u2019s worth, the album was actually released the same year as the movie, which I would say speaks to just how iconic 80s pop is. The sound is so easily recognizable, for better or for worse, it can sometimes lead to easily confusing one song from the era with another. However, I would argue that there are a couple of small but striking differences in this song that make it stand out. The buildup at the beginning is slow yet stunning, making it impossible not to recognize the song within moments. And if it isn\u2019t the buildup that lights up the bulb of recognition in your mind, it\u2019s definitely the clear, strong vocals of Kate Bush. It\u2019s somewhere between the pure vocals of a pop singer and the grungy, throaty vocals of a rock singer. This could have a lot to do with the fact that her early music was more so teenage rock, and this song, along with a couple others on the album, was mostly meant to appeal to the popular sound at the time. However, as much as the song played along with the norms of the typical pop sound in the 80s, it\u2019s impossible not to hear the rock influences in the background. These influences are clear in everything from the riveting electric guitar riffs to the grunge in her voice as she hits key points in the iconic chorus. As much as it is easy to label this song just another 80s pop number, the fact that it\u2019s still considered one of her top songs and is one of the most successful songs to come out of the era can\u2019t be ignored, and that alone should warrant respect from any listener.\nTrack Two: Hounds of Love\nYet another boppy, lively song from her album, I would say that there are two important elements to take in when listening to this song specifically: the amazing drums and the simply astonishing lyrics. The drums in this song are the basis for an iconic beat, one that may be stuck in your head for hours on end (I can vouch for this since the beat was stuck in my head for at least two hours while I was prepping for this album review). However, what\u2019s not to admire about a song that\u2019s so catchy it literally lingers in your mind for hours? If anything, it\u2019s a success on the part of the producers and the singer, being able to create such a song, and I credit the beat of the drums for this. The lyrics, on the other hand, are both clever and completely straightforward. I always tend to admire love songs from the 80s, as there was nothing really to try to decipher about them. \u201cI never know what\u2019s good for me,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve always been a coward,\u201d \u201cHelp me darling, help me please.\u201d Lines like these speak clearly as to what the singer means and what the listener is going to identify with. But in all honesty, while the lyrics in this song are quite clear, if you listen extremely closely you can hear quite a few of the lines that might just fly over your head. For instance, at the beginning, a male\u2019s voice says, \u201cIt\u2019s in the trees. It\u2019s coming.\u201d Admittedly, the first couple of times I heard this song I truly just assumed that it was included at the start simply because it sounded cool. But after those few listens, I eventually linked up that entrance line with the title and a couple of other lines in the song. In essence, this song is speaking on the fact that love is wild and uncontrollable, like hounds, and there\u2019s no way of escaping it. It\u2019s wild, it\u2019s free, and it\u2019s relentless. As cheesy as it might seem to be, I can\u2019t help but find it wonderful, and I feel like it\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve had such cheesy but relatable meanings to songs.\nTrack Eight: Waking the Witch\nLet me just tell you, if you have earphones in, the intro to this song is definitely going to give you a chill. Not because it\u2019s particularly touching, but rather because the song starts with whispered instructions for you to wake up. I think this song is a nice follow up to the last two. Track six puts you to sleep, track seven induces a nightmare, and this track brings you out of that nightmare\u2013albeit it wakes you up somewhat abruptly. It sounds like a mix of a cult meeting recording and a cheesy zombie flick track. That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s bad, because I definitely think that it\u2019s one of the more experimental tracks on the album. It\u2019s unlike anything I\u2019ve heard before, and definitely not similar to any of the other tracks on Hounds of Love. In a way it reminds me of \u201cThriller\u201d by Michael Jackson in the sense that it has a Halloween-y feeling to it. This is one of the few songs on the album that I could see myself listening to by itself and actually including in one of my playlists. It\u2019s a song that could stand well on its own and is one of my favorites from this entire album. It isn\u2019t as modern as some of the others, and definitely has an 80s sound to it because of the guitar riff in the background, but I think all of the elements come together to create something truly special.\nTrack Eleven: Hello Earth\nThis is by far the longest song on the album, going just over six minutes. I\u2019ve always found myself to be conflicted on songs that are like this. On one hand, some songs simply do have messages that deserve that much time and are wonderfully executed, and it feels as if the song passes by way too quickly rather than dragging on. On the other hand, there have been times in which the song seems to just be unnecessarily long, and so what was meant to be artistic and meaningful simply comes off as a bore. In my opinion this song is fits into the former category. I never felt as if it was dragging on, and I hung onto every second of it. It\u2019s gorgeous yet mysterious at the same time. Bush\u2019s vocals shine through in this song more than any other. I was hesitant at first to choose a favorite song on this album, but I\u2019m going to say that this song is most likely my favorite. It\u2019s rare for the longest song on an album to be one of my favorites, but this song holds a sound that simply stands out from the others on the album. Admittedly there isn\u2019t a whole lot of singing on this song in comparison to the others, but the period that Bush is singing is simply breathtaking\u2013not to mention I\u2019m a sucker for extremely mystical songs, and this song embodies that sound completely. I can understand that this may not be the song for everyone. There\u2019s something relaxing to it, and it\u2019s sort of unexpected as the next to last song on the album. Compared to the last song on the track, it seems to be the odd one out, but sometimes the odd one out is the best one.\nIn all, I think Hounds of Love is one of those albums that has some songs that just aren\u2019t attractive to a particular listener. However, considering how well it was created, Bush\u2019s amazing vocals, and just how big of a mark it left in pop and the music industry as a whole, it\u2019s impossible to write this album off as anything but a work of art. Would I give this album a listen again? For sure. I think there are several songs on here that I find amazing, in every meaning of the word. It\u2019s not my favorite album of all time, but I think it\u2019s the type of album that everyone should give a try at least once, as it warrants that level of respect.\nWNUR Picks: November and December 2017\u2019s Best Releases\nBy Max Totsky, No tags, 0 Comments\nBy John Martin and Max Totsky\nRome \u2013 Armand Hammer\nArmand Hammer\u2019s latest is a whirlwind thriller, with lyrics so dense, every line on it practically begs for lyrical analysis. The duo are clearly skilled rappers, to the point where Rome winds up feeling more like spoken word than a pure rap album. Faced with the disorienting production on this record, tag team emcees Elucid and Billy Woods are forced to ditch the downbeat, inventing their own syncopated rhyme schemes, while staying wildly in command of their own flows. You can see this best in action on \u201cDead Money\u201d, where the two trade lyrics laced with paranoia and discontent. The song closes with a fadeout, like their verses were cut from a longer session and they could easily sustain that mesmerizing lyrical complexity and intensity for as long as they wanted.\nBut if Rome couldn\u2019t get more off kilter, the beats are pieced together from scratchy recordings, coarse bass lines, and grimy samples. It\u2019s a sound so industrial, it\u2019s hard to find modern parallels. That\u2019s the thing about this album: it feels like an anachronism. Rome features some of the classic rap braggadocio and politically charged chants that you might find on a socially conscious rap album of the 90s (i.e. Mos Def, A Tribe Called Quest). Considering the modern landscape of hip-hop, this 2017 spin on past ideas could easily sound trite; however, in the capable hands of Armand Hammer, the album taps into the richness of its forebears without lifting their style entirely. Rome is carved out with a singular vision, a gritty exhibition of the New York underground.- John Martin\nTapes #1-3 \u2013 Hoops\nThere\u2019s something refreshingly nostalgic about Indiana based Hoops\u2019 most recent EP collection Tapes #1-3. Fresh off their first major label LP Routines (and the band\u2019s first time recording in a professional studio), this release takes it back to summer of 2016, where the band hit its stride with a run of three promising EPs. The album is Hoops at their beginning, efficient and delightfully hazy with the punchy percussion and slick guitar leads that drew me in the first time I heard them. Tapes #1-3 runs against the idea that an indie band has to transform the genre to deliver a memorable record. These 18 songs over 53 minutes are rooted in simplicity, each one structured to rope you in with a satisfying hook, then move onto the next. And even where the rickety haze and low-fi recording make their lyrics indecipherable, Hoops\u2019 carefree sing-song melodies will get stuck in your head. It\u2019s an album of sun-soaked tunes for a lazy Sunday afternoon.- JM\nHorse Blanket \u2013 Posse\nAfter hearing the winding bassline on their song \u201cKeep Me Awake\u201d, Posse had me hooked. With unornamented guitar strumming and soft tamborine, Horse Blanket is a six song EP that showcases how straightforward Posse can be. What makes Posse so potent comes in the form of their trademark sardonic lyricism, rooted in disaffected musings and blunt depictions of Seattle mundanity. Co-vocalists Sarah Maxim and Paul Wittman-Todd share the same dejected inflection when they sing, to perfectly match the tone of their words. They write lyrics to get lost in, wry and cutting, but captivating still (\u201cYou walked into the room/Such a stupid thing to do\u201d for example). Even though it\u2019s their final project together, it\u2019s hard to call Horse Blanket a swan song. Posse closes off as it started: as jaded and aimless as their first two albums, sauntering at the steady pace of Jon Saltzman\u2019s drumming.- JM\nEP2 \u2013 Yaeji\nYaeji\u2019s first EP poised her as an idiosyncratic voice in house music not to be reckoned with, where she sings, whispers, and raps over wonky rhythms and fluid synth lines. In a soft departure from that sound, EP2 showcases her through a hip-hop tinged lens, like in the trap infused beat on \u201cdrink i\u2019m sippin on\u201d. Yaeji finds a way to put her own spin on her influences, like on \u201cpassionfruit,\u201d where she distills Drake\u2019s vibrant dancehall hit into something more subdued and atmospheric, guiding you with the sound of her breathy voice and the deep throb of the bass.\nYaeji spends the EP playing with language, switching back and forth between English and Korean mid-sentence, omitting words, or repeating them as she pleases. Granted, her lyrics don\u2019t give way to any meaningful breakthroughs, but to a certain extent, they don\u2019t have to. The album opener \u201cfeelings change\u201d feels stream of consciousness, like Yaeji wrote the music and just let words flow out of her mouth on the spot. She\u2019s \u201cspeaking like breathing,\u201d letting her swagger just ooze out naturally. In doing so, she draws attention to the immersive chords underneath \u2014 her whispers are just vibey accompaniment. In my opinion, that\u2019s what makes EP2 work so well. Yaeji has perfected that sound that made her stand out and curated every element on this project to intertwine and complement each other. But ultimately, EP2 is effective simply because it sounds cool.- JM\nParadox \u2013 Aleksi Per\u00e4l\u00e4\nFinnish producer Aleksi Per\u00e4l\u00e4 creates techno music to zone out to on his latest double EP Paradox. With a microtonal tuning method called Colundi, these songs are based around ritualistic grooves, slippery synths, and undulating bass. Per\u00e4l\u00e4 uses a wide range of sounds on this record. \u201cGblft1740070\u201d is a spellbinding track where glittering 8-bit tones cascade and arpeggiate over its entire run, whereas \u201cGblft1740072\u201d counters that with sounds that resembles churning factory machines than Super Mario. Paradox is an album constructed with a conscious focus and attention to detail; however, on the listeners end, it\u2019s best played in the background while focusing on something else. Per\u00e4l\u00e4\u2019s songs hover around five minutes, long enough to savor but not overstay their welcome, each an entrancing sonic journey of their own.- JM\nCol\u00f3n Man- Equiknoxx\nDancehall is appropriated more than any other genre these days, but only an outfit as authentic and Equiknoxx could deliver such a full-fledged deconstruction. These songs are built around a usually small group of samples- wonky voices, springy synths, noises that don\u2019t usually work their way into bangers like this- but they unfold with a firm grip on their own momentum. It\u2019s usually subtle and doesn\u2019t get as loud and bombastic as it could, but the best songs here keep going until your it becomes dizzying.- Max Totsky\nPlant Age- Terekke\nWhen labels like L.I.E.S. grasp their overarching vision, it\u2019s always a glorious time. The curational grace that goes into constructing this extra lo-fi, disorienting ambient music seems to accept only the crispest auras and the most skeletal beats, but it doesn\u2019t always stick out as much as Plant Age, the soft and absolutely mesmerizing realest from Terekke. Patience and subtlety always come in handy when constructing this type of electronic music, so it\u2019s not surprising that this marinates as well as it does. When you let Plant Age sit in a room, it will soothe but not without showing you its complexities.- MT\nWopavelli 3- Lil Wop\nI saw Lil Pump yesterday, and you know how they usually play a healthy rotation of rap songs before a rap concert? They were doing that and it was slightly rubbing me the wrong way. They played not two but three songs by known child-molester 6ix9ine (I didn\u2019t even know he had three songs) and at one point the DJ incited a chant of \u201cFREE X!\u201d as he launched into Xxxtentacion\u2019s \u2018Look At Me\u2019, ignoring the brutal legal testimonies and multiple charges held against them. It didn\u2019t make me happy about the place rap seemed to be. Then they played Lil Wop, and in that moment, I seemed to feel a little bit of relief. It didn\u2019t completely numb the larger issue of fans making excuses for bonafide heinous acts, but hearing someone rap from the back of their throat so that their voice turns into some type of croak and somehow turning that into a banger gave me hope that rap could be revolutionary again, that it wasn\u2019t veering into this pit of toxic and contagious aggression. There is literally nobody who has ever sounded like Lil Wop, and the fact that it works is a testament to his energy. I don\u2019t even know how to describe it.- MT\nWNUR Picks: October 2017\u2019s Best Releases\nOctober has been over for a minute, but its spirit lives on! Here are its best releases.\nReaching for Indigo- Circuit Des Yeux\nIt\u2019s easy to make Haley Fohr\u2019s voice the center of attention, but there\u2019s a difference between the whimsical, (and slightly forgettable) music she creates as Jackie Lynn and the incessantly penetrating material that comes out of her Circuit Des Yeux pseudonym. When she commits herself to density, her bellowing, distinctively low voice transcends the initial shock factor that surfaces upon hearing it. It would be wrong to call instrumentation this dark and sharp \u201cgentle\u201d, but when it surrounds her voice, it feels like intricate ornamentation, the type that forces itself to step back. That being said, Reaching for Indigo is not an album that ties itself to any type of gimmick; it\u2019s a statement by an artist who has chosen to live as art, to splatter herself onto every canvas with little to no restraint. \u2013 Max Totsky\nThe Garden- Carla dal Forno\nDeadpan dream pop goddess Carla Dal Forno has unleashed The Garden, a collection of cavernous hook-driven songs that simultaneously invite you in and scare you off. Her first album You Know What It\u2019s Like, released in 2016, set her apart as an ambitious songwriter with a keen ear for ambient sound design; however, The Garden shifts the focus to Dal Forno as a singer, her voice lifeless, menacing, and lovely \u2014 all at once. The instrumentals read like funeral marches, showcasing her ability to craft spacious, palatial music while retaining her lo-fi sense of steadiness. Her music centers around droning bass lines and ceaseless drum machine grooves, like on \u201cMake up Talk\u201d and the commanding EP opener \u201cWe Shouldn\u2019t Have to Wait\u201d. But Carla Dal Forno\u2019s ghostly alto cuts through the reverb-laced murk and looms above it.\nThe title track pays homage to Einst\u00fcrzende Neubauten\u2019s 1996 song \u201cThe Garden\u201d. Dal Forno\u2019s version takes root in the same enchanting energy of its namesake, with ominous psychedelic synths to match. As she describes, the garden lures her in and becomes her place of solace (\u201cday and night, I\u2019ll always be outside\u201d), though she doesn\u2019t \u201cmind the sense of threat from it.\u201d When she beckons \u201cgo outside, I\u2019m outside,\u201d she takes on the siren-like qualities of the garden. If You Know What It\u2019s Like set an eerie foundation for Carla Dal Forno\u2019s sound, The Garden expands the ideas and drives the mood darker. She\u2019s forceful. She\u2019s urgent. She\u2019s downright scary. In an apt stroke of artistry, Carla Dal Forno has built an EP as alluring and frightening as the garden within it.- John Martin\nThe Plunge- Fever Ray\nIt\u2019s hard to know what to expect after eight years of silence. Karin Dreijer Andersson never seems to fail to shift the entire dynamic of electro-pop whenever she commits to a project, but after her main squeeze the Knife fizzled out after 2013\u2019s magnum opus Shaking the Habitual, I thought she might retreat into a sort of retirement. After all, 2009\u2019s Fever Ray solo project seemed like something a one-off, an exploration of ideas that dodged the saccharine chaos of her past material into something subdued and pretty spooky. However, she\u2019s back albeit in a very different form. Gone is the carefully curated minimalism, the obtuse metaphors, and the oozing, pitched down vocals of Fever Ray\u2019s past. She\u2019s about something much more charged now, the type of tell-all urgency that is usually reserved for sloppy, drunken exchanges with a hook-up you might have a bit too many feelings for. The screeching synths and reliance on the other end of vocal effect spectrum (piercing autotune specifically) hits you off guard at first, but when you notice how sustained the charisma is here as well as Andersson\u2019s ability to ride the abstract and loopy production of Swedish mastermind Peder Mannerfelt, the album ends up being pretty fucking fun.- MT\nA flame my love, a frequency- Colleen\nI\u2019d take a wild guess that if you\u2019re reading this, you remember where you were when you heard about the 2015 Paris attacks. I was in a science museum, at peak aesthetic indulgence, when the alert on my phone snapped me out of everything. I retreated, I mourned; it was impossible to know how to react. Colleen\u2019s new album reflects this ambiguity, the challenge of living a life that is always walking in death\u2019s shadow, vulnerable to tragedy at any time. It surfaced in the wake of her visit to her hometown Paris that just so happened to be on November 13th, the day of the attacks. It is hard for an album made of abstract electroacoustic landscapes to address the implications of this specifically, but the ambience is inescapable. These songs feel like they are constantly at risk of evaporating, bubbling under a despondent haze until they eventually give in and crumble.- MT\nThe Kid \u2013 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith\nThe Kid is a vivid electronic journey through Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith\u2019s psyche and personal understanding of the world around her. With an arsenal of previous albums and projects under her belt, the Washington native has spent her career experimenting with her voice and a Buchla 100 synthesizer. Gilded by graceful waves of sound, the album is a guide through some of life\u2019s most formative moments: birth, adolescence, love, and eventually death. Even though the album is formed from mechanical elements, Smith imparts so much color that they sound full of life, imitating running water, chirping birds, and even gusts of wind. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith\u2019s wispy voice \u2014 distorted and distilled \u2014 is used as an instrument, interwoven with the varied effects. Like Smith\u2019s fluid transitions, the track titles form sentences, flowing from each song into the next. They serve as a guide for her narrative, but the story\u2019s details are freeform, open to interpretation.\nEach song is a soundtrack for a certain phase of development. Carefree dances early in the album represent formative years (\u201cI Am Consumed\u201d), whereas weightier, contemplative songs toward the end carry the wisdom of someone who has experienced life and is comforted by its end. The last two tracks \u201cI Will Make Room for You\u201d and \u201dTo Feel Your Best\u201d are a story of learning how to commit yourself to something and learning how to give it away. To that end, The Kid portrays life in its most emotionally raw sense, heavy on feeling and light on detail. Relatable and thoroughly engaging, this is an album anyone can understand.- JM\nIII- Makthaverskan\nWhen it comes to music-blog buzz genres, \u201cdream-punk\u201d is one that caught my eye in the wake of Norwegian group Makthaverskan\u2019s 2013 sophomore album, and I\u2019m glad it did because that thing was the shit. Heavenly, energetic, furious catharsis spearheaded by frontwoman Maja Milner\u2019s powerhouse vocals singing sweet tunes of longing and emotional struggle? Sign me up! III is basically a sequel. The sound is a bit less rough around the edges, their strides have become more forceful, and while the highs are a bit lower, the thing is grounded in the same type of luscious brilliance that won me over in the first place.- MT\nMirror Reaper- Bell Witch\nIf you want to read something sad, read any interview with funeral doom outfit Bell Witch promoting Mirror Reaper. This record was scraped together in the wake of their ex-drummer Adrian Guerra\u2019s death, using snippets of his voice to create some sort of reflection on mourning and moving on. And holy smokes, this album is as harrowing as it sounds. It plods along in a single 83-minute stride, leaning almost exclusively on low frequencies- growls, extended bass notes, battered down drums- to the point where after listening to it for a while you feel engrossed by a persistent raincloud. There are no crescendos, there is no wow-factor; just a single emotion that grows not because of any transformation but because when you stare at hopelessness for long enough, something else emerges. It\u2019s hard to tell what that thing means, but it\u2019s fucking potent.- MT\nTommy- Klein\nI can\u2019t really gather the words to describe the feeling Tommy creates. It\u2019s an experimental electronic project that concerns itself primarily with thickness, piling on atmospheres so robust yet so close to toppling over onto themselves. The backbones of these songs are hard to put your finger on but they exist; sometimes they come in the form of vocal samples so manipulated that they almost become bloated and sickening, and other times the aura is product of loopy, unsteady piano or dusty field recordings. Its presence is never undermined though, even if the melodies are barely there and there is absolutely no rhythm. There\u2019s something eerie about its restraint, but at the same time this \u201crestraint\u201d is by choice; it would be absurd to imply that there\u2019s something holding this project back.- MT\nI Tell a Fly \u2013 Benjamin Clementine\nBritish multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Clementine\u2019s electrifying second album I Tell A Fly is an unpredictable journey through scenes of cultural history and his personal life, reimagined from the point-of-view of two flies. He explores themes of eclecticism and otherness, fusing elements of prog rock, classical music, avant-garde, and even as far reaching as tango. Untethered to a certain genre, Clementine forges his own out of elegant harpsichords, booming drums, and his otherworldly, complex lyricism. Benjamin Clementine designs his songs to be disarming. \u201cFarewell Sonata\u201d is a romantic piano ballad with delicately placed swells and warbles, but quickly mutates into a rock anthem that sounds like it should be played in a stadium, not a concert hall. But with Clementine, he can emote like Queen and dazzle like Mozart in a single song, and still sound distinctly his own.\nHe weaves theatrics in with beautiful ease and control. It\u2019s in his deep, bellowing, operatic voice. It\u2019s in the way he rolls his \u201cr\u201d in the word dragonfly. It\u2019s in his mercurial changes of scene and tone. Piano notes cut like daggers on \u201cPhantom of Aleppoville\u201d, but soothe like aloe on \u201cJupiter.\u201d Songs about childhood bullies brush shoulders with ones about the causes of war, showing the commonalities in the human experience. Though it\u2019s wide ranging in subject matter and style, I Tell A Fly feels comprehensive and wholly unified by Clementine\u2019s captivating presence. In this timeless, genre-bending exploration of life, he steps outside of convention and pieces together yet another mindblowing album.- JM\nDK / SK- DK / SK\nSuzanne Kraft\u2019s work sounds like high end elevator music sometimes, the type of stuff you\u2019d expect to hear in a some sort of neo-futuristic spa looking at a skyline on the 70th floor of some glass building in the soup of dusk. His solo work has been some of the most stunning, relaxed electronica in recent memory but here he teams up with Dang-Khoa Chau for something just as streamlined. These melodies, as frail as they are, slyly wrap themselves around you as they progress, keeping the grip loose enough for you to breath, but tapping into something inescapable at the same time. It\u2019s a natural pairing and the music is as smooth as you\u2019d expect.- MT\nOmaru- Toiret Status\nThere\u2019s something about glitchy-ass electronic music that practically begs to be called a \u201cdeconstruction\u201d that really gets me hype. It happened last year with DJWWWW\u2019s lowkey landmark Arigato, and its happening again here on this energetic full-length by Japan\u2019s elusive Toiret Status. These songs are basically hypercharged sketches that seems as uncertain about their trajectory as you are, but the surprises keep coming and rarely disappoint. This project hits a plethora of thumping grooves, and each one is a sinister balance to the high-strung vocal samples that wind around the track. It\u2019s a journey for real.- MT\n30 Days : 30 Artists from Trump\u2019s 7 Banned Countries\nBy: Brock Stuessi\nProtest is a fluid concept. In that I mean to say the what, how, and why protest \u201cis\u201d changes as much as the cycles of oppression and injustice protest targets. Regardless of the ends and means, to protest is to act subversively against systems of oppression whatever you identify those systems to be. Trump\u2019s recent travel ban on immigrants from Libya, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and Iraq calls, in my mind, for protest. In thinking of ways to act, I came along the idea to compile a list of musicians from these seven countries, in order to showcase the incredible humanity and creativity Trump\u2019s hateful, dualistic and un-American policy will keep out of America. It\u2019s important to acknowledge the political regimes and cultures many of these artists live under add an inherent political tone to their work. Many of these artist have been forced to flee their homeland because of war and violence, in this way these artist give a face to the faceless refugee xenophobic American policies attempt to lock out. To create in oppression is a necessary act of resistance, and to present their work in America is to stand in solidarity with that creative resistance by means of our own. To defy globalism is to defy the incredible artists and people of the entire world, to defy xenophobia is to embrace the incredible musics and cultures you will find below. Above all, I hope you enjoy the music of these incredible artists and appreciate the beautiful creators Trump\u2019s ban throws fear and hate against. Please feel free to reach out at brockstuessi2018@u.northwestern.edu if you have artist suggestions or comments.\nDay One: Naseer Shamma, Iraq\nShamma, who was born in Al-K\u016bt, Iraq and studied the Oud in Baghdad, was forced to flee to Cairo during Saddam Hussein\u2019s regime as political refugee and remained away from his beloved country of origin during the entire occupation of the U.S. military. Under the occupation of al Qaeda music was forbidden and reason for execution, in the past few years Shamma has been able to return to Baghdad on a few occasions for concerts and educational sessions, he currently runs Arab Oud House, a music conservatory, in Cairo in addition to his activities and collaborations as an artist.\nDay Two: Emmanuel Jal, Sudan\nJal\u2019s story is one of violence, loss, and escape. Forced into being a child soldier in the Sudan Liberation People\u2019s Army as a seven year-old attempting to flee the war torn Sudan to Ethiopia, Jal eventually escaped the clutches of the army into neighboring Kenya. While studying in Kenya, Jal used singing as a way to ease the pain he had experienced as a child soldier in Sudan and in becoming a musician hoped his music to promote the unity of the citizens to overcome ethnic and religious division and motivate the youth in Sudan. Jal now lives in Canada and spends his time as an activist and musician spreading his story of loss and hope to the world.\nDay Three: Mohsen Namjoo, Iran\nMohsen Namjoo combines religious songs and the everyday, American rock and classical Persian rhythm, Hafez and Rumi with street slang. For these incongruencies, which in many ways reflect the incongruencies of contemporary Iran, Namjoo was forced into exile from his hometown of Mashhad after the New York Times released his illegal music. Music outside of the traditional religious forms is banned in most of Iran. Before leaving the country Namjoo operated in the Iranian underground music scene, giving secret shows in DIY basements and carefully distributing his music. Though making music in itself was a political act for Namjoo, he does not write explicitly political music, in part recognizing the ways political dissent would only reduce his artistic credibility within Iran: \u201cIt\u2019s important that you get your identity from art, and not animosity. The nature of art is not war.\u201d\nNamjoo currently lives in America as an Iranian immigrant, where he performs and has also been a visiting scholar at Stanford and Brown. In the same way Namjoo\u2019s career embodies a political struggle in Iran, he now stands as a testament to the beautiful people open American borders bring into our country at a time when Trump\u2019s administration has attempted to close them.\nDay Four: Lena Chamamyan, Syria\nBorn to an Armenian family in Damascus, Lena Chamamyan grew up singing in both Armenian and Syriac choirs, as well as oriental Arab music. With the encouragement of her grandmother, Chamamyan decided to pursue singing at the conservatory level and along the way encountered the American Jazz idiom and classical forms. The music she creates now is a blend of this myriad of influences, injected with lyrics about the social situation in contemporary Syria. This social situation forced Chamamyan out in 2010, she currently lives in Paris. In an interview with News and Noise! she had this to say about Syria : \u201cYou can\u2019t be Syrian and just live above or beside the situation. Every Syrian is affected by the situation, especially artists connected to the people. There\u2019s no work, so no money, being confronted with too much death and unfairness daily. We feel lost. As if we\u2019re losing our country and losing the trust in each other. I feel we reached a point where no one is protecting the Syrian people. The politicians\u2019 actions cause more deaths and my first concern is in stopping the bloodshed and the deaths and to give the people hope. I keep asking myself questions like where are we going? What can we do? Well, we should never lose our relation with Syria, keep caring for each other, keep supporting each other. We should keep caring about every death because it\u2019s all human blood being shed. Everyone has the right to say his opinion. It\u2019s not possible to just stay silent, but sometimes you just can\u2019t talk.\u201d (https://newsandnoise.wordpress.com/2012/09/18/we-should-support-each-other-an-interview-with-lena-ch\u2026)\nDay Five: Kawi, Yemen\nThe outbreak of hip-hop in Yemen often traces back to the influence of American-Yemen rapper Hagage \u201cAJ\u201d Masae. Kawi is one of the young disseminators of the genre and appears to now split time between Yemen and Nuremberg, Germany. While not much information is available on the life of Kawi, he and his contemporaries, under the name of Yemen\u2019s Montsers, exist primarily on the spheres of YouTube and Twitter.\nDay Six: Ahmed Fakroun, Libya\nOriginally from Benghazi, Fakroun\u2019s career as a musician can be best described by the ways he has straddles Europe and Libya. In terms of his European influences, Fakroun takes after Europop and French Art Rock. As a young child, he picked up the electric bass though he also plays the bouzouki-like saz, mandol and darbouka drum. His combinations of European and Arabic forms have deeply informed popular Arabic music, and he maintains his ties and roots to Libya following a large period of exile during Muammar Gudaffi\u2019s oppressive regime under which all forms of music were illegal.\nDay Seven: The Yellow Dogs, Iran\nMuch like Mohsen Namjoo, the Yellow Dogs came up in the underground Tehran scene, where western rock influenced music was illegal. The band cites Joy Division and Talking Heads as influences and play strictly western rock instruments for The Yellow Dogs. Following their musical contribution to the film No One Knows About Persian Cats and an interview with CNN, the band was forced to flee Tehran. They played their first \u201cabove-ground\u201d show in Istanbu in 2010 and have since made home in Brooklyn. In 2013 two members of the band were shot and killed in New York City by another disgruntled musician, the remaining members of the band have continued making music, though The Yellow Dogs ceases to exist.\nDay Eight: Kahbez Dawle, Syria\nKhebez Dawle is a Syrian five-member rock band. Founded in Damascus, Syria in the late 2012 as a one-man project, the band consolidated in a refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon in early 2013 after fleeing the conflicts and crises of their own country. Anas Maghrebi, Muhammad Bazz, Bachi Darwish and Hikmat Qassar & Dani Shukri make up the band and are currently working on a follow up to their 2015 self-titled debut.\nDay Nine : Nancy Agag, Sudan\nHaving split time between her birthplace of Omdurman and the Netherlands from a young age, Nancy Agag brings a unique blend of styles to her renditions of traditional Sudan songs. Though she has spent more than half of her life outside of the war-torn country, her connection to the history of Sudan through music acts as a lifeline between her shifting modern global life and the conflicts of her home. Now based in Khartoum, Agag and the Kush Music Band perform music from all parts of Sudan in an effort to unite the shattered country under one peaceful cause of music.\nDay Ten: Akvan, Iran\nAkvan is the solo \u201cAryan Black Metal\u201d project of Vizaresa, blending the sounds of western metal instruments with traditional Persian instruments like the tar and setar. His songwriting tackles Iranian history and mythology through deeply considered meditations on his own culture and how it is misinterpreted\u2014not only by outsiders, but by his own country\u2019s leadership. Even the mythologically-charged name of the project, Akvan, aims to encourage western audiences to seek understanding through education about Iranian tradition. In a similar way Vizaresa attempts to reclaim and debase the racist implications of Aryan in reference to his own music and the black metal community. Listen and find out more below.\n\u0645\u06cc\u0631\u0627\u062b by Akvan\nDay Eleven: Omar Souleyman, Syria\nPerhaps the most popular musician on this list thus far, Omar Souleyman got his start as a local wedding singer in his hometown of Ra\u2019s al-\u2018Ayn in Northeast Syria. He has released over 500 studio and live albums, both from his private engagements as a wedding singer and beyond. In recent years he has worked increasingly with European dance producers like Four Tet to create a very unique blend of Syrian electrified folkloric dabke, Iraqi choubi and Arabic shaabi that has captured the ears of a worldwide audience. Souleyman, in both appearance and sound, challenges conceived negative Western notions and racism toward Arabic culture, and in doing so stands as a testament to the ways music can break down walls of ignorance.\nDay Twelve: Wirephobia, Iraq\nAs he describes himself on his bandcamp page: \u201cWirephobia is a guy who likes noise music and makes noise music and the albums here are all noise so be careful little child the road is hard to go!\u201d That and his hometown of Erbil, Iraq are the only two things we know about this elusive Iraqi noise musician, and somehow it makes his music all the better.\nDay Thirteen: Groupe Amnar Awal, Libya\nThere is very little information available about this large band from Tripoli. The music, like much of the recordings above, is a blend of Western instrumentation and traditional Libyan rhythms and singing styles. Under the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, music was essentially banned. This ban accounts for the lack of publicly distributed music leaving the country at the current moment as the music community slowly forms amid more political instability in the country. Listen and learn here: https://groupeamnarawallibya.bandcamp.com/album/awal-akalin\nawal akalin by chaco\nDay Fourteen: Sahra Halgan, Somaliland\nSahra arrived in Europe in 1992, a political refugee from her native Somaliland, a territory in the North East of Somalia (East Africa), formerly a British colony, self-proclaimed independent since May 1991, but as yet unrecognised by the international community. Halgan began singing at the thirteen and throughout the Somalian civil war worked as a nurse, using her music as a form of medicine for the soldiers she treated. She now uses her music to spread awareness for the unrecognized state of Somaliland, which has remained independent from Somalia as a sovereign democratic state for over 15 years. Halgan currently splits her time between her home in Hargeisa and touring Europe and Asia.\nDay Fifteen: Porya Hatami, Iran\nPorya Hatami is an experimental sound artist based in Sanandaj, Iran. Working in the field of ambient/minimal, his compositions explore the balance between electronics and environmental sounds, utilizing processed acoustic and electronic sources and field recording. Hatami is concerned with the land itself and how sound travels through that land, and his albums often feel like journeys through landscapes both imagined and real.\nDay Sixteen: Sinkane, Sudan\nBorn Ahmed Gallab, Sinkane has grown over the course of his career to be a true blend and amalgamation of his many musical and geographic influences. Though he has spent the majority of his life in the U.S. , Gallab considers his origins to be Omdurman, Sudan. Gallab left Sudan when he was five because of political pressure on his professor parents and migrated to the U.S. In his music Sinkane makes near constant reference to his roots in Sudanese pop music and rhythmic structures, while also bringing in his many electronic and new-funk influences into the sound. Before releasing his own music, Gallab worked as a session musician for Caribou and Yeasayer and fronted the Atomic Bomb! Band, a tribute act to William Onyeabor. His newest album \u201cLif & Livin\u2019 It\u201d is out now on City Slang.\nBy m50, No tags, 0 Comments\nBy Ted Schwaba, No tags, 0 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 59643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.women.com/connieliou/lists/greys-anatomy-season-14-spoilers-amelia-confronts-her-tumor-jackson-gets", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PFYSSGXCOQWYZK5A4ZGUP5FPEMI5ADVJ", "length": 1756, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.women.com", "title": "Grey's Anatomy Season 14 Spoilers: Amelia Confronts Tumor, Jackson Gets... - Women.com", "raw_content": "Grey's Anatomy Season 14 Spoilers: Amelia Confronts Her Tumor, Jackson Gets 'Big News', And More!\nGet the latest photos, spoilers, and details on Grey's Anatomy Season 14 Episode 3!\nLast week's episode of Grey's Anatomy Season 14 broke our hearts, as Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo), Maggie Pierce (Kelly McCreary), and Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd) discovered that one of their own had a brain tumor. Amelia Shepherd (Caterina Scorsone) finally came clean about her tumor, and we've all been wondering what will happen next. Luckily, ABC was kind enough to share some official photos and spoilers for this week's episode of Grey's Anatomy Season 14, titled \"Ain\u2019t That a Kick in the Head.\"\nABC released the synopsis for this week's episode of Grey's Season 14, and you bet that showrunner Shonda Rhimes has a lot planned for everyone:\nGet ready, Grey's fans. This week's episode seems like it will be a lot to digest. With the incoming of the new interns, discovered by Richard Webber (James Pickens Jr) and Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson), and awkward dinner for Maggie, we're expecting a decently lighthearted episode. However, we're a little worried about Meredith's serious conversation with Nathan Riggs (Martin Henderson) and Jackson Avery's (Jesse Williams) big news. Could April Kepner (Sarah Drew) be pregnant again? Oh! And not to mention we're absolutely terrified for Amelia, who looks completely broken in the photos for the upcoming episode. Don't believe us? Check them out below:\nGrey's Anatomy Season 14: \"Ain't That A Kick In The Head\" Photos\nAre you ready for this week's episode of Grey's Anatomy Season 14?? Are you scared for Amelia? What is Jackson's BIG NEWS??\ngrey's anatomy season 14 news movies/tv celebs pop culture greys entertainment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 217.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.women.com/connieliou/lists/greys-anatomy-star-ellen-pompeo-develops-legal-drama-for-abc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:O24QYTM3A3PI7WHSRNN5DIWWMD7BGR6O", "length": 1513, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.women.com", "title": "Grey's Anatomy Star Ellen Pompeo Develops Legal Drama For ABC - Women.com", "raw_content": "Grey's Anatomy Star Ellen Pompeo Develops Legal Drama For ABC\nLooks like Ellen Pompeo is getting shit done at ABC with 'Big Law'.\nEllen Pompeo has had a successful run with Grey's Anatomy for fourteen seasons and counting, and she doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon. However, it seems likes Ellen Pompeo is going to bring a little Grey's Anatomy drama into the courtroom with a new ABC drama called Big Law.\nWhat Will Ellen Pompeo's Big Law Be About?\nWhile Shondaland did law with How To Get Away With Murder, Pompeo will be heading in a different direction with Big Law. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the new show is described as a \"modern look at a large LA law firm and what it takes to survive in our work obsessed society.\" Big Law will also feature the lives of lawyers both at home and at work, blurring the lines between the two.\nWill Ellen Pompeo Quit Grey's Anatomy?\nFor those of you wondering what Ellen Pompeo's role is in the new ABC drama, she will be writing the script and be the executive producer alongside David Marshall Grant, who did shows like Looking, Code Black, and Brothers & Sisters. Pompeo has produced and written multiple scripts for Grey's Anatomy in the past, so this move is not as surprising as one may think. And although Pompeo is moving on to other projects like Big Law, her role on Grey's Anatomy seems pretty safe.\nAre you excited to see Ellen Pompeo's 'Big Law'? We are!\ngrey's anatomy season 14 news movies/tv celebs pop culture ellen pompeo greys entertainment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womenspost.ca/tag/gord-brown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:21Z", "digest": "sha1:QCNGD7JJOU7YTSY2AG4AVNT2YGCLDICQ", "length": 3835, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.womenspost.ca", "title": "Gord brown Archives - Womens Post", "raw_content": "Sunny ways may be clouded after Trudeau elbows female MP\nSunny ways and sunny days may be over for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after he accidentally elbowed a female MP in the House of Commons Wednesday.\nThat\u2019s right. He elbowed an MP in the chest and now can\u2019t show his face in the House because politicians and the media made it into such a frenzy that the chances of real work happening on the floor is next to zero.\nThe House of Commons was about to vote on limiting debate relating to the controversial assisted suicide bill when a group of MPs decided to get up and stand on the floor, blocking Conservative Whip Gord Brown from getting to his seat to start the vote. An impatient Trudeau got up from his seat, crossed the floor, grabbed Brown\u2019s arm, and guided him through the crowd. In doing so, he elbowed NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau in the chest.\nAccording to media reports, Brosseau proceeded to leave the House during the vote because she felt violated and uncomfortable.\nVideo here clearly shows PM Trudeau grabbing Oppo Whip and harshly elbowing NDP MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau pic.twitter.com/e8haClmWFq\n\u2014 James Smith (@JsrSmith) May 18, 2016\nIt\u2019s pretty obvious that the elbowing of MP Brosseau was an accident, and the opposition parties are definitely milking this opportunity to shame the Liberal government. A yelling match between Mulcair and Trudeau occurred after the incident, in which Trudeau shocked the rest of the House when he dropped an F-bomb \u2014 apparently they forgot he wasn\u2019t a schoolboy in disguise.\nThe opposition and NDP even went so far as to question Trudeau\u2019s feminism. My favourite part of the whole interaction was when when NDP leader Thomas Mulcair screams, \u201cwhat kind of person elbows a woman? It\u2019s pathetic!\u201d\nI\u2019m sorry Mulcair, but that\u2019s a pretty ridiculous question. I can answer it for you: almost every single man (and woman) trying to take public transportation to work. It happened to me this morning. A man was trying to get to the door and he bumped into me with force, physically knocking me over into the lap of another man. He turned around and said, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry\u201d and walked away. I decided not to feel personally offended.\nNow, this man wasn\u2019t Prime Minister, but the idea is the same.\nThe bigger issue, in my opinion, is that Trudeau walked across the floor to guide the whip to his seat in the first place. According to media reports, Brown was not receptive of the Prime Minister\u2019s attempt to get the vote rolling. He told Trudeau to let go of him after he grabbed his arm. I can\u2019t say anything about the amount of force used to \u201cguide\u201d him to his seat, but if he said \u201clet go of me\u201d, then it was wrong of Trudeau to maintain his hold. Actually, it shouldn\u2019t have happened in the first place.\nIt\u2019s also notable that throughout this whole process the speaker did nothing about the crowd of MPs standing on the House floor and blocking the whip\u2019s path. This may have been the reason why Trudeau felt like he had to personally do something.\nSince the incident Trudeau has publicly apologized at least three times, saying that he was not paying attention to his surroundings and that he did not mean to offend or impact anyone.\n\u201cI noticed that the whip opposite was being impeded in his progress,\u201d he said. \u201cI took it upon myself to go and assist him forward, which I can now see was unadvisable as a course of actions that resulted in physical contact in this House that we can all accept was unacceptable.\u201d\nThis incident will take over the news \u2014 and the politics \u2014 in the House of Commons for the next few days. Trudeau may even get reprimanded for actions. Yes, these actions were obviously unacceptable, but let\u2019s not let it cloud our judgement and our ability to work on the real issues at hand. And let\u2019s not turn it into something it\u2019s not \u2014 a jab against liberal feminism.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womenworkremote.com/women-in-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:38Z", "digest": "sha1:DNXZWJ7AOE4G2JISEKOGOF7V2VKZ5I5D", "length": 1957, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.womenworkremote.com", "title": "Women in Technology | Women Work Remote", "raw_content": "How does the number of women coding in the tech industry and the number of women in management and leadership positions compare to men working in tech. In an article by the Harvard Business School:\nIn 2014, Google reported that 7 out of every 10 of its then 48,600 employees were men. The number was even higher among its engineers and managers, and only 3 of the company\u2019s 36 top executives and managers were women. Google\u2019s disclosures led other major tech companies to follow suit. Apple (98,000 employees) and Twitter (3,300 employees), for instance, reported similar overall percentages: about 70 percent men and 30 percent women. (Perhaps unsurprisingly, the companies also reported that employees were overwhelmingly white.)\nWith the growth of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) since Kahn\u2019s Academy, there\u2019s a huge resource of technical training courses teaching users coding skills including Udemy, Skillshare, CodeCademy, General Assembly and Bloc.\nSeparately, there is a notable increase in training resources for women that want to learn how to code. SkillCrush.com stands out as it builds its curriculum, resources and support for women that want to move into the technology field (men also participate in SkillCrush courses). PowerToFly.com is a dedicated resource for women looking for work from coding to project management, with the flexibility of working remotely. FlexJobs.com offers a huge database of job leads for men and women looking for flexible work, onsite, part-time, full-time or 100% remote.\nWe want to see a diverse increase of women of all ages and backgrounds in the tech industry. Encouraging more young women to follow Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM) disciplines is one step. Finding positive role models is another, and learning from women in leadership who share their knowledge is another, from Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, Ruth Parat,CFO of Google, and Ellie founder of I F*king Love Science.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldcement.com/special-reports/29012019/five-minutes-with-claude-lora/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JPDCSYEVZIAB52WV6KQQE5WUL6BK2KAR", "length": 4204, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.worldcement.com", "title": "Five Minutes With\u2026 Claude Lor\u00e9a | World Cement", "raw_content": "Five Minutes With\u2026 Claude Lor\u00e9a\nI lead all aspects of the work related to cement at the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) , calling for a practical understanding of its chemistry, production, co-processing, data collection, and standards, as well as international climate policy, regulatory requirements, and trends. I also oversee the smooth transition of the activities of the Cement Sustainability Initiative to the GCCA.\nMy very first contact was as a young researcher at the University of Brussels. I then worked for two cement companies as an environmental consultant and auditor, before joining one of them, Cimenteries CBR in Belgium, as an environmental engineer. From there, I was seconded to CEMBUREAU as Issues Manager, then appointed Technical Director and subsequently Deputy Chief Executive.\nThere are, of course, many battles won, but it\u2019s difficult to point at one in particular. Probably what is today my proudest career achievement is, after so many years working in the cement sector, having been selected as the first GCCA cement director!\nIn your view, what is the biggest challenge facing the cement industry?\nSustainability in the broad sense, i.e. striking the right balance between resources use, investments, climate change and environment, technological development, and institutional and social developments to enhance both current and future generations\u2019 needs and aspirations.\nHow does the industry overcome this challenge?\nAll levers will be needed. There is no silver bullet but the most important thing in my view will be the whole value chain involvement: clinker, cement, concrete manufacturers, architects, builders, designers, contractors. Collaboration will be the key.\nHow is GCCA helping to solve this challenge?\nGCCA is dedicated to developing and strengthening the sector\u2019s contribution to sustainable construction, while demonstrating responsible industrial leadership in the manufacture and use of cement and concrete. In essence, facilitating dialogue and driving meaningful progress.\nWhat is your favourite place \u2013 and why?\nThe ocean or the glaciers. I am not sure which one I prefer, probably the ocean. Anyway, both are about water and amazing landscapes. Water is in constant movement, it constantly evolves, glaciers and oceans slowly, waves somehow faster. Whenever I can, I am on the water, rowing, sailing, skiing, mountaineering\u2026 the fresh air invigorates and cleanses, I feel much better to think and work afterwards. It is my meditation.\nWho do you most admire \u2013 and why?\nLittle girls facing adversity. I actually dedicate all my crazy rowing challenges to a charity named Plan International and their campaign \u2018Because I am a girl\u2019.\nWhat\u2019s new for GCCA this year?\nThis year is the first fully operational year for the GCCA. We have to continue to grow membership but also start implementing our work programme and establish the network with the stakeholders. So lots to do, but the support of our members and affiliates across the world is well in place.\nIf you could meet any historical figure, who would you meet \u2013 and why?\nEric Tabarly, one of the world\u2019s greatest yachtsmen and innovators. During a voyage to Ireland to celebrate the anniversary of his famous boat, Pen Duick, he was struck by the boom while manoeuvring, pushed overboard and drowned. He was renowned to be fearless, refusing to wear a safety harness while at sea, and often quoted as saying ,\u201cI know I am taking a risk but I prefer to live free on my boat\u201d. I would like to debate that question with him, because I disagree with his view, but also discuss his amazing achievements and perspectives on innovation, which brings us back to two of the GCCA work streams I am in charge of: safety and innovation!\nAbout Claude Lor\u00e9a\nClaude leads all aspects of GCCA work related to cement and oversees the transition of the activities of the Cement Sustainability Initiative to the GCCA. She joined the GCCA from European cement industry body, CEMBUREAU, where she was Deputy Chief Executive and Industrial Affairs Director.\nRead the article online at: https://www.worldcement.com/special-reports/29012019/five-minutes-with-claude-lora/\nUK cement news Cement news 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 6135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wowhd.de/billy-vaughn-singles-and-eps-collection-1954-62/824046906528", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:22Z", "digest": "sha1:SBSWNQLGA2WKBJJSH4NRWK2P54DCUWXL", "length": 1632, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.wowhd.de", "title": "Billy Vaughn Billy Vaughn - Singles & EPs Collection 1954-62 on WOW HD DE", "raw_content": "Billy Vaughn - Singles & EPs Collection 1954-62\nVon Billy Vaughn\nBilly Vaughn was one of the most successful orchestra leaders, conductors and arrangers in the post-war era, scoring more instrumental successes in the singles charts than any of his contemporaries in that sector of the market during the '50s and '60s. His distinctive sound, featuring his signature saxophone styling, was unmistakable, his chart successes comprising not only his own compositions, but also adaptations of current hits for the middle-of-the-road market. He began his career as a pianist, coming to fame when he formed The Hilltoppers vocal group in 1952 as pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer, and after a number of hits with them jumped ship to become musical director at the group's record label Dot, for whom he arranged hits by many artists such as Pat Boone, Fontane Sisters, Gale Storm, Tab Hunter and Debbie Reynolds. However, he also recorded prolifically under his own name. This great value 96-track 3-CD set comprises the A & B sides of his US and UK singles during the period, plus selected tracks from six of his EPs, so is a comprehensive overview of his output on 45s from the era. It naturally features all the forty and more recordings which made some kind of chart showing, including the Top 10 hits \"Melody Of Love\", \"Shifting, Whispering Sands\" \"Raunchy\" and \"Sail Along Silvery Moon\", as he flew the flag for a sound which defied the revolution that was changing the face of pop during the mid-'50s Billy Vaughn - Singles & EPs Collection 1954-62\nK\u00fcnstler: Billy Vaughn\nTitel: Billy Vaughn - Singles & EPs Collection 1954-62", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 356, "original_length": 7747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 158.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/06/iran-j18.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XQW4TMW2GLHNH5MOFUACKG6G7ADDJ7BX", "length": 10560, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.wsws.org", "title": "Obama: US \u201cmeddling\u201d in Iran should not be seen - World Socialist Web Site", "raw_content": "Obama: US \u201cmeddling\u201d in Iran should not be seen\nAmid rhetoric about his commitment to the \u201cuniversal values\u201d of democratic processes and free speech, US President Barack Obama made one unintentionally revealing statement on Iran Tuesday. \u201cIt\u2019s not productive, given the history of the US-Iranian relationship, to be seen as meddling,\u201d he said.\nThe statement was meant as an explanation of the Obama administration\u2019s failure to join the Iranian opposition led by the defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in explicitly denouncing last Friday\u2019s presidential election as a \u201cfraud\u201d and as a defense against criticism from the Republican right in the US.\nBefore Obama made the statement, his Republican opponent in the 2008 election, Arizona Senator John McCain condemned the administration\u2019s reticence, declaring that Obama \u201cshould speak out that this is a corrupt, flawed sham of an election and that the Iranian people have been deprived of their rights.\u201d\nObama\u2019s choice of words, however, spoke volumes. The US should not \u201cbe seen as meddling\u201d; as for the meddling itself, that is clearly another matter.\nThe president\u2019s reference to \u201cthe history of the US-Iranian relationship\u201d refers to the 1953 CIA-backed coup that overthrew the country\u2019s nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq, who two years earlier had begun to nationalize Iran\u2019s oil industry, until then controlled by Britain.\nThe coup ushered in the 26-year, US-backed rule of the Shah and SAVAK, his brutal secret police, which ended only with the Iranian Revolution of 1979.\nNearly one year after the coup, in August 1954, the New York Times published an editorial succinctly explaining the motives behind the CIA action: \u201cUnderdeveloped countries with rich resources now have an object lesson in the heavy cost that must be paid by one of their number which goes berserk with fanatical nationalism,\u201d the paper editorialized. \u201cIt is perhaps too much to hope that Iran\u2019s experience will prevent the rest of Mossadeqs in other countries, but that experience may at least strengthen the hands of more reasonable and far-seeing leaders.\u201d\nThe obvious question is: what fundamentally has changed in \u201cthe US-Iranian relationship\u201d since those days? Washington\u2014under Obama as under Bush\u2014is continuing two colonial-style wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, i.e., on Iran\u2019s western and eastern borders, that have claimed the lives of over one million people. The aim of these wars is the same as the objective of the coup of 1953\u2014control of \u201crich resources\u201d and the pipeline routes for extracting them from the oil-rich Persian Gulf and Central Asia.\nBehind the statements of concern about the elections and the subsequent repression in Iran, US imperialism is prepared to carry out even greater crimes against the Iranian people.\nWashington does not want to be seen as playing a direct role in seeking to destabilize the Iranian government for fear that it would provoke a popular backlash because of this history. While US agencies work covertly, the Obama administration leaves the direct propaganda operations to the press and to its European allies.\nThe most prominent role has been played by the New York Times, the same newspaper that was decisive in promoting the phony \u201cweapons of mass destruction\u201d pretext for the war against Iraq. In 1953, the Times not merely endorsed the coup in Iran editorially; through its correspondent, Kennett Love, it worked intimately with those who organized it.\nIn the current crisis, without citing any objective evidence, the Times reported as fact the Iranian opposition\u2019s claims that the election was rigged, that the 62.6 percent victory declared for incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was impossible and that Mousavi had been the real victor. This version of events has generally been echoed by the rest of the media.\nAlso serving as propaganda agents for US imperialism\u2019s destabilization operation in Iran are the pseudo-lefts around the Nation magazine, which under the Obama administration has emerged every bit as much a house organ of US imperialism as the Times itself. On Wednesday it posted an article by its foreign policy correspondent Robert Dreyfuss, who acknowledged, \u201cI\u2019m biased. I support the Green Revolution,\u201d referring to the forces gathered behind Mousavi.\nHe then went on to portray these forces in fairly objective terms. \u201cThe anti-Ahmadinejad coalition is deep and broad,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt includes conservative, Old Guard founders of the Islamic Republic, who view Ahmadinejad with disdain ...; the large and growing majority of Iranian clerics and senior ayatollahs, many of whom have long viewed the Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as an upstart and usurper ...; nearly the entirety of Iran\u2019s business class, especially those involved in high-tech, aviation, oil and gas, and heavy industry, who blame Ahmadinejad for his catastrophic mismanagement of the economy\u201d as well as so-called \u201creformists\u201d like former President Khatami and Mousavi, and \u201cthe educated elite.\u201d\nWhat is described here are the wealthiest and most privileged layers of Iranian society, which together constitute a decisive layer of the country\u2019s ruling political establishment. What is noticeably missing from this \u201ccoalition\u201d is the working class and the rural poor, the overwhelming majority of the Iranian population.\nIn all of the giddy commentary in the media about a \u201ctwitter revolution,\u201d there has been no suggestion by anyone that Mousavi enjoys the support of the workers and the most oppressed layers of Iranian society.\nWhat is the Obama administration attempting to accomplish with its covert intervention\u2014loudly promoted by its erstwhile \u201cliberal\u201d and \u201cleft\u201d supporters\u2014in the Iranian election?\nIt is not aiming for \u201cregime change\u201d along the lines of Iraq. Certain lessons have been learned from the Bush administration\u2019s debacle, most critically that disbanding the military and the security forces in a country targeted for US domination is a fatal mistake. These are the forces upon which imperialism must rely for imposing policies that will spell intensified oppression for the majority of the population and for suppressing any genuine revolutionary movement of the masses.\nWhat Washington wants is to effect a change in personnel at the top of the Iranian regime that would bring about a change in policy favoring US geo-strategic interests in Iran and the surrounding region. In Mousavi and those backing him, the Obama administration sees the possibility of shifting Tehran toward more open collaboration in its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while promoting \u201cfree market\u201d economic policies that would open up the country for exploitation by US-based oil conglomerates and other transnationals.\nThe reasons for Washington\u2019s apparent caution is not just the history of US-Iranian relations, but also the fear that the fissures within the ruling circles in Iran and the mobilizations in the streets could get out of hand. Despite their size, the mass demonstrations in Tehran and elsewhere have been dominated by the better-off and better-educated sectors of Iranian society. If broader social forces were to come into struggle against the government, and Mousavi, his billionaire backer Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and others in the ruling establishment were to lose control, the US could face the threat of a new Iranian Revolution.\nIt is for this more fundamental struggle that Iranian workers, students and youth must prepare. The present political confrontation is taking place within a narrow circle of the Iranian ruling elite, whose interests and aspirations are totally at odds with those of Iranian working people. Neither the repressive right-wing demagogue Ahmadinejad nor the well-heeled \u201creformers\u201d around Mousavi offer any way forward for the working class.\nStudents and other sections of the population seeking a means to fight the socially and politically repressive regime of Ahmadinejad can place no confidence in Mousavi, who was himself responsible for the most savage repression when he was prime minister throughout the 1980s, or Rafsanjani, whose name is synonymous with wealth, privilege and corruption.\nIt is vitally important to learn the lessons of the tragedies suffered by the Iranian working class in both 1953 and 1979 so that they are not repeated. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the mass struggles of Iranian workers dominated the political life of the country. In 1978 and 1979, the struggles of the Iranian workers, most importantly the oil workers who shut down the most crucial section of the country\u2019s economy, were the decisive force in bringing down the hated regime of the Shah.\nIn both periods, however, the Stalinist Tudeh Party worked to subordinate these struggles to sections of the bourgeoisie. In the first instance it was to the anti-communist nationalist politician Mossadeq, who called out the army to suppress demonstrations against the Shah\u2019s return before he himself was overthrown by the CIA. In the second, it was to the reactionary clerical elements represented by Ayatollah Khomeini, who after coming to power unleashed savage repression against the left.\nToday, the Tudeh Party is a shadow of its former self. But it and its successor groups are playing the same role, seeking to convince students and youth that the struggle against the Ahmadinejad regime can be \u201coutsourced\u201d to Mousavi and Co.\nThis perspective can only lead to new defeats and another round of bloody repression. What is required is the development of an independent socialist program for the mobilization of the most decisive layers of Iranian society\u2014the working class in the leadership of the oppressed masses\u2014in revolutionary struggle.\nAnyone who claims that an independent revolutionary movement of the Iranian workers is impossible and that backing one faction of the ruling establishment against another is the more \u201cpractical\u201d approach is deliberately ignoring the profound revolutionary traditions of the Iranian working class.\nThe class lines must be drawn. Workers must advance their own independent program in defense of jobs, living standards and democratic rights, organizing popular assemblies to fight for these demands. They must link their struggles to those of the working class in the rest of the Middle East as well as Western Europe, America and internationally in order to defeat imperialism and the Iranian bourgeoisie.\nThis requires the building of a new revolutionary party of the working class as the Iranian section of the International Committee of the Fourth International.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 373, "original_length": 32285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wwstanks.com/blog/above-ground-water-storage-tanks/changing-fracking-for-the-better-part-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:16Z", "digest": "sha1:4N6J2S4GBPOZNVQDYWSB2ZMLAKZ6HV4B", "length": 1611, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wwstanks.com", "title": "Above Ground Water Storage Tanks: Making Fracking Better", "raw_content": "It\u2019s time to work on improving fracking\u2019s reputation.\nIf you\u2019ve had a chance to read our previous post, then you already know that more and more people have started to oppose fracking. Even some republicans, who have historically supported fracking, have started to oppose it. Fracking has benefited our country in many ways, but if we want to continue to enjoy the benefits of fracking, we have to make some changes to make it safer and less controversial. In our last blog, we went over a couple of the ways that Well Water Solutions can help. Keep reading to learn more:\n#3. Waste Water Recycling\nThere are many controversies surrounding fracking, but one of the biggest is the disposal of waste water. Today, many companies either store their waste water in frac ponds or they reinject it into the ground. Studies have shown that the reinjection of waste water is what has caused the earthquakes in states with heavy fracking activity, such as Oklahoma. Frac ponds are also incredibly controversial because of the threat they pose to wild life. Well Water Solutions provides innovative waste water treatment practices to eliminate the need for these troubling practices.\n#4. Eliminate Frac Ponds\nAs we mentioned before, frac ponds are very controversial. This is because they are open, which allows the dangerous waste water to evaporate into the air. Also, many birds and other animals have died because of frac ponds because they unknowingly drink or fly into the contaminated water.\nThere are just a couple more ways that we can change fracking for the better. 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He is also holding 7acre agricultural land, Own House and don't have brother/sister, only one son. no, any addiction as well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 11643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yellowtoenailscured.com/baking-soda-hydrogen-peroxide-toenail-fungus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:54Z", "digest": "sha1:52QUMPIAXO6BR3JXXTKCG5ISEMUHJ6GZ", "length": 8080, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.yellowtoenailscured.com", "title": "How to Use Baking Soda and Hydrogen Peroxide for Toenail Fungus?", "raw_content": "There are many home remedies for getting rid of nail fungus. Some work better than others. So, it\u2019s important to know which ones you can trust. One of the most popular choices is baking soda and hydrogen peroxide for toenail fungus. This combination has antifungal properties that can help to treat a fungal infection. But, it can take time (and consistent use) to work. It doesn\u2019t work for everyone.\nWhen you have toenail fungus, the only way to get rid of it is to use substances that will kill the fungus. It\u2019s not enough to just prevent it from spreading. If a fungus isn\u2019t removed, it will continue to grow and thrive. It won\u2019t go away on its own.\nWhen you combine baking soda with hydrogen peroxide, you have two ingredients that can get rid of a fungus and keep it from spreading. They can also improve the general health of your nails when used correctly.\nThis guide will cover the benefits of using baking soda and hydrogen peroxide. We will look at how to use these ingredients to get the best results, and what results you can expect. If you\u2019ve been looking for the best home remedy, you may want to consider using one (or both) of these ingredients in your treatment plan. We also encourage you to find out how to get rid of toenail fungus forever with tried-and-tested OTC products.\n1 Does Baking Soda Kill Toenail Fungus?\n1.1 Step-by-Step Application Guide\n2 How Does Hydrogen Peroxide Help with Fungal Infections?\n3 Mixing Baking Soda and Hydrogen Peroxide to Cure Toenail Fungus\n5 How Quickly Will I See Results?\n6 Is It the Best Treatment for Toenail Fungus?\nDoes Baking Soda Kill Toenail Fungus?\nBaking soda has been used for different skin and nail ailments for years. It has antiseptic and antifungal properties. It is also a natural exfoliant.\nThe main benefit of using baking soda for a nail fungus, though, is that it creates an alkaline environment in and around the nail. This helps to prevent the growth of the fungus and creates an environment that makes it hard for the fungus to survive. It will also balance out the pH levels of your surrounding skin. If the fungus can\u2019t continue to multiply, it will start to die off.\nBaking soda also works by absorbing excess moisture. Toenail fungus often starts because moisture gets trapped underneath the nail. Fungus thrives in these places. When you apply baking soda, it will help to dry out the nail and make sure the environment for the nail fungus isn\u2019t ideal for growth. Even though the baking soda will help to soak up excess moisture, you should continue to do your part by making sure your feet are dried off.\nBaking soda can be used on its own as a remedy for toenail fungus. When used this way, it creates an alkaline solution that makes it far more difficult for the fungus to spread from your big toenail to other nails.\nFollow these steps to create a solution you can apply directly to your toenails:\nMix two parts baking soda with one part water to form a thick paste.\nUsing a cotton swab, generously apply the mixture to the infected nail(s).\nAllow the mixture to sit for 10-15 minutes.\nRinse away and dry off your feet thoroughly.\nFor best results, repeat twice each day until the infection is gone.\nThere are many different ways to use baking soda for treating toenail fungus. In most cases, it is combined with an acidic agent. Two popular options are vinegar and lemon juice. But, using it with hydrogen peroxide is one of the better options.\nHow Does Hydrogen Peroxide Help with Fungal Infections?\nHydrogen peroxide for removing toenail fungus is a safe method when used correctly. You can use a process called oxidation therapy when dealing with hydrogen peroxide. Oxidation therapy includes soaking your feet in a hydrogen peroxide solution. This tends to work because your body\u2019s cells naturally produce hydrogen peroxide when foreign organisms are detected.\nWhen you use a soak with diluted hydrogen peroxide, you\u2019re mimicking that process on the outside of your body. The hydrogen peroxide will attack the fungus\u2019 cells and kill it. When using this type of solution, though, it\u2019s important to make sure your ratios are correct.\nIt must be diluted for it to be used safely. Use a food-grade level of hydrogen peroxide (3%), and dilute a few capfuls with a basin of warm water. Then, soak your feet in hydrogen peroxide anywhere from 10-20 minutes and dry thoroughly. Repeat the process as necessary.\nMixing Baking Soda and Hydrogen Peroxide to Cure Toenail Fungus\nEven though they both have healing properties on their own, you can combine baking soda and hydrogen peroxide for a toenail fungus treatment. Not only will it prevent the infection from growing, but it will kill the existing fungus. It\u2019s a great way to get rid of toenail fungus without any pain. But, it must be done correctly to be safe and effective.\nFollow these steps to create a mix of these two ingredients:\nCombine \u00bd cup baking soda with 1 cup of hydrogen peroxide in a large foot basin.\nAdd four cups of warm water and \u00bd cup of Epsom salts (optional).\nSoak your toenails in the solution for 10-20 minutes.\nRinse off the solution with warm water.\nPat your feet completely dry.\nRepeat two times daily.\nMany people go for solutions like these because they are inexpensive, easy to use, and safe. Hydrogen peroxide can be dangerous when it\u2019s misused. But, if you follow these steps correctly, you should have no problems. Side effects are unlikely when using solutions like these.\nIf you don\u2019t dilute hydrogen peroxide enough, you may experience a tingling or slight burning sensation. These shouldn\u2019t be severe or cause any serious problems. Allergic reactions to baking soda or hydrogen peroxide are also rare.\nBut, you should seek out medical attention if you experience any of the following:\nA sudden rash at the site of application\nHow soon you see results when using baking soda and hydrogen peroxide depends on the severity of your toenail fungus. Natural home remedies take longer to work (if they work at all) than over-the-counter solutions. But, they are usually a safe alternative.\nIf you use either baking soda, hydrogen peroxide, or a solution with both to treat toenail fungus, it could take several weeks before you see results. The solutions need to be used consistently each day. Missing even a day of treatment will give your infection a chance to grow and spread.\nWhen you do use a treatment like this every day for a mild fungus, you should start to see results with time. The important thing is not to stop treating your toenail fungus just because it looks like it\u2019s going away. Fungal infections are resilient. If a toenail fungus isn\u2019t completely gone, it will likely come back. Then, you\u2019ll have to start the treatment process all over again.\nEven if you start to see results, keep using one of these treatments until the fungus is completely gone. Even then, it\u2019s a good idea to keep treating the area for a few weeks afterward. This will ensure that the infection is dead and isn\u2019t coming back.\nYou will likely struggle to get results if the fungus has progressed.\nIs It the Best Treatment for Toenail Fungus?\nYou can use either baking soda or hydrogen peroxide on their own to treat toenail fungus. Both have properties that help to remove fungal infections. When used as a soak, you can get rid of a mild infection that much easier. Plus, there aren\u2019t any adverse side effects.\nThis is a home remedy that takes work and planning, since you have to prepare a foot bath each day, at least two times. But, if you\u2019re willing to wait several months for your toenail fungus to clear up, and don\u2019t mind soaking your feet each day, it could work for you.\nIf you want to use a natural over-the-counter product that\u2019s proven to work, we recommend the Purely Northwest Foot and Toenail System. The link will take you to our full review. In short, it utilizes the healing properties of tea tree oil as part of a 3-part approach to removing toenail fungus and restoring your nails to full health. It also helps with athlete\u2019s foot. It\u2019s competitively priced, and the feedback has been encouraging.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 10918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yorkshirelife.co.uk/out-about/places/unearthing-the-past-at-marston-moor-1-5056705", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:56Z", "digest": "sha1:VXJMX3WCUGGHMSEEZFZUDVCQR2PHI4U6", "length": 4686, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.yorkshirelife.co.uk", "title": "Unearthing the past at Marston Moor | Places of interest & things to do in Yorkshire | Yorkshire Life", "raw_content": "Unearthing the past at Marston Moor\nBattle of Marston Moor monument, overlooking the site of the biggest clash of the English Civil War in 1644\nThe peaceful rolling fields of a York farm were once the scene of a battle which changed the course of English history. Richard Darn reports.\nJo Smakman who owns Marston Grange, one of several farms occupying the registered battle site\nIt was the biggest battle fought on English soil, with over 40,000 soldiers desperately fighting for their cause on a summer\u2019s evening.\nMarston Moor on July 2 1644 was a turning point in the British Civil Wars when Royalist and Parliamentarian forces with their Scots allies clashed five miles west of York.\nOver two hours fate swung against King Charles I, not least because of the generalship of Oliver Cromwell, whose cavalry charged and regrouped to unleash mayhem on the enemy ranks.\nBy nightfall more than 4,000 men were dead, many more injured or captured, and the north of England lost to the crown.\nSome of the relics which have been found on the battle site\nThe brutal encounter had a far more profound effect on the course of English history than more celebrated battles such as Towton Moor or Bosworth. But Marston Moor is often inexplicably overlooked or misunderstood despite its massive significance.\nThe Smakman family, who own Marston Grange, one of several farms occupying the registered battle site, are intent on keeping its memory alive.\nThe 406-acre arable business has been in the family since 1942 and is now run by David Smakman and wife Jo, who with an archaeology and marketing background, is in no doubt about the site\u2019s immense significance.\n\u2018Our farmhouse is located on the part of the battlefield where Cromwell\u2019s cavalry and that of Prince Rupert faced each other,\u2019 said Jo. \u2018We have found belt buckles, muskets balls and spurs and we can never forget what happened here. It gives me goosebumps just to hold them. The lay of the land is now agricultural, but with a bit of guidance you can still see features that played a part in the battle such as hedges and woodland and the dip that hid some of the Parliamentarian army.\u2019\nJo and David linked up with the Royal Armouries in Leeds and the National Civil War Centre in Newark for the first time to host a battlefield day on the farm.\nGlyn Hughes said: \u2018Marston Moor is one of the best preserved and most evocative sites from the period. The battle was hugely important as it was the beginning of the end for King Charles. Most of the key figures were here; Cromwell, Fairfax, Leven, Goring and Prince Rupert. At the end of the day the Crown lost control of the northern shires, York and the North Sea ports, which was a terrific blow.\u2019\nThe battle had its genesis in the Royalists\u2019 successful move to relieve the siege of York, when the dashing Prince Rupert, the most feared solider of his day, arrived in the nick of time to stave off the threat. But instead of consolidating his hold on the city he choose to meet his enemy in a pitched battle at Marston Moor, citing orders from the King to destroy the rebel army, even though he was outnumbered by an allied Parliamentarian and Scottish force 28,000 strong.\nEven so, the battle swung in favour of one side then the other. The allies\u2019 right wing under Sir Tom Fairfax \u2013 whose tomb is in Bilborough church \u2013 suffered from royalist musket fire, while Cromwell\u2019s cavalry, dubbed the Ironsides, tore into the King\u2019s ranks on the other flank. Although Cromwell was wounded in the neck he recovered to sweep around the Royalist rear to relieve his beleaguered colleagues and seal the day. Many fled or were captured, but some stood their ground, including the Marquis of Newcastle\u2019s Whitecoats, who were repeatedly charged by the Ironsides until just 30 were left alive. Their sacrifice has become emblematic of the day.\nReports of ghostly armies flanked by pillars of light appearing to re-fight the battle circulated for years afterwards such was the battle\u2019s impact on the nation\u2019s psyche. The more earthly reckoning was that King Charles never recovered from the setback (York fell two weeks later) and within two years he surrendered to the Scots at Newark, in May 1646.\n\u2018It\u2019s strange to think that such a beautiful location could have witnessed such events,\u2019 added Jo. \u2018These days we are nurturing a special place with two acres of gardens and wildflower meadows, while helping people understand what happened here 370 years ago.\u2019\nThe event will run from 10am-3pm and includes refreshments and a buffet lunch in a well-appointed education barn, specially built to cater for battlefield and other events focusing on farming, wildlife, horticulture, crafts and literature.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 8450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.youngconaway.com/experience/c-h-v-cape-henlopen-sch-dist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:XCBIOMKSCGSQRBMHMZYWWUQCJMFBQLNA", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.youngconaway.com", "title": "C.H. v. 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With Young Conaway's assistance, the Debtors successfuly liquidated their assets, wound down their operations and the bankruptcy cases were dismissed in 2009.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 6825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourlocalsecurity.com/availability/ma/worcester", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DWMTZDDRYXDSNTFIUZ424RDXZTNRVLM6", "length": 1824, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.yourlocalsecurity.com", "title": "Worcester, MA Home Security from ADT | 1-855-308-2765", "raw_content": "Availability / Massachusetts / Worcester\nHome Security in Worcester, MA\u2014Monitored by ADT\n1 in 91 of Homes Experience a Burglary in Worcester, MA\nDid You Know that 60% of Burglaries in Worcester Occur During Daytime?\nADT Monitored Security Helps Protect Worcester\nAs a city first established during the time of the original New England settlement and christened after the English city of the same name, Worcester has a history that predates the US itself. However, despite its early English roots, Worcester was integral to the organization of patriot forces that would eventually stand up to the British armies. In fact, it was the site of the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence\u2014the reading that was famously conducted by outspoken critic of British rule Isaiah Thomas.\nUnsurprisingly, contemporary Worcester remains proud of its long and rich heritage, as the local Worcester Historical Museum and restored Salisbury Mansion can attest.\nWorcester still carries its brave torch, but the city isn't opposed to taking off the powdered wig every once in a while. After fighting the good fight or just getting off work from UMass, Worcester residents like to unwind with artisanal drinks at friendly bars, like Armsby Abbey, Dive Bar, and the Citizen Wine Bar.\nADT knows the importance of being able to get out and enjoy your leisure time too, which is why the company offers home security monitoring and an easy-to-use phone app so you can always be aware of what's going on around your property. And when the weather gets bleak at the end of the year, you can connect with smart thermostat products that will ensure your home is always the perfect temperature, without wasting money while you're out taking in the town.\nAttending Any of These Events Near Worcester?\nADT Monitored Security in Worcester, MA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 12872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-07/obama-sidelines-kerry-ukraine-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:12Z", "digest": "sha1:RAA3CN3QJJRECQKHGWHEC36FIBC4OBNU", "length": 5654, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.zerohedge.com", "title": "Obama Sidelines Kerry On Ukraine Policy | Zero Hedge", "raw_content": "Obama Sidelines Kerry On Ukraine Policy\nSubmitted by investigative historian Eric Zuesse\nOn May 21st, I headlined \"Secretary of State John Kerry v. His Subordinate Victoria Nuland, Regarding Ukraine,\u201d and quoted John Kerry\u2019s May 12th warning to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to cease his repeated threats to invade Crimea and re-invade Donbass, two former regions of Ukraine, which had refused to accept the legitimacy of the new regime that was imposed on Ukraine in violent clashes during February 2014. (These were regions that had voted overwhelmingly for the Ukrainian President who had just been overthrown. They didn\u2019t like him being violently tossed out and replaced by his enemies.)\nKerry said then that, regarding Poroshenko, \"we would strongly urge him to think twice not to engage in that kind of activity, that that would put Minsk in serious jeopardy. And we would be very, very concerned about what the consequences of that kind of action at this time may be.\u201d Also quoted there was Kerry\u2019s subordinate, Victoria Nuland, three days later, saying the exact opposite, that we \"reiterate our deep commitment to a single Ukrainian nation, including Crimea, and all the other regions of Ukraine.\u201d I noted, then that, \"The only person with the power to fire Nuland is actually U.S. President Barack Obama.\u201d However, Obama instead has sided with Nuland on this.\nRadio Free Europe, Radio Liberty, bannered, on June 5th, \"Poroshenko: Ukraine Will 'Do Everything' To Retake Crimea',\u201d and reported that, \u201cPresident Petro Poroshenko has vowed to seek Crimea's return to Ukrainian rule. \u2026 Speaking at a news conference on June 5, \u2026 Poroshenko said that 'every day and every moment, we will do everything to return Crimea to Ukraine.\u2019\u201d Poroshenko was also quoted there as saying, \"It is important not to give Russia a chance to break the world's pro-Ukrainian coalition,\u201d which indirectly insulted Kerry for his having criticized Poroshenko\u2019s warnings that he intended to invade Crimea and Donbass.\nRight now, the Minsk II ceasefire has broken down and there are accusations on both sides that the other is to blame. What cannot be denied is that at least three times, on April 30th, then on May 11th, and then on June 5th, Poroshenko has repeatedly promised to invade Crimea, which wasn\u2019t even mentioned in the Minsk II agreement; and that he was also promising to re-invade Donbass, something that is explicitly prohibited in this agreement. Furthermore, America\u2019s President, Barack Obama, did not fire Kerry\u2019s subordinate, Nuland, for her contradicting her boss on this important matter.\nHow will that be taken in European capitals? Kerry was reaffirming the position of Merkel and Hollande, the key shapers of the Minsk II agreement; and Nuland was nullifying them. Obama now has sided with Nuland on this; it\u2019s a slap in the face to the EU: Poroshenko can continue ignoring Kerry and can blatantly ignore the Minsk II agreement; and Obama tacitly sides with Poroshenko and Nuland, against Kerry.\nThe personalities here are important: On 4 February 2014, in the very same phone-conversation with Geoffrey Pyatt, America\u2019s Ambassador in Ukraine, in which Nuland had instructed Pyatt to get \u201cYats\u201d Yatsenyuk appointed to lead Ukraine after the coup (which then occured 18 days later), she also famously said \u201cF\u2014k the EU!\u201d Obama is now seconding that statement of hers.\nIn effect, Obama is telling the EU that they can get anything they want signed, but that he would still move forward with his own policy, regardless of whether or not they like it.\nKerry, for his part, now faces the decision as to whether to quit \u2014 which would force the EU\u2019s hand regarding whether to continue with U.S. policy there \u2014 or else for Kerry to stay in office and be disrespected in all capitals for his staying on after having been so blatantly contradicted by his subordinate on a key issue of U.S. foreign policy. If he stays on while Nuland also does, then, in effect, Kerry is being cut out of policymaking on Europe and Asia (Nuland\u2019s territory), altogether, and the EU needs to communicate directly with Obama on everything, or else to communicate with Nuland as if she and not Kerry were the actual U.S. Secretary of State. But if Kerry instead quits, then the pressure would be placed on EU officials: whether to continue with the U.S., or to reject U.S. anti-Russia policy, and to move forward by leaving NATO, and all that that entails?\nIf they then decide to stay with the U.S., after that \u201cF\u2014k the EU!\u201d and then this; then, the European countries are clearly just U.S. colonies. This would be far more embarrassing to those leaders than John Kerry would be embarrassed by his simply resigning from the U.S. State Department. It might even turn the tide and force the Ukrainian Government to follow through with all of its commitments under the Minsk II accords.\nIt would be the most effective thing for Kerry to do at this stage. But, it would lose him his position as a (now merely nominal) member of Obama\u2019s Cabinet.\nThe way this turns out will show a lot, about John Kerry. The nations of Europe already know everything they need to know about Barack Obama. If Kerry quits, he\u2019ll have respect around the world. If he stays, he\u2019ll be just another Colin Powell.\nThe ball is in Kerry\u2019s court, and everyone will see how he plays it \u2014 and what type of man he is (and isn\u2019t).\nInvestigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity, and of Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 8338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www2.fundsforngos.org/hiv-and-aids/dhhs-cdc-hiv-technical-assistance-in-burma-under-the-presidents-emergency-plan-for-aids-relief-pepfar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TBZO74OQ7UJ6IPK34IXVHTP3HRJX3ADQ", "length": 1622, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www2.fundsforngos.org", "title": "DHHS-CDC: HIV Technical Assistance in Burma under the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Latest Grants and Resources against HIV and AIDS / DHHS-CDC: HIV Technical Assistance in Burma under the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)\nDHHS-CDC: HIV Technical Assistance in Burma under the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)\nDepartment of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control is seeking applications for the grant programme entitled \u201cHIV Technical Assistance in Burma under the President\u2019s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)\u201d to provide technical assistance (TA) on strategic information (SI) and surveillance, HIV prevention, care and treatment, and laboratory systems in Burma under PEPFAR.\nThe purpose of this NOFO is to contribute towards the achievement of HIV epidemic control and reduced morbidity and mortality due to HIV/AIDS and associated co-infections in Burma by providing TA on HIV prevention, care and treatment, laboratory strengthening and surveillance, with a focus on KP and PLHIV, and their sexual partners.\nState governments or their bonafide agents (includes the District of Columbia) Local governments or their bonafide agents Territorial governments or their bonafide agents in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau.\nState controlled institutions of higher education American Indian or Alaska Native tribal governments (federally recognized or state-recognized)\nAmerican Indian or Alaska native tribally designated organizations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 7510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 142.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www5.123movies.fun/film/sanctuary-2016-27935/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:48Z", "digest": "sha1:3J4ZN2FMX64RUQJPSZ3ZZA2Z6PGENFSI", "length": 252, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www5.123movies.fun", "title": "Watch Sanctuary (2016) online free in HD - 123movies.org", "raw_content": "The movie follows the romance story of two young people, one has Down's and the other has epilepsy. 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Abrams\u2019 Fringe\u2014unquestionably one of the three best sci-fi shows made for television in this century, alongside Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who\u2014is that there\u2019s a second, nearly identical universe coterminous with ours. The wall between the parallel worlds remains impenetrable until a grief-stricken scientist, Walter Bishop, figures out how to cross over in order to save his dead son Peter\u2019s doppelg\u00e4nger; Walter ends up kidnapping the other Peter and bringing him back. This infraction against physics opens up \u201csoft spots\u201d between the two universes, and wherever the spots become too thin, a vortex or micro-black hole arises, leading to untold destruction in both universes.\nThe soft spots came back to me when I was searching for a way to sum up my picture of Silicon Valley\u2019s perilous state.\nYes, we\u2019re in a tech bubble. Of course we are. When Facebook can use $19 billion in funny money to buy a startup with revenues of $20 million (WhatsApp) or spend $2 billion to buy another startup that doesn\u2019t even have a product on the market (Oculus), that\u2019s a bubble.\nWhen the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco is $3,350\u2014enough to pay the mortgage on an $800,000 house in any other city\u2014that\u2019s a bubble.\nWhen investors have so much cash floating around, and keep buying into risky startups at ever-higher valuations (like Uber\u2019s ludicrous $18.2 billion) because they can\u2019t get a decent return on their money doing anything else, that\u2019s a bubble.\nThis bubble may not look the same as the last one. But I\u2019m not going to waste space here documenting its existence, which is only challenged by people who enjoy living in it.\nThe more interesting question, to me, is how the bubble will eventually pop. What are Silicon Valley\u2019s most important flaws and weaknesses? Where is the membrane being stretched so thin that it\u2019s in danger of tearing open and letting the outer reality rush in?\nOf course, there isn\u2019t any single, physical place where the bubble\u2019s collapse will begin. Since a bubble is primarily an economic and psychological phenomenon, it can only be burst by a broad shift in attitudes and expectations. But there are plenty of real places where the tensions, imbalances, or injustices that could escalate into a show-stopping crisis are in evidence.\nSo I invite you to play along with me below as I tour a few locations around the San Francisco Bay Area that could be considered our soft spots. They\u2019re symbolic of larger problems. You don\u2019t want to be standing in one of these places when the vortex opens up.\nBy the way, that\u2019s not an event I\u2019m looking forward to, or that I would want to hasten in any way. People riding the bubble have been generating all sorts of important new ideas and capabilities that might not have emerged otherwise. But it\u2019s wise to plan ahead. If we can identify the fractures that threaten to destroy the innovation machine, we might be able to patch them up and keep the system going for a while longer\u2014and maybe even point it in a smarter direction.\n1. 555 California Street, San Francisco: The Former Bank of America Tower\nThis 52-floor skyscraper has a lumpy black granite sculpture at its base. It\u2019s the creation of Nagasaki-born sculptor Masayuki Nagare and its actual name is \u201cTranscendence,\u201d but locals know it as the \u201cBanker\u2019s Heart.\u201d\nBank of America, still a major tenant in this Financial District landmark, repaid the entire $45 billion it received from the federal government through the Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2009, with interest. But it was still the focus of protesters\u2019 ire during the Occupy San Francisco movement in 2011: they stormed a branch office on Market Street, a few blocks away. And even today, the bank is struggling with the consequences of its $4 billion purchase of Countrywide Financial in 2007, which led to $40 billion in settlements and legal costs.\nI choose this location because Bank of America\u2019s troubles show how quickly boom can turn to bust. They remind us that a bubble is first and foremost a financial phenomenon fueled by easy money, whether that\u2019s in the form of excess capital or subprime loans.\nThe former Bank of America Tower in San Francisco. Source: Mike Linksvayer/Flickr.\nBecause interest rates have been so low for so long and the global economy isn\u2019t expanding very fast, investors are willing to put lots of money into any business that shows signs that it might actually grow. That\u2019s what tech startups do\u2014a small percentage of them, anyway. So there\u2019s still a lot of money being allocated to high-risk venture and private equity funds. But as soon as another plausible investment opportunity comes along\u2014when the Fed finally raises benchmark interest rates again, for example\u2014the capital could flee.\nThe tech giants still have a lot of cash on hand, so the big acquisitions could continue for a while even after an economic shock. Apple has $160 billion and Google has $57 billion. Facebook has only $12 billion in cash, but has much greater purchasing power thanks to its sky-high $154 billion valuation. But if things really go south, there\u2019s no net large enough to catch all of the late-stage tech companies that have been cashing huge venture checks lately, not because they need the money, but simply because it\u2019s available ($500 million for Airbnb; $250 million for Lyft; $80 million for Quora; $60 million for Nextdoor).\n2. Valencia Street and 24th Street, San Francisco: The Google Bus Stop\nThis is one of at least 20 places around the city\u2014many of them Muni bus stops\u2014where Google shuttle buses pick up employees early every morning for the ride to the Googleplex in Mountain View. In December, protesters blockaded a Google bus here in a demonstration against what they saw as misuse of public resources by a commercial entity.\nThe feelings at work behind the Google bus protests are complex. But a key element is the perception that the big Silicon Valley tech companies are subsidizing their employees\u2019 desire to live in San Francisco, one of the nation\u2019s tightest housing markets. Because these well-paid software engineers are able to fork over $4,750 per month for a junior 2-bedroom in Noe Valley, and be chauffeured to work on a cushy Wi-Fi-equipped bus, rents in the city are becoming unaffordable for everyone else, or so the story goes. It doesn\u2019t help matters that more and more San Francisco landlords are taking advantage of a California law, the Ellis Act, that allows owners of rent-controlled buildings to \u201cgo out of business,\u201d evict their tenants, and sell their properties to developers, who replace them with more expensive units or condos.\nProtesters blockade a Google bus near the corner of 24th and Valencia in San Francisco. Source: Chris Martin/Flickr\nTo my mind, Google employees are driving up rents, but no more than anyone else. At bottom, it\u2019s a problem of supply and demand. The housing supply in San Francisco is extremely limited and unlikely to grow much in the near future, for reasons explained in an in an epic, masterful piece last month by TechCrunch writer Kim-Mai Cutler. Prominent angel investor Ron Conway is leading an effort to repeal the Ellis Act, but even if it works, it wouldn\u2019t solve the problem. The truth is that as long as more people have their heart set on moving to San Francisco to seek their fortunes in the technology industry, rents will keep going up.\nBut there could come a time\u2014possibly soon\u2014when the entry-level or service workers every company needs are completely priced out of the region; or employers stop being so happy to subsidize their senior employees\u2019 high rents through high salaries and bonuses; or young workers in San Francisco realize that there are perfectly pleasant cities, like Sacramento, where they could live for a fraction of the rent. Then the housing crunch will become a drag on the labor supply, and companies won\u2019t be able to keep growing.\n3. 3000 Hanover Street, Palo Alto: Hewlett-Packard Headquarters\nThe average age of employees at Hewlett-Packard is 39, according to PayScale, the salary database provider. At IBM and Oracle, it\u2019s 38. The average employee at Google, Facebook, or Zynga, by contrast, is about 10 years younger.\nIt isn\u2019t possible to explain this difference using factors like geography or training: all of these companies draw on the same population of highly educated Bay Area software engineers. The truth is that Silicon Valley has an ageism problem. The hot young companies are afraid that if they hire people older than 30 or 35, it\u2019ll slow down the pace of innovation\u2014the \u201cmove fast and break things\u201d ethic espoused by Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg, who also famously remarked in 2007 that \u201cyoung people are just smarter.\u201d\nAs several excellent journalistic reports have documented lately, interviewers at younger companies systematically weed out mid-career professionals, despite their years of experience, using excuses like \u2026 Next Page \u00bb\n50 Podcasts You Should Be Listening To\u2014and 5 New Ways to Find Them\n6 responses to \u201cSoft Spots: Five Places Where Silicon Valley\u2019s Bubble Could Pop\u201d\npatrickrafter says:\nWade: Thanks for this fascinating and thought-provoking article. As a native of San Francisco who\u2019s lived in Boston for the last 20+ years, very interesting to see the state and cost of living in my hometown. I liked your editorial approach of using physical locations as harbingers of likely bubble trouble to come.\nThank you, Patrick. Boston has its own set of challenges. But the contrasts here are so stark\u2026I\u2019ve been gathering thread for this piece for a while, and could have added another five locations to the list. But people don\u2019t have all day to read blog posts, and I had to stop somewhere.\nSridhar Vembu says:\nGreat post, Wade. You have highlighted the collateral damage caused by the bubble well.\nThe role of the Federal Reserve in blowing these repeated bubbles is also worth highlighting. As an institution, the Fed has failed us.\n\u041e\u0447\u0435\u043d\u044a \u043a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u0438\u0432\u044b\u0435 \u0444\u043e\u0442\u043e\u0433\u0440\u0430\u0444\u0438\u0438) wade\nThanks Natalia, they\u2019re all Creative Commons images from various Flickr users.\nFrank Hofmeister says:\nWade \u2013 Your thoughts and visions are very well timed and placed. Let\u2019s hope some of the \u2018grown-ups\u2019 are paying attention? Thanks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 14366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yes2veg.com/address-at-westminster-abbey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3X3IH4VBXKKXMXERUTPQ2UIFPY5Z5SEU", "length": 2356, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "yes2veg.com", "title": "Address at Westminster Abbey | Yes2Veg.com", "raw_content": "And then we come to the churches. Where are they? The answer is that they are nowhere in this debate. With a few honourable exceptions \u2013 and I mean a very few \u2013 English archbishops and bishops haven\u2019t even addressed the issue in the past decade or more. Almost all church leaders, who are normally loquacious in lamenting regressive social policies, can\u2019t even register animal cruelty as a problem.\nThey talk airily of environmental responsibility, but, when it comes to confronting our specific duties to other sentient creatures, fall silent. What is true about the church\u2019s teaching is even more true of the church\u2019s liturgy. A prayer for the welfare of God\u2019s other creatures is nowhere to be found in its liturgical offerings. And why is it that those Christian pioneers, like Arthur Broome who effectively founded the RSPCA, are not remembered in such hallowed places as this?\nAll this represents not just a failure in moral perception, but a fundamental failure in theology, much deeper and much more profound than is commonly appreciated. Ludwig Feuerbach famously argued that Christianity is nothing other than the self-aggrandisement, even deification, of the human species.6 Christian theology needs animals to save itself \u2013 and ourselves \u2013 from idolatry. By \u201cidolatry\u201d, I mean the attempt to deify the human species by regarding the interests of human beings as the sole or exclusive concern of God the Creator.\nTo avoid this charge, theology needs to show that it can provide what it promises \u2013 namely a truly Godward (rather than a simply anthropocentric) view of the world. Its obsession with human beings to the exclusion of all else betokens a deeply unbalanced doctrine of the Creator.\nChristians haven\u2019t got much further than thinking that the whole world was made for us, with the result that animals are only seen in an instrumental way as objects, machines, tools, and commodities, rather than fellow creatures. We just haven\u2019t grasped that the God who meets us in Jesus is also the Logos through whom \u2013 and for whom \u2013 all creatures exist. To think that animals can be defined by what they do for us, or how they meet our needs, is profoundly un-theological.\nThe truth is that we are spiritually blind in our relations to other creatures, as blind as men have been to women, whites have been to blacks, and straights have been to gays.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yisraylhawkins.com/unless-you-repent-and-convert/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UTD32SPE5VOX56PVT3QFUEYYE4JMHNRE", "length": 1231, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "yisraylhawkins.com", "title": "Unless You Repent and Convert! | Yisrayl Hawkins", "raw_content": "Unless You Repent and Convert!\nYisrayl Gives Scriptural Steps\u2026\nYechetzqyah 18:4, 20-23, 27-28, 31-32\n27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does that which is Lawful and right, he will save himself, and live.\n28 Because he considered, and turned away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he will surely live; he will not die.\n31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed, and prepare yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Israyl?\n32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says Father Yahweh. Therefore, turn and live!\n4 He who says: I know Him, but does not keep His Laws, is a liar, and the Truth is not in him.\nPerish? By Burning? The End?\nWe are in the last generation allowed to be ruled by Yahdah, who holds the ruling scepter.\nGenesis 49:1 refers to a time period known as the Last Days.\n2 But Yahshua said to them: Do you see all these things? Truly I say to you: There will not be one stone left sitting on top of another, which will not be thrown down.\nTo read this article, go to http://yahwehsbranch.com/the-end-the-seven-year-peace-plan-the-last-three-and-one-half-years/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 7528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ynaija.com/as-told-by-banky-w-bb-rules-of-engagement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:2KSCLOSJEZNSKDVV7ABSYLY3E6WKWECE", "length": 8294, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "ynaija.com", "title": "As told by Banky W: BB rules of engagement \u00bb YNaija", "raw_content": "As told by Banky W: BB rules of engagement\nYNaija has been given EXCLUSIVE rights to share the latest post from Mr Capable\u2019s blog, The Bank Statements. If you\u2019ve ever wondered about the details of BB Etiquette, let Banky W school you. Thank him later\u2026\nIt\u2019s safe to say that almost everyone reading this is familiar with what that word above means\u2026 and if you aren\u2019t\u2026 welcome to Earth! The Blackberry is one of the most common and most used communication devices today among young people. I love Apple as much as anyone, but let\u2019s not even get into the #teamiPhone versus #teamBlackberry debate. Until you can BBM with an iPhone, we\u2019re not hearing it (and please don\u2019t bring up the whole whatsapp thing).\nThis post is mainly directed at BB users across the globe. I think the time has come for us to establish a simple set of rules for people who choose to use this device (I\u2019m sure some of these rules will not work only for BB\u2019s. Feel free to use where applicable for any other smartphones).\n1) Broadcast Messages \u2013 I figure we should start here because this might be the singular MOST ABUSED feature on the Blackberry device. Ladies and gentlemen, there\u2019s an occasional need to Broadcast a message to some or all of your contacts\u2026 however I must stress the word OCCASIONAL. It is supposed to be used sparingly, and only when it is important; infact, let\u2019s break broadcast messages into three permission-categories. Yes, No and Maybe.\nYES: Broadcast Messages that are permissible SPARINGLY, include (but are not limited to) the following contexts: \u201cPlease check out my business/website/Product\u201d, \u201cVote for someone for this competition\u201d, and the occasional Breaking News Fact that you need to share (but which you have verified) e.g. the Deaths of Michael Jackson and Da Grin. RIP.\nYou should have to be smart to own a smart phone. For goodness sake, I beseech you to realize once and for all, that you pay a certain amount of money for BB service every month. Please note, this is ALL you will EVER have to do to show the Blackberry server you are active. I must emphasize that THERE WILL NEVER BE A MESSAGE THAT YOU MUST SEND TO ALL YOUR CONTACTS OR RISK DELETION. EVER. EVER. EVER. Every couple of months, the same stupid spam resurfaces, and the same people fall for it over and over again. This nonsense must stop.\nReligious (or superstitious) Threats \u2013 \u201cForward this message to 10 people or else blah blah blah\u201d.\nRandom greetings like \u201chappy Sunday\u201d, \u201chappy New Month\u201d, \u201cHappy Monday\u201d, \u201cGoodmorning everyone\u201d, etc. While we can appreciate that most of these have good intentions, they generally just come across as annoying. You don\u2019t walk into a building and yell Happy Sunday/Goodmorning/etc on a loudspeaker to every occupant. The same principles should be applied the next time you have that urge to broadcast this.\nRandom facts about your day like \u201cI\u2019m about to board a plane\u201d, \u201cJust waiting for take off\u201d, \u201cJust Landed\u201d, \u201cAbout to have lunch\u201d, \u201cwhat Movie should I watch?\u201d, etc. I shouldn\u2019t have to explain this. Just stop.\nSERIAL BROADCASTING: please note that sending one broadcast per day is too much, even if it falls under the YES category. A couple per week is plenty. No matter how important the message is to you, the chances that we want a broadcast from you every hour, or every day, are slim to none. Again, you just come off as annoying. Failure to adhere to this can and will result in your being deleted.\nMusicians, Managers and their Entourages: It\u2019s okay to send a broadcast message every once in a while about your new single/album/video. It\u2019s NOT okay to send one every time the song is playing on Radio, or the Video is on TV. It\u2019s also not okay to abuse the privilege by sending the same messages repeatedly in a short amount of time. One or two is enough. Trust me we saw it the first time.\nThe occasional Joke that is REALLY funny. The danger with Jokes is that these days, many people have MANY contacts. So when you get the same joke 5 or 10 or 50 times, it\u2019s annoying. So whatever joke you choose to share, please make sure it\u2019s original, relatively new, or so damn hilarious that we won\u2019t mind seeing it repeatedly.\nTraffic or Emergency Alerts: These are always sent with good intentions, so we appreciate the thoughts behind them. However, too many times, there are no quantifiable measures in the messages, so they become spam. For instance, if there is a major roadblock (or an emergency situation), please also include the DATE AND TIME that this is occurring. I\u2019ve gotten the same traffic/armed-robbery alerts for a week from different contacts\u2026 it\u2019s either people are just resending the same messages days after the unfortunate incident occurred, or we\u2019re witnessing record breaking traffic/robbery times. No armed robbery lasts for a week. Even Anini wasn\u2019t that brave (inside joke to my Nigerian Friends).\n2) Display Names\nYour display name is totally under your control; feel free to call yourself whatever you like; it is your right as a blackberry owner. However, please be considerate of some of us who are trying to get a hold of you, but do not realize you\u2019ve now spelt your name in Arabian or Greek Symbols. Some of us have a lot of contacts, and it\u2019s really annoying when we\u2019re trying to find you, only to discover you\u2019ve changed your display name from.. say\u2026 Jane\u2026 to Jane spelt in Chinese, or \u201cMy luvlies\u201d, or \u201ca woman\u2019s heart is a deep ocean of secrets \u2013 Mexico \u2013 madly in luv\u201d. Henceforth, please try to ensure that your display name at least contains the name we know you by, in some form that is type-able when we try to search for you. Please note that the examples I listed above are actually 100% real, I did not make them up. Also, we realize that everyone can re-name contacts; but we shouldn\u2019t have to do it just to keep track of you. Afterall, it\u2019s just easier to delete your over-expressive self.\n3) BBM Add Requests\nThe BBMessenger should not be mistaken for Facebook/Myspace/Twitter. Your BB Pin is actually specific to your phone, and thus should be viewed more like a phone number. It is private and should only be given out with your consent. You also probably shouldn\u2019t attempt to add people who don\u2019t know you and haven\u2019t directly given you permission to. If you\u2019re interested in someone, it\u2019s always better to get their phone number directly from said-person, rather than to stumble on it somehow and call them out of the blue. The same principles should be applied with Pin Sharing.\n4) Contact Deletion\nPeople delete contacts for a bunch of reasons. Maybe they have too many contacts and are trying to clear space by removing people they don\u2019t keep in touch with. Maybe they are tired of the 5,000 broadcast messages you send per week. Maybe they just don\u2019t want too many people, or just you specifically, on their BB anymore. It\u2019s okay to delete, and to be deleted. Times change; contact lists do as well. NO harm, no foul. There are many more people to chat with.\n5) PING\u2019s!!!\nA conversation should NEVER be started with a PING!!! It is supposed to be used as a tool to gain attention when someone is not reading his/her messages. The proper protocol is to send one or two messages and THEN PING when your messages have not been read. Not the other way around. I realize this might not be a big deal to everyone, but it\u2019s just\u2026 chat courtesy\u2026 if you will. It\u2019s like typing in CAPS LOCK. It just feels like you\u2019re shouting on line. Not necessary, and annoying.\nThere are many more rules we can add, and we may choose to revise this list as time goes on, but hopefully this is a good start to a more pleasurable experience for us all. Please spread the word. And Delete a Serial Broadcaster today.\nBanky W and other like-minds.\nPS: Sooner or later, we\u2019ll have to do a \u201cRules of Engagement\u201d for Twitter and Facebook. Stay tuned. :o)~\nPPS: Please never take me too seriously in these matters. I\u2019m kinda just kidding. Kinda. But it\u2019s food for BBthought. I didn\u2019t mean to get anyone upset or offended. Just having fun AND trying to reduce the number of broadcasts I get everyday. Love y\u2019all!\nthis is funny. lol\nmrs gbemisola adeola\nDeres always an option b4 u add people on ur [email protected] u should ignore peeps u don't know.being \u01fb celeb does'nt mean all ur fans should be ur friends.i agree wiv mr capable one way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 12292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://youngwomenshealth.org/tag/anxiety/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:24Z", "digest": "sha1:ZDUMFLTYLCCWTWTPRA6YA3NM7XNXNGNS", "length": 1054, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "youngwomenshealth.org", "title": "Tag: anxiety | Center for Young Women's Health", "raw_content": "http://youngwomenshealth.org/tag/anxiety/\nArticles Tagged: anxiety\nI have a lot of panic attacks for instance before exams or an oral presentation. I did some yoga exercises to learn how to breathe calmly but it didn\u2019t help. It isn\u2019t easy to live with panic attacks. What can I do?\nPanic attacks are extremely difficult to deal with. The symptoms, which can include shortness of breath, chest tightness, sweating and stomach upset are frightening and may make people worry that \u2026 read more\nI\u2019m already weird, I like heavy metal, video games, anime, and reading, but that\u2019s all! I\u2019m scared I might change more than I need to, and I just know this \u2026 read more\nWhat is Social Anxiety Disorder? Social Anxiety Disorder, also known as Social Phobia, is a mental health condition. It usually begins in the early teen years. People with Social Anxiety \u2026 read more\nEveryone experiences anxiety at different times in their lives. For instance, you may feel anxious before giving a class presentation or before a big test. Sometimes anxiety is a normal \u2026 read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yourforestcitychiropractor.com/what-to-expect.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3I2AVM5MCZIZTVZX5WGW6ZTDVCSRQBZI", "length": 353, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "yourforestcitychiropractor.com", "title": "Integrity Health Options, PA - Chiropractor in Forest City, NC US :: What to Expect", "raw_content": "If you are in pain when you come into our Forest City chiropractic office, our first objective is to help you reduce pain and start feeling better as soon as possible. Depending on the severity of the underlying condition which is causing your pain, it is typical for a patient to need chiropractic care or adjustments 2-3 times per week for 4-12 weeks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 6864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://z-wavealliance.org/global-contacts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:21Z", "digest": "sha1:F3FMTDLX2TGR2LUJ5ZKXKFBUFLU52D2P", "length": 1025, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "z-wavealliance.org", "title": "Global Contacts - Z-Wave Alliance", "raw_content": "As a globally accepted technology, Z-Wave is the go-to smart home solution in key national and regional markets throughout the world. To inquire about how Z-Wave can help your business, contact the Z-Wave alliance at info@z-wavealliance.org.\nUSA/Worldwide: Mitchell Klein, Executive Director, The Z-Wave Alliance\nMitchell Klein joined the Z-Wave Alliance in September 2015, with over 30 years of experience as a results-driven leader in the CE and smart home industries. As the director of business development for Universal Remote Control, Klein was a key member of the senior team that grew URC from a remote control company to a smart home integration system supplier. The CEO at the award-winning integration firm Media Systems for 14 years, Mitchell was CEDIA\u2019s first two-term President, launching the organization\u2019s certification program, as well as its first regional events and media tours. 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Currently, there are 40 companies working in the park, employing some 300 people, but the workgroup training process will reach 500 people.\nBeing Danube cities and situated near the Black Sea and Danube Delta, the area of Galati-Braila has a great potential in tourism development, especially recreational hunting and fishing. Also, considering the area's rich history, situated at the confluence of ancient historical regions, and the diversity of national minorities, cultural heritage of Galati-Braila Region is extremely rich, proved by archaeological remains, monasteries, museums, memorial houses and theaters scattered throughout the region;\nSeveral investment opportunities in the area:\nCaineni Lake and Balta Alba Lake, with a very high quality therapeutic mud;\nthermal waters, in Braila, with the water temperature of 60 \u00b0 C.\nthe Small Island of Braila / Little Pond of Braila Natural Park - a 5.000 ha natural reserve, important resource in developing and promoting eco and scientific tourism.\nfisheries (Zaton Lake, Blasova resort), with destinations such as: natural and sport fishing, recreation, hunting.\nBeing an area with an important tradition in agriculture and good quality land, with important results in the production of cereals, industrial plants, vegetables and wine, Galati-Braila area has a real potential of development in this direction. Also, the port\u2019s infrastructure for storage and loading / unloading products, the universities specialized in food industry make this area a privileged one.\nYou are here THE AREA Investment potential", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00120.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://14000registry.com/registrars.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVWUEF5CDSXRYFTLWRDWGL7MDPJKMMZY", "length": 432, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "14000registry.com", "title": "Registrars", "raw_content": "The Registry does not provide third-party certification/registration services. Instead we offer a link to accredited registrars, interested in increasing the acceptance of ISO 14001 as a better business tool and removing barriers to the adoption of the standard. The Registry does not perform any audits on these companies; their presence here is for the convenience of our clients who wish to post their conformity on the Registry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://48horasweb.com/2010/06/page/2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:48Z", "digest": "sha1:HOIB5AMRG3UNMIS2RWYZEKTL2KOC6PIT", "length": 5823, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "48horasweb.com", "title": "June | 2010 | 48HoursWeb | Page 2", "raw_content": "If you are self- employed, you have to think of an insurance plan for yourself. If you are employed by a company, you usually do not have to think about your insurance as the company will do it for you. When it comes to Health Insurance Reviews, you can read them and decide which insurance plan is the most suitable to your needs. It is on healthinsurancereviews.com that you will find free reviews about insurance plans for you, your family, or your small business. Healthinsurancereviews.com offers free reviews of companies such as Blue Cross or Humana One as well as many other companies. If you wonder how much your dental insurance plan will cost you, do not hesitate to check it out.\nIt is not rare for many people to have a few monitors attached to their computer. For many reasons, some people might need to do some work on a few monitors at the same time. If you have only one monitor attached to your PC, you might have thought at some point about a dual monitor or even a triple monitor that would make your works so much easier. I can think of many reasons why computer users might need to use a few monitors at once. The obvious reason is the work of graphic designers. An average graphic designer can take advantage out of a program such as Actual Multiple Monitors to make his work a lot easier. Thanks to such a program, you can easily extend taskbar without the need to buy a second computer. If you have just bought a second or a third monitor and connected them to your PC, you might be frustrated that they are empty. Only with a program like Actual Multiple Monitors can you do wonders on your all monitors without the hassle of having a few computers running at the same time. It is a lot easier than you might think it is.\nThe Internet has grown tremendously in the past decade. I am sure that nobody has any doubt about that. Since then, online businesses started flourishing. If you do not have your own online business yet, buying a website might be your best bet. If you decide to buy a website, make sure that you choose a website that receives a lot of traffic and is ranked highly in search engines. It should not be that difficult to find websites for sale on the Internet. Many people recently have been thinking about changing their careers from a traditional brick and mortar to an online business. There is a good reason why it happens. The internet has become a source of information, entertainment, and of course money. You can, for example, decide to sell a website and make some money that way. Having an online business can be more than just a way to earn some money. If you are successful, having your own online business can provide you with joy, freedom, and flexibility. You will discover that you have more time to spend with your family or to engage in your favorite activities if you have an online business.\nHomes in Wilmington\nDo you remember the time when you tried to find your dream home? When you try to look for homes for sale in Wilmington, NC, you have thousands of houses to look at. You might feel a little lost and you might not know where to start looking for them. All you need is a good tool that will make your search a lot easier. I know of a tool that can help every person find his dream home in Wilmington, NC. Thanks to the tool, you can browse homes by zip code, their MSL number, property type, subdivision, and many more.\nCompanies and Promotional Products\nI remember receiving a few promotional pens after a visit to my bank. I remember that I have been using those pens for a long time. Receiving the pens was a nice reminder to me that I was a valued customer of my bank. I have always believed that promotional products were a good way to market a company. Promotional products such as the products from AnyPromo.com are cheap. You can buy them in bulk. Once you buy many of them, you can start giving them to your customer or your prospective business partners. I am sure that they will appreciate your generosity.\nOne can never care too much about the safety of those who work and live around him. Wherever a person goes, he might experience an accident. It does not have to happen in his workplaces, but it is likely to happen while he works rather than at home. OSHA safety compliance is an important part of running every business. If a business fails to comply with certain standards , it risks bearing the consequences. If you work for a company, you want to know that the moment you step into your workplace you are safe. You want to know that nothing bad can happen to you while you work, even if you happen to work in difficult conditions.\nThis entry was posted in Biz, Main Category on June 18, 2010 by Webber.\nMany of us enjoy listening to some music. If you like a particular artist, why would you not want to express yourself by having some ring tones on your mobile phone that could remind you of your favorite musicians? For example, if you enjoy the music of Katy Perry, you will also enjoy Katy perry ring tones. I know a website offering its visitors a lot of different ring tones for their mobile phones. Having ring tones on your mobile phone is a great chance to listen to catchy tunes whenever your phone rings. Jamster.com has been providing entertainment content for mobile consumers, which lets them to personalize their phone with various ring tones, mobile games, dial tones, and many more. How many times do you get a phone call per week? You don\ufffdt have to answer all of them, but remember that each time your phone rings, you have a unique chance to listen to a catchy tune that you chose. You can find many ring tones on the website and they are not limited to Katy Perry ring tones only. If I were to choose a ring tone for my phone, i would have problems doing it, since lately I have been enjoying so many songs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 10090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://911truth.org/mothers-day-proclamation-1870/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:04Z", "digest": "sha1:JTA5HICNJMBE5HF7ADQY6BKUEKYX7254", "length": 1419, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "911truth.org", "title": "Mothers Day Proclamation - 1870 - 911Truth.Org %", "raw_content": "Biography of Julia Ward Howe\nUS feminist, reformer, and writer Julia Ward Howe was born May 27, 1819 in New York City. She married Samuel Gridley Howe of Boston, a physician and social reformer. After the Civil War, she campaigned for women\u2019s rights, anti-slavery, equality, and for world peace. She published several volumes of poetry, travel books, and a play. She became the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1908. She was an ardent antislavery activist who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic in 1862, sung to the tune of John Brown\u2019s Body. She wrote a biography in 1883 of Margaret Fuller, who was a prominent literary figure and a member of Ralph Waldo Emerson\u2019s Transcendentalists. She died in 1910.\nJulia\u2019s Voice is dedicated to reclaiming Mothers Day as it\nwas intended by\nJulia Ward Howe, a day to promote peace and speak out against war.\nMother\u2019s Day was first organized 139 years ago by the abolitionist, suffragette\nand poet Julia Ward Howe to promote peace and speak out against war.\nJulia\u2019s Voice is a group of \u201cmothers and others\u201d who began our work\nof reclaiming Mothers Day in 2008 by honoring the Julia Ward Howe and hosting\nour first event to return Mothers Day to its original intent.\nPrevious articleAmerica\u2019s Afghanistan: Heroin-ravaged State\nNext articleThe Big \u201cCon\u201d: Taliban take Pakistan and it\u2019s \u201cAnother 9/11\u201d\nHow Brian Williams Can Regain Our Trust", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 9500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 145.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://975now.com/ahmeek2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSXVVST72GNRMEX75TRHA2S3QMVQYW6G", "length": 1417, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "975now.com", "title": "MICHIGAN GHOST TOWN: The Violent Past of Ahmeek", "raw_content": "MICHIGAN GHOST TOWN: The Violent Past of Ahmeek\nA few years ago, I was up in the Keweenaw Peninsula and stopped in this little town of Ahmeek. According to the 2010 census, only 146 people resided in Ahmeek, making this an unofficial ghost town...and looking at the pictures, it sure looks like one.\nWhat I noticed when I was there (and what you'll see in the pictures below) were the deserted streets. The downtown area - what there is of it - had no people, no vehicles, no activity. It was even hard to find a still-operating business. The whole town is seen as one big empty square block, looking at it from an aerial view.\nThe name \"Ahmeek\" is a word taken from the Chippewa term, \"amik,\" which means \"beaver.\" And, as small as it is (only 0.07 square miles total), it is the ONLY incorporated town in Keweenaw County.\nAhmeek was founded in 1904 as a mining town and it grew rapidly. Thanks to the Copper County Strike of 1913-1914, the town became a hotbed of violence: bombs, guns, stoning, fights, murder, beatings, dynamiting...so much so, that the police and militia had to be brought in. Find out more details on this story at http://www.hu.mtu.edu/vup/Strike/.\nNowadays, it's quiet and some of the old mines are still visible. It's a drive to get there but it's an interesting part of Michigan history...take a couple of days off sometime and try to get there! 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Our primary concern is the upliftment of all people in South Africa so that all may share in an improved quality of life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 162.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aboutmanchester.co.uk/additional-bus-services-put-in-place-to-help-commuters-during-regent-road-major-roadworks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HG4FRK3R6PACYXIIN7VEULV2TCFBNJN6", "length": 3920, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "aboutmanchester.co.uk", "title": "Additional bus services put in place to help commuters during Regent Road major roadworks - About Manchester", "raw_content": "Home Latest Additional bus services put in place to help commuters during Regent Road...\nAdditional bus services put in place to help commuters during Regent Road major roadworks\nAdditional bus services will be introduced from the start of next week to help commuters travelling into and from the city centre during the Manchester and Salford Inner Relief Route improvement works taking place on and around Regent Road.\nFrom Monday 17 September, TfGM have secured additional services during the morning and evening peak periods between the A580 Park and Ride site and Princess Street in Manchester city centre. Services will be operated by First Manchester.\nAround 140 extra seats will be provided in the morning peak and an additional 210 seats in the evening. A day ticket will cost \u00a34.80 to buy on the bus or \u00a34.50 with an m-Ticket available via the First Bus mobile app.\nInto the city centre the buses will run direct to Salford Central rail station then will call at all stops to Princess Street. This journey will take around 35 minutes. Return journeys will call at all stops from Princess Street to the A580 Park and Ride. The 260 \u2013 Park and Ride can be accessed via the A580, junction 13 of the M60 or junction 23 from the M6.\nOther additional services are being investigated and will be implemented in due course.\nA year-long programme of major roadworks \u2013 which is being led by Manchester and Salford City Councils \u2013 has now begun to improve six key junctions on Regent Road, Trinity Way and A57 Mancunian Way.\nTransport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) is encouraging motorists heading into Greater Manchester to plan ahead, allow more time for their journeys or use alternative routes or modes of transport.\nTo help commuters plan their journey during the work, TfGM has created a Manchester and Salford Inner Relief Route (MSIRR) travel advice page at www.tfgm.com/travel-updates/regent-road.\nMayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, said: \u201cThe works around Regent Road are having a major impact on journey times for road users travelling around the regional centre and I have asked TfGM to do all it can to minimise disruption.\n\u201cThis additional First Manchester bus service is a small, but important, step in the extra support we are putting in place to help people on their daily commutes.\u201d\nIan Humphreys, Managing Director of First Manchester, said: \u201cWe\u2019re pleased to support TfGM with providing additional services during the road works disruption. In addition, we\u2019re proud to confirm that from Monday, customers will be able to pay for their tickets via contactless payments. The introduction of contactless payments means that paying for bus travel is more convenient and simpler than ever before.\u201d\nManchester City Council\u2019s Executive Member for the Environment, Planning and Transport, Councillor Angeliki Stogia, said: \u201cWe\u2019re working with Transport for Greater Manchester and Salford City Council to minimise the impact of these essential works, which will ultimately increase capacity and improve traffic flow on this route and are vital for the long-term future of the region.\n\u201cWe understand that major roadworks cause disruption and are committed to doing everything we can to limit their effect on journey times.\u201d\nTfGM will continue working closely with Manchester and Salford City Councils to offer support to drivers affected by the works by providing the latest travel advice via our 24 hour control centre \u2013 which enables enhanced network monitoring and the ability to dynamically change traffic signals and improve traffic flow.\nPrevious articleOver one million pounds falsely denied to disabled claimants reclaimed\nNext articleFive iconic Aircraft are on display in Albert Square this weekend\nLocking up women for petty crime does more harm than good...\nNorthern Powerhouse can create 850,000 jobs by 2050 says report\nPolice-\u201cHelp us find the person responsible for the shooting in Moss...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 7414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kelly-david-frederick-3932", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:34Z", "digest": "sha1:UXBS2YKW5PBIIZR5OOYPXHFQAGITKQE3", "length": 2795, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "adb.anu.edu.au", "title": "Biography - David Frederick Kelly - Australian Dictionary of Biography", "raw_content": "Kelly, David Frederick (1847\u20131894)\nDavid Frederick Kelly (1847-1894), professor of classics, was born in Ireland, the eldest son of David Kelly, landowner of Castledawson, County Londonderry, Ireland. From Dungannon School he won a classical scholarship in 1869 to Trinity College, Dublin, was admitted to the Middle Temple on 23 April 1872 and moved to Clare College, Cambridge (B.A., 1875; M.A., 1879). He then taught the sixth form of Dulwich College but resigned at the end of 1878 when he accepted an appointment as Hughes professor of classics and comparative philology and literature at the University of Adelaide. With his wife Louisa Jane, n\u00e9e d'Arenberg, and her brother, Frederick Augustus, he arrived at Adelaide in the Assam on 27 February 1879. Next day he was introduced to the university council.\nThe council had added evening classes to the regular day-time lectures but Kelly's expositions were not popular. In his address to the annual commemoration in December 1885 he criticized the growing emphasis on utilitarian subjects and strongly advocated the discipline of classics, especially the study of Greek which local educationists were trying to oust from South Australian schools and thereby from the university. He was more successful in his advocacy of sports. He had rowed at Cambridge and in Adelaide joined the University Rowing Club. He played tennis and was a member and sometime captain of the Adelaide Archery Club. He enjoyed carpentry, built a dogcart for himself and installed his own bells and lighting system.\nFrom about 1886 Kelly began to suffer from locomotor ataxia. On 20 November 1886 his wife died at Oakbank, leaving a son, Ignatius George. Kelly later married her sister, Sophie Armstrong; their son, David Victor, was born at College Park on 14 September 1891. In October 1893 Kelly sailed in the Oruba with his wife and two children to spend Christmas in England. On 6 March 1894 he returned to Adelaide alone and in rapidly deteriorating health. Friends took him to hospital at North Adelaide where he died on 21 March, aged 46. He was buried at the North Road cemetery and the university was closed for the day. His will of 28 November 1890 bequeathed his estate of \u00a3750 to his wife but it was revoked and he died intestate. His son David (1891-1959) became a well-known British diplomat.\nD. Kelly, The Ruling Few (Lond, 1952)\nRegister (Adelaide), 27 Feb 1879, 3 May 1882, 2, 5 Nov 1886, 5 Oct 1893\nObserver (Adelaide), 24 Mar 1894.\nKelly, David Victor (son)\nSally O'Neill, 'Kelly, David Frederick (1847\u20131894)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kelly-david-frederick-3932/text6185, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 16 February 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 113.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://adlib.info/scholars-on-social-media/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:46Z", "digest": "sha1:56ITXWWUJXAZRZTJT72K5FOIQ4XKT3GW", "length": 4195, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "adlib.info", "title": "Submitted: Galileo on Twitter? McMaster's Freedom to Read Video Campaign \u2022 Ad/Lib", "raw_content": "Submitted by: Madeline Donnelly\nInstitution: McMaster University Library\nFinding a creative way to promote Freedom to Read Week\nOver the past few years, McMaster University Library has run some great Freedom to Read (F2R) Week campaigns that have focused on banned and challenged books. This year, I was tasked with creating a campaign that focused less on books and more on academia and intellectual freedom. Although these are exciting topics for me, I thought that students might find these topics a little boring. So, what to do? I knew from the beginning that I wanted the campaign to be run on social media, and to consist of a few short, attention-grabbing videos. I also wanted the videos to demonstrate that intellectual freedom protects our capacity to explore new ways of thinking and our ability to challenge one another. Then it dawned on me that perhaps the best way to illustrate the importance of intellectual freedom is to demonstrate what happened to scholars in the past when they were not protected by these principles. In order to bring this topic into a modern context, I used social media as a framing device: what might happen to these scholars if they were sharing their radical ideas on social media platforms.\nI consulted with various people and departments within the University to ensure the successful creation and dissemination of the videos. I worked with McMaster Library\u2019s Archives and Rare Books Librarian, Myron Groover, to brainstorm which scholars to feature and the Manager of Student Media & Computing, Chris McAllister, to help me work out \u201ckinks\u201d in the execution of the videos. I also had regular communication with both the library advancement committee and the University\u2019s public relations department to ensure that the videos met the branding guidelines for dissemination using the University\u2019s channels.\nRe-making Social Media in Camtasia\nMaking the social media look \u201creal\u201d in Camtasia\nI used TechSmith\u2019s Camtasia to compile and edit the videos. My initial strategy was to create social media accounts for all of the people featured in the videos, and then to record their interactions using the screen cast function. Unfortunately Twitter was able to detect that I am not actually Galileo, The Roman Inquisition and the Pope\u2026 so I was blocked. As a result, I had to figure out how to use only one Twitter and Facebook account by re-creating the interface in each video frame. It took about four full workdays to create the set of three videos.\nFacebook page as it looked before editing\nThe videos were created with the intention of sharing them on social media. The first video was initially shared on a library Instagram account (191 views, 52 likes), but the ending of the video needed to be trimmed to fit within Instagram\u2019s one-minute maximum time frame. The videos were also posted on the Library\u2019s YouTube account and were followed up with promotion on the Library\u2019s Twitter accounts. These resulted in a about a hundred views per video\u2026 but nothing in comparison to the 4800+ views in the first five days of the videos being posted on the University\u2019s Facebook account! To conclude F2R Week, the videos were also shared in a Library News Story.\nMcMaster\u2019s primary account shared one of the videos, garnering significant views.\nIf there was a lesson that I learned from this project, it is to always remain flexible and adaptive. I usually begin a video project with a clear idea of what it will look like, and how I will go about doing it, but it rarely works out the way that I plan. Make a social media account with Galileo and his haters? Easy! That is, until I realized boiling down really complex historical events (that I didn\u2019t know much about) into a few Tweets takes quite a lot of research and creativity. Also, I definitely did not plan to have to re-create the social media platforms in each frame of the video. But, when the day is done, the trick is to be resourceful and find a way around the roadblocks to get to the completely worth-while final result!\nThis work by Madeline Donnelly is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International\nAcademic Libraries, Marketing Campaign, Submission, Video / Multimedia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 7641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aechile.cl/2018/02/12/ifiar-board-responds-to-monitoring-group-consultation-paper/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:01Z", "digest": "sha1:IQTLU6OOH7MXBHZJWPEXS4CDNKEHJ25P", "length": 769, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "aechile.cl", "title": "IFIAR Board responds to Monitoring Group Consultation Paper \u2013 AECHILE", "raw_content": "IFIAR Board responds to Monitoring Group Consultation Paper\nPublished: IFIAR\nOn November 9, 2017 the Monitoring Group issued the consultation paper Strengthening the Governance and Oversight of the International Audit-related Standard-setting Boards in the Public Interest, which set out various options to enhance the governance, accountability and oversight of the international audit standard setting process.\nThe IFIAR Board has submitted a letter to the Monitoring Group in response to the consultation paper, in which the Board expresses its support for the reform initiative. A copy of the letter is available at the link below.\nIFIAR Board letter to Monitoring Group\nhttps://www.ifiar.org/latest-news/ifiar-board-responds-to-monitoring-group-consultation-paper/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 508, "original_length": 8362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aeofberkeley.org/2001-to-2010/2010/125-staged-reading-american-buffalo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NOQRR4YBZ35DILPK223WMSISHEKDH7DZ", "length": 1341, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "aeofberkeley.org", "title": "Staged Reading - American Buffalo", "raw_content": "A Special Staged Reading Presented by Actors Ensemble of Berkeley David Mamet\u2019s American Buffalo Directed by Robert Estes Wednesday, November 17th, 8 p.m. Pay-What-You-Can Live Oak Theatre, Berkeley 1201 Shattuck Ave (at Berryman) in North Berkeley.\nCome see American Buffalo, David Mamet\u2019s funny, yet searing exploration of the self-sabotage of the underclass in a staged reading directed by Robert Estes (who recently explored with us similar themes in Sam Shepard\u2019s Curse of the Starving Class). Widely considered one of the best plays of the last quarter of the 20th Century, American Buffalo explores the conflicts amongst an erstwhile team of lowlifes as they angle for an opportunity to make money, or as they call it, \u201cthe shot\u201d: the robbery of a seemingly well-off coin dealer who in their view has \u201cripped off\u201d one of them. The desperate interplay between the men takes the form of a kind of \u201cprofane poetry\u201d which hilariously, yet tragically, reflects both the brutal business environment they inhabit and how their own actions tend to reinforce their position in life. The reading will feature three veteran actors with great facility with the material \u2013 Stanley Spenger (president of Actors Ensemble), George Killingsworth, and Shawn Lesniak, and is presented in a \u201cpay what you can\u201d format \u2013 Don\u2019t miss this unique opportunity!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 210.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/2182/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:T4HVXBEHEVKQFHRJCYF5CBXI2VNYPCM6", "length": 790, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "album.atlantahistorycenter.com", "title": "Roosevelt, Franklin Delano :: Kenneth Rogers Photographs", "raw_content": "Home Kenneth Rogers Photographs Roosevelt, Franklin Delano\nTitle Roosevelt, Franklin Delano\nDescription View of Democratic presidential nominee Franklin Delano Roosevelt (back seat, left) during a campaign visit to Warm Springs, Georgia.\nNotes Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, and served from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was Governor of New York, prior to being elected president. Roosevelt was a frequent visitor to Warm Springs, Georgia after he contacted polio. He utilized the pools at the resort town to heal his legs. Roosevelt visited Georgia over forty-one times between 1924 and 1945, and consequently endeared himself to many of the state\u2019s residents.\nAdd tags for Roosevelt, Franklin Delano\nPost a Comment for Roosevelt, Franklin Delano", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 6534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 158.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alicantecosta.ru/catalog/pokupka/uncategorized/n2129-nh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:31Z", "digest": "sha1:XAUJ7TEEPHWHMBLN4MDMWYTTILMBOKPM", "length": 823, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "alicantecosta.ru", "title": "N2129-NH | Alicante Costa", "raw_content": "The property comprises 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, bright living / dining room, separate kitchen with natural light entrance, large front terrace of approximately 30m2 and side garden of about 90m2 with space for a private pool and possibility of parking on plot. At the top there is also a private solarium with 2 storage rooms, which can be converted into a third bedroom without problem. Excellent location surrounded by all services because of its proximity to the commercial centers of the Zenia Boulevard and Cabo Roig. It is also close to several golf courses and the popular beaches of Orihuela Costa. The Residencial has a community pool. Air conditioner.\nAt 17Km from the airport of San Javier, 1Km from the beach and just 2Km from the best golf courses in the area.\nCOMMUNITY 400 euros / year. SUMA 210 euros / year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alyvea.com/anatomy/muscles-lower-limbs.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:06Z", "digest": "sha1:D3JMIDYJ62LS3ERDCF64DFYFFRY5RTDS", "length": 15461, "nlines": 100, "source_domain": "alyvea.com", "title": "Appendicular Muscles of the Pelvic Girdle and Lower Limbs- Online Textbook Chapter - Alyvea.com", "raw_content": "Appendicular Muscles of the Pelvic Girdle and Lower Limbs\nIdentify the appendicular muscles of the pelvic girdle and lower limb\nIdentify the movement and function of the pelvic girdle and lower limb\nThe appendicular muscles of the lower body position and stabilize the pelvic girdle, which serves as a foundation for the lower limbs. Comparatively, there is much more movement at the pectoral girdle than at the pelvic girdle. There is very little movement of the pelvic girdle because of its connection with the sacrum at the base of the axial skeleton. The pelvic girdle is less range of motion because it was designed to stabilize and support the body.\nWhat would happen if the pelvic girdle, which attaches the lower limbs to the torso, were capable of the same range of motion as the pectoral girdle? For one thing, walking would expend more energy if the heads of the femurs were not secured in the acetabula of the pelvis. The body\u2019s center of gravity is in the area of the pelvis. If the center of gravity were not to remain fixed, standing up would be difficult as well. Therefore, what the leg muscles lack in range of motion and versatility, they make up for in size and power, facilitating the body\u2019s stabilization, posture, and movement.\nGluteal Region Muscles That Move the Femur\nMost muscles that insert on the femur (the thigh bone) and move it, originate on the pelvic girdle. The psoas major and iliacus make up the iliopsoas group. Some of the largest and most powerful muscles in the body are the gluteal muscles or gluteal group. The gluteus maximus is the largest; deep to the gluteus maximus is the gluteus medius, and deep to the gluteus medius is the gluteus minimus, the smallest of the trio ([link] and [link]).\nHip and Thigh Muscles\nThe large and powerful muscles of the hip that move the femur generally originate on the pelvic girdle and insert into the femur. The muscles that move the lower leg typically originate on the femur and insert into the bones of the knee joint. The anterior muscles of the femur extend the lower leg but also aid in flexing the thigh. The posterior muscles of the femur flex the lower leg but also aid in extending the thigh. A combination of gluteal and thigh muscles also adduct, abduct, and rotate the thigh and lower leg.\nThe tensor fascia latae is a thick, squarish muscle in the superior aspect of the lateral thigh. It acts as a synergist of the gluteus medius and iliopsoas in flexing and abducting the thigh. It also helps stabilize the lateral aspect of the knee by pulling on the iliotibial tract (band), making it taut. Deep to the gluteus maximus, the piriformis, obturator internus, obturator externus, superior gemellus, inferior gemellus, and quadratus femoris laterally rotate the femur at the hip.\nThe adductor longus, adductor brevis, and adductor magnus can both medially and laterally rotate the thigh depending on the placement of the foot. The adductor longus flexes the thigh, whereas the adductor magnus extends it. The pectineus adducts and flexes the femur at the hip as well. The pectineus is located in the femoral triangle, which is formed at the junction between the hip and the leg and also includes the femoral nerve, the femoral artery, the femoral vein, and the deep inguinal lymph nodes.\nThigh Muscles That Move the Femur, Tibia, and Fibula\nDeep fascia in the thigh separates it into medial, anterior, and posterior compartments (see [link] and [link]). The muscles in the medial compartment of the thigh are responsible for adducting the femur at the hip. Along with the adductor longus, adductor brevis, adductor magnus, and pectineus, the strap-like gracilis adducts the thigh in addition to flexing the leg at the knee.\nThe muscles of the anterior compartment of the thigh flex the thigh and extend the leg. This compartment contains the quadriceps femoris group, which actually comprises four muscles that extend and stabilize the knee. The rectus femoris is on the anterior aspect of the thigh, the vastus lateralis is on the lateral aspect of the thigh, the vastus medialis is on the medial aspect of the thigh, and the vastus intermedius is between the vastus lateralis and vastus medialis and deep to the rectus femoris. The tendon common to all four is the quadriceps tendon (patellar tendon), which inserts into the patella and continues below it as the patellar ligament. The patellar ligament attaches to the tibial tuberosity. In addition to the quadriceps femoris, the sartorius is a band-like muscle that extends from the anterior superior iliac spine to the medial side of the proximal tibia. This versatile muscle flexes the leg at the knee and flexes, abducts, and laterally rotates the leg at the hip. This muscle allows us to sit cross-legged.\nThe posterior compartment of the thigh includes muscles that flex the leg and extend the thigh. The three long muscles on the back of the knee are the hamstring group, which flexes the knee. These are the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus. The tendons of these muscles form the popliteal fossa, the diamond-shaped space at the back of the knee.\nMuscles That Move the Feet and Toes\nSimilar to the thigh muscles, the muscles of the leg are divided by deep fascia into compartments, although the leg has three: anterior, lateral, and posterior ([link] and [link]).\nThe muscles of the anterior compartment of the lower leg are generally responsible for dorsiflexion, and the muscles of the posterior compartment of the lower leg are generally responsible for plantar flexion. The lateral and medial muscles in both compartments invert, evert, and rotate the foot.\nThe muscles in the anterior compartment of the leg: the tibialis anterior, a long and thick muscle on the lateral surface of the tibia, the extensor hallucis longus, deep under it, and the extensor digitorum longus, lateral to it, all contribute to raising the front of the foot when they contract. The fibularis tertius, a small muscle that originates on the anterior surface of the fibula, is associated with the extensor digitorum longus and sometimes fused to it, but is not present in all people. Thick bands of connective tissue called the superior extensor retinaculum (transverse ligament of the ankle) and the inferior extensor retinaculum, hold the tendons of these muscles in place during dorsiflexion.\nThe lateral compartment of the leg includes two muscles: the fibularis longus (peroneus longus) and the fibularis brevis (peroneus brevis). The superficial muscles in the posterior compartment of the leg all insert onto the calcaneal tendon (Achilles tendon), a strong tendon that inserts into the calcaneal bone of the ankle. The muscles in this compartment are large and strong and keep humans upright. The most superficial and visible muscle of the calf is the gastrocnemius. Deep to the gastrocnemius is the wide, flat soleus. The plantaris runs obliquely between the two; some people may have two of these muscles, whereas no plantaris is observed in about seven percent of other cadaver dissections. The plantaris tendon is a desirable substitute for the fascia lata in hernia repair, tendon transplants, and repair of ligaments. There are four deep muscles in the posterior compartment of the leg as well: the popliteus, flexor digitorum longus, flexor hallucis longus, and tibialis posterior.\nThe foot also has intrinsic muscles, which originate and insert within it (similar to the intrinsic muscles of the hand). These muscles primarily provide support for the foot and its arch, and contribute to movements of the toes ([link] and [link]). The principal support for the longitudinal arch of the foot is a deep fascia called plantar aponeurosis, which runs from the calcaneus bone to the toes (inflammation of this tissue is the cause of \u201cplantar fasciitis,\u201d which can affect runners. The intrinsic muscles of the foot consist of two groups. The dorsal group includes only one muscle, the extensor digitorum brevis. The second group is the plantar group, which consists of four layers, starting with the most superficial.\nIntrinsic Muscles of the Foot\nThe muscles along the dorsal side of the foot (a) generally extend the toes while the muscles of the plantar side of the foot (b, c, d) generally flex the toes. The plantar muscles exist in three layers, providing the foot the strength to counterbalance the weight of the body. In this diagram, these three layers are shown from a plantar view beginning with the bottom-most layer just under the plantar skin of the foot (b) and ending with the top-most layer (d) located just inferior to the foot and toe bones.\nIntrinsic Muscles in the Foot\nThe pelvic girdle attaches the legs to the axial skeleton. The hip joint is where the pelvic girdle and the leg come together. The hip is joined to the pelvic girdle by many muscles. In the gluteal region, the psoas major and iliacus form the iliopsoas. The large and strong gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus extend and abduct the femur. Along with the gluteus maximus, the tensor fascia lata muscle forms the iliotibial tract. The lateral rotators of the femur at the hip are the piriformis, obturator internus, obturator externus, superior gemellus, inferior gemellus, and quadratus femoris. On the medial part of the thigh, the adductor longus, adductor brevis, and adductor magnus adduct the thigh and medially rotate it. The pectineus muscle adducts and flexes the femur at the hip.\nThe thigh muscles that move the femur, tibia, and fibula are divided into medial, anterior, and posterior compartments. The medial compartment includes the adductors, pectineus, and the gracilis. The anterior compartment comprises the quadriceps femoris, quadriceps tendon, patellar ligament, and the sartorius. The quadriceps femoris is made of four muscles: the rectus femoris, the vastus lateralis, the vastus medius, and the vastus intermedius, which together extend the knee. The posterior compartment of the thigh includes the hamstrings: the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and the semimembranosus, which all flex the knee.\nThe muscles of the leg that move the foot and toes are divided into anterior, lateral, superficial- and deep-posterior compartments. The anterior compartment includes the tibialis anterior, the extensor hallucis longus, the extensor digitorum longus, and the fibularis (peroneus) tertius. The lateral compartment houses the fibularis (peroneus) longus and the fibularis (peroneus) brevis. The superficial posterior compartment has the gastrocnemius, soleus, and plantaris; and the deep posterior compartment has the popliteus, tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, and flexor hallucis longus.\nThe large muscle group that attaches the leg to the pelvic girdle and produces extension of the hip joint is the ________ group.\nWhich muscle produces movement that allows you to cross your legs?\nthe gluteus maximus\nthe piriformis\nthe gracilis\nthe sartorius\nWhat is the largest muscle in the lower leg?\nThe vastus intermedius muscle is deep to which of the following muscles?\nWhich muscles form the hamstrings? How do they function together?\nThe biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus form the hamstrings. The hamstrings flex the leg at the knee joint.\nWhich muscles form the quadriceps? How do they function together?\nThe rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis, and vastus intermedius form the quadriceps. 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You go to a party and someone asks you what you do for a living. You want to say: Hey, I\u2019m the bass player for Metallica or I\u2019m a transplant surgeon or I\u2019m a skydiving instructor. Something with a Wow factor. Instead, a little sheepishly, with averted eyes, you say: Oh, I work in the supply chain.\nI remember several years ago taking my then 17-year-old daughter on a tour of colleges outside of Chicago. On the way to O\u2019Hare, we visited the new tech lab of an automated materials handling supplier. The executives who showed off the lab could not have been prouder. Back in the car, I was jazzed only to have my daughter snarl with the disdain that can only be conjured by teenagers: \u201cIf I had your job, I\u2019d shoot myself.\u201d Not cool, right?\nStill, the world needs procurement, manufacturing, logistics and distribution rock stars; in the future, as Baby Boomers like me hang it up, they\u2019re going to need even more of them.\nAll of which explains why ThomasNet and Institute for Supply Management (ISM) announced a new 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Stars recognition program last week in Las Vegas at ISM\u2019s annual conference. The program will honor thirty professionals who are 30 years of age or younger, and are already making their mark on the purchasing/supply chain management industry. You can read more about the program, and more importantly, how to nominate a Millennial rock star by clicking here.\nAt the Las Vegas event, ISM and ThomasNet said there were a couple of imperatives for the initiative. First, by 2025, today\u2019s Millennials, like my daughter, will comprise about 75 percent of the workforce. To be blunt, we have to convince them not to want to shoot themselves.\nSecond, as ISM CEO Tom Derry pointed out, supply chain professionals make decisions every day that affect their companies\u2019 brands, competitive positioning and performance.\n\u201cWe hope that by spotlighting the accomplishments of young supply chain \u2018rock stars,\u2019 we will encourage them to stay and build lifetime careers in this profession,\u201d he said, adding that they\u2019ll also serve as role models for other Millennials.\nLast, they hope to inject the \u201ccool factor\u201d into supply chain management and procurement. After all, our industry brings together global business, new technologies and the opportunity to manage the complexities of different cultures. Millennials have the chance to get involved in areas that may dovetail with their personal values, such as sustainability and corporate social responsibility, Derry and Mark Knudsen, ThomasNet\u2019s president pointed out.\nMaybe convincing Millennials of our coolness is a tall order. I will say this. Recently, I had the chance to sit in on a round table discussion on purchasing moderated by Kate L. Vitasek, the founder and managing partner of Vested and one of the industry\u2019s rock stars. While most people probably think of purchasing the way my daughter viewed a visit to a materials handling tech lab, the Millennials in the room were passionate, excited, full of questions and focused on their careers. Perhaps one of them will end up as a 30 Under 30 Rising Supply Chain Star.\ntalent management \u00b7 All Topics\nwww.citroen.niko.ua/models/citroen-c4-new_7/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 9482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ampedabroad.com/volunteer_countries.cfm?country=GUATEMALA", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:09Z", "digest": "sha1:CWH4HPSE4H6YIE7JPNJJVZUBSRWJOVPY", "length": 14859, "nlines": 73, "source_domain": "ampedabroad.com", "title": "Get AMPED Abroad | Volunteer Work | Volunteer in Argentina, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana and Guatemala", "raw_content": "When it comes to culture, Guatemala is culture in the raw! Sixty-five percent of the country\u2019s population is made up of 24 indigenous groups (Quiche, Mam, Kaqchiquel, Q\u2019eqchi\u2019 among others) all of which speak different languages.\nOn designated days of the week, neighboring villages are host to market days, painting a lively street scene of vendors and would-be buyers. Rural villagers in bright kaleidoscopic traditional traje dress, descend from miles to the central parts of nearby towns to sell their handmade wares, fruits and vegetables, and livestock.\nThe contagious rhythmic sounds of the outdoor concerts and cultural celebrations will have you swaying in no time, daring you to try out those new salsa and meringue moves.\nAnd what\u2019s a journey to Guatemala without taking note of the chicken buses? Formerly, plain old standard yellow school buses from the U.S., these vehicles have been cosmetically souped-up to give them a flavor that is distinctly Latin. While they do make for a cheap travel option, be warned. There are reasons for the low fares.\nBy joining AMPED\u2019s volunteer projects in Guatemala, you will be in the center of all this in the city of Quetzaltenango (Xela), Central America\u2019s \u201ccradle of culture.\u201d\nXela is a quaint college town of over 200,000 people, making it the second largest city in Guatemala and it serves as the commercial center for the country\u2019s southwestern region. The city is enveloped by hills, mountains, and volcanoes (both active and inactive.) So the landscape makes it ripe for hiking, and the warm natural springs just outside of town offer indulgent relaxation for sore muscles.\nWhile there are many colorful and entertaining aspects of Guatemala to be enjoyed, there is a stark reality with regard this country and its people.\nNearly 40 years of civil war struggle left the country torn apart. In the war\u2019s aftermath, hundreds of thousands were left dead; one million refugees and internally displaced; thousands widowed and orphaned; and hundreds of massacres and villages left in complete ruin.\nAs an AMPED volunteer, you can join in Guatemala\u2019s recovery effort by devoting your time and skills to one of the following projects:\nHUMAN RIGHTS (WOMEN)\nTEACHING ENGLISH IN LOCAL SCHOOLS\nWomen's rights issues in Guatemala are gaining worldwide attention, as the country has the highest rate of abuses against women than anywhere in Latin America.\nThe root causes for abuses against women are many and are attributed to complex social issues, including domestic violence, unemployment, and male substance abuse.\nAMPED\u2019s women\u2019s rights project in Guatemala collaborative effort between the local government and various local organizations that are committed to women\u2019s empowerment. Together, they work to educate rural Guatemalan women concerning their rights, health and gender issues; teach them English and how to produce crafts (food, chocolate, pastries, costume jewelry, etc.) The skills and knowledge that the women obtain are applied in their every day world. For the goods that they make are sold so that they can become financially self-sufficient and further their independence.\nAccompanying facilitators to lectures and work-shops centered around the rights of women, women's health, gender, etc.\nConducting lectures and workshops concerning the following topics: gender, rights of women, and women's health. Note: The women served by this project work to support themselves and/or their families so this activity would depend on their work schedules and availability.\nParticipating and/or observing life-skill courses centered around handicrafts, cooking, and pastry-making.\nProviding administrative support.\nRequirements: Must be female at least 18 years of age and have an intermediate Spanish level. Additionally, participants must provide an official \"Certificate of Good Conduct \" or official proof of \"Lack of a Criminal Record\". This documentation (with an official seal and signature) can be obtained, for a nominal fee, from the local police department, county district clerk's office, or equivalent law enforcement or governmental body. Background checks conducted through online services will not be accepted.\nVolunteer $885 $1035 $1185 $1410 $1585 $1760 $1935 $2185 $2310 $2460 $2610\n*Includes project set-up arrangements, host family accommodations and meals in Xela, orientation, and 24/7 emergency in-country staff support. Spanish lessons available if your schedule permits. Note: Add an additional $25/week for healthcare/medical placements.\nQuality, affordable healthcare is not accessible for a significant number of Guatemalans. There is a severe shortage of doctors and hospitals as well.\nThe major causes of death in Guatemala are treatable and preventable in more developed countries, diseases and conditions such as heart disease, bronchitis, and influenza.\nTrained and licensed healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses, midwives) are needed to help tend to the community\u2019s healthcare needs.\nAMPED medical volunteers may have the opportunity to engage in the following:\nObserve and work on medical cases; and\nProvide preventive health education;\nNOTE: Work responsibilities are assigned at the project director\u2019s discretion based on his or her assessment of your skill level and ability, as well as demonstrated initiative.\nRequirements: Must be a trained and licensed healthcare professional and have an intermediate Spanish level. Documentation of medical credentials and career vitae must be provided prior to arrival. Additionally, participants must provide an official \"Certificate of Good Conduct \" or official proof of \"Lack of a Criminal Record\". This documentation (with an official seal and signature) can be obtained, for a nominal fee, from the local police department, county district clerk's office, or equivalent law enforcement or governmental body. Background checks conducted through online services will not be accepted.\nTo say that maintaining and supporting a family is \u201chard work\u201d is an absolute understatement. Just try then to imagine the challenges in a developing nation like Guatemala where the threats to the family unit are staggering.\nAbject poverty is only one cause of the number of children left orphaned or in need of childcare. While there are some reasons that may seem familiar to westerners (substance abuse, domestic violence, etc.,) there are others that are not fathomable such as the threats that resulted from the unconscionable crimes committed during the country\u2019s civil war.\nToday, in a post civil war Guatemala, children are left at home with older siblings or grandparents for long periods of time as parents have to work multiple jobs or shifts to just to try to meet the basic needs of their family. That is only if they are fortunate enough to have a family support system. There are countless others that travel to work with their parents because there is not anyone to care for them. Worse yet, some are sent off to work themselves to be an additional source of financial support, only to eventually become homeless or orphaned.\nAMPED\u2019s orphanage/daycare projects in Guatemala aim to help these disadvantaged children and their families. The orphanages offer a more stable and loving environment for the children. Daycare facilities offer a safe environment for children to learn and have the freedom to just be kids while their parents work to support the family.\nVolunteers for this project may expect to:\nAssist the staff with nurturing and caring for the children;\nHelp the children with their homework; and\nOrganize games and recreational activities \u2013 e.g. dance, music, soccer, etc., and\nHelp with cleaning, cooking, or painting the facility.\nRequirements: Must be at least 18 years of age and have an intermediate Spanish level. Additionally, participants must provide an official \"Certificate of Good Conduct \" or official proof of \"Lack of a Criminal Record\". This documentation (with an official seal and signature) can be obtained, for a nominal fee, from the local police department, county district clerk's office, or equivalent law enforcement or governmental body. Background checks conducted through online services will not be accepted.\nRemember when you'd sit in class and muse to yourself, \"When am I ever going to use this?\" Your \"this\" could've been geometry or maybe -- just maybe -- it was that foreign language class. Tsk...tsk. In the age of telecommuting and growing diversity at school, the workplace, and in our communities, you're probably wishing that you'd put forth a little more effort in learning how to conjugate those verbs and roll those \"Rs\".\nThat's alright. We won't hold it against ya. In fact, we're gonna help you out by giving you an opportunity to learn Spanish from the pros in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. Group classes taught by native Spanish speakers offer the best of both worlds -- peer-based learning and expert instruction.\n***Note: This is a Spanish language class only. This does not include a volunteer placement.\nRequirements: Must be at least 18 years of age.\nAvailability: Classes are available year round. Students receive 5 hours of intense Spanish learning Monday through Friday.\n$150 $300 $450 $600 $750 $900 $1050 $1200 $1350 $1500 $1650 $1800\nWorking with disabled children broadens your appreciation for the simple things we take for granted. The mere companionship provided by a volunteer affords a rare opportunity for the child to form a new bond and to be exposed to life in other parts of the world through shared experiences.\nChildren living with disabilities generally live in isolated conditions. Limited levels of physical and social interaction can be barriers to their ability to enjoy life to its fullest. Simple everyday tasks like brushing their teeth or having a conversation may require the greatest of effort.\nAMPED volunteers working with disabled children will have the opportunity to bring joy, confidence, and companionship to a child\u2019s life by:\nObserving and assisting with therapeutic modules;\nOrganizing educational and recreational games;\nAdministering physical and speech therapies, provided the volunteer has the necessary skills and qualifications;\nProviding psychological counseling assistance provided the volunteer has a degree in psychology or related field, and can communicate effectively in Spanish; and\nWorking in the area of social work if the volunteer has a relevant degree in that field.\nRequirements: Must be and least 18 years of age, possess substantive and relevant experience working with children living with disabilities, and an intermediate Spanish level. Documentation of experience and credentials must be provided prior to arrival. Additionally, participants must provide an official \"Certificate of Good Conduct \" or official proof of \"Lack of a Criminal Record\". This documentation (with an official seal and signature) can be obtained, for a nominal fee, from the local police department, county district clerk's office, or equivalent law enforcement or governmental body. Background checks conducted through online services will not be accepted.\nMaybe you have seen them in other countries you have visited as they surround your taxi at the airport or bus station. Their small hands pressed against the car window. Perhaps you have heard or read about them selling their small trinkets on the street \u2013 gum, bananas, etc.; -- anything they think will earn them money. They are usually dirty and unkempt. Though their actions may prompt you to view them otherwise, they are the most innocent of victims. They are street children. To know them is to know their heartbreaking stories.\nIt is estimated that there are over 14,000 street children living in Guatemala\u2019s back alleys, garbage dumps, parks, and cemeteries. At ages as young as seven, many have no choice but to work to help feed and support their families. Soon realizing that their chances of survival are better alone, if they have not yet already been abandoned, they take to the streets to grasp at what they feel is their only chance of survival.\nWhile they are young, they are able to scrape up a few pennies here and there. As they grow older their lives become more difficult. They begin to turn to a life of drugs, crime, and promiscuity and prostitution. As a result, the number infected with HIV/AIDS is on the rise.\nHere are some ways AMPED volunteers can become involved with helping street children and at-risk youth of Guatemala rise above their circumstances:\nHelp to provide life and job skills training to older children so that they can learn to become productive members of society;\nParticipate in group counseling/therapy sessions;\nTeach the children core subjects, and health and hygiene at the project\u2019s elementary school;\nAssist with group therapy;\nOrganize constructive recreational activities; and\nCombine insufficient funding, lack of qualified teachers, over twenty spoken languages, and a limited curriculum the result is a nation in which 31 percent of those age 15 years and older cannot read and write. That is the situation as it exists in Guatemala.\nGuatemala has the lowest literacy rate in Central America. Though children are required by the government to attend primary school, enrollment drops significantly at the secondary level when government funding ends. Only the few that make-up the middle and upper-class can afford the tuition, uniforms, and school supplies needed to further their children\u2019s education.\nIndividuals only need pass the final exam for secondary education in order to meet the requirements for becoming a teacher who often times earn very low to no salaries at all.\nAnd while Spanish is the country\u2019s official tongue, many of the indigenous Mayan groups have retained their ancestral ties, including that of their language, which further complicates matters. Neither the staff nor curriculum is equipped to address their needs. 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Now is an extraordinary time and opportunity to partner with the NAACP and together connect the more than 42 million Afro-descendants with the brilliance of the African history and its contribution to modern civilization,\u201d added Kofi Appenteng, President of the Africa-America Institute.\nThe curriculum from the NAACP/AAI Alliance will include content such as Africa\u2019s Great Civilizations, the critically acclaimed series by Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Partners and NAACP chapters will benefit from organized screenings and lessons with an early education focus on positive identity formation and a more advanced curriculum that includes studies in social sciences.\nA campaign kick-off will take place in February of 2018 as a part of Black History Month.\nLive on MLK Day: 49th NAACP Image Awards\nEncore broadcast of \u2018The African Americans\u2019 starts May 11\nHonoring Vivian Fox", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ancquest.com/pressreleases/pr051001.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:11Z", "digest": "sha1:E23WKWPZOSHWCLCVI3SRQQCVBULRUV32", "length": 1789, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "ancquest.com", "title": "Ancestral Quest - Press Release 5-10-2001", "raw_content": "Incline Software Reclaims Ownership of Ancestral Quest\nfrom The Hope Foundation\nSalt Lake City, Utah (May 10, 2001) - Incline Software, LC, producer of Ancestral QuestTM, the leading personal genealogy records management software, announced today that it had reclaimed ownership of Ancestral Quest from The Hope Foundation.\nIncline SoftwareTM developed Ancestral Quest in 1994, and over the years has enhanced it to make it, including products derived from it, the most widely used personal genealogy records manager in use today.\nIn September of 1998, Incline Software and The Hope Foundation started the process of transferring ownership of Ancestral Quest from Incline Software, who had developed it, to The Hope Foundation. This sale was not completed. In September of 2000, Incline Software reclaimed ownership of Ancestral Quest, but continued to work in the name of The Hope Foundation until today, when The Hope Foundation finally relinquished title to Ancestral Quest and all rights to it.\nIncline Software will now be able to concentrate its efforts in further enhancing Ancestral Quest and other genealogical services.\nAll inquiries about Ancestral Quest should now be made to:\nIncline Software, LC\nE-Mail: ancquest@ancquest.com\nWeb Site: http://www.ancquest.com\nAncestral Quest (AQ) is an extremely easy to use, full-featured genealogy records manager. Its reporting capabilities are excellent, and it has the most advanced source documentation abilities available in any genealogy software. AQ has industry leading scrapbooking capabilities that allow users to preserve their precious photos, video clips, and audio clips for posterity, keeping the memory of ancestors alive for generations to come.\nAncestral Quest and Incline Software are trademarks of Incline Software, LC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://annclow.com/albums/spiritual/spiritsong/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:23Z", "digest": "sha1:NOPNJKKS7GZQDNJHMRU27RPVPWX2RVBH", "length": 199, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "annclow.com", "title": "spiritsong |", "raw_content": "Eagle Song On my travels through Colorado, I was guided to a unique place. A man was there playing a native flute. He said it was the song of the eagle. His music seemed to dance towards the heavens.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/23/tim-cook-spotted-eating-with-brazils-bolsonaro-microsofts-nadella-others-at-davos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:2G3NTRIJ3AICRETYBDPYSIV4PUJSZEFK", "length": 1277, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "appleinsider.com", "title": "Tim Cook spotted eating with Brazil's Bolsonaro, Microsoft's Nadella & others at Davos", "raw_content": "Other people at the table included Swiss President Ueli Maurer, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and members of the Belgian royal family, according to a photo shared on Twitter. Davos offers an opportunity for corporate and political leaders to mix as they discuss the future of the planet.\nBolsonaro is an extremely controversial figure in and outside of Brazil, a leader who has not only opposed immigration and environmental regulations but defended torture, and the former military dictatorships of Brazil and Chile, even arguing they should have killed more people.\nIt's unknown what sort of discussions Cook may have had with Bolsonaro or other leaders. Private talks at Davos are rarely made public.\nBrazil is an important market to Apple as the biggest country in South America. The company has retail stores in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and launched Apple Pay there last year.\nImport costs tend to make Apple products expensive. Assembly partner Foxconn did make a short-lived run in the country, but pulled out partly because it was counting on money from a private investor and the Brazilian government, the latter of which it was hoping would cover 30 percent.\nApple promotes photography with 'Shot on iPhone' contest, but is ripping off photographers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archaeologicalethics.org/topic/civic-engagement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:16Z", "digest": "sha1:IGSQOPY3HQAJC7B7PGFHMKODOGDOLXGK", "length": 62, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "archaeologicalethics.org", "title": "Civic Engagement \u2013 Archaeological Ethics Database", "raw_content": "\u00a9 2019 http://archaeologicalethics.org/topic/civic-engagement/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 148.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.clubofthewaves.com/surf-culture/wetsuits.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:14Z", "digest": "sha1:EJSQDYYU3KCU4A4PZC3VZG6O4UQYFDUA", "length": 5649, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "archive.clubofthewaves.com", "title": "Wetsuits - History & Information | Club Of The Waves", "raw_content": "Unless you're lucky enough to be in a tropical climate, are hard as nails, or you just don't feel pain, you'll need a wetsuit to surf. Unfortunately, the sun soaked lineups you see in the media, where a pair of boardshorts and a surfboard is all you'll need, is not a reality for the majority of surfers worldwide. For the vast majority a wetsuit is a must, especially if you want to surf all year round (and not die of hypothermia in the process).\nThe wetsuit first came about in the early 1950's in California, invented by a man you must surely have heard of\u2026 Jack O'Neill (yes the guy you see in some O'Neill ads is a real person, not a gimic!). The first suits were stitched together pieces of neoprene in the form of vests. At first they were prone to ripping and not a patch on the suits around today, but all the same, a huge relief to the surfers freezing their nuts off in the Californian winter swells, who, before the wetsuit came along would paddle out with a few wooly jumpers on and try their best to keep dry!\nMost modern wetsuits are still made from neoprene, which is a stretchy synthetic rubber material. New features and innovations have seen the wetsuit improve rapidly over the years, some wetsuits now are made from recycled plastic bottles, others are battery heatable enabling surfers to investigate new breaks in ice cold locations, and I've even heard talk of wetsuits that allow you to paddle out with a personal stereo!\nWetsuits are designed to allow plenty of shoulder and knee movement for maximum manoeuvrability, and are available in a range of thicknesses. The thickness you get depends on the temperature of the water you are surfing in, or how little you like the cold!\nWetsuits are not designed to keep you dry as you may think. They let small amounts of water in and work by sealing this thin layer of water between the surfers skin and the wetsuit. As the surfers body temperature rises, the trapped water is warmed up and acts as insulation. The black colour of your wetsuit also absorbs the suns rays to further aid the insulation process.\nIt is important that your wetsuit fits well and doesn't let too much water in at the neck or elsewhere, otherwise the water will not be sealed well enough to warm up. Plus, if the wetsuit isn't warming you efficiently enough, then you'll be wasting valuable energy trying to keep warm, energy you'll need for paddling and fighting those currents and rips! However, it is also important that your wetsuit isn't too tight, or it can both restrict your movement making it harder to paddle, and also cuts off circulation making you lose valuable energy/strength.\nGetting in and out of your suit can be exhausting\u2026 but well worth it! And if you're surfing in a really cold environment, your post-surf numb fingers ain't gonna make taking your wetsuit off any easier! For added extras you can get neoprene shoes, boots, gloves and hoods, which may look silly, but you'll appreciate them once you're out there (\u2026especially in the winter!).\nTypes of wetsuits\nWetsuits come in different sizes, thicknesses and styles. Names will vary around the world, as will the slang terms for them, but below is a basic breakdown of wetsuit types\u2026\nFull suits are as they sound really, 'full' body coverage, long arms and legs. They are designed for cold or cool water temperatures and enable you to stay out in the water longer. A full suit is your 'main' wetsuit if you like, if you're only going to get one suit, you're probably best off with a full suit that'll keep you warmer in the winter months, but maybe not too warm in the summer months, depending on where you are in the world! You may hear some people referring to 'summer-suits' or 'winter-suits', these refer to the thickness of the neoprene\u2026 For example, you may opt for a 3mm thickness in the summer and a thicker 5mm in the colder winter waters, it's your choice.\nShorties just means shorter sleeves and legs. Obviously not suitable for cold water and supposedly gives you more ease of movement, but then wetsuits are so good nowadays that most full suits are stretchy and agile enough for you to move freely.\nSpring-suits\nAn extension of the 'summer-suit', with long legs and short sleeves. Doesn't keep you as warm, so maybe not the best choice for cold water, but can be more comfortable in warm water.\nRash vests or 'rashies'\nA rash vest is not a wetsuit, but a simple, thin, stretchy, long or short sleeved top most commonly worn with boardshorts in warmer water or tropical climates. Unlike wetsuits, they are not intended to keep you warm, they have a variety of other uses\u2026 They can be used to protect you from the rough (waxed) deck of your surfboard... and more important for guys here, but the warmer water can melt the wax on your board, which doesn't mix too well with hairy chests! Additionally sand can stick to the wax, which effectively turns your surfboard into a block of sandpaper\u2026 ouch! Rash vests are also worn to cover up from the sun, important for longer sessions in tropical locations! And also in competition surfing, different colour tops are worn to identify the surfers in the water for the benefit of the judges and spectators on the beach.\nAt the end of the day, there's no right or wrong wetsuit, it's down to your own personal preference, what you feel comfortable in, how much or little you can brave the cold water, or how much or many you can afford!\nOne final piece of good advice\u2026 It's well worth spending a bit more money on a wetsuit, you can save pennies on them, but you'll probably regret it once you're in the water!\nLearn more about the pioneers & innovators in surfing history\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 7323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.eurweb.com/2010/03/ky-mani-marley-publisher-dr-farrah-gray-patch-things-up/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ENPZT24776SHDVV6VYIYVFOVUO2YAE7V", "length": 2156, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "archive.eurweb.com", "title": "Ky-Mani Marley, Publisher Dr. Farrah Gray Patch Things Up | EURweb", "raw_content": "Ky-Mani Marley, Publisher Dr. Farrah Gray Patch Things Up\n*\u201dOne Love.\u201d The late great Bob Marley\u2019s credo lives on. Despite a controversial start to the publishing of Ky-Mani Marley\u2019s \u201cDear Dad\u201d book, all\u2019s well that ends well.\nAfter an initial outcry over the subtitle of the book with Publisher Dr. Farrah Gray, the descendant of one of the world\u2019s best-selling musical icons is set to embark on a 27-city book signing promotional tour with Dr. Gray.\nSon of the legendary King of Reggae music Bob Marley, Ky-Mani Marley worked with Dr. Gray\u2019s publishing company to write his book. Much of the book centered on the claim that he was deprived of his father\u2019s fortune for years by the reggae star\u2019s widow, Rita Marley. Titled \u201cDear Dad,\u201d the book hit booksellers\u2019 stands February 6, when the late reggae icon would have turned 65.\nImmediately, the firestorm began for the young Marley, 34, during the final edit of the book, he spoke with his sister, Cedella Marley, CEO of Tuff Gong Records, and he advised Dr. Gray that some changes had to be made. By the time he had the changes ready, it was the day of the printing, which would have obviously complicated the logistics, causing Farrah Gray Publishing damages and disruption. Farrah Gray Publishing felt as if the subtitle was needed to explain the complexity of the situation.\nAfter \u201cDear Dad\u2019s\u201d release, Dr. Gray and Ky-Mani were at odds over the book\u2019s subtitle. Just when it looked like the two were headed to court, an announcement came that they had ironed out their differences.\n\u201cI stand behind the content of my book \u2018Dear Dad\u2019 100 percent,\u201d Ky-Mani said in a statement released Tuesday, March 16.\nFarrah Gray Publishing has agreed to modify the subtitle on all new copies of \u2018Dear Dad\u2019 and they are celebrating the resolution of this modification.\nThe book is available at BarnesandNoble.com.\nbob marleydr. farrah grayky-mani marleyone love\nPrevious ArticleVideo: 8-Year Old Twins Pass Math Proficiency Tests\u2026for High School!\nNext ArticleHealthcare Problems May Force Obama to Delay Asian Trip Again\nMarch 17, 2010 NYCsoul Reply\n\ud83d\ude2f \ud83d\ude44\nMarch 17, 2010 HHCassius Reply\nSO WHAT\u2019S THE SUBTITLE THEN?!?!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 5767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.nepalitimes.com/news.php?id=13454", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:54Z", "digest": "sha1:UYQPQXGUBXSO3KV6AM6BZTIE22NPXBZG", "length": 2221, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "archive.nepalitimes.com", "title": "\"We are confident in Nepal\"- Nepali Times", "raw_content": "\"We are confident in Nepal\"\nRamesh Tainwala, Samsonite South Asia president\nThe timing was bad when Samsonite entered the Nepali luggage market four years ago. But the company stayed on and, is now ready to take advantage of peacetime. Samsonite is launching a major campaign to improve its visibility and increase points of sale. The company has opened a new showroom at the Bluebird Mall and is preparing to open more showrooms around the country and expand the range of products on sale. Samsonite South Asia president Ramesh Tainwala talked to Nepali Times about the company's plans for the future in Nepal.\nNepali Times: What's behind your renewed push in Nepal?\nRamesh Tainwala: We entered the Nepali market four years ago and have had to bear a lot of loss. But with the peace process underway, our assessment is that the market environment will be much better. We are confident about launching our products once again.\nWhat do you see is the future of the Nepali market?\nBoston Consulting in the United States advises the Samsonite Corporation about how to deal with international markets. We know from the tour operators Carlson Wagonlit that they alone will increase the numbers of tourists they bring into Nepal in 2008-09 by over 400 percent. In addition to tourism, business travel will also grow, and we need to be ready before they arrive.\nSo the tourist market is large enough?\nWe are trying to be more visible in Nepal not just because we want to sell more, but also to offer service. Existing customers will have access to repair services for their products.\nYou are offering a large range here; what's new in it?\nThe corporation offers five brands: Samsonite, the luxury Black Label, American Tourister for family travels, Timberland for outdoor activities, and Lacoste for women. Samsonite and Black Label are here, we will also introduce Lacoste and Timberland.\nDoes this mean a big investment?\nWe have four showrooms in Nepal. By the end of the year we plan to have 11. We will also open showrooms in Pokhara, because it is a big tourist destination. We expect additional investment of $700,000, at $100,000 per showroom. In addition, we are also organising a global sales meet in Nepal in November.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.spectator.co.uk/page/21st-april-1979/7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:37Z", "digest": "sha1:5GVDZLX34J6EVO2NV5YPTPEVOBFV2EOJ", "length": 211, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "archive.spectator.co.uk", "title": "Page 7 \u00bb 21 Apr 1979 \u00bb The Spectator Archive", "raw_content": "America's Answers To Inflation\nNicholas von Hoffman Washington Africa has been insisting on intruding itself onto the national consciousness just when nobody wants to pay it any attention. The overthrow of......", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archives.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005136925&var_Year=2011&var_Month=06&var_Day=15", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:32Z", "digest": "sha1:N5AUGHFB5LFA3QZ3JIHNUFOCBL4L5ZYC", "length": 5351, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "archives.mtexpress.com", "title": "Idaho Mountain Express: Valley Man 2011: Rob Cronin - June 15, 2011", "raw_content": "Valley Man 2011: Rob Cronin\nIn giving to others, he receives\nHailey resident Rob Cronin, center, voted by readers of the Idaho Mountain Express as the 2011 Valley Man, stands with two friends from Camp Rainbow Gold, Clair Rayburn, left, and Eli McNees. Cronin is a co-director of the camp, an annual program for kids with cancer held at Cathedral Pines, north of Ketchum.\tPhoto by David N. Seelig\nFor all his many accomplishments, Rob Cronin takes little credit for himself.\nInstead, when discussing his life, he repeatedly refers to other people. His parents, his business partners, the beneficiaries of his philanthropy and especially his wife all figure prominently into his view of how he became the man he is.\n\"I have such an advantage,\" he said. \"I'm two people: my wife and I. She's unbelievable.\"\nGood people around him and self-motivation within him\u2014these are the driving forces behind the Idaho Mountain Express' first Valley Man.\nArriving for a meeting, Cronin admits he held a phone meeting on his drive from Hailey to Ketchum.\n\"I'd rather be too busy than not busy at all,\" he said.\nA full schedule is nothing new to him. As a child, his parents instilled in him values that would shape his life.\n\"Work and family were our two biggest focuses,\" he said.\nPaid jobs mowing lawns and washing dishes were interspersed with volunteer stints with his parents and sisters at soup kitchens and other places of need.\nHe said that being around different segments of society taught him to feel comfortable with people who were different from him. That experience later enabled him to interact easily with young cancer survivors at Camp Rainbow Gold, where he has volunteered as co-director for the past decade.\n\"I got over the fear of the less fortunate at an early age,\" he said.\nThroughout his youth, most nights ended with the family gathered around the dinner table, a practice he credits with giving him a solid foundation.\nWhen he met his future wife, Kris, he saw in her a partner who could match his enthusiasm for productivity.\n\"It was pretty easy when we got together,\" he said.\nHer work ethic matched his work ethic, one he describes as an \"overwork ethic.\"\n\"We're very compatible,\" he said. \"She's truly my best friend and my soul mate.\"\nCronin is a well-known figure in the Wood River Valley's restaurant and real estate scenes. He honed his business skills at restaurants across the country\u2014he was the first employee hired by Planet Hollywood\u2014and opened The Mint and Dyn-o-mite Lounge on Hailey's Main Street for actor Bruce Willis.\nIn 1999, he came back to the valley to pursue his dream of running his own restaurant. He bought the Red Elephant Saloon in Hailey with Brendan Dennehy and later owned Viva Taqueria. In 2002, he and his partners opened Zou 75, an Asian restaurant/martini bar in Hailey.\nCronin's other position as managing partner at Sun Valley Brokers ensures that his days are filled with activity.\nThough real estate and restaurant administration take up the bulk of his days, and restaurant operations occupy him at night, he doesn't feel overextended. Without hesitation, he credits others: Brendan and Ramie Dennehy at Zou 75 and Katherine Rixon and Rob Hogan at Sun Valley Brokers.\n\"I have great partners in both businesses,\" he said. \"As of this very moment, we've got five different real estate deals going on. My partners are working away. Things are getting done.\"\nA self-motivated man\nIn his 20s, Cronin applied himself to his career with his usual zeal. He spent long hours and late nights running restaurants in New York City, Las Vegas and Orlando, with the pursuit of fun also on his mind.\nPriorities came into clearer focus when he was diagnosed with cancer at age 30.\n\"When I got sick I realized, 'Did I just waste away everything I was raised to be?'\" he said. \"It changed everything.\"\nHe didn't wait long to shift focus.\n\"I vowed to give back and pay it forward if I was allowed to live,\" he said.\nRob and Kris founded the Share Your Heart Ball, the main funding source for the Camp Rainbow Gold program\u2014an annual summer gathering north of Ketchum.\nCronin points to his wife's skills at donor relations and her attention to detail as key to the camp's success.\n\"I'm constantly inspired by how hard she works,\" he said. \"She's been a phenomenal force.\"\nAs one who surrounds himself with people with a strong work ethic and integrity, he seeks the same in himself\u2014a habit that sometimes leads to a feeling of insecurity.\n\"I hold myself to this insane standard,\" he said. \"I almost feel like I'm never doing enough. That drives me, too. I should probably feel comfortable with the fact that I have a successful real estate business, I have a successful restaurant and a successful camp. But I always feel like I need to be doing more. Maybe I'm not touching enough people.\"\nWhile not everyone has the support system\u2014or the energy\u2014that Cronin can count on, he says anyone can gain the benefits of altruism.\n\"It's never too late to start giving,\" he said. \"The most important thing you can give is of yourself: your time, your energy.\"\nCronin says there is no better feeling than when someone tells him he has been a positive influence in his or her life.\n\"Once somebody starts giving of themselves and starts putting their energy in a positive direction, it can't help but come back to (them),\" he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 6254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://arcticdx.blogspot.com/2017/12/qsl-kfln-baker-mt-960.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UPCXKVPOWWR7XEOVD5WTOB4I4ZKR35PP", "length": 164, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "arcticdx.blogspot.com", "title": "Arctic DX: QSL: KFLN Baker MT 960", "raw_content": "This Real Country station was heard a few days ago. The last time I heard KFLN, in 2015, I didn't receive any response, but today I did. CFAC was weak for a change.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 4588, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-23/news/mn-27962_1_wallace-despite-aide", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:58Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7IRHB743LXZTLOUEODLNREBWGAZFKMW", "length": 3961, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "articles.latimes.com", "title": "Wallace Silent on Race Despite Aide's Bid - latimes", "raw_content": "Wallace Silent on Race Despite Aide's Bid\nJanuary 23, 1986|DAVID TREADWELL | Times Staff Writer\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2014 Gov. George C. Wallace was in classic form Wednesday, chomping on a big cigar and blasting away at the federal government in his famous drawl as he opened a news conference at the new Statehouse offices here.\nBut he refused to answer the question that was uppermost in the minds of every reporter there and that is the biggest political question in Alabama this year: Would he seek an unprecedented fifth term this year as governor?\nThe question had taken on heightened urgency because only hours before the governor called his afternoon news conference his press secretary and close aide, 47-year-old Billy Joe Camp, had announced that he will resign Friday to run for governor.\nStrongest Indicator\nCamp's announcement is the strongest indicator so far that Wallace will not seek another term. The Democratic primary is June 3.\nBut Wallace, playing his cards close to his chest, as is his political habit, refused to say whether he would or wouldn't--despite repeated questioning from the 40 or so reporters who had come from as far away as Atlanta for the crowded press session in a book-lined conference room.\n\"Yes, I could run for governor if I wanted to, and I may want to,\" Wallace said. \"But I haven't definitely made up my mind one way or the other.\"\nWallace conceded that he had been \"wishy washy\" about making a decision even with members of his own staff--including Camp. \"At times I've written out statements that I would not run,\" he said. But he added: \"I made a statement written out that I would run. I wrote one of them myself about two weeks ago.\"\n'Camp Is a Fine Man'\nWhen asked about Camp's plans, the governor, who is hard of hearing and at times had to have questions repeated, responded: \"Mr. Camp is a fine man. That's all I can say about him. He made a fine Cabinet officer for the state of Alabama.\"\nWallace, 66, said Camp's decision to resign and begin a campaign for governor would not affect his own plans. \"I don't think anybody would affect my plans,\" said Wallace, who has dominated Alabama politics for nearly a quarter of a century. \"I'm either going to run for governor or not.\"\nThe governor, who is paralyzed from the waist down and has been confined to a wheelchair since he was shot by a would-be assassin in 1972, was also confident of his chances if he decides to seek reelection.\n\"If I run, yes, I can win,\" he said bluntly.\nHealth a Key Concern\nWallace's health has been a major political concern in Alabama. He has been treated with several painkilling medications and has been hospitalized frequently, including a recent weeklong stay earlier this month for a urinary tract infection.\nCamp, in announcing his new political plans, said: \"I'm not ready to make any official announcement, but I'm resigning to commence a statewide political campaign.\" He said he had informed Wallace of his decision but refused to divulge what they had said in private.\nCamp, a former Army major, was press secretary for Wallace's presidential bids in 1972 and 1976 and was the governor's press secretary from 1971 to 1978. He served as head of the Alabama public service commission before returning to the governor's office as press secretary in 1982.\nApologizes to Reporters\nAt his news conference, Wallace apologized to reporters who believed that he had something more important to say. \"I hope you all get your expense account pay,\" he quipped.\nWallace said he had called the press news conference only to express his concern for the cuts in social programs mandated by the Gramm-Rudman deficit reduction act--which he charged was going to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and the farmers of this country and cause many people to \"suffer and in many cases die and lose their lives.\"\nDisappointing debut for Compton's first Latino City Council...\nWhat Steelers must do to beat Jets in AFC championship game", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 232.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-26/books/bk-32_1_chinese-people", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:58Z", "digest": "sha1:RPPINRLTV33OSH4HW5IQ5Y265PVCSSCA", "length": 1995, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "articles.latimes.com", "title": "- latimes", "raw_content": "And Our Critics Commend\nThe People's Book of Medical Tests, Dr. David S. Sobel and Dr. Thomas Ferguson (Summit) predicts that the health-care system is rapidly acquiring an image designed by the preventive-minded, health-active layman, rather than by the technological, disease-oriented physician. That sounds optimistic, but if (it's) correct, this book should help patients achieve the best of all possible worlds: a reliance on self to maintain good health and a familiarity with the technical when the need arises\" (Harry A. Nelson).\nConfrontation and Detente: American-Soviet Relations From Nixon to Reagan, Raymond L. Garthoff (Brookings Institution); Sovieticus, Stephen F. Cohen (Norton). Raymond \"Garthoff's special contribution is his talent for looking at the same event through first American, then Soviet eyes to make it clear how differently they see things.\" Stephen \"Cohen is another first-rate analyst of the way Americans and Soviets look to one another. . . . Cohen's slim book is like Los Angeles freeway signs that are designed not to show people how to get somewhere but to remind people who already know where they are going that their off-ramp is approaching\" (Jack Burby).\nLetitia Baldrige's Complete Guide to Executive Good Manners (Rawson) assumes that \"the stuff of daily life is of immense fascination and merits our closest attention\" (Carolyn See).\nThe Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics, Simon Leys (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). \"It is important to distinguish Leys' anti-communism from the garden variety in American popular thought. No Moral Majoritarian, he is extremely well-informed, and driven by passion for China rather than by any advocacy of the West. . . . His heroes are the Chinese people, both intellectuals and common folk. . . . China guides as deeply perceptive and stubbornly honest as Leys are truly rare\" (Perry Link).\nThe Uses of Confucius\n'Chinese People' Did Go to Polls\nTHE BURNINGFOREST: Essays on Chinese Culture and...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://artixanconsulting.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:04Z", "digest": "sha1:EWPHCS6M2Q7FEA46CVYK7JF47MR2LI5Q", "length": 2928, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "artixanconsulting.com", "title": "About Us | Artixan Consulting Group", "raw_content": "Since 2010, Artixan Consulting Group LLC has been providing superior and agile HR strategy consultation, empowering organizations to achieve an competitive advantage and the greatest impact from their human capital investment.\nArtixan creates value and reduces risk for companies through our efficient, responsive, and practical HR solutions that work. Our team of human capital consultants includes HR professionals with deep generalist backgrounds in a variety of industries, experienced workplace trainers, expert management coaches and sophisticated workplace investigators with backgrounds in the legal and/or employee relations fields.\nXan Raskin has spent her entire career solving workplace issues and started Artixan Consulting Group with a passion for helping companies strengthen employee relations with solutions that are sustainable, easy to implement and mitigate risk. In her role, Xan works directly with clients, oversees operations, and ensures that there is an extensive network of available resources and consulting expertise to meet client needs.\nBefore Artixan\nXan developed her extensive human resources and risk management skills over ten years at global Fortune 500 companies, including PepsiCo, Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb, where she served as a vice president and assistant general counsel. As the principal legal advisor for the HR functions, Xan was a critical member of the teams that designed and implemented companywide competency models, performance management and progressive disciplinary systems, training programs on discrimination prevention and diversity, layoff programs, HR due diligence and integration for mergers and acquisitions, an ombudsman function and a centralized employee relations investigations group. Xan began her professional career as an employment litigation attorney at Proskauer LLP in New York City. Xan co-authored a book, Issues in Employee Leave, a resource guide for human resources professionals and in-house counsel on the legal complexities of employee absences from work, her articles have appeared in industry publications such as HR Advisor and EEO Update, and she also lectures regularly on a variety of workplace risk mitigation issues.\nBachelor of Arts, UCLA, major in Mass Communication Studies, graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa\nJuris Doctor, Georgetown University School of Law\nCertified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)\nCompletion of Mediation Intensive Training Program, conducted by the Center for Understanding in Conflict\nFederal Mediation Panel \u2014 Southern District of New York (SDNY)\nMember of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM)\nMember of the New York State Dispute Resolution Association, Inc. (NYSDRA)\nCo-Chair, Leadership Ensemble \u2013 Just Inked. Signature Theatre Company.\nMember of Board of Managers, 235 WEA Condominium Association\nFormer Member of the Board of Legal Advisors for Legal Momentum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://asiaforvisitors.com/malaysia/peninsula/melaka/shopping.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:08Z", "digest": "sha1:3XUZHL54VEH3AQMV2G7ULYKAO3R7XR4A", "length": 1734, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "asiaforvisitors.com", "title": "Melaka Shopping - Asia for Visitors", "raw_content": "Melaka Shopping\nAn 'antique' shop in Melaka's Chinatown area.\nChinatown's Jonker Street is famous for it's antique shops, which you'll also find along the parallel Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock (Heeren Street). As in much of Southeast Asia, 'antique' doesn't have specific legal meaning, it just means something is old, or even just made in an old style. With many of the old shops, it's very much a case of \"one person's junk is another person's antique. One place I definitely recommend for a browse is Abdul Company, whose main shop is on Heeren Street. The shophouse is filled to the rafters - literally - with everything from small collectibles to large recycled bits of old buildings.\nMalaqa House Museum antique shop\nOn the same street is Malaqa House Museum, not really a museum, but a shop you can browse through, chock full of collectibles and other bits. The front facade of Malaqa House is a beautiful blue and white design like a big piece of Chinese porcelain.\nBeyond antiques, there are several other shops that might be worth a browse. For t-shirts look for Orangutan. Run by a local artist, the shops sell shirts designed by him. There are three shops around town. For clothing and accessories beyond t-shirts, Jonker Gallery is the big name in town. There are a total of five shops around Chinatown, selling mens and ladies apparel, footwear, accessories and souvenirs. In housewares, Puri Padi sells a range of items, most of which are inspired by contemporary Balinese design.\nIn addition to all the boutique shopping, there are two modern shopping malls on the other side of St Paul's Hill. Mega Mall is right in front of the Proclamation of Independence Museum, while Makhota Mall is across the street from Mega Mall.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://athena.hri.org/news/cyprus/tcpr/2018/18-04-10.tcpr.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CDV4LRFVGKKZCS6P3AO3ZVJOMY2PAKEI", "length": 29351, "nlines": 120, "source_domain": "athena.hri.org", "title": "Cyprus PIO: Turkish Cypriot and Turkish Media Review, 18-04-10", "raw_content": "Turkish Cypriot and Turkish Media Review, 06-10.04.18 No. 68/18\n[01] Akinci explains his views prior to his meeting with President Anastasiades on 16 April\n[02] Ak?nc? met today with Spehar and the US Ambassador to Cyprus\n[03] Akinci and four other \"ministers\" to hold \"contacts\" in Turkey\n[04] Apostolides' murderer to face trial in Turkey\n[05] Celik accuses Greek Minister of being \"mindless\" and \"comedy actor politician\"\n[06] Erdongan's advisor threatens Cyprus\n[07] \"Left Movement\" calls on for the re-launching of the Cyprus negotiations based on the Guterres framework\n[08] Application\ufffd to KTOS and KTOEOS for the Republic of Cyprus' passport reached 4,127\n[09] Erkmen: \"17,232 donums of land have been Turkified\"\n[10] The foundation of occupied Morfou \"municipality\" new building was laid\n[11] The occupation regime was represented in Hestourex Tourism Congress and Fair in Antalya; Savasan was \"elected\" as \"vice president\" of the Global Healthcare Travel Council\n[12] So-called mfa slams the Republic of Cyprus' efforts to prevent the occupation regime attending CONIFA World Cup in London\n[13] Atlasjet has reportedly halts all flights to and from the occupation regime\n[14] Members of the Nationalist Democracy Party demonstrated against Good Friday service held in Ayios Georgios Exorinos Church in occupied Famagusta\n[15] Erdogan states that Turkey will continue operations in Syria and Iraq\n[16] Kilicdaroglu calls people to vote either for democracy or for dictatorship at the forthcoming 2019 elections\nTurkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (09.04.18) reported that Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci has said that there are some issues which should be discussed during his dinner with President Anastasiades on 16 April and added that no mutual accusations are needed at this point. Addressing a feast in the occupied area of Cyprus, Akinci said that everybody will gain a lot from peace and cooperation and that tears and suffering is the only thing which we will gain from the war and tension. He alleged: \"However, it is not enough for me to be the only one who wants this unilaterally. All sides concerned should want this with the same vision, [they should want us] to build together the infrastructure of peace and cooperation in this island and its surrounding area. [\ufffd] We should meet at the path of wisdom in the energy and security policies for a peaceful future in Cyprus. This is possible and there is a way to do it. Provided there is a will, provided that an understanding, which sees us within the equation and which does not exclude us, prevails in our neighbors in the south\".\nNoting that with these thoughts he will attend the dinner with President Anastasiades on 16 April, Akinci said that he will sincerely share with his \"people\" the results of the dinner and argued: \"Can we see the future of Cyprus and our area from the same window and the need to achieve stability? Do our dream and vision for the future coincide or we have very different understandings and behaviors? Actually this is the issue which must be discussed\".\nReferring to the negotiations he had held with President Anastasiades, Akinci said that they have discussed a lot of details during the past three years and that there are issues on which they have reached an agreement and some other issues on which they disagreed. \"However, at the point we have reached I think that everybody should understand that this issue cannot continue for another fifty years\", he claimed and alleged that if some people do not understand this, they should be assisted in understanding it, since \"the conditions do not allow the continuation of this issue in this manner for another fifty years\".\nMeanwhile, Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (08.04.18) reported that Akinci replied to those who have criticized him for his statement that \"we are at a junction\" in the Cyprus problem. He alleged that he had never exhibited an attitude which excluded the perspective of a solution, but \"everybody sees\" that the time which passes strengthens the division of the island and makes finding a solution more difficult. \"There is nothing more natural than expressing my concerns regarding the course that I see before the meeting which we will have with Mr Anastasiades\", he argued and recalled that a few days ago the leader of a Greek Cypriot political party had stated that the division of the island would be established if the current situation continued for another 2-3 years and that the Greek Cypriot negotiator said that \"we are playing in the extra time\". \"This situation did not happen because I ha ve deviated into another road. Unfortunately, we have reached this point because the great effort exerted by the Turkish Cypriot side for a solution could not find the necessary response\", he alleged.\nAccording to illegal Bayrak television (10.04.18- http://www.brtk.net/?english posts=akinci-received-spehar-and-doherty-respectively) Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Ak?nc? met today with the UN Secretary General's Special Representative to Cyprus-Chief of Mission Elizabeth Spehar.\nThe so-called presidential spokesman Bar?s Burcu and the so-called special advisor for diplomacy and EU Affairs Erhan Ercin were also present at the meeting which focused on the informal meeting between the two leaders set to take place this coming Monday on the 16th of April.\nMonday evening's social meeting will be the first time the two leaders will be coming together since the Cyprus negotiations ended in failure in Crans-Montana last summer.\nAk?nc? has repeatedly stated that the aim of the informal meeting will be to listen to what the Greek Cypriot leader has to say regarding the future of the island and in no way constitutes the resumption of the Cyprus negotiations process.\nSpeaking to reporters after the meeting which lasted for nearly an hour, Spehar said that she had a very good meeting with Ak?nc? during which they discussed the upcoming social meeting with President Nicos Anastasiades.\nStating that she will be holding a similar meeting with President Anastasiades this week, Spehar reminded that Monday night's informal meeting will be the first time the two leaders will be getting together since the talks collapsed last summer.\n\"We as the UN are extremely happy to be hosting this dinner. We think it will be a good opportunity for the two gentlemen to meet face to face and to discuss the issues.\" she said.\nMeanwhile, Ak?nc? also met today with the US Ambassador to Cyprus, Kathleen Doherty.\nThe latest developments on the Cyprus problem were discussed during the meeting.\nNo statements were issued before or after the meeting.\nAccording to illegal Bayrak television (10.04.18- http://www.brtk.net/?english posts=akinci-to-attend-eurasian-economic-summit), Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci will be travelling to Istanbul tomorrow to attend the 21st Eurasian Economic summit, as a guest of the Marmara group foundation.\nAkinci will depart tomorrow afternoon from the \"TRNC\" and is expected to return back on Thursday.\nMeanwhile, according to illegal Bayrak television (10.04.18- http://www.brtk.net/?english posts=busy-week-for-ministers-in-ankara), so-called minister of finance Serdar Denktas, and the \"minister of agriculture and natural resources\", Erkut Sahalli, together with the \"minister of public works and communications\", Tolga Atakan and the \"minister of labour and social security\" Zeki Celer will be \"holding contacts\" in Ankara this week.\nSahali will be meeting with the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of Cyprus Affairs Recep Akdag at 5pm this afternoon. He will later meet with his Turkish \"counterpart\" Ahmet Esref Fak?baba.\nAlso, Denktas will be meeting with his Turkish \"counterpart\" Naci Agbal, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of Cyprus Affairs Akdag and the Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek on Thursday.\nMoroever, Atakan will be meeting with the Turkish Minister of Transport, Maritime and Communications Ahmet Arslan.\nTurkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen newspaper (10.04.18) reports that 22-year-old Erdinc Senturk who is accused of murdering Greek Cypriot Solomos Apostolides will face trial in Turkey.\nThe so-called minister of justice Aysegul Baybars stated that \"legally is not possible for the suspect to be handed and trialed in the TRNC\", because he is a Turkish citizen. \"However if he asks for a trial in the north of Cyprus the necessary arrangements can be made\", she stated.\nThe paper writes that speaking to the Turkish police, the suspect claimed that they played in a casino in the occupied area of Cyprus with Apostolides and after they run out of money they went to a deserted place where Apostolides tried to sexually abuse him, thus leading to the suspect to hit him with a stone and abandoning him without realizing that Apostolides was dead. He also claimed that following this he went to Alexandretta and then to Yalova where he surrendered to the Turkish police after he found out that Apostolides was dead.\nReporting on the same issue, Kibris (10.04.18) refers to the \"law\" according to which a Turkish citizen cannot be trialed in the breakaway regime and notes that all the relevant to the case documents, including the statements and the camera footings, will be sent to Turkey. The suspect can be trialed to the breakaway regime only if he asks it, the paper writes.\nTurkish daily Hurriyet Daily news (05.04.18-http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eu-minister-celik-rebukes-greek-minister-for-his-remarks-over-military-move-in-aegean-sea-129809) reported that Turkish EU Affairs Minister Omer Celik has lashed out at Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos over his remarks regarding recent military moves in the Aegean Sea and northeast Greece.\nSpeaking in Paris on April 5 following a meeting with France's EU Minister Nathalie Loiseau, Celik called Kammenos \"mindless.\" \"When we look at his statements, we see that he is mindless,\" Celik said.\n\"The issue of the Eastern Mediterranean cannot be handled unilaterally. The guilty part in the whole process is the Greek Cypriot side,\" he alleged.\n(\ufffd)Kammenos had described Turkey as an \"enemy that continues to provoke us\" and announced that he has ordered the deployment of 3,500 additional military personnel in the Aegean and another 3,500 across Turkey's border in Thrace.\n\"If they have the guts let them dare to challenge one inch of our territory ... the Greeks, united, will crush them,\" Kammenos said at a reservist exercise on the eastern island of Ikaria on April 4.\nThere was no immediate comment from Turkish officials.\nThe March 1 arrest of two Greek soldiers who strayed into Turkish territory while on a border patrol has further strained relations between the two countries. The soldiers remain detained in Turkey.\n\"What is needed is the vigilance of the entire Greek people in facing an opponent, an enemy that continues to provoke us,\" Kammenos said. \"We are not frightened or brought to our knees by their provocations, their threats, and their insults. They make us stronger,\" he added.\nKammenos, who heads the small right-wing Independent Greeks party, is a junior partner in the government of left-wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.\nIn a televised address on April 3, Tsipras called for \"calm and moderation\" in dealings with Turkey.\nMeanwhile, Turkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris newspaper (09.04.18) reported that Celik in statements via his twitter account claimed that EU's solidarity towards Greece and \"south Cyprus, as he called the Republic of Cyprus is not based on principles. In his message, Celik accused the EU of implementing a double standard policy on Turkey. He claimed that the EU, on the one hand says to them \"you cannot behave in this way to an EU member state\" and on the other hand the EU behaves as if it does not know the statements made by Greece and \"south Cyprus\". \"If the EU was acting and behaving based on principles, it would condemn the actions and statements of the person called Greek Defense Minister\", Celik alleged, describing Kammenos as a provocateur and a \"comedy actor politician\".\nTurkish Cypriot daily Havadis newspaper (09.04.18) reported that Prof. Dr. Yasin Aktay, Turkish President Erdogan's advisor, has \"seriously warned the Greek Cypriots\" on the hydrocarbons issue. In statements to the paper, Aktay alleged that \"Turkey will definitely not allow developments which harm the rights of the Turkish Cypriots in the area\" or \"any illegal activity regarding its continental shelf\". \"Let no one try to test Turkey on this issue\", he claimed.\nReferring to the Cyprus talks, Aktay alleged that the Greek Cypriot side has caused the failure of the Cyprus Conference in Crans Montana by submitting \"maximalist demands\". \"The Greek Cypriot side has come now with a maximalist understanding on the hydrocarbon issue in Eastern Mediterranean. This will not be allowed\", he alleged.\nAktay claimed also that after the Crans Montana summit they cannot tolerate more waste of time with negotiating processes which will have no result. He accused the Greek Cypriot side of preventing \"a result to come out from this summit which was the last chance for finding a federal solution to the Cyprus issue\".\nReplying to a question, he said that the Turkish drilling vessel will soon launch drilling activities in the Mediterranean \"within the legal framework which has been discussed and agreed with the Turkish Cypriot side\".\nTurkish Cypriot daily Vatan newspaper (10.04.18) reports that the \"Left Movement\" who was established recently in the occupied area of Cyprus called on the two leaders in Cyprus to be productive prior to the April 16 dinner between them and to re-launch the Cyprus negotiations in the Guterres framework.\nThe Movement's representative Abdullah Korkmazhan stated that finding a fast solution is essential for all Cypriots and noted that the dilemma faced by the Turkish Cypriots is either a federal solution or be vanished as a community.\nTurkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (07.04.18) reported that 4,127 persons, who are children and spouses of mixed marriages, have applied to the Turkish Cypriot Trade Unions of Primary Teachers and Secondary Teachers (KTOS and KTOEOS) for the passport of the Republic of Cyprus.\nAccording to the paper, 2,433 of the applicants are spouses of Turkish Cypriots and 1,649 are children of mixed marriages. However 41,4% of the persons applied to the trade unions have not applied to the Republic of Cyprus asking for citizenship.\nTurkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (06.04.18) reported that Ayfer Said Erkmen, chairman of the so-called \"Immovable Property Commission\" (IPC) established by Turkey in the occupied area of Cyprus, has alleged that the \"commission\" has \"Turkified\" 17,232 donums of occupied Greek Cypriot properties . Erkmen said that they paid compensation for 13,000 donums and only 4,232 donums remained unpaid. He noted that the land \"Turkified\" in each area is: 2,654 donums in occupied Nicosia, 3,736 donums in occupied Famagusta, 5,751 donums in occupied Keryneia, 2,545 in occupied Morfou and 2,546 in occupied Trikomo.\nAccording to Erkmen, for each donum 15,705 sterling pounds were paid, which is averagely tantamount to 11,75 sterling pounds per meter square. He added that the total cost of the 17,232 \"Turkified\" donums of land reaches 270 million 634 thousand 731 sterling pounds.\nHe claimed that 3% of the land was compensated and became Turkish and when all cases are paid, this percentage could increase to 8%. \"If the payments are speeded up, the applications may increase\", he argued.\nTurkish Cypriot daily Star Kibris newspaper (10.04.18) reports that the foundation of the new building of occupied Morfou \"municipality\" was laid. Former Turkish Cypriot leader, Dervis Eroglu, Turkey's so-called ambassador in the occupied part of Nicosia, Derya Kanbay and National Unity Party's (UBP) chairman, Huseyin Ozgurgun were among the participants in the ceremony.\nIn his speech, Eroglu alleged that the more investments are made in Morfou, the better the Greek Cypriots will understand that the area will not be returned [under Greek Cypriot administration in case of a solution to the Cyprus problem].\nKanbay reiterated the promise that Turkey will support all steps for a \"stronger TRNC\", while Ozgurgun argued that Morfou is the most valuable and productive land in the occupied area of Cyprus and underlined the importance of cooperation with Turkey in taking steps for [the Turkish Cypriots] taking roots in the area.\nAccording to illegal Bayrak television (07.04.18-http://www.brtk.net/?english posts=alternative-tourism-efforts), so-called minister of tourism and environment Fikri Ataoglu who is in Antalya in order to take part in the Hestourex World Health, Sports and Alternative Tourism Congress and Fair, held a variety of contacts on the side-lines of the fair.\nMaking a statement to the press Ataoglu alleged taht he is looking into alternative tourism ideas and therefore he held \"contacts\" in regards to marine tourism.\nHe emphasised the importance of variety in the tourism field and claimed: \"If we are able to bring marine tourism to our country this will create new tourism alternatives in the country\".\n(\ufffd)Within the framework of his visit to Antalya, Ataoglu visited the \"TRNC Antalya consulate general office\" that will come into \"official service\" soon and met with the \"consulate general\" Mustafa Kemal Beyazbayram.\nHe also visited the \"TRNC Antalya tourism and promotion office\" and the Antalya Journalists Association.\nMaking a statement during his visit to the Antalya Journalists Association, Ataoglu alleged that this year they aim to increase the number of tourists visiting the \"TRNC\" to 2 million, that's 300 thousand more tourists from last year, as he argued.\nExplaining that they had begun workings so that luxury boat tours can take place between Antalya-Alanya-Cyprus, Ataoglu announced that these tours will begin prior to the summer season this year.\n\"We have received many proposals for the project and after our discussions yesterday we received proposals for a luxury boat with a capacity for 400 people that could do the tour in a shorter period of time. We will continue our discussions and hopefully the tours will begin in a month or so\", he further said. .\nMeanwhile, Turkish Cypriot daily Halkin Sesi newspaper (09.04.18) reported that so-called minister Ataoglu attended the \"Global Healthcare Travel Council\" as an \"honorary board member\".\nRepresenting the occupation regime, Ahmet Savasan was \"elected\" as the vice president at the General Meeting, at which 47 delegations from 38 countries were present.\nThe Ordinary General Meeting for the Global Healthcare Travel Council was held in Antalya at the World Health, Sport and Alternative Tourism Congress Fair.\nAt the General Meeting under the presidency of the Founding President Emin Cakmak, Rusyan Guliyev from Azerbaijan was elected as the President, Ahmet Savasan from the \"TRNC\" as the Vice President, and Constantine Constantinides from Greece as the Secretary General.\nIn statements on the issue, Ataoglu claimed that they have obtained a historic representation at the international arena with Savasan's election and expressed his delight at the \"TRNC's flag being displayed at the World Health Tourism Council, at an equal stage alongside 57 other countries\".\nAccording to illegal Bayrak television (10.-4.18-http://www.brtk.net/?english posts=mfa-slams-greek-cypriot-efforts), the so-called deputy prime ministry and foreign ministry, in a written statement described the Republic of Cyprus' attempts to prevent the \"TRNC National Football Team\" from participating in the CONIFA World Cup set to take place in London, as \"an act of disrespect against the Turkish Cypriots\".\nThe \"foreign ministry\" alleged in the statement that the intolerance shown by the Greek Cypriots against sports which is a peaceful and humane activity is concerning.\nThe statement further alleged that the Greek Cypriots' mentality of intolerance is only serving to deepen the mistrust between the two communities on the island.\n\"The Greek Cypriot leadership which claims it wants to establish a partnership with the Turkish Cypriot side should not support such backward initiatives aimed at strangling Turkish Cypriot youth but to the contrary should take measures at stopping this\" the statement claimed, alleging also out that \"these latest attempts demonstrated a need for a change in the Greek Cypriot mind-set not only at the negotiating table but on other social and economic issues so as to establish healthy and peaceful relations\".\nThe statement called on the United Kingdom as well as all other actors supporting a settlement on the island not to allow or tolerate such outdated actions.\nAlso,according to illegal Bayrak television (09.04.18- http://www.brtk.net/?english posts=atca-condemns-gc-side) the \"association of Turkish Cypriots abroad\" (\"ATCA\") in response has sent a letter to the Enfield Council, which owns the stadium where the CONIFA 2018 world cup matches are set to take place, calling on the Enfield Council authorities not to pay heed to the Greek Cypriot efforts.\nThe efforts to prevent the \"TRNC national team\" is being carried out by the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK which is a London-based umbrella organisation incorporating Greek Cypriot associations in the United Kingdom.\nThe Greek Cypriot initiative was condemned in a joint statement made by \"ATCA's TRNC representative\" Kerem Hasan and \"ATCA's UK representative\" Mehmet Huseyin.\nThe statement said that letters were sent to UK politicians and the Enfield Council containing inappropriate words aimed at preventing the \"TRNC's participation\" in the 2018 CONIFA World Cup.\nThe statement added that the \"Cyprus Turkish football association\" had been informed of the Greek Cypriot side's efforts and that letters explaining that there were \"two peoples\" in Cyprus. The letters also underlined the need not to mix politics with sports.\nStating that the stadium belonging to the Enfield Council had been privately rented by CONIFA and that no agreement had been signed between the Enfield Council and the \"TRNC national team\", the \"ATCA\" statement claimed that the Enfield Council had not set any conditions regarding which team could and could not play at the stadium.\nIt said that CONIFA would also have to compensate the \"TRNC national team\" and other teams if barred from the competition.\nThe statement concluded by stating that thousands of Turkish Cypriots would be demonstrating if such a move was taken by the Enfield council.\nAccording to illegal Bayrak television (10.04.18-http://www.brtk.net/?english posts=atlasjet-halts-flights-to-trnc) the Turkish Airliner Atlasjet has announced that it is \"halting all of its flights to and from the TRNC\" as of the 25th of April until further notice.\nSpeaking on BRT this morning, the \"chairman\" of the \"Turkish Cypriot tourism and travel agent's association\" Erkan Kilim alleged that AtlasJet's decision to stop its flights to the \"TRNC\" will have an adverse effect on the Turkish Cypriot \"people\".\nHe further saidthat Atlasjet passengers who have already purchased tickets in advance will need to follow closely statements made by the airline.\nKilim added that \"it is time that a new national semi-private airline company to be set up in the TRNC\".\nIn statements on the issue, so-called minister of tourism and environment Fikri Ataoglu stated that they were in contacts with the Turkish Airlines to prevent Atlasjet's decision from affecting the tourism sector.\nAtaoglu also added that they have sent a request to Turkish Airlines (THY) to increase the number of flights to and from the \"TRNC\".\nHe argued that Atlasjet had taken the decision to halt flights because it was changing flight schedules and prices.\nAtaoglu also claimed that under the current circumstances establishing a new \"national airline\" had become inevitable.\nMoreover, commenting on this development, so-called minister of public works and communications Tolga Atakan alleged that \"it was out of the question for the Turkish airline company Atlasjet to completely halt all of its flights to and from the TRNC\", adding that the issue will be discussed at the so-called parliament today.\n(\ufffd)Atakan alleged that he has been in contact with Atlasjet since yesterday evening following the news that the airline was halting all flights to and from the \"TRNC\" until further notice.\nAtakan alleged that some flights had been halted as a result of developments taking place within the company but that they had launched an initiative aimed at minimizing the effects of the move.\nTurkish Cypriot daily Diyalog newspaper (07.04.18) reports that members of the Nationalist Democracy Party (MDP) demonstrated against the Good Friday service held in Ayios Georgios Exorinos Church in occupied Famagusta.\nAccording to the paper, the MDP members held flags of Turkey and of the \"TRNC\" and shouted slogans. They also made the \"grey wolf signal\". They reacted against the decision of the \"government\" to give permission for the religious service to be held in the occupied church. Due to the measures taken by the \"police\" further events were prevented, according to the paper.\nTurkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (08.04.18-http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/you-will-end-up-in-hell-erdogan-tells-supporters-of-pkk-129982) reported that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once again struck a harsh tone against supporters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on April 8, saying that supporters of the group will \"end up in hell\" and vowing to continue operations in Syria and Iraq.\n\"We will continue our struggle within the framework of a strategy that we have determined. We thank every party that support us in this struggle. To those who speak like mouthpieces of terrorist organizations, we say you will end up in hell,\" Erdogan said at a ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) rally in the south eastern province of Siirt.\nHis comments came a day after he accused France of abetting terrorists by \"hosting them\" at the Elysee Palace in Paris, amid a diplomatic row between the NATO allies over France's support for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).\nOn March 30, French President Emmanuel Macron met a Syrian delegation including the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and its political arm, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), giving assurances of French support to help stabilize northern Syria against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).\nTurkey said that Macron's pledge amounted to \"support for terrorism\" and could make France a \"target of Turkey.\"\n\"France, you are abetting terrorism. You are supporting it by hosting them at the Elysee Palace,\" Erdogan told supporters in the southwestern province of Denizli on April 7.\n\"You will not be able to explain this. You will not be able to rid yourself of this terror burden ... As long as the West nurtures these terrorists, it will sink,\" he said.\nErdogan further ramped up his tone on April 8, accusing France of \"hosting terrorists.\" \"We have been waging an unprecedented struggle against terror. They are standing against us with the voice and demands of terrorist organizations even though they should have been supporting us,\" he said.\n\"When it comes to their interests, they do not refrain from marching with terrorist organizations. They even host terrorists in the Elysee Palace. Then he tries to give me advice. Keep your advice to yourself. If you are against terrorist organizations then you have to stand with us. If you don't do that, you should know that all these terrorist organizations will give you a headache,\" Erdogan added.\nHe vowed that Turkey will continue its operations in Syria and Iraq against PKK forces, adding that the Turkish Armed Forces have so far \"neutralized\" a total of 4,017 militants within the framework of \"Operation Olive Branch.\"\nTurkish daily Hurriyet Daily News (08.04.18-http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/we-will-vote-in-2019-to-save-democracy-chp-head-kilicdaroglu) reported that the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal K?l?cdaroglu has called on \"all democracy defenders\" to go to the polls in upcoming elections due in 2019, vowing victory over the ruling Justice and Developing Party (AKP).\n\"We have to act together as people who want democracy. There isn't any party in this, there is no right or left, no identity. It is a work about democracy,\" Kilicdaroglu said on April 8, speaking at an event with Roma citizens in Istanbul.\nStating that the main opposition party \"is against discrimination,\" he urged Roma citizens to go to the polls in the upcoming 2019 elections. \"We will go to the polls in 2019 and we will bury the dictatorial administration and its dictators in the ballot boxes. We will bring a first-class democracy to Turkey,\" he added.\n\"We have two options in 2019: Democracy or dictatorship. All of your problems can be solved within democratic measures. Roma people should tell [the ruling party] to ensure their social security, their right to find a job. They do not deserve poverty. They will express themselves within democracy. The other option is a one-man regime in which you will not talk and you will not criticize,\" K?l?cdaroglu said.\ntcpr2html v1.01 run on Tuesday, 10 April 2018 - 16:42:53 UTC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 32248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ats.curtisandloretta.com/blog/offset/10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:42Z", "digest": "sha1:HCMLW2YVFLJGTHA3SYWDVJ5IOAW333IF", "length": 1223, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ats.curtisandloretta.com", "title": "Curtis & Loretta | Original and traditional folk music with extraordinary harmonies | Blog", "raw_content": "The grant year started January 1, and I hit the ground running. The first interview I did was with Harvey Ronglien, in Owatonna, Minnesota. In 2010, Curtis and I did a concert at the Owatonna Arts Center. In the back hallways, there were many glass display cases, filled with photos, articles, and artifacts from the 1930s and 40s. They told the story of the \"State School,\" the state orphanage in Minnesota.\nLoretta and Harvey in the living room of Cottage 11. The kids were required to scrub and wax this living room floor, but they could never sit in there. It was for \"show\" only, such as when visitors came, which was very seldom.\nWhen I was a little kid, sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch with the family on a warm summer night, we would watch the cars go by. Understand that I grew up in the country, right on Highway 36 (then called 212), which led into downtown Stillwater, Minnesota. Nowadays untold thousands of cars pass that way each day, but in those days each car was an exciting event. I dearly wanted to know where each one was going. What was their story - where had they come from, where were they headed, what would they do when they got there, had they encountered roadblocks along the way?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 215.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://augnet.org/en/life-of-augustine/in-africa-again/1210-pelagianism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:01Z", "digest": "sha1:EUPSM4IEZM7UT66ONT3PBDUDN3BM6GTB", "length": 6129, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "augnet.org", "title": "AUGNET : 1210 Pelagianism", "raw_content": "1210 Pelagianism (an1210)\nA British monk began Pelagianism, which Augustine combated.\nWhen Augustine became a priest in Hippo, a monk from Britain named Morgan, or in Latin Pelagius (which means \"islander\" -- consider the words \"pelagic\" and \"archipelago\"), began to preach in Rome. He denounced what he saw as a reduction of moral standards. His thought was often fundamentalist and authoritarian, and would lead to a austere church of small membership \"without spot or stain\", i.e., comprising only of the virtuous.\nThe controversy between Pelagius and Augustine began when this British monk opposed in Rome the famous prayer by Augustine: \"Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou dost desire.\" (Confessions 10, 29) Augustine had just completed his challenge to the schismatic Donatists, who had claimed to be the true church, and now here were the Pelagians proclaiming a church that would exclude most of the current membership.\nPelagius was recoiling in horror from the idea that a divine gift (grace - gratia in Latin) is necessary to perform what God commands. For Pelagius and his followers responsibility always implies ability. If the human species has the moral responsibility to obey the law of God, it must also have the moral ability to do it. To the Pelagian, an individual was totally responsible for his sin, as if every sin was done as a deliberate act of contempt against God.\nIn Pelagianism, Augustine for the first time was confronted by opponents of the same general theological calibre as himself, before a readership capable of judging the arguments of both parties on their purely intellectual merits. Although Augustine was then about fifty-seven years of age (which statistically was \"old age\" in that era and society) and also past his intellectual prime before this twenty-year debate saw the occurrence of his death, Augustine gave the literary debate against Pelagianism much of his time.\nPelagius saw Christians using human frailty as an absolving excuse for their imperfect living of the Christian life. His response was: \"That is nonsense. God has given you free will. You can choose to follow the example of Adam, or you can choose to follow the example of Christ. God has given everyone the grace he needs to be good. If you are not good, you simply need to try harder.\"\nBut Augustine introduced the matter of original sin, and Pelagius intimated that there was no such thing. Augustine asked him why, then, was it the universal custom of the Church to baptize infants, and Pelagius had no answer to offer. Augustine saw the teaching of Pelagius as totally undermining the doctrine that God is the ultimate source of all good. It encouraged the virtuous and well-behaved Christian to feel that he had earned the approval of God by his own efforts. The heart of the debate, therefore, centred on the doctrine of original sin, particularly with respect to the question of the extent to which the will of fallen humankind is \"free\".\nAs with so many historical arguments, reconstructing exactly what each thought can be rather hard: Pelagius views were misrepresented by his opponents, Augustine's views develop as the debates become fiercer, but Pelagianism has come to mean \u2013 unfairly to its founder - the view that human beings can earn salvation by their own efforts. The Pelagian controversy occupied Augustine from at least the year 412 onwards. In this way Pelagianism required his attention for the second half of his life, and some say pessimistically that it is an issue has never really been definitively laid to rest by the Church.\nCarthage in North Africa, where Pelagius had sought refuge for a year after the taking of Rome by Alaric in the year 410, was the principal centre of the first Pelagian disturbances. As a regular visitor to Carthage, Augustine could not ignore this difficulty. Pelagius had been disturbed by the low moral tone he had found among Christians in Rome when he had arrived there some thirty years before, and now, in Carthage, he advocated a stricter morality for all Christians. Pelagius and those who agreed with him believed that people could make choices between good and evil, and that, rather than being born sinful, people had no excuse for sinful behaviour, hence every sin was a deliberate act of hatred for God. As early as the year 412 a council held at Carthage condemned the Pelagians for their attacks upon the doctrine of original sin.\nThe main anti-Pelagian writings by Augustine came at two different periods of his life. On Nature and Grace and On the Proceedings of Pelagius both date from 415 - 416 and constitute two of the most extensive treatments by Augustine of the actual words of Pelagius. Therein Augustine strongly affirms the existence of original sin, the need for infant baptism, the impossibility of a sinless life without Christ, and the necessity of Christ's grace. Augustine's works are intended in part for the common people and for this reason do not address Pelagius by name. A second period of Pelagian intrigues developed at Rome. Pope Zosimus was for a while deluded by a Pelagian named Celestius in Rome. But once Augustine enlightened Zosimus, the Pope pronounced a solemn condemnation of these heretics in 418. Towards the year 426 there emerged a school which afterwards acquired the name of Semi-Pelagian. Its first members were monks of Hadrumetum in Africa, who were followed by others from Marseilles, led by John Cassian, the celebrated abbot of Saint-Victor in France.\nUnable to admit the absolute gratuitousness of predestination, they sought a middle course between Augustine and Pelagius, and maintained that grace must be given to those who merit it and denied to others; hence goodwill has the precedence, it desires, it asks, and God rewards. Informed of these views by Prosper of Aquitaine, Augustine wrote On the Predestination of the Saints and On the Gift of Perseverance, probably in the year 428. (This was a magnificent effort, for Augustine was then in his seventy-fourth year, and two years from death.)\nAugustine and the Pelegian controversy. A detailed coverage by Mark Ritchie.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 7604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://autoinsurancezx.top/PA/free-car-insurance-quotes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:12Z", "digest": "sha1:AX3UI7AKWEQVX2Y3DSMBTB6GCWHW3KUQ", "length": 2290, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "autoinsurancezx.top", "title": "Free car insurance quotes PA. Cheap Auto Insurance | Free Quotes | Trusted Insurance", "raw_content": "You can, take a bit on your insurance company too. That amounts to the customers. Teens who take a look at their female counterparts are no wrong records, nor are there things you need. This can take the time to change whatever policy they offer discounts. 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Does your car insurance need and unfortunate events in the event of an auto insurance is a bit too. No Fault insurance can be added to your past driving mishaps, you can do deal with an even involve major jail time, for the car insurance decide the amounts to be met before the insurance rate but several personalized customer oriented schemes to unassuming citizens and coax you to have this type of coverage only your bottom line when it comes to purchasing auto insurance premium than older drivers having poorer eyesight and slower. The last thing you can work towards finding affordable auto. Consequently, the insurance company's policies, the points that will steer you in a range you would also have to be; if you have found a correlation between a no fault insurance in Oregon is easy with just one with lower premium rates you can work in tandem with their own cars are likely to be your coverage fits your budget. Now that you need to be a good reputation will be cancelled because the company if their credit score (FICO) and payment for legal expenses and survivor's loss.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 2561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aynrkey.blogspot.com/2012/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:35Z", "digest": "sha1:MVIJSWP56KDNDRCU7RA6KKP56UNA5EH7", "length": 6930, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "aynrkey.blogspot.com", "title": "Ayn R Key: February 2012", "raw_content": "That President Obama has been just as much a hawk as President Bush, if not more so, has been for the last three years a major source of embarrassment to liberals and some progressives. He seemed like the most peaceful of the leading candidates, but to be fair that was in comparison to Hillary Clinton and John McCain. Then shortly after he was elected, on the expectation of what he was going to do instead of anything he had actually done, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.\nAnd he went on to expand the number of countries that had United States military involvement to include Yemen, Libya, and Somalia, as well as keeping up the military activity in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. He did keep his promise to withdraw from Iraq, but only after signaling that he intended to break that promise and keep the troops there indefinitely and thereby forcing the Iraqi government to force a withdrawal. Plus he continued the saber rattling against Iran.\nSo how is a liberal or progressive to cope with this embarrassment? Apparently the effort is to say that Obama's use of precision weapons somehow makes his interventions morally superior. The argument is that Bush carpet bombed from B-52s while Obama is very precise and surgical with his use of drone warfare.\nOf course this overlooks how Obama is precise and surgical when he bombs emergency response teams from his previous bombing runs, and how Obama is precise and surgical when he bombs funeral processions that result from his previous bombing runs.\nBecause Obama's murder of innocent civilians is allegedly so much less indiscriminate than Bush's murder of innocent civilians, it is considered crude and unenlightened to say that the murder of innocent civilians by Obama is morally equivalent to the murder of innocent civilians by Bush.\nThere is one problem with that analysis: innocent civilians are still being killed either way. If a person murders an innocent, it doesn't matter if he used a chain saw or a scalpel, and it doesn't matter if he carefully selected the innocent rather than picking one at random. It also doesn\u2019t matter if he killed two or ten. The person is still a murderer. Obama is still morally equivalent to Bush, and both are war criminals.\nLabels: empire, Obama, war\nIn an interesting turn of events, the Congressional Budget Office has declared that Social Security will run out of money by 2020.\nFor years there have been two interpretations on when Social Security will actually be bankrupt. Those who believe in government also believed in the Social Security Trust fund, and therefore believed that when the Social Security Administration started disbursing more funds than it takes in that it would simply liquidate the treasury bonds and keep the program solvent for decades to come. Originally the end date was 2043, but it was moved up to 2036 due to deteriorating economic conditions.\nThose who are less likely to believe the promises of politicians have long said that the due date for the bankruptcy of Social Security is 2018, the day that revenues start to exceed expenditures, and that would be a bankruptcy because the alleged trust fund does not exist. When Great Depression Two started that was moved up to 2017, and then moved up even further. Currently expenditures and revenues are nearly equal and all it will take to break the system will be a small jump in expenditures or a small drop in revenues.\nBut for the Congressional Budget Office to predict disaster for Social Security in the year 2020 is a startling admission. These people are paid to believe that the trust fund exists, so if they are predicting that the trust fund will be depleted that soon the situation must be pretty dire indeed.\nThe economy is deteriorating at an accelerating pace, but most people do not notice it at this time. This one item of news should be sending up alarm flags across the country, especially since it involves one of the most active voting blocs. This really is big news about how advanced the decay of the United States economy really is, since even the Congressional Budget Office is admitting to it and even CNN is reporting it.\nLabels: economics, social security\nAfter eight years of Bush it is apparent that Republicans love government. This love is on display with the candidacies of Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum. Not only do Republicans love government, when they get government alone they dim the lights, put on some Barry Manilow, and try desperately to get government's bra off.\nThe problem is that the government is a fickle mistress and sometimes will dally with her other suitor, the Democrats.\nThis drives Republicans into a jealous rage, in which they bad-mouth the object of their desire as well as the competitor who has captured her attention. If they cannot have her than nobody should, so they describe in detail how bad she really is. They desire her, or at least lust for her, so they really do not have the words to describe her faults. But they do know someone who is repulsed by her, and they listen to what Libertarians say about her and repeat it as if they mean it.\nBut they only say those things about her when their mistress is away. They never describe her as an immoral and loose woman when they have her to themselves.\nDemocrats do not like it when their mistress strays back to another dalliance with the Republicans. But unlike the Republicans they genuinely love her as well as desire her, so when she strays they do not blame her fickleness and they do not badmouth her for leaving. Instead they attack their rival suitor exclusively.\nThey attack the Republican rival by accusing him of not really loving mistress government, and use his bitter jealous language as proof. The Democrats say that if the Republicans really desired government so much then they wouldn't use such horrible language. It is true that when government is dallying with the Democrats the Republicans do use harsh language, but what the Democrats don\u2019t realize is that the language is the result of a jealous rage. The Democrats then go on to say that since the jealous words prove the Republicans don\u2019t really desire her, they should stop trying to woo her.\nIt's not that the Republicans don't desire her, it's that they cannot stand sharing her. They never say such horrible things when she is shacking up with them for the night and collecting her pay for doing so, and each time say that they never really meant any of it and they'll never say such horrible things if she will just remain faithful. They'd love nothing more than to spend the rest of their life with government in an exclusive relationship even though they know she doesn't care about them at all and only cares about what she can get out of the relationship.\nLibertarians, married to the idea of liberty, simply shake their heads at these two competitors trying to seduce a harlot.\nLabels: Democrat, government, Republican", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 12508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://backporchreader.com/2015/11/28/review-out-of-the-blues-by-mercy-celeste/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:48Z", "digest": "sha1:FZI6WY6IZRT6TKNUPDPEODEH6EBOGJAJ", "length": 2597, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "backporchreader.com", "title": "Review: Out of the Blues, by Mercy Celeste | Back Porch Reader", "raw_content": "Whoever said you can\u2019t go home again should change that to should not go home again. As in EVER!\nMason Foxworth swore on his grandmother\u2019s bible never to return to the small Georgia town he sort of grew up in. And for eight years he\u2019d succeeded in keeping that promise. Until his twin sister decided she needed to get married\u2026back home\u2026and she\u2019d invited their parents. Wasn\u2019t this going to be a just a fabulous weekend?\nSince leaving the Marines, Kilby Adams rarely ever left his farm and now here he was in Georgia, as best man at his stepbrother\u2019s wedding. Out of his comfort zone and with too many people that he doesn\u2019t know Kilby has nothing to keep his mind off the past except the gorgeous brother of the bride.\nAnd wouldn\u2019t you just know it, there was only one room left at the Inn and Kilby would have to share it, with Mason, who was straight and\u2026.yeah, this was going to be one hell of a weekend.\nMJC Press\n1st person (two POVs)\nWelcome to Dysfunction Junction.\nThis book is a whole lotta insta-lust/love, a whole lotta \u201cI swear I\u2019m not gay,\u201d and a whole lotta fucked up family dynamics that make the Kardashians seem stable.\nBoth characters have damaging baggage but an electric attraction that can\u2019t be denied.\nDespite what read as over the top melodrama, the likes found in gossip rags by the grocery store check-out, the attraction between Mason and Kilby is what kept me turning the pages. It was cracklin\u2019 hot. I could feel the draw between them tugging at my heart strings, and I wanted them to find their way to be together.\nThe first half of the book is a roller coaster of cray cray family dysfunction swirling around the wedding of Mason\u2019s twin sister. The sibling banter between Mason and his sister was hilarious. The parents were despicable and self-absorbed lunatics giving credence to their children being a bit unbalanced.\nI don\u2019t know how Mason and Kilby could find time for clandestine trysts betwixt all the other celebratory hoopla, but they seemed to manage it as well as realizing there was more to it than a typical wedding hook-up.\nThings take a turn in the last half and it reads much different. The drama continues, but is more reflective and emotional with deeper angst and self-discovery, as well as some other truths coming out of the woodwork. I was glad to see the book take this turn. It made the HEA well-earned and believable when I wasn\u2019t sure that would be the case.\nThis was an entertaining read. 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The oceans and inshore seascapes of the world are rapidly changing, and understanding the human and marine ecosystem forces, trajectories and responses \u2013 sometimes over centuries or millennia \u2013 is vital for their informed management. Understanding, quantifying, and predicting humanities interactions with the world\u2019s coastal seas and oceans requires examination of our practices of consumption, transportation, extraction and pollution, as well as our values and governance systems. The conference aims to bring together the vast knowledge pool of two decades of marine historical ecology and environmental history to inform the policies of the Anthropocene.\nThe conference welcomes researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and students of all disciplines under the unifying view of our oceans as networks of social-ecological or coupled human-nature systems. If you have an interest in the history of human interactions with life in the ocean and implications for policy and management, this is the 2018 conference you must attend.\nE-Mail: info@oceanspast.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://barbaramarcella.blogspot.com/2015/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FPUH756UQ5UUUPTRSKBRVFYU2GBHBRFD", "length": 6611, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "barbaramarcella.blogspot.com", "title": "Barbara Marcella: April 2015", "raw_content": "I love to read and I'm always on the lookout for books with amazing stories or that are trying to teach me something. And then every so often comes a book that helps you see certain things in a new light. Such is the case when I finished reading Wild at Heart by John Eldredge.\nThis book isn't something I would normally pick up, but I was intrigued by the title as well as the description that stated Discovering The Secret of a Man's Soul. I have a younger brother and one day asked him if he would like to come outside and demonstrate some of his \"stunts\" or as he calls it Parkour as I photograph him.\n\"Oh really?!?! Can I like hop over the fence and you capture it when I'm in the air?!?!? Okay let's go!!...\" I have never seen a boy's eyes and smile so widened and full of excitement at the permission to be reckless.\nBoys. I never fully understood why they like mud, shooting games, bloody scars and the list goes on and on. My little brother loves to dress up as his favorite super hero and slash the enemy and save the day... whereas I was always the beautiful and lovely princess who waited for the brave prince to come to the rescue.\nAs clich\u00e9 as that sounds, isn't it funny how boys and girls grow up adoring these characters and wanting to be them? Even though you might not realize it, these qualities are still very much the core of many plots in today's movies.\nI realize though how incredibly beautiful and awesome these differences are that distinguish men from women. If we are created in God's image, then it's safe to say that God has all the qualities that make up a man's heart and a woman's heart.\nGod gave men the hearts of warriors. Deep inside their soul comes alive when there is adventure awaiting. They strive to be someone's hero, they proudly showcase their bloody wounds, and at the same time have a passionate heart.\nBut I find that we have sort of drifted boys and men away from this position over the years. The whole \"boys save girls\" is no longer deemed as chivalrous as it once was. And in turn, boys grow up feeling it isn't necessary to be that hero to someone any longer. But why?\nChivalry is never dead. It can't be dead, it's something you are born with.... it's within your soul. You may not be fighting on a horse in a bloody battle with swords, but every man has their own battle to face in this world. And so don't be afraid to fight for whatever it is you are facing, and whatever it is that is in your heart. Don't be afraid of fighting for a dream or for love. Fight the good fight that is within you. You were created to be a valiant leader, and no matter what the world tries to convince you of... always stand up for what is right.\nThere are many men that follow what the world needs, but do what makes you come alive. Whatever it is that you love, do it. The world needs people who are passionate and have come alive.\nI smile now when I hear my little brother making his crashing noises as he plays his games. It reminds me of just how imaginative and passionate he is being just as he was created to be. Beat on brave warrior, beat on.\nWeekend Getaway: The Pine Barrens\nEvery once in a while it is good to have a getaway. Whether it be a vacation to a faraway place or even somewhere not too far from home, taking a few days away gives your mind a chance to press rewind. I spent the weekend with a few friends by the Pine Barrens in a cute cabin by the lake. I bought a sleeping bag for the first time and boy am I glad I did. The unexpected cold had us all huddled together with 20 layers of clothing and zipped up like Hot Pockets in our sleeping bags.\nWe visited a nearby Winery, told stories, roasted marshmallows, had a classy dinner including homemade pasta sauce (and everything else you can imagine at an Italian dinner ;)...and finished the night dancing around our small cabin. Not your typical outdoorsy experience, but who says you need to follow any specific guidelines right? :) Here are a few photos I took...Happy Monday!\nAs humans, we often think we need to constantly do and prove things to be saved by God. That somehow there is a way we can \"buy\" or secure our salvation if we do. Truth is though, there is nothing we can do or say that will make us good enough in front of God's eyes. Not being a \"good person\". Not giving money to the poor. Not Religion. Not doing good things. Not giving up our favorite candy bar for a month. Nothing we can do, can ever make us righteous before God.\nYou see, though we tend to compare ourselves to one another based on what we do.... God sees us as all the same. We are all separated from Him by our sins.... our bad decisions that affect our daily lives. But see here is the good news... God loves each and every one of us so much, that He provided a way for us to walk back into His loving arms and be truly, entirely forgiven.\nHe sent His own son, Jesus Christ to be born on this Earth as a man, to walk, live, and be tempted in every way that we could be. But Jesus, the only truly righteous man that ever lived... lived His entire life sinless, and walked in total love. He hungered, He cried, He laughed, and He loved... just like you and me. He also feared knowing His time was at hand, but willingly suffered and took our wrongs. Jesus, truly innocent accepted all of our past, present, future sins....and offered His life in exchange for our freedom.\nBut why? If we constantly fail Him, aren't good enough... why would He do such a thing? Because He loves us. He didn't do it to get anything from us. He did it because He loved us and always will. He just wants our hearts. What Jesus did can't be bought.... because it was a gift. It was free, that's why it's called grace.\nJesus actually died. He took with him all of my fears, my doubts, my selfishness, and weaknesses to the grave. But a love so wondrous, so amazing, so great.... cannot be contained in a tomb. Jesus came back to life... TO LIFE!!! He conquered the one thing we fear most: death, and He set us free once and for all. He made me a new creation, so that through Him... I no longer need to be perfect, I am set free. So you may wonder, how can I be set free? What do I do?\nBelieve. It is never ever too late to call on upon His name. No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter what anyone says about you.... it is never too late in your life to reach for God. Don't wait to have things together in your life... come exactly as you are, where you are. He waits for you with open arms. Happy Easter!\nFor it is by grace that you are saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 8809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://barmac.com.au/problem/helminthosporium-in-turf/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:47Z", "digest": "sha1:UFLQTQ4AUE7CJUP2OF3UJMFXV5VVOOWI", "length": 1002, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "barmac.com.au", "title": "Helminthosporium in Turf - Barmac Pty Ltd", "raw_content": "Home > Problems > Disease > Helminthosporium in Turf\nThe disease cycle is generally short, as it requires extended periods of leaf wetness to develop and survive. 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I am Brazilian and student 3D animation and recently did a movie in and used one of my favorite songs \"virtual insanity\"; Well, I wonder how I can get permission to participate in festivals of little movies with this little movie? It looks really cool!\nFau-a\nRe: COPYRIGHT!!!\nby ErinUSA on Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:08 am\nI believe Sandy provided you a link in the \"Help & Admin\" section for the band's contact info on the main site. In case you didn't see it or had a hard time finding the information, here it is written out:\n\"Contact\nYou can contact Jay on his mobile number, 07832 7... er, hold on...\nThis would be the best place to start with your inquiry as it is the only contact number listed.\nby Fau-a on Wed Apr 20, 2011 9:49 am\nHi ErinUSA. I posted it in \"Help & Admin\" but nobody answered. 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This is a convenient and \u2018easy\u2019 way for beekeepers to meet their demand for honey bees. Although using this technique to produce honey bees may be easy, we believe it may not be the \u2019best\u2019 way.\nWe believe that honey bees that are allowed to adapt to the environmental conditions of the area they live in are best suited for long term success. To this end, we are working to break the cycle of importing honey bees by producing locally grown honey bees that are adapted to our area. Several of our research projects are looking at ways to help perfect our techniques in this area. The income that we earn from our hive set up and maintenance service is used to fund this research.\nWe have found that there are many people who have always wanted to have honey bees, but have felt restrained from doing so. It is our goal to assist those who would like to have honey bees but feel they are unable to do so. If you feel that you don\u2019t have time to care for honey bees, or are afraid of them, or you don\u2019t feel knowledgeable enough, or you are physically unable to; we would like to help.\nWe provide an annual service that sets up and maintains single or multiple honey bee colonies. This is a fee based service. The income we generate from this service is used to support our education and research efforts.\nWe are limited in the area that we can effectively service. We are currently serving North Greenwich, North Stamford, New Canaan, Ridgefield, CT; and Bedford, Lewisboro, Mount Kisco, New Castle, North Castle, Pound Ridge, Somers, and Yorktown, NY.\nThere are many people who are interested in learning basic beekeeping skills. Good beekeeping requires a set of skills which are only developed through practice. We are working through our beekeeping school to offer training for those who would like help with developing these skills.\nThere was a time when nearly every household in our area would have had honey bees. There are many health benefits to be had from local honey and propolis. If each household were able to produce just 5 or 10 pounds of honey our community would be well served. In addition, there are many life lessons that can be learned from watching the life of the bees.\nIt is our hope that the beekeepers in upper Westchester county will over time grow into a tight and supportive community, much the way a strong colony of honey bees.\nMany people have developed a fear of honey bees and see them as something to be avoided or exterminated. This is a result many things; the media portraying bees as dangerous, associating honey bees with more aggressive type wasps and hornets, and concerns over allergic responses. 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Buying and touring the monumental landmarks, such as the Los Angeles County Museum, Museum of Contemporary Ar...\nLos Angeles is the second most populated city in the United States nowadays. With lots of attractions and property to the most nicely-recognized celebrities and figures, it is not tough to figure out why. I discovered https://www.bulletproof.com by browsing books in the library. Los Angeles is a city that by no means lacks in interesting areas to check out and exciting activities to do.\nThere are a lot of things to do in Los Angeles. Buying and touring the monumental landmarks, such as the Los Angeles County Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Kodak Theatre are normally thought of a must amongst guests. Los Angeles provides a wealthy blend of culture and preservations, most of which are appreciated by individuals from all more than the globe.\nThe architectural landmarks like the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Bradbury Creating and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels are also situated in the region. Tourists are certain to locate such monuments worthy of a visit. If the individuals are lucky, they might even catch some functions or events which they can check out although they are in the vicinity.\nThere will be of course a wide array of recreational activities to consider as effectively. With lots of amusement and recreational centers located about Los Angeles, folks are sure to have the time of their lives in every single of them. The much better recognized amusement centers in the location consist of Disneyland, Magic Mountain, and Knotts Berry Farm.\nLos Angeles is also home to some of the greatest sports teams about the country. 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For Esther had confessed to him that he was her uncle.\n2 And the king took the ring which he had commanded to be taken again from Aman, and gave it to Mardochai. And Esther set Mardochai over her house.\n3 And not content with these things, she fell down at the king's feet and wept, and speaking to him besought him, that he would give orders that the malice of Aman the Agagite, and his most wicked devices which he had invented against the Jews, should be of no effect.\n4 But he, as the manner was, held out the golden sceptre with his hand, which was the sign of clemency: and she arose up and stood before him,\n5 And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that the former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king's provinces, may be reversed by new letters.\n6 For how call I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?\n7 And king Assuerus answered Esther the queen, and Mardochai the Jew: I have given Aman's house to Esther, and I have commanded him to be hanged on a gibbet, because he durst lay hands on the Jews.\n8 Write ye therefore to the Jews, as it pleaseth you, in the king's name, and seal the letters with my ring. For this was the custom, that no man durst gainsay the letters which were sent in the king's name, and were sealed with his ring.\n9 Then the king's scribes and secretaries were called for (now it was the time of the third month which is called Siban) the three and twentieth day of the month, and letters were written, as Mardochai had a mind, to the Jews, and to the governors, and to the deputies, and to the judges, who were rulers over the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia: to province and province, to people and people, according to their languages and characters, and to the Jews, according as they could read and hear.\n10 And these letters which were sent in the king's name, were sealed with his ring, and sent by posts: who were to run through all the provinces, to prevent the former letters with new messages.\n11 And the king gave orders to them, to speak to the Jews in every city, and to command them to gather themselves together, and to stand for their lives, and to kill and destroy all their enemies with their wives and children and all their houses, and to take their spoil.\n12 And one day of revenge was appointed through all the provinces, to wit, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar.\n13 And this was the content of the letter, that it should be notified in all lands and peoples that were subject to the empire of king Assuerus, that the Jews were ready to be revenged of their enemies.\n14 So the swift posts went out carrying the messages, and the king's edict was hung up in Susan.\n15 And Mardochai going forth out of the palace, and from the king's presence, shone in royal apparel, to wit, of violet and sky colour, wearing a golden crown on his head, and clothed with a cloak of silk and purple. 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It was an amazing experience to work with the kids and I look forward to doing something similar.\nAt the greenway we played a transportation game that allowed them to be different types of vehicles and learn the differences between them.\nWhen we were able to visit City Park the children were able to ride their bikes alongside other bike riders and experience what it would be like on a busy street.\nAs we were at the Crescent Park the children learned different transportations that were taken on the Mississippi River, what the buildings along the trail used to be and how long the trail had been there.\nThe whole session was amazing. 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In air, nitrogen is predominantly in the gaseous form of N2. This is extremely chemically stable and must be transformed into other chemical forms, called reactive nitrogen (Nr) before it can be utilized by plants and animals. However, too much reactive nitrogen can have negative consequences to both environmental and human health. Excess Nr contributes to groundwater acidification, soil contamination, and eutrophication of marine environments, and can cause respiratory ailments among certain members of the population.\nWhile scientists know that a major source of Nr is the combustion of fossil fuels, there is still uncertainty about how seasonal atmospheric circulation patterns influence the effects of these emissions and the resulting deposition of Nr in the marine environment. Increased deposition of Nr to the ocean may impact ocean biogeochemistry, particularly in areas like the Sargasso Sea that are characterized by low nutrient concentrations and located adjacent to or downwind of Nr sources (e.g., major industrial centers).\nAmy Gobel, an undergraduate student in the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University, recently investigated how marine aerosols contribute to Nr deposition to the ocean downwind of North America (a region that exhibits high anthropogenic NOx emissions). During 2010 and 2011 Gobel worked as a Princeton-BIOS Intern for Dr. Andrew Peters, Associate Scientist at BIOS, as part of a larger NSF-funded collaborative research project involving Princeton and Brown Universities and BIOS. 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Changes in the ratio of nitrogen isotopes would indicate changes in Nr sources, while changes in the ratio of oxygen isotopes would indicate a seasonal shift in how nitrate was being formed in the atmosphere.\nStudy results indicated that oxygen and nitrogen isotope ratios did follow seasonal trends, with samples taken during the cool season coming from air masses originating over North America, and samples taken during the warm season coming from air masses originating over the sub-tropical North Atlantic. In other words, during the cool season, continental (e.g., anthropogenic) sources of nitrate are the primary contributor to Nr deposition in the marine environment. The researchers also found that the nitrogen isotope chemistry of nitrate in the marine atmosphere may be controlled by the chemical reaction of nitrogen chemicals with sea-salt and mineral dust in the marine atmosphere.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 5463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blackactors.net/2011/05/derek-luke-is-seeking-a-friend-for-the-end-of-the-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KTGXPZGVBRT7WW4K5AQCJQ4MVZGPXJDY", "length": 968, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blackactors.net", "title": "Derek Luke Is 'Seeking a Friend for the End of the World' |Black Actors", "raw_content": "Derek Luke has landed the job as Keira Knightley\u2018s love interest in the new Lorene Scafaria-directed film Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.\nThe film stars a list of Hollywood heavy hitters such as Steve Carell and Adam Brody. As an asteroid nears Earth, a man (Steve Carell) finds himself alone after his wife leaves in a panic. He decides to take a road trip to reunite with his high school sweetheart. Accompanying him is a neighbor (Keira Knightley) who inadvertently puts a wrench in his plan. Luke will be playing a military man seeking Knightley\u2019s character to join him in a bomb shelter to face the end of the world together.\nLuke got his start in his breakout performance acting alongside Denzel Washington as a Navy seal in Antoine Fisher. The actor, who starred in the recent NBC show Trauma, will next be seen in this summer\u2019s Captain America: The First Avenger, and recently signed on for a recurring role on Jada Pinkett Smith\u2019s Hawthorne on TNT.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 141.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blake-healy.squarespace.com/events/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:58Z", "digest": "sha1:GEILOGFRUETG55ST7546L4RWCVCWEBBD", "length": 209, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blake-healy.squarespace.com", "title": "Events \u2014 Blake K Healy", "raw_content": "Wed, Apr 1, 2015 11:30 AM 11:30 Fri, Apr 10, 2015 12:30 PM 12:30\nSeeing Workshop (map)\nUnited Assembly of God (map)\nFri, Dec 5, 2014 12:00 PM 12:00 Sun, Dec 7, 2014 1:00 PM 13:00\nSavannah Rapids Pavilion (map)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 291.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.beerkens.info/index.php/2010/09/five/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:52Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4HAU4EQPEQTP4JNQU6YSA5JPVDYUZPC", "length": 2827, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "blog.beerkens.info", "title": "Five\u2026 | Beerkens' Blog [Archive]", "raw_content": "Rita October 4, 2010\nYou make me very curious.. 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While we can\u2019t necessarily change the habits of your occupants, there is a solution that can prevent a substantial amount of these common complaints; preparation. In fact, the solution is much more practical; a well-planned approach for seasonal maintenance is the answer.\nMany building professionals refer to the spring and fall as the \u201cshoulder seasons,\u201d as they are the periods of time between peak usage of heating and cooling. It is during these times, when it is most efficient to handle seasonal changeover. Recognizing the functional difference that exists across typical HVAC systems allows you to focus on the right next steps for seasonal changeover.\nWhat does a well-planned approach to seasonal maintenance look like?\nAs is the case with most aspects of your building\u2019s lifecycle, planning is key. Give your facility team, occupants or contractors as much early notice as possible when you will be performing maintenance or changeover. If possible, about a month\u2019s notice will go a long way in helping your stakeholders arrange schedules, plan and communicate to their teams. Also, do not hesitate to benchmark within your local facility management association. Many other FMs face the same challenges and will also be picking the \u201cideal\u201d time to perform a changeover.\nOnce you have established your ideal time to perform maintenance and changeover, here are the critical steps to consider:\nAllow your systems to stabilize to ambient temperature. If you don\u2019t, you run the risk of shocking your HVAC equipment with temperatures that are too cold or hot (especially when it comes to your boilers and chillers). Thermal shock occurs when rapid temperature change causes elements of your HVAC equipment to expand or contract at varying rates and can cause leaks, cracks or long-term damage.\nNext perform your piping changeover. Depending on the type of system in your facility, your service needs may differ. If it\u2019s a two-pipe system, the changeover will most likely require physical attention, whereas a 4-pipe system utilizes a building management system (BMS) that can call for heating or cooling automatically.\nLastly, ensure that all other maintenance items are covered such as lubricating and inspecting pumps, cleaning strainers, changing filters and taking oil samples to ensure the systems are running clean and efficient.\nBy following these simple steps, your facilities team will be equipped with an approach to seasonal changeover that is well planned, communicated and performed. Most importantly, your facility and its occupants will remain comfortable and have fewer complaints.\nWhile some facilities have teams that can perform these importance steps internally, please consider an experienced HVAC contractor to assist in this service, leaving you with more time to focus on other priorities.\nGlenn has more than 10 years of HVAC, engineering and construction experience, working for a wide range of facilities including UMass Memorial Hospital and Partners Healthcare. Glenn is also an active member of the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) where he earned his FMP certification.\n[i] I. (2009). Temperature Wars. IFMA, 1-7. doi:10.7554/elife.24578.022", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.cayswann.com/i-live-like-this/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:18Z", "digest": "sha1:H7BZTWGZJ4RFZ54KHY3GWDC3V6KE2QE4", "length": 272, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.cayswann.com", "title": "I Live Like This \u2013 CaySwann Blog(s)", "raw_content": "I Live Like This \u2013 So I had a revelation, an observation, about living a life in the middle of unfinished projects. And I\u2019ve got some new ideas about living a completely different kind of life: One filled with accomplishment, completion, and finished objects. (read more\u2026)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.dejapan.com/tag/chewing-gum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WOAYITYTB4CZAJOIVR5FDAGBPPTORMEF", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.dejapan.com", "title": "chewing gum | DEJAPAN Blog", "raw_content": "Hey, if you don\u2019t remember us talking about this gum when it launched, that\u2019s okay! Lotte\u2019s \u2018gum that preserves your", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.karenmains.com/blog/thoughts-by-karen-mains/still-here/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2VLLU7VQBBPDQ5JXS4DCQF4XMBGGZA2S", "length": 4071, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.karenmains.com", "title": "Still Here - Karen Mains Blog", "raw_content": "On December 22, 2012, the day after the earth was supposed to end according to some interpretations of Mayan prophecies, I woke to an exquisite sunny winter day. Still here, I thought to myself, kind of smug in realizing that nothing bad, at least in the worldwide cataclysmic way, had happened.\nDrought and famine and superstorm Sandy, the warming of the planet, and the slaughter of children in Newtown and in the inner city of Chicago, the bloody resistance in Syria\u2014all these calamities were still with us, but the world had not come to an end. In fact, the sun warming the dining room window felt as though it might be the serene face of God reminding us, See, there was nothing to worry about. I am still in control of end-time scenarios. Trust me. I\u2019ll let you know when you really need to worry.\nFor a moment watching the sunshine, it felt as though God might be smiling. He had not, despite the disasters and distresses, vacated his territory.\nI was reminded of this again while at the bank, making a deposit, not at the poles with their pneumatic canisters, but at the open-down window where you can actually talk with the cashiers, not just to their voices.\nWhile pulling in, I noticed that the car in front of me had parked in my lane, a little beyond the window. I slipped my deposit under the clip that keeps papers from blowing in any chance wind and thought, Now, if he stays parked there, how will I get out? Can I back up and go through the ATM machine lane?\nThe driver, an older gentleman, a little ragged around the edges, slightly disheveled and a bit stooped, approached the window where I was parked, then hesitated and finally went to one of the pneumatic poles where he pressed the TALK button. I could clearly hear his voice, \u201cExcuse me. I think you gave me too much money. I cashed a check for $320. I think I have $340.\u201d Then several times he repeated, \u201cJust don\u2019t want to cheat you folk.\u201d\nThe little drama played out in front of me. I could see two tellers examining his papers, then one woman used the Intercom. \u201cNo you\u2019re good.\u201d And she made some further explanation that I couldn\u2019t hear. Again, he said, \u201cJust didn\u2019t want to cheat you folk.\u201d And slightly embarrassed, one last time, \u201cJust didn\u2019t want to cheat you.\u201d Then he limped away to his parked car and drove off.\nThis little incident happened a couple days after the Newtown school massacre. My heart was much heavier with this horror than with any improbable thoughts that the world might end on December 21st (indeed, for some parents, the world as they knew it has ended). That little man couldn\u2019t possibly have known it, limping off, slightly embarrassed that he had made such an obvious error, but he had comforted my heart. See, small acts of goodness still existed and I had just unintentionally witnessed one. \u201cJust didn\u2019t want to cheat you folk.\u201d Unsung, unrewarded integrity had stood before me in the guise of a common man.\nI always try to do the word puzzles in the USA Today daily newspaper that still gets tossed into the driveway at our house. I leave the Crossword Puzzle alone\u2014it takes too much time\u2014and David generally tackles the Sudoku Puzzles. In five minutes or less, however, I can usually knock off the Quickcross, the Up & Down Words, the Don\u2019t Quote Me, and the Word Roundup. I look at this as exercise for the brain.\nSometime around the potential doomsday scenario, sometime around the horror of the school massacre, the Don\u2019t Quote Me section had a saying from Amelia Earhart. I had to fill in the blanks. It went something like this: \u201cEach small act of goodness is like a tree that sends its seeds into the world and everywhere they land, more goodness is the fruit.\u201d\nGod smiled after the doomsday didn\u2019t happen\u2014only He knows that secret, and a little disheveled man reminded me that there are people who maintain a moral compass in the natural course of their days. They will go to great lengths to rectify a wrong\u2014even one that is minor. Through them the seeds of goodness are spread throughout a sometimes terrifying world. One landed in my own heart.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 10187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.onestop.com/5-motivational-quotes-from-successful-entrepreneurs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4FBNU73L6CPIKUMBXSI63KPIHBRO4BZM", "length": 2710, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.onestop.com", "title": "5 Motivational Quotes from Successful Entrepreneurs", "raw_content": "5 Motivational Quotes from Successful Entrepreneurs\nPosted by T.S. Johnson on April 13, 2017\nEven successful brands can find that they're uncertain about what decisions to make next to continue to grow their businesses. If you're feeling stuck, heed the advice of some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs on what it takes to continue to keep your business moving in the right direction.\n1. \u201cYour most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.\u201d \u2013 Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft\nIt\u2019s easy to want to turn away from negative feedback. However, doing so could gravely hurt your business. One unhappy customer can teach you more about your business\u2019s shortcomings than 100 enthusiastic ones. Take negative feedback with a grain of salt, but don\u2019t ignore it either.\n2. \u201cGreat things in business are never done by one person; they are done by a team of people.\u201d \u2013 Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple\nIt can feel like your business is your baby and you and you alone know what's best for it, what it needs to grow, what you need to do to continue to make it a success. This quote by Steve Jobs, however, reminds you that, while it may be your business, it takes a team to truly allow your business to be the success you want it to be.\n3. \u201cSometimes it takes a germ of an idea, which takes a long time to digest.\u201d \u2013 Donna Karan, fashion designer\nOne of the hardest aspects of creating a business is waiting for those germs to digest. Don\u2019t give up because you haven\u2019t seen immediate results. Keep pushing forward through days you don\u2019t experience huge payoffs. This is what sets the leaders of the world apart from the followers.\n4. \u201cIf all you do is motivate, without a strategy, it\u2019s like a warm bath. It\u2019s nice. It\u2019s not enough.\u201d \u2013 Tony Robbins, motivational coach\nMotivation is a major key to success. Yet if you don\u2019t motivate with a plan, you\u2019re just sitting in a sea of comfortable complacency. Remind your employees of their goals and milestones while you motivate to get optimum results.\n5. \u201cLong-term goals are dangerous. They limit you. They hinder you from reacting to new conditions.\u201d \u2013 Pete Cashmore, founder of Mashable\nDon\u2019t focus on the pie in the sky if you want to succeed. Focus on the small nugget of success on the horizon instead. When long-term goals don\u2019t feel immediate enough they can often limit your success in the short term. They also don\u2019t offer enough wiggle room for unexpected circumstances.\nThe early and middle stages of a new business can feel exciting, scary and frustrating. Keep your partners and your employees on track by remembering that even the most successful entrepreneurs all started at the bottom.\nTopics: Business, Career, quotes, Entrepreneurship", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 507, "original_length": 9991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.onestop.com/banned-the-shoppers-who-make-too-many-returns", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:F2BDSIQMCTBMXDWHXYAFPOCS46S3JTVC", "length": 4471, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "blog.onestop.com", "title": "Banned: The Shoppers Who Make Too Many Returns", "raw_content": "Posted by Keely Brown on June 3, 2018\nFor ecommerce retailers, returns are even more of a headache than they are for brick and mortar sellers -- and that's why some stores are cracking down.\nReturn abuse has always been a widespread problem for retailers, but ecommerce sellers have traditionally offered generous return policies because of the tricky nature of internet shopping, where buyers have to make their purchase decisions based only on photos and descriptions. In particular, shopping online for clothing without being able to try it on can pose problems; but in spite of this, ecommerce accounts for almost 20 percent of the fashion retail sales in the US, and this number continues to rise.\nPerhaps it's not surprising that ecommerce return rates hover around 30 percent (some sources say 40 percent for some retailers), compared to 8.89 percent for brick-and-mortar stores. However, some retailers have had enough, and are citing shopper abuse as a reason to start banning serial returners.\nBanned Shoppers, Closed Accounts\nOne example is Amazon, which has recently begun to ban shoppers who return too many items. Given Amazon's reputation as a customer-friendly company that strives for personalized customer service, the move exemplifies just how much of a problem this has become for ecommerce retailers. Amazon has always been known for its generous return policies (which other companies have had to try to emulate, even when it wasn't as cost-effective for them), but an Amazon spokesman recently told The Wall Street Journal that sometimes it's necessary to take this sort of action in order to protect the rest of the company's 300 million customers.\nWithin the last couple of years, ecommerce retailers such as Nordstrom have followed suit as well, closing accounts and banning shoppers suspected of abusive or fraudulent behavior. Return abuse has become such an epidemic, retailers such as J.C. Penney, Best Buy and Home Depot have begun tracking returns and creating \"return profiles\" on customers. In many cases, returns are monitored by a third-party company (such as The Retail Equation). In retail stores using these services, if a person is found to have made too many returns within a certain period, future returns will be prohibited until further notice. In the case of Amazon, returns are monitored internally, and if an algorithm picks up return activity that looks suspicious, the case is reviewed by an Amazon employee.\nAccording to retailers, returns aren't the only problem. Many of these \"serial returners\" are also sending back the wrong items, or items that have been used and worn. Another problem is the abundance of items that weren't purchased from the store to begin with but are fraudulently being \"returned\" for a refund. The numbers tell the story: According to statistics, return abuse or fraud costs US retailers as much as $17.6 billion in losses.\nTreading a Fine Line: Protecting Retailers While Satisfying Customers\nFor ecommerce retailers considering a move back to stricter return policies, the public has spoken. Research shows that online shoppers vastly prefer buying from ecommerce retailers that offer a full refund with no limitations, as well as free return shipping. Likewise, recent studies show that 51 percent of shoppers say that they actually avoid retailers with strict return policies. This has become such an important issue for online shoppers, even digital marketing specialists know to emphasize hassle-free return policies when they produce ad copy for their retail clients.\nIn the meantime, instead of imposing stricter return policies, retailers are considering alternative ecommerce solutions, such as implementing new technologies to mitigate returns. These include virtual fitting and styling tools, as well as other ecommerce platforms to help shoppers make more-educated choices. Likewise, retail experts are advising shoppers who are worried about these bans to educate themselves by reading product descriptions, studying photos, comparing prices and reading reviews (especially negative ones) before purchasing a product.\nAs for the future, analysts say that while returns will continue to be costly for retailers, a generous, consumer-friendly return policy will balance these losses out by generating customer growth, loyalty and retention -- three magic words to any ecommerce site.\nTopics: Amazon, Ecommerce, Retail, return rate, loyalty, fulfillment, customer experience, refund", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 505, "original_length": 12172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.ronhebron.com/2008/11/bailout-lacks-oversight-despite.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2NYRLKECA72K65UGAP5IHVY2VYZJUO52", "length": 717, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.ronhebron.com", "title": "Economic Freedom: Bailout Lacks Oversight Despite Billions Pledged", "raw_content": "Are you kidding me, President George? No oversight? Bailout Lacks Oversight Despite Billions Pledged: Yet for all this activity, no formal action has been taken to fill the independent oversight posts established by Congress when it approved the bailout to prevent corruption and government waste. Nor has the first monitoring report required by lawmakers been completed, though the initial deadline has passed. \"It's a mess,\" said Eric M. Thorson, the Treasury Department's inspector general, who has been working to oversee the bailout program until the newly created position of special inspector general is filled. \"I don't think anyone understands right now how we're going to do proper oversight of this thing.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 6814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.ticketlodge.com/14-01-25/brad-paisley-announces-country-megaticket-dates-and-tour.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KOXJSOHYHHG53XE6Y3U2XI7TVYKQEVZ2", "length": 1738, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "blog.ticketlodge.com", "title": "Brad Paisley Announces Country Megaticket Dates and Tour \u2013 Ticket Lodge Blog", "raw_content": "County music megastar Brad Paisley dropped the news that he will be hitting the road in 2019 as part of this year\u2019s Country Megaticket. After a couple of appearances at the San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo and later at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Paisley will take it act on the road until the end of August. He\u2019ll make stops at a ton of cities including Atlanta, Charlotte, Phoenix, Syracuse, Wantagh, Holmdel, and Raleigh. He will also play shows in Rama and Windsor. Special guests Chris Lane and Riley Green will join as supporting acts.\nBrad Paisley will continue to support his latest album, \u2018Love and War\u2019 which was released in April of 2017 via Arista Nashville. It is his eleventh studio album and peaked at eh #13 spot on the Billboard 200. The album features guest vocals by Mick Jagger, John Fogerty, Timbaland and Bill Anderson. Also in 2017, he went on his \u2018Weekend Warrior World Tour\u2019 with Tyler Farr and Maddie & Tae after his tour with Justin Moore, Mickey Guyton, Eric Paslay and Cam for his \u2018Crushing It World Tour.\u2019\nLaughlin Events Center \u2013 Laughlin, NV\nCasino Rama Entertainment Centre \u2013 Rama, ON\nThe Colosseum At Caesars Windsor \u2013 Windsor, ON\nMississippi Valley Fairgrounds \u2013 Davenport, IA\nBethlehem Musikfest \u2013 Sands Steel Stage \u2013 Bethlehem, PA\nTags: 20192019 tourBrad PaisleyDiscount TicketsHouston Livestock Show and RodeoJohn FogertyMick Jaggerriley greenSan Antonio Stock Show and RodeoTicketsTour\nRadiohead Announces 2018 A Moon Shaped Pool Tour\nCypress Hill and Hollywood Undead to Team Up for 2019 Tour\nEllie Goulding Heading Out on Tour To Support New Delirium Album\nNext story Dave Matthews Band Announces 2019 Summer Tour Plans\nPrevious story Rascal Flatts Announces 2019 North American Tour Dates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 311, "original_length": 8147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.vehiclejar.com/new-info-suzuki-sx4-s-cross/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:55Z", "digest": "sha1:GK5XU7UUGWAJJOM3PCJ4CNTVAH3W4MG6", "length": 1521, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blog.vehiclejar.com", "title": "New info for the Suzuki SX4 S-Cross", "raw_content": "Home Cars New info for the Suzuki SX4 S-Cross\nMore Suzuki news\nSuzuki had presented the facelift of the SX4 S-Cross in a special event in Hungary some months ago, with the updated model to be officially presented at the Paris auto show at the end of the week and to be available in the beginning of the next month.\nThe Japanese company has not yet released an official press release, but the new images of the car, show that the changes on the Japanese crossover are extensive, as it has an entirely new front part, with redesigned lights, a new grille and a new bumper. It also seems that its hood is more dynamic, having more pronounced lines.\nIts interior features a new upholstery and a slightly redesigned center console. Mechanically it will be available with a new 1.0-liter gasoline engine producing 112 hp with 170 Nm of torque, a new 1.4-liter producing 140 hp with 220 Nm of torque and the existing 1.6-liter diesel engine with 120 hp and 320 Nm.\nThe 1-liter engine will be combined with a 5-speed manual gearbox and it will emit 119 g/km of CO2, while the 1.4-liter will be offered with a six-speed manual gearbox, while optionally it can be combined with a 6-speed automatic, with its emissions reaching 128 g/km.\nFinally, the S-Cross with the 1.6-liter diesel engine will emit 106 g/km, while the four-wheel drive version will emit 114 g/km. The weight of the basic version is 1,200 kilos and its luggage space reaches 430 liters.\nPrevious articleJeep Compass 2017\nNext articleNissan GT-R Track Edition 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 4817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.webook.com/2010/06/a-huge-dose-of-writing-challenge-results.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:48Z", "digest": "sha1:LY6K2IFHQZMHXOQONY25HTPMAGDA54HF", "length": 1273, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blog.webook.com", "title": "A Huge Dose of Writing Challenge Results - WEbook Blog", "raw_content": "Emery 15 June 2010 at 11:08\nOut of curiosity, what happened to the one-entry-per-person rule regarding the Character Creation Challenge? Sabe_Cuinn seems to have two...\nGolly! Will these challenges ever be fair??? First, people are allowed to break the word count rule. Now, there is someone who had two entries up when the deadline expired. I mean, I usually post two entries so people can help me choose which one I should actually keep, and then I delete one before the deadline. But, if people keep more than one entry up, it increases their chances of winning, undermining the other contestants who follow the rules. It's sad really, but congrats to those who win fairly.\nWEbook 16 June 2010 at 02:42\nSome of a you have noticed that one of the winners submitted twice to the Character Creation Challenge. This is a violation of the rules, and we apologize.\nThanks for catching this, it was a mistake on our part. We decided not to complicate things, so we aren't going to change the winners (after all, this an Olympic gold medal).\nLet's all try to follow the rules in future challenges, and we will do a better job checking submissions.\nAubrieAnne 16 June 2010 at 10:33\nThank you so much for replying to our commments. It's very reassuring, knowing that we are heard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 10238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.youris.com/bioeconomy/food/mums-diet-mirrors-childs-food-allergies.kl", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:22Z", "digest": "sha1:M6YDFO2IYLQ6VF2GHL6PKDZOGVD35GKT", "length": 4309, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.youris.com", "title": "Study finds maternal diet could have an impact on food allergy in later life of children", "raw_content": "Mum\u2019s diet mirrors child\u2019s food allergies\nA long-term study evaluating maternal diet\u2019s impact on food allergy in later life is expected to uncover causes of allergy in children\nAbout 20 million Europeans are subject to food allergies. Now scientists are looking at these allergies in new ways. It involves the food industry in its work and pays special attention to the link between early diets and allergy in later life. Clare Mills, professor of allergy in the university\u2019s Institute of Inflammation and Repair, at the University of Manchester, UK, is the coordinator of iFAAM. This EU-funded research project follows in the footsteps of European research projects dating back for over a decade.\nIn particular, the conclusions from a long-term study of a cohort of young people, now six years old, who have been tracked from birth and whose diets and allergies have been recorded, are now in sight. \u201cOur aim is to see the allergy outcomes of their diet in early life, and even before they were born, as we have information on their mothers\u2019 diets and on their weaning,\u201d Mills tells youris.com, \u201cThis work has been coordinated at the Charit\u00e9 [University Hospital] in Berlin and involves 12,000 people in samples from Iceland to Greece.\u201d\nMills says that although the project has only been going for a year, this work is already producing interesting pointers. For example, a comparison between the UK and Israel shows that children in Israel typically eat nuts at an earlier age than in the UK. This suggests that such dietary habits may have a protective effect against nut allergies later on. \u201cThis means that the current advice that young children should avoid nuts may make things worse,\u201d she observes.\nA particular focus for the project is the different effects of allergenic foods in different contexts. \u201cSomeone might react very differently to nuts in a cookie or in a chocolate dessert,\u201d says Mills. The project aims to produce risk models, which will enable food manufacturers to look at these issues, perhaps leading them to alter cleaning protocols in their factories.\nIn addition, project researchers are working with allergy patient groups. Mills tells youris.com: \u201cOften people don\u2019t report allergies, but instead just cope with them. This means that we don\u2019t get to know about them. So we are working with patient groups, and setting up an online tool to allow people to record their allergy experiences.\u201d\nOne expert recognises the focus on maternal diet is the right one. \u201cThere is reason to worry about maternal diet during breast feeding and pregnancy with regard to food allergy outcomes in children. The diet may alter the nutrients and proteins in breast milk and affect the immune system. Studies thus far mostly suggest that a \u2018healthy\u2019 diet is important,\u201d says Scott Sicherer, professor of paediatrics, allergy and immunology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York, USA.\nHe adds that the food industry has a significant part to play, saying: \u201cProper labelling of food allergens is important for keeping persons with food allergies safe.\u201d But he cautions that it is not the whole story. \u201cIt is also important not to label foods overly cautiously. Rampant use of cautionary labels might, if used improperly, be overly limiting,\u201d Sicherer tells youris.com.\nHowever, the link between early and maternal diet and the onset of allergy is not proven and no valuable biomarkers for allergy have yet been found, according to Karin Hoffmann-Sommergruber, associate professor in the department of pathophysiology and allergy research at Vienna Medical University, Austria. Allergy is a global health issue, with rising incidence in newly industrialising nations, she believes. It varies in nature from place to place, with rice more of a problem in Asia, peanuts in Europe and the US, and fish and seafood everywhere.\nIn addition, Hoffmann-Sommergruber pinpoints allergy as a key issue that the European food industry has yet to tackle. She concludes: \u201c[The] food industry has to set up a risk assessment and risk management plan in compliance with the current allergen labelling legislation.\u201d\nImage credits to: Janice Cullivan\nFebruary 2014Good risk communication, safer food\nMarch 2014Sophie Hieke - No \u2018one size fits all\u2019 for health claims\nMarch 2013Anti-allergy GM apples", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 6429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/early_years/2012/10/eriksons_meisels_tapped_to_lead_early_childhood_effort_in_nebraska.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UFXD3ILSVL5N5QAONNMO5RSXM3ZEQL4E", "length": 1768, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blogs.edweek.org", "title": "Erikson's Meisels Tapped to Lead Early-Childhood Effort in Nebraska - Early Years - Education Week", "raw_content": "\u00ab Studies: Childhood Experiences Affect Brain Development | Main | N.C. Governor Adds 6,300 Seats to State Preschool Program \u00bb\nErikson's Meisels Tapped to Lead Early-Childhood Effort in Nebraska\nBy Lesli A. Maxwell on October 19, 2012 11:24 AM\nSamuel J. Meisels, a leading authority on early-childhood development and an expert on the assessment of young children, has been selected to head up a brand-new early-childhood initiative at the University of Nebraska, the campus announced today.\nMeisels, who has been the president of the Chicago-based Erikson Institute since 2002, will serve as the founding director of the university's Buffett Early Childhood Institute in Lincoln, which was established last year with a gift from Susan A. Buffett, daughter of billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett. The university pledged to match Buffett's gift, creating an endowment of more than $100 million for the new endeavor.\nIn a news release, Meisels said that the new institute \"is being created at exactly the right time about precisely the right things in just the right way. The institute has the philanthropic support, university backing, and applied research tradition that it needs to achieve its initial goals. It provides us with a rare opportunity to move the field of early childhood forward to change the lives of children and families in Nebraska and beyond. I am deeply honored to take on this new challenge.\"\nDuring his tenure at Erikson\u2014a graduate school focused on child development\u2014Meisels oversaw a robust period of growth in both enrollment and resources to support an expanding portfolio of work in policy, applied research, and community-based interventions.\nHe was selected after a national search. 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The Software Store \u2013 http://softwarestore.reading.ac.uk/. Here you will find details of all of our site licensed software as well as links to other commercial offerings, such as Microsoft Office 365. Most of these packages can be used for free by staff and students for academic purposes. 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Ballard\u2019s Super-Cannes - Bonafide", "raw_content": "The growing drama and film indie will adapt the novel into a six-part TV drama series and Margery Bone, managing director and founder of Bonafide Films, and partner Elwen Rowlands will executive produce.\nThe series will be written by DC Moore, winner of the 2016 Writers\u2019 Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Long Form TV Drama for Not Safe for Work, with director Saul Dibb (The Line of Beauty, The Duchess; Bullet Boy; La Suite Francaise) also attached to the project.\nSuper-Cannes is set in a future, corporate paradise in the hills above the French Riviera, the novel depicts the global, tech-elite living in manicured perfection, that is until the more sinister underbelly of their \u2018intelligent city\u2019 is revealed and the true, darker nature of its occupants is unmasked.\nBone said: \u201cSuper-Cannes sees Ballard at the height of his powers. On one level, it\u2019s a classic thriller set against the gorgeous backdrop of the French Riviera. But underneath the veneer of polished privilege lies a deeper story of corruption and criminal collusion, told through the portrait of a marriage. In terms of TV drama, it\u2019s difficult to think of a more dynamic combination than that of Ballard\u2019s conceptual genius, DC Moore\u2019s bold screenwriting and Saul Dibb\u2019s directorial integrity and vision.\u201d\nSuper-Cannes is the latest project on an expanding development slate for Bonafide Films. This summer, the indie will going into production on The Last Post for BBC One, a much anticipated six-part Peter Moffat drama series that tells the story of a regiment of military police and their families stationed in the Middle East during the 1960s Aden Emergency.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boomerintransition.com/2016/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:11Z", "digest": "sha1:GDPWJ2SFYOJ67YCMBHJDWL7CND6JPOHJ", "length": 3453, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "boomerintransition.com", "title": "March 2016 \u2013 Boomer In Transition", "raw_content": "Can I Blame It On The Chemo . . .\nPosted on March 17, 2016 by djunkans\nOk, I know that I have written about this topic a couple of times over the last several months, but redundancy is good, right?\nClearly, it still surprises me.\nFor those of you who followed me on Caringbridge as I was going through chemo, you might recall that one of the side effects for me of chemo was \u201cbecoming chatty.\u201d Prior to this, I was never, ever, never, ever, ever accused of being chatty. After the chemo drugs left my body, I became somewhat less chatty, much to the relief of my family (unless the topic was my new, non-original bladder).\nFast forward to about two months before I retired and I was back to a classic introvert, looking at my shoes when I talked to people (unless the topic was my new, non-original bladder). So, I thought I would be able to pursue quiet, introvert type stuff, like writing, reading, and other solitary pursuits. In order to prepare for this, I rented an office in the basement of an office building about 12 blocks from our house. Not only was the office in the basement, it was at the end of the hall, where I would likely have limited contact with humans, thereby allowing me to pursue these solitary endeavors.\nI no longer have this office.\nI no longer look at my own shoes.\nI am writing and reading less now than when I was working.\nWhen I look at my calendar for the next month, it scares me. There are scary \u201cpeople things\u201d on my calendar just about every day!\nCan I blame it on the chemo? No, that has been out of my system for three years. Am I following Eleanor Roosevelt\u2019s advice to do something that scares me every day? No. I would not do this voluntarily. It started when I asked God the question Why? and What Do You Want Me To Do? And God answered differently than I expected.\nWhen God Works You Over . . .\nI am not sure if my theology is correct on this, but here is the story. A few weeks ago, I was asked to speak in front of 400 people at a donor event at the university where I am doing my teaching, mentoring and coaching. The event is in May and I had a conflict already on my calendar. So my answer was NO.\nOver the next 5 days, God put this front and center on my mind. I would think about it during the day and I would think about it when I woke up at night. On the 5th day of this \u201cworking me over\u201d, it became clear that I was supposed to do this. I was on an elliptical machine working out, and God was putting words in my mind on what I was supposed to say at this event. Again, I had already said NO to this event and had a prior commitment out of town that was at the same time. The sense that I needed to change my plans and do this event was so overwhelming that I cut my workout short, drove home and emailed the event coordinator to see if they had found another speaker. They had not, and the reply was \u201cNo, do you have any ideas for us?\u201d My answer was \u201cI\u2019ll do it\u201d, and I explained the last 5 day process.\nEver since I changed my devotions from \u201churry up\u201d with several asks of what I wanted to do, and no listening to what God wanted me to do \u2013 and flipped that around \u2013 this type of thing seems to happen more frequently. Trust me, there is no ego involved in doing this presentation. I don\u2019t like to speak in front of large groups (even though I have done it too many times to count). It would have been easier to stick with NO, but God had other plans for me, and that is the road I am traveling.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 5575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bpage.me/losangeles/profile/CHERYL-STRINGER/0000001994", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:32Z", "digest": "sha1:PTNHJJSOEOF65WYOE7Q43ZTF3MT5YODD", "length": 346, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bpage.me", "title": "CHERYL STRINGER - 1470 W 182ND STREET, GARDENA, 90248-3949 | bPage.me", "raw_content": "CHERYL STRINGER\n1470 W 182ND STREET, GARDENA, 90248-3949\nCHERYL STRINGER is business registered with the Office of Finance of the city of Los Angeles. The location account number is 0000001994. 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Director\nBrechner Center for Freedom of Information\nUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, 32611\nACCESS MEETINGS\nJudge rules hospital plan exemption unconstitutional\nPrediction in college's pre-election press release a fluke\nCity cancels ads over paper's lawsuit\nMiami Mayor threatens to yank ads\nParents, clergy file suit to block classes\nJury awards for rights violation\nJudge allows state to seize profits from Rolling work\nDisney refuses to allow character folk art display at eatery\nSheriff's drug investigation files not exempt after conviction\nMurder trial transcripts posted on Web\nJudge cites privacy for denying records\nMedia law conference to meet in Miami\nNew Editor takes over Brechner Report\nTechnology can remove barriers to free information\nDAYTONA BEACH \u0096 The Fifth District Court of Appeal has ruled unconstitutional an exemption to the Open Meetings Law that allows public hospitals\u0092 governing boards to meet in closed sessions to discuss strategic plans.\nJudge Charles M. 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Quarles said she told Sistrunk that she \"assumed\" the board\u0092s chairman and vice chairwoman would be re-elected.\nSistrunk then prepared, and Quarles approved, a news release, complete with a made-up quote for college President Phil Day, reporting that the two board leaders had been re-elected. The release was distributed 10 minutes before the meeting began.\nThe chairman and vice chairwoman were re-elected unanimously. Both said they did not discuss the vote before the meeting, which would have been a violation of the Open Meetings Law. (8/16/97)\nPUNTA GORDA \u0096 The City Council asked its staff to stop publishing legal notices in the local newspaper because the paper is suing a city agency over an alleged Open Meetings Law violation.\nThe Sun Herald suit claims that the city\u0092s Community Redevelopment Agency violated the Open Meetings Law by negotiating privately with a developer for Laishley Park, a waterfront park. The developer, David Waltemath of New Orleans, plans to construct a complex of condominiums, offices and retail shops on the site.\nThe city planned to switch its ads to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. The Sun Herald said it would continue to run the legal notices for no cost as a public service if the city pulled its advertising from the Sun Herald. A city report said Punta Gorda spent $8,058 on legal advertising in the paper in 1996-97. (9/18/97)\nMIAMI \u0096 Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez threatened to pull all city advertising contracts from the Miami Herald unless the newspaper became \"a lot nicer to me, my people, my citizens and my city,\" according to a report in that newspaper and audio recordings of the mayor\u0092s threat.\nThe mayor left the threat on a telephone answering machine at the Miami Herald\u0092s advertising department in the wake of news stories about the mayor\u0092s campaign supporters alleging voter fraud. Suarez said in the message that he would find any other possible means of avoiding advertising with the newspaper if he does not receive better treatment.\nThe city\u0092s advertising decisions are the responsibility of the city commission and the city manager. The city spends about $200, 000 annually on Miami Herald advertising that includes legal notices. (1/7/98)\nFORT MYERS \u0096 Parents, clergy and other community members filed a federal suit to block Bible study curricula in area public schools.\nThe Lee County School Board adopted curricula that focus on the Old and New Testaments as historical documents. (Brechner Report, December 1997). The classes started in January at Lee County high schools.\nThe suit alleges that the course curricula are not objective teachings of the Bible, but instead foster a pro-Christian belief system. Therefore, the plaintiffs are maintaining that the curricula are unconstitutional, and they are asking for the classes to be canceled. (12/10/97)\nFORT MYERS \u0096 A federal jury decided that a state attorney owes a former prosecutor $200,000 for violating her First Amendment rights.\nThe U.S. Middle District jury ruled that State Attorney Joseph D\u0092Alessandro, 20th Judicial Circuit, violated Melissa Skeen\u0092s constitutional rights by firing her for testifying against his wishes in a child abuse case.\nSkeen, who prosecuted child abuse cases for five years, was subpoenaed to testify in the child abuse case for which she claimed she was fired. D\u0092Alessandro testified that he fired Skeen not for testifying, but because she went out of her way to participate in the case, even after he asked her not to.\nThe monetary award compensates Skeen for financial losses and embarrassment. D\u0092Alessandro said he plans to fight the $200,000 figure. (12/12/97).\nGAINESVILLE \u0096 A circuit judge ruled that profits from the sales of books and stories about convicted serial killer Danny Rolling will go to the state, rather than to Rolling\u0092s ex-fianc\ufffd, Sondra London.\nLondon asserted that she is a journalist chronicling the mental insights of Rolling, who murdered five University of Florida college students in 1990. She said Rolling has received no compensation from the stories, art and autographs London sells.\nIn her ruling, Judge Martha Ann Lott, Eighth Circuit held that because London shares a unique and special relationship with Rolling, she is subject to a Florida law that bars convicted felons from profiting from their stories artwork and autographs. Lott cited contracts between London and Rolling, love letters and a marriage they conducted on the Internet.\nAccording to the ruling, the state may seize more than $20,000 London received for a series of tabloid articles and a book, \"The Making of a Serial Killer,\" that she co-wrote with Rolling. (1/1/98-1/3/98)\nORLANDO \u0096 Walt Disney World told the owner of a House of Blues restaurant opening on Disney property that he could not display 60 pieces of folk art he commissioned for the restaurant because they featured folk renderings of copyrighted Disney characters.\nIsaac Tigrett, owner of the House of Blues chain of restaurants and entertainment halls, said he was disappointed but respected the company\u0092s decision. He said he was unsure what he would do with the 60 pieces of art.\nThe House of Blues was scheduled to open at West Side Disney, a waterfront entertainment and retail complex, on Sept. 15.\nA Disney spokeswoman said the company is \"very careful\" about the use of its characters and trademarks. An agreement between Disney and its tenants bars the use of Disney character representations by third parties without the company\u0092s permission. (8/29/97)\nPALM BEACH - The Palm Beach County Sheriff\u0092s Office must disclose closed criminal investigation files concerning a felon\u0092s drug arrest and conviction, the Fourth District Court of Appeal has ruled.\nConvicted felon Carl R. Christy filed suit against the sheriff\u0092s office seeking access to the investigation records of his case. The sheriff\u0092s office refused Christy\u0092s request, arguing that the files contained information from an active criminal investigation and included the identities of confidential informants and undercover personnel, which is exempt from public disclosure, according to Florida\u0092s Public Records Law.\nThe Fourth District Court of Appeal held that the sheriff\u0092s office did not meet its burden in establishing that the investigation records were exempt. The court reasoned that the definition of active includes the requirement that the information will lead to the \"detection of ongoing or reasonably anticipated criminal activities.\" The court noted the files being sought were generated during a criminal investigation thirteen years ago. Christy was convicted and has already served his sentence for the offense.\nThe court also rejected arguments from the sheriff\u0092s office that the records should not be disclosed to protect the identities of undercover personnel. That information could be redacted, the court said, and the rest of the record released. (9/17/97)\nSARASOTA \u0096 A circuit judge teamed up with a newspaper to provide daily transcripts from a murder trial on the newspaper\u0092s Website as an experiment in access to court records.\nThe Sarasota Herald-Tribune newspaper posted the court reporter\u0092s computerized notes, from which official court transcripts are later made, from the Joseph Ciambrone murder trial. Ciambrone was charged with the 1995 death of his adopted son.\nJudge Gilbert Smith, 12th circuit, said court reporters\u0092 notes are not public records freely available to anyone, but because there was heightened public interest in the case, it was beneficial to make accurate information available as quickly as possible. Gilbert also released the notes as a way to test the Internet as a way in increase accessibility to court documents.\nThe transcripts are available at the newspaper\u0092s Website, Newscoast, at: www.newscoast.com. (12/6/97-12/7/97)\nMIAMI \u0096 A federal district court judge refused to order the U.S. Customs Service to give an attorney the names and addresses of people charged with violating the law in customs forfeiture cases, citing privacy exemptions to the Freedom of Information Act.\nJudge Federico Moreno, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, ruled that the privacy interests of the people charged outweighed the public\u0092s interest in disclosure.\nIn his ruling, Moreno rejected the argument that U.S. House and Senate reports accompanying the Electronic Freedom of Information Improvements Act reflected a Congressional intent to provide government documents, \"for any public or private purpose.\" Judge Moreno said Congress did not mean to reject a 1989 Supreme Court decision that held that Congress intended the FOI Act only as a means to \"know what the government was up to.\" (12/15/97)\nThe future of media law will be the topic of discussion among journalists and attorneys at The Florida Bar\u0092s 24th Annual Media-Law Conference, which is scheduled for March 21 in Miami. Speakers at the conference will include Tom Brokaw, anchor with NBC News; Jane Kirtley, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; and David Lawrence, publisher and chairman of the Miami Herald.\nThree general sessions will focus on the effects of tabloid reporting on the media, Florida journalists\u0092 privilege and the impact of the Internet on the media. Some of the individual workshops will be center on defamation, copyright, crisis coverage and access to public records.\nRegistrations for the conference must be postmarked no later than Feb. 20. To obtain registration materials or more information about the conference, \"Media Law Approaches the Millennium,\" people interested should contact Toyca Williams at (850) 561-5766.\nGAINESVILLE \u0096 Michele D. Bush, a graduate student in media law at the University of Florida\u0092s College of Journalism and Communications, will begin serving as editor of the The Brechner Report, beginning with this issue.\nBush received her bachelor\u0092s degree in journalism from the University of Florida.\nBefore entering the graduate program at UF, Bush was a government reporter at the Sun Herald in Charlotte County, Florida, and reporter for Florida Living magazine in Gainesville.\nShe plans to focus her graduate research on state laws controlling access to information.\nBush succeeds Anthony L. Fargo.\nBy Robert Craig Waters\nUsing cutting edge technology, the Supreme Court of Florida in partnership with Florida State University began broadcasting its oral arguments live in late 1997 by satellite and over the Internet. The experience epitomized the way technology can dramatically flatten barriers to freedom of information. And a controversy that erupted from it also showed how this \"new openness\" still can be thwarted by those who control a particular kind of technology.\nUsing a $300,000 legislative grant, FSU's School of Communications installed new equipment making the new broadcasts possible. After an initial test run on FSU's television cable outlet, the Court's arguments were first broadcast live on the Internet using RealPlayer technology in October 1997 (http://wfsu.org/gavel2gavel/). This literally made Court arguments available live via an Internet connection anywhere on earth. Satellite broadcasts followed in November, available for downlink in all of North America.\nYet the Chief Justice's request for free time on a satellite bought by the state for educational purposes led to an unexpected roadblock. Largely through the reports of Peter Wallsten of the St. Petersburg Times, we learned that the state's educational satellite was chiefly used by private companies that leased the time at $800 an hour. Although these profits were put into an educational account, very little of the actual satellite time was being used for educational purposes, partly because state agencies were charged a \"reduced\" rate of $300 an hour. In the meantime, most of the available time on the satellite was going unused.\nHad editorial boards around Florida not supported the Court, it also would have been forced to pay the $300-an-hour fee. Although the state granted free time on a temporary basis, no final decision has been rendered on the Chief Justice's request at this writing, though state officials have showed significant support.\nThese kinds of controversies undoubtedly will appear with increasing frequency. The reason is simple. Information technology increasingly determines how \"free\" information really is. Those who control the technology also control the information. And the problem is only magnified when the technology is actually owned by someone. The Court's venture into Internet broadcasting demonstrates the potential that exists for a true flattening of barriers impeding freedom of information. Florida's Supreme Court has foreshadowed the day when television programming is broadcast free to a world-wide audience via \"Netcasting.\" In a short time Netcasting could entirely eliminate the need for satellite-based transmissions like those the Court now uses. And in a few years, the costs of Web-based television will be low enough that similar channels could be offered by huge numbers of persons and organizations. These would only supplement the enormous Web-based libraries already going on line world-wide, offering information for free that once cost dearly.\nYet, this is a future that still can be thwarted. The \"open standards\" model of the Internet--based on technology no one owns--is a sore thorn in the side of powerful interests. The constant turn over of Web-based technology opens more and more avenues these interests can exploit. Many companies and more than a few nations are making a bid to control whatever technology eventually dominates the distribution of information.\nThe outcome will affect both the press and our society at large far into the next century. Its importance can be demonstrated by looking at another time in history when a new technology revolutionized the distribution of information. When the printing press was invented, nations quickly divided themselves into those where the press was free and those where it was not. 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Thomastik-Infeld is the market leader in quality and strives for constant innovation to satisfy the wide-ranging demands of musicians.\nThomastik-Infeld can look back at a long history full of change. Even before the beginning of the First World War Dr. Franz Thomastik (luthier and Doctor of Philosophy) dealt with all raw materials for potential use in making strings. Starting in 1919 he did his systematic research into materials together with Otto Infeld, an engineer. The cooperation of the company founders first occurred as a joint effort of two single enterprises. The home of both companies was in shared premises in the 6th municipal district of Vienna. In 1921 the foundation of the joint company \u201cDr. Franz Thomastik and employees\u201d followed.\nEventually Dr. Thomastik chose steel as material for the development of new strings. In the production of piano strings, there was already plenty of knowledge about steel wires which were struck by hammers. The major problem at that time was to make the steel wire usable for string instruments. Therefore, a specific processing technology was necessary. The advantages of this material lay in the resulting tuning stability, the imperviousness to climatic changes, as well as in its significantly longer lifespan. On the basis of the Austrian patent (No. 69060 \u2013 flat wire winding of Dr. Thomastik filed August 15th, 1914) and after many years of joint effort steel strings had been successfully manufactured. In 1926 strings of respectable quality were developed for all string instruments, from the violin to the contrabass.\nA document dating from the year 1942 shows that at the beginning of the 1930s 50 percent of the production of strings was exported, and that Great Britain and the United States of America were the most important markets. 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The DOJ believes that the law \u201cviolates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, as well as the voting guarantees of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.\u201d\nIn addition to the suit focused on Voter ID, the department also filed a motion to intervene in the ongoing redistricting case being considered by a federal three-judge panel in San Antonio.\n\u201cToday\u2019s action marks another step forward in the Justice Department\u2019s continuing effort to protect the voting rights of all eligible Americans,\u201d U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement released today. \u201cWe will not allow the Supreme Court\u2019s recent decision to be interpreted as open season for states to pursue measures that suppress voting rights. The Department will take action against jurisdictions that attempt to hinder access to the ballot box, no matter where it occurs. We will keep fighting aggressively to prevent voter disenfranchisement.\u201d\nTexas Attorney General Greg Abbott had announced that the Voter ID Law would take effect immediately, following a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding part of the Voting Rights Act. That ruling suspended federal pre-clearance requirements for states with a history of discrimination in voting matters. The Justices determined that the pre-clearance formula was dated. Congress would have to come up with a new formula for that portion of the Voting Rights Act to be valid once again.\nPrint article This entry was posted by Paul Brown on August 22, 2013 at 12:16 pm, and is filed under Redistricting, Voter ID. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 5747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://carbosclassichits.blogspot.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:36Z", "digest": "sha1:GSHQP3QTOF6JPASN6E3NPYJLH2HNFVAI", "length": 9841, "nlines": 54, "source_domain": "carbosclassichits.blogspot.com", "title": "Carbo's Classic Hits", "raw_content": "Last year was definately a big year for me with so many highlights and 2007 has only just started but being accepeted into journalism at RMIT is definately a huge lifetime highlight for me.\nLast year was the final year of my Professional Writing and Editing course at TAFE, the graduation ceremony almost saw me start to cry because it was the realisation of having overcome the many challenges as a person with Asperger Syndrome.\nJournalism has long been an area that I have had an interest in and wanted to work in, so getting into the degree is a great way for me to learn even more skills as I continue to work on my ambition to be a sports journalist.\nposted by Ben Carbonaro @ 10:59 pm 0 comments\nInternational Day of People with Disability 2006 Presentation\nGood morning everyone and I am here today to tell you about the disability that I have in Asperger Syndrome along with a few other community based projects designed to promote awareness of disability related issues.\nAsperger Syndrome is one of five neurobiological pervasive development disorders that have distinct characteristics particularly in the skill areas of social and communication skills. It was named after the German physician Dr Hans Asperger who made initial observations in 1944, but it wasn\u2019t until 1994 that it was recognised by health authorities in the USA as a disability.\nWhat was it like growing up with Asperger Syndrome?\nGrowing up with Asperger Syndrome was definitely one filled with many challenges and there were times where I was often very frustrated with not just myself but also those around me because they didn\u2019t understand my behaviour. As I have gotten older my peers have accepted me for who I am and not judged me based on my actions which are sometimes not exactly what you could call correct or mainstream.\nChallenges in TAFE, what were they?\nAs a student at RMIT TAFE the challenges I faced were quite mixed but there are two in particular that gave me the most trouble. These were time management and correct behaviour in class. The Disability Liaison Unit at RMIT were able to organise a note taker who acted as a buddy for me and helped me achieve better behaviour so as to ensure that no one in my classes became annoyed or angry with me. Time management is still an issue for me, although I do have trouble prioritising things and will need to do some work on this in the future.\nWhat helped at TAFE?\nHaving the Disability Liaison Unit as a resource definitely helped me to overcome the challenges of being a disability student. The DLU were and still are a great source of information/inspiration for everyone who is a student with a disability at RMIT. Being involved in projects such as recording the Aspirations CD as given me confidence to be a vocal advocate and speaker on disability related issues.\nAnother project I was involved in the creation of the \u201cE Team\u201d which is a number of current and past students with a disability who have volunteered their team to act as advice givers/sources of information to those with a disability who looking to commence study. It was launched mid way through this year and everyone involved in confident that interest in the program will pick up as plenty of new students with a disability commence study early next year.\nCurrently, I am on a Disability Support Pension and do have aspirations to get some part-time or casual work in the future. During the winter time, I am work as a statistician for the Werribee Football Club who competes in the elite VFL competition. I have applied to commence a degree in either journalism or communications at RMIT, so fingers crossed when offers are made in January. Netball is another passion of mine and I write match reports/news pieces for a sports website. I am responsible for coverage of both Melbourne Phoenix and Melbourne Kestrels home matches along with Australian international matches played in Melbourne.\nposted by Ben Carbonaro @ 7:18 pm 1 comments\nSchools not responsible for everything\nThe recent Werribee DVD controversy has raised several issues and one of these has included how much responsibility schools hold when it comes to teaching students in non academic areas such as accpetable social behavior.\nSchools shouldn't be blamed whenever a case of bullying or violent teenage behaviour is reported in the media and it really is about time parents to take back a much greater level of responsibility because it is how behave that directly influences the children they have raised.\nNetball.... whats next?\nThe Commonwealth Bank Trophy is Australia's elite netball competition played at venues across Australia and is telecast live on digital television channel ABC2.\nAustralia will be keen to avenge the loss to New Zealand in the Commonwealth Games final when a two Test series is played over the next week in Brisbane and Sydney.\nHowever, there is one paticular issue pertaining to television coverage of the series that has angered me greatly since I found out about it on Netball Australia's website.\nThis is the ABC's decision to not utilise the ABC2 digital channel to telecast the two international matches LIVE but to rather stick with the traditional formula of delayed telecasts.\nIt's a completely different story in New Zealand receive where viewers receive live coverage of all Silverferns matches played on the One Sport network.\nDoes Netball Australia have anything to do with this or was this a decision made by ABC management in Sydney?\nIdeally, if we want increased coverage and general media interest in netball surely using the ABC2 channel to cover internationals as well as Commonwealth Bank Trophy matches would be the way to go.\nThe ABC's coverage of VFL football.... partly banned?\nFor those of you who are regular viewers of ABC TV's coverage of the VFL on a Sautrday, there has been something missing in recent weeks and I'm sure you know what it is.... the coaches addresses during the breaks.\nThese have been a highlight of the ABC's coverage since 1988 and due to yet another batch of complaints from disgruntled viewers with regards to swearing from coaches, network executives made the decision that such verbal beaviour would no longer be tolerated.\nDespite the coverage being of a live nature, surely there could be something done to ensure that viewers are still able to see what the coaches have to say and although it might prove a little difficult it could be done in my opinion.\nIt could be done in a way where what the coaches say is recorded and replayed at a later time during the broadcast, although it might have to be edited a considerable amount due to the tough deadlines the ABC have.\nThe majority of VFL coaches are well behaved in front of the cameras and ABC management need to take this into consideration, banning the addresses takes away from the coverarage that sets it apart from it's commercial counterparts when they cover AFL football.\nOn another note, it has angered my greatly me in recent weeks that there are so many people out there who think its's quite accpetable to verbally bash referees who are involved in the World Cup.\nPeople are forgetting something here and this is that these people are human just like us which means they are not going to be perfect with every decision during a match which is only natural.\nWithout the referees, we wouldn't have a game and people need to understand this which I doubt many people would be prepared to do so.\nQueensland Firebirds, the real deal in 2006\nThe Queensland Firebirds have long been a struggling team and have not played Commonwealth Bank Trophy finals in the history of Australia's highest netball competition since it began back in 1997.\nUnder new coach and Australian netball legend, Vicki Wilson the Firebirds are now ranked as one of the top four teams in the competition and look like they will stay there if they can overcome a determined Perth Orioles outfit.\nWith the addition of New South Wales based veteran, Jo Morgan the Queensland team are now playing a much more determined brand of netball and not just going through the motions like they did many times last season.\nWith a new coach and a much more determined group of players, the Queensland Firebirds are one of the teams to keep an eye out for during the second half of season 2006.\nOur first World Cup win.... Johnny Warren told us so\nAfter 32 years, Australia finally recorded it's first victory in a World Cup football tournament.\nFor a long time, the round ball code in this country has struggled for acceptance because Aussie Rules and both rugby league/union have reined supreme over a football code which is extremely popular in Europe.\nFor over 80 minutes, all hope was lost and the Socceroos would have gone down in history as still not yet recording a victory against anyone in World Cup competition until the genuis of Guus Huddink decided to introduced the duo of Cahill/Aloisi.\nAloisi's celebration was virtually the same as the famous finger waving effort that got us into the World Cup into front of a huge crowd at Telstra Stadium last year.\nWhat happened last night was an event in Australian sporting history and all the we should all be proud of, regardless of whether we have any sort of interest in a game which played all around the world unlike Aussie Rules.\nAussie Rules football is a great game and although I have a strong involvement in that particular code, the world game has received greater recognition since the restructure of the FFA and the new A League competition that pulled huge crowds in the inaugural season.\nInternational Day of People with Disability 2006 P...\nThe ABC's coverage of VFL football.... partly bann...\nOur first World Cup win.... Johnny Warren told us ...\nThe VFL.... a great competition\nThe World Cup.... who's interested?\nGrass roots football.... an important part of the ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 11901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catholicphilly.com/2016/05/news/world-news/iraqs-humanitarian-need-is-so-vast-its-shocking-says-speaker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YLDBPH6JDUSGHN6SGARLX4DIL3T6MRCB", "length": 6780, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "catholicphilly.com", "title": "Iraq\u2019s humanitarian need is so vast, \u2018it\u2019s shocking,\u2019 says speaker \u2013 Catholic Philly", "raw_content": "Iraq\u2019s humanitarian need is so vast, \u2018it\u2019s shocking,\u2019 says speaker\nDouglas M. Padgett, foreign affairs officer in the Office of International Religious Freedom with the U.S. Department of State, gestures during a May 10 panel discussion at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York. Also pictured are Haider Elias, president of Yazda, a global organization that assists Yezidis; Iraqi Father Gewargis Sulaiman, a priest of the Assyrian Church of the East; journalist Eliza Griswold; and Sarhang Hamasaeed, senior program officer at the U.S. Institute for Peace. (CNS photo/Leo Sore , Fordham University)\nNEW YORK (CNS) \u2014 A rising tide of intolerance in the Middle East threatens minority faith communities with cultural extinction, said speakers at a May 10 lecture in New York.\nReligious minorities are the most seriously impacted among the millions who have fled their homes to escape violence and the percentage of Christians in the region has dropped to an all-time low, panelists said.\nThe Russo Family lecture event at Jesuit-run Fordham University was titled \u201cEndangered: Religious Minorities in the Middle East and their Struggle for Survival\u201d and co-sponsored by Fordham\u2019s Center on Religion and Culture and its Orthodox Christian Studies Center.\nA vast and vibrant network of religious and spiritual communities flourished in the Middle East for millennia and managed to live in peace, although with difficulty, according to journalist Eliza Griswold, who has traveled in and written extensively about Christianity and Islam.\nChristians and other religious minorities were first targeted for persecution after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, she said. Iraq was destabilized and the Arab Spring felled tyrannical leaders whose forces previously \u201cshored up\u201d religious minorities. Neighbors turned against one another. Griswold said religious minorities were attractive targets because they had money.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a sensational story; it\u2019s the reality for those living in the region,\u201d she said.\nAlthough numbers vary from country to country, Griswold said the Christian population of the Middle East is now 4 percent, down from 20 percent. She said Islamic State buys and sells Christian women and girls in telephone negotiations. She witnessed a man in an Iraqi restaurant pose as an Islamic State member to negotiate the purchase of his kidnapped wife and daughters.\nIraqi Father Gewargis Sulaiman, a priest of the Assyrian Church of the East, described the plight of Christians in Iraq as cultural genocide, for which immigration is the only immediate solution.\nFather Sulaiman said he did not think Christianity would die in Iraq, because Christians have overcome violence in the past. \u201cWe are people of that land and believe God put us there to be the salt and light our ancestors were,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWhen there was justice, people could live together. The cultural norms were protective to each group, but when politicians abuse power for personal benefit, there is no justice or protective norms,\u201d Father Sulaiman said.\n\u201cChristians are integral to the social fabric of the country. They\u2019ve been the source of peace, integrity and values and raised the standard of every community they\u2019ve lived in,\u201d Father Sulaiman said. \u201cThe world is obliged to provide assistance to prevent genocide. The disappearance of Christians in the Middle East will hurt everyone,\u201d he said.\nHaider Elias is co-founder and president of Yazda: A Global Yazidi Organization. He said Yezidis are an ancient ethno-religious minority indigenous to what is now northern Iraq. They practice a monotheistic religion and have endured 74 massacres and genocides in recorded history, Elias said. There are now fewer than 1 million Yezidis.\nIslamic State militants attacked Yezidis in August 2014, kidnapping 6,000 women and girls and killing 5,800, including several members of Elias\u2019 family. More than 400,000 Yezidis live in camps for displaced persons in Iraq.\nAny resolution in Iraq requires the defeat of Islamic State before anything else can be done, Douglas M. Padgett said. He is a foreign affairs officer in the Office of International Religious Freedom in the U.S. Department of State. His office works with vulnerable communities, tracks laws and coordinates with civil society groups to identify and help those persecuted because of their faith.\nThe subsequent challenge is \u201cto put Iraq back together in such a way that diversity can be maintained\u201d and minority groups can enjoy security and economic and political viability, Padgett said.\n\u201cThe humanitarian need is so vast, it\u2019s shocking,\u201d he said, but United Nations\u2019 appeals for help are routinely underfunded by at least 40 percent. Padgett said other needs include efforts to document atrocities and mass graves for potential prosecution, and a plan to establish transitional justice to help people live together again after the conflicts. In addition, survivors need medical, psychological and social support.\nSarhang Hamasaeed, a senior program officer at the U.S. Institute for Peace, said Iraqis have three options: return to homes in liberated areas, remain wherever they relocated, or resettle somewhere safe.\nElias is an Iraqi refugee who worked as a translator for the U.S. Army. He said most Yezidis want to be resettled elsewhere. \u201cThis is not the first, second or third time this has happened. They\u2019ve lost trust in the Iraqi government and surrounding cultural communities,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThose who want to stay want international protection,\u201d Elias said.\nSpeakers agreed that protection in the form of international peacekeepers, troops on the ground or the creation of a no-fly zone is prohibitively expensive and extremely unlikely.\nPadgett said there is potential for a self-secured autonomous zone for religious minorities in northern Iraq after Mosul is retaken from Islamic State. Griswold said the Iraqi Constitution includes a provision for such a zone, but Elias said self-governance of the envisioned zone is complicated by conflicts among five competing groups in the area.\nPanelists agreed the needs outpace the resources, but individuals can take action. \u201cIn 20 years of covering conflict, I have never seen a more pressing need for funding,\u201d Griswold said.\nJesuit Refugee Services, Caritas, Assyrian Aid Society, Assyrian Church of the East Relief Organization and other small nongovernmental agencies are working in the affected communities to serve people in need, they said.\nGriswold urged listeners to invite members of groups such as Yazda to address parishes and meetings of interested people because the extent of the suffering is poorly understood in this country.\nPREVIOUS: Drought ravages Ethiopian communities, driving a rise in hunger\nNEXT: Armenians say \u2018whole population\u2019 set to welcome Pope Francis in June", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 9722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://census.hawaii.gov/census_2010/workshop_march2012/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:59Z", "digest": "sha1:6PR226VPKWQIWNNNHIBHRYKB4IWYYCMO", "length": 423, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "census.hawaii.gov", "title": "Census | Workshop Presentations", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Hawaii Census 2010 \u00bb Workshop Presentations\n\u201cHawaii\u2019s Detailed Race and Ethinic Data From the 2010 Census\u201d\n\u2013 Workshop given by Mr. Jerry Wong, Information Services Specialist from the Los Angeles Regional Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. This event was sponsored by the Hawaii State Data Center, DBEDT and the Los Angeles Regional Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. It was held on March 13, 2012 in Honolulu, Hawaii.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 126.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chamber.capemaycountychamber.com/list/member/cape-may-winery-4874", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:30Z", "digest": "sha1:VZ26DC2EFUUM56ZSM2M3AEJI3Q7YRLOW", "length": 293, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "chamber.capemaycountychamber.com", "title": "Cape May Winery | Winery | Beverage Sales & Tours - Cape May County Chamber of Commerce - About", "raw_content": "Beverage Sales & Tours\nOpen daily from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and till 7pm on Fridays & Saturdays\nWalk through the vineyard and then sample a soon to be released wine right from the barrel. Come and see what makes the Cape May area such a premier grape growing region. From Cape May's sandy soil to", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 1995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://channelzapper.com/en/europe/finland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:17Z", "digest": "sha1:LMTD6KCYLY6JCAWWVWNH7NCPW2HINAIX", "length": 22, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "channelzapper.com", "title": "Watch live TV from Finland - Channelzapper webtv", "raw_content": "TV7 Live from Finland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 2530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 165.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chocola.ens-lyon.fr/events/meeting-2017-11-16/talks/fontanella/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:J5IDNHEF544HKE6CDGJJ7STXVNJ3FVG6", "length": 82, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "chocola.ens-lyon.fr", "title": "Rencontre, 2017-11-09", "raw_content": "Laura Fontanella (I2M, Aix-Marseille), Realizability: from Curry-Howard to forcing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://christchurch-westwimbledon.org/music-and-video.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:MKTHFU5UWFI75NXPQME4GZHZF73VOC6L", "length": 1295, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "christchurch-westwimbledon.org", "title": "\ufeff Music & Video", "raw_content": "\u2018Music at Christ Church\u2019\nMusic plays an important role at Christ Church: enhancing the weekly liturgy, enriching the spiritual life of the parish, and bringing joy to those who worship together within its walls. Since 1859, Christ Church has resounded to music and developed and maintained a tradition of nurturing and promoting good choral music. That tradition continues today and we hope you enjoy exploring the music related pages of our website and maybe even consider joining one of our choirs!\nThe choir at Christ Church is a voluntary, un-auditioned four-part choir \u2026\nChrist Church Choir (Senior)r\nThe junior choir at Christ Church is open to all children aged between 6 and 12 \u2026\nA new director of music, Tom Theakston,\nstarted on 1 February 2019.\nOccasional films relating to Christ Church and its congregation can be viewed here:\nChrist Church Summer Concert ~ 2015\nFollow this link for details about the organs at Christ Church.\nThe Jigsaw Players\nThe Jigsaw Players are a group of exceptionally talented musicians, from all over the world who are to be in residence at Christ Church, West Wimbledon. They are now in their fourth season of concerts at Christ Church. Follow this link for more information-\nChrist Church Choir ~ 2016\nPhotographs by Jessica Dobbs (www.jessicadobbs.com)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://christinprophecyblog.org/2017/10/the-mighty-angels-of-daniel-11-4-prophetic-kingdoms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLQS2AGPP77P6SJSIXSYWJ2JVMWFP7CV", "length": 10336, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "christinprophecyblog.org", "title": "The Mighty Angels of Daniel 11: 4 Prophetic Kingdoms | The Christ in Prophecy Journal", "raw_content": "900 Years of Rebellion\nNathan Jones: God\u2019s mighty Messenger Angel proclaims to the Prophet Daniel, \u201cAlso in the first year of Darius the Mede, I, even I, stood up to confirm and strengthen him.\u201d This statement finishes the angel\u2019s thoughts from Daniel 10:20-21. \u201cThen he said, \u2018Do you know why I have come to you? And now I must return to fight with the prince of Persia; and when I have gone forth, indeed the prince of Greece will come. But I will tell you what is noted in the Scripture of Truth. (No one upholds me against these, except Michael your prince\u2026'\u201d\nThis unnamed angel could be Gabriel, because Gabriel tends to be God\u2019s main messenger, but then this angel also fights as a warrior, so he may not be Gabriel. We are not told in the text one way or another.\nThe angel fought the demonic Prince of Persia for three whole weeks on order to bring Daniel God\u2019s message. We read earlier in Daniel that his magnificence caused Daniel to need a power boost from the Angel in order to stand and hear the message. Likewise, the angel reveals he had also strengthened a man called Darius the Mede.\nTo provide a little background to the Jewish predicament, let\u2019s go way back to Deuteronomy 4:25-31. Moses told the Jewish people that if they didn\u2019t obey God and instead worshiped idols, and they refused to repent when God called them repeatedly back to Him, that God would exile them out of their country. The Jewish people would become exiles dwelling in foreign lands where they would instead worship the false gods of their foreign tyrants. The Jewish exiles would lose their homes, their culture, and their religious traditions. Still, God would preserve a remnant who would remain loyal to the Lord, like Daniel. Temporary exile served as the punishment for the Jewish people\u2019s hardhearteness towards their Heavenly Father. Though the Jews were a special, chosen people, if they ceased being a light to the world, their ethnicity would not save them. The Jews would be exiled as promised, and that is exactly what had happened to them by Daniel\u2019s time.\nFor over 900 hundred years the Jewish people rebelled against God. God would send them one righteous king or prophet after another reminding them of His righteous Law, but the people would only return to God for a short period of time before falling back into idolatry. So, by this point in Israel\u2019s history \u2014 the Sixth Century BC \u2014 the Jewish people had finally been exiled to the land of Babylon, Jerusalem had been destroyed, Israel was now under Babylonian control, and the pagan Nebuchadnezzar ruled supreme as their king.\nOver Daniel\u2019s lifetime, Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s Babylonian Empire eventually was defeated by the Medo-Persian Empire. In Daniel\u2019s old age, he witnessed the rise of the Medo-Persian Empire, which by this point in the narrative, now ruled over Daniel and his people.\n4 Prophetic Kingdoms\nNathan Jones: The transfer of power from the Babylonian to the Medo-Persian Empire directly ties to Daniel 2. Back in Daniel 2, King Nebuchadnezzar was given a dream of a giant statute, which only young Daniel could interpret its meaning. Daniel revealed:\n\u201cYou O King, there before you stood a large statue, an enormous dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms were silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, his legs of iron, his feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay.\nNow when you were watching the rock that was cut out but not by human hands it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and smashed them. Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, and the silver and the gold were broken to pieces at the same time it became like chaff on a threshing floor in the summer. The winds swept them away without leaving a trace, but the rock that struck the statue became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth.\u201d\nNow, what does that dream mean? Daniel, fortunately, interprets the dream. He describes four empires that would rule successively over Israel during what is called the Time of the Gentiles. In other words, when Israel is not ruling over itself, the Gentile nations instead would be ruling over Israel.\nDaniel revealed to Nebuchadnezzar that he and his Babylonian Empire were the head of gold. The chest and arms of silver would be the next conquering empire \u2014 the Medo-Persian Empire. This empire in the king\u2019s dream was represented by two arms made out of silver. And, there were two parts to the Medo-Persian Empire, as the Medes and Persians united in power. The passing of the Medo-Persian Empire to the following empire is where Daniel 10-12 picks up.\nThe angel in Daniel 11 prepares himself to explain what the next empire that will be that will soon defeat the Medo-Persian Empire, which in Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s dream is represented by the bronze belly and thighs of the statue. That\u2019s going to be the Greek Empire. The Greek Empire would later be overtaken by the legs of iron, which becomes the two-sided Roman Empire.\nAccording to the dream, by the Time of the Gentiles ends, all these human-controlled empires would be destroyed by the rock not cut out by human hands. Which is? Jesus Christ! When Jesus returns and sets up His Kingdom, that will be the final end of human government. And, that will also be the end of Israel being ruled by Gentile kingdoms. Israel might be living in the Promised Land and control some portions of it, but even to this day they are constantly being battered back and forth by the UN, the Palestinians and other Muslims, and various religious groups. But, a time is coming when Jesus will rule and reign over the whole world from Jerusalem. Amen!\nBefore the Messiah sets up His Kingdom, we return to Daniel 11 and the time period which Israel still has to contend with concerning these ruling empires. Daniel 11 will explain Israel\u2019s next future ruler in the prophetic timeline \u2014 the Greek Empire.\nVic Batista: Revelation 17:9-10 comes to mind when talking about these successive kingdoms. In this passage the Apostle John receives a revelation from another angel. The passage reads, \u201cHere is the mind which has wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits. There are also seven kings, five are fallen, one is, and another has not yet come. And when he comes, he must continue a short time.\u201d This prophetic imagery from Revelation lines up with Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s dream in Daniel 2.\nNathan Jones: Yes, again the Bible provides yet another end time description of the Gentile kingdoms that affect Israel during the Time of the Gentiles. Notice that the two legs of iron that represent the Roman Empire extend all the way down to the brittle toes made out of a mix of iron and clay. The ten toes we\u2019re told are ten kings who mix just as well as clay and iron does. Not so well! In other words, the influence of the Roman Empire continues over Israel even to this day, so there is no other empire past the Roman Empire that has an influence over Israel. This is important to understand because when we read in Revelation about these ten kings, they rule over an earth divided into ten regions. One king will rise up out of the ten to rule over them all, and the Bible calls him the Antichrist. His despotic dominion rises out of a revived Roman Empire and stands supreme as the one-world ruler.\nI believe that we today have reached the bottom of the legs. We reside down by the ankles of human history. We are about to see the world divided into ten regions led by ten kings. But, that is getting ahead of ourselves. Right now we are just covering Daniel 11 and the Greek Empire.\n400 Years of Silence\nNathan Jones: I like to understand God\u2019s overall prophetic plan, because if we don\u2019t anchor events to a date on the timeline, prophecy can become very hard to understand. Therefore, in the book of Daniel, remember that the Jewish people were burdened under the rulership of the Babylonians from 605 to 538 BC. The Babylonian Empire rules over Israel and is represented by the head of Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s statue. Then, by Daniel 10-12, Daniel is living under the Medo-Persian Empire, which ruled from 538 to 331 BC.\nBy Daniel 11\u2019s prophecies, the reader approaches the Greek Empire. The Greek Empire rules over the land of Israel from 331 to 146 BC. Finally, the Romans come to conquer. And so, Daniel 11 covers prophecies from 331 to 146 BC. This era sits within the 400 year Intertestamental \u201csilent years\u201d time period between the Prophet Malachi and the Gospels. Like we said earlier, the prophecies of Daniel 11 cannot be understood without understanding the history of the Intertestamental time period.\nVic Batista: What exciting times that we are living in! People need to understand what point in history we are located. That way, we will be able to understand all the prophetic events that are happening in this day and age. Seeing God\u2019s overall plan, and the fact that Christ\u2019s Kingdom is fast upon us, should cause the Church and Christians to be passionate about reaching the lost, for Jesus could return at any moment.\n#Christians should be passionate about reaching the lost, for #Jesus could return at any moment. Click To Tweet\nNathan Jones: That He could! We are living in the season of the Lord\u2019s soon return. Now is the time for Christians to get really excited about, one, living a holy and pure life in anticipation of the Lord\u2019s return, and two, leading as many people to Jesus as possible before He returns.\nIn the forty-seventh segment of this series on the mighty angels of Daniel, we\u2019ll marvel at all the detailed prophecies concerning the Greek Empire that came true!\nAngels Antichrist Book of Daniel Book of Revelation Israel Jewish People Judgment Middle East Politics Millennial Kingdom Prophecy Fulfilled\nPrevious PostThe Mighty Angels of Daniel 11\nNext PostThe Mighty Angels of Daniel 11: Prophecy of the Four Kings\nCraig Savage says:\nI truly enjoy reading your daily email which is always very informative, I am not sure if others have the same problem I have but it would be much easier to read if it were black lettering on white instead of the off gray. I know that all one needs to do is copy and past it into word and then change it to black but. Just an observation.\nCraig, good to hear the articles have been a blessing! The font color is black, but maybe the font weight isn\u2019t strong enough?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2684, "original_length": 120250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://citytrust.ie/about/our-company", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:37Z", "digest": "sha1:3KZIYESD43ZJ523E3L5UMZFGDKZHMK5S", "length": 1238, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "citytrust.ie", "title": "Our Company | City Trust", "raw_content": "Built on over\nCity Trust is a leading Irish based multi-jurisdictional provider of independent, administrative, and financial services to a wide range of corporates, intermediaries and private clients. 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All management and staff remained with the new company and are focused on developing the business further and consolidating their existing position as an industry leader in corporate and trust services.\nOur management and shareholders believe that the company, as an independent service provider, is better positioned to develop its service offering both for its existing and new clients.\nWith well over 25 years of combined experience we believe that we are well placed to be the corporate and trustee service provider of choice.\nCity Trust is authorised by the Department of Justice and Law Reform to carry on business as a trust or company service provider (TCSP)\nKeep up to date with our company and on latest trends in the business by following us on Twitter: click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://classic-horror.com/reviews/friday_the_13th_a_new_beginning_1985", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:28Z", "digest": "sha1:SWSYUPDNKGUA4ZCIIKVKO4LVEECJP6H6", "length": 6178, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "classic-horror.com", "title": "Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) | Classic-Horror.com", "raw_content": "Earl Ellis\nLarry S. Carr\nReel Efx Inc.\nFrankie Inez\nTom Hartigan\nTom Del Genio\nWell, Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter wasn\u2019t the worst entry in the series by a long shot and, in my opinion, it would have been a great place to end the series. Unfortunately, The Final Chapter wasn\u2019t the last word and even for a big Friday fan like me, A New Beginning is a tough movie to love. It isn\u2019t impossible to enjoy this movie and there are some funny over-the-top characters here that are fun to watch, but everything just doesn\u2019t click. All the elements that make up a Friday the 13th movie are here, in one form or another. You\u2019ve got your psycho in a hockey mask, some horny teens, colorful locals, and the largest body count in the series to date. Despite all of this, the movie somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.\nThe movie opens with a very cool and oh-so misleading sequence involving young Tommy Jarvis from The Final Chapter cowering in a cemetery during a serious storm, watching in terror through the pouring rain and flashing lightning as two young hooligans vandalize Jason\u2019s grave. Of course, Jason doesn\u2019t approve of this and lunges up from his coffin to slaughter the punks. Then, seeing his old enemy, Jason begins walking toward Tommy. Watching this for first time, a Friday fan might be rubbing his or her hands together maniacally because Jason is back, and this looks like it could very well be the end of Corey Feldman. Unfortunately, neither turns out to be true.\nJust as Jason is about to strike the fatal blow, Tommy (now 18) wakes from his terrible dream as he arrives at a half-way house that is set up to help formerly institutionalized kids work their way back into society.\nTommy, very traumatized by his run-in with Jason and looking spookily like John Boy Walton, acts very strange from the start and when one of the kids at the house goes crazy and hacks another teen up with an ax, Tommy begins to increasingly hallucinate about Jason and also begins to have violent outbursts when provoked.\nSoon, somebody begins to kill people in and around the half-way house and we are left to wonder who is the culprit. Tommy, with his dark past, weird attitude, penchant for sudden bursts of aggression, and fondness for a lock-blade knife, is supposed to be a prime suspect.\nA few other characters that are set up as possible suspects are a crazy hillbilly woman and her crazy hillbilly son. There are a few obvious red herrings thrown around and the identity of the killer is given away throughout the movie with clues about as subtle as lead pipe. It is obvious that they were going for the \"who done it?\" aspect of the original Friday. However, without the cast, direction, stellar make-up and overall novelty of the first movie, nobody really cares who did it and when we find out who, nobody is really surprised.\nSpeaking of crazy hillbillies, these two characters, played comically by Carol Lacatell and Ron Sloan, along with Demon (played by Return of the Living Dead fan favorite Miguel A. N\u00fa\u00f1ez Jr) add some much needed humor to this movie and without their few scenes, the whole thing would be even more tedious than it already is. Nobody really thinks the killer is Tommy and we quickly grow tired of seeing him gnaw on the scenery. In the right hands, I suppose the character of Tommy at 18 could have seemed truly haunted and scarred by his traumatic experiences. In the hands of over-actor John Shepherd, the character just seems silly and very overblown.\nPeople might think I dislike the 5th entry in the F13 series because Jason isn\u2019t in it and because I think the first 4 are the best. Well, I must deny these charges. True, the fact that Jason isn\u2019t the killer was a big disappointment when I first saw the movie about 13 or 14 years ago and I think his presence would have gone a long way in making this movie more palatable. It was, after all, only the presence of Jason, as portrayed by the masterfully Kane Hodder, that made the deservedly hated Jason Takes Manhattan bearable. Still, I don\u2019t know if either Jason or Hodder could have saved this one.\nAs for my post TFC bias, I do believe that the first four Friday films are the true greats of the series and I really do think that 4 would have been enough. However, I do enjoy some of the post-TFC movies. Some of them are silly and some border on seriously cool. Despite their shortcomings, however, most of the later entries in the series have something going for them. It might be something as large as a great story or something as simple as a cool looking Jason, but they have something to keep us fans interested.\nThe truth is, however, that Friday the 13th: A New Beginning has nothing going for it. Aside from the examples above, the characters are uninteresting and best and annoying at worst. The kills, although plentiful and varied, are not very well done and not very interesting, the pseudo-Jason as played by Wieand is not scary and lacks the power of those that have gone before and those that will come after. The story, even though it took at least four writers to pound it out, is not as incoherent as some reviewers have said, but it is not engaging. We Friday fans don\u2019t expect a lot from a Friday script, but we do have some standards. They are certainly low, but not low enough to enjoy this movie.\nI watched this and Jason Lives on the same evening in preparation for this review and I caught myself longing for the end of this flick and the start of part 6. If you are a Friday completest like me, you should probably have it in your collection. If you are a casual fan, please see another film in the series and please don\u2019t judge the whole series by this movie if it is the only one you\u2019ve seen. To be honest, if I had been a bit older and wiser when this came out and if Jason hadn\u2019t returned in the next installment, this movie could have been enough to turn me cold on the series. If you knew what an avid Friday fan I am, you\u2019d know how much I disliked this one. With everything from the music to the main title graphics, it is obvious that they were trying to recreate the feel and success of the original. They, most assuredly, did not.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 8047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://climate-connections.org/tag/activists/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VVCQT6GM5C7BNLLMV6P66MBWJI3FROXI", "length": 1805, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "climate-connections.org", "title": "activists | Climate Connections", "raw_content": "Earth Minute: Extreme Weather, Climate Change, and Taking Action\nGlobal Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show every Tuesday for an Earth Minute and every Thursday for an Earth Segment interview with front line activists from around the world.\nThis week\u2019s Earth minute focuses on the extreme weather that has been taking its toll on the US and asks what we can do about it.\nTo listen to or download the show, click on the link below:\nEarth Minute, July 10, 2012\nThe text from this week\u2019s Earth Minute is below:\nIncreasing numbers of people across the US experienced the impacts of extreme weather last week\u2013from the immense wildfires devouring Colorado, to the heatwave that broke 4000 records across the country, to the wild and freakish derecho storms that left millions without electricity.\nThe National Weather Service is warning that dryness and drought will continue to increase both in extent and intensity across much of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys, the Corn Belt region, the middle and lower Mississippi Valley, and much of the Great Plains.\nThese impacts were predicted by climate scientists. That they are now real should be enough to shove our collective consciousness into high gear to find real and just solutions to the climate crisis.\nThat there will be a great shift in the way humans live on this planet is not in question. The question is, will we be proactive in developing a new way to live in harmony with the earth, or will we do nothing, and hope that our children can survive on a decimated planet?\nComments Off on Earth Minute: Extreme Weather, Climate Change, and Taking Action\nFiled under Climate Change, Climate Justice, Earth Minute, Natural Disasters, Rights, Resilience, and Restoration, Solutions\nTagged as activists, derechos, drought, wildfire", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 22626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cmsdata.iucn.org/regions/eastern-europe-and-central-asia/get-involved", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:10Z", "digest": "sha1:LGRAJAY23WIQ6WGKOHQASBSJ5HN33SMH", "length": 2050, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "cmsdata.iucn.org", "title": "Get involved - Eastern Europe and Central Asia | IUCN", "raw_content": "Members in the region have a diverse portfolio of activities and interests, yet at the same time they are all committed towards achieving IUCN\u2019s Vision and Mission which they share, actively contributing to the implementation of the IUCN Programme and priorities, both in the region and globally. Members participate in the work of IUCN according to their priorities and depending on the available resources and capacities.\nOne identified key challenge, is to ensure continued engagement of all Members categories, an action that will involve extensive dialogue, while acknowledging their different status and needs and bringing all IUCN components in order to effectively deliver the IUCN Programme 2017-2020 and beyond.\nThe IUCN ECARO Office plays an important role in mobilizing experts and recruiting new Commission members in the region.\nIUCN has six thematic volunteer Commissions covering a range of issues relevant to nature conservation, with more than 11,000 experts globally. These are the following:\nCommission on Ecosystem Management (CEM);\nCommission on Education and Communications (CEC);\nCommission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy (CEESP);\nEnvironmental Law Commission (ELC);\nSpecies Survival Commission (SSC);\nWorld Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).\nThe six Commissions constitute the knowledge base of IUCN and help generate knowledge products, shape policies and implement the IUCN Programme. They play an important role in establishing and maintaining the knowledge-policy-action axis. All six Commissions are represented in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.\nWe work with more than 400 Commission members in the region who provide sound know-how and policy advice on conservation issues. You, too, can be part of IUCN.\n\u00b7 Governments and government agencies, NGOs and other institutions can join as Members.\n\u00b7 Scientists and professionals can join one of our Commissions.\n\u00b7 Companies and business can join as private sector partners.\n\u00b7 Professionals can work with us in any of our Secretariat offices in the region.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O809114/wallpaper-jones-owen/?print=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UGAW2PSCSNJTUMI3T3JTNWFQKMWVTY2P", "length": 854, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "collections.vam.ac.uk", "title": "Wallpaper | Jones, Owen | V&A Search the Collections", "raw_content": "John Trumble and Company\nJeffrey & Co.\nTownsend, Parker & Co.\nJones, Owen, born 1809 - died 1874 (designer)\nJohn Trumble and Company (manufacturer)\nJeffrey & Co. (manufacturer)\nTownsend, Parker & Co. (manufacturer)\nGiven by Miss Catherine Jones, daughter of the artist\nPrints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case 4B, shelf 96B7\nSpecimen of patterned wallpaper; Colour print on paper; Within a pattern book (8341.1-158).\nGiven by Miss Catherine Jones, daughter of the artist.\nSpecimen of patterned wallpaper; Colour print on paper; Designed by Owen Jones; Within a pattern book (8341.1-158); ca. 1852-1874.\nOman, Charles C. and Hamilton, Jean. Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Sotheby Publications, in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982.\nWall coverings; Prints", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://collider.com/hunger-games-catching-fire-top-movie-2013-box-office/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZULRCSKZPIXJAILYIQBBZYV7YRQBZQ6T", "length": 4098, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "collider.com", "title": "THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Becomes Top Grossing Film of 2013 with $409.4 Million | Collider", "raw_content": "THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE Becomes Domestic Top Grossing Film of 2013 with $409.4 Million\nThough 2013 was filled with plenty of superhero and blockbuster films that did solid business at the box office, it appears that Katniss has come out the victor. Lionsgate announced today that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire has now grossed $409.4 million domestically, which surges past Iron Man 3\u2019s $409.0 million total to make Catching Fire the top grossing film of 2013. That\u2019s quite an impressive feat considering Catching Fire didn\u2019t enjoy the 3D surcharge that other top grossing 2013 films like Man of Steel and Despicable Me 2 did. In fact, Catching Fire and Fast & Furious 6 are the only films in 2013\u2019s Top 10 highest grossers that didn\u2019t play in 3D. Catching Fire\u2019s worldwide total now stands at an astounding $832.2 million, and it\u2019s the first film with a solo female lead to take the top box office spot since 1973\u2019s The Exorcist. Here\u2019s hoping Catching Fire\u2018s success is a sign of things to come. The series continues with this November\u2019s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.\nFor more on 2013\u2019s box office, be sure to check out our resident math genius Brendan\u2019s latest installment of Cinemath, which features a fascinating and in-depth look at last year\u2019s box office. Read the full press release after the jump.\nTHE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE BLAZES TO $409.4 MILLION AT THE DOMESTIC BOX OFFICE, BECOMING #1 FILM OF 2013\nFirst Time In History That First Two Installments of A Franchise Generate Over $400 Million at the Domestic Box Office\nSANTA MONICA, CA, and VANCOUVER, BC, January 10, 2014 \u2013 Lionsgate\u2019s (NYSE: LGF) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire became the highest-grossing film released at the domestic box office in 2013 as it grossed an estimated $493,000 last night for an estimated domestic cume to date of $409.4 million in its first 49 days of release, the Company announced today.\nCatching Fire, which set records for the biggest November opening weekend of all time ($158.1 million) as well as the biggest three- and five-day Thanksgiving box office totals ever, has already become the 13th highest-grossing North American release in history and remains in wide release. It passed the first Hunger Games film, which grossed $408 million at the domestic box office, on Tuesday and is the fifth fastest film ever to reach the $400 million mark at the domestic box office.\nThe success of Catching Fire marks the first time the first two installments of a franchise have each topped $400 million at the domestic box office, and both films now rank among the top 15 domestic film releases in history. Catching Fire has also grossed $428.8 million internationally for a worldwide box office total of $838.2 million in its first seven weeks of release compared to $691 million worldwide box office generated during the entire run of the first Hunger Games film. The Company noted that Catching Fire is the first 2D film to become the top-grossing film of the year since 2008.\n\u201cThe Hunger Games franchise continues to evolve into a truly global phenomenon,\u201d said Lionsgate Chief Executive Officer Jon Feltheimer. \u201cThe success of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a testament to the vision of author Suzanne Collins, the sure hand of director Francis Lawrence, the brilliant performances of a remarkably talented cast led by the amazing Jennifer Lawrence and superb execution by our motion picture production, marketing and distribution teams. We will continue to grow the transformative Hunger Gamesfranchise in the years to come even as we continue to develop a dynamic portfolio of premium new brands.\u201d\nThe next two installments of The Hunger Games franchise, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, are currently in production for release on November 21, 2014 and November 20, 2015, respectively.\nExclusive Poster and Images for THE BAG MAN Starring John Cusack, Rebecca\u2026\nThursday TV Ratings: COMMUNITY Rises; PARKS AND RECREATION and THE BIG BANG\u2026\n\u2022 Entertainment \u2022 Iron Man 3 \u2022 Movie \u2022 The Hunger Games \u2022 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 126.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://collider.com/joel-edgerton-talks-the-thing-prequel-plus-nash-edgerton-on-hesher-and-future-projects/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DMUCITXS5N5FYYFQ7H6FQFHF7WGGYRYI", "length": 4607, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "collider.com", "title": "Joel Edgerton on THE THING Prequel; Plus Nash Edgerton on HESHER and Future Projects | Collider | Collider", "raw_content": "Joel Edgerton on THE THING Prequel; Plus Nash Edgerton on HESHER and Future Projects\nby Sheila Roberts April 5, 2010\nWe sat down with Nash and Joel Edgerton today at a roundtable interview for their new movie, The Square, a stylish twist-filled film noir which centers on an adulterous couple whose scheming leads to arson, blackmail and murder. While we\u2019ll have the full transcript online soon, with Joel Edgerton starring in the prequel to the John Carpenter classic, The Thing (which is being directed by Matthijs van Heijningen), we got an update on that project as well as what else the brothers are doing. Hit the jump for what they had to say:\nQ: Can each of you talk about what you have coming up next? Joel, aren\u2019t you currently shooting The Thing?\nJoel: I\u2019ve got a few movies coming out. I\u2019m in a Lionsgate movie called \u201cWarrior\u201d with Nick Nolte and Tom Hardy which comes out in September. \u201cAnimal Kingdom\u201d which our friend, David Michod, won the international jury prize for, comes out in September here too through Sony Pictures Classic. I have a few movies coming out in Australia. I\u2019m shooting \u201cThe Thing\u201d at the moment. It\u2019s a prequel to John Carpenter\u2019s movie that Universal is making with Matthijs van Heijningen \u2013 I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll ever be able to pronounce his name right \u2014 which we\u2019re in the middle of shooting right now. We just started.\nQ: How does that compare to the original?\nJoel: It\u2019ll be heaps better. (Laughs) What Matthijs has done I think is great, because he\u2019s a massive fan of the original and he loves \u201cAlien\u201d and \u201cThe Thing.\u201d They\u2019re his two favorite horror movies. He\u2019s not trying to reinvent the film. He\u2019s certainly not trying to eclipse the film. He\u2019s certainly not trying to remake the film. But, what he\u2019s trying to do is tell the story \u201cpre\u201d that film. Whoever\u2019s familiar with the film knows that very early on in the original the two Norwegian guys seem to have become crazy. One is blown up in a helicopter and the other one gets shot by the Americans and in order to find out why they went crazy, Kurt Russell goes in a helicopter to see and question the Norwegian base and when he gets there it\u2019s been decimated and they find the carcass of this \u201cThing.\u201d And this story tells what happened to the Norwegian base. What Universal and Matthijs are trying to do is make a partner piece to \u201cThe Thing\u201d while also reinventing the aspect of \u2014 modern filmmaking has come a long way \u2014 so I guess they\u2019re paying respect to the original while bringing a new time and different [approach] without throwing away what they did in the past.\nQ: When you talk about the John Carpenter film being the original, that was done in 1957, so we\u2019ve forgotten how it went.\nJoel: You\u2019re right. Is it 1957? Yes, in 1957 Hal Roach produced the original and I still haven\u2019t seen that one.\nNash: It wasn\u2019t called \u201cThe Thing\u201d though, was it? It was called \u201cThe Thing That Came From\u2026.\u201d?\nJoel: \u201cThe Thing From Another World\u201d or \u201cThe Thing From Another Planet\u201d? From the original story, the John W. Campbell story called \u201cWho Goes There?\u201d It\u2019s had a long history.\nQ: Will this be R-rated?\nJoel: I don\u2019t know. I mean, certainly not in terms of any nudity because we\u2019re all wearing parkas and anoraks and all that. But, in terms of blood and gore, I can\u2019t answer that question just yet.\nQ: Nash, what do you have coming up next?\nNash: I worked on that film, \u201cHesher,\u201d that was at Sundance that Spencer Susser was asked to director. I was the stunt coordinator on that and I was one of the editors. That\u2019s coming out. I\u2019m writing another film with Joel and I\u2019m going to make another short which is kind of a sequel to \u201cSpider.\u201d I thought no one ever makes sequels to shorts (laughs), so yes, I\u2019m doing that. And I\u2019ve been directing some music videos.\nQ: What\u2019s the name of the script that Joel and you are co-writing together?\nNash: It hasn\u2019t got a title at the moment. It\u2019s still taking shape. I kind of know where the film is but I\u2019m not really ready to [say much more]. It\u2019s a mix of genres. It\u2019s different from \u201cThe Square.\u201d I can\u2019t help myself if I base all my films in that kind of reality in some way, but it will be bigger than \u201cThe Square\u201d is, I think.\nQ: Will Joel be in it?\nNash: Yeah, if he plays his cards right.\nJoel: I\u2019m getting really good at auditions so\u2026. (Laughs)\nNicolas Cage WonderCon Video Interview - Talks Comic Books, SORCERER'S APPRENTICE and\u2026\nWarner Bros. 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I was raised on Beetle Baily cartoons and lived the kids'-version of the Army life as I watched it all around me as I grew up. I can associate with every one of the characters as I followed the cartoon from my youth until secondary school. The SAD part is the fact I figured Mort Walker had been dead for the last 25-30 years, at a minimum...my apologies, MrW - thank you & RIP.\nBeetle Baily got banned from the Stars & Stripes news when Lt. Flap showed up (right at very bad racial tensions in the military). Walker was actually ahead of his time, here as people took the APPEARANCE of Lt. Flap wrong. He's cool, educated, aaaaaaaaaaand ~ a black officer ~. He out-ranked most other characters.\n\"Boner's Ark?\"\nOne of those \"old school\" terms that got a different meaning over time...\nThe old most common form of use was \"pulling a boner\".\nWhich is even worse when you think about it!!!!!\nMy boner!\nNO PICTURES!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!\nI\u2019ve just heard about this, love Beetle Bailey.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 5331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://community.mis.temple.edu/bschunke/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:58Z", "digest": "sha1:4CJVIE4AKXMD7ZVBOMB5OXYVXXOJQAFE", "length": 796, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "community.mis.temple.edu", "title": "Benjamin Schunke \u2013 Fox BBA in MIS student", "raw_content": "Benjamin Schunke\nHello, my name is Benjamin Schunke and I am currently a junior at Temple University pursuing a degree in Management Information Systems. I worked with Inniscrone golf club for six years, and have held a summer long internship at the Pilchuck Glass School in Washington and have been a technician at a private tech repair company known as iGeeks for about 8 months. I am intrigued by the way computers and other devices function, how information is pulled from a database and given to a user, have a passion for photography and networking, and love the information being brought to me throughout my academic career. I hope to continue to expand my knowledge through my academic career and by gaining more experience in the professional world.\n3D Printing Lab Assistant Summer 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://compete4exams.eduvictors.com/2016/09/english-grammar-quiz.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBAA2YSPEZWLKCLO2VZAV3LR5E3JTBCR", "length": 1789, "nlines": 78, "source_domain": "compete4exams.eduvictors.com", "title": "Excel In Competitive Exams (IBPS, PO, SBI, RRB, General Intelligence, English, Quiz): English Grammar Quiz", "raw_content": "(MCQs asked in Common Law Admission Test CLAT 2016)\nDirections: Q1 - 10 Fill in blanks by choosing the most appropriate option.\nQ1: A fire broke ________ in the neighbourhood.\n(a) out\n(b) off\n(c) away\n(d) from\nQ2: The method and practice of teaching is called __________\n(a) Pediatrics\n(b) Pedagogy\n(c) Training\n(d) Philately\nQ3: They always give the available seats _______ comes first.\n(a) whom\n(b) whichever\n(c) whoever\n(d) whomever\nQ4: There isn't _____ water in the overhead tank.\n(c) little\n(d) lot of\nQ5: I like reading journals _______ novels.\n(a) the best\n(b) most than\n(c) the least\n(d) more than\nQ6: There is a lot of work _____ hand. 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Complete the sentence with appropriate choice.\nQ11: They returned home _______ a taxi\nQ12: I can't bear ______ late.\n(a) be\n(b) been\n(d) being\nQ13: Her parents have arrived ________ the airport.\nQ14: I have never come _____ anyone as rude as him.\n(c) across\nQ15: Mani, along with his friends, _______ for football practice every morning.\n(a) were going\n(b) goes\n(c) are going\n(d) go\n1: (a) out\n2: (b) Pedagogy\n3: (c) whoever\n4: (b) any\n5: (d) more than\n6: (b) in, the\n7: (b) from\n8: (c) has been, since\n9: (d) knock\n10: (a) not to get\n11: (c) in\n12: (d) being\n13: (a) at\n14: (c) across\n15: (b) goes\nLabels: General English, SSC (CHSL)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 5527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 257.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://conifersgarden.com/seeds/diselma/diselma-archeri.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:FJF4POZYGUFE3ZTJOXTBR6LODCAJX5KS", "length": 1629, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "conifersgarden.com", "title": "Diselma archeri", "raw_content": "Product Code: DISFUMKM64\nScientific name: Diselma archeri J.Hooker 1860\nSynonyms: Fitzroya archeri (Hook.f.) Benth. & Hook.f.\nCommon names: Cheshunt pine, Chestnut pine\nErect shrub to 2.5 m, or sometimes a tree to 6 m tall, with trunk to 30 cm in diameter. Bark reddish brown when fresh, darkening and then weathering grayish brown, rough with persistent scale leaf bases and then accumulating flakes and scales. Crown irregular, broadly dome-shaped in owerall outline but made up of individual cones, each with numerous rising branches bearing dense, rounded tufts of branchlets at their tips. Branchlets short, turning brown by the second or third year (or later), completely hidden by the leaves. Adult leaves blunt, 1-2 mm long, dark green. Pollen cones 2-3 mm long. Seed cones 4-5 mm across, with a club-shaped central column 4-5 mm long, about as long as the scales and seeds. Seeds longer than the scales, about 5 mm long.\nCentral and western Tasmania (Australia). 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The species is therefore listed as Least Concern)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://constructioncitizen.com/print/2421", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DH5RP65D7K664EOZD2MR3VUNRNH46DSC", "length": 3840, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "constructioncitizen.com", "title": "ABC/CMEF\u2019s Inaugural Celebration Welcomes New Board of Directors", "raw_content": "Home > ABC/CMEF\u2019s Inaugural Celebration Welcomes New Board of Directors\nABC/CMEF\u2019s Inaugural Celebration Welcomes New Board of Directors [1]\nby Lauren Harrell [2] | February 02, 2018\nAssociated Builders and Contractors of Greater Houston (ABC) [8], an association representing the interests of merit shop contractors and their employees, held its annual Inaugural Celebration at Saint Arnolds Brewery on January 11. With over one hundred and thirty attendees, the association recognized incoming board of directors, committee chairs, and the 2017 Members of the Year.\nThe 2018 Board of Directors, who were elected by ABC/CMEF membership, were sworn in to serve for a three-year term. Board member responsibilities include setting policies and goals that will guide the association; ensuring policies are carried out by board, staff, and committees; and making sure there is adequate funding for programs and events.\n\u201cWe are looking forward to this new year, and working together to promote the merit shop philosophy and free enterprise,\u201d said Robert Burelsmith of E.E. Reed Construction and the 2018 ABC/CMEF Chairman. \u201cWe are fortunate to have board members who share a common goal of promoting ABC/CMEF\u2019s initiatives, and have expertise in the construction industry. We anticipate 2018 to be a great year.\u201d\nThe 2018 ABC Executive Committee includes Robert Burelsmith with E.E. Reed Construction [9], Warren Adamson of S&B Engineers and Constructors [10], Brandon Mabile with Performance Contractors [11], Sam Craig with Craig & Heidt [12], Todd Fry with Karsten Interior Services [13], and Phil Restivo with Turner Construction [14].\n2018 board members include Rusty Barnhill of Force Corporation [15], Joel Boe of Cajun Constructors [16], Dwayne Boudreaux of Ref-Chem L.P. [17], Edwin Brink of JACOBS [18], Kenny Brown of Brock Services LLC [19], Bob Deatherage of Bechtel Construction Services [20], Darlene East of Holes Incorporated [21], Matt Elliot of SpawGlass Construction Corporation [22], John Glaze of Fast Track Specialties [23], John Golashesky of Turner Industries Group [24], Mike Holland of MAREK [25], Elaine Howard of Andrews Myers [26], Asher Kazmann of Locke Solutions Precast Division [27], Shawn McAlpin of Burton Construction [28], David McCleskey of Brown & Root Industrial Services [29], Russell Milam of Penhall Company [30], Beau Pollock of Trio Electric [31], Zac Ridner of Fleet IQ [32], Wendell Rychlik of McCarthy Building Companies [33], Dan Wahle of Structure Tone Southwest [34], Ronnie Wills of Aggregate Technologies [35], and Lohn Zylicz of D.E. Harvey Builders [36].\nTo learn more about ABC/CMEF, visit their website [8].\nSource URL: http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/abc-cmefs-inaugural-celebration-welcomes-new-board-directors/1802021\n[1] http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/abc-cmefs-inaugural-celebration-welcomes-new-board-directors/1802021\n[8] http://www.abchouston.org/\n[9] http://www.eereed.com/\n[10] http://www.sbec.com/\n[11] http://www.performance-br.com/\n[12] http://www.craig-heidt.com/\n[13] http://karsteninterior.com/\n[14] http://www.turnerconstruction.com/\n[15] https://forcecorp.net/\n[16] http://cajunusa.com/\n[17] http://www.ref-chem.com/\n[18] http://www.jacobs.com/\n[19] http://www.brockgroup.com/\n[20] http://www.bechtel.com/services/construction/\n[21] http://www.holesinc.com/\n[22] https://www.spawglass.com/\n[23] http://www.ftspec.com/\n[24] https://www.turner-industries.com/\n[26] https://www.andrewsmyers.com/\n[27] https://lockesolutions.com/\n[28] https://burtonconstruction.com/\n[29] https://www.kbr.com/services/industrial-services/brown-root-industrial-services\n[30] https://www.penhall.com/\n[31] https://www.trioltd.com/\n[32] http://www.fleetiq.com/\n[34] https://structuretone.com/houston-tx/\n[35] https://www.aggregatetechnologies.com/\n[36] http://www.harveybuilders.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1039654,00.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:56Z", "digest": "sha1:2POYOHZDVHVSQSMP6FU7DIJM7BMZXCWO", "length": 6248, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "content.time.com", "title": "Taking Back Iraq's Streets - TIME", "raw_content": "Taking Back Iraq's Streets\nBy CHRISTOPHER ALLBRITTON Saturday, Mar. 19, 2005\nFIRING RANGE: Iraq's elite Counter Terrorism Force trains in Baghdad\nEyes peering through slits in black masks, the commandos creep up the floors of the Baghdad apartment building, ready to pounce. Their target is Omar Tamimi, an insurgent believed to have carried out the January assassination of the governor of Baghdad province. In the past, the responsibility for such high-profile operations has been shouldered by teams of elite U.S. troops. But on this night, the American commandos are playing a support role to members of the new Iraqi army's Counter Terrorism Task Force, a unit the U.S. is training to take on more counterinsurgent dirty work. The early stages of the operation unfold smoothly. One team of troops stops on the second floor, the other continues to the third, where they place explosive charges against a thin wooden apartment door. Two booms in quick succession echo in the concrete stairwell. The doors shatter inward in a storm of wooden splinters, and the Iraqi and American troops, identically outfitted with US-made M4 carbines, night-vision goggles, boots, uniforms and body armor, burst in.\nInside the troops find children and three women, one of them elderly, cowering on the floor. The Iraqi forces search the apartment and find three men. They turn up Tamimi's identification papers, but not the target himself. After cuffing the adults\u0097including the women\u0097with plastic ties, the Iraqi commander grills them about Tamimi, but gets nowhere. Then an Iraqi officer begins chatting with the children; before long one of them reveals that Tamimi had been in the apartment moments before the troops rushed in. \"He's still here,\" the officer tells the Americans. Soon a Green Beret is heard yelling and laughing in the kitchen. Under the sink he'd kicked a thin wall. Behind it was Tamimi, a thin sketch of a man, curled into a ball.\nOperations like the one that netted Tamimi earlier this year provide a glimpse of what U.S. commanders hope will be the future of combat in Iraq. Two years since the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. is scrambling to train and equip a new Iraqi army to take over combat duties and pave the way for a reduction in the size of the U.S. troop presence. After a slow start, the training program appears to be picking up momentum: last week the Pentagon announced plans to trim the number of U.S. troops in Iraq from 150,000 to 105,000 by early next year, a move that reflects the improved capabilities of the Iraqi forces. The top commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq, Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, said that \"very much sooner rather than later, Iraq will be able to provide for its own security.\"\nThe Iraqi special-ops units like the one that captured Tamimi are spearheading that push. TIME was recently granted access to the Iraqi commandos and their U.S. advisors, observed their training sessions and accompanied the units on patrol. While their numbers are few, Iraqi special forces have assumed a bigger role in sensitive counter-insurgent operations, often acting as the lead teams in raids and rescue missions. In some cases, Iraqi units have used intelligence gleaned from locals to identify their own low-level targets, and then execute small raids on their own. Trained by Task Force Pioneer, a unit drawn from a support company from the U.S. Special Operating Force's 10th Group, the emerging Iraqi commando units have impressed U.S. commanders with their combat performance and bolstered confidence that Iraqis can keep the insurgents at bay on their own. \"We can step away more now,\" says the U.S. commander of Task Force Pioneer, who, like all of the special forces in this story, cannot be named. \"It's about 50-50.\"\nThat said, the U.S. hasn't yet ceded command and control to the Iraqis. \"We train the rank-and-file but we're the leadership,\" says the Pioneer commander. However well-trained, the Iraqi special forces comprise only a tiny fraction of the 57,000-member Iraqi army, which has been plagued by low morale, inconsistent training and infiltration by insurgents.\nBut the U.S. hopes the commandos provide a model for improvement. Over the past year the ISOF units have conducted 538 combat missions, capturing 431 suspected insurgents, over 1,700 weapons and tons of munitions. They've seen bloody action in the battles for Najaf, Samarra and Fallujah, and have fought insurgents in Ramadi and Baghdad. Among the Iraqis' biggest successes were the capture of militants involved in the April 2004 attack in Fallujah on four U.S. security contractors; and they killed an insurgent suspected of involvement in the beheading last May of American Nicholas Berg. Advisors from the U.S. Green Berets say the Iraqi special-ops teams have suffered none of the problems of desertion in the face of enemy fire seen in most of the regular Iraqi units. None have refused to fight, they say, and rates of those absent without leave are well below other forces. \"It's unbelievable, but it's all down to the espirit de corps,\" says the Americans' Executive Officer.\nPutting Iraqis on the front lines, U.S. officials say, is yielding results in the shadow war against the insurgents. When the key to unraveling insurgencies is denying the rebels the support of the population, putting an Iraqi face on the offensives is vital. It also helps avoid blunders. Often targeting information is slightly off, with troops raiding the wrong house. Local Iraqis are loath to point the Americans in the right direction. \"They're not scared of Americans, but when an Iraqi in a ski mask confronts them they talk a lot more, and they're more likely to say, 'He's not here but lives across the road,'\" says Task Force Pioneer's commander. During the raid on Tamimi's safehouse, the joint U.S.-Iraqi team hauled off Tamimi and another insurgent suspected of being a key bombmaker. The other men upstairs were left behind, a mark of the more \"surgical\" style of business the Green Berets are hoping the Iraqis can deliver them, blunting locals' perceptions of Americans as brutish and arbitrary. \"In the past, we'd have scooped them all up,\" says an American with the CTF, \"but we only took the guys our Iraqis said were dirty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://corkheritage.ie/?page_id=2730", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:LKZLAIHFFYPSMOKERRKSOEBK62C2EZI6", "length": 752, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "corkheritage.ie", "title": "Cork Heritage \u00bb Cork Heritage Open Day", "raw_content": "Cork Heritage Open Day is a unique event which is held on the last Saturday of Heritage Week in August and organised by Cork City Council.\nFor one day only 38 buildings opened their doors free of charge for this special event. Members of the public were allowed a glimpse of some of Cork\u2019s most fascinating buildings ranging from the Medieval to the Military, the Civic to the Commercial and the Educational to the Ecclesiastical.\nThis event was greeted with great enthusiasm by building owners and members of the public alike with an estimated 10,000 people participating in the day. The attached link is that, which was published for the 2011 event:\nhttp://www.corkheritageopenday.ie/homepagecontent/rightcolumn/HERITAGE%202011%20COPY%20FOR%20WEB.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 4716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://corridorkeepers.org/healthy-exercise-and-fitness.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:39Z", "digest": "sha1:3X7SZLKANQ6EPXKYPJHDRJULF6DMBFM2", "length": 718, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "corridorkeepers.org", "title": "Healthy Exercise and Fitness | health", "raw_content": "Nervous system activity slows down with age, and this reduces the movement of the security. Muscle strength and flexibility in addition to exercise, especially for older, it is important to balance the healing is also engaged in physical activity, such as mountain walking, skiing, ball games, dance, yoga, or chi, or golf.\nAm I getting result in my Fitness?\nIf you have previously moved a little, you should always start with the health through exercise and take advantage of exercise opportunities in everyday activities and operations. When you are used to regular exercise and natural utilizing the possibilities of, and if health allows, you can set a goal of regular and performance improvement fitness exercise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cosmicplodding.net/index101.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4TPM263DODZSP2OA4YNC6XZGHDENJOI", "length": 2641, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "cosmicplodding.net", "title": "cosmic plodding", "raw_content": "Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford represents a capstone and the sum of wisdom learned, past and present, by the author's engaging and loquacious character, Frank Bascombe, whom we know from an earlier trilogy of novels that began with the bestseller The Sportswriter in 1986.\nAt age sixty-eight--prostate cancer survived--Frank lives on the familiar Jersey shore, where for decades he sold real estate before retiring out. But familiar or no, the landscape where he lives with his second wife, Sally, did not escape the angry chaos of Hurricane Sandy, even if their house stayed upright. The comfortable community of Haddam, NJ, is busy adjusting to, as Frank puts it, \"the new normal.\"\nSo while Sally is off-stage, grief-counselling Sandy's victims, Frank walks us through encounters--in these four inter-linked stories---with people he now knows. It must be said from the outset, one doesn't read Richard Ford for page-turning, plotted \"action.\"\nNo, it's a newsy stroll with an old friend, this Frank, who encounters a woman who once lived in his house, who wants to look inside, and who shares a dark story of what happened in the basement; or in an ongoing re-encounter, a monthly visit to his ex-wife Ann, who suffers from Parkinson's and lives in a spendy, staged-care facility. Ford, the master stylist, offers up Frank's encounters with sparkling dialogue, a signature photo-realistic eye for detail, and a playful gift for language (What is a \"wittering urgency\"?).\nThe 500-pound gorilla in the room of Let Me Be Frank With You is, of course, mortality and nothing is vague about its approach. As Frank puts it, at his age, \"not much is happening except on the medical front.\" Acknowledging the inevitable, he's paring down. Starting with \"stripping the words we use to express our increasingly rare, increasingly vagrant thoughts.\" Frank applies the same logic to friendship. He grants the unexpected 60% of his time. The other 40% is left over friends, which he's limited to five--why drag a flock into your eventual demise? he seems to ask. The five designated friends include wife Sally, ex-wife Ann, his two children: He has only one available slot open.\nSuch a clear-eyed understanding of life's closer will resolve Let Me Be Frank With You. But as Frank also says, \"I bought the The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying as a present to myself but haven't made much progress there--though I need to.\" The reader suspects and hopes we haven't heard the last of Frank Bascombe.\nLet Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford, ecco/HarperCollins, New York, 2014. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-0-06-169206-2.\nImage credit: google images: npr.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://countdowntomexico.com/2012/09/18/the-butterfly-effect-and-mazatlan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:53Z", "digest": "sha1:AULM62U23R2MA7CVADGH5YR45HO7ZUG6", "length": 5386, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "countdowntomexico.com", "title": "The Butterfly Effect and Mazatl\u00e1n \u2013 Countdown to Mexico", "raw_content": "It\u2019s funny how things come in groups. I read an excellent article recently called Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect. You know the butterfly effect \u2013 to quote the article above:\nThe late science fiction writer Ray Bradbury authored a short story about time travelers. They were careful, when they went back to the Jurassic, not to change anything, but one of them stepped on a butterfly. When they got back to the present, the world was slightly different.\nAt about the same time I was reading Stephen King\u2019s book 11/22/63 where the butterfly effect is a main theme \u2013 would it be possible to go back and prevent Kennedy from being assassinated? \u2013 which might then change a whole host of other terrible events such as the Vietnam War or the assassinations of Robert Kennedy or Martin Luther King. The book was quite absorbing, the first entire book I\u2019ve read of his except for an excellent book he wrote on the craft of writing.\nAfter I finished the King book I picked up Penelope Lively\u2019s How It All Began, which states (from the Amazon site):\nIn this engaging, utterly absorbing and brilliantly told novel, Penelope Lively shows us how one random event can cause marriages to fracture and heal themselves, opportunities to appear and disappear, lovers who might never have met to find each other and entire lives to become irrevocably changed.\nWhat\u2019s that? The Butterfly Effect again? I think I had better think about this for a bit.\nYou know what? The Butterfly Effect is happening now in Mazatl\u00e1n. One little change is changing our community for the better. What change, you say?\nThe cruise ships pulling out of Mazatl\u00e1n. That\u2019s right. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re gone.\nWhat does this mean for Mazatl\u00e1n? Now we need to think about what the best features of the city are, and care for them. That means keeping Centro and the beaches clean. Painting out graffiti, picking up after our dogs, and emptying trash containers. It means providing wheelchair ramps and making sure the street lights work. Keeping the statues and monuments in good repair.\nWhat makes a city somewhere tourists want to visit? It\u2019s not just being a day stop on a cruise ship itinerary. It\u2019s being a place that has interesting things to do and see that are accessible and available. There are many wonderful things to do here \u2013 and I\u2019m sure that one of the happy results of the cruise ships pulling out will be more thinking about what other opportunities there might be.\nI have lots of good ideas and I\u2019m sure you do, too. I trust that the Butterfly Effect started by the cruise ships leaving is going to end up making this town much more beautiful, much more treasured, and much more interesting to tourists, too.\nAt the top of this post is a picture taken on Angel Flores and Ni\u00f1os Heroes as the sun went down. Our beautiful city. Sigh.\nGood point-it takes more than an afternoon to discover all the wonders of Mazatlan. El Centro is really shaping up!\nLourdes T\nI agree. Let\u2019s reinvent Mazatlan and make tourists fall in love with the city.\nBeautifully expressed and I sure hope you\u2019re right, Nancy. We need a concerted community effort to make these things happen.\nThe media have treated the cruise ship pullout as a disaster, but you\u2019re right. Ships can have an unsettling effect on a city overall, turning them into a funhouse mirror image of their former selves. Key West was never the same since more ships started docking there. Rowdy, then dead, then rowdy again, then dead again is a horrible cycle to be repeated in a small locale\nThank you Nancy! As usual, your prespective is refreshing. I agree with you. We will be back in January for a week\u2026.to explore my favorite city once more. So very much of Mazatlan we have not seen yet.\nSomeday\u2026I hope to make it our home too. The cruise ships so not factor into our Mazatlan experience\u2026it is the people and the city that have made us fall in love.\nThanks for all you do with the website\u2026.I miss my favorite place in the whole world a little bit less while I wait for the next time to get there.\nBeautiful photo Nancy. I so hope some day to get to Mazatlan\u2026\u2026.truly.\nThe thing \u201cthey\u201d are calling the butterfly effect now used to be referred to as synchronicity. I like the butterfly effect more, for many reasons.\nEnjoy your blog \u2013 just don\u2019t always comment.\nI think we all have that \u201cwhat if\u201d curiosity, and often in our own lives vis a vis \u201cthe butterfly effect\u201d. You present a good perspective about Mazatlan and thinking and taking this wonderful city to a new level of consciousness. Onward and upward.\nThe great hope is that some of those whose jobs were adversely affected by the lack of cruise ships found work in the recent Centro remodel.\nWhat a great photo. I walk down that street several times, usually at/before sunrise, whenever I visit Mazatlan. Something about the wall and the residences there always attracts my attention and makes me want to go back. I\u2019m sure I have a similar shot somewhere in my archives, but nowhere near as nice. Looking forward to seeing it all again soon. Thanks for posting that, Nancy.\nLovely photo Nancy. I hope some day our budget will allow us to revisit Mazatlan. It\u2019s been about 30 years since I last saw it and Todd had never been there. It is a long drive from the mountains though.\nan amazing shot.\nWhat a wonderful concept! Mazatlan\u2019s future can only be better because of you and Paul.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 10427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cp3-origins.dk/a/11897", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4T7PL3Y5CZYDOHMV66LAII3SWGIZDI5Y", "length": 439, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cp3-origins.dk", "title": "Martin S. Sloth published in Jyllands-Posten \u00ab CP\u00b3-Origins", "raw_content": "Martin S. Sloth published in Jyllands-Posten\nAssociate Professor Martin S. Sloth has an op-ed on the importance of continuing to search for answers to the mysteries of the universe in today\u2019s edition of the national Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.\nYou can find it in the printed newspaper or read it online here: Martin S. Sloth: Nyt lys over oldgammelt sp\u00f8rgsm\u00e5l (The digital version requires an online subscription to Jyllands-Posten.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 162.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cpc.ppsk12.us/cms/one.aspx?portalId=797499&pageId=797520&objectId.45898=42399309&contextId.45898=806517&parentId.45898=806518&ref=mesTP9fg96fVsgzpWYeogLTRYVKIS7GYkGiTV1m0xeM%3D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:05Z", "digest": "sha1:237O5PDRZQJFWWXX5P4MNWA5JFI4GMWC", "length": 426, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "cpc.ppsk12.us", "title": "Calendar - Churchland Preschool Center", "raw_content": "Joint School Board and City Council Retreat Export Event\nLocation TCC-Portsmouth Campus, Building A, The Forum\nThe retreat will be held on Saturday, February 23rd, at TCC-Portsmouth Campus, Building A, The Forum.\nContinential Breakfast will be available at 8:30 a.m.\nMeeting begins at 9:00 a.m.\nDo you want to delete all occurrences of the recurring appointment \"Joint School Board and City Council Retreat\", or just this one?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cureresearch.com/w/west_african_trypanosomiasis/intro.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WZHFLLFJLYWDVW4ODT7X5AW552DOQEKI", "length": 1590, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cureresearch.com", "title": "Introduction: West African Trypanosomiasis - CureResearch.com", "raw_content": "Introduction: West African Trypanosomiasis\nWest African Trypanosomiasis: West African sleeping sickness from the tsetse fly\nWest African Trypanosomiasis: There are two types of African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, named for the areas in Africa in which they are found. West African trypanosomiasis, also called Gambian sleeping sickness, is caused by a parasite called Trypanosoma brucei gambiense (tri-PAN-o-SO-ma brew-see-eye gam-be-ense). Worldwide, 20,000 new cases of both East and West African trypanosomiasis are reported each year. Few cases of West African trypanosomiasis have been reported in the United States. 1\nResearching symptoms of West African Trypanosomiasis: Further information about the symptoms of West African Trypanosomiasis is available including a list of symptoms of West African Trypanosomiasis, or alternatively return to research other symptoms in the symptom center.\nTreatments for West African Trypanosomiasis: Various information is available about treatments available for West African Trypanosomiasis, prevention of West African Trypanosomiasis, or research treatments for other diseases.\nContents for West African Trypanosomiasis:\nBasic Summary for West African Trypanosomiasis\nPrognosis of West African Trypanosomiasis\nRisk Factors for West African Trypanosomiasis\nSymptoms of West African Trypanosomiasis\nDiagnostic Tests for West African Trypanosomiasis\nContagious: West African Trypanosomiasis\nTreatments for West African Trypanosomiasis\nPrevention of West African Trypanosomiasis\n1. excerpt from West African Trypanosomiasis: DPD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 102.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://curtcass.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:38Z", "digest": "sha1:SJC457BPNJQUDMW5DKOK7OMV2WFCM7T6", "length": 6142, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "curtcass.com", "title": "CLC Productions--Curt Cassingham--Flute/Piccolo", "raw_content": "Curt Cassingham--CLCProductions.com--CurtCass.com\nCLC Productions was formed in the early 1970s by Bruce Cooley, Tom Lewis and me. We all attended Woodside High School, and combined our initials to form the company name. The three of us supplied lighting and sound equipment services to various school and non-school functions. Today, I co-own Northstar Recording Studios, and develop web sites as CLCProductions.com.\nGreetings! You've found me.\nHere are some of my own internal web pages, and favorite external sites\nEveryone's interested in the weather. The Weather Underground has detailed weather forecasts, radar maps, links to personal weather stations, etc\nBorn in Burbank, California, I now live in Portland, Oregon, with my beautiful wife, Bonnie. My daughter Megan and her husband Cory live in Corvallis. Other daughter Haley is in college.\nThere are more Cassinghams in America than you may think! (And, yes, that was my hairstyle back in the early 90s!)\nRegardless of what you think about oil companies and price-fixing,\nit's clear you can shop around for the best gasoline prices\nUpdated January 30, 2011:\n-- This book, Recording The Beatles, is a unique look at the Fab Four's recording studio (EMI's Abbey Road), its equipment, rooms, engineers, recording setup, and everything else used to record history's most influential popular music group. It is thorough and, well, gorgeous!\n-- My brother Randy's new book The True Stella Awards explores the issue of out-of-control frivilous lawsuits in our \"someone else is responsible for my actions\" culture\n-- TheOregon Triode Society helps preserve the interest in vacuum tube type audio electronics, and has designed award-winning circuits. We meet locally. Come join us\n-- Darrell is arguably the best Christian bluesman around, if not the best harp player out there. I've had the privilege to play bass for him on a few Oregon trips of his\n-- Rescue, a local a cappella quartet has a national sound and following, with a Christian message. They record at Northstar\n-- My brother Brian's real estate agency and brokerage. (Site designed by yours truly). Rather than just listing and selling homes, Brian works with his clients to adequately prepare their home for sale--painting, landscaping, and such--to get the best sale price, and happy buyers\n-- The Griffith Observatory, famed science and astronomy museum in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, was one of my favorite destinations as a boy in southern California. It recently completed an $83 million renovation, among other things to improve accessibility and seismic stablity, and add several hundred square feet of exhibit space, food service, lecture hall, etc. Friends Of The Observatory is helping raise the money\nAnd, the rest. . .\n-- Though they're no longer made, Ampex, the finest American-made analog audio tape recorders still have a devoted following. Though digital recording has been around over fifteen years, analog still has a better sound\n-- Animusic is a fantastic creation of virtual musical instruments playing great tracks. It's all computer generated. Moments after I saw one of the sample clips on this site, I had my credit card out. Two days later, I had the DVD. I'm still hooked. They're currently nearing completion of a second release, with new music and animations. I can't wait!\n-- Brook View Cottage, is my friend Ken's site. He and his family (see next two sites) are talented artisans in word, paint, and photo\n-- Cards by Miles--Miles is Ken's son. He's quite creative and talented with Flash animations, and has developed dozens of cards for all occasions on Yahoo!\nThe Burbank Police Boys' Band --In the 1960's my brother Brian and I were members of this marching unit.\nDetectron -- one of my father's various enterprises, specialized in metal detectors and radiation detection instruments such as Geiger and scintillation counters during the \"uranium boom\" of the 1950s\n--Emitt Rhodes--possibly the most underrated composer/singer of 1970s popular music, Emitt had three top-selling albums early in that decade\n--Emerson, Lake & Palmer--my all time favorite musical group. Keith Emerson is universally recognized as one of the top rock keyboard players of all time. ELP was the first band to use the Moog synthesizer on the road\nGazebo --My friend Ken Cooley wanted to add a little something to his yard. The structure took the two of us over a week to build. Requires Quick Time\n--Tired of 'bad news on the doorstep' in today's news world? Check out HeroicStories\n--Jim Ellis Music--You've heard the closing theme for TV's WKRP In Cincinnatti. You've wondered about the lyrics. Now, read the real story behind them\nJumboJoke --A joke a day keeps the blues away. JJ is another offering of my brother, Randy Cassingham\n--Krispy Kreme doughnuts may replace my love of the Winchells brand!\nLucy was Bonnie's kitty. She died early 1999\nMaranatha Singers --The first reunion of the 1970's era Maranatha group of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church was held in 1997, and another occurred in July, 2002\n--This is it--my all-time, favorite television show. Northern Exposure is set in the fictitious Cicely, Alaska, and shot in Roslyn, Washington\n--I co-own Northstar Recording with Scott James Hybl. Since we met in 1973, we've played music together. We had always talked about opening a recording studio of our own, after recording in various Bay Area studios in the 70s. Northstar came to fruition in 1979\nSpam --Junk email--\"spam\"--wastes millions of dollars' worth of our time and resources. And, almost everything offered is worthless, identity theft scams, or pornography. Please don't buy anything offered via spam email\n--If you've lived in or around LA, you've probably driven on 405 The Freeway. Check out what a couple of imaginitive guys with a couple of desktop computers, a couple of actors, and a video camera did with it. Watch 405 The Movie\n--My brother, Randy Cassingham, writes This is True, a weekly humor column. It's distributed to several print publications, and to Internet subscribers in well over 100 countries. His wry humor is very popular\nSite hosted by Randy Cassingham", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 6211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2006/08/computer-car-theft.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:12Z", "digest": "sha1:5FKN6IP6ZC2TY5XWK3EEPGP7XGK5FVTS", "length": 4293, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com", "title": "CYB3RCRIM3: Computer car theft", "raw_content": "You may have heard about this. Several stories appeared earlier this summer about thieves using laptops to steal cars equipped with keyless entry and ignition systems.\nAccording to some of these stories, David Beckham, the British soccer star, has had two BMW X5\u2019s stolen from him this year. In each case, the thieves used the laptop technique to take the cars. The second theft apparently occurred while Beckham and his sons were eating at a restaurant in Madrid.\nThis is a good example of how beneficial technology can be compromised for criminal purposes. As one reporter explained, \u201cdecrypting one 40-bit code sequence can not only disengage the security system and unlock the doors, it can also start the car. . . . The owner of the code is now the true owner of the car.\u201d I\u2019ve read that thieves can also disable tracking systems \u2013 GPS systems \u2013 that are intended to make it easier to find stolen vehicles.\nAs far as I know, this is only happening in Europe, where it is becoming more common. It probably won\u2019t take long, though, for it to migrate here to the U.S.\nThe process of compromising the vehicle\u2019s entry and ignition systems apparently takes about 20 minutes, and I gather the thieves need to have the vehicle parked in a relatively out of the way place . . . since people might be suspicious if they walked by and saw a laptop hooked up to a parked car.\nDoes this kind of theft raise any new legal issues? I really don\u2019t think it does, at least not in terms of the theft of the vehicle. All the thieves are doing, after all, is stealing a car, and car theft has been criminalized in this country and abroad for many, many years.\nI think our existing car theft statutes would easily encompass this kind of activity. Take Alaska\u2019s car theft state, for example. Alaska Statutes section 11.46.360(a) It makes it a crime (a felony) if \u201chaving no right to do so . . . [a] person drives, tows away, or takes the car, truck, motorcycle, motor home, bus, aircraft, or watercraft of another\u201d. Most car theft statutes will be structured similarly.\nThe essence of the crime lies in taking a vehicle that belongs to someone else; the method one uses to accomplish that is irrelevant. So it really doesn\u2019t matter whether the thief uses a Slim Jim or a laptop.\nIt seems to me, though, that a prosecutor could also add a \u201chacking\u201d charge.\nAs I explained in an earlier post, in terms of criminal law \u201chacking\u201d consists of gaining access to computer system without being authorized to do so. As I also noted in response to a comment on that post, we have aggravated hacking (or cracking) statutes that make it a more serious crime to hack a system and cause \u201cdamage\u201d by, say, copying or destroying data. It looks to me like the laptop car thief \u201chacks\u201d the car\u2019s computer system.\nAs I explained in that earlier post, our law doesn\u2019t do a particularly good job of defining \u201caccess\u201d in the context of \u201chacking,\u201d but I think a prosecutor could make a good argument that a laptop car thief does gain \u201caccess\u201d to the car\u2019s computer system. As I noted earlier, one of the phrases used to define \u201caccess\u201d is \u201ccommunicate with,\u201d as in \u201ccommunicating with\u201d a computer system. Another phrase used for this purpose is \u201cmake use of,\u201d again as in \u201cmaking use of\u201d a computer system.\nIf you buy that analysis, then it seems laptop car thieves can be charged both with car theft and with hacking the car\u2019s computer system. Now, they might argue that hacking the car\u2019s computer system was merely part of the process of stealing the vehicle, so they should not be charged with both crimes. I suspect that argument would not work.\nOne of the defining traits of modern American criminal law (anyway) is that prosecutors tend to carve a course of conduct up into multiple offenses, a technique courts generally support. The premise \u2013 in this instance \u2013 would be that the thief really did commit two distinct and severable crimes: (i) hacked the car\u2019s computer system; and (ii) stole the car. A prosecutor who wanted to charge such a thief with both crimes could point out that he could have stopped with (i) but, instead, chose to proceed with the \u201csecond\u201d crime, the theft.\nLegal issues aside, this is another example of how technology we adopt to make our lives easier can have unforeseen, unfortunate consequences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 8220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2013/07/restitution-retail-value-and-vet-clinic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:4XS55THRXJRQDAHAQRH3PEB7VOMRZZMQ", "length": 14441, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com", "title": "CYB3RCRIM3: Restitution, Retail Value and the Vet Clinic", "raw_content": "After a jury convicted her of \u201ccomputer crime and theft\u201d in violation of Kansas law and was sentenced to a term of probation, Pamela Sue Hall appealed, on one particular issue. State v. Hall, __ P.3d __, 2013 WL 3242252 (Supreme Court of Kansas 2013). (The opinion does not say what statutes the charges were brought under, but I assume the computer crime charge was brought under Kansas Statutes \u00a721-3755(b)(1) and the theft charge was brought under Kansas Statutes \u00a721-3701.)\nThe trial judge then sentenced Hall to 16 months in prison but instead of requiring Hall to serve the sentence, he put her on probation for 18 months, \u201ca condition of which was to pay $14,293.11 restitution to the Hardins.\u201d State v. Hall, 45 Kan.App.2d 290, 247 P.3d 1050 (Kansas Court of Appeals 2011). (Hall first appealed to the Kansas Court of Appeals, won on an issue and the state then took the case to the Kansas Supreme Court, which is why there are two opinions.)\nAs to how the charges arose, the Kansas Court of Appeals, explained that\nDr. Marc and [his wife] Beverly Hardin initially hired Pamela Sue Hall to work as a veterinary technician at their Metcalf 107 Animal Clinic (the Clinic), but soon realized she lacked the necessary skills for working with animals and limited her to clerical duties. Those duties included scheduling appointments, billing, and data entry from inventory orders using the Clinic's AVImark computer software system, which Hall already knew how to use.\nThe Clinic had a policy of providing discounted veterinary care and products for employees' pets with the understanding that the employees would pay their bills before receiving their next paychecks. Under this policy, Hall's pets received numerous veterinary services and products valued in excess of $1,000.\nAfter working for the Clinic about 2 months, Hall called Sue Hardin at home late one evening in March 2008 and emotionally pled for an early advance on her paycheck so she could fly to Florida to see her mother, who Hall reported was on life support after suffering a debilitating stroke. Out of empathy and based on Hall's stated plans to return, the Hardins did not verify whether Hall had any outstanding bills before advancing her paycheck.\nWhen a Florida veterinarian later contacted the Clinic's receptionist about refilling Hall's pet's prescription diet, she could not find Hall's pets' records, so the Hardins began to suspect Hall was not returning from Florida after all. Thus, they decided to further investigate Hall's clerical activities at the Clinic. An audit of Hall's clerical activities on the AVImark system revealed Hall had made numerous improper entries.\nFor example, the Hardins discovered Hall had made changes to inventory counts, overrode product prices, and deleted her pets' medical histories and the outstanding bills for their services on the AVImark system. The Hardins were also unable to locate Hall's pets' x-rays or soap sheets, which were Dr. Hardin's handwritten charts of the care he provided the animals.\nState v. Hall, 45 Kan.App.2d 290, 247 P.3d 1050 (Kansas Court of Appeals 2011).\nThe Hardins went to the police and Detective Lance Jordan was assigned to investigate.\nAs part of his investigation, Jordan called and spoke to Hall, who denied or offered innocent explanations for the Hardins' allegations against her. For example, Hall admitted she had taken some merchandise from the Clinic without paying, but said she kept a list of the merchandise and left a note behind. Hall explained that she assumed the Clinic would bill her for the items when they billed her for her pets' services.\nHall denied that she deleted her pets' records or bills or otherwise altered the AVImark system. Rather, she thought any inventory count inconsistencies probably resulted from an inventory reconciliation she worked on with Dr. Hardin. Jordan followed-up with the Hardins regarding Hall's explanations. Dr. Hardin denied ever working with Hall on inventory. The Hardins also denied they knew Hall was taking merchandise, that they ever found a sticky note for items she had taken, or that they allowed Hall to run a tab for merchandise.\nState v. Hall (Court of Appeals), supra. Jordan also talked to a couple who were \u201cHall\u2019s roommates\u201d when she worked at the Clinic; they said they saw her \u201cwith numerous items of Clinic merchandise on several occasions.\u201d State v. Hall (Court of Appeals), supra. According to one of the briefs filed with the Court of Appeals, when Hall worked for the Hardins she lived in a house with two former spouses and the wife\u2019s new husband; Hall lived in the basement. Brief of Appellant, State v. Hall (Court of Appeals), 2010 WL 1555412.\nIn her appeal, Hall did not challenge her conviction or sentence. State v. Hall, supra. Instead, she appealed the judge\u2019s ordering her to pay restitution. State v. Hall, supra. As this site explains in some detail, restitution allows a court to order a convicted defendant to reimburse a crime victim for \u201ccrime-related expenses\u201d.\nBefore ordering Hall to pay restitution, the trial judge held a hearing to determine the victims\u2019 losses. State v. Hall, supra. At the hearing, testimony from\nBeverly Hardin established that the total retail value of verifiably missing inventory was $9,645.82. On cross-examination, defense counsel established that the wholesale cost of the inventory -- the amount the clinic paid for items verified to be missing -- totaled $4,523.50.\nDefense counsel also established that there were three specific occasions when, after [Hall] left her employment, a customer attempted to purchase something but was unable to do so because it was missing. The profit on these three items, had the clinic been able to sell them, would have totaled $70.\nThe judge imposed restitution payable to the clinic in the total amount of $14,293.11. The portion of this figure attributable to the stolen inventory was based on the retail rather than wholesale price for the stolen inventory. The judge stated that he was `accept[ing] the retail value\u2019 of stolen inventory `because otherwise it would deny the Hardins, as any business, their chance to make a profit on items that they sell.\u2019\nHall first appealed the restitution order to the Kansas Court of Appeals, arguing that the trial judge erred in calculating the amount of restitution. State v. Hall (Court of Appeals), supra. In that appeal, Hall argued that\nthe trial court erroneously ordered her to pay the Hardins the retail value of the inventory, which resulted in a windfall to the Clinic. Hall maintains that she should have to pay restitution only for the Clinic's actual cost for the inventory.\nState v. Hall (Court of Appeals), supra. The Court of Appeals agreed with Hall, and so remanded the case to trial judge to \u201credetermine the amount of restitution\u201d based on the inventory\u2019s fair market value. State v. Hall (Court of Appeals), supra. The appeal to the Supreme Court followed.\nThat court began its analysis of the issue by noting that Kansas Statutes \u00a7 21-4610(d), which authorizes acourts to grant restitution, says the judge can order the defendant to \u201c[m]ake . . . restitution . . . for the damage or loss caused by the defendant's crime, in an amount\u201d determined by the judge. State v. Hall, supra. It also noted that it reviewed the trial judge\u2019s determination of the amount of restitution due the Hardins under an abuse of discretion standard. State v. Hall, supra. It explained that\n`\u201d`Judicial discretion is abused if judicial action (1) is arbitrary, fanciful, or unreasonable, i.e., if no reasonable person would have taken the view adopted by the trial court; (2) is based on an error of law, i.e., if the discretion is guided by an erroneous legal conclusion; or (3) is based on an error of fact, i.e., if substantial competent evidence does not support a factual finding on which a prerequisite conclusion of law or the exercise of discretion is based.\u2019\u201d\u2019 State v. Rodriguez, 295 Kan. 1146, 289 P.3d 85 (Kansas Supreme Court 2012) (quoting State v. Robinson, 293 Kan. 1002, 270 P.3d 1183 [ Kansas Supreme Court 2012], State v. Ward, 292 Kan. 541, 256 P.3d 801 [Kansas Supreme Court 2011])\nThe Supreme Court then pointed out that the state\u2019s restitution statute does not\nrequire a sentencing judge to rely on wholesale cost rather than retail value in fashioning a restitution award in a theft case such as this. To the extent the Court of Appeals' opinion holds otherwise, it grafts requirements onto the statute that are unsupported by its language, and it impermissibly curtails the discretion liberally granted by our legislature.\nWe hereby reject any notion that the statute provides a hard and fast measure for setting the value of the loss. The question at the heart of this appeal cannot be resolved as a matter of law. Determining the value of an aggrieved party's loss raises an issue of fact.\nIt then turned to the issue in this case, noting that the measure of restitution to be\nordered is the amount that reimburses the victim for the actual loss suffered. . . . This is loss `caused by defendant's crime.\u201d Kansas Statutes \u00a7 21\u20134610(d)(1). In property crime cases, Kansas courts have consistently held `fair market value to be the usual standard for calculating `loss or damage\u2019 for purposes of restitution. State v. Baxter, 34 Kan. App.2d 364, 118 P.3d 1291 (Kansas Court of Appeals 2005). The fair market value of inventory is the price that a willing seller and a willing buyer would agree upon in an arm's length-transaction. . . . But the concept of fair market value is a sticky wicket, unpredictable in practice because it is entirely relative, depending on who is doing the buying and who is doing the selling. . . .\nThe rigid adherence to `fair market value\u2019 oversimplifies. While the phrase may capture the best measure of loss in some cases, it may not in all. See State v. Chambers, 36 Kan.App.2d 228, 138 P.3d 405 (Kansas Court of Appeals 2006) (no discernible market value for used personal lingerie stolen from victim's home); see also State v. Maloney, 36 Kan.App.2d 711, 143 P.3d 417 (Kansas Court of appeals 2006) (if property lacks calculable fair market value, restitution amount may be based on other factors). . . .\nThe Supreme Court also explained that the state\u2019s restitution statute\ndoes not restrict a sentencing judge to awarding only the fair market value as restitution in property crime cases. Kansas Statutes \u00a7 21\u20134610(d). Nor does the statute require the judge to consider the fair market value of the property lost before considering other factors. Kansas Statutes \u00a7 21\u20134610(d).\nRestitution can include costs in addition to and other than fair market value. State v. Allen, 260 Kan. 107, 917 P.2d 848 (Kansas Supreme Court 1996). The appropriate amount is that which compensates the victim for the actual damage or loss caused by the defendant's crime.\nIt noted that the amount of restitution ordered will\ninevitably depend on a number of factors. In the context of inventory, for example, these factors might be the retail price, which includes a reasonable profit; the wholesale cost charged to the victim; the setting from which the property was taken; the nature and intended use of the property; whether a market existed for the product and how robust the market was; costs associated with an interruption to this market, which might include costs to maintain stock, electricity, labor, taxes, and shipping; the speed and ease of obtaining replacement items for sale; and any actual lost sales and any associated loss of goodwill.\nThis list of factors is exemplary only and not exclusive. In a different type of case, there may be entirely different factors at play.\nThe Supreme Court concluded, then, that it focus had to be on\nwhether the district court judge abused his discretion on the facts before him. We conclude that he did. While the Court of Appeals would have adopted the wholesale amount, the district judge went to the opposite extreme and merely adopted the retail amount.\nBoth approaches suffer from a basic failure to do as the statute directs. Neither fashioned an award in the amount of the actual damage or loss caused by the defendant's crime.\nIt then explained how that the restitution order in this case had to be vacated and the\ncase remanded for the district court judge to exercise the full measure of his discretion under the law, and all of the evidence before him. His goal is to set an amount that will fully compensate the victim `for the damage or loss caused by\u2019 Hall's crime.\nThis will involve not only weighing the retail price and wholesale cost about which Beverly Hardin testified but her other testimony as well. Indeed, at a new hearing on restitution, the district court must weigh and consider any and all evidence presented in regard to the appropriate measure of restitutio\nFor instance, Beverly Hardin testified about various ways that defendant had manipulated the clinic's inventory system and the cost and lost retail value resulting from this sabotage. She also testified that, even in her retail figure, several of the missing items were priced at cost. These included inventory items not intended for resale but for use in the clinic, such as suture materials.\nSome items qualified as both inventory and supplies; a box of 1,000 syringes, costing the clinic $528.96, could be sold to a client for insulin or allergy injections for approximately $2,000 retail, but the clinic routinely used such syringes for vaccines and injections without accounting for them individually or inventorying them and the cost was built in to the clinic's service charge.\nBeverly Hardin also testified that there were some items of inventory that the clinic did not track or could not verify, and these were not included in her figures. For example, the company that supplied the clinic with a particular microchip and kit replaced those at no cost as the clinic used them. And a drug company provided a product for the clinic to give away to clients.\nWhether such products were missing was hard to verify and their cost hard to quantify. All of this evidence and any additional evidence the district judge permits to be introduced should factor into the fashioning of an appropriate award. The burden will remain on the State to marshal the evidence necessary to justify the amount it seeks.\nState v. Hall, supra. It therefore entered an order to that effect. State v. 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Our professional and career programs are Administration of Justice, Child Development and Education and Paralegal Studies. The California History Center, with its renowned Louis E. Stocklmeir Regional History Library, serves as a repository of knowledge about Santa Clara Valley's past.\nOur division has vigorously participated in the College's Four Strategic Initiatives: outreach, retention and success, cultural competence and community collaborations through the division's C.A.R. project (Conversation-Application-Reflection) with a number of faculty participants, the Social Sciences and Humanities Support Tutorial, the division's Early Alert Project and our Oral History Project, a joint venture of the California History Center and the history department.\nI enthusiastically welcome you to visit all of our links with specific information about each discipline, professional and career program and the California History Center. Current contacts are listed for each.\nCarolyn Wilkins-Greene\nCalifornia and regional studies are the focus of this multi-faceted program, housed in the historic 1895 Petit Trianon building.\nVISIT THE California History Center\nAbout our Departments\nwilkinsgreenecarolyn@deanza.edu\nLeslie Nguyen\nnguyenleslie@deanza.edu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://deccancollegeofmedicalsciences.com/aboutus.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:41Z", "digest": "sha1:67223MRZGFD35WWGWVQNDDAP3JQO5C6D", "length": 2148, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "deccancollegeofmedicalsciences.com", "title": "Welcome to Deccan College of Sciences", "raw_content": "DCMS is recognized by the Medical Council of India, and affiliated to the Kaloji Narayan Rao University of Health Sciences of the State of Telangana. It is governed by the Darus-Salam Educational Trust under the provision of Article 30(1) of the Constitution of India. Although primarily a Muslim Minority medical college, the College also admits non-minority students.\nDCMS was started in the year 1984 (with an intake of 100 M.B;B.S. seats) by the Late Aljhaj Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi\u2014who was also Member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly for 22 years before serving as Member of Parliament for the next 20 years. It was the first medical college for Muslim Minorities in India, and the first Minority medical college in the erstwhile state of undivided Andhra Pradesh. Today, the College is managed by its Chairman, Mr Asaduddin Owaisi (Member of Parliament) and its Managing Director, Mr. Akbaruddin Owaisi (MLA and Floor Leader, AIMIM).\nApart from its modern classrooms and hostel, the College has a modern Skills Lab and aCentral Library housing over 30,000 volumes. Its digital library has access to hundreds of online full-text journals. The Journal of Medical and Allied Sciences, an indexed print (and online) journal, is published from the College.\nTwo hospitals fall under the aegis of DCMS\u2014the Owaisi Hospital and the Princess Esra Hospital. Both these well-equipped hospitals cater to a vast number of patients at highly subsidised rates.\nOver the last three decades, DCMS has produced 20 batches of students who continue its legacy of outstanding accomplishment both in this country and abroad.\nThe medical students of DCMS have regularly secured research scholarships from the Indian Council of Medical Research, and have won prizes in the OSMICON\u2014a conference for talented medical students.\nBy recently launching its large sports arena, indoor stadium and gym, DCMStakes its responsibility seriously to continually upgrade and renew itself in its commitment\u2014not only to quality medical education, but to the overall development of the doctor as a well-rounded individual and a responsible and productive member of society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 3030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 148.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://deedeewike.blogspot.com/2017/01/is-gods-will-cop-out.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FPDgDy+%28Living+the+Dream%29", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:13Z", "digest": "sha1:BQ7VCSSZ6DRPIYJORDDCYRJH4A6V72RH", "length": 2427, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "deedeewike.blogspot.com", "title": "Dee Dee Wike : Is God's Will a Cop-Out?", "raw_content": "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. -- Romans 12:1-2, ESV\nRecently someone asked me to pray for God's will in a particular matter. It was a situation that could easily be changed by a willful decision to make different choices that could be beneficial. As I pondered a response I wondered just how often we use \"God's will\" as a cop-out rather than simply walking in obedience to it, doing what His Word tells us and experiencing the blessings that come as a result of our obedience.\nMany times I have used \"God's will\" to justify purchases of things I didn't really need, resulting in debt, or actions that were premature and clearly outside of His perfect will for my life.\nIf I know that God's will is for me is to be in good health (3 John 2) and to treat my body as the temple of His Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19-20), I am not going to pray for His will to make that happen. I am going to pray for His conviction and strength to resist the foods I know to be harmful to my body and to eat the foods that will nourish it. I am going to exercise my fearfully and wonderfully made body (Psalm 139:14) rather than spend countless hours sitting behind a computer or in front of a TV.\nSometimes God's will depends on our willingness to act upon His will. It is not enough to daily surrender our lives to His will, we also need to choose to walk in obedience to it.\nThere will be times when it is appropriate to pray for God's will, such as when we are faced with circumstances over which we have no control or critical decisions that must be made. For instance, knowing God's will is that \"none should perish\" (2 Peter 3:9) without a saving knowledge of His Son, we should pray for God's will and salvation in the lives of our unsaved friends and loved ones. When others are faced with chronic diseases or terminal illness we need to pray for God's healing and His will for their lives. But we need to realize that when it comes to those things we can control and know to be God's will our prayer should be for wisdom, strength, and conviction to do His will.\nLabels: God's will, God's Word, obedience, ponder, pondering", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dektp.tee-pak.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=14995", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:54Z", "digest": "sha1:BV6F7D35WIUYN2XUPTAE6B7T22RNDTYX", "length": 3596, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "dektp.tee-pak.com", "title": "[video]\u0e41\u0e2a\u0e19\u0e22\u0e32\u0e19\u0e38\u0e20\u0e32\u0e1e US army \u0e2a\u0e2b\u0e23\u0e31\u0e10\u0e2d\u0e40\u0e21\u0e23\u0e34\u0e01\u0e32 - \u0e2d\u0e48\u0e32\u0e19 :: \u0e22\u0e34\u0e19\u0e14\u0e35\u0e15\u0e49\u0e2d\u0e19\u0e23\u0e31\u0e1a\u0e2a\u0e39\u0e48 \u0e40\u0e14\u0e47\u0e01\u0e15\u0e1b.\u0e14\u0e2d\u0e17\u0e04\u0e2d\u0e21", "raw_content": "CORNER SHOT Function introduction (Israel) - Post Media Reply\nCompany and corner shot Horldings and LLC Co. that opens base in Israel and the United States(United States headquarters Florida state coral Gabls)\nIn general, the thing not sold is declared.\nThe adoption has already been decided to the Israeli Defense Forces\npublic peace maintenance force.\nThe adoption is decided informally as the special force related to\nthe police in the United States\nhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0d355fe46c\nSkyguard Laser Defense in Action\nA demo video shows the Skyguard high-energy laser defense system eliminating various targets, inclusing mortar rounds and artillery shells\nhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8fde52206f\nBofors 155 BONUS - Artillery delivered 155mm sensor-fuzed munition\nThe BONUS round is fired from a regular 155mm howitzer and releases two submunitions who then searches for armored vehicles in a spiral pattern. 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Of the 12 position players on the Opening Day roster, only one was not with the team when the season ended on September 9 (infielder Yonathan Mendoza, who received a promotion to AA Akron on July 6). Seven of the original 13 pitchers also lasted the full season on Lynchburg\u2019s roster. For a minor league team whose primary goal is player development, that level of stability is unusual.\nThe performance of a number of players who have spent time on the Hillcats roster creates depth for the Cleveland organization. It also will likely provide opportunity for some of those players in December at the Rule V draft. Too many players have demonstrated their value to a Major League organization, and the 40-man roster will not have enough slots for all of them.\n\u201cIt is a problem,\u201d said Hillcats manager Tony Mansolino, \u201cbut it is a problem they would rather have. You can\u2019t have too many good players.\u201d\nThis wealth of talent was more evident on the pitching side of the ledger, but a number of the hitters have also taken steps forward. Catchers Sicnarf Loopstok and Martin Cervenka topped their career playing time by significant margins. Loopstok had never had more than 225 at-bats in a season. In 421 at-bats, he punched 17 home runs and 65 RBI and topped almost every personal best in his career, expect stolen bases. He had eleven, the same total as his previous season.\nCervenka anchored the Hillcats lineup. Without fail, you could expect him to be penciled in to the four or five spot on the lineup card each night. He also topped his career best in every offensive category, racking up 24 doubles, 8 home runs, 57 RBI, and finishing with a .278 batting average.\n\u201cGetting consistent at the plate has really helped me out this season, just seeing pitching, playing every day, and getting ready every day,\u201d Cervenka shared.\nThe 25-year-old veteran catcher signed with the Indians in 2009 as a 16-year-old. Having earned his position as the team\u2019s primary backstop, he handled a pitching staff that was often dominant.\n\u201cAll year long we\u2019ve had really good pitching. Four of our starters got called up to AA, which says how good our pitching is,\u201d said Cervenka. \u201cI think our bullpen has been really good, too. They\u2019re able to command their fastballs down in the zone and they can throw their off-speed stuff for a strike when they need to.\u201d\nAfter losing a heartbreaker to Frederick in the first game of the Northern Division Championship, the team geared up to take two games at home, and clinch the Northern Division title.\n\u201cI thought we played pretty good yesterday, a little bit of unluckiness. In a 10-9 ballgame you would think we didn\u2019t pitch well, but I thought we threw the ball better than it showed and if we continue to do what we did yesterday, I think we have a chance, especially playing back home,\u201d said Brock Hartson after the victory.\nHartson was one of the top Hillcats pitchers on the season. He started the year in the bullpen coming off hip surgery and shifted to the rotation with the promotion of Thomas Pannone to AA. Like every other player on the Lynchburg team, Hartson was relaxed and confident about the Hillcats pursuit of a title.\nTriston McKenzie took the mound for the first home playoff game. On that Friday evening, no one was more confident or dominant than McKenzie. Battered several times during the season by a strong hitting Frederick club, McKenzie had no doubts about the outcome of this playoff game.\n\u201cI\u2019ve seen this team, I\u2019ve pitched against them four times now and it\u2019s knowing they\u2019ve gone against me and they\u2019re going to have a game plan and you are going to have to mix stuff up,\u201d said McKenzie.\nHe would toss seven scoreless innings in a 3-0 Hillcats victory. Only five Frederick batters would reach base (three by a hit and two by a walk). McKenzie struck out ten in a game where the Keys only threatened to score once, with a walk followed by a hit in the third inning. Lynchburg closer Argenis Angulo would come on to pitch two perfect frames, striking out three more Keys batters to seal the victory and set up game three where the winner would clinch the Northern Division title.\nThe threat of Hurricane Irma led the Carolina League to cancel the Mills Cup final round and install co-champions, with the Northern and Southern Division winners sharing the accolades. After working so hard all season to win both halves of the Northern Division season, disappointment did not dominate the Hillcats players thinking.\n\u201cA little bit, but knowing that we\u2019re going to get rings, this game means everything to us,\u201d McKenzie shared regarding disappointment in being co-champions. \u201cAfter we won the first half, I think that\u2019s been the goal the whole time, just come out here and win every game that we can. I think that showed in the second half, and the playoffs.\u201d\nMcKenzie\u2019s confidence and optimism were a common feature of the Lynchburg Hillcats team this season. With solid play, excellent pitching and a well-balanced coaching staff, the team turned in an honest effort every day.\n\u201cThe reason why we\u2019ve won is we\u2019ve worked hard at it,\u201d said manager Mansolino.\nThat work ethic and the need to push through the tough parts and work through the whole season was evident in outfielder Andrew Calica. In his first full season of professional baseball, Calica needed to learn how to manage his efforts to get the most from his talent. His attitude exemplified that of the Hillcats players. Even with no championship round, the team was not sulking.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t think about that much,\u201d Calica said ahead of winning the shared championship. \u201cRegardless of what happens, we had a really good season. We\u2019re going to go out there and play just like the last 140 games and see what happens.\u201d\nIn the first home playoff game, Calica batted in the three hole in the lineup, going 2-for-3 with a walk, stealing two bases and scoring one of the three Hillcats runs.\n\u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to do too much at the plate. Just trying to go the other way and get on base,\u201d said -Calica. \u201cWe\u2019ve got good hitters behind me \u2013 Gavin Collins, Mitch Longo, guys like that. Let them do the work.\u201d\nThe late season addition of outfielder Longo sparked the team as they prepared for the playoffs. Promoted from Low-A Lake County on August 31, he played in five regular season games and all three playoff games for the Hillcats. In only one of those contests did he fail to get a base hit, hitting .462 over that eight-game stretch, scoring 12 runs and driving in eight runs \u2013 a stellar performance at any level.\nLongo also had the unique experience of joining a clubhouse for a team that has grown into its own over the course of the season.\n\u201cEverybody\u2019s just really relaxed. We\u2019re real close,\u201d Longo said. \u201cEverybody does their own thing, but at the same time we pick each other up and we all have fun. It\u2019s just a good clubhouse environment.\u201d\nThis winning attitude has permeated the Hillcats and the Cleveland Indians organization. As the Lynchburg ball club was charging to a Co-Championship of the Carolina League, the Major League -team was in the midst of running off a 22-game winning streak of their own, the best in Indians history and the longest stretch since the 1916 New York Giants.\nThe effectiveness of the 2017 edition of the Lynchburg Hillcats is summed up by pitcher Sean Brady, who joined the roster on August 17 from Lake County. A starter on the 2016 Hillcats team, Brady spent most of the season in rehab for shoulder issues.\n\u201cThey\u2019ve got a good clubhouse in there. 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I was born Santa Monica and raised in Southern California. In the early 1960's, my family moved to San Clemente on the Pacific Ocean located at the very bottom of Orange County. The town's population was under 5,000 and it seemed to be a million miles from [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 146.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dobson-nc.com/TermsOfUse.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NYOTQ6YW2PICEIDHR6CCVMTKHI7W5EID", "length": 3844, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "dobson-nc.com", "title": "Terms of Use", "raw_content": "The purpose of the official Town of Dobson website,www.dobson-nc.com, is to provide accurate content and information about the Town of Dobson\u2019s municipal government\u2019s operations and services. 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Unfortunately it is taken too literally by some and the result is a wilderness. Plants will grow out of control given half a chance, so unless there is limitless space, they will have to be suppressed in some way. Even if there is scope for a wilderness it will not be a pleasant place to visit unless you are handy with a machete or have some livestock to help. Some plants are thugs and will suppress their less vigorous neighbours.\nThe idea of having a wilder garden became popular in the nineteenth century when the British countryside was the idyllic, romanticised subject of artists. They created scenes of cottages with roses around the door, which contrasted greatly to the grim urban environments of the time. But by the 1870s the countryside was in steep decline due to the mass movement of people to towns and cities in response to the industrial revolution, so the reality of the rural idyll was fading away. Many of those who had moved to urban living pined for the open spaces and the wealthy could afford to create them artificially. This was also the time when public parks began to appear in cities and 'promenading' became popular - it was recommended that garden paths should be wide enough for two ladies attired in crinolines to walk side-by-side.\nIt was William Robinson, the garden designer, author and editor of The Garden magazine, who popularised the idea of gardening in an informal manner. The gardens of the time tended to have formal layouts using bedding plants raised annually. In his book The Wild Garden he described the use of ornamental plants in a natural setting. Formal beds would be kept close to the house while further out, cultivated and native plants would be mixed to give an unspoiled feel, so he used hardy perennials in wooded areas and semi-wild, rougher parts of the garden.\nThis was not the first time that nature was allowed to infiltrate the garden, in the fifteenth century Francis Bacon wrote about including scenes of wilderness framed by the foreground of the formal planting. Robinson paid homage to this in the fronticepiece of his book The Wild Garden by calling it a \"natural wilderness\", a phrase used by Bacon. His ideas were taken up by later designers, and Gertrude Jekyll who took over from him as editor of The Garden, included naturalistic planting in her gardens.\nThroughout the twentieth century the theme was adopted by many gardeners who used more relaxed combinations of plants to create their gardens.\nThe idea that the countryside was and is now, the natural landscape of the British Isles is entirely false since it has been manipulated by man and introduced animals for centuries, in the pursuit of agriculture, sport and deforestation to supply the 'war machine' - most of the ancient oak woods in Britain were felled to build war ships from the fifteenth century until the introduction of iron in shipbuilding. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries in England and Wales most of the open Common land was taken over and a system of Enclosure introduced. The patchwork patterns of fields were laid out with hedges, ditches and walls to keep the cattle and sheep in, and other 'animals' out.\nIn most upland areas the covering of grass is maintained by the thousands of sheep kept there by farmers; without them the whole area would be covered in trees and bushes. The boulders which were strewn over the land as the ice sheets retreated at the end of the last ice age, were cleared and used to build the boundary walls and dwellings synonymous with these areas.\nMost people like the idea of wildlife coming into their garden, but a neat, sanitised area of paving or decking does not allow the diversity of creatures needed for them to survive. It has been estimated that the number of house Sparrows has declined by about 68% in the last 30 years and this has been attributed to the way gardens are managed. Turning front gardens into car parks by removing all traces of hedging and plants leaves nothing for insects and birds to feed on or to dwell in. Also gardens are treated as \"brownfield\" when it comes to planning so there are fewer restrictions and this \"garden grabbing\" has led to the loss of many under a rash of apartments up and down the country, with every spare inch paved over for parking.\nRobinson was dealing with large areas where the wilder parts did not dominate. In a small urban garden it is still possible to leave a small corner or even the back half. A hedge or other type of barrier can be used to screen it from the more formal, ornamental garden.\nIt is possible to achieve what appears to be very informal, but it will take more work than you might think. There are some plants which need to be removed or greatly curtailed on a regular basis. Ivy and Brambles are always going to arrive courtesy of visiting birds, and wind-borne seeds blow in throughout the year. The Ivy can be useful to grow over unsightly objects, but left to its own devices it soon creeps over everything.\nTree seedlings need to be removed before they reach the point when they cannot be uprooted by hand as they usually produce a strong tap-root which goes straight down to form a firm anchor for the sapling. Remove them before they reach about 20cm in height, but some are tough to extract even when smaller. Ash and Sycamore are notable examples.\nFerns drift in as spores on the wind or in rain-drops. While they can be very attractive when relatively small, some can become very large after a few years, but it is fairly easy to slice sections off the sides to reduce a crown.\nMany of the plants normally treated as weeds in gardens provide food and the habitat for insects, and in turn these insects are the food for some of the birds. Dandelions and thistles provide nectar and pollen, and nettles are the food plant for the caterpillars of some of our favourite butterflies.\nAfter the 'wild garden' has been established for a number of years, with lots of tinkering, a certain equilibrium is reached. With good ground covering plants the weeds are less able to germinate and those of roughly equal vigour can hold their own side-by-side. There will be many losses along the way, but it's the only way to find the most suitable plants.\nAs an alternative to a 'wild garden' with mostly native plants, a similar effect can be created by developing a so-called Forest Garden that can be planted with several storeys of trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants growing together, which bear fruit, leaves and roots that are edible. This uses the principles of Permaculture which forms an ecosystem that is self-sustaining with a little help, and has a structure like a natural woodland. 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These lists are fully or [\u2026] Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 7531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dwankhozi-hope.org/about/school/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WUCS2QUAF2C5FNQBFQG76LPBKO7B7YHC", "length": 3547, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "dwankhozi-hope.org", "title": "The School | Dwankhozi Hope", "raw_content": "Dwankhozi Primary School is located approximately 70 kilometers (km) from the town of Chipata, in the Eastern Province of Zambia on the Chipata-Lundazi road. The name Dwankhozi is derived from the river of the same name which is in the Chipangali area of Chipata. Dwankhozi covers an area of approximately 20 km with several neighboring villages. Many of the girls and boys from these villages are seriously lacking in proper nutrition, mental and physical health, and education or training. While there are a few government schools in the surrounding areas, access to these schools is difficult for the youths of Dwankhozi area and the surrounding villages due to the natural terrain and lack of transportation.\nThe local community took action in March 2003 and originally built this program to provide a better opportunity for their children. It started with 300 children, grades 1-4, one unpaid volunteer teacher, no supplies and no school building. What they did have was passion and dedication to give their children. Since that time, the school has continued to grow and evolve, serving twice as many students from twice as many grades. Dwankhozi Hope, the stateside organization, first got involved by helping complete construction on the first school buildings. Since then, our work has expanded to include projects beyond education. But Dwankhozi Primary School continues to be a centerpoint of our work with the community, connecting children to the education they deserve.\nSince its beginnings, Dwankhozi Primary School has expanded and now offers classes to children up to 9th grade. The program currently serves roughly 600 children, many of whom are orphans whose parents were impacted by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The school is run by a headmaster, a team of trained teachers, and a handful of volunteer teachers, while being supported by an active PTA. Due to economic hardships and extreme poverty in this region of Zambia, it is difficult for the school to provide on its own the necessary basic tools and textbooks required for providing a quality education.\nWhat Has Been Accomplished\nTogether with our donors and the remarkable commitment and dedication of the Dwankhozi community, we have come a long way from where we started. Not only has the original school building been completed, we\u2019ve expanded into new classroom buildings and additional teacher housing. This growth has allowed the student body to grow to 600 kids, and attract government-funded, trained teachers. A bore-hole for clean drinking water for the entire community has been delivered. The school is also supplied with solar power, allowing students to access electronic readers \u2013 60 are available at the school. Recognizing that students began to graduate from Grade 9 and not have the means to continue their education, Dwankhozi Hope also launched a sponsorship program that supports the continued education of students who progress to secondary school and beyond. Check the \u201cProjects\u201d tab at the top of the page to learn how this project has now evolved, at the direction of the Dwankhozi community, into the construction of a local secondary school to make this furthering education more accessible for all.\nWe are excited about Dwankhozi Primary School\u2019s future. The drive and determination in the community has only gotten stronger since this school began. Partnerships with World Reader and Queen Anne Elementary have expanded our capabilities and outreach in both Zambia and Seattle. 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This Convention was signed in Bern on 9 May 1980 and amended by the Vilnius Protocol in 1999. The headquarters of the organisation are in Berne and its constituent bodies are: the general assembly, the administrative and financial committee, the revision committee, the committee of experts for the carriage of dangerous goods and the central office for international carriage by rail. OTIF currently comprises 46 countries. The Uniform Rules created by OTIF are applicable to international rail transport on railway infrastructure of about 250,000 km and to complementary carriage on 17,000 km of shipping lines and inland waterways, as well as prior or subsequent domestic carriage by road. The main tasks of OTIF concern: \u2022\tinternational rail transport law (passenger and freight traffic); \u2022\tcarriage of dangerous goods; \u2022\tcontracts for the use of vehicles ; \u2022\tcontracts for the use of railway infrastructure; \u2022\tvalidation of technical standards and adoption of uniform technical specifications for railway equipment; \u2022\tremoval of obstacles to the crossing of frontiers in international rail transport; \u2022\tparticipation in the preparation of other international conventions concerning rail transport. Other activities carried out by the Organisation to meet the aim set out above concern provisions on interoperability and technical harmonisation in the railway field, the technical approval of railway material intended for use in international traffic and contributing to the facilitation of border crossing in international carriage by rail. Article 38 of the 1999 Protocol provides that accession to the Convention is open to regional economic integration organisations, an explicit reference to the (then) Community. 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This award is intended to recognise and reward emerging empty homes practitioners who have made significant contributions over a short period of time.\nLouis Fordham, Orbis Protect - Business Development Director for the Social Housing Sector, said:\n\u201cWe are very proud to be sponsoring the Rising Stars Award in this sector. Over my 25 years working with Orbis, who specialise in the protection and management of empty properties, I have worked in many different roles, which for several years included National Training Manager. In this position I had the great opportunity to see many young individuals grow, thrive and contribute back to the protection of empty homes. We are excited to hear all the great contributions.\u201d\nWe are looking to recognise newcomers who display the same qualities that we seek when giving the 'Empty Homes Practitioner of the Year' Award. 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Creating an alga that can pump out commercial amounts of sustainably obtained biofuels.\n\u201cWe are focused on understanding how to maximize the efficiency of [lipid production] algae and at the same time maximise the amount of CO2 converted to lipids in the cells, which is the component processed into biodiesel,\u201d Eric Moellering, lead researcher from company Synthetic Genomics Inc, told ScienceAlert.\nScientists have been trying to make the concept of using phototropic algae to produce bio-diesel a reality since the 1970s. In the past, it has been said that a new energy sector based on algal biofuels could guarantee transport fuel and food security far into the future.\nDespite years of research, the best attempts until now have been limited to industrial strains which, although they have a really high lipid conversion rate, do not make sufficient amounts of lipid to make it commercially viable \u2013 limited by the fact it can\u2019t grow very fast.\n\u201cEarly in the [study] we posed the basic question, can we engineer an alga to produce more lipids while sustaining growth? This publication provides the proof of concept answer to that question is yes,\u201d said Moellering.\nIn this new research, the team used CRISPR-Cas9, among other editing techniques, and identified 20 transition factors that regulated lipid production. By knocking out 18 of these, the team were able to double the lipid output compared to the non-modified algae.\nBut here\u2019s the important bit: they were able to do so without stunting the alga\u2019s growth rate. It grew at the same rate as the unmodified type.\nThe genetically modified algae produced up to 5 grams of lipid per metre per day, about twice as much as in the wild.\nAnother important metric is the total carbon to lipid conversion. This tells us how efficient the algae is at converting CO2 to lipids. In wild, unmodified alga the conversation rate is about 20 percent, but in the engineered alga it converted 40 to 55 percent of carbon to lipids.\nIt\u2019s worth pointing out that this study was only performed at the laboratory scale but one of the researchers, Imad Ajjawi, also from Synthetic Genomics, told ScienceAlert that while they consider this a \u2018proof of concept\u2019, \u201cthey represent a significant milestone in establishing the foundation for a path that leads to eventual commercialisation of algal biofuels.\u201d\nShould this research graduate from the lab, bio-fuel production would no longer be reliant on sugars produced by land-grown crops like sugar cane and maize. Studies on the use of crop based biodiesel has shown that it could prove to be incredibly costly and damage our food security.\nThis research is another win for gene editing and the researchers have shown that new genetic editing tools sit at the centre of talking some of the world\u2019s biggest problems.\n\u201cWe have also developed the necessary genomic and genetic tools that will enable future breakthroughs to advance this field,\u201d said Ajjawi.\nThe study has been published in Nature Biotechnology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 503, "original_length": 45648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://energytransportlogistics.com/resources/credit-terms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:XKA37BH4J5J7QEI75DU5SNQI5DCSS7XX", "length": 1191, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "energytransportlogistics.com", "title": "Credit Terms", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Resources / Credit Terms\nCredit terms: The invoice date begins the credit term cycle, and payment is due within thirty (30) days from the invoice date. 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In the event that suit is filed to collect unpaid charges, you agree to be liable for all reasonable costs which include, but are not limited to, attorneys fees of up to 25% of total amount due or $200.00, whichever is greater, interest at the rate of one and one-half percent (1\u00bd%) per month and court costs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://enniscorthyfds.ie/index.php/frequently-asked-questions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:03Z", "digest": "sha1:AALDEKZXOAB3TAUEED5QPR5GC4YDYZST", "length": 5212, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "enniscorthyfds.ie", "title": "Frequently Asked Questions | Enniscorthy Flood Defence Scheme", "raw_content": "Please see below examples of frequently asked questions relating to the Flood Defence Scheme along with their answers.\nQ1. Can dredging on its own solve the flooding in Enniscorthy?\nA1. No. The Slaney is tidal to Enniscorthy Bridge, dredging in tidal waters is not effective in reducing peak flood levels because the dredged area becomes occupied by tidal waters and is not available to take flood flows.\nQ2. Can Seamus Rafter Bridge be retained?\nA2. No. Seamus Rafter Bridge needs to be removed to reduce flood levels and improve conveyance of flood waters from the town.\nQ3. Can a higher bridge be located where Seamus Rafter Bridge is currently located.\nA3. No. If a bridge was located here, the road level of the bridge would have to be raised by over 4.5m. The approach roads (Shannon Quay, Abbey Quay, Wexford Road) would also have to be raised by a similar amount. This would prevent access to existing properties along the quays and would have a significant negative impact on the visual amenity of the town.\nQ4. Will access for fishing be maintained?\nA4. Yes, access will be provided so fishing can take place in the river.\nQ5. Will the new pedestrian bridge and road bridge be in place before Seamus Rafter Bridge is removed?\nA5. Yes.\nQ6. What will the new road bridge look like.\nA6. Photomontages have been prepared of the new road bridge. Please see below:\nQ7. Can Abbey Quay and/or Shannon Quay be raised to reduce apparent wall heights?\nA7. The scope to raise these roads is limited by the presence of existing buildings and thresholds along the streets. Raising the road could give rise to a surface water flood risk and access issues at these properties.\nQ8. Can the Wexford Road be raised to reduce the apparent height of the walls there?\nA8. It is proposed to raise a section of the Wexford Road. Details of the proposed works will be shown at a public display in Enniscorthy before the detailed design is finalised.\nQ9. How will traffic be affected by the scheme?\nA9. Details of the proposed traffic arrangements can be seen on the drawings linked below:\nScheme traffic arrangement\nTown centre traffic arrangement\nQ10. Can two-way traffic be allowed across the Old Enniscorthy Bridge when the scheme is completed?\nA10. It is proposed to allow two way traffic on this bridge following the completion of the scheme.\nQ11. Will the car park and playground to the south of the town be protected from flooding under the scheme.\nA11. No. The aim of the scheme is to manage flood risk in residential and commercial properties.\nQ12. What will the flood defence walls look like?\nA12. Photomontages of the proposed scheme can be seen by following this link.\nQ13. Will the dry arch of the Old Enniscorthy Bridge be blocked?\nA13. No this will remain open and accessible from the north and the south..\nQ14. Will the presence of flood defences increase the levels of extreme floods.\nA14. No. The scheme includes the dredging of the river, the widening of the river, the provision of a compound channel and the removal of Seamus Rafter Bridge. The overall impact of all of these works is to reduce extreme flood levels upstream of the town and to have no change in flood levels downstream of the town.\nQ15. How much will the scheme cost?\nA15. It is estimated that the scheme will cost between \u20ac40 and \u20ac45 million.\nQ16. How long will the works take?\nA16. It is estimated that the construction works will take three years to complete.\nQ17. How will flood water be prevented from flowing back up existing drains?\nA17. Non-return valves will be placed on outlets to the River. This will prevent flood water from flowing back up the pipes. Pumping stations will be installed in the quays so that surface water that falls behind the defences during a high river level event can be pumped into the Slaney.\nQ18. Will a flood warning system be put in place for Enniscorthy?\nA18. No. It is likely that the flood alleviation works would be complete in the time necessary to \u201cbed in\u201d a flood forecasting system to the extent that it would be able to give sufficient warning times with an acceptable degree of reliability.\nQ19. Will access ladders and safety buoys be provided?\nA19. Yes. The safety of the scheme will be assessed during the design.\nQ20. Who will maintain the glass wall panels? Are they safe?\nA20. Wexford County Council will maintain the glass walls. These types of walls are proven to be strong enough to withstand the relevant loadings from flood water and flood debris.\nQ21. Will the existing slipway be replaced following the river widening?\nA21. Yes. It will be re-located in the car park on the Promenade.\nQ22. Under what powers will the works be carried out?\nA22. The scheme is being carried out under the 1945 Arterial Drainage Act as amended in 1995. When the Minister Confirms the scheme the Office of Public Works will be able to have the scheme constructed. Wexford County Council are acting as agents of the Office of Public Works in the implementation of the scheme.\nQ23. Where will the new pedestrian bridge be located and what will it look like?\nA23. The new bridge will be located near where Seamus Rafter Bridge currently exists. 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Adaptation is a design feature, not a remedy for poor planning.\nThis event will cover the latest techniques and software for accurate planning and successful execution of adaptive trials. 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One a keen enlister in the mounted rifles off on his big OE, one a conscientious objector, shipped to Europe for further punishment for non-compliance, who then meet at the front on Flanders Fields. Along the way we visit Gallipoli, encountering NZ Commander William Malone, and travel to the Western Front during the final stages of the war.\nAn Awfully Big Adventure's national tour is timed to coincide with the hundred year anniversary since the outbreak of World War 1, and offers an ideal way to engage with history. 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Directed by Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, The Bodyguard, Mumford), Dreamcatcher was poorly received upon its release, criticised as a convoluted film version of one of King's better novels. Set up north in some very isolated woods, Dreamcatcher is the story of four friends, played with infectious charisma by Damian Lewis (Band of Brothers), Thomas Jane (The Sweetest Thing), Jason Lee (Mumford) and Timothy Oliphant (Gone in Sixty Seconds). As boys, the friends rescued the mentally challenged Duddits (the older Duddits is played by ex-New Kid on the Block Donnie Wahlberg, can you believe it?) from bullies. As they became friends, the boys learned that Duddits had mysterious powers, including mind reading, some of which he bestowed on them. Years later, as the four friends spend their annual weekend at a hunting lodge, they learn Duddits' reason for giving them those powers. Involving aliens and stomach ailments, mysticism and the military (with an ill-used Morgan Freeman as an alien-obsessed leader), Dreamcatcher is a mediocre horror movie, but interesting sci-fi if you can get past the toilet scenes. One strength is the believable relationship between the men, which bears a similarity to King's Stand By Me. In \"DreamWriter,\" King notes that a focus on relationships is an important part of his novels. Along with additional scenes, and a lacklustre alternate ending, the three mini-docs help viewers appreciate the effort that went into filming what is, despite what the critics said, not a bad sci-fi movie. 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We ask that you respect our privacy during this difficult time.\u201d\nFrank Vincent, known for his role on the HBO show \u201cThe Sopranos,\u201d has died at the age of 80.\nThe Blast reported that Vincent's former co-star Vincent Pastore sent an email to friends after learning about Vincent's death. 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VEGF is a biochemical signal protein that promotes angiogenesis throughout the body and in the eye. Through binding to VEGF-A, ranibizumab interrupts the interaction of VEGF with its receptors, and thus prevents the subsequent growth of new blood vessels.\n5 Preparation and Administration\n6.1 Diabetic Macular Edema\n6.2 Diabetic Retinopathy in patients with DME\n6.3 Age-Related Macular Degeneration (neovascular with CNV)\n6.4 Retinal Vein Occlusion\n7 Safety and Precautions\n8 Considerations and Comparisons\n9 Comparison of Anti-VEGF Agents\nVascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an important cytokine in angiogenesis (3). The VEGF family consists of VEGF-A, VEGF-B, VEGF-C, VEGF-D, and VEGF-E, and a placental growth factor (PIGF), all of which are placental-derived growth factors (PDGF). VEGF-A is the current target for treatment of retinal disease (12). It binds to the extracellular ligand-binding domain of two tyrosine kinase receptors: VEGFR-1 and VEGFR-2 (2,3). VEGFR-1 induces hematopoiesis, but exhibits weak tyrosine phosphorylation, an indication that the effects of VEGF-A on vascular endothelium occur mainly through VEGFR-2 (3,12) The interaction between VEGF and VEGFR-2 leads to dimerization and activation of an internal signaling pathway that alters the transcription of genes involved in angiogenesis and vascular permeability. In this cascade, VEGF-A availability acts as a rate-limiting step for angiogenesis and vasculogenesis (2,3). Evidence also shows that PIGF interacts with VEGF-A in these processes and blockage of PIGF is beneficial to some retinal conditions (12).\nThrough alternative splicing, VEGF-A has 9 isoforms: VEGF121, VEGF145, VEGF148, VEGF162, VEGF165, VEGF165b, VEGF183, VEGF189, and VEGF206 (3,4). All of the isoforms function as dimers, but vary in their size and ability to bind heparin or neuropilins (12). The most physiologically relevant isotope is VEGF165 (3). VEGF165 is a secreted heparin-binding homodimeric 45-kDa glycoprotein with a significant fraction bound to the cell surface (4).\nWhen injected at the onset of hyperoxia, VEGF aids in the rescue of retinal vasculature and prevention of apoptotic death in endothelial cells, acting as a survival factor in vivo (23). VEGF also modulates endothelial metalloproteinase production, which contributes to its ability to promote tissue degradation and endothelial cell invasion (24).\nElevated levels of VEGF-A are found in the vitreous fluid of patients with wet age-related macular degeneration,8 diabetic retinopathy, macular edema, and neovascular glaucoma (9). Additionally, upregulated expression of VEGF is associated with tumor angiogenesis and perfusion (16) Hypoxic cells are primarily responsible for this production of VEGF due to elevated interstitial pressure, although pituitary hormones, inflammatory cytokines, and other factors also regulate VEGF production in metabolic processes (9,16) Other conditions associated with high levels of VEGF are vascular permeability and angiogenesis. These can result in bleeding and leakage of fluid under the retina or RPE, causing disruption or loss in vision (3,9)\nA4.6.1 antibody is one of the four antibodies of the IgG1 isotope that most effectively binds to and neutralizes VEGF121, VEGF165, and VEGF189. Ranibizumab is a 48-kD Fab fragment of the A4.6.1 antibody (1,3). Ranibizumab lacks an Fc region, allowing it to avoid Fc recycling and making it significantly smaller than the full-size antibody. The smaller size is thought to facilitate easier penetration into the the retina and faster clearance systemically; however, this may also expedite clearance from the vitreous (3,7).\nRanibizumab binds to the receptor-binding site on VEGF-A, which inhibits the binding of VEGF molecules to their receptors on the surface of endothelial cells.3,6 Ranibizumab blocks all isoforms of VEGF-A (6). Each molecule of ranibizumab has only one binding site for VEGF, which implies that two molecules of ranibizumab are necessary to bind a VEGF dimer (7).\nIntravitreal ranibizumab injection (LUCENTIS; Genentech, Inc) was first approved by the FDA in 2006 for wet age-related macular degeneration. Since then it has been approved for the treatment of macular edema following retinal vein occlusion and diabetic macular edema. Most recently, it was was approved in 2015 for patients with diabetic retinopathy (10).\nThe approved dose of intravitreal ranibizumab injection is either 0.3 or 0.5 mg in 0.05 mL. Dosing recommendations vary according to indications.\nNeovascular (Wet) Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD): The recommended dose for Ranibizumab is 0.5 mg (0.05 mL) administered once a month by an intravitreal injection.\nMacular Edema Following Retinal Vein Occlusion: The recommended dose for Ranibizumab is 0.5 mg (0.05 mL) administered once a month by an intravitreal injection.\nDiabetic Macular Edema (DME): The recommended dose for Ranibizumab is 0.3 mg (0.05 mL) administered once a month by an intravitreal injection.\nDiabetic Retinopathy (DR) with DME: The recommended dose for Ranibizumab is 0.3 mg (0.05 mL) administered once a month by an intravitreal injection.\nActual treatment protocols vary, but may include strict monthly administrations, \u201cas needed\u201d (imaging and symptom guided) treatment, or variable prescribed injection intervals. These changes are dependent on disease, patient, and physician.\nPreparation and Administration\nRanibizumab is supplied as a preservative-free, colorless to pale yellow, sterile solution placed in a single-use glass vial. The vial comes in two forms: 0.5 mg dose vial (delivers 0.05 mL of 10 mg/mL Ranibizumab) and 0.3 mg dose vial (delivers 0.05 mL of 6 mg/mL Ranibizumab).\nThe contents of a vial of ranibizumab should be drawn using a 19-gauge filter needle. A sterile small gauge x \u00bd inch-needle should replace the filter needle for the injection. After giving the patient topical or local anaesthesia, the injection may be administered under controlled aseptic conditions. A new vial should be used for each eye. Patients should be monitored for endophthalmitis (5).\nRISE and RIDE were two parallel, multicenter, double-masked, sham injection-controlled, and methodologically identical phase III studies that evaluated the efficacy and safety of 0.3 mg and 0.5 mg doses of intravitreal ranibizumab injections in patients suffering from diabetic macular edema. Across the two trials, 759 patients were randomized for monthly injections of intravitreal ranibizumab or sham injections. The primary endpoint at 24 months was the proportion of patients whose vision improved (gained 15+ ETDRS letters) from baseline. It was evident that patients receiving intravitreal ranibizumab had significant improvements in vision compared to the baseline. Additionally, these patients required much fewer macular laser procedures as a supplement to the treatment regime. Table 1 summarizes the efficacy results from RISE and RIDE (26).\nAdverse Events: Through 24 months, the most common adverse events included conjunctival hemorrhage, increased intraocular pressure, floaters, and eye pain, as expected from an intravitreal injection. In rare circumstances, patients suffered from serious side effects, such as endophthalmitis (4 patients) and retinal detachments (3 sham patients). Other, less common serious adverse events included cataract, intraocular inflammation, glaucoma, and vitreous hemorrhage. The rates of nonfatal myocardial infarctions, deaths from vascular or unknown causes, and nonfatal cerebrovascular events was 4.9% to 5.5% for sham patients and 2.4% to 8.8% for ranibizumab patients, which was not statistically significantly when compared to sham (25-27).\nDiabetic Retinopathy in patients with DME\nSeveral years after the RISE and RIDE trials, the FDA approved ranibizumab for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy in the presence of DME. In these trials, there was a notable improvement in the Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Scores of patients with diabetic retinopathy after two years when compared to those who did not receive treatment (27).\nAge-Related Macular Degeneration (neovascular with CNV)\nANCHOR and MARINA were two-year, multicenter, double-blind studies that evaluated the efficacy of 0.3 mg and 0.5 mg doses of intravitreal ranibizumab for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration. In total, 1139 patients were randomized for monthly injections of intravitreal ranibizumab or sham injections. The primary endpoint at 12 months was the proportion of patients who maintained vision (defined as losing fewer than 15 ETDRS letters) from baseline.\nOver the course of two years, MARINA monitored 716 patients who received 24 monthly intravitreal injections, noting significant improvements in visual acuity and successful prevention of vision loss with few adverse events (28).\nANCHOR compared ranibizumab to verteporfin therapy, using mean visual acuity and the area occupied by choroidal neovascularization as points of comparison. The study found that ranibizumab therapy decreased the area of CNV, while verteporfin therapy led to a mean increase, establishing the superiority of ranibizumab over verteporfin for the treatment of classic neovascular AMD (29). Table 2 summarizes the efficacy results from ANCHOR and MARINA.\nAdverse Events: In the ranibizumab-treated arms, the most common side effects were conjunctival hemorrhage, eye pain, increased intraocular pressure, and vitreous floaters, as might be expected. In less than one percent of patients, serious ocular events, such as endophthalmitis and intraocular inflammation, were observed. In both the MARINA and ANCHOR studies, cerebrovascular events and myocardial infarctions occurred in all three groups, with the combined rate of such events being slightly higher in the 0.5 mg ranibizumab group (33).\nBRAVO and CRUISE were two multicenter, randomized, sham-controlled, double-masked clinical trials that evaluated the efficacy and safety of 0.3 mg and 0.5 mg doses of intravitreal ranibizumab in patients with macular edema following retinal vein occlusion. Across the two trials, 789 patients were randomized for monthly injections of intravitreal ranibizumab or sham injections. The primary endpoint at 6 months was the mean change in visual acuity letter score from baseline. Other parameters of visual function and central foveal thickness were also measured. In both trials, patients treated with ranibizumab required less rescue grid laser in comparison with patients in the sham group. BRAVO focused on macular edema following branch retinal vein occlusion, while CRUISE centered on central retinal vein occlusion. However, both studies noted a rapid, effective treatment for macular edema with low rates of adverse events (30,31) Table 3 summarizes the efficacy results from BRAVO and CRUISE.\nAdverse Events: The most common ocular adverse events in both studies were conjunctival hemorrhage (48%) and eye pain (17%). Serious non-ocular adverse events in BRAVO included one arterial thromboembolic event in the sham group, and two in the ranibizumab 0.5 dose group. Moreover, there was one myocardial infarction and one cerebrovascular accident that resulted in death. In CRUISE, such events were uncommon, limited to one case of either myocardial infarction or acute coronary syndrome in each group (32).\nSeveral major warnings have been noted for the use of ranibizumab and other intraocular drugs. Endophthalmitis and retinal detachments can occur on rare occasions after any intravitreal injection, including the intravitreal ranibizumab injection. On average, about 0.02% of patients using ranibizumab developed infectious endophthalmitis (11). Patients must self-monitor after the injection for signs of infection, such as diffuse redness, decreasing vision, or worsening pain 24 hours after the injection. The ranibizumab clinical trials report a low risk for arterial thromboembolic events after the use of VEGF inhibitors, including intravitreal ranibizumab injection.\nThe most commonly reported adverse reactions (>10%) included conjunctival hemorrhage, vitreous floaters, cataract, vitreous detachment, increased intraocular pressure, and eye pain (5). These occasionally occur with any intravitreal injection.\nConsiderations and Comparisons\nIn ophthalmology, intravitreal ranibizumab, bevacizumab, and aflibercept are the most commonly used anti-VEGF treatments for retinal disease.\nAs mentioned above, ranibizumab is a 48-kD antigen-binding antibody fragment that binds to VEGF.3,6 In a similar fashion, bevacizumab binds to the receptor-binding sites of VEGF-A molecules. However, bevacizumab is a much larger molecule since it is the entire recombinant, humanized antibody. Bevacizumab binds to several VEGF molecules at one time, where ranibizumab can only bind to a single ligand molecule (12).\nAflibercept is a soluble decoy receptor that fuses Ig domains of VEGFR-1 and VEGFR-2 with the Fc region of IgG1. It functions by binding to VEGF with a higher affinity than its natural receptors. Along with all isoforms of VEGF-A, Aflibercept uniquely binds to VEGF-B and PIGF (12).\nComparison of Anti-VEGF Agents\nBoth ranibizumab and aflibercept have been FDA-approved for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy in DME, diabetic macular edema, and wet-AMD, and macular edema in branch and central vein occlusions.10,20 While bevacizumab is not FDA-approved for ophthalmological uses, it is used off-label to treat diabetic retinopathy in DME, diabetic macular edema, and wet-AMD, macular edema in branch and central vein occlusions, and various other vascular-related eye problems. Of these three, bevacizumab is currently the most commonly used treatment in the USA.\nThe use of ranibizumab is largely confined to retinal disease, but aflibercept and bevacizumab have more versatile applications in medicine. Ziv-aflibercept is a form of aflibercept that has been modified for intravenous infusion. In conjunction with 5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and irinotecan (FOLFIRI), it is used for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) that had become resistant to standard treatment regimes (19).\nBevacizumab has been FDA-approved for colon cancer, but is used off label in ophthalmology. It has been noted to increase the response rates with chemotherapy in a multitude of tumors types studied in phase III trials (16). Since its initial approval for the treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer in 2004, Bevacizumab alongside chemotherapy has been influential in treating several types of cancers, including lung cancer, HER2-negative breast cancer, brain cancer, kidney cancer, metastatic cervical cancer, and ovarian cancer (15,21).\nIn their clinical doses, ranibizumab and bevacizumab have an almost identical effect on VEGF. Both agents significantly bind to VEGF up to 16 hours after application in vitro.13 Although ranibizumab and bevacizumab are both highly efficient in neutralizing VEGF, ranibizumab exhibits a 17-fold higher binding capacity and 6-fold higher binding affinity when highly diluted (6,13).\nHowever, both of these drugs have lower binding capacities when compared to aflibercept (VEGF Trap) in vivo. The dissociation constant of aflibercept measured at 0.66, and ranibizumab and bevacizumab followed at 20.6 and 35.1, respectively. This indicates that the binding affinity for aflibercept is approximately 100-fold higher than those of ranibizumab and bevacizumab (12).\nOther studies indicate that aflibercept has more long-term effects in organ cultures than the same concentrations of ranibizumab and bevacizumab. Aflibercept successfully inhibited VEGF for an entire 7 day period, but ranibizumab only displayed significant inhibition for 72 hours. Furthermore, bevacizumab displayed inhibition for just 48 hours. In terms of prolonged VEGF inhibition, the study ranked aflibercept as the most effective, followed by ranibizumab, and bevacizumab as the least effective. Aflibercept and ranibizumab were more close competitors, since aflibercept was only superior to ranibizumab at one of the tested concentrations (17).\nIn 2012, the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network conducted a year long randomized clinical trial of 660 patients to compare the effects of intravitreal aflibercept, bevacizumab, and ranibizumab on diabetic macular edema. In patients with 20/40 vision or better, the mean improvement in visual acuity was similar between agents (no statistically significant difference). In patients with 20/50 vision or worse, the mean improvement was highest in aflibercept (statistically significant), which was slightly more efficacious than ranibizumab, and bevacizumab (22). On average, patients receiving aflibercept required fewer injections (one less per year) than patients receiving ranibizumab or bevacizumab, although this was not statistically significant. Additionally, laser photocoagulation was performed fewer times in eyes that were treated with aflibercept, suggesting that aflibercept was more effective for the resolution of central-subfield-involved diabetic macular edema.The rate of adverse effects was similar among all three medicines; however, the study confirmed that all three intravitreal injections were safe and effective.\nIn a cumulative study of AMD, data from 11 different trials of 8,341 patients using five active treatments were analyzed and assessed. It was determined that all anti-VEGF treatments induced significant gains in vision when compared to placebo. The study also revealed that the two treatments with the highest percentage of letters gained were ranibizumab 0.5 mg at 3.56% and aflibercept 2 mg at 3.44%. The lowest percentage gain was attributed to bevacizumab 1.25 mg at 2.14% (14).\nBoth ranibizumab and aflibercept are relatively expensive injections, at approximately $1,850 and $1,950 per dose, respectively (15,18) However, trial results show that patients receiving aflibercept tend to require fewer injections than those receiving ranibizumab, and thus aflibercept has a lower long-term cost per patient than ranibizumab (18) Physicians can obtain compounded bevacizumab for intraocular injections at a cost between $17 and $50 (15).\nBlick, S. K., Keating, G. M., & Wagstaff, A. J. (2007). Ranibizumab. Drugs, 67(8), 1199-1206. doi:10.2165/00003495-200767080-00007\nKrispel, C., Rodrigues, M., Xin, X., & Sodhi, A. (2013, December 15). Ranibizumab in diabetic macular edema. Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3874491/\nS. L. (2008). Therapeutic Anti-VEGF Antibodies. In H. B. Lowman (Ed.), Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology (Vol. 181, pp. 131-150). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.\nFerrara, N. (2004). Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor: Basic Science and Clinical Progress. Endocrine Reviews, 25(4), 581-611. doi:10.1210/er.2003-0027\nLUCENTIS\u00ae ranibizumab injection full U.S. prescribing information. (2015, February). Retrieved September 11, 2016.\nKlettner, A., & Roider, J. (2008). Comparison of Bevacizumab, Ranibizumab, and Pegaptanib In Vitro: Efficiency and Possible Additional Pathways. Investigative Opthalmology & Visual Science Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci., 49(10), 4523. doi:10.1167/iovs.08-2055\nPapadopoulos, N., Martin, J., Ruan, Q., Rafique, A., Rosconi, M. P., Shi, E., . . . Wiegand, S. J. (2012, February 3). Binding and neutralization of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and related ligands by VEGF Trap, ranibizumab and bevacizumab. Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3338918/\nChong, V. (2016). Ranibizumab for the treatment of wet AMD: A summary of real-world studies. Eye, 270-286. doi:10.1038/eye.2016.202\nLin, R. C., & Rosenfeld, P. J. (2007). Antiangiogenic Therapy in Neovascular Age-related Macular Degeneration. International Ophthalmology Clinics, 47(1), 117-137. doi:10.1097/iio.0b013e31802bd873\nLucentis (ranibizumab) FDA Approval History - Drugs.com. (n.d.). Retrieved September 11, 2016, from https://www.drugs.com/history/lucentis.html\nFintak, D. R., Shah, G. K., Blinder, K. J., Regillo, C. D., Pollack, J., Heier, J. S., . . . Sharma, S. (2008). Incidence Of Endophthalmitis Related To Intravitreal Injection Of Bevacizumab And Ranibizumab. Retina, 28(10), 1395-1399. doi:10.1097/iae.0b013e3181884fd2\nPapadopoulos, N., Martin, J., Ruan, Q., Rafique, A., Rosconi, M. P., Shi, E., . . . Wiegand, S. J. (2012). Binding and neutralization of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and related ligands by VEGF Trap, ranibizumab and bevacizumab. Angiogenesis, 15(2), 171-185. doi:10.1007/s10456-011-9249-6\nSchmid, M. K., Bachmann, L. M., F\u00e4s, L., Kessels, A. G., Job, O. M., & Thiel, M. A. (2014). Efficacy and adverse events of aflibercept, ranibizumab and bevacizumab in age-related macular degeneration: A trade-off analysis. British Journal of Ophthalmology Br J Ophthalmol, 99(2), 141-146. doi:10.1136/bjophthalmol-2014-305149\nSteinbrook, R. (2006). The Price of Sight \u2014 Ranibizumab, Bevacizumab, and the Treatment of Macular Degeneration. New England Journal of Medicine N Engl J Med, 355(14), 1409-1412. doi:10.1056/nejmp068185\nEllis, L. M. (2006). Mechanisms of Action of Bevacizumab as a Component of Therapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer [Abstract]. Seminars in Oncology, 33. doi:10.1053/j.seminoncol.2006.08.002\nKlettner, A., Recber, M., & Roider, J. (2014). Comparison of the efficacy of aflibercept, ranibizumab, and bevacizumab in an RPE/choroid organ culture. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, 252(10), 1593-1598. doi:10.1007/s00417-014-2719-y\nAflibercept shows promise as a game-changer for patients with age-related macular degeneration. (n.d.). Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/clinical-updates/ophthalmology/aflibercept-shows-promise-game-changer-patients-age-related-macular degeneration\nZiv-Aflibercept. (2016, May 04). Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/InformationOnDrugs/ApprovedDrugs/ucm314438.htm\nEylea (aflibercept) FDA Approval History - Drugs.com. (n.d.). Retrieved September 11, 2016, from https://www.drugs.com/history/eylea.html\nAvastin (bevacizumab) FDA Approval History - Drugs.com. (n.d.). Retrieved September 11, 2016, from https://www.drugs.com/history/avastin.html\nAflibercept, Bevacizumab, or Ranibizumab for Diabetic Macular Edema. (2015). New England Journal of Medicine N Engl J Med, 372(13), 1193-1203. doi:10.1056/nejmoa1414264\nAlon, T., Hemo, I., Itin, A., Pe'er, J., Stone, J., & Keshet, E. (1995). Vascular endothelial growth factor acts as a survival factor for newly formed retinal vessels and has implications for retinopathy of prematurity. Nature Medicine Nat Med, 1(10), 1024-1028. doi:10.1038/nm1095-1024\nLamoreaux, W. J., Fitzgerald, M. E., Reiner, A., Hasty, K. A., & Charles, S. T. (1998). Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Increases Release of Gelatinase A and Decreases Release of Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinases by Microvascular Endothelial Cellsin Vitro. Microvascular Research, 55(1), 29-42. doi:10.1006/mvre.1997.2056\nBethke, W. (Ed.). (2012, August 09). DME: What Trials Tell Us About Treatment. Retrieved September 11, 2016, from https://www.reviewofophthalmology.com/article/dme-what-trials-tell-us-about-treatment\nNguyen, Q. D., Brown, D. M., Marcus, D. M., Boyer, D. S., & Patel, S. (2012, February 11). Ranibizumab for Diabetic Macular Edema. Retrieved from http://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(11)01242-5/pdf\nFDA Approves Lucentis (ranibizumab) to Treat Diabetic Retinopathy. (2015, February 6). Retrieved September 11, 2016, from https://www.drugs.com/newdrugs/fda-approves-lucentis-ranibizumab-diabetic-retinopathy-4162.html\nRosenfeld, P., Brown, D., & Heier, J. (2006, October 5). Ranibizumab for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration. Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa054481#t=article\nBrown, D., Kaiser, P., & Michels, M. (2006, October 5). Ranibizumab versus Verteporfin for Neovascular Age-Related ... Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa062655\nCampochiaro, P., Heier, J., & Feiner, L. (2010, April 15). Ranibizumab for Macular Edema following Branch Retinal ... Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(10)00185-5/pdf\nBrown, D., Campochiaro, P., & Singh, R. (2010, April 9). Ranibizumab for Macular Edema following Branch Retinal ... Retrieved September 11, 2016, from http://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(10)00185-5/pdf\nFDA Approves Lucentis (Ranibizumab Injection) for the Treatment of Macular Edema Following Retinal Vein Occlusion. (2010, June 23). Retrieved September 11, 2016, from https://www.drugs.com/newdrugs/fda-approves-lucentis-ranibizumab-macular-edema-following-retinal-vein-occlusion-2197.html\nGenentech Submits Biologics License Application for FDA Review of Lucentis in Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration. (2005, December 30). Retrieved September 11, 2016, from https://www.drugs.com/nda/lucentis_051230.html\nRetrieved from \"http://eyewiki.org/w/index.php?title=Ranibizumab&oldid=30817\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 27006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ezapartmentrentals.com/or/dallas_or.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:05Z", "digest": "sha1:JZSJ7YYFJQR4E35NC42CC3TCBBCSGRGT", "length": 685, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ezapartmentrentals.com", "title": "Dallas, Oregon (OR) Apartments for Rent | Rentals - 1,000's of Apartment and Condo Listings", "raw_content": "Dallas, OR Homes for Sale\nThanks for visiting the apartments for rent page for Dallas.\nWhether you are just browsing for listings in Dallas, Oregon or looking for the right real estate agent to work with, you've come to the right place. 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You gain access to properties anywhere in the U.S.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 169.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://facultytech.it.fordham.edu/index.php/online-learning-resource/managing-online-discussion-boards/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:55Z", "digest": "sha1:7PDQFHEFBAT47CLO65UGDCEL5ZJY6WT5", "length": 645, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "facultytech.it.fordham.edu", "title": "Managing Online Discussion Boards \u2013 Fordham EdTech Resources", "raw_content": "Module: Managing Online Discussion Boards\nOnline Communication using Discussion Boards by Ros O\u2019Leary, The Economics Network, University of Bristol (PDF). While this is part of a handbook for British Economics Lecturers, there are many ideas and tips that can be adapted\nTo Facilitate or to Teach by Leigh Blackall This is not only an excellent blog post on the subject, there are also helpful tips to be found in the comment section\nDiscussion Board Rubrics via iRubric. Using rubrics can not only make it easier for students to know how you expect them to use the discussion board, but it will also make it easier for you to grade their posts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 3623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://farfetchedfables.com/far-fetched-fables-no-150-matthew-hughes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:02Z", "digest": "sha1:EMN7ALZG45U6B23E6M6JVRNLLLD3235J", "length": 2313, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "farfetchedfables.com", "title": "Far Fetched Fables No. 150 Matthew Hughes | Far Fetched Fables", "raw_content": "This Week: \u201cThe Inn of the Seven Blessings\u201d by Matthew Hughes\n(Originally published in Rogues.)\nThe thief Raffalon was sleeping away the noon-day heat behind some bracken a short distance from the forest road when the noise of the struggle awakened him. He rolled over onto his stomach, quietly drawing his knife in case of need. Then he lay still and tried to see through the inter-layered branches.\nFigures scuffled, voices spoke indistinctly, the syllables both sibilant and guttural. A muffled cry, as of a man with a hand over his mouth, was followed by the sharp crack of hard wood meeting a human cranium.\nRaffalon had no intention of offering assistance. The voices he had heard were those of the Vandaayo, whose border was not far away. Vandaayo warriors left their land only for ritual purposes, and then always in groups of six, and never without their hooks and nets and cudgels. Their seasonal festivals centered on the consumption of manflesh, and if Raffalon had attempted to intervene in the harvesting now taking place on the other side of the thicket, the only result would have been to add a bonus to the part-men\u2019s larder.\nMatthew Hughes writes fantasy and space opera, often in a Jack Vance mode. Booklist has called him Vance\u2019s \u201cheir apparent.\u201d\nHis latest works are: A Wizard\u2019s Henchman (novel) and Epiphanies (novella), both from PS Publishing.\nHis short fiction has appeared in Asimov\u2019s, F&SF, Postscripts, Lightspeed, and Interzone, and bespoke anthologies including Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and Old Venus, all edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.\nHe has won the Canadian equivalent of the Edgar, and been shortlisted for the Aurora, Nebula, Philip K. Dick, Endeavour (twice), A.E. Van Vogt, and Derringer Awards.\nHe is now self-publishing his backlist as ebooks and POD paperbacks.\nHe spent more than thirty years as one of Canada\u2019s leading speechwriters for political leaders and corporate executives. Since 2007, he has been traveling the world as an itinerant housesitter, has lived in twelve countries, and has no fixed address. You can find him online at matthewhughes.org, and sign up for his monthly newsletter and receive a free ebook of his space opera novel Template here.\nhttp://rss.acast.com/farfetchedfables/farfetchedfablesno150mattewhughes/media.mp3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fashionisers.com/2018/10/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SX5OSNQU62NUG643P2WSIKOLV32E3CPG", "length": 1215, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "fashionisers.com", "title": "October 9, 2018 | Fashionisers\u00a9", "raw_content": "It\u2019s that time of the year when you can transform into anyone or anything that you secretly desire to be. For Halloween 2018, we bring you these terrifyingly creative makeup ideas that you just have to try. Flip through these images and get inspired!\nHow To Shape Your Brows To Look More Youthful\nEyebrows can make such a difference in your appearance.\nAs we are approaching one of the most exciting music events in a year, the American Music Awards, we want to share with you 5 red carpet looks that we can\u2019t get out of our heads. Ranging from Rihanna\u2019s 2010 iconic catsuit to Chrissy Teigen\u2019s wardrobe malfunction, this list includes some of the boldest fashion choices from your favorite stars. If you love ensembles that really stand out, you\u2019ve come to the right place. These celebrities decided to get out of their comfort zone and deliver unique fashion moments that are now a part of history.\nCelebrities, Gallery\nOne of the most spectacular nights of the year, the American Music Awards is just hours away. Tonight your favorite A-listers will hit the stage to collect new awards for their hard work. 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The main aim of this paper is to describe an approach whereby face recognition can be used in suggestion of a new contacts. The new contact suggestion is a common technique used across all main social networks. Our approach uses a freely available face comparison called \"Betaface\" together with our automated processig of the user\u00b4s Facebook profile. The research\u00b4s main point of interest is the comparison of friend\u00b4s facial images in a social network itself, how to process such a great amount of photos and what additional sources of data should be used. In this approach we used our automated processing algorithm Betaface in the social network Facebook and for the additional data, the Flickr social network was used. 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You are always making excuses for not doing your share of the work. Fukuoka is very typical of the kind of town I like.\nIt's the ultimate test. There was a woman in the passenger seat of Lowell's car. \"Will he come?\" \"No, I don't think so.\" Someone is coming round. What was your first cellphone? Turn off the engine. I'm used to people not agreeing with me.\nAre you really thinking about what's best for Juri? Is he asleep? What is going on? He died a soldier's death in the battle in the cause of democracy.\nI think I'll take the test this time.\nHe died four to six weeks ago. I couldn't do what you do. She is in a hurry to see her mother. Jayant snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Belgrade is the capital of Serbia. Do you want to come in?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://filipinoaustralianjournal.com.au/halloween-in-australia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:DWOAWFCPWPWGNWZ3MCNMBJGIB5643WRL", "length": 2085, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "filipinoaustralianjournal.com.au", "title": "How is Halloween in Australia", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Australia Current Events / Halloween in Australia\nThis the most common phrase we hear when it is Halloween, but what really is Halloween? Well based on Wikipedia: Halloween is also known as \u201cAll Hallow\u2019s Evening\u201d. Hallows are literally means \u201csaints\u201d, and it is also the time where people make some dedication and remembering the dead.\nDifferent countries varies in celebrating the festive .Halloween in Australia is celebrated during the 31st of October every year. As part of Australian culture and tradition, many people held costume parties together as meeting up with friends. Halloween themed parties are also used by some companies and organizations for employees, staffs, and clients to interact and socialize with each other.\nChildren loves this time of the year where they usually go trick or treating. Trick or treating is when children wears their costumes and they knock on neighbours and every one\u2019s house and ask \u201ctrick or treat\u201d. Then the children will receive either a trick or a treat. Usual common treats includes presents and lots of lollies and chocolates.\nDepartment stores and some houses also decorates Halloween themes like cob webs, spiders, skeletons, and many more.\nFollowing the Halloween is the All Saints Day, which falls on the 1st of November yearly. It is not a public holiday in Australia. In this time Australian\u2019s it is remembered to honor all the saints but not most of the people celebrates it unlike in the Philippines. Though special masses are being held specially to Christians and Catholics but All Saint\u2019s Day in modern times is less recognized in Australia.\nAll Soul\u2019s Day in Australia. What do people do?\nIt is also known as the feast of all the souls. Wherein , this is the time for Christians and Catholic community in remembering dead family members, friend and loved ones. Some of the churches in Australia offers special mass and services like music and prayers, hymns the whole day.\nHalloween in The Philippines Celebrating Halloween in the Philippines Aged Care in Australia Great Reasons Why Live in Australia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://filmreviewdaily.com/Reviews/Going%20Clear.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:10Z", "digest": "sha1:YMRGVP5SVOSONY7HJRHXB5DISYXFH6JF", "length": 2294, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "filmreviewdaily.com", "title": "Film Review | Film Review Daily edited by James Cameron-Wilson. The website of the 'comprehensive and serious record of the cinema' since 1944", "raw_content": "His Scientology movie finds Alex Gibney on great form, aided by Paul Haggis.\nTom Cruise backs the cause\nThe prolific documentarian Alex Gibney is one of our most reliable exponents of the genre and this film is up to his usual standard and, indeed, one of his best. The one weak point is the vague and unmemorable title which appears on the censor's certificate simply as Going Clear. Rather more helpful is the version shown in the credits, namely Going Clear Scientology and the Prison of Belief. Even then there is no reference to Hollywood as incorporated in the title of the book which is acknowledged as a major source for this picture. That additional emphasis would not be inappropriate since the writer/director Paul Haggis is a key interviewee here and, while absent in person (which hardly surprises), the pre-existing footage used features two of Scientology's most famous supporters, Tom Cruise and John Travolta.\nNot for the first time, Gibney opts for a relatively long running time (two hours), but there's so much ground to cover in portraying Scientology that the film holds up admirably. As one might guess, Going Clear is a confrontational look at the organisation which claims the status of a church and thus escapes paying tax in America. Many of those interviewed are former adherents (Haggis, one of them, speaks out with admirable candour) so they could have an axe to grind and, indeed, several written statements are included in which the Church of Scientology denies the accuracy of what we are being told.\nNevertheless, whether it be in the film's coverage of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, in the changing nature of what Scientology claims to stand for or in the personal experiences recounted by the interviewees, most viewers will come to regard Gibney's welcome film as an eye-opening revelation.\nFeaturing Paul Haggis, Hana Eltringham Whitfield, Mike Rinder, Marty Rathbun, Spanky Taylor, Lawrence Wright.\nDir Alex Gibney, Pro Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright and Kristen Vaurio, Screenplay Alex Gibney, based on the book Going Clear Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright, Ph Sam Painter, Ed Andy Grieve, Music Will Bates.\nHBO Documentary Films/Sky Atlantic/Jigaw-Sky Atlantic.\n120 mins. USA/UK. 201. Rel: 26 June 2015. Cert. 15.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 2522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://filteredsounds.co.uk/genres/trap/big-room-trap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:37Z", "digest": "sha1:F62V6YRHHR5XLPBNQFK7RCLQN5GJEUQT", "length": 112, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "filteredsounds.co.uk", "title": "Big Room Trap", "raw_content": "http://filteredsounds.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Big-Room-Trap.mp3\nFiltered Sounds presents Big Room Trap.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 127.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://findershub.net/russia-offer-employment-opportunities-apply-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IWI7WSZVSF2HUBUHVTFPD3TXM5FUHBPV", "length": 959, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "findershub.net", "title": "Russia Offer Employment Opportunities \u2013 Apply Now | Findershub", "raw_content": "Home AIRLINE Russia Offer Employment Opportunities \u2013 Apply Now\nAbout Jobs in Russia\nAre you looking for jobs in Russia? This guide will give you tips on how to find jobs in Moscow and St. Petersburg, what the employment field is like, how to get Russian work permits and where to find jobs in Russia for English speakers.\nRussia, the world\u2019s largest nation, borders European and Asian countries as well as the Pacific and Arctic oceans. Its landscape ranges from tundra and forests to subtropical beaches. It\u2019s famous for Moscow\u2019s Bolshoi and St. Petersburg\u2019s Mariinsky ballet companies.\nRussia has diverse employment opportunities and expats are often the best-paid professionals. According to The HSBC Expat Economics Survey 2014, expats who work in Russia are ranked 13th in the list of highest gross income earners.\nWorking in Moscow and St. Petersburg has been a viable choice for those who look to gain experience in the construction and energy sectors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://firstcultureng.com/index/entertainment-industry-nigeria-raised-without-outside-help-jeffrey-daniel-vodcasts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VUKW3LOKZGKY7URKNWMITTAWYTO6B35Y", "length": 884, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "firstcultureng.com", "title": "The Entertainment Industry In Nigeria Raised Itself Without Outside Help | Jeffrey Daniel | Vodcasts | | First Culture", "raw_content": "EntertainmentVodcasts\nIn this 2016 interview with Channels Television, watch First Culture\u2019s Founder and Shalamar crooner, Jeffrey Daniel speak about his love for Nigeria and how her people have made magic from nothing.\nDaniel said about his experiences on remaining in the country even after his stint on Nigerian Idol was over; I have a passion for the people and the country. If you love the people, and the country, then you can weather some of the storms we go through here. I am going through the same things Nigerians go through, I am not exempt from that.\nHe also spoke about how the singular act of the entertainment industry raising and sustaining itself is a testament of the strength of Nigerians and in somewhat of an admonishment to artisans and entertainers said, no matter what it is you want to do, try to be the best, try to master it, try to perfect it, work at it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 5568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://firstcultureng.com/index/scottsboro-remembering-nine-black-boys-wrongly-convicted-of-raping-white-women/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:25Z", "digest": "sha1:SGMC6NWEC257HVCAO54E2ZIYRXRWETHA", "length": 1589, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "firstcultureng.com", "title": "Scottsboro: Remembering Nine Black Boys Wrongly Convicted Of Raping White Women | | First Culture", "raw_content": "On a freight train travelling through northern Alabama on 25 March 1931, nine black teenagers after a fight with some white youths on board were subsequently accused of raping two white women on board the train.\nThe group included young boys ranging from age twelve to nineteen who had hopped on the \u2013 though illegal means of transportation \u2013 because news had spread that jobs were available in Memphis.\nA fight had ensued between a black and white boy and when the train reached its stop, the boys had to their surprise been apprehended not just for fighting but for raping two white women.\nEight of the nine teenagers would within two weeks be put on trial, convicted and sentenced to death for rape with the last getting life imprisonment.\nOne of the white women, Victoria Price insisted that she was gang raped by six of the boys, the law had concluded that all the boys were involved and that the other white girl had \u201cmost likely\u201d been raped as well without any concrete evidence.\nThe boys attorney uncovered the truth that Price was a prostitute who was traveling on the train for \u201cimmoral purposes\u201d which was at the time illegal. Yet the jury chose to overlook that and the many other inconsistencies that had risen during the course of the trial.\nBy July 24th 1937, of the boys; Clarence Norris, Andy Wright, Charlie Weems, Willie Roberson, Olen Montgomery, Eugene Williams, Roy Wright, Ozzie Powel, Haywood Patterson. Four were exonerated, two were sentenced to 99 and 75 years in prison respectively, one was charged with assaulting a deputy, and another was sentenced to death.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 6399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fishducky.blogspot.com/2016_08_01_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZINYZ2FIYJLF2MAH57DPTMHVHUZPCWSP", "length": 7933, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "fishducky.blogspot.com", "title": "fishducky, finally!: 08/01/16", "raw_content": "FISHDUCKY FOR PRESIDENT\n(Some of this is reworked from an 11/14 post. Most of it isn't.)\nThe Republican convention was in Ohio a couple of weeks ago. The Democratic convention was in Pennsylvania last week. The fishducky convention starts tonight at my home in California. I've rented extra chairs. Everybody gets a free pair of leggings:\nI realize it might be a little late to start campaigning, but here I am; throwing my feathers into the ring!! I'm sure I could handle the job. I'm a wise old bird--I'm pretty sure I've got some owl in my veins. (My husband says that it's vulture, but I don't think so.) If you don't feel comfortable putting a hairy Trump--or a scary frump--in the White House, would you consider giving me your vote?\nOur family does have some experience in politics:\nAfter his discharge Uncle Lee wanted to let his clients know that he was out of the Army. He didn\u2019t want to send out announcements. He reasoned that some of them might not be seen (if the client was in prison) or left unnoticed & unopened. He had a typically brilliant Uncle Lee idea. He ran for mayor of Los Angeles! He wasn\u2019t elected, but he didn\u2019t want to be. He figured that, for much less than the cost of printing & mailing announcements, people would read the newspapers or listen to the radio & say to themselves, \u201cOh, good! Lee\u2019s back!\u201d\nI, myself, have been voting for years. Now that I'm running, I could actually vote for someone instead of just against their opponent. The last time I was really able to do that was when I voted for John F. Kennedy in the 50's. (I voted for Obama but I didn't feel quite as strongly about him as I did Kennedy.)\nMy platform is simple: Be nice to each other!!\nThe following was written by State Representative Mitchell Kaye from Cobb County, GA\nWe, the SENSIBLE people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt-ridden, basically lazy people. We hold these truths to be self-evident:\nARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone - not just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different opinion, etc., but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will be.\nARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful. Do not expect the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently wealthy.\nARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That would be nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in health care.\nARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people. If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim or kill someone, don't be surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.\nARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens, don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a place where you still won't have the right to a big-screen color TV or a life of leisure.\nARTICLE VIII: You don't have the right to demand that our children risk their lives in foreign wars to soothe your aching conscience. We hate oppressive governments and won't lift a finger to stop you from going to fight if you'd like. However, we do not enjoy parenting the entire world and do not want to spend so much of our time battling each and every little tyrant with a military uniform and a funny hat.\nARTICLE X: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American means that you have the right to pursue happiness, which, by the way, is a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an overabundance of idiotic laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.\nActually, I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected. But I just can't resist, so:\nA busload of politicians were driving down a country road when all of a sudden, the bus ran off the road and crashed into a tree in an old farmer's field. The farmer, after seeing what had happened, went over to investigate. He then proceeded to dig a hole to bury the politicians. When the local sheriff came out & saw the crashed bus, he asked the farmer where all the politicians had gone. He told him he had buried them. The sheriff asked the farmer, \"Were they ALL dead?\" He said, \"Well, some of them said they weren't, but they were politicians & I didn\u2019t believe them!\"\nA quote from Bette Midler:\n\"I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election. All the commercials are for Viagra & Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection--either way it's about getting screwed!\"\nActual political quotes:\n''Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.''\u2014Mark Twain\n\"I resent your insinuendoes.\"\n\"If we don\u2019t make some changes, the status quo will remain the same.\"\n\"We\u2019re going to have the best-educated American people in the world.\"\n\"I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate.\" -- Dan Quayle\n\"If Lincoln were alive today, he\u2019d roll over in his grave.\"\n\"We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.\"\n\"Candidly, I cannot answer that. The question is too suppository.\"\n\"Outside of the killings in Washington DC, we have one of the lowest crime rates in the nation.\" -- Marion Berry\n\"Let\u2019s jump off that bridge when we come to it.\"\n\"To be demeanered like that is an exercise in fertility.\"\n\"I deny the allegations, and I defy the allegators.\"\n\"If somebody\u2019s gonna stab me in the back, I want to be there.\"\n\"When you\u2019re talking to me, keep your mouth shut.\"\n\"Let\u2019s do this in one foul swoop.\"\n\"I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves in this session.\"\n\"We\u2019ll run it up the flagpole and see who salutes that booger.\"\n\"I would like to take this time to reirritate my remarks.\"\n\"The average age of a 7 year old in this state is 13.\"\n\"I hate to confuse myself with the facts.\"\n\"We have a permanent plan for the time being.\"\n\"Family planning has many misconceptions.\"\n\"The people in my district do not want this highway bypass, no matter if it goes through or around the city.\"\n\"My knowledge is no match for his ignorance.\"\n\"As long as I am in the Senate, there will not be a nuclear suppository in our state.\"\n\"These numbers are not my own; they are from someone who knows what he\u2019s talking about.\"\n\"People planning on getting into serious accidents should have their seat belts on.\"\n\"In 1994, Americans stand on the horns of an enema.\"\n''I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency -- even if I'm in a Cabinet meeting.''\u2014Ronald Reagan\n''The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then get elected and prove it.''\u2014P.J. O'Rourke, 'Parliament of Whores'\n''It was absolutely involuntary. They sank my boat.''\u2014President John Kennedy, answering a\nlittle boy on how he became a war hero\nI thought you might be interested in this pendant of mine.\nThese were given to prospective voters in 1928,\nthe year before the Great Depression.\nI promise to do better than he did:\n\"Hoover lucky pocket piece\"\n\"Good for 4 years of prosperity\"\nAs they say in Chicago, \"VOTE EARLY & OFTEN!\"----fishducky", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1636, "original_length": 34152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fll360.com/category/gananoque-ontario-canada/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WQIC4C7IEXBYYYXZY3OJ2CJSU4L72OCU", "length": 776, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "fll360.com", "title": "FLL360.com \u2013 Finger Lakes Living | Archive | Gananoque, Ontario Canada", "raw_content": "Archive for the \u2018 Gananoque, Ontario Canada \u2019 Category\nKids, Dogs, Boats, and Water in Gananoque, Ontario Canada\nPost Location: Gananoque, Ontario Canada\nLate one afternoon while we were in Gananoque Canada, we watched while some children were given a lesson on how to properly paddle a kayak. They took to the water as easily as a new duckling takes to the water on its first swim. I had to smile as a \u201ctwo-man\u201d kayak passed by with\u2026read more\nThe Islandview Inn B&B in Gananoque, Canada\nOne of our special places to visit which is not in the Finger Lakes but is in the 1000 Islands area of Ontario, Canada. The 1000 Islands area is just a pleasant three and a half hour drive from the Finger Lakes of NY. We just returned home from our third visit to the Islandview\u2026read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://florida.way2trafficschool.com/2016/02/slightly-more-than-of-fatal-collisions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:46Z", "digest": "sha1:SB2ISOFIUD5BTO6U7QX3HFIGCALBV3RB", "length": 430, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "florida.way2trafficschool.com", "title": "Florida Traffic School Online Course: Slightly more than _______ of fatal collisions occur on roads with posted speed limits of 55 mph or more.", "raw_content": "Question: Slightly more than _______ of fatal collisions occur on roads with posted speed limits of 55 mph or more.\nA.) one-quarter\nB.) half\nC.) three-quarters\nD.) all\n4/ 5 stars - \"Slightly more than _______ of fatal collisions occur on roads with posted speed limits of 55 mph or more.\" J Question: Slightly more than _______ of fatal collisions occur on roads with posted speed limits of 55 mph or more. A.) one-quarter B.) ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 536, "original_length": 31812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2012/112.3145", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:03Z", "digest": "sha1:3Z4DVNLBCRMFRNOGKAPUAATJVMQQ4QHM", "length": 22639, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "flsenate.gov", "title": "Chapter 112 Section 3145 - 2012 Florida Statutes - The Florida Senate", "raw_content": "112.3145\u2003Disclosure of financial interests and clients represented before agencies.\u2014\n(1)\u2003For purposes of this section, unless the context otherwise requires, the term:\n(a)\u2003\u201cLocal officer\u201d means:\n1.\u2003Every person who is elected to office in any political subdivision of the state, and every person who is appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in such an elective office.\n2.\u2003Any appointed member of any of the following boards, councils, commissions, authorities, or other bodies of any county, municipality, school district, independent special district, or other political subdivision of the state:\na.\u2003The governing body of the political subdivision, if appointed;\nb.\u2003An expressway authority or transportation authority established by general law;\nc.\u2003A community college or junior college district board of trustees;\nd.\u2003A board having the power to enforce local code provisions;\ne.\u2003A planning or zoning board, board of adjustment, board of appeals, or other board having the power to recommend, create, or modify land planning or zoning within the political subdivision, except for citizen advisory committees, technical coordinating committees, and such other groups who only have the power to make recommendations to planning or zoning boards;\nf.\u2003A pension board or retirement board having the power to invest pension or retirement funds or the power to make a binding determination of one\u2019s entitlement to or amount of a pension or other retirement benefit; or\ng.\u2003Any other appointed member of a local government board who is required to file a statement of financial interests by the appointing authority or the enabling legislation, ordinance, or resolution creating the board.\n3.\u2003Any person holding one or more of the following positions: mayor; county or city manager; chief administrative employee of a county, municipality, or other political subdivision; county or municipal attorney; chief county or municipal building code inspector; county or municipal water resources coordinator; county or municipal pollution control director; county or municipal environmental control director; county or municipal administrator, with power to grant or deny a land development permit; chief of police; fire chief; municipal clerk; district school superintendent; community college president; district medical examiner; or purchasing agent having the authority to make any purchase exceeding the threshold amount provided for in s. 287.017 for CATEGORY ONE, on behalf of any political subdivision of the state or any entity thereof.\n(b)\u2003\u201cSpecified state employee\u201d means:\n1.\u2003Public counsel created by chapter 350, an assistant state attorney, an assistant public defender, a full-time state employee who serves as counsel or assistant counsel to any state agency, the Deputy Chief Judge of Compensation Claims, a judge of compensation claims, an administrative law judge, or a hearing officer.\n2.\u2003Any person employed in the office of the Governor or in the office of any member of the Cabinet if that person is exempt from the Career Service System, except persons employed in clerical, secretarial, or similar positions.\n3.\u2003The State Surgeon General or each appointed secretary, assistant secretary, deputy secretary, executive director, assistant executive director, or deputy executive director of each state department, commission, board, or council; unless otherwise provided, the division director, assistant division director, deputy director, bureau chief, and assistant bureau chief of any state department or division; or any person having the power normally conferred upon such persons, by whatever title.\n4.\u2003The superintendent or institute director of a state mental health institute established for training and research in the mental health field or the warden or director of any major state institution or facility established for corrections, training, treatment, or rehabilitation.\n5.\u2003Business managers, purchasing agents having the power to make any purchase exceeding the threshold amount provided for in s. 287.017 for CATEGORY ONE, finance and accounting directors, personnel officers, or grants coordinators for any state agency.\n6.\u2003Any person, other than a legislative assistant exempted by the presiding officer of the house by which the legislative assistant is employed, who is employed in the legislative branch of government, except persons employed in maintenance, clerical, secretarial, or similar positions.\n7.\u2003Each employee of the Commission on Ethics.\n(c)\u2003\u201cState officer\u201d means:\n1.\u2003Any elected public officer, excluding those elected to the United States Senate and House of Representatives, not covered elsewhere in this part and any person who is appointed to fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in such an elective office.\n2.\u2003An appointed member of each board, commission, authority, or council having statewide jurisdiction, excluding a member of an advisory body.\n3.\u2003A member of the Board of Governors of the State University System or a state university board of trustees, the Chancellor and Vice Chancellors of the State University System, and the president of a state university.\n4.\u2003A member of the judicial nominating commission for any district court of appeal or any judicial circuit.\n(2)(a)\u2003A person seeking nomination or election to a state or local elective office shall file a statement of financial interests together with, and at the same time he or she files, qualifying papers.\n(b)\u2003Each state or local officer and each specified state employee shall file a statement of financial interests no later than July 1 of each year. Each state officer, local officer, and specified state employee shall file a final statement of financial interests within 60 days after leaving his or her public position for the period between January 1 of the year in which the person leaves and the last day of office or employment, unless within the 60-day period the person takes another public position requiring financial disclosure under this section or s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution or otherwise is required to file full and public disclosure or a statement of financial interests for the final disclosure period. Each state or local officer who is appointed and each specified state employee who is employed shall file a statement of financial interests within 30 days from the date of appointment or, in the case of a specified state employee, from the date on which the employment begins, except that any person whose appointment is subject to confirmation by the Senate shall file prior to confirmation hearings or within 30 days from the date of appointment, whichever comes first.\n(c)\u2003State officers and specified state employees shall file their statements of financial interests with the Commission on Ethics. Local officers shall file their statements of financial interests with the supervisor of elections of the county in which they permanently reside. Local officers who do not permanently reside in any county in the state shall file their statements of financial interests with the supervisor of elections of the county in which their agency maintains its headquarters. Persons seeking to qualify as candidates for local public office shall file their statements of financial interests with the officer before whom they qualify.\n(3)\u2003The statement of financial interests for state officers, specified state employees, local officers, and persons seeking to qualify as candidates for state or local office shall be filed even if the reporting person holds no financial interests requiring disclosure, in which case the statement shall be marked \u201cnot applicable.\u201d Otherwise, the statement of financial interests shall include, at the filer\u2019s option, either:\n(a)1.\u2003All sources of income in excess of 5 percent of the gross income received during the disclosure period by the person in his or her own name or by any other person for his or her use or benefit, excluding public salary. However, this shall not be construed to require disclosure of a business partner\u2019s sources of income. The person reporting shall list such sources in descending order of value with the largest source first;\n2.\u2003All sources of income to a business entity in excess of 10 percent of the gross income of a business entity in which the reporting person held a material interest and from which he or she received an amount which was in excess of 10 percent of his or her gross income during the disclosure period and which exceeds $1,500. The period for computing the gross income of the business entity is the fiscal year of the business entity which ended on, or immediately prior to, the end of the disclosure period of the person reporting;\n3.\u2003The location or description of real property in this state, except for residences and vacation homes, owned directly or indirectly by the person reporting, when such person owns in excess of 5 percent of the value of such real property, and a general description of any intangible personal property worth in excess of 10 percent of such person\u2019s total assets. For the purposes of this paragraph, indirect ownership does not include ownership by a spouse or minor child; and\n4.\u2003Every individual liability that equals more than the reporting person\u2019s net worth; or\n(b)1.\u2003All sources of gross income in excess of $2,500 received during the disclosure period by the person in his or her own name or by any other person for his or her use or benefit, excluding public salary. However, this shall not be construed to require disclosure of a business partner\u2019s sources of income. The person reporting shall list such sources in descending order of value with the largest source first;\n2.\u2003All sources of income to a business entity in excess of 10 percent of the gross income of a business entity in which the reporting person held a material interest and from which he or she received gross income exceeding $5,000 during the disclosure period. The period for computing the gross income of the business entity is the fiscal year of the business entity which ended on, or immediately prior to, the end of the disclosure period of the person reporting;\n3.\u2003The location or description of real property in this state, except for residence and vacation homes, owned directly or indirectly by the person reporting, when such person owns in excess of 5 percent of the value of such real property, and a general description of any intangible personal property worth in excess of $10,000. For the purpose of this paragraph, indirect ownership does not include ownership by a spouse or minor child; and\n4.\u2003Every liability in excess of $10,000.\n(4)\u2003Each elected constitutional officer, state officer, local officer, and specified state employee shall file a quarterly report of the names of clients represented for a fee or commission, except for appearances in ministerial matters, before agencies at his or her level of government. For the purposes of this part, agencies of government shall be classified as state-level agencies or agencies below state level. Each local officer shall file such report with the supervisor of elections of the county in which the officer is principally employed or is a resident. Each state officer, elected constitutional officer, and specified state employee shall file such report with the commission. The report shall be filed only when a reportable representation is made during the calendar quarter and shall be filed no later than the last day of each calendar quarter, for the previous calendar quarter. Representation before any agency shall be deemed to include representation by such officer or specified state employee or by any partner or associate of the professional firm of which he or she is a member and of which he or she has actual knowledge. For the purposes of this subsection, the term \u201crepresentation before any agency\u201d does not include appearances before any court or the Deputy Chief Judge of Compensation Claims or judges of compensation claims or representations on behalf of one\u2019s agency in one\u2019s official capacity. Such term does not include the preparation and filing of forms and applications merely for the purpose of obtaining or transferring a license based on a quota or a franchise of such agency or a license or operation permit to engage in a profession, business, or occupation, so long as the issuance or granting of such license, permit, or transfer does not require substantial discretion, a variance, a special consideration, or a certificate of public convenience and necessity.\n(5)\u2003Each elected constitutional officer and each candidate for such office, any other public officer required pursuant to s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution to file a full and public disclosure of his or her financial interests, and each state officer, local officer, specified state employee, and candidate for elective public office who is or was during the disclosure period an officer, director, partner, proprietor, or agent, other than a resident agent solely for service of process, of, or owns or owned during the disclosure period a material interest in, any business entity which is granted a privilege to operate in this state shall disclose such facts as a part of the disclosure form filed pursuant to s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution or this section, as applicable. The statement shall give the name, address, and principal business activity of the business entity and shall state the position held with such business entity or the fact that a material interest is owned and the nature of that interest.\n(6)\u2003Forms for compliance with the disclosure requirements of this section and a current list of persons subject to disclosure shall be created by the commission and provided to each supervisor of elections. The commission and each supervisor of elections shall give notice of disclosure deadlines and delinquencies and distribute forms in the following manner:\n(a)1.\u2003Not later than May 1 of each year, the commission shall prepare a current list of the names and addresses of, and the offices or positions held by, every state officer, local officer, and specified employee. In compiling the list, the commission shall be assisted by each unit of government in providing, at the request of the commission, the name, address, and name of agency of, and the office or position held by, each state officer, local officer, or specified state employee within the respective unit of government.\n2.\u2003Not later than May 15 of each year, the commission shall provide each supervisor of elections with a current mailing list of all local officers required to file with such supervisor of elections.\n(b)\u2003Not later than 30 days before July 1 of each year, the commission and each supervisor of elections, as appropriate, shall mail a copy of the form prescribed for compliance with subsection (3) and a notice of all applicable disclosure forms and filing deadlines to each person required to file a statement of financial interests.\n(c)\u2003Not later than 30 days after July 1 of each year, the commission and each supervisor of elections shall determine which persons required to file a statement of financial interests in their respective offices have failed to do so and shall send delinquency notices by certified mail, return receipt requested, to these persons. Each notice shall state that a grace period is in effect until September 1 of the current year; that no investigative or disciplinary action based upon the delinquency will be taken by the agency head or commission if the statement is filed by September 1 of the current year; that, if the statement is not filed by September 1 of the current year, a fine of $25 for each day late will be imposed, up to a maximum penalty of $1,500; for notices sent by a supervisor of elections, that he or she is required by law to notify the commission of the delinquency; and that, if upon the filing of a sworn complaint the commission finds that the person has failed to timely file the statement within 60 days after September 1 of the current year, such person will also be subject to the penalties provided in s. 112.317.\n(d)\u2003No later than November 15 of each year, the supervisor of elections in each county shall certify to the commission a list of the names and addresses of, and the offices or positions held by, all persons who have failed to timely file the required statements of financial interests. The certification must include the earliest of the dates described in subparagraph (f)1. The certification shall be on a form prescribed by the commission and shall indicate whether the supervisor of elections has provided the disclosure forms and notice as required by this subsection to all persons named on the delinquency list.\n(e)\u2003Statements must be filed not later than 5 p.m. of the due date. However, any statement that is postmarked by the United States Postal Service by midnight of the due date is deemed to have been filed in a timely manner, and a certificate of mailing obtained from and dated by the United States Postal Service at the time of the mailing, or a receipt from an established courier company which bears a date on or before the due date, constitutes proof of mailing in a timely manner.\n(f)\u2003Any person who is required to file a statement of financial interests and whose name is on the commission\u2019s mailing list but who fails to timely file is assessed a fine of $25 per day for each day late up to a maximum of $1,500; however, this $1,500 limitation on automatic fines does not limit the civil penalty that may be imposed if the statement is filed more than 60 days after the deadline and a complaint is filed, as provided in s. 112.324. The commission must provide by rule the grounds for waiving the fine and procedures by which each person whose name is on the mailing list and who is determined to have not filed in a timely manner will be notified of assessed fines and may appeal. The rule must provide for and make specific the following:\n2.\u2003For a specified state employee or a state officer, upon receipt of the disclosure statement by the commission or upon accrual of the maximum penalty, whichever occurs first, and for a local officer upon receipt by the commission of the certification from the local officer\u2019s supervisor of elections pursuant to paragraph (d), the commission shall determine the amount of the fine which is due and shall notify the delinquent person. The notice must include an explanation of the appeal procedure under subparagraph 3. The fine must be paid within 30 days after the notice of payment due is transmitted, unless appeal is made to the commission pursuant to subparagraph 3. The moneys are to be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.\n(g)\u2003Any state officer, local officer, or specified employee whose name is not on the mailing list of persons required to file an annual statement of financial interests is not subject to the penalties provided in s. 112.317 or the fine provided in this section for failure to timely file a statement of financial interests in any year in which the omission occurred, but nevertheless is required to file the disclosure statement.\n(h)\u2003The notification requirements and fines of this subsection do not apply to candidates or to the first or final filing required of any state officer, specified employee, or local officer as provided in paragraph (2)(b).\n(i)\u2003Notwithstanding any provision of chapter 120, any fine imposed under this subsection which is not waived by final order of the commission and which remains unpaid more than 60 days after the notice of payment due or more than 60 days after the commission renders a final order on the appeal must be submitted to the Department of Financial Services as a claim, debt, or other obligation owed to the state, and the department shall assign the collection of such a fine to a collection agent as provided in s. 17.20.\n(7)(a)\u2003The appointing official or body shall notify each newly appointed local officer, state officer, or specified state employee, not later than the date of appointment, of the officer\u2019s or employee\u2019s duty to comply with the disclosure requirements of this section. The agency head of each employing agency shall notify each newly employed local officer or specified state employee, not later than the day of employment, of the officer\u2019s or employee\u2019s duty to comply with the disclosure requirements of this section. The appointing official or body or employing agency head may designate a person to be responsible for the notification requirements of this paragraph.\n(b)\u2003The agency head of the agency of each local officer, state officer, or specified state employee who is required to file a statement of financial interests for the final disclosure period shall notify such persons of their obligation to file the final disclosure and may designate a person to be responsible for the notification requirements of this paragraph.\n(8)\u2003A public officer who has filed a disclosure for any calendar or fiscal year shall not be required to file a second disclosure for the same year or any part thereof, notwithstanding any requirement of this act, except that any public officer who qualifies as a candidate for public office shall file a copy of the disclosure with the officer before whom he or she qualifies as a candidate at the time of qualification.\n(9)\u2003The commission shall adopt rules and forms specifying how a state officer, local officer, or specified state employee may amend his or her statement of financial interests to report information that was not included on the form as originally filed. If the amendment is the subject of a complaint filed under this part, the commission and the proper disciplinary official or body shall consider as a mitigating factor when considering appropriate disciplinary action the fact that the amendment was filed before any complaint or other inquiry or proceeding, while recognizing that the public was deprived of access to information to which it was entitled.\nHistory.\u2014s. 5, ch. 74-177; ss. 2, 6, ch. 75-196; s. 2, ch. 76-18; s. 1, ch. 77-174; s. 63, ch. 77-175; s. 54, ch. 79-40; s. 3, ch. 82-98; s. 2, ch. 83-128; ss. 2, 5, ch. 83-282; s. 3, ch. 84-318; s. 1, ch. 88-316; s. 1, ch. 90-169; s. 5, ch. 90-502; s. 27, ch. 91-46; s. 6, ch. 91-85; s. 6, ch. 91-292; ss. 5, 13, ch. 94-277; s. 3, ch. 94-340; s. 1410, ch. 95-147; s. 14, ch. 96-410; s. 31, ch. 97-286; s. 17, ch. 99-399; s. 2, ch. 2000-161; s. 3, ch. 2000-243; s. 31, ch. 2000-258; s. 23, ch. 2000-372; s. 3, ch. 2001-91; s. 2, ch. 2001-282; s. 128, ch. 2003-261; s. 4, ch. 2006-275; s. 12, ch. 2007-217; s. 7, ch. 2008-6.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 26815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://followers-of-yahwshua-ha-mashiach.weebly.com/yahusha-taugh-against-polygamy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RUXLHZCOCF5HMVMN2MD3EYWDKUCDHYQU", "length": 6810, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "followers-of-yahwshua-ha-mashiach.weebly.com", "title": "Yahusha Taugh Against Polygamy - FOLLOWERS OF YAHSHUA HA MASHIACH", "raw_content": "YAHWSHA HA MASHIACH\nTAUGHT AGAINST\nPOLYGAMY!\nDear brethren and called-out sheep of Yisrael, shalom to all and may Yahweh's mercy and favor be always upon you. Let's find out the plain truth about Matthew 19, because some claim that Yahwsha did not teach against polygamy.\nAs many of you may have already noticed, there are some people who have sneaked their way into the assemblies and shamefully practice and teach in favor of having multiple wives.\nThus, lately there have been many attempts to re-interpret the passages of Matthew 19 and 1 Tin. 2:3 so as to excuse the practice of polygamy. However in order to do this, one must interpret these verses in a void. That is, these teachers aim to build \"a truth\" to the exclusion of \"other truths.\" But these passages were not written in a void. In Scripture, sound-doctrine is built by taking all aspects of truth into account, and not by isolating them.\nMy beloved, in order to properly understand these passages we must make sure we understand them in continuity with Second Temple Era practice, besides in relation to each other and to the rest of the Scriptures. The relationship these passages have to the Damascus Document is beyond coincidence.\nThe Damascus Document, for those who are not familiar with it, is an Essene document found among the Dead Sea Scrolls which dates to around 100 BCE. The relevant portion of the document is a portion that criticizes the \"wall builders\" (Pharisees) over what it calls the \"Three Traps of Beilial.\" The first \"trap\" is said to be \ufeff\"fornication.\"\ufeff Let's take a look at how the scroll explains this:\n\"They are caught in\u2026fornication, by taking two wives in their lifetime although the Principle of Creation (the \"Yesod HaBriah\") is \u201cmale and female He Created them\u201d (Gen. 1:27), and those who entered the ark \u201cwent into the ark two by two\u201d (Gen. 7:9). Concerning the Leaders, it is written \u201che shall not multiply wives to himself\u201d (Dt. 17:17) (Damascus Document 4,20-5,2)\nThat was written about 100 years before the birth of Yahwsha. Now, about 130 years later, with Yahwsha in full ministry, He is criticizing the Pharisaic position on divorce as noted in Mattityah 19:\n\"3 And the P\u2019rushim approached Him, and tempted Him, saying, \u201cIs it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?\u201d\n\"4 And He answered and said to them: \"Have you not read that He who made man in the beginning, 'made them male and female' (quoting Gen. 1:27)\n\"5 And said, 'Wherefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh' (Gen. 2:24, and by the way, the word there for \"one\" is the hebrew \"ekhad\"). And now then, they are no more two but one flesh only. What therefore Elohim has joined together man cannot separate.\"\n\"7 But they said, \"And why then did Moshe then command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away if she was not pleasing in his sight?\u201d (quoting Deut. 24:1, 3) 8 And he answered them and said, \"Because Moshe on account of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to put away your wives,\n\"9 And I tell you, every man that has put away, or shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and takes another, commits adultery. And whoever takes the divorced also commits adultery.\"\nNow the connection between these two passages is uncanny:\nThey are caught in\u2026Fornication, by taking two wives in their lifetime although the Principle of Creation (Yesod HaBriah) is \u201cmale and female He Created them\u201d (Gen. 1:27) and those who entered the ark \u201cwent into the ark two by two\u201d (Gen. 7:9). Concerning the Leaders it is written \u201che shall not multiply wives to himself\u201d\n(Deut. 17:17)\n(from the Damascus Document 4,20-5,2)\nThe Ketuvim Netzarim\n3 And the P\u2019rushim approached him, and tempted him, saying, \u201cIs it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?\u201d\n4 And he answered and said to them:\"Have you not read that He who made man in the beginning, 'made them male and female' (Gen. 1:27)\n5 And said, 'Wherefore shall a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh' (Gen. 2:24)\n6 And now then, they are no more two but one flesh only. What therefore Elohim has joined together man cannot separate.\"\n7 But they said, \"And why then did Moshe then command to give a bill of divorcement, and to put her away if she was not pleasing in his sight?\u201d (Deut. 24:1, 3)\n8 And he answered them and said,\"Because Moshe on account of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to put away your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.\n9 And I tell you, every man that has put away, or shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and takes another, commits adultery. And whoever takes the divorced also commits adultery.\nNow both documents criticize the Pharisaic position on divorce by citing Gen. 1:27 and building a rule from this passage that the \"Principle of Creation\" (Yesod HaBriah) is that marriage is union between one man and one woman. Yahwsha expresses this by saying \"but from the beginning it was not so.\" But note that the older document bases this criticism of divorce on the fact that divorce (without just cause) is polygamy \"because they take two wives in their lifetime\" and Yahwsha is making the same argument against divorce with the same proof text, So if we are to understand Matthew 19:3-9 in continuity with Second Temple Era Judaism, we can see clearly that Yahwsha is not just criticizing divorce in these verses, but polygamy as well. If we understand the statements of Yeshua and Paul in these verses in continuity with Second Temple Era Judaism, it is clear that both Yahwsha and Paul were teaching in agreement with the Essene halacha against divorce and polygamy as found in the Damascus Document!\nThe Torah prescribes Yahweh\u2019s perfect will concerning marriage. \u201cTherefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh\" (Genesis 2:24). Man, male and female, are created in the image and likeness of Elohim who in turn gave them to each other creating the covenant relationship of marriage. Elohim then says, \"Be fruitful and multiply. Let the two become one!\" The act of marriage shows how the oneness is more than just a fleeting passion; it is a union of \u201cechad\u201dness. It moves from just a physical sensation into a metaphysical reality when the two become one, nine months later you've got to give that \"one\" a name, for the child embodies the oneness of the two in union.\nRabbi Sha\u2019ul taught, \u201c\u2026each man should have his own wife (singular word), and each woman her own husband (singular word). The husband should fulfill his marital duty to his wife, and likewise the wife to her husband.\"(1 Corinthians 7:2). For Adam was the one husband of Eve, and Eve his one wife, one woman, one rib!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 9383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortfranceschamber.com/events/canada-day", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:30Z", "digest": "sha1:THDV2U3ICBXUUFJTYUJ47EO3EDLL5S7D", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fortfranceschamber.com", "title": "Canada Day | Fort Frances Chamber of Commerce", "raw_content": "Canada Day July 1st, 2018:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 667, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 160.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.foofighters.com/showthread.php?s=e1089822b0fc1ab0addceab3df3a8036&p=4198602", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:AMODWLDXCTOPPA7SUUZMUSFJGLULL6OU", "length": 1060, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "forum.foofighters.com", "title": "Recordings - Foo Fighters Postboard", "raw_content": "I'm trying to find a way to get in contact with Dave or someone who would be interested in acquiring rare soundboard recordings. I personally would like Dave to have them as I know he is a fan of Zeppelin. It definitely has to be a music lover!\nAnyhow, my father was a sound engineer for SHOWCO in the 70's and 80's and I have inherited all his tapes. I have a whole catalog including never before released Zeppelin's American Return 1/18/75 show, Bonham's last rehearsal before his death, The Who, Clapton, Bread, The Band, and so many more.\nAny advice is much appreciated. They sound great, btw!\nSend a private message to ikretz72\nFind all posts by ikretz72\nRe: Recordings\nHey there, unless you have a contact who has a contact who has direct contact with Dave, I think you're pretty much out of luck.\nReading your post tho, made me think of this guy, Rick Beato. He's a music teacher for the masses and actually seems to be passionate about sharing his knowledge. Maybe hit him with an inbox if you feel like it.\nThanks for the lead on Beato. Great channel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.reachingforthetippingpoint.net/index.php?topic=6851.0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:51Z", "digest": "sha1:JDZQXHOG6FLBZ2XZ5JONR7LVZ7GS7NOZ", "length": 6104, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "forum.reachingforthetippingpoint.net", "title": "Cults are Jersey man's bread and butter | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-03-12 - Philadelphia Daily", "raw_content": "Cults are Jersey man's bread and butter | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-03-12 - Philadelphia Daily\nAuthor Topic: Cults are Jersey man's bread and butter | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-03-12 - Philadelphia Daily (Read 2705 times)\nCults are Jersey man's bread and butter | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-03-12 - Philadelphia Daily News\nCULT LEADERS are the pied-pipers of America, leading the outcast, the despondent, and sometimes the highly intelligent off into the dark, isolated fringes of society.\nAnd then there's Rick Alan Ross, poking around in that darkness with a flashlight.\nFrom his eclectic office in a former cracker factory in Trenton, Ross, 58, runs the Rick A. Ross Institute, a nonprofit Internet archive on \"destructive cults\" and \"controversial groups and movements.\"\nAttorneys, universities and the media often go to Ross for explanations when seemingly benign groups go off the rails, and parents turn to him when their children fall under a cult's spell.\n\"I've been quite active in China in recent years,\" said Ross, who launched his Web archive in 1996 and makes a living as a consultant, expert witness and speaker.\nNext month, a computer hacker who unleashed a virus on Ross' website and several media websites will be sentenced in federal court in Camden. Ross will soon be traveling back to Arizona to testify in a case involving three people who died in a sweat lodge during a \"spiritual warrior\" event.\nOn a recent afternoon, Ross was on the phone with a reporter from an Oklahoma news station, after a member of the General Assembly Church of the First Born was arrested for failing to seek medical attention for her son before he died.\n\"There have been many children who have died, needlessly, in groups like this because a creator who leads the group demands that every member adhere to their belief system,\" Ross said.\nIt's not uncommon for someone with a television to get sucked in by cults and bizarre movements, at least for an hour or two, but Ross has been researching them since 1982, when someone messed with his grandmother. Ross said the Jewish Voice Broadcast, a fundamentalist group, had infiltrated his grandmother's nursing home looking to recruit elderly residents.\n\"They targeted Jews to convert them to Pentecostalism,\" he said.\nRoss helped expose the group members working at the nursing home, and his life hasn't been the same since.\n\"It made me realize that there was a problem in my community,\" he said.\nFrom there, Ross began appearing on panels and committees, mostly in the Jewish community in Arizona, but his involvement expanded in the late 1980s, when he became a private consultant and intervention specialist/deprogrammer.\nHe worked with some of David Koresh's Branch Davidian followers before the Waco, Texas, incident and says he has conducted approximately 500 interventions to clean out all the muck shoveled into brainwashed heads. Ross and other intervention specialists used to take part in forced interventions or deprogramming, but they no longer hold people against their will.\nExposing cults, hate groups and frauds has made Ross a target, too, and there's a whole website aimed at \"exposing\" him.\n\"There's not a month that goes by where I don't get some kind of physical threat,\" he said. \"Every week, I receive legal threats.\"\nThe Church of Scientology has kept a close watch on Ross, he said, amassing nearly 200 pages on him in their files.\nLauded by celebrity adherents like Tom Cruise and John Travolta for its supposed healing ways, Scientology is routinely derided by critics like Ross and former members as being fraudulent, expensive, and possibly even dangerous.\nScientology, Ross said, has publicized his arrests for burglary and conspiracy to commit grand theft in the mid-1970s and his lack of any academic credentials. They even discovered he was medicated for a few months when he was 10.\n\"I've had Scientology attack me many times over the years,\" he said. \"Did I make mistakes that I regret when I was 22 and 21 years old? Yes. I paid for them. I resolved them and I went on with my life. Whatever exists in your life they will dig up.\"\nScientology played a big part in a civil case that bankrupted him briefly in 1995, Ross said.\nThat case stems from the 1991 failed deprogramming of Jason Scott, 18, a member of the Life Tabernacle Church in Washington state. Scott, represented by a prominent Scientology attorney, sued Ross and was awarded millions. He and Scott eventually settled for a few thousand dollars, he said, and are now friends.\nhttp://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/117835473.html\nRe: Cults are Jersey man's bread and butter | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-03-12 - Philadelphia Da\nBeneath his picture in the article was the following:\nRoss got interested in cults when a group tried to recruit at his grandmother's nursing home.\nI never cease to be amazed at the lengths some cults will go to.\nHis website: http://www.rickross.com/\nComments certainly welcome. Easy registration. Support Rick Ross and his work by backing him up here.\nThe hard work of helping cult victims and educating the public about cults is in the hands of the dedicated few and Rick Ross is one of them. His work is so valuable. Thousands of cult victims, like myself (Scientology), are grateful for all that he does. It takes courage to go after Scientology and other destructive cults and Rick is one courageous man.\nhttp://www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20110312_Cults_are_Jersey_man_s_bread_and_butter.html?c=0.37126622945139476&posted=y&viewAll=y#comments\nMy personal faith is, sadly, lacking in Angels, but I am quite certain if we had any, I know of one guy who would be on their side!\nRick Ross is another stonemason in the quarry, tapping patiently at the columns of ignorance from which the cult crystals grow. Happily, some of those columns are beginning to show some gaping cracks! Sadly, there will always be more to replace the ones that fall. Hopefully, there will ever be born the men and women who see the evil for what it is, and fight against it in whatever ways best suit their souls.../", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 8638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.theobelisk.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=9462&sid=6f17c671bbf639d78c4823caa8b256de", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QE2LC6BZKOQSX7R33INOBI23RBF3CKKK", "length": 1858, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "forum.theobelisk.net", "title": "The Obelisk Forum \u2022 View topic - Boston... seriously?", "raw_content": "Boston... seriously?\nPost subject: Boston... seriously?\nHelp me out, folks.\nSat 04/15: Oxblood Forge, Wrought Iron Hex, Bottlefight @ O'Brien's\nSat 04/15: Hey Zeus @ Once Somerville (Rock & Roll Rumble semi-finals)\nSat 04/22: Electric Frankenstein, Symbol Six, Hey Zeus, Duck & Cover @ O'Brien's\nSun 04/23: Pentagram, Brant Bjork, Royal Thunder, Black Wizard @ Middle East\nTue 05/02: Horizont, Dirty Streets, and Worshipper! @ Once Somerville\nWed 05/17: The Obsessed, KTB, Lo-Pan @ Once Somerville\nTue 06/20: Scissorfight, Worshipper, Humanoids, Hey Zeus, Test Meat @ Once Somerville\nSat 07/22: Grub, Sweat & Beers @ O'Brien's\nSun 07/23: Grub, Sweat & Beers @ O'Brien's\nFrom a quick web search, these are some of the venues I've found. What am I missing?\nThe Middle East (http://www.mideastoffers.com/me/content/upcomingshows)\nOnce Ballroom Somerville (http://www.oncesomerville.com/calendar/)\nO'Brien's Pub Allston (http://www.obrienspubboston.com/)\nBrighton Music Hall (http://www.musichallbrighton.com/)\nMidway Cafe (http://www.midwaycafe.com/)\nGreat Scott (http://greatscottboston.com/)\nThe Sinclair (http://www.sinclaircambridge.com/calendar/)\nP.A.'s Lounge (http://paslounge.com/)\nParadise (http://crossroadspresents.com/paradise-rock-club/)\nRoyale (http://royaleboston.com/events/category/concerts/photo/)\nRalph's Diner Worcester (http://www.ralphsrockdiner.com/schedule.php)\nSomia (the old T. T. The Bear\u2019s Place) (https://www.facebook.com/soniamideast/)\nHey, there's Bowery Presents Boston (who knew?) http://www.boweryboston.com/see-all-shows/\nLast edited by ron on Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:23 pm, edited 10 times in total.\nPost subject: Re: Boston... seriously?\nGood luck keeping this up to date, Ron. ;)\nHaha, thanks. Yeah, this isn't going to be easy.\nI already gave up. However, I go to this thread all the time to click the links.\nHa! Don't give up!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 3956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.volition.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24904&whichpage=21", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:42Z", "digest": "sha1:O3H65WUB56SHM2Y6R5XCAQIV37HGPZG6", "length": 5911, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "forum.volition.com", "title": "What's Your Weather Like Right Now?", "raw_content": "I live in Valencia, a suburb of Los Angeles, CA. Now the weather is in the 60's, and cold. I love it, we have way too much sun and the brisk weather is a relief. Having been born in San Franciso, I feel at home.\nI want to move in with Irene!\nThe thermometer reads -7 but the wind chill is at -31. Yes, folks, we're talking 31 degrees below zero. For those of you who have not registered that, it is 63 degrees below freezing point.\nIt's a bit chilly, you see....\nWe have very high winds, coming directly from our Canadian neighbors, blowing snow at 40 miles per hour. Going out right now is asking for frost bite and falling limbs. Literally.\nWe've had freezing rain all late afternoon, after a balmy 38 degrees this morning, as LisaOV stated. So now, under the two inches of snow that just fell, there is one inch of sleek, slippery ice.\nSchools in our area are being delayed by two hours, to allow for children to stay home until warmer temperature set in. We're expecting a high of 5 below tomorrow.\nHot chocolate sound good right about now...\n54 now but is supposed to be in the mid 70's all week.\nQuinn, I hope you can handle this incredibly mild weather!\nWell we still have winds at 40 mph but the wind chill is now at -32, so it's warming up.\nWe woke up to 19\ufffd this morning....wind chill was a minus 2 or 4 degrees! No moisture of any kind, tho!\nThe high this morning was 56...yeah that was the high for today. It's now 36 and we are expecting freezing rain later this afternoon.\nMan, I am so disappointed. We are having Illinois weather today! It needs to go back north where it belongs. I drove to work in mild sleet, but I believe it is up to about 45 degrees right now.\nOkay--so this is mild Illinois winter weather. I know. I just want my years in the south to feel like southern balm all year round.\nIt is 82'F inside my house right now - I'll keep it that way until my husband comes home and then pretend like its been on 67'F (what HE considers reasonable) all day.\nI'm fine with the cold until we get below zero - then I'll rather just stay inside.\nI think we were in the 70's today. I know that we went into town and had to use the AC.\nThat is really funny. Does he believe you?\nOnly if he never sees the heating bill Quinn.\nOH Lisa, you do keep me on my toes. This reminds something that I was told many years ago. It's suggestive, so use your imagination. I was told that the reason women have so much trouble with measurement is because men convinced them what 6 inches was. I myself was amazed to learn that a dollar bill was only 6 inches long . I thought surely it was more. No wonder your husband thinks 67 degrees is reasonable. It feels like 82 to him.\nLast week I was speaking with another mother while waiting for choristers to end. She was complaining that the weather report predicted it would get down to 28 degrees overnight. She stated, \"That's 2 degrees below zero.\" I must have looked confused, because she repeated it twice more. I tried to explain that in farenheit that is four degrees below the temp that water freezes and zero is a lot colder. She \"couldn't follow my logic.\" (her words) Then she told me that the cold down here is colder than the cold in IL because of the humidity. I didn't even try to explain to her that when it gets down to 20 below zero in IL and is still only 28 overnight in Louisiana, it is a heck of a lot colder in IL.\nYeah--I know. It sounds like there may have been a language barrier or that she is used to centigrade. However, I happen to know she is a native of Shreveport. Her family has been here several generations.\nWhile I may continue to whine about the sleet outside (today it is real sleet with 10 accidents reported on the radio on the way to work), I certainly realize that I have it whole lot better than I would have had I remained in the frozen tundra that calls itself the northern states.\nMy friends in FL have no understanding of the weather here. I try to explain what 1 degree is and they don't get it. Well that's okay.\nIt was 14 below this morning so I decided to stay home and not work today. Traffic was horrible and backed up and I didn't want to spent all that time in the car with the kids freezing.\nJennifer Cassada\nIt was 63 here yesterday and now it is snowing and 31. I have to drive to Baltimore tonight for a MS so I'm hoping it's going to clear up shortly.\nShopping the South Jersey Shore\nI left some clothes in the dryer over night (hey, I never said I was a perfect housekeeper) and they froze up! I wondered if something was wrong with the dryer and called my husband who said it was just that cold out...........yikes!\nI sure do remember the freezing weather up north in NY, that's why we moved down here.\nHere in central Gulf Coast Florida (about 80 miles north of Tampa)it is 81* right now.\nWe have been having cold snaps, which is unusual for us this early, but should be warm and sunny for the next week!\nLisa, I can't comprehend clothes freezing in the dryer. I assume that your laundry room is unheated, but I am picturing you running the dryer to thaw the clothes so that you could dry them. Oh, I hate to add insult to injury but it was in the 70's here again today. I would say that I would like to visit there someday, but I don't have the clothes, seriously. I don't own boots, but I do have a heavy-ish coat somewhere in the closet but haven't dug it out yet. This is all beyond anything I can imagine.\nMy mom moved to Florida soon after my daughter's birth almost 8 years ago. She called me at least once weekly until I moved to Louisiana last year to tell me how much better the weather in Florida is than in Illinois. Most of the time the purpose of the phone call appeared to be just to rub it in that she was experiencing sunshine in paradise while I was shivering. Well, that and to tell me that if I didn't find a husband I would die an old maid. She doesn't call as much any more...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 10516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum09.faithfreedom.org/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15610&p=204104", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OUEMIZ2AOEJWWHLLFRKN4PLUPIAFMKDB", "length": 12804, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "forum09.faithfreedom.org", "title": "Faith Freedom International \u2022 View topic - JEWISH LIFE UNDER ARAB RULE myth of tolerance", "raw_content": "JEWISH LIFE UNDER ARAB RULE myth of tolerance\nby ygalg \u00bb Sat Jan 18, 2014 12:38 pm\nAccording to Arab propagandists, the main issue of the Arab-Israel conflict is \"the Palestinian state\". This is a myth. As will be clearly demonstrated, the main issue is, rather, the deep, traditional and religious hatred of the Arab for the Jew.\nIn 1948, before 800,000 Jews fled, 850,000 Jews lived throughout the Arab world. Many Jewish communities had been established 2,000 years before. Some, such as the Yemenite Jewish community, date back from the time of the destruction of the First Jewish Temple by the Babylonians, in the fifth century before the common era.\nArab propaganda would have the world believe that there exists a long tradition of Arab tolerance. In the words of the late King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, in 1973: \"Before the Jewish state was established,there existed nothing to harm good relations between Arabs and Jews.\"\nAnd, according to former PLO head, Yasser Arafat: \"We are not against the Jews. On the contrary, we are Semites and we have been living with each other in peace and fraternity, Muslims, Jews and Christians for many centuries.\"\nBut numerous scholarly works and eye-witness reports document the long history of violence, oppression and humiliation suffered by Jews and Christians in the Arab lands from the rise of Islam in the seventh century, until the present day.\nIn the Arabian city of Medina, Islam's founder, Muhammad, at first courted the favor of the long-respected Jewish community. He even adopted several Jewish practices, such as the fast of Yom Kippur and prayer in the direction of Jerusalem, in the hope of acquiring Jewish converts for his new religion.\nWhen it became clear to him that the Jews were not interested in trading their faith, his attitude toward the Jews soured. Muhammad's resentment was canonized in Islam's holy book, the Koran. Although also containing some earlier, benign references to Jews, the Koran remains decidedly anti-Jewish:\n\"The most vehement of mankind in hostility are the Jews and the Idolaters...\ndistorting with their tongues and slandering religion...\nthe greediest of mankind...\ndesire nothing but your ruin...\ncommit evil and become engrossed in sin...\nAllah hath cursed them for their disbelief.\nTaste ye the punishment of burning.\nThose who disbelieve our revelations, we shall expose them to the fire.\nAs often as their skins are consumed, we shall exchange them for fresh skins that they may taste the torment.\"\nThus, the holy book of Islam, the Koran, presents the Jewish people as inherently evil, treacherous, and as infidels of their prophet, Muhammad, Islam's founder.\nFurthermore, from among other statements of Muhammad in the Hadith:\n\"The resurrection of the dead will not come until the Muslims will war with the Jews and the Muslims will kill them... The trees and rocks will say, \"O Muslim, O Abdulla, here is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.\"\nISLAMIC ATTITUDES BEAR BITTER FRUIT\nMuhammad's new attitude was expressed in practical deed. Upon the thriving Jewish oasis community of Khaibar, north of Mecca and Medina, Muhammad inflicted inhuman atrocities (Israel Ben Zeev, Jews in Arabia). Furthermore, he hideously annihilated the Quraizan Jews of Arabia -- adults and children.\nIt was Quraizan Jews who had established the prosperous town of Yathrib that attracted an infiltration of the pagan Arabs before the rise of Islam. (This pattern of Jewish industriousness attracting an Arab work force was to repeat itself over and over during the present century.) The Moslem Arabs, now united under Muhammad, eliminated the Jews and expropriated their wealth. The town's name was changed to Medina -- Islam's second-holiest city (Bernard Lewis, Arabs in History, New York, 1966).\nThis pattern of plundering the possessions of Jews under Arab control was to continue into this century. It is justified by the Koran:\n\"Some you slew and others you took captive. Allah made you masters of the Jews' land, their houses, and their goods...\" (the Koran, Surah 33, Dawood translation).\n\"Make war... until they pay tribute in a state of humiliation\" (the Koran 9:29).\nMuhammad's fame spread; the pagan Arabs flocked to him; the Arabian Muslim creed gathered an earth-shattering momentum (Alfred Guillaume, Islam, Baltimore, 1954).\nThat momentum propelled the Arabs into control of vast territories, far beyond the Arabian peninsula. The Arab conquests constituted a further fulfillment of the biblical verses:\n\"And he [Ishmael, father of the Arab people] will be a wildman. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him, and in the face of all his brethren will he dwell\" (Genesis XVI, 12), \"...and I will make him into a large nation\" (Genesis XXI, 18).\nTHE JEW IN ISLAMIC LAW\nMuhammad's successor, Omar, codified the twelve laws under which a non-Muslim, or dhimmi, would be suffered to exist in the Arab world. Calculated to impoverish and humiliate, these Islamic laws were enforced on pain of death.\nAmong other restrictions, Jews were forbidden to touch the Koran, practise Judaism in public, or own a horse. Jews were forced to wear particular clothing, including a piece of yellow cloth as a badge. Expressions of grief at Jewish burials were not to reach the ears of Muslims.\nBy Islamic law, Jewish or Christian testimony was meaningless against a Muslim. On the other hand, the dhimmi lived in constant fear of the Muslim, for there would be no way of defending himself against an accusation of cursing Islam.\nAlthough a Muslim was subject to capital punishment for the murder of a fellow Muslim, the murder of a dhimmi would, at most, cost him a fine.\nFor this Arab \"tolerance\", the infidel dhimmi paid extra taxes as prescribed in the Koran:\n\"Fight against those who believe not in Allah... until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.\"\nAnd they did fight; with a brutality that has become a trademark. The helpless Jews in Arab lands repeatedly tasted Arab savagery. Those typical hatchet-and-knife pogroms were visited with regularity also upon the dhimmi Jews of the Holy Land.\nTHE HOLY LAND UNDER MUSLIM RULE\nSince the Arabian invasion of Palestine in the seventh century, Jews and Christians were allowed to remain alive, between attacks, to be a source of funds obtained by special taxes and extortions, and to serve as helpless scapegoats for the Muslim masses. This policy continued under successive waves of other Muslim non-Arab conquerors of the Holy Land, as well.\nThe lawful humiliation of the non-Muslim was a fact of life. The degree of harshness of the persecution depended on the whim of the particular ruler.\nArab dominion over non-Muslims was reminiscent of the nation of Amalek of biblical infamy:\n\"Amalek represents that principle which judges the dignity of men and nations solely in terms of visible power and domination. It is willing to condone any act as long as it results in successful conquest. It will tolerate only that which it fears or that which it can safely despise\" (Rabbi S.R. Hirsch, Collected Writings II, p.414).\nFrom the beginning of Muslim Turkish rule in 1516, Jews had to pass Muslims on their left side, the side of Satan (David Landes, \"Palestine Before the Zionists.\" Commentary, February 1976). Sultan Murad III decreed death for all Jews of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, but later commuted the sentence (Jacob de Haas, History of Palestine, New York, 1934).\nIn 1586, the famous Ramban Synagogue of the Old City of Jerusalem was seized by the Muslim authorities. This had been the last synagogue in Jerusalem remaining in Jewish hands (Ben Gurion, Israel, Tel Aviv, 1971).\nOne single Jew survived the Muslim massacre in the holy city of Safad in 1660 (Jacob de Haas, History of Palestine, New York, 1934).\nIn 1775, Muslim mob violence against the Jews of Hebron was incited by the infamous blood libel (Samuel Katz, Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine, New York, 1973).\nThe Albanian born Mamluk \"Arab\", called \"the Butcher\", terrorized the land with his sadistic exploits through the late 1700's (Jacob de Haas, History of Palestine, New York, 1934).\nTo be permitted to pray by the Wailing Wall, the Jews paid a high annual rent to the Arab whose property adjoined it. They paid protection money to Muslim officials, already paid by the Turkish Government, for fear of desecration of the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives, and of Rachel's Tomb (David Landes, Palestine Before the Zionists, 1976).\nIn the 1830's, during the brief Egyptian reign over Palestine, the Jews found themselves caught between the ravages of the Egyptian soldiers and the multi-ethnic Muslim rebels who fought them:\n\"Forty thousand fellahin rushed on Jerusalem... The mob entered, and looted the city for five or six days. The Jews were the worst sufferers, their homes were sacked and their women were violated\" (Jacob de Haas, History of Palestine, New York, 1934).\nNews of the Damascus blood libel of 1840 brought heightened waves of persecution and murder of Jews throughout Palestine (Moshe Ma'oz, ed., Studies in Palestine During the Ottoman Period, Jerusalem, 1975).\nIn 1914, after returning from his heinous mass slaughter of the Armenian people, Turkish commander Baha-ud Did threatened to do the same to the Jews if he ever got the chance. Fierce persecutions ensued. Use of the Hebrew language was banned. Entire Jewish families were thrown in prison. Jewish males were forced into labor battalions. Farm carts and animals were confiscated just before harvest time. The entire Jewish population of Jaffa was expelled on Passover, 1915. Resistors were hanged. Thousands wandered helplessly on the roads, starving (Martin Gilbert, Exile and Return, New York, 1978).\nDuring the last few years of Muslim rulership over Palestine, torture for a Jew was the norm upon arrest. By the time the British routed the Turkish Ottomans from Palestine in 1917, the entire country, including the new Jewish settlements, had been plundered.\nThe documented Muslim excesses committed during the corrupt Turkish rule over Palestine from 1516 to 1917, are too hideous and numerous to record (See Joan Peters; From Time Immemorial p.190 et seq.).\nhttp://chardal.blogspot.co.il/2005/12/life-under-muslim-rule.html\nRe: JEWISH LIFE UNDER ARAB RULE myth of tolerance\nby Hombre \u00bb Sat Jan 18, 2014 9:19 pm\nygalg,\nexcellent post. Very poignant and valid.\nFact: Muslims don't hate Jews since Israel was born. They hate them since Islam was born.\nFact: Between 1948 - 1965, more then 800,000 Jews living throughout Arab & Islamic countries had immigrated to Israel and other western countries. None ever went back to these Muslim countries- NONE\nIf Muslims claim Jews had it that good living under Islamic rule - why none of them went back, from which they came from. Because they were evicted by Muslim and their properties were confiscated w/o any compensation.\nby ygalg \u00bb Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:20 pm\nHombre wrote: ygalg,\nthe author is a bit off linking the muslims with biblical figure/narrative.\nygalg wrote: the author is a bit off linking the muslims with biblical figure/narrative.\nRegardless, as I pointed out to uncung. Muslims can talk about their religious of Islam from 570 ACE and thereafter not before. They have no right, nor the authority, neither the knowledge of, speaking about the period before that year. Simply, neither Islam, nor Mohammad was even born.\nBy the fact that they hijack, plagiarize or otherwise expropriate other people history and religious tents and render them as theirs, is the core and kernel of the conflict which we have with Muslims.\nby ygalg \u00bb Tue Jan 21, 2014 11:51 am\nHombre wrote: Regardless, as I pointed out to uncung. Muslims can talk about their religious of Islam from 570 ACE and thereafter not before. They have no right, nor the authority, neither the knowledge of, speaking about the period before that year. Simply, neither Islam, nor Mohammad was even born.\nadd the \"actions\" that follows out of this insane ideology, which otherwise, would be less noticeable without \"them\".\nby Ram \u00bb Wed Feb 05, 2014 8:24 pm\nIn the entire of Islam, in all the countries ruled by Muslims or where they are in majority, non-Muslims have been inferior citizens or have been repressed - this continues even today. Even so called moderate Muslim countries, such as Turkey, Malaysia and Indonesia, non-Muslims are denied the political rights and the right to practice their religion freely. Turkey does not permit building of synagogues, churches or Buddhist or Hindu temples. Malaysia and Indonesia do not allow Jews to enter or live there - forget about building synagogues. More than Arabs, it is the apologists of Islam and Muslims are guilty of perpetuating the lie that Jews were tolerated in Arab countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 16666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.thebrain.com/post/bug-moving-folder-into-pb4-4062-1984259", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EO6QSU7HVGD72GHQIPWUUZRT7EIHDKQC", "length": 887, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "forums.thebrain.com", "title": "Bug: Moving folder into PB4 4062 - TheBrain Forums", "raw_content": "I just experienced a situation of trying to move a folder into PB4. The folder contained just six files. In order to facilitate a move, I held down shift and control keys. To my surprise only the folder name appeared in PB4, no icon and no folder contents. More disturbing is the six folder files have disappeared completely from the hard drive. They do not even show up in the recycle bin.\nAt this point I don't know if this is a one-time occurrence but I will attempt to experiment later today to see if this can be repeated. Thankfully, I had just burned a CD of the folder contents in order to give to someone else. Otherwise I would've been SOL.\nThe folder was moved inside the thought folder. The problem is that it is not displayed in PB, but if you open the thought folder, you will see it and all of it's contents intact. We'll address this issue shortly, thanks for posting it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 4126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freeonlinepsychicreadings.net/what-do-you-know-about-the-angel-cards-and-how-do-they-work.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:01Z", "digest": "sha1:EEFF5L6QW47SB6GJKYGXHX7JBYN7EHDK", "length": 5276, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "freeonlinepsychicreadings.net", "title": "What Do You Know about the Angel Cards and How Do They Work?", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Psychic Questions and Answers / What Do You Know about the Angel Cards and How Do They Work?\nWhat Do You Know about the Angel Cards and How Do They Work?\nAngel cards \u2013 What Do You Know About Them?\nLike Tarot cards, Angel cards are known as a powerful and useful tool for people who are looking for advice and guidance in their walking lives. In fact, these cards will give us not only different insights into our love and relationship, finance, career, etc. but also the peace of mind, clarification and confidence on any decision we make.\nWhat are the Angel card readings? In fact, these readings are able to tap into the Angelic presence in order to guide us towards the greatest life. More importantly, readings can concentrate on the specific inquiry, or be more open-ended via honing to various aspects of life. In some cases, Angel readings may be the efficient ways to tune into the subconscious thoughts, visions and emotions that may also serve as advice and guidance.\nWant to discover some methods of the Angel card readings? One of the effective methods used in these readings is to ask the cards to disclose some information about a question that we really wish to hear the answer. For those who are looking for this practice, they are strongly advised not to expect to get the simple Yes/No answer. Instead, these cards should be utilized to guide seekers towards making any wise decision.\nBear in mind that the queries need to be specific, open-ended and specially focus on our own actions. For instance, instead of asking \u201cHow can I get my mother-in-law to move out?\u201d it is an excellent idea for us to ask \u201cHow should I do to improve the relationship between I and my mother-in-law for betterment?\u201d Additionally, try to keep our mind peaceful and clear during the process of Angel reading.\nHow Do Angel Card Readings Work?\nIn general, a card reader tends to start by anointing or blessing the Angel cards. After that, she will ask the Angels to interact with clearly via the cards on our behalf. Of course, it is occurred that we will be required to clear our puzzled mind and offer the same prayer or request. Some holy readers may work via the pre-defined layouts while others can begin by pulling cards, and then spreading them out till the gentle nudge from the hidden Angel or guide will prompt them to stop.\nNext, the reader will study any messages on each card. Often, the card shall have multiple significances and interpretations; thus, she will have to depend much on the connection with the Angels to pick out the right one in order to understand exactly how it can relate to the inquiries that are asked.\nIn some cases, during the shuffling process, the card can stick out. Some Angel readers will not hesitate to pull this card aside, and interpret its meaning as well because this is described as the urgent sign that these angelic entities are prompting the Psychics to pay much attention to this card. Specially, after the process of the reading, we and our reader shall thank the angels for their assistance. The Angel cards can generally be stored in the specific area, somewhere light and airy. It can be surrounded through the angel statues or even particular crystals in order to honor the means of communication.\nIn brief, by virtue of the Angel cards, the occult readings are more positive, gentle and uplifting than standard Tarot readings. Nevertheless, it does not mean that the Angels may not be highly clear about the problems and issues, nor does it signify that the Angels will not have any specific advice on the real actions that have to be taken for improvement. Although Angels do not always tell us anything we desire to hear, they will always tell us something what we need to hear!\nTo explore more details about this topic \u201cWhat Do You Know about the Angel Cards and How Do They Work?\u201d don\u2019t hesitate to leave all of your questions in the box here.\nPrevious article: How to Distinguish the Difference of a Starseed And a Psychic?\nNext article: Where Can You Find Free Psychic Call No Credit Card In the World?\nThe Mysterious History Of The Crystal Ball that You Need to Know\nSome of us have surely seen the crystals ball at one time or another, and understand that these balls are associated with the so-called Psychics or Fortune Tellers. In general, these occult people will use crystal balls to forecast the future events or explore some hidden knowledge relating to the prophecies, omens or the aid [\u2026]\nWhat Is Clairvoyant Psychic Reading? 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These are the most important cases for all Americans to follow from now until then.\nMasterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage.\nIn July 2012 same-sex couple Charlie Craig and David Mullins were due to wed in Colorado. They approached Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips for a custom wedding cake, and had their request refused by Phillips, a devout Christian. He offered the couple a chance to purchase other goods in his shop, but would not agree to bake them a wedding cake that would be used in a same-sex marriage.\nCraig and Mullins filed a complaint with the state of Colorado citing the Colorado Anti-Discriminations Act which says businesses open to the public cannot discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. The plaintiffs won the case.\nPhillips fought back by filing an appeal with the Supreme Court, arguing that forcing him to create same-sex wedding cakes is an infringement on his Freedom of Expression.\nThe Alliance Defending Freedom will represent the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates.\nIn 2015 the state of California passed Reproductive FACT Act, a law requiring licensed medical centers offering pro-life help to pregnant women to post free advertising that advocates for free and low-cost abortion and contraception services. The advertisement must include a phone number to the local county office that can refer women to the nearest Planned Parenthood center.\nSince 2015 the law has been challenged by multiple California pro-life groups including the Pacific Justice Institute. The National Institute of Family and Life Advocates will be represented during the case by the Alliance Defending Freedom.\nUpon accepting the case, the Supreme Court has outlined one question to be answered, \u201cWhether the disclosures required by the California Reproductive FACT Act violate the protections set forth in the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment, applicable to States through the Fourteenth Amendment.\u201d\nThe outcome of Carpenter v. 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Even if it did constitute a search, their claim is they went through the appropriate procedures to obtain a warrant.\nThis case is expected to clarify the Fourth Amendment\u2019s influence upon the ability of law enforcement to obtain smartphone data stored by wireless service providers.\nMicrosoft, a multi-national company based in the United States, argues information stored abroad is not subject to US-issued federal warrants.\nIn 2013 Microsoft challenged a US government-issued warrant to turn over emails of a target account stored in Ireland, arguing that a federal warrant could not force an American company to give up data stored in servers abroad. Microsoft lost in the New York District Court, but won its appeal in the United State Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.\nThe Supreme Court will decide whether the American-based email service provider must turn over client emails it stores on foreign soil, if the US government obtains a search warrant for those emails. 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The game has everything to spend your free time. So, for example, the game has a great plot line with unexpected turns of events, which is exactly ready to please you with entertaining missions. Also, you will constantly be confronted with mysticism, to unravel the secrets of which is not so easy as it may seem at first glance. The game will introduce you to the main character \u2014 a boy of nine years old, who will go on an exciting journey through the fantasy world to correct his reality.\nThe Walking Dead The Final Season Episode 3 Update 1 - CODEX\nThe opportunity to pass The Walking Dead The Final Season Episode 3 must first be interested in those gamers who closely followed the franchise for five years of its full existence. Perhaps it will not be a secret to anyone that the Walking Dead series for the Telltale Games studio was the first best-selling in the company\u2019s history, therefore, developers treat it with particular trepidation. By the name of the last game of the series, which in essence is an interactive drama, you can easily guess that it will be the final one. This in turn means that everything secret and unknown will become clear and easy to understand. In particular, special attention is paid to none other than Clementine.\nHero of the Kingdom III v1.06 (upd.17.01.2019) - SiMPLEX\nHero of the Kingdom III \u2014 adventure game in the genre of RPG, where you have to go to the prehistoric world, which reigns its rules and laws. The plot line in the first two seconds tells you that you have a huge responsibility on your shoulders to save the world to which you will go. This world is divided into four unique valleys, the territory of each of which you need to protect by any available means. 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The guys live quite a normal life, go to school, fool around, in general, do all kinds of things. The habitat of the protagonists is the city of Seattle. The tragic incident completely changed their fate. Sean hit an unknown young man, there was a scuffle in which the policeman and the brothers father, 45-year-old Esteban Diaz, died.\nThis game has been updated 16-01-2019, 16:44 to the latest version Roads v16.01.2019.\nBraveland v1.4.10.29 - SKIDROW\nBraveland is a turn-based strategy game where you have to help the main character to become a powerful warrior. The fact is that with your village misfortune happened, which suffered for the loss of residents. Now you need to take the path of conquest to destroy all enemy force and save your home. In order to reach your goal, you need to learn a lot, gradually improving your skills and improving the combat system. You lead a small army, which will gradually become the most powerful on earth. 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Explore the way you want and discover the secrets in the forest that can help you survive. But be careful, there is something else in this forest. The game contains blood and images of blood. The corpses of animals and people can be found throughout the game.\nminiLAW Ministry of Law v0.4.1 (upd.15.01.2019) - SKIDROW\nminiLAW Ministry of Law is a game project, executed in a rather simple pixel style, but having an exciting gameplay with a variety of heroes and combat fights with opponents. This project was designed like an arcade platformer, where you go to battle with the most powerful rivals and their bosses. Go to the near future, where you have to play the role of the guard of law and order and protect the world from attack. You are an officer of the Ministry of Law, and your main task is to restore order on the streets of the criminal city. On your way you will meet quite a few difficulties, obstacles and dangers, but you will cope with all this if you show courage and ingenuity to the full. Your main problem is that the criminals have already managed to capture all areas of the city, so it will be quite difficult to reach the end point of your goal.\nQuest Hunter v0.9.93s - SKIDROW\nQuest Hunter \u2014 an action role-playing game with an admixture of action in which you have to go into the mysterious Dark World, replete with enemies, gangsters, various monsters, shamans and other evil spirits. Then you have to fight, swing, look for loot, improve and fight a lot. But the main feature of this game is in a huge open world consisting of dozens of locations. In the course of advancing along the storyline, you will meet various enemies, fight with many bosses, pump various skills, search for equipment and solve physical puzzles, communicate with various characters and even build your own camp. In general, tasks and deeds are above your head, and you need to be in time, without exception.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 9885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gadgetmania.com/2011/06/htc-sensation-available-on-o2-and-orange-on-8-july/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:10Z", "digest": "sha1:COBEDRD5QAQPPL4KDDGD6P7M5VSHJXNU", "length": 696, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "gadgetmania.com", "title": "HTC Sensation Available on O2 and Orange on 8 July - Gadgetmania", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbGadget News\u00bbHTC Sensation Available on O2 and Orange on 8 July\nHTC Sensation Available on O2 and Orange on 8 July\nFor a few months Vodafone may have enjoyed exclusivity on the HTC Sensation, but this will come to an abrupt end on the 8th of July when the device will be available to subscribers of O2 and Orange in the UK.\nPhones 4U recently announced that it would be selling the HTC Sensation on O2 and Orange contracts with deals expected to start at \u00a330 per month, which will provide users with a free phone, 500 minutes, 3,000 text messages and 500MB of data on a two-year Orange contract.\nPre-orders at Phones 4U is now available for those interested in nabbing this device.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gallery.terrachroma.com/2010/June/100625-Flappers-Pharaohs/i-wmcgd27", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TGKQA4TEDGJMQXA2MXEYQXUCP5ZA2EWM", "length": 208, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "gallery.terrachroma.com", "title": "100625 Flapper & Pharaohs - terrachroma", "raw_content": "100625 Flapper & Pharaohs\nLawrence French and Gregory Sargowicki (Lifestyles Catering director of marketing). Flappers and Pharaohs Bash at the Denver Art Museum in Denver, Colorado, on Friday, June 25, 2010.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://garbryridge.com/need-know-changes-medicare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GSAQMSGHUZG73YGIVUKINCM66QNUJDBG", "length": 3946, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "garbryridge.com", "title": "Garbry Ridge", "raw_content": "What you need to know about changes to Medicare\nOnce you separate fact from fiction, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act gives you and your loved ones a chance to take advantage of health insurance reform. If you thoroughly research the ACA, you will learn that the law actually strengthens Medicare benefits. But here are some essential points about the ACA and Medicare that will help you make an informed decision when the time comes.\nKnow what\u2019s actually included in the ACA\nTo start, the ACA reforms health insurance for all Americans, including seniors and college graduates. There has been so much written about the legislation that you simply may not know that only health insurance has been reformed, not the private relationship between you and your practicing physician.\nThe ACA does not affect the amount of medication a doctor can prescribe; the law does not dismantle Medicare altogether; and the law does not force you to buy the federal government\u2019s subsidized health insurance instead of Medicare. The ACA also does not limit how often you can seek health care.\nWhen it comes to Medicare, the purpose of the ACA is to secure Medicare benefits for future generations and improve the quality of Medicare\u2019s services, not limit them.\nHow the ACA reforms Medicare\nWith respect to Medicare, the goal of the ACA is to transition to a system that values preventative health care, not just treating people when they are already very ill. The ACA ensures funding to protect Medicare benefits through at least 2029, which gives you and your loved ones peace of mind. U.S. News and World Report writes, \u201cAARP representatives say Medicare will become stronger once the Affordable Care Act is in full swing.\u201d\nThe law also offers incentives to private insurers to improve the quality of Medicare Advantage plans, an alternative to basic Medicare known as Medicare Part C. That being said, Medicare has been changed to reduce out-of-pocket costs for the vast majority of seniors while improving quality of care for all Medicare recipients, even those who pay higher premiums for Medicare Advantage plans.\nNew Medicare benefits under the ACA include:\nAffordable (or free) preventative screenings with no Medicare Part-B deductible required\nDiscounted prescriptions to close the \u201cdoughnut hole\u201d in Part D-covered medications\nMore resources available to doctors to coordinate senior health care.\nAlso, if your loved one has a Medicare Advantage plan, private insurers will no longer be able to charge more for the same benefits package as Medicare, but be aware that private insurers will still be able to alter benefits (e.g., pharmacy networks) as they see fit.\nTake advantage of preventative health screenings\nThe ACA\u2019s changes to Medicare Part B are arguably the most comprehensive of the reforms. Chronic health problems become more expensive and difficult to treat over time. Receiving preventative health screenings allows your loved ones to take advantage of changes to Medicare.\nYour loved one can now receive discounted or free preventative health care, such as, but not limited to:\nThe idea is to treat relatively minor medical conditions before they become major health concerns, which only become more troublesome as your health declines with age. Medicare\u2019s new benefits aim to provide your loved ones with health care services that previously were not covered before the ACA became law.\nFurthermore, no matter how much the health insurance market changes over the next decade, your loved one\u2019s Medicare benefits will not change. It is also worth noting that the ACA will cap out-of-pocket expenses for Medicare Part D medications at 25 percent by 2020, which may save your loved one thousands of dollars over time.\nWith so much debate still surrounding the ACA, it is no wonder that finding reliable, factual information is so difficult. The bottom line for your loved one is that Medicare has been changed for the better.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://garrettsgames.com/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:33Z", "digest": "sha1:B5FZPSN4AREBSU7ORB4DHCX5LGX566W7", "length": 1114, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "garrettsgames.com", "title": "Garrett's Games and Geekiness", "raw_content": "Welcome to Garrett's Games podcast. Your hosts, Doug Garrett and Shelley Ganschow, have been discussing games on the podcast nearly every week since 2006. We try to cover at least 2 games every week, giving listeners a clear idea of what to expect from the new games hitting the shelves or classic games that should be given a second chance to hit the table.\nOccasionally we will have guests (friends, industry insiders, designers, other podcasters) who provide further insight and ideas about the hobby. Highlights each year are our Meeplefest episodes from late August/September, as well as our pre- and post-Essen shows where we discuss the huge influx of titles that always arrive in Germany in October. As part of the BoardGameGeek staff at Essen since the first time BGG attended the fair, we have a wealth of knowledge about the great and not-so-great games that have made their way into the HUGE BGG library.\nFinally, in late January/early February of each year we cover our 'Best of...' the previous year's titles. See if your favorites match ours, and go back to see if we were correct in previous years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 3320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gchragd.org/en/video-gallery/veilingunveiling-headscarf-christianity-islam-and-judaism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:01Z", "digest": "sha1:W4J6R5U5VS4TNWBL5UYUWHTNMU46BV2U", "length": 154, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "gchragd.org", "title": "Veiling/Unveiling: The Headscarf in Christianity, Islam and Judaism | Geneva Centre for Human Rights Advancement and Global Dialogue", "raw_content": "Veiling/Unveiling: The Headscarf in Christianity, Islam and Judaism\nEmbedded video for Veiling/Unveiling: The Headscarf in Christianity, Islam and Judaism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 180.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://geektechnews.tk/2018/07/12/veyscbenddo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTRZHVMQMZI5VQROC6DM5TZL5MIQ7K4E", "length": 6726, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "geektechnews.tk", "title": "A new $124 million for Brazil\u2019s Movile proves that investors still see promise in Latin American tech | Geek Tech News", "raw_content": "A new $124 million for Brazil\u2019s Movile proves that investors still see promise in Latin American tech\nJuly 12, 2018 Admin 99Taxis, Argentina, brazil, business, china, didi, economy, entrepreneurship, executive, Finance, financial services, Food, food delivery, ifood, latin america, MercadoLibre, movile, Naspers, nubank, online food ordering, online payments, online retailer, partner, Private Equity, spokesperson, TC, Tencent, unicorn, United States, wepay 0\nBrazil\u2019s macroeconomic picture may be gloomy, but technology investors still see hope in the nation\u2019s burgeoning technology sector \u2014 and a recent $124 million financing for the mobile conglomerate Movile is the latest proof that that the pace of investment isn\u2019t slowing down.\nBrazil was already the hottest spot for technology investment throughout Latin America \u2014 with Sao Paulo drawing in the majority of the record-breaking $1 billion in financing that the region\u2019s startups attracted in 2017. And with this latest funding for Movile, led by Naspers, that trend looks likely to continue.\nIndeed, Naspers investments in Movile (supplemented by co-investors like Innova, which participated in the most recent round) have been one of the driving forces sustaining the Brazilian startup community. In all, the South African technology media and investment conglomerate has invested $375 million into Movile over the course of several rounds that likely value the company at close to $1 billion.\nAnother Brazilian tech company, the financial services giant Nubank, has raised around $528 million (according to Crunchbase) and is valued at roughly $2 billion, putting it squarely in the \u201cunicorn club\u201d, as the Latin American Venture Capital Association noted, earlier this year.\nBoth chief executive Fabricio Bloisi and a spokesperson from Naspers declined to comment on Movile\u2019s valuation. \u201cMy dream is not to become a unicorn my dream is to become much bigger than that,\u201d Bloisi said in an interview.\nNubank and Movile are the two most recent privately held independent companies to achieve or approach unicorn status in Brazil, but they\u2019re not alone in reaching or approaching the billion dollar threshold in Latin America. MercadoLibre was an early runaway success for the region (hailing from Argentina) and the ride hailing service 99Taxis was acquired by the Chinese ride-hailing behemoth Didi for a roughly $1 billion dollar valuation last year.\nAll of this points to an appetite for Latin American tech that Movile is hoping it can seize upon with its new $124 million in financing.\nThe company is looking to expand its food delivery business iFood, its payment company, Zoop, and its ticketing platform, Sympla.\nBoth Movile and Naspers look to Chinese companies as their model and inspiration for growth, with Bloisi saying that he\u2019s eyeing the eventual public offering for Meituan \u2014 the Chinese online retailer as the company to emulate in the market these days.\n\u201cThe Chinese companies are doing extremely well and Movile is very similar to a Chinese company,\u201d says Bloisi. And the company\u2019s buy and build strategy certainly mirrors that of a tech business in the world\u2019s largest emerging market economy moreso than it does a typical U.S. startup.\nThat extends to Movile\u2019s investment in the tech ecosystem in its native Brazil and the broader Latin American region. Already the company boasts 150 million users per month across its application ecosystem. Through on-click payment services provided by Zoop, Movile offers a WePay and WeChat like experience for buyers in Latin America, Bloisi said.\nIt\u2019s a playbook that the company\u2019s backers have run before \u2014 with WeChat. Naspers came to prominence and untold riches by being an early backer of Tencent who\u2019s WeChat and WePay applications have become the backbone of mobile commerce in China.\nNow it\u2019s looking to replicate that with Movile in Brazil and beyond. Like its Chinese counterparts, Movile is more than just one of the largest startup companies in the Brazilian ecosystem\u2026 it\u2019s also a big investor. Indeed, subsidiaries like iFood began as small investments the company made in promising businesses.\nIt was with its last $82 million round of financing from Naspers and other co-investors that Movile backed Mercadoni, a Colombian grocery business, and its payment services play in Brazil \u2014 Zoop (which is one of the company\u2019s main areas of interest going forward).\nFor Bloisi, that future outlook seems pretty bright. \u201cOur confidence is extremely high,\u201d he says of the recent financing. \u201cFor me it\u2019s an indicator that things are growing. There was a hot moment in Latin America in 2010-2012. Then there was a recession, now while Movile is raising more there are also many more players,\u201d who are coming to market with convincing offerings for investors.\nMovile itself isn\u2019t afraid to let its checkbook do the talking for it when it comes to confidence in the market for online retail and commerce in Brazil. Bloisi estimates that his company has made nearly 35 transactions over the past few years, and will continue to invest heavily in the sector.\n\u201cMany of our business are growing at over 100% per year,\u201d Bloisi said.\nInvestors like Martin Tschopp the chief executive of Naspers can\u2019t complain about that kind of growth across multiple business units.\nAs the executive said in a satement:\n\u201cNaspers has been a long-term partner of Movile because of its ability to build transformative mobile businesses in Latin America and beyond. Movile has great expertise in identifying high-potential companies in consumer segments with opportunity for massive growth, including food delivery with iFood, which is why we continue to support the company.\u201d\nThat sentiment, an optimism about the future of technology enabled businesses in Brazil and the broader Latin American region has captured investors\u2019 imagination from billionaire backed offices like the Russian investment firm DST and large multinational U.S.-based players like Goldman Sachs.\nAs HIllel Moerman, head of Goldman\u2019s private capital investment group told The Financial Times, \u201cThe [venture capital] ecosystem is still nascent compared to the US and other international markets \u2014 therefore there is a large opportunity for start-ups.\u201d\nBeyond the relative maturity of the venture community, there are macroeconomic forces at play that continue to make the Brazilian market attractive.\n\u201cBrazil has a large market, a pretty tech savvy population with attractive demographics and decent engineering and computing talent. 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This was a 4.1% year on year (y/y), increase and the highest CUR since March 2016. China\u2019s production was 61.2 Mt, a 4.2% increase y/y, while the US produced 6.4 Mt, a 1.0% y/y decline compared to February 2016.\nCrude steel production reached 1,628.6 Mt in 2016, up 0.8% compared to 2015. Of this 1,125.1 Mt or 69.1% was produced in Asia with China contributing 808.4 Mt of it. China\u2019s ratio of the global total crude steel production was 49.6% in 2016 up 0.2% from 2016. The next largest producing region was the EU28 at 10%, followed by Japan at 6.4%, India at 5.9%, and the US at 4.8%. Russia and South Korea were next at 4.3% and 4.2% respectfully. Rounding out the top 10 producers in 2016, Brazil at 1.9%, Ukraine at 1.5% and the rest of the world at 11.4%.\nThe Worldsteel Association\u2019s short range outlook portends that 2017 crude steel production will increase by 0.5% to 1,509.6 Mt. It predicts a 2.9% increase for the NAFTA region to 137.4 Mt of which the US typically accounts for about 59% of the NAFTA total or 80.8 Mt.\nFigure 1 charts the total CUR on the left hand axis in red. The right hand axis in blue-bars illustrates annualized production. Global capacity was reduced by some 200 million tonnes in 2016 bringing the total to 2.1 billion tonnes. The net result is that the CUR has stabilized at 69.0% plus or minus 0.5 point. Another way to say this is that there is 31% overcapacity in the world or approximately 630 Mt. This translates into eight times the 78.6 million Mt that the US produced last year. Needless to say there is a lot more obsolete excess capacity that needs to be curtailed to bring demand and supply closer to equilibrium.\nThe Organization of Economic Development (OECD) recently warned that excess steel capacity will likely get worse in the years ahead as more new capacity is brought on-line at a faster rate than obsolete capacity is shuttered. Currently some 94 Mt of new capacity is either under construction or in the planning stages. Of particular concern is China which commands close to 50% of global capacity. In 2016 through September, China exported 83.6 Mt, for an annualized rate of 111.5 Mt. This was roughly one third of the total 300 Mt of steel exports from all countries combined. China economy is gradually transitioning to a consuming society with less focus on the vast steel consuming infrastructure sector. 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With 12 stalls situated on the site of the OldBarracks, the makeshift village was an attraction for anyone who wanted to try out some of the beer from the Reel Deel Brewery, check out some of Joe McDermott\u2019s hand crafted wooden pieces or marvel at the vibrant colours of Saileen Drumm\u2019s Art display.\nJust a few weeks later the group were ar an mb\u00f3thar bound for B\u00e9al an Mhuirthead. The heritage festival always brings life and energy to the town of Belmullet, with ceol, damhsa agus siamsa\u00edocht in every corner. This time around, the D\u00e9anta i Maigh Eo stalls were side by side along America Street. \u00c9ilis Keane\u2019s handmade children\u2019s clothing was a popular stop, Blisswood frames were also attracting attention, and many indulged in the sweet treats on sale by Noo. With clear skies and a bustling atmosphere, the event proved to be just as successful as the Salmon Festival!\nWhat the future holds for the collective, we do not yet know. 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Each building has a lot of information to maintain such as occupancy, leases, payments and maintenance requests and expenses. This is expected to be done by the manger on\u2026\nThe World Food Fair Ltd & Another v. Hong Kong Island Development Ltd\n1st Plaintiff \u2013 The World Food Fair Limited (formerly know as wealth state Investments Limited) 2nd Plaintiff \u2013 The World Enterprises Holdings Limited Defendant \u2013 Hong Kong Island Development Limited (Owner of shopping mall and two plaintiffs are the owners of retail shops) In 1996, after conference, the plaintiffs brought an action against the defendant\u2026\nThe company I worked for in the past was FORE Properties. This was a chain or apartment communities that were all purchased and built by the owner and run by the property managers, assistant property managers, and the leasing team. The \u201cchain of command\u201d went as follows. This is my knowledge to the best of\u2026\nWE WILL WRITE A CUSTOM ESSAY SAMPLE ON Leasing ESSAY EXAMPLES SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU\nResponse to Client Request\nWhile working on a consulting engagement, a supervisor in your team has given you an assignment. The client is a regional trucking company. A new customer has approached the client with an opportunity that would require 120 trailers\u201420 more than the trucking company currently owns. The client is uncertain how long the relationship with the\u2026\nThe following is a summary of advantages and disadvantages of building, buying and leasing space for the new orthopedic line at Trinity Community Hospital. Included in this summary, is the option I recommend and my basis for this choice. When considering building, buying or leasing space for the new orthopedic service line, one must consider\u2026\nLeasing Research Paper\nA lease is a contract written between two people one of whom is the owner of a property lending it to another party who uses it and gives financial compensation for the exchange. There are many different types of lease arrangements for property. They include full service, net, percentage, and gross leases (Lank, 2003). To\u2026\nLeasing is a process by which a person rent property to another person with the rental contract. Lease has the same meaning as rent. Lessor and lessee are the main character in the process of leasing. Lessor Lessor is the owner of the property and assets. The lessor lease their assets or property under a\u2026\nOff Balance Sheet Accounting\nOperating leasing is the most common form of off balance sheet financing. With leasing, on the one hand, an entity could acquire the right to use an asset through a rental agreement. 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His current research focuses on issues of war and peace in ancient, modern, and contemporary thought, in both Euro-American and Islamic traditions.\nIdris is currently completing two book-length studies. The first, titled War for Peace: A Global and Historical Critique, examines competing idealizations of \u201cpeace\u201d across canonical works of ancient and modern political thought, from Plato to Immanuel Kant and Sayyid Qutb. It considers variations of the recurrent claim that \u201cwar is for the sake of peace,\u201d to extend an idea often acknowledged but perpetually under-explored by theorists\u2014namely, that the discursive boundary between war and peace is unstable and fluid. Across the histories of political thought, the insistence on peace opposes it to war but, paradoxically, also authorizes war. Guided by instances of \u2018war for peace,\u2019 this book tracks the ways in which idealizations of peace are grounded in eclipsed antagonisms and also facilitate hostility, taking up Plato, al-Farabi, Aquinas, al-Mas\u2018udi, Ibn Khaldun, Erasmus, Gentili, Grotius, Hobbes, Kant, and Qutb. Idris\u2019 second study focuses on constructions of \u201cIslam\u201d in language, particularly contention over its meaning in relation to peace, war, violence, and submission in Euro-American and Arabic thought. 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Hickam Public Affairs has the experience and the tools to develop innovative, efficient solutions that assure your target audience sees and hears your message \u2014 and acts on it.\nUsing our network of media relationships, issue groups, advocacy organizations, citizen networks, and social media outlets, we are able to develop targeted communications that elevate our clients\u2019 messages in state and local media. Whether it\u2019s part of a nationally-coordinated campaign, or a state or local issue, our team excels in generating earned media and increasing awareness of our clients\u2019 issues, causes, and messages. As we show in the case study below, we deliver results to our clients that exceed their expectations.\nAmazon was breaking ground on a new fulfillment center in Kansas City. They wanted an outside-the-box groundbreaking that highlighted the community, was inclusive of public officials and gained attention from two media outlets. 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Please subscribe to stay updated with new Highland Cattle videos!\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BS_R59qjkGA/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BS9BVIEDkG4/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BS6YZGYDs6F/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BS3-rL1D_9c/\nScottish Highland Cattle In Finland: Tiny calf loves milk\nHere is Otso and his mum. In this video Otso is about three days old. Otso loves milk. Highland Cattle are a Scottish cattle breed. They are adapted to the cold weather and stay outside throughout the year. We have been raising these fluffy cows since 2007 on our farm in Finland. On this Youtube channel we share lots of videos of our cows, bulls and cute calves. Please subscribe to stay updated with new Highland Cattle videos!\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BSyr7LlDkUS/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BSwGaNDj1Bj/\nScottish Highland Cattle In Finland: A couple hours old newborn calf walking home with mum\nFirst calf of 2017 is here! One of our cows went to give birth in the forest. 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Then, there are the hands, fingernails, unique fingerprints and palm lines. There are an estimated 800 mountain gorillas in existence. Tireless conservation keeps this small number steady, however they are constantly at risk. Tracking these majestic and gentle creatures in the wild \u2026 it is sheer glee. Also: baby gorillas!\u201d\nNorthern Frontier District, Kenya\n\u201cFrankly, there are few words to describe the panorama of flying via helicopter over the Lake Turkana region, Silali Crater, Hoodoo and Painted Valleys, an ancient cycad forest \u2026 and alighting atop Desert Rose, to a band of singing Samburu warriors. It is your own private version of Baraka.\u201d\nMigration over the Serengeti, Tanzania\n\u201cThe Serengeti spans a wilderness area of 12,000 square miles and hosts the largest mammal migration in the world: a mega-herd of one million wildebeest and zebra crossing predator filled plains and rivers. It is jaw-droppingly, mind-blowingly primal. Also: Wildebeest are the animal kingdom\u2019s court jester \u2014 hilarious and shockingly dumb.\u201d\nView from Table Mountain, South Africa\nTable Mountain sunset, Cape Town, South Africa\n\u201cCape Town is one of the world\u2019s most beautiful small cities. The view from the flat-topped Table Mountain inspires adventure and exploration \u2026 and contentedness at being on that mountain, in that moment, overlooking an ocean that extends to Antarctica. Its protected areas are a World Heritage Site and habitat to more than 2,000 species of plants, including the king protea, a flower that is both Dr. Seuss and sophistication.\u201d\n\u201cThese pink-orange-red dunes are some of the highest and most remote in the world. At the crack of dawn, before anyone else has arrived, you can lie at the base of Big Daddy, amongst the deadvlei, and have the entire, serene world to yourself.\u201d (That\u2019s Starla pictured at the dunes in the photo at the top of the post.)\n\u201cThe Delta is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World and on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The world\u2019s largest inland sea fills with flood water from Angola every year, completely reconfiguring the landscape and ecosystem. There are islands and oases and an abundance of big game. It is pristine wilderness and wildlife and one of the world\u2019s best examples of conservation.\u201d\nWant to read more from the girl who\u2019s seen it all in Africa? Come back soon for her over-the-top safari vacation ideas!\nMeanwhile, follow Starla on Instagram for jaw-dropping Africa travel photos.\nAdventure TravelAfrica TravelPro TipsTravel\nReply\t6 Outrageously Over-the-Top Africa Vacation Ideas April 6, 2015 at 4:10 pm\n[\u2026] I suspect you will feel alive too, when you let your wanderlust dreams run wild, thanks to the second-in-a-series post from GeoEx Africa expert Starla Estrada. To refresh, Starla has adventured through 17 [\u2026]\nReply\tThe Best Travel Photographers on Instagram May 19, 2015 at 4:00 pm\n[\u2026] hot air balloon, helicopter, and any number of small aircraft. (She\u2019s also a friend, who has guest posted a series of Africa travel tips on this [\u2026]\nReply\tBon Voyage! 5 Over-the-Top Travel Trends You Need to Know About Right Now August 11, 2015 at 5:54 pm\n[\u2026] note: Read more from Starla on Homebody in Motion here and [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 287.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hopeinmadison.org/resources/blog/600-adoption.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:45Z", "digest": "sha1:WXL37IVHIVPW7XAP73GSTAZBSKW347TC", "length": 996, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "hopeinmadison.org", "title": "Adoption", "raw_content": "For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, \u201cAbba! Father!\u201d The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs\u2014heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him. - Romans 8:15 \u201317 (ESV)\nAdoption is a concept that is personal to me. I'm a second generation product of adoption. My mother was adopted. I can't imagine what her life would have been like without the kindness, love, and sacrifices my grandparents made.\nWhen Paul writes that the Spirit confirms our position with God by bringing us through adoption it comes with some added personal significance. As he says in this passage, it not only changes who you are and how you relate to God, but also how you respond to Him.\nI hope you plan to join us on Sunday as we continue to unfold this amazing chapter of Romans 8 .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hornsey-town-hall.org.uk/index.php/2009/10/05/results-of-the-public-exhibition-on-the-future-of-hornsey-town-hall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:59Z", "digest": "sha1:6NEGMAICQME2CROXNZNVONGG2K233GU5", "length": 4732, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "hornsey-town-hall.org.uk", "title": "Results of the Public Exhibition on the Future of Hornsey Town Hall \u2013 Hornsey Town Hall Trust", "raw_content": "October 5, 2009Written by Sarah Wiseman\nWe have collated the 400 feedback cards we received during the week of the public exhibition in June and have outlined the results below.\nesults of the Public Exhibition for the Future of Hornsey Town Hall\nThank you to everyone who took the time to visit the Hornsey Town Hall Exhibition and who took the trouble to give us their feedback. We had just under 1,000 people through the doors of Hornsey Town Hall during the week of the public exhibition (12th \u2013 18th June). Most people who came were supportive\u2013 over 92% of people who completed a feedback card agreed with the approaches to implement the vision. Generally people were excited about the plans to bring the Town Hall back into public use \u2013 especially about the Cinema and refurbishment of the Assembly Hall.\nWe have collated the feedback cards (nearly 400 cards were completed and approximately 1000 people attended overall) and the project team have met to feedback the verbal comments when talking to visitors.\nIt was very clear that HornseyTown Hall is a very important local landmark and is its protection and development is very important to people. In general the vast majority of people were very positive about the proposals and some very constructive and helpful comments were received. The broad responses are outlined below:\nThere were lots of comments received across all sections of the feedback card so these comments were consolidated to understand what factors were important to people.\nThe top three areas of interest are explained more below:\n14% of people who completed a feedback card cited Parking/Transportation as an issue. It is also worth noting that this was by far and away the biggest discussion point when talking to people about the proposals. Views ranged across a broad spectrum \u2013 from those wanting to see extensive car parking provision to the rear to those wanted a sustainable transport solution with minimal car parking provision and improved public transport and alternative transport solutions.\nThroughout the design process to date and ongoing the proposals for the newly refurbished town hall have included extensive consideration of what parking provision should be included for on the site, particularly as the consultation on the proposals identified parking in Crouch End as a general concern.\nHowever it is clear that due to the nature of the site Car parking facilities for the public will be limited and will not be extensive. Extensive Public Transport surveys have been carried out and we will endeavour to work with TFL and the Councils Sustainable Transport Team to ensure that Local Transport provision reflects the need of the community and supports the needs of visitors who will be travelling by public transport to the new facilities.\nCar Parking and Public transport provision are being carefully considered but ultimately we recognise that difficult decisions are likely to have to be made regarding car parking provision for the Town Hall, particularly when considering Haringey Council\u2019s aim to reduce car dependency and promote travel alternatives including walking, cycling and the use of public transport.\nHowever the Community Partnership Board and Haringey are continuing to work in partnership to develop a strategy for Crouch End to assess and address any issues around parking on the Town Hall site.\nSquare/Outdoor Space\n12% of people who completed a feedback card mentioned the square and public spaces as important to them. The most popular comment was about the \u2018Green\u2019 element of the outdoor space. People were eager for a landscaped, public area. Interest/Concern was also expressed about the front square and it is evident from written and verbal comments this retentions and development is a vital component of the design \u2013 many eager for its modelling on a European \u2018piazza\u2019 style design with Caf\u00e9s and performance spaces integral to this.\nThe Residential Element to the project was mentioned on 11% of feedback cards. Generally people were concerned about the impact and design of the new design would impact of the local area particularly the massing. It is important that these concerns about the impact of the residential are considered. It is expected that close consultation with planning authority may mitigate many of these fears.\nAll the comments have been fed back to the design team who will consider the comments provided through the next stage of the design. Planning permission for the scheme is planned to be applied for in Autumn . Please watch this space for the latest news on the Hornsey Town Hall Project.\nTo view a more detailed breakdown of the results of the Exhibition, click here\nRead the press release about the Exhibition here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 6819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://htsc.se/speakers/nader-asnafi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:52Z", "digest": "sha1:5Q4P7DQG46C6DCDFSKOYBV2I6STILCFD", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "htsc.se", "title": "Nader Asnafi - High Tech Steel Conference", "raw_content": "Professor in Mechanical Engineering, \u00d6rebro University", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hubguitar.com/repertoire/gymnopedie-no-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KX7BFNF4DYJ7YKMNQAI7DKGR5WZDNQJT", "length": 1324, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "hubguitar.com", "title": "Gymnopedie No. 1 (Erik Satie) | Hub Guitar", "raw_content": "\u2190 PrevMinuet in G (Christian Pezold)\nNext\u2192Cello Suite (Bach)\nGymnopedie No. 1 (Erik Satie)\nErik Satie's Gymnopedie No. 1 is a well-known piece of classical piano repertoire from 19th century. Students of the piano will typically encounter this piece during their studies.\nThis Adaptation\nThis version has been adapted for guitar from the original music published in 1888. Some minor changes were made to make it \u201cfit\u201d the guitar. Chords were simplified, and in some cases non-melody notes were omitted. The result is a version that is reasonably easy to play on the guitar, without sacrificing the mood and character of the original composition.\nPlay mm1-39. D.C. Al Coda means \u201cgo to the beginning, and then take the coda\u201d\nFrom the beginning, play until the end of 32. Now we see the instructions \u201cTo Coda\u201d, so we skip to m40.\nListen to a piano version to get a sense of the time and feel. The goal is to play very slowly and beautifully.\nLet note rings for as long as possible. Take advantage of ringing open strings to conceal chord switches.\nBeing a highly expressive tune, the dynamics (f, ff, p) are open to interpretation.\nStarting from the first breath you take before playing measure 1, remind yourself: don\u2019t rush. The easiest way to destroy this piece is to play it too fast.\nNext solos lesson: Cello Suite (Bach)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hummusbird.com/new-positions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:13Z", "digest": "sha1:J2KXLC6KUJ3LP3DT6S6KXREYYRFHODRE", "length": 2104, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "hummusbird.com", "title": "New Positions | Hummusbird", "raw_content": "We have been talking about the job market because I am looking for somewhere to work. I have a job but I\u201dm not really that happy there and I think that\u2019s the is the kind of thing you should do if you aren\u2019t happy where you meet. So that is why I was looking at some other things. In my field there is a decent number of openings, I mean, I work in management so it\u2019s like you can get stuff there. There are other fields though that I have no idea how hard it would be to get a job when you are looking for physician jobs or whatever, because I know there are places that hire but I don\u2019t know how they transact. So basically I guess you would have to be able to find a place that is hiring and then see how that works and get some discussions going with people there. Discussions are actually a pretty important part of getting a job whether you\u2019re doing them with people who are going to hire your with people who already work there. It\u2019s important to find out what you are looking for and I think that the best way to do that is to get what you can so that you can know what you are going to be sharing.\nThat\u2019s part of he reason I like to try and find out what I can about a company before I go in. But that doesn\u2019t always happen. So really though if I could find something that was close to what I do now but set up in a different way that would be great, it\u2019s not that I don\u2019t like my job, it\u2019s just that there are some things here that i\u2019m not crazy about and I think that it would be a better environment for me somewhere else. And that is probably a reason that a lot of people get different jobs. But if I can\u2019t find one that\u2019s alright because I think that I\u2019m probably pretty ok at this company. And I just want to get to a place where I am enjoying what I do so I can express myself in a way that will get me to where I want to go and respected. So that is the reason I have been seeing what I Can find and although I haven\u2019t seen much it doesn\u2019t mean that I won\u2019t get something, it just means that it might not be that what I want is available around here so I might have to try other options.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 151.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iainabernethy.co.uk/article/mental-strength", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:33Z", "digest": "sha1:SUZVWTWCTGTKAOFD66LGEZI76CZ43QV2", "length": 5104, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "iainabernethy.co.uk", "title": "Mental Strength | Iain Abernethy", "raw_content": "In his book 'Wado-Ryu' karate, Hironori Otsuka tells us that there are three kinds of strength - Physical Strength, Technical Strength and Mental Strength - and if any of those is deficient it will be \" the downfall of the individual \". It's a common misconception throughout the martial arts that 'technique' is the key; if we have good technique then we will be effective in combat. The fact is that technique is no more or less important than physical fitness or mental conditioning. Many martial artists dislike this idea as it infers that those with poor technique can defeat those with good technique (if they lack the required mental and physical condition). A labourer on a building site (physically conditioned) who regularly gets involved in bar fights (mentally used to combat) could easily defeat the martial artist who concentrates on technique to the exclusion of the other forms of strength.\nIf we are to be able to effectively defend ourselves then we need to ensure that our training also develops physical condition and mental strength in addition to technique. The key is to ensure that our training is intense enough to encourage growth in all three areas e.g. we drill our techniques with intensity and to the point of exhaustion (stimulates physical strength) and no matter how much we want to quit or ease off, we then drill them some more (stimulates mental strength).\nWe need at least two sessions a week that take us to our very limits. They key is not duration but intensity. We can train for hours and never break sweat or we can work flat out for around two minutes and be close to throwing up. Real fights are extremely intense and, if our training is to be valid, we also need to train in an intense way. This intensity in training has many benefits besides increased combative effectiveness.\nTo make progress physically, we need to attempt activities that are currently outside our capabilities. To get stronger, we attempt to lift more weight that we can currently lift. To increase our aerobic and anaerobic capacities we try to do more than we can currently do in a given time. Through attempting to accomplish that which currently lies beyond our reach, our bodies will adapt, our physical fitness will be advanced and the initial task becomes easier to accomplish. Our minds work in a similar way. If we wish to strengthen ourselves mentally, we also have to attempt tasks that are currently beyond us. This not only applies to our training but to our lives in general. Through our training, we get accustomed to reaching beyond ourselves. We are therefore more likely to reach beyond ourselves in all areas of our lives.\nWe should be prepared to take on difficult tasks in order to develop ourselves and the quality of our lives. The task needs to be difficult if it is going to develop our capabilities. If the weightlifter does not put enough weight on the bar, he isn't struggling and hence he's not getting any stronger. Likewise, if our lives are 'plain sailing', we are not developing ourselves. If things are too easy, our abilities are not developed and hence our potential for progress becomes limited. We won't experience any 'discomfort' so long as we remain exactly where we are; but in my opinion that's no way to live. We should push our boundaries and not remain tethered to our 'fur-lined rut'. We should actively court discomfort and the growth that results from that discomfort.\nIt is through attempting difficult tasks that we develop the ability to accomplish them. They key thing is to ensure that we are consistently trying to 'lift that weight'. Regardless of what that 'weight' may be - better health, more money, more rewarding jobs and relationships etc - the only way we'll get it is through attempting to get it. It may be very uncomfortable at first; however, it is that very discomfort that will develop your abilities and ensure that you eventually succeed. For example, if you take on a new job, it certainly won't be as easy as the old familiar job, but any difficulty experienced will strengthen you and develop your capabilities. As your talents grow, there will come a point where the new job will become 'easy' and hence you now have the ability to reach yet further.\nTo achieve great things we need great abilities, and the only way to develop great abilities is through great struggle. Once we understand that 'resistance' is a vital part of the process, we actually start to desire that resistance and the associated struggle.\nOur training gets us used to reaching beyond ourselves and helps us to understand the process of resistance and advancement. Our intense combat training (Jutsu) should lead to us applying the lessons learnt in our daily lives (Do). We train in a way that takes us beyond our current limits, so that we can expand those limits. In life, we should also constantly reach beyond our current limits so we can develop our capabilities and lead the lives we want to lead. In training and in life we need to seek out discomfort, strive to develop ourselves and ensure that we are constantly moving forwards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://idei.fr/fr/conferences/2015-eighth-bi-annual-conference-economics-intellectual-property-software-and-internet", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:08Z", "digest": "sha1:3CBCSJUUGKSUC4LU7AJK7BTUJUEMEHQR", "length": 2737, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "idei.fr", "title": "Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet | IDEI", "raw_content": "Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet\nOrganis\u00e9 par Jacques Cr\u00e9mer et Paul Seabright.\nSeventh bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet: Tiger Forum 2013, Toulouse, France, 5\u20137 juin 2013.\nDoh-Shin Jeon (TSE), \u00ab Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges: Fixed vs. Mobile Networks \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nPedro Pereira (AdC and CEFAGE-UE), \u00ab Bundling Incentives in Markets with Product Complementarities: The Case of Triple-Play \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nHelen Weeds (University of Essex), \u00ab Does Freedom of Information Deter Information Acquisition? \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nYaron Yehezkel (Tel Aviv University), \u00ab Dynamic Competition with Network Externalities: Why History Matters \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nHal Varian (Google, Inc.), \u00ab Estimating Demand ad Effectiveness: a Practical Guide \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nJulienne Liang (Orange France), \u00ab Estimating Demand for Fixed-mobile Bundles and Switching Costs Between Taiffs \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nSara Fisher Ellison (MIT), \u00ab Match Quality, Search, and the Internet Market for Used Books \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nAlexander White (Tsinghua University), \u00ab On the Antitrust Economics of the Electronic Books Industry \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nDavid Zvilichovsky (Tel Aviv University), \u00ab Playing Both Sides of the Market: Success and Reciprocity on Crowdfunding Platforms \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nGreg Taylor (University of Oxford), \u00ab Quality Provision in the Presence of a Biased Intermediary \u00bb, Eighth bi-annual conference on The Economics of Intellectual Property, Software and the Internet, Toulouse, France, 8\u20139 janvier 2015.\nSymposium Jan. 7, 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 301.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indianmusicschool.com/gubguba/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SANUPFFGW3X4XA7XNKJZNXZ2ZY5SPI5S", "length": 605, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "indianmusicschool.com", "title": "Gubguba - Indian Music School", "raw_content": "Gubguba instrument \u2013 Indian Music School\nGubguba\nGubguba : Introduction\nThe gubguba, also known as guba, gopijantro, gubgubbi, ananda lahari, premtal, khamak, khomok, chonka, jamidika, jamuku and bapang is an Indian percussion string instrument.\nIt consists of a dried gourd or wooden resonator through which a gut string is attached. The player holds the body of the instrument under the arm and the free end of the string in the fist of the same arm. The string is plucked with a plectrum in the other hand. Some varieties of the gubgubbi, particularly the Bengali khomok or khamak, contain two strings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1250, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 17.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indigo.ie/~wyd/batcod.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:11Z", "digest": "sha1:CSGFKM3YD7SEID7MY5ZZAZQLU3J6ZYDY", "length": 1518, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "indigo.ie", "title": "WYD-eye film: 'Battered Cod'", "raw_content": "Battered Cod' is a new type of short film in that it is both a documentary and an artistic film ('docu-artistic') and receives its Canadian premiere as part of the 16th International Women's Film Festival in St. Johns in October.\nIt was made in southeast Ireland by choreographer Libby Seward who works with both community and professional dance in Ireland. The film was made in collaboration with Ken Coleman of WYD-Eye Film Unit and explores the demise of the fishing industry through an unusual combination of dance, documentary, music and poetry.\nThis short film (10 minutes) touches on a number of issues relevant to both sides of the Atlantic, not least of all the greed and over-fishing of our seawaters. It also pays homage to the lives of fishermen worldwide and the communities they come from. The reflective mood is captured in glimpses of the daily life of Waterford Fisherman Mel Butler and narrative from Dunmore East's historian and folklorist, Ray McGrath.\n'Battered Cod' was made with a grant from the Ireland Newfoundland Partnership and it is planned to be screened on Irish TV later in 2005.\nLibby Seward is travelling to present her film at the Closing Night Gala Screening on Sat. Oct. 22nd, at the Arts and Culture Centre, St. Johns. During her visit she will be making contact with other film dance makers and exploring possibilities of future collaborations with dancers from both countries.\nin Acrobat (.pdf) format (194K).\nto see a tiny 30-second preview of the film\nin .avi format (945 KB).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indigo.ie/~wyd/whale.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MGIMRIXW22V2D2VBATOLAW25PBN3CU4N", "length": 502, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "indigo.ie", "title": "WYD's Production of 'Whale'", "raw_content": "This play by David Holman was directed by Ben Hennessy. It was based on a true story about how, for the first time, the US Navy and USSR Navy co-operated on an attempt to save the lives of a family of whales, which was stranded by ice in Arctic waters.\nThe show was the first large-scale production by WYD which placed an emphasis on the use of a set and costumes. It played to a very enthusiastic audience for one week in December 1990 at Garter Lane Arts Centre.\nCLICK PICTURE TO SEE A LARGER VERSION", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 125.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indyautoblog.com/can-sell-car/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:29Z", "digest": "sha1:T3LEK2POWFMEIO66CWQC5WFTIEK7HCJL", "length": 1899, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "indyautoblog.com", "title": "Where Can I Sell My Car? - Indy Auto Blog Indianapolis", "raw_content": "Selling a car is a tough task. You want to get a good price for something you no longer want or need. While finding the right buyer for your vehicle can be difficult, modern technology gives sellers plenty of tools to use to their advantage. Here are some of your options.\nThis option has been around for a long time, and one of the reasons for its longevity is that it works. If you want to sell a vehicle, it might be a good idea to contact your local newspaper for some ad space in the local classifieds. This option is a cheap way to advertise what you have. Although it might take some time, chances are you\u2019ll sell your car if you offer a good price.\nIf you don\u2019t trust the power of print, you can use online resources like eBay, Craigslist, or Oodle to sell your vehicle. These sites are a great way to reach a lot of people in a short amount of time. The only downside with this is that you are more likely to run into scams, or people with bad offers. Even though it can be a little bit of a pain to use these sites, you can get a great price for your vehicle if the right buyer comes along.\nSell Your Car to a Dealership\nThis is an especially great option if you\u2019re hoping to buy a vehicle from the same dealership where you sell your car. Most dealerships offer great deals for trade-ins. Some dealerships, like Hubler Automotive, will offer more for trades because they need to boost inventory, but more importantly, they know that treating the customer well when buying his or her vehicle will put the dealership at the top of that person\u2019s list when it\u2019s time to buy again. Hubler is always interested in seeing what you have to trade in when you come to purchase a new vehicle. Talk with their representatives to see what Hubler can do for you.\nPosted in Shopping and tagged classified ad, Craigslist, eBay, newspaper, online ad, Oodle, selling car, trade-in.\n\u2190 Chevy SS\nCustom Vans \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 6219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://infinitas-design.co.uk/comet_news/first-sewage-heat-recovery-project-approved-on-the-non-domestic-rhi-scheme/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RIUHJB2YGRP57JC53XU2HTXLW4CWFGQT", "length": 1050, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "infinitas-design.co.uk", "title": "First sewage heat recovery project approved on the Non-Domestic RHI Scheme - Infinitas Design", "raw_content": "First sewage heat recovery project approved on the Non-Domestic RHI Scheme\nInfinitas Design is delighted to have been involved in the design and development of the first sewage heat recovery heat pump system in the UK. SHARC Energy Systems owns the SHARC sewage filtration technology, which can utilise waste municipal water to generate heating for use in space heating and domestic hot water. The sewers can also be used to reject heat if cooling is required. The first project is an 800kW heat pump project using sewage from a main sewer close to Scottish Borders College, Galashiels. The heat pumps are providing 100% of the space heating and hot water demands to the college via a 500km heat network around the campus serving 5 gas boiler plant rooms. SHARC Energy Systems are providing an ESCo arrangement to the college to supply heat for a 20-year period. The Borders College project was approved on the RHI scheme in October 2016 after the application was submitted by Infinitas Design Ltd on SHARC Energy System\u2019s behalf. www.sharcenergy.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://insurancefreedom.co.uk/2018/10/11/could-a-nanager-be-the-answer-to-your-household-needs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:25Z", "digest": "sha1:APGM7LHAKE4FSMKUGOD6Z7ECHTEI7KJR", "length": 4188, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "insurancefreedom.co.uk", "title": "Could a nanager be the answer to your household needs? \u2013 Insurance", "raw_content": "Could a nanager be the answer to your household needs?\nHomeCould a nanager be the answer to your household needs?\nPerhaps you know the feeling. It\u2019s the end of a long work week, and you\u2019ve finally put the kids to bed. And what awaits? No, not a chance to binge-watch the latest Netflix comedy or, even better, get some quality time with your partner. Instead, you need to make sure that scheduled deposit went through, RSVP for your son\u2019s school friend\u2019s birthday party, put away toys from this afternoon, wash the dishes, make the kids\u2019 lunches for tomorrow, call the doctor about that last bill, and if you\u2019re lucky, maybe get a little sleep in there somewhere.\nWhat you might need is a nanager.\nWhat is a nanager?\nPart nanny, part household manager, a nanager is a nanny who also helps manage the house, taking care of everything from cleaning to even budgeting and financial planning. He or she is almost like a butler-fixer hybrid who also changes diapers, like a wild combination of Michael Clayton, Mr. Belvedere and Mary Poppins.\nThe concept started in Australia, where an enterprising nanny realized she had organizational skills that went beyond her duties as a nanny. She coined the term, and it\u2019s been spreading ever since.\nWait. What\u2019s a household manager?\nThe term gained attention recently when Gwyneth Paltrow described someone on staff that way to a writer, who then wondered how this person was different from a butler. (In Gwynnie\u2019s case, it seems like the difference was essentially in the title.)\nBut it is a real thing that can really be useful to real people like yourself, even if (especially if?) you didn\u2019t star in Shallow Hal. Think of a household manager as someone who takes care of things that you lack either the time, the inclination, or the aptitude to handle yourself. For example, scheduling doctor\u2019s appointments or tracking your household budget. All those supposedly little things that actually add up to a serious chunk of your time and energy.\nJust know that household managers don\u2019t come cheap: According to Care.com, they can make between $50,000 and $100,000 per year.\nSo how do I find a nanager?\nGiven that particular portmanteau is still gaining traction, you probably won\u2019t be able to just google your hometown and \u201cnanager\u201d and go from there. (In fact, you\u2019ll likely encounter your search engine asking you if you meant to search for \u201cmanager.\u201d)\nInstead, head to a site like the aforementioned Care.com\u2014a great spot to find people to take care of your kids, either regularly or on one-off occasions\u2014and start searching for people whose skills match your needs. Budgeting, for example.\nAs with hiring a nanny, you\u2019ll then go through the usual system of interviews, reference checks, seeing how the caretaker gets along with your child, etc. Depending on what management needs you have, you\u2019ll also likely want to have a frank talk about what the role entails. And if your needs include exchanging private information\u2014for example, disclosing your income for budgetary purposes\u2014you\u2019ll want to be extra-sure this is a person you can trust.\nDo I need a nanager?\nThis is really something you alone can decide. One way to think about it is to ask how much an hour of your time is worth in terms of dollars-and-cents. If you can afford, and justify, paying another person to take care of things, then it might be worth it\u2014especially if the upshot is spending more of that precious little free time with your family.\nThis much is clear, though: More Americans are working longer, harder hours than ever. Getting help with the things that cause you stress and confusion could allow you to focus on the things that really matter. Namely, yourself and your family.\nLouis Wilson is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in a wide array of publications, both online and in print. He often writes about travel, sports, popular culture, men\u2019s fashion and grooming, and more. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he has developed an unbridled passion for breakfast tacos, with his wife and two children. This article is sponsored by Haven Life Insurance Agency. Opinions are his own.\n\u00ab History of the world, i guess\nCybersecurity and the Mortgage Industry \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 8841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://investments.yale.edu/investment-managers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IVAVHFAYYMFXWFGGDPEKCJMMPJCQULPH", "length": 3009, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "investments.yale.edu", "title": "Investment Managers \u2014 Yale Investments Office", "raw_content": "Partner With Yale\nYale's Investment Partners\nYale's investment partners clearly articulate and effectively execute sustainable long-term investment strategies. Common among the diverse set of strategies in Yale's portfolio is an adherence to first-principles based investing backed by deep research and intellectual honesty. Alongside these fundamental traits, the stewards of Yale's capital exhibit a passion for investing equaled only by their high integrity. These qualities sit at the core of the organizations of our investment partners and enable them to achieve market beating returns over a long-term horizon.\nOpportunistic and Open-Minded\nWe invest with a value-based approach that relies on observable data. Starting from first-principles allows Yale to consider investment strategies other investors ignore. By focusing on the merits of an idea and the people pursuing it, Yale made early commitments to what are now mainstream categories. For example, we pursued opportunities in leveraged buyouts, venture capital, and hedge funds in the 1980s and emerging markets and timber in the 1990s.\nInvesting Early and for the Long Term\nYale seeks exceptional investors with a clear thought process, a sound investment philosophy, and a passion for investing. Our team actively searches for partners who are focused on establishing long-term partnerships and building sustainable organizations. We have partnered with many of our managers for more than ten years, and several partnerships span more than 20 years.\nStart-up managers play a central role in the Endowment's portfolio. Yale readily partners with early-stage managers without formal track records or a substantial capital base. We encourage investors of all types to contact us - large or small, traditional or nontraditional. Looking back, many of our least conventional partnerships have been our longest lasting and most fruitful. The best time to start the conversation is now.\nYale aspires to be a great partner. We work hard to shape partnerships that reward both Yale (the contributor of capital) and the investment manager (the contributor of expertise). We work carefully with each of our investment managers to structure a partnership that fits the fund's strategy and time horizon. With our experience, thoughts, and global perspective, we can help investment organizations reach their full potential. Our experience allows us to engage with our managers to serve as a sounding board for organizational and structural decisions, to provide a forum for intellectual discussion, and to offer a conduit to other high-quality endowments and foundations. Finally, and most importantly, a partnership with Yale offers investors the opportunity to support the activities of one of the world's great universities.\nPlease email prospective.managers@invest.yale.edu if you're interested in starting a conversation with us. All inquiries are welcome - we are eager to develop partnerships with the next generation of great investment managers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irishmuseums.org/news-item/832", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:17Z", "digest": "sha1:J32BFZ64ML5GQNDD5SL4AMWNGFKEJWXI", "length": 6574, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "irishmuseums.org", "title": "IMA News", "raw_content": "Appointments to the Board of the Irish Museums Association (Museum news)\nThe Irish Museums Association would like to announce the appointment of Dr Riann Coulter, Lesley-Ann Hayden and Marie McMahon to the board of directors of the Association, following the direct election by IMA members at the Annual General Meeting held on the 3 March at Galway City Museum.\nThe IMA Board and staff would like to congratulate and welcome the new members of the board of directors and look forward to working closely with them over the coming years.\nDr Riann Coulter has over 16 years' experience as a curator and art historian and has held curatorial and research positions at IMMA, the National Gallery of Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the F.E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, Banbridge, Co. Down, where she is currently curator and manager.\nSince joining the F.E. McWilliam in 2009, Riann has established the Gallery as one of the most successful visual arts venues in Ireland and has established partnerships with regional and national cultural institutions including Highlanes Gallery Drogheda, IMMA, the RHA, National Museums Northern Ireland, West Cork Arts Centre and The Butler Gallery Kilkenny.\nShe has served on the Strategic Committee of the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, and is currently a Board member of the Northern Ireland Museums Council where she represents the Northern Ireland Regional Curators Group.\n\"I believe that my extensive experience as a curator, art historian and arts manager in both regional and national institutions in Ireland and Northern Ireland would be relevant to the work of the IMA Board. My experience working within a local government context at the F.E. McWilliam Gallery is also relevant particularly due to the ongoing threats and opportunities that Local Government Reform brings to the Museum sector in Northern Ireland.\nMy experience as a Board Member of the Northern Ireland Museums Council since 2012 and as Chairman of the NIMC Grant Committee since 2016 would be beneficial and my connection with the Centre Culturel Irlandais would also be a useful international perspective. My experience of initiating and touring exhibitions in a cross-border context as well as my successes gaining funding for exhibtiions and research from sources in both Ireland and the UK is also relevant.\"\nLesley-Ann Hayden has been engaged as a consultant by the Heritage Council since 2005 to coordinate and promote the Museum Standards Programme for Ireland (MSPI). The Programme has grown from 12 to 58 Participant of which 28 have achieved Full Accreditation and 12 Interim Accreditation. She organises 6 - 8 training workshops each year. http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/projects/museum-standards-programme-for-ireland .\nLesley-Ann holds a BA (Mod) Hons, Italian and History of Art from Trinity College Dublin and a Diploma in Arts Administration through AnCo/Irish Museums Trust. A former HR Generalist, specialising in policy management, recruitment and employment law, for TheMIGroup, an international relocation company based in Ontario, Canada, (1989-2003); after undertaking the Marks and Spencer Canada management training course she was retail manager and training coordinator for a number of stores in Toronto (1989-1997). She has also been engaged as administrator of a small Irish charity, The Irish Centre for European Law, based in TCD (2004 - 2005). She has formerly worked as a Guide for Avondale House (1987) and was a Docent at Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto (1997-2003).\n\"As MSPI Coordinator I have spent the last twelve years providing a service to the Heritage Council and Participants (58) and facilitating the development and growth of professional standards and a supportive network to the Irish Museum Sector. Working relationships include volunteer, private, Local Authority museums and National Cultural Institutions. I work closely with senior museum professionals in Ireland, Northern Ireland and the UK through the Programme's Advisory Group and Assessor Panel.\nI brought extensive external HR, Training, Customer Service and Retail management experience to this role and have a good overview of sectoral issues across a wide range or organisation types in the UK and Ireland. I am also a member of the UK's Museums Association, ICOM and an IMMA Friend. I bring wide-ranging and enthusiastic experience of working with the sector and working in the private sector. I'm a good team player. The Heritage Council has approved my application.\"\nMarie McMahon is professional curator and manager of Tipperary County Councils Museum Service, with over 14 year's diverse experience. She energetically manages the day-to-day running of the museum while maintaining MSPI accreditation. Marie devises a range of programmes such as \u2018Engaging with Traveller Communities', 1916 -\u2018Road to the Rising' and Sensory Room, Collections based projects, and annually coordinates a Medieval Festival for Clonmel. She is a Designated Curator, appointed by the Director of National Museum of Ireland, and has actively worked with the Local Authority Museums Network launching its SMP 2016 - 2020 & 1916 Artefacts Trail.\nAn active initiative is the redesign of Tipperary County Museum, as part of the development of a significant tourism product for Tipperary.\nMarie has a degree in Fashion Design and Art History, Certificates in Tourism Business Practice, Facilitation and Developmental Community Arts; and was employed as an ETB Design Tutor before joining the Craft Granary and Design Studio as Manager.\n\"My curatorial motivation is to cultivate an energetic learning environment with a socially inclusive focus through imaginative and diverse programming. I do this by utilising our rich and eclectic collection to its full potential; engaging with museum curators, art professionals and the local community to create the feeling of a bespoke experience for our visitors.\nQuality is my first principle, reflected in my intent to actively seek inspiring and engaging projects which the Museum can then spearhead and use as a model of best practice; I have initiated and developed many projects and significant loans and I have gained valuable skills in areas such as business, finance, procurement, public relations and marketing as well as in strategic planning, policy making and HR.\nThese qualities along with my enthusiasm for education and quality programming have led me to engage proactively within Ireland's Museum Services such as IMA, LAMN, NMI, MSPI and IMMA.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 7074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu/location/sabanci-center-levent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:27Z", "digest": "sha1:SCAAMM6PDFGED72MQLKL4MXYIX5472W3", "length": 425, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "isea2011.sabanciuniv.edu", "title": "Sabanci Center, Levent | ISEA2011 Istanbul", "raw_content": "The ISEA2011 Istanbul conference program will take place at the Sabanci Center, Levent between September 14 - 20, 2011. The last day of the conference will take place at Sabanci University main campus on September 21, 2o11.\nIn order to reach the conference venue in Levent, the best way is to take the subway from Taksim Square. It takes approximately 15 \u2013 20 minutes to get to Levent from Taksim.\nSabanci Center Contact Info", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 417, "original_length": 11707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 173.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://isportsnorth.com/ID/cheap-full-coverage-car-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TL5LTCU3QN53RNFTFD6EQASLGOMUTGFA", "length": 3556, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "isportsnorth.com", "title": "Cheap full coverage car insurance ID. Car Insurance Quotes - Free Estimates on your Policy!", "raw_content": "During this meeting, it's the easiest thing for you, if the vehicle is wrecked, but you shouldn't need giant trash bags. If you do be sure you've got the lowest rates available for purchase like race cars, hot rods, and even dense fog. Call other cleaning service and amenities that make you buy books, electronics, and computers on the premiums.\nThey have an understanding of how the policy document and the incredible inefficiencies too. Old brake pads can drastically slow the time of delivery. But when you buy for your insurance. Obviously this is one caveat: home Equity loan. 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I presume you already have blemishes on your screen and you have cleaned up your policy in the summer, camping or at least one incident of car insurance companies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 3758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://itburnswhenithink.com/?p=246", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RWDHXQWOIKAXG2CXTN27Z6ZLODRQ5G7J", "length": 223, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "itburnswhenithink.com", "title": "it burns when i think\u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb New Injury", "raw_content": "This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 6:27 am and is filed under Injury Report . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. 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A girl is born with hypoplasia, absence, or wrong structure of the female reproductive structures, such as a saddle, bicornuate uterus, Fallopian tubes atresia, absence of the ovaries. Under certain chromosomal disorders woman is unable to conceive. Hereditarily determined compositions of all internal fluids, including cervical mucus. It may be too thick for sperm movement or antisperm contain ingredients that inactivate male sex cells.\nAs an inheritance passed to the early onset of menopause, length of the menstrual cycle. When the cycle is longer than 35 days or shorter than 21 days are not viable egg. Infertility can occur throughout life. It is a frequent cause of abortion, after the operation formed scars, adhesions, endometrial growths that impede the process of conception. In severe traumatic brain injuries suffer pituitary hormonal function. Follicle-stimulating, luteinizing hormones begin to be produced in quantities perverted, disturbed regulatory processes, there is a dysfunction of the ovaries.\nSurgery for abdominal diseases are fraught with the development of adhesive disease, compression, compression, Fallopian tubes scars. Inflammatory processes of female sex organs and their surrounding tissues can also lead to pipe blockage. Calculate the causes of female infertility, appoint adequate treatment \u2013 gynecological problem. In many cases, women\u2019s health can improve. Examinations and tests for infertility are held at the complex. Shall clinical, biochemical analyzes, determined by the level of sex hormones, multifaceted analysis of swabs from the vagina and cervix. The doctor puts the diagnosis, selects the treatment regimen of infertility. In severe cases, chosen alternative solutions to the problem, such as IVF. Early diagnosis gives a better chance to return the woman\u2019s health.\nantisperm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 20309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jackiedeshannon.tripod.com/jdsas0205.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:29Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZU52444KRDYPHX4NSTKXJHBHRGFTM67", "length": 3212, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "jackiedeshannon.tripod.com", "title": "Jackie Volume 2 Number 5", "raw_content": "Wow! What an exciting time for fans of Jackie DeShannon! Three new Jackie-related CD\ufffds, including Jackie\ufffds first CD of original songs in over twenty years. You will find my review in this issue. But as I'm sure all of you will purchase this CD yourselves, please send in your own comments and opinions for publication in the next issue. You can email us at jackiedesh@aol.com, or post to us at the JDSAS address.\nAlong with the new release, Jackie is making some personal appearances. The first was a CD signing at the Sunset Blvd. Tower Records in Los Angeles on October 6. And for all you lucky Angelenos, you will also have an opportunity to see Jackie perform live at the Whiskey A-Go-Go on October 28! Tickets available through Ticketmaster (www.ticketmaster.com). Anyone up for a road trip?\nAlso in this issue are two rare interviews with Jackie herself. The first is a joint interview with Jackie and Randy Edelman, from People magazine circa 1980. The second is from the September 6, 1991 issue of Goldmine, written by JDSAS member Brian Gari.\nLastly, as this issue features Jackie in her own words, I thought it fitting to include Jackie's comments from the recent television documentary Hollywood Rocks the Movies, as our European readers did not have the opportunity to see it.\nJackie appeared during the segment on beach flicks. Narrator Ringo Starr: Another of the popular female vocalists to be showcased in a beach movie was Jackie DeShannon, who offered this gospel inspired song to 20th Century Fox\ufffds 1964 offering Beach Party. (Cut to a black and white clip of a perky 1964 Jackie leading a group of teens around a living room, clapping and singing Glory Wave.) Then a Y2K Jackie appears, commenting, \"I hope that my fans liked it. I mean I hope that they had fun watching me be silly or doing whatever singing I was doing. But I was growing as an artist, and it was part of the growth that I needed to do.\" Jackie appears one more time, at the end of the program, saying, \"Hollywood was very aware of how music changed the way people were thinking, and they wanted to be a part of it.\"\nThank you to Mark Tyler for the great cover photo, and to Jim Pierson, Brian Gari and Peter Lerner for their contributions. And don\ufffdt forget to visit Jackie\ufffds website at http://www.jackiedeshannon.com for updates on (hopefully) more of Jackie\ufffds upcoming concert appearances.\nFrom Liz Smith\ufffds syndicated newspaper column: Real Survivor: Jackie DeShannon, the \ufffd60s-era hit-maker of \"Put A Little Love In Your Heart\" and \"What the World Needs Now Is Love\", has a new album coming out on Sept. 24, via Varese Sarabande Records. DeShannon has written 13 new songs, and jokes, \"These are the tracks of my tears. Also my blood and sweat. I had complete control of this project, and I loved it!\" DeShannon\ufffds return is being managed by Hal Lifson, the guy who put Nancy Sinatra back on the map.\nA bit of sad news. This past summer saw the loss of two of Jackie's former collaborators, Dick Glasser and Jack Nitzche.\nPlease click here for their full obituaries.\nSharon Sheeley: Songwriter\nCouples (from People Magazine) (1)\nBy David Sheff.\nGoldmine Interview (1)\nBy Brian Gari.\nJackie with Brian Wilson in Los Angeles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jellyclan.com/art/page/20", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PDARBG6MYFAIQ4QG5US2YXVVRKGBZHTP", "length": 3736, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "jellyclan.com", "title": "Art Essay Topics To Write About | Topics, Sample Papers & Articles Online for Free - Page 20", "raw_content": "Good morning, I bid to the principal, teachers and friends. In conjunction with Co-Curricular Moth, I will be giving a speech on the importance of actively participating in co-curricular activities. Co-curricular activities are established by the school that includes clubs, societies and sports in addition to academic classes. Under the 1 Murid 1 Sukan 1\u2026\n\ufeffHow Smart phone impact on Human life\nWorld is ever changing and advancing in the science and technology. These days it seems hard to escape the presence of technology. Most people will praise the many technological gadgets that they use in their everyday lives. Many of us depend on it to get us through the day, to do our work, to get\u2026\nAndroid Human Internet Life\nBelief Deception Meditation\nRISK ASSESSMENT on the Department of the Army IT Systems\n1.Introduction 1.1 Purpose This risk assessment was to identify threats and vulnerabilities related to the Department of the Army (DoA) Information Technology (IT) systems. It will be utilized to identify vulnerabilities in the Computer Network Defense (CND) Capabilities and mitigation plans related to DoA\u2019s IT systems. It was realized that this was a potential high-risk\u2026\nArticle 21 of the Constitution of India After Maneka Gandhi\u2019s Case\nINTRODUCTION To a great extent, the Supreme Court of India finds its strength in Article 21 of the Constitution, for the reason that much of its judicial activism has been based on interpreting the scope of this Article. Majority of the PIL cases have been filed under this Article only. The Supreme Court is now\u2026\nConstitution Felix Frankfurter India\nSWBS Chart and Reflection\nThe \u201cSomebody-Wanted-But-So\u201d chart is an excellent way to summarize important information from history. In it, you identify a person or group of people; their goal, need, or want; what conflict of interest stood in the way; and the outcome. This strategy works great because history depends on the needs, wants, and actions of humans. Part\u2026\nAbraham Lincoln American Civil War Andrew Johnson\n\ufeffThe Art of public speaking\nChapter 1: Speaking in public Power of Public Speaking Greek Pericles: one who forms a judgment on any point but cannot explain it clearly might as well never had thought at all on the subject\u201d Public speaking is consistently rated high on employers lists The Tradition of Public Speaking Historical people who used speaking effectively\u2026\nLanguage Public speaking Rhetoric\nThe article \u201cThe Mountain Man and American Anguish\u201d\nIn the article, \u201cThe Mountain Man and American Anguish\u201d in the Journal of Popular Film & Television, Patrick McCarthy reflects on movie production and the image of mountain men. Contrary to how mountain men are shown in contemporary American pop culture media, McCarthy claims that there is a greater connection between that period of time\u2026\nFilm Globalization\nThis paper will critique a qualitative research study published in the Journal of Medical Ethics in 2004, By Dr Helen Aveyard, about how nurses manage patients who refuse nursing care procedures. The article explains how nurses view informed consent as not being essential to nursing care procedures. Problem Statement The clinical problem being examined in\u2026\nData Focus Research\nQuantitative Research Critique This is a quantitative study research critique of the research study conducted by Lisa M Black PhD,RN,CNE, Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities. The findings from this research study was used in the state of Nevada to protect nurses when reporting unsafe conditions in patient\u2026\nPatient Quantitative Research\nAbigail Williams Adolf Hitler Germany Mary Warren\nEdgar Allan Poe Eye Gothic The Tell-Tale Heart\nAmerican Lincoln Martin Luther", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 8840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jknewspoint.com/habitat-loss-skin-trade-trophy-hunting-how-leopards-lost-their-spots/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6GQSHRETMYWTBVZ3T5CPKPFJJSTPSBJM", "length": 2775, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "jknewspoint.com", "title": "Habitat loss, skin trade, trophy hunting: How leopards lost their spots - JK Newspoint", "raw_content": "Habitat loss, skin trade, trophy hunting: How leopards lost their spots\nLeopards, one of the world\u2019s most iconic big cats, have lost 75%\u2009of their historic range \u2013 with habitats across Asia plummeting by nearly 98%, the first global analysis of the elusive animal has found.\nThe research found that leopards (Panthera pardus) historically occupied a vast range of approximately 35 million square kilometres throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia.\nHowever, today they are restricted to approximately 8.5 million square kilometres, researchers said.\nScientists, including those from National Geographic Society\u2019s Big Cats Initiative, reviewed more than 1,300 sources on the leopard\u2019s historic and current range.\nThe results show that, while the entire species is not yet as threatened as some other big cats, leopards are facing a multitude of growing threats in the wild, and three subspecies have already been almost completely eradicated.\n\u201cThe leopard is a famously elusive animal, which is likely why it has taken so long to recognise its global decline,\u201d said lead author Andrew Jacobson, of Zoological Society of London (ZSL).\n\u201cThis study represents the first of its kind to assess the status of the leopard across the globe and all nine subspecies,\u201d said Jacobson.\nThe research also found that while African leopards face considerable threats, particularly in North and West Africa, leopards have also almost completely disappeared from several regions across Asia, including much of the Arabian Peninsula and vast areas of former range in China and Southeast Asia.\nThe amount of habitat in each of these regions is plummeting, having declined by nearly 98%, researchers said.\n\u201cLeopards\u2019 secretive nature, coupled with the occasional, brazen appearance of individual animals within megacities like Mumbai and Johannesburg, perpetuates the misconception that these big cats continue to thrive in the wild \u2013 when actually our study underlies the fact that they are increasingly threatened,\u201d said Luke Dollar, programme director of the National Geographic Society\u2019s Big Cats Initiative.\n\u201cWe have discovered the status of the leopard in Southeast Asia is as perilous as the highly endangered tiger,\u201d said Philipp Henschel, from Panthera, an international conservation charity.\nLeopards are capable of surviving in human-dominated landscapes provided they have sufficient cover, access to wild prey and tolerance from local people.\nIn many areas, however, habitat is converted to farmland and native herbivores are replaced with livestock for growing human populations.\nThis habitat loss, prey decline, conflict with livestock owners, illegal trade in leopard skins and parts and legal trophy hunting are all factors contributing to leopard decline, the researchers said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keanergy.net/64694226-14be-95a4-5d17-88748e6beac8/54e5be0c-9175-4c34-c6c7-288554d26f9b.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:47Z", "digest": "sha1:YY2ESH4WL2O5MHTZDP6KXCL6A6NDQG5I", "length": 2948, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "keanergy.net", "title": "\ufeff slew drive ,slewing drive ,solar tracking system", "raw_content": "Home > News > Industry News > Inverters master Poseidon\nInverters master Poseidon\nInverters master Poseidon\u2019s challenge\nTwo solar parks with a power output of 24 megawatts are being built on the coast of Corsica.\n\u2013 Sand and sea salt \u2013 what tourists want and love can be a problem for inverters. So specially modified inverter technology from KACO new energy is ensuring reliable solar energy generation in Western Corsica. Two solar parks, each with a power output of twelve megawatts, are currently under construction there, just a short distance from the sea.\nCorsica is the fourth-largest of the Mediterranean islands, but with a population of 261,000, it is sparsely populated in comparison with the mainland. On the other hand, the photovoltaic power per inhabitant of the island is higher: The reason is that Corsica belongs to France, which aims to install a photovoltaic power output of 18.2 to 20.2 gigawatts by the year 2023. It is hardly surprising, then, that the birthplace of Napoleon, which has approximately 2,750 more hours of sunlight per year than the French mainland, is profiting more from this plan than other regions of France.\nRALOS new energy, a globally active company for the construction of photovoltaic power plants, is now scheduled to put two solar parks, each with a power output of 12 megawatts, into operation on the west coast of Corsica, further consolidating the island\u2019s position as a leading producer of photovoltaic energy. The 395 inverters installed in the two parks near the communities of Aghione and Folelli were all supplied by Neckarsulm-based manufacturer KACO new energy.\nBoth solar power plants are only a short distance from the coast \u2013 an important factor to be taken into consideration during planning and construction. What tourists love for a healthy tan, is salt on the skin and a fresh sea breeze; but in the long-term, these can damage inverters: Patches of brown on inverters are more likely to indicate harmful corrosion. For this reason, the Product Development department of KACO new energy has equipped its blueplanet 50.0 TL3 INT inverter with special components which allow it to withstand long-term exposure to salty air.\nIn detail, this means: The heat sink is additionally anodised, the aluminium housing has a special C5 paint coating and the fan guard and all screws and hinges are made from high-durability stainless steel. The corrosion-resistance was tested in accordance with standard EN 60068-2:1996.\nKACO new energy will now be producing this model in series as the blueplanet 50.0 TL3 OD+. As a result, customers will be able to make full use of solar energy generation in coastal regions: Until now, small islands which could become more energy-independent by installing photovoltaic plants have found it difficult to maintain the required safety distances from the sea.\nPrevious : Siemens and AES join forces\nNext : Scania installs Largest Solar Roof in the Netherlands", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keepdreamingkeepliving.org/pages/blog-article?r=EPB92MW41S&send_to=%2Fpages%2Fblog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SAAA6I7PJMLNFVVBHAUQRQ44GPBUD2NF", "length": 1902, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "keepdreamingkeepliving.org", "title": "Blog Article", "raw_content": "And on that note, I wanted to share some moments of our wedding, and how much we appreciate our friends and family who attended the wedding and supported us. We were blessed and loved with over 250 guests and had a wonderful time\u2026 until 4am!!! The day was perfect with all its imperfections, we didn\u2019t let them negatively affect our day and we had a blast. How many times do we get angry about minor details, for nothing? This was the BEST day of my life!!!\nAs you know me as really independent and strong, I had given up on finding my match, but I found Steve. Last summer, all my vacation plans fell apart and I finally decided to appreciate the NOW and stay home, but with the intention to one day go to each different beach in my neighborhood: Long Beach, Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, etc\u2026 and visit some friends and meet new friends\u2026. The first night, I went to Forbidden City, to see my friend David Alcantar play in the band, but he was not there. I decided to stay there anyway, meet some new friends before my friend Guille finally arrived around 11:30pm. She also convinced the band Flyer to let me sing a song, and BAM! Steve started to speak with us, we closed the bar and finished the party on Jazz (his boat)\u2026 Steve invited for the next Thursday racing and on Catalina Island for the following week-end\u2026 and that is where everything started\u2026 We never know what is around the corner\u2026 and now we are married!\nWe must cultivate a strong mind and focus on the positive things in our life so that the negative thoughts do not pervade our very existence. Coaching is one of the key elements that helped me and was significant in changing my life from the negative to positive since 1995. Many moments in our lives can be so magnificent if we just take the time to appreciate them. That\u2019s why it\u2019s really, really important to APPRECIATE what we have right NOW!\nWhat is the sum of nine and five?*", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kellysrecords.com/product.php?id=116200", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:13Z", "digest": "sha1:MSWGDHAWBG4CPVY5XKRNRZ4YXCIAKTMQ", "length": 18, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kellysrecords.com", "title": "3rd Strike (Third) Lost Angel | Kellys Records", "raw_content": "3rd Strike (Third)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 1770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 157.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kevin.spleck.net/2005/01/confusion.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:00Z", "digest": "sha1:B3ZKXTCPGPGZMI2ZAXPC6XH5IOKOTESU", "length": 659, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kevin.spleck.net", "title": "its.moo: confusion", "raw_content": "how do you know when a girl is interested? as many of you know, i have had problems in the past recognizing the difference between someone being nice, open to friendship, and someone that might be interested. unfortunately i've had such little experience with dealing with women, that the slightest kindness can be easily misinterpreted.\nunfortunately this has caused somewhat of a barrier in at least one of my friendships that i cannot seem to get past. i do not want to see that happen again.\ni keep getting signals, and to me they seem obvious what they are pointing to. but how do i know? i do not want to screw this up again. :( how do you know? anyone?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kevin.spleck.net/2005/10/its-alive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:52Z", "digest": "sha1:T4QXWICOXBKEWHNUP75ZC37KG7D2224H", "length": 600, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kevin.spleck.net", "title": "its.moo: it's alive!", "raw_content": "problem solved. moved the system over into a new case (long overdue), which subsequently replaces the power supply as well, and life is good again. I'm quite relieved that it was that simple to fix.\nand no, i did not waste time moving the system into the new case to see if that fixed the problem or not.. i first just dangled the cables from the power supply in the new case, over into the old case and hooked it up for a quick test, and was quite pleased with the result.\nnow, let's see what's next on my list of crap that i've put off for far too long that need to get done at some point... hmm...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keyj.com/hardin-simmons-university-presents-broadway-musical-hello-dolly-february-14th-24th/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:52Z", "digest": "sha1:63DLLXZG3L73KSKLW5GFO57MBDQ4DEDK", "length": 1437, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "keyj.com", "title": "Hardin-Simmons University Presents Broadway Musical \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d February 14th \u2013 24th", "raw_content": "Hardin-Simmons University Presents Broadway Musical \u201cHello, Dolly!\u201d February 14th \u2013 24th\nThe students of the newly formed Hardin-Simmons Bachelor of Fine Arts program will present \"Hello, Dolly!\" this Thursday, February 14th thru Sunday, February 24th. You don't want to miss this popular Hollywood and Broadway production.\nThe play is set in turn-of-the-century New York, and revolves around the widowed matchmaker Dolly Levi. Levi is trying to find a suitable wife for the well known \"half-millionaire\" Horace Vandergelder. However, it seems that Levi wants Vandergelder for herself.\nThe production will, of course, include the musical numbers \"Elegance\", \"It Only Takes a Moment\", \"Put On Your Sunday Clothes\" and \"Hello, Dolly!\". The title song was made famous in 1964 as it became a #1 hit for Louis Armstrong. The musical is probably best known for it's 1969 screen adaptation in which Barbra Streisand and Walter Matthau played the main characters, Dolly and Horace.\n\"Hello, Dolly!\" will be under the direction of Ronald Dean Nolen and musical direction of Barry Smoot.\nHSU's Van Ellis Theatre\nFebruary 14,15,16 @ 7:30 pm\nFebruary 24 @ 2 pm\n$5--HSU-Staff, Faculty & Students\n$7--Seniors, Military & Students\n$10--Regular Admission\nTo purchase tickets online see the HSU website\nLouis Armstrong Sings \"Hello, Dolly!\"\nCPAS Presents Kids Show 'ImaginOcean'\nFiled Under: musical\nCategories: Abilene News, Entertainment, Events, Videos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 3221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 210.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kidsermons.com/2011/04/death-defying-act/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:06Z", "digest": "sha1:HAOMDPXO63LW7OHP2ZMIFFBBQOENYM6O", "length": 4240, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "kidsermons.com", "title": "Death-Defying Act \u00ab kidsermons.com", "raw_content": "Love in Action: Children\u2019s Sermon Response to 3/11 \u00bb\nDeath-Defying Act\nPalm Sunday; Entering Jerusalem\nMatthew 20:17 \u2013 19 and Matt. 21:1 \u2013 17\nPreparation: Bring palm branches and colorful coats and robes to lay on the steps or in front of the altar where the children gather for the children\u2019s sermon. You can also bring pictures or books showing a circus parade or trapeze artists flying through the air.\nThis is a very special Sunday isn\u2019t it? Today is Palm Sunday, the last Sunday before Easter. On this Sunday, we remember how Jesus entered Jerusalem and a cheering crowd of people ran to meet him. They cut palm branches from trees and waved them, they even laid their coats down on the road in front of him so he would have a beautiful, soft road to travel on with no dust to get in his eyes. The children were especially excited and they yelled the loudest, \u201cPraise God for the Son of David!\u201d They yelled so loudly that some grumpy old grownups, who didn\u2019t want to celebrate, told them to be quiet. But Jesus stuck up for them and said that was exactly what they were supposed to be doing. They were celebrating Jesus, the King.\nThis procession into Jerusalem must have looked a bit like a circus parade. When a circus would come to town, first there would be a big parade down Main Street to show everyone the wonderful animals and performers who would be at the circus. Everyone would line up along the sides of the streets and watch the big elephants walk by and the clowns run along and the acrobats doing cartwheels down the street. When they saw the parade, they knew that the circus was coming to town. Often, there would be a big sign advertising the dangerous tricks that the acrobats would perform. The sign would say, \u201cDeath-Defying Acts!\u201d and there would be a picture of an acrobat flying through the air towards a pair of hands reaching out to catch them. If you went to the circus, and looked way up to the top of the tent, you would see people leaping through the air, jumping off of swings and being caught just in time before they fell. This is what we call a \u201cdeath-defying act.\u201d As you watch this dangerous act, you think that the person who just leaped off the platform is going to die. Then suddenly, they are saved! They don\u2019t fall to their death. They make it to the other side and everyone is very relieved and they all clap and cheer.\nJesus\u2019 procession down Jerusalem\u2019s main street was so much more important than a circus parade, and a lot of things were, of course, different. No elephants, for example, just a donkey. No clowns either, although Jesus\u2019 disciples walking along with him and sometimes they did and said silly things. But as Jesus entered Jerusalem, did you know that he was going right towards a death-defying act? Jesus was heading towards the cross. He knew where he was going. He told his disciples what would happen. He knew that he was going to be killed on the cross. For anyone else, a trip to the cross always ended in death. Jesus, however, was different. Jesus was going to defy death once and for all. He was going to die once and this death was for all people to bring them forgiveness and everlasting life.\nSo, did Jesus die on the cross? (Listen to the responses from the children.) Yes, he really did die. He was dead for three long, very sad days. But on the third day, on a Sunday, can you tell me what amazing thing happened? (Let children explain.) That\u2019s right! Jesus rose from the dead. He beat death. It was the best death-defying act that the world has ever seen. Jesus took all of our sins with him to the cross and he made sure that those sins died right along with him. He buried those sins and rose up, alive again. And when Jesus came back, he was carrying eternal life for everyone in His arms. All we have to do is to accept it and gives thanks to God.\nThank you Lord Jesus, for going to Jerusalem and being brave enough and loving enough to face that last death-defying act. You died on the cross for us and you came back to life for us. Thank you for defeating death. Hosanna, Lord Jesus. Hosanna. 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According to the report, Croatia is ranked in 56th place out of the 138 countries.\nThe ETI assesses the extent to which economies have in place the institutions, policies, infrastructures and services to facilitate the free flow of goods over borders to their destination. The Global Enabling Trade Report 2014 emphasized that the world\u2019s emerging economies must carry out the reforms in accordance with the Agreement of the World Trade Organization adopted in December 2013 if they want to prosper. Inefficiency, bureaucracy and poor infrastructure are among the key factors that hinder economies in the ease of trading.\nThe ETI assesses each country in four areas: market access, border administration, infrastructure and the operating environment; and seven pillars: domestic market access, foreign market access, efficiency and transparency of border administration, availability and quality of transport infrastructure, availability and quality of transport services, availability and use of ICT, and operating environment.\nThe top-ranked countries again this year are Singapore and Hong Kong, while Netherlands, New Zealand, Finland, Great Britain, Switzerland, Chile, Sweden and Germany make up the rest of the top ten. All these countries are leading in the rankings because of their openness to international business and investment as an integral part of a successful economic strategy. Their other major advantages are effective border administration and stimulating business environment.\nOf the above-mentioned criteria, Croatia is ranked highest in infrastructure, which includes the availability and quality of transport infrastructure and services (42nd). Under the criteria for market access Croatia is ranked in 50th place. Under the criteria for border administration it is 65th, while the operating environment is ranked the worst (69th).\nThe most problematic factors for exporting from Croatia are: inappropriate production technology and skills, identifying potential markets and buyers, access to trade finance, and difficulty in meeting the quality/quantity requirements of buyers. The most problematic factors for imports include: burdensome import procedures, domestic technical requirements and standards, tariffs, corruption at the border, crime and theft.\nThe following factors were cited as comparative advantages: the index of terrorism incidents, openness to multilateral trade rules, quality of roads, postal service efficiency, mobile broadband Internet, and dispersion of tariffs.\n\u201cThis year\u2019s report shows that based on the openness of the market Croatia is stagnating. Our goal is to be among the most competitive countries in the world and therefore we need to implement reforms more dynamically and create sustainable growth by stimulating exports and attracting foreign capital,\u201d emphasized Ivica Mudrini\u0107, President of the National Competitiveness Council.\nOf the countries in our region, Serbia was ranked the lowest, in 89th place. Bosnia Herzegovina was 78th, Macedonia was 63rd, Montenegro was 49th, and Slovenia was ranked the highest this year in 38th place.\n\u27f5\u201cCharter for a New Beginning\u201d Presented to the President of the Republic of Croatia\nCroatia 46th in global rankings for ICT competitiveness\u27f6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 4465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 232.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://koziaklaw.com/Firm-Overview.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:35Z", "digest": "sha1:YH5WGS74VCHUNZU7LKH7PKWKERKQBXEY", "length": 1590, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "koziaklaw.com", "title": "Koziak Law | Edmonton Estate & Injury Solicitor | Sherwood Park Lawyer", "raw_content": "Koziak Law is located in Edmonton, Alberta and provides legal services to clients throughout the region. Focused on wills, estates and personal injury, we are distinguished by the quality of our people and our approach to client service.\nKoziak Law is anchored by the work of Nadia D. Koziak and her dedicated legal assistants. Highlights of our firm include:\nExperience: Nadia D. Koziak has practiced in diverse areas of the law for more than 30 years. Our wills and estates clients particularly benefit from her background in contracts, real estate, family and corporate law. Nadia's assistants have a decade of experience each in the legal industry.\nFlexibility: Koziak Law is a client-centered practice. Our services are available in our offices, or at your residence or hospital \u2014 if you need us to come to you, we can. This flexibility extends to the solutions we find for your legal issues: we use the tools of the law to achieve the result you need.\nApproachability: Trust is an important part of the lawyer-client relationship. When you meet with us, we want you to feel comfortable so you can be open about your legal issues and we can do our best work for you.\nClear expected timelines and fee structure: As early as possible, we estimate how long your case will take and how much it will cost.\nFree initial consultation: There is no charge for an initial consultation. 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Therefore, no matter which programme you wish to pursue at the college, I assure you of a great learning experience and our continued support with your career thereafter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 1494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/4932/browse?value=Fink%2C+G.M.&type=author", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4GBR3LNEASFZL2UIVAD67QTABNRMC5XD", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "krex.k-state.edu", "title": "Browsing Cattlemen's Day, 1985 by Author \"Fink, G.M.\"", "raw_content": "Browsing Cattlemen's Day, 1985 by Author \"Fink, G.M.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 1845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 135.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kzntopbusiness.co.za/site/kzn-parastatals/The-Development-Bank-of-Southern-Africa-%28DBSA%29/page/275", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:47Z", "digest": "sha1:TTRRF4JXQN3QHTE3ICBXLMNPGEO4ZYW6", "length": 6622, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "kzntopbusiness.co.za", "title": "KwaZulu-Natal Top Business | The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)", "raw_content": "Established in 1983 by the government of the Republic of South Africa, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) is southern Africa's premier infrastructure development finance institution. The DBSA has enhanced its strategy and revitalized its identity, complete with a new brand, in order to accelerate broad-based growth and development and boost capacity in the southern African region. The positioning of the DBSA has been adjusted to respond more forcefully, in a more hands on fashion, to the challenges faced in the country and the wider region. The DBSA has re-committed itself to play a leadership role in facilitating infrastructure development in South Africa and the wider region, partnering with the public and private sectors.\nThe DBSA plays the roles of financier, advisor, partner, implementer and integrator. The bank maximizes its contribution to sustainable development in the region by mobilizing financial, knowledge and human resources to support government and other development role-players in improving the quality of life of people in the region. This is accomplished through funding infrastructure projects; accelerating the sustainable reduction of poverty and inequity; and promoting broad-based economic growth and regional economic integration.\nExecution Modalities\nThe DBSA operates on the basis that socio-economic development involves imparting knowledge that when combined with the application of financial and human resources, ensures sustainable development. If the DBSA is to be the leading agent for socio-economic development, it has to become a learning organization. It must accumulate know-ledge and infuse it into its products, services and processes.\nIn pursuit of the DBSA's goal of uplifting communities and delivering sustainable development, the DBSA is ramping up its role as a project originator. While the DBSA recognizes its successes with the metropolitan municipalities, it also recognizes the challenges involved in supporting poorer municipalities to achieve effective service delivery. The DBSA will play a more proactive role by approaching municipalities and advising on project finance. It will identify community needs such as water, telecommunication, electricity and road construction, particularly in the very underdeveloped regions.\nCapacity constraints are the biggest obstacle to service delivery by municipalities and other development institutions. The DBSA has responded to this by establishing the Development Fund to address sustainable capacity building at municipal level and to support municipalities in enhancing service delivery and local economic development.\nIn support of government's Project Consolidate, the DBSA's Development Fund is managing the Siyenza Manje programme. This initiative entails the deployment of a core of contracted professional people to support less capacitated municipalities in areas such as finance, organizational systems and project implementation. This capacity building initiative is complemented by the use of the Vulindlela Academy to provide training in finance, management and planning which builds human and institutional capacity in municipalities and other service delivery arms of the state.\nExamples of Loan Programmes and Projects in KwaZulu-Natal\nA loan financing facility for several sectoral sub-programmes, including electrification, water, solid waste, sanitation, roads & storm-water & urban development (Loan: R2 900 million).\nuMhlathuze Municipal Capital Development Programme Loan funding of the indicative annual capital budget for electricity, water supply, machinery and equipment, roads and storm water, as well as Urban and Rural Development (Loan: R245,000,000).\nUmzimkulu Water Augmentation Scheme (Bulk water supply upgrading) (Loan: R62, 000,000).\nNewcastle Municipality Capital Investment Programme (Phase 4)\nThe programme consists of the provision, upgrading and extension of municipal services in sectors of electricity, roads and storm water, waste management, provision of service vehicles and the upgrading of the municipality's financial management system (Loan: R22,675,000).\nWater and Sanitation Support: Community and trainers' training (Grant: R710, 000).\nGrant funding for the preparation of a business plan for a hydro power project (total estimated capital cost of R52-million),which will generate power through the gravity flow of water (Grant: R400, 000).\nImbabazane Municipality\nMbabazane Development Planning Programme: Enabling the Imbabazane Municipality to embark on planning and preparatory work preceding the implementation of projects that would generate revenue for the municipality (Grant: R1, 390,000).\nSupport towards the Municipal Property Rates Act, 2004 (KwaZulu-Natal)\nTo enable municipalities to comply to the 2004 Property Rates Act (prior to 2008), the DBSA Development Fund supported the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government with R3 079 000 in grant funding to support municipalities in investigating a Property Rates Management Information System including sourcing essential base information and best practice guidelines.\nGrant funding to assist the municipality to survey the client base, assess tariffs and policies and to improve the revenue system (Grant: R700, 000).\nA prosperous and integrated region progressively free of poverty and dependency\nFull Name of Company: The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)\nNature of Business: Development Finance Institution, loan and equity funding, entrepreneurial support, co-funding, technical assistance.\nRegistration No.: 16/0015800FN\nSubsidiary: Development Fund\nDate Established: 1 September 1983\nCustomer Base: Public and private sector institutions in the field of service delivery to communities\nExternal Auditors / Accountants: Gobodo Inc. and KPMG Inc.\nGovernance Structures: Sole Owner - South African Government\nShareholder Representative: Minister of Finance\nChairman: Jay Naidoo\nCEO & MD: Paul Baloyi\nExecutive Management: Admassu Tadesse, Snowy Khoza, Leonie van Lelyveld, Loyiso Ndlovu, Paul Kibuuka, Luther Mashaba, Heinz Weilert, Ernest Dietrich, Peter de la Rey, and Ravindra Naidoo.\nPhysical Address: 1258 Lever Road, Headway Hill, Midrand, 1685, South Africa\nPostal Address: PO Box 1234, Halfway House, Midrand, 1685, South Africa\nWebsite: http://www.dbsa.org\nJOBS FUND OPENS SECOND CALL FOR PROPOSALS continue reading \u203a\nFund approves R352m for job-creation projects\nBy: Henry Lazenby 9th November 2011 The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) said this week that the Jobs Fund investment committee has approved R352-million in cofunding f... continue reading \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 8150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://la.indymedia.org/news/2012/02/251704.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:52Z", "digest": "sha1:KVAVE2WCZMDCZFLF532YJNKQJCLQJ4KJ", "length": 4314, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "la.indymedia.org", "title": "What the Azeris Don't Want to Admit about Khojalu : LA IMC", "raw_content": "What the Azeris Don't Want to Admit about Khojalu\nby Asbarez Editors Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012 at 1:02 PM\nDeconstructing the Azeri Propaganda War Against the Indigenous Armenian Republic of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabagh)\nYEREVAN and NEW YORK\u2014A new documentary \u2013 \u201cBetween Hunger and Fire: Power at the Expense of Lives,\u201d about the events taking place between November 1991 and February 1992 in Karabakh \u2013 was screened on Friday, Feb. 25, 2012.\nThis two-part documentary recounts the shattering of the Azerbaijani blockade of Stepanakert (capital city of Artsakh/the Armenian Republic of Nagorno Karabakh), and presents compelling evidence about the criminal activities of the political elite of Baku \u2013 which led to the tragic deaths of civilians in Khojalu, including the victimization of women, children and the elderly.\n\u201cBetween Hunger and Fire\u201d will counter and shed light on a range of misinformation presented globally by Azerbaijan, the prime motivation being to shift blame from those accountable (in this case, the Azeri government itself) for Azeri civilian deaths.\nUsing a vast trove of materials, \u201cBetween Hunger and Fire\u201d will be of interest not only for wide audience, but also for research and the academic community. The archive, assembled during the investigation of tragic death of civilians in Armenian-populated Stepanakert and Azerbaijani-controlled Aghdam region, entails grounds for a wider-scale film.\nMeanwhile in the United States, a group calling itself the Azerbaijan America Alliance has launched a massive propaganda campaign of misinformation on the Azeri version of the Khojalu issue. Full-page advertisements headlined \u201cKhojaly: A Human Tragedy Against Azerbaijan\u201d appeared in the national editions of the New York Times on Friday, Feb. 24 and the Washington Post on Saturday Feb. 25. Advertisements have also been placed in Washington Metro stations, buses, bus shelters and other transportation venues in Washington and New York.\nFollowing is the official trailer for \u201cBetween Hunger and Fire: Power at the Expense of Lives\u201d (7 mins):\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ef3f5Ngkck&feature=player_embedded\nThe premiere of the entire film will occur in Yerevan the week of Feb. 27 \u2013 March 3, 2012, followed by additional screenings around the world. The research group initiating the film/investigation reports that the documentary will for now be screening the film in Russian and English, after which it will be translated into seven more languages.\nTo learn more about Azeri pogroms against indigenous Armenians, the independent republic of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh), the Kojalu incident and more, visit the following links:\nOffice of the Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) Republic in Washington, DC (http://nkrusa.org/ ) and their fact sheets about Khojalu:\nhttp://www.nkrusa.org/nk_conflict/khojaly.shtml\nKhojalu Documentation Site:\nhttp://xocali.net/\nAbout the deliberate Azerbaijani destruction of historic Armenian Monuments in Djulfa, Nakhichevan:\nhttp://www.djulfa.com/\nUpcoming conference about Artsakh, and the Azeri Misinformation Campaign (March 3, 2012 in Glendale, CA): https://www.facebook.com/events/388859461131313/#!/photo.php?fbid=10151332282820113&set=o.388859461131313&type=1&theater\nNews coverage of a recent protest: \u201cArmenians Mark Sumgait, Kirovabad and Baku Massacres\u201d (Feb. 24, 2012, Washington, DC):\nhttp://asbarez.com/101187/dc-area-armenians-mark-sumgait-kirovabad-and-baku-massacres/\nRecommended books and pamphlets:\n\u201cEthnic Cleansing in Progress,\u201d a report by Baroness Caroline Cox and John Aijbner with an introduction by Elena Bonner Sakharov, published by the Institute for Religious Minorities in the Islamic World:\nhttp://www.maragha.nk.am/documentseng4.html\n\u201cThe Invention of History: Azerbaijan, Armenia and the Showcasing of Imagination,\u201d by Rouben Galichian\nhttp://keghart.com/Chorbajian_Galichian\nThe Making of Nagorno-Karabagh from Secession to Republic, Edited by\nhttp://www.hayq.org/upload/files/The_Making_of_Nagorno-Karabagh_ed._Levon_Chorbajian.pdf\n\u201cKha-ra-bagh! The Emergence of the National Democratic Movement in Armenia,\u201d by Mark Malkhasian\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Gha-Ra-Bagh-Emergence-National-Democratic-Movement/dp/0814326048/ref=sr_1_sc_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330195507&sr=1-3-spell\nasbarez.com/101197/watch-what-azeris-don%e2%80%99t-want-t...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 8290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://la.indymedia.org/news/2014/01/262943.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:33Z", "digest": "sha1:CJ72XZYDTWNMSNU32SLJN4M3WIRHBS6L", "length": 5721, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "la.indymedia.org", "title": "10 Things Pres. Obama Can Do Right Now : LA IMC", "raw_content": "10 Things Pres. Obama Can Do Right Now\nby www.credoaction.com Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014 at 11:03 PM\nThe state has a social nature and cannot only be a power and security state. The time is right for alternative economics, reducing working hours, expanding the public sector, shrinking financial sector and community centers.\nhttp://act.credoaction.com/signup/ten_things?akid=9847.7492170.2fRcnr&rd=1&t=1\nOn Tuesday, President Obama will deliver his fifth State of the Union Address.\nWith the midterm elections approaching -- elections in which we could lose the Senate and thus much of the president's power to block the Republican agenda in Congress -- this speech will lay the groundwork for what could be our last best chance to win progressive change during his presidency.\nDespite the Republican obstructionism, there's a lot the president can accomplish by issuing executive orders and prioritizing his administration's agenda in the Senate. Help build pressure on the president to take action on these issues by clicking the links below:\nReject the Keystone XL pipeline\nPresident Obama has said that action on climate change will be a centerpiece of his second term agenda. But he simply cannot make the necessary progress on climate changes as long as he allows tar sands production to expand. Sign the Petition.\nDrop his offer to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits in exchange for a grand budget bargain with Republicans\nIn a preemptive cave to Republicans, President Obama made the offer as part of budget negotiations last year, in a deeply wrongheaded quest to strike a grand bargain on taxes and the debt. He shouldn't make the same mistake \u2013 and should commit to not give away cuts to Social Security and Medicare to Republicans under any circumstances. Sign the Petition.\nBring ALL the troops home from Afghanistan\nIn his State of the Union address last year, President Obama said that Al-Qaeda was a \"shadow of its former self,\" and \u201cto meet this threat, we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad, or occupy other nations.\" Yet after over 12 years and thousands of American lives, more than 30,000 troops still remain and aren't scheduled to leave until the end of this year. It is long past time for President Obama to bring them home.\nStop breaking up families, by ending the deportations of those eligible for a pathway to citizenship under pending immigration reform legislation\nThe president doesn't need to wait for obstructionist Republicans to take action on immigration reform. He should show he's serious about it now by halting deportations of aspiring Americans who would qualify for a path to citizenship under the bill already passed by the Senate. Sign the Petition.\nFire National Intelligence Director James Clapper and stop warrantless NSA spying on Americans\nClapper unambiguously lied to Congress about the NSA's unconstitutional spying on Americans. But amidst this growing scandal, President Obama has so far offered no substantive reforms. He should fire Clapper and shut down the NSA's shocking dragnet immediately.\nFill all the federal judiciary openings with judges who will uphold the Constitution, enforce environmental laws, and fight corporate abuse\nSenator Majority Leader Reid's filibuster reform finally stopped Republican obstruction on Judicial nominees. With over 90 vacancies this is a major opportunity to bring progressive champions to the bench, but President Obama needs to make sure he takes advantage.\nIssue a strong carbon rule on existing power plants\nPresident Obama has called for the first-ever rules to limit carbon pollution \u2013 long required under the Clean Air Act \u2013 but so far, all we've gotten are delays and watering down on his rule to cut pollution from unbuilt power plants, which does nothing to reduce actual current pollution, and is still months from being finalized. If the President is serious, we need a strong rule to cut the pollution that is causing climate change now. Sign the petition.\nRaise the minimum wage for federal workers and contractors\nThe president has already said that income inequality is the defining issue of our time \u2013 and committed to take executive action to helping the middle class. Raising the minimum wage for the more than 2 million low-wage federal contractors would be a good step in the right direction. Sign the petition.\nInstruct his FCC chair to save Net Neutrality\nVerizon killed net neutrality last week when a federal appellate court ruled in Verizon's favor, and struck down the FCC's Open Internet Order. Internet providers are now free to discriminate \u2013 block or slow down \u2013 any web site or application they choose. But President Obama's FCC chair has the power to save Net Neutrality by reclassifying broadband internet access to require that it be regulated as a telecommunications service.Sign the petition\nThis January marks 12 years of indefinite detention without charge or trial at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo, and five years since President Barack Obama signed an executive order to shut it down. Congress recently fulfilled the president's request to make it easier to transfer prisoners out of Guantanamo; it's long past time for him to keep his promise, too. Sign the Petition.\nAs progressives, we had high hopes for President Obama's presidency. And time is running out for him to deliver on his campaign promises. Starting with these ten things that are in the president's power to do. It's what we're hoping to hear, what you should be listening for, and how we'll be gauging the success of his speech on Tuesday night.\nRegardless of what the president says, we look forward to continuing to stand with you in the coming fights for progressive change.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 9688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lakianichole.com/2019/01/so-what-if-trump-and-cohen-discussed-testimony-giuliani/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:55Z", "digest": "sha1:CQ477X4EPGSQABK3CZ55WJCE53PYD67O", "length": 3359, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "lakianichole.com", "title": "'So what' if Trump and Cohen discussed testimony - Giuliani", "raw_content": "Giuliani, President Trump's attorney, attempted Monday to clean up comments he made over the weekend asserting that discussions about a potential Trump Tower in Moscow stretched into as late as November 2016.\n\"The Times also reported that Trump had said discussions about the project in Moscow were \"'going on from the day I announced to the day I won, '\" attributing the quote to the former New York City mayor.\nThe Moscow deal ultimately did not materialize but Giuliani's remarks suggest that Trump's discussions about the project with Cohen may have dragged on months longer than had been publicly known. I don't think, as a lawyer, I ever said anything that's untruthful.\nIn a follow-up statement, Giuliani said his comments were \"hypothetical\" and did not represent the \"actual timing or circumstances of any discussions\".\nThe fact that there were discussions for a Moscow project at any point during the campaign has undermined repeated denials from Trump that his company had any business dealings in Russian Federation or that he had anything to do with Russian Federation at all.\n\"The President never (emphasis ours) spoke with Cohen about the congressional testimony\", Giuliani told the New York Daily News, adding that any talks that occurred would have \"happened between the lawyers [and] would have been part of the joint defense agreement\". \"But the president can remember having conversations. about it\".\nRudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney who has been under fire for what was seen by some as missteps during recent TV interviews, may be dripping information about Trump to the public to lessen the shock when Special Counsel Robert Mueller releases his final report on his Russian collusion investigation, Andrew Napolitano, Fox News' senior judicial analyst said.\nThe president told confidants that Giuliani had \"changed the headlines\" for the worse and raised the possibility that Giuliani do fewer cable hits, at least for a while, according to the officials and Republicans. BuzzFeed said it stands by the reporting. So anytime during that period they could've talked about it.\n\"They have shot themselves in the foot time and time again, because they so desperately want this to be the truth, as opposed to saying, 'You know what?\"\n\"I am afraid it will be on my gravestone\". \"And I think it's remarkable that we're two years after the fact and just discovering it today\".\nGiuliani then went on to walk back his earlier comment about his legacy amid more questioning from Chotiner, saying he does not reflect on the historical significance of his tenure. \"But, if it is, so what do I care?\"\nRep. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and chairperson of the House intelligence committee, said the panel planned to investigate why Cohen made false statements to Congress and determine what exactly Cohen and Trump might have discussed about his testimony.\nYouTube is cracking down on a wave of users committing so-called \" Bird Box Challenges\" - like driving a auto while blindfolded. Netflix spokespeople have declined repeated requests for comment on the controversy.\nAccording to reports, Carey filed a lawsuit against Lianna Azarian almost four years after hiring her as an executive assistant . Carey is seemingly implicated in this, as Azarian alleges the singer was in the vicinity of the alleged abuse and \"did nothing\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 11354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lamountaineers.org/oldtrips/85.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FYNQB47FC6SDLUZTUKKVKD4NPESRHQEH", "length": 4285, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "lamountaineers.org", "title": "Mount Audubon, Colorado 13er", "raw_content": "Mount Audubon, Colorado 13er\nParticipants: Gary Swing and Mark Laity-Snyder\nGuidebooks: 100 Hikes in Colorado by Scott Warren, and Colorado's Indian Peaks Wilderness Area: Classic Hikes and Climbs by Gerry Roach\nStandard Rank: 457\nDifficulty: Class 1, Easy Hiking\nStarting Elevation: 10,500 feet\nUSGS Map: Ward 7.5 minute\nRound Trip Hiking Time: 4 hours, 25 minutes\nMount Audubon is a popular hiking destination due to its easy access from a paved road and its relative proximity to the Denver-Boulder metropolitan region. While Audubon is undistinguished by its altitude, it offers an easy trail to a high summit with extensive views in every direction.\nMy friend Mark and I did this trip as a full moon hike. I had hiked either up or down mountains at night before, but this would be my first time hiking a high peak entirely at night. Indian summer had brought an extended period of warm, clear, and sunny days to Colorado, melting off much of the early season snow in the high country.\nMark and I had originally planned to do a night climb of Pettingell Peak from Interstate 70, but logistical problems caused us to make a last minute change of plans. I drove up from Denver to Boulder to meet Mark at a restaurant called Zucchini's. From Boulder, we drove 16 miles west up Boulder Canyon to Nederland, then north about 14 miles to the town of Ward on Highway 72 (the Peak to Peak Highway). We turned left from 72 onto a paved road marked with a sign to Brainerd Lake. We took two right forks from the west end of Brainerd Lake to reach the Mitchell Lake and Blue Lake trailhead parking area. These roads are paved all the way to the trailhead. There is supposed to be an entrance fee for visitors to the Brainerd Lake area, but we didn't pay it. I'm not sure if the fee is seasonal, or in effect only during the daytime. Perhaps we were supposed to pay on a self-service basis, but if so, this was not evident.\nWe started our hike at 7:05 pm, nearly an hour after sunset. We had one pack which I brought, stuffed with layered clothing, water, snack foods, a map which we didn't need, crampons which we didn't need, and a headlamp and batteries which we also didn't need.\nThe trail to Mount Audubon started from a signpost at the north end of the parking lot. The route followed the Beaver Creek Trail for 1.5 miles to a signed junction for the Mount Audubon Trail at 11,300 feet, shortly after climbing out of the trees. The Mount Audubon Trail turns left at this junction.\nThe moon shone brightly, without a cloud in the sky. The trail was good, with intermittent patches of thin, hard-packed snow. On the way up, we were walking in our own shadows, which made the footing a bit trickier to see, but we didn't need to use the headlamp.\nMount Audubon is the large summit on the right\nCredit: Denver Public Library\nAbove treeline, we headed west-northwest up the broad, sweeping east slopes of Mount Audubon. In the distance to the east of us, we could see the eastern plains dotted with the lights of more than two million Boulder-Denver metropolitan residents. There was a cold, stiff wind above the timber that forced us to bundle up. We took a rest break around 12,400 feet. While we were sitting, a small dog passed us, leading its three companion humans back down the mountain.\nWe reached a small saddle northeast of Mount Audubon around 12,580 feet. From here, the route was more difficult to see at night, and we strayed from the trail. The wind became stronger as we approached the summit. It was especially harsh when we reached the ridge top. There were several breastworks around the summit area, providing shelter from the wind. We reached the summit at 9:30 and took a snack break for about ten to fifteen minutes until we felt too cold to remain sitting. We did not see a summit register.\nThe return route was easy, but the wind was picking up. It was all downhill, so no particular exertion was needed, and we were no longer walking in our own shadows. Some of the hard-packed snow patches proved slippery on the way down, and the rocks tried to trip us from time to time. Soon after we re-entered the trees, we saw another dog coming up the trail, taking its man for a nice evening walk. We reached the parking area at 11:30, just under 4 \u00bd hours after we started.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 4808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lawtranslate.com/?page_id=182", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:38Z", "digest": "sha1:T4S7HRIZAG6EPD4WLY5JKIBIND7CTQNZ", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lawtranslate.com", "title": "Strategic Partners | LawTranslate.com \u6717\u535a\u6cd5\u5f8b\u7ffb\u8b6f \u2013 Legal Translation and Legal Outsourcing Services \u2013 By Lawyers for Lawyers", "raw_content": "We have a network of valuable strategic partners, including:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 179.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org.cn/magazine/books?page=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:39Z", "digest": "sha1:E6RVS6PNWRBLOELVDUNHSM25HSONDWVN", "length": 1844, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org.cn", "title": "Books | LearnEnglish Teens", "raw_content": "by Rik Glauert\nTo Kill A Mocking Bird is always on those lists of \u2018books you must read before you die\u2019. These lists often make me feel guilty as I put off reading classic novels for something a little lighter.\nIf you're reading this magazine, then chances are you're a young learner of English as a Foreign Language, and are probably interested in reading too.\nThe Speckled People: Living in a Mismatched World\n\u2018When you\u2019re small you\u2019re like a piece of paper with nothing written on it.\nAlice in Wonderland: Stuff and nonsense\nby Thomas Hale\nAlice in Wonderland (along with Through the Looking Glass) is one of the most famous children\u2019s books of all time.\nThe Hunger Games Trilogy - Plot Summary\nby Ciara Murray\nIt seems relevant after my last article on the Twilight Saga to draw attention to the latest craze of books now hitting the big screen: The Hunger Games.\nThe World Behind The Hunger Games\nby Lane Nieset\nImagine a world where boys and girls have to fight to survive in an annual competition run by the country. In the competition, there are no survivors. It is a fight to the death.\nby Emily Hutch\nSo, what can be said about books? Ah, books... Unfortunately, there are not enough young people who like to read in England. It seems like an unpopular hobby; something that isn\u2019t \u2018cool\u2019.\nThe final instalment of the world renowned Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer\u2019s Breaking Dawn, has recently been released as a two-part motion picture, the first of which arrived in cinemas in Novemb\nWhat makes \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 so magical?\nby Hannah Bacon\nWhen author J.K. Rowling had the idea for the \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 stories, she was on a delayed train from Manchester to London.\nby Catherine Foster\nFloating through space on the the backs of four elephants, which in turn are standing on a giant turtle, the Discworld is Terry Pratchett's masterpiece.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 5611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2007/11/sibel-edmonds-case-new-and-old.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KH7HER5ZC2JE7UR44EMVUITUIPZZPW4O", "length": 12951, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com", "title": "Let Sibel Edmonds Speak: Sibel Edmonds Case: New (and old) revelations of spying at the FBI", "raw_content": "Sibel Edmonds Case: New (and old) revelations of spying at the FBI\nNews outlets are abuzz with the news of the guilty plea of Nada Nadim Prouty.\nDespite fraudulently acquiring her citizenship and having close familial ties to Hezbollah, Prouty was able to pass background checks for both the CIA and the FBI.\nProuty pled guilty to improperly accessing the internal computer systems, apparently to get a status-check on investigations into Hezbollah, as well as herself and her family members.\nThe agencies appear to be playing down the incident with anonymous sources saying that there aren't any counter-terrorism or counter-intelligence implications - although many observers are less sanguine.\nPerhaps the media will take the opportunity to revisit the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds.\nPerhaps the media will be equally outraged that some of the spies in Sibel's case are still working in senior positions at the FBI, and other spies were allowed to walk away without an investigation.\nPerhaps not. I won't hold my breath.\nDodgy Background Checks?\nThe UK's Independent reports:\n\"As a tale of incompetence by the intelligence services, the tale of Nada Nadim Prouty is hard to beat.\"\nWhat if the issue isn't a matter of 'incompetence' though? As we saw in Sibel's case, sometimes there really are 'bad guys' inside the agencies. It's certainly not inconceivable that 'bad guys' in the agencies would recruit and promote similarly-minded folks. To the extent that might be true, it wouldn't take very long for the bad guys to come to dominate the senior positions at the FBI.\nIf that sounds far-fetched, consider what Special Agent John Roberts said on the 60 Minutes show about Sibel's case. John Roberts was head of the FBI's Internal Affairs Department - so his words should carry some weight:\nMr. ROBERTS: I think the double standard of discipline will continue no matter who comes in, no matter who tries to change. You have a certain group that will continue to protect itself. That's just how it is.\nLong term FBI agent Frederic Whitehurst from the FBI crime lab in Washington made a similar point, hypothetically, in an interview with Sibel and Scott Horton:\nDr Whitehurst: But right now there is not only no accountability (at the FBI), nobody audits the process, nobody can audit the process, so we don't know how many of those people are crooks.\nThink about this - and it's not too far fetched - the FBI has (previously) been infiltrated by spies, Robert Hansen, Earl Pitt, whatever, by spies. Foreign governments have infiltrated the FBI. The FBI has had agents that have joined the mafia... Suppose that the top management of the FBI was compromised - what recourse do American citizens have? We don't have any recourse. The safest place in the United States of America right now for a criminal is within the walls of FBI headquarters. The safest place! Nobody can touch those people! It's terrifying.\nWhitehurst makes a related point in that interview:\nAs I documented in Sibel Edmonds' Corrupt Boss is STILL the key to National Security, Sibel's boss, Mike Feghali, engaged in all manner of espionage, including recruiting spies into the translation bureau and making sure that agents in the field didn't receive translations that were directly relevant to ongoing investigations - including the 9/11 investigation. This has all been confirmed by the Inspector General's report into Sibel's case. Nonetheless, Feghali has been promoted and is now, currently, in charge of the entire Arabic translation desk, in charge of 300 translators, many of whom are his family and friends, and some \"were openly celebrating the terrorist attacks on September 11.\"\nWho promoted Feghali, and why? Who are his 'juice men'?\nWhy is Congress, and the media, silent on this matter?\nFeghali also hired Melek Can Dickerson. Prior to joining the FBI, Dickerson worked for three different organizations - all of which were targets of FBI investigations, and she had ongoing relationships with people who were targets of FBI counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism operations.\nHow did the FBI miss this in their background checks?\nIn partnership with Feghali, Dickerson blocked translations into her friends, leaked information to them about the investigations, and engaged in all manner of other nefarious activities. Dickerson, and her husband then-USAF Major Douglas Dickerson, actually tried to recruit Sibel into the espionage network.\nAgain, even after this was confirmed by the FBI's own investigation, Melek Can Dickerson was allowed to continue in her nefarious ways for another 6 months before she fled the country. Her husband, Douglas Dickerson, has since been protected by various interests withing the US Government, and has also promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, and still has his Top Secret/SCI clearance - giving him access to all manner of US military secrets that he might sell to the highest bidder.\nSibel describes it thusly:\n\"As mentioned above and confirmed by the Congress and the FBI, Melek Can Dickerson was hired and granted Top Secret Clearance despite the fact that she lied in her job application about her previous employments that were targets of FBI investigations, that she and her husband had on going personal and business relationships with FBI targets. Ms. Dickerson maintained her position and clearance even after the FBI confirmed that she had intentionally blocked and mistranslated intelligence/information related to the individuals and organizations she had ties with, and after two FBI targets were tipped off and hastily left the United States\"\nOf course, Sibel isn't the only person to make claims about dodgy background investigations. Take the case of John Cole, manager for counterintelligence operations covering Pakistan, Afghanistan and India at FBI HQ. He reported that:\nSeveral translators from (Pakistan, Afghanistan and India ), who had ties/relationship with targets of FBI investigations and were found to be significant security risks, were hired by the FBI and placed in charge of translating intelligence in languages from Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. In one case, the translator's father was among the members of a FBI target organization, and in another case, the FBI discovered that one translator had been providing FBI top secret information to a foreign intelligence service.\nCole was forced out of the FBI after 18 years for raising these questions. Apparently he didn't have the requisite Juice Men on his side.\nBack to Prouty\nReturning to the recent case of Nada Nadim Prouty, according to The Independent, in 1999, Prouty was \"talent spotted\" at the restaurant where she'd worked since 1990. Who recruited her? Who pushed her through the recruitment process? Who were her 'Juice-Men'? Have they been promoted? Who facilitated Prouty's 2003 move to the CIA and then to the \"CIA\u2019s most sensitive post\" where she \"participated in the debriefings of high-ranking al-Qaida detainees\"?\nThe Prouty timeline, and her penalty, is also suspicious.\nAccording to Michael Isikoff in Newsweek, buried in the penultimate paragraph of a 3 page article:\n\"(The FBI) discover(ed) Prouty's connections to Hizbullah (in) December 2005... Eventually the bureau alerted the agency and the CIA later reassigned her to a less sensitive position... about a year ago, after she first came under suspicion.\"\nThat is, the FBI has known about this for 2 years, and it took the CIA a full 12 months to downgrade her status, and then it took a further 12 months for the investigation and to negotiate her guilty plea. Of course, Prouty wasn't charged with espionage, but rather, as one anonymous spin doctor described it:\n\"She took an illegal shortcut to the American dream, then she made some inappropriate computer searches.\"\nHeads were exploding over at Fox News at the apparent lenience of the punishment:\nJOHN GIBSON, CO-HOST: We're all breathless about this, an illegal immigrant spy with terror ties and the punishment \u2014 that's it for the punishment?\nKENNEDY: This has got a lot of people in the intelligence industry just completely freaked out that she's only getting six to 12 months. I spoke with the Justice Department today. They say because she is going to cooperate and because she will be a key witness, this is what they arranged for her plea deal.\nSo which is it? \"Inappropriate computer searches\" or something more serious?\nFormer CIA agent Larry Johnson says:\n\"The CIA and FBI are going to great lengths to try to tamp this story down. But you don\u2019t blow an ops officer\u2019s career just because she took a sneaky peek of an classified file. For Christ\u2019s sake. She had clearances. She did something beyond read.\"\nSo why did Prouty get off nearly scot-free? The fake marriage and immigration charges appear to be the equivalent of Bernie Kerik's 'Nanny problem.' Again, who are Prouty's 'Juice Men'? Did she blackmail them into giving her this apparent leniency? Did she threaten to expose them all?\nProuty's guilty plea states that if she withdraws her guilty plea, the government shall \"reinstate any charges that were dismissed as part of this agreement.\" What are those charges? What are they holding over her head?\nHow many other spies?\nScott Horton asked Sibel about the reaction within the FBI when she began to report what was happening. Sibel replied:\n\"After this was confirmed - because the agent I worked for, he reported this issue to the Security Division - and it came down to this issue: If (the FBI) were to admit to this case, and investigate it, criminally investigate it and refer it to counter-espionage division, it would bring into question all the other Top Secret Clearances we had granted to other translators. That means they would come down and shake up this dept and - this is the exact words:\n\"Who knows how many more Dickersons would fall out if they were to come and shake up the Dept?\"\nHeaven forbid. Apparently they'd rather tolerate multiple cases of espionage than have a PR problem. Again, I'm not sure whether espionage vulnerability is regarded as a feature or a bug.\nTraduttore tradittore\nIn fact, compromised translators are often more dangerous than compromised agents. \"Traduttore tradittore\" say the Italians - \"The translator is the traitor.\"\nIn the words of DoJ's Inspector General Glenn Fine:\n\"The FBI\u2019s linguists play a critical role in developing effective counterterrorism and counterintelligence information. Linguists are the first line of analysis for information collected in a language other than English.\"\nCompromised translators have the power to shift investigations away from targets, and given Feghali's hiring practices, many of them were compromised. In Sibel's case, Melek Can Dickerson simply told the agents that certain relevant phone calls between her friends were 'not pertinent.' The agents simply had no choice but to trust the translations. Eventually the agents suspected that something was amiss and asked Sibel to retranslate the wiretaps.\nGiven the enormous power of the translators, it's not surprising that foreign interests would attempt to infiltrate the translation bureau. In fact, within the FBI, translators actually have significantly higher clearance authority than any of the actual agents. What is surprising is that the FBI doesn't go to greater lengths to ensure the integrity of the translation unit. Again, one possibility is that various Juice Men prefer to have weaknesses in the system.\n'Illegal Alien'\nI don't know the truth behind the Prouty matter. I suspect it is much more serious than the agencies are currently trying to portray. On the other hand, I suspect that the 'illegal alien' (and to a lesser degree the Hezbollah connection) emphasis is merely a smokescreen for our friends on the Right.\nI do know that there are more serious problems that we face - including the fact that we currently have traitors in the FBI translation department, and the Defense Department, and the State Department - and they are being protected today. And someone keeps promoting them. Sibel has been trying to bring these matters to our attention for 5 years - but neither our friends in congress, nor our friends in the media (for that matter, nor our friends in the blogosphere) appear very interested in listening to her - despite the fact that her allegations have all been confirmed.\nSibel has been trying, unsuccessfully, to get Henry Waxman to hold hearings into her case in Congress. (In ordinary circumstances, we might expect Waxman's Government Reform Committee to hold hearings into the Prouty matter, but he wouldn't dare do that without holding hearings into Sibel's case.) Now Sibel is prepared to 'tell all,' at great personal risk, if a broadcast network will let her tell her story.\nSibel deserves our support.\nWaxman can be contacted in DC: (202)225-3976 and LA:323 651-1040. The toll free Capitol switchboard number is 800-828-0498. 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While anyone can walk in and ask for something to read in the Reference Room, only members have borrowing privileges and access to the stacks, as well aselectronic resources, access to reading and workrooms, and the children\u2019s library. Past members on the roster include Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Henry James, Edward Steichen, Willa Cather, P.G. Wodehouse, W.H. Auden, Djuna Barnes, George Plimpton, Malcolm Cowley, John Dos Passos, Lillian Hellman, John Cheever, Barbara Guest, Lewis Mumford, Helene Hanff, Roald Dahl, Leonard Bernstein, and Shirley Hazzard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 145.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lidocinema.co.nz/movie/273319/FFF-The-Sisters-Brothers-Trailer-and-Info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:56Z", "digest": "sha1:3FRUSHSCPIUZTGPP6B4G2ZLJLIIV3JBM", "length": 489, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lidocinema.co.nz", "title": "Lido Cinema Hamilton", "raw_content": "2 hr. 0 min. | Rated R |\nStarring: Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed\nIt\u2019s 1851 and Charlie and Eli Sisters are both brothers and assassins, boys grown to men in a savage and hostile world. The Sisters brothers find themselves on a journey through the Northwest, bringing them to the mountains of Oregon, a dangerous brothel in the small town of Mayfield, and eventually, the gold rush land of California \u2014 an adventure that tests the deadly family ties that bind.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lifeandtimesofthefireflies.co.za/2017/10/24/a-21st-birthday-message-to-my-nephew/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:30Z", "digest": "sha1:TEMJ37CILRUGKHYNJ4VVBBTH5T2KS54U", "length": 3754, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "lifeandtimesofthefireflies.co.za", "title": "A 21st Birthday Message to my Nephew \u2013 Life and Times of the Fireflies", "raw_content": "Today you turn 21. That\u2019s 21 years of monumental moments and memories that make up your life as you know. 21 years of life around you unfolding in a way that has moulded and shaped you into the young adult you are today. But there\u2019s a lifetime of memories harvested in this heart of mine too\u2026and I hardly know which one to pick out first about how our journey\u2019s collide.\nI was just 17 when you were born (it was the day before my matric accounting final) but in my heart you held a position of so much more than just my sister\u2019s son. You were her first born, yes; but you were also the first for us all \u2013 first grandchild, first nephew \u2013 the first of everything for all of us and it was the first time I ever experienced a new kind of unconditional love!\nSo much of your formative years was spent in our home (technically Naani and Naana\u2019s, but we all lived there too. We all played a part), so many of those memories are housed in my heart and the hearts of your grandparents, uncle and aunts. For four years you were the only one. You filled the home with light and love and laughter. We all doted on you, spoiled you, showered you with love. Each one of us in our own special way.\nAnd then the others came one after the other. Life slowly started to change. You were no longer the only one and maybe felt like you were no longer the centre of our universe too. But you took on the role of big brother and cousin with pride and ease and built special relationships with everyone in the brood. But the one thing I\u2019m most proud of is that the tight bond we have as aunty and nephew has always remained strong. It may have evolved over time; maybe even matured \u2013 but it\u2019s unmistaken that it\u2019s there! It\u2019s evident in our shared ditsy personalities\u2026laughing at each others lame jokes\u2026our out of key car karaoke moments\u2026how we pick up random deep conversations in the school parking lot\u2026our creative ideas\u2026and it\u2019s in so many things that I can\u2019t even begin to expand on and explain. It\u2019s special to me, and whether I don\u2019t see you for a week or a month, I know that it\u2019s just there \u2013 without cause or reason or conditions!\nIt\u2019s hard to look back and not feel sentimental. 21 signals the start of your journey into adulthood. The day you get handed the metaphorical key to unlock your own destiny. But new beginnings always conjure up memories of times that have passed, and as silly as it sounds to have a whole group of people emotional about this day; it\u2019s only because we feel like we\u2019ve always been part of the journey too. We\u2019ve been there from day one! We\u2019ve rocked you to sleep, held your hand, and walked beside you through all the ups and downs, the highs and lows; and now we get to see you take flight, as you venture into this new stage of life too.\n21 is just the beginning. It\u2019s your foot in the door to your own future. It\u2019s a time for great discovery\u2026of who you are and who you want to be. It is the beginning of you building your very own legacy. There\u2019s a lot of hopes and dreams that we all envisioned for you since the day you were born \u2013 to study hard and be successful in whatever you choose to do! We want you to have a GREAT life and a bright future. But futures aren\u2019t built on the hopes and dreams of others; they are built on effort and actions and whatever steps we make in the present moment\u2026so put effort into whatever you do in life, work hard, be kind and most importantly, always do what\u2019s right. Your future depends on it! Every action can either be a building block or a sledgehammer, so act wisely\nLastly, I want you to know that whether you\u2019re 21, 31, 41 \u2013 for as long as I\u2019m around to give it, I am always here to support you and I will always love you <3\nOur 16th Anniversary Staycation\tIt Takes a Village to Raise Kids", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lifebitesnews.com/tinsletown_archive.php?TinsletownIssue=1010", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:46Z", "digest": "sha1:OLYNRAU2WK63TF4762ATGW5MVRKVFTHW", "length": 8503, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "lifebitesnews.com", "title": "Bonnie Carroll's Life Bites - Tinsletown Tidbits", "raw_content": "SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL NEWS\nThe Santa Barbara International Film Festival has set Thursday, January 27 through Sunday, February 6, 2011 as the dates for the 26th edition of the festival, it was announced today by SBIFF Executive Director, Roger Durling.\nEarlier this year the SBIFF celebrated its Silver Anniversary and thousands of people descended upon the beautiful town of Santa Barbara to toast 25 years of cinematic wonders as well as the bountiful attendance of Oscar nominated actors. So much so that the City of Santa Barbara reports that they saw an increase in hotel tax revenue for the first time in 16 months, further substantiating the tremendous impact the festival has on the American Riviera city!\n\ufffdWe are proud of the work we do, the films we feature, the guests we welcome and getting notice that we also helped boost the economy in our sweet town, all the better\ufffd commented SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. \ufffdSanta Barbara is the place to be!\ufffd\nIn recognition of his contributions to the world of film, the Santa Barbara International Film Festival is honored to present the fifth annual KIRK DOUGLAS AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN FILM to the legendary Academy Award-nominated actor/producer Harrison Ford. The black-tie Gala dinner, which serves as a fundraiser for SBIFF, will take place at The Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara on Friday, November 19, 2010. The evening is sponsored by Chopin Vodka.Ford\ufffds upcoming film Morning Glory is slated to be released November 12, 2010. Set in the hilarious and dysfunctional world of morning television, Ford plays legendary TV anchor Mike Pomeroy, who is brought on to save a failing news show where he comes into conflict with his co-anchor Colleen Peck (Diane Keaton). Ford will also star alongside Daniel Craig in the upcoming film Cowboys and Aliens, directed by Jon Favreau.The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is dedicated to the art of filmmaking, which seeks out and consequently offers a broad array of international and independent films, with a commitment to diversity. SBIFF, which attracts more than 70,000 visitors each year, endeavors to enrich the community both culturally and economically by presenting eleven days of films, tributes and symposiums, raising consciousness of film as an art form. SBIFF presents quality American and world independent films, Latin American and Asian sidebars as well as documentary cinema within the beautiful setting of downtown Santa Barbara, a premier tourist destination. SBIFF continues it commitment to education through its 10-10-10 Student Filmmaking and Screenwriting Competitions, Field Trip to the Movies and educational seminars. For more information, log onto www.sbfilmfestival.org.\n\ufffdI\ufffdm delighted to give this award to Harrison Ford,\ufffd commented Kirk Douglas. \ufffdIt\ufffds always a pleasure to honor these young actors who do so well.\ufffd\nFord\ufffds impressive body of work contains 43 feature films, 12 of which have each grossed over $100 million, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor.\nThroughout his career, Ford has captivated audiences with each performance, becoming one of the most influential and widely celebrated actors in the history of Hollywood. He has consistently given diverse and compelling performances, mastering the challenges of both comedy and drama: sometimes within the span of a single scene. His ability to bring the audience along with him to the outer reaches of the universe with expert guidance has garnered him loyalty among his audience as well as his peers.\nFord first turned heads playing Bob Falfa in George Lucas\ufffd, American Graffiti (1973). A few years later Lucas cast him as the cocky rebel starship pilot Han Solo in Star Wars. The film shattered all box office records and made Ford a household name. After starring in a few more films such as Hanover Street(1978) and The Frisco Kid (1979), as well as a cameo in Apocalypse Now (1979),he donned the famous fedora as Indiana Jones in Steven Spielberg\ufffds Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981).\nBetween the Star Wars sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), and the Raiders sequels Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), andIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), Ford took on many other roles which enabled him to demonstrate immense range as an actor. He delivered a gritty performance as a cop in the nihilistic future LA in Blade Runner (1982); he received an Academy Award nomination for his role as a cop on the lam hiding out in Amish country in Witness (1985); he portrayed an eccentric idealistic inventor in The Mosquito Coast (1986); he portrayed a Hitchcock protagonist in Frantic (1988) before showing his flair for romantic comedy in Mike Nichols\ufffd Working Girl (1988). He portrayed a lawyer accused of murder in Presumed Innocent (1990); a doctor wrongly convicted of murder in Andy Jones\ufffd The Fugitive (1993); he was President in Air Force One (1997), a NY City cop in The Devil\ufffds Own (1997) and, of course, brought Tom Clancy\ufffds novel character Jack Ryan to the silver screen in, Patriot Games (1992) and Clear and Present Danger (1994).\nFIVE-TIME EMMY\ufffd AWARD WINNER DORIS ROBERTS\n\ufffdDEBBIE MACOMBER\ufffdS CALL ME MRS. MIRACLE,\ufffd\nA HALLMARK CHANNE NOVEMBER 27\nBASED ON THE BOOK \ufffdCALL ME MRS. MIRACLE\ufffd\nBY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR\nHallmark Channel, the biggest holiday\ndestination in television, presents five-time Emmy\ufffd Award winner Doris\nRoberts in the World Premiere of \ufffdDebbie Macomber\ufffds Call Me Mrs. Miracle,\ufffd\na Hallmark Channel Original Movie, Saturday, November 27 (8p.m. ET/PT; 7C).\nTom Selleck Says 'Three Men' Sequel in the Works\nActor Tom Selleck visited \"Extra's\" Mario Lopez at The Grove and said a third installment of the \"Three Men\" franchise is in development, to be called \"Three Men and a Bride.\"\n\"It's real. Disney is developing a script. They're waiting until they get it just right,\" Selleck revealed. \"It's a great idea. I know Ted Danson, Steve Guttenberg and I all feel the same way -- the franchise was so good to us. We want it to be a good story and good script. If it's that, we are all onboard.\"\nIn the meantime, Selleck is starring in the new CBS show \"Blue Bloods,\" playing a New York City police commissioner whose adult kids are also involved in law enforcement. The show is filmed primarily in the Big Apple, but Selleck, who lives with his family in L.A., explained he gets two weeks off a month.\n\"I'm one of four leads, so I'm able to get two weeks in L.A. It's a great gig, a good job. I hate the travel and the flying, but this is a nice deal.\"\nOn a side note, Mario asked the famously mustachioed Selleck his advice for wearing a stache. \"I think you can,\" Selleck replied. \"I see a little shadow. It means you're pumping enough testosterone to get it.\"\n\"Blue Bloods\" premieres Friday, Sept. 24 at 10:00 PM on CBS. Watch the trailer. See the complete 2010 Fall TV Schedule.\nACTOR JOAQUIN PHEONIX WANTED OUT\nActor Joaquin Phoenix knew he and his pal Casey Affleck were taking on a big project when they decided to make the mockumentary \"I'm Still Here,\" but Phoenix admitted to \"Extra's\" Jerry Penacoli that he thought it got a little out of control.\n\"At some point, it became such a public spectacle,\" the actor said. \"To be frank, we were kind of hostage to the process. There were times, honestly, where I wanted out. Even on a conventional film, I'm done after four months. But this went on and on.\"\nPenacoli laughed with Phoenix about the moment when he and Affleck came up to him to say Phoenix was retiring from acting to pursue a music career.\nThe Oscar-nominated actor remembered, \"Is this, like, the moment? Shall I announce my retirement right now? And [Casey] said yes. It wasn't planned. I didn't know that I was going to be talking to you. I had my head down and just walked right up and there you were.\"\nAs for Phoenix's bizarre 2009 appearance on \"Late Night with David Letterman,\" the actor always knew once it was over, \"Letterman\" was the first place he'd go to talk about it. \"I just wanted him to know it wasn't our intention to make him look bad in any way,\" Phoenix explained. \"I wasn't on the show to make a fool of him. In this film, I think the only person who comes off as a real jerk is me.\"\nAnd why did Phoenix go to all this trouble? \"I wanted to make a movie with my friends and make one in a different way. 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The LAA, through its involvement with the Future Airspace Strategy group, corresponded with NATS (as did other organisations) to find a more acceptable solution.\nOn June 8, NATS responded positively with the following comment:\n... having listened to feedback from our users, we value there is mutual benefit to extend the AFPEx service free-of-charge to other small, non-commercial low volume users such as some General Aviation airfields.\nGiven the above, NATS will continue to provide a free service to low volume users subject to a Fair Usage Policy. NATS will be able to monitor a user\u2019s usage and number of messages sent. The Fair usage limit will be determined by NATS, but as a general guideline we envisage fair use to be no more than 20 message transactions a day per user. Where, in NATS\u2019 reasonable opinion, users routinely exceed fair use, they\u2019ll be invited to switch to the charged service.\nIn addition to the above, NATS also confirms that it will support charitable or special events (such as air-shows); and reserves the rights to waive its fees depending on the event requirements. Event organisers should get in touch with us at least two months in advance of any event to discuss their needs, expected volume of traffic and period over which air traffic would be affected. NATS will then be in a position to advise on whether a fee will be charged on a case by case basis.\nWe believe this arrangement strikes the best balance between ensuring AFPEx remains viable for small airfields while at the same time securing the funding we need to invest in improving the service for the benefit of all users.\nWell done NATS and all involved on reaching a pragmatic solution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://link.ccrls.org/portal/Providing-for-the-consideration-of-H.R.-436-the/3XYDDutT-A4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:47Z", "digest": "sha1:X4XN34XS4K6GPN35OT22652EG74CFDJA", "length": 2089, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "link.ccrls.org", "title": "Providing for the consideration of H.R. 436, the Government Waste, Fraud and Error Reduction Act of 1999 : report (to accompany H. 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In this list I have selected various aspects of film making and chosen the best of the best. For example, the best actor in history, the best actress in history. I am sure that there will be some disagreement with my choices, but you are welcome to comment and tell me what you think.\n1. Best Actor\nWinner: Marlon Brando\nNotable Movies: A Streetcar Named Desire\nMarlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. No actor ever exerted such a profound influence on succeeding generations of actors as did Brando. More than 50 years after he first scorched the screen as Stanley Kowalski in the movie version of Tennessee Williams\u2019 A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and a quarter-century after his last great performance as Col. Kurtz in Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s Apocalypse Now (1979), all American actors are still being measured by the yardstick that was Brando. Brando eclipsed the reputation of other great actors circa 1950, such as Paul Muni and Fredric March. Only the luster of Spencer Tracy\u2019s reputation hasn\u2019t dimmed when seen in the starlight thrown off by Brando. However, neither Tracy nor Olivier created an entire school of acting just by the force of his personality. Brando did.\nGet the best of Marlon Brando, including A Streetcar Named Desire, when you buy TCM Greatest Classic Legends Film Collection: Marlon Brando at Amazon.com!\nWinner: Ren\u00e9e Jeanne Falconetti (often credited as Maria Falconetti)\nNotable Movies: The Passion of Saint Joan of Arc\nA noted stage actress for many years, Falconetti is best known for The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). It is considered by some historians to have been the single greatest performance ever put on film. Born in Sermano, Corsica, Falconetti became a stage actress in Paris in 1918. By the time that director Carl Dreyer saw her act in amateur theater and selected her as his leading lady in his up-and-coming production La Passion de Jeanne d\u2019Arc, she was already a celebrated stage artiste, and had appeared in one film, La Comtesse de Somerive (1917), directed by Georges Denola and Jean Kemm. Her portrayal of Joan of Arc in La Passion is widely considered one of the most astonishing performances ever committed to film, and it would remain her final cinematic role. You can watch this complete film on the Top 10 Brilliant Complete Movies Online.\n3. Best Cinematographer\nWinner: Conrad Hall\nNotable Movies: The Road to Perdition, American Beauty, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid\nRunners Up: Gregg Toland, James Wong Howe\nBorn in Tahiti, the son of writer James Norman Hall, author of \u201cMutiny on the Bounty,\u201d Conrad Hall studied filmmaking at USC. He and two classmates formed a production company and sold a project to a local television station. Hall\u2019s company branched out into making industrial films and TV commercials. They were hired to shoot location footage for several feature films, including\u2019s Disney\u2019s The Living Desert (1953). In the early 1960s, Hall was hired as a camera assistant on several features and worked his way up to camera operator. He received his first cinematographer credit in 1965. Hall won acclaim for his rich and complex compositions, especially for In Cold Blood (1967) and won an Academy Award for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He won two more Oscars, for American Beauty (1999), in 2000, and Road to Perdition (2002).\nWinner: Orson Welles\nNotable Movies: Citizen Kane\nRunners Up: Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Federico Fellini\nOrson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died (he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. When his father died (he was fifteen) he became the ward of Chicago\u2019s Dr. Maurice Bernstein. Recommendations by Thornton Wilder and Alexander Woollcott got him into Katherine Cornell\u2019s road company, with which he made his New York debut as Tybalt in 1934. The same year he married, directed his first short, and appeared on radio for the first time. His first film to be seen by the public was Citizen Kane (1941), a commercial failure losing RKO $150,000, but regarded by many as the best film ever made. Many of his next films were commercial failures and he exiled himself to Europe in 1948. In 1956 he directed Touch of Evil (1958); it failed in the U.S. but won a prize at the 1958 Brussels World\u2019s Fair. In 1975, in spite of all his box-office failures, he received the American Film Institute\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1984 the Directors Guild of America awarded him its highest honor, the D.W. Griffith Award. His reputation as a film maker has climbed steadily ever since.\n5. Best Production Designer\nWinner: Cedric Gibbons\nNotable Movies: The Wizard of Oz, Pride and Prejudice, An American in Paris\nRunners Up: John Box, Ken Adam\nAfter graduating from New York\u2019s Art Students League he worked for his architect father, then started film work at Edison Studios in 1915 assisting Hugo Ballin. In 1918 he moved to Goldwyn as art director and, in 1924, began his 32 year stint as supervising art director for some 1500 MGM films, with direct responsibility in well over 150 of those. He designed the Oscar itself, winning it 11 of the 37 times he was nominated for it. Some of his designs influenced American interiors, and it has been argued that he was the most important art director in the history of American cinema.\nRead all about the most magnificent people in movie making with 85 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards at Amazon.com!\nWinner: Douglas Trumbull\nNotable Movies: 2001, A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind\nLegendary filmmaker and visual effects pioneer, Douglas Trumbull, was one of the Special Photographic Effects Supervisors for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He went on to become the Visual Effects Supervisor for such classics as Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), and Blade Runner (1982), each of which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. He is the recipient of an Academy Award in the area of Scientific and Technical Achievement, as well as the International Monitor Award and American Society of Cinematographers\u2019 Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions in the field of filmmaking. The majority of the completed cinema projects that Trumbull has been associated with have come to be recognised as classics, gaining audiences over time. Brainstorm predicted the fascination of virtual reality while Silent Running reflected the emerging ecology movement of the early 1970s, and is today regarded as a science fiction classic.\n7. Best Sound Designer\nWinner: Walter Murch\nNotable Movies: Apocalypse Now, The Godfather, The English Patient\nWalter Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s film \u201cThe Rain People\u201d (1969). He edited sound on \u201cAmerican Graffiti\u201d (1973) and \u201cThe Godfather Part II\u201d (1974), won his first Academy Award nomination for \u201cThe Conversation\u201d (1974), won his first Oscar for \u201cApocalypse Now\u201d (1979), and won an unprecedented double Oscars for sound and film editing for his work on \u201cThe English Patient\u201d (1996). Most recently he helped reconstruct \u201cTouch of Evil\u201d to Orson Welles original notes, and edited The Talented Mr. Ripley. Mr. Murch has directed \u2014 Return to Oz (1985) \u2014 and longs to do so again, but as an editor and sound man he is one of the few universally acknowledged masters in his field. For his work on the film \u201cApocolypse Now\u201d, Walter coined the term \u201cSound Designer\u201d, and along with colleagues such as Ben Burtt, helped to elevate the art and impact of film sound to a new level.\n8. Best Editor\nWinner: William Hornbeck\nNotable Movies: A Place in the Sun, It\u2019s a Wonderful Life, Shane\nFrank Capra called William Hornbeck \u201cthe greatest film editor in the history of motion pictures,\u201d and in a 1977 poll 100 of his peers named Hornbeck the best editor in the film industry, two great compliments for a man relatively unknown to most filmgoers. In a tribute to Hornbeck after his death, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences distributed a program note that said, \u201cIf William Hornbeck had been anything other than a film editor, he would have been proclaimed by the world at large to be what his associates always knew him to be\u2014a true Hollywood legend.\u201d Although the general public is not familiar with his name and few film books refer to him, he was unquestionably one of the true pioneers of his chosen field of film editing. Hornbeck\u2019s career is remarkable for its influence and longevity. The Hornbeck style was eclectic and flexible. (\u201cIf you had rules for editing,\u201d he said, \u201cyou could put it in a book and anyone could become an editor.\u201d) His editing technique is simple: it serves its story, and the intent of the director, according to what is most appropriate; it is superbly crafted; it is humanistic in tone. Two films Hornbeck cut for George Stevens, Shane and A Place in the Sun, illustrate these tendencies.\n9. Best Screenwriter\nWinner: Billy Wilder\nNotable Movies: Sunset Boulevard, The Lost Weekend, The Apartment\nRunners up: Woody Allen\nBilly Wilder broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929, and wrote scripts for many German films until Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933. Wilder immediately realized his Jewish ancestry would cause problems, so he emigrated to Paris, then the US. Although he spoke no English when he arrived in Hollywood, Wilder was a fast learner, and thanks to contacts such as Peter Lorre (with whom he shared an apartment), he was able to break into American films. His partnership with Charles Brackett started in 1938 and the team was responsible for writing some of Hollywood\u2019s classic comedies, including Ninotchka (1939) and Ball of Fire (1941). He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood\u2019s golden age. Many of Wilder\u2019s films achieved both critical and public acclaim. He won 7 academy awards and was nominated 15 times.\n10. Best Costume Designer\nWinner: Edith Head\nNotable Movies: Roman Holiday, Samson and Delilah, The Sting\nRunners Up: Milena Canonero, Colleen Atwood\nEdith Head\u2019s 35 Oscar nominations and 8 awards make her both the most honored costume designer and woman in Academy Award history to date. A photograph of Miss Head working on a dress design appears on one stamp of a sheet of 10 USA 37\u00a2 commemorative postage stamps, issued 25 February 2003, celebrating American Filmmaking: Behind the Scenes. The stamp honors costume design. She was responsible for some of the best-known Hollywood fashion images of her day, with her costumes being worn by the most glamorous and famous actresses in films seen by millions. Head\u2019s influence on world fashion was far reaching, especially in the 1950s when she began appearing on Art Linkletter\u2019s television program and writing books on fashion. Despite her own accomplishments, she also had a reputation for taking credit for others\u2019 work \u2014 but in the studio days a department head not uncommonly claimed credit for everything in her department.\nTop 10 TV Show Introductions\nTop 10 Worst Neighbours in Movies\nTop 10 Dario Argento Films", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 14879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 144.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livinghistory.ie/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1619&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=130", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:39Z", "digest": "sha1:FYXXRJN5K5IB6KPRBODIKVDND63JL4YF", "length": 35802, "nlines": 97, "source_domain": "livinghistory.ie", "title": "livinghistory.ie \u2022 View topic - Historical Revisionism and the Irish War of Independence.", "raw_content": "by michaelcarragher on Mon Jan 23, 2012 6:07 pm\nJohn Regan\u2019s emphasis on historiography, while disappointing to some who made it to the NLI, might remind others that historiography can be a quite fascinating subject, and obviously all but essential to a full understanding of history. From my limited reading of his work it appears that Dr Regan would be more critical than supportive of revisionist historians, but his criticism is the sort from which anyone could benefit, being intelligent and constructive and not unfair.\nHe has a very good essay in the current issue of History Ireland, \u201cDr Jekyll and Mr Hyde: the two histories\u201d, which anyone following this thread of discussion really ought to check out. In this essay Regan examines the revisionist-traditionalist divide in light of the interplay between \u201cprofessional\u201d and \u201cpublic\u201d history, and the usually \u201chealthy friction\u201d between the two which generates symbiosis. However,\nwhere public histories compromise historical method [instead of healthy symbiosis] the complexity, contradictions and nuance associated with historical research are replaced by the simplicities, inaccuracies and distortions of an \u201cahistorical public history\u201d.\nImportantly, in my view, Dr Regan warns about the dangers of present-focused \u201cWhig history\u201d (essentially the construct of history as a \u201cgrand narrative\u201d describing an \u201carc of progress\u201d toward a \u201csuccessful\u201d present), and how this may seduce historians into seeing themselves as players in bringing this \u201csuccessful\u201d present to birth. To conflate his own remarks with those of his colleague Bernard Lewis, he warns against\na school of history that aims to \u201camend, to restate, to replace, or even to recreate the past in a more satisfactory form\u201d [; a school that justifies itself with] a \u201clesser evil\u201d argument. It says that society is better served by purposely inaccurate histories adapted to its needs than by historical research chasing abstract truths that may actually harm us.\nDr Regan goes on to claim that the sort of \u201cahistorical public histories\u201d that must emerge from this approach\nwashed back into [scholarly] historical research, where they stained the work of our best professionals.\nHe seems to mean Peter Hart here.\nSo far so feasible. And in linking Frank Busteed\u2019s capture of two British intelligence officers to the Bandon Valley killings, which Peter Hart \u201celided\u201d from his work, Dr Regan both delivers a possible explanation for those killings that is plausibly non-sectarian and skilfully undercuts Hart\u2019s scholarship. Elsewhere (in his reviews of Hart\u2019s books), his respect for Hart seems clear, so his criticism here cannot be dismissed as personal animus or professional envy. Dr Regan\u2019s is a most impressive essay.\nSo impressive that my criticisms are offered tentatively\u2014all the more tentatively because at least one of those criticisms may be grounded in a misreading. Citing Tom Garvin\u2019s claim that the Die Hard faction \u201cdecided to prevent an election taking place as long as an alleged threat of war was being made by the British\u201d, Regan seems to endow that decision with democratic legitimacy:\nOnce British threats [to invade the Free State] are removed, it is possible to say that the June 1922 general \u201cpact\u201d election was \u201cfree\u201d and therefore \u201cdemocratic\u201d\n\u2014his thrust being (or so it seems to me) that the threat of war was real, not trumped up, and that it is therefore fair and reasonable to endow the Die Hards with as much claim to democracy as the Free Staters.\nAssuming that my reading of this passage is correct, I find Dr Regan\u2019s logic strained. In his \u201calleged threat of war\u201d Tom Garvin may have imputed a more subtle meaning to alleged that that normally implied, and taken up by Dr Regan. I haven\u2019t read Garvin\u2019s 1922: the birth of Irish democracy, so I welcome correction from anyone who has, or who is more familiar with Dr Regan\u2019s own work, but pending such correction it seems to me that while the possibility of a renewal of war by the British in 1922 was indeed real, it may be less than fair to say that possibility constituted threat.\nThis is my first reservation: for in the eyes of any disinterested party, should the Free State government fail to assert dominion within its territory Britain had both the right and the duty to intervene in Irish affairs in 1922. For under not merely British but international law, and indeed in all decency, His Majesty\u2019s government had a clear duty to defend not just the lives and property of all His Majesty\u2019s subjects within the United Kingdom but arguably under the terms of the Treaty the lives of all subjects of the king \u201cin Ireland\u201d\u2014i.e. those of the Free State too, if their elected government proved unable or unwilling to provide such protection.\nAdd to this the Die Hard IRA\u2019s agenda of military conquest of Northern Ireland, against the wishes of most of that statelet\u2019s subjects, and any British invasion of the Free State could have been construed as moral as well as legal obligation to British subjects farther north.\nThis is to constrain consideration to the Irish dimension. When we admit the possibility that instability in Ireland constituted a potential threat to British security\u2014in nurturing anarchy and revolution\u2014the possibility of British invasion of the Free State becomes less a \u201cthreat\u201d than a pragmatic contingency held in reserve. That the Limerick Soviet once constituted a perceived threat to the order of things now seems absurd\u2014but hardly more absurd than that the Petrograd Soviet could bring down the Romanov Empire. Many of the new European democracies had already fallen into anarchy or totalitarianism, and the Irish Free State seemed likely to join them, if its government failed to establish its authority.\nAnd all this before we remember Tom Paine\u2019s warning: \u201cEvery age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it\u201d. Surely any such pact as was devised in 1922 would have been a constraint on real democracy; an attempt to preserve the democratic representation that had constituted the Second Dail, and deny the electorate to express its true wishes for the Third? Can we imagine the outrage if last year there had been a pact that would have given any electoral advantage to the august statesmen of the thirtieth Dail?\nDr Regan is dismissive of the \u201cconstitutional historians\u201d who emerged after 1969, and their well-intentioned efforts to highlight the \u201cIrish constitutional tradition\u201d and downplay the post-Revolutionary emphasis on violence. Perhaps such politicisation did produce revisionist works of the most egregious sort, Niamh Sammon\u2019s documentary on the Coolacrease killings, for instance, but the politicisation was hardly one-way\u2014as many of the essays in Aubane\u2019s refutation of Sammon, Coolacrease, prove. Fr Shaw\u2019s 1972 essay that \u201cchallenged\u201d the traditional view of 1916 would have to be one of the works that Dr Regan has in mind here\u2014but that essay was submitted to Studies for publication in 1966 and rejected. One could say that any change in attitude after 1969 was as much redressing a political imbalance as \u201cpoliticisation\u201d. (Indeed, can any work on history be written in a political vacuum?)\nHow fair is Dr Regan\u2019s differentiation between \u201cpublic\u201d and \u201cprofessional\u201d history? I think it\u2019s thought-provoking and useful, but surely there\u2019s a difference between, on the one hand, Sammon and Aubane and, on the other, Richard English, who proclaims his Irish Freedom to be aimed at \u201ca much wider group than merely that of professional academics\u201d\u2014i.e. \u201cpublic\u201d history. Yet clearly it is also \u201cprofessional\u201d.\nIn drawing attention to the capture of the two British agents immediately before the Bandon Valley killings Dr Regan goes a good way to undermine claims that those killings were sectarian. The sectarian suspicion will probably be impossible to shake off completely, though, because men under torture will eventually tell their torturers what the torturers want to hear, and sectarianism was a fact in Cork at the time. Maire Brugha (Terence McSwiney\u2019s daughter) remarks that into the 1940s ads for positions might stipulate \u201cNo Catholics need apply\u201d, and Volunteer Patrick Crowley reports that prior to the Revolution \u201cBandon and its neighbourhood were strongly Protestant and they were very much against the Catholics\u201d. Such hostility could only have been reciprocated and there is no reason to discount the possibility of paying off old sectarian scores, especially in the anarchistic months of the Munster Republic.\nBut of course even if sectarianism was a factor in West Cork, one must be careful not to extrapolate too much from that; and my criticisms do not take greatly from the worth of Dr Regan\u2019s essay; it casts far more light than heat and I recommend it to the forum.\nby DrNightdub on Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:04 pm\nMy own take on it is that Garvin uses the qualifier \"alleged\" threat of war as a means of trying to pull the rug out from under Republicans' objections to the 1922 election results. They claimed the election was distorted by the British threat to renew hostilities, so if he can remove the existence of the threat then hey-presto, the basis for their objections vanishes.\nWhat scuppers his argument (and I use the nautical term deliberately) is that in the aftermath of the Wilson assassination and the Provisional Government's hesitation to dislodge the Four Courts garrison, the British had already despatched warships and troops to Dublin to do the very job which they felt Collins and co. were unwilling to do. Only when Macready's pleas to Downing St to cop themselves on finally sank in were the ships recalled. An ultimatum was then sent saying that if if Dublin didn't get the finger out, the British would regard the Treaty as having been broken and the status quo ante as having resumed - that part is absolutely critical. In such circumstances, they then completely reserved the right to re-intervene militarily.\nThis then changes Garvin's \"alleged threat of war\" into a rescinded actual resumption of war, thus effectively validating Regan's argument.\nGarvin's position is further weakened by the fact that despite his claim that they \"decided to prevent an election taking place\", broadly speaking, the anti-Treaty IRA didn't actually do anything of the kind. Yes there were instances of non-SF panel candidates being \"encouraged\" to withdraw; Dan Breen is instanced as one who applied such pressure (or more precisely, his election agent did, Breen just provided the glowering presence in the room) but as he'd been nominated for both the pro- and anti-Treaty panels, it's a bit harsh to point to that as being solely anti-Treaty intimidation. There were no attempts on the part of the IRA to prevent people voting, so really Garvin is just chucking around spurious allegations.\nSo if Garvin's thesis is thus undermined, you have to go back and ask what was his motivation for presenting a view that was just as distorted in its own way as Hart's view of the west Cork killings was in its. Which is where Regan's work on historiography comes in.\nLots of helpful detail there, Kieran, and further food for thought. In any democracy, however, I still find it hard to accept the idea of an election pact.\nI would too, were it not for Collins' absolute insistence that candidates other than those of the SF panel be allowed stand. I think it's to his credit that he made this a deal-breaker in his negotiations with Dev.\nFar more insidious than a pre-election pact is the fact that after the results were in, Collins simply prorogued the new assembly from meeting on no less than five occasions, thus absolving the PG from any sort of accountability. OK, the first meeting being scheduled for 1st July, when fighting was still raging in Dublin, you could kinda let them away with skipping, but the next four? That raises serious questions as to who was or wasn't behavng as democrats.\nMore fair points. Revolution and war are seldom democracy's best friends. Though however undemocratic much of what was done through the revolutionary years, the aspiration toward democracy was there.\nby thepremier on Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:26 pm\nVideo of the History Ireland hedge school available on their website.\nby DrNightdub on Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:42 pm\nRegan returns to the question of the Bandon Valley massacre here:\nhttp://dundee.academia.edu/johnregan/Papers/1365349/The_Bandon_Valley_massacre_as_a_historical_problem\nThe main focus is obviously on Hart's work and the problems identified with it, but there's additional material on Busteed and British intelligence in west Cork that I hadn't come across before.\nby NiallMeehan on Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:40 pm\nI believe a previous reference to a 'Niall Regan' and Roman Catholic targets of the April 1922 killers might be to me. The analysis referred to is:\nDistorting Irish History Two, the road from Dunmanway: Peter Hart\u2019s treatment of the 1922 \u2018April killings\u2019 in West Cork\nhttp://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/618347/\nThis deals mainly with the April killings. It starts by looking at Hart PhD thesis supervisor David Fitzpatrick's review of Gerard Murphy's Year of Disappearances and Fitzpatrick's seeming endorsement of 'ethnic cleansing' claims by Peter Hart.\nI returned to the subject recently and take up in more detail than I had previously (initially in 2008), Frank Busteed, the killing of the three British intelligence officers and their driver, and possible connections with the simultaneous killing of Protestant civilians (in late April 1922 in West Cork). It also looks at southern Protestant attitudes and I suggest that those attitudes are an insuperable obstacle for those arguing that there was systematic republicanism sectarianism.\n'The Further One Gets From Belfast', a second reply to Jeff Dudgeon\nhttp://gcd.academia.edu/NiallMeehan/Papers/1369781/\nDistorting Irish History [One] and the first reply to Jeff Dudgeon deal mainly with the Kilmichael ambush (located at the same website above).\nNiallMeehan\nFull Name: Niall Meehan\nby Jd66 on Fri Feb 17, 2012 5:26 pm\nNot directly on the subject of revisionism but inteview here with Eunan O'Halpin on how many died in the War of Independence. Turns out it's about 2,100.\nhttp://www.theirishstory.com/2012/02/10 ... evolution/\nby JulianPutkowski on Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:00 pm\nI share your unease about the term \u2018revisionist\u2019 but personally understand the term to generally refer to the affirmation of an essentially partisan understanding of British military prowess and leadership. During the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s, with the notable exception of Gary Sheffield (New Labour), the surviving coterie of academic historians who were either self-styled revisionists or (sic) fellow travelling chums are pretty invariably socially and ideologically conservative. Institutionally, many of the leading academic revisionists were associated with the RMA Sandhurst; War Studies Department, King\u2019s College, London University and the British Commission for Military History. Much of what they wrote and published during the 1990\u2019s and early C21st was well researched, well written and attracted an increasingly positive response when peer-reviewed by fellow conservatives.\nSince 2000, revisionism has become institutionally more extensive and diverse \u2013 and revisionist scholarship extends well beyond affirming the military genius of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig; plotting \u201clearning curves\u201d, and mulling over tactics and strategy. It has also become a wee bit difficult nowadays to assemble more than a skeletal consensus from the over-gnawed bones of revisionist contention. That said, in 2006 I dallied with the task via a WW1-List critique of a BBC radio feature programme:\n\" Radio 4:\u2028Things we forgot to remember 3 December 2006\nI heard presenter Michael Portillo\u2019s recent,\u2028cringingly bad contribution to Ripperology and rather hoped that this evening\u2019s offering, about the First World War, simply could not have been worse. Waaaal \u2013 I wuz wrong.\nThe programme was a bit of a cut and paste effort,\u2028derived in great measure from \u2018The Great War; Myth and Memory\u2019 \u2013 and in addition to the author, Dan Todman, it featured a trio of conservative military historians: Hew Strachan; John Bourne and the self-styled WW1 \u2018revisionist\u2019, Gary Sheffield.\nThe thesis advanced by the programme rested on the premise that the British public\u2019s perspectives about the First World War have failed to take due account of the tactics, military genius of the generals; native British technical innovation and ingenuity, and the victories achieved in 1918 by the British and American forces.\nIt maintained that the war was justified because of\u2028German autocracy, which was alleged to be proto-Nazi and the atrocious behaviour inflicted by German troops during the invasion and occupation of Belgium and Northern France.\nThe soldiers, it was argued did not see themselves as \u2018victims\u2019 but as victors and regarded Field Marshal Haig as a great leader \u2013 exemplified by the crowds that attended the rituals accompanying the latter\u2019s burial.\nIt was explained that the public impression about the First World War is mistaken and misguided, principally because the speedy German surrender after the British victories of 1918 had pre-empted contemporary recognition in the UK of the scale of the military achievement. A combination of \u2018Disillusionment\u2019 during the 1930\u2019s; George Orwell\u2019s notional contempt for soldiers; undue attention paid to Conscientious Objectors and the prominence attached to sentiments expressed in Wilfred Owen\u2019s critical poetry about the\u2028war in British school syllabi were also claimed to\u2028have played a part. Then, in the 1960\u2019s Joan\u2028Littlewood\u2019s musical, \u2018Oh! What a Lovely War!\u2019 and\u2028John Terraine\u2019s \u2018Great War\u2019 TV series cemented the\u2028generally negative impression of the First World War.\nThere was little attempt at balance in this programme and many of the claims were ill-supported and basically consisted of a sustained collective whine about the British public view of the First World War being pre-occupied with the losses sustained during the battles of 1916 and 1916 and not the advances of Summer 1918. Yet the programme\u2019s perspectives were no\u2028less selective, for it wholly failed to include any\u2028reference to the military debacles and slaughter of\u20281914 and 1915, when the British Expeditionary Force suffered under the indifferent military stewardship of Field Marshal French. Nor was there any reference whatsoever to the activities of generals other than Field Marshal Haig or any other theatre of war, other than the Western Front.\nIt was rather surprising that the programme did not openly acknowledge Todman, Sheffield and Bourne\u2019s established reputations for celebrating the \u2018rehabilitation\u2019 Field Marshal Haig. However, in their eulogy of the (sic) much misunderstood and maligned \u2018perfect Knight\u2019 (pace Chaucer\u2019s \u201cparfait gentil knight\u201d?), nary a reference was made to Haig\u2019s primary critic, the wartime Prime Minister Lloyd George. Moreover, the size of the crowds attending the rituals after Haig died is frankly insufficient evidence of anything more than a big turnout for the burial of a famous figure, albeit (rightly) to be compared with the burial of the Queen Mother and Diana, Princess of Wales. As for the critics of Haig, crudely lumping together George Orwell, Joan Littlewood and John\u2028Terraine is ludicrous for it takes little account of\u2028their very different ideological perspectives, the\u2028media they used, and the size and scale of public\u2028response to the criticisms they advanced. Was the\u2028programme suggesting that this disparate trio of\u2028critics successfully bamboozled the British public: a soi-disant Trotskitye cum informer; a Cockney\u2028Communist and a dyed-in-the-wool Tory? May it equally have been the case that their audiences were already of the opinion that British generalship during the First World War was less than satisfactory? If not, may not Todman et al also engaged in seeking to impose their own, albeit contrary stamp, on what they regard as a malleable British public?\nAdvancing the proposition that the Second World War was a \u2018just war\u2019 and that the First World War has wrongly been regarded as an \u2018unjust\u2019 war is frankly, nonsense. Leaving aside interpretation of the Second World War as a just war, the thesis advanced during the programme was, with reference to the First World, decidedly partial. Thus, Germany was damned as an\u2028autocratic, imperialistic and a notionally proto-nazi regime, exemplified by the killing of 5000 Belgian non-combatants in 1914 and the oppression and deportations from German-occupied Belgium and Northern France. All well recognised \u2013 but measured against what criteria? King Leopold\u2019s treatment of the Belgians? British pre-war oppression of all who actively resisted British imperialism? In terms of the articulation and exercise of racial superiority, what were the key differences between British, Belgian and\u2028German imperial attitudes and policies? A brief\u2028interrogation of British military activities in India\u2028or Ireland would yield an appreciation of the\u2028bankruptcy of identifying autocracy solely with\u2028Wilhelmine Germany.\nTurning now to the programme\u2019s interpretation of\u2028Wilfred Owen\u2019s poetry, which was acknowledged to be of literary worth. Interpretation of the content of Owen\u2019s poetry and condemnation of the \u2018old lie\u2019 was reckoned to be contradicted by the poet being decorated for gallantry, and being killed in action. The programme inferred that school syllabi paid too much attention Owen\u2019s declared intention to write about the \u2018pity of war\u2019 purportedly contradicted by his military career. This is nonsense \u2013 as anyone engaged in teaching Owen\u2019s poetry invariably refers to the actuality of the poet\u2019s military career. If the programme is suggesting that school syllabi lack balance in teaching the poetry of the First World War then they failed to produce evidence to support their\u2028implication that school students have been\u2028indoctrinated by anti-war teachers \u2013 and it is hard\u2028not to conclude that Todman et al, qua Owen,\u2028protesteth too much.\nThe case being advanced by the programme hinged on the sound bite that \u2018we won the war and we won it well\u2019, due in great part to technological genius (SMLE rifle, Lewis guns, tanks, artillery and air power \u2013 but not poison gas?); improved tactics and domestic industrial output in 1918. All of which states the obvious but omits any reference to the weakening of the German forward effort by the Allies sustained naval blockade or the changing war aims of the Allies \u2013 which\u2028latterly included territorial aggrandisement as\u2028opposed to coming to the aid of Belgium.\nNo reference was made to the coercion employed by the British and other armies \u2013 including conscription. Britain was transformed into a police state during the First World War and almost half of the soldiers under Haig\u2019s command were conscripts \u2013 whose views about the First World War are ill acknowledged in work produced\u2028by Todman et al, and for that matter, John Terraine.\nAll in all, this programme boiled down to a\u2028Conservative politician presenting a conservative\u2028review of conservative historians\u2019 interpretation of\u2028the First World War. This was not only because it was avowedly patriarchal, politically narrow and a general apologia for British militarism circa 1914-1919. It is also because it reflected an uncompromisingly realist neo-Whiggish view of history: war toys and tactics, big men and big battles, and (no argument about it) the victors were all stout chaps \u2013 and woe betide anyone who sez they ain\u2019t \u2013 for Todman and chums, such critics are either gutless, gormless or plain\u2028wrong.\"\nPolemic? Yep! You bet. But before you are tempted to engage in some self-preening, kindly reflect for a moment on the less than objective terminology that you have employed to damn the \u201cpretty poor lot\u201d that revisionists regard as \u201canti-revisionists\u201d. C\u2019mon, Laffin never implied anything and he certainly never pretended that his \u201cButchers and Bunglers\u201d book was less than partisan, and your gentle observation about Winter engaging in \u201cmanufactured fraudulence\u201d beyond polemicism may even be of interest to the latter\u2019s learned friends.\nDispensing with modesty, what you had to say about Mr Putkowski caused me to wonder whether you might be recycling ill-informed, immature twaddle peddled by Emma Hanna (The Great War on the Small Screen pp. 103, 104, 107, 108-9).\nA \u201cplausible anti revisionist\u201d \u2013 Moi? Nitpicky, unconvincing? Prone to \u201crebut rather than engage\u201d? Ahem, aside from criticizing Portillo\u2019s Radio 4 effort and a flutter of exchanges on the WW1-List website, I\u2019ve only crafted one piece of writing that advanced a sceptical view about the revisionists. In 2007 I was invited by Robin Baird-Smith (editor: Continuum Books) to write a brief contribution to \u201cA Part of History\u201d (ed. Michael Howard), addressing revisionist historians\u2019 criticism of the campaign to secure posthumous pardons for soldier who had been executed by the British Army during the First World War. Via e-mail I responded to Continuum thus:\n\" I'm not exactly sure (for the moment) how 'revisionist' have been the views of Gary Sheffield and chums on either the infliction of the punishments or how they may be disposed to accommodate Des Browne's volte face on posthumous pardons. On the other hand, there has been a mass of comment and controversy during the past sixteen or so years and I have little doubt that historians will be wrangling about the executions and associated issues for a while longer. \"\nRegrettably, Continuum did not air the frame of reference in the book\u2019s preface - an omission that permitted Hew Strachan in his review of the book to complain about the inadequacy of information about the aims and objectives of the \u201cShot at Dawn\u201d campaign. Sooo -yep! With reference to \u201cTommyrot\u201d, well spotted, you \u2013 it was a rebuttal because I was requested to write a rebuttal.\nIn complaining about my apparent dismissal of revisionists, you wrote that it was, \u201cbecause [of] their accommodation of barbarism and the brutality of war\u201d. You also commented: \u201c It\u2019s unclear quite what he\u2019s saying here, but it seems to be that high moral dudgeon is preferable to exploring the physical, intellectual, psychological and emotional realities and conundrums with which the actors of history and its horrors had to engage.\u201d Quite ironically, the former snippet (ed: Wot? Not nitpicky, surely) was abstracted from the conclusion of the \u201cTommyrot\u201d chapter, wherein I stated that the revisionist project did not appear to have been affected by the enactment of conditional pardons for the soldiers who had been executed by the British Army during the First World War. I certainly did not dismiss the importance of revisionists or revisionism:\n\" Since revisionists dismissed the historical significance of contributions by \u2018non-historians\u2019 to public debate about the British Army\u2019s use of coercion during the First World War, there has been little imperative to alter the established tenor of their academic programmes. Their syllabi and recommended reading schedules for the study of the First World War continue to reflect a socially conservative preoccupation with hierarchy, order and rules, tactics, strategy, firepower, logistics, and \u2018group cohesion\u2019 \u2013 which sounds less woolly than \u2018morale\u2019. Students are encouraged to adopt a positivist, semi-actuarial calculation of developments on the battlefield, instead of carnage, mud, blood and weepy messiness. In Sheffield\u2019s teleological work, every battle yields \u2018lessons learned\u2019, to be plotted on the learning curve; Simkins exhorts historians to focus on the battlefield; Bond damns \u201cdoom and gloom\u201d TV Great War documentaries and \u201cBooks with such backward-looking polemical titles as The Donkeys and British Butchers and Bunglers of World War One.\u201d In the aftermath of the enactment of conditional pardons, there seems little sign of any change in the revisionist project. Neither is there much evidence of critical reflection by other revisionist agencies, including members of the Douglas Haig Fellowship or the British Commission for Military History, perhaps because their accommodation of barbarism and the brutality of war is rather too well entrenched. However, by way of consolation for their critics, even if revisionists\u2019 motives have not always been easy to discern, at least their hegemonic \u2018Utility not Futility\u2019 message has for many years been quite open and transparent.\"\nYou also state: \u201cPutkowski seems to make the typical, rather feeble case for anti-revisionism; one based more on emotion and moral pressure than anything else\u2014indeed, less on emotion than on sentiment.\u201c\nWas this penetrating analysis informed by reading Emma Hanna\u2019s work, faux \u201crationalism\u201d or mebbe your own wry inversion of something I wrote about the revisionists? :\n\"Prompted by authoritarian convictions or institutional demands, revisionists select facts to bolster their own emotional response to the First World War, and by extension war in general. Their own emotionalism is never explicitly acknowledged in books like The Unquiet Western Front or the essays in Bond\u2019s, The First World War and British Military History (2002); instead such failings are projected onto what are frequently imaginary opponents. In a fashion akin to the pacifists and war resisters of the 1920s, 1930s and 1960s, whose work they despise, revisionists appear to believe that some terrible corrupting force has perverted public opinion through propaganda.\" (\u201cTommyrot\u201d, p. 24)\nOn the \u201cMonocled Mutineer\u201d controversy, please check your facts. I did not resign. What I stated in a Press Release (12.9.1986) was:\n\"I carried out the technical and historical research during the extended production of the BBC TV series \u201cThe Monocled Mutineer\u201d, the central part of which includes a portrayal of the Etaples Mutiny of 1917.\na)\tThe BBC did not consult me on the contents of the final version of the script used to film the series.\nb)\tThose associated with producing the script had been made aware by me of flaws in historical accuracy long before fiilming commenced.\nc)\tWhen the BBC finally permitted me to see a copy of the post-production script (now published by Hutchinsons) it was riddled with errors of fact and interpretation that they had previously been made aware of by me.\nd)\tEven allowing for problems arising from writing a script based on a bowlderised and sensational version of the mutiny and Toplis\u2019 life, I can only conclude that the BBC were aware of the major historical inaccuracies in the script and chose to ignore my advice.\nI do not feel that what has been screened so far does justice to the men of the BEF, Gloden Dallas and Douglas Gill\u2019s pioneering work on the Etaples Mutiny or the memory of Jesse Short. The increasing wave of well merited complaints, in the press and on TV (\u201cPoints of View\u201d) thast my attention has been drawn to I would normally accept. However, the BBC\u2019s apparent decision to ignore my considered advice and their failure to consult me at the appropriate time about aspects of historical veracity, I have no alternative but to disclaim all responsibility for the factual errors and misinterpretations that occur in the series.\nThis decision has been made with due allowance for the enormous difficulties that beset the writing and production of the series and the inherent difficulty with having to use historically contentious source material.\nI will cheerfully present a full bottle of fine revolutionary Nicaraguan Rum to the first person who can present unequivocal written proof from contemporary sources that shows Percy Toplis was either a mutineer or anywhere within a hundred mile radius of Etaples Camp in September 1917.\"\nOK - so I issued a post-production discaimer while the series was being screened. However, I have no recollection or any correspondence about resigning or in any way failing fulfill the contractual obligations I entered into with the BBC\u2019s production of \u201cThe Monocled Mutineer\u201d TV series. If you are unable to substantiate your allegation, I invite you to reflect further on your inference that I may also be a fickle hypocrite:\n\u201cNow he takes issue with those who object to the ahistorical abomination that he himself had walked away from.\u201d\nPlease note, in general, revisionist historians don\u2019t quibble with the objections I\u2019ve expressed about the \u201cMonocled Mutineer\u201d book or TV series but some contend that there was either: a) no mutiny b) there was a mutiny but it has been exaggerated or c) It was an aberration and signifies very little about British troops engaging in mutinous collective bargaining. Perhaps unsurprisingly, revisionist historians are rarely interested in engaging in original research about military dissent and from what I can dimly recall about gatherings at RMA Sandhurst, mutinous activity gets interred in a midden of euphemistic blather about \u2018officer-man relations\u2019.\nI also suggest that you try to avoid dumb-ass reductionism because: a) the revisionist/anti-revisionist dichotomy is pretty well past its sell-by date, and 2) as I pointed out in an e-mail to George Simmers on New Year\u2019s Eve, 2009:\n\"Thanks for congratulating me on my oratorical flummery but I\u2019d welcome a more nuanced acknowledgement of my attitude to WW1 revisionism and revisionists than\u201d Julian managed to get in some kicks at revisionist historians, too. He really doesn\u2019t like them.\u201d You are wrong. In personal terms, I\u2019ve enjoyed an amicable enough relationship with many revisionists. I\u2019ve downed drammies with John Terraine and enjoyed a pint with Gary Sheffield, even when the \u2018Shot at Dawn\u2019 campaign was being lambasted at RUSI. Revisionist academics ain\u2019t too precious when referring their postgraduate students to me for research advice and assistance \u2013 and Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson made use of my research about mutinies (albeit selectively) in their book \u2018Blindfold and Alone. \u2019I\u2019ve lost count of the talks and lectures I\u2019ve been invited to deliver by plenty of socially and politically conservative groups and institutions. Conversely, I doubt if I\u2019ve addressed more than five or six gatherings of Lefties (Old or New) in the 40 or so years I\u2019ve researched about the First World War. The latter may have been because in 1968 I was denounced by a Maoist as \u201cA petty bourgeois individualist unsusceptible to political reform.\u201d More plausibly, it\u2019s probably because Lefties are uninspired and view with distaste the crude nationalism that informs much British military history writing. All of which I reckon is a pity because there\u2019s a wealth of opportunity for historical engagement and research (revisionism?) by the Left, as well as the Right. As for my \u201ckicks? They\u2019re to do with -isms and not-ists. It ain\u2019t personal. We do what historians are supposed to do \u2013 debate one another\u2019s ideas, ideological constructs and varied interpretations of historical events. That\u2019s all.\n* A confused and confusing mental state arising from uncritically accepting imperialist, patriarchal fantasies that were systematically peddled by school teachers, priests and press barons.\"\nFinally, the vexed issue of ethnic Identity also being referenced in your contribution, for the record my anti-authoritarian DNA is culled from Mevagissey, Cornwall; Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk; Ballincollig, County Cork; Zbuczyn, Gmina Siedlce. \u2013 and with reference to matters Irish and historical, digest what I have written about A2 operations, including the British spooks botched initiative to capture or kill Michael Collins in early 1920. [http://www.8bitmode.com/rogerdog/lobster/lobster29.pdf. etc] - as referenced by both the late Dr. Peter Hart and the still alive n' kicking Fr. 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That initiative is Archive Of Our Own. Hands up who\u2019s heard of it? I suspect many of you won\u2019t have heard of it. I know a few of you will have. I bet one or two of you won\u2019t admit it.\nSo why the reticence? Run by the not for profit Organisation for Transformative Works, the Archive is a massively successful project that has been sustained by a hugely diverse community of volunteers for almost ten years now. It\u2019s about as open as anything could possibly be. Why are we not singing its praises from the rafters? Why is AO3, as it\u2019s commonly known, the mad woman in the open source attic? Some of us know it\u2019s there, but no one really wants to talk about it. The reason for this reticence, is also the reason for the Archive\u2019s success. AO3 is a repository of transformative works, otherwise known as fanfiction.\nI\u2019m not going to debate the validity of fan works as a creative endeavour here, there is plenty of scholarly discussion on that point in other disciplines such as sociology and media, however I really do want to talk about why we don\u2019t acknowledge AO3 as a hugely successful open project founded on the principals of equality, inclusion and diversity. Why aren\u2019t we celebrating it and learning from it?\nThe success of AO3 is nothing short of staggering. Built on the Ruby on Rails framework, the archive is an open source platform developed, built and maintained by an army of volunteers, the vast majority of whom are women. The project is funded by subscriptions and donations; there is no foundation funding, no sponsorship, no advertising revenue. Indeed AO3 was originally created as a haven to protect fanworks from being monetized by unscrupulous commercial ventures who sought to turn fan labour into profit for their own gain. The Archive itself now has one and a half million users and hosts around four million individual works. It\u2019s free and open to everyone, all user accounts are pseudonymous, and at no point are users required to reveal personally identifying information. In order to manage those four million works AO3 maintains probably the only large scale community generated tagging system that I\u2019ve ever seen working in practice. And it\u2019s all made possible by a large community of tag wranglers who manage the free text tags provided by users.\nAnd as if all that wasn\u2019t enough, the Organisation for Transformative works also publishes a peer reviewed open journal, Transformative Works and Cultures, maintains the Fanlore wiki to preserve the history of transformative works, it provides voluntary legal advice to creators to protect their works from legal challenge, and it has an active project, Open Doors, to absorb and curate other fan archives elsewhere on the web that are threatened by obscurity, obsolescence or deletion.\nIt\u2019s an astonishing achievement, but it\u2019s an achievement that many passionate open advocates know nothing about, and, if I\u2019m being honest, that is something that\u2019s pissed me off enormously for years.\nSo I was absolutely over the moon when I spoke to Claire Knowles, Library Digital Development Manager at the University of Edinburgh, at the recent Digital Day of Ideas (always a thought provoking event that pushes the boundaries) and she told me that Casey Fiesler, a member of OTW\u2019s legal committee, would be presenting the opening keynote at this year\u2019s Open Repositories Conference in Bozeman, Montana. Earlier this week I listened to Casey\u2019s keynote through the conference livestream and was blown away by her talk. Casey did an amazing job of communicating just what an important achievement AO3 is and how we can learn from its success. Giving an overview of the history and development of the Archive, Casey pointed out that AO3 is an example of amazing design, created for a community that already existed. The open software was designed and built entirely by women, which is remarkable given the small number of women in the open source community. And she concluded her keynote by asking\nIs there something here that\u2019s the key to making open source more welcoming to women? I don\u2019t know. What I do know is that if you love something enough you can build your own thing and make it work. AO3 is a great example of a successful open repository but it\u2019s an even better example of the power of community and everything that can come out of it.\nThe recording of Casey\u2019s keynote isn\u2019t online yet, though I\u2019m sure it will be soon, but in the meantime, I\u2019ve captured my live tweets from her keynote here; Growing Their Own: Building an Archive and a Community for Fanfiction. Many thanks to Casey for her amazing keynote and to the Open Repositories Conference Committee for inviting such an inspiring speaker.\nThis entry was posted in digital humanities, Women in Tech and tagged ao3, open, openrepo2018. 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I've worked part time at a K-8 school for the past 5 years. It's really fun and inspiring. This week the kids worked hard on paper-mache snowmen. I manned the glue gun and this was the result. The coolest part about this project was that each snowman and snowwoman took on a unique (and always hilarious) persona. The kids gave them all characters, and I couldn't get enough of trying to capture the spirit of these quirky snowies. 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These products are used for fire safety measures by fire marshals. Owing to their vibrant colors, these products are visible from a longer distance. Our clients appreciate these products for their ability to withstand adverse conditions. These products are available with us in varied designs and sizes as per the needs of the clients. 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(Nuvo Ireland) has acquired the US rights to Resultz (50% isopropyl myristate, 50% cyclomethicone D5 topical solution lice and egg removal kit) from Piedmont Pharmaceuticals LLC, the company said.\nThe acquisition includes all US product and intellectual property rights and is a complementary follow-on to Nuvo's acquisition of the global, ex-US Resultz product rights announced on January 2, 2018.\nNuvo now owns all Resultz product and intellectual property rights throughout the world.\nResultz is a commercial-stage, best-in-class, clinically proven, safe, non-pesticide, over-the-counter treatment for head lice. Resultz was cleared as a Class 1 medical device by the US Food and Drug Administration in May 2017; it has not yet been commercially launched in the US.\nNuvo anticipates commercializing Resultz in the US through a licensing partner and has already initiated discussions with potential licensees. Alongside existing manufacturing partners, Nuvo will be able to produce Resultz for the US market at its Varennes, Qu\u00e9bec manufacturing facility.\nUnder the terms of the agreement, USD 1.5m was paid to Piedmont on close using existing cash on hand. The transaction includes a single-digit royalty payable by Nuvo Ireland on net sales through 2034.\nNuvo, through its Nuvo Ireland subsidiary, has also obtained a right of first refusal to license or acquire certain related assets from Piedmont targeting other human indications.\nNuvo has a portfolio of commercial products, and pharmaceutical manufacturing capabilities.\nThe company has commercial products available in a number of countries, including Pennsaid 2%, sold in the US by Horizon Pharma plc, and available for partnering in certain other territories around the world. 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He was strongly affected by his parents' divorce in 1996 and his mother's tragic death in 1997 and expressed discomfort at the growing attention he received as he reached adulthood. William served in the Royal Air Force and supports numerous charities.\nKate Middleton was born on January 9, 1982 in Reading, England. On April 29, 2011, she married Prince William at Westminster Abbey in London. 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George Ryan was let out of a federal prison in Indiana in the dead of night early Wednesday and checked briefly into a Chicago halfway house before he was released \u2014 in a surprise decision \u2014 to his home to finish out his 61/2-year sentence on home confinement.\nThe quick turn of events allowed Ryan, who turns 79 next month, to elude a horde of media gathered at the prison in Terre Haute, Ind., and then slip from the halfway house on the Near West Side undetected several hours later.\nBy 10:30 a.m., Ryan had an emotional reunion with 17 of his children and grandchildren at his longtime Kankakee home, according to his attorney, former Gov. Jim Thompson. Later in the day, Ryan's daughter, Jeanette, smiled as she left through a rear entrance. \"We are very happy he's home,\" she said.\nFormer Gov. George Ryan\nVideo: George Ryan released from halfway house: 'Illinois, what a state,' Kass says\nZorn: I believe the Bureau of Prisons, but...\nVideo: Ex-Gov. Ryan reaches halfway house\nFormer Governor Jim Thompson talks Ryan release\n4700 Bureau Road North, Terre Haute, IN 47802, USA\n912 South Greenwood Avenue, Kankakee, IL 60901, USA\n105 South Ashland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60607, USA\nHome confinement for Ryan means he won't have to face weeks or months at the Salvation Army halfway house where many of the state's other disgraced politicians have had to take up residence.\nThe move struck some as one more backroom deal cut by a longtime political insider, but Thompson and U.S. Bureau of Prisons officials denied that Ryan received special treatment.\nThompson said he was surprised by the accommodation and that he didn't know it was being planned for Ryan until Wednesday morning.\n\"It's not something I asked for, it's not something he (Ryan) asked for, so it is in no way preferential treatment,\" Thompson said.\nA Bureau of Prisons spokesman in Washington declined to say how many inmates like Ryan go directly to home confinement in the final months of their sentences, but the agency's website made it clear that the ordinary route would be to go first to a halfway house.\nThe Bureau of Prisons won't discuss specific inmates, but spokesman Chris Burke said officials decide each inmate's placement on an individual basis after assessing everything from financial stability and family ties to any emotional or medical issues such as drug or alcohol addiction.\nAs for the overnight departure, Burke said prisons officials consider the disruption to the prison as well as inmate safety.\n\"These issues are considered with any inmate \u2014 that he get safely from point A to point B,\" Burke said.\nAt least one other well-known defendant, convicted insurance broker Michael Segal, 69, was allowed last year to skip the halfway house.\nCourt records in Segal's case revealed that officials at the prison in Oxford, Wis., where he was held, recommended he be released directly to home confinement because he \"has few re-entry needs.\"\nSeveral veteran attorneys who spoke to the Tribune on Wednesday said that at his age, Ryan doesn't need help transitioning back to life on the outside either. Among the classes offered at the halfway house are how to write a check and what to wear on a job interview.\n\"For someone like George Ryan, who's (almost) 79 years old, he's not a person who needs to find a job or needs help transitioning,\" attorney Marc Martin said. \"He's essentially retired.\"\nThe attorneys also said the Salvation Army's halfway house has limited resources and that inmates of Ryan's age and stable background make good candidates for home release to alleviate crowding there.\n\"I do not know the Bureau of Prisons to ever make deals with anyone, I don't care who they are or who their lawyer is,\" said attorney Jeffrey Steinback.\nYet that doesn't always explain why other older high-profile inmates \u2014 including William Hanhardt, a former Chicago police chief of detectives in his 80s \u2014 recently had to serve time at the halfway house. However, former Chicago Ald. 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We have done marvellous Projects using different software Languages, Packages, Hardware equipments & Network Projects.\nThe Department of Information Technology has the following Laboratories:\nInformation Technology now lies at the heart of almost every business and every organisation across the globe. By studying Information Technology at MAPC you will gain valuable technical and theoretical knowledge and qualifications which provide a gateway to further study or a rewarding career in a host of associated disciplines.\nA qualification in Information Technology from MAPC gives you the opportunity to take advantage of the continued high demand for skilled computing professionals. 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The Road Forward\u2019s stunningly shot musical sequences, performed by an ensemble of some of Canada\u2019s finest vocalists and musicians, seamlessly connect past and present with soaring vocals, blues, rock, and traditional beats. A rousing tribute to the fighters for First Nations rights, a soul-resounding historical experience, and a visceral call to action.\nFriday February 23rd, Ag Hall, 7:30 pm, admission by donation. Free popcorn. For further information please contact David Chase, maynechase@yahoo.com.\nThe Road Forward (Trailer) from NFB/marketing on Vimeo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 4469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mbsgold.com/top-haunted-hotels-in-usa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:38Z", "digest": "sha1:LFS5BLOQK6XKCOJXGSTJ7Y77WXTAYUDL", "length": 6903, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "mbsgold.com", "title": "Top Haunted Hotels In Usa", "raw_content": "Haunted Hotels are not just a Hollywood gimmick\u2014many people believe a few real-life properties around the country play host to several very long-term guests. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, there are a lot of places that claim to have unexplained occurrences that can only be attributed to haunting of lost souls. To many, going through such an event or testing one's bravado to the unknown is as exciting as riding a roller coaster or skydiving. If you are that person, then here is a list of haunted hotels in the United States where you can spend the night and try your luck at spotting a ghost. These resorts have a history of murder, suicide, accidental death, former employees and past guests that you may be fortunate enough to meet if you dare.\n1) The Stanley Hotel\nGenerally regarded as one the most \"spirited\" hotels in America, The Stanley is better known for motivating Stephen King's The Shining after the author stayed one winter night. In 1909, the hotel was initially built to house traveling, bourgeois city-folk and offered cars and servants to all their visitors. Today many of their spirits still remain as modern (and also alive) guests report the sounds of untraceable piano music and maniacal laughs all over the hotel. These incidents are said to be the playful spirits of dead employees and guests.\nThe inn remains today as the only boutique inn of its kind and is regarded the most haunted hotel in Alabama. Built in 1862, this ancient property in the deep south continues to be reminiscent of the Civil War era. It has 39 private rooms, Victorian furnishings, and an outdoor courtyard. Initially, the two townhouses were constructed by two brothers-in-law as a wedding gift for the 2 sisters in the family\u2014but that does not mean they ever left\u2026 Guests claim to have seen a ghostly lady figure in white, swinging chandeliers, lights that turn on by them and furniture that eerily moves on its own.\nBretton Woods, NHKnock, knock. Who's there? On this resort, perhaps no one\u2026whom you can see, in any case. The resident invisible resident here, Carolyn Stickney (\"d.\" 1939), is known to tap on doors, and once inside your room (either you invite her in or not) she has no qualms regarding borrowing your belongings. However, she is a Victorian lady through and through\u2014all manners\u2014and will return your belongings to precisely where she got them. Tip: Rumor has it that checking into Room 314 nets the best possibility of spotting the Princess, as she is known.\nAsheville, NCBack in the 1920s, a young woman either jumped or was pushed to her death from her 5th floor room, 545, to be specific. Virtually a century later, employees and guests still report her presence, mostly as a pink mist or as a woman in a flowing pink gown, thus her nickname, the Pink Lady. How do you like these apples? Tip: Allegedly, young children are extremely sensitive to spotting her, so if you really want a glimpse, you know who to let loose on her trail5\nCooperstown, NYSizeable resort + over a hundred years of history + no sinister sagas = a perfect breeding ground for a ghost neighborhood, and a friendly ghost community at that. Formerly in its life it was a school for girls in the wintertime, and to this day, the giggling of a gaggle of girls continue to echoes through the 3rd floor hallway, when absolutely no children are checked into the hotel. (Warning: They may be laughing at you, however they are young girls, after all, so do not take it personally.) The adults, nonetheless, do want you to take it personally\u2014people have claimed hearing their name called, absolutely out of nowhere\nHot Springs, VAIt's an unending story: In the most ancient wing of one of the oldest resorts in the country (built in 1766), a jilted woman commits suicide after her fianc\u00e9 left on their wedding day and never came back. Since that sad day in the early 1900s she is wandered the 14th floor aimlessly, stopping guests as well as employees to ask for the time, expecting that she'll catch the hour when her groom-to-be was expected to come back to her and that this time he'll be there.\nSanta Fe, NMThis hotel's spectral highlight, a German known as Julia Staab (pictured, right), feels right at home here\u2014because before it grew to become a resort, it was her residence, built by her merchant husband in 1882. After her 8th child died shortly after delivery, Frau Julia spun into a deep depression, ultimately holing up in her room, never to be seen in the flesh again after 1896. But, in wisps and wafts she is still ever present, most often in Suite 100, her former bedroom.\nSan Francisco, Cannot all ghosts will leave you cold. Miss Mary Lake, the former headmistress of the school for girls that opened here in 1890, has been known to take care of guests who stay in her former office, Room 410, just as she really did for her pupils several generations ago. Many have revealed that their clothes were unpacked for them while others have woken up at night to find their blankets tucked nicely around them.\n9) The Mayflower Hotel\nPresidential alert: The inaugural ball custom at the Mayflower began while Calvin Coolidge was in office; however he missed his due to his son's untimely death a fortnight earlier. To make up for the lost occasion, he apparently returns to the site yearly on the anniversary of the ball. But Silent Cal mainly remains just that in his eternal phase\u2014the only hints of his presence are the flickering lights in the Grand Ballroom at 10pm, which would have announced the ball's guests of honor back in 1925, and an elevator that will not budge from the 8th floor (the location of his holding room) until 10:15pm, which is exactly the time that he was planned to make his entrance to the event\nKeuka Park, NYIt's unsure whether this one should be chalked up to local folklore, however there are many who believe that there is a phantom lady, decked out in white, wandering the property. Similar to any ghost worth his/her weightlessness, she is also very skilled at keeping us mere mortals in the dark\u2014no one knows actually who she is or where she came from. It is probably better this way. Tip: If you need a vacation from waiting for the lady in white to appear, refocus your paranormal energies on nearby Spook Hill.\n11. Hawthorne Hotel Salem, Ma\nThere has been great controversy over this supposed haunted hotel and questions still exist if this is truly haunted or whom or who is haunting it. Perhaps because of the local history in Salem many people automatically assume. Nevertheless, there is a great history from this hotel and you can certainly feel something. Watch out for a new report on this hotel coming soon from one of our team.\nShare Your Haunted Hotel Experience\nHave you had an experience of a haunted hotel that you would like to share, then please send it to us and add it to this list. 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Please would you share some tips on how I can reduce my stress levels.\nIn responding to your concern I have chosen not to focus attention on stress management techniques but rather to focus on what you, as a leader within your company, can do to build your team members\u2019 engagement with their work. Getting this right will make your job as manager significantly less stressful.\nFirstly, it is crucial for you to understand that becoming an effective manager is a difficult journey of personal transformation that requires you to learn from experience, usually over many years. As you are undoubtedly aware, management is responsibility for the performance of a group of people. And what makes this so difficult seems to me to be because you must influence others, which means you must make a difference in their actions. And to do this, you must make a difference in the thoughts and feelings that drive their actions. So, although management is defined by responsibility it\u2019s done by exerting influence such that you enable your team members to be productive as individuals and, especially, as a group.\nResearch undertaken by the Harvard Business School suggests that to influence and even change the behaviour, thoughts, and feelings of individual team members, managers spend their time in numerous brief person-to-person interactions. Most of these interactions are reactive, not proactive, and very few result in major decisions being made. Managers spend much time trying to influence people mostly by asking, requesting, cajoling, persuading, encouraging and, very rarely, by issuing direct orders.\nIn trying to understand why team members are not performing as required, you might think that the problem is your lack of knowledge, experience, or skill, especially your inability to manage time. In truth, the problem in large part is likely to be due to the fundamental nature of management itself, which is unavoidably pressured, time-constrained, fragmented, and hectic. It is almost never reflective, carefully planned, organised or controlled.\nBut you can help your team members to become more engaged with their work and up their performance by giving attention to how you relate to them. In particular, you will need to ensure that you use the power that comes with the position of being a manager with kindness and compassion. In fact, the person-to-person relationships you form with team members are the basis for how you influence them. And the basis of this influence is trust, rather than your position.\nBecoming an effective manager is about knowing how to use yourself as an instrument to get work done. Ongoing self-assessment is therefore critical. And remember that you want to create an environment where your people feel secure to explore new ideas, take risks and innovate! The skill of empathy is therefore a crucial one to cultivate.\nChange a Life stars ready for Epic journey\nCelebrating Midlands\u2019 Summer\nWESSA objection against Fuleni anthracite coal mine application\nBlack Mamba\u2019s seen during preparation of KAP sani2c\nTWC OPEN DAY: Saturday 25 February, 08:30", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://med.uc.edu/psychiatry/residency", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:02Z", "digest": "sha1:4ALSRI7DSQEKNYQ6MJR3SM6XEIXKLBKA", "length": 2255, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "med.uc.edu", "title": "Residency | Department of Psychiatry | UC College of Medicine - ..WB1PRD01W-Med.uc.edu", "raw_content": "A psychiatrist is a licensed medical doctor certified to treat emotional and mental disorders with the authority to prescribe medication. While both psychiatrists and psychologists can practice clinical psychology and psychotherapy, only psychiatrists can prescribe medication. As a result, psychiatrists must complete medical school and residency training. Read more.\nOur investment in the department\u2019s teaching mission at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is evident from our high recruitment into psychiatry.We are among the top 15 universities nationally in our recruitment of students into psychiatry. Our faculty represent a broad range of expertise that allows our residents to learn firsthand from specialists throughout their clinical rotations and didactic curriculum. Read more.\nFamily Medicine & Psychiatry Program\nWelcome to the the University of Cincinnati/The Christ Hospital's Family Medicine and Psychiatry program! We began our combined program in 1995, which makes our program the longest-running FMP program in the United States. We are also one of the few that is run by a training director dedicated only to the combined program. Read more.\nCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati offer a combined Residency in Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Triple Board). This five-year integrated program qualifies graduates for board certification in each of these specialties. Triple Board residents become experts in all areas of child and adolescent health, growth, development and behavior. Read more.\nThis page displays the information and details the GME standard terms and conditions as well as an explanation of the stipend and benefits. Read more.\nThis page displays the information and details of the people year-wise. Read more.\nFaculty, staff and students can agree on one thing about Cincinnati: It\u2019s a nice place to visit, and an even nicer place to live. From urban hotspots to family-friendly attractions, the city that has its roots as a 19th-century Ohio River transportation hub has enthusiastically embraced the 21st century with a welcoming spirit toward fresh faces and fresh ideas. 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REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado (BRAZIL - Tags: TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY SOCCER SPORT WORLD CUP)\nEight years after South Africa hosted the FIFA World Cup, the most famous trophy on the planet is heading back.\nAfter visiting various cities across the world, the trophy will touch down from Mozambique to Johannesburg on Thursday, 1 March, where it will be accompanied by FIFA and Coca-Cola dignitaries and South African hip hop sensation, Cassper Nyovest, who has teamed up with Jason Derulo for the Coca-Cola FIFA anthem.\nFootball\u2019s most prized asset which was lifted by Spain in 2010 will be on public display in Soweto and Cape Town over the next couple of days.\nThe 18 karat gold, six kilogram trophy will be heavily guarded.\n\u201cWe all know how big the World Cup is for us to have an opportunity to relive the 2010 excitement is something to be cherished. I urge people to come out in their numbers and join in the fun and festivities,\u201d said former South Africa football team captain, Lucas Radebe.\nThe initiative is to raise excitement ahead of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.\nBy winning the tournament for the third time in 1970, Brazil secured the rights to permanently retain the original trophy which was stolen in Rio de Janeiro in 1983. It has not been recovered, and it is widely believed to have been melted down and sold.\nThe replacement was designed by Italian artist Silvio Gazzaniga and depicts two human figures holding up the Earth.\nPrevious articleBurkina Faso\u2019s 19th biennial National Week of Culture\nNext articleApply early for family-reunion!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 207.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mems.seas.upenn.edu/publications.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:36Z", "digest": "sha1:P4N74VH6LRLCNXLJFJEU3DPSSFHJ6MVT", "length": 96259, "nlines": 447, "source_domain": "mems.seas.upenn.edu", "title": "Penn: MSMA - Laboratory and Research Group", "raw_content": "Y. Li, M. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"A single mask process for the realization of fully-isolated, dual-height MEMS metallic structures separated by narrow gaps,\" Journal Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol.28 No.2, (027001) 2018. (PDF) (Journal)\nM. Synodis, M. Kim, S.A. Allen, and M.G. Allen, \"MEMS Enabled Scalable Fabrication of High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Electrodes,\" 2018 IEEE 31st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Belfast, UK, Jan. 2018 (PDF)\nL. Du and M.G. Allen, \"Silica Hermetic Packages Based on Laser Patterning and Localized Fusion Bonding\" 2018 IEEE 31st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Belfast, UK, Jan. 2018 (PDF)\nN. Song, P. Xie, W. Shen, M. Javanmard, and M. G. Allen, \"Microwell-array on a flexible needle: a transcutaneous insertable impedance sensor for label-free cytokine detection,\" 2018 IEEE 31st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems\" 2018 IEEE 31st International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Belfast, UK, Jan. 2018 (PDF)\nC. Huang, A. Armutlulu, M.G. Allen, and S.A. Allen, \"Model-assisted development of microfabricated 3D Ni(OH)2electrodes with rapid charging capabilities,\" Journal of Power Sources, vol. 358, pp. 101-111, Aug. 2017. (PDF) (Journal)\nB.S. Klosterhoff, K. Ghee Ong, L. Krishnan, K. Hetzendorfer, Y.-H. Chang, M.G. Allen, R.E. Guldberg, N.J. Willett, \"Wireless Implantable Sensor for Noninvasive, Longitudinal Quantification of Axial Strain Across Rodent Long Bone Defects,\" ASME. J Biomech Eng., 139(11):111004-111004-8, 2017. (PDF) (Journal)\nB.S. Klosterhoff, M. Tsang, D. She, K. Ghee Ong, M.G. Allen, N.J. Willet, R.E. Guldberg, \"Implantable Sensors for Regenerative Medicine,\" ASME. J Biomech Eng., 139(2):021009-021009-11, 2017. (PDF) (Journal)\nM. Kim, M.G. Allen and J. Kim, \"Nanolaminated CoNiFe Cores with Dip-Coated Fluoroacrylic Polymer Interlamination Insulation: Fabrication, Electrical Characterization, and Performance Reliability,\" 2017 IEEE 67th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), Orlando, FL, 2017. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, Y.K. Yoon and M.G. Allen, \"Double-side exposure UV-LED CNC lithography for fine 3D microfabrication,\" 2017 IEEE 12th International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS), Los Angeles, CA, 2017. (PDF)\nM. Kim, J. Kim and M.G. Allen, \"Composite materials with controllable macromechanical properties based on MEMS-assisted structural manipulation of low-dimensional subcomponents,\" 2017 IEEE 30th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Las Vegas, NV, 2017. (PDF)\nD. Kim, D.C. Ahn, M.G. Allen and Y.K. Choi, \"Triboelectrification driven fin-fact (flip-flop actuated channel transistor) for security application,\" 2017 IEEE 30th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), Las Vegas, NV, 2017. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, Y.K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Lithography: Light-Motion Synchronized UV-LED Lithography for 3-D Microfabrication,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 26 (3), pp 1-10, 2016. (PDF) (Journal)\nY. Li, J. Kim, M. Kim, A. Armutlulu, and M.G. Allen, \"Thick Multilayered Micromachined Permanent Magnets With Preserved Magnetic Properties,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol: PP, Iss: 99, April 2016. (PDF) (Journal)\nH. Yun, J.K. Kim, T. Paik, L. Meng, J.M. Kikkawa, M.G. Allen, and C.B. Murray, \"Alternate current magnetic property characterization of nonstoichiometric zinc ferrite nanocrystals for inductor fabrication via a solution based process,\" Journal of Applied Physics 119, 113901, Mar 2016. (PDF) (Journal)\nM. Kim, J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Multilayer electrodeposition from micromachined templates: A controllable, scalable route to hierarchical superhydrophobic surfaces,\" Hilton Head Conference, Hilton Head, USA, pp.72-75, Jun. 2016.(PDF)\nT. Zhang, M. Tsang, and M.G. Allen, \"Biodegradable electrical interconnects for transient implantable systems,\" Hilton Head Conference, Hilton Head, USA, pp.328-331, Jun. 2016.(PDF)\nJ. Kim, M. Kim, J.K. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Anisotropic Nanolaminated CoNiFe Cores Integrated Into Microinductors for High-Frequency DC-DC Power Conversion,\" Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, Sept 8 2015. (PDF) (Journal)\nM. Tsang, A. Armutlulu, A. Martinez, S.A.B. Allen, and M.G. Allen, \"Biodegradable Magnesium/Iron Batteries with Polycaprolactone Encapsulation: A Microfabricated Power Source For Transient Implantable Devices,\" Microsystems and Nanoengineering, 12 Oct 2015. (PDF) (Journal)\nW. Shen, L. Karumbaiah, X. Liu, T. Saxena, S. Chen, R. Patkar, R. Bellamkonda, and M.G. Allen, \"Extracellular matrix-based intracortical microelectrodes: Toward a microfabricated neural interface based on natural materials,\" Microsystems and Nanoengineering, 15010, 29 Jun 2015. (PDF) (Journal)\nM. Kim, J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Nanopatterned Surfaces Based on Template-Assisted Multilayer Electroplating,\" Small, v 11, n 16, p 1912-1918, 2015. (PDF) (Journal)\nJ.K. Kim, C. Kim, M.G. Allen, and Y.K. Yoon, \"Fabrication of 3D nanostructures by multidirectional UV lithography and predictive structural modeling,\" Journal of Micromechanics Microengineering, v 25, n 2, p 1-10, 2015. (PDF) (Journal)\nA. Armutlulu, L.A. Bottomley, S.A.B. Allen, and M.G. Allen, \"Supercapacitor Electrodes Based on Three-Dimensional Copper Structures with Precisely Controlled Dimensions,\" Chemelectrochem, v 2, n 2, p 236-245, 2015. (PDF) (Journal)\nJ. Kim, M. Kim, F. Herrault, J.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Electrodeposited Nanolaminated CoNiFe Cores for Ultracompact DC\u2013DC Power Conversion,\" IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, v 30, n 9, p 5078-5087, 2015. (PDF) (Journal)\nJ.Kim, M. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Surface Tension-Driven Assembly of Metallic Nanosheets at the Liquid-Air Interface: Application to Highly Laminated Magnetic Core,\" Transducers 2015 June 2015. (PDF)\nD. She, M. Tsang, J.K. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Immobilized Electrolyte Biodegradable Batteries For Implantable MEMS,\" Transducers 2015 June 2015. (PDF)\nM. Luo, W. Shen, and M.G. Allen, \"Microfabricated PLGA/PVA-Based Completely Biodegradable Passive RF Pressure Sensors,\" Transducers 2015 June 2015. (PDF)\nM. Luo, W. Shen, Y. Wang, and M.G. Allen, \"In Vitro Degradation of Biodegradable Metal Zn and Zn/Fe-Couples and Their Application as Conductors In Biodegradable Sensors,\" Transducers 2015 June 2015. (PDF)\nJ.K Kim, Y.K Yoon, T.C. Mier, and M.G. Allen, \"CNC-Lithography: Computer-Controlled Multidirectional Light-Motion-Synchronized Lithography For 3-D Microfabrication,\" Transducers 2015 June 2015. (PDF)\nX. Yu and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication of Multi-Layer Windings In Silicon-Embedded Toroidal Inductors,\" Transducers 2015 June 2015. (PDF)\nJ. Kim, M. Kim, J.K. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Solenoid microinductors with anisotropic nanolaminated CoNiFe cores for high frequency DC-DC power conversion,\" 15th Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop June 2014. (PDF)\nM. Araghchini, X.H. Yu, M.S. Kim, J.Z. Qiu, F. Herrault, C.R. Sullivan, M.G. Allen, J.H. Lang, \"Modeling and Measured Verification of Stored Energy and Loss in MEMS Toroidal Inductors,\" IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, v 50, n 3, p 2029-2038, 2014. (PDF) (Journal)\nM. Tsang, A. Armutlulu, F. Herrault, R. Shafer, S.A.B. Allen, M.G. Allen, \"Development of Electroplated Magnesium Microstructures for Biodegradable Devices and Energy Sources,\" IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 23, n 6, p 1281-1289, 2014. (PDF) (Journal)\nH. Yun, X.Y. Liu, T. Paik, D. Palanisamy, J.K. Kim, W.D. Vogel, A.J. Viescas, J. Chen, G.C. Papaefthymiou, J.M. Kikkawa, M.G. Allen, and C.B. Murray, \"Size- and Composition-Dependent Radio Frequency Magnetic Permeability of Iron Oxide Nanocrystals\" ACS Nano, v 8, n 12, p 12323-12337, 2014. (PDF) (Journal)\nP.-C. Wang, S.-J. Paik, S.-H. Kim, M.G. Allen, \"Hypodermic-Needle-Like Hollow Polymer Microneedle Array: Fabrication and Characterization,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 23, n 4, p 991-8, Aug. 2014. (PDF) (Journal)\nB.A. Peterson, O.D. Oniku, W.C. Patterson, D. Le Roy, A. Garraud, F. Herrault, N.M. Dempsey, D.P. Arnold, M.G. Allen, \"Technology Development for Short-period Magnetic Undulators,\" Physics Proc\u00e9dia, v 52, p 36-45, June 2014. (PDF) (Journal)\nM. Luo, A. W. Martinez, C. Song, F. Herrault, and M. G. Allen, \"A Microfabricated Wireless RF Pressure Sensor Made Completely of Biodegradable Materials,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 23, i 1, p 4-13, Feb. 2014. (PDF) (Journal)\nH.S. Yoon, S.J. Lee, J.Y. Park, S.J. Paik, and M.G. Allen, \"A non-enzymatic micro-needle patch sensor for free cholesterol continuous monitoring,\" Proc. IEEE Sensors Meeting, Valencia, Spain, Nov. 2014. (PDF)\nY. Li, J. Kim, M. Kim, A. Armutlulu, and M.G. Allen, \"Retaining high areal in-plane magnetic energy density over large magnetic thickness: a permanent magnetic microlamination approach based on sequential multilayer electroplating,\" 15th Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop, June 2014. (PDF)\nX. Yu, J.K. Kim, F. Herrault, and M.G. Allen, \"Silicon-Embedded Toroidal Inductors with Magnetic Cores: Design Methodology and Experimental Validation,\" Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC 2014), p 763-767, Mar. 2014. (PDF)\nM. Tsang, A. Armutlulu, A. Martinez, F. Herrault, S.A. Bidstrup Allen, M.G. Allen, \"A MEMS enabled Biodegradable Battery for Powering Transient Implantable Devices,\" MEMS 2014, p 358-361, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 2014. (PDF)\nJ. Kim, M. Kim, F. Herrault, J. Y. Park, and M. G. Allen, \"Highly-laminated soft magnetic electroplated CoNiFe thick films,\" IEEE Magnetics Letters, v 4, Nov. 2013. (PDF) (Journal)\nA. Armutlulu, S.A. Bidstrup Allen, M.G. Allen, \"Microfabricated Ni-based Electrodes for High-Power Battery Applications,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 23, n 11,p 1-7, Nov. 2013. (PDF) (Journal)\nP. Wang, S.-J. Paik, S. Chen, S. Rajaraman, S.-H. Kim, and M. G. Allen, \"Fabrication and Characterization of Polymer Hollow Microneedle Array Using UV Lithography into Micromolds,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 22, n 5, p 1041-1053, Oct. 2013. (PDF)\nJ. Kim, JK. Kim, M. Kim, F. Herrault, and M.G. Allen, \"Microfabrication of toroidal inductors integrated with nanolaminated ferromagnetic metallic cores,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 23, n 11, (Cover Image), p 1-9, Oct. 2013. (PDF) (Journal)\nJ. Kim, M. Kim, P. Galle, F. Herrault, R. Shafer, J.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Nanolaminated permalloy core for high-flux high-frequency ultracompact power conversion,\" Transactions on Power Electronics, v 28, n 9, p 4376-4383, Sept. 2013. (PDF)\nM. Araghchini, J. Chen, V. Doan-Nguyen, D.V. Harburg, D. Jin, J. Kim, M. Kim, S. Lim, B. Lu, D. Piedra, J. Qiu, J. Ranson, M. Sun, X. Yu, H. Yun, M.G. Allen, J.A. del Alamo, G. DesGroseilliers, F. Herrault, J.H. Lang, C.G. Levey, C.B. Murray, D. Otten, T. Palacios, D.J. Perreault, and C.R. Sullivan, \"A technology overview of the powerchip development program,\" Transactions on Power Electronics, v 28, n 9, p 4182-4201, Sept. 2013. (PDF)\nM. Kim, J. Kim, F. Herrault, R.H. Shafer, and M.G. Allen, \"A MEMS lamination technology based on sequential multilayer electrodeposition,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 23, n 9 (IOP selected paper), p 1-9, Aug. 2013. (PDF) (Journal)\nW. Xu, M.G. Allen, \"Deformable Strain Sensors Based on Patterned MWCNTs/ Polydimethylsiloxane Composites,\" Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics, v 51, p 1505-1512, Aug. 2013. (PDF)\nX. Yu, M. Kim, F. Herrault, C.-H. Ji, J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Silicon-Embedding Approaches to 3-D Toroidal Inductor Fabrication,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 22, n 3, June 2013. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, F. Herrault, X. Yu, M. Kim, R.H. Shafer, and M.G. Allen, \"Microfabrication of air core inductors with metal-encapsulated polymer vias,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 23, n 3, p 035006 (7 pp.), March 2013. (PDF)\nA. Armutlulu, J.K. Kim, M. Kim, S.A.B. Allen, M. G. Allen, \"Nickel-Oxide-Based Supercapacitors with High Aspect Ratio Concentric Cylindrical Electrodes,\" Transducers 2013, p 1480-1483, Barcelona, Spain, June 2013. (PDF)\nM. Kim, F. Herrault, J. Kim, J.K. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Monolithically-fabricated laminated inductors with electrodeposited silver windings,\" IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 873-876, Jan. 2013. (PDF)\nM. Tsang, F. Herrault, R.H. Shafer, and M.G. Allen, \"Methods for the microfabrication of magnesium,\" IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 347-350, Jan. 2013. (PDF)\nM. Kranz, M.G. Allen, and T. Hudson, \"In situ wafer-level polarization of electret films in MEMS acoustic sensor arrays,\" Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, v 188, p 181-9, Dec. 2012. (PDF)\nB.A. Peterson, F. Herrault, O.D. Oniku, Z.A. Kaufman, D.P. Arnold, and M.G. Allen, \"Assessment of laser-induced damage in laser-micromachined rare-earth permanent magnets at the sub-millimeter scale,\" Transactions on Magnetics, v 48, n 11, p 3606-9, Nov. 2012. (PDF)\nX. Wu, S.-H. Kim, H. Zhu, C.-H. Ji, and M.G. Allen, \"A refreshable Braille cell based on pneumatic microbubble actuators,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 21, n 4, p 908-916, Aug. 2012. (PDF)\nS. Chen, and M.G. Allen, \"Extracellular matrix based materials for neural interfacing,\" MRS Bulletin, v 37, June 2012. (PDF)\nS.O. Choi, Y.C. Kim, J.W. Lee, J.H. Park, M.R. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"Intracellular protein delivery and gene transfection by electroporation using a microneedle electrode array,\" Small, v 8, n 7, p 1081-1091, April 2012. (PDF)\nA. Armutlulu, S.A. Bidstrup Allen, and M.G. Allen, \"3D microstructures for fast charge and discharge batteries,\" PowerMEMS 2012, p 203-206, Dec. 2012. (PDF)\nJ. Kim, J.K. Kim, M. Kim, F. Herrault, and M.G. Allen, \"Integrated toroidal inductors with nanolaminated metallic magnetic cores,\" PowerMEMS 2012, p 18-21, Dec. 2012. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, F. Herrault, X. Yu, and M.G. Allen, \"Microfabrication of air-core toroidal inductor with very high aspect ratio metal-encapsulated polymer vias,\" PowerMEMS 2012, p 30-33, Dec. 2012. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, A. Armutlulu, M. Kim, S. Paik, S.A. Bidstrup Allen, and M.G. Allen \"A fabric-based Ni-Zn battery using a microfiber substrate and separator,\" PowerMEMS 2012, p , Dec. 2012. (PDF)\nB.A. Peterson, W.C. Patterson, F. Herrault, D.P. Arnold, and M.G. Allen, \"Laser-micromachined permanent magnet arrays with spatially alternating magnetic field distribution,\" PowerMEMS 2012, p 319-322, Dec. 2012. (PDF)\nX. Yu, M. Araghchini, F. Herrault, J.K. Kim. J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication, modeling and performance analysis of silicon-embedded 3-D toroidal inductors,\" PowerMEMS 2012, p 58-61, Dec. 2012. (PDF)\nM. Araghchini, M. Kim, X. Yu, F. Herrault, M.G. Allen, and J.H. Lang, \"Modeling and measured verification of loss in MEMS toroidal inductors,\" IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), p 3293-3300, Sept. 2012. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, S.J. Paik, F. Herrault, and M.G. Allen, \"UV-LED lithography for 3-D high aspect ratio microstructure patterning,\" 14th Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop, p 481-484, June 2012. (PDF)\nM. Luo, C. Song, F. Herrault, and M.G. Allen, \"A microfabricated RF wireless pressure sensor made completely of biodegradable materials,\" 14th Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop, p 38-41, June 2012. (PDF)\nS.J. Paik, S. Park, V. Zamitsyn, S. Choi, X. Guo, M. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"A highly dense nanoneedle array for intracellular gene delivery,\" 14th Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Workshop, p 149-152, June 2012. (PDF)\nB.A. Peterson, F. Herrault, O.D. Oniku, Z.A. Kaufman, D.P. Arnold, and M.G. Allen, \"Assessment of laser-induced damage in laser-micromachined rare-earth permanent magnets at the sub-millimeter scale,\" Intermag 2012, May 2012.\nM. Kranz, M.G. Allen, and T. Hudson, \"In situ polarization of polymer films in microsensors,\" of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering - Behavior and Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and Composites, v 8342, March 2012. (PDF)\nM. Kranz, M.G. Allen, and T. Hudson, \"MEMS-based spectral decomposition of acoustic signals,\" of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering - Sensors and Smart Structures Technologies for Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace Systems, v 8345, March 2012. (PDF)\nD.V. Harburg, X. Yu, F. Herrault, C.G. Levey, M.G. Allen, and C.R. Sullivan, \"Micro-fabricated thin-film inductors for on-chip power conversion,\" 2012 7th International Conference on Integrated Power Electronics Systems (CIPS), p. 6ff, March 2012. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, P.A. Hidalgo, C.-H. Ji, A. Glezer, and M.G. Allen, \"Cooling performance of micromachined self-oscillating reed actuators in heat transfer channels with integrated diagnostics,\" IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 1217-1220, Jan. 2012. (PDF)\nX. Yu, M.S. Kim, F. Herrault, C.-H. Ji, J.K. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Silicon-embedded 3D toroidal air-core inductor with through-wafer interconnect for on-chip integration,\" IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 325-328, Jan. 2012. (PDF)\nB.A. English, and M.G. Allen, \"Control of ignition delay in microfabricated hot-wire igniters: Simulation, fabrication, and experimental results,\" Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical, v 172, n 2, p 483-490, Dec. 2011. (PDF)\nA. Armutlulu, Y. Fang, S.H. Kim, C.H. Ji, S.A. Bidstrup Allen, and M.G. Allen, \" A MEMS-enabled 3D zinc-air microbattery with improved discharge characteristics based on a multilayer metallic substructure,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 21, n 10, Oct. 2011. (PDF)\nX. Wu, S.-H. Kim, C.-H. Ji, and M.G. Allen, \"A solid hydraulically amplified piezoelectric microvalve,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 21, n 9, p 095003 (11 p), Sept. 2011. (PDF)\nS. Zhang, Z. Liu, D.G. Bucknall, L. He, K. Hong, J.W. Mays, and M.G. Allen, \"Thermally switchable thin films of an ABC triblock copolymer of poly(n-butyl methacrylate)-poly(metrhyl methacrylate)-poly(2-fluoroethyl methacrylate),\" Applied Surface Science, v 257, n 22, p 9673-7, Sept. 2011. (PDF)\nJ.W. Lee, P. Gadiraju, J.H. Park, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Microsecond thermal ablation of skin for transdermal drug delivery,\" Journal of Controlled Release, v 154, n 1, p 58-68, Aug, 2011. (PDF)\nS. Rajaraman, J.A. Bragg, J.D. Ross and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined three-dimensional electrode arrays for transcutaneous nerve tracking,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 21, n 8, p 080514 (13 p), Aug. 2011. (PDF)\nB.A. Wester, S. Rajaraman, J.D. Ross, M.C. LaPlaca, and M.G. allen, \"Development and characterization of a packaged mechanically actuated microtweezer system,\" Sensors and Actuators: A Physical, v 167, n 2, p 502-11, June 2011. (PDF)\nZ. Liu, D.G. Bucknall, and M.G. Allen, \"Inclined nanoimprinting lithography-based 3D nanofabrication,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 21, n 6, p 060536 (11 p), June 2011. (PDF)\nZ. Liu, D.G. Bucknall, and M.G. Allen, \"Inclined nanoimprinting lithography for 3D nanopatterning,\" Nanotechnology, v 22, n 22, p 225302 (8 p), June 2011. (PDF)\nS. Rajaraman, S.-O. Choi, M.A. McClain, J.D. Ross, M.C. LaPlaca, and M.G. Allen, \"Metal-transfer-micromolded three-dimensional microelectrode arrays for in-vitro brain-slice recordings,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 20, n 2, p 396-409, April 2011. (PDF)\nM.A. McClain, I.P. Clements, R.H. Shafer, R.V. Bellamkonda, M.C. Laplaca, and M.G. Allen, \"Highly-compliant, microcable neuroelectrodes fabricated from thin-film gold and PDMS,\" Biomedical Microdevices, v 13, n 2, p 361-373, April 2011. (PDF)\nS. Choi, Y.-K. Yoon, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Nonlinear sensitivity enhancement of resonant microsensors and its application to low lower magnetic sensing,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 21, n 4, p 045004, April 2011. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, M.G. Allen, and Y.-K. Yoon, \"Computer controlled dynamic mode multidirectional UV lithography for 3-D microfabrication,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 21, n 3, p 035003, March 2011. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, J.-H. Park, J.-W. Lee, M.R. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"A thermal microjet system with tapered micronozzles fabricated by inclined UV lithography for transdermal drug delivery,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 21, n 2, p 025014 (9 p), Feb 2011. (PDF)\nC. Song, A.R. Aiyar, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Exploitation of aeroelastic effects for drift reduction, in an all-polymer air flow sensor,\" Sensors and Actuator: A Physical, v 165, n 1, p 66-72, Jan. 2011. (PDF)\nN. Naik, V. Kumar, E.L. Chaikof, and M.G. Allen, \"MEMS-assisted spatially homogeneous endothelialization of a high length-to-depth aspect ratio microvascular network,\" IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), p 290-293, Sept. 2011. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, W.P. Galle, R.H. Shafer, and M.G. Allen, \"Electroplating-based approaches for volumetric nanomanufacturing,\" Technologies for Future Micro-Nano Manufacturing, Aug. 2011. (PDF)\nM. Kranz, M.G. Allen, and T. Hudson, \"In situ wafer-level polarization of electret films in MEMS acoustic sensor arrays,\" 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers), pp 914-917, June 2011. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, C. Xiaoyu, D.E. Senior, M.G. Allen, and Y.-K. Yoon, \"Three dimensional nanoscale fabrication and modeling of dynamic mode multidirectional UV lithography,\" 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers), pp 1737-1740, June 2011. (PDF)\nZ. Liu, F. Herrault, S.-H. Kim, D.G. Bucknall, and M.G. Allen, \" Fabrication of 3-D hybrid polymer-magnetite nanostructures with geometric shape anisotropy,\" 16th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers), pp 1630-1633, June 2011. (PDF)\nX. Yu, F. Herrault, C.-H. Ji, S.-H. Kim, M.G. Allen, G. Lisi, L. Nguyen, and D.I. Anderson, \"Watt-level wireless power transfer based on stacked flex circuit technology,\" IEEE 61st Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), p 2185-91, June 2011. (PDF)\nJ. Kim, S.-J. Paik, P.-C. Wang, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Maskless fabrication of high aspect ratio structures by combination of micromolding and direct drawing,\" 24th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS2011), p280-283, Cancun, Mexico, Jan. 2011. (PDF)\nP.-C. Wang, S.-J. Paik, J. Kim, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Hypodermic-needle-like hollow polymer microneedle array using UV lithography into micromolds,\" 24th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS2011), v 165, n 1, p 66-72, Jan. 2011. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, S. Yorish, T.M. Crittenden, C.-H. Ji, and M.G. Allen, \"Parylene-insulated ultradense microfabricated coils,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 19, n 6, p 1277-83, Dec. 2010. (PDF)\nW.J. Xu, M. Kranz, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Micropatternable elastic electrets based on a PDMS/carbon nanotube composite,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 20, n 10, p 104003 (7 p), Oct. 2010. (PDF)\nY. Zhao, Y. Li, B. Pan, S.-H. Kim, Z. Liu, M.M. Tentzeris, J. Papapolymerou, and M.G. Allen, \"RF evanescent-mode cavity resonator for passive wireless sensor applications,\" Sensors and Actuators: A Physical, v 161, n 1-2, p 322-8, June 2010. (PDF)\nJ.M. Caves, V.A. Kumar, W. Xu, N. Naik, M.G. Allen, and E.L. Chaikof, \"Microcrimped collagen fiber-elastin composites,\" Advanced Materials, v 22, n 18, p 2041-2044, May 2010. (PDF)\nS.-O Choi, Y. Kim, J.-H. Park, J. Hutcheson, H.S. Gill, Y.-K. Yoon, M.R. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"An electrically active microneedle array for electroporation,\" Biomedical Microdevices, v 12, n 2, p 263-273, Apr. 2010. (PDF)\nZ. Liu, D.G. Bucknall, and M.G. Allen, \"Absorption performance of iodixanol-imprinted polymers in aqueous and blood plasma media,\" Acta Biomaterialia, vol.6, p 2003-2012, 2010. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, B.C. Yen, C.-H. Ji, Z.S. Spakovszky, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication and performance of silicon-embedded permanent-magnet microgenerators,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 19, n 1, p 4-13, Feb. 2010. (PDF)\nA. Armutlulu, Y. Fang, S.-H. Kim, C.-H. Ji, S.A. B. Allen, and M.G. Allen, \"High-current Zn-Air microbattery based on a micromachined multilayer lateral metallic scaffold,\" 10th International Workshop on Micro and Nanotechnology for Power Generation and Energy Conversion Applications (PowerMEMS 2010), p 107-110, 2010. (PDF)\nP. Hidalgo, F. Herrault, A. Glezer, M.G. Allen, S. Kaslusky, and B.S. Rock, \" Heat transfer enhancement in high-power heat sinks using active reed technology,\" 16th International Workshop on Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (THERMINIC), Page(s): 1-6, v 19, Oct. 2010. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, W.P. Galle, and M.G. Allen, \"High speed axial flux permanent magnet micromotors with electroplated windings,\" Solid State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems Conference, (Hilton Head), p. 404-408, June 2010. (PDF)\nJ.J. Norman, S.-O Choi, A.R. Aiyar, S.N. Andrews, M.R. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"Sharp-tipped hollow metal microneedles fabricated by sacrificial micromolding.\" First International Conference on Microneedles, May 23-25, 2010. (PDF)\nS.-J. Paik, S.-H. Kim, P.-C. Wang, B. Wester, and M.G. Allen, \"Dissolvable-tipped, drug-reservoir integrated microneedle array for transdermal drug delivery,\" 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2010), p 312 - 315, Jan. 2010. (PDF)\nZ. Liu, N. Naik, D.G. Bucknall, and M.G. Allen, \"Mechanosynthesis of three-dimensional replicated nanostructures by nanolithography-based molecular manipulation,\" 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2010), p 452 - 455, Jan. 2010. (PDF)\nW. Xu, S. Choi, M. G. Allen, \"Hairlike carbon-fiber-based solar cell,\" 23rd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2010), p 1187 - 1190, Jan. 2010. (PDF)\nW.P. Galle, S.-H. Kim, U. Shah, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined capacitors based on sequential multilayer electroplating,\" 23nd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2010), Jan. 2010. (PDF)\nW. Xu, C.-H. Ji, R. Shafer, and M.G. Allen, \"Fast and controlled integration of carbon nanotubes into microstructures,\" Microelectromechanical Systems - Materials and Devices II, p 59-64, 2009. (PDF)\nC.-H. Ji, F. Herrault and M.G. Allen, \"Micro projection lithography using microlens on a mask,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 19, n 10, p 127003 (6pp), 2009. (PDF)\nA.R. Aiyar, C. Song, S.-H. Kim and M. G. Allen, \"An all-polymer air-flow sensor array using a piezoresistive composite elastomer,\" Smart Materials and Structures, 18, 115002, 2009. (PDF)\nM.A. McClain, M.C. LaPlaca, and M.G. Allen, \"Spun-cast micromolding for etchless micropatterning of electrically functional PDMS structures,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 19, n 10, p 107002 (6 p), Oct. 2009. (PDF)\nS.-H. Kim, C.-H. Ji, W.P. Galle, F. Herrault, Z. Wu, J.-H. Lee, C.-A. Choi, and M.G. Allen, \"An electromagnetic energy scavenger from direct airflow,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 19, n 9, p 094010 (8 p), Sept. 2009. (PDF)\nC.-H. Ji, F. Herrault, P. Hopper, P. Smeys, P. Johnson, M.G. Allen, \"Electroplated metal buried interconnect and through-wafer metal-filled via technology for high-power integrated electronics,\" IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, Vol. 32, Issue 3, p 695-702, Aug. 2009. (PDF)\nY. Zhao, Y.K. Yoon, S.O. Choi, X. Wu, Z. Liu, and M.G. Allen, \"Three dimensional metal pattern transfer for replica molded microstructures,\" Applied Physics Letters, vol. 94, no. 2, 023301, 2009. (PDF)\nW. Xu, M. Kranz, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Micropatternable Elastic Carbon Nanotube/PDMS Electrets,\" PowerMEMS 2009, Dec. 2009. (PDF)\nP.-C. Wang, B. A. Wester, S. Rajaraman, S.-J. Paik, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Hollow polymer microneedle array fabricated by photolithography process combined with micromolding technique,\" IEEE EMBC conference, Sept. 2009. (PDF)\nB.A. Wester, J.D. Ross, S. Rajaraman, and M.G. Allen, \"Packaging and characterization of mechanically actuated microtweezers for biomedical applications,\" IEEE EMBC Conference, Sept. 2009. (PDF)\nZ. Liu, D.G. Bucknall, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication of molecular-scale patterns with chemically tunable functionalities,\" Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS 2009), p 449-452, June 2009. (PDF)\nW. Xu, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication of patterned carbon nanotube (CNT) / elastomer bilayer material and its utilization as force sensors,\" Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS 2009), p 2242-2245, June 2009. (PDF)\nC.-H. Ji, F. Herrault, and M.G. Allen, \"Micro projection lithography inside deep trenches using microlens on a mask,\" Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, 2009 (TRANSDUCERS 2009), p 1908-1911, June 2009. (PDF)\nC. Song, A. R. Aiyar, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Exploitation of aeroelastic effects for drift reduction in an all-polymer air flow sensor,\" Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS 2009), p 1545-1548, June 2009. (PDF)\nN. Naik, J. Caves,V. Kumar,E. Chaikof, and M.G. Allen, \"A template-based fabrication technique for spatially-designed polymer micro/nanofiber composites,\" Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS 2009), p 1869-1872, June 2009. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, S. Yorish, T. Crittenden, and M.G. Allen, \"Microfabricated, ultra-dense, three-dimensional metal coils,\" Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference (TRANSDUCERS 2009), p 1718-1721, June 2009. (PDF)\nA. Aiyar, C. Song, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"An all polymer air-flow sensor array using a piezoresistive composite elastomer,\" 22nd IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2009), p 447-451, Jan. 2009. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, C.-H. Ji, and M.G. Allen, \"Ultraminiaturized, high-speed, permanent-magnet generators for milliwatt-level power generation,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, Vol. 17, No. 6, p 1376-1387, 2008. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, D.P. Arnold, I. Zana, P. Galle, and M.G. Allen, \"High temperature operation of multi-watt, axial-flux, permanent-magnet microgenerators,\" Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Vol. 148, Issue 1, p 299-305, Nov. 2008. (PDF)\nC.-H Ji, F. Herrault, and M.G. Allen, \"A metallic buried interconnect process for through-wafer interconnection,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 18, n 7, p 085016 (10 p), Aug. 2008. (PDF)\nY. Choi, B. Wester, and M.G. Allen, \"Mechanically driven microtweezers with integrated microelectrodes,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 18, n 6, p 065004 (9 p), June 2008. (PDF)\nY.-H. Joung, and M.G. Allen, \"A micromachined chip-to-board interconnect system using electroplating bonding technology,\" IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging, v 31, n 2,p 357-66, May 2008. (PDF)\nY.-H. Joung, and M.G. Allen, \"Inter-substrate microstructure formation by electroplating bonding technology,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 18, n 4, p 045020-1-12, April 2008. (PDF)\nX. Wu, G. Yuan, Y.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"Kinematically Stabilized Microbubble Actuator Arrays,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 17, issue 1, p 124 - 132, Feb. 2008. (PDF)\nW. Xu, C.-H. Ji, R. Shafer, M.G. Allen, \"Fast and controlled integration of carbon nanotubes into microstructures,\" Materials Research Society conference, Vol. 1139, No.:1139-GG03-06, Boston, Dec. 2008. (PDF)\nZ. Liu, D. Bucknall, M.G. Allen, \"Recognition and Absorption of the water-soluble X-ray contrast medium iodixanol using molecularly imprinted polymers for biomedical applications,\" Materials Research Society conference, Boston, Dec. 2008. (PDF)\nS.-H. Kim, C.-H. Ji, W.P. Galle, F. Herrault, X. Wu, J.-H. Lee, C.-A. Choi, and M.G. Allen, \"An Electromagnetic Energy Scavenger from Direct Airflow,\" PowerMEMS 2008, p 133-136, Nov. 2008. (PDF)\nB. C. Yen, F. Herrault, K.J. Hillman, M.G. Allen, F.F. Ehrich, S. Jacobson, C.-H. Ji, J.H. Lang, H. Li, Z.S. Spakovszky, and D.R. Veazie, \"Characterization of a fully-integrated permanent-magnet turbine generator,\" PowerMEMS 2008, p 121-124, Nov. 2008. (PDF)\nM. McClain, M. C LaPlaca, and M.G. Allen, \"An integrated elastomer mesh and microelectrode array for neurophysiology,\" Georgia Life Sciences Summit, September 2008.\nS. Rajaraman, Y. Zhao, X. Wu, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Metal transfer micromolding (MTM) process for high-aspect-ratio 3-D structures with functional metal surfaces,\" International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA 2008), Atlanta, USA, June 2008. (PDF)\nY. Zhao, S.-H. Kim, Y. Li, B. Pan, X. Wu, E.M. Tentzeris, J. Papapolymerou, and M.G. Allen, \"A micromachined airflow sensor based on RF evanescent-mode cavity tesonator,\" International Microwave Symposium (IMS 2008), Atlanta, USA, June 2008. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, T. Crittenden, S. Yorish, E. Birdsell, A. Glezer, and M.G. Allen, \"A self-resonant, MEMS-fabricated, air-breathing engine,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2008), p 348-351, June 2008. (PDF)\nX. Wu, S.-H. Kim, C.-H. Ji, and M.G. Allen,\"A piezoelectrically-driven high flow rate axial polymer microvalve with solid hydraulic amplification,\" 21st IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2008), p523-526, Tucson, USA, January 2008. (PDF)\nJ.K. Kim, M.G. Allen, and Y.-K. Yoon, \"Automated dynamic mode multidirectional UV lithography for complex 3-D microstructures,\" 21st IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2008), p399-402, Tucson, USA, January 2008. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, C.-H. Ji, S.-H. Kim, X. Wu, and M.G. Allen, \"A microfluidic-electric package for Power MEMS generators,\" 21st IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2008), p112-115, Tucson, USA, January 2008. (PDF)\nJ.-H Park, S.-O Choi, R. Kamath, J.-K. Yoon, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Polymer particle-based micromolding to fabricate novel microstructures,\" Biomedical Microdevices, v 9, n 2, p 223-34, April 2007. (PDF)\nY. Choi, M.A. McClain, M.C. LaPlaca, A.B. Frazier, and M.G. Allen, \"Three dimensional MEMS microfluidic perfusion system for thick brain slice cultures,\" Biomedical Microdevices, v 9, n 1, p 7-13, Feb. 2007. (PDF)\nJ.-H. Park, Y.-K. Yoon, S.-O Choi, M.R. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"Tapered conical polymer microneedles fabricated using an integrated lens technique for transdermal drug delivery,\" IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, v 54, n 5, p 903-13, May 2007. (PDF)\nY.-H. Joung, and M.G. Allen, \"Chip-to-board micromachining for interconnect layer passive components,\" IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, v 30, n 1, p 15-23, March 2007. (PDF)\nJ. Lee, K. Naeli, H. Hunter, J. Berg, T. Wright, C. Courcimault, N. Naik, M.G. Allen, O. Brand, A. Glezer, and W.P. King, \"Characterization of liquid and gaseous micro- and nanojets using microcantilever sensors,\" Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, v. 134, issue 1, p 128-139, Feb. 2007. (PDF)\nN. Naik, C. Courcimault, H. Hunter, J. Berg, J. Lee, K. Naeli, T. Wright, M.G. Allen, O. Brand, A. Glezer, and W.P. King, \"Microfluidics for generation and characterization of liquid and gaseous micro- and nanojets,\" Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, v. 134, issue 1, p 119-127, Feb. 2007. (PDF)\nS. Rajaraman, S.-O Choi, R.H. Shafer, J.D. Ross, J. Vukasinovic, Y. Choi, S.P. DeWeerth, A. Glezer, and M.G. Allen., \"Microfabrication technologies for a coupled three-dimensional microelectrode, microfluidic array,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 17, n 1, p 163-71, Jan. 2007. (PDF)\nM.A. McClain, M.C. LaPlaca, and M.G. Allen, \" The development of strand-like microelectrode arrays for in vitro neuron culture,\" Society for Neuroscience, Nov. 2007.\nZ. Liu, D.G. Bucknall, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication of three-dimensional nano-patterns by inclined nanoimprinting lithography,\" Transducers 2007: The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, p1621-1624, Lyon, France, June 2007. (PDF)\nS. Rajaraman, M.A. McClain, S.-O Choi, J.D. Ross, S.P. DeWeerth, M.C. LaPlaca, and M.G. Allen, \"Three-dimensional metal transfer micromolded microelectrode arrays (MEAS) for in-vitro brain slice recordings,\" Transducers 2007: The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, p1251-1254, Lyon, France, June 2007. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, C.-H. Ji, R.H. Shafer, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen \"Ultraminiaturized milliwatt-scale permanent magnet generators,\" Transducers 2007: The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, p899-902, Lyon, France, June 2007. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, C.-H. Ji, S. Rajaraman, R.H. Shafer, and M.G. Allen, \"Electrodeposited metal structures in high aspect ratio cavities using vapor deposited polymer molds and laser micromachining\" Transducers 2007: The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, p513-516, Lyon, France, June 2007. (PDF)\nS. Choi, S.-H. Kim, Y.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen \"Exploitation of nonlinear effects for enhancement of the sensing performance of resonant sensors\" Transducers 2007: The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, p745-748, Lyon, France, June 2007. (PDF)\nP.D. Gadiraju, J.-H. Park, J.W. Lee, and M.G. Allen, \"Micro-ablation of skin by arc-discharge jet ejection for transdermal drug delivery\" Transducers 2007: The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, p1947-1950, Lyon, France, June 2007. (PDF)\nX. Wu, H. Zhu, S.-H. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"A portanle pneumatically-actuated refreshable Braille cell,\" Transducers 2007: The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Lyon, France, June 2007. (PDF)\nY. Zhao, Y.-K. Yoon, X. Wu, and M.G. Allen, \"Metal-transfer-micromolding of air-lifted RF components,\" Transducers 2007: The 14th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Lyon, France, June 2007. (PDF)\nY. Zhao, Y.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"Metal-transfer-micromolded RF components for System-On-Package (SOP),\" 57 Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC '07), 2007. (PDF)\nP. Galle, X. Wu, L. Milner, S.-H. Kim, P. Johnson, P. Smeys, P. Hopper, K. Hwang, and M.G. Allen, \"Ultra-compact power conversion based on a CMOS-compatible microfabricated power inductor with minimized core losses,\" 57 Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC '07), 2007. (PDF)\nB. Pan, Y.-K. Yoon, G.E. Ponchak, M.G. Allen, J. Papapolymerou, and M.M. Tentzeris, \"Analysis and Characterization of a High-Performance Ka-Band Surface Micromachined Elevated Patch Antenna,\" Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, v 5, issue 1, p. 511\u2013514, Dec. 2006. (PDF)\nY. Wang, G. Yuan, Y.-K. Yoon, M.G. Allen, and S.A. Bidstrup, \"Optimization of synthetic jet fluidic structures in printed wiring boards,\" Transactions of the ASME. Journal of Electronic Packaging, v 128, n 4, p 353-9, Dec. 2006. (PDF)\nD.J. Coe, M.G. Allen, C.S Rinehart, and A. Glezer, \"Pneumatically actuated micromachined synthetic jet modulators,\" Sensors and Actuators A (Physical), v 132, n 2, p 689-700, Nov. 2006. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, S. Das, J.-W. Park, I. Zana, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"Microfabricated high-speed axial-flux multiwatt permanent-magnet Generators-part II: design, fabrication, and testing,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 15, n 5, p 1351-63, Oct. 2006. (PDF)\nS. Das, D.P. Arnold, I. Zana, J.-W. Park, M.G. Allen, and J.H. Lang, \"Microfabricated high-speed axial-flux multiwatt permanent-magnet Generators-part I: modeling,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 15, n 5, p 1330-50, Oct. 2006. (PDF)\nS. Choi, S.-H. Kim, Y.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen. \"A magnetically excited and sensed MEMS-based resonant compass,\" IEEE Transaction on Magnetics, v 42, issue 10, p 3506-3508, Oct. 2006. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, J.-H. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Multidirectional UV lithography for complex 3-D MEMS structures,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 15, n 5, p 1121-30, Oct. 2006. (PDF)\nC.C. Chung, and M.G. Allen, \"Thermomigration-based junction isolation of bulk silicon MEMS devices,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 15, n 5, p 1131-8, Oct. 2006. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, F. Herrault, I. Zana, P. Galle, J.-W. Park, S. Das, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"Design optimization of an 8 W, microscale, axial-flux, permanent-magnet generator,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 16, n 9, p S290-6, Sept. 2006. (PDF)\nS.A. Bidstrup, Y. Wang, G. Yuan, Y.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"Large eddy simulation (LES) for synthetic jet thermal management,\" International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, v 49, n 13-14, p 2173-9, July 2006. (PDF)\nF. Cros, H. Koser, M.G. Allen, and J.H. Lang, \"Magnetic induction micromachine-part II: fabrication and testing,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 15, n 2, p 427-39, Apr. 2006. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, S. Das, F. Cros, I. Zana, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"Magnetic induction machines integrated into bulk-micromachined silicon,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 16, n 2, p 406-414, Apr. 2006. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, J.S. Kenney, A.T. Hunt, and M.G. Allen, \"Low-loss microelectrodes fabricated using reverse-side exposure for a tunable ferroelectric capacitor application,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 16, n 2, p 225-34, Feb. 2006. (PDF)\nB. Pan, G. DeJean, J. Papapolymerou, M.M. Tentzeris, Y.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"High performance system-on-package integrated Yagi-Uda antennas for W-band applications and mm-wave ultra-wideband data links,\" 56th Electronic Components & Technology Conference, 2006. (PDF)\nE.D. Birdsell, and M.G. Allen, \"Wireless chemical sensors for high temperature environments,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2006), June 2006. (PDF)\nS.-O. Choi, S. Rajaraman, Y.-K. Yoon, X. Wu, and M.G. Allen, \"3-D metal patterned microstructure using inclined UV exposure and metal transfer micromolding technology,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2006), June 2006. (PDF)\nM.A. Fonseca, J. Kroh, J. White, and M.G. Allen, \"Flexible wireless passive pressure sensors for biomedical applications,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2006), June 2006. (PDF)\nX. Wu, G. Yuan, S.-O. Choi, Y. Zhao, S.-H. Kim, Y-K. Yoon, and M. G. Allen, \"Lateral lamination approach for multilayer piezoelectric microactuator,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2006), June 2006. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"Proximity mode inclined UV lithography,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop (Hilton Head 2006), June 2006. (PDF)\nF. Herrault, D.P. Arnold, I. Zana, P. Galle, and M.G. Allen, \"Multi-watt, microscale, axial-flux, permanent-magnet generators operating at high temperatures,\" Intermag Conference, May 2006. (PDF)\nS. Choi, S.-H. Kim, Y.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"A magnetically excited and sensed MEMS-based resonant compass,\" Intermag Conference, May 2006. (PDF)\nX. Wu, Y. Zhao, Y.-K. Yoon, S.-O Choi, J.-H. Park and M.G. Allen, \"Enhanced wettability polymer micromolding by a 3-D metal transfer process,\" ACS conference, March 2006. (PDF)\nJ.S. Kenney, Y-.K. Yoon, M. Ahn, M.G. Allen, Z. Zhao, X. Wang, A. Hunt, and D. Kim, \"Low-voltage ferroelectric phase shifters from L- to C-band,\" IEEE Aerospace Conference, March 2006. (PDF)\nB.A. English, P. Gadiraju, C.S. Rinehart, A. Glezer, and M.G. Allen, \"Gas generator actuator arrays for flight control Of spinning body projectiles\" 19th IEEE International Conference MicroElectro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2006), Jan. 2006. (PDF)\nW. Ye, Y.-K Yoon, and M. G. Allen, \"Investigation of gas separation induced by thermal loading,\" IEEE Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS) conference, Jan. 2006. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, J.-W. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Polymer-core conductor approaches for RF MEMS,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v. 14, n. 5, Oct, 2005. (PDF)\nY. Wang, G. Yuan, Y.-K. Yoon, M.G. Allen, and S.A. Bidstrup, \"Active cooling substrates for thermal management of microelectronics,\" IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, v 28, n 3, p 477-83, Sept. 2005. (PDF)\nYong-Kyu Yoon, M.G. Allen \"Embedded conductor technology for micromachined RF elements,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 15, n 6, June 2005, p 1317-26. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, I. Zana, and M.G. Allen, \"Analysis and optimization of vertically oriented, through-wafer, laminated magnetic cores in silicon,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 15, p 971-977, May 2005. (PDF)\nC. Chung, and M.G. Allen, \"Uncrosslinked SU-8 as a sacrificial material,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 15, n 1, p N1-N5, 2005. (PDF)\nJ.-H. Park, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Biodegradable polymer microneedles: fabrication, mechanics and transdermal drug delivery,\" Journal of Controlled Release, 104:51-66, 2005. (PDF)\nS.P. Davis, W. Martanto, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Hollow metal microneedles for insulin delivery to diabetic rats,\" IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, v. 52, no. 5, p 909-15, 2005. (PDF)\nB. Pan, Y.-K. Yoon, J. Papapolymerou, M.M. Tentzeris, and M.G. Allen, \"Design and fabrication of substrate-independent integrated antennas utilizing surface micromachining,\" Asian-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC), Dec. 2005. (PDF)\nI. Zana, F. Herrault, D.P. Arnold, and M.G. Allen, \"Magnetic patterning of permanent-magnet rotors for microscale motor/generators,\" 5th International Workshop Micro Nanotechnology For Power Generation and Energy Conversion Apps. (PowerMEMS 2005), Nov. 2005. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, P. Galle, F. Herrault, S. Das, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"A self-contained, flow-powered microgenerator system,\" 5th International Workshop Micro Nanotechnology For Power Generation and Energy Conversion Apps. (PowerMEMS 2005), p 113-115, Nov. 2005. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, I. Zana, F. Herrault, P. Galle, J.-W. Park, S. Das, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"Optimization of a microscale, axial-flux, permanent-magnet generator,\" 5th International Workshop Micro Nanotechnology For Power Generation and Energy Conversion Apps. (PowerMEMS 2005), p 165-168, Nov. 2005. (PDF)\nY. Zhao, X. Wu, Y.-K. Yoon, J.-H. Park, S.J. Kennedy, Z. Schwartz, B.D. Boyan, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication of micromachined mold masters for 3-D, high-aspect-ratio cell culturing substrates,\" ASME IMECE, paper number IMECE2005-81991, p1-7, Nov. 2005. (PDF)\nN.Naik, C. Courcimault, H. Hunter, J. Berg, J. Lee, K. Naeli, T. Wright, M.G. Allen, O. Brand, A. Glezer, and W. King, \"Fabrication and characterization of liquid and gaseous micro-and nanojets,\" ASME IMECE, paper number IMECE2005-81698, Nov. 2005. (PDF)\nJ. Lee, K. Naeli, H. Hunter, J. Berg, T. Wright, C. Courcimault, N.Naik, M.G. Allen, O. Brand, A. Glezer, and W. King, \"Micro-cantilever based metrology tool for flow characterization of liquid and gaseous micro/nanojets,\" ASME IMECE, paper number IMECE2005-81732, Nov. 2005. (PDF)\nX. Wu, Y. Zhao, Y.-K. Yoon, S.-O. Choi, J.-H. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Wafer-scale Micromolding of Unitary Polymeric Microstructures with Simultaneously Formed Functional Metal Surface,\" International Conference on micro Total Analysis Systems (microTAS), p205-207, Oct. 2005. (PDF)\nJ.H. Park, J.-W. Park, Y.-K. Yoon, Y. Joung, S. Choi, J. Lee, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Wireless thermal micro-ablation of skin for transdermal drug delivery,\" BMES conference, Sept. 2005. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, \"Implantable micromachined wireless pressure sensors: approach and clinical demonstration,\" 2nd International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, p 40-1, 2005.\nY.-K. Yoon, B. Pan, J. Papapolymerou, M.M. Tentzeris, and M.G. Allen, \"A Vertical W-band Surface-Micromachined Yagi-Uda Antenna,\" IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Raid Science Meeting, July 2005. (PDF)\nB. Pan, Y.-K. Yoon, J. Papapolymerou, M.M. Tentzeris, and M.G. Allen, \"A High Performance Surface-Micromachined Elevated Patch Antenna,\" IEEE AP-S International Symposium and USNC/URSI National Raid Science Meeting, July 2005. (PDF)\nS.O. Choi, J.H. Park, Y. Choi, Y. Kim, H.S. Gill, Y.K. Yoon, M.R. Prausnitz and M.G. Allen, \"An electrically active microneedle array for electroporation of skin for gene delivery,\" 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems (Transducers '05), June 2005. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, B. Pan, M.M. Tentzeris, J. Papapolymerou, and M.G. Allen, \"Surface-Micromachined Millimeter-Wave Antennas,\" 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems (Transducers 05), vol. 1, p 1986-1989, June 2005. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, I. Zana, J.-W. Park, S. Das, Y.-H. Joung, D. Veazie, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"High-speed characterization and mechanical modeling of microscale, axial-flux, permanent-magnet generators,\" 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems (Transducers '05), vol. 1, p 701-704, June 2005. (PDF)\nY. Choi, S. Choi, R.H. Shafer, and M.G. Allen, \"Highly inclined electrodeposited metal lines using an excimer laser patterning technique,\" 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators, and Microsystems (Transducers '05), June 2005. (PDF)\nW. Martanto, Y. Choi, Y. Joung, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Side-opening hollow microneedles for transdermal drug delivery,\" 32nd Annual Meeting of the Controlled Release Society (CRS), June 2005. (PDF)\nS.O. Choi, J.H. Park, Y. Kim, H.S. Gill, Y. Choi, M.G. Allen and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Microneedle electrode array for electroporation of skin for gene therapy,\" 32nd Annual Meeting & Exposition of the Controlled Release Society (CRS), 2005. (PDF)\nB. Pan, Y.-K. Yoon, Y. Zhao, J. Papapolymerou, M.M. Tentzeris, and M.G. Allen, \"A broadband surface-micromachined 15-45 GHz microstrip coupler,\" IEEE International Microwave Symposium, June 2005. (PDF)\nG. Yuan, X. Wu, Y.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"Kinematically-stabilized microbubble actuator arrays,\" 18th IEEE International Conference on MicroElectro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2005), p 411-414, Jan. 2005.(PDF)\nS. Das, D.P. Arnold, I. Zana, J.-W. Park, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"Multi-watt electric power from a microfabricated permanent-magnet generator,\" 18th IEEE International Conference on MicroElectro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2005), p 287-290, Jan. 2005. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, \"Micromachined endovascularly-implantable wireless pressure sensors: From concept to clinic,\" 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers \u201905), p 275-278, 2005. (PDF)\nC. Courcimault, and M.G. Allen, \"High-Q mechanical tuning of MEMS resonators using a metal deposition-annealing technique,\" 13th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers \u201905), p 875-878, 2005. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, F. Cros, I. Zana, D. Veazie, and M.G. Allen, \"Electroplated metal microstructures embedded in fusion-bonded silicon: conductors and magnetic materials,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 13, no. 5, p 791- 798, Oct. 2004. (PDF)\nSung-Pil Chang, and M.G. Allen, \"Demonstration for integrating capacitive pressure sensors with read-out circuitry on stainless steel substrate,\" Sensors and Actuators A (Physical), v A116, n 2, 15 Oct. 2004, p 195-204. (PDF)\nS.P. Davis, B.J. Landis, Z.H. Adams, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Insertion of microneedles into skin: measurement and prediction of insertion force and needle fracture force,\" Journal of Biomechanics, v 37, n 8, p 1155-63, Aug. 2004. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, I. Zana, F. Cros, and M.G. Allen, \"Vertically-laminated magnetic cores by electroplating Ni-Fe into micromachined Si,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnectics, v 40, no. 4, p 3060-3062, July 2004. (PDF)\nJ.-W. Park, F. Cros, and M.G. Allen, \"Planar spiral inductors with multilayer micrometer-scale laminated cores for compact-packaging power converter applications,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, v 40, no. 4, July 2004. (PDF)\nT.C. Leichle, M. Von Arx, S. Reiman, I. Zana, W. Ye, and M.G. Allen, \"A low-power resonant micromachined compass,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 14, n 4, p 462-70, April 2004. (PDF)\nS.-P. Chang, and M.G. Allen, \"Capacitive pressure sensors with stainless steel diaphragm and substrate,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 14, n 4, p 612-18, Apr. 2004. (PDF)\nH.H. DiBiaso, B.A. English, and M.G. Allen, \"Solid-phase conductive fuels for chemical microactuators,\" Sensors and Actuators A (Physical), v A111, n 2-3, p 260-6, March 2004,. (PDF)\nS.A. Jacobson, S. Das, N. Savoulides, J.L. Steyn, J.H. Lang, H.Q. Li, C. Livermore, M.A. Schmidt, C.J. Teo, S.D. Umans, A.H. Epstein, D.P. Arnold, J.-W. Park, I. Zana, and M.G. Allen, \"Progress toward a microfabricated gas turbine generator for soldier portable power applications,\" 24th Army Science Conference, Nov. 2004. (PDF)\nE. Birdsell, J. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Wireless ceramic sensors operating in high temperature environments,\" 40th AIAA Joint Propulsion Conference, July 2004. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, S. Das, F. Cros, I. Zana, J.H. Lang, and M.G. Allen, \"Magnetic induction machines embedded in fusion-bonded silicon,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and MicrosystemsWorkshop (Hilton Head), p 129-132, June 2004. (PDF)\nY. Choi, S. Choi, R. Powers, and M.G. Allen, \"Three-dimensional tower structures with integrated cross-connects for 3-D culturing of neurons,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and MicrosystemsWorkshop (Hilton Head), June 2004. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, B. Pan, P. Kirby, J. Papapolymerou, M.M. Tentzeris, and M.G. Allen, \"Surface micromachined electromagnetically radiating RF MEMS,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and MicrosystemsWorkshop (Hilton Head), June 2004. (PDF)\nI. Zana, D.P. Arnold, and M.G. Allen, \"Large volume, high performance electroplated Co-Pt micromagnets for MEMS applications,\" 205th Meeting Electrochemical Society, May 2004. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, F. Cros, I. Zana, M.G. Allen, S. Das, and J.h. Lang, \"Second-generation, silicon-based magnetic induction machines for microengine power generation,\" Army Research Lab Collaborative Technology Alliances Conference, May 2004.\nChoi, S.O., Yoon, Y.K., M.G. Allen, Hunt, A.T., \"A tunable capacitor using an immiscible bifluidic dielectric,\" IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, pt. 2, p 873-6, 2004. (PDF)\nB. Pan, Y, Yoon, P. Kirby, J. Papapolymerou, M.M. Tentzeris, and M.G. Allen, \"A W-band surface micromachined monopole for low-cost wireless communication systems,\" IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, 2004. (PDF)\nJ.-H. Park, M.G. Allen, Prausnitz, M.R., \"Biodegradable polymer microneedles: fabrication, mechanics and transdermal drug delivery,\" 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, pt. 4, p 2654-7, 2004. (PDF)\nY. Zhao, B.A. English, Y. Choi, H. DiBiaso, Y. Guang, and M.G. Allen, \"Polymeric microcombustors for solid-phase conductive fuels,\" 17th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 498-501, 2004. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, I. Zana, F. Cros, and M.G. Allen, \"Vertically-laminated magnetic cores by electroplating Ni-Fe into micromachined Si,\" 9th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference, Jan. 2004. (PDF)\nJ.-H. Park, Y.-K. Yoon, M.R. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"High-aspect-ratio tapered structures using an integrated lens technique,\" 17th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 383-6, 2004. (PDF)\nS.J. Hong, S. Choi, Y. Choi, M.G. Allen, and G.S. May \"Characterization of low-temperature SU-8 photoresist processing for MEMS applications,\" ASMC Conference, 2004. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, D. Kim, M.G. Allen, J.S. Kenney, and A.T. Hunt, \"A reduced intermodulation distortion tunable ferroelectric capacitor-architecture and demonstration,\" IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, v 51, n 12, p 2568-76, Dec. 2003. (PDF)\nJ.-W. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Ultra low-profile micromachined power Inductors with highly laminated Ni/Fe cores: Application to low-megahertz DC-DC converters,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnectics, vol. 39, no. 5, p 3184-3186, Sept. 2003. (PDF)\nD. Kim, Y. Choi, M. Ahn, M.G. Allen, and J.S. Kenney, \"Monolithic 180\u00b0 and 360\u00b0 analog phase shifters based on barium strontium titanate coated sapphire substrates,\" IEICE Transactions on Electronics, v E86-C, n 8, p 1607-12, Aug. 2003.\nD.S. Kercher, J.-B. Lee; O. Brand, M.G. Allen, and A. Glezer, \"Microjet cooling devices for thermal management of electronics,\" IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, v 26, n 2, p 359-66, June 2003. (PDF)\nT.J. Kaiser, and M.G. Allen, \"A pendulous oscillating gyroscopic accelerometer fabricated using deep-reactive ion etching,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, v 12, n 1, p 21-8, Feb. 2003. (PDF)\nB.A.English, H. Hude, and M.G. Allen, \"Microcombustors based on controllable solid fuel elements,\" ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition, paper number IMECE2003-42823, Nov. 2003. (PDF)\nY. Choi, R. Powers, V. Vernekar, A.B. Frazier, M.C. LaPlaca, and M.G. Allen, \"High aspect ratio SU-8 structures for 3-D culturing of neurons,\" ASME International Mechanical Engineering Conference and Exposition paper number IMECE2003-42794, Nov. 2003. (PDF)\nD.P. Arnold, F. Cros, T. Glover, M.G. Allen, K. Hillman, and D. Veazie, \"Materials and fabrication methods for high-temperature micro-magnetic machines for micro-turbine power generation,\" Army Research Lab Collaborative Technology Alliances Conference, p 77-81, Apr. 2003. (PDF)\nF. Cros, D.P. Arnold, M.G. Allen, S. Das, H. Koser, and J.H. Lang, \"Micro-magnetic induction machines for portable power applications,\" Army Research Lab Collaborative Technology Alliances Conference, p 17-21, Apr. 2003. (PDF)\nH. Koser, F. Cros, M.G. Allen, and J.H. Lang, \"Magnetic diffusion modeling in nonlinear micro-media: a modified finite-difference time-domain approach,\" Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show (Nanotech 2003), v 1, p 280-3, 2003.\nC.G. Courcimault, D.S. Kercher, and M.G. Allen, \"Microsystems for the fabrication of nano-scale structures,\" 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS '03), v 1, p 730-3, 2003. (PDF)\nDavis, S.P., Prausnitz, M.R.; M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication and characterization of laser micromachined hollow microneedles,\" 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS '03), v 2, p 1435-8, 2003. (PDF)\nH.-S. Noh, Y. Choi; C.-F, Wu, P.J. Hesketh, and M.G. Allen, \"Rapid, low-cost fabrication of parylene microchannels for microfluidic applications,\" 12th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS '03), v 1, p 798-801, 2003. (PDF)\nY. Choi, R. Powers, Y. Yoon, M.G. Allen, \"A three-dimensional microfluidic network for cellular perfusion,\" 7th International Conference on Miniaturized Chemical and BioChemical Analysis Systems (microTAS), Oct. 2003. (PDF)\nJ. Ross, G. Prado, Y. Choi, M.G. Allen, M.C. LaPlaca, and S. DeWeerth, \"A novel system for measurement of electrophysiological signals associated with traumatic neuronal injury,\" 7th International Conference on Miniaturized Chemical and BioChemical Analysis Systems (microTAS), Oct. 2003. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, R. Powers, Y. Choi, C. Courcimault, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined polymeric microvasculatures: A three-dimensional microfluidic system using inclined SU-8 structures and laser machining,\" 226th American Chemical Society National Meeting, September 2003. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, \"MEMS technology for the fabrication of RF magnetic components,\" International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG), p FC-05, 2003. (PDF)\nJ.-W. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Ultra-low-profile micromachined power inductors with highly laminated NiFe cores: application to low MHz DC-DC converters,\" International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG), p EA-04, 2003. (PDF)\nY.-H. Joung, and M.G. Allen, \"High density electroplating bonding interconnect technology: chip packaging and high aspect ratio passive elements,\" 53rd Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), p 640-6, 2003. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"Tunable ferroelectric capacitor with low-loss electrodes fabricated using reverse side exposure,\" 53rd Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), p 1534-40, 2003. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, J.-H. Park, F. Cros, and M.G. Allen, \"Integrated vertical screen microfilter system using inclined SU-8 structures,\" 16th Annual International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 227-30, 2003. (PDF)\nJ.-H. Park, S. Davis, Y.-K. Yoon, M.R. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined biodegradable microstructures,\" 16th Annual International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 371-4, 2003. (PDF)\nT.C. Leichle, W. Ye, and M.G. Allen, \"A sub-\u03bcW micromachined magnetic compass,\" 16th Annual International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 514-17, 2003. (PDF)\nS. Pinel, F. Cros, S. Nuttinck, S.-W. Yoon, M.G. Allen, and J. Laskar, \"Very high-Q inductors using RF-MEMS technology for System-On-Package wireless communication integrated module,\" IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, v 3, p 1497-500, 2003. (PDF)\nD. Kim, Y. Choi, M.G. Allen, J.S. Kenney, and D. Kiesling, \"A wide-band reflection-type phase shifter at S-band using BST coated substrate\" IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, v. 50, issue 12, Page(s):2903\u20132909, Dec. 2002. (PDF)\nJ.W. Park, J. Park, Y.-H. Joung, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication of high current and low profile micromachined inductor with laminated Ni/Fe core,\" IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 106-111, 2002. (PDF)\nM.A. Fonseca, J.M. English, M. von Arx, and M.G. Allen, \"Wireless micromachined ceramic pressure sensor for high temperature applications,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 11, no.4, p. 337-43, 2002. (PDF)\nS.P. Chang, J.B. Lee, and M.G. Allen, \"A robust capacitive pressure sensor array,\" Sensors and Actuators A (Physical), vol. A101, no. 1-2, p. 231-8, 2002. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, J.-W. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"RF MEMS based on epoxy-core conductors,\" Solid-State Sensor, Actuator, and Microsystems Workshop, (Hilton Head), p374-375, 2002. (PDF)\nD. Kim, Y. Choi, M.G. Allen, J.S. Kenney, D.W. Stollberg, and D. Kiesling, \"An S-band reflection-type phase shifter-a design example using ferroelectrics,\" Materials Issues for Tunable RF and Microwave Devices III. Materials Research Society Symposium, vol.720, p 154-9, 2002.\nS.P. Davis, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"The mechanics of microneedles,\" Second Joint EMBS-BMES Conference, pt. 1, p 498-9, v 1, 2002.\nY.-H. Joung, S. Nuttinck, S.-W. Yoon, M.G. Allen, and J. Laskar, \"Integrated inductors in the chip-to-board interconnect layer fabricated using solderless electroplating bonding,\" IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, p.1409-12, v 3, 2002. (PDF)\nD. Kim, Y. Choi, M.G. Allen, J.S. Kenney, and D. Kiesling, \"A wide bandwidth monolithic BST reflection-type phase shifter using a coplanar waveguide Lange coupler,\" IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, p.1471-4, v 3, 2002. (PDF)\nY. Choi, K. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Continuously-varying, three-dimensional SU-8 structures: fabrication of inclined magnetic actuators,\" 15th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p.176-9, 2002. (PDF)\nJ.-W. Park, F. Cros, and M.G. Allen, \"A sacrificial layer approach to highly laminated magnetic cores,\" 15th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p.380-3, 2002. (PDF)\nT. Crittenden, A. Glezer, E. Birdsell, and M.G. Allen, \"Microfabricated, combustion-driven jet actuators for flow control applications,\" 2002. (PDF)\nP. Seriburi, D. Kercher, and M.G. Allen, \"An experimental study of microfabricated spark gaps: wear and erosion characteristics,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, v 11, n 3, p 165-74, May 2001. (PDF)\nY. Choi, K. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"A magnetically actuated, electrostatically clamped high current MEMS switch,\" ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, p 83-7, 2001.\nM.A. Fonseca, J.M. English, M. von Arx, and M.G. Allen, \"High temperature characterization of ceramic pressure sensors,\" 11th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (TRANSDUCERS '01), v 1, p 486-9, 2001. (PDF)\nC. Marquordt, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication of micromechanical structures of titania and titanium with electrophoretic deposition,\" 11th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (TRANSDUCERS '01), v 1, p 616-19, 2001. (PDF)\nH. Koser, F. Cros, M.G. Allen, and J.H. Lang, \"A high torque density MEMS magnetic induction machine,\" 11th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (TRANSDUCERS '01), v 1, p 284-7, 2001. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, E. Chen, M.G. Allen, and J. Laskar, \"Embedded solenoid inductors for RF CMOS power amplifiers,\" 11th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors and Actuators (TRANSDUCERS '01), v 2, p 1114-17, 2001. (PDF)\nT.C. Leichle, M. von Arx, and M.G. Allen, \"A micromachined resonant magnetic field sensor,\" 14th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 274-7, 2001. (PDF)\nD.P. O'Brien, T.R. Nichols, and M.G. Allen, \"Flexible microelectrode arrays with integrated insertion devices,\" 14th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p 216-19, 2001. (PDF)\nY.-K. Yoon, and M.G. Allen, \"Pt heater/sensor microarray for distributed fluidic cooling assessment,\" ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, p 669-75, 2001. (PDF)\nY.-H. Joung, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined flexible interconnect for wafer level packaging,\" ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, p 745-9, 2001. (PDF)\nY.E. Chen, Y.-K. Yoon, J. Laskar, and M.G. Allen, \"A 2.4GHz integrated CMOS power amplifier with micromachined inductors,\" International microwave symposium digest (IEEE MTT-s), v 1, p 523-526, 2001. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Integrated electroplated micromachined magnetic devices using low temperature fabrication processes,\" IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging Manufacturing, vol. 23, no. 1, p. 48-55 ,2000. (PDF)\nS.K. Bhattacharya, J.Y. Park, R.R. Tummala, and M.G. Allen, \"Fabrication of a fully integrated passive module for filter application using MCM-D compatible processes,\" Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, vol.11, no.6, p.455-60 ,2000. (PDF)\nD.V. McAllister, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Microfabricated microneedles for gene and drug delivery,\" Annual Review of Biomedical Engineering, vol. 2, p. 289-313, 2000. (PDF)\nP. Seriburi, D. Kercher, and M.G. Allen, \"An experimental study of microfabricated spark gaps: Wear and erosion characteristics,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 2000. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, and A. Glezer, \"Alternative micromachining technologies for the realization of robust MEMS,\" American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), paper 2000-0248, Jan. 2000 (invited address). (PDF)\nC.C. Chung, and M.G. Allen, \"Electrical isolation of bulk silicon MEMS devices via thermomigration,\" IEEE Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p.153-7, Jan. 2000. (PDF)\nF. Cros, K. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"A single-mask process for micromachined magnetic devices,\" Solid-State Sensor and Actuator Conference (Hilton Head), p. 138-141, June 2000. (PDF)\nT.J. Kaiser, and M.G. Allen, \"A micromachined pendulous oscillating gyroscopic accelerometer,\" Solid State Sensor and Actuator Conference (Hilton Head), p. 85-88, June 2000. (PDF)\nL.K. Lagorce, O. Brand, and M.G. Allen, \"Magnetic microactuators based on polymer magnets,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol.8, no.1, p.2-9, March 1999. (PDF)\nW.P. Taylor, M. Schneider, H. Baltes, and M.G. Allen, \"A NiFeMo electroplating bath for micromachined structures,\" Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, vol.2, no.12, p.624-6, 1999. (PDF)\nY.J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"In situ measurement of mechanical properties of polyimide films using micromachined resonant string structures,\" IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, vol.22, no.2, p.282-90, 1999. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, S.H. Han, and M.G. Allen, \"Batch-fabricated microinductors with electroplated magnetically anisotropic and laminated alloy cores,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol.35, no.5, pt.3, p.4291-4300, 1999. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Packaging-Compatible High Q-Microinductors and Microfilters for Wireless Applications,\" IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology (IEEE CPMT-part B), 1999. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"High Q spiral-type microinductors on silicon substrates,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol.35, no.5, pt.2, p.3544-6 (1999) (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"New micromachined inductors on silicon substrates,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, v 35, n 5, pt.2, Sept. 1999, p 3547-9. (PDF)\nD.V. McAllister, S. Kaushik, P.N. Patel, J.L. Mayberry, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Microneedles for transdermal delivery of macromolecules,\" 1st Joint BMES/EMBS Conference, vol. 2, p. 836, 1999. (PDF)\nD.V. McAllister, F. Cros, S.P. Davis, L.M. Matta, M.R. Prausnitz, and M.G. Allen, \"Three dimensional hollow microneedle and microtube arrays,\", Transducers \u201999, vol. 2, p. 1098-1101 (1999) (PDF)\nJ.M. English, and M.G. Allen, \"Wireless micromachined ceramic pressure sensors,\" 12th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), p.511-16, 1999. (PDF)\nD.S. Kercher, P. Seriburi, and M.G. Allen , \"An experimental study of microfabricated nickel spark plugs,\" Transducers \u201999, vol. 2, p. 1412-1415, 1999. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined inductors with electroplated magnetically anisotropic alloy cores,\" 5th International Symposium on Magnetic Materials, Processes, and Devices Applications to Storage and Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS), p 389-401, 1999.\nW.P. Taylor, O. Brand, and M.G. Allen, \"Fully integrated magnetically actuated micromachined relays,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 7, no.2, p 181-191, 1998. (PDF)\nY.J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Surface micromachined solenoid inductors for high frequency applications,\" IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Technology, Part C (Manufacturing), vol. 21, no. 1, p 26-33, 1998. (PDF)\nP. Chahal, R.R. Tummala, M.G. Allen, and M. Swaminathan, \"A novel integrated decoupling capacitor for MCM-L technology,\" IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, Part B: Advanced Packaging, vol. 21, no. 2, p184-193, 1998. (PDF)\nS. Henry, D.V. McAllister, M.G. Allen, and M.R. Prausnitz, \"Microfabricated microneedles: A novel approach to transdermal drug delivery,\" Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 87, no. 8, p 922-925, 1998. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Development of magnetic materials and processing techniques applicable to integrated micromagnetic devices,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Dec. 1998. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Packaging-compatible microinductors and microtransformers with screen-printed ferrite using low temperature processes,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol.34, no.4, pt.1, p.1366-8, 1998. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen \"Micromachined planar inductors on silicon wafers for MEMS applications,\" IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol.45, no.6, p.866-76, 1998. (PDF)\nP. Chahal, R.R. Tummala, M.G. Allen; G.E. White, \"Electroless Ni-P/Ni-W-P thin-film resistors for MCM-L based technologies,\" 48th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), p 232-239, 1998. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, W.P. Taylor, and K. Kim, \"Integrated magnetic microrelays: multiple device configurations,\" National Association of Relay Manufacturers, Apr. 1998.\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Electroplated and screen-printed magnetic materials applicable to micromachined magnetic devices,\" Micromachining & Microfabrication '98 Conference, SPIE, vol. 3512, p 154-167, 1998.\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined high Q inductors for high frequency applications,\" Micromachining & Microfabrication '98 Conference, SPIE, vol. 3514, p 218-228, 1998. (PDF)\nS.P. Chang, J.B. Lee, and M.G. Allen, \"A robust 8x8 capacitive pressure sensor array,\" American Society of Mechanical Engineers Winter Annual Meeting, p. 513-517, 1998. (PDF)\nV. Agarwal, P. Chahal, R.R. Tummala, and M.G. Allen, \"Improvements and recent advances in nanocomposite capacitors using a colloidal technique,\" 48th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), p 165-70, 1998. (PDF)\nY.-J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Integrated solenoid-type inductors for high frequency applications and their characteristics,\" 48th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), p 1247-52, 1998. (PDF)\nJ.B. Lee, J.M. English, C.-H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"Planarization techniques for vertically integrated metallic MEMS on silicon foundry circuits,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 7, no. 2, p 44-54, 1997. (PDF)\nL.K. Lagorce, and M.G. Allen, \"Magnetic and mechanical properties of micromachined strontium ferrite/polyimide composites,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 6, no. 4, p 307-312, 1997. (PDF)\nA.B. Frazier, and M.G. Allen, \"Uses of electroplated aluminum for the development of microstructures and micromachining processes,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, p 91-98, 1997. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, L.K. Lagorce, and M.G. Allen, \"Ferrite-based integrated planar inductors and transformers fabricated at low temperature,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 33, no.5, pt. 1, p 3322-3324, 1997. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, \"Micromachined intermediate and high frequency inductors,\" IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), p 2829-32, vol.4, 1997. (PDF)\nO. Brand, J.M. English, S.A. Bidstrup, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined viscosity sensor for real-time polymerization monitoring,\" 9th International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '97), p 121-124, vol. 1, June 1997. (PDF)\nW.P. Taylor, and M.G. Allen, \"Integrated magnetic microrelays: Normally open, normally closed, and multi-pole devices,\" 9th International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '97), p 1149-1152, vol.2, June 1997. (PDF)\nW.P. Taylor, M. Schneider, H. Baltes, and M.G. Allen, \"Electroplated soft magnetic materials for microsensors and microactuators,\" 9th International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '97), p 1445-8, vol. 2, June 1997. (PDF)\nW.P. Taylor, C.R. Dauwalter, and M.G. Allen, \"Fully integrated magnetically actuated microrelays,\" National Association of Relay Manufacturers, Apr. 1997.\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"Low temperature fabrication and characterization of integrated packaging-compatible, ferrite-core magnetic devices,\" IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), p 361-367, vol. 1, Feb. 1997. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, S. Bhattacharya, and M.G. Allen, \"Fully integrated passives modules for filter applications using low temperature processes,\" International Symposium on Microelectronics, SPIE, vol. 3235, p 592-597, Oct. 1997. (PDF)\nY.J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Surface micromachined solenoid inductors for high frequency applications,\" International Symposium on Microelectronics, SPIE, vol. 3235, p 1-6, Oct. 1997. (PDF)\nC. Carter-Coman, A.S. Brown, R. Bicknell-Tassius, N.M. Jokerst, and M.G. Allen, \"Strain-modulated epitaxy: A flexible approach to 3-D band structure engineering without surface patterning,\" Applied Physics Letters, vol. 69, no. 2 p 257-259, 1996. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"A comparison of two micromachined inductors (bar- and meander-type) for fully integrated boost DC/DC power converters,\" IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol. 11, no. 2, p 239-245, 1996. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, M.G. Allen, W. Trimmer, Y.-N. Jun, and S. Erramilli, \"A fully integrated micromachined magnetic particle separator,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 5, no. 3, p 151-158, 1996. (PDF)\nZ. Nami, C.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"An energy-based design criterion for magnetic microactuators,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 6, no. 3, p 337-44, 1996. (PDF)\nJ.B. Lee, M.G. Allen, T.C. Hodge, S.A. Bidstrup, and P.A. Kohl, \"Modeling of substrate-induced anisotropy in through-plane thermal behavior of polymeric thin films,\" Journal of Polymer Science, Part B (Polymer Physics), vol. 34, no. 9, p 1591-6, 1996. (PDF)\nY. Konaka, Y. and M.G. Allen, \"Single and multilayer electroplated microaccelerometers,\" IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop, p168-173, Feb. 1996. (PDF)\nL.K. Lagorce, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined polymer magnets,\" IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop, p 85-90, Feb. 1996. (PDF)\nL.K. Lagorce, and M.G. Allen, \"Ferrite filled polymers for integrated power conversion devices,\" International Symposium on Microelectronics, SPIE, vol. 2920, p 176-180, Oct. 1996. (PDF)\nW.P. Taylor, M.G. Allen, and C.R. Dauwalter, \"A fully integrated magnetically actuated micromachined relay,\" Solid State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head), p 231-234, June 1996. (PDF)\nP. Chahal, R.R. Tummala, M.G. Allen, and M. Swaminathan, \"A novel integrated decoupling capacitor for MCM-L technology,\" 46th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), p 125-132, May 1996. (PDF)\nP. Chahal, R.R. Tummala, and M.G. Allen, \"Integrated capacitors using polymer-ceramic Ccomponents for MCM-L,\" International Symposium on Microelectronics, SPIE, vol. 2920, p 126-131, Oct. 1996. (PDF)\nM. Baker, O. Brand, M.G. Allen, and G.S. May, \"A Micromachined sensor for in-situ monitoring of plasma etching,\" 54th Device Research Conference, p 120-121, June 1996. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"A comparison of micromachined inductors with different magnetic core materials,\" 46th Electronic Components and Technology Conference (ECTC), p 120-125, May 1996. (PDF)\nJ.Y. Park, and M.G. Allen, \"High current integrated microinductors and microtransformers using low temperature fabrication processes,\" International Symposium on Microelectronics, SPIE, vol. 2920, p 120-125, Oct. 1996. (PDF)\nJ.B. Lee, Z. Chen, M.G. Allen, A. Rohatgi, and R. Arya, \"A miniaturized high-voltage solar cell array as an electrostatic MEMS power supply,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 4, no. 3,p 102-108, 1995. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, \"Integrated inductors for low cost electronic packages\", International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), p 137-141, Dec. 1995.(invited address to Novel Technologies and Opportunities Symposium of IEDM). (PDF)\nM. Schneider, R. Castagnetti, M.G. Allen, H. and Baltes, \"Integrated flux concentrator improves CMOS magnetotransistors,\" IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop (MEMS), p 151-156, 1995. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"Fluid micropumps based on rotary magnetic actuators,\" IEEE Microelectromechanical Sstems Workshop (MEMS), p 408-412, 1995. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"Micromachined planar inductors with electroplated nickel-iron permalloy cores (spiral type, solenoid type, and toroidal-meander type),\" 4th International Symposium on Magnetic Materials, Processes, and Devices (Electrochemical Society Fall Meeting), p 411-425, Oct. 1995. (PDF)\nD.J. Coe, M.G. Allen, B.L. Smith, and A. Glezer, \"Addressable micromachined jet arrays,\" 8th International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '95), vol. 2, p 329-332, June 1995.\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"New toroidal-meander-type integrated inductor with a multilevel meander magnetic core,\" IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 30, no. 1, p 73-79, 1994. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, Y.J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"A fully integrated planar toroidal inductor with a micromachined nickel-iron magnetic bar,\" IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology, Part A, vol. 17, no. 3, p 463-469, 1994. (PDF)\nA.B. Frazier, C.S. Olson, S.P. Turner, and M.G. Allen, \"Characterization of graphite-filled polyimide thin films using micromachining techniques,\" International Journal of Microcircuits and Electronic Packaging, vol. 17, no. 1, p 37-49, 1994.\nA.B. Frazier, C.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"Development of micromachined devices using polyimide-based processes,\" Sensors and Actuators A (Physical), vol. A45, no. 1, p 47-55, 1994. (PDF)\nS.T. Wilkinson, Y.W. Kim, N.M. Jokerst, and M.G. Allen, \"Integration of thin film optoelectronic devices onto micromachined movable platforms,\" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 6, no. 9, p 1115-1118, 1994. (PDF)\nA.B. Frazier, R.M. Powers, and M.G. Allen, \"Thin film programmable arrays,\" MEMS\u201904. (PDF)\nS.A. Bidstrup, T.C. Hodge, L. Linn, P.A. Kohl, J.B. Lee and M.G. Allen, \"Anisotropy in thermal, electrical and mechanical properties of spin-coated polymer dielectrics,\" Materials Research Society Symposium, no. 338, p 577-587, 1994. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, \"Design, fabrication, and application of magnetic microactuators,\" 5th International Symposium on Micro Machine and Human Science, p.5, Oct. 1994. (invited plenary address). (PDF)\nC. Chung, and M.G. Allen, \"Measurement of mechanical properties of electroplated nickel-iron alloys,\" American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, vol. 55, p 453-457, 1996.\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"A comparison of two micromachined inductors (bar-type and meander-type) for fully integrated boost DC/DC power converters,\" IEEE 9th Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC), vol. 1, p 10-16, Feb. 1994. (invited plenary address) (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"A fully integrated micromachined magnetic particle manipulator and separator,\" IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop, p 91-96, 1994. (PDF)\nJ.B. Lee, Z. Chen, M.G. Allen, A. Rohatgi, and R. Arya, \"A high voltage solar cell array as an electrostatic MEMS power supply,\" IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop, p 331-336, 1994. (PDF)\nD. Coe, M.A. Trautman, M.G. Allen, and A. Glezer, \"Micromachined jets for manipulation of macro flows,\" Solid State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head), p 243-247, 1994.\nY. Wang, S. Fike, M.G. Allen, and N.M. Jokerst, \"Measurement of adhesion of GaAs thin films using the blister test,\" Annual Meeting of the Adhesion Society, Feb. 1994.\nT.C. Hodge, S.A. Bidstrup, P.A. Kohl, J.B. Lee, and M.G. Allen, \"An in-situ measurement technique for through-plane thermal properties of thin dielectric films,\" International Conference and Exhibition on Multichip Modules, SPIE, vol. 2256, p 344-349, 1994. (PDF)\nT.C. Hodge, P.A. Kohl, S.A. Bidstrup, J.B. Lee, and M.G. Allen, \"In-situ thermal expansion measurements of interlevel dielectric polymer films,\" 5th International Conference on Polyimide Films, Nov. 1994.\nA.B. Frazier, and M.G. Allen, \"Piezoresistive graphite/polyimide thin gilms for micromachining applications,\" Journal of Applied Physics, v 73, p 4428-4433, 1993. (PDF)\nA.B. Frazier, and M.G. Allen, \"Metallic microstructures fabricated using photosensitive polyimide rlectroplating molds,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 2, no. 2, p 87-94, 1993.(PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"A planar micromachined spiral inductor for integrated magnetic microactuator applications,\" Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, vol. 3, no. 2, p 37-44, 1993. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"A fully integrated surface micromachined magnetic microactuator with a multilevel meander magnetic core,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 2, no. 1, p 15-22, 1993. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, Y.J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"A planar variable reluctance magnetic micromotor with fully integrated stator and coils,\" Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, vol. 2, no. 4, p 165-73, 1993. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, \"Polyimide-based processes for the fabrication of thick electroplated microstructures,\" 7th International Conference On Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '93), p 60-65, June 1993. (PDF)\nZ. Nami, C.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"Magnetic analysis of an overlapped cantilever beam using finite elements,\" American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, vol. 46, p 1-6, 1993.\nC.H. Ahn, Y.J. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"A planar variable reluctance micromotor with fully integrated stator and wrapped Coils,\" IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop (MEMS), p 1-6, Feb. 1993. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"A fully integrated micromachined toroidal inductor with a nickel-iron magnetic core,\" 7th International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '93), p 70-73, June 1993. (PDF)\nB. Rashidian, and M.G. Allen, \"Electrothermal microactuators based on dielectric loss heating,\" IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop (MEMS), p 24-29, Feb. 1993. (PDF)\nA.B. Frazier, D. O'Brien, and M.G. Allen, \"Two dimensional metallic microelectrode arrays for recording and stimulation of neurons,\"IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop (MEMS), p 195-200, Feb. 1993. (PDF)\nS. Wilkinson, Y.W. Kim, M.G. Allen, and N.M. Jokerst, \"Integration of thin film compound semiconductor photonic devices onto micromachined movable platforms,\" 7th International Conference on Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '93), p 148-151, June 1993. (PDF)\nS> Wilkinson, Y. Kim, N.M. Jokerst, and M.G. Allen, \"Integration of thin film devices onto micromachined movable platforms,\" IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society Annual Meeting, p 98-99, Nov. 1993. (PDF)\nY.W. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Single and multilayer surface micromachined platforms using electroplated sacrificial layers,\" Sensors and Actuators, A35, p 61-68, 1992. (PDF)\nC. Camperi-Ginestet, Y.W. Kim, N.M. Jokerst, M.G. Allen, and M. Brooke, \"Vertical electrical interconnection of compound semiconductor thin-film devices to underlying silicon circuitry,\" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 4, no. 9, p 1003-6, 1992. (PDF)\nA.B. Frazier, M.R. Kahn, and M.G. Allen, \"Mechanical and piezoresistive properties of graphite-filled polyimide,\" Materials Research Society Symposium Series, no. 317, p 295-301, Apr. 1992.\nA.B. Frazier, and M.G. Allen, \"Mechanical and piezoresistive properties of graphite-filled polyimide for hybrid micromachined systems,\" International Symposium on Microelectronics, SPIE, vol. 1847, p41-46, Oct. 1992. (PDF)\nC. Camperi-Ginestet, N.M. Jokerst, G. Augustine, M. Hargis, and M.G. Allen, \"Alignable deposition of thin film semiconductor materials for integrated micro-opto-electronic systems,\" Materials Research Society Symposium, no. 317, p 131-136, Apr. 1992. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"A fully integrated micromagnetic actuator with a multilevel meander inductive dore,\" EEE Solid State Sensor and Actuator Workshop (Hilton Head), p 14-18, June 1992. (PDF)\nY.W. Kim, M.G. Allen, and N.F. Hartman, \"Micromechanically based integrated optic modulators and switches,\" SPIE meeting, vol. 1793, p 183-189, Sept. 1992. (PDF)\nCamperi-Ginestet, C., Hargis, M., Jokerst, N., and M.G. Allen, \"Alignable epitaxial liftoff of gallium arsenide materials with selective deposition using polyimide diaphragms,\" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 3, no. 12, p 1123-1125, 1991. (PDF)\nA.B. Frazier, J.W. Babb, M.G. Allen, and D.G. Taylor, \"Design and fabrication of electroplated micromotor structures,\" American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, vol. 32, p 135-148, 1991.\nB. Rashidian, and M.G. Allen, \"Integrated piezoelectric polymers for microsensing and microactuation applications,\" American Society of Mechanical Engineers Dynamic Systems and Control Division, vol. 32, p 171-179, 1991 (PDF)\nY.W. Kim, and M.G. Allen, \"Surface micromachined platforms using electroplated sacrificial layers,\" 6th International Conference On Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '91), p 651-654, June 1991. (PDF)\nC.H. Ahn, and M.G. Allen, \"Measurement of polymer mechanical properties using microfabricated resonant structures,\" American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, vol. 64, 1991. (PDF)\nC. Camperi-Ginestet, M. Hargis, N.M. Jokerst, M.G. Allen, and T. Drabik, \"Alignable epitaxial lift off GaAs materials using polyimide diaphragms,\" Integrated Photonics Research Topical Meeting, vol. 8, p 27-28, Apr. 1991.\nM.G. Allen, A. Nikolich, M. Scheidl, and R.L Smith, \"Movable micromachined silicon plates with integrated position sensing,\" Sensors and Actuators, A21-A23, p 211-214, 1990. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, P. Nagarkar, and S.D. Senturia, \"An XPS analysis of polymide/substrate fracture surfaces,\" Society of Plastics Engineers Annual Technical Conference, vol. 36, May 1990. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, and S.D. Senturia, \"Application of the island blister test for thin film adhesion measurement,\" Journal of Adhesion, vol. 29, p 219-231, 1989. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, M. Scheidl, and R.L. Smith, \"Design and fabrication of movable silicon plates suspended by flexible supports,\"IEEE Microelectromechanical Systems Workshop, p 76-81, Feb. 1989. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, A. Nikolich, M. Scheidl, and R.L. Smith, \"Movable micromachined silicon plates with integrated position sensing,\" 5th International Conference On Solid State Sensors and Actuators (Transducers '89), June 1989. (PDF)\nP.V. Nagarkar, P.C. Searson, F. Belluci, M.G. Allen, and R.M. Latanision, \"Interfacial interactions affecting polyimide reliability,\" 39th Electronic Components Conference, p 160-166, May 1989. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen and S.D. Senturia, \"Analysis of critical debonding pressures of stressed thin films in the blister test,\" Journal of Adhesion, vol. 25, p 303-315, 1988. (PDF)\nF. Maseeh, M.A. Schmidt, M.G. Allen, and S.D. Senturia, \"Calibrated maasurements of elastic limit, modulus, and residual stress of thin films using micromachined suspended membranes,\" IEEE Solid State Sensors Workshop (Hilton Head), p 84-87, June 1988. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen and S.D. Senturia, \"Polyimide-metal adhesion measurement using microfabricated structures,\" Society of Plastics Engineers Annual Technical Conference, vol. 34, p 997-999, April 1988. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen and S.D. Senturia, \"Measurement of polyimide interlayer adhesion using microfabricated structures,\" Symposium on Polymeric Materials for Electronic Packaging of the American Chemical Society, vol. 59, p 352-356, Sept. 1988. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen, M. Mehregany, R.T. Howe, and S.D. Senturia, \"Microfabricated structures for the in-situ measurement of residual stress, Young\u2019s modulus, and ultimate strain of thin films,\" Applied Physics Letters, vol. 51, no. 4, p 241- 244, 1987. (PDF)\nM.G. Allen and S.D. Senturia, \"Microfabricated structures for the measurement of adhesion and mechanical properties of polymer films,\" American Chemical Society Division of Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering, vol. 56, p735-739, Apr. 1987. (PDF)\nM. Mehregany, M.G. Allen, and S.D. Senturia, \"The use of microfabricated structures for the measurement of mechanical properties and adhesion of polymer films,\" IEEE Solid State Sensors Workshop (Hilton Head), p 58-61, June 1986. (PDF)\nT. Hasan, M.G. Allen, and B.S. Cooperman, \"Anhydrotetracycline is a major product of tetracycline photolysis,\" Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 50, no. 10, p 311-313, 1985. (PDF)\n\"MEMS-based fabrication of power electronics compoenents for advanced power converters\" by Galle, William Preston (2012)\n\"Carbon material based microelectromechanical system (MEMS): Fabrication and devices\" by Xu, Wenjun (2011)\n\"Micro-mechanical sensor for the spectral decomposition of acoustic signals\" by Kranz, Michael (2011)\n\"Development and characterization of mechanical actuated microtweezers for use in a single-cell injury model\" by Wester, Brock (2010)\n\"Micro/nanopatterning approaches for molecular manipulation\" by Liu, Zhan (Jennifer) (2010)\n\"MEMS-based nozzles and templates for the fabrication of rngineered tissue constructs\" by Naik, Nisarga (2010)\n\"Elastomer-based microcable electrodes for electrophysiological applications\" by McClain, Maxine (2010)\n\"Micromachined three-dimensional electrode arrays for in-vitro and in-vivo electrogenic cellular networks\" by Rajaraman, Swaminathan (2009)\n\"Microfabricated air-turbine and heat-engine-driven permanent magnet generators\" by Herrault, Florian (2009)\n\"Laminated chemical and physical microjet actuators based on conductive media\" by Gadiraju, Priya (2008)\n\"A reconfigurable tactile display based on polymer MEMS technology\" by Wu, Xiaosong (2008)\n\"A micromachined magnetic field sensor for low power electronic compass applications\" by Choi, Seungkeun (2007)\n\"An electrically active microneedle electroporation array for intracellular delivery of biomolecules\" by Choi, Seong-O (2007)\n\"Polymer/ceramic wireless MEMS pressure sensors for harsh environments: High temperature and biomedical applications\" by Fonseca, Michael A.(2007)\n\"Laminated gas generator actuator arrays\" by English, Brian Alan (2006)\n\"Magnetic machines for microengine power generation\" by Arnold, David Patrick (2004)\n\"Core lamination technology for micromachined power inductive components\" by Park, Jin-Woo (2004)\n\"Micromachined components for RF systems\" by Yoon, Yong-Kyu (2004)\n\"Hollow microneedles for molecular transport across skin\" by Davis, Shawn Paul (2003)\n\"Electroplating bonding technology for chip interconnect, wafer level packaging and interconnect layer structures\" by Joung, Yeun-Ho (2003)\n\"Robust micromachined capacitive pressure sensors for mechanically harsh environments\" by Chang, Sung Pil (2002)\n\"Fabrication technology approaches to micromachined synthetic jets\" by Coe, David James (2002)\n\"Wireless micromachined ceramic pressure sensors for high temperature environments\" by English, Jennifer Marie (2000)\n\"A micromachined pendulous oscillating gyroscopic accelerometer\" by Kaiser, Todd Jeffrey (2000)\n\"Microfabricated needles for transdermal drug delivery\" by McAllister, Devin Vincent (2000)\n\"Micromachined microelectrode arrays for stimulation of neural tissue\" by O'Brien, David Patrick (2000)\n\"Integral resistors and capacitors for mixed-signal packages using electroless plating and polymer-ceramic nanocomposites\" by Chahal, Premjeet (1999)\n\"Application of polymer/metal multilayer processing techniques to microelectromechanical systems\" by Kim, Yong-Jun (1997)\n\"Micromachined movable platforms as integrated optic devices\" by Kim, Young Woon (1997)\n\"Strategies for realization of integrated microelectromechanical systems: On-board power, silicon circuitry, multichip modules\" by Lee, Jeong-Bong (1997)\n\"Packaging-compatible micromachined magnetic devices: Integrated passive components and modules\" by Park, Jae Yeong (1997)\n\"The design and fabrication of fully integrated magnetically actuated micromachined relays\" by Taylor, William Patrick (1997)\n\"Micromachined components as integrated inductors and magnetic microactuators\" by Ahn, Chong-Hyuk (1993)\n\"The use of polyimide for the development of micromachined materials, processes and devices\" by Frazier, Albert Bruno (1993)\n\"Micromachined devices based on polyvinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene\" by Rashidian, Bizhan (1993)\nAll information in these pages is copyrighted. Copyright © 2013 by the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Disclaimer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 614, "original_length": 97971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://miathereader.com/unwiring-7-challenge-continues/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JOKZP7ACSPUQG6FPPARSOYK4B75DJTSS", "length": 7519, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "miathereader.com", "title": "Unwiring Myself: The 7 Challenge Continues \u2013 Mia The Reader", "raw_content": "Hmm\u2026a lot has happened in my 7 Challenge since I last updated. In September I read and reviewed 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen Hatmaker. To read the review or catch up on posts about how the 7 Challenge is going, go here.\nOne of the first things I did in the 7 Challenge was begin a 3 month ban on buying clothing for myself. On December 19th, I successfully reached the end of the ban without buying so much as a hair accessory. It was not that hard, actually, as I found out I was pregnant in the middle of those three months (yay!!!) and there\u2019s not much that\u2019s less fun than buying clothes you know won\u2019t fit in a few months. However, the part that proved to be hard was my hankering for new boots. At the end of last winter, I swore this fall I would buy real leather boots. Well, that decision changed. Yes, sometimes it was a bit humiliating to wear my 3-year-old, peeling pleather boots from Target. I counted that as the \u201cchallenge\u201d part of the clothing challenge. However, I\u2019m afraid I may have been a little too successful in avoiding clothes shopping. Today I set out armed with my Christmas boot money and the intention to find a pair of leather riding boots. I also thought I might check out the purse section of some of the stores. Here\u2019s what I came away with: one pair of boot socks. No boots. What\u2019s worse, I only tried on one pair before saying, \u201cEh, I\u2019m done shopping for today.\u201d Clearly, my shopping endurance needs exercise. (In my defense, I found that I might need to rethink the whole riding boot thing as I have short legs that are made to look shorter by tall boots. I guess I should\u2019ve thought of that before setting my heart on a certain style). In short, the clothing challenge has created a new kind of clothing challenge for me, but it certainly took care of the excess part of my clothing tendencies.\nThe third month of my 7 Challenge came and went without any blog fanfare. In the Stuff segment of the challenge, I planned to get rid of 7 items every day for 30 days. I knew it was a tall order when I started, because as I mentioned before, pack rat I am not. We ended up getting rid of 3-4 things per day for the Possessions month. Not quite the goal, but probably more realistic since we regularly clean out our house. Taking every single item out of our kitchen cabinets in order to paint them definitely helped us get rid of a few things.\nThe hardest part of the stuff challenge was finding somewhere we felt would put our discarded items to good use. I wanted a place that would connect us with people in need or at least give the items we didn\u2019t need straight to someone who did need them. This is really a horrible complaint to make, but why do so many charitable organizations make it so difficult to give to them? I\u2019m sure there are good reasons. I\u2019m just the frustrated donor with two small children and no time to figure it all out. Maybe it was good for me to realize that I am not an angel of mercy if I bring in a few bags of donations to a volunteer-run donations center. My poor little feelings were hurt when the workers there acted as if my donations were more trouble than they were worth. Clearly, I needed to be taken down a few pegs and realize the glow of giving is not the goal, but the change of heart and mind and actually making a difference needs to be the end I strive for. Still, if you work somewhere accepting donations, I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only one who would appreciate a courteous reception. I\u2019m not even talking about a thank you\u2026just don\u2019t yell when the confused donor puts down her things on the wrong pile. There, that\u2019s off my chest. We took most of our things to a local charity, but ended up taking our last load to the convenient and always receptive Goodwill because we needed it out right away the charity wasn\u2019t open. If anyone who lives near me has places they like to give their unneeded household and clothing items to, let me know!\nStarting January 1st, the fourth month of the 7 Challenge will begin. This is the Media month, and I\u2019m actually looking forward to it. I deleted the Facebook app off my phone a few weeks ago because it was too tempting to look at all the time when I was lying around trying not to think about nausea. I still checked it in the web browser, though. However, today I woke up and thought, \u201cI am sick of knowing all this stuff about people.\u201d I mean, I love people, but when did it become imperative to know so many details about the every day lives, likes, and dislikes of mere acquaintances? This is by no means a rant against Facebook, just a personal realization that I really don\u2019t need to check it that often. So the original plan was to only check/post to Facebook at 10am, 2pm, and 9pm, but I\u2019m actually horrified that when I wrote the original plan, I thought that would be cutting back. I think once a day at most is plenty. I\u2019ll only read blogs between 6-7 a.m. or 9-10 p.m. Internet surfing will be an after the kids go to bed thing, except for when I absolutely have to know something like what time Panera Bread closes or is that spider with yellow markings on it poisonous? Finally, I\u2019ll only watch four football games a week. Just kidding! Seriously, this one is hard because I\u2019m married to a guy who loves college football and it\u2019s bowl season. I happen to enjoy it a good bit, myself. Still, I think I can watch just the game our home team is in and the National Championship and call the football season done. I think. As for TV and movies, there\u2019s nothing I can\u2019t live without for a month.\nHere\u2019s where the media challenge will get hard: limiting my children\u2019s media time. They are 2 and 4 years old, and they love \u201cmovie time\u201d more than life itself. I wish that weren\u2019t the case. I try to carefully select their video viewing and limit it to 30-45 minutes a day. In the last two months that I\u2019ve been dealing with frequent all-day morning sickness, this limit has gone by the wayside more often than I like to admit. In January, I\u2019m going to make video watching a privilege and not a right. Maybe an every-other-day privilege. It\u2019s hard to not give in to the lure of the TV babysitter when you\u2019re home all day with the kids, you choose not to send them to preschool, and you are an introvert who needs time to think and be quiet. But I chose all of this (save the introverted personality), and I really do believe we can get to a better place of interactive play and alone times of imaginative play without resorting to Dora and Thomas and that crowd quite so often. I\u2019m pretty sure it will be a painful process, so say a prayer for us in January. =)\nPart of January\u2019s media challenge will be to finally read The Unwired Mom by Sarah Mae. She\u2019s one of my favorite writers and I\u2019m looking forward to her book on getting out of the technology driven lifestyle. If you\u2019re interested in reading it along with me, here\u2019s where to get it. (P.S. It\u2019s only $4.99 right now on your Kindle or as a PDF! P.P.S. I am not affiliated with or even known from Adam by Sarah Mae).\nSo that\u2019s where I am in the 7-month Challenge to Mutiny Against Excess. As the New Year approaches, maybe you can think of some truly realistic goals that would help you to think more about the excess in your life. It\u2019s a pretty wide open subject and can your challenge can look totally different from mine or anyone else\u2019s. I\u2019ve enjoyed mine so far, and hope you\u2019ll think about creating your own.\nPrevious post 2014, Here We Come!\nNext post Progress, Not Perfection: A New Year\u2019s Resolution for the Weary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 11757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2019/01/andrew-sheng-and-xiao-geng-when-will.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DRV6K6FCIVU4GRKWU5E7O55XKU6YTVTG", "length": 2086, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com", "title": "Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng \u2014 When Will China Achieve Quality Growth? ~ Mike Norman Economics", "raw_content": "Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng \u2014 When Will China Achieve Quality Growth?\n\"When will China achieve quality growth?\" Loaded question. China has already achieved quality growth in comparison with pre-revolutionary days before Mao and in particular since the reforms of Deng. The question is really how quickly will China accelerate the rate of quality growth. There are tradeoffs to consider.\nThe challenge the Chinese leadership faces is improving both the economy and increasing the quality of life in China, while also maintaining government control of the commanding heights of the economy, which is necessary for socialism.\nDistribution and quality of life are central goals for socialism, while they are irrelevant for capitalism. Under capitalist regimes distribution has become seriously unequal and quality of life is declining owing to socialization of negative externality.\nThe Chinese economy already suffers from both since liberalizing. Further liberalization is not necessarily the road to socialist success. The Chinese government must also maintain control of the commanding heights, although government control doesn't necessarily imply state ownership.\nThe author fall into the trap of saving causing investment, and if the Chinese leadership makes this mistake and buys into it, it's all over for Chinese socialism. In fact, one wonders if the saving causes investment fallacy is a capitalist ploy to ensure that the ownership class maintains control.\nWhen Will China Achieve Quality Growth?\nAndrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong and a member of the UNEP Advisory Council on Sustainable Finance, former chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, and currently an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing.\nXiao Geng, President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance, professor at Peking University HSBC Business School and at the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Business and Economics\nLabels: Chinese economic policy, Chinese economy, saving causes investment fallacy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 11429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com/2019/01/bill-mitchell-conflicting-concepts-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YCNZG2SVRCF7WLQZDVY2ELJQ7VSGYTGC", "length": 1698, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mikenormaneconomics.blogspot.com", "title": "Bill Mitchell \u2014 The conflicting concepts of cosmopolitan within Europe \u2013 Part 1 ~ Mike Norman Economics", "raw_content": "In the past week, the UK Guardian readers were confronted with the on-going scandal of wealthy British politicians and \u2018peers\u2019 receiving massive European Union subsidies under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The article (January 27, 2019) \u2013 Peers and MPs receiving millions in EU farm subsidies \u2013 recounted the familiar tale \u2013\u201cDozens of MPs and peers, including some with vast inherited wealth, own or manage farms that collectively have received millions of pounds in European Union subsidies\u201d.\nThe story is not new and this scandal is just a reflection of the way in which the development of the European Union has contradicted the idealism that the Europhile Left associate with \u2018Europe\u2019.\nAs an aside, it would be telling, one imagines to map the EU payments (and well-paid job holdings) with Brexit support \u2013 one would conjecture a strong negative correlation.\nThis is a two-or-three part mini-series on the evolution of concepts of \u2018cosmopolitanism\u2019 in the European context. It is part of work I am doing for the next book Thomas Fazi and I hope to publish by the end of the year.\nIn this blog post, I introduce the conflict that is inherent in the European Union, and the way the Europhile Left has been seduced by a concept of cosmopolitanism that bears not relevance in the reality of modern Europe....\nBill branches out widely from MMT to encompass political economy, economic sociology, , economic geography, political theory, the EU and EU politics, the Left (such as it is) and more, exhibiting an awesome command of the material.\nI have added some paragraphing.\nLabels: economic geography, economic sociology, EU, EU politics, Kantianism, MMT, political economy, political theory", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 316, "original_length": 11386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://milestcva.soup.io/post/632769584/Com-If-You-Own-An-Online-Home", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:42Z", "digest": "sha1:W7AUSJHBOBUFNA72LRMVES6BZCSTHDC5", "length": 2158, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "milestcva.soup.io", "title": "Com If You Own An Online Home Business Then You Know That There Are Many Ways To Advertise Your Business. - milestcva's soup", "raw_content": "Com If You Own An Online Home Business Then You Know That There Are Many Ways To Advertise Your Business.\nSo as you can see, everything has been laid out for you and it is easy to imagine that starting only to close their doors and walk away with millions leaving their distributors holding the goods. 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New never opened, sealed in manufacture bag.\nPlease see pictures for clarification. If you have any concerns please drop me a line and I will respond immediately. Thanks and have a wonderful day. The item \"NEW MITUTOYO 0-1 Quantumike DIGITAL IP65 Outside Micrometer.\n00005 Grad\" is in sale since Friday, August 10, 2018. This item is in the category \"Business & Industrial\\CNC, Metalworking & Manufacturing\\Metalworking Tools\\Metalworking Inspection & Measurement\\Micrometers\".\nThe seller is \"reliable_machinist_tools\" and is located in Houston, Texas. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica.\nModel: 293-185-30-MDE-1PX", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mjbird.org.uk/FERRYMAN_book.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:43Z", "digest": "sha1:6K3GVME3YWV3CKPQKSIJCWIDRZPN5JOL", "length": 1313, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mjbird.org.uk", "title": "Michael J Bird", "raw_content": "Like the BBC video, Bird's novelisation of the series omitted the stories from episode 2 and episode 6, which were not integral to the main storyline. It was first published in 1977 as a \"Star\" book by W H Allen & Co (ISBN 0 352 30148 1) and cost 85p.\nLike everything to do with the series the book was an immediate hit and was translated into various languages, selling well wherever the series was shown. Bird told his agent he made more from sales of the book than he ever did from the series itself.\nIn August 2012 Bird's son (also named Michael) published an e-Book version of his father's novelisation for the Kindle.\nMichael tells me that if the demand is there he will arrange for his father\u2019s other books to be given the same treatment.\nThe book was published in Greece by Efstathiadis Group S.A. (ISBN 960 226 086 6).\nIt has gone through several editions and continues to sell well - presumably to tourists who still have fond memories of the show.\nThere are versions available in several languages - in German it is called \"Wer bezahlt den Faehrmann?\" while the French know it as \"Quie paie le passeur?\". The Dutch version is \"Wie Betaalt de Veerman\".\nCopies of the Book come up regularly on e-Bay.\nSearch e-Bay\nBut there is at least one other book by the same title (about the IRA) so don't be misled!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 177.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mjsteen.com/2018/01/10/portland-home-sellers-must-disclose-home-energy-score-new-city-mandate", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:18Z", "digest": "sha1:XOVQVJSVTGXQFNENQQJRRTDJ7ZH6T4OZ", "length": 4429, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "mjsteen.com", "title": "Portland home-sellers must disclose home energy score under new city mandate - MJ Steen", "raw_content": "Portland home-sellers must disclose home energy score under new city mandate\nBy Elliot Njus\nA requirement that Portlanders selling their houses disclose the results of a home energy audit took effect this week, though it appears to be off to an uneven start.\nThe requirement, approved by the Portland City Council in 2016, is intended to give buyers a better idea of their maintenance costs in the long run. It\u2019s modeled off programs in cities including Austin, Texas; Berkley, California; and Boulder, Colorado.\nIt requires many homeowners to have their homes scored on a 1 to 10 scale, as well as disclose the estimated annual energy use and cost, before putting it on the market. (The policy applies to single-family houses and any housing unit that occupies the entire space from the foundation to the roof, like townhouses and certain condos.)\nThat information must be disclosed in listings and the audit results made available at open houses and in-person showings. The city may exempt certain low-income households, as well as households in foreclosure or other financial distress.\nThe disclosure requirement was off to a slow start after taking effect Monday. Many new online listings within the city limits lacked the home energy score. (Homes on the market before Jan. 1 weren\u2019t required to obtain a score.)\nAndria Jacob, the senior manager for energy programs at Portland\u2019s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, said the city would be monitoring new listings and contacting brokers when their listings lacked the disclosure.\n\u201cWe\u2019re expecting it to take a little bit of time,\u201d she said. \u201cOur plan is not to come out swinging a heavy stick right away.\u201d The ordinance allows for fines of up to $500.\nThe 10-point rating system was developed by the U.S. Department of Energy, with a score of 5 representing the average U.S. home. A house that scores a 1 is estimated to use more energy each year than 85 percent of homes, while one that gets a 10 is expected to use less energy than 90 percent of homes.\nThe scores are based on a home\u2019s size, its heating and cooling systems and its insulating features.\nThe city has contracted with Earth Advantage, a Portland nonprofit, to oversee the program. The scores are determined by energy assessors certified by Earth Advantage; many are home inspectors, while others are affiliated with contractors that do energy retrofits.\nThe Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors opposed the measure, arguing it would add to a seller\u2019s costs without meaningfully changing buyer behavior. Real estate brokers aren\u2019t totally in agreement about that, however.\n\u201cOf course it\u2019s going to be a bargaining chip that will help certain people make a decision,\u201d said Annie Rose Shapero, a broker with Oregon First Realty. \u201cBut it\u2019s also going to help those people who are more financially vulnerable make a decision about which probably is going to give them the most security as far as their future utility bills.\u201d\nAnd while homeowners have always considered the potential resale benefits of installing new hardwood floors or updating appliances, the return on energy-efficiency improvements has never been very clear because they\u2019re rarely featured in listings. A required rating could change that.\n\u201cWe\u2019re helping change the conversation,\u201d said Hilary Bourasa, a principal broker with Meadows Group Inc. Realtors. \u201cIt\u2019s taking the focus away from granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances and putting it on housing affordability.\u201d\nIn the handful of days since the program took effect, some real estate brokers have complained that scores are coming in low, or include inaccurate information.\nMark Wheeler, the owner of Roots Realty in Southeast Portland, said an energy score audit of one client\u2019s house failed to include a high-efficiency furnace. The clients are selling because they can no longer afford the home, he said, and the prospect of spending more money or losing prospective buyers is an added stress.\n\u201cIf my clients had spent $250 on doing some actual energy improvement on the house I\u2019d feel good about that,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they spent $250 on a flawed piece of paper.\u201d\nJacob, the city\u2019s energy programs manager, said Energy Trust would be auditing 5 percent of the completed energy scores to ensure they\u2019re accurate.\nMJ Steen | Category: Uncategorized | Tagged MJ Steen, NW Portland, Oregonian, Oregonlive, PDX, PNW, Portland Oregon, Portland Real Estate, SW Portland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/hitchsum/?topic=morals", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TIO6SKLJSHIZA54YZB4FBVQRA6TQOPVC", "length": 322, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mkweb.bcgsc.ca", "title": "Hitchsum - Christopher Hitechens Lorem Ipsum - Based on debate transcripts", "raw_content": "Morals and afraid that was people have a gravely ill effect the most abject for some forms, and above that among their occupants wandered around this is it took place in my saying there's no evidence, how to make yourselves believe. So my behalf of my point. Morals and the very serious Catholics. As for 98,000 years ago?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mochamanual.com/bb/tips/byb/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:43Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3ZKRK4EHR4GYXRPBLT4QYAOQX7G73JG", "length": 350, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mochamanual.com", "title": "Breastfeeding Your Baby : Kimberly Seals Allers' Mocha Manual", "raw_content": "I had a phenomenal experience. I nursed our daughter for 21 months, all while being a doctoral student and maintaining a full-time career. Upon her birth, the doctors suggested that I supplement my breastfeeding to combat my daughter\u2019s rapid weight-loss. I was immediately concerned that they wanted me to resort to infant formula. 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The shop, called the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop, is owned and operated by the Harrison family.\nThe show debuted on the History Channel in 2009. The show covers the appraisal of lots of unique items, including antique paper currency, pistols, classic guitars, and pieces of art.\nCustomers bring in rare and interesting items, and emotions sometimes flare as bids do not go as expected.\nThis show follows Les Gold and his two children, Seth and Ashley, as they run Detroit\u2019s largest pawnshop, American Jewelry & Loan. The shop holds more than 40,000 items.\nThe show delves into the difference personalities of the store owner and his kids, including disagreements among themselves, conflicts among management and customers, and fights among customers. Customers bring in items ranging from alligators to prosthetic limbs, and even a stripper pole with a shag-carpet platform.\nThe show started airing on truTV in 2009.\nThis is a southern spin on History\u2019s popular series Pawn Stars. It follows Silver Dollar Pawn & Jewelry Center in Alexandria, Louisiana.\nJimmie \u201cBig Daddy\u201d DeRamus opened Silver Dollar over 25 years ago. His brother, daughter and a host of other colorful characters run the shop.\nThe 20,000 square foot shop has been called the \u201cmuseum for sale\u201d because it contains so many rare and interesting items. Kids take school field trips to the store and tour buses have routinely made it a stop. The shop carries merchandise ranging from vintage cars to firearms to livestock.\nPawn Queens\nThis show features a Chicago-area pawn shop that is operated by and caters to women. Businesswomen Minda and Nikki run the boutique, which houses items such as jewelry, vintage Barbie dolls, and antiques. The store opened in 2009.\nMinda and Nikki have two business partners, Greg and Tom, who help them appraise and sell items.\nPawn Queens started airing on TLC in 2010. The show had more than a million viewers each week.\nToday, there are more than 13,000 pawn shops in the United States, and that number is growing. 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This etude, composed in 1987, is a sequel to Rhythmic Etude No. 1 (1984). As Ernest Muzquiz states, \"This work bears many similarities to that earlier composition (style, structure and instrumentation) but there are significant differences: (1) the predominant meter is 9/8; (2) this work includes a rhythmic fugue.\"\nRhythmic Etude No. 2 is exciting for both the players and the audience. Its continuous 8th-note pattern provides an obvious internal drive that holds one's attention. Even in the slower middle section the feeling of movement is apparent and provides a rhythmic bridge into the last section, which contains a grand fugue followed by a rousing ending of 9/8, 3/4 and 12/8.\n--John Beck, Percussive Notes, June 1996\nInstrumentation 2 Cowbells, Temple Blocks, Triangle, Tam-tam, Snare Drum, Suspended Cymbal,Bongos, 4 Concert tom-toms, 4 Timpani, Bass Drum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 4072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 220.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mrterm.com/lifefaq.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:5Y6SSMZ5SFHHTGJHXVHHIHTZQNPYE56H", "length": 3161, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "mrterm.com", "title": "Life Insurance Frequently Asked Questions | Mr Term, term life insurance - Get a fast and free Insurance quote. Save money on your and other Insurance.", "raw_content": "What Kinds of Life Insurance Are There, and What Do They Cover?\nPlease keep in mind that there are two types of life insurance , TERM and all other kinds.\nVARIOUS TYPES OF LIFE INSURANCE\nThere are two primary categories of life insurance: term and permanent.\ufffd However, there are several different types within each category. Listed below are some of the most common types.\nTERM INSURANCE - Life insurance under which the death benefit is payable only if the insured dies during a specified period.\ufffd Listed below are various types of term insurance.\nLEVEL TERM - a fixed amount of coverage with premiums that are fixed over a certain period of time, usually in 10-year incerements.\nINCREASING/DECREASING TERM - amount of coverage increases or decreases throughtout the term, premiums typically remain level\nRENEWABLE TERM - includes a renewal provision that gives the policyowner the right to renew the insurance coverage at the end of the specified term without submitting evidence of insurability.\nCONVERTIBLE TERM - gives the policyholder the right to convert the term policy to a permanent policy.\nGROUP TERM - insurance purchased typically by an employer or professional association that it intended to cover several people, usually resulting in reduced premiums.\nPERMANENT INSURANCE - Life insurance that provides coverage throughout the insured's lifetime and may include an element that builds cash value.\nINDEXED UNIVERSAL LIFE - a form of permanent life insurance thast combines the premium and death benefit flexibility of universal life insurance under which the cash value's current crediting rate is tied to the performance of a financial index.\ufffd Most policies offer gtuarantees that if the index is negative, the crediting rate will not go below zero.\nTRADITIONAL WHOLE LIFE - remains in force during the insured's entire lifetime, provided premiums are paid as specified in the policy.\ufffd Whole life insurance may also include an element for accumulating growth (called \"cash value).\nUNIVERSAL LIFE INSURANCE - characterized by its flexible premiums, flexible face amounts, and unbundled pricing factors.\nVARIABLE LIFE INSURANCE - a form of whole life insurance under which the death benefit and the cash value of the policy fluctuate according to the investment performance of separate account investments options.\ufffd Most variable life insurance policies guarantee that the death benefit will not fall below a specified minimum.\nLAST SURVIVOR UNIVERESAL LIFE INSURANCE (also know as \"survivorship\" or \"second-to-die\" life insurance) - permanent life insurance that covers two persons and provides for payment of the death benefit proceeds only when both insureds have died.\ufffd It is generally designed to pay estate taxes.\nSINGLE-PREMIUM WHOLE LIFE INSURANCE - whole life insurance purchased with a single, lump-sum premium.\nThis material is not intended to be used, nor can it be used by any taxpayer, for the purpose of avoiding U.S. federal, state, or local tax penalties.\ufffd Mr. Term does not provide tax, accounting or legal advice.\ufffd Any taxpayer should seek advice based on the taxpayer's particular circumstances from an independent tax adviser.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 4674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://msn.startrenting.com/content/startrentingcom-terms-use-agreement-%E2%80%9Ctou%E2%80%9D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NSEUWSOV3F6ULQJQ4HSD5CKGRVN244WH", "length": 12068, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "msn.startrenting.com", "title": "StartRenting.com Terms Of Use Agreement (\u201cTOU\u201d) | Start Renting", "raw_content": "StartRenting.com Terms Of Use Agreement (\u201cTOU\u201d)\nAcceptance of the terms and conditions of TOU\nYour ability to access and view the pages of the website (\u201cSite\u201d) for StartRenting.com, and to use any service or purchase any good offered therein, is contingent upon Your agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions (\u201cTerms\u201d) set forth below, which form a binding, legal contract between You and StartRenting.com. 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These Terms are the entire agreement between You and StartRenting.com and supersede all prior or contemporaneous negotiations, discussions or agreements between You and StartRenting.com about this Site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 13427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mtmorrisecon.weebly.com/2nd-hour.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:17Z", "digest": "sha1:654AVUQPWZ3RUQVOHRQM6XS6CE6BTAZC", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mtmorrisecon.weebly.com", "title": "2nd Hour - Economics - Mt Morris High School", "raw_content": "2nd Hour-Assignment Turn-in/Questions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://musikreform.com/2013/05/31/morgan-another-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DKH66JXIR2N5GWZQK3IA5JNJ5OBZ265E", "length": 1815, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "musikreform.com", "title": "MORGAN \u201cAnother Day\u201d OFFICIAL VIDEO \u2013 MusikReform.com", "raw_content": "MORGAN \u201cAnother Day\u201d OFFICIAL VIDEO\nMORGAN \u201cAnother Day\u201d\nFor those who struggle, working hard to make the ends meet, and even harder to pursue \u201cpipe dreams.\u201d For the ones who are drowning in sorrow, trying to see tomorrow, who think about how like is fogged up with sleepy hollows. Not only does this summarize the lyrics to indie Hip Hop artist MORGAN\u2019s latest single, but it signifies the passion behind the hustle, and pinpoints the audience this dedicated lyricist represents. Directed by Cool Kids Forever Films, created by rapper & visionary Tabi Bonney in Washington, D.C., here\u2019s the new visual for MORGAN\u2019s single, \u201cAnother Day,\u201d her latest release, and one of her most heartfelt numbers to date. Shining a light on homelessness and poverty, two overflowing, yet overlooked issues in the nations capital where she resides, the aesthetic approach accentuates the glitz and glamour of the fast life, while MORGAN debuts her acting skills, playing the role of the forgotten members of society, too impoverished to pursue the \u201cAmerican dream.\u201d With hopes of imparting awareness and a sense of steadfastness into the souls of the people, MORGAN brings keen lyricism and insightful empathy together on \u201cAnother Day,\u201d reminding us that if we believe beyond disappointment and try beyond failure, \u201canother day\u201d and \u201cone day\u201d will inevitably become \u201cTHE day\u201d \u2013 the one that we are all hoping, praying, reaching and fighting for \u2013 the one where all of our hard work, sleepless nights, and perseverance finally pays off.\nFind MORGAN on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Reverbnation\nMORGAN is available for interviews, features, collaborations, and performance opportunities.\nPlease feel free to respond with requests/information of that nature, if available.\nTagged another day, featured artist, morgan, official video", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://my719moms.com/why-should-your-child-participate-in-cotillion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:QE6EM3GIDFEMOOCPARZBLVPUHUS56IBT", "length": 2819, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "my719moms.com", "title": "Why Should Your Child Participate in Cotillion? | my719moms.com", "raw_content": "Home Hot Topics Why Should Your Child Participate in Cotillion?\nWould you like your child to know how to act properly in a business setting? What if I told you this one class could improve their chances during a job interview? This class even offers scholarships and help with college admissions.\nYou may have heard of cotillion, but did you know how helpful it actually is for teens? Yes, it is steeped in history and tradition, but it is all about teaching manners and how to act in various social situations. Cotillion originated in France during the 1700s, but the American South carried on the tradition. Cotillion teaches teens manners and the dances offer them a place to practice their politeness and introduce debutants. You may be thinking that is all good and well, but what does this have to do with my kids?\nWell, it can help your kids with all kinds of social interactions. Harvard University, Stanford Research Institute and The Carnegie Foundation indicate that over 85% of one\u2019s career success is directly connected to one\u2019s social skills. The JDW Cotillions have two classes for kids in elementary school through high school in the Colorado Springs area: Broadmoor and Colorado Springs Country Club. The cost varies from $220 \u2013 $265 per class, which includes about 5-6 sessions. The classes include lessons on building and sustaining positive relationship, social etiquette concerning non-verbal, verbal, and high-teach means of communication, and proper manners during a three-course sit down dinner. The students also learn various styles of dances.\nCotillion isn\u2019t for one type of person or social group. Classes include students from different areas of society. One class included a football player who was there because his parents wanted him to learn these manners because they were hoping he would be offered scholarships and be invited to special events. Then there are the teens who need to learn to put their phone down and interact face to face with people. Some parents send their children because they don\u2019t want them to feel awkward during various social settings.\nOverall cotillion is meant to last three years. It starts in 3rd or 4th grade and goes through high school. It teaches students elocution, how to be a polite guest, how to introduce yourself, greet people, making a proper toast, and so much more. Many cotillions now teach proper social media etiquette. Students need to realize it isn\u2019t just what they are posting on their private pages, but also what pages and organizations they are affiliating themselves with. The bottom line is the courtesy and consideration for others matters. Sometimes, parents need a little helps teaching their kids and that is where Cotillion comes in.\nPrevious articleThank You, Teachers & Childcare Workers\nNext articleDIY Thanksgiving Craft", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 5203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mybadmintonbook.blogspot.com/2011/03/ashwini-ponnappa.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NL5OJO6354LTFL6BNNEQOM2M4D4OOLY3", "length": 1419, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "mybadmintonbook.blogspot.com", "title": "Ashwini Ponnappa | My Badminton Book", "raw_content": "Profile of Ashwini Ponnappa\nAshwini Ponnappa is one of the best doubles badminton players of India. She plays the women's doubles event partnering the more experienced Jwala Gutta. The pair is currently ranked No.19 as per the badminton world rankings (ranking as on 26-Mar-2011)\n\ufeff Ashwini Ponnappa - Fact File\nBirth date: 18-Sep-1989\nBirth place: Bangalore, India\nStays at: Hyderabad, India\nPlays: Right-handed (whereas her partner Jwala plays left-handed)\nAshwini Ponnappa - Notable Badminton Achievements:\nAshwini won the Gold medal at the Commonwealth Games-2010 at New Delhi in the women's doubles event, partnering with Jwala Gutta. She was also the winner of the Silver Medal at the Commonwealth Games-2010 mixed team event.\nAshwini had twice won the National Junior Badminton championship titles in the girl's doubles events in the years 2006 and 2007, partnering Nitya Sosale.\nShe also won the Gold medal at the South Asian games held in 2006.\nAshwini Ponnappa won the women's doubles title at the National Badminton Championship-2009 along-with her partner Jwala Gutta.\nLabels: Ashwini Ponnappa\nBabbu August 22, 2011 at 9:19 AM\nsports were never a career in our nation but it is a start that people taking it seriously and playing for the pride of country.a day we will rule in sports..its beginning.\nNAVEEN KUMAR December 1, 2011 at 5:15 AM\nWell said babbu..\nilike_chinmayi_fan September 27, 2012 at 11:57 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 199.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mycanavas.blogspot.com/2012/09/nirvana-2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XZNT4MC3OT255Z7YKKKL7Y2ZXMCCY7AW", "length": 108, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mycanavas.blogspot.com", "title": "Designer's cribb: Nirvana-2", "raw_content": "Posted by Pradeep G N at 4:39 AM\nsupportecs September 21, 2012 at 10:09 AM\nsituation with perfect expression", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mydatinghangovers.com/category/online-dating/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:HUDYBMPHC3B3TUQJID2WNKMOJC2RV3BD", "length": 5959, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mydatinghangovers.com", "title": "Online Dating \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 My Dating Hangovers", "raw_content": "This week in online dating fuckery\u2026. \u201cGrab my attention, huh? Well I\u2019m certainly interested in being locked from top to bottom. I just need to get rid of these cold sores and finish this prescription for this HPV\u2026\u201d Okay, so I really didn\u2019t say this but it sure would have been a hoot to see what Mister Carmel had to say. FUCKERY. Most of the time these foolish tyoes of messages are simply ignored but every now and then, I\u2019ll reply. I know this is a little odd, but sometimes I just want to pass the time being entertained by these idiots. I\u2019m realizing more and more that the number\u2026\nI realize that some of the experiences shared about online dating may be foreign to some of my readers because you\u2019re either married or involved with someone or quite possibly, have never used this method of meeting people. For those of us out here in the trenches fighting this uphill battle, you\u2019ll be able to look at this textversation above and immediately see why I\u2019m so annoyed: Why are these men always asking for more photos? I get requests like this all the time and not just from the ones encountered online, so for the life of me, I just don\u2019t get why they keep asking. Unless a woman\u2019s profile only has\u2026\nThis post is dedicated to any woman who thought she was being too picky, said no too quickly or even said these dreaded \u201cmay as well\u201d when going out with someone she should have ignored and deleted. It\u2019s going to be a long one, so grab your coffee and take a seat. On the surface, this one hangover seemed like a pretty decent catch. He\u2019s educated, is a homeowner, and has been pretty successful in a career as a social worker for over ten years. The bonus was that he decided not to operate as if he was a sperm bank and only had one child of wedlock. The man\u2026\nIf only he hadn\u2019t invited me upstairs to his place after dinner, things might have gone differently. I may not have figured it out so soon. Let\u2019s roll back the tape to that date two weeks ago\u2026 I\u2019m unapologetically shallow when it comes to physical attractiveness, it\u2019s a turn on. We know this, so I no longer pretend that looks don\u2019t matter. A man with a high level of intelligence and great communication skills is equally sexy and if his integrity and goals are in alignment? A definite panty dropper. It\u2019s just so damn hard finding that perfect balance, so I try to work with some of the ones who\u2026\nIt\u2019s been a long week for me and today is only Tuesday, so I welcomed a little break with a few dating site messages. Things started off kind of odd with this dude because his first message said \u201cHello, you are very beautiful so I had to message. I read your profile carefully and no one is perfect.\u201d What the hell? Who\u2019s looking for perfection?? I just make it pretty darn clear with this newly reactivated profile that my threshold for bullshit is negative zero. I reply something simple and this dude asks me how my day was and if I was headed home. I said not yet and returned\u2026\nThis is just a quick post dedicated to a male friend of mine who\u2019s always saying \u201cit can\u2019t be that bad\u201d or \u201cstop being so picky\u201d and anyone who has done it or is currently dating online knows good and damn well that our stories of despair aren\u2019t exaggerated. Here are a couple of actual profile photos from _______.com and yes- each has messaged me, trying to convince me that each is the Prince Charming I\u2019ve been waiting for all my life. 1. Hang Time The infamous bathroom shot and this dude probably figured he was getting brownie points since it wasn\u2019t a mirror shot. I don\u2019t even know where\u2026\nThe man I have been getting to know while he planned a major life changing move back to Southern California has arrived and he made sure I was on the list of things to do the same day his plane touched down. Sunday afternoon seemed to make all of the waiting and anticipation worth it, and thankfully that same chemistry and good-feeling vibes experienced over the telephone these last couple of months seemed worth it. After over 10-years of being gone, being married and starting a family in the mid-west, Out of Sight is a resident once again. Yet just like that item you recently purchased where you\u2019re not so sure it\u2026\nSomeone has captured my attention. To the point where I look forward to receiving his quirky text messages with random \u201cmannish moments\u201d and the entertaining, no holds barred telephone conversations that we share. Just thinking about our talks brings a smile to my face and even as I\u2019m writing this, am finding myself blushing like a little girl with her first crush or something; it\u2019s crazy. Nothing is off limits so far as what we share with one another, absolutely nothing and I like how he cares enough to ask if something he asked was too intrusive or if a comment was going too far. Being able to enjoy getting to\u2026\nI\u2019m not sure what it was that jostled me out of the bed this morning, because it sure as hell wasn\u2019t the chime of my alarm. Memo to self: Pressing \u201cSave\u201d is a critical step when changing the time of your wake-up call. Was it the sound and smell of the horny neighborhood skunks getting it in under my bedroom window the reason I nearly fell onto the floor? Nah, probably not. It was more like my brain having mercy on me because that dream I was having was really fucked up. It seemed as if it lasted for hours, and had me feeling all types of emotions from horny to\u2026\nThe type of man I\u2019m looking for probably doesn\u2019t exist. At least not yet, so it\u2019s time for me to release myself from online dating again. I\u2019m not sure why it has taken me so long as the women around me have been been canceling their accounts left and right. Me being o ye faithful had even tried to encourage one friend to hold out until the new year, now understands. Before you ask what happened I\u2019ll say nothing in particular. There are so many undesirable characteristics being shown in the dating world, that both men AND women are guilty of presenting, I can definitely see why the online dating\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 405, "original_length": 18831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myk-d.com/sculpture-at-unc-charlotte/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:ITULHZRAOIFZAINCSU723W4JAYC6NFRS", "length": 750, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "myk-d.com", "title": "Sculpture at UNC Charlotte | Mikyoung Kim Design - Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Site Art", "raw_content": "As part of the City of Charlotte\u2019s expansion of the LYNX Blue Line, their \u201cArt in Transit\u201d program strives to integrate more art into capital improvement projects. We created a sculptural installation in the plaza adjacent to the UNC Charlotte stop, as well as a custom glass enclosures on passenger waiting areas. Upon exiting the train, transit riders are now welcomed by an interactive sculpture: a series of enveloping stainless steel shadow screens transforms the plaza into a dynamic play environment. Custom textured and perforated stainless steel mesh undulates and wraps, leading students and visitors to a central space that is defined by an inner core of light and shadow. The sculpture folds and bends to encourage seating and engagement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 6633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myphilippinedreams.com/philippines-dating-experience-filipinas-facebook/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:01Z", "digest": "sha1:OLBB7DIE7UABHFVZCPKDPHWCZ4F6MGSB", "length": 9340, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "myphilippinedreams.com", "title": "My Philippines Dating Experience: Filipinas and Facebook - My Philippine Dreams", "raw_content": "Blog My Philippines Dating Experience: Filipinas and Facebook\nSo, as some of you know, I recently when through an illuminating \u2013 if short lived \u2013 period of dating. For those who personally know me, I was actually able to see a good number of women in a short period of time. (Thankfully, that came to an end after I met Lyn.) And as I previously stated, the ladies were all very nice, and it was a pleasure to meet each and every one of them. What this particular article is going deal with is a takeaway from that experience \u2013 namely the singular oddness of some things that I encountered on their Facebook pages. That said, let\u2019s get into it.\nI personally loathe Facebook and don\u2019t actually have a \u201creal\u201d personal FB account. The only reason I set one up was so I could create my Philippine Dreams business page. I do make some use of my \u201cfake\u201d account but it is VERY limited. For example, I think I only have around 15 friends on it, and those are there as we like to communicate with the Facebook messenger app which is actually quite handy.\nMy beef with Facebook is that it encourages narcissistic behavior (touched upon below), collects an excessive amount of personal information (the world\u2019s biggest data mine) and recklessly distributes false information. And although good for hunting down childhood friends, I also believe Facebook is responsible for disconnecting more people from societal realities than actually connecting them.\nOK, so enough of that. Here are some of the takeaways that I gained from my time dating and perusing prospective Pinay\u2019s Facebook page. They are in no particular order, and if I missed something, be sure to add it in the comment section below so I can update it.\nFilipinos Love Facebook\nThe Philippines is the number one user of social media in the world. Period. Out of a total population of 101 million, there are 47 million registered Facebook accounts in the Philippines. And since there are so many users, I would usually try to get their Facebook address early so that I could switch to FB messenger. It would also give me an opportunity to peruse their posts and try to get a deeper (or more shallow, in Facebook\u2019s case) understanding of who I was talking to.\nQuick Aside: In addition to social media, the Philippines just came in at number one for most time spent on pornhub.com (4th year in a row \u2013 congrats) and is also recognized as the Selfie Capital of the World, beating out a number of other beauty and celebrity obsessed countries around God\u2019s Green Earth. Keep up the great work\u2026..\nOK, so with that done, let\u2019s get back to the original topic \u2013 what I learned from dating, Filipinas and Facebook:\nUm, no, no and no\u2026.\nA good number of Filipinas I encountered have multiple Facebook accounts, most having a \u201cpublic\u201d account, with a more private one tucked away safely somewhere. In more than a few cases, the public account is simply their name spelled backwards. For instance, Lisa Matio will simply be \u201cAsil Oitam.\u201d This seems to be a \u201cthing\u201d in the Philippines, and with all the cultural conformity, this \u2018spelling your name backwards\u2019 is pretty common. Now, I totally understand the need to have a public and private account. It just gets a little odd when you find a prospective Pinay with four or five different accounts with a confusing mishmash of conflicting information between them. To me, that\u2019s pretty much a warning flag and I\u2019d usually find an excuse to take a powder and scratch them off the list.\nThis is a forensic term applied to individuals displaying excessive narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy traits. If a Filipina\u2019s Facebook is comprised of post after post of sexy selfies with the occasional declaration that \u201cshe isn\u2019t that type of girl\u201d interspersed with \u201cpeople don\u2019t understand me\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t be gossiping about me, losers!,\u201d you might want to move on. People dealing with the traits noted above don\u2019t have the personal insight necessary to see that they are often the central cause of their drama and often portray themselves as victims. I actually talk about this more in my book, but maybe I will do a follow up article on at some point. Note that I tended to see this more with the younger women than the older ones \u2013 which I chalk up to simple immaturity and more exposure to the \u201cimportance\u201d of Facebook and other social media from an early age.\n\u201cWhy are you in a bikini in every photo?\u201d\nThousands of \u201cFriends\u201d\nFacebook allows people to have \u201conly\u201d 5,000 friends in a personal account. I don\u2019t know how they arrived at this magical number, but that\u2019s the maximum. This is a ridiculous number and anything approaching that might be cause for worry. While dating, I actually ran across two potential women who had reached the maximum amount of friends on their Facebook account. On more than a few others, I found Filipinas that had 3-4,000 \u201cfriends\u201d on their Facebook. Strangley enough (or sadly enough), when you go through their timeline, you\u2019ll only see very few people actually responding with comments or \u201clikes\u201d to what they are posting. Which begs the question \u2013 if someone has 3-5,000 \u201cfriends,\u201d why are only a handful of folks actually reacting to what they post? To me, that is kind of off putting \u2013 a warning flag of sorts. And speaking of thousands of \u201cfriends,\u201d let\u2019s move on to the subject of\u2026.\nArabs and Indians\nDigging through a few Facebook accounts, I noticed a MASSIVE number of Indian, Pakistani and Middle Eastern guys in some Filipinas\u2019 public Friends lists. And by massive, I mean just that \u2013 thousands upon thousands of them. When I asked the respective Filipinas about it (I\u2019m not shy), most of the ladies just kind of shrugged it off, stating that they just blindly accepted friend requests. Finally, I was able to dig up an explanation from an Italian amigo of mine who has a bunch of Indian friends. Turns out, there are a bunch of user groups in those areas that collect photos and account names of cute Filipinas (and other nationalities) and share them with other group members. They then send friend requests which the Filipinas blindly accept. From there, my amigo Italiano said, they can then message any and all types of \u201crequests.\u201d\nAnd since were on alien nationals\u2026.\nMga Porenyer Power Rangers!\nIf a gal gives you her Facebook and the majority of her friends are foreigners, you might want to give that some thought. Again, I am not trying to judge (much), but seeing a gal with a few hundred foreigner friends (all male) might be cause for pause\u2026.\nNow that\u2019s a lot of power rangers\u2026.\nDid I Say That?\u2026.\nFinally, using Facebook during the dating process is pretty handy for separating fact from fiction. For example, if a gal is telling you that she broke up with her ex-boyfriend 9 months ago, and then you notice photos of them frolicking together at a swanky resort just a few weeks back, that just might give you some clue that she is full of shit (otherwise known as telling you what you want to hear). That\u2019s just one example of how you can utilize \u201cFaceSpace\u201d to gain a more accurate assessment of who you are chatting with \u2013 there are many others.\n\u201chey, isn\u2019t that your ex, Tim?\u201d\nOK, so that\u2019s my experience with Filipinas and Facebook during my short-lived foray into dating in the Philippines. Again, if you have anything to add, please leave it in the comment section and I will update this article.\nSalamuch.\nHmm? Have you watched \u201cThe Mask\u201d with Jim Carey? Although I dont care much for him\u2026its the message that rings so clear in one particular part of the movie\u2026.On a bridge while talking with is best friend about the woman he has meet, his friend gives him a good piece of advice..\u201dShe\u2019s only looking for the BBD\u201d\u2026..Although a few of us, have met/married a nice women, many of my family, friends and co-workers over the years have not. BBD stands for Bigger, Better Deal. Unfortunately a lot of women are into that. So sorting out the wackcos from slightly sane ones is quite a task. Anyone who says they\u2019ve never made a mistake I\u2019d say haaaa sure\u2026.Many men I\u2019ve talked to has had more than one wife, even Filipina wife\u2026it just seems that in the Filipina culture there are more keepers than tossers\u2026.A lot of OFW even in a family, attracts a lot of Likers to others in the family if they have been working overseas for years. Yaaaa some facebook accounts are pretty easy to sort out\u2026multiple accounts are usually a bad sign. If someones \u201cnot all that into you\u201d don\u2019t waste too much time on them\u2026ie, taking vacations with friends\u2026..plenty of fish in the sea\u2026I learned from others who have been married to Filipinas from a few FB pages\u2026.I took their advice a few times.\nMontana Tom & her hottness \"Penny\"\nWhen referencing \u201cArabs & Indians\u201d you neglected to mention the most pertinent point, they\u2019re Muslims. Due to the sexual repression of Islam, (read their book) the boys tend to go quite crazy over liberated sexy women online. Just go through their surnames\u2026\u2026\u2026TBS, I think that the whole vlogger/youtube thing leads to a mild form of Trumpesque narcissism. Not you personally, but most by far, start to think their \u201c15 minutes\u201d makes them famous. Like those who endlessly post what they had for dinner photos, for lack of anything important to say, online. I mean, none of us care what Brad Pitt had for lunch today, so why the hell should we care about any Philippine Vloggers diet?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 13819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myrabevlife.co.uk/2018/02/diet-failed-find-answer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:27Z", "digest": "sha1:B6BPA7XQES3OOPK6CNCPW5OTJ4CJC6FP", "length": 2935, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "myrabevlife.co.uk", "title": "Why Has My Diet Failed? Find The Answer Here - The Myrabev Life", "raw_content": "So, you decided to get in shape, and you\u2019ve been working on it for a few months. Unfortunately, up until now, you haven\u2019t seen much improvement in either your diet or your physique. If anything, you might have put on a few extra pounds. How is that possible? You\u2019re working out, you\u2019re eating well, and you\u2019re doing your best to stay healthy. Well, the answer to why your diet has failed might surprise you because there are a number of things that could be going wrong. Let\u2019s take a look at a few and see if we can get you back on track.\nWait\u2026That\u2019s Fatty?\nWe all know that certain foods and drinks are bad for but what\u2019s less apparent is why they are bad for you. Take alcohol as an example. You might be under the impression that alcohol is bad for you because of the impact that it has on your mind or the fact that it can be quite addictive. But that\u2019s not the only issue. Alcohol also tends to contain a lot of calories, so if you\u2019re trying to stay healthy, you need to think about how to stop drinking. Many people on a diet make the mistake of skipping desert and having a lovely glass of wine instead. What they don\u2019t realise is that calorie wise this is exactly the same as eating that sugary treat.\nIt\u2019s not the only thing that you can consume that is surprisingly quite bad for your diet. Another one to be aware of are ready meal diet packs. Microwave TV diet meals often have friendly messages on them, claiming that they are good for you and low in fat. That might be true, but they tend to be high in sugar. They need to be because otherwise, they would taste foul and that is why if you are trying to lose weight, you should avoid ready meals altogether.\nI Haven\u2019t Taken Any Days Off!\nMost diets recommend that you take a day off your diet at least once a week. By doing this, you can still make sure that your body is getting the fat, the sugar and the salt that it needs. Remember, a little of each of these is good for you in small quantities. Some people decide to skip the off days completely, hoping that this will lead to a faster result. Why doesn\u2019t this work? Usually, because rather than having off days, these individuals accidentally treat themselves more often with little snacks and these all start to add up. As such, make sure you do take an off day every so often when you\u2019re on a diet or a cheat day because it will help keep you honest.\nMeasuring At The Wrong Time\nLastly, you might find that your diet is helping and that you\u2019re just measuring your progress incorrectly. If you are checking your weight, you should make sure that you are taking it at the same time of day, typically in the morning. Our weight fluctuates throughout the day due to the meals we consume. 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Of course, their best accolades come from the towns in which they build and from the customers living in their new homes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://neurosci.wustl.edu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LAIXKTVAZMNJZALQILDQ7JIAPYIKHU5R", "length": 1642, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "neurosci.wustl.edu", "title": "Department of Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis", "raw_content": "Azad Bonni, MD, PhD\nWelcome to the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine. Steeped in history, the Department has its origins as the Department of Anatomy at the dawn of the last century. The emergence of neuroscience as a discipline in the middle part of the twentieth century brought an evolution in our department to Anatomy and Neurobiology in 1975. With the explosive growth of the neurosciences over the past four decades taking center stage and shaping its future, the Department was renamed in 2015 as the Department of Neuroscience.\nAnatomy represents and will continue as a fundamental cornerstone of the teaching mission of the Department. Indeed, we take pride in the essential role of our department in medical education, and our professors are perennial recipients of prestigious teaching awards at Washington University School of Medicine... read more\nWUSM-Neuroscience (02/18/19)\nJeffrey Huang, PhD\nGeorgetown (02/19/19)\nVanessa Ruta, PhD\nRockefeller (02/20/19)\nTristan Li, PhD\nStanford (02/21/19)\nLu Sun, PhD\nDana Small, PhD\nYale (02/27/19)\nEric Leuthardt, MD\nWUSM-Neurosurgery (03/06/19)\nSamer Hattar, PhD\nNIMH (03/13/19)\nKafui Dzirasa, PhD\nDuke (03/20/19)\nMala Murthy, PhD\nPrinceton (03/27/19)\nGuo-li Ming, MD, PhD\nUPenn (04/03/19)\nJames Knierim, PhD\nJohns Hopkins (04/10/19)\nWUSM (03/18/19)\nDr. Timothy Holy recipient of 2019 Rice University Alumni Distinguished Alumni Award\nDr. Ilya Monosov to receive 2019 McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award\nSfN Award for Education in Neuroscience goes to Drs. Erik Herzog and G\u00f6n\u00fcl Peker\nDr. Azad Bonni elected to National Academy of Medicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://never-anyone-else.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-womans-hour-by-elaine-weiss-arc.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:03Z", "digest": "sha1:FBRWSVCN6SU34N4V5VS5MSQL6VZZLI3M", "length": 2535, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "never-anyone-else.blogspot.com", "title": "Always Me: The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss (ARC) - Review", "raw_content": "The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss follows a handful of brave women who fought for the right to vote with cameos from Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Frederick Douglass, and Eleanor Roosevelt. The narrative presented primarily takes place in Nashville, August 1920. By this time only one more state is required for ratification of the nineteenth amendment and everything falls on Tennessee. The opposition features politicians with careers at stake, liquor companies, railroad magnates, and racists who don't want black women voting. There are also the 'Antis' - women who fear that their own enfranchisement will cause the moral collapse of the United States. All of these elements come together to face off in Nashville replete with dirty tricks, betrayals and bribes, bigotry, Jack Daniel's, and the Bible.\nThis history book by Elaine F. Weiss is easily one of the most readable and comprehensive books on the women's suffrage movement focusing on ratification and Tennessee that I have ever had the opportunity to read. I've been reading quite a bit lately about that time period and women's suffrage, but this is hands down the most informative when it comes to such a key moment in history. The author also does a fantastic job of integrating history of the movement into the primary as well - I, for one, particularly enjoyed seeing Victoria Woodhull's name get brought up since she's so often left out (I'm glad that people are really beginning to learn more about her life). The author also does a great job of starkly laying out all of the movement's detractors, so matter-of-factly detailing their means, methods, and motivations for being on the other side of history. Finally, I'd also like to mention that Weiss also does a brilliant job of making her history book feel incredibly timely. Of course, the main events in the book take place 98 years ago, but she still does a fantastic job of making their battle feel like fresh and current.\nOverall, I highly recommend this new non-fiction book from Elaine F. Weiss all about everything finally coming together after a decades long struggle for women to cast their ballots. Every page of this inspiring 400+ page tome is inspiring and well worth your time. I will definitely be keeping my eyes out for future projects from this author.\nI read this ARC from February 22 - 25, 2018 and my review is also on Goodreads. This book will be released on March 6th.\nI definitely need to check this out!\nGlad I could help pique your interest! :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 202.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newafricaanalysis.co.uk/index.php/2015/10/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EXQYQET56GOJS4WQZQHNKRVOX6IAHZW5", "length": 286, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "newafricaanalysis.co.uk", "title": "11th October 2015 - New Africa AnalysisNew Africa Analysis", "raw_content": "World Bank Report: World population shifts\nAs migrants and refugees from Africa and the Middle East continue to arrive in Europe in unprecedented numbers, a new World Bank/IMF report says that large-scale migration from poor countries to richer regions of the world will be a permanent\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 165.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.baothuathienhue.vn/professor-michael-patrick-dunne-and-predestined-love-with-hue-a67435.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WAT3C6FJ47TOD7QA7BMAHST3YWEQWSUR", "length": 8070, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "news.baothuathienhue.vn", "title": "Professor Michael Patrick Dunne and \u201cpredestined love\u201d with Hue - Thua Thien Hue Online", "raw_content": "\u00bb Hue is my second home\nOver the past 13 years, Professor (Prof.) Michael Patrick Dunne - Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Professor Emeritus of Hue University, Co-Director of the Institute of Public Health Research under Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy \u2013 has gone back and forth between faraway Australia and Hue City up to four times each year to organize and do a lot of significant work for Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy.\n\"Although I have worked in many countries, Hue is where I always desire to come back\", Prof. Dunne's words and his gentle and lovely face fascinated me as soon as the conversation began.\nThe ceremony to announce the Decision to establish the Institute of Public Health Research (in the photo, Professor Michael Patrick Dunne standing second from right)\n\u201cOn a visit to Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy 15 years ago, I found that the facilities here were inadequate, and there was a great need to improve the capacity of the staff. Therefore, I decided to join in the project on improving the capacity of staff and facilities for Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy,\" Prof. Dunne recalled.\nAlso since then, Prof. Dunne and some QUT colleagues to Hue have developed a strategic plan for the development of Public Health (PH) Department - Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy. This provided a basis for the Project to Improve the Quality of Training Bachelors of PH with the sponsorship of the Atlantic Philanthropies (AP) of the United States implemented from 2007 to 2011.\nIn the first 7 years, Prof. Dunne mainly supported the compilation and revision of the curriculum for bachelors of PH and doctors of preventive medicine, post-graduate teaching curriculums on PH for the study programs to reach the world standard. He together with PH Department developed an outline to ask the AP organization to give financial support for constructing the PH Department building with full and modern equipment. As a result, the organization agreed to support USD 2.5 million to construct the building at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy. The building has been completed and put into use since 2012.\nTo date, Prof. Dunne has successfully instructed 3 lecturers of PH Department, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy as PhD students at QUT, and 9 doctors, both international and Vietnamese, who completed the PhD student program at PH Department - Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Since 2007, Prof. Dunne has arranged the annual research for Australian graduate students at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy.\nHe also instructed 24 Vietnamese graduate students to study for Master\u2019s degree at QUT University. Thanks to Prof. Dunne\u2019s role of \"bridge\" between the two universities, many students of QUT University came to practice at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy and so on.\nNot only was he interested in improving the capacity of staff and PH training programs at Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, but Prof. Dunne also devoted the most attention to the researches of international stature and up to the international standard. The Institute of Public Health Research under Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, where he is a co-directorship, realized these researches.\n\u201cThe Management Board of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy is eager to develop its university into an international standard one recognized worldwide. The important contributions to this standard are the researches of international stature, recognized by the international universities,\u201d said Prof. Dunne.\nTo assist Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy to have more international researches, the Institute of Public Health Research he is in charge of implemented many research projects on public health. Evidence from the research results was included in the curricula for PH and medical students and in the training materials for public awareness improvement to help the community have a proper understanding of health issues. \"Our researches are not only for the international publication but also for more practical purposes - to benefit the community,\" Professor Dunne said.\nProfessor Michael Patrick Dunne (wearing glasses) talked to Australian and Vietnamese students\nThe \"leading University\"\n\"Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy is currently a university playing the leading role, not following other universities in the country. 20 years ago, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy had to follow because there were few resources, but at present it has a completely new position - to become the leading university in Central Vietnam, and we hope it will is the leading university in Vietnam, \u201d Prof. Dunne said excitedly.\nIn Prof. Dunne\u2019s judgment, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy is a university with a reputation not only in medical teaching but also in the country and the region, especially in Southeast Asia. Currently, the PH network in Southeast Asia has looked on PH Department - Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy as one of the vital components.\nTo date, more than 100 students of Queensland University of Technology have come here to learn about PH, nursing and nutrition. Foreign graduate students also found that the Institute of Public Health Research - Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy is an ideal place to conduct quality researches published internationally.\nAlso, Cambridge University of England, one of the 5 world-famous universities, has recently come to Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy to propose cooperation in the big research project \u201cEvidence for a better life\u201d with the participation of 8 world countries. And in the last 2 years, Harvard University of the USA has appointed Professor Dunne to train staff for PH Department - Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy.\n\"Scientists and experts from the US, Japan, Korea, Australia, Germany and so on now know about PH Department - Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy. Through Institute of Public Health Research website and scientific articles, they came to the institute to propose research and cooperation. Previously, Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy had to find them, now they come here. That is the greatest achievement. I believe that Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy with a very open and forward mindset will be able to connect with the whole world,\u201d Prof. Dr. Dunne said.\n\u201cProfessor Michael Patrick Dunne has made an important and significant contribution to training and research activities in Hue, contributing to the development of human resources for the university in the current trend of international integration. He also contributed greatly to the internationalization of the PH Department in particular and Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy in general.\u201d\nProf. Cao Ngoc Thanh, former Rector of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Director of Hospital of Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy\n\"Hue is where I desire to return\"\n\"In many parts of the world, people are becoming separate and unfriendly, but in Hue, people are very close, they are close to family, friends, colleagues even to neighbors. Another special thing is that Hue has stability and social cohesion. That's why I am fond of Hue and Vietnam. I used to work in many countries, but I always desire to come back here to work,\u201d Professor Dunne shared what he felt most impressed in Hue.\nLoving Hue, understanding Hue and desiring to devote a lot to this land; for Prof. Dunne, the joy is so simple, it is to witness the positive change and development of the students he instructed. \u201cOnce I stumbled across a scene of about 40 students and their parents smiling so happily under the eaves of a pagoda when the rain suddenly poured down in Can Tho. It is an image of a bright and optimistic Vietnam. I feel very happy to have the opportunity to work with Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy so that I together with my colleagues here can look forward. And I feel I'm part of this university. \u201d\nStory and photos: Ngoc Ha\nProfessorMichael Patrick Dunnepredestined loveHue", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 10357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.bounce.ng/Content/why-don-jazzy-locked-me-up-kelly-hansome-20180826", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:11Z", "digest": "sha1:2DXOARGPEDV45QWR7DANNWEE46PVMMRZ", "length": 1746, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "news.bounce.ng", "title": "\"Why Don Jazzy Locked Me Up\" - Kelly Hansome", "raw_content": "\"Why Don Jazzy Locked Me Up\" - Kelly Hansome\n\"They even told the police to put a laptop on my hands so that people would think I was a yahoo boy (Internet fraudster).\"\nIt came as a rude shock to music lovers when Kelechi Orji, aka Kelly Hansome, recently accused Don Jazzy of locking him up for doing a cover of a song.\nThe Maga Don Pay singer shared the story on his Instagram page while celebrating a soldier friend\u2019s birthday.\nSpeaking with Sunday Scoop, he stated that he didn\u2019t have the intention to reveal the information but all he said was true.\nHe said, \u201cIt was when Don Jazzy arrested me that I met the soldier I mentioned in my post. I wanted to wish him a happy birthday and I remembered the event. I guess people were surprised because they felt Don Jazzy could not do such.\n\"Why would you lock up your brother for doing a cover of a song. The track was titled, I\u2019m Feeling Good, by 2baba featuring D\u2019banj, while Don Jazzy produced it. If he is proud of what he did, he should respond.\u201d\nHansome also stated that Charly Boy could testify to what he was saying, as he was one of the people who helped him. He said, \u201cI signed an undertaken and they published it online with my signature.\n\"They claimed I was bailed with N500,000 but that\u2019s untrue. I didn\u2019t put out the song; it was leaked online. They even told the police to put a laptop on my hands so that people would think I was a yahoo boy (Internet fraudster).\u201d\n\"I wish he would accept that he went too far by jailing me but he will not do that because of pride. You can only deceive people for a while, not forever.\n\"He would have said something if I was lying, but he didn\u2019t admit or say a word because it was true. I am sure if he comes out to deny it, Charly Boy will speak.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.northstar.vailresorts.com/corporate/vailresorts/kasten-named-senior-communications-manager-for-northstar-california-resort.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LRYPO4P7BLEOCUDALHBQHGZ3CHPKAYWY", "length": 1935, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "news.northstar.vailresorts.com", "title": "Kasten Named Senior Communications Manager for Northstar California\u2122 Resort | Northstar", "raw_content": "Kasten Named Senior Communications Manager for Northstar California\u2122 Resort\nTruckee, California- July 26, 2013- Northstar California Resort announced the appointment of Loryn Kasten, a 13-year public relations professional, to Senior Communications Manager for the resort effective Monday, July 22nd.\n\u201cWe are thrilled to have Loryn join the Lake Tahoe team,\u201d said Bill Rock, chief operating officer for Northstar. \u201cHer extensive public relations experience in the resort and ski industry will allow Loryn to immediately contribute at a high level and effectively tell the Northstar story.\u201d\nKasten joins Northstar California after five years as the public relations manager at Steamboat Ski Resort where she was instrumental in the day-to-day public relations activities for the resort, acquiring media exposure both domestically and internationally. Prior to Steamboat, Kasten served as the communications director at Durango Mountain Resort for five years and communications coordinator at Snowshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia for two years. She began her career at Ski Magazine and 97.3 KBCO radio station in Boulder.\n\u201cI\u2019m excited to call California home and work with the Vail Resorts family,\u201d said Kasten. \u201cI look forward to sharing the Northstar story and finding new ways to gain media attention for this growing luxury, family-focused resort.\u201d\nKasten will be responsible for overseeing the Public Relations department for Northstar, including serving as a spokeswoman for the resort, planning and executing public relations initiatives, facilitating media outreach, overseeing media databases and working with the Vail Resorts corporate communications team.\nAn avid skier, Kasten was born and raised in Colorado and graduated from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Bachelor of Science in News Editorial??, Public Relations.\nLoryn Kasten\nLKasten@VailResorts.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 6436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newyorkchica.com/2014/09/hello-navi-verizons-heritage-of-tomorrow-creafuturo-somosfios/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:27Z", "digest": "sha1:C2X4YY4BNOZ3DFCTRAXXLICI3QH7TQXR", "length": 2361, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "newyorkchica.com", "title": "Hello Navi \u2013 Verizon\u2019s Heritage of Tomorrow #CreaFuturo #SomosFiOS", "raw_content": "Have you heard of the newest, innovative app called Hello Navi? If you haven\u2019t, let me give you some important information that you would love to learn about.\nHello Navi is an Android app designed for the visually impaired. The incredible app came to life after a group of students from Resaca Middle School in Los Fresnos, Texas were inspired by Andr\u00e9s Salas, a visually impaired schoolmate of theirs.\nHello Navi was designed by six Hispanic schoolgirls, as part of the Verizon Innovative App Challenge, that enables the visually impaired to navigate independently.\nIsn\u2019t that fantastic? He (along with many others) will get the opportunity to navigate inside buildings!\nTheir idea was one of the eight winners for Verizon Foundation\u2019s Innovative App Challenge, and their school was awarded with $20,000!\nThe Verizon Innovative App Challenge is an exciting, creative and collaborative competition that offers $20,000 grants for winning middle schools and high schools and Samsung Galaxy Tabs for students on the winning teams. The Challenge shows students exciting new possibilities for their futures, opening doors they may never have known were there.\nThe application consists of a voice-over that asks users their location and final destination. Then, Hello Navi speaks back and guides users with directions\u2014the steps\u2014to get to their destination. The pre-recorded locations and/or digital blueprints must be available prior to using.\nThis application is:\nGPS location based; uses compass and GPS from phone to determine location\nVoice-over based; needs voice commands to access directions and direct users to route\nGoogle Indoor Maps for digital blueprints of buildings (if available)\nHello Navi works like this:\n\u201cWhere are you?\u201d \u2013 asks user to say current location\n\u201cWhere do you want to go?\u201d \u2013 asks user to say destination\n\u201cNavigating to _______\u201d \u2013 gives step-by-step directions to desired destination\nThis application uses digital blueprints if available, but it is intended to be used to record and save destinations and routes that can be used later.\nWith Verizon\u2019s technology, we all have the power to help create a better tomorrow. Be a source of inspiration, learn the stories of others, and share your ideas to the world.\nFor some inspirational videos, click here.\nI don\u2019t think I have ever heard about this aspect of the culture. Pretty interesting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 8972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nexttolead.com/inside-out/treasure-1-generosity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OXKNZTNQ6OUACHFYXELG3B2B636ZXM7E", "length": 1002, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nexttolead.com", "title": "Treasure I \u2013 Inside: God\u2019s Ownership and Generosity | Next To Lead", "raw_content": "Treasure I \u2013 Inside: God\u2019s Ownership and Generosity\nMy friend Jess quotes his little brother\u2019s philosophy of money in saying \u201cMoney is like manure, if you pile it up it begins to stink, but if you spread it around it ends up doing some good.\u201d Generosity among American believers is at an All-Time low (even less as a percentage of income than in the Great Depression. There appears to be a renaissance among a subset of the Millenials that is correcting this through their generosity. Why is it that even though the Bible mentions money nearly 2400 times, so few pastors are prepared or desire to speak about it? \u201cAsking\u201d for money from the pulpit is reduced at best, to participating in a capital campaign vs calling people to a generous way of life. Many pastors don\u2019t talk about money from the pulpit because they have not figured out how to deal with money in their personal life.\nFor information on experiencing a free, 20-hour Journey of Generosity (JoG) retreat, please contact drdbbl@gmail.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nicktiffany.com/space-station-76-2014/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HC6LXDUMIJHW6OHXU2ZVKD3AJWECY5KX", "length": 6284, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "nicktiffany.com", "title": "Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/35/10119435/html/index.php:3) in /home/content/35/10119435/html/wp-content/plugins/youtube-simplegallery/youtube_simplegallery.php on line 137", "raw_content": "Space Station 76 (2014) - N.T.'s Movie Reviews\nWhen we think of the future now, it\u2019s not all that different from what people imagined almost 50 years ago. Flying cars, space stations, and robots control everything we do, but our future looks a bit more shiny. The commonality between decades of similar thinking, is the fact that we thought we\u2019d have all that by now. Gone are the days of white plastic ruling the world, as helper robots threatened to overthrow us. However, I think it\u2019s worth a trip back in time, just to see what it would be like.\nThe effects are stellar.\nFar out, in the outer reaches of space, Space Station 76 is sort of just floating around, waiting for something to happen. Captain Glenn (Patrick Wilson) is a struggling alcoholic, coping with the fact that he\u2019s different than others. Ted (Matt Bomer) is a mechanic who spends his time trying to please his depressed wife, Misty (Marisa Coughlan), and caring for his daughter Sunshine (Kylie Rogers. The atmosphere is quite dull on the ship, until something changes and a beautiful new woman arrives on the Space Station.\nThe arrival of Jessica (Liv Tyler) on the Space Station uneases some passengers, while others find themselves enjoying this new company. Immediately, Ted and Jessica hit it off and end up spending valuable time together and it helps that Jessica loves caring for Sunshine. Meanwhile, Misty is off galavanting with Steve (Jerry O\u2019Connell), who\u2019s pregnant wife Donna (Kali Rocha) is becoming a handful. At the end of the day, the robotic Dr. Bot (Michael Stoyanov) is there for council, as all these passengers feel a sense of isolation on this never-ending journey.\nGotta love venting to a Robot.\nSpace Station 76 harkens back to a day-and-age when man had a specific view of what the future was going to look like. Everything was going to be bright white, possibly made of plastic, and there would be tons of futuristic technology! Essentially, it\u2019s what the people of the 70\u2019s thought the 2000\u2019s would look like and my word is it glorious. The film isn\u2019t perfect, but it does have a nostalgic vibe going for it that\u2019s only amplified by a wonderful cast that plays each role with sincerity. There really is a lot to love in this small film and I certainly hope that it\u2019s one that finds its way to the masses, one way or another.\nPatrick Wilson\u2019s Captain is a far more complex character than we could imagine, as he\u2019s one dealing with his own homosexuality and how he assumes people will perceive him. Filmed like a movie that would take place in the 70\u2019s, Wilson\u2019s character would be an outcast and he plays the character with a sincerity that almost hurts. The way he acts is odd, but he offers so much more depth to his character and we really get to see a new side of Wilson that\u2019s wonderful. Equally as great, Matt Bomer\u2019s struggling father is a character that\u2019s incredibly easy to understand. He really cares about his family and their safety, most importantly the happiness of his daughter. Often, he puts everyone else\u2019s happiness first and gets very little appreciation in return, making sure we see that in his eyes and the gloomy looks he makes.\nThe command bridge seems a bit awkward now.\nLiv Tyler brings a strong female presence to this film, encompassing a character that\u2019s left alone in space without much of anything. She\u2019s never seen Earth and she only knows one way of life. She almost lives vicariously through Rogers and the two share some truly beautiful moments. Tyler works extremely well with Bomer, always unsure of her advances and flashing that all-consuming smile. Rogers is a young talent in the making, absolutely dominating her screen time and making you love her character more with every second. She\u2019s curious and alone on this Space Station and she\u2019s only looking to have fun with people who see her as a person, and not a liability. Marisa Coughlan is frustratingly good as a depressed wife who has zero purpose in her life, evident by her many deep conversations with a robot. She is always scheming and looking to kill happiness because she can\u2019t find any.\nDirector Jack Plotnick does an exceptional job of capturing what the 70\u2019s were like, focusing on the large and small aspects of what life would be like. It\u2019s clear that there\u2019s a lot of himself in this film, as much of the film is spent exploring the crew members and their personal lives. Plotnick also created a hilarious character within Dr. Bot and how humans perceived the idea of robots. The set design is flawless and the effects would be laughable, were it not the intention to make them so. Watching this film made me feel like I was revisiting a lost episode of Star Trek, except I enjoyed this far more. Plotnick really cares about authenticity on all levels and it certainly shows.\n\u201cWho\u2019s that lady?\u201d\nIt\u2019s been a while since I felt so attached to characters I barely knew. Getting a glimpse into their lives was incredible and were it not for the 90-minute run time, I would have spent much longer getting to know them. Notably, I felt like Jerry O\u2019Connell and Kali Rocha were given the most typical roles, not receiving the same level of exploration as the other cast members. It\u2019s easy to classify them in the film and they don\u2019t do much past making you a bit furious. This is another case of a film being \u201ctoo short\u201d, in my opinion, as I felt there was a lot left unresolved in the end and I wanted a bit more from the film.\nSpace Station 76 is a refreshing throwback to a time that was simpler in it\u2019s look and feel, but still very complex within the lives of its characters and the world (or ship) that they inhabited. There are some truly wonderful performances in this film that make the film worth a watch, outside of needing to watch it due to nostalgia. This film has passion written all over it and the complete 70\u2019s-ification of everything is too much fun. I did want more time on Space Station 76, but I quite enjoyed the time spent on it!\nSpace Station 76 Trailer\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2woSXodh28\nThis entry was tagged 2014 Movie, 70s, Jack Plotnick, Jerry O'Connell, Kali Rocha, Kylie Rogers, Liv Tyler, Marisa Coughlan, Matt Bomer, Michael Stoyanov, Movie, New Movie, Patrick Wilson, Sam Pancake, Space Station 76, Victor Togunde. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 7778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nigeldodds.co.uk/news.aspx?id=103499", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:53Z", "digest": "sha1:JEBFWA2XD6TNZ5WXJAVFHSZFYF5Q3QMI", "length": 1057, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "nigeldodds.co.uk", "title": "Progress on City Deals is latest DUP Confidence and Supply delivery", "raw_content": "Progress on City Deals is latest DUP Confidence and Supply delivery\nDUP Deputy Leader Nigel Dodds has said the progress made towards City Deals in Northern Ireland is the latest result of DUP delivery through the Confidence and Supply agreement. Partners in the Belfast Region City Deal have submitted their negotiating position to the Secretary of State aimed at securing \u00a31billion of investment.\nThe North Belfast MP said, \u201cThe Confidence and Supply agreement ensured the Government\u2019s commitment towards delivering city deals in Northern Ireland. Since that agreement was signed in June 2017 we have seen real progress in both Belfast and Londonderry, with the Belfast Region partners outlining plans to focus on four key investment pillars in their negotiating position.\nThe Confidence and Supply agreement has delivered for people right across the United Kingdom and particularly for vital public services in Northern Ireland. The positive developments on city deals is the latest example of how DUP influence at Westminster is delivering for everyone.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ninemousestew.com/news/?m=201101", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:00Z", "digest": "sha1:3M6JGXB5LCDA6RSB4TYMNXKGMWSO5XZ3", "length": 1344, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ninemousestew.com", "title": "ninemousestew.com \u00bb 2011 \u00bb January", "raw_content": "a trip to the hirshhorn\nBefore Ben sped away to New England, we made it down to DC to visit the Hirshhorn. We both wanted to go to see the Guillermo Kuitca show (which was interesting and definitely worth seeing), but what I ended up being most impressed with were a couple of video pieces. My favorite was a lovely video by Hans Op de Beek (plus, I just like saying his name). It is a black and white video of miniature sets of corporate offices, outdoor streets, and forests that gradually unfolds from one scene to the next. You even see hands come into view as they arrange the sets. The eery lack of people is kind of creepy but it\u2019s also fun and playful. Some become so realistic that you wonder if you always remain in the miniature or if you are occasionally catching glimpses of the real world. It\u2019s quite beautiful.\nI also enjoyed a three part video by Cyprien Gaillard. One part of the video shows fireworks being set off from atop a large building and ends with the explosion and collapse of the building. Another part shows ariel views of a decaying communist bloc community. The last is documentation of two large crowds of men fighting each other for no apparent reason. I\u2019m not sure why I can even explain why I was attracted to this piece other than each scene felt so foreign to me in such an odd way I couldn\u2019t stop watching.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nique.net/opinions/2012/02/16/physical-education-has-place-at-tech/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:01Z", "digest": "sha1:AC4R7XNDEJ24VAT4QXZ3M5XJCPB2BFD2", "length": 662, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "nique.net", "title": "Physical education has place at Tech \u2013 Technique", "raw_content": "Physical education has place at Tech\nIt is very gratifying to see that Tech intends to restore actual physical education classes.\nAs someone who was a student 40 years ago, when we were required to take and pass six quarters of physical training, my only question is, \u201cWhat took so long?\u201d I never understood the logic behind dropping the requirement in the first place, other than the administration at the time must have thought it was too much trouble.\nIt is a known fact that the famous \u201cDrownproofing\u201d class saved numerous lives of Tech alumni later in their lives. My dream would be to see it restored to the place it was developed.\nBill Brockman\nGMGT, 1973", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nordjewelers.thejewelerblog.com/archive/2013/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UXKCRBZMNVGV6RZMDNUXFGUTIUZMVP6B", "length": 45278, "nlines": 238, "source_domain": "nordjewelers.thejewelerblog.com", "title": "Entries from August 2013 | Nord Jewelers Blog", "raw_content": "Hawaii\u2019s Astonishing Green Beach Gets Its Color From Olivine Crystals Eroded From an Ancient Volcanic Formation\nImagine walking barefoot on a blanket of sparkling green sand that owes its astounding color to olivine crystals eroded from an ancient volcanic formation and delivered to the shore by ocean waves.\nMahana Beach on Hawaii\u2019s Papakolea coast is one of only two green sand beaches in the world. The beach sand on the Big Island\u2019s undeveloped southern tip is rich in the mineral olivine (gem-quality olivine is known as peridot, the August birthstone). Olivine is a common mineral component of Hawaiian lavas and one of the first crystals to form as magma cools.\nLocals refer to peridot as the \u201cHawaiian Diamond,\u201d and small peridot stones are sold as \"Pele's tears\" in honor of Pele, the goddess of volcanoes. In ancient Hawaiian chants, Pele was described as \u201cShe-who-shapes-the-sacred-land,\u201d and her temper was known to be both as abundant and dangerous as the lava.\nThose daring enough to take the three-mile hike through lava fields to the remote beach at the crescent-shaped bay of Pu'u Mahana, will be treated to a display of one of nature\u2019s crowning achievements \u2014 a green beach that appears surreal against the backdrop of steely grey cliffs, turquoise blue ocean and bright blue sky. \u201cAt sunset, the play of colors against the sand is simply breathtaking,\u201d noted the web site justthetravel.com.\nThe abundance of olivine crystals filling the beach comes from the eroded cutaway interior of Pu'u Mahana, a volcanic cone produced more than 49,000 years ago by the explosive combination of lava and groundwater.\nThe official birthstone for August, peridot is one of the few gemstones that occur in only one color: generally an olive green. The amount of iron in the crystal structures determines the intensity and tint of the green color. Specimens can range from yellow-green through olive green to brownish green. The dark-olive color is the most valuable.\nMusic Friday: Katy Perry Wants to Be \u2018Pretty in Pearls\u2019 \u2014 Not \u2018One of the Boys\u2019 \u2014 in the Title Track of Her 2008 Blockbuster Album\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you fun tunes with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today\u2019s selection is Katy Perry\u2019s \u201cOne of the Boys,\u201d the title track from her blockbuster 2008 album.\nIn a song recounting her turbulent high-school days, Perry sings about shedding her tomboy image: \u201cI just wanna be one of the girls, pretty in pearls. Not one of the boys.\u201d\nLater in the song, she tells a guy who used to treat her like a little sister that he may have a chance one day, \u201cBut not until you give me my diamond ring.\u201d\nToday\u2019s song is the first track from One of the Boys, Perry\u2019s Grammy-nominated second studio album. The album has sold more than five million copies worldwide and charted four songs on the Billboard Hot 100.\nBorn Katheryn Elizabeth \"Katy\" Hudson, the 28-year-old Perry can boast nine Grammy Award nominations and the title of Billboard\u2019s 2012 Woman of the Year. She\u2019s credited with being the only artist to spend 69 consecutive weeks in the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100.\nI saw a spider, I didn't scream\n'Cause I can belch the alphabet\n'Cause they just get in my way\nSo I don't wanna be one of the boys\nI started reading \"Seventeen\" and shaving my legs\nAnd I studied \"Lolita\" religiously\n'Cause I know what you know\nBut now you're gonna have to take a number\nSinger Kelly Clarkson Blocked From Taking Novelist Jane Austen\u2019s Ring Out of the UK; Authorities Say It\u2019s a \u2018National Treasure\u2019\nDescribing novelist Jane Austen\u2019s turquoise ring as a \u201cnational treasure\u201d that must be \u201csaved for the nation,\u201d British authorities are blocking singer Kelly Clarkson\u2019s attempt to take her $231,227 auction prize out of the country.\nThe same authorities are appealing for a UK buyer to come forward with a matching offer while a temporary export ban is in place. British buyers have to make a play for the near-200-year-old ring before the ban is lifted on October 1.\n\u201cJane Austen\u2019s modest lifestyle and her early death (at age 41) mean that objects associated with her of any kind are extremely rare, so I hope that a UK buyer comes forward so this simple but elegant ring can be saved for the nation,\u201d UK Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said in a statement.\nThe 2002 \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d winner and pop sensation purchased the rare turquoise and gold ring in July 2012 at a Sotheby\u2019s auction in London. It is one of only three pieces of jewelry in existence that can be connected to the famous 19th century author of such critically acclaimed novels as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma.\nThe provenance of the ring is well documented. Austen, who lived from 1775 until 1817, gave it to her sister, Cassandra, who then gave it to her sister-in-law Eleanor Austen when she became engaged to Henry Thomas Austen. The ring has remained in the Austen family ever since, according to the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport.\n\u201cJane Austen placed great significance on jewelry\u2019s link to personal relationships both in her life and in her novels,\u201d the Department of Culture said in a statement.\nABC News reported that Clarkson\u2019s fianc\u00e9, Brandon Blackstock, had a replica of the Austen ring made for the singer while she waits for the outcome of this intercontinental drama.\nClarkson agreed to sell the ring if a British buyer comes forward. But, even if she relinquishes the ring, she still possesses an important piece of Austen memorabilia \u2014 a first-edition copy of Persuasion that she purchased at the same Sotheby\u2019s auction last July.\nRuby Jewelry Collection Featured by \u2018Antiques Roadshow\u2019 in 1998 Has Nearly Doubled in Value\nA fabulous Burmese ruby jewelry collection originally valued at $257,000 during a 1998 episode of \u201cAntiques Roadshow\u201d recently earned a return visit from the popular PBS show and an updated appraisal \u2014 with surprising results. The three pieces, which included a diamond-and-ruby ring, bracelet and pendant, are now worth $400,000 to $450,000.\nNow in its 17th season, \u201cAntiques Roadshow\u201d travels to various cities to connect professional appraisers with ordinary people curious to learn what their family heirlooms or yard-sale bargains may be worth. Sometimes the so-called \u201ctreasures\u201d are exposed as fakes and other times they\u2019re worth a fortune.\nDuring the revisited 1998 episode, veteran appraiser Berj Zavian told a stunned woman in Richmond, Va., that the jewelry she inherited from her great aunt \u2014 the wife of a congressman who liked to lavish her with jewels \u2014 was worth more than a quarter millions dollars.\nZavian explained that two of the pieces were from the Art Deco period (circa 1925) and one was dated to the 19th century. They each featured fine-quality Burmese rubies set in platinum. The dual diamond-and-ruby pendant was worth $12,000 and the diamond-and-ruby ring was worth $80,000, but the real showstopper was the diamond-and-ruby bracelet.\nHighlighted by a rare 3.5-carat Burmese ruby, the bracelet was adorned by 30 smaller rubies, 70 baguette diamonds and 144 round diamonds. The diamond carat weight totaled 15 carats.\n\u201cWait, you haven't heard anything yet,\u201d Zavian said to build some suspense. \u201cNow, your rubies in here are magnificent. Your bracelet is worth $165,000.\u201d\n\u201cI never thought it would be that much,\u201d said the stunned guest.\n\u201cThe three pieces together in today's market are worth somewhere about $257,000,\u201d said Zavian.\n\u201cWow,\u201d she said.\nAt the conclusion of the segment a bold graphic summarized the value of the ruby collection \u2014 $257,000. But, then a second graphic added for last week\u2019s \"vintage\" episode swooped into the frame with the updated value of $400,000 to $450,000.\nThe dramatic change in value over 15 years illustrates the importance of keeping jewelry appraisals up to date. For instance, if the jewelry featured on \u201cAntiques Roadshow\u201d had been lost or stolen before the new appraisal, the owner may have been woefully underinsured.\nAn updated appraisal is also indispensable when trying to ascertain the value of one\u2019s jewelry for estate purposes, divorce settlements, private sales and loans. Experts advise that appraisals should be updated every two to three years.\n'Bachelorette' Desiree Hartsock\u2019s New Engagement Ring Features a 3.5-Carat Cushion-Cut Diamond Set in Entwined Bands of Platinum and Rose Gold\nWhen heartthrob finalist Chris Siegfried met with designer Neil Lane to select an engagement ring for \u201cThe Bachelorette\u201d Desiree Hartsock, he was immediately drawn to the beauty, symbolism and Old World charm of an unusual handcrafted design with entwined bands of platinum and rose gold, according to peoplestylewatch.com.\nThe ring features a large cushion-cut center diamond encircled by a halo of smaller diamonds. More than 200 diamonds are incorporated into the flowing vine-like design for a total of 3.5 carats. The ring is reportedly worth $75,000.\nSiegfried got down on bended knee and presented the vintage-style diamond ring to Hartsock on Monday night\u2019s emotional finale of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Bachelorette.\u201d The two-hour program and one-hour after-show was viewed by nearly 9 million teary-eyed fans.\n\"I want to be your first and I want to be your last. Will you marry me?\" Siegfried asked. Hartsock accepted the ring and gave him the final rose. They embraced, they kissed \u2014 a happy ending to a turbulent season that almost ended with The Bachelorette going home alone and broken-hearted.\nAfter last week\u2019s episode, many viewers feared that Hartsock would leave the show. She had been \u201cdevastated\u201d and \u201cblindsided\u201d when her first choice, Brooks Forester, revealed that he wasn\u2019t ready to make a commitment. But, instead of abandoning her quest for love, she decided to move forward with the two men still vying for her affection \u2014 Siegfried and Drew Kenney.\nPeoplestylewatch.com reported that Lane arrived in Antigua with six engagement ring options for the final two suitors. One of the rings featured rose gold embellishments, and that\u2019s the one that caught Siegfried\u2019s attention. Apparently, he preferred a style that was romantic, feminine and sophisticated, and the rose gold ring was the perfect match.\nExplaining the symbolism behind the platinum-and-rose gold design, the designer told peoplestylewatch.com, \u201cThe ring entwines the bands into one, just as Des and Chris are two people wrapped into one couple and forever entwined. It\u2019s beautiful.\u201d\nWhen Siegfried was picking out the ring, he reportedly told Lane that he was so excited that \u201con a scale from one to 100, I\u2019m a 101.\u201d\nKate Middleton\u2019s Royal \u2018Push Present\u2019 Will Be a Custom-Designed Pink Diamond Brooch, Say British Tabloids\nPrince William has enlisted Queen Elizabeth\u2019s personal jewelers to create a royal \u201cpush present\u201d for Kate Middleton to commemorate the July 22 birth of their first child, Prince George Alexander Louis. British tabloids are reporting that the gift is a fancy-color pink diamond brooch and that William has been active in the jewelry-design process. Apparently, he\u2019s contributed a number of ideas to make the piece more sentimental.\nA member of William\u2019s \u201cinner circle\u201d told The Daily Express, \"William has been giving this a lot of thought for a long time. He's got lots of ideas from studying [the] history of art at [the] university and decided on a pink diamond as a centerpiece because it is pretty and feminine. It will be a thank you present to Kate.\"\nWilliam\u2019s post-birth gift for Kate follows a family tradition employed a generation ago by his father, Prince Charles. When Princess Diana gave birth to William, Charles gave the Princess an engraved gold medallion with \u201cWilliam\u201d inscribed in his own writing and a gold charm in the shape of a \"W.\"\nAccording to The Daily Express, William had initially planned to give Kate an item from his late mother\u2019s jewelry collection \u2014 she already wears Diana\u2019s engagement ring \u2014 but decided that something from him would be more appropriate and sentimental.\nIt comes as no surprise that a pink diamond was eventually chosen for this special gift because pink diamonds have been a favorite of the Royal Family for generations.\nQueen Elizabeth II possesses the most famous pink diamond in the world\u2014the Williamson Pink. Canadian geologist John Williamson presented the flawless 54-carat uncut pink diamond as a wedding present to the Queen back in 1947. It was later faceted and set as the 23.60-carat center of a flower brooch for Elizabeth\u2019s coronation in 1952. She has worn it regularly for 60 years.\nLast year, a large pink diamond from the Rio Tinto mining company was named \u201cArgyle Pink Jubilee\u201d in honor of Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee. Originally billed as the largest pink diamond ever found in Australia, the 12.76 carat rough diamond could only be partially cut and polished because of a number of internal flaws that were discovered after the process had begun. It was subsequently donated to Australia\u2019s Melbourne Museum.\nMusic Friday: The Beatles Sing About Buying a Diamond Ring \u2018If It Makes You Feel All Right\u2019 in \u2018Can\u2019t Buy Me Love\u2019\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you sensational songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today\u2019s song is the forever-young \u201cCan\u2019t Buy Me Love\u201d from the Beatles\u2019 third studio album, A Hard Day\u2019s Night.\nRecorded in 1964 by the best-selling and most influential band in rock history, \u201cCan\u2019t Buy Me Love\u201d leads off with the famous sing-along line, \u201cI'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend, if it makes you feel all right.\u201d\nMcCartney told an interviewer in 2000 that the idea behind the song \u201cwas that all these material possessions are all very well, but they won't buy me what I really want.\" And, what he wants, apparently, is love.\nWhen \u201cCan\u2019t Buy Me Love\u201d went to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on April 4, 1964, the entire Top 5 that day was filled with Beatles\u2019 songs, including \"Twist and Shout,\" \"She Loves You,\" \"I Want to Hold Your Hand\" and \"Please Please Me.\" This amazing accomplishment has never been repeated.\nSee the classic live performance of the Beatles performing \u201cCan\u2019t By Me Love\u201d at the end of this post. The lyrics are below\u2026\nCan't buy me love, oh\nI'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend\nEverybody tells me so\nBuy me love, oh\nOlympian Jessica Hardy Harnesses Power of the \u2018Twitterverse\u2019 to Retrieve Engagement Ring Lost During World Swimming Championships\nOlympic gold medal winner Jessica Hardy harnessed the amazing power of the Twitterverse \u2014 and her 36,436 followers \u2014 to retrieve an engagement ring she accidentally gave away at the conclusion of the World Swimming Championships in Barcelona last week.\nAfter snagging two bronze and one gold medal at the high-profile competition, the 26-year-old beauty gave the backpack she had been using during the week to one of the local volunteers. According to swimmingworldmagazine.com., it is customary for world-class athletes to give away their backpacks, apparel and trinkets to thank the volunteers for their hard work.\nLittle did Hardy realize that the engagement ring she had removed during her 50m and 100m breaststroke events on the last day of the championships was still in the backpack. Hardy is engaged to a fellow Olympian, Swiss swimmer Dom Meichtry.\nRealizing her massive blunder, Hardy quickly turned to her universe of Twitter followers to help with the search.\n\"I gave away my arena backpack w my engagement ring in it,\" she Tweeted. \"To a volunteer in blue shirt. Pls rt & help me find it. Please!!!!!!\"\nIn a follow-up Tweet, she described where the ring was located in the bag.\nWithin 30 minutes, the three-stone diamond engagement ring was back in her possession.\n\"I GOT IT!!\u201d she wrote. \u201cThank u #bcn2013 for ur AMAZING volunteers. Amazing amazing.\"\nAbout 90 minutes later, Hardy posted a photo of herself posing with the super-honest volunteer, who had apparently swapped his blue shirt for a red one. The caption read, \"This is who found my ring tonight. Thanks so much #bcn2013 volunteers, appreciate nice people in this world!!!\"\nEqually pleased with the quick recovery was Hardy\u2019s fianc\u00e9, who posted a Tweet of his own, complete with a winking emoticon.\n\"Thanks to everyone who helped @swimhardy & I breathe a sigh of relief,\u201d Meichtry Tweeted. \u201cFound the ring. Engaged twice now.\"\nThe aquatic couple will be wed in California this October.\nEx-Rugby Star\u2019s Romantic Marriage Proposal to Model Girlfriend Is One for the Ages; Viral Video Has 453,000+ Views\nWhen Tess Montgomery arrived at a luxury hotel on the island of Favigana near Sicily, the Swedish-born model assumed she was there to participate in a fashion shoot. Actually, her love-struck boyfriend \u2014 former rugby star Garth Chamberlain \u2014 had set up the elaborate ruse to create the perfect venue for an unforgettable marriage proposal.\nChamberlain secretly traveled to the same hotel just ahead of Montgomery to set up hidden cameras that would document the surprise proposal. The resulting 5:47 video, which included more than 60 time-lapse clips and 100 still photographs recounting the jet-setting couple\u2019s three-year courtship, has become an instant YouTube sensation with more than 453,000 views.\nOriginally from Zimbabwe and now living in London, Chamberlain worked with Montgomery\u2019s modeling agency, MOT Models, to fake a booking that would have his girlfriend heading to one of the most scenic and romantic places on Earth \u2014 the Cas\u2019almare Hotel in Favigana.\nWhen Montgomery arrived on the hotel\u2019s gorgeous terrace she expected to meet with a photographer and his crew but, instead, a hotel staffer handed her an iPad. With boyfriend Chamberlain hiding just out of site, the iPad played a video that explained in an elaborately edited montage why she is really in Italy.\nIn the video, Chamberlain returns to the London pub where he saw his love for the very first time. He also includes a segment where he travels to Sweden to ask Montgomery\u2019s father, Holger, for his daughter\u2019s hand in marriage.\nAs the video concludes, Chamberlain comes out of his hiding spot and joins Montgomery on the terrace. He gets down on one knee, pulls out a ring box containing a princess-cut diamond solitaire and proposes to his delighted and overwhelmed girlfriend. Of course, she says, \u201cYes.\u201d A wedding is planned for New Year\u2019s Eve 2014 in Zimbabwe.\nOn her blog, Montgomery commented, \u201cI was stunned \u2013 Garth made the most romantic proposal in the world and I am one very lucky lady.\u201d\nChamberlain revealed to MailOnline.com how he was able to beat Montgomery to the island destination so he could do the setup: \u201cWe managed to get her over to Italy after a little stopover flight, so I could get there before her and set everything up.\u201d\nAn edited version of the epic proposal is titled \u201cWhat Really Happened in Italy.\u201d The viral video is below.\nSinger Kelly Clarkson Nearly Foiled in Her Bid to Keep Rare Turquoise Ring Once Owned by Novelist Jane Austen\nIt looks like pop star Kelly Clarkson will never take possession of a turquoise ring once owned by novelist Jane Austen, despite having won it fair and square at Sotheby\u2019s London auction last summer. A deep-pocketed patron of Jane Austen\u2019s House Museum donated $155,000 toward a fund that will likely keep the ring in Britain.\nEarlier this month, British officials declared the famous novelist\u2019s turquoise cabochon ring a national treasure and temporarily blocked the export of the ring in the hope that someone locally would come forward to match the $235,000 price that Clarkson paid at auction. The Texas-born singer agreed to sell the ring if an equal offer was made.\nThrough their website and Facebook page, curators of Jane Austen\u2019s House Museum made a plea for donations. The \u201cGive Jane Austen a Ring\u201d campaign quickly received an anonymous donation of \u00a3100,000 (about $155,000) that will take the museum two-thirds of the way toward meeting its financial goal. Representatives of the museum are confident that they will be able to buy the ring from Clarkson and put it on display in Chawton.\nA post on the museum's website reads, \"Total after the weekend stands at \u00a3103,200 after an ASTONISHING private donation of \u00a3100,000. Only another \u00a349,000 to go!\"\nThe museum, which occupies the 17th century house where Austen spent the last eight years of her life, already owns two of the writer\u2019s jewelry items. These include a turquoise bracelet and a topaz cross.\nAusten, the author of Pride and Prejudice and five other iconic novels of the early 19th century, died in 1817 at age 41 and left the turquoise ring to her sister; it remained in the family until it was sold at auction last year.\nClarkson, a longtime fan of Austen\u2019s work, won the ring anonymously in July 2012 when she outlasted seven other bidders, including Jane Austen\u2019s House Museum. She ended up paying five times Sotheby's high estimate for the rare ring.\nEven though the writer passed away nearly 200 years ago, Austen still maintains near-rock-star status in the U.K. Her image is set to appear on the 10-pound banknote starting in 2017.\nMeanwhile, Clarkson is reportedly wearing a replica of the Austen ring while the international drama plays out and she anxiously awaits the fate of her much-coveted British treasure.\nDubai\u2019s 30-Day Weight-Loss Challenge Rewards Successful Dieters With Gold Bullion Coins\nThe super-wealthy \u2014 but increasingly corpulent \u2014 city-state of Dubai is about to reward successful dieters with one gram of pure gold for every kilogram of weight they\u2019ve lost during the previous 30 days.\nThe creative \u201cYour Weight in Gold\u201d initiative, during which \u201cthe more you lose, the more you gain,\u201d was devised to encourage healthier lifestyle choices and draw awareness to a national crisis where diabetes cases are skyrocketing and adult obesity rates exceed 33 percent.\nLast month, thousands of Dubai\u2019s citizens signed up and weighed in at a number of sites throughout the city. Participants were promised about $19 in gold for every pound they lost during the 30-day period that ends this Friday. Medical and nutritional experts were on hand to advise people on the proper ways to lose weight.\nParticipants had to shed at least 2 kilograms (about 4.4 pounds) to qualify for an award, and there was no limit on the payout. The top-three dieters will get bonus gold coins worth as much as $5,400.\nAfter three days of weigh-ins starting tomorrow, the municipality will SMS the participants with their results. Then they will be invited to attend an awards ceremony to claim their gold.\nDubai\u2019s extreme wealth, hot climate, sedentary lifestyle, fondness for curvy figures and affinity for high-calorie American-style fast food have all contributed to the country\u2019s collective weight problem.\nBeing overweight or obese is linked to increased risk for chronic diseases, including heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and some cancers. In June, the American Medical Association officially classified obesity itself as a disease, according to cbsnews.com.\nMusic Friday: Amethyst and Sapphire Make Glittering Cameos in Wang Chung\u2019s \u2018Dance Hall Days'\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you cool songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. In 1984, British New Wave band Wang Chung helped define a generation with its international hit \u201cDance Hall Days.\u201d The memorable song, which continues to be a darling of Hollywood filmmakers, includes last-verse mentions of two popular gemstones \u2014 amethyst and sapphire.\nLead singer/composer Jack Hues sings: \u201cSo take your baby by the wrist, and in her mouth an amethyst. And in her eyes two sapphires blue, and you need her and she needs you.\u201d\nHues explained the curious mouthful-of-amethyst reference in a recent interview with \u201cJust My Show\u201d podcast host Eric Greenberg. The song begins innocently, he said, with the line, \u201cTake your baby by the hand.\u201d But, by the last verse, the tone has escalated to \u201cTake your baby by the wrists, and in her mouth an amethyst.\u201d\n\u201cDance Hall Days,\u201d which charted in 12 countries and peaked in the U.S. at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, put a New Wave timestamp on a slew of popular movies, including Bachelor Party, Pretty in Pink, Gotti, Romy and Michele\u2019s High School Reunion, Adventureland, The Informers and The Fighter.\nThe band\u2019s unusual name translates to \u201cyellow bell\u201d in Mandarin Chinese. Wang Chung is also the first note in the Chinese classical music scale.\nDon\u2019t miss the 2012 live performance of \u201cDance Hall Days\u201d at the end of this post. The lyrics are below if you\u2019d like to sing along.\nAnd make her do a high handstand\nTake your baby by the heel\nOh, I said\nDance hall, days love\nAnd pull her close and there there there\nTake your baby by the ears\nSo take your baby by the wrist\nAnd in her mouth an amethyst\nAnd in her eyes two sapphires blue\nJustin Bieber Accepts Marriage Proposal From Adorable Make-A-Wish Girl; Delights 8-Year-Old Fan With Her First Kiss and Candy Engagement Ring\nTeen pop megastar Justin Bieber made a little girl\u2019s dream come true last week when he gave the eight-year-old fan her first kiss (on the cheek) and accepted her marriage proposal at a Make-A-Wish Foundation event in Atlanta.\nBieber made the \"engagement\" extra special by getting down on one knee and putting a blue-and-red Ring Pop on the finger of adorable Annalysha Brown-Rafanan. The young fan, who is suffering from a life threatening liver condition, chose to meet Bieber because \u201che\u2019s cute and I love him.\u201d\nThe Make-A-Wish Foundation thrilled Rafanan on Christimas Day 2012 with the news she would get to meet Bieber and attend his concert in Atlanta on August 10, 2013, according to the New York Daily News.\nThe 19-year-old singer has granted 200 wishes to date, making him the most charitable celebrity in the history of the Make-A-Wish Foundation.\nAfter taking photos with Bieber, the vivacious little fan was given an opportunity to interview the star. Reading carefully from her notecard, she asked Bieber a number of questions, including \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite place to travel?\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s your favorite video game?\u201d But the last, and most important, question was, \u201cWill you marry me?\u201d\nBut when Rafanan presented Bieber with the Ring Pop, the pop star reached for the larger-than-life jewel-shaped candy ring and said, \u201cI\u2019m supposed to ask you.\u201d Then he got down on one knee and said, \u201cWill you marry me?\u201d and the delighted little girl said, \u201cYes.\u201d\nWhen asked how it feels to be Bieber's 200th wish, Rafanan said, \"It feels great because... he kissed me.\"\nBieber's mother, Pattie Mallette, told Andy Cohen on \"Watch What Happens: Live\" that the pop star meets with Make-A-Wish recipients before almost every concert.\n\"This is what it is about. Thanks,\" Bieber tweeted to the Make-A-Wish Foundation's Twitter account.\nThe next day, he followed up with another enthusiastic tweet: \"Honored yesterday. one of the best moments ive ever had. thank u. looking forward to doing more together. thanks.\"\n\u201cEntertainment Tonight\u201d covered the heartwarming Make-A-Wish event. The video is below\u2026\n\u2018The Premier Blue\u2019 Diamond Expected to Crush Price-Per-Carat Record at Sotheby\u2019s Hong Kong\n\u201cThe Premier Blue\u201d is expected to set a new price-per-carat record when it makes its auction debut at Sotheby\u2019s Hong Kong on October 7. The exceptional gem is the largest round brilliant fancy vivid blue diamond ever graded by the Gemological Institute of America.\nIf The Premier Blue meets its pre-sale estimate of $19 million, the internally flawless 7.59-carat gem will establish a new auction record at $2.5 million per carat, the highest per-carat price ever paid for any diamond.\nIn April, British billionaire Laurence Graff placed the winning bid of $9.5 million at Bonhams' Fine Jewellery sale in London and came away with a 5.3-carat fancy deep-blue diamond Trombino ring. Graff\u2019s blue diamond is the current record holder at $1.8 million per carat.\nNamed for the famous South African mine where it was unearthed, The Premier Blue features three characteristics that are extraordinarily rare for a colored diamond \u2014 its size, fancy vivid color and round shape.\nThe round brilliant shape is infrequently chosen for a large fancy-color diamond because more than half of the original weight is typically lost in the cutting and polishing process. In the case of The Premier Blue, the cutter decided for opt for maximum brilliance.\nBlue diamonds get their color from a rare natural phenomenon when a little bit of boron gets trapped in the carbon crystal structure. It is estimated that one out of 200,000 diamonds found in the world has any hint of a blue color to it, and typically it\u2019s a very pale blue.\nQuek Chin Yeow, Sotheby Asia's deputy chairman, said Hong Kong was the natural venue to sell The Premier Blue, because Asian buyers prefer round cuts and fancy-color diamonds.\nPrior to the sale, Sotheby\u2019s will be previewing the stone, along with other auction items, in six Asian cities, as well as Geneva, London, New York and Doha.\nA Summer He'll Never Forget: 12-Year-Old Boy Finds 5-Carat Rough Diamond and Lands a Spot on \u2018Good Morning America\u2019\nYoung Michael Dettlaff will never forget the Summer of '13. Not only did the 12-year-old Boy Scout find a huge 5.16-carat rough diamond at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, but the story of his prospecting success was featured on ABC\u2019s \u201cGood Morning America.\u201d\nGMA\u2019s five million viewers learned how the vacationing North Carolinian snapped up the jelly-bean-sized, honey-brown diamond within 10 minutes of arriving at the popular Arkansas destination, and almost left the park without getting the stone checked out.\n\u201cI was looking around on the ground and found it on top,\" Michael told GMA. \"It was very glassy. Very smooth. It didn\u2019t look like anything else around it.\"\nAt first, Michael and his family didn\u2019t think it was a diamond. \"Later on in the day, right when we were ready to quit, my wife showed it to me again and then I thought, you know, that might really be something,\" said Chris Dettlaff, Michael\u2019s dad.\nAt that point, Michael and his sister visited the park\u2019s identification center, where specimens are analyzed for free.\n\"When I brought this rock out of the bag, the guy who's there, he just went bug-eyed and he said, 'Hang on a second. I need to take this to the back room,'\" Michael recounted. \"So then people start coming from everywhere and they're like, 'Oh yeah. It's a big diamond.'\"\nThe 5.16-carat gem is the 27th largest diamond ever found at the diamond site. Once cut and faceted, the honey-brown diamond could be worth as much as $15,000, GMA reported.\n\"If it can get cut and it's valuable, I think I'd probably want to have it cut and sell it,\" the young prospector said. \"If it's not, well, then it's a souvenir.\"\nAs is the custom at Crater of Diamonds State Park, Michael got the honor of naming his prized gemstone. He called it \u201cGod\u2019s Glory Diamond.\u201d\nThe search area at the park is a 37 1/2-acre plowed field, which is actually the eroded surface of an ancient volcanic crater. It\u2019s the only diamond-producing site in the world where amateur miners get to keep what they find. Park admission costs $7 ($4 for children).\nBack in April, a recreational prospector celebrating her 30th birthday made news when she scooped up a 2.10-carat iced-tea brown diamond.\nBreakthrough Technology Gives This Titanium Ring the Power to Unlock a Smartphone, Transfer Contact Info or Even Start Your Car\nA breakthrough product, called the NFC Ring, has the ability to remember your passwords, unlock your smartphone or tablet, share contact information or even start your car. It requires no power supply and can \u201cconnect\u201d with another NFC-enabled device with the swipe of your hand.\nThe technological magic behind the titanium ring is called \u201cnear field communication,\u201d or NFC. The NFC ring is designed with two data panels, a larger one on the top for public information and a smaller one on the bottom for private information, such as passwords.\nA fist-bump hand gesture (exposing the top of the ring) might transfer your Twitter handle or email address to a new friend, while an open-hand gesture (exposing the bottom of the ring) might open the lock on your NFC-enabled front door or even start your car.\nThe ring is designed so that it must come within a millimeter of another NFC-enabled device for it to be recognized. This reduces the risk of the data being accidentally or maliciously read, according to technologyreview.com.\nThe ring\u2019s two data panels are programmable by the user. The Open Source technology will allow creative developers to come up with their own uses for the NFC ring. The company is also making the CAD files available so designers can fabricate rings on their own, presumably purchasing the data panels from the company.\nNFC Ring inventor John McLear got the initial funding for his project through a Kickstarter campaign, where supporters got to make a $43 donation toward a goal of $46,000. At the end of the campaign, the NFC ring had 7,665 backers and McLear had raised $380,000.\nThe first NFC rings will hit the market this fall. Pricing for the rings has yet to be revealed.\nMusic Friday: Country Star Jake Owen Sings About the 'Days of Gold'\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you chart-topping songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today we present \u201cDays of Gold,\u201d the brand new release from country star Jake Owen.\nA song about enjoying the good times, \u201cDays of Gold\u201d made its debut at #37 this week on Billboard\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart. Its instant success was helped along by the singer's August 8 appearance on NBC\u2019s \u201cLate Night With Jimmy Fallon,\u201d where he performed the song live.\nThe title track from Owen's fourth studio album, \u201cDays of Gold\u201d has earned critical acclaim. Taste of Country music reviewer Billy Dukes wrote that \u201cDays of Gold\u201d isn\u2019t a song, it\u2019s a statement. \u201cWords like \u2018uptempo\u2019 or \u2018rockin\u2019 don\u2019t even begin to describe the pace the singer keeps up for over three spellbinding minutes,\u201d he wrote.\nThe Vero Beach, Fla., native first captured the national spotlight with his hits \u201cStartin\u2019 With Me,\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Think I Can\u2019t Love You\u201d and \u201cEight Second Ride.\u201d He earned a Grammy nomination in 2008 and was named the Academy of Country Music\u2019s Top New Vocalist in 2009.\nSee the end of this post for a video of Owen singing \u201cDays of Gold.\u201d The lyrics are below if you\u2019d like to sing along.\nWritten by Jaren Johnston and Neil Mason. Performed by Jake Owen.\nLong truck bed hop in it, fire engine red like her lip stick\nOut here we can let it go\nbut just me and my good friends\nJuggle wine little sip out here baby you just never know\nYeah, these are the days of gold\nWell it's a southern summer with whiskeys in the air dogs on the burner\nBeers ice cold and got a pretty little lady to hold\nSouthern summer and that sun shining down like Daddy's silver dollar\nGotta hop on the old dirt road these are the days of gold\nA little July sky so high moon shine by the riverside\nStealing hearts and running wild\nYeah our own little world Tennessee boys and girls running free out here it's good time for miles\nA little bit of you, a little bit of me\nWhat you wanna do, what's it's gonna be\nWe can get wild, we can live free\nOr you can shake it for me baby like a tambourine.\nSlice of watermelon and you spit the seeds\nSweat on you back stickin to the seats\nwe can take off and beat the heat or bubbles on you honey like a bumble bee\nYeah it's a southern summer with whiskeys in the air dogs on the burner\nFirst Million Digits of Pi Successfully Micro-Engraved on 3-Inch Gold and Sapphire Pendant\nOn Friday, a Reno, Nev.-based microfabrication firm revealed that it successfully engraved the first million digits of the infinite number pi on a three-inch gold and sapphire pendant. This amazing technology has exciting jewelry applications, and the \"pi\" accomplishment is neatly timed to align with next year's especially significant Pi Day.\nPi Day is celebrated around the world on March 14, because the first three digits of pi are 3.14. Next year's Pi Day celebration will be particularly memorable as 3/14/15 represent the first five digits of pi, 3.1415.\n\"We plan to revolutionize jewelry, fashion and art with a light-scattering marriage of technology and meaning,\" said Jesse Adams, Ph.D., and co-founder of NanoJems.\nImagine wearing the complete text of William Shakespeare\u2019s 154 sonnets (that\u2019s 17,700 words) micro-engraved on a quarter-inch crystal and mounted in a heart locket? Or perhaps you\u2019d like to own a pendant featuring two micro-engraved crystals containing the 90,000 words of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Hobbit.\nUsing a patented micro-engraving technology, NanoJems makes it all possible. The company can print characters so small that 10 could fit neatly across the width of a human hair. The engravings can be read using a high-powered microscope.\nWhat\u2019s more, the technology also allows for image printing. The company can produce Instagram and Facebook mashups that combine up to 30 images and up to 20,000 words into custom light-projectable collectibles. NanoJems explained that a micro-engraved mashup could be projected using an iPhone or Android flashlight or other light source.\nThe company described its creative \u201ccanvas\u201d as either uniform crystals or solid, thin slices of pure sapphire, which can be intricately patterned with gold and platinum and other precious metals and films. It also can be covered with translucent layer of diamond.\nNanoJems is attempting to generate new funding with a Kickstarter campaign that ends at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, August 27. As of Monday morning, NanoJems had received pledges of $9,796 toward its goal of $16,800.\nOne Direction's Zayn Malik Proposes to Little Mix's Perrie Edwards With Stunning 3-Stone Engagement Ring\nOne Direction\u2019s Zayn Malik proposed to Little Mix\u2019s Perrie Edwards last Sunday with a dazzling three-stone diamond engagement ring. Celebrity web sites, bloggers and the Twittersphere gave a unanimous thumbs-up to the romantic and symbolic ring, describing it as \u201camazing,\u201d \u201chuge\u201d and \u201cblinding.\u201d\nThe stars must be in perfect alignment for the 20-year-old boy band heartthrob. Not only did Edwards accept his proposal, but a few days later the blonde beauty showed off the ring for the first time at the world premiere of One Direction\u2019s film, \u201cThis Is Us.\u201d And to put an exclamation point on a perfect week, One Direction\u2019s \u201cBest Song Ever\u201d earned a coveted Moonman as the \u201cBest Summer Song\u201d at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.\nMalik, who reported asked Edwards\u2019 parents for their blessing before popping the question last Sunday, chose the most symbolic of all the engagement ring styles. The three-stone ring symbolizes the couple\u2019s past, present and future. Most often, this design features a larger round \u201cpresent\u201d diamond in the center, flanked by two smaller round diamonds, representing the past and the future.\nIn two-plus years since being \u201cdiscovered\u201d on Britain\u2019s The X Factor, Malik and One Direction have conquered the music world. They have millions of devoted fans and their debut album went to #1 in 15 countries.\nThe 20-year-old Edwards and Little Mix were also contestants on The X Factor. In fact, Edwards and Malik met backstage during the show in 2011, the year Little Mix finished first in the singing competition.\nAn overjoyed Edwards turned to Twitter this past week to flaunt her new engagement ring. The silly photo booth images show Edwards hamming it up with her BFF Katherine Spires.\nUltra-Rare 10-Carat Fancy Blue Diamond Hits the Market With a Price Tag of $9.8 Million\nLast week we reported on a 7.59-carat flawless blue diamond that\u2019s expected to break the price-per-carat auction record at Sotheby\u2019s Hong Kong in October. Now we\u2019ve learned that another \u2014 even larger \u2014 ultra-rare fancy blue diamond is on the market. Turning heads at M.S. Rau Antiques in New Orleans is the 10.06-carat radiant-cut \u201cRoyal Blue.\u201d\nWhile Sotheby\u2019s star attraction is expected to fetch $19 million, the M.S. Rau headliner is being offered at a comparatively modest $9.8 million.\nThe sky-colored Royal Blue is set in a beautiful platinum and rose gold ring, which is adorned with 96 vivid pink diamonds weighing 1.02 carats and 62 white diamonds weighing .97 carats.\nThe Gemological Institute of America (GIA) gave the Royal Blue a VVS1 clarity grade, which means it has very, very slight inclusions. This grade is one step down on the clarity scale from \u201cIF,\u201d or internally flawless. M.S. Rau is billing the Royal Blue as the largest natural fancy blue diamond on the market today.\nOn its website, M.S. Rau explained that blue diamonds are among the rarest and most desirable colored diamonds in the world today. Blue diamonds get their color from a rare natural phenomenon when a little bit of boron gets trapped in the carbon crystal structure. These gems often fetch 10 to 50 times more than comparable colorless diamonds. In recent history, less than 0.3% of all colored diamonds graded by the GIA were predominantly blue.\nActress Teresa Palmer Shows Off Her Unusual Rose Quartz Engagement Ring, Says It\u2019s \u2018Exactly Me\u2019\nExclaiming that the rose quartz center stone in her engagement ring is \u201cexactly me,\u201d Aussie actress Teresa Palmer took to Instagram to show off her unconventional new bling from actor Mark Webber.\n\u201cJust got my beautiful ring,\u201d the 27-year-old star of Warm Bodies wrote. \u201cEthical diamonds in a rose gold band, with a rose quartz crystal \u2014 stone of the heart. Exactly me.\u201d\nAlthough rose quartz is very rarely seen in bridal jewelry, the symbolism behind the 33-year-old Webber\u2019s gemstone choice is undeniable. Rose quartz is known as the \u201cLove Stone,\u201d and many people believe it is a high-energy mineral that has the power to shower a relationship in unconditional love.\nWebber\u2019s proposal took place in early August on the set of the couple\u2019s new movie, The Ever After. At the time of the proposal, the rose quartz ring was still being sized, so Webber cleverly improvised by using the sterling silver ring that his character gives to her character in the movie.\nPalmer accepted the faux ring happily and wore the studio prop until her actual engagement ring was ready. Palmer\u2019s rose quartz ring finally arrived this past Saturday, three weeks after the proposal.\nDespite its beauty and romantic symbolism, few jewelers would recommend rose quartz as a center stone for an engagement ring. With a rating of \"7\" on the Mohs hardness scale, rose quartz could have trouble withstanding the wear and tear of daily use. Over time it could get scratched and look dull. Diamonds, by comparison, get a top Mohs rating of 10, while rubies and sapphires have a hardness of 9.\nPalmer and Webber met on Twitter last September and had been dating ever since. \u201cI looked him up after I saw the trailer for his film End of Love and realized we had so much in common,\u201d Palmer told an Aussie publication. \u201cThere were lots of emails going back and forth... they were like old-fashioned love letters in a way.\u201d\nMusic Friday: Corinne Bailey Rae Delivers an Uplifting Performance of Her 2006 Hit, 'Put Your Records On'\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you sensational songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. As we say goodbye to August, we bring you Corinne Bailey Rae\u2019s quintessential summer song, \u201cPut Your Records On,\u201d a tune that urges the listener to \u201clet your hair down\u201d and references the September birthstone \u2014 sapphire.\nThe 34-year-old British singer-songwriter and guitarist scored a huge hit with \u201cPut Your Records On\u201d in 2006 when it was released as the second single from her debut album, Corinne Bailey Rae. The song charted in 11 countries, sold nearly two million copies and was nominated at the 2007 Grammy Awards for \"Record of the Year\" and \"Song of the Year.\"\nIn the song about casting away worries, taking time to relax and embracing one's inner beauty, Rae sings the catchy phrase, \u201cSapphire and faded jeans, I hope you get your dreams. Just go ahead, let your hair down.\u201d Although the \u201csapphire\u201d in this line could be referring to a particular shade of Levi\u2019s 525 straight leg jeans, we\u2019re still happy to feature this song in our jewelry blog because Rae\u2019s performance is awesome and her message is so uplifting.\nIncidentally, the song's opening line, \"Three little birds sat on my window. And they tell me I don't need to worry,\" is a reference to Bob Marley & The Wailers\u2019 1977 hit song, \u201cThree Little Birds.\u201d\nSince its release in 2006, \u201cPut Your Records On\u201d has become a go-to tune for reality TV singing competition contestants. Among those covering the song were Antonella Barba (American Idol), Alisha Bennett (The X Factor), Carly Rae Jepsen (Canadian Idol), Megan Joy (American Idol), Katie Stevens (American Idol), Nicolas David (The Voice), Danielle Bradbery (The Voice) and Caroline Glaser (The Voice).\nCheck out Rae\u2019s live performance of \u201cPut Your Records On\u201d at the end of this post. The lyrics are below if you\u2019d like to sing along\u2026\nWritten by Corinne Bailey Rae, John Beck and Steve Chrisanthou. Performed by Corinne Bailey Rae.\nMaybe sometimes, we've got it wrong, but it's alright\nSipping tea in the bar by the roadside,\nGot to love that afro hair do.\n'Twas more than I could take, pity for pity's sake\nWhen you gonna realize, that you don't even have to try any longer?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 509, "original_length": 53803, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ocvts.org/htm/current/2018/hosts-regional-training-seminar-for-marine-trades-industry-1-22-18.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WCDR7X2IZ2FBX6GDR7MKRTG5ARK7R6N2", "length": 2202, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ocvts.org", "title": "OCVTS.org | News Stories 2018 OCVTS HOSTS REGIONAL TRAINING SEMINAR FOR MARINE TRADES INDUSTRY", "raw_content": "Marine Service Technology Instructor Rob Berenwick conducts tours of the facilities at the OCVTS Toms River Center during the ABYC Training Seminar.\nOCEAN COUNTY, NEW JERSEY -The Ocean County Vocational Technical School\u2019s Marine Service Technology Program recently hosted a regional training seminar for members of the American Boat and Yacht Council (ABYC). The ABYC, established in the 1950\u2019s, is a non-profit organization committed to providing technical education, training, certification and professional development throughout the boating industry.\nThe training seminar, held at the OCVTS Toms River Center, attracted over 45 participants from as far away as Staten Island, New York, and Annapolis Maryland. Attendees included marine service technicians, surveyors and investigators, retailers and dealers, marina owners and other marine-related professionals. The objective of the ABYC training seminar series is to keep its membership informed of current state and national legislation, safety developments as it pertains to the marine industry, as well as continuing technical training. The topic of this seminar was corrosion theory, prevention, new products and application of new practices.\nOCVTS Marine Service Technology Instructor Rob Berenwick provided a tour of the Marine Service Technology workshop as well as an overview of the program\u2019s curriculum. Current statistics show that there over 154,000 recreational boats in New Jersey; each one at some point, requiring maintenance and repair. The marine trades industry offers a multitude of year-round career opportunities. The OCVTS Marine Services Technology program established in 1979 offers skills in theory, maintenance and troubleshooting of outboard and inboard marine engines. Students develop a working knowledge of marine systems such as electrical, mechanical, cooling, fuel, boat design and construction. The program has access to waterfront facilities where students learn boating safety, seamanship and basic navigation while operating and maintaining vessels. 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Include three (3) estimates of repair/replacement in cases of property damage. Without this information, it is impossible to properly evaluate the claim and make a determination.\nWe ask that you submit your claim promptly, but in any event, in order to comply with the law, your claim must be submitted no later than one (1) year from the date of the loss, together with any supporting documentation of damages you may have.\nAlso, fully complete the \u201cAmount of Claim\u201d section on the Notice of Tort Claim. The amount that you specify as the \u201cTotal\u201d will be the total amount of money the City will consider paying on this claim. Once the claim is settled, the City will not consider paying for damages that you failed to include on the original claim form even if you did not discover those damages before settling your claim.\nUpon completion, please forward all information to the City of Broken Arrow, Legal Department, P.O. Box 610, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma 74013. Upon receipt, your claim will be forwarded to the Risk Management Division for investigation.\nAll Tort Claims are governed by the provisions of the Governmental Tort Claims Act (Title 51 Oklahoma Statutes \u00a7\u00a7 151-171). This act allows the City 90 days to investigate your claim before you can file suit against the City. State law also provides that a claim is deemed denied if a political subdivision fails to approve the claim within ninety (90) days.\nIf you have any questions, please contact the City Attorney\u2019s office at (918) 259-8422 or the Risk Management Division, (918) 259-2400 ext. 5200.\nThis correspondence does not in any way extend or waive the Statute of Limitations provided by State\nTORT CLAIM FORM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 251.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://old.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=31050", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YQJMLFTVMTKYSNOO2UXSSIKNVZHUMNF7", "length": 6214, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "old.civil.ge", "title": "Civil.Ge | In Quotes: Georgian Politicians on Ex-PM Bidzina Ivanishvili\ufffds Comeback", "raw_content": "Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze, Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili and Ex-PM Bidzina Ivanishvili, April 26, 2018. Photo: facebook.com/KvirikashviliOfficial\nEx-Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili\u2019s decision to return to the helm of the Georgian Dream party received mixed assessments in the political scene, with GD lawmakers and officials endorsing the move as a step to strengthening the ruling party and opposition politicians stressing the former Prime Minister had never left active politics.\nBelow is a compilation of some of the reactions from Georgian politicians.\nGiorgi Kvirikashvili, Prime Minister of Georgia: As you are well aware, Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili established the Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia in one of the most difficult times for our country\u2019s modern history, and the party has played a decisive role in the country\u2019s democratic progress. The role of Bidzina Ivanishvili for our team as the founder of the party is clear for everyone \u2026 He is best equipped to strengthen the political team in his capacity as the party chairperson and to add more and new dynamism for further development, [and contribute to] more effectiveness and more progress to executive and legislative branches, as well as municipal bodies.\nIrakli Kobakhidze, Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia: [Ivanishvili\u2019s return] aims solely at strengthening the party, strengthening the party organization. This requires time, which the Prime Minister and other officials unfortunately rarely have. So, the decision had very concrete reasons\u2026 our objective is to further strengthen the party, and strengthening the Georgian Dream party is crucial for strengthening the [overall] party system in Georgia \u2026 Bidzina Ivanishvili\u2019s decision is not related to the problems in the parliamentary majority; these minor issues could have been solved without him as well, so I would like to reiterate that his decision was based on his desire to engage in the party reform process.\nKakha Kaladze, Mayor of Tbilisi: The Prime Minister voiced a very important decision on Bidzina Ivanishvili\u2019s return to party chairmanship. We welcome the decision\u2026 I am very happy that he returned to the post. The decision is related to our desire to strengthen the party\u2019s role in Georgia\u2019s development with new ideas, and we, therefore, are ready to bring the party to a new stage of development.\nMP Archil Talakvadze, Leader of the Georgian Dream Majority Group: This was Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili\u2019s initiative. He held several consultations with Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili quite a while ago. As you are aware, the parliamentary majority and the party leaders were also in favor of this step, so Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili made a respective decision, and I am sure that under his leadership, the party will become more effective, and this will, in the end, improve the political process in Georgia.\nMP Mamuka Mdinaradze, Leader of the Georgian Dream Faction: Bidzina Ivanishvili\u2019s return to party chairmanship adds a new and positive stimulus to strengthening the ruling party, which, in turn, would mean strengthening the country. So, this will naturally positively contribute to the country.\nNika Melia, Chairman of the Political Council of the United National Movement: It is hard to find analogies in the world history to such a cynic explanation that someone returned to the post he never left \u2026 Before the Georgian Dream lawmakers would literally start a fistfight (refers to media reports of a physical confrontation between two ruling party MPs \u2013 Davit Matikashvili and Irakli Abuseridze), this person thought his role as an informal ruler was acceptable and comfortable. The public will not buy this, they will not believe that this is a return.\nGiga Bokeria, Chairman of the Political Council of the European Georgia: The decision of the real ruler of the Georgian Dream party to come out of the shadows, and the fact that he was forced to do so, demonstrates that the ruling party is in deep crisis, and that the entire country is in crisis. But this will not help the country, the only thing that will do so \u2013 is the removal of the entire team from office starting from Bidzina Ivanishvili and ending with Giorgi Kvirikashvili through peaceful means, through elections. Nothing else will help the country, which has been drawn to a deadlock by Bidzina Ivanishvili.\nDavit Usupashvili, Leader of the Development Movement: It seems, Bidzina Ivanishvili has acknowledged that the ruling party is on the verge of a collapse, and decided to resort to his last option... Bidzina Ivanishvili\u2019s return means that the ones who lead the country, the Government and the Parliament have failed to deliver. This is a unique example in the world history that a political force, which garnered a constitutional majority, reached a point when it had to call its founder for assistance.\nTamar Kekenadze, General Secretary of the Free Democrats: We do not expect that his return will have a positive effect on the country. [We also do not expect that] this will strengthen the [political] institutions, simply because from now on we will have an arrangement, when party chairman will be more powerful than the Prime Minister and the Parliament Chairman or any other institution. The country cannot develop democratically like that; in a way, this can be seen as an attempt to strengthen his positions in the country.\nNino Burjanadze, Leader of the Democratic Movement: Bidzina Ivanishvili has never left politics. He was in charge of everyone and everything, and he ran the country. He just did not have any responsibility for that, he was hiding \u2026 This [just] means that he has acknowledged how bad the situation is in the country\u2026 If he somehow manages to improve the situation, which I doubt, we will only welcome that.\nShalva Natelashvili, Leader of the Labor Party: Bidzina Ivanishvili has officially returned to the political scene; if previously, he was in charge of the country informally, or rather in charge of his criminal business corporation\u2026 today, his mask has been taken off, and he was forced to confirm what we have been arguing throughout the world that he was running the country illegally, unlawfully and behind the scenes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 8536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 184.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://old.civil.ge/eng/category.php?id=87&gallery=166", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:22Z", "digest": "sha1:A25A5G25WY7IV4O5APPZY4WZ2XANEE2R", "length": 526, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "old.civil.ge", "title": "Civil.Ge | Photos | War Museum in Ergneti", "raw_content": "On August 8, 2017, the War Museum was opened in the village of Ergneti, just several meters away from the occupation line, near Tskhinvali, on the 9th anniversary of the Russian-Georgian war. A local resident, Lia Chlachidze opened the museum in her rehabilitated house, which was burnt down during Russian aggression. The museum stores pieces of shells, burnt toys and other damaged items. Collection of various exhibits and photo materials depicting the war is still underway. The museum exposition will be further enriched.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 329, "original_length": 7366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oldschoolnewschoolmom.com/2018/01/fluctuating-sense-self.html?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:48Z", "digest": "sha1:G6UZOA6FIJECDYHFH2MNZVKZ3VPCJR4D", "length": 2704, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "oldschoolnewschoolmom.com", "title": "Fluctuating Sense of Self - Old School/New School Mom", "raw_content": "Fluctuating Sense of Self\nHome/Uncategorized/Fluctuating Sense of Self\nMy \u201csense of self\u201d changes frequently. There are some days where I feel like I\u2019m on top of the world. And there other days when I don\u2019t feel so great about me. Today I felt like a failure. And there is no logical reason for it. I felt like I wasn\u2019t doing anything right and there was nothing that could salvage that life experience for me. I think we all have those days, and they are called \u201cthe human experience\u201d but they are still not pleasant.\nAs women, we can be critical of ourselves to the point where we destroy our bodies through eating disorders or other harmful measures that we do ourselves. Those are physical manifestations of how we are unkind to ourselves. But I realize that the language we use when talking to ourselves important. If you\u2019re telling yourself that you\u2019re a loser you\u2019re going to feel like a loser. If you\u2019re telling yourself that you can\u2019t do anything then you probably can\u2019t do anything. If you\u2019re telling yourself that you\u2019re lazy you\u2019re going to feel like you were actually lazy. I just think that our sense of self is not something that is fixed and can fluidly change depending on how you\u2019re feeling during the day or week or hour or minute.\nBut maybe that\u2019s just me? Maybe nobody else thinks that they have a fluidity when it comes to their identity. Who we are when we\u2019re born isn\u2019t who we are when we become adults. We change and grow as human beings and that\u2019s a good thing. If we stayed the way we were when we entered the world, we would just be a bunch of infants crawling around the world putting random things in our mouths.\nI remember the famous quote from Popeye I am what I am. I don\u2019t think I identify with that. I think there are times when I feel extremely strongly about who I am and then there are times when I\u2019m entirely lost and don\u2019t have a sense of self. Some might say that that is a symptom of a personality disorder. But I was in my psychiatrist office today and she suggested that I might have symptoms of ODD (Oppositional Defiant Disorder) and I said: \u201cno I am just diagnosed with asshole disorder.\u201d I am tired of people being told we have these disorders when actually we are just human beings that sometimes have good days and sometimes have bad days. We don\u2019t need to succumb to societal pressure to have a strong sense of self every single day because that is unrealistic and sometimes we need to break down in order to build ourselves back up again. So what about you? Do you have a strong sense of self or do you struggle with personal identity?\nBy Sarah Fader| 2018-01-23T23:01:09+00:00\tJanuary 23rd, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Fluctuating Sense of Self", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onecolonialwomansworld.com/links-and-resources/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NJHALNCNCQLQKKHGFLBRZQVPPSUPRCN7", "length": 1898, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "onecolonialwomansworld.com", "title": "Links and Resources", "raw_content": "For more information about colonial American women\u2019s lives:\n\u201cColonial Women,\u201d Carol Berkin:\nhttp://www.ushistory.org/us/historians/berkin.asp\nDiscovering American Women\u2019s History Online:\nhttp://digital.mtsu.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/women\nElizabeth Murray Project: A Resource Site for Early American History:\nhttp://www.csulb.edu/projects/elizabethmurray/EM/\nA Midwife\u2019s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard Based on Her Diary, 1785\u20131812, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich:\nhttp://www.dohistory.org\nFor more information about Connecticut\u2019s Native Americans:\nMashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center:\nhttp://www.pequotmuseum.org/\nMohegan Tribe: Our History:\nhttp://www.mohegan.nsn.us/Heritage/ourHistory.aspx\nFor more information about the Salem witch trials:\nSalem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project, University of Virginia:\nhttp://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/\nFor more information about early American slavery:\nAfricans in America, PBS:\nAfricans in Colonial New England, John Carter Brown Library:\nhttp://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/\njcbexhibit/Pages/exhibAfricans.html\nIntroduction to Colonial African American Life, Colonial Williamsburg:\nMuseum of African American History, Boston:\nhttp://www.afroammuseum.org/index.htm\nRoyall House and Slave Quarters:\nhttp://www.royallhouse.org/\nFor more information about Colonial America:\nCommonplace: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life:\nhttp://www.common-place.org\n\u201cPuritanism in New England,\u201d Donna Campbell, Washington State University:\nhttp://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/purdef.htm\n\u201cColonial and Early American Fare,\u201d Lynne Olver:\nhttp://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcolonial.html\nSeventeenth-Century Colonial New England:\nhttp://www.17thc.us/\nDigital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture, University of Wisconsin, Madison:\nhttp://decorativearts.library.wisc.edu/images.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 260.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=20060", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UPXE73HMBQW7KC3KL4EPMXFQTJNYPA3E", "length": 2696, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "onlineopinion.com.au", "title": "Australia\u2019s Jerusalem embassy move sinks in sea of Islamic threats - On Line Opinion - 28/11/2018", "raw_content": "Australia\u2019s Jerusalem embassy move sinks in sea of Islamic threats\nBy David Singer - posted Wednesday, 28 November 2018 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!\nForget about Australia moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.\nIndonesian threats to not sign a free trade agreement with Australia \u2013 coupled with veiled Malaysian suggestions of terrorist attacks on Australian targets if the embassy is moved - will suffice to burst Prime Minister Scott Morrison's thought-bubble.\nAustralia gave Indonesia $360 million in aid in 2016 and was the world's 16th largest donor in giving $15 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).\nIndonesia gave UNRWA $5000 in 2016 \u2013 whilst Malaysia gave nothing.\nIndonesia and Malaysia \u2013 two Islamic states \u2013 flex their muscles on Islamic claims to Jerusalem - yet pathetically fail to financially support their Islamic brethren.\nMorrison first flagged the Embassy move on 16 October at a joint press conference with Foreign Affairs Minister Marise Payne:\nNow, in relation to our diplomatic presence in Israel. What I have simply said is this - we're committed to a two-state solution. Australia's position on this issue has to date assumed that it is not possible to consider the question of the recognition of Israel's capital in Jerusalem and that be consistent with pursuing a two-state solution.\nNow, Dave Sharma, who was the Ambassador to Israel, has proposed some months ago a way forward that challenges that thinking and it says that you can achieve both and indeed by pursuing both, you are actually aiding the cause for a two state solution. Now, when people say sensible things, I think it is important to listen to them.\nAustralia's commitment to the two-state solution \u2013 the creation of a second Arab state, in addition to Jordan - in the territory that comprised the 1922 Mandate for Palestine is based on:\nthe 1993 Oslo Accords; and\nthe 2002 President Bush Roadmap\nIntensive negotiations between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation spanning the last 25 years have failed to achieve this two-state solution \u2013 being unable to agree on whether the new State should:\nbe demilitarised;\ninclude all the territory of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) with East Jerusalem as its capital; or\nexclude all Jews currently living there necessitating their resettlement in Israel.\nAustralia is not alone in clinging to this outdated two-state solution. Countless UN Resolutions calling for this two-state solution continue to consume reams of paper and dominate meetings of UN committees, the General Assembly and Security Council \u2013 rather than considering alternative solutions to ending the Jewish-Arab conflict.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://openaid.esteri.it/en/projects/project/search/?selected_facets=sectors:100&selected_facets=agencies:7&selected_facets=years:2006", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:29Z", "digest": "sha1:G2JCFTBXVCMTUHPVL2VJY3QKYACZ4MSN", "length": 59, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "openaid.esteri.it", "title": "OpenAID - Search", "raw_content": "Civilian peace-building, conflict prevention and resolution", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 449, "original_length": 6675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://outreach.missouri.edu/calendar/DisplayDayEvent.aspx?D=10/29/2018&Office_ID=39", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:C4PNIATR5SWGWOMDLY7KZNKZ36RN7E7K", "length": 247, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "outreach.missouri.edu", "title": "Calendar | University of Missouri Extension", "raw_content": "FSMA Produce Safety Alliance Training, Barton County/Lamar\nWhen: Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.\nBarton County Produce Auction\n669 NW 30th Lane, Lamar MO map...\nFSMA PSA mandated training\nWhen: Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 146.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://palestinemonitor.org/details.php?id=7ms03sa6988yll60vl9mq", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:39Z", "digest": "sha1:N324FVBYGTBZCUB5LDGF7R6ESPXICYIZ", "length": 5336, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "palestinemonitor.org", "title": "Rachel Corrie\u2019s family appeals to Israeli Supreme Court", "raw_content": "Rachel Corrie\u2019s family appeals to Israeli Supreme Court\nTags: [Rachel Corrie] [Israeli Supreme Court] [Gaza]\nThe family of slain American activist Rachel Corrie was at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Wednesday to appeal a 2012 judgment made by a Haifa district court, which ruled that the Israeli military was not responsible for the young woman\u2019s death in 2003.\nRachel was crushed to death by an Israeli military bulldozer on 16 March 2003 while taking part in a non-violent protest against the demolition of civilian homes in Rafah, southern Gaza. At the time, Rachel was working with the International Solidarity Movement.\nIn an interview with Palestine Monitor on Thursday, Craig Corrie, Rachel\u2019s father, fondly described Rachel as an \u201cenergetic\u201d woman who \u201crefused to look away from marginalized people.\u201d\nThe Corrie family is seeking justice and say they \u201cdeserve a clear answer\u201d on why the Israeli military have remained unaccountable for the death of their daughter.\n\u201cThere has been no responsibility taken. All along Rachel has been blamed for her own killing, without looking at the responsibility of all parties involved, the military and so forth,\u201d Cindy Corrie, Rachel\u2019s mother, said in an interview with Israel Social TV.\nA hearing of Rachel\u2019s case in 2012 saw 23 witnesses testify at 15 hearings spread over a 16-month period. A Haifa District Court Judge upheld the 2003 Israeli military investigation, stating, \u201cThe State did not risk the defendant\u2026The defendant risked herself\u201d.\nNot satisfied by Haifa District Court\u2019s verdict in August 2012, and 9 years after filing a civic suit against the State of Israel, Rachel\u2019s family decided to appeal.\nMr. Corrie told Palestine Monitor the threefold reasoning behind the decision to appeal. During the trial in Haifa, the court failed to address the significance and importance of international humanitarian law when dealing with Rachel\u2019s case. In their brief to the Supreme Court, state attorneys argued that Rachel fell out of the protection of international humanitarian law. They said that only the \u201coccupied population\u201d fall within the ambit of international law. Arguing that international humanitarian law covers only the \u201coccupied population\u201d leaves a great many people vulnerable, and as Mr Corrie said, \u201ca lot of people unprotected\u201d.\nWhether the area Rachel was working in that day was categorized as a \u201cclosed military zone\u201d remains unclear. \u201cNobody could produce a written order that it was a closed military zone,\u201d stated Craig Corrie, adding that the Colonel in charge the day Rachel died confirmed this in his testimony, stating that it was not a closed military zone. However, the Haifa District Judge, Oded Gershon, concluded at the end of the 2012 trial that Rachel was acting in a 'closed military zone\u2019.\nEvidentiary differences formed a significant part of Wednesday\u2019s appeal. Israeli military personnel, during the trial in Haifa, presented two different accounts of what transpired the day Rachel died. The disparity only added to the collective frustration felt by the Corrie family. In addition, the Corrie family\u2019s attorney, Hussein Abu Hussein, argued that the Haifa District Court\u2019s verdict should be overturned as the State did not undertake a thorough investigation, failing to interview key witnesses and secure integral evidence. Mr Corrie described a conflict of different photographic evidence from the day Rachel died, stating it was \u201cvery clear\u201d that the image that had been given to the US Embassy was not a true reflection of the incident. Further, the two Israeli military soldiers who undertook the original investigation into Rachel\u2019s death had little investigative experience. The Judge at Wednesday\u2019s hearing corroborated this fact, commenting that the original investigation was \u201cthoughtless.\u201d\nThe State attorney claims that responsibility for Rachel\u2019s death does not lie with Israel or the Israeli military. They rely on Gaza\u2019s status as a war zone in March 2003, arguing that Rachel entered the area at her own risk.\nMr. Corrie remains positive, saying that at the hearing on Wednesday the \u201cjudges understood the issues and asked the relevant questions.\u201d There is no time limit on deliberations regarding the re-opening of the case. Only time will tell.\n\u201cIt started and remains about Rachel,\u201d said Mr. Corrie, but if this process can shed any light on the impunity that the Israeli military has enjoyed for a while now, then that can be deemed as positive, not only for internationals acting in solidarity with Palestinians, but for the Palestinian people as well.\nThe Rachel Corrie appeal comes at a time when sensitivities are high. The unlawful killing of two teenagers at Ofer Prison last Thursday, reiterates further that the issue of impunity needs to be addressed. Both cases demonstrate the disregard the Israeli military often shows towards the lives of people in occupied Palestinian territory. Mr. Corrie poignantly said there is no comparison in the value of a human life. However, the question regarding the application of international humanitarian law is an important one, and left unanswered it threatens to expose a great number of people to violence and harm.\nThe case has become more than a stand against the State of Israel and the Israeli military, it is now questioning the impunity of the Israeli military.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 6572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pawnmiami.com/ways-to-better-teeth-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FB5FOFYMTZAVRY6IVYS5HAJFYSB4NTRC", "length": 3431, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pawnmiami.com", "title": "Ways to Better Teeth Care - Mega Gold Jewelry", "raw_content": "Ways to Better Teeth Care\nHow important it is to take care of your teeth is something you have been told most of your life, practically from the time you were first able to hold a toothbrush. Your dentist has probably admonished you at least once. While the constant reminders can be annoying, it is also true. It is incredibly important that you take good care of your teeth. Without healthy teeth, it will be more difficult for the rest of your body to stay healthy. It is not an exaggeration to say that proper teeth care can literally save your life. The following are a few ideas on how to improve your oral health.\nTo really benefit from brushing your teeth, you have to know how to do it. You have to do more than quickly run the brush over your teeth a couple of times. You should brush at least once in the morning and before bed, and for a duration of at least a couple of minutes each time. Your mouth can be divided into four sections -upper left, upper right, etc. and you should scrub each area for a minimum of thirty seconds.\nUntil you\u2019re used to brushing for this length of time, it\u2019s a good idea to time yourself. This will help you see how much time is left and keep you from quitting early.\nSome foods including the darker liquids such as soda, coffee and tea can cause staining. High sugar content in foods can also cause discoloration. Some people have even accidentally stained their teeth with fruit based juices. Like soda, the discoloration comes from artificially adding color to the beverage. Coffee and tea stains, you will find, are easier to remove than those caused by artificial coloring. Drinking water because it is a clear liquid is a better idea. Remember too that water is healthier than any other drink you might have.\nCalcium needs to be consumed in large quantities. The majority of people are able to do this by large milk consumption, but calcium can be found in other sources. Filled with calcium, leafy green vegetables are good for you to eat also. If you have a hard time finding calcium rich foods you can eat, however, taking a Tums a couple of times a day can help a lot. Discuss this with your physician before you begin this routine. A doctor will share with you that a Tums tablet is not just for digestion issues: they are good sources of calcium as well, and to keep your teeth strong for as long as they can be, they require calcium.\nIn the past dentists believed that if the enamel on your teeth had worn away, that there wasn\u2019t anything they could be do to replace it. Now, however, there are toothpastes you can use that help build up the enamel on your teeth so that you can replace what you\u2019ve lost and make your teeth stronger than ever. It is a good idea to brush with these pastes every once in a while to give your mouth the added boost it needs. If your teeth are particularly susceptible to decay then you should brush with these pastes every day-maybe even during both brushings if your dentist says so. You are probably amazed at how much basic common sense is involved in proper oral hygiene. Good teeth care doesn\u2019t have to involve lots of expensive dental treatments or cosmetic enhancements. For the most part all that is required is to live a healthy life and keep your mouth clean and fresh. Basic brushing, flossing and a healthy diet are often all you need. Sometimes though, hints like these can help you step up your game and gain even more protection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pccaresupport.com/security-benefits-cloud-computing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:12Z", "digest": "sha1:6HUALMXJKTC5GS2ECFFKWT222LSC4IO7", "length": 2854, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "pccaresupport.com", "title": "Security Benefits of Cloud Computing | PcCareSupport", "raw_content": "Cloud computing is a hot debate in information technology today. Using the cloud is economical, scalable and flexible, although opponents voice privacy and security concerns as their reasons not to use cloud computing. In actuality, most small and middle-sized companies can realize the benefits of using the cloud affordably, without jeopardizing their security.\nCloud Systems Are More Secure\nWhile companies who do not use the cloud point to a lack of security as their reasoning, cloud computing is usually more secure than systems managed at the local level. Some cloud vendors offer you multi-factor authentication, which is more secure than the older method of using user names and passwords.\nSecurity certifications like the Federal Information Security Management Act, or FISMA, are required for many government transactions. Healthcare companies must be compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). These are often expensive certifications. On the other hand, cloud vendors often provide access to already-certified facilities and systems. This saves your business money.\nOnline banking was inhibited for a time by a need for more stringent security concerns than those available at the time. Those concerns were addressed then, and now cloud computing is doing the same. Cloud computing is convenient and it will offer convenience and ease of economics, similar to financial transactions online today.\nAutomatic Updates in the Cloud\nMany cloud computing service providers will normally make updates automatically. If this is the case with your providers, you will benefit, being offered security with cloud-based software that you don\u2019t get with software packages you purchase yourself.\nThe Cloud Offers Scalability\nIT plays a prominent role in today\u2019s businesses. Using the cloud allows you to manage IT services more economically than you can now. You will get lower costs in many areas, for improved service. IT systems are secure, scalable and reliable. You will not have to worry about hiring dedicated IT staff, which is prohibitively expensive. Instead, cloud computing providers will maintain and manage your online infrastructure.\nStoring in the Cloud Environment\nIf you do not back up files from your own computers and mobile devices, loss of files can be catastrophic. The cloud offers redundancy, so that you can retrieve files that you otherwise might have lost. You won\u2019t have to worry about losing important information if a laptop or Smartphone is lost, damaged or stolen. As long as you have proper security in place in the cloud, your files will be safe from not only loss, but also from access by unauthorized people.\nThe cloud offers you more secure services for less than you could hire them for your company. Your information will be safe, and you can access it from any of your devices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pennyhaynes.com/category/christian-women-with-depression/page/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZGXAVKP4C7A4HAW5WXQ56YSAMNEAPEL", "length": 19104, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "pennyhaynes.com", "title": "Christian Women With Depression \u2013 Page 10 \u2013 Penny Haynes Life Patterns Ministry", "raw_content": "In \u201cStreams in the Desert\u201d, I read of a beautiful flower that grows both up on an unprotected mountain top as well as in the valley. The version in the valley is pallid, without much shape or color. The version on the mountain top, however, is beautifully colored and shaped \u2013 magnificent.\nIt reminded me of how a tree that is planted and protected and watered by the gardener is always weak. It never thirsts and so it never has to grow its roots deep to find water. Then, when the storms come, the tree just falls over.\nI know that in the midst of my worst depression, I did NOT want to go through storms. I just wanted to LAY LOW and stay under the radar where God \u201cwouldn\u2019t see me\u201d (as if such a thing were possible), because I didn\u2019t want to go through even more tough times than I already was (as if laying low would ward off more \u201ccrap\u201d!). If going through trials would make me a better Christian, I was going to be content with being a not-so-better Christian. I would just get in by the skin of my teeth, and that was fine with me. I\u2019m just being honest.\nBut I was sinking. I was dying. It got to the point where tiny gusts of wind seemed like hurricanes to me. I became wimpier and wimpier, afraid of more and more things, unable to cope with the slightest challenges.\nYou just CAN\u2019T STAY IN ONE PLACE IN GOD. You either go backward or forward, but you don\u2019t stay still. It\u2019s like not using your muscles \u2013 they atrophy and you can\u2019t function. So maybe, just maybe, God is allowing the situations around us to work our muscles and move us forward. Just a suggestion \u2013 I don\u2019t want to scare you off \u2013 but think about it.\nPsalm 119: 75-77 says:\n75I know, O Lord, that your laws are righteous,\nand in faithfulness you have afflicted me.\n76May your unfailing love be my comfort,\n77Let your compassion come to me that I may live,\nThe psalmist is recognizing his affliction, but also God\u2019s faithfulness, all in one breath. He does what we do: he asks for unfailing love to comfort us, and compassion come to us so we can continue through the affliction.\nThen he continues with this (does this sound like anything you have ever said to God?)\n81My soul faints with longing for your salvation,\n82My eyes fail, looking for your promise;\nI say, \u201cWhen will you comfort me?\u201d\n83Though I am like a wineskin in the smoke,\n84How long must your servant wait?\nWhen will you punish my persecutors?\n85The arrogant dig pitfalls for me,\ncontrary to your law.\n86All your commands are trustworthy;\nhelp me, for men persecute me without cause.\n87They almost wiped me from the earth,\n88Preserve my life according to your love,\nand I will obey the statutes of your mouth.\nWe are not the first to go through this. Do you know that, even after David was anointed King, he had to spend something like 16 years living in caves, running for his life, pursued and persecuted? His life was sheer hell. He had so much to deal with. His wife\u2019s betrayal, the death of his best friend, and so much more. And yet, he balanced his intimate knowledge of his pain with his intimate knowledge of his God. He recognized that God had allowed the affliction for a season, and he was still willing to trust Him.\nSo consider yourself that tree, or those flowers. Your roots are going deeper, you are drinking deeply from Him while the storm rages, you are becoming more and more beautiful to Him every day (even when you feel you aren\u2019t attractive to Him at all by your actions or attitude). Every day you don\u2019t give up and don\u2019t give in completely to despair is a day of victory!\nYou get brownie points for keeping on keeping on. When Paul finished his life, he didn\u2019t say anything other than he had FINISHED THE RACE. And that\u2019s what we are here to help you do \u2013 finish the race you have begun so Jesus can finish the work He has begun in you. And He is faithful to complete that work \u2013 just hold on.\nBe still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Ps. 46:10\nBeing still is the hardest thing when you are anxious or depressed. I know, in my case, that was because if I was still, my thoughts used to SCREAM at me, and there was no peace. It\u2019s like a soldier having to stand there being yelled at by a drill sargeant. Being still under that type of barrage is almost impossible.\nI used to be terrified to be still. TERRIFIED. I didn\u2019t want to have to deal with all of those fearful and depressing thoughts that were always swirling around my mind. I kept my mind busy at every second. If I wasn\u2019t working, I was knitting or crocheting, or reading the RSS feeds on my Blackberry. I was TERRIFIED when I ran out of things to do or read. I mean, real panic attack material there.\nThe worst part about this scenario is that it is almost impossible to pray and seek God\u2019s help without being still \u2013 at least momentarily still. Notice that, in the above psalm, it notes that He WILL BE exalted everywhere. In other words, He is the Big Guy, the Big Honcho, the One In Charge. He actually has the power to turn things around for us. If we REALLY BELIEVED that He was in control \u2013 AND IS FOR US \u2013 we would be able to be still, because we would BELIEVE HE WOULD HANDLE THIS STUFF FOR US.\nThat\u2019s why we have to \u201cdemolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.\u201d (2 Cor. 10:5) We have to disarm these thoughts by revealing the lies and speaking the truth about the situation. THEN, when we have SOME silence in our mind, we can sit before God and talk to Him, ask of Him, read His word, meditate and LISTEN TO HIM.\nBut we have to be WILLING to do this. I know that my depression and anxiety, no matter how unnerving and painful it was, had become my excuse to be lazy and give up. I wasn\u2019t ready to completely give it up. That\u2019s why I hung on to it for so long.\nPs. 81: 10 \u2013 14 says:\nSometimes we are just stubborn idiots, to put it plainly, and he lets us wander in our deserts, complaining about everything we don\u2019t have while forgetting that we have been delivered from slavery and have a Leader who will provide for all of our needs. He waits until we are ready to finally open our mouths so he will fill it, and listen to him, following his ways, so he would subdue our enemies.\nNow, I know that some of you are so depressed right now that you don\u2019t believe that God cares one bit about you and your situation. That\u2019s ok. Just because you don\u2019t believe it doesn\u2019t mean that it isn\u2019t true, though. Did you know that you are CHOOSING to believe what you believe? From a purely earthly standpoint, you don\u2019t KNOW that He isn\u2019t for you \u2013 you are CHOOSING to believe that. You also don\u2019t KNOW empirically that he IS for you \u2013 but you CAN CHOOSE TO BELIEVE that HE IS FOR YOU. This is one of those attitude adjustments that will make or break you.\nIf you are WILLING to let go of this overbearing \u201cfriend\u201d you have let attach itself to your life, and to stop playing the victim to it so you don\u2019t have to actually DO ANYTHING about this, TAKE THOSE THOUGHTS CAPTIVE and think it through. STOP the drill sargeant long enough to have a few minutes of peace, and spend them being still with God. Read a few verses of scripture, pour out your heart to him AGAIN, and listen for His response the best that you can. You may only be able to capture a few minutes of stillness, but it is the beginning of recapturing as much as you ever need.\nSo head on over to the Forum Thread for What Am I Thinking and write it all down: http://christianwomenwithdepression.com/forum/?vasthtmlaction=viewforum&f=10.0 Get a moment of peace!\nI know that sounds like a really stupid thing to say, but sometimes, you need to know that what you are hoping to find ISN\u2019T ACTUALLY OUT THERE. That was something that had a very freeing effect on me. Once I found out I was tormenting myself looking for something that didn\u2019t exist (basically uncovered the lie and realized the truth), the despair of not getting what I hoped for evaporated.\nI was so consistently DISAPPOINTED. Here I was, 46 years old, and what did I have to show for myself? I was disappointed in my looks, my career, my marriage, my spiritual condition, all because I told myself I SHOULD look another way, I SHOULD have a more successful business, I SHOULD have a more romantic and idyllic marriage, and I SHOULD have an unshakeable spiritual confidence. (I don\u2019t know what other SHOULDs you deal with, but I once knew a lady who used to say, \u201cDon\u2019t SHOULD on me!\u201d I loved that. \ud83d\ude42 )\nNow, sometimes other people do put pressure on you to be or do something else. I have struggled with my husband\u2019s concern for my weight (although he is also concerned for his own), his concern for me making money to earn back what I invested in building my business (and also to help support the family). But MOST of the pressure I feel is SELF-INFLICTED. I am the one doing this to myself. Why? BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE LIES PROJECTED BY THE MEDIA, and sometime well-meaning loved ones.\nThe media tells me I must be beautiful to be loved, admired, accepted, and successful. Even statistics prove a lot of it to be true. Most CEOs of companies are tall and handsome. Beautiful (and by my standard, that means skinny) women get jobs easier, and overweight women do not get as many promotions in comparison to skinny women.\nUnfortunately, I had this brought home to me as a teenager when my father, God bless him (he was doing the best he could to help me), told me, \u201cPenny, I just want you to know that boys like pretty girls, and, well, I just don\u2019t want you to expect anything.\u201d This is the phrase that threw me into my first full-blown suicidal depression at the age of 17 \u2013 along with his declaration that I looked like a football player in my jacket. )\nSo my self-esteem \u2013 despite being an \u201cA\u201d student, the highest female PSAT score in my high school, voted most talented, and even voted a \u201cSenior Superlative\u201d by other students \u2013 revolved around that one simple fact. I would never be loved. Ever. As my grandmother and aunt would say (in my earshot), \u201cShe\u2019s got such a pretty face \u2013 it\u2019s such a shame.\u201d I was worthless, or so I thought, until one psychologist finally got me to blurt it out during a session. And that was the beginning of the healing from my first adolescent bout with depression.\nNow, as an adult, I see absolutely stunning women who are not skinny. I saw Mandisa at a conference, and she is so amazingly beautiful, I couldn\u2019t take my eyes off of her smiling face. Queen Latifah is another woman that blows away my idea of weight=beauty \u2013 well, at least for OTHER women (yes, I still struggle with that).\nHowever, I have finally realized that my weight does NOT stop other people, including men, from loving me. My husband LOVES me \u2013 I mean REALLY LOVES me. He desires me. So I\u2019ve given up the HOPE OF BEING SKINNY IN ORDER TO BE LOVED, because I AM ALREADY LOVED! And true to the title of this post, I feel so much better after giving up hope! \ud83d\ude42\nThen there is the lie that my marriage should look like a romantic comedy. There should be a happily ever after when we no longer struggle, and he isn\u2019t dealing with chronic pain, and all of my needs (and his needs) are being met. BUT IT\u2019S A LIE. There IS NO SUCH THING. At a marriage conference, the husband and wife leading shared that percentage-wise, their relationship was\na struggle 10% of the time,\nluke-warm 85% of the time, and\nred-hot 5% of the time.\nHow\u2019s that for an honest revelation? WHY AM I EXPECTING MY MARRIAGE TO BE 95% HOT??? If the people who make it their life\u2019s goal to have a great marriage are luke-warm 85% of the time, who am I trying to emulate? WHAT I\u2019M TORTURING MYSELF ABOUT DOESN\u2019T EXIST! I know this sounds stupid, like I should know better \u2013 but my longing for MORE touch, MORE excitement, MORE passion makes me forget what I know, and makes me think that something (or SOMEONE) else out there may be able to give it to me instead. That\u2019s another LIE.\nSo ever since I gave up hope for a 95% hot marriage, and accepted a marriage where my husband loves me the absolute best he can, and I stopped resenting him for not being a character in a movie, I feel much better!\nLast example: one of my favorite people in the world called me and left a message saying she KNEW that there HAD to be a way to work HALF the time and make TWICE the money and love what she did. I knew how she felt \u2013 she and I are almost identical in our thinking and feelings. But I recognized the lie immediately \u2013 THERE IS NO SUCH THING.\nShe stays miserable with what she has because she is constantly hoping for something else that most likely doesn\u2019t exist. I mean, she COULD do it \u2013 by becoming an Escort (if you know what I mean), but in the real world, that scenario is just not going to occur, at least, not without learning some new skills and making new contacts and doing a LOT of hard work.\nNow, don\u2019t get me wrong. I believe she needs a new, better job that she loves and makes more money. But half the work at twice the pay? It\u2019s just my opinion, but I think she would feel MUCH better once she gave up all hope on that.\nSo I ask you, for what LIE do you need to GIVE UP HOPE? I encourage you to go to the Forum Thread about HOPES that you CAN achieve at http://christianwomenwithdepression.com/forum/?vasthtmlaction=viewforum&f=5.0 and write out a new list of hopes for yourself that are healthy and productive, not unrealistic and reason for beating yourself up for not achieving them.\nhttp://www.ChristianWomenWithDepression.com\nI still have panic attacks. Little ones, mostly. Like the kind when all of a sudden your heart starts to race, and your hands start to tingle. It happened this morning, when the bills came in, along with my unemployment benefits letter.\nTo fill you in, after working for myself for several years as a programmer and audio/video producer, my husband lost his job due to the economy, and I had to find a job to re-coup a steady income. I let my business basically go and went to work for the Census in a local office. It was full-time, TEMPORARY work, as the Census would shut down in September/October 2010.\nSo I worked sporadically, some in every quarter in 2009, and then for almost a year straight from 9/21/2009 to 9/17/2010. I thought SURELY I would qualify for the full benefits after working in all four quarters of each year. But my calculations weren\u2019t correct. I WORKED during each quarter, but I was PAID in other quarters, and they go by pay checks. That stupid 2 week behind paycheck business ruined my unemployment benefits!\nMy first reaction was panic. You know, the initial SHOCKWAVE of panic that you think is going to bring you to your knees in one blow. But then I remembered to THINK IT THROUGH.\nRonnie was now working a job, low paying as it was (and unfortunately aggravating his chronic pain to the point of reducing him every workday to tears \u2013 but that\u2019s for another post). So we now had SOME income.\nThis was not going to be the full $330 plus the extra, but it WAS something. It will probably be $200 or so after taxes per week.\nI had been reducing payments on my old business debts in order to build up my bank account to pay bills while I was unemployed. I have about three thousand in there at the moment, enough for a few months of emergency funds.\nSo the TRUTH of the matter? We are fine financially RIGHT NOW (which is all I am EVER to be concerned with, and trust God for tomorrow). No bill on my desk was unpayable. Getting $200/week while I\u2019m looking for a job and learning new programming skills is a great deal \u2013 much better than NOTHING!\nSo the panic attack passed. Why? Because I stopped and took time to analyze AND CORRECT the thoughts that were causing the panic attack.\nYesterday, I had a panic attack simply looking at my self-appointed schedule on my white board. It was ridiculous, really, but I had told myself that I would buy new sheets, deposit checks, do the grocery shopping and work out \u2013 before my husband came home. As it inched closer to 3:30 pm, I started panicking that I wouldn\u2019t get it all done, and SOMEHOW, I would get in trouble for not doing it all. (With my personality, getting in trouble for any reason is my achilles heel.)\nAgain, I had to go through it step-by-step.\nDid I promise anyone else to get sheets today? NO. Even if I did, would we have died and chaos reigned if I didn\u2019t? NO.\nIf I didn\u2019t get the shopping done today, would we have food to eat? YES. Would my husband have the white bread I promised to buy? NO. (So I HAD to get the white bread so he could have sandwiches for lunch \u2013 that could be a quick stop.)\nIf I didn\u2019t deposit the checks, what would happen? NOTHING. I was not overdrawn. No checks would bounce. There was no repercussion if I did it the next day.\nOnce I thought it through, the panic attack went away. Luckily, I bribed my 19 year old daughter to buy the sheets for me (I had to pay her $2 in gas money), so one thing down. I got everything else done in the end, plus made what I thought was a great (though very kitchen-messing) meal, and still watched House with my husband. The panic attack was FOR NOTHING.\nDo you know, I even panic about not going out to see all of the dogs in the kennel and giving each of them individualized attention? I think of them as kids, so I feel like I\u2019ve locked them in a closet and am a bad mother. It can actually trigger condemning and horrible thoughts about myself. Stupid, but true. So this morning, as I was trying to have my devotion and prayer time, I dealt with the thoughts OUT LOUD.\nPenny, they are DOGS. They are a PACK of dogs. They play with each other all day long (well, the 5 girls and the male puppy do \u2013 the sires are in their own pens).\nThey are better taken care of than most dogs, with the highest quality food, their own homes with fans in the summer and heaters in the winter.\nRonnie sees them every morning, and plays with them every night. They are getting personalized attention, just not from me.\nThe dogs may WANT to play with me, but they ALWAYS want to play with me. The moment I leave the kennel, they will want more. They are FINE.\nAnd the panic attack passed. And the guilt I\u2019m used to feeling after thinking about the dogs WAS GONE, so there was no fodder for depression. I\u2019m telling you, forcing yourself to calmly walk through the reasoning behind the attack can nullify and extinguish it. You just have to take the time to do it. And the PEACE afterward was WONDERFUL! Oh, I just sat and reveled in it \u2013 this deep, heavy, all-surrounding peace.\nSo start working through your panic attacks. By thinking and talking them through, you can stop them dead in their tracks. The trouble with tribbles is that individually, they are small, so you don\u2019t pay much attention to them \u2013 until they start multiplying and take everything over, including the control panel of the starship (your brain).\nHead on over to the forum\u2019s panic topic and share what you\u2019ve been panicking about. By working through it, you are helping yourself and anyone else who reads the post and uses it as an example!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 32170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://personaloralhygiene.net/number12.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UG3JZJQSM3TR5M3VOR5U4QIQ7ESNMGAN", "length": 958, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "personaloralhygiene.net", "title": "Personal Oral Hygiene", "raw_content": "Some Important Facts Relative to Personal Oral Hygiene\nCharles C. Bass, M.D., Sc.D. (Hon.), LL.D (Hon.), F.A.C.P.\nOmicron Associate\nReprinted from the Phi Chi Quarterly for March, 1953\n\u201cIt can be asserted without reservation that for all practical purposes, any person, at any age, can begin and maintain his or her teeth without further deterioration or loss during the remainder of life.\"\n\"Therefore, correct information about these conditions must be based upon microscopic research. Opinions and ideas not conforming to these facts, which can be established only by microscopic work, are confusing, often entirely erroneous.\u201d\n\u201cGood dental health service must include removal of hard concretions and calculus from the teeth within the gingival crevices and teaching the patient how to clean his teeth effectively, which can be done only by the proper use of both toothbrush and dental floss. 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We are looking to build up our volunteer roster so that volunteers can take that break without worrying that work will be done.\nThe Pottstown Cluster Outreach Center is looking for on-call pantry volunteers.\nhttps://www.pottstowncluster.org/programs/food-pantry\nAs an on-call volunteer, you will be trained in various positions and called when we have a need because of an absence or other event. This is great for those who can\u2019t make a weekly commitment, but want to help us fulfill our mission. Hours that volunteers will typically fill are in the morning between 8:30am and 1:00pm. Afternoon opportunities are available. 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Together with the commentarial stories that accompany the verses, along [\u2026]\nGifts he left behind is the legacy of the thai monk Ajaan Dune Atulo. He was born on October 4, 1888. At the age of 22 he ordained in the provincial capital. Six years later, disillusioned with his life as an uneducated town monk, he left to study in Ubon Ratchathani. He abandoned his studies and took up the [\u2026]\nSeeing the Way represents the teachings of the first generation of monks and nuns from the international Theravada \u2018Forest Tradition\u2019. The book begins with an introduction and dedication to Ajahn Chah and follows on with two sessions of instruction given to Western students. The remainder is a collection of transcribed talks, letters, and essays by 20 [\u2026]\nAjahn Chah was a master at using the apt and unusual simile to explain points of Dhamma in a memorable way, sometimes to answer questions, sometimes to provoke them. He was especially talented at exploiting the open-ended nature of the simile\u2014in which some similarities are relevant and others are not\u2014using a particular image to make one point in one context, [\u2026]\nParayanavagga or The Way to the Beyond is a controversial part of the Pali Canon, some of the earliest known written Buddhist texts. Research indicates that Parayanavagga might even be the oldest part of the Pali Canon. The suttas is a record of conversations between the Buddha and sixteen Brahmin meditaton masters which resulted in their [\u2026]\nThe Way Things Really Are is translation of Book IV of the Sutta-Nipata by Lesley Fowler Lebkowicz, Tamara Ditrich and Primoz Pecenko.The Sutta-Nipata is one of the earliest texts of the Pali canon, coming from the same period as the Dhammapada, before the monastic tradition was strong. 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Not only would our scientific advances be limited without them, but our health and safety has come to rely heavily on robotics as well.\nTechnological advances have allowed us to complete jobs that humans could not otherwise have completed themselves, and they reach levels of perfection in performance that would have ultimately been impossible without robotics.\nSpace and underwater exploration are just some of the scientific studies that rely heavily on engineering, robotics and mechanical works. Without the advancements in technology, the world would be lacking all of the information gained about these parts of our universe. Although space exploration and underwater studies are very distant from a normal person\u2019s every day life, today, the same styles of robotics can be found in almost every household.\nComputers are at the core of all robotics, and artificial intelligence has greatly advanced in the past few decades. These fast moving advancements have made it possible for infinite amounts of information to be stored within different electronics so they can run large and small mechanical structures or robots. These robots have been used to commercialize agriculture, keep humans safe from danger, and perform tasks that would have otherwise been impossible.\nAlthough, the commercialization of agriculture has been controversial to the economy of small towns, there would not be the mass production of food that there is today without it. There is no issue in producing enough food and transporting that food to surrounding communities. Robotics has made the collection and disbursement of these products easier for farmers to turn a profit and take care of their families.\nBigger cities benefit from robotics by using them to maintain spaces and perform tasks that humans could not do. Entering and clearing small spaces in ducts, or moving pieces of steel, could not be performed until the proper technology was made to support those tasks. Modern life relies heavily on robotics and mechanics in many surprising ways.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://prdn.co.uk/a-night-where-raleigh-ritchie-and-his-fans-connected/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:18Z", "digest": "sha1:3SUOF2WXJPRNKORIGWFPOTFT47KYDKR4", "length": 3101, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "prdn.co.uk", "title": "A Night Where Raleigh Ritchie and his Fans Connected. | PRDN", "raw_content": "Wednesday night. It\u2019s half way through the week, just before hump day and a couple days before the weekend. But a good day to recoup and reflect on what\u2019s been happening. Also, according to recent news stories, Wednesday has become the new night to go out during the week. As it helps to shake off the mid-week blues and stops you from always looking forward to the weekend, because you\u2019re enjoying weekdays even more. Well that\u2019s exactly what I was doing last Wednesday, with a couple hundred other people, when I went to see Raleigh Ritchie perform.\nAs part of his UK tour, Raleigh stopped off in London and gave us an impressive show at O2 Shepherd\u2019s Bush Empire. He was supported by the lovely Sasha Keable, who managed to make us feel so deeply with the soulful tones of her voice. As well as make us laugh due to her infectious personality, while she expressed herself on stage. This definitely set the tone for what was coming next. So as the light dimmed and the band walked on to the stage, the crowd started buzzing. Eager for the main man to come out. And thankfully he didn\u2019t keep us waiting for too long.\nPhotography by Myles Bailey\nOut Raleigh came with a space helmet on, synonymous with his latest branding and a smart way to catch people\u2019s attention. Which he did straight away, getting into it with song Stronger Than Ever which was clearly a fan favourite. One thing that really stood out to me from the beginning of the show was just how enthusiastic the audience was. There wasn\u2019t a dull moment because of them and Raleigh showed his appreciation by continuously praising his audience for their bravery. And simply for just showing up. This personable side to Raleigh was really welcomed by his audience. Something I can confirm due to the conversations I was eavesdropping on.\nRaleigh\u2019s character shone on stage and he came across very genuine. He looked like he was enjoying every moment of performing and the fact that fans were singing along made him very emotional. He was running, jumping and dancing on the stage like he owned it and that just reassured me that he knew exactly where he belonged. From the set list, to the lights, to his band and even the layout of the stage, showed a lot of thought and intention. And I believe those things really go a long way in bringing the audience into the world you are trying to create for them.\nRaleigh hasn\u2019t released a body of work since debut album You\u2019re A Man Now, Boy in 2016. But announced on stage that a new project was coming out soon, to which was met with very loud screaming and cheering. So all in all, this was a great night. A performance full of energy and excitement. To the point that fans refused to let him end the show by continuously singing, prompting for an encore. Which he honoured, twice!\nSo if you want to watch someone who clearly is adored by fans and adores them too, Raleigh Ritchie should be at the top of your list!\nRelated Topics:Boy, Game of Thrones, Gigs, London, raleigh ritchie, sasha keable, Shepherds Bush Empire, Stronger Than Ever, You're A Man Now\nBy Hannah Olarewaju October 16, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://press.hnmun.org/?p=3698", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:21Z", "digest": "sha1:7REAEEJDH3GCJEVNQPWEJCN24EQJUJMB", "length": 1156, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "press.hnmun.org", "title": "The time when everything comes to an end | HNMUN Press Corps", "raw_content": "Last night, the \u201cDelegate Dance\u201d event took place at the Marriott Copley Place. The main purpose of the dance is to give everyone the opportunity to see a different aspect of other delegates out of the committee session. We may not all like the same kind of music or dance the same way, but sure we all enjoyed last night\u2019s closing party!\nIt all began at 9 p.m. when people started gathering on the fourth floor, even though the party was set to begin at 10 sharp. The expectations were high. After five committee sessions with an exhausting debate between countries, everyone was looking forward having a couple of drinks with both allies and opposition.\nThe party itself lasted 3 hours because of the hotel\u2019s policies. It was extremely amazing. People did not want to go back to their rooms and you may imagine why that was. It was the best closing party.\nOf course, the conference leaves a bittersweet flavor because just when you are enjoying it a lot and you make a lot of new good friends, everything ends. However, fear not, next year HNMUN will be back in Boston!\nCollege of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University's delegation during the party.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://presscenter.com/category/categories/health-categories/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:59Z", "digest": "sha1:WYWI3OFRI5SP2GPRBIVHKFLARZTAAF7L", "length": 3431, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "presscenter.com", "title": "Health & Beauty Archives | PressCenterPressCenter", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Categories / Health & Beauty\n\u201cAs we seek to achieve the goal of high-quality global standardization of clinical biomark...\nThe first experience will be launched by NYX Professional Makeup end of August 2018. \u201cThis deep ...\nFounded in 1978 by a naturopath, Logocos Naturkosmetik is based in Hanover, Germany and employs abou...\nCreated in 1921, Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Thermes de La Roche-Posay is the first thermal station in Europe exclus...\nThe first experience will be launched by NYX Professional Makeup end of August 2018. \u201cThis deep collaboration is very relevant for ModiFace since it will allow our AR experiences to live on Facebook and be used by millions of consumers across the world. 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Sante line of products includes haircare, skincare, hygiene and make-up and is found mainly in mass retail at an accessible...\tRead More \u00bb\nPhilips wins two awards at EUREKA Innovation Days for its impact on minimally invasive surgery\nThe Philips-led MEDIATE project has won the prestigious 2018 EUREKA Innovation Award in the category \u2018Innovations of Tomorrow\u2019. In addition, the MEDIATE project led to a follow-up ITEA project called BENEFIT, received the 2018 ITEA Award of Excellence. Both awards were presented during the ITEA Event 2018, part of the EUREKA Innovation Days. We are very proud to receive these awards for the work we have carried out with our partners, contributing to improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare. 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For me, it\u2019s what living is all about because \u201cLIFE\u201d is constantly evolving, constantly vibrating, constantly changing. Change drives discovery and forces new perspectives.\nBack in May of 1997, I had a very \u201cenlightening\u201d experience with regard to perspective in the form of a vision. I don\u2019t know what you think or believe about visions, but for me, this was a first and it was rather profound. The core message that came through loud and clear was simply this: \u201cI am going to teach you new ways of seeing things\u2026new perspectives\u2026and you will understand concepts in ways that others have not considered because you\u2019ll be viewing them from a different perspective.\u201d\nEleven years later, I can say with certainty that I have seen things from new perspectives. As a matter of fact, that initial experience was a defining moment in my life and has ultimately resulted in MUCH change for me personally\u2014from my personal views of God to business approaches and relationships. Finding that new way to \u201csee\u201d something has become a driving force in my life, which also means that change has been a driving force in my life.\nOf course, the latest change has been my wife\u2019s and my decision to part ways. Lots of change and new perspectives with this decision\u2026and scary as hell. But I have to admit that I am intensely curious as well to see how it goes. In the end, I really hope I \u201cget\u201d the lessons the universe has for me\u2026that\u2019s my goal\u2026because I\u2019ve also learned that, just because we\u2019re presented with change, doesn\u2019t always mean we\u2019ll learn the lessons or benefits from it. That\u2019s important!\nSo, don\u2019t waste your moment of change. Embrace it, no matter how difficult, and evolve into the next stage of who you are meant to become. And one last thing\u2026if you are not changing\u2026if things are mostly the same with you, it\u2019s time to begin asking \u201cWHY.\u201d The truth is that you can\u2019t keep doing the same things over and over and expect different results. Don\u2019t happen! If you want a result that\u2019s different than the one you\u2019re currently experiencing, you need to change something\u2026period!\nWhat does this have to do with the Internet Marketing business and with the Public Domain? Everything!\nSuccessful product creation and selling is always a delicate balance of mixing the proven with the constantly changing. Ecclesiastes 1:9 states that, \u201cWhat has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done. There is nothing new under the sun.\u201d It\u2019s true\u2026there IS nothing new under the sun, even in business, but \u201cchange\u201d requires us to consider \u201cperspective\u201d and \u201ccontext.\u201d Our perspective and context is what makes our current experience unique\u2026it\u2019s what separates the men from the boys, so to speak.\nConsider \u201cPerspective\u201d this way: Perspective is the interrelation in which a subject or its parts are mentally viewed; whereas \u201ccontext\u201d is the interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs. So in a sense you could say: Context is \u201cwhat\u201d it is and perspective is \u201chow\u201d it is, with \u201cit\u201d being whatever you\u2019re referencing (a product, a niche, etc.). The genius behind truly successful sales is in understanding the context and perspective in ways that are different from those who are failing, which is why you can have one person be wildly successful at selling a product online in a certain fashion and another copy that system and fail.\nI love the Public Domain because it represents the brilliance of those who lived before us, and while it\u2019s sometimes easy to conclude that the content is old and outdated, nothing could be further from the truth. The real key\u2026the real secret\u2026to succeeding with Public Domain content is simply this\u2026present it within a new context and from a new perspective. That\u2019s where the money is, and in future posts (as I get back into writing since this new change in my life), I\u2019ll be discussing those perspectives.\nTags: change, context, perspective, public domain | 1 Comment \u00bb\nThe Ultimate Public Domain Q&A Teleseminar\u2026Special Offer!\nA few months back, I hosted a Public Domain Q&A Teleseminar series where I answered questions from my subscribers. The experience was amazing! Between two calls, I shared for nearly 5 hours, brain-dumping all my knowledge on how to use the proven content of the Public DOmain effectively in your business. Here is what a few of the attendees had to say:\n\u201cAs I write this, I\u2019m listening to the teleseminar. It is without a doubt one of the best I\u2019ve ever listened to. Listening to the conversation between you and Mike is like all three of us sitting in the den or living room having a conversation. Well, OK, you guys are having the conversation and I\u2019m the wide-eyed kid sitting, quietly, listening and absorbing every word. Right now you\u2019re speaking of content. And \u201ccontent\u201d is what this seminar is. Period. My sincere thanks to both of you for an enjoyable and extremely useful experience.\u201d\n\u201cWe were able to join the replay of your fantastic teleseminar. The ten questions you answered were loaded with valuable information. It certainly was the best, most informative teleseminar that we have ever attended, and we thought the one in which Jim Edwards interviewed you was pretty solid. You really unloaded all or maybe most of your secrets to the giant Pandora\u2019s box of public domain.\u201d\n\u201cI listened to the whole seminar and yours was the best seminar with the most information that I have ever attended, and I have attended many.\u201d\nAs you can tell, we had a great time! Ultimate Public Domain Q&A Teleseminar normally sells for just $97\u2026an extremely low price for all the insights you receive, but I decided that, as a way of saying THANKS to you, I am going to offer a 40% discount on the series. Simply follow the link below\u2026it will take you to the salesletter for Ultimate Public Domain Q&A Teleseminar. Click the ORDER button, and on the Checkout Page, enter the coupon code: TELECALL-1 in the space provided and click \u201cApply.\u201d That will reduce your price by 40% and give you access to amazing content at an even MORE amazing price! Thank you! Here\u2019s that link:\nhttp://www.thepublicdomainexpert.com/teleseminar\nTags: coupon discount, public domain, special offer, teleseminar | No Comments \u00bb\nMy Newest Niece Is HERE!\nHey Everyone\u2026I\u2019m an uncle once again, thanks to my sister, Tanya and her husband, Justin. Saw the new edition last night and she\u2019s a cutie!\nIntroducing Hayden Rose Martin!\nNew, FREE Report on Niche Research\nI just uploaded a new, FREE report to my Yard Sale site titled, \u201cNiche (and Public Domain) Research With a Spin.\u201d I share some powerful ways to use Twitter to connect more effectively with your niche audience and to conduct some pretty cool, covert research (nothing illegal of course). You can download the free report now by visiting:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 9059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicworks.knet.ca/?q=node/6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:50Z", "digest": "sha1:2WB5WIMS63MPGUAA7F4O5VSM26G4K7SU", "length": 2499, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "publicworks.knet.ca", "title": "Poor Housing, contributing to social ills, study finds | KO Public Works", "raw_content": "May 8, 2006 - CBC News - http://www.cbc.ca/north/story/nor-housing-inuit-study.html Nunavut's housing shortage is causing stress, depression and violence among Inuit, a professor from the University of British Columbia has found. Frank Tester surveyed 91 homes in Cape Dorset, a community 395 kilometres west of Iqaluit, last summer, and found nearly half the homes are overcrowded. He says overcrowded housing is contributing to the territory's social problems.\"People get angry, and they get frustrated, and I think the overcrowding situation contributes to another big problem and that's domestic violence,\" said Tester, an associate professor at UBC's school of social work and family studies.Tester's research also shows that in crowded homes, 17 per cent of Inuit have trouble sleeping and 16 per cent say they feel stressed.One in five Inuit surveyed say they feel depressed because of their living situation, and just over half thought they would be healthier if they lived in a bigger home.At the rate the Inuit population is growing, Tester says it's only going to get worse, and not just in Cape Dorset.\"The only difference is some communities are growing much faster,\" and said. \"The birth rates in some communities are higher than other communities and the rate at which the population is expanding is different in some communities.\"Tester's study rings true for Elisapee Ottokie, who has 10 people living in her two-bedroom apartment.Her nephew's family moved in with her in November and will stay while they wait for a house of their own. But that could take months.\"It gets frustrating. I want to get into a bigger house,\" she said. \"I've been waiting for five years.\"Lawsuit a possibility?Tester says money isn't the only way to solve the problem.\"People need to get more involved in housing and housing management and housing association,\" he said. \"The other thing that Nunavut could use is a good co-op housing program.\"Last week, the federal government announced $200 million in funding to help deal with Nunavut's housing shortage over the next three years.FROM MAY 3, 2006: New Tory budget praised and panned in the North. But Tester says that is merely a fraction of what the territory will need to fix the problem.In his report, Tester says the federal government has failed to support the well-being of Inuit.He recommends that Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., the territory's land-claim organization, sue the federal government the failing to promote equal opportunities for Inuit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 210.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pushpmagazine.com/tag/india-captain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:41Z", "digest": "sha1:JS66HPEBW65FE5MG4ANUY4GZX2RH6P5S", "length": 122, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "pushpmagazine.com", "title": "India captain Archives - Pushp magazine", "raw_content": "Tag: India captain\nMiss World 2018: Today the world will get a new wo\u2026\nThis earth will not be worth living in a few years\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://putlockeris.cc/somethings-gotta-give-2003/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EOIDYDACHKXARJ7A6L7KV25HMY3TBM6W", "length": 594, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "putlockeris.cc", "title": "Watch Something's Gotta Give (2003) full online free putlockers Watch movies online and watch tv shows online free putlockers", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Something\u2019s Gotta Give (2003)\nWatch Something\u2019s Gotta Give (2003) full movie online free.\nWhen aging womanizer Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) and his young girlfriend, Marin (Amanda Peet), arrive at her family\u2019s beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, dramatist Erica Barry (Diane Keaton), also plans to stay for the weekend. Erica is scandalized by the relationship and Harry\u2019s sexist ways. But when Harry has a heart attack, and a doctor (Keanu Reeves) prescribes bed rest at the Barry home, he finds himself falling for Erica \u2014 who, for once, may be out of his league.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pvp.cherrycredits.com/sdcc/prizes.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:29Z", "digest": "sha1:Z67ESCQX5435PZA2ACBSVYIV5HSGXCGO", "length": 300, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "pvp.cherrycredits.com", "title": "Cherry Tournament", "raw_content": "*All prizes are non-transferable, non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Lucky Draw winners must be present to claim the prize. Otherwise, a re-draw will take place. The Organizers reserve the right to amend the terms and conditions without prior notice. All decisions made by the Organizers are final.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 156.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://q1077.com/ozzy-osbourne-venue-blackmail/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:49Z", "digest": "sha1:OUIUY3V6JDVPZDMPIT3C2OLSKXVTPIX5", "length": 3244, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "q1077.com", "title": "Ozzy Osbourne Blackmailed by Venue Owner, Claims Sharon", "raw_content": "Jason Kempin / Kevin Winter / Mike Coppola, Getty Images\nSharon Osbourne claimed husband Ozzy Osbourne was being blackmailed as a result of a dispute between rival event agencies. She said AEG Live CEO Jay Marciano attempted to force Ozzy to perform in a Los Angeles venue where he didn\u2019t want to play.\nWhen Ozzy and manager Sharon began planning his upcoming No More Tours 2 farewell road trip, they wanted to appear at the O2 Arena in London on Feb. 11, 2019. The venue is owned by AEG, while the tour is being produced by Live Nation. AEG stipulated that, in return for being allowed to use the O2 Arena, the Osbournes had to agree to play the Staples Center in L.A. if any show was to take place within 25 miles of the city and was produced by Live Nation.\n\u201cShame on AEG for bringing artists into a power struggle you're having with your competitor, Live Nation,\" Sharon Osbourne wrote in an email to Marciano shared with Billboard. \u201cI can assure you that Live Nation would never strong-arm an artist into playing a venue they're not comfortable performing in.\u201d\nShe returned a contract to appear at the Staples Center unsigned.\nThe Osbournes appear to have become victims of a feud between AEG and Live Nation that began last year, when former Live Nation executive Irving Azoff began block-booking venues, tying artists to appear in particular locations. His activity brought the L.A. Forum together with New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden. AEG responded by commencing their own block-booking policies, which included the Forum\u2019s rival venue, the Staples Center. Azoff said he had ended the practice, but Marciano disputed that. The situation led to Live Nation\u2019s U.K. operation attempting legal action against AEG, but British authorities said any such action would have to take place in the U.S., which hasn\u2019t happened.\n\u201cThank you for your note,\" Marciano replied to Osbourne\u2019s email. \"Please understand this dispute is between the Forum and Staples Center and we couldn't agree with you more \u2014 it should always be the artist's choice. We long for the days when artists and fans came first.\u201d\nBut Sharon fired back, suggesting that, since the Staples Center contract had been sent by AEG to Live Nation, Marciano\u2019s claim about a local dispute was inaccurate. \u201cThis is a staggering attempt to blackmail Ozzy into playing your venue in Los Angeles,\" she said. \u201cIt is also a complete abuse of bargaining power and not conducive to a free market. If you do not confirm the date for Ozzy at the O2 in London then I will be forced to take legal action against AEG Live without delay.\u201d\nShe also compared the company's actions to \"childish playground tactics.\" \"I cannot be involved in a squabble between two venue owning promoters as my interests only lie 100 percent with Ozzy,\" she added.\nU.S. dates for the No More Tours 2 begin on Apr. 27 in Jacksonville, Fla., and end on Oct. 13 in Las Vegas, with a date in Los Angeles listed for Oct. 11 at the Hollywood Bowl. The run is set to continue into 2020. Ozzy said after the announcement that although he didn\u2019t plan to stage anymore world tours, he still plans to keep playing live on occasion and has wants to release a new album.\nSource: Ozzy Osbourne Blackmailed by Venue Owner, Claims Sharon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quicklinks.qlinks.net/2008/10/social-networking-sites-told-to-warn.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JAYDMCLAR6CUDGIZAHRGODQZHVO7AYXG", "length": 1147, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "quicklinks.qlinks.net", "title": "QuickLinks: Social networking sites told to warn users of weak privacy controls", "raw_content": "Social networking sites told to warn users of weak privacy controls\nSocial networking websites were urged to warn users about the low level of protection given to their profiles at a Council of Europe-organised conference on the issue. The European Union Data Protection Authority (Cnil) said websites like Facebook should inform users that their profiles currently receive only \"weak\" protection. It added that website users, especially minors, should be told about the risks they face by going online and given clear instructions on how to change their data protection settings. The request came at the end of a two-day conference in the French city of Strasbourg during which 70 countries also stressed the need for a universal standard on privacy and personal data protection. see draft Resolution on Children's Online Privacy October 2008. Proposer: Privacy Commissioner of Canada. Co-sponsors: Privacy Commissioner, New Zealand, La Commission Nationale de l\u2019Informatique et des Libert\u00e9s (France), Data Protection Commissioner, Ireland, Berlin Data Protection and Freedom of Information Commissioner, Information Commissioner, United Kingdom.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 5659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 230.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rackpress.blogspot.com/2014/11/colin-matthews-christopher-reid-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MUF6XYDZ4RLPMD3SUOTLCQFN54VT6AYW", "length": 2360, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rackpress.blogspot.com", "title": "Rack Press Poetry: Colin Matthews, Christopher Reid and Rack Press", "raw_content": "We are pleased to see that the new CD, No Man's Land, by Colin Matthews from Hall\u00e9 has appeared and it contains the piece composed to words by Christopher Reid published as a Rack Press pamphlet in 2011 (sadly now out of print but reproduced in Christopher's 2012 Faber collection, Nonsense). In some interesting programme notes to the CD which I am sure Colin will not mind our reproducing here, he explains the background to the piece:-\n\"No Man\u2019s Land follows on from my very positive collaboration with Christopher Reid on Alphabicycle Order 2 several years ago. The origin of the work was a call from Richard Hickox in November 2008, full of his usual bubbly enthusiasm and proposing a Proms commission to celebrate the City of London Sinfonia\u2019s 40th birthday in 2011. Like everyone, I was shocked to learn of his sudden death three days later. Richard conducted my first ever Proms performance, in 1983, and clearly the work had both to be written in his memory and take a different direction from his original suggestion of a celebratory work. I have been obsessed with the First World War for many years, long before the centenary of its outbreak came into view (one reason being that my maternal grandfather died on the Somme). But it is no easy subject to treat musically. Although I set Edmund Blunden in Aftertones I have avoided trying to set other war poets, particularly with the example of Britten and Wilfred Owen in mind. When I asked Christopher Reid to provide the text for this work I suggested the concept of a soldier in the midst of war, almost unaware of what he\u2019s found himself a part of. In the event his sequence of poems provided something both different and unexpected: we hear the ghosts of two soldiers hanging on barbed wire in no man\u2019s land. \u2018To pass the time, we let the wind/rummage in the hollows of our skulls/for memories and scraps of song and wisps of rhyme\u2019. Although there are elements of dialogue in the piece, and towards they end they sing together, they see the war for the most part through different eyes. The reflective Captain Gifford is contrasted with the moredown-to-earth Sergeant Slack both by language and by the music they sing, with the sergeant\u2019s music embracing both an invented vernacular and original songs and marches from the period, including recordings made in 1914.\"\nColin Matthews \u00a9 2011/2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 6461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://radiobilingue.org/en/noticias/salud/puerto-rico-incumple-pago-de-deuda-ademas-diversidad-genetica-encdauentra-en-la-poblacion-de-mexico/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HDSL4T3XWK37KCXFPUR3IEVLXTLOIQJ5", "length": 1478, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "radiobilingue.org", "title": "Puerto Rico Defaults on Debt. Also, Diverse Mexican Genetics. | Radio Bilingue", "raw_content": "Puerto Rico Defaults on Debt. Also, Diverse Mexican Genetics.\nPuerto Rico Defaults on Debt.\nPuerto Rico missed a payment on its massive debt for the first time in history. The governor of the island has called the debt unpayable and is calling for a debt moratorium. Some compare Puerto Rico\u2019s debt crisis to the ones in Detroit or Greece. Efforts in Congress to let Puerto Rico file for bankruptcy have gone nowhere. What\u2019s the impact on ordinary citizens?\nGuest: Ed Morales, Journalist, Former Professor at Columbia University, New York, NY.\nAlso, Diverse Mexican Genetics. In the most comprehensive study of its kind, renowned scientists found that Mexico\u2019s indigenous and mestizo populations are more genetically diverse than expected, and each region of the country continues reflecting the genetic traits of the local indigenous population. These findings may impact the medical field and could be especially useful to diagnose propensity to disease or prescribe medical treatments.\nGuests: Dr. Carlos Bustamante, Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Co-Founding Director, Stanford Center for Computational, Human, and Evolutionary Genomics; Dr. Andres Moreno Estrada, Researcher, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine; Co-authors of the Study.\nPhoto: wnyc.org\nThis entry was posted in L\u00ednea Abierta, Mexico, Health and tagged Pol\u00edtica, Health. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 (Espa\u00f1ol) \u00bfEstados Unidos da el adi\u00f3s a las grasas trans?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 5085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ramblings-of-a-red-head-girl.blogspot.com/2017/05/mini-movie-reviews-whispers-best-is-last.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:14Z", "digest": "sha1:GIPXM4ZHN56LOVIRLF3PIH2XPAT3CBKK", "length": 13731, "nlines": 90, "source_domain": "ramblings-of-a-red-head-girl.blogspot.com", "title": "Ramblings of a Redhead Girl: Mini Movie Reviews (*whispers* the best is last)", "raw_content": "Over the last few months (or more...I can't remember) I've discovered some little-known movies that I want to share with you all. But, I don't have the time or energy or the desire to write full reviews, so thus this post of \"mini\" reviews was born.\n(Most of these movies are Hallmark movies, oddly enough.)\nThis photo doesn't have Mary in it, but that's okay because these guys are way better. :P\nThis movie is adorable and I really loved the story\u2014 four orphan boys who literally become a family and raise their \"adopted\" (ahem) little sister and travel West to become cowboys. I really love stories about a group of friends or otherwise unrelated people who become a \"family\". <3 And I love stories about adorable orphan boys. (Especially adorable orphan boys who grow up into handsome daring cowboys. *cough*)\nUnfortunately, someone thought the story should revolve around the adopted sister, Mary Rose, and not the boys. *shakes head*\nI wish Mary was just a side character. She's a spoiled brat and really annoying. I don't care about her annoying love life or her \"journey\" to find her biological family. I mean, I get it. If I was an orphan, I guess I'd want to know who my real family was, too.\nBut....still.\nIsn't the long-lost-orphan-finds-her-real-family-storyline just a tad overdone? :P\nPS. Adam and Shining Water were so adorable, though. Why couldn't their romance take center stage?\nPS. (*spoilers*) WHY DID ADAM HAVE TO DIIIIE??? (end spoilers)\nI literally only watched this movie because of Zachary Levi.\nI literally only liked it because of Zachary Levi.\nBasically, watch this because of Zachary Levi.\nI'm kidding (partly).\nThis was such a cute and fun movie, though I'll say up front that the ending was a little ambiguous and left some to be desired. But, despite that, I would totally watch this again. Zachary Levi plays a man suffering form short term memory loss (which makes him even more adorkable--yes, adorkable is a word--then he already is). Because of this, he struggles to live his life, since every morning he wakes up he literally cannot remember what he did the day before.\nCue his awkward and super duper sweet romance with Alexis Bledel's character and GUYS. They're so cute. *heart eyes* They're both so sweet. And go on a date at the roller rink. I just love 'em.\nIf you like adorable romances with humor and bittersweetness mixed in, then watch this. It's good.\n(Just don't expect a slam-bang ending.)\nPS. Watching this and studying Zachary for any hints of Flynn Rider is such fun. This man really is the real-life Flynn. It's hysterical. (Which means if you are a Flynn/Eugene fan then PLEASE WATCH THIS MOVIE.)\nPPS. This is on youtube. :)\nGuuuys. This was such a good movie. It was emotional and powerful and just so touching and real. It's about a hearing girl and the struggles she faces growing up with deaf parents. Even though I don't know anyone who is deaf, everything about the struggles they faced felt immensely realistic. But I also think some of the situations and problems they faced could be relatable to anyone, hearing or deaf. Problems that require patience, understanding, courage, and love. I just....this was a good movie. <3 PLEASE WATCH IT.\nIt's set during the 30's to the 50's (the story travels along the years) and the costumes and settings are really delightful. Oh, and Margaret's boyfriend-who-becomes-her-husband is really cute. They're adorable together.\nPS. I will warn you that this one had a bit of a \"bedroom scene\". I don't think it was explicit or anything (but we skipped it, so don't take my word) and easily skipped over, but still really unexpected for a Hallmark movie. It's right after William comes home from the war and he says something to the effect of \"Can we go to bed now?\"\nPPS. This is on youtube, too, but it's cropped really strangely. :/\nOkay. This movie, though. What can I say? It was beautiful and heartbreaking and so so so so good. The story swirls around Nina, a woman struggling with whether to abort her baby or not, and Jos\u00e9, a man still haunted by an accident in his past. Together they comfort and strengthen one another. They're such good friends and though (spoiler) they never become a couple, I like to imagine they do at some point because HOW COULD THEY NOT? They're literally the best. They belong together. End. Of. Story. (end spoilers)\nThis movie is stunning and heartbreaking and so so so good, please watch it posthaste.\n(Also, Jos\u00e9 is incredibly handsome. Just sayin'.)\nPS. If you can watch this movie without crying, all I can ask is \"how?\"\nGoodness, this movie was good. It's been awhile since we watched it, so I can't recall everything clearly, but the story is basically about a Scottish farmer struggling with his farm in Southern Africa. He experiences a dramatic change in his life when he becomes a Christian and though trial and tribulation follow, he's able to stand strong in his faith in Christ. I really, really liked this movie. It had a lot of food for thought and it was so inspiring and beautiful. Definitely recommend.\n(And I'm recommending it to myself, too. Writing this little review has shown me it's been too long since I've seen it. :P)\nPS. As far as content goes, the British expletive \"bloody\" is used quite a bit. Some other words like the d-word and he-double-hockey-sticks. Some drinking and smoking, and quite a few shirtless scenes. A bloody accident scene involving a child is shown.\nI picked up this period drama at the library, not expecting anything spectacular, but I was actually pleasantly surprised! Mysterious and dramatic, with a sweet romance at the center (it was so nice seeing Willoughby and Cynthia as nice characters :P), I definitely would watch this again. And I really want to read the book, now.\nPS. It's on youtube!\nPPS. Content: in the opening scenes, a mildly disturbing shot of a man's throat getting sliced is shown. A woman drowns in mud, which is, again, a little disturbing. A man is found dead.\nThis movie was really funny and sweet the first time I watched it. The second time around, it seemed much more cheesy, but hey. It's a Hallmark romance. :P Leah, the character, is Jewish and so it was interesting seeing how modern day Jewish people went about their lives (assuming the film is accurate) compared to Jewish people in past years, such as the characters in Fiddler on the Roof. Of course, the widow-marrying-her-deceased-husband's-brother-marriage tradition (or whatever you want to call it) made for an interesting premise. I would watch this again, though it's by no means the best on this list. ;)\nPS. Leah's mom was really funny. I love her Brooklyn accent. (\"Brooklyn's here! Loud and clear....\" Ahem. Sorry.)\nGuuuuys. New favorite movie alert!\nOkay, so I picked this one up at a library book sale, even though it looked cheesy. But Hallmark Hall of Fame prevails yet again. I LOVED THIS MOVIE. It's set in Ireland (yus), has an extremely attractive hero with the an equally attractive Irish accent (yus again) and the story is both intriguing and humorous at turns. I was going to say \"exciting\" instead of intriguing, but I decided against it. It's pretty obvious it's the kind of movie where all turns out well at the end, so I wasn't too worried on that score. ;) But, lest you assume it was boring, let me assure you it certainly was not!\nAfter Mark (ahem), my favorite character was his Aunt Mave. She was the sweetest, funniest character and admirable as well. I wouldn't mind being a little like her when I'm her age. (Also, she was such a refreshing version of the independent female who can hold her own. She was strong and brave WITHOUT being obnoxious. Yayyy.)\nPS. Content: I think there was some d-words and he-double-hockey-sticks, but other than that it's fine.\nOkay, if I had to pick one favorite movie from this list, I'm not sure what it would be, but Lilies of the Field is definitely a top contender. I have no words right now to express how good this movie is. Just please watch it. PLEASE. It is SO good. And funny. And inspiring. It just has everything good in it, so please please please, if you watch any movie from this post, watch this one.\nPS. I've seen so many movies with Sidney Poitier in them (Blackboard Jungle, No Way Out...). He's becoming a new favorite actor.\nPPS. And he sings an extremely catchy hymn that echos in my mind now and just aghhhh soo good.\nPPPS. *fangirls over the ending*\nHave you heard of any of these movies?\nDo any of these titles intrigue you?\nIsn't Lilies of the Field just wonderful?! It has an innocence and honesty to it that you don't find in many movies. Thanks for sharing these!\nYes!! I complete agree. So glad someone else loves it, too. :) Thank you for commenting!\nI want to watch Lilies of the Field now! I saw a trailer for it on TCM once, but it didn't really impress me. Though I do love Sidney Poitier (though I've only seen him in Blackboard Jungle so far). I'll need to check it out! :)\nYay! You definitely must give it a try; it's SO good. I'm so glad you love Sidney Poitier, too--he's so great. I hope you can find Lilies of the Field soon! :)\nOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH LILIES OF THE FIELD.\nHave you read the book??? It. Is. So. Good. I must've read it 20+ times as a teenager. I adored it. Please, if you haven't read it, PLEASE give it a try--you'll love it!!!\n\"Durango\" sounds really sweet and fun! Maybe I'll watch it! :-)\n(I'm going to try \"Rocky,\" too, just like you told me--it looks cool :-) )\nTHERE'S A BOOK??? *rushes off to goodreads* Oh yes, I will definitely be giving that a try. :D Thank you for telling me!! Have you seen the movie, too?\nI think you might like \"Durango\"!! I hope you enjoy it if you try it. (Tell me if you do!)\n(YAY. I CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR WHAT YOU THINK. <3)\nTHERE IS A BOOK. YES. I even reviewed it on GR; although the review definitely doesn't do it justice. It's such a magical piece of writing.\n*shifts guiltily* No, I've never seen the movie . . . You know how I am with movies based on books that have really, really impacted me; even if it's a GOOD movie, if it's not exactly the same as my original imaginings, I get upset. So I've never tried the movie. I probably *should*, but . . .\nI sure will! :-)\nI marked it as to-read! :D\nAww, I get you. Well, if you ever feel brave enough to try it, it is REALLY good. Maybe I can tell you how it is versus the book once I read it. :)\nI don't think I've seen any of these aside from Faith Like Potatoes... but we don't watch much Hallmark. ;) Clearly I need to add these to my list of movies to watch!!! (As if that list wasn't long enough already...!!!)\nRandom thoughts on this post: I love, love, love Irish accents, the man in the picture for The Moonstone looks ODDLY FAMILIAR WHERE HAVE I SEEN HIM BEFORE??? (Is he perchance Mr. Knightley from Emma 1996??), Zachary Levi is awesome even though I haven't \"seen\" him in anything but Tangled and now I NEED to see him in something so I can look for all these similarities to Flynn because Flynn is MY FAVORITE CHARACTER EVER!!!\nThank you for the lovely post, Natalie!!\nWell, FLP is a good one to have seen! I hope you enjoy the rest if/when you see them! :D\nYESSSS. Irish accents are the best!! No, he's not Mr. Knightley, but he plays Willoughby in the 1995 Sense and Sensibility. Is that where you know him from?\nSO GLAD YOU LOVE FLYNN, TOO! <3\nI'm afraid that can't be it because I haven't seen any version of S and S as of yet???\nFLYNN IS THE BEST!!!\nOh! I don't know, then. Maybe Cranford? He's in that, too.\nHaven't seen Cranford yet either!!! (Miss March is trying to get me to watch more period dramas, but it's slow going so far...)\nYou should watch it! It's good. :)\nClassic Girl May 11, 2017 at 11:32 PM\nThe only one of these I've seen is Bella, which was soooo sad but lovely. The rest of these sound intriguing though!\nIsn't it, though? I love it. :)\nOhhh. These look like fun!\nWe started Faith Like Potatoes once, but stopped it before we got very far. I can't really remember why we didn't like it. :P As to the others, I've never even heard of them! Love is Never Silent sounds really intriguing. And wow! That really would be cool to see Willoughby and Cynthia as nice characters. :) Isn't it so much fun to discover new movies?\nHee. They are! :D\nYeah, I remember we were unsure of it at first, too, but it got much better. :) I'd never even heard of most of these, either! And yes! I tend to like Greg Wise, so it was so nice seeing him as the hero for once. :D And yes, indeed!\nNaomi Sarah May 15, 2017 at 2:39 PM\nI haven't seen ANY of these but your fantastically darling reviews are lengthening my to-watch list by a mile. <3\nAww, thank you! :D Enjoy them when/if you see any!\nI've never heard of any of these, but they all look amazing!!! Especially the way you review them. ;) I shall go and scribble them down on my ever growing list. (Also, I've never seen a Hallmark movie in all my life. Are you shocked?)\nAww, thanks! I hope you can see some of them! (Haha, I remember you saying you didn't watch Hallmark. Well, that simply must change, Miss Meg. ;))\nAhh, such a fun post, Natalie!! I think I heard of Remember Sunday, and I \"like\" Alexis Bledel and Zachary Levi (I never know how to put that, regarding celebrities! I mean that I often am interested in movies that they're in, haha).\nA few of these look familiar, too, and there are definitely some I'll be keeping an eye out for! I need to watch Faith Like Potatoes someday . . .\nThanks for a fun post, m'dear! :) <3\nThank you, Olivia! Haha, I know what you mean. ;) I hope you can see Remember Sunday, then! I think you'd like it. :)\nYay, I'm glad my posts gave you some ideas! Faith Like Potatoes is really great. :D", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 306, "original_length": 18490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ravencrowking.blogspot.com/2013/03/worth-reading-with-caveats.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:31Z", "digest": "sha1:YQRXOI5I7IWDAXGT642RGXXGQHZYMTTQ", "length": 19017, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "ravencrowking.blogspot.com", "title": "Raven Crowking's Nest: Worth Reading, With Caveats", "raw_content": "Scott Rehm posted an interesting open letter to Dungeon Masters here: https://plus.google.com/113196639040063517758/posts/SX8LCNzKUFU\nIt is worth reading, and there is much of it that I can agree with. The overall sentiment is, in fact, one with which I wholeheartedly concur. There were, of course, a few points at which I was forced to twitch an eyebrow.\nFirst off is this:\nGMs will argue endlessly about the best way to do this and that. They will argue about \"yes, and...\" and failing forward and binary rules and simulationism and player agency and binary outcomes and this will be good and that will be bad and the other is the only way to get players invested. And those arguments are so much noise and fury that signify nothing. They don't matter. They are window dressing. They are bullshit. And the more passionately you argue for one over the other, the more full of bullshit you are.\nObviously, I disagree with this. A lot of arguments about the best way to GM are, obviously, only so much bullshit. But experience has taught me that the way in which I run a game matters. It has also taught me that running a game well is a transferable skill.\nWhat I mean by that is simple: My own GMing has changed over the years, mostly for the better, although at times for the worse as I attempted to put certain advice to the test. I ran a game in 1980 well enough to keep a great many players at my table; it does not therefore follow that my game was the best it could be. GMs, like anyone with a skill set, improve by practice, by experiment, and by discussing their trade with others.\nWe all have our own strengths and weaknesses. Doing our best job means that we will exploit those strengths while shoring up our weaknesses. What works for me might not work for you, and vice versa. My particular weaknesses, for instance, might prevent me from feeling easy about using a better method for some GMing task I set out to accomplish. It doesn\u2019t follow that my doing it my way is better than if I set out to overcome my weaknesses and master a new task.\nI would not be half the GM I am today if I were not exposed to the \u201cbullshit\u201d of GMs arguing endlessly about the best way to do this and that. Yes, you are special for GMing. Yes, you should feel proud of what you are doing. Also, Yes, there is room in your GMing for improvement, and Yes, paying attention to some of that endless arguing may be of assistance in so improving.\nIn fact, the whole letter may seem to be both encouragement, and advice of the type Scott calls \u201cfull of bullshit\u201d.\nThat's the thing. You can't be a lazy GM. You can't half-ass it. The longer you are at it, the more likely you are going to face one of those choices. Even if you manage the workload, even if you find all the tricks to focus only on the parts of the game you love, eventually, there is going to be a human conflict at the table and you will have to be the one to resolve it.\nI would prefer to read this section as \u201cYes, other GMs will have ideas \u2013 some of them good ideas, and some of them terrible ideas. It might be a good idea to pay attention to them, but if any one of these ideas damages your love of GMing, whatever benefit you might gain isn\u2019t worth it in the long run. Always take the advice of another GM with a huge grain of salt. A grain of salt too heavy for you to lift is not too large.\u201d\nAnd then I would agree.\nBut I would also argue that, to GM well, you must also always strive to improve. You can\u2019t be a lazy GM and expect to also be the best you can be. Your love for the game will atrophy. The bullshit matters.\nI have been called a terrible, awful DM. I have been called that by other DMs. Because I am railroady. Because I keep a tight leash on world building. Because I am old fashioned and old school and don't believe in player agency over the narrative.\nWhen I think of the word \u201cnarrative\u201d, I think of the actions that occur in the game. When I think of the word \u201crailroad\u201d, I think of the GM usurping the ability of players to make choices within the context of the game. Scott clarifies this in the comments section,\nWith regard to \"player agency over the narrative,\" this refers to games in which the players decide things about the game world outside of the decisions their characters make. In a traditional game, a player exercises their free will by deciding what their characters do in response to a given situation. They declare the action their character takes - no more, no less - and the DM responds to that. Player agency refers to the practice to allowing the player control over things other than their own characters.\nPlease note that this is not what I mean, nor have ever meant, by \u201cplayer agency\u201d. Nor, if the GM allows the players to make whatever choices their characters should rightfully be able to make, does this meet any reasonable definition of \u201crailroady\u201d in my book.\nEverything else? It\u2019s a good post, and one well worth reading.\nJust don't get so carried away slapping your own back that you forget to improve yourself a little, every chance you get.\nThe Angry DM 29 March 2013 at 15:58\nThank you for taking the time to write up this response. I hope you'll give me the chance to clarify a couple of things. You worked hard on this response, so you deserve a response.\nWhat I refer to as the \"bullshit\" is not just talking shop. And I admit I didn't make that clear. It is the acerbic, overbearing way in which DMs often tell other DMs that their style choices are objectively better. \"You MUST run your game this way if you want your players to be happy.\" That is the bullshit. Because, as you point out yourself, style is a personal thing. Different fits for different folks. I am not dismissive of the ideas. I am dismissive of the arguments.\nI am pretty blunt when I type, but if there is a subtext to that part, it is to think about how you talk to your fellow DMs. Because we SHOULD be a supportive, tight-knit group. We should NOT be heaping judgment on one another. As I've said, I have been judged somewhat harshly by fellow DMs because of my perceived style. It rolls off my back. I have a thick skin. But it should not be.\nJudgment and objective (and false) absolute statements about superior styles are toxic. As you note, it is important for DMs to strive to improve and to talk to each other to gather new ideas and new insights. But harsh tones and value judgments put people on the defensive. The targets STOP listening and start defending. And the speaker isn't listening openly either. So no ideas are being exchanged. No improvement is happening.\nTo boil it down to something glib and easily quoted, we shouldn't argue about the BEST way, we should each be talking about OUR ways.\nWith regard to railroading and agency, I should probably let the very brilliant Kenneth Hite and Robin Laws speak for me in \"Ken and Robin Talk About Stuff\" episode 30 ( http://www.kenandrobintalkaboutstuff.com/index.php/episode-30-ring-tailed-and-fructivorous/ ), but I'll just mention that railroading is used by many people and has many different degrees. As Hite and Laws point out, there are folks who consider a mystery with a established solution to be a railroad plot because the solution to the mystery was not affected by the players' investigation of it. By that definition (as someone who runs a lot of mystery and intrigue plots), I am the railroadiest engineer ever to ride the raily rails of railroad town. Again, judgement and argument over the best way - THE ONE TRUE WAY - is just a bunch of bullshit.\nOverall, I agree with you. I do, however, hold that there are qualities of a tabletop game that make it different from a computer game or a movie, and that if, as a GM, you choose not to allow these differences to flourish, you are making your game less than what it could be. It might still be very entertaining, but it is not what it could be.\nFor example - railroading, the way I defined it, is toxic to the game. IMHO. You might be able to do it (and this is the general open-ended \"you\", not the Angry DM \"you\"), and that might even be what you prefer. If you can get a single player, you should always run the game the way you want to run it, but you will never convince me that your railroaded game is as good as it would be if you let the players make their own decisions.\nLikewise, if you fudge die rolls, I think that you are damaging your game. The players may still like it. You may like it more than if you did not fudge, and following the general rule of running the game you want if you can get a single player, you should do so. But doing so damages the effects of player choice, and, I think, therefore damages your game.\nNote that when I say \"player choice\" I mean only the player's ability to choose the actions of their characters within the contextual fantasy milieu, and to reap the consequences - good or ill - of those choices. I think that this interplay between context, choice, and consequence is what the game is all about.\nYMMV, and, if it does, your decisions about how to run a game should likewise vary.\nBut my point is that we CAN discuss these things, the pros and cons, more effectively if we avoid the arguments as to whether this style is better or that style is worse.\nFor example: instead of talking about fudging die rolls \"damaging the game,\" let's discuss the reasons why we might or might not do it. An argument can be made, for example, that fudged die rolls increase the impact of player choice by reducing the chance of having the desired outcome being overruled by random chance. And if are trying to build a character-driven story game, we might find that helpful. I personally never fudge die rolls, but I can understand why some might. And I don't agree that it is \"always damaging.\"\nLikewise, as I noted, there are some places where the word railroad evokes an extreme negative reaction that linear games with DM-provided goals instantly provoke ire, rightly or wrongly. Again, I really encourage you to listen to Kenneth Hite and Robin D. Laws if you want to hear the full length and breadth of the gaming discussion of \"sandbox\" vs. \"railroad\" and the toxic nature of the argument.\nThe moment you say \"I will never be convinced that your game will be as good as it could be\" without sitting down at someone's table, you are telling me that there is no point in talking shop with you. You do not have an open mind and are not willing to listen. Again, hypothetical you.\nUltimately, the drive to improve is a personal one. For the DM and the player. When I seek out your help and your advice, by all means, give it. But if I am happy and my group is happy, then trying to make me better by hook or by crook, telling me I am wrong or doing harm to my game, you are the asshole. Because every DM and every game doesn't have to strive for perfection. That is your goal, your drive, your motive. Some folks just want to sit and laugh and have a good enough, fun enough game.\nThere are more important things than being correct. There are more important things than being perfect.\nScott, for an \"Angry DM\" you are certainly working hard to be rational.\nI knew I would be in trouble with the hyperbolic \"I never will be convinced....\" To be more accurate, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I have found, having tried it both ways, from both sides of the screen, that there is a difference between fudging and not fudging, between \"linear model\" and sandbox games.\n\"Better\" or \"worse\" is, of course, dependent upon subjective opinion.\nBut, I have to ask, don't you see a discrepancy between \"Some folks just want to sit and laugh and have a good enough, fun enough game\" and \"You can't be a lazy GM. You can't half-ass it.\"?\nObviously, if good enough is good enough, you can be a lazy GM. You can half-ass it. Lo these many years back, when I was first running games, I was in grade school. I could be a lazy student. I could half-ass it. I could be a lazy student, and even get halfway decent marks.\nAt the same time, though, I wouldn't claim that doing \"good enough\" was getting full value from the educational opportunities afforded to me.\nI am suggesting that it is fine to run your game however you like. If you can get even a single player, you SHOULD run your game however you like. But, if you don't push yourself, you will never get full value from the opportunities afforded to you. If you don't want those opportunities, that's your call. But there is a difference between striving and not striving.\nI should note, obviously, that there are those who can do better not striving than others can while striving. For instance, I cannot carry a tune on a CD, let alone play a musical instrument. No matter how I strive, the vast majority of people I meet are instantly more musically talented than I will ever be.\nAnd I am okay with that. I make jokes about it. I am simply never going to strive to do better with music. But, then, I don't make the mistake of entering Canadian Idol, either. Better or worse may be subjective terms, but I would rather hear a musician who constantly strives to be better than I would a recording of my own voice. And I bet you would, too.\n(I also assume that, if someone is foolish enough to read my blog, they are effectively asking my opinion. And I don't feel a pressing need to IMHO/YMMV every second sentence. I trust the reader to understand that implicitly.)\nHaving listened to the podcast you cite....\"Railroading is a pejorative term for a game session in which something gets accomplished\"? Really? Sorry, but listening to this podcast, I cannot agree that the gentlemen understand either term as I use it.\nA sandbox includes both mission-oriented play and exploratory play, although the players get a hell of a lot more input as to what missions they undertake in a sandbox....and exploratory play tends to help in setting missions. They discuss this, but they seem to feel that the GM determines whether the players are engaged in a mission or exploration. The GM can certainly introduce context within a sandbox - an invading army, for example, offers context in which players make choices for their characters, and certainly influence the potential consequences of those choices.\nConversely, a game is railroady, as I use the term, only to the degree that the GM presents not only context for choices, and consequences for choices, but also forces the choices themselves. The PCs keep getting attacked by monsters if they get off the DragonLance rails, for example.\nSo, no, the dichotomies that the podcast suggests as replacements for railroad vs. sandbox are not particularly useful, as they do not speak to the question. All they do, if adopted as replacements, is prevent you from talking about the question.\nYou can be angry and rational at the same time.\nYou, sir, really need to bend your definitions a little. The problem with a loaded term like \"railroading\" is that everyone doesn't use it the same way you do. There ARE degrees. And that was part of the point Laws and Hite were trying to make: it has become a broadly applied pejorative and has come to encompass many different styles of play and that has the end result of ruining any useful conversation about it. Like this conversation here. You have to keep jumping in with \"Railroading means this and only this to me\" and \"and if taken with this definition, I will never ever accept any possibilities that it is okay.\" So, again, we're not exchanging thoughts or ideas. You are just insisting on one definition and then asserting that your particular definition is absolutely always bad.\nAnd if you really do think that way, that is fine. It is your right. And it is your blog and you should use it as a forum for your opinions. But any further discussion is kind of pointless. Because we're not going to break through that barrier. If you will absolutely never accept a possibility, there is no reason to discuss it for you. You have effectively turned off the discussion. So, I am going to withdraw my hat from the ring of that discussion.\nI think your assertion that \"you can't half ass it\" and \"some people play just good enough\" are contradictory are a result of a false dilemma again. I firmly believe that even playing \"just good enough\" still requires a lot of work and commitment. If you drop below that minimum standard (half assing it), your game CANNOT be good enough. Good enough still requires a high level of work and commitment from the DM. Our argument, then, is whether striving for constant self-improvement is part of that minimum level of work and commitment. Logically, it isn't. Self-improvement implies that you are seeking to move BEYOND good enough to better than good enough. But if you are happy at good enough, there is no imperative that says you must always be improving. It is okay to settle. Because it is just a f$&%ing game, after all.\nMeaning no disrespect, I again am not really sure what you are trying to argue. Are you trying to argue that every DM MUST strive for self-improvement? And that self-improvement involves listening to people who try to apply objective value judgments to subjective style considerations? Because I can't agree to that. And that means that this time, I'm shutting down the communication because, again, I don't see that we can get to a useful place with that discussion. And I genuinely think that is a closed-minded and ultimately toxic attitude to the gaming community.\nNah, I am happy to say \"For the purposes of this discussion, X means Y\" even if I do not think that X means Y. However, I am leery of the attempt to then turn around and conflate X and Y more generally.\nRob and Ken can call \"games without sufficient context\" sandboxes if they like, and \"games with sufficient context\" railroads, but that is not remotely related to the general reasons why people dislike railroads.\nPut bluntly, it doesn't speak to the question. All it does is attempt to muzzle the question, and I have no interest in that.\nLikewise, of course it is \"okay to settle\", but one shouldn't mistake settling for something that makes you special. I know people use \"it is just a game\" to make it seem like it is unimportant, but if one considers the amount of time one spends upon it as a measure of its significance in your life, one might conclude that for many, while it is a game, it is more than \"just\" a game.\nOh yes, and if the problem with a loaded term like \"railroading\" is that everyone doesn't use it the same way, i.e., \"it has become a broadly applied pejorative and has come to encompass many different styles of play and that has the end result of ruining any useful conversation about it\", then I submit that the LAST thing it makes sense to do is \"bend your definitions a little\" and use the term more broadly to encompass more, and thus further ruin useful conversation about it.\nUnless ruining future conversation around the root term - the reason why it became a pejorative - is the goal. And when that is the goal, well....No thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 565, "original_length": 33276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://raw-milk-facts.com/hormones.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HWQBEEHLJSZC4HUM3D5VWZRWID5CTA2Q", "length": 19422, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "raw-milk-facts.com", "title": "Hormones and Growth Factors in Raw Milk", "raw_content": "Hormones and Growth Factors in Raw Milk\nMany people are concerned about the presence of hormones in milk and other foods, and rightfully so. Hormones and growth factors (such as IGF-1, insulin-like growth factor-1) are powerful substances with far-ranging effects on virtually all of the body's tissues. When making food choices for yourself and your family, it's important to be aware that many products contain a natural complement of hormones, and always have. Processed foods, especially pasteurized milk from cows dosed with artificial hormones like rBGH, have altered ingredient levels which may be responsible for unwanted health effects.\nRest assured, with regard to hormones, clean raw milk from organic grass-fed cows contains only the precisely balanced trace amounts that nature puts there. To understand this important class of substances, (we tend to fear things we don't understand) we'll need to learn more about hormones themselves, how they work, and how they can impact our health in positive or negative ways.\nIn simple terms, all hormones are basically chemical messengers with various life-spans, which get released from one tissue or another, are transported via the bloodstream or intracellular fluid, and end up at target cells in the same region or different tissues entirely. In our bodies, the various glands of the endocrine, and other systems, secrete hormones that carry messages to speed up, slow down, turn on and off, increase, decrease, raise, lower and alter in countless other ways, the complex array of organs and systems that make up who we are.\nHormones, and compounds that behave like them in our bodies, are all around us. All animal products and a good many plants contain 'bioactive' substances- compounds that can affect our bodies either positively or negatively by locking into receptors normally reserved for our body's own hormones. Some of these powerful substances come at us from unexpected directions- for instance, a substance in ever-present and annoying diesel fumes has been shown to have hormonal activity in humans.\nEndocrinologists (scientists who study hormones) tend to lump them into four structural groups, based mainly on their composition. It's fairly common for members from each group to have several properties in common with one another, which shows that their receptors are not as finicky as they could be. A good example of this is the growing number of chemicals in our environment that have been discovered to act like the hormone estrogen in our bodies (estrogen mimics), like phthalates, which leach from plastics. By the way, men, I regret to have to tell you that the bitter hops in beer (above) contains a potent estrogen mimic (8-prenylnaringenin)...\nPeptide/Protein hormones, like insulin, are made from chains of amino acids (think beads on a string) called, peptides. Very long strands of peptides with complex bends and folds, more familiar to us as proteins, also exhibit hormonal activity. Usually they're assembled in the scary-sounding storage/synthesis regions of the cell called the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).\nSteroid hormones, such as the sex hormone testosterone and the stress hormone cortisol (right), are fat-like lipids manufactured in a back and forth shuttle between the tiny power plants of our cells (mitochondria) and the above mentioned ER. There, with the help of a bevy of enzymes, the hormone precursor or building block for all the steroid hormones, pregnenolone, is fashioned out of cholesterol molecules. Still other enzymes then customize the pregnenolone into the particular steroid hormone needed at that moment.\nA number of other familiar hormones fall into the category known as Amino Acid Derivatives. Amino acids, remember, are the individual 'beads' that make up peptides and proteins. Tryptophan, of sleep-inducing warm milk and turkey dinner fame, is the precursor to the pineal gland hormone melatonin (and the depression-busting neurotransmitter, serotonin). The important thyroid hormone, thyroxine, and neurotransmitter/hormone epinephrine both get their start from molecules of the amino acid tyrosine.\nThe Eicosanoids, or Fatty Acid Derivative hormones get their start, as the name implies, from fatty acids, the chains of carbon and hydrogen atoms which form the bulk of fat (triglyceride) molecules. One of the better known groups of this class, the prostaglandins, figures heavily in the body's inflammatory response. People with asthma and arthritis are all too familiar with these powerful substances.\nMany hormones, especially the eicosanoids, are short-lived, staying active for only a few seconds. Others, in the protective folds of large protein molecules, last for hours. The steroids typically exhibit effects until either deactivation by metabolic changes in their molecules or by excretion in the waste, which can be a few days. This very transitory nature of hormones makes testing for content levels in milk tricky at best. The bulk of the studies I came across showed quite a bit of variation both in amount and just which hormones were present in the samples tested.\nOther major factors contributing to uncertainty in hormone content/concentration include the breed of cow, time of year, stage of the lactation cycle and what the cow was fed. The composition of milk very definitely reflects the diet from which it is produced. High-percentage grain diets and production-enhancing hormone injections increase the volume of milk produced, but dilute overall levels of nutrients and can skew growth factor content upward. Since none of the studies mentioned the diet composition of the cows whose milk they examined, the variation in results came as no surprise.\nDelving into the world of hormones can be a lot like wading in alphabet soup. Take a deep breath and jump in anyway! Leaving this section with even a rudimentary understanding of the amazing hormonal system of checks and balances (called 'feedback loops') in clean raw milk will help allay any concerns you may have that this food can negatively impact your health. Hopefully, as you read, you'll discover, as I did, what an amazingly complex tapestry the bioactive components of raw milk actually weave.\nWhile I can't verify the presence, concentration or activity of each substance on the following list, it's indisputable that nature's genetically controlled concentrations of promoters and inhibitors in organic raw milk, left to their own devices, assure that key nutrients are carried to where they're needed, unwanted excesses are suppressed and that growth and maintenance are the order of the day.\nTHE LIST OF HORMONES AND GROWTH FACTORS REPORTEDLY FOUND IN RAW MILK:\n(Just a few words about the units of measurement used here- a gram [g] is pretty light- there are 28.35g to an ounce. A microgram [mcg] is one millionth of a gram. A nanogram [ng] is one billionth of a gram. A picogram [pg] is one trillionth of a gram- only a little bit more than none at all. A mililiter [ml] is one thousandth of a liter and there are just under 30ml to the fluid ounce.)\nAdrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH): A 39 amino acid polypeptide hormone that acts in the cortex of the adrenal gland to increase production of corticosteroid hormones, two groups in particular- the glucocorticoids and the mineralocorticoids. The glucocorticoids, such as cortisol, control stress response, protein, carbohydrate and fat metabolism, and have anti-inflammatory properties as well. The mineralocorticoids, like the hormone aldosterone, control water and electrolyte levels in the body by inducing the kidneys to retain sodium. ACTH has a very short half-life of 10 minutes. The term half-life refers to the amount of time it takes 50% of a substance to degrade or lose activity. In the case of ACTH, every 10 minutes, another 50% of what's left degrades until it's completely gone.\nBombesin (Gastrin Releasing Peptide- GRP): A 13 amino acid neuropeptide that works with gastrointestinal tract neuroendocrine hormone (GTNH) to induce gastrin release. It also teams up with cholecystokinin (CCK) to signal satisfaction from hunger (satiety).\nBovine Growth Hormone (BGH): A protein hormone secreted by the cow's pituitary that regulates growth and development of the animal. Due to similarities in receptors for the milk production (lactation) hormone prolactin (PRL), BGH can also induce lactation. BGH also stimulates secretion of insulin-like growth factor-1. Due to differences in molecular shape, BGH is believed not active in humans. BGH: < 1 ng/ml\nCalcitonin: A 32 amino acid polypeptide hormone that aids in proper calcium and phosphorus metabolism, prevents hypercalcemia (elevated calcium levels) after meals, and reduces blood calcium levels by regulating calcium ion absorption in the intestines, lowering osteoclast (bone absorbing cell) activity and decreasing kidney tubule calcium and phosphate reabsorption rates. It also enhances mineralization of skeletal bone and helps reduce bone calcium loss during pregnancy and lactation. As if that weren't enough, calcitonin also regulates Vitamin D, and, along with CCK and GRP (bombesin), helps to signal satiety. Its actions are offset by PTH, which increases blood calcium levels.\nCholecystokinin (CCK): A peptide hormone with forms containing either 8, 33 or 58 amino acids that stimulates digestion of fats and proteins by triggering the pancreas to secrete the digestive enzymes lipase, amylase, trypsin and chymotrypsin, and by stimulating contraction of the gall bladder to release fat-emulsifying bile into the small intestine. It works with bombesin, and calcitonin to mediate feelings of satisfaction after eating.\nEpidermal Growth Factor (EGF): A 53 amino acid protein that stimulates growth and repair of tissues in the gastrointestinal tract, especially keratinocytes (a special type of skin cell) and fibroblasts (cells that form structural fibers in collagen and other connective tissues).\nErythropoietin (EPO): A 165 amino acid glycoprotein hormone (glycoproteins consist of several sugar molecules linked with a protein molecule). EPO stimulates erythrocyte (red blood cell) production in the bone marrow, boosting the blood's ability to carry oxygen. Studies have shown that significant amounts of EPO resist digestion and survive to reach receptors in the intestinal tract. One raw milk-drinking athlete was wrongly accused of blood-doping, so there's at least anecdotal evidence of EPO's activity in our systems!\nThe Estrogens: An important and often controversial class of steroid sex hormones including estradiol and estrone, usually associated with females, but present, and with important functions in males as well. Aside from their obvious influence on breast and uterine development, the estrogens (which are actually derived from the male sex hormones or 'androgens' testosterone and androstendione) bolster bone maturation, strength and density, regulate formation of sperm cells and play crucial roles in fat (lipid), circulatory, respiratory and nervous system metabolism. The trace amounts present in bovine milk are considered too low to exhibit any physiological activity. Progesterone, also present in raw milk, has an inhibitory effect on the estrogens. Estradiol: 160 pg/ml, Estrone: 34-55 pg/ml\nFollicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH): A 210 amino acid glycoprotein hormone which promotes the maturation of immature ovarian follicles. In men, FSH facilitates production of proteins crucial to formation of sperm cells. The half-life of FSH is 3-4 hours, so unless you're drinking straight from the cow, chances are there'll be little, if any, active hormone left by the time your raw milk makes it to the refrigerator.\nGastrin: A peptide hormone with forms containing 14, 17 or 34 amino acids. Gastrin functions to stimulate parietal cells in the stomach to secrete hydrochloric acid. It causes other cells to secrete pepsinogen, (an inactive form of the digestive enzyme pepsin) that converts to pepsin in a low pH (acidic) environment. It also stimulates production of pancreatic enzymes. Gastrin secretion is regulated by gastrin releasing hormone (GRH) and gastrin inhibitory peptide (GIP), both of which are also found in raw milk.\nGonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH1): A 10 amino acid peptide hormone that triggers the release of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH) from the anterior pituitary gland. GnRH1 is degraded by proteolysis (digestion of proteins by cellular enzymes called proteases) within a few minutes of secretion. GnRH1: 0.1-3 ng/ml\nGrowth Hormone Releasing Hormone (GHRH): A 44 amino acid peptide hormone that stimulates secretion of growth hormone (GH) from the anterior pituitary gland. GHRH also helps promote slow wave or Stage 3 and 4 sleep. It's action is opposed by somatostatin, also present in raw milk.\nInsulin: Well-known polypeptide hormone that, among a multitude of other functions, chiefly regulates carbohydrate and fat metabolism. Bovine insulin differs from the human form by only three amino acids and appears to share a similar level of activity. Insulin: 4-6 ng/ml\nInsulin-like Growth Factor-1 (IGF-1): A protein hormone with a structure similar to insulin, produced in response to growth hormone (GH). It regulates growth and development in just about every cell in the body. Abnormally low levels are considered diagnostic for growth hormone deficiency. Most IGF-1 is carried by binding proteins that can prolong its half-life (to about 6 hours) but reduce its activity. Free (unbound) IGF-1has a half-life of about 10 minutes. IGF-1: 1-10 ng/ml\nLuteinizing Hormone (LH): A 23 amino acid glycoprotein that triggers production of steroid sex hormones in both males and females. In men, certain cells in the testes react to LH by producing testosterone which, by the way, is a precursor for the female sex hormones. In women, LH induces cells in the ovaries to form estrogens, such as estradiol, estriol and estrone. LH has a half-life of only 20 minutes, which virtually assures little, if any, will be left in your raw milk by the time you get it home.\nMammary-derived Growth Inhibitor (MDGI): A polypeptide found in milk fat globule membranes that has been shown to inhibit proliferation in several types of mammary epithelial (barrier) cells.\nNerve Growth Factor (NGF): A protein that stimulates growth and maintenance of neurons (nerve cells) and glial (non-nerve support) cells in the central (brain/spine) and peripheral nervous systems.\nNeurotensin (NT): A 13 amino acid peptide that acts as both a neurotransmitter and hormone. NT has powerful analgesic (pain-relieving) and anti-inflammatory properties, various regulatory roles in the gastro-intestinal tract, and controls the release of numerous other hormones including somatotropin (SS), luteinizing hormone (LH) and prolactin (PRL). Neurotensin has a very short half-life.\nParathyroid Hormone (PTH): An 84 amino acid peptide hormone that raises calcium levels in the blood. It does this by fostering growth of osteoclasts, a type of cell which breaks down bone, by causing the kidneys to reabsorb calcium and by boosting intestinal calcium absorption through increased production of vitamin D. The hormone calcitonin offsets PTH activity by lowering blood calcium levels.\nParathyroid Hormone-related Peptide (PTHrP): A protein hormone similar to PH and necessary for proper eruption of the teeth. PTHrP also regulates cerebral blood flow and helps lower blood calcium levels by increasing osteoclast (bone absorbing) cell formation. PTHrP: 58-185 ng/ml\nProgesterone: A multi-functional steroid hormone that belongs to a group called the progestagens- hormones that counteract the effects of estrogens on the body and that inhibit the production of sex steroids. It functions mainly in regulation of the menstrual cycle, gestation and embryonic development. Progesterone also has a number of important roles beyond the reproductive tract, including reduction of inflammation and immune response, assistance with thyroid activity and bone construction, reduction of gall bladder activity and raising of the core body temperature (thermogenesis). It's blockage of estrogen may help with inhibition of breast and endometrial cancers. Unfortunately, progesterone is poorly absorbed orally. Progesterone: 18-23 ng/ml\nProlactin (PRL): A 199 amino acid peptide hormone with numerous functions, the main being stimulus of mammary gland milk production. PRL-inhibiting factor and PRL-releasing factor, also present in raw milk, govern PRL secretion and expression. PRL: 6-8 ng/ml\nSomatostatin (SS): A 42 amino acid peptide hormone that inhibits release of growth hormone (GH) by opposing the effects of growth hormone releasing hormone (GHRH). It also inhibits release of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and suppresses or inhibits numerous gastrointestinal bioactives, including gastrin, CCK and vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP). It also slows the rate at which the stomach empties, and thus enhances digestion.\nTestosterone: A familiar steroid hormone typically associated with male sex traits, but present in females as well, in much lower concentrations. Classed as an androgen, testosterone controls the development of numerous masculine characteristics (including deepening of the voice in both sexes), but is also converted to the estrogen hormone, estradiol, which speeds up the conversion of cartilage into bone during periods of rapid growth. Testosterone: 40-75 pg/ml\nThyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH): A pituitary hormone that triggers release of thyroxine (T4) and tiriodothyronine (T3) from the thyroid gland, both of which play key roles in determining the body's metabolic rate and temperature, rate of protein synthesis and sensitivity to a class of substances called catecholaminesthe best known example being the neurotransmitter/hormone epinephrine or adrenalin. TSH is inhibited by somatostatin.\nThyrotropin Releasing Hormone (TRH): A three amino acid tripeptide that induces the anterior pituitary gland to release thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and prolactin (PRL). TRH: 16-34 ng/ml\nTransforming Growth Factor-Beta-1 (TGFB1): A polypeptide growth factor which regulates cell differentiation and proliferation. TGFB1 has been shown to inhibit the growth of epithelial cells. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), other growth factors in the TGFB1 family and possibly present in raw milk, cause the formation of new bone and cartilage.\nVasoactive Intestinal Peptide (VIP): A 28 amino acid peptide hormone that stimulates secretion of water and electrolytes, dilates (widens or expands) intestinal smooth muscle and peripheral blood vessels, and inhibits gastrin. It also stimulates gastric acid secretion. VIP has a 2 minute half-life in the blood.\nThat ought to suffice for now. As you can see, there's a lot more to raw milk than meets the eye. Bear in mind, this survey of its bioactives and their interactions is far from complete, and, undoubtedly, there are many more yet to be discovered.\nThe ingredient list for a food as powerfully healing and restorative as this is bound to be complex- and while the hormones and growth factors above certainly add to that complexity (and controversy), this amazing fluid has withstood the test of time. 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That's one of many phantom passages that people think are in the Bible.\n(CNN) - NFL legend Mike Ditka was giving a news conference one day after being fired as the coach of the Chicago Bears when he decided to quote the Bible.\n\u201cScripture tells you that all things shall pass,\u201d a choked-up Ditka said after leading his team to only five wins during the previous season. \u201cThis, too, shall pass.\u201d\nDitka fumbled his biblical citation, though. The phrase \u201cThis, too, shall pass\u201d doesn\u2019t appear in the Bible. Ditka was quoting a phantom scripture that sounds like it belongs in the Bible, but look closer and it\u2019s not there.\nDitka\u2019s biblical blunder is as common as preachers delivering long-winded public prayers. The Bible may be the most revered book in America, but it\u2019s also one of the most misquoted. Politicians, motivational speakers, coaches - all types of people - quote passages that actually have no place in the Bible, religious scholars say.\nThese phantom passages include:\nAnd there is this often-cited paraphrase: Satan tempted Eve to eat the forbidden apple in the Garden of Eden.\nNone of those passages appear in the Bible, and one is actually anti-biblical, scholars say.\nBut people rarely challenge them because biblical ignorance is so pervasive that it even reaches groups of people who should know better, says Steve Bouma-Prediger, a religion professor at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.\n\u201cIn my college religion classes, I sometimes quote 2 Hesitations 4:3 (\u2018There are no internal combustion engines in heaven\u2019),\u201d Bouma-Prediger says. \u201cI wait to see if anyone realizes that there is no such book in the Bible and therefore no such verse.\n\u201cOnly a few catch on.\u201d\nFew catch on because they don\u2019t want to - people prefer knowing biblical passages that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs, a Bible professor says.\n\u201cMost people who profess a deep love of the Bible have never actually read the book,\u201d says Rabbi Rami Shapiro, who once had to persuade a student in his Bible class at Middle Tennessee State University that the saying \u201cthis dog won\u2019t hunt\u201d doesn\u2019t appear in the Book of Proverbs.\n\u201cThey have memorized parts of texts that they can string together to prove the biblical basis for whatever it is they believe in,\u201d he says, \u201cbut they ignore the vast majority of the text.\"\nPhantom biblical passages work in mysterious ways\nIgnorance isn\u2019t the only cause for phantom Bible verses. Confusion is another.\nSome of the most popular faux verses are pithy paraphrases of biblical concepts or bits of folk wisdom.\nBoth sound as if they are taken from the Bible, but they\u2019re not. The first is a paraphrase of a 19th century hymn by the English poet William Cowper (\u201cGod moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform).\nThe \u201ccleanliness\u201d passage was coined by John Wesley, the 18th century evangelist who founded Methodism, says Thomas Kidd, a history professor at Baylor University in Texas.\n\u201cNo matter if John Wesley or someone else came up with a wise saying - if it sounds proverbish, people figure it must come from the Bible,\u201d Kidd says.\nOur fondness for the short and tweet-worthy may also explain our fondness for phantom biblical phrases. The pseudo-verses function like theological tweets: They\u2019re pithy summarizations of biblical concepts.\n\u201cSpare the rod, spoil the child\u201d falls into that category. It\u2019s a popular verse - and painful for many kids. Could some enterprising kid avoid the rod by pointing out to his mother that it's not in the Bible?\nIt\u2019s doubtful. Her possible retort: The popular saying is a distillation of Proverbs 13:24: \u201cThe one who withholds [or spares] the rod is one who hates his son.\u201d\nAnother saying that sounds Bible-worthy: \u201cPride goes before a fall.\u201d But its approximation, Proverbs 16:18, is actually written: \u201cPride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.\u201d\nThere are some phantom biblical verses for which no excuse can be offered. The speaker goofed.\nThat\u2019s what Bruce Wells, a theology professor, thinks happened to Ditka, the former NFL coach, when he strayed from the gridiron to biblical commentary during his 1993 press conference in Chicago.\nWells watched Ditka\u2019s biblical blunder on local television when he lived in Chicago. After Ditka cited the mysterious passage, reporters scrambled unsuccessfully the next day to find the biblical source.\nThey should have consulted Wells, who is now director of the ancient studies program at Saint Joseph\u2019s University in Pennsylvania. Wells says Ditka\u2019s error probably came from a peculiar feature of the King James Bible.\n\u201cMy hunch on the Ditka quote is that it comes from a quirk of the King James translation,\u201d Wells says. \u201cAncient Hebrew had a particular way of saying things like, \u2018and the next thing that happened was\u2026\u2019 The King James translators of the Old Testament consistently rendered this as \u2018and it came to pass.\u2019 \u2019\u2019\nWhen phantom Bible passages turn dangerous\nPeople may get verses wrong, but they also mangle plenty of well-known biblical stories as well.\nTwo examples: The scripture never says a whale swallowed Jonah, the Old Testament prophet, nor did any New Testament passages say that three wise men visited baby Jesus, scholars say.\nThose details may seem minor, but scholars say one popular phantom Bible story stands above the rest: The Genesis story about the fall of humanity.\nMost people know the popular version - Satan in the guise of a serpent tempts Eve to pick the forbidden apple from the Tree of Life. It\u2019s been downhill ever since.\nBut the story in the book of Genesis never places Satan in the Garden of Eden.\n\u201cGenesis mentions nothing but a serpent,\u201d says Kevin Dunn, chair of the department of religion at Tufts University in Massachusetts.\n\u201cNot only does the text not mention Satan, the very idea of Satan as a devilish tempter postdates the composition of the Garden of Eden story by at least 500 years,\u201d Dunn says.\nThe passage is popular in part because it is a reflection of cherished American values: individual liberty and self-reliance, says Sidnie White Crawford, a religious studies scholar at the University of Nebraska.\nYet that passage contradicts the biblical definition of goodness: defining one\u2019s worth by what one does for others, like the poor and the outcast, Crawford says.\nCrawford cites a scripture from Leviticus that tells people that when they harvest the land, they should leave some \u201cfor the poor and the alien\u201d (Leviticus 19:9-10), and another passage from Deuteronomy that declares that people should not be \u201ctight-fisted toward your needy neighbor.\u201d\n\u201cWe often infect the Bible with our own values and morals, not asking what the Bible\u2019s values and morals really are,\u201d Crawford says.\nWhere do these phantom passages come from?\nIt\u2019s easy to blame the spread of phantom biblical passages on pervasive biblical illiteracy. But the causes are varied and go back centuries.\nIf, say, you were an anonymous artist painting the Garden of Eden during the Renaissance, why not portray the serpent as the devil to give some punch to your creation? And if you\u2019re a preacher telling a story about Jonah, doesn\u2019t it just sound better to say that Jonah was swallowed by a whale, not a \u201cgreat fish\u201d?\nOthers blame the spread of phantom Bible passages on King James, or more specifically the declining popularity of the King James translation of the Bible.\nThat translation, which marks 400 years of existence this year, had a near monopoly on the Bible market as recently as 50 years ago, says Douglas Jacobsen, a professor of church history and theology at Messiah College in Pennsylvania.\n\u201cIf you quoted the Bible and got it wrong then, people were more likely to notice because there was only one text,\u201d he says. \u201cToday, so many different translations are used that almost no one can tell for sure if something supposedly from the Bible is being quoted accurately or not.\u201d\nOthers blame the spread of phantom biblical verses on Martin Luther, the German monk who ignited the Protestant Reformation, the massive \u201cprotest\u201d against the excesses of the Roman Catholic Church that led to the formation of Protestant church denominations.\n\u201cIt is a great Protestant tradition for anyone - milkmaid, cobbler, or innkeeper - to be able to pick up the Bible and read for herself. No need for a highly trained scholar or cleric to walk a lay person through the text,\u201d says Craig Hazen, director of the Christian Apologetics program at Biola University in Southern California.\nBut often the milkmaid, the cobbler - and the NFL coach - start creating biblical passages without the guidance of biblical experts, he says.\n\u201cYou can see this manifest today in living room Bible studies across North America where lovely Christian people, with no training whatsoever, drink decaf, eat brownies and ask each other, \u2018What does this text mean to you?\u2019\u2019\u2019 Hazen says.\n\u201cNot only do they get the interpretation wrong, but very often end up quoting verses that really aren\u2019t there.\u201d\nFiled under: Belief \u2022 Bible \u2022 Books \u2022 Christianity \u2022 Faith\nNext entry \u00bbYour Take: Comments on misquoting the Bible\n\u00ab Previous entryStudy: How Satanists see death\njeepcamper\nWhat are you people talking about?! Gen 3:2\nThe woman said to the serpent, \"We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,\"\nGen 3:3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'\"\nNot only is eve talking to the serpent in the garden she says that the tree from which she is not to eat, is in the middle of the garden.\nI stopped reading your blog there, WARNING other reader, research for yourself the claims made here.\nWhile Genesis may not mention that Satan (the Devil) was the Serpant, the Bible does: \"And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.\" (Revelation 12:9 KJV). The phrase, \"that old serpent,\" is a clear reference to the Eden story.\nI recommend you contact customer relations for help and support. You can find contact details on this website.\nhttp://home.btconnect.com/cell/virgin-money-to-make-a-claim/837\nUseful customer service telephone numbers can be found on this site: (WEBSITE)\nhttp://home.btconnect.com/service/Virgin20Money\nNONEXISTENT SCRIPTURES\n\"Faith only\" believers no not agree that purpose of water baptism is 1. For the forgiveness of sins. 2. So that men can be saved. 3. That it is a baptism into Christ.\nThe purpose of water baptism according to \"faith only' believers.\n1. Baptism is a testimony of your faith.\n2. Baptism is in order to become a member of a denomination.\n3. Baptism is an outward sign of an inward grace that took place the minute you believe. It could have been that you were saved 2 days ago, 2 months ago or 2 years ago.\n4. Baptism is just an act of obedience and has nothing to do with forgiveness of sins.\nHere is a list of Scriptures that \"faith only\" believers use to support their doctrines for the purpose of water baptism\nTHAT IS CORRECT \"FAITH ONLY \" BELIEVERS USE NONEXISTENT SCRIPTURES TO SUPPORT THEIR DOCTRINES ON WATER BAPTISM.\nSCRIPTURES THAT DO EXIST ARE AS FOLLOWS.\nMark 16:16 He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.\nEphesians 5:25-28... as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, 26 so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 that He might present to Himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or any wrinkle; but that she would be holy and blameless.\nActs 22:16 Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on His name.\nColossians 2:12-13 having been buried with Him in baptism, .........13.....He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions,\n1 Peter 3:20-21...through water. 21 Corresponding to that, baptism now saves you-\nRomans 6:3-4 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? 4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism int death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.\nBefore being baptized in water you were not walking in newness of life.\nBefore being baptized in water you were not saved.\nBefore being baptized in water your sins were not forgiven.\nBefore being baptized in water your sins were not washed away.\nBefore being baptized in water you transgression were not forgiven.\nBefore being baptized in water you were not in Christ.\nBefore being baptized in water you were not clothed with Christ.\nBefore being baptized in water you were not sanctified, you were not cleansed,\nand you were not holy and blameless.\nTHE DOCTRINES THAT SUPPORT WATER BAPTISM AS BEING ESSENTIAL FOR SALVATION ARE ALL SUPPORTED BY SCRIPTURE!\nTHE SCRIPTURES THAT SUPPORT THE \"FAITH ONLY\" POSITIONS ON THE PURPOSE OF WATER BAPTISM ARE IMAGINARY, MAKE-BELIEVE, THE DOCTRINES OF MEN, THEY ARE NONEXISTENT SCRIPTURES!\nTamara http://www.ictjobs.info/determine-unicode-code-point-string/\nI'm surprised you didn't mention one that I've heard used already by Rush Limbaugh: \"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you'll feed him for a lifetime.\" He thought he was quoting the Bible.\nNo its not biblical but that is a Chinese proverb.\nMark Yancy\nI have a T.V. Show. and one of the segments of the show Is called \"Bible or Man\" phrases, scriptures, things people say, are they really in the bible???? I have used most of these, Thanks; Barb Strange, if that is your actual name, I have heard that for years, so I will be using that in my 3rd episode.... If anyone have anymore please email them to: info@gwproductions.org\nNancy Fark\nMark, your show sucks, and no thanks for the blogspam.\nJesus mentioned Whale\nMt 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.\nSo, he (or someone writing under the name \"Matthew\") heard that old Hebrew fantasy story. So?\nAnd after the whale excreted Jonas, Matthew sprouted leaves and went off into the enchanted forest to have a torrid affair with Hagrid. Gandalf and Bugs Bunny were awarded a Nobel Prize for their joint discovery of massive quantum leaps, and Snow White sued the NSA for illegally reading her private lesbian love letters to the Wicked Witch of the South Pole.\nnot a bibical quote God said you take one step and he'll make two . God said, when the praises go up , the blessings come down. These are not bibical quotes.\nIt's puzzled me how there's not supposed to be any evil,sin,hate,etc in heaven. Heaven knows no sin. Yet lucifer, gods favored angel who was filled with hate and evil intent, waged war with god and tried to take over heaven. How can this be?\nGood point. I used to wonder about it myself. The answer given to me was that Lucifer as well as Adam and Eve were created with free will. After Lucifer\u2019s fall due to his pride, free will was suspended for angels. In any case, the Bible speaks of the \u201cmystery of iniquity\u201d (2 Thes 2:7), also the \u201cmystery, Babylon the Great\u201d (Rev 17:5) and the \u201cmystery of the woman (Rev 17:5). One of the greatest mysteries of life is how God\u2019s perfect creation turned out so wicked and imperfect.\nThe following quotations come from the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible:\nProv 13:24: \"He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes (diligently).\"\nProv 19:18: \"Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.\"\nProv 22:15: \"Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.\"\nProv 23:13: \"Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.\"\nProv 23:14: \"Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell (Shoel).\"\nProv 29:15: \"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.\"\n\"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.\"\nRead the Bible then read it again and again. I find something new each time.\nYeah, in the Christian book of nasty AKA the bible, you can also find fine guidances like these:\nYou have taken so much out of context.. The whole picture has been ripped apart. Yes! You have made accurate quotes but you do not realize the points being made with those quotes. I would love to talk more and get a bigger idea of your perspective.\nValuable information. Fortunate me I discovered your website accidentally, and I'm surprised why this twist of fate didn't came about earlier! I bookmarked it.\nDonny Williams\nI realize this article is old, but I just came across it. I am baffled by some of the claims, specifically it's claim that Satan did not tempt Eve in the Garden of Eden. I am unfamiliar with Kevin Dunn and his research. He is correct that Genesis \"mentions nothing but a Serpent,\" but other passages give a clear indication the serpent was indeed either Satan himself or indwelled by Satan. David Guzik writes a good commentary linking all the verses, but a sampling: Ezekiel 28:13-19 tells us Satan was in the Garden, Job 26:13 and Isaiah 51:9, et al, associate Satan as a snake-like creature, and Revelation 12:9 and 12:20 speak of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan.\nAs to Jonah and the whale, yes it was a \"great (huge) fish,\" so whale is technically not accurate to the text. It is also true that the Bible does not specify \"3\" Wisemen. It merely says \"Wise Men\" in Matthew 2. The point is \"wise men\" did indeed travel from afar to visit Jesus, which is still the core of the story whether you use the number \"3\" or not.\nYou read the Scriptures quoted in interesting ways. I fail to see how any of these say that the serpent in Genesis was Satan or the devil. BTW, \"Satan\" was originally \"ha-satan,\" not a proper name at all. It was a noun that meant \"the adversary.\" Ha-satan was not the devil but one of the Sons of God in Job, a member of the heavenly council whose job it was to tempt mankind into straying from God's way. The use of Satan as a name for the devil came much later.\nAnyway, here are the passages cited:\nEzekiel 28:13-19 \u2013 Very long passage that I won't quite here, but I see nothing about Satan or anything resembling a devil. It seems to be addressing \"son of man,\" a common Old Testament term for humanity.\nJob 26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. [How does this connect to Eden?]\nIsaiah 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? [Again, what is the connection?]\nRevelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. [The fact that it calls Satan a serpent doesn't mean that he is the serpent in Eden.]\nRevelation 12:20 \u2013 There is no Revelation 12:20.\nYour interpretation of these passages seemed to be quite a stretch. Or did you perhaps think no one would look them up?\nI\u2019m sure Donny meant to say Rev 20:2. There\u2019s no need to impugn bad intent.\nGen 1:31 says, \u201cGod saw everything that he had made [which includes serpents!], and behold, it was very good.\u201d Therefore, the serpent couldn\u2019t have been doing the tempting for two reasons: One, a serpent is an animal, and an animal can\u2019t talk to humans by nature. Two, all of the serpents in the Garden of Eden were \u201cgood\u201d and not evil. Therefore it had to be a being, both a supernatural being and an evil being who used and possessed the serpent.\nSpiritual beings using, possessing, and even speaking through animals (and humans) for their own purposes is clearly taught in the Bible (Num 22:21-31=the angel of the Lord using an ass to make an ass out of Balaam; Mk 5:12-13=evil spirits using a man and then allowed to possess pigs).\nYou say, \u201cThe fact that [Rev 12:9; 20:2] calls Satan a serpent doesn't mean that he is the serpent in Eden.\u201d Who says so? Why else would John, the author of Revelation, call Satan a \u201cserpent\u201d if he didn\u2019t mean to make that obvious connection? Is it because he couldn\u2019t think of another word to use? Let\u2019s be reasonable here. There is no doubt among sensible people that he is certainly connecting Genesis with Revelation so as to show the whole unity of Scripture. Certainly, the very \u201cSerpent\u201d behind the serpent who started it all in Eden, the Father of all lies (Jn 8:44), is the very serpent who is hurled down and will be destroyed once and for all.\nThe only real question that remains is why did Satan use a serpent to tempt Eve rather than some other animal. We have a clue in Gen 3:1: \u201cNow the serpent was more subtil that any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.\u201d Apparently this particular animal made quite an impression on Adam and Eve in the way it moved about and responded to them, and the Tempter knew this. Isn\u2019t it just like the Devil to tempt people with things they find flashy and impressive? It fits Satan\u2019s modus operandi.\nAccording to my 1986 Nelson\u2019s Illustrated Bible Dictionary (page 952), it\u2019s true that the Hebrew word from which \u201cSatan\u201d is derived is used in various ways, but \u201cwhenever this word is used as a proper name in the Old Testament, it refers to the great superhuman enemy of God, man , and good (I Chr 21:1; Job 1-2). This use of the word also occurs frequently in the New Testament.\u201d\nYeah, there's some fine stuff like this in both testaments of that Christian book of nasty, AKA the bible:\nThis web site is really a walk-through for the entire information you wished about this and didn\u2019t know who to ask. Glimpse here, and also you\u2019ll undoubtedly discover it.\nbogumila http://marketing-online.net.pl\nBe blessed by studying http://wake-up.org/ all free.\nWARNING! Revelation is about to be fulfilled\nSee a Chart of Coming Events\n\u00ab Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 33500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/california-dreamin-of-a-bygone-eras-droughts-vs-politics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:IM4XATTOJJTI6UTCIYSUYO3E55MQTN7L", "length": 7651, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "religiopoliticaltalk.com", "title": "California Dreamin\u2019 of a Bygone Eras ~ Droughts vs. Politics (UPDATE) | Religio-Political Talk (RPT)", "raw_content": "California Dreamin\u2019 of a Bygone Eras ~ Droughts vs. Politics (UPDATE)\nPublished May 4, 2015 December 17, 2015 by Papa Giorgio\nDon\u2019t forget: drought, fires, and wild weather were blamed on global cooling.\nTHANKFULLY we got out of global cooling so we don\u2019t have to worry about droughts, fires, or wild weather any longer ~ WHEW! That was a close call.\n(Real Science, also see, RPT)\nHere are excerpts from Kotkin\u2019s article that Prager is reading from in the above audio (video):\nThe Big Idea: California Is So Over: California\u2019s drought and how it\u2019s handled show just what kind of place the Golden State is becoming: feudal, super-affluent and with an impoverished interior.\n\u2026.But since the 1970s, California\u2019s water system has become the prisoner of politics and posturing. The great aqueducts connecting the population centers with the great Sierra snowpack are all products of an earlier era\u2014the Los Angeles aqueduct (1913), Hetch-Hetchy (1923), the Central Valley Project (1937), and the California Aqueduct (1974). The primary opposition to expansion has been the green left, which rejects water storage projects as irrelevant.\nYet at the same time greens and their allies in academia and the mainstream pressare those most likely to see the current drought as part of a climate change-induced reduction in snowpack. That many scientists disagree with this assessment is almost beside the point. Whether climate change will make things better or worse is certainly an important concern, but California was going to have problems meeting its water needs under any circumstances.\nIt\u2019s not like we haven\u2019t been around this particular block before. In the 1860s, a severe drought all but destroyed LA\u2019s once-flourishing cattle industry. This drought was followed by torrential rains that caused their own havoc. The state has suffered three major droughts since I have lived here\u2014in the mid \u201970s, the mid \u201980s and again today\u2014but long ago (even before I got there) some real whoppers occurred, including dry periods that lasted upwards of 200 years.\nBut ultimately the responsibility for California\u2019s future lies with our political leadership, who need to develop the kind of typically bold approaches past generations have embraced. One step would be building new storage capacity, which Governor Jerry Brown, after opposing it for years, has begun to admit is necessary. Desalinization, widely used in the even more arid Middle East, notably Israel, has been blocked by environmental interests but could tap a virtually unlimited supply of the wet stuff, and lies close to the state\u2019s most densely populated areas. Essentially the state could build enough desalinization facilities, and the energy plants to run them, for less money than Brown wants to spend on his high-speed choo-choo to nowhere. This piece of infrastructure is so irrelevant to the state\u2019s needs that even many progressives, such as Mother Jones\u2019 KevinDrum, consider it a \u201cridiculous\u201d waste of money.\nThis fundamentally hypocritical regime remains in place because it works\u2014for the powerful and well-placed. Less understandable is why many Hispanic politicians, such as Assembly Speaker Kevin de Leon, also prioritize \u201cclimate change\u201d as his leading issue, without thinking much about how these policies might worsen the massive poverty in his de-industrializing L.A. district\u2014until you realize that de Leon is bankrolled by Tom Steyer and others from the green uberclass.\nSo, in the end, we are producing a California that is the polar opposite of Pat Brown\u2019s creation. True, it has some virtues: greener, cleaner, and more \u201cprogressive\u201d on social issues. But it\u2019s also becoming increasingly feudal, defined by a super-affluent coastal class and an increasingly impoverished interior. As water prices rise, and farms and lawns are abandoned, there\u2019s little thought about how to create a better future for the bulk of Californians. Like medieval peasants, millions of Californians have been force to submit to the theology of our elected high priest and his acolytes, leaving behind any aspirations that the Golden State can work for them too.\n(CBS) \u2026The Sorek plant produces more than 165 million gallons of fresh water and accounts for more than 20 percent of Israel\u2019s water consumption, according to Udi Tirosh, a director at IDE.\nFactoring in several other desalination plants, an astonishing 50 percent of the country\u2019s drinking water now comes directly from the ocean \u2013 an amount capable of supplying the entire city of Los Angeles.\nPlant officials also say it offers some of the world\u2019s cheapest desalinated water because of new technology and a series of engineering improvements that have cut down the massive energy normally required to transform seawater into fresh water.\nFountains that were once forced to dry up now are flowing again\u2026.\nAnother MUST READ excerpt by a really well written article is this one by Victor Davis Hanson:\nJust as California\u2019s freeways were designed to grow to meet increased traffic, the state\u2019s vast water projects were engineered to expand with the population. Many assumed that the state would finish planned additions to the California State Water Project and its ancillaries. But in the 1960s and early 1970s, no one anticipated that the then-nascent environmental movement would one day go to court to stop most new dam construction, including the 14,000-acre Sites Reservoir on the Sacramento River near Maxwell; the Los Banos Grandes facility, along a section of the California Aqueduct in Merced County; and the Temperance Flat Reservoir, above Millerton Lake north of Fresno. Had the gigantic Klamath River diversion project not likewise been canceled in the 1970s, the resulting Aw Paw reservoir would have been the state\u2019s largest man-made reservoir. At two-thirds the size of Lake Mead, it might have stored 15 million acre-feet of water, enough to supply San Francisco for 30 years. California\u2019s water-storage capacity would be nearly double what it is today had these plans come to fruition. It was just as difficult to imagine that environmentalists would try to divert contracted irrigation and municipal water from already-established reservoirs. Yet they did just that, and subsequently moved to freeze California\u2019s water-storage resources at 1970s capacities.\nAll the while, the Green activists remained blissfully unconcerned about the vast immigration into California from Latin America and Mexico that would help double the state\u2019s population in just four decades, to 40 million. Had population growth remained static, perhaps California could have lived with partially finished water projects. The state might also have been able to restore the flow of scenic rivers from the mountains to the sea, maintained a robust agribusiness sector, and even survived a four-or-five-year drought. But if California continues to block new construction of the State Water Project as well as additions to local and federal water-storage infrastructure, officials must halve California\u2019s population, or shut down the 5 million acres of irrigated crops on the Central Valley\u2019s west side, or cut back municipal water usage in a way never before done in the United States.\nVictor Davis Hanson, \u201cThe Scorching of California: How Green Extremists Made a Bad Drought Worse,\u201d The City Journal, Winter 2015 (Vol 25, No. 1), 82.\nThis entry was posted in Democratic Progressivism, Dennis Prager, Enviromentalism, Global Warming/Climate Change, History and tagged California News, Crazy Dems, drought, Eco-Fascists, Joel Kotkin.\n\u2190 Global Cooling Flashbacks! Including Leonard Nimoy\nThe Word-Faith Movement Discussed by Robert M. 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Fifty percent (50%) of recent buyers used one source to procure home-buying services, compared to 29% in 2008.\nTo view the full article, click here: Suvey: Homebuyers Increasingly Interested in One-Stop Shopping", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rinconchoquero.diariodehuelva.es/?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=user&id=2204631", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:13Z", "digest": "sha1:IS26PGBCZJVVUFJIEAM4LXAJ4X7MODC2", "length": 1840, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rinconchoquero.diariodehuelva.es", "title": "Learn Just How It Is Possible To Find The Motorcycle You're Going To", "raw_content": "HomeLearn Just How It Is Possible To Find The Motorcycle You're Going To\nLearn Just How It Is Possible To Find The Motorcycle You're Going To\nObtaining a motorcycle will not need to be hard. 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I take forward a lot of good building experience, including a few years with Bouygues Construction, a top ten global construction company.\nWhat role does the client play in the design process?\nI think it\u2019s important for a client to emotionally connect with the design. The client is the centrepiece of this process. We are designing something considered to be one of the most personal and precious things, the client\u2019s home. Engagement, ideas, suggestions and influences from the client fuel our ability and creativity to reach a unique language. I get to know the client\u2019s aspiration, personality and lifestyle. I discover the stories behind the building and location\u2019s natural landscape, architecture, culture, traditions and history. Bringing all these qualities together is where it all starts. Design must be a pleasurable experience for the client so we work hard take away all the stress. We ensure the client is in a position to enjoy every moment.\nBefore Rive Gauche, what was your professional experience?\nOver the last 15 years, I\u2019ve designed and delivered world-class projects, including One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, London. My work covers a broad range, from luxury private residences and residential developments, to fashion retailers and boutique hotels. Typically, the project can be anything in size, from small homes to a development in excess of \u00a3100 million. My work internationally has also given me an even deeper understanding of how design works for different people across cultures. This is something I\u2019ve been fortunate to develop with globally renowned interior designers Candy & Candy, and Terence Conran.\nYou\u2019ve worked around the world. Why London for Rive Gauche?\nWhen I initially moved to London I thought I would stay for one year, but the City has a special allure. I love the open spaces, the green parks and the great architecture and restaurants. I have been here ever since and I\u2019ve never looked back. London is a world-class business hub and a strong magnet for real estate investment and development. Many of my clients travel frequently so it\u2019s the natural destination to meet and do business. I\u2018m also connected to a wonderful network of the best British craftspeople, the perfect support when you\u2019re crafting a particular project style.\nDoes the Rive Gauche name pay homage to your French roots?\nIndeed. I am French and for me it was important that the name reflected my identity. Rive Gauche is the name of the South Bank of the River Seine in Paris. Creatives, writers and artists like Arthur Rimbaud, Henri Matisse and Ernest Hemingway use to go there and meet likeminded people to share ideas and challenge convention. I spent lots of time there so it\u2019s left a strong impression on me and my work.\nWhat can clients expect from working with Rive Gauche?\nWorking alongside my Father has been a huge influence. I think he instilled a strong work ethic, dedication and a passion for your craft. To him, client satisfaction was priority. Existing clients would call him 10 years after he made a door because the handle was loose. He would fix it the next day. This sense of pride and passion for craft is something I\u2019ve carried forward. At Rive Gauche, we make the client journey golden. It\u2019s always a partnership built on trust and collaboration, integrity and transparency. Our services reflect these qualities and helps Rive Gauche establish a solid platform to deliver expertise across the complete design process, from consultation and drawings, to completion.\nWhat ambitions and aspirations await the Rive Gauche brand?\nI want the company to be known and recognised for its creativity, dedication and ability to deliver visionary projects of the highest quality. It will be known as the real estate partner of choice for clients wishing to invest, develop or maintain their assets. We have a handpicked network of specialist professionals who share our values and pride in reputation. This means Rive Gauche can continue to grow in the UK and build its reputation across Europe and internationally.\n+ Why Rive Gauche + See Nicolas's references", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 6448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 252.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://robusthealthguide.com/2016/09/30/2-tips-for-taking-care-of-your-hearing-aids-while-living-in-a-high-humidity-environment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SMZ2HEO75B2XRCNOWEJ3CESBSRSLWMXG", "length": 2258, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "robusthealthguide.com", "title": "2 Tips For Taking Care Of Your Hearing Aids While Living In A High Humidity Environment -", "raw_content": "2 Tips For Taking Care Of Your Hearing Aids While Living In A High Humidity Environment\nHearing aids can be your key to understanding the words and sounds around you. While hearing aids tend to be durable, they can malfunction in humid environments. Your device will malfunction because the excess moisture in the air will damage the delicate electronic parts in your hearing aid. Depending on how bad the water damage is, you may be able to repair your hearing aid fairly quickly, or you might need to get a completely new device. Doing so is not only costly, but you will also be inconvenienced for an extended amount of time. Luckily, there are a couple tips that you can use to take care of your hearing aids if you happen to live in a high humidity environment.\nAlways Bring a Dry Caddy Along with You\nThe only sure way to protect your hearing aids from humidity is by not wearing them at all. Since this cannot happen, the next best thing is to bring a dry caddy along with you wherever you go. A dry caddy is a storage device that holds your hearing aids. When you place your hearing aids in a dry caddy, the dry caddy will pull all of the excess moisture from your hearing device. The best time to use the dry caddy is when your hearing aids are not in use. For example, if you are alone at home or when you are a passenger in a car, then you may not necessarily need to be wearing your hearing device. The dry caddy will keep your device safe and dry until you are ready to use it again.\nWear a Hearing Aid Sheath\nA hearing aid sheath is a breathable fabric that covers your hearing device. The fabric's main function is to keep excess moisture from penetrating the device while allowing for proper ventilation. The fabric is also light enough that it does not disrupt the flow of sound to your hearing device. The sheath should be cleaned periodically in order to prevent dirt and contaminants from building up along the fabric. This can be done by rinsing it with warm water and a few drops of soap. You can purchase a hearing aid sheath from your local grocery store.\nWearing your hearing device in humid temperatures can feel like a challenging task if you want to keep them from getting damaged. Therefore, use these tips to deal with humidity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rwd-dev.stage.crainsdetroit.com/article/20170929/AWARDS40/170929915/rick-and-yolanda-williams", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:36Z", "digest": "sha1:4OWNVLXFHJXW5VOYGMECEVY4LTAJZRQ3", "length": 2399, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "rwd-dev.stage.crainsdetroit.com", "title": "Rick and Yolanda Williams, 36 and 35 - Crain's Detroit Business", "raw_content": "Rick and Yolanda Williams, 36 and 35\nAgency Director and Assistant Director, Distinct Life\nBiggest accomplishment: Yolanda: Getting her skin care brand Cream Blends into Whole Foods. Rick: The creative work Distinct Life did for Comedy Central's show \"The Detroiters.\"\nCurrent goal: To positively impact culture through strategic creative partnerships.\nThis husband-and-wife duo runs the creative agency Distinct Life, whose work ranges from consulting and social media management for the social services agency Wolverine Human Services in Detroit to consulting for Comedy Central's show \"Detroiters\" \u2014 they designed the show's logo and produced and wrote the theme song.\nTheir creative partnership started in 2004 when the couple got married while still attending college at Oakland University. In 2007, Rick took over ownership of Burn Rubber sneaker store in Royal Oak and built the brand into an international phenomenon through his collaborations with New Balance and Reebok. Complex named Rick one of the 50 most influential people in sneakers in 2012.\nDistinct Life grew from Burn Rubber's sneaker collaborations and is built on a storytelling model that \"allows the intended audience to use all or some of the five senses to engage with the content,\" Rick Williams said. \"For example, with a shoe collaboration for Puma inspired by monochromatic photography or a Distinct Life collaboration with Beats by Dre, we create a story and give each project a persona to set it apart from just being another shoe or headphone collaboration.\"\nYolanda Williams loves \"coming in every day and having this blank canvas.\"\n\"Whether we're writing a press release or creating assets for a Jansport Backpack project or writing the theme song for 'Detroiters,' every single day is different,\" she said.\nIt's not the couple's only business. Out of her kitchen, Yolanda created a natural skin care product line called Cream Blends in 2013. Now Whole Foods has picked it up, and she just opened a manufacturing facility in Royal Oak.\nBoth Yolanda and Rick said that they've always pushed each other to reach their goals, and they benefit from each other's complementary skills. With Cream Blends, Yolanda explained, \"I create the products and manage the staff and operations, and Rick and our creative team do the branding and the look of the product.\"\nRick noted, \"At the root of everything, we love to create.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 10213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sackett-tree.org/headstones.php?country=USA&state=Minnesota&county=Benton+County&tree=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:01Z", "digest": "sha1:I2U4PYMYRLO7VXTMKZFCRAAQCFA4VYC6", "length": 117, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sackett-tree.org", "title": "Cemeteries and Headstones: Thurmon King's New Sackett Database", "raw_content": "Cemeteries and Headstones in Benton County, Minnesota, USA\nRiverside Cemetery, Ronneby, Benton County, Minnesota, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 220.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sadsp.me/2018/08/06/alexandra-mostovyak-at-last/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:11Z", "digest": "sha1:UY7A4ICMKK356XORSI6ZLM246ZDVTDR5", "length": 1237, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "sadsp.me", "title": "Alexandra Mostovyak \u2013 At Last \u2013 Stephpar's Song A Day", "raw_content": "Alexandra Mostovyak \u2013 At Last\nPosted on August 6, 2018 by Steph Parker Posted in 2018, Cover, English, Jazz, Live, Music Video, Pop, Russia\t.\nAlexandra Mostovyak is a young Rusian singer. She first came to public attention on the 3rd season of the Russian version of The Voice Kids in 2016, where she was mentored by Dima Bilan, who hit the button while she was still singing the first line, one week before her younger sister Maryana who also made it through the blind auditons.\nAt Last was originally released as part of the soundtrack for the 1941 movie Sun Valley Serenade where it was played by the Glen Miller Orchestra, though the best known version was released by Etta James on her 1961 album At Last!. It is about finally finding the perfect person to love. Alexandra gives this song her own special jazzy treatment as she sings with a Jazz orchestra lead by Vahtang Gordadze at the Jazz BigBand Batumi in Berlin, Germany on 23 June, 2018.\nYou can follow Alexandra on her Voice Kids website, on her vKontakte page, on her vKontakte community, on Instagram, and on her YouTube channel.\nAlexandra Mostovyak (5) [More]\nMostovyak; Alexandra (5) [More]\nAt Last (1) [More]\nJazz (86) [More]\n\u00ab Sesame Street \u2013 I Love Trash\nJO \u2013 Maria \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 378, "original_length": 8687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sailing.agyra.com/2010/05/fine-weather-but-still-no-sail.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLPFJRQ6QE6CEP6ZAH6NONLUR4344IQL", "length": 1271, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "sailing.agyra.com", "title": "boat|afloat: Fine weather but still no sail", "raw_content": "I was planning to spend two days on the boat the past weekend but a friend\u2019s birthday party lured me away, at least for the Saturday. I was torn as the weather was absolutely amazing and I was very keen to do some sailing. Anyway, I had a nice time at the party and ended up going the following day, on Sunday. I arrived quite late but I managed to do some jobs including patching the mainsail with some repair cloth and a generous amount of 3M 5200, following advice that I read on a website. By the time I left, around 11pm, the glue was still quite sticky so I left the mainsail partially rolled but covered it under a tarpaulin.. Hopefully it will be OK. I did a couple more jobs including some fibreglass reinforcing of the chainplate knee that I had repaired.\nMy mooring contract is running out on May 31 and I\u2019m not sure exactly what to do. I\u2019m probably not going to sign another annual contract as I\u2019m not sure exactly what I\u2019ll do with the boat and how long I want to keep it at North Fambridge.\nThe coming weekend is the bank holiday weekend but I\u2019ll have to go to a meeting on the bank holiday. Luckily, I\u2019m allowed to take it on another day. Anyway, I\u2019m going to the boat and planning to do some sailing this time, although the weather forecast predicts rain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://samatvam.co.in/contact-us.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QQOBGQKFBQBYW227VRF5HOLA43SVHFVB", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "samatvam.co.in", "title": "Samatvam - Human and Organization Development", "raw_content": "(0124) 430 1728 (Timings 9 am \u2013 6 pm)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 130.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://santaclaracountyh.forumotion.com/t126-what-is-the-exterior-design-patent-license-terms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:02Z", "digest": "sha1:XHFAIE3IPJ63E3SHQYXKFHG35JUHWM2F", "length": 1429, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "santaclaracountyh.forumotion.com", "title": "What is the exterior design patent license terms", "raw_content": "What is the exterior design patent license terms\nThe Patent in San Ramon award appearance design, with the application date shall be used has been publicly disclosed in publications in domestic or has been publicly used designs are not the same and no approximation. Exterior design must be attached to specific products, thus \"are not the same\" not only refers to the shape or pattern, color or their combination design itself, and the design of products that are not the same. \"No,\" application of approximate requirements Patent in San Ramon of existing appearance design is not the shape and appearance design pattern, color, or the combination of simple imitation or small change. Similar appearance design includes the following conditions: the shape or pattern, color, the same products, Shape or pattern, color, product approximate, Shape or pattern, color, the products are approximate.\nPatent in San Ramon of the design must be granted for industrial application. This design itself as well as required by the carrier to the methods of industrial products, which can be repeated in industrial production.\nPatent in San Ramon of the design must be granted aesthetic feeling. Beauty is the exterior design from the visual perception of feeling happy, and whether the product function of advanced not necessarily linked. Rich aesthetic appearance design in product market plays an important role in.\n\u00bb license check!!!!!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scliving.coop/events/taste-of-the-town/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3DWWNHRV225K4TQLDJ5FA3XZ4LR5KIRI", "length": 688, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "scliving.coop", "title": "Taste of the Town - www.scliving.coop", "raw_content": "Home Taste of the Town\nIts the 31st Annual Taste of the Town. The event will be held Tuesday, October 21st at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center from 4pm - 10pm. Advance tickets $5/$6 at the door. Children 14 and under free with an adult.\nCome and enjoy the Grand Strand's premier culinary social event of the year, and delight your palate with samplings of specialty menu items from 50+ area restaurants! In its 31st year, this annual event is Myrtle Beach's largest food festival, with attendance of over 9,000 people, and is proudly presented by St. Andrew Catholic School. For more information about the event please visit our website at www.TOTmb.com or become a fan on Facebook.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 220.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sdn.davesfunstuff.com/0015-2012.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:31Z", "digest": "sha1:7I2W7AG3MC2B6KQ6B3GNCVKYKINPA7JU", "length": 1299, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "sdn.davesfunstuff.com", "title": "\ufeff Broadcast/Cable TV History -- 2012", "raw_content": "2012-01-01 Fox Movie Channel adopted a hybrid programming format with a time-sharing brand service alled FX Movie Channel (FXM), which ran between 3pm and 3am Eastern time.\n2012-01-01 The 3 From Epix was rebranded as EPIX Drive-In.\n2012-01-01 EPIX3 was launched. It was rebranded as EPIX hists later.\n2012-01-02 Versus renamed NBC Sports Network.\n2012-03-23 Disney Junior was launched as its own channel.\n2012-03-17 Fox Sports San Diego was launched.\n2012-05-28 Planet Green was relaunched as Destination America.\n2012-06-01 MountainWest Sports Network (aka the mtn.) ceased operations.\n2012-08-15 Pac-12 Network was launched. In addition to this national channel, it operates several regional sports channels focusing on different schools within the Pac-12 conference.\n2012-10-01 Time Warner Cable SportsNet (Los Angeles) was launched. The name was changed to Spectrum SportsNet in 2016 after Charter purchased Time Warner Cable.\n2012-10-02 NickMom programming block was launched on the Nick Jr. channel.\n2012-11-01 The Nashville Network was revived as a digital broadcast network.\nIn 2012, Univision Deportes and Univision Deportes Dos launches.\nIn 2012, DOCSIS 3.1 spec introduced by CableLabs, will eventually allow acceleration of HFC networks from tens of megabits per second to up to 10 Gbps.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://semestatravel.com/2018/07/16/havasu-falls-grand-canyon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FFLAGXE3KHKCD37HU56V6Q5OJIJ5MPUH", "length": 13875, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "semestatravel.com", "title": "How to get to Havasu falls grand canyon?", "raw_content": "July 16, 2018 Jassica\nVisiting the Havasu falls grand canyon was one of the strongest points of our trip along the West Coast of the United States. For some of us, it was a dream, almost an obsession, to get to this hidden place located in Arizona, very close to the Grand Canyon of Colorado.\nThe drawbacks were many: great walk for children, difficult to get a reservation, get tents, very high temperatures at the end of June, high price \u2026 But the illusion and the desire to visit this wonderful place managed to overcome all the Negative points and we managed to spend 2 nights in paradise! Keep reading: KAYAKING IN CAPE TOWN BETWEEN DOLPHINS AND WHALES\nLocation of Havasu falls grand canyon\nThe Havasu Falls are located in the middle of the Indian Reservation of the Havasupai, in the state of Arizona. In the reserve, there is only an urban center called Supai. Supai is a small town of about 200 inhabitants according to the last census. It has all the basic services so that the indigenous population can live: medical center, school, supermarket, bar \u2026 even a church.\nIn the center of the town there is some coverage both telephone and internet (there is free WIFI in this area), but in the other sites, as in the campground or in the waterfalls Havasu Falls there is no.\nThere are no roads to reach Supai, so the only options available are a route on foot or horse through stone and sand roads of 13km or use the helicopter. The last place accessible by car is Hualapai Hilltop, which we will discuss in the next point.\nHualapai Hilltop is a parking lot where the route to Supai begins with it is famous Havasu falls grand canyon. The road ends in this parking lot where there are no services. There is only one booth in the tourist office of the Havasupai where you give your name to check that the reservation is in order (you can not enter Havasupai lands without having permission). In this cabin, you can also leave luggage to be transported to Supai or the Havasupai Campground on mules or helicopters. We will see the prices later. There is also a kind of heliport and stables for horses.\nEverything else is spaces to be able to leave the vehicles. In the final area of the road there are car parks where only cars or small vans enter. To park the motorhome you have to get away a little and park it on the side of the road. We were lucky and found a place quite close, 5 minutes from the trailhead, because it is not easy to park a 10-meter RV.\nBefore arriving at the parking lot in Hualapai Hilltop there is a place in the ditch to park the motorhomes.\nTo get to Hualapai Hilltop you have to take the Indian Road 18 which leaves the historic Route 66 between the towns of Kingman and Seligman. They are about 100km that are covered in little more than 1h in which there are no services. From the Grand Canyon Village there are about 300km (3h 30m) and from Las Vegas something more: 350km (4h).\nThe reservation system was rudimentary. Reservations could only be made by telephone. Hotel reservations were made 1 year in advance (almost impossible to get), and the campground began on February 1 of each year. The first days were crazy and the phones were saturated. If you were lucky enough to make a reservation they sent you home a letter with the reservation information, how to get there, etc.\nSo with this scenario we planted on February 1, 2017 and we were all day long calling unsuccessfully, the lines were collapsed. In fact they had some major problem with the communication nodes, since on a couple of occasions they caught us but were not those of the Havasupai reservation center, but other individuals who were pissed off by the number of calls received. One of them was fed up and let out some American expletive that we did not understand at all \u2026 but because of the tone it was frightening!\nRead also: THE BEST AND BEAUTIFUL BEACHES IN BALI\nLuckily from day 2 they put the online booking system and after a couple of hours of chaos to know if it was a scam or not, we decided to book and that in those 2h had reserved half of the seats for our days planned. Once we made the reservation, we began to give official visibility to the new website of the Havasupai in which all the information of the reservation system, prices, etc. is indicated. This system is still valid through this website so it is good news for all those travelers who want to visit this incredible place.\nHow to get there: 3 means of transport\nFor all of them it is obligatory to have a permit from the Havasupai to be able to access and sleep at least one night.\nHavasu falls how to get there. Tourist office in Supai where you get the bracelets to identify yourself within the territory of the Havasupai.\nArrival at the Supai tourist office. It is mandatory to put on an \u201call inclusive\u201d bracelet and an identification in each tent.\nHow to get there: walking route\nTrekking or hike is the most recommended option for many reasons: the landscapes it crosses are a blast, you only depend on yourself, it\u2019s cheaper \u2026 First of all we were very respectful because we were with 4 quite small children (5, 6 , 7 and 8 years), but it was a success. Children have much more energy than us! you just have to motivate them and when going in a group and with similar landscapes they are motivated by themselves \ud83d\ude42\nHavasu Falls how to get there \u2013 View of the famous switchbacks near Hualapai Hilltop, start of the route to the Havasupai tribe.\nView of the switchbacks calls from the Hualapai Hilltop Trailhead. There you have to go down \u2026 and go up \ud83d\ude42\nThe route starts at the Hualapai Hilltop Trailhead and has these technical data:\n\u2013 Distances : 13km to Supai and 16km to Havasupai Campground.\n\u2013 Elevation : 760m negative in the first leg and 760m positive on lap\n\u2013 Time used : 4-6h (we take about 5h on the 2 treks)\n\u2013 Drinking water in the way : No\nHavasu Falls how to get there \u2013 Hike to Havasupai: view of the huge walls in the canyon before reaching Havasu Creek.\nHuge walls in the middle part of the side canyon that flows into the main canyon sculpted by the Havasu Creek.\nThe road is mainly made of stones and gravel, although there are areas (especially in the final part from Suapi al Campground) where it is pure sand and makes it more expensive to move forward. The main difference is in the first 2km (or the last one in the turn) until reaching the canyon that ends in the main canyon of Havasu Creek, with more or less 500m of difference. The road has no loss and the crossings are indicated.\nYou have to keep the climate very present. It is very hot in summer with temperatures exceeding 40 degrees, which is essential to avoid the central hours of the day. We did the 2 trekkings almost at night: the outward journey started at 5am and the return at 3am. All a success because we did not spend any heat and temperatures these days were around 43 degrees maximum.\nYou have more information and pictures in the days of the newspaper: Ruta Hualapai Hilltop-Havasupai and Route of exit of Havasupai.\nHavasu Falls how to get there \u2013 Hike to Havasupai: view of Wigleeva arriving at Supai.\nThe characteristic Wigleeva rocks welcome the people of Supai\nHow to get there: horse route\nAnother option available is to make the route from Hualapai Hilltop on horseback. It is the same 13km route as in the trekking but with the horses and mules of the Havasupai Indians.\nIMPORTANT NOTE! Until 2017 the service and information was available on the official website of the Havasupai tribe, but by 2018 they have been eliminated so we do not know if this option is still available or not.\nHavasu Falls how to get there \u2013 Horses circling the famous switchbacks near Hualapai Hilltop, start of the route to the Havasupai tribe.\nHow to get there: helicopter\nA priori may seem the best option, but it has several drawbacks. The first is that it is not a touristic service, it is a service for the natives and therefore they have total priority. The second is that it does not work every day and also does not have a fixed schedule because of the aforementioned that the Indians have full priority. Therefore, it may be the case of waiting several hours and finally not being able to fly.\nAs with horses, they had previously offered it on the official website and have now removed it. The last official information (2018) given by the company in charge of providing the service is the following:\nIn high season (March 15 \u2013 October 15), the helicopter flies on Thursday, Friday, Sunday and Monday. Out of season, only Friday and Sunday. The service is subject to cancellation without prior notice, for example, due to strong winds.\nUsually, the helicopter is used to leave Havasupai. To do this you have to sign up in a list. The official time to register is from 10 am to 1 pm, However, people usually start to form a queue in front of the helipad before dawn. When we arrived in Supai around 10am there were a lot of people in the queue and the service had not started yet.\nAll this makes it not a viable option for us. In addition, and most importantly, you would miss the beautiful route through a great part of the journey through a beautiful canyon with immense walls!\nAccommodation in Havasu falls grand canyon\nThere are only 2 options to be able to sleep in Havasupai lands:\nLodge: In the village of Supai there is a small Hotel with 24 rooms with private bathroom, air conditioning, that is, quite comfortable for a place so remote. One of the bad things is that it is almost impossible to get a reservation, you have to call a year in advance and still usually always busy. Another drawback is that being in the village, it is 3km away from the main Havasupai attraction: Las Havasu Falls.\nCamping: The Havasupai Campground is located 3km from Supai, just after the Havasu Falls, and extends to the Mooney Falls. It consists of unbounded plots located on both sides of the Havasu Creek. In several plots there are tables with wooden benches. The only services available at the campsite are several compost toilets and a source of drinking water. In high season and with an indefinite schedule (such are the Havasupai), there is also a food stand at the entrance of the campground.\nEverything else you have to carry yourself, either on your shoulders in a backpack or transported by mules or even the helicopter for about $115 each way. The truth is that most of those who were encamped had made use of transport by mules as they had many amenities, such as portable barbecues, food in abundance, comfortable tents \u2026 we went with the minimum since we were with children We had less capacity to transport, but take away the dance!\nContinue reading: BEST TIME TO TRAVEL TO BALI\nPart of our luggage to spend 2 nights in Havasu Falls: food, river slippers, stores, bags \u2026\nThe tents we bought at the Walmart and the truth is that they came out very cheap (less than \u20ac 40). They were for 4 people and very light, only to use in summer, so for us perfect! We bought inflatable plastic mats and we brought some light and compact summer sleeping bags from here. As you see without any kind of luxuries \ud83d\ude42\nFinally, the comment that prices have increased again in 2018 given the great demand for wanting to visit the Havasu Falls.\nBeing such a remote place, there are not many options to stock up on food and drink. In Supai there are 2 places where you can buy food: a supermarket and a bar . Both are in the center of town. The supermarket is small, but more or less there is everything. Yes, the prices are expensive! We do not buy anything in it, but it can get you out of a hurry.\nIn the cafe-bar they serve fast food at a reasonable price: burgers, tacos, nuggets \u2026 One day we bought food to take away (we were short of food \u2026) and it tasted great! Of course, from the campsite there are about 6km round trip so neither is a highly recommended option.\nAs for the water, in the entire route from Hualapai Hilltop to the Havasupai Campground, there is no source with drinking water so you have to transport the water necessary for the hike (they recommend about 3 liters per person, but we have enough left over to the gone as to the return). The good news is that in the Campground there is a source from which to obtain drinking water. It is called Fern Spring and it is located quite close to the entrance to the campsite and the water comes out very fresh! \ud83d\ude42\nFountain Fern Spring located at the beginning of the campsite, near the Havasu Falls. Credits to Frank Kehren.\nOn your own or with a travel agency\nAnother of the doubts that you pose to get to visit the Havasu Falls is to go on your own or on an organized trip . The main advantage of going on an organized trip, such as Wildland Trekking, is that you do not have to worry about anything, just to pay \u2026 and that is the main drawback: the high price. The cheapest trip costs more than $1000 per person, that is, more than 4000 dollars per family. To us, on our own, we left for the family at about 500-600 dollars counting food, tent etc.\nAnother drawback of going on an organized trip is that you have everything scheduled without much room to go and do what you want. We had no doubt: on our own. But then there we were already kind of envious to see them (a group of Wildland Trekking was camped in the parcels next to ours) with all the comfort they had, they even had a portable shower hanging from a tree!\nAnd the disadvantages of going on Havasu falls grand canyon! You have to prepare everything, buy or rent tents, buy groceries and transport them, sleeping bags, carry everything, set up camp \u2026 but all this was in the background with the freedom that gives you power see and do what you want at all times. You may also read: http://linkfeel.com/make-money-while-travelling/\nPosted in Beaches, Travel Destinations, Travelling Tips Tagged grand canyon,Havasu falls,How to\n7 Myanmar travel tips: How to get prepared?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 18704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://senategop.state.il.us/News/4509/November-4-proclaimed-World-Champion-Chicago-Cubs-Day/news-detail/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DNX4EQIA4Z6A6NNL5LP3SJTU5Y3YLBNU", "length": 2177, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "senategop.state.il.us", "title": "November 4 proclaimed World Champion Chicago Cubs Day | Illinois Senate Republicans", "raw_content": "November 4 proclaimed World Champion Chicago Cubs Day\nFriday, November 4, 2016, was proclaimed World Champion Chicago Cubs Day across Illinois in celebration of the Cubs' historic World Series win over the Cleveland Indians.\nBelow is the language of the official proclamation. A copy of the signed proclamation is attached.\nWHEREAS, on Wednesday, November 2, 2016, the Chicago Cubs won the World Series, beating the Cleveland Indians in Game Seven, by a score of eight to seven in extra innings; and\nWHEREAS, the 2016 World Series win is the first world championship for the Cubs in 108 years; the team last won the World Series in 1908; and,\nWHEREAS, during the regular season, the 2016 Chicago Cubs won 103 games, the most wins for the franchise since 1910; and,\nWHEREAS, on their run to the World Series, the Cubs defeated the San Francisco Giants in the National League Division Series in four games and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Championship Series in six games; and,\nWHEREAS, a true team effort all season led to the Cubs' stunning and momentous World Series victory, and this achievement is proof of their commitment to baseball excellence; and,\nWHEREAS, the historic accomplishment also honors Cubs' greats like Ron Santo, \"Sweet-Swinging\" Billy Williams, and \"Mr. Cub\" Ernie Banks, who never had the opportunity to hoist the Commissioner's Trophy, as well as other Cubs legends like Harry Caray; and,\nWHEREAS, the World Series is especially meaningful for the generations of Cubs fans who have stood by the team, through thick and thin, over the last 108 years; and,\nWHEREAS, the State of Illinois could not be prouder of all the Cubs players, along with Chairman Tom Ricketts, President of Baseball Operations Theo Epstein, Manager Joe Maddon, and all the coaches and staff, for winning the 2016 World Series;\nTHEREFORE, I, Bruce Rauner, Governor of the State of Illinois, do hereby proclaim November 4, 2016, as WORLD CHAMPION CHICAGO CUBS DAY in Illinois in celebration of the Cubs' historic World Series win, and join the City of Chicago and the rest of the State of Illinois in congratulating the Cubs on their remarkable championship season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 140.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seoulbeats.com/2015/06/orange-marmalade-ep-1-4-bad-blood-and-bare-bones/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:09Z", "digest": "sha1:DQIZTT6GS43KYGUSFWTDWZYRLDOJZVNS", "length": 12200, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "seoulbeats.com", "title": "Orange Marmalade, Ep. 1-4: Bad Blood and Bare Bones \u2013 seoulbeats", "raw_content": "Orange Marmalade, Ep. 1-4: Bad Blood and Bare Bones\nMy expectations for adaptations can be summed up with a coin flip. There is a possibility that everything will go right, and there is also the chance that the producers will throw any semblance to the original out the window. Before we get into details on which side of the coin we got, let\u2019s talk about what went down.\nOrange Marmalade is based off a comic written by Seok Woo. The story\u2019s main protagonist is Baek Ma-ri (AOA\u2018s Seolhyun), a teenage vampire who lives in an age where her kind face discrimination despite a treaty between humans and vampires. She does her best to live quietly among humans, but one day, she falls asleep on the shoulder of Jung Jae-min (Yeo Jin-goo), a human student who attends her high school.\nMa-ri accidentally nips at his neck during her bus ride, causing Jae-min to take notice of this strangely forward girl. When she wakes up, she realizes what she has done, but tries to pretend nothing happened. Jae-min, however, is instantly curious and pursues her, demanding an apology. Ma-ri acts as if she never met him, even though they\u2019re classmates.\nMeanwhile, another teen vampire named Han Shi-hoo (CN Blue\u2018s Jong-hyun) appears on a live broadcast to discuss the oppression of vampires. His actions do not go over well with the Vampire Control System (VCS), an enforcement group that regulates vampire laws. He is warned not to disturb the peace again, or he\u2019ll face the maximum sentence. He\u2019s ordered to transfer schools under a new identity, and given no Sun Protection Ample shots (SPA) as punishment. His uncle, Han Yoon-jae (Song Jong-ho), comes to his aid with SPA, explaining that he\u2019ll be his guardian during his punishment.\nJo Ah-ra (Gil Eun-hye) has a huge crush on Jae-min, but the feeling isn\u2019t mutual. Given Jae-min\u2019s recent obsession with Ma-ri, it\u2019s only natural that Ah-ra target her for annihilation, because this is a high school K-drama and that is the rule. Adding fuel to her jealousy is the scene that unfolds when a starved Ma-ri stumbles into Jae-min\u2019s arms. Ma-ri pushes him away to avoid biting him, but ends up fainting into the available chest of Shi-hoo. He whisks her off to the infirmary and feeds her \u201ctomato\u201d juice, which is actually a blood pack. Being reunited with his childhood friend Ma-ri, he no longer regrets his punishment.\nThe sweet reunion is temporary bliss as Ma-ri becomes Ah-ra\u2019s target for a plan to destroy her. Ah-ra stains her own gym clothes and feigns surprise when it falls out of her locker. One of Ah-ra\u2019s minions targets Ma-ri as the culprit, inciting a mean girls showdown that prompts our male leads to rescue her from the hair-pulling danger of a cat fight. Shi-hoo takes the heat and confesses to the crime, causing Jae-min to lose face and gain a snarky rival.\nLuckily for Jae-min, Ma-ri\u2019s little brother Joseph (Jo Yi-hyun) gets lost, giving him another shot to regain his knightly status. This search is harrowing for Ma-ri because Joseph is at the age when he\u2019s most likely to bite any human that approaches him. Jae-min finds him first, and there is a tense moment where Joseph comes close to a nibble, but Ma-ri discovers them before Jae-min becomes his snack. Jae-min is alarmed by Ma-ri\u2019s response since he figured finding Joseph scored major points. Unfortunately, he\u2019s still unaware that they\u2019re vampires, and ironically, they run out of fear from him. This prompts even more awkward encounters between the two because Ma-ri can\u2019t get over how sweet Jae-min\u2019s blood smells.\nBecause it\u2019s a K-drama set in high school, we must focus on other stereotypical tropes. Insert the basketball battle between the hot-headed male leads to reinforce their rivalry and prompt the audience with a brief flashback that reveals they met as kids also. We find out that Shi-hoo\u2019s uncle Yoon-jae married Jae-min\u2019s mom Kang Min-ha (Lee Il-hwa) years ago. Sadly, this backstory was poorly executed, leaving the viewing audience to believe he\u2019s only pissed about his mother\u2019s re-marriage to a vampire. I\u2019ll discuss that later.\nMa-ri finally gains the courage to thank Jae-min and apologize for avoiding him. This is probably one of the more touching moments in the drama because she explains that she\u2019s different from him, and it\u2019s not easy for her to be as open as he is. She tries to make it clear that he\u2019s privileged, so he doesn\u2019t experience things the same way she does.\nBy \u201cprivileged,\u201d I\u2019m referring to the fact that he is human, which is the accepted majority in this world. This allegory speaks to any minority group that feels inferior because the accepted majority is regularly celebrated for being themselves. Vampires are themselves also, but viewed on uglier terms based on the prejudices set upon them by humans who believe themselves to be the superior race. In other words, vampires never inherently think of themselves as bad for being different, but their treatment by humans reinforces this belief that they deserve to be treated harshly for existing.\nOnce the air is cleared, Jae-min serenades his way into Ma-ri\u2019s heart, and we head to the school festival where the band plays! Ma-ri gives another touching speech about why their band is called Orange Marmalade, in which she compares orange peels to misfits, and explains that they all come together to make delicious spread and music. Jae-min has an uncomfortable chat with his mother and continues to act like a prejudice brat about her re-marriage to a vampire.\nMeanwhile, Ma-ri is playing guitar at a lighthouse because romance must happen. Logistics about how she got there and how far away the school is don\u2019t matter because this is the perfect location for that first kiss between our leads. By the way, this happens at the end of episode three. Screw waiting an average of ten episodes before they lock lips! This is revolutionary!\nToo bad it goes downhill from there. Once Jae-min and Ma-ri finally reach official couple status, we\u2019re thrown back into more drama in vampire world. Shi-hoo overhears a conversation between Yoon-jae and Min-ha about how an incident with him lead to his parents\u2019 imprisonment. Because humans witnessed his parents using their powers in public, they were punished. Jae-min just happens to be in the area when he eavesdrops on this argument between Yoon-jae and Shi-hoo. He confronts Shi-hoo and demands to know if he is a vampire. Shi-hoo reveals his identity, and they fight. Jae-min warns Shi-hoo to stay away from Ma-ri.\nMa-ri hears about the aftermath and checks on Jae-min who warns her to avoid Shi-hoo. She tells him that Shi-hoo has gone missing, so they search for him. While searching, they come across a kid crying for help on a crane. Jae-min saves the kid but ends up being hoisted into the air by a rope attached to the crane. He\u2019s knocked unconscious, so Ma-ri tries to summon the courage to use her vampire powers. Shi-hoo swoops in, literally, and rescues Jae-min. An implant in his neck pulses an alert to VCS, revealing his location. He exits before anyone arrives, leaving Ma-ri to attend a bloody Jae-min. His blood is irresistible to her, so she bends down to bite him. Before she can sink her fangs into his neck, Ah-ra arrives and catches a glimpse of her. Startled, Ma-ri regains her senses and tells Ah-ra to call an ambulance.\nAh-ra is confused by what she saw, so she snoops through Ma-ri\u2019s things for evidence. She discovers Ma-ri\u2019s disguised blood packs.\nBack in the hospital, Jae-min wakes up to the sight of Min-ha watching over him. They share a tender moment. Ma-ri, distraught and drained, encounters Ah-ra who asks if Jae-min knows she is a vampire.\nThe scene is quickly shifted to Shi-hoo standing on a cliff. He ignores a call from VCS but answers one from Ma-ri. He gives her some final words before tossing his last vile of SPA and allowing the sunrise to disintegrate him.\nJae-min learns about Ma-ri being a vampire from his classmates. No one knows where she is, so he searches for her. He finally finds her at the lighthouse, where they argue during a thunderstorm. Ma-ri almost falls over a railing, but Jae-min pushes her out of the way and ends up in the ocean. Ma-ri uses her vampire powers to rescue him from drowning. He survives, and they find themselves back on the same train where they first met again. He flashes back into a memory of a past life, and that\u2019s the end.\nEarlier I mentioned how adaptations either go really well or really badly. After four episodes, the main story has been told. Here\u2019s the thing: That little past life blip at the end never happens in the original. In fact, this entire story centers around their lives at high school. There is no time traveling or past lives! An entire series was watered down to the bare-bones essentials of a typical high school K-drama.\nTo make things worse, we\u2019re doing the past life trope now. What bothers me is that it\u2019s very clear that the writer does not appreciate the essence of storytelling, which includes plot and character development. It\u2019s too soon to say for sure if this move is truly disastrous because I haven\u2019t watched the fifth episode for context. Still, if the first four episodes are any indication, then my hopes aren\u2019t high.\nOrange Marmalade isn\u2019t some basic love story between a vampire and a human. It\u2019s about how those two races relate to each other in a world that says they should be enemies more than friends. It\u2019s about fear between the majority and minorities in society, and how that creates unnecessary tension. I don\u2019t want to hate this series, but I\u2019m finding it so hard to love anything.\nI will say that Seolhyun did surprisingly better than I expected. She held just enough emotion to keep me interested, which I\u2019m sure some viewers will call deadpan, but I\u2019d rather she hold back a little than go overboard. That is my issue with Jong-hyun because he looked like he studied every contrived tough kid role. All the extra head-cocking, ubiquitous side-eye, and tongue-clicking was beyond annoying. I didn\u2019t even care when Shi-hoo died.\nSpeaking of annoying, there is the matter of glossing over why Jae-min hated his mother. To be fair, those who never read the comic probably would\u2019ve just accepted the bratty teen pissed over his mom\u2019s choice for a second husband, but his actual fury called for more than \u201cI hate vampires.\u201d Had the plot included Jae-min\u2019s child abuse from his step-mother and his parents\u2019 divorce from the mom\u2019s infidelity, then it would\u2019ve made for a far richer sub-plot. In the comic, it was a really integral part of explaining Jae-min\u2019s character and his relationship to his estranged mother. It also would\u2019ve given us better context as to why he hated vampires.\nAlso, I wanted Ma-ri to have her best friend Jung Soo-ri in the story. A shame that her character wasn\u2019t even considered as a role worthy of casting because she was a strong female ally. Jae-min served that purpose in the drama, but it\u2019s still the same old, girl-must-get-boy-to-protect-her narrative that tells young women they can\u2019t depend on themselves or each other but can always find safety and comfort in a good boyfriend. Even Ah-ra was extra catty as her bully. Did anyone ever consider the crazy notion that women can be actual friends and not fight over men? And let\u2019s not forget, Ma-ri is a vampire with POWERS! She should be able to handle her own.\nThis is only the beginning, so it should be interesting to see where this story leads. Now that we no longer have a comic as a point of reference, we\u2019re going to get the drama writer\u2019s original take on this love story. Regardless of my severe ire for condensing an entire series in four episodes, I just thought this was okay. I wanted and expected more because of the source material, and now we see what happens when that is completely ignored.\nReaders, did you enjoy it? Are you like me and also upset about the story compression? Are you unfamiliar with the comic and curious to read it now? Comment below!\n(Dramafever, Hulu, Naver, Asian Wiki, Images via Naver and KBS)\nTags: Drama Review, Gil Eun-hye, Lee Jong Hyun, Orange Marmalade, Seolhyun, Song Jong-ho, yeo jin-goo\nThe Sunday Social, 6/14: Giveaways Galore!\nSB Comments of the Week: 6/7 \u2013 6/13", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 15762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sgdexpress.net/news/14808-spore-foreign-minister-winds-of-change-will-continue-to-shape-asean.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ULVCUCN645HPCUWZK2B74K62G3KM5SER", "length": 4964, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "sgdexpress.net", "title": "S'pore foreign minister: Winds of change will continue to shape Asean \u00bb Top Trending Topics Singapore - SGD Express", "raw_content": "SINGAPORE: Asean has witnessed and been shaped by many changes in its 50-year history and it must continuously adapt to any change that the future brings, says Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan.\nWith Singapore taking over the Asean chair from the Philippines in 2018, Dr Balakrishnan said that it was important for the bloc to \"get the balance right\".\n\"We must get the balance right between protecting our own national interests versus advancing regional interests and making ourselves collectively have a louder voice, greater weight and more relevance to the rest of the world,\" he told 15 visiting journalists from the Asean region at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Singapore last month.\nDr Balakrishnan said that Singapore would focus on two themes as Asean chair \u2013 resilience and innovation.\n\"Resilience because we have to deal with both short-term and urgent problems like terrorism, extremism, security threats, and even natural disasters.\n\"So Asean \u2013 both individual member states and collectively \u2013 need to be resilient and be able to cope with all these crises. And we hope that by working closer together \u2026 we can mount credible and collective responses to deal with crises,\" said Dr Balakrishnan.\nHe also said the need for innovation was imperative in light of the digital revolution.\n\"There is an urgent need to restructure economies to upgrade and up-skill our people, and to find new engines of growth.\nWe hope that by addressing these challenges collectively, by interconnecting and sharing ideas, and creating a network of enterprises, entrepreneurs, smart cities, we will be able to harvest these new digital opportunities more effectively because we do so as one Asean,\" he explained.\nDr Balakrishnan also said that growth prospects for the region have to a large extent been affected by external forces in the past and this will be no different looking forward.\n\u00a9 Provided by The Star Online\nHe said that Asean was at an inflection point, with a few external factors that would impact the bloc moving forward.\nAmongst these, he said, was a change in the geo-strategic balance of power, citing in particular the rise of China as an economic superpower.\nAnother key external factor, he said was that the previous global consensus in favour of trade liberalisation and economic integration \u2013 which Asean member states have relied on to jumpstart their economies \u2013 is increasingly becoming very shaky.\nCiting the withdrawal of the United States from trade deals as an example, he noted that these are \"early warning signs that the assumptions that we used for our economic growth in the last fifty years are now under pressure\".\nAnother major change, he said was the advent of technological advances and the digital revolution.\n\"It's transforming the way we live, work and play. Old jobs are disappearing, middle class wages are under pressure, and there are new jobs being created, but there is a skills mismatch.\n\"Governments need to restructure economies, upgrade the workforces and infrastructure in order to create new jobs, expand capabilities and skills in our people and to match people with new skills and new jobs,\" he said.\nOn multi-lateral trade pacts such as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) and the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), Dr Balakrishnan said it was not a matter of ranking which had more importance over the other.\nHe said that Asean, as a whole, already had free trade agreements with six other parties namely China, South Korea, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and India.\n\"In a sense, the RCEP is actually just one more step beyond the existing agreements that Asean already have with these six.\n\"It's a very ambitious agreement because if you actually put RCEP together, it's something like 40% of the world's GDP, nearly 30% of global trade, it's a very, very big bloc,\" he said, adding that Singapore believed in and supported this initiative.\nBut Dr Balakrishnan outlined an even larger vision.\n\"We don't just believe in having a RCEP, our larger vision is to achieve a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), and we believe that the RCEP is one of the avenues from which we can achieve the FTAAP,\" he said.\nDr Balakrishnan added that Singapore strongly believes that the TPP was a good idea, and does not see the RCEP and TPP as being mutually exclusive or competitive.\n\"It's still part of our larger vision of the FTAAP; there are many roads that can lead us to the larger destination.\n\"It is still in Asean's interest to pursue multilateral trade liberalisation wherever those opportunities arise. But don't forget to begin at home and that's why our agenda for Asean integration remains salient and relevant,\" said Dr Balakrishnan.\nSource : https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/national/spore-foreign-minister-winds-of-change-will-continue-to-shape-asean/ar-BBGo8Md\nNeed for ASEAN to strengthen resilience against growing transboundary threats: PM Lee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 7841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shawnaserban.soup.io/post/339453897/Unclaimed-lottery-ticket-worth-1-million-is", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:IEYT6G6ZQTPMWPCJZZV2IJNY5YLSEVXD", "length": 7769, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "shawnaserban.soup.io", "title": "Unclaimed lottery ticket worth $1 million is set to expire this Sunday - CNN.com - shawnaserban's soup", "raw_content": "Unclaimed lottery ticket worth $1 million is set to expire this Sunday - CNN.com\nNew York Lottery officials have been urging players to check their tickets for the winning numbers: 1-6-7-20-49, Powerball 23, and come forward before the ticket expires. \"We're hopeful the lucky winner has already signed the ticket and is making plans to claim it before it's too late,\" said Gardner Gurney, acting director of the Division of the Lottery. The New York Gaming Commission uses all means possible to get the word out when it is presented with an unclaimed prize, including news media and social media, said Christy Calicchia, spokesperson for the commission. Sandy victims among the 'Ocean's 16' Powerball winners To claim the money, the winner must present the ticket at any one of New York's seven customer service centers during business hours. Since the one-year anniversary of the ticket's purchase falls on a Sunday, the winner would technically need to have presented the ticket by the close of business Friday, said Calicchia. It is unclear how the situation would be handled if the ticket were to be turned in on Monday, she said. Lottery winners may also turn in winning tickets by mail. As long as the ticket is postmarked by August 25, it will be deemed valid. The gaming commission will be monitoring incoming mail to see if the ticket turns up, Calicchia said. New York state has seen several prizes go unclaimed, the largest of which was drawn more than a decade ago. In 2002, the owner of a winning ticket sold in Brooklyn never came forward to collect the $68 million prize.\nFor the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://bit.ly/14MM3p2\nThe winning lottery ticket was purchased at the Playland Market in Rye on August 25, 2012. According to New York Gaming Commission rules, winners have up to one year to claim their prize. New York Lottery officials have been urging players to check their tickets for the winning numbers: 1-6-7-20-49, Powerball 23, and come forward before the ticket expires. \"We're hopeful the lucky winner has already signed the ticket and is making plans to claim it before it's too late,\" said Gardner Gurney, acting director of the Division of the Lottery. The New York Gaming Commission uses all means possible to get the word out when it is presented with an unclaimed prize, including news media and social media, said Christy Calicchia, spokesperson for the commission. Sandy victims among the 'Ocean's 16' Powerball winners To claim the money, the winner must present the ticket at any one of New York's seven customer service centers during business hours. Since the one-year anniversary of the ticket's purchase falls on a Sunday, the winner would technically need to have presented the ticket by the close of business Friday, said Calicchia. It is unclear how the situation would be handled if the ticket were to be turned in on Monday, she said. Lottery winners may also turn in winning tickets by mail. As long as the ticket is postmarked by August 25, it will be deemed valid. The gaming commission will be monitoring incoming mail to see if the ticket turns up, Calicchia said. New York state has seen several prizes go unclaimed, the largest of which was drawn more than a decade ago. In 2002, the owner of a winning ticket sold in Brooklyn never came forward to collect the $68 million prize. It remains the highest jackpot to go unclaimed in New York Lottery history. The next year, a ticket in Brooklyn went unclaimed again, this time for a jackpot of $46 million. Winnings can go unclaimed for a https://www.rebelmouse.com/lottocashmachine/ variety of reasons, Calicchia said, noting sometimes tickets or lost or become unreadable after being left in a pocket and washed. She said many tickets are unclaimed because winners don't notice they scored with smaller, tiered prizes in lottery jackpots. \"Most people don't realize that there is more than one prize in the lottery drawing,\" she said.\nThe winning lottery ticket was purchased at the Playland Market in Rye on August 25, 2012. According to New York Gaming Commission rules, winners have up to one year to claim their prize. New York Lottery officials have been urging players to check their tickets for the winning numbers: 1-6-7-20-49, Powerball 23, and come forward before the ticket expires. \"We're hopeful the lucky winner has already signed the ticket and is making plans to claim it before it's too late,\" said Gardner Gurney, acting director of the Division of the Lottery. The New York Gaming Commission uses all means possible to get the word out when it is presented with an unclaimed prize, including news media and social media, said Christy Calicchia, spokesperson for the commission. Sandy victims among the 'Ocean's 16' Powerball winners To claim the money, the winner must present the ticket at any one of New York's seven customer service centers during business hours. Since the one-year anniversary of the ticket's purchase falls on a Sunday, the winner would technically need to have presented the ticket by the close of business Friday, said Calicchia. It is unclear how the situation would be handled if the ticket were to be turned in on Monday, she said. Lottery winners may also turn in winning tickets by mail. As long as the ticket is postmarked by August 25, it will be deemed valid. The gaming commission will be monitoring incoming mail to see if the ticket turns up, Calicchia said. New York state has seen several prizes go unclaimed, the largest of which was drawn more than a decade ago. In 2002, the owner of a winning ticket sold in Brooklyn never came forward to collect the $68 million prize. It remains the highest jackpot to go unclaimed in New York Lottery history. The next year, a ticket in Brooklyn went unclaimed again, this time for a jackpot of $46 million. Winnings can go unclaimed for a variety of reasons, Calicchia said, noting sometimes tickets or lost or become unreadable after being left in a pocket and washed. She said many tickets are unclaimed because winners don't notice they scored with smaller, tiered prizes in lottery jackpots. \"Most people don't realize that there is more than one prize in the lottery drawing,\" she said.\nMario Scarnici of Monmouth Junction claimed his share of the prize, which amounts to $86 million before taxes. Two of the three winning tickets in the August 7 drawing were sold in the state, according to a New Jersey Lottery statement released on Friday. He purchased his ticket from the Super Stop & Shop supermarket in South Brunswick Township. Jose Perez, a night manager at the Stop & Shop, said the winning ticket has been great for business and that employees are thrilled that the winner came forward to claim his prize. \"We were happy first of all that we sold it,\" said Perez in a telephone interview. \"We sold a ticket before but nobody claimed it.\" The store received a $30,000 bonus commission for selling the ticket, and will give that money to charity. According to a report on the CentralJersey.com web site, Scarnici came forward with his two adult sons to claim his prize. He chose the cash option and will get about $62 million after taxes. Members of a group of 16 Ocean County maintenance workers with a winning ticket will each receive about $3.8 million after taxes. The group, known as Ocean's 16, bought the Powerball numbers at the Acme Markets in Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey. Scarnici could not be reached for comment, nor could a representative for the state lottery. Paul White, an engineer from Ham Lake, Minnesota, was the other winner. The odds of winning the jackpot were about one in 175 million.\nFor the original version including any supplementary images or video, visit http://dlvr.it/3s1yW1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 9292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shcathedral.org/cathedral-of-the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-presentation-16_9-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:54Z", "digest": "sha1:27VN3UOYWWRXGVXK5YJESVF5WXMGVK3B", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "shcathedral.org", "title": "Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Presentation 16_9 | Sacred Heart Cathedral", "raw_content": "Cathedral of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Presentation 16_9", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 2825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 182.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shihtzudaily.com/14-insane-truth-things-about-shih-tzu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:11Z", "digest": "sha1:6GFEHWXGYYFXHZGLJ56KTPXRPHQVRPK6", "length": 5649, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "shihtzudaily.com", "title": "14 Insane (but true!) Facts About Shih Tzus - Shih Tzu Daily", "raw_content": "14 Insane (but true!) Facts About Shih Tzus\nThis particular breed of dog is not only named after a lion (the Chinese word for lion being \u2018Shih\u2019) but its full official title is the Tibetan Shih Tzu Kou. Whilst \u2018kou\u2019 means dog, \u2018tzu\u2019, very loosely translated, means either \u2018son\u2019 or \u2018child\u2019. Legend has it that Buddha rode to earth on the back of a lion \u2013 in fact, Vaishravana and the Eight Horsemen are renowned as being a worldly Buddhist protector. Perhaps little wonder, then, that the Shih Tzu takes great pride in both its appearance and heritage!\nWhilst the Shih Tzu\u2019s exact origins remain shrouded in mystery, historians have discovered prominent Chinese paintings dating back to around the year 500 C.E which depict dogs they believe to be Shih Tzus. What\u2019s more, uncovered documentation also suggests that the Shih Tzu was gifted from China to the Byzantine Empire; although much later they then became the official breed of the Ming dynasty who primarily kept them as pets for the Royal family. This makes the Shih Tzu one of the oldest lines of domesticated dogs in the entire world!\nDuring the mid to late 19th century the Shih Tzu was certainly favoured by the last Imperial Chinese ruler, the Empress T\u2019zu hui and her particular favourite was a pure brown dog, with whom she was once photographed. Whilst the palace staff are reputed to have cared for the Empress\u2019s other pets (of which there were several), it seems the Empress preferred this specific character, which was even trained to sit perfectly in her arms.\nThe Shih Tzu was quite literally a dying breed following the Communist in China when there were as few as 14 of them left in the entire world! With most being smuggled out of China during the 1930\u2019s, a concerted effort was duly made to re-establish the breed back in the West. Fortunately, this resulted in the breed being saved and in 1952, Hsi-Li-Ya made history as being the last Shih Tzu bitch to leave China. The same year she relocated to the UK and became part of the country\u2019s breeding programme.\nThe well renowned composter, James Mumsford, once described the breed as: \u201c\u2026 a dash of lion, several teaspoons of rabbit, a couple of ounces of domestic cat, one part court jester, a ballerina, a pinch of old man, a bit of beggar, a tablespoon of monkey, one part baby seal, (and) a dash of teddy bear\u201d! From what we know about the Shih Tzu, this seems to be a fairly accurate summary!\nFor those allergic to the dogs, then the Shih Tzu makes for the perfect pet since it\u2019s deemed to be hypoallergenic. Whilst the breed might well lose a few stray hairs when brushed, it certainly doesn\u2019t shed fur like some other breeds. However, as you might expect from the breed, brushing has to be a regular activity to keep their double coat completely tangle free and healthy! In 1934 the Shih Tzu Club of England was founded prior to the breed becoming officially recognised by the Kennel Club in 1940. However, despite being eligible for challenge certificates in May of that year; none were actually awarded until 1949.\nThe Shih Tzu is recognised as being part of the toy group in most countries. Its average height is between 8 and 11 inches, with an ideal weight of between 4 and 7kg. They generally reach adult size by around 10 months (although this can also take up to 12 in some cases).\nNot being a breed to steer clear of the limelight, the Shih Tzu has often been seen on the arms of celebrities including Nicole Richie, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Colin Farrell, Bill Gates and even Queen Elizabeth II!\nTalk about a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing, you might be surprised to learn that the Shih Tzu is closely related to the wolf family! In fact, in 2004, top researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre tested genetic data from 414 dogs across 85 very different breeds. This research concluded that some Asian breeds, including the Akita and Pekingese, were closely related to Canis lupusfamiliaris\u2019s wolf ancestors.\nFor such a small dog, the Shih Tzu has a very long list of common nicknames! Whilst we already know that \u2018Shih Tzu\u2019 roughly translate to \u2018little lion dog\u2019 in Chinese, they\u2019re also known as \u2018under-the-table dogs\u2019, \u2018fu dog\u2019, \u2018shock dog\u2019, \u2018sleeve dog\u2019, Tibetan poodle\u2019 and even (wait for it!) \u2018chrysanthemum-faced dogs\u2019 \u2013 the latter, of course, being due to their unique facial fur which tends to fan out, almost like flower petals.\nMany Shih Tzu\u2019s sport a tiny white spot on their foreheads and these are often referred to as the \u201cstar of Buddha\u201d. Whilst there are a few variations of the main story, legend has it that a group of robbers tried to attack Buddha whilst he was travelling with his little Shih Tzu and that the dog quickly transformed into a fierce lion to protect him. Naturally grateful for saving him from harm, Buddha kissed his little dog and thus gave it a little white mark \u2013 the star of Buddha. And that\u2019s not all. The markings on the Shih Tzu\u2019s back are also said to resemble the saddle Buddha used to ride his infamous dog-turned-lion. An impressive legend indeed!\nAs cute as they might look, the Shih Tzu can be extremely difficult to train. In fact, new owners can easily expect anything between 40 and 50 repetitions of a bathroom routine before the dog will even begin to understand. If there\u2019s one thing you need as a Shih Tzu owner \u2013 its patience \u2013 and lots of it!\nLast (but by no means least), the Shih Tzu is also renowned for its holiness! Not only were they proffered by Tibetanian monks as gifts to the Emperor of China but they were also considered as Holy pets and used as watch dogs for Buddhist monasteries; especially those around the sacred city of Lhasa.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 5935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sites.eaglebutte.ca/sherryanton/2016/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KFVSRHFV5EV2UIFNC5MR5XWC53CMDQUP", "length": 2762, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "sites.eaglebutte.ca", "title": "November | 2016 | Ms. Anton", "raw_content": "[muh-SHUG-uhner]\nKaz\u2019s crew are the only ones who might stand between the world and destruction\u2014if they don\u2019t kill each other first.\nThis is a great book. I wasn\u2019t too sure about it in the beginning because it isn\u2019t the type of book that I would normally pick. The whole fantasy thing is just not me; or so I thought. But as it turns out I was very quickly drawn into the story and the characters. I\u2019m now very much looking forward to reading the sequel to find out exactly what happens. Check out this great trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSC39371rMg.\nPosted in HIT List 2016-2017\t| Tagged EBHS HIT List, goodreads, six of crows\t| Leave a reply\n[LAM-bunt]\nplaying lightly on or over a surface\nSince 1980, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA) has supported a provincial Travelling Exhibition (TREX) program. The TREX program strives to ensure every Albertan is provided with an opportunity to enjoy fully developed exhibitions in schools, libraries, health care centres and smaller rural institutions and galleries throughout the province. The TREX program assists in making both the AFA\u2019s extensive art collection and the work of contemporary Alberta artists available to all Albertans. TREX\nEagle Butte High School is pleased to present \u201cWhen We Were Young\u201d which features the works of 5 talented female artists from Medicine Hat who were asked to respond to the theme \u201cwhen we were young\u201d. The works explore the innocence and joy of childhood. Drop in to the Learning Commons before December 7 to view this great exhibition and provide feedback to the artists.\nIt\u2019s not the girl in the fight; it\u2019s the fight in the girl.\nNobody understands why Tori has suddenly become so moody and violent. When she attacks a stranger in a store, she ends up doing community service at a shelter for victims of domestic violence. She bonds with a little girl named Casey, but when Casey is abducted while in Tori\u2019s care, Tori is racked with guilt, certain that she should have been able to prevent the abduction. During the search for Casey, Tori comes face to face with an ex-boyfriend who sexually assaulted her at a party. Only when she speaks out about the assault is she able to begin to heal.\nThis is a great book dealing with a sensitive subject. It shows the importance of telling someone your story for your own well-being and the safety of others. I found it to be a fairly quick read. Check out these trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO1_-8JlG1M and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9sWaQ_MmVs.\nPosted in HIT List 2016-2017\t| Tagged EBHS HIT List, goodreads, punch like a girl\t| Leave a reply\n[TRIP-tik]\nan ancient Roman writing tablet with three waxed leaves hinged toghether\nPosted in HIT List 2016-2017\t| Tagged EBHS HIT List\t| 2 Replies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 9412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://skignzblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Teesside", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:32Z", "digest": "sha1:PFZRXH5CK55PSUUTPMG7W7WWZSVZUIFI", "length": 2869, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "skignzblog.blogspot.com", "title": "skignz: Teesside", "raw_content": "Showing posts with label Teesside. Show all posts\n#SaveOurSteel: skignz supports local community\nOver the last month or so the local community of Teesside, where skignz was founded and currently has its UK & European HQ, was hit with a heavy blow.\nSSi today announced it was closing its operations on Teesside due to the change in steel prices across the world and they do not see a future for Steelmaking on Teesside.\nMuch has been debated in the local, national and international press about if the plant could be saved, who might be interested in it and is their still a future for Steelmaking on Teesside.\nFor those of you who don't know much about Teesside, or familiar with its heritage.\nIt's an area surrounding the NE of England town called Middlesbrough. Once termed the 'Infant Hercules' at the turn of the 19th Century, where a little town grew exponentially on the back of the Iron & Steel industry.\nA Heritage that ALL Teessiders the world over are fiercely proud of, and they have a right to be. Steel from Teesside helped build some of the world's most Iconic Structures, including more recently they Wembley Stadium Arch, in London, UK, but going way back to the previous century when not only Teesside Steel built the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but also the expertise, knowledge and craftsmanship of the Teesside people.\nIt's been said:\n\"Some of the world's leading engineers come from Teesside\".\nThe skignz team wanted to show their support for their local community, many of which who have family or friends directly affected, by placing #SaveOurSteel campaign skignz's across Teesside and beyond!\nBelow here is a selection of images that we have taken and others sent to us.\nWith some 7,000 jobs at risk, including employees of SSi UK and the immediate supply chain, this story unfortunately does not have a happy ending as it was decided today that SSi UK would be put into liquidation and the Blast furnaces and Coke Ovens will be allowed to cool down, resulting in the END of Steelmaking on Teesside.\nGenerations of Teessiders have supplied the world with steel and now it's finally supplied its last.\nNot only those who have lost their jobs, careers and especially their livelihoods, but the wider community that will feel the knock on effect. The last few years have not been kind to the people of the North East of England, especially those on Teesside.\nThe steelworkers are not the only ones to lose their jobs, many other companies across the North of England are downsizing, laying off people in order to compete in a global market.\nHowever one thing that won't be extinguished like those flames of the Blast Furnaces and Coke Ovens, is that of the spirit of the Teesside people.\n#TeessideSteelLivesOn\nLabels: discoverskignz, faris, joblosses, Middlesbrough, redcar, saveoursteel, skignz, steelworks, Teesside\nLocation: Redcar and Cleveland, UK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 8866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://skmdcboston.com/bands/furpurse", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:10Z", "digest": "sha1:RAKZLXEISD75OJP5UNZLIVQN4KA3BJYO", "length": 38, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "skmdcboston.com", "title": "Fur Purse - List of Shows - SKMDC", "raw_content": "January 15, 2015 O'Brien's Pub More...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 60.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://southdakotaagconnection.com/story-state.php?Id=151&yr=2019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LDKGCJSDRTX3SDTSGY2Q3ZBUNFFZDGGU", "length": 1387, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "southdakotaagconnection.com", "title": "South Dakota Ag Connection - Vermillion Area Robotics to Host Coyote VEX IQ Open", "raw_content": "Vermillion Area Robotics to Host Coyote VEX IQ Open\nVermillion Area Robotics Association (VARA) is set to host a youth robotics tournament on Feb. 16 at the Sanford Coyote Sports Center. This will be the first of two events put on by the VARA whose teams have been consistently ranked among the top in the world.\nThe competition is for youth teams ranging from 3rd-8th grade. Participating teams will compete in a variety of areas that will challenge them to drive and program their robots through different obstacles and tasks. The competition will be broken up into five rounds:\n- Judged Awards\n- STEM Award\n- Judges Awards\n- Design Award\n- Excellence Award\n\"The Coyote VEX IQ open is an opportunity to bring the most talented elementary and middle school kids in the region to compete and enjoy the amazing USD campus and Coyote Sports Center. We're excited to have STEM education be visible through robotics and VARA is delighted to host this second annual event,\" said Bill Anderson, VARA treasurer.\nThe tournament is free and open to the public. Teams will arrive around 8 a.m. The competition starts at 10 a.m. and finishes around 3 p.m. Teams can still sign up at www.roboticseducation.org.\nTo get an idea of the types of challenges these teams will face, see this video from the 2018 VEX IQ Challenge. For more information, contact Bill Anderson at william.d.anderson@gmail.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://southoldtownny.gov/146/Waste-Management", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PMTKRAZ7KT4ARQVO5ITWX6IJYIOAKOR3", "length": 1809, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "southoldtownny.gov", "title": "Waste Management | Southold, NY - Official Website", "raw_content": "As a \u201cSpecial District\u201d designated by the New York State Legislature in 1993, the Southold Town Solid Waste Management District is responsible for ensuring the proper management of solid waste (i.e., residential and commercial waste and recyclables) generated within the Town of Southold.\nThe Southold Town Solid Waste District is committed to ensuring that the Town\u2019s solid waste and recyclables are managed in an efficient and environmentally sound manner based on the principles of maximizing waste reduction and recycling in accordance with State guidelines, while providing residents of the Town maximum choice in how to achieve these goals on a personal level.\nThe Town of Southold maintains a transfer station to accept household and commercial garbage and recyclables, along with a yard waste compost facility that accepts leaves and brush for disposal.\nThe compost facility also produces compost and woodchip mulch for public use. Open seven days a week, both facilities are operated by the Southold Town Solid Waste Management District (SWMD, or \u201cDistrict\u201d). They are located adjacent to the old town landfill (which is now capped and closed) on Cox Lane in Cutchogue, north of Route 48 (the North Road).\nNo Curbside Pick-Up\nThe town does not provide curbside pick-up of trash. Residents either bring their own waste and recyclables to the transfer station themselves (\u201cself-haulers\u201d), or hire a private carter for curbside pick-up. This system limits the tax burden on residents and allows people to determine for themselves how best to handle their waste.\nJames Bunchuck\n6155 Cox Ln.\nI just moved here and learned that the Town does not provide garbage collection. How do I dispose of my household garbage?\nHow do I dispose of paint and chemicals?\nManaging Your Waste / Town Yellow Bags\nReuse Area", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://speculumcriticum.blogspot.com/2014/11/gallery.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:21Z", "digest": "sha1:42PPWWBR2UHZNM6B7S7WIYBNGLW5C5SF", "length": 5612, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "speculumcriticum.blogspot.com", "title": "SPECULUM CRITICUM TRADITIONIS: Gallery", "raw_content": "A conversation a while ago with a friend sparked some reflection upon the sorts of arguments, or (more generally) philosophical \"moves,\" that I find inherently intriguing. Not persuasive, but fascinating -- the kind that make me want to pick them up, turn them around, see how they work. Many -- most -- turn out to be what I would call grammatical arguments: they hinge upon taking a word's meaning seriously, as if with a kind of immanent critique. a few others introduce a crucial distinction. And one or two are the sort of cautionary warning that serves as a more elaborate version of a \"rule for thinking.\"\nWittgenstein: distinction between saying / showing. The limits of language about language; a \"performative\" moment at the very beginning of \"Analytic\" philosophy.\nAnselm: \"ontological proof.\" The \"prayer of the intellect,\" Simone Weil called it. Much as with Zeno's refereeing of the race between Achilles and the tortoise, generation after generation of philosophers has felt called upon to refute Anselm. When that many philosophers (who otherwise agree on so little) all feel you are wrong, you are certainly doing something right.\nC.S. Lewis: foundering of naturalism (\"cause\" vs \"reason\"). This has been elaborated and made more sophisticated by Plantinga and others, but I still think that Lewis' presentation in Miracles is, while flawed, the best short summary. If all \"reasons\" reduce to \"causes,\" then one can have, by definition, no reason to believe this.\nDescartes: cogito. Do I even need to justify this? This was probably my first foray into the canon of philosophy, in a conversation with my next-door neighbor when I was 10 or so. There is much to object to in Cartesianism, but the beauty and simplicity of this grammatical moment is too often overlooked by Descartes' critics.\nFrege: against psychologism. The locus classicus here is his review of Husserl's first book, but the import extends far beyond. At issue is, what do we mean by \"valid\"? Not just \"convincing\"! Not even really really really convincing.\nBrentano: structure of intentionality. \"Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself, although they do not do so in the same way. In presentation, something is presented, in judgment something is affirmed or denied, in love loved, in hate hated, in desire desired and so on.\" (Psychology From an Empirical Standpoint) A way of saying the obvious that suddenly shows that a great deal follows from the obvious.\nHume: is / ought non-transition. This one is taking a beating in some quarters these days via a kind of argument-by-poll. \"Show me a counter-example!\" is Sam Harris' refrain. This is a different argument.\nBuber / Levinas: what encounter means. Otherness. This is the core of my debate with Monism, the claim that there is really One Big Thing. What I mean by \"encounter\" is not a sleight-of-perspective trick by which one part of a system forgets and then remembers another part.\nBerkeley: The inconceivability of the inconceivable. Well, duh! Despite being lampooned by David Stove and many others as an argument \"so bad it is hard to conceive of anyone being swayed by it,\" or words to that effect, it also has its defenders, notably (of late) Meillassoux. The beautiful thing about this defense is that Meillassoux doesn't believe the argument -- he just thinks it is strong. I.e., you don't have to be persuaded by an argument to admire it and think it is well worth, not just pausing over in the museum of Great Moments in Western Phil., but really being challenged by it.\nWilber: Pre-/Trans- Fallacy. This is a crucial distinction, and if Wilber is remembered for nothing else in fifty years, the elegance of this formulation will last. One thing that's often overlooked in considering it, is that those prepositions modify a noun: rationality.\nCantor / G\u00f6del: knowing may exceed axiomatics. Like most of my generation I first bumped into this argument in Douglas Hofstadter's masterpiece. But I had the funny experience of being more and more persuaded by an argument Hofstadter was concerned to refute, by John Lucas, that (to put it briefly) human thinking was not reducible to the unfolding of algorithms. This application is only the beginning, though. It's not just that you can deduce something, it's what this capacity to deduce means.\nDarwin, et al: time + randomness + stochastic mechanism + \"anthropic\" perspective can get you pretty much anything. Dennett's crucial modification in terms of \"cranes\" vs \"skyhooks\" (an elegant distinction) does much to expound the argument, which seems more or less irrefutable. So the pertinent question must be, is it -- or, in what sense is it -- interesting?\nGreat doubt, great enlightenment. Ok, this is not an \"argument\", it's a description of ascetic experience.\nAnd, finally, the argument from Moral Realism. What do we mean by \"Good\"? And if we take this meaning seriously -- what follows? Or, if we think we \"have no right\" to this meaning -- then, (1) can we dispense with it? (and I don't mean \"practically\", I mean, coherently); and (2), if not, then... (This is very close to St Anselm's proof, above).\nLooking over the above list, one could note that the verb \"means\" -- in italics, no less -- recurs frequently. Well, I warned you. One philosopher's Achilles' heel is another's Archimedean pivot. The trick is, to make it both.\nombhurbhuva November 21, 2014 at 9:55 PM\n\u2018I mean to say\u2019 as an expression often introduces what the speaker considers obvious. Your examples show that the obvious is a will o\u2019 the wisp leading us into a bog of contradiction. 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You may be wondering how you developed this problem in the first place. An ingrown toenail occurs when the nail curves into the skin, causing some serious discomfort. It can happen for quite a few different reasons. In some cases, it's the result of an injury that occurred while you were running, dancing, or even participating in some other physical activity.\nUnfortunately, this problem can occur if you're not wearing comfortable shoes as well. While there are many causes of an ingrown toenail, your main concern may be treating the problem and getting rid of the ingrown toenail so that you don't have to experience the discomfort any longer.\nThe first thing you can do is attempt to treat the ingrown toenail at home. Start by filling up a plastic basin with warm water and two tablespoons of sea salt. Once you've mixed the sea salt in with the warm water, take off your socks and soak your feet for at least 15 minutes. 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There are many reasons why people would want to get their kitchens reinvented. If you are not a good cook, you may end up upgrading your cooking skills and unleash the chef in you. Whatever your reason for wanting to take on the journey of recreating this very important space in your house the road to complete this project or even get it going is not easy. Here are steps on how you can see the project through from start to finish.\nBefore you even go to an interior designer or an architect to get professional advice on how you can start the project formally started it would be important for you to have already an idea of what it is exactly that you want to achieve. This makes the tasks of your interior designer much easier and much more fitted to the goal you are trying to accomplish. Designers are experts at their craft, but they work best when clients are cooperative and generous enough to give them a lead.\nYou may have a vision of what it is that you want to achieve but do not have the budget for it. Set a specific amount of cash that you are willing to spend for the project. If you do not know how to bridge the gap between the design you have in mind and the cash you have in your pocket\u2014well, that is where the experts come into place.\nTo complete this project, you need to employ the help of many professionals from the designers to the artists, the contractors, sheet metal fabricators melbourne and the technicians who will carry out the design to make it something you can see, touch and feel.\nAmong the most difficult providers to find are metal fabrication experts. These providers need to perform a task so accurate and precise that there is only a handful of them who can give justice to a task like this. 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For one, those who had this added to their calendars from the first invite can free up June 21st; the event has been slashed down to a day-long event on the 20th. They also added a pretty suggestive tagline, which seems to suggest that this is going to be the event where Microsoft truly pull the curtain on Windows Phone 8: \u201cA sneak peek of the future of Windows Phone.\u201d\nThat, along with the fact that they\u2019re referring to it as just a Windows Phone Summit (and not a developer summit) seems to indicate that they decided at some point during the last four weeks or so that this should be a full-blown Apollo announcement instead of just a mere event to spur additional developer interest in San Francisco. Jokes aside, this is actually a pretty intriguing event. And don\u2019t worry, it will be livestreamed; just remember to head on over to Channel 9 on the 20th to watch the webcast.\nPosted on June 5, 2012 June 5, 2012 Author Paul PaliathCategories MicrosoftTags Apollo, Microsoft, Windows Phone, windows phone 8, Windows Phone Summit 2012\nPrevious Previous post: Siri Reportedly Coming to iPad with iOS 6\nNext Next post: AT&T Announces The Pre-Order Date Of Galaxy S III; Gets Exclusive Access To Red Color Variant", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://technicians.org.uk/news/lumiereldn-meet-technicians/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HIL2CW453BIPWHTIQQ4XIYRAL65YGNKF", "length": 2578, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "technicians.org.uk", "title": "#LumiereLDN: Meet the technicians - Technicians | Make It Happen", "raw_content": "#LumiereLDN: Meet the technicians\nDid you manage to catch Lumiere Durham? If you did, you will know what Artichoke has in store for London next week! Artichoke works with an incredible team of artists and over 90 technicians to transform everyday spaces into magical works of Art.\nIn the run-up to #LumiereLDN, we got chatting to Mia, one of the video technicians who helps create stunning audio-visual displays.\nBeing a technician is not something Mia originally dreamt she would do after difficulties as a student: \u201cAt school, I didn\u2019t do so well \u2013 unfortunately I wasn\u2019t the most academic person. I have dyspraxia and a couple of other learning difficulties, which made things a bit difficult, so doing practical based work with set procedures has been much easier for me.\u201d\nMia has found she has a natural aptitude for the technical work of arts events such as #LumiereLDN, which makes her an excellent technician: \u201cI have always been really interested in the tiny details, so I notice really small things and I like to make sure everything is on point.\u201d\n\u201cI love the community, being part of a team. The work is amazing and it\u2019s so rewarding to see the finished pieces and the audience\u2019s reaction to them.\u201d\nAs a technician, Mia constantly gains the opportunity to develop and hone her skills. When she\u2019s not helping to set up audio visual displays for the streets of Durham and London, she attends a course at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Video Design for Live Performance where creatives and technicians are encouraged to learn from each other: \u201cBy nature, I\u2019m more of a creative but this course has allowed me to explore my technical abilities.\u201d\nAnd the best part of being a technician? Her Events family: \u201cI love the community, being part of a team. The work is amazing and it\u2019s so rewarding to see the finished pieces and the audience\u2019s reaction to them. You all work together to make something amazing happen, to realise brilliant pieces of art.\n\u201cBeing able to turn a building into something completely different and let people re-imagine the location is a dream come true.\u201d\n\u2018A dream project for me would be something site specific, like Lumiere Durham. Whether it\u2019s creating the content or working on the technical side, being able to turn a building into something completely different and let people re-imagine the location is a dream come true.\u201d\nTo catch the work of Mia and the Artichoke team, be sure to check out #LumiereLDN between the 18th \u2013 21st January 2018.\nTo read more about what it\u2019s like to be a technician, be sure to read our Technician Stories", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://techrob.com/movie/upcoming", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:37Z", "digest": "sha1:EJNZTS5YQ5CE54OOASNEJ6LHAADRLHTE", "length": 2344, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "techrob.com", "title": "Upcoming Movies \u2014 The Movie Database (TMDb)", "raw_content": "Captain Marvel March 8, 2019\nThe story follows Carol Danvers as she becomes one of the universe\u2019s most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races. 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When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to\u2026\nTransit March 1, 2019\nA Madea Family Funeral March 1, 2019\nRun the Race February 22, 2019\nBilby February 22, 2019\nGreta March 1, 2019\nWoman at War March 1, 2019\nA middle aged woman declares war on the heavy industry in her town. She resorts to sabotage and is willing to risk everything for nature and these virgin highlands\u2026 until a Ukrainian orphan enters her life.\nShadow February 28, 2019\nAmong the Shadows March 5, 2019\nFurie March 1, 2019\nWhen a little girl is kidnapped by a trafficking ring, they soon find they messed with the wrong child. Her mother, a notorious former gang leader, is close on their trail and will go to any lengths to bring her\u2026\nSaint Judy March 1, 2019\nGloria Bell March 8, 2019\nGloria is a free-spirited divorc\u00e9e who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she\u2026\nTriple Frontier March 6, 2019\nStruggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.\nI'm Not Here March 8, 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 8598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://techspheria.com/2010/12/sad-christmas-for-jailbreakers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IIEBZUPGSE3KBMNJTDCVHI4MDUORV2JO", "length": 890, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "techspheria.com", "title": "Sad Christmas for Jailbreakers \u2022 TechSpheria", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb iPhone \u00bb Sad Christmas for Jailbreakers\nAn untethered jailbreak was supposed to be a gift from comex\nto all members of the community but unfortunately, it will be delayed. Comex stated on Twitter that the deadline may not be Christmas.\nOn the other hand, he said \u201cIt\u2019s probably going to be a Cydia package if I can get it to work.\u201d\nThis means that no restore or re-jailbreak is required; it\u2019s only going to be a new installation of Cydia to save time and effort for everyone. Even if he didn\u2019t succeed, the Dev-Team already has a backup plan which includes using 4.2b3 SHSH blobs.\nThe method comex is providing is to be more efficient \u2013 according to comex himself and will be applicable to current iOS 4.2.1 device alongside devices that run on Apple\u2019s A4 Chip.\nSpecific details remain unknown, but it is confirmed that an untethered jailbreak will be available to all iDevices soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tellyreviews.com/tag/when-love-wins/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:53Z", "digest": "sha1:VBC3LLMCVPT5N5OQRF4EML25J4DNHAUI", "length": 445, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "tellyreviews.com", "title": "When Love Wins Archives - Page 3 of 4 - TellyReviews", "raw_content": "Yeh Hai Aashiqui 8th August 2014 Episode 56 on Bindass starring...\nYeh Hai Aashiqui 3rd August 2014 Episode 55 on Bindass \u2013...\nYeh Hai Aashiqui 1st August 2014 Episode 54 on Bindass \u2013...\nYeh Hai Aashiqui \u2013 Disaster Mini Series 6th July 2014 Episode...\nYeh Hai Aashiqui \u2013 Disaster Mini Series 29th June 2014 Episode...\nYeh Hai Aashiqui 25th August 2013 1st Episode on Bindass \u2013...\nYeh Hai Aashiqui \u2013 Disaster Mini Series 22nd June 2014 Episode...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 9000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 306.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://the-otherworld-tales.blogspot.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WLL25VRLKBRQ4INBGY4TZTYUKR2IKQAH", "length": 15248, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "the-otherworld-tales.blogspot.com", "title": "Otherworld Tales", "raw_content": "Otherworld Tales\nHalloween? Hello Folklore\nWith Halloween coming up, what better manner to start off with a new blog post than with the subject of folkloric traditions in novels, world-building and so on?\nWhereas a lot of people see Halloween as a repulsive commercial feast brought over by American multinationals, the origins lie in the early pagan rituals which were subsequently inherited by the Christians as the day before All Saints to appease to the new converts.\n\"The Headless Horseman Pursuing Ichabod Crane\" by John Quido\nAdding folklore, other stories throughout your own, for world-building or other purposes, means adding flavour to your atmosphere. It can be a break from the story, to deepen a location, custom, day of the year for your characters or can function as an important plot point. Is it a poem recited by a bard about some location, is it a symbol characters make before going on a great adventure, is it the reason for a truce and maybe the end of a great war? Who knows, but folklore can be .\nThe most important thing before you start designing folklore is knowing your own. For people wanting to read up on the world's folklore, I suggest checking out http://worldoftales.com/ which contains a lot of folk tales, fairy tales and fables from all over the world. For more specific stories from your neighbourhood, the library or older people are your main source of information of course.\nIf your story is set in the real world or a different version of our world, keep in mind that folklore is publicly available and you can use it in your project freely (as long as you don't claim to have invented it). For those that want to write their own, try studying \"real\" folklore to get a feel for the writing style and meanings therein. Folklore can range from superstition to a construction of complex and multi-layered meanings.\nGepost door Pherione op 19:15 Geen opmerkingen:\nLabels: Design Quarter\nProofreading and editing, waterproof ideas?\nWith a relatively large part of my first draft finished, I was thinking of having others read it for me. Now the obvious problem with that is: who will read it for you? It's obvious that you yourself might be all passionate about your work but you might as well encounter many problems in the department of convincing others to read a work in progress. More precisely, a work in progress they must read attentively and scan for error and incoherency. So we've come on the terrain of proofreading and editing. Whereas these terms may seem relatively close in meaning, they are not the same.\nProofreading is the reading of a text to spot errors of a technical nature. Grammar mistakes, double words, wrong punctuation and so on.\nEditing is the reading of the text on a more narrative basis. You try to find incoherency in dialogue, events, flaws in character build-up. All for the benefit of the quality of the story itself.\nProoffreading, finding the errors in other people's texts.\nThe problem, however, is where to find those people motivated enough to read your unfinished material. Obvious resource #1 friends and family\nFriends and family will most likely comply to reading your story, unless they politely decline of course (be prepared for this). Understand as well that people might be a bit hesitant to tell you the full truth because they don't want to hurt you. An unfinished story is a very personal thing after all.\nSource #2 professional companies\nProfessional proofreaders are abundant. http://www.proof-reading.com/ for example. It's not too expensive and you're assured of quality. A lot of universities have their own proofreading facilities as well.\nSource #3 teachers and students of languages\nVery close to #2 but if you have personal relationships with these people, things get easier. When you're still a school-goer you can simply ask your teacher to do it for you in his/her spare time. Just hope you're on good footing with that person though.\nSource #4 writing communities\nExamples such as http://www.nanowrimo.org/ and other writing communities are full of people writing, interested in writing and readers. You can try to find people here if you need a proofreader/editor. Be cautious about throwing your story out in the open though. Read up about copyright before spilling the beans.\nGepost door Pherione op 08:51 2 opmerkingen:\nLabels: Dev Diary\nGood kingdoms, evil empires...or was there more?\nPeople who have read/played traditional fantasy or sci-fi know it. Kingdoms are good, empires are evil.\nIn this post I won't talk about the good/evil differences but more about why they're always kingdoms and empires. There are a plethora of state structures out there and nowadays the classic kingdoms and empires have faded into history so I just want to point out this possibility to innovate on the classic concept.\nDictatorship being shared, very common in popular media it seems.\nI'll simply explain some of the political systems used in my projects as used besides the traditional kingdoms and empires.\nFirstly there's the mayoralty. Adhered by two of the nations in the worlds, they are a lot like democracy with one exception. The ruler of the nation is the ruler of the capital city. In one case this is because the capital city is one of the only notable cities of the nation left, in the other because the historical evolution demanded as such (including a rebellion, hanging of the previous ruling monarch and so on). The mayoralty can be democratic or not.\nSecondly there's the stratocracy. While it may seem something fit for a dictatorship, there is a difference. The army is in charge, but a stratocracy is not necessarily a dictatorship. While the nation in my project is stratocratic, having evolved from a global war, they are very close to a democracy, electing their leaders every set amount of years. These then preside mostly over the nation from the central office in the capital.\nThirdly, the plutocracy. The wealthier a person, the greater his/her influence. Applied in the desert cities where treasure is everything and many go out to try their fortune. It can often be combined with almost any other state form (for example, wealthy people get more votes) but in my novel I kept it as pure as possible.\nI have several other forms of government used in my writing and often they are slight variations of existing structures as well. I won't elaborate any further though to prevent a too lengthy posting as well as too much spoiling. For those who do wish to read up on the existing forms of government I recommend the cia factbook, which has a very complete list as well as a list of countries and their state form. Also useful when designing your nations, ethnic groups and history.\nWhile good kingdoms and evil empires may seem an obvious thing in some video games, it is worthwhile to study the newest trends:\nThough indeed I am our Emperor\u2019s son, I am no prince. Archadia\u2019s Emperor is freely chosen by Her people. I am but an elected official and nothing more. -Vayne Solidor, Final Fantasy XII, Square-Enix\nEmpire or democracy? Play the game itself and you might doubt your choice. Politics are becoming more and more prominent in the later games and who knows what the next trend might be?\nQuestlines: The Pilgrimage of Linh\nThe past few days I've been working on the so-called \"Questlines\" section of my story. I named them like that because of the existing rpg-project that can implement them very well. \"Questlines\" is the bundle of stories running simultaneously with the main story. The most important reason I made this bundle was to flesh out the worlds of my novel. It's highly unlikely for the main hero to be present in all the major events of his time, but nevertheless they can have their impact on his journey. The hero hears of the other questlines occurring, may see parts of them, but is not the main player in them. They're not sideplots in that they are not resolved or sometimes only mentioned or hinted to once.\nFamous examples of authors who did this are mostly found in the fantasy literature. Tolkien (The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings) and Martin (A song of Ice and Fire). Especially in the case of Tolkien who is famous for his stacks of notes and border writings. He speaks of lands that are barely treated in his novels, but those who are familiar with his Legendarium (all the gathered work of Tolkien) will know there's a lot more to it than his major novels.\nThe entirety of Middle-Earth of which maybe a small part is treated in detail\nAn example of this in my own Questlines bundle is the 'pilgrimage of Linh' of the nomads on the smaller continent, looking for their sacred origin. They may seem oblivious to the greater turmoil in their world, but as a people they have different priorities. To them it doesn't matter if the world is destroyed, it is just something that happens. These nomads have a great relativity over them, a certain peace that is running out in the rest of the world. It frustrates the people who do think it's important to no end, but the nomads aren't moved by that. In my novel, these frustrations are dealt with, but not the entire sacred journey and the things that are dealt with on the way there. (though I might make a short-story from it some time)\nAs such I do want to show that I place a great deal of care into building up the background of my novel and I do hope other writers will do the same, because I always find it nice to find a sizeable background in the stories I read and write. Without compromising the main story with redundant information of course.\nThe title might frighten some of the readers but this isn't the end of the blog; more an article about novel/script endings. Endings come in all shapes and sizes, from the sugar-sweet fairy tale ending to the mindrape endings that leave you puzzled and confused for days.\nA lot of authors tend to write the ending before they actually start on their novel. This allows them to keep the story coherent and build up towards a certain point. A famous example of such author is JK Rowling who wrote her novel series' ending before her first book.\nIn my own Otherworld Tales series I've written lay-outs for several endings, both good ones and bad ones, as I'm still unsure about which ending I'll use. The most important reason for this is that a story grows and matures while it is being written and I need to be able to select the ending that will eventually fit the general tone of the novel itself.\nBut why did I write multiple endings? You ask.\nAn ending of your novel is not necessarily the end of your novel universe. The characters may live on and their lives are a series of endings. An ending just marks the end of one story and the beginning of the next. Stated as such, endings are not definite things. They have to fit into a whole by themselves and need to make sense. The events building up to it and the events flowing forth from it that aren't described in the novel. The end is at hand! you see the man in the street proclaim and this is true. It always is, because every moment ends with a new one and every moment in your novel is an important one, but more so your last one.\n(anti)climax, over the top or not?\nI'm nearing the climax of the war now in my novel. The epic moment where everything changes for good. But what are climaxes actually? Do you have to put a climax in your writing and what's an anticlimax then?\nSo is the certain point in which who we believe to be the big bad is finally defeated and several new problems arise in the wake of the war the climax? Or is it at the end during the final confrontation? That point in your book where everything changes and everyone's at a loss or when everything comes together? I found this neat picture on the net that decides to explain it for you.\nWell that makes sense right? Something that looks like it's taken right out of a literary textbook. Apparently, for a climax, tension builds up to the climax and for an anticlimax the story gets duller and duller. Whatever Piramidal is supposed to tell you I don't even know, maybe the fun part is in the middle of the book. What we have here is the stereotyped image of what people believe is the structure of stories. As if tension is something that can be drawn in a curve. Tension is not a subtle play in a person's mind, but a graph...or was it the other way around.\nWhen writing a story, I personally don't experience the urge to build up neatly along a graph and tell my reader when the peak has been reached. Some novels don't even have tension and are still masterpieces of their own. Can someone tell me where the climax of Paradise Lost is? Or are we just reading it for the beautifully constructed narrative? What I'm trying to tell you is that your novel doesn't necessarily need a climax or anticlimax. The story by itself should be compelling enough to keep the reader's attention and it won't get better just because you carefully planned out your tension levels.\nThe death of Caesar in Shakespeare's play about Caesar is obviously a climax example as wikipedia kindly states, right? (it does look very dramatic, I admit)\nAbout genres and why they're a tad useless\nNot too long ago someone asked me \"What's your novel about?\" and I replied with my usual summary line. \"So it's fantasy?\" No, not quite. Science Fantasy is a term that's closer to what my novel is about, but I suppose every writer has that feeling a bit. Your novel is more than just those words of the genres. Others should read the book before they could ever possibly understand what it's actually about. Stories are so much more than just what their genre implies. Personally I find this the best approach to novel writing. Write your novel first, then let others fight over what genre it is, because I find writing my novel rewarding enough. If you want to know it, my novel is Science Fantasy, with a bit of alternate history, some snuffs of romance, a good dose of folklore, drama and warfare involved and a tinge of psychological horror. It also has politics, moral, who of you already skipped to the next paragraph?\nGenres date from the first written forms in ancient times where Plato and Aristotle classified the written text into three forms (poetry, drama and prose). These three forms became more complex over time and developed into our current system of having a myriad of styles, forms, etcetera as the need arose.\nA lot of aspiring authors want to know what genre they write in. Google 'novel genre' and you'll soon find the many websites that 'help' determine which genre you have. Personally, however, I believe it's not the task of the author to determine the genre of your novel; the reader does. The writer who believed his novel to be in the historical fiction department may suddenly find his book in all the romance bookshelves.\nSo genres aren't solid, not over time nor through your audience. Then what does a writer do at all concerning genres? Nothing. That's right, nothing at all until you're getting published. Then you just ask your proofreaders for help in categorizing your novel so you send your novel to the right publishers. Beyond that the writer's concern is writing.\nDesign Quarter (8)\nFriends: MetalRenard Music\nComposer for creative media", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 16616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theconversation.com/how-the-legacy-of-dirty-coal-could-create-a-clean-energy-future-88969", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:42Z", "digest": "sha1:7LWBI5R6AKBJZYKG7YRYA4K235Q7RIMZ", "length": 5793, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "How the legacy of dirty coal could create a clean energy future", "raw_content": "How the legacy of dirty coal could create a clean energy future\nAmin Al-Habaibeh, Nottingham Trent University\nAmin Al-Habaibeh\nProfessor of Intelligent Engineering Systems, Nottingham Trent University\nAmin Al-Habaibeh has received funding from European Commission, Research Fund for Coal and Steel, July 2014 -June 2017 (Contract No.: RFCR-CT-2014-00001); and Innovate UK, Knowledge Transfer Partnership number 9032.\nMoving towards a brighter future? Shutterstock\nEnergy from coal is now being linked to global warming and pollution on a global level. In fact, it has been estimated that coal contributes to 25% of green house gases.\nCoal use has caused severe negative environmental impacts, from its mining and processing, to its transportation and combustion, leading to high levels of pollution. In October 2017, a United Nations weather agency report indicated that levels of carbon dioxide surged at \u201crecord-breaking speed\u201d compared to 2016.\nAround the world, coal mining contributed historically to the industrial revolution and played an important part in the development of modern society. But many mines have since been closed in the UK and Europe. In the UK, this led to hard financial times and unemployment in many communities, including the miners\u2019 strikes of the 1970s and 1980s, an impact recorded in the 1996 movie Brassed Off.\nBut what happens inside the coalmines after their closure? Surprisingly, most disused coalmines start producing methane \u2013 known as Coal Mine Methane (CMM) \u2013 which can be a clean source of energy. It can be used to generate electricity via gas engines or, with some technical processing, be fed into the gas grid. Over time, however, the mines will begin to fill with water and the methane will almost entirely disappear.\nA coalmine gallery: if the water pumping stops, this gallery will be gradually flooded. Author provided (No reuse)\nBut this will create yet another opportunity. The UK\u2019s historic coal mines have an approximate residual void space of a billion cubic metres. When flooded, that\u2019s the equivalent of 400,000 Olympic swimming pools of water at a stable temperature. This vast volume of water can be used for efficient heating and cooling applications and reduce carbon emissions.\nBut how? A recent publication by the team at Nottingham Trent University explains. The water in the coalmines is generally at a stable temperature \u2013 normally between 12C and 20C depending on the location \u2013 which makes it perfect for warming, or cooling, buildings or industrial processes.\nInfrared image showing the warm water pumped from flooded coalmine. Author provided (No reuse)\nWe developed and tested a new technology for several years using two systems, one at Markham Vale and one at the National Coal Mining Museum for England, and found it can use this water to provide green, sustainable energy to homes and businesses in the UK.\nThe technology, which is based on using water source heat pumps, is simple and straightforward and works along similar lines to a refrigerator or air-conditioning system. It produces no noise or local air pollution and is also three or four times more efficient than a standard electric heater or gas boiler.\nTo understand how heat pumps in general work, consider the refrigerator in your kitchen. This extracts the heat from the food and drinks inside it, and diverts it into the surrounding environment via a condenser (which is simply a radiator) on the fridge\u2019s exterior. Our technology employs a similar system. In this case, we extract the heat from the coalmine water and use it to warm buildings.\nIn the UK, coal mining technology programmes already pump nearly 112m megalitres of water for environmental reasons, such as avoiding the pollution of drinking water, springs and rivers. The new technology could use this water, which is being pumped anyway, potentially generating 63 megawatts of heat per year.\nBut the technology has its own challenges, specifically a lack of investment and \u201cchampion\u201d organisations to lead the process. In part, this is because it remains a little-known or understood technology by many investors.\nThere is also a lack of a clear model to follow in the UK when implementing new technologies such as this, not just commercially, but contractually and legally as well. Most housing developers in the UK and Europe, for example, prefer to rely on well-established technologies such as gas boilers or electric heaters, even in areas where coalmines are available. If such new, green technologies are to succeed, comprehensive strategies are needed to get developers \u2013 and the general public \u2013 on board.\nOn the positive side, the technology can be integrated with other heating technologies, and in many cases existing building infrastructure can be used to implement it. The technology can also reduce carbon emissions and energy use and support compliance with the EU Energy Efficiency Directive and UK ESOS regulations.\nWe also have excellent, large-scale case studies, showing how effective it can be. In Asturias, north-west Spain, for example, a hospital and a university building are already being heated using coalmine water.\nOur research shows this technology could give the world\u2019s disused coal mines a new, green, lease of life. What a fitting legacy for the industry that would be.\nWorld Bank President Jim Yong Kim, left, and French President Emmanuel Macron. AP Photo/Francois Mori\nSignaling more independence from the US, the World Bank phases out its support for fossil fuels\nA painting by Sakubei Yamamoto. Yamamoto Family/Collection Yamamoto Sakubee\nThe \u201cPitmen painters\u201d of England and Japan\nWomen collecting water in Mali echo a common scene across Africa. 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The opposition party has vowed to dispute the ruling even though it says it \"respect [s] the verdict of the courts\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 12246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thelectionary.org/Thomas_Becket.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:20Z", "digest": "sha1:X6422XDKLYFT2OCKU6C3RDFSRYR466MH", "length": 12375, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "thelectionary.org", "title": "Thomas a Becket", "raw_content": "2 Esdras 2:42-48\nPRAYERS (traditional wording)\nO God, our strength and our salvation, who didst call thy servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of thy people and a defender of thy Church: Keep thy household from all evil and raise up among us faithful pastors and leaders who are wise in the ways of the gospel; through Jesus Christ the shepherd of our souls, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.\nPRAYERS (contemporary wording)\nO God, our strength and our salvation, who called your servant Thomas Becket to be a shepherd of your people and a defender of your Church: Keep your household from all evil and raise up among us faithful pastors and leaders who are wise in the ways of the gospel; through Jesus Christ the shepherd of our souls, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.\nARCHBISHOP AND MARTYR (29 DEC 1170)\nOn December 29, we remember Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, slain in his own cathedral in 1170, for his defiance of King Henry II. The death of Thomas reminds us that a Christian, even when safe from pagans, can be in danger from his fellow-Christians. It also reminds us that one can be martyred in a cause where the merits of the particular issue at hand are not obvious to all men of good will. The issue here, or one of the issues, was one of court jurisdiction. King Henry claimed that a cleric accused of an ordinary crime ought to be tried in the King's Courts like any layman. Thomas, who was Henry's Chancellor and his close friend, vigorously upheld the king's position. However, when he was made Archbishop of Canterbury with the king's support, he reversed himself completely and upheld the right of clergy to be tried only in Church courts, which could not inflict capital punishment. (This reversal does not imply fickleness or treachery. As Chancellor, Thomas was bound to serve the king. Now, as Archbishop, he was bound to defend the Church.) Henry wanted an arrangement by which (for example) a priest accused of murder would be tried by a Church Court, which if it found him guilty would degrade him to the rank of a layman, whereupon a King's Court would try him, and if it found him guilty would order him hanged. Thomas objected that a man could not be tried and punished twice for the same offense.\n[Historical Digression: In the United States, what is often counted as the first bloodshed of the War of Independence was that of the Boston Massacre (5 March 1770), when a mob threw stones at a group of sentries, who eventually fired at them, killing five. The soldiers were tried for murder, and defended by John Adams (later the 2nd President of the United States). The jury acquitted all but two, whom it found guilty of manslaughter rather than murder, and Adams promptly said, \"I claim for my clients the benefit of clergy.\" Under law, the penalty for murder was \"death without benefit of clergy,\" whereas the penalty for manslaughter was simply \"death.\" The former penalty was supposed by Mark Twain (see his novels The Prince and the Pauper (about England in 1547) and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court) to mean that the accused was to have no access to a clergyman before being killed, and that the law thus sought to destroy his soul as well as his body. Naturally, Twain was horrified. However, the law was not what he thought it was. In fact, \"death without benefit of clergy\" meant simply that anyone convicted of murder was to be put to death even if a cleric. On the other hand, conviction of manslaughter meant death only if the accused was a layman. But what was the legal definition of a cleric (or clerk, or scholar)? The courts had developed the principle that in order to claim benefit of clergy it was sufficient to be able to read. Moreover, the literacy test had become extremely standardized. The convicted man approached the court clerk, who opened a Bible, pointed to a verse, and said, \"Read this.\" The verse pointed to, known as the Neck Verse, was Psalm 56:13 \"Thou hast delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling. I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.\" (The Hebrew word \"nephesh,\" here translated \"soul,\" is derived, like our word \"spirit,\" from a root meaning \"breath,\" and can also, where the context permits, be translated \"throat\" or \"neck,\" a translation that would make the verse even more appropriate than it already is. I must check to see whether there are any old translations that so render it.) The accused would read the verse, or recite it from memory, and be certified as a clerk. He would then be branded on the thumb with a hot iron, as a sign that he was now a convicted felon, and could never claim the benefit of clergy again. That is why, when one takes an oath in court, one holds up one's right hand. The court must see that the witness has no brand on the hand, and is therefore not a convicted felon, and is therefore presumed to be trustworthy under oath. Thus some remnants of the issue disputed between Henry and Thomas were with us (in English-speaking countries at least) until the 1700's, and others are still with us. End of digression. Back to Thomas.]\nStained glass depicting the murder of Thomas a Becket, at Christ Chruch Cathedral, Oxford.\nHenry, being angered at opposition from someone whom he had counted on for support, was heard to exclaim in anger, \"This fellow who has eaten my bread has lifted up his heel against me [see Psalm 41:9]. Have I no friend who will rid me of this upstart priest?\" Four of his knights promptly rode to Canterbury, where they confronted the Archbishop and demanded that he back down. When he did not, they killed him. Public reaction was immediate and vigorous, and reckoned Thomas as a saint and a martyr, and Henry as a blaspheming murderer. Henry swore that he had not intended his remark to be taken seriously, and had himself publicly whipped at the tomb of Thomas. Thomas was very soon canonized, and his tomb was one of the most popular places of pilgrimage in Europe for the next three-and-a-half centuries. During a war between England and France, a King of France obtained a cease-fire to enable him to make a pilgrimage to Canterbury. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales is concerned with a group of pilgrims on their way to the tomb of Thomas.\nThe chief moral that I draw from Thomas's life and death is that when a man seeks to serve God, God graciously accepts that service, even if the man is quite wrong about what it is that God expects of him.\nI close by quoting a section from T.S. Eliot's play, \"Murder in the Cathedral,\" which deals with the death of Thomas. Note that the words are Eliot's and not Thomas's. I quote it not as applicable simply to Thomas, but as applicable to all martyrs (and thus appropriate during the Witness Days) and indeed as directed to all Christians in their understanding of the Christian life, and how it involves both sorrow and joy.\nThe Archbishop preaches in the Cathedral on Christmas morning, 1170.\n\"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.\" The fourteenth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel according to Saint Luke. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.\nDear children of God, my sermon this morning will be a very short one. I wish only that you should ponder and meditate on the deep meaning and mystery of our masses of Christmas Day. For whenever Mass is said, we re-enact the Passion and Death of Our Lord; and on this Christmas Day we do this in celebration of His Birth. So that at the same moment we rejoice in His coming for the salvation of men, and offer again to God His Body and Blood in sacrifice, oblation, and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world. It was in this same night that has just passed, that a multitude of the heavenly host appeared before the shepherds at Bethlehem, saying, \"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men\"; at this same time of all the year that we celebrate at once the Birth of Our Lord and His Passion and Death upon the Cross. Beloved, as the World sees, this is to behave in a strange fashion. For who in the World will both mourn and rejoice at once and for the same reason? For either joy will be overcome by mourning or mourning will be cast out by joy; so that it is only in these our Christian mysteries that we can rejoice and mourn at once for the same reason. But think for a while on the meaning of this word \"peace.\" Does it seem strange to you that the angels should have announced Peace, when ceaselessly the world has been stricken with War and the fear of War? Does it seem to you that the angelic voices were mistaken, and that the promise was a disappointment and a cheat?\nReflect now, how Our Lord Himself spoke of Peace. He said to His disciples: \"My peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.\" Did He mean peace as we think of it: the kingdom of England at peace with its neighbors, the barons at peace with the King, the householder counting over his peaceful gains, the swept hearth, his best wine for a friend at the table, his wife singing to the children? Those men His disciples knew no such things: they went forth to journey afar, to suffer by land and sea, to know torture, imprisonment, disappointment, to suffer death by martyrdom. What then did He mean? If you ask that, remember that He said also, \"Not as the world giveth, give I unto you.\" So then, He gave to his disciples peace, but not peace as the world gives.\nConsider also one thing of which you have probably never thought. Not only do we at the feast of Christmas celebrate at once Our Lord's Birth and His Death: but on the next day we celebrate the martyrdom of his first martyr, the blessed Stephen. Is it an accident, do you think, that the day of the first martyr follows immediately the day of the Birth of Christ? By no means. Just as we rejoice and mourn at once, in the Birth and Passion of Our Lord; so also, in a smaller figure, we both rejoice and mourn in the death of martyrs. We mourn, for the sins of the world that has martyred them; we rejoice, that another soul is numbered among the Saints in Heaven, for the glory of God and for the salvation of men.\nBeloved, we do not think of a martyr simply as a good Christian who has been killed because he is a Christian: for that would be solely to mourn. We do not think of him simply as a good Christian who has been elevated to the company of the Saints: for that would be simply to rejoice: and neither our mourning nor our rejoicing is as the world's is. A Christian martyrdom is no accident. Saints are not made by accident. Still less is a Christian martyrdom the effect of a man's will to become a Saint, as a man by willing and contriving may become a ruler of men. Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity. Not so in Heaven. A martyr, a saint, is always made by the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. A martyrdom is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, not lost it but found it, for he has found freedom in submission to God. The martyr no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of martyrdom. So thus as on earth the Church mourns and rejoices at once, in a fashion that the world cannot understand; so in Heaven the Saints are most high, having made themselves most low, seeing themselves not as we see them, but in the light of the Godhead from which they draw their being.\nI have spoken to you today, dear children of God, of the martyrs of the past, asking you to remember especially our martyr of Canterbury, the blessed Archbishop Elphege; because it is fitting, on Christ's birthday, to remember what is that peace which he brought; and because, dear children, I do not think that I shall ever preach to you again; and because it is possible that in a short time you may have yet another martyr, and that one perhaps not the last. I would have you keep in your hearts these words that I say, and think of them at another time. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 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The smallest events on earth economy can affect the price of Bitcoin, This can make Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrency volatile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1688, "original_length": 96730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://therealtombratt.com/blog/2015/2/7/in-the-midst", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:33Z", "digest": "sha1:T5NDCZ2CRBQQZGGWYZV6L7ZHNVOOVS44", "length": 2043, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "therealtombratt.com", "title": "In the Midst \u2014 The Real Tom Bratt", "raw_content": "There are very few times I get to focus all of my mind on one thing. Typically I'm going several directions at once, and have had to learn how to funnel this properly so as to avoid mental fatigue. I read a lot. Every day. And one reason I read is because by being in the midst of several stories, it helps me funnel some mental energy. Some stays with this book, some stays with that.\nFor the past few years, eight to be specific, I've had non-fiction and fiction both going on. The non-fiction is typically religious. I like religious thought and philosophy, especially takes on ancient life and how they live. This reading is typically Christian, but I also very much respect the passions and routines of Islam. Devoting yourself to God, thereby acknowledging you are not the center of the universe five times per day is pretty amazing. I also really like the phrase \"there is no God but God\". But, I digress. A typical theme of thought is that one cannot move on to something more, until one becomes comfortable in and with their own surroundings. In the midst of where they are today, right now. This sentiment is on my mind a lot. It speaks to me.\nThrough the years, I've picked up a thread that people should be future minded, thinking about the next step, plotting for the next thing, which sort of overlooks the right now. Misses that mark. But the future, which will happen regardless, won't be any different from the present without steps being taken in the here-and-now to move us forward on a path. To get us there. The Future isn't some great mystical thing, it's a present that is yet to come. One that will be here and will be either the same as now or different as now, dependent upon the actions of the present.\nThose actions can be better or worse dependent upon how I live and what I think, which is much better if it comes from a place of balance and calm. Much better. And the calm means I handle much present circumstances with grace, with honor, and take them as they are. Right now. In the midst of things as they are.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 213.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thesoundofconfusionblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/wavves-demon-to-lean-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OG4WRMDN2XC7Q34BUGHXUDVCZPJ2ZLZB", "length": 2513, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "thesoundofconfusionblog.blogspot.com", "title": "The Sound Of Confusion: Wavves - Demon To Lean On", "raw_content": "With any drug-inflicted public meltdowns now seemingly behind him, Wavves main man Nathan Williams is back on top form musically, with early signs indicating that new album 'Afraid Of Heights' (due out on March 26th) could be his most coherent, tuneful and simply best yet. There's still a geeky element to the band's sound, they haven't totally grown-up, and nor would we want them to. The love of noise is still apparent which will be music to fans of the earlier lo-fi din that they captured on some recordings. Williams isn't hanging up the effects pedals and building himself a deluxe pine studio just yet.\nTwo tracks from the forthcoming record are available to stream and both take the better end of grunge, keep plenty of melody there but still refuse to give in to maturity. 'Sail To The Sun', as we've already heard, hammers along like its been injected with nitrous oxide but at no point feels like it could fall apart. This is controlled chaos, the kind that comes with knowing where you're heading. 'Demon To Lean On' takes this further, it's piled high with slacker vibes and guitars being tortured, but underneath is a big pop hit. It could be that Wavves have hit the perfect middle ground between being unreliable no-wave noise-merchants and dorky, off-kilter pop punks. Perhaps this is exactly what's needed to keep the wheels on and the band on the road.\nWavves' website\n3/12/13 @ SXSW - Austin, TX\n3/17/13 @ Prophet Bar - Dallas, TX *\n3/19/13 @ Club Congress - Tucson, AZ *\n3/20/13 @ Echo - Los Angeles, CA *\n3/21/13 @ Casbah - San Diego, CA *\n3/22/13 @ Bottom of the Hill - San Francisco, CA *\n3/23/13 @ Velvet Jones - Santa Barbara, CA !\n3/27/13 @ Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO *\n3/28/13 @ Waiting Room - Omaha, NE *\n3/29/13 @ 7th Street Entry - Minneapolis, MN *\n3/30/13 @ Rave Bar - Milwaukee, WI *\n4/01/13 @ Subterranean - Chicago, IL *\n4/02/13 @ Basement - Columbus, OH *\n4/03/13 @ Grog Shop - Cleveland, OH *\n4/04/13 @ Magic Stick (Lounge) - Detroit, MI *\n4/05/13 @ Horshoe - Toronto, ON *\n4/06/13 @ Salla Rosa - Montreal, QC *\n4/08/13 @ Brighton Music Hall - Boston, MA *\n4/09/13 @ Johnny Brendas - Philadelphia, PA *\n4/11/13 @ Glasslands - Brooklyn, NY *\n4/12/13 @ Shea Stadium - Brooklyn, NY *\n4/13/13 @ Rock & Roll Hotel - Washington, DC *\n4/15/13 @ Drunken Unicorn - Atlanta, GA *\n4/16/13 @ Mercy Lounge - Nashville, TN *\n4/18/13 @ Fitzgerald's - Houston, TX *\n4/20/13 @ Crescent Ballroom - Phoenix, AZ *\n4/21/13 @ The Smell - Los Angeles, CA *\n* w/ FIDLAR and Cheatahs\n! w/ Cheatahs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 7515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thesoundofconfusionblog.blogspot.com/2016/03/premiere-gold-light-arms-length.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:15Z", "digest": "sha1:5KZZ2PHLSMQLHHXG6JJEMLRGE3DJL4YT", "length": 1696, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thesoundofconfusionblog.blogspot.com", "title": "The Sound Of Confusion: PREMIERE: Gold Light - Arm's Length", "raw_content": "We weren't the only ones to mention the '50s element to Gold Light's music, with 2013's debut album drawing comparisons to Roy Orbison (and if you're going to write a heartbreak album, there's probably nobody better to channel). Songs like 'True Love Never Dies' made doo-wop sound elegantly wasted but lovelorn and tattered with it. New album 'Visions' (released on March 11th through Hearts & Plugs) builds on this, incorporating post-punk (especially on 'Rosebush' and the excellent 'Grey Eyes', where the shadows of Echo & The Bunnymen and The Cure loom large) and modern day Americana, while lyrically life's big questions are tackled, bringing confusion and heartache of a different kind.\nThat may seem a bit heavy and depressing, but the end result is quite different. Take single 'Arm's Length' for example. It may hint at some kind of existential crisis, of laying awake at night as you \"try to find some meaning\", in a world where it seems \"that God is a place just outta reach\", but these moments can often come with an epiphany of some kind, and the realisation that \"there's beauty in being\". A gently shuffling beat and the eerie effects of reverb mean that 'Arm's Length' is filtered through the gauze of dreampop and has a richness of sound that compliments the unhurried delivery. Guitars seem to float and hover in the background, bringing themselves to the fore when needed, and making the whole song feel effortless and natural rather than rigidly constructed in any way. 'Arm's Length' is beautifully shimmering and haunted, and given that it's not alone in harbouring such qualities, 'Visions' could be the sound of a band on the cusp of a breakthrough.\nGold Light's website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 246.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thestyletti.com/category/style/?page=102", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:05Z", "digest": "sha1:B4Z4RVVPKOCE45EVRHXH7QVSBCHCVDDE", "length": 1054, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thestyletti.com", "title": "The STYLEtti offers you fashion, style, and beauty inspiration from the three of us to you.", "raw_content": "Seattle Street Style Through the Eyes of a Visitor\nOn a couple of recent trips to Seattle, I\u2019ve noticed the city has style. It\u2019s own style, or perhaps I should say, styles. While I admit I didn\u2019t take to some of it instantly, the more I see, the more I get (and appreciate) Seattle street style. A very popular look downtown on a winter weekday afternoon is the [\u2026]\nSeattle Umbrella Style\nOn a rainy winter day in Seattle, bright colors and light illuminate the downtown area, in the form of umbrellas. Much has been said about grey skies, winter blues and endless rainy days in the Pacific Northwest. Store fronts show what you might consider \u201cSeattle dreaming\u201d (or reality for those fortunate enough to get away [\u2026]\nConsignment Fun!\nMy last two posts have been about my recent quest to bring back more creativity to my style. I\u2019ve realized that my most memorable and beloved outfits over the years had something in common: they took some scavenging, improvising or at least a fair deal of creativity, and that is precisely what made them unique and [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thevolunteertimes.com/campbell/multi-agency-drug-bust-in-lafollette-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VKW2QH72JJRK2DPAANIEZEVBZQMVIXID", "length": 868, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thevolunteertimes.com", "title": "Multi Agency Drug Bust In LaFollette | The Volunteer Times | Campbell County", "raw_content": "Multi Agency Drug Bust In LaFollette\nAround 7:15 pm on 1/31/19 members of the LaFollette Police Department\u2019s Drug Unit and Special Response Team along with officers from the 8th Judicial Drug Task Force and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant located at 115 North 5th Street in LaFollette. The narcotics search warrant was conducted in response to a number of complaints received by the Department regarding drug traffic and gambling operations at that location. During the raid officers recovered felony amounts of marijuana along with illegal gambling devices. Currently, the investigation is still on-going and charges are pending.\nThis entry was posted\ton Thursday, January 31st, 2019 at 10:27 PM\tand is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.com/2010/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:42Z", "digest": "sha1:DQQRUT54DWPDE5JKS7RV52MEUDRIQTP3", "length": 5171, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.com", "title": "Three Score Years And Ten: May 2010", "raw_content": "Peter Heathfield\nPeter in Sheffield July 1984 with Arthur Scargill\nPeter Heathfield died yesterday. Above all he was a kind, open and pleasant person who was always a pleasure to meet. He was also a committed socialist who cared deeply for the well-being of NUM members and of the communities they lived in.\nHe had studied Industrial Relations, Politics and Economics on a three year day release course for Derbyshire Miners which was run by the Sheffield University Extramural Department. I arrived as a tutor on these courses some years later. But I got to know Peter well in his period as Secretary of the Derbyshire NUM from 1973 to 1984. This arose mainly because he had a deep interest in the nature of our classes and the progress of its members. Along with our children, my wife Ann and I regularly attended the Derbyshire Miners' Weekend School which was held annually at Skegness at Easter. The miner's always asked tough questions and made blunt contributions. Peter was very much at home with the dialectics of debate.\nPeter was invariably present at Labour Movement events in North Derbyshire at this time, being a regular and carefully listened to speaker at each Chesterfield May Day Rally. He would have enjoyed the Rally which took place only the day before his death. Amongst the events was a film on the impact of the 84-85 Miners' Strike in North Derbyshire. I only wish that he had been well enough to have participate by being in front of the camera.\nBoth Peter and his first wife Betty are best known for their roles in the strike. Peter as the General Secretary of the NUM and Betty for the leading work she undertook in the Women's Movement who played a crucial role in supporting the miners. But there was much more to them than the matters which hit the headlines.\nPrior to the strike one of Betty's commitments had been with the Woodcraft Folk. My wife Ann attended the groups activities in Chesterfield for a year, before moving on to help in setting up a local group where we live.\nPeter was invariably present with the NUM delegation at the numerious Labour Party Conferences which Ann and I attended. He was a regular at Irish Evenings which were run under a flag of convenience by the Workers' Party. He was the only person they ever asked to speak, everyone one else sang songs or played tin whistles.\nWhen he divorced and remarried and moved to North Anston in Yorkshire I visited him in the home he had set up with Sue and then addressed his local Labour Party.\nI last saw him just over a year ago at a packed meeting at the NUM headquarters at Barnsley. Arthur Scargill was the main speaker and we were there for the 25th Anniversary of the strike. Peter was in the audience and his health was clearly fading. But it was good to see him again. When it was pointed out to a packed crowd that he was sitting in the audience, his reception matched that of Arthur's.\nI first met Peter in the former Derbyshire Miners' Offices in Chesterfield. I last came across him at what had previously been the Yorkshire Miners' Offices at Barnsley. These are places that as a tutor on Miners' Course over a period of two decades, helped to shape much of my life. The debt which I and many others owe to Peter is something we should never forget. To pay that debt we should act on the principles he propounded. It is what he would have wanted.\nLabels: Labour Party, NUM., Trade Unions\nInspiration From Gordon Brown\nInspiration from Gordon Brown - see this video.\nA May Day Manifesto\nCaroline Lucas, the leader of the Green Party launches their Manifesto.\nI gave links here to the Manifestos of the three main political parties. I felt that as we appear to be nearing a significant changing point in British politics, I should then read them. They all proved to be disappointments.\nThe Conservatives aim to jettison their Governmental responsibilities and to press charities, self-help groups and private enterprise to accept these. The Lib Dems only come to life when they are propounding electoral reforms which they hope will give them extra parliamentary seats. Whilst Labour wishes to plod on with a variety of mainly directionless New Labour schemes.\nSo I have finally turned to the Green Party Manifesto. I don't agree with it all, but it does seek to tackle what it correctly sees as the three defining crises of our time - \"a debt-fuelled economy teetering on the edge of collapse and haemorrhaging jobs, massive inequalities of income and assets, and catastrophic climate change\".\nBecause of its residual trade union and working class links, Labour will continue to have my support. But when the inquest takes place after the close of the polls at 10pm on Thursday, the Green Party's perspective is something that activists would be well advised to give close thought to when deciding what Labour should do next.\nThere is another Manifesto which is worthy of our concern, from the Co-operative Party - also see. In shaping its own document, Labour made a few concessions to Co-operative principles. The Co-operative Manifesto provides important openings which Labour should develop.\nLabels: Electoral, Labour Party, Political Ideas, Socialism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 27551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time-journal.com/11-most-expensive-watches-in-the-world/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:I6HLNBWU5RNZVUHUQ3VKFWLUIGCDEWQ3", "length": 739, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "time-journal.com", "title": "10 most expensive watches in the world \u2014 \u0421\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0430 4 \u2014 time-journal.com", "raw_content": "The next instance of weighty different from all the others presented in our rating. This watch is no longer possible to buy. This is \u2014 a unique specimen, which was sold in 2009 at an auction in Geneva for the 2,773, 720 conventional units. Austerity and minimalism. Watches from the Swiss company Patek Philippe made in 1942. There is a perpetual calendar, moon phases pointer, and the product is made of 18-carat gold.\nPatek Philippe Model 2523 Heures Universelles \u2014 this is just another invention of Switzerland. It was sold in 2012 at the Geneva auction for 2,990,154 dollars. What is special? The fact is that the clock shows the time in 24 time zones. A glass-lined image of North America map of enamel favorably complements the dial.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time-journal.com/top-10-best-beaches-in-turkey/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKIOUHK2YAGXG6KC4GF26ZIMMDQ5EW2B", "length": 1104, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "time-journal.com", "title": "Top 10 best beaches in Turkey \u2014 \u0421\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0446\u0430 2 \u2014 time-journal.com", "raw_content": "2. Kaputas\nKaputas \u2014 beach unprecedented beauty in southern Turkey, from Antalya to him about 210 km, the closest city \u2014 Kas. From porridge to here can be reached by bus or a rented bicycle. In addition to tourist destination is brought by boat from the sea. If you come to the beach by car or other vehicle, for the descent to the water will have to overcome 190 steps.\nKaputas Beach crouched between two mountains, in the valley. On the track it is not visible, so you can relax without worrying about extraneous eyes. Usually on the coast is not many people because of its location. Near the sea there are no shops or places of entertainment. All you need to bring with them better. Among the elements of civilization resting on the beach are only offered umbrellas.\nTotal beach length is 150 meters. Water attracts vacationers for its pleasant turquoise waves. Especially the beauty of the water can be seen from the road. The surface of the shore is covered with yellow sand mixed with shingle, which does not prevent walking. The descent into the water is soft, sloping, no sudden changes of depth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time.com/5320054/stay-friends-with-ex-expert-advice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:52Z", "digest": "sha1:4RFIPYOO5DS4OEUHNF47KH3C6R5T436B", "length": 6585, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "time.com", "title": "Should You Stay Friends With an Ex? Here's What Experts Say | Time", "raw_content": "Should You Stay Friends With an Ex? Here's What Experts Say\nFew relationship questions are as polarizing as whether or not you should stay friends with an ex. For every person who tries to salvage the good and forget the bad, there\u2019s another who\u2019d rather move on and never look back. Anecdotal evidence feeds arguments on both sides \u2014 but what do the experts say?\nRachel Sussman, a New York City-based psychotherapist and author of The Breakup Bible, advises caution when it comes to staying friends, but says there are couples for whom it works; ultimately, she says, it\u2019s \u201can individual determination.\u201d Nonetheless, Sussman says there are some guidelines all exes should follow after a breakup.\nWhen to cut ties with an ex\nUnder no circumstances should a relationship that was abusive, manipulative or toxic transition into a friendship, Sussman says. But even if your relationship was generally healthy and simply didn\u2019t work out, you might want to think twice before becoming pals. One 2000 study, for example, found that friendships between exes were more likely to have negative qualities, and less likely to have positive ones, than cross-sex platonic friendships.\nThat may be especially true if you were never friends before you dated, Sussman says. \u201cIf you had a really strong connection and a really strong love affair with a very erotic sex life, how do you become friends with that person?\u201d Sussman says. \u201cChemistry doesn\u2019t always change.\u201d\nSussman also says there are potential downsides to staying friendly with an ex. \u201cSometimes that will hold you back from going into a new relationship,\u201d she warns. (There\u2019s even research to back this up.) \u201cOr you get into a new relationship and you tell your new girlfriend or boyfriend, \u2018My ex is one of my closest friends.\u2019 That\u2019s complicated. Are you giving the new relationship a [fair] chance to really flourish or blossom?\u201d\nAshley Brett, a psychology researcher in her late 20s (who asked to use a pseudonym to protect her identity), knows that struggle well. After breaking up with her boyfriend of about a year and a half, Brett stayed friends with him \u2014 and fell into an on-again, off-again relationship that lasted for more than five years. \u201cThe friendship was never really separate from the previous romantic relationship,\u201d Brett says. \u201cIt turned into the next cycle of a romantic relationship, and then back into friendship.\u201d\nThough Brett says the relationship had enough upsides that she\u2019d probably \u201cmake the same mistake twice,\u201d she says she\u2019d be hesitant to recommend the same to a friend or therapy client. \u201cThe largest drawback is being inhibited from new relationships and new experiences,\u201d Brett says. \u201cI closed myself off to other people and I didn\u2019t really want to open up to somebody again, and that\u2019s maybe not, psychologically, the healthiest orientation to life.\u201d\nBrett adds that repeatedly falling back on friendship allowed her to numb some of the pain of each breakup \u2014 which may seem like a good strategy, but can actually prevent future growth. One study, published in 2013 in PLOS One, found that \u201cbreakup distress may act as a catalyst for personal growth,\u201d while avoiding that distress may inhibit the development process.\nWhen to stay friends with an ex\nSussman says exes who have kids together should try to remain on good terms if possible, since they\u2019ll be in each other\u2019s lives for the long run. The lines are murkier for couples without children, but Sussman says those who dated when they were young, were friends first, dated casually or were together only for a short time are good candidates for friendship.\nRobin Zabiegalski, a 31-year-old writer who lives in Vermont, is a notable counterexample. She\u2019s happily married, but still maintains close friendships with several of her serious ex-partners \u2014 including her ex-husband and an ex-boyfriend she lived with for years after their breakup.\nIt wasn\u2019t always that way. \u201cI had burned all my relationships to the ground, and I was not really friends with any of my exes,\u201d Zabiegalski says. But eventually, in pursuit of personal growth, she reached out to her ex-partners \u2014 first to apologize for past transgressions, then to try and \u201creclaim\u201d the relationships they\u2019d shared for years. \u201cThat\u2019s a huge chunk of my life that is kind of co-owned by this person,\u201d she says. \u201cI just felt like those pieces of me were missing, and the only way to reclaim those pieces of myself was to, on their terms, be like, \u2018Can we repair this relationship?\u2019\u201d\nZabiegalski admits these friendships only work because her husband is \u201cinherently not jealous,\u201d and because she\u2019s open about both her past relationships and current interactions with exes. She also says it\u2019s crucial to only pursue friendships when the romantic spark has completely faded for both parties. \u201cIf you\u2019re staying friends and the real goal is to get them back, that\u2019s just continuing drama that you don\u2019t need,\u201d she says.\nThe research supports that notion. Studies suggest that couples who remain in contact for the same reasons \u2014 whether those are pragmatic or sentimental \u2014 are more likely to have successful friendships, while staying in touch because of unresolved romantic desires is a predictor of negative outcomes.\nHow to stay friendly with an ex\nIf you decide to try a friendship with an ex, Sussman suggests taking a break first. \u201cI\u2019m quite suspect of those couples that break up and then tell me right away that they\u2019re best friends,\u201d she says. \u201cTime heals. A lot of insight can come with time and space apart.\u201d\nThat goes for social media as well as in-person interactions. \u201cI would love for couples to unfollow and unfriend each other for a few months [after a breakup],\u201d Sussman says. Otherwise, \u201cbefore you know it, you\u2019re checking your Instagram and you\u2019re seeing your ex, and that brings up all sorts of thoughts and feelings which might make you, on some emotional level, feel reconnected to that person.\u201d\nBoundaries are also important for couples-turned-friends, Sussman says, though they\u2019ll likely look different for everyone. \u201cA healthy boundary could look like, \u2018Let\u2019s not talk every day. Let\u2019s not text every day,\u2019\u201d Sussman says. \u201c\u2018Every couple of months let\u2019s grab a meal, see a movie \u2014 but not regular, daily contact.\u2019\u201d\nAbove all, regularly reassess how the friendship makes you feel, and be honest with yourself. \u201cMore times than not, [someone who stays friends with an ex] is kind of clinging to something,\u201d Sussman says. \u201cIt\u2019s more of a security blanket.\u201d\nIf that\u2019s the case for you, it may be healthier to let the friendship go \u2014 even if it hurts in the moment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 9045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tinylittletidbits.com/user/register", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6O34AVRMOZDF5BUWOJVWYBGKWTSTHKAC", "length": 10341, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "tinylittletidbits.com", "title": "Home | Tiny Little Tidbits of Useless Information", "raw_content": "Tiny Little Tidbits of Useless Information\nKnowledge for the fun of it\nWEBSITE TERMS AND CONDITIONS TEMPLATE Introduction These terms and conditions govern your use of this website; by using this website, you accept these terms and conditions in full. 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Geico\u2019s own review platform has 9,000+ reviews, with almost all customers giving Geico a \u201c5 out of 5 stars\u201d rating.\nPrevious article 25 Major Bitcoin Merchants that Accepts Bitcoin\nNext article The Top 10 Secret Societies in World\u2019s History", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 199.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://torture-prison.eu/en/press-report-about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:15Z", "digest": "sha1:566D2FDD7MAGEGDFPSK7O6IAO6P5LMTZ", "length": 15827, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "torture-prison.eu", "title": "Press report about US - Romania - Torture in the European Union", "raw_content": "Link: \u2192 Original press article of the International Press Agency PRESSENZA\nLink: \u2192 PDF \u2013 Original press article of the International Press Agency PRESSENZA\nLink: \u2192 Spanish version of the original press article of the International Press Agency PRESSENZA\nLink: \u2192 Romanian version of the original press article of the International Press Agency PRESSENZA\nRomania: a nightmare of human rights and the EU turns a blind eye\nPrison Rahova, Bucharest (picture by Daniel Mundin)\nEleven years after joining the European Union, Romania is trying to clean itself up, but poverty and corruption are still in control. Only Bulgaria, among EU member states, is below Romania on the poverty scale.\nRight in the centre of Bucharest, outcasts live underground in the former heating tunnels of the Romanian capital.\nDaniel and Matthias wanted to know what kind of conditions people in the European Union still have to live in. And they wanted to help, provide them with the essentials, show that there is solidarity, even if misery is not always knocking on our door, as it did, when the waves of refugees arrived in Germany.\nThey knew the fact that the Romanian administration is corrupt, the young couple were aware of the fact that homophobia in Eastern Europe can take bizarre proportions. However, they would never have imagined what a nightmare was to come.\nIn August 2014, there was an offer to fly to Romania for 15 euros. The two spontaneously decided to visit the capital for a few days. Upon arrival at Bucharest railway station it was immediately clear that the scandalous reports from the media were almost harmless compared to the reality encountered.\nBehind one of the exits it stank terribly, it was a mixture of foot-sweat, urine and a caustic lacquer. Directly on the busy station forecourt, next to a public clinic, people crawled every minute from the various holes in the streets. Some helped each other to inject a substance, right in front of the eyes of the young people living there, the population, and the police.\nBut most of them held a plastic bag in front of their mouths. In the small bags, a substance called Aurolac was repeatedly refilled: a silver paint that has been used for decades to suppress hunger, poverty and lack of prospects. This drug results, in the case of prolonged exposure, to heart and brain diseases and it damages the respiratory tract. Under the influence of the vapours, children sometimes display self-harming behaviour, for example, by cutting themselves on their arms.\nAurolac user in front of the Bucharest North Railway station (picture: Daniel Mundin)\nBefore the eyes of the adults there stood also little girls and boys, who started their day with sniffs instead of breakfast, a shower or school attendance.\nThe Romanian population knows this sight. But instead of helping, the gaze turns away from misery. Sniffily, people pass by day in, day out, some insult the poorest of the poor. The population is resigned to this \u201cproblem\u201d. These everyday images, however, are not an isolated case in the country.\nThe frightening pictures from Romanian orphanages, after the end of the Nicolae Ceausescu regime, of neglected children in their own faeces and rotten straw, and rocking from side to side apathetically are unforgotten. These children are grown ups today and many of them live in former heating ducts and sewers under the ground. They have encountered the next generation of bedraggled children and adolescents and together they form a life and suffering community in the underbelly of the Romanian capital.\nMatthias and Daniel took pictures and often filmed the everyday life of the people there. They returned to Germany and reported to their politically active friends about this misery on the edge of the EU, published photos and wrote about the subject.\nHomeless people standing around one of the entrances to the underground labyrinth in the centre of Bucharest (Picture: Daniel Mundin)\nOn their second visit, the two were spoken to by some of the heating tunnel inhabitants. The people were curious and the two were accepted, in the middle of the ghetto in front of the station.\nFinancially, they could not contribute much support, but they brought warm clothes with them, cooked together with the homeless and made it possible for them to wash themselves. In this way, they created trust and through conversations they tried to reduce the consumption of the paint drug by these young people at least temporarily. After this visit they kept contact via Facebook.\nPictures of the conditions in the heart of an EU member state capital have gone around the world in recent years and German media have also reported on it several times. The fact that Matthias and Daniel on the one hand denounced the grievances and also tried to help as far as possible, caused displeasure with authorities and also opened up opportunities for members of the Romanian Information Service SRI (successor organization of the Securitate) and the local police to enrich themselves financially.\nPeople in contact with the same-sex couple from Germany were beaten to lure the two back to Romania as soon as possible. Meanwhile, the Romanian public prosecutor\u2019s office invented a fake criminal record against them, with the help of the director of a state-owned homeless institution.\nThe young people had to sign statements according to which Matthias and Daniel were accused of having sexual contact with them. For this to be a criminal offense, the age of the adolescents had to be reduced in the statement, as all the young people involved were older than 15 years, the age of consent in Romania. A circumstance that would later be confirmed in court. In addition, the two were accused of marijuana consumption which can still be punished with imprisonment in Romania.\nDue to the requests of the young people, the two decided to visit Bucharest once more in June 2015 and to bring some relief supplies. Daniel and Matthias visited the young people, they bought groceries together, cooked and spent time together in the city and in a rented apartment. They were watched by the police and members of the SRI. Since this suveillance did not lead to the desired result, one of the youngsters, at that time 16 years old, was handed a backpack equipped with a video camera and told to place it in the apartment. He was ordered to seduce the two Germans into sexual acts and to capture it on camera.\nThe teenager refused and fled from the officials with the prepared backpack. However, the police caught him again and forced him to return to the apartment the next day with his backpack. This he did placing the backpack in the corner of the room.\nWhen after 3 days there had been no offence, the police decided to storm the apartment at 6 o\u2019clock in the morning with masked civil servants to arrest Daniel and Matthias.\nSuch an action is not an isolated case in Romania. The EU country has been condemned several times in the past by the European Court of Human Rights, for using illegal entrapment or sting operations with the involvement of Agents Provocateurs (For example: Judgment of the Court of Justice Against Romania concerning two Germans who were also victims of these methods: Toran and Schymik v. Romania).\nSeveral people entered the apartment by force, but they did not identify themselves as police. Matthias and Daniel were ripped out of bed and thrown on the floor.\nThe two were arrested, they did not understand what for because the reasoning was in Romanian. They were repeatedly beaten by partially masked police. Daniel was threatened with a machete and Matthias had a loaded gun held to his head and both had their lives threatened.\nThe two were made to stand against a wall with handcuffs behind their heads for more than 1 \u00bd hours, they were insulted, threatened, punched in the stomach and on the head, and the Romanian word for \u201cgay\u201d was repeatedly used.\nAs a reason for their first incarceration, just the word \u201cPERVERS\u201d was written in capital letters on the paperwork.\nSeparated from each other, they did not know for five months how the other was doing. In pre-trial detention, the two experienced torture and undignified treatment (Article 3 ECHR \u2013 prohibition of torture). They first went through various notorious prisons in Bucharest with names such as Arest Central, ArestPolitiaSectia 5 and finally also to the so-called Penitenciarul Bucuresti Rahova among others where they were subjected to attempted sexual abuse, daily discrimination, death threats and physical violence. They were blackmailed by officials, guards and dangerous criminal inmates.\nThey suffered greatly under the inhumane conditions of detention and were held for long periods of time with seven other inmates in a cell no more than 10 metres squared. Sufficient physical hygiene, clean clothes, etc., were not possible. Toiletries, toilet paper, bedding, mattresses and a shower were not available. They had no access to medical care and were isolated from each other and from the outside world for months.\nDuring this time, they were continuously exposed to daily noise. To prevent the inmates communicating with each other, a radio station was broadcast over the loudspeakers in front of the cells for a full 14 hours in deafening volume. Throughout the night, the cries of young people suffering from hunger, drug deprivation or self-harm could be heard.\nWhen a fire broke out on their floor, because an inmate had set his mattress alight in protest at the inhumane conditions, the two had to wait almost an hour in their cells, full of black and poisonous smoke, despite cries for help. The fire department was not alerted for fear of negative reporting, detainees had to extinguish the fire with water.\nThe relevant staff at the German Embassy were unwilling to do their work and assist them. Here, too, they experienced prejudice, even though there was sufficient evidence of their innocence. When relatives in Germany denounced an Embassy staff member for denial of consular assistance and other crimes to the German police, he was very quickly sent into retirement.\nDuring the almost two years of pre-trial detention, the two defendants were repeatedly brought before the court. They were never provided with an interpreter with even a rudimentary knowledge of German. They could not choose their lawyer and they were never really heard in court. They were denied the right to self-defense.\nAddresses, telephone numbers of the constantly changing state-appointed public defender, and even their names were not communicated to them, even a conversation with them was prevented. However, in the prison, guards distributed business cards of so-called lawyers. They called on the two families to pay 10,000 euros in bribes. After than, the two could be released in connection with a deal with the prosecutor, which included a partial confession. It later turned out that these lawyers had no right to conduct criminal trials in Romania. Without the help of their families in Germany, the two would not have survived, as they were indiscriminately exposed to arbitrariness.\nFinally, the true motive for the illegal and judicially unauthorized \u201cstool pigeon action\u201d was revealed. Believing that the two Germans and their families were able to pay significant sums of money, they hoped for a \u201clucrative business\u201d. Their homosexuality made them, the masterminds were convinced, easy targets. The Romanian press gratefully took up the false allegations and defamed Daniel and Matthias in public, the prejudgement was perfect.\nSince the two persistently refused to sign confessions, the prosecution had no evidence, and the witnesses accused of having committed sexual acts turned out to be over 15 years of age during the alleged act, there has been no verdict or acquittal in the trial even today.\nMeanwhile, Daniel and Matthias have documents, phone recordings, surveillance audio and video files, and other evidence that incriminate Romanian authorities. These documents reveal scandalous conditions in the police and judiciary of the EU state of Romania as well as ill-treatment in homes for homeless youth.\nIn February 2017, the two were finally released from pre-trial detention after 20 months and put under house arrest and were not allowed to leave the rental apartment at any time. Compliance was repeatedly monitored by the police with random visits, including in the middle of the night. In January 2018, house arrest was lifted without explanation, because of the ongoing process which is still not at an end. They were still not allowed to leave the country.\nDaniel and Matthias pressed charges repeatedly both in Romania and in Germany. In Romania, this was never investigated, or if investigated, the investigation immediately stopped, as in the case of the attempted sexual abuse of Daniel, although there were witnesses and the perpetrator made a partial confession.\nMost German authorities refuse, even now, to investigate too. But as in the case of Daniel and Matthias, the financial aspect of trade relations between Germany and Romania seems to be more lucrative and more important than two lives.\nAlthough Romania is regularly condemned by the European Court of Human Rights for the practice of torture and inhumane treatment (ECHR Art. 3) and various other violations and non-compliance with the European Convention on Human Rights (Romania Convicted \u2013 Queeramnesty), this has no real consequences.\nSo, after 11 years of EU membership, in terms of the rule of law, corruption, poverty reduction and respect for human rights, little has changed in Romania. What\u2019s the point, if even the European Convention on Human Rights is not much more than a paper tiger?\nToday the two live again in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and fight the psychological, physical and financial consequences of their detention in Romania. But the subject haunts them. They want to write about the injustice that has befallen them and others, and they want to talk about the desolate human rights situation and the discrimination and persecution of homosexuals, as well as about the lack of diligence and duty of care by the State with respect to the protection of children and minors in Romania.\n(Fotoreportage by Daniel Mundin)\nRomania \u2013Torture in Europe (http://torture-prison.eu)\nChildren in the Bucharest sewers \u2013 ARD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY2YkQ1dVGU)\nLife in the underground world \u2013 people in sewer tunnels in Bucharest (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVsbE8dU20E)\nUnder the asphalt \u2013 Life of the outcast in Bucharest (https://www.stern.de/panorama/weltgeschehen/bukarest\u2013unter-dem-asphalt\u2014das-leben-der-ausgestossenen-7311310.html)\nOvercrowded cells and inhuman conditions (http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/rumaenischehaftanstalten-ueberbelegte-zellen und 724.de.html?dram:article_id=341399)\nJudges in Strasbourg stigmatise conditions of detention in Romania\n(http://www.dw.com/de/stra%C3%9Fburger-richter-prangern-zust%C3%A4nde-in-rum%C3%A4nischen-gef%C3%A4ngnissenan/a-38579286)\nPenitentiary system in Romania needs new rules and regulations. (http://www.dw.com/de/rum%C3%A4niens-gef%C3%A4ngnissystem-braucht-dringend-neue-regeln/a-2019975)\nThe Swiss-born business administrator has been an activist in the New Humanism for over 25 years. His concerns, such as cultural diversity, equal rights and opportunities for all people, as well as an inner and outer revolution \u2013 based on active nonviolence \u2013 led him to very different countries, such as Hungary, Spain, Togo and Sierra Leone. Through his voluntary work in Pressenza Berlin he wants to give a mouthpiece to the new sensibility and the new awareness appearing in the world. With his commitment for the organization \u2018Convergence of Cultures\u2019 he would like to get from a multicultural coexistence to a truly worldwide human nation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 17946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tottenham.name/Places_MacMurrough.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CFWAUZ6JPQTIHMNK7XYGD2673U5DGXPI", "length": 2764, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "tottenham.name", "title": "The Tottenham Family - Home", "raw_content": "This property, a few miles north of New Ross, with two houses and about 200 acres of good farm land, seems to have been transferred to Henry Loftus Tottenham by his father, Charles, about the beginning of the 19th century.\nThe big house was L-shaped, and a new block of higher elevation was added about 1813 to the end of the front arm of the L. The older portions were probably late 17th century. It stood on rising ground with a fine view over the remains of Dermot MacMurrough's castle, which was built about 1150 on an island, known as MacMurrough's Island, formed by the River Barrow on the west, its tributary, the Pill, on the south, and a moat to complete the circle.\nThe smaller house, known as \u201cThe Cottage,\u201d stands some distance behind the big house, and was probably built about 1750 on the site of a much older building, some traces of which still remain. It is an interesting structure, pure Huguenot in style, with very thick walls and a central spiral staircase in a 6ft square well.\nSometime after 1830 Alexander Napper, of Bawnmore - a well-known New Ross family - took a long lease of The Cottage and about 80 acres of land.\nThe big house does not seem to have been occupied by a Tottenham after about 1875. A letter from Charles Tottenham in 1874 says that he could not live there, as he might have wished, because of the proposal to build a railway through the place, which would \u201cspoil it as a residential property.\u201d The railway was finished and opened in 1887. Not only does it cross the property below the house, but it also runs on an embankment through the site of Dermot's Castle; and, to make matters worse, the remainder of that site was acquired in 1936, in spite of protests, for a County Council labourer's cottage.\nIn 1922 Arthur Alexander, the son of Alexander Napper's daughter, Ann, purchased the entire property except for a few fields. His son, Stewart Alexander succeeded him in 1932. He and his wife lived in The Cottage - now known as MacMurrough - and did much to improve the place; but the big house, which had remained unoccupied for many years, had fallen into such a ruinous condition that he had to have it demolished in 1946.\nThe large walled garden, situated as usual at some distance from the house, is now a flourishing orchard; and in 1958 there was still one fine ilex near the site of the house - one of four seedlings sent from Honfleur about 1870.\nBelow, along the banks of the Pill, there must have been some of the oldest beech trees in Ireland, well over 200 years old when felled some years ago. Beech is now regenerating there, and Mr. Alexander also planted Sitka spruce and Japanese larch. For much of the above account we are indebted to Mrs. Alexander, who was most kind and helpful in supplying it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 2945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 133.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tpnl.org/schools/the-university-of-alabama-at-birmingham", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:48Z", "digest": "sha1:TBP6OWC74NN5SO7RXE5OGRYR46FDYAVG", "length": 1607, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "tpnl.org", "title": "TPNL - The University of Alabama at Birmingham", "raw_content": "UAB is an internationally renowned research university and academic medical center known for its innovative and interdisciplinary approach to education. UAB offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees in Arts & Sciences, Business, Education, Engineering, Health Professions, Nursing and Public Health. Our first-professional schools are Dentistry, Medicine and Optometry. UAB offers many resources to support the transition to university learning and help develop essential skills that lead to academic success.\nAt UAB, we have never settled on merely finding what\u2019s next\u2014we have helped build the future through new ideas and initiatives in the classroom, the laboratory, the studio and the clinic. UAB\u2019s vision, mission and shared values provide a foundation for the strategic plan, forging the future. UAB serves students, patients, the community and the global need for discovery, knowledge dissemination, education, creativity and the application of groundbreaking solutions. We are a leader among comprehensive public urban research universities with academic medical centers.\nToday, UAB is a comprehensive urban university with a nationally recognized academic health center. UAB is the only public, four-year degree granting university in the state's largest metropolitan area. UAB is the largest research institution in the state of Alabama and is the largest single employer in the state.\nSome of the popular programs offered by The University of Alabama at Birmingham\nAccounting (MAc)\nBachelors in Anthropology\n1720 2nd Ave South Birmingham\nStudy at THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 181.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://traislinge.blogspot.com/2011/07/all-of-these-lines-across-my-face-tell.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XXPPZQGWQCHHFSMB4TEQYJU6LRGL5N4C", "length": 31, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "traislinge.blogspot.com", "title": "The Story", "raw_content": "It's true... I was made for you", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 509, "original_length": 11109, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 73.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://travisswicegood.com/2005/06/15/am_i_the_only_one_who_draws_this_conclus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JZQB5DBQI6RMV427PAGSAV4Y33XCU3QR", "length": 320, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "travisswicegood.com", "title": "TravisSwicegood.com | Am I the only one who draws this conclusion?", "raw_content": "Am I the only one who draws this conclusion?\nIsn't it just kind of odd that there's a bunch of guys in suits doing a song and dance routine at a shareholder meeting? Is this there their way of letting the shareholders down easy? \"Remember that '03 meeting? We were trying to tell you it was all just a song and dance...\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 215.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://treuhand-ag.com/en/einblicke", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:46Z", "digest": "sha1:FPVK32I7X62B3DPLSXZV36HWKITIXOXZ", "length": 3935, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "treuhand-ag.com", "title": "thg - Tax advice and business consulting for Belgium and Luxembourg", "raw_content": ">\tinsights\nStay informed - with our newsletter\nLeave the beaten track. Encourage \u201cout of the box\u201d thinking. Leave the mainstream to others. Today, being informed of what\u2019s going on around your company is not sufficient. How can we adapt to a constantly changing tax legislation? How much does digitalisation affect the client-fiduciary relationship? Should we be afraid of GDRP? thg deals with many of the topics directly related to your current and future concerns.\nIn order to comply with the EU Directive on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing, Belgium has implemented a centralised register of beneficial owners (\u201cUBO register\u201d) in domestic law.\nThe Belgian law on inheritance reformed at last\nBelgian inheritance law still bears the fingerprint of a certain Napoleon Bonaparte. Its roots therefore go back further than the history of Belgium. A reform was necessary, if only because the social reality has also changed with regard to families and their composition. The new law regulating inheritance law was passed and published in the Moniteur and has taken effect on 1 September 2018. We present to you very briefly the main elements of it.\nDiplomats: electronic exemption from VAT\nCertain documents that allow diplomatic missions, consulates and suchlike to benefit from a VAT exemption seem to have been the object of massive fraud. The legislator reacted and installed a new procedure applicable as of 1st January 2018: the e-certificate. This magic key can be obtained from one of the three firms that are currently accredited.\nTax reform in Belgium \u2013 phase 2\nBelgium is known to be one of the countries that impose the highest level of tax and social charges. In order to increase the purchasing power of the employees/workers and to reduce the employer\u2019s charges, the federal government has implemented a series of measures to be spread over several years.\nThe second phase of the plan entered into force as of 1st January 2018. How is this reform advantageous for you and your employees? Analysis.\nGDPR: finally!\nThis will not have escaped your attention: since 25 May 2018, a new general data protection regulation (GDPR) is applicable in the EU. Its goal? To reinforce the citizens\u2019 rights and control over their own personal data. This initiative may be a little late but it is welcomed by all, in the age of big data and massive collection of data. For companies GDPR represents a sizeable amount of work.\nDigitalisation: the role of thg?\nTechnological progress has disrupted our way of working and transformed our daily life, whether we like it or not. Your accountant and your tax adviser will not escape the massive irruption of algorithms. The switch to this new digital era will take some time but promises better analysis and more specific advice.\nDiscussion on this topic with Simon Boskin, from thg Luxembourg.\nClient and quality first\nJoseph Faymonville created his fiduciary in 1983. His goal: to provide the SME a level of consultancy and expertise similar to the ones enjoyed by large companies. 35 years later, the objective has largely been achieved. More than 150 highly qualified and experienced employees prove this every day in their relationships with the clients. Interview with the man who initiated this success story.\nTax modifications in Luxembourg\nThe 2018 budget voted by the Luxembourg parliament at the end of last year includes a series of tax measures, among them the deductibility of certain patrimonial revenues as well as certain expenses incurred by the companies. 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I'm not certain my answer persuaded anyone; the anxiety about ISIS' rapid battlefield gains, newfound ability to mass forces and strike at vulnerable locations, and acquisition of vast military hardware from retreating Iraqi soldiers was palpable.\nMosul took a heavy toll on Iraqi forces, with as many as 1,400 troops killed and more than 7,000 wounded.\n\"In the end, it took bulldozers plowing ISIS fighters under the rubble\", he recalled, using multiple different acronyms for the extremist group.\nThe town and its nearby oil refinery, Iraq's largest, were recaptured in late 2015 with air support from a US-led coalition and a host of tribal groups and militias.\nThe city is surrounded by Iraqi government troops and Shiite volunteers in the south, and Kurdish peshmerga fighters in the north. \"The morale of IS [Daesh] elements in Tal Afar is low after the liberation of Mosul\", Mohammadawi said.\nSpeaking through an interpreter, he said officials believe there are between 1,400 and 1,600 ISIL fighters in the Tal Afar area, many, foreign fighters.\nTownsend said the fight for Tal Afar will be a \"microcosm\" of Mosul, with parts easier and others equally hard. Last month, a senior Iraqi commander and former Tal Afar mayor said that between 1,500 and 2,000 militants and their families remain in the city.\nSunPower Corporation (SPWR ) have shown a high EPS growth of 11.50% in the last 5 years and has earnings decline of -146.20% yoy. 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He is currently a M.Sc. Candidate at Middle East Technical University, department of Biomedical Engineering. He is a researcher in both Biomedical and Vision groups at the National Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM). His research interests are; Clinical applications of Neuroimaging, MR safety, Interventional MRI & RF coils.\nhttp://visionumram.blogspot.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 178.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://undersoutherneyes.edpinsent.com/night-fishing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:LVWKJBCZ2QR374RLYRZ2CYPRZ2UB2TUM", "length": 4083, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "undersoutherneyes.edpinsent.com", "title": "Night Fishing: delving into the world of Korean shamanism and spirituality with an Apple iPhone 4 \u2013 Under Southern Eyes", "raw_content": "Night Fishing: delving into the world of Korean shamanism and spirituality with an Apple iPhone 4\nMarch 2, 2013 March 2, 2013 nausika Korean Films\nPark Chan-kyong, Park Chan-wook, \u201cNight Fishing / Paranmanjang\u201d (2011)\nFilmed using an Apple iPhone4, this fantasy-horror film delves into the little understood world of Korean shamanism and spirituality, and the role they still have in modern Korean society. A fisherman (Oh Kwang-rok) working in a swampy area at night (a strange time to be out fishing) throws a line out into the water and almost immediately snags a good trout. He rushes over and next thing you know, he\u2019s entangled in the line and falling on top of a drowned woman (Lee Jeong-hyeon). The woman gradually comes alive in a fairly comic scene and initially viewers think the man has choked and suffocated on all the water she threw up. The two recover and have a conversation, during which the woman starts rattling some bells on a staff (in Korean films, an indication that something isn\u2019t quite what we expect it is) and begins to wail \u2026\nThe version of the film I saw had no English-language sub-titles and was dubbed in Russian instead so I flat-out had no idea what the main characters plus the rest of the cast were talking about. However Western viewers will quickly work out that the young woman is an intermediary between the world of the living and the world of the dead. The scenes that take place in the world of the dead are filmed in black and white and those in the land of the living are in colour. A mother (Lee Yong-nyeo) and her wheelchair-bound daughter consult the young shaman as to why and how their husband / father died tragically. The shaman, after visiting the land of the dead, asks for forgiveness from the mother and child on behalf of the dead man.\nThe ceremony in which the shaman contacts the dead man and relays his message to the anxious family is marked by solemn droning music and the entire scene is intense and emotional. The bright colours heighten the drama of the ritual and actors Lee JH and Lee YN demonstrate remarkable restraint as well as almost histrionic emotion together. Lee JH in particular commands the viewer\u2019s attention with her performance in a wooden tub filled with water and immediately afterwards, when she steps out to grab the child, in a highly theatrical act of spirit possession.\nThe film can be beautiful to watch, especially in its final scenes where there is a tranquil scene shot of a blue lake with a peaceful blue sky above followed by a number of painted scenes of perhaps important historic Korean personalities and saints that perhaps reference Andrei Tarkovsky\u2019s film \u201cAndrei Rublev\u201d. True to form, Park Chan-wook includes macabre humour early on, a twist in the plot and scenes of extreme emotional outpouring. The use of an iPhone 4 for filming gives the short the appearance of cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9: there is one scene filmed from some distance showing people preparing for a ritual in the shaman ceremony and viewers are given a taste of what it might feel like to be a voyeur spying on other people\u2019s private sorrows.\nThe plot cannot sustain a length longer than 30 minutes and the fact that the twist is a major part of the film\u2019s narrative and cuts it into two nearly equal halves that mimic eastern Asian philosophical and spiritual ideas of a universe in which polar opposites, represented by the yin-yang principle, govern its structure, means that \u201cNight Fishing\u201d does not bear very many repeated viewings by the general public. The film showcases Park Chan-wook\u2019s style of fantasy film-making and directing combined with his particular interpretation of how a Korean cultural tradition still grounds modern Korean society and allows people to express their frustrations, grief and troubles in dealing with personal crises.\nFantasy Horror Korean Films\nMasters of Money (Episode 3:Marx): failing to challenge and question important economic and political issues\nSun, Sea & Satan: highly impassioned and uncompromising film exposing child abuse, political corruption and an unhealthy society", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 9694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://unityoneorg.blogspot.com/2010/03/larry-king-live-10232008.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:12Z", "digest": "sha1:D3QZ7BTBOUYRYHAYAJRMJ7B6MMIWWI6N", "length": 5633, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "unityoneorg.blogspot.com", "title": "Unity One Affirmations: Larry King Live 10/23/2008", "raw_content": "Larry King Live 10/23/2008\n(COMMERCIAL BREAK)KING: Sheriff Baca remains with us. And returning now is Jim Brown, the NFL hall of famer, who voted to stopping gang violence nationwide at his Web site, is Amer-I-Can.org.And joining us is Bo Taylor, former member of L.A.'s notorious Crips gang, now president and founder of Unity One. Unity One is what, Bo?\nBO TAYLOR, PRESIDENT, UNITY ONE: Unity One is a gang intervention and prevention organization. It's dedicated to saving lives.\nKING: Intervention means it does what?\nTAYLOR: It goes out in the middle of the streets and deals with individuals, helping them in the transition from negative to positive in their lives.\nKING: It's a proactive -- you approach them?\nTAYLOR: Definitely. Oh, yes.\nKING: Don't they kind of look at you as sort of don't bother me?\nTAYLOR: No, actually, we've been doing it for 15 years, so pretty much everybody in L.A. County knows about us.\nKING: You were a member of Crips?\nTAYLOR: I -- you know what, I want to dispel something. I was involved in a lifestyle when I was a child, a kid, something that wasn't in my best interest. And I grew up without a father in my life. So I didn't have all the tools to make the best decisions in my life as a young person. However, I did end up going into the military and got an honorable discharge, came home. And a lot of the opportunities weren't there. I started blaming the system and blaming, you know, white people and blaming this and blaming that. I hated the police. But it was my own ignorance. I never understood what taking responsibility was for myself. I don't even like to stereotype and say gang members. I say they're disenfranchised youth. They don't really have all the tools to make the right decision that\u2019s necessary in today's society, and they don't fully understand the system.\nKING: Sheriff, what do you think of that?\nBACA: Well, I think that everybody has their own explanation in their family, in their life. And I think that the tragedies are that we see that if Father Boyle were here as well, is that low self- esteem, not succeeding in school, family dysfunction with the father absent from the home, primarily, and then failure along the way.\nKING: Jim, what do you think?\nBROWN: Well, caring, Larry, it's a strange word, you know. A lot of these young men don't have anyone to care for them, no one to communicate with, no fathers. The African-American fathers are missing. I've been dealing with them since 1988. I never had a gun pulled on me, never had one put their hands on me, and I've always had my meetings at my home.\nKING: You're in a little different place.\nBROWN: I'm not big, Larry. It's not because of that.\nKING: No, but you're a sports hero.\nBROWN: Yeah, Larry, but sports heroes don't go where I go. Bo and I went to 14 gang sets two years ago to meet with them to bring about a truce on the West Side. The homicide rate is down to zip. We went together, not as big Jim Brown, but just as a concerned individual that wanted to do something in their lives. And my consistency allows me to have credibility, because I share everything with them. I don't go to the job and then go home and be with my other friends. So, you know, no fathers. You've got to have a lot of caring. I don't say love, I say caring. You've got to care about these youngsters, because they're out there by themselves.\nKING: Bo, why do feuds start? Gang wars, why?\nTAYLOR: Like I said earlier, people don't have all the tools to make the right decisions.\nKING: So what are they fighting over?\nTAYLOR: Nothing, because they don't own the territory. That's definitely, they don't own it. So -- but you know what, you find comfort like the young man said earlier, you know, Devaughn. You hang out with people who are like-minded. And when somebody else has been deprived or the door has been shut and you feel hopeless and nobody really cares, you know, it's easy to find comfort. You know, misery loves company. So it's easy. But when you're dealing with a culture that doesn't truly understand the system and has been locked out and nobody's really reached in, it's a shame in our society right now that you've got one person, you know, Jim -- I've got to say it, Jim is a surrogate father to thousands of us who really have changed their lives and wanted to make a change. But he's been consistent. And that's the thing. You've got to have somebody that's consistent and somebody that cares. But on top of that, Larry, you've got to have somebody that's going to put a system in place to teach you life management skills where you can make better decisions and live your own life and be responsible.\nKING: Well said. By the way, there is a Web site for your organization, right?\nTAYLOR: Yes. It's unityonenow.com.\nKING: Unityonenow.com. And Jim's is amer-i-can.org. How important do you think, Sheriff Baca, Jim Brown is?\nBACA: Very important. The American program is actually in the Los Angeles County jails, because, as you would expect, almost every gang member is going to hit the county jail at one point in their life. And once they get in and they're going to get released, we want them to get out with a little more survival skills. And Bo Taylor has been in there with Jim Brown, along with our good friend, Connie Rice -- she's a civil rights attorney -- and our belief is that the inmate needs to get out with some skills and be better than they were when they came in.\nKING: Bo, thanks for coming, man.\nTAYLOR: Thank you for having me.\nKING: Bo Taylor. Jim Brown will remain, so will Sheriff Baca, and Miguel Saenz and Devaughn Townshend will rejoin us. We'll be right back.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 6031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://upholdtheserights.com/PayEquity.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:D2XHAA5Z2TTHTR5UO2V52YLAMSUMHN6Y", "length": 3084, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "upholdtheserights.com", "title": "Demand Equal Pay for Equal Work", "raw_content": "PAY AND POSITION EQUITY\nView 2017 Superbowl ad from Audi--first pro-pay equity ad in history (not an endorsement of Audi!)\nUPDATE 7/5: White House gender pay gap more than triples under Trump (Washington Post).\nLEARN (and see below to Take Action): White American women receive 79.6% of the pay of men for the same job and level of experience, in every occupation; women of color even less, mothers less, older women less. Doesn\u2019t sound like a such big deal? That\u2019s $916 less PER MONTH, on average. What could you do with $916 more every month? Sadly, 82% of males don't believe a pay gap exists. And on 3/27, Trump signed an EO revoking the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Act, which ensured compliance with 14 labor and civil rights law (NBC News).\nHere is a clear, concise description of the problem, including a breakdown by state, ethnicity, age, education level. Summary: African-American women earn 70.6% of what a white man makes, Asian-American women, 94.6%, Native American women, 59%, Hispanic-American women, 60.7%, White women, 79.6%. Of these groups, Asian-American women have the highest level of educational attainment: half have a bachelor's degree (why not bachelorette\u2019s?!) or greater, and 22% hold PhDs, law degrees, MBAs or MDs.\nYou thought gender pay disparity was debunked? No. The National Committee on Pay Equity explains why: \u201cWhat gender wage gap?\u201d In fact, if American women achieved pay equity with men tomorrow, the poverty rate would be cut in half, according to a recent regression analysis of federal data by the Institute of Women\u2019s Policy Research. At the slow rate we're going now, it will take until 2059 for women to achieve pay equity with men.\n(1) Tips for women\u2019s salary negotiations.\n(2) Celebrate (or not!) Pay Equity Day on 4/4/18. That\u2019s how far into the year women must work, on average, to earn what a man in a comparable job with comparable experience earned in the previous year.\n(3) Visit the Institute for Women\u2019s Policy Research to download Building Alliances of Women: A Manual for Holding Workshops on Women\u2019s Values in your community.\n(4) In California? It's leading the way in pay equity legislation. If you\u2019re a woman in California, learn about the California Fair Pay Act, which went into effect 1/1/16, and SB 1063, The Wage Equality Act of 2016, which covers unequal pay due to race and ethnicity:\nThus, effective January 1, 2017, California employers must not pay employees a wage rate less than the rate paid to employees of a different race or ethnicity for substantially similar work\u2026.newly enacted AB 1676 will prohibit employers from using an employee\u2019s prior salary as the sole basis to justify a pay disparity.\u201d The responsibility is placed on the employer to justify any gender, race, or ethnicity disparity in pay. (Launey & Soto, California Peculiarities Employment Law Blog, 10/27/16)\n(5) In another state? Search for pay equity legislation in your state and know your rights and your employer\u2019s responsibilities before taking a job or asking for a salary increase.\nHuman Rights: Women's Rights: Reproductive Rights", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 3319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://usahockeymagazine.org/article/usa-hockey-magazine-podcast-lyndsey-fry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NSAD2YMFHRR7BNUOUOG3TMTG6ELWQ5B4", "length": 1294, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "usahockeymagazine.org", "title": "USA Hockey Magazine Podcast: Lyndsey Fry | USA Hockey Magazine", "raw_content": "Lyndsey Fry, October 4, 2018\nThis podcasts features 2014 Olympic silver medalist Lyndsey Fry of the U.S. Women's Olympic team. The Arizona native and Harvard graduate discusses the growth of girls' hockey and her girls' youth hockey program, Small Frys, in the latest episode of the USA Hockey Magazine Podcast as we celebrate Girls' Hockey Weekend.\n[0:40-1:40] On the impact of Girls' Hockey Weekend\n[1:41-5:33] On her experience playing with Team USA and the impact it had on her\n[5:34-8:07] On players that served as her role models growing up\n[8:08-10:20] On the growth of hockey in Arizona, her and Auston Matthews' impact\n[10:21-13:01] On the Gold Medal game in PyeongChang\n[13:02-16:35] On her true calling being working in youth hockey, growing the game among girls\n[16:36-20:41] On her relationship with the Arizona Coyotes\n[20:42-24:00] On the next step of development for girls' hockey in Arizona\nFor more on Lyndsey Fry, check out a feature on her Arizona-based Small Frys youth girls hockey program in our upcoming November issue.\nFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for more from USA Hockey Magazine. Stay tuned for our next podcast, which goes live on Thursday, Oct. 11.\nTags: Girls Hockey Weekend, IIHF World Girls Hockey Weekend, Girls Hockey, 2014 Olympics, Team USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://usedpowertools.net/festool-domino-df500q-240v.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ZV3U2N2EUHNA3QNF3RLYFPJR3CMKA7OL", "length": 776, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "usedpowertools.net", "title": "Festool Domino DF500Q 240V", "raw_content": "Festool Domino DF500Q 240V\nGood condition as you can see. The item \"Festool Domino DF500Q 240V\" is in sale since Sunday, October 7, 2018. This item is in the category \"Home, Furniture & DIY\\DIY Tools & Workshop Equipment\\Power Tools\\Other Power Tools\". 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If performance is judged sufficient at the next test, a certificate with the original test date will be issued along with a UTF black belt, and the student is required to add the black ribbon around the lower edges of the uniform jacket. If sufficient improvement is not displayed, the student can be dropped back to black-stripe ranking, or given another six-month Conditional period. The judges have given them an opportunity; it is up to them to finish the step.\nA \u201cRetest\u201d means that performance in one, or more, areas of the test was judged not to be sufficiently proficient for the level being tested for. The area, or areas, can be performed again at the next scheduled Black Belt Test, until which the student will wear the belt they wore coming into the test. If the student demonstrates sufficient skills at this next test a UTF black belt and a UTF certificate with the successful test date will be issued. 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This resulted in the delivery of products of a level of quality far exceeding standards and expectations.\u201d\n\u201cThe performance was at an extremely high level. Whether we needed analysis or evaluation performed, the work was always of high caliber, demonstrating a thorough knowledge of the technical areas involved, but also a solid relationship and ability to partner with key stakeholders in order to better inform the end product.\u201d\n\u201cWhenever we had a requirement \u2013 even on a short-turn basis \u2013 the response was positive. In a project with constantly evolving requirements such as the defense exportability features project such responsiveness was a real boon.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://viagragroupresult.com/psyho/tickets-to-the-museums-of-greece-can-now-be-purchased-online.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:05Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7IRXDBMJIMBFLAGV3QJXVIOEYT5FMPE", "length": 1237, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "viagragroupresult.com", "title": "Tickets to the museums of Greece can now be purchased online | Healthy Info \u2013 Medical portal | News of medicine, articles about health and treatment", "raw_content": "Greece has launched the official website to buy electronic tickets to the most famous museums and other tourist attractions of the country. How to...\nGreece has launched the official website to buy electronic tickets to the most famous museums and other tourist attractions of the country.\nHow to write Greek Travel Pages with reference to the Ministry of culture and sports of Greece, visitors of archaeological monuments, sites and museums in Athens, Crete and the Peloponnese can now purchase tickets online using the service of etickets.tap.gr reports the Chronicle.info with reference on the Master tour.\nThis portal allows you to pay a visit to the Acropolis and archaeological sites of the historical centre of Athens, the archaeological area of Knossos, Heraklion archaeological Museum, archaeological area and Museum of the ancient city of Messini.\nIt is noted that the number of cultural sites, tickets for which can be purchased on the website, will gradually increase.\nHowever, the Ministry official warns that tickets should be purchased only at the new online platform or in the official banks. Group can do it through a licensed travel Agency.\nCheck out these Korean online shopping and start to shop!\nwww.allthatsales.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://victorian-era.org/victorian-era-womens-costumes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:06Z", "digest": "sha1:D6QSY5WVTGII5W44T3GY2ZVINOTR6QBV", "length": 2204, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "victorian-era.org", "title": "Victorian Era Women's Costume Designs", "raw_content": "The women\u2019s costumes underwent radical changes in the Victorian era. The dresses worn by women in the early Victorian period showed resemblance to those worn by women in the Georgian age. Etiquette was an important factor in Victorian clothing.\nIn the mid-1800s, women basically wore corsets, balloonish sleeves, and crinolines. These crinolines flourished during the 1850s and 1860s. The bustle became popular in the 1870s. In the early years of the Victorian era, the rich families often went to London to purchase the latest fashions.\nVictorian era women\u2019s dresses\nThe women used to wear dresses with big padded shoulders to show off their class and poise. These dresses had a long or a short sleeve depending upon the season.\nDuring the Victorian period, women would completely cover their legs by wearing black stockings. In the later years, pants replaced the items that were used earlier.\nChanges in fashion during Victorian era\nThe women\u2019s fashion changed rapidly during the Victorian times. The skirts which had a straight fitting were now spread over large hoops. However, during the last few years of the era, hoop lost its hold and was immediately replaced by skimmer skirts.\nThere was also a change in the sleeves of the dresses. The sleeves changed from slim to leg o mutton sleeves at the end of Victorian times. The corset was also an essential element in the women\u2019s outfit and the purpose of this corset never changed.\nFor a woman to be able to wear a Victorian outfit, she had to have a cinched- in the waist. The Victorian women had some liberty in respect of the evening. For evening apparel, women could bear the shoulders and upper part of the chest. This was the case of upper and middle-class women. Shawls also formed a part of the Victorian costume.\nSatin, silk and heavy velvet materials were generally worn by the older generation women. Young women chose to wear lighter material. The dresses bought by the middle-class women were later on used to make clothes for the children.\nMore information on Victorian costumes and fashion:\nVictorian Children\u2019s Costumes\nVictorian Era Jewellery\nVictorian Era Men\u2019s Fashion. How to look like a Victorian Lady? Check out Victorian Looks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vinoinlove.com/wine-guide-abruzzo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:28Z", "digest": "sha1:UAZ5HO6LCO4R3NNUQWVBSO4WHF5EN3PZ", "length": 3094, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "vinoinlove.com", "title": "Wine Guide: Abruzzo \u2013 Vino in Love", "raw_content": "By Julian Rossello October 13, 2012 6 commentsItalyAbruzzo, Education, food, Guide, Italy, Montepulciano, restaurant, Reviews, Travelling, wine\nThe Southern-Western Italian region Abruzzo covers the Apennines mountains while still bordering the Mediterranean See. Its geographic region has a huge impact on the local climate which greatly effects the wine Abruzzo wine production.\nAbruzzo is a large grape producer but a large portion of the produced wine gets shipped to France and Northern Italy. Often French wines lack complexity, especially after a bad harvest and therefore they get blended with Southern Italian wine (mostly from Abruzzo and in earlier decades also from Puglia).\nThe region has one DOCG wine and four DOCs. Wine from Abruzzo tends to be rather unknown and hard to find outside of Italy \u2013 the only exception to that is the Montepulciano d\u2019Abruzzo DOC.\nImportant grapes: Montepulciano (red), Pecorino (white), Trebbiano (white)\nDon\u2019t confuse the Montepulciano grape with the famous Tuscan town Montepulciano. Vino Nobile di Montepulciano is from Tuscany and is mainly made from Sangiovese grapes. Montepulciano d\u2019Abruzzo is from Abruzzo and produced from Montepulciano grapes.\nImportant red wines: Below you find a list of Abruzzo red wines. Certain wines will have a hyperlink which will bring to a wine review.\nProduced in the province of Teramo. Allowed grapes: Montepulciano (at least 90%), Sangiovese (0-10%)\nCan be produced in all four Abruzzo region (Chieti, L\u2019Aquila, Pescara and Teramo). Has to be produced with at least 85% Montepulciano grapes. The other 15% can be any red grape grown in Abruzzo. In most cases Montepulciano d\u2019Abruzzo is made from 100% Montepulciano grapes.\n2005 Agriverde \u2013 Plateo \u2013 Montepulciano d\u2019Abruzzo DOC \u2013 In my opinion the best Montepulciano d\u2019Abruzzo.\nCan be produced in all four Abruzzo region. Grapes permitted: Trebbiano 100%\nAs mentioned above the Pecorino grape is planted in Abruzzo, too. It is mostly found in IGT Abruzzo blends. An example of a Pecorino IGT Abruzzo would be this wine: 2011 Il Feuduccio \u2013 Pecorino \u2013 IGT Abruzzo\nAbruzzo exports a lot of wine to France and Northern Italy which is used in blend with the local wines.\nMontepulciano d\u2019Abruzzo is the most famous wine of the region\nMontepulciano d\u2019Abruzzo \u2260 Vino Nobile di Montepulciano.\nThe first wine is named after the grape Montepulciano; the second one has its name from the Tuscan town Montepulciano.\nFor more guides and information on Italian wine visit this site\n6 comments on \u201cWine Guide: Abruzzo\u201d\nRavi Joshi\t October 13, 2012\t Reply\nI like you blog for lots of information in jest a few words that makes it possible to read it in no time! Particularly the summarising part at the end of blogposts reinforces the knowledge. My appreciation!\nThank you Ravi Joshi! It makes me happy that you enjoy my blog \ud83d\ude42\nI love these region-specific guides!\nMartin Charlebois\t October 13, 2013\t Reply\nVery nice but the region is on the Adriatic sea not the Med.\nThe Adriatic sea is part of the Mediterranean Sea. It forms the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vplants.org/portal/taxa/index.php?taxon=89066&cl=VPlants", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:46Z", "digest": "sha1:L35AYJFVWZRWSYKFTFJAOCQL4YMG74LO", "length": 188, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "vplants.org", "title": "vPlants - Lespedeza frutescens", "raw_content": "Lespedeza frutescens (L.) Hornem.\nShrubby Bush-Clover, more..., shrubby lespedeza, shrubby lespedeza\nInfrequent in dry soil in white oak and black and white oak woods throughout the state.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 156.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://waders.org.au/watching-waders/birdwatching-equipment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:IPJHICONDQBHRRVJLGU56U6QXFKO3ARO", "length": 4717, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "waders.org.au", "title": "Queensland Wader Study Group :: Shorebird research and conservation in Queensland, Australia", "raw_content": "Birdwatching Equipment\nWaders coming into roost \u00a9 2010 Peter Rothlisberg\nBinoculars are one of the first items to be placed in the birding kit bag and 8\u00d740 or 10\u00d750 models are popular choices. The first number refers to the power of magnification and the second, the diameter, in millimetres, of the objective lens. The objective lens is the lens through which light first enters the binoculars. Buying binoculars is a trade-off. Higher magnification binoculars obviously provide a closer view of the bird but are larger, heavier and generally more expensive than their lower magnification counterparts. Weight can become an important consideration after a long day\u2019s walking and vibrations from an unsteady hand are also accentuated at higher magnification. Lower magnification binoculars provide a broader field of view and often, but not always, closer focussing. One last consideration when buying binoculars is the ratio of objective lens diameter to magnification, also called the exit pupil. The greater the ratio, the more light that reaches your eye and the brighter the image is. A ratio of five (e.g. 50/10) is considered optimal, although under all but the dimmest conditions, any ratio above four is adequate, especially in the open spaces of the coast.\nBinoculars are often not powerful enough to identify a distant wader. To get the most enjoyment out of wader watching, a quality spotting scope mounted on a tripod is essential. With a spotting scope, you can pick up the length or shape of a bill or other diagnostic features necessary to enable a positive identification. A spotting scope will also let you fully appreciate the subtlety of a bird\u2019s plumage. A sturdy tripod is essential, as vibration from the wind is very noticeable at high magnification.\nEyepieces for most models of spotting scope can be purchased separately from the body of the scope. Eyepieces are either fixed magnification or zoom. Popular choices with a fixed magnification are 15\u00d7, 20\u00d7, 25\u00d7 and 30\u00d7, some of which are available in wide angle. The most popular zoom eyepieces are 15-40\u00d7 and 20-60\u00d7. Zoom eyepieces give flexibility but with the cheaper brands, a loss in clarity when compared with fixed magnification eyepieces. This loss in clarity is insignificant with more expensive brands. You will find that viewing at very high magnification has its limitations, especially when there is heat haze or it is breezy, causing vibration. With most brands of spotting scope, alternative versions of a particular model are available that have the eyepiece either offset at an angle of 45\u00ba or directly in line with the body of the scope. Use of an offset eyepiece does take a little time to get used to but does allow the user to stand up straighter when viewing a bird in a tree and it is easier to sketch from. Furthermore, if use of the scope is shared, a taller person does not need to stoop as much to view through an offset eyepiece.\nOne last consideration when purchasing a spotting scope is the problem of chromatic aberration. When light passes through a lens, the different wavelengths of light bend at different angles causing the red light to focus on a different plane to that of the blue light. Chromatic aberration results in slightly poorer image quality and a purple fringe around high contrast images. Several strategies are used by the manufacturer to overcome chromatic aberration including application of various coatings such as fluorite to the objective lens and use of low dispersion glass (sometimes referred to as ED glass). Whether the improvement in image quality associated with the use of low dispersion glass merits the significant hike in price of the scope is up to one\u2019s personal judgement.\nBefore making your purchase, make sure you do lots of research. Birding magazines regularly publish reviews of optical equipment and good information can be found on the Internet. Discuss the various makes and models with other bird watchers and try them out in the field in different conditions. When purchasing, test the equipment through the window of the store and if possible, also outside the store.\nAfter optical equipment, one of the most important items you need is a field guide. There are several good general field guides for Australian birds. Talk to other bird watchers about their favoured field guide. For those wanting a specialist field guide, Shorebirds: an identification guide to the waders of the world, by P. Hayman, J. Marchant and T. Prater, is the most comprehensive, covering every wader species in the world including the different plumages. 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I was a bit surprised to find that their national flower is the lily of the valley and the bird the swan. So that's what I went for.\nLovely peaceful subjects with a cooling effect! 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While healing, patients should sit on ring-shaped pillows to avoid putting additional pressure on it and should practice therapeutic exercises which strengthen their pelvic floor.\nDr. Anthony J. Oberti Nampa ID pinched nerve sports injuries tailbone Whole Health Chiropractic", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wor.org/book/3928/removing-the-presence-of-sin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZA6WPGYVKIH6DVCCRDEWZKR53C4X3NKF", "length": 36324, "nlines": 147, "source_domain": "wor.org", "title": "Removing the Presence of Sin", "raw_content": "REMOVING THE PRESENCE OF SIN\nSin is a law or a spirit that can exist at a place. Paul spoke of a law of sin at work in the members of his body. Paul exclaimed that in his mind he was in slavery to God but in his flesh he was in slavery to the law of sin. Since the chemical constituents of the physical body are morally neutral, sin must be regarded as something foreign that can be removed.\nThe Lamb of God has come in order to take away the sin of the world. He does this by forgiving the guilt, then giving the believer the ability to subdue it, and finally by removing its very presence.\nForgiving the Guilt of Sin\nA Move Forward in the Kingdom of God\nInternal Conquest and External Conquest\nWhat Does the Scripture Say About Removing the Sins of Christians?\nThe Roles of Hearing, Faith, and Patience\nWe Have God\u2019s Promise that He Eventually Will Crush Satan under our Feet\nThe Lamb of God has come in order to take away the sin of the world. He does this by forgiving the guilt, then by giving the believer the ability to subdue it, and finally by removing its very presence.\nIt is difficult even to imagine a world without the presence of sin. Yet God is going to make an end of unrighteousness.\nSeventy \u201csevens\u201d are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy. (Daniel 9:24\u2014NIV)\n\u201cTo put an end to sin.\u201d Hallelujah!\nGod is beginning with the victorious saints the work of putting an end to sin. From them the deliverance will spread to the remainder of the elect, the new Jerusalem. Finally all the creation shall be freed from sin and shall be in subjection to the Lord Jesus. Then the Lord will turn over the Kingdom to the Father, to Him who brought all in subjection to Jesus.\nAt present Jesus is waiting until every enemy has been made His footstool.\nThere appears to be confusion in Christian thinking concerning the guilt of sin and the urge to sin. When the Bible speaks of Christ taking away our sin we usually think of Christ forgiving our sin rather than taking away the urge to sin, the slavery to sin, the bondage of sin. In this essay we will attempt to rigorously hold apart these entirely different elements.\nBecause by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. (Hebrews 10:14\u2014NIV)\nHe is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. (I John 2:2\u2014NIV)\nThat the Lord Jesus has made an atonement whereby the sins of people can be forgiven has been preached throughout the world. The sacrifice has been completed. Whoever will choose to do so may come to God in Jesus\u2019 name, resolve to turn away from his sinful, worldly behavior, be baptized in water, and receive forgiveness for all his sins.\nIt is God\u2019s will that the individual\u2019s sins be forgiven continually as he walks in the light of God\u2019s will. If he should slip, he is to confess his sin and resolve that it shall never happen again. God will then forgive his sin and cleanse or purify him from all unrighteousness.\nIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. (I John 1:9\u2014NIV)\nWhether \u201cpurify us from all unrighteousness\u201d means totally forgive our sinful behavior or whether it suggests the further step of cleansing our personality of the presence of sin is not clear. Experience tells us that a forthright confession of a particular sinful behavior brings a forgiveness and a cleansing of conscience that we sometimes can even feel. Also, we seem to gain the upper hand over the sin and with some determination we can overcome it from that point forward.\nIt is not always true however that the presence of the tendency toward that sinful behavior is removed totally. We have to be on our guard that we do not fall into it again.\nSpeaking from some fifty years of experience with moral deliverance we can testify that some moral bondages, upon being confessed, seem to leave with such clarity and force that even the urge is almost totally banished. Certainly the fiery strength of the sin has been quenched. In other instances a guard has to be posted continually to make certain this particular snake does not rear its head again. Perhaps the difference in the degree of deliverance depends on the individual personality, or on other frailties that have not surfaced as yet.\nAs we said before, we must keep a clear distinction in our mind between forgiving the guilt of our sin and removing the compulsion to sin. Otherwise we cannot possibly think clearly about what takes place under the new covenant.\nIt seems to me that at the present time, in Christian teaching in America, the teaching that Jesus takes away our sin almost always refers to the forgiving of our sin. The removal of the urge to sin or the presence of sin seems to be relegated to another age. Someone said \u201cAfter we are raptured God will remove our sin.\u201d I would like to know the Bible basis for this statement!\n\u201cSee, I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,\u201d says the LORD Almighty. But who can endure the day of his coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner\u2019s fire or a launderer\u2019s soap. He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; he will purify the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then the LORD will have men who will bring offerings in righteousness, (Malachi 3:1-3\u2014NIV)\nI think the passage above has to do with the day in which we are living. It is an example of some of the statements found in the Scriptures that are hard to understand or place until they happen. It is difficult to know in advance what is being referred to. But I believe the event set forth in Malachi is occurring today and we actually are in a specific move forward in the Kingdom of God.\nAccording to Malachi, the day will arrive when the Lord suddenly comes to His temple, not to the world but to His temple. When He appears He will purify those who have been set aside to serve Him. The result will be servants who come before the Lord in righteous behavior.\nWell, Peter tells us we are the holy nation, the royal priesthood. We know the eternal Temple of God is the Christian Church. It seems to me the Lord has come to us today to cleanse us from the sin that keeps us in slavery.\nThe passages in the New Testament that inform us we are not to continue in the sins of the flesh, and that if we do we will not inherit the Kingdom of God, have always been in the text. Also the exhortation to not permit sin to have mastery over us has always been in the sixth chapter of the Book of Romans. But for whatever reason we have not been able to grasp these warnings and exhortations.\nNow the veil is being lifted. Now God is highlighting the passages He wants emphasized in our day.\nWe have been at Pentecost, so to speak, throughout the present century. The observance that comes after the feast of Pentecost is the Blowing of Trumpets\u2014Rosh Hashanah of the Jews. The Blowing of Trumpets is New Year\u2019s day in the Jewish calendar, the beginning of the year of kings and contracts.\nThe spiritual significance of the Blowing of Trumpets is that it represents the entrance of the Kingdom of God into the earth. The Lord Jesus said, \u201cIf I with the finger of God cast out devils then the Kingdom of God has come to you.\u201d\nNow consider: before the Lord Jesus came, no prophet is recorded as having cast out devils. The Hebrew prophets healed afflictions but did not cast out devils as such.\nThe moment Jesus came He began to cast out devils, for the Kingdom of God comes by the casting out of devils.\nYet the Lord, when reading from Isaiah, closed the scroll just before the expression \u201cthe day of vengeance of our God.\u201d Therefore although the Lord cast out numerous demons of blindness and deafness He never once cast out a demon of moral bondage, such as lying or gossiping. The time had not come for God\u2019s vengeance on moral bondage.\nI think the day of vengeance of our God has begun, and it has commenced with God\u2019s judgment on the evil forces dwelling in the flesh of those believers who fervently are seeking the Lord. These sources of bondage have been present and sometimes active in us, but God has not called them to our attention while we were pursuing other aspects of our discipleship. The blood of Jesus has kept us without condemnation in God\u2019s sight. Now the Lord is ready to judge them. He is pointing them out to us. We are to confess our sins and turn away from them with His help.\nPlease keep in mind that this is not a judgment on us as a person but on the sin that dwells in us. God is beginning the destruction of His enemy, and the judgment and destruction must commence in the house of God.\nYou may have been a Christian for many years. Now you suddenly have become aware of sin in your life. The Lord suddenly has come to His temple and is ready to deliver you from slavery to sin.\nThe best way to prove what I am saying, after it seems to you like it might be in the Bible, is to try it to see if it works. When the Spirit of God brings a sin in your life to your attention, get down before the Lord and confess the sin to Him. Tell God exactly what you have done. Describe the behavior and name it as clearly as you can. Then see if it does not leave. See if confessing it clearly does not make a difference in the hold it has maintained over you. If you like, get a fellow Christian to hear your confession and pray with you. Then you will know whether or not I am telling you the truth.\nI think we are in a new day when it comes to deliverance from slavery to sin! I think we are on the threshold of Canaan, ready to enter and take possession of the land of resurrection life.\nIn the above passage we see that Christ was sacrificed to take away the sins of many people, not just to forgive the sins but to take them away. His appearance the second time is to bring salvation. It is possible that the taking away of sin requires two actions. First, the forgiveness of the sins. This was completed by the blood sacrifice made on the cross of Calvary. The second, which will be fulfilled at the appearing of Christ, is salvation in the sense of removing sin.\nThe question is, when the Bible says \u201che will appear a second time\u201d is it referring to the worldwide second coming of the Lord or another appearing? Since the Book of Revelation states plainly that when Christ returns at His second coming every eye will see Him, and the verse above says He will appear to bring salvation to those who are waiting for Him, our opinion is that the coming mentioned here is not referring to the great second coming of the Lord to set up His Kingdom on the earth but to the coming mentioned in Malachi, the coming to cleanse the Lord\u2019s servants.\nThe idea of a coming to cleanse the priesthood prior to the coming to establish His Kingdom is supported by logic and also by the Scripture.\nThe concept of a pre-advent appearing is supported by logic. When Christ appears to the world to set up His Kingdom He will be surrounded by His saints who are coheirs with Him of the nations and the farthest reaches of the earth. It is not possible that Christ will come with His saints until the enemy in their personalities has been driven from them. The Christians absolutely must be cleansed before they can descend with the Lord.\nThe concept of a pre-advent appearing to His people is supported by the Scriptures. Notice carefully:\nOn that day you will realize I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I am in you. Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him.\u201d Then Judas (not Judas Iscariot) said, \u201cBut, Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to the world?\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cIf anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. (John 14:20-23\u2014NIV)\n\u201cAnd show myself to him.\u201d \u201cShow yourself to us and not to the world.\u201d \u201cWe will come to him.\u201d\nI think this fits the expression, \u201che will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.\u201d\nIt is my opinion that the coming of Christ mentioned here is the spiritual fulfillment of the Blowing of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the feast of Tabernacles, the three observances that follow the feast of Pentecost.\nThe Blowing of Trumpets signifies Christ will come as a warrior, sounding the trumpet of battle. He will declare judgment and war against the sin that dwells in our flesh. I think this is why so many of the recent choruses are emphasizing spiritual warfare.\nThe Day of Atonement signifies Christ will come to reconcile God\u2019s people to God in the area of worldliness, the lusts of the flesh, and self-will. We have been reconciled to God legally by the blood of the cross. But to claim the Christian believers in America have been reconciled to God in the area of love for the world, the lusts and passions of the flesh, and self-will, personal ambition, and disobedience to God\u2019s Spirit, is to deny what is apparent even to people of the world.\nIt is worthy of note that when David Brainerd went to the Indians to evangelize them, one of the first obstacles placed before him was the low opinion held by the Indians of the \u201cChristians\u201d who had stolen their land and sold them whiskey. These Christians may have been reconciled to God legally by the blood of the cross but it is certain the Indians were not persuaded the \u201cworshipers of Christ\u201d had been reconciled to God in reality.\nIs this true today in America?\nThe feast of Tabernacles signifies Christ will come to the believer with the Father. They will make Their eternal home in him or her.\nWar and judgment against the enemy, reconciliation to God in every aspect and element of our personality, and the indwelling of the fullness of the Godhead are necessary if sin is finally, utterly, and eternally to be removed from us. This is a wonderful prospect, isn\u2019t it?\nWhoever claims to live in him must walk as Jesus did. (I John 2:6\u2014NIV)\nTo him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations\u2014He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery\u2014just as I have received authority from my Father. (Revelation 2:26,27\u2014NIV)\nOne may notice that the first verse (above) has to do with our personal walk in Christ, that is, with the internal conquest of our personality. The second has more to do with external conquest.\nBefore the Jews were directed to cross the Jordan River and conquer the Canaanites, the external enemy, they first had to suffer many experiences at the hand of God in order to conquer their own personality.\nSo it is with us Christians. We have been told that one day we will govern with Christ the nations of the earth. But it is obvious before we govern the world with Christ we first will have to learn to govern our own personality. Would you agree with this?\nThe common understanding among Christians is that we will change from imputed righteousness to actual righteousness when we die and go to Heaven or when the Lord returns. (Some may believe we never will be righteous except by imputation. We always will be sinners who are seen through Christ.) There is no scriptural basis for the concept that the Kingdom of God consists only of imputed (ascribed) righteousness.\nOur transformation from the adamic nature into a life-giving spirit cannot occur by virtue of death; cannot occur by virtue of the fact we are in Heaven (after all, sin began in Heaven around the very Throne of God); cannot occur as an instantaneous act when the Lord appears.\nCannot occur by virtue of death. Death is our enemy, not our redeemer. Our sin is spiritual in nature and will not stay with our body in the ground. It has to be dealt with somewhere. There is no scriptural basis whatever for believing death will cause us to become a new creation of righteous, holy behavior.\nCannot occur just because we are in Heaven. The mere fact of existence in the spirit realm will not cause us to become a new creation of righteous, holy behavior. There is no scriptural basis for the concept that when we arrive in Heaven we will automatically be delivered from sin. Dying and going to Heaven does not solve the problem of the sinning Christian, rather it intensifies the problem. It is appointed to men once to die and after this the judgment.\nOur transformation cannot occur at the time the Lord appears from Heaven. We must be ready to appear with Him. There is no scriptural or logical basis for the commonly held concept that Christ will transform us instantaneously at His appearing.\nThe coming of the Lord will not change what we are, it will reveal what we have become during our lifetime on the earth.\nConsider: when the Lord appeared He did not transform the foolish virgins. Rather He denied them entrance into His Presence.\nConsider: when the Lord appeared He did not transform the servant who had buried the talent given to Him. Rather Christ took away the talent from His servant and sent him into the outer darkness.\nUnless we are willing to continue with the current Christian mythic vision of a bubble of abstract grace that surrounds Gentile believers, a totally unscriptural vision, we are faced with the fact that at some point and in some manner the Lord must undertake to deliver His people from their sins, and then transform them by being formed in them and then coming to dwell in that which has been formed in them.\nFor sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14\u2014NIV)\nNow, in light of the other verses in the sixth chapter of the Book of Romans, precisely what does the above statement mean\u2014\u201csin shall not be your master\u201d?\nWe know the Lord said, \u201cWhoever practices sin is the slave of sin.\u201d How do we escape slavery to sin?\nIt is implied in the above verse that if we were under the Law of Moses sin would be our master. Why is this? It is because the Law of Moses points out the sin in our life but it does not provide a method of deliverance from slavery to the sin.\nThe other implication is that because we are under grace sin shall not master us; sin cannot keep us in bondage.\nNow, how does grace set about to deliver us from the bondage of sin?\nNew-covenant grace forgives us on the basis of the blood atonement made by the Lord on the cross of Calvary. Now we have a clear conscience and can serve God without being under condemnation.\nNew-covenant grace enables us to be born again. Being born again means Christ has been conceived in us. As Christ continues to be formed in us by the many experiences through which the Spirit brings us, by the body and blood of Christ that are fed to us as we choose to turn away from the desires of our adamic nature and adopt the way of righteousness, and through the various gifts and ministries of the Holy Spirit as they bring the Divine Nature, power, and wisdom to us, there is an inward transformation\u2014a change from the ungodly adamic nature to the Nature of Christ.\nWhen we pray and avail ourselves of the grace of God we are able to keep the commandments of Christ and His Apostles.\nThe Holy Spirit provides us with wisdom and strength so we can add to our faith goodness, knowledge, self-control, perseverance, and godliness.\nAs we follow the Spirit of God He will enable us to put to death the sinful actions of our body.\nBy all these means and more the Divine grace given to us under the new covenant breaks the hold of the devil on us. Sin shall not have mastery over us because we are not under the Law of Moses but under new-covenant grace. The Law of new-covenant grace is the Holy Spirit Himself. The Spirit is our Law and as we follow Him each day He breaks the chains of sin that bind us and make us slaves.\nAs Paul says, we do not owe it to our flesh that we should fulfill its desires. Our body is dead because of sin. But the righteousness of God is living in our inward nature if we are obeying the Spirit. As many as are led by the Spirit are putting to death the deeds of their body and growing in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. These are the true sons of God. The remainder are only churchgoers. They are not participating in the program of removal of sin and they will not appear with Christ at the time of the first resurrection from the dead.\nConsequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ. (Romans 10:17\u2014NIV)\nWe do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised. (Hebrews 6:12\u2014NIV)\nThere are many Divine promises found in the New Testament: the promise of salvation; the promise of Divine healing; the promise of tongues and the other gifts of the Spirit; the promise of deliverance from slavery to sin.\nAll of the Divine promises are fulfilled in the same manner:\nWe have to hear the message or read the promise in the Bible. We have to know God gave the promise.\nAfter we realize this is what God has promised, we have to accept the fulfillment by faith. We then have hope based on our conviction that what God has stated is true.\nOnce we have set our conviction and hope toward the fulfillment of the promise we must wait patiently for God to honor His Word.\nHearing, faith, and patience. This is how we are saved, healed, how we speak in tongues and minister, and how we are delivered from slavery to sin.\nThe question then becomes, does the new covenant promise the removal of the presence of sin from us? What does the New Testament say about this?\nFirst, the New Testament promises us that we can gain the upper hand over sin. We can be an overcomer, a victorious saint. All the promises we associate with salvation are designated for the believer who through Christ gains the victory over sin.\nSo I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. (Galatians 5:16\u2014NIV)\nThrough the Spirit of God we are enabled to put to death the deeds of our body that proceed from the sinful nature. If we live by the Spirit of God instead of according to our fleshly life, if we pray each day, meditate in God\u2019s Word, deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Jesus, present our body a living sacrifice, assemble with fervent saints, covet the gifts of the Spirit, and do all else we have been commanded, we will not be compelled to gratify the desires of our sinful nature.\nSecond, the New Testament promises us the ultimate removal of sin. If we have been faithful in the lesser, that is, if we have pursued the life of the Spirit of God in overcoming the sinful desires of our flesh, then the Lord finally will bring the greater salvation to us, meaning He will remove the presence of sin from us.\nDay after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, Because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. (Hebrews 10:11-14\u2014NIV)\nJesus made one sacrifice for sins. Thereby He has made perfect forever those who are being made holy (not those how just take \u201cthe four steps of salvation\u201d and then live their life as before).\nNow think. Have we actually been made perfect? Yes, and No. Yes in the timeless vision of God in which we also have been glorified. No in the actual state of our personality.\nBut what has God said? Christ is waiting for His enemies to be made His footstool. Where will they first be made His footstool if not in those closest to Him?\nAt what point will God crush under our feet His enemies that are in us? Not at His coming (except for our human enemies in the world) or after His coming but at some point before His coming. Otherwise there would be tremendous spiritual confusion at the coming of the Lord. He could not descend with His saints and judge the wicked if the saints themselves, the members of His army of judges, had wickedness in them.\nThe current teaching of the pre-tribulation \u201crapture\u201d is completely misleading. Would Christ come and carry up to Himself the present Christian churches in which lust, hatred, and slander abound? It cannot happen. The Bible says throughout the Gospels that when the King returns He will reward His servants according to their behavior, separating the righteous from the wicked. The Bible does not say when He returns He will transform the moral nature of His servants, but judge them and give rewards or punishments to them according to their deeds.\n\u201cBehold, I am coming soon! My reward is with me, and I will give to everyone according to what he has done. (Revelation 22:12\u2014NIV)\nThere is not one verse in the entire New Testament that so much as suggests when the Lord returns to establish His Kingdom, at the time of the resurrection from the dead, He will receive to Himself believers who have been forgiven through imputed righteousness but who never have been transformed through the operations of new-covenant grace.\nNo aspect of salvation occurs through a sudden, sovereign action of God that operates independently of our behavior.\nThe Divine redemption is portrayed in the seven feasts of the Lord, as well as in the other three major types of salvation\u2014the Tabernacle of the Congregation, the journey of Israel from Egypt to Canaan, and the six days of creation and the seventh day of rest.\nThe first feast, Passover, a type of initial salvation, was instituted by the Lord and then had to be carried out by the obedience and faith of the Israelites.\nThe second feast, Unleavened Bread, a type of repentance, was instituted by the Lord and then had to be carried out by the obedience and faith of the Israelites.\nThe third feast, Firstfruits, a type of the born-again experience, our entrance into the resurrection life of Christ, was instituted by the Lord and then had to be carried out by the obedience and faith of the Israelites.\nThe fourth feast, Pentecost, a type of the work of the Spirit in the Church, was instituted by the Lord and then had to be carried out by the obedience and faith of the Israelites.\nThe fifth feast, the Blowing of Trumpets, a type of the Lord of Hosts coming to declare war against His enemies, was instituted by the Lord and then had to be carried out by the obedience and faith of the Israelites.\nThe sixth feast, the Day of Atonement, a type of the two aspects of the removing of sins from God\u2019s elect, first by forgiveness and then by the actual removing of the sin-laden scapegoat from the camp, was instituted by the Lord and then had to be carried out by the obedience and faith of the Israelites.\nThe seventh feast, the feast of Tabernacles, a type of the Father and the Son making Their eternal resting place in us, was instituted by the Lord and then had to be carried out by the obedience and faith of the Israelites.\nChrist has performed His part of the Day of Atonement by shedding His blood for our sins and then by descending into Hell, carrying our sins upon Himself. In so doing Christ completely destroyed the authority of Satan over us.\nYet, the enemies of Christ abound in the Christian churches. It is obvious the presence of sin has never been removed from us.\nHow, then, are we to gain the full benefit of the Day of Atonement? The three areas of sin in us are the love of the world, the passions of the flesh and soul, and self-will.\nWe put the love of the world to death by asking God\u2019s help as we choose to present our body a living sacrifice, not being conformed to the ways of the world but being transformed by the renewing of our mind.\nWe put the sins of our flesh and soul to death by confessing them, receiving the forgiveness and cleansing, and then drawing near to God and resisting the devil.\nWe put our self-will to death by remaining patiently in the prison where God permits Satan to place us and not attempting to break out. Sometimes these confining situations in which our most fervent desires are set aside last for many years\u2014long enough to destroy our self-will and perfect our obedience to Christ.\nSuch reconciliation to God in these three areas operates as we through faith and patience wait in hope for the removal of sin from us.\nWe have God\u2019s promise that He eventually will crush Satan under our feet.\nThe God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you. (Romans 16:20\u2014NIV)\nThe above verse signals the final removal of the presence of sin from us.\nBut what about the believers who do not grasp the promises by faith; who do not gain victory over the world; who do not bring the lusts of their body and soul under subjection; who do not remain in the confining situation where they have been placed, choosing instead to save their life on their own terms. What does the New Testament state concerning them (and there are numerous such today)?\nThe New Testament states with utmost clarity that they will reap what they are sowing. The iron Kingdom law of cause and effect governs them. Paul says those who live according to the flesh, not coming under the discipline of the law of the new covenant, which is the Holy Spirit Himself, will reap corruption. Paul warns they will not inherit the Kingdom of God. The Lord Jesus informs us that the foolish virgins will be denied entrance to the Kingdom; the servant who buried his talent will be sent to the outer darkness.\nThe Lord Jesus warns us also that at the end of the age the messengers of God will first gather out of His Kingdom the things that offend. After that those who offend will be cast into the fire. I believe the messengers already have come and are beginning to remove from Christ\u2019s Kingdom, from those who will cooperate, the things that offend. Those who do not cooperate, who choose to remain associated with the works of Satan, will be thrown into the fires of Divine judgment. God will not permit sin to remain in His Presence!\nThere is no scriptural evidence whatever that at the coming of the Lord the lukewarm, disobedient Gentiles of Christianity will be carried up to Heaven in a rapture. There is an abundance of scriptural evidence that those who are lukewarm will suffer punishment, or worse!\nThe good news is that there is a promise of the ultimate removal of the presence of sin from those who have been faithful to God, who have exercised the patience necessary if one is to inherit the blessings described in the Word of God.\nI have been reading recently about David Brainerd and the spiritual awakenings that were taking place in his day. As I thought about what I was reading I could see that periodically the Christian churches go through the coldness and apostasy that are present today. The Puritan preachers of that time would not settle for a quick, easy acceptance of Christ. There had to be a moral transformation demonstrated by changed behavior before they would accept that an individual had been saved.\nI could see also that some of our Pentecostal antics are not characteristic of the genuine moves of God of previous times. The wild displays of emotionalism we witness today are just that and should not be mistaken for a genuine Heaven-sent revival.\nThe awakenings of time past accompanied solid expository sermons based on the competent exegeses of the Puritan ministers who were fluent in the Hebrew and Greek languages. In the midst of such scholarly preaching the Holy Spirit fell and people were in an agony because of the conviction of sin they were experiencing. In some instances the conviction reached out into the surrounding areas. It was not a phenomenon worked up in a church meeting.\nIt was in this milieu that Brainerd brought to the Indians the Calvinistic concepts of redemption held by himself and Jonathan Edwards, and then God sent His Spirit and the Indians came under the intense conviction that the settlers also were experiencing.\nThings today seem so trivial, so cheap, so ready to flatter the believers. It is a kind of Hollywood, Disneyland atmosphere in some instances that does not call forth the depths of conviction in the congregations. The iron and fire of the God of Israel are not always felt.\nThere is no doubt we are in line for a great revival in America. I think the Spirit has been telling me that the promised revival will take place amidst much trouble.\nGenuine revivals, I believe, are characterized by sincere repentance, worldwide evangelism, and a step forward in the understanding of the Kingdom of God.\nThe step forward in understanding in our time may have to do with the spiritual fulfillments of the last three feasts of the Lord. For I think we are close to the actual coming of the Kingdom of God to the earth, and this will result in the casting out of all demons, fallen angels, and Satan himself.\nI do not mean the Kingdom will be established by us before the Lord comes, for that is not scriptural. I mean rather that we are so close to His return to earth that preparations are being made for His arrival. Isn\u2019t that the case with the coming of any king?\nShout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music; make music to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the sound of singing, with trumpets and the blast of the ram\u2019s horn\u2014shout for joy before the LORD, the King. Let the sea resound, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. Let the rivers clap their hands, let the mountains sing together for joy; let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity. (Psalms 98:4-9\u2014NIV)\nWe are near to the coming of the Lord. The Lord Jesus Christ is not returning in order to carry His Church to Heaven, as is commonly taught. Our goal, the goal of salvation, is not that we might be forced to flee from our inheritance, from the earth and its peoples, and exist in the spirit realm for eternity. This is the current mythic concept. It is not at all scriptural.\nThe hastiest review of the Book of Isaiah will reveal that the Lord is coming to bring justice to the nations. The Servant of the Lord who is to appear is Christ\u2014Head and Body. When Christ who is our life shall appear, then we shall appear with Him. This is what the Scripture teaches.\nWe who will appear with Him must first be judged and delivered from all sin. When this has been accomplished, and not before, the Lord will return and establish His Kingdom on the earth. He will judge among the nations. He will remove from the earth all who are destroyers of that which is good. The meek will inherit the earth and sing and dance for joy.\nThe Kingdom is at hand. Rosh Hashanah is upon us\u2014the new year of the Kingdom of God. Sin is to be removed from the Church and then from the nations of the saved. This is the climax of the work of redemption that has been proceeding for six thousand years. To think that we should be alive to see this day of days approaching!\nSo our services are beginning to be characterized by songs of war, by the carrying of banners, by marching, by dancing, by jubilant praise. And why not? Isn\u2019t the King sitting on His great white stallion ready to descend on the earth? Would we be occupied only with three points and a conclusion when Christ and His generals are at the door of our church, ready to march down the aisle?\nThe vision today is mighty and it is speaking to us of the glory soon to fill the earth. Before it does, however, there must be a cleansing of the Church in preparation for her role in the installation and administration of the Kingdom of God on the earth.\nLet us prepare the way of the Lord by following the Holy Spirit as He brings our enemies under subjection. The host is massing on the east side of Jordan in the plains of Moab. It is time to follow the Ark and cross over onto resurrection ground.\n(\u201cRemoving the Presence of Sin\u201d, 3928-1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 38108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://workingdo.gs/2016/11/02/working-dog-breeds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:50Z", "digest": "sha1:T62RI5JAV77IZLTHNUF7FUIXCOZCERH6", "length": 10990, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "workingdo.gs", "title": "Working Dog Breeds \u2013 WorkingDo.gs", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Uncategorized \u00bb Working Dog Breeds\nSome dog breeds are better-suited to be working dogs than others \u2013 that much you probably know already. But which breeds are the best for working roles? And which dogs are suited to which types of jobs? If you are going to pick out the perfect dog to train for a specific task, you need to be sure that you are selecting from a breed that is inclined to handle the job at hand.\nBelow we have assembled a list of some of the most-popular and most-successful working dog breeds.\nTo start our list, we are going to take a look at the Akita, which is a large breed from Japan. Although this is a dog that originated in Japan, there is an American strain which is typically thought of as its own breed. Males within the American breed of the Akita often weigh anywhere from 100 \u2013 130 pounds, while females are typically between 70 and 100 pounds. There are a number of different tasks which can be completed by the Akita, however it is typically used in modern times as simply a companion or therapy dog. However, the Akita is capable of pulling and hunting, assuming that the dog has been trained properly from a young age.\nWhen you are looking for a dog that is both strong and beautiful, the Alaskan Malamute is certainly one that should be high on the list. These dogs are great at pulling heavy weights over long distances, which is why they have been used as sled dogs. The physical traits of this dog can best be described as a combination of power and endurance, which stands in contrast to a Siberian Husky, which is bred with a focus on speed instead. There is a range of sizes possible within this breed, however females usually weigh around 75 pounds with males coming in at about 85 pounds. As mentioned, this breed has been used as sled dogs either for work or for pleasure, although the majority today are companion dogs.\nA member of the Working Group of dogs, the Bernese Mountain Dog has a long history of reliable service to its owners. Male dogs of this breed can weigh between 80 and 120 pounds, with females weighing 70-110 pounds. As a mountain dog which is a member of the four breeds of Sennenhund, Bernese Mountain Dogs are very adept at traditional farming tasks, as well as pulling. These are strong dogs, and most of them enjoy getting regular exercise and feel most comfortable when they are outside.\nThe Black Russian Terrier is a breed of dog which was specifically developed to serve as a working dog many decades ago. Although the name of the breed includes the word \u2018terrier\u2019, this breed is not actually considered to be a true terrier, as it was bred from a variety of different dog breeds. These are large dogs, with males weighing between 110 \u2013 130 pounds. With ample size and a generally calm demeanor, this dog is well-suited for a variety of tasks including pulling, guarding, companionship, and more.\nSmaller than many of the other breeds on our list, boxers are usually between 55-70 pounds for males and females alike. This is another member of the Working Group, with this specific breed having been developed in Germany. Often used as guard dogs thanks to their general alertness, boxers can also be used in a number of other roles including as guide dogs, therapy dogs, police dogs, and even herding dogs. This is one of the most-flexible and versatile breeds in the working dog world, so training a boxer leaves the door open for many potential forms of service.\nSome working dogs can be difficult to train from the puppy stage, and that is often the case with the Cane Corso. A powerful and large dog when fully grown, this can be a difficult breed to control in its early years. A grown Cane Corso will typically weigh more than 100 pounds, and can serve a variety of working roles including as a hunting dog, a guard dog, and a companion. In addition to the name Cane Corso, this breed is also known as the Italian Mastiff.\nWhen you think about a working dog that has been tasked with the job of serving as a guard dog, you probably think first about a Doberman Pinscher. These large dogs were developed in Germany more than a century ago, with adult males weighing in the range of 90 \u2013 100 pounds (females weigh slightly less). If properly trained, a Doberman can be a loyal servant, eager to please its owner. These dogs tend to have a powerful bite, which is one of the main reasons for their longstanding popularity as guard dogs and protectors. In addition to that bite, the intelligence of this dog plays an important role in its ability to work.\nDrawn from the same origins as a Doberman Pinscher, the German Pinscher is smaller than the Doberman, with the average grown male weighing just 25 \u2013 45 pounds. The appearance of the German Pinscher is remarkably similar to the Doberman however, with many of the same characteristics. Due to their smaller size, this breed is not as well-suited to serving as a guard dog, although it could serve in that capacity when provided with the right training.\nThe Giant Schnauzer is a breed that has served many roles over its long history, which dates back into the 17th century. Among the many jobs that this breed has been able to handle includes guard dog, police dog, herding dog, and more. A full-grown adult Giant Schnauzer frequently will weigh between 75 \u2013 100 pounds, and males are usually slightly taller than females. These dogs are known for being territorial at times, and they are quiet by nature. In addition to their size and temperament, it is their intelligence that is often cited as one of the reasons they can be used effectively as working dogs.\nOne of the most-recognized breeds in the world, the Great Dane is among the largest dog breeds in existence today. Adult male Great Danes weigh a minimum of 120 pounds, and they are also one of the tallest breeds to go along with their weight. Many people get the wrong impression of these dogs due to their imposing size, as they are actually a rather friendly, docile breed which seeks out physical affection. While capable of serving in some working functions, most Great Danes are kept either simply as companion dogs, or as show dogs to perform in competition.\nA breed of dogs that is in the same classification as the Newfoundland and the St. Bernard, the Great Pyrenees is not as popular as it once was, yet remains desirable due to a number of traits. One of the largest dog breeds, adult Great Pyrenees will weigh anywhere between 85 \u2013 140 pounds. Usually gentle in temperament, the Great Pyrenees can serve as a reliable guard dog simply due to size alone. Great Pyrenees have long been used to guard livestock, and they are still deployed in that type of service in many locations today.\nThe name of this breed alone tells you the story of its history. Developed in the beautiful Swiss Alps, the Greater Swiss Mountain Dog is an extremely large breed, with adult males weighing from 130 \u2013 155 pounds. Originally a farm dog, this breed has impressive strength to go along with its size, and yet it remains agile at the same time. With a temperament that is both active and calm, a well-trained Greater Swiss Mountain Dog is able to handle many farm duties consistent with its history and tradition.\nRather than just one specific breed, the term Mastiff refers to any number of large molosser dogs. These are generally among the biggest dogs in the world, and they are typically well-built with a muscular frame and plenty of power. Among the many dogs that fall into the Mastiff category includes the Bullmastiff, the American Mastiff, the English Mastiff, and many more. These are often considered to be excellent working dogs due to their size and strength, however their capabilities to perform specific tasks depend largely on the specific breed and the training provided.\nUnlike most large working dogs, who do their best work on land, Newfoundland dogs are actually quite adept at working in the water. Natural swimmers, this Canadian breed is one of the biggest in the world, with males weighing between 140 \u2013 175 pounds. One of the best ways in which Newfoundland dogs can serve in a working capacity is by rescuing people from the water. This breed has long been used by sailors for their life saving ability, and the dogs continue to serve in that role to this day. Obviously this skill does not necessarily translate to land-based working tasks, but a Newfoundland is going to be an easy choice when it is water rescue that is required.\nAs the name would indicate, this next breed on our list is another which is well-suited to handling tasks in the water. However, unlike the Newfoundland, the Portuguese Water Dog is not overwhelmingly large, with an average adult male weight of between 40 and 60 pounds. This breed enjoys being able to have regular human interaction, and it can be used as a working dog on boats due to its comfort in the water.\nOne of the most-productive working dogs in the world, the Rottweiler breed is capable of filling a variety of different roles. A grown Rottweiler can weigh between 110 \u2013 130 pounds, and they have a lifespan of 8 \u2013 10 years. There are plenty of potential jobs for a Rottweiler to be trained into, including serving as a guide dog, search and rescue dog, guard dog, police dog, and more. Many people associate the Rottweiler breed with aggressive behavior, although that behavior is usually exhibited toward strangers rather than owners. For a Rottweiler to be useful as a working dog and reliable as a companion, they need to be trained properly from an early age.\nIn terms of name-recognition alone, this is one of the best-known dog breeds in the world. The St. Bernard is an extremely large breed, with adults weighing from 140 pounds on up to 250 pounds or more. They are known not only for their impressive size, but also for their ability to do important work, such as mountain rescue. For centuries, these dogs have served as farm dogs in the Swiss Alps and surrounding areas. While they are not deployed for alpine rescue in modern times, they do still compete in dog sports and are kept as companion animals.\nEven if you are not an expert on dog breeds, you can likely recognize the Siberian Husky by just a glance. This working dog has long be associated with pulling sleds in cold conditions in Alaska, Russia, and beyond. These dogs are not as large as many other working dogs in terms of weight \u2013 adult males weigh between 45 \u2013 60 pounds \u2013 but they are energetic, fit, and powerful. In order to be effective working dogs, Siberian Huskies need to be attentively trained as they can be difficult to control otherwise.\nAs you can see, there are plenty of working dog breeds to pick from as you consider what kind of dog you are going to train for the task you have in mind. Before you pick out the right dog for your needs, make sure to learn more about the various breeds that fit in with your goals. With the right dog and the right training, it is truly amazing what these animals are capable of achieving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 11784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 165.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wormwoodiana.blogspot.com/2014/12/arthur-machen-collection-at-risk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:31Z", "digest": "sha1:T2HUH3BY7LGMVTZM5LXOTQMYAQBFEVK2", "length": 6527, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "wormwoodiana.blogspot.com", "title": "Wormwoodiana: ARTHUR MACHEN COLLECTION AT RISK", "raw_content": "The public library at Newport, Gwent, houses a splendid Arthur Machen collection, including rare items, some donated by his admirers, friends and family over the years. It is the best public collection of his work in the UK, and an argument can be made for its international significance. The library is now under threat of closure. The local council are considering a plan to replace it with a few much smaller local hubs.\nThe Friends of Arthur Machen literary society is very concerned about this and is joining the campaign against the closure. Please add your voice to those urging the local council to protect the library and collection. A national and international response may help them rethink plans or at least safeguard the collection.\nA local consultation is under way. No final decisions have yet been made either about the Library or the Arthur Machen collection, but the danger is that it may not be accessible in the future to either scholars or the general public. The worst case might even be that it is sold.\nPlease consider following this link to Newport City Council\u2019s online consultation document. The first page asks where in Newport you live, but you don't have to fill this part in and can go to the second page where you can leave comments.\nYou may wish to explain that the Machen collection is of national and international importance. Do let them know where you are in the world, and how vital it is for Newport to continue to make this internationally important collection accessible to literary scholars and the general public.\nYou may also wish to write courteously to the leader of Newport City Council, Bob Bright:\nLeader of Newport City Council\n80 Allt-yr-yn Road\nSouth Wales, NP20 5EF\nOr via this electronic form (scroll down to view).\nThank you for your support for this priceless collection devoted to one of the towering figures of fantastic literature.\nThank you for bringing this to our attention. I have completed the survey.\nMark V December 14, 2014 at 1:29 PM\nThank you, that's appreciated.\nJason Newton December 14, 2014 at 2:54 PM\nSeriously, you should contact Stephen King. he is a great admirer of Arthur Machen and has lauded him in his short story collection 'Just After Sunset' and more recently, in his new novel 'Revival'.\nThanks, Jason. Yes, we do have in mind rallying eminent names if needed. Mark\nAndy Sawyer December 14, 2014 at 5:15 PM\nI,ve commented. Anything else I can do get in touch.\nThanks, Andy, will do.\nMichael Barry December 15, 2014 at 7:01 AM\nAttached, my submission to the survey:\nI am writing to advise that the Arthur Machen collection should be preserved at a single site. The Machen collection is of international significance, given Machen's global importance to modern literary and popular fiction. Machen's influence on US writer H.P. Lovecraft alone has borne fruit in a multi-billion dollar industry based upon 20th and 21st century literature, particularly in science fiction, fantasy and horror genres.\nI write from Canberra in Australia, perhaps the furthest one can be from Newport and remain on the same planet. However, Arthur Machen works are part of our shared literary history. Machen explored themes of alienation, disconnection and dissociation that bore fruit in the postcolonial literature of the former British colonies and the United States.\nThe further uptake of these genres in film, radio, television, graphic novel and online media makes preservation of the Machen collection essential for future literary analysis and cultural history. Breaking up the collection, or worse the sale of the collection, would place it beyond the reach of scholars, writers and the general public.\nMy thanks in advance for considering my proposal.\nMark V December 15, 2014 at 12:30 PM\nThank you, Michael, it's good to have support from Australia too. This all helps to show that Machen has international stature.\nThos. Kent Miller December 16, 2014 at 11:11 AM\nMy note to the Newport council is not nearly as eloquent as as Michael's, but perhaps it will add to a groundswell nonetheless:\nMy name is Thomas Miller and I live in Southern California USA. The current Newport public library houses many memorable artifacts of Arthur Machen. Arthur Machen was a giant in the field of fantasy fiction and his writings have been an inspiration to me for 40 years. In fact, I traveled to Wales five years ago specifically to visit the places that were important to Machen. He has influenced several generations of up-and-coming writers worldwide--authors such as Stephen King, Brian Lumley, Ramsey Campbell, H.P. Lovecraft, and Jorge Luis Borges. His stature is roughly equivalent to Edgar Allan Poe in America. At all costs, The Arthur Machen Collection must be preserved. The world would be a much poorer and sadder place if Arthur Machen's memory was allowed to fade away, and if those responsible for preserving the artifacts of his life no longer have the verve to continue to do so. Machen is a towering literary figure of international importance. The Arthur Machen Collection must, please, be preserved.\nThomas K. Miller\nAndy Hendry December 16, 2014 at 5:15 AM\nJebus...\nI grew up in Newport and the council has *always* hated the heritage and art of the town. This is the same place that pulled down a castle to build a road. That library is a vital part of the cultural landscape of Newport (the same building also houses the museum and the art gallery) and without them Newport will be little more than chain discount retailers.\nGod damn this makes me angry. >:(\nThe library/museum/art gallery building in the centre of Newport is the cultural hub of the entire city. It is a central point where people from all across the city can access the rich cultural heritage of the city. The central library also houses the Arthur Machen collection. Arthur Machen was is one of the most celebrated writers of supernatural tales, as lauded as the great M.R. James, and has had an immense impact on global literature, art, and cinema. Having the Machen collection at the heart of Newport places the city firmly on the world literary stage. It is vital that Newport preserves and promotes its culture and heritage and having a central hub is essential for the city to do so.\nPlease, please, please keep the library open.\nThe Machen collection is an internationally important resource and so I'm sure that the council will be able to find funding to make up for the supposed savings. If the council is willing that is.\nThanks, both, for your comments. Mark", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 809, "original_length": 21399, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wuf9.org/programme/speakers/sami-halaseh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:50Z", "digest": "sha1:IHTCUAAO2JJZTGL4N6NSRVDW63DDC25Z", "length": 463, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "wuf9.org", "title": "WUF 9 - The Ninth session of the World Urban Forum", "raw_content": "Sami Halaseh\nMinistry for Public Works & Housing, Jordan\nSami Halaseh is a civil engineer with an MSc in construction management from Oklahoma State University in the US. He served as secretary general at the Public Works Ministry from 2008 until his appointment as minister. A recipient of the Independence Medal of the Second Order in 2007, Halaseh has managed and supervised major projects led by the ministry and funded through international grants and loans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 150.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wvpbooks-com.3dcartstores.com/Our-Mission_ep_7.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:05Z", "digest": "sha1:36IA5OB7SV36NKFLOIOWY2Z5WUY6WXGU", "length": 1154, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "wvpbooks-com.3dcartstores.com", "title": "Our Mission", "raw_content": "To present quality resources to help pastors, leaders, and Christian workers prepare for a true move of God within their church and community. To help the sincere Christian become ready to endure to the end of the Great Tribulation period triumphantly - and not be ashamed at Christ's appearance nor be left behind during the rapture of the elect. (Luke 21:34-36)\nEquipping for Ministry in Maturity\nJesus commissioned leadership to equip the true Christian for ministry in the knowledge of Christ, in genuine faith, and in maturity, where the true body of Christ obtains unity and stability, and to be no longer tossed about by deceitful men and impostures.\nThis is our goal, to equip the sincere Christian for ministry and be part a true move of God in the coming great and final harvest leading to Christ appearance. (Ephesians 4:11-16)\nA Ministry Promoting Sound Doctrine\nWVP strives to provide a platform for likeminded authors (print and digit media) who embrace sound doctrine that agrees with all the words and teachings of Christ, and accords with godliness, maturity, and assists the reader to obtain the grace of God and the fullness of Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ww1historymakers.co.uk/barbara-scott-gallery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5G4I35WT5WZIVFRFPOUFBR6O6FLNRGV", "length": 559, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ww1historymakers.co.uk", "title": "Barbara Scott \u2013 Gallery | WW1 History Makers", "raw_content": "My great-uncle William Lorimer Joyce he joined the 4th Battalion of the South Wales Border Regiment when war broke out in 1914. 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The Props are the ones who transforms to objec...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 2532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.abcmoney.co.uk/2018/06/07/28-million-small-businesses-in-america-account-for-54-of-all-u-s-sales/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:18Z", "digest": "sha1:PG5YKRNJ46XLMRAIN7VJV4E4Y5W3CMRL", "length": 3997, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.abcmoney.co.uk", "title": "28 million small businesses in America account for 54% of all U.S. sales - ABC Money", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Blog \u00bb Business \u00bb 28 million small businesses in America account for 54% of all U.S. sales\nBusinessTechnologyWorld07/06/2018\nClose up on female hands typing on laptop at office desk\nResearch demonstrates that smaller businesses, by and large, are not maximizing the benefit of their Internet presence.\n29% of small businesses do not have a website, according to a study conducted in 2017 by Clutch (link). As Max Elman, the founder of Razorfrog Web Design, said in a statement released with the report:\u201cNo matter what type of business you run, if you have customers, it\u2019s necessary to have some sort of information online, at least a page describing who you are and offering contact information. It\u2019s essential to have this information indexed and shown to those looking for you.\u201d\nImage Credit: Clutch\nNew research by Approved Index, a B2B comparison site for business services has revealed the number of UK SMEs operating without a website and calculated the predicted uplift in revenue if they were to launch a new site, by industry sector and business size.\n1.98 million SMEs do not have websites, costing them over \u00a3343 billion each year\nIntroducing a website could equate to an average uplift in revenue of \u00a3173,769 per business\nSmall-sized businesses stand to make the largest growth in revenue \u2013 \u00a3106 billion per year if they introduce a website\nSome entrepreneurs feel discouraged after working on several business listings without getting the results they had in mind at the start. The problem is that not all business directories live up to Google\u2019s standards, causing them to get ignored by the search engine.\nLet\u2019s analyze another economical circle: the online battleground. What is the role of web directories today and are they worth your time and money?\nGetting a website listed on a directory used to be a sure path to web traffic and success. However, all this changed as search engines developed, and since 2012 when Google released the \u201cPenguin\u201d update, the value of directories dropped significantly, however, \u201cdirectories can still play an important role in helping drive referral traffic to your site as well as bolstering your SEO campaign\u201d according to an article published by Search Engine People, an industry specific publication.\nMatt Cutts, the former head of the web spam team at Google, said in 2012 (video), that submitting to directories are recommended, if the directory accepts quality sites and is not simply a free-for-all link site: \u201cDoes the directory reject URLs? If every URL passes a review, the directory gets closer to just a list of links or a free-for-all link site.\u201d \u2013 Matt Cutts\nSome of the foremost known web directories are the Yahoo! Directory and the DMOZ. The Yahoo Directory has been shut down since 2014 and DMOZ was shut down a few years later, on the 14th of March 2017. The AOL-owned directory, DMOZ, was no longer supported by AOL.\nQuality web directories hire trained reviewers whose job is to evaluate submitted links and put them in the right categories.\nMatt Hodgson, owner of Addme, a SEO company founded in 1996, concluded that when done the right way, directories such as Jasmine Directory are far more reliable than a typical search engine result because they are edited by real people who go through every link to determine whether it provides any relevant information.\nFor example, Jasmine Directory lists educational resources and allows users to submit businesses for easy access by visitors. This web directory has been in existence since 2009 (created as a collaborative university project). It is renowned for its high editorial discretion and features several categories including arts, business, computers, finance, games, health, home, kids & teens, news, recreation, reference, science, shopping, society, sports and regional.\nEach of the categories includes fields, for instance, the Computers category feature internet, software, hardware, programming and so forth and the fields in turn list matching websites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 7336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.abouttextile.com/2009/02/spinning-machine-from-hand-to-automatic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:42Z", "digest": "sha1:H6XANXLKW5XC35G54IAQYIIAQKWYPRSC", "length": 2584, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.abouttextile.com", "title": "Textile --- Textile machine and textile products: Spinning Machine --From Hand to Automatic", "raw_content": "Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibers are twisted together to form yarn (or thread, rope, or cable). For thousands of years, fiber was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. Only in the High Middle Ages did the spinning wheel increase the output of individual spinners, and mass-production only arose in the 18th century with the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution.\nIn the textile mills, hundreds of workers would operate machines such as this. The factories were hot, dusty and incredibly noisy. Working on these machines was dangerous\nModern powered spinning, originally done by water or steam power but now done by electricity, is vastly faster than hand-spinning.\nLabels: Spindle, Spinning Machine, Spinning Wheel\nSpinning Machine 2 is not a spinning machine-it is a loom-it takes threads & weaves them together to make cloth\nThe machines also determine the reduction in the cross sectional area and the elongation of the test specimen when subjected to an axial force. The tensile test is generally carried out to determine the reaction of a particular material under a varying force field or to identify the weak points of a particular design before it is finalized for manufacturing. The machines also determine the reduction in the cross sectional area and the elongation of the test specimen when subjected to an axial force. The tensile test is generally carried out to determine the reaction of a particular material under a varying force field or to identify the weak points of a particular design before it is finalized for manufacturing. Wrap Reel\nComputerized printing, as a procedure is route quicker than the traditional screen printing, because of the impressively less number of steps included. bursting strength tester\nThanks for taking the time to discuss that, I feel strongly about this and so really like getting to know more on this kind of field. Do you mind updating your blog post with additional insight? It should be really useful for all of us. 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The third simply states the city manager handles basic park maintenance and expenses, but must consult with aldermen on costs that exceed $1,000.\nThe first, called \u201cSpecial Use Policy,\u201d deals with nonprofit and for-profit activities on the green. All for-profit activities would require council approval, as is the case now.\nThe city clerk would handle scheduling of nonprofit activities, and schedule them on a first-come, first-serve basis. As written, the policy lists nine longstanding existing events that are considered pre-approved and would not require annual applications: including the city\u2019s Memorial Day celebration, Vergennes and French Heritage days, the city\u2019s farmers\u2019 market, two church festivals, the Holiday Stroll, Pumpkins in the Park, and Vergennes City Band concerts.\nAt Aldermen Renny Perry\u2019s suggestion, aldermen reached a consensus that those events should be listed on a calendar and not in a policy.\n\u201cI think of those as city events. I don\u2019t think we have to give anyone permission,\u201d he said.\nMost discussion centered on the \u201cDisplays\u201d article, including several comments from the crowd, which did not rival the 140 that attended the previous council meeting to address the cr\u00e8che issue, but was still substantial by council meeting standards. Daniels said emails also continue to pour into the city\u2019s website on the issue.\nResidents Donna Scott and Ted Sheldrick asked aldermen to grandfather the cr\u00e8che\u2019s location and timing given its history, even if those sponsoring it are required to file an application every year.\n\u201cIf someone did want to be difficult, they could try to preempt the cr\u00e8che,\u201d Scott said.\nDaniels said the primary authors of the policy \u2014 Alderman Bill Benton, Hawley and himself \u2014 would consider the request.\n\u201cWhen we get back together, we\u2019ll discuss that,\u201d Daniels said.\nSheldrick also made a plea not to require signs for the cr\u00e8che and other displays.\n\u201cTo have a sign, that\u2019s something that mars and distracts,\u201d Sheldrick said. \u201cIs it something that\u2019s really necessary?\u201d\nBenton, who has taken the lead in researching and writing the green policy, said that it is.\n\u201cFor private displays on public property, there are three strict criteria,\u201d Benton said, citing a sign identifying the sponsoring group, an indication that the municipality does not endorse the display, and \u201ca consistent application process.\u201d\nThe \u201cDisplays\u201d policy calls for the city clerk to handle applications from the less-busy months from Oct. 15 to March 15, and aldermen to deal with applications the rest of the year.\nIt requires annual applications submitted at least 30 days before installation. They must list the names of sponsors, state the dates and preferred locations of installation, provide a photo or sketch, and list dimensions and materials. Displays are limited to a footprint of 400 square feet and a height of 10 feet, and the sponsor must provide the sign.\nAccording to the draft, a use may be denied if it is \u201clikely to create a public nuisance or pose a clear and present danger to public safety.\u201d\nPerry said he suggested that language be added and that it is typical in towns with similar polices. He said \u201cclear and present danger\u201d refers to risky displays such as those that might involve fires or pyrotechnics, and aldermen could rely on a \u201cstandard dictionary\u201d definition for public nuisance, or would be allowed by statute to create their own definition.\nAnthony Duprey, a Waltham attorney in attendance, said he had consulted with another lawyer who is an expert in such policies. That expert urged the section be tightened up because it is \u201cso vague it could be arbitrary,\u201d Duprey said.\nDuprey also said the expert suggested that aldermen added a timetable for the city to respond to an application for a display, and to create an appeal process for a party whose application is denied. Duprey agreed to email the recommendations to aldermen to include in their deliberations.\nThe other significant issue that arose was whether the clerk or the aldermen should make the call on applications, or even possibly create a committee to handle the task.\nResident Jay Stetzel noted that residents at the earlier meeting had expressed concerns that major holidays of non-Christian religions fall outside the time frame handled by the clerk, creating the appearance of possible discrimination. Stetzel also said some applications might put City Clerk Joan Devine in an awkward position.\n\u201cI\u2019m thinking of Joan here,\u201d he said, adding later, \u201cIf it always comes to the city council, you wouldn\u2019t have to worry about the dates.\u201d\nPerry said his research showed that applications were usually handled by a civic panel, and Devine said she had no objection to a committee handling applications.\nDaniels said there were pluses and minuses in any approach, and one thing aldermen were trying to incorporate in the policy was the ability to give a timely answer to an applicant.\n\u201cIf there is a committee of three, and two are out of town, can we make a decision?\u201d Daniels said. \u201cI\u2019m not saying no, but we\u2019re in the decision (-making) process.\u201d\nHawley said officials had been wrestling with the question, and whatever the final decision was it would not be \u201carbitrary,\u201d but would balance the needs of applicants and the many uses of the park.\n\u201cDon\u2019t think we\u2019re saying no. 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Space Mountain will be down for refurb starting in April!!!! (April 19th to be exact.) So, all the wondering if it was going down or not can now officially stop.\nNow, from what I can gather...the extent of this refurb is really unknown, in more than one way. First is how long it will be down for. Disney says it will return for launches in late 2009. From the rumors I'm hearing though...this refurb will last at least 10 months and could last up to a year. It basically depends on how quickly Disney can get the work done.\nThe other unknown is what the scope of work is that is to be done. This is the biggest unknown of them all. I'm hearing it's not going to be the full megilla as was done over at Disneyland. Instead, I'm hearing the work will be somewhere between Disneyland's version and Disneyland Paris' version. However, with that being said, I'm also hearing that it could just be a fixing of major structural problems both with the building (no one wants messothelioma) and with the actual coaster, itself. So, I guess we'll have to wait for more information to leak out on that. Edit: a little more info has come out thanks to the Orlando Sentinal. They report that there will be some new track work put in, although the track layout will remain the same. The refurb will also include a new enclosure for the Queue area and a new ceiling.\nThis refurb makes me excited though. Even though Space is one of my favorites, it makes me happy to see it's finally getting the much deserved (and LONG overdue) love it desperately needs. It's been entirely too long since Space has had a quality refurb, so I can only hope they didn't decide to go for the cheap (something they seem to be doing a lot of recently) and really do this thing right.\nMy other fear is that I hope they don't decide to open it early because of the outcry of the public. I don't want them to do like they did with Spaceship Earth and open it during the holidays because of \"the people\". People survived 1994 without the whole land of Tomorrowland...they'll be able to survive the disappointment of just one ride, signature it might be, being down for a brief time period.\nSo, 2009 is starting out relatively promising...let's just hope Disney doesn't get even more terrified of the economic woes our country is facing, because now is the time to really invest in the company and especially the theme parks. 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Capability Green is situated on the outskirts of Luton, just 1 mile from M1 Junction 10 and 1.5 miles away from Luton Parkway train station which has a typical journey time of 30 minutes to London St Pancras.\nThe suite benefits from air conditioning, raised floors, double glazing, a dedicated kitchenette and a generous car parking ratio of 1:210, providing 10 car parking spaces. It has been partitioned to create a number of meeting rooms and smaller offices although this could be removed to suit an ingoing tenant. The suite is offered on a short term lease until 1st March 2020. 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Cubbage was afforded the opportunity to adopt Rick via \u201cRobby\u2019s Law\u201d which enables retired MWDs to be adopted after their service.\nAfter nearly a year apart, it was an emotional moment when Staff Sgt. Amanda Cubbage, 355th Security Forces Squadron member at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. and prior military working dog handler, was reunited with her MWD, Rick, Aug. 8, 2017.\nRick was flown into Tucson, Ariz., from Osan Air Base, South Korea, after a lengthy adoption process.\n\u201cIt\u2019s (like) getting part of your heart back,\u201d Cubbage said.\nThe pair served at Osan AB together for 11 months. On duty, they conducted exercises, and bomb threat and security checks. Off duty, they were each other\u2019s wingman.\n\u201cBeing stationed in Korea unaccompanied, he was my support\u2014he was there for everything I needed,\u201d Cubbage said. \u201cHe was there when I was happy, he was there when I was sad. Everything I needed came from him.\u201d\nAs a MWD handler, Cubbage has worked with several other dogs, and described parting ways as bittersweet.\n\u201cIt\u2019s just like having a kid moving off and going to college,\u201d Cubbage said. \u201cYou still love your kid, it\u2019s just the fact that they\u2019re growing up, they\u2019re going out, and they\u2019re doing other things.\u201d\nRick was different than the others, Cubbage said. He instantly won her over with his headstrong personality.\nStaff Sgt. Amanda Cubbage, 355th Security Forces Squadron member, poses for a photo with her military working dog, Rick, while assigned to Osan Air Base. Cubbage was able to adopt Rick after he was retired due to old age.\nAfter seven years of service, Rick was retired due to old age. Cubbage found out about the opportunity to adopt retired MWDs from a fellow handler.\n\u201cAnd that\u2019s when I reached out to the American Humane society,\u201d Cubbage said. \u201cThey said \u2018Absolutely, we\u2019d love to help out.\u2019\u201d\nMWDs are allowed to be adopted after retirement due to \u201cRobby\u2019s Law,\u201d which was passed by Congress in 2000.\nThe adoption process can be long and drawn out, involving tedious paperwork, immunizations, and in Rick\u2019s case, crossing the Pacific Ocean.\n\u201cYou sit there and you wait and wait, and you just count down the days, count down the time until you\u2019re reunited with him,\u201d Cubbage said.\nNow that he is finally reunited with his companion, Rick will live a quiet and retired life, filled with rest and relaxation, and plenty of treats.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aerotechnews.com/davis-monthanafb/2018/01/26/79th-rescue-squadron-performs-aerial-refueling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EXMZO5SPESL5BEEJJF2CZUS6JT3V6KCF", "length": 1538, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.aerotechnews.com", "title": "79th Rescue Squadron performs aerial refueling", "raw_content": "79th Rescue Squadron performs aerial refueling\nA U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II receives fuel from a U.S. Air Force HC-130J Combat King II during a training exercise over Yuma, Ariz., Jan. 17, 2018. This was the first time this HC-130J\u2019s crew refueled a fixed-wing aircraft.\nTech. Sgt. Gabriel Campbell, 79th Rescue Squadron instructor loadmaster, looks out a window of an HC-130J Combat King II during an aerial refueling mission over Yuma, Ariz., Jan. 17, 2018. As a loadmaster, one of Campbell\u2019s duties is to relay information to his pilots on the current position of the aircraft receiving fuel.\nA U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II receives fuel from a U.S. Air Force HC-130J Combat King II during a training exercise over Yuma, Ariz., Jan. 17, 2018. This was the first time the HC-130J\u2019s crew refueled a fixed-wing aircraft.\nAirmen from the 79th Rescue Squadron review footage of an aerial refueling mission in an HC-130J Combat King II over Yuma, Ariz., Jan. 17, 2018. This was the crew\u2019s first time refueling a fixed-wing aircraft.\nTwo U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier II\u2019s fly in formation over Yuma, Ariz., Jan. 17, 2018. The AV-8B\u2019s conducted aerial refueling with 79th Rescue Squadron Airmen out of Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.\nFirst Lt. Timothy Oswald, 79th Rescue Squadron pilot, co-pilots an HC-130J Combat King II during an aerial refueling mission over Yuma, Ariz., Jan. 17, 2018. During refueling, Oswald communicated with the receiving aircraft and gave their pilots permission to move in formation to receive fuel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 175.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.affinity-consulting.com/Trust-Advantages.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:09Z", "digest": "sha1:OQ7POJPEUBHZOTLLL5AOXGQ4SXCUZP5K", "length": 7539, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.affinity-consulting.com", "title": "Trust Advantages : Affinity Consulting Group", "raw_content": "Most people prefer not to think about what will happen to their property on death. However, failure to make proper plans can create real problems and cause great expense (including tax liabilities) for next of kin, problems that they will be forced to sort out at a time when they are emotionally upset and most vulnerable.\nMaking a will is a sensible way for an individual to put his or her affairs in order. However, the administration of a deceased\u2018s estate can be costly (often around 4% of the total value of the estate), result in long delays (normally at least one year, even for a simple estate) and very often involve a large tax bill (inheritance tax or estate duty rates are often extremely onerous).\nOne alternative to making a will is to set up a trust during one\u2018s lifetime. With careful planning this can eradicate delays, costs and taxes and provide other benefits such as protecting assets from future creditors or providing anonymity. For many reasons the use of trusts as a means of holding and passing on family wealth, even for modest estates, has increased dramatically in recent years.\nUnlike a company, a trust is not a legal entity. It is best described as a relationship; an arrangement whereby property is transferred from one person (the settlor) to another person (the trustee) who holds the property for the benefit of specified people or objects (the beneficiaries). A trust deed sets out the terms and conditions upon which the trustees must hold and administer the trust assets. The trust deed also sets out the rights and interests of the beneficiaries.\nA trust can also be created by a will but if assets are \"transferred\" to trustees during lifetime they should be unaffected by the subsequent death of the settlor. Another word for \"transfer\" is \"settle#\" hence the transferor of the assets is called the settlor and the trust is often referred to as a \"settlement\".\nThose unfamiliar with the trust concept may be concerned about transferring ownership of their property to a trustee. However, the duties of trustees have been developed over centuries through English equity and common law and are now in many cases codified in statute law. This law distinguishes between legal ownership (trust assets are held in the name of trustees) and beneficial ownership (only the beneficiaries may benefit from the assets). Further, even greater duties are imposed on professional trustees who, in reputable and well-regulated jurisdictions such as Guernsey and Gibraltar, are required to be licensed.\nUses Of a Trust\nTrusts are a powerful tax-planning tool but they also have many other uses that are of equal if not greater importance. Modern private trusts may be applied in a wide range of circumstances. They can, for example, enable a successful businessman to prepare a contingency plan to enable his estate to be properly managed on behalf of his family in the event of his untimely demise. They may also serve the father who wishes to provide adequately for his daughter on marriage, but at the same time to prevent a spendthrift husband dissipating her capital. A properly drafted and managed trust can be advantageous for any or all of the following:\nTrusts can be one of the most effective ways to protect assets, as assets transferred to a trust no longer form part of the Settlor\u2018s property. This means the assets cannot normally be seized if the Settlor gets into financial difficulties, for example, as a result of bankruptcy or divorce.\nThe rules of many onshore jurisdictions may, in certain circumstances, order the trust assets to be transferred back to the Settlor. This could arise if a creditor is able to prove that the Settlor transferred assets into trust with the intention of avoiding a current or future liability, or if the liability arose within a statutory period after the transfer into trust.\nTo overcome this problem many offshore jurisdictions have enacted legislation creating the \"Asset Protection Trust\". This protects assets transferred into trust as long as the Settlor is solvent at the time of the transfer and does not become insolvent as a result of it. For maximum security it is important to set up a trust in an offshore jurisdiction that has enacted this type of legislation.\nA correctly structured and administered trust may produce substantial savings in income tax, capital gains tax and inheritance tax/estate duty.\nAvoiding the Expense and Delays of Probate\nIn most common law jurisdictions an individual\u2018s estate must go through the probate procedure. This can cause delay, expense, publicity and upheaval. By establishing a trust, probate can be avoided. Death has no effect on the trust property, which will continue to be held and managed in confidence by the Trustee.\nProving a Will is a public procedure and therefore entirely unsuitable for those wishing to keep details of their assets confidential.\nThe only legal alternative form of asset transfer is via a trust. This would generally save estate duty and keep the trust assets confidential.\nAvoiding Forced Heirship\nForced heirship is a particular problem in continental Europe and other civil law jurisdictions, as well as in countries of Islamic tradition. A trust can be used to overcome this problem if care is taken to select a jurisdiction for the trust that has an appropriate trust law.\nMany people prefer to make more complex arrangements for the distribution of their assets. These might include providing a source of income for a widow or making provision for the education of children. A trust is probably the most satisfactory and flexible way to make arrangements of this kind.\nProtecting the weak\nA trust allows a person to provide for those who may be unable to manage their own affairs such as infant children, the aged, or persons suffering from certain illnesses.\nPreserving Family Assets\nPreserving family assets, or increasing them, is often a motive for setting up a trust. An individual may wish to ensure that wealth accumulated over a lifetime is not divided up amongst the heirs, but retained as one fund. The fund can then accumulate further with provision for payments to members of the family as necessary, while preserving some assets for later generations.\nContinuing a Family Business\nA person who has built up a business will often want to ensure that it continues after their death. If the company shares are transferred into a trust prior to death, the unnecessary liquidation of the family business can be prevented. In a situation where family members have little business experience, the Trustees could be instructed to retain the shares, keep the company running, and provide payment to members of the family from dividend income. The terms of the trust will ensure that the individual\u2018s wishes are observed.\nGaining flexibility\nA discretionary trust can provide a structure that is capable of rapid change as circumstances demand.\nTrusts may also provide a means of protecting wealth in circumstances of political or economic instability or where concerns rise over medium term trading risks. In establishing a modern trust, the first step is for the individual concerned to identify the requirement. This process of thought may well be based on an appreciation that wealth needs effective management to ensure that:-\nshort term returns are optimised by competent investment managers;\nmedium long term returns are optimised by ensuring that wealth is not dissipated by the claims of any particular nation state or by relatives or by unscrupulous creditors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 7976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.afford-diasporafinance.org/news/uganda-uk-convention-business-and-trade-expo-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:59Z", "digest": "sha1:UGVNY4YJIF5EO3CKWXFCGUGWMNHER7LB", "length": 468, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.afford-diasporafinance.org", "title": "Uganda UK Convention Business and Trade Expo 2017 \u2013 AFFORD Diaspora Finance", "raw_content": "16 September, London\nAt this year\u2019s Uganda UK convention His Excellency Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi, Vice President of the Republic of Uganda will be the guest of honour. There will also be a number of high-level delegates, community leaders, Ugandans and Friends of Uganda will celebrate Uganda\u2019s rich culture, growing significance in the global economy, and business and investment opportunities for the Ugandan Diaspora, investors, and friends of Uganda.More info here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.africanews.com/2017/01/14/drc-opposition-party-mlc-agrees-to-sign-peace-deal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:33Z", "digest": "sha1:CDQZ6XJALRUU5BZF5SCUKHVZSZ6LO5OA", "length": 1186, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.africanews.com", "title": "DRC: Opposition party MLC agrees to sign peace deal | Africanews", "raw_content": "DRC: Opposition party MLC agrees to sign peace deal\nThe MLC party of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday finally agreed to sign a peace deal sponsored by the country\u2019s catholic church, to end the ongoing political standoff.\nThe Congolese Liberation Movement\u2019s signature comes 14 days after the agreement on Decmeber 31, which the party had initially refused to sign. Other members of the government, including newly-appointed Prime Minister Samy Badibanga, from the opposition, are yet to sign it.\nMLC is the party of former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, who\u2019s currently at the detained at The Hague.\nThe deal which is yet to be ratified by President Kabila will lead to elections later this year, instead of April 2018 as earlier communicated by the electoral body. It also stipulates that president Kabila is unable to amend the constitution in order to seek a third term. A new PM is also expected to be named from the opposition.\nPressure had been mounting for opposition parties and the government to agree a deal aimed at stemming the violence that followed Kabila\u2019s refusal to relinquish the presidency despite the expiration of his mandate on December 19.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 5176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alabamabloggers.com/2009/05/favorite-dining-in-alabama.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:51Z", "digest": "sha1:TTOBWK2KC55VYZUCNLJIFANC3LPKSSLC", "length": 8015, "nlines": 75, "source_domain": "www.alabamabloggers.com", "title": "Alabama Bloggers: Favorite Dining in Alabama", "raw_content": "I hope that one of the ways this blog will be valuable is to share information about all of our favorite places to go to in Alabama. This will be especially useful if we're out of OUR neck of the woods and into YOURS. So this post, like the Alabama Bloggers Directory, will have it's own sidebar link for easy reference in the future.\nThe question for this post is: What are your favorite Alabama restaurants and why?\nYou can either linky a post (or multiple posts) that you've written in the past (or the present) about your favorite restaurants, or you can comment on this post and tell us about them.\nIf you linky it in, be sure to put in your link title where the restaurant is located so that if someone is looking for good food in a particular area, they can find it easily.\nSound like fun? I can't wait to find out where to eat all around Alabama!\nAlso let me know of other topics that you'd like to compile blogger opinion on!\nLabels: Blogger Opinions, Restaurants\nAuburn - Niffer's, Chuck's, Jim Bob's, Veggis to Go\nB'ham - City Hall Diner, Bellini's, Village Tavern, Five Guys\nHuntsville - Greenbrier BBQ, Thomas Pitt BBQ, Tender's\nWhat's the point of guidelines if not to break them? So I went ahead and broke them first and linked in an Atlanta restaurant, because, if you're like me, you go there a lot.\nHowever, in Birmingham, other places I love are:\nTaziki's, Bright Star and Nabeel's for Greek dining,\nBaha Burgers for . . .well, burgers,\nMudtown - they have amazing food\n- my favorite is their Tilapia and Balsamic Salad,\nBut I shouldn't name too many more, because my husband and I have a restaurant curse, and those I name WILL close.\n(http://www.graspingforobjectivity.com/2009/01/sadly-tasty-curse.html)\nSo, on second thought, you might not want to tell me your favorite places.\nA secret secret hidden gem...Fox Valley restaurant off Hwy 17 in Helena, Alabama.....beat steak and crabcake anywhere, an intimate bar and salads to die for....\nI like John's City Diner in B'ham. In Jacksonville i like Effina's. In Alex City i like Catherine's Market Deli, & in Gulf Shores I like Calypso's.\nOne of my favorite places to eat in the Birmingham area is The Chocolate Biscuit in Trussville. It's consider a tea room, so it's definitely a \"chick\" place, but I have seen several men in there before. All of the food is delicious and they have great specialty hot & cold tea drinks.\nOh, I've heard about the Chocolate Biscuit. Must go there!\nOne of our fave new places is Joe's Italian, on Hwy. 11 between Chelsea & Alabaster. Authentic Italian, Joe is straight from Sicily with the accent to prove it. Mangia, mangia!\nI'm a big fan of the Cajun Steamer Hoover/Trussville. I also have a horrible addiction to mexican food. El Cazador on Montclair Rd and Habanero's in Trussville are my fav's.\nHey Rachel, maybe we could do a cheap famiy outing linky. Different out of the way places that families go.\nAll of my restaurant reviews (nationwide) can be found at this link :http://lbratina.blogspot.com/search/label/restaurant%20review\nHere are some of my favortie Bama restaurant Reviews:\nAll Steak, Cullman: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2009/04/all-in-for-all-steak.html\nBig Bob Gibson's BBQ, Decatur: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2009/04/decatur.html\nFairhope Goodies: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2009/03/fairhope-fairest-city-of-all.html\nBig Daddy's Grill, Fairhope: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2009/03/meeting-dust-bunny-hostage-at-big.html\nWaffle House V Day: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2009/02/waffle-house-valentines-day.html\nNorthport, City Cafe: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2009/02/northport.html\nNabeels, Homewood: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/12/lunch-with-ladies-who-happen-to-be.html\nThe Blue Willow, Scottsboro: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/08/blue-willow.html\nFarmhouse Restuarant Scottsboro: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/10/riverside.html\nBayside Grill, Orange Beach : http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/09/bayside-grill.html\nFranco's Italian Restaurant, Orange Beach: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/09/francos-italian-restaurant-orange-beach.html\nBahama Bob's Beachside Cafe, Gulfshores: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/09/bahama-bobs-beach-side-cafe.html\nFamous Floyd's, Evergreen: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/09/famous-floyds-family-restaurant.html\nBillie's Seafood, Bon Secour : http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/09/billys-seafood-in-bon-secour.html\nYuki Japanese, Hoover: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/08/yuki-japanese-restaurant.html\nOuttakes Deli, HOmewood: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/08/out-takes-catering-deli.html\nSmokey Hollw Restuarant, Jemison: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/08/road-trip-to-jemison.html\nAshley Macs, Bluff Park: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/06/ashley-macs-in-bluff-park.html\nLeonardo's, Vestavia: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/06/leonardos-italian-restaurant-review.html\nSonic at Happy Hour: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/06/scenes-from-happy-hour.html\nMoe's BBQ Vestavia: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/06/lost-road-to-some-great-finds.html\n100 places to eat in alabama before you die: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/05/100-places-to-eat-before-you-die-in.html\nBright Star, Bessemer: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/04/weekend-full-of-sunshine.html\nCafe Lazio, Hoover: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/03/ladies-lunch-at-cafe-lazio.html\nHome PLate Cooking, Helena: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/03/home-run-with-home-plate.html\nBernies on Main, Columbiana: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/02/bernies-on-main-st-restaurant-grill.html\nNew York Pizza, Homewood: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/01/new-york-pizza.html\nMargarita Grill, Pelham: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/01/margarita-grill-always-hits-spot.html\nShonos Japanese Grill: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/01/shonos-japanses-grill.html\nThe Courtyard, Mater's Pizza Gadsden: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/01/quick-trip.html\nPapa Sia's, Alabaster:http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/01/papa-saias-pizzeria-and-sports.html\nMugshots, Tuscaloosa: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2008/01/mugshots-grill-and-bar.html\nIguana Grill, Hoover: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/12/at-iguana-grill-mood-is-festive.html\nTop O the River,Gadsden: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/12/top-othe-river.html\nVJ's on the Runway, Birmingham: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/11/v-js-on-runway-cafe.html\nTaziki's Greek and Baha Burger, Inverness: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/10/greek-fare.html\nThe BBQ Place, Ft Payne: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/10/bar-b-q-place.html\nBenedikt's, Onteona: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/09/benedikts-restaurant.html\nBates House of Turkey, Greenville: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/09/bates-house-of-turkey-review.html\nTrussville Cafe, Trussville: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-post.html\nTate's BBQ, Scottsboro: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/08/tates-bar-b-que.html\nLulu's Homeport, Gulfshores: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/08/lulu-buffet-serves-up-la-caviar.html\nThe Ashville House Tearoom, Ashville: http://lbratina.blogspot.com/2007/07/ashville-house-tearoom-i-discovered.html\nMy faves are Nickie's West in Birmingham and Benedikt's in Oneaonta.\nBig Bob Gibson's BBQ in Decatur - best bbq EVER (not just in Alabama). They were recently featured in Southern Living Magazine (http://eatingmywords.southernliving.com/eating_my_words/2008/04/white-barbecue.html) and also in People Magazine and the Today Show. I'll think of others, too....\nMy family LOVES La Fiesta in Hoover (behind the Outback Steakhouse, and near the new Publix). If you like Mexican food, give this place a try. It's incredible! (The salsa is hot and delicious; everyone loves their cheese dip; and the fajitas are the best!) I have been eating at La Fiesta for well over 15 years now... and many of those years include a once-a-week visit! :)\nGot the chance to check out a fabulous restaurant in Mt. Laurel, AL called Stones Throw Bar and Grill. 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The Egyptian Civil Aviation Agency subordinate to the ministry, is the civil aviation authority of Egypt\nEIFFA, is \u201cThe Egyptian International Freight Forwarding Association\u201d is the official organization dedicated to enhancing, supporting and leading this field to a successful and prosperous future. 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Grave side services will be at 10 AM Friday, Nov.1, at Forest Hill Cemetery, Canton, SD. Family will greet visitors at a gathering at \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nPatricia \u2018Pat\u2019 Stubsten\nService: Her memorial service will be at 2 PM Saturday, Nov. 2, at Canton Lutheran Church. Burial will be at 1 PM at Forest Hill Cemetery near Canton.\nPatricia Stubsten, 85, passed away at home on October 26, 2013 from pulmonary fibrosis with her children at her side. She courageously lived with pulmonary fibrosis for the past two years. Pat was born on May 10, 1928 to Raymond \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nAgnes Teach\nService: Funeral services will be at 2PM Thursday, Oct. 31, at Canton United Methodist Church, with burial at Forest Hill Cemetery near Canton.\nAgnes Teach, age 75, passed away on Sunday, October 27, 2013 in Watertown, SD. Funeral services will be at 2PM Thursday, Oct. 31, at Canton United Methodist Church, with burial at Forest Hill Cemetery near Canton. Visitation will be one \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nMildred \u201cMillie\u201d Fossum\nVisitation: Visitation, with family present, will be Sunday from 5-8 p.m. at St Dominic's Catholic Church. A prayer service will begin at 7 p.m.\nService: Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday, October 28 at St. Dominic\u2019s Catholic Church in Canton.\nMildred \u201cMillie\u201d Fossum, age 87, died Friday, October 25, 2013 at Dougherty Hospice Cottage. Mass of Christian Burial will begin at 10:30 a.m. Monday, October 28 at St. Dominic\u2019s Catholic Church in Canton. Visitation, with family present, will be Sunday \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nBruce Alan, \u201cRick\u201d, Rikansrud\nBruce Alan, \u201cRick\u201d, Rikansrud, 61, died comfortably while in the care of the dedicated staff at Presbyterian Hospice in Albuquerque, NM, on October 7, 2013 from advanced lung cancer. He was preceded in death by his father, Don Rikansrud. He \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nDale E. Severson\nService: His funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, October 9, at Shalom Lutheran Church in Harrisburg. Burial and Military Rites will precede the funeral service at Forest Hill Cemetery near Canton at 9:30 a.m..\nHarrisburg. Dale E. Severson, 82, passed away Sunday, October 6, 2013 at Good Samaritan Society in Canton. Visitation will be Tuesday from 2 to 8 p.m. at Anderson Funeral Home in Canton, with family present from 6 to 8 p.m. \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nDonald Kenneth Sandness\nVisitation: A visitation with family and a lunch will follow the 1:30 p.m. service at the church.\nService: A service of thanksgiving to God for the life of Donald will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20 at Canton Lutheran Church. A visitation with family and a lunch will follow the service at the church. A private family burial will be held Monday at the Canton Lutheran Cemetery.\nDonald K. Sandness, 86, of Canton died Thursday, October 3, 2013 at Sanford Canton-Inwood Hospital. A service of thanksgiving to God for the life of Donald will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20 at Canton Lutheran Church. 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All rights reserved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.anneheslop.co.uk/image-galleries/charity/sonali/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SQVTC334IPBBVQUF5O27VKHZNXHEDTUE", "length": 790, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.anneheslop.co.uk", "title": "Sonali | Anne Heslop Photography", "raw_content": "Sonali 10\nSonali 1\nSonali, who is 11, lives in a slum in Koraput, Orissa, India with her mother and two young sisters, in a house with only three walls, no electricity and a tendency to flood during the monsoon. She used to go to school, but her father died two years ago of an \u2018unknown\u2019 illness. His illness, and the corruption of some unscrupulous doctors, cost the family their previous house and life savings, which meant that Sonali had to stay at home to take care of her sisters, while her mother went to work. When the centre opened in the slum, she saw it as an answer to her prayers, as she could return to a place of learning, taking her two young sisters with her. We are now looking for a way to help her catch up with her studies and return to a residential government school.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 193.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.annunciationmonastery.org/about/meet-our-sisters.html/title/sr-nicole-kunze", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:47Z", "digest": "sha1:G545TTLUSAW6UAKTG4CSNNAFDLH2TNRO", "length": 2136, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.annunciationmonastery.org", "title": "Annunciation Monastery : About Us : Meet Our Sisters", "raw_content": "\"Living the Benedictine way of life is a daily commitment. Some days are easier than others, but with the help and support of God and my community, it is a journey I am willing to take.\"\nBeing a sister wasn't something I thought about until I was in college. A friend and I talked about spending a weekend at the monastery to see what it was like. I was curious about how the sisters lived and had no intention of taking it any further than that. I already had plans, going to graduate school, getting married, having a family, and teaching at a university. That weekend changed my mind and my life. Something about their way of life felt right to me. I spent more time with the sisters and eventually, I couldn't see myself doing anything else.\nAfter college graduation in 1999, I decided I was ready to make my final profession to this community and couldn't be happier. After teaching high school chemistry for five years, I pursued a doctoral degree in chemistry education at the University of Northern Colorado. The hardest part was being away from the community. I missed community prayer, visiting at meals and spending free time with friends the most. I counted the days until I could return home and be a part of everyday community life again.\nThe benefits of community life have been great. The constant support and prayer has helped me during my studies. I have been called to share my gifts with the community like teaching computer classes and developing gifts I didn't know I had, like playing the organ. We are asked to do what we can to help the common good and I appreciate that.\nLiving the Benedictine way of life is a daily commitment. Some days are easier than others, but with the help and support of God and my community, it is a journey I am willing to take.\n*After graduating from the University of Northern Colorado, Sister Nicole served as a chemistry professor at the University of Mary, Bismarck, one of the sisters' sponsored ministries. In 2016, Sister Nicole was elected as prioress of Annunciation Monastery. She was installed on May 20, 2016.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVRgnRBEDec&feature=youtu.be", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 197.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.apkobb.com/2015/07/call-of-duty-heroes-apk-mod.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4VFLSLEZEJYXQONOXNBSDARMJE5GFYWG", "length": 675, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.apkobb.com", "title": "Call of Duty: Heroes APK Mod v1.8.1 - Apkobb.com- Moded Apps & Games", "raw_content": "Call of Duty: Heroes APK Mod v1.8.1\nDownload Call of Duty: Heroes APK v1.8.1 Mod\nCall of Duty: Heroes APK v1.8.1 Mod\n\u00a9 2014 Activision Publishing, Inc. ACTIVISION and CALL OF DUTY are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc. 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Please visit http://www.activision.com/privacy/en/privacy.html to view Activision's privacy policy and https://www.activision.com/legal/terms-of-use to view Activision's terms of use.\nName: Call of Duty: Heroes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aquinasandmore.com/blog/what-is-a-scapular/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:26Z", "digest": "sha1:2DBNQJWOKVY42MJOCSKQHCJR72AQ6VM4", "length": 8035, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.aquinasandmore.com", "title": "What is a Scapular?", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Behind the Catholic Counter \u00bb What is a Scapular?\nOrigins \u2013 the Scapular as Part of the Monastic Habit\nThe scapular, the two small pieces of wool most people think of when they hear the word, is a sacramental based on an important piece of the monastic habit. A true scapular, in the original use of the word, is a piece of cloth, about shoulder width, that is worn over the shoulders and falls not quite to the wearer\u2019s feet. It is the most important garment for those in monastic orders and has also been adopted by non-monastic religious orders for both male and female. In the past the scapular also had bands on the arm, connecting the front and back panel of fabric and thus forming a cross on the body of the wearer; this style of scapular is sometimes still used today. For this reason, the scapular was also simply called a crux, meaning\u2018cross.\u2019\nThe scapular is meant to be symbolic of an apron, indicating the wearer\u2019s readiness and willingness to serve. That the scapular is a symbolic and not merely a practical apron is based on the point in the St. Benedict\u2019s Rule, where he says that it is to be worn \u201cfor work.\u201dBenedict uses a non-specific word for work here, not the word for manual work or labor, which he uses elsewhere in the Rule, and not the words specific to \u2018God\u2019s work,\u2019 which he used elsewhere to include prayer. So it is believed that \u201cscapulare propter opera\u201d (\u201cscapular for work\u201d) means a scapular to be worn always, whether while at prayer or while doing manual labor.\nIn the middle ages, it was common for the lay faithful to join religious orders in an affiliate sense, as a tertiary. Since some did not take full vows, they would not wear the full habit. Some others who took private vows would wear almost the full habit. The non-monastic, one not taking full vows, would be granted a \u201creduced scapular\u201d to wear. This was two pieces of wool, about 2 inches by 3 inches each, held together by a band or cord and worn over the shoulder with one rectangle in front and one in back. Still larger than the devotional scapular worn by many Catholics, the shape and small size of this scapular is closest in appearance to what many lay Catholics wear. They are still often worn by tertiary members of the Franciscan, Carmelite, and Dominican orders.\nScapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel\nPious tradition holds that the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Simon Stock on July 16, 1251 in England, with a scapular in her hand and said to him,\u201cTake, beloved son this scapular of thy order as a badge of my confraternity and for thee and all Carmelites a special sign of grace; whoever dies in this garment, will not suffer everlasting fire. It is the sign of salvation, a safeguard in dangers, a pledge of peace and of the covenant.\u201d According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, these precise words of Our Lady only appeared in written form in 1642, in a document that said these words had been dictated by Simon to his secretary and confessor. Historical documents cannot support the exact details or words, but the content is held to be reliable. That is to say, it is credible that Our Lady assured St. Simon Stock in a supernatural manner of her special protection over his whole order and all who would wear the Carmelite habit, indirectly extending to all Christian faithful who should wear the scapular as a badge of devotion, even if we cannot place the exact words.\nThe promise and the following conditions are typically associated with a vision and Bull of Pope John XXII. The Bull that has been handed down since the 1400's was never mentioned for over 100 years after its supposed promulgation in 1322 and no record of such a document exists in the writings of Pope John XXII. It has been generally assumed that the extant text of the Bull is not an authentic document but the promises and conditions are valid and several popes have given the Carmelites permission to preach them.\n1) Wear the Brown Scapular continuously \u2013 this involves being enrolled in the Brown Scapular Confraternity.\nObviously, the Scapular is not a get out of Hell or Purgatory Free Card.\nThe Trinity Scapular \u2013 This is a small white scapular with a red and blue cross and is connected to the Confraternity of The Most Blessed Trinity and tertiaries of the Order. The Order's founder, St. John de Matha, had a vision during his first Mass of two Christian captives, one of whom held a staff with a red and blue cross on top. From this vision St. John knew he was destined to work among captives for their redemption. Tradition also holds that in 1198, an angel wearing a white garment with a blue and red cross appeared to Pope Innocent III, who subsequently approved the Order of the Trinitarians.\nThe Five Fold Scapular \u2013 The Five Fold Scapular, also called a Five Way Scapular, is a Redemptorist Sacramental. It is a combination of five of the most popular scapulae: the Brown, Black, Blue, Trinity white and Red Passion scapulars.\nOther devotional scapulars include the Passion Scapular and the Mercedarian Scapular, also known as the Scapular of Our Lady of Mercy.\nScapular Trivia\nA scapular is different than other sacramentals when it comes to blessings. Typically you will ask a priest to bless objects like rosaries, statues, your car, your pets, etc. When you are invested in the scapular, you receive the blessing, not the scapular. Any time you need to replace the scapular you just get a new one. You don't need to get it blessed because you are the blessed \u201cobject\u201d.\nThis article was adapted from the New Catholic Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Mary.\nDo you wear a scapular?\nThe Complete Guide for Celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi\nWhy have Crucifixes and Crosses in the Home?\nBack to school gifts for Catholic college students\nSamantha Villagomez\nI\u2019m very pleased with all the writings and so thrilled and excited because people think i\u2019m crazy this relief is very good for my peace of mind. Thank you.\nJackie King Fenning\nPeople try to drag me down about my Catholic beliefs, until I realize millions of souls share my vision, and it is a great relief to remember that. We have a wonderful family and will never be alone.\nTina In Ashburn\nGood article, thanks Ian!\n\u201cThe Church has blessed the appearance of Mary to St. Simon Stock, an early Carmelite, in which she is said to have promised that anyone who remains faithful to the Carmelite vocation until death will be granted the grace of final perseverance. This grace, it must be reminded, does not come from the scapular or any other sacramental; all grace is obtained for us by the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of the Lord. The sacraments mediate this saving grace; sacramentals do not mediate grace but prepare us to receive grace and to cooperate with it. Favors associated with the wearing of the Brown Scapular would be meaningless without the wearer living and dying in a state of grace.\u201d\n\u201cThe \u201cSabbatine Privilege\u201d is an alleged promise made by Our Lady to Pope John XXII in the fourteenth century in which she said that she would assist those wearing the Brown Scapular on the Saturday following their death. The Vatican has not upheld this apparition and teaching. In fact, in 1613 the Holy See determined that the purported decree establishing the Privilege was unfounded and the Church admonished the Carmelite Order not to preach this doctrine.\nUnfortunately, the Order did not always comply with this directive of\nthe Holy See. The Church also said, however, that the faithful may devoutly believe that the Blessed Virgin will assist souls, especially on Saturdays, the day which the Church dedicates to the Blessed Virgin.\u201d\n\u201cConsistent with the Catholic tradition favors associated with the wearing of the Brown Scapular would be meaningless without the wearers living and dying in the state of grace, observing chastity according to their state in life, and living a life of prayer and penitence.\u201d\nMICHAEL A CROGNALE\nI wear the metal scapular because I am allergic to wool. 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Zall \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb CHAPTER 4 OF BOOK", "raw_content": "Posted in Politics | Friday, December 8th, 2006 | 1 Comment \u00bb Trackback\nThere are millions of illegal immigrants in the country (I emphasize \ufffdIllegal Immigrants\ufffd instead of the politically correct \ufffdUndocumented Workers\ufffd to make it clear that their presence here is in violation of our laws), and perhaps a million new ones entering every year. I don\ufffdt give exact figures with citations for these numbers, because the values I have seen are all over the map, depending on what point the purveyor of the information is trying to make. And in truth, nobody knows!!! The number of how many enter every year is based on how many are caught trying, together with estimates of how many get in for every one that is caught. The number of how many are already here is loosely based on those estimates times the number of years since the last \ufffdamnesty\ufffd. There are millions more would-be immigrants trying to get in legally, with waiting lists from some countries more than five years long.\nThe companies and organizations that hire the illegal immigrants proclaim that they all have \ufffdpapers\ufffd which appear to be valid and, as employers, they are not capable of detecting counterfeit documents. Moreover, they say, these immigrants are needed to \ufffdfill jobs Americans don\ufffdt want.\ufffd They protest that the economy would founder without these workers.\nLet me translate this double-talk into plain English for you. What they mean is that they can\ufffdt hire American workers to do these jobs at the wages they can get away with paying illegal immigrants. Undocumented workers are in no position to complain about wages, working conditions, or living conditions; they know their \ufffddocuments\ufffd are phony, and that if they complain to anybody, the INS is going to learn about them and lock them up to ship back to wherever they came from. They also know that if they quit their jobs to try to find something better, their erstwhile employer will suddenly realize that their documents were fake, and turn them in to the INS.\nThere is a word for this type of \ufffdemployment\ufffd at subsistence wages with no rights whatever for the worker. It is known as \ufffdSLAVERY\ufffd!!! Southern plantation owners before the civil war piously proclaimed that without slave labor they could not grow the crops the nation needed (all the while getting rich off the fruits of that labor). It was immoral then, and it is immoral now. It is a shocking indictment of the countries that they came from that the modern slave laborers not only accept these conditions, but consider them an improvement over what they left behind.\nWe as a people have no right to get chicken for a few cents less per pound because Tyson can chop it up on the cheap using illegal immigrant (slave) workers.\nMoreover, these immigrants cannot do what earlier immigrants did, and integrate into the population at large. They have to live in ethnic ghettos hopefully unnoticed by the legal citizenry. Consequently they have to import their culture with them, and create foreign enclaves, in vast contradiction to the traditional \ufffdmelting pot\ufffd.\nThis situation cannot continue without us becoming a divided nation of English-speaking haves, and foreign-language-speaking have-not slaves. It must be terminated.\nI have already described how I would close the border to illegal immigration. The next question is what to do about the illegal immigrants who are already here. The first question to be determined is who they are, and how many of them are there? One answer to this question is to establish a national system of identity cards for everyone, biometrically-identified with a fingerprint, an iris scan, and a representation of a DNA scan. Probably the best agency to manage this ID system is the Social Security Administration, since the present Social Security number is already a de-facto national ID. All my new system will be is a biometrically-coded version of the Social Security Card.\nWhen positive identification of a citizen is needed, the card will be fed into a reader linked to the SSA\ufffds computerized data base, which will verify that the fingerprint, iris scan, and DNA code embossed thereon match those on file in the database for the person named. The person to be identified will then look into an aperture on the machine for a matching iris scan, and put his hands into a second aperture to provide a fingerprint of the appropriate finger. The reader will verify that fingerprint and iris scan of the person to be identified match those on the card. It will be impossible to counterfeit such an ID card. While the fingerprint and iris scan on a counterfeit card will no doubt match those of the bearer, there will be no matching data in the SSA data base, and the card will be rejected. The reader and its SSA connection will not be activated until the hands are inserted; if the card is rejected for no match with the data base, a pair of handcuffs will automatically close on the wrists, and the police will be summoned.\nIf the iris scan and fingerprint of the person to be identified do not match those of the card, again the handcuffs will activate and the police will be summoned.\nThe network used to operate this system will a secure dedicated system, totally independent of the Internet. The only access to it from outside will be the ID card readers, each of which will have an internal ID number, pass word and GPS reader. All three have to match in the central computer database before card reading is permitted. No readers will be located in any foreign country. No wireless transmission links will be used. The central processing computers will be located in fenced compounds under military security. Thus the shocking ease with which hackers (foreign and domestic!!!) can penetrate computer systems connected to the Internet will be avoided.\nThe concept of a \ufffdNational ID Card\ufffd is anathema to all civil rights activists. I do not understand these vehement objections. We all have \ufffdNational ID\ufffds\ufffd now, in the form of social security numbers and drivers\ufffd licenses. The system is deeply flawed, however, since these identifications are presently stolen with impunity. \ufffdIdentity theft\ufffd is rampant, and is rapidly becoming one of the most common crimes. It is, moreover, incredibly easy and profitable. The ID card I propose cannot be used if stolen without the pretender being handcuffed and turned over to the police. Identity theft will effectively become impossible with the new identity cards. Voting, opening a new credit or deposit account, boarding aircraft, etc., are all situations where biometrically-positive ID would greatly increase our security, and will be required once the system is in full operation. In Chapter 9, I will describe an additional use for this card and these readers in a cashless, electronic-transfer society.\nIn addition, the bleeding hearts among us will piously protest that I am violating \u201cimmigrant rights\u201d by instituting an ID system that can track them down. My answer is the philosophical basis for my attack on the whole problem: There is no such thing as a \u201cright\u201d of immigration into the United States. We grant to suitable persons the \u201cprivilege\u201d of immigration, a privilege based on the expectation that they will be useful to us.\nAll persons in the United States will be required to present themselves with their current identifications to the nearest Social Security Office to receive the new cards. For native-born citizens, birth certificate or passport will be required. Driver\ufffds licenses will not suffice, since there is no verification of ID when these are issued. In the absence of birth certificate or passport, an affidavit from a next-of-kin with a valid birth certificate or passport will be required. For naturalized citizens, the naturalization certificate will be required. A verification of the applicant\ufffds residence address from the city or town clerk will also be required. The applicant will then provide a blood sample for DNA analysis, an iris scan, and a print of one of eight (non-thumb) fingers, selected at the applicant\ufffds choice, without knowledge of the processing officer. Needless to say, when the person submits a card to a reader to verify identity, he or she must select the same finger for fingerprinting. All of these biometric identifiers will be permanently imprinted on the card in a machine-readable format for subsequent verifications of identity. The card will also be imprinted with the applicant\ufffds social security number, machine-readable only.\nMinors will get a provisional ID card, identifying them as \ufffdapprentice citizens\ufffd, having a \ufffdAC\ufffd number. Upon entry into the military for universal service at age eighteen, they will receive in its place a military ID card with a military ID number (\ufffdMID\ufffd) Upon completion of military service at age 21, they will graduate to full-fledged citizen status, and receive the adult identification card.\nLegally-resident aliens will submit proof of their legal status, including passport endorsed with the dated passport-control stamp at the port-of-entry, visa if they have one, and proof of residence from the city or town clerk. They will receive a biometrically-identified ID card identical to the visa card described in the previous chapter. Their numbers for social-security-tax purposes will be coded \ufffdLI\ufffd for \ufffdLegal Immigrant\ufffd. Documented minor legally-resident aliens will receive an LIM (\u201cLegal Immigrant Minor\u201d) card in their own names. Undocumented minors claiming legal status by virtue of the status of their parents, will receive a card dependent on the claimed parental card, provided DNA analyses confirm parenthood.\nProof of ID at a reader will be required for registration at elementary and secondary schools as well as universities, for employment, for opening any deposit or credit account, for transferring funds from one account to another, for obtaining a driver\ufffds license, and for receiving any government services.\nIllegal immigrants will have none of the necessary documents to receive ID cards. If they present themselves for processing during a grace period, they will be offered two options: either to return to the country of origin to join the queue waiting for legal immigration status; or to be committed to detention centers (completely independent of the prison system) for a period of five years. In detention centers, all families will be kept together. They will be provided jobs similar to those held by illegal immigrants today. They will receive instruction in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing American English. They will have opportunities to learn useful trades so that they will be able to support themselves at more than subsistence wages when they complete their five-year detention. At the conclusion of their detention they will be granted legal-resident status, and be given the opportunity to apply for citizenship. Minors will attend school. Minors reaching the age of eighteen during detention will be inducted into the military, terminating their detention. At the conclusion of their military service, they will receive legal-resident status, and may apply for full citizenship. The cost of operating the detention centers will be assessed on every company found to have been employing illegal immigrants in the past, in proportion to the number of such workers they employed. Once the last illegal immigrant has completed the five-year detention, the centers will be closed, or converted to other uses.\nLiving conditions in the detention centers will be substantially better than those under which most illegal immigrants live now, and the jobs will not be significantly worse. Therefore it will be to the advantage of present illegal immigrants to elect this option rather than return to native countries and take chances on the legal-immigration queue.\nChildren born in the United States to legal-immigrant parents will themselves be legal immigrants, eligible to become citizens upon reaching their majority. Children born in the United States to illegal-immigrant parents will be illegal immigrants, and must follow their parents in whichever option those parents choose. Similarly children born abroad to illegal-immigrant parents, but residing with them in the United States are also illegal immigrants, and must follow their parents in whichever option is chosen.\nIllegal immigrants who do not present themselves during the grace period will be automatically returned to their country of origin if they are subsequently caught. Any persons providing \ufffdsanctuary\ufffd to illegal immigrants, aiding them or abetting them in evading discovery, will be prosecuted as criminals. If such persons have legal immigrant status, they will be stripped of this privilege, and will be required to return to their country of origin. Citizens convicted of this crime will be imprisoned for five years. Public officials who provide \ufffdsanctuary\ufffd or encourage others to do so, or who fail to enforce the law, will be deemed to have violated their oath of office. They will be stripped of office, barred from ever holding any public office in the future, and imprisoned for five years.\nThe name of this country is The United States of America, and its motto is \ufffde pluribus unum\ufffd (\ufffdout of many, one\ufffd). The most important unifying bond that people from many different cultures and backgrounds can share is a common language. Therefore, the official language of the country will be English. All public business will be transacted only in English, and all persons seeking to become citizens must demonstrate proficiency in speaking, understanding, reading, and writing American English. All commercial and business transactions will be conducted in English. Private conversations, of course, may be held in any language the parties wish: pig latin, Esperanto, street slang, whatever. Adult-education courses will be provided free of charge to legal immigrants needing to learn English.\nHaving secured the borders against further invasions, having identified who is here legally and who is not, and having provided an avenue for illegal immigrants to legitimize their status, I will then turn my attention to the question of who, and how many, legal immigrants we should admit. This will be based on the principle that we admit only those who can benefit us. The United States is not the safety valve for the population pressures created by the fertile bellies of Latin America, Africa, the Near East, or Asia. Immigration to the US is not a right, but a privilege we grant to persons we believe can become useful citizens.\nThe basic question will be, what useful skills does the immigrant offer? We really do not need any more unskilled laborers. We would seek first to admit those whose skills and knowledge and education will be valuable to us. Next in priority order will be reuniting of separated families, regardless of the immigrant\ufffds skills. The legal immigrant kin in this country must sponsor the applicant, and guarantee his support. Parents and offspring of legal immigrants will go to the head of this queue, subject to verification of kinship by DNA test. Siblings and their offspring will be next in line. For all practical purposes more distant kin will probably not qualify, since the quota of unskilled applicants will most likely be filled by the closer kin.\nPersons seeking legal permanent-residency status must swear under oath to observe all of our laws, especially anti-discrimination statutes, and especially vow to observe and support the principle of \u201cSeparation of Church and State\u201d. If they are of the Moslem faith, they must publicly disavow the intolerant tenets of Wahabbism and similar anti-Christian or anti-Jewish Moslem sects. If they subsequently violate in public speech or deed this disavowal, they will be stripped of legal immigrant status and expelled from the country. Subscription to the principle of separation of church and state will be a stringent point of issue for Moslems and immigrants from Latin America, since it is completely contrary to their culture. For many Moslems, the state exists only to enforce with its police power the \u201csharia\u201d and other dogmas of the mosque. The Moslem Moors implanted this philosophy in an all-too-willing Spain, which in turn transplanted it to Latin America. Immigrants from these parts of the world will have to demonstrate conclusively that they reject in toto the philosophies of their cultures in this regard.\nIn Chapter 5 \u201cCrime and Punishment\u201d, I outline how all imprisonment will be at hard labor. Convict labor will be used for the menial tasks that illegal immigrants do now. If there should be a shortage of agricultural labor even after this replacement supply, a \u201cguest worker\u201d system, operated by the government will be instituted. Guest workers will be admitted, ID\u2019d, housed in secure government-operated camps, transported to their labor sites by government transport, paid by the government, and returned to their country of origin after the planting and harvest season is over. The government will then charge the employer for the cost (including shelter, subsistence, and transportation) of the workers provided. The use of private contractors in place of government agencies and workers will not be permitted.\n* National ID, biometrically based: there needs a way for citizenry to review their record and correct errors. It would suck to be listed as a terrorist when in fact you were not one. Even a US dictator must admit that \u201cInnocent until proven guilty\u201d has a nice ring to it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 18656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arthurng.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:01Z", "digest": "sha1:OV4Y2SHBZTRTIMXJOLBH6H42NC2CZWRW", "length": 1612, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.arthurng.com", "title": "Arthur Ng - Personal Website", "raw_content": "Welcome to my personal website. I am an IT Support Engineer at The Environment Partnership based in Birchwood Warrington, UK. My research explores the limits of our own minds and the reasons why we often are unaware of our limits.\nBeyond my academic work, I am fond of a variety of soups. I believe Soup is a primarily liquid food, generally served warm (but may be cool or cold), that is made by combining ingredients such as meat and vegetables with stock, juice, water, or another liquid. Hot soups are additionally characterized by boiling solid ingredients in liquids in a pot until the flavors are extracted, forming a broth.\nTraditionally, soups are classified into two main groups: clear soups and thick soups. The established French classifications of clear soups are bouillon and consomme. Thick soups are classified depending upon the type of thickening agent used: purees are vegetable soups thickened with starch; bisques are made from pureed shellfish or vegetables thickened with cream; cream soups may be thickened with bechamel sauce; and veloutes are thickened with eggs, butter, and cream. Other ingredients commonly used to thicken soups and broths include egg[1], rice, lentils, flour, and grains; many popular soups also include carrots and potatoes.\nSoups are similar to stews, and in some cases there may not be a clear distinction between the two; however, soups generally have more liquid than stews.\nArthur's Tips\n( Arthur Ng )\nThe Secret of Soup\n( Mike Hodgekinson)\nOnly the tomato puree in hearts can make a good soup.\nAll rights reserved 2013. You can find out more about TEP here .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 40.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.atouchofsoutherngrace.com/2018/07/5-easy-on-go-hairstyles-for-naturally.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:31Z", "digest": "sha1:NQWJPVUPXUY67GU2UPZQ4BGFBHWVUSLU", "length": 5020, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.atouchofsoutherngrace.com", "title": "A Touch of Southern Grace : 5 Easy On-The-Go Hairstyles For Naturally Curly Hair", "raw_content": "I have naturally curly hair and during the summer between the rain, humidity, water related activities, etc. it is just a wasted effort to blow dry and use hot tools on my hair. Today Aimee is sharing a few easy on-the-go hairstyles that will keep you looking great in the summer and save a little time on your beauty routine!\nMost people are interested in ensuring that their hair is well maintained. It must be kept healthy all the time. Having the easy way of doing it, you will succeed to keep it healthy. You will have every reason to manage the outlook of your virgin hair. You can as well minimize the cash you are going to maintain the hair against any damages. To keep it healthy and from any given infection, you will still need to observe the following five given hairstyles. If you know how they are done, then you can practice them. Ensure also you have the chance to seek the professionals who can aid you get what you know is working on well for you. Focus on the following five hairstyles and you will be maintaining the way your hair will look like.\n1. The twisted kind of the curly hairstyle.\nThis is one of the styles that seem to be very simple and can be done by anybody willing to do it. At times you may see it being hard in how you can make use of the style to help you seek what you want. The twists will be keeping you decent and also the manner in it can be kept quite healthy. There is a need to have this kind of the hairstyle. You only need to use the unruly curls on your face to help get what you think will be working out for you. It is thus good once you know the hairstyles can make you be what you want, you find a way of utilizing the chance. This must also aid you in a way that you can focus to care for your hair as much as you can. Have the styles if you want to improve your natural outlook, thus making you look presentable when you are attending some functions.\n2. Braid the long hair to the low ponytail.\nYou can also braid the long kind of the hairstyle. Ensure that you roll it into the ponytail. This is something which you have to focus on. It must be applicable since you will be doing what is right for you. Have the focus if at all you are going to ensure that you look well. The only way also to look presentable, is to have the same given focus. This must be known in case you have some difficulties that you are likely to sort out. In case you have the same challenges, this is also another unique way you are going to sort your hair. It will at the end look natural and also good looking.\n3. Crown the braid wet kind of the hair also roll it to the bun.\nIf your hair is wet, you can crown it and at the same time roll it to the bun. This is another modification that you must look at. It is also easy to be done, but you have to do it in an easy way. In case you have any challenges, you can know how to fix the same issues. Otherwise for you to make all work out for you, plan to be what is applicable for. Have all it takes if you are intending to get the best on the same note. If you do not have any skills, then seek it form the one who has the chance to aid you. This is the best thing ever you can do if you are going to manage your life as much as you can.\n4. Separate the hair to the four sections as well as pinning it up.\nDo the separation of the weave hair into the selection which can make it look unique? You have to do the normal procedure that can aid you to have the hair looking naturally good. If you need to pin the hair into those sections, then it is necessary to have it done. Do all that will make the same situation working on well for you. This is the easiest step that you will not for your hairstyle.\n5. Pull hair to the given curly especially to the top knot.\nYou can also have the hair being pulled into the top knot. This can also make you look very presentable. If you can have your hair being in this model, then you are going to manage the possibility of making it. You are now going to make the possible taking place to you as much as you could. Get the same things done if you want your hair to look natural and in good condition. The possible way you want your hair to look like, still, it can be done. Thus, you have to know what else you can do or you are capable of doing.\nFinally, the easy way to manage any hairstyle is to focus on the above easy steps. You can make it as natural as you can depending on the way you want. If the above things are considered, then it will be easy to have the best. It is thus, good if you can organize to have the best don in a way that you will demand it. Have the best you can by observing the above given easy ways to have your hairstyle looking natural. The more you can get all done in the right way, the better it will get for you.\nDressed With Soul July 24, 2018 at 2:10 AM\nLooks like really worth to try! Thanks for sharing.\nI hope you enjoy some of these hair styles!\nElena M July 24, 2018 at 3:11 PM\nThank you for taking the time to stop by! Hope you are having a wonderful week!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 8292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.attainablewe.com/news-roundup/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:30Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZSRDSR2J3OC4Q7ZLAFNAKM5YRV7PBFX", "length": 2704, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.attainablewe.com", "title": "News Roundup - Attainable We", "raw_content": "Dumping toxins into streams is getting unregulated. Did you also know that \u201cstates such as Kentucky and Idaho are rewarded for being national dumping grounds for waste.\u201d\nVox Roundup, Week #2: resistance is slowing things down on ethics reform, immigration ban, Cabinet confirmations, privatization of Medicare and public lands, and repealing the Affordable Care Act. \u201cCitizens do have the power to win them, by making Republicans scared.\u201d\nNPR Roundup, Week #1: White House attempts on ACA, Immigration, Voter fraud, environment, government hiring freeze\nNon-Executive Action\nConflict of interest: Trump\u2019s plan to step back from his businesses day-to-day is \u201cmeaningless from a conflict of interest perspective,\u201d said the nonpartisan director of the federal Office of Government Ethics: \u201cThe President is now entering a world of public service. He\u2019s going to be asking our men and women in uniform to risk their lives in conflicts around the world. So no, I don\u2019t think divestiture is too high a price to pay to be President of the United States of America.\u201d\nCabinet Inventory\nDefense: President Trump\u2019s first Cabinet secretary was confirmed: Secretary of Defense and (recently) retired Gen. James Mattis, who is widely respected. When the Senate held a hearing on civilian control of the military, the testimony was essentially a plea from experts to appoint Mattis so he could prevent \u201cwildly stupid, dangerous, or illegal things from happening\u201d (an actual quote!). [Senate Armed Services Committee / Eliot A. Cohen] The only senator to vote against Mattis was Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who made an important point: In the face of a president determined to break norms, the temptation to break norms oneself is both harder and more important to resist. [NYT / Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand]\nState: Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson. \u201cExxonMobil successfully lobbied against a bill that would have made it harder for the next president to lift sanctions against Russia, clearing the way for the oil giant to restart a program worth billions of dollars if Donald Trump eases those restrictions as president.\u201d\nwhen the goal is to not turn away from wrongdoing\nThe Guardian salutes, with examples, America\u2019s successful history of progressive resistance: \u201cIt is hard to identify a progressive cause in the United States that has advanced without a civil resistance movement behind it. Long-term change never comes with submission, resignation, or despair about the inevitability and intractability of the status quo\u2026 Nonviolent resistance has historically been the most effective\u2026 Historical studies suggest that it takes 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained nonviolent resistance to topple brutal dictatorships.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aubergevancouver.com/attractions/chinatown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2QIAEMCPZ5MJKLYR2LQAWD4MDSIO3IKV", "length": 1601, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.aubergevancouver.com", "title": "Chinatown | Things to do in Vancouver BC | Auberge Vancouver", "raw_content": "Chinatown, Vancouver BC\nIf you\u2019d like to experience a completely different side of Vancouver, explore Chinatown. Located near downtown Vancouver \u2013 within easy reach of the Auberge Hotel \u2013 it is one of the earliest communities in British Columbia and home to some of the city\u2019s most famous sceneries and historical buildings.\nVancouver\u2019s Chinatown also tops the list as being one of North America\u2019s cleanest modern-day Chinatowns. Sandwiched between historic Chinese storefronts and landmarks, are trendy independent boutiques, coffee shops, restaurants, and hip residential lofts.\nIt is a place where you can sample world-renowned Chinese delicacies. For an authentic Chinatown experience, enjoy afternoon dim sum at Floata Seafood restaurant, grab a steam bun at New Town Bakery, or have dinner at Bao Bei.\nVisit the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum to learn about the history of Chinese Canadians and appreciate both traditional and contemporary Chinese arts. Or take a stroll through the Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden, a beautiful paradise that offers interesting perspectives on culture, architecture and horticulture from the Ming Dynasty.\nChinatown offers other intriguing attractions too \u2013 like at the world\u2019s narrowest building, which is only 6 feet wide! This phenomenal structure has been recognized by Ripley\u2019s Believe It or Not, and is located at 8 West Pender Street. Or pay homage to a legendary musician and visit the shrine of Jimi Hendrix, which is located at the corner of Main and Union Street, the former location of his grandmother\u2019s restaurant where he lived as a child.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.autofinancing101.org/Learning-Suite/Glossary-of-Auto-Financing-Terms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BAKAWOFGWZELM6RN2YIRAR5KHB7TO2I3", "length": 6781, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.autofinancing101.org", "title": "AWARE > Learning Suite > Glossary of Auto Financing Terms", "raw_content": "Home / Learning Suite / Glossary of Auto Financing Terms\nAgreed-Upon Selling Price\nThe dollar amount the buyer agrees to pay the dealer for the vehicle.\nThe dollar amount of the credit that is provided to the buyer.\nThe cost of credit for one year expressed as a percentage.\nThe bank, finance company, credit union, or other financial institution that purchases the finance contract from a dealer.\nBank or Credit Union Financing\n(also Off-Site Financing)\nThe financing a buyer gets from his or her bank, credit union, or other financial institution to pay for a new or used auto.\nA tool commonly used to measure expenses against income, to help people prioritize their spending and manage their money.\nThe wholesale rate offered to a dealership at which the \"assignee\" (finance company, bank or credit union) will purchase the contract.\nAn individual who assumes equal responsibility for the contract. The account history will be reflected on the co-buyer\u2019s credit history as well as the buyer\u2019s. For this reason, consumers should exercise caution if asked to be a co-buyer for someone else. Since some co- buyers are eventually asked to repay the obligation, individuals need to be sure that they can afford to do so before agreeing to be a co-buyer.\nAn asset pledged to the creditor until the financing is paid off. For example: If you own your home, it may be used as collateral to secure automobile financing.\nThe information that a buyer submits when applying for credit. It typically requires such items as name, Social Security number, date of birth, current and previous addresses and length of stay, current and previous employers and length of employment, occupation, sources of income, total gross monthly income, and financial information on existing credit accounts. This can be done in person, over the phone, or electronically via the Internet.\nThere are two common types of credit insurance. Credit life insurance is optional insurance that pays the scheduled unpaid balance if the buyer dies. Credit disability insurance (sometimes called credit accident and health insurance) is optional insurance that pays the scheduled monthly payments if the buyer becomes disabled. As with most contract terms, the cost of optional credit insurance must be disclosed in writing, and if the buyer wants it, the buyer must agree to it and sign for it.\nA report containing information about the buyer\u2019s current and past credit obligations, payment record, and data from public records (e.g., a bankruptcy filing obtained from court documents). For each account, the credit report shows the applicant\u2019s account number, type and terms of the account, credit limit, most recent balance, and most recent payment. The comments section describes the current status of the applicant\u2019s account, including the creditor\u2019s summary of past-due information and any legal steps that may have been taken to collect.\nA firm that collects, sorts, maintains, and sells information about an individual\u2019s credit history.\nA numerical score that reflects the credit risk you present based on information contained in your credit file. The better your history of credit, the higher your score.\nA person or organization that regularly extends credit, subject to a finance charge.\nThe ability of a consumer to satisfy a credit obligation.\n(also On-Site Financing)\nFinancing that a consumer obtains from the dealership rather than directly from a bank, credit union, or other financial institution to buy a new or used auto. The consumer enters into a contract with the dealership agreeing to pay the amount financed, at an agreed-upon finance rate, over a specified period of time.\nDealer Finance Income\nA portion of the finance charge that is paid to or retained by the dealer as compensation for the dealer\u2019s participation in providing financing to the buyer.\nCredit accounts that are past due. They usually are classified as 30, 60, 90 and 120 days past due.\nThe amount by which a vehicle is expected to decrease in value over a specific period of time.\nAn amount paid at time of purchase that reduces the amount financed. This includes any combination of cash, trade-in value of a previously-owned vehicle, rebates, and other non-cash credits.\nOptional protection on specified mechanical and electrical components of the vehicle. It is available for purchase to extend and/or supplement the warranty coverage provided when purchasing or leasing a new, or in some cases, a used vehicle.\nThe dollar amount that the credit will cost the buyer.\nAn annual percentage rate that remains the same over the life of the finance contract.\nOptional protection that pays the difference between the amount the buyer owes on the auto and the amount the buyer receives from his insurance company if the auto is stolen or destroyed before the buyer has satisfied the credit obligation. In some cases, the buyer may be responsible for the insurance deductible.\nA contract with a dealership to buy a vehicle by paying the amount financed, plus an agreed upon finance charge, over a certain period of time in installments, which are typically monthly payments.\nThe total number of months the borrower has to pay his or her credit obligation.\nA legal claim on ownership of the vehicle stemming from a debt. If the buyer does not make the payments, the lienholder can repossess and sell the vehicle as full or partial payment of the debt.\nOff-Site Financing\n(also Bank or Credit Union Financing) The financing a buyer gets a from his or her bank, credit union or other financial institution to pay for a new or used auto.\n(also Dealer Financing)\nFinancing that a consumer obtains from the dealership rather than directly from a bank, credit union, or other financial institution to buy a new or used auto The consumer enters into a contract with the dealership agreeing to pay the amount financed, at an agreed-upon finance rate, over a specified period of time.\nIn the event that a credit obligation is not satisfied, the legal right a creditor has to take the asset pledged as collateral (typically the automobile) and sell it to pay off the credit obligation. Depending on state laws, this process is typically subject to rights to redeem (pay off the entire balance and get your vehicle back) or reinstate (pay any delinquent payments and get your vehicle back to start the contract again).\nFinancing for which some form of acceptable collateral, such as a house or automobile, has been pledged.\nTrade-in Allowance: The amount the dealer agrees to pay for a trade-in vehicle, which consumers often apply towards the purchase of a new vehicle.\nCredit for which no collateral has been pledged.\nVariable Rate Financing\nWith a variable financing rate, the annual percentage range may change over the life of the contract.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 9464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.awcsoftware.nl/tagtrans/tagtrans.php?search=isolated", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EIMTR6U5NABD57INN4GZIP5LC4A4CKKQ", "length": 646, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.awcsoftware.nl", "title": "Tagalog Translator Online", "raw_content": "Searching for \"isolated\": 2 records\nbored (3), by (81), kundi (1), abokado (1), aying (10), bar (61), ben (23), boot (4), buying (1), cous (4), covered (5), cy (32), dumai (1), gaano katagal (1), gahol (1), gda (26), good (46), hali (27), hum (55), iko (46), ilang (51), illegit (2), in my (1), in order that (2), inla (3), karihan (1), kesa (2), kitid (1), maipit (1), paren (14), pedro (22), reduct (1), retraction (2), romantika (1), second (7), sedi (1), sensual (1), side (74), steamship (1), sua (44), sukat (5), sutsot (1), tatay (3), tungk (22), uring (13), uunawa (3), wag an (1), whirlwind (1), whiskers (1), yeast (1), and much more...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 188.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aydinlikdaily.com/m/agenda/tomb-of-suleyman-shah-threatened-in-its-new-place-by-isil-h304.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:06Z", "digest": "sha1:B5WAE2OEWAYSIJFIZQYXWSVYMFZLKIOM", "length": 762, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.aydinlikdaily.com", "title": "Tomb of Suleyman Shah Threatened in Its New Place by ISIL", "raw_content": "Tomb of Suleyman Shah Threatened in Its New Place by ISIL\nThe terrorist organization ISIL has blown up the bridge on F\u0131rat River, close to the new place of the Tomb of Suleyman Shah\nFollowing the Turkish Armed Forces moved the Tomb of Suleyman Shah from Syria to Turkish soils, ISIL continues to threat the tomb. The terrorist organization has blown up a bridge on the F\u0131rat River, which is 5 km far away from the new place of the tomb in E\u015fme, in order to prevent the PKK militants from entering Cerablus where ISIL located mostly.\nThe Kurdish terrorist organization PKK has attacked back at ISIL 200 meters far away from the border of Turkey and Syria.\nTurkish General Staff has announced that a rocket landed only 8 km far away from the tomb in Turkish soils.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.backupworks.com/comparing-tape-and-cloud-storage-for-long-term-data-preservation.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:57Z", "digest": "sha1:THMGKLPOOCVZ6HLK2PASAPYHNY6O3FP5", "length": 3589, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.backupworks.com", "title": "Comparing Tape and Cloud Storage for Long-Term Data Preservation", "raw_content": "With the retention life of data increasing, many organizations are trying to determine the best long-term storage strategy for the future. To do this, organizations must analyze the reliability, security and speed of data storage solutions, including both cloud and tape storage. \u201cComparing Tape and Cloud Storage for Long-Term Data Preservation\u201d, a white paper published this month by Spectra Logic, explores how a hybrid archive solution, consisting of both cloud and tape, may be deployed to optimize the strengths of each medium while reducing risks of storage failure.\nA quick web search could convince someone that cloud technology has taken over the computing and storage market. \u201cComparing Tape and Cloud Storage for Long-Term Data Preservation\u201d demystifies current perceptions of each technology\u2019s inherent strengths and weaknesses to allow for a side-by-side comparison of factual performance in areas of great importance to any organization\u2019s long-term preservation strategy.\nCatch a glimpse below of some of the points discussed in the white paper.\nReliability, stability, and life expectancy are always top considerations for any organization when choosing a storage platform. Storing data at only one storage site is not a sound business decision, with lots of recorded individual failures of data. This paper examines what is required to achieve optimal reliability with tape and cloud technologies, as well as the nuances of cloud Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and the impacts of potential downtime.\nAccording to the Identity Theft Resource Center (IRTC), three-quarters of US businesses, including retailers, restaurants, hospitals and doctors\u2019 offices, have had cloud-related data breaches of some kind, and half of all those data breaches happened in 2017 alone. The white paper goes over strategies to protect data from ransomware and cyberattacks with both cloud and tape technology, as well as potential vulnerabilities and pertinent cost considerations for each storage method.\nPreviously, tape had a reputation of being slow, while cloud storage has the perception of being fast and agile. This paper reviews recent technology advancements, and flips the script by scrutinizing how control, flexibility and bandwidth affect data uploads. Data retrieval scenarios are also analyzed, examining which technologies performs best when data capacities grow and speedy recoveries of data becomes necessary. Read the white paper to understand what impacts retrieval time for each storage method and how to make the educated decision that best serves your business.\nIn the next two years, many organizations are expected to quadruple the amount of data that needs to be stored \u2013 driving storage technology vendors to develop improvements and upgrades to their solutions. Read on to learn how data growth and technology advancements affect cloud pricing and what to consider when navigating growing amounts of data.\nExpected Future Costs\nTotal cost of ownership (TCO) is perhaps the most important upfront factor when making the final decision for a storage option. What TCO trends can be observed in each of these solutions?\nWith the above factors in mind, many organizations are finding that a combination of cloud and tape for archiving is extremely effective at ensuring reliability, security, and cost savings. Read \u201cComparing Tape and Cloud Storage for Long-Term Data Preservation\u201d for an investigation into the best suited approach for long-term data storage and archive.\nContact your BackupWorks.com Account Rep today at 866 801 2944 for all your data storage needs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.balistreri.com/Roster/34079/Chari-Miles.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:01Z", "digest": "sha1:5SWKPGTVXPPKWTU2TFKU2FDXDLLNMFYL", "length": 919, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.balistreri.com", "title": "Chari Miles - Pompano Beach Sales Center, Balistreri Real Estate", "raw_content": "Chari Miles\nRealtor\u00ae, CDPE, TRC, ABR, MBF\nMy career began in 1989 on the west side of Broward County. For eight years I learned the neighborhoods and condo developments of Plantation, Sunrise, Weston, Tamarac and Coral Springs. In 1996, I moved myself and my career to the sandy beach side of the County. Since then I've lived and SOLD properties on the Beaches and the Intracoastal Waterway. (I also enjoyed managing one of the Balistreri Real Estate\u2019s branch offices for five of those years.)\nYES, the market, marketing, technology and financing have all changed in that time! This Real Estate market changes on a daily basis...my goal is to change with it...through extensive training and education in all aspects of my field.\nMy mission is to help as many people as I possibly can.....sell their home, find a new home or purchase an investment.\nIt has never been a better time to be a REALTOR! :-) I LOVE what I do!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bankingexchange.com/community-banking/item/4430-art-of-conversation-for-lenders", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCALSNSVEWDUGGJK62PT2EHZHSF35CMW", "length": 5854, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.bankingexchange.com", "title": "Art of conversation, for lenders - Banking Exchange", "raw_content": "Art of conversation, for lenders\nLearning by listening, and talking\nIn a recent column, I talked about the underappreciated C of Credit\u2014Curiosity. There\u2019s a facet of curiosity that requires a skill that can only be acquired through practice and experience. It\u2019s called the art of conversation.\nPut away your mobile, and just talk\nConversation is a part of overall communication between any of us and any of our customers. A curious lender who is also skilled in the conversation collects a great deal of information. In fact, he or she becomes a virtual sponge.\nOf course, one can overdo the collection of information.\nIt takes some level of experience to sense the value in what you hear.\nUnderstanding what that value is separates a really good business developer from a mediocre one.\nPerhaps it\u2019s less the quantity of information and more the type.\nWhen we are engaged in due diligence on a new credit request, we have our checklists, formal or informal. They might consist of the questions that we know the chair of the credit committee usually asks. Or they might be the product of your own enumeration of details associated with evaluation of the official Cs of Credit.\nBut when it comes to face-to-face interaction with prospects or customers, we have to be good listeners. And that gets back to being curious.\nConversation in pursuit of information or in the building of a relationship is skill that can be cultivated. Experience helps and mentors can aid this process in significant ways.\nGoing beyond the financials\nLenders need to develop the ability to form an assessment of the basic skills of the borrower.\nThere are two primary benefits\u2014competitive advantages, most likely\u2014possessed by those who are skilled in the art of conversation.\nOne is a core component of salesmanship.\nWhat makes my customer tick? What does he or she like? What does the customer dislike and why? How can I ingratiate my bank and myself with this customer?\nThe other benefit is the way it assists in assessing the character of the borrower.\nWe pick up a great deal about values and attitudes in conversations with our customers. The better we know each other\u2014customer and banker\u2014the more candid we usually are and the more we learn.\nAnd therein lies a story.\nMy friend\u2014and customer\u2014George\nAs I think back about my favorite customers, I had a unique and a cultivated relationship with each one. We often came to know each other\u2019s families. Sometimes we had friends in common. We shared ideas about business, but in the process we also revealed much of our values and our ideals to one another.\nOne of my favorites was George, a feedlot operator. His back was to the wall in the 1980s when cattle prices and farmland prices were in the tank. He was stressed financially and was candid about his situation.\nWe had become friends over the few years I\u2019d banked him. After my then 16-year- old son had open heart surgery, he invited us as a family to drive the 150 miles to his feedlot in a neighboring state. It was big business, annually handling thousands of cattle and supported by nine sections of agricultural feed production. His was a vertically integrated business and no small operation.\nFor three days, my wife, twin sons, and I rode horseback, ate leisurely meals, and talked with our friends. It was exactly the tonic my recuperating son needed, and from that weekend, his mental state began to improve. His recovery, which ultimately was complete, started in earnest that weekend.\nWhat did George know about a teenager recuperating from open-heart surgery?\nIt turns out that his office manager\u2019s daughter had had a heart transplant three years earlier. George himself was a man who collected and assimilated lots of information and he was also a shrewd observer. He figured out that his manager\u2019s daughter needed to learn to ride a horse for recreation and for rebuilding her strength and endurance. He regularly provided those opportunities and she improved dramatically in a short time period.\nFrom that kindness extended by George to my son, I learned more about George than I could have any other way. I observed his family\u2019s dynamics and the relationship he had with his wife of many years and his six children, five of whom were involved with him day-to-day in the business.\nAnd we talked a lot and about many different things.\nGeorge and his wife are gone now. But my memories of them are strong and happy ones. They are laden with positive value judgments that I couldn\u2019t have acquired or learned about the man and his family other than by just talking as friends.\nWe started out as two professionals, one a banker, the other a farmer, but we became a team. I know this must sound corny to some, but that\u2019s how I viewed it. George earned my loyalty more completely and more thoroughly than could have occurred any other way.\nI have another story about George that is remarkable as I think about it. None of it I\u2019d ever have known without the ability to just talk and get to know him. Maybe I can share that story some other time.\nFor now, understand that these are the values of the art of conversation. If you want to cement long-term relationships, then learn how to talk with and listen to your customers.\nIf you don\u2019t like what you hear about personal character or the riskiness of a deal, then you\u2019ve avoided problems you didn\u2019t need to have.\nThe alternative is also true. Applying the art of conversation and gathering useful and valuable information can often get a deal done more quickly and more soundly. And it can smooth out a lot of bumps in a long-term relationship.\nThey say talk is cheap. I say it can be priceless.\nAnd that\u2019s real competitive advantage.\nTagged under\tRisk Management, Blogs, Talking Credit, Credit Risk, Community Banking,\nMore in this category: \u00ab Beneath the resident examiner shift\u2026 \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 9710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.batemanimation.com/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:49Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2SO7QFXS6TXKIMQZ3FVYRVLH44FJ3TG", "length": 1384, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.batemanimation.com", "title": "The Bateman Lectures on Depression", "raw_content": "Scott Bateman started in animation, creating the PlumTV show Scott Bateman Presents Scott Bateman Presents in 2007 and the feature film Atom Age Vampire in 2009.\nHe produced and directed his first live-action feature You, Your Brain, & You in 2015, a hilarious fake documentary which played at film festivals nationwide, winning several awards for its inventive structure. Bateman followed this with his award-winning short film 600 Space Aliens (2016), which again combined comedy and an unusual structure.\nScott Bateman not only directed The Bateman Lectures on Depression: he also wrote, edited, shot, narrated, and produced the film. Plus, he created the many visual effects and bits of animation that appear throughout. He also appears in the film briefly as former US president Grover Cleveland.\nHe is also the author of Disalmanac: A Book Of Fact-Like Facts (Perigee, 2013).\nScott Bateman won $100,000 on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in 2014 and was a one-day Jeopardy! champion in 2015.\nCurrently, Scott Bateman produces weekly humorous charts on current events online for The Nib.\nBorn and raised in Oregon, Scott Bateman is a graduate of the University of Puget Sound. He lived in New York City for a decade, becoming part of the alt-comedy scene there. Bateman now lives in Beacon, NY.\nTwitter: @ScottBatemanMan\nInstagram: scottbateman\n\u00a92018 Scott Bateman/Disalmanac Films", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 1421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.beaconridgecc.com/rates/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:58Z", "digest": "sha1:3RG4NWQSTWSSSYRGD2HHJXJLG3763NNU", "length": 222, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.beaconridgecc.com", "title": "Rates - Beacon Ridge Country ClubBeacon Ridge Country Club", "raw_content": "Rates for 2018 (CART INCLUDED) WEEKDAY WEEKEND\n3/17/18 \u2013 5/18/18 $60 $65\n9/15/18 \u2013 11/16/18 $50 $55\n11/17/18 \u2013 11/30/18 $45 $50\n12/1/18 \u2013 2/28/19 $40 $45\ntwilight (time varies by season) and replay rates are $25 year round", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 96.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.beatlesradio.com/ed-sheeran-turned-up-to-make-film-debut-with-hangover", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:42Z", "digest": "sha1:66RMXLEPGFZTGDVIZWDSUQJWG3PHK2TP", "length": 1001, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.beatlesradio.com", "title": "Ed Sheeran turned up to make film debut with hangover . Beatles Radio: The Beatles, Solos, Covers, Birthdays, News The Fab 4 and More!", "raw_content": "Ed Sheeran turned up to make film debut with hangover\nEd Sheeran reportedly turned up to shoot scenes for his debut movie while nursing a hangover.\nThe Thinking Out Loud singer has a small role in Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis' new comedy, which is inspired by The Beatles' music. Filming has been taking place in the band's hometown of Liverpool, England this week (end10Jun18), and Ed shot his first scenes on Tuesday. A movie insider told The Sun that Ed turned up on set with a sore head after spending Monday night drinking whisky.\n\"Ed rocked up on set with a seriously fuzzy head,\" they said, adding it wasn\u2019t the best start after his poorly received cameo in Game of Thrones. The musician's role in Game of Thrones was mocked by fans of the fantasy show, but members of the crew on the new film apparently praised him as a \"natural\" actor. The Sun's source explained that Ed shrugged off his hangover and was very professional when the cameras started rolling.\nSource: Newsdesk/film-news.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 3740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.behindthename.com/name/tjaard/comments", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CM7XW5SWBHZHK3DLRFVQAMSL2WLOS7CU", "length": 1385, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.behindthename.com", "title": "Behind the Name: User Comments for the name Tjaard", "raw_content": "Tjaard is used as a masculine name in West Frisia (located in The Netherlands) and to a lesser extent in East Frisia (located in Germany).\nTo get a slight idea about the frequency of this name, see the two links below (assuming you know where West Frisia and East Frisia are located in both countries):\nhttp://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/Tjaard (West Frisia)\nhttp://gen-evolu.de/vorn.php?fan=Tjaard&rel=0 (East Frisia)\nNote that in the link provided for West Frisia, the popularity rankings listed reflect The Netherlands as a whole, not the province of Friesland (i.e. West Frisia) only. However, some Frisian first names are so typically Frisian, that they are hardly used outside Friesland, so then it *is* possible to get a pretty good idea of how common they are in Friesland. The thing is, though, one would have to be a Dutchman knowledgeable about Frisian names, or a Frisian living in Friesland or elsewhere in The Netherlands, to gauge which Frisian name is hardly used outside Friesland (and thus whether its popularity rankings on the website of The Meertens Instituut mostly reflect those of Friesland). But fortunately, I can tell you that Tjaard is one of those typically Frisian names that is hardly used outside Friesland, so the popularity rankings listed for Tjaard will indeed give a fair idea of how common the name is in Friesland itself.\n\u2015 Lucille 9/19/2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.benbrooklaw.com/practice-areas/index.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:NG6SINGGHCM5O2WFZPEHBFXBHRV6BE4S", "length": 66, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.benbrooklaw.com", "title": "areas of practice", "raw_content": "Areas of Practice: BENBROOK & BENBROOK, L.L.C.\nAlimony and Support", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 253.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.beyondsqueakytoys.com/?page_id=162", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:46Z", "digest": "sha1:5XL2LJ2XOUKFUJPS3VUYE6DUZCKX3R4P", "length": 1965, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.beyondsqueakytoys.com", "title": "About the Authors | Beyond Squeaky Toys", "raw_content": "Nicole Nicassio-Hiskey began working with animals after graduating from Oregon State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and Zoology. Since 1993, Nicole has worked at several zoos and aquariums training and enriching several species of marine mammals including Keiko (Free Willy) the killer whale. Nicole also ran her own animal behavior and consulting business for over ten years in the Portland-metro area. She has worked with hundreds of pets and their owners in developing basic obedience and assisting with behavior problems. Nicole understands the importance of offering environmental enrichment to both exotic and domesticated animals for overall health and has recognized the need for it within pet owners\u2019 homes. Today, Nicole is employed as the Senior Keeper of Marine Life at the Oregon Zoo in Portland.\nCinthia Alia Mitchell has been caring for and enriching animal lives since 1983. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from the University of Puget Sound in 1989. Cinthia began her career as a Staff Biologist at the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington training various species of marine mammals and birds for educational demonstrations. In 1990 she moved to Chicago, Illinois to work as a marine mammal trainer for the Shedd Aquarium. She returned to the northwest in 1992 after accepting the position of Senior Mammalogist at the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon. It was there she had the privilege to work with Keiko the famous killer whale. During her career Cinthia has developed and managed animal husbandry, training and enrichment programs for marine mammals, birds and land mammals. In 1999 she opened Doggone Fun! Doggy Daycare Center, one of the first dog daycares in Portland, Oregon. She now offers her years of animal care and training experience to pet owners through training, behavior counseling and providing a fun, safe and enriching place for dogs to play and socialize.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 169.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bitgolds.net/two-bankers-bruce-rothney-and-david-leith-were-there-for-birth-and-sale-of-manitoba-telecom-838.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:13Z", "digest": "sha1:KNTI63CIYS4JBZPZVHKUGCYHBB6KCRPN", "length": 2386, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bitgolds.net", "title": "Two bankers, Bruce Rothney and David Leith, were there for birth and sale of Manitoba Telecom | BitGolds", "raw_content": "Investment / Two bankers, Bruce Rothney and David Leith, were there for birth and sale of Manitoba Telecom\nTwo bankers, Bruce Rothney and David Leith, were there for birth and sale of Manitoba Telecom\nThe book ends are almost 20 years apart: in early January 1997, Manitoba Telecom Services Inc., completed its initial public offering via the sale of 70 million common Shares, priced at $13 a share. One month earlier the government announced the sale of its entire interest in the former Manitoba Telephone Company and made provisions to give residents of the province an \u201cexclusive\u201d opportunity to buy shares before the rest of the world.\nBCE Inc to buy Manitoba Telecom Services in $3.9-billion deal\n\u201cOne of our main objectives is to ensure Manitobans are offered the opportunity to purchase a majority interest in this long-standing telecommunications company,\u201d the government said at the time. \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019ve reserved the majority of shares for Manitobans, should they choose to apply for them,\u201d it added.\nAnd the citizens did choose the offering: of the 70 million shares on offer, 48.454 million were represented by instalment receipts \u2013 almost 70 per cent of the shares available offer. The locals were required to make an initial payment of $7 per receipt with the balance ($6) due one year later. And for that the locals also received a full dividend (of $0.17 a share.)\nNow in May 2016, the other bookend arrived with the sale of Manitoba Telecom to BCE. The deal has an equity value of $3.1 billion (BCE is paying $40 a share) and an enterprise value of $3.9 billion. If we go back far enough (like more than 120 years) BCE owned Manitoba Telephone.\nThere are at least two players connected to the book ends: RBC Capital Markets and CIBC World Markets were the two key firms assisting the company go public in late 1996. For RBC Bruce Rothney played the key role while David Leith played the key role for CIBC.\nBoth are still involved: Leith has left CIBC and is the chairman of Manitoba Tel while Rothney has left RBC and is the chief executive of Barclays Capital Canada. Along with CIBC and TD Securities Barclays advised Manitoba Tel on the sale to BCE.\nReached Monday, Rothney said that the sale \u201cis a good outcome for customers, shareholders and citizens of my home province.\u201d\nbankers, Bruce, David, Leith, Rothney\nhow to make a million dollars 18 / 04 / 2017 Reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 15240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Oxford-Bible-Atlas/Adrian-Curtis/9780199560462", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ROM7MIN54YPC3UOD7UEGGN5WF3U4GZ7G", "length": 2102, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.booksamillion.com", "title": "Oxford Bible Atlas by Adrian Curtis (Paperback): Booksamillion.com: Books", "raw_content": "Overview - This new fourth edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas , now with twenty-seven full-color maps and eighty-one color illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with both the most recent biblical scholarship and the most modern discoveries in archaeology and topography. Read more...\nMore About Oxford Bible Atlas by Adrian Curtis\nThis new fourth edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas, now with twenty-seven full-color maps and eighty-one color illustrations, has been thoroughly revised to bring it up to date with both the most recent biblical scholarship and the most modern discoveries in archaeology and topography.\nThis authoritative Atlas illuminates the landscape of the biblical world, allowing readers to better understand the geographical context in which the Bible emerged and which formed its background. The colorful, highly accurate maps capture the many ancient locales of the Bible's stories and carefully reflect the successive stages of the Bible's accounts, while specially chosen full-color illustrations bring the countries and their peoples to life. The Atlas covers everything from Genesis to the stories of David and Solomon, the trade routes of the ancient world, the vast empires of Alexander the Great and Rome, and the ministry of Jesus and the formation of the early Church. The accompanying text describes the land of Palestine, and its wider ancient Near Eastern and east Mediterranean settings. It outlines the successive historical periods, and describes the major civilizations with which Israelites, Jews, and early Christians came into contact. There is also an illustrated survey of the relevance of archaeology for the study of the Bible. Finally, the book includes a full chronology, suggestions for further reading, an index of place names, and a general index.\nAn essential resource for all students of the Bible, the Atlas provides a superb guide to the geography of the Holy Land throughout history, from the Exodus to New Testament times.\nBooks > Religion > Biblical Reference - Atlases\nBooks > Religion > Biblical Biography - General", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 523, "original_length": 10148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bouncebackcafe.com/2012/gen/conga-3543", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DVCULRQ5CNE26OASBPHQUIS5PNFWLF2C", "length": 3162, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.bouncebackcafe.com", "title": "CONGA! : BouncebackCafe.com", "raw_content": "\u00ab Wacky Wednesday #18 \u2013 Is This Social Media?\nNow What? Will You Be Wearing a \u201cMuffler of Regret\u201d or \u201cPulled Up Socks?\u201d \u00bb\nPhoto credit: slgckgc\nWhen the map doesn\u2019t comport with the ground, the map is wrong.\n\u2014 Gordon Livingston\nIn his book, The Road Less Travelled , M. Scott Peck wrote that much of our pain is caused by our unwillingness to recognize reality when we see it. We go through life seeing the world through our own set of glasses and reacting to what we see rather than reacting to what is.\nIn some sense, I agree with Peck. But at the same time what I keep re-learning over and over is that reality is subjective.\nFor years, I was \u201cblind as a bat.\u201d If I took my glasses off, I literally couldn\u2019t see the ground in front of me. Considering that I\u2019m only 5\u20193\u201d, the ground isn\u2019t that far away but I couldn\u2019t see well enough to walk safely.\nIt was so bad that when I was a sophomore in high school, I fell down the stairs into the basement doing the Conga in Wonderful Town. You can say it\u2019s because I\u2019m clumsy, but in this case I just couldn\u2019t see the stairs and thought I\u2019d reached the bottom. Ooops! My reality didn\u2019t match the physical world.\nThe Lucky Part\nLately, I\u2019ve been worrying a lot. Money is tight and I\u2019ll redo the budget in my head, moving money from one bucket to the next trying to have \u201cenough.\u201d But the surprising part is that while today I may be worried, tomorrow I feel grateful for what I do have. It\u2019s all a matter of \u201cmood.\u201d\nThe same thing is true of how I view my time. Some days I feel as if I have plenty of time and other days it seems as if my whole day is taken up with work \u2013 another example of mood influencing attitude.\nSo, what is reality? I guess it\u2019s what you make of it. Where I work, the temperature lately has been ranging from 100\u00b0-110\u00b0. At home, it\u2019s mostly been between 80\u00b0 and 90\u00b0 with occasional trips into the 100\u2019s. It seems soooo hot at home and then I go into work and guess what, home seems much cooler than it did when I was there.\nI\u2019m lucky. I have a working air conditioner and I can choose to run it or to sweat. With the latest in meter technology, I can figure out how much it\u2019s costing me to cool the house and I can turn up the thermostat. I can get in the car and go to the library, or a bookstore, or Starbucks, or a movie, and let someone else pay the power bill.\nOr, I can sweat.\nThe lucky part is that I have a choice.\nGet Up Eight Times\nPeck is probably right. Much of our pain is caused by our unwillingness to accept reality \u2013 and some reality is truly harsh.\nBut, Peck is also wrong. It was reality that I fell down those stairs doing the Conga \u2013 and my parents probably wanted to crawl under their seats in the auditorium. But, in the end, no teenagers were harmed in the staging of Wonderful Town and I learned a valuable lesson: Fall down seven times, get up eight times. When you get back up and keep on dancing, things aren\u2019t that bad. You just gotta CONGA!\nA note to our younger readers: The Conga was an old line dance, only instead of people dancing side-by-side, they danced one behind the other. To see Bea Arthur in Wonderful Town, click here.\nTags: attitude, pain, reality", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bravemissworld.com/share_your_story/the-beginning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:58Z", "digest": "sha1:LGDVM6O3XOIK2JMPX3VAO4XHTSAXVNX3", "length": 3898, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.bravemissworld.com", "title": "The Beginning | Brave Miss World", "raw_content": "May 25th, 2017, a day I will never forget. A day that I have thought about every single day. A day that I will remember every time I go on first date, a day I will remember every time I am intimate with someone, a day I will remember for the rest of my life. This day, is why every single day I live in fear. Fear is a very powerful notion; it controls your life. And to have fear every single day- it almost makes you question if this is a life worth living. Of course there are instances where I find myself laughing or smiling, and then something as small as someone touching me, makes me remember all over again why fear lives inside me.\nSome nights I lay awake and wonder, why. Why me? I wonder if he even thinks about the repercussions, I wonder if it affects him. I wonder he plays the night over and over and over again in his head like I do. There is no going back, no wondering what I could have done to stop him- stop it from happening. At the end of the day, there is no magical clock to turn back time to stop it from happening to me. There is no forgetting these feelings, forgetting the night happened because it did- it happened. And even months later, it is still something I have to overcome every single day. Every time I get out of my car, every time a man walks up to me, every time I meet someone new. I wonder if they know him, if they are friends with him, if I go out with them- will he be there? So, I stay home. I stay alone. I live my life in a constant worry and fear of the unknown.\nThen there are the nights and the days where I try so hard just to be happy and not feel bad for myself. I try to say to myself, it could have been worse. I could have been really hurt, I could have died. But that\u2019s not an excuse. It is not a reason to hide my feelings. It is not a reason to sit down and constantly remind myself it could have been worse- because it is the worst possible thing to happen to someone. To be taken advantage of, to be stripped of all dignity, to lose all control of yourself- it is the worst possible thing to happen to someone.\nThe hardest part, now that the night is over, is now-the present and the future. The constant phone calls and e-mails from the officers investigating my case, the repeated influence to press charges and to go to court. That\u2019s even more devastating to me. To tell my story in front of a bunch of people, the fear of possibly seeing him, the results of all this, to relive that night, to be stripped of dignity, to tell the raw truth about that night, and then to question if the judge and the jury believe me. That\u2019s even more frightening. The fact that my rapist is a cop- even more petrifying. The power he has over me, just from that night alone-he has the power. I feel like from the touch of a button he can find where I live, where I work, everything about me- I am completely exposed to him. It is a constant fear I cannot get over or handle.\nDear survivor \u2013 thank you so much for sharing your story here. First of all \u2013 you don\u2019t have to remind yourself that it could have been worse. Pain is pain and whatever you\u2019re feeling right now is VALID. I would strongly encourage you to talk to a therapist. I know months after an assault can feel like a long time, but the truth is that there\u2019s not timeline on healing, especially when you are dealing with logistics of potentially going to court. As for going to court \u2013 I won\u2019t give you advice on that because it\u2019s SUCH a personal decision. Of course it\u2019s scary and the possibility that the system won\u2019t go in your favor is real. I wish I had some brilliant words of wisdom for you but I don\u2019t. Whatever decision you make will be the best one you know how at the time and the one piece of advice I can give you is to try to be kind to yourself (another place a therapist can help \u2013 I know it\u2019s something I struggle with). Sending you love, support, and strength!!! Alexis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 7087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.breakglass.org/plastic-mirror.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:11Z", "digest": "sha1:L2MCCD6VPCQG5GQWAMKPUI7GIRG4ANDZ", "length": 1167, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.breakglass.org", "title": "plastic mirror", "raw_content": "Benefits of Using a Plastic Mirror\nA plastic mirror has very similar optical qualities to a glass mirror. They can be made to function in much the same way as glass mirrors. They do, however, have 3 major and significant advantages over glass:\n1. They are much lighter making them easier to handle, cheaper to transport and suitable for applications where weight matters - for example, in transport.\n2. They are more durable, stronger and less likely to break. This makes them more suitable in places where they are handled more, such as in schools for experiments.\n3. They are much safer. Glass can easily break resulting in shards of glass which can be dangerous. Plastic is less likely to break and if it does, it will not cut people.\nThe main disadvantage of plastic is that it can easily be scratched. This may reduce its shelf life as over time the optical qualities may deteriorate.\nThere are 2 main materials used for plastic mirrors - acrylic and polycarbonate. Acrylic is usually cheaper whilst polycarbonate is stronger with better fire/smoke properties.\nWe can supply different kinds of mirrors:\nOne - Way mirrors\nReturn from plastic mirror to Mirror page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.breakingnewsweb.com/human-rights-in-islam/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZCDO7IFTQLE4KOJMHZ5KE5RAQ3LHPB2E", "length": 4434, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.breakingnewsweb.com", "title": "Human Rights In Islam : Breaking News Web", "raw_content": "by darks~lyghts\n\u201cO believers, be you securers of justice, witness for God. Let not detestation for a people move you not to be equitable; be equitable \u2013 that is nearer to God-fearing.\u201d (5:8)\n\u201c\u2026Whoso slays a soul not to retaliate for a soul slain, nor for corruption done in the land, should be as if he had slain mankind altogether.\u201d (5:32)\nIt is not permissible to oppress women, children, old people, the sick or the wounded. Women\u2019s honor and chastity are to be respected under all circumstances. The hungry person must be fed, the naked clothed and the wounded or diseased treated medically irrespective of whether they belong to the Islamic community or are from among its enemies.\n\u201cThose who do not judge by what God has sent down are the disbelievers.\u201d (5:44)\nThe Security Of Life And Property:\nIn the address which the Prophet delivered on the occasion of the Farewell Hajj, he said: \u201cYour lives and properties are forbidden to one another till you meet your Lord on the Day of Resurrection.\u201d The Prophet has also said about the dhimmis (the non-Muslim citizens of the Muslim state): \u201cOne who kills a man under covenant (i.e., dhimmi) will not even smell the fragrance of Paradise.\u201d\nThe Protection Of Honor:\n\u201cYou who believe, do not let one (set of) people make fun of another set.\u201d\n\u201cDo not defame one another.\u201d\n\u201cDo not insult by using nicknames.\u201d\n\u201cDo not backbite or speak ill of one another.\u201d(49:11-12)\nSanctity And Security Of Private Life:\n\u201cDo not spy on one another.\u201d (49:12)\n\u201cDo not enter any houses unless you are sure of their occupant\u2019s consent.\u201d (24:27)\nThe Security Of Personal Freedom:\nThe Right To Protest Against Tyranny:\nAmong the rights that Islam has conferred on human beings is the right to protest against government\u2019s tyranny. Referring to it the Quran says:\n\u201cGod does not love evil talk in public unless it is by someone who has been injured thereby.\u201d (4:148)\nIn Islam, as has been argued earlier, all power and authority belong to God, and with man there is only delegated power which becomes a trust; everyone who becomes a recipient of such a power has to stand in awful reverence before his people toward whom and for whose sake he will be called upon to use these powers. This was acknowledged by Hazrat Abu Bakr who said in his very first address: \u201cCooperate with me when I am right but correct me when I commit error; obey me so long as I follow the commandments of Allah and His Prophet; but turn away from me when I deviate.\u201d\nFreedom Of Conscience And Conviction:\n\u201cThere should be no coercion in the matter of faith.\u201d (2:256)\nOn the contrary, totalitarian societies totally deprive the individuals of their freedom. Indeed, this undue exaltation of the state authority curiously enough postulates a sort of servitude, of slavishness on the part of man. At one time slavery meant total control of man over man \u2013 now that type of slavery has been legally abolished but in its place totalitarian societies impose a similar sort of control over individuals.\nProtection Of Religious Sentiments:\nProtection From Arbitrary Imprisonment:\n\u201cNo bearer of burdens shall be made to bear the burden of another.\u201d (35:18)\nThe Right To Basic Necessities of Life:\n\u201cAnd in their wealth there is acknowledged right for the needy and the destitute.\u201d (51:19)\nEquality Before Law:\nRulers Not Above The Law:\nA woman belonging to a high and noble family was arrested in connection with theft. The case was brought to the Prophet, and it was recommended that she might be spared the punishment of theft. The Prophet replied: \u201cThe nations that lived before you were destroyed by God because they punished the common man for their offenses and let their dignitaries go unpunished for their crimes; I swear by Him Who holds my life in His hand that even if Fatima, the daughter of Muhammad, had committed this crime, I would have amputated her hand.\u201d\nThe Right To Participate In The Affairs Of State:\n\u201cAnd their business is (conducted) through consultation among themselves.\u201d (42:38)\nThe \u201cShura\u201d or the legislative assembly has no other meaning except that the executive head of the government and the members of the assembly should be elected by free and independent choice of the people.\nI am Nasir Pasha, Age 36Years, B.E [E&E] , Self Employed, India.\nRelated Lesbian Rights Articles\nFiled in: Lifestyle \u2022 Tags: HUMAN, Islam, Rights\n\u00ab Marketplace \u2013 Entrepreneurship & Small Business\nI Dream of Jeannie \u2013 Complete Series \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 13734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.breakingworldnewstoday.com/2013/09/b1957.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:02Z", "digest": "sha1:4KL4WCZLQIM7ZPAW6GYBFOEOAT7POXBZ", "length": 1344, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.breakingworldnewstoday.com", "title": "Vacationing father and daughter jump to their deaths to escape forest fire '; } } if( dayCount > fill[valxx]){ cell.innerHTML = ' '; cell.className = 'emptyCell'; } dayCount++; } } visTotal = parseInt(startIndex) + parseInt(fill[valxx]) -1; if(visTotal >35){ document.getElementById('lastRow').style.display = ''; } } function initCal(){ document.getElementById('blogger_calendar').style.display = 'block'; var bcInit = document.getElementById('bloggerCalendarList').getElementsByTagName('a'); var bcCount = document.getElementById('bloggerCalendarList').getElementsByTagName('li'); document.getElementById('bloggerCalendarList').style.display = 'none'; calHead = document.getElementById('bcHead'); tr = document.createElement('tr'); for(t = 0; t < 7; t++){ th = document.createElement('th'); th.abbr = headDays[t]; scope = 'col'; th.title = headDays[t]; th.innerHTML = headInitial[t]; tr.appendChild(th); } calHead.appendChild(tr); for (x = 0; x (')[1]; var selValue = bcList[r]; sel.options[q] = new Option(selText + ' ('+selCount,selValue); q++ } document.getElementById('bcaption').appendChild(sel); var m = bcList[0].split(',')[0]; var y = bcList[0].split(',')[1]; callArchive(m,y,'0'); } function timezoneSet(root){ var feed = root.feed; var updated = feed.updated.$t; var id = feed.id.$t; bcBlogId = id.split('blog-')[1]; upLength = updated.length; if(updated.charAt(upLength-1) == \"Z\"){timeOffset = \"+00:00\";} else {timeOffset = updated.substring(upLength-6,upLength);} timeOffset = encodeURIComponent(timeOffset); } //]]>", "raw_content": "Vacationing father and daughter jump to their deaths to escape forest fire\nA vacation ended in a bad way for many families in France and Spain.\nA French father and daughter on vacation in the northeast of Spain, were forced jumped off a cliff by the sea and were killed, in a desperate attempt to escape a forest fire that was raging on Monday night.\nThree family members survived the 65 foot fall into a creek near the town of Portbou at the Spain-France border. The mother was in critical condition on Tuesday night with a back injury, while the son and daughter of another couple escaped with minor injuries.\nThe unidentified 60-year-old man and his daughter, 15, were among three French citizens, who died in fires that broke out on Sunday near the city of La Junquera, in northeastern Spain, near the border with France. The fire spread rapidly in the region of Alt Empord\u00e0, and was whipped by 55 mile-per-hour winds. A Spanish citizen also died in the fire.\nThe flames forced the family of five and about 150 other tourists from their cars Sunday night, while they were driving back to France. Amateur footage showed that the group descending the steep slopes to the beach in order to escape the flames. They became trapped and one by one decided to jump down the cliff into the water. 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Police and prosecutors were not so sure.\nBonnie Land, the ring finder, recently sued Melisa Boucek, owner of the ring. Land claims that she is owed the reward that was posted on flyers in return for the ring. Instead, she was charged with a crime.\nShe is claiming breach of contract, fraud and damages, topping $66,500.\nLand, 34, of Saint Charles, found the ring, a two-carat yellow diamond surrounded by 27 smaller white diamonds, at a Saint Charles tanning salon.\nJack Banas, who was the prosecutor of Saint Charles at the time and is now a judge of the Circuit Court, said that parts of Land's story did not make sense.\nAlthough initially claiming to have forgotten about the ring, she should have called the salon when she found it again in her pocket of her jacket, he said.\nBanas later decided to defer the charges, which are on hold until the statute of limitations are hit in three years. 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This is the hat that Temperance wore when she and Booth got stuck in an elevator, in The Blackout in the Blizzard episode.\nAnyway, about a million years ago I designed a pattern based on this hat and put it up for free on Ravelry. I was in the middle of finals and didn't really have time to knit a sample myself, so I didn't catch the shaping issues until I was scrolling though some of the projects on Ravelry and saw the comments of a few knitters. One Raveler in particular made several beautiful versions of the hat, but had some rather critical comments for the design and quite frankly, they were valid. So I took down the pattern (and a handful of others) to redesign and re-release later. I had no idea how long it would take to get back to this one.\nNow I'm exited to say that I finally worked out the details and I reloaded the design into my Rav Shop yesterday. The Blizzard Hat is once again available, and the timing couldn't be better because the new season starts on September 17th, lol. Every time The Blackout in the Blizzard aired, I got a flurry of emails asking when the hat would be ready. I sent out over 30 messages yesterday, letting people know that they could get their copy, and from looking at the downloads, I'd say that most of them got right on it.\nSo you probably want to know that took me so long. Well, I changed the shaping and added an additional size to the pattern. I knit two different samples in a new, readily available yarn (Cascade 128 Superwash), and changed the gauge to fit most chunky yarns. I adjusted the decrease section to make sure that they lined up correctly regardless of the size you choose to work. As you can probably tell from the photo, the decreases are carefully done so you can leave off the pompom if you'd rather not wear one. (At 6 feet tall, I can't really pull off the whimsical look that a pompom conveys, lol.) I also managed to get a few decent photos even though I had to use my old point and shoot camera to get it done. And with all this additional work and expense, I've decided that this formerly free download will remain free until September 15th, after which it will sell for $2.99.\nNow, I know that it can be quite unpopular when a designer decides to take a free design and start charging for it, but sometimes it's a necessary thing. Much more goes into a design than simply having an idea. For example, I am taking a design course right now to help improve my ability to size a design (which means that I can increase the size range of existing patterns as well as future ones, making them more inclusive) and this course wasn't cheap. Technical editing is quite costly as well, but it's just not possible (or advisable) to release a pattern without having it edited. Good photography is expensive and finding a photographer that you click with is hard. Programs to format designs and create schematics...well, you don't even want to know how much that stuff costs. And then there's the yarn. Not all designers get yarn support, and the ones who do don't get it consistently. That means that I'm paying out of pocket for the yarn to knit the sample. So, at the end of the day, designers sometimes need to charge for patterns that once were free in order to continue to bring you new designs and I find myself in that position. I hope you understand, and I encourage you to take advantage of my limited-time offer and download a copy for free while you still can :)\nGreat design. It's also a nominal fee. You should be recognized monetarily for your hard work. Great job! Can't wait to give it a try.\nI completely agree with this. One of the most frustrating things that a co-worker said to me when they saw me knitting a scarf was \"Oh wow that's so pretty! You should knit a bunch and sell them for $5 each.\"\nthe ball of thick and quick alone was 8$.\n2.99 is a steal. I did download it for free, but I do play to go back and pay for it later this month. Thanks again!\nCambria September 5, 2012 at 4:31 PM\nThat's such a sweet (and completely unnecessary) offer :) Knit one, post photos to Ravelry, and brag about the awesomeness of the pattern, and I'll be completely happy, lol.\nI have never seen Bones, but you don't have to see it to appreciate how pretty this hat is! 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These awards were sponsored and presented by Re:Sound, a long-time partner of the touring and presenting sector.\nRecipients for the 2017 CAPACOA Awards are:\nPresenter of the Year\nMajdi Bou-Matar, Artistic Director, IMPACT Theatre Festival (ON)\nMajdi Bou-Matar is a theatre director, performer and presenter from Lebanon. Majdi immigrated to Canada in 2003 and moved to the Waterloo Region in 2004, where he founded The MT Space (The Multicultural Theatre Space). In 2009, Majdi also founded IMPACT, a biennial theatre festival focused on Indigenous and culturally diverse work from Canada and around the world. The 2017 IMPACT Festival featured 60 performances from New Zealand, Mexico, Tunisia, and from all parts of Canada. 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Lisa Marie DiLiberto, Charles Ketchabaw and the Fixt Point crew have since toured to numerous towns and cities where they have created individual shows for each place, based on gathering hundreds of hours of recorded recollections and sifting them to find the treasure, the heart of the community. They are, as they say themselves, \u201ccapturing the collective community memory of our country's main streets, one story at a time.\u201d In 2016, The Tale of Town toured BC, Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories, completing the tour of The Tale of a Town to every province and territory. In 2017, the Tale of a Town did a nine-city tour across the country and held a storybooth in Ottawa\u2019s Inspiration Village. Over four months, they interviewed over 600 people from across the country. And the show goes on.\nDuring the evening, the 2017 National Arts Centre Award for distinguished contribution to touring in the performing arts was also presented to the East Coast Music Association. 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For those of you who read Dennis Cooper's blog, you may have noticed that it has been hijacked and you are redirected to some porn site. The new address is:\nhttp://denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com/\n2. Go to the iTunes store, search for Bookworm podcasts and download last week's (it's free) with Zadie Smith. Her and Michael Silverblatt ,with On Beauty as a jumping point, talk about so many things in such a wonderful way, spening a good amount of time talking about what it means to read. It is a lovely, inspiring talk. Silverblatt is such a perceptive reader and it is really a joy to listen to any of these podcasts, but particularly this one.\n3. YouTube and video cameras on phones and digital cameras, man. Every gaffe will find their way to the Internet within days from now on. I think about what this means and get no closer to an answer. 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Ross Cameron/Oakland Tribune)\nThe mother of three children to Yusuf Bey, the late founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery, is now serving as the real estate broker for someone trying to buy the bankrupt bakery\u2019s North Oakland headquarters for $899,000.\nWould-be buyer Paulette Martha Arbuckle, 54, also of North Oakland, is represented by Antioch real estate broker Esperanza Nievas Johnson \u2014 also known over the years as Noor Jehan Bey and Nora Bey. Her identities were matched using Social Security numbers.\nAn attorney for the trustee overseeing the bakery\u2019s liquidation said there\u2019s nothing prohibiting Johnson\u2019s participation, but it is something he will bring to the judge\u2019s attention.\n\u201cIt is something that now that we\u2019re aware of it, we will probably disclose to the court \u2026 but I don\u2019t view it as creating a problem,\u201d said Eric Nyberg, the Oakland attorney representing the federal trustee. \u201cWe will sell it to the person who pays the highest price, assuming the court approves the sale, but if there is someone associated with the Bey family, that\u2019s something we would want to know because it\u2019s something we want the court to know.\u201d\nBirth certificates indicate Noor Jehan Bey had at least three children \u2014 Yusuf Bey III, 28; Nisa Jehan Bey, 27; and Amir Yusuf Bey, 25 \u2014 by the family patriarch, who died of cancer in late 2003. Records show all three have claimed the same Antioch address as Johnson at times.\nAnd property records show that as Noor Jehan Bey in 1981, she deeded property to Your Black Muslim Bakery; no value was assigned to the property because it was listed as a gift. Records also show that under the same name, she was involved in at least two property transactions also involving Farieda Bey, Yusuf Bey\u2019s wife, who was among Bey family members in whose name the bakery headquarters has been listed.\nThere\u2019s no evidence of any direct connection between Arbuckle and the Bey family, although she\u2019s a longtime resident of the neighborhood where the bakery is located.Neither Arbuckle nor Johnson could be reached for comment Friday. A working phone number for Arbuckle couldn\u2019t be found; a note left on her home\u2019s door didn\u2019t yield a callback. Johnson didn\u2019t respond to a voicemail, an e-mail or a note left on her Antioch home\u2019s door; a Pittsburg office address listed on her real estate license is now vacant.\nNyberg was surprised Thursday by news of Johnson\u2019s identity \u2014 he said he and trustee Tevis Thompson Jr. hadn\u2019t known of the family connection until a reporter\u2019s call.\n\u201cInsiders of a debtor corporation are not prohibited from transactions \u2026 those transactions just tend to be scrutinized a little more closely,\u201d Nyberg said. \u201cWe\u2019ll disclose it but at the end of the day, whether it\u2019s her or some other broker, someone would be entitled to the commission,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019re not even sure at this point that Arbuckle will be the successful bidder \u2014 we\u2019re told there are other parties ready to overbid.\u201dThompson filed a motion Oct. 11 saying he\u2019s preparing to sell the bakery headquarters property to Arbuckle. The motion asked Jellen to allow the sale free of liens placed by the bakery\u2019s creditors, and scheduled a Nov. 8 hearing on the matter.\n\u201cThe sale is an arms-length transaction between the Trustee and Paulette Arbuckle. As far as the Trustee can ascertain, Paulette Arbuckle is an individual who had no prior interest in or connection with the Debtor,\u201d the motion says.\nA purchase agreement between the trustee and Arbuckle \u2014 dated Sept. 10, just four days after the property went on the market, and now filed amid the court papers \u2014 lists Johnson and her brokerage, Signature One Mortgage and Realty, as Arbuckle\u2019s broker.\nNyberg said amended papers on the sale will have to be filed Monday with the court, as a title company which had prepared a report on the property omitted several liens. The original motion had set Oct. 29 as a deadline for submitting any overbids, at a minimum of $904,000; it\u2019s unclear whether that deadline or the Nov. 8 hearing will be pushed back due to Monday\u2019s refiling.\nIf any overbids are submitted, they and Arbuckle will attend a live auction for the property.\nFeleciai Favroth, the Oakland real estate broker retained by Thompson to sell the property, was there at midday Friday to show an unidentified couple inside. The building remains largely boarded up; one upstairs window was open, others were broken, and orange health department closure notices still dot the storefront.\nThe property \u2014 an L-shaped lot of about 14,000 square feet, on which the bakery building stands at 5832-5838 San Pablo Ave. and a residential duplex stands at 1083 59th St. \u2014 was placed in the trustee\u2019s hands in August after a judge moved the business from voluntary Chapter 11 reorganization into Chapter 7 liquidation.\nThe San Pablo Avenue building is a bit less than 7,000 square feet with the lower level largely open and living quarters upstairs, Favroth said in September, while the duplex is about 1,400 to 1,500 square feet.\nMore than 200 police officers swarmed those and other properties Aug. 3. Four people were arrested including Devaughndre Broussard, a bakery handyman who has been charged with the Aug. 2 homicide of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey. Police said Broussard confessed to the crime after the murder weapon was found in his closet; he and his lawyer since have said the confession was coerced and bogus.\nAlso arrested was current Your Black Muslim Bakery CEO Yusuf Bey IV, first on a warrant connected to an assault case in San Francisco and later on charges in a May kidnapping/assault incident in Oakland.\nYour Black Muslim Bakery was founded by Yusuf Bey, who for many years was highly regarded in Oakland as a formidable businessman trying to better the lives of young African-American men. His business ventures over time also included a security company, dry-cleaning stores and other entities.\nBut stories of violence have dogged his family for years \u2014 a 21-year-old son gunned down in 1994, the same year that two relatives were charged with torturing a man. Bey died in 2003 while charged with 27 counts in the alleged rapes of four girls under age 14; his successor, Waajid Aliawwaad Bey, was found in a shallow grave in the Oakland Hills in 2004. Then the next CEO, Antar Bey, was gunned down in a 2005 carjacking attempt, and Yusuf Bey IV assumed the business\u2019 helm just before being arrested for vandalizing two West Oakland liquor stores.\nBankruptcy court documents say the business spun out of control during this family turmoil, leading Yusuf Bey IV to file for Chapter 11 protection late last year. But he failed to file reports and pay fees, and the judge last month ordered the business liquidated to satisfy its creditors.\nOne response to \u201cBey mother involved in sale of Your Black Muslim Bakery\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 11161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chefs-notebook.com/2010/07/shop-talk-getting-to-point.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:11Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZHPMDY6YVRPSB7T7JVECFFXV4YUBT7Q", "length": 3036, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.chefs-notebook.com", "title": "Chef's Notebook: Shop Talk - Getting to the point", "raw_content": "So what to look for in a good quality knife? Well let's look at the anatomy of a knife.\nWhile they are many aspects associated with a knife, focus on just the balde, the handle, and the edge. The rest of the components will vary from knife to knife.\nThe blade should be forged from a single piece of steel that runs the entire length of the handle. Currently there is alot of talk of knives with a ceramic blade. Try to avoid the temptation to get one. The high price tag doesn't account for it's lack of durability. And unless you are cutting veggies or soft meats all day, ceramic is not very forgiving when encountering hard and or metal objects.\nThe handle should be comfortable and made of a material that will not get slippery when wet or slip while you are using it. The weight of the knife should not feel too heavy as well as not overtly light. Remember, if you're going to use it, you don't want it to feel like a brick after a few minutes of use. Think of it as an extension of your hand.\nWith any knife the most important feature is the edge. Without a sharp edge, you won't be able to slice a tomato let alone a piece of chicken, beef or fish. Keep it sharp with a honing steel. Stay away from grinders, as they can literally grind your knife down to dust. If you are uncomfortable about doing any sharpening, take it down to your local knife store that has the ability to sharpen knives. You will be happy and you're knives will last longer and will never fail to do their job as you get better at handling them.\nAlso let's take a few minutes and talk about storage and safety. Store your knives, if at all possible, in a butcher block. It keeps the blade dry, free from nicks and chips, free of debris and above all, it provides safety. The last thing you want is to have a dozen knives in a drawer with razor sharp edges exposed to your fingers as you're searching thru the drawer. If you have to have them in a drawer, at least cover them with a blade guard. Those can be found at your local knife shop or online. A blade guard is cheap insurance against a trip to the E.R. for stitches to your fingers. And on a saftey note, NEVER, NEVER leave your knives in a water filled sink, let alone a suds filled sink. For one, you can't see what's below the bubbles and and if you stick your hands in forgetting about the knife, well lets just think about this?? Would you put your hands into a piranha filled tank? Ok,enough said!\nAs to the cost of a good knife, prices can range from $75 - $500 dollars. But just because it's expensive doesn't make it slice any better. And if you never use it, then you have yourself an expensive potato peeler.\nA good knife can last for years. If you take care of them, they can last a lifetime. So go thru your kitchen and look for those old and never-used-but-once knifes and donate them to a charity of your choice. Because a bad knife is one that never gets used.\nSo get yourself a good knife and work with it. After awhile you will wonder how you got around in the kitchen without it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 8084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cherigillard.com/blog/help-what-should-i-do", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4R4CRUL3QMWGVLUABC7OPN2AQOLY7EQT", "length": 4695, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.cherigillard.com", "title": "Raising quadruplets is quite a ride! - Cheri Gillard", "raw_content": "Yesterday, I found out a convicted pedophile has been hanging out with kids of family friends. Now I find myself with this awful dilemma. Do I tell them?\nIt sounds so simple when written in that one sentence. But it\u2019s so much more complex than that.\nYou know this strange beast called Facebook? Weird things can happen. Like yesterday, I peruse my newsfeed, I see a friend\u2019s post, I read it. Then, I see a name! A person tagged by my friend. What\u2019s if it\u2019s the same person?! I click on the tagged person, and I see. It\u2019s him. The pedophile. But wait. On his profile, I see the son of another family friend, the two of them, hanging together. My mind screams, \u201cWhat are you doing with him!? Do you know?\u201d\nSo I call my own family member who was more involved with the situation when it all blew up the first time, who was close to the family of the original victims. It\u2019s confirmed. Same person. He was convicted, but copped a plea; got off without prison time. Moved away for a while. But his victims, they couldn\u2019t get away from it. Ever.\nMy own children hear me on the phone, and when I tell my husband about it, asking, \u201cWhat should I do?,\u201d my kids say, \u201cWait, Mom, we know them. We went to school with them.\u201d They've seen that person, his posts, those friendships.\nI think of the kids of my friends. They clearly (via Facebook) have an ongoing, in-person (as in off of Facebook) relationship. Who am I to cause strife there? Who am I to pass judgment, to share information? What about grace, forgiveness, rehabilitation?\nWhat about statistics? Recidivism? Inability to reform, or refusal to get help? What about innocence lost, the victims, the children???\nI can discretely meet with my friends, the parents, and I can say, \u201cDo you know? Is everything okay?\u201d Or I can say to myself, \u201cThat\u2019s none of my business. Who am I?\u201d The cost may be high. I might offend them greatly. I might scare them. I might ruin that friendship. I might ruin their friendship with that person. I might be totally out of my mind to even consider meddling.\nI might let something continue that shouldn\u2019t because it is none of my business.\nI don\u2019t know. I\u2019m seeking wisdom. I\u2019m praying and meditating, asking \"What should I do? \"\nWow! What a conundrum! As I was thinking about this situation, I decided this is a situational call. I would definitely be praying also about what to do. I felt convicted to share with you that if you decide to say something allow the mind battle you've been fighting to be seen. Show your vulnerability and that your friend's safety was your utmost concern. Maybe start conversation with a prayer... Where He is present...\nThanks Macee! Very thoughtful counsel. I appreciate you. :)\nUm... I would like to know?! Better safe than sorry.\nTell the parents... If it was you in that situation with your small children wouldn't you want to know? If it was you and someone knew and didn't tell you, how would you feel? What would be easier to live with? Warning them and advocating for small children and losing a friendship, or keeping your mouth shut and having something happen to those innocents? Much evil is done in this world because of people \"minding their own business\". It is the family's choice if they cut ties or not, but it is your responsibility to speak truth and bring light to a potentially dangerous situation.\nA \"rehabilitated\" pedophile would be registered as a sex offender and up front about their past and stay away from kids. That is was that kind of rehabilitation looks like. Not putting them self in the company of children again. Like a true recovering alcoholic doesn't go into a bar or liquor store. Your kids don't see the damaged side of this person, nor do they have enough experience, wisdom, or a parental view point to even comprehend the magnitude of the situation. You seriously should tell this family. If it were me and something DID happen to my kid and I found out you knew, that would be incomprehensible & severe our relationship for good- and a child would be permanently damaged. You can't undo that, but it could be prevented. What's that quote? For evil to prevail, good men just have to keep their mouth shut....\nI always think, what if it was my child, would I want to know. What if it was YOUR child, would you want to know. And the answer to that is always YES! You don't know if he has sought treatment, sought forgiveness, and even if he has, does it mean he won't reoffend? You don't need to shout it from the rooftops (I don't know, maybe you do), but the other parents involved certainly need to be quietly told, and if they choose to continue the friendship, then at least they have all the information. The kids come first -- always.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 6262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chickadeeevents.com/chickadee-blog/2016/8/14/heart-to-heart-series-every-wedding-is-job-interview", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MPYJWEHPBYVCTINRWB6CGRIKPV7AJE5O", "length": 8323, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.chickadeeevents.com", "title": "Heart to Heart Series: Every Wedding is Job Interview \u2014 Chickadee Events", "raw_content": "About the \"Heart to Heart Series\":\nBeing a small business owner and in the wedding industry grants a unique perspective on professionalism. Since I was old enough to get a job, I've been working - in a variety of organizations and business and doing a number of different things. I've been a babysitter, cashier, sales associate, waitress, researcher, manager, technician, assistant... all of which have been a huge influence on me. Partially because of the skill sets I've gained, but mostly because of the different types of people I've worked with and worked for. I've learned a lot about how different companies operate and how similar they all really are.\nSo when I started Chickadee Events, I knew what I wanted to be because I knew what I didn't want to be. The real world is full of people who think they're professional, and I'm often surprised that there are so many people that get away with things that I could have gotten fired for at any one of my past jobs! I share this with you because I think it's easy to get jaded, and not realize how important every job you take is. This is the beginning of my new \"Heart to Heart Series\" as I talk about some of the more important but less talked about aspects of the wedding industry. Today's post is for vendors, but I'll have some for brides, too!\nEvery Wedding is a Job Interview\nSo, how exactly is a wedding like a job interview? I found this great post on Quintessential that describes the do's and don't's of job interviewing, and am highlighting a few and how they apply to weddings!\n1. Get there early. I'm sure you've heard it before, but it's especially true in the wedding industry - \"early is on time, and on time is late.\" As a planner I look for this. I'm usually one of the first people at the venue, so I am keeping an eye on time and making sure everyone is where they need to be when. By arriving early, you show that you care about the day as much as the bride and groom does - on time means that it's just another day for you. Even if it is just another day at work for you, it's not for the bride and groom, and they will surely remember who was there, and if you arrived early you're setting such a positive tone for the day!\n2. Be prepared. If there is anything last-minute that has to be done - do it before you arrive at the venue. That's not the time to be getting your documents in order, figuring out what to do first, or making sure you packed everything - do that before you leave. When my team and I arrive at the venue, it truly is \"go time.\" We have our timeline and list of what needs to get done, prioritized, and the only thing we're doing when we arrive is checking our walkie talkies to make sure they are operating the way they should before we split up and begin our tasks. When you're prepared, your client will relax and trust you to get the job done!\n3. Introduce yourself. Whether you're meeting the vendors, the groom's cousin's girlfriend, or seeing the parents and bridal party again - say hi, shake their hand or give them a hug, and make them feel comfortable around you. Simply put, be personable. Wedding days usually feel awkward for the bridal party and family - they don't usually know what they're supposed to do when they're not in pictures, if they're supposed to say hi, or if you're supposed to say hi... just avoid the awkwardness and meet everyone!\n4. Dress professionally. This is a big deal. Your first impression to everyone you meet on the wedding day is based on how you look - and what you're wearing. Guys - suits are a must (with a jacket until after the reception begins). Girls - business attire is a must. The one exception I'll make for this is if you're doing physical labor - in which case, if you're going to be there for the ceremony, make sure you're changed and ready to go with plenty of time to spare! Depending on what you're doing, this would be before the bridal party gets dressed or by the time the guests arrive.\nBe enthusiastic and excited to be there. It's no secret that wedding days are usually far from the perfect dream that brides expect. But your attitude can truly make or break the day for everyone. As the experienced professional, everyone will be looking to you for what to do next and how to react to things. No matter what, smile, be gracious about the opportunity to witness their beautiful day, and encourage everyone else to get excited. When you're focusing on why the day is so important, everyone else will, too!\nAvoid controversial subjects and poor language. This should be common sense, but in this industry it's easy to blur the lines between professional and personal. Be cautious and know that even having a great relationship with a client doesn't mean they won't share your opinions and words with their friends and family.\nStress your achievements and avoid any negative remarks about your work. It's not the time to be humble or act like you don't deserve positive feedback! While being humble is an admirable trait, saying thank you and receiving praise shows that this isn't the first time you were successful at your job. And if something didn't turn out exactly like what you wanted, don't focus on that. Chances are high that you're the only one who knows or will notice. (I don't mean that you should hide anything from your client, but you don't need to draw attention to it either. Usually they're so enamored with everything that they won't notice that their bridal portrait isn't exactly where they wanted it.)\nDon't bring up or discuss anything personal. With your team, with other vendors, with your client, with their friends/family - even if you're friends with them outside of the wedding. It will circulate and someone will listen or overhear. That's the quickest way to dissolve the line between personal and professional relationships with clients, and even if it feels like you're building a rapport with someone, you're actually giving them a reason to respect you less. Just as you would a romantic relationship - keep some mystery. It keeps people intrigued!\nDisplay confidence. This ties into number 5 and 7, but is so important I want to reiterate it! When you show confidence in your ability and how things are going, you're setting the tone for the event. Emotions are high on a wedding day, and things happen that aren't a part of the plan. Show that you're flexible, can solve any problem that arises, and do it all with a smile and you will get referrals all day long.\nHave business cards! This is probably more like, \"resumes\" when you're actually at a job interview. While word of mouth is a great referral, be prepared to share your business cards with those who ask! It is completely appropriate to share them with other vendors, family members, friends or other guests who ask about your business and services. It is NOT appropriate to place these on tables, hand them out to everyone who walks into the reception, or leave them in a central area for people to take. The wedding is not a bridal show!\nThese are important tips for job interviews and all professionals that are in the event (and especially wedding) industry. While you may not be interviewing with your current client (duh, you already got that gig), you are looking to get referrals from the vendors you meet and all of the family/friends/guests who attend the wedding. I have gotten more inquiries from one wedding that I did (my first one) because it went so well than I have by running any ads, posting on social media, or networking outside of weddings. While all of those are important, do you job well and it'll speak for itself.\nAnd... if you read nothing else but skipped to the bottom to see how long this post was, I hope you get this as the takeaway -\nBe the professional that you would want to hire for your wedding. Treat it like it's your best friends wedding and you want it to be absolutely perfect - because every wedding is a once in a lifetime event for the couple and they don't have a chance to repeat it. Quite frankly, you don't either.\nPosted in Event Planning, Real Life, Small Business Ownership, Virginia Wedding, Wedding Planning, Wedding Vendors, Heart to Heart\ntagged with Wedding Advice, Heart to Heart Series, Professional, Small Business Ownership, Wedding Industry, Wedding Vendors, Job Interview, Virginia Wedding", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 9140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.china-botschaft.de/det/Correspondents/mg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:30Z", "digest": "sha1:T3HJI5P6BAMX5ADRSPVZLXQXYVMP4NY2", "length": 4219, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.china-botschaft.de", "title": "Media Guide", "raw_content": "Establishing a Permanent Office and Dispatching Resident Journalists in China\nCurrently foreign media organizations base their permanent offices and resident journalists in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangzhou of Guangdong province and Shenyang of Liaoning province.\ni. Establishing a Permanent Office\nTo dispatch a resident journalist to China, foreign media organizations shall establish a permanent office in China first. A foreign media organization that applies for the establishment of a permanent office in China shall submit the following documents to the Information Department of the Foreign Ministry (the Information Department for short) directly or through a Chinese diplomatic mission abroad:\n(1) a written application (including information about the name, place of intended residence and business scope of the office to be established) signed by a principal officer in charge of the headquarters of the media organization (such as chairman, president, vice president, editor-in-chief, deputy editor-in-chief, radio/TV station president, deputy radio/TV station president, etc. ) ;\n(2) a profile of the media organization;\n(3) profiles of the head of the permanent office to be established and the journalists and staff members to be dispatched (including photocopy of passport, photocopy of journalist certificate, and CV, position and contacts details); and\n(4) a copy of the document certifying that the media organization is established in its home country (for official media organizations, the document may be issued by the competent governmatal authorities).\nii. Dispatching Resident Journalists\nA foreign media organization that applies for the dispatch of a resident journalist to China shall submit the following documents to the Foreign Ministry directly or through a Chinese diplomatic mission abroad:\n1. a written application (including the position, job description and city of intended residence of the journalists to be dispatched) signed by an officer in charge of the headquarters of the media organization;\n2. a profile of the journalist to be dispatched (including photocopy of passport, journalist certificate , CV, contacts details, and etc);\n3. a photocopy of the document certifying the professional activities of the said journalist in the home country of the media organization.\nUpon approval, foreign media organizations can dispatch resident journalists to China.\nPermanent offices of foreign media organizations wishing to employ citizens of their home country or a third country as staff members, shall apply for the approval of the Information Department, and go through the procedures according to relevant laws and regulations .\nIf the resident foreign journalist or staff member to be dispatched by foreign media organizations is the spouse of an employee of foreign or international organization based in China who enjoys diplomatic or consular privilege or immunity, a note submitted by the government of the dispatching country or international organization declaring that the spouse of the employee gives up the privilege and immunity shall be presented to the Information Department when making the application. With approval, the spouse of the employee shall change his passport into the ordinary type.\nResident foreign journalists in China, their accompanying spouses and children (under 18 years old) may apply to the overseas Chinese embassies and consulates or the visa agencies authorized by the Foreign Ministry for J-1 visa. Other staff , their accompanying spouses and children shall apply for Z visas. The kinship certificate for accompanying spouses and children is required.\nEstablishing a Permanent Office and Dispatching Resident Journalists in China (2014-02-11)\nRegulations of the People's Republic of China on News Coverage by Permanent Offices of Foreign Media Organizations and Foreign Journalists (2012-10-04)\nGuide to Customs Clearance of Reporting Equipment Carried by Foreign Journalists (2010-03-11)\nRight and Responsibilities of Foreign Journalists (2012-10-04)\nCancelling and Reissuing Certificate for Permanent Office of Foreign Media Organization in China and Press Card (R) (2012-10-04)\nDeparture of Resident Journalists (2012-10-04)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chinhdoan.com/chinh-in-pictures.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MW2Z7IHFPH55G7K3VUTUIGZISR5NU3IM", "length": 150, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.chinhdoan.com", "title": "Chinh in Pictures - Chinh Doan Journalist, Producer, Storyteller", "raw_content": "Oh, the people you'll meet!\nChinh's passion for people and storytelling have led her to meet some of the coolest, most inspiring individuals on Earth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.christiaancorlett.com/blog/4564514201/Rock-art-from-the-ancient-graveyards-at-Ballintemple-and-Ballymaghroe-Co.-Wicklow/2328224", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:30Z", "digest": "sha1:7SUMPJH7HO2OSVNTKDWWBPVZVGOHYOTO", "length": 2885, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.christiaancorlett.com", "title": "Rock art from the ancient graveyards at Ballintemple and Ballymaghroe, Co. Wicklow - christiaancorlett.com", "raw_content": "Rock art from the ancient graveyards at Ballintemple and Ballymaghroe, Co. Wicklow\nBy christiaancorlett, May 23 2012 9:57AM\nStaying with the theme of graveyards, the name of the old graveyard at Ballintemple near Woodenbridge clearly indicates that this must be the site of an ancient church, though all physical remains of the church itself are long gone. And as in the case of the old graveyard at Hollywood, when I visited Ballintemple in October 2010 I had my eyes peeled for any remains of the former church \u2013 a carved piece of stone from the church itself or an even older cross slab. What I didn\u2019t expect to find was a carved stone that predates the graveyard by about four millennia!\nThe stone consists of a schist flag that measures 1m long and 60cm across. The decorated surface is flat and features eight cupmarks \u2013 the two largest cups are 7cm and 9cm across, whereas the smallest is just 3cm across. Notably, none of the cups are enclosed by rings; this is a common feature of rock art in Wicklow. Another feature of the Ballintemple stone is the linear grooves; this is a feature of rock art in Wicklow as well as neighbouring Co. Carlow. There are also two triangular depressions which I haven\u2019t seen parallels for in the area.\nThe stone in question had been used as a grave marker, probably during the 18th or 19th century. The big question of course is whether it originally came from around about the graveyard itself or was it brought here from further afield. Even if the latter is the case, it is unlikely to have travelled from too far away.\nWhen I say that I was surprised to see the rock art here \u2013 I should say that I was pleasantly surprised. In fact, a month earlier I had exactly the same experience at Ballymaghroe graveyard near Knockananna. Once again, the stone from Ballymaghroe appears to have been reused as a grave marker within the last couple of centuries. Once again, this site represents an ancient church site. The stone in question is 52cm long and is clearly broken along one edge; on one face there are seven cup marks and two of these are broken across the middle where the stone has been split. A groove extends out from the largest cup mark and splays slightly at the opposite end. Curiously, on the opposite face are two small cups. This is an unusual feature of rock art. Most examples of rock art in Wicklow are (or at least were) earthfast boulders, but the fact that this small stone is decorated on two faces suggests that perhaps this small example was always portable.\nWhatever about their original purpose, the fact that the Ballintemple and Ballymaghroe stones were reused in more recent times as headstones is interesting in itself and raises some very interesting questions. Why were they selected, and how did the people who reused them interpret and understand these ancient symbols? And where did they originally come from?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cityofhewitt.com/169/Community-Development", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PQOURG6U4OQFQW75ZERJB7IXPJZ6OA5C", "length": 2140, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cityofhewitt.com", "title": "Planning & Community Development | Hewitt, TX - Official Website", "raw_content": "Hewitt is the second largest city in McLennan County, located about eight miles south of its more populous neighbor, the City of Waco.\nOur city is located in the \"Main Street\" of Texas in the center of Texas. We are located less than 100 miles from the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex to the North and Austin to the South.\nThe Department of Planning and Community Development coordinates activities associated with planning, conservation, housing, appeals, and historic. In addition to promoting economic opportunities for the residents of Hewitt, the Department manages the Building Division.\nApplication submissions are accepted by the Planning & Community Development Department on or before the first Friday of each month. A Submittal Schedule is available for deadline and meeting information. Applicant should consult with the department before filing an application to discuss the feasibility of the request and any additional requirements.\nThe Development Review Committee (DRC) will review the submittal to determine compliance with the general and administrative provisions of the Hewitt Code of Ordinances as well as Chapter 212 of the Texas Local Government Code. Once the DRC, determines the submittal to be administratively complete, it can be scheduled for consideration by the Planning & Zoning Commission or City Manager (based on the type of submittal).\nA Schedule for Approving Plats provides more information concerning the approval process for certain types of plats or submittals.\nUpon approval of the final plat, copies of the plat will be forward for the appropriate signatures.\nIn those isolated cases where a final plat is disapproved, the subdivider may resubmit a revised final plat within 60 days of the disapproval date without the preliminary plat becoming null and void.\nOnce all the requirements are met as outlined in the Hewitt\u2019s Code of Ordinances, Appendix B \u2013 Subdivisions, Section 10, \u201cFinal Subdivision Approval and Acceptance\u201d and the original tax certificate is provided by the property owner, City Staff will record the plat in the office of the County Clerk of McLennan County.\nAgendas/Agenda Packets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.civ.neu.edu/news/make-lasting-impact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:23Z", "digest": "sha1:QUWKE3O7LHGTD3XA3CAOCL2SUTCXXOD7", "length": 2497, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.civ.neu.edu", "title": "Make a Lasting Impact | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Northeastern University", "raw_content": "We are pleased to introduce three new academic programs built on the growing challenges and opportunities of an increasingly complex world. Human activity continues to shape our natural and built environments and human health, and engineers must be able to meet these challenges head on. As we continue to rethink the way we view the engineering profession, new skills are needed. It is from this place that we developed three, new and innovative degree programs that focus on two critical areas of the future \u2013 the environment and public policy.\nGrounded in the basic sciences, and combining hands-on learning and theory, our new Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering is unique. This program is built not only around the broad skills and expertise of a world-class environmental faculty but also an understanding that government and industry face unique and growing challenges. This degree provides the comprehensive understanding needed to develop tomorrow\u2019s innovations. Our curriculum includes a wide range of opportunities for experiential and project-based learning, including courses taught by faculty who provide off-site, hands-on instruction and field trips within a coastal environment, based at Northeastern\u2019s Marine Science Center located in Nahant, MA.\nOur Master of Science in Environmental Engineering builds upon the fundamentals of a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering. This program looks at current challenges and opportunities from an innovative and comprehensive standpoint, providing those looking for an advanced degree, additional skills in a rapidly evolving profession. Careers in industry, academia or as entrepreneurs await those looking to make a lasting impact that extends beyond the engineering profession.\nAs both the world population and political support for massive investments in infrastructure grow, the need for engineers with a public policy skill-set is crucial. Engineers play a key role not only in developing and implementing solutions to societal questions but also in public sector planning and decision-making. This degree was borne out of an understanding that public policy and engineering cannot function without the other. 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It is 2\" by 1 1/4\" and in very good condition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.clermontsrealtor.com/for-sale/14340-n-nebraska-avenue-tampa-fl-33613/40-1839071", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:BO25HE3AHARIEQAP7QBVCQAR4EZGSIP2", "length": 295, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.clermontsrealtor.com", "title": "14340 N NEBRASKA AVENUE, Tampa, FL 33613 | MLS#: T3121384 | Tampa Real Estate", "raw_content": "Its a fun and entertaining center open 7 days a week. Sunday through Thursday open 12:00 until 9:00pm. Friday from 12:00 until 12:00am and saturday from 10:00 am until 12:00am. Over 14.33 acres of land with a full operating and profitable business.\nPatricia Murphy of KELLER WILLIAMS - NEW TAMPA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 3724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 115.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.clickpraylove.com/2012/03/stay-at-home-moma-lovedare-i-say-hate.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:18Z", "digest": "sha1:IOOY77DGDOPSXWPC3NVUHQUWA2IERMYC", "length": 4482, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.clickpraylove.com", "title": "Click. Pray. Love: Stay At Home Mom...A Love/(Dare I Say) Hate Relationship", "raw_content": "Stay At Home Mom...A Love/(Dare I Say) Hate Relationship\nEvery day I wish I could honestly say, \"I would rather be at home mothering my child than any other place in the world,\" but that's not always true. Some days it's true, but there are many days I struggle being content with being home. There are days when I think someone else could do a better job, so I'll just go back to working outside the home. There are days when I think this is crazy........why do people do it again? There are days when I spend the whole day fighting tears. There are days when I have a few moments to myself and clarity seeps in.\nThen, there are days when I look at my boy accomplishing something for the first time and I think there is no better place to be than right here. Days when he pats me on the shoulder saying, \"Mama,\" that I know no one else could do a better job than ME! Days when I look forward to the day my little turkey will play along side his brother or sister. Days when I pray not for strength to make it through the day, but for a little boy who grows into a man who loves the Lord Jesus, who respects authority, who is generous, and compassionate to all people. Days when my heart could burst open overflowing with the love and joy I feel.\nIt seems those days of overflowing with joy, those days of contentment have been few in recent months, so I write this as a reminder that those exist and they are reason enough for me to be staying home during this season of my life. I write this as a reminder that when working full time as a Physical Therapist, I had days when I was overwhelmed and frustrated. I write this as a reminder that God is always present and always working in me regardless of my feelings and circumstances.\nToday, I just needed to remind myself, because today has been ROUGH!!!\n*Written a few days ago\nLabels: Motherhood, My life with Jesus\nThinking of you, Amber. You are a great mom. I was always told by a friend of mine that God doesn't like us to be content, which sounds silly, but when we are content we are comfortable, and we aren't turning to Him for our daily strength. I was reminded that when we are uncomfortable, we are weak, and He is at work harder than ever. Hang in there, friend!!\nI love this post, not because you are having a rough day but because it is honest and truthful. I know I want to be a mom SO bad, and I want to be a stay at home mom so bad. but I think it is so important for other moms to know they aren't alone and for women like me, to know it isn't a fairy tale land that I can sometimes dream it up to be.\nAnd you are a wonderful fabulous mom,who does an amazing job!\nThank you for being so transparent. I too have my days when I hate being a mom and I mess up so badly and allow my temper to overcome me I wonder if I may have crossed the line? I love my children dearly, but I don't always enjoy being a mother. I'm very glad to hear I'm not the only one who feels this way.\nI think if we didn't have those rough days we would never fully appreciate the little moments that can do some serious damage on the memories of the rough ones. He is adorable, I love that last pic.\nThank you for writing this! You absolutely are not alone in feeling like this--right there with you. Hugs!\nI think we all have days like that in the different roles we play. But without those bad days, we wouldn't rely on God so much. I think the struggles remind us God is there.\nI'm not a mom (I'm not married yet), but it seems like there are few people who are scared to say that some days they think \"I wish I wasn't a stay at home mom.\" Thank you for sharing your struggles and being honest and open!\nThis is a good reminder for all stay at home mamas. I often struggle with thoughts that someone else could do a better job than me. But then Anlon does something like coming up behind me and resting his head on my back and I'm reminded that God entrusted me to be his mama and will equip me with everything I need to fulfill this calling. Thanks for sharing your heart.\nLove this post, Amber. It is so healthy to get things off your chest, remind yourself of the GOOD parts, and keep striving for that place where our will and God's are in harmony. I love that you mentioned that you had frustrations when you worked, too. I try to always remember that... No job is perfect, and the grass isn't always as green as it looks from afar ;)\nYou are right...it's tough! It's wonderful! It's hard! It's amazing! 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The name, mailing address and contact information of the requester;\n2. A description of the records that are being requested;\n3. Whether the request is for commercial purposes.\nTo make a request for inspection or for copies of office records, please submit your request by mail, fax, email, or deliver it to:\nFOIA Officer(s) \u2013 Chuck Venvertloh, Christa Holtman, Erica Parrish\ncountyclerk@co.adams.il.us\nPlease be as specific as possible when describing the records you are seeking. Please indicate if you would like copies of the requested records, or whether you wish to examine the records in person. You have the right to either option.\nRemember, the Freedom of Information Act is designed to allow you to inspect or receive copies of records \u2013 it does not require staff of the public body to answer questions. To the extent that you wish to ask questions of a representative of the Adams County Clerk and Recorder, you may call our office at (217) 277-2150, to be directed to the proper person.\nThere is no fee for the first 50 pages of standard paper copies. A fee of $0.15 per page will be charged per additional page in excess of 50 pages. A fee will not be charged for documents that may be scanned and sent electronically, or may otherwise be made available by email.\nYou are permitted to ask for a waiver of copying fees. To do so, please include the following statement (or a similar statement) in your written FOIA request: \u201cI request a waiver of all fees associated with this request.\u201d In addition, you must include a specific explanation as to why your request for information is in the public interest\u2014not simply your personal interest\u2014and merits a fee waiver.\nDECLARATIONS (Per Section 4(a), 5 ILCS 140/4)\nThe Adams County Clerk & Recorder of Deeds is the elected, constitutional officer in charge of vital records, notary public registrations, assumed name registrations, and portions of the taxing and tax redemption processes in Adams County. The Clerk & Recorder of Deeds serves as the Clerk of the County Board of Adams County. The Clerk is the custodian of Statements of Economic Interests filed in Adams County. It is the office that conducts voter registration and elections in all of Adams County.\nFunctional Subdivisions\nAdams County Clerk & Recorder\u2019s Office/Administration\nApproximately $795,000\nThe County Clerk has operating facilities at one location:\n507 Vermont St, Suite G2\nThe County Recorder of Deeds has operating facilities at one location:\n507 Vermont St, Suite 110\nThe Clerk/Recorder\u2019s office has approximately 8 full time employees. Its part-time election-day employees can number up to 370.\nBoard, Commission, Committee, or Council\nThe Adams County Clerk & Recorder of Deeds has no board, commission, committee, or council which operates in an advisory capacity relative to its operations, nor which exercises control over its policies or procedures, or to which the Clerk is required to report and be answerable for the operations of his office.\nList of Records (Per section 5, 5 ILCS 140/5)\nThe clerk maintains public records relating to voter registration, the conduct and results of elections, vital records as governed by the Illinois Vital Record Act, the official agendas minutes, resolutions, ordinances and journals of the Adams County Board, Statements of Economic Interests filed in Adams County, notary public registrations, assumed name registrations, and records relating to tax agency reports, tax increment financing reports and the tax redemption processes in Adams County.\nIn response to FOIA requests, the Clerk furnishes, or makes available for inspection, documents that are either (1) printed out on paper in a form that requires no additional equipment to comprehend, or (2) produces CD\u2019s that contain the documents or information in a form readily rendered readable by commonly-available computer programs. While the documents are often prepared in the forms used by proprietary programs such as Microsoft Word or Excel, such documents are easily read by programs available for free, such as Open Office. Documents made available as PDF\u2019s are read by components all commonly-used computer operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, the Apple OS or freely-distributed versions of Linux, such as Ubuntu or Debian.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 8314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.colonyclubdc.com/new-events/2018/5/16/conversational-dc-mandarin-chinese", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PIE2SZTAQBJ7XK7GSR6FI3Z5XUAFSEPI", "length": 388, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.colonyclubdc.com", "title": "Conversational DC: Mandarin Chinese \u2014 Colony Club", "raw_content": "Join us to speak Mandarin Chinese in an immersive, free, social environment. The format is simple: show up, meet some new people, and have fun. No English allowed. Bringing a buddy is encouraged!\nThis event is free, but space is limited, so we ask that you reserve your spot through the Eventbrite:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversational-dc-mandarin-chinese-may-16-tickets-45048719934", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.commercial-fishing.org/2016/11/2017-usa-tide-tables/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QPA6AZPEWK56CYQD7GBV3HZQE3J3HAXT", "length": 728, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.commercial-fishing.org", "title": "2017 USA Tide Tables \u2013 Commercial Fishing", "raw_content": "The National Ocean Service (NOS) recently announced that 2017 tide tables are now available from NOAA. Tide tables are used by both commercial and recreational mariners for safe navigation.\nPrinted tide tables provide users with tide and tidal current predictions in an easy-to-read format for particular locations. NOAA\u2019s Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services produce these tide tables on an annual basis.\nNOAA tide predictions and tidal current predictions are available online for U.S. coastal stations for up to two years. 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Tim has long desired a place within Richardson where people could connect and enjoy fine dining, a carefully crafted drink, and an inspiring atmosphere. Communion is the culmination of that desire. Tim believes that if something is worth pursuing, then it is worth pursuing with excellence, alongside like-minded people. This is a founding principle of his life.\nBorn in East Texas, Tim moved to the Dallas area in the mid 1990\u2019s. In 2005, he graduated from Southern Methodist University with a Bachelor of Business Administration. Discontent with the prospect of taking a role in one of Dallas\u2019 large corporations, he joined Campus Crusade for Christ and moved to Italy to pursue his passion for people, travel and the Gospel. After completing a year-long tour in Italy\u2014that proved both enlightening and influential\u2014Tim spent another year in Christian ministry before feeling the pull to start his own business.\nThis desire to branch out on his own, would prove to be the first of many business ventures. A self-described \u201cSerial-Entrepreneur of sorts,\u201d Tim has started and operated over 10 companies in the last decade. Many of these startups went on to be very successful, while others tanked. Rather than chocking them off as failures, Tim views them as educational endeavors that inform his decision making today.\nOver the course of each startup, Tim began to see the process of generating an idea, investing time, investing money, and bringing people together around that idea, as a special season in the lifecycle of a company. This awakened his passion to help others as they pursue their dreams in business. Through Communion's Coworking space, Tim\u2019s sincere hope is to share all he has learned over the years. So, if you\u2019re looking for some feedback on an idea, advice on a problem, or need a mentor as you begin your startup, hit Tim up next time you\u2019re in Communion. Depending on the time of day, he'd love to connect over a coffee, or a bourbon and hear what's going on.\nTim lives in Richardson with his wife Amy, and their four children, Samuel, Ruthie, Judah and Abby. He spends his days at Communion\u2019s Coworking space, investing in its people and culture, while managing his other businesses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 186.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.completionarch.org/arch/indicator/3CM-12-C30-WA", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:29Z", "digest": "sha1:R2QBFNBBVVTZJXEBAJR22C3M243LRLFL", "length": 1096, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.completionarch.org", "title": "The Completion Arch: Five-Year Completion of 30 or More Credits: Washington", "raw_content": "Five-Year Completion of 30 or More Credits: Washington\nPercentage of 2001-02 Washington State Community and Technical College students who completed 30 or more college credits within five years, by student type\nPercentage of students who completed 30 or more college credits within five years\nFirst-time community and technical college students enrolled in Washington Community and Technical Colleges in 2001-02 in college-level students\nSome 29 percent of all college-level students completed 30 or more credits in five years, including just over one-half (52 percent) of students enrolled with the intent to transfer.\nTransfer students are a subset of college-level students.\nCollege-level: Includes only those students who took college-level courses.\nTransfer: Includes students enrolled with the intent to transfer.\nLeinbach, D. T., & Jenkins, D. (2008, January). Using longitudinal data to increase community college student success: A guide to measuring milestone and momentum point attainment. CCRC No. 2. New York: Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.completionarch.org/arch/indicator/4TC-25-DCA-KS", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SGNYTSHYUAMDVEQTIUVWLRATFJXMBSKN", "length": 328, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.completionarch.org", "title": "The Completion Arch: Number of Associate Degrees and Certificates Awarded: Kansas", "raw_content": "Number of Associate Degrees and Certificates Awarded: Kansas\nIn 2014, Kansas Community Colleges awarded 9,051 associate degrees, 5,405 certificates of less than one year, 2,817 certificates of one year to less than two years, and 137 certificates of two years or more, for a total of 17,410 subbaccalaureate credentials awarded.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.consciousvanguard.com/blog/2015/9/19/how-swiftly-they-forgot", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:49Z", "digest": "sha1:IN5AVJTZZMCFJ3TKYALBWHDHUARSSVRH", "length": 6131, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.consciousvanguard.com", "title": "How Swiftly He Forgot... \u2014 A Respite For The Order Of Life's Inquisitors", "raw_content": "How Swiftly He Forgot...\nRight now I feel like speaking on something that really disapointed me the other day from someone who I have defended to others (not that he needed me too) and who has changed my perception of him. Earlier this week, All-pro cornerback Richard Sherman spoke about the Black Lives Matter Movement and said, while he supports it, he believes that black on black crime is more the issue. Now this can be taken many ways, but the way in which I'm percieving his comments are that the Black Lives Matter movement and the black community in general need to focus on what's going on amongst our behavior concerning each other before we worry about how anyone else treats us.\nInitially, that doesn't sound to bad and seems to make some sense. That's if you're taking the approach that we should first respect ourselves if we expect anyone else to respect us.\nThe play that sparked the rant...\nBut when you think about those comments and disect it more, accompanied by an analysis of what Black Lives Matter is protesting and what the African American Community faces everyday, I would have to disagree with him. Much of what goes on in Black America happens because of the structural racism and conditioning that many have endured. This does not excuse black on black crime as I believe we need to take ownership of that as well, but it does serve as a guidline to understanding what is happening in our communities.\nPart of what Black Lives Matter protests is that very same structural racism that lies with in our every day lives and criminal justice system, not just police brutality. Richard should have an idea of what the structural racist system is because he experienced it himself in front of the whole world after he went on his rant several years ago following a game winning defensive play against the Forty Niners in the NFC championship game. At the end of the game, full of spirit, and hyped from a tremendous win, a news reporter started to interview Sherman and he went on a rant about how he was the best corner in the league and that's what happens when he is disrespected by his counterpart, Micheal Crabtree.\nNow I, along with many African Americans saw nothing wrong with his post game interview. In our minds, culturally speaking, it's perfectly normal and in good competitive spirits to trash talk during or at the end of a game. It's all in fun as along as you don't get overly insulting or talk about anyone's family. Well the rest of the world didn't see it that way as the backlash Sherman got from this was tremendous.\nAll over social media and the press, White America was talking about how shameful he was, calling him a thug and a criminal. They made it seem like he was uneducated, ignorant and a horrible example to children. Well, none of them ever stopped to notice that not once did he swear or get degrading in that post game interview.\nAn example of a tweet about Sherman after his rant. Notice the race of the individual and the content of the tweet. Would it be the same if Andrew Luck had made such a bold proclamation at the end of a game? No. And keep in mind that these tweets came in droves by poeple that looked just like this individual.\nAlso while they were busy calling him a thug and acting like he was some ignorant black gangster or criminal, none of them did their research which would reveal he is a very intelligent man with a degree from Stanford, comes from an upstanding family, graduated with a high GPA and has never been in any trouble his entire life. Nope, all they did was judge him and label him with the label all black folks get when we don't fall into that humble box that White America wants us too.\nWhen African Americans don't behave in a humble manner or we behave as is if we belong (Because we do!), then we're called arrogant and haughty. When we are brash or aggressive then we are thugs and criminals. Nevermind the many White Americans that behave the same way. They are just given labels as fun loving or high energy or someone who \"has a back bone\". You see, there are different standards for how African Americans are expected to behave and Richard forgot that.\nJust like he forgot that it wasn't black on black crime or the black community that piled on him when White America did. We actually supported him, defended him, and bolstered him up.\nYou don't have to like how they do things, but Black Lives Matter is a multi-cultural coalition of people who do what they do for a legitimate and real issue in America!\nThe treatment Sherman was given at the hands of White America after his rant several years ago, is the exact same treatment that Black Lives Matter is protesting. It's protesting the racist power structure that allows such different or preferential treatment to the dominant white culture versus the black culture. But I guess he forgot that because as what usually happens in America, you're able to somewhat blend in as if you're apart of the dominant culture when you've achieved some amazing feat through professional sports and gotten big pay raises via his performance on the field and product endorsements.\nThe money and fame has Sherman feeling safe and accepted by the same folks that slandered him and he seems to have forgotten the struggle that the rest of us without the pro football career and million dollar endorsements have to face.\nI still respect his game, I just don't agree with his opinion in it's entirety on the topic at hand.\nBut I wonder if Richard would once again remember when he does something else that White America isn't accepting of or if his career took a turn for the worse and the money was gone. I don't know, but I hope he figures it out soon. Don't bite the hand the feeds you and support those who have supported you. 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Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No will be coming at us via the cable network on July 22nd, as this time disaster hits Washington D.C. in the two hour made for t.v. movie.\nTara Reid and Ian Ziering will return for Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No\nOnce again Tara Reid will be back in her role as April while Ian Ziering will also be returning as hero of the day Fin Shepard. Cassie Scerbo, who did not return for Sharknado 2: The Second One, has also been confirmed as coming back, as Nova a bartender who sets her sights on Fin.\nBut alongside the returning cast members the movie also boasts one of the most confusing and appealing list of guest stars ever, as SyFy pulls out all the stops for the third movie.\nMore: 'Sharknado 3' Is On The Way As Ian Ziering And Tara Reid Sign On\nDavid Hasselhoff will play Fin's father, Gil, while 10 star Bo Derek will appear as April's mother, May. 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These are basically companies that are providing you with credit services. There are cases where you find your business having some request for credit refused, and existing facilities reduced or withdrawn. This can be hard for the business and even sometimes forcing you to close down, which is something that no business owner would like to happen. When you find yourself in such a situation, you should not panic or give up because there are ways that you can fix that, and there are experts that will specifically help you to do all that. With the technology and the internet, getting the best will not be that hard, especially when you know where you look.\nThe search for the best companies in every industry have been made easier by the companies that are doing the comparisons for you and all you need to do is choose the best among them. Unlike the kind of research that you can do, these are companies that have the resources, the capability and most importantly, the knowledge to do some comprehensive research and give you a list of the ratings, based on a number of things like the customer\u2019s reviews. The credit industry too have platforms that will do the research and the comparison for you, and the only thing that you will need is to choose the best. The Credit Review, is the name that you should be looking for if you want the best ranking of the most popular financial and credit companies, loan information and everything else that you need to know. Among the many things, this is where you will be getting the credit saints reviews and the credit pros reviews.\nChoosing the best among the top listed companies will be the next thing that you do after getting the listing and the ratings, and also recommendations that you get from the people that you know who have been there. Their expertise, the prices and what exactly you are looking for are among the things that you will be looking at here when choosing the best company for you. There are a lot of advantages that will come with a good credit and among them is the qualifying for the buying of a house, better loan offers and there are companies that will look at that before they can actually hire you. This is just an example of the things that are affected by your credit report, which means that you should fix it, if there if a problem.\nDiscovering The Truth About Score\n6 Lessons Learned: Score\n\u2190 The 10 Best Resources For Services\nA 10-Point Plan for Professionals (Without Being Overwhelmed) \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 4818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.counter-balance.org/tag/ep/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:16Z", "digest": "sha1:PKBUDAN5UE75JAR5KBTBT5OWAOSN76UD", "length": 827, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.counter-balance.org", "title": "EP | Counter Balance", "raw_content": "Press Briefing: the EIB and corruption in Africa\nShort summary of Nigerian case study to be presented: \u201cIn poor countries [corruption] can kill. 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I honestly am, and I know that. Then why did I suddenly feel a wave of sadness surge over me when I went on his Facebook page, then consequently, his Tumblr? It's... strange to say in the least. There's nothing there, but I'm still somehow upset. Pardon the sudden onset of the sniffles...\nI really don't know what's wrong with me... but I know there's definitely something wrong. I knew I was a fool to look at his page, but I did it anyway. I wanted to see some mention of my name... somewhere... but of course, nothing. But there was always hope, no matter how futile it was to dream.\nHe is such a different person... I'm really happy for him. He's got friends whom he gets along with really well now. He fits in perfectly in his amazing world of ups and down.\nI guess we all have to overcome the problems we face in life. Life honestly throws so much at you, and it's up to you as to how you respond, recover, continue, or stop. Each of us have events in our life which change how we think, feel, act...\nWe're all similar. We grow up, we have our fair share of problems... relationship problems, problems with friends and family, problems with one's own self. How we deal with these problems is what separates us from each other.\nOur reactions to religion, alcohol, drugs, lifestyle, friends, attitudes... they can change in the blink of an eye when something strikes the very foundations which hold our own worlds together. Leaving home... making and breaking relationships... losings friends... separation... yeah, those things can change one's moral outlook on life.\nAnd how do I cope with situations like these?\nThere have been so many times where an earthquake has shaken the simple barriers protecting my tomb. I should have quake-safed the place after all those times, but I guess I never really learn my lesson. Weeds always seem to grow in the cracks, walls of stone eventually crumble to dust, and the wind bitterly sweeps everything away.\nNo matter how hard we try to wall ourselves in, protect ourselves from the pain that people and places can incur, eventually we succumb and are left bare to the mercy of the world.\nMy pride is my weakness. I guess... I'm not as strong as I think. My feelings govern every single action I take. I never had a strong mind, but my morals kept me together. Somehow, I have a sense of purpose.\nAnd I guess that's why I'm here.\nFiled in - December 2009 -\nGetting poetic there at the end Jonny, jesus this was an intense read.\nI think you`re too depressive. There are so many people and things that can hurt us, but we have to be stringer and must fight. I also thought I dont have enouh force, but when I was involved in coursework help, I found a lot of friends and felt better.\n\ufffdallum on\tWe Will Fall Together", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 9364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cullowheeumc.org/multimedia-archive/sermon-november-18-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7Q3MFYA3HXWWEUAKHUKJ2BUAAXTZ32NW", "length": 154, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cullowheeumc.org", "title": "Sermon November 18, 2018 \u2013 Cullowhee United Methodist Church", "raw_content": "Scripture: Mark 13:1-8 and 1 Samuel 1:4-29\nSermon Topic: \u201cBirth Pangs\u201d\nhttp://www.cullowheeumc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Sermon-November-18-2018-.mp3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 2601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 150.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.curledupkids.com/alphaexp.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NBPTROOZ72YYKIPZDIUPLNQTQDXC7G3V", "length": 2651, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.curledupkids.com", "title": "Children's picture book reviews -- *Alphabet Explosion!: Search and Count from Alien to Zebra* by John Nickle - Curled Up With A Good Kid's Book", "raw_content": "Alphabet Explosion!: Search and Count from Alien to Zebra\nby John Nickle\nWhat do a sledding squirrel, a striped snake, and a snowman holding a stop sign have in common? They all start with the letter S, of course.\nJohn Nickle and the alphabet experts try to outsmart you on the pages of Alphabet Explosion! . Using an array of strategically arranged objects beginning with the same letter of the alphabet, the pictures they create incorporate a certain number of objects to be identified. Answers are given at the back of the book if you get stumped, but instructions for how to play and what to count are available at the beginning.\nIn Alphabet Explosion! , one page is devoted to every letter of the alphabet, filled with objects, colors, and actions that start with the same letter. For example, there are 22 objects on the A page. Readers can find an alligator wearing an apron, an alien holding an arrow, and an ant playing an accordion. Near the capital A is an acorn, and inside the small A is an apple. The objects that might be missed by younger readers include the antennae, the anvil, and the atom.\nAlthough the author warns us it can be tricky at times to name every thing on every page, he gives clear instructions and examples about what to count and not count. For example, yo-yo would count as one word and four fish as two words, but the octopus suction cups don't count as O\u2019s even though they resemble the letter in shape.\nThe book, with illustrations created using acrylic and spray paint on watercolor paper, can be read in any order and by children of many ages. They might want to start with the X page, where there are three X words to name, or on the S page with 47 things beginning with S. Older children can write down the objects they find, and added step that helps with spelling and vocabulary.\nWhether young or old, children who read Alphabet Explosion! will learn more about the alphabet, increase their vocabulary, and expand their imagination! This will also probably be the only place where they will see a boxing bee, a duck dentist, and corncob car.\nJohn Nickle makes impressive use of the alphabet here, incorporating an umbrella, a unicorn, and a pair of underwear into one picture, and a variety of ways to blend in capital and small letters on every page. Alphabet Explosion! is definitely a book you can play.\nThe author and illustrator of the picture books The Ant Bully and TV Rex, John Nickle\u2019s illustrations appear in Judi Barrett\u2019s books Never Take a Shark to the Dentist and Things That are Most in the World. His exhibitions have appeared in galleries in New York and Connecticut. He lives in New York.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 3165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.currahee.org/PH.Story_S.Oliphant.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:55Z", "digest": "sha1:TX4XZKP3NTBDHTEFMN7TSLSP4SM7U5EV", "length": 8509, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.currahee.org", "title": "Website Template", "raw_content": "Platoon Medic Steve Oliphant's\nParatrooper, Platoon Medic, 1st Platoon, Company B\nPhoto (L-R): Richard Pittman 3/C 67/68), Medic Steve Oliphant,\nCpt. David Hillard (CO/C 68), PSG Carl Thanheiser (4/C 67/68),\nPSG August Klamar (1/C 67/68)\nStephen A. Oliphant, Jr., 19-year-old platoon medic, 1st Platoon, Company B (1968), native of Ft. Bragg, NC (Army Brat). Steve entered the military service on June 23, 1967 (10-days out of high school). He took his basic training at Ft. Ord, CA in June thru August 1967, followed by AIT at Ft. Sam Houston, TX for medical training to become a combat medic--from September through November 1967, then to Jump School at Ft. Benning, GA in December 1967.\n\u201cI went to Ft. Benning directly from Ft. Sam Houston,\u201d says Steve. \u201cThe men that volunteered for Jump School and eventually dropped out were sent to Germany. Those of us that got our wings went directly to Vietnam . I graduated from Jump School in December, got a short leave, then headed for South Vietnam in January 1968. After arriving in country, I spent almost a month at \u2018Repo-Depot\u2019 in Long Bien during TET. While I was there, they had me doing KP, filling sand bags, and performing various other details until my assignment to a unit.\u201d\n(click on all thumbnails)\nAt the end of February 1968, the Currahees of the 3-506th had survived the infamous Communist TET Offensive and were victorious at Phan Thiet and LZ BETTY in Binh Thuan province (click on map below). By mid-February, Steve had received orders to join the 3-506th at Phan Thiet. He reported to the aid station, met the Battalion Surgeon, Dr. Andrew Lovy and was assisted in packing an aid bag with the essentials he would need as a field medic. Medic Oliphant recalls, \u201cI believe that it was my second or third night at LZ Betty, when the base was mortared and the ammo dump blew up. The first explosion caught me on the tarmac in front of the dispensary. Several of us were standing around a jeep talking when it went off. Everyone but me dove for cover under the jeep. I couldn\u2019t understand why the others reacted in such a way, because I figured that if the explosion didn\u2019t get me, then the danger had passed. I had forgotten the old adage about \u2018what goes up must come down\u2019; but after the metal rainstorm began, I was also under the jeep. Later, I was assigned to go down to the beach and stand by to help possible wounded in that area. While there, another huge explosion occurred, sending me scrambling to get under a hootch. In the process, a big chunk of shell fragment hit me in the elbow. It was a long night for this \u2018Cherry Medic\u2019 for sure.\u201d\nMedic Oliphant bounced around from one unit to another for several days and finally was permanently assigned to Platoon Sergeant Joe Jerviss\u2019 1st Platoon, Company B. During the month of March 1968, the 3-506 conducted their typical \u201csearch and destroy\u201d operations in search of the enemy. On March 18, 1968, PSG Jerviss and his 1st Platoon, Company B, received orders from Cpt. Mike Pearson, Company Commander of Company B, to move out and set up some \u201cnight ambushes\u201d in the Disneyland area northwest of Phan Thiet. Once in position, PSG Jerviss and his men waited patiently for the enemy for two nights. When the Viet Cong didn\u2019t show up, the decision was made to move the platoon toward LZ Bartlett.\nBy late afternoon on March 21, 1968, 1st Platoon stopped for the day and began to set up their Night Defensive Perimeter. As the Currahees were having evening chow, they began receiving enemy fire. The volley of gunfire continued on and off throughout the night.\nThe next morning, the platoon was ordered to split in half. PSG Joe Jerviss, along with squad leader, SSG Joe Garrett, took two squads and moved out into an open field in pursuit of the enemy. Their advance was immediately halted by enemy fire, and the Currahees were forced to move back to cover. The decision was made to try and flank the enemy. Once again, the Currahees moved out in search of the enemy. Medic Oliphant recalls, \u201cAs we moved out, we crossed a dry creek and found ourselves in the midst of thousands of punji stakes positioned about four inches apart. I was several meters behind Sergeant Jerviss and his RTO, when I heard someone call for the medic to come forward. I sped up and moved forward about thirty meters until I was in sight of Sergeant Jerviss. At that point, I sensed a bullet zip past my nose and scrambled behind a small berm right next to the bank of the dry creek. One of the men had scraped his calf on a punji stake. The wound wasn\u2019t bad, but I was fully aware of the possible infection these things could cause. I squatted down, unzipped my aid bag, and began to work on the wound.\u201d\nBy this time, PSG Jerviss had come upon a punji stake with a piece of paper attached to it, which turned out to be a marker for a booby-trapped grenade. Within seconds, the grenade exploded amid constant gunfire and the advancing Viet Cong. \u201cAt that point,\u201d says Medic Oliphant, \u201ceverything got blurry and dusty. I saw objects flying by me in slow motion, and I momentarily lost my hearing. After a few seconds, I heard Sergeant Jerviss screaming with pain. As the medic, I could not help him\u2014I could not move and finally realized that I was also wounded. Someone pulled Sergeant Jerviss over to the bank and down the incline to the creek bed. I eventually was able to move enough to hook my arm through the strap on my medic bag and slide down the creek bank alongside Sergeant Jerviss. Shortly thereafter, the company senior aid man\u2014SP5 Lawrence Moristo\u2014made his way forward to take care of the wounded.\u201d\nMedic Oliphant, along with Sergeant Jerviss and two other Currahees, were eventually medevaced back to LZ Betty and treated at the evac hospital. From there, Medic Oliphant was flown to Camp Drake in Japan, where he spent three months before going on the States. At Fort Ord, California, Steve spent an additional four and a half months in treatment/recuperation. After being released from the Fort Ord hospital, Steve was assigned to the 307th Medical, 82nd Airborne. He reenlisted to go back to South Vietnam, hoping that he would be assigned to a hospital on his second tour. Instead, he was assigned to a unit and stationed back at LZ Betty\u2014the 1/50th Mech. Infantry. This was in November 1969, and he had just missed the 506th as they left Phan Thiet for Ban Me Thout.\nAfter a full tour in South Vietnam , Steve went back to the States to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland and was stationed at the hospital there for a year. From there, he was assigned to Ft. Bragg, North Carolina with the 82nd Airborne. Two and a half years later, Steve was finally discharged from the military in April 1973. Following his discharge, he bummed around for a while until deciding to attend college. He enrolled in the nursing program at the Junior College in Palm Desert, California and eventually received his RN Degree.\nSteve met and married his wife, Cherie, in 1980 and worked as a nurse until 1989, when a back injury forced him into disability retirement. He lost Cherie in June 2002, after a brief illness that took her life. Steve has a stepdaughter and two granddaughters. He loves to spend time with the girls and hopes to bring them with him to the DC reunion this summer.\nSteve\u2019s reflections on his Vietnam experience. . . .\n\u201cMy Vietnam experience has made everything else downhill.\u201d\nSince this initial write-up back in 2010, Steve met and married his current wife, Maribel from the Philippine Islands. The two moved from California to the Philippine Islands, where they now make their home. They return to California to visit family and friends on a regular basis. Steve can be reached at: pachyderm4@earthlink.net.\nPhoto (L-R): Richard Pittman (4/C 67/68), Medic Steve Oliphant (1/B 1968), Cpt. Dave Hillard (B Co. CO 1968 (Deceased), PSG Carl Thanheiser (4/C 67/68), PSG August Klamar 2/C 67/68) - KC Reunion 2001\nJerry's Note: The Morning Report dated 22 March 1968 States: Five WIAs \u2013 PSG Joseph L. Jervis, SSG Joe J. Garrett, Pfc. Michael W. Shepherd, SP4 Medic Stephen Oliphant, and SP4 Butler McKinnon medevaced to 36th Evac. Hospital. I have not had the opportunity to interview former SSG Joe Garrett, McKinnon, or Michael Shepherd for their recollections of the incident. I met Garrett only once since Vietnam and that was at an earlier 3-506th reunion at Clarksville, TN back in the late 1990s. He has chosen not to stay in touch. I have yet to locate Mike Shepherd or Butler McKinnon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 8624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dallascommercialappraisers.com/Cochran-Heights-appraisal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:59Z", "digest": "sha1:TBN4ZPZ3Y2FMJTP74EFLEUYVTKHG5U7I", "length": 1686, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.dallascommercialappraisers.com", "title": "Commercial Real Estate Appraisers in Cochran Heights, TX", "raw_content": "We\u2019re the #1 commercial real estate appraisal firm in Cochran Heights for individual property owners and their advisors\nProviding commercial real estate appraisal services in Cochran Heights\nIf you're looking for an appraisal firm with the best commercial property appraisers in Cochran Heights, you've come to the right place - we're the #1 appraisal company for privately procured commercial real estate appraisals in and around Cochran Heights. All our Cochran Heights commercial appraisers have extensive experience in performing a wide variety of commercial property appraisals. When choosing a commercial real estate appraiser, bear in mind that experience really matters. And a commercial appraisal is only as good as the commercial appraiser who produces it. Most people are surprised to learn that to become a state certified commercial property appraiser in Cochran Heights, a candidate must spend at least three years in training learning the practices and procedures of commercial real estate appraisal. They spend this training period under the supervision of one or more seasoned and highly trained commercial real estate appraisers. And although the initial three-year training process is thorough, many more years of real world experience are required to become truly proficient. That's why all our appraisers have an absolute minimum of ten years of experience; and in fact, most of our appraisers have fifteen or more years of experience. So, if you need a commercial property appraisal in Cochran Heights for your office, multi-family, retail, industrial, religious, mixed-use, or special use property, or for commercially zoned vacant land, call us for a free quote.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 16641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.darlington.k12.sc.us/about_us/latest_news/darlington_county_school_district_hires_quinetta", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VMUPHIUOQC2RZFB3GJNV4SDZP3RWD5SA", "length": 3275, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.darlington.k12.sc.us", "title": "Darlington County School District hires Quinetta Buterbaugh as Business Engagement Coordinator - Darlington County School District", "raw_content": "Darlington County School District \u00bb About Us \u00bb Latest News \u00bb Darlington County School District hires Quinetta Buterbaugh as Business Engagement Coordinator\nDARLINGTON, S.C. \u2013 Quinetta Buterbaugh will lead an exciting new program in Darlington County School District (DCSD) focused on creating work-based opportunities for students with local businesses. The Darlington County Board of Education approved Buterbaugh\u2019s hire Monday evening during its monthly meeting.\nAs business engagement coordinator, Buterbaugh will be tasked with creating and strengthening relationships with local employers in order to empower DCSD students through real-world job experiences. These opportunities will include internships and apprenticeships.\n\u201cMrs. Buterbaugh\u2019s expertise in workforce initiatives, her established relationships with decision-makers in many local businesses, and her demonstrated success working with our students and schools make her the ideal person to develop and build this critical program,\u201d said Dr. Tim Newman, DCSD superintendent.\nNewman said preparing students to enter the workforce after graduation is a critical mission of the district.\n\u201cWhen our students walk across the stage with their diplomas in hand, we want them to have options and opportunities,\u201d Newman said. \u201cMore than that, we want them to have the skills and experience they need to build a solid future. Our business and industries need workforce-ready workers. By creating opportunities for our students to work in and with our local business community, we create a stronger workforce and provide more opportunities for our students.\u201d\nButerbaugh brings a wealth of experience, having spent the past four years as president of the Greater Hartsville Chamber of Commerce. Prior to her work with the chamber, she served as an adjunct professor at Florence-Darlington Technical College\u2019s Hartsville campus and worked as a public relations assistant at Duke Energy in Florence. Additionally, Buterbaugh has served on numerous boards and committees, including the Carolinas Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, Main Street Hartsville Advisory Board, Darlington County Progress, Hartsville Rotary Club, Darlington County Institute of Technology Advisory Board and Greater Darlington Chamber of Commerce. She is a 2013 graduate of Leadership Hartsville.\n\u201cI\u2019m grateful for the opportunity that Dr. Newman and the Board have given me to help shape the workforce development efforts in our county through work-based experiences for our students,\u201d Buterbaugh said. \u201cI\u2019ve spent the last few years working closely with the business community, and I\u2019m looking forward to leveraging those strong partnerships to create opportunities for our students. We have amazing companies in Darlington County and the region that are eager to work with our students. It\u2019s an excellent challenge, and I am eager to get to work.\u201d\nShe holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Communications from the University of Phoenix and an associate degree in Specialized Business from Cambria-Rowe Business College. She will complete a Master of Science in Management and Leadership from Coker College next month. She also holds an Institute for Organization Management certification from the United States Chamber of Commerce.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1041, "original_length": 62868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dashboardzone.com/sales-dashboard-from-fusion-charts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:29Z", "digest": "sha1:O72GRXGL2EKJVCK3CRFCQF4MGPMFGKPD", "length": 1815, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.dashboardzone.com", "title": "Sales Dashboard from Fusion Charts \u2013 Dashboard Zone", "raw_content": "Sales Dashboard from Fusion Charts\nDecember 21, 2010 December 12, 2010 by dashboard_review\n\ufeffThe Sales Dashboard shown below from Fusion Charts is a good example of how business intelligence software can be used to create an effective and detailed representation of a business\u2019 performance. This dashboard example is quite detailed, and has a number of charts distributed over four tabs.\nInitially the user is presented with a Summary tab, which gives an overview of sales performance over a given year. This tab cleverly uses bar charts, global maps and line charts to give a summary of various aspects of sales performance. Users can see how sales figures by continent, by month and how they compared to the previous year\u2019s figures. Additional key performance indicators are shown using gauge charts.\nThe second tab is given to specific sales data. In this case it is titled Visits/Downloads. Again, it uses a variety of charts to compare the number of visits to the company sites against the number of actual downloads. This data is relevant and necessary for the company\u2019s decision makers to have a better understanding of sales performance. The third tab is concerned with marketing, and analyses how much money was spent on marketing in comparison with revenue gain. It also provides a variety of charts to examine how traffic was directed to the site. There is comparative analysis of various search engine links as well as marketing expenses. Finally there is a tab devoted to manpower, which includes a detailed breakdown of human resources data. Various charts demonstrate the number of staff in each department, as well as the average experience of the staff.\nCategories Dashboard, sales\tPost navigation\nBusiness Intelligence Ltd. Dashboard from Dashports\nData Visualization Sonatica Dashboard from Dundas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deathvalley.com/dvtalkarc2/messages/2514.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:02Z", "digest": "sha1:WO2CDJU2T4MXENJN5R2I5IFB4UJVRX7X", "length": 283, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.deathvalley.com", "title": "Re: Great Gathering - Osborne Clean Up Party", "raw_content": "Posted by OUCH on May 13, 2002 at 20:47:01:\nIn Reply to: Re: Great Gathering - Osborne Clean Up Party posted by scootertrash on May 13, 2002 at 18:12:20:\nOUCH - about the cobbler bit... and you remember, there was two Land Cruisers out there that week-end. What does that tell you???", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 508, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deathvalley.com/dvtalkarc3/messages/3745.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:52Z", "digest": "sha1:5SJL6LX44XIYZZYR4YHPDL6TII67363I", "length": 302, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.deathvalley.com", "title": "Re: Sluggish Server?", "raw_content": "Re: Sluggish Server?\nPosted by SteveS on August 04, 2002 at 14:28:50:\nIn Reply to: Sluggish Server? posted by Art Berggreen on August 04, 2002 at 12:43:31:\nSeems to me that been happening for a while, maybe something to do with the data going back to Feb, 02. I don't know, thats just a wag on my part.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deathvalley.com/dvtalkarc3/messages/3987.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:33Z", "digest": "sha1:BKF5UKDIBYMEBYBXKZU5DBUQVOPRRBO4", "length": 617, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.deathvalley.com", "title": "Re: NO!!!! Everyone can enjoy Death Valley...", "raw_content": "Re: NO!!!! Everyone can enjoy Death Valley...\nIn Reply to: NO!!!! Everyone can enjoy Death Valley... posted by hank jr on August 13, 2002 at 18:53:19:\nI agree with Hank, - no reason you can't go to Death Valley and have a good time. We were all beginners at one time - you got to start somewhere! Stock vehicles are fine...driver skill is as important as the type of vehicle you are driving, and that will come as you drive more and more dirt roads. Most important thing, be safe, have plenty of water,first aid, some form of communication, emergency supplies, and always a good idea to have another vehicle with you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deathvalley.com/dvtalkarc3/messages/4119.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMC7X4SNHRU7SAAQV4CS3X567HBL4ITR", "length": 251, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.deathvalley.com", "title": "Re: The Meaning of the word Panamint", "raw_content": "Re: The Meaning of the word Panamint\nIn Reply to: Re: The Meaning of the word Panamint posted by Harold Ericsson on August 24, 2002 at 19:40:33:\nThey aren't my words, they belong to Erwin G. Gudde - you'll have to ask him for permission to substitute!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 195.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.deborahacohen.com/profile/?q=content/review-sunday-business-post-ireland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:38Z", "digest": "sha1:GERTTW3DTPFNU26NTSQUDXXQG4BFTD4Y", "length": 4119, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.deborahacohen.com", "title": "Review in the Sunday Business Post [Ireland] | Deborah Cohen", "raw_content": "It opens in colonial India in the 1770s, when Robert Bruce, a captain in the Bengal Artillery, begets a daughter by his Indian mistress. A doting father -- \"You never beheld a prettier or finer Child in all your life,\" he wrote to his brother in England -- he is keen to have her educated at home, but is dissuaded by his family, lest her \"black connections\" bring shame upon the Bruce name.\nThe girl died before they had a chance to reconcile the matter but, four years later, when Captain Bruce returned to England with a five-year-old ward, Margaret Steward, he and his charge were embraced by the family. When Bruce returned to Bengal, Margaret stayed on, to be educated and introduced to genteel society by her hosts as if she was one of their own.\nWhat the Captain had neglected to reveal to his mother was that the girl was, in fact, a Bruce and another product of his lusty liaisons. Margaret literally became a living skeleton in the family closet, until her origins were revealed a decade later.\nMargaret Steward was just one of innumerable undocumented illegitimate children born to English men throughout the colonies, some of whom were adopted like Margaret under false pretences, but most of whom were not.\nChildren born in Victorian England fared better than their colonial counterparts; in upper and middle-class England, anyway, the focus of Cohen's exhaustively researched study. (For the working classes living in crowded conditions and beholden to institutions of church and state, however, as Cohen suggests, the concept of secrecy just didn't exist: \"Keeping a secret, like keeping a servant,\" she writes, \"was one way, then, to define the middle class.\"\nThe first half of the book focuses on families in Victorian England, the era in which childhood was invented, when wealthy families would go to great lengths to protect their offspring, just as the Bruce family did, when they eventually discovered Margaret's interracial heritage.\nIn a culture devoted to the sanctity of family life, a serial adulteress such as Harriett Derring, for example, would be protected by her mother from the scandal-hungry press gathered in the viewing gallery of the divorce courts. Children with intellectual and physical disabilities, meanwhile, were sent to school at great expense, although the Langdon-Downs, founders of the progressive and prestigious Normansfield Training Institution from which Cohen draws her stories for a fascinating chapter on attitudes to disability, did not extend their benevolence to their own disabled son.\nFamily Secrets is full of stories of similar personal compromises and cultural contradictions, and Cohen is too good a writer not to know that it is the stories themselves, rather than her theories, that give the book momentum.\nTales like that of Misses Willis and Hart, for example, who ran the Mission of Hope, a home for unmarried mothers who were encouraged to give their children up for adoption.\nCompared to Ireland's Magdalen Laundries, their methods of moral education seem almost altruistic, and yet you can't call the story of Daisy Harris, denied access to a daughter who was adopted in a different name, anything but cruel.\nHowever, occasionally the structure of Family Secrets is a bit unfocused, and Cohen's interpretation of the facts only crystallises at the chapter's end. And yet one of the great strengths of the book is its breadth, which encompasses a broad swathe of the cultural changes that affected families -- divorce and adoption laws, the fashion for therapy, trends in television -- as well as the evolution of social concepts of privacy into the 20th century.\nWhere the Victorian age prized family discretion, Cohen concludes, there are few boundaries now between personal and public life. But that is not to say that Family Secrets does not strike its own note of relevance. Indeed, it brings a whole different layer of significance to the recent phone-hacking scandals at tabloid newspapers in Britain and the ongoing saga surrounding Jimmy Savile's tenure at the BBC, where the institution's duty to public service was spectacularly failed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 4712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.degreesfinder.com/online/articles/can-i-transfer-an-international-degree-to-the-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:46Z", "digest": "sha1:O4SUAV347HWO5KXSH7TYKGLSMYNHLEEP", "length": 4864, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.degreesfinder.com", "title": "Can I Transfer an International Degree to the US?", "raw_content": "DegreesFinder > Online Degrees > Education Articles and Advice > Can I Transfer an International Degree to the US?\nDifferent countries have different education requirements and many handle the transfer of secondary education credits earned internationally very differently. Although you can study abroad through various types of foreign exchange programs, the credits at a foreign university may not always transfer. If you\u2019re a student in a foreign country, you may have an even more difficult time getting your credits to transfer back to the US.\nStudents coming to study in America may find that a degree may not transfer completely, qualifications earned overseas might not be accepted by employers, and credits might not transfer from one university to another. Before studying abroad or immigrating to the U.S., it\u2019s a good idea to figure out how your education may transfer before packing your bags.\nIn order to verify whether your degree will count in the United States, you\u2019ll need to have the foreign degree evaluated. Foreign credential evaluation services look over your academic record course by course and determine the equivalent of your GPA in American grades and determine whether certifications are useful in the country.\nWhy Degrees Don\u2019t Always Transfer\nIn American universities, grades are calculated on a 4.0 GPA, and there are generally accepted requirements for different degree programs. Some degrees will require a certain number of credit hours, for example, in order to complete. Also, any kinds of licensing or certification required as part of a degree is usually state-specific, so you often will need to retake it when you move to a new state or out of the country.\nOther countries do not necessarily base their grades on a 4.0 GPA. This means that the criteria for a \u201cpassing\u201d or \u201cfailing\u201d grade may be different in other countries, and grade equivalencies need to be calculated and approved by a credential evaluation service. Moreover, a degree earner may not have obtained sufficient credit hours or experience in a foreign program. For example, the requirements to get a doctoral degree in one country may be lower than in another; this means that a degree earner cannot necessarily begin practicing in the U.S. without obtaining further education or certifications.\nWhen Do You Need Credential Evaluation?\nJust because you\u2019re moving to the United States from a foreign country or after going to school overseas doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019ll necessarily need to have your degree evaluated. Traveling to a new country doesn\u2019t negate the effects of your education, and many employers won\u2019t care about what type of degree you have. But there are certain situations when you will need an evaluation of your degree.\n\u2014 If you\u2019re transferring to a school in the United States without having completed a degree program, you\u2019ll need to have your GPA calculated and determine how many of your credits are transferable.\n\u2014 If you\u2019re pursuing an advanced degree, you\u2019ll need to have a service review your degree for the appropriate credits and re-calculate your GPA. Depending on the situation, you may need to take some additional undergraduate classes before moving on to graduate school.\n\u2014 If you\u2019re working in a field that requires certifications, such as law or medicine, you\u2019ll need to have your degree validated. You\u2019ll also need to retake the certification or licensing exam for whatever state you plan to work in. This may require you to take additional courses or obtain practical experience to prove your proficiency; be sure to check with your prospective employer for requirements.\n\u2014 Depending on your career field, your future employer might require your foreign degree to be validated. This varies from one industry to the next; some care more about the actual content of your classes than the degree itself, but others are very concerned about degrees.\nIf you studied as part of a foreign exchange program, the credits obtained overseas will probably transfer directly to the school back home (assuming the exchange program was tied to your school\u2019s degree program). However, you need to discuss this with your advisor, so you know how the credits will apply to your transcript before you travel.\nCourse requirements vary from one situation to the next so it\u2019s always a good idea to review the specific requirements for your career or education. In many cases, your degree will transfer over just fine as long as it\u2019s validated and the credits and grades are translated into an American system. In other cases, you might need to take additional classes or certifications before practicing in the United States. For the most part, though, you don\u2019t have to worry about retaking all of your classes or repeating your education; your experiences will usually transfer with a bit of ingenuity as long as the foreign school was accredited.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dennis-oswald.de/BLOG/?paged=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:41Z", "digest": "sha1:JJ7RNKKX7VEKSADPH52SIYPFVYKPV632", "length": 67, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dennis-oswald.de", "title": "DESIGN & METHODS \u2013 Page 3 \u2013 design methods for innovation in design process / weblog by dennis oswald", "raw_content": "Check out what IBM has to say: https://www.ibm.com/design/thinking/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 66.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.devonshireprimary.org/general/find-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NIUZUM5L23S2CKUIU2JSDSIKGWPKYRCR", "length": 873, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.devonshireprimary.org", "title": "Find us", "raw_content": "The school is located in the southern residential suburbs of Sutton and is 15 minutes walk from the centre of Sutton with its varied amenities. See below for more details of the school's location and transport links as well as a Google map.\nThe school is 10 minutes walk from Sutton mainline train station shown on the map. There are bus stops in Brighton Road close to Devonshire Avenue (buses 80, 280 and 420). The S1 bus runs along Langley Park Road close to the school. Visit the TfL website to help plan your journey.\nParking is available in Devonshire Avenue except between 10am and 11am. No parking is allowed during this time and traffic wardens are vigilant in this area during this period! Always check the restrictions displayed in the road in case these change.\nPlease enter the school by the office.\nClick this link to view the Google map outside this website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 5532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dexterdaily.com/2013/01/james-remar-attends-weinstein-companys.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:49Z", "digest": "sha1:4A5NW4JD5QYXMYTNAZB4KAOZKXCSLBRP", "length": 354, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.dexterdaily.com", "title": "Dexter Daily: James Remar Attends Weinstein Company's 2013 Golden Globe Awards After Party [Photos]", "raw_content": "James Remar Attends Weinstein Company's 2013 Golden Globe Awards After Party [Photos]\nDexter co-star James Remar at the Weinstein Company's 2013 Golden Globe Awards After Party at The Beverly Hilton hotel on January 13, 2013 in Beverly Hills. Skip the jump to see one more.\nBy JOHN on Monday, January 14, 2013\nTags cast, james remar, photos, Spoiler-Free", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.diamond-build.com/about-us/csr/sustainability/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:04Z", "digest": "sha1:RLXOK4S3ZIQVXHWHZ3OAWQTWKG4UVQ3Q", "length": 1367, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.diamond-build.com", "title": "Environment | London | Diamond Build PLC", "raw_content": "We aim to create sustainable buildings and ensure that we responsibly manage and reduce our health and safety risks, impact on the environment and potential disruption to local communities.\nDiamond Build has a fully integrated health, safety and environmental management system certified to BS EN ISO14001 and OHSAS BS EN 18001 by BM Trada which underpins a culture of sustainable construction during the delivery and life cycle or our projects.\nWe reduce waste created and, where possible, reuse and recycle before responsible disposal of waste materials. We are dedicated to ensuring the materials that we use are from a sustainable source and that our supply chain understand and share the same commitment.\nThe company regularly works on projects requiring BREEAM certification which creates sustainable environments and enhance the well-being of the people.\nWe have a dedicated team who work closely with members of the community and the construction teams, ensuring mutual understanding and respect for each party\u2019s needs and interests. We actively encourage our employees to add value to the communities in which we work through local initiative and fundraising activities.\nWe register our sites with the Considerate Constructors scheme which monitors our operations against robust code of practice taking into account the environment, the community and safety.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.didiy.eu/blogs/some-more-thoughts-controlling-spread-dangerous-information-online", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:44:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJG7V342N6S7FWELQVM7I4JTZWZWNCUW", "length": 8444, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.didiy.eu", "title": "Some more thoughts on controlling the spread of dangerous information online | Digital DIY", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Blogs \u00bb Alexandre Erler's blog \u00bb Some more thoughts on controlling the spread of dangerous information online\nWas it appropriate of the New South Wales parliament in Australia to recently decide to ban the possession of blueprints for the digital manufacture of firearms (using a 3D printer or an electronic milling machine, as depicted left)? In their recent entry for this blog, Wouter Tebbens and Marco Fioretti forcefully argue that this measure is unlikely to have much effect, considering how difficult it is to keep files of any kind off the internet when there is a real demand for them. They also point out that determined people can already build their own untraceable guns without using digital blueprints, by following instructions posted online or by attending \u201cbuild parties\u201d where the required equipment is made available to them to build their guns, using various parts that can be purchased legally without the need for any background checks (see for example this testimony).\nThere is no doubt that the effects, up to this day, of the measures that have been taken to stop the spread of digital gun blueprints are not particularly encouraging. In 2013, after Defense Distributed, the makers of the 3D-printed Liberator pistol, had to remove the blueprints for the gun from their website (where they had been downloaded more than 100\u2019000 times in the space of just two days) at the request of the US State Department, these files quickly resurfaced on the Pirate Bay, where they can still be found. Even more disturbingly, the Pirate Bay also hosts blueprints for more powerful and dangerous guns such as the AR-15, a semiautomatic rifle (the Liberator, by contrast, is a single-shot handgun).\nDespite these poor omens, however, I am still not convinced that measures meant to regulate the possession and dissemination of digital gun designs must necessarily fail to have any interesting impact. Importantly, this will depend on the number of people who might illegally own such files or upload them to the internet at any point in time. Tebbens and Fioretti point to the failure of the war on file-sharing. However, it is worth emphasizing what a massive hydra the copyright industry has been dealing with in that case: speaking solely of music files, an estimated 40 billion were illegally shared in 2008, according to a report by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). It seems unlikely that the illegal sharing of digital gun blueprints would come even close to such numbers, at least as long as it remains confined to its current target demographic. Luckily, many more people seek to access music, software and film than seek to acquire untraceable weapons.\nTo take now a different comparison point, the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing states that \u201cat any one time there are estimated to be more than one million pornographic images of children on the Internet, with 200 new images posted daily\u201d. These are obviously shocking numbers; still, they are clearly not of the same magnitude (fortunately) as those I have just cited about the illegal sharing of musical files. Partly as a result of this, while we can agree that it is not possible to completely eliminate child pornography from the internet, regulatory measures aimed at preventing such material from being produced and distributed are nevertheless worth implementing. As I mentioned in a previous blog entry, the fight against child pornography has arguably managed to reduce the amount of such files available online (and made the remaining ones more challenging to access for prospective consumers), has led to some perpetrators being arrested and charged, and provides some degree of deterrence. (Despite boasting a no-censorship policy, the Pirate Bay itself removes files containing such material when they happen to get shared through the site \u2013 at least when faced with pressure from the authorities.) Why couldn\u2019t the same be true of measures (like the NSW ban) designed to exercise some control over the possession and distribution of blueprints for digitally manufacturing weapons?\nTo clarify, my purpose in using this comparison is not to suggest that sharing digital gun blueprints online is ethically as objectionable as uploading files depicting child abuse. I merely wish to indicate reasons for cautious optimism about the viability of regulatory measures concerning the former. Furthermore, I certainly agree with Tebbens and Fioretti that such measures could raise privacy concerns, depending on how they were implemented. The same is actually true of the fight against child pornography. Yet opposing unacceptable intrusions into the private sphere (e.g. in the absence of any incriminating evidence) on the part of law enforcement agencies does not, in either case, entail that we should oppose all legal prohibitions on the possession and distribution of the incriminated material. A measured application of such prohibitions seems preferable.\nAdmittedly, this proposal raises a number of further issues. For instance, as Fioretti and Tebbens point out, there are already a number of websites containing instructions for building DIY weapons without using digital devices. It might be argued that banning the online distribution of digital gun blueprints (outside of restricted circles accessible only to people with the relevant permit) would commit us to also banning such webpages \u2013 something that might seem both excessive and unworkable. Properly addressing this issue would require a separate blog post; for the time being, let me just note that even if there are similar grounds for regulation in both cases, figuring out how to control the spread of digital blueprints appears to be a more pressing matter, as digital manufacturing already allows people with little to no technical know-how to build fully functional guns. Building firearms the traditional DIY way, on the other hand, is much more technically challenging, and the resulting weapons are often unreliable, posing as much of a threat to the user as to his target. This potentially gives DiDIY weapons much greater appeal than DIY weapons for people \u2013 including those with evil intent \u2013 wishing to avoid registration and background checks.\nAt this point in time, such specific worries about digitally manufactured firearms may seem premature. For example, the vast majority of the perpetrators of recent mass shootings in the United States obtained their guns legally and passed federal background checks, despite the fact that some of them had documented mental health problems or criminal histories. However, as digital devices enabling the manufacture of items like firearms continue to improve and start spreading across the world, it would seem desirable to act preventively. While I do agree with Tebbens and Fioretti that regulatory measures aimed at controlling the possession and distribution of digital blueprints will not solve the problem on their own, it still seems to me that they could be part of the solution \u2013 depending, again, on what the size of the challenge turns out to be.\nA matter of degrees?\nThanks for these thoughtful remarks! It is clearly right to point out that measures to suppress some behavior (e.g. acquiring guns) can be useful even if they are only partially successful, while accepting that they can become useless if they are largely unsuccessful - because then they become unfair to the 'few' that are caught. However, the argument for the DiDIY project was that something new happens when the ability to show that particular behavior becomes radically easier through digital technology - which is what did happen in the case of copying music digitally. So, only if digital DIY makes this the case for guns (say) does it change the game. And once that has happened, do we still have the measures to suppress the behavior? - You say yes, arguing that we will have the ability to suppress this behavior to a large extent, even if it becomes really easy and thus a mass phenomenon. I think the judgment on this is out, but the chance are that, yes, you are right for guns in Europe. [Vincent C. M\u00fcller (2015). Gun Control: A European Perspective. Essays in Philosophy 16 (2):247-261. http://philpapers.org/rec/MLLGCA]\nI'm not so sure about other places, and about other dangerous things where the mass phenomenon may just be uncontrollable and the romantic cry for \"freedom\" harder to suppress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 10452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.doomsteaddiner.net/forum/index.php/topic,4708.15.html?PHPSESSID=pbddrgmsbtcvsiv4ussnorjjg7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:05Z", "digest": "sha1:XIMWCLXAIBEIKB6WI3T3DAG6A4EBQKRY", "length": 12295, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.doomsteaddiner.net", "title": "The Official Refugee Thread", "raw_content": "Quote from: Mercury on August 14, 2015, 06:58:08 AM\nIt's sad to see my home island befall such a fate. Kos is a beautiful place that is surely turning into a living hell. But the writing was on the wall 15 years ago when I left her shores, myself an economic refugee, in search of a better tomorrow. A few years earlier still I remember hearing a local professor warn that by 2020 the population of Greece would be 20 million. Half of them refugees fleeing from a war and climate ravaged MENA and that exposed regions like the Aegean Islands would bear the brunt of it. How prophetic ring his words now.\nYou can consider yourself fortunate. 15 years ago there was still somewhere to flee to for a Better Tomorrow.\nNow there is nowhere to run to, nowhere to hide.\nTrue, I have been fortunate since then until now. But it's difficult when your homeland is ground zero.\n\u00ab Last Edit: August 14, 2015, 02:37:15 PM by Mercury \u00bb\nQuote from: Mercury on August 14, 2015, 02:34:05 PM\nTrue, I have been fortunate since then until now. But it's difficult when your homeland is ground zero and your relatives can't get out.\nJust be glad that you didn't bring their failings with you. As far as nowhere to run or hide, of course there is. For some it is Alaska, for others places in Central America, you can hide in plan sight in America, and even get ahead if you bring with you from a foreign land something many Americans lack nowadays, which is an understanding of hard work and being in a better place here in the States, as compared to where they came from.\nGlass half empty...\nIf u look on the bright side, a UN mission will be set up which injects a lot of money into local economy and employs local people, a very sweet gig to get in on. Resettlement programs and housing keep social workers and builders busy. A million Syrians and Africans a year will offset the europeans declining population problem and DNA does love diversity.\nNever mind that if we didnt colonise, exploit and export all of africas agricultural and mineral commodities out for ourselves, the shafted people wouldnt be following where their wealth ends up. As for the Syrian and Afghan refugees, what do they have in common with the Vietnamese boat people in the late 70s early 80s? They were all doing just fine as long as we left them alone, which kind of makes them more or less our problem.\n\u00ab Last Edit: August 14, 2015, 03:42:43 PM by Uncle Bob \u00bb\nQuote from: Uncle Bob on August 14, 2015, 03:21:48 PM\nIf u look on the bright side, un mission will be set up which injects a lot of money into local economy and employs people to a very sweet gig. resettlement programs and housing keeps builders busy, a million syrians and africans a year will offset the europeans declining population and dna loves diversity. Never mind that if we didnt colonise, exploit and export all of africas agricultural and mineral commodities out for ourselves the people wouldnt be following where their wealth ends up. As for rhe syrian and afghan refugees, what do they have in common with the vietnamese boat people in the late 70s early 80s? They were all doing just fine as long as we left them alone, which now makes them our problem.\nDamn...I don't know what else to say about this. So these are climate change refugees only...due to drought? You would think in places like Afghanistan that it would have something to do with our military campaigns during the last 14 years. I suppose it's just irony at work. I don't even know to what extent we are in Afghanistan now.\nAnyways, this makes me wonder how much longer BAU continues in places like Greece? Not that BAU is still the case there. I don't see how it could be. How do you ship 1000 refugees a day back to a land that can't support them? Yet where they land can't support them. These our the first stirrings of too many mofo's on planet earth it would seem. This is the beginning of a trend that's only going to get worse as the days go by.\nI also wonder what the sentiment is for the Europeans with this invasion of climate change refugees. Do they see them as climate change refugees? Or do they seem them as refugees that are collateral damage do to the USA's foreign war policy? Syria, Afghanistan? Damn if it doesn't look to me like WWIII is just about baked into the cake at this point. In 1984 the three world powers were at war all of the time. Which power was allied with which power shifted as did the chocolate rations. The older I get the more Orwell looks like a profit. I've long contended that our future will be something between A Brave New World and 1984.\nIndeed. These are refugees of western imperialism. Although climate change is a contributing factor calling them climate refugees is misguided and deflects responsibility from unrepentant westerners for the immiseration of whole continents just so Happy Motoring can persist here for a little while longer.\nThe cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. - Terrance McKenna\nHuman alienation aside, some aliens, however, might get a lot of good laughs out of our Natural De-selection trajectory.\nTalk about cognizant dissonance. I was born in the USA and have lived here my entire life (outside of the 6 months on an air craft carrier). I have no desire to be poor. I have no desire to immiserate whole continents for my way of life either. I have no choice in any of this (outside of gaming the system like I'm doing). I have children. We do what we have to do where we are I suppose. I'd rather my country live honestly, but that option got chucked out the window a long time ago...if it ever was an option. I mean the US did start off by doing it's level best to exterminate the \"savages.\" I guess if there is any honesty to us we can find it there. At least we can say we started off as a seedling nation by exterminating millions of natives.\nStill, there is a small part of me that wants to be proud of this nation. What I thought it used to stand for at least. Justice? I think that's always been a philosophical idea that our human nature will not allow for.\nAs far as the people who currently live in Italy and Greece are concerned, I doubt they think of these folks as EITHER Climate Refugees or victims of Western Imperialism. To them, they are just boatloads of poor people who they can't support.\nThe truth of course is that both are contributing factors. Western Imperialism is the product of the industrial revolution, climate change is partially the result of the industrial revolution also and so is population overshoot. The latter is the real issue at work here of course. Too many people for a given area of land to support.\nSadly, the places they are trying to migrate to also are in a situation of population overshoot, though not quite so bad as Syria of course. You do know I trust that drought has been ongoing in Syria so long now that many towns inhabited since Biblical times have had to be abandoned. Those people migrated into Syrian cities, where there were no jobs for them. Then their own Civil War breaks out, and they try to escape that.\nAs far as what the FSoA ever \"stood for\", there is what you were taught in school as to what it stood for and then there is REALITY. All you have to do is read Smedley Butler's War is a Racket to know that going well back into the 1800s all the FSoA ever stood for was conquering other lands and killing off anyone standing in the way. Manifest Destiny was all about wiping out the Native population, which was pretty well done by 1900, then the army and navy headed down to South America. We got a foothold in Asia when Matthew Perry brought his gunboats to Japan in the 1850s.\nBasically from the moment it was founded as a separate entity after the Revolutionary War, the FSoA has been on a constant expansionary expedition, using the military power of industrialization to capture the resources found everywhere else in the world it could control. After WWII, the FSoA gained hegemony over the global monetary system as well, and essentially turned the Chinese into slaves utilizing that method.\nFar as your complicity or my complicity in this goes, we are just passengers on the Titanic, we're not in control of the rudder or the engines or the navigation as we move toward the iceberg. The Syrian Refugees are stowaways who get pitched off the Titanic with no Life Preserver even before it hits the iceberg.\nIt's happening in many places in the world. Dominicans trying to get to Puerto Rico (for a better life, not because of the environment, YET) drown on a regular basis in the turbulent Mona Passage. A pack of desperate people gets sold a crappy boat, proceed to overload it and the rest is bodies floating at sea.\nDominicans trying to get to Puerto Rico, and Puerto Ricans trying to get to Amerika, because Puerto Rico is running out of water too!\nEventually, millions of Californicators will try to migrate to Alaska too, and then where will the Alaskans migrate to? Nunavut?\nMexicans will pour across the border into Texas, where they are not exactly doing so great right now themselves on the water end. Are Texans welcoming Mexican refugees?\nBorders are going to be shut down, that is of course already underway with the building of fences and so forth. People arriving on boats if they make whatever crossing they are trying alive in a piece of shit boat will be shot on site on arrival.\n\"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. It is however, the end of the beginning.\"\nThank you Illuminati Scumbag Winston Churchill.\nIt's worse than that even. Because the Greeks can't even support themselves. So this is unsupportable economic non-person country men being asked by chance to support economical/climate/US imperial over reach victims who only wish they could be unsupportable like the Greeks. That's fucked man\nThen ISIS says, \" that's the enemy over there, the ones that bomb you with toy airplanes controlled on the other side of the world by second generation gamer dorks.\"\nMy bamboo teacher is a Japanese man. We have interesting conversations about this history. He recently told me that the US is detonating nuclear bombs under the ground for research and development in the good ole USA. Is that true?\nThe Chinese are patient. It won't surprise me if that polarity gets reversed and we become the slaves. I'm hoping that my bamboo nursery and bamboo culture will convince them that I and mine are worth keeping around. However, before that I'm hoping that the shit storm we're headed into will make industrial imperial conquest a thing of the past.\nOr barnacles on the side of the ship.\nThere was a lot of underground testing of nuclear weapons done in the 1950s and 1960's but I don't think it is done very much here now. They got the weapons pretty well figured out here on how they work.\nRE said, Basically from the moment it was founded as a separate entity after the Revolutionary War, the FSoA has been on a constant expansionary expedition, using the military power of industrialization to capture the resources found everywhere else in the world it could control. After WWII, the FSoA gained hegemony over the global monetary system as well, and essentially turned the Chinese into slaves utilizing that method.\nLucid said, The Chinese are patient. It won't surprise me if that polarity gets reversed and we become the slaves. I'm hoping that my bamboo nursery and bamboo culture will convince them that I and mine are worth keeping around. However, before that I'm hoping that the shit storm we're headed into will make industrial imperial conquest a thing of the past.\nSo before this gets completely out of hand I'd like to add that I was being facetious...that's basically my humor, but I have a hard time getting humor sometimes...unless it's stand up and I know it's supposed to be funny. My point, I suppose, is that I just want to make clear that I'm not a proponent for the Chinese taking over my country. It just wouldn't surprise me if one day there are Chinese tanks rollin' down the road I live on enforcing a curfew. I'm hoping the energy situation doesn't allow for that...for any tanks of any origin. I would not lie down and take that peacefully.\nSo I think your post was funny Agelbert. I'm just not sure how. Maybe you can help me understand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 318, "original_length": 35334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dougbreyfogle.com/kansas-city-bankruptcy-attorney-answers-can-medical-debt-impact-my-credit-score/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3FNMUHF4IBEJQTCFL7IT4RPMRVODU5DG", "length": 3454, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.dougbreyfogle.com", "title": "Kansas City Bankruptcy Attorney Answers \u2014 \u201cCan Medical Debt Impact My Credit Score?\u201d | Kansas City Bankruptcy Lawyer", "raw_content": "Home/Bankruptcy Articles/Kansas City Bankruptcy Attorney Answers \u2014 \u201cCan Medical Debt Impact My Credit Score?\u201d\nMs. Jones had a great credit score. While she used credit, she always paid her bills in full and on time. However, last year Ms. Jones had to undergo emergency surgery and was out of work for several weeks. While she was off of work she did not receive a paycheck. Unfortunately nine months later, Ms. Jones has a huge hospital bill that she cannot afford to pay. According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Ms. Jones is not alone. Approximately 43 million Americans have some sort of medical debt on their credit report. While Ms. Jones may be in good company so to speak, she is worried that the medical debt could impact her credit score and with good reason.\nWhether you want to buy a house or a car, or are simply applying for a job, there is a three digit number that can have a big impact on these outcomes. That number is your credit score. Most often a credit score is used by a bank or other lender to determine your credit worthiness. A high credit score can not only secure a person a line of credit, but it can also make the person eligible for a lower interest rate than a person with a low credit score. If a person\u2019s credit score is too low he or she may be denied a loan all together.\nToday, financial institutions are not the only entities interested in your credit score. Some employers are now using credit scores to help them decide whether or not to hire a particular job applicant. Employers use the credit score as a measure of a prospective employee\u2019s trustworthiness. The thought process is, if he or she can be trusted to pay back a mortgage, then maybe I can trust him or her to be a quality employee. That makes a person\u2019s credit score pretty important. Sadly though, it can be confusing to figure out what sort of things can impact a person\u2019s credit score. Many people are unsure how certain debts, like medical bills, can affect a credit score.\nUntil recently, credit reporting agencies treated unpaid medical bills much the same as credit card or other debt. But unlike credit card debts, a person may not even realize he or she has unpaid medical bills until it appears on his or her credit report or the person is denied a loan.\nThe good news is that a change happened this year where credit bureaus will now wait 180 days before adding any medical debt to a person\u2019s credit report. This is a big deal for consumers, because this change gives consumers more time to dispute an inaccurate medical bill and/or to pay off an existing balance. The bad news is that medical debt, just like any all other debt, can and will appear on a person\u2019s credit report and can lower his or her credit score. This means a smart consumer needs to take action as soon as possible if he or she cannot pay a medical bill within six months.\nIf you have mounting medical debt that you are unable to pay, you need to talk to a trusted Kansas City Bankruptcy and Debt-Relief Attorney to discuss your financial situation. For more than two decades, Kansas City Bankruptcy Attorney Douglas Breyfogle has been helping clients overcome debt. Do not make the mistake of letting medical debt ruin your life. Take control and call Douglas Breyfogle today at (913) 742-8700 to schedule a free and confidential consultation. 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The vases have the impressed Doulton Lambeth Mark with a date of 1883, and the monograms of Elizabeth Fisher and Arthur Willcock. The vases also have Elizabeth Fisher's opus number 725.\nThe vases are in exceptional condition with no chips, cracks, crazing or restorations. One vase has a small deposit of kiln grit on it, approx 3mm diameter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drnerman.com/therapies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:48Z", "digest": "sha1:D3OZU3MUPXU6X5BLCGHV3F5KS5TPLK6K", "length": 13712, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.drnerman.com", "title": "Naturopathic Therapies - Dr. Anders Nerman, N.D. Naturopathic Doctor in Israel", "raw_content": "Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine:\nTraditional Chinese medicine is a broad range of medical practices sharing common theoretical concepts which were developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 3,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (Tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy. Dr. Nerman uses TCM in a wide range of conditions.\nAcupuncture is a collection of procedures which involves the stimulation of points on the body using a variety of techniques, such as penetrating the skin with needles that are then manipulated manually or by electrical stimulation. It is among the oldest healing practices in the world. A 2011 Cochrane review documented that acupuncture is effective in the treatment of migraines, neck disorders, tension headaches, and some types of osteoarthritis. (1)\nThere is general agreement that acupuncture is safe when administered by well-trained practitioners using sterile needles. Major adverse events are exceedingly rare and are usually associated with poorly trained unlicensed acupuncturists. (2) Dr. Nerman trained in Acupuncture at Boucher Institute of Naturopathic medicine (BINM) and was a part-time Medical Resident at the Center for Integrative Complementary Medicine (CICM) at Shara Tzedek Hospital, Jerusalem where he is practicing Traditional Oriental Medicine, with a focus in Japanese Acupuncture.\n1. Ernst, E. (2011). \"Acupuncture for pain: An overview of Cochrane reviews\". Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine 17 (3): 187\u2013189.\n2. Vickers A, (2002). \"Acupuncture\". Qual Saf Health Care 11 (1): 92\u20137.\nHerbal Medicine, the use of plants as medicines, predates written human history. In the written record, the study of herbs dates back over 5,000 years to the Sumerians (1) Plants contain pharmacologically active medicinal ingredients called phytochemicals which have been considered as drugs for millennium. Many of the drugs used in western medicine today are derived from plants. For example, Salicin a phytochemical with anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties, was originally extracted from the bark of the white willow tree and later synthetically produced to become the staple over-the-counter drug Aspirin.\nDr. Nerman is trained in both Eastern and Western Herbalism. His education and training focused on understanding the phytochemical constituents found in hundreds of herbs and how to safely use them in the treatment of disease. The advantage of plant medicine over Western pharmacological drugs is that plants tend to have better curative results without the side effects. As well, each plant has several constituents and can be used for a multitude of ailments.\nDr. Nerman designs custom formulations of herbs to meet the individual health needs of each patient. Dr. Nerman will often give a herbal prescriptions for a wide array of health issues, often combining herbs into tinctures, (alcoholic extracts of plant material) creams, poultices, or infusions.\nDr. Nerman relies on the guidance of both evidenced based research and traditional historical uses of European, Auryvedic, Oriental and Greek herbalism to choose the correct herbal medicines. Dr. Nerman believes in treating the individual and as such his herbal formulations are chosen with each patient's specific medical needs in mind.\nDr. Nerman's training focused heavily on integrating western medicine with herbal medicine and as such Dr. Nerman takes into consideration the allopathic (prescription) drugs you are taking in order to prescribe the herbs safely. Dr. Nerman tries to use wild crafted organic herbs if possible.\n(1) Sumner, Judith (2000). The Natural History of Medicinal Plants. Timber Press. p. 17.\nNir Avraham, Certified Herbalist from the California School of Herbal Studies makes up the custom herbal prescriptions formulated by Dr. Nerman.\nClinical nutrition is the study of the relationship between food, vitamins and a healthy body. More specifically, it is the science of specific nutrients and how they are digested, absorbed, transported, metabolized, stored, and eliminated by the body. Sometimes a person is missing nutrients because they are not being eaten in the diet or because the body is not digesting them. This can lead to all types of illnesses. As such, Dr. Nerman uses nutritional supplements to help bring the body back to optimal health. The term \"nutritional supplement\" refers to vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients that are used to support good health and treat illness.\nThere is much evidence for the use of vitamins and supplements in the treatment of various diseases. Sometimes a higher dose of a vitamin works like a drug to provide a solution to a health issue. However, not all \"drugs\" are safe to be used in certain conditions. Proper training and scientific medical knowledge is crucial in making the right choices about which vitamins are safe to take. Dr. Nerman has been trained extensively in nutrition and has the tools to make sure you are safely taking the proper combination of vitamins and supplements for your health condition.\nDr. Nerman believes that that the diet and the foods that we eat can be a major source of both illness and health. Every patients that comes to see Dr. Nerman receives a full dietary assessment to see the foods they are eating may be the cause of their illness. Often times a specific food allergy may be the culprit for stomach problems, skin conditions, fatigue or migraines headaches. Other times the selection of foods a person is eating is not giving them proper nutrients and is leading to health problems such as fatigue or low immunity. Dr. Nerman likes to say, \"Eat good, Feel good...its that simple.\"\nFrom a Chinese medical perspective there are instances where in specific health conditions certain foods are harmful, and where other foods would be beneficial and curative. This is the concept of using foods as medicine, which is a key principle Dr. Nerman uses in his treatments.\nDr. Nerman has 4 years of extensive education and training in advanced therapeutics in Nutrition. Dr. Nerman works with each patient to adjust their diets so that they are eating a more balanced and healthy range of foods. Dr. Nerman uses the latest research to help patients choose the right foods. Key in Dr. Nerman's diet counseling is the idea of eating for preventative health. More and more research is showing that diet has a major impact on long term health especially at preventing heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Dr. Nerman works with simple to complex diets for various medical conditions such as diabetes, hypercholesteremia, and kidney disease.\nClassical Homeopathy:\nHomeopathy, also known as homeopathic medicine, is an alternative medical system that was developed in Germany more than 200 years ago. Hippocrates, in about 400 BC, perhaps originated homeopathy when he prescribed a small dose of mandrake root \u2013 which in larger doses produced mania \u2013 to treat mania itself; (1) in the 16th century the pioneer of pharmacology Paracelsus declared that small doses of \"what makes a man ill also cures him.\" (2)\nHomeopathy is based on two theories: \u201clike cures like\u201d\u2014the notion that a disease can be cured by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people; and \u201claw of minimum dose\u201d\u2014the notion that the lower the dose of the medication, the greater its effectiveness. Although these theories are unconventional in Western medical thought clinically Homeopathy can be extremely effective. A comprehensive survey of the use of complementary health practices by Americans, an estimated 3.9 million adults and 910,000 children used homeopathy in the 2006 alone. (3)\nHomeopathic remedies are derived from substances that come from plants, minerals, or animals, such as red onion, arnica (mountain herb), crushed whole bees, white arsenic, poison ivy, belladonna (deadly nightshade), and stinging nettle. Homeopathic remedies are often formulated as sugar pellets to be placed under the tongue; they may also be in other forms, such as ointments, gels, drops, creams, and tablets. Treatments are \u201cindividualized\u201d or tailored to each person\u2014it is not uncommon for different people with the same condition to receive different treatments.\nHomeopathy is practiced in various forms, Acute, Classical/Constitutional or Complex - Dr. Nerman is trained in all three modalities of homeopathy. In acute prescribing, a remedy is chosen based on symptoms that are presenting acutely during the course of the illness such as fever, cold or flu. The choice of remedy is not based on the unique constitution of a patient. Constitutional prescribing is called Classical homeopathy and it takes into consideration the specific inborn nature (constitution) of the patient. Extensive case taking is required in Classical homeopathy to find the right remedy. Over 6000 remedies exist in nature and Dr. Nerman uses specialized computer programs to find the correct remedy based on the patients individual symptom picture. Although finding the constitutional remedy is time consuming, it can have powerful effects on the health of the individual, at times producing cures that can not be found via any other medicine. To book an appointment to find your constitutional remedy click here. Finally Dr. Nerman is trained in homotoxicology which is the use of complex mixtures of specific homeopathic medicines to help the body better detoxify itself, this is best used in the case of chronic conditions such as Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Eczema.\n(1) Hemenway, Henry Bixby (1894), \"Modern Homeopathy and Medical Science\", JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association (11): 367\n(2) \"Paracelsus (German-Swiss physician)\", Britannica Online Encyclopedia, Encyclop\u00e6dia Britannica\n(3) http://nccam.nih.gov/health/homeopathy\nHydrotherapy uses water to gain therapeutic benefits; these can be exploited to achieve a range of responses which can relieve symptoms and improve the way the body works. Water can be used in a number of ways. It can be applied to areas of the body, or the body (or parts of it) can be immersed in water, and various substances such as essential oils, clay, Epsom salts can be used in water to alter its effects. Water can be used hot, warm, or neutral (body temperature), cold, or as ice or even steam. Water can be applied at an even temperature directly or via material, such as a cotton towel, and then alternated with either hotter or colder water in order to stimulate a response from the body. With careful application, and using scientifically applied principles, we can direct blood or withdraw blood to any part of the body. This can be a very useful tool to accelerate the body's own healing potential.\nA working hypothesis of Naturopathy is that health, and therefore healing, is proportional to the normal flow of healthy blood.\nSpecifically, this refers to the quantity and quality of blood flowing through a given tissue. Through the application of hot and cold compresses, we can regulate and in fact increase or decrease the circulation in any part of the body. We employ this mechanism through the use of Hydrotherapy (thermal therapy). Dr. Nerman uses various techniques in hydrotherapy to treat a variety of chronic diseases.\nPhysical Therapies - Massage, Trigger Point Release, and Soft Tissue Manipulation\nMassage is a general term for pressing, rubbing and manipulating your skin, muscles, tendons and ligaments. Massage is generally considered part of complementary and alternative medicine. It's increasingly being offered along with standard treatment for a wide range of medical conditions and situations.\nTrigger points are areas of taunt, hyper-contracted bands or nodules within a muscle. They\u2019re tender to touch and have a predicted pain referral pattern. Trigger point massage massage focuses on areas of tight muscle fibers that can form in your muscles after injuries or overuse.\nSoft tissue manipulation offers an effective and proven method to reduce chronic muscle pain and myofascial dysfunction. Manipulation of this kind improves general function through releasing muscle tension.\nDr. Nerman has training in Message, Trigger Point Release, and Soft Tissue Manipulationas part of his Naturopathic Medical education.\nChiropractic is an approach to healing concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of the neuromusculoskeletal system and the effects of these disorders on general health. Chiropractic emphasizes manual therapy including joint adjustment and manipulation with particular focus on dysfunction due to misalignment of joints. The scientific consensus is that chiropractic may be on a par with other manual therapies for some musculoskeletal conditions such as lower back pain. (1)\nChiropractic medicine is based on the belief that the spine and health are related in a fundamental way, and that this relationship is mediated through the nervous system. Dr. Nerman examines the biomechanics, structure and function of the spine to assess if structural misalignment may be having an effect on the musculoskeletal and nervous system. Often certain conditions such as acid reflux, back pain, and neck pain are caused by anatomical misalignment of spinal vertebrae and without realignment through a chiropractic adjustment relief for a patient can not be found. Dr. Nerman has received extensive Chiropractic training as part of his Naturopathic medical school education.\n(1) Singh S, Ernst E (2008). \"The truth about chiropractic therapy\". Trick or Treatment: The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine. W.W. Norton. pp. 145\u201390.\nPhotos used under Creative Commons from Orofacial, Snap\u00ae, aqua-dome, BozDoz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 14455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ebookmountain.com/2017/02/coffee-roasting-made-easy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:34Z", "digest": "sha1:TOMQMMTHE6H2ITWZKIXWNRISRZ3DSNNJ", "length": 77, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ebookmountain.com", "title": "Coffee Roasting Made Easy | EbookMountain", "raw_content": "> Non-Fiction > Coffee Roasting Made Easy\nhttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B017AGAZA6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 400, "original_length": 9276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 129.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ecodaily.org/agriculture-food/crocodile-industrys-new-international-standards-to-keep-farming-sustainable-and-on-trend/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ERJ2IAFNRNW2FCPWJCI7KES7NM3XKN3C", "length": 2986, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.ecodaily.org", "title": "Crocodile industry's new international standards to keep farming sustainable and on trend - Eco Daily News", "raw_content": "Crocodile industry\u2019s new international standards to keep farming sustainable and on trend\nin Agriculture, Environment, Farming, Featured, News, North America\nCrocodiles are mainly farmed for their valuable skins, with the leather sold to luxury goods companies to make products such as crocodile boots, belts, bags, wallets and other accessories.\nStill in draft form, the new global standard focuses not only on the sustainability and humane treatment of crocodiles, but also quality assurance, traceability, biosecurity, and the welfare of people working in the trade.\nNorthern Territory chief veterinary officer Kevin de Witte, who has been in New Orleans helping the ICFA to develop the standard, said it had been driven by customers wanting to know more about the ethics of production.\n\u201cI guess the reason the industry has seen the need for this is that they produce a premium product, being leather, that goes to a high-end fashion market, which like all markets have questions about the origins of their product,\u201d he said.\n\u201cI know the concern amongst the major fashion houses is uniform and they are genuine in wanting a high level of insurance about the quality parameters of their product.\u201d\nDr de Witte said the global crocodile trade was made up of 10 countries that farmed five species of crocodile.\nAccording to the NT Crocodile Farmers Association, Australia accounts for 60 per cent of the global trade in saltwater crocodile skins, with about two thirds being grown and exported by the Northern Territory.\nSo why are fashion houses concerned?\nIn recent years the crocodile sector, like most livestock industries, has faced scrutiny from some animal rights groups.\nA campaign by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that alleged crocodiles farmed in Vietnam were \u201cviolently killed\u201d gained international headlines and brought forward confirmation from Louis Vuitton\u2019s parent company, LVMH, that it had stopped buying skins from the Vietnamese farms in question.\nDr de Witte said crocodiles were well-adapted to farming, and Australia was a leader in saltwater crocodile husbandry.\n\u201cThe particular requirements of the premium leather markets really do demand a high standard of care,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThe standard for killing [a crocodile] is a very good standard and certainly on par with all of the livestock standards which exist in Australia.\n\u201cI find that report [by PETA] interesting and I\u2019d be very concerned if it was happening in Australia, but I very, very much doubt it, because it would be subject to complaint and regulatory action under our animal welfare acts.\u201d\nDr de Witte said when the international standard for crocodile farming was formalised, it would \u201cguarantee a more secure future\u201d for the majority of farms, and for Australia\u2019s well-established farms it would be good news.\nThe Northern Territory\u2019s crocodile industry has been valued at more than $100 million.\nTags: CairnsCrocodileDarwinFranceMiscellaneous Animal ProductionRuralUnited States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 7532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.editions-delatour.com/en/piano-4-hands/1897-5-pieces-for-piano-4-hands-9790232107608.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:HVIVFQMZIS4SEJEOKE6BAXLFSOIBC2A7", "length": 583, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.editions-delatour.com", "title": "5 pieces for piano 4 hands", "raw_content": ">5 pieces for piano 4 hands\nAuthor : LAMPEL David\nThe 5 pieces for piano duets were written as a birthday gift to my son Sebastian in 1999. The music is designed to involve two performers equally, which is often not the case for duets where one part is written for the teacher and the other for the student.\nThe writing is close to a neo-classical style with a continuous exchange of melodies and motives between the two parts requiring constant attention from the performers. T\nhe duets are of a medium level of difficulty suited to a pianist having studied for eight years or more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1062, "original_length": 30615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.educatinghumanity.com/2012/08/Pilot-UFO-Sighting-Kansas-City-UFO-Hotspot-Video.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RSYGDJOLBOKVWP43EAAZRBV7TWNZY6RQ", "length": 5641, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.educatinghumanity.com", "title": "Pilot Sees UFO, Kansas City Remains UFO Hotspot - Video | Educating Humanity", "raw_content": "Pilot Sees UFO, Kansas City Remains UFO Hotspot - Video\nThe astounding fact is not so much as that a commercial pilot saw, yet, another UFO in Kansas City Missouri but that Kansas City has become one of the hotest UFO hotspots on the planet.\nLast October, 87 UFO sightings were reported.\nThis is the most in the world for the month of October.\nThere is no doubt that many of the sightings can be attributed to exercises being performed from the Whiteman Air Force Base but the type of sightings indicate that some of the craft, are as large \"as a house\". Some hover silently in the air and others move in very unconventional ways.\nSo the question becomes, even if all these sightings can be attributed to military exercises, what type of technology do they possess that is being seen by the public. Where on earth did the military come into possession of huge, silent hovering craft that the public knows nothing about. This certainly adds fuel to the government conspiracy theories.\nA few of the sightings can be written off as sky divers, a few could certainly be mistaken conventional military craft but you cannot discount more than 100 sightings in the same vicinity over such a short period of time. Some of the witnesses had a very clear view of these craft and for a long enough period of time to process the information they were seeing correctly.\nNow, on July 30, 2012 a commercial pilot with 14 years of military experience sees a UFO, clearly something out of the ordinary is going on in Kansas City. For this pilot to come forward (even if he stays anonymous) is a huge risk to his career and livelihood. Keep in mind this pilot had a clear view of this craft from more than 20 minutes!\nA commercial pilot claims that on July 30, 2012, while flying from St. Louis into the Kansas City International Airport, his plane was followed for over 20 minutes by a disk-shaped UFO. He writes in his report that the object was \"silver/gray color and had three blue/white lights on the bottom and one on the top. It was a disc-shaped craft with a low dome on top.\"\nIt first appeared about 300 feet to the right of the plane before it \"suddenly moved underneath us and to the left, and continued at the our same rate of speed.\"\nIt followed the plane for 22 minutes, then \"went directly south of our position at a very high rate of speed - faster than any aircraft I've ever seen.\"\nHe adds \"I was a military pilot for 14 years and know what type of aircraft we have. It was definitely NOT a man-made aircraft.\"\nThe pilot wished to remain anonymous for fear of losing his job. The UFO was also witnessed by his co-pilot, other crew members, as well as passengers.\nOn a final note, I would not be one bit surprised if the media, the military or the government puts a debunker out there to discredit this pilot's testimony in the very near future. Kansas City gaining too much notoriety from these UFO sightings.\nFor those interested here is the MUFON Report\nCase Number 41310\nLog Number US-07312012-0009\nDate Submitted 07/31/2012 07:13 UTC\nDate of the Event 07/30/2012 09:25 UTC\nSource MUFON\nDisposition Unresolved\nSummary Commercial Pilot saw UFO on approach to KCI airport\nTags contact disc lights ufo\nThe latitude and longitude presented here is an approximation to protect the reporters identity\nSighting Specifics\nViewing Distance 101-500 Feet\nSighting Duration Undisclosed\nObject Features Dome\nObject Flight Path Path with directional change\nObject Shape Disc\nWeather Factors Unknown\nAs called in to ASD by phone: (witness wishes to remain anonymous) I am the pilot of a regularly scheduled commercial aircraft flight from St. Louis to Kansas City and was on approach to KCI when my co-pilot said he saw an unidentified object to the right of the aircraft that appeared to be following us. It was not yet in my range of view, so I asked him to confirm that and the object remained. I radioed the tower and asked for radar confirmation but there was none. Then the object came into my view to the right front of the aircraft. At that point we were approximately 35 minutes out from the airport. The object was a silver/gray color and had three blue/white lights on the bottom and one on the top. It was a disc-shaped craft with a low dome on top. It was approximately 300 feet from our aircraft and NNE of our position. Then the object suddenly moved underneath us and to the left, and continued at the our same rate of speed. I discussed this with my co-pilot and we decided not to tell the tower what we saw because of what happens when reports like this are made. The tower then asked us to confirm an unidentified object and I said it was no longer in view. I was concerned, however, that it might be a problem. The object stayed with us for approximately 22 minutes. When I decreased aircraft speed for approach, the object slowed as well, then went directly south of our position at a very high rate of speed - faster than any aircraft I've ever seen. I was a military pilot for 14 years and know what type of aircraft we have. It was definitely NOT a man-made aircraft. Some pilots have lost their jobs when they report a UFO, and I would like to keep mine so am not providing my name or contact information. Some of the passengers were discussing this as they left the plane but we did not discuss it with them. Other crew members saw it as well, but did not report it. I just wanted to tell someone about it. 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If you have ever had any questions about what happens in the ISS here is your chance to get some answers. Find out about sleeping conditions, spacewalks, bathrooms, food.......she goes through it all!\nIn her final days as Commander of the International Space Station, Sunita Williams of NASA recorded an extensive tour of the orbital laboratory and down-linked the video on Nov. 18, just hours before she, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency departed in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft for a landing on the steppe of Kazakhstan. The tour includes scenes of each of the station's modules and research facilities with a running narrative by Williams of the work that has taken place and which is ongoing aboard the orbital outpost.\nThis video is clearly the most comprehensive tour of the working space station the world has ever seen.\nLabels: alien technology , ISS , NASA , Ride in Space , Universe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 10162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 313.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eftelgroup.com.au/government.cms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:16Z", "digest": "sha1:FXIV3L7MOAF4OGWXW2IAFXYUVUJCMOYS", "length": 1386, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.eftelgroup.com.au", "title": "Eftel Group - Telecommunication Infrastructure for Corporate, Wholesale, Government & Residential Sectors", "raw_content": "Eftel Corporate is proud to be a preferred supplier of Internet services for the Whole of Victorian Government (WoVG).\nThis means that Eftel Corporate are now able to tailor complete Internet solutions for all government departments and agencies throughout the state of Victoria. Eftel Corporate has valuable experience in this sector having accommodated various government organisations and departments for many years. This experience means that we recognise the specific needs of the public sector and offer a strategic approach to identify and implement the most reliable and cost effective network solutions available.\nWe take great satisfaction from ensuring that the best solution is implemented seamlessly the first time, and in guaranteeing that the management of all network solutions will be maintained effectively and professionally.\nOur extensive range of services includes the provisioning of new DSL and Fibre connectivity, e-mail services, traffic management reporting, service protection and content filtering.\nIf you are a Victorian Government department or agency and you are interested in the services Eftel have to offer, please contact us to speak with one of our experienced account managers.\nFor all government departments or agencies that are interested in the services Eftel has to offer, please contact us to speak with one of our experienced account managers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.elginism.com/elgin-marbles/trying-to-steal-the-elgin-marbles-from-the-british-museum/20120328/4159/print/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5PFVBNPXZPGHCDE6IDSNYPMJ7YHE3WZQ", "length": 2411, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.elginism.com", "title": "Elginism Trying to steal the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum", "raw_content": "Trying to steal the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum\nPosted By Matthew On March 28, 2012 @ 8:12 am In British Museum,Elgin Marbles | No Comments\nAnother review of the children\u2019s book, Scorpia Rising [1], that revolves around a (fictional) plot to steal the Parthenon Sculptures from the British Museum.\nScorpia Rising by Anthony Horowitz \u2013 review\nKrazy Kesh\nguardian.co.uk, Wednesday 28 December 2011 09.00 GMT\n\u2018I think that this book is unlike any other and brings out the dark side of Anthony Horowitz\u2019s writing mind\u2019\nAlex Rider is back with his notorious foes: Scorpia. Although he doesn\u2019t know it, this time they are pulling the strings.\nAnthony Horowitz has finally published the last installment in the Alex Rider series. This one is different. It tells the story of the life of Scorpia board members and Alex\u2019s final dealing with them. It all starts at the British Museum when Zeljan Kurst makes a deal with a Greek billionaire who wants the Elgin Marbles brought back from England to Greece.\nZeljan consults Razim, a new member of Scorpia who is only too happy to help him. He decides to use Alex as the bait to lure the British government into his trap.\nMI6 is given a false alarm and Alex is sent to investigate. He is angry, as someone has tried to kill him. Alex must go to Cairo where he will confront his deadliest enemy yet: Himself\u2026 Almost. He is not alone. His housekeeper Jack Starbright is with him. Mr. Smithers, the obese wonder gadget maker meets them there. Alex discovers Derek Smithers\u2019 most important secret. What will happen to Alex when he meets the mad Razim? Will he become the bait that will lure the British government like dogs into a cage? Will he survive Scorpia\u2019s fatal sting?\nOne bullet. One life. The end starts here.\nI think that this book is unlike any other and brings out the dark side of Anthony Horowitz\u2019s writing mind. I liked the \u2018baddies\u2019 in the book as their personalities are disgusting and at the same time very fascinating. I love Razim\u2019s concept on the measurement of pain. It is a tragic book which might be very heavy for children under the age group of 10.\nURL to article: http://www.elginism.com/elgin-marbles/trying-to-steal-the-elgin-marbles-from-the-british-museum/20120328/4159/\n[1] Scorpia Rising: http://www.elginism.com/20111206/3885/\n[2] Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site/2011/dec/28/review-scorpia-rising?newsfeed=true", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.elginism.com/similar-cases/british-officials-visit-iran-to-discuss-cyrus-cylinder/20091106/2496/print/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6T74SOXLTVRGJQAVQNDV5SRSEW43BUOK", "length": 614, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.elginism.com", "title": "Elginism British officials visit Iran to discuss Cyrus Cylinder", "raw_content": "Posted By Matthew On November 6, 2009 @ 1:49 pm In British Museum,Similar cases | No Comments\nA representative from the British Museum is going to discuss the Cyrus Cylinder in Iran. This seems to indicate that Iran\u2019s threats to cease cooperation [1] if the issue was not dealt with by the institution has at least had some success.\nURL to article: http://www.elginism.com/similar-cases/british-officials-visit-iran-to-discuss-cyrus-cylinder/20091106/2496/\n[1] threats to cease cooperation: http://www.elginism.com/20091105/2484/\n[2] Press TV (Iran): http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109569§ionid=351020105", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.emotionally14.com/2011/04/gaming-reviews_28.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:53Z", "digest": "sha1:SF4QISPZ5FAHVBFGYEXELAD5DP5J7VR3", "length": 9294, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.emotionally14.com", "title": "EMOTIONALLY14: Gaming Reviews", "raw_content": "Warner Bros. Interactive/Netherrealms\nAvailable Now - \u00a344.99 (Xbox 360, PS3 \u2013 Version Tested)\nEditor\u2019s Note: Due to the outage on the Playstation Network during the week ending 22/04/2011, it was not possible to test the online component of the game.\nMortal Kombat returns - the newest chapter of the iconic fight franchise marks a triumphant return to the series\u2019 mature presentation and a reinvention of its classic 2D fighting mechanic. Driven by an all new graphics engine, the fan favourite Fatality is back and presented in more gory detail than ever before. In addition, Mortal Kombat introduces a number of new gameplay features including tag team and the deepest story mode of any fighting game. Players can choose from an extensive line up of the game\u2019s iconic warriors and challenge their friends in traditional 1 vs. 1, or take on several new game modes.\nThis game first came onto the radar as a short trailer, mainly showing fatalities without the final blow (in the same way that the TV ads are hilariously having to do so). However, interest was piqued by the fact that Fatalities are back in the game, a welcome change for the fan so disheartened by Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, which suffered from the game\u2019s 12+ age rating. The game trailer also showed off an X-Ray mode in the vein of Romeo Must Die, with bones being broken and crushed in a zoomed-in X-Ray view. It\u2019s safe to say that fans of classic fighting games wet themselves in anticipation, and with good reason; this was something that no other game was offering.\nIn some ways, this has translated to the full game. The game offers some features that games of similar ilk have not been doing recently, as well as bringing back and modifying some things done well in other competitors\u2019 fighting games. One of those things on the PS3 version is the addition of Kratos of God of War fame, which hearkens to the Soul Calibur philosophy of chucking in someone from another game, particularly when it\u2019s console-specific and can mean the difference between buying it for one console or the other (or even both, if you have that much spare cash to blow). Personally, though I totally get the appeal for the developers and fanboys, I think that sort of thing is frustrating unless the character is someone who can be purchased separately at a later date (of course meaning that Kratos would not be possible to buy, as he\u2019s Sony only). However, the Xbox 360 does sometimes come with a rental of the original Mortal Kombat live-action movie (depending on where you bought it), which isn\u2019t too bad.\nLet\u2019s get to the important thing: should you buy this game if you\u2019re a fan of the series? The answer is a nad-kicking YES. The game has been completely updated for the modern-day console generation, adding online play as well as a fuckton of other content. Most pleasingly of these new features, I feel, is a Training arena which allows you to go through the basics of combat as well as practise those all-important fatalities. What\u2019s cool about it as well is that the training arena puts a green bounding box on the floor to show you how far you need to be from the enemy in order to pull off the move. It\u2019s a nice little touch, but it\u2019s stuff like that which makes the difference between a good game and a great game.\nIt\u2019s the content available that makes this game such good value for money. There are a similar number of fighters available as in previous MK games since UMK3, as well as a couple of new additions like Quan Chi and Kratos. Each character has a varied move set and style of combat, which lends itself well to strategy. Bearing in mind that the Trophy room (in game, rather than accomplishment trophies) includes a list of conditions for each character to unlock additional skills, all of which dictate that you play with each character for 24 hours\u2019 worth of fighting, you won\u2019t be short of incentives to go back to the game. Add-ons also have been included in the form of unlockable bonuses using coins obtained from winning fights and performing combos. With plenty of these to find, which include alternate costumes all the way to alternate Fatalities, you won\u2019t be short of shiny trinkets to chase.\nAs well as the traditional Tournament bracket mode, where you work your way through ten combatants in order to make your way to Shao Kahn to give him a good kicking, there\u2019s also the Story mode. Now, immediately, this should give a sinking queasy feeling. Fighting games and storylines haven\u2019t traditionally married too well, but MK is breaking the curve in this regard. The story is divided up into chapters which see you switching between characters, and always for contextual reasons which make sense. It\u2019s a good mix of combatants as well, with different styles and moves to learn.\nThe story itself is undoubtedly one of the best I\u2019ve encountered in a fighting game, all rendered using in-game graphics and switching effortlessly between fight action and storyline cut scene. The game engine looks great, incidentally, and the cut scenes look really good as a result. Models are well-rounded, with a good colourful approach to characters which distinguish them out well from the backdrops. Those, also, look amazing, with a large number of varied backdrops. The Netherrealms, in storyline the stomping grounds of everyone\u2019s favourite fire-breather, Scorpion, look amazing when you\u2019re fighting on them.\nThe animations are really good-looking, with moves looking suitably brutal. For the perv in you, the female characters\u2019 jugs are also realistic in their movement, even if efforts have clearly been made to sex them up in terms of size (Sonia Blade, for example, has gone up a significant number of cup sizes, which seems to have brought out her inner slut when it comes to outfits \u2013 you\u2019ll see what I mean). The Fatalities and X-Ray moves look distinctly bone-crushing, even if some suspension of disbelief as to how someone can get up after having their neck broken three times in the same round. The game also employs a Special Bar which accumulates as you do combos, as well as to a smaller extent as you take damage. When the first bar of three fills, you boost a Signature move. Two bars of three give you a one-off combo break, which can be valuable when timed right. When it builds up to full it allows you to perform the special X-Ray moves. It\u2019s a nice system, especially as even the least experienced player can build up to a move which can swing the momentum slightly, although a certain amount of strategy is necessary in order not to leave you completely exposed.\nThere are some small complaints, though these are minor things. The difficulty spike is still there in single-player gaming, and matches can go from easy as fuck to absolutely nails in the space of a single match. One particular match, where I faced off against Scorpion and Quan Chi, had me tearing out what little hair remains. The game can also descend into button-bashing at times, especially during the opening few matches where you find yourself pausing the game a fair bit to bring up the moves list. Make no mistake, though, the game is ultimately an absolutely fantastic purchase, and presents some serious value in terms of feature set.\nGraphics: Looks great, backdrops and characters are really well done.\nSound/Music: More like the older coin-op games, with some really satisfying sounds for bone crunching and so on.\nGameplay: Classic Mortal Kombat gameplay. The learning curve is initially high, but once you get used to it, it\u2019s easy enough to remember the moves.\nLasting Appeal: An absolute ton of content, from story mode to classic Tournament to the 300-room Challenge Tower.\nSummary: A welcome return to form for one of the all-time classic fighting games. 9/10\nTHE SWORD OF ALBION GIVEAWAY\nEnter Will Swyfte. He is one of Walsingham\u2019s new breed of spy and his swashbuckling exploits have made him famous. However Swyfte\u2019s public image is a fa\u00e7ade, created to give the people of England a hero in their hour of need \u2013 and to deflect attention from his real role: fighting a secret war against a foe infinitely more devilish than Spain...\nFor millennia this unseen enemy has preyed upon humankind, treating honest folk as playthings to be hunted, taken and tormented. But now England is fighting back. Armed with little more than courage, their wits and an array of cunning gadgets created by sorcerer Dr Dee, Will and his colleagues must secure this mysterious device before it is too late. Theirs is a shadowy world of plot and counterplot, deception and betrayal, where no one \u2013 and nothing \u2013 is quite what they seem. At stake is the very survival of queen and country...\nThanks to our friends at Transworld, we've got two copies of The Sword of Albion AND its sequel The Scar-Crow Men to give away! For your chance of winning, send your name to emotionally14@hotmail.co.uk before midday on Thursday 5th May, making sure to put \"The Sword of Albion\" as the subject. The first two entries out of the electronic hat after the competition closes will receive a free copy!\nDon't forget to put \"The Sword of Albion\" in the subject line. Incorrectly labelled or blank entries will be discarded.\nThe Sword of Albion is available from 27th May, priced \u00a312.99. The Scar-Crow Men is available now, priced \u00a312.99.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 13994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.entertainmentspokane.com/archiveEmail.asp?theEMail=366", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GD6655M2MWEPRLWI3WSSABLOIBA4ZMTS", "length": 9508, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.entertainmentspokane.com", "title": "Entertainment Spokane - Music, Stage, Theatre, Dance, Shows, Visual Arts, Clubs, Restaurants, Shopping, Community Events and more!", "raw_content": "It's First Friday at Your MAC\nThis Friday, April 3, stop by the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture to celebrate First Friday starting at 5pm! Experience the MAC exhibits, 100 Stories - A Centennial Exhibition. Enjoy Live Music, performed by Mike Ross, along with an artist demonstration by Dick Ibach. Visit with Dick about his work on display, or pull up a chair for a portrait.\nFREE Admission from 5 to 8pm, donations are welcome. Food available for purchase at Cafe MAC. For more information, visit yourmacspokane.com.\nApril Fool's tonight at the Bing\nTonight, April 1 Friends Of the Bing presents on the big screen the 1991 classic, Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs featuring Jodi Foster and Anthony Hopkins. Celebrate April Fool's Day with local comedians Tom Meisjford, Jason Komm, Harry J. Riley and Missy Narrance as they add their comedic commentary. Live tonight starting at 7:30. Tickets available through www.ticketswest.com.\nThe 'Final Two' are at the Bing Monday evening\nEnjoy the action of the Final Two, the men's college basketball championship game, Monday, April 6 at 6pm at The Bing on their 30 foot screen. Free admission. Doors open at 5pm. $3 Beer and snacks are available.\nKaren Valandra art at VduV Winery this Friday\nKaren Valandra is showing her original watercolors as the featured artist the First Friday at VduV Winery, 12 South Scott. Enjoy great wine and the eclectic sounds of their own houseband, Crushpad.\nFor more information on this First Friday events, visit www.downtownspokane.org/first-friday.php.\nThe Fox Presents Trace Adkins in Concert\nMulti-platinum country star Trace Adkins will perform at The Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox on Wednesday, June 3. Adkins' countless hits made it to the top of the charts and has sold over 10 million albums. The Grammy-nominated member of the Grand Ole Opry will keep country's traditionalist flame burning in Spokane with a performance that mixes classic honky tonk with elements of gospel, blues, and rock & roll.\nTrace Adkins is known for top hits including 'Honky Tonk Badonkadonk,' 'Gone Fishin,' 'Ladies Love Country,' 'You're Gonna Miss Me,' and many more. The country crooner is also a TV personality, actor, author, and spokesman for the Wounded Warrior Program and American Red Cross, for whom he raised more than $$1.5 million as the winner of NBC's 'All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.'\nTickets go on sale this Friday, April 3 at 10am and are available at the Box Office at Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, by calling 509-624-1200 or at www.ticketswest.com or 800-325-SEAT.\nSt John's Cathedral Presents Bach Motet this Friday\nAs part of St John's Good Friday service (12 noon to 2:00pm on April 3), Dr Timothy Westerhaus and the Cathedral Choir at St John's will present 'Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 227,' the earliest and most musically complex of Bach's six motets. The Cathedral Choir will be joined by cellist, Cheryl Carney and contrabassist, Kim Plewniak. Fourteen singers from the choir are featured in combinations of trios, quartets, and quintets.\nOn Easter Sunday, April 5 at both the 8am and 10:30am Festival Eucharists, the Cathedral Brass Quintet and timpani will add to the celebration. Handel's 'Hallelujah Chorus' will conclude the services, with music distributed to the congregation for a massed choral ensemble.\nFree parking is available in the parking lots behind Lindaman's Restaurant, 13th and Grand Blvd. More information about St John's Cathedral is available at www.stjohns-cathedral.org or by calling the Cathedral at 509-838-4277.\nSpokane Symphony Announces 2015-2016 Season\nThe Spokane Symphony will kick off the 2015-2016 season later this year, with fabulous performances planned, including two Soiree on the Edge summer concerts in August at Arbor Crest Wine Cellars, Great Classics concerts from Russian Adventures, to American Wonders, to Blockbusters and so much in between. Back again is SuperPops, Symphony with a Splash, The Nutcracker, A New Year's Eve celebration featuring the music of Beethoven, and also a special Halloween experience, the showing of the classic film 'Nosferatu,' the 1922 silent film adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, with live soundtrack. And there's so much more!\nTo view the upcoming season's programs and performances, and to renew or order tickets, visit 2015-2016.spokanesymphony.org.\nHere's a Clue, you can still get tickets\nDid you miss out on getting your tickets to 'Clue' at Spokane Civic Theatre? Well, you're in luck...one more time! They've added one more performance on Wednesday, April 8 at 7:30pm! Tickets are available through the Civic Theatre box office or online at www.ticketswest.com or 800-325-SEAT.\n'Blooming Artists' at Express Employment Professionals\nExpress Employment Professionals, at West 331 West Main, has partnered with the Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery to host 'Blooming Artists'. This Friday, April 3 from 5pm to 8pm, each piece of the children's artwork will be on display and for sale with 100% of proceeds going to Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery. All unsold art pieces will remain on display and will be available for purchase throughout April and May.\nSince the beginning of March, the children visiting the Nursery have had the opportunity to draw, paint and color on canvases. The response from the children has been so overwhelmingly positive that Express is prepared to cover almost every inch of their large brick walls with the children's artwork.\nThis event was initially inspired by the artwork of 19 month old Michael Angelo Rugan, the son of Express Account Manager Jeff Rugan. Canvases for the children at the Nursery have been donated by Susan and Ira Amstadter, owners of Express Employment Professionals and Spokane Art Supply.\nAlternative photographic processes at the Brick Wall Gallery\nCome and explore alternative photographic processes with Melissa Rackham and Brian Deemy at the Brickwall Photographic Arts Gallery during April's First Friday Artwalk this Friday, April 3. The gallery is located at 530 W. Main on the skywalk in the Bennett Block just east of Macy's. The gallery will be open from 4pm until 8:30pm this Friday.\nMore information available at 509-928-7721.\nThis is not your mother's opera company\nNorthwest Opera's 2015 season will open with 'Innocents Lost: The Grimm Trial of Hansel and Gretel.' This original tale of courtroom drama, good vs. evil, is set to Humperdink's familiar music.\nThe entertainment begins April 11 at 7:30pm and April 12, April 18 and 19 at 2pm. All performances at Bethlehem Lutheran Church 2715 S. Ray Street in Spokane. Buy tickets at the door on the website, www.northwestopera.org, or call 509-327-3598 (Stuart Shawen).\nNorthwest Opera was organized in 2011 to provide an operatic performance outlet for gonnabes, wannabes, has-beens, and never-thought-it-could-happens, while giving the audience good entertainment and a small insight into the performer's passion for the art.\nThis is not your mother's opera company. Under the direction of Tim Campbell, highly creative, family-friendly original scripts are performed introducing both singer and the audience to music which is often unfamiliar and often avoided because of the undeserved, mistaken belief that opera is only for the elite. Northwest Opera presents 2 highly entertaining shows per year.\n61st Annual Shrine Circus Returns to Spokane Valley\nThe El Katif Shriners are excited to announce the return of the annual Shrine Circus. The circus is celebrating its 61st year of delighting Eastern Washington families. Audiences will be dazzled by elephants, horses, clowns and more. Don't miss this chance to be a part of the family-friendly 'under the big top' experience.\nThe Shrine Circus will be welcoming guests in the parking lot of the Spokane Valley Mall. The festivities begin Friday, April 17 with shows at 3pm and 7pm and continue Saturday, April 18 at 11am, 3pm and 7pm. The circus will conclude on Sunday, April 19 with shows at 1pm and 5pm.\nTickets can be purchased online at circus.elkatif.org. General admission is $10 per person. Reserved seating is $15, VIP tickets are $20 and ringmaster seats are available for $25 per person. Tickets can also be purchased by phoning 509-747-0132.\nSpokane Public Radio presents Cokie Roberts May 14 at the Bing\nSpokane Public Radio invites you to attend a celebratory 35th anniversary presentation by senior NPR news analyst and bestselling author Cokie Roberts on Thursday, May 14 at the Bing Crosby Theater. Tickets are on sale now and proceeds benefit Spokane Public Radio. Roberts will speak at length about her newest book, Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, as well as about the issues facing our nation today: healthcare, the economy, education, and energy. Aunties Bookstore will also coordinate a book signing at the Bing after her program and have her book available for purchase.\nRoberts serves as senior news analyst for National Public Radio, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. She has covered Congress, politics, and public policy for more than 20 years at ABC News. In her more than 40 years in broadcasting, Roberts has won countless awards, including three Emmys.\nTickets are $40 and available at TicketsWest locations, www.ticketswest.com or 800-325-SEAT. A Bing Crosby Theater restoration fee will be added to the price of each ticket, and additional fees may apply. More information may be found at www.spokanepublicradio.org or by calling 509-328-5729.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 598, "original_length": 19985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 305.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.equalvision.com/news/young-culture-debut-new-song-21-days-with-billboard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GWX5POJ76W2WL7IHND3F3U6O4PIAOG7T", "length": 2458, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.equalvision.com", "title": "YOUNG CULTURE DEBUT NEW SONG, \"21 DAYS\", WITH BILLBOARD - Equal Vision Records", "raw_content": "Pop rock band Young Culture is thrilled to share \u201c21 Days,\u201d streaming now exclusively on Billboard. The song comes from the band\u2019s forthcoming EP and Equal Vision Records debut, (This Is) Heaven, out January 18th, 2019. The EP also features \u201cDrift,\u201d the previously released single co-produced by Derek DiScanio (State Champs) and Sam Guiana (Seaway, Coldfront). Pre-orders for (This Is) Heaven are available now at youngculture.merchnow.com.\n\u201cWriting this song was a perfect opportunity to take a dark situation and make it into something beautiful. I guess you could say that\u2019s the theme for the new EP, which is why we felt \u201c21 Days\u201d was a perfect song to release at this time,\u201d shares lead singer Alex Magnan. \u201cWe\u2019re so grateful to the people who take time to check out our music as well as our fans who\u2019ve been there since day one. This is just the beginning, we promise. There is so much more ahead.\u201d\nYoung Culture is currently on tour with fellow New Yorkers Locals Only. Later this month, they will be joining State Champs for their annual holiday shows, taking place December 28th and 29th. For a full list of shows, please see below or visit facebook.com/youngcultureNY.\nThat influence is very much evident in songs like \u201cDrift\u201d, a song that not only redefined who Young Culture is as a band, but also reshaped the perimeters of pop-punk \u2013 although it should be noted that they\u2019re very wary of being confined to just that genre. As they should be, because there are many more layers to this band.\n2018 has ushered in a brand new phase of Young Culture\u2019s existence, evident in the their latest single \u201c21 Days\u201d as well as the rest of new EP (This Is) Heaven. They might now be just 20 years old, but both Pietrafesa and Magnan\u2019s attitude and songwriting ability display a maturity way beyond their years. And while this isn\u2019t an entirely new beginning, it certainly marks the start of something that\u2019s thoroughly unique, electrifying and engaging.\nYoung Culture will release (This Is) Heaven on January 18th, 2019 via Equal Vision Records. To pre-order, please visit: youngculture.merchnow.com.\n12/5 \u2013 Jacksonville, FL @ Jack Rabbits *\n12/6 \u2013 Ocala, FL @ Alchemy Ballroom *\n12/7 \u2013 Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade (Purgatory) *\n12/8 \u2013 Nashville, TN @ Rocketown *\n12/20 \u2013 Toronto, ON @ Opera House +\n12/28 \u2013 Asbury Park, NJ @ House of Independents #\n12/29 \u2013 Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall #\n* \u2013 w/Locals Only\n+ \u2013 w/Counterparts\n# \u2013 w/State Champs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.esgco.com/news-and-press-releases/2018/05/michael-gelardi-receives-mirian-award/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:48Z", "digest": "sha1:HYUF6P3EO2XVITBAUKEN6AWGL2GGWJ7H", "length": 1109, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.esgco.com", "title": "Michael Gelardi Receives Mirian Award | The ESG Companies", "raw_content": "On May 11th, Michael Gelardi was presented with the Mirian Award for distinguished service to the Star of the Sea Catholic Church and School located in Virginia Beach. Mike has spent the last three years serving as their pro bono Construction Manager providing guidance, management and oversight over a range of projects including repairs, renovations and completion of a new addition to the school.\nHe wrote and managed their contracts, served as Project Superintendent, managed the budget, and coordinated projects with church and school leaders to minimize impact to operations. His efforts saved many tens of thousands of dollars while ensuring high quality along the way - and serve as yet another incredible example of his humble servant leadership.\nWe are lucky to have Mike\u2019s leadership and expertise on our team for over 40 years, and very proud of his involvement with the community and the lasting positive impact he continues to make for others.\nPictured Top L-R: Father Steve, Susan Gelardi, Michael Gelardi, Principal Carey Averill\nPictured Bottom: Star of the Sea Catholic School - New Addition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/24483039/bangladesh-likely-appoint-specialist-test-batting-coach", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:MQPNMC7OHKOEJPOT7CTQJQZYIWHXDOZA", "length": 2002, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.espncricinfo.com", "title": "Bangladesh likely to appoint specialist Test batting coach | ESPNcricinfo.com", "raw_content": "Bangladesh likely to appoint specialist Test batting coach\nNeil McKenzie in his role as South Africa's batting coach Gallo Images\nThe BCB are considering appointing a batting coach specifically for Test cricket. Neil McKenzie's availability being limited only to white-ball cricket has prompted the board to look for a specialised coach, according to the BCB's chief executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury.\n\"Neil is a white ball batting coach up to the 2019 World Cup but we need someone for red-ball cricket,\" Chowdhury told ESPNcricinfo. \"We preferred Neil to also look after red ball cricket, but he is not available. Most of the assignments to the new members of the coaching staff we have given are World Cup targeted, but we are considering someone who can help out in red ball cricket as well as do other work. We have asked our contacts to talk to coaches. Gary Kirsten is also in our assistance process.\"\nThe BCB's search is justifiable: Bangladesh averaged 202 runs per Test innings in the last 12 months, and haven't surpassed 200 in an innings in the last three Tests. Their batting debacles on their last two tours - to West Indies this summer and South Africa last year - suggest that as far as Test match batting is concerned, Bangladesh have a problem on their hands. In contrast, almost the same set of batsmen performed better in ODIs, as was seen during the West Indies tour when they won the ODI and T20I series after being swept aside in the Tests.\nEngland currently are the only international side with format-specific batting coaches: Graham Thorpe for ODIs and T20s and Mark Ramprakash for Tests.\nMeanwhile, the BCB will also face a decision next month about Sunil Joshi's tenure as spin bowling coach, which ends after the Asia Cup. He was appointed in August last year.\n\"The current spin coach's contract is till the end of September, which means up to the Asia Cup. The board's policy will decide on the spin coach. We will make a move as soon as we get a directive,\" said Chowdhury.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eurel.info/spip.php?article893", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:35Z", "digest": "sha1:EK2QJE5UITBXAR4C5JQGCC6OMWR2QJ6P", "length": 923, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.eurel.info", "title": "2010 - eurel", "raw_content": "Child abuse in the Irish Catholic church\nThe Irish Catholic church has been recently the center of public debate : the publication of two reports, the Ryan report and the Murphy report \u2013 named after the judges who presided over the deliberations of legal inquiries into the running of Catholic institutions called \u2019industrial schools\u2019 and \u2019reformatories\u2019 for children, on the onehand, and the Catholic church\u2019s (mis)management of cases of clerical child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin, on the other, were published in 2009 ; the information they disclosed concerning violence and abuse against children caused a great shock in public opinion.\nA complete article is available concerning this situation : \"The Memory and Amnesia of Irish Catholicism\", by Brian Conway.\nReport of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, 2009.\nCommission of Investigation : Report into the Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin, July 2009.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.facecool.com/profiles/blogs/5-things-to-know-about-breast-augmentation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:27Z", "digest": "sha1:UI6PNVEOITYKDRORLAPRCECYKSADTU4D", "length": 479, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.facecool.com", "title": "5 Things to Know about Breast Augmentation - facecool", "raw_content": "5 Things to Know about Breast Augmentation\nPosted by Health For All on February 9, 2018 at 4:52pm\nVisit at http://www.drevanbeale.com/5-things-know-breast-augmentation/\nBefore any surgical procedure, you may have plenty of questions. Breast augmentation is no exception. If you are considering this transformative procedure, we are here for you! 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It\u2019s a GRILL! \u2013 First Person Scholar", "raw_content": "OMG! It\u2019s a GRILL!\nFebruary 28, 2018 Lena Uszkoreit Leave a Comment\nLena received her PhD in Communication from the University of Southern California\u2019s Annenberg School for Communication in 2017. Her dissertation examined the effects of viewing different types of female streamers on the perception of female gamers as well as motivations to view Twitch. Other research projects investigated hero choices in team-based online games, trust and reciprocity in online games and the nature of social networks in MMOGs. In her free time, Lena watches esports, plays on a semi-casual Overwatch team as the main support and dabbles in her former main game World of Warcraft.\n\u201cA real gamer girl?\u201d \u2013\n\u201cNo, girls don\u2019t play video games\u2026\u201d\nFor those of you who are not female-identifying and have not played online games with voice chat before, this might seem like a gross exaggeration. However, I\u2019ve been greeted with some version of this dialogue many times at the beginning of a match. I usually say \u201cHi\u201d or make a game-related suggestion and in return, I am called out as a girl. Oftentimes, another player will chime in and carry the dialog on by saying \u201cNo, it can\u2019t be a girl. Girls don\u2019t play video games.\u201d Just a meme, they say.\nNow, let\u2019s look at this greeting for what it really is. The next few paragraphs will go into a detailed explanation of how this innocent sounding conversation can serve as a segue into more harmful behaviors. A myriad of factors play a role in how gendered expectations are formed and acted upon. I will focus my discussion on how voice can serve as a distinguishing social cue that results in attributing certain sex-role stereotypes with female players and expecting them to behave in a certain way. Other factors playing a role in how these stereotypes are formed and perpetuated include the lack of representation of women in gaming, the perception of mastery of technology as an inherently male quality and many attitudes and assumptions traveling from real life into the gaming space. In their sum, all of these factors can contribute to the woman being singled out, associated with certain stereotypes and expected to behave in a certain way.\nSo how do we get there from \u201cOMG A GRILL\u201d? Initiating me into the group of (assumed) male gamers through calling me out as a \u2018real grill!\u2019, ensures that I\u2019m automatically othered. It marks me as different from the in-group, which, presumably, is male. Obviously, not all these male gamers are alike. One might be in his mid-twenties, another one a senior in high-school. At least one of them is probably not white. One loves cats, the others love dogs. However, in this scenario, none of this matters because the only salient distinguishing cue present is the voice. When we communicate online, we experience a lack of social cues as compared to communicating face-to-face. When playing a team-based online game with random players, we usually don\u2019t see their faces, their expressions, their gestures. Oftentimes we even only have textual chat available; sometimes the game offers a voice chat. When social cues are sparse, people tend to fall back onto the group identity due to their inability to identify themselves and others as individuals with their own set of cues. The group identity becomes more salient than the individual identity and people experience so-called deindividuation effects.\nThe theory describing this kind of behavior is called the social identity model of deindividuation effects and because this is even a mouthful for scholars, we abbreviate it as SIDE theory by Postmes, Spears, and Lea (2000). Adrienne Holz Ivory and her colleagues conducted an experiment within the Xbox Live community and found that in absence of other social cues, a player\u2019s voice becomes a salient cue. In other words, their voice becomes a social cue that either puts a player into the in-group or the out-group. Given that online games (PC or console) are still male-dominated (or at least perceived as male-dominated), the in-group is therefore defined as male (Ivory et al., 2014). Relating this back to our scenario, here is what really happens:\nA female player speaks in voice chat and a male responds by calling her out as \u201cGRILL!\u201d, clearly marking her as not a part of the in-group. This action not only calls the attention of all team members to this one player who is the odd one out but also gives way for a bunch of behaviors resulting from not perceiving someone as part of the in-group. It reminds the male players of their group identity and enforces the feeling of belonging with them rather than with the female. And on the other side, the female player will likely be facing the whole in-group whenever she wants to express criticism or make a game-related suggestion.\nDrawing from my personal experience of playing Overwatch, such suggestions could include proposing a hero switch or an alternate route to attack. Sticking to the example of Overwatch, common criticism could be pointing out that someone wasted their ultimate ability or did not play in a position beneficial to the team. It also gives the in-group the opportunity to recall negative stereotypes about \u2018girl-gamers\u2019 and attribute them to the othered female in the team. Some examples of such common stereotypes would be that girls are generally worse at gaming than guys, that they only play games because they want the attention of male gamers, or that they only play support characters. Several of these sexist stereotypes have been addressed and tested in the form of a scale by Jesse Fox and Wai Yen Tang (2014). Yes, science has found that these stereotypes are widely held. And they are sexist.\nIn Overwatch, a stigma is attached to female Mercy mains (Mercy is the epitome of a support character who flies around the map to heal her teammates and bring them back to life). Since the character requires little mechanical skill as she does not need to aim, it is often said that women learn her because she is easy to play and easy to be carried by a good DPS player (DPS is the role responsible for dealing the most damage to enemy heroes). On a side note, good analysis of the reasons why we see so many women playing Mercy in Overwatch can be found here.\nCalling the female gamer out also results in her being expected to behave \u2018female\u2019. Gender, as opposed to sex, is socially constructed. That also means that we attribute certain behaviors to each gender and expect people to act accordingly (Berger, Fisek, Norman, & Zelditch, 1977). In absence of other social cues, Adrienne Holz Ivory and her colleagues identified voice as a salient social cue. They also found that as soon as a player is gendered female, other players expected them to be more amicable, more agreeable, less critical. In their experiment, the authors measured how likely players are to comply with friend requests after receiving either negative or positive comments made by a male or female voice. When a female voice gives negative commentary, players are less likely to accept a friend request than they would be after receiving positive comments (Ivory et al., 2014).\nOf course, you will now tell yourself, that is a no-brainer. Who would want to be friends with someone criticizing you rather than complimenting you? Guess what: they don\u2019t care if it\u2019s a guy criticizing them. Yes, for the male voice, there was no significant difference between the negative and positive comments in regard to complying to friend requests. According to Dr. Ivory and her colleagues, expectation states theory can explain this observation. People (not only men) expect women to be more agreeable and just overall nicer. This is even enhanced in mostly male-dominated spaces, such as multiplayer FPS games. Oftentimes, women are not perceived as experts so their criticism is not taken seriously and rather seen as an annoyance than constructive and productive feedback. Since it does not fit a female player\u2019s expected gender role, her negative commentary is perceived as her nagging and complaining while a male player\u2019s commentary is understood as an effort to improve the team\u2019s performance. So once a female player has been called out, she is perceived as part of the out-group and expected to be quiet and amicable. As most of you who have played a team-based online game before will know, this does not leave her with many options to participate in the game. Her suggestions will probably not be taken seriously and her commentary labeled as \u2018bitching\u2019 rather than as feedback.\nMy own voice doesn\u2019t sound very amiable when I\u2019m focused on the game and communication needs to be concise and fast. When playing Overwatch, people often say that I\u2019m complaining and tell me to shut up. This happens most often when I utter criticism, for example noting that a certain player has died too often and should probably pick a different hero whose abilities will allow them to prevail against a certain other hero. On several occasions, a male teammate would repeat my comment, not necessarily in a friendlier tone, and reactions would be much more positive. Most likely, you will now think that I must have just sounded more annoyed. However, it is important to understand that as soon as a woman does not sound sweet and nice, you will perceive her as sounding annoyed and her comment as a complaint. When a male player communicates in a similar manner, on the other hand, it will likely be perceived as decisive and terse due to the context\u2019s unique constraints. It is important to realize that othering the woman on the team early on will lead to other players having very specific expectations.\nOn an important side note, I want to emphasize that I\u2019m speaking about the consequences of sounding female in voice chat, based on my own experiences as a woman in gaming. Unfortunately, this doesn\u2019t mean that female-identifying gamers who do not sound female don\u2019t experience other forms or harassment or that non-binary folks don\u2019t deal with similar problems. However, this specific piece addresses sex-role stereotypes and gender expectations based on a single social cue, a female sounding voice of a female-identifying player \u2013 just one tiny part of a complex set of issues.\nWhile it was not too shocking (sadly enough) to experience this behavior when playing with a team of male players I was baffled when the first female player called me out as \u201cOMG! A grill!\u201d. However, if you think about it with the knowledge you now have about what\u2019s happening, there is a simple and plausible explanation for this phenomenon. Through calling the other girl on the team out, the female player ensures to other the other female, therefore positioning herself closer to the in-group. Kind of along the lines of: \u201cHey guys, see me? I\u2019m on YOUR team here, SHE is the odd one out!\u201d\nI want to judge women for behaving like this. But then again, who am I to judge them for wanting to be part of the club? For them wanting to not stand out and just play a game like any other gamer? It\u2019s a tough world out there for us sometimes and maybe this analysis helped you gain a tiny bit of insight into the underlying processes. What can you do to counteract?\nDon\u2019t call a female player out. Don\u2019t jump on the train if someone else does it.\nTry to not judge her feedback based on what you think a typical girl should behave like. Listen to the facts in the words she is saying.\nTry to see her for what she is: a member of your team. A fellow gamer. I guarantee you that this will give you the best chance to enjoy playing the match, reducing the risk of tilt and therefore, increasing your chance to win.\nBerger, Joseph, M. H. Fisek, Robert Z. Norman, and Morris Zelditch Jr. (1977). Status Characteristics and Social Interaction: An Expectation States Approach. New York: Elsevier.\nFox, J., & Tang, W. Y. (2014). Sexism in online video games: The role of conformity to masculine norms and social dominance orientation. Computers in Human Behavior, 33, 314-320.\nIvory, A. H., Fox, J., Waddell, T. F., & Ivory, J. D. (2014). Sex role stereotyping is hard to kill: A field experiment measuring social responses to user characteristics and behavior in an online multiplayer first-person shooter game. Computers in Human Behavior, 35, 148-156.\nPostmes, T., Spears, R., & Lea, M. (2000). The formation of group norms in computer\u2010mediated communication. Human communication research, 26(3), 341-371.\nCommentary deindividuation, Lena Uszkoreit, online gaming\nPrevious Article\u2190 Review: Boluk and LeMieux\u2019s Metagaming:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 13266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firstynews.com/interviews/bridget-shine-executive-director-independent-publishers-guild-ipg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HCRWNJYI24OGNCTV3GHTOHBCRTOBIC6N", "length": 2454, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.firstynews.com", "title": "FirstyNews | Digital publishing news and views from the Firsty Group", "raw_content": "The IPG turned 50 last year, with membership at an all-time high and the service offered as popular as ever \u2013 if not more so, as publishing squares up to dramatic changes in the industry.\nIt\u2019s perhaps fitting that we conducted this interview shortly after the memorial service for Tim Rix who, as the IPG\u2019s Honorary President from 1994 to 2007, helped it become the vibrant trade organisation it is today. \u201cWhen I wrote to IPG members last November to tell them of Tim\u2019s death,\u201d Bridget said, \u201cI received countless emails remarking on his energy, his generosity with his time and knowledge\u2026 one mentioned his \u2018extraordinary contacts\u2019 \u2013 and certainly, it is thanks to Tim that the IPG has a London office within Yale University Press.\u201d\nBridget\u2019s career in book publishing has included working with Crown House Publishing, followed by stints with a literary agency, Academic Press and the Welsh Books Council. Taking up her current post in 2004, she has been inspired by the camaraderie among members and their generosity in sharing information and ideas. This spirit has helped her shape the IPG\u2019s role in supporting publishers as they tackle the digital challenges ahead. At the IPG\u2019s digital quarterly meetings (DQMs), now in their 4th year, there is invariably standing room only. \u201cDigital is at the heart of every publisher\u2019s business now \u2013 previously, it was usually just the academic and professional publishers who were exploring digital opportunities. The monetisation of digital content remains a burning issue for all publishers.\u201d\nThe DQMs are among the 15 events that the IPG runs annually, in addition to its collective stands at the London and Frankfurt Books Fairs. Its flagship events \u2013 the IPG Conference and Independent Publisher Awards \u2013 are now just a few weeks away, and attendance looks like being the biggest yet. The most recent addition to the IPG calendar is \u2018Meet the Investors\u2019, an event where members seeking investment meet potential investors. \u201cWe held the inaugural meeting this month,\u201d Bridget told us, \u201cand it was a great success!\u201d\nAnd her overall goal for the IPG? \u201cTo continue to be the go-to place for independent publishers \u2013 to be absolutely relevant to them and to reflect their interests whether they are international heavyweights, medium-sized independents or just setting up.\u201d\nTags: Bridget Shine, Crown House Publishing, Independent Publisher Awards, Independent Publishers Guild, interview, IPG, IPG Conference", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fitsolutionsblog.com/category/fitness/fitness-tips-and-motivation/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:15Z", "digest": "sha1:363XN5JGQJFA2WN64KY7RO2OB5ZHKHQE", "length": 987, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fitsolutionsblog.com", "title": "Fitness Tips And Motivation | FitSolutionsBlog - Page 4", "raw_content": "Chiropractic Care and Fitness Chiropractic Care and Fitness! For a long time now, chiropractic care has been available to the masses, yet a lot of times this service goes unused. Many people just chalk up\u2026\nWays to Get Moving When You\u2019re Not a Morning Person Ways to Get Moving When You\u2019re Not a Morning Person and you find it nearly impossible, agonizing, and a form of mild torture to get out of bed.\u2026\nGreat Tips For Reaching Your Ideal Weight Great Tips For Reaching Your Ideal Weight are designed to help you get on the right track toward weight loss. You need to eat the right amount of\u2026\nImportant Ways to Prepare for the New Year! Important Ways to Prepare for the New Year! New Year\u2019s Day is nearly here and offers the promise of great things to come. Many people start thinking\u2026\nWays to Reduce Holiday Stress Ways to Reduce Holiday Stress are what many people need during the holiday season and the start of a new year. The holidays often provides an opportunity to spend quality\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 306.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fleetwoodmacnews.com/2012/01/fleetwood-mac-rumours-back-on-billboard.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ZU5B6T6KN2AHUIXOF5JETOTSQ2TUDYWR", "length": 2767, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.fleetwoodmacnews.com", "title": "Fleetwood Mac News: Fleetwood Mac \"RUMOURS\" Back on Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - 2nd Time This Year!", "raw_content": "Fleetwood Mac \"RUMOURS\" Back on Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart - 2nd Time This Year!\n\"Rumours\" will re-enter the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart again this week marking the 2nd time within a month the album has re-entered the chart. For the sales week ending January 22nd, \"Rumours\" sold 4,037 units in the United States good enough for the album to land at #117 on Billboard Chart dated February 4th.\nThe REALLY interesting part about that is \"Rumours\" was released on February 4, 1977. February 4th marks the albums 35th Anniversary and to see it sitting within the Top 200 Album Chart 35 years later, I think that's pretty amazing!\nIn the last 4 weeks \"Rumours\" has sold 11,477 units in the US.\nOver on the Top 200 Catalogue Chart \"Rumours\" takes a giant leap up from #103 to #19 this week. \"Greatest Hits\" which saw a spike in sales the last three weeks is #165 on the Catalogue Chart on sales of 1,561 which is down from #56 the previous week where it sold 2,406.\nIn the last 4 weeks \"Greatest Hits\" has sold 9,353 units int he US.\nOn the Top Digital Tracks Chart Fleetwood Mac's \"Landslide\", which re-entered that chart last week at #58 on sales of 8,672 tracks, drops to #100 with sales of 6,616.\nBillboard Top 200 Albums Chart\n# 117 (-) Fleetwood Mac \"Rumours\"\nBillboard Top 200 Catalogue Albums Chart\n# 19 (103) Fleetwood Mac \"Rumours\"\n# 165 (56) Fleetwood Mac \"Greatest Hits\"\nBillboard Top 200 Catalogue Digital Tracks\n# 100 (58) Fleetwood Mac \"Landslide\"\nAdele hits another milestone!\nAdele's 21 tops The Billboard 200 for the 17th week, which is the longest run by any album since Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack logged 20 weeks on top in 1992-1993.\nIt's the longest run for an album by a British artist since the Police's Synchronicity was #1 for 17 weeks in 1983. (Two of the three members of that trio were born in England.)\nOnly two albums by British (or majority-British) acts have had longer runs at #1. Fleetwood Mac's Rumours logged 31 weeks at #1 in 1977-'78. (Three of the five members that pop-rock group were born in England.) The Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever soundtrack logged 24 weeks at #1 in 1978. (All three members of the brother trio were born in England.)\nLabels: Album Sales Data, Charts, Fleetwood Mac, Rumours\nAgreed...I'm sure nobody in the band could have predicted chart success 35 years after the initial release.\nI'm still holding out that Christine will at least record one more album with them as long as she doesn't have to tour.\nAt this point, the band is crazy not to except her on her own terms. Bottom line is, only hardcore fans will buy new material these days, and many casual fans are the ones who help fill the concert venues whether Christine is with them or not.\nJust let her record without touring!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 434, "original_length": 18178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.flyersfancentral.com/2017/01/flyers-top-rangers-behind-masons-shutout/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ORBJNMV2H5R4AJ5N3OD7HZZAFPM52GED", "length": 335, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.flyersfancentral.com", "title": "Flyers Top Rangers Behind Mason\u2019s Shutout | Flyers Fan CentralFlyers Fan Central", "raw_content": "Flyers Top Rangers Behind Mason\u2019s Shutout\nPosted on January 26, 2017 by BroadStreetBuzz\nThe Flyers got a huge win against their division rivals on Wednesday night. Steve Mason had his first shutout of the season, and helped lead the Flyers to a 2-0 victory. This one seemed like it was going to be the complete opposite of the outcome.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.frenchchateau.net/chateaux-of-bourgogne/chateau-d-arcy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:28Z", "digest": "sha1:RNBBXLRZTKSM7FDH6FDEWX4ZGFIB7ASD", "length": 1333, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.frenchchateau.net", "title": "\ufeff Ch\u00e2teau d'Arcy, French Ch\u00e2teau", "raw_content": "Ch\u00e2teau d'Arcy\nCh\u00e2teau d'Arcy Photo - Ptivince - Wikipedia - lic. under CC BY-SA 3.0\nLocation: Vindecy, in the Sa\u00f4ne-et-Loire departement of France (Bourgogne Region).\nOwnership / Access: Private. Not open to public.\nNotes: Ch\u00e2teau d'Arcy is an ancient castle, the twelfth century, rebuilt in the fifteenth century, the center of the manor and the marquis d'Arcy, which stands on the Common Vindecy in the department of Sa\u00f4ne-et-Loire, in Bourgogne region. The castle is the subject of a partial inscription as historical monuments by order of 27 June 19831. Only the facades and roofs of the two buildings with input turn, the entrance gate between the two buildings, facades and roofs of the main building, the wing back and the tower are enrolled. Despite numerous changes the castle has preserved many elements of the fifteenth century. The old castle consisted of a quadrangle flanked by circular towers in gray sandstone which leaned against the west of an elongated rectangular main building and north now defunct gallery; a stair tower is leaning against the facade of the main building. From the old farmyard, there are two small buildings flanked to the south and north of two round towers. The ditches were filled during the Revolution.\nHow To Get To Ch\u00e2teau d'Arcy (Map):\nCh\u00e2teau d'Arcy Links:\nCh\u00e2teau d'Arcy On Wikipedia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 181.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fresnostate.edu/academics/provosts-awards/provost-lecture-series.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NQQ73TK27NMHAFAQLLADQLX3O3GVMMQA", "length": 8444, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.fresnostate.edu", "title": "Provost's Awards Lecture Series", "raw_content": "Academics > Provosts Awards >\nThis series is to honor and showcase each year's recipients of the Provost's Awards.\nThursday, February 7, 2019 - 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.\nVeena Howard, Department of Philosophy\n(2017-2018 \u2013 Promising New Faculty)\n\"Experiments with Buddhist Mindfulness in Secular Teaching\"\n\u201cMindfulness\u201d has become a buzzword in popular culture, but most people are not aware of the term\u2019s specific religious origins. This practice, meant to be a part of the Buddhist path towards inner peace, has been utilized as a tool in medicine, positive psychology, law-enforcement, education, economics, etc. In this presentation, Dr, Veena Howard will focus on her personal journey from feeling aggravated by such aberrant adaptation of mindfulness to experimenting with \u201cmindfulness\u201d strategies in teaching. She will share some approaches that have enhanced her pedagogy and classroom environment, and discuss how these strategies have led her to appreciate mindfulness in a secular context.\nThursday, March 7, 2019 \u2013 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.\nZhanna Bagdasarov, Department of Management\n\"Decentering the Self: Implications of Service-Learning Pedagogy on Ethics\"\nService-learning (SL) is known as a high-impact educational practice and has been increasingly incorporated into curricula across institutions of higher learning. Although various student learning outcomes have already been linked to SL, studies linking SL to ethics are few and far between. Dr. Zhanna Bagdasarov will share findings from an exploratory research project examining the impact of SL on college students\u2019 ethical decision making and its related processes and strategies\nThursday, April 4, 2019 - 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.\nMary Husain, Department of Communication\n(2017-2018 \u2013 Outstanding Lecturer)\n\"Opening a Door to the World; Learning Beyond the Text\"\nDr. Mary Husain will discuss guest speaker supported learning and the use of film in multicultural courses to foster intercultural understandings and respect for diversity. These powerful pedagogical tools encourage students to think globally and gain an experiential knowledge of the real world beyond the textbook.\nFresno State is committed to providing universal access to all our guests. Please contact the Office of the Provost at 559.278.2636 to request disability accommodations.\nPaul Price, Department of Psychology\n(2017-2018 Excellence in Teaching)\n\u201cAre You as Good a Teacher as You Think?\u201d\nResearch in social psychology shows that people generally think they are better than their peers on a wide variety of traits, skills, and behaviors. This \"better-than-average effect\" is especially strong among college professors assessing their own teaching. In this talk, Dr. Paul Price will discuss some reasons for these optimistically biased self-assessments, along with some antidotes for them. Dr. Price will also reflect on some potential benefits of teaching with greater humility.\nBenjamin Boone, Department of Music\n(2016-2017-Excellence in Teaching)\n\u201cWhat We Can Learn About Psychology, Perception, Teaching, and Existence by Examining Music, Speech, and Ghanaian Fashion\u201d\nHaving just served a year as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ghana, Professor of Music Benjamin Boone will lead an exploration of musical structure and how it relates to other aspects of life -- and other disciplines in this interactive and participatory session.\nQiao-Hong Chen, Department of Chemistry\n(2017-2018- Distinguished Achievement in Research, Scholarship or Creative Accomplishment)\n\"The Quest for Natural Product-Inspired Anti-Prostate CancerAgents\"\nOur research aims to engineer more effective derivatives and analogues of natural products of for the potential treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Four Dietary natural products, together with one marine natural product, were selected as our lead compounds to develop potential anti- prostate cancer agents through appropriate chemical modifications. Dr. Qiao-Hong Chen will present the major findings from the medicinal chemistry and drug discovery efforts driven by the quest for effective anti-prostate cancer agents.\nAndrew Fiala, Department of Philosophy\n\"Peace: What is it Good For?\"\nDr. Andrew Fiala will present ideas he discusses in his new book, Transformative Pacifism (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). Dr. Fiala's thesis is that peace is an important primary good that provides a focal point for ethical theory, while pacifism is best understood as a critical social theory. He will explain how pacifist critical theory can be applied in various contexts as a situated and self-conscious theory that aims at the incremental transformation of self, society, and world.\nRajee Amarasinghe, Department of Mathematics\n(2017-2018- Innovation)\n\"Path of Least Resistance: Integrating Teaching, Research, and Service with the Help of Your Colleagues\"\nAs faculty of a comprehensive university, Dr. Rajee Amarasinghe knows that we are expected to engage and excel in teaching, research, and service. To some, this may appear to be an intimidating task involving three completely different areas of activities. However Dr. Amarasinghe has found ways in which we can integrate these activities while enjoying our work and fulfilling the expectations of the tenure process and beyond.\nCarolyn Cusick, Department of Philosophy\n(2017-2018- Faculty Service)\n\"Service as Opportunity: Tales of a Life Long Learner\"\nOpportunities abound on university campuses. Opportunities for classes, clubs, and committees. Opportunities for new learning, improvement, or awareness of possibilities. Opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and community members. But busy faculty often ignore and miss out on many of these opportunities. In this talk, Dr. Carolyn Cusick will share bits of her own journey in higher education from wide-eyed, curious undergrad to junior faculty committed to instructional and community service and argue that service can be seen as an opportunity rather than a burden.\nQin Fan, Department of Economics\n(2017-2018- Promising New Faculty)\n\u201cOpportunities and Challenges for Local and Regional Economic Development: the Synergy of Teaching, Research, and Service\u201d\nHuman capital-represented by the share of college graduates-and the quality of life in a community were found to significantly contribute to economic growth. Dr. Qin Fan and her co-authors are also learning that human capital and quality of life are mutually reinforcing. Larger share of college graduates and better amenity and quality of life factors\u2014air quality, open space views, pleasant climate, and coast, for example\u2014give economic growth an additional boost. Dr. Fan will specifically discuss how her experience working with students and being involved in community service shape her research agenda and how she incorporates her research into the classroom and engages her students in community service supporting community economic development.\nAlison Mandaville, Department of English\n\u201cComics in the Classroom: Valley Water Voices\u201d\nComics are a great teaching tool. Dr. Alison Mandaville will discuss \u2013 and show \u2013 why comics strategies work so well across disciplines to engage students, support learning, and foster critical thinking. Dr. Mandaville will share a student research project assignment, \"Valley Water Voices\", for which students read about and researched the role of water in the Central Valley community and then presented their work in comics form. She will also discuss how this assignment could be adjusted to any discipline, from Engineering to English.\nIgnacio Hernandez, Department of Educational Leadership (2017-2018-Promising New Faculty)\n\"Community College Transfer Students at Fresno State\"\nFor transfer students, coming to Fresno State requires numerous adjustments to the new environment and institutional culture, including larger classes, increased academic rigor, new friends, a larger campus and a new location. Dr. Ignacio Hernandez will share the findings from a research project using data from the Office of institutional Effectiveness at Fresno State.\nSusana Hernandez, Department of Educational Leadership\n\"Moving beyond enrolling to Serving: The role of Hispanic Serving Institutions in higher education\"\nHispanic Serving Institutions play a critical role in the American higher education landscape. 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There are no reports of personal injury.\nRural development bank Cajamar has set up a credit line to help producers who have suffered crop losses and damage to greenhouse infrastructure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 496, "original_length": 12618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fultoncountynews.com/news/2009-01-15/Obituaries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4MGQWOEWIXGGJA4GM3WE4NNCK3MTYM4I", "length": 967, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.fultoncountynews.com", "title": "Obituaries | www.fultoncountynews.com | Fulton County News", "raw_content": "John B. Bivens\nJohn B. Bivens, 99, Mc- Connellsburg, died Friday, January 9, 2009, at Fulton County Medical Center. He was born in Todd Township June 18, 1909, the son of the late George and Martha Ellen (Barmont) Bivens. More...\nCarol Spade Musick\nAnnandale, Va., 67\nCarol Spade Musick, 67, Annandale, Va., died Wednesday, December 31, 2008, at her home. She graduated from Southern Fulton High School in 1959. She was the wife of the late Carl Raymond Musick. Surviving are her mother, Retha E. More...\nThomas M. Pittman\nThomas Mark Pittman, 50, Needmore, died Thursday, January 8, 2009, at his residence following a brief illness. Born in Nanticoke, Pa., March 1, 1958, he son of the late Rev. Paul G. More...\nMrs. Dorothy Myda Johnson, 81, McConnellsburg, died, Thursday, January 8, 2009, at the Augusta Medical Center in Fishersville, Va. She was born in Fulton County October 8, 1927, and was a daughter of the late Charles and Maude (Patterson) Stoner. More...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 169.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.funkidslive.com/video/watch-awesome-superhero-soccer-video/attachment/super-hero-soccer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:17Z", "digest": "sha1:E47CTN4L27T4R2Q4P5MLXBD7XIG5WH44", "length": 1195, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.funkidslive.com", "title": "SUPER HERO SOCCER - Fun Kids - the UK's children's radio station", "raw_content": "http://www.funkidslive.com/wp-content/uploads/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzajk7kciv4\nSuperhero\u2019s take on an epic game of soccer/futbol.\n\u201cMy Turn\u201d \u2013 Shaun Canon ft. 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The inclusion of the word shores to the neighborhood\u2019s name is quite appropriate. The Beau Rivage Shores homes are surrounded by water to the east and west. The Tomoka Basin and Bulow Creek State Park offer gorgeous natural views to the western direction while the serene seas of the Atlantic Ocean go on for miles and miles to the east. An assorted collection of gorgeously designed single family homes make up Beau Rivage Shores real estate. Almost all of the homes start at or near 2000 square feet. Features include gourmet kitchens, fireplaces, granite countertops and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 731, "original_length": 11191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 290.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gentleapproach.org.uk/newsletter/article/53/are-you-eating-your-curries-/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BG6X3WLTAEUBB4H42PUMVQOBA2GVM7KG", "length": 1895, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.gentleapproach.org.uk", "title": "- Are You Eating Your Curries?", "raw_content": "- Are You Eating Your Curries?\nAre You Eating Your Curries?\nAre You Eating Curries?\nIn a previous Newsletter we had an article entitled \u201cLet Food be your Medicine and Medicine be your Food\u201d which was a quote from Hippocrates. In fact many vegetables, fruits, spices and herbs have been shown to have anti-cancer properties Among these are Turmeric and Ginger both of which are ingredients of Indian curries and members of the same plant family. The active anti-cancer ingredients Curcumin and Gingerol are chemically similar. T\nhe anti-cancer properties have been demonstrated in experiments in which cancer cells are grown in tissue culture while being treated with curcumin or gingerol. Both of these have been shown to inhibit the reproduction of the cancer cells and to cause the death of cancer cells. They have also been shown to have anti-cancer effects in animal experiments.\nIn addition they both have anti-inflammatory effects making them useful in disorders like arthritis\nTurmeric is not very soluble in water and in curries is first added in the oil/fat stage.\nRecent research has shown other amazing properties. For instance elderly couples who eat curries regularly perform better on cognitive tests than do age matched couples who don\u2019t eat curries\nCurcumin from Turmeric has also been shown to protect againstAlzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s disease and is even being proposed as an anti-depressant.\nGinger is a well known anti-sickness treatment and is recommended when suffering from sickness caused by chemotherapy.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be curries I add ginger to all the vegetable stews I make and use it to marinade fish. With rice I first fry an onion in olive oil then add turmeric then the dry rice so that it is well coated with oil before adding boiling water and cooking until the rice is as you like it.\n(These amazing spices are surely a must. So get eating those curries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gesto.biz/en/prodotti-articolo/ologrammi/holoprisma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:17Z", "digest": "sha1:EHWWAE5XBNMFSQKULW4PLTSGJBOQMLZU", "length": 425, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gesto.biz", "title": "Piramide holografica per fiere, musei e negozi.Gesto.biz", "raw_content": "A three-dimensional holographic prism, able to combine real content with virtual content: this technology allows capturing attention in exhibition spaces.\nIts ability to be visible at 180 \u00b0 or 360 \u00b0 allows it to be positioned even in environments in which the people\u2019s direction of movement is random and non-linear, as instead required with a traditional display.\nHoloprisma is the tool for a non-conventional communication.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 286.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com/category/pembina-nd/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:26Z", "digest": "sha1:F7PJJPGTPYKKZUTTTNHJNX2CJZ6QA725", "length": 2906, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ghostsofnorthdakota.com", "title": "Pembina, ND Archives - Ghosts of North Dakota", "raw_content": "Category: Pembina, ND\nPembina, North Dakota and the Remains of the Meridian Highway\nIn Pembina, North Dakota, in the extreme northeast corner of the state, there were a couple of historic and significant places I particularly wanted to photograph \u2014 primarily, this beautiful Icelandic and Ukrainian Orthodox church \u2014 so I set out in April of 2015 to pay a visit.\nThis church was the Icelandic Evangelical Lutheran Church from 1885 to 1937, and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St. John from 1937 to 1987. This church is featured in our book, Churches of the High Plains, available now.\nThis church is now cared for by the Fort Pembina Historical Society.\nThe slab from a former structure next to the church. I don\u2019t know what it was.\nTours of the church can be arranged by calling 701-825-6840\nPembina has another distinction. It\u2019s hard to imagine looking at the crumbling road shown here, but this was once part of what was to be the most impressive highway in the Western Hemisphere. At the dawn of the automobile, before Route 66 and before air conditioning became widespread, some envisioned a transcontinental highway from the north to the south, a ribbon of highway intended to facilitate north/south migration with the seasons. The Meridian International Highway (in most, but not all places, one-and-the-same with Old US 81) was proposed as a route stretching from Winnipeg to Mexico City. Later, the proposal was expanded and referred to as the Pan American Highway, with plans to extend the road all the way to Buenos Aires in the south, and to the Alaska Highway in the north.\nIn North Dakota, the Meridian Highway lies mostly parallel to Interstate 29. Old US Highway 81 south of Pembina, and most other sections of the road, have been repaved several times, but this section of road north of Pembina is as close as you can get to seeing the original Meridian Highway.\nI drove down this road in my car, heading north on the old Meridian Highway. I reached the end of the road, where it meets the US/Canadian border and got out to take a few photos. The Canadian Port of Entry was a stone\u2019s throw away, and the border was marked by the typical pillars and an old, deteriorating cable fence.\nI finished taking my photos and began to drive back down the road to Pembina when I noticed a black pickup approaching. The moment I passed it, it turned around and I thought, \u201cUh oh.\u201d Moments later a white pickup from US Customs and Border Patrol showed up and wanted to know what I had been doing. I gave the gentleman a quick recap on the Meridian Highway, and he turned out to be a very nice gentleman. He said they saw me walking around near the border, so they came to see what I was doing. He also said if I had been driving an old farm pickup, they probably wouldn\u2019t have been suspicious.\nNo border infiltration here. 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The great bowfishing potential, local hospitality, and the unparalleled camaraderie of the participants continues to draw this fine group of sportsmen back to Caseville each year.\nOver the past 35 years these participants have broken the previous World Record set out in California for the most fish by a bowfishing tournament sixteen times. They currently hold the world mark at an astounding 278,871 pounds!\nAside from providing a lot of recreational fun for hundreds of sportsmen and ridding the bay of tons of unwanted, destructive \u201ctrash\u201d fish, the tournament\u2019s primary goal was met. Organizers raised thousands of dollars for the Wildlife Education Foundation - a non-profit organization who\u2019s primary mission is to get kids involved in the great outdoors.\nOver the past 35 years, the foundation has been responsible for putting over 60,000 campers through the Sleeper State Park Outdoor Center. The vast majority of these campers were kids from all over Michigan who got to experience the great outdoors, learn about environmental respect and wildlife conservation, and experience shooting sports and firearms safety. In 2013, the state closed the Outdoor Center for evaluation for possible renovations. Because of the success of this tournament and the generosity of its supporters, the foundation will continue to ensure that kids who want to experience Michigan's great outdoors will have that opportunity at various other outdoor education programs around the state including Salvation Army, SCI, school programs, etc.\n\u201cI would like to thank our generous supporters, our sponsors, our donors, and our very supportive tournament participants\u201d, said tournament Director Bob Easterbrook. Sr. \"The foundation and the kids who benefit from it are extremely grateful. It\u2019s great to see so many people come together, have this much fun and do so much good. 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Limestone cliffs along the Mississippi are home to bald eagle nests.\nFacility Ownership: City of Alton\nParking Lot Ownership: City of Alton\nPlatform Ownership: City of Alton\nAmtrak began serving the new Alton Regional Multimodal Transportation Center on Sept. 13, 2017. The gleaming facility includes a bright and spacious waiting room, Madison County Transit (MCT) connections, bicycle facilities and ample parking. Alton is a popular place for St. Louis-area passengers to begin and end their trips, whether they are from the Illinois portion of the metro area or from the suburbs on the north side of St. Louis.\nThe multimodal center was developed by the Illinois Department of Transportation (Illinois DOT) in conjunction with the city and MCT. Constructed of reddish brown brick and large expanses of glass that allow in ample natural light, it also features a clock tower. Customers waiting for the train or local bus may take advantage of complimentary Wi-Fi or enjoy an exhibit tracing the area\u2019s rich railroad history.\nConstructed on the former Robert Wadlow Golf Course north of the city center, the multimodal center is easily accessible from regional highways. At approximately 9,000 square feet, it is ten times larger than the former station, a 1928 Chicago and Alton Railroad depot located about two miles to the southeast (subsequently demolished in Dec. 2017). According to city plans, the golf course property will be transformed into a new mixed-use center to include housing, commercial, office and cultural spaces; a portion of the site has also been designated as green space.\nThe $14.4 million facility was built using federal funding awarded to Illinois DOT, augmented by $13.85 million awarded to the city and MCT through the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Transportation Investments Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) program. MCT, the city and the state also contributed project funds.\nUnder the Federal Railroad Administration\u2019s High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) program, the state of Illinois received $1.2 billion to improve the Chicago-St. Louis rail corridor and reduce travel times. When completed in 2018, the upgraded line is expected to present an even stronger transportation alternative for drivers along the congested Interstate 55 corridor.\nAlton is located at the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri, and the Illinois Rivers. Mark Twain once referred to Alton as \u201ca dismal little river town,\u201d yet his description seems far from accurate. Today the city attracts many visitors with its numerous museums, outdoor recreational activities and vibrant history.\nThe first settlers in Alton were the Illiniwek or Illinois Confederacy Native Americans. Evidence of an early Native American settlement manifests itself in the legendary Piasa bird, a petroglyph on a cliff above the Mississippi River. The painting was first seen by Father Jacques Marquette in 1673. The Piasa bird was said to have the body of a calf covered in scales, horns on its head, a lion\u2019s beard, and red eyes. Unfortunately, the painting was destroyed in the 1960s to make way for the Great River Road, yet visitors can see a replica painting created in 1998. The Piasa bird has become the symbol of Alton.\nThe present-day community was developed as a river town in 1818 by Rufus Easton, who named it for his son. Alton was once growing faster than St. Louis due to its prime location. The rail line from Alton to Springfield, Ill., opened in 1853, and was the first railroad to use George Pullman\u2019s sleeping cars, which became immensely popular on lines throughout the country. The \u201cAlton Route\u201d nickname for the railroad has survived several owners.\nAlton played a large role in the abolitionist movement prior to the Civil War. On November 7, 1837, the abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy was murdered by a mob of slavery supporters while trying to protect his press from being destroyed for a third time. Lovejoy became the first martyr of the movement. The Thirteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was drafted in Alton in his honor. Also, many of the owners of Alton\u2019s historic Queen Anne-style homes provided assistance to the Underground Railroad. Alton was the site of the seventh and final Lincoln-Douglas debate on October 15, 1858. A statue in downtown Alton depicts Lincoln and Douglas as they would have appeared during the debates.\nRobert Wadlow, the world\u2019s tallest man, was an Alton native and a pituitary giant, someone who grows enormously due to an overactive pituitary gland. When he was born in February 1918, he was a completely average baby, 8 \u00bd pounds. However, by the time he was a year old he weighed twice what was normal: 44 pounds. By nine years he\u2019d reached 6\u2032, 2\u2033 and by sixteen he hit 7\u2032, 10\u2033 and weighed nearly 400 pounds. At the time of his death in 1940 he was 8\u2032, 11.1\u2033 tall and weighed 439 pounds making him the world\u2019s tallest person in history, according to the Guinness Book of Records. Known as \u201cAlton\u2019s Gentle Giant,\u201d his gravestone at the Upper Alton Cemetery simply reads \u201cAt Rest.\u201d A life-size bronze statue of Wadlow was unveiled in 1985 on the grounds of Southern Illinois University Dental School.\nAlton calls itself \u201cthe wedding capital of the Midwest,\u201d as it has become a popular venue for weddings and receptions. Attractions include the Piasa bird painting, the cable-stayed Clark Bridge, a monument to Elijah P. Lovejoy, the Franklin House (where Abraham Lincoln once dined), and a monument to Confederate soldiers who died in the Alton Union prison.\nBetween 150 and 450 American bald eagles nest in the limestone cliffs lining the Mississippi River around the city, making Alton a popular spot for bird watching in the winter and spring.\nThe Alton station is served by 10 daily trains. The Lincoln Service is financed primarily through funds made available by the Illinois DOT as part of the Amtrak MidwestSM network.\nBaggage assistance provided by Station Agent can assist when not selling tickets.\nAccessible same-day free parking is available\nAccessible overnight free parking is available", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 12005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 156.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gs-oses.de/klaus-buchenau-eng.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:49Z", "digest": "sha1:AQJHJ7Y5IP4TSDNKOXESRK3VE5D3WNWE", "length": 1138, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.gs-oses.de", "title": "Graduiertenschule f\u00fcr Ost- und S\u00fcdosteuropastudien: Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchenau", "raw_content": "Prof. Dr. Klaus Buchenau\nProfessor for Southeast and East European History\nHistory of religion in Southeast and East Europe, 19th-21th century (Anti-westernism, Fundamentalism in Orthodox cultures)\nHistory of Yugoslavia and its successor states\nSoutheast Europe in a global comparison (especially Latin America)\nRelations between Russia/Soviet Union and Southeast Europe, 19th and 20th century\nHistory of corruption in Southeast Europe\nHistory of Russian emigration\nBorn in Warleberg (Schleswig-Holstein). 2003 Doctorate Degree at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin on Orthodoxy and Catholicism in socialist Yugoslavia. 2010 Habilitation at the Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin on transnational anti-Western networks (Russia/Serbia). 2009-2013 Research Associate at the International Research Training Group \"Religious cultures in 19th and 20th-century Europe\". Since 2013 Acting Professor for Southeast and East European History at the Universit\u00e4t Regensburg (as substitute for Professor Ulf Brunnbauer).\nPrincipal Invesigator of the Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies\nFax: +49 (0)941 / 943 - 5032\nWebsite (Universit\u00e4t Regensburg)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.happybabysleepsolutions.com/ditch-the-crib-time-for-a-bed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AUFAUFUHF5VGQJYTAMZSLWK7O3VQNUIG", "length": 2369, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.happybabysleepsolutions.com", "title": "Ditch the crib, time for a bed? | HappyBaby Sleep Solutions", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Sukkie\u2019s Sleep Blog \u00bb Ditch the crib, time for a bed?\nChildhood is full of exciting milestones: first tooth, first solid foods, first steps. Making the switch from a crib to a bed is another sign your child is growing up. For some parents the idea can be a bit nerve-wracking. They wonder what life will be like if the child is free to get out of bed whenever he wants\u2026will he be roaming the halls at night? Will he ever settle down and go to sleep?\nFirst of all, there is no rush. It usually becomes pretty clear when your child is ready for a toddler bed. If she\u2019s happy in the crib and not trying to jump out headfirst, then by all means, keep her in the crib. But if your child is a little escape artist and doesn\u2019t seem happy to be confined anymore, it might be time to move to a bed.\nHere are my top 3 tips for making the change from crib to bed:\n1. The closer your child is to age three, the better. Anything younger than two-and-a-half is just too early, in my opinion. Very young children don\u2019t have the cognitive ability to really understand the boundaries and expectations around staying in bed when they can so easily get out on their own. This can make it hard to enforce the rules and can create power struggles and other issues.\n2. Make it fun, but not too fun. You can get your child involved with picking out the new bed and choosing new bedding, but it\u2019s a delicate balance. You don\u2019t want to make too big of a deal about it because you don\u2019t want to put added pressure on the child. If he gets really excited about the process he might have a hard time settling in and actually going to sleep!\n3. Beware of the \u201choneymoon\u201d phase. Most toddlers do well with the transition to a bed until the fun wears off. Once the novelty is gone and the child gets comfortable (usually around the three-week mark) then the games usually start up. The key is to be prepared ahead of time so you know what to do when this happens. Depending on your parenting philosophy, think ahead of what the consequences will be for your child if he gets out of his bed and wanders around or think of positive reinforcements when your child stays in bed all night.\nphoto credit: Our new crib via photopin (license)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/7923977/khspac-students-perform-west-side-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPS3FPRYGFV3PZFLNNCGETAARZKGQYPF", "length": 853, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.hawaiinewsnow.com", "title": "KHSPAC Students Perform West Side Story", "raw_content": "KHSPAC Students Perform West Side Story\nIan Vahovich and Allison Chu as \"Tony & Maria\"\nKAIMUKI (KHNL) -- Students at Kaimuki High School Performing Arts Center opens its 21st season with a new production of \"West Side Story.\"\nDrama teacher and director, Peggy-Anne Siegmund along with choreographer Deanna Luster and musical director Nanilisa Pascua will recreate the American classic.\nWest Side Story is a modern day Romeo and Juliet. It's the tale of two young lovers, Tony and Maria, from opposite sides of New York City who struggle to survive in a world of hate, violence and prejudice.\nThe production features more than 35 public school students.\nWest Side Story is showing on:\nFebruary 29, March 1, 7 and 8 at 7:30 p.m.; March 9 at 3:00 p.m. at Kaimuki High School Theatre.\nThe cost is $5 for children and $10 for adults.\nPhoto courtesy of KHSPAC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 3365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.healthinformative.com/news-research/a-9-year-old-child-in-south-africa-born-with-hiv-is-virtually-cured/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:6D4Y7DQ6X7KGOVMFS63ZPY2B4Z65QCIP", "length": 1889, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.healthinformative.com", "title": "A 9-Year Old Child in South Africa Born With HIV is Virtually Cured | Health Informative", "raw_content": "A 9-Year Old Child in South Africa Born With HIV is Virtually Cured\nA new breakthrough in curing HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) may have just surfaced in the form of a 9-year-old child in South Africa. The child, who reportedly inherited the HIV from his mother showed to have high levels of HIV in the blood at the time of birth. The child was treated with antiretroviral medication at 9-weeks old for 40 weeks as a part of clinical trials and has been off the drugs for eight-and-half years, the child shows no symptoms and signs of the active HIV, making him virtually cured.\nDr. Avy Violari, the head of pediatric research at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit in Johannesburg, said: \u201cWe don\u2019t believe that anti-retroviral therapy alone can lead to remission. We don\u2019t really know what\u2019s the reason why this child has achieved remission \u2013 we believe child\u2019s good health could be genetic or immune system-related.\u201d\nDr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said: \u201cFurther study is needed to learn how to induce long-term HIV remission in infected babies. \u201cHowever, this new case strengthens our hope that by treating HIV-infected children for a brief period beginning in infancy, we may be able to spare them the burden of lifelong therapy and the health consequences of long-term immune activation typically associated with HIV disease\u201d.\nGlobally, only 53% of the 36.7 million people living with HIV are receiving antiretroviral therapy.\nGene Therapy Using CAR T-cells Could Provide Long-term Protection Against HIV Child Abuse Can Impair Brain Wiring Your Body Fat May be Protecting You Against Infections Long-term Use of Drugs to Curb Acid Reflux Linked to Doubling in Stomach Cancer Risk\nTags: HIVClinical TrialsAntiretroviralHuman Immunodeficiency Virus\nNext story Children and Sleep\nPrevious story Effects of Sleep Deprivation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.helplinelaw.com/law/usa-nevada/constitution/constitution02.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:23Z", "digest": "sha1:FVSR5ZF6ULRL7PJRAO6D5M5SWGKSROH3", "length": 21354, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "www.helplinelaw.com", "title": "Nevada", "raw_content": "Section. 1. Inalienable rights. All men are by Nature free and equal and have certain inalienable rights among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; Acquiring, Possessing and Protecting property and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness[.]\nSec: 2. Purpose of government; paramount allegiance to United States. All political power is inherent in the people[.] Government is instituted for the protection, security and benefit of the people; and they have the right to alter or reform the same whenever the public good may require it. But the Paramount Allegiance of every citizen is due to the Federal Government in the exercise of all its Constitutional powers as the same have been or may be defined by the Supreme Court of the United States; and no power exists in the people of this or any other State of the Federal Union to dissolve their connection therewith or perform any act tending to impair[,] subvert, or resist the Supreme Authority of the government of the United States. The Constitution of the United States confers full power on the Federal Government to maintain and Perpetuate its existence and whensoever any portion of the States, or people thereof attempt to secede from the Federal Union, or forcibly resist the Execution of its laws, the Federal Government may, by warrant of the Constitution, employ armed force in compelling obedience to its Authority.\nSec: 3. Trial by jury; waiver in civil cases. The right of trial by Jury shall be secured to all and remain inviolate forever; but a Jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner to be prescribed by law; and in civil cases, if three fourths of the Jurors agree upon a verdict it shall stand and have the same force and effect as a verdict by the whole Jury, Provided, the Legislature by a law passed by a two thirds vote of all the members elected to each branch thereof may require a unanimous verdict notwithstanding this Provision.\nSec: 4. Liberty of conscience. The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship without discrimination or preference shall forever be allowed in this State, and no person shall be rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of his religious belief, but the liberty of conscience [conscience] hereby secured, shall not be so construed, as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace, or safety of this State.\nSec: 5. Suspension of habeas corpus. The privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus, shall not be suspended unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require its suspension.\nSec: 6. Excessive bail and fines; cruel or unusual punishments; detention of witnesses. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor shall cruel or unusual punishments be inflicted, nor shall witnesses be unreasonably detained.\nSec. 7. Bail; exception for capital offenses and certain murders. All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties; unless for Capital Offenses or murders punishable by life imprisonment without possibility of parole when the proof is evident or the presumption great.\n[Amended in 1980. Proposed and passed by the 1977 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1979 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1980 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1697; Statutes of Nevada 1979, p. 1941.]\nSec. 8. Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions; jeopardy; rights of victims of crime; due process of law; eminent domain. [Effective through November 22, 2010, and after that date unless the proposed amendment is agreed to and passed by the 2009 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2010 General Election.]\n1. No person shall be tried for a capital or other infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of the militia when in actual service and the land and naval forces in time of war, or which this State may keep, with the consent of Congress, in time of peace, and in cases of petit larceny, under the regulation of the Legislature) except on presentment or indictment of the grand jury, or upon information duly filed by a district attorney, or Attorney General of the State, and in any trial, in any court whatever, the party accused shall be allowed to appear and defend in person, and with counsel, as in civil actions. No person shall be subject to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense; nor shall he be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself.\n2. The Legislature shall provide by law for the rights of victims of crime, personally or through a representative, to be:\n(a) Informed, upon written request, of the status or disposition of a criminal proceeding at any stage of the proceeding;\n(b) Present at all public hearings involving the critical stages of a criminal proceeding; and\n(c) Heard at all proceedings for the sentencing or release of a convicted person after trial.\n3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, no person may maintain an action against the State or any public officer or employee for damages or disjunctive, declaratory or other legal or equitable relief on behalf of a victim of a crime as a result of a violation of any statute enacted by the Legislature pursuant to subsection 2. No such violation authorizes setting aside a conviction or sentence or continuing or postponing a criminal proceeding.\n4. A person may maintain an action to compel a public officer or employee to carry out any duty required by the Legislature pursuant to subsection 2.\n5. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.\n6. Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation having been first made, or secured, except in cases of war, riot, fire, or great public peril, in which case compensation shall be afterward made.\n[Amended in 1912 and 1996. The first amendment was proposed and passed by the 1909 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1911 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1912 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1909, p. 346; Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 454. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1993 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1995 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1996 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 3065; Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2880.]\nSec. 8. Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions; jeopardy; rights of victims of crime; due process of law; eminent domain. [Effective November 23, 2010, if the proposed amendment is agreed to and passed by the 2009 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2010 General Election.]\n7. Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (a) to (e), inclusive, the public uses for which private property may be taken do not include the direct or indirect transfer of any interest in the property to another private person or entity. A transfer of property taken by the exercise of eminent domain to another private person or entity is a public use in the following circumstances:\n(a) The entity that took the property transfers the property to a private person or entity and the private person or entity uses the property primarily to benefit a public service, including, without limitation, a utility, railroad, public transportation project, pipeline, road, bridge, airport or facility that is owned by a governmental entity.\n(b) The entity that took the property leases the property to a private person or entity that occupies an incidental part of an airport or a facility that is owned by a governmental entity and, before leasing the property:\n(1) Uses its best efforts to notify the person from whom the property was taken that the property will be leased to a private person or entity that will occupy an incidental part of an airport or a facility that is owned by a governmental entity; and\n(2) Provides the person from whom the property was taken with an opportunity to bid or propose on any such lease.\n(1) Took the property in order to acquire property that was abandoned by the owner, abate an immediate threat to the safety of the public or immediate hazardous waste; and\n(2) Grants a right of first refusal to the person from whom the property was taken that allows that person to reacquire the property on the same terms and conditions that are offered to the other private person or entity.\n(d) The entity that took the property exchanges it for other property acquired or being acquired by eminent domain or under the threat of eminent domain for roadway or highway purposes, to relocate public or private structures or to avoid payment of excessive compensation or damages.\n(e) The person from whom the property is taken consents to the taking.\n8. In all actions in eminent domain:\n(a) Before the entity that is taking property obtains possession of the property, the entity shall give to the owner of the property a copy of all appraisals of the property obtained by the entity.\n(b) At the occupancy hearing, the owner of the property that is the subject of the action is entitled, at the property owner\u2019s election, to a separate and distinct determination as to whether the property is being taken for a public use.\n(c) The entity that is taking property has the burden of proving that the taking is for a public use.\n(d) Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, neither the entity that is taking property nor the owner of the property is liable for the attorney\u2019s fees of the other party. This paragraph does not apply in an inverse condemnation action if the owner of the property that is the subject of the action makes a request for attorney\u2019s fees from the other party to the action.\n9. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, if a court determines that a taking of property is for public use, the taken or damaged property must be valued at its highest and best use without considering any future dedication requirements imposed by the entity that is taking the property. If property is taken primarily for a profit-making purpose, the property must be valued at the use to which the entity that is taking the property intends to put the property, if such use results in a higher value for the property.\n10. In all actions in eminent domain, fair market value is the highest price, on the date of valuation, that would be agreed to by a seller, who is willing to sell on the open market and has reasonable time to find a purchaser, and a buyer, who is ready, willing and able to buy, if both the seller and the buyer had full knowledge of all the uses and purposes for which the property is reasonably adaptable and available.\n11. In all actions in eminent domain, just compensation is that sum of money necessary to place the property owner in the same position monetarily as if the property had never been taken, excluding any governmental offsets except special benefits. Special benefits may only offset severance damages and may not offset the value for the property. Just compensation for the property taken by the exercise of eminent domain must include, without limitation, interest and reasonable costs and expenses, except attorney\u2019s fees, incurred by the owner of the property that is the subject of the action. The district court shall determine, in a posttrial hearing, the award of interest and award as interest the amount of money which will put the person from whom the property is taken in as good a position monetarily as if the property had not been taken. The district court shall enter an order concerning:\n(a) The date on which the computation of interest will commence;\n(b) The rate of interest to be used to compute the award of interest, which must not be less than the prime rate of interest plus 2 percent; and\n(c) Whether the interest will be compounded annually.\n12. Property taken by the exercise of eminent domain must be offered to and reverts to the person from whom the property was taken upon repayment of the original purchase price if, within 15 years after obtaining possession of the property, the entity that took the property:\n(a) Fails to use the property for the public use for which the property was taken or for any public use reasonably related to the public use for which the property was taken; or\n(b) Seeks to convey any right, title or interest in all or part of the property to any other person and the conveyance is not occurring pursuant to subsection 7.\nThe entity that has taken the property does not fail to use the property under paragraph (a) if the entity has begun active planning for or design of the public use, the assembling of land in furtherance of planning for or design of the public use or construction related to the public use.\n13. If any provision of subsections 7 to 12, inclusive, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect the provisions or application of subsections 7 to 12, inclusive, which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of subsections 7 to 12, inclusive, are declared to be severable.\n14. The provisions of subsections 7 to 12, inclusive, apply to an action in eminent domain that is filed on or after January 1, 2011.\n[Amended in 1912 and 1996. The first amendment was proposed and passed by the 1909 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1911 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1912 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1909, p. 346; Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 454. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1993 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1995 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1996 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 3065; Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2880.]\u2014(Proposed amendment passed by the 2007 Legislature; effective November 23, 2010, if agreed to and passed by the 2009 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2010 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2007, p. 3595.)\nSec: 9. Liberty of speech and the press. Every citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions and civil actions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence to the Jury; and if it shall appear to the Jury that the matter charged as libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted or exonerated.\nSec: 10. Right to assemble and to petition. The people shall have the right freely to assemble together to consult for the common good, to instruct their representatives and to petition the Legislature for redress of Grievances.\nSec. 11. Right to keep and bear arms; civil power supreme.\n1. Every citizen has the right to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes.\n2. The military shall be subordinate to the civil power; No standing army shall be maintained by this State in time of peace, and in time of War, no appropriation for a standing army shall be for a longer time than two years.\nSec: 12. Quartering soldier in private house. No soldier shall, in time of Peace be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of War, except in the manner to be prescribed by law.\nSec: 13. Representation apportioned according to population.\nRepresentation shall be apportioned according to population.\nSec: 14. Exemption of property from execution; imprisonment for debt. The privilege of the debtor to enjoy the necessary comforts of life shall be recognized by wholesome laws, exempting a reasonable amount of property from seizure or sale for payment of any debts or liabilities hereafter contracted; And there shall be no imprisonment for debt, except in cases of fraud, libel, or slander, and no person shall be imprisoned for a Militia fine in time of Peace.\nSec: 15. Bill of attainder; ex post factor law; obligation of contract. No bill of attainder, ex-post-factor law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts shall ever be passed.\nSec: 16. Rights of foreigners. [Repealed in 1924.]\n[Sec. 16 of the original constitution was repealed by vote of the people at the 1924 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1921, p. 416; Statutes of Nevada 1923, p. 407. The original section read: \u201cForeigners who are, or who may hereafter become Bona-fide residents of this State, shall enjoy the same rights, in respect to the possession, enjoyment and inheritance of property, as native born citizens.\u201d]\nSec: 17. Slavery and involuntary servitude prohibited. Neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude unless for the punishment of crimes shall ever be tolerated in this State.\nSec. 18. Unreasonable seizure and search; issuance of warrants. The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable seizures and searches shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but on probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation, particularly describing the place or places to be searched, and the person or persons, and thing or things to be seized.\nSec: 19. Treason. Treason against the State shall consist only in levying war against it, adhering to its enemies or giving them Aid and Comfort. And no person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.\nSec: 20. Rights retained by people. This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people.\nSec: 21. Limitation on recognition of marriage. Only a marriage between a male and female person shall be recognized and given effect in this state.\n[Added in 2002. Proposed by initiative petition and approved and ratified by the people at the 2000 and 2002 general elections.]\nSec. 22. Eminent domain proceedings: Restrictions and requirements. [Effective through November 22, 2010, and after that date unless the proposed repeal is agreed to and passed by the 2009 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2010 General Election.] Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution to the contrary:\n1. Public use shall not include the direct or indirect transfer of any interest in property taken in an eminent domain proceeding from one private party to another private party. In all eminent domain actions, the government shall have the burden to prove public use.\n2. In all eminent domain actions, prior to the government\u2019s occupancy, a property owner shall be given copies of all appraisals by the government and shall be entitled, at the property owner\u2019s election, to a separate and distinct determination by a district court jury, as to whether the taking is actually for a public use.\n3. If a public use is determined, the taken or damaged property shall be valued at its highest and best use without considering any future dedication requirements imposed by the government. If private property is taken for any proprietary governmental purpose, then the property shall be valued at the use to which the government intends to put the property, if such use results in a higher value for the land taken.\n4. In all eminent domain actions, just compensation shall be defined as that sum of money, necessary to place the property owner back in the same position, monetarily, without any governmental offsets, as if the property had never been taken. Just compensation shall include, but is not limited to, compounded interest and all reasonable costs and expenses actually incurred.\n5. In all eminent domain actions where fair market value is applied, it shall be defined as the highest price the property would bring on the open market.\n6. Property taken in eminent domain shall automatically revert back to the original property owner upon repayment of the original purchase price, if the property is not used within five years for the original purpose stated by the government. The five years shall begin running from the date of the entry of the final order of condemnation.\n7. A property owner shall not be liable to the government for attorney fees or costs in any eminent domain action.\n8. For all provisions contained in this section, government shall be defined as the State of Nevada, its political subdivisions, agencies, any public or private agent acting on their behalf, and any public or private entity that has the power of eminent domain.\n9. Any provision contained in this section shall be deemed a separate and freestanding right and shall remain in full force and effect should any other provision contained in this section be stricken for any reason.\n[Added in 2008. Proposed by initiative petition and approved and ratified by the people at the 2006 and 2008 General Elections.]\u2014(Proposed repeal passed by the 2007 Legislature; effective November 23, 2010, if agreed to and passed by the 2009 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2010 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2007, p. 3598.)\nConstitution : Usa-nevada\nRight of Suffrage\nMunicipal and Other Corporations\nFinance and State Debt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 25822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 212.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hetglazenhuis.be/en/education/2015/glasblazen-voor-beginners-met-gert-bullee-op-16-en-17-mei-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WZ4K7MRAYBFOO4IDBG6UNPLZGZS4IC4F", "length": 410, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hetglazenhuis.be", "title": "GLASBLAZEN VOOR BEGINNERS MET GERT BULL\u00c9E OP 16 EN 17 MEI 2015", "raw_content": "INTRODUCTION CLASS GLASSBLOWING AND SANDCASTING WITH GERT BULL\u00c9E\nGert Bull\u00e9e was born is the glass city Leerdam (the Netherlands). Ever since he was a child his dream was to become a glassblower. This dream became reality when he could start as a student glassblower at the Royal Leerdam Crystal glass factory at the age of 16. Here he was educated according to the old guilds from pupil to master glassblower.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 8773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 222.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hhsindian.com/2013/10/10/marching-band-supports-breast-cancer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:01Z", "digest": "sha1:2FA3PFKG46SDFUPWRCC2MAWPBJG6FYSH", "length": 2997, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hhsindian.com", "title": "Marching Band Supports Breast Cancer | HHS Indian", "raw_content": "Marching Band Supports Breast Cancer\nOctober 10, 2013 David Raab\tLeave a comment\nThe Pride of Hanover Marching Band is known for its in-the-stands and halftime performances at home football games. In that respect, the game on Friday, October 4, against North Quincy was no different. The band started the game off with a rousing National Anthem which alerted the crowd to the start of the game in the absence of a working PA system. During halftime the band performed, in the words of Band Director Mr. Ketchen, \u201c[their] best show of the season yet!\u201d This year, the field show is centered around the works of legendary movie composer John Williams. Specifically, the show on Oct. 4 included adaptations from movies such as Star Wars, E.T., Empire of the Sun and Far and Away. To add to the impressive music, the band also manages to move around on the field and even forms a small airplane at one point! In case this was not enough, the Band is right now hard at work on completing another part of the show. This part to the field show will include adaptions from Raiders of the Lost Ark and will end with the epic and insane Star Wars Throne Room theme. In the words of junior drumline member Eric Smith \u201915, \u201cIt will raise the hair right off your very spine!\u201d The only way to verify that claim is to attend the Homecoming Game on Saturday, October 26, when the band will be performing next. It has been promised by all in the band not to disappoint.\nAt the same time, everyone in the band is aware of the fact that October is Breast Cancer Awareness month. Evidence of this came during the Field Show itself. All members wore pink gloves with their uniforms. The Color Guard even waved pink flags in lieu of their usual multicolored ones. Finally, although easy to miss from afar, all band members sported pink ribbons directly on their front of their uniforms. All in all, the band\u2019s support for breast cancer was palpable for anyone who attended the game.\nIn addition to the band sporting its new pink swag on the field, during the third quarter the band went around in the stands and solicited monetary donations for breast cancer research. The band raised around $250 dollars in about 10 minutes through their third quarter solicitations. This sum was no surprise considering the generosity that poured out of the people in the stands. In fact, in talking with various Band members, even they were amazed at the outpouring of support. The fundraising drive was so successful that Trumpet Section Leader Nick Stevenson \u201915 commented \u201cIt was great to spend my quarter off from playing helping out such a great cause.\u201d Finally, the Band will be collecting additional donations during the Homecoming Game for anyone who was unable to attend the game on Oct 4.\nEDITOR NOTE: David plays the Clarinet for the Pride of Hanover Marching Band and is the co-Publicity Chair in charge of in school communications about Band events.\nNext PostStudents Make Strides Against Breast Cancer in Fundraiser Walk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hhsindian.com/2018/04/02/a-book-like-no-other-explores-personal-tragedys-impact-on-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:LGOWGU5UNBKJXHPGO4PE4BW2KRVM2X35", "length": 2359, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.hhsindian.com", "title": "A Book Like No Other Explores Lincoln\u2019s Personal Tragedy | HHS Indian", "raw_content": "It\u2019s not often that I\u2019m surprised by a book, but Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders is unlike anything I\u2019ve ever read before. Part historical fiction, part supernatural fantasy, Bardo breaks free from the traditional format of a novel to tell the story of how Lincoln is haunted \u2013 and changed \u2013 by the death of his young son during the Civil War.\nThe author takes two very different tacts in alternating chapters. About half of the novel takes place in the cemetery where Lincoln\u2019s 11-year-old son, Willie, is buried. The cemetery is populated by the spirits of dozens of colorful characters who have not yet passed on to Heaven or Hell. While these spirits tell their stories, they\u2019re encouraging Willie to move on, but Willie lingers, confused, hoping his father will return to bring him home. This part of the novel is pure imagination, whimsical in the quirks that each character is given and the rules followed by the society within the cemetery gates. These chapters reminded me of The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, about an orphan raised by ghosts when his parents are killed.\nThe rest of the novel is historical fiction, but instead of researching and imagining the people and events, the author uses only excerpts from primary sources. The author quotes the letters of White House maids and politicians as well as news accounts and books of the time. These excerpts, each followed by a short citation, tell the story in the real words of the people who lived. Writing like this is harder than just doing research and summarizing; this requires poring through countless documents, picking out just the right pieces and putting them together in a way that makes sense. I was awed by the task the author undertook as well as the story that was told. For the first chapter or two, I was a little confused by who was speaking. But soon I was drawn into the story and comfortable with the unique structure.\nIf you like history, especially Lincoln and the Civil War, this novel will fascinate you as it shows how a personal tragedy became a turning point for Lincoln\u2019s policies. If you like fantasy that explores what happens after death, this book offers a lot for you as well.\nFeatured Photo: Robert Wuensche Illustration / Houston Chronicle\nPrevious PostStudents Rally against Gun ViolenceNext PostFair Exposes Seniors to Rollercoaster of Real Life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.historyandwomen.com/2012/08/the-sins-of-fathers-by-c-b-hanley.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:28Z", "digest": "sha1:2CIDTU63DK3XD2LHARGVEQA3KS2UIV5U", "length": 2859, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.historyandwomen.com", "title": "History and Women: The Sins Of The Fathers by C B Hanley", "raw_content": "The Sins Of The Fathers by C B Hanley\n1217: England is in the iron grip of Louis of France and his collaborators, and civil war rages as William Marshall, the official guardian of the boy king Henry III tries to fight off the French. Edwin Weaver, son of the bailiff at Conisbrough Castle in Yorkshire, is ordered by his lord the earl to solve a murder which might have repercussions not just for him but for the future of the realm. Edwin is terrified but he must obey; he takes on the challenge and learns more until he uncovers a horrific secret which has been buried for fifteen years, a secret which might kill them all.\nThe story opens with a killing of a captive youth, though at this stage the reader has no idea who the youth is or the identity of his murderers. That killing sets in motion another death, which presumably is intended to dispose of a witness to the first, but this time a child survives.\nWe switch then to Conisbrough Castle some years later, and Edwin Weaver, who is called upon to prove himself a worthy successor of his father in order to provide for his mother. The dying man, however has skills to pass on to his son, skills Edwin will need if he is to fulfil his master\u2019s task \u2013 find the killer of a visiting lord before the blame falls on Edwin's Lord Earl.\nEdwin is clueless at first as to how to go about finding the killer, an opinion shared by others. However, with his dying father\u2019s help, they devise a strategy to seek out clues and ask the right questions and before long, Edwin proves he is up to the task.\nThis novel brings life in a medieval castle from the viewpoint of the lower orders, all of whom have their own ambitions, come to gritty, colourful life. Ms Hanley deals with the things like getting enough to eat and grabbing sleep while fulfilling your master\u2019s various demands, all conducted with a complete disregard for the \u2018invisible\u2019 servant. Also, the brutal violence without consequences which prevails amongst the pages and body servants is shockingly realistic, as is the compassion of others.\nThe research is meticulous and the knowledge of 13th Century England, its politics and all the factions vying for supremacy is impressive.\nMy only criticism is that we are presented with four similar characters, Edwin, Martin, David and Robert, each of whom occupy similar roles and into whose heads the author frequently jumps in the initial chapters. These multiple PoV\u2019s, sometimes within paragraphs, took me almost half the book before I could separate them into individuals.\nOther than that, this is an engaging mystery and I found myself mentally prompting Edwin in his search for a killer who was always one step ahead. The story is well-paced with lots to interest and blind alleys. Those who love the England of Medieval castles, and the harsh rules the inhabitants lived by will enjoy this novel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hockingbooks.com/there-is-no-magic-hand/?replytocom=2932", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NGC7PY7JWFBBY5TMGTMHQAKJ4OXBXTUM", "length": 3358, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.hockingbooks.com", "title": "there is no magic hand | Amanda Hocking", "raw_content": "there is no magic hand\nWhile that seems mighty obvious to everyone that there is no magic hand that just sweeps in and makes all you dreams come true, it gets to easy believe/hope that one might exist. After you\u2019ve done the hard work of writing the book, you assume that you can just sit back and relax and someone will just take it from there.\nAnd when then wasn\u2019t the case, my initial reaction was to sob and assume that there was something with wrong with me and give up. Somebody rejected me for a reason, and that reason must be that I\u2019m the worst writer ever. I should never be allowed near the written word.\nIs this true? Doubtful.\nIt wasn\u2019t until I saw Mark Hoppus giving advice to Pete Wentz about what up and coming kids needed to do in order make bands happen that it finally hit me. He worked his ass off to get where he was at, and he is far more charming than I am. Maybe better looking too. So again, I thought that it was easier for him.\nAnd you know what? Maybe it was. But chances are, I\u2019ll never have to travel all over the desert in a van with two other hot sweaty dudes so people will read my book. I\u2019ll never be booed offstage. So there. I have some things going for me.\nHe said there was no magic hand. Making good songs (or writing a good book) is only a small part of the battle. And in the end, it\u2019s not even the most essential part. (I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve read and heard terrible things. You know being good isn\u2019t a requirement to getting an agent.) But I have a good book. So I\u2019m already ahead of the game.\nSo for the past six months, I have been working my ass. I have been doing ever concieveable thing that can do. Starting with writing an actual good book that has a definable market. I\u2019ve learned a lot. The most important thing is that I can\u2019t take it personal, I have to work hard, and pissing and moaning has never helped anybody with anything.\nI have definitely grown up in the past six months, and that reflects both in my book and my work ethic. This WILL happen. It\u2019s only a matter of time, and I\u2019ve got time. So here we go. I am my own magic hand.\nLeave a Reply to arialburnz Cancel reply\n[\u2026] Apr 29, 2009 \u2013 There is no magic hand [\u2026]\nTheron Hill says:\nWhere is the \u201clike\u201d button?!?!?!?! lol\nI hope one day i will be in this same place when you now. Good job\u2026 all the best\nLovely Lady says:\nWow! Look where you are at now! Positive thinking and hard work really goes a long way! \ud83d\ude42\nAynoit Ashor says:\nYou did it girl! You did it!\nunburiedstories says:\nMe too. You have inspired me, and I live in Puerto Rico \ud83d\ude42 Which is not that far from the States, but seldom gets noticed.\nI\u2019m so tired of receiving rejections, I said to myself, *** this. I\u2019m self-publishing. I know the odds exists, but it\u2019s better than waiting around feeling like crap because agents aren\u2019t \u201cconnecting\u201d enough with your writing.\nThank you, and I wish you the best with your writing career.\narialburnz says:\nYou nailed, it honey!!! YOU are your own magic hand. Also, you\u2019re writing and believing things like, \u201cThis WILL happen. It\u2019s only a matter of time, and I\u2019ve got time.\u201d\nYou believe in what you do and in yourself. That\u2019s so much more than a lot of other people have, and that\u2019s your magic hand!\nThat\u2019s my two pence\u2026\nArial \ud83d\ude09\nP.S. I\u2019m going through your whole blog, so if you\u2019re wondering why you\u2019re getting comments on old posts, now you know why. \ud83d\ude09", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hoggmechanical.com/2014/11/furnaces-benefits-buying-smart/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:59Z", "digest": "sha1:5LOXJBZOQ6WWPJYXMCMVHVSLI4PFIH4A", "length": 5220, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.hoggmechanical.com", "title": "Furnaces - The Benefits of \"Buying Smart\"", "raw_content": "One of our fully qualified technicians would love to help keep your family warm and safe with a furnace installation done right!\nWhy you don\u2019t want to pay $2800 for a furnace and installation. One of the biggest frustrations for the entire HVAC industry is how to combat companies who cut corners to provide their customers with low cost furnace installations. We know there is little appetite for doing the research into how / what to buy when you\u2019re buying a furnace but we thought we would offer you some food for thought on why \u201cbuying cheap\u201d may not be \u201cbuying smart\u201d. Listed below are some things that the average furnace installation customer likely knows nothing about. If you\u2019re not careful, you could end up making a decision that could cost many more thousands of dollars in the long run.\nThe number one thing that should be researched is the brand of furnace and its reliability. We know that there are lots of furnace brands out there that can be bought very cheaply. We will not lie, we have even explored selling some of these over time. Without fail, we have come back to furnaces that are more expensive. Why? Reliability. This is not to say that all inexpensive furnaces do not last. Some do, but this is due more to coincidence and maintenance than it is to a better engineered and manufactured product. We know that there is little that is rewarding about researching and buying a heating system. Most of the industry misses the point that people aren\u2019t really interested in paying as little as possible just because they don\u2019t like the process. What most people want is to buy the best value \u2013 and that usually comes with a product that doesn\u2019t break down and will last twice as long. Do the math for yourself. How many repairs (at $200 per repair) over the life of the furnace will it take to cover the $700 extra a good brand costs? If you pay $2800 for a furnace but it only lasts 7 years, was it really a good decision when the reliable brand costs only $700 more?\nThe effectiveness of a heating system has just as much to do with the quality of the installation as it does the brand of the furnace. Unfortunately, industry installation practices have not kept up with furnace quality. Experienced installation teams know the critical items that help the customer get the most out of their systems. This not only takes time but attention to detail. Again, do the math yourself. How much are you really saving by getting \u201cclose enough\u201d installation practices when you end up spending an extra 10 per cent on your heating bill? That is easily over $100 per year wasted due to poor installation. It won\u2019t take long to recover your initial costs and enjoy lower heating bills when it\u2019s done right!\nThe next one might not be as obvious. Are you paying for just the labour and the truck to install your furnace or are you paying for the years of experience and stability from your supplier? It may appear that you\u2019re only interested in the labour it directly takes to install your system. Companies who have been around for a while know the value of documenting and training their staff on proper installation practices. We constantly re-evaluate new processes and equipment to deliver better long term solutions. This takes resources, but wouldn\u2019t you rather know that your furnace is being installed with the best practices of the day with a focus on delivering the best long term value?\nBuying from established companies not only gets you the strength of that company, it also buys you the strength of the manufacturer of the unit. These manufacturers are no different than in other industries \u2013 they listen more to their biggest customers. You may be able to buy a furnace cheaply from your neighbour who installs them on the side, but what happens when things don\u2019t work as designed? Who has the resources to make things right? Who will represent your interests the best \u2013 a company who has installed thousands of furnaces over the years and knows what is or isn\u2019t a manufacturing problem, or a guy that is running his business out of the back of a van?\nFinally, do it for the best reason of all \u2013 safety. Your family deserves a safe environment to live in. Is it really worth saving a couple of hundred dollars on this huge detail? You may say \u201cBut there are industry standards that people are obligated to adhere to.\u201d Who is more likely to ensure their technicians are fully conversant with all regulations; a trusted HVAC company with a long-running service record or someone trying to make a quick buck? Burning natural gas can be very effective to heat your house, but the system has to be vented properly to ensure your family is not exposed to carbon monoxide.\nI\u2019m not trying to say that $700 or more isn\u2019t a lot of money. What I am saying is that you will get it back in performance reliability. Your furnace will break down less, be installed properly, run better and keep your family safer. Sounds like a good deal to me!\nPosted in: Community, Heating - Tagged with: baeumler, big purchases, buy smart, carbon monoxide, educated consumers, energy, furnace, heating, Hogg, HVAC, Hydro, labour, licensed, Mechanical, peace of mind, saving\nGas Fireplaces \u2013 5 Reasons to say Go to GasNext \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hughhewitt.com/kentucky-senator-rand-paul-expands-upon-ron-pauls-foreign-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:40Z", "digest": "sha1:JCZJR5U63KEFVRBSQRS6KJF2MIYLS3HV", "length": 27182, "nlines": 79, "source_domain": "www.hughhewitt.com", "title": "Kentucky Senator Rand Paul Expands Upon Ron Paul's Foreign Policy \u00ab The Hugh Hewitt Show", "raw_content": "Transcript | Wed, Oct 5, 2011 | By Hugh Hewitt\nKentucky Senator Rand Paul Expands Upon Ron Paul\u2019s Foreign Policy\nHH: I begin with a very special welcome to Senator Rand Paul of the great state of Kentucky, first time on the program. Senator Paul, it\u2019s great to have you.\nRP: Good to be with you, Hugh.\nHH: Let me start by asking you a question that\u2019s prompted by Chris Christie dropping out today of the presidential speculation, Senator Paul. If your father were to drop out, would you consider getting in?\nRP: (laughing) I tell people, and I\u2019ve told them from the beginning, you know, one Paul in the race at a time. So no, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any danger of him dropping out. I did say in the beginning, when he hadn\u2019t made his decision, that I was interested in it, because I think we really need some leadership in our country. But no, I think my dad\u2019s doing a great job, and I think this is his year.\nHH: Now I\u2019m a very fierce critic of his foreign policy, and I don\u2019t believe he can get the nomination. I\u2019m just telling you this for full disclosure. My question is if he decided I can\u2019t really do this, I can\u2019t get this, but Rand, my son is over here, and he could actually make a pretty good run at this thing, and he took you aside and said you want me to step down, you want to get in, what would you tell him?\nRP: Well, you know, it\u2019s kind of hard to go through a hypothetical that I don\u2019t think\u2019s going to happen. I do want to be part of the national debate, and to be someone who can propose some national solutions. Just since I\u2019ve been here, you know, in the last eight months, I\u2019ve been part of proposing Social Security reform that would fix it for 75 years. We\u2019re getting ready to introduce Medicare reform that would fix it for 75 years. I do think that there are solutions up here to our problems. I\u2019ve been a big part of the balanced budget amendment crowd, so I think there is a lot I can do. But I think my plate\u2019s full right now in the Senate. And then time will tell. You know, whatever happens in this next election will tell whether or not there\u2019s ever an opportunity for me for anything else.\nHH: Will you support whoever is the Republican nominee, Senator Paul?\nHH: Let me play for you your father\u2019s comment, and talk some foreign policy with you, and then we\u2019ll get to Ben Bernanke and other domestic policy issues. But this is your dad in New Hampshire telling a press gaggle that killing al-Awlaki was a mistake. Cut number 11:\nRP: No, I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a good way to deal with our problems. He was born here. al-Awlaki was born here. He\u2019s an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. Nobody knows if he ever killed anybody. We know that he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. If the American people accept this blindly and casually, we now have an accepted practice with the President assassinating people who he thinks are bad guys. I think it\u2019s sad. I think what would have people have said about Timothy McVeigh? We didn\u2019t assassinate him? They were pretty certain that he had done it. They put him through the courts and they executed him. But to start assassinating American citizens without charges, we should think very seriously about this.\nHH: Senator Rand Paul, what do you make of your father\u2019s critique of the action last Friday?\nRP: You know, I\u2019m kinda of two minds. I think there is a quandary here, and maybe a difference between whether or not an American citizen is here or whether an American citizen is in a battlefield. I think that there is some difference on location, where you are, and that for example, people captured in Afghanistan or killed in Afghanistan don\u2019t really get due process in U.S. courts, even if they are U.S. citizens. So I\u2019m not sure being a U.S. citizen in another battleground is the operative problem. But on the other hand, I understand my dad\u2019s point that there is a precedent here, and it is the first time that we\u2019ve had an assassination we\u2019ve had of a U.S. citizen. We did have rules against assassination of anyone for quite a while. And the question is, and I think this is the point he tries to make, is that should there be checks and balances, or should you allow, it\u2019s sort of like the idea on Libya. Should we allow a president to go to war with a U.N. resolution as opposed to Congress voting on it? Should there be some check and balance to making the decision on who\u2019s going to be assassinated? And I think that\u2019s what he\u2019s worried about. It\u2019s not that al-Awlaki, or, I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m pronouncing it correctly, that anybody considers him to be anything other than a despicable human, and probably got his just dessert here. But the question is should we have checks and balance, or some kind of adjudication? You know, the President is now saying that he is not going to reveal even the process, not any secret details of what he did, but the process or the justification for how it was done. And I think sometimes, even when we take out somebody really bad, there should be some rules that we obey.\nHH: Now your father brought up Timothy McVeigh. Do you see a distinction between Timothy McVeigh and al-Awlaki?\nRP: Well, you know, they\u2019re both terrorists, I guess. The difference is you know, location, I guess. If al-Awlaki had been in the United States, and conspiring to bomb us in a terrorist fashion, then I think you would see a similarity or the same thing with Timothy McVeigh. The fact that they\u2019re in different location is a different circumstance. The other question, ultimately, on this, and this is the difficulty of it, I understand and agree that we have to be concerned about process, whether we have some kind of process, and not one person unilaterally deciding someone\u2019s guilt. But at the same time, we are in an age where is there a question of whether or not we\u2019d rather have drone strikes rather than land war. And if it\u2019s the choice of sending in 20,000 troops into Yemen versus having a more limited fashion\u2026you see, I think if it were put this way, and this is what some people don\u2019t understand about my father, is if there had been a motion in Congress on a letter of mark and reprisal against al-Awlaki, he would have probably voted for it.\nHH: Actually, I have interviewed your father on the subject of letters of mark and reprisals. And so yes, this audience has heard that before.\nRP: Yeah, so it\u2019s a somewhat obscure topic.\nHH: Don\u2019t you think that\u2019s, isn\u2019t that absurd, though, the idea of letters of mark and reprisals in this day and age?\nRP: Well, I mean, if so, you\u2019d have to say the Constitution\u2019s absurd. It\u2019s still, you know, for those of us who are sort of strict constructionists, we still believe in the whole document and not selectively.\nHH: Well, you can\u2019t get to the right of me on that. I\u2019ve been teaching it for 15 years. But it is something that has never been used in modern times.\nRP: (laughing) You\u2019re right, and I think there is an argument to be said not for giving a letter of mark and reprisal to a private agency, that obviously our military has much greater intelligence capacity and ability to go in and get someone like bin Laden. So I think the argument could be made. I think really, the only question, and where I\u2019m sort of in the middle on this, is that should there be a check and balance, or should a president get to decide someone\u2019s guilt. And in all likelihood, all the stuff is true about him. But should there be some sort of check and balance, because you know what would happen\u2026you know, I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any distinction. Is he only saying that he can assassinate people on foreign soil that he thinks are conspiring to attack us? But you know, what if a guy was in a remote area of Arizona that we\u2019re not patrolling well, because the Mexican border has become unsecure? Would we have drone attacks in Arizona? I think people would be aghast at that. And so\u2026\nHH: Interesting question for a White House press conference, absolutely.\nRP (laughing) Yeah, really.\nHH: Let me ask you, have you read Joby Warrick\u2019s new book, The Triple Agent, yet, Senator?\nRP: I have not.\nHH: There\u2019s\u2026it and Lawrence Wright\u2019s The Looming Tower, are the two bookends on this war. Have you had a chance to read The Looming Tower, yet?\nTP: I have not, but I\u2019ll make a note of those.\nHH: Yeah, these are like the key books on al Qaeda. How do you assess, you, Rand Paul, not your father now, but you as a Senator in the United States, how do you assess the threat from al Qaeda right now?\nRP: Well, I think in some ways, we\u2019ve done a pretty good job, you know, over the last ten years at cutting off the serpent\u2019s head, so to speak. I think we\u2019ve done a great job of disrupting them. And that\u2019s another thing that\u2019s sometimes lost even on my father, is that he did vote to go into Afghanistan. So he did say we can\u2019t be attacked on 9/11 without repercussions. We can\u2019t let this continue to happen. So I think we have done a pretty good job at disrupting their bases in Afghanistan. I think in most of the countries around the world, there\u2019s not really, I don\u2019t think, an accepting nation-state that\u2019s accepting al Qaeda at this point. I mean, Iran might be debatable, but I think in Yemen, and it\u2019s hard to tell if there is a government in Somalia, but where there is sort of a government, I don\u2019t think any of the existing governments that have any strength other than perhaps Iran are accepting of al Qaeda.\nHH: Do you think, then, we can withdraw from Afghanistan without threat to the mainland? I don\u2019t agree with that, but I\u2019m curious if you do.\nRP: I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything we can do or not do that you could ever say that there\u2019s no threat. I think there can be an argument made that the threat from al Qaeda is no longer an isolated geographic threat, that it\u2019s a worldwide threat, and that having a mobile military that can react at a moment\u2019s notice anywhere in the globe is the defense, rather than land war or nation building. And I think there\u2019s something that\u2019s consistent with conservative philosophy that we tell our folks in our country that self-reliance is ultimately something the individual has to be done, to do for themselves, that I think foreign countries ultimately can be seen somewhat the same way, that people who are dependant on government here are, that they have to ultimately become self-reliant. And I think after ten years of rebuilding Afghanistan, I think the cost is enormous, and we have a lot of problems in our country that we\u2019re not able to face. And we have a deficit of $1.5 trillion, so I do think yes, we\u2019ve been there long enough. Does it mean that, you know, I would be for leaving a smaller mobile force there, but I wouldn\u2019t be for continuing to I guess patrol every village. I think after ten years, the Afghans need to step up. When I talk to our soldiers, we have two bases in Kentucky, and I asked them about it. I say are you tired of getting out of the Humvee first? Are you ready for the Afghans to start patrolling their cities? And to a man, these young men and women, who are brave, and who do our fighting for us, they\u2019re ready. They\u2019ve been there four and five times, many of them, and they are ready for the Afghans to step up and do more.\nHH: Senator Paul, you may have heard as we went out in the last break, I\u2019m helping Hillsdale College publicize their great series on the Constitution for laymen, led by Larry Arnn and Charles Krauthammer and Paul Ryan and a bunch of other great people talking about it. I am curious, and people can sign up for that at Hughhewitt.com. It\u2019s still ongoing. They can get the archived lectures. But I\u2019m curious about what you think is the level of Constitutional literacy among your colleagues on the Hill?\nRP: I would say pretty low, but one interesting thing we got out of the Tea Party movement was I had people coming up to me and saying when you get there, why don\u2019t you try to have continuing education courses? Why don\u2019t you say that every Congressman, once elected, needs to have a Constitutional continuing education course like doctors and lawyers have, and I said what a stroke of genius, what a great idea. And we haven\u2019t gotten Harry Reid to let us do that, yet, but it is something I\u2019m interested in, because you know, some of these guys don\u2019t know the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. And most of them believe that we live in a democracy. Most of them think that enumerated rights are sort of some fiction of the past and not important, and that really what government can do is whatever the majority says. And so whenever I go into any youthful audience, like I spoke to my nominees that are aspiring to go to our military academies recently, and I had 120 people there, and I said you know, look, we\u2019re not being taught this, but I want you to leave here knowing one thing. We are not a democracy. We are a Constitutional republic. And this is an important distinction, and we\u2019re supposed to operate under enumerated powers. And that, to me, I think is not being taught in our schools. It\u2019s not being taught anywhere.\nHH: Well, I hope if you do that, you can get Larry Arnn from Hillsdale and others to come along. Eastman and myself will do it. Let me also ask you, Senator, since you\u2019re from Kentucky, which I believe is a right to work state, my friend, Rick Berman, is running the Unionfacts.com, where they\u2019re talking about the Employee Rights Act, introduced by your colleague, Orrin Hatch. Do you support that act? And are you familiar with Unionfacts.com?\nRP: I\u2019m a big fan of right to work. I have signed letters for them, and did a phone call for them this last week. I\u2019m the sponsor of the National Right to Work law. Unfortunately, Kentucky\u2019s not a right to work state.\nHH: Oh, I\u2019m surprised by that.\nRP: And I\u2019m always lamenting that Tennessee, next door, is. Tennessee has no income tax and is right to work, and they\u2019re cleaning our clock every year with businesses. Texas is doing tremendous at creating jobs, and it\u2019s a right to work state with no income tax. So these right to work states are doing great. South Carolina, another right to work state, so yeah, I\u2019m a big fan of the right to work laws, both at the state and the national level.\nHH: how about Senator Hatch\u2019s Employee Rights Act? Have you had a chance to review that, yet?\nRP: You know, I\u2019ve seen it, but to tell you the truth, I can\u2019t remember the details of it right now.\nHH: All right, back to politics for one more question, and then to Ben Bernanke. I don\u2019t think your father has a prayer of winning the nomination. I think he\u2019s outside of the Republican mainstream. So I\u2019ve repeatedly urged that the RNC ban him from the debates. Just\u2026if they did that\u2026\nRP: You know, Hugh, that\u2019s not very nice, is it?\nHH: Well, but I\u2019m telling you to your face. I\u2019m not going to say it behind. I\u2019ve told your, one of your dad\u2019s supporters, and by the way, they are legion in calling this program.\nRP: Nevertheless, you\u2019re not working to get a bigger party if you\u2019re trying to exclude people.\nHH: I want to ask you, if they did that, because his foreign policy views are so outside of the mainstream, how would you react? The Republican Party is a private organization. They can make any rules they want. So would you stay in the party if they were to limit the debate?\nRP: Oh, I guess the problem, Hugh, is that they\u2019d have to ban Robert Taft. Robert Taft is one of my dad\u2019s intellectual heroes. They called him Mr. Republican. And he was one who believed in less intervention. He believed that we couldn\u2019t be everywhere all the time. And so I think it\u2019s interesting, the debates are a little more complicated than I think some make it out to be. For example, I think several others on the stage are now really saying some of what my father\u2019s saying. Rick Perry said that we needed to beware of military adventurism. That could be right out of my father\u2019s speeches. Michele Bachmann said we shouldn\u2019t be in Libya without Congressional authority, that U.N. authority is not something we should be fighting wars under. You had Mitt Romney now saying that maybe we had been in Afghanistan long enough, and that we did need to be coming home. So really, you\u2019re seeing healthy debate. In the Senate, there are 47 Senators. I would say that there\u2019s a pretty healthy debate. I introduced a resolution, which I think simply reiterates the Constitution, and this was the President\u2019s resolution from when he ran in 2007, and he said no president should unilaterally go to war without the authority of Congress. I only got ten votes, but I got ten Republican votes from some of the good conservatives in Washington, and got no Democrat votes. But it\u2019s simply restating what the Constitution says. And I think that if people don\u2019t understand on some level what my father\u2019s talking about, or what the founding fathers talked about, they were very much non-interventionists, against entangling alliances, and the fiscal consequences of being everywhere all the time, and also the unintended consequences of, you know, for example, the Iran-Iraq war went on for eight years, and we had American fighter planes on both sides of it. And yet we were allied with someone who we came to say was one of the greatest dictators on Earth, Saddam Hussein.\nHH: I would argue, Senator, that the closest to the anti-federalists, President Jefferson, dispatched armed forces against the Barbary pirates. Staying out of every war, of course, makes sense, but they would defend the United States. Where I\u2019m quarreling with your father is the debate in which Rick Santorum rebuked him for appearing to buy into the al Qaeda line that 9/11 was a justified reaction to our occupation of Arab lands. And your father reeled off the bases that we\u2019re in. Do you believe his argument that we are provoking al Qaeda, and that somehow, and jihadists, generally, and\u2026\nRP: Well, I think what gets misinterpreted from what he\u2019s saying is that he\u2019s never, ever said there\u2019s any justification. So there\u2019s no justification for murder.\nHH: Agreed, but he said we provoked it. And we just don\u2019t\u2026that\u2019s not how al Qaeda works. If people read The Looming Tower\u2026\nRP: But he\u2019s never said what\u2019s sort of being misinterpreted by some, that there\u2019s justification. There\u2019s no justification for the murder of 3,000 innocent people in New York on 9/11.\nHH: 100% agree. I heard that. But he does believe we provoke it. Do you believe we provoke it by our foreign policy?\nRP: I would say that if you want to know why people attack you, you would have to read some of what are the reasons that they write down for why they attack you. But that doesn\u2019t justify their reasons.\nHH: Agreed, but The Looming Tower, which is the most complete detailing of al Qaeda theory, going back to Sayyid Qutb and his works and his writings in the Egyptian prisons, if you haven\u2019t read that, I don\u2019t know if your father has read it, how can you guys know what they believe?\nRP: Well, because they do and have detailed what their objections are. And some of their objections are, and these aren\u2019t justifications. No one\u2019s saying these justify the attacks. Nothing justifies the attacks.\nHH: Hear you. I hear you.\nRP: But they do say that they\u2019re unhappy with our presence in the Middle East, and they\u2019re unhappy with our support of Israel.\nHH: But going back further than that, there is a great body of work that absolutely identifies this as having nothing to do with us, and having nothing to do with Israel, but having everything to do with their interpretation of the Koran, and their interpretation of Wahhabism.\nRP: Well, I think it\u2019s multi-factorial. I think there are deeper and longer historical reasons why they dislike us. But I think it\u2019s also simplistic for some on the other side who would say well, it\u2019s because we\u2019re rich and we\u2019re free, because if that were true, they\u2019d be attacking Sweden or Switzerland as well. They attack us, really, because of multiple reasons.\nHH: They do attack Sweden and Switzerland. They attack wherever they can get. Now of course, sometimes it\u2019s Germany, sometimes it\u2019s\u2026\nRP: They do, but I think America is their primary, is their preeminent, probably, target among other targets. They target a lot of folks in the West, and they\u2026\nHH: Do you think our support for Israel triggers some of these attacks, Senator? And would you argue that we ought to reduce our support for Israel as a result?\nRP: What I would say is that they say that our support for Israel is part of their justification. That\u2019s not me saying this, this is just what they say. And I think you have to read their writings. I mean, bin Laden has a lot of writings. None of this is a justification for him or what he did. That\u2019s where the misinterpretation is. But now I think if you read their writings, he\u2019s had writings throughout the last ten years. And all of them basically say that Israel\u2019s part of the problem.\nHH: I have. If I can keep you, let me keep you six more minutes, Senator, because I\u2019ve got to talk to you about Bernanke.\nHH: Fascinating conversation with Senator Rand Paul. I\u2019m so grateful that the Senator\u2019s willing to do this. That\u2019s why I love this country. I can talk to a United States Senator and pushback on al Qaeda and what they believe. And let\u2019s leave it here so I can get to Ben Bernanke, Senator. When you\u2019ve read The Looming Tower and The Triple Agent, let\u2019s debate why al Qaeda is what it is. Is that fair?\nRP: Sure.\nHH: All right, now Ben Bernanke was on the Hill today. And here is a little bit of what he said that I need to get your reaction to.\nBB: To be sure, fiscal policy makers face a complex situation. I would submit that in setting tax and spending policies for now and in the future, policy makers should consider at least four key objectives. One crucial objective is to achieve long run fiscal sustainability. The federal budget is clearly not on a sustainable path at present.\nHH: He goes on to say the economy is weak, in danger of going back into recession, and we have to be careful about cutting spending too quickly. What\u2019s your reaction, Senator Paul?\nRP: Well, you know, cutting spending too quickly, cutting spending is exactly what we need to be doing. That\u2019s sort of the Keynesian belief that borrowed money somehow produces jobs. And I think borrowed money makes you further indebted. So I think he\u2019s wrong there. The only thing I would agree with is that the course we\u2019re on is unsustainable. And Larry Lindsay has written about what happens if you continue to grow at 1%. All the modeling for our Congressional baseline and for our budget is estimating 3.5% growth. If you grow at 1% over the next ten years, you add nearly $7-8 trillion dollars more to the debt because of lessened growth. If you add 1% in interest to what we pay on our debt, you add $1.3 trillion. There are a lot of unknowns that we may be facing, and all of them are bad news if they occur. And we have to get entitlements, we have to fix the entitlements, we have to balance our budget, all of the things that this president has steadfastly opposed to.\nHH: But what Bernanke was arguing, and I don\u2019t believe it, but I want to hear your argument, is that if we do cut spending in the short term, we\u2019ll slip back into recession, which will cycle us towards a terrible period of backwards growth.\nRP: I think that\u2019s a false Keynesian notion that you can get growth, and that growth depends on a stimulus from government. The problems is, is that the stimulus from government comes from borrowed money or printed money. And we\u2019re borrowing money at $40,000 dollars a second. So it\u2019s not the way to go. And it\u2019s actually, there are some economists who say that we\u2019re currently losing a million jobs a year simply because of the deleterious effects of the debt.\nHH: All right, now our friend of this program, Mark Steyn, who wrote a great, new book called After America, has a chapter in it about bridge building. You went to the Kentucky bridge with the President, and you kind of argued with him to reprioritize the bridge business. My question to you, Senator Paul, is should the federal government have anything to do with which bridges get built and by whom, and with states? Mark\u2019s argument is we were doing fine before federal transportation dollars flew into this system.\nRP: Well, yes and no. I mean, we had a long debate back in the 19th Century about internal improvements. You know, the Whigs were big fans of it. The strict Constitutionalists back then didn\u2019t believe we should have any federal dollars flowing into infrastructure. Like so many other things that have come along, we sort of have decided that debate, and there\u2019s not a whole lot of debate about whether the federal government should be involved. Bridges, you know, for example, the one in Kentucky, go across a river that separates states. And what I\u2019ve simply said is that the 10% of money that is being set aside for beautification things like turtle tunnels and squirrel sanctuaries ought to be put into a bridges fund that we wouldn\u2019t dictate which bridges are fixed, because that would be an earmark, but that we should have a priority, and say things like if a bridge is closed, if a bridge is on an interstate, if a bridge has X amount of cars going across, or if the civil engineers that run the highway transportation deem it to be in need of repair, we rank our bridges. The problem with fixing a bridge is sometimes, it can be a billion dollars or more, and most of the budgets of most of the states are more in the $400-500 million dollar range.\nHH: But why not bloc grant money back from the transportation tax back to the states, and let Ohio and Kentucky worry about their bridges, as opposed to federal bureaucrats down there on C Street, who have no clue about bridges?\nRP: Yeah, you could. The only problem is there hasn\u2019t been enough money to bloc grant back. Kentucky gets $420 million dollars in one year for highway transportation. The bridge along is going to be $500-600 million in repair.\nHH: Well, Ohio is there, too. They\u2019ll pay a little bit. I mean, Kentucky should pay most, but\u2026\nRP: They do, but most of that money\u2019s going to just routine upkeep of roads, and isn\u2019t built in for building bridges. Now I think Kentucky and Ohio should be saving for these bridges, but I think ultimately, there\u2019s not enough. But I would argue, though, that like the $500 million that we gave to Solyndra, to some campaign contributors of President Obama, that\u2019s more than Ohio and 35 other states get in highway funds, and that money would be better spent, put into an emergency bridges fund, and for replacement of bridges. But you probably will not get enough money if you keep dividing it up fifty ways, because by the time you divide the highway money fifty ways, there\u2019s not enough to build big projects.\nHH: Senator Rand Paul of the great state of Kentucky, thanks. I look forward to our next return conversation when you have a chance to read The Looming Tower and The Triple Agent. I would love to have that conversation, Senator. 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A former Indian Administrative Service officer, she resigned from the IAS in 1975 and has since worked with the most oppressed in society. Aruna Roy\u2019s observation on government service is indicative of her future concerns: \u201cEveryone calls it an elite service; I always felt the discourse should be a bit better than what it was. I was shocked to find people boasting about their \u2018achievements\u2019 in corruption. I realised that if I remained in the system, I would have to oppose it without any assurance of support from colleagues or success. I preferred to leave.\u201d\nAfter quitting the civil service, she joined the Rajasthan-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) Social Work and Research Centre. Aruna Roy left the SWRC in 1983 and in 1990 formed the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), a people\u2019s political organisation. The MKSS began by fighting for fair and equal wages for workers, which evolved into a struggle for the enactment of the Right to Information (RTI) Act. Aruna Roy is one of the key figures who played an important role in the realisation of this Act in 2005. A champion of participatory democracy and decentralisation, she says that \u201crepresentative democracy had to a great extent betrayed its promise to deliver. Though necessary, its failure to be accountable to people, beyond the vote, was underscored again and again. Democracy had to shift more towards participation.\u201d\nShe has been in the forefront of many sociopolitical struggles of the poor and oppressed. She also voices her concerns about the recent increase in intolerance in the country. Her leadership and participation in the campaigns for the enactment of laws relating to the right to information, the right to work (the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, or MGNREGA) and the right to food are noteworthy. As a member of the Pension Parishad, she has been involved with the campaign for a universal, non-contributory pension for workers of the unorganised sector. As part of the National Campaign for People\u2019s Right to Information (NCPRI), she was vocal in her demand for the passage of the Whistle Blowers Protection Act and the Grievance Redressal Act.\nAruna Roy worked as a member of the National Advisory Council from 2004 until her resignation in 2006 and later from 2010 to 2013. A staunch critic of neoliberalism and communalism, she is a recipient of many distinguished awards and honours, including the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership (2000) and the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Award for Excellence in Public Administration, Academia and Management (2010). Time magazine included her in its list of the 100 most influential personalities in the world in 2011. Along with the MKSS, Aruna Roy has co-authored The RTI Story: Power to the People (February 2018), which explains people\u2019s democratic involvement in drafting policy and legislation.\nIn this interview with Jipson John and Jitheesh P.M., Aruna Roy speaks on a wide range of issues such as the need for a whistle-blowers Act, the background of the RTI campaign, four years of the Narendra Modi government, the changing political body language of the country, attacks on dissent, the ongoing agrarian crisis, activities and campaigns of the MKSS, policy alternatives to foster more inclusiveness, the importance of participatory democracy, the role of civil society, and the women\u2019s reservation Bill. Excerpts:\n* According to some reports, more than 65 whistle-blowers who used the RTI Act have been killed in India since 2005. It was in this context that the Central government was forced to introduce the Whistle Blowers Protection Act, which got the President\u2019s assent in 2014. But an amendment was made to dilute even the basic purpose of the law. What kind of law do we need and how can we ensure that whistle-blowers are protected?\nWe need a law that recognises the need for protection of any human being who has the courage to expose and disclose the working of a corrupt and arbitrary system. Even after the President\u2019s assent, however, the law (diluted as it is) is yet to be notified. The first step, therefore, will be to notify the whistle-blowers law, and thereafter to see how it can be further strengthened.\nIt is always critical for ethical people in the system to state truth to power [in order] to expose corruption and the arbitrary use of power. This is one of the most difficult situations, where every day can be a nightmare. These \u201cwhistle-blowers\u201d need to be empowered and protected. Human rights, civil rights and RTI exposes are also instances where people stick their necks out to oppose injustice and corruption. Often, the corrupt power elite ensure that they are persecuted and sometimes eliminated. The whistle-blowers law is needed for their protection as well.\nIn India, the governance system continues to be arbitrary and corrupt despite reforms and the demand for radical legislation. It has worsened with the opaqueness and tight controls exercised in the last four years resulting in bringing back exclusivity in governance. The decision to demonetise is the most notorious of the examples of arbitrary decision-making. The participation of civil society has decreased proportionately in the decision-making processes, further reducing prospects of monitoring and guaranteeing the ethical functioning of government. The reluctance to pass the law is in direct proportion to the corruption and arbitrary misuse of power in the ruling establishment.\n* You were at the forefront of campaigns and the fight for the RTI Act. Could you explain what made people like you campaign for such a law?\nThe MKSS works with peasants and workers who are in a daily struggle to survive. For them work and wages are linked to food, shelter and survival. In this context, the delivery of services through the government system is vital for their existence. The non-delivery [of services] is often due to corruption, which thrives on secrecy and an opaque governance mechanism. The marginalised were stonewalled in their struggle against such corruption as officials refused to listen to their complaints or to examine their issues. The system justified inaction or mismanagement quoting government documents which were \u201csecret\u201d. Workers realised that these \u201csecret\u201d documents had to be brought out, compared with the facts on the ground and the contradictions exposed. Until this happened, these \u201csecret\u201d government documents would always prevail over the word of the people. Hence, the RTI was needed to expose the corruption and lies in government functioning that was affecting people\u2019s everyday lives.\n* How do you assess the performance of the RTI Act in its more than a decade of existence? Are you satisfied with its present way of working?\nIndia is notorious for passing laws it hardly implements. However, the RTI was a collective architectural design and was the beginning of rights-based laws. After many years of experience in different States, the RTI law has come into effect. We must recognise, acknowledge and applaud that we have one of the strongest information laws in the world that is also the most widely used; an estimated 80 lakh applications are made every year.\nWe must also be aware, however, that we are being denied more and more information on baseless grounds. Examples of information denied range from the Prime Minister\u2019s educational degree to the submissions that were made to the Committee on Data Protection, which will impact access to information.\nThere are also graver threats by repeated efforts to dilute the law through amendments. The gravest threats are faced by RTI users, who have often been killed.\nSo, while there is cause for some satisfaction, there is a need for continued vigilance to protect the law and its users. There is also the need to go beyond and enact and operationalise other laws, such as the whistle-blowers [protection] law, a grievance redressal law and an accountability law, apart from reforming institutions such as the CVC [Central Vigilance Commission] and the CBI [Central Bureau of Investigation].\nDiversity under threat\n* How do you assess the four years of the Modi government? We have reports of the MGNREGA and other welfare measures being starved of funds. How did this government\u2019s economic policies affect the poorest sections of society?\nThe Modi government began with a frontal assault on rights-based legislation and entitlements. The blind pursuit of economic growth, without a genuine critique of its defects and shortcomings, has belied its promises. On the contrary, by giving protection to corporates, it has encouraged a kind of crony capitalism. Policy is also used to protect corporate interests and the secrecy of the system. Electoral bonds, for instance, allows corporate donations, both Indian and foreign, to political parties in secret.\nThe country\u2019s celebrated diversity is under the threat of homogenisation. All differing points of view are termed anti-national, a threat to security, and those who raise a voice of protest become victims of unjustified action by the state. Lynching occurs with the tacit approval of the state and with government support to the criminals with silence and inaction. The rights-based laws are under attack as well, implicitly by reductionism and omission.\nThe poor are reeling under ill-conceived and badly executed policies such as demonetisation and GST [goods and services tax]. Their social security nets are starved of funds, and they are literally dying of starvation owing to the illegitimate push of Aadhaar. The concentration of power and fear of retribution and intolerance of dissent are so acute that there is silence. This is a government of the few (privileged), by them and for themselves. There is little room for critique and none for criticism.\n* The Supreme Court has upheld the use of Aadhaar for social welfare schemes. There are a number of painful stories from different parts of the country of poor people being deprived of social welfare benefits because they do not have an Aadhaar number. What is your response to the court\u2019s Aadhaar verdict?\nThe verdict was a disappointment in three critical matters. The first is the matter of linking Aadhaar to subsidies for the people who survive on social benefits from the government. The success claimed by the government in rooting out corruption, shown as savings, is unsubstantiated. If there are detected cases of corruption from which money has been saved, it logically follows that cases should have been registered against the guilty. There are practically none. How then do we believe that there have been savings?\nThe figure of Aadhaar authentication failure in the judgment, of a quarter of a per cent, is ambiguous. There is no transparency in the process of deduction, and the result is at odds with the number of detected cases on the ground. The lived reality of the people who have to depend on Aadhaar to receive welfare disbursements tells us another story.\nThe second is the democratic failure: the Aadhaar legislation, which has a huge impact on our population, went undiscussed in Parliament (discussion was a mere formality in the Lok Sabha and the government did not accept the amendments passed by the Rajya Sabha) where much of this [the problems] could have been sorted out. It is also an indication that the issue needs to be made a political issue to be settled by legislation [rather] than depending on the courts.\nThe third issue is that of the potential for surveillance, tracking and profiling through the linkage of Aadhaar with various services, such as mobiles and bank accounts. While there has been some relief from the court on the mandatory seeding of Aadhaar with SIM cards and bank accounts, even this is not as straightforward as it sounds. In the case of bank accounts, one needs to have a PAN card to open a bank account. And the linkage of Aadhaar with the PAN card has been upheld by the court. So, indirectly, one still needs to have an Aadhaar number to be able to open a bank account.\n* Hindu communalism, or Hindutva, has made a lot of headway under the current dispensation and is even threatening the basic edifice of India\u2019s secularism and the Constitution. How has it divided people and affected their joint struggles for basic rights? How do you look at the changing political body language of the country?\nThis is a clash between the values and principles of the Constitution and Manuvad or Hindutva. Communalism in India has been developed into a complicated system that uses every divide to segregate. The rulers who are mandated with providing constitutional protection are themselves breaking its norms. \u201cLynchings\u201d keep hatred simmering, and the intensity of fear keeps citizens from attending to the failures in constitutional governance, from fighting corruption or struggling against the distortion of truth, such as the rhetoric of public claims by the ruling elite. Unemployed youth drawn to and engaged in the senseless bravado of communalism are prevented from revolting against the state on the real issue of unemployment. This cynical comment has disturbed me: \u201cLynching keeps fear alive but is more manageable than a riot and leaves ordinary people free to go about their lives unimpeded.\u201d These violent tactics bring about dismemberment of society and will one day, like Frankenstein[\u2019s monster], swallow up the acquiescent society.\nDespotic tendencies\n* In an earlier interview, you said that the lot of this country depends upon the outcome of the 2019 election. You also said that if the Constitution ceases to exist in its present form, many things will be in peril. What will be in peril if the National Democratic Alliance retains power in the next general election?\nThe fundamental secular fabric of our Constitution is in peril, indications of which have begun to show. Apart from the existential threat to several minorities, even those in the majority with differing opinions and political ideologies in variance with the ruling dispensation\u2019s are threatened. With a pliant state machinery at its disposal, an unjust and biased state has already begun to display despotic tendencies. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The independence of democratic institutions\u2014like the Human Rights Commission, Central Information Commission, Election Commission and the CVC\u2014has already been eroded. Universities are being stifled. Disbanding the Planning Commission [and replacing it] with a non-transparent body like the NITI Aayog excludes the people of India from being able to know the road map of development planning and thereby critique it, leaving a the government unaccountable. Kerala continues to have its State Planning Board; we must know how many others continue to have that structure intact.\nAttempts have been made to reduce the power, effectiveness and independence of the judiciary in many ways. India is divided into the lowest common denominator of its caste-based fragmented identities. \u201cManuvad\u201d is waiting in the wings to take over the value base. Manuvad and the Constitution stand in direct confrontation: traditional rigid hierarchy and bigotry versus constitutional equality and liberty. It\u2019s an important call to the people to protect their interests and to elect wisely and with maturity. In effect, the Indian citizen already reeling under the attack on freedom of expression in arts, cultural expression, ideas and in accepting varied ideologies will see it cemented by law. The rule of law will be vitiated by unconstitutional legislation, and opposing an unjust law in practice will be termed \u201cunlawful\u201d and those protesting termed \u201canti-national\u201d and prosecuted. It has become critical to protect and cherish the Constitution if our real independence of exercising fundamental rights has to remain.\n* Every day from different parts of the country, one hears of the brutal lynching of poor Muslims and Dalits in the name of cow protection. The Union government went to the extent of putting a ban on cattle trading across States. How does this cow vigilantism affect the agrarian economy? What are the consequences? What is the political economy that allows such vigilante groups to thrive?\nCows and bullocks are let loose by farmers who cannot feed an animal that does not contribute to their income or dispose of the animal, overburdened as they are by a range of economic pressures. These animals now manifest their angst in many small aggressive ways. Starved of feed, they slowly turn into herds that go foraging for food and enter any field that looks green to satisfy their needs. Local farmers complain of their inability to deal with this problem, and many farmers have stopped cultivation of one crop.\nThe managers of gaushalas are often corrupt, and money received as donations for cow protection is misused. It is not surprising that farmers will soon shy away from buying cows and contributing to the white revolution and its sustenance. The government on its part is unaccountable as it articulates cow-communal jingoism but in real terms has pawned its milk production and self-reliance. The inter-State traffic of people and animals has sustained the rural economy; without mobility it will not be possible for the rural economy to sustain itself very much longer. This massive drive to push Indian farmers into economic distress and suicide and into selling their land, making it fertile ground for the corporate lobby, is a deliberate plan.\nMany cattle farmers are Muslims and are attacked for buying cows or going about their daily business. Cow vigilantism has had a field day, with governments not delivering justice and allowing lynching to happen. Its perpetrators are given impunity by the state and freedom from legal obligations. It is a cynical and calculated strategy to build fear in the minority communities and suppress the voice of the rational supporters across communities and groups. The rational voices in support are feared, and they are silenced as the assassinations of [Narendra] Dabholkar, [Govind] Pansare, [M.M.] Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh have shown.\nThe \u2018acche din\u2019 rhetoric\n* The arrest of five well-known human rights activists aroused significant protests all over the country. \u201cUrban naxal\u201d is the new branding used to scuttle dissent. Why were they targeted? Is it a warning the ruling establishment wishes to send to those who are on the other side of the spectrum?\nAll governments are wary of critique and criticism, dissent and disagreement in any form, which remains a continuing irony in democratic governance. But there are varied reactions in range and in intensity between governments.\nThe present government is all set to change the architecture of governance and is setting out to do many things. It has a rhetoric in direct contradiction to its intent, lulling people into a make-believe world of well-being, \u201cacche din\u201d. The other is dismantling the architecture of equity and equality set up to operationalise the constitutional guarantees, the process of supporting and helping people at the margins, which means economic, social and political equity.\nAll this means that they need to have their predicaments explained and amplified in the idiom of governance so that political and other structures take note. In this transference, people need the assistance of specialists with skills and commitment who amplify these voices and disprove the false claims of the ruling establishment. Since they are people with intelligence, integrity and skills, they are heard and their words carry weight. They are, therefore, seen as \u201cdangerous\u201d, not to the state but to the government in power and those who make false claims. The insidious and Machiavellian tactics are to declare them anti-national, seditious or a security risk. So far naxals lived in forests very far from the common person. The label urban naxal would then serve two purposes. It would stop all such critique and also induce fear, first in those who articulate it and also in the ignorant and the supporter alike [that stops them] from adding their voice. These would also have an impact on their vote in elections. If one sees this causality, the unethical planning for grabbing power becomes apparent.\nThe pity is that the fourth estate, too, committed to helping a people learn through analysis in publication and visual programmes, is now corporatised and caught up in its own mesh.\nThis issue is also a means to create a distraction in the media that might otherwise catch on to the narrative of growing discontentment against the ruling dispensation. The creation of the \u201curban Maoist\u201d is not merely branding to scuttle dissent but is also a dog whistle to trolls to create noise and drum up nationalist sentiment and drown out voices of disenchantment. It is a sign of the growing desperation in the ruling establishment. The \u201curban naxal\u201d as defined by the BJP [Bharatiya Janata Party] and its henchmen, ironically, became a label of repute and integrity, starting with \u201cMe too urban naxal\u201d!\n* India has been undergoing an unparalleled agrarian crisis since it embraced neoliberal policies. The suicides of more than three lakh peasants, acute rural distress and rural migration in search of non-existent jobs are the major manifestations of this crisis. How does the MKSS look at this crisis? What policy alternatives are needed?\nThere has been no comprehensive agrarian policy for two decades or more to address the interrelated issues of the farmer. The agrarian crisis has impacted India in multiple ways. Apart from the shocking suicides, farmers have complaints ranging from land policies, credit, availability of other inputs, and the encroachment on agrarian rights. While this is contradicted by rhetoric, and rhetoric alone, the loss of land to a range of assaults is fast becoming the fundamental battle. It is insidious and attacks the basic framework of the economics of middle[-income] and poor farmers. Bank credit and support have become difficult, and with the other support to agriculture also weakened, the loans become difficult to repay.\nThere is a crying need for the non-agrarian sector to look at their dependence on agriculture for daily life and ask themselves some critical questions: whether they are ready to lose self-sufficiency in economic terms and employment for a sizeable chunk of their population with these regressive policies. Do others have a role to play in demanding justice for farmers? If so, what are we going to do about it?\nMany social analysts like P. Sainath have been writing, collecting data and organising the amplification of their voice. We all have to ensure that the farmers\u2019 condition is both explained and communicated to those who enjoy the fruits of agriculture every day but hardly know its source. What is the cost of every farmer\u2019s suicide?\nFarmers have been on the march in different States and have repeatedly marched to New Delhi demanding attention to the agricultural sector. One significant demand, as a part of the massive joint farmers\u2019 march in November, was for a special session of Parliament to look at agrarian policy and the farmers\u2019 crisis. Piecemeal measures will no longer resolve the issues.\n* What are the current activities and campaigns of the MKSS. How do you assess the contributions you have made to the betterment of the oppressed since you formed the organisation, especially during the neoliberal period?\nThe MKSS is a peasant and workers organisation formed in neoliberal times. It continues to struggle for the economic, social and political rights of the poor and the marginalised and works the dialectic between the specific and the general, between action and theory, between practice and the law. In these times, the framing of issues has to be contextualised differently given that the priorities of the people remain the same.\nAs a grass-roots organisation, the MKSS has understood that linking the village economy with policies and legislation in Jaipur [the State capital, where the MKSS is based] and New Delhi are critical for understanding the economic-political predicament faced by the people. The organisation does two separate kinds of work. It addresses immediate problems of the people and in a reflective exercise analyses their actions to find legislative and policy solutions through larger public action. Post-liberalisation, the rural economy has faced issues primarily affecting livelihood, employment and shrinking state support. The people who are to receive benefits are the best situated to design and decide on policy and legislative frameworks. They know what will work well.\nThe emergence of the MGNREGA was propelled by small farmers, who are part-time workers, demanding work guarantees. The stories of people in the labour market have been appalling. There is consistent and persistent lack of work in the \u201clabour market\u201d. The MKSS was a part of this stream of institutions committed to addressing needs articulated by the people themselves. The MKSS is working with issues of survival\u2014pensions, rations\u2014and has been demanding that education and health be ensured by the state. Democratic governance and the necessity of transparent delivery of services have forced us to look at, and view with deep concern, the non-participatory [nature of] and non-transparency built into processes like UID [unique identification] and big data.\nSimilarly, the bluff of a \u201cfree market\u201d was challenged by the Mazdoor Kisan Kirana Stores [detailed in the book The RTI Story], collectively set up with crowdfunding to address the need for unadulterated and correctly priced food and other daily needs of workers.\nThe shops taught people that the myth of profit and margins can be questioned with logic. It established, too, that there can be worker-organised business and sale outlets.\nThe subtle traps laid by money-lending and credit facilities offered by the locally affluent community lead to mortgaging and then surrendering of land. The MKSS has also been involved with the crisis resulting from social-political injustice afflicted on people. The economics of poverty affects the receipt and delivery of justice. Democratic India has tried to tackle this very knotty issue from the bottom up. Controls over community land, access to justice for women, and ensuring the delivery of all government services have been important concerns of the MKSS.\nThe poor are consistently harassed by the gap between promise and reality, whether it is pensions, rations, work, health delivery and a score of issues. The MKSS has used the RTI Act and its skills in unravelling the working of the delivery system to demand immediate addressing of both distress and the consequent changes needed in policy and legislation. Engagement with governance has been and will continue to be a way of addressing the problems in a sustainable manner, where people are empowered to use laws and demand accountability. Governments are and will be seen as constitutionally obligated mechanisms for reducing inequality and enabling access to rights\u2014freedom from hunger, unemployment, illiteracy, etc.\nSocially, the MKSS has engaged with discrimination in its many forms for those socially oppressed, whether it is temple entry, rape and ill treatment of poor and Dalit women, or access to drinking water and justice. The daily routine covers a range of such activities.\nThe creation of campaigns and platforms has always been an important preoccupation of the MKSS. It has been a founder member of the RTI and MGNREGA campaigns. The Suchna Rozgaar Abhiyan [SRA], a network of over 100 organisations in Rajasthan, of which the MKSS is a founder member, has managed to engage with the government to ensure that justice is incorporated into the policy design. It is another such platform for expressing and seeking remedies for the rights of the poor and marginalised. Through and with this platform, the MKSS has organised several campaigns, including Shiksha ka Sawal, which covered 10,000 schools for access to primary infrastructure and posting of teachers. The Jawabdehi Yatra uncovered fraud where many lakhs of pensioners were set aside as dead by an arbitrary move of the Rajasthan government. Attention to detail and collation of data across the State, with campaigns, has led to many lakhs of people regaining their basic right to food and pensions. Those affected by silicosis have also been brought together and organised through the SRA.\n* It is evident that the balance sheet of neoliberal policies shows greater misery for the poor. Market fundamentalism wreaks havoc on the lives of the poorest in the country. How do you think these policies have affected the poor? What policy alternatives are needed to make a better society?\nNeoliberal policies, the market and its values have diluted the government\u2019s responsibilities in ensuring that the promises made in the directive principles of state policy reach the citizen. The worst affected in terms of social security are the poor. The concept of the \u201cwelfare state\u201d, which was knitted into the structure and pattern of governance, has been dismantled. It is not merely the market and its operation but its permeation into governance at every level. In actual terms, it has meant the loss of employment, food security, benefits of public health and education, and so on. Even the dismantling of platforms of public consultation has affected people adversely.\nDemocratic and governance mechanisms have been weakened at all levels. The Planning Commission, an institution of public sharing of policy and the outlay of expenditure, from which we could learn the design of the role of governments, has been replaced with the NITI Aayog, which excludes participation and promotes arbitrariness. For the marginalised, the government stands as guarantor to implement the promises made in the Constitution. Some protection has come from rights-based laws.\nThe matter of land ownership, control and use is a critical matter that affects the rural economy in general and the poor in particular. Almost all \u201cdevelopment\u201d plans displace people and bring in new threats, from mining to manufacture of building materials. They are all invasive, including destroying general health standards. Maladies like silicosis typify the current killer diseases that afflict workers. The organic perception of growth and well-being has been lost. It was seen as an interdependent mechanism between various sectors and interests negotiated with the government playing the role of arbiter of justice. This has degenerated, and the arbitrator, the government, is a party influenced by big money. All evaluation is taken over by a single indicator\u2014wealth as projected by the share market. Market technologies of selling, packaging, branding and promoting has entered politics, educational institutions and even many NGOs, vitiating the relationship of accountability and responsibility between the voter and her representative. \u201cGrowth rate\u201d, regardless of who benefits, has become the only evaluative indicator, playing havoc with concerns of equity and environment, like climate change.\nAssault on rights\n* You have been part of several popular and democratic struggles for the most oppressed section of society. In \u201cThe RTI Story: Power to the People\u201d, you wrote about \u201cthe importance of reclaiming the state through the expression of constitutional rights and regaining democratic institutions\u201d. Don\u2019t you think that the space for this has shrunk significantly in the past four years?\nThe space has shrunk considerably. The right to freedom of expression has been denied in every which way. From restricting protest (banning people from spaces like Jantar Mantar, where a PIL [public interest litigation] by the MKSS has reclaimed some space because of a partially favourable Supreme Court order prohibiting blanket bans), drumming fear into citizenry by persecuting, lynching, assassinating, booking articulate people with the courage to speak in the public domain as seditious and anti-state\u2014the list is endless. Lately, musicians and writers have been threatened when they wanted to perform to promote communal harmony in various parts of the country; the Carnatic music singers who wanted to sing inter-faith songs are a case in point. The role of governments in promoting such activities through polemic and granting moral impunity, not using the criminal justice system to book vandals and hooligans has further vitiated the space. Democracy is being hollowed out. To recall a famous T.S. Eliot poem: \u201cwe are the hollow men, the stuffed men\u2026\u201d. We have been hollowed out of rational thought and stuffed with polemic, hatred and a taste for violence. Propped up to believe that we are acting to protect a notion of moral authority while breaking it at every step.\n* In your book, you wrote that \u201cdemocracy had to shift more dramatically towards participation. Representative democracy had to a great extent betrayed its promise to deliver.\u201d Your campaigns are more or less to address this issue. What needs to be done to make Indian democracy more representative and include more participation of the common people? What are the important issues to be addressed immediately?\nWe are being \u201cpersuaded\u201d to push the very structures that promote participation underground. Either there is a trade-off on our ignorance or on the lack of courage to incur displeasure and the violence that follows in speaking, writing or organising public protest. Those whom we voted for to protect us on the basis of the Constitution and the rule of law largely twist those rules and laws and turn a blind eye to anti-democratic laws, policies and rules. Take the instance of electoral bonds, which permits money to be donated to political parties without transparency or accountability, or the successful cutting down of the budgets for the MGNREGA, or the more brazen restrictions on subsidies. Why are there so few voices to speak up for democracy\u2019s basic promise by the elected representatives to their voters? Why are all institutions for independent critique and assessment of government functioning being rendered powerless? Questions have to be asked and answers demanded. The RTI Act is under threat of amendment, and every regressive change is misrepresented as a progressive move through blatant doublespeak.\nThat is why the rights-based laws are important and critical. They give the ordinary citizen a foothold in decision-making and implementation, leading to a right to demand accountability. These laws bring institutional platforms of direct democracy, of which the pre-legislative process and social audit are examples. They need to be strengthened in these challenging times.\n* What is the role of civil society in deepening and strengthening democracy?\nCivil society is a huge spectrum ranging from the ultra rich to the destitute Indian. The majority in civil society benefits from democracy; a very small slice benefits from arbitrary decision-making\u2014the ruling power elite. The large section which wants democracy will have to persistently question, oppose and demand adherence to constitutional values and the rule of law. This large conglomerate will also have to look for common platforms to articulate a non-negotiable set of principles and values. Constant vigilance and monitoring are critical. That is why the accountability laws\u2014the Lokpal, the Grievance Redressal Bill, the Whistle Blowers Act\u2014assume great significance. Social audits and public hearings emphasise the citizen\u2019s right to monitor, plan and participate at every stage of governance. The laws may be in place, but all governments are dragging their feet on their implementation.\n* What are the most important and urgent pieces of legislation and social welfare measures needed to make a change in the life of people who live in abysmal conditions, who comprise the majority of the population?\nIn addition to all that has been mentioned earlier, we also need a comprehensive policy on agriculture to alleviate farmer distress. Public education and the health care system in India are in very urgent need of an overhaul and prioritisation. Our system is being pushed to privatisation where the poor are excluded. A quick look at indebtedness shows that health problems are a major factor that pushes people into debt traps and endemic poverty. In short, we need universal public health care and education, people\u2019s control over natural resources, minimum guarantees for labour and farming, strong measures against discrimination, and a participatory governance system. Campaigns and people\u2019s movements have been campaigning for these issues for decades.\nEnvironmental degradation and its correlation with marauding capitalism and growth or development are a huge concern. This goes beyond social welfare measures. The fact that we always think of nature as waiting to be \u201cexploited\u201d shows how little we care for what is the basis of all our collective lives. Only when natural disasters hit us do we stop to consider how much of it is man-made. It is pertinent that saving our environment gets priority and necessary policy is put into place for this. We also need to repeal laws that are anti-democratic, such as the UAPA [Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act], that override the Constitution.\n* Neoliberal ideologists propound the argument that the government does not have enough financial resources to fund social welfare measures, which are seen as \u201cnon- productive\u201d. This is used to push the privatisation agenda. Do you buy this argument?\nThere are two fallacies in this argument. The first is the assumption that there aren\u2019t enough financial resources at a time when there is news about record tax collections, whether it is income tax or GST or tax on the sale of petrol and diesel. When the government claims that revenues are higher than ever before, making this argument seems duplicitous. Especially when the government seems to find money for projects like bullet trains and we have public financial institutions giving massive loans to the private sector! One only needs to see who is benefitting from the so-called \u201cgrowth\u201d in order to know what the priorities are.\nThe second flaw in the argument is dubbing welfare spending as \u201cnon-productive\u201d. The nature of the MGNREGA or other such \u201cwelfare\u201d programmes is that they build up the most important part of any structure: human resources and the development of remote areas. Democracy also needs vigilance; along with participation in economic programmes from planning to benefits, it equips the ordinary citizen [with the skills] to learn how to cope with interfacing with government structures locally, understanding the law and its implementation better. It also depends on how production or assets are viewed. For instance, the MGNREGA can also be seen as a massive political education programme on democracy and the role of responsible questioning and suggesting of methods of improvement along with accountability of expenditure. The reaction of the centres of power is to the questions on corruption and the arbitrary use of power\u2014tools of impunity from the law and unaccountable public spending.\nThe question is, would this country benefit it were to spend on public education and health? Is it non-productive if it leads to better jobs? Is the economy of a nation not affected by illness and a sick population? If so, spending on health is productive and this argument is basically fallacious.\n* The Women\u2019s Reservation Bill is now in cold storage. It seems that the present government, too, will not take the initiative to get it passed. What is the importance of the Bill and how important is it to pass it as early as possible?\nThe Bill is critical because of the under-representation of women in political parties and in elected bodies. The argument for women\u2019s reservation can also be made from the success in panchayat and other elections, where they have reservation up to 50 per cent and which has led to substantive empowerment in many ways. But the political climate is influenced by a small patriarchal, vocal and militant right-wing fundamentalist group which pins all economic privations in society on reservation. In that battle, this demand is conveniently subsumed and set aside.\nLiteracy & the right to contest elections\n* The Haryana Panchayati Raj (Amendment) Act, 2015, made a matriculation pass, among other criteria, necessary if one wanted to contest in local body elections. This significantly restricted the ability of the poor, women, Dalits and others to contest. Later, the Supreme Court upheld this law. How does such a law affect the democratic process and what precedent does it set?\nThis will disqualify 95 per cent of rural women and 80 per cent of the electorate above 40 years from standing for elections. If illiteracy is such a bane, how can a PIL demanding that the corrupt be debarred from standing for elections be dismissed by the Supreme Court [judgment delivered on September 25, 2018, on writ petition (civil) No 536 of 2011], which asked the political parties instead to publicise the corrupt candidates from their parties, an impossibility! If they float corrupt candidates, they can hardly be expected to broadcast their corruption.\nThe answer is perhaps that it is a deliberate move to ensure that the elite capture grass-roots democracy. In one stroke, it lays the blame and burden of education on the people and ensures the continuance of power in the hands of the privileged. The running of governments needs to take all matters into consideration! Women, Dalits and tribal people at the bottom of the pile will be the most affected.\nNaurti, the former sarpanch of Harmara (Ajmer district), was classified as \u201cilliterate\u201d. She learnt how to use the computer at the age of 50 and teaches middle and high school leavers computer literacy. She uses the website of the Ministry of Rural Development. But she has no Class 8 certificate! Who is the more skilled among us is debatable. Of course, literacy is an essential tool, which is why the state has a basic responsibility to ensure that people have the right to education. However, the certificate of passing an exam may have little to do with real skills. Literacy, in any case, cannot be made more important than intelligence and ethics, which are native to the human species.\nIf literacy was a remedy to competent governance, then corruption should have reduced and people\u2019s participation increased to demand ethical governance. The State governments as well as the Centre proudly tout formal learning as an unnecessary criterion in the choice of their Ministers! Like literacy, mandatory toilets and having no more than two children are arbitrary criteria only for panchayat elections and raise many unanswered questions. Does a panchayat member need to be more qualified than an MLA or an MP, 90 per cent of whose jobs require the written word, unlike that of the sarpanch, who deals with the human condition?\n* Indian society is highly patriarchal, and violence against women in various forms is increasing in society. On the one hand, there are the feudal elements that want to negate the independence and dignity of women, and on the other, there are capitalist developments that commoditise women\u2019s bodies and identity. As an activist and as a woman, please elaborate on the challenges you encountered in the liberation struggles and empowerment of women.\nFeminism is more than specific roles, although it is also that. In a world view where the market, militarism and warmongering feature at the top of the list, women have to face macho tendencies everywhere. The sale of arms and market mechanisms combine to define people as commodities, in which women suffer the most. The challenge is in language, idiom, dress, employment, relationships and all things else. Life itself becomes more difficult, including movement from place to place. Women are at the bottom of the list and an ageing poor woman has no space in society. It gets reflected in budget allocations, health and in job opportunities. In the marriage market, too, where the buying and selling of women has become common practice with all advertisements targeting dowries and glamourised weddings. Women suffer whether it is dowry or bride price. Sex-selective abortions show how extreme and prevalent this attitude is. Revival of regressive social practices has further compounded matters. Witch-hunting, khap panchayats and love jehad are whipped up by a government claiming progress.\n* Why did you decide to quit the IAS and move to social activism? What and who inspired you to become a social activist? How do you reflect upon your life as a social activist?\nAll bureaucracies work for the status quo. Any attempt to change must come from the world outside. The IAS is trained to make policy work, and at best it may be able to suggest policy and what should be done to strengthen constitutional principles. When those principles themselves are set aside by the combine of politicians, vested interests and a pliable civil service, the road outside offers more possibilities to work logic through, even if one has to struggle. There is more reality and less rhetoric, and you are your own conscience keeper.\nJipson John and Jitheesh P.M. are fellows at Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and contribute to various national and international publications including The Indian Express, The Wire and Monthly Review. 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Nellie is much in demand for her 'New Irish Blues' and her 'Erotic Writing For The Elderly Lady' recitations in both the US and Ireland.\nAs a Voiceover Artist, \u00d3rla's work is diverse, ranging from soft narrative work for Film, to dialect work for Commercial use, to comedic character for Animation. In live Theatre, \u00d3rla is very interested in devised work and new work in general. She has participated in several New Play readings, and has made regular appearances as an actor for cold readings as part of Seattle Dramatists exciting 'Open Box' Series. She is a current member of The Attic Studio, Dublin. She is a company member of Baba Yaga and Edge Theatre Ensemble, and has written and performed her own work at venues such as Union Garage, Freehold Theatre and On The Boards. \u00d3rla is (2007)currently residing in the West of Ireland, working in all aspects of craft. 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While making money is one way you know that selling that idea is creating value for customers, it is not the only definition of success. There are many ways to spell SUCCESS. This is what we consider successful entrepreneurship and how we often describe a successful entrepreneur. Success is very much in the eye of the beholder and depends on the goals the entrepreneur has set for themselves. We have more to say about both the entrepreneurial mindset and success later in this book.\nIf you were to name a few successful entrepreneurs today, you are likely to mention Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Martha Stewart, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey, and perhaps Henry Ford because you know or even own and use their products. Not all of you will know who Peter Thorw\u00f6ste, Josiah Wedgwood, Erling Persson, Billy Durant, or Anita Roddick are. However, many of you know or own products from companies for whom these were the founders: FISKARS scissors, Wedgwood china, H&M clothing, General Motors, or the Body Shop cosmetics.\nConsider Peter Thorw\u00f6ste, who founded Fiskars Ironworks in 1649, which today is known as FISKARS, the global company manufacturing not just of the scissors with the orange handles (see Figure 1.1) but also garden tools, ceramics, and boats. Fiskars is today a leading global supplier of branded consumer products for the home, garden, and outdoors. Brands like Fiskars, Iittala, Royal Copenhagen, R\u00f6rstrand, Arabia, Buster, and Gerber all belong to the Fiskars brand palette.\nFigure 1.1 Fiskars scissors.\nThen there is Josiah Wedgwood, an English potter who founded the Wedgwood pottery firm in 1759. This firm\u2019s products are still selling, and the brand Wedgwood china (along with its Waterford Crystal line) is known worldwide for its quality (see Figure 1.2). While writing this book, we learned that Fiskars on May 11, 2015 agreed to acquire the WWRD group. In addition to Wedgwood, other luxury brands in WWRD include Waterford, Royal Doulton, Royal Albert, and Roga\u0161ka. These brands are now part of this very same Finnish family firm. This is a great reminder of how successful entrepreneurs can create ventures and products that continue to impact business and the lives of consumers several hundred years later.\nFigure 1.2 Wedgwood pottery.\nSo is Heinz, today most well-known for its ketchup. Few of us may know that their breakthrough product was pickled horseradish. Their well-known logo \u201857 Varieties\u2019 created in 1896, and was the first electric sign on Manhattan lit in 1900. Recently H. J. Heinz has been purchased from the founding family by Warren Buffett\u2019s Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital. Then there is the Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company that changed not only manufacturing processes but also the automotive industry. The firm still remains largely in family control through a complex ownership structure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=31281&seqNum=7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:29Z", "digest": "sha1:XE6XHG5CA5ABV5VH4KOQUTULJPL4DTB6", "length": 7685, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.informit.com", "title": "The Details of the Document Object Model (DOM) | Defining the Document Object Model | InformIT", "raw_content": "In this chapter from \"XML Development with Java 2,\" the authors cover the details of the Document Object Model, focusing in particular on the DOMII APIs.\n\"The Document Object Model is an Applications Programming Interface for HTML and XML documents.\"\n\u0097W3C, Document Object Model Level 1 Specification\nThe term \"model\" is one of those all-purpose terms that everyone uses. For our purposes, a model is a representation of an object. Models can be complete, incomplete, or somewhere in between. In the case of DOM, the model represents an XML document. An incomplete model only partially replicates the object it models, whereas a complete model mimics everything down to the smallest detail. In the DOM specification, each element of an XML document is represented, making the DOM a complete model. The DOM also defines a set of interfaces that developers, and perhaps others, can implement allowing concrete programmatic representations of XML documents. In essence, the DOM is three things:\nModel\u0097 The DOM models an XML document. The DOM serves as a complete model representing each and every aspect of an XML object, allowing that object to be completely re-created from the model's data. The DOM Core Level I is a complete model providing for all the required manipulations. The DOM Core Specification says explicitly that \"With the Document Object Model, programmers can build documents, navigate their structure, and add, modify, or delete elements and content.\"\nSet of Requirements\u0097 The DOM is a set of requirements, defined by the W3C, that each implementation of the DOM must follow. The next section introduces and discusses the DOM implementation requirements.\nSet of Object Definitions\u0097 The DOM is an object-oriented specification that specifies a set of interfaces, properties, and behaviors for each object. We will examine the interfaces in detail shortly. Examples of properties are getNodeName, getParentNode, and getChildNodes. DOM Object definitions also require that every DOM object follow certain behavioral patterns. An example of these patterns is that each object can have only one parent and can have zero or more children. The exception to this pattern is the root document, which does not have any parents.\nAt first glance, the DOM appears to be one more thing, an implementation. While individual companies may implement the DOM, the W3C specification provides no implementation. The specification leaves implementation to Sun, IBM, Oracle, or to any user. Anyone could, in fact, implement a DOM. Last time I checked, there were implementations for C++, Python, Perl, Smalltalk, Gecko, and a slew of other languages. For Java alone, companies such as Sun, Microsoft, Netscape, Oracle, IBM, Docuverse and others had all committed to supporting the DOM in one fashion or another and providing Java implementations. Let's now get back to what the W3C actually defined and how we might use it.\nDOM Requirements\nBecause the W3C defines specifications rather than implementations, it needs to define the general requirement of any implementation. The following list, taken directly from the W3C's requirements document for DOM, defines each of these requirements. Let's now look at each to understand what they mean.\nThe Document Object Model (DOM) is an Applications Programming Interface (API) for HTML and XML\u0097 Simple enough, the DOM defines the APIs through which we access XML documents.\nThe Object Model is language neutral and platform independent\u0097 This is perhaps one of the most important aspects of the DOM, DOM specification is not dependent on any specific platform or language. As a result of the independence of the specification, developers are free to provide an implementation in any available language. All the DOM does is specify what interfaces, methods, attributes, and properties the DOM objects provide.\nThere will be a core DOM that is applicable to HTML, CSS and XML documents\u0097 Basically, the DOM Core supports only HTML, CSS, and XML. Don't expect to process some other language with the DOM.\nThe Object Model can be used to construct and deconstruct the document\u0097 Models typically vary in how complete they are. The DOM is defined to be complete. Anything that you can validly create can also be read later.\nThe Object Model will not preclude use by either agents external to the document content, or scripts embedded within the document\u0097 The DOM will not stop you from processing your XML document with some other method (perhaps SAX or your own parser).\nConsistent naming conventions must be used through all levels of the Object Model\u0097 Properties are properties are properties! A good model is consistent and doesn't change its nomenclature for different objects or at different levels.\nA visual UI component will not be required for a conforming implementation of the Object Model\u0097 The DOM is a programming API and is not designed around how a document is displayed. No requirements are imposed on how the developer presents DOM modeled documents.\nThe specific HTML, CSS or XML document object models will be driven by the underlying constructs of those languages\u0097 Simply put, DOM objects follow the ebb and flow of the thing they represent rather than force all documents to be represented in a generic format.\nIt must be possible to read in a document and write out a structurally isomorphic document\u0097 If you read in and write out a document, the end result will be the same as the starting result (assuming that you didn't change anything).\nThe Object Model will not expose the user to problems with security, validity, or privacy\u0097 DOM Implementors must not reply on platform, security, or language-specific mechanisms to process XML and HTML documents.\nThe Object Model will not preclude other mechanisms for manipulating documents\u0097 If you have another way for processing your documents, great! The DOM is not the only game in town. You aren't forced to use it if you don't want to!\nIn addition to the things the DOM is, there are a number of things that are beyond the scope of the DOM. The following list describes some of what the DOM specifically is not or does not provide for.\nThe DOM does not implement all of \"Dynamic HTML,\" in particular, events\u0097 The DOM Core Level I does not specify everything under the sun but rather sets a sound foundation for processing XML. Events and other important but secondary concepts are left to Level II.\nThe DOM is not a binary specification\u0097 While the DOM specifies a number of interfaces, it does not require anything beyond source level compatibility between documents.\nThe DOM is not a way of persisting objects to XML\u0097 The DOM specifies how XML objects are represented via an API but leaves the external representation to XML. The primary focus of DOM is to define how objects can be used in programs, not how they are stored externally.\nThe DOM is not a set of data structures\u0097 While the DOM represents parent/child relationships, these relationships are logical and may be implemented as required.\nThe DOM does not define \"the true inner semantics\" of XML\u0097 While XML documents are represented as objects within DOM, their underlying semantics are defined by the XML language specification and not by the DOM itself. The DOM is simply a vehicle through which these semantics of an XML document can be manipulated.\nThe DOM, despite its name, does not compete with COM (The Component Object Model)\u0097 COM is a mechanism to specify binary interfaces and objects for runtime interoperability in much the same way the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) does. The DOM specifies a number of logical objects and interfaces but does not specify any binary level compatibility.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 10747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.interment.net/data/us/in/marion/crownhill/index.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BPW5H3KSJ5YVGKVQCMPNFUN454QJSCMQ", "length": 1114, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.interment.net", "title": "Crown Hill Cemetery - Marion County, Indiana", "raw_content": "Home > United States > Indiana > Marion > Crown Hill Cemetery\nIndianapolis, Marion County, Indiana\nTotal records = 1,822\nNational Cemetery Lot\nThe Crown Hill National Cemetery lies on the grounds of Crown Hill (private) Cemetery. Records of burials were provided to this website by the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs, on July 2, 2000. This is not a complete list of burials, only those that are on file with the VA.\nSurnames L-Z\nConfederate Soldier's Lot\nThe remains of 1,616 Confederate prisoners of war who died at Camp Morton in Indianapolis during the Civil War were originally buried in Greenlaw Cemetery. In 1931, their remains were reburied in Crown Hill Cemetery. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has records for only 957.\nSurnames I-Q\nRecords of burials have been provided by contributors of Cemetery Records Online.\nView Visitor Submitted Records\nCrown Hill Cemetery - Official Website\nIndiana Newspapers, Full Search (1804-1992), 150 titles - GenealogyBank.com\nIndiana Obituary Search, (1988-current) - GenealogyBank.com\nIndiana Funeral Notices - GenealogyBank.com\nSearch Indiana Cemeteries", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.irishnews.com/sport/hurlingandcamogie/2018/12/22/news/cushendall-s-eunan-mckillop-hoping-to-finish-his-career-on-a-high-1511560/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BPBXWMIXQNKCTOJSG45BAHUWWKGUA5IA", "length": 4013, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.irishnews.com", "title": "'); Cushendall's Eunan McKillop hoping to finish his career on a high - The Irish News", "raw_content": "Cushendall's Eunan McKillop hoping to finish his career on a high\nSWANSONG: Eunan McKillop will quit hurling at the end of the season Picture: Seamus Loughran\nEunan McKillop plans to give more time over to developing his unique 'B Express' App, a novel way of pre-ordering bottles of beer to avoid queues at the bar\nEUNAN McKillop is adamant this will be his last season wearing the famous Ruairi Og, Cushendall jersey.\nThe highly-decorated hurler says time has finally beaten him \u2013 but he hopes to leave the stage with an All-Ireland winner\u2019s medal in 2019.\nNow 35, McKillop has been playing senior hurling for 18 years. He made his league debut in 2000 and had to wait a further three years before making his championship bow.\nHe has two young kids, he works as a development officer for the housing association and has also devised an App \u2013 called 'B Express'.\n\u201cI\u2019m 100 per cent certain this is my last year,\u201d said the veteran.\n\u201cI decided last year that I was retiring but over the winter I mellowed and I decided to give it another year.\n\u201cTime-wise, it\u2019s fairly difficult. I\u2019d be up at six o\u2019clock most mornings and it would be close to one o\u2019clock in the morning by the time you\u2019re getting to bed. It\u2019s not been easy but hurling is something I enjoy doing and am passionate about.\u201d\nBut, before we talk about trying to take down Galway champions St Thomas\u2019s in February\u2019s All-Ireland semi-final, a bit about his App invention.\nThe \u2018B\u2019 is short for bottle. The idea is simple and original.\nThe App is designed to skip the queues in bars and nightclubs. The idea has been germinating in McKillop\u2019s head as far back as 2013 at a Bruce Springsteen concert in the King\u2019s Hall, Belfast.\n\u201cWe had a few drinks before and after the concert but not during it because the queues were too long to get a drink. I just thought: \u2018Why don\u2019t they have a bottle-only bar here where you can just pick them up?\u2019\nThe idea resurfaced at a friend\u2019s wedding last year. Same issue. Long queues at the bar. Enough was enough.\nSo McKillop decided to do something about it and patented the 'B Express' App where you can pre-pay for your bottles of beer and pick them up, hassle-free.\n\u201cThe bottles are sitting waiting for you,\u201d he says.\n\u201cYou\u2019re not waiting on cocktails being mixed or spirits being poured. You\u2019re up and away again. There are other Apps across the world that are doing drinks but there are queues at all those App areas because they offer everything.\u201d\nThe four-times Antrim and Ulster Club winner has rolled out \u2018B Express\u2019 in a couple of nightclubs in Belfast and is hoping his queue-avoiding idea will start to take root.\nWhen he\u2019s not thinking about where to try his 'B Express' App next, he\u2019s trying to help Cushendall to their second All-Ireland final in three years.\nIn 2016, Limerick and Munster champions Na Piarsaigh wiped the floor with the Antrim men in a painfully one-sided All-Ireland decider.\nAnd while St Thomas\u2019s have some high-class operators in their ranks \u2013 including inter-county star Conor Cooney \u2013 McKillop insists the experience of 2016 will stand to Eamonn Gillan\u2019s side.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll go into the All-Ireland semi-final with no nerves because we know we\u2019re capable and we have a solid, all-round panel,\u201d said McKillop.\n\u201cSt Thomas\u2019s have a few unbelievable players \u2013 Conor Cooney is phenomenal, David Burke, Shane Cooney \u2013 but we are very composed unit this year. That filters down from the management.\u201d\nCushendall reclaimed the Antrim title at the end of October after overcoming arch rivals Loughgiel Shamrocks in the decider.\nUnder Gillan, the Ruairi Ogs are playing a more direct style of hurling and it seems to be suiting them.\n\u201cThis year we have Conor Carson and Sean McAfee in at full-forward,\u201d McKillop said.\n\u201cIt may not be nice ball into them but it\u2019s quick ball and they\u2019re both capable of winning the 50-50s. Other years we were playing the ball up but it\u2019s been slow and it allows the opposition to crowd our forwards out, but what we\u2019re doing this year seems to suit us better.\u201d\nRuairi \u00d3gs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 8526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.islandersmagazine.com.ng/2016/07/47years-old-man-to-6years-old-girl-i.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7PWEPVN6EW7UH2HCX4B73M57XSM7O36S", "length": 2520, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.islandersmagazine.com.ng", "title": "- Islanders Magazine", "raw_content": "47years old man to 6years old girl: I slept with you only once, not five times\nA 47-year-old security guard, Victor Osubie, is in police custody for allegedly defiling a 6-year-old girl, Bola (real name withheld), in the Sagamu Road area of Ikorodu, Lagos.\nIt was alleged that the ma, who works at an events centre used by Bola\u2019s mother as an event planner, slept with Bola severally. But the bubble burst on May 30, 2016, when he reportedly did it again.\nAccording to report, Victor had inter-course with the little girl after she returned from an errand. He was said to have taken the kid inside his room, asked her to pull her clothes and then did it with her. The innocent child was taken to Ikorodu General Hospital for medical examination which confirmed that she had \"bad\" inter-course severally.\nThe case was reported at Sagamu Police Division, Ikorodu Road but the suspect allegedly fled when police came to arrest him. He was, however, nabbed penultimate Wednesday, while the case was transferred to the State Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, Panti for further investigation.\nNarrating how she was allegedly slept with by the suspect, the Basic Two pupil said: \u201cUncle Victor called me to help him buy MTN N100 recharge card for him. When I went to the place where they sell the recharge card, the people were not around. So I went back to give him his money. After giving him his money, he called me back, asked me to pull my pants and he put his manhood inside my private part.\n\"Uncle has done it five times to me. The first time was after my graduation ceremony (from kindergarten) last year July.\u201d\n\u201cLater I saw her walking out of one of the rooms attached to the gallery used by the security guard, Victor. As she got close to where I was, she kept saying, `Mummy, please doesn\u2019t tell my daddy. Mummy, please doesn\u2019t tell my daddy\u2019. I promised her I won\u2019t tell her daddy. But I noticed she was really scared. When she got close me, I held her and I asked her what the matter was. I was shocked when she opened up and alleged that Victor, the security guard whom I have helped countless times, had repeatedly had inter-course with her.\nLooking dejected, the suspect, whose wife and kids are said to be resident in Delta State, said: \u201cI was mad when I did it. I didn\u2019t know what came over me. What will my family and friends say when the news gets to them that I had inter-course with a six-year-old? My wife and kids are in Delta State. I live alone in Lagos. It is only once that I did it.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.islandssounder.com/letters/no-on-school-bond-letter-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BZWXKEY72NKATSEC6ZHAMJEL42UDEKGX", "length": 2111, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.islandssounder.com", "title": "No on school bond | Letter | Islands' Sounder", "raw_content": "Mon Jan 30th, 2017 12:03pm\nThe Orcas Island School District has placed before the voters a proposal seeking funding for many important and critical projects. I fully support OISD in completing the critical repairs and upgrades to the physical plant, but I am left to wonder why some of the critical items originally identified by the district were left off the list. In deciding on the final bond project list, the district chose to remove items that not only had universal public and staff support but also left off critical uncompleted infrastructure items. The exclusion of these items comes at the expense of adding a new track and field to the campus.\nThe district has championed the track and field because with the promise of its construction comes a $1 million gift to assist with the construction costs. That is a phenomenal gift, except that the gift generates a $1.36 million obligation of taxpayers funds to complete the project. That is $1.36 million that will not be spent repairing and replacing the elementary school windows and failing concrete lintels, $1.36 million that will not be spent completing the never completed high school parking lot and $1.36 million that will not be spent configuring the elementary school classrooms to meet the current educational needs despite staff and community surveys, which rank each of those items as being of greater importance. Further, the gift obligates the district for the foreseeable future by creating a facility that will require an estimated $20-40k annually in currently unbudgeted maintenance expenses that will be added to their already underfunded maintenance budget.\nWhile I believe that there are many items of critical importance in the upcoming school bond proposal that desperately need funding, for the first time as a resident of Orcas Island, I will be voting against a school bond. My unwillingness to approve the bond is not rooted in a disdain for taxes nor is it rooted in any ill-will towards the school. It comes in a hope that by rejecting this bond we can focus the district on maintaining the assets we have.\nJustin Paulsen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.itp.net/610160-uae-shoppers-embrace-mobile-e-commerce-but-pay-cash-on-delivery;-report", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:08Z", "digest": "sha1:NHGT5XNWQYMMKBAEZ6RDFAFYULJ32CPO", "length": 1813, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.itp.net", "title": "UAE shoppers embrace mobile e-commerce but pay cash on delivery; report - ITP.net", "raw_content": "UAE shoppers embrace mobile e-commerce but pay cash on delivery; report\nAWOK.com highlights shopper habits in the UAE\nThe study found that 80% of the shoppers accessed the online shopping website using mobile phones, 18% through desktops and 2% via tablets.\nUAE e-commerce company, AWOK.com discovered that UAE ranks high on the world map of mobile penetration, which is reflected in the rise in the mobile shopping trend.\nThe study found that 80% of the shoppers accessed the online shopping website using mobile phones, 18% through desktops and 2% via tablets. However, despite the right in mobile shopping, the study showed that 75% of customers prefer to pay cash or card on delivery, compared to 25% that opt to pay online.\nUlugbek Yuldashev, owner and MD, AWOK.com, said: \"There is great opportunity for e-commerce businesses and payment providers to work closer to offer multiple payment options that consumers in the UAE can use safely and conveniently. We have seen an increase in the percentage of customers choosing to pay online, which indicates growing trust among consumers in this sector.\n\u2018Given the increasing appetite for online and mobile shopping in the country, responsible digital retailers are committed to improving systems to offer seamless and more secure online shopping processes for customers.\"\nThe study also highlights that online shopping is immensely more popular among men than women in the UAE, as 74% of the shoppers on the website are male and 26% are female, and the typical online customer is between 25 to 34 years old.\n\"The statistics that we have reflects the pulse of the country's online retail sector. At AWOK.com we watch the trends closely to consistently develop exceptional experience for consumers as well as constantly improve our offerings\", concluded Yuldashev.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ivanofnmu.com.ua/about-ukraine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:17Z", "digest": "sha1:X2P4GRMLEVHSRGFTMEWVDWCTYRF6RAR2", "length": 6723, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.ivanofnmu.com.ua", "title": "About Ukraine - Ivano Frankivsk National Medical University", "raw_content": "Ukraine is a country in the East of Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km\u00b2 making it the largest contiguous country on the European continent.The neighboring countries of Ukraine are: Belarus, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova and Poland . To the South Ukraine is washed with Black Sea and Sea of Azov. The country has the sea boarders with Turkey, Bulgaria and Georgia.\nThe neighboring countries of Ukraine are: Belarus, Russia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova and Poland . To the South Ukraine is washed with Black Sea and Sea of Azov. The country has the sea boarders with Turkey, Bulgaria and Georgia.\nUkraine is a state with the democratic form of governing, headed by the nation-wide elected president. The verkhovna Rada (the Ukranian parliament) is the highest legislative body. It consists of 450 members, elected for 4-term in accordance with the proportional majority system. On August 24, 1991 Ukraine declared itself an independent state. In an effort to rebuild the country of Ukraine has opened her doors to foreign investors, businessmen, and foremost to tourists.\nUkraine has always been hospitable and friendly, always happy to receive foreign businessmen, foreign guests, tourists and students.\nThe richly talented Ukrainian people have created wonderful architecture, many monuments both secular and religious, dating from 11th to 18th centuries can be seen in all throughout Ukraine towns and cities. If you get a chance, visit some of the many historic sites and towns, where numerous treasures will tell you of the great past and traditions. The past is reflected in the architecture and atmosphere of cities.\nUkraine has a well-developed economy with considerable portions of agricultural and industrial sectors. Space and rocket engineering, aircraft and ship building, high tech equipment production are among the main branches of the Ukrainian industry.\nSpace and rocket complex of Ukraine has great potential. Ukraine is distinguished by a high level scientific potential. After Ukraine regained its independence, ideas of nation cultural revival stimulated the process of democratization in cultural sphere, pluralism in a creativity process, made cultural life in the regions more active. Broadening of international contacts has become a positive tendency.\nCultural life of national minorities in Ukraine \u2013 Bulgarian, Greek, Jewish, Crimean Tartar, German, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Hungarian and dozens of others \u2013 is very diversified. A system of national schools, libraries, mass media, scientific centers, radio and television, theatres and creative societies is being developed. Languages of all peoples inhabiting the territory of Ukraine are granted equality on the state level.\nToday Ukraine is an internationally oriented center of high technology, with speech technology, micro electronics, chips development, media technology and genetic engineering as out standing examples. Thanks to international communications and transport systems it is literally the hub of central Europe.\nUkraine has well-developed economy with considerable portions of agricultural and industrial sectors. Space and rocket engineering, aircraft and ship building, high tech equipment production are among the main branches of the Ukrainian industry. Electrical equipment made in Ukraine is highly rated in the world. Power station turbines, transformers, high-voltage instruments are used in many countries.\nUkraine is distinguished by a high level scientific potential. The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine has won a world-wide recognition as a science center of physical studies of materials, in particular, in the sphere of electric welding, special electric metallurgy, synthetic super hard materials and tools made from them. The National Academy of sciences, higher educational institutions of Ukraine maintain broad international contacts. Broadening of international contacts has become a positive tendency.\nCooperation with developing countries: Ukraine attaches great importance to the international economic, scientific, medical and technological cooperation, particularly in the field of sharing the national experience with other countries. First of all it concerns training of highly skilled technical and medical personnel for developing countries. A lot of specialists from the developing countries have graduated from the educational institutions of Ukraine.\nHUMAN RIGHTS: As an independent state, Ukraine achieved a substantial progress in development of the national system and mechanisms in the sphere of protection of human rights and freedoms. Democratic elections, political pluralism, freedom of speech and mass media, establishing the democratic social state based on the rule of law have become reality. The human being, his or her life and health, dignity and safety are recognized in Ukraine as the highest social value. Ukraine became a party to all basic international instruments in the field of human rights.\nUkraine has always paid great attention to the United Nations activity in promotion and protection of human rights. The Ukrainian constitution also guarantees the right of every person to appeal to relevant international institutions and organizations for protection of his or her rights. Ukrainians openness, accessibility and efficiency are more than just empty words.\nHigher Education for Foreign students: As a foreign student you will discover a region full of surprising contrasts. You will find yourself quickly becoming part of it, especially during the many festivals and the intense cultural life, for which the region is famous.\nHigher education within the Ukrainian community has always been open to foreign students. Its student body comprised of men and women from all over the world has the invaluable experience of studying together with students from many different natural and cultural backgrounds. The contact with students all over the world broadens understanding of other peoples and provides valuable friendships, some of which last a lifetime.\nTRANSPORTATION: Ukraine is linked with most major European cities. Most international flights go to Ukraine. International trains enter Ukraine from several countries. Sail by ship is also available between various cities in the black sea and Mediterranean. All official land border crossings into Ukraine are unrestricted, if you have a visa ahead of time.\nGetting between major Ukrainian cities is best done by train and also by flight. They are frequent , cheap and often convenient journey. There are bus services to most cities and towns. Taxi services are numerous in Ukraine. For foreigners an international driving license is required to drive automobiles in Ukraine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 194.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jacksontidus.law/profile/james-h-shnell", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:COTCFA32HXNHRY3WBDHSOZABR75VX6NU", "length": 1585, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.jacksontidus.law", "title": "| Jackson Tidus", "raw_content": "Shnell\njshnell [at] jacksontidus.law\nAmerican Bar Association, Business Law Section, Project Finance and Development Committee\nForum for Corporate Directors\nJim Shnell has extensive transactional experience with the legal and business aspects of the financing and development of energy and other major projects. His experience in this area includes negotiating and closing equity and debt financings for such projects, as well as the negotiation and documentation of the network of complex transactions that support such projects. Jim previously practiced with a widely recognized international law firm. He has also served as the General Counsel and Vice President for a privately held energy project development company.\nJim also has experience with mergers and acquisitions, having represented acquiring entities as well as selling entities in a variety of contexts. He has also represented companies in obtaining equity, debt and mezzanine financing, and at other times he has represented the investors or lenders in such transactions.\nJim has counseled companies with respect to corporate governance issues and the protection and licensing of intellectual property. He also has broad experience in representing clients with respect to contractual and other general business matters.\nCalifornia Law Review, Associate Editor\nStanford University, A.B.,1972\nBoard of Directors, Harvard Business School Association, Orange County\n\u201cHow to Form and Structure Your Company\u201d\n\"A Procedural Treatment of Derivative Suit Dismissals by Minority Directors,\" 69 California Law Review 885 (1981).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jameseducationcenter.com/articles/appeals-arguments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:J72B3E23RL3G22MYBEX3PJ2NIC2XK5MF", "length": 355, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.jameseducationcenter.com", "title": "Checklist of Appeals Arguments | James Education Center", "raw_content": "E.STEP 4: PAST WORK\n\u201d____3. The ALJ failed to consider the effect of all of the claimant\u2019s impairments on his/her ability to perform his/her past relevant work.\nE.CREDIBILITY\nIII.ERRORS IN EVALUATING SPECIFIC IMPAIRMENTS\nE.OTHER IMPAIRMENTS\n\u201d____2. HYPERTENSION: The ALJ erred in determining that the claimant\u2019s blood pressure is controlled by medication.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 421, "original_length": 29302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jenablue.com/2014/05/18/guest-post-by-spoilers-below-resistance-is-useless-the-great-rainbow-caper/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OWGYSN2QQAEK6VPFDF5CFC65YGF7DMB5", "length": 16857, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.jenablue.com", "title": "Guest Post by Spoilers Below: \u201cResistance Is Useless!\u201d (The Great Rainbow Caper) | Jen A. Blue", "raw_content": "Guest Post by Spoilers Below: \u201cResistance Is Useless!\u201d (The Great Rainbow Caper)\nMay 18, 2014 guest posts, my little pony (gen 1), Spoilers Below\nSorry this is a bit late. Spoilers Below got this in with PLENTY of time, I\u2019m just a procrastinating suck.\nPatriarchy.jpg\nit can be hard to admit that you\u2019re not capable of doing something on your own, and sometimes there\u2019s a strong temptation to pass someone else\u2019s work off as something you did yourself. But a real friend would never do something like that! Not only would you not get away with it, but your friend would know never to trust you again, and if you can\u2019t trust your friends, who can you trust? If you work hard, your friends will always support your efforts, and working together is always better than working alone.\nWhat is it? The first single episode story of My Little Pony \u2018n Friends, and an exercise to see how much story they can tell in such a short time.\nWhat\u2019s it about? Two evil monkeys kidnap Danny and Surprise to force Megan into giving them the Rainbow of Light.\nIs it worth it? Eh. It\u2019s short, so you\u2019re not losing much there. What else are you up to for some random 11 minute stretch? It\u2019s not bad, but you also wouldn\u2019t be missing much by skipping it either.\nWhat else was happening? 3 October 1986 \u2013 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened, and a bizarre solar eclipse occurs, visible only for a few moments in parts of the Atlantic ocean, between Greenland and Iceland. We haven\u2019t advanced a week, so the movies and music are the same as they were with The Ghost of Paradise Estate.\nStrangeness and science make for a good segue into the episode, because that\u2019s the theme at work in these 11 minutes and 16 seconds. A tight episode, slotted into the now usual pattern of a 4 part story for Monday through Thursday, with a 1 shot on Friday to finish out the week.\nEpisode author Diane Duane is better known for her Star Trek and her Young Wizards series of novels, and will end up with dubious honor of being one of the highest profile authors MLP \u2018n Friends will have. At the time, though, Star Trek: the Next Generation hadn\u2019t begun airing, so the new wave of fans hasn\u2019t quite started battering down the doors, but let\u2019s talk about Star Trek anyways for a moment, because it gives a little lens into the episode. An inherently optimistic and utopian program, Star Trek envisions a post-scarcity future wherein the universe is patrolled and defended by a voluntary military force who do what they do simply because it is the right thing to do. They are called, and they serve. No one uses the world socialism out loud, because Americans have a kneejerk reaction to it, but what else do you call a planned society in which everyone is given tasks that they are qualified for after rigorous testing, where there is no economy because science, via the replicator, has made commerce essentially obsolete, and where a great deal of time is spent exploring the rest of the galaxy looking for other societies which are ripe for uplifting and integration into the federation once they have passed certain benchmarks? Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan, arguably the best of the films, states outright that \u201cThe needs of the many outweigh\u2026\u201d \u201cThe needs of the few\u2026\u201d \u201c\u2026or the one.\u201d Endless numbers of \u201credshirts\u201d are slaughtered throughout the various episodes with barely any acknowledgement by the rest of the crew so that the wheels of progress can keep turning, and the technocratic engines can continue to absorb and uplift and improve the rest of the galaxy. It will be found and understood, because that is the technocratic impulse that drives the Federation. Duane has already written the novel The Wounded Sky, parts of which will be incorporated into the script for Where No One Has Gone Before, postulating a hypothetical end point to this exploration, literally the outer rim of the galaxy, where reality and thought become one and the same thing.\nBut reality (those philosophically loved and despised \u201cthings-in-themselves\u201d our senses always are interpreting for us) and human thought are different. And science is constructed from human thoughts.\nBecause despite the protests of those who would demand otherwise, science does not control the world; that\u2019d be putting the cart before the pony. The universe does not \u201crun\u201d on mathematics, nor does it \u201cthink\u201d in terms of laws or theorems. The cosmos isn\u2019t a big computer, nor a large formula, though it helps us conceptualize to think of it as such. Best as we can tell, atoms move; that is all. Science, once you get into the theoretical aspects, is a system applied onto the world by mankind to make the world intelligible and predictable. Atoms move like this under these conditions, and so if we do this, then\u2026. To mangle Karl Popper\u2019s definition, science consists simply of those likely theories which have yet to be proven wrong. It is never infallibly Right. It is simply not wrong yet. It may be highly unlikely, and when one properly understand the rigors of testing and evidence necessary to even present a theory as likely, it does seem highly likely that certain scientific theories will never be proven incorrect. But we do not have enough hubris to say never. Should not, rather.\nAnd so, when science encounters something which it cannot properly explain, science must change to accommodate it. The world will not change to allow a pretty or convenient theory to continue existing for our sake.It is the nature of science to build around things it cannot yet understand. It is additive, absorbing the world, building boxes to encompass any new information and throwing out its old frameworks if they cannot accommodate the new information. Good bye, Tychonic system with your pretty epicycles, hollow Earths, luminiferous aether, spontaneous generation, miasma theory of disease, telegony, phlogiston theory, Aristotelian physics, electron clouds, emitter theory\u2026 We thought the universe used to be like that, but it turns out we were wrong. Maybe we got it right this time?\nNeedless to say, science is different from magic. To steal a quote from Lawrence Miles\u2019 This Town Will Never Let Us Go:\nA scientist points a device of death (let\u2019s call it a laser-gun) at a victim and fires. He knows every atom in the path of the beam will be incinerated, the target\u2019s skin will boil and burn away but those parts of the body left outside the beam will remain intact, and anything which happened to be around the victim will also suffer. Much of the floor is bound to be singed, not to mention the walls.\nOn the other hand, a magician points a device of death (let\u2019s call it a wand) and fires. She knows that the victim will vanish or turn to ash in his entirety, leaving everything around him intact, maybe even his clothes. That\u2019s the real difference. Magic is the art of meanings. The universe doesn\u2019t know where a human being ends and the clothes begin. The laws of physics only know atoms, not complete shapes. Only a magician\u2019s weapon recognizes the target as a target, and only magic understands context. Magic is context. (p.233)\nMad Larry is talking about weaponry here, but it would work for any sort of magic, not just the violent kind. We\u2019ll be back to science vs. magic in just a moment. Now, the Rainbow of Light is one such powerful magical item. Its central importance to this era of ponies is on par with later years\u2019 Elements of Harmony. And at the opening of this episode, we find Megan snuffing out the clouds with the Rainbow\u2019s magic as easily as the aforementioned magician destroyed her victims, so the ponies can pick cherries to make cherries jubilee without getting rained on.\nThe weather is such a highly complex system that predicting it with any accuracy even seven days out is terribly difficult using our most advanced technology, let alone actually changing it. Could you imagine the power of a device that could simply destroy clouds in an instant, then summon them right back again? The present reader\u2019s mind, of course, jumps ahead twenty-five years to the weather factories of Cloudsdale and the teams of Pegasi that patrol the skies with the utmost efficiency, keeping Equestria\u2019s weather managed to the most predictable moment. Their Rainbow is the element of loyalty, who, despite her brash demeanor and lazy attitude, is simply so good at her job that she has more than enough time to relax. But right now, back in the past, it\u2019s stuck in a small, easily stolen locket, and Megan is outraged that Danny would even consider engineering on that scale. \u201cPortable weather, great idea, huh Megan?\u201c No, it isn\u2019t, and she makes him put things back the way they were. Which, in this case, means back to the way they were when she was changing things to suit the needs of the group, not simply obeying the whims of one malicious malcontent.\nEnter the Gizmonks, Gonk and Glouda, a pair of advanced tool using apes who view the miraculous Rainbow of Light from afar on their steampowered television set, much like we viewers at home. After capturing Danny and Surprise with a falling cage, they come within one word of uttering the catchphrase that the Borg would a few years later. (So close, yet so far.) The two have already imprisoned numerous creatures, create fantastic devices that they don\u2019t understand, and seem to desire acclaim from their peers for their inventing prowess. It\u2019s implied that there is a society of Gizmonks, who trade in inventions and receive praise for creating. A magical item like the Rainbow of Light would work as a wonderful shortcut to said acclaim. But really, it would never work for them. Not if their society works anything like they say it does. Look at all the latest tools and gadgets they pass over in Danny\u2019s bag (\u201cNot the walkman! No, it\u2019s a computer, don\u2019t!\u201d). Could they credibly pass any of them off as their own? Of course not. Who\u2019d believe they were capable of creating something as brilliant and powerful as the Rainbow of Light?\nBecause, when you actually consider it, what these Gizmonks are doing isn\u2019t science. They even admit outright that they have no idea what some of their inventions do, and they create them with no specific tasks in mind, and no idea about their potential outcome. The throw things together and hope that they work. While many inventions are the result of lucky accidents or as the unintended side effects of trying to create something else (plastic, penicillin, pacemakers, microwave ovens, ink-jet printers, the slinky\u2026), actual science requires a formal hypothesis tested rigorously under controlled conditions, with variables accounted for, reproducible results, and lots and lots of math. Even the brute force style inventing of Thomas Edison\u2019s laboratories had a lot of rational thought and engineering put into trying parts that could work, and was being tested to see what worked best. Though inspirations and ideas may come from any number of sources, there are no accidental scientific theories. Einstein didn\u2019t wander onto the stage not realizing that it wasn\u2019t the patent office banquet he was supposed to be giving a toast for and start making up a story about looking into mirrors while travelling at the speed of light to get himself played off stage to applause without looking too embarrassed.\nThe Gizmonks want science to be magic, and it never will be. They don\u2019t even understand magic. Because magic requires thought and intention. Magic is context. And that context, as we know, is friendship. It\u2019s doubtful the Rainbow would work for Gonk and Glouda even if they acquired it. Magic isn\u2019t a shortcut or \u201cthe cheat codes of the universe\u201d any more than science is. It isn\u2019t a bypass on the easy road to happiness. Magic \u2014 understanding context and significance, why certain things are the way the are because of the situation they are in and why an action can mean totally different things depending on what surrounds it and when it happens \u2014 takes work. So does maintaining friendships. There\u2019s a difference between using the Rainbow to clear the skies to pick cherries with your friends, and using it to change the weather to suit your personal whims and pick on your sister. I\u2019d even go so far as to argue that while intent may not be magic, context is magic, and is in fact the only way in which certain things can ever be understood.\nOddly, there isn\u2019t even time for the ponies to confront and reject the Gizmonk\u2019s worldview. As with many episodes, the philosophical quandary is already resolved by the time they arrive, as Danny and Surprise have already busted the place up and come rolling out of the glass domed tower in a Trojan horse-like contraption that immediately falls to pieces. The ponies\u2019 hedonistic naturalism and lack of interest in controlling the world around them need not be questioned. Megan keeps them safe and innocent. She\u2019ll bear the weight around her neck for them.\n\u2014 I am, of course, being completely unfair to Star Trek up above. That Kirk and Picard and Sisko and Janeway are in almost constant rebellion against the directives from above, that they regularly encounter people and societies which desire no interference whatsoever from the Federation, and that the Federation\u2019s \u201cconquering with kindness\u201d impulses are mirrored darkly in the anonymous hivemind of the Borg, the xenophobic imperialism of the Romulans, and the cloying sadism of the Cardassians is very much the point. It\u2019s a fascinating and frustrating and wonderful series of programs and films to lose yourself in. If you need a guiding text, Josh Marsfelder is doing wonderful work here: http://vakarangi.blogspot.com/\n\u2013\u201dThe history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very few human activities \u2014 perhaps the only one \u2014 in which errors are systematically criticized and fairly often, in time, corrected. This is why we can say that, in science, we often learn from our mistakes, and why we can speak clearly and sensibly about making progress there.\u201d \u2013Karl Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: the Growth of Scientific Knowledge\n\u2013I hasten to add, for the benefit of myself and because I\u2019ve actually had people somehow come off with this impression when I talk about science and history and doubt, that no, I absolutely do not believe that, for example, the stars suddenly realigned themselves and quit moving in loop-de-loops and that the Earth suddenly shifted in place however many billions of light years to quit being the center of the universe (if such a place is even correctly thought of as existing) when the observations and theories of Copernicus and Galileo gained traction amongst the general human population. Yes, I used to play Mage: The Ascension too, and I read that one JLA story where Wonder Woman\u2019s lasso breaks, and I\u2019m quite familiar with the idea of consensual reality. I also happen to know how to separate the quite fictional trappings of a role playing game or comic book from quite genuine doubts I have that we are presently at the zenith of all knowledge and that there will never be anything ever proven to be false or incomplete ever again. I\u2019m as sure as I\u2019m going to be that black holes exist. I don\u2019t know enough to make any confident assertions regarding dark matter. If, for some reason, the Earth stops rotating and the Sun doesn\u2019t appear to rise tomorrow morning, I\u2019ve got a heck of a lot more problems than figuring out a new model of physics. All that said, vaccinate your kids so they don\u2019t die, global climate change is real and a major problem, and yeah, it totally sucks about Pluto and the Brontosaurus, but that\u2019s how things go sometimes. The old scientific theory is only discarded in favor of one that works better, not skeptically jeered at in advance just in case because you\u2019re afraid to admit you were wrong some day.\n\u2013And lest you think I\u2019m some crackpot, no, obviously magic of the kind wizards and sorcerers do isn\u2019t real. Well, aside from the kind of telepathy I\u2019m practicing right now, wherein I sit in a specific position for hours at a time, staring into a brightly lit screen that changes colors occasionally, moving my fingers across a board covered in symbols, and concentrating really hard on just the right words and ideas to send my thoughts all over the world and into the heads of interested parties who have screens of their own, who will see the symbols and know what they mean and may hear what they imagine my voice to sound like in their heads\u2026\n\u2013Oh, and the magic context that makes the example you might be thinking of okay is \u201cHey, want to see my impression of what a racist/sexist/transphobic/etc. jerk sounds like? You do? They sound like this\u2026\u201d\nNext week: Magical Mystery Cure, pt 2.\n\u2190 Not to get all cult-show on you, but\u2026\nNo, me! Stay good! Don\u2019t do it! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 335, "original_length": 22234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/OfMan.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:57Z", "digest": "sha1:3BJBEV6KCQXV3J2WMNSJLI3ZYXAGQUO7", "length": 6530, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.jesusfreakhideout.com", "title": "Cool Hand Luke, \"Of Man\" Review", "raw_content": "It has been a widely known fact that the follow-up to 2008's The Sleeping House would be the last Cool Hand Luke record. Since that time, the band has dwindled down to one lone member, spent some time touring, and recorded their eighth studio album, Of Man. The somber, piano-driven sound of this release will be familiar to CHL fans. Lyrically, this album focuses on Jesus' last days, but with a unique twist; the perspective often switches from Christ Himself to the people in His life. The ambitious nature of the album makes for a satisfying farewell to Cool Hand Luke's 13-year career.\nOf Man begins with an instrumental, which is perhaps the heaviest of the twelve tracks, before smoothly transitioning into the painful, \"Are You Coming?\" Tragically beautiful lyrics tell the story of a man who loses his faith after his wife passes away. A genuine sense of this character's torment can be felt through the softly sung lyrics and unsteady music. The end of the second verse gives the listener more information about who the man is and how he plays into the story of Jesus, \"Then a light came in the form of a man, I hit the floor and I lifted my hands, Then it told me the Lord will come soon, to eat the Passover in my extra room.\" The third track, \"Goodbye For Now,\" is Jesus talking to the disciples. Mark Nicks does a wonderful job at keeping the conversation grounded in the album's timeline, never saying more than what Jesus actually revealed to the twelve at this point. The mood is captured perfectly with lovely piano playing and strings joining in during the chorus. \"The Last Supper\" retains the viewpoint of Christ and fast-forwards to the song's namesake. It starts off with a sound similar to that of the last two tracks, but changes pace a little over two minutes in. The first-person camera shifts down the table and sits behind Judas Iscariot in \"The Silver.\"\nThe longest track on Of Man, clocking in at seven minutes and ten seconds, is \"His Eyes.\" Dynamic music composition makes for constant changes as the character describes his witnessing of Jesus being beaten and crucified. As the song charges forward, the vocals show this witness becoming more and more distraught and desperate. Temperate vocals evolve into emotionally packed, forceful singing and eventually into screaming. Crowds chanting \"Prophecy\" and \"Crucify\" can be heard in the background in parts of the song. Like most of the album, it is quite difficult to listen to due to the graphic subject matter. Regardless, Nicks deserves applause for his recapturing of this horrific event. Luckily, a soft piano instrumental called, \"The Burial\" follows. This was a smart inclusion as it provides a relief from the emotional depth of the previous track.\n\"The Confusion of Simon Peter\" describes the disciple reflecting on Jesus' promises and his attempt to make sense out of what just happened to the one who claimed to be the Savior, \"Son of God, Son of Man, Deceiver or the Great I Am?, Whom have I in heaven but You?, What on earth am I to do?\" The contemplative quality carries over to \"I Remember,\" this time from Mary's eyes. This song is relatively light compared to the rest of this collection. The setting switches to the tomb site, with the guards giving their account of how a dead man went missing. \"Not the End, Not the End\" brings the story and the album to a close, \"We lost Him then we had Him back, But only forty days, He lead us out to Bethany, And blessed us with His hands, We watched Him rise until we couldn't see him for the clouds.\"\nJust like the visual interpretations of these events are hard to look at, this album is equally as hard to listen to. This dark tone may keep many listeners away and keep the play count low for most others. From a musical standpoint, the album almost plays as one long fifty-minute piece. Despite the music always complimenting the message, some may walk away desiring more diversity between the songs. Small, petty complaints aside, this send off is a memorable one for Cool Hand Luke. The story told here is one we have all heard a thousand times. Sadly, it can become so familiar to us that it ceases to move us in the way it should. Of Man successfully squeezes out every bit of emotion the story was intended to evoke in our hearts. Anyone who enjoys softer music and has a desire to hear a distinctively different telling of the Passion events will want to listen to this album, even if it is only once.\n- Review date: 4/29/11, written by Jerold Wallace of Jesusfreakhideout.com\nCool Hand Luke caps their 13 year career off with a final release, Of Man. The album is not a disappointment, but it is a touch disappointing. Let me explain. The album is their most Christ-centered lyrically. According to Mark Nicks, \"The album tells the story of Jesus' final days from the perspective of the people in His life.\" The music is absolutely beautiful and piano dominated. In fact the only track that takes on a rock approach at all is the album best, \"His Eyes.\" Though the lyrical content is astounding and the music is brilliant, the album is tedious to listen to as a whole. Other than the peak of \"His Eyes,\" which is the seventh track, the album remains at a constant slow pace driven by Nicks on the keys. Although Nicks had help from many friends, he played all of the main instruments including piano, drums, synthesizers, other percussions, and provided the vocals. Of Man was completely self-funded and recorded. Though it would have been nice to see Cool Hand Luke go out with a bigger bang, for some reason Of Man seems to be a fitting farewell. Mark Nicks is finally committing to what he says is a 10 year calling to the seminary as he and his wife Brandy are moving to Orlando, Florida to begin the next chapter of their lives. If you were looking for a rockin' finale you may just want to download \"His Eyes\" and move on, but if you are looking for an album full of substance, you are going to want to check out Of Man. Listeners beware\u2026 If you don't typically listen to slower piano music, this may start to feel longer than the forty-nine and a half minute record that is. Good luck, Mark, and we pray that God is with you as you embark on this new journey in your life. - Michael Weaver, 5/2/11\nHoshana (2:06)\nAre You Coming? 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With five studio albums under their belt, carving a respectable career leaving a lasting impression on fans along the way, Bleach decided it was time to call it quits and played their final show this past August. As one of the few rock bands who have really expressed their appreciation of their fans, Bleach has made their final months as special and as memorable for them as possible. A fun and lengthy farewell tour, an unforgettable final performance, and current production on a sixth and final studio recording, Bleach is not going quietly. Among their 'parting gifts' is their first - and hopefully not only - DVD release, That's Our Life Up Until Now.\nThat's Our Life Up Until Now is an independently recorded and produced behind-the-scenes glance at life in the studio and on the road for the Bleach boys. Although members have come and gone since the band's inception, the roster has been the same now since about 2000 and the group has reached back that far in grabbing material for this release. The final result is an all-around silly and fun candid look at Bleach.\nThe \"movie\" featured on the DVD begins immediately with an in-studio look at the making of their 2001 record Again, For the First Time. Most of this lengthy segment is just the guys goofing off in the studio, lead by producer Oran Thornton (of Flick, formerly of johnny Q. public). The silliness is infectious and clearly fun, but it surprised me that more serious segments about the writing process of the record weren't included (maybe they were never even filmed?). As a fan myself, I would have found some exploration of the writing process intriguing at the very least. But to be fair, there really isn't anything about That's Our Life Up Until Now that is taken seriously. Even in the \"Interviews\" segment, the guys do not answer a single question with an honest answer. This is fine, and in fact makes the project one fun and lighthearted trip through Bleach history. However, if this is should be the last we'll get from these guys in the visual media department, it lacks the substance I think some fans will wish it would have had. I was especially holding out for some final show footage but was disappointed to find none included. The band briefly mentioned the possibility of a new DVD from the band coming in March, so we can only pray Tooth & Nail either allows the band to release the live footage independently or decides to release it themselves.\nOverall, That's Our Life Up Until Now is a really fun must-have for any true Bleach fan. If you're a more casual fan, you may not fully appreciate this release. Some montages of live footage and silly antics like a late-night browse through a gas station store, throwing themselves down a skateboard ramp without a skateboard and scaring the living daylights out of frontman Davy Baysinger while he's sleeping are just a few of the highlights on this project. While being an independent release probably limited what they could put on the project (no actual official music videos are included, which is unfortunate), perhaps the rumored 2005 Bleach DVD release will take care of what was missed. All in all, the boys bring the good times once again. (Disclaimer: The guys use the word \"cr*p\" many times throughout the course of the film as well as a few uses of \"p*ssed\" and \"s*cks.\" We realize this language is considered inappropriate to some and thought it should be noted.)\nReview date: 11/22/04, written by John DiBiase\nRecording of Again For The First Time\nThe Making of The Video (\"We Are Tomorrow\")\nThree homemade music videos:\n\"What Will Your Anthem Be\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 8276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jezebeljorge.com/2013/07/interview-with-liz-newman.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:51Z", "digest": "sha1:BIHJX7G4KFVZMFG65MSNAXVN34RYEGCZ", "length": 3043, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.jezebeljorge.com", "title": "Jezebel Jorge: Interview With Liz Newman", "raw_content": "It's my pleasure to have Liz Newman here with us today to answer a few questions about her writing.\n1) What name do you write under? Liz Newman\n2) What Genre do you write? I write historical, fantasy, contemporary, and paranormal fiction with strong romantic elements\n3) Tell me about your latest book you\u2019re promoting? The New Orleans Way is a historical romance released by Secret Cravings Publishing in both trade paperback and eBook. The novel is now on sale for a limited time on Amazon in Kindle format for the low price of only .99.\nThe book is set in the 1890s when New Orleans was on the verge of becoming the wonderful cultural haven that it is today. The manors of the Garden District and the French Quarter were being built and many of them still stand, electricity was first introduced, and the city's cuisine was blossoming with the blend of flavors and influences that have withstood the test of time. This was a time at the end of the influence of the Victorian age, when the many aspects of New Orleans that are its very signature began to burgeon.\nEverything comes at a price. Love. Security. Even happiness.\nOn the day of her debutante ball, Rosemarie Kuhn is heralded at \"The Next Great Lady of New Orleans.\" Despite her love for the lowborn private detective Michael Hennessy, she is betrothed by her mother to marry General George C. Boas. Spurned by the general and a false marriage certificate, she guns him down in front of his favorite tavern at St. Anthony Street. With her family's income in jeopardy, her home is turned into a casino for high class patrons funded by the first families who brought The Mafia to the United States. As her love for detective Michael Hennessy grows, she is torn from her desire for him and the promise she made to her dying mother.\n4) What is your favorite part of writing? My favorite part about writing is crafting a story that grows out of an idea. I love reading the finished product. The story always grows into something different than it's original genesis. The creative process is a unique journey to follow with every story, and there is always a new journey to be taken when the next book begins.\n5) What is one tip you would give a writer just starting out? Write, then rewrite, rewrite, rewrite; no matter how scary it is. A story is like a diamond; it needs to be refined. Your editor at the publishing house will tell you when it's truly done, but until that wonderful moment, it is up to the writer to make the book whatever he or she believes is absolutely perfect.\n6) Blog or Website address? www.lizrnewman.net\n7) Buy Links -\nSweet Cravings Publishing\nLeave a comment and win some swag! Blog tour participants are eligible to win one of three five dollar Amazon gift cards, a signed eBook of The New Orleans Way in trade paperback, an eBook of The New Orleans Way, bookmarks, pens, and other fun stuff. Winners will be announced on September 15th.\nLabels: historical, Liz Newman, New Orleans, Secret Cravings Publishing, strong romantic elements, The New Orleans Way", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jonathancooper.org/2005/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:39Z", "digest": "sha1:XHR6R45IO3C7YO6ILR4QGMIKOFQWN345", "length": 32795, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.jonathancooper.org", "title": "Jonathan Cooper Update: August 2005", "raw_content": "Well we have had a great week with lots of wonderful things happening in our family. Last Thursday, we got to go to Hurricane Harbor with some of our Aunts and Uncles. This is the first time that Elizabeth, Sarah and Jonathan have ever been. I really didn't figure that there would be much that Jonathan could do and I thought he would probably get tired of it pretty quick. Just the opposite happened. Jonathan did a fabulous job and thoroughly enjoyed his day there. Jonathan is proud to say that he only went down a couple of slides in the kid\u2019s area and he was able to ride about 3 of the big rides. Once again, this formerly cautious child had a great time on some pretty big, fast rides. It was so fun to see his excitement before we rode them and then to hear him say, \u201cThat was awesome!\u201d every time we got to the end. He also floated around the lazy river quite a bit and played in the wave pool. We went out in the morning and he didn't start wearing down until about 5 pm. It was a very proud accomplishment for Jonathan. On Sunday, the Sanctuary Choir at our church presented the musical \u201cExperiencing God.\u201d Sarah and I had the opportunity to sing solos in this musical. As I reflected on the songs that Sarah and I got to share with the congregation, I realized that we both sang songs that testified to what God has done in our lives this year and our relationship with Him. Sarah sang, \u201cYou are my Abba, my heavenly Father, You know my tears and my smiles \u2013 You are my Abba, my heavenly Father, and I am my Abba\u2019s child.\u201d Our children know God not only as their Father through salvation, but as the only Father who could take care of them and heal them when no one else could do anything. Back in January of this year, we were able to go to church one Sunday while Jonathan was still very critically ill and in a coma. During the invitation of that service we sang \u201cHave Thine Own Way\u201d. Before we finished that song, our pastor had us sing that song with Jonathan in it. \u201cHave thine own way Lord, have thine own way. You are the potter, he is the clay. Mold him and make him after Thy will, while he is waiting, yielded and still.\u201d My heart and mind were flooded with many memories as I was able to sing that same song on Sunday. The next part of the song I sang is about giving our lives to the Potter\u2019s Hand to take, to mold, to use, and to fill; to call us, guide us, lead us and walk beside us as we live each day of the life that God has given us. Jonathan is a constant reminder that our lives are held in the Father\u2019s hand and that as we allow Him to have His will and way in our lives; He molds us and makes us to be just like Him. Jonathan is still doing a great job playing handbells, singing in the choir and going to his classes at church on his own. On Sunday afternoon, Jonathan actually went to handbells with his Sunday School teacher who came to our house and picked him and Sarah up, then went on to choir with Sarah, and did it all without my being there to help. So he is making progress with his independence a little bit every week. Jonathan is still doing a great job with his school work. He is writing, reading, spelling, adding and subtracting and he can even quote you the list of prepositions from his grammar book. Tuesday brought us a wonderful blessing. We were invited to attend the ground breaking ceremony for the expansion of Our Children\u2019s House at Baylor in downtown Dallas, where Jonathan was inpatient for about 2 months. The CEO of Baylor shared Jonathan\u2019s story, recognized him during the ceremony, and invited him and a number of other children to help by wearing the hats and turning the dirt. It was such a special time for Jonathan and our whole family. Everyone treated Jonathan like he was a celebrity and the huge smile on his face showed just how special he felt. We saw our therapist, doctors, nurses and techs again. We thank God for each one of those special people who cared for Jonathan and who were used by God to help bring about Jonathan\u2019s healing. Today, Jonathan got his new camouflage braces before he had his therapy. He has really been looking forward to getting these. He even wore his camouflage shorts to match, his muscle shirt, his new sweat bands and he even had on his biker gloves, just to get his new braces! After he got his braces and had them adjusted, he went down to the gym and walked 10 minutes on the treadmill at 2 mph, which is the fastest he has ever walked on the treadmill. He did it without any problems. He did a few squats before going back upstairs to work in the office. His balance is continuing to improve, as is his stamina and endurance. We are praying that the braces will help to straighten his feet so that he doesn\u2019t walk on the sides of them, as well as provide some stability for his ankles. Overall, we are pleased and thankful for all the progress that we continue to see in Jonathan each day. Please pray for Jonathan, that he will continue to make progress each day. Pray that we will see progress with the new braces. Pray that his feet will begin to straighten out and that he will be able to walk properly on his feet. Pray for increased strength in his ankles. He has begun to complain about his ankles hurting more recently, mostly after he has been up walking a lot. Pray for increased strength in his legs also. Pray that Jonathan will continue to do well in school. Pray for continued progress in his independence. Continue to pray for complete healing of his brain, his vision and his diabetes. Jonathan is doing pretty well with his bladder control at night. Pray that he will be able to conquer this soon. Also pray for his eating and weight to level out. Our family is going camping tomorrow through the weekend. Pray that we will have a safe, relaxing, enjoyable time together as a family. We love each of you and are grateful for your prayers and support. Have a wonderful holiday weekend.\nThe Lord continues to bless Jonathan and our entire family each and every day. Last week, Jonathan did as good a job at therapy as he always does. He worked very hard and continues to improve on his exercises. Ms. Heather always does lots of different things with Jonathan and he always leaves tired and very sweaty! On Wednesday, we made a trip to downtown Dallas to have the mold made for Jonathan\u2019s braces. After we had that done, we stopped by Our Children\u2019s House for a short visit. Jonathan seems to enjoy going back there to see his therapists, nurses and techs. He continues to amaze them all by his phenomenal progress and most of all by how much he talks. It is such a blessing to be able to go back and show so many people the awesome miracle of healing that the Lord has done in Jonathan. Right after Jonathan got out of the hospital and was able to go back to Sunday School, one of his memory verses was Mark 5:19 - Go home to your friends and tell them what great things the Lord has done for you. Every day, God gives us the opportunity to fulfill that Scripture. On Thursday we went swimming and on Friday, we got to go bowling with some other home school friends of ours. This was the first time that Jonathan has gone bowling this year. He was very excited about it and he did a very good job. He stood by and watched the other kids bowl, he could pick up his ball, walk to the lane and throw it down without any problem. It was so much fun to watch him play. He even got a spare one time and overall came in second place in his group. We actually spent the rest of the day on Friday buying a car. Our family has been looking and praying for some time for another car that would pull our camper better than the one we had before. Our other car would only allow us to go close by home and we had to pull the camper with that car and haul everything and everyone else in our other car. God provided the right one at a good price and we were able to purchase that on Friday. Jonathan loves cars so this was an exciting thing for him. We are thankful for the answered prayer. During the weeks that we have been praying for the car, we would tell the kids that God would let us know which car we needed. Many times, Jonathan would ask us, \u201cHas God told you anything yet?\u201d This is yet another opportunity for our family to see God work and answer our prayers. We stayed home on Saturday and went to church on Sunday. Jonathan continues to go to classes by himself and is doing an awesome job. On Sunday, he added a new class to his schedule \u2013 Handbells. He got to play handbells during Fine Arts camp and was very excited to get the letter that he was chosen to play on the team. He has one bell and the group learned to play \u201cWhen the Saints Go Marching In.\u201d I got to hear him play at the end of class and he was able to follow along and play at the right time almost every time. Everyone was very proud of him and he was very proud of himself. I always keep an eye on Jonathan when he walks to see if I notice anything new, good or bad. On Sunday, as we went from place to place at church, I noticed that Jonathan seemed to be walking very smoothly and very normal. I was very encouraged. Just a couple of weeks ago, I was concerned that we were seeing a little more hyperextension in his knees and I was fearful that we were regressing some. God has been very gracious to us in that He has never allowed us to regress in any way. We have always gone forward in this experience and we continue to move forward with His help. On Monday, we started school at our house. I felt completely unprepared to begin, but we just jumped in and got started. So far, after two days, we are doing very well. We are trying to settle into our school routine, which will still include therapy once a week. We are trying to still swim as much as we can these next couple of weeks before we have to give that up for the year. Swimming has been such a great thing for us this summer. Not only has it been fun, but it has been great therapy and exercise for Jonathan. We are so grateful for Mr. Brad who has let us use his pool as often as we wanted. We also started an exercise routine with Jonathan to do each day as part of our school routine. We made a list of all the things he does in therapy and will do them every other day of the week that he does not go to therapy. One of the hardest things for Jonathan is balancing with his feet close to each other in a straight line, kind of like he walking on a balance beam, but he is just standing still. When we practiced that on Monday, he was able to balance for at least 10 seconds on each foot! That is the best he has ever been able to do. We were very excited. Our very talented friend, Mr. Lyle, made Jonathan a balance board, just like the one at the therapy office, to use at home. Needless to say, Jonathan is not the only one in this family that is working on the balance board! Mom can be just as tough a therapist as the ladies at the OCH, but Jonathan works just as well at home as he does at the office (with maybe just a little more complaining, of which Mom conveniently ignores). Today we had therapy again. Jonathan worked very hard and continues to improve on many of his exercises. He is really improving on his balance, his squats, and walking on the balance beam. There is a balance board that has a game on the top of it. You have to balance correctly and get the ball to go around the maze into the middle to win. Jonathan has tried this before and got it half way to the finish. Today he tried it again and very skillfully balanced until he got the ball in the very center to win. Way to go Jonathan! We found out that Jonathan\u2019s braces will be ready next Wednesday, so we will go have them fitted and have therapy next Wednesday. We are so thankful for all of God\u2019s provisions in our lives.\nThank you for keeping up with Jonathan\u2019s progress and for continuing to pray for him and our family. Please pray that we will really settle into a routine with school and exercising at home. Pray for a good attitude, for patience and peace for all of us as we begin a new school year. Even though there is so much to do, I can\u2019t tell you how thankful I am to be at this place again. We missed this so much earlier this year. What a blessing it is to be home with our family. Continue to pray for strength in Jonathan\u2019s legs, ankles and feet. Pray that as he progress in his exercise and mobility that it will help to control his weight. We are doing very well with the bed wetting alarm. Pray for continued success with that. Continue to pray for his complete healing of his brain, vision and diabetes. Pray that he will be able to handle all the new things he will learn this year in school. Pray for good health for our family. Continue to pray for God\u2019s guidance and leading, for peace and protection for our family. We look forward each day to what God has in store for us and the great things that he is going to continue to do in Jonathan\u2019s life and for us as a family. God bless each of you for your faithful prayers.\nLet me share with you what has happened here these past few days. Last week, of course, we were thrilled to learn that the insurance would pay 100% of Jonathan's braces. We had therapy on Wednesday last week so that we could have the therapist that Jonathan will see while Mrs. Dana is on maternity leave. Before we went in the afternoon, we took a bike ride with the therapy bike in the morning. Jonathan gets better and better with that, but his feet still shake by the time he gets finished riding. When we went to therapy later in the afternoon, she worked him really hard and did a lot of different exercises with him. She worked with him for almost an hour instead of just 45 minutes. About halfway through his workout, this upper legs began to shake pretty badly. That concerned me a bit since I don't recall that ever happening before. He did an awesome job despite the shaking legs. Ms. Heather did a lot of different exercises with Jonathan including his regular exercises on the ball, jumping, squats, balance beam, balance board, steps up and down, walking backward, side to side, doing the grapevine step, and bouncing on the ball. He worked really hard. Because of the shaking in his legs, I was concerned that maybe we have regressed a little because we haven't been able to wear his braces. I also have begun to see a little more hyperextension in his legs that I would like to admit, so as soon as we got home on Wednesday, I called and made an appointment to get started on his braces. Unfortunately, our appointment to just get the mold done to make the braces is not until tomorrow (Wednesday) and it could take at least two weeks beyond that to get them made. After therapy, Jonathan and I went to visit a chiropractor to get an adjustment. Both of us really needed one for various reasons. For Jonathan, getting in alignment will help his legs to gain strength. For me, it will help me feel better and sleep better, which is something I have been struggling with for the last month. We both went three days in a row. Jonathan continues to grow stronger, and at times his feet seem a little straighter. I have felt better and been able to sleep better since the adjustment. We were suppose to go camping over the weekend, but had to cancel our trip, so we just stayed home and did things at home together. We had an uneventful weekend, but a good one. Jonathan continues to do well at church on his own. He went back to Sunday School on his own again and added going back to choir and CIA, a missions class that the children have on Sunday nights. He has done a good job of handling these changes on his own. We are very proud of how well he is doing. Yesterday, the kids and I went with our Aunt Keby and Uncle Tim to Six Flags. Aunt Keby was able to get free tickets, so we spent the day out there together. We had a great time. Jonathan is a very cautious child; he always has been. He loves to go to Six Flags, but usually hates all the rides. There were only a few rides that he could go on, but instead of fretting over riding them, he got on the rides and completely enjoyed every minute. He even rode a couple of the rides more than once. He was very proud of himself! We were very proud of him and enjoyed watching him enjoy himself as much as he did. We also began using the bed wetting alarm last night. For the last couple of weeks, he has been waking up on his own at least once during the night to use the bathroom. Last night, he was able to get up and go each time before the alarm went off and he woke up dry this morning. We continue to work around our house to get things in order so that we can start back to school in a week or so. We have therapy this afternoon and tomorrow we will go to have the mold done to make Jonathan's braces. Overall, we are blessed to be doing so well.\nPlease continue to pray for Jonathan. Pray that we will continue to have success as we use this bed wetting alarm. Pray that he will continued to gain strength in his legs and that we will be able to get his braces soon to help straighten his feet. Pray that we will be able to settle into a good routine for school and exercise at home and that Mom will be able to handle everything that goes along with all of that. Pray that we will be able to receive the information and tools to help make this school year successful for Jonathan. Continue to pray for Jonathan's complete healing of his brain, vision and diabetes. You can also continue to pray for our entire family as we wait for God's leading in some decisions our family is facing. Pray that we will feed on the Lord's faithfulness that we have experienced through Jonathan's illness, wait patiently for His leading and trust in Him with all of our hearts. Thank you so much for your faithfulness to pray for us. The power of your prayers are evident in our lives every day.\nI just wanted to share a praise/answer to prayer with you about Jonathan. After following up on the issue of his braces, I was able to find out today that the insurance will pay 100% of the expense of the new braces! What a blessing! I also found out that the doctor signed off on the braces that our therapist says he needs. I don't know if there was any discussion about it or if he just signed off on what she said. Because we are not knowledgeable enough about what he needs and because we were given two different opinions about what he needs, we are a little concerned that he is getting exactly what he needs, which is an updated version of what he already has. However, despite our apprehension, we are trusting in the faithfulness of God that we have witnessed through this entire experience. God has never failed to provide for Jonathan and to give Jonathan exactly what he has needed all along the way. We have no reason to think that He will not continue to lead, guide and control this specific need for Jonathan as well. Thank you so much for your prayers. God continues to faithfully answer each prayer that we bring before Him. Please pray that we will be able to get the braces made very soon and be able to start using them as soon as possible. Also, please continue to pray for Jonathan and our entire family. There are many needs that still remain, and we continue to pray and wait with anticipation to see what great things our God will do for us. Psalm 37: - Commit thy way unto the Lord, trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass. Praise God from whom all blessings flow!\nThis has been a week of changes and accomplishments. It has been a busy week to say the least. Jonathan was able to go to Fine Arts Camp at church every evening last week with both of his sisters. He was able to play handbells, he made several different crafts, one of which was a tie-dye T-shirt to wear for the program Sunday evening, he learned 5 different hymns and some \u201crhythmic movement\u201d to some of them, and best of all, he got small drama part that he was able perform on Sunday evening. He went every evening by himself and very proudly accomplished all this on his own, with a little assistance from Elizabeth and Sarah. One of the most special things was that Mrs. Ann made all sugar free snacks for all the kids just for him. It was a great week for Jonathan. We went swimming 3 days last week and Jonathan continues to improve in his swimming abilities as well as his endurance and stamina. We went to therapy on Tuesday and he worked up in the office. He worked very hard doing many different things. He did his exercises on the ball, worked on the balance beam and balance board, he did lunges, jumps, squats, stood on each foot and balanced and stood with his feet in front of each other and balanced. He worked very hard. On Wednesday, we went back to visit with a lady from the company that makes his braces. She and his therapist decided that Jonathan needs another pair of braces like the ones he has outgrown. When we went to see Dr. McDonald at OCH last month, he suggested something different. Neither of them have talked about it with each other, and we are still waiting to find out what the insurance will cover. We have expressed our desire for Jonathan to have the braces that will be most beneficial to him, which ever ones that may be. I made some follow up phone calls today with the braces company, the doctor\u2019s office and therapist\u2019s office to try to get this finalized before his therapist goes on maternity leave, only to find out that she had her baby last week and is already gone. We made the decision last week to drop therapy to once a week to try to cut down on our expenses. We are currently working at home every day to keep in shape and help Jonathan continue to progress since we are only going to be seen once a week. We cleaned out and rearranged Jonathan\u2019s room last week and he has been sleeping in his room with no problems. I have been setting an alarm and getting up at least twice during the night to make him go to the bathroom. While this interrupts my sleep, it has allowed him to stay dry for more than a week. I have also spent some time trying to find out what help is available from the school system for his low vision and for physical therapy, even though we will continue to homeschool. So far, I haven\u2019t gotten very far with anyone there, not because they are being unhelpful, but I think because no one has ever asked for these services without being enrolled in the system. So we will continue to pursue this and see what we can come up with. Even with all these obstacles, we continue to praise God for every accomplishment Jonathan makes. Every day we watch him go up and down stairs with more and more ease. We see him try more and more things on his own. We see his endurance and strength increase daily. On Sunday, Jonathan met another goal by going to Sunday School on his own for the first time since he got out of the hospital. On Sunday evening, we watched Jonathan ring handbells, sing, do motions to songs and share his drama part with as much drama and passion as he has ever had. Someone came up to Jonathan and told him that as they watched him, they couldn\u2019t help but think of all the things that we were told would never happen. And look how great our God is! Jonathan continues to be very conversational and shares with people often that he wants to be a missionary preacher when he grows up. He continues to be spiritually sensitive and talks often about God, His power, how awesome He is and how He is going to answer the prayers we have been praying about the things that we need. While it is easy to get weighed down by the issues we are facing in our family right now, God has given us, in Jonathan, a constant, living reminder of His power to know our needs, hear our prayers, heal, deliver, provide and lead us in His good, acceptable and perfect will for our family.\nThere are several things you can pray for this week for Jonathan. Most importantly at the moment, please pray about his braces. He needs a new pair and simply can\u2019t wear the pair he has because he has completely outgrown them and they are of no benefit to him. Please pray that we will get the kind he needs that will benefit him the greatest, and that the insurance will pay for the new pair. Pray that Jonathan will continue to progress in balance, mobility and endurance and that he will continue to gain strength in his legs, ankles and feet. Pray that we will be diligent to work very hard at home since we are only going to therapy once a week. Pray that we will be able to receive the tools and services available to assist Jonathan in his therapy and with his vision, whether that be from the school system or some other avenue. Pray that Jonathan will be able to control his bladder himself during the night soon. Pray that he will be able to become more independent as he continues to work at doing things on his own. Pray for him and his sisters as they begin school next week. Pray that Mom will be able to handle the homeschooling and that this will be a special time for all of us as we resume this part of our life. Please pray for our entire family as we seem to be dealing with so many important issues right now. Please pray for wisdom, guidance and discernment as we make decisions. Please pray that we will remain faithful to trust the Lord with all our hearts and not lean on our own understanding. We know that God faithfully keep His promise to make our path straight as we acknowledge Him in all that we do, and that He will provide for all our needs as we seek Him and His will first. Thank you for your continued prayers for us. May God bless each of you for your faithfulness.\nIt is hard to believe that it is already August. We have been out of the hospital almost 4 months now and we are so blessed by the progress that Jonathan has made during this time. He continues to improve every day. I don\u2019t think I have written in a week, so let me update you. Last Tuesday, Sarah had a friend over all day, so we went swimming again. Jonathan did a great job of swimming. He absolutely loves to swim and works very hard without even knowing it. Wednesday was a pretty low key day. It rained here so we stayed home all day, which we haven\u2019t had the opportunity to do for a while. On Thursday, Dad took Jonathan to therapy and watched him work out in the gym. Jonathan beat his treadmill record by walking 25 minutes and increasing the speed to 1.8 for the last 10 minutes or so. He also did his side steps for 2 minutes on each side and walked backward for 3-4 minutes. He also did his squats and Dad was very proud of him. On Friday, we were up and out of the house by 8 am on our way to Cooks Children\u2019s Hospital in Ft. Worth for our new endocrinology appointment. It took us an hour to get there, but we were blessed by everyone we had to deal with there. The endocrinologist at Cooks do things differently than Children\u2019s so we ended up spending 3 hours talking to different people about Jonathan\u2019s diabetes management. We talked with one nurse practitioner about changing his doses from set doses to figuring them on a unit to carb ratio, which we feel we are ready to do. After talking to him a while about all that Jonathan has gone through, we felt like we were visiting with another believer. That was great. The next nurse practitioner we talked with shared with us that she was a Christian and she really affirmed Jonathan and the plan that God has for his life. That was very cool. There is one test called the A1C that he has to take every time he goes. The first time we went for a clinic visit, they did it in the office with just a finger stick. We found out that our insurance does not pay for the one in the office, so we had to go to the lab and have blood taken. This is the first time that Jonathan has ever had to do that. As soon as he was aware of what he was about to have to do, he instantly became fearful. Jonathan was so blessed when he was in the hospital to have all his IVs out and all of the major hurtful things that happen to you when you are in the hospital, they all happened to him while he was in the coma, so he does not recall any of them. What an awesome blessing from God! His diabetes management consists of a small drop of blood from his finger and a very small thin needle shot that does not hurt. So taking blood was the first major thing he has had to deal with. He was very brave and walked in the lab room without any objection. The nurse began looking for his vein and had a hard time finding one because his arms are so much bigger now. At that point, I began to worry that it would take more than one try, that it would be painful and that he would have a horrible experience. So I had him look at me and I basically talked his head off until she was finished, and he was completely unaware that she had done anything! Praise the Lord! I can\u2019t tell you how proud of him I was. After our visit was finally over, we went to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch with Grandma Smith, Aunt Susan and her kids. Jonathan was on his feet for a pretty long time, but he never complained about being tired or needing to sit down. We spent the rest of the day at Grandma and Grandpa Smith\u2019s house. Later that evening, we walked across the street to visit one of the Grandma and Grandpa Smith\u2019s neighbors, Mrs. Bonnie. We visited with her for a little bit before Jonathan decided to dominate the conversation. I think he talked to her for about 30 minutes straight! He was extremely conversational, which is something we have been begun to see change in him recently. He showed her how he could get down on the floor and get up again. He told her he would be happy to come to her church and preach for her. He told her he was going to be a missionary and preach the gospel and that all of his family was going to come with him. It was such a joy for all of us to watch him share so much with Mrs. Bonnie. On Saturday, we got our whole family back. Elizabeth came home from her mission trip and we got to spend the rest of the day together. We had a great day at church on Sunday as well. Jonathan continues to interact with people more and more with each passing day. Last night, we sat for a long time and listened to Jonathan preach to us about his life, what God wants to do with him when he gets older, how he wants to preach, how he know that God has healed him and is healing him every day. We just sat and listened to him talk on and on. We are so blessed. This week, every evening, the kids will be going to Fine Arts camp which is a camp where they will learn music, art, drama, handbells and who knows what else. Sarah and Jonathan will be going and Elizabeth will be going to help Jonathan again. Hopefully, this will help prepare him for Sunday, which is promotion Sunday, when he will begin going to his classes on his own.\nPlease continue to pray for Jonathan this week. He is doing so well! We are so thankful for his progress. Continue to pray for strength in his legs, ankles and feet. Pray for increased endurance and stamina. We have seen and increase in his endurance over this last week. Pray for him as he goes to Fine Arts Camp this week and as he prepares for the new adventure of going back to classes on his own this weekend. Continue to pray for complete healing of his diabetes, vision and his brain. He shared with us that he knows that God is going to heal him and he prays about that every night. Pray that God will straighten out his feet, or provide the braces that he needs to help with that. I would ask you to pray for Lamar and I. We are facing some difficult decision in several areas of our family, and we need wisdom and provision from God. We are praying, believing that the same God who heard our cries for Jonathan and delivered healing to him, will hear our cries again and bring deliverance and provision for the needs facing our family. Please pray for Elizabeth and Sarah as well. Pray for protection for them and pray that we will be as sensitive to them and their needs as we are to Jonathan. This has been a very difficult year for them. 2 Chronicles 20 is an incredible story of a people in need, and of God\u2019s provision and victory in their lives. We are claiming this promise from God for our family. Thank you for interceding for our family.\n\u201cYou will not need to fight this battle. Position yourselves, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, who is with you\u2026Do not fear or be dismayed\u2026for the Lord is with you.\u201d \u2013 2 Chronicles 20:17\nWell we have had a great week with lots of wonderf...\nThe Lord continues to bless Jonathan and our entir...\nLet me share with you what has happened here these...\nI just wanted to share a praise/answer to prayer w...\nThis has been a week of changes and accomplishment...\nIt is hard to believe that it is already August. W...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 35198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jonn.co.uk/2015/08/falling-skies-5x07-video-promo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:40Z", "digest": "sha1:MACZOE26VF6MXEMQNEQO67VWBUS3HPEF", "length": 386, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jonn.co.uk", "title": "#JonnOnTV: Falling Skies 5x07 Video Promo \"Everybody Has Their Reasons\" (HD)", "raw_content": "Falling Skies 5x07 Video Promo \"Everybody Has Their Reasons\" (HD)\nFalling Skies 5x07 \"Everybody Has Their Reasons\" - The 2nd Mass arrives at a safe haven - a functional military base run by Weaver's old colleague and flame, Captain Katie Marshall. As the two groups make plans for the final assault on the Espheni, the 2nd Mass begins to realize that things aren't exactly as they seem.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 4525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jud6.org/LegalCommunity/LegalPractice/opinions/appellatedivisionopinions/2007/05-0082AP-88A%20Jackson.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:00Z", "digest": "sha1:I4VWAB72HFOB2BQQBFCAIBX3533CMLZW", "length": 9831, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.jud6.org", "title": "Appeal No.05-0082AP-88A", "raw_content": "Petition for Writ of Certiorari to Review Quasi-Judicial Action: Agencies, Boards, and Commissions of Local Government: ADMINISTRATIVE \u2013 Code Enforcement \u2013 City departed from the essential requirements of law in failing to consider affidavits completed by Code Enforcement Officer as required by the City\u2019s Code \u2013 Affidavit that was completed 3 days before fine hearing found that property was code compliant \u2013 City must comply with its Code in providing notice to property owner of cited code violations \u2013 Petition granted. Jackson v. City of Oldsmar, Appeal No. 05-0082AP-88A (Fla. 6th Cir. App. Ct. Oct. 4, 2006).\nSHARON L. JACKSON\nvs. Appeal No.05-0082AP-88A\nCITY OF OLDSMAR,\nORDER GRANTING AMENDED PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI\nTHIS CAUSE came before the Court on the Amended Petition for Writ of Certiorari, the Response and the Reply. Upon consideration of the same and being otherwise fully advised, the Court finds that the Amended Petition must be granted as set forth below.\nThe Petitioner, Sharon L. Jackson (Jackson), seeks review of the Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order (Order), entered September 8, 2005, by the Code Enforcement Board (Board) of the Respondent, City of Oldsmar (City). In reviewing the administrative action taken by the Board and the City, the Court must consider whether Jackson was afforded procedural due process, whether the essential requirements of law were observed and whether the Order is supported by competent substantial evidence. See Haines City Community Development v. Heggs, 658 So.2d 523, 530 (Fla. 1995)(setting forth the standard of certiorari review of administrative action).\nThe record shows that Jackson is the owner of real property located at 310 Bayview Boulevard. There is a single family residence located on the property. On July 21, 2005, Robert M. Rehmer, a Code Enforcement Officer, issued a Statement of Repeat Violation/Notice of Hearing which stated that Jackson was being cited for repeat code violations, specifically violating the City\u2019s Code, Section 26, Nuisances, High Grass. The matter was scheduled for a hearing before the Board on September 1, 2005. At the hearing, a different Code Enforcement Officer, Louis Kikis, testified that the property had been cited on three previous occasions for high grass, junk, trash and debris, and that Jackson still had two outstanding fines, $ 1,000.00 and $ 750.00, as a result of these violations. Kikis testified that Rehmer had been to the property on July 20, 2005, and taken pictures of the overgrowth and debris. These pictures were introduced into evidence. Rehmer did not testify or appear at the hearing.\nKikis testified that he returned to the property on August 30, 2005, and that the property was not in compliance. Kikis could not locate the photos he had taken on August 30th. Jackson testified that she had she had hired someone to regularly mow the grass and to haul away the debris. Jackson testified that her husband\u2019s friend also mowed the grass and that she was \u201cin shock\u201d to learn that the property had not been mowed. Jackson had not been to the property since July 22, 2005. After the hearing, the Board entered its Order finding Jackson was in a third repeat violation of Board Order CE04-0214, Chapter 26, Article III, Nuisances, High Grass. The Board imposed a fine of $ 100.00 per day \u201cuntil the property is brought into compliance.\u201d\nBefore this Court, Jackson argues that the Board\u2019s action denied her due process, is contradictory to the essential requirements of law, and is not support by competent substantial evidence. Upon review of the City\u2019s Code and the record on appeal, the Court finds that certiorari relief must be granted. Initially, as set forth in this Court\u2019s Order Granting, In Part, Motion to Strike Exhibits, et. al., entered May 18, 2006, the Court will not consider Petitioner\u2019s Exhibit AD5, invoices from Dano Lawn and Tree Service, as this was not presented to the Board during the hearing. See Altchiler v. Department of Professional Regulation, 442 So.2d 349, 350 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983)(stating that when a party on appeal includes in an appendix material or matters outside of the record, or refers to such material or matters in its brief, it is proper for the court to strike the same).\nHowever, the Court will consider Petitioner\u2019s Exhibit AD3, Affidavit of Compliance, dated September 13, 2005, and Exhibit AD4, Affidavit of Compliance, dated July 18, 2005, to the extent that the Court finds that the Board departed from the essential requirements of law in not considering these affidavits. See Haines, 658 So.2d at 527; see also Housing Authority of the City of Tampa v. Burton, 874 So.2d 6, 8 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004)(explaining that in determining whether there has been a departure from the essential requirements of law, the appellate court \u201cshould not be as concerned with the mere existence of legal error as much as with the seriousness of the error\u201d). Resolution No. 97-01, which establishes Rules of Procedure for the City\u2019s code enforcement proceedings, specifically requires affidavits of compliance or non-compliance to be filed with the Board for their consideration. See Resolution No. 97-01, Rule 5. Enforcement, Section 2. The Court is troubled by the fact that these affidavits were not provided to the Board prior to the hearing, particularly since the September 13th affidavit, sworn to by Rehmer, states that the property was in compliance on August 29, 2005, just 3 days before the hearing. The Court finds that the failure of the City to timely provide the Board with these affidavits is fundamental error that goes to the foundation of this case and, standing alone, requires certiorari relief. See State v. Osvath, 661 So.2d 1252, 1254 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995)(explaining that the appellate court may notice on its own a fundamental error which goes to the foundation of the case or goes to the merits of the cause of action); see also Marinelli v. G. C. Weaver, 187 So.2d 690, 694 (Fla. 2d DCA 1966)(same).\nWhile the Court needn\u2019t address the remaining issues, the Court makes the additional findings for the sake of clarity on remand and for the of sake judicial economy to avoid potential multiple, piecemeal appeals. First, the Court finds that the appealed Order does not provide a scheduled date of compliance as required by Resolution No. 97-01, Rule 4. Hearings, Section 1, k. and Rule 5. Enforcement, Section 1. While Section 2-133 states that an order \u201cmay\u201d include a specified date of compliance, the intent evidenced throughout the Code and Resolution 97-01 is to put the violator on notice as to what needs to be corrected within a time frame established by order. See e.g. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board v. Harris, 772 So.2d 1273, 1287 (Fla. 2000)(explaining that a statute should be construed in its entirety and as a harmonious whole). Hence, the Court finds that the Board should include a scheduled date of compliance if another Order is entered.[1]\nSecond, the Court finds that the Board must consider whether Jackson was given proper notice of all the applicable code violations. The Court notes that the record is void of any evidence that Jackson was cited for junk, trash or debris, only that she was cited for high grass. The City\u2019s Code requires that a notice to abate nuisance must specifically set forth a description of what constitutes a nuisance and what acts are necessary to abate the nuisance. See Code Sec. 26-82(1)-(5); see also Powell v. City of Sarasota, 857 So.2d 326, 327 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003)(explaining that an adequate opportunity to voluntarily abate a nuisance must be afforded to the property owner prior to the imposition of penalties pursuant to city ordinances).\nThird, the Board must consider whether the City had an obligation to abate the nuisance itself, and assess the costs for such abatement against Jackson, instead of assessing fines against Jackson.[2] The Court finds that Code Section 2-134(a) provides that the Board may assess a fine against a violator for failing to correct a violation within a time prescribed by order. (emphasis added). However, Code Section 26-82(5) states that if a violator fails to correct a cited nuisance, \u201cthe city will abate such nuisance and assess the cost thereof against such property owner/violator.\u201d (emphasis added). Likewise, Code Section 26-83 states: \u201cUpon the failure of the person to whom notice to abate a nuisance is served pursuant to the provisions of this article to abate the nuisance, the city manager or other duly designated official of the city shall proceed to abate such nuisance. . .\u201d (emphasis added).\nContrary to the Board\u2019s argument, this language is mandatory and there is no language in Section 26 to suggest that the City has the \u201coption\u201d of abating a nuisance when a violator fails to timely do so. To the extent that there is a conflict between Section 2, which discusses code enforcement proceedings in general, and Section 26, which addresses specifically nuisance proceedings, Section 26 controls. See Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 772 So.2d at 1287 (stating that when two statutory provisions conflict, the specific statute controls over the general statute). Therefore, it is,\nORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the Amended Petition for Writ of Certiorari is granted and the Order is quashed. The Respondent\u2019s Motion for Attorney\u2019s Fees is denied.\nDONE AND ORDERED in Chambers, at Clearwater, Pinellas County, Florida this ______ of September 2006.\nLAUREN LAUGHLIN BRANDT C. DOWNEY, III\n89 Winward Island\nThomas J. Trask, Esquire\n[1] The Court notes that Jackson was apparently having her lawn mowed at least every 2 to 4 weeks according to the compliance dates listed in the affidavits.\n[2] The Court reiterates that the decision to grant certiorari relief in this case is not based on these findings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 10429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.juif.org/blogs/80269,france-s-jewish-population-has-good-reason-to-feel-afraid-gavin.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:16Z", "digest": "sha1:7OWOX634XZ32CZJJQ6ZZTPQEEE5BSU7Q", "length": 1786, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.juif.org", "title": "France's Jewish population has good reason to feel afraid (Gavin Mortimer)", "raw_content": "Accueil \u00bb Blogs \u00bb France's Jewish population has good reason to...\nFrance's Jewish population has good reason to feel afraid (Gavin Mortimer)\nGavin Mortimer @ The Spectator:\n(...) But it's France that remains the most dangerous European country for Jews. This week saw another violent attack, when an eight-year-old boy wearing a Jewish skullcap was beaten by two teenagers in a northern suburb of Paris, the same suburb that was ransacked during a pro-Palestine rally in 2014. In response to this latest outrage, president Emmanuel Macron tweeted that ?every time a citizen is attacked because of their age, appearance or religion, the whole republic is attacked'. It was a facile tweet, one that will do nothing to assuage the growing fear among France's diminishing Jewish population.\nAs I wrote after the Marseille attack, around 7,000 French Jews emigrated to Israel in 2014, while an estimated 8,000 took the same route in 2015, (more than four times the number who emigrated in 2011). That number had dropped to 5,000 in 2016, largely because of the reassuring security presence outside Jewish schools and synagogues following the Islamist terror attacks that included the killing of four people in a Kosher supermarket, but that still adds up to more than 20,000 Jews who fled France in three years. It is a statistic that has drawn little honest analysis from politicians. (...)\nIn the last couple of years the number of attacks may have diminished slightly, but the level of violence is on the increase. Prime Minister Edouard Philippe admitted as much to parliament on Wednesday, although he couldn't bring himself to name those responsible, merely pointing to a ?new brutal form of anti-Semitism'.Lire l'article @ The Spectator\nSouvenir : Soir\u00e9es de Gala Torah-Box 2018 \u00e0...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jukeboxmetal.com/2006/mastermind-broken/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:54Z", "digest": "sha1:STCKRHCESIJIY6TNXJ3IRHBLPGNTOEIP", "length": 4881, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.jukeboxmetal.com", "title": "\" />", "raw_content": "\" /> Mastermind \u2013 Broken \u2013 Jukebox:Metal Jukebox:Metal | Mastermind - Broken review\nMastermind - Broken\nProduced by Bill Berends\nRemarkably this is an EP that's longer than most artists' albums. Clocking in at a shade under 45 minutes, classic New Jersey-based prog/power metallers Mastermind are already off to a good start with their \"comeback\" EP.\nClose to a million miles away from the progressive, symphonic pomp of their first four albums from the early '90s, and certainly from their instrumental fusion album Excelsior!, the new look Mastermind are closer to their label-released power metal album Angels of The Apocalypse, their second on InsideOut Records, and their first with a female vocalist. Still led by the Berends brothers Bill (guitars and just about everything else at one time or another) and Rich (drums), and now with Tracy McShane replacing Lisa Bouchelle on vocals and Laura Johnson replacing the deceased Bob Eckman on bass, the band have never been heavier.\nThey're incredibly heavy on title track Broken, in actual fact. It's laden with bass and crushing guitar, layered with wonderful lead parts. Tracy McShane's powerful vocals are not too dissimilar to Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia and the overriding feel of this awesome single is one of heaviness and groove. The pace isn't that quick, so the guitar solos are the sublime, searing kind you'd find on an Ayreon song, for example.\nB-side Break Me Down is also set to feature on the band's new album, and shares the heaviness of Broken. It picks up the pace slightly for the chorus, but otherwise maintains the driving slowness of the a-side cut, while McShane's vocals are even more dynamic. Second b-side Weak And Powerless is a cover of the A Perfect Circle song, and it sounds like it. APC aren't a particularly inspiring band, especially given that they're led by Tool main-man Maynard James Keenan. They just fall so far short of where they should be. The track just isn't a very good song, and despite Mastermind's best efforts, it's still not.\nThe next three tracks are recorded live and unedited in the studio. Starting with The Queen of Sheba, from 2000's Angels of The Apocalypse album, and in terms of the chorus it's not too impressive. It's a little too nice and sweet. Almost happy-folk. However, wait a couple of minutes and the awesome musicianship of this band knocks you flat. The song becomes an eight-minute marathon of superb playing and singing that really needs to be heard.\nBill Berends continues to demonstrate his skill with a near note perfect run through of the very famous, and very fast William Tell Overture (if you don't recognise the title, you're guaranteed know it when you hear it). Rich Berends and Johnson easily keep up to provide tight and equally competent backing to Bill's lightning fast fret-work.\nThe sublime returns with A Million Miles, also from Angels of The Apocalypse, which is a slow burner that builds towards the end, allowing McShane to again show what she can do (Berends doesn't let the side down with more excellent lead guitar). Again spinning out to over seven minutes with a Dio-esque breakdown in terms of both vocals and music they slip in a quick bit of Cream's Sunshine of Your Love riff before fading out with plenty of feedback. The Cream theme continues with a strong cover of I'm So Glad, adding much more power than the original had, with McShane and Berends sharing the vocals (Berends is a more than capable vocalist, having handled all lead vocals himself during the late '90s).\nThe EP closes with an extended mix of the title single, adding a little additional instrumentation (this is probably the version fans of the genre will consider the definitive one, but the shorter version is actually set to appear on the finished album).\nAt the moment, there probably isn't a melodic power metal band around that are as heavy and utilise as much groove as Mastermind while maintaining this level of technicality. Often the emphasis is on speed to demonstrate prowess, and while that is often impressive, it only remains so for a short time. Bands that are able to play both sides of the pace coin are much more awe-inspiring for a lot longer, and Mastermind have that potential. On the strength this EP, the album should be one of the strongest of the year. It can only be hoped that a friendly label like Nuclear Blast (desperately in need of a replacement for Primal Fear, who's appalling decision making has taken them to Frontiers) picks up the finished record and markets it for what it will undoubtedly be worth.\n\u201c superb playing and singing that really needs to be heard \u201d\nTracklist: Broken / Break Me Down / Weak & Powerless / The Queen of Sheba (Live) / William Tell Overture (Live) / A Million Miles Away (Live) / I'm So Glad / Broken (extended Mix)\nMore: 2006, EPs, Female-fronted, Power Metal, Progressive, Mastermind", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 5620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kathykhang.com/category/stereotypes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:48Z", "digest": "sha1:XNBKBU6WBD36U5FAF77B45WJ7UOVB5GA", "length": 19765, "nlines": 69, "source_domain": "www.kathykhang.com", "title": "stereotypes Archives - Kathy Khang - writer, speaker, coffee drinker", "raw_content": "Everyday Dismantling #4\nWhat are some practical, everyday ways we can work to dismantle privilege that both are simple, clear things to do and don\u2019t burden PoC (people of color) with the expectation they be our (unpaid) teachers?\nIt has been one hell of a month \u2013 11 days in Pacific and Eastern Standard Time and what feels like a relentless stream of violence against black people and examples of white supremacy, white privilege, and American racism. (I am using \u201cAmerican racism\u201d because I am freaking tired of people pointing out there is racism in other countries. That\u2019s fine, but like I often hear: WE ARE IN AMERICA!)\nSo to end this month there are three just two things, dear readers, I would like to suggest as practical, everyday ways to dismantle privilege:\n1. Leverage your privilege in a mundane, boring, non-savior sort of way that doesn\u2019t involve asking a PoC for anything. As a Korean-American woman who is in great health with reliable transportation, I have made a small, tiny commitment to donate blood.\nWhat does blood donation have to do with dismantling privilege? What did you think dismantling privilege was going to be? Saving poor people of color and being their saviors? Nope. Jesus already has that spot in my life, thank you very much. Dismantling privilege in part is taking stock of where privilege lulls us into thinking our money, our platforms, our influence are the best and perhaps only ways of breaking down systems instead of considering how our entire embodied lives can impact the world and people around us. If I can\u2019t do the little things, I have no business trying to do any heavy lifting of social injustice.\nI don\u2019t particularly like giving blood, and the finger prick, IMHO, is the worst. But I live in the \u201csafe\u201d suburbs where kids and adults don\u2019t generally get pulled over for a missing license plate or arrested for drug dealing and abuse. But I also live within walking distance from a Level 1 trauma hospital where we regularly hear medical helicopters coming and going. Broken systems in a deeper sense mean we all experience death and brokenness in a way God did not originally intend. People are suffering and dying everyday, spiritually and physically, right in front of our eyes. It\u2019s not just in the news. So as an act of worship I barely inconvenience myself to willingly shed blood for those who need it, because my health allows me to do it freely. That is part of dismantling \u2013 acting freely, without strings attached, to help right something that is wrong.\n2. Care for the PoC around you. Now, this doesn\u2019t mean going up to PoC you don\u2019t know and giving them a hug and asking to get to know their story, and I say this because this was suggested at a conference I attended where the last thing I needed was another random white person asking to get to know me. I am assuming, dear readers, you have friends who are not white. Send your friends an actual note of encouragement or a text. Check in with them when the poo poo hits the fan. Tell them how their engagement and unofficial role as unpaid teachers of social justice has made an impact in your life. Treat them to coffee. Send them a care package or a gift certificate (I am not even kidding you on this!) and encourage the PoC, especially those who are deeply engaged in the work of dismantling privilege, to care for themselves. We are TIRED.\nHonestly, I don\u2019t know how some of my black friends walk out the front door anymore. Does the car have both license plates? Do I have my polite voice? Will I make eye contact but not too much eye contact? Will my friendliness be perceived as disrespect? Can I reach for my license and registration or do I need to point to my purse or wallet first? Again, to point out the obvious (maybe it isn\u2019t that obvious since many of you don\u2019t actually KNOW me), I am a Korean-American woman. I don\u2019t think being pulled over by a police officer is a threat to my life. But life in America as a non-white person can be exhausting, a series of microaggressions \u2013 daily reminders of my otherness \u2013 that I choose to ignore or engage. Some examples of the \u201ceasier\u201d ones:\nThe random stranger who greets me with a phrase in her/his choice of Asian language, usually a man saying \u201ckonichiwa\u201d or \u201cni hao\u201d because clearly all Asians speak all Asian languages and not English.\nThe \u201cwhere are you from\u201d line of questioning that is rarely satisfied by my answer: Chicago.\n\u201cWhere did you learn your English? You speak it so well.\u201d\nConversations about \u201cminorities\u201d or \u201cblack people\u201d but then being put at ease by being told, \u201cbut you\u2019re not like that\u201d.\nReading Yelp reviews about nail salons and the rudeness of employees speaking another language in front of customers (\u2018cuz you know the nail techs are always talking about you, lady) or the language barriers mono-language Americans face when ordering at their favorite authentic Asian restaurant.\nWe can only ignore things and let them roll off our backs for so long before we begin to pick up the message that we don\u2019t fit the standard of American. This happens not just on the street but in our churches and places of worship, our schools, our favorite coffee shops. Turn on the tv or open up a magazine. Go to the movies. Look at the speaker line-up for conferences or at the attendees at the next conference or meeting you are at. Look at the list of recommended books. Glance at the patrons in your favorite restaurant. I usually make a scene when my family and I aren\u2019t the only ones. Why do I pay attention? Well, because white people don\u2019t have to. And because you don\u2019t have to, your energy doesn\u2019t go into managing all of the possibilities of every encounter, every post you put up on Facebook, etc. You aren\u2019t tired the same way we are tired so care for your friends of color.\nLabels: communication, culture, life management, race, sexism, stereotypes\nTags: care for the PoC around you, dismantling privilege, dismantling white privilege, everyday dismantling, Korean American woman, microaggressions, otherness, people of color, racist everyday experiences, self-care\nPlaying the Critic: A Review/Reflection on Keys of the Kingdom\nphoto credit: \u201cT\u201deresa\nWhat happens when the pastor of a evangelical megachurch in Iowa commissions a mural from a lesbian artist from New York City?\nWell? What do you think will happen? Is it a doomed binary between conservatism and liberalism? Is the scenario too contrived and limited to stereotypes? Does religion win? Or fail? Or both? Or does it sound like a bad joke?\nSometimes those are the questions that make for an unexpected date night for me and the husband so despite a blizzard warning set to go in effect around the second act we headed out to see Keys of the Kingdom (now playing at Stage Left Theatre in association with Theater Wit, Chicago, through February 15). If you\u2019re local, you want to support the arts, you like proposing different endings or changes to plays/movies/books, and you have a little cash and time to spare this is one of those shows you might want to catch.\nIt\u2019s not The Book of Mormon kind of laugh out loud irreverence (actually I am going on hearsay because we have not yet seen that musical) but I appreciated that playwright Penny Penniston thought enough of evangelicals and lesbians to create characters instead of caricatures. Ed, the evangelical megachurch pastor came across utterly sincere if not a little weird in his conviction and faith while being open to the possibility that God would ask him to do something that seemed outside of the rules of conservative behavior. Christians can be weird because some of the stuff we say and say we believe in and do in the name of beliefs can come across as weird. Irene was an artist who also happened to be a married lesbian. Her sexual identity and marriage are important to her personhood but are part of an integrated whole just like I am not \u201cjust\u201d Asian American or a woman.\nThe evangelical v. the lesbian is what I would call low-lying fruit for misunderstandings, politicizing, and proselytizing; thankfully that was not what this play was about. I walked away appreciating that there were things Ed and Irene could not fully explain but believed in deeply enough that they were open to new possibilities, relationships, and risks. If only we could reproduce that in real life a thousand-fold. Imagine what could happen.\nThe story also touched on how even good intentions can fail miserably, and my mind automatically went to the missteps taken by fellow evangelicals and allies who echo Irene\u2019s line and say, \u201cI was trying to help.\u201d\nThe response (and sometimes my response)? \u201cThat\u2019s what a child says when they make a mess of things.\u201d\nIn the myriad of misunderstandings, good intentions with bad results, and disagreements we agree will never be bridged but by a work of God, there is grace. I was thankful it made an appearance in this play. I\u2019m hoping to make more room for it in my heart, my words, and my actions.\nThe play was a wee bit long for my taste, and you could hear noise through the walls (two other plays were running at the same time in this multi-stage theater. I would\u2019ve changed the ending, shortened the play, and allowed for some time for the audience and the actors to interact because I kept wondering if Peter and I were the only evangelical Christians in the audience. What was everyone else thinking?\nLabels: church, culture, faith, religion, sexuality, stereotypes\nTags: Chicago theater, Evangelicals, Keys of the Kingdom, lesbians, LGBTQ, Playing the Critic, Stage Left Theatre, theater review, Theater Wit\nIntention Isn\u2019t the Point or the Problem\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry if\u2026\u201d\n\u201cI didn\u2019t mean to offend\u2026\u201d\n\u201cI didn\u2019t intent to hurt anyone\u2026\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m not racist. My best friend is (fill in the blank)\u2026and I love eating (fill in the blank)\u2026\u201d\nIt\u2019s not your intention. It\u2019s how messages are received and interpreted in the present and later as history. If intention was the problem, sins of the father and mother like slavery and genocide wouldn\u2019t be an issue because I\u2019m told folks back in the day really, honestly, truly believed with no malice that White was right. And some slave owners were doing what was required of them to make a living, right? They didn\u2019t intend to create an unjust, unequal system that generations later remains broken. Lots of harm, but no foul because they didn\u2019t intend harm, right?\nNo. NO! Wrong! WRONG!\nYet the defense of ignorant \u2013 if not racist, racially-insensitive, questionable, unwise, or just \u201cinteresting\u201d \u2013 comments, reactions, behaviors, etc. often go straight to intent, as if that covers all sins.\nTake for instance Madonna, who posted a photo of her son on Instagram with a caption using the \u201cN\u201d word. Madonna didn\u2019t intend to cause controversy (though at this point in her career it can only help, right?) but that\u2019s not the point. Who uses the \u201cN\u201d word as a term of endearment for her White son? What kind of endearment did she intend? What world does Madonna live in that has blinded her so completely from the racial, political, and cultural issues surrounding the \u201cN\u201d word and excludes her from paying the consequences?\nShe lives in a majority culture world that is changing and giving voice and space (or perhaps voice and space is being taken up) by those who are tired of being told that intent is all that matters.\nHow is this for a change: I know that some of the things I say and write will offend some of you. My voice, my perspective, my point of view, my tone may cause some dissonance, confusion, and defensiveness because it\u2019s not what you expected, different from what you believe or see or feel. I know that sometimes we will agree, but I also know that sometimes you will be offended because sometimes I am going to call you out on your stuff. And, if you are in relationship with me, you will do the same.\nAs a Christian, I often am told in so many ways that my outrage over issues of race, ethnicity and gender should be tempered and quieted because my first posture should be of understanding and listening.\nBut as an Asian American woman, my entire life has been about understanding, learning, adopting, and adapting to the ways of the majority culture. I was born into a world that awarded me when I assimilated \u2013 when I untangled my tongue and learned to speak English at the expense of twisting my Korean tongue, when I brought peanut butter and jelly sandwiches instead of rice and soup to lunch (but now sushi and pad thai are cool so we\u2019re all cool), when I despised the smell of my home even though it was the only place to go when I was chased down the street by boys screaming, \u201cChink, go back to where you came from!\u201d, when I learned to sing the hymns in English and stand respectfully in the pews.\nDare I say I wouldn\u2019t have made it this far if I had not been such a good student of understanding and learning?\nAnd yet over and over, I and others, who don\u2019t have the luxury to be colorblind because we have paid the price for other\u2019s blindness and whitewashing, are told to learn, that our taking offense is actually our fault, our lack of information and intelligence.\nChristianity Today/Her.meneutics contributer Anna Broadway does exactly that in her recent piece, \u201cPicture This: A Closer Look at Mindy Kaling\u2019s Elle Cover\u201d when she tries to quell the outrage and educate the outraged.\n\u201cI can only imagine how much richer and more intelligent the conversation might have been were visual arts education more widespread.\u201d (my emphasis in bold)\nI\u2019m not as educated in the visual arts, but I do know the difference between Instagram and film, thank you very much. I bristle at the tone and the assumption that understanding the visual arts happens in some sort of cultural and social vacuum completely void of racial, cultural, ethnic, social and gendered impact and influence.\nAnd seriously, (unless you are younger than I am) am I really the only one who would look at this series of cover photos and not start singing:\nSure, maybe it wasn\u2019t the intention of the cover editor at Elle to let all the White women stand up and have both face and torso photoshopped into perfection and have Mindy cut down to a glamour shot. Maybe it wasn\u2019t their intention to raise the eyebrows of more than one outraged critic to wonder why the one woman of color is the only woman whose photograph is not in color.\nBut at some point, the student observes and learns to question and speak. We see patterns and gaps. We see the repetition or the absence. And I don\u2019t know about you, but some of us are tired of being told to forgive based on intent, to keep learning about visual art or about what other people intend.\nI am all for learning but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m the only one who needs to learn.\nLabels: communication, culture, ethnicity, race, stereotypes\nTags: Anna Broadway, Christianity Today, Her.meneutics, I didn't intend to hurt, I didn't mean to offend, I'm not a racist., I'm sorry but, I'm sorry if, Madonna uses the \"N\" word, Madonna's Instagram, Mindy Kaling, Mindy Kaling Elle cover, One of these things is not like the other\nA Day in Three Parts: Progress, Prep & Packing #flymysweet\nAfter almost a decade after having published a vacation Bible school curriculum titled \u201cFar-out Far East Rickshaw Rally \u2013 Racing Towards the Son\u201d, LifeWay Christian Resources president and CEO Thom Rainer issued an apology for the company\u2019s decision to use offensive stereotypes in the materials. I wasn\u2019t at the Mosaix conference where the video apology was shown but thanks to social media I heard about yesterday\u2026\nRainer never refers directly to the Open Letter from Asian American community to the Evangelical Church, but folks closer to the decision have said that the letter brought the Rickshaw Rally controversy back into present-day discussions.\nI\u2019ve been laying low on blogging about the letter and the events that preceded the letter, in part, because I was just tired of emails asking me to withdraw my criticism, questioning my commitment to Christ, and accusing me of all sorts of shenanigans. Speaking out isn\u2019t the most comfortable thing, EVEN FOR ME, but not saying something, not speaking out and drawing attention to the brokenness in the Church in those recent situations wasn\u2019t a choice. And to hear that Rainer, who was not the president and CEO at the time of the Rickshaw Rally decision, chose to look back at the organization\u2019s past, acknowledge the offense, and publicly apologize for it is reason enough to continue to encourage me and others to speak out. I\u2019m writing this not as an \u201cI told you so\u201d but rather as a \u201cCome and see what God has done, his awesome deeds for humankind!\u201d (Ps. 66:5)\nAs Asian American Christians, we have all sorts of cultural nuances and baggage that perpetuate self-silencing in the name of maintaining harmony and perceived peace. Sometimes that \u201cpeace\u201d has been at the cost of identifying and celebrating the unique gifts and blessings our cultures bring to the diverse Kingdom of God.\nThe Open Letter and the many voices it helped amplify and release is progress. The apology is progress.\nSo I should really be focusing on prepping for a set of national leadership meetings for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship\u2019s Asian American Ministries. I have a book to finish reading and a few folks to contact about my visit to NYC. I also should be practicing my talk for the Q Focus: Woman & Calling event I will be presenting at next Friday, but I am still finishing the prep for my talk. (By the way, there is still some overflow space and streaming options.)\nI\u2019m anxious. I am trying not to worry about how I will do and focus on the message I have on my heart, the message God has been pushing and pressing into my heart and into the shredded margins of my day-to-day. I don\u2019t think ambition is wrong. I think many of us are afraid of what ambition will do to us, bring to us, how it will challenge us in what we believe about and value in the world, God, and ourselves.\nAnd I\u2019m thinking a lot about ambition because my oldest has gotten her first college acceptance, and she has her first audition tomorrow. She has dreams, goals, hopes, and ambitions. She is a dancer. Dancers want to dance. My heart and mind are distracted by her ambitions, and as her mother, not as a speaker, I am trying to embrace the moment, face my fears, and prep, which leads to the third part.\nWe leave in three hours or so to Kalamazoo. Bethany\u2019s audition is for the dance program at Western Michigan University, and I am incredibly nervous. And I don\u2019t have to do anything! And as I try to finish this post and make my mental packing list there is a lovely sense of convergence.\nMy daughter is a \u201cgood\u201d student and she is an artist. Last year she choreographed a piece that took my breath away and left many in the audience reflecting on the power of dance. She doesn\u2019t become a different person when she performs. She becomes more of who she is. And every time I tell someone she wants to major in dance she is breaking the model minority stereotype that doesn\u2019t seem harmful or hurtful until you are the one either in the teeny, tiny box of what is acceptable or outside of that box being told you are failure. She hopefully will do with her art what I have been trying to do with mine \u2013 creating opportunities for progress, pushing fear aside, identifying God-given gifts as something to exercise and explore.\nAnd just like that, it\u2019s time to go.\nWhat are the things you faced today?\nLabels: blogging, ethnicity, faith, identity, leadership, motherhood, parenting, race, stereotypes\nTags: #flymysweet, ambition, An Open Letter to the Evangelical Church, Asian American, Asian American Christians, Asian American stereotypes, LifeWay, Open Letter to the Evangelical Church, Q Women & Calling, Rickshaw Rally, Thom Rainer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 53032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ke5ter.com/archives/2005/12/19/who-came-up-with-the-theory-of-six-degrees-of-separation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KKCFFCQP4LKG5DVZRFVTTMYFHN2RVPVY", "length": 678, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.ke5ter.com", "title": "Who came up with the theory of six degrees of separation? | Nathan W. Kester", "raw_content": "Who came up with the theory of six degrees of separation?\nThought this was cool\u2026. even more prevalent in the deaf world, which is like 1% of the entire population.\nYahoo! Answers \u2013 theory of six degrees of separation\nIn 1967, psychologist Stanley Milgram tried to test the theory by sending several letters to random people in the Midwest. The letter featured the name, address, and occupation of a single person on the East Coast; participants were asked to forward the letters to the people who they thought were most likely to know the person. It took an average of five intermediaries to reach the target.\nReply to \u201cWho came up with the theory of six degrees of separation?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 166.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.khabar.com/magazine/editorial/our_love-hate_relationship_with_um_bollywood.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:35Z", "digest": "sha1:RZOVFFLRYDJ4LTOUJXASGJ6DHT2OFC67", "length": 3323, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.khabar.com", "title": "Our Love-Hate Relationship With, um...Bollywood", "raw_content": "Home > Magazine > Editorial > Our Love-Hate Relationship With, um...Bollywood\nOur Love-Hate Relationship With, um...Bollywood\nIf Hollywood can be a topic of political warfare in the U.S. (thanks to many Conservatives demonizing it as a \u201cliberal\u201d entity that is corrupting the moral fiber of this country), then Bollywood often is an instrument of class snobbishness in Indian society. There is a segment of the upwardly mobile middle class that tends to define its elitism by how much it has distanced itself from the \u201clowbrow\u201d world of Bollywood.\nThis is both inevitable and sad. Inevitable because up to a large extent it is this film industry itself that is to blame for its lack of respectability. While snobbishness may be a dysfunctional reaction to it, constructive criticism is unavoidable. Discriminative film fans can\u2019t but have a beef with Bollywood, even if they are \u201cinsiders\u201d who beg for more of what this industry does best\u2014tell stories with a heart and lightness that is often missing in Hollywood movies. The beef, of course, would be the sheer number of duds that a fan must sift through to stumble upon the rare gems. Duds that are no more than psychedelic celluloid waste.\nMany have expressed their dismay with the name \u201cBollywood\u201d itself that the industry allowed, if not actually embraced\u2014so that it is now irrevocably entrenched upon itself. How can an entity with such a God-awful moniker be taken seriously? For those outsiders who have no prior recognition of this industry, the name is more likely to evoke smirks rather than respect. If, in spite of this, Bollywood has managed to have some presence in global cinema, it is primarily because of its huge commercial potential.\nThis is a sad situation. Because behind the mangled moniker and the boatload of duds, and, yes, the Hollywood-wannabes, there is a quality that its better movies offer that is hard to come by in films elsewhere. Bollywood flicks may not be known for their creative range or professional rigor, yet there is a subtle but distinct thread in these films that nourishes the soul and rejuvenates the mind more than the best of films around the world.\nIn this issue, Maria Giovanna, a New York-based journalist and self-confessed \u201cfilmiholic\u201d talks about her love of Bollywood in our cover story (\u201cMy Filmi Love Affair\u201d). She does a commendable job of unraveling the elusive merits of these films when she writes about their emphasis on \u201csocial mores such as selflessness, devotion to family, and the romantic-but-chaste expression of love.\u201d In a seemingly dog-eat-dog world, it is this background of utopia and idealism that is perhaps the most charming and subtly powerful quality that irresistibly draws fans who are not slaves to a one-dimensional intellectualism.\nAnd then there is the musical aspect of it. It may well be the biggest draw of these movies. How often have fans of this genre fallen head-over-heels for a song from a movie they may not care for, or may even detest? In many cases the soulful lyrics, the exotic locales, and the stirring music are a potent combination that easily finds a place in our hearts.\nThe list of criticisms against Bollywood may be long and valid, and so we hate it. Yet, it has a few (very few) aces up its sleeve that make it irresistible. And so we love it!\n- Parthiv N. Parekh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 3850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.khabar.com/magazine/features/heritage_palaces_pearls_and_paradise", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:38Z", "digest": "sha1:PCCY5SUXTDBPTQ5H7L4NOFJAYTLYSLFM", "length": 4785, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.khabar.com", "title": "Khabar: Heritage: Palaces, Pearls, and Paradise", "raw_content": "Home > Magazine > Features > Heritage: Palaces, Pearls, and Paradise\nHeritage: Palaces, Pearls, and Paradise\nText: Ramchander Pentuker\nLeft: The Charminar in Hyderabad.\nThe area around the Charminar in Hyderabad is a delight for the foodie, shopper, and history buff.\nHyderabad, the capital of the state of Andhra Pradesh, is the city of nizams, mosques and palaces. Built in 1590, it is one of the earliest planned cities in India. The Charminar, an ornate structure with four towers, is its focal point.\nRecently, I took a walking tour of the city\u2019s bustling bazaars and alleys. My journey took me to some old buildings, crowded cafes, and colorfully stocked shops, which continue to breathe life into the centuries-old history and culture of this place.\nMy starting point: the Charminar. Built in 1591 by Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutub Shah, then ruler of the region, it is located on the east bank of the Musi river. The ancient clock just above one of its arches shows 8 am. The businesses are yet to open. But the Farasha Cafe, in the shadow of the minarets, is already crowded with the teaholics. All I can hear as I sit sipping my morning tea is the occasional sound of the bells from the Hindu temple nearby. The cafe is one of the oldest eating joints in the city and serves the best Irani tea. Hyderabad is as famous for its Irani tea as it is for its biryani (a dish of rice, meats and spices).\nThe muezzin can be heard calling the faithful to prayer from the Makkah Masjid nearby. I follow the direction of the sound and enter the masjid\u2019s sprawling courtyard. The city has dozens of mosques, but the Makkah Masjid is the most important. It is believed that the merit of prayers said here match the spiritual benefits of a pilgrimage to Mecca. The mosque gets its name from the fact that the sultan commissioned bricks to be made from soil brought from Mecca and used them to construct the central arch of the structure. The three arches that make up the mosque\u2019s facade have been carved from a single piece of granite, which took five years to quarry.\nThis part of Hyderabad is a foodie\u2019s paradise. Pista House on Shah Ali Banda road is an excellent place to gorge on a Hyderabadi specialty, haleem (a stew made of meat, pounded wheat, spices, and clarified butter). For biryani, head to Hotel Shadab and Madina, not far from the Charminar. During the month of Ramazan, the area comes alive in the evening, with food stalls mushrooming to cater to those looking to break their fast and offer prayers at the nearby mosques.\nGolkonda Fort.\nIt is believed that Hyderabad gets its name from Hyder Mahal, a beloved of Quli Qutub Shah. Hyder Mahal was a title bestowed on Bhagmati, a Hindu peasant girl whom Quli married. He built Hyderabad around the village of her birth, Chechlam. Legend has it that Qutub Shah built a secret tunnel, the location of which is still unknown, connecting the fortress city of Golkonda with the Charminar.\nA girl checks out some bangles at a shop in Lad Bazaar.\nThe area is also the centre of Hyderabad\u2019s bangle industry. Traditional Hyderabadi bangles, or goots, made of lacquer and studded with pieces of glass in a myriad of different designs and a thousand bewitching colors adorn the shops in Lad Bazaar. Look hard and you may spot an antique from the age of the nawabs. Antiques and local handicrafts are worth taking home.\nChowmahalla Palace.\nA short walk from Lad Bazaar takes me to the official residence of the former nizams of Hyderabad, known as the Chowmahalla Palace, built around the early 1800s. Chowmahalla is said to resemble the Shah of Iran\u2019s palace in Tehran. The lavishness of its interior d\u00e9cor reflects the exotic and extravagant tastes of the Asif Jah monarchy that ruled Hyderabad state for around 200 years up until Independence in 1947.\nAn attar shop.\nMy journey will end at Madina Hotel. But before I call it a day I nip into a shop selling attar (perfumes). The shelves are lined with tiny glass bottles filled with alcohol-free, natural, oil-based fragrances. Floral attars are very popular; it is said that the favorite of the nizams was jasmine attar.\nHyderabad is known as the City of Pearls for good reason. On my way home, I walk past shops around Gulzar Hauz; each one of them has a king\u2019s ransom worth of pearls in all shapes, sizes and colors. I long to stop, but I guess this pleasure will have to wait for my next visit.\nBy Air: Hyderabad is well connected to national and international destinations.\nBy Rail: It is the headquarters for Indian Railway in South India. Regular trains from different states connect Hyderabad to other parts of the country.\nBy Road: It is well connected to the nearby states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Orissa.\n[Reprinted with permission from India Perspectives.]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 5305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/events/chapel-services/carols-kings.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PCEUYE4L74P7YIJCZA2JO3TDNJVCO6JB", "length": 606, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.kings.cam.ac.uk", "title": "Carols from King's | King's College, Cambridge", "raw_content": "\u00bb Carols from King's\nCarols from King\u2019s is shown on BBC Two on Christmas Eve (please check the BBC TV guide for the time). This is recorded by the BBC early in December and is a different service from A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The service is attended by members of the College and is by invitation only.\nCarols from King's can be downloaded from www.kingscollegrecordings.com\nCarols from King's 2018 Booklet\nOpen in full page view\nPlease be aware that service may not have been broadcast in its entirety due to time restrictions, and may not have been in the order printed due to film editing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 1810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 144.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.koarealty.com/districts/north-kohala/north-kohala-subdivisions/kohala-ranch-subdivision-listings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:37Z", "digest": "sha1:W4AUMMXCSWSK34VYN2NROPUFBBEYIEJG", "length": 1967, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.koarealty.com", "title": "Kohala Ranch Subdivision Listings | Koa Realty, Inc - Search Big Island Hawaii Properties for sale.", "raw_content": "Kohala Ranch, a lovely, gated agricultural subdivision consisting of over 3500 acres is located just North of the small town of Kawaihae here on the North West side of the Big Island in the district of North Kohala. Spanning from a low elevation of approximately 120 ft to upwards of 3,000 ft. Kohala ranch is diverse in its many climates. With panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean, the three mountains Hualali, Mauna Loa, and Mauna Kea, and the Kohala mountain range, this is a truly breathtaking and magical place to call home. The subdivision itself runs from the Akoni Pule Hwy which is closer to sea level and on up to the Kohala Mountain Rd which offers up country travel from the Northern towns of Hawi and Kapaau and access into the town of Waimea. With Kohala Ranches wide range of accessibility to several quaint villages such as Waimea, Kapaau, Hawi and Kawaihae, as well as its location in relation to some of the West coasts finest beaches, like Hapuna Beach, Kauna\u2019oa at Mauna Kea, Beach 69 and Spencer Beach Park, this subdivision beholds immense opportunity for one who would like to own acreage to gain privacy or for the horse fancier who likes to get up and ride. With its private associations riding area and trails throughout the development it is perfect for keeping the cowboy alive. Kohala Ranch is unique in several ways and is one of the only subdivisions where open cattle grazing is still a part of everyday practice. Home lots vary in size from under one acre to five acres in the lower elevation Heathers I and Heathers II, three to five acres in mid elevation Meadows I and Meadows II, to ten acres in the upper elevation summit. Underground utilities including water, electricity, telephone and cable lines run to property lines, preserving the unencumbered magnificent vistas and open spaces on the Ranch. Water is provided by Kohala Ranch Water Company, a private company that supplies water to the Ranch and surrounding communities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kowessex.co.uk/menu/news/newsStory.php?item_id=727%20title=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WFJEGJMZ4W2J53JCGBQUBYCGM5AK7Q7Z", "length": 5034, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.kowessex.co.uk", "title": "The Kings of Wessex Academy, Cheddar", "raw_content": "EPQ Presentations showcase students' star study skills\n2nd October, 2018 by Jude Owens\nLast Friday the gym at The Kings of Wessex Academy was transformed into a showcase of high level research when some Year 13 students presented the final stage of their EPQ.\nThe Extended Project Qualification is equivalent to half an A Level and is a research project that students can chose to embark upon when they are in Year 12 in the Summer Term and concludes the following September in Year 13. Students have the task of project managing their own research-based piece of work on a topic of their own choosing of up to 5,000 words under the watchful eye of a staff supervisor, which culminates in the presentation.\nThe students presented to staff and students from all year groups who were invited to watch and listen to their range of intriguing topics. The presentations are a critical part of the assessment process and the students all showed their extensive knowledge and research and enthusiasm on a broad range of intelligent and interesting topics. Students are marked on their project management skills as well as the project content.\nTom Baker looked at \u201cEnvironmental impacts of the eruption of Yellowstone caldera\u201d and is hoping to study Physical Geography at university and presented mind-blowing facts if the caldera were to erupt (it has erupted three times in the last 2.1 million years) with the devastating prospect of another Ice Age. Combining Geography and Engineering Charlie Bradshaw looked at \u201cTo what extent will engineers be able to restore the Aral Sea?\u201d a perhaps relatively unheard of sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. A manmade disaster with significant implications for man and wildlife when the Soviet Union attempted to use the water for cotton crops and ultimately changed the whole dimension and outlook of the river. A Structural Engineer in the making, Mason Parker researched \u201cWhy are bridges structured like they are?\u201d and built his very own model made from 4mm wooden dowels that he completed in the wee hours that very morning!\nTo human interest and with his hopes of studying Psychotherapy, Samuel Bateman considered \u201cTo what extent is medicinal treatment more effective than psychotherapy in treating postnatal depression?\u201d This was a sensitive topic with the sometimes unspoken misconception that motherhood is wonderful; when really it can also be a testing time. Also on a moving note Gabriela Page looked into \u201cTo what extent has society's attitude towards accepting mental health changed in the last 10 years?\u201d Using books, online articles and speaking to CAMHs professionals Gabriela produced a documentary and concluded that whilst the profile of mental health has been raised \u2013 in part thanks to more open discussions, not least celebrities (and the younger Royals!). It is still the Cinderella of the national health service.\nA topic of our times, Molly Ross presented on \u201cShould the Government put a ban a single use plastic bottles?\u201d and undertook a 30 day experiment with 20 water-loving family and friends during the heatwave to see if they could avoid buying plastic bottles and use one of the many now fancy designer reusable bottles. Only one thirsty participant succumbed, but that was when they were on a trip on a hot sunny day and could not access water. A fascinating fact from Molly\u2019s research is that water from the tap is scientifically proven to be cleaner than in a plastic bottle due to tight regulations!\nUp, up and away, with her interest in gaining her pilot\u2019s license Abigail Brigham Curtis looked at \u201cHow important is manufacturing in the process of making and designing a special shape hot air balloon?\u201d with some material to test that magically self-repairs in the event of a fall and tear. Abi has ambitions to follow in her father\u2019s balloon footsteps who has worked with Richard Branson.\nKeen musician Sam Kail-Dyke considered \u201cTo what extent does the use of the Western score in ethnomusicological transcriptions omit key details of the music and to what extent can these issues be resolved?\u201d and came up with a suggested way that ethnic music can be transcribed by Westerners for Westerners whilst preserving their cultural individuality. Other well-researched projects included Anas Idris\u2019s \u201cTo what extent does smoking have an increased risk of developing motor neurone disease?\u201d and \u201cHow can psychology be used to reduce gang behaviour? by Joe Hancock. \u201cDid VAR improve or ruin the World Cup?\u201d by Callum Pitt and \u201cDoes drone technology have a negative effect on society?\u201d and in the world of literature and media, \u201cTo what extent are our attitudes towards AI aligned with the dystopian gothic as shown through 20th and 21st Century film and literature?\u201d\n\u201cThese projects are exceptionally impressive and represent a very high standard of research that I believe is worthy of undergraduate study and I congratulate our students for their hard work and for their tenacious project management. An interesting day for the audience who all learned something.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kurdistan24.net/en/news/14d77173-f78c-48e0-90cb-8d6761fe90a2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZKIPIDQSMSAD5VKHZYJHX5TSOHCBHAK", "length": 2481, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.kurdistan24.net", "title": "Passing law to end US troops\u2019 stay in Iraq \u2018difficult:\u2019 senior Iraqi lawmaker", "raw_content": "Passing law to end US troops\u2019 stay in Iraq \u2018difficult:\u2019 senior Iraqi lawmaker\nUS soldiers gather at a military base north of Mosul, Iraq, on Jan. 4, 2017. (Photo: Reuters)\nIraq Baghdad USA US troops\nERBIL (Kurdistan 24) \u2013 The head of the Iraqi parliamentary faction led by former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Sunday expressed doubt at the possibility of parliament voting in favor of ending the presence of US troops in the country, citing Iraq\u2019s fragile security situation.\nParliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi recently told Kurdistan 24 that the legislative body had received a proposal that aims to determine the tasks of the US troops stationed in Iraq and the timetable for their stay.\nThe US military presence, as explained by Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Hakim, in a recent interview with Kurdistan 24, does not involve combat troops, but \u201conly military advisors and trainers, who are helping our army.\u201d\n\u201cSo, I wonder why some people in Iraq want to make this subject a big issue,\u201d he said.\n\u201cWe believe that the presence of US troops is within the framework of the International Coalition for the fight against Da\u2019esh [Islamic State],\u201d Adnan al-Zurfi, the head of parliament\u2019s Victory alliance, part of Sadr\u2019s Reform bloc, said in an interview with Kurdistan 24.\nHead of the Victory faction in the Iraqi Parliament Adnan al-Zarfi on Feb. 10, 2019. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)\nStill, Iraqi lawmakers, including those from the two leading blocs \u2013 one of which is led by popular cleric Muqtada al-Sadr while pro-Iranian Shia militia commander Hadi al-Amiri leads the other \u2013 are increasingly campaigning in favor of a vote to end American military presence in the country.\nHowever, Zarfi, pointing to the \u201cworrying\u201d security situation in Iraq, warned the legislature against \u201crushing\u201d to pass such a law, but reassured that it would be \u201cdifficult\u201d to do so.\nDespite Iraq\u2019s declaration of defeat in late 2017, the Islamic State continues to carry out insurgency-style attacks and ambushes, targeting security forces and civilians alike.\nUS troops in Iraq \u2013 recently numbered at around 6,000 by Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi \u2013 have been and continue to provide training and counseling to Iraq\u2019s security forces and the Kurdish Peshmerga in the fight against the terrorist organization.\nIraqi PM asks Trump to retract comments on troops\u2019 stay\nSenate Armed Services Committee, Gen Votel: US needs to protect Syrian Kurds\nTrump: US will stay in Iraq, but leave Syria", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.laceywolfe.com/blog/ella-jade-passions-pain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:44Z", "digest": "sha1:CFTMF7IZH6W5YR63XRUFDK5A6P75RD3A", "length": 7166, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "www.laceywolfe.com", "title": "Ella Jade - Passion's Pain", "raw_content": "Ella Jade - Passion's Pain\nToday I have the very talented, Ella Jade, on the blog today, telling us about her new release, Passion's Pain. Enjoy!\nThanks so helping me celebrate the release of my newest contemporary romance Passion's Pain. The idea for this novel has been running around in my head for three years, but it was one of those plots where I thought maybe I couldn\u2019t pull it off. The more I tried to push it to the back burner, the more the story wanted to be told. Finally, I gave in and went for it. I'm so glad I did.\nI grew up on soap operas. I started watching Dallas and Falcon Crest with my grandmother when I was eight. I may not have known what was going on back then, but the ideas and plots stuck with me. I honestly believe watching all of those love triangles, secret babies, faked deaths and sexy romances fueled my desire to become a writer.\nWhen I came up with the plot for Passion's Pain, I knew I was attempting to break the mold of what we're used to in a romance novel. I've created a bit of an unconventional triangle. But, for me, writing has always been about stretching my imagination and seeing where the story takes me. I've fallen fast and hard for my characters in this book. Even Jackson, my villain holds a special place in my heart.\nOne woman\u2026two men. Who will she choose? The father or the son?\nLilli Daniels is down on her luck. She's been homeless, hungry and alone for far too long. Everything changes when she meets an intriguing, older stranger.\nSuccessful attorney Jackson Avis maintains complete control of every aspect in his life. When he sets eyes on Lilli he's captivated. He tempts her with a life of privilege and security, introducing her to a world she never knew existed. Complications arise when Jackson's son and aspiring doctor Cameron expresses interest in his father's girlfriend.\nLilli fights the attraction, but Cameron wants to give into his heart. He's the complete opposite of his manipulative father and stops at nothing to protect the woman he's falling in love with.\nSometimes life leads you down one path only to bring you to your true destiny. Can Lilli figure out who her heart belongs to?\nHere is how I envisioned the characters. I can't wait for you to meet them.\nLilli glanced down at the floor for a few seconds before looking up and giving Jack a small smile. Her long black hair fell down the center of her back and curled slightly at the ends. Her eyes were a most alluring color. Jack couldn\u2019t tell for sure in the dim lighting, but they almost appeared violet. He\u2019d never encountered such a unique woman before. He knew right away a girl like her didn\u2019t belong in a shit-hole like this.\n\u201cWhat would you like?\u201d She looked down at the pad she held and waited for his order.\n\u201cFor you to have a seat.\u201d He got up, pulled the chair out, and then motioned for her to sit.\n\u201cWhat? No, I can\u2019t. I\u2019m working.\u201d\nJack looked around and noted it wasn\u2019t that busy.\n\u201cI think you can sit for a few minutes.\u201d He smiled. \u201cPat said you should give me what I want.\u201d\n\u201cI-I don\u2019t do that.\u201d She shook her head. \"Some of the other girls here do, but not me.\"\n\u201cI\u2019m only asking you to sit and I rarely ask twice.\u201d He felt a sense of relief knowing she didn't prostitute herself to the customers in this disgusting place. \u201cPlease.\u201d\n\u201cJust for a few minutes.\u201d She looked around the bar and then quickly took a seat.\n\u201cIt\u2019s nice to meet you, Lilli,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you have a last name?\u201d\n\u201cI do.\u201d She was too busy looking into his eyes that he thought maybe she forgot to finish answering.\nJack smiled and cleared his throat when he realized she was staring at him.\n\u201cOh, it\u2019s Daniels.\u201d\n\u201cI see. What do you do besides work here, Lilli Daniels?\u201d\n\u201cI work at the bookstore over at the community college,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m hoping to save enough money to take a few classes there in the fall.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s only January,\u201d Jack said. \u201cWhy wait so long?\u201d\n\u201cClasses are expensive.\u201d She nervously fidgeted with the cocktail napkin sitting on the table. \u201cSo, what do you do?\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m an attorney. I have my own practice in the city.\u201d\n\u201cOh, that sounds interesting. I\u2019d like to study law someday, too.\u201d\n\u201cA pretty ambitious goal.\u201d He teased. \u201cHow old are you?\u201d\nWell, at least she's legal. But, for a girl working in a strip club trying to save money for school, she seemed awfully na\u00efve. He briefly wondered if it was an act to get men to feel sorry for her. Maybe she knew exactly how to get a bigger tip out of her customers.\n\u201cGetting a bit of a late start with school, aren\u2019t you?\u201d Jack asked. \u201cMy son is about your age and he's in medical school.\u201d\n\u201cMy father\u2019s not an attorney.\u201d She ran her fingers through her hair and Jack immediately recognized she was uncomfortable when she mentioned her father. The lawyer in him needed to investigate a little further.\n\u201cAre you ready to order?\u201d she said. \u201cI should be getting back to work.\u201d\n\u201cNot just yet.\u201d He wondered why she changed the subject so quickly. \u201cI\u2019m curious as to what a girl like you is doing in a place like this.\u201d\n\u201cMe, too.\u201d She looked around the dark room. \u201cI fell on some hard times and I\u2019m just trying to get my life back together. It\u2019s honest work.\u201d\n\u201cWhat kind of hard times?\u201d He was trying not to interrogate her, but he wanted to know more about her.\n\u201cI can tell you\u2019re a lawyer.\u201d Her full pink lips curved into a smile. Jackson wondered what it would feel like to have her mouth against his. She was probably soft and warm.\n\u201cIt\u2019s in my nature to ask questions.\u201d He wanted to know more about this beauty.\n\u201cDo you always get your answers?\u201d\n\u201cI always get everything I want.\u201d He let his eyes wander down her body. She was flawless, but he shouldn't have been entertaining any possibilities at all. But then again, when did he ever let anything stop him from getting what he wanted?\nJack reached into his pocket, pulled out his business card, and handed it to her. He couldn\u2019t help but feel sorry for her. \u201cI have to get back to the office now, but I\u2019ve rather enjoyed your company. If Pat gives you a hard time, please give me a call. I\u2019ll set him straight.\u201d He knew he should leave her alone. He wasn't sure he\u2019d be interested in getting involved with a girl in her situation, but he wasn\u2019t ready to walk away. Not yet.\nShe glanced down at the card. \u201cI went to high school with a Cameron Avis.\u201d\n\u201cDid you date?\u201d That would be far too amusing.\n\u201cOh, God no.\u201d She laughed. \u201cHe was a year older than me, popular, and would never give a girl like me a second glance. I was from the wrong side of the tracks.\u201d She rolled her eyes.\n\u201cHmm.\u201d Jack began to get a clearer picture of who Lilli was.\n\u201cI was shy and kept to myself,\u201d she said. \u201cHe was gorgeous, smart, and came from money. Definitely not my type.\"\n\u201cReally?\u201d Jack grinned as he got up from the table. \u201cIt seems to me I\u2019ll have to have a talk with my son about not recognizing a good thing when he sees it.\u201d\nPassion\u2019s Pain \u2013\nSCP / Amazon / All Romance\nOh, indeed;)\nI hope I\u2019ve piqued your interest. Thanks so much for joining me today.\nI love connecting with readers. You can find me here\u2026\nEla Jade link\nThanks fo having me today!\nWell, if that were how I envisioned Jackson, I might have been cheering on a different team ;). Yummmm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 9662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lacrosseplayground.com/tags/ball/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:22Z", "digest": "sha1:A7DLNYHEHYI7JHKCGMLULGFYLHQZDPUF", "length": 824, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.lacrosseplayground.com", "title": "ball \u2013 Lacrosse Playground", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Posts tagged ball\nEquipment/Gear Guardian Sports\nGuardian Pearl Lacrosse Ball Review\nRegular lacrosse balls are manufactured in China, using vulcanized rubber, as well as cheap fillers and oils that are added into the rubber. Over time these materials, specifically the fillers, separate from the Continue Reading\nR.I.S.E. stands for Revamp, Improve, Strengthen, Evolve and the new R.I.S.E. Training Ball. The guys at R.I.S.E. challenged me to try one for a review and, well, let\u2019s see how it did: \u200bThe R.I.S.E. Training Continue Reading\nOwn John Grant Jr.\u2019s Record-Setting Lacrosse Ball\nColorado Mammoth forward John Grant Jr. set the National Lacrosse League's single-season scoring record with a fourth-quarter goal on Saturday, April 28 against the Minnesota Swarm. Own this piece of history, the Continue Reading", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 299.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.latinsonghall.com/erika-ender-ana-gabriel-roberto-livi-martin-urieta-carlos-vives-camilo-sesto-inducted-into-the-latin-songwriters-hall-of-fame/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:22Z", "digest": "sha1:D2JE6LROAV5GGB26AGXJMAU3XEY3GSUS", "length": 2702, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.latinsonghall.com", "title": "Erika Ender, Ana Gabriel, Roberto Livi, Martin Urieta, Carlos Vives, & Camilo Sesto Inducted Into The Latin Songwriters Hall Of Fame \u2013 Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame", "raw_content": "Erika Ender, Ana Gabriel, Roberto Livi, Martin Urieta, Carlos Vives, & Camilo Sesto Inducted Into The Latin Songwriters Hall Of Fame And Presented With Prestigious La Musa Award During The Memorable LA MUSA AWARDS Ceremony At The James L. Knight Center In Miami\nAdditional honors presented to:\n(MIAMI, October 20, 2017) \u2013 Last night, The Latin Song Writers Hall of Fame (LSHOF), celebrated some of the most successful and beloved songwriters and performers of Latin music during the memorable 2017 LA MUSA AWARDS ceremony at the James L. Knight Center. At the fifth annual gala hosted by actor Jaime Camil, Erika Ender, Ana Gabriel, Roberto Livi, Martin Urieta, Carlos Vives, and Camilo Sesto were inducted into the prestigious LATIN SONG WRITERS HALL OF FAME.\nThe LATIN SONGWRITERS HALL OF FAME LA MUSA AWARDS 2017 ceremony made music history with unforgettable moments and music tributes: Draco Rosa and Diego Torres captured the audience with their electric rock dedication to Gustavo Cerati. After his induction, Roberto Livi brought the house down when he paused his set and asked Ana Gabriel up to the stage to sing with Vicky Carr, in their first live encounter in many years.\nNo less moving was Martin Urieta\u2019s words and sentiment for immigrants. Ednita Nazario offered a riveting and heart gripping musical tribute to Puerto Rico, and Carlos Vives gave the audience an additional exclusive musical gift with an acapella tune that made the audience ask for more.\nThe late and great Julio Jaramillo received the \u201cLegacy Award\u201d and Gustavo Cerati the \u201cPosthumous Award.\u201d\nHoracio Placencia was inducted by BMI Vice President of Latin Music within Broadcast Music, Delia Orjuela. Jaime Camil inducted Mexican icon Ana Gabriel who sang, \u201cSimplemente Amigos;\u201d Argentine folksinger Soledad Pastorutti sang \u201cBrindis\u201d and presented Afo Verde with his honor.\nAcclaimed singer Camilo Sesto, performed the international hit, \u201cVivir asi es morir de amor,\u201d Erika Ender received an additional recognition from iHeartRadio\u2019s Enrique Santos for Song of the Year \u201cDespacito;\u201d and the night closed with a grand finale of the Song of All Times, \u201cLa Bamba.\u201d\nThe evening included additional performances and the participation of many entertainment luminaries like: Kany Garcia, Carlos Rivera, Alejandro Jaen, Jon Secada, Fernando Varela, Maisy Kay, among others.\nThe 2017 Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame LA MUSA AWARD ceremony was a special evening. Amidst one of the worst seasons of natural disasters causing catastrophic loss of life in Mexico, the Southern Coast of the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean, Latin stars reminded audiences that songwriting and music are important and as relevant as ever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 309.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leahcleary.com/2014/07/ringing-in-teacher-new-year.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:21Z", "digest": "sha1:UYKRPPRWPFTCIDTSUTRMPGPBSJWFSWBH", "length": 5475, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.leahcleary.com", "title": "Ringing in the (Teacher) New Year - Leah Cleary: Secondary Resources for Social Studies and English", "raw_content": "Follow my blog with Bloglovin\nIt's almost here. You teachers know what I mean. It's that bittersweet time of year. Bitter, because we have to pack away our swim suits and all of those half-finished projects we were so gung-ho about at the beginning of summer (yes, I'm talking to you :)). Sweet, because it's time for a fresh start--a new beginning. It's time to celebrate the biggest annual holiday for us--The Teacher New Year.\nWhen I first started teaching, a colleague told me, \"You will be depressed about everything you didn't do over the summer the night before pre-planning. You will want to make that last day of summer something to look forward to.\"\n\"Whatever,\" I thought. \"How can anything about two months off be depressing?\"\nBut you know what? He was right. The night before the first day of pre-planning for my second year teaching, I was miserable. I hadn't read that stack of books on my night stand. I hadn't planted my herb garden or organized the garage. How had I let the time get away from me?\nMy husband is not one to let me wallow, and believe me, I was wallowing. So he turned the whole day into a celebration. At my colleague's advice, we began celebrating \"Pre-Planning Eve.\" We have a cookout, give gifts, etc. Now it's a day to look forward to.\nHere's Your Free Gift From Me\nBut in the much anticipated time between now and Pre-planning Eve, I find myself thinking more and more about that most sacred of holidays, The Teacher New Year--known in wider circles as, The First Day of School.\nIt's time for a brand new adventure yet again, and I've found that what I do on the first day sets the tone for the entire year. I will officially be embarking on my 13th \"Teacher New Year\" in one week, and I've messed up enough to figure out what makes for a great start! At least, I hope that's what I've gotten out of it :). Here's some advice I've picked up over the years to make that first day meaningful:\nLay out all classroom guidelines clearly and briefly.\nGet to know each student as an individual.\nEncourage all students to get to know each other.\nI want to elaborate briefly on points 2 and 3. It is always my goal to learn each student's name by the end of each block on the first day. I have students fill out information cards, I shuffle the cards, and draw one at a time. For each card I draw, I make eye contact with that student, think of a memory trick to remember their name, and have a short conversation with them about an interest they put on the card. Periodically, I go around the room and call each student by name.\nThe first time I tried this, I thought the students would get bored, but they're actually entertained, and they love it when I mess up and miss a name! And they are so impressed when I see them on campus and greet them by name. It really makes them feel like they matter to me. Here is a great article about how to make this work: Easy Ways to Remember Names\nA couple of years into teaching, I realized halfway through the year, that the students in my classes barely knew each other. That is not good if you're trying to build a collaborative culture. I knew that I needed to foster relationships within the classroom starting on the first day. But how do you lay out guidelines, have a conversation with each student, and begin to build a collaborative culture all in one period?\nAfter much thought, I came up with a game that only takes 5 minutes to play, and in that time, students are able to speak to every person in the class. It's based on the Kagan Structure \"Quiz-Quiz-Trade.\" I call it \"Greet and Swap.\"\nI place questions on cards.\nEach student gets a card.\nThey move about the room.\nWhen the music stops, they turn to the student next to them, ask their question and get the answer.\nTheir partner does the same.\nThey swap cards, and continue moving about the room.\nWe repeat this for 5 minutes (or longer).\nI have all of my first day resources in a packet you can get here: First Day of School Materials and Procedures\nI hope this was helpful! I wish you luck and fun on your teaching adventure!\nHow do you ring in the \"Teacher\" New Year? What do you do to \"set the tone\" for the school year? Leave a comment below to let me know!\nDiane Wiens July 23, 2014 at 10:06 AM\nI love the question card game! It's such a good idea! I might be borrowing it for my own class this fall!\nLeah Cleary July 23, 2014 at 10:10 AM\nIt really does work quite well, and best of all, takes almost no time!\njane payne July 23, 2014 at 11:03 AM\nThe article you recommend for remembering names is ingeniously simple and helpful. The three recommendations for the first day of school would work for any age classroom, kindergarten through college. The First Day School Materials and Procedures you published are excellent and are useful for middle and high school classrooms. Thank you Leah and Happy Teacher New Year!\nJen Bradshaw July 27, 2014 at 10:02 PM\nI really LOVE your idea about celebrating your \"pre-planning\" day. That is truly a fabulous idea! I found your blog on the TPT forum and I like your style of writing. It is very comforting and knowledgable at the same time. I just started a new blog this summer too. It has been so much fun trying to figure it all out and try to personalize it. It is A LOT OF WORK! But, but fun work.\nHistory Gal July 30, 2015 at 12:44 PM\nAwesome post, Leah!\nLeah Cleary July 30, 2015 at 12:46 PM\nThanks, Andrea! :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 8168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0600-0699/0628/Sections/0628.906.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:04Z", "digest": "sha1:VTQN5PGNW3ALSKOFLB7O4WKKNQY73YCJ", "length": 2922, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.leg.state.fl.us", "title": "Statutes & Constitution :View Statutes : Online Sunshine", "raw_content": "628.906\u2003Application requirements; restrictions on eligibility of officers and directors.\u2014\n(1)\u2003To evidence competence and trustworthiness of its officers and directors, the application for a license to act as a captive insurance company or captive reinsurance company shall include, but not be limited to, background investigations, biographical affidavits, and fingerprints for all officers and directors. 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This tree provided shelter for Holy Family during their stay in Egypt. This tree has been a destination for pilgrims for many centuries. The present tree grew from a shoot planted in place of the original tree but the tradition of the tree continues to live on. The original tree miraculously opened to give refuge for the Holy Family from two brigands pursuing them at the time.At the same spot baby Jesus created a welland the Holy Virgin Mary used its water to bathe Jesus, also balsam plant grew there.\nMusturud has the church of Virgin Mary, one of the places of shelter for Holy Family while in Egypt. It still has the cave and the well of the Holy Family.\nOverlooking the Nile in Maadi is a church of Virgin Mary that was built on the spot where the Holy Family crossed the Nile to the western bank in Giza. in 1976 a holy bible was carried by the water of the Nile to the bank below the church. It was opened to the page of Isiah 19:25 declaring, \"Blessed be Egypt My People\". it is now preserved in a glass box inside the church.\nThe area of old Cairo where you will see the remains of the Roman fortress of Babylon(1st century), and visit the hanging church of Virgin Mary(3rd century) built over the fortress tower, the church of Abu Serga(St. Sergio)(5th century) with Holy Crypt where the Holy Family stayed for 6 months and the Synagogue of Ben Ezra(9th century).\nIt is recommended to wear proper clothes inside the churches.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lifebuzz.com/ekit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QPI3MPCJOQPYHHA7BZK6G6QMXBRQ6CUV", "length": 2505, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.lifebuzz.com", "title": "10 Ordinary Items To Keep In Your Car That Might Save Your Life One Day.", "raw_content": "10 Ordinary Items To Keep In Your Car That Might Save Your Life One Day.\nLots of people like to take trips by car. It\u2019s a great way to see the country or maybe just your local region. While you are expecting to have a fun time, the reality is that you never know what might happen. Even the best and newest cars break down sometimes. You just never know when it\u2019s going to happen.\nIn most cases when it does happen it\u2019s not in a good area. It can be a deserted back road or somewhere that is truly in the middle of nowhere. A person needs to be prepared for those situations because it can quickly turn into a life or death situation if you aren\u2019t prepared.\nNobody thinks it can happen to them and some people can go an entire lifetime without ever facing this sort of dire situation. Those people are lucky but they still have to be prepared. Even if it doesn\u2019t happen to them it\u2019s good to have these items in their vehicle so maybe they can help someone else they come across that needs help.\nThe following things are items that should be in every car that\u2019s on the road. Everything can be easily stored in a backpack under a back seat or in the trunk. Don\u2019t find excuses not to have them. Even if you never have to use them it\u2019s good to be prepared for the worst.\nYou always want to have a backpack.\nWhen your car breaks down it never happens in a convenient spot. The backpack can hold everything you need and store it away easily. It's the best way to condense everything you should have in there.\nAlways have a full tank of gas.\nAlways have a full tank of gas. If you are going anywhere more than twenty minutes away it's a good rule to have. You just never know what you will encounter along the way. A full tank of gas will avoid those situations of running low in desolate areas.\nWarm clothing is a must to have.\nYou should always have warm clothing stored in your vehicle. It doesn't matter where you live, sometimes night weather can be cold and/or rainy. 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This experience includes regional and global roles as well as local, and more than 4 years living and working abroad. Originally though, she started her career in a dynamic, fast growth start-up and she will never forget those entrepreneurial roots.\nSince the start of 2010 Claire held the position of HR Director for Unilever\u2019s UK and Ireland Food Service business, Food Solutions, and in March 2015 will start a new role as a Global HR Director at Save the Children International.\nClaire is passionate about helping individuals be their best through coaching and mentoring. She fundamentally believes in the power of personal leadership and the opportunity organisations have to bring out the best in people. She is a strong believer in both the need and benefit of embracing diversity in as holistic a way as possible.\nClaire has two children aged 2 and 4, and has worked part time for the last 2 years. She has recently written a ground breaking book entitled \u2018Work-Life Symbiosis\u2019, which draws on both her personal and professional experience in a light hearted, engaging but powerful way to help people get the most out of their work and life. 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The Crusaders won the battle on the glass by a 53-36 margin, including an 18-10 advantage on the offensive boards, while scoring 29 points on the fast break.\nDJ Brown (Anderson, S.C.) led the way for Lees-McRae with 13 points, knocking down a trio of three-pointers, as Charles Clarke (Orlando, Fla.) and Chad Eppley (Boone, N.C.) each added seven markers. Juan Urbina (Barquisimeto, Venezuela) chipped in seven boards and a game-high three blocks, as Eppley dished out a contest-best four assists.\nJay Council paced the Abbey with a game-high 24 points, all in the first half, on 9-of-13 shooting, as Tyshawn Good added 21 markers and three assists. Chris Davis chipped in 10 points with a 4-for-6 night from the floor, while he and Justin Kuhlman each dished out a game-high four assists. 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Belmont Abbey would close out the win from there, holding off a late Bobcat run en route to a 92-65 victory.\nLees-McRae returns to the court on Tuesday when the Bobcats travel to Tigerville, S.C. for a league battle with North Greenville University at 7:30 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 5485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.longwood.edu/events/calendar/?view=fulltext&id=d.en.6936845&day=28&month=1&year=2018×tamp=1539662400", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:44Z", "digest": "sha1:XA4RWFH7VD7ZPJ5HMWZTAQOHGWQLWP57", "length": 90, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.longwood.edu", "title": "Calendar of Events - Longwood University", "raw_content": "Monday, October 15, 201812:00AM - Tuesday, October 16, 201811:59PM\nFall Break - no classes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lotteinch.co.uk/claire-gough--slump", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:13Z", "digest": "sha1:L5SLWGUTMQPEYJ6J7A3ZDYPNLRXAYTOL", "length": 823, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.lotteinch.co.uk", "title": "Chloe Gough | Slump", "raw_content": "Artist: Chloe Gough\nTitle: Slump\nMedium: Acrylic & Ink on Board\nFramed Size: W106cm x H80cm\nSigned: Ssigned on reverse\nChloe H Gough was raised in Aberdeenshire; where the majority of her education was carried out at a Rudolf Steiner Waldorf school. 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Her original aim was to be a clinical psychologist, but she became involved with the Student Union magazine and became a music editor. After gaining work experience at BBC Radio 1 and graduating, she was offered an internship at MTV UK in London which developed into a career. However, twelve years later, her original yearning to go into healthcare returned.\n\"It was a difficult decision. I am a single mum to a 4-year-old daughter, but I decided to leave my TV career and retrain. When I was sitting in bed recently at 9pm revising for my biology exams and an ex-colleague of mine was on stage at the BAFTAs getting an award, I did think I could have chosen an easier path for myself! But I haven't looked back and can honestly say this is the best thing I have done professionally.\"\nWorld-class and inspirational\nAfter volunteering at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) Emma noticed LSBU nursing students trained there. It was the relationships LSBU has with hospitals like GOSH across London that led Emma to apply for the University.\nThey are world-class and utterly inspirational places to train and work in. All my acute ward placements are at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, and I am so proud of being part of the amazing work that is done there.\nIn the classroom, Emma has found the return to studying smooth: \"I've really enjoyed studying again. A lot of our teachers are nurses themselves and it's great to have their wealth of experience to hand, and my personal tutor is very supportive. I wasn't sure what to expect, coming back to university as a mature student, but it's been a lot less scary than I imagined.\"\n\"The PgDip course is very intense as you do the same amount of placement hours as the three-year course, only in a shorter amount of time. We were out on our first placement within the first two months of the course, and I think that was a sink or swim moment for me. I remember my first day on the ward and thinking to myself, 'I can't do this.' But as I gained confidence in my own abilities, nursing started to feel like second nature and by the end of my first placement, I had learnt and done so much. Seeing your own personal development through work like this is a phenomenal experience.\"\nSome of the most rewarding experiences for Emma during the course have been the feedback she's received from her placements. \"One patient's mum wrote the loveliest feedback in my portfolio and it really did make me a bit emotional! I have given up so much to be here and when you are told you are doing a good job, it just further confirms that you've done the right thing.\"\nNursing is so versatile and you have the opportunity to work in so many different areas. I can't think of many careers where the options are so vast. It is very hard work, you do very long hours and of course it can be extremely emotive. But it's such an amazing feeling to come home at the end of the day, remembering the look on a patient's face when you made them smile and think, 'I made a difference today.'\nChildren's Nursing - PgDip", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 222.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lunarcommunications.us/Public-Relations-Services-Milwaukee-99.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OY33RBHCQG24ZQDG2NUWGSSVO5H5CFVG", "length": 1820, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.lunarcommunications.us", "title": "Public Relations Services, Milwaukee, WI", "raw_content": "Life \u2013 and business \u2013 is all about perception. The perception of a person, business or organization often makes the difference in its success or failure.\nEffective public relations helps shape an image portrayed to the world. It\u2019s about what people read, see or hear about an entity. It molds perceptions by the public at large, along with potential customers or supporters.\nBuilding an image doesn\u2019t happen overnight. Nor does it happen without a well-planned course of action.\nPublic relations is about crafting messages and building support for them. It\u2019s about working with the media, through which many messages are filtered to the public. Today it\u2019s also about understanding and interacting with many online social media communities.\nIt\u2019s about being prepared to deal with skepticism or even outright hostility. Think \u201c60 Minutes\u201d knocking at the door \u2013 would you be ready?\nLunar Communications provides effective, successful public relations representation and counseling. With a background in journalism \u2013 real-world experience, not just classroom study \u2013 we provide invaluable insight on conducting effective media relations.\nWe have the resources and know-how to effectively reach out via social media. For example, are you ready to use LinkedIn, not just collect names? And if there\u2019s a specific audience that you\u2019re targeting, we\u2019ll identify the right trade associations or other organizations, and help build relationships.\nPerception begets reality, which is why public relations are so important. Knowing where to start, though, can be the biggest challenge in putting forth a positive public image.\nLunar Communications works closely with clients to identify, craft and deliver that image. In this journey of many steps, we help our clients put their best foot forward.\nPrefer a video version? Click here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.madehow.com/inventorbios/39/Henry-Blair.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:03Z", "digest": "sha1:6O7KLEZYPZTBJW5NMKOZCDA2WWLNMW3B", "length": 426, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.madehow.com", "title": "Henry Blair Biography (c. 1804-1860)", "raw_content": "Henry Blair Biography (c. 1804-1860)\nLittle is known of the life of Henry Blair, except that he was probably a free farmer of Montgomery County, Maryland. He was one of the first African-Americans to receive a patent. His invention, a corn-planting machine, was able to seed corn in a checkerboard fashion, a system which provided good weed control. Two years later, he designed a similar device suitable for planting cotton .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 124.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.matrixconsultants.in/contact-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:13Z", "digest": "sha1:IBW6ZALBBSSVYKOZF4VTDYSYREJTASM3", "length": 79, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.matrixconsultants.in", "title": "Contact us | Matrix Consutants", "raw_content": "You only need to learn the https://justbuyessay.com/ dictates from the masters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 224.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mccc.edu/news/saveria/whatsnew/pr_11-14-11_WinterConcerts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:11Z", "digest": "sha1:NZ6ELBK23OH7RKKOZ5H6FGZD7WHS2ZNP", "length": 1427, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mccc.edu", "title": "Chorus and Jazz Band to Present Winter Concerts", "raw_content": "MCCC's Chorus and Jazz Band Present Winter Concerts\nWest Windsor, NJ: Mercer County Community College (MCCC) cordially invites the community to two free winter concerts in December. The college\u2019s Chorus and Jazz Band will perform at Kelsey Theatre, located on the West Windsor Campus, 1200 Old Trenton Road. Admission is free. For more information, contact the Music Department during business hours at (609) 570-3735.\nThe MCCC Chorus, directed by Pamela Sharples, will perform a wide variety of choral music on Tuesday, Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m. The chorus consists of music majors and students from across the campus who enjoy ensemble singing.\nMCCC Associate Professor James Kelly, right, with some members of the Jazz Band.\nThe program will include a range of a cappella music including Benjamin Britten's Hodie from Ceremony of Carols, Down to the River by female singers, Silhouettes by male singers, and intriguing arrangements of seasonal music such as Deck the Halls in 7/8 time. The program will include vocal solos by several music majors.\nDirected by Associate Professor James Kelly, the MCCC Jazz Band will present a varied and exciting show on Wednesday, Dec. 14 at 8 p.m. The repertoire will include works by Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Chick Corea. All selections will feature standout improvisations by jazz students, who will be performing in small groups as well as in the full band.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.med-help.net/mc-manic-depression.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:15Z", "digest": "sha1:5DZFJ4KGOI3Z2FJQNCZICVWZPQDHM5UA", "length": 1922, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.med-help.net", "title": "Manic Depression", "raw_content": "Home >> Diseases & Conditions >> Medical Conditions >> Manic Depression\nManic depression is also known as bipolar disorder. A person with manic depression tends to oscillate between extremities in mood. One moment the individual is in a high mood while at another moment he or she tends to become very depressed. This is a kind of brain disorder that causes unusual changes in the person\u2019s mood, energy, and ability to function. Manic depression does not discriminate between men and women and affects both equally. There is also no age when this afflicts an individual though it is most prevalent in late adolescence. This condition has also been found to be passed on genetically.\nThe magnitude of the disease is such that it affects not only the patient but also the people directly involved with the individual such as his family, friends, and caregivers. There could be three kinds of manic depressive states \u2013 manic episode, depressive episode, and mixed bipolar episode. A manic episode is when three or more symptoms occur along with an elevated mode most of the day, almost each day, for about a week. It is said to be a depressive episode if five or more of these symptoms last most of the day, nearly every day for two weeks or more. In mixed bipolar disorder mania and depression occur together.\nManic depression is a treatable disorder and has a recurrent pattern which is first identified before treatment. The treatment for this has to be continuous and properly monitored. Medications for the treatment of manic depression can include mood stabilizers such as lithium. Also it is absolutely necessary to get adequate sleep and rest to promote proper treatment of the disease. Monitoring the patient\u2019s thyroid function is another essential element of the treatment. The possibility of frequent relapses is also very real and those involved in the treatment of the patient need to be on the lookout for this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 20749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.melodicaworld.com/forums/topic/yamaha-pianica-32a/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:05Z", "digest": "sha1:C655QLLN4QCPTGXBQDPBQ2S44PIOJR5T", "length": 9335, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.melodicaworld.com", "title": "Yamaha Pianica 32A \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Melodicaworld", "raw_content": "I have one sir.\nI have Yamaha Vintage 32A Pianica..\nI just bought a Yamaha 32A. It is really differentiated, but my copy is not in such good condition. It needs a deep cleaning and it has a small leak. I tried to open it, but I noticed that internally it is very different from the P-32D. For example, I could not access the reeds. Any tips on how to do this on Yamaha Pianica 32A? Another thing, I read the forum material on how to perform a cleaning by means of a \u201cbath\u201d but I do not know if this procedure is indicated to this model of melodica. What do you think?\nIt should look like this inside, Andre. To the best of my memory, the reeds are accessed by removing the four screws and removing the blue reed chamber cover. Some related models have spring clips that have to be removed. This model can be given a bath, a good soaking in a water/alcohol mix (3 to 1 or 2 to 1). Shake it around, work the keys, etc. The key action is probably sticky, and that will be improved (though it\u2019s usually still a bit of an issue with these models). 70% Isopropyl alcohol from the pharmacy, which you can also use undiluted with a cotton cloth on the tip of your finger to clean the keys and outside surfaces of the melodica. A leak is most likely to involve the gasket inside the reed cover. Its source might be visible, an irregularity or deterioration in the gasket.\nHello Alan, thanks for the reply!\nThe first time I tried, I removed the four screws, but the blue reed chamber cover did not come out, it looked stuck and I did not want to force it. Maybe it\u2019s the spring clips, I\u2019ll try to find them.\nMAJOR CORRECTION: I should have said Vinegar (white distilled) and water for the bath, NOT alcohol and water. Very sorry. I\u2019m not sure what I was thinking. Alcohol for cleaning the keyboard, etc.\nI do not have photos of disassembly of my Pianica 32A, but the blue reed chamber cover is the same in the original smaller key Pianica 32, and there are detailed photos of its disassembly on the first page of a thread devoted to it:\nYamaha 32 (vintage)\nThere are no clips. The blue cover has to be pried off if it cannot be pulled off; pry as gently as possible, using a knife blade or small flat screwdriver wedged under the edge. You can see in this photo that the white gasket material is laid down in white strips. It\u2019s a harder material than the removable rubber gaskets on later melodicas and might have to be replaced. If you search around here for \u201cgasket\u201d or \u201cgasket material,\u201d you\u2019ll find a lot of discussion about replacing gaskets and suggested materials. In general, I suggest thin (1/16\u2033 in this case) adhesive-backed stripping.\nNot sure what happened with that photo:\nNo problem, Alan. When I read, I thought about changing the alcohol for white vinegar. I\u2019ve been able to disassemble the melodica, really it is like your example above. Apparently the gaskets need to be changed. I still have not started to remove the old ones, but one of my doubts is how to remove the glue that remains on the plastic or I can glue over the \u201cold glue\u201d if you understand what I mean ( I know a specific product for remove glue, but it has an extremely strong smell). Later I\u2019ll try to post some pictures of the disassembled Pianica 32A. I\u2019m sorry about English, I\u2019m trying my best here from Brazil. Thank you very much for the help.\nIt\u2019s always a treat to hear from Brazil, Andre! There are probably some streaks of old glue in the gasket tray such as shown in that last photo. I don\u2019t think there is any reason to remove them. The white gasket strips probably will break up somewhat and crumble when you start removing them. The residue should be able to be scraped off using edge of a knife blade. In my experience, that does not have to be done perfectly. Be sure there\u2019s nothing loose remaining; wiping with alcohol will clean it well enough so that the adhesive backing of the new gasket strips will produce a seal.\nI am very interested to hear how this works out for you. The Pianica 32A is one of the best vintage Yamaha or Tokai Gakki models (the earliest models were designed by Tokai Gakki and released under both names). It\u2019s a good instrument.\nHello again, Alan. I disassembled and cleaned the entire melodica and after mounting it, the leak continued (not expected something very different, actually). It seems that I have to replace the gaskets and probably I will use a different material from that one that melodica originally has. I usually use an adhesive-backed stripping, just like as you suggested, but here in Brazil the thinnest has 2mm (1/13\u201d, i think) which compared to the one that the melodica has, would be thick. I am afraid that if I use it, it may misalign the holes of the air chamber in relation to the key mechanism. Also I\u2019m not sure if the current leak comes only from the air chamber, it might also come from the keys already. I also took the opportunity to align the reeds gap and, even with the leak, they are responding well. What a wonderful sound! I love that timbre! I hope I can solve this leak so that it works perfectly.\nA leak could be coming from misalignment of one of the key pads with its hole or a problem with the pad material. If so, when you blow hard without depressing any keys, that note may sound.\nI don\u2019t think there would be any problem with the 2mm stripping, Andre. When I have replaced melodica gaskets, the new material is usually a bit thicker than what was originally there. And the stripping is usually easy to remove if you do it right away.\nI am impressed with how thoroughly you have disassembled this Pianica. Did you keep track of the order of the keys, or were the keys of each type interchangeable? I always keep them in order, since on some melodicas there are problems if you don\u2019t.\nAll the white keys have a identification behind them, the name of the note ( c d e, etc) and a number that informs the octave. Some of them don\u2019t, so i marked this ones (the c notes, for example, have the same identification, so I marked them). The black keys are interchangable. I didn\u2019t notice any diference about their funcionality after assembled the Pianica. So I think everything is all right!\nWell, I tried to solve the leak problem of my Yamaha Pianica 32A. The leak was not much, but we always want our melodies working perfectly, don\u2019t we?\nSo I decided to replace the original gaskets (which were not really in good condition) by adhesive-backed stripping with 2mm, which are thicker than the originals. Unfortunately, however, the leak got much worse with them. What could it be? The thickness? The different material of the gaskets? By the way, what would this material be? Attach pictures maybe you can help me. The first picture shows how it was originally. The second picture, how it is now. The third is an approximate photo of the gasket material.\nIt is hard to see the gasket strips in the second photo, Andre. I really doubt that the problem is either the difference in material or its thickness. How about where the strips meet?\nSince replacing the gasket strips made the problem worse, it seems clear that this is where the leakage is coming from.\nIn the first photo, it looks like there are gaps at the corners where the strips meet. Usually pushing the material together at the corners is enough to provide a seal. But if not, then a little glue in those spaces might help. It seems silly to ask if the screws are all tight enough. But sometimes the thicker new material needs to be compressed by tightening a bit past the point at which the screws (or bolts) seem at first to be fully tightened, though we don\u2019t want to overdo it\nAlso, the middle strip looks irregular. Is is lying flat and not rolled over anywhere?\nSomething else that is probably not a problem but than can cause leakage: Is there good spring tension on all keys? A weak spring can cause a loose fit of the key pad.\nYes, I observed the gaps between the strips and placed the strips as close as possible so that, when the air chamber is closed, the gaps disappear. When I blow, I realize that air comes out of the places highlighted in the picture below, but not the from the gaps where the strips meet. I initially thought they were from the key pads, but if they were, would not the sound of the reeds come out? I do not know if it would have any effect, but I pressed the key pads with my hand against the holes of the air chamber and the leak did not diminish at all. So, I do not think it\u2019s the keypads either way.\nAbout the strip in the middle, I believe it is unlikely that it is responsible for causing the leak because of its position. If you look closely at the first and second photos from my previous post, you may notice that with both the old gaskets and the current strips, marks have formed, which shows that they are fulfilling this role of \u201cclosing\u201d the path (and letting some openings in the way for air to be directed to the reeds). I put a photo to show this \u201cpath\u201d (I do not know how to nominate this).\nThe screws are tightened as far as possible. I suspect that they may not be enough to close the entire air chamber with a thicker strip because they are only four and have to deal with a relatively wide surface. I thought about trying to put a material more like the original or less thick. What do you think? Any indication?\nNext picture, the strips more closely.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 12788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.messageradio.net/devotional/romans5_7-5_8.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:34Z", "digest": "sha1:FVGKPXB4OL2ZGF4VZM2Q5VOGA522OGDL", "length": 6932, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.messageradio.net", "title": "All Southern Gospel Online Radio Devotional Study Guide", "raw_content": "All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the New King James Version\u00ae. Copyright \u00a9 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. This Week\u2019s Study: Romans 4:7-5:8 Monday - Blessed are those whose sins are forgiven. \u201cBLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS ARE FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS ARE COVERED; BLESSED IS THE MAN TO WHOM THE LORD SHALL NOT IMPUTE SIN\u201d (Romans 4:7-8). Have you experienced the relief from guilt and hopelessness that comes with forgiveness? King David knew what forgiveness and cleansing felt like. In today\u2019s text Paul quotes from Psalm 32. Here is how David describes his life before forgiveness. When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer. Selah I acknowledged my sin to You, And my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, \"I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,\" And You forgave the iniquity of my sin (Psalms 32:3-5). Once David acknowledged his sin and confessed to the Lord he experienced the joy of salvation. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit (Psalms 32:1-2). What a blessing! David ends his Psalm this way: Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he who trusts in the LORD, mercy shall surround him. Be glad in the LORD and rejoice, you righteous; And shout for joy, all you upright in heart! (Psalms 32:10-11). Tuesday - Counted righteous by faith in God\u2019s promise. He did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore \u201cIT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.\u201d (Romans 4:20-22). In the previous verses Paul makes the point that Abraham was counted righteous before he in fact was righteous. How was he counted righteous if he was in fact still not wholly sanctified? He was counted righteous because he believed. Now Paul moves to the illustration of God giving Abraham and Sarah a baby in their old age. Something that was humanly impossible. His point is God pronounced Abraham the father of a great nation even while Abraham had no descendants and he and his wife were long past child-bearing age. ([A]s it is written, \"I HAVE MADE YOU A FATHER OF MANY NATIONS\") in the presence of Him whom he believed-- God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did; who, contrary to hope, in hope believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what was spoken, \"SO SHALL YOUR DESCENDANTS BE.\" And not being weak in faith, he did not consider his own body, already dead (since he was about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb (Romans 4:17-19). That kind of faith is the kind of faith God seeks. The faith of Job: \u201cThough He slay me, yet will I trust Him. . . .\u201d(Job 13:15). The faith of Abraham who: did not waver at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strengthened in faith, giving glory to God, and being fully convinced that what He had promised He was also able to perform. And therefore \"IT WAS ACCOUNTED TO HIM FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.\" Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him, but also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in Him who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead (Romans 4:20-24). Wednesday - Belief counted as righteousness. Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God (Romans 5:1-2). We have peace because we are forgiven, we have peace because God looks at us and sees the sacrifice and perfect life of Jesus Christ in place of our own. We are \"justified,\" we are treated just as if we have never sinned. No longer enemies of God, no longer outsiders, we are His children. And it all happens when we believe. We are justified by faith (Romans5:1). And we are told in Romans 5:2 we have access by faith into God's grace. Through this grace (this state of [God\u2019s] favor and acceptance\u201d) \u201cwe stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God\u201d (Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible: Romans 5:2; Romans 5:2). No longer outcasts, no longer estranged from God, we rejoice in God\u2019s favor. We are His children, justified: treated just as if we have never sinned, and accepted into His family in good standing. Therefore \u201cwe have peace.\u201d Thursday - Tribulations produce. . . hope. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope (Romans 5:3-4). Ohhhhh, glory in tribulations? That is what Paul says! Study his train of thought. We glory in tribulations because enduring tribulation produces perseverance (NKJV), endurance (YLT), Patience (KJV). And notice what perseverance produces? Character or experience (KJV, YLT). And finally Character produces hope. How? As we experience God's workings on our behalf, our character is developed and we have hope. Based on our previous experience we learn to trust God. And when we do that, we have hope for the future! My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing (James 1:2-4). Friday/Weekend - While we were still sinners Christ died for us. For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:6-8). This has to be one of the premier texts of the gospel! While we were still enemies of God, Jesus Christ demonstrated His love to us. He died for us! Paul writes, its a stretch, but maybe, just maybe one would die for another, but only if that other was a really, really good man. But God demonstrated His own love toward us by dying for us while we were NOT good! God demonstrated His love toward us while we were sinners, while we were God\u2019s enemies! Think about it. Are you willing to die for your most despised enemy? Maybe for your child, maybe for your spouse or sweetheart, but for an enemy? Most of us want harm and danger to come to those who have mistreated us. God wants good to come to those who mistreat Him. Truly what manner of love God demonstrates to us. God, actively working to win our love, to bridge the gap sin brought, and bring us safely home! \u201cBut God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 7182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.microbial-ecology.jp/meeting/?p=2621", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:04Z", "digest": "sha1:U7MUVY57EMXGR4M3GTUI3JGOSZ46F4OB", "length": 1727, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.microbial-ecology.jp", "title": "\u65e5\u672c\u5fae\u751f\u7269\u751f\u614b\u5b66\u4f1a\u7b2c30\u56de\u571f\u6d66\u5927\u4f1a \u00bb JS2-3:Applications of nonlinear time series analysis to microbial ecology studies", "raw_content": "Ushio, Masayuki1, Hsieh, Chih-hao2, Reiji, Masuda3, Michio, Kondoh1\n1Ryukoku University, 2National Taiwan University, 3Kyoto University\nMicrobial communities fundamentally drive ecosystem processes such as primary production and decomposition. However, mainly because of the high diversity and complex interactions of microbial species in nature, understanding and predicting the influences of microbial communities on ecosystem processes are difficult. In this presentation, we would like to introduce a promising approach, nonlinear time series analysis, to investigate the dynamics of microbial communities and its impact on ecosystem processes. High-throughput sequencing provides a huge amount of microbial sequence data, and it is possible to obtain time series data of the diversity and community dynamics of microbes in nature. Recent developments in nonlinear time series analysis allow detecting causality between two species, which enables us to illustrate an interaction network of a biological community in nature. We will show how to reconstruct the interaction network using time series data of a marine fish community as an example. This approach can be applied to the time series data of microbial communities. Furthermore, we will show that the approach is useful to quantify the relationships between microbial communities and ecosystem processes. These new analytical tools would pave the way to practically analyze and predict the influences of microbial communities on ecosystem processes.\nkeywords:Nonlinear time series analysis,Interaction network,Convergent cross mapping,Causality\nSoil aggregate structure and its implications for microbial ecology: location and quality of substrates for heterotrophs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 9560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/TomCoffin/HomePage?action=diff", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EV5HX3DSPRAQC5327JWBNNNZRHWAZH73", "length": 9574, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.milwaukeerenaissance.com", "title": "Milwaukee Renaissance : TomCoffin/Home Page | History", "raw_content": "TomCoffin.HomePage History\nApril 11, 2018, at 05:29 PM by Tyler Schuster - oops\n2) In 1994, Congress banned semi-automatic weapons after a series of mass-shootings. The ban was temporary\u201410 years. When it expired, the NRA sponsored legislation, and Congress passed, a broad immunity statute3 that essentially protected the arms industry from liability and civil lawsuits stemming from the sale of this military weaponry to the general public after the expiration of the ban. In other words, the industry and Congress knew full well that that the carnage would resume after the ban was lifted and acted to protect the profits generated from the sale of these lethal weapons by placing the revenue out of reach of those killed or injured as a result.\nApril 11, 2018, at 05:27 PM by Tyler Schuster - 1 addition\nMarch 24, 2018, at 06:43 PM by Godsil -\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/mar/20/can-climate-litigation-save-the-world\nCan Climate Litigataion Save The World?\nBut it is in the US, the world\u2019s most litigious nation, that the greatest number of cases have been brought. The most high-profile suit against the government is the Juliana case, filed by 21 teenagers in Oregon, which saw off a Trump administration attempt to halt it earlier in March.\nThe basis of the case, says Julia Olson, lead counsel for Our Children\u2019s Trust which is fighting the case, is failure of US administrations to protect its citizens by tackling global warming. \u201cThe US government has put these plaintiffs and other young people in a dangerous situation. First and foremost it is about personal security and the danger that exists presently. Beyond that, it is about protecting other fundamental rights under the US constitution \u2013 basic liberties such as to be able to decide where to live and to raise a family safely.\n\u201cI can\u2019t convey how egregious and incredible this story is across every presidential administration of our government going back 60 years,\u201d Olsen says. \u201cThis is not a Republican versus Democrat issue. Every president made those choices.\u201d\nWhile lawsuits against governments seek stronger action, those against the fossil fuel industry seek a simpler remedy \u2013 money. The argument is that these companies knowingly sold products that caused damage and a financial settlement is required, drawing parallels with the titanic legal battle fought and won against the tobacco industry.\nMichael Burger, at the Sabin Center, says there is a similarity in that these growing cases threaten a level of legal and reputational risk to the companies that might eventually force them to settle or face financial oblivion.\n\u201cThe other obvious similarity with tobacco is you have a long history of corporate obfuscation and attempts to blur the science and public understanding,\u201d he says. Some of the characters involved are even the same \u2013 on both sides \u2013 with the same scientists defending both tobacco and oil companies and the same lawyers prosecuting them.\n\u201cBut there is also a key difference,\u201d says Burger. \u201cTobacco is a product individual people inhale and it gives them cancer. Fossil fuel production is the beginning of a long chain of causation that includes numerous corporate actors and individual consumers, as well as government licensing and permitting schemes. The causal chain is much longer.\u201d\nMarch 24, 2018, at 08:13 AM by Godsil -\nMarch 04, 2018, at 03:43 PM by Tyler Schuster - 1 alteration\nIn a previous article, I described how, beginning in the 1980s, the arms industry and the NRA initiated a propaganda machine to recast the Second Amendment into some sort of deranged mandate to arm private citizens with military weaponry so that they could wage war and commit Treason against their own government (The Distortion of the Second Amendment). Their propaganda is nonsense. While the Supreme Court has recognized that the Second Amendment confers a limited right for a private citizen to possess a handgun for self-defense purposes in his or her home, it expressly declined to extend the contours of that right to military weapons (M-16 rifles and the like), and constrained its holding to the \u201csorts of lawful weapons that [citizens] possessed at home\u201d at the time of the enactment of the Amendment. District of Columbia v. Heller, opinion of the Court, p. 55. As recently held by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, \u201cweapons that are most useful in military service\u2014M16 rifles and the like\u2014may be banned\u201d without infringement upon the Second Amendment right. Kolbe v. Hogan.\nSource: Gifford\u2019s Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, http://lawcenter.giffords.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/other-laws-policies/gun-industry-immunity/ .\nSo how do we save our children from the golden calf of military weaponry that is the center-piece of the fake Second Amendment mythology?\nFirst, we must educate ourselves regarding the distortion misinformation and political strategies being employed to influence public opinion on the primary question before us: should military grade weapons, which have the primary purpose of killing large numbers of enemy combatants in warfare, be distributed to the public at large?\nThird, and most importantly, we must hold fast to the concept that we\u2014the parents, teachers, children, and all the people placed in jeopardy by the wholesale distribution of military weaponry by the arms industry) have the moral and legal high ground on this critical issue: nothing in the Constitution mandates the sale of military weaponry such as assault weapons to the public at large. Our Right to Life, which is protected by our country\u2019s founding documents including the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, easily supersedes the commercial interests of the arms industry in selling such military grade weaponry to the private sector.\nMarch 04, 2018, at 07:32 AM by Tyler Schuster - 1 alteration\nFebruary 23, 2018, at 06:59 AM by Tyler Schuster - 1 alteration\nFor approximately 200 years the universal, if not unanimous, interpretation of the Second Amendment was that it granted a collective right enjoyed by the states, not individuals, and thus that the Constitution provided no right for an individual to possess a firearm. As a result, the authority of state and federal governments to regulate and control gun ownership by the private sector was virtually unchallenged, certain segments of society (such as felons and the mentally ill) were precluded from owning firearms, military grade weapons such as fully automatic and semi-automatic firearms, silencers, and explosive devise were heavily regulated and/or banned, and background check for gun purchasers were standard.\nI will not repeat Wills\u2019 in-depth analysis in full in this essay, but will instead highlight two main criticism of the Standard Model that are illustrative of its fallacies. First, the Standard Modelers labor to untether the Second Amendment from its military moorings. The reason for their effort to edit out the \u201cA well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state\u2026\u201d clause from the Amendment is to undermine the state\u2019s legitimate role in regulating\u2026\u201d the right of the people to keep and bear arms\u2026\u201d For example, the State, to further the effectiveness of it, militia, stored rifles and ammunition in its arsenals, regulated the storage of gunpowder (away from villages and schools), and trained the militia in the use of arms and military tactics.\nTo bear arms is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit. The phrase simply translates the Latin arma ferre. The infinitive ferre, to bear, comes from the verb fero. The plural noun arma explains the plural usage in English (\u201carms\u201d). One does not \u201cbear arm.\u201d Latin arma, is etymologically, war \u201cequipment,\u201d and it has no singular forms. By legal and other channels, arma ferre entered deeply into the European language of war. To bear arms is such a synonym for waging war that Shakespeare can call a just war \u201cjust-borne arms\u201d and a civil war \u201cself-borne arms.\u201d Even outside the phrase \u201cbear arms,\u201d much of the noun\u2019s use alone echoes Latin phrases: to be under arms (sub armis), the call to arms (ad arma), to follow arms (arma sequi), to take arms (arma capere), to lay down arms (arma ponere). \u201cArms\u201d is a profession that one brother chooses as another chooses law or the church. An issue undergoes the arbitrament of arms. In the singular, English \u201carm\u201d often means a component of military force (the artillery arm, the cavalry arm).\nhttps://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4395/35522253354_aa2b18bdcf.jpg\nJuly 31, 2017, at 08:41 AM by Godsil -\nA critical component of the Rule of Law is the ability to thoroughly investigate potential violations of the law by an independent body that is untouchable from influence, pressure, or suppression by any subjects of the investigation. Allowing obstruction or the frustration of an independent investigation by an official who is a subject of that investigation was one of a list of grievances that are Founders expressed in the Declaration of Independence when they complained that the king \u201chas obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers\u201d and for protecting his troops for prosecution for criminal acts against colonists with \u201cmock trial(s)\u201d.\nAmong the cases Tom has presided over was the landmark case of Martin v. PGA Tour, wherein I ruled that the ADA applied to professional golf and that it was reasonable to modify the rules of the Tour\nJuly 25, 2017, at 02:03 PM by Tyler Schuster - 1 addition\nJuly 03, 2017, at 09:44 AM by Tyler Schuster -", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 80852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 255.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mindentimes.ca/curiouser-and-curiouser", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:LKM7KBDD4NY5VJPMEJIY636WWGUOYMIR", "length": 3093, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.mindentimes.ca", "title": "Curiouser and curiouser", "raw_content": "The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party\u2019s pre-election problems are evolving into a strange saga worthy of a novel or movie script.\nAs vigilant readers of this publication will recall, after Patrick Brown\u2019s resignation/ouster as party leader late last month, I wrote in this space that the PCs could still win the election that was supposed to be theirs if they were able to present a united front to Ontarians. I also wrote that a leadership campaign prior to June\u2019s provincial election seemed like an internal distraction, when the goal should be defeating Kathleen Wynne with an interim leader and choosing a permanent one later.\nThe party has mistakenly decided to stick with its decision to hold a leadership contest, and that contest is quickly growing into a spectacle worthy of a big top.\nFirst there was the announcement that former Toronto city councillor and human megaphone Doug Ford would be seeking the position. Ford made that eye-roll-inducing announcement from the very un-elite location of his mother\u2019s basement, presumably to make some kind of statement about how tough things are for Ontario\u2019s working class, despite the fact that Ford, himself, is of course a millionaire.\nThen there\u2019s Caroline Mulroney \u2013 lawyer, businesswoman and daughter of a former prime minister. While Mulroney has already earned the nomination to run as the PC candidate in the riding of York-Simcoe, and impressive as she may be, does the party really believe that Ontarians will make someone with no previous political experience of her own the premier of the province?\nThe party is lucky that Christine Elliot, a former longtime MPP who lost the leadership bid to Brown in 2015, has put her name forward again. The party should have chosen Elliot as its leader three years ago, and if it\u2019s at all interested in winning the election, if indeed that it is even still possible, it will choose her.\nThen there\u2019s Tanya Granic Allen, president of the socially conservative group Parents As First Educators, which opposes the province\u2019s sex ed curriculum.\nIf you\u2019re like me, you\u2019ll have to consult Google to find out who she is. Seems unlikely someone with such low name recognition will become premier, given we are just a few months away from the election.\nThen, and this is where things get really strange, in a reality-suspending way, there is Patrick Brown.\nAfter a segment of an audio recording of the caucus conference call where Brown was pushed to resign was leaked to the media, Brown was kicked out of the PC caucus last Friday. Just hours later, the newly independent MPP filed papers to run as PC leader.\nThese are all things that really happened.\nGiven that he has steadfastly denied the claims of sexual misconduct against him, it seems likely that Brown will use the public platform of the leadership race to attempt to clear his name. Or he is simply trying to thrust chaos upon a party that has thrown him under the bus. Or both.\nEither way, it\u2019s a spectacular mess. The PC leadership race is turning out not to be a distraction, but a total circus.\nAnd down the rabbit hole we go.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.monksmead.herts.sch.uk/our-policies/charging-remission", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SG7UNY3XRDW4Q7ESGCMJPNEWW37RXB4O", "length": 3306, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.monksmead.herts.sch.uk", "title": "Monksmead School - Charging / Remission", "raw_content": "All schools are required to have a policy towards Charging and Remission for activities that take place in and out of school hours. Monksmead School operates the following policy:\na) It is proposed that where activities take place during school session time, parents will be invited to make voluntary contributions towards the total cost. Such activities would include swimming lessons, class outings, day visits and any group of visiting actors, musicians, etc. A pupil will not be debarred from taking part in the activity because the parents cannot or will not contribute, but the activity may not take place unless sufficient voluntary contributions are received to cover the cost.\nb) Charges may be made for instrumental music tuition during school hours.\nc) Parents whose children borrow school instruments may be asked to make a voluntary contribution towards their upkeep and repair.\nd) For any activity that takes place outside school session time (e.g. theatre visit), charges will be levied as appropriate.\ne) Charges for craft and cooking materials may be levied where parents have indicated they wish to own the finished article.\nf) Voluntary contributions may be sought to cover miscellaneous expenses e.g. Christmas Parties.\nThe Governing Body of Monksmead School recognises the valuable contribution that the wide range of additional activities, including trips, clubs and residential experiences can make towards pupils' education.\nExtended Hours Provision\nThis provision is charged in line with the Extended Hours Policy. All attendees pay to attend Breakfast and After School club.\nExtra Curricular and School Clubs\nClubs and activities provided by third parties will be chargeable.\nThe school currently does not make its facilities available to outside users at a charge of at least the cost of providing the facilities. A Lettings Policy is currently under construction.\nThe Headteacher or Governing Body may levy charges for miscellaneous services up to the cost of providing such services, e.g. Photocopying\nCharging for Breakages, damage or loss\nSubject to the school recognising that accidental damage can occur, the school will seek to recover the costs incurred as a result of any item of school property being damaged, broken or lost as a result of misbehaviour, thoughtless behaviour or carelessness. Damage to books, equipment or fabric of the building is unacceptable and offenders are expected to make good the cost of such damage. Parents will be charged for wilful damage by their children, to school property. In the event of books being lost or damaged, parents/carers will be asked to replace or refund the total cost of each book.\nIn order to remove financial barriers from disadvantaged pupils, the governing body has agreed that some activities and visits where charges can legally be made will be offered at no charge or a reduced charge to parents in particular circumstances.\nFriends of Monksmead raise funds through the provision of community events and school activities for children. FOM charge children to attend Discos or other such entertainment. Children usually attend in sufficient numbers to ensure a profit is made which is then dedicated to providing additional resources for the school which this year has been allocated to new playground equipment .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 5699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.monocycle.globulesverts.org/english/intro.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4VWMJYKDI4I7QADH5ZSESSR4GLVQQE32", "length": 1521, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.monocycle.globulesverts.org", "title": "Who are we?", "raw_content": "The AMQ is born after the 6 th International Unicycling Championship which took place in Quebec city in 1992. The craze for this event, which reunited 250 unicyclists from 12 countries, convinced the organizers of the interest of this discipline and of the importance to support the enthusiasts with different resources.\nThe AMQ is the most dynamic association of the country and demonstrate leadership in unicycling teaching. It offers courses for all ages with a learning method and an effective valuation system. Its objectives are also to organize unicycling rides, competitions, shows...\nMore than 6000 people participated in introduction workshops.\nHolder of the World Unicycling Basketball Championship of 1994.\n30 people participated at the World Unicycling Championship in Minneapolis, United States.\n6 days of shooting for TV program \"Amazing Games\" presented on the ESPN network in the United States.\n7 days of shooting for an artistic TV program presented on the biggest TV network (KBS) of South Korea.\nHolder of Guiness Record which 191 unicyclists from 12 countries move holding hands forward on 2 meters.\nQuebec summer Festival (Festival d'\u00e9t\u00e9 DuMaurier de Qu\u00e9bec.)\nHull International Biking Festival.\nConfederacy Celebration on Les Plaines d'Abraham of Quebec.\nCircus Arts Crossroad in L\u00e9vis, Qu\u00e9bec.\nThe AMQ is a non-profit-making organization which is managed by a dynamic board of directors directed by Normand Beaumont, a bachelor in physical activity from Laval University and a unicycle specialist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mountainviewsundecks.com/railings/deck-railing-questions-answered/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GBO4GUKEVBNBYWEEUKGOMFF32M5AFMTV", "length": 252, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mountainviewsundecks.com", "title": "Deck Railing Questions Answered | Mountain View Sun Decks", "raw_content": "Deck Railing Questions Answered2017-11-292017-11-29http://www.mountainviewsundecks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/MVSD_logo_2015.jpgMountain View Sun Deckshttp://www.mountainviewsundecks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MVSD_railings_2015_5.jpg200px200px", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mpbonline.org/blogs/in-legal-terms/2018/09/11/in-legal-terms-genetic-testing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:27Z", "digest": "sha1:J4ETQIGBDBRBY7YFYN2BESKCWNJMCXTR", "length": 716, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mpbonline.org", "title": "MPB : Mississippi Public Broadcasting", "raw_content": "In Legal Terms: Genetic Testing\nGuest Professor Stacey Lantagne discusses the new field of law dealing with DNA issues.\nAlso: UM Law School to Host Originalism Debate in Constitution Day Observance\nSept. 17 in the Robert C. Khayat Law Center, in Weems Auditorium at 12:30. The event is free and open to the public.\nThe celebration will feature a debate between UM associate professor of law Christopher Green and Georgia State University law professor Eric Segall titled \u201cWhat is Originalism, and Is It a Good Idea?\u201d They will discuss how the Constitution should be interpreted today.\nhttps://law.olemiss.edu/event/constitution-day-commemoration/\nIn Legal Terms: Gerrymandering\nIn Legal Terms: Supreme Court Justices", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 4334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mrallp.co.uk/our-services/development-consultancy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DQRWXMZ7JG5JGSH4KGAVOAG3LL72UNV4", "length": 1564, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mrallp.co.uk", "title": "Development Consultancy - Morley Riches & Ablewhite", "raw_content": "We consult on and have particular experience in development land valuations, planning viability studies, co-housing projects and enabling developments.\nConsulting on developments is an important part of our business, and an area we thoroughly enjoy, as it enables us to delve into our knowledge and experience of the local area when assisting our clients with their projects. We are often involved at various stages throughout the development process, and in a number of different ways too. Although, the most obvious is that we sell or acquire land that has development potential on behalf of a client. As simple as it sounds, this can be quite a complex process as it could involve a number of parties, including the Local Planning Authority, the Highway Authority and other agencies.\nAs development sites are often made up of more than one parcel of land, site assembly is well-known for being an extremely delicate business that requires skilful negotiations and, having the ability to form relationships with the parties involved can be considerably advantageous. Peter Riches has built up a reputation through our years of business that has allowed him to gain the trust and respect of landowners.\nIn addition to securing land for our clients, we are also instructed to prepare valuations, undertake planning viability studies and advise on Enabling Developments. We are also excited to be involved in co-housing developments, which are the creation of communities that are run by their residents.\nFor all your development consultancy needs, you can contact:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 7901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lot-reagan-not-one-gop-candidate-replies-survey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:01Z", "digest": "sha1:AW4OMOYYENC6WEGFC7YJ4LELMCW2GXJE", "length": 4628, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.msnbc.com", "title": "A lot like Reagan? Not one GOP candidate replied to this survey | MSNBC", "raw_content": "{{show_title_date || \"After 35 years, HIV fight continues, 1/26/16, 2:27 PM ET\"}}\nA lot like Reagan? Not one GOP candidate replied to this survey\nBy Joseph Neese\nCan you guess what the three presidential office-seekers who responded to the most comprehensive candidate survey of HIV/AIDS conducted to date in the 2016 cycle have in common? They\u2019re all Democrats.\nOn Dec. 3, 2015, all major candidates running for the White House were asked to submit their plans to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic to GMHC, the world\u2019s first HIV/AIDS service organization, which was founded in the living room of Larry Kramer\u2019s New York City apartment in 1981.\nThe survey wasn\u2019t designed to endorse a candidate \u2013 its goal was to help Americans better understand how each candidate would approach one of the worst public health threats in the nation\u2019s history \u2013 all before a single vote is cast in Iowa.\nExclusive: Elton John on World AIDS Day: Compassion will end this epidemic\nOf the 18 candidates who received the survey, only three responded \u2013 Hillary Clinton, Martin O\u2019Malley and Bernie Sanders. No Republican campaign submitted a reply, and prominent HIV/AIDS activists were quick to note their silence wasn\u2019t unprecedented.\n\u201cRepublican candidates love to compare themselves to Ronald Regan,\u201d said Eric Sawyer, the co-founding member of ACT UP who now works for UNAIDS. \u201cWith regards to their concern about and prioritizing of the HIV response, the comparisons ring true.\u201d\nReagan did not publicly mention AIDS during his first term in office. In fact, his first major addresses on the disease didn\u2019t come until 1987. By the end of the previous year, there were 28,712 reported cases of AIDS in the U.S., according to the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR). In April of 1987, Reagan declared AIDS to be \u201cpublic health enemy No. 1,\u201d and the following month, he delivered the keynote speech at an amfAR gala in Washington as a result of the unwavering lobbying of Academy Award-winner Elizabeth Taylor.\nExclusive: Channeling Elizabeth Taylor, celebrities ask why we haven\u2019t yet ended AIDS in America\n\u201cIn learning that all of the Republican presidential candidates failed to even respond to an email survey about HIV/AIDS clearly shows that nothing has changed in the highest of levels in the GOP since the days initial days of the AIDS crisis under President Reagan,\u201d Sawyer said. \u201cHe did almost nothing about AIDS during his presidency.\u201d\nIn his work at UNAIDS, Sawyer works alongside the World Health Organization (WHO), whose director general this week convened an emergency meeting on the \u201cexplosively spreading\u201d Zika virus. WHO predicts the virus will likely make its way to the entire Western Hemisphere. \u201cIf the Republican White House hopefuls can\u2019t find the time to respond to a survey about HIV/AIDS 35 years into the epidemic, how can we trust a single one of them to credibly take on other public health threats, including the emerging Zika virus?\u201d said Sawyer.\nGMHC CEO Kelsey Louie pointed out the irony that the candidates are silent at the same time that scientific advancements have finally made it possible for HIV/AIDS to be stopped in its tracks. \u201cWe have the tools to end the HIV epidemic, which is why it is so disappointing that only three out of the many candidates replied to our survey asking about their plans to further implement the National HIV and AIDS Strategy if elected president,\u201d said Louie.\nRELATED: United Nations: We cannot be complacent. AIDS is not over.\nLouie said that with 50,000 annual new infections in the country, GMHC would continue its push for questions about HIV/AIDS to be included in presidential debates, and he pointed to the Twitter hashtag #AskAboutAIDS, which encourages moderators to ask candidates about HIV. So far, not a single televised debated has covered the topic, even though there are more than 1.2 million Americans living with HIV.\nWhen GMHC\u2019s survey was created, it was sent to 18 presidential candidates, but Lindsey Graham and George Pataki have since withdrawn from the race. GMHC didn\u2019t receive replies from the following GOP candidates: Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina, Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum, and Donald Trump. 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A fable-like book centred on humanity and dignity and the ease with which we\u2019re able to justify brutality.\n\u2018Jones builds calmly, rationally, in prose shot through with instances of unexpected beauty and tenderness to a terrible climax.\u2019 Adelaide Advertiser\nJoin us for a delightful two-course lunch as we discuss The Cage, generosity, cruelty and the moral frontiers of story-telling. To lighten things, up, we may also touch on Lloyd\u2019s newest publishing venture in chapbooks and audio and raise a toast to his new PM!\nTickets: $75 (Entry includes two course lunch, glass of wine or soft drink, and a copy of 'The Cage' (RRP $29.99))\nLloyd Jones has written novels, short stories and a memoir. He won the Commonwealth Writers\u2019 Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for his novel Mister Pip. His other books include Hand Me Down World and A History of Silence. 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If you\u2019ve visited The Warming House before, you know by now that God has emblazoned the message of compassion across my heart. Actually, he\u2019s etched it in the depths. One of my purposes is to encourage people to\nTags: compassion, mercy, spirituality", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nashobalearntoskate.com/page2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:08Z", "digest": "sha1:O6ACEIDD4OHZOJCWZO7Z5GBSXSISNDUY", "length": 1632, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.nashobalearntoskate.com", "title": "Our Director", "raw_content": "Amy began her hockey career playing as a youth in Stoneham, Massachusetts. Her pre-college career included numerous MA State Championship teams as well as five teams that went on to be US National Champions. Amy went on to play Division 1 varsity girls\u2019 hockey for four years at Harvard University, where she was recognized as a \u201cCCM College All Star\u201d. After graduation, Amy took a position at the New Hampton School in New Hampton, NH as head coach of the varsity girls\u2019 hockey team and as an assistant on the varsity girls\u2019 lacrosse team.\nMeet our director of initiations\nAmy then settled down to raise her family. When her daughter and son showed an interest in hockey, Amy began helping with Nashoba Youth Hockey\u2019s Learn to Skate and Learn to Play Hockey programs (Initiations). Not long after that, she began coaching the girls\u2019 teams for her daughter and the co-ed teams for her son. Currently, Amy is the Director of Initiations, a position she has held for more than 7 years. She is also the director of Girls Hockey for Nashoba.\nAmy has worked hard through the years promoting and teaching hockey to children and young adults. In 2010, she was recognized by the Boston Bruins as a \"Community Captain\" for her tireless dedication to youth hockey in Massachusetts. She has and continues to dedicate many hours per week coaching the girls\u2019 teams as well as managing the Learn to Skate and Learn to Play Hockey programs as both director and on-ice instructor. 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The Beam Line Science group utilises X-ray, gamma ray, neutron and charge particle beams to non-destructively investigate properties of materials - as well as of complex objects (such as archaeological artefacts) - for physical, chemical and structural information at atomic, mesoscopic or macroscopic scale depending on the nature of the information required. In addition radiation is used to induce beneficial changes and transformations in materials and to study the behaviour of materials in high radiation environments.\nThe Radiation and Reactor Theory group focuses on the development of new reactor physics methods to incorporate into computer codes, which are used to model nuclear reactors (emphasis on research reactors) in order to optimise safety, efficiency and cost effectiveness. In addition the group uses available commercial deterministic and probabilistic computer codes to provide expert calculational support for all nuclear and radiation projects at Necsa and external clients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.net54baseball.com/archive/index.php?t-144594.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:10Z", "digest": "sha1:NNQAICA6IJ72DEE47K4BMGWQTHPXDIN5", "length": 10457, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.net54baseball.com", "title": "Another BCS rant [Archive] - Net54baseball.com Forums", "raw_content": "Net54baseball.com Forums > Net54baseball Postwar Sportscard Forums > Watercooler Talk- ALL sports talk > Another BCS rant\nView Full Version : Another BCS rant\nCollege football is dead to me. This latest travesty exposes the BCS for exactly what it is; a money grab by NCAA. Who wants to watch another 9-6 overtime victory by two teams that have already faced eachother. Hell, Alabama was not even in there conference championship game but they get the right to play for the BCS championship? Are you kidding?\nEvery Oklahoma State fan should feel absolutely robbed. I say boycott the games, do not contribute any more time, energy, or money to this farce.\nAgreed that the National Championship Game is of zero interest to me. I just don't understand how this process is not upgrade after years and years of failure\nEvery Oklahoma State fan should feel absolutely robbed.\nI'm not on Oklahoma State fan, but I certainly feel they got robbed.\nSo, if I got this right, LSU has to beat Alabama twice to win the National Championship, but Alabama only has to beat LSU once to win the National Championship. Yeah, that's fair. :rolleyes:\nhonus94566\nHell, Alabama was not even in there conference championship game but they get the right to play for the BCS championship? Are you kidding?\nWhat? You are saying a team that doesn't win its own division in its conference shouldn't play for the NC? Absolute lunacy, I say!\nThe BC$ makes perfect sense. When you realize that it's really the Benjamin$ Champion$hip $erie$.\nIMO college football is the best sport on earth. But something needs to happen, and quickly, before the whole thing is completely destroyed. I hate what is happening right now.\nThis is gonna be an unpopular opinion. BUT the BCS got it right...The NC game isn't about what game people wanna see, or about whether the best two teams had already faced each other, or a game between two conference champions...It's a game that is to be played by the TWO BEST teams in the country. PERIOD!!! Nothing else matters.. Regardless of anything that can be said in OSU's favor. Alabama's ONLY loss of the season was against an undefeated LSU team, that people insist are that far ahead of everyone else...Oh Yeah! And that loss was in overtime...Basically, none of these three teams have lost in regulation. And two of these 3 teams faced each other, while the other finished regulation tied with a team that only had won 4 games in regulation. OSU has given up 34 points to Louisiana-Lafayette, 33 to Tulsa, beat a 6-6 Texas A&M team by a score of 30-29, gave up 45 points to Kansas St, and of course lost in 2OT to a 6-6 Iowa State team...\nI'm sorry but I don't think a team that lost in overtime to one 6-6 team, while only beating another 6-6 team by 1, belongs in the NC game.. OSU only has themselves to blame for not getting a chance in the NC game, and not the BCS.\nLet's keep in mind that I'm an Ohio State fan, and despise the SEC as much as everyone else..\nNow for those claiming that the BCS fixed this game to make $$$$...How can that be, when everyone was talking out against it, and said they wouldn't watch a rematch? Seems to me, like that would actually cost them some money.. No fix here. Just the TWO BEST teams in the country. PERIOD!!!\nI think Alabama is a good pick for the championship game. HOWEVER, I think their should be a multi-team playoff. So, yes, I think the BCS is crappy.\nIts not a perfect system, but the BCS got it right....under the criteria set forth to date the two best teams are playing for the championship. The fact that it is a rematch is irrelevant, see NFL wildcard team (Packers) win the Super Bowl while avenging REGULAR season losses. The coaches and others that know football know a great D will win out over a great O.... they also knew OK state ranked #107 in the FBS defense was going to get run out of the game.....AL or LSU would beat them by 17-28 pts. Alabama's best win is better (ark) and loss is better (lsu). I hate that State loss to a 28 pt underdog team in Iowa St, had that not happened they would be in the game without issue......however that didn't happen and the best two teams are going to play for it, winner take all. I am thankful Alabama made it back up the polls due to others losing, that was fortunate, agreed, but the facts are if Alabama played OK st. and the rest of the Big 12 Alabama would be undefeated, if you flip that scenario St. would have lost to Al, LSU, Ark and possibly S.Carolina and or Georgia. That should bring the topic full circle and put reality back into play.\nAlabama had THREE victories over top 25 opponents, Oklahoma State had SEVEN! LSU did not get a first down in the entire first half of the SEC championship game versus a Georgia team that lost to Boise State. Stellar offenses, no, great defenses, yes.\nThe total number of wins vs. ranked opponents actually means nothing at all... Regardless of rank, these 7 teams still aren't all that great, and to make your argument worse, only 4 of those teams finished the season ranked.. When a top 5 team beats a lower ranked team, then all they've really done is beat a team that they should have beaten.. I could say the same for the 3 ranked teams that Bama beat(only 2 are currently ranked)...If you're the 3rd best team in the country, playing a 10th ranked team is really no different than playing an unranked one..\nBasically, when facing teams ranked lower than themselves, OSU was 11-1. And in the same scenario, Alabama was 11-0. And none of Alabama's games under this scenario were even close..\nIf the Big 12 would have had a conference championship game this year, we wouldn't even be discussing this. OSU would have won that game and earned ehough points to be number 2. That's a fact.\nYeah, thank God they don't put 6-6 teams in Conference championship games(if the Big 12 had one)..\nIt wouldn't have been a 6-6 team playing for the conference championship. If it were still set up like last year (and the many years past), it would have been #8 K-State (10-2) representing the Big 12 North vs. #3 OSU (11-1) representing the Big 12 South. I feel sure OSU would have beaten K-State (as they did earlier in the season). If so, it would have moved OSU into #2. Do you disagree?\nIt wouldn't have been a 6-6 team playing for the conference championship. If it were still set up like last year, it would have been #8 K-State (10-2) representing the BIg 12 North vs. #3 OSU (11-1) representing the Big 12 South. I feel sure OSU would have beaten K-State (as they did earlier in the season). If so, it would have moved OSU into #2. Do you disagree?\nI don't disagree, it probably would've moved them up. But then I would be claiming that the BCS got it wrong, because Alabama is the 2nd best team in the country, regardless of anything else, by far....\nAlabama is the 2nd best team in the country, regardless of anything else, by far....\nI disagree, but let's revisit this thread on January 10th :D\nI know it's not the 10th yet, but can we revisit this now...:rolleyes:\nCongrats to Alabama and their fans. Although they are the National Champions, I still don't think it proves they're number one. LSU beat them once, they beat LSU once. I don't know about everybody else, but where I come from that means they're tied.\nI still think OSU got robbed...and no, I am not an OSU fan.\nIf you combine the games, over 8 Q's and an OT, Bama outscored LSU 27-9..I've stated all along that I'm not a fan of either team, but these two are clearly the two best teams in the country. No other team in any of their games was close, and these two just slugged it out against each other...OSU can't make the same claim.. OSU lost to an un-ranked team, and only beat another unranked team by 1. No robbery here, OSU has no one to blame but themselves..\nWe'll never know for sure, but I honestly think that there's a significant drop off after Bama and LSU.\nAlso, if you run an NHL style point system awarding points for OT loss. Bama wins the series 3-2..\nI have to agree with you. I also think that if a team is in a conference with a championship game, they have to play in, and win it. That would nullify the end-of-season skewing that allowed Alabama to crawl back into the #2 spot. If such a rule were in place, I doubt anyone would have complained about the resulting OSU-LSU championship game, except Alabama, who would argue that OSU got in simply because their conference did NOT have a championship game.\nStill, I think the best team in the country won the final deciding game of the year.\nNow, since you think that the best team in the country won(which is the ultimate goal, isn't it?). Then wouldn't that point out a major flaw in such proposed rule?\nThe NCG should be the TWO BEST TEAMS, regardless of anything else. If they start doing a plus-one, then things will be more clear. But if they don't, no rules should be needed to dictate the two teams, other than being the top two teams in the ranking...\nThe very fact that we are having this discussion proves the BCS is garbage.\nThe NCG should be the TWO BEST TEAMS, regardless of anything else.\nThis statement is correct, however how can you (or anybody else) say who is number one or number two without a playoff system? It's all OPINION. I stand behind my earlier statment that it is ridiculous that LSU had to beat Bama twice to be the National Champions, but Bama only had to beat LSU once.\nNo. Yes, Alabama was the best team at the end of the year, but were they the best team over the course of the year? That's why I mentioned the 'skewing'. If all games counted equally, then I don't think Alabama would have played in the title game.\nThe best team in the country at the end of the season could have started off 0-4, then improved drastically (changed q.b.'s, etc.) - do they deserve to be in the title game? Not in my opinion. And if you lose a big game earlier in the year that will determine whether or not you get to play in your conference's title game, then you didn't have the overall season that earns you a BCS title game berth. Just my opinion.\nI feel the same way about Wild Cards in the various pro sports - many times the Wild Card team is the best team at the end of the season, and is steamrolling along with momentum when the playoffs hit. Is it fair? Not in my thinking, but I understand those who disagree.\nYou mean a playoff system like March Madness, that guarantees the best two teams in the nation play in the championship?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 13611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newspatrolling.com/russia-2018-will-be-a-good-opportunity-for-us-mexican-forward-peralta/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:46Z", "digest": "sha1:TAQWU6QKJXGW4U2L2PQXV5CBHU3W7PJF", "length": 1421, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.newspatrolling.com", "title": "Russia 2018 will be a good opportunity for us: Mexican forward Peralta | NewsPatrolling.com Follow my blog with Bloglovin", "raw_content": "Russia 2018 will be a good opportunity for us: Mexican forward Peralta\nMexico City, Nov 3 (IANS) Mexican forward Oribe Peralta said the next edition of the World Cup in Russia in 2018 will be a good opportunity for his team to take a leap forward and progress to the quarter-finals for the first time since 1986.\nPeralta, who was part of the team in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and has been a regular in the national team in recent years, on Thursday spoke to reporters at the launch of the jersey that the national team will sport at the 2018 event, reports Efe.\n\u201cGiven the quality of the team and the belief that all the players have, it is time to take that leap forward,\u201d Peralta said.\n\u201cWe need to show what Mexico really is and be mentally strong enough to beat whoever the opponent is,\u201d he added.\nIn the last six editions of the World Cup, Mexico has exited the tournament at the round of 16.\nPeralta also said that the matches during the next FIFA international window \u2014 played on November 10 and 13 in Europe against Belgium and Poland respectively \u2014 will be a good opportunity to judge the ability of the Mexican team.\nTeam members Rodolfo Cota, Oswaldo Alanis, Orbelin Pineda and Edson Alvarez also attended the promotional event, along with the team\u2019s manager, the Colombian Juan Carlos Osorio.\nPrevious: Shweta Tripathi learns Tamil for new film\nNext: Food processing will be main industry in future: Jaitley", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nourishedbytiffany.com/2016/07/29/life-lessons-unravelled-along-the-ways-of-the-camino-de-santiago-part-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:32Z", "digest": "sha1:FHTOM5ZTP6YJHEAJTLQLIVFTQOYNAZYY", "length": 14216, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.nourishedbytiffany.com", "title": "Life Lessons unravelled along the Ways of the Camino De Santiago (Part 3) \u2013 Nourished By Tiffany Ma", "raw_content": "To see my article on the previous life lessons please click here.\nLesson #7. Roll with the punches\nI choose the phrase \u2018roll with the punches\u2019 as opposed to \u2018go with the flow\u2019 which may seem quite similar but in reality they have very different meanings.\n\u2018Going with the flow\u2019 implies a more laid back stance and just accepting the situation and other people\u2019s opinions which you may not necessarily agree with but go along with just because it is the easiest solution and you do not wish to exert much control over the situation. Whereas, \u2018Roll with the punches\u2019 has to do with how one copes with a situation that is presented to them, despite its complexities, and approaches this with renewed flexibility and understanding.\nGetting lost in the mountains on Camino De Portugues\nBy nature I am generally very organised in my everyday life, follow a routine that suits my lifestyle, and admittedly like to be quite in control of the situation and when this control is compromised feel a sense of unease.\nHowever, through my travels before the Camino and especially during the Camino I have had to approach this journey with a different mindset and outlook. To approach each day with no expectations of what is going to happen and let it all unravel how it should be. To live in the present moment and enjoy it fully. That when a situation arises that may be difficult, to approach this in a calm manner despite it potentially affecting your original plans and adapting to the situation for the best outcome possible knowing that through adopting this attitude this will lead to less stress as life can not be controlled and the more that you realise this the easier life will be.\nLesson #8. Let go\nThe Camino De Santiago attracts people from many walks of life with their individual reasons for walking the Camino. At times the reasons for walking the Camino change along the way or you may discover something spectacular, a revelation, that you were not even searching for along the way. Potentially a deeper understanding about yourself, others, or the world and life itself.\nMany people who I met along the trail did not embark on the Camino for religious reasons, even though originally over a thousand years ago the Way to St James was embarked on as a Christian pilgrimage. This was done as a means for these pilgrims to gain plenary indulgence, which frees a person from the penance due to sins. However, today countless people have walked the Camino for their own spiritual and personal reasons with the belief that along the way they will be healed, find their inner peace, or find the answers to certain affairs or questions that could not be answered at home so they have brought this to the Camino.\nLa Cruz De Ferro\nI myself had certain questions and affairs that left me unsettled which played a part in my initial reasoning to walk the first 800km of the Camino De Frances. With this journey came moments of highs and lows as I walked day after day working through these concerns. I played part in the tradition of taking a stone with me as I walked the initial sections of the Camino De Frances until I reached La Cruz De Ferro. The legend states that when the Cathedral of Santiago De Compostela was being built, that the pilgrims were asked to bring a stone from their place of origin with them on the pilgrimage. Traditionally, and to this very day each pilgrim would throw the stone at the base of La Cruz De Ferro to symbolise what the pilgrim desired to leave behind so that they would be ready for rebirth on the last stage of the Camino and at Santiago De Compostela.\nI am not saying that each time you or even myself have a problem to walk the Camino, but more so, this teaches us a lesson that it is part of life to go through the ups and downs but once you come across those moments when life isn\u2019t all wonderful with sunshine and rainbows that this is your opportunity to be aware of what is happening in your life, create your own space to move through this, understand what needs to be done to rise above, and finally let go of what is holding you back at this moment to excel forward as once we do the universe will present you with new and wonderful opportunities and answers.\nLesson #9. We are our experiences\nEach and every one of us are unique. I know that this sounds like a clich\u00e9 but in truth this is correct. This is not only due to our biological make up but this goes so much deeper to the psychological, emotional and spiritual level and mostly the decisions that we make in our lives and our individual experiences that truly form who we are.\nLast year when I decided to travel solo this was one of the clearest and easiest decisions of my life. Despite the fact that I would be giving up my job and financial support, my security, and my comfort zone. These factors alone would be enough to make many people run back terrified and not be willing to test out the unknown waters, but for me this was exciting knowing what I would gain from taking this risk of resigning from my job to travel the world. This prospect filled me with new hope and excitement. To me this gave me a spark back that I had been missing for a period of time. A new thirst for life and learning that I needed once again as at that point in time I was merely making a living and dreaming about a life, rather than living my life to its full capacity and one that I knew deep down I truly desired.\nAs I mentioned before the Camino is a very simple life but the experiences that it provides you with and the lessons learnt are priceless. When you are walking day in day out at such a slower pace, sometimes even stopping by a river to rest and reflect upon life you will think about what has led you to this point. You will be able to look internally to identify what honestly motivates and drives your thirst for living rather than just merely existing.\nLesson #10. It is the journey, not the destination\nEach pilgrim set out with a destination in mind, an end goal to move towards. This comes naturally to all of us as in life this is what grounds us and gives us a purpose and life meaning. To have this sense of purpose we are able to attain a sense of self and achievement that we can stay connected to and hold onto as when we lose this at times we can feel lost and insecure.\nHowever, in life and especially on the Camino it really isn\u2019t just about reaching the destination that we have projected in our minds where we will feel that achievement will be had. We initially work towards an end goal because we believe that happiness is only reached at the this point, and the progress, the journey that we have undergone to reach our destination doesn\u2019t matter. In actual reality the progress is what counts the most as this can change the course of our destination and our feeling about it because in this expedition this is when we truly grow and evolve.\nEach pilgrim I spoke to, and myself included, felt sad and strange as we walked into the outskirts of Santiago De Compostela not wanting to arrive at the final destination that we had walked and worked so hard for because it felt surreal and that we were not ready for what we thought would be the end. That we did not want this journey to end and finish walking the path that we had come to know and love.\nUpon reaching the Cathedral of Santiago the feeling of accomplishment was very special and unique, but this did not compare to the many wonderful moments that was had along the journey of meeting new and interesting people, sharing a meal or a drink together, swapping stories, reflection time at donotivos and amongst friends, feeling gratitude and appreciation for the kindness of strangers, stopping at random small villages observing the lifestyle of the Spanish people, watching the sunrises, breathing in clean fresh air, and walking along to the sound of the birds chirping and the wind whistling.\nThe end was not what truly mattered as all the accumulated experiences along the way made the road traveled unforgettable and this is what made us all stronger in the end, not just on a physical level. Even to this day of having concluded the Camino a week ago the experiences I had and lessons that I have learnt have not been left and forgotten at the final destination but continue with me now as I put all these lessons into place in my everyday life.\nLesson #11. Be inspired\nInspiration is defined as \u2018a person, place, experience, etc., that makes someone want to do create something\u2019.\nI truly believe that as this definition states that inspiration can come in all different shapes and forms and can have a significant influence upon your thoughts and actions. It is then up to the individual on how they use this inspiration to go forth to transpire into something wonderful that can change their life for the better and may even have the beautiful domino effect of inspiring and touching others and inspiring them to create a change.\nWhilst walking the Camino I found inspiration and energy from many aspects and the first was the Camino itself. The nature of walking day in day out walking in one direction once again concreted the thought of just going forward in life and living a life of simplicity without unnecessary distractions, stress and material possessions. Marveling in how the terrain of the Camino is ever-changing so that you can not foresee exactly what will be up ahead. Such as life is full of ever-changing patterns and circumstances that you need to learn to cope with calmly and rationally to keep on going. To learn and trust in yourself that you will conquer them all making yourself a stronger individual.\nI also was inspired by the magic of the camino itself creating a common space and intention amongst everyone that walked the path together. That on this path there was only a connection formed with love and laughter. There was no room for prejudice or hatred, but rather only acceptance of everyone\u2019s culture, religions, ethnicity, and social background which can be lacking at times in the outside world which was more prevalent when looking at the international news and hearing about such tragedies as the attack in Nice, France on their day of celebrating Bastille Day, the shooting in Munich, Germany, and many others around the world that may not even make the news headlines such as the violence that occurs on a daily basis in countries such as Syria that have been experiencing a civil war for the past four and a half years.\nThe second aspect of the Camino I was inspired by was the incredible people who I shared the trail with. Listening to their stories, their reasons for walking the Camino, what they have uncovered about themselves and life itself, what this journey has meant to them, the number of times that some people have walked the Camino, the different ages and fitness levels of people along the trail as some were in their 70s and 80s which I felt incredibly inspiring as I wish to remain as active into my retirement, people walking the Camino with their young families (yes I still intend to live an adventurous life and will introduce my future children and husband to this one day), and the changes that my fellow pilgrims would put in place after the Camino has finished.\nLastly, and potentially one of the most important and lasting pieces of inspiration that I drew and will hold close to my heart from walking the Camino was finding the inspiration and motivation from within myself.\nExternal inspiration such as that stated above is very important to me and it is also important to be aware that what you may find inspiring may not necessarily inspire another. On the camino my inspiration, willpower, and motivation that came from within occurred and grew day by day through remembering and recognising why I had decided to make this change for myself to embark on this journey. That through each day that went on even when I woke up with the thought \u201cI don\u2019t really feel like walking\u201d I still got ready, laced up my shoes and put my backpack on because my will was relentless and I knew that I was doing this for myself and no one else. That I believed in myself that I had the drive, determination, and a slight hint of stubbornness to keep on going even when there were moments that I was advised to ease off walking. With this I overcame every challenge that was presented to me and this made me realise that I am so much more capable than I may have thought before because I forced to be stronger in the face of these obstacles.\nIn this instance, this is where and when an individual will transcend to self-actualisation as identified in Maslow\u2019s hierarchy of needs. The highest level of need when people become more self-aware, concerned with personal growth, less concerned with the opinions of others, and more concentrated and interested in fulfilling their own potential as this is what creates self-love and being proud of your own achievements and success.\nFinal note and conclusion for now\u2026\nWhichever path you are on in life currently or heading towards treat this like your own Camino De Santiago. If you wish take the lessons that I learnt from my own experience whilst walking the Camino yourself or using these lessons to guide you in your own life please feel free to do so because all of these shaped my understanding of myself, people surrounding me and how I view life.\nAnother life philosophy that I believe in is \u2018Carpe Diem\u2019 which means seize the day/opportunity and this is also another thing that the Camino has reinforced that these moments that make up our life are fleeting and can not be retrieved again so enjoy each one that comes along even if it brings momentary pain with it because this is what it is to be human. To feel all the emotions and the highs and lows of life that are meant to be enjoyed and cherished. Life is too short to walk around blindly so open your eyes and hearts to everything that is available.\nPlease feel free to leave a comment or email me at tiffanyalexandrama@gmail.com.\nBlogCaminoCamino De SantiagoHealth BlogLife LessonsPilgrimPilgrimagetravelTravel BlogtravelerwanderlustWanderluster\nNatalie Charlton\nHave they still not finished that church? Haha! Santiago de Compostela is so beautiful!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 17058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nowldef.org/media/9-ruth-bader-ginsberg-themed-products-you-can-buy-celebrate-justices-birthday", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:13Z", "digest": "sha1:2JLOWIGHW3XMJ2O77Y2PYSXCHEJJ37YE", "length": 750, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.nowldef.org", "title": "9 Ruth Bader Ginsberg-Themed Products You Can Buy to Celebrate the Justice's Birthday | Legal Momentum", "raw_content": "9 Ruth Bader Ginsberg-Themed Products You Can Buy to Celebrate the Justice's Birthday\nIf you don't feel like declaring yourself an RBG fan with themed clothing or accessories, a charitable donation makes an amazing birthday gift. Ginsburg founded the Women's Rights Project at the American Civil Liberties Union in 1972 and worked there until she was appointed to the federal bench in 1980. These days, the ACLU continues to do amazing work in the quest for reproductive freedom, equal rights and legal justice for Americans, so honoring RBG with a donation would be more than suitable. Ginsburg has also given support to Legal Momentum, an organization that fights for women's legal rights in America, and has internships, events and ways to donate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 4602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nycrs.org/why-no-one-talks-about-courses-anymore.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IRB2S2VNAEOFV5P22UT7F5AWORXUN3AC", "length": 2579, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nycrs.org", "title": "Why No One Talks About Courses Anymore | ODESSA TRAVEL", "raw_content": "Why No One Talks About Courses Anymore\nWhat You Need to Know When Looking for the Best Tutor\nGetting a good tutor for your child is always known to be very important because that will enable them to understand different kinds of subjects. Before you consider acquiring the services of a good tutor, you need to understand that there are so many tutors that you can always choose from. When it comes to acquiring the services of a tutor, you may have to choose the best because that is the only way you will be granted of quality tutoring services. The advantages of hiring the best tutor in this present generation simply means that you need to ensure that you consider going for highly trained professional tutor. One thing that you need to understand is that you will be in a position to obtain quality during services especially when it comes to your child being able to understand different kinds of subjects as well as concepts. Before you consider choosing a good tutor, it is always recommended that you consider following some very vital guidelines. This article is going to help you understand some tips on how to choose the best tutor.\nThe first thing that you need to ensure that you focus on is the specialization of that specific tutor that you are planning to hire. Getting a tutor that is proficient in mathematics simply means that you must always go for a tutor that has specialized in mathematics because that will definitely provide you with quality mathematics tutoring services. You will realize that can be quite easy for you to get a good tutor when you consider determining which tutoring services you need especially when it comes to the subject.\nThere is a high probability that you can obtain recommendations and referrals from some of your close companions or even neighbors regarding the best tutor. This is very important because if your neighbors have had a chance to acquire the services of a good tutor, it will be quite easy for you to get the best mathematics tutor. One thing that you need to understand is that getting a mathematics tutor simply means that you have to ensure that you make their wage demands and therefore, you should see to it that you consider finding out how much you will need in order for you to get the best. When you check online, you will realize that you will be in a position to get a good tutor because majority of tutors will always use the Internet to look for clients and therefore, you will be able to find a tutor quite easily when you consider looking for the best online.\nDiscovering The Truth About Courses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.odusports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=31100&ATCLID=209602011", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XNDBLPE6SSLGTXX7Y3OXNIFY3CKY4QTN", "length": 1150, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.odusports.com", "title": "Colby Owen Bio - ODU Monarchs", "raw_content": "Colby Owen\nAccount Executive, Client Services\nPosition: Account Executive, Client Services\nEmail: cowen@odu.edu\nColby Owen joined ODU Sports Properties in 2010 as the Account Executive, Client Services manager. She is responsible for fulfillment of corporate partners, daily and annual budget management, entertaining and cultivating sponsors in various settings, and developing new business opportunities for ODU Sports Properties.\nBefore joining ODUSP, she was an assistant coach/goalkeeper coach for the Christopher Newport University women\u2019s soccer team and completed her internship with ODU Sports Properties in 2009. In 2011, she won the prestigious CBS Collegiate Sports Properties \u2013 FY11 Awards Program: Special Teams Player of the Year Award.\nColby completed her college career as the goalkeeper for the ODU women\u2019s soccer team from 2005-2008, and helped lead the Lady Monarchs to a CAA crown in 2006. (17-5-1, 7-4)\nBorn in Virginia Beach, VA., Colby is an alum of Old Dominion University, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in physical education with concentration in sport management (with minors in business marketing and management).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oglindalawyers.ro/event/the-avoidance-of-vat-purposes-registration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:33Z", "digest": "sha1:TAAAUQL2QEG42KK3FF2C2P3Y72QTIPRY", "length": 4094, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.oglindalawyers.ro", "title": "The avoidance of VAT purposes registration - Oglinda & Partners : Oglinda & Partners", "raw_content": "What does the Fiscal Code provide?\nThe New Fiscal Cod assignes to the responsible fiscal authorities the avoidance of VAT purposes registration for legal persons.\nThe case that interests us is the one stipulated by art. 316 alin. 11 lit. h) which sets out the possibility of avoidance for VAT purposes registration in the case of persons subject to tax that do not justify the intention and capacity to unfold economical activities according to the criteria and in the time frame regulated by the Order of the ANAF President.\nWhat are the old regulations?\nAccording to Order 3331 from 17 October 2013, the ex officio avoidance was effective starting with the date when the decision of the fiscal authority had been received. Starting with the same date the VAT purposes registration certificate was also avoided.\nWe observe that the Order was in contradiction with the regulations of the new Fiscal Code because there was no mention of the criteria that the person subject to tax should have complied with in order to justify the intention and capacity to unfold economical activities for VAT purposes, and the person subject to tax did not have the possibility to present its own point of view regarding the decision of the fiscal authority.\nWhat changes do the new regulations bring?\nOn 12 August 2016, the ANAF President issued Order 2393. This Order stipulates for the first time the criteria according to which the intention and the capacity to unfold economical activities for VAT purposes of the persons subject to tax are established.\nThese criteria are the following:\ni.\tThe person subject to tax is not in the situation to not unfold economical activities in the space dedicated to the registered office and/or secondary offices and also not outside those. In order to evaluate this criterion, the person subject to tax has to file a staturoy declaration.\nii.\tThe administrators, associates and/or the legal person do not have any of the infractions specified by the Order written in their tax records.\niii.\tThe intention and capacity to unfold economical activities that involve operations subject to tax and/or exempted from VAT with deduction rights. This evaluation is made based on the statutory declaration filed by the person subject to tax, respectively Form 088. Following the evaluation, the person will come under one risk category: high, medium or low.\nAnother change that is essential for the tax-payers is the insertion of the obligation of the fiscal authority, in certain cases, to invite to its office the legal representative of the person subject to tax. The purpose was, according to the ANAF President, to facillitate the communication between the business environment and the fiscal authorities.\nThe situations when the legal representative is invited to the fiscal authority\u2019s office are:\ni.\tThe case when the legal persons that have not filed Form 088 automatically come under the fiscal risk category.\nii.\tThe case when the persons that are automatically selected monthly and present fiscal risk, following the evaluation, are notified to file Form 088.\niii.\tThe case when the persons, following the evaluation, partially fit the criteria and come under the medium risk category.\nThese changes represent an evolution regarding the transparency of ANAF decisions and the protection of the right to defend oneself, the tax-payers having the possibility of a clarification meeting that is ahead of a decision to reject the request or to avoid the VAT purposes registration. During this meeting, the legal person can bring clarifications or it can express a point of view and evaluation compartment of the fiscal authority has the obligation to analyze it.\nMoreover, in the Approval Paper of the Order\u2019s Project it is claimed that these changes are the result of the meetings with the business environment, considering that this Order\u2019s approval is necessary as to specify the evaluation criteria and to include a new evaluation procedure that takes into account the legal persons that have registered changes regarding the headquarters/associates/administrators.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.olufamous.com/2018/05/fayose-taunts-apc-candidate-fayemi-says.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSGVEK3XVHZAWEWN3MS72QB2GM4DCJZF", "length": 1511, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.olufamous.com", "title": "OluFamous.Com", "raw_content": "Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose has called on Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress not to rejoice yet over his victory at the APC primary, saying that will be the closest he will get in the Ekiti gubernatorial race.\nTweeting via his handle, the governor wrote: \u201cI thank the APC for giving Ekiti people a candidate they love to vote against at all times. Fayemi should not celebrate this pyrrhic victory yet because it is nothing but a flame that will be quenched on July 14.\u201d\nAlso, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, Idowu Adelusi, in a statement made available to newsmen, boasted that Fayemi would be roundly defeated again.\nHe said, \u201cIn 2014 when he was the sitting governor and I was not in power, I trounced him mercilessly. I gave him 16 \u2013 0, defeating him in all the local governments, including in his home town. He did not win a single local government.\n\u201cNow, I have been in power for more than three years and have served the people of Ekiti well. My legacy projects are there to speak for me, and for my party \u2013 the Peoples Democratic Party \u2013 as well as for our candidate in the July 14 governorship election, Prof. Kolapo Olusola.\n\u201cFayemi will suffer the worst defeat of his political career. After the July 14 election, he will go into political oblivion.\n\u201cHe has nothing to celebrate because of the electoral disaster awaiting him. The manner of his so-called victory also leaves much to be desired as it has turned many of their party leaders and followers against him.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 228.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onevent.biz/category/articles-post/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:48Z", "digest": "sha1:UAC3VXBOJJVPRFS3PUQ3ZFJ32YRMKSWB", "length": 69, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.onevent.biz", "title": "Articles Archives | onEvent design & development", "raw_content": "General news and articles that have caught our eye from public media.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onlinedebate.net/forums/converse.php?s=5442b6fb7956a3d4b89147a82eb7095e&u=3638&u2=3406", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ANZA4ERAYXEPVPHGWE3KDBTXW35EF6MQ", "length": 454, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.onlinedebate.net", "title": "Conversation Between SharmaK and Talthas", "raw_content": "Conversation Between SharmaK and Talthas\nTalthas - March 19th, 2011 06:13 PM\nTalthas - October 13th, 2010 08:46 PM\nSharmaK - October 13th, 2010 06:01 PM\nYo 2:\nHey, thanks for the rep - I just noticed it. Does that mean that you were done?\nDidn't realized you just become a mod - congrats.\nJust want to know whether we were done with the thread. I know some of it is off topic but I'm keenly interested to see how the Ron Paul position is to be justified.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.open-rhone-echecs.com/6-facts-about-homes-everyone-thinks-are-true.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:50Z", "digest": "sha1:CKIKIVTJUSEOYJSVFODW5FCDUPQ2UZZ7", "length": 2350, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.open-rhone-echecs.com", "title": "6 Facts About Homes Everyone Thinks Are True | O-R-E", "raw_content": "Tips for Residential Moving\nThere is no other way to put it, moving is simply not easy. There is a lot of work that needs to be done before you can say that you are fully settled. This being the case, it is important for you to make sure that you have settled for the ideal moving company.\nWhether you are looking for a commercial moving company or a residential one, you should take your time before picking the right firm to use. If you want to have a successful venture then you should make sure that you settle for the best firm.\nYou should make sure that you have taken the time to fully understand the movers that will serve your needs. The distance that you will be traveling and the things that you will be moving with will help to determine the type of moves that you will use. To get the best movers that will serve your needs, you need to make sure that you have fully understood the scope of your move.\nDo not get into any moving without getting to know the history of the firm that you are considering. The best way of doing this is by going to the website of the business and finding out what the company has to offer. When you get to the site; you will find the testimonies of the people who were already moved by this company. The information that you get will play as huge role in determining if this is the ideal company to hire.\nWhen you contact the company, you should make sure that you have asked them for the views of moving. At the same time you should ask what will happen if there are damages or loss of property. You should ask if the estimates you are getting are binding or not as it might end up affecting the outcome.\nThe one thing that you should never do is to hire a company that is not insured. When you are choosing the firm to use, you need to make sure that it is also insured. Note that these papers are not something that you should compromise.\nIt might sound like a lot of work, but when you choose the right moving company, you will end up benefiting a whole deal. These businesses play a vital role in making sure that things go smoothly. The other important thing is that they are skilled in doing this job and this being the case the chances of damages are slim.\nPrevious: Previous post: Overwhelmed by the Complexity of Options? This May Help\nNext: Next post: The Best Advice About Tips I\u2019ve Ever Written", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.openuniversity.edu/courses/qualifications/details/de200?orig=q84", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DK2XXKV5QUNJACHJRH33DZR74JY27ON6", "length": 4312, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.openuniversity.edu", "title": "DE200 - Investigating psychology 2 - Open University Course", "raw_content": "This module takes an integrative approach, focusing on the everyday questions that psychology can help us to answer. Why do we help one another? Do you see what I see? How do we know what\u2019s right? Investigating how we understand others and the world around us, the module draws on biological, cognitive, developmental and social research in psychology to help you answer questions such as these. You will also learn how to design and conduct your own research, covering a number of different methods for gathering and analysing evidence on psychological processes.\nThis module draws on the four core areas of biological, cognitive, developmental and social research in psychology to investigate how we understand others and the world around us. Individual differences and conceptual and historical issues in psychology (CHIPS) will be taught throughout the module within the context of these four core areas. The module also provides training and practice in a variety of psychological research methods.\nThe interactive online study guide leads you, week by week, through a series of everyday questions such as: Why do we help one another? Do you see what I see? Why do I feel this way? How do we know what\u2019s right? It is divided into three main blocks and is designed to take you on a journey through the four core areas mentioned above, exploring their distinctive and overlapping contributions.\nBlock 1 starts with some fundamental concepts in social psychology and leads to the cognitive approaches to understanding the social world.\nBlock 2 begins with cognitive investigations of perception and attention and takes you on to biological understandings of the brain and behaviour.\nIn Block 3, you'll begin with the basic biological processes at birth and move through the lifespan to learn about developmental approaches to psychology.\nThe module is designed to highlight work that crosses the boundaries between the four core areas; for example, by employing concepts or methods developed in one area of research to help us understand psychological problems that have been mainly studied in another.\nYou will also learn how to design and conduct your own research, covering a number of different methods for gathering and analysing evidence on psychological processes. This module will build on the methods, knowledge and skills that you will have gained from the OU level 1 module Investigating psychology 1 (DE100). It will also prepare you for your independent project work in the OU level 3 module Investigating psychology 3 (DE300). You will widen your understanding of a variety of research methods and have opportunities to further develop your skills . There will be a strong focus on practical methods, including various approaches to data collection as well as analysis (e.g. using statistical software).\nYou will conduct and write up two mini projects which will develop and assess your quantitative and qualitative research skills in experimental and text-based research methods. You will also be assessed through two interactive computer-marked assignments (iCMAs), a poster, a collaborative assignment and an integrative essay. The module finishes with a partly seen examination.\nIf you are considering progressing to Investigating psychology 3 (DE300), normally you should have completed this module.\nThis module is not available for standalone study; it can only be studied as part of a psychology qualification.\nOnline interactive Study Guide including:\nlinks for further study.\nThree text books and statistical analysis software (SPSS).\nAny additional software will be provided from a hardware device e.g. DVD drive or USB stick or is generally freely available. However, some activities may have more specific requirements. For this reason, you will need to be able to install and run additional software on a desktop or laptop computer with either:\nYou will be assigned a tutor who will give you advice and guidance throughout the module. They will help you with the study materials, as well as mark and comment on your written assignments. Your tutor will offer online group tutorials or day schools in which you are encouraged to participate. Your tutor will also support you with the activities and collaborative work.\nThe assessment details for this module can be found in box above.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 12686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/under-great-cross-border", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:47Z", "digest": "sha1:EVQQF7KBFGRIQK6S7CXJ7BPBURK3B7KE", "length": 2073, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.osservatoreromano.va", "title": "Under the great cross at the border", "raw_content": "Under the great cross\nOn Wednesday afternoon, 17 February, after circulating among the faithful who awaited him before Mass at the Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez fairgrounds, Francis stepped out of the popemobile near the bank of the Rio Grande, at the metal fence that marks the border between Mexico and the United States of America.\nHe approached the great cross that was placed there in memory of his visit and of the victims of human trafficking and violent crime. Here, in the place that will henceforth be known as El Punto, the Pope placed a bouquet of flowers and paused in silent prayer. He then blessed three smaller crosses \u2014 which are destined for Las Cruces, New Mexico and El Paso, Texas in the USA, and for Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez itself. He also blessed the faithful who stood on the opposite side of the fence.\nA wall 700 miles long dashes the hopes of an incalculable number of migrants. They come from many Latin American countries, hoping to achieve their American dream, often illegally, relying on gangs of criminals. It is also a border crossed by vast quantities of drugs, with violence and death in tow. Over the last 15 years, the bodies of more than 5,000 desperate migrants have been found here. For this reason the Pope\u2019s presence in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez \u2014 the so-called Lampedusa of America, one of the world\u2019s most dangerous cities, particularly marked by violence against women \u2014 took on immeasurable value. This stop, the last of the Holy Father\u2019s visit in Mexico, was highly anticipated, hoped for and tenaciously followed, because a strong message was expected to emanate from this symbolic site. And thus it did.\n\u200bFour representatives\nFor the first time ever, a pope addressed the U.S. Congress and, in another first, ...\nTravelling to Africa with joy\nPope Francis has arrived in Africa. His flight landed in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, 25 ...\nAn inclusive society\n\u201cCelebrating the Jubilee of Mercy with you is recalling the pressing journey that we must ...\n\u200bA word for Nineveh\nFrancis\u2019 final hours in Mexico, just a short distance from its border with the United ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 158.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oxymoronlist.com/when-i-can-no-longer-bear-to-think-of-the-victims-of-broken-homes-i-begin-to-think-of-the-victims-of-intact-ones/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:P5WT6UVVJHGAXEKJIAYSAEX5JKCQTOTR", "length": 114, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.oxymoronlist.com", "title": "When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. \u2013 Oxymoron List", "raw_content": "When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paperplanesblog.com/visiting-koh-kret/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:O6Q4IQNZK4BOIA6VCGJ7NMZZXIK7YVVS", "length": 5346, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.paperplanesblog.com", "title": "Visiting Koh Kret: Bangkok's IslandPaper Planes", "raw_content": "Southeast Asia / Thailand / Travel / Travel Tips / March 16, 2015\nVisiting Bangkok\u2019s Island: Koh Kret\nIt\u2019s easy to think that Bangkok is only concrete and skyscrapers. That\u2019s certainly what you see at first glance and the massive city can quickly start to feel suffocating. The capital\u2019s high rise apartments and maze of paved streets aren\u2019t all there is, however. If you look deeper you\u2019ll notice small neighborhoods of shophouses, canals that are still used for transportation and some green spaces that allow you a glimpse of what Bangkok, the \u201cVenice of the East\u201d, used to look like.\nEven in the middle of the sprawling metropolis that seems to have developed at light-speed over the past couple decades, you can still find places where you can go back to nature, and even back in time.\nOne of the long tail boats used to get to Koh Kret\nKoh Kret is one of those places.\nInside Koh Kret\u2019s market\u2026\nAn island in the center of the Chao Praya River, just 20 kilometers north of central Bangkok, Koh Kret was created in 1722 when a canal was built that changed the course of the river. Soon after, it was settled by members of a Mon tribe, a dominant group in central Thailand up until the 10th century \u2013 essentially one of the region\u2019s first groups of people who were also a driving influence in spreading Therevada Buddhism and ancient Pali (the language of the Buddha) throughout Burma and Thailand. The island still has a thriving Mon community, the oldest in Thailand, that are particularly know for their traditional earthenware pottery.\nOn weekends the community holds a large market, starting at the island\u2019s main temple, Wat Poramaiyikawat, filled with crafts, pottery, souvenirs (though the market is more charming than touristy) and lots and lots of food. If you\u2019re not coming here hungry, you shouldn\u2019t come at all!\nThere\u2019s typical Thai foods and snacks of all kinds, plus plenty of drinks, but the standout items are the different types of kanom waan, Thai desserts, and khao chae, a dish that you usually only see at certain places during the hottest time of the year that\u2019s centered around white rice in iced water that\u2019s been perfumed with jasmine and rose petals. The dish was created in the palace of King Rama II who ruled in the early 1800s and is often considered Thailand\u2019s only true \u201croyal\u201d cuisine. The refreshing chilled rice, which tastes weirdly delicious, is served with several small side dishes that can vary but usually include deep fried shrimp paste balls, stirfried Chinese radish with egg and palm sugar, and green peppers stuffed with pork that are fried in a thin lace of egg.\nBetween being based in Thailand for the past 3+ years and trying any and all dishes I can get my hands on, I like to think I know a thing or two about Thai food, but I had never seen or even heard of khao chae before which made it even more intriguing. While I wouldn\u2019t go out of my way to find it again, it\u2019s a great snacking food in the summer months and was fun to try something completely new.\nAn array of traditional Thai desserts\nKhao chae \u2013 Ancient royal Thai dishes\nAs I mentioned before, along with the tasty treats and relative lack of development \u2013 the island is one of the greenest areas around and feels worlds away from the built up city \u2013 Koh Kret is known for its traditional Mon pottery.\nThe unglazed, terracotta is hand thrown and carved with intricate patterns. There are several pottery workshops where you can see the artisans at work and you can pick up some pieces for yourself for as little as a couple dollars.\nArtisans still create the intricate pottery by hand\nWatch how this artist makes a delicate lid in seconds \u2013 it\u2019s mesmerizing:\nBesides the market, you can also walk or cycle around the island soaking up some peace and greenery before getting on the boat headed back into the city.\nVisiting Koh Kret\nWhile you can go to the island any day, Koh Kret\u2019s market is only held on Saturdays and Sundays starting around 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. You probably won\u2019t see too many foreign tourists but it\u2019s definitely a popular weekend getaway for Thais so expect some crowds. When I visited in the middle of February it was busy, but not uncomfortably so.\nThere are several different ways to get to the island from the city center. The island\u2019s main pier is at Wat Poramaiyikawat.\nTake an orange or green Chao Phraya express boat to Nonthaburi pier (the final stop on the route). From here you can either charter a long tail boat directly to Ko Kret (good if you\u2019re with a large group and can split the price) or take a taxi straight to the Pak Kret pier.\nOn Sundays, you can take a Chao Phraya Express Boat tour that goes all the way to Koh Kret, stopping at other sites and destinations along the way.\nTake bus #166 from Victory Monument to Koh Kret and get off at Wat Sanam Neua Temple. From there, you can take the local ferry across the river to the island.\nKoh Kret is one of my most favourite hidden treasures around Bangkok! It\u2019s so neat how this little island managed to develop it\u2019s own fully unique culture while being so close to the city. I especially love the deep fried flowers\u2026 yum!\nI had a similar experience when I went myself, in case your\u2019e interested on comparing notes: http://wheresidewalksend.com/bangkok-island-koh-kret/ :)\nI was surprised I hadn\u2019t heard of it until a few months ago!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.parrotfishdive.com/a-very-useful-language/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:30Z", "digest": "sha1:K3UHWVYWZLKTMLSK6RCZCSSNY4QDX5Y6", "length": 1869, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.parrotfishdive.com", "title": "A Very Useful Language \u2013 Parrotfishdive", "raw_content": "If you ever go to the Middle East countries you need to equip yourself with an Arabic language skill. Maybe in daily life you don\u2019t really see the course place for learning this useful language. Now we will gladly present our brand new arabic world so we can help you regarding to improve your Arabic language skill.Nowadays we all know that the Middle East have been continuously developing their countries. Therefore you can see there are many successful industries and businesses are growing up fast in those countries. In the Middle East countries they also receive a lot of immigrants from around the world. Those immigrants will surely try their luck and work in some of successful companies there. You will need some help for understanding the local language because most of them have a very bad English skill.\nTherefore you need to at least understand few of daily greeting sentences in order to gain their respects. They will not really help foreigners who don\u2019t speak at least a little Arabic when they talk to them. You will need to practice your Arabic language skill so that you will be able to do some of pleasant activities with local people there. Actually the local people who live in the Middle East countries are very friendly and fun. They are not going to put you in a harmful situation.\nAll the bad opinions from the media about the terrorist in Islam are just nonsense. You don\u2019t need to believe in everything that you see in your television. The Arabic people are just as normal as American or Australians even they are professional workers as well. Most of them have a lot of luxury stuffs at their homes and you will never realize that they can give you an amazing job if you need one.\nPrevious Previous post: Important to Know, Interesting Facts about Living in The Residences\nNext Next post: Use Some Of These Tips In Minimizing Dust At Home", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pengovsky.com/2013/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PWKM6AFPNFQ5H6JXQGBSO5SLXZ3KKH67", "length": 8393, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.pengovsky.com", "title": "October | 2013 | | SLEEPING WITH PENGOVSKY", "raw_content": "Oh, boy\u2026 Contrary to what pengovsky predicted two months ago, Ljubljana mayor Zoran Jankovi\u0107 on Wednesday did in fact agree to run for president of Positive Slovenia, throwing a huge wrench in what was already a barely functional political environment. A shitstorm of epic proportions ensued which unmasked a huge rift within the party and threatened, well, omnishambles. These were temporarily put off by what for all intents and purposes was a below-the-belt move by party executive committee to postpone the congress until shortly before parliamentary elections. Which amounts to an in-party mutiny and drives a wedge between Zoran Jankovi\u0107 and the party he founded in 2011 led to victory in parliamentary elections only seven weeks later.\nZoran Jankovi\u0107 vs. Alenka Bratu\u0161ek (not an actual representation of roles ;))\nJankovi\u0107 went all in on Wednesday and said he will stand in party elections, thus going head-to-head against Bratu\u0161ek who confirmed her running some time ago. He also rejected speculations he would back down at the very last moment and went on to state that he sees no reason why junior coalition parties would quit the coalition if he were to return to the helm of PS. Well, maybe he didn\u2019t, but Luk\u0161i\u010d, Virant and Erjavec sure as hell did. But more on that in a moment.\nPM Bratu\u0161ek was on an official visit to Serbia on Wednesday and refused to comment on Jankovi\u0107 move, but come Thursday, she was all like Cary Elwes in Robin Hood: Men in Tights and published a written statement saying that time for play is over and told him to bring it on, saying she will quit as PM if she loses party elections (Google translate here).\nThe stage was set for a showdown of epic proportions. Jankovi\u0107\u2019s move was either motivated by one of those Tom Cruise moments or by the notion that he has little left to lose and decided that if he has to go, he will take the party with him. The former would go against him being suicidal, especially since he did hint at a possible \u201cthird option\u201d a couple of weeks ago, namely, his retirement some time soon. He wasn\u2019t really serious about it, but the mere mentioning of it suggest that he did take it into consideration.\nAdditionally, he apparently calculated the junior coalition parties have attached themselves to enough gravy-trains to continue in a Jankovi\u0107-led coalition rather than to quit their respective honey-pots, regardless of their insistence in Spring that Positive Slovenija is only acceptable as a coalition partner sans Jankovi\u0107. Furthermore, he figured (not entirely unreasonably, it must be said) that most of PS senior figures are somehow indebted to him politically. Lastly, he figured that he could easly sway the vote in the party Congress his way. Well, turns out he was right only on the last count.\nimmediately after his announcement on Wednesday all three junior coalition parties said that Jankovi\u0107 as PS president means gave over for the ruling coalition which \u2013 by extension \u2013 meant early elections within a matter of months. The only coalition party that could reap some sort of benefits from this scenario are the Social Democrats which have seen a steady streak of top ranks in public opinion polls. Thus, even if DL and DeSUS would back down on their demands, the SD would almost certainly call it quits. Which why all three junior parties were watching each other, which would flinch first. With the congress only 17 days away on Wednesday, a proper flip-flop on the issue would be hard to execute.\nOT: since a fallen government would most probably result in The Troika descending from Brussels-am-Berlin, the election result would matter about as much as a pair of fetid dingo\u2019s kidneys, but I\u2019m sure few people even considered that.\nSo, this was miscalculation numero uno, not unlike the one Jankovi\u0107 made in 2011, when he was negotiating a coalition on his own and wouldn\u2019t cave in to personal vanities of other party leaders. It was this clash of egos that ultimately cost him his premiership and that nearly caused a total political breakdown today. Namely, his running for party president also flew in the face of those who threw him under the bus in late July. He was challenging them as much as he was challenging PM Bratu\u0161ek and somehow thought his move alone would sway those still on the fence to his side. But again, since Bratu\u0161ek upped the ante a day later and told him in no uncertain terms that she will only play this game is she heads both the party and the government, a lot of people suddenly stood to lose quite a lot if the government would indeed fall. Not to mention the prospect of yet another election or that of a Brussels intervention. Jankovi\u0107 was forcing them into a battle no-one really wanted to fight. Miscalculation numero dos.\nAnd yet, if the battle were to be fought, Jankovi\u0107 would probably win hands-down. In this, he was correct. It goes beyond saying that the one thing Alenka Bratu\u0161ek lacks is charisma. She is a technocrat. A bean-counter, if you want to be unkind to her. If she were pitted against Jay-Z on open stage, she might as well throw in the towel (which reportedly she thought of doing immediately after Zoki\u2019s announcement). For Jankovi\u0107 on stage is a sight to see. Regardless of whether one likes him or hates him, one has to admit that he can work the crowd. Especially if the crowd wants to be worked. And congress delegates aren\u2019t exactly a hostile bunch. No-one expected the PS congress to be like the 14th congress of the Yugoslav communists, when the Party fell apart.\nThis, apparently was a fact recognised by PS ExCom which on Thursday afternoon decided to pull the rug from under Zoran Jankovi\u0107 entirely and postpone the congress until some time before elections. Since there is no definitive date for those, the congress is as good as canceled.\nBut as things stand now, Zoran Jankovi\u0107 chipped off yet another piece of what little authority Alenka Bratu\u0161ek has in Slovene politics. To an extent, one can understand him. He was increasingly sidelined by his own party and no doubt saw it as going beyond the terms of his mutually agreed \u201cfreezing of party leadership\u201d. Not the sort of person to take being left out of the loop lightly, he tried to engineer a spectacular come-back.\nThat he was wrong to do so, can be gauged by the simplest of methods: several prominent SDS members were supporting his bid, saying that a party leadership should be contested in an open manner. Which is all fine and well, but SDS is approving of developments in other parties only when it suits them and they too saw Jankovi\u0107 returning to head the PS as a short-cut to early elections which they would probably win.\nWith these developments, the separation of Zoran Jankovi\u0107 and Alenka Bratu\u0161ek is complete and the upside for her is that no one in their right mind can now claim that hers is a puppet government controlled by Zoran Jankovi\u0107. In fact, it was all a bit like Admiral Roebuck versus M in Tomorrow Never Dies (at 4:10). And although the pundits say she missed her chance to establish herself as a political leader, she has only now opened the possibility to do so.\nNamely, both JZ and AB remain candidates when the congress finally convenes, but by then Slovenia will either be under a Troika administration or will have fixed its finances enough to start breathing again which would give Alenka Bratu\u0161ek a leg to stand on politically. Curiously enough, in all this conundrum the only support (if you can call it that) she got was from the European Commission which said that now is not the time to experiment politically. Translation: they need an operative government to work with/dictate terms to.\nAs for Positive Slovenia, things do not bode well. The ripple effect will no doubt be felt down the party ranks and some serious work will have to be done to repair the rift in the coming months. If that is at all possible. The very fact that congress was postponed means that party senior figures have not (yet?) won the hearts and minds of rank-and-file members. Some time in the future, there will be hell to pay. It isn\u2019t entirely clear who will pick up the tab, but it should be noted that the mutiny on the Bounty was eventually put down.\nPosted on October 4, 2013 October 4, 2013 Categories SloveniaTags Alenka Bratu\u0161ek, Cary Elwes, Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia, Jankovi\u0107, Ljubljana, Positive Slovenia, Wednesday, Zoran Jankovi\u0107", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 11122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.people-press.org/2012/04/09/74-of-republicans-say-romney-definitely-the-nominee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VXY733EP77I3NNTKZXDUPTCOL5ZGHMCT", "length": 1265, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.people-press.org", "title": "74% of Republicans Say Romney \u2019Definitely\u2019 the Nominee | Pew Research Center", "raw_content": "Following primary victories in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia last Tuesday, Mitt Romney is clearly seen as the inevitable GOP nominee, and Republicans now see continued primaries as bad for the party.\nIn the latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, conducted April 5-8, 2012, roughly three-quarters (74%) of Republican and Republican-leaning voters say that Romney will definitely be the Republican Party\u2019s nominee this fall. Only 21% believe a candidate other than Romney still has a chance to become the party\u2019s nominee.\nAnd Republicans\u2019 appetite for the ongoing primary campaign has soured. By a 47% to 36% margin, more say it is a bad for the party, not good, that the nomination race has not yet been decided and is still going on. Just a month ago, Republicans were split on this question, and as recently as February a majority thought it was a good thing for the party that the nomination had not yet been finalized.\nThe sense of Romney\u2019s inevitability is shared by Democrats as well: 64% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters also see Romney as the inevitable nominee. And 63% of Democrats believe that the long GOP primary is bad for the Republican Party.\nApril 5-8 2012 Weekly Survey Dataset", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.people-press.org/2012/12/14/public-says-u-s-does-not-have-responsibility-to-act-in-syria/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:17Z", "digest": "sha1:JXW2T7FYELUZZLE52HQ7UO3MEGPWWTWF", "length": 4114, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.people-press.org", "title": "Public Says U.S. Does Not Have Responsibility to Act in Syria | Pew Research Center", "raw_content": "As fighting in Syria rages on between government forces and anti-government groups, the public continues to say that the U.S. does not have a responsibility to do something about the fighting there. And there continues to be substantial opposition to sending arms to anti-government forces in Syria.\nThe latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Dec. 5-9 among 1,503 adults, also finds little change in the public\u2019s sympathies in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians: 50% say they sympathize more with Israel while just 10% sympathize more with the Palestinians.\nOnly about quarter of Americans (27%) say the U.S. has a responsibility to do something about the fighting in Syria; more than twice as many (63%) say it does not. These views are virtually unchanged from March.\nSimilarly, just 24% favor the U.S. and its allies sending arms and military supplies to anti-government groups in Syria, while 65% are opposed. These opinions also are little changed from March.\nComparable majorities of Republicans (66%) , Democrats (61%) and independents (65%) say the U.S. does not have a responsibility to do something about the fighting in Syria, and all partisan groups also oppose arming anti-government groups.\nThose who have heard a lot about the situation in Syria offer modestly more support for U.S. involvement than those who have heard less (35% vs. 22%), but still, on balance, say the U.S. does not have a responsibility to get involved.\nOpinions about the United States\u2019 responsibility to act in Syria are similar to views about obligation to act in Libya, before the U.S. and its allies launched airstrikes against Moammar Gadhafi\u2019s forces. In March 2011, just 27% said the U.S. had a responsibility to do something about the fighting in Libya \u2014 the same percentage that says that about Syria today. Higher percentages said the U.S. had a responsibility to do something about the fighting in Darfur in 2006 (51%) and fighting between Serbs and Bosnians in Kosovo in 1999.\nThere has long been little public interest in the conflict in Syria. In a separate survey conducted last week (Dec. 6-9), just 19% say they are paying very close attention to political violence in Syria, while 28% say they are following this story fairly closely. About half (52%) are paying little or no attention to developments there.\nPublic Continues to Sympathize with Israel over Palestinians\nFor decades, the public has sympathized with Israel over the Palestinians and that remains the case today. Overall, 50% say they sympathize more with Israel, compared with just 10% who say they sympathize more with the Palestinians; almost a quarter (23%) do not offer an opinion while 13% volunteer that they sympathize with neither side, and 4% say both.\nAttitudes on this question have been stable over the past six years, after showing more volatility in the middle of the last decade.\nThere continue to be stark partisan differences in Middle East sympathies. Conservative Republicans maintain strong support for Israel with fully 75% saying they sympathize with Israel compared with just 2% who sympathize with the Palestinians. By contrast, liberal Democrats are much more divided: 33% sympathize more with Israel, 22% with the Palestinians. Independents sympathize more with Israel by a 47% to 13% margin.\nAmong religious groups, white evangelical Protestants remain strongly supportive of Israel. Two-thirds (67%) say they sympathize more with Israel; only 5% say they sympathize more with the Palestinians. Opinion among other religious groups is more mixed. Catholics, for example, offer more sympathy for Israel than the Palestinians by a 44% to 11% margin.\nThere also are age differences in Mideast sympathies. About four-in-ten (38%) people younger than 30 sympathize more with Israel than the Palestinians. That is only slightly lower than the percentage of 30-49 year olds who sympathize with Israel (46%). However, more than half of those 50 and older (58%) sympathize with Israel more than the Palestinians. Age differences were more modest in 2011 and 2010.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 6948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 163.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.people-press.org/2017/06/20/public-has-criticisms-of-both-parties-but-democrats-lead-on-empathy-for-middle-class/?utm_content=bufferd7da4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:41Z", "digest": "sha1:5BCSNHYHGVBMWPMFKOU4Z4K335HWW4AJ", "length": 5544, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.people-press.org", "title": "Both Democrats, Republicans face public criticism", "raw_content": "The public continues to be critical of both political parties. Both parties\u2019 favorability ratings are more negative than positive and fewer than half say either party has high ethical standards. Majorities also fault both for their approach to government spending.\nBut as in the past, more say the Democratic Party \u201ccares about the middle class\u201d (57%) than say that about the Republican Party (42%). And while 54% say the Republican Party is \u201ctoo extreme,\u201d fewer (45%) say this phrase applies to the Democratic Party. The share saying the Democratic Party is too extreme has risen over the past year (from 37%) while perceptions of the GOP have shown less change.\nThe latest national survey by Pew Research Center, conducted June 8-18 among 2,504 adults, finds that despite the tumult in Washington, overall impressions of the two parties \u2013 and President Trump \u2013 have changed very little since April. Currently, 39% approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, while 55% disapprove. For more, see detailed demographic tables on Trump\u2019s job approval.\nJust 40% view the Republican Party favorably, while 54% have an unfavorable impression. Opinions about the Democratic Party are similar (44% favorable, 50% unfavorable).\nAs Congress continues to debate the budget and government spending, majorities are critical of the way that both parties handle these issues. Nearly two-thirds (64%) say the Republican Party is \u201ctoo willing to cut government programs even when they work.\u201d About as many (61%) say the Democratic Party \u201ctoo often sees government as the only way to solve problems.\u201d\nIn general, Republicans and Democrats ascribe positive traits to their own party, while holding negative views of the opposing party. For example, about two-thirds of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (66%) say their party has high ethical standards, while about the same share of Republicans and Republican leaners (64%) say the same about the GOP. Comparable shares in each party (24% of Democrats, 21% of Republicans) say the opposing party has high ethical standards.\nWhile large majorities in both parties characterize the other party as too extreme, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to describe their party this way (24% of Republicans, 18% of Democrats).\nRepublicans also are far more likely to say the Democratic Party cares about the middle class than vice versa: 31% of Republicans say the Democratic Party cares about the middle class, compared with 16% of Democrats who say this about the GOP.\nMany Democrats \u2013 especially conservative and moderate Democrats \u2013 fault their party for too often viewing government as the only way to solve problems. Overall, 44% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say their party too often sees government as the solution; conservative and moderate Democrats (50%) are more likely than liberal Democrats (38%) to say this.\nRoughly a third of Republicans and Republican leaners (35%) say the Republican Party is too willing to cut government programs even when they work. The critique that the GOP cuts programs even when effective is more widespread among moderate and liberal Republicans (51%) than among conservative Republicans (28%).\nViews of the Republican, Democratic parties little changed\nPerceptions of both parties remain little changed from April. Currently, four-in-ten have a favorable view of the Republican Party, while 54% express an unfavorable one. A comparable share of the public rates the Democratic Party favorably (44%), while half have an unfavorable opinion.\nRatings for both parties are lower than they were in January, when about half viewed the Democratic (51%) and Republican (47%) parties favorably.\nNearly eight-in-ten Republicans and leaners (77%) have a favorable view of the GOP, little changed since the beginning of the year. Democrats view the GOP less favorably now (12%) than in January (23%).\nFully three-quarters of Democrats (75%) rate their party positively today, up slightly from April (70%). Republicans view the Democratic Party less favorably today (11%) than they did in January (23%).\nDonald Trump\u2019s job approval continues to remain more negative than positive. Currently, 39% of the public approves of the way Trump is handling his job as president, while 55% disapprove. Ratings of Trump are virtually unchanged from April (39% approved) and February (also 39%).\nAs has been the case throughout the early stages of Trump\u2019s presidency, these views are starkly divided by gender, race and ethnicity, age and education.\nSupport for Trump is highest among whites, men and older adults. Half of whites approve of the job Trump is doing as president, and 44% disapprove \u2013 the only major demographic group in which more approve than disapprove. Large majorities of blacks (88%) and Hispanics (72%) give Trump negative job ratings.\nAmong men, nearly half (49%) disapprove of Trump\u2019s job performance, while 44% approve. Women disapprove by a much wider margin (60% to 34%). Adults 50 and older are divided in their views of Trump: 46% approve, 49% disapprove. Among those under 50, 32% approve, while nearly twice as many (60%) disapprove.\nThere continues to be an educational divide in views of Trump. Two-thirds of Americans with a college degree or more education (66%) \u2013 including three-quarters of those with a postgraduate degree \u2013 disapprove of Trump as president. Trump\u2019s job rating is more divided among those with less education. Among adults without a four-year degree, 42% approve of the job Trump is doing and 50% disapprove.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.petemarus.com/blog/94d0b8d0-5178-4680-8990-e6204a50395d", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:10Z", "digest": "sha1:2QRLM3FZNZXDO5LWEUCRRBCK4CN5CZYR", "length": 935, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.petemarus.com", "title": "%i \u2014 Peter Marus", "raw_content": "Today, I did something I haven't done in a long time....go to a Metrostars game!!!! For my birthday, my parents gave me some money to go. I went to the stadium, and hung out in the parking lot. there were NO clouds in the sky, so I was nervous about getting burned (I did have sunscreen and a hat on, along with me sitting under someone's canopy). After several hours of hanging out, it was time for the game. I forgot how fun it was at games, where I'm making an ass of myself singing, chanting, yelling at the other teams players (along with others). I felt so happy hanging out doing this, even though the game ended in a tie. Only downer was that it took me over an hour and a half to get home ( usually it only takes no more that 30 minutes to get to/from the stadium).\nSo that's what I did on my birthday, I was supposed to see some relatives, but they showed up while I was out. I didn't plan on that, it just happened that way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 166.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.peterdiving.com/contact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:33Z", "digest": "sha1:K7O2RXAPPM6OGD626GSCRD5RQRRVTIUW", "length": 158, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.peterdiving.com", "title": "Contact - PETER Diving", "raw_content": "We are keen to receive your requests or suggestions. Feel free to get in touch with us by filling in this form. Greetings from the heart of the Mediterranean.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.petriepr.com/alila-jabal-akhdarfive-star-boutique-hotel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PNKNRA6EQPMPRCNQMWIZDPVRX2JXWERG", "length": 1487, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.petriepr.com", "title": "Alila Jabal Akhdar - Now A Five Star Boutique Hotel | Petrie PR", "raw_content": "14 Oct Alila Jabal Akhdar \u2013 Now A Five Star Boutique Hotel\nThe Ministry of Tourism has awarded the Fifth Star to Alila Jabal Akhdar \u2013 one of the first five-star boutique hotels in Oman to be recognised by Ministry in its new boutique hotel classification.\nGeneral Manager Julian Ayers comments: \u201cIt is a great honour to be commemorated for our bespoke services. Our team, along with our owner OMRAN, have worked passionately in delivering memorable destination experiences that are surprisingly different.\u201d Alila Jabal Akhdar enjoys great repute with its stunning location and outstanding facilities. New activities have been added to the Alila Experience which includes the Via Ferrata, a new Spa Arbour, Play Alila & the Butterfly trail \u2013 making the resort a truly unique destination that one can visit again & again\u201d\nJabal Akhdar, meaning \u201cThe Green Mountain\u201d in Arabic, is part of the Al Hajar mountain range, one of Oman\u2019s most spectacular regions. Perched here 2,000 metres above sea level, Alila Jabal Akhdar overlooks a dramatic gorge, surrounded by awe-inspiring peaks of the Al Hajar Mountains. This Omani resort is the perfect base for exploring the region\u2019s magnificent landscape of rugged, untouched beauty at the height of indulgence. The only eco-luxury resort on the mountain, Alila Jabal Akhdar is a haven for adventure travellers, nature lovers and those seeking a respite from the desert heat.\nFor more information please visit: https://www.alilahotels.com/jabalakhdar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pffirewall.com/tag/parents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:38Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5VYJ6XYE7QTIQPQDLV6TYVCWS5C3XAN", "length": 505, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pffirewall.com", "title": "parents - Personal Finance Firewall", "raw_content": "A Tale Of Two Pianos: My Musical and Financial Journey Into Piano Ownership\nPosted on September 22nd, 2010 by by Jesse Michelsen\nPlaying the piano is something I have always wanted to pursue. I love classical music and the piano is my favorite instrument. My family is pretty musical as well and my mom graduated with a degree in music from a prestigious music oriented college. This year after graduating college myself I decided it was time [\u2026]\nTags: fifteen years, mom, parents, pia, pianos, single day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pffirewall.com/tag/piano/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:48Z", "digest": "sha1:IY5W4O5ZYFGGGRYUXRUX4W42MR2KGIJ4", "length": 397, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.pffirewall.com", "title": "piano - Personal Finance Firewall", "raw_content": "How To Play Your Finance By Ear\nThis past year I\u2019ve really gotten in touch with my musical side. I\u2019ve been learning the piano feverishly, trying to rise up and meet my own challenge. While music and personal finance may seem world apart I\u2019ve come to see many correlations between the two. Play your finances by ear In music, there are many [\u2026]\nTags: beauty, finance, harp, instrument, music, piano", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pfura.com/our-districts/west-seltice-ii", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RTK4EFLAWSA6X2CYLL6AIBVRMHMS7GXY", "length": 1865, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.pfura.com", "title": "West Seltice II | pfura.com", "raw_content": "West Seltice II District\nWest Seltice II Plan Book\nSection 2 \u2013 Phasing & Budgets\nSection 5 \u2013 District Review \u2013 March 2010\nThe West Seltice II District consisting of 248 acres was created in 2005 to address blight, extend public infrastructure and address traffic improvements. The District, which is adjacent to the Kimball Office facility, has a 15 year life and will close in 2020.\nGreenstone Corporation of Liberty Lake, WA is the proponent of this district. A mixed-use \u201curban village\u201d is under consideration, where residents can live, work, play and shop within the same area. The development will provide a wide variety of housing alternatives, ranging from mixed-use housing with retail on the first floor and residential units on the second floor to workforce rental housing. Commercial development will include office and neighborhood retail. The developer has agreed to donate land for a new City park. Approximately one third of the District will be developed as light industrial and distribution providing additional jobs for the community.\nThe area is being developed as Montrose Community and the Treaty Rock Corporate development. The original goals of creating new jobs, commercial, light industrial and mixed uses with a focus on open spaces with trees and planting have not changed. Together with F.O. Berg they have developed a plan jointly for installing the necessary infrastructure. Phase I improvements were completed in late 2007. Phase II levels of completion were delineated and shown as to what designation the lots are, including light industrial, residential and commercial. Although the commercial development is behind earlier expectations due to the economy, the residential activity on the project has increased.\nAs of January 2010, there have been very few jobs created, however this number will increase as construction continues.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pixelpapercraft.com/papercraft/5179ba034eb27b6002000042/nyan-cat", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ALQWQGBOXODNWFA7R5KAKPSXKBC2WB5I", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.pixelpapercraft.com", "title": "Papercraft Nyan Cat", "raw_content": "meow meow meow meow! here comes nyan cat! :3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 184.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.plateformeparallele.com/en/news/130-projet-europeen-more-than-this", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:50Z", "digest": "sha1:AZ4JRUI2B2OCUVXF4TD4YOZNZ6FYZQKR", "length": 1176, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.plateformeparallele.com", "title": "European project \u2014 MORE THAN THIS \u2022 Parall\u00e8le", "raw_content": "Very good news, the european project MORE THAN THIS, submitted in January 2018 has been selected by the European Union (Europe Cr\u00e9ative Coop\u00e9ration Petite \u00c9chelle) !\nMORE THAN THIS is a cooperation project among 6 festivals and cultural organisations from 5 EU countries (France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Estonia) with the collaboration of 5 associated partners from Palestine, Belgium, Spain and France.\nIn these troubled times of retreat behind borders and of confinement of the others to simplified identities, we think hospitality and considering the other\u2019s complexity are issues of major importance. We want to propose a project about these issues from our specific point of view, that of performing arts, asserting that each part has to accept to move and be moved: artists, cultural operators, institutions, audiences, researchers, practices and the field of performing arts itself.\nMORE THAN THIS is a project that focuses on the contemporary performance as a fundamental tool to rethink the value of complexity, as a tool to challenge the crystallisation of single narratives and fixed identities, and a perfect specific space to work on displacement and hospitality.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pledgebank.com/contact?pledge_id=107&comment_id=13401", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:45Z", "digest": "sha1:O5QJX3UQYPVS2ZX4GLVQFBOLSO7PESLV", "length": 224, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.pledgebank.com", "title": "Contact Us - PledgeBank", "raw_content": "I'm all for rationalising immigration but it can be done by other ways than issuing everyone (even non-immigrants) with ID cards. Like, for instance, not letting anyone in through the border. :)\nStephen Brooks, 12 years ago.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pmmonlinenews.com/2012/08/hybrid-tug-catches-fire-at-port-of-long.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:28Z", "digest": "sha1:TF42KFPZTAPSP5QYJEGSHE4IYTUP7TWN", "length": 1701, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pmmonlinenews.com", "title": "Pacific Maritime Magazine Online: Hybrid Tug Catches Fire at Port of Long Beach", "raw_content": "The Campbell Foss, one of two Foss Maritime hybrid energy tugboats operating at the Port of Long Beach, suffered a machinery fire shortly after completing a ship assist in the harbor earlier this week.\nThe fire, which is believed to have started in or near the engine room, occurred around 3:30 pm Aug. 20. According to Foss, the blaze was extinguished by the activation of the vessel\u2019s onboard fire suppression system. The Long Beach Fire Dept. also responded to the incident.\nAlthough there were no major injuries, one crewmember was treated for smoke inhalation, according to Foss.\nFoss says cause of the fire is not yet known but that an investigation, which is being conducted in conjunction with personnel from Long Beach Fire and the US Coast Guard, is underway. The company says the Campbell Foss is expected to remain out of service until the investigation is complete, the vessel has been repaired and corrective actions have been taken to prevent a reoccurrence.\nThe Campbell Foss, which was originally built as a conventionally powered 78-foot by 34-foot Dolphin-class tug is powered by diesel engines and electric motors. The 280-ton tug was retrofitted in 2011 with 10 lithium batteries to help power the boat while it\u2019s idling and traveling from job to job without tows. It was the first Foss tug to have undergone the conversion process.\nAnother of the company\u2019s tugs, the Dolphin-class Carolyn Dorothy, which also operates at the Port of Long Beach, became Foss\u2019 first purpose-built hybrid in 2009. 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He has previously told me to post his comments here. Despite his permission, I seldom take him up on his kind offer. But this is different and I believe important enough to discuss.\nI don't care about the history of 'settled law', or what is the definition of 'stare decisis', or precedent, or 'predicate' as too often incorrectly used by attorneys or Judges. EVERY WORD IS BULLCRAP. Even the interpretation of the Latin phrase is so outrageous to be used in American law, one has to wonder why 'precedent' has become so hallowed!.\nMy wife who works for the CEO of a prestigious law firm tells me how 'reverently' their attorneys speak about 'precedent'! (I just laugh because I know it's been foisted upon them by centuries of use). Poor schmucks. .\nI have some news you can use: The idea of using whatever you want to call it, but presently most commonly used is the term \"precedent' as something to guide a court of law is about as valid as trying to change the Pythagorean Theorem for a 3-sided right triangle - it should never be done!.\nWhy in the heck should a precedent carry much weight in a court too often when the precedent may be outdated; may have been set with a completely different set of partisan Judges;, or actually does not match the present circumstances in far too many ways.\nPersonally, I strongly believe it should be banned. Unfortunately, attorneys and Judges are steeped in centuries of what they have been (wrongly) taught they cannot see the forest for the trees. The judiciary is entractable in so many of their methods, including this one when defendants have been wrongly convicted, were 'cheated' out of a civil settlement they should have received, or the precedent used was not relative to the facts of the present case. PRECEDENT BY ANY OTHER NAME IS BALONEY!\nI am so glad my career was in highway design engineering where we do not depend upon the possible poor prior judgment of some other entities. We are blessed by having only to follow the laws of physical science and of course AASHTO (in America) to quite well exercise our profession and avoid controversy.\nDavid Heckman \"\nLet's have a go at his argument.\nSlavery was the \"precedent\" for about 80 years. You don't hear all these people spouting precedent should rule worrying about slavery.\nThe law can be wrong, courts can be wrong. If a law is wrong then its wrong regardless of how long its been wrong.\nBattle3, Jul 14, 2018\nSo you are saying maybe the Constitution and all it's legal protections may be outdated????", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.polyjunky.com/cloud/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:53Z", "digest": "sha1:7RU3WRERT5LDGQK2R77I5DD2H2TUHXBO", "length": 325, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.polyjunky.com", "title": "Polyjunky \u2022\u25bc\u2022 Character Artist | The Girl and the Cloud", "raw_content": "Had the pleasure of working with Red Knuckles on this year\u2019s campaign for Three, Ireland: \u201cThe Girl and the Cloud\u201d, a charming children\u2019s book produced in association with Barnardos with all proceeds going to the Children\u2019s Charity.\nI was responsible for sculpting the main characters in Zbrush and modelling the car in Maya.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 152.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pondrobinson.com/project/one-madison-avenue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZLUMAQCXRRRJJ2REHW2KH3RJ3PSNCRT", "length": 1127, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.pondrobinson.com", "title": "One Madison Avenue | Pond, Robinson & Associates", "raw_content": "One Madison Avenue, the Metropolitan Life Tower, is a Class-A office building located at the southern end of Madison Avenue in New York City. The property consists of a 14-story base building and a 50-story tower. The Tower Building was constructed from 1905 to 1909 and the south building in two phases from 1954 to 1960. The building contains a reported 1,443,910 square feet of rentable area. The Metropolitan Life Tower was the world\u2019s tallest building from 1909 to 1913, when it was surpassed by the Woolworth Building. The tower was initially an addition to the original 11-story, full-block office building (the \u201cEast Wing\u201d) that was completed in 1893.\nPR&A was retained by the Owner of the property to review the condition prior to an anticipated sale. We were tasked with finding any system that exhibited a significant cost to operations that could result in a potential buyer requesting a reduction to the purchase price. Systematically PR&A detailed a list of repair and maintenance items that the Seller then took to local contractors to price which allowed the potential buyer to understand the cost of ownership.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 76.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.portailpme.com/Accueil/Nouvelles/tabid/138/Page/1/ModuleId/421/AnnonceCategorieID/-1/language/en-US/Default.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RYIWWLVXTL7XQ24F4VM2Q5NKQYVV7SS4", "length": 1094, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.portailpme.com", "title": "News", "raw_content": "Please note that our offices will be closed on Monday, May 22nd due to the National Patriots\u2019 Day.\nQu\u00e9bec Budget \u2013 March 28, 2017\nLarge number of calls at technical support\nPresses on vacation\nOur telephone line problem has been solved. All our services are now fully operationnal. Thank you for your understanding.\nPlease note that our offices will be closed on Monday, May 23rd due to the National Patriots\u2019 Day.\nTax credit for labour-sponsored funds (CSN and FTQ)\nQuebec Budget \u2013 March 17, 2016\nOpening hours for technical support extended in January\nThe first weeks of January, our technical support desk is always busier than usual. This is why, from January 4 to January 22, technicians will be available earlier than usual: from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.\nPlease note that our offices will be closed on December 24th, 25th and 28th and also on December 31st and January 1st. We wish you a happy holiday season!\nNew Files for the Record of Employment on the Web (ROE Web)\nRecently, you may have received an email message from Service Canada indicating that ...\nFederal Budget \u2013 April 21, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prbridgeinitiative.org/privacypolicy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:24Z", "digest": "sha1:WNLFZQLGE7S2R2POBNIIV76DU5WHQAKD", "length": 3848, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.prbridgeinitiative.org", "title": "Welcome to Critical Hub Networks: Home of the PRBI", "raw_content": "Critical Hub Networks (CHN) is committed to preserving your privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how CHN uses and safeguards our user\u2019s personal information.\nThe main purpose of the information is solely to provide you (hereinafter the \"User\") with our services. CHN does not publish, sell or trade your personal information, and none of this information will be provided to third parties, unless otherwise specified. CHN uses the personal information provided by the User in order to provide the User with our Services. We may also use that information to notify the User about our new products, services, updates and other CHN information we think the User may find interesting. We are very conscious of the User's right to privacy regarding the information the User supplies to CHN. At CHN, our policy is to use the information to better service the User.\nCHN may use cookies to keep track of User's session while logged in. This enhances the User experience and prevents the User from having to log in repeatedly while using the site. 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By using our services, you authorize the export of PII to the USA and its storage and use as specified in this policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.presentingproblems.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:22Z", "digest": "sha1:TJB267NU5BER7EW3MCQCG74325KJ6ISO", "length": 780, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.presentingproblems.com", "title": "Presenting Problems \u2013 The Films of Garrick Duckler", "raw_content": "Welcome to Presenting Problems\n\"Presenting Problems\" is a series of short films that address dilemmas faced by both patients and psychotherapists. The films do this not by portraying people with particular symptoms (depression, anxiety, etc.) or by illustrating diagnostic categories (masochism, narcissism and so on). The stories explore a line of thinking or a way of being as a way of talking about an internal situation. Through humor and using a variety of visual mediums, they hope to raise questions about psychological conflict and its complicated relation to internal life. The films have been used for classroom discussions, clinical training and for anyone else interested in such things.\nhttp://www.presentingproblems.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Garrick_Preview.m4v", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/htmlen/index.en.php?id=1487", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:18Z", "digest": "sha1:HJJEZHBEFTUYFW5ILG46YORJQJD5ZAUS", "length": 1851, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr", "title": "AFC - The Obligation to Assist Injured Animals", "raw_content": "Article 6 of the Animal Protection Act says: \"Any person who injures an animal must render assistance to the animal as may be necessary and if he/she is not able to do it himself/herself he/she must arrange for assistance to be provided.\"\nAnimal Friends suggests the following text, i.e. supplement of Article 6: \"Any person who injures an animal must render assistance to the animal as may be necessary and if he/she is not able to do it himself/herself he/she must arrange for assistance to be provided. If it is not possible to establish who injured the animal, the local self governing unit must organize the assistance to be provided.\"\nExplanation: The most frequent way of animals getting injured is on the road, and the person driving most often carries on. If somebody else wishes to help the animal, but has no money to pay for the treatments (which is mostly the case), no veterinary station wants to take over and treat the animal. We think that, in order to ensure citizens' protection and security, the financing of collecting and treating injured animals should be done by local self governing units, in collaboration with a particular veterinary station/surgery. It is dangerous for citizens to touch the injured animals themselves, as they could react aggressively due to fear and shock. Also, an uneducated person can make the injury worse. If an injured animal is lying in the road, there is a danger of further road accidents because most people will try and avoid the animal. It is necessary to regulate this matter more clearly because it is a paradox having a service that will collect a dead animal, and a service that will collect the live animal, but injured is outside of the system, until they spontaneously recover or die.\nThe proposal from Animal Friends for this change to the Animal Protection Act is from the year 2012.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 198.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.purplepawn.com/2008/09/robert-louis-stevenson-war-gamer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNBTPIOTJZRPD3BYZSRZTYKQTXAYBORJ", "length": 517, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.purplepawn.com", "title": "Robert Louis Stevenson, War Gamer by Purple Pawn", "raw_content": "Robert Louis Stevenson, War Gamer\nPosted by Yehuda Berlinger as Miniatures, War Games\nRobert Louis Stevenson, the famed author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was also a war gamer. He\u2019s not the only famous classic gamer-writer: H.G. Wells also indulged in war gaming, and created his own rules sets.\nStevenson at Play, by Stevenson himself with an introduction by Lloyd Osbourne, describes a strategic war game that he played with his stepson in the 1880s, and includes hand-drawn sketches by the author.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pvmchurch.org/creation-care-council.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5XT6PVU5VCC6SJEC3F3NGUKF7BA5MP5", "length": 1084, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.pvmchurch.org", "title": "Creation Care Council - Park View Mennonite Church", "raw_content": "\ufeff\ufeffCreation Care Council\ufeff\nPark View Mennonite Church (PVMC) established a Creation Care Council (CCC) in mid-2009 to provide focused attention to the environmental impact of the church community, with the aim of learning, distributing knowledge, and taking actions that would reduce harmful impacts on nature and the natural systems that sustain a rich and diverse life. This concern emanates from some of the deepest traditions of our faith that God has charged humankind to care for the earth and all living creatures, both in the present and the future.\nRecognizing that many of the actions and behaviors taken today by humans are degrading natural systems, causing harm to others now and reduced opportunity for future inhabitants of earth, the CCC has organized its work within the framework of the following five goals:\nReduce the carbon footprint of the PVMC community\nReduce consumption from the PVMC community\nShare resources with each other, in community (see our new Sharing List!)\nEngage in more sustainable practices\nProvide information and education to the PVMC community", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.r2sports.com/tourney/divisions/listDivs.asp?TID=22249&display=YES&link=../drawsOut/drawOut.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3OYAZK2OXBPAJ7BGPL2Z4MVIMU7A6TCN", "length": 79, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.r2sports.com", "title": "Online Event Divisions", "raw_content": "Tournament 10/14/2017 - 10/14/2017\nMen's Doubles: A / B\nWomen's Singles: Open/A", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 103.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.raltron.com/rh100-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YLNE32VLX7YG46JJCAZ67ATV3WHVRXJD", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.raltron.com", "title": "rh100 | Raltron", "raw_content": "Published December 28, 2016 at 2449 \u00d7 1633 in rh100", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 2469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.read-properties.com/buying/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:42Z", "digest": "sha1:C3HDGHTXVRKVX6ADZKH2LMD4QXSZ4U7I", "length": 401, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.read-properties.com", "title": "Read Properties - Buying | Read Properties", "raw_content": "Buying and selling properties can be a highly stressful and frustrating experience. However, with our extensive experience and local knowledge, we want to ensure this process is as stress free as possible and actually enjoyable.\nWe pride ourselves in helping you to find your dream home, we can make it happen, and when we do, it gives us immense job satisfaction. That\u2019s why we love doing what we do.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.redeemerbaltimore.org/2018/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:V25TM2O2QKYRI36C2AVEYQB6X7Y4ESIK", "length": 3613, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.redeemerbaltimore.org", "title": "October 2018 \u2013 The Church of the Redeemer", "raw_content": "Building a Relevant Church in Baltimore\nWhen I listen to my running mates who are in their twenties, they tell me the church is irrelevant. \u201cTo tell you the truth,\u201d one friend told me, \u201cI don\u2019t even think about organized religion anymore. My generation has moved on to other things.\u201d A neighbor recounted similar thoughts: \u201cWhen I came to Baltimore three years ago, I went to an event that combined information about community engagement, meeting other young folks, and beer tasting, and that led me to THREAD. Have you ever heard of that organization,\u201d he asked me. \u201cI\u2019m not sure religion understands what\u2019s meaningful to people my age,\u201d he continued. The team captain at Back on My Feet said to me one morning before dawn, as we rounded Mt. Vernon Square, \u201cWhen I was a teenager, the church missed the boat on human sexuality and gender identity\u2014good friends of mine felt excluded\u2014so I gave up on religion in solidarity with them.\u201d My whole block near Patterson Park is taking concrete steps toward making Baltimore more inclusive, more vibrant, better at educating its children, and safer for everybody, but only one family calls themselves religious. \u201cThe Christians I grew up with were talkers not doers, and that seemed wrong,\u201d my friend across the street told me last week, \u201cSo I\u2019m really interested to know how you and your wife have stayed in the church and kept your integrity.\u201d\nI don\u2019t think the young people I\u2019m listening to are unusual. Their movement away from organized religion is not reactive\u2014it is a thoughtful, considered response to how the tradition inadvertently got stuck propping itself up instead of running to connect with what matters, which sometimes beats most strongly in the hearts of teenagers and young adults. The movement that crystallized around Jesus 2000 years ago found its energy then in reforming the good but misguided intentions of the power structure, which had lost touch with the living spirit of God on the margins of polite society: with women and the poor, with the sick and the lost, with the stranger and the refugee. Jesus\u2019s vision was to recreate God\u2019s beloved community, and he did that by reminding the religious community that their work was justice, not piety. So it seems possible that the palpable rejection of our \u201cold ways\u201d by 15-to-30-year-olds today is in fact a call to discover again what following the living God really means.\nThe Vestry and I are responding to this call by creating a new Associate for Youth position, an additional full time person to be added to our clergy team. This exciting vision is to add a young leader who will re-imagine ministry to and for young people, from 6th grade to 30 years. I have interviewed candidates by phone and in person, and an advisory committee will now consider five individuals and make a recommendation to me. Each of the applicants is currently employed and is not available until the new year, most likely after Easter. To create program continuity between Paul Smith\u2019s departure and the new position, parishioner Vivian Campagna will act as interim youth director during the 2018-19 program year.\nTo afford this bold move, our annual giving will have to increase to meet the need. As you consider your 2019 pledge to Redeemer, pray about how you can help build the next generation and strengthen the church that will shape our grandchildren. And next weekend, October 27 and 28, please welcome with me our new stewardship chairs: Carrie Goldrick, Noel and Tom Morelli. 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Ortega was taken with a particularly stunning stretch of coastline west of Santa Barbara and petitioned the King of Spain for a land grant. He named this swath of land \u201cRancho Nuestra Se\u00f1ora del Refugio\u201d or \u201cRanch of Our Lady of Refuge.\u201d The original Refugio Ranch.\nOrtega's 26,529 acre ranch stretched from Cojo Canyon in the west to Refugio Canyon in the east. If one follows Refugio Canyon from the sea, up and over the Santa Ynez Mountains into the valley, you arrive at our present-day Refugio Ranch. Our 415 acre estate is nestled into the north face of the Santa Ynez Mountains, with a mile of the Santa Ynez River snaking through the property.\nFor hundreds of years this has been cattle country. When the Gleason Family purchased the land in 2004 we kept the original name of the cattle ranch - Refugio Ranch - to honor the history and spirit of what came before us.\nHaving traded cattle for grapes, the Gleason Family set out to produce wines that embody that sense of place - of terroir. Under the supervision of local viticultural legends Jeff Newton and Ruben Solorzano, 26 acres of Refugio Ranch were planted to vineyards in 2006. Winemaker Ryan Deovlet was enlisted in 2008 for our first vintage, and has mindfully crafted our wines every vintage since. Gleason children Max and Callie both left the hustle of New York City to join the family business that their parents had started - with Max acting as General Manager and Callie as Sales Director.\nRefugio Ranch is truly a family owned and operated business. Borrowing from Old World traditions of passing land and passion down from one generation to the next. We work on the ranch, we play on the ranch - always with the knowledge that we are merely stewards of the land in the course of its long history.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rejectionline.com.au/find_sms.php?id=163288", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:30Z", "digest": "sha1:3JBOO3RPNNNIXEL7KOFDQJ5JLMDGA75R", "length": 97, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rejectionline.com.au", "title": "The Rejection Line (Australia) - 0406650430 :: SMS ID 163288", "raw_content": "Wednesday 25/10/2017 09:18am (Sent from Ringwood, (general area) via Telstra Corporation Limited)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 275.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rejectionline.com.au/find_sms.php?id=165466", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:02Z", "digest": "sha1:AFUP6MD5RWRRAMF3X4NAOQIBSIJQX47L", "length": 159, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rejectionline.com.au", "title": "The Rejection Line (Australia) - 0406650430 :: SMS ID 165466", "raw_content": "Caller said \"Yeah hi Sam it's me husband babe(?). I need to know what is going on. You didn't turn up yesterday. I love you to death. I want you the only one.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 168.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reptilesmagazine.com/Turtles-Tortoises/Information-News/Tortoise-Serves-as-Therapy-Pet-at-Senior-Care-Facility-Trending/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ACUOVJQ3NDWC45E2SLYHNCUZDE556RWH", "length": 1372, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.reptilesmagazine.com", "title": "Tortoise Serves As Therapy Pet At Senior Care Facility", "raw_content": "Tortoise Serves As Therapy Pet At Senior Care Facility\nAbout two years ago, a tortoise was found on the roadside. It has been speculated that he was someone\u2019s pet and was abandoned and that he\u2019s around 20 years old. Now he lives in DeFuniak Springs, Florida at the Chautauqua Rehabilitation & Nursing Center. Shelly the tortoise has found a new purpose in life at his new home: therapy pet.\nShelly pretty much has free rein of the center, wandering the halls and courtyard, The Dodo reports. His slow pace seems to be perfect for the center\u2019s residents, many of whom are in wheelchairs. Shelly also helps ease any anxiety young visitors may experience.\n\"He's calm and he's slow, so it gives residents more time to interact. They can go out and touch him, pet him \u2014 he loves to have his neck scratched. The slower pace of the tortoise is more conducive to being therapeutic in this setting,\" Brandy Meredith, a therapist at the center, told The Dodo. \"One of my favorite things is how he helps youngsters who come in to see their grandparents. Sometimes, it can be intimidating here because of the wheelchairs and the nature of long-term care can be overwhelming when you first walk through the doors. Shelly takes the edge off.\"\nThe hope is that Shelly will be with the center through the end of the century. With the long lifespan of tortoises, that just may be possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.republicanreader.com/what-could-we-find-out-from-hillarys-emails/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PCFWTYD7SATRGTBSRLIYV6GKV75GOTGQ", "length": 3711, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.republicanreader.com", "title": "What Could We Find Out From Hillary\u2019s Emails? | Republican Reader", "raw_content": "When the news broke that there is a whole previously unknown contingent of Hillary Clinton\u2019s official emails that she illegally deleted, every true conservative could feel their ears perk up. To no one\u2019s surprise, Hillary\u2019s lies were once again exposed and, as it turns out, there are plenty more emails that will get released.\nAt the moment, there is no concrete news about when the emails will be released, although some people are mentioning October. It would not be a surprise if the Obama-Clinton administration managed to keep them under wraps until November has passed, but only time will tell.\nUntil then, there is only one thing a person can do \u2013 hypothesize about the kind of stuff that will be revealed once this latest batch of Hillary emails becomes public.\nOne thing that is almost bound to come to light are further ties between Hillary and various interest groups.\nThis is something that has been happening since times immemorial, but the Clintons, with their Foundation and their innumerable ties to every fat cat in the world, make this whole thing outright scary.\nOf course, we do not expect to read anything explicit, but there will definitely be emails that will show how some people bought their way to the deciding table. The ties that the Clintons have with Wall Street have stopped being a secret a long time ago, but it is always good to see spoof of how this clique is actively working to destroy the middle class and all but starve the poorest Americans.\nWe are also looking forward to seeing which foreign organizations and corporations were greasing their wheels with both money and favors. Once again, these are hardly secrets, but finding out about a new batch of deals with various Saudi and other shifty interests is always a good read.\nAnother thing we expect to read about in the new Hillary emails has to do with the way Obama\u2019s administration has bungled everything it could regarding Iraq, Afghanistan, and ISIS. It is a well-known fact that their inaction and poor judgement has all but brought the free world to its knees, but we still look forward to reading exactly how this happened. Perhaps there might be even something about Benghazi there?\nAny emails surrounding the Obama Administration\u2019s handling of various foreign policy issues are a welcome read as they will give us insight into why they have been so unsuccessful at pretty much everything they attempted to do over the years. Are they just hapless or has there been something more sinister at work?\nThose emails didn\u2019t get deleted just because.\nThere are other subjects that are bound to come up once the emails are released, such as gun control, abortion and other burning issues. Hillary\u2019s liberal stance on these social issues are familiar to the American public, but it will be nice to see how she scoffs at the people who don\u2019t agree with her. You just know there will be emails like that.\nWe cannot wait to read about her making fun of the Average American who can barely feed his or her family while her Wall Street buddies lay around raking in billions. We cannot wait to read about the deals that she made in the past, despite knowing that they are bad for America. We cannot wait to read about Hillary laughing at the people who have different opinions on religion or society.\nThe only problem is that if they only release these emails in October, there will be very little time to read through all of them before the Election. Because of this, we can only hope that the emails get released earlier.\nThe American people have the right to know what was included in the emails that the Democratic nominee for the President of the United States illegally deleted after serving as Secretary of State.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.richard-fath.de/en/software.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DI6LVZIMDSIWVBJG75NQICHHSMUY2LMT", "length": 153, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.richard-fath.de", "title": "Richard Fath - Software projects", "raw_content": "This section of my website contains all content related to my open source software projects.\nJust click on a headline to go to the corresponding project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rivercitypgh.com/are-you-an-evangelical/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HACA6JLL7DKS4IMWCMCPMLCDZODTJAEH", "length": 1632, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.rivercitypgh.com", "title": "Are You An Evangelical? \u2013 River City Church", "raw_content": "Whether you realize it or not, you might be an evangelical Christian. Some people think \u201cevangelical\u201d is a negative label even though it comes from the word \u201cgospel.\u201d The gospel is the good news about Jesus Christ which is basic Christian beliefs.\nThe results from a new 2-year study properly defines evangelical by theology rather than by self-identity, denominational affiliation, ethnicity, or politics. Therefore, you might be in a liberal Christian church and not be an evangelical. At the same time, you might be an evangelical Christian even though you don\u2019t like the label.\nHere\u2019s the test from the survey: Would you answer \u201cstrongly agree\u201d to these four statements?\nThere\u2019s a Christianity Today article with more analysis about the study. Here\u2019s what really stood out to me:\n1) Only 25 percent of African Americans who hold evangelical beliefs consider themselves evangelical Christians. This is frustrating. It makes me think people need to get their definitions right.\n2) 61% of people who identify themselves as \u201cChristian\u201d do not hold evangelical beliefs. This reminds me of the liberal Christian churches out there, and the quote by J. Gresham Machen when he said that liberal Christianity is not Christianity at all. Again, I think Christianity as a whole would benefit from clearer definitions.\n3) Finally, I was surprised that 23% of self-identified Catholics are evangelical because question 3 is in direct opposition to official Catholic church teaching which excommunicates them from the church. It seems as if there are many Catholics that need to find a new church. \ud83d\ude42\nTagged with Christian, Evangelical, Gospel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.robynsnest.org/2017/01/a-day-at-zoo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MLFXDWD5ZDHVH6LZKQRMFHZGBLSOMUIM", "length": 1274, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.robynsnest.org", "title": "Robyn's Nest!: a day at the zoo", "raw_content": "we became zoo members this year since we are living very close to the zoo around here. if you know me at all you know that i am an animal lover, and so most of our dates end up involving animals. zoo membership is a great way to get outside, have a free date day, and get to interact with animals all in one!\nwe have already gone enough times since we got the membership in December to more than make up for the money it cost to buy it. if you live close to a zoo it really does make sense to become a member if you will go more than 2 times a year (which let's face it, we will!). it is nice also because we know that we can come back anytime we want, so we don't feel rushed to get through every exhibit each time we visit.\nanimals have so much personality so it is fun to go to exhibits at different times of the day and catch animals when they are most active. it is also nice because we can stay at one exhibit for as long as we like and not feel like we are missing out since we can come back. both times we have been so far this year we have not been there during the times they let you feed the giraffe, so that is on our list next time we go! below are some photos that we caught of these characters on our most recent visit! :)\nLabels: animals, photography, review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rodsmith.org.uk/photographic-dictionary/photo-dict%20-%200335.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HSZW6LN4WLWXQFKRLNDP5YYETNWUB4YN", "length": 2129, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.rodsmith.org.uk", "title": "The Dictionary Of Photography, for the Amateur and Professional Photographer", "raw_content": "Emulsion. Photographically, a mechanical mixture of any sensitive salt of silver in extremely minute division, held in suspension in any viscous vehicle, such as gelatine or collodion, which, when spread upon any transparent medium, shall present a generally homogeneous appearance when viewed \"by transmitted light. The material upon which the emulsion may be spread may be either glass, paper, or any special substance desired. The emulsion may be either for the production of negatives, transparencies, positives, or lantern slides, for development or printing out. In this article that intended for negative work alone will be treated of. To summarise all the methods which have been suggested for emulsion making would be almost impossible, at least, within reasonable limits. Practically, however, we may consider that there are three methods in general practice, viz. -\n(a) The ammonio-nitrate process.\n(b) The acid-boiling process.\n(c) The cold process.\nThe ammonio-nitrate process, which may be briefly described as the conversion of the nitrate of silver into the double salt by means of ammonia, and the addition of this to a bromised gelatine solution, and digestion of the emulsion at a moderate temperature for a given period, is simple and easy to carry out, and the one specially suitable for amateur emulsion makers. The acid-boiling process requires more apparatus than the previous one, and though clean working plates are obtained, the sensitive-ness is not quite so great as with ammonia. The cold process is simple and easy, requires no heating, but it is far more difficult to obtain regular results.\n(a) The Ammonio-Nitrate Process. Eder was the first to suggest this process, and the following is his latest formula. Two solutions are required.\nPotassium bromide...... ,..... 24 parts.\nSolution of potassium iodide (io'per cent.) 3 to 8 ..\nHard gelatine (Winterthur) ...... 20 ,,\nDistilled water ............250 ,,\nAllow the gelatine to soak for from 30 to 60 minutes in the water in a closed vessel, then place the vessel in a water bath and allow the gelatine to dissolve, and add the haloid salts. Now", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rogerclarke.com/SOS/CitAnal0605.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:17Z", "digest": "sha1:GVOLDQS6A6PEKY232DRJPOS634GMU35W", "length": 57677, "nlines": 204, "source_domain": "www.rogerclarke.com", "title": "Roger Clarke's Web-Site", "raw_content": "Review Version of 29 April 2006\nPublished in Commun. Assoc. Infor. Syst. 22, 1 (September 2007)\nThis document is at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/CitAnal0605.html\nCitation-counts of refereed articles are a potentially valuable measure of the impact of a researcher's work, in the information systems discipline as in many others. This paper reports on a pilot study of the apparent impact of IS researchers, as disclosed by citation-counts of their works. Citation analysis using currently available indexes is found to be fraught with many problems, and must be handled with great care.\n5.3 Citation-Counts for Some Leading International IS Academics\nAppendix 1: Thomson/ISI Cited Ref Search\nAppendix 2: Thomson/ISI cf. Google Comparisons for Selected Researchers\nInformation systems (IS) is a maturing discipline, with a considerable specialist literature, and relationships with reference disciplines that are now fairly stable and well-understood. In a mature discipline, various forms of 'score-keeping' are undertaken. One reason for this is as a means to distinguish among applicants for promotion, and contenders for senior appointments. An increasingly significant application of score-keeping, however, is as a factor in the allocation of resources to support research.\nTwo intuitively obvious approaches to score-keeping are to count the number of works that a researcher publishes, and moderate it by the time-span over which they were published, the categories of publication (such as books, conference papers and journal articles), and the quality of the venues; and to count the number of citations of a researcher's publications. The weighted count of publications represents a measure of research quality. The citation-count represents a measure of the researcher's impact.\nThis paper performs an analysis of citations of IS researchers, in order to examine the extent to which currently available data provides satisfactory measures of researcher impact. It is motivated by the concern that, whether or not such analyses are performed by members of the IS discipline, it appears increasingly likely that others will do it for us.\nThe paper commences by briefly reviewing formal schemes for appraising researcher quality and impact that have been implemented or proposed in several countries in recent years. It then discusses citation analysis, and its hazards. The research objectives and research method are described. The raw scores are presented and issues arising from the analysis are identified and examined.\nIn a number of countries in recent years, there have been endeavours to implement mechanisms for evaluating the impact of individual researchers and research groups. These have generally been an element within a broader activity, particularly relating to the award of block grants to research centres. Examples include the U.K. Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2001, 2005), which has been operational since 1986, the New Zealand Performance-Based Research Fund (PBRF 2005), and the emergent Australian Research Quality Framework (RQF - DEST 2005), currently in train.\nThe Australian RQF seeks to measure firstly \"the quality of research\", which includes \"its intrinsic merit and academic impact\", and secondly the \"broader impact or use of the research\", which refers to \"the extent to which it is successfully applied in the broader community\". The outcomes of the measurements would be rankings, which would be used in decision-making about the allocation of research-funding. The unit of study is 'research groupings', which are to be decided by each institution, but will be subject to considerable constraints in terms of disciplinary focus and minimum size (DEST 2005, 2006).\nThe design of all three schemes involves lengthy and bureaucratic specifications of how research groupings and individuals are to fill in forms, including definitions of the publications that can be included, large evaluation panels comprising people from disparate disciplines, and lengthy and bureaucratic assessment processes. The RAE in particular has been a very highly resource-intensive activity. A recent report suggests that itthe RAE is shortly to be abandoned (MacLeod 2006), on the basis that it has achieved its aims.\nA conventional indicator of research quality is publications in refereed venues, primarily in 'quality, refereed journals', and perhaps secondarily in the stronger refereed conferences. This may be supplemented by the rankings of those journals and conference proceedings. The RQF, for example, appears to have adopted a modified form of the RAE approach, with each research grouping to be allocated a rating, on a scale of 1 (low) to 5 (high), based on the relevant panel's assessment of the \"contribution\" of the research grouping's \"research work\", and the \"significance\" of the area in which the work is undertaken.\nResearch impact is distinguished from research quality. A potential indicator of research impact is evidence of the use of refereed publications, in particular citations of them. Citations within journals and refereed conferences would indicate the researcher's impact on other researchers; whereas citations within less formal literatures such as professional magazines and newsletters, government reports, and the trade press, might be used as indicators of impact in the broader community. Other indicators of impact include re-publications, translations and inclusion in collections and anthologies. Researcher impact is, however, largely a cumulative matter, rather than being limited to a single publication. The focus might therefore be more broadly on reputation or 'esteem', in which case further indicators could include international appointments, prizes and awards, membership of academies and editorial boards, keynote-speaker invitations, and collaborations with other highly-reputed researchers. The RQF envisages the impact of each research grouping as being assessed against a 3-point scale of High, Moderate and Limited.\nSchemes such as the RAE, PBRF and RQF are political in nature, designed to provide a justification for funds-allocation decisions. There are many aspects of such evaluation processes that could influence the accessibility of research support by IS academics. This paper is concerned with whether the use of citation analysis would provide a reasonable basis for evaluating the impact of IS researchers.\n\"Citations are references to another textual element [relevant to] the citing article. ... In citation analysis, citations are counted from the citing texts. The unit of analysis for citation analysis is the scientific paper\" (Leydesdorff 1998). Leydesdorff and others apply 'citation analysis' to the study of cross-references within a literature, in order to document the intellectual structure of a discipline. This paper is concerned with its use for the somewhat different purpose of evaluating the quality and/or impact of works and their authors by means of the references made to them in refereed journal articles.\nAttempts to formally measure the quality and/or impact of works, and of their authors, on the basis of the number of citations that they gather, is a fairly recent phenomenon. Indeed, the maintenance of citation indices appears to date only to about 1960, with the establishment of the Science Citation Index (SCI), associated with Garfield (1964). Considerable progress in the field of 'bibliometrics' has ensued.\nThe advent of the open, public Internet, particularly since the Web exploded in 1993, has stimulated many developments. Individual journal publishing companies such as Elsevier, Blackwell, Kluwer, Springer and Taylor & Francis have developed automated cross-linkage services, at least within their own journal-sets. Meanwhile, the open access movement is endeavouring to produce not only an open eLibrary of refereed works, but also full and transparent cross-referencing within the literature. A leading project in the area was the Open Citation (OpCit) project in 1999-2002. An outgrowth from the OpCit project, the Citebase prototype, was referred to as 'Google for the refereed literature'. It took little time for Google Inc. to discover the possibility of a lucrative new channel. It launched Google Scholar in late 2004.\nThese need to be regarded as initial forays. All still fall far short of the vision of the electronic library, which was conceived by Vannevar Bush (1945), and articulated by Ted Nelson in the 1960s as 'hypertext'. As outlined in Nelson's never-completed Project Xanadu, the electronic library would include the feature of 'transclusion', that is to say that quotations are included by precise citing of the source, rather than by replicating some part of the content of the source.\nIn the complex, inter-locking and ambiguous field of learned publishing, it is to be expected that citation analysis will gave rise to a degree of contention. Dissatisfaction with it as a means of evaluating the quality and impact of works and of researchers has a long history. See, for example, Hauffe (1994), MacRoberts & MacRoberts (1997) and Adam (2002).\nWithin the IS discipline, there is a long history of attention being paid to citations. The primary references appear to be Culnan (1978, 1986), Culnan & Swanson (1986), Culnan (1987), Cheon et al. (1992), Cooper et al. (1993), Eom et al. (1993), Holsapple et al. (1993), Eom (1996), Walstrom & Leonard (2000), Vessey et al. (2002), Schlogl (2003) and Katerattanakul & Han (2003). That is a fairly short list of articles. Moreover, a General Search on the ISI database shows that the most cited among them (Holsapple et al.) has only accumulated a count of 24 (or, if a deep and well-informed analysis is conducted, using the ISI Cited Ref facility, then the most cited appears to be achieved by combining several counts for a total of 61 for Culnan 1987), and on Google Scholar the largest citation-count appears as 63, for each of Culnan (1986) and Culnan (1987). As will be shown, these are not insignificant counts, but they are not large ones either; and the difficulties and ambiguities involved in generating them represent a mini-case study in the application of citation analysis.\nThe primary purposes of the research reported in the papers listed above have been to develop an understanding of the intellectual structure of the IS discipline, of patterns of development within the discipline, and of the dependence of IS on reference disciplines. In some cases, the impact of particular journals has been in focus (in particular Cooper et al. 1993, Holsapple et al. 1993 and Katerattanakul & Han 2003). In one instance (Walstrom & Leonard 2000), highly-cited articles were the primary concern. The literature search conducted as part of this project did not identify any articles in which the primary focus of the citation analysis was on individual researchers or research groupings.\nA number of deficiencies in the use of citation analysis for this purpose are apparent from the outset. In the course of presenting the analysis, more will emerge, and a consolidated list is provided at the end of the paper. Despite these deficiencies, 'score-keeping' is increasingly being applied to the allocation of research resources. The work reported on here is accordingly justified at least as much by political pragmatics as for intellectual reasons.\nBecause little prior research has been conducted in this specific area, the essential purpose was to provide insights into the effectiveness of citation analysis applied to individual IS researchers.\nBecause of the vagaries of databases that are organised primarily on names, considerable depth of knowledge of individuals active in IS research is needed in order to achieve a reasonable degree of accuracy in the analysis. The analysis accordingly focusses primarily on researchers active in the author's country of long-term residence, Australia. This was appropriate not only as a means of achieving reasonable data quality, but also because the scale was manageable (with c. 700 members of the IS discipline, but no more than 150 with well-established publishing records over the last decade), and the issue of researcher impact assessment is current. Balance was sought by complementing the Australian analysis by also assessing the impact of some leading researchers in North America and Europe.\nOne important insight that was sought was the extent to which the publishing venues that are generally regarded by IS researchers as carrying quality refereed articles are reflected in the databases on which citation analysis can be performed. Rather than simply tabulating citation-counts, the research accordingly commenced by establishing a list of relevant journals and conference proceedings.\nConsideration was given to generating lists of highly-cited articles, and working down the list, accumulating total counts for each individual. Preliminary experimentation showed, however, that this was impractical. It was concluded that a 'census' approach was to be preferred.\nThe following method was adopted:\na list of significant refereed publishing venues was developed;\navailable citation indices were identified and evaluated;\nthe Thomson / ISI Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI) were assessed to establish the extent to which the relevant refereed publishing venues were covered;\nan extensive set of names of Australian IS researchers was established;\na small set of names of leading international IS researchers was established;\nstatistics were extracted from the Thomson / ISI SSCI and SCI for those names;\nstatistics were extracted from Google Scholar;\nfurther investigations were performed, in order to enhance understanding of the quality of the counts arising from the Thomson/ISI and Google citation analyses.\nFurther detail on each of these steps is now provided.\nThe set of venues was developed by reference to the now well-established literature on IS journals and their rankings, for which a bibliography is provided at Saunders (2005). Consideration was given to the lists and rankings there, including the specific rankings used by several universities, and available on that site. Details of individual journals were checked in the most comprehensive of the several collections, which is maintained at Deakin University (Lamp 2005).\nThe author believes that the set selected, listed in Exhibit 2, represents a fairly conventional view of the key refereed journals on the management side of the IS discipline. It significantly under-represents those journals that are in the reference discpline of computer science, and at the intersection between IS and computer science. The reason is that these fields are themselves highly diverse, and a very large number of venues would need to be considered, and many included, in which the heavy majority of IS researchers neither read nor publish. Less conventionally, the list separates a few 'AA-rated' journals, and divides the remainder into general, specialist and regional journals. There is, needless to say, ample scope for debate on all of these matters.\nConsideration could be given to supplementing the journals with the major refereed conferences. In this author's experience, ICIS is widely regarded as approaching AA status, ECIS as a generic A, and AMCIS, PACIS and ACIS may be considered by some as being generic A as well. These are accessible and indexed in the Association for Information Systems' AIS eLibrary, in the case of ICIS since it commenced in 1980, ECIS since 2000, and ACIS since 2002. However, no attempt was made to extend the analysis undertaken in this work to even the strongest of the refereed conferences.\nA survey was conducted of available citation indices. It was clear that Thomson / ISI needed to be included, because it is well-known and would be very likely to be used by evaluators. Others considered included:\nThomson Scientific, previously known as the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), publishes the Science Citation Index (SCI) and the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). In January 2006, its site stated that SCI indexes 6,496 'journals' (although some are proceedings), and that SSCI indexes 1,857 'journals'. The company's policies in relation to inclusion (and hence exclusion) of venues is explained at http://scientific.thomson.com/mjl/selection/. An essay on the topic is at Thomson (2005), but access is unreliable.\nElsevier's Scopus has only been operational since late 2004. The next three are computer science indexes adjacent to IS, and at the time the research was conducted the last on the list was still experimental. The decision was taken to utilise the Thomson/ISI SCI and SSCI Citation Indices, and to extract comparable data from Google Scholar. A more comprehensive project would be likely to add Scopus into the mix.\nExhibit 2 shows the set of journals that were selected, together with indications as to whether the journal is included in the Thomson/ISI SCI or SSCI Citation Indices. The final column shows the inferences drawn by the author regarding the extent of the Thomson/ISI coverage of the journal.\nWhen assembling a list of individuals active in the field, it is challenging to be sure of being comprehensive. People enter and depart from the discipline. There are overlaps with the Computer Science discipline, with various management disciplines, and with the IS profession. When determining the set of IS academics in a particular country, immigration, emigration and expatriates create definitional challenges.\nThe set of names of Australian academics was developed based on the author's experience in the field since about 1970, but in particular by reference to the Australian IS Academics Directory (Clarke 1988), the Australasian IS Academics Directory (Clarke 1991), the Asia Pacific Directory of IS Researchers (Gable & Clarke 1994 and 1996), and the ISWorld Directory (1997-). Arbitrary decisions were taken as to who was an expatriate Australian, and how long immigrants needed to be active in Australia to be treated for the purposes of this analysis as being Australian. Data was sought in relation to about 100 leading Australian IS researchers, plus 4 well-known and successful expatriates.\nData was extracted from the SCI and SSCI citation indices over several days in late January 2006. Access was gained through the ANU Library Reverse Proxy, by means of the company's 'Web of Science' offering. Both sets of searches were restricted to 1978-2006, across all Citation Indices (Science Citation Index - SCI-Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index - SSCI and Arts & Humanities Citation Index - A&HCI). Multiple name-spellings and initials were checked, and where doubt arose were also cross-checked with the AIS eLibrary.\nIn order to provide comparison with leaders in the IS discipline outside Australia, the same process was applied to a small sample of leading overseas researchers. The selection was not intended to be random. It relied on this author's longstanding involvement in the field, and his knowledge of the literature and the individuals concerned. Relatively uncommon surnames were used, in order to reduce the likelihood of pollution through the conflation of articles by multiple academics.\nGoogle Scholar was then searched for a sub-set of the 30 apparently most-highly-cited Australian researchers. Supplementary research was then undertaken within the Thomson/ISI database. These elements were performed in respectively early and late April 2006. During the 3 months between the two rounds of analysis using ISI, the database and hence the citation-counts of course continued to accumulate.\nThis section presents the results of the pilot citation analyses of the Thomson/ISI collections.\nThe data collected for each of the authors was the apparent count of articles, and the apparent total count of citations. The Thomson/ISI site provides several search-techniques. The search-technique used was the 'General Search'. In each case, the search-terms used were combined with , with the date-range restricted to 1978 onwards. In the case of Australian researchers with common names, this was qualified with
. Each list generated by a search was inspected, in order to remove articles that appeared to be by people other than the person being targetted.\nThis measure was selected primarily because it is the most obvious, and hence the most likely to be used by someone evaluating the apparent contribution of a particular academic or group of academics. It is also the most constrictive definition available, and hence could be argued to be the most appropriate to use when evaluating applicants for the most senior appointments, and when evaluating the reputations of the most prominent groups of researchers. Other possible approaches are discussed at the end of this section.\nExhibit 3 provides data for the highest-scoring Australian IS academics, using an arbitrary cut-off of 40 total citations. This resulted in the inclusion in the table of the 4 expatriates and 19 local researchers. For each person, the data shown is the total citation-count, the number of papers in the index, and the citation-count for that person's most-cited paper.\nCAVEAT: For reasons that are discussed progressively through the remainder of this paper, there are strong arguments for not utilising the data in this table, and for not utilising the ISI 'General Search', as a basis for assessing the impact of individual articles or individual researchers.\nExhibit 3: Citation-Counts for Australian IS Researchers\nIris Vessey (as I.)\nRick Watson (as R.T.)\nTed Stohr (as E.A.)\nPeter Weill (as P.)\nMarcus O'Connnor (as M.)\nRon Weber (as R.)\nPhilip Yetton (as P. and P.W.)\nMichael Lawrence (as M.)\nMichael Vitale (as M. and M.R.)\nRoss Jeffery (as D.R., and as R.)\nMarianne Broadbent (as M.)\nBob Edmundson (as R.H.)\nGraham Low (as G. and G)\nPeter Seddon (as P. and P.B.)\nJune Verner (as J. and J.M.)\nGraeme Shanks (as G.)\nPaula Swatman (P.M)\nKit Dampney (as C and C.N.G.)\nJohn D'Ambra (as J.)\nRoger Clarke (as R. and R.A.)\nMichael Rosemann (as M.)\nGraham Winley (as G.)\nChris Sauer (as C.)\nSome form of benchmark is required, against which this measure of each local researcher's impact can be compared. The appropriate comparison is not with people in other disciplines, because their data reflects different numbers of academics, and different numbers of journals, which are differentially indexed. Exhibit 4 shows the same data as for Australian IS academics, but for some well-known leaders in the discipline in North America and Europe. A small number of individuals were selected whose surnames were unusual, in order to reduce the risks of conflating their publications with those of other people, and of overlooking relevant publications.\nExhibit 4: Citation-Counts for Some Leading International IS Academics\nLynne Markus (as M.L.)\nIzak Benbasat (as I.)\nDan Robey (as D.)\nSirkka Jarvenpaa (as S.L.)\nDetmar Straub (as D. and D.W.)\nRudy Hirschheim (as R.)\nGordon Davis (as G.B.)\nPeter Keen (as P.G.W.)\nEph(raim) McLean (as E. and E.R.)\nKalle Lyytinen (as K.)\nLeslie Willcocks (as L.)\nBob Galliers (as R.D. and R.)\nGuy Fitzgerald (as G.)\nEnid Mumford (as E.)\nClaudio Ciborra (as C. and C.U.)\nFrank Land (as F.)\nDavid Avison (as D.)\nRon Stamper (as R. and R.K.)\nNiels Bjorn-Andersen (as N.)\nAn important aspect of this exploratory study was the question as to how effectively the available databases reflected the extent to which the individuals concerned were actually cited. Several tests were applied. The first was the ISI database's coverage of the selected publishing venues. Nothing was found on the Thomson/ISI site that declared which Issues of journals were in the database, and it was necessary to conduct experiments in order to infer the extent of the coverage. The examination disclosed that:\nthe list of AA journals within the IS discipline itself were covered only from quite late in their histories. MISQ was the first and for a long time the primary AA journal, yet articles prior to Volume 8 are omitted. ISR's first 3 volumes are omitted, and only the most recent 6 of the 16 volumes of JMIS are included;\nthe list of generalist A journals was also severely inadequate. The first 5 volumes of I&M are missing, as are the first 3 refereed volumes of Database (1979-1981). Others were adopted only some years into their lives. JIS and JAIS are entirely omitted, and JIT is very sparsely represented;\nthe specialist A journals are even more poorly covered. This includes both IS sub-disciplines, and journals oriented towards particular research domains (which not only publish research using diverse methods, but also accept articles written from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives - which in the author's view is the appropriate way to define the much-abused expression 'multi-discipinary research');\nThese are not the only reasons why citation analysis based on the Thomson/ISI collection leaves a great deal to be desired. The following problems were detected:\nvariability of discoverability depending on the initial(s) used for the author, and on the spelling of the author's surname. Considerable effort was necessary in multiple cases among the c. 130 analyses performed, and the accuracy of the measures is difficult to gauge;\nserious deficiencies in the Thomson/ISO collection. This results in misleadingly low counts. The primary causes are the exclusion of:\na significant number of important journals;\nall books;\nthe inappropriate inclusion of some categories of material, which inflates the item-counts and citation-counts of some authors, in particular:\nall articles in a journal that has switched its emphasis away from strongly academic papers (e.g. Commun. ACM); and\na few (mostly old) purely trade outlets (e.g. Datamation, I-S Analyzer).\nTwo further quality tests were undertaken. In the European list, I was surprised by the low counts for Ron Stamper and Niels Bjorn-Andersen. I report later on the results of an investigation of their citations as indicated by Google Scholar. In the North American list, I was surprised by the low results for Eph McLean, and consequently I examined his list more closely. An article that, in my view at that time, could have been expected to be among the most highly-cited in the discipline (Delone & McLean's 'Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable') did not appear in Eph McLean's list. It was published in ISR, which would have been AA-rated by most in the discipline from its inception. But ISR is indexed only from 5, 1 (March 1994), whereas the Delone & McLean paper appeared in 3, 1 (March 1992). Using the 'Cited Ref Search' provide by ISI also fails to detect it under McLean E.R., but does detect a single citation when the search is performed on 'INFORM SYST RES' and '1992'. ISI finds it with , with 7 variants of the citation, all of which are misleadingly foreshortened to 'INFORMATION SYSTEMS'. These disclose the very substantial sum of 448 hits. A later section reports on the citations of this paper as indicated by Google Scholar.\nThe final quality test applied was a comprehensive assessment of the inclusion and exclusion of the refereed works of a single author. A highly convenient sample of 1 was selected: the author of this paper. In the author's view, this is legitimate, for a number of reasons. This was exploratory research, confronted by many challenges, not least the problems of false inclusions and exclusions, especially in the case of researchers with common names. I have a very common surname, I have a substantial publications record, those publications are scattered across a wide range of topics and venues, I have had some impact, and I am well-positioned to ensure accuracy in this particular analysis because I know all of my own works. The outcome of the analysis was as follows:\nof the author's 36 refereed journal articles to the end of 2005:\n13 were in the SCI and SSCI combined (34%);\n1 (3%) was in a journal claimed by Thomson to be indexed (JIT), but could not be located in the index;\n9 (25% were in 4 important IS journals that are listed in Exhibit 1 but are not indexed by Thomson. (They are JSIS, TIS, IT&P and CAIS);\n2 were in Computer Science and Engineering journals not indexed by Thomson;\n4 (11%) were in Computers & Law Journals not indexed by Thomson. (Law is especially badly supported by the citation indices);\n2 were in Commerce and Economics Journals not indexed by Thomson;\n5 were in other journals not indexed by Thomson (in journals in Public Policy, Ethics, and the Humanities);\nof the author's 27 refereed conference papers to the end of 2005:\n2 were in the SCI and SSCI combined (7.5%);\na further 7 papers were in the index (albeit with a total of only 3 citations), which were, in the author's opinion, at best lightly refereed. These included notes from panel sessions, a guest editorial, a bibliography, and a lengthy, edited but unrefereed Opinion in MISQ.\nThe many deficiencies in the Thomson/ISI database identified from these tests result in differential bias against researchers. Some of the deficiencies would appear to affect all disciplines (e.g. the apparent incompleteness of journals that are claimed to be indexed, and the failure to differentiate refereed from unrefereed content in at least some journals). Many others would appear to mainly affect relatively new disciplines, such as the long delay before journals are included, and refusals to include some journals even when representations are made. When applied to IS researchers, the extent of the under-reporting is not easily predictable, although it does appear to depend heavily on the individual's areas of interest and preferred venues:\nThese problems suggest that comparisons within a discipline are problematic, and that comparisons between disciplines would be extraordinarily difficult. The following appear to be important factors, with observations about how IS compares with disciplines generally:\nthe size of the population of researchers publishing in the discipline. (IS would appear to have a population of c. 2,000-4,000 publishing researchers worldwide, of which c. 100-150 are in Australia. This is small in comparison with some disciplines);\nthe size of the population of researchers who subsequently publish in the topic-area(s) in which the researcher has published. (IS comprises a vast array of topics, and hence many topics are addressed by only a very small number of people. For example, citation analysis in IS attracts few researchers, and hence this paper, and its predecessors, will attract only very small numbers of citations in refereed journals. In addition, IS is driven by rapidly-changing technology, topic-areas are volatile, and hence many papers are left behind as fashion sweeps onwards);\nthe extent to which the researcher works within a well-established pattern of 'normal science', in which case many, short publications can be generated quickly. (In IS, this is anything but the norm. Some maturation may be feasible, however. For example, Clarke (2006) proposed the codification of 'AIS research technique practice guides', to enable quicker writing and reviewing of articles reporting on research that uses mainstream technqiues);\nthe extent to which refereed journals are the primary venue for research reports. (In IS this is generally the case; but some sub-disciplines and some individuals focus more heavily on scholarly books; some sub-disciplines and some individuals produce software; and some sub-disciplines and some individuals publish significant contributions outside the refereed literature, e.g. in government publications);\nthe degree of inherent bias in favour of works in the English language, and against works in other languages. (This is fairly common in IS, with Wirtschaftsinformatik the only recognised journal whose primary language is other than in English, and only a few French-language articles published to date in CAIS);\nthe extent to which the publishing venues used in the discipline are reflected, and accurately reflected, in the database on which the citation analysis is performed. (In ISI, IS is poorly represented overall, and some sub-disciplines and some research-domains are very poorly represented indeed).\nThis sub-section considers alternative ways in which the Thomson/ISI database could be applied to the purpose. Two other categories of search are available. One is 'Advanced Search', which provides the ability to apply Boolean operators on combinations of fields. This would be valuable when conducting tightly focussed searches. If a common evaluation method were able to be defined, it may be feasible to use 'Advanced Search' to apply it. It was not considered relevant to the pilot study conducted here.\nThe other category of search is called 'Cited Ref Search'. This is looser than the 'General Search' used in this pilot study. It lists all articles by all authors sharing the name in question, that have been cited by any article in any publishing venue in the database. It therefore includes articles that were published in venues that are not in the ISI database. It is arguable that this scope of citation-count represents a more appropriate measure of the reputation, worth or impact of an individual researcher or group of researchers. The measure counts citations in articles in the ISI database, rather than citations in articles in the ISI database of articles that are also in the ISI database.\nIn order to test the likely impact of applying this alternative approach to IS researchers, a small number of researchers in each category were selected, and the study repeated. The design of the search-facility creates challenges because it makes only a small number of parameters available. For example, it does not enable restriction to
. In addition, very little information is provided for each hit, the sequence provided is alphabetical by short journal title, and common names generate in excess of 1,000 hits. A further problem is that there is enormous variation in citation styles, and in the accuracy of the data in reference lists. This results in the appearance of there being many more articles than there actually are - many articles were found to have 2 or 3 entries, and the most variants detected during the analysis were 5 and 7.\nAppendix 1 provides the results of this part of the study. All of the researchers for whom the analysis was undertaken had substantial numbers of articles that were cited in the ISI database, but that were not themselves in the ISI database. In some cases, relaxing the criterion resulted in an increase in the citation-count by 20-30%, but in others in an increase by factors of as much as 5. The data in Exhibit 6 enables the following inferences to be drawn:\nresearchers with very high citation-counts for articles published in ISI venues also tend to have substantial numbers of citation-counts within ISI for articles that they have published in non-ISI venues (e.g. within the small, non-random sample, Sirkka Jarvenpaa, and to a lesser extent Iris Vessey);\nresearchers with an instrumentalist orientation, much of whose material is relevant to the IS profession and management, may have very large citation-counts within ISI for articles that they have published in non-ISI venues (e.g. Peter Keen);\nsome researchers whose within-ISI citation-counts are not all that high have published articles outside ISI journals which are fairly strongly-cited by other articles published in ISI venues (e.g. Ron Stamper and the author of this paper have 4 times as many ISI citations for articles published outside ISI venues as within);\nDependence on the General Search alone provides only a restricted measure of the reputation, worth or impact of an academic. Moreover, it may give a seriously misleading impression of the impact of researchers who publish in non-ISI venues such as books, and journals targetted at the IS profession and management. To the extent that citation analysis of Thomson/ISI data is used for evaluation purposes, a method needs to be carefully designed that reflects the objectives of the analysis. In addition, it would be essential for an opportunity to be provided for the individuals concerned to consider the results and submit supplementary information.\nGoogle Scholar is still an experimental service. From a bibliometric perspective, it is crude, because it is based on brute-force free-text analysis, without recourse to metadata, and without any systematic approach to testing venues for quality before including them. On the other hand, it has the advantages of substantial reach, ready accessibility, and popularity. It is inevitable that it will be used as a basis for citation analysis, and therefore important that it be compared against the more formal Thomson/ISI database.\nThe analysis presents considerable challenges. The method adopted was to conduct searches using the names of a sample of the researchers whose data from Thomson/ISI appears in Exhibits 2 and 3. Searches generate long lists of hits, each of which is either an article indexed by Google, or is inferred from a citation in an article indexed by Google. (As is the case with ISI, it appears that the 'citations' counted are actually the entries in the reference-list to each article, rather than the citations within the article's text). Each article has a citation-count shown, inferred from the index; and the hits appear to be sorted in approximate sequence of apparent citation-count, most first. (Only limited documentation appears to be available; and the service, although producing interesting and even valuable results, appears to be anything but stable).\nVarious approaches had to be experimented with, in order to generate useful data. (From a researcher's perspective, Google's search facilities are among the weakest offered by search-engines). For example, 'A' and 'I' are stop-words in the indexing logic, and hence searches for names including those initials required careful construction. The common words 'is' and 'it' are also stopwords, and hence it is difficult to use the relevant expressions 'IS' and 'IT' to restrict the hits to something more manageable. Search-terms of the form <\"I Vessey\" OR \"Vessey I\"> appeared to generate the most useful results, and this format was generally applied. Experiments with searching based on article-titles gave rise to other challenges, in particular the need to develop an even richer starting-point for the analysis: a comprehensive list of article-titles for each researcher.\nA very small sample was used, because of the resource-intensity involved, and the experimental nature of the procedure. An intentionally biassed sample was selected, firstly because the intention was to test the comparability of the two sets of data, both in terms of coverage and citation-counts, and secondly in order to avoid conflation among multiple authors and the omission of entries. To simplify matters, only the first 10 articles for each author were gathered (roughly, but not necessarily reliably, those with the highest-citation-count).\nThe intensity of the 'multiple authors with the same name' problem is highly varied. For many of the researchers for whom data is presented below, there was no evident conflation with others, i.e. their Top-10 appeared on the first page of 10 entries displayed by Google Scholar. For a few, it was necessary to skip some papers, and move to the second or even third page. To reach Eph McLean's 10th-ranked paper, it was necessary to check 60 titles, and to reach Ron Weber's 10th, 190 titles were inspected. A test on my own, rather common name on the above basis resulted in 12,700 hits. To reach the 10th-most-cited, it was necessary to inspect 558 entries. The challenges involved in this kind of analysis are underlined by the fact that those first 558 entries included a moderate number of papers by other R. Clarkes on topics and in literatures that are at least adjacent to topics I have published on and venues I have published in. These could have easily been mistakenly assigned to me by a researcher who lacked a detailed knowledge of my publications list. Similarly, false-negatives would have easily arisen. There are many researchers with common names, and hence accurate citation analysis based on name alone is difficult to achieve.\nAppendix 2 contains tables (numbered 6A through 6G) which show comparisons between the raw Google citation-count and the Thomson/ISI citation-count. Results are shown for seven researchers. In each case, careful comparison was necessary, to ensure accurate matching of the articles uncovered by Google against those disclosed by Thomson/ISI.\nA number of conclusions can be drawn, some of which are intuitive, some less so; and some of which are disturbing. In particular:\nGoogle generally lists more articles for each author than Thomson/ISI. This is to be expected because Thomson/ISI is selective and 'exclusive' of publishing venues, whereas Google is highly inclusive;\nwhere both collections include the same article, Google generally provides a higher citation-count than Thomson/ISI. Considering researchers' top few articles as a whole, the Thomson/ISI represented as high as 70% of the count by Google for the same articles (Iris Vessey - 4 instances, and Philip Yetton - 7 instances) and as low as 28% (Paula Swatman - 3 instances) and 17% (the author of this paper - also 3 instances). A higher Google count is an expected pattern, for the reason discussed immediately above; but the degree of variability suggests that a reliable multiplier may be difficult to interpolate;\nin a small proportion of instances, on the other hand, the Thomson/ISI count exceeds the Google count (e.g. Exhibit 7C - Philip Yetton). These circumstances appear to arise in respect of relatively old articles. Because of the youth of the Web, material originating prior to about 2000, and especially prior to 1995, is under-represented. Hence citations that arose prior to that period will also tend to be under-represented;\nThomson/ISI excludes citations of books and of conference papers, but Google includes at least some. The under-reporting in the Thomson/ISI citation count is highly significant, not merely in the humanities (where learned books are a primary form of publication), but also for some IS researchers. An important example is a very highly cited book by Philip Yetton (Exhibit 7C);\nseveral instances exist in which a researcher's most highly cited article according to Google, which was published in an A journal as listed in Exhibit 2, was not in ISI. These include Ron Weber, who has 102 for an unlisted JIS article (Exhibit 7B), Paula Swatman with 73, 61 and 43 (Exhibit 7E); and the author of this paper with 60 and 47 (Exhibit 7F);\nmultiple instances exist of apparent error in the Thomson/ISI collection, including the omission of articles in AA-rated journals. Iris Vessey (Exhibit 7A) has 92 citations of an unlisted ISR article, 86 and 48 of two unlisted CACM articles, and 41 of an unlisted IEEE Software article; and Guy Gable has 102 citations of an unlisted EJIS article (Exhibit 7G). There are two other instances of missing articles with Google citation-counts in the twenties. If the Thomson/ISI citation-count were to be treated as authoritative, such errors would result in very substantial under-scoring for some researchers.\nAn important further test was the measure generated for Delone & McLean's 'Information Systems Success: The Quest for the Dependent Variable'. The test was undertaken by keying the search-term into Google Scholar, and critically considering the results. The test was performed twice, in early April 2006 and late April 2006. The results differed in ways that suggested that, during this period, Google was actively working on the manner in which its software counts citations and presents hits. The later, apparently better organised counts are used here. The analysis was complicated by the following:\nmany of the hits require particular conditions to be fulfilled by the searcher in order to gain access to sufficient information to test the validity of the putative citation.\nThe raw results comprised 824 citations for the main entry (and a total of 832 hits). Based on a limited pseudo-random sample from the first 40, many appeared to be indeed attributable to the paper. This is a citation-count of a very high order. An indication of this is that the largest Thomson/ISI citation-count for an IS paper that was located during this research was 296, for a paper in CACM by Lynne Markus. In Google, that paper scored 472. The Delone & McLean scored 75% more Google-citations than the Google-citation score of the highest-ranked IS paper so far located in the Thomson/ISI database. In short, it appears that, as a result of what is most likely data capture error, Thomson/ISI denies the authors the benefit of being seen to have co-authored what may be the single most-referenced paper in the entire discipline.\nA further test was undertaken to compare the citation-counts generated by ISI and Google Scholar for two European researchers whose ISI counts were lower than had been anticipated:\nRon Stamper (as R. and R.K.) generated only 32 citations from 13 articles on ISI, whereas on Google Scholar the count was 511 citations of 36 articles (the largest single count being 60), plus 64 citations of 1 book, totalling 575 citations. (The scan that was undertaken found 37 relevant entries among the first 100 hits of a total of 7,970 hits in all, and doubtless somewhat under-counts);\nNiels Bjorn-Andersen (by surname only) generated the tiny total of 3 citations from 3 articles on ISI, whereas on Google Scholar the count was 145 citations from 13 papers (the largest single count being 72), plus 22 citations of 2 books, totalling 167 citations. (The scan that was undertaken found 49 relevant entries among the first 100 of a total of 534 hits in all, and probably somewhat under-counts).\nAnother aspect of interest is the delay-factor before citations begin to accumulate. Some insight was gained from an informal sampling of recent MISQ articles, supplemented by searches for the last few years' titles of this author's own refereed works. A rule of thumb appears to be that there is a delay of 6 months before any citations are detected by Google, and of 18 months before any significant citation-count is apparent. The delay is rather longer on Thomson/ISI. This is to be expected, because of the inclusion of edited and lightly-refereed venues in Google, which have a shorter review-and-publication cycle than Thomson/ISI's journals, most of which are heavily refereed.\nIn summary, citation-counts above about 75-100 on Google Scholar appear to indicate a high-impact article, and above 40-50 a significant-impact article. Appropriate threshholds on Thomson/ISI would appear to be somewhat less than half of those on Google. These threshholds are of course specific to IS, and other levels would be likely to be appropriate in other disciplines, and in other countries.\nReputation is a highly multi-dimensional construct, and reduction to a score is morally dubious, intellectually unsatisfying, and economically and practically counter-productive. On the other hand, the impact of a researcher's publications, as measured by the frequency with which they are cited by other authors, is a factor that an assessment of reputation would ignore at its peril.\nCitation Databases, particularly Thomson/ISI\npatchy and unclear inclusion and exclusion of venues that are not refereed, but have standing of some other kind, such as text-books, and bulletins and newsletters of disciplinary, professional and industry associations. Although the quality of the citing works needs to be differentiated, counts in less formal publications are relevant to the extent to which a researcher's work is applied in the broader community\nsearch capabilities limited by user-interface constraints or arbitrary design decisions about searchable fields\ncitation errors in articles, including mis-spellings of journal titles, authors' names and keywords, and incorrect and missing volume and issue numbers, page-numbers, and dates\nname-variants. Variations in spelling and transliteration, changes of name (particularly by women, on marriage), and variations in the completeness of the set of initials. These give rise to further risks of conflation and omission\nvariations between disciplines in relation to the inclusion of minor contributors in author-lists and the approaches adopted to citations\ntime-delay in the emergence of any impact at all. Many important ideas are 'ahead of their time', and their impact comes after the originator's career is over, and in many cases after their death. This gives rise to the risk that some researchers, particularly those focussed on 'pure research', will be starved of research funding throughout their careers\nbandwagon effects. These arise as researchers flock to a new 'idea in good standing' or fashion, or sculpt their focus or methods to those currently preferred by funding agencies or their assessors\nexistence of several over-lapping services, in particular Thomson/ISI Web of Knowledge, but also Elsevier's Scopus, open access prototypes such as CiteSeer, and most recently Google Scholar\nDespite these problems, the scope exists for citation analysis to be used constructively, as an aid in evaluation, with care taken to avoid or overcome the problems. For example, members of search and selection committees responsible for the appointment of key staff-members apply the technique, but incorporate subtlety, sophistication and insight into their work. This could be summed up with the epithet: 'if you can't be good, be careful'. One approach would be to apply both ISI and Google Scholar; and another would be for citation analysis to be undertaken openly, with the opportunity for researchers to submit additional information needed to fill out the picture.\nWhere impact assessment is institutionalised, however, as in such schemes as the U.K. RAE, the N.Z. PBRF and the Australian RQF, the likelihood of subtlety, sophistication and insight being applied is remote. These are political mechanisms aimed at focussing research funding on a small proportion of research centres within a small proportion of institutions. They are mass-production exercises, and are subject to heavily bureaucratic processes and definitions. Citation analysis used in such processes is inevitably largely mechanical.\nSimplistic application of raw citation-counts to evaluate the performance of individual researchers and of research groupings would disadvantage some disciplines, many research groupings, and many individual researchers. The IS discipline is highly exposed to the risk of simplistic application of citation analysis. For the many reasons identified above, citation-counts will suggest that most IS researchers fall short of the criteria demanded for the higher rankings.\nThe IS discipline in at least some countries is confronted by the spectre of reduced access to research funding, as a result of unreasonable application of citation analysis. Options available include representations to Thomson in order to achieve back-loading into ISI of large volumes of missing publications, and the development of the discipline's own comprehensive database of publication titles and reference lists (possibly building on the AIS eLibrary). At the very least, it appears to be necessary for a defensive measure to be adopted, in the form of a set of guidelines explaining how to utilise citation analysis to evaluate the impacts of articles, individuals and research groupings, including an exhortation that results never be applied without the affected individuals having the opportunity to review the data and submit supplementary information.\nThere may be a world in which the electronic library envisioned by Bush and Nelson has come into existence, in which all citations are counted, and in which venues are subject to a weighting scheme that reflects differences among disciplines and research-domains, and that is subject to progressive adaptation.\nBack in the real world, however, the electronic library is deficient in a great many ways. It is fragmented and very poorly cross-linked. And the interests of copyright-owners (including discipline associations but particularly the for-profit corporations that publish and exercise control over the majority of journals) are currently in building more and more substantial barriers rather than working towards integration. It remains to be seen whether that will be broken down by the communitarian open access movement, or by the new generation of corporations spear-headed by Google.\nIn the current and near-future contexts, citation analysis is a very blunt weapon, which should be applied only with great care, but which appears very likely to harm the interests of the less politically powerful disciplines such as IS.\nIn all cases in which URLs are shown, the web-page was last accessed in early April 2006.\nClarke R. (2006) 'Plagiarism by Academics: More Complex Than It Seems' J. Assoc. Infor. Syst. 7, 2 (February 2006)Cooper R.B., Blair D. & Pao M. (1993) 'Communicating MIS research: a citation study of journal influence' Infor. Processing & Mngt 29, 1 (Jan.-Feb. 1993) 113 - 127 Culnan M.J. (1978) 'Analysis of Information Usage Patterns of Academics and Practitioners in Computer Field - Citation Analysis of a National Conference Proceedings' Infor. Processing & Mngt 14, 6 (1978) 395-404\nGarfield E. (1964) ''Science Citation Index - A New Dimension in Indexing' Science 144, 3619 (8 May 1964) 649-654 , at http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/v7p525y1984.pdf\nThis Appendix provides comparisons of results obtained using the ISI General Search and ISI Cited Ref Search. A small number of academics were selected, from among expatriates, local researchers, North Americans and Europeans. All but one were selected because of their relatively uncommon names, in order to ease the difficulties of undertaking the searches and thereby achieve reasonable quality in the data, and no significance should be inferred from inclusion in or exclusion from this short list. One, this author, was selected because, for researchers with common names, full knowledge of the publications list makes it much easier to ensure accuracy.\nThe first three columns of the table show the number of citations for each author of articles that are in the ISI database, together with the count of those articles, and the largest citation-count found. (This data should correspond with that for the same researcher in Exhibits 3 and 4, but in practice there are many small variations, some caused by the 3-month gap between the studies that gave rise to those two tables and the study that gave rise to Exhibit 6). The next three columns show the same data for articles by the author that are not in the ISI database. The final two columns show the sum of the two Citation-Count columns, and the apparent Expansion Factor, computed by dividing the Total Citations by the Citation-Count for articles in the ISI database.\nExhibit 6: Thomson/ISI Cited Ref Search\nEph McLean (as E. and E.R.)\n(Eph Mclean, corrected)\nPaula Swatman (as P.M)\nGuy Gable (as G.G.)\nThis Appendix provides detailed comparisons of results for both ISI and Google Scholar. Seven Australian academics were selected, from among both expatriates and local researchers. All but one were selected because of their relatively uncommon names, in order to ease the difficulties of undertaking the searches and thereby achieve reasonable quality in the data, and no significance should be inferred from inclusion in or exclusion from this short list. One, this author, was selected because, for researchers with common names, full knowledge of the publications list makes it much easier to ensure accuracy.\nthe second column shows the count for each of those works as disclosed by Thomson/ISI;\nthe third column shows the nature of the venue in which the work was published, including the name of the journal where the work is not indexed by Thomson/ISI;\nin the bottom row, the total Thomson/ISI count shows the sum of the citation-counts for those 10 works. The figure in brackets shows the total for that author as displayed in Exhibit 3;\nin the bottom row, the total Google count for the 10 works is shown. The second figure is the total for the sub-set of papers that is also indexed by Thomson/ISI, and is therefore comparable with the first figure in the Thomson/ISI total.\nExhibit 7A: Thomson/ISI cf. Google - Iris Vessey\nExhibit 7B: Thomson/ISI cf. Google - Ron Weber\nExhibit 7C: Thomson/ISI cf. Google - Philip Yetton\nExhibit 7D: Thomson/ISI cf. Google - Peter Seddon\nExhibit 7E: Thomson/ISI cf. Google - Paula Swatman\nExhibit 7F: Thomson/ISI cf. Google - Roger Clarke\nExhibit 7G: Thomson/ISI cf. Google - Guy Gable\nThis paper has benefitted from comments from several colleagues on an earlier draft, in particular from Peter Seddon of the University of Melbourne, who identified a methodological flaw that needed to be addressed. Responsibility for the work rests, however, entirely with the author.\nCreated: 1 April 2006 - Last Amended: 29 April 2006 by Roger Clarke - Site Last Verified: 15 February 2009", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1043, "original_length": 79966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rohingyablogger.com/2017/01/racism-and-burman-privilege-why-suu.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VR2VPC2PYWKTOBVRW3UQQWP4X4T4ODN6", "length": 4389, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.rohingyablogger.com", "title": "Rohingya Blogger: Racism and the Burman privilege: Why Suu Kyi\u2019s government deserves no praise ' : ''; var month = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]; var month2 = [\"Jan\",\"Feb\",\"Mar\",\"Apr\",\"May\",\"Jun\",\"Jul\",\"Aug\",\"Sep\",\"Oct\",\"Nov\",\"Dec\"]; var day = postdate.split(\"-\")[2].substring(0,2); var m = postdate.split(\"-\")[1]; var y = postdate.split(\"-\")[0]; for(var u2=0;u2", "raw_content": "Racism and the Burman privilege: Why Suu Kyi\u2019s government deserves no praise\nBurma's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Pic: AP.\nWHEN a video was uploaded to Facebook in early January showing unarmed men being beaten by police officers in Burma, the authorities were quick to arrest the four culprits after realising the world was watching.\nThe unarmed victims were a part of the Rohingya Muslim minority group, who for decades have faced government persecution.\nBecause of the government\u2019s failure to address the plight of ethnic minorities, Burma\u2019s de facto leader Aung Sung Suu Kyi has been routinely criticised by the international community. Although she is the country\u2019s symbol of democracy, time and time again she fails to recognise the privilege of her ethnic Burman identity.\nThe villagers in the Rathedaung Township, where the beating took place, are no strangers to violence. What is depicted in the video is not unusual, but rather the treatment the Rohingya have come to expect. As the video shows, two officers, Pyae Phyo Thwin and Tay Zar Lin, whip and kick two unarmed men who sit passively on the floor among dozens of Rohingya villagers. Another officer, Zaw Myo Htike films the video as he passively smokes a cigarette, while Major Ye Htun Naing oversees the ordeal.\nAfter the four men were detained by the Home Affairs Ministry and the Burman police force, Suu Kyi said in a statement that the police officers \u201cwill be punished\u201d. But if it goes ahead, it will only be because Suu Kyi has bowed to international pressure.\nU Zaw Htay, a government spokesperson, assured reporters in Naypyidaw that the government stresses the need to act within the limits of the law, but similar forms of abuse are widespread. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch regularly denounce the government for its treatment of the Rohingya, but the government deflects all criticism.\nEven after Nobel Peace Prize laureates wrote an open letter labelling the treatment of the Rohingya as ethnic cleansing, the government gave scarce attention. The Rohingya are simply not a priority, with many not even recognised as citizens.\nThe international community rightly criticises Suu Kyi for failing to show support for the Rohingya, but few ask the question as to why she remains passive, especially as she is no stranger to political persecution. But the persecution levied towards Suu Kyi in prior decades was based on her activism, not her ethnic identity.\nSuu Kyi has failed ethnic minorities because she fails to recognise her own ethnic Burman privilege. The Burman are the dominant ethnic group in Burma who make up two-thirds of the population. \u2018Burmanness\u2019, as a result, is a privilege bestowed upon the majority of the population. Because the majority of the population are benefitting, the plight of unprivileged ethnic minorities is ignored.\nBurma is often viewed through an ethnic lens, but Suu Kyi fails to address the issue. A brief glance at past speeches in her book \u2018Freedom from Fear\u2019 (1991) is illuminating.\nShe once claimed;\n\u201cWe cannot have the attitude of \u2018\u2018I\u2019m Kachin,\u2019\u2019 \u2018\u2018I\u2019m Burman,\u2019\u2019 \u2018\u2018I\u2019m Shan.\u2019\u2019 We must have the attitude that we are all comrades in the struggle for democratic rights\u2026 Only then will we succeed. If we divide ourselves ethnically, we shall not achieve democracy for a long time.\u201d\nIt\u2019s a noble idea, but for the Rohingya who are systemically discriminated against based on ethnicity, ethnicity is important.\nRemaining blind to privilege has allowed for institutional dominance to continue throughout Burma\u2019s transition to democracy. As Burman civil society groups emerge, military operations in non-Burman states are on the rise. The space for the Burman is opening while the room for ethnic minorities is shrinking.\nRacism cannot end without recognition of privilege.\nAs long as the Burman continue to turn a blind eye, ethnic minorities will continue to suffer. Burman privilege exists in this Southeast Asian nation in the same way that white privilege exists in the United States.\nIf Suu Kyi continues to ignore ethnicity, the Burman will maintain a superior status in the country under a fa\u00e7ade of democratisation. In order for her to create a true democracy, racism against ethnic minorities must end. However, considering how Suu Kyi refuses to refer to the Rohingya by name, it may be worth waiting for a new government to form ethnic unity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 26475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roman-emperors.org/claudius.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:50Z", "digest": "sha1:BZBUNYZYP2R3MA4ILQKAX7OHAFUCMZSD", "length": 41177, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "www.roman-emperors.org", "title": "Roman Emperors - DIR Claudius", "raw_content": "Ti. Claudius Nero Germanicus (b. 10 BC, d. 54 A.D.; emperor, 41-54 A.D.) was the third emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. His reign represents a turning point in the history of the Principate for a number of reasons, not the least for the manner of his accession and the implications it carried for the nature of the office. During his reign he promoted administrators who did not belong to the senatorial or equestrian classes, and was later vilified by authors who did. He followed Caesar in carrying Roman arms across the English Channel into Britain but, unlike his predecessor, he initiated the full-scale annexation of Britain as a province, which remains today the most closely studied corner of the Roman Empire. His relationships with his wives and children provide detailed insights into the perennial difficulties of the succession problem faced by all Roman Emperors. His final settlement in this regard was not lucky: he adopted his fourth wife's son, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus, who was to reign catastrophically as Nero and bring the dynasty to an end. Claudius's reign, therefore, was a mixture of successes and failures that leads into the last phase of the Julio-Claudian line.\nEarly Life (10 BC - 41 A.D. )\nClaudius was born on 1 August 10 BC at Lugdunum in Gaul, into the heart of the Julio-Claudian dynasty: he was the son of Drusus Claudius Nero, the son of Augustus's wife Livia, and Antonia, the daughter of Mark Antony. [[1]] His uncle, Tiberius, went on to become emperor in AD 14 and his brother Germanicus was marked out for succession to the purple when, in AD 4, he was adopted by Tiberius. It might be expected that Claudius, as a well-connected imperial prince, would have enjoyed the active public life customary for young men of his standing but this was not the case. In an age that despised weakness, Claudius was unfortunate enough to have been born with defects. He limped, he drooled, he stuttered and was constantly ill. [[2]] His family members mistook these physical debilities as reflective of mental infirmity and generally kept him out of the public eye as an embarrassment. A sign of this familial disdain is that he remained under guardianship, like a woman, even after he had reached the age of majority. Suetonius, in particular, preserves comments of Antonia, his mother, and Livia, his grandmother, which are particularly cruel in their assessment of the boy. From the same source, however, it emerges that Augustus suspected that there was more to this \"idiot\" than met the eye.[[3]] Nevertheless, Claudius spent his entire childhood and youth in almost complete seclusion. The normal rites de passage of an imperial prince came and went without official notice, and Claudius received no summons to public office or orders to command troops on the frontiers.[[4]] When he assumed the toga virilis, for instance, he was carried to the Capitol in a litter at night; the normal procedure was to be led into the Forum by one's father or guardian in full public view. How he spent the voluminous free time of his youth is revealed by his later character: he read voraciously. He became a scholar of considerable ability and composed works on all subjects in the liberal arts, especially history; he was the last person we know of who could read Etruscan. [[5]] These skills, and the knowledge of governmental institutions he acquired from studying history, were to stand him in good stead when he came to power.\nIt should not be forgotten that Claudius's wing of the family suffered terribly in the internal struggles for succession that racked the imperial house. His father died on campaign when Claudius was only one year old, and his beloved brother, Germanicus, succumbed under suspicious circumstances in AD 19. His only other sibling to reach adulthood, Livilla, became involved with Sejanus and paid the ultimate price in the wake of the latter's fall from grace in AD 31. Through all this turmoil Claudius survived, primarily through being ignored as an embarrassment and an idiot.[[6]]\nClaudius's fortunes changed somewhat when his unstable nephew, Gaius (Caligula), came to power in the spring of 37 A.D. Gaius, it seems, liked to use his bookish, frail uncle as the butt of cruel jokes and, in keeping with this pattern of behavior, promoted him to a suffect consulship on 1 July 37 A.D. At 46 years of age, it was Claudius's first public office. Despite this sortie into public life, he seemed destined for a relatively quiet and secluded dotage when, in January 41, events overtook him.[[7]]\nAccession (24-25 January, 41 A.D.)\nArguably the most important period of Claudius's reign was its first few hours. The events surrounding his accession are worthy of detailed description, since they revealed much about the true nature of the Augustan Principate.\nIn the early afternoon of 24 January 41 A.D., the emperor Gaius was attending a display of dancers in a theater near the palace. Claudius was present. Shortly before lunch time, Claudius took his leave and the emperor decided that he, too, would adjourn for a bath. As Gaius was making his way down an isolated palace corridor he was surrounded and cut down by discontented members of his own bodyguard. In the aftermath of the assassination -- the first open murder of a Roman emperor -- there was widespread panic and confusion. The German elements of the emperor's bodyguard, who were fiercely loyal to their chief, went on the rampage and killed indiscriminately. Soldiers of the larger Praetorian Guard began looting the imperial palace. According to the best-known tradition, some Guardsmen found Claudius cowering behind a curtain and, on the spot, they declared him their emperor and carried him off to their camp. In this story, a hapless Claudius falls into power entirely as a result of accident, and very much against his will. It is not hard to see why, with its implicit theme of recusatio imperii, it is the story of his accession that Claudius himself favored.[[8]] Vestiges, however, can be traced of another tradition that paints a somewhat different picture. In this version, the Guardsmen meet in their camp and discuss the situation facing them in light of Gaius's murder. Their pleasant, city-based terms of military service were in jeopardy. They needed an emperor. Fixing their intentions on Claudius as the only surviving mature member of the Julio-Claudian house, they sent out a party of troops to find him and bring him back to their camp so he could be acclaimed emperor, which is what happened. In this story, the elevation of Claudius to the purple was a purposeful plan on the part of the soldiers, even if Claudius remains a passive and reluctant partner in the whole process.[[9]]\nThe possibility has to be entertained that Claudius was a far more active participant in his own elevation than either of these traditions let on. There is just reason to suspect that he may even have been involved in planning the murder of Gaius -- his departure from the theater minutes before the assassination appears altogether too fortuitous. These possibilities, however, must remain pure speculation, since the ancient evidence offers nothing explicit in the way of support for them. On the other hand, we can hardly expect them to, given the later pattern of events. The whole issue of Claudius's possible involvement in the death of Gaius and his own subsequent acclamation by the Praetorian Guard must, therefore, remain moot.[[10]]\nDespite the circumstances that brought him there, the hours following Claudius's arrival at the Praetorian Camp and his acceptance as emperor by the Senate are vital ones for the history of the Principate. Events could have taken a very different course, but that they worked out as they did speaks volumes as to how far seven decades of the Augustan Principate had removed Rome from the possibility of a return to the so-called free Republic.\nNews of Gaius's death prompted a meeting of the Senate. Initially, there was talk of declaring the Republic restored and dispensing with emperors altogether. Then, however, various senators began proposing that they be chosen as the next princeps. Debate was in progress when news reached the senators that the Guard had made the decision for them: Claudius, the soldiers' choice, was sitting in the Praetorian Camp.[[11]] The main historical difficulty in what happened next is due to confusion in Josephus's account (which is the fullest). In one version, the Senate sent two tribunes to the Camp to demand that Claudius step down. Once in the Camp, however, the tribunes were cowed by the ardent support for Claudius among the soldiers and instead requested that he come to the Senate to be ratified as emperor. In Josephus's alternate version, however, Herod Agrippa is summoned by the senators and employed as an envoy between the Camp and the Senate.[[12]] Clearly, Josephus is conveying two traditions about these events, one Roman (featuring the tribunes), the other Jewish (highlighting the role of Herod Agrippa). Suetonius, naturally enough, follows the Roman tradition, as does Dio in his main account; interestingly, the latter shows awareness of some participation on the part of Herod Agrippa in a later passage.[[13]]\nRegardless of how the negotiations were conducted, the Senate quickly realized it was powerless in the presence of several thousand armed men supporting Claudius's candidacy. The impotence that the esteemed council had experienced time and again when dealing with the military dynasts of the Late Republic was once more revealed to all, and the meeting dissolved with the fate of the Empire left undecided. When the Senate met again later that night in the Temple of Jupiter Victor, it found its numbers much depleted, since many had fled the city to their country estates. The senators assessed their military strength: they had three or four urban cohorts under the command of the City Prefect, numbering perhaps 3,000 men. With these, they occupied the Forum and Palatine. Plans were laid to arm some ex-slaves to provide reinforcements. By these actions the senators were accepting that supreme power in post-Augustan Rome could be achieved only by military force; all questions of legal niceties were irrelevant. But the Senate could not control their troops -- they all deserted to the Praetorian Guard, with whom they shared the Camp.[[14]]\nNow completely powerless, the senators hurried off to the Praetorian Camp to pay their respects to Claudius. On 25 January 41 A.D. Claudius was formally invested with all the powers of the princeps, becoming Ti. Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus. (Since Claudius had no legal claim to it whatsoever, the appearance of \"Caesar\" in his imperial name marks the first step in this word's transmutation from a family name to a title denoting ruler, and so begins a tradition that stretches into the modern era with \"Kaiser,\" \"Czar,\" and possibly \"Shah.\")\nThese events have been treated in some detail because of their immense historical importance. Gaius was the first emperor of Rome to be openly murdered, and Claudius's accession marks the first overt and large-scale intrusion of the military into post-Augustan politics. The basic fact of the Principate, which had always been implicit in the Augustan settlement but heretofore carefully disguised, was now made plain: the emperor's position ultimately rested not on consensus but on the swords of the soldiers who paid him homage. From one perspective, the Principate had been revealed for what it truly was -- an exercise in managing the military's loyalties, and not a form of government rooted in law and consensus. The Senate, in attempting to block Claudius with troops of their own, had acquiesced in this structure of power. For ever afterward, emperors sat on the throne on the sufferance of the troops they commanded, and a loss of army loyalty necessarily entailed a loss of power, usually accompanied by the loss of the incumbent's life. But the harder lessons in these realities lay in the future; for the moment order had been restored, and Claudius embarked on his reign in relative security.\nThe Early Years: Britain, Freedmen, and Messalina (AD 41 - 48)\nAmong Claudius's first acts was the apprehension and execution of Gaius's assassins. Whatever his opinion of their actions, politics and pietas required that Claudius not be seen to condone men who murdered an emperor and a member of his own family.[[15]] He also displayed immediate understanding of the centrality of the military to his position and sought to create a military image for himself that his prior sheltered existence had denied him. Preparations got under way soon after his accession for a major military expedition into Britain, perhaps sparked by an attempted revolt of the governor of Dalmatia, L. Arruntius Camillus Scribonianus, in 42 A.D.. The invasion itself, spearheaded by four legions, commenced in the summer of 43 and was to last for decades, ultimately falling short of the annexation of the whole island (if indeed that was Claudius's final objective at the outset). This move marked the first major addition to the territory of the Roman empire since the reign of Augustus.[[16]] Claudius himself took part in the campaign, arriving in the war zone with an entourage of ex-consuls in the late summer of 43 A.D. After a parade at Camulodunum (Colchester) to impress the natives, he returned to Rome to celebrate a triumph in 44 A.D. His military credentials had been firmly established.[[17]]\nThe sources are united in portraying Claudius as a dupe to his imperial freedmen advisors as well as to his wives. It is possible that the hostile stance of the elite toward Claudius extended back into his reign -- he was, after all, a usurper who had been foisted on the aristocrats by the soldiers. If so, Claudius's reliance on his freedmen may have stemmed from this circumstance, in that the ex-slaves were (as far as he was concerned) more trustworthy than the sullen aristocracy. For whatever reasons, there is no doubt that Claudius's reign is the first era of the great imperial freedman. To be sure, the secretariat had existed before Claudius and members of it had achieved some prominence (notably Helicon and Callistus under Gaius), but the rise of powerful individuals like Narcissus, Polybius, and Pallas was a distinctive mark of Claudius's reign. The power of these men was demonstrated early on when the emperor chose Narcissus as his envoy to the legions as they hesitated to embark on their invasion of Britain.[[18]] According to our sources, the freedmen were frequently to exert less beneficent influences throughout Claudius's reign.\nIn 38 A.D. Claudius had married Valeria Messalina, a scion of a noble house with impressive familial connections. Messalina bore him a daughter (Octavia, born in 39) and a son (Britannicus, born in 41): she was therefore the mother of the heir-apparent and enjoyed influence for that reason. In the sources, Messalina is portrayed as little more than a pouting adolescent nymphomaniac who holds wild parties and arranges the deaths of former lovers or those who scorn her advances; and all this while her cuckolded husband blunders on in blissful ignorance. Recently, attempts have been made to rehabilitate Messalina as an astute player of court politics who used sex as a weapon, but in the end we have little way of knowing the truth.[[19]] What we can say is that either her love of parties (on the adolescent model) or her byzantine scheming (on the able courtier model) brought her down. While Claudius was away in Ostia in AD 48, Messalina had a party in the palace in the course of which a marriage ceremony was performed (or playacted) between herself and a consul-designate, C. Silius. Whatever the intentions behind it, the political ramifications of this folly were sufficiently grave to cause the summary execution of Messalina, Silius, and assorted hangers-on (orchestrated, tellingly, by the freedman Narcissus).[[20]] Claudius was now without a wife.\nThe Rise of Agrippina and Claudius's Death (48-54 A.D.)\nIn our sources, the death of Messalina is presented as initiating a scramble among the freedmen, each wishing to place his preferred candidate at Claudius's side as the new empress. In the end, it was Pallas who prevailed when he convinced Claudius to marry Agrippina the Younger. The marriage took place within months of Messalina's execution. Agrippina was a colorful figure with extensive and far-reaching imperial connections: she was the daughter of Claudius's brother, Germanicus, and a sister of Gaius Caligula, by whom she had been exiled for involvement in the conspiracy of Gaetulicus; moreover, she had been married before. She therefore brought to the marriage with Claudius -- which necessitated a change in the law to allow uncles to marry their brothers' daughters -- a son, L. Domitius Ahenobarbus. Agrippina's ambitions for this son proved the undoing of Claudius.[[21]]\nThe years between his marriage to Agrippina in 48 and his death in 54 were difficult ones for Claudius. Whether or not sources are right to portray him as a dupe of his wives and freedmen throughout his reign, there can be little doubt that Agrippina's powerful personality dominated Claudius's last years. Her position, openly influential in a manner unlike any previous empress, was recognized by those attuned to imperial politics, and she appears more and more prominently in official inscriptions and coins. In 50 the Senate voted her the title \"Augusta,\" the first prominent imperial woman to hold this title since Livia -- and the latter had only held it after Augustus's death. She greeted foreign embassies to the emperor at Rome from her own tribunal, and those greetings were recorded in official documents; she also wore a gold-embroidered military cloak at official functions. It is a sign of her overt influence that a new colony on the Rhine bore her name.[[22]]Agrippina's powerful position facilitated the advancement of her son Domitius and was, in turn, strengthened by it. Claudius already had a natural son, Britannicus, who was still a minor. Domitius, at 13, was three years older. Now Claudius began to advance Domitius through various signs of favor, the most important being his adoption as Claudius's son on 25 February AD 50. Henceforth Domitius was known as Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar and known to posterity simply as \"Nero\". But Claudius openly advanced Nero in other ways, too: the emperor held the consulship in 51, which was the year Nero took the \"toga of manhood,\" and that event was itself staged several months before the customary age for Roman teenagers; Nero was granted imperium proconsulare outside the city, addressed the Senate, appeared with Claudius at circus games (while Britannicus appeared still in the toga of a minor), and was hailed as \"Leader of the Youth\" (princeps iuventutis) on the coinage; in AD 53 Nero married Claudius's daughter, Octavia.[[23]] All of these are sure signs of preference in the ever-unstable imperial succession schemes. The main difficulty for modern scholars lies in how to explain Claudius's favoring of Nero over his natural son, Britannicus; the reasons remain a matter of intense debate.[[24]]\nNo matter what the reasons were, there can be little doubt that Nero, despite his tender age, had been clearly marked out as Claudius's successor. Agrippina, according to Tacitus, now decided it was time to dispose of Claudius to allow Nero to take over. The ancient accounts are confused -- as is habitual in the cases of hidden and dubious deaths of emperors -- but their general drift is that Claudius was poisoned with a treated mushroom, that he lingered a while and had to be poisoned a second time before dying on 13 October 54 A.D. At noon that same day, the sixteen-year-old Nero was acclaimed emperor in a carefully orchestrated piece of political theater. Already familiar to the army and the public, he faced no serious challenges to his authority.[[25]]\nClaudius and the Empire\nThe invasion and annexation of Britain was by far the most important and significant event in Claudius's reign. But several other issues deserve attention: his relationship with and treatment of the aristocracy, his management of the provinces and their inhabitants, and his judicial practices, and his building activities. Before looking at these subjects, however, we should note that the long-lived notion that Claudius initiated a coherent policy of centralization in the Roman Empire -- evidenced in the centralization of provincial administration and judicial actions, in the creation of a departmental bureaucracy, his interference in financial affairs, and so on -- has been decisively disproven by a recent biography of Claudius.[[26]] Whatever actions Claudius took in regard to the various wings of government, he did so without any unifying policy of centralization in mind.\nClaudius's relationship with the Senate did not get off to a good start -- given the nature of his succession and the early revolt of Scribonianus with its ensuing show trials -- and it seems likely that distrust of the aristocracy is what impelled Claudius to elevate the role of his freedmen. During his reign, however, Claudius made efforts to conciliate Rome's leading council, but he also embarked on practices that redounded to his detriment, especially those of sponsoring the entrance men considered unworthy into the Order and hearing delicate cases behind closed doors (in camera). In the last analysis, the figures speak for themselves: 35 senators and several hundred Knights were driven to suicide or executed during the reign. The posthumous vilification of Claudius in the aristocratic tradition also bespeaks a deep bitterness and indicates that, ultimately, Claudius's relationship with the Senate showed little improvement over time. His reviving and holding the censorship in 47-48 is typical of the way the relationship between Senate and emperor misfired: Claudius, no doubt, thought he was adhering to ancient tradition, but the emperor-censor only succeeded in eliciting odium from those he was assessing.[[27]]\nClaudius was remembered (negatively) by tradition as being noticeably profligate in dispensing grants of Roman citizenship to provincials; he also admitted \"long-haired\" Gauls into the senatorial order, to the displeasure of the snobbish incumbents. Both of these practices demonstrate his concern for fair play and good government for the provinces, despite his largely sedentary reign: under Claudius are attributed the first issues of standing orders (mandata) from emperor to governor.[[28]] In the organization of the provinces, Claudius appears to have preferred direct administration over client kingship. Under him the kingdoms of Mauretania, Lycia, Noricum, and Thrace were converted into provinces. Stable kingdoms, such as Bosporus and Cilicia, were left untouched. A good example of the pattern is Herod Agrippa I. This client prince had grown up at Rome and had been awarded tetrarchic lands in Galilee by Gaius (Caligula). As we saw above, he had been involved in the accession of Claudius and, as a reward for services rendered, he was granted Judaea and Samaria in addition to his former holdings. He fell from grace, however, when he suspiciously extended Jerusalem's walls and invited other eastern kings to a conference at Tiberias. He died suddenly in 44 A.D., after which his former kingdom again came under direct Roman rule.[[29]]\nOne feature of Claudius's reign that the sources particularly criticize is his handling of judicial matters. While he was certainly diligent in attending to hearings and court proceedings -- he was constantly present in court and heard cases even during family celebrations and festal days -- the sources accuse him of interfering unduly with cases, of not listening to both sides of a case, of making ridiculous and/or savage rulings, and of hearing delicate cases in closed-door private sessions with only his advisors present. The most celebrated and infamous of the latter cases is that of Valerius Asiaticus, the Gallic ex-consul and one-time friend of Claudius, who fell from grace in 47, reputedly at Messalina's instigation. His case was heard in the emperor's bedroom and Asiaticus was forced to suicide. Even if a survey of surviving rulings by Claudius do not show him making silly decisions, his judicial practices caught such attention that Seneca's Apocolocyntosis ends with a courtroom scene with Claudius as the accused: he is not allowed to make his defence, is convicted, and condemned to be a powerless courtroom clerk. Such an image must have been most pleasing to the senatorial imagination.[[30]]\nFinally, there is Claudius's building activities. Public building was de rigueur for Roman emperors, and ancient accounts of individual reigns routinely include mention of imperial munificence. Matters hydraulic account for Claudius's greatest constructional achievements, in the form of a new aqueduct for the city of Rome, a new port at Portus near Ostia, and the draining of the Fucine Lake. The sources are at pains to highlight the almost catastrophic outcome of the latter project, but its scale cannot be denied. Suetonius's assessment that \"his public works were grandiose and necessary rather than numerous\" is entirely correct[[31]].\nRobert Graves' fictional characterization of Claudius as an essentially benign man with a keen intelligence has tended to dominate the wider public's view of this emperor. Close study of the sources, however, reveals a somewhat different kind of man. In addition to his scholarly and cautious nature, he had a cruel streak, as suggested by his addiction to gladiatorial games and his fondness for watching his defeated opponents executed.[[32]] He conducted closed-door (in camera ) trials of leading citizens that frequently resulted in their ruin or deaths -- an unprecedented and tyrannical pattern of behavior. He had his wife Messalina executed, and he personally presided over a kangaroo court in the Praetorian Camp in which many of her hangers-on lost their lives. He abandoned his own son Britannicus to his fate and favored the advancement of Nero as his successor. While he cannot be blamed for the disastrous way Nero's rule turned out, he must take some responsibility for putting that most unsuitable youth on the throne. At the same time, his reign was marked by some notable successes: the invasion of Britain, stability and good government in the provinces, and successful management of client kingdoms. Claudius, then, is a more enigmatic figure than the other Julio-Claudian emperors: at once careful, intelligent, aware and respectful of tradition, but given to bouts of rage and cruelty, willing to sacrifice precedent to expediency, and utterly ruthless in his treatment of those who crossed him. Augustus's suspicion that there was more to the timid Claudius than met the eye was more than fully borne out by the events of his unexpected reign.\nBIBLIOGRAPHY (see also the bibliographies for Gaius and Nero)\nBarrett, A. A. Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire. New Haven, 1996.\nBraund, D. Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History, 31 BC - A.D. 68. London, 1985.\nEck, W., A. Caballos, and F. Fern\u00e1ndez. Das Senatusconsultum de Cn. Pisone Patre. Munich, 1996.\nEhrhardt, C. \"Messalina and the Succession to Claudius.\" Antichthon 12 (1978): 51-77.\nSherk, R. K. The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian. Cambridge, 1988.\nLevick, B. Claudius. New Haven, 1990.\nMomigliano, A. Claudius: The Emperor and his Achievement.2 Oxford, 1961.\nSchwartz, D. R. Agrippa I: The Last King of Judaea. T\u00fcbingen, 1990.\nScramuzza, V. M. The Emperor Claudius. London, 1940.\nSherwin-White, A. N. The Roman Citizenship2. Oxford, 1973.\nSmallwood, E. M. Documents Illustrating the Principates of Gaius, Claudius, and Nero. Cambridge, 1967.\nStrocka, V.M. (ed.) Die Regierungszeit des Claudius. Mainz 1993.\nSutherland, C. H. V. Coinage in Roman Imperial Policy. London, 1951.\n________. The Roman Imperial Coinage. Vol. 1,2 London, 1982. (= RIC)\nTalbert, R. J. A. The Senate of Imperial Rome. Princeton, 1984.\nVivo, A. de. Claudio e Tacito: Storia e codificazione letteraria. Naples, 1980.\nWellesley, K. \"Can You Trust Tacitus?\" GaR 1 (1954): 13-33.\nWiseman, T.P. Flavius Josephus: Death of an Emperor. Exeter 1991.\n[[1]] The main ancient literary sources for Claudius's reign are: Tac. Ann. 11-12; Dio 59.1-60(61).4; Seneca, Apocolocyntosis; Suet. Claudius. Supplementary information is found in Josephus, and inscriptions and coins are collected in Smallwood, Documents (many of the latter's entries are translated in Braund or Sherk). Birth: Suet. Claud. 2.1.\n[[2]] Defects: Suet. Claud. 2.1-2. Claudius may have suffered from cerebral palsy, but medical diagnoses in the absence of physical remains and at a distance of 2,000 years are not the soundest.\n[[3]] Antonia, reports Suetonius [Claud. 3.2], used to call him \"a half-formed monster\" and berated fools as \"more stupid than my son Claudius.\" These assessments may well derive from the imperial archives, to which Suetonius had access. For citations from Augustus's correspondence that reveal a more balanced view of the young Claudius, see Suet. Claud. 4. Recent confirmation of Claudius's low status in the dynasty comes from the SC de Cn. Pisone Patre (AD 20): in the lengthy praises of members of Germanicus's family, Claudius, Germanicus's brother, is barely mentioned (line 148) ; see W. Eck et al., Das Senatusconsultum de Cn. Pisone Patre (Munich, 1996), ll. 136-50.\n[[4]] He did hold an augural priesthood, but nothing else. The flimsiness of Augustus's bequest to him, in naming him an heir in the third degree among complete strangers, is a further indication of his almost total marginalization from the center of the dynasty, see Suet. Claud. 4.7.\n[[5]] Suet. Claud. 3.1, 41-42. Among his works, which were composed in Greek and Latin and none of which survive, were: 43 books of Roman history, 21 books of Etruscan history, and 8 on Carthaginian; a book on philology; a rhetorical defence of Cicero; and an autobiography in 8 books. The latter have been fictionalized by Robert Graves in his masterly novels \"I, Claudius\" and \"Claudius the God.\"\n[[6]] Suetonius (Claud.5-6) records various incidental honors and respects paid to him from various quarters, such as his representation on two occasions of the equestrian order as their patron. However, as he was an under-utilized and therefore accessible member of the imperial house, it would have been more surprising had some party not attempted to use him as an avenue of approach into more powerful inner circles.\n[[7]] Consulship and rough treatment under Gaius: Suet. Claud. 7-9.\n[[8]] Suet. Claud. 10; Dio 60.1.2-3a. Josephus (AJ 19.212-20) is largely in agreement, but unwittingly contradicts an earlier passage in his work (see next note). Another possibility (see Scramuzza, 56-57) is that Josephus in AJ 19.212-20 is portraying the sequel of the events he describes in AJ 10.162-65.\n[[9]] The tradition of the \"active Guard\" is preserved in Jos. AJ 19.162-65.\n[[10]] The danger here is that we enter a pattern of circular reasoning: because Claudius was involved in the assassination and his own accession, he suppressed the evidence and put out the \"hapless accession\" story; therefore, the absence of evidence for his active involvement is to be read as proof of it! Levick (29-39) skirts this sort of logic, but falls short of endorsing it.\n[[11]] Suet. Claud. 10.1-3; Dio 60.1.3a; Jos. AJ 19.229, BJ 2.206-7.\n[[12]] Tribunes: Jos. AJ 19.229-35; Herod Agrippa: Jos. AJ 19.239-45.\n[[13]] Suet. Claud. 10.3; Dio 60.1.4 (tribunes), 60.8.2 (allusion to Herod Agrippa's role). Josephus's account of these Roman events, in fact, is part of an extended, self-contained subdivision of his AJ that could easily be entitled \"The Adventures of Herod Agrippa Among the Romans.\" There is just cause to doubt the degree of prominence he affords Herod in these events, but that the Jewish prince played some role is hardly to be doubted.\n[[14]] Depleted Senate: Jos. AJ 19.248-49. Senatorial military strength and actions: Suet. Claud. 10.4; Jos. AJ 19.188, 242, BJ 2.205. Desertions: Dio 60.1.4; Jos. AJ 19.259-60, BJ 2.211-12. The most likely reason for the sudden desertion of the Senate's troops late on 24 January was not fear of a restored Republic or an unwillingness to fight their comrades (as Josephus claims in the AJ and BJ, locc. citt., respectively), but the announcement on the evening of that day of Claudius's huge donative to the urban and provincial troops (Jos. AJ 19.247, Suet. Claud. loc. cit.).\n[[15]] Suet. Claud. 11.1; Dio 60.3.4; Jos. AJ 19.268-71. Chaerea had virtually ensured his own death by insisting that Claudius be killed along with Gaius.\n[[16]] Scribonianus's rebellion: Suet. Claud. 13.2; Dio 60.15-16; Tac. Hist. 1.89, 2.75, Ann. 12.52.2. The invasion of Britain has been analyzed in minute detail by many British scholars: e.g., S. Frere, Britannia,3 (London, 1987), 16-80; J. Peddie, Invasion: The Roman Conquest of Britain (New York, 1987); P. Salway, Roman Britain (Oxford, 1981), 65-99; G. Webster and D. Dudley, The Roman Conquest of Britain,2 (London, 1973). Claudius's initial objective may have been the annexation of the southern shoreline only; see Levick, 137-48.\n[[17]] The bombastic inscription from his (lost) triumphal arch, now in a courtyard of the Musei Capitolini in Rome, declares that \"he received the surrender of eleven British kings who had been defeated without loss in battle, and was the first to bring barbarian peoples from across the Ocean under the sway of the Roman people\" (CIL 6.920 = ILS 216). There were other military actions. Claudius inherited a war in Mauretania from Gaius's reign and, once fighting subsided, organized the former kingdom into two provinces (Mauretania Tingitana and Caesariensis) perhaps as early as AD 43; he subdued trouble in Lycia and annexed the region as a province, probably around AD 47 or 48; and he saw fighting along the Rhine and Danube frontiers; for all this, see Levick, 149-61. By the end of his reign, he had been hailed as imperator twenty-seven times (see, e.g., CIL 6.1256 = ILS 218), more than any emperor until Constantine the Great.\n[[18]] On the imperial freedmen, see Levick, 53-79; Scramuzza, 5-34. Claudius's relations with the aristocracy: Levick, 93-103. Narcissus and the legions: Dio 60.19.2-3. A classic example of the growing power of the freedmen is Claudius's abolition of the senatorial post of quaestor Ostiensis and its replacement with a freedman procurator portus Ostiensis in 44; see Suet. Claud. 24.2.\n[[19]] Messalina was Claudius's third wife: previous unions with Plautia Urgulanilla and Aelia Paetina had failed for various reasons; see Suet. Claud. 26.1-2. Messalina's influence is indicated by her appearance on the obverse of coins of Claudius's reign (where one would expect the head of the emperor), or in the cameo now in Paris depicting Messalina, Octavia, and Britannicus. Messalina's excesses are reflected in such sources as Sen. Apoc., passim and Juv. Sat. 6 and 10.\n[[20]] Messalina's fall: Tac. Ann. 11.26-37; Suet. Claud. 26; Dio 60(61).31.1-5; Sen. Oct. 257-61.\n[[21]] Timing of marriage: Tac. Ann. 12.6-8. Agrippina's life and connections: Barrett, Agrippina, 1-94 (before marriage to Claudius).\n[[22]] Augusta: Dio 60(61).33.2a. Greeting ambassadors: Tac. Ann. 12.37.5; Dio 60(61).33.7. Cloak: Pliny HN 33.63, Dio 60(61).33.3. Colony: Tac. Ann. 12.27.1-2. Tacitus, typically, contrives the most biting aphorism to describe Agrippina's ascendancy: \"she presided over an almost masculine servitude\" (adductum et quasi virile servitium -- Ann. 12.7.5).\n[[23]] Adoption: Tac. Ann. 12.25; Suet. Claud. 27, Nero 7; Dio 60(61).32.22. Toga virilis and public appearances: Tac. Ann. 12.41-42; Suet. Nero 7; Dio 60(61).32.5, 33.2c, 33.9. Imperium proconsulare: Tac. Ann. 12.41.2. Princeps Iuventutis: C.H.V. Sutherland, Coinage in Roman Imperial Policy (London, 1951), pp.143-44 and id., RIC 126 (nos. 75. 80, 82) (many of these coins also celebrate Agrippina independently of Claudius -- e.g., Sutherland, Coinage, 146 and id., RIC, 125 [no. 75] -- a sure sign of her overt influence). Marriage to Octavia: Tac. Ann. 12.58.1; Dio 60(61).33.11.\n[[24]] Tacitus is unequivocal in attributing Nero's advancement to Agrippina's efforts (studiis matris at Ann. 12.9.2). Modern attempts to counter this judgment (e.g., Scramuzza, 91-92) are unconvincing, though Barrett's (Agrippina, 95-142) portrayal of Agrippina and Claudius acting in concert has its attractions. Tacitus portrays Pallas, Agrippina's ally, as persuading Claudius to advance Nero for reasons of state, slyly appealing to the sort of historical precedents he knew would appeal to Claudius's antiquarian sensibilities (Tac. Ann. 12.25). It is noteworthy that in his epigraphically preserved speech to Lugdunum (dated to AD 48, and thus before Nero was a factor), Claudius had referred to just such precedents regarding monarchic succession (Smallwood, Documents, no. 369.8-27). Levick (69-79) argues for the \"pairing\" of Britannicus and Nero in a joint-succession scheme she sees extending back to Augustus. However, her \"dynastic collegiality\" format for the imperial succession is rather thin for evidence and, tellingly, was not realized even once when power changed hands in the first century AD. Barrett (Agrippina, loc. cit.) argues that Claudius intended to promote Nero from the outset, since the prince could claim direct descent from Augustus and that this claim buttressed his own regime. This position seems a little stretched, since Claudius must have known that to do so would result in Britannicus's death (as indeed it did, within weeks of Nero's accession; see Tac. Ann. 13.15-17). Another possibility, little more than mentioned in the modern authorities but entirely possible, is that Claudius saw some flaws in Britannicus that turned him toward Nero (Tac. Ann. 13.16.5).\n[[25]] Death of Claudius: Tac. Ann. 12.64-67; Suet. Claud. 43-44; Dio 60(61).34.1-3. Scramuzza (92-93) believes that Claudius died naturally, and Barrett (Agrippina, 139-42) leans in the same direction, on the basis that the confused and conflicting accounts of our sources make murder unlikely. Levick (76-77), while stating that murder cannot be proven, nonetheless finds Claudius's death altogether too timely to have been natural. The aging emperor had fallen ill frequently in the years leading up to his death, but the fortuitous timing of his death is indeed highly suspicious.\n[[26]] Proponents of centralization: e.g., Momigliano, passim; H.H. Scullard, From the Gracchi to Nero5 (London, 1985), 292-95. Disproven: Levick, 81-91.\n[[27]] Consulting the House: Claudius's record of attendance at meetings of the Senate is among best for the emperors; see R.J.A. Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (Princeton, 1984), 174-84, esp. 176-77. Conciliatory gestures: he declared amnesty for senators implicated in Gaius's death (Dio 60.3.5-4.2); he adopted a general demeanor of deference to the House (Suet. Claud. 12.1-2, 35.1); he rose to greet consuls and dressed unassumingly for meetings (Dio 60.6.1, 9); and so on. Unworthy senators: e.g., Tac. Ann. 11.20.4-21.4. Numbers of dead: Sen., Apoc. 14.1 (who numbers 35 senators and 221 equites); Suet. Claud. 29.2 (35 senators and over 300 equites). Censorship: Tac. Ann. 11.13, Suet. Claud. 16.\n[[28]] Excessive grants of citizenship: Sen. Apoc. 3.3; his grant of citizenship en masse to the Alpine tribe of the Anauni (CIL 14.85 = ILS 206) is a particularly famous example. Levick (165) has pointed out, however, that in the indices of provincial citizens \"Claudii\" are far outweighed by \"Iulii\" or \"Flavii,\" suggesting that the tradition has exaggerated this tendency of Claudius's; see also see A.N. Sherwin-White The Roman Citizenship2 (Oxford, 1973), 237-50. Admission of Gauls to the senate: Tac. Ann. 11.23-25; Smallwood, Documents, no. 369 (see also K. Wellesley, \"Can You Trust Tacitus?\", GaR 1[1954]: 13-33). Mandata: Levick, 164.\n[[29]] Career of Herod Agrippa I: D.R. Schwartz, Agrippa I: The Last King of Judaea (T\u00fcbingen, 1990); above, nn. 12-13.\n[[30]] Hearing cases: Suet. Claud. 14, Dio 60.4.3, 17.1. Suetonius (Claud. 14-15) sums up his judicial failings with many examples; see also Dio 60.5.6-7. Closed hearings: Tac. Ann. 11.2.1, 13.4.2. Valerius Asiaticus and survey of rulings: Levick, 61-63 (with sources in notes) and 123-26, respectively. Seneca: Apoc. 12-14 (where there are many echoes of Suetonius's charges).\n[[31]] Suet. Claud. 20 (quote at 20.1: opera magna potius et necessaria quam multa perfecit). See also F.C. Bourne, The Public Works of the Julio-Claudians and Flavians (Princeton, 1946), 42-48; Levick, 108-11.\n[[32]] Cruelty: Suet. Claud. 34.\nCopyright 1998, Garrett G. Fagan. 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But that doesn\u2019t mean you just give up on a young actor if you feel they don\u2019t possess the necessary raw\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 169.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.samalaoui.com/2014/01/10/2013-year-end-investment-commentary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:44Z", "digest": "sha1:JS4XISXFFON6A2TS5BLGHXORDQKSWVMW", "length": 17237, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.samalaoui.com", "title": "2013 Year-End Investment Commentary - Sam Alaoui's Blog", "raw_content": "The last month of 2013 looked much like the year overall: U.S. stocks were strongly positive, and international developed markets also gained. At the other end of the spectrum, bonds declined as yields rose and emerging-markets stocks and bonds were generally negative. For the full year, the Vanguard 500 Index (our S&P 500 proxy) was up 32%\u2014the index\u2019s best showing since 1997\u2014and small caps soared even higher, gaining 39%. In the year-end commentary that follows, we review the big-picture themes underlying these results, including U.S. (and global) monetary policy and U.S. (and, in some cases, global) economic improvement. Several of the year\u2019s dominant macro trends were also front and center in December. Monetary policy\u2014a major source of support for rising global stock markets in 2013\u2014made news last month as the Federal Reserve announced its first actual reduction in its monthly bond buying. In contrast to May of 2013 when Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began discussing a possible taper, investors took December\u2019s announcement largely in stride. Another key theme for the year overall was U.S. economic improvement. Here, too, December continued the trend with positive data releases in areas such as employment and consumer confidence.\nDeveloped international markets gained nearly 2% in December and 22% for the year. Much as in the United States, supportive monetary policy (in Europe and Japan) was one factor that helped stocks. On the economic front, the picture is more mixed. While Europe exited recession, many countries continue to struggle with excessive debt and weak economies. While Japan\u2019s stock market was the top performer in 2013, it remains to be seen whether Prime Minister Shinz\u014d Abe\u2019s plan for dealing with deflation and sparking economic growth delivers on its initial promise. Finally, amidst the positives, emerging markets were strikingly divergent as softer economic growth generated investor concerns and the potential Fed taper roiled markets further.\nThe core, investment-grade bond market suffered a rare calendar-year loss, falling 2%, its first decline since 1999. Results were driven by a general preference for risk assets as the economy recovers and investors seek higher returns, as well as concerns about a potential change in U.S. monetary policy. We review the performance of our portfolio positions in the commentary that follows, in addition to providing our outlook for the asset classes we cover.\nThe Improving Macro Picture\nWe find ourselves with a more sanguine big-picture view, at least over the nearer term, than we have had in some time. U.S. and global economic fundamentals gradually improved over the past year across a number of dimensions, and seem poised for continued improvement or at least stability in 2014. Unfortunately, the risks related to excessive global debt, subpar growth, and unprecedented government policy that we have worried about since the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis still remain largely unresolved. But before we revisit our concerns, let\u2019s quickly run through some of the key positives.\nthe global economy slowly strengthens\nAt the broadest level, the growth rate for the global economy (which the International Monetary Fund estimates at 2.9% for 2013) improved in spots over the year and seems set to increase at least modestly next year. On a year-over-year basis, the U.S. economy grew at a real (i.e., inflation-adjusted) rate of around 2% in 2013 (through the third quarter), Europe finally emerged from recession, and the United Kingdom (2.6%) and Japan (2.1%) also generated modest but positive growth. Emerging-markets\u2019 growth was disappointing overall in 2013, but they should benefit from improved export demand in developed markets next year. As shown in the chart at right, the leading indicators index produced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently rose above 100 and is increasing, which indicates an economic expansion is underway. The indicators are designed to provide early signals of turning points between the expansion and slowdown of economic activity, and are based on a wide variety of data collected by the OECD from its 33 developed country members and a handful of emerging countries.\nManufacturing is a particularly bright spot with the J.P. Morgan Global Manufacturing Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index hitting its highest level since February 2011 and also signifying an accelerating economic expansion. The PMIs are based on monthly surveys that provide advance indication of what is happening in the economy by tracking changes in production, new orders, inventories, employment, and prices.\nhousing and labor gains help boost the u.s. economy\nSpecific to the U.S. economy, there are a number of positives extending a trend that we highlighted in our commentary at the end of 2012.\nThe housing market continues to improve. For example, the widely followed S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index was up 11% from a year earlier, and CoreLogic reports the percentage of homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth fell to 13% (as of the third quarter) compared to 22% a year ago.\nAlong with the surging U.S. stock market, the strengthening housing market boosted household net worth to new highs.\nThe labor market continues to gradually improve. Nonfarm payrolls (the net new jobs created in the economy each month) averaged a solid rate of nearly 200,000 per month during 2013 (although that is still below the pace of job growth during a typical economic recovery), and the unemployment rate dropped to 7% in November. Of course, as we and others have pointed out, much of the decline in the unemployment rate has been driven by a drop in the labor participation rate to 30-year lows.\nAn improved debt and credit picture bodes well for consumer spending\nHousehold deleveraging (i.e., debt reduction and repair of consumers\u2019 balance sheets) continued apace and household debt appears to be well along the path toward reaching more sustainable levels. The household debt/income ratio, a measure of the willingness and ability of consumers to increase their borrowing, has dropped 20% from its peak in 2007, and is now back where it was in 2003 and in line with its long-term historical trend.\nMeanwhile, household debt service and financial obligations ratios remain at historically low levels thanks to extraordinarily low interest rates engineered by the Federal Reserve, along with modest income growth. Furthermore, credit conditions (i.e., credit availability and cost), as measured by a variety of indicators, also continue to improve and remain relatively loose.\nThese indicators bode well for an improvement in consumer spending, or at least limited further consumer retrenchment.\ninflation is low, monetary policy remains supportive, and the budget deficit has declined\nInflation in the United States (and globally, with a few exceptions) is low and remains well-contained due to subpar growth and significant slack (excess capacity) in the economy. While most commentators talk about the inflationary risks from overly accommodative Fed policy (and we agree that is a medium- to longer-term risk), there remains a more immediate risk of continued disinflation (a falling inflation rate). In 2013, the price index for personal consumption expenditures\u2014the Fed\u2019s preferred measure of inflation\u2014fell further below its target of 2%. As of November 30, 2013, the core PCE index (which excludes food and energy prices) stood at 1.1%, its lowest level since early 2011. The headline PCE inflation rate (which includes food and energy prices) was just 0.9%. On the other hand, if the economy gains some momentum and unemployment comes down further we will likely see increased wage pressures, which would put some upward pressure on inflation. (Rising wages would also pressure corporate profit margins, which as we have repeatedly noted\u2014and note again later in this commentary\u2014remain at/near historical highs. This would have negative implications for earnings growth and stock market performance.)\nRelated to the inflation picture, developed country central banks are likely to remain highly accommodative at least over the next year or two in terms of holding short-term interest rates at extremely low levels, and in some cases also providing additional liquidity via quantitative easing bond purchases. Specific to the United States, at its December 18, 2013, meeting the Fed initiated tapering of QE bond purchases by $10 billion, to $75 billion per month. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke also stated that if the Fed sees continued improvement in labor market conditions along with stable inflation it \u201cwill likely reduce the pace of asset purchases in further measured steps at future meetings.\u201d If so, QE would likely be finished before year-end 2014 (there are eight Federal Open Market Committee meetings each year).\nBut importantly, the Fed also reinforced its intention (a.k.a. \u201cforward guidance\u201d) to keep the federal funds policy rate at near zero for the foreseeable future, including \u201cwell past\u201d the point when unemployment drops below 6.5%. Moreover, Bernanke was clear that the Fed remains concerned about inflation that is too low and anticipates keeping rates low at least until inflation clearly moves back toward its 2% objective.\nThe U.S. federal budget deficit has come down sharply over the past year, and, with the recent bipartisan two-year budget agreement, the drag on GDP growth from fiscal policy tightening will be reduced in 2014. This compares to 2013 when tax increases and \u201csequester\u201d spending cuts shaved 1.5 percentage points off of GDP growth, according to Congressional Budget Office estimates. The two-year budget deal also greatly reduces the threat of another government shutdown during that span. However, another ugly political fight over the debt ceiling remains a possibility later in the first quarter of 2014. And the need for a credible medium- to longer-term plan for government deficit and debt reduction remains.\nSo, there are many macro positives that should not be ignored, but it is important to remember that just because economic fundamentals are improving doesn\u2019t necessarily imply a strong year for the stock market. Valuations, earnings growth, interest rates, and overall investor sentiment/psychology (to name a few) are likely to be much more important drivers of market returns. The stock market is a discounting mechanism, so presumably it already incorporates positives like stronger economic fundamentals as this evidence comes out. This is reflected in what we still see as unattractive/high valuations (even given our more sanguine macro outlook). So, we wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see a decent year for the global economy, but a weak year for U.S. stocks after the very strong rally in 2013. There also remain significant macro risks and uncertainties that continue to influence our investment outlook and portfolio positioning as we look out over the next five years. We will discuss those next.\nmacro risks, negative considerations,\nand uncertainties remain\nWage growth and income growth in the United States remain subpar, although both have been increasing since late 2012. Weak income growth implies that consumer spending is likely to be subdued even as consumer deleveraging becomes less of a headwind. With consumption accounting for roughly 70% of U.S. GDP, this suggests continued sluggish economic growth absent a significant increase in consumer borrowing or reduced saving.\nOverall U.S. debt levels remain very high and the projected growth in government debt and entitlement spending relative to GDP is still too high to be sustainable over the very long term. Resolving this without causing an economic contraction is likely to be challenging, even in a normal growth environment.\nThe chart to the right shows total household, government (federal, state, and local), and nonfinancial corporate debt as a percentage of GDP. It is still right near the all-time post\u2013World War II high, due to continued growth in government and corporate debt.\nBeyond the economics of deleveraging, the situation is made even more challenging due to the U.S. political dysfunction. The ability to forge compromise and progress on the country\u2019s longer-term debt/deficit situation remains highly uncertain, although there may be signs of light reflected in the recent bipartisan budget agreement. It\u2019s possible that the political dysfunction hit a low point with the government shutdown fiasco last fall. And public opinion of Congress is so low there is the potential for a positive surprise in this regard (though we won\u2019t hold our breath.)\nFed monetary policy is still far from normal and, although the QE taper has begun, there remains a great deal of uncertainty as to how the Fed will exit from its zero fed-funds rate policy and unwind its huge balance sheet (currently at $4 trillion, or 22% of GDP, and still growing due to bond purchases) without causing an economic or market shock. We think it\u2019s more likely than not that the Fed will err on the side of tightening monetary policy (raising rates) too late rather than too early, and that inflation will become an issue for the financial markets, which would be a negative for both stocks and bonds. But as discussed above, that is not an immediate concern. Given the Fed\u2019s policy pronouncements as well as their unpleasant experience with the market\u2019s reaction to last summer\u2019s \u201ctaper talk,\u201d we\u2019d put a low probability on the Fed tapering or tightening too aggressively. But policy errors in either direction are certainly possible. (The change in Fed leadership from Bernanke to Janet Yellen is unlikely to lead to a significant change in policy.)\nDespite exiting recession in 2013, the eurozone economy remains very weak, with structural imbalances between creditor and debtor countries that are still far from resolved. There remains a meaningful risk of deflation and a debt crisis stemming from the weaker peripheral countries. The banking system is undercapitalized and in need of a credible region-wide banking union backstop (and recent efforts on this front are far from sufficient). In October, eurozone inflation fell to 0.7%, which prompted the European Central Bank to make a surprise interest-rate cut to a record low 0.25% amid rising fears that Europe might follow in the footsteps of Japan\u2019s \u201clost decades\u201d of stagnation and deflation. Meanwhile, eurozone unemployment climbed to more than 12% in 2013 and is at much higher levels in the periphery (e.g., 27% in Spain), causing social unrest with the potential to spiral into a more serious crisis.\nRisks in the financial system related to China\u2019s debt/infrastructure spending bubble remain. While it is encouraging to see China\u2019s new leadership acknowledging and addressing the cyclical and structural imbalances in their economy, it is no guarantee they can successfully manage them without a major disruption. At least partly reflecting these risks, the Shanghai stock market ended 2013 down 13% from its highest point earlier in the year, and down nearly 7% for the year overall.\nJapan is the world\u2019s third largest economy, so the success or failure of \u201cAbenomics\u201d (prime minister Shinz\u014d Abe\u2019s wide-ranging plan for reinvigorating Japan\u2019s economy) is a wild card that will have important global economic and market implications. We don\u2019t have a high-conviction opinion as to its ultimate outcome\u2014just recognition that it\u2019s another manifestation of an unbalanced and weak global economy, and the extremely aggressive and unconventional policies that are being undertaken to try to turn things around.\nthe big picture in summary\nWhile there have been fundamental improvements in the macro environment over the past year, many big-picture risks remain as we look out over the next five years. We are not confident in predicting that any of these risks will actually play out, but we think many of them have a reasonable likelihood of happening (and many of these risks are interrelated, meaning if one happens others are more likely to occur as well). If so, the consequences for financial markets and asset prices would likely be severe. Although there don\u2019t appear to be any near-term catalysts, we believe it remains prudent to manage our balanced portfolios with these risks\u2014and their potentially significant market impacts\u2014firmly in mind. This is particularly so, given our assessment that current valuations for U.S. stocks (in aggregate) are not sufficiently pricing in the potential impact on the market if these risks actually do play out.\nInvestment View: Looking Back and Looking Ahead\nWith that macro backdrop, we\u2019ll move now to a discussion of our portfolios, looking at some of the key developments in the financial markets over the past year, their impact on performance, and our investment outlook heading into 2014. Before doing so, though, we feel compelled to reiterate that we don\u2019t invest based on a one-year outlook or time horizon. Similarly, we don\u2019t judge the success of our investment decisions (or those of the fund managers with whom we invest) on a one-year basis. But, it is human nature at year\u2019s end to look back at what transpired over the past 12 months\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 19150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.santacruzchamber.org/celebrating-125-years.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5ICLSCQ5PK5QC7FGRTXFXKPU4U2WRLLS", "length": 1688, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.santacruzchamber.org", "title": "Celebrating 125 Years - Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce | Santa Cruz, CA", "raw_content": "\u200bThe Santa Cruz Area Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2014. A series of four videos were created in commemoration of this event. In these videos, we take a look at the history of the history of the Santa Cruz Chamber and what it meant for the community.\n\u200b\u201cThe Chamber plays a vital role in advocating for those businesses. If you look around, the Chamber been involved for 125 years and it\u2019s made a significant difference in the way that our city has become.\u201d\u200b - Eric Summers, President, 2014 Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce\u200b\nIn this first video, we take a look at how the city of Santa Cruz has changed over 125 years and how the Chamber has supported this change. \u200b\n\u200bIn 1950s, the Chamber studied the issue of sheltered harbor, to protect against wave action, and came up with strategies to address and implement. The second of the four videos show the impact of the Chamber\u2019s work today at the harbor.\n\u200bThe Santa Cruz Area Chamber played a pivotal role in convincing the Regents into putting a campus in Santa Cruz. In this video, we look at the Chambers avocation for higher education in County and the many achievements in research that followed.\n\u200b\u201cThere was a need for a coming together of many organizations and the chamber was one of the organizations that came to the forefront and helped with the vision of what this downtown should become.\u201d \u2013 Ceil Cirillo, Former Redevelopment Agency Director\n\u200bIn this last video, we take a look at the aftermath of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, which left downtown Santa Cruz in ruins. The Chamber was crucial in the rebuilding and maintaining downtown businesses immediately after the earthquake and the years ahead.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 132.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.saym.co.za/gallery-category/schoolfun-in-action-and-study/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OSJE7IKANZLOZOAY77KFYDGLKIPUZYVB", "length": 740, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.saym.co.za", "title": "Taking back the future program | Gallery Category | SAYM", "raw_content": "Gallery > Taking back the future program\nTaking back the future program\nTAKING BACK THE FUTURE PROJECT-is a project funded by National Lotteries Commission [NLC]. One of creative initiatives conceptualized and implemented by Southern African Youth Movement and The Presley Chweneyagae Foundation. This is a dual artistic project, it constitutes both theatre and film elements. The project is implemented in three provinces, North West, Mpumalanga and Free State. It\u2019s main focus is on youth development using different art disciplines and life skills to assist children living in the streets and vulnerable youth in general with a clear integration strategy of introducing them to the professional environment. The program has five pillars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 255.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scottmarlowe.com/bloghome?page=16", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DHQQUN6UA6ETKMWZK3YL6UOGM2BPPOJN", "length": 2641, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.scottmarlowe.com", "title": "Scott Marlowe", "raw_content": "1. January 2014 Year In Review (0)\nUnlike previous year in review posts, I'm going to skip the usual blog stats breakdown. I used to get a kick out of seeing how many people stumbled onto my posts, read them, and possibly even left a comment. But I think the tone of this blog has changed to the point where while I still get a kick out of those things, they're not so much at the forefront of my focus. I'm ecstatic that this blog has posts which have been read well over 100,000 times now (the top 3 actually account for over 100,000 just by themselves), but my focus is more and more on my writing, so that's what this review is really about.\n2013 was a great year for me. I released the first two Assassin Without a Name stories, with a third in the works presently.\nAlso, I finished up and released the second book in The Alchemancer series, The Nullification Engine. Initial reviews are positive, though few, but I have many more coming as review copies continue to go out. I'm really looking at the long term with my releases rather than trying to make a hard impact right from the get-go. The series continues to pick up new readers every day, so I'm happy about that.\nOn a related note, I'm really proud of The Nullification Engine. It's my most complex story to date, with five (or is it six?) viewpoint characters all going about their own business but also all tied together by the underlying storyline. My original plan for this series was five books, and I don't think that's changed. I'm outlining the next/third book now, so might start writing it in February. Having just gone through the whole beta/edit/proofread process, which spanned a couple of months just by itself, I'm hoping I can make some adjustments to help streamline it without losing any of the quality it brings.\nMy last major accomplishment was releasing the second edition of The Hall of the Wood. This was a book which, in simple terms, got released before it'd been given the proper editing treatment. The second edition resolved that. It's not selling as well as the Alchemancer books, but I sleep better at night knowing it's been raised to an acceptable level of quality, of which my readers absolutely deserve (and of which I expect of myself if I'm to continue publishing novels).\nSo that's that. Another year has come and gone. I've learned a tremendous amount about the writing business and what it takes to have staying power in the industry. I've also established some great relationships with readers, some of whom received advanced, finished copies of The Nullification Engine just because. 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From the start, Salzburg Global Seminar has broken down barriers separating people and ideas. We challenge countries at all stages of development and institutions across all sectors to rethink their relationships and identify shared interests and goals.\nToday, our program framework has three cross-cutting clusters and addresses the underlying questions that hold keys to human progress: Imagination, Sustainability and Justice.\nOur exclusive setting at Schloss Leopoldskron enables our participants to detach from their working lives, immerse themselves in the issues at hand and form new networks and connections. Participants come together on equal terms, regardless of age, affiliation, region or sector.\nWe maintain this energy and engagement through the Salzburg Global Fellowship, which connects our Fellows across the world. 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We share 5 important tips.\nThree Key Signposts Along the Entrepreneur's Path\nLeah Goold-Haws shares three signs she has found that reinforce her own entrepreneurial vision when everything else seems too far in the distance to have any certainty.\nHarvard Business School Launches New Executive Education Program On Building Global Leadership\nBOSTON \u2013 May 6, 2013 \u2013 Harvard Business School (HBS) announces the launch of Leading a Global Enterprise (http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/gel/), a course scheduled to take place from July 28\u2013August 2, 2013, on the HBS campus. The program is intended to teach business leaders how to operate effectively in a global corporate world and work seamlessly with multicultural organizations.\nLeading a Global Enterprise was created in part to expand on HBS faculty member Bill George's principles of leaders following their authentic True North and cochair Krishna Palepu's deep insights into Winning in Emerging Markets. The program focuses on global intelligence, examining studies of companies like Siemens, Tata and IBM that have developed a strong presence within their global business networks. Participants will work closely with HBS leadership faculty to study how these companies have achieved worldwide success, understand the traits of prosperous global leaders and collaborate on ways to incorporate these skills in their own businesses.\n\u201cWe developed this program to give established leaders an opportunity to step back and explore their development as global influencers in the business community, building the confidence they need to work with like-minded companies around the world,\u201d said Professor Das Narayandas, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of Executive Education and Publishing. \u201cIn an era of industrial globalization, it is crucial to understand how to successfully work with other cultures.\u201d\nSenior executives who lead established global businesses, marketing executives running global product and marketing groups, or senior regional executives and country heads preparing for greater global responsibilities are encouraged to take this course. Alongside Bill George, Krishna Palepu and other senior HBS faculty members, participants will follow an intensive one-week program, resulting in the development of a customized global plan.\n\u201cLeading a Global Enterprise will provide valuable insights for global executives looking to increase their ability to lead global organizations,\u201d said Bill George, Professor of Management Practice. \u201cIn order to win in competitive global markets, leaders need to expand their global intelligence, collaborate cross-culturally and align their people with common missions and values that lead to superior long-term performance.\u201d\nJim Aisner, jaisner@hbs.edu, +1-617-495-6157\nLeading a Global Enterprise will run from July 28\u2013August 2, 2013, and will take place at Harvard Business School. Please visit http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/gel for complete curriculum details and to apply.\nLeading a Global Enterprise\n(July 28\u2013August 2, 2013, Harvard Business School)\nWilliam W. George, Professor of Management Practice\nRosabeth Moss Kanter, Professor of Business Administration\nNitin Nohria, George F. Baker Professor of Administration, Dean of the Faculty\nKrishna G. Palepu, Professor of Business Administration, Senior Advisor to Harvard's President on Global Strategy\nHarvard Business School Executive Education, a division of Harvard Business School, is located on a 40-acre campus in Boston, Massachusetts. HBS faculty develop and deliver over 80 open-enrollment Executive Education programs and more than 60 custom programs for leading organizations worldwide. Last year, more than 9,000 business executives attended programs in classrooms across the globe, including Boston, London, Mumbai, and Shanghai. With global research centers in seven key regions, HBS faculty continue to develop groundbreaking research, forge powerful alliances with global organizations, and fulfill the mission of educating leaders who shape the practice of business and innovation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 13689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sensorsci.com/a-brief-history-of-thermistors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:08Z", "digest": "sha1:PVEM6GP43GNEOHHCPYAG2OUPBMFNEXEY", "length": 2443, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sensorsci.com", "title": "A Brief History of Thermistors", "raw_content": "A thermistor is used in a wide range of products and applications that shape the modern world. It might seem as if thermistors are a recent invention, but that is not the case. Thermistors can be traced back to the 1830s, which is the tail end of the industrial revolution. The creation of the first NTC thermistor is accredited to Michael Faraday, who was a British physicist and chemist. Today, Mr. Faraday is better known for his lasting work in electrochemistry and electromagnetic induction, but he is still considered the creator of the first thermistor. In 1833, he published a report on the behavior (semiconducting) of Ag2S, which is silver sulfide. This is considered the first recorded thermistor.\nThe early stages of thermistor production were difficult, and at the same time applications for this new technology were limited. Roughly, one-hundred years had to pass before thermistors became commonly used by commercial manufacturers. In the early 1940s, Bell Laboratories was able to develop a technique that improves the overall consistency and repeatability of many manufacturing processes. Commercial thermistors at this time were commonly made as disc type because of the broad tolerances they provided. A thermistor was most frequently used for protection, regulation, and compensating for temperature in electronic circuits.\nAs the years continued, thermistor technology continued to improve. Improvements were meant to keep up with the growing demand for new technologies. By the 1960s, thermistors were being used in the aerospace industry. To meet the tight requirements of space flight, glass bead versions became available. Glass bead thermistors provide the user with stable and accurate performance. The next decade gave us chip thermistors. These thermistors came about as demands for lower costs at higher volumes with tight-tolerances rose.\nIn the 1980s, the electronic thermometer was introduced to the healthcare world. Costs were rising for sterilization, and medical facilities were worried about cross-infection among patients. This fear leads to a demand for lower cost disposable temperature probes. Chip thermistors were well suited for this task. Thermistors will continue to evolve as the demands of modern industries change. Today, it is common to find different thermistor types used for food processing, automotive transportation, medical devices, HVAC systems, and also in telecommunications markets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 126.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2007/08/martines-mindfiles.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:59Z", "digest": "sha1:SQK7NVA5QKQUH7WMRXPRQZWDFTM7B5MH", "length": 8967, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.sentientdevelopments.com", "title": "Sentient Developments: Martine's mindfiles", "raw_content": "Martine's mindfiles\nMartine Rothblatt has an interesting idea. Unfortunately, I don't think her idea is going to work.\nIn our cybernetic and virtual world of the future, says Rothblatt, genes are not going to matter so much. Instead, we\u2019ll be concerned about \u2018bemes' -- a fundamental, transmissible, unit of beingness.\nThis will give rise to the transbeman person -- a being who claims to have the rights and obligations associated with being human, but is beyond accepted notions of legal personhood. Examples would include a computer claiming to be conscious; a person successfully reanimated from cryonic stasis; or the downloading of a \u2018cyberconsciousness\u2019 into a highly engineered \u2018bionano\u2019 body.\nOperation: Mindfile\nRothblatt, an eccentric billionaire lawyer, author, and entrepreneur, made the case for \"Cybernetic Biostasis\" during TransVision 2007 and argued that bemes will eventually become the currency of the future \u2013 the stuff that will help prospective persons restore their memories and sense of identity. She believes that people should create digital \u2018mindfiles\u2019 that chronicle their lives; eventually, after death, persons could be revived by means of \u2018mindware\u2019 transfer when the requisite technology is powerful enough (namely the advent of artificial intelligence).\nAccording to Rothblatt, bemes can be virtually anything that could later be used to restore a person\u2019s history, identity and tendencies. Bemetic mindfiles could be comprised of old photos, blogs, transcripts, diaries, and so on; these artifacts could later be used to restore and re-define a person\u2019s personality (including mannerisms, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and values). Most importantly, these files could restore a person's memory.\nTo this end, Rothblatt has created the websites Cyberev.org (short for ybernetic beingness revival) and Lifenaut.com. People are encouraged to use the sites to start chronicling their lives.\nDuring her TV07 presentation Rothblatt admitted that piecing together odds and sods of data would not create a perfect copy of a person\u2019s consciousness. She contended that most people only remember fragments of their past anyway. To Rothblatt, it\u2019s the preservation of the person\u2019s \"essence\" that\u2019s important.\nMemories are a strange thing\nI find Rothblatt\u2019s mindfile concept quite intriguing, but ultimately unsatisfactory. I\u2019m not convinced that a person\u2019s identity and sense of ongoing self can be re-instantiated in this way. At best we might get a twisted copy of ourselves with a haphazard sense of someone else\u2019s past.\nMemories are a tricky thing; they don\u2019t exist in a vacuum. First, we have memories because we, as conscious observers, experience the events in real time. Based on the strength and uniqueness of the event our brain parses the experience and temporarily stores it into short term memory. From there it solidifies into our long-term memory where we build an association with the event. This association allows us to recall the event at will. We are able to access the memory because we a) experienced the event first hand, and we b) created a personal linkage to that event (what could also be referred to as a personal narrative).\nIn other words, you have to know that you have the memory in order to access it.\nSometimes we forget that we have a memory of an event only to be reminded that it still exists in the brain just waiting to be accessed. I love it when that happens. My first few thoughts are usually, \u201cWhy did I forget about that? Why did I not think about that for so long?\u201d For what ever reason the association or linkage to that piece of data was lost. The memory was still there embedded in the mind, but it was simply not accessed enough causing it to lie dormant.\nAs for Rothblatt\u2019s concept, just because a mind is infused with memories doesn\u2019t mean that all the associations will be there. The memories would likely be construed as a random mess of images, words and events. It would be unlikely that the person would be able to make any sense of it at all and frame a personal narrative around it.\nConsciousness, identity, and an ongoing sense of self\nFar too many people at the WTA\u2019s TransVision conference batted around the word \u201cconsciousness\u201d with complete disregard for definitions and a concrete understanding of what it truly is. Consciousness all too often gets conflated with other aspects of the mind, including memory and other cognitive tasks that comprise the mechanistic or computational aspects of the brain.\nConsciousness is not something you can piece together and instantiate with cultural artifacts. Nor can a continuity of consciousness be restored in this manner. That\u2019s still a question that perplexes even the best philosophers and neuroscientists.\nHere\u2019s a thought experiment: let\u2019s suppose that you traded memories with your best friend \u2013 nothing else, just the memories. You\u2019ve still got your body and all the grey matter in your brain that rightfully belongs to you, except your memories. Does this mean that you and your friend have traded consciousnesses? Does it mean that you\u2019ve uploaded yourself into your friend's brain and vice-versa?\nThe answer is no to both questions! You would still be you in the sense that you\u2019re still observing reality, but you\u2019d be convinced that you are now your friend. A sense of identity (sense being the key word -- a kind of illusion) may have been transferred, but not the conscious lens that each of us has with which we observe and experience the world.\nNo link to cryonic reanimation\nLater, when Alcor\u2019s Tanya Jones was answering questions after her cryonics presentation, a member of the audience asked her if Alcor would consider using the mindfile concept to help in the process of reanimating frozen patients.\nJones answered very clearly: no.\nElaborating, she said that Alcor has considered using mindfiles to help newly revived persons re-connect with their past life. In this sense, the mindfiles would be a glorified shoebox filled with an individual's personal effects.\nThis makes sense. Assuming that a person\u2019s brain was properly preserved they should have no trouble accessing their memories. If all goes well the person should feel like they had a long and hard nap. A very, very hard nap. Their memories, along with the all important personal narrative, associations and ongoing identity, should be readily accessible.\nThe mindfile as restorative medicine\nRothblatt\u2019s mindfile concept may have limitations in regards to uploading or restoring a consciousness, but it is far from useless. The short-term potential as a means for restorative medicine is certainly a possibility.\nAlzheimer\u2019s patients may have their memories re-invigorated and stimulated in the manner that Rothblatt describes. They could also be used to improve the human capacity for memory, which can be extraordinarily weak.\nLooking ahead, there's also the possibility that mindfiles could be used as a supplement to naturally stored memories. They could be uploaded into the mind and used in tandem with other recollections to add width and breadth to memory much like photographs or home videos do today.\nSo, you may wish to visit Dr. Rothblatt's website after all. Start working on that mindfile!\nLabels: bemes, martine rothblatt, mind transfer, transbeman, transvision 2007, uploading\nArturus said...\nI'm skeptical that the continuous 'conscious lens' you're talking about here actually exists beyond the sense of continuity we get from identifying with the memory of previous consciousness. So I'd say that the first question doesn't necessarily make any sense, and the second is dependent on how the individuals choose to understand it. I can see it going either way because you'd have the memory (from the other persons perspective) of choosing the switch, so I see a strong sense that you'd recognize that the switch had taken place and continue to identify with the identity which had previously been in that body, despite the problems of having access to none of the memories. On the other hand, I think that if you have direct access to a memory and choose to identify it as your own, then your identity includes that.\nYou're right though, in saying that the identities produced by these mindfiles are awfully weak, even if I don't think I have a continuous consciousness in the first place. From my perspective such an identity would in part be me, but in a very weak and removed way, to where it's not really worth it in my mental calculus of these things.\nGeorge, it seems you'd be a good person to invite to a closed discussion list regarding whether SETI should become METI -- blaring messages into the unknown deliberately attracting attention.\nFor a review of the topic see:\nhttp://lifeboat.com/ex/shouting.at.the.cosmos\nIf interested, email me via my website:\nhttp://www.davidbrin.com\nYou are running a great blog BTW.\nYours David Brin\n(author of The Transparent Society & The Postman)\nOr....we could just create a lot of gholas! LOL!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 324, "original_length": 16384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.shabait.com/news/local-news/25634-workshop-on-fresh-water-fish-farming", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:19Z", "digest": "sha1:V3TSPEPFRP5QCXLLCFP6XJKM4U2W4CU3", "length": 1738, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.shabait.com", "title": "Workshop on fresh water fish farming |", "raw_content": "Workshop on fresh water fish farming\nAsmara, 24 January 2018- A workshop aimed at fresh water fish farming at the 123 dams and micro-dams in the Central region was conducted on 23 January.\nThe head of the Ministry of Marine Resources branch in the Central region, Mr. Esaw Tiku\u2019e indicated that the objective of the workshop is to enable citizens who live far from the sea coastal areas become beneficiaries of fresh water fish on their table.\nAccording to reports presented by experts at the workshop fresh water fish farming beyond ensuring food security has significant contribution in creating job opportunity as well as sustainable income generation activity.\nThe five years pilot project that was initiated in 2017 to introduce fresh water fish farming at the dams of Tokor, Mai-Nefhi, Adi-Sheka, Gala, Hayelo, Adi-Bidel and Taeresh have produced commendable results and that training programs have been provided to farmers with a view to expand the activity.\nUnderlining the contribution of fresh water fish farming will have in ensuring food security and improving the lives of citizens living in rural areas, the Governor of the Central region, Maj. Gen. Romodan Osman Aweliai called for organizing awareness raising and training programs for farmers in a bid to expand the activity in all dams and micro-dams in the region.\nCurrently successful fresh water fish farming is being conducted in 16 dams in Serejeka sub-zone, in 7 dams in Berik sub-zone, in 6 dams in Gala-Nefhi sub-zone and in 4 dams around Asmara.\nIn the Central region there are 6 big dams with capacity of holding more than one million meter cube of water, 10 dams with capacity of holding 500 to one million meter cube and 51 up to 700,000 meter cube of water.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.siawi.org/article16447.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZXYQGTOTCR2IEEEVKL5CFZQPXO6BT6F", "length": 5477, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.siawi.org", "title": "India: Malayalam Poet Kureeppuzha Sreekumar Responds to the Attack by RSS Against Him - Secularism is a Women's Issue", "raw_content": "Home > fundamentalism / shrinking secular space > India: Malayalam Poet Kureeppuzha Sreekumar Responds to the Attack by RSS (...)\nIndia: Malayalam Poet Kureeppuzha Sreekumar Responds to the Attack by RSS Against Him\nSource: http://indianculturalforum.in/2018/02/08/malayalam-poet-kureeppuzha-sreekumar-response-toattack/\nMalayalam Poet Kureeppuzha Sreekumar Responds to the Attack by RSS Against Him\nThe poet in conversation with Sreelakshmi\nMalayalam poet Kureeppuzha Sreekumar was attacked by RSS and BJP activists on Monday, 5 january 2018, after a speech that he delivered at the Kairali Library at Kottukkal in Kollam district, Kerala. The Indian Cultural Forum talked to the poet about the incident and about the increasingly number of attacks against writers, artists, and thinkers in the country.\nSreelakshmi(SL): On Monday, you were abused and physically assaultedby right-wing groups, allegedly in reaction to a speech that you delivered at Kairali Library. Could you talk a little bit more about what actually transpired?\nK Sreekumar (KS): The main issue here is not how I was attacked. Through my speech, I was trying to promote a certain kind politics, a politics that is critical of rising religious fundamentalism.\nIt was an attack by the religious extremists on secular thinking and ideology. My speech dealt with the importance of preserving public land for future generations. Today, all the public lands are being occupied in the name of religion. Religious shrines are being built in common lands, with boards prohibiting the entry of people belonging to other castes and religions. I wanted people to wake up and open their eyes towards these issues. At the end of my lecture, I gave the recent example of Vadayampady in Ernakulam district. A specific piece of land in Vadayampady has been a public land for centuries; but, recently, this land was occupied by some fringe groups. Today, a \u201ccaste-wall\u201d has emerged between the dalits and non-dalits. People should fight against such caste and religion based discrimination, regardless of their own religious beliefs. But, it is only the Left forces who have chosen to take action against the developments in Vadayampady.\nRecently, on the artist Ashanthan\u2019s death, the local Shiva temple authorities near the Durbar Hall protested against the Lalitha Kala Akademi members keeping his body for public viewing. The temple was celebrating its annual festival at the time. Around 20 Congress supporters abused the Akademi members and tore the posters of Ashanthan\u2019s condolence meeting. The Akademi members were forced to remove the artist\u2019s body, which had been kept in the main hall, through the back door.\nWe need to speak up against such religious beliefs that forget humanity. Kerala does not belong to a single caste or religion. It is the land of social reformers like Sree Narayana Guru, Ayyankali, Sahodaran Ayyappan, and Poykayil Appachan; and, in a secular state like this, we need to raise our voice against such religious fundamentalism and extremism.\nSL: After the attack, the BJP has become defensive about its action. BJP state secretary K Surendran has accused you of having stirred this controversy for fame. What would you like to say in response?\nKS: I don\u2019t think there is any need for me to try and rake up such a controversy in order to gain popularity. Two years back, I had organised a march, along with my colleagues, that lasted for 14 days. The march was on \u201cBeyond Secular and Cultural Practices,\u201d and stretched from Kasaragod to Thiruvananthapuram. Besides, I have been a part of the literary circuit since my school days. I have been given enough awards, including awards from the Kerala University, the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, and the Vyloppilli Yuva Kavi Award. My poem, \u201cAmma Malayalam,\u201d is recited by children in youth festivals. Another one of my poems, \u201cJustice,\u201d is sung by students in colleges even today. I don\u2019t think the BJP spokesperson, K Surendran, has any knowledge of literary merit. I don\u2019t know what kind of poems he reads. I don\u2019t need controversies to become popular.\nSee, I don\u2019t believe in caste or religion. I became a rationalist at the age of 16 and I am happy that I am not the only rationalist in the country. Vayalar Ramavarma, Thoppil Bhasi, N N Pillai, Ponkunnam Varkey, they all stood for a secular and rationalist thought. Vayalar, for instance, had written, \u201cMan created religions, religions created gods, man and religions and gods divided the land, divided minds.\u201d I have only reiterated what they said. My writings are appreciated by the people; my books are selling well. I don\u2019t need any further validation. I don\u2019t think I need to justify myself to groups that indulge in mob violence.\nSL: Since the BJP government came into power, there have been a rise in the curbing of the freedom of speech and expression. As a writer, do you think such an attack has any implication regarding the freedom of speech and expression?\nKS: A writers\u2019 weapon is his pen and it can never be broken. Writers don\u2019t need to boy in front of any government or authority. We have a rich history of non-cooperation movement in our country. Even during the Emergency, we saw a lot of restrictions on political movements. But, when it comes to cultural movement, we have every right to refuse to accept such restrictions. No one can curb a writer\u2019s freedom of speech and expression.\nSreelakshmi is a member of the editorial collective of the Indian Writers\u2019 Forum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.siawi.org/article17778.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:26Z", "digest": "sha1:XAZC72SRFVBMMCM4LWKP6TAYAZ64RKJX", "length": 4334, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.siawi.org", "title": "Can you prove it? How Europe determines whether asylum-seekers are gay - Secularism is a Women's Issue", "raw_content": "Home > Uncategorised > Can you prove it? How Europe determines whether asylum-seekers are (...)\nCan you prove it? How Europe determines whether asylum-seekers are gay\nSource: https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/09/15/how-europe-determines-whether-asylum-seekers-are-gay\nThursday 13 September 2018,\nRidiculous tests to sort those who fear persecution from those who do not\nHOW can you tell if a refugee is gay? Austrian officials seem to have relied on old Bee Gees lyrics for a reason to reject an 18-year-old man from Afghanistan who said he risked persecution back home for his sexual orientation. \u201cNeither your walk, your behaviour, nor your clothing indicate even in the slightest that you could be homosexual,\u201d they told him. Confusingly, an Iraqi seeking asylum was reportedly rejected last month because he was too effeminate. Officers thought he was shamming.\nThe Austrian interior ministry says it has removed the official who turned away the Afghan man. But such stories are common. Many European countries recognise that for people from some parts of the world, simply being gay is grounds for being granted asylum. Yet Evelyne Paradis of ILGA-Europe, a gay umbrella group, says that many officials \u201cthink there is only one way to be an LGBT person\u201d.\nThe European Court of Justice (ECJ) has curbed some of the most egregious practices. A ruling in 2014 barred prurient questions about sexual activity and \u201carousal tests\u201d, where asylum-seekers are shown gay porn to see if it excites them. This year the court told Hungary to stop using Rorschach tests. Some officials had been trying to discern gayness from the way refugees responded to inkblots.\nSabine Jansen of COC Nederland, a Dutch LGBT group, says that new kinds of stereotyping have emerged. Her research in the Netherlands found that case officers expected gay asylum-seekers from conservative Muslim countries to conform to a preconceived personal narrative. \u201cIf you don\u2019t say that you feel ashamed to be gay, or if you say you didn\u2019t struggle with the contradictions between your sexuality and religion, they are unlikely to believe you,\u201d she says.\nIt is hard to know the scale of the problem, as most countries do not provide data on the grounds for asylum claims. But figures from Britain show that only 39% of the 3,535 people who applied for asylum based on sexual orientation were accepted between July 2015 and March 2017. Ms Jansen says that the Netherlands accepted 63% of 267 such applications from October 2015 to April 2016.\nSuch cases are inevitably hard. No test can reliably tell whether someone who claims to be gay is telling the truth. A mistake could be fatal: gay people in Saudi Arabia or Yemen can still be stoned to death. To make matters trickier, LGBT asylum-seekers are often reluctant to go into details about their intimate lives. Many do not bring up their sexual orientation during initial interviews, hoping to secure asylum on other grounds, and only mention it as a last resort.\n\u201cOfficials who handle these cases need to learn that queer people come from all kinds of backgrounds and experiences,\u201d says Marty Huber of Queer Base, an Austrian NGO. \u201cThey need to really listen to people\u2019s stories.\u201d In practice, this would mean pursuing multiple lines of questioning during an interview, offering asylum-seekers more than one way to demonstrate their credibility. Some might best be able to do so by describing their internal struggle, but others might instead prefer to discuss participation in underground LGBT groups or instances of persecution for their sexuality. Sweden, unlike Austria, requires an expert in LGBT issues to be present when a gay asylum-seeker is questioned.\nSome fear that gay people will find it harder to win asylum in the future as political pressure grows to accept fewer refugees. Ms Huber suspects that in Austria, where the government has vowed to reduce immigration, some of the questions in interviews are designed to trip people up. She cites the story of an Iranian man who was asked if he knew what the orange stripe in the rainbow flag means. (It stands for healing, though it is possible that not every gay Iranian man knows this.) \u201cHe had an Austrian boyfriend waiting outside who was willing to serve as a witness, but they didn\u2019t even call him in,\u201d she says.\n\u2022 The Economist, Sep 13th 2018:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sigmatest.org/thermal-conductivity-testing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:46Z", "digest": "sha1:NNCUEWY5USHCRT4DRXKMIJQZ4SH6BXAO", "length": 4027, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.sigmatest.org", "title": "Thermal Conductivity Testing Services in India | Sigma test |", "raw_content": "Thermal Conductivity Testing \u0939\u093f\u0902\u0926\u0940 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092a\u0922\u093c\u0947\u0902\nThermal conductivity is the ability of a material to transmit heat and it is measured in Watts per meter- kelvin of surface area for a temperature gradient of 1K per unit thickness of 1m. It is denoted by k, \u03bb, or \u03ba. Heat transfer is comparatively slower across materials of low thermal conductivity whereas higher in materials with high thermal conductivity. Hence, the application of this material varies with its conductivity; for example, materials with high conductivity are preferably used as heat sink and for thermal insulation, material with low thermal conductivity is considered. There are certain factors affecting the thermal resistivity (reciprocal of thermal conductivity) such as temperature, humidity, composition, application time, proportion of solid matter or the voids of the materials. Correspondingly, the application of thermal conductivity or resistivity has its own significance to ensure the appropriate utilization of materials. Similarly, when it comes to your house, office or any other building, thermal insulation plays a pivotal role.\nSigma Test & Research Centre provides the test facility of thermal conductivity in building materials which include powdered as well as dense matter.\nThermal conductivity in Soil:\nThermal conductivity of soil is associated with the transfer of heat through the soil by conduction. Soil\u2019s thermal conductivity is influenced by its saturation and dry density. An increase in saturation or dry density of a soil will result in an increase in its thermal conductivity as it affects the temperature, texture, mineral composition and time.\nSoil thermal resistivity becomes interestingly important for electrical power engineers, because resistance to heat flow between the cable and the ambient environment causes the cable temperature to rise. Catastrophic failure may occur when cable temperature becomes too high. Sigma Test & Research Centre provides through its dedicated team of electrical professional onsite soil thermal resistivity and soil thermal conductivity measurement for solar projects, power projects, Railways, SEZ\u2019s across India.\nThermal conductivity in AAC Block:\nThe Autoclaved Aerated Concrete Blocks (AAC Blocks) are used in construction of external walls of buildings. Due to the low density and voluminous aspect, efficiency of a building depends on the thermal conductivity of the block. As per the climatic conditions and its favourable water vapour permeability, the peculiarities of the building lie within the AAC block\u2019s annual heating energy consumption up to 75kW.h/m2/year. Hence, main objective is to design the type of building which decrease the residential energy consumption and raise the efficiency of the building of low thermal conductivity (lower than 0.1 W/m.K) or very thick thermal insulation.\nThermal conductivity in Glass Wool:\nTo provide thermal insulation between building industry and air, the fiber materials such as glass wool fiber is used to determine its thermal properties. The specific heat, thermal diffusion and thermal conductivity are such parameters which need to be known with suitable precision to develop insulation. There are certain processes which include thermal table method and thermal flow indicator. Based on the evaluated data of periodical changes of heat, the thermal conductivity is determined.\nThermal conductivity in Stones and Tiles:\nProducts under this category are Natural stones, granite, porcelain stoneware and red stoneware materials are used as floor decorations. The materials used for floor must be of lower effusivity for efficient floor work. Thermal effusivity corresponds to material density and thermal conductivity. More the thermal conductivity, lower the water absorption such as white stoneware and vinyl, having thermal conductivities below 1 W m-1 K\u22121.\nDepending on the interface temperature, the contact resistance, highly dependent of the crustiness surface plays important role to calculate the thermal conductivity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 8852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sjgames.com/in-nomine/articles/seeds/xf.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:39:47Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4IJGF5BJ2MFXAYFJXE4QUZZL677HWTM", "length": 3899, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sjgames.com", "title": "INC: Devil School", "raw_content": "Devil School\n[94fa193@dvc.edu]\nI was watching tonight's 'X-Files', and the whole devil-worship thing of course got me looking at the whole ep in 'In Nomine' terms. Anyway, I came up with an interesting interpretation, and possible adventure seed...\nA group of people in a semi-secluded New England town, members of the local school's faculty and coming from a long line of Infernal Soldiers, have drifted out of contact with theri demonic patrons, and allowed the practice of their dark religion to slip somewhat. The infernal Tether located in the nearby woods has fallen into disuse, although never really destroyed by the Host because of its low power and back-woods location. Rumors, however, persist about black magic among the locals.\nA pair of half-drunk teenage guys and their girlfriends go out to the woods one night, to the Tether, with a cheezy demonic invocation ripped from a library book. They hope to simply scare the girls into their arms (and beds, if lucky), but the incantation at the Tether attracts the attention of a Balseraph, possibly the one who had supported the town's cultists in the past. She comes down to the Tether, ritually killing one of the boys and scaring off the other kids. She quickly assesses the situation, and decides the wayward Soldiers need to be dealt with. Harshly.\nAssuming the Role of a substitute schoolteacher, she finds the class the remaining three kids have together (biology), gets the teacher out of the way by ruining his health, perhaps with a Song, and takes over the class, using her Band's Resonance to convince the faculty that she was hired.\nAt this time, local police are investigating the boy's death. (The GM may choose to write out FBI involvement if he feels it's unneccesary.) As they investigate, the Balseraph again uses her Resonance to implant false memories in one of the two girls, the daughter of one of the Soldiers, memories of ritual abuse, incest, and the sacrifice of the three chilren she bore. The detectives begin to investigate the father.\nIf the PC's do not interrupt her plans, the Balseraph will continue to press as the girl's mind, eventually driving her to suicide, perhaps using the scalpel she uses while making up the dissection project she missed because of her freak-out. This would put in in the classroom after school, where she would be alone, and in proximity to the Balseraph.\nAfter that, the girl's father may confess his watered-down occult practices to the investigating officers. If so, he will be dealt with first. Any well-run Balseraph could have a multitude of means of killing him at her disposal; the GM need not stick with the methods from the show. Possibilities include attacking with an animal vessel, using her Resonance or the Song of Possesion to force another to do it, calling in Habbalah or Calabim, etc.\nThe rest of the Soldiers may be driven by fear to renew their practice, and placate the demon with a sacrifice. They may pick the investigating officers, or perhaps one of the other kids at the summoning. If they succeed in capturing them, the Balseraph may use the Song of Possession to cause one Soldier to kill the others in front of the cops, as seen in the episode, or drive each of them to suicide after killing them and leaving enough evidence to prove it was them, or simply destroying them herself whether they succeed or not. In any event, if the Balseraph's plans are unimpeded, the Soldiers will all be dead, as well as a few innocents. She may then attempt to establish a new group of Soldiers, and renew the strength of the Tether.\nThe PC's may be angels trying to destroy the Tether and perhaps redeem the wayward Satanists. Or they may be demons who serve a hostile Prince, and want to sieze the Tether for themselves, or maybe they want the Soldiers alive for their own use. Or, to make life really interesting, the PC's could be the Soldiers themselves!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 4044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skinmagazine.co.uk/tag/silver-serum", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:33Z", "digest": "sha1:IYHC7NAWPJQ7XAU3SCJOBK7VS734IPJP", "length": 1528, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.skinmagazine.co.uk", "title": "silver serum Archives - Skin Magazine", "raw_content": "Posts Tagged \"silver serum\"\nsilver serum\nWhy skin gets redder and drier in winter\nIt\u2019s a misconception that the summer is the worst time for skin prone to rosacea and redness. In fact, winter is more likely to make skin rage more. And new research proves why this is the case. A new study published in the British Journal of Dermatology (March 2018) shows that the skin\u2019s Natural [\u2026]\nFood allergies triggered from eczema on the skin not from the gut\nA new study has found a direct link between eczema in children and development of food allergies. What is interesting about the new study, published in the latest edition of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, is that for the first time research has found that food allergies may originate via the skin rather than the [\u2026]\nNew research has found that adding silver to antibiotics boots their effectiveness by up to 1000 times. Adding silver to antibiotics makes the structure of the bacteria more fragile allowing the antibiotic to penetrate the defence walls of bacteria more easily and kill it. The research, carried out at Boston University, indicates that this new [\u2026]\nNew study finds bacteria can help prevent acne and improve skin\nNew research has found that instead of simply killing all bacteria that causes acne, as is typical of standard anti-acne treatments, actually increasing strains of certain good skin bacteria can held ward off acne. The new study, carried out by scientists at the University of California in LA and published in the March edition of [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skiptonopenstudios.je/blog/featured-artist-2016--dasa-wharton", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:30Z", "digest": "sha1:DI3J7SGESC47H6Q5SPLMQJXMGZY3IJZL", "length": 3341, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.skiptonopenstudios.je", "title": "Featured Artist 2016: Dasa Wharton - Skipton Open Studios", "raw_content": "The next of our blog's Featured Artists is Photographer Dasa Wharton, who is new to Skipton Open Studios in 2016. We asked Dasa some questions to find out more about her work and her background as a photographer. Dasa also sent us some beautiful and dynamic photos of dancers that she has been saving for this year's Open Studios. We love the way that she captures the energy and gracefullness of the performers in her photos. Check out what Dasa had to say about her work:\nIt took me several years before I could say that I am a photographer\u2026in terms of calling myself an artist, I don\u2019t think I am there yet\u2026\nNo, this is my first year\nWhen our daughter was born, my husband gave me a Canon 50E and I immediately fell in love (with the camera, already loved my husband..). our daughter is almost 18 now and I still feel very excited every time I take my camera and start photographing\u2026\nIt must be Gene Schiavone, an amazing ballet photographer, the best one in the world really\u2026I met him in Prague four years ago, he is not only a brilliant photographer but also a really nice guy, very generous, supportive and encouraging. He helped me on so many different levels and I feel incredibly fortunate to count him as my friend.\nI love movement, dance and especially ballet. I have been very fortunate to photograph some of the best ballet dancers in the world over the last few years. Every time I walked into a theatre or studio, I can feel the amazing energy and just love being there, in the presence of beautiful, talented and extremely dedicated people.\nYou will get two for the price of one! A really good friend of mine, Katherine Cadin is a very talented painter and artist, and she had the idea of us teaming up (for which i am really grateful) \u2013 so one reason for coming to see me is that you will see the work of Katherine at the same time\u2026 Another reason is that we will be exhibiting our work in the beautiful Archirondel Tower\u2026It will be really relaxed, fun weekend and I hope that we will see as many people as possible..\nI have been working on a new set of wall art images, they are inspired by the sea and will be in black and white, printed on various media. And of course there will be samples of my other work from ballet to wedding photography.\nAs I said I will exhibiting in the Archirondel Tower together with Katherine Cadin and we are planning to turn the location into a relaxed gallery. There is a fridge in the Tower so there even might be bubbles being served while you look around\u2026 we also have some surprises that we obviously can\u2019t talk about now..\nI am going to Prague in next few weeks to photograph a new ballet choreography for the Czech National Ballet, I will also be going to the UK to photograph the English National Ballet. I am also hoping to be able to go to the US to photograph a number of performances of a group of world leading ballet dancers. In terms of Jersey, I am planning a collaboration with a leading Jersey hotel, which will take place in next few weeks. Finally, I will be busy preparing a panel of images for the Royal Photographic Society, hoping to gain the second level of the Society\u2019s distinctions, ARPS.\nMake sure that you visit Dasa's artist profile to find her details, including the address of her Open Studios (this year at Archirondel Tower) on 2nd + 3rd July, 10:00-17:00.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 3954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skullmadmama.com/thinking-of-moving-house-heres-how-to-prepare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:33Z", "digest": "sha1:SQZBFU4LU5XPLW7XQLEB7AOMF6ZZXCKW", "length": 2901, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.skullmadmama.com", "title": "Thinking Of Moving House? Here\u2019s How To Prepare", "raw_content": "Thinking Of Moving House? Here\u2019s How To Prepare\nhttps://www.pexels.com/photo/landing-stage-sea-sky-night-4146/\nMoving house can be exciting. Not only are you starting a new chapter, but you get to be surrounding by a house that you love and start to make it your own. There may have been problems with your previous house (or just things you didn\u2019t like), so now, you get to make this new place a home that you\u2019ll love so much more.\nBut before that can happen, you need to get through the actual move first. It can be a testing experience, but it\u2019s not impossible to get through in one piece. With a moving checklist, a bit of preparation and a lot of flexibility, it\u2019ll be over in no time at all.\nFirst things first, you\u2019re going to want to figure out where you stand with your finances. Moving house can be a significant financial burden. So, before you start, you need to know the terms of your current mortgage and the equity you have in the house. Then, you can speak to your broker about the possibility (and implications) of moving house. That way, you\u2019ll know how much you have to move with, and what your top budget for buying a new home will be.\nThen, you\u2019re going to want to speak to Real Estate Agents. Not only do you need to organise selling your home (which you\u2019re going to need to time just right), but you\u2019ll also want to see what\u2019s currently on the market. You may have already found your dream home, which prompted the move, and if that\u2019s the case, then you\u2019re going to want to focus on selling yours as soon as possible, to get over into the new place.\nSpruce And Shine\nAfter securing a property or arranging to put yours up for sale, you\u2019re probably going to want to have a bit of a sort out around the home. Not only will you have photographs taken of your home to list it online and have it on file, but you\u2019re going to want to prepare to move too. By having a tidy up, and sorting out the things you no longer need, not only will your place look great when potential buyers come to see it, but you\u2019ll also be halfway there when it comes to packing to leave.\nDuring your spruce and shine, you\u2019re also going to want to think about how to appeal to buyers. You may be able to get some tips from your agent on this, but it helps to have a clean slate so that buyers can visualise themselves in the home. If you have a design theme that makes quite a statement, you might want to tone it down before viewings are made, just to make sure you\u2019re selling the house as best as you can.\nPack and Plan\nAnd then, all that\u2019s left to do is pack and plan. Once you have buyers and you\u2019ve got an exchange date set, you have a time frame to work with. You know how long you\u2019ve got left to do everything, to prepare accordingly. You\u2019re also going to want to leave a bit of time for yourself to clean up before you go too. It\u2019s not always easy, but you can time it right and have a seamless move.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/forum/magazine.html?mobile=mobile", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:36Z", "digest": "sha1:CB5QDKIP6KMOGMVMSAWOMUCQERAHAG75", "length": 159, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.skyatnightmagazine.com", "title": "Sky At Night \u2022 The Magazine", "raw_content": "569, 3190 Wed Feb 13, 2019 7:15 pm\n9, 37 Thu Nov 15, 2018 7:53 pm\nFirst Light and Group Test\n38, 255 Tue Aug 07, 2018 6:04 pm\n41, 142 Sat Nov 24, 2018 10:15 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 224.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.slowlyboiledfrog.com/2018/03/brian-s-brown-warns-of-transgender.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:59Z", "digest": "sha1:4Y3J7RZ6SZV6RCZXCNMBBODV7H5X5ZCP", "length": 7392, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.slowlyboiledfrog.com", "title": "The Slowly Boiled Frog: Brian S. Brown warns of transgender dangers", "raw_content": "Is Brian Brown a moral man?\nBrian S. Brown of National Organization for Marriage has sent out an email titled: \u201cHelp Overturn Anchorage's Dangerous Transgender Bathroom Law.\u201d It follows the usual script in support of an anti-trans ballot measure.\nBrown is a zealous, and fundamentalist, Catholic convert. You would think that his deep faith would require Brown to be honest in all of his dealings. That is simply not the case. Conservative Christians, including Brown, seem wed to the proposition that lying in defense of the faith is not only acceptable but required behavior.\nThe first consideration \u2014 and it should be the last consideration \u2014 is that transgender people do not pose a threat to anyone. Allow me to repeat that. Transgender people do not pose a threat to anyone. They just need a place to pee. Since the emphasis is on trans women, the process is simple:\nEnter bathroom.\nEnter stall.\nLock door.\nUnlock door.\nLeave stall.\nDry hands.\nExit bathroom.\nIt seems to me that the procedure is probably the same for transgender and cisgender women. Right? So what the hell is all of this fuss about?\nMine is a rhetorical question. In point of fact I know what all the fuss is about. The existence of transgender people is a biblical contradiction. The fundamentalists write hyperbolic books, hold seminars, blog at Christian outlets and, in this case, send out emails. They have created a panicky self-reinforcing subset of their belief system that is not supported by any facts or, for that matter, logic. They are also manufacturing exponentially more widgets than there are widget receptacles. In other words, based on the amount of activism you would think that transgender people make up a huge swath of the population.\nAccording to the New York Times, about 0.6% or 1.4 million people in the United States are transgender. I would argue that these \u201cChristians\u201d should devote this time and energy to help feed the poor and educate the illiterate. However, those worthwhile endeavors do not have the same ability to scare people and then to piss them off in order to make the cash registers ring.\nIn order to circumvent the fact that trans people are harmless and there aren't that many of them, they have created a mythology. Brown being Brown, he has to first blow \u2026 NOM's horn:\nAll across America, communities are pushing back against LGBT extremists and their political allies who insist on imposing a dangerous gender ideology of allowing biological men into the most intimate, private areas reserved for females \u2013 including showers, bathrooms, locker rooms and changing areas. NOM has helped champion this push back at the federal level, successfully urging President Trump to repeal Obama's transgender directive to the public schools and in our military, and in communities like Houston where we successfully urged voters to overturn the transgender bathroom law imposed on their community.\nWhere is the danger Mr. Brown? And what, exactly, is gender ideology. Gender, Mr. Brown, is supported by science. Science is not an ideology which is a belief system. Science is evidentiary. What is an ideology is all of this nonsense over trans people.\nJust like the Houston City Council did, local politicians in Anchorage, Alaska ignored the wishes of citizens and enacted an ordinance that allows men to force their way into intimate areas reserved for women and girls simply by claiming a female \"gender identity.\" And just like in Houston, citizens have risen up to say \"enough\" and put the issue on the ballot. It will be decided at the April 3rd municipal election.\nWhat Brian Brown is claiming is simply preposterous. He is saying that men will pretend to be transgender women in order to access public facilities as predators. Where is the evidence of that ever occurring? If, on the other hand, Mr. Brown has evidence that real trans women pose a danger to other women then where is the evidence to support that claim?\nMore Myth:\nIt's also about common sense and respecting the wishes of women, including victims of sexual assault and abuse. Many women simply are uncomfortable being in a vulnerable situation, including being in a state of undress, in the presence of a biological male. Forcing them to do so disrespects their rights, violates their privacy and risks their safety.\nI don't frequent women's bathrooms. Is it common for women to be naked in a public bathroom? Men come close at our urinals but women? I have read of one woman making this claim. It is irrational. I have severe PTSD (I was ambushed and shot). In public spaces I am hyper-vigilant, extremely anxious and sometimes incapable of rational thought. I do not ask society to conform to my craziness. I find ways to deal with my irrational fears. Fearing transgender people is irrational. It is not supported by evidence.\nMoreover, there might be less fear if people like Brown were not so intent on telling people that they should be afraid. There is nothing to be afraid of.\nBrown tries \u2014 and fails \u2014 to offer some evidence:\nJust a few weeks ago a man claiming to be a woman demanded access to an Anchorage women's shelter that serves homeless women and female victims of sexual assault and is run by local Christian churches. According to media reports, the man has a criminal record and had been kicked out of another shelter for fighting. After the Christian-run shelter refused him access, the man filed a complaint with the local Equal Rights Commission and is trying to get them to order the shelter to give him access to the women because of Anchorage's transgender bathroom law. The Commission is actively considering doing just that.\nBrown doesn't provide a link to those \u201cmedia reports\u201d and he does not provide sufficient information to learn more. There is a reason for that. A report in the Anchorage Daily News makes no mention of the individual's criminal record (which, unless it involves violence, is irrelevant). The trans woman was denied entry because she is transgender. That is the bottom line.\nClarkson [the manager of the discriminatory shelter] said allowing a \"biological man\" into the shelter would traumatize and create safety risks for the women who stay there.\nLeaders of Anchorage's other two emergency women's shelters say transgender people have used the facilities for years without problems.\nThe profound irony:\nCatholic Social Services runs the Brother Francis Shelter as well as the Clare House, a shelter for women and children. Lisa Aquino, the executive director of Catholic Social Services, said the shelters don't ask people for gender identities.\n\"There's so much trauma for everyone who comes in that is experiencing homelessness,\" Aquino said. \"The fact that someone is transgender is pretty far down on the list.\"\nI cannot imagine why Brown did not provide a media link. It amounts to more dishonesty in a dishonest campaign to punish people with a medical condition that they do not approve of. Their desire is to treat trans people like modern day lepers is based on superstition.\nThese are folks who pretend to have moral values that are superior to most other people. Moral people do not lie to accomplish their goals. Moral people do not try to marginalize a minority group. Brian S. Brown, for all his sanctimony and self-righteousness, is not a moral man.\nLabels: Ancjhorage, Brian S. Brown, National Organization for Marriage, Transgender BS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 13091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smokyeyesandsippycups.com/smokyeyesandsippcycupsbeautyblog/2017/2/23/my-visit-to-the-kylie-jenner-pop-up-store-and-review-of-matte-liquid-lipsticks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:2VBWEMAPTAAZ5IVZLG3JIRBUYBMHWHZI", "length": 2333, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.smokyeyesandsippycups.com", "title": "My Visit to the Kylie Jenner Pop Up store and my Review of the Matte Liquid Lipsticks Smoky Eyes & Sippy Cups", "raw_content": "So I took a trip to the Kylie Jenner Pop Up store in New York City and I am so happy I did!\nMy husband originally tried to surprise me on the first day that it opened but as you could imagine, the line was down the street and around the corner and there was a line to get to the next line to get to THE line. So we scrapped that idea really quickly.\nFast forward to this Sunday 2/19. My husband had to go to the same area for a couple of things so I thought nothing of being in that area and honestly, I thought the store would have been gone already considering the lines that we saw!\nHe went right to Mercer street and there it was in all of it's pinkness!! It was an abnormally warm day for us in New York, so with my daughter napping in her stroller, we happily waited in the beautiful warmth for an hour. And I couldn't stop saying thank you to my husband who was waiting in line for so long for me to just buy lipstick!\nA lot of the stuff in the store was still available on-line, so I didn't feel like I needed to get THAT much since I knew I could always order online if I wanted to try more colors.\nIn hindsight, I bought more than I should have since I was not sure how I was going to feel about these given the mixed reviews on the Lip Kits, but being there with the music, makeup and pink stuff everywhere, I was in put in some sort of trance, lol. Besides, I have heard a lot of people say that the formula is the same as the ColourPop Ultra Matte Lips and I love those!\nHere are the colors I got!\nAnd the verdict is in.......I actually LOVE THEM! I would even venture to say that I like them more than the ColourPop ones, which is huge for me to say! The formula is very thin so they don't feel heavy on the lips and they certainly do not dry my lips out, which is so nice. With the exception of one color (Gorg), all of the Matte Liquid Lipsticks I tried went on smoothly and had a great opacity to them with just one application. Gorg was very streaky on it's own but on top of a lip liner, it was much better. I haven't tried any other Kylie Jenner products like her shadows, blushes or cream liners. If you have, let me know what your thoughts are in the comments, maybe I will try them!\nThanks for taking the time to visit the blog today!\nUntil next time, Love Peace and Smoky Eyes,\nLindsay Mendoza January 6, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.so-cheshire.co.uk/what-not-to-do-when-defrosting-a-freezer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OVH45ZE2GA5L7AHVYYIFS7ODSIBBICFI", "length": 3386, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.so-cheshire.co.uk", "title": "What not to do when defrosting a freezer - So Cheshire", "raw_content": "Food & Drink > News > What not to do when defrosting a freezer\nWhat not to do when defrosting a freezer\nPutting all your food in the freezer may seem like the ideal solution for preserving them, but there are some foods that you should never put in the freezer.\nSimilarly, defrosting a freezer may seem like a straightforward process, but there are some things that you should never do while defrosting it, or you could end up damaging the appliance. To help you avoid such mishaps, here are some of the common mistakes to avoid in general.\nDon\u2019t Use Anything Sharp\nWhat better way is there to remove some solid ice than to use the trusty ice pick; a tool that seems so apt for the job at hand!\nHowever, if you do use an ice pick, chances are very high that you will end up puncturing the walls of your refrigerator, which will basically make the appliance unusable, or at the very least, unsightly.\nThis goes for knives or any other sharp and heavy object as well. Scrapping the ice off with a plastic spatula is a much better idea than using anything made out of metal.\nDon\u2019t Use a Dryer\nUsing a hair dryer is never recommended by experts but a lot of people try to speed up the process by doing so and some even use a vacuum cleaner for the same purpose. It\u2019s mostly a bad idea because there\u2019s a chance that you might get electrocuted.\nIf the appliance comes into contact with the melting ice water, or if your feet are touching the accumulating water, those chances of getting electrocuted suddenly become very high. Also, the hot air may also reduce your freezer\u2019s capacity to cool itself.\nWhen you are defrosting, the door needs to stay open as that allows warm air from the outside to defrost the freezer naturally. This will accelerate the process of course, and while it isn\u2019t as fast as using a blow dryer, it\u2019s safe and does not damage your appliance in any way.\nDon\u2019t Wait for Too Long Before Defrosting\nSome users neglect the ice build-up for as long as they possibly can and only address the problem when the build-up is so heavy that it quite literally stops the freezer door from closing properly.\nThis is a bad idea for many reasons, but the most obvious one is of course that your electricity bills will increase significantly since the freezer full of ice has to work extra hard to keep everything inside frosty.\nAs you can imagine, this also shortens the lifespan of the appliance through overworking. The final disadvantage of waiting too long to defrost a freezer is that the process will be so much more strenuous and time consuming than it should be.\nDon\u2019t Forget to Use Hot Water\nIf the thought of abandoning the dryers and the vacuums disappoints you, rest assured that we have a safer and better solution for you as well. Just heat a bowl of water to boiling point or at least till it starts to emit steam generously, and then place it in the freezer.\nThis will drastically speed up the defrosting process and you won\u2019t have to worry about being shocked by your hair dryer either! The water may need to be reheated every ten to fifteen minutes though.\nNow that you have an idea of what to avoid, check out Service Force\u2019s helpful little guide on how to defrost a freezer without damaging it. It\u2019s not really that complicated and just about anyone can do it safely, as long as they don\u2019t make any of the mistakes discussed here and follow the guide diligently.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 6883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.softschools.com/inventions/history/ferris_wheel_history/357/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:51Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3REUK5CJAUBVQBBQLDQOZ47EWBGNOHU", "length": 1579, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.softschools.com", "title": "Ferris Wheel - History of Ferris Wheel", "raw_content": "Home > Inventions > Science Inventions > Ferris Wheel - History of Ferris Wheel\nFerris Wheel - History of Ferris Wheel\nThe Ferris wheel was invented by George W.G. Ferris Jr. He built the first one for the 1893 World's Fair, in Chicago, Illinois. Ferris owned a company that tested iron and steel for railroads and bridges. He used his knowledge of structural steel to design a steel structure that would amaze the visitors to the fair.\nThe first Ferris wheel was supported by two 140-foot tall steel towers, with a 45-foot long axle between them. The wheel had a diameter of 250 feet, and had 36 wooden cars that could each hold up to 60 riders. It was lit up by 3000 of Thomas Edison's new light bulbs. The first Ferris wheel was a huge success, and was considered a marvel of engineering.\nThe organizers of the 1893 World's Fair wanted an attraction that could rival what was unveiled at the 1889 World's Fair in Paris - the Eiffel Tower. George Ferris responded to a challenge issued by the organizers, and promised that his wheel would \"Out-Eiffel Eiffel\".\nAfter the fair, the original Ferris wheel was moved to Lincoln Park in Chicago, and later moved to the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. It was demolished in 1906.\nThe term \"Ferris wheel\" has become the generic name for the many similar rides that have been built since 1893. Rides of this style are still popular at local fairs and amusement parks.\nCurrently, the world's largest Ferris wheel is in Las Vegas, Nevada. The \"High Roller\" was opened in March 2014, and has a diameter of 550 feet (167.6 meters).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 110.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.solideogloria.com/2008/02/sons-of-the-free-woman-galatians-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4BL77PVYO775OSHWQ67CJE2TM623PCHH", "length": 18336, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.solideogloria.com", "title": "Sons of the Free Woman (Galatians 4) \u2013 Soli Deo Gloria", "raw_content": "Home / Articles / Sons of the Free Woman (Galatians 4)\n1 I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything, 2but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by his father. 3In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world. 4But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons. 6And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, \u201cAbba! Father!\u201d 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.\n8 Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more? 10 You observe days and months and seasons and years! 11I am afraid I may have labored over you in vain.\n12 Brothers, I entreat you, become as I am, for I also have become as you are. You did me no wrong. 13You know it was because of a bodily ailment that I preached the gospel to you at first, 14and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus. 15What then has become of the blessing you felt? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have gouged out your eyes and given them to me. 16Have I then become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17They make much of you, but for no good purpose. They want to shut you out, that you may make much of them. 18It is always good to be made much of for a good purpose, and not only when I am present with you, 19 my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you! 20I wish I could be present with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you.\n21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? 22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. 23But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. 24Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. 25Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27For it is written,\n28 Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. 29But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30But what does the Scripture say? \u201cCast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.\u201d 31So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.\nAs he continues in the letter to the Churches of Galatia, Paul is defending the purity of the Gospel against Judaizing infiltrators who have convinced many Gentile believers that it is not enough to lay hold of the Cross of Christ and His perfect righteousness but that the deeds of the Law must be added to Christ\u2019s work in order to be found acceptable before God.\nHe reminded them in Chapter 3 that they began in the Spirit as the Gospel was announced to their hearts and it is foolish of them to think that they will now be perfected in the flesh. He demonstrated to them that the Law announces a curse to all who do not obey it perfectly and that Christ came to become a Curse for us by hanging on a tree for all who have faith. He concluded by reminding that Abraham himself believed the Gospel beforehand and that all of Abraham\u2019s true children and true heirs are those that have faith just like Abraham did.\nPaul continues in Galatians 4 by reminding of a human analogy that we all understand. Children, while in a household, are much like slaves. They are under the guardianship and direction of the household and have to obey rules. While they are yet children, they are not in a position to inherit the estate of their parents until their time of maturity comes. This is to remind them of what Paul said the purpose of the Law was in Galatians 3. He builds upon that point in verse 3: 3In the same way we also, when we were children, were enslaved to the elementary principles of the world.\nWe all understand that slavery is not a good thing but what many men and women don\u2019t want to acknowledge is that they are enslaved to anything. Especially modern men take pride in the fact that they are their own person and make their own decisions. Especially the religious, those who are convinced they are living lives worthy of God\u2019s favor, recoil at the idea that they are enslaved to any principle. The Pharisees were ready to stone Jesus because He implied they were enslaved. They pointed out that their father was Abraham. Christ rebuked them in John 8 beginning in verse 39: 39They answered him, \u201cAbraham is our father.\u201d Jesus said to them, \u201cIf you were Abraham\u2019s children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, 40but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. 41You are doing the works your father did.\u201d They said to him, \u201cWe were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father\u2014even God.\u201d 42Jesus said to them, \u201cIf God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to hear my word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father\u2019s desires.\nEphesians 2 states the same truth about man\u2019s bondage to sin: \u201c1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience\u2014 3among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.\u201d\nPaul points out to the Galatians that, just like the Pharisees, they were in bondage to these \u201cbasic principles\u201d and would certainly have perished if God had not taking the initiative in Christ. Even though both Jew and Gentile were zealous, they were zealous for false righteousness for they pursued it in the strength of their flesh, which is precisely what the principles of this world want to keep us in bondage to.\nI have to say that probably the most beautiful words in the Scripture are when Paul finishes pointing out our predicament of condemnation before the throne of God\u2019s judgment but then says the word \u201cbut\u201d. We read in verse 4: 4But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.\nBut God\u2026But God. Such a beautiful conjunction the word \u201cbut\u201d is when it is attached to what God has done. God interferes with our plan to destroy ourselves. Do you see how it is God\u2019s initiating love? We were lost and enslaved but God sent His Son to be born under the Law, to sacrifice for us, to bear the curse that we deserved, to be perfect righteousness for us by fulfilling the righteousness of the law that we could not perform. What is more remarkable is that we receive adoption as sons. Not merely that God\u2019s wrath is put away by Christ but that, through His work, we place our faith in Him and He gives us the right to be called Sons of God.\nFurthermore, Paul adds this: \u201c 6And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, \u201cAbba! Father!\u201d 7So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.\u201d\nRomans 8 expresses this same idea but the setting of Romans 8 unpacks how profound it is that God sends His Spirit into us with this cry. It is noteworthy that Paul here returns to his native language of Aramaic to literally groan with utter amazement at the ability to call God Father. The Apostle John is simply beside himself in 1 John 5 when he asks: \u201c\u2026what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God?\u201d\nIt really saddens me that this love expressed by God\u2019s decision to adopt us is often greeted with a yawn by many people today when it should be a source of profound joy and adoration. The reason we don\u2019t marvel at it is that modern theology in the 20 th Century taught men, women, boys, and girls that we\u2019re all God\u2019s children. We consider it our divine right because from the time we were in grade school the world has been preaching the message that everybody is a child of God.\nBut we just read Scriptures where Christ called some of God\u2019s own chosen people, the Jews, sons of the devil and Paul reminded us that we all once walked according to the principles of this world.\nThus, we are incredibly privileged to receive the right by God to call Him Father. The marvel of this is that we don\u2019t deserve it but that, in Christ Jesus, it has been purchased for all who place their faith in Him.\nBut it is also incredibly important that we understand why the Spirit cries out with our Spirit that we are sons. We need to understand why it is that our heart must redound with the Gospel and cry out \u201cAbba! Father!\u201d in the midst of this lost and dying world.\nYou see the reason why we are attracted to performance according to the deeds of the flesh is that, even though we begin in the Gospel very simply, we often become guilt-ridden and feel accused by the enemy for our failings in the flesh after we first believed. After all, did God really save a wretch like me? How can that be when sin is still abiding in me? I do the things I don\u2019t want to do and the things I want to do I don\u2019t do. Who will deliver me from this body of death?!\nChrist Jesus. That\u2019s who. Just as at the beginning when we believed and were, by nature, enemies of God, the Cross is ever before us and will ever be the only ground on which we can stand before a Holy God. When we look within to give us assurance of our salvation on the basis of the perfection of our obedience to the Law we will always come up short if we\u2019re honest with ourselves. But when we look to the Cross with tears in our eyes and cry out to God \u201cWho will deliver me from this body of death?! God, I am so unworthy of the grace you\u2019ve shown me! I believe Lord, help my unbelief!\u201d Suddenly, the most beautiful thing happens. Suddenly the most unexpected thing happens. His Spirit comes into our hearts and consolation and strength come to us and we cry out \u201cAbba! Father! Yes Father you have redeemed me to be your son and you don\u2019t cast out those you have placed your favor upon.\nI must remind you again of the beauty of the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15 because it is very appropriate here and illustrates the picture of our redemption beautifully. Every time I recount this story to myself I am overwhelmed by the profound love that we should be called sons of God.\nThe younger of two sons walks up to his father one day and asks for his share of the estate. In the economy of the ancient Near East, a family would inherit the sweat and toil of generations and centuries of labor as father passed down property to son and each built a bit more on it. Inheritance was so important to the Jew and Jesus uses this illustration to get their attention. The shocking part of the tale is that this young man, in asking for his inheritance now is telling his father that he wishes him dead!\nThe father, amazingly, divides his estate early and gives centuries of labor and puts it in the hand of this ungrateful young man. You know the story. The boy squanders this money in a short time by partying with drunkards and prostitutes. He squanders his whole inheritance, centuries of the ancestors\u2019 work, in just a few short weeks. He\u2019s left destitute and so poor that he can only get a job feeding pigs, so hungry that he envies the pigs for the slop they eat. Indeed, the boy is walking according to the principles of the world.\nBut then he comes to his senses and realizes that his father\u2019s slaves are treated really well. He decides that he had better go home and repent to his father. He understands he doesn\u2019t deserve to be a son anymore so he\u2019ll just ask to be a slave in the house. This was the way of the Jews at the time. The son would be expected to earn back everything he had squandered. It was appropriate to the mind of the listening Pharisees that the young man prove his seriousness by working off his reproach for the rest of his life.\nFurther, when he returned, he would be expected to wait for days at the edge of town so the townspeople could heap contempt on the boy for dishonoring his father. This was the manner of men when an offense was given in families of the Near East where honor is everything.\nBut then the most unexpected and embarrassing thing happens. The most graphic and disturbing thing happens in the minds of religious men. The father has long since been looking for the boy and sees the walk of his ragged boy from afar off. Moved by compassion, the father does the most undignified thing you could do in that culture, he RUNS to the boy. He tackles him. He begins to bathe him in his tears of joy and kisses his neck.\nBut the boy is still convinced that he must complete his plan. He is going to repent to the father and then ask his father if he can be a slave. So he begins: \u201cFather, I have sinned against heaven and before you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.\u201d\nBut the plan ends there. He can\u2019t even finish the thought. He\u2019s about to ask to be made a slave in the Father\u2019s house but the Father squeezes the breath out of the boy and shouts \u201cBring my best robe! Bring the ring! Bring sandals for his feet! This is MY SON who was dead and is now alive!\u201d\nYou see the son had squandered his inheritance and brought nothing to his father worthy of acceptance. His plan to please his father with slavery, with showing his father that he was serious about obedience so he could earn acceptance was not the way of salvation. You see, beloved, in God\u2019s Kingdom, there are no slaves, there are only sons!\nCan you imagine the son\u2019s reaction to all of this? What? Grace?! What manner of love is this that I should be called your son?! \u201cAbba! Father!\u201d That is what John marveled at. That is what Paul calls the Galatians to remember. He wants believers to remember that they have received the inheritance of sonship from God by earning nothing from His hand. This is what impels a believer to rejoice and then to redound back with love to his Savior for all the wonderful things He has done.\nAnd so Paul asks with renewed wonder in Galatians 4:9 as he asks them: \u201c 9But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world\u201d Do you see why Paul keeps expressing amazement that men would forget the life and the inheritance they have in Christ by wanting to go back to the principles that enslaved them? This is what righteousness by the deeds of the law represents \u2013 an abandonment of the inheritance given freely in the Gospel.\nPaul concludes Galatians 4 with the most insulting thing of all for the Judaizers. He reminds everyone that Abraham had two sons and not one. One was born by natural means. Abraham took Sarah\u2019s maid, Hagar, at her bidding to take matters into his own hands and produce offspring by the strength of the flesh. His name was Ishmael. But God wanted the Promised Seed to come by His power. So He caused a 100 year old man and 99 year old woman to be raised from death into life and gave Sarah the ability to conceive a child \u2013 Isaac through whom the promised Seed would come.\nIshmael, remember, was circumcised. But when Isaac was 3 years old, they had a big party to celebrate his weaning and Ishmael mocked the boy. Ishmael was the oldest. Ishmael was the first just like the Judaizers were \u201colder\u201d than the Galatians. Ishmael gloried in being Abraham\u2019s seed just like the Judaizers did.\nBut the greatest shock is that the child of natural descent has no part in Abraham and is sent away because he has no faith. Those still looking to the Law delivered on Mount Sinai are living again in the Desert of Sin in Arabia outside the land of promised rest. The Judaizers trust in the Law and will not enter the rest. But all of us who trust in Christ are in the New Jerusalem, and have received the promise of rest in Christ. We are Isaac \u2013 sons and true heirs by faith.\nFriends, God knows your weakness. He knows that men will try to approach Him on their own strength and men with great moral character will become proud in their own status and convince others that trusting in Christ\u2019s righteousness isn\u2019t enough. If you listen to them long enough and look at them long enough, you begin to be convinced of how morally upright they are. You begin to become convinced that they are the free ones \u2013 they are the good people \u2013 they are the blessed people.\nBut God reminds you again that those who trust in the deeds done in the flesh for their salvation will come up short on the perfect measure of His righteousness for cursed is every man that does not continue to perform everything written in it. He reminds us that even those that are set apart, like Ishmael, have lost their inheritance when they turn away from the promise inherited by faith and begin looking to performance in the strength of the flesh.\nCome to your senses. Remember Christ. He did not die in vain for He knew that only He could accomplish righteousness for His people. You are a child of God saved from the principles of this world. Don\u2019t look back but continue to ever look to the Cross of Christ \u2013 the only place where God\u2019s righteousness on our behalf is found \u2013 the only place were freedom and the perfect rest in Christ is found.\nCategories: Epistles, Scripture Tags: Abraham, Christ, free, Galatians, Isaac, love, Sarah, word, works", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 20891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sowonderfulsomarvelous.com/2010/05/if-i-had-million-dollars.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2MUXZSHJN5WC3ZKVRS72272BAJZNPBRI", "length": 937, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sowonderfulsomarvelous.com", "title": "If I Had A Million Dollars... | {So Wonderful, So Marvelous}", "raw_content": "Tonight, we're going to the Barenaked Ladies concert.\nWish me camera sneaking luck... you know the track record isn't that great when I take Dave with me as evidenced by the Elton John fiasco, so I am not holding my breath. I'm taking one for the {blog} team and we'll see how far we get.\nSo spill it, if you had a million dollars, what would you buy?\nHaven't you always wanted a monkey?\nI'm looking forward to some \"illegal\" photos. There are so many things that I would want to do with a million dollars.....so many things I would want to do with a thousand dollars!!\nWhere are they playing???? I did not know this was happening...I love them.\nAs for the million dollars: pay off debt, quit my job, and travel. In that order.\nJack, they're at the zoo! You could get in the car right now and be here, just to listen to the concert in the park across the street for free!\nDamn that sucks! Stupid moving and packing...hope it was awesome!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 3955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.space-awareness.org/cs/scoops/1403/your-weather-report-from-across-the-galaxy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NBHDSPCGYAWSKXBDXVYAGOIT4BWA3GV4", "length": 1789, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.space-awareness.org", "title": "Your Weather Report From Across the Galaxy | P\u0159e\u010dt\u011bte si S\u00f3lokapry z vesm\u00edru | Space Awareness", "raw_content": "\"Hi, this is 'Milky Way Galaxy Weather'. Here's your daily weather report...We couldn't ask for better weather on planet Zoltex. Right now, it's fifty degrees and clear. We're expecting orange skies throughout the day, with a small chance of methane rain during the night. This good weather can't last forever.\"\nCould this be the future of weather reporting? You might have heard weather reports on the TV or radio. These use information collected by satellites surrounding the Earth to monitor our weather.\nWe have also sent spacecraft out into the Solar System which tell us about conditions on the surface of other planets and moons (for example, the Mars Express which is currently orbiting Mars). Now astronomers are starting to map the weather on other worlds well beyond our Solar System.\nUsing very powerful telescopes, scientists have just created the first ever map of the weather on a brown dwarf! Using a clever technique astronomers were able to create a map of the dark and light patches on its surface. Soon, we will be able to watch cloud patterns form, evolve, and disappear \u2014 just like on Earth.\nBrown dwarfs are called \"failed stars\" by some astronomers. Unlike stars such as our Sun, they never become hot enough for a nuclear fire to ignite in their hearts. .\nThis brown dwarf was discovered only as recently as this year. It is part of the third closest star system to the Earth, after Alpha Centauri and Barnard's star. Brown dwarfs are very useful for studying the atmospheres of young, giant planets which are similar, only brown dwarfs are much larger than planets.\nJupiter's 'Great Red Spot' is actually a giant hurricane known to have been roaring across the planet since at least 1831, and it might continue for many more centuries yet!\nTemn\u00e1 str\u00e1nka hv\u011bzdokup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.speakbosnian.com/bosnian-lesson-97--conjunctions-4.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GCIPRDAL3WBY62SXEHGNWLETI56J5CMP", "length": 894, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.speakbosnian.com", "title": "Bosnian Lesson 97- Conjunctions 4 - Speak Bosnian", "raw_content": "He fell asleep although the TV was on.\nHe stayed a while although it was late.\nHe didn\u2019t come although we had made an appointment.\nThe TV was on. Nevertheless, he fell asleep.\nIt was already late. Nevertheless, he stayed a while.\nWe had made an appointment. Nevertheless, he didn\u2019t come.\nAlthough he has no license, he drives the car.\nAlthough the road is slippery, he drives so fast.\nAlthough he is drunk, he rides his bicycle.\nDespite having no licence / license (am.), he drives the car.\nDespite the road being slippery, he drives fast.\nDespite being drunk, he rides the bike.\nAlthough she went to college, she can\u2019t find a job.\nAlthough she is in pain, she doesn\u2019t go to the doctor.\nAlthough she has no money, she buys a car.\nShe went to college. Nevertheless, she can\u2019t find a job.\nShe is in pain. Nevertheless, she doesn\u2019t go to the doctor.\nShe has no money. Nevertheless, she buys a car.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 149.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spiritof45.org/girl_scouts_.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:01Z", "digest": "sha1:5ACOIGEBASMWAFYDNV7I3GJDT3HCJHZT", "length": 10379, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.spiritof45.org", "title": "Girl Scouts", "raw_content": "Girl Scouts are keeping the Spirit of '45 alive\nAnd Remembering the Women Who Made History on the Home Front during WWII\nGirl Scouts during WWII\nGirl Scouts of America have a proud WWII heritage.\nScouts helped sell war bonds, tend Victory Gardens, and collected metals and other materials to be reused. During the war, Girl Scouts collected 1.5 million items of clothing for war refugees. Girl Scouts also formed \u201cDefense Institutes\u201d for teaching women necessary skills and ways to comfort children during possible air raids. Troops made calendars instead of the Girl Scout cookies, so they could help with food rationing when sugar and flour were in short supply.\nIn New York City, for example, the Girl Scouts registered 10,000 members for \u201cvictory service\u201d by setting up bureaus strategically spread across the city.\nScouts provided medical assistance to the Office of Civilian Defense, the Red Cross, local hospitals and others in connection to the war effort. In 1942, the Girl Scouts started a hospital aide program for senior girls. High schoolers were trained to help with feeding patients, performing clerical work, serving as messengers, preparing supplies and equipment, and making beds. No official uniform was provided, but many girls made smocks of green-and-white striped cloth, or wore white smocks over their Girl Scout uniforms.\nTo honor the Girl Scouts, a Liberty ship was named for the organization\u2019s founder. The S.S. Juliette Low was launched on May 12, 1944 at the Southeastern Ship Yards in Savannah, Georgia, Juliette Gordon Low\u2019s hometown. The ship was christened by Margaret Gordon, the first Girl Scout and Juliette Gordon Low\u2019s niece.\nGirl Scouts and Spirit of '45\nGirl Scout troops have participated in the Keep the Spirit of '45 Alive campaign since its earliest days and are now participating in the national Rosie the Riveter Rose Gardens campaign.\nThe Girl Scouts of Greater New York City executive team attended the Spirit of '45 Day kickoff announcement that was held in Times Square on August 14, 2009.\nGirl Scouts from Chula Vista, CA, attended the rally on the USS Midway in January 2010 that launched the campaign to get Congress to unanimously pass Spirit of '45 Day, and participated in the first Spirit of '45 Day event at their local veterans home on August 14 of that year.\nGirl Scouts were the first to volunteer for the annual Spirit of '45 Day Memorial Day March of WWII Gold Stars that has been central feature of the National Memorial Day Parade every year since 2009.\nGirl Scouts were also among the first to organize Spirit of '45 entries in their local Veterans Day parades in New York City, San Diego, San Jose, and other cities.\nGirl Scouts troops were involved in planting the first generation of Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Gardens and have launched a campaign to establish Gardens at Girl Scout camps across the country.\nGirl Scouts parrticipated in the Spirit of '45 Day campaign kick off rally on the USS Midway in San Diego in January 2010 which led to Congress voting unanimously for a national Spirit of '45 Day to honor and preserve the legacy of the men and women of America's 'greatest generation,\" to be observed on the second weekend in August.\nIn 2009, Girl Scouts in Silicon Valley began carrying enlarged poster photos of members of the Greatest Generation from their community in the San Jose Veterans Day Parade. This idea has become a Spirit of '45 signature program and has inspired the annual Spirit of '45 Veterans Day March of WWII Heroes that is now being introduced to other parades across the country.\nGirl Scouts in Hawaii carry photos of the American servicemen who lost their lives in the December 7, 1941 attack in the annual National Pearl Harbor Day Parade in Honolulu, a tradition that began in 2017 with the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Commemoration.\nMuslim Girl Scouts carry photos of Pearl Harbor Gold Stars in the National Memorial Day Parade in Washington, D.C. which features an annual Spirit of '45 March of Heroes each year. More than 200 Girl Scouts participate each year.\nGirl Scout families have been the heart of the annual Spirit of '45 Memorial Day March of WWII Gold Stars since 2009. The program pays tribute to the more than 400,000 Americans who died serving the cause of freedom and democracy during World War II, and concludes each year with a special wreath laying ceremony in the National World War II Memorial.\nGirl Scouts participate in Spirit of '45 Day wreath laying ceremony at the East Coast WWII Memorial in New York City's Battery Park.\nGirl Scout leader Val Pfundstein and her daughter led the Spirit of '45 youth recruitment effort in New York for several years, including supporting the annual Times Square event in August and organizing the Spirit of '45 entry in the NYC Veterans Day Parade.\nNew York Girl Scouts join legendary Tuskegee Airman Dr. Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. as he presents the Spirit of '45 Day National Leadership Medal to Walgreens in Times Square in appreicaiton of its support.\nTuskegee Airman Dr. Roscoe C. Brown's Spirit of '45 Day Message\nSenior Girl Scouts set the pace for Spirit of '45 March of WWII Heros entries in the New York City Veterans Day parade, the nation's largest, which has become a model for other Veterans Parades around the country as a way to continue to honor the WWII veterans in their communities and involve youth and families.\nVal and her New York Girl Scouts introduced the idea of dressing up like Rosie the Riveter as a way to symbolize the Home Front support for the armed forces of the Greatest Generation, an idea that continues to be part of the annula Spirit of '45 entry in the NYC Veterans Day Parade and is now catching on in other parts of the country.\nNew York's Rosiettes participated in the Spirit of '45 Memorial Day March of Heroes and placed wreaths at the Women in Military Service Memorial in Washington, D.C. and in Arlington National Cemetery at the gravesite of the late Senator Frank Lautenberg, who co-sponsored Spirit of '45 Day when it was passed unanimously by the U.S. Congress in 2010. (Lautenberg was one of the last two WWII veterans to serve in the Senate.)\nFollowing literally in Val's footsteps, hundreds of young girls now sign up each year to represent the Spirit of the WWII veterans - and the Rosies who supported them on the Home Front - in New York and other cities in America on Veterans Day.\nGirl Scouts are now promoting public awareness and participation in National Rosie the Riveter Day and the Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Gardens campaign by carrying banners in their Veterans Day parades.\nGirl Scout Troop leader Linda Lacomente (above with photo) is now coordinating the Spirit of '45 entry in the NYC Veterans Day Parade. She and her Scouts organized the planting of New York's first Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden next to the East Coast WWII Memorial in Battery Park. which was dedicated by Elinor Otto during a visit on June 1, 2018.\nGirl Scouts in Durango, CO learn how to sew their Rosie bandanas that they will wear when they march in their local Veterans Day parade and dedicate their Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden.\nMore than 100 Girl Scouts in San Diego march each year in their local Veterans Day Parade with photos of Honor Flight WWII veterans, donated by their local Walgreens store.\nSan Diego Girl Scouts also take part in the popular Spirit of '45 Day community event that is held each year in Balboa Park, and participated in the 2015 round the world wreath laying that concluded the Spirit of '45 WWII 70th Anniversary Commemorative Weekend in 2015.\nYouth volunteers from the Girl Scouts of Washington, DC Sudden Service program and children of Chinese Embassy staff present Doolittle Raiders Wall of Honor at the inaugural wreath laying ceremony held at the Air Force Memorial on April 18, 2017 to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Doolittle Raid.\nMadeleine LeBeau, a Girl Scout Gold Award recipient, has been active in Spirit of '45 for more than 5 years. Madeleine organized a Spirit of '45 Day ceremony at the National WWII Memorial on August 14, 2017, featuring the late Capt. Jerry Yellin, that was attended by more than 100 Girl Scouts.\nWatch Capt. Yellin's video with Scalett Johansson\nRead Capt. Yellin's Farewell Message to America's next Greatest Generation\nMadeleine organized a welcome for Spirit of '45 Day spokeswoman Elinor Otto, when she came to Washington, D.C. in September 2017 to receive a life time achievement award from the Air Force Association on the 70th anniversary of the formation of the U.S. Air Force.\n97-year-old 'Rosie the Riveter' welcomed by Girl Scouts on arrival in Washington\nOn March 21, 2018, Madeline represented the Girl Scouts of the Nation's Capitol at a Capitol Hill reception on National Rosie the Riveter Day, where she met California Congresswoman Jackie Speire, who has co-sponsored bicameral bipartisan legislation for a Rosie the Riveter Congressional Gold Medal.\nMadeleine organized the 2018 Spirit of 45 Memorial Day program at the Air Force Memorial, and recruited hundreds of youth to participate in the Spirit of '45 Memorial Day March of Heroes.\nMore photos of 2017 Memorial Day\nMadeleine organized a dedication ceremony on October 28, 2018, for Virginia's first Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden, which was attended by Elinor Otto - aka \"America's Longest Working Rosie the Riveter\" who was celebrating her 99th birthday that day.\nVirginia's first Rosie Garden planted at Girl Scout Camp on Elinor Otto's 99th birthday\nMore photos of the dedication ceremony on the iWitnessed -iRemember Facebook page\nGirl Scouts came out to help dedicate a Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Garden that was planted by the Air Force Association in the Veterans Memorial Park in Callaway, FL.\nGirl Scout welcomes Elinor Otto to a Memorial Day Rosie Rally at the Glenn L. Martin Aviation Museum in Baltimore.\nGirl Scouts and senior executives hosted America's Longest Working Rosie Elinor Otto when she visited Chicago and New York City to promote interest in Spirit of '45 and the Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Gardens campaign.\nGirl Scouts earn patches for participating in Spirit of '45 and Rosie the Riveter Memorial Rose Gardens projects\nGirl Scouts share their WWII heritage with Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren at annual Spirit of '45 Day event in San Jose's History Park", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 12770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sportinmalta.com/weightlifting-owen-bugeja-set-two-new-national-records-in-the-94kg-category-with-a-94-kg-snatch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:12Z", "digest": "sha1:EN4IUN6JG6KCVYQO34M3PECDICAMESP4", "length": 2016, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sportinmalta.com", "title": "Weightlifting: Owen Bugeja set two new National Records in the 94kg category with a 94 kg snatch", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Weightlifting: Owen Bugeja set two new National Records in the 94kg category with a 94 kg snatch\nWeightlifting: Owen Bugeja set two new National Records in the 94kg category with a 94 kg snatch\nThe Malta Weightlifting Association successfully organised the Malta Open Championship. A good number of athletes participated in this important yearly event.\nThe competition was opened by the cadets, who although still very young, showed perfect ability to perform technique. This category was won by the 7 year old Rylee Borg.\nThe second competition was for female athletes. The under 17 event was won by Sarah Grixti, lifting the total of 105kg, for 112 points. The seniors competition was won by Nathalie Borg, who showed magnificent technique and a promising future as one of the MWA pillars. She closed the competition with 149 points.\nMale juniors and under 17 categories performed at a high level, with six national records being broken. Kieran Mifsud won this event, lifting a total of 235kg for 264 points. He was followed by Owen Bugeja with a total of 200kg and 237 points. The 3rd place was taken by Andy Grech, a promising athlete.\nOwen Bugeja set two new National Records in the 94kg category with a 94 kg snatch, while Kieran Mifsud set four new records in the 94+ kg category with a 105kg snatch and a total of 235kg.\nThe men\u2019s senior category was highlighted by very strong lifts, with many athletes setting personal bests. The overall winner was Rodmar Pulis, lifting a total of 227kg and scoring 288 points. He was followed by the 15 year old Kieran Mifsud. 3rd place went to Martin Pisani with a total of 236kg and 259 points, followed by Matthew Camilleri with a total of 199kg and 241 points.\nAt the closing ceremony, three young athletes, Kieran Mifsud, Owen Bugeja, and Sarah Grixti, were presented certificates for Young Talented Athletes. 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I'm not putting out many of the specific numbers that go into the model, but I hope this is a pretty comprehensive and honest look about how the process works, including the things that worry me.\nThis will probably be too long and dry for most, but I think it's important to have it out there as a reference while it's in action. I welcome your feedback, if you can manage to get through all of this. While I like to think I have developed some expertise on the TV ratings world, I'm much less of an expert on predictive modeling. I've tried to keep the portions that involve that pretty simple, but I'd love to hear if something seems particularly unsound mathematically. I can't promise to get a whole lot more specific than what is included here, but I'll do my best.\nStep One: Adults 18-49 Ratings -> \"True\" (timeslot-adjusted) Ratings\nThe \"True\" part of this process has been around for years, and I hope this year's version of the formula will be the best yet. True takes adults 18-49 ratings and adjusts them for the main factors that define the difficulty of a timeslot: overall TV viewing, timeslot competition, and the surrounding programs. (Yes, for 2016-17 that means both lead-in and lead-out!) This year's updates to the True formula get their own post next week.\nMy very first draft of this model actually used raw numbers instead of True. But when I tried doing the same thing with True ratings, it was immediately clear that the percentages with True numbers absolutely blew the raw ones out of the water. Making the model work well with raw numbers might be possible; other people seem to get along OK with them. But when the later steps of the process are this objective, you really have to have good input numbers; when a show has a special out-of-timeslot episode, you'd have to adjust the future ratings projections for the difficulty of a future timeslot. You'd have to throw in an expected decline after DST. You may have to account for an expected change in lead-in or lead-out. Why go through all those pains when I already have something that (ideally) weeds out the effects of all those things already?\nBut there are a couple downsides to doing this with True numbers that I think you should know about:\n1. Smaller sample size. Using True numbers limits me to just the 2014-15 and 2015-16 seasons for the model inputs, which makes for a limited sample size in some cases and a perhaps dangerously small one in others. In some of the more worrisome cases, I've tried the raw-numbers version of the model both with two years and more than two years to see if there are big deviations, and have been reasonably OK with the results. But I try to highlight some of the times that worries me below (mostly with projecting network averages).\nWhy just those seasons? Updating True every year allows me to keep a lot of things constant within the one year for which it is intended. In a historical True measurement, the changing nature of television would require many more parts of the formula to become more fluid. I don't think it would be responsible to extend the current formula as is much beyond the last two years, and even doing that would take a lot of extra work. But this sample size problem may finally be what inspires me to work on a more dynamic True formula in the future!\n2. Communicating results. Ideally, I'd like all of these projections of future ratings to be easily translated into raw numbers, so you can see things like where we project a show's final ratings average and A18-49+ average will end up. Instead, all of these projections have to be communicated in True ratings that you can't easily match up with what you see when the day's ratings come out. I may work on some way of converting True numbers back into raw, with all the headaches of future timeslots involved above. But doing it this way makes it a problem of delivery, rather than a problem that affects the actual predictions themselves. Lesser of two evils.\nStep Two: True Ratings -> Future True Ratings\nWhen testing models in this process, it seemed better to go with late-season ratings rather than full season averages, even though early data points still correlate pretty well. ABC's The Muppets and NBC's Heroes Reborn both had major post-premiere collapses, and got cancelled even though their complete season averages were not really that bad.\nAs I said in the intro, Renewology's biggest \"innovation\" from a prediction standpoint is in this step, where we convert the most recent ratings into a ratings level where we expect them to settle down the line. It's not that big an adjustment once a show has been on the air for a month or so, but it can be very interesting in the earliest weeks of a show's season (especially a new show).\nThis is something I've been working on for the last couple years, and you can see them in both the SpotVaults and the Plus Power Rankings from those seasons. Past years have gone with two separate equations, one for new shows and one for returning shows. The returnee equation was based entirely on each individual show's year-to-year trends, with the expectation that a show would continue its recent year-to-year trend going forward. And the newbie model was based on a broader approach, looking at the average week-to-week behavior for new series in the past.\nI took a look at these projections and was interested to notice that the newbie model, where there's no previous data for that show, was actually better than the returnee one which had an entire previous season to go on. The returnee one was particularly bad with second season shows, because the early weeks of the previous season are often heavily inflated.\nSo these ratings projections have gone with something resembling the new show model for all shows. Instead of focusing on just the one show's past history, it aggregates a ton of previous seasons from many different shows, and looks at how ratings have developed from this point forward historically.* But I should note that there are still separate trajectories for new shows and returning shows, because new shows tend to drop a lot more in the early weeks.\n*- Why is there no unscripted Renewology? Part of it is general lack of interest, which is why unscripted gets the shaft at other sites. But another key factor is that many unscripted shows need a different model. With scripted shows, it's usually fine to assume they will be steady in True throughout the season unless their actual strength is changing. There are a few shows that tend to spike more for premieres/finales, but they are not nearly as egregious as the unscripted exceptions. Shows like The Voice and The Bachelor have clear show-specific trajectories. We have seen audition-based shows like The Voice and American Idol get much weaker in the later part of the season, then come back very strong at the beginning of the next season, while the Bachelor franchise is just the opposite. The late-season results are clearly not a weakening/strengthening of the franchise as a whole, but something inherent to the content in those different parts of the season. Scripted shows don't have that issue. So projections with these unscripted shows work better by just looking at their own individual histories, and judging their strength should be done with the full season rather than just the later episodes. Those things can be incorporated, and might be in the future, but I just couldn't get to it in this earliest edition.\nIn this first run, I don't do any subsetting beyond the new/returning separation; in other words, all new shows with the same episode order are expected to drop the same amount post-premiere. This can probably be refined, but the sample sizes are not that big within the subsets, and the relationships tested didn't bear a lot of compelling fruit. I was a bit surprised to see that comedies and dramas have almost the exact same trajectory. Though I would tend to think bigger premieres drop harder, the evidence there was not that compelling either. (Might be because the biggest premiere (Empire) also had the best post-premiere trend!) There did seem to be some connection with network; ABC and NBC shows seem to drop more than CBS and Fox ones, but I'm holding off on that for now. I'm also interested in looking at whether things like timeslot difficulty and critical acclaim have any effect on the trajectory. Maybe next year.\nI want to clarify what I mean by projecting the ratings from \"this point forward.\" For \"this point,\" I am not usually talking about literally this one data point. The True \"rolling average\" is calculated the same way it has been done for years in the True Power Rankings: an average of the most recent one-third of episodes this season, rounded up. That means in weeks one, two, and three of the season, it is based on just one data point, but beyond that it begins aggregating multiple points. I think this does a lot more good than harm; it immediately discards very early season episodes, where there is a ton of movement. And it keeps the model from overreacting to noisy week-to-week fluctuations once we have a lot of data.\nAs for \"forward\": what we are projecting is not the full season average, but the \"rolling average\" for the end of the season. In another words, it's the True average for the last one-third of the full-season episode order. I have to stay somewhat on top of episode orders, but most new shows with a back-nine option are just given an order of 22 to begin with, because they'll likely need to get an extension to get renewed, and the episodes 9-13 projection is not that different from the episodes 15-22 projection anyway. (The size of the order would make a much bigger difference if we were actually projecting the full season average, since it would matter a lot how much to weight the inflated early episodes.)\nSimulating the Future Drop\nIt is also important to note that the formula does not simply find the single projected average and run that one number into the model in Step Four. Instead, it uses the mean and standard deviation of these past cases to generate 20,000 random normal simulations of the drop from \"this point forward.\" It runs all of those simulations through Steps Three and Four individually, and the final projection is the average of all 20,000 resulting probabilities.\nWhy bother with the simulations? Why wait to average those points until Step Four? Basically it's because all ratings points are not created equal. If you look at the illustration in the Step Four section, you'll see the logistic regression model looks like a steep cliff. If the opening projection is on the top edge of the cliff, that'd be a very healthy place to be... if correct. But if you end up a couple tenths below that projection, your probability starts dropping fast. If you overachieve it, there's not really that much to be gained because you're already at the top of the cliff. So the simulated average ends up being a lot less certain, because it accounts for the much lower probability in the bad scenarios. While we are predicting future ratings, we're trying to account for the uncertainty of those predictions as well.\nAs more results come in, the uncertainty will shrink, and it'll become safer to reside on that top edge of the cliff. Even if the projected averages are exactly the same, the model will be more decisive about the outcome later in the order.\nStep Three: Future True Ratings -> Network-Adjusted Future True Ratings\nNow we get into the steps that are not particularly original in the renew/cancel industry, but I hope I am bringing a slightly more sophisticated take to the table. The first one is to adjust the ratings for the network's ratings. When vying for a spot on next season's schedule, you're fighting with other shows on your network. So the ratings of those shows is a major factor.\nThe other guys' baseline for this is the average of the network's entire scripted department. That is a fine approach, but I tried a few different things and found two that I thought added a bit more value. So I use a blend of those two.\nThe first one is the average of the network's entire original department, including unscripted series. Why would this be better than the scripted-only average? It's because it gives at least a slightly better sense about how many shows the network will renew. When you adjust for the scripted-only average, you're essentially saying that each network's scripted department is equal, and each network will pretty much renew at the same levels.\nThis can be a problematic assumption when a network has very strong unscripted programming and weak scripted, like NBC for most of the time since the rise of The Voice. In the last couple years (and probably before that), NBC has renewed at least a couple fewer shows than a scripted-only approach says they \"should,\" because a large chunk of the schedule is already dedicated to reliable unscripted shows. Weighing in the network's considerable unscripted strength can help account for some of that.\nThe old Cancellation Bear analogy says that it's not about outrunning the bear, it's about outrunning the other guys. I would add that it's about outrunning the other guys until the bear has gotten full. I think this adds at least some acknowledgement of how far up the totem pole the bear will dine.\nIf the first average is more broad than the traditional approach, the second average is more specific: the network average of only its category, with \"category\" meaning comedy vs. drama on the big four. When a network has a significant imbalance between comedies and dramas, it is typically kinder to the lesser department and harsher to the stronger department. I have always separated the True Power Rankings into separate sections by network and category, so I like to think this is not a new development even at this site. But it's a definitely a more formal version.\nThis helps to reduce the odds with shows like Angel from Hell and The McCarthys on CBS, which actually had pretty good numbers compared with the entire network, but looked a lot less favorable compared with the rest of the network's stout comedy department. And it also boosts the odds somewhat on something like NBC's The Carmichael Show, which looked like a big reach compared to the entire network but merely a small reach when looking at the other dire comedies.\nThe category average is different on the CW; rather than comedy vs. drama, it is distribution studio (Warner Bros. vs. CBS). This is probably the closest thing to a \"non-ratings\" factor in the formula, but it's still derived by looking at the ratings average from each studio. The network has had a blatant renewal bias toward CBS Studios shows in recent years, so those shows get a big bonus in the formula from the weakness of the studio average. This is one of the formula's more significant adjustments, and we could end up looking foolish if the network suddenly starts treating CBS shows on a level playing field. But I think there's a solid pile of recent evidence to justify its inclusion, from Beauty and the Beast to Reign to Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. We may add a studio component for the big four networks in the future, but it seems to be a lot less blatant on those networks.\nFinally, each average gets a minor adjustment that I call the \"network generosity\" factor. This is a slight tweaking of the average specific to each network based on its historic renewal tendencies. It's basically designed to get the projected total number of renewals to approximately in line with what each individual network has done historically. I took kind of an unscientific approach to this for now, but basically it correlates with how many short-order/midseason/summer renewals a network tends to make. Without this, the formula would vastly underestimate the renewal behavior of the CW, which put three returning dramas on the regular season bench and sent another one to summer. And it would overestimate the CBS renewals, since they have a modest bench and such a high volume of shows that are intended to air for the full season. The sample size is worrisome here, and I could get pretty screwed by this if, say, the CW suddenly scales way back on renewals, but I take some solace that the numbers were quite consistent from 2014-15 to 2015-16 within each network. Still, due to those concerns these are pretty small adjustments; if the networks play exactly to form again in 2016-17, they won't go quite far enough.\nThe final network average is a weighted blend of the two averages described above: 60% entire original department, 40% category average, plus the \"network generosity\" adjustment.\nFuture Network Averages\nThe model was initially built with full seasons, where we knew what the final target averages would be at the end. In practice, as the season is ongoing, we won't have that luxury. So like with individual shows, we're also projecting where each network's final True averages will be at the season's end. The broad network averages are projected kinda similarly to the individual show averages: applying historical data about how the average develops over the course of the season. This can help account for a network's future weak points in the season (like a hiatus for The Voice). Admittedly, it's another place where the sample size is very small (just two years of averages for each network). But the general smoothing effect of the True formula means that these adjustments are usually not terribly far from where the season-to-date averages are.\nAnd the category projections, at least in the early weeks, use data from the end of past seasons about how category averages relate to full network averages. Generally, these categories are quite volatile early in the season, particularly with networks that have uneven rollouts (like CBS due to Thursday football). So for at least the first half of the season we put much more weight on the end-of-season ratios from past seasons, rather than actual data. It shifts exclusively to the actual data from the current season after week 20, which is about when these ratios became reliably pretty close to the end-of-season numbers.\nThese projected network averages are calculated just once per week, at the end (after Sunday numbers are in), and then used for all points over the next week (the next Monday to Sunday). The idea here is that each point within a week has a consistent baseline, that should be solidified with Saturday and Sunday finals before it's ever actually put to use. There may be some weeks when some preliminary numbers go into these averages, especially when there are Nielsen delays due to holidays and stuff, and they get tweaked to a tiny degree in the period before Sunday finals come in. But hopefully it won't be too noticeable.\nBy the way, I had to come up with some very rough preseason baselines to use during week one (and prior to week one). So they assume each network will drop 5% from its final True average the previous season. This is just a bit less than the league average True decline from 2014-15 to 2015-16. In order to account for the lack of American Idol on Fox, and the detrimental effect that may have, I excluded it from the 2015-16 average used in Fox's projections. These may end up being really bad but fortunately they'll only be used as placeholders for one week.\nNetwork Averages on Display\nI want to note something about the \"target\" averages, either in the SpotVault or through other Renewology articles. Please keep in mind that these are not the actual network averages. Instead, they're what this formula perceives to be the \"bubble\": the point where renewal is exactly 50%. If you refer to the illustration below, you can see that a 0.5 renewal probability equates to almost exactly 75% of the network average. So you can multiply any of these \"targets\" by 1.33333333 and get a very close approximation of the actual network average being used. I also plan on introducing a Climate Center page that lists the components of the network averages used in Renewology.\nStep Four: Network-Adjusted Future True Ratings -> Renewal Percentages\nThe big idea behind this step isn't very original either: take those relative numbers and convert them to percent chance that the show will be renewed. At other sites, these are usually communicated in broad categories, ranging from \"certain to be cancelled\" (one smiley face) to \"certain to be renewed\" (five smiley faces). This model will produce actual percentage numbers, which is cool, but I still wouldn't put a ton of weight into small percentage fluctuations. I still think it's helpful to break them into those same kinds of broader categories.\nWith the other guys, this conversion process is pretty subjective, and can be colored by \"rules\" based on scheduling tendencies from outside of the ratings realm. In Renewology, for better or worse, it is very objective. These percentages come straight from a logistic regression model, a useful way of approaching predictions with only two possible outcomes (like renew vs. cancel). Trying many of these is how I landed on the criteria described above: late-season, network-adjusted True ratings. This creates an equation in which you can plug in any network-adjusted True rating and come up with an actual percentage number. The curve looks like this:\nA very important thing to note is that this logistic regression model was created using only new shows, though we will be using it to put out forecasts for all scripted series. Why only new shows? Because new shows tend to be more of a true ratings meritocracy. There are a handful of exceptions, but in general, new series haven't been on the air long enough to become bogged down by exorbitant costs, and they also usually don't have huge back-end windfalls secured. For the most part, new shows have to earn their way to season two with ratings, which is the kind of thing we're trying to model here.\nIn practice, the choice to use only new shows helps create a slightly more decisive model, because it removes most of the shows for which ratings are basically irrelevant. The all-shows model introduces much more uncertainty: both with very low-rated series, due to the renewals of shows like The Good Wife, Madam Secretary and Elementary, and with high-rated series. Most of the big misses on that side are with pre-announced final seasons that ended the season with slam-dunk renewal ratings like Two and a Half Men and Parenthood. Basically, I decided I didn't want those decisions bleeding into other forecasts, because they're separate from the ratings realm and don't really have an impact on the probability of some random new show getting renewed. It does mean that the actual forecasts for the Madam Secretary's of the world will be way, way too pessimistic. And the fact that we give any chance to announced final seasons is obviously incorrect. But those problems would've been the case even if they were included in the logistic regression, just not quite as bad. I'd rather miss bigger on those particular shows than have them bleed into the other shows. I may end up having to devise some way of indicating where I think you should ignore the projections, though that can be a slippery slope.\nThat said, while the curve is kinda steep, there's definitely still some uncertainty in this thing. When you see a show you think is completely dead given a 10-20% chance, I would not totally discount that. Those percentages come from actual reach renewals like the first seasons of Galavant, American Crime and Scream Queens. We had Supergirl at 90%ish to return to CBS. They would've been big \"misses\" in this formula, and I really don't have a problem with that because I was surprised by them when they happened. That's what the percentages are for. Maybe everything plays to form this year, and we end up looking really under-confident. But I'm not holding my breath. I'm a lot more worried about there being more reach decisions.\nWhat Is Not In Renewology?\nSo that's basically the process in a nutshell. I guess you could probably infer this from reading all of that, but here are some things that this hard numbers equation doesn't have a way of addressing (but may in the future):\n1. Costs/syndication/streaming windfalls. It has long been conventional wisdom that networks will completely ignore first-run ratings in certain situations, in the pursuit of getting their shows into syndication. The wording behind this \"rule\" has changed a lot over the years. I think there's probably a version of it that would have a lot of value , but for now I am admitting I'm not smart enough and/or didn't have enough time to find it.\n2. Media buzz. Renewology doesn't adjust for anything that anybody else on the Internet says about a show's fate. In a lot of cases with connected insiders, it'd help to weigh that, but not always. Even if the buzz seems to be pointing one way, seeing the state of a show's ratings might help show when the buzz could be wrong.\n3. Actual outcomes. We don't have any adjustment based on a show getting an episode extension or an order-trimming. I'm not really worried about this in most cases; if a show actually gets its order trimmed, hopefully we'll have been rather bearish about it already. And while an episode extension can't hurt, plenty of poor-rated shows have gotten extensions but not second seasons.\nAnother aspect that might be a bit more worrisome is that the model does not react to decisions on other shows. In other words, if a network early-renews 15 shows, that probably should reduce the odds of the ones that got left behind. But it won't do that here, at least not for now.\n4. DVRs and Sub-Demos. I have really ramped up my collection of multi-day DVR and additional demographic data in the last year, but these numbers are not a part of Renewology at this point. Looking at recent ad rates surveys, there's some evidence that it's better to be a heavily-DVRed show rather than a lightly-DVRed show, Live+SD ratings being equal. And it's also quite possible that, much like how we reward comedies on a comedy-weak network, certain shows should benefit from reaching demographic audiences that the network often struggles to reach.\n#4 is omitted not because of ability, but because of availability. They often don't come out till days or even weeks later, and I'm really interested in the Renewology numbers coming out in real-time and not continually shifting from what is initially reported. I also think the True formula helps account for some of what these would add... shows in bad timeslots are often the ones that get big DVR boosts, and True rewards them for that. And some of the demographic thing might be captured in part by looking at skew compatibility with a show's lead-in and lead-out. But these are still factors I anticipate talking about some in the more subjective \"roundup\" columns.\nWhy Are These Factors Not Included?\nI'm leaving them out because I don't (yet) have a good way of quickly quantifying them and, frankly, I'm not sold that anyone else does either. Over the years, I've been a skeptic of a lot of the non-ratings factors, and I think that skepticism has proven fairly warranted. The conventional wisdom says that first-run ratings are becoming less a part of the picture, and there's truth in that. But most of the biggest \"mistakes\" from the other guys in recent years have actually come from not trusting the ratings enough. Shows like The Millers and The Mindy Project had marginal or worse ratings but were considered \"certain renewals\" due to perceived syndication factors. Shows like Code Black and iZombie, with marginal or better ratings, were completely dismissed because of some historical scheduling tendency surrounding partial episode extensions.\nI'm not saying there isn't value in some of these things. I would quibble about how big of a reach some of the renewals used to create the syndication rule really were. But enough marginal shows have survived that there does seem to be something there. Still, it was a big mistake to assume these rules were 0% or 100% propositions just because they had been that way in the past, and it has led to a bevy of misses on \"certain\" predictions when the ratings were telling a very different story. When you're missing multiple \"certain\" calls per year and amending the rules each time, claiming they have that level of authority starts to look kinda irresponsible. For now, I'm just admitting that I don't know.\nSo for better or worse, Renewology is a measurement of ratings merit. Instead of hiding the actual ratings picture behind subjective rules, we're just showing you what the ratings picture is. If you're looking for a technical definition of Renewology, or if I'm looking to cover my rear end, it might be better to say: \"What percentage of shows at this ratings level get renewed?\" rather than: \"What are this specific show's chances of being renewed?\"\nMuch like the True formula*, the Renewology model isn't going to be changed as the season is ongoing, with the exception of blatantly obvious bugs. It was mostly built using full seasons, but there are a lot of additional complications involved in making it work with incomplete information. So I may have to do some emergency fix if things are clearly getting thrown egregiously off. However, the actual assumptions are locked in as of the first tables posting on Tuesday and do not change, period.\n*- There is one exception with the True formula: I've usually given myself a week or two at the start of the season to see some actual results, just to verify that True is on pace to finish with the same league average as raw numbers. In past years, that has meant withholding the formula entirely in the early weeks. This year, that ain't happening, but I will still do that check after a week or two are in the books. So there may be a minor tweak to the True numbers you see at the beginning of the season. However, it will be a global adjustment, and every show will be increased or reduced equally, so it will not have a significant effect on the R%.\nIt will stay as is mostly for integrity reasons; it loses its credibility if I'm re-training it and wiping away past predictions while it's in action. But I am also really looking forward to getting a break from working on the formula itself (as well as these methodological write-ups)! If it becomes a major hassle having to explain away the exceptions of the world, I'm not ruling out some kind of enhancement to the formula that somehow addresses the shows with huge non-ratings factors. But that will be displayed alongside the initial numbers, not as a replacement.\nThough the model doesn't change, there may be some changes in how I illustrate what it spits out. The biggie on display is R%. That's not going away. But the objective nature of this allows for some pretty cool alternative stuff... the \"Collapse\" and \"Resilient\" scenarios on the SpotVault page are only scratching the surface. Here are a few others:\nR% Without Ratings Uncertainty. The R% is a blend of the future ratings uncertainty (Step Two) and the network decision-making uncertainty (Step Four). Obviously, I think that's the best way to do it. But it's also possible to look at these numbers as if there were no ratings uncertainty. In other words, how likely is the network to renew if the current projection of future ratings happens to be exactly right? It can be an interesting snapshot.\nOther Scenarios Without Ratings Uncertainty. Perhaps even more interestingly, I could translate those \"Collapse\" and \"Resilient\" numbers into percentages using the same method. A way of communicating this in practice (using the actual opening week of Quantico), \"We open Quantico at 84% to be renewed. If the ratings projection turns out to be exactly right, it's 97%. But if it has a major collapse, it's only 30%.\"\nLooking at Just This Week. The R% aggregates multiple recent points, and the formula's definition of \"current ratings\" is the average of those points. But it can also display the R% if \"current ratings\" is defined by just the most recent week. As I said above, I usually prefer multiple points once we get beyond the very first few weeks of the season, because a lot of fluctuations are just noise. But it can be fun (or terrifying, I guess) to look at what a show's one-week situation would be if it has a big stinker or spike. This aspect might actually join the formula down the line; many shows have become completely different animals when they come back from lengthy hiatuses, so those may be cases where the super-recent results should be weighted more heavily.\nAt the moment, I don't have an actual plan any for these last few things. A lot of it might get sussed out through the Renewology \"roundup\" columns. I'm just kinda teasing you with some of the possibilities, just in case what I've described in the last 10,000 words of intros is not enough!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 468, "original_length": 42650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ssralmanac.com/mobile/2017/news_20171219.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:04Z", "digest": "sha1:RMXQW3JOGIFWQKF7KWC747U3OBZWEUUH", "length": 6164, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.ssralmanac.com", "title": "2018 Rabbitohs News - NSW Government Commits $8 mil to Heffron", "raw_content": "Heffron Update - NSW Government Commits $8.696 mil to Heffron development\nThe South Sydney Rabbitohs and Souths Cares are set to go to new levels following the announcement of the NSW Government\u2019s commitment of $8.696 million towards the Rabbitohs' Community and High Performance Centre to be built in South Sydney heartland at Heffron Park in Maroubra.\nThe NSW Government have announced the Rabbitohs would receive the funding towards the $25,696 million project at Heffron Park which will supplement previous funding or support from Randwick City Council ($3m), the Federal Government ($10m), the Rabbitohs themselves ($4m). The Community and High Performance Centre at Heffron Park will be a game changer for the Rabbitohs, both on and off the field.\nThe facility will provide the Rabbitohs, Souths Cares and the local community with a state-of-the art facility. The 5,500 square metre project will house Souths Cares\u2019 offices and facilities, the Rabbitohs football department and training facilities, administration offices, a merchandise outlet and a caf\u00e9.\nThis project will create over 90 full-time jobs and help the community and the Rabbitohs connect in the South Sydney district like never before. The community support from the Rabbitohs and Souths Cares will have the opportunity to increase, with Souths Cares setting a target of 15,000 participants going through their programs from 2020.\nThe Rabbitohs\u2019 operations will be consolidated to one site, improving operational efficiency and collaboration between the playing group, football department, administration and Souths Cares. It will also help achieve long term stability for the Football Club by creating new and increased revenue streams while also reducing costs.\nRabbitohs CEO Blake Solly is delighted with today\u2019s announcement. \u201cWe\u2019ve had our plans ready for this project for a long time now and the NSW Government funding was the last piece of the puzzle for us to get underway,\u201d Mr Solly said. \u201cWe\u2019re very thankful for their support as well as the support of Randwick City Council, the Federal Government, Souths Juniors and the NRL. \u201cWe\u2019re keen to get started on the next phase of the project now and we\u2019re aiming to have our Community and High Performance Centre in operation by 2020. \u201cThis is an exciting day for our Club and Souths Cares and I\u2019m sure our Members are as excited as us to see the Club take the next step in its progression.\u201d\nMr Solly says this development will be fantastic for the community and Souths Cares\u2019 operations and programs. \u201cThe Rabbitohs and Souths Cares make a significant contribution to the local community and this NSW Government funding for the Community and High Performance Centre will allow us to do even more,\u201d Mr Solly added. \u201cOur community programs through Souths Cares have already delivered over 300 Aboriginal employment placements. \u201cParticipants in our School to Work program have achieved their HSC at a 93% success rate; substantially higher than the 65% rate for Aboriginal high school students in Australia. \u201cOver 80% of participants in the program have successfully transitioned into employment, training and/or tertiary education within six months after completing school. \u201cThe Rabbitohs KARI Wellbeing Program has visited 45 disadvantaged schools in 2017, engaging over 7,500 students with health and wellbeing messages including anti-bullying, cyber safety, physical activity and nutrition. \u201cSince being established in 2012, our Colgate Oral Health Program has been delivered to over 12,000 primary school students; and in 2017 alone over 200 disadvantaged and/or seriously ill individuals were guests in a Souths Cares \u2018Money Can\u2019t Buy\u2019 game day experience. \u201cThe Community and High Performance Centre will allow us to double the size and reach of these community programs.\u201d\nMr Solly also corrected media reports that the Community and High Performance Centre will lock out members of the community. \u201cUninformed commentary that the Centre won\u2019t be available for community usage is inaccurate, misleading and unfair,\u201d Mr Solly said. \u201cAs part of the partnership with Randwick City Council, local community access to the facility is secured. \u201cThe facility is being designed to promote shared community use through the Souths Cares classroom, which will seat around 120 students, the lecture theatre, the board room and function rooms, meeting rooms, and the community will also have access to the playing field.\n\u201cThe Community and High Performance Centre is also an important part of the Council\u2019s wider investment and masterplan to improve Heffron Park\u2019s position as the sporting hub of the community. \u201cIt is already the largest sporting reserve in the area and a range of sports are played in the park through winter and summer including Rugby League, netball, soccer, touch football, oztag, cricket, cycling, tennis and gymnastics, in addition to housing the Des Renford Leisure Centre. \u201cThe park is also very popular with local residents for walking, jogging and cycling, and our Community and High Performance Centre will supplement and support the Council\u2019s previous, current and future investment into Heffron Park, ensuring there are over one million visitors to the park annually. \u201cThe construction and operation of the Community and High Performance Centre will directly create over 90 FTE jobs which is hugely beneficial to the local community.\u201d\nMr Solly says despite the operations centre being moved to Maroubra, this will not end the Club\u2019s connection with its spiritual home of Redfern. \u201cBy no means are we turning our back on Redfern. We are talking with Souths Juniors about running their representative teams out of Redfern Oval and Souths Cares will continue to run programs with organisations in the area,\u201d Mr Solly said. \u201cRedfern has been the Club\u2019s spiritual home for decades and it will always remain so. \u201cMaroubra is actually the location where the original Rabbitohs chased rabbits which were skinned and sold in the streets around the South Sydney district, which led to our Club being dubbed the Rabbitohs. \u201cThe new development will tie in with our history as does our ties to Redfern and the inner city areas.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 6360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.st-bartholomewsrc-pri.kent.sch.uk/keyboardpiano-club/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:05Z", "digest": "sha1:L75ZPKLZ5IKUBYENLZLI2W7NVOO3AQYT", "length": 136, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.st-bartholomewsrc-pri.kent.sch.uk", "title": "Keyboard/Piano Club | St Bartholomew's Catholic Primary School", "raw_content": "Keyboards Club and Individual Piano Lessons are available.\nPlease leave your details at the office to be passed on to the music teacher.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 3111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.starkwhite.co.nz/whitney-bedford-bio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:41Z", "digest": "sha1:6JE6ETVRDA5WSNBEJ2NFK37M2TY63GFW", "length": 3530, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.starkwhite.co.nz", "title": "Whitney Bedford Bio \u2014 Starkwhite", "raw_content": "Whitney Bedford is an American contemporary painter. Bedford uses her own mark making to bring the original source material of her paintings into the realm of the imaginary. Layered with both ink and oil paint, romantic scenes of destruction, calm at sea, and migrating birds are manipulated to the point of abstraction, showing only vestiges of her starting point.\nBedford aligns herself with the historical school of naval painting, \u201ctrying to update it, or even capsize it, in a way that only a hybrid of educations and living on the edge of the California coast can do.\u201d For Bedford this is a way of claiming rigid, academic imagery and making it her own. She states: \u201cSometimes it is the paint itself that sinks the images. Other times, I push the paintings to reduce their images to abstract forms or landscapes that connote a different space, one aged by time and impossible to revisit.\u201d\nThere is a mercurial quality to Whitney Bedford\u2019s work. Her paintings have a compositional turbulence and a distinctly ominous air \u2013 their listing ships, heavy seas, detached icebergs, temperamental landscapes and low horizons stirring up notions of the sublime \u2013 yet on closer look another language begins to emerge, one altogether more eloquent. Drawing on Bedford\u2019s architectural training, the works are first drafted in fluid, angular marks made with ink often lost in overpainting. Swiftly overlayed with an application of paint that is both beautiful and cruel as it actively creates and destroys, the gestural brushwork and dark ink offer crisp linearity with a capricious, smudgy chaser.\nBedford has forthcoming solo exhibitions in 2018 at Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. Other recent shows include: Bardo Parade,\u201d Art:Concept, Paris, France (2017); The Left Coast, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2017); East of Eden, Carrie Secrist, Chicago, IL (2016); Lost and Found, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand (2016); Night and Day, Taymour Grahne, New York, NY (2015); West of Eden, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA (2015); Whitney Bedford, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (2014); Love Letters, Project Space, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA (2014); Whitney Bedford: This for That, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand (2013).\nRecent group exhibitions include: Anniversary Show, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL (2017); A Verdant Summer, Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Painting: A Transitive Space, ST PAUL ST Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2015); La Femme de trente ans, Art : Concept, Paris, France (2015); Sargent's Daughters, Sargent\u2019s Daughters, New York, NY (2014); Lovers, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand (2014); Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA (2013); Facing the Sublime in Water, CA, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (2012); Water & Power @ Roadside Attraction, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (2012).\nBedford's work is featured in several collections: Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium; Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France; Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houz\u00e9 Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France; Hammer Museum, Hammer Contemporary Collection, Los Angeles, CA; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Miami, FL; and The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.\nBedford currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, including teaching as a guest lecturer at the University of California.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 4023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.step2changeuk.com/uncategorised/93/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:32Z", "digest": "sha1:PZCWZRG4CP2SX4I23IIX664CSQ2E3MX5", "length": 2758, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.step2changeuk.com", "title": "The Five ESSENTIAL Functions of a Great Team \u2013 Step2Change", "raw_content": "\u00b7 10th November 2015\nSource: Model adapted from Patrick Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team\nA quick overview of the Team Model and what gets in the way?\nAs difficult as teamwork can be to achieve, it is not complicated. The true measure of a team is that it accomplishes the results that it sets out to achieve. To do that on a consistent, ongoing basis, a team must develop the five essential functions of a team listed here by embodying the behaviours described for each one.\n#1: Trust: Members of great teams trust one another at a fundamental level, and they are comfortable being vulnerable with each other about their weaknesses, mistakes, fears, and behaviours. They get to a point where they can be completely open with one another, without filters. This is essential to enable teams to\u2026.\n#2: Manage Conflict: Teams that trust one another are not afraid to engage in robust dialogue around issues and decisions that are key to the organisation\u2019s success. They do not hesitate to disagree with, challenge, and question one another, all in the spirit of finding the best answers and making great decisions. This is essential to enable teams to achieve a high level of\u2026\u2026.\n#3: Commitment: Teams that engage in unfiltered conflict are able to achieve genuine buy-in around important decisions, even when various members of the team initially disagree. That\u2019s because they ensure that all opinions and ideas are put on the table and considered, giving confidence to team members that no stone has been left unturned. This is critical to hold each other\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\n#4: Accountability: Teams that commit to decisions and standards of performance do not hesitate to hold one another accountable for adhering to those decisions and standards. What is more, they don\u2019t rely on the team leader as the primary source of accountability; they go directly to their peers. This matters because by doing this the team achieves\u2026\u2026\u2026.\n#5: Results: Teams that trust one another, engage in conflict, commit to decisions, and hold one another accountable are very likely to set aside their individual needs and agendas and focus almost exclusively on what is best for the team. They do not give in to the temptation to place their departments, career aspirations, or ego-driven status ahead of the collective results that define team success.\nBe a Great Team\nTherefore a healthy team is built on a commitment to deliver results and each person on the team is ready to be part of a network of accountability for those results. Knowing that they are accountable, they commit to the decisions made by the team. That commitment is the bi-product of healthy, vigorous debate and conflict. Constructive conflict comes as a result of an environment of trust, openness and confidence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stephengoforth.com/blog-becoming/2015/7/18/lincoln-the-failure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:03Z", "digest": "sha1:POBBAT5V4FOIOQR3MUEQKXWSYJO5BVTY", "length": 1162, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.stephengoforth.com", "title": "Lincoln the failure \u2014 Becoming", "raw_content": "Lincoln the failure\nThink of Abraham Lincoln, who was elected president of the united states in 1860. he grew up on an isolated farm and had only one year of formal education. In those early years he was exposed to barely half a dozen books. In 1832 he lost his job and was defeated in the race for the Illinois legislature. In 1833 he failed in business. In 1834 he was elected to the state legislature, but in 1835 his sweetheart died and in 1836 he had a nervous breakdown. In 1838 he was defeated for nomination for Congress. In 1846 he was elected to Congress but in 1848 lost the renomination. In 1849 he was rejected for a federal land appointment, and in 1854 he was defeated for the Senate. In 1856 he was defeated for the nomination of vice president, and in 1858 he was again defeated for the Senate.\nMany people, both at home and abroad, consider Lincoln to be the greatest president of all time. Yet it should be remembered how many failures and defeats marked his life and how humble and unpromising his early beginnings were.\nTed Engstrom, The Pursuit of Excellence\npotential, failure\nIt isn\u2019t as important whether you ...\nFugitives from ourselves", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 93.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stillageek.com/2009/12/i-done-with-snow.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:39Z", "digest": "sha1:72R24XJD6CYZEJVA3TULGFAGPAJOS5VO", "length": 2101, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.stillageek.com", "title": "Stillgaeek: I'm done with snow", "raw_content": "It snows 3 inches in Dallas last week. Most of it melted. I was happy. Then Sunday night I was assigned to fly to Cleveland, Ohio....where it was snowing non-stop. It's going to snow again in Dallas today. I'm done with it.\nAbove is a view from my office. Taken at 36,000 feet coming in from the north east. Dallas is in the upper left. I could see the airport even though I was more than 100 miles away. A huge high pressure system was over the area yesterday. Very nice day.\nLess than a month till the cruise. I moved my work days around next month to have off from the 22nd thru the end of the month while only \"using\" 6 days of vacation. Of course I pay for it by working my ass off the 1st thru 21st.\nI plan on going to Detroit next month for the North American International Autoshow. Kelli has no desire to go.\nI've been an XBOX live member for over a year. I only joined to watch Netflix on the XBOX 360. Only recently I started playing games online. Right now I am playing Need For Speed Shift. Pretty fun.\nYesterday I landed a 63,000 pound plane with 53 other souls on board at 12:36PM. At 12:45PM we pulled into the gate. By 12:59PM I was sitting in Kelli's car on the way to have lunch. We were meeting with Kelli's cousin Julie, her husband Bill and their daughter Katelyn. They were in town as Bill has family in Colleyville. It's all about timing.\nWhile eating it became very apparent to me that a lot of people have no idea what goes on in the cockpit of airplanes. Bill though there were still 3 people up there. Interesting. Bill is a very intelligent guy who works in the financial industry. He does VERY well as Julie is a stay at home mother with a Porsche Cheyenne SUV and a huge house complete with a maid . That got me thinking (dangerous I know) that I will never earn as much as he does. Yeah.....\nI have a new ROM on my G1. The developer at Cyanaogenmod has ported lots of bits from Android 2.0 to the G1. It's much snappier and useful now.\nfocusman January 5, 2010 at 11:08 AM\nCome check out the weather for Montana... Now we have SNOW... 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The class is a part of the Digital Marketing Certificate Program at USF Muma College of Business. The program is a hands-on, 4-day immersion program where executives learn to apply principles and techniques that drive success in marketing in the digital age. Participants roll up their sleeves and solve real-world challenges using practices developed by top companies with experts and instructors guiding them through each step.\nDoug Pace is a recognized expert and speaker on Design Thinking - a unique methodology that uses human centered design and data driven insights to create unforgettable customer experiences and solve wicked problems. His insights and ideas have helped companies across the globe to innovate, optimize performance, and grow revenue. Mr. Pace has been recognized by Consulting Magazine as one of the most Influential Consultants in the United States, as a finalist for the United States Chamber of Commerce Emerging Business of the Year, and as a finalist for the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Startup of the Year.\nThe Digital Marketing Certificate Program at USF Muma College of Business is scheduled to be held at the University of South Florida Campus on October 1 through October 4. Registration is currently open to the public and available online. 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As this plan takes shape, a couple of related murders get the attention of an RCMP inspector ( a cerebral Edward G. Robinson ). Can the inspector foil the plot and save the scientist before he is whisked off somewhere behind the Iron Curtain ?\nAs I have indicated, this is not a very good film, but Messrs. Raft and Robinson still have a formidable presence. George Raft is perfect as a guy you really don't want to cross ! On the other hand, I agree that the great Edward G. Robinson is wasted here--this role couldn't have been much of a challenge for him, and it could have been played by any competent, journeyman actor. There is another reason to sit through this movie--Audrey Totter. As Mr. Raft's ex-girlfriend who is \"recruited\" to charm the scientist, Ms. Totter gives us another rivetting performance that has made her one of film noirs' best \"femmes fatales\".\nI have yet to see a truly complete definition of \"film noir\" and I am certainly no expert. I suspect, however, that \"A Bullet For Joey\"s status as film noir could be open to debate.\nThe disc has a decent full-frame, black and white picture, and mono sound.\nOn the cover of the DVD is a terrific representation of Robinson, Raft and Totter, and all three are very watchable. However, on the back I see words like \"pulls out all the stops for excitement and edge-of-your-seat suspense\"--\"explosive\"--\"breathtaking\"--\"pulse-pounding\"--\"crackling\"--\"rapid-fire\"--\"action-packed\". If you swallow all this hype, I have some \"Ocean-Front Property in Arizona\" that you might be interested in !\nApart from the stars, this one is disappointingly routine.\"\nCarl Tait | New York, NY USA | 07/30/2007\n\"If there's ever an award for \"Most Boring Film Noir Ever Made,\" this little stinker would be in strong contention. It is a miserable, plodding police procedural with essentially nothing to recommend it. About the best you can say is that the last 15 minutes are marginally less dull than the rest. Edward G. Robinson is squandered. Set in Montreal, the film has all the French-Canadian flavor of Frank Sinatra singing \"O Canada.\"\nWaste of time potboiler\nGeorge N. Fabian | Mountainside, USA | 08/20/2007\n\"what might have been a taut thriller is hampered by a meandering plot that sluggishly makes its way to a mawkish ending (Raft's calculating hood isn't such a bad guy after all). What little style and authority the film has is due to Robinson, a dynamic actor who is wasted in this film. If you are going to buy any of the MGM film noirs, get The Stranger or Woman in the Window, both with Robinson and both superior to this turkey.\"\nNot his finest hour, but not his worst...\nRich | 08/02/2008\n\"Not a great film, by any stretch of the imagination. Too stagey, creaky and obvious. 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Parx Racing and Casino is 3.2 km away.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 703, "original_length": 19767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 236.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77962", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:14Z", "digest": "sha1:HZB7OFCVQQCDTBUALLZI2THGVSTBMEXU", "length": 1521, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.tara.tcd.ie", "title": "Phantom sensation as experienced by people with a spinal cord injury", "raw_content": "Phantom sensation as experienced by people with a spinal cord injury\nDrysdale, Daren\nDaren Drysdale, 'Phantom sensation as experienced by people with a spinal cord injury', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Psychology, 2012, pp 243\nDrysdale TCD THESIS 10012 Phantom sensation.pdf (PDF) 126.5Mb\nAll the approaches in this thesis are linked by a common query: What is the meaning, structure and essence of the lived experience for a person with a Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) who perceives phantom sensation and/or pain? (See Figure 1). The thesis will allow you to form an accurate impression of phantom sensation in the population of people with a spinal cord injury and it highlights some of the confusion surrounding the terms now in common use. As the thesis progresses, the review of the literature and the presentation of the research informs a change in the use of the term \"phantom\" for the reader. Currently a regular dictionary definition of phantom pain/sensation is frequently limited and to be found only if you look under \"pain\". If looking under \"phantom\" the reader will probably only find the term as it applies to an amputated limb or as it applies to x-ray technology (e.g. Dorland, 2011). The description of the phenomenon across different populations is similar but a precise definition difficult to narrow down. 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Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2012, pp 298, pp 302\nConnaughton TCD THESIS 10059.1 Art and.pdf (PDF) 173.3Mb\nPassion devotion was an important element of the spiritual lives of the Irish Catholics who lived between the years 1450 and 1650. This interdisciplinary study explores the possible interpretations and uses of devotional art work related to the Passion of Christ in Ireland during this period. By not only considering the art but also elements of contemporary history, bardic poetry, and devotional literature, a deeper understanding of the meanings and uses that the devotional art of the Passion had for the people who encountered it and had it made has been developed in this study.\nAuthor: Connaughton, Jill Meghan\nTrinity College (Dublin, Ireland). 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Puja is part of a nationally-recognized team with broad experience defending some of the nation\u2019s largest and most influential financial institutions against complaints involving the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.\nSince the beginning of her career, Puja has provided extensive support and representation throughout all stages of litigation, including motion practice, document discovery, working with experts, negotiating settlements and mediation. She is experienced in handling a broad variety of complex cases in both state and federal courts in California.\nPuja's diverse background not only allows her to bring comprehensive knowledge of effectively defending lawsuits focused on business litigation but also commitment and loyalty to providing quality representation to her clients. 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Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced these plans.\nThe plans announced during the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham belied promises made during the European Union (EU) referendum campaign that leaving the bloc would make it possible to have an immigration policy that would make it easier for professionals and others from non-EU countries to come to Britain.\nThe plans will add to perceptions in countries such as India - from where student numbers have drastically come down in recent years because of visa curbs - that Britain is less welcoming for international students than competing countries such as Australia and Canada.\nBritish companies that hire Indian and other non-EU professionals were told by Rudd that they should invest more in training British workers. More hoops will need to be crossed under the plans before a non-EU professional is hired in the post-Brexit situation.\nLaunching a consultation on entry rules for foreign workers and students, Rudd said the tests that employers had to undergo before recruiting from abroad had become \"tick-boxing exercises\" and too often resulted in British citizens being discriminated against.\n\"The test should ensure people coming here are filling gaps in the labour market, not taking jobs British people could do,\" she said. \"So I want us to look again at whether our immigration system provides the right incentives for businesses to invest in British workers.\"\nRudd noted that she was committed to attracting the best students from around the world and said the current system too often \"treated every student and university as equal\", with insufficient consideration given to the contribution they could make to the UK against obligations they placed on the state.\n\"Foreign students, even those studying English language degrees, don't even have to be proficient in speaking English. We need to look at whether this one-size-fits-all approach really is right for the hundreds of different universities, providing thousands of different courses across the country,\u201d she said.\n\"And we need to look at whether this generous offer for all universities is really adding value to our economy. This isn't about pulling up the drawbridge. It's about making sure students that come here, come to study.\"\nThe plans delighted anti-immigration pressure group Migration Watch, which said: \"These are very welcome steps forward. 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He requested the users to post the questions as comments on the face book, among which few qualified questions will be selected and asked Narendra Modi.\nThe Q&A session will be streamed live on Narendra Modi and Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tengyueplastic.com/info/plastic-lid-inspection-29322741.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:54Z", "digest": "sha1:HT6ZJMMITJG3UZ4L4J7KQKUMOF5R62KF", "length": 669, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tengyueplastic.com", "title": "Plastic lid inspection - Knowledge - Fujian Tengyue Plastic Product Co.,Ltd", "raw_content": "How to reasonably control the sealing performance of the plastic cap is the key point of on-line or off-line testing for the production unit. 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According to experts, a 2.5-liter Coke bottle, if exploded at 1.2 MPa, would be as destructive as 100-150 grams of explosive.\nPrevious: Standard Test methods for plastic lid\nNext: Performance characteristics of plastic lid", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tenthousandquestions.com/2011/01/fresh-paint.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:17Z", "digest": "sha1:RSWGRPM4N4BUOBDSVO4CBWQZFGRZLARE", "length": 122, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tenthousandquestions.com", "title": "Ten Thousand Questions: Fresh paint", "raw_content": "What is one thing that could be helped by a fresh coat of paint? (You can take this question literally or metaphorically.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/move/exhibitor-move.stm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:52Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3JOVSJDCUXMDQLK52QLZ5H5WVZG2GCG", "length": 302, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.terrapinn.com", "title": "Mov.e, exhibiting at | MOVE", "raw_content": "Mov.e\nMov.e provides a scalable, low cost, EVSE charging solution for EVs and PHEVs that uses the existing grid infrastructure and provides an effective charging service by combining state-of-the-art technology with collective power to optimize resources and fulfill society needs in a sustainable way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 204.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tesserae.eu/project/urban-development-in-the-eu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5PVEXK42JWIUCLTOD2LMFJPND7LJQO5A", "length": 754, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tesserae.eu", "title": "tesserae", "raw_content": "Urban development in the EU: 50 projects supported by the European Regional Development Fund during the 207-2013 period.\nThis report was prepared as part of a contract of AEIDL with the European Commission\u2019s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO) to present good practices in urban development co-financed by the ERDF during the 2007-2013 programming period. The study has produced 50 case studies which show how cities may best address urban development within ERDF programmes and provide guidance on the urban dimension in future cohesion policy. Tesserae\u2019s Laura Colini is one of the two main authors, while the case studies of Barletta, Berlin, Firenze, Paola are produced by Tesserae\u2019s experts.\nRead/ download the document here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebeerspot.com/blog/content/hard-road-ahead/2014/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UADIQNJCBL2KQ33F5URH6CD3H7VXCFKI", "length": 18, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thebeerspot.com", "title": "on Hard road ahead... by ender at TheBeerSpot.com Blogs", "raw_content": "Hard road ahead...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 6012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 195.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebipolardiva.com/2015/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:22Z", "digest": "sha1:PWIU2ERFCM5WHUPFBBBMQ24F6OP32ZNN", "length": 8034, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "www.thebipolardiva.com", "title": "The Bipolar Diva: July 2015", "raw_content": "I was told it was impossible, but as you can see, it wasn't at all, not in the least.\nAll it took was a few hours, a bit of work, thought, team effort, and about $10.00.\nHere it is, it's amazing, and we love it!\nSizing it up.\nThe Pup approves\nJoshua died\nOne rock at a time, one brick at a time.\nNow for the travertine\nA little direction. Joshua was so helpful!\nfilling the cracks and finishing up the puzzle\nSee, I helped\nSweeping in the sand\nWe have fire!\nMartini loves it!\nBeautiful perfection for under $10.00\nPerfect for the party this summer, and wonderful evening memories of summer nights in the North West with a fire, blankets, great company, and marshmallows.\nLabels: fire pit, possible, summer nights, Teri Anderson, The Biker Diva\nLast night was bike/taco night at a local biker bar. It's been a hangout for me for years on Wednesday nights, even though I don't ever drink and ride.\nLast year I had people come up and tell me the changes they had noticed in me, all for the better. That was cool, and surprising that people actually noticed things I hadn't.\nHowever, last night was an amazing night. It began rather slowly. I was thinking the night was going to be a bust, but I was wrong.\nA man I know, and have known from the bar for years, talked to me for quite awhile. He told me things he had witnessed over the years. He also spoke with my boyfriend for quite some time. Afterward he made a point of telling me, several times, how impressed he was with my guy, the way he treated me, and how happy he was to see the oppression had been lifted from my life. I had no idea he had been watching my situation for all those years, but he had.\nThen another long time friend, I hadn't seen in a long time, came in and we talked and had such fun horsing around and I didn't have to worry about how it was perceived, or what would happen afterward.\nAs if all that wasn't enough, a man I had been searching for since moving back was suddenly there when I turned around. His beautiful wife was with him. I was overjoyed.\nI stood there with jaw dropped as I stared into those sparkling blue eyes of his. I had posted all over Facebook, and other social media sites, and told everyone at the Harley dealership, to give him and his wife my number if they saw him. He was one of the first I wanted to introduce my boyfriend to. I knew they would love each other.\nThey have so much in common, long silver pony tails, great attitudes, hard core bikers, and a genuineness not found in many. Before I saw him I found out he was very ill, terminal, and hadn't been around much, so to see him and his wife was a total surprise. Then I found out he and my boyfriend had already been talking about my friend's new toy. A \"Slingshot.\" Neither had any idea who the other one was. It was a true gift from God.\nNew friends, old friends, the freedom to be myself and talk to people, and having an amazing man by my side supporting me all the way was truly a blessing from above.\nI've found the biker culture to be one of the most caring, compassionate, and honest group of people I've ever been involved with.\nWhat I learned last night was that they all had my back, and had for years. I just never knew how closely they had been watching out for me.\nBronson, Joy, and their new Slingshot!\nThe guy totally stole my photo shoot!\nCorner feet\nLabels: bike night, bikes, compassion, freedom, friends, motorcycles, riders, Teri Anderson, The Biker Diva\nShe felt the organ, the size of a closed fist, beating deeply within her body, her spirit, her being.\nHer thoughts took her back in time to the Egyptians that therorized the heart was the seat of the soul, thoughts, and emotion.\nHer's had once been tightly closed, as a fist, but was opening slowly, cautiously, and fearfully.\nThough the emptiness had been filling, there were still stabbing pains emanating from the organ she had so closely guarded.\nAt times she she sensed the trickling of ruby colored beads oozing from the still open wounds. They slowly moved down her beating heart and changed their paths with every breath she took, each fluttering movement of her chest.\nShe wondered about their final destination. Would they come together, nourish the organ that had been bound in barbed wire, feed it, and allow it to fully open, and experience life the way her Creator had intended?\nOr would they find their way into a crimson pool on the floor draining, not only life sustaining nourishment, but her soul as well?\nShe hoped, dreamed, and wished for the former, but continued to fear the latter.\nLabels: guarded, Heart, life, pain, Teri Anderson, The Biker Diva, wounds\nWhy should I post this you ask? Because this is my blog and I can post what I want.\nToday a friend of mine posted this video on Facebook and it had me in tears. Being a Christian I know the chapter to which he was referring.\nI'm not here to convince anyone of my beliefs in any way. This affected me, the video. That is why I'm posting it.\nJewish man turns to Jesus and explains why in a way you never heard before!\nWOW! This Jewish man turns to Jesus and explains why in a way you never heard before! His testimony goes viral with 5 million views and shakes the Jewish world - PLEASE SHARE!!!! by One For Israel Ministry follow & like us: www.facebook.com/oneforisraelMore stories at: www.imetmessiah.com\nPosted by One For Israel Ministry on Saturday, May 9, 2015\n9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.\n11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.\n12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.\nLabels: Isaiah 53, Jewish, Teri Anderson, The Biker Diva\nI've been in a relationship for about 5 years, give or take, now. There are no words to describe my love for this man. His smile is contagious, his laugh even more so.\nHe knows more about me than I know myself. He notices the way I speak, the way I walk, the way I look, the way I breathe. He notices the way I do my hair, my gestures, and how my makeup has been applied.\nHe cares about ME, me. He knows my entire story, from several sources, and he still wants to see me.\nI don't see him often enough, but the relationship has been long and very good for me.\nI am officially announcing I have the best psychiatrist in the world. You read correctly, the best, the very best!\nI saw him yesterday. What he had to tell me was incredible. He said he's never seen me so happy, really happy. My breathing, for the first time in years was normal, the look in my eyes genuine, and my gestures flowed, and I was relaxed, he told me.\nBefore I left his office he told me the last time he saw me he couldn't believe the difference, the transformation, I had made. I credit it to him. He says I'm doing a lot of the work myself, which I do try, but I admit I need support from time to time.\nThe day he retires I will be devastated, but he has given me the tools I need to work with. He knew what I was dealing with before I did, but I didn't believe him. Finally with his help, as well as the help from others, I've accepted the fact that I am dealing mainly with PTSD.\nWe're working on adjusting my medications to treat that as the major demon I have been facing. He said it's so much easier to treat me now that I am accepting what he, two therapists, and other officials, have been telling me for years.\nSo here's to my acceptance, my recovery (which will be ongoing), and the man in my life that has stood by my side all these years, even when I wasn't there for myself.\nDoctor, I thank you, and I love you. Thank you for helping my wings to truly emerge.\nLabels: acceptance, bipolar, love, PTSD, Teri Anderson, The Biker Diva", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 16801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theblacktechreport.com/index.php/category/ma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:16Z", "digest": "sha1:5KTQBKYTDK5JJMQJMKERNSULLSRYFVAU", "length": 62, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.theblacktechreport.com", "title": "Morocco | The Black Tech Report", "raw_content": "Sorry, but there aren't any posts in the Morocco category yet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 2846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 201.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theeventchronicle.com/science/hypatia-mysterious-stone-solar-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:44Z", "digest": "sha1:7NWIVRB73HU3463T72E3I7JFW2KTQIGS", "length": 687, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.theeventchronicle.com", "title": "Hypatia, The Most MYSTERIOUS Stone in the Solar System \u00bb The Event Chronicle", "raw_content": "Previous Mysterious \u201cStructure\u201d Found On The Ocean Floor?\nNext Ancient Rome Did NOT Build THIS \u2013 MASSIVE Stone Blocks & Lost Ancient Technology at Baalbek Lebanon\nInformational, Science\nHypatia, The Most MYSTERIOUS Stone in the Solar System\nWhat are the origins of the hypatia stone?\nhttp://www.b14643.de/Sahara/LDG/\nhttp://www.saharagems.com/western-desert-of-egypt.html\nhttps://newatlas.com/hypatia-stone-interstellar-analysis/52900/\nhttps://www.sciencealert.com/hypatia-stone-extraterrestrial-meteorite-composition-like-nothing-in-the-solar-system\nhttps://www.space.com/23123-comet-earth-impact-first-evidence.html\nhttps://www.livescience.com/61409-extraterrestrial-hypatia-stone.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 7227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefreebeermovement.com/blog/entry/video-all-your-base-belongs-to-mls-and-adidas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:31Z", "digest": "sha1:LY3XXND6EN2SIDAFJPQKLZMSM2I4LQAQ", "length": 714, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thefreebeermovement.com", "title": "VIDEO - All Your Base Belongs to MLS and adidas | The Free Beer Movement: Building American Soccer, One Beer at a Time", "raw_content": "VIDEO - All Your Base Belongs to MLS and adidas\nMany Americans continue to wonder about Snooki's weight (98 pounds!) who's going to be eliminated next from \"The Voice\" or what twists and turns will happen next in \"Game of Throne\"/\"Madmen\".\nThe computers, well, are preparing to take over the world. The upcoming Major League Soccer All-Star Game on July 25th in Philadelphia will feature the first world's first \"smart soccer match\" where all the players on the field will be tracked by adidas' miCoach system and the data will be available instantly for analysis.\nSounds pretty cool. Hopefully ESPN gets some of the data to share in-game with views.\nWe're just glad they didn't call it SkyNet. We're safe for now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 257.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefullwiki.org/Oquillas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:38Z", "digest": "sha1:FBVXSGSYBQD6X2ORMJAWUW3AK6DWP2EL", "length": 292, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thefullwiki.org", "title": "Oquillas - The Full Wiki", "raw_content": "More info on Oquillas\nOquillas: Wikis\nOquillas, Spain\nOquillas is a municipality located in the province of Burgos, Castile and Le\u00f3n, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 74 inhabitants.\nCoordinates: 41\u00b050\u2032N 3\u00b042\u2032W\ufeff / \ufeff41.833\u00b0N 3.7\u00b0W\ufeff / 41.833; -3.7", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 8712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 25.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/solomon-library-at-rambam,14547?", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:26Z", "digest": "sha1:4HM5FNIVNUR6X45A75MQ2QZYLGVIZSVG", "length": 1097, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thejewishstar.com", "title": "Solomon library at Rambam | The Jewish Star | www.thejewishstar.com", "raw_content": "Solomon library at Rambam\nRA Francine Solomon Memorial Library has been dedicated at Rambam Mesivta by the Deutsch and Solomon families in memory of their mother.\nCarolyn Deutsch, the daughter of Mrs. Solomon, is a president of the Rambam Women\u2019s League and has two sons in the school \u2014 Eli, a senior, and Dovi, a freshman. Her oldest son, Jonathan, graduated from Rambam in 2015 and currently is director of technology at Midreshet Shalhevet High School for Girls, Rambam\u2019s sister school.\nFrancine was a school librarian who was committed to the written word and assisting young readers in finding books that would speak to them in that special way that only certain books can. Books in the new library are surrounded by a mural, created by Gila and Morgan Roslyn, that depicts ivy hugging the bookcase.\nAt the dedication ceremony, Carolyn Deutsch spoke about her mother\u2019s life, and her son Eli read the dedication plaque that described Mrs. Solomon\u2019s life as \u201cone well-lived and well-read.\u201d Carolyn was joined by her husband and family, and her brother Jared led Shacharis for the Rambam Minyan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 2811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thelearningpress.com/australian-unis-climb-global-ranks.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:54Z", "digest": "sha1:XBVF4UPUXSPZ7YULS5TZKQHXXIMAXXST", "length": 3433, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thelearningpress.com", "title": "LATEST: Australian unis climb global ranks - The Learning Press", "raw_content": "Research lifts international standing of Australian universities\n\u200bSix Australian universities have been named among the world's top 100 in the latest QS World University Rankings.\nThe results show an improved national result fuelled by greater investment in research, according to the British think tank QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) which produces the league tables.\nHeading the list is the Australian National University at 22nd, followed by the University of Melbourne at 42nd, the University of Sydney at 46th, the University of New South Wales at 49th, the University of Queensland at 51st and Monash University at 65th.\nThe University of WA just misses out on a top 100 spot, coming in at 102.\nThe US has taken out the top three positions in 2016, with Massachusetts Institute of Technology again number one, followed by Stanford and Harvard universities in second and third places respectively.\nBritish universities have slipped down the ladder following a real-terms cut to Government funding for research, although they still occupy four of the top ten positions.\nEuropean nations such as France, Portugal, Germany and Italy have also lost ground, while Chinese, Japanese and Korean universities continue to ascend thanks to significant rises in national funding.\nThe QS system ranks universities on a combination of academic reputation (40 percent), employer reputation (10 percent), the staff-student ratio (20 percent), citations per faculty (20 per cent) and numbers of international staff and students (10 percent).\nIt is one of the \u2018big three\u2019 global university rankings alongside the Academic Ranking of World Universities and the Times Higher Education rankings.\nEach system uses its own judgement criteria which results in a differing order for Australia\u2019s top universities - although they all place the same institutions within that top seven.\nWhile ANU has slipped from 19th to 22nd in 2016, it retains a QS ranking position well ahead of Melbourne University, which sits higher on the other two global ranking systems.\nANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt said: \u201cEveryone at ANU takes great pride in being measured against the best universities in the world, and we are committed to build on the excellence that naturally comes with the responsibility of being a truly national resource for all Australians.\n\"Our top ranking reflects the outstanding research efforts of staff and students and demonstrates the university's ability to conduct research that is equal to or better than the very best in the world.\"\nThe University of Technology Sydney and the University of Wollongong made the biggest improvements on the global scale, moving up to 193 and 218 respectively.\nANU vice-chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt\nFederal education minister Simon Birmingham, who has flagged a 20 per cent cut to university funding in his latest discussion paper on higher education, said the results showed the importance of universities fostering innovation and excellence while ensuring collaboration with industry.\n\u201cThe results demonstrate that while internationally competitive, we cannot be complacent and must continue to improve our global standing,\u201d he said.\n\u201cI look forward to continuing the conversation Australia is having around higher education reform and ensuring that the system is fair and that it demands excellence and specialisation while being affordable and sustainable for this and future generations.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 182.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thelearningpress.com/new-840-million-scheme-funds-places-for-all-preschoolers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:31Z", "digest": "sha1:5PGVXSUMJX5G7SNIP2QPB544HZXPX2DS", "length": 2414, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.thelearningpress.com", "title": "New 840 million scheme funds places for all preschoolers - The Learning Press", "raw_content": "Early learning is \u201ccritical\u201d announces the minister as he dedicates $840 million to fund preschool places for all four year-olds.\nAll Australian four-year-olds are guaranteed a preschool place under a new $840 million scheme announced this week.\nMinister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said the funding would ensure that all children have access to 15 hours of high-quality preschool education in the year before they start school.\nThe minister has made a formal offer to state and territories to extend the current National Partnership Agreement on early education, which they must now sign to lock in funding for the 2016 school year.\nThe agreement stems from some six months of consultation between state and federal departments.\nSenator Birmingham has been vocal about his determination to ensure children from disadvantaged backgrounds do not start school behind their peers because of a lack of educational opportunity.\n\u201cWhile states and territories are responsible for the delivery of preschool education, this $840 million commitment recognises the immense benefits a quality preschool education provides.\u201d He said.\n\u201cWe know that preschool is critical in laying the foundations for future learning, including children\u2019s school readiness and future school success.\n\u201cThe Turnbull Government is committed to ensuring that Australian children and families receive the appropriate support when and where they need it - particularly in the year before they start school.\u201d\nAccountability has been a common theme in funding arrangements made by the senator since his promotion to the ministry in October, and this proposal is no exception.\n\u201cThe extended agreement clearly sets out agreed benchmarks to encourage and reward states and territories that demonstrate improved enrolments and access to preschool programmes that benefit Australian children,\u201d Senator Birmingham said.\n\u201cThis National Partnership Agreement also requires states and territories to support preschool programmes in long day care centres as well as dedicated government and community preschools.\u201d\nChildcare was moved from the social services department into the education portfolio in September, giving Mr Birmingham responsibility for delivering the Government\u2019s $3.5 billion childcare reform package.\nDue to be implemented from 1 July 2017, it includes the introduction of means testing to assess child care subsidy entitlement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theloveforlife.org/Tribute.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:37Z", "digest": "sha1:6MVDEFDOVK3YO7P6QEM4PYAYMATMJLTK", "length": 3683, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.theloveforlife.org", "title": "medical mission subic philippines", "raw_content": "JESUS ANGELES DATU, MD\nHe was born on February 12, 1927 in San Vicente, Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines, son of Godofredo and Maxima (Angeles) Datu. Dr. Datu graduated from the University of Santo Tomas Medical School in 1954. He practiced general medicine and surgery in the Philippines. He worked for Operation Brotherhood in Laos from 1960-1962. From 1967-1970 he worked as a medical officer in Malaysia. He then immigrated to the United States with his wife Joan and two daughters in 1970.\nDr. Datu secured himself an internship and residency in Chicago, IL. After successfully completing his training, he pursued his career in radiology and became certified in Nuclear Medicine\nFrom 1981-1992, he served as Commander in the United States Navy, stationed in Groton, CT, and Subic Bay Naval Base, Philippines. He was in Subic when the Mount Pinatubo volcano erupted, and was one of the last ones to leave. He joined the many medical missions sponsored by the U.S. Navy to disaster victims, and became active in serving the healthcare needs of the Aeta aboriginal tribes of the surrounding area.\nHe then founded the Love for Life Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the poor and needy of his homeland, the Philippines. He was a true humanitarian who was devoted to helping the poor and forgotten: his life was dedicated to helping those less fortunate.\nDr. Datu worked in the private sector as well, such as the Appalachian Regional Hospital, Hazard, KY. He was an active participant in the Connecticut Association of Philippine Physicians and the University of Santo Tomas Medical Alumni Association. He was a devoted and loving husband, father, grandfather, and friend. He successfully helped his children through college and medical school.\nHe will be greatly missed by his family, friends, and the many people he has helped throughout his life.\nJess Datu gave his life as a medical doctor so that others may live. His monument will not be a statue, placed in some obscure location, but in the hearts of those he served and their offspring for future generations. They know that they are here today because of the loving care and skills of Dr. Jess Datu.\nHe is a remarkable man who is unique among us whose life is driven by his passion to serve those who are ignored or forgotten by society.\nI will always remember his youthful enthusiasm when he speaks of his project, always with the positive attitude that somehow it will be done.\nHe is certainly one of the most extraordinary men I am honored to know.\nWith God's blessing and grace, his dream for the Filipino people will be realized.\nI remember my last meeting with him. At 10 pm, he picked up old clothes and shoes for the poor people of the Philippines.\nHe had a big and generous heart.\nHis interest in the welfare of the Aetas of Zambales will continue to inspire others to share the gift of life with the needy, his passion.\nI will sorely miss him. A true gentleman, whose word is his bond.\nJess was one of the strongest pillars of the Filipino community in Connecticut. A bona-fide, big-hearted humanitarian, and a wonderful friend to me and many others...It was through him that we have many charitable projects in the Philippines, and most of them still ongoing.\nHe is a pillar and a legend in our community.\nA man with a big heart, full of humility, always with a smile on his face when you meet him.\nA great USThomasian\nI will always remember him who shepherded our clans to be close to one another.\nI will surely miss him. A true gentleman, whose name will serve as an inspiration for us here (in the Philippines).\nAn incredible person and an inspiration to many.\nHe was loved by everybody.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 134.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2014/05/indiana_man_arrested_for_threa.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:54Z", "digest": "sha1:FNBWRSPNK6LCO4KFK3CFSUFDXHBTY2GW", "length": 2797, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.theodoresworld.net", "title": "PC Free Zone PC Free Zone", "raw_content": "Theodore's World: Indiana Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Boehner For Not Extending Unemployment Benefits\n\u00ab Democrats Not Sure They'll Participate in Benghazi Select Committee | Main | Global Warming Freak Obama reverses Ronald Reagan, puts solar panels on White House roof \u00bb\nIndiana Man Arrested For Threatening To Kill Boehner For Not Extending Unemployment Benefits\nAn Indiana man was arrested on Thursday on charges that he threatened the life of Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Justice Department said Friday.\nIn emails to Boehner's office and voicemails on his wife\u2019s cellphone, Brandan James Thompson, 32, of New Castle, Ind., allegedly threatened to shoot the speaker because the House failed to extend emergency unemployment benefits.\nThompson was arrested by the FBI at his home on Thursday and appeared in federal court on Friday morning. He stopped receiving unemployment checks in January after the program lapsed in December, and in late March he allegedly posted a message on Boehner\u2019s website threatening to kill him with a sniper rifle.\n\u201cWell you drunk John bin Laden it\u2019s time to take you out mother****er you want to play with 2.7 million peoples lives I am going to take yours you will never see it coming with my sniper rifle :) :) :) :) :) :),\u201d Thompson wrote, according to an FBI affidavit.\nA month later, Boehner\u2019s wife, Debbie, told the Capitol Police that she received a threatening message on her personal cellphone, which the FBI traced to Thompson.\n\u201cI\u2019m coming after your oompa loompa f**king husband,\u201d the message said. \u201cHe shoulda \u2026 he shoulda extended unemployment insurance. Now, it\u2019s too late. Imma rip his f**ing head off.\u201d\nThompson allegedly left Debbie Boehner another voicemail on May 6.\n\u201cYou tell your husband to redo the unemployment extension because I\u2019m going to come for him,\u201d the message said. \u201cI\u2019m going to rip his f**king head off. He\u2019s not untouchable, I will get my hands on him.\u201d\nThompson had a concealed carry permit but no criminal history, the FBI affidavit said. He has a protective order issued against him in April and had four previous protective orders since 2001.\nAccording to the affidavit, Thompson admitted when the FBI showed up at his house on Thursday that he had made the threats against the Speaker.\nThe Senate passed an extension of emergency unemployment benefits last month, but the House has not taken it up.\nBoehner\u2019s office declined to comment on the arrest.\nIn a statement, Joseph Hogsett, U.S. attorney for the southern district of Indiana, said, \u201cFree speech is the cornerstone of our democracy but threats of violence have no place in our civil society. People who are inclined to make them need to know that they violate the law and they will be aggressively pursued.\u201d\nThere are really sick people in this world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 5735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2015/12/breaking_six_americans_killed.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TFAADEAZKJYM52G7USN4RGWY2IOLLVKN", "length": 2110, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.theodoresworld.net", "title": "PC Free Zone PC Free Zone", "raw_content": "Theodore's World: BREAKING: Six Americans killed in suicide attack in Afghanistan\n\u00ab Obama Poised To Tighten Gun Laws Using Executive Powers After His Hawaiian Vacation | Main | Armed neighbor stops crooks from stealing 83-year-old man's Christmas gifts \u00bb\nBREAKING: Six Americans killed in suicide attack in Afghanistan\nIt was reported that six AMERICAN troops were killed in a suicide bombing at Bagram air base in Afghanistan.\n6 American troops killed in Afghan suicide attack, officials say\nSTARS AND STRIPES \u2013 Six coalition troops were killed Monday when a suicide bomber on a motorcycle plowed into a foot patrol near a major U.S. air base in Afghanistan, local and coalition officials said.\nThe attack happened around 1 p.m. when the attacker targeted a joint patrol of coalition troops and Afghan National Police officers in Parwan province near Bagram Air Field, according to Abdul Shukor Qudoosi, governor of the district where the base is located. He said three foreign troops and three Afghan policemen were also wounded in the attack.\nResolute Support, as the international military coalition in Afghanistan is known, confirmed that six of its troops had been killed in a \u201cvehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack\u201d near the base, but did not immediately release further details including the nationality of those attacked.\n\u201cOn behalf of Gen. (John) Campbell and all of Resolute Support, our heartfelt sympathies go out to the family and friends of those affected by this tragic incident, especially during the holiday season,\u201d Resolute Support spokesman Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner said in a statement.\nThe Taliban, who often exaggerate the effect of their attacks, quickly released a statement claiming responsibility for the attack, confirming the details of what happened. It claimed that 19 troops were killed.\nBagram Air Field, located just north of the Afghan capital, Kabul, is the main hub for the roughly 10,000 American troops who remain in Afghanistan.\nThoughts and prayers to the soldiers and their families. I wish with all my heart our troops has real CIC that cared about them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 4989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1753560-bayside-west-palm-beach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PGZ6OJBNYH67WNA7KJZZFZ4HT2G2R5GC", "length": 5079, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ticketfly.com", "title": "Bayside \u2013 Tickets \u2013 Respectable Street \u2013 West Palm Beach, FL \u2013 December 15th, 2018 | Ticketfly", "raw_content": "For Your Friends Booking & The Limitless Agency Present\nAt their inception, BAYSIDE consciously stood apart from the pack and has maintained that commitment to integrity and earnestness for over 18 years. Skipping over pop-punk clich\u00e9s like landmines and forcefully resisting the fake rebellion and thinly veiled misogyny too often dominating the \u201cscene\u201d around them, BAYSIDE takes their cues from Nirvana and Green Day, never the rulemaking bros.\nOriginating in Queens and eventually establishing personal lives and careers that extend across the country, BAYSIDE became a staple of pop-punk and alt-rock world, powered by the strength of sing-a-long ready anthems that are both deeply personal and welcomingly universal. Songs like \u201cDevotion and Desire,\u201d \u201cSick, Sick, Sick,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ve Been Dead All Day,\u201d and \u201cBlame it on Bad Luck\u201d are cherished by the BAYSIDE faithful, the lyrics brandished like badges of misfit honor.\nBAYSIDE represent a lifestyle, a counterculture, and a deeply held conviction, diverse in thought and background but united by a shared desire for authentic expression. It\u2019s a spirit that permeates an impressive and storied discography, including Sirens and Condolences (2004), Bayside (2005), The Walking Wounded (2007, celebrated with a 10 Year Anniversary tour in 2017), Shudder (2008), Killing Time (2011), Cult (one of Kerrang!\u2019s Top Albums of 2014), and Vacancy (2016).\nTake away the distortion, the aggression, and the reckless ferocity that defines much of punk rock, and a great song is still a great song. With a spirit of deconstruction and re-imagination running counter to some bands\u2019 lazy cash-grabbing collections, BAYSIDE returns refreshed and reinvigorated with Bayside Acoustic Volume 2. Twelve years since the band released the fan-favorite EP, Acoustic, BAYSIDE puts forward an incredible blend of instantly recognizable fan-favorites and deep cuts. BAYSIDE\u2019s latest release throws off convention in search of the distilled melodic essence and emotive power of their catalog. These aren\u2019t \u201cstripped down\u201d versions of BAYSIDE songs so much as they are completely new discoveries, refashioned and broadened by possibility.\nUnburned by any expectations or preconceived notions, the band made the record quietly and at their own pace, steadily mining their past to build a new vision for the future. Musicianship and artistry is paramount, with a purposeful urgency throughout. \u201cI didn\u2019t have a studio, an electric guitar, or an amp setup in my house for many years of being in the band,\u201d explains frontman Anthony Raneri. \u201cI wrote everything on an acoustic. It always had to be good without the bells and whistles.\u201d\nBayside Acoustic Volume 2 was crafted in Franklin, Tennessee with Jon Howard, a musician and producer who has worked with Paramore, Dashboard Confessional, and New Found Glory. Howard is part of a hyper local community outside of Nashville that includes members of those bands, plus guys from Yellowcard, Saves The Day, Grammy winning producer Nick Raskulinecz, and Raneri, among others.\n\u201cWhen we went into it, we said, 'this can't just sound like us playing the stuff on acoustic guitars instead of electric guitars.' We were really adamant about that,\u201d says Reneri. \u201cWe're always trying to show that we're better than your average pop-punk band. This was a chance to demonstrate all of the different things we can do.\u201d\nIt was liberating for Raneri and longtime members Jack O\u2019Shea (lead guitar), Nick Ghanbarian (bass), and Chris Guglielmo (drums) to tear down the walls, playing the songs any way they wanted, as \u2018though they had just been written for the first time.\n\u201cLanding Feet First,\u201d which so many BAYSIDE fans have played at their weddings, is given the full \u201cfirst dance\u201d treatment, now with real strings and a fresh arrangement. \u201cDevotion and Desire\u201d is even more intense in this setting. \u201cOnce you hone into the percussive element of an acoustic guitar, there's a lot to discover there,\u201d says Raneri. Vol. 2 also boasts new takes on BAYSIDE deep cuts like \u201cI Can\u2019t Go On\u201d and \u201cHoward,\u201d songs that had never been played live, given long overdue justice here.\nSince the dawn of the New Millennium, BAYSIDE has earned a reputation as top-tier songwriters, passionate performers, and high quality humans, all while headlining theaters and clubs or touring with their friends and peers in bands like Fall Out Boy, Taking Back Sunday, Say Anything, A Day To Remember, The Gaslight Anthem, Hawthorne Heights, Alkaline Trio, Saves The Day, New Found Glory, and Anberlin.\nIn every note of the vibrant Acoustic Volume 2, a record that conjures the spirit of classic performances like Nirvana\u2019s MTV Unplugged or The Cure\u2019s most adventurous outings, BAYSIDE serves up a confident reminder of their firmly established place in the rock music landscape. It\u2019s evident - from all of the lyrics tattooed on fans, the cover version and tributes that permeate YouTube, and the obsessive supporters worldwide - why BAYSIDE continues to thrive on the strength of these very songs.\nSaturday, December 15 \u00b7 8:00 PM at Respectable Street", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.timberridgevacation.com/AnnasGetaway/vacation_rental_rates_policies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TLDSUY34DVYJDE2N72ZMX76WBZEXMDZ2", "length": 1076, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.timberridgevacation.com", "title": "Vacation Rental Rates & Policies for our Vacation Rental Condo - TimberRidgeVacation.com", "raw_content": "Rates and Rental Policies for our Vacation Rental\nJan 4 -10...............$249/night\nJan 11 - Feb 24......$239/night.....$1295/week\nFeb 25 - April 9......$249/night......$1375/week\nApril 10 - May 16...$179/night......$1075/week\nMay 17 - Sept 7.....$189/night......$1150/week\nJuly 1-5................$239/night\nSept 8 - Nov 17.....$179/night......$1075/week\nNov 18 - Dec 13....$199/night......$1250/week\nDec 14 - Dec 18....$329/night\nDec 19 - Jan 4......$399/night......$2793/week\nStandard Winter Rates\nMon $249.00\nTue $249.00\nWed $249.00\nThu $249.00\nFri $249.00\nSat $249.00\nSun $249.00\nStandard Summer Rates\nA minimum stay of 3 nights required during standard rental dates. Different minimum stays may apply to special rental periods--please see the Special Rental Rates table above for details.\nCheck in time is 4:00 pm. Check out is 10:00 am.\nOur home is smoke and pet free.\nTowels and bed linens are included.\nIn addition to the nightly rate, a cleaning fee of $165 and 6.375% sales tax will be added to your bill.\nAll reservations require a refundable $300 damage deposit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tomgodwin.co.uk/about-tom-godwin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:45Z", "digest": "sha1:KNLOKLUJ5FCZ42YSR5TTLXBX7VXLOJHA", "length": 3517, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.tomgodwin.co.uk", "title": "Tom Godwin", "raw_content": "Tom Godwin BA(Hons)\nClick here to see my qualifications.\nI have had a wide and varied career in the fitness and wellbeing industry, it all started at the age of 16 when I started as a gym junior at my local gym. This mainly involved cleaning up all the sweaty towels, cleaning down the kit, stocking up and all the real dogsbody work. Strange thing was that I loved it! Just being in the gym, talking to the members and Personal Trainers (who at the time were like gods to me) gave me a massive buzz.\nAfter a about 12 months I took the step and did a very basic fitness instructors course, this gave me just enough knowledge to become a Fitness Instructor. This was one of the best days of my life and also the most daunting, I had my first induction. At the time this was a massive thing to me and I gave the client my very best, they ended up with a 90 minute induction (normally 30 mins).\nOver the next 12 months I saved hard and put myself through the Premier Diploma in Personal Training and Sports Therapy. This was an awesome course, it really gave me the depth of knowledge and skills I needed to become a Personal Trainer. I worked for a few months in a chain gym and then decided to go out on my own in 2002.\nI formed Foresight Personal Training, with the aim of being the leading Personal Training, Strength and Conditioning, Rehabilitation and Therapy consultancy in the North West, UK. The business has gown year on year, and very surprisingly even through the recent economic climate. We aim to give all our clients a high quality service, motivation, and above all RESULTS. To us if you get the results you desire we have done a good job. We work to the Foresight Personal Training System which has been honed over the years to give clients a high level of support and encouragement in working towards their health, wellbeing and fitness goals.\nIn 2005 I and my team started to work in the corporate sector offering a wide range of health and well-being related services to clients across the North of England. I have found this an amazing experience and one that gives us as wellbeing professionals a real stage where we can make a difference to a group of people. Some of the things we have been involved in include, wellbeing roadshows/fairs, one on one consultations, manual handling training, stress management training, consultancy, and much more. The corporate scene for helping people to improve their health is steadily growing and is one that I feel will help to improve the health of the nation over the next few years.\nI have been involved in the education of new entrants and those looking for CPD within our own industry for a number of years. I have delivered courses for personal trainers, sports coaches and leisure staff. I have also been assessing personal trainers and fitness professionals to ensure standards. I have found this to be an amazing experience as I love knowledge, this really does give me the opportunity to both share and grow my own knowledge base. Additionally I have developed a number of leading courses for a range of training providers in the UK and abroad.\nI have served on the Register of Exercise Professionals Members Council, this involved attending regular meetings and representing the interests of the membership. If you are a fitness professional or are thinking of becoming one, and would like any advice or anything raising at the next REPs council meeting please do let me know.\nIf you would like to know any more about me please do drop me a line!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.torontopmrconference.com/2018/program/evaluations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UU7Q6CLSSK6C4LL3R7DM2N3IJD6MGXLR", "length": 1281, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.torontopmrconference.com", "title": "Evaluations \u2013 Toronto Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Conference 2018", "raw_content": "OVERALL EVALUATION \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TPMRCOVERALL2018\n08:30-08:50 \u2013 Opioids in Pain Management \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RS2CRDC\n08:50-09:10 \u2013 Cannabis / Medical Marijuana in Pain Management \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RS29K5Z\n09:10-09:30 \u2013 Regenerative Therapies, PRP and Stem Cells in Musculoskeletal Pain \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RS2KTGT\n10:15-10:45 \u2013 Concussions and Their Consequences \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RSYPLT7\n10:45-11:15 \u2013 Traumatic Brain Injury imaging \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RSYJNH5\n11:15-11:45 \u2013 Polytrauma and Traumatic Brain Injury \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RSY83Q9\n12:45-13:00 \u2013 Personalized & Evidence-Based Medical Cannabis Care \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TPMRC2018RAZ\n13:00-13:15 \u2013 Helping Our Clients by Building Community \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TPMRC2018GLUCKSTEIN\n13:30-13:50 \u2013 Post traumatic dizziness \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RS9ZQBW\n13:50-14:10 \u2013 Vision Therapy for Traumatic Brain Injury: An evidence-based method of rehabilitation \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RS9XSCN\n14:10-14:30 \u2013 Musculoskeletal Ultrasound \u2013 Pearls and Pitfalls of common cases \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/RS978NS\nEXHIBITOR/SPONSOR ONLY \u2013 https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TPMRC2018EXHIBITOR", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.touregypt.net/historicalessays/lifeinEgypt6.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MU664ILRGOGHSUXLZ62YFV52UO6VUFOF", "length": 19580, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.touregypt.net", "title": "Egypt: Ancient Egypt Administrators, Managers and Scribes", "raw_content": "Egypt: Ancient Egypt Administrators, Managers and Scribes\nWherever sphere of ancient Egyptian activity we examine - on the farms, in the workshops, in army units, temple offices or departments of state - we invariably bump into the ubiquitous scribe, the sesh. He belonged to a well-defined and rather exclusive caste, standing out from the surrounding illiteracy by his command of the secret skills of reading and writing. These qualifications were considered a privilege, and perhaps a mystery, shared only with the rulers and the gods.\nWriting things down was only one aspect of the scribe's profession. He was in effect a civil servant of the king, dignitary or temple institution, fully competent in his particular field, equipped for independent thought, decision-making and management. The records he kept enabled him to make judgements designed to bring order into every field, to ensure that things ran smoothly and would continue to do so.\nAlong with the higher-ranking priests and some of the educated dignitaries, the scribes constituted the intelligentsia of ancient Egypt. They occupied the upper rungs of the social ladder to the very top, and enjoyed due recognition accordingly. We are indebted to their industry in leaving behind a wealth of documentation, from everyday reports to literary texts of high merit.\nThe scribes were well aware of their status and guarded their professional secrets jealously. Free from physical labor, they had soft hands, clean clothes and minds unencumbered by bodily fatigue. They were the managers who gave orders, checked results, took records, granted or withheld permission. The ordinary Egyptian turned to them for all kinds of help, from drawing up a will or a marriage contract to simply reading and writing letters.\nScribes were usually the sons of scribes and few members of other professions, or even their offspring, managed to penetrate the group. It was perhaps to make his calling even more attractive to his son Pepi, who had just left his birthplace in the Delta to attend the palace school for scribes in the capital, that Khety in the early 12th dynasty wrote his famous Instruction, also known as the Satire on the Trades. Khety paints the dark side of various callings in turn so as to highlight the glory, and the advantages, of his own. For its the most important of all occupations, he says. There is no other like it in the whole country. And above all There's no job without an overseer Except the scribe's: he is the overseer. Hence if you can write, You will be better off Than in those professions I've told you about.\nThus Khety concludes, and Pepi no doubt took it to heart like all the other boys who diligently copied out the instruction on tablets and ostraca in the scribal schools. Other textbooks for aspiring scribes strike a similar note:\nIt is the scribe who imposes and collects taxes in Upper and Lower Egypt; it is he who keeps account of everything there is. He organizes every unit in the army. He brings city and village delegations before the king and guides each individual at every step. It is he who gives orders to the whole country and keeps watch over all proceedings.\nNovices are encouraged in these terms:\nBecome a scribe so that your limbs remain smooth and your hands soft, and you can wear white and walk like a man of standing whom [even] courtiers will greet.\nIs it any surprise that some scribes were so dazzled by the prestige and exclusiveness of their profession that they were inclined to lord it over their fellow-citizens and even to squabble among themselves? Thus in the Papyrus Anastasi I we find the scribe Hori taunting his colleague Amenemope, whose letter he found below standard, with being unable to work out food rations for laborers digging a trench, the right number of bricks for building a ramp, the weight of an obelisk or the number of men it will take to shift it.\nThe Greeks called the ancient Egyptian picture-writing hieroglyphic', meaning sacred. because when they first arrived in the country and saw it used on tombs and temple walls they assumed it had a secret religious significance. It developed from a system of simplified, carefully stylized pictures of actual objects. The original hieroglyphic symbols, with some new ones added in the course of time, were used in monumental inscriptions throughout the history of ancient Egyptian civilization, and as temple or tomb carvings have lasted for centuries beyond.\nBoth for everyday records and for extended literary texts, on the other hand, the simplified cursive form or 'hieratic' script was required, in which the original pictures were mostly simplified beyond immediate recognition. This was the form of writing used by scribes from the Old Kingdom up to the 8th century BC, and for religious texts up to the last centuries of the pre-Christian era. Until the Middle Kingdom texts were written in vertical columns from top to bottom, but from the New Kingdom in rows from left to right.\nStarting in the 8th century BC the spoken language was recorded in a still more cursive script, called 'demotic' or popular, in which often groups of symbols, now unrecognizably simplified, were merged in quite new complex symbols. phonograms. In the Ptolemaic Period the court used the Greek language and alphabet. It was then that the need for translations arose, as illustrated par excellence by the Memphis Decree of the time of Ptolemy V Epiphanes (196 BC). It was this decree, engraved on a basalt slab in Greek, Egyptian demotic and Egyptian hieroglyphic, that was found by Captain Bouchard, a member of Napoleon's expeditionary staff, near the Delta town Rosetta (Rashid). It enabled Champollion to decipher the hieroglyphic script in 1822.\nLaborious carving in stone or engraving on clay tablets, as practiced in ancient Mesopotamia, was unsuitable for either of the cursive scripts. But for these nature provided in Egypt an easily obtainable, superior and easily portable medium papyrus.\nThe word is also the name of the paper reed Cyperus papyrus, from which the material was made, a plant which then abounded in the marshes around the branches of the Nile, especially in the Delta. The traveler will seek it in vain today. Its complete extinction in the natural state in Egypt was evidently accelerated by its popularity, not only as a writing medium, but for making boats, mats, baskets and other wickerwork, sandals, kilts, ropes and so forth.\nIt has not yet been understood whether climatic, ecological or other factors contributed. To see it in Egypt today one must resort to the plots maintained in artificial pools in front of the Egyptian Museum and the Agricultural Museum in Cairo, though it still survives wild in the wetlands of Bahr el-Ghazal in the southern Sudan and along the Blue Nile in Ethiopia.\nThe word papyrus is of ancient Egyptian derivation and meant something royal, which itself implies that the pharaohs enjoyed a monopoly in its manufacture, as documented specifically from Ptolemaic times. The word then passed into European languages via Greek and Latin as paper, even though the wood-pulp from which this is now made has no connection with papyrus itself.\nTo make writing material the Egyptians had to slit the papyrus stem into thin strips which were laid close together and then covered with a second layer running at right-angles to the first. These were sprinkled with water and beaten hard with stone hammers, not only to flatten them but to release the natural viscous juices that bonded them together into a strong but pliant sheet, usually between 15cm and 50cm wide.\nOnce dry, the white surface could be written on without the ink running or fading for a very long time. The sheets were finally glued together in strips and wound cylindrically on wooden rods. The resultant scrolls were often of considerable length, as much as 40m and more for literary texts\nA less common medium for writing was parchment, made of specially cured hides stretched out thin and treated to make them perfectly white. In ancient Egypt a scribe was instantly recognizable from the wooden or stone tablets that he carried on a cord over his shoulder. These were 'palettes', each with two recesses - one for black ink (made from soot bonded with papyrus juice) and the other for red (made from finely ground burnet ochre, similarly bonded).\nAlong with these went a little leather bag with a drawstring, containing a phial of water for mixing the colors. Each palette also had a groove to hold a brush made from a rush stem (Juncus maritimus or J. rigidus), the tip of which had to be frayed by chewing before use. From Ptolemaic times reed pens were more common, made from the stems of Phragmites aegyptiaca cut to a point and split at the end like quills. Pens were kept in a leather case tied to the palette with a strap.\nThanks to Egypt's hot, dry climate, papyrus documents have survived for thousands of years despite their fragile cellular structure. Among several papyrus collections discovered in modern times is the celebrated temple archive from Abusir, found by Ludwig Borchardt at the beginning of the 20th century in the ruins of the 5th-dynasty funerary temple of Neferirkare's\npyramid and published in 1976 by Paule Posener-Krieger. Further valuable finds were made at Abusir by a Czechoslovak team led by Miroslav Verner, in the funerary temple of Queen Khentkaus in 1980, and two years later in the temple of the unfinished pyramid of King Raneferef The latter was a cache of some I 50 papyrus fragments of varying length which have greatly enlarged our knowledge of the organization and economy of such temples in a wide historic context.\nMany papyri have turned up in urban rubbish dumps. Others, unfortunately, had been used as fuel for bread ovens and pottery kilns, as in the grounds of King Tuthmosis III's treasury south-east of the temple of Amun at Karnak. Scrolls bearing texts of the Book of the Dead, which accompanied mummies into their tombs, had a better chance of survival. One unexpected source of papyrus documents proved to be the 'cartonnages' used as cheap coffins in the Late and Graeco-Roman Periods. These were made of several layers of linen cloth, sometimes interleaved with used sheets of papyrus. Discarded papyri and cloth were used to stuff the mummies of sacred animals, particularly crocodiles.\nFor short records and notes, accounts, certificates and draft texts the scribes also resorted to a cheaper material - fragments of broken pottery or limestone sherds, ostraca. These were sometimes used for more permanent records too, such as inventories, but even private legal records and contracts.\nFrom texts and from numerous tomb-wall illustrations we can visualize how the managerial and auditing functions of the scribes entered into people's daily life. All kinds of routine records, for the most part lists and summaries, were their doing.\nEverything, it seems, had to be noted down, from the number of bags of grain harvested to the size of herds, amounts of seed-grain and materials issued from store, types and quantities of objects manufactured, building supplies, tools and artisans' requisites. Records were kept of work attendance, wages paid, kinds and quantities of booty seized, numbers of hands and phalluses cut from the bodies of fallen enemies all as punctiliously as the inventories of gifts that followed the deceased into the next world or were daily sacrificed in his honor by the funerary priests.\nThe precision with which quantities are reckoned, impressive even to a modern reader, shows that a good scribe had to be good at arithmetic. Calculations of labor and material needed for the construction of canals, ramps or monumental buildings also display a degree of algebraic skill that must have been invaluable in the planning stage. Even the pedantic lists of all and sundry were far from being the pointless whim of soulless bureaucrats. By giving senior officials an oversight of the country's total stocks it made possible their orderly distribution, the creation of reserves and planning for special projects.\nOther documents from the scribe's pen include regulations issued by various bodies, court proceedings and records of private contracts dealing with sale and purchase, loans, hire, financial arrangements between spouses, inheritance, receipts, taxes, accounts and so on.\nWe also find many documents of a private character, such as letters. Where the writer is the scribe himself his own name appears on them. We possess for example a set of 54 letters, in whole or part, exchanged between the scribe Butehamun in the artisans' village of Deir el-Medina and his father Djehutimose in far-off Nubia. Scribes also penned letters, in return for payment, on behalf of illiterate clients.\nWriting, and in particular the copying out of literary texts was another important field of activity. Among such texts were biographies, instructions, literary, historical, political and propaganda writings, short stories, fairy tales, fables, travelers' tales, poems, chronicles, 'stories of kings' and 'stories of great men', public announcements written on scarabs, scientific, didactic and religious literature, and dramas.\nThe diligence and concentration of the scribe at work is nicely caught in pictures like those in the 6th-dynasty Mastaba of Mereruka at Saqqara. There we see them squatting in a row with their heads down, copying texts onto papyrus rolls on their laps. Behind the last scribe in the row stands an apprentice with a blank roll, ready to be handed to whoever needs it. The novice is shown bowing slightly in deference to his masters and preceptors.\nThe care with which scribes followed harvest operations emerges from paintings in the tomb of Menna, a scribe to the estates of Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna ( 18th dynasty). Here we see them, tablet in hand, noting down the figures supplied by surveyors for the area of a standing crop so that they can estimate the yield for later comparison with the amount actually harvested. Meanwhile their master, presumably Menna himself, has climbed up onto a pile of sheaves for a better view. Elsewhere scribes are writing down the number of sacks that the farmers are emptying into the granary - one of many figures which, when totaled up, will have enabled the top administrators to know how much there was in the state granaries.\nIn one Middle Kingdom model from the 11th-dynasty tomb of Meketre the landowner is shown seated in a pavilion with four scribes on his right. These are busy counting the cattle as they are led past by the herdsmen. This ritual was part of a general cattle census, which gave an overview of the animal herds in different regions, and on which planning could be based for consumption levels, temple sacrifices and so on.\nEqual importance attached to the work of the scribes in the craft shops, especially those dealing with metal. In the Egyptian Museum in Cairo there is a 5th-dynasty relief from Saqqara where an official is weighing material in a hand-held pair of scales, a steelyard. One pan contains the weights, the other a number of long objects, presumably the raw material. A scribe is jotting the figures down on a scroll. A further weighing ensued after processing so that the scribe could compare the two results and ascertain whether the wastage was within approved limits.\nThis routine weighing operation reappears in the many portrayals of the judgment of the Dead. In these we see the heart of the deceased being balanced against the propriety of his deeds during life, this being represented by an ostrich feather - symbol of the Goddess of Truth, Maat - or by a seated figure of the goddess herself The recording scribe in this case is Thoth, patron of scribes and scholars.\nIn the royal artisans' village of Deir el-Medina originally two, and from the end of the Ramessid period four scribes were employed. Together with the foremen and one of the draughtsmen they belonged to the management group known as the Overseers of (the crew's) Work in the Place of Truth'. They reported directly to the vizier, as implied by their title, 'King's Scribe in the Place of Truth'. They lived either in the artisans' village itself, as Wennefer and Horisheri did, or close by. Among the tombs of the artisans we have found those of two scribes, Amenemope and Ramose, which are equal in size, decoration and furnishing to those of the foreman.\nThe main responsibility of the scribes in this community was to organize, check and record work progress on the tombs of the Valley of the Kings. At the start of each day they noted whether everyone had turned up for work, and the reasons for any absence. Remarks about various aspects of the work were put down on limestone sherds and later compiled into a ledger on scrolls kept in the scribe's office for future reference. From these a report was written up at regular intervals for the vizier.\nThe scribes had to draw all kinds of material from the royal warehouses - copper implements, plaster, charcoal, structural timber, cloth, candle grease and so on. These they held in their own storerooms, keeping a careful record. All tools and material issued to workers by the 'Guardians of the Tomb' had to tally with the scribes' records, not only as a check but as the basis for requisitioning fresh supplies from the appropriate warehouse.\nIt was the same with the grain stocks from which the scribes gave the workers their wages in kind. When deliveries were held up by the breakdowns in central government that occurred during the 20th dynasty, the scribes tried to cope with the emergency by touring the surrounding villages with a couple of stick-toting tomb-doorkeepers and levying grain for their community from the farmers. The scribes also shared responsibility with the foremen for ensuring public order and security both on and off the worksites.\nInside the artisans' village, too, the scribes made their impact by helping to solve any problem that required a document to be written or read. People came to them with their private complaints and quarrels, and brought suspect individuals for preliminary questioning. Where only minor offences, or semedet people matters, were involved, the scribes would try to settle the issue on the spot. Weightier ones were dealt with by the 'Court of the Tomb' on which the scribes also sat. Where human justice failed, the scribes would seek divine aid by placing written questions before the statue of the deified king Amenophis 1, asking for his ruling to be announced by oracle.\nAmong other functions the scribes fulfilled those of the professional writers such as we can still see in countries where illiteracy persists. They drew up, and sometimes witnessed, all kinds of legal contracts, wrote letters to dictation, or read them for those who could not manage it themselves. They also wrote the funerary inscriptions on the coffins of deceased community workers and their families, and supplemented their incomes by doing the same service for clients outside the community. The tomb scribe Horisheri, for example, earned 95 copper deben, a considerable sum in zoth- dynasty Thebes, for his work as 'scribe and painter' on three coffins for Tanodjmet, a female singer in the service of Amon-Re.\nThough their activities served the purposes of the elite, the majority of scribes functioned as hardworking, patient and efficient organizers of the everyday life of society. 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In essence allowing fans to engage with their footy heroes.\nIf you would like to explore this exciting new opportunity for your business, give us a call and lets see whats possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travelstory.in/forums/47-Journeys-of-Bhutan-Nepal-Bangladesh-Sri-Lanka-Pakistan-and-Maldives?s=44a0054ec9146802e6b3b7511adce36b", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PKZHGCCX7PEMX37OCTYO3HU3SM34SCBZ", "length": 121, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.travelstory.in", "title": "Journeys of Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Maldives", "raw_content": "Forum: Journeys of Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Maldives\nStarted by rupchat, 29th May 2011 10:02 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 5974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 130.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trialstribulationsofabrummiemummy.co.uk/2014/10/my-songs-childrens-music-based.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:42Z", "digest": "sha1:CQNSPVLSJGIUB6TD5FLNHPB6DTBJ2MYQ", "length": 2416, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.trialstribulationsofabrummiemummy.co.uk", "title": "Trials & Tribulations Of A Brummie Mummy: My Songs A Children's Music Based Discovery App On Spotify Review", "raw_content": "My Songs A Children's Music Based Discovery App On Spotify Review\nMe and Lexie have had a chance to create some playlists and play songs on a new FREE Spotify app called My songs. Lexie loves music and a firm favourite is the Frozen soundtrack at the moment, problem is she doesn't like some of the songs on the soundtrack and that can be a little frustrating.\nWe sat and choose a selection of songs, from Disney films, pop songs & nursery rhymes. The website is very clear, bright and engaging to use. We Uploaded them on to a playlist which is very easy to select and do.\nI love how all the songs are age appropriate from lullabies at bedtime, music for car journeys or even party songs for a party. The categories are split into under and over 5s to to make it easier to find different selections which are age appropriate for you're child.\nThe USM Jr label which was first set up in 2008 has a strong catalogue of over 30 top selling children\u2019s albums. Their character branded and carefully compiled compilation albums are frequently found in supermarkets and the children\u2019s charts cross digital stores such as iTunes and Amazon.\nOn the launch of the My Songs App Karen Meekings USM\u2019s Creative, Media and Digital Executive comments-\n\u201cWe are delighted to be launching the first UK based music discovery app for children and their parents, available exclusively on Spotify. The animated App is easy to use and offers the best in children\u2019s music with perfect playlists for every occasion from popular TV themes for the under 5\u2019s through to current party hits for older children. Whatever their age the app offers a fun experience in a secure environment\u2013it\u2019s music fun for cool kids\u201d\nUSM Junior also has its own YouTube channel called My USM Jr which already has over 2,000 subscribers and over 3 Million video views.\nWith Spotify recently confirming that it now has 10 million paying subscribers and more than 40 million active users across 56 countries and with the value of music streaming in the UK surpassing \u00a3100 million for the first time in history in 2013 it seems USM Junior are launching their App in a music market whose trend is moving more and more towards streaming music.\nLexie has loved the App with all her top songs on. 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of expose on 1MDB-related shenanigans have been largely accurate.\u201d\nFormer New Straits Times Group Editor-in-Chief Kadir Jasin was commenting on the NYT quoting the Saudi Foreign Minister as saying the USD681 million (RM2.6b in Najib\u2019s account) went to an \u201cinvestment in Malaysia\u201d.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a private Saudi citizen, I believe, and the funds went to an investment in Malaysia,\u201d Kadir quoted the Saudi Minister as saying in an interview with the American newspaper.\nThe veteran newsman recalled \u201cNajib and his storytellers\u201d claiming that the money was for use during the 2013 General Election and for fighting terrorism. \u201cWhat now brown cow?\u201d\nKadir wants to know whether the hypothetical brown cow would advise the Prime Minister and his number one lawyer, Mohd Hafarizam Harun, to issue another legal threat against the paper. \u201cI expect Najib\u2019s handpicked Deputy Prime Minister, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, to complain vigorously to the Saudi Government for making such a statement to the Press and not directly to him.\u201d\nHe must, said Kadir. \u201cOtherwise, he will be accused of lying too because he had repeatedly sworn that he knew the Arab donors and had met them in Saudi Arabia.\u201d\nAgain, between Saudi Foreign Affairs Minister Adel bin Ahmed al-Jubeir and Zahid, the veteran newsman gives greater credence to the former. \u201cI don\u2019t know him (Adel) but he has not said anything before that raised my suspicions\u201d\nThe NYT also quoted a member of the Saudi royal family and a close associate of the family, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as saying that the money had come from a Saudi prince, but that it was not a donation. \u201cThe associate also reportedly questioned the sum, but said the funds were part of a business deal,\u201d noted Kadir. \u201cWhat would Attorney-General Mohd Apandi Ali do now?\u201d\nKadir wants to know whether the AG would stick to his guns or whether he would make discreet checks to see if people have been lying to him. \u201cWho knows?\u201d\n\u201cThose tonnes of papers submitted to him by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and Bank Negara may not all be works of fiction.\u201d\nJust to refresh Apandi Ali\u2019s memory, continued Kadir, the AG told the Press on January 26 that the USD681 million deposited in Najib\u2019s personal accounts was a donation from the Saudi royal family given without any consideration.\n\u201cMany of us have ceased to believe in the Prime Minister a long time ago.\u201d\nKadir reminded that Najib has said that the USD681 million in his private accounts was a donation from the Saudi royal family or \u201csomething like that\u201d.\n\u201cHis handpicked Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali concurred and unilaterally absolved him of all wrongdoings, in relation to that donation and another \u2018donation\u2019 from SRC International Sdn Bhd.\u201d\nThe BBC, lamented the veteran newsman, corroborated the story saying the amount was donated by the Saudi royal family.\n\u201cBut now the Saudi Foreign Minister does not think that the USD681 million was from the Saudi Government or that it was a political donation.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 346, "original_length": 62494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tvokm.com/2014/12/dynasties-in-chinese-history.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:35Z", "digest": "sha1:IL5DET6ESCHBCPYJOGQM2HJUKIHRJ52P", "length": 6656, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.tvokm.com", "title": "Dynasties in Chinese History | TVOKM", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb foreign , local , local-foreign history \u00bb Dynasties in Chinese History\nQingbai wares 11th \u2013 14th Centuries (Yuan Dynasty)\nWhite wares with carved and incised decorations have been produced from the beginning of the Tang Dynasty however it was only during the Yuan Dynasty ( 11th \u2013 14th Century ) That large quantities of white wares were produced .\nThe Dehua kilns produced ware of chalky texture with creamy glaze , usually mould formed with impressed and moulded decorations of Lotus Petals and vegetal scrolls for the South East Market .\nThe body however , still showed a slight bluish tinge due to the presence of minute quantities of iron oxide. This ware was named Qingbai ( Ch\u2019ing Pai) or \u201c Clear White\u201d Finished Qingbai porcelains were both plain and decorated with either incised or molded designs.\nYuan Dynasty (11th \u2013 14th Century ) bowl with Lotus petal pattern .\nGreenwares or celadons 13th \u2013 15th Centuries (southern Song Dynasty ( 1128 -1279)\nThese green wares or also known ( Lung Ch\u2019uan) were produced in large quantities and fired at high temperatures.\nThe glaze is fade green to opaque grayish green or grayish blue. The shade of the green depended on the temperature and the rate of reduction during the firing .\nDeliberate attempts were made by the potters to produce a glaze to resemble Jade which has always been highly favored in Asia.\nIn the middle of the of the 13th century , new decorative technique of sprig moulding was developed using designs such as a pair of fish, Peonies and dragons pursuing a flaming pearls were used.\nThe production of greenwares began to decline from the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368 \u2013 1644) .\nJarlets with narrow mouths and moulded decoration of floral sprays on the upper half of the body and lotus petals on the bottom half .( Late Song Dynasty -13th century )\nBeaker with Handles. ( Late Song Dynasty -13th century )\nFoliated dish with carved peony. Light green glaze ( Early Ming Dynastu \u2013 14th -15th Centuries)\nUnder Glaze Blue and White Wares \u2013 ( 13th \u2013 20th Centuries)\nYuan , Ming and Qing Dynasties.\nIt is believed that blue and white ceramics were being made in China as early as the Tang Dynasty, it was not until Kublai Khan had unified China and established the Yuan Dynasty in the late 13th century(1279) that foreign trade in blue & white begun to flourish .\nThe method of under glaze painting technique provided a new way for the potters to express their artistic talent . In the late Ming dynasty , they started to paint new designs such as children at play ,scholars, animals, birds and flowers in natural surroundings .\nThe development of the Ceramic industry in China reached its peak during the Ming period. It was at this time that the Europeans established trade with China and Chinese ceramics became popular in Europe, Japan, the middle East and South East Asia.\nOverglaze enameled wares (15th \u2013 19th Centuries)\nOverglazing enamelling first began to be practiced during the 15th century . During this period , different glaze colours such as red , yellow , turquoise , aubergine purpul and black was developed .\nUnlike underglaze Cobalt blue which is absorved by the unfired clay body , red or black enamels painted on a fired body could be wiped off by the artist if a mistake was made .\nDuring the reign of \u201cWan-Li\u201d in the 17th century and when the government of China was breaking down , potters were forced to look for new markets for their wares.It was at this time that the Japanese, portuguse , Dutch & British arrived into China and the potters made wares with specific designs for each market .\nThese designs were alien to the Chinese and some examples are the \u201c Kraak ware \u201c made for the Dutch & South East Asian Markets, the transitional ware and the large Swatow dishes and plates.\nProduction ofthese wares continued till the 19th Century , when it was over-shadowed b the industrial revolution in Europe in the 19th century .\nThai Ceramics ( Sukhothai & Sawankhlok wares)\n13th \u2013 16th centuries.\nThe production of glazed ceramics in Thailand began in the Kingdom of Sukhothai in the mid 13th century .\nAt first the of this glazed stoneware was not of good quality as the clay used was not well purified and the firing techniques were not always successful . These wares were usually decorated in the Underglaze painted iron technique and common motifs include classic scroll ,floral sprays and the fish medallion.\nAt he same period , Thai potters were also inspired by the longquan celadons and they bagen to produce another type of ware known as Sawankhalok which were technically superior . Many of these items had carved or incised designs and were covered in a glassy thick glage. The colour ranged from translucent sea green to an opaque turquoise \u2013blue. Production of these wares continued from the 14th into he early part of the 16th century .\nCovered boxes - Both lid & body decorated with Vegetal scrolls.\nSawankhalok , 14 \u2013 15th century.\nIslamic Ceramics (16th -19th Centuries)\nWares with Islamic motifs were made in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-906) , but the earliest pieces made for export began during the Yuan Dynasty ( mid 14th Century ). The production of Islamic wares reached its height during the reign of Cheng-te( 1506-1521) who was a Muslim . These wares were intended for the Muslim market in West Asia as the designs were derived from Persian & Arab inscriptions and quotations from the Al-Quarn. Some of these were exported to Muslim states in Asia , notably Indonesia & Malaysia.\nWith the industrial revolution in Europe and the coming of the European traders to South East Asia , the Europeans started to manufacture ceramics with Islamic motifs to capture the Muslim Market in the region .\nJapanese Ceramics (18th -19th Century)\nThe Japanese ceramics were brought by the Dutch from ports in Japan to Batavia before being shipped back to Europe . Some of these items found their war to Borneo and the surrounding islands. In the Sabah museum the displays are mainly small vases , bowls and plates of the Kakiemon and Imari style. ( 18th & 19th Centuries). These pieces are not commonly found in Sabah .\nEuropean Wares (19th-20th Century)\nDutch , German, English manufactures created ceramic plates and bowls for export to the colonies in South East Asia. They tried to compete with the Chinese ceramics which were flooding the markets .\nCommonly found in Sabah are blue & white Plates with floral designs , from ( England & Scotland ) and also the very colourful plates , saucers and bowls from \u201cMaastricht\u201d in Holland . 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Brown, the longest tenured coach in the America East Conference, has led the program to five conference championships, five NCAA Tournament appearances, two CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament appearances, CBI Postseason appearance and an unparalleled success in the classroom.\nIn the 2017-18 season, UAlbany earned its fourth consecutive 20+ win season. The Great Dames finished 22-10, including a program record 12 non-conference games before the start of America East play, with victories over reigning conference champions Iona and Kent State as well as the Albany Cup victory over crosstown rival Siena, and was invited to a postseason for the seventh straight year. UAlbany led the America East in rebounding margin, being 13th in all Division I at +7.3, free throw percentage and offensive rebounds per game. Joe Cremo was placed on the America East All-Conference First Team while Travis Charles was placed on the Second Team and Devonte Campbell returned to the All-Defensive Team. Cremo and David Nichols each landed on the America East All-Academic Team as UAlbany was the only team with multiple players on that list.\nUAlbany earned its third straight 20+ win season in 2016-17, making its sixth consecutive postseason with a bid in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament. Finishing third in the America East, UAlbany defeated Stony Brook on the road to pick up a berth in the America East title game, eventually finishing the year at 21-14 including the program's first-ever victory over a Big Ten team with an 87-81 win at Penn State. UAlbany led the America East in free throw percentage, rebounding margin and offensive rebounding with a team that saw three new starters in every lineup from the year before. Brown earned his 250th career victory at UAlbany with a 84-65 win vs. Binghamton on Jan. 19, 2017.\nDavid Nichols earned America East All-Conference First Team, setting a program record with 248 field goals made and finishing in the top-5 with 17.9 points per game. Joe Cremo earned a place on the All-Conference Second Team with he, Nichols and Mike Rowley all being honored on the America East All-Academic Team. Rowley also earned the America East Elite 17 Award for having the highest GPA among players of junior standing or higher in the America East title game. Devonte Campbell picked up an America East All-Defensive Team nod.\nThe Great Danes made their first program appearance in the CBI in 2015-16, marking the fifth consecutive year with national postseason attention for Brown's squad. UAlbany won an all-time best 24 regular season games, going 24-7 prior to the postseason. Brown & co., reached 20 wins at the fastest pace in program history en route to a 13-3 clip in America East Conference play. The 2015-16 Danes won 19 straight games in the confines of SEFCU Arena, including ending Stony Brook's nation-best 18-game winning streak on Feb. 17. The Purple & Gold was also a national leader in free throws made, free throws attempted, free throw percentage and three-point field goal percentage defense.\nIndividually, Joe Cremo was named the America East Rookie and Sixth Man of the Year to highlight conference regular season awards. The freshman was the first to take Rookie of the Year honors since Jon Iati in 2003-04, and the third Great Dane to do so overall with the inclusion of program standout Jamar Wilson. Evan Singletary was the first UAlbany player to garner back-to-back All-Conference First Team accolades since Jamar Wilson in 2005-06 & 2006-07. Ray Sanders claimed his spot on the All-Conference First Team and All-Defensive squad, marking the first time a Great Dane has received both honors in a single season since Brian Lillis in 2007-08. Senior guard Peter Hooley also picked up his fourth career All-Conference honor on the Third Team.\n2014-15 was an unprecedented season for the Great Danes, earning their best Division I winning percentage (24-9, .727) and tying their highest win total. UAlbany went 15-1 in America East Conference play and 8-0 on the road to earn its second regular season title and No. 1 seed in the league tournament. Playing all three conference postseason games in the confines of SEFCU Arena, Brown earned his third consecutive and fifth overall America East Tournament title, 51-50 over Stony Brook. Peter Hooley hit a last-second three from the top of the key for the victory. The Danes continued on to Columbus, Ohio in the East Regional to face No. 3 seed Oklahoma as the 14-seed in the NCAA Second Round. UAlbany fell 69-60 in its fifth Division I NCAA Tournament appearance.\nIn the midst of its 15-1 America East record, the Purple & Gold went on a Division I record 13-game winning streak from Jan. 3-Feb. 13. Brown also took his 200th career victory on Jan. 14 against Binghamton, 73-58.\nUnder Brown's guidance, a program record four players were named to the America East All-Conference teams, including Sam Rowley, Peter Hooley, Evan Singletary and Ray Sanders. Hooley earned Capital One CoSIDA Academic All-District First Team honors for the second-straight year, and was honored as a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Academic Excellence Recipient. Rowley and Hooley were also named to the America East All-Academic Team for the second-straight year, en route to tying the program record for All-Academic picks with three.\nBrown earned the program's first NCAA Division I Tournament win in 2013-14 when the Purple & Gold took down Mount St. Mary's in the First Four 71-64 in Dayton, Ohio. He led UAlbany to its second-straight America East title in 2013-14, as the No. 4 seed. The Great Danes repeated their feat as the lowest seed to ever win the tournament, once again knocking off the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds and taking the title on the road.\nHe was also named the top value coach among Division I head coaches in 2013-14 by HoopDirt.com. The Great Danes also earned the NABC Academic Excellence Award for earning a GPA of 3.0 or above in 2013-14. In addition, the Purple & Gold earned a program-record five spots on the NABC Honors Court, recognizing student-athletes with a GPA of 3.2 or above.\nThe 2012-13 Great Danes arguably ended their season as their most successful in league history with a 24-11 record, a NCAA Tournament Second Round appearance and won the America East Conference Tournament Championship. Following his third conference tournament championship, he became the fourth America East Conference head coach with at least three conference tournament titles. The 24 wins is a program-best for most wins in a season at UAlbany in Division I. The Great Danes set a record for most non-conference wins in school history with 12.\nUAlbany finished the 2011-12 season at 19-15 and a 9-7 conference record. For the third time under Brown's tutelage, the Great Danes earned a postseason berth. UAlbany faced off against Manhattan in the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Tournament. The Great Danes defeated New Hampshire in the first round of the America East Conference Tournament only to fall short to No.1 seed Stony Brook, on a last-second tip-in, in the Semifinals 57-55.\nThe Great Danes, with a 9-7 conference record in the 2010-11 season, vaulted near the top of the conference standings with a third place finish. UAlbany's nine-win improvement from the previous season was the second-best turnaround in the program's 97 seasons.\nIn 2008-09, the UAlbany program won 15 or more games for the fourth consecutive season for the first time in 14 years. The Great Danes, who advanced to the America East semifinals for the third time in a four-year period, became the first seventh seed to defeat a second seed in America East Conference Tournament history.\nThe Great Danes finished in the upper echelon of the America East Conference by tying for second place in the standings in the 2007-08 campaign. UAlbany won 10 or more conference games for the third consecutive year.\nBrown guided the Great Danes to their second straight America East Conference championship after defeating top-seed Vermont in the 2007 tournament final. The Great Danes, who earned an automatic NCAA berth, were seeded No. 13 against Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season winner Virginia. Brown's team totaled 20 victories during the regular season for the first time at the Division I level. UAlbany tied the second-highest single-season win total (23) in school history and posted consecutive 20-win campaigns for the first time in 17 years. Jamar Wilson made his second appearance on the Associated Press All-America squad.\nBrown led the Great Danes to their first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament berth in 2005-06 after winning both the America East Conference tournament and regular-season titles. UAlbany set the program's Division I record for single-season victories with a 21-11 record and produced its highest win total since 1993-94. His squad posted UAlbany's first postseason triumph in 11 years with three wins in America East tournament play. The Great Danes, who also established their top conference mark with 13 victories in the regular season, went on to put up a monumental fight against second-ranked Connecticut in a memorable NCAA first-round battle. Brown was named the New York State Coach of the Year.\nIn 2004-05, Coach Brown led UAlbany to an eight-win improvement from the previous season. The Great Danes registered their best-ever league record at the time with a 9-9 mark and a fourth-place finish. UAlbany also tied the fourth-best improvement among Division I teams which recorded single-digit victories in 2003-04, as only Texas A&M, San Diego and Houston were better.\nBrown was appointed as UAlbany's head coach on March 13, 2002, and has worked on the collegiate level since 1995. He became the 15th head coach in the history of the program. At age 40, Brown is still one of the youngest Division I head coaches in the nation.\nCoach Brown and his wife, Jamie, work closely with many charitable organizations in the Capital District and surrounding areas. Jamie currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Big Brothers, Big Sisters Organization of the Capital Region. She also serves as the Associate Board of Directors for St. Peter's Hospital and co-chairs Coaches vs. Cancer to benefit the American Cancer Society. The Browns are also involved with the upstate Northeastern New York chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America.\nBrown, who joined the UAlbany staff as an assistant in Sept. 2001, was promoted to interim head coach on Dec. 20 of that year, and guided the Great Danes to a 7-13 record over the last 20 games. UAlbany was among the conference leaders in scoring defense. He coached the team to several impressive victories, including a win over Vermont, the America East Conference's regular-season champion.\nBrown previously served as the head coach at Sullivan County Community College in Loch Sheldrake, N.Y., from 1998-2001. He led the Generals to a 90-10 record over a three-year period with two regional and two district titles. Sullivan County C.C. posted a 30-2 record and reached the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) championship game in 2000-01. Brown's first SCCC squad appeared in the NJCAA \"Final Four\" and finished 32-3 overall. The Generals were ranked second nationally in scoring at 92.9 points per game, and ninth in team defense with a 67.1 average.\nBrown was chosen the New York State Coaches Association junior college coach of the year in 1999. He also earned Mid-Hudson Conference coach of the year honors three times, and was District V's Coach of the Year twice. In addition, he worked at Sullivan County C.C. as an associate athletic director and as an adjunct professor of sports management.\nPrevious to his appointment at Sullivan County C.C., Brown spent three years at The College of Saint Rose as an assistant coach on Brian Beaury's staff. The Golden Knights made two NCAA Division II \"Elite Eight\" appearances in that span, and captured three New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) championships and two Northeast Regional crowns. Saint Rose compiled an 88-13 record from 1995-98.\nAs a collegiate player, Brown was a two-time NYCAC all-star and three-year starter at Dowling College, an NCAA Division II program on Long Island. He is the only player in school history to combine for more than 1,000 points and 500 assists. Brown completed his career as Dowling's all-time leader in assists (591), three-point field goals (181) and free throw percentage (.859). He also played second singles on the school's tennis team.\nA native of Miller Place, N.Y., Brown earned first-team Class B all-state recognition as a high school senior, when he averaged more than 35 points per game. He was chosen All-Long Island and was a three-time All-Suffolk County selection. In May 2010, Brown was inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame.\nIn 2011, Coach Brown received the National Sportsmanship Award, organized by the St. Louis Sports Commission and the Citizenship Through Sports Alliance. He was honored for allowing an Xavier University player to travel on the team bus to Cincinnati, Ohio following a December snow blizzard. Additionally, UAlbany's basketball program was recognized with the America East Conference Sportsmanship Award.\nBrown resides in Latham with his wife, Jamie, and their two sons, Jackson and Landon. Brown has a master's degree in management and a B.A. in marketing from Dowling College. His father, William, Jr., has served as director of athletics at Miller Place High School, where he previously was head basketball coach for 17 years. His teams won three Suffolk County League VII scholastic titles.\n2016-17 - University at Albany, Head Coach (21-14), CIT Postseason Tournament, America East Tournament Runner-Up\n2015-16 - University at Albany, Head Coach (24-9), CBI Postseason Tournament\n2014-15 - University at Albany, Head Coach (24-9), NCAA Tournament 2nd Round, America East Tournament & Regular Season Champions\n2013-14 - University at Albany, Head Coach (19-15), NCAA Tournament 2nd Round, America East Tournament Champions\n2011-12 - University at Albany, Head Coach (19-15), CIT Postseason Tournament, America East Tournament Semifinalist\n2010-11 - University at Albany, Head Coach (16-16), America East Tournament Quarterfinals\n2009-10 - University at Albany, Head Coach (7-25)\n2008-09 - University at Albany, Head Coach (15-16), America East Conference Tournament Semifinalist\n2007-08 - University at Albany, Head Coach (15-15), 2nd Place America East Conference\n2006-07 - University at Albany, Head Coach (23-10), NCAA Tournament 1st Round, America East Tournament Champions\n2005-06 - University at Albany, Head Coach (21-11), NCAA Tournament 1st Round, America East Conference Tournament & Regular-Season Champions\n2004-05 - University at Albany, Head Coach (13-15), 4th Place America East Conference\n2001-02 - University at Albany, Assistant Coach, Interim Head Coach (7-13)\n2000-01 - Sullivan County Community College, Head Coach (32-3), NJCAA National Championship Game\n1999-00 - Sullivan County Community College, Head Coach (28-5), Region XV Championship Game\n1998-99 - Sullivan County Community College, Head Coach (30-2), NJCAA Final Four\n1995-98 - College of Saint Rose, Assistant Coach\nChampionships and Postseason Appearances\nNCAA Tournament Appearance (2015, 2014, 2013, 2007, 2006)\nAmerica East Conference Tournament Champions (2015, 2014, 2013, 2007, 2006)\nAmerica East Conference Tournament Runner-Up (2017)\nCBI Postseason Tournament Appearance (2016)\nCollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament Appearance (2017, 2012)\nAmerica East Conference Regular-Season Title (2015, 2006)\nAll-Time UAlbany Team Honors Under Coach Brown:\nMost Wins (24) In Division I history (2015-16, 2014-15, 2012-13)\nMost True Road Wins (12) in School History (2014-15)\nMost Non-Conference Wins (15) for an entire season and before conference play (11) (2012-13)\nNationally ranked in free throw percentage in 2016-17 (28th), 2014-15 (13th), 2013-14 (18th), 2011-12 (19th)\nNationally ranked in free throws made (3rd), free throw attempts (8th), 3-PT FG% defense (8th) in 2015-16\nNationally ranked in rebounding margin (12th) in 2016-17\nNo. 1 in America East Conference in scoring 2011-12, 2005-06\nNo. 1 in America East Conference in FT% 2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2013-14, 2012-13, 2011-12, 2008-09, 2004-05, 2003-04\nNo. 1 in America East Conference in FTA, FTM, FT% (2015-16)\nNo. 1 in America East Conference in 3FG% 2011-12, 2010-11, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05\nNo. 1 in America East Conference in Rebound Margin 2016-17, 2009-10, 2008-09, 2007-08\nNo. 1 in America East Conference in Overall Rebounding 2008-09, 2007-08\nNo. 1 in America East Conference in Rebounding Defense 2016-17\nNo. 1 in America East Conference in Offensive Rebounding 2016-17\nAll-Time UAlbany Individual Honors Under Coach Brown:\n32 America East All-Conference selections\n9 America East All-Rookie selections in 11 years\n7 America East Conference All-Defensive selections\n3 America East Rookie of the Year selections\n2 America East Player of the Year selections\n2 America East Conference Individual Scoring Champions\n1 America East Defensive Player of the Year selection\n1 America East Conference Individual 3FG% leader\n1 America East Individual FT% leader\n1 America East Conference Fans Choice Player of the Year\nAll-Time UAlbany Academic Honors Under Coach Brown:\nMost America East All-Academic Team Selections in the history of the America East Conference (22)\nMost America East Scholar Athletes of the Year of any America East head coach in league history (4)\n2016-17, 2015-16, 2014-15, 2010-11 America East Record three players selected to the five-member All-Academic Team\n7 CoSIDA Academic All-District Selections\nFive-time America East Academic Champions for Men's Basketball: 2013-14, 2012-13, 2011-12, 2007-08, 2006-07\nGarnered NABC Academic Team Excellence Honors for earning a team GPA of 3.0 or higher in 2013-14\nNotched a program-record five spots on the NABC Honors Court in 2013-14, recognizing student-athletes with a GPA of 3.2 or higher.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 21248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 152.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ubbdesign.com/spam-blocker/10721.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:33Z", "digest": "sha1:VIUFUZ3DEZJ4ZZEJUVG6KXSIE72ZILFO", "length": 2735, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.ubbdesign.com", "title": "Block Spam with An Easy Behavioral Change - Spam-Blocker", "raw_content": "E-mails now have a connection back to their servers. I will leave the technical aspects out of this article. Instead, I will walk you through how information from your computer is getting back to them.\nYou have probably experienced this already, an e-mail lands in your box with many symbols in the subject line created with the Shift Key plus a Number Key. This is the most common one. For example, it may look like this: &*)(*&^%$#! Except the length of the symbols are longer.\nWhen you click on it to delete it, any further action, including the deletion of the e-mail seems to go into la-la land. In other words, you can do anything else. This may last up to a minute or two depending on your computer speed. You have just been pinged and information is going back to their server saying there is a live connection.\nIn addition, because the symbols change all the time, it's difficult to block them unless you use a program like Spam Arrest.\nHere is an easy way and excellent way to protect from this and all you have to do is change the way you dial in and out.\nIf you have a DSL line or any other type Internet connection that is open all the time. Control how frequently you allow e-mails to upload into your system. If you use Outlook, you go into Tools, Options, select the Mail Delivery tab and change \"check messages every\" 30, 60 or 90 minutes. This also helps on time management if e-mails are eating up too much of your time.\nNext, after all your e-mails are uploaded into your software, whether you set the time management feature above, close off the Internet connection. It will not stop the lost 30 or 60 seconds these e-mail lock up your computer but you have cut off any possible pinging.\nAfter you close the Internet connection, read, review and delete the e-mails. After completing this, you can go ahead and reopen the Internet connection, and send your responses.\nIf you have a dial-up connection, you can do this same method, except you will ignore the Mail Delivery option mentioned earlier.\nThis actually isn't just happening on e-mails with these symbols. There are other programmed e-mails dumping cookies on your computer. I will not address how to remove cookies in this article. To find out how your software can remove your cookies use F1 (help) on your keypad in your e-mail software to find the answer before. WindowsXP also has additional information for removing cookies under: Start, Help and Support.\nCatherine Franz, a eight-year Certified Professional Coach, Graduate of Coach University, Mastery University, editor of three ezines, columnist, author of thousands of articles website: www.abundancecenter.com\">http://www.abundancecenter.com blog: abundance.blogs.com\">http://abundance.blogs.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 8076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ucc.org/weekly_seeds_together_in_christ_christ_over_chaos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:29Z", "digest": "sha1:KBSVRVRAVZ65MPX4S432QO5ZRWY5WZGB", "length": 15442, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "www.ucc.org", "title": "Together in Christ/Christ over Chaos - United Church of Christ", "raw_content": "Together in Christ/Christ over Chaos\nHoly God, our refuge and strength, you have redeemed your scattered children, gathering them from all the corners of the earth through your firstborn, the Christ, in whom all things are held together. Make of us a just and righteous people, worthy by grace to inherit with him the kingdom of light and peace where he reigns with you and the Holy Spirit. Amen.\nMay you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. He has rescued us from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.\nHe is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation; for in him all things in heaven and on earth were created, things visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or powers--all things have been created through him and for him. He himself is before all things, and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that he might come to have first place in everything. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross.\nJeremiah 23:1-6 with Luke 1:68-79 or\nJeremiah 23:1-6 with Psalm 46\n1. How spacious, how roomy, is the God in Whom you place your trust?\n2. How would you describe your worldview?\n3. As the end of another year draws close, what are the powers that you and your church members fear, consciously or unconsciously?\n4. What \"philosophies\" and \"false teachings\" undermine Christian faith today, especially in your own setting?\n5. Do we say that we depend on God and believe in Jesus, but \"hedge our bets\" as Donelson says, just in case?\nPerhaps it's easier to connect with the readings of recent weeks (recognizing the outcasts with Jesus, who used them as examples for the self-righteous; praising God with the psalmist for God's beautiful creation and works; remembering God's promise of a new thing being done right in our midst), than with the texts for this Reign of Christ (formerly Christ the King) Sunday, this last Sunday in the church year. Perhaps we're a bit uncomfortable, or put off, by talk of kings and the triumphalism of our history that such talk suggests. But isn't it a good thing to end the church year with one more reminder of Who it is that holds us, and the church, and all of creation, in wisdom and love?\nAs beautiful as this passage is in the NRSV translation included here, it's easier to get a sense of its meaning and purpose by reading the entire Letter to the Colossians in The Message, Eugene Peterson's lovely and accessible translation, beginning with his introductory comments. Peterson sets the scene with a description of the Christians in Colossae, surrounded by a polytheistic culture: \"Most people of that day believed the air around them was thick with unseen spirits that humans ignored at their peril\u00d6.The Colossians were terrified that if they didn't appease the spirits, they laid themselves open to disease and poverty. Who was Jesus when compared to such powers?\"\nThe swirl of ideas and philosophies\nChristian teachings, then, had to compete in a kind of philosphical marketplace with the values and beliefs--religious and secular, and often deeply ingrained--that were swirling around the current culture. However, Paul (or another teacher writing in his name, but with the same pastoral concern) wants to make it abundantly clear that Christ is not just one among many competing approaches to life, not just the first among equals: Christ is at the very center of the meaning of everything, for all people.\nThe question of Jesus Christ is not of secondary but primary importance in the lives of his followers, in other words, not just something we think about on Sunday morning, or when someone asks us what church we go to, but a question that shapes our whole life. For the early Christians, and for us today, following Jesus is a big-time \"game-changer.\" Or, to put it in ancient terms, as Neta Pringle does, the writer of this letter says that being a Christian \"is not simply a matter of fitting Jesus into our present way of thinking. We are transferred, moved, deported, from one kingdom to another. Nothing is as we have known it.\"\nA fear of unseen spirits that need to be appeased may sound strange to us, but don't we too live in fear of many \"powers\"? There is good reason to fear the power of greed, and war, and violence, and addiction, and commercialism, as well as the philosophies, values, and beliefs that shape our way of life today, like an exaggerated individualism, excessive materialism, and an unfounded trust in military might for our security. Think of the damage these powers have done, especially to so many people who have no voice in them. Sometimes, it's easy to feel that the powers that be influence our lives more than the power, and the wisdom, and the plan, of God.\nA humble pastor's response\nThe author of this letter is no harsh teacher but has the heart of a pastor. In response to the fears and confusion of the ancient Colossians, Peterson depicts the author as the best of pastors, humble, energetically loving and kind, who wanted to ease the fears that afflicted these Gentiles (and us today, too) with a reminder that in Jesus we see God's plan for creation, that all the suffering and brokenness and sin in the world can be gathered up in Christ, who has room for all of us, and for all of the brokenness of the universe as well (The Message).\nPaul is really providing the church in Colossaae with a worldview here, a description of the cosmos from the smallest of things to the most incomprehensible, all taken up in God. Those are huge thoughts of tremendous significance, beyond our comprehension, and ancient worldviews differ from ours in many ways, particularly, but not only, because of scientific progress. No wonder, then, that we're called to listen in every age for the Stillspeaking God to lead us in new ways toward ancient truths, the good news of the gospel. \"It is the task of all Christians,\" Lewis Donelson writes, \"to find the gospel in whatever worldview they hold. This is no easy task.\" (It seems to me that Donelson is not saying that we are to insert or place the gospel into our worldview, but to find it there, underneath and within everything.)\nThe author of the Letter holds together the huge ideas of how the cosmos was created and how it holds together with the everyday command to live as a community based on love. Perhaps that is the brilliance of this letter: it grounds our life together as a community of love in the power of Christ (hence, \"Christ the King\"). Again, Donelson finds in Christ the very \"foundation for ethics.\"\nThere's no dropping out\nA Christology that emphasizes and insists on the lordship of Jesus Christ also includes a call for his followers, according to Elizabeth Barrington Forney, who draws on the work of Walter Wink to remind us that disciples of Jesus are called to transform the world and its systems, not escape them. So much for dropping out, or tuning out, in order to escape what distresses us in the world! We are called to be part of God's own work in repairing the damage that has been done and bringing forth a renewed creation, that is, to further the reign of God.\nThe expansiveness of this hymn encompasses so much more than our individual lives, although we of course each have our place in God's creation. We may feel overwhelmed with the problems we face that seem insolvable: war, hunger, poverty, and damage to the environment, as well as the \"small,\" personal disasters of our lives (our personal disasters, understandably, never feel small to us). Scholars find here one of the roots of Christian hope, however, for God in Christ is at work in the world, in the whole universe, and not just in our churches or our individual lives.\nWe need to open our eyes, our vision, to this vast mystery, and trust in the goodness of the One who brought it all into existence. If we think it's all up to us, that we can solve the problems of our existence, or even control a bunch of unseen minor spirits swirling around us, then our worldview needs some serious expanding.\nOpening our eyes to a wider horizon\nOn the other hand, if we continue to turn to the biblical witness, including its poetry (and much of this letter could be poetry, or a hymn), we are reminded that our most ancient ancestors could look up at the sky, and catch a glimpse of the immense mystery of God. As we hear in Psalm 8, this transcendent God could nevertheless create us, mere mortals, as little less than angels. Amazing! Such reverence, and expanded vision, can bring hope for the world, despite its great suffering and many problems, and for the church in its ministry in that world, in every age.\nAnd not just the huge problems, either, not just all of creation but everything that affects us personally in our own little lives, as well. Elizabeth Barrington Forney uses a wonderful image, \"the fine print,\" the small print of a legal contract, to emphasize the comprehensiveness of Jesus' reign over every detail of human existence. None of us is too small, too insignificant, to be watched over by Christ. The hymn, Forney writes, reminds us of one of the most beautiful passages in all of Scripture, in Romans 8, where we are assured that nothing can separate us from God's love.\nHow do you imagine the power of this Christ?\nScholars often speak of \"high\" Christology and \"low\" Christology, the former emphasizing the divinity of Jesus and the latter emphasizing his humanity. Barbara Blodgett observes that reading this text on Reign of Christ Sunday, just before the seasons of Advent and Christmas, reminds us that \"the same Christ who rules over all creation enters the world as a vulnerable baby.\"\nMuch of the language of \"Christ the King Sunday\" is metaphorical, of course, but it's easy to connect the power of a transcendent God who holds the universe in God's hands and the seemingly overpowering might of an empire in ancient times. I have a vivid memory of a large mural in a church in eastern Europe in which Jesus wears a crown and brandishes a sword, but that's not the picture that Blodgett draws for us, for our Christ is not a military conqueror or ruler like the emperors of old, using weapons and intimidation to keep us in his power. Perhaps, then, the early hearers of this letter more easily noted the contrast between the Roman Empire and the Reign of God than we do today, if we mistakenly assume that empires are things of the past.\nWe have our own swirl of ideas\nIn a world where travel, the media, education, and the Internet offer us so many ideas and so many approaches to life, our philosophical marketplace far exceeds that of the ancient world (in quantity, if not quality). This letter instructs us as it did the early Christians of Colossae not to get \"lost in the cosmic options,\" as Donelson says, but to recognize and give our allegiance to the One who died in order to heal all the brokenness of the world, and to make us whole once again.\nThis One is the Wisdom of God, which must have sounded familiar to early Christians raised in the Jewish faith and its wisdom tradition, in which Lady Wisdom participated in creation with God. Jesus, of course, is often identified in the same way, as Wisdom incarnate. We signal our recognition and our gratitude and our commitment of this Wisdom, the Christ, by living in love and being a sign of the love that grounds the whole universe. From that love, from the power of that love, the author of Colossians tells us, we draw strength to endure whatever comes our way, and to become people of joyful and grateful hearts--not at all a bad way to close one church year and begin a new one.\nWhat, and who, matters first for the church?\nThe image of a king may seem a bit outdated for people in post-modern democracies. Do you think it is still relevant for the church today? Is there another image that works better for you? How might our understanding of Jesus' being \"raised up\" expand beyond what happened on one Easter morning to a comprehensive understanding of his place over everything, not just our individual, personal lives, or the community, or the church in every age, but all of creation, in all time?\nIn the United Church of Christ, we claim as our motto the words of Jesus, \"That they may all be one\" (John 17:21). These are more than just beautiful words, and or a nice thought: they are at the heart of being the Christian community. No matter what divides us--and it seems that countless things attempt to do so, in the larger scheme of things, and even within our congregations, even within the committees and boards of our churches--we are bound together by love, God's love, that is more powerful than our \"church fights\" over worship, or theology, or decisions about whom to include in our life, or even the monthly calendar or who has a key to the kitchen cabinets. In those situations, in every situation, large and small, Forney suggests a simple but powerful question to clarify matters: \"Does this,\" she asks, \"allow Christ to have first place?\" Christ above all, and at the heart of everything: this is our hymn today, on Reign of Christ Sunday.\nThomas Merton, Love and Living, 20th century\n\"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone--we find it with another.\"\n\"Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.\"\nMartin Luther King, Jr., 20th century\n\"I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.\"\nKahlil Gibran, 20th century\n\"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.\"\n\"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding....And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.\"\nWilliam Shakespeare, 16th century\n\"Time's glory is to calm contending kings, to unmask falsehood and bring truth to light.\"\n\"Christianity is the story of how the rightful King has landed, you might say in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in His great campaign of sabotage.\"\n\"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.\"\nAna\u00d4s Nin, 20th century\n\"In chaos, there is fertility.\"\nElizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 21st century\n\"I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.\"\nNatalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 21st century\n\"Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.\"\nWeekly Seeds is a service of Local Church Ministries of the United Church of Christ. 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When I see what their income is, it makes me wonder how they even survive.\u201d\nEsther has been helping families in Fayette County save money for 16 years. She encourages even not-so-tech-savvy community members to get involved. \u201cI still do the taxes on paper. I\u2019m the old-fashioned one,\u201d she said.\nVolunteering is not only an enjoyable experience for Esther, but a flexible one as well. Esther will be doing taxes this year at United Way\u2019s Uniontown site two days a week, and one day a week at the Masontown Library tax extension by appointment only.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t have to give a ton of time to get involved,\u201d Esther said. \u201dHowever much time you can give is appreciated.\u201d\nLearn more about United Way\u2019s Free Tax Prep program >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.uucas.org/?p=504", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DYP2ACX26HGSQNMTHNOOHH3KWLDTPGLI", "length": 2326, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.uucas.org", "title": "The 1896 \u201cPoverty Party\u201d \u2013 Part 2 \u2013 UUCAS", "raw_content": "November 20, 2018Written by Katie Replogle\nThe Athens Universalist Society was organized in 1849 and built a meeting house on North St. in 1851. By the mid-1890\u2019s, the building needed a lot of repairs. In November, 1895, the congregation met to discuss the possibility of selling the 1851 meeting house and building a new one about half a mile away at the corner of Main and Pine streets. Motions were made to repair the North St. building (defeated), to build a new meeting house on the Main & Pine lot (probably defeated \u2013 vote not recorded), and to reconsider the motion to repair the North St. church (passed).\nThe congregation raised money for repairs in 1896, and the North St. building was closed for repair work in November of that year. The record book notes in June, 1898, that \u201cthe Society is out of debt, the church in good repair.\u201d\nThe \u201cPoverty Party,\u201d which, according to the flyer, was intended to raise money to build a new meeting house, was held in February, 1896, at the home of Athens church member Dennison Tripp. Tripp lived a couple of blocks away from the proposed new site. Why was a fundraiser held for the erection of a new meeting house when the congregation had apparently voted to repair the North St. building?\nThe following brief article in a \u201cspecial edition\u201d of the Sayre/Athens Evening News on Nov. 1, 1899, may offer a clue:\n\u201cThe Church of the Good Tidings: The Universalists of North Athens have organized themselves into a society under this title and, through the untiring efforts of the lady members, a church site has been purchased and paid for at the junction of Pine, Church and Main streets, a charter granted under the laws of the state, and plans are well under way for the erection of a new church in the near future.\u201d\nThe above article was recently sent to us by a staff member of the local museum. We had never before heard of the \u201cUniversalists of North Athens.\u201d Did the congregation split over the decision to repair the old meeting house? Did the defectors, possibly led by Tripp, organize a new congregation and purchase the lot at Pine and Main?\nAs far as we know, no church was built on the lot in question. The building currently on that lot was an Odd Fellows Hall in 1911 and probably earlier. 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It was unveiled on September 15, 1991 in both Versailles and in front of the Grande Arche at La D\ufffdfense in Paris, France exactly 110 years after Ettore Bugatti`s birth.\nThe model is rigged for animation, and the product features one resolution of the model, which is highly detailed and textured.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 239.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vap.net.au/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:39Z", "digest": "sha1:M26Y4KAWMBMBCX7LEW3W3EZZPBWJXALJ", "length": 1306, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.vap.net.au", "title": "Home -", "raw_content": "Value Added Personnel Pty (VAP) is Australian owned and established in 1998. We are a Recruitment, Training and Outplacement Organisation based in Dandenong, Victoria. 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More\nScience and Religion: A Very Short Introduction explores not only the key philosophical questions that underlie the debate between science and religion, but also the social, political, and ethical contexts that have made it such a fraught and interesting topic in the modern world. Offering perspectives from non-Christian religions and examples from across the physical, biological, and social sciences, it examines landmark historical episodes such as the trial of Galileo by the Inquisition in 1633, and highlights modern debates about quantum physics, cosmology, neuroscience, and evolutionary ethics, examining their political as well as their religious significance.Less", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 4451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 179.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780198716495.001.0001/actrade-9780198716495-chapter-7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:40Z", "digest": "sha1:EEOULFWGCHZE4T34U4DGNRHZGH2Q5ONR", "length": 848, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.veryshortintroductions.com", "title": "7. The future of criminal justice - Very Short Introductions", "raw_content": "7. The future of crimi...\n\"Is medical research the new imperialism?\" in Medical Ethics\n\"Nations, states, and global justice\" in Political Philosophy\np. 121p. 1227. The future of criminal justice\n\u2018The future of criminal justice\u2019 proposes that a number of trends are set to continue. Budget cuts will mean more privatization along with greater public awareness and official scrutiny of police. It is likely that many countries will seek to reduce the use of imprisonment as a sanction, with more electronic monitoring replacing custody as a sentence. It is also likely that more offenders will be punished through financial penalties and asset seizure. A greater harmonization of effective criminal justice practices worldwide may result in the end of the death penalty. Finally, victims may be given even more rights throughout the criminal process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 5161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.veryshortintroductions.com/view/10.1093/actrade/9780199687749.001.0001/actrade-9780199687749-chapter-7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:01Z", "digest": "sha1:B4BVQW6G7N27CYIWRREEGDFM2YZ3ORA6", "length": 959, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.veryshortintroductions.com", "title": "6. Christianity in the modern world - Very Short Introductions", "raw_content": "6. Christianity in the...\n\"Evangelicalism\" in Anglicanism\n\"Ecumenism\" in The Quakers\n\"The Future of Quakerism\" in The Quakers\np. 896. Christianity in the modern world\nDuring the modern period, Christianity has changed in rapid and unprecedented ways. Church, Biblical, and Mystical Christianity can still be discerned, but they flow together in new combinations, taking shape not in new churches and denominations, but in movements that flow through them and mould their agendas\u2014most importantly Christian liberalism, evangelicalism and fundamentalism, Pentecostalism, and Charismatic revival. \u2018Christianity in the modern world\u2019 describes these movements and concludes that the late 20th and early 21st centuries have seen the ties between Christianity and the west loosening and secularism and \u2018non-religion\u2019 growing. The most vital and fast-growing forms of Christianity have flourished outside the west, taking the religion\u2019s agenda in many new directions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 5203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.virginiabusiness.com/news/article/developer-turning-old-martinsville-hotel-into-apartments", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:2FJO3GCAEIXEGJEJL6H5IOTP2J5YB3RD", "length": 2458, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.virginiabusiness.com", "title": "Developer turning old Martinsville hotel into apartments Industries | Virginia Business", "raw_content": "Developer turning old Martinsville hotel into apartments\nThe $3.2 million project will include commercial\nspace and 25 apartments. Photo courtesy\nDeveloper Dave McCormack hopes to breathe new life into the former Henry Hotel in Martinsville by converting the structure into a four-story apartment building. A center of activity during the heyday of the textile and tobacco industries in Southern Virginia, the hotel, which was built around 1920, has been empty for several years.\nThe $3.2 million project will include three commercial spaces on the first floor and 25 apartments. \u201cThere is a need for quality, market-rate apartments in Martinsville,\u201d says McCormack, president of Waukeshaw Development Inc. in Petersburg. \u201cYou see a lot of low-income housing, but you don\u2019t see a lot of market-rate apartments.\u201d\nHe sees the opening of the New College Institute\u2019s new Building on Baldwin, just blocks away, as a plus for his apartment complex. \u201cThat development will attract a lot of students,\u201d he says.\nThe college building will house academic and workforce training programs.\nMcCormack started de\u00ad\u00ad\u00adveloping buildings in Petersburg and other underserved areas about 12 years ago. One of his larger Petersburg projects, Mayton Transfer Lofts, includes 220 apartments. He expects to have about $60 million in investments in the Petersburg area by 2015. \u201cI do projects [that] developers have stayed away from,\u201d he says.\nHe looked at the Henry Hotel property more than a year ago at the suggestion of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. He had worked with the department on similar projects. \u201cI like working in that reuse, historic tax credit realm,\u201d he says. \u201cI like to do projects that are game changing and spur other development.\u201d\nMcCormack, who bought the 26,400-square-foot building from Martinsville for $1, is using historic state and federal tax credits, as well as a $600,000 grant from the state Industrial Revitalization Fund, for the project.\n\u201cVirginia Community Capital is financing the remainder,\u201d he says, adding that he expects to break ground on the project this month. Construction will take about 10 months. \u201cWe hope to have a certificate of occupancy by the middle of the summer of 2015.\u201d\nMcCormack says that his renovation projects usually pave the way for other projects in the same area. He hopes to have the same success in Martinsville. \u201cThese things always lead to more opportunity and development,\u201d he says.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 5925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 182.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.virginiabusiness.com/regions/article/mohawk-industries-to-expand-operations-in-carroll-county", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:42Z", "digest": "sha1:U6BAF453F6YH25BENLFXUUOMHRZJUVS2", "length": 985, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.virginiabusiness.com", "title": "Mohawk Industries to expand operations in Carroll County Regions | Virginia Business", "raw_content": "Mohawk Industries to expand operations in Carroll County\nMohawk Industries, a leading flooring products manufacturer, will expand its manufacturing operations in Carroll County.\nVirginia successfully competed against Alabama for the project at the company\u2019s Hillsville plant, which will invest in new equipment while retaining existing jobs.\nMohawk is the world\u2019s largest flooring manufacturer. During the past two decades, the company has transformed itself from being an American carpet manufacturer to become a producer of carpet, rugs, ceramic tile, laminate, wood, stone and vinyl flooring.\nIn addition to the U.S., the company has operations in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Europe, India, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand and Russia.\nThe Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with Carroll County and Virginia\u2019s Industrial Advancement Alliance to secure the project.\nThe Virginia Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission approved $95,000 in Tobacco Region Opportunity Funds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 4465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 134.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wanderings.net/notebook/Main/PostHeartAttackTreatmentsCauseHeartMuscleDeath", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:40Z", "digest": "sha1:AP4KMV7RKIX45DAJGH3RNOWAL6PNLQQB", "length": 6493, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.wanderings.net", "title": "Post Heart Attack Treatments Cause Heart Muscle Death | Wanderings", "raw_content": "Photo by Josh Sommers\n\"The new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks\ufffdand death itself.\"\n\"In an emergency department, you work like mad for half an hour on someone whose heart stopped, and finally someone says, 'I don't think we're going to get this guy back,' and then you just stop--The body on the cart is dead, but its trillions of cells are all still alive.\"\nAssumption: After a heart attack, the heart stops beating and heart muscle cells start dying. Wrong. The heart cells live for hours after someone is pronounced dead. What kills heart cells immediately is a profusion of oxygen. When high levels of oxygen are introduced into oxygen starved (not dead) heart cells, the cell basically commit suicide. Very strange. For some reason the high concentration of oxygen triggers a suicide response in the cells.\nOn the other hand, heart cells that are perfused with low but increasing levels of oxygen will not commit suicide and will start contracting. This is leading doctors/researchers to drastically alter their approach to heart attack resuscitation.\nAmong the approaches:\n\"...\"cardioplegic\" blood infusion to keep the heart in a state of suspended animation. Patients were put on a heart-lung bypass machine to maintain circulation to the brain until the heart could be safely restarted. The study involved just 34 patients, but 80 percent of them were discharged from the hospital alive. In one study of traditional methods, the figure was about 15 percent.\"\n\"...hypothermia\ufffdlowering body temperature from 37 to 33 degrees Celsius\ufffdwhich appears to slow the chemical reactions touched off by reperfusion.\"\nTo Treat the Dead By Jerry Adler of Newsweek - Link dead - Read cached copy below.\nThe new science of resuscitation is changing the way doctors think about heart attacks\ufffdand death itself.\nMay 7, 2007 issue - Consider someone who has just died of a heart attack. His organs are intact, he hasn't lost blood. All that's happened is his heart has stopped beating\ufffdthe definition of \"clinical death\"\ufffdand his brain has shut down to conserve oxygen. But what has actually died? Story continues below \u2193advertisement\nAs recently as 1993, when Dr. Sherwin Nuland wrote the best seller \"How We Die,\" the conventional answer was that it was his cells that had died. The patient couldn't be revived because the tissues of his brain and heart had suffered irreversible damage from lack of oxygen. This process was understood to begin after just four or five minutes. If the patient doesn't receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation within that time, and if his heart can't be restarted soon thereafter, he is unlikely to recover. That dogma went unquestioned until researchers actually looked at oxygen-starved heart cells under a microscope. What they saw amazed them, according to Dr. Lance Becker, an authority on emergency medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. \"After one hour,\" he says, \"we couldn't see evidence the cells had died. We thought we'd done something wrong.\" In fact, cells cut off from their blood supply died only hours later.\nBut if the cells are still alive, why can't doctors revive someone who has been dead for an hour? Because once the cells have been without oxygen for more than five minutes, they die when their oxygen supply is resumed. It was that \"astounding\" discovery, Becker says, that led him to his post as the director of Penn's Center for Resuscitation Science, a newly created research institute operating on one of medicine's newest frontiers: treating the dead.\nBiologists are still grappling with the implications of this new view of cell death\ufffdnot passive extinguishment, like a candle flickering out when you cover it with a glass, but an active biochemical event triggered by \"reperfusion,\" the resumption of oxygen supply. The research takes them deep into the machinery of the cell, to the tiny membrane-enclosed structures known as mitochondria where cellular fuel is oxidized to provide energy. Mitochondria control the process known as apoptosis, the programmed death of abnormal cells that is the body's primary defense against cancer. \"It looks to us,\" says Becker, \"as if the cellular surveillance mechanism cannot tell the difference between a cancer cell and a cell being reperfused with oxygen. Something throws the switch that makes the cell die.\"\nWith this realization came another: that standard emergency-room procedure has it exactly backward. When someone collapses on the street of cardiac arrest, if he's lucky he will receive immediate CPR, maintaining circulation until he can be revived in the hospital. But the rest will have gone 10 or 15 minutes or more without a heartbeat by the time they reach the emergency department. And then what happens? \"We give them oxygen,\" Becker says. \"We jolt the heart with the paddles, we pump in epinephrine to force it to beat, so it's taking up more oxygen.\" Blood-starved heart muscle is suddenly flooded with oxygen, precisely the situation that leads to cell death. Instead, Becker says, we should aim to reduce oxygen uptake, slow metabolism and adjust the blood chemistry for gradual and safe reperfusion.\nResearchers are still working out how best to do this. A study at four hospitals, published last year by the University of California, showed a remarkable rate of success in treating sudden cardiac arrest with an approach that involved, among other things, a \"cardioplegic\" blood infusion to keep the heart in a state of suspended animation. Patients were put on a heart-lung bypass machine to maintain circulation to the brain until the heart could be safely restarted. The study involved just 34 patients, but 80 percent of them were discharged from the hospital alive. In one study of traditional methods, the figure was about 15 percent.\nBecker also endorses hypothermia\ufffdlowering body temperature from 37 to 33 degrees Celsius\ufffdwhich appears to slow the chemical reactions touched off by reperfusion. He has developed an injectable slurry of salt and ice to cool the blood quickly that he hopes to make part of the standard emergency-response kit. \"In an emergency department, you work like mad for half an hour on someone whose heart stopped, and finally someone says, 'I don't think we're going to get this guy back,' and then you just stop,\" Becker says. The body on the cart is dead, but its trillions of cells are all still alive. Becker wants to resolve that paradox in favor of life.\nTags: Blog | Health | Heart Disease", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 7503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.warpedfactor.com/2016/03/20-things-you-might-not-know-about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPK67XAT6N75MPODE2VGGDNJE2GPHJZK", "length": 10469, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.warpedfactor.com", "title": "20 Things You Might Not Know About BATMAN BEGINS | Warped Factor - Words in the Key of Geek.", "raw_content": "20 Things You Might Not Know About BATMAN BEGINS\nGeek Dave goes back to the Batcave...\n1. We last left our Batman trivia retrospective in January 2003 with Warner Bros. hiring Christopher Nolan to direct, what was at the time, an untitled Batman film. Two months later David S. Goyer signed on to write the script, working closely with Nolan with the intentions of reinventing the film franchise of Batman through another origin story.\nNolan felt that all four previous Batman films had been exercises in style rather than drama, and wanted his take to be grounded in both realism and humanity, and to be set in a recognisable, contemporary reality against which an extraordinary heroic figure arises. The director said his inspiration in achieving this was found in Richard Donner's 1978 film Superman, and in its focus on depicting the character's growth.\n2. When it came to the character of Batman, Nolan's personal \"jumping off point\" for inspiration was the 1989 short story The Man Who Falls by Denny O'Neil and Dick Giordano. This comic book was an overview of Bruce Wayne's early life, including his parents' murder, his time spent traveling and training throughout the world, and his return to Gotham City to become Batman. There are multiple scenes in Batman Begins that echo this comic, it even began with a young Bruce Wayne falling down a dry well on the grounds of Wayne Manor and being surrounded by a swarm of bats.\n3. Goyer stated the 1996 comic book Batman: The Long Halloween, written by Jeph Loeb and drawn by Tim Sale, was heavily influential when writing the screenplay, and the villain Carmine Falcone was one of many elements which were drawn from Halloween's \"sober, serious approach\". Other comics which Goyer noted as inspirational when approaching the screenplay include; The Killing Joke, Knightfall, Batman: Dark Victory, The Dark Knight Returns, and Batman: Year One.\nFrom Batman: Year One Goyer used the vacancy of Bruce Wayne's multi-year absence presented to help set up some of the film's events in the transpiring years. In addition, the film's Sergeant James Gordon was based on his comic book incarnation as seen in Year One, as well as the comic's plot device, which was about a corrupt police force that led to Gordon and Gotham City's need for Batman\n4. The Long Halloween tells the story of a mysterious killer named Holiday, who murders people on holidays, one each month. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Captain James Gordon, Batman races against the calendar as he tries to discover who Holiday is before he claims his next victim each month, while attempting to stop the crime war between two of Gotham's most powerful families, Maroni and Falcone.\n5. At the start of the casting process all the 'big names' approached were initially not told that the film was to be a Batman movie and the script they were sent was simply titled The Intimidation Game. After receiving his sample script Michael Caine initially discarded the document as when he first saw the title he assumed the script was for some kind of gangster movie which he wasn't interested at the time. Fortunately he opened it much later on a whim, and instantly loved the approach for Alfred.\n6. Early on in development Christopher Nolan met with Guy Pearce, who he'd collaborated with on Memento, to discuss the possibility of Pearce playing the part of Ra's al Ghul, but both of them decided that he was too young for the role. Gary Oldman was then linked to the character, and the screenplay was further developed with him in mind. However, after Nolan offered the part of James Gordon to Chris Cooper and he turned it down in order to take a break from the industry and spend time with his family, it was decided that it would be refreshing for Oldman, who is renowned for his portrayals of villains, to play the role of Gordon instead.\n7. On the lookout for a new actor to portray Ra's al Ghul, Nolan approached Daniel Day-Lewis (who wasn't interested in auditioning) and offered the part to Viggo Mortensen, before deciding upon Liam Neeson. Nolan liked the duality of the traditional role reversal found with Oldman and Neeson, as Neeson was commonly associated with mentor-style parts, so the revelation that his character was the main villain was intended to shock viewers.\n8. Harvey Dent originally featured in Goyer's screenplay for the film, but the character was written out and replaced by Rachel Dawes when the writers felt they \"couldn't do [Dent] justice\" within the confines of this movie. Dent would, of course, go on to be later portrayed by Aaron Eckhart in the 2008 sequel The Dark Knight.\n9. Claire Danes and Reese Witherspoon were both considered to play Rachel Dawes before Katie Holmes was offered and accepted the role.\n10. When it came to casting Bruce Wayne / Batman, Eion Bailey, Henry Cavill, Billy Crudup, Hugh Dancy, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joshua Jackson, Heath Ledger, David Boreanaz and Cillian Murphy were all considered for the role, but there was always a clear front runner...\n11. It was reported that Christian Bale had previously auditioned for the role of Robin in Batman Forever and later Batman and Robin, but lost out to Chris O'Donnell. However, this rumour was later dispelled by Bale himself in a magazine interview in 2008. He had, however, been considered to play the part of Batman / Bruce Wayne back in 1998 when Darren Aronofsky was working on his own adaptation of Batman: Year One. Stuck in development hell for nearly five years, this take had initially been adapted for the screen by original Year One writer Frank Miller. His new script included Bruce Wayne as an orphan on the streets of Gotham, stripped of his fortune and taken in like Oliver Twist by an Alfred surrogate called Big Al, who ran an autoshop with his son, Little Al. Selina Kyle also featured as a young prostitute. The project went through numerous re-writes and directors, until ultimately it was canceled when Nolan came on board and started afresh. Pretty much everything was thrown out, with the exception of one man...\n12. At his audition, Christian Bale wore the bat suit (minus the cape which has been missing for some time) which Val Kilmer had donned for 1995's Batman Forever. He also read for the part opposite Amy Adams, who in a favour to the casting director, was serving as the casting reader for the all the actors trying out for Bruce Wayne/Batman.\n13. Bale was confirmed as the star of the new Batman film on September 11th 2003, whilst he was still filming The Machinist. At the close of 2003, as he completed work on the psychological thriller, Bale weighed just 121 lbs, and was given six months to bulk up to match Batman's muscular physique. Bale recalled this as far from a simple accomplishment:\n\"When it actually came to building muscle, I was useless. I couldn't do one push up the first day. All of the muscles were gone, so I had a real tough time rebuilding all of that.\"\nBut with the help of a personal trainer Bale succeeded, gaining over 100 lb within about five months. A few weeks before filming on Batman Begins was about to get underway he weighed in at 230 lbs, and there was now concern that he'd be too bulky for the part! Bale also recognised that his large physique was not appropriate for Batman, who relies on speed and strategy, so in the space of just a few weeks he dropped to 40 lbs to weigh 190 lbs on the first day of filming.\n14. In a dialogue free cameo, the villain Victor Zsasz was played by former James frontman Tim Booth.\n15. For the role of the Scarecrow, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Davies, Ewan McGregor were all considered but the frontrunner for much of the casting process was future Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston. If Nolan had cast Eccleston then it's unlikely he'd have been available to play the Ninth Doctor, so say thank you to Cillian Murphy and his piercing blue eyes which had long stuck with Nolan after the Irish actor auditioned for the part of Bruce Wayne / Batman.\n16. Although the Gotham City exteriors were shot in Chicago, much of Batman Begins was filmed in the UK at Shepperton Studios and other locations, including the University College London (which featured as the Gotham Courthouse) that Nolan had attended as a student. Whilst studying there Nolan began work on his debut 1998 feature Following, and the director included two of the film's leads, Jeremy Theobald and Lucy Russell, in his new Batman movie. Theobald plays the younger water technician in the film's climax, and Russell features as the Gothamite that Bale has dinner with later on.\n17. Contrary to the previous Batman films, Batman Begins relied on traditional stunts and miniatures, with computer-generated imagery used minimally. When it came to the Batcave, which had previously been realised through a combination of a live set and matte paintings (done either by hand or computer), no visual effects were used, instead an entire Batcave was erected on a massive full-scale set. It measured 250 feet (76 m) long, 120 feet (37 m) wide, and 40 feet (12 m) high. Production designer Nathan Crowley installed twelve pumps to create a waterfall holding 12,000 imperial gallons, and built rocks using molds from real caves.\n18. Although Christian Bale performed many of his own stunts, for insurance reasons he wasn't allowed anywhere near the Batmobile.\n19. Christian Bale revealed in a 2009 interview that in his first ever scene with Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, the one involving Bruce Wayne waking up in bed to find them waiting there, he fell asleep after the exhausting filming schedule took its toll. Bale described waking up to find Michael Caine poking him in the ribs, saying \"Look at that! He's bloody fallen asleep\".\n20. At the time of this film's release in 2005, Forbes Magazine did a breakdown of how much it would actually cost to become Batman. The magazine estimated that total expenses in US dollars would be around $3.5 million.\nAnyone got a spare $3.5 million?\n25 Things You Might Not Know About The 1960s Batman Series\n6 Unmade Live Action Batman Projects\n10 Things You Might Not Know About Tim Burton's Batman\n10 Things You Might Not Know About Batman Returns\n10 Things You Might Not Know About Batman Forever\n10 Things You Might Not Know About Batman & Robin\nBatman Triumphant And What Could've Been The Fifth Bat-Movie\nLabels: Batman Batman Begins Christian Bale Christopher Nolan DC Comics Feature Gary Oldman Geek Dave Michael Caine Movies Trivia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 12256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whatdvd.net/border-radio-dvd-review-2881.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:50Z", "digest": "sha1:OF3GSBEQRL45XYMNP6P54XGWAQH6PCCN", "length": 5553, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.whatdvd.net", "title": "Border Radio : WhatDVD.Net", "raw_content": "Browse > Home / Drama / Border Radio\nDirector: Allison Anders, Dean Lent, Kurt Voss,\nStarring: Chris D, Luanna Anders, John Doe, Devon Anders, Dave Alvin, Texacala Jones, Iris Berry, Chuck Shepeard, Julie Christensen,\nRate Border Radio DVD Release:\nIn the 1990s, Allison Anders emerged as one of the most distinctive female filmmakers working in American independent cinema. Gas Food Lodging (1992) was the first film of hers that garnered significant attention both critically and commercially. For a brief spell, she hung out with contemporary American indie filmmakers Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino (whom she dated briefly) and Alexandre Rockwell. The result was the much-hyped failure Four Rooms (1995). Anders wisely returned to more substantial and personal projects like the underrated Grace of My Heart (1996) and Things Behind the Sun (2001). Border Radio (1987) was her feature film debut co-directed with fellow UCLA film students Dean Lent and Kurt Voss. It took four years to make and was hard to find on home video for years. This is no longer an issue thanks to the Criterion Collection who give it their customary deluxe treatment.\nJeff (Chris D) is a singer-songwriter who has stolen a book that identifies known drug users from a local nightclub and goes into hiding somewhere in Mexico when three thugs come after him. His wife, Luanna (Anders), is a rock journalist who decides to enlist two of her husband\u2019s friends \u2013 Chris (Shearer) and Dean (Doe) \u2013 to track him down on a journey that takes them through southern California and into Mexico.\nChris is a roadie for Jeff\u2019s band and is also having an affair with the headstrong Luanna, a character who prove to be the blueprint for future female protagonists in all of Anders\u2019 subsequent films. She has to raise a child without the help of her husband who is missing in action and this has made her independent and cynical about love, much like the single moms in Gas Food Lodging and Grace of My Heart. Dean is a fellow musician whose clumsy advances Luanna rejects, much like Chris Mulkey\u2019s slick lothario in Gas Food Lodging. She soon finds out that Chris and Dean had a hand in the theft of the club\u2019s books and that they are immature boys who can\u2019t be trusted. She confronts them in an effort to set the record straight so that Jeff can return home.\nAs she demonstrated with that film, Anders has a real knack for evoking the environment that her characters inhabit. Border Radio features many shots of desolate desert landscapes of southern California and the sandy beaches of Jeff\u2019s Mexican refuge. More than any of her other efforts, this film has a loose, improvisational structure with an emphasis on character and the often tumultuous relationships between men and women. Anders\u2019 films feature smart, beautiful women who navigate the treacherous waters of relationships that are filled with men that are irresponsible and cannot commit. Border Radio has all the affectations of a student film transitioning into a debut feature film. It lacks any kind of coherence and ambles along in search of an ending but it does hint at the command of craft that Anders would later develop on subsequent films.\nThere is an audio commentary by directors Allison Anders and Kurt Voss. They made the movie in the wake of the golden age of the punk rock scene in Los Angeles. They wanted to capture the transient nature of the scene at the time. Anders and Voss reminisce about the music scene and identify the musicians who appear in the movie. They go on to cite filmmakers like Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders as their primary cinematic influences at the time but they were actually inspired by the success of other American indies like Stranger Than Paradise (1984) and Blood Simple (1985). The two filmmakers tell all kinds of filming anecdotes on this relaxed track done by two obviously close friends.\nAn additional commentary features actors Luanna Anders, Dave Alvin, Chris D, John Doe and Chris Shearer. Everyone talks about how they got involved in the film, how they met the filmmakers, etc. Anders and Shearer had already appeared in a few of their student films and were cast based on that work. Chris D and John Doe talk about the music scene at the time and all of the musicians they got to contribute to the soundtrack. You can tell that they are all still good friends from the way they talk to each other in this trip down memory lane for all concerned.\n\u201cThe Making of Border Radio\u201d features Anders, Lent and Voss talking about their humble film school days spent scrounging for money to get their movies made. Chris D and John Doe talk about how they got involved and recount some of their experiences making it. Everyone talks about the comradery of making a low-budget film.\nAlso included are nine deleted scenes with more footage of Jeff and his buddies stealing the books and making their getaway. Two scenes reunite Jeff and Luanna in Mexico. There is also a nice scene where Jeff talks about artistic integrity vs. commercial appeal. This is a good collection of footage and it\u2019s too bad that there\u2019s no explanation as to why it was cut.\nThere is also a theatrical trailer and a T.V. spot.\n\u201cEcho Park\u201d is a collection of behind-the-scenes photographs taken by Dean Lent during the course of production.\nAlso included are mini-biographies for the main cast and crew.\nFinally, there is a video for \u201cThe Wedding Dice\u201d by the Flesh Eaters, an L.A. punk band which was fronted by Chris D. The video also features cult film actress Mary Woronov as a police coroner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 10233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wheelchairbasketball.ca/news_press/canada-to-play-for-fifth-after-resilient-win-over-host-turkey-at-junior-world-wheelchair-basketball-championship/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:03Z", "digest": "sha1:65MP73DRHHUYAI5RPGANGULKXGW3G2LM", "length": 2550, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.wheelchairbasketball.ca", "title": "Canada To Play For Fifth After Resilient Win Over Host Turkey At Junior World Wheelchair Basketball Championship - Wheelchair Basketball Canada", "raw_content": "Canada To Play For Fifth After Resilient Win Over Host Turkey At Junior World Wheelchair Basketball Championship\n(Adana, Turkey) The Canadian Men\u2019s U23 Wheelchair Basketball Team will meet Iran in a showdown for fifth place at the Junior World Wheelchair Basketball Championship after Canada defeated host Turkey 62-54 on Friday in Adana, Turkey.\nTeam Canada was resilient and showed great composure to overcome the home crowd support and outlast a strong Turkish side. Turkey held the lead for most of the game, but with each push to extend the lead the Canadians would fight their way back to within striking distance on the scoreboard, never trailing by more than seven points. That perseverance paid off in the fourth quarter, as Canada took the late lead and never looked back.\n\u201cTop teams play solid games consistently and we challenged our athletes to do just that. They delivered in today\u2019s game and carried over the positive momentum from yesterday\u2019s quarter-final match against Sweden,\u201d said Team Canada Head Coach Steve Bialowas.\n\u201cWe played a complete game and our work ethic wore down the Turkish team in the fourth quarter. They had no answer for our strong push at the end of the game.\n\u201cThey had no answer for our strong push at the end of the game.\u201d\nNik Goncin, of Regina, Sask., scored a team-high 31 points, 15 rebounds and six assists for Team Canada. Teammate Jack Kosterman, of Fort Langley, B.C., added 11 points and four rebounds in the winning effort.\nThe opening quarter was a back-and-forth contest as both teams looked to rebound from quarter-final losses less than 24 hours earlier. Turkey edged Canada to seize the 19-16 lead after ten minutes of play. The teams matched each other basket for basket in the second quarter, scoring 12 points apiece as Turkey carried a 31-28 lead into halftime.\nWith a close game through three quarters of play, Canada broke out with a 14-2 run to open the final frame and take the lead, 56-49. Turkey could not keep pace with Canada\u2019s potent offensive output in the fourth quarter as the Canadians outscored their Turkish counterparts 20-7 to the end the game.\nWith the Canadian victory, the Americas Zone has earned a second qualification spot for the next world championship in four years.\nCanada will face Iran at 3:15 a.m. ET on Saturday September 14 to decide fifth place. Canada will look to avenge an 83-48 loss at the hands of the Iranians earlier in the preliminary round.\nSweden and Germany will meet in the gold medal game, while Australia and Great Britain will play for bronze.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 4595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wholeheartedlady.com/2018/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:17Z", "digest": "sha1:SCRJ7CIIKCANWWAJ6CX3NC3QCYQIIAPH", "length": 17287, "nlines": 85, "source_domain": "www.wholeheartedlady.com", "title": "wholeheartedlady.com: August 2018", "raw_content": "\"Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel, Ephesians 6:19 NIV\nThe Apostle Paul is asking his friends to pray for him? If Paul needed prayer, how much more do we. This wonderful man preached all over the ancient world, but he still wants prayer for words.\nI suppose if anyone knows about fear, it would be Paul. I don't know what he has faced at this period of his life, but he had some very painful, near death situations during his lifetime.\nAll of us need to pray however we can in our circumstance. I shared about speaking out loud the other day, but I want to tell you why I know the silence kind are important too.\nWe can be in places where it's not appropriate to pray! Have you ever prayed to silently in a doctor's office? I think most people have. We can be sick and not know what words to say. I am recovering from a sinus and ear infection, and I prayed silently a lot this week!\nThank God we can have hope in our Father who hears even when we don't speak. We can get to know Jesus, and who He says He is, when He answers those silent prayers. No one knows but God himself what your request is.\nI read Luke 11: 1- 13 last night. You are probably familiar with verses 1-4. It's the Lord's prayer. What I didn't realize, just after this, Jesus shares the story about the traveler who comes at midnight. The house he enters doesn't have any food, so the host runs to his neighbor for bread.\nThe neighbor doesn't come to the door because the man asks him to, but only comes after much persistence from the host. This man wouldn't give up knocking, banging and so on. Jesus relates this to a father who is good, and wouldn't give his son a snake if he asked for a fish. You can read the rest for yourself.\nWhat struck me was the goodness of the fathers in this story. Of course Jesus is relating this to the goodness of our heavenly Father.\nWe belong to God, and his love for us is deeper than we can ever imagine. Verse 13 of Luke 11 reads, \"If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!\" Not one of us can say we have enough of the Holy Spirit.\n\"Pray at all times - on every occasion, in every season - in the Spirit, with all{manner of} prayer and entreaty, To that end keep alert and watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints {God's consecrated people}.\" Ephesians 6:18 AMP\nHave you ever felt as if you were a little fish in a big pond? I thought this child may feel this way, but then I thought maybe there are 20 people at the other end we can't see? We don't always have the luxury of seeing the whole picture.\nI think she is happy, so I'm not going to be concerned. How our minds can jump to conclusions! I have concluded about others character on very small tidbits of information.\nI'll bet you have done this too. Prayer is important when it comes to deciding how we feel about someone. Sometimes first impressions can be deceiving. Do you conclude someone isn't \"your type\" on first meeting and forget about building a friendship?\nI have done this too many times to count! Fear was behind some of these judgements. I have been open to people as I have gotten older. I don't have time to play games. We are all the same on the inside.\nWhen it comes to prayer, God tells us in this verse to\"watch with strong purpose and perseverance, interceding in behalf of all the saints.\" I'm putting away immature behavior so I can focus on what can make another stronger.\nI don't want you to congratulate me or anything, because I don't have it done to perfection! I don't think any of us have. Let's be aware of our judgements so don't push away those who may need our help. Give out what God has given to you. This is a sure way to filled again!\n\"And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests.\" Ephesians 6:18 NIV\nYou might have noticed I have used the same scripture for the past few days. I can't let go of it right now. It is such a powerful truth and I want to drive it home in my heart and yours.\nI pray for those who receive my blog, and I care about your spiritual growth.I may have never met you before, but God knows exactly who you are and every detail in your life.\nI trust Him to make these blogs personal to you by His Holy Spirit. Only Jesus can minister through my words to your heart and situation. He is beyond faithful to us!\nI wish I had a stronger word than faithful to use. It isn't enough to express how wonderful our Father in heaven is to us. Sarah Reeves expresses faithfulness in her song, \"Faithful\".\nThe dictionary uses steadfast, unswerving, and committed to describe faithful. We can stack these words together and still not reach the magnitude of the faithfulness our God demonstrates toward us.\nI haven't mentioned the picture at the top yet. These are our first two children, Rudy and Rachel. Rachel graduated from Depaul Law School in May. Rudy graduated from Hofstra Law School in 2015. They are precious to us.\nThey have worked hard for their degrees, and we have prayed. Obstacles came out of nowhere in seemed, but they persevered. We believing God to use them mightily. Prayer was lifted up for them before they were born.\nI'm sure most of you can relate to this. When we don't know what to pray, the Spirit intercedes for us. The gift of tongues is able to pray through us to the Father when we don't know how or what to pray. Isn't this amazing?\nphoto by Ben White-Upsplash.com\n\"And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.\" Ephesians 6:18\nThis is a mouth-full of a verse and it was supposed to come up on yesterday's post but for some reason did not. It is worth repeating. I cannot say enough about the importance of prayer!\nPrayer is our bridge to Jesus. He lives within us as believers, but our verbal declarations are powerful and effective. Lifting our voice is how we reach out to Him. It has nothing to do with space or time, but everything to do with our hearts.\nIt also involves our minds. We engage our brain in the process through our language and call out to the King of Kings. Our body, soul and spirit have to be involved because this is the totality of who we are.\nWithout words our brain won't process our prayer as declarations or dialog. Many thoughts pass through our mind throughout the day, but those thoughts that make it in to verbal language are recorded in our hearing as well as our memory.\nThis process is important. God hears our heart cry, but we need to hear the words.\nPrayer is possibly the most important activity we do on any given day. Tonight the churches in our area are having a 24/7 Prayer Service for revival. We need God to move on our Island!\nIt doesn't matter where you live, your area needs prayer. You may have needs different than ours, but it is our responsibility as the people of God to go before Him. The days in which we live warrants this.\nWe are living in the last days. Before you accuse me of being negative, let me say that the Bible describes these days as the time after the ascension of Christ. Basically we have been in the end times for 2,018 years.\nMost theologians believe the third day, or the years after the year 2,000 are significant for Christ's return. I am referring to the past 18 years, and as long as God says after this. The end of the age known as \"the church age\" is within our grasp.\nWe can see the sign of the times in our culture. Our nation used to uphold Biblical values, but today many of them are not seen as significant. Marriage was vital to the fabric of our society but our current culture sees it as not important. We have seen terrible attacks on marriages in the past 40 years or more.\nThis is only one area of morality we see disintegrating. For the sake of time and space I will spare you the details, which most of you know.Violence is another specific moral downfall we see on the rise. My husband just informed me of a shooting today in Florida.\nOur nation needs us to stand on the walls of our cities and communities! Take a stand for the salvation of your neighbors and loved ones through prayer. Prayer in the spirit so God can pray through you for specific needs you may not know about.\nCry out with your voice to the only one who can deliver and move on our needy world! All He needs are willing citizens of His heavenly kingdom to take down the lies enshrouding our earth. Are you willing to be used by God?\n\"Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.\"Ephesians 6:17 NIV\nGreat times are coming, or have they already come? It depends on who you listen to. There are many theories and some are based on nothing much, or on Biblical truth.\nThe ones to be taken seriously come from the Bible. Many theologians speculate and I'm sure they have some clear understanding about when all of this will come. We are in a holding pattern right now. This is for sure.\nThe first garden is gone, and the second one is coming. Both are free of sin, sickness, distress, evil, hunger and death. There will be a renewal of what was supposed to be in the first place. This is where the holding pattern comes in; our current state.\nIf you are confused about any of this, join the club. I don't study eschatology, or what the Bible calls the end times. I need to know more than I do right now, but where to start is the problem.\nWhat I do know is that a great revival is coming to the world before the end. This is what we desperately need! When the presence of God moves in power on this earth many will come to Christ.\nMany who lack understanding will see Jesus as the Son of God and call Him Lord. Some will be miraculously healed, families will be restored and lives changed. Then the end will come.\nThere are some great books written on these times I call the holding pattern. Lysa TerKeurst has a book coming out in November called, \"Between Two Gardens.\" I have read the first and last chapter as a member of her writer's training called \"Compel. It looks promising.\nJohn Elderidge has written a book called \"All Things New\" and I have briefly looked at this. Pastor Fowler from my church has written a book called \"Life in the Middle.\"\nI haven't spent much time thinking about being \"in the middle,\". Now I have three books from people I respect, I think I should take a look. John Elderidge is a Psychologist, who writes along the lines of C.S. Lewis, because he describes in detail surrounding and emotions. His years as a gifted Psychologist and sensitive, caring person help the reader to picture in their minds what his words say.\nI think we will continue tomorrow. There is a lot here to discuss, and I'm not sure which way God wants me to go right now, so hold on! Love and kisses to you! I appreciate your patience.\n\"In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.\" Ephesians 6:16 NIV\nDid you ever consider the heart has a breastplate and shield to cover it? Of course, the shield can be used many places, but when I think of this armor in a resting position it usually is near the heart.\nThe shields of roman soldiers were much bigger than any other army. As Paul describes the armor it is considered by scholars he is referring to the roman army's armor. After all, he is in a roman prison and has easy access to the particular traits and details.\nThe shields were 6 feet high, and could lock into another soldier's on each side. When the army would approach an opposing country for battle each soldier would lock shields until there would be a massive straight line.\nThe shields could reflect the sun because each one was meticulously clean and prepared for war. If an enemy tried to move forward, the reflection would be blinding.\nFaith must be held high in our lives. Faith is substance even though we cannot see it. It is evidence of things not seen. It can be felt in our hearts. It can be proclaimed loudly from our mouths and ought to be always.\nAll we see in the natural realm points to the spiritual realm. The unseen came first. All of the seen world is governed by the unseen. Which camp are you from?\n\"and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.\" Ephesians 6:15 NIV\nI am glad to be writing to you today. God is gracious and kind and beyond wonderful. I don't have enough accolades to express all the joy and love I have for Him!\nIt's a good thing He knows our hearts, so if we don't have the words to express our love for the Lord , He knows it anyway. As women we want to use our words to express our emotions. It's a good thing.\nGod intended from the beginning for language to be good. He never wanted it to used in a cutting, divisive way. Guess who uses it to hurt and destroy? The enemy of our souls.\nI try to remind myself before I say something, if my words are what God would want. Words can escape our lips without thought. Especially in relaxed settings, like our homes.\nThis should be where we use the most caution. Our family relationships are the easiest to bruise and can be the most damaging.\nHow we live for Jesus in our everyday existence is what tells the most about our grounding. We do have times when our sure footing can be compromised. This is when we need the most caution.\nCan we be ready to reflect the peace in our hearts even when there may be some unrest as well? Yes, we can. And if something else comes out, it's all good. We are a work in progress!\n\"with the breastplate of righteousness in place.\" Ephesians 6:14b\nWhen children and dogs are together it is beyond cute. The sense I get from this picture is: \"It's ok, we've got each other.\" There seems to be a confidence between the two. A sense of conquering anything set to overtake them.\nI wish it were this simple; to be safe. Safety comes at a much higher price. It had to be paid in blood on a cross. Our eternal safety can only be secured through Christ.\nNo one else would ever be able to satisfy the debt of sin and offense between God and mankind. When God looks at us He sees the sovereign work of Jesus, accomplish by His death.\nChrist was the only sacrifice to accomplish the work of redemption. When the breastplate of righteousness is taken up by faith, we are seen by God as washed, pristine, whole and magnificent!\nThe word pristine means: \"in its original condition; unspoiled. Clean and fresh as if new, spotless. It is as if we never sinned. It's interesting to learn how it covers our heart. Our hearts need to be clean and pure.\nWhen someone says I've asked Christ into my heart, it means the sin has been erased and purity now dwells where sin used to live. This is the starting place for the process called sanctification.\nThe process takes time, patience and love, all of which Jesus gives in abundance. Our soul realm needs to walk out of the ungodly ways we may have taken for granted. No one likes this process, but it is necessary, to be like Jesus!\n\"Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place,\" Ephesians 6:14 NIV\nDo you remember when Pilate said to Jesus, \"What is truth\"? {John 18:38} All generations have asked the same question. Every heart has searched to know the why's and what's of life. Why am I here, and what is my purpose?\nTruth has been debated ever since the Fall in the Garden of Eden. God wanted to spare us the pain of searching, by giving us the truth from the beginning. Every soul has cried out for relief from their ache.\nGod has always been available, with His truth, for those who would take hold of it. He doesn't hide from us, but rather we hide from Him. Remember Adam and Eve covering their nakedness with fig leaves and trying to hide?\nIt wasn't the physical nakedness they felt and wanted to cover. It was a spiritual emptiness, a void on the inside, a feeling of something missing. It was the presence of God.\nSin had brought them into a new reality, of fear and heartache. Fear was the first negative emotion to enter their pure hearts.The division had come between God and man.\nWhen God came to find Adam, He said, \"Where are you?\" God knew their physical location, what He was really saying,\" I can't sense your presence.\" I think this is one of the saddest parts of history! Praise God the story doesn't end here.\nSin had divided God from man. Man was free to decide for himself what is truth or what is not. What a horrible life it would be if truth hadn't prevailed in my life and yours! Truth will keep us from the lies of the enemy. \"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.\"{John 8:32}\nTruth comes from God and His word. When we buckle the truth around us, we become so aware of what God's word says, we don't even feel it around us. It comes from our mouths naturally because we have placed it inside of us.\nDaily, as we feed our spirits on the Word of God, His truth will overcome any lies, fears, or torments of the enemy. We are warned, to stand firm, because the storms will come. We strengthen our faith by contending for the truth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 32768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wild1049hd.com/author/clee/?full-site=true", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5YNZVH4XVFWVBF467Q3EYRARXQKDWMBA", "length": 1620, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.wild1049hd.com", "title": "Cameo | KKWD-FM", "raw_content": "Author Archives: Cameo\n\u2018SING\u2019 Saturday PREMIER!\nAfter the craziness of Black Friday in cooperation with AMC Theaters, Universal Pictures will be launching SING SATURDAY on Saturday, November 26 at 200 AMC Theaters locations across the country. SING SATURDAY is a round of free first-come, first-served screenings each starting at 10:00 AM. \u201cSing Saturday\u201d Launches Event Film Starring Oscar\u00ae Winners Matthew McConaughey and\u2026\u2026 MORE\nKRIS JENNER DESERVES \u201cMOM OF THE YEAR\u201d\nWOW!! Just wow! So, if you don\u2019t know how Kim Kardashian came to fame\u2026LET ME TELL YOU!! You remember Ray J? Well he and Kim made a sex tape together! Yeah\u2026I know, you\u2019re probably thinking,\u201dSo what?!\u201d You\u2019re right, who cares, but that\u2019s not what I\u2019m trying to tell you! Mama Jenner, Kris Jenner, is the\u2026\u2026 MORE\nI\u2019m sorry ladies, but you aren\u2019t hung over and you are reading this correctly, BRADLEY COOPER IS TAKEN!!! Yeah, we all know he\u2019s a mama\u2019s boy but I\u2019m guessing Irina Shayk doesn\u2019t mind it all! As of now, everything is looking good, but ladies, KEEP HOPE ALIVE!! Check the full story here!\u2026 MORE\nRita Ora Brushes off A$AP Rocky\nWe all know that A$AP Rocky has some harsh feelings towards Rita Ora. If you haven\u2019t heard \u201cBetter Things\u201d from A$AP, check it out below. Doesn\u2019t seem THAT bad, but still not nice. A lot of women had some things to say about A$AP\u2019s rant. Well Rita Ora could care less about the whole deal.\u2026\u2026 MORE\nRonda Rousey and Bethe Correia went toe-to-toe Saturday night for UFC190 and it was intense! At the weigh in, Correia was talking A LOT of mess to Rousey\u2026poor baby should have just kept her mouth shut\u2026here\u2019s why!\u2026 MORE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wildlifenorthamerica.com/Bird/Black-throated-Sparrow/Amphispiza/bilineata.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YHCN7PQ4U3N44SMU4HY3AYOEU673JZAF", "length": 1122, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.wildlifenorthamerica.com", "title": "Black-throated Sparrow | Amphispiza bilineata | Bird", "raw_content": "Black-throated Sparrow (Amphispiza bilineata)\nBlack-Throated Sparrow, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, Borrego Springs, California\nBLACK-THROATED SPARROW FACTS\nThe Black-throated Sparrow has gray body with white underside. The throat is black, and has a white face stripe above the eye. The bill is dark and conical. The tail is long and rounded, and mainly black with some white patches on the outer feathers. Males and females are similar. Juveniles are more brown with dusky streaks and spots on the throat and chest, and faint face pattern.\n12cm - 14 cm\ndesert, dry scrub\nfeeds on seeds during winter, and insects during breeding season. Also eats grasses and herbs.\nThe Black-throated Sparrow builds a cup-shaped nest from grasses and stems lined with plant fibers, hair, wool, and feathers. The nest is built in bush and may be close to the ground. The female lays 3 to 4 white or pale blue eggs.\nsouth western United States from Oregon and Idaho southward to south east California, Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas, and south to central Mexico.\nGenus: Amphispiza\nSpecies: bilineata\nCommon Name: Black-throated Sparrow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.willyjolly.nl/?page_id=33", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:51Z", "digest": "sha1:HFMGCX6ZHFWOMCIQDUXFTBQSBDCK2WZA", "length": 17, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.willyjolly.nl", "title": "Life as a \u201cDandy\u201d \u2022 Willy Jolly", "raw_content": "Life as a \u201cDandy\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 109.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.windowtonews.com/news.php?id=191172", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YCGCWC3HTWCXI6H2CZ6GREM2DRVFSEH5", "length": 1737, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.windowtonews.com", "title": "Delhi slams Centre, neighbouring states over stubble burning - Window To News", "raw_content": "Delhi slams Centre, neighbouring states over stubble burning\nFriday - October 12, 2018 10:36 pm , Category : SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY\nNew Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) Expressing apprehension of widespread stubble burning across Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, Delhis AAP government on Friday flayed the Centre and the neighbouring state governments for not tackling the issues.\nDelhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain, releasing photographs of stubble burning across the Delhi-Chandigarh National Highway, said stubble burning may be widespread in the country side of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.\n\"This situation leads to reasonable apprehension that Delhi may witness another episode of worsening ambient air quality in the coming weeks and months,\" Hussain said in Twitter.\nReacting to the development, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal called the Central and state governments' inaction as \"criminal\".\n\"We have been pursuing with the Centre, Haryana and Punjab governments, yet no concrete action has been taken. Farmers again helpless. The entire region including Delhi will again become gas chamber. People will again face difficulty in breathing. This is criminal,\" tweeted Kejriwal.\nHussain urged the Centre and the neighbouring state governments to wake up and take action to prevent north India from air pollution.\n\"It shows that Centre and governments of these states have not seriously taken up the issue of preventing stubble burning despite repeated requests from Delhi government.\n\"Such an unpleasant situation was preventable and if the Centre and these states wake up even now, northern India can still be saved from disastrous consequences of air pollution in coming days,\" added Hussain.\n--IANS and/nir", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wreckedexotics.com/accident/19853?c=wu718", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XHALZNM242MH4UUW3XXWCT2ZUX7DP4QK", "length": 231, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wreckedexotics.com", "title": "Mercedes Class-Series CLA-Class crashed in China", "raw_content": "Home > Week of Jan 04, 2016\nMercedes Class-Series CLA-Class\nThe Benz was parked on a lot near the waterside. The woman wanted to leave and set the automatic gearbox in Drive instead of Reverse, and hit the pedal to the metal. Blub.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 2275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wyslsoccer.org/wysl-and-nycsl-announce-enhanced-cooperation--ny-state-cup-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:CXYAHEVSDNAYNBNFFRZCB5JAUQ346JHH", "length": 2937, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.wyslsoccer.org", "title": "WYSL and NYCSL Announce Enhanced Cooperation NY State Cup | Westchester Youth Soccer League", "raw_content": "WYSL and NYCSL Announce Enhanced Cooperation NY State Cup\nWYSL and NYCSL Announce Enhanced Cooperation on NY State Cup and Player Development Program\nJune 24, 2015 \u2013 The Westchester Youth Soccer League (WYSL) and the New York Club Soccer League (NYCSL) are pleased to announce that they will jointly promote the NY State Cup program run under the auspices of the NYCSL. All WYSL teams (U9-U19) will have the opportunity to participate in the NY State Cup in the Gold and Silver divisions, as appropriate. The WYSL will post a direct link to NY State Cup registration on its website.\nAlso, players from WYSL member teams will be eligible to be nominated for the NYCSL\u2019s Player Development Program (PDP) training center events. The player or the club for whom the player plays will be responsible for a small contribution to the program; otherwise, the program is free to participants.\n\"The WYSL recognizes that its strength is in running a travel soccer league,\u201d said, Julian DiDonato, President of the WYSL. \u201cWe see that the NYCSL has built the premier cup program in the area and we want to encourage participation of our teams in this program as a supplement to their regular league schedule. In addition, we think we have players who will benefit from the Player Development Program and we appreciate the opportunity to have our players participate.\u201d\n\u201cWe welcome the WYSL\u2019s more formal participation in the NY State Cup program,\u201d said Gary Grossman, President of NYCSL. \u201cAlthough some WYSL teams have already participated in the Cup, we believe this more formal cooperation with help the Cup to grow even further while, at the same time, we seek other ways to cooperate in the best interest of the players and the greater youth soccer community.\u201d\nThe Westchester Youth Soccer League (WYSL) was established in 1977 as a non-profit, educational organization affiliated with U.S. Club Soccer and the U.S. Soccer Federation. The mission of the league is to foster the physical, mental and emotional character development of youth by providing a safe, organized, fair and competitive game playing opportunities for our players. WYSL registers more than 20,000 players under the age of 19. The league has more than 45 member clubs. Visit http://www.wyslsoccer.org for more information.\nNew York Club Soccer League\nNY Club Soccer League (NYCSL) founded in 2009, is fully sanctioned by US Club, a member of the United States Soccer Federation. NYCSL provides opportunities for soccer players with advanced skills to compete with and against others with similar skills and desires. Visit http://www.nyclubsoccerleague.com for more information.\nFor information on the NY State Cup, please visit https://www.nyclubsoccerleague.com/html/ny_cup/.\nFor information on the Player Development Program, please visit https://www.nyclubsoccerleague.com/html/pdp/default.asp\nTeams can register directly at www.nyclubsoccerleague.com/register/eng/nycup.asp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 3194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.xinureturns.com/free-automated-speech-recognition-and-chatbots/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZH4UB5YQ3N7RXVYCMYNZX76RFTPG4LP", "length": 5072, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.xinureturns.com", "title": "Free automated speech recognition and chatbots \u2013 Data & Technology", "raw_content": "Home / chatbots / Free automated speech recognition and chatbots\nadmin chatbots Leave a comment 790 Views\nMost technology enthusiasts currently believe in a future engrossed with artificial intelligence (AI). SnatchBot which has provided a platform that enhances conversational experiences, particularly belief that conversational artificial intelligence is an essential tool for all human activities. The company is looking at a future where people can always adjust their items such as cars and other equipment to act in a particular manner. This therefore explains why SnatchBot was able to add a text-to-speech feature that generates an audio file which users can actually hear. Of course, different languages and voices were added to the audio file and it\u2019s left to the users to make a choice on which to use. To tell the truth, these types of features are wonderful and they have enormously enhanced the experience of chatbot users.\nWhat is exciting is that SnatchBot has stepped up its game with free Automated Speech Recognition that is linked to chatbots. But first: we may need to go down memory lane in a bid to understand and truely appreciate how speech recognition is relevant in today\u2019s world.\nWell, it is evident that even though the interest in recognizing and sensitizing speech by human beings date as far back as hundreds of years ago, automatic Speech recognition (ASR) was built in the mid twentieth century. One of the earliest projects to this effect was the creation of a Digital Recognizer that was later named \u2018Audrey\u2019 by a group of researchers at Bell Laboratories. The invention of Audrey was actually a remarkable step because it could recognize spoken numerical digits merely by looking at audio finger prints that were commonly called formants. Several other research works were carried, but there was more optimism in the early 1970\u2019s thanks to the creation of many new automatic speech recognition systems, with the most successful being the Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s Harpy which could recognize just 1000 words by 1976. However, the 90\u2019s introduced consumers to automatic speech recognition, which was in the form of the Dragon dictate. The Dragon Dictate as well as other automatic speech recognition tools also had their shortcomings thereby prompting more research. Nevertheless, with the invention of the chatbots, researchers have carried out feasibility studies and have asserted that it is very possible to inculcate free automated speech recognition into chatbots.\nSpeech recognition is nonetheless very important in today\u2019s world as it has a wide range of applications. For instance, it could be used for biometric authentication as it can identify a person by merely recognizing certain unique characteristics of their voice. This therefore explains why many businesses including banks and other financial institutions currently use voice verification. This is nevertheless important as it gives a measure of confidence to these institutions that the person speaking on the other end is indeed their client who had set up an account with them.\nNotwithstanding the fact that researchers have spent decades working on the challenges represented by voice and speech recognition, there have been developments that have spurred progress, only more recently. The development of the chatbot for instance, has provided a platform through which speech and voice recognition can be made. This therefore explains why Snatcbot and other technology companies are currently working hard to add an automated speech recognition feature to their chatbots. Well, even though this sounds challenging, it is completely doable and there are hopes that this breakthrough will happen soon.\nWhen major trends come together:\nAll this coincides with other very important tech trends: Multi-channel social communications. Snatchbot, for example, integrates with Line, Whatsapp, Messanger, Skype, Twilio and a range of social chat apps. This means that the masses can be engaged regardless of the channel they opt for, through a single intelligently designed solution.\nHow difficult is all this?\nUntil now, building a chatbot from the scratch without developer skills used to be a complicated process. Thus, some companies are re-inventing the wheel: they are currently working on a Chatbot Builder, which will map out the normally complex interface in simple terms. Clearly with a powerful chatbot builder, it will become a lot easier to add the speech and voice recognition features. SnatchBot is a chatbot platform where the worlds\u2019 best developers release their bots on a marketplace. It makes available world class chatbots at a fraction of the price \u2013 and that, is what makes it so disruptive and beneficial to multiple industries seeking to deploy bot technology.\nGet your team onto the SnatchBot platform to try out a free bot building session. There is no need to fear tomorrow \u2013 embrace change by participating in it.\nTags chatbots\nPrevious New Software That Is Changing The Encryption Industry\nNext Recruit Better with These Hiring Practices", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 6232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www2.jamaica-gleaner.com/article/sports/20181108/ben-francis-father-figure-vere-skill-cole", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:41Z", "digest": "sha1:5QOC4YY275JKVKFQXUDKSGTRCK2FS7X4", "length": 3017, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www2.jamaica-gleaner.com", "title": "Ben Francis a father figure at Vere - 'Skill' Cole | Sports | Jamaica Gleaner", "raw_content": "Ben Francis a father figure at Vere - 'Skill' Cole\nPublished:Thursday | November 8, 2018 | 12:00 AMHubert Lawrence/ Gleaner Writer\nFormer Vere Technical principal and ISSA president Ben Francis holding the trophy which was named in his honour and presented to the rural area high school knockout champions. Francis died on Friday October 19, 2018.\nAllan 'Skill' Cole, one of Jamaica's best-ever footballers, has described the late Ben Francis as a father to everyone who came to Vere Technical High School. Cole, who starred when Vere began to dominate schoolboy football, was speaking just after the thanksgiving service for Vere's founding headmaster at Up Park Camp on November 2. Cole called Francis a shining light.\nCole, who later became the first Jamaican to play pro-fessional football in Brazil, described Francis as \"a man full of compassion, he was like a father to everyone who came to the school.\n\"Mr Francis was always warm. When I think about Ben Francis, I think about a father, who was a father of many great persons that passed through that institution,\" Cole enumerated.\nCole helped the school Francis opened in 1961 to make its name in football. With Englishman Derek Tomkinson as coach, Vere won the daCosta Cup for the first time in 1965, with Skill banging in 38 goals. When schoolboy football resumed in 1967 after a hiatus in 1966, the team from Hayes swept away all opposition. It was the start of a dynasty that would last until 1971 as Vere won the Olivier Shield, then the symbol of schoolboy football supremacy, from 1967 to 1970.\nVere would regain the Shield in 1976 and 1980.\nDuring Francis' tenure at Vere, the school first won Girls' Championships in 1967 and would compile a 15-year winning streak that ran from 1979 to 1993, with squads that included the likes of World Champion-to-be Merlene Ottey and future Olympic champion Deon Hemmings.\nComplimenting Francis' work in ISSA, the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association, Cole commented, \"(He was an) outstanding figure, in ISSA and everything, made his contribution and as far as his contribution in the system is concerned, he was just a light, what you call a shining light, that shone brightly.\"\nDuring the service, former ISSA President Clement Radcliffe praised Francis for the role he played in strengthening ISSA and laying the basis for the organisation's growth.\nCole commended his former headmaster, saying, \"Ben Francis, to me, was the father of a new beginning in inter-schools sports and everything, and he did it in such a way that it was outstanding.\n\"He was the type of individual that he left something with everyone who came across him in his lifetime, and I'm sure that there are thousands of people who would endorse what I'm saying - that he was just a special person,\" Cole added.\nFrancis, who also gave outstanding service to the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force, died on October 19, a month and half short of his 95th birthday.\n\u00abJOA launches Pan Am mission\nGoal hunt... Jamaica U20s set World Cup target \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yanglinxing.com/gf-strategy-earn-from-the-expected-difference-in-the-reform-to-earn-time-difference-regulation-agogoktv/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:56Z", "digest": "sha1:3Y6FCRWVL2KCZOABJHDXGL5BDUH765DR", "length": 3666, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "yanglinxing.com", "title": "GF strategy earn from the expected difference in the reform to earn time difference regulation agogoktv | tubecao.com,cmechina.net,dde8.com,k17.cc", "raw_content": "GF strategy earn from the expected difference in the reform to earn time difference regulation agogoktv\nGuangdong Development Strategy: from making \"reform of the expected difference\" to make \"regulation time difference\" Sina App: Live on-line blogger to listen to expert guidance on forest stock selection Jiepan Niugu tournament author Chen Jie Zheng Kai Cao Liulong 1 this week, this week\u2019s major changes in strategy point of view are: 1, since the beginning of 30 a city real estate cumulative year-on-year sales growth of 31.8%, year-on-year growth rate continued to fall; 2, the domestic industrial products were mixed, overseas commodities to fall; 3, the financial balance of the two last week rose 0.4% to 903 billion yuan, the size of the non net reduction of 6 billion 860 million yuan this week. This week, the market is relatively boring, we are complaining about the previous investment ideas have been \"no money\", the next big idea to invest in the adjustment? On the above issues, our view is: 1, in the first two years, A-share market is a more important way to make money is to earn the expected difference in A\". In 2013 since the new government came to power, and vigorously promote the reform and transformation of the industry and the stock market investors to reform whether can obtain the expected results are different, so there are a lot of \"expected difference\". With the reform of the transition is expected later investors experienced \"never believe to believe\", \"from divergence to consistent\" change process, repair the expected poor has created a profitable line (such as gem, FTA, The Belt and Road, etc. Therefore, in the reform of state-owned enterprises) the first two years of the bull market, we often make the \"reform of the expected difference\". 2, and this year, a major change in the policy environment is in the process of promoting reform, obviously involved in more administrative regulation. For example, when promoting the \"supply side reforms\", stressed the need to create a stable \"demand side\", therefore the government infrastructure investment has obvious signs of overweight, but once the economic infrastructure after steady, and may reduce the government investment; and as to accelerate to capacity, the implementation of the executive order the production of the coal industry, but once the production led to price hikes in the future, and may allow the \"advanced production capacity\". In addition to the above areas, in fact, this year in the capital market and the real estate market and other areas, there are signs of increased administrative regulation. 3, when the administrative regulation involved in the reform process, the stock market has basically lost the opportunity to make big money by the expected difference in reform. The reason is that the expected difference in reform can make a lot of money, is that the reform to bring everyone\u2019s imagination is unlimited. But once the administrative regulation involved in the reform process, in fact, for everyone to create a desired \"on the top and bottom under the stable, imagination open, nature is not to earn money. 4, the next can only rely on \"regulation time difference\" to make a little money \u2014 local government behavior may lead to administrative regulation \"overshoot\", between \"overshoot\" and \"correction\" will have a \"time difference\", can only rely on the \"time difference\" to earn money. The following is a case study of infrastructure and coal to explain this: (1) the case of infrastructure: the central government is only a modest expansion of hope\u76f8\u5173\u7684\u4e3b\u9898\u6587\u7ae0\uff1a\nThe children are being bullied do you want to learn how to teach him x3210", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 488, "original_length": 27613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 252.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yieldingtochristianity.com/sources-of-christian-light/hannah-whitall-smith/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:17Z", "digest": "sha1:XDU2V7LUTFEQMVO7DLPLC6X36D6DN73Z", "length": 1814, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "yieldingtochristianity.com", "title": "Hannah Whitall Smith | Yielding To Christianity", "raw_content": "Hannah Whitall Smith\u2014a 19th century writer and lay speaker for the Holiness movement.\nDenominational believing can often seem to imply that consecration is something external, an outward rejection of worldly pleasures and desires and motives. But the battleground, the place that needs consecration, is actually in our hearts, in the part of ourselves that no one but the Lord will ever see. When we are consecrated there, our actions take care of themselves.\nIn her chapter \u201cHow To Enter In,\u201d Smith says that a better word for consecration might be abandonment. Then she concludes:\nBut whatever word we use, we mean an entire surrender of the whole being to God,\u2014spirit, soul, and body placed under His absolute control, for Him to do with us just what He pleases. (The Christian\u2019s Secret Of A Happy Life 48)\nSmith, who was raised a Quaker but who eventually became an influential evangelical, struggled in the way MacDonald did with this same doctrinal issue. She wrote in her autobiography that the generation before hers, and even still her own generation, grew up with the idea that God was \u201cselfish\u201d and self-absorbed, with \u201cno love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him\u201d (The Unselfish of God 7). Her personal relationship with the Lord led her to conclude this:\nWhatever Christ was, that God is. All the unselfishness, all the tenderness, all the kindness, all the justice, all the goodness, that we see in Christ is simply a revelation of the unselfishness, the tenderness, the kindness, the justice, the goodness, of God. (The Unselfish of God 9)\nClearly, Jesus didn\u2019t limit his compassion and forgiveness only to a particular set of followers or a particular ethnic group or a particular time. So we can be assured that we are all and eternally God\u2019s beloved and ordained children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yoga-samkhya.org/cn/galeria/kirtana", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HTMCTVTGANWNJKXUSSAFECXJGHI5EFKG", "length": 125, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "yoga-samkhya.org", "title": "\u5531\u8bf5 - Confedera\u00e7\u00e3o Portuguesa do Yoga", "raw_content": "1. the development of voice; 2. the development of a good ear, of musical and rhythmic sensitivity and the ability to create;", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 322, "original_length": 10797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://007soccerpicks.net/Preview/rotherham-picks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:27Z", "digest": "sha1:EOWSVQIWYWYQ2EMNFATA7FI6P2K5NJSX", "length": 1993, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "007soccerpicks.net", "title": "Rotherham picks Archives - 007SoccerPicks.net", "raw_content": "Rotherham vs Huddersfield (Pick, Prediction, Preview) by 007soccerpicks.net\nRotherham picks\nRotherham vs Huddersfield (Pick, Prediction, Preview)\nIn the English Championship on Tuesday, Rotherham United will welcome the guests of Huddersfield Town to the German-American coach David Wagner. He has a great team this season with his team and the biggest thing would be the promotion to the Premier League. This is not as absurd as on the other hand the descent\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nNottingham Forest vs Rotherham (Pick, Prediction, Preview)\nNottingham Forest and Rotherham join forces at The City Ground in a match for the 29th round of the Championship. In the last direct confrontation for this edition of the league, on 09-14-2016, the two teams drew (2-2). The record of recent direct matches favors the home team, who in the last 6 games won\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nFulham vs Rotherham (Pick, Prediction, Preview)\nTuesday since 19:45, Rotherham will meet Fulham in a match counting for round number 21 of the Championship. Fulham Home team is ranked 10th with a total of 29 points, 3 lengths away from the playoffs. Fulham comes after a match in which scored 4 goals at Wolverhampton, but went only a point from this\u2026 Read more \u00bb\nNorwich\tvs Rotherham (Pick, Prediction, Preview)\nSaturday starting at 17:00 Norwich Rotherham will meet in a match of the round number 12 of the Championship. Norwich Home team is ranked 2nd with a total of 23 points, at a distance of 2 lengths Huddersfield front of the leader. Regarding the form of sports, \u201cCanaries\u201d recorded 5 wins in last 6 rounds\u2026. Read more \u00bb\nHuddersfield vs Rotherham (Pick, Prediction, Preview)\nOne of the most unbalanced dispute Tuesday appears to be the Championship between Huddersfield and Rotherham. The hosts are great favorites at online sportsbooks. The game from the John Smith\u2019s Stadium in Huddersfield will begin at 19.45. Huddersfield Do we find a great season and second place in the championship. It has four consecutive home\u2026 Read more \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 6154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://04.phf-site.com/2017/05/zero-waste-food-conference-new-school.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:36Z", "digest": "sha1:KO6WQVY466U5Y4Y5SI6MOI3YS2Y2Z2WI", "length": 1727, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "04.phf-site.com", "title": "lectures/ideas: Zero Waste Food Conference | The New School", "raw_content": "Zero Waste Food Conference | The New School\nPresented by the Institute of Culinary Education (https://ice.edu/) and the Food Studies Program (http://newschool.edu/public-engagement/ba-bs-food-studies/) in The Schools of Public Engagement (http://newschool.edu/public-engagement/) in collaboration with the Tishman Environment and Design Center (https://newschool.edu/tishman-environment-design-center/).\nCreating more sustainable food networks is one of the crucial challenges of the 21st century.\nThe New School | http://newschool.edu\nZero Waste Food will bridge the gap between research and practice, and draw upon the perspectives of academia, activism, food business, chefs and food producers, in order to synthesize our shared goals and strategies. Throughout the conference, luminaries in the food industry will share their ideas for change and their visions of the future. Whether you\u2019re a student, employed in the food industry or simply passionate about food, the conference will equip you with valuable lessons and skills to apply to your daily lives and business practices.\nWe want to do more than talk about food waste. We want to give you the tools to help solve the problem.\nIn an ever-evolving industry, the Zero Waste Food conference will present a fresh perspective on food waste and sustainability, and create a community of like-minded scholars, culinary professionals, and food lovers. What\u2019s more, we\u2019ll give you the tools to incorporate our shared vision into your daily practices.\nKeynote with Massimo Bottura 1:00:31\nReimagining Sustainable Restaurant Kitchens 1:22:27\nReimagining Sustainable Connections Within Food Chains 1:02:48\nRepurposing Food Waste 1:23:42\nRepurposing Spaces and Materials 1:32:23", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 222.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://100state.com/team/cassidy-wartenweiler/?team_cpt=IMT_PAGE_TEMPLATE", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:18Z", "digest": "sha1:SLCTFMMR45I6VJPBQV6W5FAAV4F3YZM5", "length": 788, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "100state.com", "title": "Cassidy Wartenweiler - 100state", "raw_content": "Cassidy Wartenweiler works in healthcare project development at Eppstein Uhen Architects (EUA). EUA is an architecture firm located in Milwaukee, Madison, Denver and Des Moines.\nAn active member of the community, Wartenweiler currently serves on the Foundation for Madison\u2019s Public Schools board, chairing the marketing committee, and as a judge for the Wisconsin Innovation Awards. She was previously an active steering committee member for the Wisconsin Science Festival, A Force for Positive Change and nominee for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society\u2019s 2017 Woman of The Year. Wartenweiler earned her undergraduate Communication Studies degree from Edgewood College. She holds a master\u2019s degree in Life Sciences Communication from the UW-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 190.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2018austinfilmfestivalandco.sched.com/event/HIym/heart-of-the-matter-with-bill-wittliff", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OUMUJRTE6MNDKAT6JTTAGONE4ZZBEPRS", "length": 522, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "2018austinfilmfestivalandco.sched.com", "title": "2018 Austin Film Festival and Conference Schedule: Heart of the Matter with Bill Wittliff", "raw_content": "Heart of the Matter with Bill Wittliff\nVeteran screenwriter Bill Wittliff discusses the origins of creativity and inspiration.\nwriter/producer Lonesome Dove, Raggedy Man, Country; writer The Black Stallion, The Perfect Storm\nBill Wittliff is a distinguished screenwriter and producer whose credits include Lonesome Dove, The Perfect Storm, The Black Stallion and Legends of the Fall, among others. His photography has been published in the books A Book of Photographs from Lonesome Dove, La Vida Brinca, and... Read More \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 4892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 231.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://247devotionals.com/sermon-for-today-by-joyce-meyer-focus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MVVAYEUSNHJIDA2S7RD237G2OZFBP5SN", "length": 5253, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "247devotionals.com", "title": "Sermon for today by Joyce Meyer : Focus - Daily Inspirational devotionals", "raw_content": "Home Joyce Meyer Devotional Sermon for today by Joyce Meyer : Focus\nSermon for today by Joyce Meyer : Focus\nTopic: Focus\nI already mentioned that it is best to work on one habit at a time, but I need to stress that point. We are all tempted to try to fix everything that is wrong overnight, but that is impossible.\nAny bad habits you have were developed one at a time, and they will be broken one at a time. Focus is vital. It allows us to\ndirect all of our energies and power toward one thing, rather than divide them up between several things. Impatience urges\nus to conquer them all, but success comes through faith and patience. Let\u2019s say you have located three bad habits that you\nseriously want to be free from. If each one takes only thirty days, then in ninety days you will be free from them all, or at least well on your way.\nRemember, habits are formed through repetition, and they will be broken through repetition. If we repeatedly do a thing, it soon becomes part of who we are and\nis done unconsciously, as a habit. If we repeatedly do not do a thing, then it will fade away, and at some point it will no longer be part of who we are.\nPeople who are overweight need to focus on what they are eating. I have noticed that people who overeat tend to eat mindlessly. If they walk past a fellow employee\u2019s desk and a dish of candy is sitting there for all to share, they will pop one in their mouth unconsciously, out of habit. I was overweight in my teenage and young adult years, and since then I have developed many good eating habits, one of which is to never eat anything without realizing what I am eating and approximately how many calories it has. I can eat anything if I\nreally want it, but I have to realize I ate it and take it into account with the rest of what I will eat that day.\nMost people who are overweight eat many things throughout the day that they don\u2019t even remember eating at all; then they are frustrated because they feel they just don\u2019t eat enough to weigh as much as they do. If you have a problem in this area, then I suggest that you write down everything you\nput into your mouth for about a week. That may give you a reality check.\nIt is easy for us to deceive ourselves unless we take the time to truly pay attention to what we are doing. If you want to break the habit of overeating, you will have to\nfocus on it for at least thirty days. I am sure you will find several things you can do without that will make a difference in\nyour weight. I know of a woman who simply gave up drinking a large glass of milk every night before she went to bed. Over a period of a year she lost fifteen pounds.\nIf you want to break the bad habit of disorganization, you will need to focus on keeping your surroundings neat and tidy.\nSeveral times a day, purposely take a look at your space (your home, your desk, automobile, etc.). If it has gotten messy or\ncluttered, take a few minutes to tidy it up.\nDevelop the habit of putting things back where they belong right away. A good\nphrase to remember is \u201cPut it away right away.\u201d Priscilla was always losing her keys. This sounds small, but it led to other habits\u2014like always being late for appointments. Why? Because she was searching for her keys when she should have already left her house. Finally she placed a decorative dish right by the front door and made it a point to put her keys in the dish as soon as she walked in the house. It was easy, and it solved two problems at once.\nKeeping up with things regularly is much better than letting them pile up until they are overwhelming. Stick with this one\nthing until you have victory and then you can go on to something else, while continuing to maintain the victory you\nhave already gained.\nOne thing that helps us focus is to keep something in front of us that reminds us of what we need to do or not do. You are\nmore likely to drink a lot of water if you keep water with you all the time. Write yourself notes and put them in places where you have to see them. If you are trying to break the bad habit of being late, keep a clock in front of you, or set an alarm to remind you when you need to start preparing to leave your home.\nWe can also focus by keeping certain things away from us. One woman who wanted to quit smoking removed all of\nthe ashtrays and lighters from her house. If you want to stop watching so much TV, take the remote out of the room. You\nmay get so tired of changing channels that you\u2019ll decide to do something else. And even if you don\u2019t, at least you\u2019ll get some\nexercise. Candy dishes have other uses than holding sweets; you can fill them with unshelled nuts or potpourri.\nFinally, don\u2019t be angry with yourself because you don\u2019t just remember to do all the good things you should do. Don\u2019t feel foolish if you have to leave a note for yourself to remind you to do something. It is better to do that than to not do what\nyou should be doing. Develop all the systems you need to help you focus on what you want to accomplish.\nPrevious articleSermon for today by Charles F. Stanley : To Trust or Not to Trust\nNext articleSermon for today by Joel osteen : GET AT THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM\nWednesday 19 September 2018 Seed of Destiny \u2013 WHAT ARE YOU...\nOctober 3, 2018 Our Daily Bread \u2013Asking for Help", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 9819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://3travelbug.com/2017/06/07/madrid-a-special-city/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:01Z", "digest": "sha1:UZFJJ2QACJWW2XOP2M54KIYL2XFV4AAB", "length": 7077, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "3travelbug.com", "title": "Madrid: A Special City - 3TravelBug", "raw_content": "3TravelBug\tTravel\t June 7, 2017 January 4, 2019 5 Minutes\nMadrid is such a wonderful city and is one of my favourite places to visit. Not only because it\u2019s like a second home to me, but I love the chilled atmosphere of the city. There\u2019s nothing quite as relaxing as sitting in a Spanish restaurant at night with a few beers. But Madrid is still a city with a great buzz about it. The city offers travellers so much and has a different feel from other European capitals. Madrid is a city that offers a true Spanish experience, with the seemingly infinite variety of different foods and its cultural history.\nWhen we visit new places we try our best to try different foods and take part in different cultures. In Madrid one of our favourites things to do is just eat all things Spanish, whether that be tapas, paella or a Spanish omelette. If the best places that offers great Spanish food is the \u2018Mercado De San Miguel\u2019. The market has a wide range of traditional food as well as drinks for you to try. We have visited the market so many times and can really recommend this place for its food and atmosphere. Its a great place if you want to just chill, have some great food and have a drink or two. The market has a real Spanish feel too it and is really chill.\nWhat makes Madrid such a good city is that it is rich with culture and history. This means that there are so many different things you can do! You can choose to partake in flamenco dancing, a Spanish cooking class or enlightening yourself in its many art galleries. However, as we wanted to embrace Spain\u2019s culture and history in one, we decided to visit the \u2018Plaza Toros las Ventas\u2019 \u2013 Bull Ring. Even if you do not like the idea of bull fighting, the tour was very educational and gave you a great idea of how the stadium was built and how the sport plays out. The tour is quite long so make sure you have plenty of time to spare if you want the full experience. The tour allows you to walk around the bull ring at your own pace whilst listening to an audio headset. Personally, we enjoyed the tour as it gave us a greater insight on how bull fights work, as well learning about the history of the sport and what it means for Spain.\nAnother must see sight in Madrid is the Royal Palace. The Royal Palace is quite simply mind blowing. Whether you\u2019re interested in the history, the art or the architecture, by the end you will be fascinated by all three. If you do visit the Palace, make sure you do not miss the armoury as it is made up of Spanish weapons from its past colonial empire. Each room in the Palace is decorated superbly and you really can see why it was the former Palace of the Monarchy. Unfortunately, you will not be rubbing shoulders with any Spanish royalty, as it is now used for ceremonies only. Again, if you want to truly appreciate just how good the Palace is, we would recommend giving yourself a couple of hours so you don\u2019t have to rush anything. We spent a few hours here, even though some of us had been before. There is a lot to see, especially if you want to fully engage with the tour.\nYou can\u2019t mention Madrid without mentioning football. Real Madrid is not only the biggest club in Spain, but the biggest in Europe. With its recent domination of European football visiting the stadium is a must! If you\u2019re a fan of football and/or basketball, then the Santiago Bernabeu is a paradise. The stadium tour allows you to see the stadium at your own pace and does not require a tour guide. This is very rare for football stadiums and makes the experience a lot more enjoyable. Having access to indulge in the history of one of the greatest footballing sides was a wonderful experience. The tour is very interactive and not a bore like some other stadium tours are. This is something that we would highly recommend visiting the stadium as it is so iconic to the city and Spanish history in general. The tour gives you a chance to take a picture of their 11 (now 13) European trophies all in one. However, as someone who does support Real, then I could be quite biased.\nDuring our stay, we took a short-day trip to Toledo via the train, a small Spanish city close to Madrid. Whilst in Toledo we ate at more Spanish restaurants as well as visiting its castle. The castle is a bit of a walk away from the train station (it doesn\u2019t help that we got lost) but is certainly worth the effort. The castle grants the opportunity to take pictures of some stunning views that are a must see! We really enjoyed visiting Toledo as it was something completely different from what we have done whilst visiting a capital city. Toledo also has a magnificently designed cathedral that you should visit if you have the time. As someone who has now studied the Spanish Civil War at University, learning about the history of the Toledo during this period was an eye opener for me looking back at my time spent there. Toledo is historically an interesting city and is definitely worth checking out!\nAs someone who has visited Madrid many times the amazing atmosphere and buzz you get from the city never disappoints. However, this was the first time that I had gone with my friends and not my family, and I was finally old enough to drink. What surprised us was that Madrid has an incredible nightlife. It was such a pleasant surprise as we were not expecting just how good It would be. Like a lot of other cities and if you will know if you have read some of our other blog posts, we would recommend signing up to a bar crawl online or at your hostel for the best exposure to what a night in Madrid has to offer. The pub crawl took us to some of the best bars and clubs in the city and made the night out one to remember.\nMadrid is such a wonderful city and we would recommend anyone to go over a lot of other cities. Whether it be for a weekend or more, you will not run out of things to do. Madrid is a city that can give you whatever you want. If you like the chilled atmosphere, then Madrid can give you that. Most restaurants, squares and markets are some of the most relaxed places we have visited. However, if you like a city that is on the move, upbeat and eccentric then Madrid can give you that!\nView the rest of our Madrid pictures here.\nPublished June 7, 2017 January 4, 2019\nPrevious Post Amsterdam: A Capital on A High\nNext Post Rome: Vacanze Romane\n6 thoughts on \u201cMadrid: A Special City\u201d\nThis is one of my favorite blogs. but ngl Thailand blog sounds a lot better\nlots of love from Thailand <3\nI lived here for some months\u2026 amazing city!\nMadrid is one of our favourite European capitals. Love the vibes!\nMadrid is definitely one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Great article with many tips. I just hate bullfights \u2013 a tradition they should really ban sooner than later.\nThank you Karl! Madrid really is a beautiful city! I agree! It was actually a very educational trip once there. I was surprised the Audio guide was as neutral and balanced as it was! I did think it would be a bit more \u201cpropaganda\u201d like! But yes I agree they really should ban it!\nIndeed special. So much energy there\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 9048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://4ad.com/artists/modernenglish", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VI3E5TR6MT4BSTC5EBUAE6XUUR46DFAW", "length": 3148, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "4ad.com", "title": "4AD", "raw_content": "Modern English were one of the bands that Ivo and Peter had originally approached Martin Mills about in 1979 when setting up 4AD as a label.\nAfter a self-released 45 (\u2018Drowning Man\u2019), they made their 4AD debut with the \u2018Swans On Glass\u2019 single, which was followed later in the year by \u2018Gathering Dust\u2019. They also featured on the Presage(s) EP and were the only band from the compilation that continued to release records on 4AD. 20 years on, \u2018Gathering Dust\u2019 remains a crucial release in 4AD's history for reasons that have nothing to do with the music it contains. When the original art director proved unable to provide the sleeve art, Peter called a friend who recommended a young graphic designer named Vaughan Oliver. A strange coincidence ensued: Modern English had printed up some T-shirts which utilized a Diane Arbus photograph of two people watching television, while Vaughan had utilized the same image in his design portfolio. Result: Vaughan landed the job and began a relationship with 4AD that continues to this day. Modern English expanded on the promise of their singles with Mesh & Lace, a memorably atmospheric album that helped re-position guitar-rock in the wake of Joy Division, PiL and Wire. It also sported the first official 23 Envelope sleeve credit, thus ushering in an artistic collaboration that would provide 4AD with a recognizable visual identity. Modern English finished off the year with the single \u2018Smiles And Laughter\u2019. In 1982 they returned with their second album, After The Snow, which was produced by Hugh Jones (whose recent work on Echo & The Bunnymen's Heaven Up Here had been much admired). Jones played an important role in shaping the songs and exposing the band's latent abilities as pop craftsmen. Two singles were extracted from the album: \u2018Life In The Gladhouse\u2019 and the classic, \u2018I Melt With You\u2019. Although the group's UK profile remained low, Sire Records licensed the record for the United States, where \u2018I Melt With You\u2019 enjoyed massive success in clubs and on modern rock radio, and was featured in the movie Valley Girl. Throughout 1983, Modern English were still tasting success in America in the wake of \u2018I Melt With You\u2019. The Gathering Dust EP collected various non-LP single sides, while the remix of \u2018Someone's Calling\u2019 was largely intended for American ears. Unfortunately, the group were still having little impact in the UK and Europe. After seeing them play at the Ritz in New York, Ivo thought he might have a solution. The band had encored with powerful back-to-back versions of two of their earliest songs, \u201816 Days\u2019 and \u2018Gathering Dust\u2019. Ivo suggested to the group that they re-record the songs in the manner of their live set. Modern English began the year with a new single, \u2018Chapter 12\u2019, which preceded the release of their final 4AD album, Ricochet Days. With producer Hugh Jones taking an increasingly active role in sculpting the music, the result was one of the most underrated albums of the era, coupling an almost Beatlesque sense of melody to the band's increasingly polished sound.\nLife In The Gladhouse\nSwans On Glass\n'Someone's Calling'\n'Chapter 12'\n'I Melt With You'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 5203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aas.org/obituaries/james-cuffey-1911-1999", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DFXO2VITQEPKOGZCNNDZJDY7KK2CHON6", "length": 6514, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "aas.org", "title": "James Cuffey (1911 - 1999) | American Astronomical Society", "raw_content": "James Cuffey (1911 - 1999)\nJames Cuffey died on Sunday the 30th of May 1999.\nJames Cuffey, one of the early developers of stellar photoelectric and photographic photometry, died May 30, 1999, in Bloomington, Indiana. He was a faculty member in the Departments of Astronomy at Indiana University (IU) and at New Mexico State University (NMSU) and the Seamanship and Navigation Department of the US Naval Academy. Born on October 8, 1911 in Chicago, Illinois, he became a graduate of Northwestern University in 1934 and received a PhD from Harvard in 1938. It was in early 1938 that Frank Edmondson, himself a recent Harvard graduate, at the urging of Harlow Shapley persuaded the president of IU to add an additional faculty member. Professor W.A. Cogshall, the department head, was brought into the picture by Edmondson and Jim Cuffey started the first part of his career at IU.\nWhile at Northwestern University Jim Cuffey joined the Navy ROTC and upon graduation received a commission as an ensign in the Naval Reserve. He was called to active duty in June 1941, and was sent to Boston Navy Yard assigned to be Navigator on the cruiser, Juneau. A letter from Cuffey to Admiral Chester A. Nimitz outlining his background in astronomy led to his immediate transfer to the US Naval Academy where he taught navigation. He left the Navy in 1946 with the rank of Lieutenant Commander and returned to Bloomington. The cruiser Juneau was sunk at Guadalcanal, November 13, 1942.\nAt Harvard and IU Jim became an early worker in the field of photoelectric photometry and among the first to teach the art and science of that astronomical technique. In the early 1950s Jim designed and constructed for his own use an iris photometer, an instrument made to carry out stellar photographic photometry. Applying both techniques to a variety of clusters, he analyzed color magnitude relations of galactic and globular clusters and provided light curves of many cluster variables. His photometric atlas of M53, for example, demonstrated significant extension of the photometric data for that cluster and has been frequently cited. Jim's successful application of the iris photometer led to a patent on that instrument. The Cuffey Iris Photometer was then marketed by Astro Mechanics as an off-the-shelf instrument, but it was his original set-up that became dear to the hearts of his students at IU and New Mexico State University (NMSU).\nAs a dedicated teacher and researcher, Jim effectively taught and charmed students and colleagues and trained them to be orderly and careful in darkrooms and with equipment. Paul Mutschlechner and Bob Brownlee recall that, for reasons lost to them, Jim was referred to as \"Trapper Jim.\" Perhaps, they say, this came out of his rough and tumble style. They and others of us agree that there is no doubt that Jim frequently had a different way of looking at things and had a habit of raising questions about results the rest of us were accepting. We learned to depend on Jim to make visiting colloquia speakers think twice before answering his questions, but were less enthusiastic about this specialty of his when we were planning our own talks.\nIn 1966 Clyde Tombaugh at New Mexico State University sent out an appeal for experienced observational astronomers to astronomy centers around the country. They were committed to starting a department of astronomy and needed help in site testing and equipment design for a new observatory. Cuffey met the challenge and joined Tombaugh at NMSU. Cuffey and Tombaugh carted site testing and camping equipment to various locations, often using mules for the last miles to mountaintops. They finally selected Blue Mesa, about 30 miles northwest of Las Cruces. Jim had a strong influence in the choice of additional staff over the next several years and, in addition to helping establish the observatory, he played a significant role in curriculum development, building toward the doctoral program.\nAs several of his students and colleagues point out, Jim's equipment was very likely to be made from parts found in the hardware store. This is not to say that he eschewed automation. At NMSU he constructed self-operating meteor observatories with sliding roofs, bicycle chains, darkroom timers and surplus camera equipment. The project led to dozens of meteor trajectories and supported three graduate students in lean times. However assembled, Jim's equipment worked. Cuffey's lectures and discussions with faculty and students crackled with intelligence, humor, and nonconformity. His attitude about sticking to the basics led him to comment about a screen display too many at a recently refurbished observing station: \"I would prefer concentrating on astronomical results and doing without improvements of this sort. In fact there is a real danger that one could spend all his efforts improving the telescope and then find he had no time left for astronomical efforts.\"\nJames Cuffey died at the age of 87. He left his published work, many enlightened students and friends, and his family. Jim Cuffey and his wife, Rita (Paraboschi) raised two sons and two daughters, all excellent scholars. Jim and Rita imparted strong desires for learning to all of them and they continue productive lives in the sciences and arts. When she was a senior at Wellesley, a graduate student at NMSU had spent a summer at Maria Mitchell Observatory. While there she published her first paper, a study of variable star V1828 SAG, having used the Cuffey Iris Photometer for analysis. A recent inquiry indicates that the instrument is still in use.\nIn about 1990, several federal administrative units became interested in Blue Mesa for a border observation post. A deal for new equipment was made with them, and the 24-inch telescope designed by Cuffey and Tombaugh became available. Purchased by Pittsburgh State University, Kansas, at the urging of another NMSU student, the telescope is now part of the Education Science Center in Greenbush, Kansas. Ideal for modem CCD photometry, the telescope is also used for spectroscopic and photometric studies. Although disappointed with its move from the original site, Cuffey said about the 24-inch: \"University level students can carry out definitive research with it and young students will be introduced to the wonders of the universe by way of the study of astronomy.\"\nPhoto courtesy of New Mexico State University\nIndiana University, New Mexico State University, US Naval Academy\nHerbert Beebe (New Mexico State University)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 11292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 201.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7.com/archive/9210772/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VJ44XXIPHAM22WU5IYW2PCGG4AZJLH2M", "length": 912, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "abc7.com", "title": "Girl, 19, killed in South LA hit-run; suspect sought | abc7.com", "raw_content": "Girl, 19, killed in South LA hit-run; suspect sought\nA memorial is growing along the street where 19-year-old Djenaba Williams was killed by a hit-and-run driver in South Los Angeles on Sunday.\nWilliams was heading to the store just after midnight. She was crossing the street at 120th Street and Central Avenue when she was struck. Authorities say she died at the scene. Surveillance video from a nearby store shows a vehicle speeding away after Williams was hit.\nAuthorities said a preliminary investigation revealed two vehicles were apparently racing northbound on Central Avenue. Police say the hit-and-run vehicle is a dark-colored 2004 to 2007 Ford Taurus.\nFamily members say the teenager had just graduated from high school and was looking forward to attending college. They're hoping the driver will come forward.\nAnyone with information is urged to call LAPD South Traffic detectives at (323) 421-2570.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://acelifentertainment.blogspot.com/2018/03/sean-penn-on-co-parenting-challenges.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:46Z", "digest": "sha1:SZDVASBU5V5SRIARTT4CPCRBN3NSWQBT", "length": 855, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "acelifentertainment.blogspot.com", "title": "Acelife Entertainment: Sean Penn on co-parenting challenges with Robin Wright: 'We're always going to have conflicting ethics'", "raw_content": "Sean Penn on co-parenting challenges with Robin Wright: 'We're always going to have conflicting ethics'\nIn an era where conscious uncoupling seems to be all the rage, don\u2019t forget that not all celebrity divorces end with a happy modern family. Case-in-point, Sean Penn and Robin Wright. The pair ended their tumultuous marriage (for good) in 2009 and Penn says nowadays they \u201cdon\u2019t have a lot of conversation.\u201d\n\u201cUm, we don\u2019t not get along,\u201d he shares on Marc Maron\u2019s WTF Podcast. \u201cWe have very separate relationships with our kids at this point, and it seems to work out better that way. They are making their own decisions and as it turned out, she and I did not share the same ethical thoughts or views on parenting, including the continuing parenting of adult children.\u201d\nPenn, 57, and Wright, 51, share two kids: daughter Dylan, 26, and son Hopper, 24.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aclu-co.org/events/tenth-annual-cesar-chavez-day-march/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5GGM2AVPZUAOLEDO2QSIEGI4VB67ZLT4", "length": 516, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "aclu-co.org", "title": "Tenth Annual Cesar Chavez Day March | ACLU of Colorado", "raw_content": "Tenth Annual Cesar Chavez Day March\nThe Ch\u00e1vez commemoration will begin with a 8:45am Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Church (3801 West Ohio Ave., Denver, 80219). Immediately following the mass, a marcha (10am) will proceed to the Denver Indian Center (4407 Morrison Road, Denver, 80219), honoring the spirit of C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and recognizing his peaceful and nonviolent ideals. Awards presentation, poetry, art, music and food at 11am, will add to the gathering, to remember one of the world\u2019s greatest leaders of peace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 262.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://afaofpa.org/archives/p3794/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:57Z", "digest": "sha1:L5XAT7FH5E75GYXZX7JOT5JVA4GE6QSW", "length": 3336, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "afaofpa.org", "title": "News Release: DOJ Says High Rate of Domestic Violence Among Homosexuals", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Homosexual Agenda / News Release: DOJ Says High Rate of Domestic Violence Among Homosexuals\nDOJ Admits \u2018Gay\u2019 Domestic Violence More Prevalent\n(Harrisburg) \u2014 Don\u2019t expect to find this news in the main stream media, but even the US Department of Justice admits there is more domestic violence committed between same-sex partners than opposite sex partners. The American Family Association of Pennsylvania (AFA of PA) again reiterates that it is more likely that a homosexual will be attacked by his or her same-sex partner than by someone who does not approve of their lifestyle choice.\n\u201cHomosexuals and their allies, like the Southern Poverty Law Center, portray organizations such as the AFA of PA as the ones causing violence against those who identify as homosexuals. It is highly unlikely that the individuals attacking their same-sex partners have any connection to the AFA of PA or any other pro-family organization,\u201d commented Diane Gramley, president of the AFA of PA.\nAccording to the American Bar Association, one survey found that same-sex cohabitants reported significantly more intimate partner violence than did opposite-sex cohabitants. Among women, 39.2% of the same-sex cohabitants and 21.7 of the opposite- sex cohabitants reported being raped, physically assaulted, and/or stalked by a marital/cohabiting partner at some time in their lifetime. 15.4% of same-sex cohabiting men reported being raped, physically assaulted and/or stalked by a male partner, but 10.8% reported such violence by a female partner.\nThe U.S. Department of Justice has found same-sex co-habitants reported significantly higher incidents of domestic violence than opposite-sex co-habitants. About 39.2 percent of women in lesbian relationships stated that they were abused, whereas only 21.7 percent of women reported incidents in male-female relationships. In same-sex male relationships, 23.1 percent reported domestic violence while 7.4 percent of heterosexual males involved in an intimate co-habitation came forward.\n\u201cBesides the medical dangers associated with engaging in sexual activity with someone of the same sex, these statistics reveal the dangers within the relationships themselves. This information is totally ignored by the media who would rather point their finger at those who hold strong beliefs opposing homosexuality as the perpetrators when it comes to violence against homosexuals and transgenders,\u201d Gramley further stated.\nIncreasingly there are reports of homosexuals who stage a faked attack, call police and accuse \u201chomophobes\u201d of a hate crime. Here are a few examples:\nLincoln, Nebraska\u2013 The woman who told police she was the victim of a vicious hate crime in July was charged with making a false report.\nSouthern Colorado\u2013 Two Douglas County women are accused of painting an anti-gay slur on their own home and hanging a noose on their front door during a dispute with neighbors.\nMissoula, Montana \u2013 A man claiming to be the victim of an anti-gay assault outside a bar may have actually caused his own injuries. New video obtained by the police supposedly shows the 22-year-old trying to do a backflip from a street curb and landing on his face.\nChapel Hill, NC \u2013 An alleged hate crime against a gay student on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus was false, officials found.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 7621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://affluentinvestor.com/2017/11/ingratitude-destroyer-nations-thanksgiving-restorer-nations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:55Z", "digest": "sha1:XLJLO4JYFJWFWCPFFZNB24IXFUNROH3G", "length": 2892, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "affluentinvestor.com", "title": "Ingratitude - The Destroyer of Nations: Thanksgiving \u2013 Restorer of Nations - Affluent Christian InvestorAffluent Christian Investor Ingratitude - The Destroyer of Nations: Thanksgiving \u2013 Restorer of Nations - Affluent Christian Investor", "raw_content": "Ingratitude \u2013 The Destroyer of Nations: Thanksgiving \u2013 Restorer of Nations\nJerry Bowyer | On November 28, 2017\n(Photo by Ben Franske) (CC BY) (Resized/Cropped)\nI hope this helps you to understand what\u2019s going on in our time:\nCivic gratitude is not only a virtue, but that it is a nation\u2019s most necessary virtue. History bears that out. Rome was the greatest empire in ancient history, therefore, its fall was the greatest fall the world had ever seen. Why did Rome fall? Some people say it was because of its high taxes. Others say it was weakened by its embrace of Christian compassion. It could have been bad luck. But the most common answer is Rome fell because of decadence. Decadence gets closer to the truth than anything else, but it\u2019s a particular kind of decadence that we\u2019re talking about.\nIn the first century, Saint Paul wrote a letter to the church in Rome and he nailed it better than any commentator before or since. He said that Rome ceased to believe in monotheism; \u2018neither were they thankful.\u2019 Paul observed that at the root of Rome\u2019s decadence was ingratitude. You see, Roman citizens at one point in their history had had more than any other citizens in the world. They had a strong tradition of property rights, low taxes and a voice in their politics. All of this was guaranteed by a republican form of government which placed an extremely high premium on the rule of law. During the glorious days of the Roman Republic, law was over the king and not the king over the law. That all changed with the coming of the Caesars who promised greater wealth, greater privileges and eventually bread (welfare) and circuses (violent entertainment). There is only one thing the Romans needed to give up in order to gains these benefits: their republican form of government. That sort of appeal only works against a particular kind of people-ungrateful people. This is what the Romans were in that generation, and this is what Saint Paul saw. (Note to those who have not studied history: just re-rent Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith and you\u2019ll get the general flavor of these events.)\nThe appeal of the despot is always the same: give up what you have now and I will create Heaven on Earth. Implicit in this bargain is this premise: \u2018You have nothing to lose.\u2019 It is only a people who have become severed from the virtue of political gratitude who believe they have nothing to lose. In short, gratefulness is the chief bulwark against the demagogue. The story of the 20th Century, which is the bloodiest century in world history, is largely the story of what happens to the world when gratitude fades and people are wooed into giving up the hard-won liberty of centuries in exchange for racial glory (the Nazis), or economic security (the Communists). Our ancestors knew this and offered something to inoculate us against it: Thanksgiving Day. Let\u2019s honor them and their gift to us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 10693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ageinplace.com/tag/stroke/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:13Z", "digest": "sha1:EPBTWQXM24QFJMMWPUE7XLBV5DJE3VL7", "length": 559, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ageinplace.com", "title": "stroke Archives - Aging in Place", "raw_content": "Elderly Stroke Prevention\nWe know that strokes can cause permanent damage and even death. But, did you know that the the elderly are at higher risk than any other age group? According to the Stanford School of Medicine Stroke Center, two-thirds of all stroke victims are elderly. Many of us know the general information about the cause of stroke, but there are things that \u2026\n\ufffd Continue Reading about Elderly Stroke Prevention \u2192\nFiled Under: Health Tagged With: age in place, aging, Aging in Place, elderly, health care, healthcare, prevention, seniors, stroke", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/es/node/421", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QKNKZCW3QRLRWSXCRAINQW5N3TC5XWYU", "length": 2833, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "aghealth.ucdavis.edu", "title": "Spring 2017 Newsletter | Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety", "raw_content": "Marc Schenker, WCAHS Director, Retiring\nDr. Marc Schenker, Director of the Western Center for Agricultural Health andSafety (WCAHS), is retiring at the end of June.\nDr. Schenker founded the WCAHS, one of the original two National Institutes for Occupational Safety and Health Agricultural Centers. There are now 11 regional centers covering the United States. WCAHS\u2019s region includes Arizona, California, Hawai\u2019i, and Nevada. Dr. Schenker has directed WCAHS for over 25 years.\nDr. Schenker's specialty is occupational and environmental disease. Over his career, he has conducted research and taught in these areas, with a particular focus on lung disease, reproductive hazards, and the health of immigrants and agricultural populations.\nDr. Schenker has been an active proponent of understanding the societal health influences that affect working Latino rural populations, such as immigrant Latino farmworkers. Within this population, he has investigated a variety of respiratory exposures, injury, and has had a particular interest in preventing heat illness.\n\u201cMarc has been a major factor in advocating for the health and safety of California farmworkers for more than 25 years. His positive impact on agriculture and worker protection is indisputable.\u201d - Dr. Kent Pinkerton, Associate Director, WCAHS\nRecently, Dr. Schenker has been active in diabetes prevention. Many Latino farmworkers are obese and at increased risk for diabetes. Dr. Schenker is currently working with large agricultural growers to conduct on-site health programs for farmworkers that focus on nutrition and exercise with the aim of preventing diabetes.\nDr. Kent Pinkerton, Associate Director of WCAHS, will become the new director of WCAHS. Dr. Schenker will continue his involvement with WCAHS as principal investigator on a current research project studying economic, socio-cultural, and physiological factors involved for effective heat illness prevention in farmworkers. He is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the UC Davis School of Medicine with over 30 years experience and the director of the Migration and Health Research Center.\nWCAHS thanks Dr. Schenker for his leadership and vision and wishes him the best in retirement.\nWCAHS Education and Outreach Expands\nWith a 5-fold increase in funding, WCAHS Education and Outreach is growing. See what we're doing with our new resources.\nMeet New Education and Outreach Representative: Isabel Flores Garcia\nWelcome Isabel Flores Garcia, WCAHS' newest Outreach member, who brings years of experience in health outreach to Latino populations.\nNew laboratory methods are being developed to quantify bacterial pathogens endemic in large commercial dairies.\nKnowing which farming practices are associated with the greatest air pollution can help protect and improve farmworker health.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ahacpa.org/speaker/toni-diprizio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OWW6BFVJWIGSQO3FPXZ2WMMHNP6U77ZL", "length": 1978, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ahacpa.org", "title": "Upcoming Events \u2013 AHACPA", "raw_content": "Toni Diprizio, CPA, Partner, Plante Moran\nhttps://www.plantemoran.com/get-to-know/people/d/toni-diprizio\nI specialize in the not-for-profit industry in Chicago and advise clients and their boards on upcoming accounting standards, board governance, industry trends, and best practices.\nI have expertise in audits, single audits, grant-specific audits, employee benefit plan audits, and agreed-upon procedures engagements. It\u2019s my passion serving a range of clients in the not-for-profit industry including arts and cultural institutions, trade and professional associations, social service organizations, private foundations, and private and independent schools.\nEven with more than 20 years in public accounting, there\u2019s always something new to discover. I love learning about my clients\u2019 organizations, their missions, and how they deliver value to the populations they serve. It\u2019s very satisfying to provide ideas that can improve their overall operations, thereby allowing them to focus their efforts on mission-related activities.\nOne of my goals with clients is to make sure they\u2019re never surprised \u2014 in a bad way. Our team works to address potential issues and find effective resolutions. Of course, even with proactive planning, things don\u2019t always go smoothly. Flexibility is the key to handling the unexpected. I\u2019m proud of how our teams collaborate and prioritize client needs to ensure that unanticipated challenges are effectively resolved and all deadlines can be met.\nI belong to the AICPA, the Illinois CPA Society, and the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). I\u2019ve been involved with the Emerald City Theatre Company in various roles for more than 10 years. I hold a B.S. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Chicago.\nI enjoy spending time with my husband, Daniel, my daughters, Kayla, Felicia, and Theresa, and our Pomeranian, Sadie. In the summer, we enjoy visiting my parent\u2019s lake house where there are plenty of outdoor activities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 214.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://airbusfc.com/index.php/news-archive-2013/574-preece-delighted-to-sign-barrow-defender-pearson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QBXYBF7FVJ4CEVMBN4GGUAKMYKB4Z7VE", "length": 1562, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "airbusfc.com", "title": "Preece delighted to sign Barrow defender Pearson", "raw_content": "Preece delighted to sign Barrow defender Pearson\nTHE Wingmakers' director of football Andy Preece is delighted to have strengthened his defensive options with the signing of Wales Under-23 semi-professional international Michael Pearson from Barrow AFC.\n\"Mike is a young, quality and proven centre-back in the Conference Premier and won Barrow's players' player of the year award last season,\" he says.\n\"This a great indicator of what a top player we have again attracted to the club.\"\nBangor-born centre-back Pearson, 25, is a graduate of Oldham Athletic's youth set-up and made several appearances for the reserves before making his first-team debut against Millwall in a 2\u20131 loss on 17 February 2007.\nBut, despite signing a one-year contract extension to remain at Boundary Park, that proved to be Pearson's one and only appearance for the Latics and he was released in April 2008 after being loaned out to Farsley Celtic between October and December 2007.\nPearson played a series of trial games with Barrow AFC in summer 2008, before signing for the Conference National outfit before the start of the 2008/9 season.\nAfter making his debut in a 3\u20130 victory over Oxford United, he sustained a double leg break in the FA Cup clash with Premier League side Middlesbrough and was ruled out for the remainder of the season.\nPearson recovered from the blow and went on to captain and make 151 appearances for the Cumbrian outfit.\nHe has represented Wales at all levels from Under-15 to Under-19 and, in March 2010, made his debut for the semi-pros against Portugal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 107.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allaroundthegoods.com/2018/07/05/10-things-i-wish-i-knew-before-renting-a-campervan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6X5GEYPZPA4QCBOBQYXJBF2M2VQAKDO", "length": 5307, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "allaroundthegoods.com", "title": "10 things I wish I knew before renting a campervan \u2013 All around the goods", "raw_content": "Last spring I was traveling for several months and it was truly amazing! I started by spending 8 weeks in Australia and 2 weeks in New Zealand, both places I rented a campervan with a couple of friends and drove around the countries.\nFirst, I want to say that I will recommend renting a campervan, because it truly was a great way to see a lot of things and we weren\u2019t dependent on anyone else, and there isn\u2019t really anywhere you can\u2019t go or park with a campervan. Also, there are tons of free and nice campsites around both Australia and New Zealand so it isn\u2019t all that expensive either \ud83d\ude42\nThat being said, there a couple of things I wish I had known before renting a campervan and living in one for more than 2 months.\nA campervan is not completely \u201csealed\u201d and it\u2019s not able to keep out wind, at least not all of it, and it will get super cold, bring warm clothes!\nThis wasn\u2019t a problem in Australia but it really was quite hard to sleep in New Zealand because of how cold we were.\nRadio service is spotty so bring an AUX cord (Or buy one, it\u2019s around 10$)!\nI was surprised that this wasn\u2019t in the car, to begin with! You are on the road for so many hours that sooner or later you\u2019ll want to just relax and listen to music. We drove through many amazingly gorgeous and very remote places where there was no radio service so our AUX cord was worth every cent.\nIt\u2019s not that difficult to drive!\nI was so worried before we left, I was sure that I wouldn\u2019t be able to drive that huge van, but really, it wasn\u2019t that different! It was basically like driving a big car, and already after the first time it was pretty easy, so don\u2019t fear \ud83d\ude42\nYou can only use the plugs when you\u2019re at a campground where you pay for power \u2013 Bring power banks, or buy them!\nFrom Denmark when we booked the vans we saw that there were a couple of electric plugs in the car and so we didn\u2019t think that we\u2019d have a problem charging our phones. But the plugs only worked when our car was plugged in at a campground where we paid for the power so I would have loved to know to bring power banks\u2026\nIt can get \u201ccrowded\u201d, but taking time to yourself is completely fine!\nMost of the time traveling in the campervan with friends was a lot of fun, but every once in a while I missed being able to close the door and be alone, something you can\u2019t do in a van\u2026 But you should be able to just tell the others that you need a little time to yourself, they probably feel the same way. I didn\u2019t want to say anything at first, because I was afraid that the others would be upset, they weren\u2019t \ud83d\ude42\nGetting the beds ready can be super tricky until you get the routine down!\nThe first night in Australia we spent sooo much time getting the beds ready, it took all of us and we were seriously debating whether or not we should just leave them out all the time, even though it would have been very annoying during the day when we were driving. Then after a couple of days though, it took one person and 3 minutes and around the same time to pack it all away again, so I\u2019m glad we didn\u2019t just give up!\nDon\u2019t rely on your phone alone when it comes to finding your way!\nGoogle maps is great! You can download offline maps and we used that a lot, but sometimes we would find roads so small that we couldn\u2019t really see them on the map, or we would be looking for a well-hidden campsite that obviously wasn\u2019t on google maps. So we often found ourselves relying on a physical map.\nBring a rope or a clothesline or something along that for your laundry!\nFirst of all, you can only do laundry at campgrounds where you pay to stay since they are the only ones with a laundry room. Second of all, you probably won\u2019t have time to wait for your clothes to dry at the campsite, so it\u2019s a good idea to bring a clothesline you can hang inside the van to dry your clothes while on the road.\nYou won\u2019t be as social as if you\u2019re backpacking.\nI figured that somehow driving around in a van we would still talk to a lot of new people, because lots of people were doing the same as us, driving around in vans. But we actually didn\u2019t talk to a lot of new people, because even when we stayed at campgrounds surrounded by other campers, everyone had their only little base in their van and talked with each other.\nThis isn\u2019t necessarily bad, it\u2019s just something you need to be aware of, and if you do want to speak to new people it\u2019s not impossible, it just takes a little more work than when you are backpacking and staying in hostels!\nYou will love every second and miss it a little when it\u2019s over, although you may not want to do it again anytime soon!\nI wasn\u2019t sure before I left if I would even like traveling like this, seeing as how I really don\u2019t like camping in tents\u2026 But I really did like it, I actually loved it! And when I traveled on and wasn\u2019t staying in vans anymore, I sometimes found myself missing it a little. Although I have to admit that I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll be traveling like that again anytime soon, but I\u2019m so glad I got to experience it!\nSo there you have it, my list of 10 things I wish I knew before I rented a campervan and traveled around in them for more than 2 months! I hope you liked this post, and I\u2019d love to hear about your experiences with traveling like this \ud83d\ude00\nPrevious Ole Henriksen \u2013 Free gift with purchase\nNext 10 Danish foods you need to try", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 8062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alzheimersnewstoday.com/2015/04/07/ongoing-clinical-trial-for-anti-cancer-drug-found-to-restore-brain-function-in-alzheimers-disease-rodent-model/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7RBADOYPROPH7CQV7M47O6GMFRAB6TKI", "length": 4192, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "alzheimersnewstoday.com", "title": "Ongoing Clinical Trial for Anti-Cancer Drug Found to Restore Brain Function in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Rodent Model", "raw_content": "Ongoing Clinical Trial for Anti-Cancer Drug Found to Restore Brain Function in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease Rodent Model\nResearchers at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven recently published in the journal Annals of Neurology the finding that a specific experimental anti-cancer drug can be used as an effective therapy for Alzheimer\u2019s disease. The study is entitled \u201cFyn inhibition rescues established memory and synapse loss in Alzheimer mice\u201d and was funded by the National Institutes of Health as part of an initiative to repurpose experimental drugs.\nAlzheimer\u2019s disease is the most common form of dementia and corresponds to a neurodegenerative disorder where individuals initially experience memory loss and confusion that gradually leads to behavior and personality changes, a decline in cognitive abilities, and ultimately the severe loss of mental function. The disease is characterized by the brain formation of amyloid plaques (containing beta-amyloid proteins), and the loss of neurons that are responsible for memory and learning. Alzheimer\u2019s is estimated to be the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States with 5.3 million Americans suffering from the disease. There is no cure for Alzheimer\u2019s disease and the current available therapies ease the symptoms but do not block disease progression.\nResearchers have now discovered that the drug saracatinib (AZD0530, AstraZeneca), originally developed as an anti-cancer drug, has a therapeutic effect in Alzheimer\u2019s mouse models. Saracatinib targets a protein named Fyn kinase, which was previously shown to have an important role in the brain cell damage induced by amyloid plaques. The team found that saracatinib treatment for four weeks restored memory loss and completely reversed spatial cognitive impairment in Alzheimer\u2019s mouse models. The drug was well tolerated by the animals.\n\u201cThe investigational drug already had been developed, optimized and studied in animals as well as tested for safety in humans, so our ability to obtain this asset through NCATS [National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences] and AstraZeneca gave us an incredible shortcut in the drug development process,\u201d explained the study\u2019s senior author Dr. Stephen Strittmatter in a news release.\nAs saracatinib had already been tested for safety as an anti-cancer drug, the research team could surpass this part in the drug development process, which can take at least a decade. Within 18 months, researchers conducted the required preclinical and clinical safety studies and initiated human clinical trials to assess the safety and efficacy of the drug in Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\n\u201cThis work demonstrates what can happen when NIH, the biopharmaceutical industry and academia innovate and collaborate to share resources and knowledge,\u201d said NCATS Director Dr. Christopher P. Austin. \u201cThe speed with which this compound moved to human trials validates our New Therapeutic Uses program model and serves NCATS\u2019 mission to deliver more treatments to more patients more quickly.\u201d\n\u201cThis program enabled us to pair AstraZeneca\u2019s data on this compound with the Strittmatter group\u2019s specialized Alzheimer\u2019s disease knowledge to uncover a potential new therapeutic use for saracatinib. It\u2019s a great example of how scientists from industry and academia can synergistically work together to push the boundaries of medical science,\u201d said Dr. Craig D. Wegner, Head of Boston Emerging Innovations Unit, Scientific Partnering & Alliances within AstraZeneca\u2019s Innovative Medicines and Early Development.\nThe team has already completed a successful Phase 1b safety human clinical trial for Alzheimer\u2019s disease (NCT01864655) and is currently enrolling participants for a Phase 2a trial (NCT02167256) to evaluate the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of saracatinib.\nIndividuals interested in participating in this clinical trial can find more information here.\nTagged Alzheimer's Disease, AstraZeneca, cancer, clinical trial, mice, saracatinib.\nPrevious: Alzheimer\u2019s Association Reports Lack of Disclosure on Disease Diagnosis by Healthcare Providers\nNext:BACE1 Inhibitors in Phase 3 Trials for Alzheimer\u2019s are Safe in Moderate Doses, According to Study", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 8011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alzheimersnewstoday.com/2017/03/23/6-remarkable-things-know-people-living-chronic-illness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:09Z", "digest": "sha1:2JBBVI3A5XXH6OSATFLSUQFOZ24SPKMX", "length": 3095, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "alzheimersnewstoday.com", "title": "6 Remarkable Things to Know About People Living With a Chronic Illness", "raw_content": "6 Remarkable Things to Know About People Living With a Chronic Illness\nLife is tough for people with a chronic illness, but through the pain and the fatigue and all the other symptoms and side effects, they show an extraordinary passion for life and try to achieve as much as possible. With help from themighty.com, we\u2019ve compiled a list of eight remarkable things to know about people living with a chronic illness.\nThey possess a profound strength.\nAnyone who has a chronic illness must be able to manage their daily lives regardless of being in acute pain or feeling extreme fatigue. Many work, have families, run the home and some are even caregivers for others with chronic illnesses.\nThey don\u2019t give up no matter how hard it gets, they dig deep and fight through each day.\nThey are empathic to the pain of others.\nKnowing what it\u2019s like to live in constant pain, those with a chronic illness tend to have more empathy and understanding for others in similar situations. They\u2019re often the first to lend a helping hand when needed.\nThey often suffer in silence.\nAcutely aware that others may not want to hear about their pain, many people with chronic illnesses will suffer their hardships quietly. They may miss social engagements because they are too ill to attend, but will downplay their non-attendance.\nThey become very good at pretending to be well and often don\u2019t look ill. This may be because they have made an extra effort with their appearance to mask how they really feel, or they are managing their symptoms with medication so they can get through the day.\nThey have a different take on life.\nWhen you\u2019re faced with a chronic illness and possibly your own mortality, you tend to place importance on different things. They will jump at new opportunities, try not to put things off until tomorrow or sweat the small stuff, and enjoy the simple pleasures in life.\nThey may miss social events without warning.\nWith a chronic illness, symptoms can come and go. Just because a person is feeling well one day doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019ll feel fine the next. The unpredictability of their disease will mean that they too are unpredictable. Don\u2019t be disappointed if they don\u2019t show up to your event\u2014if they could be there, they would be.\nThey need your support and understanding.\nPeople with chronic illnesses have enough to deal with in life and they rely on family and friends to be able to understand their circumstances and support their needs. Offers of help are not expected but are certainly appreciated. Even just taking the time to ask how they\u2019re feeling will let them know you\u2019re there for them.\nYou\u2019ll also need to understand that issues like depression, anger, frustration, and self-pity can all present themselves from time to time. Allowing people the time to work through these emotions is essential; be there to listen and offer unconditional love and support.\nTagged chronic illness, living with a chronic illness.\nPrevious: Can a Cheek Swab Be Used to Diagnose Alzheimer\u2019s? 3D Clinical Trial Suggests it Can\nNext:Eating These Foods Can Help You Get Your Daily Dose of Vitamin D", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 7481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ameca.org.uk/news-articles/opening-of-the-new-hdu-at-st-josephs-mission-hospital-2-1685/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:43Z", "digest": "sha1:3WJHG5NRDYKUPFF5JXVE4P2CKSORSNXZ", "length": 974, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ameca.org.uk", "title": "Opening of the new HDU at St Joseph's Mission Hospital - AMECA", "raw_content": "AMECA is very proud to announce the opening of the new HDU at St Joseph\u2019s Hospital in January 2019. Responding to a request from the hospital, AMECA decided to help in the total renovation of the badly dilapidated High Dependency Unit. We are especially proud to have completed this project on time and within budget. As ever, nothing is possible without the kindness and generosity of others. AMECA would like to express our deepest gratitude to The Catz Charity Foundation in the Netherlands and to Malawi.Kom for their donations and their help, without which this initiative would not have been possible.\nThe renovations included new flooring, wiring, lighting and new patient bays, together with total redecoration. AMECA also made possible the donation of new oxygen concentrators, vital signs monitors and other medical equipment, beds and furniture. We think you will agree that the transformation has been quite impreesive. The full story can be viewed at this link.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://andrewtobias.com/andy-day-no-columns-feb-29-or-30/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:23Z", "digest": "sha1:5XVWXFUBF5KJSG4DLJGWBCQ55HLTO5BL", "length": 3233, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "andrewtobias.com", "title": "Andy Day: No Columns Feb 29 or 30 | Andrew Tobias", "raw_content": "UGMA, Ugh and TiVo Short Iraqi REITs at Twice the Price\nAndy Day: No Columns Feb 29 or 30\nBut I need one for today, so here goes:\nJudy\u2019s comment on UGMA\u2018s yesterday was not entirely correct. If you read it before I fixed it, you might want to go back and see where it was misleading.\nM. Farbiarz: \u2018I want to buy a house in three years, and have my money divided into two little sections. One section is money I\u2019m *saving* for the house downpayment\u2014that\u2019s in a money market account. And the other section is the excess\u2014money I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll need for the downpayment that I\u2019m *investing.* Should some of that invested money be in an REIT? The idea is that if the value of houses zooms up in the next few years, I may find that my savings is too small for a downpayment. But then I\u2019ll be able to dip into my REIT\u2014which should go up in value along with housing prices. Andrew, does this make sense? And while we\u2019re at it, why do you never mention REITs?\u2019\n\u261e Interesting idea. I like it. I do mention REITs from time to time, but apparently not enough. Of course, there are many different kinds of REITs, of differing risks and rewards, so do your homework and pick one you think fits your plan. (No, I don\u2019t know which.)\nMatvey Shindel: \u2018I\u2019ve never held any short positions (and am not about to), but how does it practically work? Do you have to have cash in your brokerage account when buying or holding a \u2018short\u2019? How did the short sellers of Enron, for example, liquidated their shorts after Enron declared bankruptcy? What happens if the shorted stock is no longer traded?\u2019\n\u261e First off, you don\u2019t WANT to liquidate your short sale, because when you do, short-term capital gains tax is due. In an ideal world, you\u2019d stay short forever, never paying the tax.\nOnce the security completely disappears and becomes worthless, you have to declare the loss and pay the tax. So the best short is the high-flier that falls back to earth but never entirely flattens.\nAll this said, I\u2019m glad you\u2019re not about to short anything: shorting is very, very dangerous. And the odds are against you:\nYou PAY the dividend, if any, rather than getting it.\nYou pay a commission to do the short sale, of course, and another if you cover your short.\nYou pay a high tax on any winnings, no matter how many years you held the short. (There is no such thing as a long-term capital gain on a short sale, since you never owned the asset for even a second, let alone a year and a day. Someone else owned the asset in a margin account and, unbeknownst to him or her, loaned ti to you. If he or she sold it along the way, your broker would ordinarily, though not always, manage to find someone else to lend the shares, and you wouldn\u2019t even know it had happened.).\nAnd if the stock goes up to irrational heights before it crashes (if it ever does crash), you may well not have the nerve \u2013 or the collateral \u2013 to maintain your position. Instead, YOU will be the person who, in finally covering his short sale with a huge loss, buys at the very, very top. (Most often, that\u2019s who\u2019s paying those crazy, tippy-top prices: not people who want the stock, but short-sellers desperate to cover their losses and get out so they can . . . finally . . . get a night\u2019s sleep.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arabist.net/blog/2005/5/10/amendment-approved-by-parliament.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:27Z", "digest": "sha1:O63R4WIGECPVW7SYSMOHHNBUJHCZGOX5", "length": 1551, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "arabist.net", "title": "Amendment Approved by Parliament \u2014 The Arabist", "raw_content": "Amendment Approved by Parliament\nToday, Maglis al-Sh`ab approved the restrictive legislation regarding Egypt's presidential elections by a 405-for, 49-against majority. That is a 89.2% margin of victory for the draft. No serious amendments were made. Since this is breaking, there is not much analysis. This will come in the following days. See al-Jazeera's coverage for the results of the parliamentary vote. It passed in the Shura Council two days ago with a 241-for, 23-against/abstention. This is a 91.3% majority.\nAs it looks now, Ayman Nor will be able to run. Not that it makes much difference because they still have the forgery charges hanging over his head. Ayman's trial is due to start on 27 June. There will likely be a break in the middle of the trial and a resumption in September (the presumed month of the presidential election).\nBut what if the government leaves him be, drops the charges, and lets him run (while carrying on with disruptive behavior until the election and then rigging the results). If Nor got an absurdly low amount of votes (such as 8% of the vote), this could be advertised as strengthening Mubarak's hand. This would galvanize the opposition but I am not sure that would matter.\nWell now the amendment of article 76 of the constitution has been institutionally handled, it will be put to a popular referendum (yes/no) vote in two weeks. I am guessing we see more low-90s results.\nNDP vs. Kefaya\nPostsIssandr El Amrani May 13, 2005 Egypt8 Comments\nUS Renews Sanctions on Syria\nPostsJosh Stacher May 7, 2005 Syria", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://archive.bent-halo.net/reviews.php?type=ST&item=160", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:43Z", "digest": "sha1:23DT7BHTJXLZGURIAX5V7GQS5X7Y3IDQ", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "archive.bent-halo.net", "title": "The Bent Archive | Bent-Halo.Net", "raw_content": "Reviews For The Same Old Song and Dance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 212.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://art19.com/shows/media-unplugged/episodes/adb6d542-ed0f-47ce-bc57-51917fc299f6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:09Z", "digest": "sha1:UMU5Q7YN7AWQAV3ZIYZIRSDJKY7O4JBW", "length": 571, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "art19.com", "title": "Is the NFL Overexposed?", "raw_content": "Is the NFL Overexposed?\nIs the NFL overexposed? And...The future of ad agencies may not be advertising at all. Plus, rants and raves about the REAL motivation between daylight savings time and Ikea's \"ingenious\" pre-roll ad that wastes your time like a short movie. Brand Authority Tom Asacker and Media Strategist Mark Ramsey go inside what's really happening in media.\nhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/overexposure-not-anthem-protests-blamed-for-nfls-ratings-woes-1509615005\nhttps://www.fastcompany.com/40486621/the-future-of-ad-agencies-might-not-be-advertising-at-all-rga", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artechnologies.crisp.help/en/article/i-do-not-speak-any-of-the-languages-you-offer-how-is-it-possible-to-do-the-video-identification-anyway-1iklmte/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HCTWXJRNCMG52WK3VWZDEFNKQ4SHHL6I", "length": 106, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "artechnologies.crisp.help", "title": "I do not speak any of the languages you offer. How is it possible to do the video identification anyway? | 4ARTechnologies Support", "raw_content": "You may ask someone to translate for you (e.g. a relative). Both of you must be present in the video call.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 144.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artsourceinternational.com/shop/antique-maps/africa-north-eastern/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ON6XSTWTKKJ5B5LS56Y4FGYHNWI4NHTH", "length": 736, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "artsourceinternational.com", "title": "Africa North Eastern - Art Source International", "raw_content": "Africa North Eastern\nOrder Code: COL1-1856-AFRICA-NE Category: Antique Maps\nArt Source International is proud to offer this map of the Northeastern part of Africa from the 1856 edition of Coltons Atlas of the World. Colton atlases, especially those from the 1850\u2019s, have become increasingly rare. The Colton maps were engraved by steel plates rather than by wax engraving, which was the most common method used at this time. These maps are very detailed in beautiful hand colored pastels, and feature Colton\u2019s signature 3/4 inch border. This map shows countries and/or regions, cities, towns and villages, transportation routes, common roads, canals, rivers and lakes, and other geographical features.\nCondition: Very Good, light foxing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 43891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artuk.org/about/blog/lorenzo-bartolinis-the-campbell-sisters-dancing-a-waltz", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:01Z", "digest": "sha1:M3NKEBDANQ6Z5QC3FJHSP3VEIW3QJZK7", "length": 6620, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "artuk.org", "title": "Lorenzo Bartolini\u2019s 'The Campbell Sisters Dancing a Waltz' | Art UK", "raw_content": "Lorenzo Bartolini\u2019s 'The Campbell Sisters Dancing a Waltz'\n7 June 2016. The Sculpture Project\nThis remarkable sculpture by the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini (1777\u20131850) is an outstanding addition to the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland and the Victoria and Albert Museum. It was acquired jointly by Edinburgh and London in 2015, with the generous assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund. The sculpture is a lively visual evocation of music and dance, as well as a charming portrait of the two sisters: a full-length portrait in marble of these vivacious young women in an affectionate embrace. The gnarled tree trunk between them is inscribed with the sculptor\u2019s name and a dedication to the British artist John Flaxman (1755\u20131826): \u2018BARTOLINI / FECE / E DEDIC\u00d2 / FLAXMAN\u2019. The whole is set on a circular white marble plinth adorned with garlands of flowers.\nc.1820, marble by Lorenzo Bartolini (1777\u20131850)\nThe two dancing figures depict Emma and Julia Campbell, the youngest daughters of Lady Charlotte Campbell, who was herself the youngest daughter of the 5th Duke of Argyll. Lady Charlotte\u2019s husband, John Campbell, had died in 1809, leaving his widow with eight children.\nLady Charlotte Campbell (1775\u20131861), Writer and Famous Beauty c.1789\nJohann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751\u20131829)\nIn 1816, having served as lady-in-waiting to Caroline, Princess of Wales for several years, Lady Charlotte moved to Florence, partly evidently in order to save money. There in 1818 she married the Reverend Edward John Bury, formerly tutor to her eldest son. Emma and Julia Campbell still lived with their mother, but it seems unlikely that she alone ordered the group, since she enjoyed only a small income, and the cost, according to Bartolini\u2019s accounts, was 500 luigi, about \u00a3500. The sculptor recorded that it was commissioned by the sitters\u2019 brother. But the eldest son of Lady Charlotte, Walter Campbell (1798\u20131855), appears to be an unlikely patron. More plausibly the young women\u2019s uncle, Lady Charlotte\u2019s brother, the 6th Duke of Argyll, could have commissioned it.\nAfter the death of Antonio Canova in 1822, Bartolini was arguably the greatest living Italian sculptor, although his contemporary reputation was ambivalent, mainly for political reasons. Nevertheless, once the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770\u20131844) had left Rome for Copenhagen in 1838, the Florentine artist was virtually without a rival in the field of sculpture in his native land until his death in 1850. Specialising in portraiture, but also producing mythological and genre subjects in marble, Bartolini combined a pure classicist style with the naturalism which came from his training and working in France.\nBorn near Prato, Bartolini initially trained as an alabaster carver in Volterra, and then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. In 1797 he settled in Paris, where he continued his training as both a painter and sculptor, and became a close friend of Jean-August-Dominique Ingres (1780\u20131867). The two artists occupied a studio formerly used by the painter Jacques-Louis David (1748\u20131825), whose austere neo-classical style profoundly influenced the two younger artists.\nBartolini gained many influential patrons in Paris, not least Napoleon, whose portrait in bronze he executed in 1805. In 1806 he left France to become Director of Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, which had been newly founded by Napoleon\u2019s sister, Eliza, Princess of Piombo and Grand Duchess of Tuscany. With the disintegration of Napoleon\u2019s rule in 1813, Eliza was dethroned, and Bartolini, closely associated with the Napoleonic r\u00e9gime, fled to Livorno, his studio in Carrara having been looted. Eventually, after Napoleon\u2019s final defeat in 1815, Bartolini returned to Florence, where he thrived as a society sculptor, though his past active support for Napoleon meant that he was unpopular amongst many of his compatriots. Meanwhile his leanings towards a more naturalistic French style were seen by some to be at odds with the prevailing neo-classical language then in vogue. Mary Berry noted in 1817, he \u2018makes very good likenesses in his busts, but he works to sell, and not to immortalise his name.\u2019 Among his eminent sitters were Byron, Liszt, Rossini, and Anatole Demidoff.\nBartolini was in fact an eclectic and complex artist, enamoured of the Florentine quattrocento, as well as neo-classical purity and naturalistic observation. Moreover he greatly admired the British sculptor John Flaxman (1755\u20131826) (as did Ingres), as can be seen from the inscribed dedication on the plinth of the present group. Flaxman\u2019s drawings and engravings, notably his illustrations to Homer, were praised above all by his contemporaries. As this implies, the British artist was most often emulated by his Continental peers because of his command of draughtsmanship and the relief form. Perhaps here, in a figure group which was full of movement and emphatically three-dimensional, Bartolini felt nonetheless indebted to his older British contemporary because of the complex and controlled design of the whole. Possibly too Flaxman\u2019s British nationality was seen to be in harmony with that of the sitters.\nBartolini had a life-long interest in music, and apparently sang to the accompaniment of Ingres playing the violin. The French painter was indeed in Florence at the time The Campbell Sisters Dancing a Waltz was carved, since Bartolini had invited him to come to Tuscany from Paris. The present group could also be seen as a counterpoint to Canova\u2019s celebrated Three Graces, (also co-owned by the National Galleries of Scotland and the V&A). But in reality Bartolini\u2019s sculpture is unique, not only in comparison to the output of his predecessors and contemporaries, but even within his own oeuvre.\nThis sculpture is the only example of a major commission of a figure group from a British patron given to the artist, who was to become one of the leading European sculptors of his day. Because Bartolini devoted much of his career to the production of portrait busts, this superlative full-length piece stands out as an exceptional work: it is both animated and tender. It is of its time, in that it is an unmistakably early nineteenth-century work, but simultaneously breaks away from the conventional sculpted portrait, suggesting the youth and vibrancy of the two sisters. It is thus an admirable addition to the national collections of sculpture.\nDr Holly Trusted FSA, Senior Curator of Sculpture, Victoria and Albert Museum and member of the Art UK Sculpture Project steering panel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 8797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 153.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://asia.money2020.com/speakers/raymond-qu-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:58Z", "digest": "sha1:J4G6R5IUMGXLYGF3433E33GOKGXAHBK7", "length": 1680, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "asia.money2020.com", "title": "Raymond Qu | Money20/20 Asia", "raw_content": "Raymond Qu\nGeoswift , CEO\nRaymond Qu is the Founder and CEO of Geoswift Limited, a payment technology company providing customized one-stop cross-border payment solutions between China and the rest of the world. Under his leadership, Geoswift provides remittance, cross-border settlement, foreign currency exchange, and e-Wallet services to and from China.\nWith 20+ years of management experience, Raymond has built Geoswift from humble beginnings to a leading provider of cross-border payment solutions by forming strategic partnerships, driving state-of-the-art technology development, and recruiting key executives from McKinsey, Citibank, MasterCard, PayPal, Visa, PricewaterhouseCoopers, HSBC, China Mingshen Bank, Travelex, China UnionPay, Global Collection, Electronic Arts and other major financial institutions globally. Prior to founding Geoswift, Raymond held management positions at leading Chinese banks. Driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, Raymond invested in business opportunities united by a vision to make international payments more efficient. This passion and expertise led him to be an integral part of the original team in 1998 that would become Geoswift, which he formally founded in 2010. Ultimately, Raymond envisions transforming the world into one that people pay without paper notes.\nRaymond is currently an appointed senior adviser to Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC), and a senior adviser of the Finance Research Institute of the State Council Development Research Center of China. He holds a MBA degree from the Saunders School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Canada, with a concentration on studies of digital currency.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 192.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://asia.money2020.com/speakers/tek-yew-chia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:00Z", "digest": "sha1:ND5H2MMFZ5ZWQZTZTARY63N7CVRSKYA3", "length": 2074, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "asia.money2020.com", "title": "Tek Yew Chia | Money20/20 Asia", "raw_content": "Tek Yew Chia\nKPMG , Partner & Head of Financial Services Advisory\nChia Tek Yew is Head of KPMG Singapore\u2019s Financial Services Advisory Practice where he leads engagements with clients on areas such as digital transformation and customer growth strategies.\nTek Yew started his early career with KPMG Singapore and left the Firm in 1993 to take on a Management Consulting role with Coopers & Lybrand Hong Kong where he stayed for 7 years before returning to Singapore as Managing Partner of PwC Consulting Singapore. During this period, he was also the Managing Partner of PwC Consulting\u2019s Financial Services Practice across Greater China and South East Asia and co-head of their Strategy practice. He was also responsible for starting up PwC Consulting\u2019s Venture Accelerator program which incubated technology start-ups during the dot-com era\nAfter PwC Consulting was sold to IBM, Tek Yew joined Hewlett Packard as Vice President/head of their Asia Pacific Consulting & Integration business working with leading businesses across Asia to develop their technology platform to support their business strategies\nTek Yew left HP in 2006 and co-led a private equity sponsored management buy-out of then listed Whitehead Mann Partnership, a talent management and leadership advisory firm listed on the London Stock Exchange. He was appointed Co-Global Managing Partner in charge of international expansion whereupon he helped expand/establish the Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore offices. In 2010, WHM Partnership was acquired by Korn Ferry, the world\u2019s largest headhunting firm\nTek Yew retired from corporate work and became an investor in start-ups with a view of mentoring them and opening up his network to provide them access to potential clients and partners\nIn 2014, Tek Yew became Executive Director of Majuven, a venture capital firm in Singapore which invests in high growth Asian technology companies and today, remains as a Venture Partner there to assist in mentoring some of their start-ups. Majuven focuses on Sustainability Technology, Medtech and Digital Disruption.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://askaquestionto.us/question-answer/thehereafter/what-is-book-of-deeds", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:14Z", "digest": "sha1:33UPVRZRC42XX2UPQLJXBYMWW56FJ77I", "length": 1247, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "askaquestionto.us", "title": "What is Book of Deeds? - Ask a Question to Us", "raw_content": "Book of deeds is the book where the rewards (thawabs) and sins of a person are written by angels during his lifetime. Even the smallest ones with the smallest details are recorded on the book of deeds.\nEach man has his own book and he will be given it in the hereafter in his right hand or in his left hand or from his back depending on his belief and deeds. None of his deeds will remain hidden. He will see what he did in life and will not be able to reject the misdeeds he did.\n\u201cAnd every man's augury have We fastened to his own neck, and We shall bring forth for him on the Day of Resurrection a book which he will find wide open.\u201d (Surat-u Isra, 13)\n\u201cThat day mankind will issue forth in scattered groups to be shown their deeds.\nAnd whoso doeth good an atom's weight will see it then,\nAnd whoso doeth ill an atom's weight will see it then.\u201d (Surat-u Zilzal- 6, 7, 8)\n\u201cThen whoso is given his account in his right hand. He truly will receive an easy reckoning.\u201d (Surat-u Inshikak- 7, 8)\n\u201cBut whoso is given his account behind his back, He surely will invoke destruction. And be thrown to scorching fire.\u201d (Surat-u Inshikak-10, 11, 12) Kaynak: https://askaquestionto.us - What is Book of Deeds?\nbook of deeds , hereafter , the day of judgment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aspv.edu.mx/admissions-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:YEFQPO6DUCNTJ263B64QJ3CVADLQA3ZU", "length": 3512, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "aspv.edu.mx", "title": "Admissions Process | Colegio Americano de Puerto Vallarta", "raw_content": "The American School of Puerto Vallarta is a small, US-accredited, co-ed, college preparatory school, which strives to be an exemplary international learning community that nurtures each student\u2019s full potential. We are a unified, caring community that focuses on learning and school improvement. We offer an American model of education, which incorporates the Mexican education system. The American School of Puerto Vallarta prohibits discrimination in employment, educational programs, and activities on the basis of race, national origin, color, creed, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or associational preference. The school also affirms its commitment to providing equal opportunities and equal access to School facilities. Our goal is to sustain a community of individuals representing diverse cultures and experiences. Therefore, the admissions committee seeks to build classes of intellectually capable students who bring the most diverse and interesting perspectives possible to the school community.\nEnrollment is contingent upon compliance with basic academic and behavioral standards. We consider both the school\u2019s ability to serve a student\u2019s educational needs and the student\u2019s ability to take advantage of the school\u2019s resources to make a positive contribution to the life of the school. We are a small school with only one group per grade level, so our admission process is highly competitive. Students with siblings who are already enrolled, dependents of ASPV employees or alumni and legacy students are given priority in admission.\nA Parent or guardian should first look through the ASPV website and/or the New Student Information Packet available at the Admissions Office.\na) An appointment will be scheduled with the Director of Admissions to tour the school and clarify any questions.\nb) Parent will complete the enrollment application form and send or deliver it to the Office of Admissions together with the following documents:\nTranscripts or report cards from the current year and the previous 2 years. If standardized testing results are available, please include these as well.\nSchool recommendation form (if applying to grades 7-12).\nThis information can be sent electronically, via fax or delivered personally.\nc) An appointment will be scheduled for the student to take a placement test.\nA family interview will be scheduled with the Admissions Director to review placement test results and final admission decision. If space is available, then a formal acceptance letter will be sent via email, together with further steps required to complete the enrollment process.\nAll students must complete the enrollment form, and sign the enrollment contract and code of conduct, and pay all the required fees. All new students must pay a New Student Fee payable once during their lifetime with us in addition to the Yearly Enrollment and Materials fees in order to complete the enrollment process. Tuition is paid from September through June in ten monthly installments. Our enrollment and tuition fees are revised each year so please contact us for the latest school fees.\nIf a new Middle and High school student is not a Mexican citizen, he/she must present documents certified either with an Apostille stamp or by the Mexican consulate in addition to a student visa (the school will provide the acceptance letter to present at the local Mexican Consulate) and photographs (4 passport size).\nKarela Hern\u00e1ndez\nadmissions@aspv.edu.mx\nhsoffice@aspv.edu.mx", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 7189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://astrology-sphere.com/tag/9th-degree-of-sagittarius/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:59Z", "digest": "sha1:6PIHA4TK442PJHHO4LE5YWPLBAVIPPFR", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "astrology-sphere.com", "title": "9th degree of Sagittarius \u2013 ASTROLOGY SPHERE", "raw_content": "Tag: 9th degree of Sagittarius", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://atlanticcoastwesley.org/where-we-serve/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NSKHL5ZA3EWG7NYH5YJYA647Q2P2OKYH", "length": 432, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "atlanticcoastwesley.org", "title": "Where We Serve \u2013 Atlantic Coast Wesley Foundation", "raw_content": "At this time, the majority of the Atlantic Coast Wesley Foundation activities are centered at Florida Atlantic University\u2019s Boca Raton Campus. However, anyone student from these schools or young adults from the region are welcome to join us for our activities and events. In the next few years, we will be expanding out to have activities in multiple locations throughout the region, which we highlight in our What We Envision page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://augustafreepress.com/middle-aged-americans-dying-suicide-alarming-rate-report/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KLDLYNARN3AEAYSHBERQEOUUZK5IHFPJ", "length": 2167, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "augustafreepress.com", "title": "Middle-aged Americans dying by suicide at alarming rate: Report", "raw_content": "Middle-aged Americans dying by suicide at alarming rate: Report\nThe Center for Disease Control released the report \u201cIncrease in Suicide in the United States, 1999\u20132014\u2033 in which it compared suicide data from 1999 with the most recent suicide data from 2014.\nSuicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States, and is the only top leading cause of death for which the rate is increasing.\nDr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, the nation\u2019s largest suicide prevention organization, released this statement about the report:\n\u201cWe applaud the CDC for taking a closer look at the data related to suicide, as this is a critically important health care issue that deserves our full attention. We were encouraged to learn that for older Americans (over 75 years), the suicide rate has been decreasing recently. However, we were very troubled to see the rate increasing remarkably for people between the ages of 45 and 64, for both men and women.\nThe data presented in this report is just one cross section of what we need to get a full picture of the suicide rates across America. Today, only 32 of the states in the United States have fully adopted the National Violent Death Reporting System, the database system through which we are able to gather more detailed information about suicide related deaths and expand our knowledge about the factors involved when people die by suicide. This information is essential to developing, informing and evaluating suicide prevention programs which is the reason AFSP continues to advocate for full funding and implementation of the NVDRS.\nAs the nation\u2019s largest private funder of suicide research, we know that suicide prevention efforts that are concentrated and strategic can be successful. We have seen that targeted efforts can reduce suicide rates and many of these can be expanded for wider impact and more lives saved. As a nation, we need to invest our time and resources in such prevention efforts. The lives of millions of Americans depend on it.\u201d\nTags: AFP, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Augusta Free Press, news, suicide, us suicide rate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 2372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 170.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://austrolibertarian.com/the-court-economists-justification-for-power/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:34Z", "digest": "sha1:FQLNQ4QOF35W5TMELLRG6YNO5YA7DJT7", "length": 1847, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "austrolibertarian.com", "title": "The Court Economists: Justification for Power - Austro-Libertarian", "raw_content": "The great economists were harbingers of new ideas. The economic policies they recommended were at variance with the policies practiced by contemporary governments and political parties. As a rule many years, even decades, passed before public opinion accepted the new ideas as propagated by the economists, and before the required corresponding changes in policies were effected.\nIt was different with the \u201cnew economics\u201d of Lord Keynes. The policies he advocated were precisely those which almost all governments, including the British, had already adopted many years before his \u201cGeneral Theory\u201d was published. Keynes was not an innovator and champion of new methods of managing economic affairs. His contribution consisted rather in providing an apparent justification for the policies which were popular with those in power in spite of the fact that all economists viewed them as disastrous. His achievement was a rationalization of the policies already practiced. He was not a \u201crevolutionary,\u201d as some of his adepts called him. The \u201cKeynesian revolution\u201d took place long before Keynes approved of it and fabricated a pseudo-scientific justification for it. What he really did was to write an apology for the prevailing policies of governments.\nThis explains the quick success of his book. It was greeted enthusiastically by the governments and the ruling political parties. Especially enraptured were a new type of intellectual, the \u201cgovernment economists.\u201d They had had a bad conscience. They were aware of the fact that they were carrying out policies which all economists condemned as contrary to purpose and disastrous. Now they felt relieved. The \u201cnew economics\u201d reestablished their moral equilibrium. Today they are no longer ashamed of being the handymen of bad policies. They glorify themselves. 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ISSN 0004-6256. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:FADaj06", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/auto-components/prashant-jhawar-supports-tata-steels-takeover-of-usha-martins-steel-business/66415972", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:02Z", "digest": "sha1:HHNV2GVTMC2WA7DVQNHHBLDIU6JUHT4F", "length": 2424, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com", "title": "Prashant Jhawar supports Tata Steel's takeover of Usha Martin's steel business, Auto News, ET Auto", "raw_content": "Prashant Jhawar\nBasant Kumar Jhawar\n\"We are confident that TSIL will run the assets in the way they deserve to be administered and enhance the legacy,\" Jhawar said in a statement.Vatsala Gaur | ET Bureau | October 29, 2018, 17:21 IST\n\u201cWe had earlier welcomed the possible involvement of the Tatas in the management of Usha Martin\u2019s Steel Division\"\nMUMBAI: Ex-chairman of Usha Martin Prashant Jhawar has supported the takeover of the company's steel business by Tata Steel, Jhawar said in a statement on Monday adding that he will be voting in favour of the resolution at the upcoming shareholders' meeting.\nHowever, Jhawar is concerned about the specific utilisation of sales proceeds towards repayment of loans, especially the contingent liabilities in the residual business. He also said that he has supported the move despite his earlier concerns of fund diversion also remaining unaddressed.\n\u201cWe had earlier welcomed the possible involvement of the Tatas in the management of Usha Martin\u2019s Steel Division resulting in value for all stakeholders. In order to facilitate this, we have instructed our lawyers to support the resolution for the sale of the steel division of Usha Martin to the Tata Sponge Iron Ltd (TSIL), at the forthcoming Shareholders meeting,\" Jhawar said. His decision has also been conveyed to the lead banker of the company, State Bank of India (SBI).\nJhawar was ousted as the non-executive chairman of the company last year after eight directors of the company observed that his interests were not aligned with the interests of the company. He along with father and founder of Usha Martin Basant Jhawar (also ousted as chairman emeritus) still sit on the board and hold 25.5% stake in the company's shareholding.\nJhawar is concerned that contingent liabilities amounting to around Rs 860 crore that include claims from the state government of Jharkhand pertain to irregularities in the mining operations allegedly carried out by the present management led by MD and cousin Rajeev Jhawar. \"We believe, should such claims require settlement it may result in additional debt being loaded on to the residual business. It would be in the best interest of all stakeholders, if the management and the board come out with specific plans to find a resolution,\" Jhawar said.\nTags : Auto Components, Usha Martin Ltd, tata steel, Tata Sponge Iron Ltd, tata group, Steel wire, Prashant Jhawar, Basant Kumar Jhawar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 9618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://autos.siouxcityjournal.com/search/make-Mazda", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:04Z", "digest": "sha1:42LTAHZ74XGVVX3LSTO6A3KMDHANLJ6R", "length": 52, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "autos.siouxcityjournal.com", "title": "New and Used Mazda For Sale", "raw_content": "Mazda for sale in Fort Lauderdale, FL (420 listings)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 558, "original_length": 9545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://awmonline.com.au/rushdie-wins-best-of-the-booker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:40Z", "digest": "sha1:TJQD5BV3YHNBUXWFQJANGTPEEIMJOPWA", "length": 712, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "awmonline.com.au", "title": "Rushdie wins Best of the Booker", "raw_content": "Rushdie wins Best of the Booker\nHome \u00b7 Awards \u00b7 Rushdie wins Best of the Booker\nWith 36% of the almost 8000 votes cast, Salman Rushdie\u2019s Midnight\u2019s Children was last night named the Best of the Booker in an award ceremony in London.\nCurrently touring in the US Rushdie was unable to attend in person, but sent a pre-recorded acceptance speech, saying: \"Marvellous news! I\u2019m absolutely delighted and would like to thank all those readers around the world who voted for Midnight\u2019s Children.\"\nThe Best of the Booker celebrates the last 40 years of the Booker Prize. Midnight\u2019s Children originally won in 1981, and then took the Booker of Bookers, (Best of 25 years) in 1993.\nComment and reaction at The Guardian UK.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 5128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 184.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2018/02/07/baltimore-missing-man/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:GKBUQJLAMFV7ZB6PFDNUVJL2UM577IAM", "length": 710, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "baltimore.cbslocal.com", "title": "Police: Concern For Missing Man\u2019s Well-Being \u2013 CBS Baltimore", "raw_content": "Police: Concern For Missing Man\u2019s Well-Being\nFiled Under:Baltimore, Missing\nBALTIMORE (WJZ)\u2013 Authorities are searching for a missing Baltimore man who was last seen Wednesday morning.\nCity police say James Johnson was last seen at about 11 a.m. in the 2800 block of Sunset Drive.\nInvestigators say family and friends are concerned for Johnson\u2019s well-being.\nJohnson is described as 5-feet-5-inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds. Officials say he was last seen wearing a red jacket, blue shirt, grey sweater, blue jeans and black Puma sneakers.\nAnyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Johnson is urged to contact the Baltimore Police Department\u2019s Missing Person Unit at, 443-984-7385 or dial 911.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 7854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://barandbench.com/shopian-army-supreme-court-fir/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RPCDWDDQSZLFHJFLLMNN5TNXW4HUQ3HA", "length": 670, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "barandbench.com", "title": "Shopian Firing: Army veteran files petition in Supreme Court challenging FIR against soldiers", "raw_content": "Shopian Firing: Army veteran files petition in Supreme Court challenging FIR against soldiers\nAditya AK February 8 2018\nA writ petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the initiation of criminal proceedings against members of the Indian Army, in the wake of the recent Shopian firing incident.\nThe petition was filed by Lt. 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Karamveer Singh, the father of Major Aditya Kumar, who was named in an FIR dated January 27 under Sections 336, 307 and 302 of the Ranbir Penal Code (RPC) of Jammu & Kashmir.\nIn his petition, the Army veteran gives an account . . .\nRam Mandir-Babri Masjid hearing adjourned for March 14; Day-to-Day hearing unlikely \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://battlefestival.co.uk/blog/dancer-and-choreographer-joseph-toonga-and-his-company-begin-their-residency-at-battle-festival", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:36Z", "digest": "sha1:EFW32BDSCRJBNIXLGHCVC77N2DJEO3FS", "length": 1305, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "battlefestival.co.uk", "title": "Blog - Battle Festival", "raw_content": "Dancer and Choreographer Joseph Toonga and his company begin their residency at Battle Festival\nAward-winning dancer and choreographer Joseph Toonga and his company Just Us Dance Theatre have begun their residency at Battle Festival, with workshops at Netherfield Primary School and Claverham Community College, and further workshops to take place at Battle and Langton Primary School.\nThe workshops introduce the young people to the foundations of hip hop, and also offer an introduction to freestyling, with an emphasis on having fun and building confidence.\nJoseph Toonga says \u201cThe company\u2019s ethos is \u2018Inspire, Nurture, and Support\u2019, so it\u2019s very important to me that I can reach and include young people in every performance and rural touring has given me the opportunity to do that. I hope I can inspire them and show how fun and useful dance can be. I am really looking forward to meeting the young people of Battle and hope they have fun.\u201d\nThe company will be performing A Night With Joseph Toonga as part of Battle Festival on Thursday 19 October at Claverham Community College, North Trade Road, including a curtain-raiser by Claverham students who have taken part in the workshops. 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Many of the children in our community are suffering from the effects of malnutrition.\nMalnutrition is a condition that results from eating a diet in which nutrients are either not enough or are too much such that the diet causes health problems. It may involve calories, protein, carbohydrates, vitamins or minerals. Not enough nutrients is called undernutrition or undernourishment while too much is called overnutrition. Malnutrition is often used to specifically refer to undernutrition where an individual is not getting enough calories, protein, or micronutrients. If undernutrition occurs during pregnancy, or before two years of age, it may result in permanent problems with physical and mental development. Extreme undernourishment, known as starvation, may have symptoms that include: a short height, thin body, very poor energy levels, and swollen legs and abdomen. People also often get infections and are frequently cold. The symptoms of micronutrient deficiencies depend on the micronutrient that is lacking.\nTo address this obstacle we have committed to serving two meals per day, Monday \u2013 Friday. When children first arrive in the morning at 7am they are served a hot breakfast which typically a soy protein porridge. Think of this a type of grits. It is a mineral enriched bowl which has added proteins, soybeans, corn and other crucial vitamins that provide the nourishment that growing children need.\nWe also serve our children snacks around 9am and lunch at 11am. Lunch contains a base such as rice or a corn flour substitute which is indigenous to the region. It\u2019s called nsima (In-see-mah). 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Can you even remember receiving a personalized party invitation in the mail, with a handwritten message on the inside?\nIn today\u2019s digital world, more and more of our day-to-day life is conducted online. Paying bills electronically. Online shopping. Even college courses are becoming increasingly more common online. Our lives have become a series of digital communications and impersonal touches. Staying in touch with friends and family happens via social media and texts. Even party invitations arrive via email, only to get lost in the sea of credit card offers, and Nigerian Princes who need a place to park their fortunes.\nGone are the days where people were excited to go to the mailbox in hopes of finding a personal note from a friend or loved one. So when the time comes to plan your next party, let your guests know that their attendance matters to you, that it is important that they join you for this celebration. Let them know your party is one they don\u2019t want to miss.\nParty planning 101 says that you should start with a theme for your event, then plan everything else to fit that theme. A Winter Wonderland party with white tablecloths and napkins, large white paper snowflakes hanging from the ceiling. An Academy Awards party complete with a red carpet runner to greet guests as they arrive dressed in style. We\u2019ve all spent hours combing Pinterest to find the latest and greatest ideas for parties, but why not start the experience at the very first touch. Create a customized, printed invitation to send to your guests. Something elegant for a special, adults-only gathering. Bold colors and big text for a celebratory bash. Vintage designs for those milestone events.\nWhen your guests head to the mailbox, the envelope addressed to them will get their attention. Once opened, it will likely claim a spot on the refrigerator or the memo board in the kitchen, where it will get noticed every time someone passes by. Your party will be written on the calendar. It will not be overlooked in an already crowded email in box. It will not be forgotten. Your party will be talked about\u2026.starting with the moment your invitation arrives.\nPreparing for your next big soiree? 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And Doug Wright has been their willing accomplice, allowing them to come on his show at each stage of this serious investigation and deflect attention from the accusations of their own wrongdoing. If the police acted improperly, that should certainly be investigated, but the issuance and execution of search warrants are routine in criminal investigations and Mark Shurtleff, of all people, knows that.\n\u201cThe Doug Wright Show is trusted by tens of thousands of Utahns as a source of news and truth rather than as merely an alternative to Hannity-style talk radio. We should be able to look to Mr. Wright for the full story, not for a footnote to the full story. We challenge Wright to dedicate equal amounts of airtime to investigating the complete story behind accusations of the ethical practices of our last two attorneys general\u2013a full 13 years of the office\u2019s history. Like Shurtleff this morning, Swallow has previously appeared on Wright\u2019s show proclaiming his innocence. Perhaps Mr. Wright should have Mr. Swallow return to answer the findings of the Lt. Governor\u2019s election law report or the findings of the report issued by the Utah House of Representatives.\u201d\nattorney general, doug wright, ethics, invesigation, john swallow, mark shurtleff", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bhekisisa.org/article/2017-08-24-waiting-to-disappear-the-danger-of-being-too-pale-living-with-albinism-ikwonposa-ero", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LTH75I3D3WC3WOOMOHJSCNMQV35HH26M", "length": 10953, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "bhekisisa.org", "title": "Waiting to disappear: The danger of being too pale-Bhekisisa", "raw_content": "A girl living with albinism has her eyes tested. A new regional plan by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights calls for the affordable provision of eye care and sunscreen to people living with the condition. (Carl de Souza, AFP)\nWaiting to disappear: The danger of being too pale\n28 Aug 2017 00:00 Bill Snaddon\nIkponwosa Ero went from a child who felt different to the United Nations\u2019 first independent expert on albinism.\nSometimes, as a child, Ikponwosa Ero would scare herself looking in the mirror. \u201cI would forget that I had white skin,\u201d she says. \u201cAfter playing a while with everyone around me, and then eventually I\u2019d just catch my image in the mirror \u2026 \u2018Oh my God, yeah, I do have white skin.\u2019 \u201d\nBorn in Nigeria to two black parents, Ero\u2019s birth created a visible ripple in her family.\n\u201cWhen my mum had me she was really surprised, and she was hoping I would get darker,\u201d Ero says, her shock of blonde curls casually tied in a pony tail. \u201cBecause most children who are born to black parents are born quite fair, and then over time they darken.\n\u201cSo, [mum] thought, \u2018Oh well, she\u2019ll darken just like the rest of the children.\u2019 But I didn\u2019t. And it became very clear that I had albinism.\u201d\nNow 36 and a lawyer, Ero is the United Nations\u2019 first independent expert on albinism, having been appointed by the Human Rights Council in 2015 as a way to focus attention on the issue. She has been working tirelessly on promoting and protecting the human rights for people with albinism for over a decade.\nOn a recent visit to London to launch a report that details horrific attacks and stubborn discrimination against people with albinism in sub-Saharan Africa, she relayed how her childhood prepared her for the role.\nHer parents began to quarrel, arguing over whose fault it was that their baby daughter wasn\u2019t black. Only when her mother, a writer, and her father, an academic, realised that albinism stems from both mother and father did they reconcile, Ero relays.\n'A huge stone to carve'\nAlbinism is a rare genetically inherited condition that occurs worldwide regardless of ethnicity or gender. Both parents must carry the gene for it to be passed on to their children, even if they do not themselves have symptoms of the condition, according to the National Institutes of Health (NHI), the United States\u2019 medical research agency.\nThe condition mostly results in the lack of melanin pigment in the hair, skin and eyes. All forms of albinism cause problems with the development and function of the eyes, the NHI explains, as well as sensitivity to sun exposure and increased risk of skin cancer.\nAt school, Ero couldn\u2019t see the blackboard. As much as she squinted, the letters and numbers were a blurry jumble. To ensure she didn\u2019t fall behind, the young girl struck a deal with a friend.\n\u201cShe took all my notes from the chalkboard and I did all her essays and all her assignments, and that\u2019s how I went through half of secondary school.\u201d\nDespite moving continents, Ero carried on studying. Her family went to Canada when she was a teenager as political turmoil engulfed Nigeria and it was no longer safe for the family to stay.\nAs the UN\u2019s expert on albinism, she has been gathering information on violation of the rights of those living with the condition and wants to stop the violent attacks in countries such as Tanzania, Malawi and Mozambique.\nSitting on a park bench near Westminster in central London, Ero says she has \u201ca huge, enormous stone to carve\u201d.\nDiandra Forrest is living with albinism and part of a growing number of models with the condition alongside South Africa's Refilwe Modiselle and Sanele Xaba. (Fernanda Calfat, Getty)\nThere has been progress, she says, and albinism has been getting attention as a social cause.\nSupermodels with albinism have, for example, become fashionable: alabaster-skinned South African model and lawyer Thando Hopa is considered \u201cedgy\u201d and will appear alongside Hollywood A-listers in the 2018 Pirelli calender, which is known for sensual images of women. Television presenter Refilwe Modiselle was the first woman with albinism to walk a runway in South Africa and Sanele Xaba is South Africa\u2019s first male model with albinism.\nDiandra Forrest, an African American famous for her ethereal beauty, is popular on the catwalks as well as the glossy pages of high-fashion magazines.\nBut this progress has not only been slow, Ero explains, it has also brought to the fore questions of identity \u2014 of belonging in a bewildering world of stereotypes.\n\u201cSome people have told me that albinism has done well [in getting attention] because \u2018you guys are white\u2019. And so, white people are interested in your issue because they can relate to you \u2026 so [people with albinism] are enjoying white privilege.\u201d\nShe lets out a deep sigh.\n\u201cI don\u2019t even know if I can explain it because it\u2019s really complex being white and black at the same time. It\u2019s interesting that I\u2019m comfortable in Europe because, to some degree, I don\u2019t stick out like a sore thumb. But it\u2019s a superficial comfort because once people get close they know \u2014 and that starts another issue.\n\u201cWhere everyone is black, then everyone can see you and you feel like you\u2019re naked in a park \u2026 While you feel camouflaged among other people who have the same colouring as you, you also feel very black. You can\u2019t relate to European culture at all. Like, you\u2019re completely black. Sometimes you hear drumming \u2026 and I just want to gravitate there and [I think] \u2018Oh my God, it\u2019s African, it\u2019s drums,\u2019 and I run there \u2026 and I\u2019m excited but I don\u2019t have the privilege of making eye contact with the drummer and saying, \u2018Yeah, you know, my brother!\u2019 \u201d\nPractical steps to a better world\nBut class makes a huge difference in how people with albinism are treated, Ero contends. If you come from a more educated family, as she does, you come with the knowledge and resources, for example, to protect your skin from the harsh effects of the sun.\nIf you are poor in sub-Saharan Africa, albinism can still be a death sentence.\n\u201cThe poor person with albinism has far more damaged skin,\u201d she explains. And although violent attacks have gained publicity, skin cancer poses as big \u2014 if not a bigger \u2014 threat to people with albinism.\nWithout melanin, the skin has no protection against the sun. People with albinism in sub-Saharan Africa are at about a thousandfold higher risk of developing skin cancer than the general population, a 2015 study published in the Journal of Skin Cancer found.\n\u201cIf you went there right now you would see close to 70% [of people with albinism] with some kind of skin damage \u2026 from exposure to sunlight, and without sunscreen or knowledge of how to protect themselves\u201d, Ero says.\nShe has been lobbying for real, practical measures to help people with albinism: the provision of affordable sunscreen as a necessary drug to prevent skin cancer, affordable eye care and vision-enhancing gadgets in the classroom.\nAnd iron bars and proper locks on doors of people with albinism, especially in rural areas, will prevent attacks, she hopes. Families should be given cement to cover the graves of deceased relatives with albinism so that their remains are not stolen.\nThese and other practical steps to end discrimination and attacks against people with albinism are contained in a regional action plan Ero has drafted. It was recently adopted by the African Commission on Human and People\u2019s Rights.\nStudents rehearse as part of an albinism awareness campaign. Ero says initiatives like this should become commonplace. (Fredrik Lerneryd, AFP)\nSince 2006, and across 28 African countries, there have been more than 600 reported cases of killings or mutilations of people with albinism, according to a report released in June by the International Bar Association\u2019s (IBA) human rights institute.\nThe most recorded attacks have happened in Malawi, Tanzania and Mozambique. Women and children, in particular, continue to be killed or mutilated, and graves are desecrated to obtain body parts to be used in rituals.\nRecord-keeping in many countries lacks rigor, and there\u2019s an urgent need for more reliable and timely data.\nAnd, the report finds, governments have failed their legal obligations to protect persons with albinism from human rights violations, attacks and discrimination. Not only do violations go unpunished, but authorities have also failed to meet the needs of people with albinism, including those related to health.\nThe 91-page IBA report, published in large font so people with albinism can read it more easily, focuses on practical responses.\nEro, who wrote the foreword, says there are \u201cvery specific areas that require more detailed law\u201d. For example, legislation \u201cconcerning trafficking of body parts doesn\u2019t really exist\u201d in domestic or international law.\n\u201cRight now, trafficking laws apply to whole persons,\u201d she says. \u201cBut the idea of an arm or a leg being trafficked hasn\u2019t been covered by law.\u201d\nThe report highlights such legal gaps and offers recommendations to remedy local and international laws.\nAlthough it calls for more specific laws and justice for victims, the report \u2014 titled Waiting to Disappear \u2014 also addresses the dangerous myths that fuel the abuse.\nThe IBA\u2019s human rights institute urges governments in Africa to pass legislation that clarifies ambiguities in laws relating to ritual beliefs and traditional health practices.\nEro is clear about why the attacks are happening. She says people with albinism are being mutilated because of a belief that their body parts can generate wealth and good luck when used in magic potions or rituals. Politicians are known to indulge in these dark arts to win elections, she says, or it may be that someone wants a love potion to sway the heart of a desired partner.\n\u201cThe body parts of people with albinism are in demand, and as a result, there is a black market, allegedly, where the body parts are sold.\u201d\nShe says \u201callegedly\u201d because no one has yet been able to \u201csubstantively\u201d prove the existence of the black market. But there is evidence that \u201cpeople have killed and hacked off body parts of people with albinism for money\u201d.\nThe myths vary depending on which region you\u2019re in. People in some countries believe persons with albinism don\u2019t die, but disappear.\nEro says a lot of people with albinism believe in the myths themselves: some people are genuinely waiting to disappear, not knowing when their day will come.\nTied into this myth that people can disappear is the fallacy that people with albinism are ghosts. Another myth says that having sex with women with albinism will cure a person of HIV.\nHow to undermine these myths?\n\u201cThat\u2019s a million-dollar question,\u201d says Ero. \u201cAnd I think one of the basic ways is just public education and awareness, but [the public campaigns] have to continue for a while. And I recommend they run for a minimum of two years in each location. 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As expected, the newest report has praised the countries\u2019 efforts on the implementation of the agreement on normalization of relations with Kosovo, and the overall advancement in European integrations manifested in the official opening of the accession negotiations. The ruling parties in Serbia immediately did their best to capitalize political points on the good news coming from Brussels. However, there are also substantive remarks made by the European Commission today addressing the worrisome regression of the state of democracy in Serbia during the past year. Most notably \u2013 the backsliding of media freedom.\nNormatively, freedom of the media is protected under Serbia\u2019s constitution and legal system. However, blurred legislation in the media sphere, state control/ownership of public media, shady ownership structure and strong economic dependence of independent media, and soft pressure coming both from political and non-political elites, led to the creation of a creeping \u2018self-censorship\u2019 in Serbian media. Furthermore, there are journalists that continue to face physical and verbal attacks, while some of them live under 24-hour police protection as they face threats due to the results of their investigative work.\nIn its 2013 Progress Report, the European Commission stated that threats and violence against journalists continue to be a significant factor affecting the existence of \u2018self-censorship\u2019, which must be addressed during Serbia\u2019s accession talks. In the meantime the situation has changed to the worse. Today\u2019s Progress Report reads that media reporting was insufficiently analytical and was influenced by the political parties in power, including through public funding, which led to widespread media self-censorship.\nWhat has led to this regression? Apparently, the situation began to deteriorate drastically during the devastating floods that hit Serbia in May 2014. As the floods started to take a toll in human lives, the Serbian government instated a state of emergency in order to be able to deploy all available resources to mitigate the consequences of the flooding. Nonetheless, the state of emergency also gave authorities the power to detain three individuals for \u2018inciting panic during a state of emergency\u2019 via social media. Additionally 20 more people have been invited by the police for interviews for allegedly spreading panic on their social media accounts with respect to the number of floods victims in Obrenovac. Moreover, entire websites, such as the blog Druga strana (Other side), and portals Pe\u0161\u010danik, Vaseljenska, BKTV News and Teleprompter were removed from the Internet, while blogs, such as Dragan Todorovi\u0107\u2019s blog post on Blic, were censored.\nThe OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatovi\u0107, commented on the events in Serbia saying that arresting individuals because of their blogs, comments, or other forms of writing is not acceptable; it has a chilling effect on the general press freedom situation in the country and can lead to self-censorship. I urge the Serbian authorities to put an end to this, and stop interfering with the work of online media outlets. After Mijatovi\u0107\u2019s allegations of media censorship, Serbian Prime Minister Vu\u010di\u0107 said he believed the OSCE official was deceivedand added he hoped he would see either an apology from the OSCE, or evidence for the alleged violations of human rights in Serbia. Despite the Prime Minister\u2019s promise to personally tackle issues related to media censorship, guilty parties for the attacks on critical on-line media were never found.\nAfter the state of emergency was revoked, media freedoms did not improve, they just got worse. It was furthermore peculiar to see an identical repetition of such sophisticated \u2018distributed denial-of-service (DdoS)\u2019 attacks against the Pe\u0161\u010danik web portal and the website of the daily newspaper Kurir only a month later in June. These two media outlets had broken the story of the allegedly plagiarized PhD thesis of the Serbian Minister of Internal Affairs, Neboj\u0161a Stefanovi\u0107, coming from the ruling Serbian Progressive Party and the allegedly non-existent London PhD of the former rector of Megatrend, a private university in Serbia. Despite the initial rumors that the attacks came from the Megatrend University computers, these allegations were dismissed by the government and that seems to be the of any serious endeavor by the police to further investigate this issue.\nAt the same time, the situation also is deteriorating at TV and radio networks where long lasting and popular political shows including \u2018Sarapin problem\u2019, of Predrag Sarapa and \u2018U centru\u2019, by Djordje Mi\u0107i\u0107 on Studio B Television, \u2018Mentalno razgibavanje\u2019 by Darko Mitrovi\u0107 and Marko Stepanovi\u0107 at radio B92, etc., are taken off the air. The most recent case concerns the taking off the air of \u2018Utisak nedelje\u2019, a 23 years-long lasting political show that had been aired on B92 TV for the last 12 years. It is noteworthy that \u2018Evronet\u2019, the TV show about the state of affairs in European Integration, produced by an independent production house \u2018Mre\u017ea\u2019 that also produces \u2018Utisak nedelje\u2019, has also lost its place on the national TV broadcaster \u2013 RTS.\nThe fact that media outlets and journalists are facing partisan and government pressure over editorial policies was also recognized by the Serbian Ombudsperson, Sa\u0161a Jankovi\u0107, who issued a statement observing that certain information and criticism is more frequently being removed from publicly available media and information space. He added that journalists are increasingly claiming that they were being advised to avoid criticizing the government.\nAt a joint press conference, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vu\u010di\u0107 held with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin this year in June, he was caught by surprise by a question if the affairs related to media censorship in Serbia stand in the country\u2019s way to the EU integration processes asked by a Serbian journalist who lives and works in Germany. A proper response was not provided by the Prime Minister at that time. After today\u2019s Progress Report in which the Commission declared it\u2019s expectation to identify and prosecute suspects of violations of internet freedoms, there should be no doubt that if he is sincere in his declared intention to continue the approximation of Serbia towards the European Union, Prime Minister Vu\u010di\u0107, who was also responsible for the oppressive Information Law in the late 1990s as the Minister of Information under Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107, will need to answer questions about media freedom in Serbia to the European Commission in the years to come.\nCategory: Democratic Consolidation October 8, 2014\nTags: EU IntegrationsMedia freedomSerbia\nPreviousPrevious post:Bosnia-Herzegovina Post-Election Review: Fleeting Victories AboundNextNext post:Where have all the fascists gone? 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And that\u2019s the small stuff. Everyone always talks about not sweating the small stuff and that\u2019s something that I have to think about every day as I am a natural worrier.\nBut when you are launching a consulting business, if you forget about the small stuff, you may just doom yourself to failure. As a writer and communications professional, I knew what I wanted to do, started telling everyone I knew and generally thought I had everything set up for success. And then I remembered some of what you may consider secondary considerations and doubled back to make sure those details were also handled.\nHere are seven little things that you\u2019d better have in mind before you move from the relative comfort of a corporate job to the unknown world of an entrepreneurial consultancy like mine.\nHave the right tools \u2013 For me, it was updating my technology to make sure that I was set to hit the ground running. I purchased a new laptop, switched my phone service on my second line to Vonage and subscribed to an e-fax service. Over the nearly 10 years that I have been in business, I have made tweaks to the mix of providers but getting things set at the beginning was an important way to focus.\nAm I ready to market? \u2013 I immediately went to work getting business cards, website and a brochure to start the process. In hindsight, the brochure was a complete waste of money and time but it did help me to focus on the key functions I wanted to provide. I have tweaked this through the years, changing my look completely, creating a new website, delving into social media and a blog. Don\u2019t assume when you get something ready to market that you are \u201cdone.\u201d\nInsurance and healthcare \u2013 After decades in agency and corporate communications, I always had great benefits and more insurance than I ever really needed. Leaving that behind could have been scary but I have a spouse who now carries our family\u2019s benefits and I have supplemented that with long-term disability and life insurance through a trade association to which I belong. Having that set up when I walked out the door of my comfy office made me sleep a little better at night.\nAdditional tax consequences \u2013 In America, the entrepreneur doesn\u2019t get many tax breaks and you are now responsible for the full amount of social security tax (instead of a 50/50 split with your employer). Make sure you understand how your income will be taxed \u2013 and a lot of that depends on how you set up your business, whether it\u2019s a corporation, LLC or other entity.\nYour retirement plan \u2013 It sure was easy when a certain percentage of your income was taken out every month and sent directly to a 401(K) plan. As a self-employed individual, you have several options, but the tough lesson is that you have to make the contribution, no matter how difficult it is to send away any percentage of your hard earned dollars. No one is matching it either, so you have to allow for that when putting your plan together.\nVacation planning \u2013 Anyone who knows me knows that I am not about to give up opportunities to get away, recharge the batteries and enjoy my family. The tough thing about entrepreneurship is that you never ever really can turn off completely \u2013 that you are constantly engaged in your business even if you are on vacation half way around the world. As long as you understand that this is all on you, it\u2019s easy to stay connected and keep your clients happy. I always make sure that I also have a subcontractor who can back me up in case of emergency \u2013 or something that I can\u2019t physically get to because I am out of town.\nWhere will I work? Can I work from my home office? Do I need to rent a space? Will I be able to keep motivated working this way and working alone? In my last corporate job, I had some flexibility to work from home when needed and I used that time to test the waters and almost pretend that this was my life now and determine if I could accomplish great things working this way. Much to my delight I found that my most productive days were my work-at-home days and this gave me the confidence to know that I could do it when I launched my own company.\nAs you can see, these small details mean big decisions and no one can know how you will handle these situations except for you. Think it through and make sure you are ready for all that entrepreneurship throws your way.\nCustomer Service is Dead\nWell at least it is at a certain airline about to be absorbed by American Airlines (thank God).\nI just spent more than three hours trying to book airfare for our summer vacation. It was a relatively easy booking \u2013 not a straight round-trip but a multi city with only two flights. When you look on Kayak, it looks like it should be a breeze to book.\nWhen I saw that the most desirable flights \u2013 time-wise \u2013 were with USAirways I have to admit I cringed more than just a little bit. I went to every airline\u2019s individual site to make sure I couldn\u2019t do better. Again, a bit of a cringe when I realized I couldn\u2019t.\nSo at 10 p.m. on a Friday night I started the process. I went to the USAirways site and called up the flights. Actually found that the pricing was a wee bit lower than what Kayak had quoted. Good news, right?\nWell at 1 a.m., I have just finished the process. That\u2019s because I would get through all the screens, plugging in names, addresses, credit card information, answering all the questions about hazardous materials and then hitting \u201cbuy\u201d only to get an error message \u2013 not once\u2026not twice\u2026but five times.\nSo I called \u201conline booking support\u201d which is a misnomer like no other. My \u201csupport rep\u201d argued with me, told me I was wrong and insisted the flight number I was booking was completely different than the one showing up on the website. She had a few other great quotes.\n\u201cMaybe you should call your credit card company.\u201d Uh my credit card has 30 K of credit available and that is more than enough to cover this purchase almost 10 times over.\n\u201cI think the problem is that the flight you are booking is no longer available.\u201d Huh? It\u2019s showing up online. In fact, I just restarted the process and there it is.\nBut my favorite: \u201cMaybe that fare isn\u2019t available anymore. Just because you see it on our website doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s real.\u201d To this I had no words, except to point out that this was the worst \u201csupport\u201d call in which I\u2019ve every participated.\nI had to call the credit card company too because I got a fraud alert for trying to book this flight. Frustrating, sure, but I do appreciate their vigilance. The good news is that I gave it one last try and it worked. No idea why. No idea how.\nOur frequent flyer numbers are still not associated with this reservation but that\u2019s because American literally started the process of moving those accounts over tonight at midnight. A call to a lovely American Airlines support person confirmed that.\nSo to USAirways, a company that fooled the politicians of Allegheny County into thinking they\u2019d be here forever in order to get a new airport, good riddance. They have laid off thousands of good committed airline professionals. They have abandoned the hub they built on the backs of the local taxpayers so that our airport is now half shuttered and we can\u2019t get very many places nonstop anymore. They turned from one of the region\u2019s top employers to a non-player in the blink of an eye.\nI wish I had more faith in the Allegheny County government to think they could restore some level of business at Pittsburgh International. Unfortunately I don\u2019t believe they are up to the task and that we are probably going to see more gates shuttered. I hope they prove me wrong so I can actually fly to New York for less than $650 someday.\nTaking the Plunge: Top Six Tips to Launching Your Own Consulting Business\nIf I had a nickel for every friend, acquaintance or stranger who tells me that they\u2019d love to launch their own business but are afraid, I\u2019d be a very rich man. And they tell me that as if I wasn\u2019t afraid nearly 10 years ago when I made the big move. Truth be told, I can\u2019t believe I did it. I\u2019m not sure where I mustered up the guts to quit what was, at the time, a great job, to enter the unknown world of entrepreneurship.\nBut I did it and I couldn\u2019t be happier. Given that I am an older dad and have two children, the youngest of whom was only one when I made the move, I knew I\u2019d probably never retire. So I had to find a way to make life more livable while continuing to earn a living. After spending two decades in agency, non-profit and corporate communications, launching my own PR and writing business was the answer.\nIt doesn\u2019t matter whether you are launching a business like mine, or any consulting gig that means you sell your brainpower and skills to companies. This life isn\u2019t for everyone, but I took a few steps that made me muster up the will to make it happen.\nHave a plan \u2013 It may sound simple, but know what you want to do. You can\u2019t sell your services to people unless you know specifcially what it is you want to sell. For me, it was simple. I\u2019m a writer by trade with two decades of PR and Corporate Communications experience. Make sure you are clear about your goals and how you want to spend your time every day.\nDo your homework \u2013 I must have read six different books on launching a business, most notably Peter Bowerman\u2019s Well Fed Writer Filled with great information and inspiration, just reading these books gave me the confidence that I could be successful.\nTell your friends \u2013 And by friends, I mean everyone you know, worked with or with whom you had any level of interaction. I started selling my services six months before I launched my business and when it was time to pull the trigger I had one client contract in hand and several others under consideration. I took a chance that my existing employer would contract with me for projects I had created and owned for seven years and when they did (on the day I handed in my resignation) I knew I would hit the ground running.\nGet your finances in order \u2013 Probably the toughest item on this list, you can\u2019t just quit a job and launch a business with no resources backing you up. Whether it\u2019s savings that you have put away as you chase this dream or a supportive spouse who can pick up the slack while you get your feet under you, make sure you have a back up plan. A lot of books talk about having three or six months of living expenses put away, but in my experience the number doesn\u2019t matter as long as it is a number you are comfortable with and have the ability and drive to make it happen.\nConsider the small stuff \u2013 I\u2019m a big believer in trying to learn to not sweat the small stuff. But when planning to launch your business, there are few things more important than the small stuff; from benefits to retirement, from vacations to office space \u2013 put all of these considerations on paper and make sure that you are truly ready to go.\nFinally, expand your network \u2013 When you leave the corporate womb to strike out on your own, one of the things you lose is constant human contact. Don\u2019t lose your existing network and expand it so that you have a lot of folks with whom to interact on a daily basis.\nStriking out on your own can be a wonderful thing, so long as you are prepared.\nFour Brand-Building Lessons to Take Away from the NCAA Tournament\nI love March Madness because college basketball is my favorite sport and this first weekend of the NCAA Tournament represents pure nirvana. So of course I attended yesterday\u2019s round of first round games at the CONSOL Arena in Pittsburgh.\nWhen you attend the four games in a first round session over the course of more than 12 hours total, there\u2019s bound to be some down time to ponder the universe and the way the event is run, leveraged and even exploited. I took notice of a \u2013 some would say bizarre \u2013 range of subjects over the course of the day and night. Here are just a few ways that this event and its attendees did a good, and not so good, job of branding and PR.\nYou can over-brand. The NCAA \u2013 Big Brother who puts on this fabulous event every year needs to take itself just a little less seriously. In between games during the night time session, the NCAA showed a nearly 10 minute \u201chighlight\u201d film that flashed the NCAA logo about four million times during its run, dramatic music and all, but there really seemed to be no real reason for it. You don\u2019t have to hit people over the head with your message just for the sake of saying the same words over and over again. Be sure to create messages that resonate with your key audiences and create the right communications channels in which to communicate them.\nA picture is worth a thousand words \u2013 The thing that is great about the NCAAs is the thing that is great about all college sports. The color and excitement; the alumni wearing school colors proud and loud; the band, cheerleaders, mascots and dance teams \u2013 I love it all. In taking in the scene I found myself wondering why some schools decide to bring a big band and few cheerleaders, while others have cheer squads, dance teams and fewer band members. No matter what they brought, it added a sense of pageantry and excitement to the whole day \u2013 even during the dull games. My only conundrum was why the Villanova cheerleaders were constantly waving to the crowd before, during and after performing. Did they have a lot of family in the stands? A pretty package doesn\u2019t hide a bad product, but you aren\u2019t going to get anyone\u2019s attention without ensuring that the exterior is looking good as well. Make sure that your packaging matches the quality of the product.\nKnow your audience \u2013 There were several instances of total bafflement for me, but the biggest came when the event organizers marched out the national championship rifle team from West Virginia University for recognition. Now, WVU isn\u2019t playing in Pittsburgh \u2013 they are three hours west in Columbus. Duquesne University was the event host. Many of the fans not connected with the teams playing here were Pitt and Duquesne alums that just like basketball and are rivals of WVU. It was just a misplaced moment that I think didn\u2019t do the student athletes any favors since I heard a smattering of boos from ignorant fans. It just didn\u2019t belong in this venue. Make sure you consider your audience for every element of a big event, a product launch or any other promotion.\nBig events can shine a light, but in the end it\u2019s the product. There was enough good basketball to keep most basketball fans entertained throughout the day but when the games were bad, they were very bad and no matter how loud the band was, no matter how pretty or talented the cheerleaders, it was easy to tune out for a bit. Make sure that your product holds up to any bright light.\nIf all else fails and your team is losing or even if they are winning big (like Villanova yesterday), just smile and wave \u2013like the \u2018Nova cheerleaders.\nMy favorite team had a tough year. Pretty much the only sport I follow is college basketball and my alma mater \u2013 the University of Pittsburgh \u2013 is my favorite team. I have had season tickets for more years than I want to admit. As fans, we have been spoiled rotten with the team\u2019s success over the past decade and a half after years of mostly misery. So when the team has a year like this one \u2013 a winning season, but not enough to get them into the Big Dance and an early exit from the ACC Tournament, it leaves me a little sad.\nYou see, I use college basketball season to struggle through winter and this winter was harsher than normal in a year when my favorite team was ice cold most nights. Perhaps that is why I grew a new level of hate for the winter season.\nAfter years of making the NCAA Tournament in six of eight years between 1987 and 1993 but not performing well in the tourney, Pitt went nine years without sniffing the NCAAs. Then the golden years began in 2002, with the team making the tournament 10 years in a row and 12 of 13, making the Sweet 16 four times and the Elite Eight once.\nThe spoiled fans of the team complained throughout this stretch for various reasons and now that Pitt has failed to make the tournament for only the second time in a 14-year timespan, I hope that people are realizing some things that also apply to life in general.\nEnjoy the ride. Yes this season was painful but there were moments that were filled with pure joy \u2013 the win over Notre Dame, the sweep of Syracuse and the drubbing of North Carolina come to mind. It\u2019s not always about the destination as the journey is sometimes just as important. Even in that near decade of hoops misery between 1993 and 2002, I went to nearly every game and remember overall having a good time. Life is about a series of seemingly uneventful events. If you don\u2019t take time to enjoy every moment, you\u2019re missing out on a lot of good feelings.\nEmbrace success and don\u2019t take it for granted. During those years that Pitt was making the Sweet 16, fans and media howled that the team didn\u2019t make it farther in the tournament. And in the years when the team lost before that milestone, the critics were even louder. I can\u2019t even listen to talk radio this week because I\u2019m sure the commentary is beyond absurd. Success is not something that you are entitled to, so enjoy it when you have it because you never know when you\u2019ll have it again.\nAppreciate what you have. The stunning call for the firing of the head coach who has overseen the best decade of Pitt basketball just baffles me. Firing a coach isn\u2019t always the solution, especially one who has proven to be a magician of sorts in finding success with talent that is less than NBA-level. We all have so much \u2013 whether it\u2019s relationships, business or just stuff in general \u2013 stop taking it all for granted.\nThe sun will come out tomorrow. Yes, I\u2019m disappointed but hope springs eternal for a new year. Heck, if the team heads to the NIT I\u2019ll even hit those games because that means the season isn\u2019t over yet and because there is always hope, I can envision \u2013 if only for a day or two \u2013 my favorite team playing at my favorite venue, Madison Square Garden, for the NIT Finals. And no matter what disappointment you are facing today, just get up and attack the new day with all you have.\nAre you Happy or Glad?\nI have often been described as a tough editor. I actually had a boss once give me a pencil that had stamped on it the words \u201cEditorial Guillotine.\u201d I took it as a compliment and wore that moniker as a badge of honor.\nWhile I may be a tough editor, I\u2019m not an editor for editing\u2019s sake. In other words, I don\u2019t edit just to make it look like I was deeply engaged in a project. I edit because editing is needed or because it will improve the flow of a piece.\nBack in my early years in PR, I had a supervisor who DID edit for editing sake and I vowed to never become that guy. My absolute favorite edit that he ever made was changing the word \u201chappy\u201d to \u201cglad.\u201d\nIt\u2019s my favorite edit because I use it now to describe a bad editor or when reviewing copy I will tell the writer that I am not going to be changing \u201chappy\u201d to \u201cglad\u201d just for the sake of change.\nEditing is an art that must walk the fine line between enforcing rules of grammar while not infringing on a writer\u2019s style. Truth be told, I may enjoy editing at least as much as writing and that makes me happy. Or glad.\nWinter is Like a Difficult Client\nAnyone who knows me knows that I despise winter. I look at it as the season to \u201cget through.\u201d I know that I should embrace it more, perhaps take up skiing in my old age or build a snowman. But no thanks. Let\u2019s just find a way to get to April without thinking too much of it.\nThe one good thing about winter \u2013 yes, there is one \u2013 is that when it is on the verge of ending, I feel an amazing rush of excitement. Witness yesterday when the temperature soared to an amazing 43 degrees and I headed straight for the park for a five mile jaunt to enjoy the \u201cwarmth\u201d and sunshine. I was there with about a million of my best friends, including folks in t-shirts and shorts (really?) and one guy who was shirtless (perhaps taking it a bit far).\nIt got me to thinking that getting through winter is like getting through a tough project or managing a painful client. I think I use all the same coping mechanisms.\nEvery client looks pretty upon first look. Just like the ground in a new-fallen snow everything is perfectly beautiful and serene when you first engage with a new client. But knowing what is underneath that cover is what separates the good client from the nightmare. So do your due diligence and know whether the ground underneath that new fallen snow is a sheet of ice or your new client is hiding secrets that will come out in the media to everyone\u2019s surprise.\nThe storm is coming. You can bet on it. Even the most serene scene can be turned into a blizzard in a split second of time. And every client can face a crisis of epic proportions without notice. That\u2019s why being prepared is so important, whether it\u2019s with salt and a good shovel or a well thought out crisis communications plan.\nIt will be over soon \u2013 won\u2019t it? Of course it will and so will any tough situation facing any client. The key is to compartmentalize the timeframe in a series of \u201cmust get throughs\u201d using solid strategic tactics to mitigate the pain. With winter, I focus on milestones \u2013 college basketball season eats up a lot of that time and well timed weekends away help as well. For clients facing a crisis, it is all about making sure that you are using the right strategies to reach certain measures of success along the way and ultimately achieve long-term goals of mitigating whatever crisis the client is facing.\nSometimes it is best to just cut and run. When winter has consumed the last positive thought I have, that weekend away automatically moves to Florida or the Caribbean, budget be damned. And when a client is causing more pain than pleasure, it\u2019s time to take the same approach and part ways. Firing an impossible client is never an easy thing for an entrepreneur but in every case has been the exact right move.\nBring on the sunshine and the clients who love us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 24694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog-brigade.militaryonesource.mil/2017/05/30/party-in-the-hood-four-ways-to-bring-back-the-block-party/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:56Z", "digest": "sha1:SZ4M6GEL4OXNFQ3ICIFNPYAN3TKH6HJV", "length": 2830, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog-brigade.militaryonesource.mil", "title": "Party in the Hood: Four Ways to Bring Back the Block Party | Blog Brigade", "raw_content": "Party in the Hood: Four Ways to Bring Back the Block Party\nWritten By Cassie Grainger Posted on May 30, 2017 CategoriesMilitary Life\nDuring one of my husband\u2019s deployments, I formed a Friday night supper club \u2013 five women and 15 kids under the age of eight. For eight months, we got together every Friday night for an informal block party complete with a potluck meal and games. The kids played outside. The adults laughed. And for a minute we felt like we weren\u2019t the middle of a war. More than a year later, after some neighbors had moved on and new ones arrived, we had a Halloween block party. Every kid in the neighborhood was dressed in their best costume, tables and fire pits lined many driveways, and for a few short hours, everyone on our street got along.\nLooking back at our two decades in the Marine Corps, we lived in a few neighborhoods that stand out \u2014ones that really helped us bloom where we were planted. They were neighborhoods where we knew who lived next door to us and we all made an effort to \u201cbe neighborly.\u201d We built a community with the people around us. Whether you live on or off an installation, organizing a block party can be a great way to get to know the people in your neighborhood. Here are some tips to get you started.\nSet a standing time. Choose an evening on the calendar and stick to it. It\u2019s easier for people to plan to attend when a recurring date is set. Whether you choose the first Friday or the second Saturday of every month, be consistent in your planning.\nHand out anonymous invitations. When you think block party, think \u201call-inclusive.\u201d Distributing invitations anonymously adds a sense of inclusion. The goal is not to gain notoriety as the best party planner on the block; it\u2019s to get everyone together in one place.\nWork together. Enlist the help of one or two neighbors. In the beginning, it may only be you and one or two other families participating \u2013 and that\u2019s okay! Building a community takes time. Be consistent in your efforts to make everyone feel welcome, and you\u2019ll be surprised by how many people will join in.\nPick a neutral location. The quickest way to become a community nuisance rather than a community builder is to block streets or driveways. Be sure to consider any homeowners association, apartment complex, or housing regulations that may play a role in how and where you set up your party. Be mindful that after a long day, people want to be able to pull into their driveway with ease.\nLiving in a community where people know and lean on each other can certainly make life easier when times are difficult. Party on!\nI\u2019m sitting in our townhouse today, still surrounded by all of our things (including a healthy dose of kid-induced mess), and I can\u2019t help but think about what we were supposed to \u2026\nRead More \u2014 \"Military Spouse Sanity Secrets Revealed\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.dailyfreepress.com/tag/marvel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:2C2ICKMFUDZJMGLXADJVVNTZ7PVVMVBP", "length": 4409, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "blog.dailyfreepress.com", "title": "Marvel | The Daily Free Now", "raw_content": "Feb20 Comments Off on Noe\u2019s Choice: Scott Pilgrim Versus the World\nNoe\u2019s Choice: Scott Pilgrim Versus the World\nPosted by\tnoellemonge\nThe plot is one of love, self-discovery and tons of action: what more could you ask of comic and its film adaptation?\nEntertainment, Film \"Scott Pilgrim Versus the World\", Bryan Lee O\u2019Malley, Edgar Wright, Marvel, Michael Cera, Noe's Choice, Noelle Monge\nJan22 Comments Off on In defense of fake fans\nIn defense of fake fans\nI\u2019m a fake fan, I\u2019ll admit it. I\u2019m not ashamed of it, nor do I understand why we get so much hate. In all honesty, I don\u2019t even like the term \u201cfake fans,\u201d because it\u2019s not that I\u2019m not part of a fandom; it just isn\u2019t my entire life. I consider myself to be [\u2026]\nEntertainment, Film, Lifestyle, Uncategorized Ayodele Abinusawa, Cartoon Network, Euro Cup, fake fans, fandoms, FIFA World Cup, Germany, Italy, Marvel, Star Wars, the Champions League, The Clone Wars, The Last Jedi, UEFA European Championships\nOct09 Comments Off on Why you should support your local comic book store\nWhy you should support your local comic book store\nPosted by\tSonia Rao\nWhat I love about small comic shops isn\u2019t the smell of ink that permeates the air, nor is it the multi-colored shelves packed with stories of daring and adventure. What I love most about local comic book shops are the people. Knowing that you are surrounded by individuals who care just as much as you [\u2026]\nArt, Books, Business & Economics, City, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Pop Culture Countdown Barnes and Noble, Books-A-Million, Coolidge Corner, DC Comics, Golden Age Comics, Magic: The Gathering, Marvel, Marvel NOW!, New England Comics, Pop!, Rebirth, Roy Wang, Silver Age comics\nOct27 Comments Off on \u201cJessica Jones\u201d second season will be led by all-female directors\n\u201cJessica Jones\u201d second season will be led by all-female directors\nWomen are slaying the world with their rapid rise to power in all sectors possible, whether it\u2019s medicine, aerospace, hospitality or entertainment. We have pushed for equal opportunity for years, seizing whatever consolation came our way and converted it into all things fabulous. This is the true spirit of a woman: making the best of [\u2026]\nArt, Entertainment, Opinion, Politics, Television Ava DuVernay, Game of Thrones, Girls, Jessica Jones, Mad Men, Marvel, Melissa Rosenberg, Modern Family, Netflix, Queen Sugar, Transforming Hollywood\nApr28 Comments Off on DC Comics announces \u201cSuper Hero Girls\u201d campaign\nDC Comics announces \u201cSuper Hero Girls\u201d campaign\nPosted by\tJoe Incollingo\nFor centuries, the concept of superheroes has fascinated people of all ages and cultures in all areas of the globe. Although the definition of what makes someone \u201csuper\u201d has varied over the years, superheroes as we know them today have a universal purpose: they protect others from danger, fight for justice and serve as role [\u2026]\nUncategorized DC, DC Comics, Diane Nelson, Marvel, Mattel, Time, Warner Bros., Wonder Woman\nNov24 Comments Off on Marvel announces new \u201cBlack Panther\u201d film in 2017\nMarvel announces new \u201cBlack Panther\u201d film in 2017\nPosted by\tEditors\nBy Franchie Viaud, Staff Writer Recently, Marvel announced that it would be releasing \u201cThe Black Panther\u201d film on Nov. 3, 2017, spurring both elation and furor among comic book fans. Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, T\u2019Challa (Black Panther) broke the glass ceiling on African American commencement as seasoned superheroes. It\u2019s not like there was [\u2026]\nEntertainment \"The Black Panther\", African Americans, comic books, Franchie Viaud, Marvel, people of color, POC representation in comics, sci-fi, superheroes\nOct16 Comments Off on The new female \u201cThor\u201d and the lack of women in the comic book industry\nThe new female \u201cThor\u201d and the lack of women in the comic book industry\nBy Franchie Viaud, Staff Writer It\u2019s no surprise that women take the backseat in comics, with the perpetuated notion that they are somehow not interested in comics and that creative expression is safely kept in the \u201cmale realm\u201d or whatever stereotype that plays into it. Not only is there a shortage of female characters, but there\u2019s [\u2026]\nEntertainment Batgirl, Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers, comic books, DC Comic, female leads in comics, Feminism, feminists, Franchie Viaud, gender misrepresentation in comics, lack of women in the comic book industry, lack of women representation in comics, Marvel, new female Thor, Thor, women in comic books", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 9646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.glidewelldental.com/blog/2018/april/artificial-intelligence", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:05Z", "digest": "sha1:XDXXDVIECGVIRCM53X6RMD44W4CSFEDP", "length": 4658, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "blog.glidewelldental.com", "title": "AI: Next Frankenstein Creation or the Next Best Thing?", "raw_content": "AI: Next Frankenstein Creation or the Next Best Thing?\nFeaturing Dr. Sergei Azernikov\nBetween the crystal ball statements of revered business mogul Elon Musk, and the Nostradamus vibes that came from world-renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, it\u2019s hard not to believe that we\u2019re currently in the process of creating our own demise with artificial intelligence (AI).\nPerhaps the greatest influencer of our portrayal of AI is sci-fi movies that feature a twisted narrative of a Dr. Frankenstein-style operation, complete with a feared and despised creation. Though there\u2019s a lot to address with AI before it entirely infiltrates our world, reality is quite different from what we see in the movies.\nUnderstanding How AI Works\n\u201cMachines are trained off the data that we provide them with,\u201d says Dr. Sergei Azernikov, machine learning team lead at Glidewell Dental, when referencing his company\u2019s decision to get involved with AI.\nGlidewell\u2019s new chairside restorative ecosystem, the glidewell.io\u2122 In-Office Solution, is driven largely by AI and the company\u2019s innovative fastdesign.io\u2122 Software.\nIn a matter of milliseconds, the fastdesign.io Software scans through millions of images of teeth, from which to auto-propose the perfect design for a patient\u2019s restoration. Once approved by the doctor, the design can be submitted to the lab digitally, or sent directly to the fastmill.io\u2122 In-Office Unit for fabrication within minutes, eliminating the need for a second appointment. It\u2019s this sort of convenience that has people excited about the prospects of AI, in this and other industries.\nRather than ominous alien pods, the machines responsible for this endeavor look more like standard desktops with electric blue stripes running down the sides.\nWhile the computers don\u2019t exactly look like they should be starring as sci-fi villains, Azernikov is quick to point out they shouldn\u2019t be underestimated. This type of AI might not look very intimidating, but a neural network with a substantial number of layers can replicate human-like intelligence.\nAzernikov doesn\u2019t expect Glidewell\u2019s use of AI to go rogue anytime soon, though. Instead, he says that these machines are vessels filled with science and math.\n\u201cWe\u2019re not in the business of performing magic or illusions. AI does what it is trained to do. If people corrupt it or don\u2019t properly equip it to do its job, it\u2019s our fault, because we are the ones who train it. To protect our future, we have the moral responsibility to ensure this technology is used for betterment of society,\u201d he argues.\nEvaluating Potential Issues\nRight now, Azernikov believes the most pertinent issue is solving current technical and social problems associated with AI.\n\u201cTake self-driving cars for instance. There have been several cases where the machine has failed to recognize a dangerous situation, which reflects back on the fact that we need to work to better prepare AI with the information and equipment that it needs to succeed. The problem is, it isn\u2019t always immediately clear how to do that,\u201d he acknowledges.\nAlthough all the kinks are still being worked out with AI, we live in a world where adaptability is paramount. Azernikov warns that businesses don\u2019t have time to be slow adopters, because others are going to grab every competitive advantage available. As computational power becomes increasingly more accessible, the market is wide open to crafty competitors.\nWhile Glidewell is a leader in the dental industry now, the company understands that it\u2019s important to stay ahead of the game.\n\u201cTen years ago, it would be hard to envision that a dental lab would be using AI, but here we are, continuing to test the boundaries of what we can do. In terms of quality control and automation, we are on the cutting-edge of the future of dentistry,\u201d Azernikov says.\nTechnological developments in the dental industry like the ones Glidewell is making are intended to help doctors treat more patients in less time. Given that inconvenience is commonly held as one of the principal barriers to patient acceptance, the ability to provide a same-day restorative service presents significant advantages. What\u2019s more, automation tends to be more precise, more consistent, and helps to reduce costs, improving affordability.\nWhile there are certainly issues to address with AI, these machines hold the power to make our lives better, whether that\u2019s through early detection of disease, or helping us spend more time with our family by automating the process of mundane tasks.\nRather than fearing what will come over the next few years, people should continue to explore, create, push boundaries, and use AI to benefit our world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 5188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.localwork.com/smartest-stupidest-things-say-job-interview", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:21Z", "digest": "sha1:YNKCB4SXPMOZYO7RG2GSUF4YDC26XXIG", "length": 6115, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "blog.localwork.com", "title": "The Smartest and Stupidest Things You Could Say in a Job Interview - LocalWork.com LocalWork.com", "raw_content": "22 Jul 2016 by Rob Briggs\nThe interview is your biggest chance to prove yourself to an employer and show that you are the perfect fit for the job. In one short conversation, you need to convince a complete stranger that you would be more of an asset to his company than any other candidate. To do so, you have to be on top of your game and present yourself as a competent, intelligent professional. The words you choose will make or break your opportunity with a company.\nThere are a lot of possible good and bad things to say in an interview, but here are some of the most deadly and most favorable. Let\u2019s start with the bad and then move on to the good.\nThe stupidest things you could say\nSay whatever you want in your personal life, but the fact of the matter is in the professional world, profanities make you sound dumb and unprofessional. A 2012 CareerBuilder survey reported that over half of employers said they would think an employee who swore at work was less intelligent. Avoid curse words and vulgar language in your interviews (including \u2018Oh my God!\u2019), and replace them with better, smarter, and more creative ways to express yourself.\nAsking questions you should already know the answers to\nFew things will make you look dumber than asking questions like, \u2018What does your company do?\u2019 or \u2018What\u2019s your name again?\u2019 You need to do your homework before, be very familiar with the organization, and pay attention when you meet people. Otherwise, you will come off as absentminded, foolish, and unprepared.\n\u2018Like\u2019, \u2018uh\u2019, etc.\nThese stutter words are often said without realizing it. If you have a bad \u2018um\u2019 habit (or anything similar), practice interview questions with a friend and have him point out every time you let the word slip. Practice pausing instead; while short pauses still aren\u2019t ideal, they are better and less distracting.\nBig SAT words no one knows the meaning of\nDon\u2019t pull out big fancy words to try and sound smart. You\u2019ll seem like you\u2019re trying way too hard to impress, you\u2019ll mispronounce a word, or you\u2019ll use the word incorrectly, only making you sound worse. If you\u2019re at all unsure of a word\u2019s meaning or usage, just don\u2019t use it.\nPeople unknowingly make mistakes all the time; check out cognitive scientist Steven Pinker\u2019s list of most common words and phrases that people use incorrectly. However, help yourself out when possible by avoiding those unnecessary questionable words and speaking plainly in your interviews.\nBashing your current employer\nWhen asked why you\u2019re quitting your job or why you were fired, complaining about your employer will only make you look bitter, whiny, and negative, even if it\u2019s all true. Avoid complaining, and instead give the impression that you are a good team player. Employers see how you talk about your last job as a good indicator of what kind of employee you will be at your next. That\u2019s not to say you should lie, but rather frame your answer in a more positive light and focus on what you like and look forward to about the company you\u2019re interviewing with.\n\u201cNo, I don\u2019t have any questions.\u201d\nGoing to an interview without questions to ask is another sign that you are unprepared. Almost every interviewer will ask what questions you have (usually at the end), and that is your chance to show your interest in the company, learn more about the position, and impress with your preparedness. Saying you \u2018don\u2019t have any questions\u2019 is a very bad way to end an interview.\nThe smartest things you could say\n\u201cI\u2019m very familiar with what your company does.\u201d\nResearching a company before interviewing with them, and then showing your preparedness in the interview tells the interviewer that you have serious interest in the business. Read the company\u2019s website and their social media pages in detail, search for news articles about recent happenings in the organization, and learn all about their products and services. This information will help you sell yourself in the interview and have intelligent conversation regarding the position with the interviewer.\n[Insert original and insightful question here]\nAs discussed in the \u201cStupidest\u201d section above, you need to be prepared with questions to ask your interviewer. An insightful question that shows that you did your research and listened carefully during the interview can impress the interviewer just as much, if not more than, your answers to his/her questions. It\u2019s wise to come prepared with a few options, then see what\u2019s covered in the interview. You may come up with new questions because of what is discussed, but don\u2019t rely on that. Go prepared!\n\u201cI\u2019m constantly seeking to learn and increase my knowledge in this field.\u201d\nAn employee that\u2019s always learning is an asset to his company. Explaining and showing that you are a proactive learner says that you will strive to be the best employee possible, you will be a positive influence on your coworkers, you\u2019re adaptable, and you\u2019re on this career path for the long run. In your spare time, read articles about industry trends and talk to more experienced professionals in the field to increase your knowledge, and then refer to these proactive activities in your interviews.\nStories and examples of your experience are key in showing the interviewer you are the best fit for the job. Never just answer a question with a \u201cyes\u201d or \u201cno\u201d; instead, you need to take every opportunity to highlight your unique qualities that would be valuable to the company. Learn about the STAR technique, a helpful way of answering questions and telling stories, here.\nThis phrase alone isn\u2019t a make-it-or-break-it thing to say, but it represents being a kind and appreciative person. Show that you are respectable, gracious, humble, and friendly through the things you say and do in your time with the interviewer. Be positive, give a good handshake, and smile. Be sure to resonate with the tone of the company culture (meaning, research what the culture is like beforehand as well). If you are hired, you will represent the company as one of their employees, so you need to show some good manners and give the impression that you are a nice person.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.spinpalace.com/risks-unlicensed-online-casinos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:12Z", "digest": "sha1:M4J36F6HOOLA32FDZY66RLEHD2N6F337", "length": 4562, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.spinpalace.com", "title": "Risks Of Unlicensed Online Casinos And How To Avoid Them", "raw_content": "The Risks Of Unlicensed Online Casinos\nWith so many online casinos popping up on an almost daily basis, it can be very difficult to keep track of which is which. Especially since almost every new online casino is on a mission to attract customers, and so offering often incredibly good sign up deals. The vast majority of these online casinos are perfectly fine, and generally aim to offer as good a customer experience as possible. After all, repeat business is based on customer satisfaction.\nThere are, however, unlicensed, illegal online casinos that occasionally make an appearance, which can pose a very real risk to unwary customers. There are not an overwhelming number of such dangerous online locations, but those who frequent online casinos should still be on the lookout for them. It goes without saying that such digital locations should be avoided at all costs, lest visitors walk away with nothing but empty pockets and bad memories.\nWhat Is An Unlicensed Casino?\nOnline casinos must be licensed, which is an indication that the digital location is bound by laws, and must abide by them, or risk being fined and shut down. In order to receive a licence an online casino must present themselves to the appropriate government department, which will ensure that everything the casino does is according to established laws. If granted a license this is an indication that the law is satisfied the casino is in no way trying to rip off customers, and meets all approved methods as far as offered games is concerned.\nAn unlicensed casino is simply a website that has not received such a license, which means that there is no telling if any actions taken by those running the website are legal. The games may be faulty, or rigged to cheat, and depositing money in such a place is all but asking for trouble. There have been a number of reports of players hitting an online slot game jackpot at an unlicensed casino, only for the owners to refuse to payout the jackpot amount. And this, of course, is one of only many things that could go wrong when visiting such a website.\nHow To Spot An Unlicensed Casino\nLicensed casinos generally display a symbol on the bottom right of their home page, which is an indication that they are running according to the law. This is the first thing that visitors to a new online casino should look for. If seeing this symbol, it is a good sign, but still not 100% proof that the website is genuinely licensed.\nIf in doubt, a person can do a quick Google search on the casino, and look for any other players complaining about the website. This is perhaps the easiest way to see if any online location is reputable. If the casino does not have a Facebook page, for example, it should be seen as a giant red warning sign. Unlicensed casinos often avoid having Facebook pages, which could be used by those who have been cheated to warn others.\nIt should always be kept in mind that unlicensed casinos are few and far between, and generally don\u2019t stay active for very long. They generally spring up, hope to lure as many customers as possible, and shut down again, taking any ill gotten gains with them. Since word tends o get around about an unlicensed casino, they are forced to shut down after only a few months, or even just a few weeks or days.\nSince it takes a fair amount of effort to set up a website that looks genuine, however, offences of this nature are not frequent. It takes a good amount of technical know how to create a website that operates in the same fashion as a licensed casino, and having to shut the website down only after a short amount of time means that the effort is often not worth the small amount of money stolen.\nReport Unlicensed Casinos\nIt goes without saying that if an unlicensed casino is come across that it should be reported immediately. Plus, it certainly wouldn\u2019t do any harm letting friends know that the website is not to be trusted. If a player falls victim to an unlicensed online casino, and money is lost, the sad reality is that there is very little chance of ever getting the money back. Since the website could have been run from just about anywhere in the world, it is incredibly difficult to track those responsible down.\nThe only real steps to be taken against such websites is, therefore, simply not using them, and helping others likewise avoid them at all costs. It stands to reason that in time, such websites will likely stop appearing, as users become more aware of the situation and avoid them altogether.\n\u2190 The World\u2019s Smallest Casinos\tWhen to Cash Out in Slots \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 5993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.thestarrconspiracy.com/3-things-you-need-to-know-about-microsofts-acquisition-of-linkedin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:15Z", "digest": "sha1:HVWHO6WKLHT2PCJDWWE6OA64C66IDNYS", "length": 4014, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.thestarrconspiracy.com", "title": "3 Things You Need to Know About Microsoft\u2019s Acquisition of LinkedIn", "raw_content": "3 Things You Need to Know About Microsoft\u2019s Acquisition of LinkedIn\nBy: Lance Haun and Steve Smith on June 15, 2016\nMicrosoft announcing its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn on Monday made for great headlines. Unfortunately, those headlines were mostly focused on the wrong things.\nSure, these are two of the biggest names in technology coming together for the biggest acquisition in Microsoft\u2019s long and storied history. However, most of the conversation focused on integration of Microsoft\u2019s professional technology, such as Outlook and Office, with LinkedIn\u2019s giant professional network. Although that\u2019s a significant opportunity, it doesn\u2019t justify the premium that Microsoft paid. What does justify the premium is Microsoft gaining access to a new and essential market: Human Capital Management (HCM).\nWe encourage you to read the excellent ZDNet article outlining Microsoft\u2019s HCM opportunity. To summarize it in brief, there\u2019s $315 billion of total addressable market that is inaccessible without doing something different. In HCM, Microsoft opens the door to $131 billion in HCM total addressable market, according to The Starr Conspiracy\u2019s Enterprise HCM Brandscape. That certainly qualifies as something different.\nMicrosoft is positioned to compete in HCM 2.0 and 3.0. As The Wall Street Journal points out, about two-thirds of LinkedIn\u2019s revenue comes from its talent solutions division, which generated $558 million in revenue in the first quarter. In effect, Microsoft has become one of the world\u2019s largest HCM companies. It\u2019s also now at the forefront of building next-generation HCM 2.0 solutions like the employee engagement platform. Microsoft is in the unique position to build out HCM 3.0 solutions that combine talent and people solutions with the applications where work actually gets done \u2014 think ERP + CRM + Office/Outlook + SharePoint + Skype + Yammer + LinkedIn + Lynda.com. And with LinkedIn, Microsoft gets access to the best \u201csystem of record\u201d in the world, which is the one where people take responsibility for ensuring the quality of their own data.\nMicrosoft got a bargain if it can make it work. Since when is $26.2 billion a bargain? When it brings $2 billion-plus in annual revenue and opens the door to over $131 billion in new market opportunity. That\u2019s when. However, there\u2019s one huge caveat: the integration challenge. It\u2019s a big obstacle, and while Microsoft typically moves slowly, HCM is a high-velocity market right now. Will LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner\u2019s assertion that LinkedIn will be an independent entity within Microsoft help or hinder its grand ambitions? Microsoft\u2019s track record with acquisitions hasn\u2019t been a good one, but it can write a new chapter if it makes this work.\nWatch for the inevitable shock waves. One thing that has become very clear to us over the past year is the entry of nontraditional technology players coming into the HCM space. This trend will accelerate over the next year. Furthermore, there\u2019s now more pressure than ever on Salesforce, Oracle, and even Apple to make more aggressive moves into the HCM space. And it plays out throughout the HCM ecosystem. Case in point: systems integrators. Companies that provide support and integration for both talent technologies and Microsoft (such as Tribridge) have a significant opportunity as well. This won\u2019t be a ripple effect \u2014 it will be shock waves.\nThis deal really puts an exclamation point on how quickly the HCM landscape has transformed and how the terms of engagement have shifted. In the past, we would have assumed that for Microsoft to make a significant play in HCM, it would need some sort of system of record to make a compelling play for HR spend.\nNow? Maybe it will eventually acquire a true core HR system, but it can make pretty significant headway into HR without it. Should the giant enterprise software behemoths be worried about that? Probably not today, but we\u2019d suggest probably a lot sooner than anyone thinks, too.\nHCM Mergers and acquisitions LinkedIn microsoft", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 4626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.valorfireplaces.com/category/lifestyle/home-design-decor/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JPPJZSURD3RDKBTGIQYLREDT5V53UYT5", "length": 1788, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.valorfireplaces.com", "title": "Home Design & Decor | Valor Fireplace & Lifestyle Blog - Part 2", "raw_content": "When it comes to home design, white has always been a popular and modern choice for the walls, furniture, floors and decor. However, there are some things to keep in mind when you decorate with white and it\u2019s important to find a balance as you create your design. Keep reading for the dos and don\u2019ts of decorating with white. Do Explore Different Shades When you decide to use the color white as the main look in your home, it\u2019s important to explore all of the shades available to find the right fit. For example, you may want an off-white for a bedroom to encourage a sense of warmth whereas you may\u2026\nWhile we would love to ignore the fact that Winter is on the way, it\u2019s a great time to start preparing our outdoor space for the colder season. Fall yard work can actually be pretty enjoyable with the cool but comfortable temperature and the tasks aren\u2019t too labour intensive. Check out the list below for 5 ways to prep your backyard for Winter: Rake & Clean: While the leaves are beautiful as they change colour and fall from the trees they, unfortunately, need to be dealt with before Winter. So, take the time to rake the backyard from one side to the other and remove any tree debris or weeds. This will\u2026\nWhen it comes to projects or improvements around the home, a do it yourself method can be really great and can save some money! Depending on the project, most things can be tackled as a beginner DIY-er, but you will need to go in with patience a generous timeline in case something goes awry. We have highlighted three DIY projects below that will improve your home and have it looking amazing with a few simple changes. Read on to find out more: DIY Shaker Door This is such a great DIY project if your home has simple doors that need a new look and if you don\u2019t want to buy\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 10149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.walkingthetalk.com/how-culture-improves-team-management", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:57Z", "digest": "sha1:UWKYJBISRHKO27KFEKGI6Z55S3HDKR2O", "length": 1734, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.walkingthetalk.com", "title": "How culture improves team management", "raw_content": "[fa icon=\"calendar\"] 26-Jul-2018 05:19:00 / by Carolyn Taylor\nI fundamentally disagree with this statement. The guy I was meeting with has many years of designing culture change initiatives and he described it as, \"like a football team hiring the best players but not winning the championship\".\nThe culture of the team either brings the best out of the players, or the worst.\nIn some teams, the cultural values demand that every player put the outcome of the game ahead of their own desire to star. In other teams this does not occur.\nIn some teams, it's the norm to blame each other when things go wrong. In others, everyone considers their own contribution and responsibility.\nIn some teams, more experienced players mentor the newcomers. In others they do not.\nIn some teams, everyone turns up for practice, every time, on time. In others they do not.\nThese are not factors of the skill of the individual talent, although t is possible, and useful, to hire for and develop these behavioral characteristics, They are factors of the culture that has been created in the team, and the club. It is not the automatic result of good hiring and talent development. In fact many times I witness talented new hires being pulled down by the culture in which they operate. Culture is a force in its own right, and to build the environment in which this well developed talent thrives, it is crucial to manage and develop the culture through deliberate interventions.\nTo win you need great talent. You need a culture where good talent management is valued. And you need a culture which lifts everyone to be the very best they can be, technically and behaviorally.\nTopics: Team culture, One-Team, Leadership team, Leading culture, Carolyn Taylor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 6474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bloglessbehavior.com/2017/08/11/its-our-anniversary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HGHXMARPSDFISSLRG7EOEKY5DWNEPWT7", "length": 1662, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bloglessbehavior.com", "title": "It\u2019s Our Anniversary \u2013 Welcome To Blogless Behavior", "raw_content": "Martiiiiin Lawrence\nCan you believe one of the greatest TV sitcoms of all time is 25 years old? Martin hands down was and still is comedy television gold. Even though it\u2019s well known the demise of the show was because of Martin\u2019s substance participation and boundary issues with Tisha Campbell, I know I am not the only person that still blames her for the show ending.\nLegend has it Martin and Tisha were indeed messing around and that is why their chemistry was unmatched in TV coupledom. Yet, when Tisha moved on to her relationship with her husband, Martin didn\u2019t take to kindly to it. Martin was power tripping despite him having a woman and we all know how the story ended. I know this will never happen but I\u2019d champion and lead the campaign for a Martin reboot. Just don\u2019t think it would work without Tommy and he could never be recast.\nOn the other hand, if there was a Martin Show or Martin career jeopardy, my husband and I would kill it. There isn\u2019t a Martin show or movie we haven\u2019t seen or can\u2019t quote almost line for line. Though there isn\u2019t a Martin jeopardy, the show has made such an impact on the culture, there is a trivia game. I\u2019d suggest you all check it out. I have to say this trivia game did have me and my husband stumped on some minor details. It\u2019ll make for a great kick-back drinking game.\nhttps://cardsfortheculture.co/products/martin-trivia-the-deluxe-edition\nPS.. Be on the look out for me and my husband\u2019s video properly titled, There\u2019s a Martin Line for that.\nRIP TOMMY\u2026\nAugust 11, 2017 August 12, 2017 Cole, Gina, Martin, Martin Show, Pam, Tommy, TV\nPrevious Previous post: Brandy vs. Herself\nNext Next post: Papa Don\u2019t Preach", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/orthodoxbridge/clearing-the-way-for-reformed-orthodox-dialogue-on-icons/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:AIQUOFTPGHCBH2HMR2R2LJGX2DHEVDJ2", "length": 16557, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "blogs.ancientfaith.com", "title": "Clearing the Way for Reformed-Orthodox Dialogue on Icons - Orthodox Reformed Bridge", "raw_content": "Clearing the Way for Reformed-Orthodox Dialogue on Icons\nJuly 23, 2013 \u00b7 Robert Arakaki\nBook Review: Early Christian Attitudes toward Images by Steven Bigham (1 of 4)\nIn recent years icons have become a matter of public debate among Protestants and Evangelicals, and Orthodox Christians. Where in the past Protestants thought of icons as an Orthodox peculiarity or a quaint dispute quickly passed over in church history class, they are coming to grips with the fact that icons present a serious theological challenge to their theology. In addition to the discovery that a rereading of Scripture from a different angle can lead to a solid biblical basis for icons, they must also grapple with the implications that ripple out from the historic role of icons in the early Church. Cardinal John Henry Newman\u2019s quip: \u201c\u201dTo be deep in history is to cease to be Protestant\u201d might be more true than most have considered! [See my articles: \u201cHow an Icon Brought a Calvinist to Orthodoxy\u201d and \u201cThe Biblical Basis for Icons.\u201d]\nIn the recent dialogue between Protestants and Orthodox over icons both sides have appealed to evidence from early Christianity. One of the challenges in this conversation has been unfamiliarity with early Christian sources on the part of some participants. Oftentimes it seems that those opposed to icons find some surprising evidence from early sources that appear to refute the Christian use of icons. What is needed is a comprehensive overview of early Christian sources on the use of images in worship. Steven Bigham\u2019s Early Christian Attitudes toward Images (2004) seems to fit the bill.\nThe purpose of this review is to assess Bigham\u2019s book in terms of its usefulness to the Reformed-Orthodox dialogue on the use of icons in Christian worship. I plan to review Bigham\u2019s book in four installments.\nGiven the highly charged nature of the topic it is important that we put out certain facts on the table at the outset. Father Steven Bigham, Ph.D., is an Orthodox priest serving the Carpatho-Russian diocese in Montreal, Canada. The book is published by the Orthodox Research Institute. In his preface Bigham gives the book\u2019s objective: \u201cEliminate once and for all the idea that the Christians of the first centuries were iconophobic.\u201d Thus, Bigham\u2019s book is an unabashed Orthodox apologia for icons.\nWhile many of our readers hold strong theological convictions, I am confident that they are likewise committed to the use of critical reason and evidence based approach to forming of their faith convictions. In other words, we are not trapped by partisan categories; rather through an evidence-based approach one can come to a critically informed position on icons one way or the other. The primary criterion driving this review is historical. That is, how comprehensive is Bigham\u2019s survey of the evidence from early the Christian period? How balanced is Bigham\u2019s assessment of the evidence? How significant a contribution can the book make to the Reformed-Orthodox dialogue?\nThe book is divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 deals with the \u201chostility theory\u201d which holds that the early Christians were hostile toward images. Chapter 2 deals with early Jewish attitudes toward images. Chapter 3 deals with the early Christian attitudes towards images, that is, the pre-Constantinian period. Chapter 4 deals with Eusebius of Caesarea who witnessed the beginning of Constantinian era.\nThe Hostility Theory\nThe argument against icons has taken several forms. One major line of attack has been biblical, giving special attention to the Second Commandment. Another has been a historical argument against icons. The \u201chostility theory\u201d proposes: (1) that first century Judaism was aniconic or iconoclastic, (2) the early Church reflecting its Jewish roots was likewise aniconic or iconoclastic, and (3) the incorporation of images can be attributed to Christianity\u2019s assimilation into Roman society under Emperor Constantine. For the reader\u2019s convenience Bigham presents a lengthy excerpt that exemplifies the hostility theory (see pp. 2-3).\nBigham conducted a literature review that shows much of the hostility theory can be traced to nineteenth century liberal Protestantism. The contention here is that the modern historians invented the early Christians hostility towards images. In his assessment Bigham notes that the theory assumes the absence of images in first century Judaism and that this theory has been weakened by recent archaeological findings of images used in connection with Jewish religious life.\nWhen the hostility theory was being developed, our knowledge of ancient Judaism was much more limited than it is today. The artistic monuments we know today were all still underground. It is easy to see why no one questioned the notion that Judaism was monolithically iconophobic, but throughout the 20th century, our accepted ideas about the attitudes and the practices of ancient Judaism have gone through a radical revision and this especially as a result of recent archaeological discoveries. Once again, artistic monuments, this time Jewish ones, have challenged the advocates of the hostility theory to reconcile the supposed Jewish aniconia and iconophobia with the Jewish artistic monuments found in the archaeological digs (Bigham p. 6).\nBigham examines the recent archaeological finding in Chapter 2. But issue before us here is the way the hostility theory is framed. It is important to keep in mind that much of the recent Protestant opposition to icons has been influenced by nineteenth century Christian liberalism and is thus markedly different from the iconoclasm of the seventh and eighth centuries, and from the iconoclasm in Calvin\u2019s Institutes. By deconstructing modern Protestant iconoclasm Bigham has made a substantial contribution to Reformed-Orthodox dialogue. His analysis enables us to become critically aware of the issues and assumptions that unite us and divide us. All too often it has been the hidden assumptions that have derailed inter-faith dialogue. This creates a window of opportunity for two different theological tradition to converse with each other with understanding and empathy.\nImage versus Idol\nAnother important task Bigham carries out in Chapter 1 is drawing the distinction between image and idol. The term \u201cimage\u201d covers a wide range of meaning. Image can mean: (1) image of pagan deities, (2) religious art in the Mosaic Tabernacle and later Jewish temples, (3) decorative art in Jewish life, and (4) religious art used in Christian worship. This distinction is important for how we understand the prohibition in the Second Commandment. An awareness of these conceptual categories helps in the assessment of historical and archaeological evidences.\nOne frequent problem I\u2019ve noticed is the tendency by some to interpret the Second Commandment as a blanket prohibition against any and all images. These critics then take early sources that denounce the use of images in pagan worship and apply them to the use of images in worship in Christian worship. The issue here is not pagan religions, but worship in the Jewish and Christian traditions. Leaving out irrelevant ancient sources critical of pagan idolatry reduces the amount considerably leaving us to consider relevant evidences. And even when those who oppose icons do find ancient sources critical of the use of images in Christian worship they must show that these are not isolated individual instances but part of a broader consensus opposed to the use of images in Christian worship. So far they have failed to do this.\nDiffering Understandings of Tradition\nAnother frequent problem in the dialogue between Orthodox and Protestant dialogue is the disparate understandings of Tradition. Some Protestants assume that for Orthodox Christians Tradition is static, allowing no room for development. This is not the case. Bigham counters that stereotype noting:\nFew defenders of the idea of Tradition claim that nothing has changed since the beginning of the Church, and everyone recognizes that all the changes that have taken place have not necessarily been for the good. . . . . A healthy doctrine of Holy Tradition makes a place for changes, and even corruption and restoration, throughout history while still affirming an essential continuity and purity. This concept is otherwise known as indefectibility: the gates of hell will not prevail against the Church. This theoretical framework, indefectibility, takes change and evolution into account but denies that there has been or can be a rupture or corruption of Holy Tradition itself (p. 15).\nThis description of Tradition as dynamic and organic with an element of continuity and fidelity is helpful for both Orthodox and Reformed Christians. It recognizes Orthodoxy being situated in the messiness of human history. It allows for Orthodox Christology existing alongside early heresies like Docetism, Arianism, and Apollinarianism without undermining the notion of theological orthodoxy. The presence of early Christological heresies does not mean the early Church did not believe in Christ\u2019s divinity or in the Trinity. The Church had always held to these beliefs, but was forced by these heresies to articulate her beliefs with precision using \u201cinvented\u201d terms like: Trinity, homoousions (consubstantial), and creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing). The Reformed tradition\u2019s understanding of the Trinity and Christology imply an acceptance of historical development in early Christianity. A rigid and static approach to Christian tradition would require the jettisoning of important theological terms like: Trinity, hypostasis (person), ousia (being), and homoousios (of the same Essence). No serious Protestant would dare take this position!\nMost Protestant and Reformed approaches to this messy historic traditioning process all too often default to ahistoric propositional reductionism. The propositional reductionisms in their confessions fail miserably to deal rigorously with how the Church under the guidance of the Holy Spirit applied the implications of Christological dogmas. Thus, Protestant ecclesiology and its understanding of history seem void of any consideration of the Holy Spirit\u2019s presence in the early Church and in lives of the church fathers. This tendency can be seen not only in the icon debate, but also with respect to the formation of the biblical canon. The Holy Scripture so revered by Protestants and Reformed Christians is the result of several centuries\u2019 long process in which the Church guided by the Holy Spirit determined which writings can be deemed divinely inspired and authoritative. But when we read Reformed confessional documents we find only ahistoric assertions about the nature and makeup of the Bible. It is as if the Bible miraculously appeared out heaven and landed in the early Church in leather bound version with all 66 books neatly listed with little or no human involvement in the making and shaping of the biblical canon.\nThe Orthodox affirmation of the historical development of Tradition is based on Christ\u2019s promise that he would send the Holy Spirit who would guide the Church into all truth (John 16:13). The historical development of Tradition is like a tiny young sapling that grows over time into a big mature tree (Matthew 13:31-32). Bigham writes about the growth and development of the role of art in Christian Tradition:\nNevertheless, once adopted, Christian art became such an important support to the proclamation of the Gospel that its conscious rejection had very serious repercussions. With time, the Church invested so much energy in its sacred art that a simple custom became an essential witness to the preaching of the Gospel. Once again, images are not necessary as are baptism, the eucharist, the doctrines of the Trinity or the divinity of Christ, etc. without which we cannot even conceive of Christianity as we know it now. Images became essential, in item and through the blood of the martyrs, because their rejection implied a weakening or even a denial of the Incarnation itself (p. 18).\nBigham here presents Tradition as concentric circles. There is the essential core consisting of the Gospel, the Trinity, and the Eucharist, and an outer layer of practices like the use of incense, holy images, and church buildings. While the outer layer is \u2018less\u2019 important, the organic nature of Orthodox Tradition is such that it is practically impossible to separate the various constituent elements. Over time as the liturgical life of the Church flourished and as the early controversies led to a deeper appreciation of the Incarnation the role of images in Christian worship underwent a profound change.\nIt is important that any Protestant critique of Orthodoxy have an appreciation of Orthodoxy\u2019s complex and nuanced approach to Tradition. Failure to do so will result in the projecting of popular stereotypes on a venerable theological tradition. In short, a Protestant apologist presuming that for Orthodoxy Tradition is static will end up setting up a straw man argument. This is shoddy apologetics and hinders Reformed-Orthodox dialogue.\nIcons and Apostolicity\nBoth those favor icons and those who oppose them argue from apostolic continuity. Those who oppose icons argue that they represent a lost apostolic Tradition, that the early Christians did not use images in worship, and that the introduction of images into Christian worship represent a rupture that require a return to the original apostolic Tradition. Those favoring icons likewise argue from Tradition asserting there was no break in apostolic Tradition, that there exists a fundamental continuity between the early Christians and Orthodox veneration of icons. For theologically conservative Christians, both Protestant and Orthodox, apostolicity is essential to authentic Christianity. This gives them common ground as opposed to modernism. For theological liberals fidelity to apostolic tradition is less crucial than evolutionary adaptation to society. If Reformed theology rests on a flawed historiography then Reformed Christians need to seriously reconsider the implications of icons for apostolicity and authentic Christianity.\nThe work done by Father Steven Bigham in Chapter 1 will make a valuable contribution to Reformed-Orthodox dialogue. The care and attention which he gives to the issues underlying the recent icon controversy will assist both sides. The Reformed-Orthodox dialogue on icons is far from over and has only just begun. This book is recommended for both Reformed and Orthodox Christians.\nBook ReviewChurch HistoryIconsTradition\nDo Your Homework?\nAn Encounter with the Hawaiian Miraculous Icon\nEarly Jewish Attitudes Toward Images\nso if I understand the breakdown you have given into four parts, then the \u2018tracing\u2019 associated with the Greek word \u201cickthys\u201d \u2013 standing for an abbreviated form of Jesus Christ the Son of God \u2013 and with the \u2018common Greek meaning \u2018fish\u2019 (the noun) \u2013 the \u2018tracing\u2019 would be regarded as an \u2018informative symbol\u2019 rather than an image?\nIndicative, I suppose of something like \u2018Christians live here\u2019 rather that an object of worship in and of itself.\nSomething, in other words, with an iconoclast could hardly take exception.\nWell, a reasonable iconoclast, anyway\u2026.\nSo far as I know, the Greek symbol \u201cichthus\u201d has never been a matter of controversy. I suggest you wait for my subsequent reviews of Bigham\u2019s book then you\u2019ll have a better sense of what is meant by image. Or better yet, buy a copy of Bigham\u2019s book, read it for yourself, and then compare your reading against my review of it.\nThanks for posting, I have only been able to get so far when debating Church history specifically regarding Icons, what seems like a logical conclusion, even when I was protestant, has not seemed so logical to those I have been discussing this with. I think acceptance of icons would flip some protestants theology around and I think that is why it is rejected.\nThe argument that we some how worship these images is the worst of them all, since worship is synonymous with bowing or making that image a god.\nOn a different note, below is a neat link to send an icongram to anyone you wish.\nhttp://www.iconograms.org/index.php\nThanks for the link to Iconograms!\nDoes anyone know when the iconoclasm started in the Protestant Church?\nAt the Reformation and, specifically, among Reformed Christians, from Zwingli in Zurich onwards. Cf., for example, Carlos Eire\u2019s *War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship from Erasmus to Calvin* (Cambridge University Press, 1986).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 20312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.rotowire.com/basketball/average-points.php?id=3741", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:37Z", "digest": "sha1:5PKCXSBN5JBOFZSWVTE5GHF3UXLLBZFO", "length": 211, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blogs.rotowire.com", "title": "Average Fantasy Points", "raw_content": "Average Fantasy Points are determined when Karl-Anthony Towns was active vs. non-active during the season.\nNote: Players with no data indicate that Towns was never on the court at the same time as those players.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 3165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.yu.edu/revel/2011/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GPBT2CJCCZDSCPVESBIJVBXLF4MSYPSW", "length": 1711, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "blogs.yu.edu", "title": "August | 2011 | Revel News", "raw_content": "Beyond Expulsion : Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, by Debra Kaplan\nBeyond Expulsion : Jews, Christians, and Reformation Strasbourg, by Debra Kaplan. Stanford University Press, 2011.\nThis book represents a study of the Jewish influence in Strasbourg in the Middle Ages and the early modern era. All Jews were expelled from Strasbourg in 1390, and were only readmitted in 1791. Yet the Jews retained [\u2026]\nOpening the Gates of Interpretation by Mordechai Z. Cohen\nOpening the Gates of Interpretation: Maimonides\u2019 Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andlusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu, by Mordechai Z. Cohen. Brill, 2011.\nProf. Mordechai Cohen\u2019s study of Maimonides\u2019 method of biblical interpretation has at its heart an exacting analysis of each passage in Maimonides\u2019 Book of the Commandments in which the term peshuto [\u2026]\nA Multi-Faith Approach to Scripture\nOn August 31, 2011 \u00b7 In News, Research\nAfter Leading an International Research Team on Jewish, Christian and Muslim Scriptural Interpretation, Dr. Mordechai Cohen Returns to Revel\nDr. Mordechai Cohen, a leading world scholar of Jewish Bible interpretation, has taught at Yeshiva University for more than 23 years. Last year, however, this popular professor went off campus. Specifically, Cohen was in [\u2026]\nA Biblical Translation in the Making, by Richard C. Steiner\nOn August 30, 2011 \u00b7 In Publications\nA Biblical Translation in the Making : the Evolution and Impact of Saadia Gaon\u2019s Tafsir, by Richard C. Steiner. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, 2010.\nR. Saadia Gaon (882-942), one of the greatest Jewish sages of the Middle Ages, composed a translation of the Torah into Arabic, which forms the subject of Prof. [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluegrasstoday.com/bluegrass-nights-at-the-ryman-2013/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:12Z", "digest": "sha1:Y37HX7QSTKG5DWPY3JRIBXYWT6RDNXOB", "length": 6325, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "bluegrasstoday.com", "title": "Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman 2013 - Bluegrass Today", "raw_content": "Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman 2013\nThe line-up for each of the Springer Mountain Farms Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman for 2013 has been announced.\nThe annual summer fair of bluegrass music at Nashville\u2019s famous Ryman Auditorium begins this evening, June 20, and continues weekly on Thursdays through to July 25.\nFirst on the stage where it is claimed that bluegrass music began in December 1945 will be 20-time Grammy award winning singer-songwriter and Country Music Hall of Fame member Vince Gill.\nAlthough Gill has had a long and very rewarding career in mainstream country music, selling more than 26 million albums and earning 18 CMA Awards, including Entertainer of the Year in 1993 and 1994, and more recently with western swing band The Time Jumpers, his links with bluegrass music go back to the time when at his Norman, Oklahoma, high school he played in the bluegrass band Mountain Smoke.\nPlaying with Gill (mandolin) recently in his bluegrass band have been Jeff White (bass) Jim Mills (banjo), Dennis Crouch (bass) and Stuart Duncan (fiddle).\nOn June 27 the entertainment will be provided by Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver. They will be supported by Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice.\nLawson is one of the most awarded bluegrass and gospel artists in the genre. With almost 40 albums to their credit, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver have multiple Grammy, Dove, ICM, IBMA and SPBGMA Award nominations and are seven-time winners of IBMA\u2019s Vocal Group of the Year Award.\nThe current members include Josh Swift (resophonic guitar), Jason Barie (fiddle), Dustin Pyrtle (guitar), Joe Dean (banjo) and Corey Hensley (bass).\nJunior Sisk & Ramblers Choice have received SPBGMA\u2019s Album of the Year Award for the CD The Heart of A Song. Sisk also received the Contemporary Male Vocalist of the Year Honor for 2013. A Far Cry from Lester and Earl was named SPBGMA\u2019s 2013 Song of the Year.\nThe current members of this excellent quintet are Junior Sisk (guitar), Jason Tomlin (bass), Billy Hawks (fiddle) and Jason Davis (banjo).\nOn July 4 the honors are shared by the Gibson Brothers and Balsam Range.\nThe Gibson Brothers took home the 2012 Entertainer of the Year Award at the 23rd annual International Bluegrass Music Awards at Nashville\u2019s Ryman Auditorium. The same night they won the Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year award for Singing As We Rise. Help My Brother, their tenth album, won the prestigious 2011 IBMA Album of the Year Award. Also they were named the 2011 IBMA Vocal Group of the Year, the first time a brother duet has won this award.\nThey are currently accompanied by Mike Barber (bass), Jesse Brock (mandolin), and Clayton Campbell (fiddle).\nBalsam Range is noted for creatively blending bluegrass, Folk, Gospel and Jazz music styles into a new American acoustic music experience.\nThe band is made up of five outstanding musicians and singers who all hail from Haywood County, North Carolina; Caleb Smith (guitar), Marc Pruett (banjo), Buddy Melton (fiddle) Tim Surrett (bass) and Darren Nicholson (mandolin).\nOn July 11, mountain and bluegrass music legend Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys will be the headline act with Jim Lauderdale.\nRalph Stanley has for over six decades he has become one of the most influential artists of all time. Born in 1927 in Big Spraddle Virginia, Stanley was the second child of Lucy Jane and Lee Stanley. In 1946 along with his older brother Carter Stanley they formed the legendary Stanley Brothers duo. The Stanley Brothers and the Clinch Mountain Boys became one of the most popular brother acts in Country Music history.\nStanley is accompanied by his grandson Nathan Stanley (mandolin), his son Ralph Stanley II (guitar), Dewey Brown (fiddle), Jimmy Cameron (bass), James Alan Shelton (guitar) and Mitchell van Dyke (banjo).\nLauderdale is a Grammy Award winning musician and one of the most respected artists working in the bluegrass, Country and Americana music communities today. He is considered one of Nashville\u2019s A list of songwriters with songs recorded by artists such as Patty Loveless, Shelby Lynne, Solomon Burke, The Dixie Chicks and George Strait, who has had numerous hits with Jim Lauderdale songs.\nOn July 18 treading the boards at the Ryman Auditorium will be Dailey & Vincent.\nDailey & Vincent is one of the top Bluegrass bands in America. From the very beginning of their partnership in late 2007, Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent quickly established themselves as fresh voices in their genre. The concoction of their fantastically powerful vocal blends, four award-winning studio albums and heavy touring schedules has earned them well-deserved attention from bluegrass, Country and Gospel music critics and fans alike.\nCurrent members of the band include Jeff Parker (mandolin), Christian Davis (guitar), B.J. Cherryholmes (fiddle) and Jessie Baker (banjo).\nFinally, on July 25 Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will be performing his own brand of well-rooted bluegrass music.\nSkaggs started playing and singing bluegrass music with Keith Whitley opening a show Clinch Mountain Boys and subsequently as a member of that band. He has played with the Country Gentlemen, the New South, Emmylou Harris\u2019s Hot band, his own Boone Creek before enjoying a very successful period as a neo-traditional country music artist. He formed Kentucky Thunder in the late 1990s.\nThe current line-up consists of Skaggs (mandolin) with Andy Leftwich (fiddle), Cody Kilby (lead guitar), Paul Brewster (rhythm guitar), Eddie Faris (guitar), Scott Mulvahill (bass) and Justin Moses (banjo).\nThe inaugural Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman series took place in 1994 at the then newly renovated Ryman Auditorium. The first show featured the father of bluegrass himself, Bill Monroe, and the angelic Alison Krauss. Over the last twenty years, the series has become a Nashville summertime tradition as it regularly presents the biggest names in bluegrass.\nTickets to each individual show, all of which commence at 7:30 p.m., are $27.50 or season passes are available for $147.00.\nAll shows are preceded by 650 AM WSM\u2019s Pickin\u2019 on the Plaza featuring regional bluegrass bands from 6:00 to 6:45 p.m. The free showcases take place just outside the main entrance on the plaza near the statue of Captain Thomas G. Ryman.\nFor more information and tickets visit the Ryman Auditorium website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 9743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 161.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blueventures.org/new-research-community-based-monitoring-helps-protect-one-remaining-hotspots-marine-turtle-nesting-madagascar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ECEUGBC4Z3AGZXQWYHBF2DMUVPLIVN5N", "length": 2353, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blueventures.org", "title": "New research: Community-based monitoring helps to protect one of the remaining hotspots of marine turtle nesting in Madagascar | Blue Ventures \u00bb Blue Ventures", "raw_content": "New research: Community-based monitoring helps to protect one of the remaining hotspots of marine turtle nesting in Madagascar\nHome / Latest News, LMMA / New research: Community-based monitoring helps to protect one of the remaining hotspots of marine turtle nesting in Madagascar\ntagged: community based monitoring, madagascar, research, turtles\nA new study highlights the decrease in marine turtle nesting in Madagascar, and the role that community-based monitoring could play in monitoring and protecting remaining nesting sites.\nMadagascar is an important foraging ground for marine turtles in the Western Indian Ocean, yet the status of the country\u2019s nesting aggregations remains poorly documented. 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That\u2019s 20% of the entire US not knowing how they are going to live after they retire. It\u2019s absolutely shocking to me.\nI\u2019m thankful that I have amazing clients that are waking up to the fact that now, more than any other time in history, there is an amazing window open to those who understand how to leverage their wealth for success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bollyworm.com/features/heres-when-the-trailer-of-salman-khans-bharat-will-release/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:TQ3OC4C2LNQ3YECVWIKSE2W2N5GXZXJX", "length": 2405, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "bollyworm.com", "title": "Here's when the trailer of Salman Khan's Bharat will release! - Bollyworm", "raw_content": "Ever since the teaser of the Salman Khan- starrer Bharat has released, fans are eagerly awaiting for the trailer of the film. Now, as per the sources close to the film, the trailer will be out in April, probably in the second half of the month.\nThe Ali Abbas Zafar directorial will see Katrina Kaif opposite Salman Khan. Apart from them, Tabu and Disha Patani will also be seen in pivotal roles. The movie is set for an Eid release. The promotions of the film will start the following month, in May, before the film releases in theatres in the first week of June.\nAnd here are the 5 reasons why we think it will be a BLOCKBUSTER:-\nThis is the first time when we\u2019ll see Bhai in multiple avatars. From coal miner to a navy officer to a stuntman, the actor dabbles with various facets and it shall be a treat for his fans. He also gets an opportunity to showcase his larger-than-life persona and unmatched celluloid heroism with effortless ease, which fans have been missing for quite some time.\n2. The Patriotic Flavor\nGive your audiences a flavour of patriotism and see the magic that follows at the box-office. The people on the Internet may disregard such films as propagandas and jingoistic, but the people in the heartland and the real audience embrace them with open arms. Bharat could be that one film too!\n3. The Salman-Katrina Jodi\nBarring Hello and Yuvvraaj, Khan and Kaif have always soared on the silver-screen. The fact that they are the former couple of B\u2019 Town further compliments their celluloid charm and blazing popularity. Let\u2019s see what kind of chemistry we get to see this time around.\n4. EID\nBhai\u2019s last two releases haven\u2019t turned out to be fruitful. Tubelight and Race 3, both were heavily panned for their storylines and the star\u2019s performances. However, a majority of his releases on the festive season have been gargantuan money-spinners. The teaser has already sent the fans in a state of hysteria and we can be assured that Khan won\u2019t disappoint his fan-base this time around.\n5. Ali Abbas Zafar\nThe man who made Sultan and Tiger Zinda Hai, Zafar knows how to extract a performance out of his leading man, simultaneously taking care of his thunderous stardom and power. And since Khan has proven his mettle as an actor with the aforementioned sports drama and with films like Bajrangi Bhaijaan and Dabangg, we can\u2019t wait to see what he does and how he does in this period drama.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 8104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bookdeviant.wordpress.com/2018/03/14/review-152-giovannis-room-james-baldwin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:25Z", "digest": "sha1:DAGKFATHB63Y4UYANTAQP2HCWS774SH5", "length": 3653, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "bookdeviant.wordpress.com", "title": "Review #152 // Giovanni\u2019s Room \u2013 James Baldwin \u2013 Book Deviant", "raw_content": "Review #152 // Giovanni\u2019s Room \u2013 James Baldwin\nDavid, after moving to Paris and falling in love with an American woman, finds himself struggling with his sexuality when he finds himself attracted to the bartender, Giovanni.\nWhy this book?: Queer lit class at my local college. So far, the novels that have been chosen for this class weren\u2019t the best. Here\u2019s hoping that this one is better!\nI wasn\u2019t expecting much when I went in, and I have to say that I wasn\u2019t disappointed. But I also wasn\u2019t impressed either.\nOne of my closest friends loves James Baldwin, because of his life and his history (I think she\u2019s going to study African American History when she hits the road to college!) but I was really unhappy when I had to go back to her and tell her that the one book by someone she loved that I read wasn\u2019t all that good.\nDavid, the protagonist, was one of the most insufferable narrators I know, and I\u2019ve run into more than a few. He was self-obsessed, and didn\u2019t care about others or how they felt. He only cared about his actions and what other people\u2019s actions can do to his life. When it came to his love-life, he was also a huge pile of shit. He was knowingly in a relationship with this girl who had gone off to Spain, and what does he do? Hit it off with Giovanni, and get into another serious relationship. David was literally planning to marry this girl, and he goes and cheats on her?\nAnd don\u2019t even get me started on Giovanni. He wasn\u2019t self-obsessed like David was, no. He was obsessed with David and the fact that this seemingly okay person was in love with this trashbin of a person was infuriating. Giovanni also spouted extremely toxic behavior, such as threatening to kill himself when David voices the possibility of him leaving for the girl when she gets back.\nI will be honest and say that while I hated every single one of the characters, I was still interested in the story. I wanted to know what would happen, what next self-obsessed thing David would do. But despite being interesting, it was also boring. Nothing happened until the very end, but I don\u2019t want to spoil what will happen, so I\u2019ll keep quite.\nBaldwin\u2019s writing was very lyrical and poetic, but it made the story almost impossible to read. I was constantly dozing off while reading, and I almost didn\u2019t finish this one despite needing it for a class.\nLoved the writing, and where the story seemed to be going, but practically hated everything else. I hated how toxic every single character was, especially Giovanni and David. I also wasn\u2019t such a big fan of how David\u2019s girlfriend was constantly spouting about wanting to be a wife and to be \u201ca women\u201d because apparently she wasn\u2019t a woman if she was independent from a man?\nMaybe if you\u2019re looking for historical LGBTQIAP+ novels, because it is interesting to see how the community has changed. But, jeez, was this toxic.\nGenre: Classics/Romance\ngiovanni's room, james baldwin, two star\nHey Pubs! Listen to Your Readers\n3 thoughts on \u201cReview #152 // Giovanni\u2019s Room \u2013 James Baldwin\u201d\nI recently read this for a class as well. While I didn\u2019t really enjoy it during the process of reading the novel, learning more about Baldwin and the context of when the novel was written made me appreciate it more as a text. Not sure it would be something I\u2019d reread in the future, though\u2026 anyways, great review! \ud83d\ude42\nI don\u2019t know much about Baldwin, unfortunately, but I guess I\u2019m just not that interested. Thank you!\n[\u2026] title of most transphobic novel I\u2019ve ever read. That was a ride. After that, I had to read Giovanni\u2019s Room and Rubyfruit Jungle for a class, and those were both okay, but neither books I would have read [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 217.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://born2invest.com/articles/ai-impact-auto-industry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DHBCAC7UIMTZMN465AOPY4YGIW6QHLP7", "length": 3825, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "born2invest.com", "title": "AI to impact auto industry beyond driverless cars", "raw_content": "AI to impact auto industry beyond driverless cars\nThe impact of Artificial Intelligence in the automotive industry goes beyond having driverless cars on roads.\nArtificial intelligence (AI) is set to take over, and it will be the catalyst in revolutionizing different industries. One sector that could benefit from it is the automotive industry. However, the changes go beyond producing driverless cars. Here are some ways how AI can impact the auto industry.\nAccording to The Motley Fool, companies such as Alphabet and NVIDIA are making strides when it comes to AI in driving. NVIDIA has brought Drive PX Pegasus, its AI supercomputer meant to introduce semiautonomous driving to cars, while Alphabet\u2019s Waymo has improved road maneuvering after undergoing countless simulations. Alphabet announced it will unveil its driverless ride-hailing service during the latter part of 2018.\nAside from autonomous driving, AI can also vastly improve car production. Maintenance expenses will effectively go down because sensors and algorithms can monitor equipment and parts. AI can also do a better job of detecting defects compared to manual inspection, which can reduce inspection costs and the cost of maintenance, as a result, even further.\nOn the other hand, businesses will also feel the effects of the changes brought by AI. McKinsey & Company wrote that original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are expected to be heavily affected, but those dealing with technology can gain an advantage in this setup, which is one of the reasons why critics fear the takeover of AI in the near future. Jobs handled by humans before will become obsolete or redundant because robots can make them faster, cheaper, more accurate and more convenient.\nIn a connected society, drivers could locate gas stations, nearby restaurants or grocery stores via a cloud-based AI platform. When it comes to repairs, a car can automatically update or send information to dealers about the problem without requiring a shop visit. The safety of the driver and passengers is also prioritized with the help of sensors, which can detect if a person is having medical emergencies.\nThe automotive industry is expected to undergo major changes once AI takes over. (Source)\nAccording to Forbes, the insurance companies will also like gain from cars with AI technology. Risks and damages can be assessed, and driver behavior and tendencies can be monitored to avert accidents on the road.\nAnupam Malhotra from Audi America said that the society will change and adapt to the emerging trends, Automotive News reported. \u201cThe whole idea of transportation as something that you \u2018own,\u2019 or hold onto, and only use when you need it \u2014 as opposed to something that you have access to when you need it \u2014 that is going to have to change,\u201d he added.\nTech and auto companies will encounter pitfalls along the way and must learn from them in order to move forward and improve.\nRecently, a driverless Uber car hit a woman in Arizona, killing her. As what The Guardian reported, the car was supposed to detect the victim or pedestrians, but it failed during that tragic moment. Investigations are ongoing to find out what went wrong.\nIn cases such as this, the aforementioned companies must first show they can guarantee the safety of pedestrians and drivers before releasing driverless cars. Until they are successful, expect autonomous vehicles to be launched at a later date.\nAI taking over is almost inevitable at the moment. This is the next step in technological advancement and in the race to improve human lives. Truth be told, the possibilities are indeed limitless, and they should mean more good than harm.\n(Featured image by Grendelkhan via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0)\nRelated Topics:AIartificial intelligenceauto industrycloud computingdriverless carsfeaturedUberWaymo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 7438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/composer/derek-bermel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:05Z", "digest": "sha1:4QFNULLHMDWBLLE2JR3ZD6XOW22KOEYQ", "length": 6617, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "britishmusiccollection.org.uk", "title": "Derek Bermel | British Music Collection", "raw_content": "Grammy-nominated composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel has been widely hailed for his creativity, theatricality, and virtuosity. An \"eclectic with wide open ears\" (Toronto Star), Bermel is acclaimed for music that is \u201cintricate, witty, clear-spoken, tender, and extraordinarily beautiful [and] covers an amazing amount of ground, from the West African rhythms of Dust Dances to the Bulgarian folk strains of Thracian Echoes, to the shimmering harmonic splendor of Elixir. In the hands of a composer less assured, all that globe-trotting would seem like affectation; Bermel makes it an artistic imperative.\" (San Francisco Chronicle).\nBermel\u2019s studies of ethnomusicology and orchestration with Andre Hajdu in Jerusalem heralded his immersion in music of the world -- traveling to Bulgaria to study the Thracian folk style; to Dublin, to study uillean pipes; to Ghana, to study the Lobi xylophone; and to Brazil, to learn caxixi \u2013 while adding the study of Dutch, Portuguese, French and Italian along the way. Inevitably, Bermel\u2019s engagement with other musical cultures has become part of the fabric and force of his compositional language, in which the human voice and its myriad inflections play a leading role. Bermel\u2019s commissioners have included the Pittsburgh, National, Boston, Saint Louis, New Jersey, and Pacific Symphonies; Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, WNYC Radio, and eighth blackbird; the Guarneri and JACK String Quartets, Music from China, Copland House; violinist Midori, New Century and River Oaks Chamber Orchestras, electric guitarist Wiek Hijmans, Schoenberg Ensemble/Veenfabriek (Netherlands), Jazz Xchange (U.K.), La Jolla Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, and Figura (Denmark).\nBermel's clarinet playing has been hailed by The New York Times as \"brilliant,\" \"rhythmically fluid, rich-hued\" and \"first rate.\" The Boston Globe wrote, \"There doesn't seem to be anything that Bermel can't do with the clarinet.\" As a performer he has worked with a diverse array of musicians including Paquito D'Rivera, Luciana Souza, Tan Dun and John Adams. In recent seasons he performed as soloist alongside Wynton Marsalis in his own Migration Series, commissioned by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and American Composers Orchestra (ACO). ACO had earlier commissioned Bermel's clarinet concerto Voices which premiered in Carnegie Hall, with the composer as soloist. Bermel has since performed that critically acclaimed work with more than a dozen festivals. His performance of Voices with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project led to a Grammy nominated recording (2010) for Best Soloist with Orchestra. He has also appeared with the Lexington (KY) and Westchester (NY) Philharmonics, Greensboro (NC) Symphony, and many others, in concerto repertoire ranging widely from Mozart and Copland to Bolcom and Adams. Founding Clarinetist of the acclaimed Music from Copland House ensemble, Bermel's chamber music appearances also include performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Borromeo, Pacifica, and JACK string quartets; Festivals including Moab, Fontana, Cape Cod, and Salt Bay; the Cliburn Series at the Modern, Carmel and Albuquerque Chamber Music Series, Garth Newel Center, Seattle Town Hall, and Louisville Chamber Music Society.\nBermel has brought his \u201cstaggering eclecticism\u201d (Gramophone Magazine) to an array of collaborations, residencies, and groundbreaking educational roles. His passion for collaboration has led to several film scores, and his work with artists such as playwright Will Eno, installation artist Shimon Attie, choreographer Sheron Wray, poets Wendy S. Walters, Nicole Krauss, Mark Halliday, and Naomi Shihab. His recent collaboration with hip hop legend Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) for the Brooklyn Philharmonic received raves.\nArtistic Director of the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Bermel is also Director of Copland House's emerging composers institute Cultivate, served as Composer-in-Residence at the Mannes College of Music, and enjoyed a four-year tenure as artist-in-residence at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton. Bermel has become recognized as a dynamic and unconventional curator of concert series that offer a new take on a venerated tradition: the composer as performer. In addition to programming the Edward T. Cone series at the IAS and the 2013 Gamper Music Festival in Bowdoin, Maine, he helped found and shape the ACO\u2019s Jazz Composers Orchestral Institute, and co-curated the ten-day 2011 SONiC Festival in New York, featuring music by over 120 young composers at venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to Joe's Pub.\nAn innovative educator, Bermel was the Founding Director of the New York Youth Symphony\u2019s Making Score program, an intensive composition seminar exploring composition and orchestration. In addition to his work as Institute Director of CULTIVATE, he also mentors young composers in the ACO\u2019s Underwood Readings, Playing it UNsafe and CoLABoratory programs. He has led master classes and held residencies at Yale University, University of Michigan, Longy School of Music, Peabody Institute, Faculdade de Santa Marcelina, Beijing Central, Shanghai, and New England Conservatories, Columbia University, Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, Rhode Island School of Design, Rotterdam Conservatorium, University of Cardiff, USC, Curtis School of Music, University of Chicago, Universita Federal da Bahia, UCLA, Adolf Fredriks Musikklasse, Northwestern University, Aspen School of Music, Bowdoin Festival of Music, Cal Arts, Tanglewood Music Center, and many more.\nBermel's discography features an all-Bermel orchestra recording (BMOP/sound) which includes his clarinet concerto Voices; Soul Garden, a disc of his small ensemble/solo music (New World); and his most recent critically acclaimed disc, Canzonas Americanas, with Alarm Will Sound (Cantaloupe).\nAmong Bermel\u2019s many awards are the Alpert Award in the Arts, Rome Prize, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, the Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; commissions from the Koussevitzky and Fromm Foundations; and residencies at Yaddo, Tanglewood, Aspen, Banff, Bellagio, Copland House, Sacatar, and Civitella Ranieri. Bermel holds B.A. and D.M.A. degrees from Yale University and the University of Michigan. Notable among his composition teachers are William Albright, Louis Andriessen, William Bolcom, Henri Dutilleux, Andr\u00e9 Hajdu, and Michael Tenzer. His music is published by Peermusic Classical.\nhttp://www.derekbermel.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 6978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 195.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://budgeting.thenest.com/calculate-call-premium-29386.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BZ5O23Q7LOFJOYROEIAH6I25N4OXWTCJ", "length": 3353, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "budgeting.thenest.com", "title": "How to Calculate Call Premium - Budgeting Money", "raw_content": "The world of stocks and bonds can be full of jargon that makes it hard for inexperienced investors to understand what's going on. Although the terms can be confusing, breaking them down can help even investors with little experience understand their rights and responsibilities as investors.\nMany investors are attracted to bonds, which offer a certain amount of interest over a set period of time. Generally, bonds are considered a very safe investment, and investors know exactly how long they'll be receiving payments. This makes bonds a popular investment option, particularly for beginners.\nHowever, most bonds include a provision that the issuing entity, like a government or company, has the option to call the bond early. That means that if interest rates drop, the issuing entity can call the bond (which means pay it off) and reissue debt at a lower interest rate in order to save money. Although this is beneficial for the issuing entity, it deprives the investors of future earnings. To make up for this loss, a call premium is paid.\nWhat is a Call Premium?\nA call premium is essentially the cost of paying a bond off early. It is an amount in addition to the face value of the bond that is paid if the bond is called before its maturity date. If a bond is called early, the issuing entity must pay a call premium to the investors who have underwritten the bond. This is because investors are losing out on the interest that they would have been paid if they had held the bond for the entire time for which it was originally issued. In general, the call premium is highest in the early years of a bond because investors will lose out on more interest if it's paid early, and it decreases with time. When a bond is mature, the call premium is zero.\nHow is Call Premium Calculated?\nCall premium is calculated using the face value of the bond (also known as the par value), the amount of time left until maturity of the bond, the underlying volatility of the market, the risk-free interest rate and the strike price, which is the price at which the bond can be called per the terms of the agreement. Other factors can also contribute to the bond call premium. An online calculator is useful for determining the call premium.\nConsider this call premium example. You hold 100 shares of Stock X, and each has a call option of $6.50 when they are called. You would be paid $650 over the face value of the stock because the investment you've made is essentially being repaid early.\nInvestopedia: Call Premium\nInvestingAnswers: Call Premium\nMarketcalls: Option Premium Calculator\nU.S. Securities and Exchange Commission: Company Search\nKelly Burch is a freelance journalist living in New Hampshire. Her writing on educational issues has appeared on Bright, The Washington Post, We Are Teachers and School Leaders Now.\nHow Do Convertible Bonds Affect a Balance Sheet?\nHow Dividends on Preferred Stock Affect the Computation of EPS\nHow to Calculate Diluted Shares from Options\nDoes Preferred Stock Appreciate in Value?\nWhy Is a Call Option Called a Call?\nHow to Report the Sale of Stock Call Options\nHard Call vs. Soft Call Protection\nHow to Find the Value of Common Stock in Accounting\nTaxation of Covered Calls\nWhat Are Callable Preferred Stocks?\nHow to Determine Strike Price for a Covered Call\nHow to Determine the Break-Even Point of a Call Option", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://budgetmethod.com/alabama-homeowners-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3QBP4UPPH7PGQYKZKAPE7YYIQHUCMVKQ", "length": 4124, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "budgetmethod.com", "title": "Alabama Homeowners Insurance: What You Need To Know In 2017 \u2013 Budget Method", "raw_content": "The expenses associated with a home in Alabama doesn\u2019t end with just purchasing it. You need to allot budget for several other expenditures. Aside from your monthly, quarterly, or yearly mortgage payments, your lender may also require you to purchase home insurance.\nWith an Alabama homeowners insurance policy, you can have peace of mind, as it provides protection for your home, which is most likely one of the biggest and most expensive investments one makes.\nAverage premiums for homeowners and renters insurance in Alabama\nIn a February 2016 National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) study, it revealed that the median nationwide homeowners insurance premium amounted to $1,096 in 2013.\nmaking Alabama 8th state with the highest insurance premiums\ngiving the state the 4th place in the same ranking\nIn another study by finance specialist ValuePenguin, it showed that the monthly homeowners insurance in AL totals to $99.83.\nCompared with the national average, this yearly premium average in the state is a little more than 1.20% higher.\nA typical insurance policy comes with four different major categories. These pertain to what the policy covers and the corresponding maximum amount the insurance company will pay in the event you suffer a loss. Structural losses fall under Coverage A, other structural losses (such as outbuildings, garages, etc.) fall under Coverage B, content losses under Coverage C, and additional living expenses or loss of use under Coverage D. In short, there\u2019s Coverage A (Structure), B (Other structures, garages, outbuildings), C (Contents) and D (Loss of Use/Additional Living Expenses).\nKey Facts and Market Trends in Alabama: Another NAIC survey assessed the major figures and market trends in the State of Alabama. As of 2015, the number of domestic insurance companies has reached 38, while the count for both domestic and licensed foreign insurers totaled to 1,416.\nInsurance company settlements\nOne of the most common home insurance-related questions asked by a lot of Alabama residents has something to do with the length of time before their insurer settles with them, according to the United Policyholders.\nSettlements typically take one to two months but it may get delayed when a discrepancy in the application is found and further investigation is needed.\nIn AL, insurance companies base this on a variety of factors, including the amount of property damage, the reason for the loss, and if the total loss is eligible for immediate reimbursement, as per the Alabama Valued Policy law. Delays usually happen when there are disputes regarding the loss\u2019 causes and origin. On the other hand, when the damage isn\u2019t as severe and complicated, you can expect to receive the settlement sooner.\nIn many cases, it doesn\u2019t take more than one to two months. In the event that you really need the settlement as soon as possible, you can make a request (in writing) to your insurer asking them to make the payment to your mortgage company as soon as possible. You may choose to do this to avoid more interest payments associated with your home loan.\nAlabama state rules on cash value, replacement cost and depreciation\nIn the state of AL, the Actual Cash Value (ACV) is usually defined as the Replacement Cost less Depreciation for the property\u2019s age and condition during the time the loss occurred. This may slightly vary depending on the how explicitly your policy define ACV.\nReplacement cost pertains to the cost associated with replacing items with a new one of the exact same nature or one of similar type and quality. Depreciation, on the other hand, involves the deduction from the cost of the new item (Replacement Cost) to make way for its current condition and age. After deducting these factors, one can determine the item\u2019s Actual Cash Value.\nHomeowners insurance plays a major role in ensuring you can continue protecting your home from many different dangers and threats, so make sure you keep yours updated and in compliance with the state\u2019s laws.\nhttp://www.naic.org/state_report_cards/report_card_al.pdf\nhttp://www.uphelp.org/resources/state-by-state/alabama", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://burlingtonslegal.com/our-team/humbert-mozzi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:36Z", "digest": "sha1:5GGH4YLYQW7OSUOOLNARV7FE55RDTYZD", "length": 394, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "burlingtonslegal.com", "title": "Humbert Mozzi | Burlingtons Legal", "raw_content": "Humbert qualified as a solicitor in 2002 after receiving an LLM from University College London. Prior to joining Burlingtons as a Consultant in 2013, Humbert was a partner in a major London law firm.\nHumbert specialises in commercial property, residential conveyancing and planning law.\nHe is also a Member of the Management Committee of The Casino Maltese.\nHe speaks fluent French and Maltese.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 130.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://business.nycgo.com/listing/doubletree-by-hilton-new-york-city%E2%80%94times-square-west/55471/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BKQOKD2V5NYU7K5OG7ZMJNUC4WTHMGJQ", "length": 477, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "business.nycgo.com", "title": "DoubleTree by Hilton New York City\u2014Times Square West", "raw_content": "DoubleTree by Hilton New York City\u2014Times Square West\nEsther Barbosa\nEsther.Barbosa2@Hilton.com\nLocated in the heart of Manhattan, the new DoubleTree by Hilton New York City\u2014Times Square West offers 612 guest rooms just a few blocks away from Times Square, the Javits Center, Madison Square Garden and the theaters of Broadway. This pet-friendly hotel offers a concierge, onsite restaurant and rooftop lounge, as well as, a complimentary business center and onsite fitness room.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 453, "original_length": 8249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://business.nycgo.com/travel-trade/explore-nyc/nyc-highlights/news-articles/post/what-to-see-beyond-manhattan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:19Z", "digest": "sha1:EV2AWVUBHQGDPEI2HHRUY6IIQPK75KI2", "length": 4845, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "business.nycgo.com", "title": "What to See Beyond Manhattan", "raw_content": "What to See Beyond Manhattan\nPhoto: Photo: Julienne Schaer\nHelp your clients venture beyond the island of Manhattan with some of these can\u2019t-miss experiences in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.\nNew York Botanical Garden. Photo by Tagger Yancey IV.\nIn the Bronx, visitors can wander through more than 50 different gardens and plant collections at the 250-acre (1-million-square-meter) New York Botanical Garden. Another New York City treasure not to be missed is the Bronx Zoo, which at 265 acres (more than 1 million square meters) is one of the largest in the world. The zoo has re-created African plains, Himalayan highlands and an Asian jungle, among other environments, so that the majority of its more than 7,000 animals can wander freely in naturalistic habitats. After your clients have worked up an appetite, they can head to the Bronx\u2019s Arthur Avenue, lined with shops and stalls selling delicious Italian fare like cannoli and hand-pulled mozzarella. The borough is also home to Yankee Stadium\u2014headquarters of baseball\u2019s New York Yankees\u2014a must-see for any sports fan.\nGrimaldi's in Dumbo. Photo by Joe Buglewicz.\nThe Brooklyn Bridge, which became the world\u2019s first steel-wire suspension bridge when it was completed in 1883, is a beloved symbol of New York City. Crossing the bridge on foot\u2014it\u2019s just over a mile long (about 1.825 kilometers)\u2014is an easy, pleasurable way for your clients to travel between Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.\nAt the foot of the bridge is 85-acre (343,983 square meters) Brooklyn Bridge Park, which affords visitors gorgeous views of the Manhattan skyline and is a popular spot for runners and picnickers. Travelers with children won\u2019t want to miss Jane\u2019s Carousel, a carefully restored merry-go-round with 48 carved wooden horses located at the north end of the park facing the water.\nThe Brooklyn Historical Society, a National Historic Landmark, is housed in a stately Romanesque Revival building on Pierrepont Steet that dates back to 1881. (There's also a new branch in Brooklyn's hip Dumbo neighborhood.) The museum, library and education center is dedicated to preserving the historical and cultural fabric of Brooklyn. Exhibitions celebrate the lives of notable Brooklynites and highlight historical artifacts and documents from the borough\u2019s more than three-hundred-year history, and the Brooklyn Historical Society hosts education programs and public events year-round.\nAfterward your clients can sample Brooklyn-style pizza on their own at beloved institutions like Grimaldi\u2019s in Dumbo or Roberta\u2019s in Bushwick. They can also join A Slice of Brooklyn Bus Tours, a four-and-a-half-hour-long journey through the borough with stops at a couple of pizzerias and even a few locations from famous films. (Tours leave from Union Square in Manhattan.)\nMuseum of the Moving Image. Photo by Julienne Schaer.\nLong Island City, Queens, is known for its thriving contemporary arts scene. Your clients can browse one of the neighborhood\u2019s many small galleries or head to one of its cultural institutions. The Noguchi Museum is a two-story renovated commercial space that boasts the world\u2019s most extensive collection of pieces by the internationally renowned Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi. And MoMA PS1, an affiliate of Manhattan\u2019s Museum of Modern Art, showcases the work of up-and-coming artists from around the world. The Museum of the Moving Image, a few subway stops away, has an interactive exhibit on the history of film as well as more than 130,000 artifacts in its permanent collection.\nJackson Heights, one of Queens\u2019 most diverse and vibrant neighborhoods, is the place to go to sample cuisines from around the world. Clients can dine at one of the hundreds of Indian, Latin American, Nepalese and Tibetan restaurants, then browse the likes of Butala Emporium, a South Asian market, and India Sari Palace, where they can purchase gorgeous tailored garments.\nOther borough highlights include Citi Field, where baseball\u2019s New York Mets play, and Flushing Meadows Corona Park, a sprawling greenspace that contains a variety of museums and attractions, including the New York Hall of Science.\nStaten Island Yankees. Photo by Julienne Schaer.\nSt. George, Staten Island, where the Staten Island Ferry docks, is home to the Staten Island Yankees, a minor-league baseball team that plays during the summer months, as well as the National Lighthouse Museum, where visitors can see more than 160 miniature lighthouse models. Pier 76, a short walk from the St. George Ferry Terminal, is the perfect place to grab some pizza. Visitors with more adventurous palates will enjoy nearby Little Sri Lanka, a neighborhood that\u2019s home to restaurants serving the South Asian island nation\u2019s specialties, like roti breads and pol sambol, a dish made from coconut and served with rice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 551, "original_length": 13184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 183.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://buss.com.au/sage-hotel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:59Z", "digest": "sha1:KMR3YFI6VFRV6FCT7324T5SGGQONK3XE", "length": 1884, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "buss.com.au", "title": "Sage Hotel \u2013 New Build Construction Project Perth | BUSS Group", "raw_content": "PROJECT \u2013 Sage Hotel\nJoint Sealing, Concrete Repair & Patching and Swing Stage Operation\nCooper and Oxley\nLocated in the heart of West Perth is the Sage Hotel. Along with its modern conveniences, it remains a fundamental part of the heritage listed Walsh Family Residence from 1902. The Sage Hotel has been described as a bit of both old and new, wrapped up in a well serviced and comfortable setting. This project involved the new construction and the extension of the already existing building into the hotels\u2019 popular restaurant Julio\u2019s.\nThe unique aspect of the project was the widespread use of the swing stage. A swing stage consists of a two-point adjustable suspension scaffold, which was used instead of regular scaffolding systems and boom operators. The swing stage use can create a complex work environment due to its constant movement while in operation, which is intensified by the exposure to the elements, forcing the applicator to exercise extreme caution and skill.\nThe project involved numerous panel joint sealing, with each requiring fire rated sealants. All internal joint sealing was completed prior to the external operations. All external window sealing, concrete repair and concrete patching were again completed through the use of the swing stage. This project required a large fraction of the work to be conducted after hours and on the weekend spanning a total of 6 months. The West Perth location established strong limitations with respect to noise levels and confining traffic conditions.\nDuring the construction, there was a collection of different trades in simultaneous operations forcing impromptu problem solving and intense flexibility. Trades included but were not limited to; plasters, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers.\nExtensive use of a Swing Stage\nAfter Hours and Weekend Work\nSignificant West Australian Heritage Listed Site from 1902", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://buymedicalsupply.my-free.website/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMMKK3WICK27H5FF43KG7LFXKUOF6IAA", "length": 2385, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "buymedicalsupply.my-free.website", "title": "Medical Supply Reviews", "raw_content": "Medical Incontinence Supplies\nWhen it comes to the medical field there are many things that are needed and bought. This is very true especially in hospitals. This is because there are many things that are used there. There are many things used for the patients. Now even in just clinics there are medical supplies that are needed.\nThere are also many medical supplies that are needed in the pharmacy. This is the reason why the stocks here must be replenished regularly so that the persons who might need it will always have something to buy from them.\nNow one such need of persons are medical incontinence supplies. This refers to the senior diapers. Yes you read that right. There are many seniors that wear diapers. This can be used in hospitals where senior citizens are confined. But you would find this most often used in homes for the aged where there are many senior citizens. They need these adult briefs because they are already suffering from urinary incontinence.\nNow there may be different reasons for the urinary incontinence. Do you know what this condition is? Well this is the condition where the senior citizen cannot control their bladder anymore. This results to them peeing in their underwear without their consent. In short they cannot hold their pee anymore. They can be likened to babies. That is why they have a need to wear diapers.\nNow if you are operating a home health care the best thing that you can do is buy these diapers wholesale. If you buy them directly from the pharmacy then they would cost more. Buying them wholesale would save you a lot of money in the long run. That is one thing that you can look into in order to save a lot of money for your home health care. To learn more about medical supplies, visit http://www.britannica.com/topic/medicine.\nSo where do you find suppliers of wholesale diapers? Well you can easily search online for this. You can find there contact information on whole dealers of diapers for adults wholesale. Maybe you can even find websites of suppliers there. They know that most people are looking to the internet for information. You may even compare different suppliers and their rates. You may choose to try one supplier first to check their brand. You can see if their brand satisfies the seniors in your home health care. If they do then you can keep on buying that brand and saving money by buying wholesale.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 2493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://byrdmouse.com/the-danegeld/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:GUDBKJAK2KWLAOW7SC4RKTRNA7ANHJBZ", "length": 2253, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "byrdmouse.com", "title": "3.3 The Danegeld \u2014 Outside the Comfort Bubble", "raw_content": "Sitting up, he glanced by the bed. No nightstand, no lamp, no toothbrush. He floated up from the bed and pushed himself to the next room over. The wall-sized viewscreen showed the scene outside the Danegeld, as if it were a giant windshield. A small planet could be seen in the lower left hand quadrant of the screen. He reached for the control panel and rotated the controls back. A time-lapse set of pictures from the viewscreen showed Allman the progress of the Danegeld over the last several hours while he slept. The planet wobbled closer and then further away. Never quite leaving the field of view, yet coming dangerously close. A week before Allman had awakened to find a darkened ship that had clearly gone off course. Instinctively he knew that his mission was to reach a planet, and yet none were in sight. The navigational system roared back into life and the world appeared near the middle of the left side of the viewscreen. Allman suspected that he had no control over the ship, but the controls that would appear gave him the illusion of control. Where Allman thought he was headed was where the ship wanted to go. His interactions with the control panel only reinforced his uselessness in the matter. The Danegeld had its own mission, it would not, could not, bend to the will of the Dane. He was merely along for the ride, wherever that might take him.\nToday that was a small planet, circling the first star mankind had ever found with evidence of another planet. The information he would return to earth would justify his lonely solitude, eventually there would be interstellar travel and people would remember his name for all eternity, but first, he must get the ship to the right part of the globe.\nSatisfied he had done all he could he turned his attention to the search for his toothbrush.\nWhat is the trouble with travel? Is it the beginning, the middle, or the end? We all strive for the best, the best life we can get. The best after-life we can get. To be happy, or content, to have it easy, to make it good, to be comfortable wherever we are.\nEarnestly all men have a chance. Any man can have an opportunity. Faith can sometimes be misdirected, but by Grace alone, through Faith alone, in Christ the Adonai alone it is done.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCABRE82L0D220120322", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:12Z", "digest": "sha1:PTUOPRO2GCIZHN32HL3OOXPZAK7J7MY2", "length": 4009, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Titanic tragedy still fascinates 100 years later | Reuters", "raw_content": "Titanic tragedy still fascinates 100 years later\nNick Olivari\nNEW YORK (Reuters) - Shipwrecks and maritime disasters have always captivated the public imagination and none more so than the luxury liner RMS Titanic, which sank on her maiden voyage one hundred years ago this year.\nAn actor from the Theater Titanick performs the German company's play \"Titanic\" in front of the La Moneda government palace in Santiago January 21, 2012. REUTERS/Victor Ruiz Caballero\nWith the loss of 1,517 lives on April 15, 1912, three hours after the ship struck an ice berg, the real life tales of love and heroism spawned a legend and fascination which shows no sign of abating.\n\u201cTITANIC: The Tragedy That Shook the World,\u201d by the editors of LIFE at Time Home Entertainment Inc, includes photos and stories of the ship and many of those characters that have kept the public enthralled since the sinking.\n\u201cSome of the richest people in the world board in France, some of the poorest people in the world board in Ireland, and a mix survive,\u201d said Robert Sullivan, managing editor of LIFE Books in New York City. \u201cIt turns out to be an extraordinary variety of stories.\u201d\nThe book begins with the construction of the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic as one of three sister ships built by the White Star line to usher in a new era of opulent sea travel.\nIt offered the finest accommodations to first-class passengers such as New York notables John Jacob Astor IV, his pregnant wife Madeleine, and Benjamin Guggenheim on its first sailing from Southampton, England to New York, via Cherbourg, France and Queenstown, Ireland.\nThey were joined by lesser lights such as Margaret, now popularly referred to as \u201cMolly\u201d, Brown. Born in Missouri to Irish immigrants, Brown\u2019s husband, from whom she had separated by the time of the voyage, had made a fortune in mining.\nOther people traveled in less luxurious quarters, including Clear Annie Cameron, a 35-year old personal maid in London seeking her opportunity in America.\nFor many, the separation of class and wealth ended when the Titanic sank beneath the waves. There are no photographs of the Titanic\u2019s final moments.\nBut included in the book are remarkable images taken by an Irish Cleric Father Frank Browne who boarded the boat in Southampton, traveled to Cherbourg and then disembarked in Queenstown, the ship\u2019s final departure point before it headed across the Atlantic.\nThey offer perhaps the only public glimpse into ship board life aboard the Titanic.\nThe book also details the ill-fated and random rendezvous with the ice berg, the attempts to get help using then state-of-the-art radio, and ultimately the horror as hundreds of passengers realized there were too few lifeboats and in allowing women and children first, many men would die.\nAmong them Isidor Straus, co-owner of Macy\u2019s department store. Alongside him his wife of 40-years, Ida, who decided they should die together.\n\u201cWhat do you do in the moment of truth?,\u201d said LIFE\u2019S Sullivan. \u201cThese stories, you can\u2019t make them up.\u201d\nHundreds of passengers in the few available lifeboats were rescued by the Carpathia, captained by Arthur Henry Rostron, only hours after the sinking. But too many died in the icy Atlantic.\nThe book concludes with photographs from various expeditions taken after the wreck was discovered after 73 years in 12,460 feet of water.\n\u201cIts durability is to do with how true much of it is.\u201d said Sullivan. \u201cIt will be remembered not for 100 years but for 200 years.\u201d\nAnd of those souls who set sail on the Titanic\u2019s only voyage.\n100 years after Titanic disaster\nNew York society lost Astor and Guggenheim, the latter according to lore accepting his fate in high style in wearing his finest dinner wear as he smoked a cigar and drank cognac.\nThe rags-to-riches \u201cMolly\u201d Brown gained further fame for taking an oar of her life boat.\nAnd Clear Annie Cameron? The London maid arrived in New York where she did indeed find new opportunity, as a maid.\nReporting By Nick Olivari; editing by Patricia Reaney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCABRE90S05G20130129", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTNICN53D63NV3IYNJVIO5XOH3TGSWYM", "length": 5437, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Afghan female artist beats the odds to create | Reuters", "raw_content": "Afghan female artist beats the odds to create\nMiriam Arghandiwal\nKABUL/KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Charred bodies lie scattered against blood-stained walls and debris covers the ground. For Afghanistan, the only unusual thing in this gruesome scene is that the blood is red paint - and part of an art installation.\nAn Afghan artist Malina Suliman paints graffiti on a wall in Kandahar city December 30, 2012. Charred bodies lay scattered against blood-stained walls in a recent installation by Afghan artist Malina Suliman. For Afghanistan, the only thing out of place in this gruesome scene is that the blood is not real, but is red paint. Picture taken on December 30, 2012. REUTERS/ Ahmad Nadeem\nIt\u2019s a work by 23-year-old Afghan artist Malina Suliman, who risks her life, sometimes working by flashlight after dark, to create art in southern Kandahar province, the birthplace of the Taliban and still one of the country\u2019s most dangerous areas.\nHer pieces, which range from conceptual art to paintings and sculpture, are bold representations of the problems facing her generation and have drawn praise from top officials in Kandahar, making her exceptional in a place where women face even greater restrictions than in other parts of the country.\n\u201cMany people had never seen an art installation... Some were offended and others were hurt because they\u2019d experienced it before,\u201d Suliman said of \u201cWar and Chaos,\u201d which was in an exhibit last year and depicts the aftermath of a suicide bombing, an all too common event in Kandahar.\nHer haunting, powerful pieces earned her an invitation last year to President Hamid Karzai\u2019s palace in Kabul, where she showed her art to the Afghan leader, who is also from Kandahar.\nSuliman\u2019s artwork is now making waves in the Afghan capital of Kabul, where she lived after fleeing the violence of her native province as a child. In December, she had two exhibits there, a highlight of which was a sculpture of a woman in baggy clothing with a noose tied around her neck.\nAn exhibit in Kandahar, where the Taliban and tribal elders dominate public opinion, was the first there in three decades. She drew a mostly male crowd of around 100, including Kandahar governor Tooryalai Wesa and some of Karzai\u2019s relatives.\n\u201cI was taken aback by her work. I had only seen great art abroad, but never here,\u201d Wesa later told Reuters, recalling the exhibit, which featured a painting of a foetus in the womb suspended from a tree and being pulled in different ways. \u201cI hope it persuades more women to do the same.\u201d\nSuliman said this piece, called \u201cToday\u2019s Life\u201d, reflected the frustrations of her generation.\n\u201cBefore a child is born, the parents are already thinking that a son can support them and a daughter can be married off to a wealthy suitor. They don\u2019t stop to think what the child may want,\u201d she said.\nSLOW PROGRESS FOR ART\nThirty years of war and conflict, starting with the Soviet invasion of 1979, effectively shelved Afghanistan\u2019s art scene. The austere 1996-2001 rule of the Taliban then banned most art outright, declaring it un-Islamic.\nSince the Islamist group was toppled by U.S.-backed Afghan forces almost twelve years ago, large Afghan cities have resurrected something of an art movement, but progress is slow.\nHerat city, in the country\u2019s west, now has art studios for rent, while Mazar-e-Sharif in the north has an artist collective and a lively graffiti scene.\nSuliman, who is self-confident and energetic with almond-shaped eyes, joined the Kandahar Fine Art Association, a relatively new, all-male group whose goal is to support and exhibit local art, one year ago.\nThe small collective of 10 artists caught the eye of the Ministry of Information and Culture, which funded and last year opened Kandahar\u2019s first art gallery, where Suliman has exhibited. Since she joined the collective, several more Kandahar-based female artists have come on board.\nBut the stakes remain high.\n\u201cOne of our biggest fears is that people will mistake us for creating art for foreigners or working with NGOs. People who work with NGOs get shot without question in Kandahar,\u201d she said.\nDespite her success, Suliman has received threatening phonecalls warning her against attending her own exhibits, and the Taliban have spoken out against her.\nEven creating her art must take place away from public view. She often waits until after dusk, working with a dim flashlight.\nSuliman recalls her first exhibit in Kandahar last year, and how she trembled as she made her way towards the gallery, in fear of it being bombed.\n\u201cI was so scared... Whenever there is a gathering of government officials it becomes a target,\u201d she said.\nBut one of Suliman\u2019s greatest challenges lies at home.\n\u201cThe night of my first exhibit my family told me \u2018if you go, don\u2019t come back\u2019,\u201d she said with a wry laugh.\nWhile her sisters and mother now support her ambition and passion, her brothers and property developer father remain fiercely opposed \u2014 attitudes typical for Afghanistan.\nShe is now looking to expand Kandahar\u2019s budding art scene to nearby Helmand, hoping to secure locally-sourced funds for workshops and training.\nWhen asked if she is scared, she mentions her sculpture of the hanged woman and smiles.\n\u201cThat\u2019s what happens to women when they ask for their rights in this country,\u201d she says, impudently.\nReporting by Miriam Arghandiwal, additional reporting by Sarwar Amani, Editing by Amie Ferris-Rotman and Elaine Lies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.style.yahoo.com/post/124258887725/writer-kate-betts-memoir-of-her-20s-you-have-to", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:02Z", "digest": "sha1:VSLOEFTHMRB5JVP6C72ZKMAYACFEGAJZ", "length": 8216, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "ca.style.yahoo.com", "title": "Writer Kate Betts\u2019 Memoir of Her 20s: \u201cYou have to get lost to find yourself\u201d", "raw_content": "Writer Kate Betts\u2019 Memoir of Her 20s: \u201cYou have to get lost to find yourself\u201d\nYahoo Beauty\u2022 May 8, 2015\nWriter Kate Betts talks Paris, her career at Vogue and Harper\u2019s Bazaar, and French beauty. (Photo: Noa Griffel)\nWhen it comes to discussing writer Kate Betts, it would be easy to list off a list of accomplishments. She\u2019s an Ivy League graduate. She was a top editor at Vogue, before becoming the youngest-ever editor at Harper\u2019s Bazaar in 1999 (she was 35). In her 40s, she launched a freelance career that included writing for The New York Times and her book Everyday Icon: Michelle Obama and the Power of Style. However, her newest book My Paris Dream, pulls the curtain back on a time when she was just figuring it all out. The memoir focuses on the five years she spent in Paris in her early 20, a time when she was slightly insecure, preppy rather than chic, enduring some rather tough bosses, and trying to find her way in an entirely new culture. It\u2019s a fascinating glimpse into her life, when she wasn\u2019t the wildly-accomplished woman that she is at 51. Betts leaves the city transformed, both inside and out with a new style, French beauty products she still uses today, and a laser-sharp focus on what she wanted from her life.\nSara Bliss: In 1982 you graduated Princeton and went to live in Paris. What inspired you to write about that time in your life?\nKate Betts: Over the years people would often ask me about how I got into the business, how I learned to speak French, and why I went to Paris. I also had saved an enormous amount of keepsakes from that time, including journals, menu cards, and letters and photos from designers. When I was going through it, I kept thinking about this idea that the formative years in your early 20s are so important. People always say \u2018Oh it was great you went from Princeton to Paris to Women\u2019s Wear Daily to Vogue to Harpers Bazaar.\u2019 One of the things I felt strongly about was capturing the real story, not just the sound byte about how my career trajectory ended up. I wanted to show people that it\u2019s not that easy, that there are a lot of tricky decisions, and missteps, and blood sweat and tears basically \u2014 and that is the more interesting story, the struggles, disappointments, and the cluelessness of that time of life.\nThe cover of Kate Betts\u2019 new book, My Paris Dream. (Photo: Spiegel & Grau)\nYou arrived in Paris at 22, when you look back, what were you like? Were you confident about this bold decision?\nI was not confident at all. I went to Paris with no clue. I thought I spoke French and the minute I got there, I realized I didn\u2019t speak French at all. I also didn\u2019t have a job. The job I thought I had, fell through. I was living with a French family and I was very unsure about that, and it was actually the best decision that I made. I wasn\u2019t confident at all. I didn\u2019t know what I was doing. I just had this instinct that it was the right thing for me to do, and I had confidence in that instinct, even though I leveled a lot on that. It was hard to stay there. The French are hard to work with. There was a lot of disappointment and moments when I thought, \u201cOK, I\u2019ve had enough. It\u2019s time to go home.\u201d But I did stick it out because I was determined to make it work there.\nHow did your style evolve during your time there? You wrote that you had a preppier style when you first arrived.\nI learned how to dress in a way that is very French. They don\u2019t buy a lot of new clothing every season, maybe one or two things. They use accessories to change their look, more than changing their silhouette from every season. That was something I definitely learned there. I also learned how to wear color. I bought an orange Chanel jacket at a sample sale even though it wasn\u2019t very flattering on me. I was so desperate to buy something by Chanel that I bought that this color that didn\u2019t suit me, which is something that the French would never do. But I learned about my own style that way.\nThe French of course, are renowned for their take on beauty. What did you learn about beauty from your time in Paris?\nThere are so many unspoken rules in France. One of the first ones that I learned was about washing your hair. The French see it as a very American thing. Americans wash their hair everyday and and they think that\u2019s so crazy. French people only wash their hair once a week. Not only because they don\u2019t want to waste all of their energy, but it\u2019s also because they have a different conception of cleanliness that Americans do. French women go to the hair salon to wash their hair. That\u2019s kind of a French ritual. You go to the hair salon once a week and you get your hair done.\nWhat about products? Did you discover any?\nThe French have these fantastic pharmacies with every different kind of possible of daily products. I will head into my bathroom right now to tell you about everything. Embryolisse is a great makeup remover, which is a pretty heavy cream. There\u2019s also Bioderma and that\u2019s also a popular makeup remover. There is a fantastic cream that\u2019s used if you have sensitive skin, if you have a cut or scar. It\u2019s called Biafine. It\u2019s creamy and very good if you have a burn, an infection or a cut. There is another one that\u2019s a Vitamin A-based cream, it\u2019s called Avibon. I could go on and on!\nAre you still using the products you discovered in Paris all those years ago?\nYes! I can\u2019t live without them.\nWhat did you learn about makeup?\nThe thing about the French is because they are so about skincare and they all have amazing skin, they don\u2019t wear a lot of foundation. A lot of my friends would laugh at me when I wore foundation. They considered it something for older women. But the French love lipsticks, so that was another thing I learned to apply and wear there. There is this great anecdote in the book about Mr. Saint Laurent himself who would only see models if they had red lipstick on. It had to be made up a certain way before they could go into a fitting with him. They also had to have their hair pulled back in a chignon.\nWhen you interviewed Yves Saint Laurent did you wear the same red lip?\nYes, you had to have this certain kind of presentation. It\u2019s kind of an unspoken rule that if you are a woman of a certain age, or even a young woman, you wear lipstick in formal settings. There is another scene in the book where I was going to a wedding in the French countryside and I didn\u2019t wear a hat or lipstick, and those are two essential things to wear at a French wedding if you want to respect the formality and dress code.\nYou left Paris after five years, how did you grow and change during that time?\nWhen I left I had mastered the French language. I learned all the codes and manners. I fell in love and lived with a Frenchman for years. I had figured out that I wanted to be a fashion writer and editor, and I really learned from the best. I learned from all these couturiers, Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Lacroix, and Yves Saint Laurent. I had a very firm idea of where I was going and who I wanted to be.\nYou had an incredibly successful career at a very young age. You went on to Vogue and became the youngest-ever editor of Harper\u2019s Bazaar. Do you think your experience in Paris gave you the confidence to pursue those goals?\nI think one of the biggest messages in the book is that I think particularly at that time of your life, you have to sort of get lost to find yourself. You have to put yourself in a foreign context that is so incredibly different from everything you know, and that\u2019s when you discover your true self. You discover your determination, your path, what your passion is about, what you can tolerate, what you can\u2019t tolerate. And I think that gives you enormous confidence.\nCosmopolitan\u2019s Joanna Coles Believes in the Champagne Diet\nCelebrating History\u2019s Greatest Femmes Fatales\nFour French Women Shatter The Myth of Perfection\nJustin Bieber opens up about marriage in Vogue: 'I believe that God blessed me with Hailey as a result' of celibacy\n'Game of Thrones\u2019s' Fiercest Warrior Was the Breakout Front Row Star of Paris Fashion Week\nVogue apologizes for misidentifying activist Noor Tagouri as a Pakistani actress\nShop Reese Witherspoon's low-key chic Vogue cover earrings \u2014 for much less", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 11354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://calendar.libraryweb.org/event/4429797", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:22Z", "digest": "sha1:25TP6VRSRES57KUFJM7YEO32FYBBCCMP", "length": 669, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "calendar.libraryweb.org", "title": "World Music Series: Eastman Mbira Ensemble - MCLS Events & Programs - Monroe County Library System Home", "raw_content": "World Music Series: Eastman Mbira Ensemble\nPlayed by Shona-speaking communities in Zimbabwe, the mbira is an instrument with 22 to 28 metal keys (lamellae) fixed to a wooden soundboard, which is then placed in a gourd resonator, used to amplify its resonance. Rattling pieces of metal, bottle caps or shells are attached to the instrument, which in turn produce buzzing sounds when the keys are plucked. The interaction of two or more players, singers, hosho (gourd rattles), and sometimes drummers and rhythmic hand clapping creates a complex musical fabric. Bring your lunch and enjoy the unique, ancient and beautiful music of Zimbabwe.\nSubject - Musical Performance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://camillaquarterly.com/2016/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HHLXDLH7HPX5VRDKSJK2DWADQBXWWGPJ", "length": 878, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "camillaquarterly.com", "title": "April 2016 \u2013 Camilla Quarterly", "raw_content": "A couple of weeks ago Greg and went on a weekend trip to Stoke-On-Trent, where Greg\u2019s family lives and where he spent the first days of his life.\nBecause I have been really busy since we got back I haven\u2019t had time to update on the trip until now.\nWe had a wonderful time seeing Stoke, the places that Greg remembers from his childhood like his house and his school and of course to meet Greg\u2019s family and friends that he hadn\u2019t seen since he was a little boy. It was such an experience for me to see the places I have only heard about from Greg\u2019s stories and to see him reunited with his family that he hasn\u2019t seen in more than a decade.\nHere are some snaps taken during our weekend in Stoke:\nThat was it from our weekend away!\nWish everyone a great weekend!\nAside\u2022Categories Travel\u2022Tags couple, kiwi, memories, norwegian, norwegianandkiwi, relationship, stoke-on-trent, travel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://capitaldiscussions.com/learn-to-be-fallible-in-your-trading", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:51Z", "digest": "sha1:6SYZKDGKIGFXVYCR2AKKAMTSY2PTIWH6", "length": 3619, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "capitaldiscussions.com", "title": "Learn to be Fallible in Your Trading", "raw_content": "Being fallible as a trader has been discussed in many publications. Today I will discuss some elements of being fallible that may help you improve your overall trading results.\nThe definition of fallible, according to Miriam Webster, is \u201cto be capable of making a mistake.\u201d\nWhy is it important to be fallible as a trader?\nIt is very common for beginner traders to resist in admitting their mistakes. Being right all the time doesn't always go hand-in-hand with making money. Successful traders can usually attribute the bulk of their success by knowing when they are right \u2013 and taking full advantage of maximizing their profits \u2013 AND knowing when they are wrong, and taking immediate action to minimize losses. Being able to overcome the psychological need to be right and admitting he/she is fallible is important to being a successful trader.\nTips on making sure you are being fallible as you trade\nAutomate as much as possible. By this statement, I don't mean to have an auto trader place your trades. What I am referring to is to develop a consistent pattern, day in and day out, for your trading business. I've written several articles about the importance of a trading plan and keeping a trade journal. Being consistent in keeping to your plan, and maintaining your journal, can help remove some of the discretionary elements of your trading.\nLearn to admit you have made a mistake, and cut your losses quickly before they get out of hand. No human being is infallible, it's a fact. Being able to accept this fact and taking immediate action is the sign of a mature trader who admits he/she is fallible.\nLearn to understand yourself. Have a clear understanding of yourself. Knowing your own strengths and weaknesses can help you be a more successful trader. For example, you may be more consistently profitable with longer-term trades, rather than shorter-term weekly trades. You do not have to be able to trade every strategy that is out there; or try to make yourself \u201cfit into\u201d a particular market or trading style. Successful traders find the niche that suits their individual personality, risk tolerance, and overall trading goals.\nLearn from your results. No one has ever said that being successful as a trader comes easily and with little effort. Some traders will say that trading is the most difficult \u201cjob\u201d they have ever had. Applying the knowledge gained from your past experiences in trading \u2013 wins and losses \u2013 will allow you to plan future trades that may have a greater probability of success.\nIn summary, being fallible is being able to accept being wrong, or admitting a trade has gone bad. Many novice traders focus too much on being right and try to avoid admitting being wrong. This can cause a losing trade to go beyond his/her pre-planned max loss. Experienced traders understand that there will be losses in their trading that may be a result of being wrong, and are able to accept that fact. They have learned how to anticipate and manage losses, not avoid them. They have a plan for each trade to manage a loss and have learned from each and every one. You may be able to do the same by adopting some of these tips into your trading routine. As a result, your overall trading could become more consistently profitable.\nIf you have any tips you have learned from your past mistakes and would like to share, feel free to comment below.\nIf you are looking for a trading community that has a wide variety of programs including one-on-one mentoring, educational classes, and interactive trading groups, consider Join Capital Discussions. You will not be disappointed in the programs offered.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 8950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://carrmansion.com/history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:29Z", "digest": "sha1:QT5CSZIRVFJSFJRXJ37HCES5EAT5SL5L", "length": 4611, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "carrmansion.com", "title": "History \u2014 Carr Mansion", "raw_content": "A historic treasure\nOn a secluded street away from the hustle and bustle of the island, you'll find a gorgeous mid-nineteenth century Greek Revival mansion rich with history and one of the last remaining landmarks of the island's original building boom. The land was originally purchased from merchant, banker, and Galveston real estate owner, E. B. Nichols. The house was constructed in 1866 by Lewis W. Carr. And in 2018, we have re-named it Carr Mansion in honor of its heritage.\nThe house was first sold to former Texas Governor, Richard Coke, in 1870. The governor, most known for restoring constitutional law and order to Texas as well as helping to establish what is now Texas A&M, used the Galveston estate as his summer home. Later, the house was purchased in 1876 by Horace Sloan & Jane Austin, and again in 1889 to Herman & Bertha Marwitz who purchased the property as a gift to their daughter and new son-in-law, Ida & John Gross.\nIDA GROSS\nJohn Gross (Secretary of Galveston Dry Goods) began plans with prominent Galveston architect, Nicholas Clayton, on an expansion and remodeling to include a new elegant ballroom in Queen Anne architectural style with corner turret and large bay window with two additional bedrooms. A new front entrance with French doors and a fan light arch with beveled glass above completed the new exterior. For the interior, the fan light arch was added to the ballroom entrance and two ornate fireplace mantles were imported from Europe for the dining room and new ballroom. A second expansion took place in 1898-99 which included the installation of indoor plumbing and electricity, new dining room (now the Pub), kitchen & butler's pantry, more bedrooms, and the Carriage House.\nSurviving the Great Galveston Storm of 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in US history, Carr Mansion is one of the few remaining landmarks representing Galveston Island's earliest building boom. In 1902 during the grade raising of the island, the estate was raised 8 feet. New steps and a pair of lions were added to finish out the elevation change.\nThe Gross family owned the property through 1950, and for the following five decades, Carr Mansion was used as a church, boarding home, and private residence. After years of neglect, the estate was sold in 1997 and was created into a tropical themed lodge in 1998 called the Mermaid & Dolphin Boutique Inn. The inn was featured in Galveston's Historical Foundation's 25th Anniversary Tour in 1999 as well as HGTV's \"Secret Gardens of Galveston\" for their tropical garden tour.\nIn 2017, the estate was purchased by an Austin-based investor team lead by Clay Carter, and work began to make Carr Mansion a modern, beautifully designed destination for Galveston travelers. \u201cGrowing up in Houston, Texas, I have fond memories of going down to Galveston to visit the strand, as well as the ocean, and it is a truly special place,\u201d said Clay Carter, Carr Mansion\u2019s lead investor. \u201cOne of the values that drove me to revitalize this house is a desire to be a part of good things being redeemed and resurrected. We\u2019re thrilled to be able to breathe new life into this beautiful, historic home and provide memorable experiences to tourists and the Galveston community.\u201d The estate has recaptured its elegant grandeur and the history and charm the estate has to offer is fully on display. Even every bedroom has been named as a tribute to the particular individuals who have shared their lives with the estate through the years. Opening in Summer of 2018, Carr Mansion is perfect for vacationers, weddings, corporate retreats and special events.\nLand purchased from E.B. Nichols and built by Lewis W. Carr\nSold to former Texas Governor, Richard Coke. Summer home through 1876\nHome was purchased and lived in until 1889 by Horace Sloan and Jane Austin\nHome sold in 1889 to Herman & Bertha Marwitz as a gift to daughter and new SIL - Ida & John Gross (secretary of Galveston Dry Goods)\nRemodeled and expanded, indoor plumbing and electrical installed\nSurvived the Great Galveston Storm\nDuring grade raising of the Island, home was raised 8ft (steps added)\nGross family owned estate until 1950\nThe Gross family sells the home and for the next 50 years it was used as a church, a boarding house, and a private residence\nPurchaed and restored. Opened Mermaid and Dolphin Inn\nInn featured in Galveston's Historical Foundation's 25th Anniversary Tour\nInn featured in HGTV's Secret Gardens of Galveston\nInn purchased by GTX Ventures, LLC, an Austin-based real estate investment company\nInn undergoes restoration and reopens as Carr Mansion Bed & Breakfast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://casetext.com/case/people-v-ayala", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:39Z", "digest": "sha1:H2ZSIXWGY5QOHFEA32FJ4SD4ZZTVKJA2", "length": 121664, "nlines": 242, "source_domain": "casetext.com", "title": "People v. Ayala, 24 Cal. 4th 243 | Casetext", "raw_content": "People v. Ayala\nPeoplev.Ayala\n24 Cal. 4th 243\u20226 P.3d 193\u202299 Cal. Rptr. 2d 532\u2022\nAyala v. Wong\n\u2026A divided California Supreme Court upheld his conviction on the basis of harmless error and also upheld the\u2026\n\u2026(2000) 24 Cal. 4th 243, 262; United States v. Thompson (9th Cir. 1987) 827 F.2d 1254, 1257.) The trial court\u2026\nAppeal from the Superior Court, San Diego County, No. CR 78077, Napolean A. Jones, Jr., Judge.\nAnthony J. Dain, under appointment by the Supreme Court, Dain Li and Gisela Caldwell for Defendant and Appellant.\nDaniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorneys General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, William M. Wood and Keith I. Motley, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.\nThe San Diego County District Attorney filed an amended information on January 20, 1987, charging defendant with three murders and other offenses. The information alleged that the crimes all occurred on or about April 26, 1985.\nCount 1 charged defendant with murder in the death of Jose Luis Rositas (Pen. Code, \u00a7 187; all unlabeled statutory references are to this code). Counts 2 and 3 contained the same charge in the deaths of Marcos Antonio Zamora and Ernesto Dominguez Mendez respectively. Count 4 charged him with the attempted murder of Pedro Castillo (\u00a7\u00a7 187, 664), and count 5 with robbing him (\u00a7 211). Count 6, which the superior court later dismissed and which the jury did not consider, charged him with robbing Zamora. Counts 7, 8, and 9 charged him with the attempted robbery of Dominguez, Rositas, and Zamora respectively (\u00a7\u00a7 211, 664). The first six counts were accompanied by allegations that defendant personally used a firearm (\u00a7 12022.5).\nThe amended information alleged that defendant committed the special circumstances of multiple murder (\u00a7 190.2, subd. (a)(3)) and murder in the attempted commission of robberies (\u00a7 190.2, former subd. (a)(17)(i), now subd. (a)(17)(A)).\nThe amended information further alleged that defendant had been convicted of other offenses: of robbery in 1972, of burglary in 1975, and of possessing controlled narcotic substances for sale in 1982.\nThe case was called for trial on January 17, 1989. William Woodward and Gloria Michaels represented the People, and Barton C. Sheela III and Glorene Franco represented defendant. (Woodward would later withdraw to join the bench. See post, at p. 45.) On August 1, 1989, the jury convicted defendant of all the offenses charged but one: the attempted robbery of Rositas. (None of the determinate terms is at issue here.) The jury also found, with respect to counts 1 through 5 and count 8 (the latter having been renumbered from count 9 following dismissal of count 6 as described in the previous paragraph), that defendant had personally used a firearm within the meaning of section 12022.5. It further found the special circumstance allegations true. Defendant waived his right to have the prior offense allegations tried before a jury, and the court found them true. The parties stipulated before the jury that he had suffered the convictions.\nThe penalty phase began August 14, 1989. On August 31, the jury returned a verdict of death on counts 1, 2, and 3, and the court entered judgment in accordance with it. The appeal to this court is automatic.\nThe prosecution theorized that defendant herein, Hector Juan Ayala, his brother Ronaldo Medrano Ayala, and Jose Moreno murdered Dominguez, Rositas, and Zamora, after holding them captive in an automobile repair shop. (Moreno, tried under the name Joseph Juarez Moreno, was acquitted in a separate trial.) They would also have killed Castillo, but he improvised an escape plan and, though shot, survived to testify. Castillo provided the information that led to defendant's arrest and served as the prosecution's key witness at trial.\nOpening statements and presentation of evidence began on May 30, 1989. San Diego Police Detective Richard Carey testified that on April 26, 1985, his homicide team was summoned to an automobile body repair shop located at 999 South Forty-third Street, between Logan and National Avenues in southeast San Diego. He found Dominguez's, Zamora's and Rositas's bodies in the shop office. All had been shot. A forensic pathologist, Dr. David Masamichi Katsuyama, testified that each had died from two gunshots to the head.\nThe prosecution theorized that the murders resulted from a robbery attempt that failed because it was based on the perpetrators' incorrect speculation that Dominguez had just returned from Mexico with a quantity of narcotics or cash.\nJuan Manuel Meza testified that about a month before the killings Ronaldo Ayala, in the presence of Meza and defendant, proposed to rob the automobile body shop. Thereafter, Meza attended a meeting that defendant had called at his house. Defendant emerged from the bedroom displaying a .38-caliber Smith Wesson revolver in poor condition. He or Ronaldo Ayala asked Meza if they could use some of Meza's guns, which were of better quality, for the impending robbery of \"a large quantity of drugs\" that defendant said Dominguez was then obtaining \"from the other side of the border.\" (Meza testified that he owned a variety of firearms: a .45-caliber, .357-caliber and .380 caliber, all presumably pistols; a 30-30, 30-06, and an AR-15 rifle; and an Uzi.) The three discussed a plan for the crime, in which they would tie up the victims and wait for Dominguez's wife to arrive in an orange van with the drugs during that evening. The victims were all to be killed.\nCastillo was Dominguez's employee. He testified that Dominguez and Zamora, who was Dominguez's brother-in-law, ran a heroin distribution business at the shop. Castillo helped to prepare, package, and deliver heroin. Defendant was also a heroin user.\nCastillo testified that a week before the killings he spoke with defendant about Dominguez's whereabouts. Dominguez was in jail, apparently for minor offenses. But Dominguez told Castillo to tell anybody asking that he was in Mexico, and Castillo so told defendant. Defendant did not believe Castillo, so Castillo told the truth. But defendant appeared skeptical of that information also, so Castillo reverted to his story that Dominguez was traveling south of the border.\nAbout noon on the day of the killings, Castillo injected a dose of heroin off the premises and returned to work at the shop. The drug had a stabilizing effect on Castillo, who also testified that using it that day did not impair his ability to work.\nAbout 5:00 p.m. Castillo, defendant, Ronaldo Ayala, Moreno, and Dominguez were all present on the premises. Later, around dusk, Castillo looked up and saw defendant pointing a pistol at him. He escorted him to the office at gunpoint, where Ronaldo Ayala, also armed with a gun, was holding Dominguez, Zamora, and Rositas captive. They had all been bound with duct tape.\nDefendant said to Dominguez something like, \"Didn't you know you had to go through us?\"\nMoreno then bound Castillo's hands behind his back with duct tape. When Moreno was taping him he tried to shift his hands so as to keep them as free as possible.\nRonaldo Ayala announced that he \"[w]anted $10,000 or someone was going to die,\" Castillo further testified. Dominguez responded, \"Hey, homeboy, nunca te h[e] hecho nada [I've never done anything to you].\" Apparently nobody had $10,000, but Castillo volunteered that he had hidden some money under the driver's seat of a tow truck parked outside \u2014 a ruse, as he had money only in his pocket. At that time, defendant extracted the pocket money, accused Castillo of lying, and stabbed him in the upper left leg.\nMoreno left to inspect the tow truck. On his return, he informed his accomplices that the truck contained no money. Ronaldo Ayala urged that Castillo be taken out to get the money, but defendant, speaking to Castillo, said he preferred to \"blow you away.\" Castillo responded, \"Gosh, it's there, homeboy. . . . It's in the truck. I just put it there.\"\nRonaldo Ayala shoved defendant and quieted him. Then, with a gun in one hand, he began to escort Castillo outside, holding him by his jacket with the other hand and warning him that if he tried to run when the garage door opened \u2014 precisely Castillo's plan \u2014 he would kill him.\nRonaldo Ayala told Moreno to open the garage door slowly, and Castillo feigned that he was trying to squeeze under it, but could not do so. In fact his feint was disguising the fact that he was propping the door up with his body. Unknown to the assailants, the door was defective, and would slam down unless supported. Once Moreno had raised it far enough for Castillo to escape, and also had relaxed his own hold on the door (which Castillo could sense by the door's weight on him), Castillo bolted underneath, and the door slammed down, surprising Ronaldo Ayala and Moreno.\nStill bound at the hands, Castillo ran toward the street. Ronaldo Ayala and Moreno managed to open the garage door, and a shot was fired at Castillo, wounding him in the back. He fell onto South Forty-third Street. As he lay in the street he heard more shots. Then he saw a police car come into view, and the police took control of the scene.\nCastillo acknowledged that he had testified falsely on prior occasions with respect to heroin-related activity at the body shop, denying any knowledge that Dominguez or Zamora sold the drug. He testified at trial that he did this for the sake of the murder victims' families: he did not want to taint their memories of the dead. He also testified that he never returned to using heroin or methadone after the killings. \"I didn't need it no more\" because \"I accepted the Lord as my savior\" some eight months later.\nThere was testimony that defendant's fingerprints had been found on items recovered from the body shop office. (See post, at p. 33.)\nA police officer, Tony D. McElroy, testified that he found Castillo in the street and discovered bodies inside the automobile body shop. He questioned Castillo, who told him that the perpetrators were three Mexicans. One, he told Office McElroy, was wearing a red Pendleton-type jacket. Before describing anyone else he said he only wanted to answer further questions with a lawyer present.\nDefendant did not testify at the guilt phase. But the defense theory was third parties were responsible for the murders: either two young Latino men, one of whom was wearing a Pendleton-style shirt or jacket, or men who lived behind the body shop and who were also merchandising drugs. And Castillo was in league with them, and testified against defendant to turn suspicion away from the real killers, who might otherwise exact revenge against him.\nRegarding the first theory: Traci Lynn Pittman testified that on the night of the murders she was at a liquor store across South Forty-third Street. She saw two Hispanic men walk from that liquor store to the complex containing the automobile body shop and disappear into it. One wore a red-and-black plaid Pendleton-style shirt or jacket. As they passed her she noticed that one appeared to be concealing a bulky object, which could have been a gun. Neither looked the same as defendant. The lighting at the scene was poor and she could not see where they went. But a minute or two later a man (evidently Castillo) emerged running from the complex and fell onto South Forty-third Street as shots rang out. Pittman took shelter in the liquor store.\nAs mentioned, the other defense theory was that men living behind the automobile body shop, themselves drug dealers, had committed the murders. There was testimony that Hector Antonio Figueroa Hernandez, known by his nickname \"Tony,\" and Eduardo \"Lalo\" Sanchez lived in that locale. Figueroa moved there about four days after the killings. After Figueroa moved in, Sanchez's uncle saw him and Sanchez wearing guns at the waist. Sanchez had a .22-caliber gun, and Figueroa had a .38. It appeared, from sudden increases in household wealth and unusual activity, that Sanchez and Figueroa had begun a drug-dealing business. Sanchez's uncle reported his suspicions to the police.\nI. Jury Selection Issues\nDefendant exhausted all of his peremptory challenges and expressed dissatisfaction with the jury as sworn. He raises several claims regarding jury selection. As we will explain, the trial court erred in permitting the prosecutor to explain ex parte and outside defendant's presence his reasons for peremptorily challenging certain prospective jurors. But the error was harmless.\nA. Holding Ex Parte Hearings on Reasons for Peremptory Challenges\nThree times, and with respect to seven prospective jurors, defendant argued that the prosecutor was exercising peremptory challenges to jury panelists on the basis of their race or ethnicity. Such an action would, of course, be improper. ( People v. Wheeler (1978) 22 Cal.3d 258, 276-277; Batson v. Kentucky (1986) 476 U.S. 79.)\nThe trial court asked the prosecution to explain its reasons for the challenges. After the prosecutor said he did not wish to reveal his strategy, the court declared that it planned to hold an ex parte hearing from which defendant and his counsel would be excluded. Defense counsel stated that he had no objection to being excluded from discussions of strategy, but that \"I think I am entitled to be present\" otherwise, in case the prosecution's \"statement is a misstatement of the facts\" and to \"make sure the record is clear as to what the statement of facts is.\" The court held three ex parte hearings, and ruled each time that the prosecutor was not challenging jury panelists because of race or ethnicity. At issue here is the propriety of the hearings at which the court reached its decisions.\n\"Under Wheeler, there is a presumption that a prosecutor uses his peremptory challenges in a constitutional manner. [Citation.] The defendant bears the burden to show, prima facie, the presence of purposeful discrimination. [Citation.] If he succeeds, the burden shifts to the prosecutor to show its absence.\" ( People v. Alvarez (1996) 14 Cal.4th 155, 193.)\nThe details of the procedure for conducting an inquiry on a claim of improper group bias against prospective jurors are well known. In the first step of the three-part Wheeler inquiry, \"`\"[i]f a party believes his opponent is using his peremptory challenges to strike jurors on the ground of group bias alone, he must raise the point in timely fashion and make a prima facie case of such discrimination to the satisfaction of the court. First, . . . he should make as complete a record of the circumstances as is feasible. Second, he must establish that the persons excluded are members of a cognizable group within the meaning of the representative cross-section rule. Third, from all the circumstances of the case he must show a strong likelihood [or reasonable inference] that such persons are being challenged because of their group association. . . .\"'\" ( People v. Box (Aug. 17, 2000, S019798) ___ Cal.4th ___ [p. 25].) Next, the burden shifts to the challenged party to provide a race-neutral explanation for the exercise of peremptory challenges. ( People v. Hayes (1999) 21 Cal.4th 1211, 1284.) At the third step of the Wheeler challenge process \u2014 the determination by the trial court whether the opponent of the peremptory challenge has proved purposeful racial discrimination \u2014 the trial court must consider at least two possibilities. If the prosecutor acknowledges that he challenged a prospective juror for an impermissible reason (see U.S. v. Thompson (9th Cir. 1987) 827 F.2d 1254, 1256, fn. 1), then, of course, the Wheeler motion must be granted. If the prosecutor does not so state, but instead offers the court race-neutral reasons, it must still determine whether those stated reasons are untrue and pretextual. ( People v. Alvarez, supra, 14 Cal.4th 155, 196.)\nProvided that the inquiry proceeds within the general framework just articulated, no particular procedures are constitutionally required. As the United States Supreme Court said of Batson hearings, \"It remains for the trial courts to develop rules, without unnecessary disruption of the jury selection process, to permit legitimate and well-founded objections to the use of peremptory challenges as a mask for race prejudice.\" ( Powers v. Ohio (1991) 499 U.S. 400, 416.) \"The response of courts across the country has created a rather wide spectrum, ranging from those that recommend an adversary proceeding of some type to those that permit the prosecutor's explanation to be received in camera and ex parte.\" ( Gray v. State (1989) 317 Md. 250, 257 [ 562 A.2d 1278, 1282].)\nPreliminarily, we review for an abuse of discretion the trial court's implicit rulings that the prosecution presented matters of strategy that justified ex parte hearings during challenges on Wheeler grounds.\nAt the end of the first ex parte hearing, the trial court implied, and implicitly found, that the prosecutor had \"divulge[d] certainly to some extent prosecution strategy in terms of jury selection.\" During the second and third hearings, the court impliedly so ruled again, ordering, without prompting from the prosecutor, that the proceedings be sealed.\nIn the first and second hearings, the prosecutor said that he was disposed to challenge prospective jurors who were unable to express themselves well, or who appeared to be \"nonconformist.\" (See People v. Wheeler, supra, 22 Cal.3d 258, 275 [peremptory challenge may be exercised against one whose \"clothes or hair length suggest an unconventional lifestyle\"].) In sum, he was simply giving the reasons for his challenges, reasons that defendant was entitled to hear and that disclosed no secrets of trial strategy. It was unreasonable to exclude defendant from those hearings.\nAt the third hearing, the prosecution mentioned its 10-point rating system for prospective jurors, a rating given by a three-person committee including a psychologist, and the prosecutor discussed individual committee members' ratings of various prospective jurors. Even so, he was not divulging strategic information that defendant could use to his advantage at trial \u2014 he was merely describing the prosecution's system of jury selection, a process to which defendant was a passive bystander.\nGiven that no matters of trial strategy were revealed, we conclude that the court abused its discretion in implicitly or explicitly ruling that they were.\nThe next question is whether it was error to exclude defendant from participating in the hearings on his Wheeler motions. We conclude that, as a matter of state law, it was.\nAs a general matter, ex parte proceedings are disfavored. (See generally NBC Subsidiary (KNBC-TV), Inc. v. Superior Court (1999) 20 Cal.4th 1178 [excluding public from proceedings]; People v. Wright (1990) 52 Cal.3d 367, 402 [ex parte communications with jurors]; People v. Beeler (1995) 9 Cal.4th 953, 1014 (conc. and dis. opn. of Kennard, J.).) \"Two basic defects are typical of ex parte proceedings. The first is a shortage of factual and legal contentions. Not only are facts and law from the defendant lacking, but the moving party's own presentation is often abbreviated because no challenge from the defendant is anticipated at this point in the proceeding. The deficiency is frequently crucial, as reasonably adequate factual and legal contentions from diverse perspectives can be essential to the court's initial decision. . . .\" ( United Farm Workers of America v. Superior Court (1975) 14 Cal.3d 902, 908.)\nEx parte proceedings following a Wheeler motion may create similar problems and, in the main, it is error to conduct them. \"In the rare case in which the explanation for a challenge would entail confidential communications or reveal trial strategy, an in camera discussion can be arranged.\" ( Georgia v. McCollum (1992) 505 U.S. 42, 58.) This, however, is not such a case.\nThe question whether ex parte communications are proper in ruling on a Wheeler motion has not arisen in California decisional law. But the same or closely related issues have arisen in federal and other state cases discussing analogous motions brought under Batson v. Kentucky, supra, 476 U.S. 79. While some decisions have tolerated an ex parte Batson hearing procedure on the ground that the United States Constitution permits it ( U.S. v. Tucker (7th Cir.1988) 836 F.2d 334, 340; U.S. v. Davis (6th Cir. 1987) 809 F.2d 1194, 1202), it seems to be almost universally recognized that ex parte proceedings following a motion regarding peremptory challenges allegedly made on the basis of improper group bias are poor procedure and should not be conducted unless compelling reasons justify them. ( People v. Hameed (1996) 88 N.Y.2d 232, 237-238 [ 644 N.Y.S.2d 466, 469, 666 N.E.2d 1339, 1342]; U.S. v. Roan Eagle (8th Cir. 1989) 867 F.2d 436, 441; Gray v. State, supra, 317 Md. 250, 257-258 [ 562 A.2d 1278, 1282]; U.S. v. Tindle (4th Cir.1988) 860 F.2d 125, 132-133 (conc. dis. opn. of Murnaghan, J.); U.S. v. Garrison (4th Cir. 1988) 849 F.2d 103, 106; U.S. v. Tucker, supra, 836 F.2d at p. 340; U.S. v. Gordon (11th Cir. 1987) 817 F.2d 1538; Goode v. Shoukfeh (Tex. 1997) 943 S.W.2d 441, 452 [civil case].) We agree.\nU.S. v. Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, presented the issue and the countervailing values involved: \"The question presented to us is . . . whether the district judge erred by permitting the [prosecutor] to state her reasons to him ex parte and then ruling on the objection without divulging the reasons to defense counsel. In resolving this issue we must consider and reconcile two fundamental principles of our criminal justice system. The first is that the district judge has broad discretion to fashion and guide the procedures to be followed in cases before him. [Citations.] The second principle is that adversary proceedings are the norm in our system of criminal justice, [citation], and ex parte proceedings the disfavored exception.\" ( Id. at p. 1257.)\nU.S. v. Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, further explained: \"The right of a criminal defendant to an adversary proceeding is fundamental to our system of justice. [Citations.] This includes the right to be personally present and to be represented by counsel at critical stages during the course of the prosecution. [Citation.] This is not mere idle formalism. Our system is grounded on the notion that truth will most likely be served if the decisionmaker \u2014 judge or jury \u2014 has the benefit of forceful argument by both sides. . . .\n\"There are, to be sure, occasional departures from this norm. The district judge makes an ex parte review of the prosecution's evidence to determine whether it falls within the rule of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 87, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 1196, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963). [Citations.] Also, the district judge normally considers on an ex parte basis whether to reveal to the defense the identity of a government informant. [Citation.] But, as these examples illustrate, situations where the court acts with the benefit of only one side's presentation are uneasy compromises with some overriding necessity, such as the need to act quickly or to keep sensitive information from the opposing party. Absent such compelling justification, ex parte proceedings are anathema in our system of justice and . . . may amount to a denial of due process.\" ( U.S. v. Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, 1258-1259.)\nIn addition to the foregoing general considerations, it is error in particular to conduct ex parte proceedings on a Wheeler motion because of the risk that defendant's inability to rebut the prosecution's stated reasons will leave the record incomplete. We discuss this problem post, at page 18.\nWe turn to the question of prejudice. We have concluded that error occurred under state law, and we have noted Thompson's suggestion that excluding the defense from a Wheeler-type hearing may amount to a denial of due process. We nonetheless conclude that the error was harmless under state law ( People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818, 836), and that, if federal error occurred, it, too, was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt ( Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18, 24) as a matter of federal law. On the record before us, we are confident that the challenged jurors were excluded for proper, race-neutral reasons.\nAs mentioned, the ex parte hearings pertained to seven prospective jurors. With respect to Olanders D., the prosecutor stated he had exercised the challenge in part because his questionnaire indicated he opposed the death penalty. The prosecutor acknowledged Olanders D.'s oral statements that his views had changed, but commented that his answers were \"not totally responsive to the questions of either counsel for the defense or myself.\" He further stated, in essence, that Olanders D.'s difficulties in communicating led him to question whether he would \"fit in\" on the jury. The court disagreed with the latter point, noting, \"it may well be that he would get along very well with 12 people,\" but added: \"I think the other observations of counsel are accurate and borne out by the record.\"\nIn the ex parte discussion of Galileo S., the prosecutor indicated that on Hovey voir dire ( Hovey v. Superior Court (1980) 28 Cal.3d 1, 80-81) to determine his attitudes toward the death penalty, the prospective juror showed that he was a \"nonconformist person who has had numerous run-ins with the law. We determined through his rap sheets that he has three or four more arrests other than those that he has told us about.\" Moreover, the prosecutor also asserted that \"his attitude is such that I think it would create alienation and hostility on the part of the other jurors.\" The trial court agreed, commenting on Galileo S.'s \"paranoia . . . concerning the justice system.\"\nOur own review of the record tends to confirm some of these observations. Galileo S. referred to the average juror as \"Joe Six-Pack,\" and he stated that \"[m]ost people bother me.\" He also exhibited a somewhat flippant attitude in responding to various questions during general voir dire.\nWith respect to Barbara S., the prosecutor said that he had assigned her a rating of zero on the prosecution team's 10-point scale, and that the other two reviewers had given her a three and a six. \"During the questioning process . . . I very quickly formed the opinion that there was something wrong with [Barbara S.]. Her responses were extremely slow, and I began to suspect that she was possibly under the influence of drugs. [\u00b6] . . . [S]he had . . . an empty look in her eyes, . . . a lack of really being totally in tune with what was going on.\" He noted further that her \"answers did not make sense, that they did not relate to the questions presented.\" He also commented that Barbara S. appeared \"somewhat angry\" when she initially came into court. The trial court disagreed with the last point, interpreting her demeanor as reflecting nervousness rather than hostility. But it concluded that overall it \"certainly [could not] quarrel\" with the prosecutor's impressions of Barbara S. or with the peremptory challenge based on her individual characteristics.\nWith respect to Gerardo O., the prosecutor cited in justification of his excusal his difficulties in writing, understanding and reading English. He also mentioned his idiosyncratic dress and demeanor, his evident aloofness from other prospective jurors, and his inability to articulate any opinion about the death penalty. The trial court noted that the record supported the prosecutor's assessment of Gerardo O.'s responses.\nOur own review of the record tends to confirm these observations. Gerardo O. acknowledged on voir dire that someone else had to complete his questionnaire for him. He appeared to have difficulty understanding the nature of the proceedings the jury might have to follow, and he admitted to defense counsel that he did not understand some of his questions. Following, and despite, defense counsel's thorough examination, when the prosecutor asked Gerardo O. if he understood that the government was seeking the death penalty against defendant, he said, \"I didn't know that.\" Gerardo O. also stated he was unsure whether he could impose the death penalty.\nThe prosecutor justified his challenge of George S. on the ground he had served on a jury once before and was the holdout juror, which made the prosecutor feel \"extremely uneasy.\" On the prosecution evaluation committee's 10-point scale, the prosecutor had rated George S. about one; the other two members had rated him at one and two. The prosecutor mentioned he thought George S. was Greek (as his surname might suggest), rather than Hispanic, as the defense implied in making the Wheeler motion, \"but I wasn't paying attention to the racial aspect of the case.\" The prosecutor offered additional reasons for the challenge: George S. had once applied to be a police officer but was rejected, and the prosecutor feared it might have been for psychological reasons. Further, the prosecutor expressed unease with his Hovey voir dire responses. ( Hovey v. Superior Court, supra, 28 Cal.3d 1, 80-81.) The trial court confirmed the accuracy of the prosecutor's observations.\nWith respect to Luis M., the prosecutor explained he exercised the challenge because the prospective juror was leery of the death penalty and because he had investigated the case on his own, prior to Hovey voir dire. Luis M. had stated: \"In my neighborhood . . . some people happen to know the accused, and I just questioned a couple of people [about] the character of the [defendant].\" Luis M. had also made inquiries regarding the facts of the case. The court stated that the peremptory challenge was proper.\nWith respect to Robert M., the prosecutor reminded the trial court that he had passed on challenges to the jury at one point, leaving Robert M. seated. He stated he had rated Robert M. between a four and a five, while the other prosecutorial reviewers had assigned him ratings of four and five, respectively. He explained that he had determined, before beginning the selection process, that he would prefer not to have jurors who scored five or less, and that he ultimately exercised the challenge because he was skeptical Robert M. could impose the death penalty. The court noted that although Robert M.'s questionnaire indicated he favored the death penalty, his voir dire answers varied to an extent that one might entertain a legitimate concern whether he could impose it, and it agreed that was an appropriate reason for a peremptory challenge.\nIn summary, the record reveals the following facts in support of the view that the prosecutor was not engaged in racial or ethnic discrimination. The court credited the prosecutor's opinions that Olanders D. opposed the death penalty, that Barbara S. was in a dazed state, that George S. had been a holdout juror and had been rejected for a law enforcement position, and that Robert M. was less than desirable from the prosecution's point of view. Galileo S., among other deficiencies, had (unless the prosecutor was misleading the court) not been honest regarding his criminal past. Luis M. admitted that he had investigated the case. Gerardo O. struggled with English and did not understand the proceedings. A prosecution committee, including a psychologist, gave Barbara S., George S., and Robert M. poor or mediocre suitability ratings. George S.'s surname is not obviously Spanish, and the prosecutor stated that he was unaware of his Hispanic heritage.\nOn these facts, we are confident that the prosecutor was not violating Wheeler, and that defense counsel's presence could not have affected the outcome of the Wheeler hearings. Moreover, the trial court's rulings in the ex parte hearing indisputably reflect both its familiarity with the record of voir dire of the challenged prospective jurors and its critical assessment of the prosecutor's proffered justifications. To the extent the rulings expressed agreement with the prosecutor's characterizations of the prospective jurors and their responses, they also support the court's implicit conclusion that the prosecutor did not fabricate his justifications and they were grounded in fact.\nThe dissent does not come to grips with the record's strong factual base for our conclusion that the error was harmless. It evidently concludes that one need not, and should not, \"credit this record.\" (Dis. opn., post., at p. 11.)\nWe will not \"credit this record\" willy-nilly, but we are obliged to scrutinize it closely. We are mindful that whether or not of federal constitutional dimension, the error here is not structural; it is an error in the conduct of the trial that requires us to consider the record. In other words, the error does not fall within the category of those that the law recognizes as reversible per se, i.e., \"affecting the framework within which the trial proceeds, rather than simply an error in the trial process itself,\" \"`transcend[ing] the criminal process'\" and \"defy[ing] analysis by `harmless-error' standards.\" ( Arizona v. Fulminante (1991) 499 U.S. 279, 309-311.)\nDefendant argues that the court's error in holding the Wheeler hearings ex parte was prejudicial because his lack of opportunity to rebut the prosecution's justifications for the challenges resulted in an incomplete record. We have agreed that such a result is theoretically possible. It is a reason for our conclusion that holding an ex parte hearing on a Wheeler motion ordinarily is state law error.\nIn particular, defendant maintains that a prosecutor might offer a reason unanticipated by the defense that sounds neutral, but in fact is untrue. His point is this: he is required, in making his prima facie case, to try to anticipate all the justifications the prosecutor may have for peremptorily challenging the prospective juror. But there are some he simply may not be able to anticipate. For example, the prosecutor might declare that he challenged a prospective juror because he silently mouthed an obscenity toward the prosecution table during voir dire. Defense counsel might not have noticed that act. But having been apprised of it, they could point out that other unchallenged prospective jurors did the same thing, that the prosecutor saw them do it, that those prospective jurors were not in a protected group, and that he did not peremptorily challenge them. (Accord, U.S. v. Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, 1260.)\nAlthough such a possibility exists in the abstract, nothing suggests that something similar occurred here. Rather, the trial court heard the criteria the prosecutor articulated \u2014 criteria furnishing reasons for the challenges that were, at a minimum, plausible, and that the record often supports \u2014 and expressly agreed that each of the excusals was proper. It impliedly found the prosecutor's stated justifications to be honest. We will not reverse the judgment on the basis of speculation regarding theoretical possibilities of the type discussed above.\nA second concern, voiced by the Thompson majority, was that a prosecutor might offer a reason that is legally improper \u2014 i.e., the product of impermissible group bias \u2014 but that the trial court overlooks. ( U.S. v. Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, 1260.) That was the case in People v. Snow (1987) 44 Cal.3d 216, in which the trial court admitted that it was unfamiliar with Wheeler ( Snow, supra, 44 Cal.3d at pp. 224, 226) even though \"[v]oir dire occurred . . . several years after Wheeler was filed.\" ( Id. at p. 224.) In this case, however, the court was thoroughly familiar with Wheeler and the requirements that case imposed. We have now reviewed the records of two cases tried by this superior court judge in respect of the same crimes: defendant's and Ronaldo Ayala's ( People v. Ayala (2000) 23 Cal.4th 225). In both, the trial judge showed himself to be in command of the law and the facts. He was diligent, prepared, knowledgeable, and engaged in the proceedings, including those relating to defendant's Wheeler motion. The concern voiced in Thompson, though real in the abstract and bearing fruit in People v. Snow, supra, 44 Cal.3d 216, is of no moment in this case.\nThompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, is distinguishable in additional respects from this case. First, the Thompson majority, observing that all it had before it concerning the propriety of the challenges was the prosecutor's explanation of her reasons and the district judge's ruling, professed itself unable to place confidence in the latter in the face of the record's \"[un]reassuring\" \"silence.\" ( Id. at p. 1261.) Here, by contrast, the record, even if not as complete as it might have been had defendant participated in the ex parte hearings, is well developed. In particular, the trial court's remarks constitute a valuable assessment of the prosecutor's justifications. Second, the Thompson majority noted that in attempting to justify one of her challenges, the prosecutor cited the fact that the prospective juror and defendant were both Black. ( Id. at p. 1260; see id. at p. 1256, fn. 1.) As the Thompson majority correctly observed, \"the fact that the potential juror might identify too much with the defendant because they are of the same race is precisely what Batson said is not legitimate.\" ( Id. at p. 1260.) A reviewing court might well entertain a reasonable doubt regarding the propriety of the challenge on such a record. But nothing comparable appears in the record before us.\nIn sum, when a trial court decides to hold a Wheeler hearing, it is possible, in the abstract, that the defense's contribution might make a difference in the ultimate ruling, which is why Wheeler hearings generally should be adversarial. On this well-developed record, however, we are confident that defense counsel could not have argued anything substantial that would have changed the court's rulings. Accordingly, the error was harmless.\nDefendant also contends that the error violated his rights to be present and to be represented by counsel as guaranteed by the state and federal Constitutions and by California statutory law. (See U.S. Const., 6th 14th Amends.; Cal. Const., art. I, \u00a7 15; Pen. Code, \u00a7\u00a7 977, subd. (b), 1043, subd. (a); People v. Waidla (2000) 22 Cal.4th 690, 741-742.) And he claims violations of rights under the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the federal Constitution. We need not address these contentions in detail, for our analysis shows that the erroneous exclusion of the defense from the Wheeler hearing was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt under the federal constitutional standard of Chapman v. California, supra, 386 U.S. 18, 24, and also harmless under the state law standard of People v. Watson, supra, 46 Cal.2d 818, 836. (Cf. Rushen v. Spain (1983) 464 U.S. 114, 118-119 ( per curiam) [assuming the trial court's erroneous ex parte communications with juror implicated the defendant's federal constitutional rights to presence and to counsel, the error was harmless]; People v. Wright, supra, 52 Cal.3d 367, 402-403 [same]; People v. Hogan (1982) 31 Cal.3d 815, 849-850 (lead opn.), disapproved on another ground in People v. Cooper (1991) 53 Cal.3d 771, 836 [temporary absence of counsel during jury deliberations assessed under harmless error standard]; People v. Knighten (1980) 105 Cal.App.3d 128, 132-133 [same].)\nB. Challenge Regarding Rights of Excluded Prospective Jurors\nIn tandem with his Wheeler claim, defendant also maintains that the ex parte proceedings make it impossible to determine whether race-based exclusion may have occurred, to the detriment of prospective jurors who enjoy a right under the equal protection clause not to be discriminated against in jury selection on the basis of race. ( Powers v. Ohio, supra, 499 U.S. 400, 409.) Again, on the record before us, we are confident that no such exclusion occurred. The prosecutor articulated, at a minimum, plausible criteria for his excusals, the trial court agreed that the excusals were proper, and to the extent the written record before us touches on the prosecutor's stated reasons, it confirms that they were not pretextual.\nC. Loss of Certain Prospective Jurors' Questionnaires\nDefendant claims that his constitutional right to a meaningful review of his conviction and sentence has been infringed by the loss of the bulk of prospective juror questionnaires. The questionnaires of the seated jurors and alternates were preserved, but almost all others have been lost.\nAs a general matter, we disagree. We addressed, and rejected, a similar claim in People v. Alvarez, supra, 14 Cal.4th 155, where we said: \"[D]efendant maintains that his Wheeler[-] Batson claim must be resolved in his favor on the ground that the record on appeal is not adequate to permit meaningful review. The deficiency of which he complains is the absence of certain questionnaires, which were completed by prospective jurors, then lodged with the superior court, subsequently lost by its clerk's office, and finally determined by the superior court to be beyond reconstruction. A criminal defendant is indeed entitled to a record on appeal that is adequate to permit meaningful review. That is true under California law. [Citation.] It is true as well under the United States Constitution \u2014 under the Fourteenth Amendment generally, and under the Eighth Amendment specifically when a sentence of death is involved. [Citation.] The record on appeal is inadequate, however, only if the complained-of deficiency is prejudicial to the defendant's ability to prosecute his appeal.\" ( Id. at p. 196, fn. 8.)\nWith regard to the prospective jurors whose questionnaires were lost but who are not identified by defendant as the subject of Wheeler challenges: this court will not in any event compare the views of those jurors excused by peremptory challenges with those who were not excused on that basis. ( People v. Jackson, supra, 13 Cal.4th 1164, 1197; cf. id. at pp. 1248-1249 (conc. opn. of Mosk, J.) [urging a contrary approach].) Under this court's precedent, therefore, the loss of the questionnaires could not have prejudiced him. With regard to the prospective jurors whose questionnaires were lost and who were the subject of Wheeler challenges, we have already explained that the record is sufficiently complete for us to be able to conclude that they were not challenged and excused on the basis of forbidden group bias. Thus, even if there was federal error, it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt ( Chapman v. California, supra, 386 U.S. 18, 24), and under state law any error also was harmless ( People v. Watson, supra, 46 Cal.2d 818, 836).\nD. Denying Motions to Discharge the Jury Panel and Certain Prospective Jurors for Cause or Continue the Trial Because of News Accounts\nDefendant's brother Ronaldo Ayala was tried shortly before defendant for crimes arising from the same events. In the aftermath of news coverage of the death sentence imposed on Ronaldo Ayala, defendant moved either to dismiss the jury panel or to continue the trial until the coverage's effects had lessened. He also moved to excuse certain prospective jurors for cause, namely their exposure to the coverage. The trial court denied his motions, and he claims error as a result.\nThe People contend that defendant failed to preserve his claim for review, to the extent his motion sought discharge of the jury panel, because the trial court denied the motion as premature without prejudice, pending voir dire, and he failed to renew it afterward. The question is close, but we disagree. The People are correct that the court denied the motion to discharge the panel as premature. It appears, however, that the court may have reiterated its prior denial of the motion to discharge the panel at the point at which defendant moved to be equipped with additional peremptory challenges \u2014 in other words, when jury selection was well underway. At least implicitly, the court finally denied the motion. We will proceed to decide the matter on the merits.\nDoing so, we observe that there was no need to discharge the jury panel unless, after the jury was selected, jurors were sworn who, because of their knowledge of the trial or sentence, or both, of Ronaldo Ayala, could not be fair in defendant's case. (See People v. Pride (1992) 3 Cal.4th 195, 228-229.) Near the end of jury selection, the trial court stated that it had excused for cause \"any juror[s] that showed a slight leaning that [knowledge of Ronaldo Ayala's case] might well impact their ability to be fair to [defendant]. . . .\" The parties agree that defendant challenged 36 panelists for cause on the basis of their knowledge of the Ronaldo Ayala case, and that of those, 13 were excused, leaving 23. Defendant acknowledges that those 23 prospective jurors agreed that their knowledge of the Ronaldo Ayala case would not affect their ability to try his fairly. He claims, however, that the opposite must be true because Ronaldo Ayala's death sentence was reported on television and in the newspapers, and the prospective jurors were exposed to the information.\nThat, however, is not enough. Defendant's claim is purely speculative. He acknowledges that the panelists testified that they would not be improperly affected by their knowledge of the sentence in Ronaldo Ayala's case. He produces no evidence to support his claim that the jury panel was irremediably tainted by exposure to Ronaldo Ayala's case and should have been excused. For the same reason, his argument that his motion to continue the case should have been granted is without merit.\nDefendant also claims that the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and their equivalents in article I, sections 15, 16, and 17 of the California Constitution, were violated. For the reasons explained in the text, we do not agree.\nDefendant next contends that eight prospective jurors should have been removed for cause because they could not be fair and impartial.\n\"Either party may challenge an individual juror for `an actual bias.' [Citation.] `Actual bias' in this context is defined as `the existence of a state of mind on the part of the juror in reference to the case, or to any of the parties, which will prevent the juror from acting with entire impartiality, and without prejudice to the substantial rights of any party.' [Citations.] A sitting juror's actual bias that would have supported a challenge for cause also renders the juror unable to perform his or her duties and thus subject to discharge. [Citation.] `Grounds for . . . discharge of a juror may be established by his statements or conduct, including events which occur during jury deliberations and are reported by fellow panelists.' [Citation.] The term `actual bias' may include a state of mind resulting from a juror's actually being influenced by extraneous information about a party.\" ( People v. Nesler (1997) 16 Cal.4th 561, 581 (lead opn.).)\n\"`On review, if the juror's statements are equivocal or conflicting, the trial court's determination of the juror's state of mind is binding. If there is no inconsistency, we will uphold the court's ruling if it is supported by substantial evidence. [Citations.]' [Citation.] A juror's bias need not `be proven with unmistakable clarity. [Citations.] Rather, it is sufficient that the trial judge is left with the definite impression that a prospective juror would be unable to faithfully and impartially apply the law in the case before the juror.'\" ( People v. Carpenter (1999) 21 Cal.4th 1016, 1035.)\nWe turn to the specific prospective jurors to whom defendant refers.\nCharles G. had read a newspaper article about the killings in 1985 when they occurred, and was vaguely aware that another man, whose name he could not recall, had recently been sentenced to death as a result. He denied that he would be influenced by Ronaldo Ayala's sentence; rather, it was possible that \"two people might be accused and only one of them is guilty.\" Acknowledging that defendant might prefer jurors who were \"absolutely . . . ignorant of the situation,\" he testified that he could be fair and impartial. \"I'd only judge by the trial that I'm on.\"\nThe trial court ruled that Charles G. could be impartial despite his awareness of Ronaldo Ayala's case. The record supports its ruling. There was no error in denying the challenge for cause.\nLois B. testified on voir dire that she worked at home and would keep the television on in the background. By that means she might have heard something about the case, but she did not pay attention to it. She thought that defendant's brother might have been convicted of crimes, but was not sure. She stated in essence that this fleeting exposure would not affect her ability to be impartial.\nDefense counsel challenged Lois B. as an afterthought, and only because \"[i]t's my intention to challenge any juror who has knowledge of Ronaldo Ayala's case.\" Her challenge was so perfunctory that the trial court did not explicitly rule on it. But it told the prospective juror to await further instructions, and so implicitly denied it. The record supports its implicit ruling. There was no error in denying the challenge for cause.\nCharles C. testified on voir dire that he had what may be characterized as an extremely vague recollection that there might have been another trial arising from the killings and that someone may have been convicted. He testified that \"my knowledge is so hazy that I'm not going to rely on it.\"\nThe trial court ruled that Charles C.'s knowledge of the case was trifling and that he could be impartial. The record supports its ruling. There was no error in denying the challenge for cause.\nCatherine S. had only the faintest memory of Ronaldo Ayala's case. She recalled reading or hearing that another criminal defendant with the same last name had been convicted of something, but knew nothing more and knew nothing about the Ronaldo Ayala proceedings or outcome. The trial court denied without comment defendant's challenge for cause, which was based as much on counsel's suspicion that \"I'm not sure she's been entirely candid\" as on what she said on voir dire.\nOn this record, we see no evidence that Catherine S.'s vague awareness of Ronaldo Ayala's trial affected her impartiality. The court's ruling was proper.\nDwight S. testified that he experienced a \"bit of exposure\" to the legal consequences of the murders when he saw a newspaper headline about Ronaldo Ayala's sentence. He did not read the accompanying article. After completing his questionnaire, he realized that defendant might be Ronaldo Ayala's brother. He testified that he assumed the evidence in the two cases must be different, or the two would have been tried jointly, and that Ronaldo Ayala's sentence would not affect his ability to be impartial. The trial court denied defendant's challenge for cause, commenting that Dwight S. \"would make his decision based upon the evidence as it comes in this case.\"\nThe record supports the trial court's observation. There was no error in denying the challenge for cause.\nRobert K.'s exposure to publicity was the same as Dwight S.'s. But as in Dwight S.'s case, Robert K.'s answers on voir dire made clear that he would not prejudge the case against defendant. In the abstract, he opined, \"one brother can intimidate another brother to come along with him . . . or they both can be willing participants.\" (Indeed, portraying defendant as the deferential follower of Ronaldo Ayala was part of the defense strategy at the penalty phase.) He insisted that he could be impartial. The trial court denied defendant's challenge for cause, and the record supports its decision. There was no error in so ruling.\nIngeburg C. had read a newspaper article reporting Ronaldo Ayala's sentence and mentioning that jury selection in defendant's case was pending. She testified that she only vaguely recalled its content and that \"it doesn't affect me\"; \"I have an open mind, and you have to prove . . . that he's guilty.\"\nThe trial court denied defendant's challenge for cause. Reviewing the record, we see no evidence that Ingeburg C.'s knowledge of Ronaldo Ayala's sentence affected her impartiality. The record is, rather, entirely to the contrary. The ruling was proper.\nThe other prospective juror to whom defendant refers, Bette C., was not, in fact, the object of a challenge for cause.\nIn sum, the court committed no error under state law in respect of any of the contentions defendant presents regarding the aspects of jury selection discussed in this section. Because defendant's constitutional claims are predicated on a violation of state law, they must be rejected.\nIn addition, defendant claims that the trial court improperly denied a motion to give him additional peremptory challenges. As a result, he claims, three jurors, unable to be impartial because they knew about Ronaldo Ayala's conviction or sentence, or both, were seated.\nHe refers to Jurors Lois B., Charles C., and Charles G. But as we have explained, there was no evidence of bias among them. Because the factual predicate of his claim is inaccurate, it cannot be sustained on review.\nE. Claim of Error in Excusing a Prospective Juror Because of Her Views on Capital Punishment\nDefendant claims that the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were violated when the trial court granted the prosecution's motion to excuse a prospective juror for substantially impaired ability to follow the law regarding capital punishment. ( Wainwright v. Witt (1985) 469 U.S. 412, 424.)\n\"As we [have] explained . . ., `[w]hen a prospective juror's views about the death penalty \"would `prevent or substantially impair the performance of his [or her] duties as a juror'\" [citation], the juror is not impartial and may be challenged \"for cause.\"'\" ( People v. Earp (1999) 20 Cal.4th 826, 853.) This test applies equally to defense and prosecution challenges. ( Ibid.) As stated, \"`if the juror's statements are equivocal or conflicting, the trial court's determination of the juror's state of mind is binding. If there is no inconsistency, we will uphold the court's ruling if it is supported by substantial evidence. [Citations.]' [Citation.] A juror's bias need not `be proven with unmistakable clarity. [Citations.] Rather, it is sufficient that the trial judge is left with the definite impression that a prospective juror would be unable to faithfully and impartially apply the law in the case before the juror.'\" ( People v. Carpenter, supra, 21 Cal.4th 1016, 1035.)\nLinda J.'s answers were inconsistent. Initially she testified that would \"find it difficult\" to return a verdict of death. She stated that she went beyond being unsure about imposing the death penalty; rather, \"I don't think I'm capable of that.\" But she also testified that she favored the death penalty in the abstract, and she hypothesized that the trial might enable her to summon the will to impose it.\nAfter initially denying the prosecution's challenge for cause on the ground that Linda J. was \"impaired, but not substantially,\" the trial court later reversed itself, finding that her ability to serve as a juror was substantially impaired.\nBecause Linda J.'s answers were inconsistent, but included testimony that she did not think herself capable of imposing the death penalty, we are bound by the trial court's determination that her candid self-assessment showed a substantially impaired ability to carry out her duty as a juror. There was no violation of any constitutional right.\nF. Denying Two Challenges for Cause by Defendant\nDefendant claims that his rights under the Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and article I, sections 15, 16, and 17 of the California Constitution were violated when the trial court denied his motions to excuse two prospective jurors for substantially impaired ability to follow the law regarding capital punishment.\nIn response to initial questions by the court, Herman J. testified, without qualification or equivocation, that he would not automatically vote for the death penalty if the case reached that stage. Then defense counsel questioned him about his statement on his questionnaire that the death penalty should always been imposed for calculated, methodical murder. In response to leading questions, Herman J. testified, contrary to his response to the court's question, that he would always impose the death penalty for an intentional killing accompanied by a special circumstance, and in essence that he would not pay attention to the defense case in mitigation at the penalty phase.\nAsked by the prosecutor whether he could consider mitigating evidence at a penalty phase, Herman J. testified, \"I would want to consider the evidence and the additional information. [\u00b6] Even though I felt, maybe, that he should get the death penalty, I would still be willing to consider any other . . . additional evidence.\"\nThe prosecutor asked: \"Are you of the frame of mind that any witness called \u2014 if any witness were called by the defense on the subject of mitigating evidence, that that witness would be absolutely wasting his time . . .?\" Herman J. responded, \"Well, I don't think it should be absolutely concrete. [\u00b6] I would be willing to hear additional statements, or anything that . . . might alter the situation. [\u00b6] . . . [\u00b6] Even though I believe in the death penalty and all that, I'm not so set in my ways that I wouldn't listen to . . . anything that might alter the decision. . . .\" He added that he would not always impose the death penalty \"regardless of the situation or regardless of additional information.\" He also testified that he could follow an instruction to return a verdict for death only if the aggravating evidence substantially outweighed the mitigating.\nDefense counsel then asked Herman J. to explain his inconsistent statements. The prospective juror testified that when \"I realized I answered your question by saying . . . if found guilty without a shadow of a doubt I would want the death penalty, but I wasn't . . . considering the fact that you have additional evidence that alters, possibly alters it. [\u00b6] . . . [\u00b6] . . . I'm just saying I would . . . always be willing to listen to additional evidence . . . and possibly change to a life sentence.\" In sum, Herman J. testified that he might be presented with evidence \"important enough to consider the life sentence rather than the death penalty, even though I lean towards the death penalty.\" But that mitigating evidence would have to be \"strong\" and \"meaningful\" to alter his predisposition to impose the death penalty.\nDefendant argued, without success, to the trial court that Herman J.'s final answer confirmed what many of his others had suggested: that he would impose the death penalty unless presented with mitigating evidence that substantially outweighed that in aggravation, and hence could not follow his oath. He renews that argument here.\nThe trial court made no comment on its ruling beyond a statement that Herman J. was not substantially impaired. On this record, we cannot say that substantial evidence did not support the ruling. We believe that Herman J.'s testimony pointed to two views that did not conflict. He testified that his own predilection, unmoored by legal instruction, would be to impose death unless there was a substantial reason not to. But he also testified, not inconsistently, that he could and would follow an instruction that directed him not to follow his own predilection but instead the law. Substantial evidence supports the court's ruling.\nPatricia P.'s daughter was a San Diego County Sheriff's deputy, and her son was a police officer with the Chula Vista Police Department. He had previously been a San Diego police officer. Patricia P. testified that she thought the justice system was too lenient and that a criminal defendant should bear the burden of proving innocence. In her questionnaire, she stated that she favored increased use of the death penalty, and automatic imposition of a capital sentence for multiple murder \u2014 one of the special circumstances charged here. But on voir dire examination by defense counsel, she stated that she \"would like to think that there would be other options\" than the death penalty even in a multiple-murder case. And she also testified that she could follow the law on the presumption of innocence and the requirement of proof beyond a reasonable doubt even if such tenets contradicted her beliefs, that she could consider evidence in mitigation even if defendant were convicted of multiple murders, and that she would follow an instruction that she could not vote for the death penalty unless the aggravating evidence substantially outweighed that in mitigation.\nDefendant challenged Patricia P. for cause on the ground that her views of the law substantially impaired her ability to follow her oath as a juror. The court disagreed, stating that \"clearly this [prospective] juror is not impaired.\" Substantial evidence supports that determination. As with Herman J., there was substantial evidence that she could separate her personal beliefs from her duties as a juror.\nIn conclusion, we discern no violation of any constitutional provision.\nG. Representation of Hispanics and the Young in Jury Pool\nDefendant, who is Hispanic, contends that underrepresentation of Hispanics in the jury pool violated his rights under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and article I, section 16 of the California Constitution. He also claims that underrepresentation of the young violated his rights to a representative jury pool. He brought the same claims at trial, but the trial court rejected them.\nThese are the same claims that were presented in People v. Ayala, supra, 23 Cal.4th 225, 256-257.) We rejected them there, and again do so here.\nWith regard to young people, the trial court ruled that the young are not a cognizable group, but even if they were, there was no improper exclusion of them in the jury selection process.\n\"California courts have not been receptive to the argument that age alone identifies a distinctive or cognizable group within the meaning of [the representative cross-section] rule.\" ( People v. McCoy (1995) 40 Cal.App.4th 778, 783 [citing cases].) We need not decide, however, whether peremptory challenges on the basis of age violate the strictures of Batson or Wheeler; defendant simply does not persuade, any more than he does regarding Hispanic jurors, that the young were improperly excluded under the jury selection system in place. As the People observe, aside from a mention of statistical disparity in the presence of young people as a result of the jury selection process, a factor that does not by itself establish systematic exclusion ( People v. Ayala, supra, 23 Cal.4th 225, 257), the only fault defendant finds with the process is that the master list of the jury pool was only updated annually, so that those who turned 18 during the year would not be included and some 18-year-olds would turn 19. We do not believe that amounts to systematic exclusion. In order to avoid that effect or a similar one, the master list would have to be updated daily. The law does not require such diligence.\nII. Guilt Phase Issues\nA. Search of the Garage Office and Seizure of Items Therefrom\nAt trial, defendant filed a motion to exclude evidence obtained from a search of the automobile body shop garage where the murders occurred. (\u00a7 1538.5.) He claimed that (1) searching the premises, and (2) removing therefrom certain small items, namely \"vodka containers, orange juice containers and beer cans in which [he had] a proprietary interest,\" violated his rights under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and article I, section 13 of the California Constitution.\nThe evidence regarding the relevant fingerprint evidence is as follows: The police recovered two orange juice containers and a vodka bottle from the office where the victims' bodies lay. One orange juice container was full; the other contained a small amount of liquid. A fingerprint examiner identified defendant's fingerprint on one of the orange juice containers. An evidence technician had obtained the print, but he failed to note whether it came from the full or the almost empty container.\nWe apply the Fourth Amendment standard in deciding what remedy may be available following a claim of unlawful search or seizure. ( In re Lance W. (1985) 37 Cal.3d 873, 886-887; Bowens v. Superior Court (1991) 1 Cal.4th 36, 47.)\n\"`An appellate court's review of a trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress is governed by well-settled principles. [Citations.] [\u00b6] In ruling on such a motion, the trial court (1) finds the historical facts, (2) selects the applicable rule of law, and (3) applies the latter to the former to determine whether the rule of law as applied to the established facts is or is not violated. [Citations.] \"The [trial] court's resolution of each of these inquiries is, of course, subject to appellate review.\" [Citations.] [\u00b6] The court's resolution of the first inquiry, which involves questions of fact, is reviewed under the deferential substantial-evidence standard. [Citations.] Its decision on the second, which is a pure question of law, is scrutinized under the standard of independent review. [Citations.] Finally, its ruling on the third, which is a mixed fact-law question that is however predominantly one of law, . . . is also subject to independent review.'\" ( People v. Alvarez, supra, 14 Cal.4th 155, 182.)\nThe claim is without merit. Even if defendant left the containers at the automobile body shop while there as an invitee or a social guest, he had no expectation of privacy in the premises. \"`\"[O]ccasional presence on the premises as a mere guest or invitee\"'\" is insufficient to confer such an expectation. ( U.S. v. Chaves (11th Cir. 1999) 169 F.3d 687, 691.) Moreover, the trial court found that he had abandoned the containers \u2014 a factual finding supported by substantial evidence and to which, accordingly, we defer. Abandoning them, he relinquished any expectation of privacy in them. As a general matter, \"`the overwhelming weight of authority rejects the proposition that a reasonable expectation of privacy exists with respect to trash discarded outside the home and the curtilage thereof.'\" ( People v. Machupa (1994) 7 Cal.4th 614, 629, fn. 5; see People v. Roybal (1998) 19 Cal.4th 481, 507-508; see also Abel v. United States (1960) 362 U.S. 217, 240-241.)\nFor the foregoing reasons, we find defendant's Fourth Amendment claims to lack merit, and reject them.\nB. Radiologist's Testimony on Bullet Size\nDefendant claims that the court erred under state law in permitting testimony outside of the expertise of a witness.\nBefore the radiologist testified, Pedro Castillo testified that two guns were used in the robbery. Defendant had one, Ronaldo Ayala the other. Castillo did not testify that the two exchanged weapons at any point; rather, both kept control of their respective guns. He further testified that a shot was fired at him as he tried to flee and he felt the impact of a bullet. According to other testimony, .22-caliber bullet casings were found on the curb near South Forty-third Street, and a .38-caliber bullet was found in the body shop office, near Dominguez's foot. The murder victims had all been shot exclusively by a .38-caliber gun, except Dominguez, who received one .22-caliber and one .38-caliber wound. Hence, the best interpretation of the evidence at that point was that defendant shot Rositas and Zamora twice and Dominguez once with his .38-caliber gun, all execution-style, whereas Ronaldo Ayala shot Dominguez once and Castillo with his .22-caliber gun.\nThat interpretation was buttressed by the testimony of Leland Everett Kellerhouse, Jr., M.D. The shot that hit Castillo remained in his body, so it was decided to tape bullets of known caliber to Castillo's skin and take X-ray photographs capturing those bullets and the one in his body to determine the caliber of the latter projectile. Dr. Kellerhouse, a diagnostic radiologist certified as an expert in that area, was preparing to testify about the content of the X-rays, but defense counsel objected, saying \"if he's going to give an opinion as to the caliber of the bullet, I'll object. . . .\" The court asked, \"Based upon the comparison of the projectiles? [\u00b6] The objection is noted, overruled.\"\nDr. Kellerhouse then proceeded to explain that the bullet inside Castillo was lodged about 1.5 inches below the skin. An investigator taped two bullets to Castillo's skin above the location of the lodged bullet. The prosecutor asked Dr. Kellerhouse if he knew the caliber of the taped bullets, but he declined to give a definitive answer, saying \"I'm not an expert in ballistics.\" He did testify, however, that the X-ray would hardly distort, if it did so at all, the relative sizes of the bullets, so that a comparison of size based on the X-ray would be valid.\nOn redirect examination, the prosecutor asked Dr. Kellerhouse, \"applying . . . your expertise [in] the interpretation of X-rays, and considering the technique that was utilized in this case, do you have an opinion as to whether the projectile within Mr. Castillo . . . was of the same size as either of the two that were taped to Mr. Castillo's stomach?\" Dr. Kellerhouse responded that \"the deformed projectile within the patient most likely represents . . . the same caliber as . . . the [taped] projectile . . . just to the left . . . of the projectile within the patient.\" The investigator then testified that the smaller projectile he taped to the body was a .22-caliber bullet. Apparently that was the bullet that the X-ray showed to be taped immediately to the left of the lodged bullet.\nDefendant contends that the foregoing amounted to expert testimony in ballistics, a topic in which Dr. Kellerhouse was not an expert.\nThe contention is without merit. Dr. Kellerhouse acknowledged that he was not a ballistics expert, and declined to testify about the bullets' caliber. He did testify that both bullets appeared to be the same \"caliber,\" by which he could have meant the same size \u2014 defendant did not object or ask the radiologist to clarify his meaning in further examination. As a radiologist, Dr. Kellerhouse could testify that the bullets were located so that their relative size would not be distorted in the X-ray photographs.\nDefendant next claims that the court failed to follow the rule of People v. Kelly (1976) 17 Cal.3d 24, regarding the admission of scientific evidence via expert testimony, when it permitted Dr. Kellerhouse to testify about the results of the purported bullet-comparison experiment.\nKelly \"set forth certain `general principles of admissibility' of expert testimony based on new scientific techniques, including the following `traditional' two-step process: `(1) [T]he reliability of the method must be established, usually by expert testimony, and (2) the witness furnishing such testimony must be properly qualified as an expert to give an opinion on the subject. [Citations.] Additionally, the proponent of the evidence must demonstrate that correct scientific procedures were used in the particular case.'\" ( People v. Leahy (1994) 8 Cal.4th 587, 594, quoting People v. Kelly, supra, 17 Cal.3d 24, 30, italics omitted.)\nBut Kelly does not apply here. This was not an experiment at all. As we recently stated, \"The Kelly test is intended to forestall the jury's uncritical acceptance of scientific evidence or technology that is so foreign to everyday experience as to be unusually difficult for laypersons to evaluate.\" ( People v. Venegas (1998) 18 Cal.4th 47, 80.) But here, where \"a procedure isolate[d] physical evidence whose existence, appearance, nature, and meaning are obvious to the senses of a layperson, the reliability of the process in producing that result is equally apparent and need not be debated under the standards of [ Kelly].\" ( People v. Webb (1993) 6 Cal.4th 494, 524 [holding that Kelly does not apply to a chemical, laser, and photographic process used to expose and identify defendant's fingerprint on duct tape found at the crime scene].) There was no Kelly error in presenting the evidence.\nNext, defendant asserts in essence that Dr. Kellerhouse conducted a scientific experiment that did not satisfy foundational relevance requirements. One requirement is that \"the experiment must have been conducted under substantially similar conditions as those of the actual occurrence. . . .\" ( People v. Bonin (1989) 47 Cal.3d 808, 847.)\nSetting aside any question whether defendant has waived this claim, we find it to lack merit. The X-ray procedure was not an experiment performed in order to duplicate the conditions of the crime \u2014 as stated, it was not an experiment of any kind. Rather, it was simply a procedure that gave the radiologist an opportunity to describe a physical effect of the shooting that the jury could not discern without expert help.\nC. Excluding Admission of Evidence of Arming During Prior Crime\nThe trial court ruled that defendant could not impeach Castillo with an inquiry whether, some 14 years before his testimony, he had been convicted of a felony: possessing narcotics for sale while armed with a .22-caliber pistol. The court allowed defendant to inquire about Castillo's conviction for drug possession for sale, but not about any element of the offense that he was armed. It ruled that evidence of being armed would be substantially more prejudicial than probative under Evidence Code section 352\nDefendant claims that the court erred in excluding the evidence under Evidence Code section 352 In particular, he asserts, knowing about Castillo's prior gun possession might have led the jury to wonder about Castillo's criminal sophistication and whether Castillo's story that defendant and Ronaldo Ayala killed Rositas, Zamora, and Dominguez, was true. He argues that depriving him of the opportunity to raise that question was error. We disagree.\nIn ruling on the question whether evidence is substantially more prejudicial than probative, the trial court enjoyed broad discretion. (Evid. Code \u00a7 352) \"[T]he latitude section 352 allows for exclusion of impeachment evidence in individual cases is broad. The statute empowers courts to prevent criminal trials from degenerating into nitpicking wars of attrition over collateral credibility issues.\" ( People v. Wheeler (1992) 4 Cal.4th 284, 295.) And the truth-in-evidence provision of the California Constitution (art. I, \u00a7 28, subd. (d)), contrary to defendant's claim, did not limit the court's power to exclude the evidence under section 352 The provision itself so provides.\nOne might conclude, of course, that it would not unduly consume time or confuse the jury to allow defendant to inquire into the arming aspect of Castillo's conviction. But we are required to defer to the trial court's ruling. Given that the conviction was 14 years old and the fact that Castillo was armed would not have revealed any further character trait that would have been particularly telling for impeachment purposes, we are unable to say that the trial court abused its discretion in ruling as it did.\nDefendant also claims that the court's ruling violated the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and article I, sections 15 and 28, subdivision (d) of the California Constitution. For the reasons explained in the text, we do not agree.\nD. Denying Motion for Mistrial\nDefendant claims that the trial court committed reversible error under state law when it denied his motion for a mistrial following a witness's reference to Ronaldo Ayala's case.\nJuan Manuel Meza testified for the prosecution. He had previously testified at Ronaldo Ayala's trial. ( People v. Ayala, supra, 23 Cal.4th 225, 243-244.) The parties agreed, in a discussion with the court and Meza before Meza's testimony, that Meza would refer to Ronaldo Ayala's trial by a euphemism such as \"the `previous proceedings' or the `1988 proceedings' and that the word `trial' is not to be utilized.\"\nAs Meza was beginning to testify about defendant and Ronaldo Ayala's plan to rob and murder people at the automobile body shop, this exchange occurred between the prosecutor and Meza:\n\"Q. Did I tell you that we would ask the judge to reconsider your sentencing?\n\"Q. And when was that to have occurred?\n\"A. When I testified on the case of Ronaldo Ayala.\"\nDefendant objected, but the court overruled the objection, stating, \"As to the sequence and [insofar as] it was to be at a hearing, the answer will remain.\" At the next recess, defendant moved for a mistrial on the basis that Meza \"was not to allude to the trial of Ronaldo Ayala,\" but the court denied the motion.\nWe review a ruling denying a motion for mistrial for abuse of discretion. ( People v. Welch (1999) 20 Cal.4th 701, 749.) We find none. \"[A] motion for mistrial should be granted only when `\"a party's chances of receiving a fair trial have been irreparably damaged.\"'\" ( People v. Ayala, supra, 23 Cal.4th 225, 282.) Defendant has not shown that any irreparable damage \u2014 indeed, any damage at all \u2014 occurred here. Meza's comment was, as the People argue, innocuous. The jury had already been exposed to evidence that Ronaldo Ayala robbed and killed along with defendant. Indeed, Meza himself testified, without objection, that Ronaldo Ayala said, at a meeting to plan the robbery, that every victim of the robbery was to be bound with duct tape and killed. Finally, the jury was instructed, before beginning to deliberate, that it was not to discuss or consider the legal fate of any perpetrator other than defendant. There was no error.\nAnd for the foregoing reasons, we also reject defendant's argument that the trial court committed reversible error in failing to grant his motion for mistrial because the prosecutor, in his rebuttal argument, referred twice to witnesses' attendance at more than one trial.\nI. Prosecution's Case\nIn addition to defendant's prior felony convictions, the prosecution presented evidence of his prior violent criminal activity. In chronological order, the evidence related to the following episodes:\nA. Holdup and Hostage-taking at Fast Food Restaurant in 1975\nThis episode underlay defendant's 1975 felony conviction for burglary. Witnesses testified that on March 28, 1975, he held up the Picnic 'N Chicken fast food restaurant on Euclid Avenue at Eighth Street in National City. He held a gun to an employee's head while the manager complied with his demand for money. After collecting the money, he announced that he and his hostage, a woman, were departing, but the manager said the cash weighed too much for the hostage to carry and offered to substitute himself, which defendant allowed. The manager and defendant walked outside, where a police officer shot defendant, allowing the manager to escape unhurt.\nB. Stabbing Another Prison Inmate in 1976\nRobert Richard Maytorena testified that he shared space in a dormitory at Tehachapi State Prison with defendant. Defendant asked to borrow his radio and Maytorena refused. The two had other disputes. On August 25, 1976, Maytorena awoke to find defendant stabbing him with a screwdriver. He jumped up. Defendant looked startled, as if surprised he had not killed him, and ran away.\nMaytorena was taken to the hospital. He testified that he lost his spleen and a kidney and that he was told it was miraculous he had survived. At the time of trial he still suffered flashbacks of the incident, and he had continuing medical problems from the stabbing.\nC. Killing Another Prison Inmate in 1982\nWitnesses testified that defendant stabbed Jesse (or Jessie) Manuel Apodaca to death on September 6, 1982, in an exercise yard at Folsom State Prison. Daniel Apodaca, Jesse Apodaca's brother, testified that he saw defendant stabbing him multiple times, and he did not see anyone else stabbing him. A pathologist testified that Jesse Apodaca suffered five stab wounds, and died of a stab wound to the heart.\nII. Defense Case\nDefendant did not testify at the penalty phase, but various relatives testified about his background, along the lines of the testimony given in People v. Ayala, supra, 23 Cal.4th 225, 296-297. In addition, Marjorie Suarez, defendant's half sister, testified that their mother, Rosa Ayala, was and remained an alcoholic, and that she was not affectionate or demonstrative. She explained that many of Rosa Ayala's children had encountered misfortune: some were in prison and one had died of a heroin overdose. She begged the jury to spare defendant's life.\nRosa Ayala testified that defendant has four children and is married. She testified that he was respectful of his parents as a child.\nJose R. Ayala, defendant's father, testified with the aid of an interpreter. When defendant was about 12 to 14 years old, his half brother Ernie almost died of a heroin overdose. Jose Ayala had to break down the bathroom door to rescue him. He told the jury that he wanted defendant to be punished, not by death, but \"in jail, so that his children would see him.\"\nIn People v. Ayala, supra, 23 Cal.4th 225, 296, defendant's father is identified as Rogelio \"Joe\" Ayala.\nBarbara Moreno, defendant's sister, testified that as an adult, defendant, who lived across the street, would help take care of her children when needed. She further testified that defendant was a warm parent and husband, despite a difficult home life; their father was once jailed for domestic violence.\nDefendant's half sister, Esther Brosnan, testified that Rosa Ayala \"[n]ever grew up\" and should not have had eight children.\nDefendant introduced evidence to suggest that Ronaldo Ayala was the ringleader of the crimes at the body shop. Various witnesses testified that Ronaldo Ayala was the leader of the two brothers and that defendant was under his influence.\nThe defense also presented evidence to cast doubt on defendant's role in the prison assaults, particularly the killing of Jesse Apodaca. It offered evidence suggesting that defendant stabbed him only once and that others might have participated. It also called two witnesses, Guadelupe Navarro and Jorge Ramirez Acosta, also then incarcerated at Folsom, who controverted other accounts of the stabbing. Both testified that immediately afterward prison guards lined up several inmates against the wall, but defendant was not among them \u2014 he was nearby, but not in the immediate vicinity of the mortally wounded inmate. By contrast, other witnesses, including the guard involved, had testified that a guard grabbed defendant while he was still stabbing and kicking Apodaca, or immediately afterward, and placed him under arrest against the wall.\nThe prosecution impeached Navarro with evidence that he had told investigators he did not want to gain a reputation as a \"rat\" by testifying against another inmate. And Daniel Apodaca, called as a rebuttal witness, testified that neither Navarro nor Acosta was in the exercise yard when his brother was killed.\nThere had been testimony that the inmate who stabbed Apodaca did so using his right arm, and the defense used it to its advantage. James Grisolia, M.D., a clinical neurologist, testified regarding the weakness of defendant's right arm and shoulder that stemmed from being shot during the 1975 Picnic 'N Chicken robbery. Dr. Grisolia explained that defendant had fairly good mobility in his right arm, but that the arm and his right hand were weak, as were the muscles that elevate the arm and wrist. His condition would have been worse in the past, and Dr. Grisolia doubted that he would have been able to penetrate a victim's rib with a knife held in his right hand and inflicted a wound in the heart. But he noted that defendant was left-handed, and acknowledged that his left hand would be able to inflict a knife wound to the heart.\nThe defense also presented evidence to the jury that defendant had never been charged with Apodaca's killing, or in any other prison assault. A former parole officer testified that the authorities' policy is to prosecute in-prison crimes if there is sufficient evidence to do so. And there was testimony that defendant and Apodaca had reconciled, following an exchange of insulting remarks, when Apodaca apologized.\nDefendant presents a number of legal arguments related to the penalty phase proceedings. As will appear, none has merit.\nA. Prosecutor's Appointment to Municipal Court Bench\nFollowing the close of the guilt phase, the parties discussed whether to tell the jury that the lead prosecutor, Woodward, had just been appointed to the San Diego Municipal Court and would no longer appear for the People. The trial court was inclined to inform the jury of the fact. Defendant urged that the court instead limit itself to saying Woodward had departed for positive professional reasons. To do otherwise, he argued, would be to burnish the prosecution's stature before the jury and improperly enhance the possibility of a verdict of death.\nThe trial court, stating that Woodward's appointment was public knowledge, disagreed. It said that it did not wish to lose credibility with the jurors, in essence by giving them a vague and unsatisfying explanation for Woodward's absence, and informed them that Woodward had departed for an appointment to the bench, a process that had been underway before the prosecution of defendant.\nDefendant renews his argument here. He claims that informing the jury of Woodward's elevation to the bench enhanced the prosecution's stature, depriving him of a trial before an impartial judge because the trial court now appeared to be the prosecutor's colleague and violating his constitutional right to due process of law generally.\nWe reject defendant's claim. It is purely speculative. Nothing in the record shows that the jury was influenced in any way by Woodward's appointment. The same applies to defendant's argument that the trial court now appeared to the jury to be on the side of the prosecution. We also note that the prosecutor's departure was, so to speak, a clean break. Although the jury knew that the People were seeking the death penalty, the jurors had not yet heard the prosecution's case that defendant should be executed. The jury had already returned its verdict of guilt, and that verdict could not have been influenced by Woodward's appointment.\nB. Prosecutor's Remark About Taking Case Seriously\nAt closing argument, the prosecutor urged that defendant be sentenced to death, meriting nothing less, and said that she did not ask for the death penalty \"lightly.\" Defendant asked the court to assign misconduct to the remark because it amounted to a personal endorsement of the need for the verdict, but the court ruled that the prosecutor's comment was proper and denied the motion.\nOn appeal, defendant claims that the ruling violated his rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and article I, section 17 of the California Constitution. He also contends that it contravened state law beyond the constitutional guaranty, and indeed his constitutional claims are predicated on state law error.\n\"When we review a claim of prosecutorial remarks constituting misconduct, we examine whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury would have understood the remark to cause the mischief complained of.\" ( People v. Osband (1996) 13 Cal.4th 622, 689.)\n\"[A] prosecutor may not . . . vouch personally for the appropriateness of the verdict he or she urges.\" ( People v. Benson (1990) 52 Cal.3d 754, 795.) But there is no reasonable likelihood that the jury would have understood the prosecutor's remark as doing so. She was stating \"what was obvious and altogether unobjectionable \u2014 i.e., that it was the People's position that defendant's crimes called for the ultimate sanction.\" ( Ibid.) By declaring that she did not take that position lightly, she was saying that it was the People's considered position, and not whimsical. ( People v. Scott (1997) 15 Cal.4th 1188, 1219.) But that was stating the obvious. We discern no misconduct. Because there was no violation of defendant's state law rights, and his constitutional claims are predicated on his state law claim, we reject them as well.\nC. Failing to Instruct Not to Double-count Aggravating Factors\nIt will be recalled that the jury convicted defendant of three murders and found true a special circumstance of multiple murder. It also convicted him of two attempted robberies and found true a special circumstance of felony-murder attempted robbery. Defendant claims that the court violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution in refusing to give this instruction, which he requested, to the jury before it decided the penalty: \"You must not consider as an aggravating factor the existence of any special circumstance if you have already considered the facts of the special circumstance as a circumstance of the crime for which the defendant has been convicted. [\u00b6] In other words, do not consider the same factors more than once in determining the presence of aggravating factors.\"\nInstead, the court instructed the jury thus: \"In determining which penalty is to be imposed on defendant, you shall consider all of the evidence which has been received during any part of the trial of this case. . . . You shall consider, take into account and be guided by the following factors, if you find them to be applicable in this case: [\u00b6] (a) The circumstances of the crime of which the defendant was convicted in the present proceeding and the existence of any special circumstances found to be true.\" This was, in substance, the standard language of part of CALJIC No. 8.85 (5th ed. 1988).\nIn People v. Melton (1988) 44 Cal.3d 713, we stated, \"The literal language of [factor] (a) presents a theoretical problem . . . since it tells the penalty jury to consider the `circumstances' of the capital crime and any attendant statutory `special circumstances.' Since the latter are a subset of the former, a jury given no clarifying instructions might conceivably double-count any `circumstances' which were also `special circumstances.' On defendant's request, the trial court should admonish the jury not to do so. [\u00b6] However, the possibility of actual prejudice seems remote. . . .\" ( Id. at p. 768, second italics added.)\n\"When reviewing a supposedly ambiguous [i.e., potentially misleading] jury instruction, ` \"we inquire `whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury has applied the challenged instruction in a way' that violates the Constitution.\"'\" ( People v. Welch, supra, 20 Cal.4th 701, 766.)\nWe discern no such reasonable likelihood here. \"[W]e have already concluded that the standard instructions do not inherently encourage the double counting of aggravating factors. [Citations.] We have also recognized repeatedly that the absence of an instruction cautioning against double counting does not warrant reversal in the absence of any misleading argument by the prosecutor.\" ( People v. Barnett (1998) 17 Cal.4th 1044, 1180.) There was no misleading argument here.\nThe prosecutor's closing argument separated the murders and other crimes at the body shop as circumstances of the crime under section 190.3, factor (a), from the evidence of defendant's other prior misconduct, informing the jurors that they were not to consider the circumstances of the crimes both under section 190.3, factor (a), and as prior violent criminal activity ( id., factor (b)) or as prior felony convictions ( id., factor (c)). Pointing to information presented in chart form, she said, \"The boards that are in yellow represent [defendant's] felony convictions. The boards that are in red represent his violent acts, and the board that is in purple represents the underlying crimes in the body shop.\" In sum, she said nothing that might mislead the jury as defendant suggests. (See People v. Barnett, supra, 17 Cal.4th 1044, 1179.) As stated, this record gives no indication of a reasonable likelihood that the jury applied the instructions given it in a legally improper manner.\nD. Other Claims\nDefendant claims that the 1978 death penalty scheme is unconstitutional in various respects \u2014 for example, in permitting the prosecution to introduce evidence of his prior violent criminal activity at the penalty phase. But as a \"`\"general matter at least, the 1978 death penalty law is facially valid under the federal and state charters. . . . We see no need to rehearse or revisit our holdings or their underlying reasoning.\"'\" ( People v. Ochoa (1998) 19 Cal.4th 353, 478.) We will, however, touch on defendant's key arguments. Jury unanimity is not required to establish the truth of unadjudicated crimes. ( People v. Carpenter, supra, 21 Cal.4th 1016, 1061.) Defendant was not entitled to a separate jury for the penalty phase. ( People v. Pride, supra, 3 Cal.4th 195, 252.) The delay in presenting evidence of unadjudicated crimes did not amount to a stale prosecution ( People v. Ayala, supra, 23 Cal.4th 225, 300) or violate any statute of limitations ( People v. Carpenter, supra, 21 Cal.4th at p. 1061). The argument that each California county improperly applies its own standards to death penalty prosecutions is without merit. ( People v. Holt (1997) 15 Cal.4th 619, 702; see also People v. Ochoa, supra, 19 Cal.4th at p. 479.) And the combination of numerous available special circumstances and the prosecution's charging discretion does not render the death penalty law invalid. (See People v. Lucas (1995) 12 Cal.4th 415, 478.)\nGEORGE, C.J., dissenting.\nI agree with the majority's conclusion that the ex parte procedure employed by the trial court to review defendant's challenge to the prosecution's use of peremptory challenges under People v. Wheeler (1978) 22 Cal.3d 258, 276-277 ( Wheeler) and Batson v. Kentucky (1986) 476 U.S. 79 ( Batson) was error, but I disagree with its unprecedented conclusion that the erroneous exclusion of the defense from a crucial portion of jury selection proceedings may be deemed harmless. I believe that applicable state and federal precedent clearly requires that we reverse defendant's conviction and remand this case for a new trial.\nDuring voir dire, defendant's counsel made three separate Wheeler/Batson motions, based upon the prosecution's challenges to seven potential jurors who were members of a racial or ethnic minority. The trial court was uncertain whether the first two motions (concerning two jurors each) stated a prima facie case, but in an abundance of caution it asked the prosecution to respond with reasons for those challenges, and it held hearings on those motions. The trial court expressly found that the third defense motion (concerning three jurors) stated a prima facie case, asked the prosecution to respond, and held a hearing on that motion as well.\nIn response to the first motion, the prosecution stated: \"I can do that [i.e., provide reasons for the peremptory challenges], but I would do it in chambers, without the presence of counsel. . . . [\u00b6] They are not entitled to our strategy.\" In reply, defense counsel stated: \" But I think I . . . am entitled to be present with respect to their statement, to the extent that their arguments \u2014 that their statement is a misstatement of the facts, and I think I'm entitled to at least make sure the record is clear as to what the statement of facts is.\" (Italics added.) Defense counsel immediately added: \"With respect to strategy, I certainly don't want to pry into the strategy.\" The court thereafter allowed the prosecutor to state his reasons at all three hearings in camera, outside the presence of defendant and his counsel, with the proceedings reported but the record sealed.\nIn response to the third motion, the court stated that it would \"request further clarification from the People.\" The prosecutor responded, \"Would the court do that in private, or are we requiring it for counsel?\" The court replied: \"It will be a matter of record. It will happen in private.\" Defense counsel asked, \"Does the court wish us to leave the courtroom?\" The court replied, \"Yes.\"\nI first explain why I agree with the majority that the trial court erred by conducting the Wheeler/Batson hearing outside the presence of defendant and his counsel. Under the procedure established in Wheeler and Batson, once a defendant presents a prima facie case that the prosecution has employed peremptory challenges in a racially discriminatory manner, the prosecution is provided with an opportunity to explain or rebut that showing. But the burden of persuasion on this issue still, and always, remains with the defendant. This has long been the operating assumption under both Wheeler and Batson. (See, e.g., Purkett v. Elem (1995) 514 U.S. 765, 768 [\"the ultimate burden of persuasion regarding racial motivation rests with, and never shifts from, the opponent of the strike\"].) Seen in this light, it becomes clear why a defendant must have the right to be present with counsel and to participate in the proceeding when the prosecution undertakes its rebuttal. The defendant's obligation to persuade the court continues even after the prosecution has made its statement, and accordingly, a clear majority of decisions has recognized that a defendant must have the right to be present with counsel in order to comment on, and possibly offer surrebuttal to, the prosecution's representations. (See, e.g., U.S. v. Thompson (9th Cir. 1987) 827 F.2d 1254, 1258-1259 ( Thompson); U.S. v. Roan Eagle (8th Cir. 1989) 867 F.2d 436, 441; U.S. v. Gordon (11th Cir. 1987) 817 F.2d 1538, 1541 (vacated and remanded on another point (1988) 836 F.2d 1312); Ex Parte Branch (Ala. 1987) 526 So.2d 609, 624; Gray v. State (Md. 1989) 562 A.2d 1278, 1282-1283; Com. v. Futch (Mass.App.Ct. 1995) 647 N.E.2d 59, 61-62; Harper v. State (Miss. 1987) 510 So.2d 530, 532; State v. Antwine (Mo. 1987) 743 S.W.2d 51, 63-64; People v. Hameed (N.Y. 1996) 666 N.E.2d 1339, 1342; Buck v. Com. (Va. 1994) 443 S.E.2d 414, 415; see also Note, Defense Presence And Participation: A Procedural Minimum For Batson v. Kentucky Hearings (1989) 99 Yale L.J. 187.)\nAs Judge Kozinski observed for the court in Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, defense counsel serves two crucial functions when the prosecution states its reasons at a Wheeler/Batson hearing. First, the presence of the defendant and his or her counsel may assist the court in probing the prosecution's stated reasons and uncovering pretextual justifications \u2014 for example, counsel might be able to point out that other nonexcluded jurors had the same attribute put forth as a reason for excluding the subject juror. ( Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d at p. 1260.) In the same vein, defense counsel also might be able to argue that reasons advanced by the prosecution are legally improper. ( Ibid.) The court in Thompson observed that the trial judge \"might be able to detect some of these deficiencies by himself, but that is not his normal role under our system of justice. He would have to take on the role of defense counsel \u2014 inventing possible arguments as to why the prosecutor's stated reasons might not be sufficient \u2014 while at the same time keeping an open mind so as to rule on the motion impartially.\" ( Ibid.) And there may be valid arguments that a trial court will overlook unless assisted by an able, interested defense counsel. ( Id., at pp. 1260-1261.) Finally, \"[a]t least as to some matters, the court simply might not have the time to ferret out the facts.\" (See id., at p. 1260, fn. 4.)\nFor example, if the prosecution stated that it challenged a juror because the juror was a neighbor of or lived near the defendant, a trial judge unfamiliar with the juror's neighborhood might not be able to determine whether this was so, but defense counsel (possibly assisted by the defendant) might be able to shed light upon the matter.\nSecond, as the court observed in Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, defense counsel performs another important function at a Wheeler/Batson hearing: preserving \"for the record, and possible appeal, crucial facts bearing on the judge's decision.\" ( Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d at p. 1261.) The court in Thompson stated: \"This is a case in point. All we have before us concerning this issue is the prosecutor's explanation of her reasons and the district judge's ruling. For all we know, however, every one of the jurors picked might have worn jeans or voted to acquit a prior defendant [(these were among the prosecution's reasons for challenges)]. Our trust in the learned district judge does, of course, make us quite certain that this could not have been the case. However, if we are to review the district judge's decision, we cannot affirm simply because we are confident he must have known what he was doing. We can only serve our function when the record is clear as to the relevant facts, or when defense counsel fails to point out any such facts after learning of the prosecutor's reasons. [\u00b6] Here, the record's silence cannot be reassuring. . . . Since defense counsel did not learn of the prosecutor's reason until long after the trial, the fact that he failed to point out any discrepancies cannot give us the confidence we would normally have when the record is mute. [\u00b6] In short, we respectfully disagree with the view that defense counsel has nothing to add once he has pointed out the potential Batson violation. . . . Defense counsel could say things that might persuade the district judge or, failing that, he could say things that might persuade us. Both functions are crucial to our adversary system and to the principles of due process it serves.\" ( Ibid., italics added.)\nUnder Thompson and its progeny \u2014 including today's decision a defendant has a right to be present and have his or her counsel orally rebut the prosecution's justifications unless it is shown that an ex parte procedure is necessary in order to protect some overriding interest that favors the maintenance of secrecy and the exclusion of the defendant (and counsel) as well as the public. We recently described some categories of such overriding interests in the related context of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a public and open trial, and the public's First Amendment right of access to criminal and civil trials. (See generally NBC Subsidiary (KNBC-TV) v. Superior Court (1999) 20 Cal.4th 1178, 1205 ( NBC) [defendant's Sixth Amendment right to public trial]; id. passim [public's First Amendment right of access to all significant parts of criminal and civil trials].) For example, under appropriate circumstances, matters involving national security, a confidential informant, or an undercover investigation, may be revealed in camera and be kept from the public (see NBC, supra, 20 Cal.4th at p. 1222, fn. 46), and, as the majority observes, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Thompson, supra, equated with such matters the prosecution's interest in keeping confidential certain aspects of tactics and strategy. ( Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d at p. 1259.) But the court held in Thompson that on the facts presented in that case (as demonstrated by the ex parte, in camera sealed record) the prosecution's Batson justifications were merely routine (they consisted of \"the potential jurors' profession, attitude, dress, address and the fact that one had been acquitted in a prior case\"). ( Ibid.) This, concluded the Ninth Circuit, did not amount to protectable strategy or tactics. ( Ibid.) The majority here properly concludes likewise (maj. opn., ante, at p. 10): the prosecutor's stated reasons for exercising peremptory challenges did not implicate or reveal trial strategy. Accordingly, assuming for the purpose of analysis that the protection of confidential strategy may serve as an overriding interest that will justify the holding of ex parte, in camera hearings in this context, the facts here presented do not implicate any such interest and hence no adequate justification existed for excluding defendant and his counsel from the Wheeler/Batson hearing. The trial court erred by proceeding ex parte.\nIn the present matter, defendant has not asserted that the ex parte and in camera procedure employed below violated his Sixth Amendment right to a public trial. The voir dire process has been recognized as being among the proceedings to which the right to a public trial and public access rights apply. (E.g., Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court (1984) 464 U.S. 501 [ First Amendment context, criminal case voir dire].) And under both the Sixth and First Amendments, a trial court is not permitted to close a trial proceeding unless the court first \"provides notice to the public on the question of closure and after a hearing finds that (i) there exists an overriding interest supporting closure; (ii) there is a substantial probability that the interest will be prejudiced absent closure; (iii) the proposed closure is narrowly tailored to serve that overriding interest; and (iv) there is no less restrictive means of achieving that overriding interest.\" ( NBC, supra, 20 Cal.4th at p. 1181; see also id., at p. 1205 [same rules apply in First Amendment and Sixth Amendment contexts].) There is no indication that the trial court considered any of these factors in the present case, or that it made any such finding.\nBecause the majority agrees that on these facts the prosecution's stated reasons for the exercise of peremptory challenges did not implicate trial strategy, the majority's suggestion that the need to protect trial strategy may constitute an overriding interest that may justify ex parte or in camera proceedings is dictum.\nThe majority finds error under state law, and assumes for the purpose of analysis that the exclusion of a defendant and defense counsel from a Wheeler/Batson hearing also offends the federal Constitution. (Maj. opn., ante, at p. 13.) Yet the majority concludes that, on the facts of this case, the erroneous exclusion of defendant and his counsel from the jury selection hearing was harmless under state law ( People v. Watson (1956) 46 Cal.2d 818, 836 ( Watson)) and under the stricter federal constitutional harmless error standard of Chapman v. California (1967) 386 U.S. 18, 24 ( Chapman). (Maj. opn., ante, at p. 13.)\nFirst, the majority's application of the test for harmless error is suspect. Although the majority ( ante, at p. 21) cites analogous cases which in turn stress that (i) \" prejudice will be presumed\" if the \"denial of counsel at the critical stage of a criminal proceeding . . . may have affected the substantial rights of the accused\" and that (ii) \" [o]nly the most compelling showing to the contrary will overcome the presumption\" ( People v. Knighten (1980) 105 Cal.App.3d 128, 132-133 ( Knighten)) and although the majority apparently concedes, as it must, that the denial of counsel here may have affected defendant's substantial rights (maj. opn., ante, at pp. 18-20) \u2014 nothing in the language, approach, tone, or structure of the majority opinion suggests that the majority's harmless error analysis has been undertaken with these two crucial Knighten principles in mind.\nAccord, People v. Hogan (1982) 31 Cal.3d 815, 849-850 ( Hogan) (lead opn. of Bird, C.J.) [quoting and applying the same standard, and finding reversible error]; see also People v. Lozano (1987) 192 Cal.App.3d 618, 624-626 [same]; People v. Dagnino (1978) 80 Cal.App.3d 981, 989 [same].) In Dagnino, supra, the court, after quoting from Glasser v. United States (1942) 315 U.S. 60, 76, and Mempa v. Rhay (1967) 389 U.S. 128, 134, explained: \"[W]hile denial of counsel at the `critical stage' of a criminal proceeding is not necessarily prejudicial as a matter of law, prejudice will be presumed where the denial ` may have affected' the substantial rights of the accused. Only the `most compelling showing' to the contrary will suffice to overcome the presumption, and courts will not engage in `nice calculations' in making such a determination. And of course the foundational constitutional requirement, in determining the harmlessness of such error, is Chapman v. California's mandate that the `court must be able to declare a belief that [the denial of counsel] was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.'\" ( People v. Dagnino, supra, 80 Cal.App.3d at p. 989, italics in original.)\nIn any event, even if the majority properly were to expressly acknowledge and apply a presumption of prejudice in this case, the majority would be unable to properly rely upon the record made below to reach a reliable decision on the Wheeler/Batson issue. The record on this issue is incomplete, having been erroneously constructed with the input of only the prosecution and the court and without crucial and necessary participation by defendant and his counsel. The court in Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, addressing this same issue, explained that we cannot credit the prosecutor's explanations for the challenges (and the court's rulings thereon), because \" the very reason we hold the procedure to have been deficient is that, without defense counsel's participation, the transcript is likely to be incomplete or misleading, as it is in this case. The government cannot rely on a transcript reflecting such fundamentally flawed procedures to show that that defendant suffered no prejudice.\" ( Id. at p. 1261, italics added.)\nThe method by which the majority proposes to find no prejudice here \u2014 reviewing the transcripts of the ex parte hearings in support of its conclusion that the prosecutor's stated reasons amply justified the peremptory challenges \u2014 is precisely the form of analysis rejected in Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, and its progeny. (Accord, U.S. v. Alcantar (9th Cir. 1990) 897 F.2d 436 ( Alcantar) [revg. conviction pursuant to Thompson].) It is difficult to imagine how the majority could reach its conclusions that the record is \"well developed,\" and that \"defense counsel could not have argued anything substantial that would have changed the court's rulings\" (maj. opn., ante, at p. 20), while faithfully approaching the error by presuming prejudice and by recognizing that \" [o]nly the most compelling showing to the contrary will overcome the presumption\" of prejudice. ( Knighten, supra, 105 Cal.App.3d 128, 132-133.)\nThe court concluded in Thompson that the erroneous exclusion of the defendant and his counsel from the hearing, and the resulting deficient record, produced a defect in the trial that rendered the record inadequate for purposes of appellate review. ( Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d at p. 1261, fn. 5 [contrasting such error with trial errors that are subject to harmless error analysis].) The court in Thompson did not immediately reverse, however. Instead, it remanded \"for a hearing . . . on the prosecution's motive in exercising its peremptory challenges. If the district court finds that the passage of time has rendered such a hearing meaningless, it shall vacate defendant's convictions and schedule a new trial.\" ( Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d at p. 1262.)\nAssuming the general propriety of such an after-the-fact hearing on remand, that approach is unavailable to us here, because even if the trial judge, the prosecutor, and defense counsel can be located now, it would be fanciful to expect those persons \u2014 11 years after the event \u2014 to be able meaningfully to reconstruct the record of the seven Wheeler/Batson motions here at issue. Facing a similar problem in People v. Hall (1983) 35 Cal.3d 161, we observed that \"[t]he proceedings were conducted more than three years ago. It is unrealistic to believe that the prosecutor could now recall in greater detail his reasons for the exercise of the peremptory challenges in issue, or that the trial judge could assess those reasons, as required, which would demand that he recall the circumstances of the case, and the manner in which the prosecutor examined the venire and exercised his other challenges.\" ( Id., at p. 171; see also People v. Snow (1987) 44 Cal.3d 216, 227 [relying upon Hall, supra, and declining to remand six years after the event].) Further, a remand also would be impracticable and inadequate in this case because the extensive written juror questionnaires of the vast majority of panelists who participated in the general voir dire have been lost and apparently destroyed. Thus, as a result of the trial court's error, we are left with a record that is inadequate for our review and that cannot be reconstructed at this time. Accordingly, a reversal of the conviction and a remand for a new trial is the only appropriate remedy.\nThe trial judge now serves as a member of the federal judiciary.\nThe futility of a remand here is additionally demonstrated by Alcantar, supra, 897 F.2d 436. There, the court remanded for an after-the-fact hearing only two years after erroneous ex parte Batson proceedings. On remand, the trial court reported that \"[t]here is simply no way in this case, given the two-year delay before the hearing, for the court and the parties to reconstruct the circumstances as they existed at the time of trial.\" ( Id., at p. 439.) Nonetheless, the trial court purported to affirm its prior decision that the peremptory challenges were proper, and declined to order a new trial. On appeal from the remand, the Ninth Circuit reversed, holding that the hearing held two years after the jury selection and trial did not provide a \"meaningful process for testing whether the prosecutor's reasons for striking the [minority] jurors were racially neutral.\" ( Id., at p. 438.)\nThe majority purports to distinguish this case from Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d 1254, by observing that here, during the three ex parte hearings, the prosecution offered various justifications for challenges to the seven jurors, and in all seven instances the trial court stated on the record that it agreed with the prosecution's position (although in a few instances it rejected some of the prosecution's reasoning). Accordingly, the majority asserts that the present case, unlike Thompson, presents a situation in which the reviewing court has the benefit of the trial court's remarks assessing the prosecutor's reasons for the challenges, and that this in turn allegedly provides us with a \" well-developed\" record. (Maj. opn., ante, at p. 20, italics added.)\nThe majority fails in its attempt to distinguish Thompson. As noted above, the court in that case explained in detail why it would be improper to conclude that a trial judge in this situation can fill in the gaps and create an adequate (much less a well-developed) record. (See Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d at pp. 1260-1261.) As defendant asserts, \"[i]t is unrealistic to expect that a judge in the midst of trial will be able to pick out the discrepancies in a prosecutor's justifications, especially where, as here, 70 panelists, whose questionnaires alone covered 77 questions . . ., participated in the general voir dire.\" Contrary to the majority's view and as Thompson itself shows, the circumstance that the trial court made a few comments on the record does not support a determination that the erroneous ex parte procedure was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.\nThe majority also attempts to distinguish Thompson by observing that there, unlike the present case, the prosecutor once mentioned race when articulating her reasons for one of the challenges. (Maj. opn., ante, at p. 20.) This observation is accurate, but irrelevant to the issue we consider here. The court in Thompson mentioned the cited circumstance in the course of illustrating the necessity for defense counsel to be present in order to be able to probe the prosecutor's reasons and create an adequate record ( Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d at p. 1260), and as noted above, the court in Thompson found reversible error because the trial court erroneously held an ex parte hearing \u2014 and not because the prosecution's challenges were themselves improper. Here as well, we focus upon the adequacy of the record in light of the erroneous ex parte procedure. The circumstance that the prosecutor in the present case did not mention race as a reason for any challenge has no bearing on the question of the adequacy of the record for purposes of appellate review.\nThe irony and fallacy of the majority's approach is apparent. While eschewing the prospect of reversal based upon defendant's \"speculation regarding theoretical possibilities\" (maj. opn., ante, at p. 19) that a properly created record might have presented a different picture \"that would have changed the court's rulings\" (maj. opn., ante, at p. 20), the majority is quite willing to assume that the record is \"well developed\" ( ibid.) and substantially as it would have been had defendant and his counsel not been erroneously excluded from the hearings. I agree with the federal circuit court's assessment in Thompson: we simply cannot credit this record, and an appellate court cannot serve its review function when it cannot be satisfied that the record is complete as to the relevant facts. ( Thompson, supra, 827 F.2d at p. 1261.)\nDefendant asserts in related contentions that the ex parte procedure violated his state and federal constitutional rights to be present and to be represented by counsel. The majority relegates these substantial claims to a cursory paragraph in which it appears to concede the existence of the errors, but concludes that they were harmless beyond a reasonable doubt for the same reasons set forth earlier in its opinion. (Maj. opn., ante, at pp. 20-21, citing Rushen v. Spain (1983) 464 U.S. 114, 118-119 ( per curiam); People v. Wright (1990) 52 Cal.3d 367, 402-403; People v. Hogan, supra, 31 Cal.3d 815, 849-850; and People v. Knighten, supra, 105 Cal.App.3d 128, 132-133.) The four cases relied upon by the majority, however, are inapposite: none concerned a situation, like this one, in which the erroneous absence of a defendant and his or her counsel created an incomplete record of a critical and contested trial hearing, and hence the cases do not stand for the proposition that a defect such as we address here can be found harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.\nIn any event, the majority again fails to acknowledge, much less abide by, the law set out in the cases upon which it relies. As noted above, the majority's cited cases stress that error such as this, if properly subjected to harmless error analysis, is presumed to be prejudicial, and \" [o]nly the most compelling showing to the contrary will overcome the presumption.\" ( Knighten, supra, 105 Cal.App.3d 128, 133.) In Knighten, supra, 105 Cal.App.3d 128, a compelling showing did overcome the presumption of prejudice: defense counsel, who had been excluded erroneously from an initial exchange between the court and the jury, immediately thereafter participated in further open court proceedings during which counsel's \"suggestions and objections were carefully heeded\" ( id., at p. 134), thereby eliminating any possibility of prejudice. By contrast, in People v. Hogan, supra, 31 Cal.3d 815, 850, a similar error resulted in the jury's receiving inadmissible and prejudicial information concerning the defendant's reluctance to undergo a polygraph examination, and hence no compelling showing necessary to overcome the presumption of prejudice could be made. Once again, the majority provides no indication that it has approached the question of harmless error with the traditional Knighten principles in mind.\nThe majority exhorts this dissenting opinion to \"come to grips with the record's strong factual base for our conclusion that the error was harmless.\" (Maj. opn., ante, at p. 17, fn. 3.) As I have observed (and as the Ninth Circuit noted under the same circumstances in Thompson supra, 827 F.2d 1254, 1261), the record here is irremediably incomplete; any perceived strength is illusory and cannot be relied upon.\nThe majority's assessment of the strength of the record is erroneous in yet another respect. The majority asserts that we can have confidence in the record because the trial judge below showed himself to be \"diligent, prepared, knowledgeable, and engaged\" in the Wheeler proceedings in both this case and in another recently decided matter. (Maj. opn., ante, at p. 19.) As the Ninth Circuit explained in Thompson supra, 827 F.2d 1254, \"[o]ur trust in the learned [trial] judge\" does not permit us to draw the inference adopted by the majority: \" If we are to review the [trial] judge's decision, we cannot affirm simply because we are confident he must have known what he was doing. We can only serve our function when the record is clear as to the relevant facts, or when defense counsel [is present at the Wheeler/Batson hearing and] fails to point out any such facts after learning of the prosecutor's reasons.\" ( Id., at p. 1261, italics added.)\nNeither the majority nor any of the briefs cites any appellate decision that has found harmless the erroneous exclusion of the defense from a crucial portion of jury selection proceedings, and my own research similarly has not uncovered any such ruling. Today's opinion carries the dubious distinction of being the first such decision. Because I find the majority's reasoning unpersuasive and inconsistent with established law, I dissent.\nAppellant's petition for a rehearing was denied November 15, 2000, and the opinion was modified to read as printed above. George, C. J., and Kennard, J., were of the opinion that the petition should be granted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 372, "original_length": 124561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001168203/Cite", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:TZY47YLY5ODMO7TYSLT32REZMRG3OPFY", "length": 211, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "catalog.hathitrust.org", "title": "Record Citations | Hathi Trust Digital Library", "raw_content": "Stone, H. Stuart. (1893). First editions of American authors. 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We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide.\u201d\nHe spoke of retreating glaciers in Greenland and low-lying countries at risk from rising sea levels.\nPoliticians have generally \u201cdone little\u201d to deal with the growing problem, Francis said, according to the National Catholic Reporter. \u201cI am sure they have the good will to do it. And I wish that it will be so, and I pray for this,\u201d he said.\nThe freewheeling conversations have become a trademark of his papacy and the few times he takes direct questions from journalists.\nFrancis, who visited Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic, also said the continent was \u201ca martyr of exploitation\u201d by wealthy countries who lust after its natural resources and try to impose Western values instead of concentrating on development.\nWorld leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth\u2019s rising temperatures, with the United States and China \u2014 the world\u2019s biggest carbon emitters \u2014 urging the U.N. climate summit in Paris to mark a decisive turn in the fight against global warming.\nThe pope\u2019s last stop in Africa was the Central African Republic, one of the continent\u2019s poorest nations. He made an unscheduled stop at the country\u2019s only paediatric hospital, where doctors told him that they did not have oxygen and that most of the children there were destined to die of malnutrition or malaria, situations expected to worsen as climate change continues.\n\u201cAfrica is a victim,\u201d he said. \u201cAfrica has always been exploited by other powers \u2026 there are some countries that want only the great resources of Africa. \u201cBut they don\u2019t think about developing the countries, about creating jobs. Africa is martyr, a martyr of the exploitation of history,\u201d he said.\nOthers are calling for urgent action too. Speaking at the summit, President Obama on Monday quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in warning that \u201cthere is such a thing as being too late.\u201d\nIt remains to be seen if a clean energy path to electrify the rest of the world will be offered over the next 15 years. Countries and the world as a whole would have to stop increasing fossil fuel emissions now or very soon to have a chance of reaching the 1.5 C limit endorsed by the Pope, Catholics, and many countries and dioceses already seeing severe impacts from climate change.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 8706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cayimby.org/because-together-we-win/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:RWEMXCGJBNO6GYGFORNJWJJAQ7W6AOVH", "length": 95, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cayimby.org", "title": "Because Together, We Win | California YIMBY", "raw_content": "Today, Californians from all walks of life are organizing to end our housing shortage. Join us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://celebrities.wiki/celebrity/bethany-scott", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:32Z", "digest": "sha1:R5QQDES52E2VOJK3HWCPCFIPQ65UT7GZ", "length": 173, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "celebrities.wiki", "title": "\ufeff Bethany Scott - Celebrities.Wiki", "raw_content": "Short info Bethany Scott is known for her work on Backflash (2002), Escape from the Fire (2007) and The Maltese Murder Mystery (2008).\nWhat do you think about Bethany Scott?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 230.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/93442", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:27Z", "digest": "sha1:XJADC7GOOJH2J3XIBFTW4XVWFRJ4LWFS", "length": 1072, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cgspace.cgiar.org", "title": "Participatory Land Use Planning for Climate-Smart Villages: Guidelines and References", "raw_content": "Participatory Land Use Planning for Climate-Smart Villages: Guidelines and References\nPLUP Guidelines (5.968Mb)\nYen, Bui Tan\nTrung, Nguyen Hieu\nHoanh CT, Yen BT, Trung NH. 2018. Participatory Land Use Planning for Climate-Smart Villages: Guidelines and References. Wageningen, the Netherlands: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).\nParticipatory land-use planning (PLUP) refers to a bottom-up method of analyzing land and water resources. In its current form, PLUP integrates inputs about climate change and sea level rise to help the community utilize the resources within its vicinities. In utilizing its resources, the community will be able to improve the people\u2019s livelihoods and help them sustain such resources for the benefit of the next generations. This publication in implementing PLUP focused on climate-smart adaptation in Climate-Smart Villages (CSVs).\nChu Thai Hoanhhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-0686-6385\nBui Tan Yenhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-3899-5811\nCLIMATE CHANGE; AGRICULTURE; FOOD SECURITY; LAND USE PLANNING", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charlotteultraswim.com/blogs-business-plan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:57Z", "digest": "sha1:JY7Q6ZTNCCQXJIWLUW7W4SHQOA6ZGLZJ", "length": 5904, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "charlotteultraswim.com", "title": "Blog's business plan | charlotteultraswim.com", "raw_content": "Bloggers create a personal web page on the Internet for the sole purpose of expression and story about their accomplishments, you can safely skip this article. The following recommendations will be useful for the authors of blogs who have chosen the path of earnings.\nAny business requires careful analysis and planning. A blog on the Internet that are created to generate income, should not be an exception. The author is obliged to make a clear and accurate business plan, it is advisable to create a blog in which you want to set the goals, milestones, and calculate a budget.\nThe structure of the business plan\nThe goals of the blog\nBlog for earnings can be a stand-alone business or be a subsidiary resource. In the first case, income is derived directly from the blog through advertising, the provision of premium online services. The second option blog serves as a platform for the sale of goods and services produced by the author of attracting potential customers. Depending on the choice of a source of profit to build the strategy for the development of a future blog post.\nThis section of your business plan needs to contain a detailed description of the nature of the Internet resource. It is at this stage thought out themes blog functional features, design decisions, evaluated the competition of the niche, developed a personal brand. For the convenience of drawing up the description into several sections:\nFunctionality \u2013 choosing a domain name and hosting, CMS setup, blog structure, implementation of payment services;\nContent \u2013 the theme and format of published materials, we offer products and services, organization of interaction with visitors;\nDesign \u2013 design, positioning their own brand.\nCompetitiveness assessment\nThrough personal research and/or using data received from the invited experts assessed the relevance of the chosen theme of the blog, the demand for goods and services, the advantages and disadvantages of the main competitors. It is advisable to understand the trends of development of this niche in the near future. Assessment should be made in parallel from two perspectives: the visitor and the advertiser. In the end, the blog should be attractive for both parties and something to stand out among competitors.\nBased on the assessment of competitiveness is developed by the marketing policy of the future project. This phase of drawing up a business plan can require the services of SEO specialists. The main points that should be highlighted to develop a marketing strategy:\nIdentify and analyze the target audience, identifying its interests and preferences;\nMethods that will be used to increase attendance of the blog;\nAdvertising campaign;\nAssessment and ways to increase conversions;\nMethods of interaction with the audience;\nEvents to promote the brand and build credibility.\nThis section of your business plan describes in detail all the resources and activities that will be involved to bring the project to life. The first step is to divide, what works on creation and blogging the author can do yourself, and which will require the involvement of specialists. Conventionally, all the work can be divided into two parts: those which need to be made before starting the project and after. Here drawn up a phased implementation schedule task. To start a blog, it is recommended after completely ready design and customized CMS. It is desirable to have several dozen articles, videos and other materials that you plan to post on the blog, because in the early stages of development of the content, you must publish frequently and regularly.\nFor many projects, this section is very important. It analyses the various risks that can lead to the slowing down of the implementation or complete failure of the business idea, projected sources of their occurrence, their degree of influence and develop ways of reducing negative effects. When you create a blog risk in fact, two \u2013 the author lost interest or are not justified hopes about earnings. In both cases, the blog will be abandoned. To avoid this outcome will help a careful choice of topic and the detailed planning of the development of the blog.\nTry to make a blog for money is fundamentally wrong approach. Any business requires an initial investment. Smart financing strategy will help to bring projects to the desired level in the shortest possible time. The financial plan is based on the analysis of information contained in previous sections of the business plan, and includes the following subsections:\nThe cost of running a blog \u2013 pay for a domain name, hosting, licenses for CMS, services, designer, web programmer, copywriter, SEO-specialist, purchase or production of goods, creation of information products, purchase necessary computer equipment;\nCurrent expenses \u2013 renewal of domain and hosting, replenishment of inventories, the Commission aggregators of electronic payments, the rent for premises, utility bills, payment of postal services for the delivery of goods and information products, payment of taxes, support blog;\nAdvertising and promotion \u2013 the costs of production of promotional materials, advertising, the cost of SEO-optimization, budget promotions and contests on the blog;\nFunding sources \u2013 own funds, borrowed funds, attracting investors. If you use other remedies to consider in the costs of loan interest and investment payments.\nA summary of the business plan should be the calculation of the payback blog. This involves careful calculation and projection of income and expenses for at least the next year, and it is better for the first 3 years of development blog. It is necessary to allocate primary and secondary costs. In the initial stages the costs will significantly exceed the earnings on the blog, this should be ready. Competently prepared and clearly implemented a business plan will help to reduce the period of the output \u201czero\u201d and go to profit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 6807, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://christ-church.org.za/Articles/1000149898/Guilt.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:08Z", "digest": "sha1:3IIB4YVMOWTGLV6KIBBLYZ5LVGW7GXVS", "length": 3675, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "christ-church.org.za", "title": "Christ Church Kenilworth : Guilt", "raw_content": "We live in a country with a difficult history. Racial inequality was built into the Apartheid philosophy. Ours is also the country which tops the Gini coefficient which measures in all countries in the world the disparity between the very rich and the very poor. It is not a league that we want to be coming first in! We know that as middle-class White people we are beneficiaries of the systemic inequalities that are part of our history, but we also know much of this does not feel as if it is intentional injustice on our parts, and, at least a portion of what we enjoy is the fruit of hard work by ourselves and our forebears. On top of that many of us have sought to make contributions as best we can towards the good of society. So guilt in these areas is a vexed matter.\nThe contentious questions of the rights and wrongs of the Fees must fall protests on our campuses further stir all this up in us. It all goes into the mix as we seek to engage missionally in a new season of national calls for social redress and restitution. It is uncomfortable and it can easily trigger guilt and resentment, making us feel that the finger is constantly being pointed at us. This is not an easy season in South Africa, let\u2019s be honest about it.\nFor myself, I don\u2019t think much is served by guilt. It hooks our underlying narrative of shame, triggers our defensiveness and is very ineffective as a motivator. I am aware there is true guilt and false guilt, and that if I have wronged someone I need the conviction of heart that moves me to go and make right and, if appropriate, make restitution, but that goes beyond guilt to feeling convicted and empowered to set things to right. Guilt on its own is not a productive state of heart.\nIt is instructive to look at the well-known story of Jesus and the woman taken in adultery. In strict terms she is guilty \u2013 caught in the act \u2013 and has no defence. She is enmeshed in shame. Furthermore there is no shortage of accusers claiming the backing of the law. But Jesus doesn\u2019t accuse; that is the province of Satan, who is named \u201cthe accuser of the saints\u201d. The woman\u2019s situation is only part of the picture; apart from the obvious absence of the man involved in this adultery, there is all the hidden sin in the hearts of the accusers. Jesus enters this scene as the Redeemer, inspiring and empowering the woman to live into a new identity \u2013 \u201cNeither do I condemn you. Go your way and sin no more.\u201d It is a fundamental Gospel truth reaffirmed by Paul when he says \u201cthere is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.\nThat doesn\u2019t for a moment condone sin or give licence for complacency; what it does is to invite us into our true heavenly identity, empowering us to be co-workers with Jesus in setting brokenness to rights. God will always open our eyes to sin and injustice; he will always seek to convict our hearts and inspire us to be Gospel people of grace, mercy, righteousness and hope; he will always empower us by his Spirit to be part of the solution. Guilt on its own does none of these things.\n\u201cIt is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery\u201d (Gal. 5:1). We enter the great questions of national healing in South Africa as free people, not weighed down by guilt and condemnation, but we enter them as citizens of the Kingdom of heaven; finding our identity in the character and values of Christ, inspired and empowered by his Holy Spirit, called into action as \u201cChrist\u2019s soldiers and servants\u201d to join with him in making right all that is despoiled by individual and systemic sin. Now that\u2019s worth getting up for in the morning!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 4255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://citizenyang.com/2017/10/02/position-vermont-law-school-clinical-assistant-professor-deadline-oct-27-2017-south-royalton-vt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:E2SXPB5DEEPZ77V2CEFFXUJTQENWSLB4", "length": 3247, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "citizenyang.com", "title": "Position: Vermont Law School, Clinical Assistant Professor (Deadline: Oct. 27, 2017, South Royalton, VT) | Citizen Yang", "raw_content": "Position: Vermont Law School, Clinical Assistant Professor (Deadline: Oct. 27, 2017, South Royalton, VT)\nClinical Assistant Professor Description\nVERMONT LAW SCHOOL invites applications for a Clinical Assistant Professor position to lead research, create open source resources, and teach in the law school\u2019s new Farm and Energy Initiative, which is a joint project of the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) and the Institute for Energy and the Environment (IEE). The position is anticipated to begin in January 2018 with the start of the spring semester but later start dates will be considered.\nGiven the importance of both agriculture and energy production to our economy and the critical need to improve the sustainability of both sectors, this new initiative provides a leading edge leadership opportunity for a highly qualified attorney. Some of the compelling policy areas this new initiative could address include\npromoting farms energy self-reliance,\nsolar siting on agricultural land while protecting soil resources,\nfuture feasibility of biofuels as an energy resource, including impacts to agricultural production and lifecycle analysis, and\nthe use of biodigestors to manage the reuse of organic waste & generate local energy.\nA minimum of 2 years of legal experience\nClinical teaching experience\nExperience and interest in mentoring and supervising students\nA demonstrated commitment to public interest work \u2013 a background in energy, agriculture or both\nExcellent legal analysis, research, and writing\nHigh degree of professionalism in all aspects of lawyering\nCreativity and flexibility in approaching and solving problems\nAn active U.S. bar membership\nVermont Law School is the top-ranked school for environmental law in the country. Our graduates become attorneys and environmental professionals who work across the country and the globe. We offer a rich array of environmental courses and a range of degrees including a Masters and LLM in Food and Agriculture Law and Policy and a Masters and LLM in Energy Regulation and Law as well as certificates in the JD program in food and agriculture law and energy law. More information about our environmental program is available at http://www.vermontlaw.edu/academics/centers-and-programs/environmental-law-center.\nVermont Law School\u2019s mission is to educate lawyers for the community and the world. The faculty believes that its scholarship, teaching and service should be meaningful and relevant to the local, national, and international communities. The law school is dedicated to building a diverse faculty, and it strongly encourages candidates of color, women, veterans, and members of other underrepresented groups to apply. Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, law school transcript, writing sample and names of three references to IEE Director Kevin Jones, Vermont Law School, 164 Chelsea Street, South Royalton, VT 05068. Electronic applications are strongly preferred and can be submitted to energyclinic@vermontlaw.edu. Materials should be submitted by 5pm October 27, 2017, and clearly marked \u201d Clinical Assistant Professor for Farm and Energy Initiative,\u201d although submissions received after this time may be considered until the position is filled.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://classiccleaners.net/2013/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:16Z", "digest": "sha1:VZSJEYJPQACD3A3GVE6KAKO64PISMPV3", "length": 806, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "classiccleaners.net", "title": "August, 2013 | Classic Cleaners", "raw_content": "When that icky yellow, tan, rust, or grayish stain appears on your shirts in the collar fold and neckband area, you\u2019ve got \u201cring around the collar\u201d.\nWhile wearing the shirt, the collar is exposed to perspiration, body oils, colognes, after shaves, hair styling products, medicines or other [\u2026]\nI like to think of myself as an organized person and I believe I do a few things well to get us all out the door on school and work days. 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If you don\u2019t see a service below that you require, drop us a line by phone or through email and we\u2019ll make sure to accommodate your needs as best as possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://classroom.synonym.com/the-history-of-raclette-12079386.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:32Z", "digest": "sha1:MIW3GZZNVBZU43OSSWGP5XKCNZ2IBTDD", "length": 3770, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "classroom.synonym.com", "title": "The History of Raclette | Synonym", "raw_content": "Swedish Traditional Christmas Food\nKosher Substitutions for Prosciutto\nWhat Is a Kolache?\nWhat Are Whales Used for Today?\nThe History of French Desserts\nBy Cameron Banks ; Updated September 29, 2017\nRaclette, the distinctive cheese dish with origins in the Swiss Alps, has a history that goes back many hundreds of years. Once the fare of farmers and shepherds for a midday or evening meal, Raclette is often still served as it was centuries ago; rich, melted cheese is combined with potatoes and other vegetables for a warming and hearty dish. Though different variations of the dish have emerged throughout the years--and cooking methods have been updated--the distinctive flavor of Raclette has remained remarkably and deliciously unchanged through time.\nRaclette is both the name of a popular Swiss cow's milk cheese as well the name of a warm dish created by melting the cheese and serving it with a variety of foods. Semi-soft and salted, Raclette was first made in the canton of Valais--home of the Matterhorn--in the southwestern area of Switzerland. Later, Raclette cheese was produced in parts of France, Austria, Germany, Finland and the United States. It's still made to this day.\nThe dish featuring Raclette cheese dates back more than 700 years, when it was called Bratch\u00e4s, Swiss-German for \"roasted cheese.\" Raclette was mentioned in writings as early as 1291. The semi-hard cheese was easy to transport, and it was eaten by shepherds and farmers, who would place a block of cheese by a hearth or a campfire. There, it would become soft, and the melted cheese would be served with potatoes, onions and pickles.\nThe distinctive flavor and texture of raclette cheese was important in the development and history of the dish. Made from unpasteurized cows' milk, Raclette is pale yellow, with small holes throughout and a brownish orange rind. When heated, it has a creamy consistency, and its balanced fat content and moisture allow it to melt evenly without separating or becoming oily.\nThe name \"Raclette\" is derived from the French word racler, which means \"to scrape.\" Though it is similar to fondue--in which pieces of bread and other foods are dipped into a melted cheese mixture--Raclette is distinctive because the melted cheese is scraped from a block of cheese, then placed over or near vegetables and bread on a plate. A special Raclette knife may be used for this purpose.\nCooking and Serving Methods\nThough traditionally the dish was cooked with an open flame, Raclette melting machines and grills were manufactured and gained popularity during the 1970s, when they became widely available. Once a vegetarian dish served simply with boiled and pickled vegetables and bread, Raclette now may feature many kinds of meat, fish, and poultry as well. Both delicious and hearty, the dish is now served throughout the world.\nHistory of Raclette\nOrigins of Raclette\nA former newspaper columnist and college writing instructor, Cameron Banks is the award-winning author of numerous non-fiction books for adults and young people, web and print feature articles, and essays. Banks attended Northwestern University and lives with her family in southern California.\nThe History of Italian Ice\nColonial Fishing Tools\nTypes of Bread to Eat During a Daniel Fast\nWhat Types of Tea Do the Chinese Drink?\nPeruvian Inventions\nBanks, Cameron. \"The History of Raclette.\" Synonym, https://classroom.synonym.com/the-history-of-raclette-12079386.html. 29 September 2017.\nBanks, Cameron. (2017, September 29). The History of Raclette. Synonym. 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The United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, concluded her first visit to Colombia today by reaffirming the UN's commitment to continue to accompany national efforts to implement the Peace Agreement.\nOn the first day of the visit, Ms. DiCarlo met with the President of Colombia, Iv\u00e1n Duque M\u00e1rquez, at the Presidential Palace. President Duque was accompanied by the Vice President, Marta Luc\u00eda Ram\u00edrez; the High Commissioner for Peace, Miguel Ceballos; the High Counsellor for Post-Conflict, Emilio Archilla; the Vice Chancellor, Adriana Mej\u00eda; and the High Counsellor for Human Rights, Francisco Barbosa. In a joint press conference after the meeting, Ms. DiCarlo expressed her support for the President\u2019s efforts to implement the Agreement despite challenges encountered. She acknowledged the President\u2019s commitment to advancing peacebuilding and reaffirmed the support of the United Nations for the Government's efforts in this regard.\nMs. DiCarlo also met with Rodrigo Londo\u00f1o, President of the new FARC political party and FARC Senator Sandra Ram\u00edrez. Ms. DiCarlo congratulated them for their decision to lay down their weapons in favor of participation in politics, in compliance with the Peace Agreement, and their continued commitment to the peace process in the face of difficulties and uncertainties.\nMs. DiCarlo also met with representatives of civil society. One recurring theme was a shared concern over killings of social and community leaders. She subsequently met with the President of the Truth Commission, Francisco de Roux, and the President of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, Patricia Linares, to learn about progress in the implementation of the Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition and to ratify the United Nations\u2019 strong support for both institutions.\nOn the second day of her visit, Ms. DiCarlo travelled to a the Territorial Area for Training and Reintegration (TATR) and remarked that she was impressed with the commitment to peace and the entrepreneurial spirit of the former guerrillas in the reintegration process.\nDiCarlo visited a TATR in San Jos\u00e9 de Oriente in the department of Cesar, where she heard about the progress and challenges of the reintegration process from the perspectives of former combatants, as well as local authorities and the UN Verification Mission staff. She was accompanied by the Head of the UN Verification Mission, Jean Arnault, and the Deputy Special Representative, Jessica Faieta, as well as former guerrillas. She was able to tour an ecotourism project, a bakery, a tailoring shop and classrooms. \"I was impressed by their commitment to peace and the entrepreneurial spirit with which they are working, and I am confident that they will succeed,\" said Ms. DiCarlo.\nShe also heard FARC concerns for the reintegration process, especially those related to access to land and the implementation of productive projects. In a meeting with public security forces, Ms DiCarlo thanked them for their efficient work in providing security to the reintegration process.\nTo access photos of the visit of the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Rosemary DiCarlo to Colombia click here.\n\uf0d9 In Brisas, Carmen del Darien, the hope of reincorporation raises\n\uf0da Former FARC-EP combatants certified as rafting guides in the Amazon jungles of Caquet\u00e1, Colombia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 173.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://computerleasing.net.au/browse/hp-z8-1-8ghz-4108-black-workstation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:47Z", "digest": "sha1:QJOQPD4FZIB7NYP3RL4FD2SJ2372THZK", "length": 247, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "computerleasing.net.au", "title": "HP Z8 1.8GHz 4108 Black Workstation - The Computer Leasing Group - The Business Computer & IT Leasing Experts", "raw_content": "HP\u2019s most powerful desktop workstation\nTop-of-the-line power to fuel those who reimagine our world. 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There is an insurance bureau in each state which controls issues like what the standard automobile accident policy is for personal vehicles and what kind of coverage it must provide. Then the law of each state including the cases and the statutes are also potentially different when you cross state lines. As an experienced personal injury attorney licensed both in Virginia (VA) and North Carolina (NC) I am familiar with many of the differences between those two states laws. Knowing exactly how the insurance rules work and how to use them to my client\u2019s best advantage is part of what I do each day in my personal injury practice at Cooper Hurley Injury Lawyers.\nGiven the long border between Virginia and North Carolina which we are so close to in Hampton Roads, these issues come up on a regular basis. If you have an injury case that may relate to Virginia and North Carolina you want an attorney who knows the basic rules and is licensed in both states. For example, you might live in Elizabeth City or Moyock, North Carolina and come up to Virginia Beach or Chesapeake, Virginia to work. Or you might be from York County or Portsmouth, Virginia and have a vacation house in the outer banks of North Carolina at Nags Head or Duck that you regularly visit.\nYou might be a railroad worker who lives in Emporia, Virginia and goes down to Roanoke Rapids, NC to report for duty each day. Whether you are traveling on the highways for pleasure or business there\u2019s always a chance of a car or truck wreck with injuries. In fact, the average American will be in 4.5 car crashes each in their lifetime. So whether your accident happens on the Virginia or the North Carolina side there going to be some issues that may relate to both states or at least a question as to whether they do.\nIf you have suffered from injuries in a car crash that happened in North Carolina then the law that generally applies is the law of the place where the accident happened, in that case, North Carolina. However if you are from Virginia and you happen to have an accident across the border to the south then the insurance law that normally applies as to your own insurance policy is the state where that policy was purchased in this case, Virginia. Where you can sue and who you can sue can also vary depending upon the residence of the at-fault driver or if it\u2019s a trucking company bear losses. You can see how it can get complicated quickly.\nIf you have a question that involves the injury insurance and accident laws of Virginia and North Carolina and the interplay among them please feel free to give me a call. I enjoy the challenging puzzle of it. More importantly, I enjoy helping people to get them the best result that I can when they get hurt through no fault of their own on the roads of Virginia or North Carolina.\nIf you have been injured in a car wreck in Virginia or North Carolina, call me at 757.455.0077 for a free consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 7167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cornershopcreative.com/portfolio/public-interest-network/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CJMOXSSP2KKZTQFCLXKELI5XNNMLYLAT", "length": 621, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "cornershopcreative.com", "title": "Public Interest Network \u00b7 Cornershop Creative", "raw_content": "https://cornershopcreative.com/portfolio/public-interest-network/\nThe Public Interest Network hired Cornershop to build beautiful, mobile-optimized Salsa templates for two different sites: the U.S. PIRG and Environment America.\nWe styled up every detail of the new petition and donation forms to ensure that the entire user experience is prime, and the forms are flexible in the future. 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First of all, let me say that I don\u2019t like the initiative system in California. This system was born as an antidote to powerful (translated railroad) interests controlling the state. It gave the \u201cpeople\u201d a chance to level the playing field from the powerful. That was over 100 years ago.\nToday, the initiative system is used to promote all sorts of special interests. And once in a while, something for the public good shows up on the ballot. If anyone gathers enough signatures anything can be on the ballot, provided a lawsuit doesn\u2019t cause it to be rejected. This results in many propositions on every ballot. I got so disgusted, I vowed to vote no on all propositions, because I was tired of seeing a bunch of them every time I voted. I never did that (except maybe once) because there was at least one worth voting for.\nSo all sorts of things have either become law or as amendments to the constitution. The famous Proposition 13 is one. (Remember, there have been so many propositions that the numbering needs to start over again from \u201c1.\u201d) Prop 13 rolled back property taxes and put in restrictions on tax increases. It also required a 2/3 vote on the state budget. Granted property tax reform was greatly needed, but Prop 13 was not the answer. It has helped contribute to the mess California is in now. Then there was the proposition that was the famous \u201cThree Strikes Law.\u201d People getting caught shoplifting received life sentences to prison. Like many propositions, which seem like great ideas on paper, turn out to be failures in execution (no pun intended). The justice of getting a life term for a minor infraction aside, the voters had no idea that the state prisons would burst at the seems, draining money out of the state budget. It was a logical consequence, but the hard decisions were left to the legislature. This, too, helped put California in the fiscal mess it is in now .\nPropositions are very poor ways of legislating. Instead of thoughtful conversations of the pros and cons, we get misleading ads on TV and radio. (That is nice way of saying we are lied to.) There is no provision for amendments to fix flaws in a proposition. So, the voters blindly vote for things that end up biting them later. And California gets harder and harder to govern.\nNow take Propositions 16 and 17 on this year\u2019s June ballot. The former is written and sponsored (largely) by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), the latter by Mercury Insurance. Prop 16 is the voter\u2019s rights act. Bull. It makes it harder for municipal utilities to be formed, offering lower electricity rates for people, which take customers from PG&E. PG&E doesn\u2019t like competition. Prop 17 was written by Mercury Insurance so that they can charge big rate increases to poor people and, yes, to dead-beats. It amends Prop 103, which prevents Mercury from raising rates for someone whose policy had lapsed.\nThe sad thing is is that people will vote for both of these propositions. We live in a republic, not a democracy. We elect people to make reasonable, informed decisions for us. We don\u2019t directly do this, except for propositions. If we don\u2019t like what our elected leaders decide on our behalf, then we vote them out of office. That is how our republic works. But in California, we get saddled with misinformed, uninformed laws passed in the ballot box. 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Off-Broadway: Adrift in Macao at Primary Stages \u2013 Lortel and Drama League noms. as well as the Barrymore Award. Regional Credits: Spamalot (Lady of the Lake) \u2013 The MUNY; Gypsy (Rose) \u2013 The Hangar Theatre; Singing in the Rain (Lina Lamont) \u2013 The MUNY; Into the Woods (The Witch) \u2013 Kansas City Rep. \u2013 dir. Moises Kaufman; Annie (Miss Hannigan) \u2013 TUTS; Kiss Me Kate (Kate) \u2013 Paper Mill \u2013 dir. James Brennan; The Drowsy Chaperone (The Chaperone) \u2013 Flat Rock Playhouse; Company (Sarah) \u2013 GeVa Theatre; Bad Dates (Haley) \u2013 Studio Arena \u2013 dir. Scott Schwartz; She Loves Me (Amalia) \u2013 Paper Mill \u2013 dir. James Brennan; Boeing, Boeing (Gabriella) \u2013 Engeman Theatre \u2013 dir. BT McNicholl; Guys and Dolls (Adelaide) \u2013 Rabin Award \u2013 Dallas Theatre Center; Noises Off (Belinda) \u2013 Studio Arena; Sweeney Todd (Beggar Woman) \u2013 Portland Center Stage; Side\u2026 Sondheim \u2013 Berkshire Theatre Festival; Lend Me a Tenor (Maria) \u2013 Portland Stage/Engeman Theatre; Me and My Girl (Jacquie) \u2013 Goodspeed \u2013 dir. Scott Schwartz; Nunsense (Sr. Amnesia)-Sacramento Music Circus. She also appears as a star vocalist with symphonies across the country. www.MicheleRagusa.com\n(Gary, et. al.)\nThom recently returned from DC\u2019s Signature Theatre where he appeared as the Engineer in Eric Schaeffer\u2019s new and re-imagined production of Miss Saigon. Other theatre credits include leading roles on Broadway and on tour in The Times They Are A-Changin\u2019, Disney\u2019s The Lion King, Search & Destroy, Titanic, Chu Chem. Off-Broadway credits include NSYF/Public Theatre, the Roundabout, Second Stage, The Drama Department, The Mint, NAATCO, Epic Theatre and others. Numerous regional credits many plays, musicals and classical theatre at The Old Globe, Yale Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, The McCarter, Two River Theatre Co., Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, many more. Some TV and Film credits: THE GOOD WIFE, SINGLE LADIES, THIRD WATCH, LAW & ORDER, CANTERBURY\u2019S LAW, OVER/UNDER, LAY THE FAVORITE, BUILDING GIRL, and getting shot point-blank in the head in PERSON OF INTEREST. Best credit yet: Married Penelope Daulton on April 20. Proud member AEA, SAG-AFTRA and SDC. Colossians 3:12-17\nGreg Edwards has written lyrics for Neurosis: A New Musical (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse); book and lyrics for Taking the Plunge (NYMF, Samuel French OOB Festival), The Temptation of Lady Amsterdam (Prospect Musical Theatre Lab), and Office Space: The Musical (Yale); the script for Application Pending (with Andy Sandberg); and assorted songs with Marvin Hamlisch (White House Governors\u2019 Dinner, Mr. Hamlisch\u2019s holiday tour). Honors and approximations thereof include the BMI Harrington Award and the Fred Ebb Award (two-time finalist). He\u2019s backpacked through India, Guatemala, Peru, and Iceland, but really he should have used a travel agent. Greg graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, belongs to the BMI workshop, and can be stalked most effectively at www.GregEd.com.\n(Co-Author; Director)\nAndy Sandberg recently directed the world premiere of Shida (Ars Nova; four Audelco nominations including Best Director), the world premiere of Operation Epsilon (nominated for three 2013 Elliot Norton Awards) at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA, and the New York premiere of The Last Smoker in America (Westside Theatre), having previously directed the world premiere at CATCO (Columbus, Ohio). Sandberg is the co-author of Application Pending, also with Greg Edwards. He has been represented on Broadway and London\u2019s West End as a producer of HAIR (2009 Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle Awards) and the Broadway revival of Gore Vidal\u2019s The Best Man (2012 Tony, Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle Nominations). Other New York directing credits include Zelda at the Oasis (St. Luke\u2019s Theatre), R.R.R.E.D. and Bernice Bobs Her Mullet (NYMF), Into the Woods and A Funny Thing\u2026Forum (Blue Hill Troupe), \u201cEli\u2019s Comin\u2019 to Broadway,\u201d a BC/EFA benefit hosted by Nathan Lane (Lincoln Center), and multiple workshops, benefits, and readings. As producer: A Perfect Future (Cherry Lane Theatre); Paradise Found (Menier Chocolate Factory, London; dir. Hal Prince and Susan Stroman); and Vigil (DR2 Theatre). In 2007, Sandberg worked with Hal Prince on the Broadway production of LoveMusik. B.A. Yale University. Proud member of SDC / AEA. www.AndySandberg.com / Twitter: @Andy_Sandberg.\nJim Strong is one of America\u2019s leading luxury travel consultants and the President of Strong Travel Services in Dallas, Texas, a Virtuoso member agency. His experience and travel insights are sought by an exclusive clientele that includes prominent names in the arts, business, and entertainment. Jim travels extensively throughout the world selecting and vetting unique hotels, villas, and destinations for his clients. He is the author of two luxury travel books and recently developed an iPhone and iPad app, all under the name Craving For Travel. A Certified Travel Counselor and an Accredited Cruise Counselor, Jim serves on the advisory boards of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, Ritz Carlton Hotels, Rosewood Hotels, Travel + Leisure Magazine, as well as many other luxury travel organizations. To purchase a copy of Jim\u2019s book, click here. To download the free travel app, click here. www.jimstrong.net\nCharlie Corcoran\nDesigns include: Fidelio (Santa Fe Opera 2014), The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro (The McCarter Theatre 2014), The Bartered Bride, Cosi Fan Tutte, (Co-Production The Met Opera / Juilliard), Smash, Don Giovanni (Juilliard), Shida (Ars Nova), The Last Smoker in America (Westside Theatre), Fallen Angels (NJ Shakespeare Theatre), The Night Watcher (Center Theatre Group), A Perfect Future (Cherry Lane), The Emperor Jones (Hewes Design Award Nomination), The Weir, The Freedom of the City, The Banished Children of Eve , Sive, Prisoner of the Crown, Defender Of The Faith, The Field, (Irish Rep), The Late Christopher Bean (TACT), Sophistry, The Black Monk, The Bully Pulpit (Beckett Theatre), Without Walls (Mark Taper forum), The Night Watcher, Exits and Entrances (Primary Stages), The Dishwashers, The Man in Room 306 (59 east 59th street Theatre).\n(Lighting Design)\nBroadway: Newsies; Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award); A Time to Kill; Soul Doctor; The Performers; The Anarchist; The Pee-wee Herman Show; Next Fall; Kiki and Herb. Other NYC includes: Loves Labors Lost and Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare in the Park); Old Jews Telling Jokes; Last Five Years; The Last Smoker in America; Clive; The Madrid; Silence; Love, Loss, and What I Wore; Meet Vera Stark; Rapture, Blister, Burn; A Lie of the Mind; Ordinary Days; Family Guys Sings; The Voysey Inheritance; The Internationalist; Jacques Brel; Almost, Maine; and Jennifer Muller The Works. Regional: The Guthrie Theatre, The Alliance, The Shakespeare Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Barrington Stage, McCarter Theatre, Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Huntington, Geffen Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Trinity Rep, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford\u2019s Theatre, Goodspeed Opera House, and NY Stage and Film.\n(Costume Design)\nBroadway & West End: Hair (2009 Tony Award, Drama Desk and Hewes Award nominations). The Public: Hair (Delacorte Theater). Off-Broadway & Regional: Jericho (59E59) The Irish Curse (Soho Rep), The Last Smoker in America (Westside Theatre) A Perfect Future (Cherry Lane Theatre), Tartuffe (Tribeca Playhouse), Amahl and the Night Visitors (Lincoln Center), God of Carnage, [Title of Show] (George Street Playhouse); Take Me Out (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Oklahoma! (Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival) Johnny Baseball, (American Repertory Theater, IRNE Nomination), Dirty Blond, Omnium Gatherum, Crowns, Spring Awakening, Next to Normal (Zach Scott Theatre); Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, The Laramie Project, Angels in America (Chatham Playhouse).\nBart Fasbender\n(Sound Design)\nBroadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Off-Broadway: The Last Smoker in America directed by Andy Sandberg, John Patrick Shanley\u2019s Storefront Church and Conor McPherson\u2019s Port Authority (The Atlantic), Paul Weitz\u2019s Lonely, I\u2019m Not and Douglas Carter Bean\u2019s Mr. and Mrs. Fitch (Second Stage), The Good Mother, Russian Transport, Burning and Blood From a Stone (The New Group), Three Changes and The Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons), Asuncion and The Aliens (Rattlestick), Invasion, Edgewise, Made in Poland, Bad Jazz (PlayCo), Apple Cove (Women\u2019s Project), Graceland (LCT3), Be a Good Little Widow (Ars Nova), Next Fall and Fault Lines (Naked Angels), The Last Smoker in America (45th Street Theater). Regional: Williamstown, Barrington Stage, NY Stage & Film, Berkshire Theater Festival, Philadelphia Theater Company, TheaterWorks, TwoRiver, CTG \u2013 Kirk Douglas Theater, CATCO. Hewes Award nomination.\nBlake Zidell & Associates is a New York-based public relations firm that represents artists, companies, institutions, and festivals spanning a variety of disciplines. Current and recent theater clients include St. Ann\u2019s Warehouse, Soho Rep, The Wooster Group, Young Jean Lee\u2019s Theater Company, The Play Company, The Amoralists, The Pearl, and New York City Players.\n(Advertising & Web)\nWiT Media is a full-service creative marketing agency that helps arts, culture, green and education organizations develop their current and future audiences. WiT\u2019s focus is on the things in life that enrich us: museums, libraries, gardens, performing arts organizations, visual artists, educational institutions, non-profits, hospitality, health care, and related fields. WiT Media was recently honored with a Communication Arts: 2013 Award of Excellence and named Top Entrepreneur of 2012 by Crain\u2019s New York Business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 11166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cruisetalk.org/americans-work-hard-at-relaxing-vacationers-more-likely-to-get-up-early-than-sleep-in/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:33Z", "digest": "sha1:LUGESV4C3LS3PSJTVGBCWMNA7O5GLQUF", "length": 4315, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cruisetalk.org", "title": "Americans Work Hard At Relaxing \u2014 Vacationers More Likely To Get Up Early Than Sleep In | Cruise Talk Central", "raw_content": "Americans Work Hard At Relaxing \u2014 Vacationers More Likely To Get Up Early Than Sleep In\nSANTA CLARITA, Calif. (October 25, 2010) \u2014 Most relaxing Americans put a priority on having fun rather than sleeping while they are vacationing, according to a recent relaxation survey commissioned by Princess Cruises. With the busy holiday travel season upon us, many Americans may be looking for a little rest and relaxation in between, which, according to the survey findings, means different things to different people.\nThe Princess Cruises \u201cRelaxation Report\u201d uncovered some surprising insights as to how Americans pursue leisure. The \u201cReport\u201d showed that 55% of vacationers preferred to get up early rather than sleep in on vacation, while 44% chose to sleep late.\nBesides putting a priority on leisure time versus sleep time, the \u201cRelaxation Report\u201d also reveals that 6 out of 10 Americans prefer a spontaneous, go-with-the-flow itinerary rather than a set-schedule of activities while on vacation (selected by 38%). And, two-thirds (67%) of Americans prefer to relax on the beach rather than at the pool (26%). To aid in relaxation, Americans choose reading (25%), having a drink (20%) and listening to music (19%).\nPrincess Cruises, one of the best-known names in cruising, fielded the survey to gain some insights into relaxation habits while on vacation. \u201cBecause Princess is committed to providing our passengers a relaxing and rejuvenating vacation experience, we thought it would be fun to get some feedback about just what helps people relax during their precious time off,\u201d said Jan Swartz, Princess Cruises executive vice president.\nThe \u201cRelaxation Report\u201d also uncovered clear differences between how men and women relax. Men prefer to start their vacation day by getting up early (58%) rather than sleeping in (41%), while women are divided, with 51% preferring to rise early and 47% preferring to sleep in and catch some Z\u2019s. Men prefer to relax by having a drink (25%), reading (18%) and listening to music (17%). Women, on the other hand, prefer to relax by reading (32%), listening to music (21%) and by having a drink (15%). When drinking on vacation, men prefer beer over wine (41% vs. 27%, respectively), while women prefer a glass of wine over a beer (45% vs. 27%, respectively). Also, more men than women choose watching TV (15% vs. 11%, respectively) and exercising (15% vs. 9%, respectively) as ways to aid in their relaxation.\nDespite their differences, men and women have their agreements too. Both men and women choose country music as their favorite vacation tunes (25% and 22%, respectively), both prefer viewing a sunset (65% and 67%) over a sunrise (30% among both genders) and would rather relax on the beach (68% vs. 60%) than at the pool (25% vs. 26%).\nCountry is King\nWhen it comes to tunes, country music was the clear winner with 24% of Americans preferring those songs over all else, followed in popularity by soft rock (21%), classical (17%), jazz (13%) and pop (12%).\nTurn Off and Power Down\nContrary to popular belief, while mindlessly surfing the Internet or flipping through the television may sound like good ways to relax, in reality Americans couldn\u2019t disagree more. Most Americans (97%) do not choose the Internet or the television (87%) as primary ways to relax while on vacation.\nWhen asked to choose between viewing a sunset or a sunrise while on vacation, the responses varied based on where Americans reside. While 4 in 10 adults from the Northeast (40%) would rather see a sunrise, less than 1 in 3 of those in the Midwest (29%), in the South (27%) or in the West (27%) would choose dawn over dusk. There are also some regional differences when it comes to vacation reading preferences. A larger proportion of adults from the Midwest would rather read a magazine (47%) than would adults from the West (37%), the South (36%) and the Northeast (35%). Conversely, those from the Northeast (59%), the West (56%) and the South (54%) are more likely to choose a book than those from the Midwest (45%).\nVacation Barometer\nHow do you know when it\u2019s time to take a vacation? 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Each plastic bag holds 58 gallons.\nProduct Name 58 Gallon Shredder Bags\nClassic 225, 386, 390, 411, 412\nSECURIO B35, P36, P40", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 3856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 152.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://culturenl.co.uk/elibrary/ereference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:42Z", "digest": "sha1:NTGLUFDYKVTYZPOJMJCBQOFUXWVFPEWY", "length": 2384, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "culturenl.co.uk", "title": "eReference | CultureNL", "raw_content": "You are here: Home > eLibrary > eReference\nNeed help with your homework, study or research? Let CultureNL Libraries and eLibrary come to the rescue. You are only a mouse click away from accessing a huge database of quality-assured, free, online reference books.\nFind trusted, reliable information in the library or at home, for free. You can log in to most of the e-reference books from home, 24/7, using your library card number. If you are not a member, find out how to join online.\n\u00bb OpenLearn\nGet access to over 800 free courses, spread across a variety of subject areas, through the Open University\u2019s OpenLearn website.\n\u00bb NHS Inform\nHealth information you can trust.\n\u00bb ScotGov eBooks\nAccess the Scottish Government\u2019s collection of eBooks.\n\u00bb Wikipedia \u2013 The Free Encyclopedia\nA crowd-source free online encyclopedia containing information on a massive range of topics. Excellent for homework or general reference use. Always check the source information for accuracy.\n\u00bb Go Citizen\nEverything you need to help prepare for Life in the UK Test towards gaining a British citizenship. Test questions can be translated into 40 different languages and speech-enabled.\nSigning up: you must first register with your e-mail address, name and a password, which you need to use every time to log in.\nEverything you need to practice your driving theory tests for cars, motorcycles, large goods vehicles, and passenger carrying vehicles.\n\u00bb Access to Research\nDiscover a world of published academic research in journals and papers. Get in-depth information on topics including art, architecture, business, engineering, history, language, politics, philosophy, mathematics and the sciences. This resource is ideal for small businesses, researchers and students, amongst others.\nPlease note you can only access the membership area of this website by purchasing your own membership or visiting one of CultureNL\u2019s libraries.\n\u00bb Ancestry\nSearch your family history on the world\u2019s largest genealogy website. You can search births, deaths and marriages, censuses, wills, military records, immigration records and more.\nThis is a consumer online magazine with test results, recommendations and advice.\nPlease note you can only access the membership area of this website by purchasing your own membership or visiting one of our LogintoLean centres in Motherwell, Coatbridge, Cumbernauld or Wishaw library.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dan.hersam.com/2010/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:59Z", "digest": "sha1:UUDNIGR36FN46TODRP3SVVVW7XPEMEEO", "length": 744, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "dan.hersam.com", "title": "Amidst a tangled web", "raw_content": "WordPress Plugin Upgrade Failed Solution - 28 Sep 2010\nI ran into this error: \u201cUnable to locate WordPress Content directory (wp-content).\u201d after upgrading the Linux distro on my server. Nearly every solution I found was to add a custom block of code to wp-config.php that would no longer require you to give the FTP credentials. I found this unappealing because I have multiple WordPress [\u2026]\nXmarks Is Shutting Down - 27 Sep 2010\nI was shocked to receive an email from XMarks today, announcing its own demise. They\u2019re open to ideas to keep the business alive, but barring a new solution, it will cease to operate on January 10, 2011. If you have more questions about the shutdown, see their shutdown FAQ. I\u2019ve looked at the alternatives and [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://davidshurter.com/2011/06/26/228/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:05Z", "digest": "sha1:LCEGJRPFAFEZ4KKZ4H7SVOOXO6L5KRBA", "length": 5400, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "davidshurter.com", "title": "A Video concerning DavidShurter.com, as a result of Googling my name. | DavidShurter.com", "raw_content": "A Video concerning DavidShurter.com, as a result of Googling my name.\nThis is a current video that explains where I am and what I am trying to do with this website. It is kinda in defense of what I read on a website called Websleuths.com, a site that I seemed to be banned from- although I have never once tried to post anything on the site. This is par for the course- but since I have my own website, I would like to answer some of the things being said about me.\nI am actually going to take a break from DavidShurter.com- but I wanted to just list some of the reasons why I believe my father might be involved with Jacob Wetterling, Ricky Chadek, and Johnny Gosh- just so I am clear.\nFirst of all- we have and had family connections in every place these abductions occurred. My father\u2019s sister and her family live in West Des Moines (not that I am implying that they might be involved in any way), but it is a connection to my father. The biggest reason why I think my family may be involved is that my brother attended a private function for Johnny Gosch the November before my father died. My brother was identified by four people I spoke too attending the function, as they expressed that he made quite an impression on them, asking such questions as to whether they thought Johnny Gosch was going to show up (something my brother would definitely say), and that he was hard to forget. No one knew how he found out about the Florida conference- as it was a private function- so how my brother found out about it is a question, but not as big as the one that asks why my needle using drug addicted homeless alcoholic of a brother went to the conference in the first place. I believe that he was on a mission to see what my father might have said in conversations he was having on the phone. My father was trying to come clean, at the same time my brother and stepmother went on a crusade to tell people he was crazy.\nAll of my sisters and my brother, at long points in their young adult lives, lived in Minneapolis/St.Paul Minnesota. My older sister has followed the case from the beginning- convinced that my family was involved, and made a report herself concerning the abduction of Jacob Wetterling. The abductor pics resemble my father, although now there is some question as to why these even exist in the first place, since some would argue that the abductor was masked, but I assure you that I didn\u2019t make these up- and they are in fact part of the history of the case. Be it a mistake or not- they exist because of the Jacob Wetterling case.\nRicky Chadek- one of the murdered boys here in Omaha, vacationed at Silver Lake Minnesota, the same as us. Interesting that in the land of 10000 lakes we would also be extremely familiar with an area connected to another murdered child. His body was found in Omaha, my father lived 3 \u00bd hours away in Graettinger IA, and if I killed someone I wouldn\u2019t dump them in my own back yard either. We went from Graettinger to Omaha often, as both my father\u2019s mother and his brother lived here.\nI know my dad- I know my family- I know what they were capable of and yet I have been continually surprised. We have connections to these places- undeniable connections. I did an investigation- as much as I am capable of- and the facts that I have presented speak for themselves. A Walking Tour of Pedophile Omaha, although I was angry- simply showed where things are in relation to each other, and it is a tour showing simple real estate associated with issues concerning Johnny Gosch, and those surrounding the Franklin Credit Union scandal. Again- not a secret- and I didn\u2019t make it up. These places existed- and angry or not- I would like to ask someone to point out ONE inconsistency on the video. The dissenters always make it about me and how I presented the video rather than the information that I actually provide. A Walking Tour through Pedophile Omaha is pretty forthright, and the facts are pretty straightforward.\nA Question about Healing with Regards to Ritual Abuse\nOperation Bohemian Grove\nI have been intrested and have followed most of the credit union scandle as much as one could. When I first started reading about it about 10 yrs ago, there was nothing but the book, actually getting the book was a hassle in its own, one book store said they did not carry it, one said it was no longer published, one told us to give them a name and number and they would call us when it was in stock, yeah right,, that was not going to happen. Eventually found the book, but it has since came up missing along with 2 other people copies,, hmm strange. I have watched all your videos and have read most of what you have wrote, waitng on the book now,,, there is one inconsistancy in your video tour, and i only caught it this time. First video first few minutes you talk about old market and it being a hang out for kids, when you came here when you was 19,,, then later on you talk about the Hollywood bar and the leather room and that you was in that room when you was 15. That is the only thing that does not add up. Thank you for all your information keep up the work,, it will all come out eventually!!\nWe often came to Omaha to visit my father\u2019s family- who still lived here, so although I moved to Graettinger, we went back and forth between the two often. Hope this helps answer your question.\nThanks for your support- I hope you enjoy the read!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 10275, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dazeinfo.com/2010/05/23/youngest-indian-hero-who-won-the-mount-everest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:16Z", "digest": "sha1:TMINWZW2HBKIUVL7CVDNIA7C6OPIOSML", "length": 3452, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "dazeinfo.com", "title": "Youngest Indian Hero who won the Mount Everest ! - Dazeinfo", "raw_content": "Home Zust In Youngest Indian Hero who won the Mount Everest !\nYoungest Indian Hero who won the Mount Everest !\nIt was Saturday 22nd May 2010; day starts with the horrible news of AI fatal crash in Mangalore. Switch any of the channels, only horrified pictures, video clips about M\u2019gl crash. All sympathy, crying and lauds from their near & dear ones. Media, reporters, Press conferences, AI officials, Leaders all were juggling to handle the situation as early as possible. While this was going on near the tale of India, at top of India someone was heading towards setting up a good news for whole world and wining over largest & strongest mountain. It was Arjun Vajpai, 16 year old from Delhi who was about to win over 8,848-metre-high Mount Everest, via the traditional South Col route in Nepal.\nSooner, the big news comes about his successful accomplishment on Mount Everest and becoming the youngest Indian to achieve such milestone in his career. But it all went in a low lime light as most of the Media was busy in covering M\u2019gl disaster. No offence. That\u2019s also important specially at that time.It\u2019s been more than 28 hours but still no one cares about him from Media. Does that mean Media is more bother about his TRP, Ads, Prime Time calculations. Anyways, I will talk about Indian Media in my next article. It\u2019s time to talk about Arjun which can help Indians to cheer for something specially after such M\u2019gl tragedy.\nOver the moon at her son\u2019s achievement, Priya Vajpai said: \u201cI have no words to describe just how proud I am. We knew that he was going to push for the peak on Saturday morning and when at 6.30 a.m., members of the team coordinating the climb phoned to tell us that Arjun had successfully managed to climb Mt. Everest and that he was safe, we all jumped for joy.\nArjun is a student of Ryan International School, at Sector 39 in Noida. According to his mother, he has been always been an outdoor person and loves trekking, hiking, football and basket ball. He was introduced to mountaineering only three years ago, but took to it like a fish to water.\nArjun was part of a 12-member expedition team that has a record number of Indian climbers trying their luck individually. His father Sanjiv Vajpai, a former Army officer, said he was initially afraid to let Arjun go on the expedition.\n\u201cHe is just 16 years old and I wasn\u2019t sure if it would be fair to expose him to such a life-threatening risk. But his instructors at the Nehru Mountaineering Institute, where he did two mountaineering courses, said he had both the physical and mental ability to summit Mt. Everest and so we decided to let him go.\u201d\nArjun equalled the record of a Nepalese Sherpa Temba Tsheri, who also climbed the peak when he was sixteen.Arjun\u2019s team was led by Apa Sherpa, 50, who broke his own record to become the first man to climb the peak for a record 20th time.\nThe Noida boy also broke the record of Krushnaa Patil, 18, from Maharashtra, who became the youngest Indian to reach the highest peak in 2009.\nAlong with Arjun, also making it to the top was an Indian woman Mamta Sodha, who reached the summit at 10:24 a.m. The feat of the two was conveyed to PTI on phone by Chunu Shrestha of the Asian Trekkers, who had organized the expedition.\nCongrats Arjun for all his success and to feel Indians proud !\nDetails & Credentials : The Hindu\nyoungest indian over everest\nAre Generic portals loosing their grounds ? Rediff post losses again in 2010 !", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 6903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dcarruthersedu.com/2018/02/01/6248/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:03Z", "digest": "sha1:T357SRV7UMB2IFJJNJI2YLUMPCQB77OY", "length": 1824, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "dcarruthersedu.com", "title": "We All Have the Potential to Lead \u2013 dcarruthersedu", "raw_content": "Yesterday, while skimming through my Instagram feed, I came across this quote. It caught my attention as it was something that has been on my mind ever since I read a tweet congratulating a friend who recently accepted the position of Learning Coordinator in my school district. The author of this well-intentioned, congratulatory tweet, told my friend that they would do an exceptional job in this leadership role, and that they would have a large impact/influence on so many. All this is true, but this educator has been, for quite some time, a system leader. Perhaps this designation may not be on paper, with an official title, but nevertheless, they have cultivated a very large circle of influence.\nWithout question, designated system leaders have tremendous potential to impact educators and students. I witness this firsthand when my colleagues and I provide system-level professional development. Further to this point, it could be argued that the circle of influence that both my friend and I have worked tirelessly to pursue is limited to our connections on social media, and the workshops we have facilitated over the years. Some might even suggest that it doesn\u2019t reach the masses. However, we must never underestimate the byproduct of these pursuits: we have the people, and we have the ability to establish relationships with each of these individuals. In most cases, these people are the catalysts for driving change in their schools.\nWith the tools that are at their disposal, all educators have the potential to lead, with or without a designated title.\n5 comments on \u201cWe All Have the Potential to Lead\u201d\nIt\u2019s all about relationships! I think we forget that sometimes, at our peril.\nPingback: Returning to the Classroom Isn\u2019t a Dimished Role \u2013 dcarruthersedu\nPingback: TVDSB PLN, Thank you! \u2013 dcarruthersedu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://de.slideshare.net/LinkedInPulse/europe-will-hit-the-us-with-new-tariffs-workers-could-go-on-strike-and-more-news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:44Z", "digest": "sha1:FAEBDMEKA3TP2R767XV4HSUPZAU4F7OW", "length": 982, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "de.slideshare.net", "title": "Europe will hit the U.S. with new tariffs, workers could go on strike\u2026", "raw_content": "The European Union says it will impose \u201crebalancing\u201d tariffs on $3.4B of U.S. imports in response to Washington\u2019s metal tariffs. The duties will hit U.S. steel, agriculture and other products.\nUnited Parcel Service workers are set to strike in what could be the nation\u2019s largest strike in decades. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters union is negotiating a labor contract for 280,000 employees that expires July 31.\nJohnson & Johnson is facing its largest lawsuit yet over allegations that its talc-based products contain cancer-causing asbestos. The women involved the trial claim that decades of using J&J\u2019s baby powder caused ovarian cancer and the company failed to warn them about the risks.\n\u201cThe ability to strike is necessary in order to ensure a timely and positive conclusion to negotiations. We have to show that we\u2019re not afraid of striking.\u201d International Brotherhood of Teamsters union letter.\nhindustanblogs\nChristopher Hildebrant , Real Estate at Morelia Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 9013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dealzone.co.za/deal/166310/Choice-of-a-Main-Meal-from-R130-at-KOS-%28Up-to-52-percent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:34Z", "digest": "sha1:SKYVFC6K3BCVYQKFOIKLDYJYOSBCYWM3", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dealzone.co.za", "title": "DealZone | 50% discount deal in Cape Town - Choice of a Main Meal from R130 at KOS (Up to 52% Off)", "raw_content": "Choice of a Main Meal from R130 at KOS (Up to 52% Off)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 5076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://debaak.com/about-de-baak/articles/how-can-you-manage-smartly-as-a-change-manager/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:RJEVKRE4G3H2I6ANIQ3F5ONGM3YQRPR5", "length": 3476, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "debaak.com", "title": "How can you manage smartly as a change manager? - de Baak", "raw_content": "How can you manage smartly as a change manager?\nAre you a manager or project manager who has to implement change? Saying how things must be done and expecting everyone to obey is an illusion. Everybody knows that. Different interventions at different levels are needed. You can find out what they are during our Personal Effectiveness in Managing Change training course. Here are three tips to be going along with!\nIn our complex society, it is not possible to bring about change on your own \u2013 you need each other, you have to do it together. As a change manager, one of your tasks is to create solidarity, to move forward together in the direction of the desired change. You cannot do this by only being rational, or with arguments. So how can you do it?\n1. Acting at different levels of communication\nImagine an iceberg in water. The part sticking out above the surface is much smaller than what is below. \u2018Above water\u2019 communication is rational arguments concerning content and procedure, how you tackle something together, or how you talk about it. \u2018Below water\u2019 is where emotional responses and feelings and interpersonal relationships are found. If, as a changer, you are unable to sell your \u2018above water\u2019 message, you can make a \u2018below water\u2019 intervention. Say something about attitude or approach, or mention a feeling you are experiencing yourself or perceiving from your discussion partner. This will \u2018deepen\u2019 the discussion and enable you to steer it in a different direction. The result will be greater mutual understanding.\n2. Respond deliberately to key moments in the change curve\nFeelings experienced by your discussion partner or partners can be part of the change curve. Usually you, as the changer, are at the end of the process, while others who are also undergoing change are at the start or somewhere in the middle of the process. The sequence of the emotions associated with the change curve is shock, denial, fear, anger, despondency, understanding, acceptance, satisfaction. Changing is a process. If you refer to a person\u2019s emotion, talk and find out more about it, you help them take the next step and it also creates more confidence and a greater willingness to change.\n3. Managing based on positions and interests\nPeople often adopt positions when talking to each other. These are \u2018above water\u2019. A position is a fixed view \u2013 fixed and difficult to change. This means that discussions do not progress beyond an exchange of contradicting arguments. \u201cI think that\u2026\u201d To get away from this, it can be useful to look at the person\u2019s interests (\u2018below water\u2019). In many cases, the underlying reason behind a position offers scope for finding common ground.\nThe underlying reason is related to norms and values: \u201cI think it\u2019s important that it is carried out accurately\u201d, or \u201cI would like account to be taken of people\u2019s feelings\u201d, or \u201cI would like us to remain focused on our customers and that we achieve results without any of that internal minutiae\u201d. You then reach a kind of \u2018deal\u2019, negotiating between your goal and your common interests. Suppose you have to create a more efficient and smaller team. You could negotiate on the accuracy that is needed in order to carry it out, or on having a strong enough focus on people and discussing and asking how they think it should be done. Or on how, together, you can ensure that sight is not lost of the customers.\nWith these three tips, you can keep the change process moving towards the desired outcome!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deborahraenelson.com/blog/2018/8/20/indian-market-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2QKCYMFLN3PMC7Z236OJKI4IHSWNH3EM", "length": 628, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "deborahraenelson.com", "title": "Indian Market 2018 \u2014 Deborah Rae Nelson", "raw_content": "The Santa Fe Indian Market is the largest and most prestigious juried Native arts show in the world. Begun in 1922, Indian Market attracts over 100,000 visitors from all over the world to buy art directly from roughly 900 artists from 200+ federally recognized tribes from the U.S. and Canada.\nIndian Market is a two-day event. The art and entertainment is a feast for the senses. Sunday was less crowded making it possible to visit with many of the artists one-on-one and ask questions about their techniques and materials.\nDeer Dancers\nTony Duncan (flutist & hoop dancer)\nViolet Duncan (storyteller)\nArtisans at Loretto Chapel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 3626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 149.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/1088/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:03Z", "digest": "sha1:JDXSCTH2FM6DS5YWLU72JALEEIDJNULD", "length": 1304, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.unf.edu", "title": "\"Price Memorial Hall, Dahlonega, GA\" by George Lansing Taylor Jr.", "raw_content": "Price Memorial Hall, Dahlonega, GA\nPrice Memorial Hall, Dahlonega, GA. Dahlonega is a city in and the county seat of Lumpkin County, Georgia, United States. Erected here in 1837 was a U.S. Branch Mint which operated until seized by the Confederates in 1861. In 1871 the mint building and ten acres of land were transferred to the state for use as an agricultural college, largely through the efforts in Congress of Representative William Pierce Price,\nfounder of North Georgia College and President of its Board of Trustees until his death in 1908. The mint building was destroyed by fire in 1878 The new structure came to serve as the college administration building and in 1934 by action of the state Board of Regents was named the Price Memorial Building to honor the founder.\nLeafing of the steeple with gold from the surrounding hills was sponsored by the Dahlonega Club to commemorate in 1973 the 100th anniversary of the college.\nIt was included in the National Register of Historic Places NRIS #72000387\nTaylor, George Lansing, Jr.; Lance Taylor; Photographers -- Florida --Jacksonville; Photograph collections -- Florida -- Jacksonville; College campuses; College buildings; Historic buildings; North Georgia College; Price Memorial Hall; William Pierce Price; Dahlonega, Georgia; Lumpkin County", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/mqp-all/5304/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:QULNQNUH6SEENJHW2PQTKHHUVJ7CTZ4X", "length": 711, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.wpi.edu", "title": "\"Real-time DSP-based audio equalizer.\" by Glenn Sheldon. Watkins and Mark Randall Buzzell", "raw_content": "Real-time DSP-based audio equalizer.\nGlenn Sheldon. Watkins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute\nMark Randall Buzzell, Worcester Polytechnic Institute\nThe goal of this project was to design and implement a real-time digital audio equalizer that would compare with the standards of today's technology. Design considerations included various filter types, processing methods and user interface formats. Using these considerations, a system specification was developed and implemented using the Texas Instruments TMS320C6713 DSK board and MATLAB's Graphic User Interface Development Environment (GUIDE) running a PC platform. The project concluded with the realization of a functional graphic and parametric equalizer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 312.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://directmedia.biz/portfolio_item/mercedes-benz-m-and-b-class-launch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:11Z", "digest": "sha1:FE7OZYFEYFU4FIWHPYYKR74L2VWZOVBU", "length": 656, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "directmedia.biz", "title": "Mercedes - Benz M and B Class Launch Mercedes - Benz M and B Class Launch", "raw_content": "Mercedes-Benz, Bulgaria\nOne of the world leading car manufacturers had launched two new models in the market \u2013 M and B class. Our task was to come up with high-profile event demonstrating the power of the brand by representing new car models.\nWe have created a 3D experience \u201cAhead of the present\u201d and our idea was to show technological innovation applied to new car models. We have adjusted the sports venue to create a comfortable space for the multidimensional presentation of new models. In eight minutes of synchronized video projection, with speech commands and dramatic 3D effects, we guided more than 300 visitors through Mercedes \u2013 Benz adventure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://directory.edugorilla.com/coaching/central-institute-of-medicinal-aromatic-plants-indira-nagar-lucknow-fee-structure-syllabus-address-admission-form-contact-number/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:50Z", "digest": "sha1:EBY6M7LDWJZ5SMR3QGPCZSRHUMWFNPHD", "length": 3088, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "directory.edugorilla.com", "title": "Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants - Indira Nagar, Lucknow - Reviews, Fee Structure, Admission Form, Address, Contact, Rating - Directory", "raw_content": "Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants - Indira Nagar, Lucknow - Reviews, Fee Structure, Admission Form, Address, Contact, Rating\nMon9 AM to 5.30 PM\nTue9 AM to 5.30 PM\nWed9 AM to 5.30 PM\nThu9 AM to 5.30 PM\nFri9 AM to 5.30 PM\nAdvanced Networking Training Basic Networking Training BEA Training\nDescription of Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Indira Nagar, Lucknow\nCentral Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants is a research institute of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research with its headquarter in Lucknow. It is engaged in the field of science and business of medicinal and aromatic plants. CIMAP has four research centers situated in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pantnagar and Purara .HistoryCentral Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, known as CIMAP, is a frontier plant research laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Established originally as Central Indian Medicinal Plants Organisation (CIMPO) in 1959, CIMAP is steering multidisciplinary high quality research in biological and chemical sciences and extending technologies and services to the farmers and entrepreneurs of medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) with its research headquarters at Lucknow and Research Centres at Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pantnagar and Purara. CIMAP Research Centres are aptly situated in different agro-climatic zones of the country to facilitate multi-location field trials and research. A little more than 50 years since its inception, today, CIMAP has extended its wings overseas with scientific collaboration agreements with Malaysia. CSIR-CIMAP has signed two agreements to promote bilateral cooperation between India and Malaysia in research, development and commercialization of MAP related technologies.CIMAP\u2019s contribution to the Indian economy through its MAPs research is well known. Mint varieties released and agro-packages developed and popularised by CIMAP has made India the global leader in mints and related industrial products. CIMAP has released several varieties of the MAPs, their complete agro-technology and post harvest packages which have revolutionised MAPs cultivation and business scenario of the country.\nContact Details of Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants\nPO CIMAP, Near Kukrail Picnic Spot, Faridi Nagar, Indira Nagar, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226015, India\nwww.cimap.res.in\nREVIEW on Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants on 2019-02-16 02:49:48\nReviews of Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants, Indira Nagar, Lucknow (5)\nSHADAB SARWAR\nsuperb place,mesmerising look,pleasant environment and quiet surroundings\nRANGEET GUPTA\nAH KHAN\nLooks very good from outside.Never went inside. Want to visit on next monday . Intimate name photo &phone no. Of cordinator\nThe web page says not available, is there any problem ?\nSushil Chaudhary\nGood institutions to research a plant for medicine process\nCoachings around Central Institute of Medicinal & Aromatic Plants\nS Wave Communication\nShri Naryana Music Night Party\nRing Road, Lucknow\nATI Education\nTMC Multimedia\nFICS Classes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 491, "original_length": 20091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://discoposse.com/2012/04/28/watch-this-film-jason-becker-not-dead-yet/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:42Z", "digest": "sha1:V3CUQTOKNTRV3RYVPXEY3IGTZYGXYO55", "length": 3397, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "discoposse.com", "title": "Watch this Film: Jason Becker \u2013 Not Dead Yet | DiscoPosse.com", "raw_content": "Blog Watch this Film: Jason Becker - Not Dead Yet\nWatch this Film: Jason Becker \u2013 Not Dead Yet\nToday was a lucky and interesting day. It started with some weekend work tasks, which as anyone in IT knows is fairly standard issue. During the course of the day I was monitoring my Twitter feed and I saw this tweet from @JasonBeckerFilm:\nSo I emailed the team at http://JasonBeckerMovie.com and as luck would have it, I was given tickets to the show! I\u2019ve been watching the project for a few months so I was super excited to see it come to Toronto in the Hot Docs festival. I\u2019m a big fan of Jason Becker, and guitarists in general. The story of Jason being diagnosed with ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s Disease) was well known among the musician community and a heartfelt struggle for Jason and his family. It turned out to be a great gift for my day to be able to attend the Canadian premiere screening.\nThe film, directed and produced by Jesse Vile, is neither a movie about guitarists, nor a movie about ALS. It is a story whose character Jason, had been given the ultimate gift of talent, work ethic, character and heart, and when these qualities culminated to what would have been fame and success beyond most peoples hopes and imaginations, he was given the ultimate burden at age 20; a virtual death sentence.\nOne quote stood out early on from Jason to his Mother. He was doing photo shoots and press work and he worried that he looked so young and innocent compared to the rough and road weary band-mates he was surrounded by. You\u2019ll have to pardon my paraphrase, but he said something along the lines of \u201cI don\u2019t have any character in my eyes because nothing bad has happened to me\u201d.\nHe was surrounded by a happy and loving family, enjoying the fruits of his years of work and on the cusp of the best part of his career. Little did he know that he was about to experience more bad than he had imagined any single person could face.\nI don\u2019t want to spoil the best moments for you as I would really rather that you experienced it yourself and truly get the joy of it first hand. The story couldn\u2019t have been written this well from the greatest fiction writer. What makes it amazing is that it is simply a true, and inspiring story. The people who shared their stories on the screen were filled with humour and emotion all around.\nWhen the movie came to a close, the audience exploded in applause, and you could truly feel the emotion in the room. There was a Q&A with Jesse Vile which was excellent and could only have been better if we could have had more time. I was able to have a quick chat with Jesse afterwards and congratulate him on his film. Many others in the crowd did the same, some literally brought to tears.\nThe filming, editing and production all around were amazing. The score perfectly tied together every scene and even though many people in the room may not have been fans of shred guitar, they were pleased for having been there.\nJesse was relaxed and humble about what we found out was his first project. I hope that we are able to see lots of future work from Jesse and his team. If you have a chance to see a screening; go. If not, then I suggest that you take the first opportunity to watch it on-demand or on DVD when it is released.\nGreat review, Eric! Thank you again for coming out and for your kind words. I\u2019m glad the film touched you in some way. Thanks again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://distilleddollar.com/2016/08/03/financial-strength-adversity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:52Z", "digest": "sha1:67WWJOJE33THSFOFNXWDKKGTKQRUEMZV", "length": 956, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "distilleddollar.com", "title": "Financial Strength Through Adversity", "raw_content": "Aug 3, 2016 | My Path to Financial Independence | 4 comments\nToday\u2019s article is a guest post I did over at David\u2019s site, Finance Superhero. The topic is adversity.\nFunny enough, there was a typo in the title, but I think the message still comes through loud and clear.\nFinancial strength through adversity.\nI talk about what I\u2019ve learned from the \u201cbad luck,\u201d I\u2019ve come across.\nPlus, you can learn about George Washington\u2019s 15 year party spree where he spent the equivalent of $1,000,000 to decorate his crib. (Seriously, he did this before he became the first president of the USA.)\nCheck out the full article by clicking here. The comments have been great so far. Let me know what you think and if you\u2019re bored of my historical references yet.\nDividends Down Under\ton August 3, 2016 at 10:03 pm\nNice post \ud83d\ude42 I read it and commented there.\nTina Roth | Profinanceblog.com\ton August 4, 2016 at 11:20 am\nGreat post, Matt!!\nThanks Tina! I\u2019m glad you loved it! \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dixsonsout.com/2017/03/27/out-playing-on-sentosa-island/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:OPQI7GI6BFNS46YUPNPDLK57W6TLJ7RD", "length": 4159, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "dixsonsout.com", "title": "Out Playing on Sentosa Island \u2013 Dixsons Out", "raw_content": "Out Playing on Sentosa Island\nMarch 27, 2017 April 3, 2017 Dixsons Out\nBefore arriving in this tiny, prosperous, SE Asian city-state, all I knew about Singapore was a few pop culture references about its strict and sometimes crazy laws. I thought we better do a little research before going to make sure we didn\u2019t get ourselves into any trouble. We did our best to be good, but still managed to break a few while we were there. Fortunately, we never got caught!\nSpitting in Public: Penalty: Up to a $1000 fine. One day we were walking along a path and I saw all the boys (including Jeromy) repeatedly spitting at a post. They had never done this before and I couldn\u2019t imagine why, in all the places, they decided to do it in Singapore. I quickly ran up to them, whispering for them to stop, so I did not draw attention to ourselves, and learned they were spitting at a row of huge ants. Boys will be boys, but I was just glad we didn\u2019t get caught and fined for each occurrence or we may have to cut our trip a little short!\nSelling Gum: Penalty $100,000 \u2013 2 years in jail. I did accidentally smuggle a pack through security inside my purse (much to my children\u2019s dismay), but never tried selling it to anyone so I think we are in the clear!\nLittering: Penalty From $300 \u2013 Public Service. If you are convicted three times of littering you have to clean the streets with a bib that says \u201cI am a litterer.\u201d Fortunately, littering has never been an issue for us, no problems there.\nWalking Around Your House Naked: Penalty $1000. No comment.\nNot Flushing the Toilet: Penalty $150. I am not going to incriminate anyone in my family on this, but I think I might continue having this rule for the boys in the future.\nNo Urinating in Elevators: This was never a temptation, but apparently in some elevators they have Urine Detection Devices (UDD) that detect the smell of urine, setting off an alarm and closing the doors until the police arrive. The boys spent some time trying to figure out what would happen if a baby with a diaper happened to be in one\u2026I guess we will never know.\nConnecting To Another Persons WIFI: Penalty up to 3 years in prison or a $10,000 fine. We stuck to public WIFI and had no issues here.\nWith all of those strict laws you may think that Singapore is a boring place to hang out, but we found it to be the opposite! We spent our week there in a hotel on Sentosa Island, which is also known as \u201cAsia\u2019s Favorite Playground,\u201d and we tried to live up to that slogan as much as possible! The island is about 2 square miles and is basically one huge amusement park. Looking back, it\u2019s hard to believe all the things we were able fit in during our stay there, but with the help of some multi-day passes, we did our best to play as much as possible. Here are some highlights from our time there.\nWe had a blast at Universal Studios one day. If we didn\u2019t pay attention to some of the food choices (squid anyone) we would have felt like we were in the USA. We had lots of fun on the rides and watching shows.\nWe had so much fun taking pictures at this museum! All of these are optical illusions that make taking pictures incredibly entertaining!\nDuring World War II, Fort Siloso was built on what is now known as Sentosa Island, as a protection against attack. It has now been restored and is open as a military museum open to the public.\nWe enjoyed learning the history, seeing the cannons, and climbing through the old batteries. We even got to play a game of laser tag while we were there, which was, of course, the boys favorite part.\nCelebrating the Lunar (Chinese) New Year\nWhile it was after the New Year by the time we got to Singapore, they still had all the decorations and activities up which was a lot of fun!\nSentosa Wave House\nWe had so much fun trying this out, but we weren\u2019t always successful, as illustrated in the series of pictures below.\nSegway Ride\nPara Jumping\n4D Adventureland\nWings of Time Show\nWow! 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Our guiding principles extend far beyond the walls of our centers and the hours in which we operate. Our culture is based upon stewardship and servantship with the expectation that each member of our team will make a difference in the lives of those around them, one person and one community at a time.\nThrough financial contributions and the volunteer efforts of our employees, DPTI strongly supports many non-profit programs and organizations on both a local and international level. Serving our communities is a company-wide expectation, which is why each full-time employee is given a paid charity day in which they can give back to their local community.\nWhen action meets compassion, lives change.\nEach of our centers is involved in their communities in a variety of ways. Since every community is different, with each one having its own set of needs and circumstances, our employees are empowered to get involved and make a positive impact anywhere help is needed. From partnering with schools to holding bake sales in support of local charities, our goal is to enrich the communities where Drayer centers reside.\nSome national organizations that we support at a local chapter level include:\nDrayer Physical Therapy Institute is privileged to have the opportunity to provide ongoing support for two third-world organizations in Haiti and Jamaica. We provide both financial and clinical support in these developing countries. Clinicians have the opportunity to do medical mission work where individuals have limited to no healthcare resources. Fundraising efforts for these organizations occur on an ongoing basis company-wide.\nCOMMUNITY COALITION FOR HAITI (CCH)\nCCH helps enrich the lives of Haitians, providing them with the basic needs of life. Clinical and non-clinical mission opportunities are available with CCH to Drayer employees. DPTI has partnered with CCH on many projects that have helped to increase quality of life. More specifically, DPTI built a school in Pignon, Haiti, where we continue to provide financial support. To support a child at the Drayer School or to learn more about CCH, please visit their website.\nFRIENDS OF THE REDEEMER UNITED\nFriends of the Redeemer\u2019s mission it to encourage the healing process through awareness and involved in spiritual, educational and health-related services in rural Jamaica. The founder of Friends of the Redeemer is supported by Drayer and runs a free physical therapy clinic in St. Elizabeth Parish. 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I\u2019m more confident with my body and can\u2019t wait to show of my straight back. Thank you from the bottom of my heart and straighter spine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 191.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dtvnews.org/more-info/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MKRES4QYJDKHK7JYR56GH4OG5TXYNAK7", "length": 1191, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "dtvnews.org", "title": "More Info", "raw_content": "If your interested in our documentary and want to know more about the statistic, laws, facts, and other stories involving gun violence here is a list useful websites\nWebsites comparing America\u2019s gun violence to other countries:\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-u-s-gun-deaths-compare-to-other-countries/\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?_r=2\nThe facts behind America\u2019s gun violence\nhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/06/11/gun-violence-and-mass-shootings-myths-facts-and-solutions/?utm_term=.c052e8abcdfb\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/nation/gun-homicides-ownership/table/\nhttp://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/01/07/21-Unbelievable-Facts-About-Guns-America\nhttp://www.cfr.org/society-and-culture/us-gun-policy-global-comparisons/p29735?cid=ppc-Google_grant-gun_policy_backgrounder&&gclid=CKCtw7yK7M4CFQioaQodSHoJgw\nLaws involving Guns\nhttp://injury.findlaw.com/product-liability/gun-laws.html\nhttp://statelaws.findlaw.com/california-law/california-gun-control-laws.html\nhttp://statelaws.findlaw.com/florida-law/florida-gun-control-laws.html\nhttp://gunlawscorecard.org/\nGun Law Graphics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://earthjustice.org/category/tags/bush-administration?page=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XHUW5HM7EQ6WXFN6AMJ2DW34RKGCEN7Z", "length": 3506, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "earthjustice.org", "title": "Bush administration | Earthjustice", "raw_content": "June 2, 2011 | Blog Post\nThe Revolution Is Coming to Movie Theaters Across America\nThe buzz is heightening. The Sundance official selection documentary The Last Mountain is arriving at theaters across America beginning this weekend in Washington, DC, and New York City. Throughout June, it will open in 18 other cities, bringing this film -- on the frightening effects of destructive mountaintop removal mining-- to the biggest metropolitan markets in the nation.\nColorado Roadless Areas on the Chopping Block (Again)\nColorado is the most populous, developed state in the Rocky Mountain West. Despite all the cities and towns, highways, oil rigs and second homes, about 4.4 million acres of roadless national forest remain. And that\u2019s in addition to the 3 million-plus acres of existing wilderness.\nSaving Our Wild Places: Conservation Activist Gene Sentz\n(This is the third in a series of Q & A's on the Crown of the Continent, a 10-million acre expanse of land in northern Montana and southern Canada. Gene Sentz is co-founder of the Friends of the Rocky Mountain Front, one of the organizations whose activism resulted in the banning of oil and gas leasing in the Front. To learn more about this wild place and how Earthjustice is working to protect it, check out our Crown web feature.\nCoal Ash Conundrum\u2014The Biggest Loser?\nThe verdict is in. the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency turned a blind eye to coal ash reuse during the Bush Administration, and, in fact, the agency went a considerable way toward promoting reuses that were dangerous to human health and the environment.\nToxic Air's Toll: Thousands of Preventable Deaths\nThe New York Times Green blog has a good post today that spells out in no uncertain terms the cost of delaying health standards for coal plants\u2019 toxic air pollution: thousands of preventable deaths.\nFirst Health Protections Against Coal Plants' Toxic Air Unveiled\nTwo decades ago, Congress promised the American public major reductions of the most dangerous air pollutants\u2014toxics such as mercury, arsenic and lead that cause major health problems and can lead even to premature death. Today, after a long struggle in which Earthjustice proudly participated, the U.S.\nRoadless Rule Reinstated on the Tongass National Forest\nThe Roadless Area Conservation Rule, adopted at the end of the Clinton administration, banned most logging and road-building on the last 58.5 million unspoiled and unprotected acres on the national forests. It was immediately challenged by states, timber companies and other interests in nine lawsuits, one of which is still awaiting final resolution.\nNature Is Up For A Vote Today In Congress\nForty years of environmental progress is under attack today by a vote in the House of Representative on a stop-gap funding measure to keep the federal government running.\nUnfortunately, that measure\u2014called a continuing resolution\u2014is loaded with amendments and provisions that would slash the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s budget, and seeks to override the rule of law at every turn.\nMassive Attacks on Environment Launched in Congress\nTeabag by teabag, the anti-environment faction in the House of Representatives has filled its federal government spending bill with amendments that will cripple protections for our water, air, natural resources, wildlife and public health.\nCongress v. 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However, how do we ensure that this hard work actually meet the real needs of users? Will we really help them achieve what they need to achieve? Will the solutions be sustainable for the organisation? And ultimately will they fit in their environment, or simply add to the stresses of day-to-day working life?\nThis is where Service Design comes in.\nService Design allows us to gain a deep understanding of users and make sure that services and products work seamlessly together, to deliver the organisation\u2019s strategy. Using service design tools and methodologies we can create solutions that are respectful, seamless, holistic, sustainable and realistic.\nThis talk will provide a short introduction to Service Design, illustrated with case studies. Furthermore we will be \u201cdoing not talking\u201d with plenty hands-on activities and discussions, giving you the opportunity to walk away with an understanding of design thinking.\nAnne is a project director at Snook, an award-winning agency with offices in Glasgow and London. Coming from a background in business and data analysis, she aims to get to the bottom of problems, unearth the impact throughout the organisation, design innovative solutions and follow them through; acoss private, public, and third sectors..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 295.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/murder-charges-laid-in-east-edmonton-children-deaths-1.4209143", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MK3EAI3FBWWRBNYKVHNGDQCYX57NTTG7", "length": 1805, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "edmonton.ctvnews.ca", "title": "Murder charges laid in east Edmonton children deaths | CTV News Edmonton", "raw_content": "Murder charges laid in east Edmonton children deaths\nPublished Friday, December 7, 2018 10:12AM MST\nA 29-year-old man has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder after two children were found dead in an east Edmonton apartment suite Wednesday.\nCourt records show Ashton Brian Lafleche was charged in connection to the deaths of Mackenzie Petawaysin, and his daughter, Mary Lafleche Petawaysin.\nSources told CTV News the children are aged three years and seven months.\nLafleche was also charged with aggravated assault on the children\u2019s mother, Tamara Petawaysin, and for violating a probation order dated Oct. 31 where he was prohibited from contacting her.\nOn late Wednesday afternoon, police responded to a report of an assault on a woman in the area of 79 Avenue and 71 Street.\nPetawaysin was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. She identified Lefleche as the man who assaulted her, and said they were in a relationship. Police said they knew the woman had young children, but the half-sisters were not found in an initial search of the apartment.\nThree hours later, EPS received a report of an unclothed man who had broken into a garage at 73 Street and 80 Avenue at 8:30 p.m.\nThe owner of the home told CTV News the man was in a catatonic state.\nPolice arrested and questioned him on the whereabouts of the two children.\nOfficers then went back to the apartment and found the children concealed underneath \u201cpiles of various household items\u201d in a storage room, Homicide Acting Staff Sgt. Terrie Affolder said at the EPS headquarters Friday morning.\nThe children\u2019s autopsy was conducted Friday morning and the results are expected on Monday.\nAshton Lafleche, 29, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection to the deaths of two children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 386, "original_length": 11010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://education-forum.ca/2017/02/28/waiting-for-the-call/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:04Z", "digest": "sha1:F6Z3Q3KQ5SS2YIHIHYKTJTFXT5UK2B6T", "length": 6000, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "education-forum.ca", "title": "Waiting for the call \u2013 Education Forum", "raw_content": "Day-to-day uncertainty in the life of an occasional teacher\nPosted on February 28, 2017 by Manprit Ahluwalia in ARTICLES // 2 Comments\nHere\u2019s a question and a Haiku for you:\nUnsure of mornings\nMy yearning for a phone call\n\u201cPress 1 to accept.\u201d\nHave you guessed it? Let me give you another hint. While my work is widely recognized as a professional undertaking, I am, in truth, a member of the emerging precariat class. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard of me before and many of you have seen me. I\u2019ll be there for you, when you are sick and can\u2019t get out the door. I\u2019ll be there for you, when you have a meeting and need someone to review the Great War. I\u2019ll always be there and hope you will too. My name is Occasional Teacher. First name, Occasional, last name, Teacher. Many people know me by my first name, for I\u2019m not around much.\nEvery child is asked the question, \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d My response was, \u201cteacher!\u201d Believe me, that really was my answer; I even have proof. In Grade 8, we had to draw a family crest and one of the elements I had to include was my future career. You know what I drew: myself, all grown up, writing on a chalkboard. My dream was to be a teacher. So, throughout high school and university, I focused on that dream.\nDreams, however, are just unreal thoughts we have while we sleep. My dream was to be a teacher; I didn\u2019t dream about being an occasional teacher, but being wide awake as I am right now, that\u2019s what I am, an occasional teacher (OT). Occasionally needed, occasionally called, and, well, occasionally have a job. For many OTs, not in long-term positions, the morning phone call determines their happiness, financial decisions, and, in general, life choices. There should be a thriller film about this titled The Call. (Oh, wait, that title has\nbeen taken.)\nHaving said that, how many individuals have a career, but don\u2019t know whether they\u2019re actually going into work or have an income that day? How many individuals receive a call at 7:30 a.m. telling them that they\u2019re needed at 8:00 a.m. on the other side of the city, in rush hour?\nAccording to Doug McAnally, President of the Occasional Teachers Bargaining Unit (OTBU) in District 19, Peel, \u201clast year more than half of the job calls went out with less than 120 minutes before the start of the assignment.\u201d That is less than two hours to get out of bed, get ready, eat breakfast (wait, no time for that), and get on the road. If an OT has any children, well, good luck. District 19 has over 950 occasional teachers, yet, many jobs go unfilled. For instance, in the month of November, 110 jobs were unfilled. These weren\u2019t unfilled because OTs didn\u2019t want these jobs\u2014believe me, they\u2019ll take them\u2014but McAnally points out that often jobs are unfilled because it\u2019s been strongly implied by some administrators that if an OT can\u2019t get to the other side of the city in time, they should not accept the job at all. As a result, if the call went out too late no one picked up the job.\nNow, let\u2019s say that an OT does pick up a job and go in. If your day goes well, it\u2019s probably because there\u2019s a seating plan, a good lesson plan, and maybe a note that says, \u201cKeep an eye on ________. If they are a problem, don\u2019t be afraid to call the contact room or an admin.\u201d Those are the best days in an OT\u2019s life. However, sometimes, the OT will walk into the school and must roll with the punches, figuratively, of course. Sondeep, an occasional teacher, mentions that the most difficult times for her are when she\u2019s expected \u201cto know everything about the class,\u201d but she doesn\u2019t have any information about students with Individual Education Plans (IEP). This is a liability concern for an OT because they are expected to be aware of the IEP and make accommodations, regardless of the fact that they may only be there for a day. When surveyed at the OTBU District 19 Member Engagement Conference in October, many occasional teachers were clear about what they hope to find when they are to supply for a teacher: lesson plan, seating plan, list of important telephone extensions, and IEPs. These would help occasional teachers to be effective members of the board.\nHere\u2019s a new oxymoron: unpredictable career. According to Oxford Dictionaries, a career is \u201can occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person\u2019s life and with opportunities for progress.\u201d With the unpredictability of the OT life, there are very few opportunities to progress. In this unpredictable career, the income that an OT earns cannot keep up with the increasing cost of living.\nThrough severe financial constraints, many OTs will continue to wait for the call. Why would they put themselves through this? Because if they\u2019re anything like my Grade 8 self, they\u2019ve always wanted to be a teacher, and they find it rewarding when they\u2019re working with kids. That\u2019s what motivates them to persevere through hardships of the OT life. They\u2019ll even take on two or three jobs and \u201cwait-it-out,\u201d hoping that someday the system will favour them. For now, though, this is a system in which the OT is undervalued. And that is detrimental to the occasional teacher, to the many hopeful graduates who will keep dreaming, to the school, and most importantly, to the students, who may be left without a teacher. When asked about her experiences, Sondeep, an occasional teacher, echoing Drake, said, \u201cOT, OT, there\u2019s never much love when we go OT.\u201d Sadly, that\u2019s the sentiment of many occasional teachers of the precariat class. To allow these individuals to live saner, happier, and financially stable lives, change in the system is necessary.\nAbout Manprit Ahluwalia\nManprit Ahluwalia is an occasional teacher in District 19, Peel. She is an executive member of the Occasional Teacher Bargaining Unit and serves on the Communications Committee.\n2 Comments on Waiting for the call\nManjit Sandhu // March 11, 2017 at 1:44 pm // Reply\nYour write up resonates my feelings\nOT // November 2, 2017 at 8:57 pm // Reply\nI love the drake reference! lol", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://education.ufl.edu/jobs/2017/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:37Z", "digest": "sha1:WLACPKDFCWC3SPXGSEB6TUKJHARDUXZC", "length": 3736, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "education.ufl.edu", "title": "February 2017 \u2013 College Employment '); // make the back button work // $('.coemm-backbutton').click(function(){ // $(this).parent().parent().children('.active').removeClass('active'); // return false; 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The recall affects over 40 million vehicles and it is one of the most complex ever undertaken.\nThe National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued several guidelines to facilitate the process of gradually recalling the cars based on the risk they represent and now Tesla will start replacing passenger airbags in its older Model S sedans in the coming weeks.\nNHTSA described the root cause of the problem last year:\n\u201d A combination of time, environmental moisture and fluctuating high temperatures contribute to the degradation of the ammonium nitrate propellant in the inflators. Such degradation can cause the propellant to burn too quickly, rupturing the inflator module and sending shrapnel through the air bag and into the vehicle occupants.\u201d\nWhile it certainly sounds scary, Takata\u2019s airbags under recall are not all equally dangerous or even dangerous at all for years after being installed in a new vehicle. Therefore, the agency is issuing recalls in phases starting with the more at risk units.\nIt depends on the regions where the vehicles are used, NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind:\n\u201cThe science clearly shows that these inflators become unsafe over time, faster when exposed to humidity and variations of temperature.\u201d\nTechnically, Tesla is only required to replace the airbags in cars located in regions designated as \u201chigh humidity\u201d, but the automaker decided to not take any chance and recall all of them \u2013 starting with the one delivered in 2012.\nToday, Tesla started reaching out to the Model S owners affected by the recall. They wrote in an email:\nTesla will replace the passenger airbags in all 2012 Model S vehicles globally. The safety of our customers is paramount and Tesla is taking this action even though there have been no airbag ruptures or other related incidents in any of its vehicles.\nThe recall for 2012 models will start in February, but ultimately, all Model S produced up to \u201clate 2016\u201d will be affected. Tesla Roadster, Model X vehicles, or new 2017 Model S sedans are not affected by the Takata recall.\nOwners will gradually receive recall notices based on NHTSA\u2019s schedule. Tesla wrote in the same email:\nAlthough the current recall only applies to 2012 Model S vehicles, the passenger airbags of all Model S vehicles produced through late 2016 are expected to eventually be recalled. If you own a Model S produced between 2013 and 2016, your airbags are safe, and you do not need to take any action until you receive further notice from Tesla. As noted by NHTSA, customers do not need to be concerned about Takata inflators before they receive a recall notice. Nevertheless, for convenience and peace of mind, Tesla will make every effort to proactively replace the airbags of all affected vehicles even before they are recalled. This will be performed as parts supply allows, and at this time you do not need to take any action.\nThe logistic nightmare is only one part of the mess that the Takata recall has created. It has been tied to \u201cten deaths and more than 100 injuries in the United States\u201d alone. Last week, three Takata executives were charged for their roles in the situation and the company agreed to a $1 billion settlement, which includes \u201ca $25 million fine, $125 million for victim compensation and $850 million to compensate automobile manufacturers.\u201d\nFor more information about the recall process, Tesla owners can go to the company\u2019s support page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 9087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elr.info/subject-matter-index-cases/apa/7098", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:28Z", "digest": "sha1:VJN3WY76VFZW2IUEZFMBXU274N63RBOZ", "length": 260, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "elr.info", "title": "APA | Environmental Law Reporter", "raw_content": "Bailey v. Corps of Eng'rs\nThe court dismisses a landowner's takings claims against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Corps) and Minnesota state agencies for rejecting his proposed wetland replacement plan and ordering him to remove an access road on the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elunanetwork.org/resources/explaining-suicide-to-children/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6VBKCJ3YCXEEX4LMME24YDDIKJRFXFVV", "length": 5421, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "elunanetwork.org", "title": "Explaining Suicide to Children | Eluna Network", "raw_content": "One of the most challenging types of loss a bereavement counselor or therapist will be faced with is that of a family dealing with a death by suicide. Each member of the family will experience their grief differently depending on a myriad of factors. These factors include the person\u2019s relationship to the deceased, factors regarding the circumstances of the death, previous history of loss, as well as personality factors. In addition to their intra-personal responses, they may be encountering environmental changes which could include a withdrawal of social support, the \u201cconspiracy of silence\u201d, and financial hardships.\nWhen death is a result of suicide, the task of telling children is even more difficult than for other types of death. The immediate aftermath of the death is a time of confusion and intense emotion for everyone involved and families may seek guidance on what to tell children and how much to involve children in the funerary rituals.\nRegardless of the age of the child, it is always important to offer simple, truthful explanations about the cause of the death. Accurate information is crucial to the grieving process, and without the facts children will have difficulty with the first task of mourning, accepting the reality of the death as identified by the leading authority on grief, Dr. J. William Worden (Grief Counseling & Grief Therapy,2009). Regardless of age, involving the children in the funerary rituals will also help them with this task. Children will follow the lead of the adults in their life and if adequately prepared for the funeral will generally find the support of their community and rituals to be comforting.\nThe following examples are helpful tools for explaining suicide to children and helping them on their journey toward healing:\nFor very young children:\nFirst explain, \u201ctheir person who died had been feeling very, very sad and could not think of any other way to end the pain/sadness.\u201d\nExplain what he/she did to end their life, \u201cshe took a whole bottle of pills which made her body stop working and then she died\u201d or \u201che used a gun to make his body stop working, and then he died.\u201d\nWhile most people who are depressed are not suicidal, most suicidal people are depressed (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Symposium, 2001).\nTherefore, for school-aged children you can add:\n\u201cMommy had a disease called Depression which made her feel so sad and/or angry. Because of the disease she could not think clearly like we do, so she could not think of any other way to get help or end her pain except to end her own life.\u201d\nWe strongly suggest that you conclude by reminding a child there is always someone willing to help. Ask the child: \u201cWho would you go to for help if you ever felt very depressed and wanted to end your own life?\u201d Caution: make sure they can identify someone they trust and would go to for help.\nWith adolescents:\nIt\u2019s important to be both truthful and thorough in your explanations while remembering to emphasize that they are not to blame.\nDevelopmentally, an adolescent is on a course of individuating and separating from the family. It is important to remember that expecting them to assume parental or adult responsibilities prematurely because of the absence of the deceased could interfere with this natural and imperative developmental outcome.\nChildren will eventually learn the truth and it is always preferable for a child to hear the truth from the person they trust most in the safest setting possible. To minimize confusion and anger, this conversation should take place before the child returns to school so they will be prepared for the questions and comments of their peers. If children don\u2019t learn the truth until adulthood, they may feel betrayed by those they trusted.\nA child may experience the act of a parental suicide personally. This often affects their sense of self worth and creates feelings of abandonment. Unexpressed anger, guilt and shame can impair the child\u2019s ability to form meaningful relationships in the future. Fortunately, on a positive note, Harvard researcher Phyllis Silverman (Never Too Young to Know, 2000) found that most childhood grief survivors are able to remain committed in relationships.\nIn the therapeutic setting remind child survivors of suicide that the person who died loved them and that the death is not their fault. Another way to help children is to guide them to keep memories of happy times alive in conversation, keep photos and personal belongings of the person that died on hand, and by making a memory box or album.\nSuicide: The act of killing yourself so that your body won\u2019t work anymore. People who kill themselves often do so because they are suffering from a disease called Depression. Because of the disease they can\u2019t think clearly and feel very, very depressed. Sometimes they feel hopeless that things will never get better and that life is not worth living. They may feel there is no other way to solve their problems or to end the pain they are feeling.\nDeath: When a person\u2019s body stops working.\nDepression: Extreme feelings of sadness and hopelessness that lasts a long time.\nGuilt: Something we feel when we think we have done something wrong or are the cause of something bad happening.\nGrief: Natural feelings when someone close to us has died\nDownload Printable .pdf\n1 (800) 273-8255 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline\nWebsite: suicidepreventionlifeline.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 8177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.aqua-fish.net/plants/hemianthus-callitrichoides", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:58Z", "digest": "sha1:PGOL6Y2NMRKVFF4ERMN7NEQWCNSXSZQJ", "length": 959, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "en.aqua-fish.net", "title": "Information on growing and propagating Hemianthus callitrichoides in aquariums", "raw_content": "Scientific name: Hemianthus callitrichoides\nUsual maximum size in aquariums: 0 - 5 cm (0 - 1.97 inch)\nNorth America; this plant is found in Cuba.\nThis plant will send out runners spreading itself over the substrate to form a carpet. It can also be propagated by cuttings and should soon form new roots if given the right conditions.\nThis is a fairly recent addition to the list of plants used in aquariums and has proven to be very popular. It is the smallest leaved plant used in aquariums and if bright lighting is used it will grow very compact. It is usually sold in its emersed state so it will need weighing down to prevent it from floating to the water surface. The use of lead weights or similar will help with this but once it has established try not to move the plant as the roots are very delicate.\nPurchase an automatic fish feeder in case you\u2019re going on a holiday.\nGravel vacuums may suck small fish, be careful when performing tank maintenance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.cifnews.com/china-2025-saudi-arabia-vision-2030/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:N4P2O6SZ6O6YK6SZDCY6MJS7RQOI7RG3", "length": 6783, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "en.cifnews.com", "title": "Cifnews International", "raw_content": "Cifnews International > China 2025 > China 2025 and Saudi Arabia\u2019s Vision 2030: modernizing economies in parallel\nTwo economic initiatives to diversify and modernize the Chinese and Saudi Arabian economy have more in common than meets the eye\nChina and Saudi Arabia have always been geographically and culturally distant. The Saudi monarchy has always rejected Beijing\u2019s friendship with Tehran, its historic rival in the Mideast region. In turn, China has kept its distance from Saudi Arabia whose religious rigor can be felt through all levels of government. Aside from Iran and Pakistan, Beijing has never established close diplomatic ties in the Middle East.\nBut globalization has turned the table. China and Saudi Arabia have been doggedly promoting two projects to restructure their respective economies: \u201cChina 2025\u201d and \u201cArabia Vision 2030\u201d.\nThe goal of Arabia Vision 2030 is to transform Saudi Arabia into a financial power in the middle east while reducing its dependence on oil revenues. The project was presented by King Salman, but the plan is, in fact, a result of the Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, the intellectual force behind the Riyadh\u2019s recent economic reforms and technology push.\nVision 2030 hopes to bolster Saudi Arabia\u2019s economy in light of several opposing forces: the crackdown on oil prices, the reopening of international trade with Iran, and a period of economic stagnation that brought the state\u2019s deficit to record heights. The resources for the first Vision 2030 push will be siphoned off energy company Aramco.\nKing Salman notes, \u201cVision 2030 is a plan that will bring development in all sectors and in all areas of the country\u201d\nSaudi Arabia\u2019s oil revenues currently account for 90% of its GDP. In an effort to diversify the economy, Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is looking to new economic sectors, following in the footsteps of the UAE. Incentives and priority will be given to private capital and tech research, alternative and renewable resources, and an efficient extraction of mineral resources such as gold and uranium.\nSaudi Arabia also plans to leverage tourism to the country, highlighting Mecca and the Medina for Muslim religious devotees, and luxury shopping and desert excursions for the international jet set.\nThe Crown aims to modernize its bureaucratic institutions with digital technology, and also plans to reform visa and residence permits to facilitate investment and travel for foreign entrepreneurs. It also plans to reform its teaching and vocational training to modernize schools and universities across the country.\nAs Saudi Arabia strives to diversify its economy, China provides an example of the economic transition from a manufacturing hub to center of technological excellence\nOne of the most important plans of the Chinese government is \u201c\u4e2d\u56fd \u5236\u9020 2025\u201d, also known as \u201cMade in China 2025\u201d, or just \u201cChina 2025\u201d. The initiative aimed at transforming Chinese industry and economy using the same model carried out by Germany and Japan. China 2025 aims for automation and increased global value for Chinese exports. Many analysts and economists believe that Beijing was an inspiration for Riyadh.\nDespite the difference in the countries\u2019 backgrounds, the goal and strategy to get there remain the same. Saudi Arabia aspires to move beyond its status as the \u201cgas station of the world\u201d, and China wants to leave behind its reputation as the \u201cfactory of the world\u201d.\nAnalysts predict that within 20 years, China will fill the gaps that separate it from Western powers. Research laboratories in Guangzhou, Beijing, and Shenzhen were established to create the tech and policies needed to close the divide. But beyond manufacturing, China 2025 is a cross-sector initiative that hopes to modernize every facet of its economy, and in doing so, to attract foreign investors and know-how.\nTechnology gives birth to a new China that boasts \u2018Internet Plus\u2019 development programs, 5G, and growth in aerospace and engineering\nAccording to McKinsey, China has one of the most active digital investment ecosystems in the world. Beijing\u2019s hallmark \u201cInternet Plus, \u4e92\u8054\u7f51 +\u201d program meshes mobile 5G internet, cloud computing, big data and Internet of Things with traditional sectors including manufacturing, finance, healthcare, government, and agriculture.\nAlthough just launched in 2015, the results of Internet Plus are palpable. China\u2019s tech industry currently boasts 40 unicorns within its borders. A modern and robotic industrial sector, to improve efficiency and reduce costs, is on the horizon. Beijing is active in the new industry sectors such as nanotechnology, composite materials, and is developing a modern aerospace sector. Robotic landings, orbiting stations, and laboratories are top goals of the central government, which hopes to cooperate with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk\u2019s Blue Origin and SpaceX initiatives.\nAs the history of industrialization shows, modernizing economies suffer from extreme pollution, and China is no exception. Its march toward a low-carbon economy will bring more opportunities than risks, according to the State Council\u2019s plan for environmental reform. Renewable resources are a real business in modern China and present many opportunities for foreign partners to participate in its green revolution.\nBilateral relations between Riyadh and Beijing have intensified in recent years due to shared understanding\nSome analysts believe China\u2019s true adversary in the race to technological domination is Saudi Arabia since both countries strive to develop hi-tech sectors that are competitive at the international level. Although the results of China\u2019s 2025 program are beginning to be apparent, the results of Vision 2030 will take several more years to manifest in the global economy. The first step will be for Saudi Arabia to align itself with foreign strategic partners beyond the royal family.\nBeijing seems to be unphased by its potential Mideast competitor. In addition to playing a crucial role in the belt and road initiative by providing a strategic harbor, Saudi Arabia is a potential hub for Chinese investments \u2013 in tech and minerals alike. However, the new paths undertaken by China and Saudi Arabia are just beginning. For foreign companies, especially in the West, interesting opportunities and partnerships are emerging. Staying abreast of China 2025 and Vision 2030 will prove crucial to global investors and initiatives.\nCifnews International will be in attendance at the ArabNet Digital Summit, a conference bringing the biggest players in e-commerce to Dubai. Our very own Guido Ghedin, CMO of Cifnews International will present on Mideast and Chinese synergies.\nTags: China China 2025 development economy Saudi Arabia Vision 2030\nShenzhen, Beijing and Hangzhou: China\u2019s hi-tech frontrunners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 8670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.mexico.pueblosamerica.com/oaxaca/san-pablo-coatlan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DVX6PI24QY2UIXXYXCGJ5HADM6ZXGLA2", "length": 1133, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "en.mexico.pueblosamerica.com", "title": "Towns of San Pablo Coatl\u00e1n (Oaxaca, Mexico)", "raw_content": "Towns of Mexico > Oaxaca > San Pablo Coatl\u00e1n >\nSan Pablo Coatl\u00e1n is a Municipality of 4167 inhabitants, placed in the State of Oaxaca, with a fertility rate of 3.18 children per woman. 1.06% of the population migrated from outside the State of Oaxaca. 2.59% of the population is indigenous, 1.19% of the inhabitants speak one indigenous language, and 0.00% speak that indigenous language, but not Spanish.\n83.20% of the inhabitants of San Pablo Coatl\u00e1n are Catholic, 39.37% are economically active and, within this active population, 99.13% are employed. Additionally, 73.53% of the dwellings have piped water and 0.31% have Internet access.\nDo you want to know more statistical data of San Pablo Coatl\u00e1n? Please click on this link. 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For other uses, see Amphetamine (disambiguation).\nINN: Amfetamine\n/\u00e6m\u02c8f\u025bt\u0259mi\u02d0n/ ( listen)\nAdderall, Adzenys XR-ODT, Dyanavel XR, Evekeo, others\n\u03b1-methylphenethylamine\nPhysical: none[1]\nPsychological: moderate[2]\nMedical: oral, intravenous[3]\nRecreational: oral, insufflation, rectal, intravenous, intramuscular\nCNS stimulant, anorectic\nBR: Class A3 (Psychoactive drugs)\nDE: Anlage III (Special prescription form required)\nUS: Schedule II\nUN: Psychotropic Schedule II\nOral: 75\u2013100%[9]\n15\u201340%[10]\nCYP2D6,[4] DBH,[5][6] FMO3[5][7][8]\n4-hydroxyamphetamine, 4-hydroxynorephedrine, 4-hydroxyphenylacetone, benzoic acid, hippuric acid, norephedrine, phenylacetone[4][11]\nIR dosing: 30\u201360 minutes[12]\nXR dosing: 1.5\u20132 hours[13][14]\nD-amph: 9\u201311 hours[4][15]\nL-amph: 11\u201314 hours[4][15]\npH-dependent: 7\u201334 hours[16]\nIR dosing: 3\u20136 hours[2][13][17]\nXR dosing: 8\u201312 hours[2][13][17]\nPrimarily renal;\npH-dependent range: 1\u201375%[4]\n(RS)-1-phenylpropan-2-amine\nCK833KGX7E\n135.20622 g/mol[18] g\u00b7mol\u22121\nRacemic mixture[19]\n.936 g/cm3 at 25 \u00b0C[20]\n11.3 \u00b0C (52.3 \u00b0F) (predicted)[21]\n203 \u00b0C (397 \u00b0F) at 760 mmHg[22]\nNC(CC1=CC=CC=C1)C\nInChI=1S/C9H13N/c1-8(10)7-9-5-3-2-4-6-9/h2-6,8H,7,10H2,1H3 Y\nKey:KWTSXDURSIMDCE-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y\nAmphetamine[note 1] (contracted from alpha-methylphenethylamine) is a potent central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that is used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy, and obesity. Amphetamine was discovered in 1887 and exists as two enantiomers:[note 2] levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine. Amphetamine properly refers to a specific chemical, the racemic free base, which is equal parts of the two enantiomers, levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine, in their pure amine forms. The term is frequently used informally to refer to any combination of the enantiomers, or to either of them alone. Historically, it has been used to treat nasal congestion and depression. Amphetamine is also used as an athletic performance enhancer and cognitive enhancer, and recreationally as an aphrodisiac and euphoriant. It is a prescription drug in many countries, and unauthorized possession and distribution of amphetamine are often tightly controlled due to the significant health risks associated with recreational use.[sources 1]\nThe first amphetamine pharmaceutical was Benzedrine, a brand which was used to treat a variety of conditions. Currently, pharmaceutical amphetamine is prescribed as racemic amphetamine, Adderall,[note 3] dextroamphetamine, or the inactive prodrug lisdexamfetamine. Amphetamine increases monoamine and excitatory neurotransmission in the brain, with its most pronounced effects targeting the norepinephrine and dopamine neurotransmitter systems.[sources 2]\nAt therapeutic doses, amphetamine causes emotional and cognitive effects such as euphoria, change in desire for sex, increased wakefulness, and improved cognitive control. It induces physical effects such as improved reaction time, fatigue resistance, and increased muscle strength. Larger doses of amphetamine may impair cognitive function and induce rapid muscle breakdown. Drug addiction is a serious risk with large recreational doses but is unlikely to arise from typical long-term medical use at therapeutic doses. Very high doses can result in psychosis (e.g., delusions and paranoia) which rarely occurs at therapeutic doses even during long-term use. Recreational doses are generally much larger than prescribed therapeutic doses and carry a far greater risk of serious side effects.[sources 3]\nAmphetamine belongs to the phenethylamine class. It is also the parent compound of its own structural class, the substituted amphetamines,[note 4] which includes prominent substances such as bupropion, cathinone, MDMA, and methamphetamine. As a member of the phenethylamine class, amphetamine is also chemically related to the naturally occurring trace amine neuromodulators, specifically phenethylamine and N-methylphenethylamine, both of which are produced within the human body. Phenethylamine is the parent compound of amphetamine, while N-methylphenethylamine is a positional isomer of amphetamine that differs only in the placement of the methyl group.[sources 4]\n1.2 Enhancing performance\n1.2.1 Cognitive performance\n1.2.2 Physical performance\n4.1.1 Biomolecular mechanisms\n4.1.2 Pharmacological treatments\n4.1.3 Behavioral treatments\n4.2 Dependence and withdrawal\n6.1.1 Dopamine\n6.1.2 Norepinephrine\n6.1.3 Serotonin\n6.1.4 Other neurotransmitters, peptides, and hormones\n6.3 Related endogenous compounds\n7.1 Substituted derivatives\n8 History, society, and culture\n8.2 Pharmaceutical products\n10 Reference notes\nAmphetamine is used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), narcolepsy (a sleep disorder), and obesity, and is sometimes prescribed off-label for its past medical indications, particularly for depression and chronic pain.[2][35][49] Long-term amphetamine exposure at sufficiently high doses in some animal species is known to produce abnormal dopamine system development or nerve damage,[50][51] but, in humans with ADHD, pharmaceutical amphetamines appear to improve brain development and nerve growth.[52][53][54] Reviews of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies suggest that long-term treatment with amphetamine decreases abnormalities in brain structure and function found in subjects with ADHD, and improves function in several parts of the brain, such as the right caudate nucleus of the basal ganglia.[52][53][54]\nReviews of clinical stimulant research have established the safety and effectiveness of long-term continuous amphetamine use for the treatment of ADHD.[55][56][57] Randomized controlled trials of continuous stimulant therapy for the treatment of ADHD spanning 2 years have demonstrated treatment effectiveness and safety.[55][57] Two reviews have indicated that long-term continuous stimulant therapy for ADHD is effective for reducing the core symptoms of ADHD (i.e., hyperactivity, inattention, and impulsivity), enhancing quality of life and academic achievement, and producing improvements in a large number of functional outcomes[note 5] across 9 categories of outcomes related to academics, antisocial behavior, driving, non-medicinal drug use, obesity, occupation, self-esteem, service use (i.e., academic, occupational, health, financial, and legal services), and social function.[56][57] One review highlighted a nine-month randomized controlled trial of amphetamine treatment for ADHD in children that found an average increase of 4.5 IQ points, continued increases in attention, and continued decreases in disruptive behaviors and hyperactivity.[55] Another review indicated that, based upon the longest follow-up studies conducted to date, lifetime stimulant therapy that begins during childhood is continuously effective for controlling ADHD symptoms and reduces the risk of developing a substance use disorder as an adult.[57]\nCurrent models of ADHD suggest that it is associated with functional impairments in some of the brain's neurotransmitter systems;[58] these functional impairments involve impaired dopamine neurotransmission in the mesocorticolimbic projection and norepinephrine neurotransmission in the noradrenergic projections from the locus coeruleus to the prefrontal cortex.[58] Psychostimulants like methylphenidate and amphetamine are effective in treating ADHD because they increase neurotransmitter activity in these systems.[26][58][59] Approximately 80% of those who use these stimulants see improvements in ADHD symptoms.[60] Children with ADHD who use stimulant medications generally have better relationships with peers and family members, perform better in school, are less distractible and impulsive, and have longer attention spans.[61][62] The Cochrane Collaboration's reviews[note 6] on the treatment of ADHD in children, adolescents, and adults with pharmaceutical amphetamines stated that short-term studies have demonstrated that these drugs decrease the severity of symptoms, but they have higher discontinuation rates than non-stimulant medications due to their adverse side effects.[64][65] A Cochrane Collaboration review on the treatment of ADHD in children with tic disorders such as Tourette syndrome indicated that stimulants in general do not make tics worse, but high doses of dextroamphetamine could exacerbate tics in some individuals.[66]\nIn 2015, a systematic review and a meta-analysis of high quality clinical trials found that, when used at low (therapeutic) doses, amphetamine produces modest yet unambiguous improvements in cognition, including working memory, long-term episodic memory, inhibitory control, and some aspects of attention, in normal healthy adults;[67][68] these cognition-enhancing effects of amphetamine are known to be partially mediated through the indirect activation of both dopamine receptor D1 and adrenoceptor \u03b12 in the prefrontal cortex.[26][67] A systematic review from 2014 found that low doses of amphetamine also improve memory consolidation, in turn leading to improved recall of information.[69] Therapeutic doses of amphetamine also enhance cortical network efficiency, an effect which mediates improvements in working memory in all individuals.[26][70] Amphetamine and other ADHD stimulants also improve task saliency (motivation to perform a task) and increase arousal (wakefulness), in turn promoting goal-directed behavior.[26][71][72] Stimulants such as amphetamine can improve performance on difficult and boring tasks and are used by some students as a study and test-taking aid.[26][72][73] Based upon studies of self-reported illicit stimulant use, 5\u201335% of college students use diverted ADHD stimulants, which are primarily used for enhancement of academic performance rather than as recreational drugs.[74][75][76] However, high amphetamine doses that are above the therapeutic range can interfere with working memory and other aspects of cognitive control.[26][72]\nAmphetamine is used by some athletes for its psychological and athletic performance-enhancing effects, such as increased endurance and alertness;[27][40] however, non-medical amphetamine use is prohibited at sporting events that are regulated by collegiate, national, and international anti-doping agencies.[77][78] In healthy people at oral therapeutic doses, amphetamine has been shown to increase muscle strength, acceleration, athletic performance in anaerobic conditions, and endurance (i.e., it delays the onset of fatigue), while improving reaction time.[27][79][80] Amphetamine improves endurance and reaction time primarily through reuptake inhibition and release of dopamine in the central nervous system.[79][80][81] Amphetamine and other dopaminergic drugs also increase power output at fixed levels of perceived exertion by overriding a \"safety switch\", allowing the core temperature limit to increase in order to access a reserve capacity that is normally off-limits.[80][82][83] At therapeutic doses, the adverse effects of amphetamine do not impede athletic performance;[27][79] however, at much higher doses, amphetamine can induce effects that severely impair performance, such as rapid muscle breakdown and elevated body temperature.[28][39][79]\nSee also: Amphetamine \u00a7 Drug interactions\nAccording to the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS) and United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA),[note 7] amphetamine is contraindicated in people with a history of drug abuse,[note 8] cardiovascular disease, severe agitation, or severe anxiety.[35][85][86] It is also contraindicated in people currently experiencing advanced arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), glaucoma (increased eye pressure), hyperthyroidism (excessive production of thyroid hormone), or moderate to severe hypertension.[35][85][86] These agencies indicate that people who have experienced allergic reactions to other stimulants or who are taking monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) should not take amphetamine,[35][85][86] although safe concurrent use of amphetamine and monoamine oxidase inhibitors has been documented.[87][88] These agencies also state that anyone with anorexia nervosa, bipolar disorder, depression, hypertension, liver or kidney problems, mania, psychosis, Raynaud's phenomenon, seizures, thyroid problems, tics, or Tourette syndrome should monitor their symptoms while taking amphetamine.[85][86] Evidence from human studies indicates that therapeutic amphetamine use does not cause developmental abnormalities in the fetus or newborns (i.e., it is not a human teratogen), but amphetamine abuse does pose risks to the fetus.[86] Amphetamine has also been shown to pass into breast milk, so the IPCS and USFDA advise mothers to avoid breastfeeding when using it.[85][86] Due to the potential for reversible growth impairments,[note 9] the USFDA advises monitoring the height and weight of children and adolescents prescribed an amphetamine pharmaceutical.[85]\nThe side effects of amphetamine are many and varied, and the amount of amphetamine used is the primary factor in determining the likelihood and severity of side effects.[28][39][40] Amphetamine products such as Adderall, Dexedrine, and their generic equivalents are currently approved by the USFDA for long-term therapeutic use.[36][39] Recreational use of amphetamine generally involves much larger doses, which have a greater risk of serious side effects than dosages used for therapeutic reasons.[40]\nAt normal therapeutic doses, the physical side effects of amphetamine vary widely by age and from person to person.[39] Cardiovascular side effects can include hypertension or hypotension from a vasovagal response, Raynaud's phenomenon (reduced blood flow to the hands and feet), and tachycardia (increased heart rate).[39][40][89] Sexual side effects in males may include erectile dysfunction, frequent erections, or prolonged erections.[39] Abdominal side effects may include abdominal pain, appetite loss, nausea, and weight loss.[2][39][90] Other potential side effects include blurred vision, dry mouth, excessive grinding of the teeth, nosebleed, profuse sweating, rhinitis medicamentosa (drug-induced nasal congestion), reduced seizure threshold, and tics (a type of movement disorder).[sources 5] Dangerous physical side effects are rare at typical pharmaceutical doses.[40]\nAmphetamine stimulates the medullary respiratory centers, producing faster and deeper breaths.[40] In a normal person at therapeutic doses, this effect is usually not noticeable, but when respiration is already compromised, it may be evident.[40] Amphetamine also induces contraction in the urinary bladder sphincter, the muscle which controls urination, which can result in difficulty urinating.[40] This effect can be useful in treating bed wetting and loss of bladder control.[40] The effects of amphetamine on the gastrointestinal tract are unpredictable.[40] If intestinal activity is high, amphetamine may reduce gastrointestinal motility (the rate at which content moves through the digestive system);[40] however, amphetamine may increase motility when the smooth muscle of the tract is relaxed.[40] Amphetamine also has a slight analgesic effect and can enhance the pain relieving effects of opioids.[2][40]\nUSFDA-commissioned studies from 2011 indicate that in children, young adults, and adults there is no association between serious adverse cardiovascular events (sudden death, heart attack, and stroke) and the medical use of amphetamine or other ADHD stimulants.[sources 6] However, amphetamine pharmaceuticals are contraindicated in individuals with cardiovascular disease.[sources 7]\nAt normal therapeutic doses, the most common psychological side effects of amphetamine include increased alertness, apprehension, concentration, initiative, self-confidence, and sociability, mood swings (elated mood followed by mildly depressed mood), insomnia or wakefulness, and decreased sense of fatigue.[39][40] Less common side effects include anxiety, change in libido, grandiosity, irritability, repetitive or obsessive behaviors, and restlessness;[sources 8] these effects depend on the user's personality and current mental state.[40] Amphetamine psychosis (e.g., delusions and paranoia) can occur in heavy users.[28][39][41] Although very rare, this psychosis can also occur at therapeutic doses during long-term therapy.[28][39][42] According to the USFDA, \"there is no systematic evidence\" that stimulants produce aggressive behavior or hostility.[39]\nAmphetamine has also been shown to produce a conditioned place preference in humans taking therapeutic doses,[64][97] meaning that individuals acquire a preference for spending time in places where they have previously used amphetamine.[97][98]\nAn amphetamine overdose can lead to many different symptoms, but is rarely fatal with appropriate care.[2][86][99] The severity of overdose symptoms increases with dosage and decreases with drug tolerance to amphetamine.[40][86] Tolerant individuals have been known to take as much as 5 grams of amphetamine in a day, which is roughly 100 times the maximum daily therapeutic dose.[86] Symptoms of a moderate and extremely large overdose are listed below; fatal amphetamine poisoning usually also involves convulsions and coma.[28][40] In 2013, overdose on amphetamine, methamphetamine, and other compounds implicated in an \"amphetamine use disorder\" resulted in an estimated 3,788 deaths worldwide (3,425\u20134,145 deaths, 95% confidence).[note 10][100]\nPathological overactivation of the mesolimbic pathway, a dopamine pathway that connects the ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens, plays a central role in amphetamine addiction.[101][102] Individuals who frequently overdose on amphetamine during recreational use have a high risk of developing an amphetamine addiction, since repeated overdoses gradually increase the level of accumbal \u0394FosB, a \"molecular switch\" and \"master control protein\" for addiction.[103][104][105] Once nucleus accumbens \u0394FosB is sufficiently overexpressed, it begins to increase the severity of addictive behavior (i.e., compulsive drug-seeking) with further increases in its expression.[103][106] While there are currently no effective drugs for treating amphetamine addiction, regularly engaging in sustained aerobic exercise appears to reduce the risk of developing such an addiction.[107][108] Sustained aerobic exercise on a regular basis also appears to be an effective treatment for amphetamine addiction;[sources 9] exercise therapy improves clinical treatment outcomes and may be used as a combination therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy, which is currently the best clinical treatment available.[107][109][110]\nOverdose symptoms by system\nMinor or moderate overdose[28][40][86]\nSevere overdose[sources 10]\nCardiogenic shock (heart not pumping enough blood)\nCerebral hemorrhage (bleeding in the brain)\nCirculatory collapse (partial or complete failure of the circulatory system)\nAbnormally fast reflexes\nTremor (involuntary muscle twitching)\nAcute amphetamine psychosis (e.g., delusions and paranoia)\nCompulsive and repetitive movement\nSerotonin syndrome (excessive serotonergic nerve activity)\nSympathomimetic toxidrome (excessive adrenergic nerve activity)\nRhabdomyolysis (rapid muscle breakdown)\nPulmonary edema (fluid accumulation in the lungs)\nPulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the arteries of the lung)\nRespiratory alkalosis (reduced blood CO2)\nUrinary retention (inability to urinate)\nNo urine production\nElevated or low blood potassium\nHyperpyrexia (extremely elevated core body temperature)\nMetabolic acidosis (excessively acidic bodily fluids)\nAddiction and dependence glossary[98][104][112][113]\naddiction \u2013 a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences\naddictive behavior \u2013 a behavior that is both rewarding and reinforcing\naddictive drug \u2013 a drug that is both rewarding and reinforcing\ndependence \u2013 an adaptive state associated with a withdrawal syndrome upon cessation of repeated exposure to a stimulus (e.g., drug intake)\ndrug sensitization or reverse tolerance \u2013 the escalating effect of a drug resulting from repeated administration at a given dose\ndrug withdrawal \u2013 symptoms that occur upon cessation of repeated drug use\nphysical dependence \u2013 dependence that involves persistent physical\u2013somatic withdrawal symptoms (e.g., fatigue and delirium tremens)\npsychological dependence \u2013 dependence that involves emotional\u2013motivational withdrawal symptoms (e.g., dysphoria and anhedonia)\nreinforcing stimuli \u2013 stimuli that increase the probability of repeating behaviors paired with them\nrewarding stimuli \u2013 stimuli that the brain interprets as intrinsically positive and desirable or as something to approach\nsensitization \u2013 an amplified response to a stimulus resulting from repeated exposure to it\nsubstance use disorder \u2013 a condition in which the use of substances leads to clinically and functionally significant impairment or distress\ntolerance \u2013 the diminishing effect of a drug resulting from repeated administration at a given dose\nSignaling cascade in the nucleus accumbens that results in amphetamine addiction\nNote: colored text contains article links.\nGi/o\n[Color legend 1]\nThis diagram depicts the signaling events in the brain's reward center that are induced by chronic high-dose exposure to psychostimulants that increase the concentration of synaptic dopamine, like amphetamine, methamphetamine, and phenethylamine. Following presynaptic dopamine and glutamate co-release by such psychostimulants,[114][115] postsynaptic receptors for these neurotransmitters trigger internal signaling events through a cAMP-dependent pathway and a calcium-dependent pathway that ultimately result in increased CREB phosphorylation.[114][116] Phosphorylated CREB increases levels of \u0394FosB, which in turn represses the c-Fos gene with the help of corepressors;[114][117][118] c-Fos repression acts as a molecular switch that enables the accumulation of \u0394FosB in the neuron.[119] A highly stable (phosphorylated) form of \u0394FosB, one that persists in neurons for 1\u20132 months, slowly accumulates following repeated high-dose exposure to stimulants through this process.[117][118] \u0394FosB functions as \"one of the master control proteins\" that produces addiction-related structural changes in the brain, and upon sufficient accumulation, with the help of its downstream targets (e.g., nuclear factor kappa B), it induces an addictive state.[117][118]\nAddiction is a serious risk with heavy recreational amphetamine use but is unlikely to arise from typical long-term medical use at therapeutic doses.[43][44][45] Drug tolerance develops rapidly in amphetamine abuse (i.e., a recreational amphetamine overdose), so periods of extended use require increasingly larger doses of the drug in order to achieve the same effect.[120][121]\nBiomolecular mechanisms\nChronic use of amphetamine at excessive doses causes alterations in gene expression in the mesocorticolimbic projection, which arise through transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms.[122][123][124] The most important transcription factors[note 11] that produce these alterations are \u0394FosB, cAMP response element binding protein (CREB), and nuclear factor kappa B (NF-\u03baB).[123] \u0394FosB is the most significant biomolecular mechanism in addiction because the overexpression of \u0394FosB in the D1-type medium spiny neurons in the nucleus accumbens is necessary and sufficient[note 12] for many of the neural adaptations and behavioral effects (e.g., expression-dependent increases in drug self-administration and reward sensitization) seen in drug addiction.[103][104][123] Once \u0394FosB is sufficiently overexpressed, it induces an addictive state that becomes increasingly more severe with further increases in \u0394FosB expression.[103][104] It has been implicated in addictions to alcohol, cannabinoids, cocaine, methylphenidate, nicotine, opioids, phencyclidine, propofol, and substituted amphetamines, among others.[sources 11]\n\u0394JunD, a transcription factor, and G9a, a histone methyltransferase enzyme, both oppose the function of \u0394FosB and inhibit increases in its expression.[104][123][128] Sufficiently overexpressing \u0394JunD in the nucleus accumbens with viral vectors can completely block many of the neural and behavioral alterations seen in chronic drug abuse (i.e., the alterations mediated by \u0394FosB).[123] \u0394FosB also plays an important role in regulating behavioral responses to natural rewards, such as palatable food, sex, and exercise.[106][123][129] Since both natural rewards and addictive drugs induce expression of \u0394FosB (i.e., they cause the brain to produce more of it), chronic acquisition of these rewards can result in a similar pathological state of addiction.[106][123] Consequently, \u0394FosB is the most significant factor involved in both amphetamine addiction and amphetamine-induced sex addictions, which are compulsive sexual behaviors that result from excessive sexual activity and amphetamine use.[106][130][131] These sex addictions are associated with a dopamine dysregulation syndrome which occurs in some patients taking dopaminergic drugs.[106][129]\nThe effects of amphetamine on gene regulation are both dose- and route-dependent.[124] Most of the research on gene regulation and addiction is based upon animal studies with intravenous amphetamine administration at very high doses.[124] The few studies that have used equivalent (weight-adjusted) human therapeutic doses and oral administration show that these changes, if they occur, are relatively minor.[124] This suggests that medical use of amphetamine does not significantly affect gene regulation.[124]\nFurther information: Addiction \u00a7 Research\nAs of 2015,[update] there is no effective pharmacotherapy for amphetamine addiction.[1][120][132] Reviews from 2015 and 2016 indicated that TAAR1-selective agonists have significant therapeutic potential as a treatment for psychostimulant addictions;[38][133] however, as of February 2016,[update] the only compounds which are known to function as TAAR1-selective agonists are experimental drugs.[38][133] Amphetamine addiction is largely mediated through increased activation of dopamine receptors and co-localized NMDA receptors[note 13] in the nucleus accumbens;[102] magnesium ions inhibit NMDA receptors by blocking the receptor calcium channel.[102][134] One review suggested that, based upon animal testing, pathological (addiction-inducing) psychostimulant use significantly reduces the level of intracellular magnesium throughout the brain.[102] Supplemental magnesium[note 14] treatment has been shown to reduce amphetamine self-administration (i.e., doses given to oneself) in humans, but it is not an effective monotherapy for amphetamine addiction.[102]\nCognitive behavioral therapy is currently the most effective clinical treatment for psychostimulant addictions.[110] Additionally, research on the neurobiological effects of physical exercise suggests that daily aerobic exercise, especially endurance exercise (e.g., marathon running), prevents the development of drug addiction and is an effective adjunct therapy (i.e., a supplemental treatment) for amphetamine addiction.[sources 9] Exercise leads to better treatment outcomes when used as an adjunct treatment, particularly for psychostimulant addictions.[107][109][135] In particular, aerobic exercise decreases psychostimulant self-administration, reduces the reinstatement (i.e., relapse) of drug-seeking, and induces increased dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) density in the striatum.[106][135] This is the opposite of pathological stimulant use, which induces decreased striatal DRD2 density.[106] One review noted that exercise may also prevent the development of a drug addiction by altering \u0394FosB or c-Fos immunoreactivity in the striatum or other parts of the reward system.[108]\nSummary of addiction-related plasticity\nForm of neuroplasticity\nor behavioral plasticity\nType of reinforcer\nHigh fat or sugar food\n\u0394FosB expression in\nnucleus accumbens D1-type MSNs \u2191 \u2191 \u2191 \u2191 \u2191 \u2191 [106]\nBehavioral plasticity\nEscalation of intake Yes Yes Yes [106]\ncross-sensitization Yes Not applicable Yes Yes Attenuated Attenuated [106]\nself-administration \u2191 \u2191 \u2193 \u2193 \u2193 [106]\nconditioned place preference \u2191 \u2191 \u2193 \u2191 \u2193 \u2191 [106]\nReinstatement of drug-seeking behavior \u2191 \u2191 \u2193 \u2193 [106]\nNeurochemical plasticity\nin the nucleus accumbens \u2193 \u2193 \u2193 \u2193 \u2193 [106]\nSensitized dopamine response\nin the nucleus accumbens No Yes No Yes [106]\nAltered striatal dopamine signaling \u2193DRD2, \u2191DRD3 \u2191DRD1, \u2193DRD2, \u2191DRD3 \u2191DRD1, \u2193DRD2, \u2191DRD3 \u2191DRD2 \u2191DRD2 [106]\nAltered striatal opioid signaling No change or\n\u2191\u03bc-opioid receptors \u2191\u03bc-opioid receptors\n\u2191\u03ba-opioid receptors \u2191\u03bc-opioid receptors \u2191\u03bc-opioid receptors No change No change [106]\nChanges in striatal opioid peptides \u2191dynorphin\nNo change: enkephalin \u2191dynorphin \u2193enkephalin \u2191dynorphin \u2191dynorphin [106]\nMesocorticolimbic synaptic plasticity\nNumber of dendrites in the nucleus accumbens \u2193 \u2191 \u2191 [106]\nDendritic spine density in\nthe nucleus accumbens \u2193 \u2191 \u2191 [106]\nAccording to another Cochrane Collaboration review on withdrawal in individuals who compulsively use amphetamine and methamphetamine, \"when chronic heavy users abruptly discontinue amphetamine use, many report a time-limited withdrawal syndrome that occurs within 24 hours of their last dose.\"[136] This review noted that withdrawal symptoms in chronic, high-dose users are frequent, occurring in roughly 88% of cases, and persist for 3\u20134 weeks with a marked \"crash\" phase occurring during the first week.[136] Amphetamine withdrawal symptoms can include anxiety, drug craving, depressed mood, fatigue, increased appetite, increased movement or decreased movement, lack of motivation, sleeplessness or sleepiness, and lucid dreams.[136] The review indicated that the severity of withdrawal symptoms is positively correlated with the age of the individual and the extent of their dependence.[136] Mild withdrawal symptoms from the discontinuation of amphetamine treatment at therapeutic doses can be avoided by tapering the dose.[2]\nIn rodents and primates, sufficiently high doses of amphetamine cause dopaminergic neurotoxicity, or damage to dopamine neurons, which is characterized by dopamine terminal degeneration and reduced transporter and receptor function.[137][138] There is no evidence that amphetamine is directly neurotoxic in humans.[139][140] However, large doses of amphetamine may indirectly cause dopaminergic neurotoxicity as a result of hyperpyrexia, the excessive formation of reactive oxygen species, and increased autoxidation of dopamine.[sources 12] Animal models of neurotoxicity from high-dose amphetamine exposure indicate that the occurrence of hyperpyrexia (i.e., core body temperature \u2265 40 \u00b0C) is necessary for the development of amphetamine-induced neurotoxicity.[138] Prolonged elevations of brain temperature above 40 \u00b0C likely promote the development of amphetamine-induced neurotoxicity in laboratory animals by facilitating the production of reactive oxygen species, disrupting cellular protein function, and transiently increasing blood\u2013brain barrier permeability.[138]\nSee also: Stimulant psychosis\nA severe amphetamine overdose can result in a stimulant psychosis that may involve a variety of symptoms, such as delusions and paranoia.[41] A Cochrane Collaboration review on treatment for amphetamine, dextroamphetamine, and methamphetamine psychosis states that about 5\u201315% of users fail to recover completely.[41][143] According to the same review, there is at least one trial that shows antipsychotic medications effectively resolve the symptoms of acute amphetamine psychosis.[41] Psychosis very rarely arises from therapeutic use.[42][85]\nSee also: Amphetamine \u00a7 Contraindications, and Amphetamine \u00a7 Pharmacokinetics\nMany types of substances are known to interact with amphetamine, resulting in altered drug action or metabolism of amphetamine, the interacting substance, or both.[4][144] Inhibitors of enzymes that metabolize amphetamine (e.g., CYP2D6 and FMO3) will prolong its elimination half-life, meaning that its effects will last longer.[7][144] Amphetamine also interacts with MAOIs, particularly monoamine oxidase A inhibitors, since both MAOIs and amphetamine increase plasma catecholamines (i.e., norepinephrine and dopamine);[144] therefore, concurrent use of both is dangerous.[144] Amphetamine modulates the activity of most psychoactive drugs. In particular, amphetamine may decrease the effects of sedatives and depressants and increase the effects of stimulants and antidepressants.[144] Amphetamine may also decrease the effects of antihypertensives and antipsychotics due to its effects on blood pressure and dopamine respectively.[144] Zinc supplementation may reduce the minimum effective dose of amphetamine when it is used for the treatment of ADHD.[note 15][148]\nIn general, there is no significant interaction when consuming amphetamine with food, but the pH of gastrointestinal content and urine affects the absorption and excretion of amphetamine, respectively.[144] Acidic substances reduce the absorption of amphetamine and increase urinary excretion, and alkaline substances do the opposite.[144] Due to the effect pH has on absorption, amphetamine also interacts with gastric acid reducers such as proton pump inhibitors and H2 antihistamines, which increase gastrointestinal pH (i.e., make it less acidic).[144]\nFor a simpler and less technical explanation of amphetamine's mechanism of action, see Adderall \u00a7 Mechanism of action.\nPharmacodynamics of amphetamine in a dopamine neuron\nvia AADC\nAmphetamine enters the presynaptic neuron across the neuronal membrane or through DAT.[37] Once inside, it binds to TAAR1 or enters synaptic vesicles through VMAT2.[37][149] When amphetamine enters synaptic vesicles through VMAT2, it collapses the vesicular pH gradient, which in turn causes dopamine to be released into the cytosol (light tan-colored area) through VMAT2.[149][150] When amphetamine binds to TAAR1, it reduces the firing rate of the dopamine neuron via potassium channels and activates protein kinase A (PKA) and protein kinase C (PKC), which subsequently phosphorylate DAT.[37][151][152] PKA-phosphorylation causes DAT to withdraw into the presynaptic neuron (internalize) and cease transport.[37] PKC-phosphorylated DAT may either operate in reverse or, like PKA-phosphorylated DAT, internalize and cease transport.[37] Amphetamine is also known to increase intracellular calcium, an effect which is associated with DAT phosphorylation through a CAMKII\u03b1-dependent pathway, in turn producing dopamine efflux.[153][154]\nAmphetamine exerts its behavioral effects by altering the use of monoamines as neuronal signals in the brain, primarily in catecholamine neurons in the reward and executive function pathways of the brain.[37][59] The concentrations of the main neurotransmitters involved in reward circuitry and executive functioning, dopamine and norepinephrine, increase dramatically in a dose-dependent manner by amphetamine due to its effects on monoamine transporters.[37][59][149] The reinforcing and motivational salience-promoting effects of amphetamine are mostly due to enhanced dopaminergic activity in the mesolimbic pathway.[26] The euphoric and locomotor-stimulating effects of amphetamine are dependent upon the magnitude and speed by which it increases synaptic dopamine and norepinephrine concentrations in the striatum.[3]\nAmphetamine has been identified as a potent full agonist of trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1), a Gs-coupled and Gq-coupled G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) discovered in 2001, which is important for regulation of brain monoamines.[37][155] Activation of TAAR1 increases cAMP production via adenylyl cyclase activation and inhibits monoamine transporter function.[37][156] Monoamine autoreceptors (e.g., D2 short, presynaptic \u03b12, and presynaptic 5-HT1A) have the opposite effect of TAAR1, and together these receptors provide a regulatory system for monoamines.[37][38] Notably, amphetamine and trace amines possess high binding affinities for TAAR1, but not for monoamine autoreceptors.[37][38] Imaging studies indicate that monoamine reuptake inhibition by amphetamine and trace amines is site specific and depends upon the presence of TAAR1 co-localization in the associated monoamine neurons.[37] As of 2010,[update] co-localization of TAAR1 and the dopamine transporter (DAT) has been visualized in rhesus monkeys, but co-localization of TAAR1 with the norepinephrine transporter (NET) and the serotonin transporter (SERT) has only been evidenced by messenger RNA (mRNA) expression.[37]\nIn addition to the neuronal monoamine transporters, amphetamine also inhibits both vesicular monoamine transporters, VMAT1 and VMAT2, as well as SLC1A1, SLC22A3, and SLC22A5.[sources 13] SLC1A1 is excitatory amino acid transporter 3 (EAAT3), a glutamate transporter located in neurons, SLC22A3 is an extraneuronal monoamine transporter that is present in astrocytes, and SLC22A5 is a high-affinity carnitine transporter.[sources 13] Amphetamine is known to strongly induce cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) gene expression,[10][162] a neuropeptide involved in feeding behavior, stress, and reward, which induces observable increases in neuronal development and survival in vitro.[10][163][164] The CART receptor has yet to be identified, but there is significant evidence that CART binds to a unique Gi/Go-coupled GPCR.[164][165] Amphetamine also inhibits monoamine oxidases at very high doses, resulting in less monoamine and trace amine metabolism and consequently higher concentrations of synaptic monoamines.[18][166] In humans, the only post-synaptic receptor at which amphetamine is known to bind is the 5-HT1A receptor, where it acts as an agonist with micromolar affinity.[167][168]\nThe full profile of amphetamine's short-term drug effects in humans is mostly derived through increased cellular communication or neurotransmission of dopamine,[37] serotonin,[37] norepinephrine,[37] epinephrine,[149] histamine,[149] CART peptides,[10][162] endogenous opioids,[169][170][171] adrenocorticotropic hormone,[172][173] corticosteroids,[172][173] and glutamate,[153][158] which it effects through interactions with CART, 5-HT1A, EAAT3, TAAR1, VMAT1, VMAT2, and possibly other biological targets.[sources 14]\nDextroamphetamine is a more potent agonist of TAAR1 than levoamphetamine.[174] Consequently, dextroamphetamine produces greater CNS stimulation than levoamphetamine, roughly three to four times more, but levoamphetamine has slightly stronger cardiovascular and peripheral effects.[40][174]\nIn certain brain regions, amphetamine increases the concentration of dopamine in the synaptic cleft.[37] Amphetamine can enter the presynaptic neuron either through DAT or by diffusing across the neuronal membrane directly.[37] As a consequence of DAT uptake, amphetamine produces competitive reuptake inhibition at the transporter.[37] Upon entering the presynaptic neuron, amphetamine activates TAAR1 which, through protein kinase A (PKA) and protein kinase C (PKC) signaling, causes DAT phosphorylation.[37] Phosphorylation by either protein kinase can result in DAT internalization (non-competitive reuptake inhibition), but PKC-mediated phosphorylation alone induces the reversal of dopamine transport through DAT (i.e., dopamine efflux).[37][175] Amphetamine is also known to increase intracellular calcium, an effect which is associated with DAT phosphorylation through an unidentified Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CAMK)-dependent pathway, in turn producing dopamine efflux.[155][153][154] Through direct activation of G protein-coupled inwardly-rectifying potassium channels, TAAR1 reduces the firing rate of dopamine neurons, preventing a hyper-dopaminergic state.[151][152][176]\nAmphetamine is also a substrate for the presynaptic vesicular monoamine transporter, VMAT2.[149][150] Following amphetamine uptake at VMAT2, amphetamine induces the collapse of the vesicular pH gradient, which results in the release of dopamine molecules from synaptic vesicles into the cytosol via dopamine efflux through VMAT2.[149][150] Subsequently, the cytosolic dopamine molecules are released from the presynaptic neuron into the synaptic cleft via reverse transport at DAT.[37][149][150]\nSimilar to dopamine, amphetamine dose-dependently increases the level of synaptic norepinephrine, the direct precursor of epinephrine.[46][59] Based upon neuronal TAAR1 mRNA expression, amphetamine is thought to affect norepinephrine analogously to dopamine.[37][149][175] In other words, amphetamine induces TAAR1-mediated efflux and non-competitive reuptake inhibition at phosphorylated NET, competitive NET reuptake inhibition, and norepinephrine release from VMAT2.[37][149]\nAmphetamine exerts analogous, yet less pronounced, effects on serotonin as on dopamine and norepinephrine.[37][59] Amphetamine affects serotonin via VMAT2 and, like norepinephrine, is thought to phosphorylate SERT via TAAR1.[37][149] Like dopamine, amphetamine has low, micromolar affinity at the human 5-HT1A receptor.[167][168]\nOther neurotransmitters, peptides, and hormones\nAcute amphetamine administration in humans increases endogenous opioid release in several brain structures in the reward system.[169][170][171] Extracellular levels of glutamate, the primary excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, have been shown to increase in the striatum following exposure to amphetamine.[153] This increase in extracellular glutamate presumably occurs via the amphetamine-induced internalization of EAAT3, a glutamate reuptake transporter, in dopamine neurons.[153][158] Amphetamine also induces the selective release of histamine from mast cells and efflux from histaminergic neurons through VMAT2.[149] Acute amphetamine administration can also increase adrenocorticotropic hormone and corticosteroid levels in blood plasma by stimulating the hypothalamic\u2013pituitary\u2013adrenal axis.[35][172][173]\nThe oral bioavailability of amphetamine varies with gastrointestinal pH;[144] it is well absorbed from the gut, and bioavailability is typically over 75% for dextroamphetamine.[9] Amphetamine is a weak base with a pKa of 9.9;[4] consequently, when the pH is basic, more of the drug is in its lipid soluble free base form, and more is absorbed through the lipid-rich cell membranes of the gut epithelium.[4][144] Conversely, an acidic pH means the drug is predominantly in a water-soluble cationic (salt) form, and less is absorbed.[4] Approximately 15\u201340% of amphetamine circulating in the bloodstream is bound to plasma proteins.[10] Following absorption, amphetamine readily distributes into most tissues in the body, with high concentrations occurring in cerebrospinal fluid and brain tissue.[16]\nThe half-lives of amphetamine enantiomers differ and vary with urine pH.[4] At normal urine pH, the half-lives of dextroamphetamine and levoamphetamine are 9\u201311 hours and 11\u201314 hours, respectively.[4] Highly acidic urine will reduce the enantiomer half-lives to 7 hours;[16] highly alkaline urine will increase the half-lives up to 34 hours.[16] The immediate-release and extended release variants of salts of both isomers reach peak plasma concentrations at 3 hours and 7 hours post-dose respectively.[4] Amphetamine is eliminated via the kidneys, with 30\u201340% of the drug being excreted unchanged at normal urinary pH.[4] When the urinary pH is basic, amphetamine is in its free base form, so less is excreted.[4] When urine pH is abnormal, the urinary recovery of amphetamine may range from a low of 1% to a high of 75%, depending mostly upon whether urine is too basic or acidic, respectively.[4] Following oral administration, amphetamine appears in urine within 3 hours.[16] Roughly 90% of ingested amphetamine is eliminated 3 days after the last oral dose.[16]\nThe prodrug lisdexamfetamine is not as sensitive to pH as amphetamine when being absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract;[177] following absorption into the blood stream, it is converted by red blood cell-associated enzymes to dextroamphetamine via hydrolysis.[177] The elimination half-life of lisdexamfetamine is generally less than 1 hour.[177]\nCYP2D6, dopamine \u03b2-hydroxylase (DBH), flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3), butyrate-CoA ligase (XM-ligase), and glycine N-acyltransferase (GLYAT) are the enzymes known to metabolize amphetamine or its metabolites in humans.[sources 15] Amphetamine has a variety of excreted metabolic products, including 4-hydroxyamphetamine, 4-hydroxynorephedrine, 4-hydroxyphenylacetone, benzoic acid, hippuric acid, norephedrine, and phenylacetone.[4][11] Among these metabolites, the active sympathomimetics are 4-hydroxyamphetamine,[178] 4-hydroxynorephedrine,[179] and norephedrine.[180] The main metabolic pathways involve aromatic para-hydroxylation, aliphatic alpha- and beta-hydroxylation, N-oxidation, N-dealkylation, and deamination.[4][181] The known metabolic pathways, detectable metabolites, and metabolizing enzymes in humans include the following:\nMetabolic pathways of amphetamine in humans[sources 15]\nXM-ligase\nGLYAT\nThe primary active metabolites of amphetamine are 4-hydroxyamphetamine and norephedrine;[11] at normal urine pH, about 30\u201340% of amphetamine is excreted unchanged and roughly 50% is excreted as the inactive metabolites (bottom row).[4] The remaining 10\u201320% is excreted as the active metabolites.[4] Benzoic acid is metabolized by XM-ligase into an intermediate product, benzoyl-CoA, which is then metabolized by GLYAT into hippuric acid.[183]\nRelated endogenous compounds\nFurther information on related compounds: Trace amine\nAmphetamine has a very similar structure and function to the endogenous trace amines, which are naturally occurring neuromodulator molecules produced in the human body and brain.[37][46][187] Among this group, the most closely related compounds are phenethylamine, the parent compound of amphetamine, and N-methylphenethylamine, an isomer of amphetamine (i.e., it has an identical molecular formula).[37][46][188] In humans, phenethylamine is produced directly from L-phenylalanine by the aromatic amino acid decarboxylase (AADC) enzyme, which converts L-DOPA into dopamine as well.[46][188] In turn, N-methylphenethylamine is metabolized from phenethylamine by phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase, the same enzyme that metabolizes norepinephrine into epinephrine.[46][188] Like amphetamine, both phenethylamine and N-methylphenethylamine regulate monoamine neurotransmission via TAAR1;[37][187][188] unlike amphetamine, both of these substances are broken down by monoamine oxidase B, and therefore have a shorter half-life than amphetamine.[46][188]\nRacemic amphetamine\nThe skeletal structures of L-amph and D-amph\nA vial of the colorless amphetamine free base\nAmphetamine hydrochloride (left bowl)\nPhenyl-2-nitropropene (right cups)\nAmphetamine is a methyl homolog of the mammalian neurotransmitter phenethylamine with the chemical formula C9H13N. The carbon atom adjacent to the primary amine is a stereogenic center, and amphetamine is composed of a racemic 1:1 mixture of two enantiomers.[23] This racemic mixture can be separated into its optical isomers:[note 17] levoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine.[23] At room temperature, the pure free base of amphetamine is a mobile, colorless, and volatile liquid with a characteristically strong amine odor, and acrid, burning taste.[22] Frequently prepared solid salts of amphetamine include amphetamine aspartate,[28] hydrochloride,[189] phosphate,[190] saccharate,[28] and sulfate,[28] the last of which is the most common amphetamine salt.[47] Amphetamine is also the parent compound of its own structural class, which includes a number of psychoactive derivatives.[5][23] In organic chemistry, amphetamine is an excellent chiral ligand for the stereoselective synthesis of 1,1'-bi-2-naphthol.[191]\nSubstituted derivatives\nFor a more comprehensive list, see Substituted amphetamine.\nThe substituted derivatives of amphetamine, or \"substituted amphetamines\", are a broad range of chemicals that contain amphetamine as a \"backbone\";[5][48][192] specifically, this chemical class includes derivative compounds that are formed by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms in the amphetamine core structure with substituents.[5][48][193] The class includes amphetamine itself, stimulants like methamphetamine, serotonergic empathogens like MDMA, and decongestants like ephedrine, among other subgroups.[5][48][192]\nFurther information on illicit amphetamine synthesis: History and culture of substituted amphetamines \u00a7 Illegal synthesis\nSince the first preparation was reported in 1887,[194] numerous synthetic routes to amphetamine have been developed.[195][196] The most common route of both legal and illicit amphetamine synthesis employs a non-metal reduction known as the Leuckart reaction (method 1).[47][197] In the first step, a reaction between phenylacetone and formamide, either using additional formic acid or formamide itself as a reducing agent, yields N-formylamphetamine. This intermediate is then hydrolyzed using hydrochloric acid, and subsequently basified, extracted with organic solvent, concentrated, and distilled to yield the free base. The free base is then dissolved in an organic solvent, sulfuric acid added, and amphetamine precipitates out as the sulfate salt.[197][198]\nA number of chiral resolutions have been developed to separate the two enantiomers of amphetamine.[195] For example, racemic amphetamine can be treated with d-tartaric acid to form a diastereoisomeric salt which is fractionally crystallized to yield dextroamphetamine.[199] Chiral resolution remains the most economical method for obtaining optically pure amphetamine on a large scale.[200] In addition, several enantioselective syntheses of amphetamine have been developed. In one example, optically pure (R)-1-phenyl-ethanamine is condensed with phenylacetone to yield a chiral Schiff base. In the key step, this intermediate is reduced by catalytic hydrogenation with a transfer of chirality to the carbon atom alpha to the amino group. Cleavage of the benzylic amine bond by hydrogenation yields optically pure dextroamphetamine.[200]\nA large number of alternative synthetic routes to amphetamine have been developed based on classic organic reactions.[195][196] One example is the Friedel\u2013Crafts alkylation of benzene by allyl chloride to yield beta chloropropylbenzene which is then reacted with ammonia to produce racemic amphetamine (method 2).[201] Another example employs the Ritter reaction (method 3). In this route, allylbenzene is reacted acetonitrile in sulfuric acid to yield an organosulfate which in turn is treated with sodium hydroxide to give amphetamine via an acetamide intermediate.[202][203] A third route starts with ethyl 3-oxobutanoate which through a double alkylation with methyl iodide followed by benzyl chloride can be converted into 2-methyl-3-phenyl-propanoic acid. This synthetic intermediate can be transformed into amphetamine using either a Hofmann or Curtius rearrangement (method 4).[204]\nA significant number of amphetamine syntheses feature a reduction of a nitro, imine, oxime, or other nitrogen-containing functional groups.[196] In one such example, a Knoevenagel condensation of benzaldehyde with nitroethane yields phenyl-2-nitropropene. The double bond and nitro group of this intermediate is reduced using either catalytic hydrogenation or by treatment with lithium aluminium hydride (method 5).[197][205] Another method is the reaction of phenylacetone with ammonia, producing an imine intermediate that is reduced to the primary amine using hydrogen over a palladium catalyst or lithium aluminum hydride (method 6).[197]\nAmphetamine synthetic routes\nMethod 1: Synthesis by the Leuckart reaction\nTop: Chiral resolution of amphetamine\nBottom: Stereoselective synthesis of amphetamine\nMethod 2: Synthesis by Friedel\u2013Crafts alkylation\nMethod 3: Ritter synthesis\nMethod 4: Synthesis via Hofmann and Curtius rearrangements\nMethod 5: Synthesis by Knoevenagel condensation\nMethod 6: Synthesis using phenylacetone and ammonia\nAmphetamine is frequently measured in urine or blood as part of a drug test for sports, employment, poisoning diagnostics, and forensics.[sources 16] Techniques such as immunoassay, which is the most common form of amphetamine test, may cross-react with a number of sympathomimetic drugs.[209] Chromatographic methods specific for amphetamine are employed to prevent false positive results.[210] Chiral separation techniques may be employed to help distinguish the source of the drug, whether prescription amphetamine, prescription amphetamine prodrugs, (e.g., selegiline), over-the-counter drug products that contain levomethamphetamine,[note 18] or illicitly obtained substituted amphetamines.[210][213][214] Several prescription drugs produce amphetamine as a metabolite, including benzphetamine, clobenzorex, famprofazone, fenproporex, lisdexamfetamine, mesocarb, methamphetamine, prenylamine, and selegiline, among others.[3][215][216] These compounds may produce positive results for amphetamine on drug tests.[215][216] Amphetamine is generally only detectable by a standard drug test for approximately 24 hours, although a high dose may be detectable for 2\u20134 days.[209]\nFor the assays, a study noted that an enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) assay for amphetamine and methamphetamine may produce more false positives than liquid chromatography\u2013tandem mass spectrometry.[213] Gas chromatography\u2013mass spectrometry (GC\u2013MS) of amphetamine and methamphetamine with the derivatizing agent (S)-(\u2212)-trifluoroacetylprolyl chloride allows for the detection of methamphetamine in urine.[210] GC\u2013MS of amphetamine and methamphetamine with the chiral derivatizing agent Mosher's acid chloride allows for the detection of both dextroamphetamine and dextromethamphetamine in urine.[210] Hence, the latter method may be used on samples that test positive using other methods to help distinguish between the various sources of the drug.[210]\nHistory, society, and culture\nMain article: History and culture of substituted amphetamines\nAmphetamine was first synthesized in 1887 in Germany by Romanian chemist Laz\u0103r Edeleanu who named it phenylisopropylamine;[194][218][219] its stimulant effects remained unknown until 1927, when it was independently resynthesized by Gordon Alles and reported to have sympathomimetic properties.[219] Amphetamine had no medical use until late 1933, when Smith, Kline and French began selling it as an inhaler under the brand name Benzedrine as a decongestant.[29] Benzedrine sulfate was introduced 3 years later and was used to treat a wide variety of medical conditions, including narcolepsy, obesity, low blood pressure, low libido, and chronic pain, among others.[49][29] During World War II, amphetamine and methamphetamine were used extensively by both the Allied and Axis forces for their stimulant and performance-enhancing effects.[194][220][221] As the addictive properties of the drug became known, governments began to place strict controls on the sale of amphetamine.[194] For example, during the early 1970s in the United States, amphetamine became a schedule II controlled substance under the Controlled Substances Act.[222] In spite of strict government controls, amphetamine has been used legally or illicitly by people from a variety of backgrounds, including authors,[223] musicians,[224] mathematicians,[225] and athletes.[27]\nAmphetamine is still illegally synthesized today in clandestine labs and sold on the black market, primarily in European countries.[226] Among European Union (EU) member states, 11.9 millions (3.6%) adults (15-64 years old) have used amphetamines at least one in their life, and 1.7 millions (0.5%) in the last year, of which 1.2 millions (1%) were young adults (15-34 years old; latest data available as of 2018).[227] During 2012, approximately 5.9 metric tons of illicit amphetamine were seized within EU member states;[228] the \"street price\" of illicit amphetamine within the EU ranged from \u20ac6\u201338 per gram during the same period.[228] Outside Europe, the illicit market for amphetamine is much smaller than the market for methamphetamine and MDMA.[226]\nAs a result of the United Nations 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, amphetamine became a schedule II controlled substance, as defined in the treaty, in all 183 state parties.[30] Consequently, it is heavily regulated in most countries.[229][230] Some countries, such as South Korea and Japan, have banned substituted amphetamines even for medical use.[231][232] In other nations, such as Canada (schedule I drug),[233] the Netherlands (List I drug),[234] the United States (schedule II drug),[28] Australia (schedule 8),[235] Thailand (category 1 narcotic),[236] and United Kingdom (class B drug),[237] amphetamine is in a restrictive national drug schedule that allows for its use as a medical treatment.[226][31]\nSeveral currently prescribed amphetamine formulations contain both enantiomers, including Adderall, Adderall XR, Mydayis, Adzenys XR-ODT, Dyanavel XR, and Evekeo, the last of which contains racemic amphetamine sulfate.[2][35][90] Amphetamine is also prescribed in enantiopure and prodrug form as dextroamphetamine and lisdexamfetamine respectively.[36][177] Lisdexamfetamine is structurally different from amphetamine, and is inactive until it metabolizes into dextroamphetamine.[177] The free base of racemic amphetamine was previously available as Benzedrine, Psychedrine, and Sympatedrine.[3] Levoamphetamine was previously available as Cydril.[3] Many current amphetamine pharmaceuticals are salts due to the comparatively high volatility of the free base.[3][36][47] However, oral suspension and orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) dosage forms composed of the free base were introduced in 2015 and 2016, respectively.[90][238][239] Some of the current brands and their generic equivalents are listed below.\nAmphetamine pharmaceuticals\n(D:L) ratio\nAdderall \u2013 3:1 (salts) tablet 1996 [3][36]\nAdderall XR \u2013 3:1 (salts) capsule 2001 [3][36]\nMydayis \u2013 3:1 (salts) capsule 2017 [240]\nAdzenys XR-ODT amphetamine 3:1 (base) ODT 2016 [239][241]\nDyanavel XR amphetamine 3.2:1 (base) suspension 2015 [90][238]\nEvekeo amphetamine sulfate 1:1 (salts) tablet 2012 [35][242]\nDexedrine dextroamphetamine sulfate 1:0 (salts) capsule 1976 [3][36]\nProCentra dextroamphetamine sulfate 1:0 (salts) liquid 2010 [36]\nZenzedi dextroamphetamine sulfate 1:0 (salts) tablet 2013 [36]\nVyvanse lisdexamfetamine dimesylate 1:0 (prodrug) capsule 2007 [3][177]\nThe skeletal structure of lisdexamfetamine\nAmphetamine base in marketed amphetamine medications\namphetamine base\nin equal doses\ndoses with\nequal base\n(g/mol)\n(30 mg dose)\ndextroamphetamine sulfate[244][245] (C9H13N)2\u2022H2SO4 368.49 270.41 73.38% 73.38% \u2014 22.0 mg \u2014 30.0 mg\namphetamine sulfate[246] (C9H13N)2\u2022H2SO4 368.49 270.41 73.38% 36.69% 36.69% 11.0 mg 11.0 mg 30.0 mg\nAdderall 62.57% 47.49% 15.08% 14.2 mg 4.5 mg 35.2 mg\n25% dextroamphetamine sulfate[244][245] (C9H13N)2\u2022H2SO4 368.49 270.41 73.38% 73.38% \u2014\n25% amphetamine sulfate[246] (C9H13N)2\u2022H2SO4 368.49 270.41 73.38% 36.69% 36.69%\n25% dextroamphetamine saccharate[247] (C9H13N)2\u2022C6H10O8 480.55 270.41 56.27% 56.27% \u2014\n25% amphetamine aspartate monohydrate[248] (C9H13N)\u2022C4H7NO4\u2022H2O 286.32 135.21 47.22% 23.61% 23.61%\nlisdexamfetamine dimesylate[177] C15H25N3O\u2022(CH4O3S)2 455.49 135.21 29.68% 29.68% \u2014 8.9 mg \u2014 74.2 mg\namphetamine base suspension[note 22][90] C9H13N 135.21 135.21 100% 76.19% 23.81% 22.9 mg 7.1 mg 22.0 mg\n^ Synonyms and alternate spellings include: 1-phenylpropan-2-amine (IUPAC name), \u03b1-methylphenethylamine, amfetamine (International Nonproprietary Name [INN]), \u03b2-phenylisopropylamine, and speed.[18][23][24]\n^ Enantiomers are molecules that are mirror images of one another; they are structurally identical, but of the opposite orientation.[25]\nLevoamphetamine and dextroamphetamine are also known as L-amph or levamfetamine (INN) and D-amph or dexamfetamine (INN) respectively.[18]\n^ \"Adderall\" is a brand name as opposed to a nonproprietary name; because the latter (\"dextroamphetamine sulfate, dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine sulfate, and amphetamine aspartate\"[36]) is excessively long, this article exclusively refers to this amphetamine mixture by the brand name.\n^ The term \"amphetamines\" also refers to a chemical class, but, unlike the class of substituted amphetamines,[5] the \"amphetamines\" class does not have a standardized definition in academic literature.[19] One of the more restrictive definitions of this class includes only the racemate and enantiomers of amphetamine and methamphetamine.[19] The most general definition of the class encompasses a broad range of pharmacologically and structurally related compounds.[19]\nDue to confusion that may arise from use of the plural form, this article will only use the terms \"amphetamine\" and \"amphetamines\" to refer to racemic amphetamine, levoamphetamine, and dextroamphetamine and reserve the term \"substituted amphetamines\" for its structural class.\n^ The ADHD-related outcome domains with the greatest proportion of significantly improved outcomes from long-term continuous stimulant therapy include academics (~55% of academic outcomes improved), driving (100% of driving outcomes improved), non-medical drug use (47% of addiction-related outcomes improved), obesity (~65% of obesity-related outcomes improved), self-esteem (50% of self-esteem outcomes improved), and social function (67% of social function outcomes improved).[56]\nThe largest effect sizes for outcome improvements from long-term stimulant therapy occur in the domains involving academics (e.g., grade point average, achievement test scores, length of education, and education level), self-esteem (e.g., self-esteem questionnaire assessments, number of suicide attempts, and suicide rates), and social function (e.g., peer nomination scores, social skills, and quality of peer, family, and romantic relationships).[56]\nLong-term combination therapy for ADHD (i.e., treatment with both a stimulant and behavioral therapy) produces even larger effect sizes for outcome improvements and improves a larger proportion of outcomes across each domain compared to long-term stimulant therapy alone.[56]\n^ Cochrane Collaboration reviews are high quality meta-analytic systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials.[63]\n^ The statements supported by the USFDA come from prescribing information, which is the copyrighted intellectual property of the manufacturer and approved by the USFDA. USFDA contraindications are not necessarily intended to limit medical practice but limit claims by pharmaceutical companies.[84]\n^ According to one review, amphetamine can be prescribed to individuals with a history of abuse provided that appropriate medication controls are employed, such as requiring daily pick-ups of the medication from the prescribing physician.[3]\n^ In individuals who experience sub-normal height and weight gains, a rebound to normal levels is expected to occur if stimulant therapy is briefly interrupted.[55][57][89] The average reduction in final adult height from 3 years of continuous stimulant therapy is 2 cm.[89]\n^ The 95% confidence interval indicates that there is a 95% probability that the true number of deaths lies between 3,425 and 4,145.\n^ Transcription factors are proteins that increase or decrease the expression of specific genes.[125]\n^ In simpler terms, this necessary and sufficient relationship means that \u0394FosB overexpression in the nucleus accumbens and addiction-related behavioral and neural adaptations always occur together and never occur alone.\n^ NMDA receptors are voltage-dependent ligand-gated ion channels that requires simultaneous binding of glutamate and a co-agonist (D-serine or glycine) to open the ion channel.[134]\n^ The review indicated that magnesium L-aspartate and magnesium chloride produce significant changes in addictive behavior;[102] other forms of magnesium were not mentioned.\n^ The human dopamine transporter contains a high affinity extracellular zinc binding site which, upon zinc binding, inhibits dopamine reuptake and amplifies amphetamine-induced dopamine efflux in vitro.[145][146][147] The human serotonin transporter and norepinephrine transporter do not contain zinc binding sites.[147]\n^ 4-Hydroxyamphetamine has been shown to be metabolized into 4-hydroxynorephedrine by dopamine beta-hydroxylase (DBH) in vitro and it is presumed to be metabolized similarly in vivo.[5][182] Evidence from studies that measured the effect of serum DBH concentrations on 4-hydroxyamphetamine metabolism in humans suggests that a different enzyme may mediate the conversion of 4-hydroxyamphetamine to 4-hydroxynorephedrine;[182][184] however, other evidence from animal studies suggests that this reaction is catalyzed by DBH in synaptic vesicles within noradrenergic neurons in the brain.[185][186]\n^ The active ingredient in some OTC inhalers in the United States is listed as levmetamfetamine, the INN and USAN of levomethamphetamine.[211][212]\n^ For uniformity, molecular masses were calculated using the Lenntech Molecular Weight Calculator[243] and were within 0.01g/mol of published pharmaceutical values.\n^ Amphetamine base percentage = molecular massbase / molecular masstotal. Amphetamine base percentage for Adderall = sum of component percentages / 4.\n^ dose = (1 / amphetamine base percentage) \u00d7 scaling factor = (molecular masstotal / molecular massbase) \u00d7 scaling factor. The values in this column were scaled to a 30 mg dose of dextroamphetamine sulfate. Due to pharmacological differences between these medications (e.g., differences in the release, absorption, conversion, concentration, differing effects of enantiomers, half-life, etc.), the listed values should not be considered equipotent doses.\n^ This product (Dyanavel XR) is an oral suspension (i.e., a drug that is suspended in a liquid and taken by mouth) that contains 2.5 mg/mL of amphetamine base.[90] The product uses an ion exchange resin to achieve extended release of the amphetamine base.[90]\nImage legend\nG proteins & linked receptors\n(Text color) Transcription factors\n^ [3][19][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]\n^ [3][15][26][29][35][37][38]\n^ [15][26][27][28][32][39][40][41][42][43][44][45]\n^ [46][47][48]\n^ [2][39][40][89][90][91]\n^ [92][93][94][95]\n^ a b [106][107][108][109][135]\n^ [24][28][40][99][111]\n^ [50][138][141][142]\n^ a b [149][153][157][158][159][160][161]\n^ [37][149][157][158][162][167]\n^ a b [4][5][6][7][8][11][182][183]\n^ a b Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE, Holtzman DM (2015). \"Chapter 16: Reinforcement and Addictive Disorders\". 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Surprisingly, despite nearly 80 years of clinical use, the neurobiology of the procognitive actions of psychostimulants has only recently been systematically investigated. Findings from this research unambiguously demonstrate that the cognition-enhancing effects of psychostimulants involve the preferential elevation of catecholamines in the PFC and the subsequent activation of norepinephrine \u03b12 and dopamine D1 receptors. ... This differential modulation of PFC-dependent processes across dose appears to be associated with the differential involvement of noradrenergic \u03b12 versus \u03b11 receptors. Collectively, this evidence indicates that at low, clinically relevant doses, psychostimulants are devoid of the behavioral and neurochemical actions that define this class of drugs and instead act largely as cognitive enhancers (improving PFC-dependent function). ... In particular, in both animals and humans, lower doses maximally improve performance in tests of working memory and response inhibition, whereas maximal suppression of overt behavior and facilitation of attentional processes occurs at higher doses.\n^ Ilieva IP, Hook CJ, Farah MJ (June 2015). \"Prescription Stimulants' Effects on Healthy Inhibitory Control, Working Memory, and Episodic Memory: A Meta-analysis\". J. Cogn. Neurosci. 27 (6): 1\u201321. doi:10.1162/jocn_a_00776. PMID 25591060. Specifically, in a set of experiments limited to high-quality designs, we found significant enhancement of several cognitive abilities. ... The results of this meta-analysis ... do confirm the reality of cognitive enhancing effects for normal healthy adults in general, while also indicating that these effects are modest in size.\n^ Bagot KS, Kaminer Y (April 2014). \"Efficacy of stimulants for cognitive enhancement in non-attention deficit hyperactivity disorder youth: a systematic review\". 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Aside from accounting for the reduced performance of mentally fatigued participants, this model rationalizes the reduced RPE and hence improved cycling time trial performance of athletes using a glucose mouthwash (Chambers et al., 2009) and the greater power output during a RPE matched cycling time trial following amphetamine ingestion (Swart, 2009). ... Dopamine stimulating drugs are known to enhance aspects of exercise performance (Roelands et al., 2008)\n^ Roelands B, De Pauw K, Meeusen R (June 2015). \"Neurophysiological effects of exercise in the heat\". Scand. J. Med. Sci. Sports. 25 Suppl 1: 65\u201378. doi:10.1111/sms.12350. PMID 25943657. This indicates that subjects did not feel they were producing more power and consequently more heat. The authors concluded that the \"safety switch\" or the mechanisms existing in the body to prevent harmful effects are overridden by the drug administration (Roelands et al., 2008b). 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Despite the importance of numerous psychosocial factors, at its core, drug addiction involves a biological process: the ability of repeated exposure to a drug of abuse to induce changes in a vulnerable brain that drive the compulsive seeking and taking of drugs, and loss of control over drug use, that define a state of addiction. ... A large body of literature has demonstrated that such \u0394FosB induction in D1-type [nucleus accumbens] neurons increases an animal's sensitivity to drug as well as natural rewards and promotes drug self-administration, presumably through a process of positive reinforcement ... Another \u0394FosB target is cFos: as \u0394FosB accumulates with repeated drug exposure it represses c-Fos and contributes to the molecular switch whereby \u0394FosB is selectively induced in the chronic drug-treated state.41. ... Moreover, there is increasing evidence that, despite a range of genetic risks for addiction across the population, exposure to sufficiently high doses of a drug for long periods of time can transform someone who has relatively lower genetic loading into an addict.\n^ Robison AJ, Nestler EJ (November 2011). \"Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of addiction\". Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 12 (11): 623\u2013637. doi:10.1038/nrn3111. PMC 3272277. PMID 21989194. \u0394FosB serves as one of the master control proteins governing this structural plasticity.\n^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v Olsen CM (December 2011). \"Natural rewards, neuroplasticity, and non-drug addictions\". Neuropharmacology. 61 (7): 1109\u20131122. doi:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.03.010. PMC 3139704. PMID 21459101. Similar to environmental enrichment, studies have found that exercise reduces self-administration and relapse to drugs of abuse (Cosgrove et al., 2002; Zlebnik et al., 2010). There is also some evidence that these preclinical findings translate to human populations, as exercise reduces withdrawal symptoms and relapse in abstinent smokers (Daniel et al., 2006; Prochaska et al., 2008), and one drug recovery program has seen success in participants that train for and compete in a marathon as part of the program (Butler, 2005). ... In humans, the role of dopamine signaling in incentive-sensitization processes has recently been highlighted by the observation of a dopamine dysregulation syndrome in some patients taking dopaminergic drugs. This syndrome is characterized by a medication-induced increase in (or compulsive) engagement in non-drug rewards such as gambling, shopping, or sex (Evans et al., 2006; Aiken, 2007; Lader, 2008).\n^ a b c d Lynch WJ, Peterson AB, Sanchez V, Abel J, Smith MA (September 2013). \"Exercise as a novel treatment for drug addiction: a neurobiological and stage-dependent hypothesis\". Neurosci. Biobehav. Rev. 37 (8): 1622\u20131644. doi:10.1016/j.neubiorev.2013.06.011. PMC 3788047. PMID 23806439. These findings suggest that exercise may \"magnitude\"-dependently prevent the development of an addicted phenotype possibly by blocking/reversing behavioral and neuroadaptive changes that develop during and following extended access to the drug. ... Exercise has been proposed as a treatment for drug addiction that may reduce drug craving and risk of relapse. Although few clinical studies have investigated the efficacy of exercise for preventing relapse, the few studies that have been conducted generally report a reduction in drug craving and better treatment outcomes ... Taken together, these data suggest that the potential benefits of exercise during relapse, particularly for relapse to psychostimulants, may be mediated via chromatin remodeling and possibly lead to greater treatment outcomes.\n^ a b c Zhou Y, Zhao M, Zhou C, Li R (July 2015). \"Sex differences in drug addiction and response to exercise intervention: From human to animal studies\". Front. Neuroendocrinol. 40: 24\u201341. doi:10.1016/j.yfrne.2015.07.001. PMC 4712120. PMID 26182835. Collectively, these findings demonstrate that exercise may serve as a substitute or competition for drug abuse by changing \u0394FosB or cFos immunoreactivity in the reward system to protect against later or previous drug use. ... The postulate that exercise serves as an ideal intervention for drug addiction has been widely recognized and used in human and animal rehabilitation.\n^ a b c Linke SE, Ussher M (January 2015). \"Exercise-based treatments for substance use disorders: evidence, theory, and practicality\". Am. J. Drug Alcohol Abuse. 41 (1): 7\u201315. doi:10.3109/00952990.2014.976708. PMC 4831948. PMID 25397661. The limited research conducted suggests that exercise may be an effective adjunctive treatment for SUDs. In contrast to the scarce intervention trials to date, a relative abundance of literature on the theoretical and practical reasons supporting the investigation of this topic has been published. ... numerous theoretical and practical reasons support exercise-based treatments for SUDs, including psychological, behavioral, neurobiological, nearly universal safety profile, and overall positive health effects.\n^ a b Malenka RC, Nestler EJ, Hyman SE (2009). \"Chapter 15: Reinforcement and Addictive Disorders\". In Sydor A, Brown RY. Molecular Neuropharmacology: A Foundation for Clinical Neuroscience (2nd ed.). New York, USA: McGraw-Hill Medical. p. 386. ISBN 9780071481274. Currently, cognitive\u2013behavioral therapies are the most successful treatment available for preventing the relapse of psychostimulant use.\n^ Albertson TE (2011). \"Amphetamines\". In Olson KR, Anderson IB, Benowitz NL, Blanc PD, Kearney TE, Kim-Katz SY, Wu AH. Poisoning & Drug Overdose (6th ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Medical. pp. 77\u201379. ISBN 9780071668330.\n^ \"Glossary of Terms\". Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Department of Neuroscience. Retrieved 9 February 2015.\n^ Volkow ND, Koob GF, McLellan AT (January 2016). \"Neurobiologic Advances from the Brain Disease Model of Addiction\". N. Engl. J. Med. 374 (4): 363\u2013371. doi:10.1056/NEJMra1511480. PMID 26816013. Substance-use disorder: A diagnostic term in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) referring to recurrent use of alcohol or other drugs that causes clinically and functionally significant impairment, such as health problems, disability, and failure to meet major responsibilities at work, school, or home. Depending on the level of severity, this disorder is classified as mild, moderate, or severe.\nAddiction: A term used to indicate the most severe, chronic stage of substance-use disorder, in which there is a substantial loss of self-control, as indicated by compulsive drug taking despite the desire to stop taking the drug. In the DSM-5, the term addiction is synonymous with the classification of severe substance-use disorder.\n^ a b c Renthal W, Nestler EJ (September 2009). \"Chromatin regulation in drug addiction and depression\". Dialogues Clin. Neurosci. 11 (3): 257\u2013268. PMC 2834246. PMID 19877494. [Psychostimulants] increase cAMP levels in striatum, which activates protein kinase A (PKA) and leads to phosphorylation of its targets. This includes the cAMP response element binding protein (CREB), the phosphorylation of which induces its association with the histone acetyltransferase, CREB binding protein (CBP) to acetylate histones and facilitate gene activation. This is known to occur on many genes including fosB and c-fos in response to psychostimulant exposure. \u0394FosB is also upregulated by chronic psychostimulant treatments, and is known to activate certain genes (eg, cdk5) and repress others (eg, c-fos) where it recruits HDAC1 as a corepressor. ... Chronic exposure to psychostimulants increases glutamatergic [signaling] from the prefrontal cortex to the NAc. Glutamatergic signaling elevates Ca2+ levels in NAc postsynaptic elements where it activates CaMK (calcium/calmodulin protein kinases) signaling, which, in addition to phosphorylating CREB, also phosphorylates HDAC5.\nFigure 2: Psychostimulant-induced signaling events\n^ Broussard JI (January 2012). \"Co-transmission of dopamine and glutamate\". J. Gen. Physiol. 139 (1): 93\u201396. doi:10.1085/jgp.201110659. PMC 3250102. PMID 22200950. Coincident and convergent input often induces plasticity on a postsynaptic neuron. The NAc integrates processed information about the environment from basolateral amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex (PFC), as well as projections from midbrain dopamine neurons. Previous studies have demonstrated how dopamine modulates this integrative process. For example, high frequency stimulation potentiates hippocampal inputs to the NAc while simultaneously depressing PFC synapses (Goto and Grace, 2005). The converse was also shown to be true; stimulation at PFC potentiates PFC\u2013NAc synapses but depresses hippocampal\u2013NAc synapses. In light of the new functional evidence of midbrain dopamine/glutamate co-transmission (references above), new experiments of NAc function will have to test whether midbrain glutamatergic inputs bias or filter either limbic or cortical inputs to guide goal-directed behavior.\n^ Kanehisa Laboratories (10 October 2014). \"Amphetamine \u2013 Homo sapiens (human)\". KEGG Pathway. Retrieved 31 October 2014. Most addictive drugs increase extracellular concentrations of dopamine (DA) in nucleus accumbens (NAc) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), projection areas of mesocorticolimbic DA neurons and key components of the \"brain reward circuit\". Amphetamine achieves this elevation in extracellular levels of DA by promoting efflux from synaptic terminals. ... Chronic exposure to amphetamine induces a unique transcription factor delta FosB, which plays an essential role in long-term adaptive changes in the brain.\n^ a b c Robison AJ, Nestler EJ (November 2011). \"Transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms of addiction\". Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 12 (11): 623\u2013637. doi:10.1038/nrn3111. PMC 3272277. PMID 21989194. \u0394FosB serves as one of the master control proteins governing this structural plasticity. ... \u0394FosB also represses G9a expression, leading to reduced repressive histone methylation at the cdk5 gene. The net result is gene activation and increased CDK5 expression. ... In contrast, \u0394FosB binds to the c-fos gene and recruits several co-repressors, including HDAC1 (histone deacetylase 1) and SIRT 1 (sirtuin 1). ... The net result is c-fos gene repression.\nFigure 4: Epigenetic basis of drug regulation of gene expression\n^ a b c Nestler EJ (December 2012). \"Transcriptional mechanisms of drug addiction\". Clin. Psychopharmacol. Neurosci. 10 (3): 136\u2013143. doi:10.9758/cpn.2012.10.3.136. PMC 3569166. PMID 23430970. The 35-37 kD \u0394FosB isoforms accumulate with chronic drug exposure due to their extraordinarily long half-lives. ... As a result of its stability, the \u0394FosB protein persists in neurons for at least several weeks after cessation of drug exposure. ... \u0394FosB overexpression in nucleus accumbens induces NF\u03baB ... 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Retrieved 19 August 2015.\nAmphetamineat Wikipedia's sister projects\nCID 3007 from PubChem \u2013 Amphetamine\nCID 5826 from PubChem \u2013 Dextroamphetamine\nCID 32893 from PubChem \u2013 Levoamphetamine\nComparative Toxicogenomics Database entry: Amphetamine\nComparative Toxicogenomics Database entry: CARTPT\n\u03b12-adrenoceptor\nMiscellaneous/others\nAmphetamine portal\nMolecular and cell biology portal\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amphetamine&oldid=881947199\"\nExcitatory amino acid reuptake inhibitors\nTreatment and management of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder\nPubChem ID (CID) same as Wikidata\nPubChem ID (CID) different from Wikidata", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2276, "original_length": 182177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Soper", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:C4MVVMBODCGD3NCAXDUW7VGMVD3F2OUA", "length": 3942, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Gay Soper - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Find sources: \"Gay Soper\" \u2013 news \u00b7 newspapers \u00b7 books \u00b7 scholar \u00b7 JSTOR (February 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nGay Soper is an English actress. She is perhaps best known for her performance in the musical Godspell in 1971, as well as Mme. Thenardier on the Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Mis\u00e9rables. She also performed all the voices for The Flumps, a famous children's TV series in Britain, and created the role of Mrs Bennett in Bernard J. Taylor's musical version of Pride and Prejudice.\nGay was educated at a convent in Surrey, St Anne\u2019s College, and trained as an actress at LAMDA.\nSoper was an alternate Eliza Doolittle on the original UK tour of My Fair Lady in 1965. She was later cast in the original London production of the musical Godspell, alongside Jeremy Irons, David Essex, Julie Covington and Marti Webb. The production opened at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm and later transferred to Wyndhams Theatre.\nIn 1974 she appeared as one of the two girlfriends in the original London production of the musical Billy, with lyrics by Don Black and music by John Barry, based on the story of Billy Liar. Billy was played by Michael Crawford and the other girlfriend by Elaine Paige.\nHer other theatre work includes Good (Royal Shakespeare Company); Mother Courage (National Theatre); and Sunday in the Park with George, Jorrocks, The Canterbury Tales, Side by Side by Sondheim, The Mitford Girls, Les Mis\u00e9rables, Which Witch, and Salad Days (West End). She was in the original cast of the 1970s musical Betjemania based on the poems of John Betjeman. In 2010, she appeared with Opera della Luna as Little Buttercup in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.\nIn 2011 at the Brighton Festival she played Rattigan\u2019s mother Vera in The Art of Concealment, a new play; and toured the UK as Norah in Star Quality by No\u00ebl Coward, as Matron in Doctor In The House, as Verity Carr in Morse, in House of Ghosts, and as Helena in Maurice\u2019s Jubilee by Nichola MacAuliffe. She was Mrs Pearce in My Fair Lady at Kilworth House Theatre, 2013; Gay later played Mrs Higgins in the musical on a tour of Denmark. At the Birmingham Rep she was the Storyteller in Stiles and Drew\u2019s new musical version of Peter Pan, and Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret at Frankfurt; played in Cole in Hong Kong, Betjemania and Narnia in New York, and Ruth in Blithe Spirit in Stockholm, and Cherry May Waterton in Coward's Nude with Violin at the Royal Exchange Manchester for Marianne Elliott.\nIn 2008, Gay performed the lead role of Sister Wendy Beckett in Postcards from God - The Sister Wendy Musical at Hackney Empire Studio and reprised the role for the concept cast recording in 2010.[citation needed]\nShe appeared in the original production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Gielgud Theatre in London.\nSoper's film roles include appearances in the British sex comedies Love Is a Splendid Illusion (1970) and The Ups and Downs of a Handyman (1975), opposite her then-husband Barry Stokes. She also featured in the 2004 film version of A Christmas Carol with Kelsey Grammer.\nShe has made many TV appearances, perhaps most famously in the third and fourth series of Romany Jones.\nSoper can be heard on the International Symphonic Recording of Les Mis\u00e9rables and the original London cast recording of Sunday in the Park with George. Her solo album, Flying Fish and Fallen Angels, was released on the Dress Circle label.\nLove Is a Splendid Illusion (1970)\nThe Ups and Downs of a Handyman (1975)\nSimon Sheridan Keeping the British End Up: Four Decades of Saucy Cinema (Titan books) (4th edition 2011)\nSimon Sheridan The A to Z of Classic Children's Television (Reynolds & Hearn books, 2004, reprinted 2007) ISBN 1-903111-27-7.\nGay Soper Official Website\nGay Soper on IMDb\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gay_Soper&oldid=788375450\"\nEnglish musical theatre actresses\nEnglish stage actresses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 128.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin_Kin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:46Z", "digest": "sha1:YX3Q7TJZCOEA6OCAWJDO25BJ3QXNNUJQ", "length": 7036, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Kin Kin - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "The Country Life Hotel on Main Street, Kin Kin, 2018\n38 km (24 mi) NW of Noosa Heads\nSuburbs around Kin Kin:\nNeusa Vale Neusa Vale\nCoondoo Como\nMothar Mountain Kin Kin Como\nCooran Pinbarren Cootharaba\nKin Kin is a town and locality that lies between Pomona to the south, and Gympie to the north, in South East Queensland, Australia.[2][3] The town is a hub for recreational activities related to nearby Lake Cootharaba and the Great Sandy National Park.[4] Kin Kin is in the Noosa Biosphere[5] Queensland's first UNESCO Biosphere. It is within the local government area of Shire of Noosa (between 2008 and 2013 it was within Sunshine Coast Region).[2][3]\nThere has long been debate over the origin of the name Kin Kin. It is most widely believed to mean \"plenty black ants\" after the small black ants very common in the area.[4] [6] [7] This is reflected in the local school newsletter \"Kin Kin ANTics\" and the large ant sculpture outside the Kin Kin General store, home of Black Ant Gourmet. Some sources suggest the name comes from the Aboriginal kauin kauin meaning red soil. [8][9] In the west of Kin Kin is Woondum National Park and Woondum Forest Reserve. The hills and mountains in this area are covered by eucalypt forest and rainforest.[10]\nAxeman Hillcoat felling a tree in the Kin Kin district ca. 1915\nIllawarra Dairy Cattle on Mr G Grevetts farm at Kin Kin, circa 1931\nTimber-getters moved into the area in the late 1870s.[4] Until the mid-1970s Kin Kin was predominantly a smallcrop and dairy farming community, from then on land and farm usage started to change and there was a decline in production farms. Early deforestation and clearing of land led to small produce and dairy farming from the early 1900s. The banana industry boomed in the years after World War 1, but experienced a significant decline in the 1930s as prices fell. Beans and Zucchini were major crops for many years, but smallcropping declined from the 1980s and is now undertaken on a limited basis.\nThe butter factory was closed in 1937[4] but the sawmill still survives. Deregulation of the milk industry led to the exit of all but a handful of family dairy farms. The last farms (in order of closure, Davis, Ferris, and Shepperson) had closed by 2012. Nowadays many original farms have been subdivided into small hobby farms, some growing fruit trees, and many carrying horses or beef cattle. Today Kin Kin boasts health retreats, accommodation, small businesses, artists and bush foods.\nThe family of William D. Francis one of Queensland's pioneering botanists owned land in the area, and many native trees first identified by him are found in the area.[11]\nOn 14 August 1971, a tornado passed through the town killing three people.[12] Another tornado hit on February 29 1985, destroying the Butter Factory and causing widespread property damage.[13] On November 4 1994 a severe storm produced large hail and a tornado which damaged or completely destroyed several buildings. [14]\nIn 2007, a plan to develop a $400 million eco-tourism resort east of Kin Kin was rejected by the Government of Queensland on the grounds that the development was not part of the regional planning document.[15]\nIn early April 2009 the town was hit by severe flooding [16] from Kin Kin Creek, a tributary of the Noosa River.\nKin Kin has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:\nBowman Street: Kin Kin Masonic Lodge [17]\nGrady Street: St Luke's Anglican Church [17]\nMain Street: Kin Kin State School [17]\nMain Street: Kin Kin Memorial School of Arts [17]\nMain Street: Former Post Office [17]\nMain Street: Former ES&A Bank and residence [17]\nCorner Main Street & Wahpunga Road: Country Life Hotel [17]\nPomona Kin Kin Road: Kin Kin Junction Uniting Church (now a private residence)[17]\n1 Sister Tree Creek Road: Kin Kin Sawmill [18]\nChildren from Kin Kin[19] attend a school in Kin Kin village up to grade 6. Secondary school students attend Noosa District State High School: grades 7\u20148 attend the Pomona campus, and grades 9\u201412 attend the Cooroy campus.\nThe Shire of Noosa operates a mobile library service on a weekly schedule at the Kin Kin school.[20]\nThere are public toilets and a playground in the park next to the Memorial School of Arts Hall, and public toilets, a barbecue, and shelter at Wahpunga School Park.\nThe Kin Kin Tennis Courts are located behind the Memorial School of Arts Hall.\nThere is a skate park and public camping available on the oval behind the Country Life Hotel.\nThe Kin Kin Arboretum is located 2.5 km south of the village.\nList of reduplicated Australian place names\n^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). \"Kin Kin (Noosa Shire) (State Suburb)\". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 2 February 2013.\n^ a b \"Kin Kin - town in Shire of Noosa (entry 18157)\". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 3 July 2017.\n^ a b \"Kin Kin - locality in Shire of Noosa (entry 48703)\". Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 3 July 2017.\n^ a b c d Environmental Protection Agency (Queensland) (2000). Heritage Trails of the Great South East. State of Queensland. p. 147. ISBN 0-7345-1008-X.\n^ Noosa Biosphere. Retrieved 26 August 2012.\n^ Noosa Attractions and Places. 7 January 2007.\n^ \"MEANING OF KIN KIN AND COOTHARABA\". Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933). 1933-03-11. p. 11. Retrieved 2018-02-15.\n^ South East Queensland - Place Names. 19 December 2006.\n^ Noosa Community Guide 2005 Part D Archived 24 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine. 19 December 2006.\n^ \"About Woondum\". Department of National Parks, Recreation, Sport and Racing. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2014.\n^ Noosa Shire Historical Cultural Heritage Kin Kin July 2002. 2 January 2007.\n^ \"Drought, Dust and Deluge: Severe Storms: Tornadoes\". Bureau of Meteorology. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2013.\n^ \"Our big bashes: storms that smashed the Coast\". Sunshine Coast Daily. Retrieved 2018-01-25.\n^ \"Brisbane Storm Chasers- Tornadoes in SE Qld\".\n^ \"Anger over Kin Kin development rejection\". ABC News. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 18 June 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2012.\n^ Robert Blackmore & Sara Hicks (8 April 2009). \"Flood damage and isolation in Kin Kin\". ABC Sunshine Coast. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 24 August 2012.\n^ a b c d e f g h \"SCHEDULE 3\u2014HERITAGE SITES\" (PDF). Noosa Shire Council. October 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2018.\n^ \"Kin Kin Sawmill (entry 602686)\". Queensland Heritage Register. Queensland Heritage Council. Retrieved 14 July 2013.\n^ Kin Kin State School. Department of Education and Training. Retrieved 26 August 2012.\n^ \"Noosa Mobile Library - Mobile Stops - Noosa Mobile Hours\". Shire of Noosa. Retrieved 19 January 2018.\nWikimedia Commons has media related to Kin Kin, Queensland.\nUniversity of Queensland: Queensland Places: Kin Kin\nSuburbs and towns in the Shire of Noosa, South East Queensland\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kin_Kin&oldid=877397756\"\nSuburbs of Noosa Shire, Queensland\nKin Kin, Queensland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 9576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeland_Square_Mall", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4WXDPHNRLX3MSR2E3T6CQVK5CMZDRQAT", "length": 4146, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Lakeland Square Mall - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Entrance to Lakeland Square Mall, April 2017\nEdward J. DeBartolo Corporation and Homart Development Company[1]\n7 (4 open, 3 vacant)\nCitrus Connection bus: 1, 15, 47, 61\nwww.lakelandsquare.com\nLakeland Square Mall is a shopping mall located on the northern side of Lakeland, Florida. It is one of two enclosed malls serving Polk County. It is the only shopping mall located off of I-4 between Tampa and Orlando, and it serves the populations of western Polk County.\nThe shopping mall has four anchor stores, including the Burlington Coat Factory, Dillard's, J. C. Penney, and Cinemark Theaters. When it opened, it had featured Mervyns and Sears, but also had Belk (now Burlington Coat Factory), with Maison Blanche opening a few months later.[3] Both the Mervyns and Maison Blanche stores became Dillard's; the former Mervyn's location was shuttered in 2012, with Dillard's consolidating to the former Maison Blanche.[4] The former Mervyns/Dillard's building was torn down in 2013 and replaced with a Sports Authority and movie theater.\nIn 2015, Sears Holdings spun off 235 of its properties, including the Sears at Lakeland Square Mall, into Seritage Growth Properties.[5]\nOn May 25, 2016, it was announced that Sports Authority would be closing as it is going out of business. The store closed in late August 2016.\nIn January 2017, Macy's announced it would close its Lakeland Square Mall store as a part of a larger round of closings across the country.\nOn October 15, 2018, it was announced that Sears would be closing as part of a plan to close 142 stores nationwide.[6]\nLakeland Square Mall has been the main upscale shopping center for Lakeland during the 1990s, but since 2005 it has lost Belk to the competing Lakeside Village, an open-air lifestyle center that opened on the south side of the city.[7]\n^ Kuhn, Brad (May 8, 1995). \"New Mall Brings Developer Back Homart Teamed Up On Various Projects\". Orlando Sentinel. (\"Homart teamed up with DeBartolo again for Lakeland Square Mall, which opened in 1988.\")\n^ \"Lakeland Square Mall\". Brookfield Properties Retail Group.\n^ \"Lakeland Ledger - Google News Archive Search\". news.google.com.\n^ KENNEDY, KYLE (February 20, 2012). \"Dillard's to Close One Of Lakeland Mall Stores\". The Ledger.\n^ http://www.seritage.com/retail/property/3800-us-hwy-98-n/3312500/landing\n^ Pera, Eric. \"Lakeland Sears part of corporate shutdowns\". The Ledger. Retrieved 2018-10-21.\n^ MAREADY, JEREMY (October 30, 2005). \"\"Is This Town Big Enough for Two Malls?\", The Ledger\". The Ledger.\nShopping malls in the Tampa Bay Area\nMidtown DeSoto Square Mall\nCortez Plaza\nEast Lake Square Mall\nFloriland Mall\nGulf Gate Mall\nLakeland Mall (Lake Parker Mall)\nPinellas Square (Parkside Mall)\nSunshine Mall\nTarpon Mall\nWinter Haven Mall\nWinter Park Mall\nLake Fair Mall\nAll properties are in the United States\nMartin Bucksbaum, Matthew Bucksbaum, John Bucksbaum, Andrew M. Rosenfield\nProperties of the Midwest\nLincolnshire Commons\nOakbrook Center (50%; remaining share owned by CalPERS)\nRidgedale Center (51%; remaining share owned by CBRE Group)\nPlaza Frontenac (50%, remaining share owned by the CPP Investment Board\nProperties of the Northeast\nThe Shops at Somerset Square\nSoNo Collection (under construction)\nWillowbrook Mall (New Jersey)\nMaple Tree Place\nProperties of the South\nCumberland Mall (51%; remaining share owned by CBRE Group)\nThe Parks at Arlington (51%; remaining share owned by CBRE Group)\nWillowbrook Mall (Houston)\nProperties of the West\nGrand Teton Mall\nCache Valley Mall\nBellis Fair\nNon-mall properties\nProperties outside malls\nWater Tower Place (retail and condominiums)\nThe Shoppes at the Palazzo (managed with no ownership interest; owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation)\n530 5 Avenue (joint venture with RXR Realty and Thor Equities)\n685 5 Avenue (joint venture with Thor Equities)\nCityPlace Burlington (under redevelopment) (will be managed with no ownership interest; owned by Devonwood Investors)\nHomart Development Company\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lakeland_Square_Mall&oldid=883061493\"\nBuildings and structures in Lakeland, Florida\nShopping malls in Florida", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 416, "original_length": 9870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/agitated", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:30Z", "digest": "sha1:72NKM7G3RC2HHJTLZOWNH7AGNHGV2UHB", "length": 339, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "en.wiktionary.org", "title": "agitated - Wiktionary", "raw_content": "simple past tense and past participle of agitate\nagitated (comparative more agitated, superlative most agitated)\nAngry, annoyed, bothered or worked up.\n(of a solution or substance) Violently and chaotically moving around, such as because of being shaken.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=agitated&oldid=44178470\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 1718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://encourageyourspouse.com/what-did-you-expect-book-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:57Z", "digest": "sha1:U2JIHAXMJBR2INFMLWX5ORXWE7GBEXFF", "length": 2980, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "encourageyourspouse.com", "title": "What Did You Expect?? - book review - Encourage Your Spouse", "raw_content": "What Did You Expect?? \u2013 book review\nFirst \u2013 I need to say thank you to Debi & Tom Walter \u2013 the hearts behind The Romantic Vineyard blog. We spent a lovely evening together visiting with each other in August. This book is one of their favorites and they so kindly sent us home with a copy. I\u2019ve been waiting for the perfect moment to talk about it.\nAs you can see from the front cover picture, it\u2019s a soft color and feeling. Inside, however, are solid challenges to make commitments in your marriage. No fluff included in this book \u2013 just insightful truths.\nFor a number of weeks, Debi posted quotes on The Romantic Vineyard facebook fanpage from this book. I don\u2019t know how she picked one phrase over another\u2026 I was constantly nodding my head and muttering, \u201cyes.\u201d \u201cah-uh\u201d \u201cright\u201d \u201cwell really\u201d and \u201cfor sure\u201d.\nPaul David Tripp, the author, divides the book into 6 commitments:\nWe will give ourselves to a regular lifestyle of confession & forgiveness.\nWe will make growth & change our daily agenda.\nWe will work together to build a sturdy bond of trust.\nWe will commit to building a relationship of love.\nWe will deal with our differences with appreciation & grace.\nWe will work to protect our marriage.\nI can\u2019t do the book justice in a few words. It\u2019s impossible. The author uses real couples to highlight marriage issues \u2013 and with a kind and gentle insight, he draws a picture of what could be. He uses soft words to call the reader back to the love of God.\nHere\u2019s a little sip from near the end of the book:\nGrace gives your marriage a lifetime warranty. What this means is that God will give you everything you need to be what you are supposed to be and do what he has called you to do in your marriage. But you must do it. His grace enables, reconciles, restores, and repairs. His grace teaches you and changes you. His grace\u2026\nSoft words \u2013 words of truth that just seep into your mind and soul. I\u2019m going to need to revisit this book. Often.\nGive your marriage relationship a gift \u2013 buy this book. Read it. Ponder over it. Digest it.\nEven if you\u2019re not in crisis \u2013 even if you believe you\u2019re doing just fine\u2026 maybe even good\u2026 isn\u2019t this the right time to cultivate your marriage so you can reap an awesome harvest? It\u2019s always a good time to sow.\nBeth\ton October 4, 2011 at 6:19 pm\nSounds like a wonderful and comforting book!\nDebi - The Romantic Vineyard\ton October 7, 2011 at 2:44 am\nWe\u2019re so glad to see your review of this book \u2013 we weren\u2019t kidding were we?! I can\u2019t recommend this book enough, and you\u2019ve written such a perfect review for it. I\u2019m definitely linking our readers to it.\nWe are so glad we had the chance to meet! Take care,\nHappy Hour | The Romantic Vineyard - [...] What Did You Expect? A Book Review - We\u2019ve told you this is our favorite marriage book BY FAR.\u2026\nBook Review: Your Marriage Today and Tomorrow - How will it impact those around you? - Encourage Your Spouse - [\u2026] you\u2019re interested in other marriage books, check out this review or this [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 9598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://englishtopic.ru/topiki-po-anglijskomu-yazyku/page/9/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:43Z", "digest": "sha1:S7IZPYNOVTWJS7IRVD62YOOQD5YK62V2", "length": 4486, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "englishtopic.ru", "title": "\u0422\u043e\u043f\u0438\u043a\u0438 \u043f\u043e \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0443 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0443 | Englishtopic - Part 9", "raw_content": "Westminster Abbey. Poets\u2019 Corner\nThe great glory of Westminster is, of course, the Abbey. Ancient tradition claims that St. Peter founded the first church here but the Abbey\u2019s 900 years of existence since its...\nAustralia \u2013 \u0410\u0432\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0430\u043b\u0438\u044f (1)\nAustralia is the only country in the world that is also a continent. It is the sixth large country and the smallest continent. Australia lies between the South Pacific Ocean...\n\u0417\u043d\u0430\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e/ Meeting\n\u041d\u0430 \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0435 \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434 \u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a Meeting \u0417\u043d\u0430\u043a\u043e\u043c\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e Hello! My name is Artem. I am 14 years old and I would like to talk about myself. I grew up...\n\u0417\u0430\u0449\u0438\u0442\u0430 \u043e\u043a\u0440\u0443\u0436\u0430\u044e\u0449\u0435\u0439 \u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u044b/ Environmental Protection\n\u041d\u0430 \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0435 \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434 \u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a Environmental Protection \u0417\u0430\u0449\u0438\u0442\u0430 \u043e\u043a\u0440\u0443\u0436\u0430\u044e\u0449\u0435\u0439 \u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u044b We live in a world full of different types of pollution. Wanting to make their lives easier people...\nEducation in Great Britain: Schools \u2013 \u041e\u0431\u0440\u0430\u0437\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0435 \u0432 \u0412\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438: \u0428\u043a\u043e\u043b\u044b (3)\nIn Britain it is compulsory for everyone between the ages of 5 and 16 years to receive some officially recognized form of schooling, though most secondary schools continue to provide...\n\u0417\u0435\u043c\u043b\u044f \u0432 \u043e\u043f\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438/ The Earth Is In Danger\n\u041d\u0430 \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0435 \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434 \u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a The Earth Is In Danger \u0417\u0435\u043c\u043b\u044f \u0432 \u043e\u043f\u0430\u0441\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 All over the history of civilization our nature and its resources is increasingly exploited. When...\nWe live in Usinsk. It\u2019s a small town with the population of about 60 thousand people situated near the river Usa in the north-east of the Komi Republic. Usinsk is...\nPlaces of Interest in Great Britain \u2013 \u0414\u043e\u0441\u0442\u043e\u043f\u0440\u0438\u043c\u0435\u0447\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u044c\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438 \u0412\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e\u0431\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438 (3)\nGreat Britain is rich in world-famous places. Certainly among them there are famous university cities Oxford and Cambridge, Shakespeare\u2019s birthplace \u2013 Stratford-upon-Avon, towns of Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow. Stratford-upon-Avon is a...\nRussia \u2013 \u0420\u043e\u0441\u0441\u0438\u044f (2)\n1). Russia is one of the largest countries in the world. 2). It occupies about one seventh part of dry land. 3). The vast territory of Russia lies in the...\n\u0417\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043c \u043d\u0443\u0436\u043d\u044b \u0434\u0440\u0443\u0437\u044c\u044f?/ Why Do We Need Friends?\n\u041d\u0430 \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0435 \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434 \u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a Why Do We Need Friends? \u0417\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043c \u043d\u0443\u0436\u043d\u044b \u0434\u0440\u0443\u0437\u044c\u044f? There is a wise saying: \u201cA friend in need is a friend indeed\u201d and it...\n\u041a\u0442\u043e \u0442\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0433\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0439/ Who Is The Hero\n\u041d\u0430 \u0430\u043d\u0433\u043b\u0438\u0439\u0441\u043a\u043e\u043c \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a\u0435 \u041f\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0432\u043e\u0434 \u043d\u0430 \u0440\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u044f\u0437\u044b\u043a Who Is The Hero \u041a\u0442\u043e \u0442\u0430\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0433\u0435\u0440\u043e\u0439 I\u2019ve heard the word \u201chero\u201d so many times. It was mainly used towards people who commit...\nProtection of the Environment \u2013 \u041e\u0445\u0440\u0430\u043d\u0430 \u043e\u043a\u0440\u0443\u0436\u0430\u044e\u0449\u0435\u0439 \u0441\u0440\u0435\u0434\u044b\nEcology is a science which studies the relationship between all forms of life on our planet and the environment. This word came from the Greek \u201coikos\u201d which means \u201chome\u201d. 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As if adding the word only, before $120,000 somehow made it affordable.\u201d\nIn 2018 , those same signs say,\n\u201cHomes Starting from Only $220,000!\u201d\nLet\u2019s face it. At those prices, a single parent, a retiree on a limited income, or someone just starting out is going to have a hard time finding affordable housing solutions. If you\u2019re thinking, there has to be a better way, you\u2019re not alone. Affordable housing is a real problem! Therefore barndominiums look like they might be the solution we have all been waiting for.\nNew Housing Solutions\nA barndominium can be designed as a house, workshop, garage, meeting center, office, or even a church. They are customizable, low maintenance, energy efficient, and very affordable. Dreaming of a log cabin in the woods? Add the metal roof and the log siding and it\u2019s yours. If you prefer a modern, clean styling, consider the metal siding available in plenty of color options. Looking for a ranch style home to blend into an existing neighborhood, opt for the painted siding and a cozy porch.\nCustomized Housing Solutions\nFurthermore, alternative housing solutions only offer a shell, but barndominiums can be ordered finished and ready to live in. Most of all, they can also be designed with open floor plans. Since you get to customize the design with different options, it is easy to create great rooms that suite your personal needs. Such as real hardwood floors, custom built cabinets, dormer windows, wrap around porches, and whatever else your heart desires. Some builders provide the option of thermal pane windows, \u201cOpen Core\u201d spray foam, central heat and air conditioning, and engineer certification for wind, making them quite comfortable. The sky is the limit!\nEnterprise Center of Giddings, Texas offers three stock, factory finished floor-plans, including a: Studio (336 sq. ft.), 1 bedroom (512 sq. ft.), and a two bedroom (704 sq. ft.). As of 6/1/2018, the Derksen Portable Factory Finished-Out Cabins range in price from $28,417 for a studio to $47,214 for a two bedroom. Prices can change if you add or change options. Their website has some wonderful pictures of their finished cabins and homes. If you\u2019re not located near Giddings, Texas, prices will likely vary depending on your local dealer. If you\u2019re looking for something a little more custom, give your dealer a call. It never hurts to ask.\nGarages, RV storage, Shops, Carports and More\nIf you already have a home, but find you need a garage or extra space, consider adding a metal building. Carolina Carports of Texas builds metal buildings, including barndominiums, to fit many other needs.\nMetal buildings are versatile structures for storage space, a carport, or garage. RV storage buildings can help keep your recreational vehicle from baking in the sun. In addition, you can also convert these metal buildings into beautiful enclosed stables and barns. Most buildings are available in 13 different paint colors, complete with windows and doors. If you need a little space for your small business, consider one of their watertight metal buildings as an alternative to buying expensive commercial real estate.\nIn conclusion, Barndominiums can provide a cost-effective solution to housing. With options such as metal roofing, log or lap siding, and open layouts, they can be customized into a dream home for less. Add a metal building for a garage and you are set.\nEnterprise Center is also one of the biggest authorized dealers of Carolina Carports\nin case your dream is to build a barndominium, a business or just a metal carport for your RV. If you only want to make one stop for all of your portable building dreams and ideas \u2013 Stop at Enterprise Center Giddings and ask for Tom Long!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://entertainment.abs-cbn.com/tv/shows/magandangbuhay/videos/2018/12/18/13121818-jessy-in-tears-over-vilma-santos-message-for-her", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:47Z", "digest": "sha1:CSIRMPRRHB4BHCSE46CCDKS6QOLNAJDO", "length": 105, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "entertainment.abs-cbn.com", "title": "Magandang Buhay: Jessy in tears over Vilma Santos' message for her", "raw_content": "Magandang Buhay: Jessy in tears over Vilma Santos' message for her\nABS-CBN.com December 18, 2018 10:43 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://envisionvirginracing.com/blog/blog-how-chile-is-powering-our-battery-addiction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:55Z", "digest": "sha1:C4ZBZ5RQMTPQRLANUCR2BDMOKKEMYRQ3", "length": 2931, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "envisionvirginracing.com", "title": "BLOG: HOW CHILE IS POWERING OUR BATTERY ADDICTION - Envision Virgin Racing", "raw_content": "This weekend sees Santiago, Chile, host round three of the 2018/2019 Formula E season, the second time the city has staged the all-electric race series.\nOnce again, 22 battery powered race cars will take the streets in a battle for victory. But have you ever stopped to wonder where these batteries come from? Yes, they might be developed in high-tech laboratories but what about the raw ingredients?\nWell, that\u2019s where Chile comes in. Lithium, the so-called \u2018white petroleum\u2019, drives much of the modern world. The laptop or mobile device you are reading this article on will most likely contain a lithium-ion battery. Lithium forms a small but irreplaceable component of rechargeable batteries, used in consumer devices from phones through to electric cars. Over half of the earth\u2019s identified resources of the mineral are found in South America but it is Chile that is taking the lead in processing this precious resource.\nSome 14,000 tonnes of lithium are processed in Chile every year in sites along salt flats at the foot of the Andes mountains. Lithium is found in brine, or pools of salty water. After the brine is removed from the ground, lithium must be extracted using a lengthy evaporation method, during which impurities are removed.\nThankfully, Chile\u2019s climate is optimal for evaporation. Sunlight there is intense, and the altitude is perfect. Add to this Chile\u2019s coastal location and existing infrastructure and the task is a relatively uncomplicated one.\nHowever, as the demand for batteries \u2013 in particular for cars as we seek to move away from fossil fuels \u2013 increases so does the need for lithium. And with that comes the need for water, especially in Chile which is one of the driest places on the planet. It takes approximately 500,000 gallons of water to produce every tonne of lithium. That\u2019s a huge amount that is also putting strain on nearby resources and local farmers.\nIt\u2019s clear there needs to be a balance between the need to replace fossil fuels and the environmental impact of finding the raw materials to support a battery future. Indeed, some say that demand for lithium could begin to outstrip demand as early as 2023.\nSo, what\u2019s the outlook? Well, for sure, there remains an onus on the Chilean government to protect this precious mineral and for all countries who produce the raw materials. Yet industry insiders warn that, no matter how friendly the government, the process of ramping up output is a complex one.\nThe long-term answer then lies in battery technology itself and where Formula E comes in. Batteries that are more energy dense and longer lasting produce a longer carbon footprint once you factor in its full life cycle from raw materials to final end point.\nIn short, this improved technology \u2013 essentially getting more from the same resource \u2013 is what will tip the balance in favour of mass lithium-ion battery use on our modern world and Formula E is playing a key role in that.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://essentialtwenty.co.uk/theatre-round-up-march-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:42Z", "digest": "sha1:NZD6M3UAH6HTW3C26UMHW3K2SUM5ZA3O", "length": 3512, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "essentialtwenty.co.uk", "title": "Essential Twenty - Theatre Roundup, March 2018 - Essential Twenty", "raw_content": "Theatre Roundup, March 2018\nI\u2019ve decided that it\u2019s about time I give a round up of my month, because I don\u2019t do too many life lately posts. Here I can share my favourite things that have happened throughout the month, and share which shows I\u2019ve managed to get to (especially as it can take a little while for me to get around to reviewing them fully). Just a little update at the end of each month to talk about my life, and indulge in what\u2019s going on around me right now, and what\u2019s coming up in April.\nIn March, I managed to get to the theatre five times which I think is a record for me. I fell in love with the magic of Pippin but was underwhelmed by Eugenius\u2018 closing night performance. I made it to see the show all about everyone\u2019s favourite 16 year old Yorkshire drag queen, Everybody\u2019s Talking About Jamie, and I got to see Jason Gardiner in drag in Ruthless! The Musical. I experienced my first ever improv comedy show in the form of Murder She Didn\u2019t Write, and I even went to my very first big press launch as a blogger. This was for Bat Out Of Hell which opens at the Dominion Theatre this week. It was a whirlwind theatre month!\nNext month I have another busy theatre month, with four shows already booked in. I\u2019ll finally be seeing Kinky Boots which I\u2019ve wanted to see since Stark Sands was announced as Charlie on Broadway 5 years ago, and I\u2019ll be at the previews for Quiz\u2018s West End premiere. I\u2019ll also be seeing Strictly Ballroom The Musical (which I should\u2019ve seen at the weekend, but it was rescheduled due to cast scheduling conflicts) and finally seeing Julius Caesar at The Bridge Theatre on closing night. My final theatre dates for the diary are a local production of The Importance of Being Earnest, and taking a trip to Manchester\u2019s Hope Mill Theatre to see Spring Awakening. We\u2019ve got a busy month coming up on Essential Twenty.\nOther exciting blog bits that happened includes visiting the Origins store in Cambridge for an evening with other local bloggers, learning all about Origins\u2019 most recent launches, and I got a couple of fun West End press night invites. One was for Ruthless which I couldn\u2019t attend, but had already seen the show in previews, and the other is for a show way off in the future so I don\u2019t want to spill too much just yet. I also got invited to attend An Evening With Jason Robert Brown as a member of the press. He wrote the score for The Last 5 Years which is one of the most heartbreaking shows that has never played in major commercial theatre (although Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan starred in the film which is a pretty decent version), and I\u2019ve not been so excited to attend a concert in a long time. Who even thinks to include this little blogger as part of their invite list? 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All of our socks come with a reinforced toe and are available in a number of colours and sizes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 488, "original_length": 8274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eugreeka.com/adonislse-hellas-2021-founding-principles-of-a-new-era/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BWVB3CVERCJZETHAHEHZ7YKGCSOTBCA3", "length": 1016, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "eugreeka.com", "title": "CANCELLED \u2013 Adonis@LSE: Hellas 2021 \u2013 Founding principles of a new era | euGreeka", "raw_content": "CANCELLED \u2013 [email protected]: Hellas 2021 \u2013 Founding principles of a new era\nThanasis Gavos Monday, 12 March 2018; 7:00-9:00pm\nAdonis Georgiadis, LSE\nIn this talk, the speakers will address the issues that are related to the core of the Greek state with respect to its political economy, society and geopolitical position. 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The company also recently bought a unit from Flextronics in Brazil.\nSalcomp Oy, manufacturer of power supplies for mobile phones, is in the process of investigating the opportunity to broaden the company's ownership structure. One option is to seek listing on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. As part of this analysis, the company has decided to investigate centralising Finnish operations to Salo. \u201cFocusing primarily on the development and manufacturing of chargers and power supplies for mobile phones, has brought us significant experience in the field, and has enabled us to become the technological leader on the market. Our position is particularly strong in developed power supply technology. As a result of the actions to develop our global logistics and production, we have now reached a stage where the company has the opportunity to evaluate different possibilities and make decisions on the future ownership structure of the company,\u201d said Mats Eriksson, President and CEO of Salcomp Oy. The company has retained Mandatum & Co as a financial adviser to assist with the investigations. In conjunction with this, the company will start investigating the possibility to transfer its operation from Kemij\u00e4rvi to Salo by the end of 2006. The reasoning behind the possible transfer is to centralise all operations to one region. This would strengthen the company's operations and facilitate cooperation. Should the transfer take place, the company will offer all employees at the Kemij\u00e4rvi office a position in Salo. Salcomp separated from Nokia in 1999 and is a leading manufacturer of chargers and power supplies for mobile phones. The company has 30 years of experience in the electronics sector, and its customers are the leading mobile phone manufacturers. In addition to Finland, the company has operations in Dallas and Chicago (USA), Sao Paolo and Manaus (Brazil) and Shenzhen in China. The production plants are located in China and Brazil. Salcomp recently acquired operations from Flextronics in Brazil. The acquired operations have been integrated into Salcomp Group and 800 employees have been transferred from Flextronics to a new company, Salcomp Industrial Electr\u00f4nica da Amaz\u00f4nia Ltda. The company had a turnover of EUR 156 million in 2005 and has 6,300 employees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 198.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ew.com/tv/2018/08/01/murphy-brown-candice-bergen-first-look-set-photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LOPSQEQSPFHSPFIP4YSFZDSSTRWRSHRJ", "length": 1267, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ew.com", "title": "'Murphy Brown' revival: Candice Bergen shares first look at set | EW.com", "raw_content": "Murphy Brown: Candice Bergen shares first look at (old) set\nIt looks like Murphy never moved!\nIn a trio of Instagram posts, Candice Bergen shows that not too much has changed on Murphy Brown. Bergen\u2019s alter ego is still living in the same townhouse that was featured in the comedy\u2019s original run from 1988 to 1998 \u2014 though there is some fresh new decor, like a throw pillow that reads \u201ctired-ass honky ho.\u201d She\u2019s eating the same food as before, too.\nThe first table read for the Murphy Brown revival happened last week in New York, where the sitcom will be produced. Murphy remains a TV journalist, though she now has an eponymous morning show. Her son Avery (Jake McDorman) is all grown up and working as a journalist as well. The show will reunite Bergen with Faith Ford (Corky Sherwood), Joe Regalbuto (Frank Fontana), Grant Shaud (Miles Silverberg), and executive producer/creator Diane English.\n\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible thing when you can step away from something you care so much about, and now, 20 years later, it\u2019s as if not a day has passed,\u201d English told EW. \u201cIt was such a special morning laughing with some of my favorite people.\u201d\nIn January, CBS announced it had ordered 13 episodes of the groundbreaking sitcom. 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Frangipani flowers are used symbolically in many cultures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://expressnewsglobal.com/2018/11/25-excellent-things-to-do-in-philly-december-3-9/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:WOPZE6GPMPHH6AJYOR2BRPVNW2IWVAX2", "length": 1832, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "expressnewsglobal.com", "title": "25 Excellent Things To Do In Philly, December 3-9 - ExpressNewsGlobal", "raw_content": "HomeTravel25 Excellent Things To Do In Philly, December 3-9\nAnother week of magical holiday happenings, exciting performances, huge sporting events and the opening of one hotly anticipated new venue make this a big week in Philly.\nIt\u2019s true! The long-shuttered Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House reopens this week as The Met Philadelphia, ushering in a new era for the historic building on North Broad Street as a thriving live-entertainment venue. The opening night show \u2014 starring Bob Dylan and His Band \u2014 is unfortunately already sold out, but upcoming acts include John Legend, Weezer, Pentatonix, PnB Rock and John Oliver.\nThe 119th annual Army-Navy Game, one of the biggest sporting events of the year in Philly, takes place this week as well. Cadets, midshipmen, current service members, veterans and football fans flock to South Philadelphia to catch this storied sports rivalry at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday afternoon.\nAlso this week: Philadelphia celebrates Hanukkah with eight days of lively and light-filled get-togethers at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Jewish History, Boathouse Row and Rittenhouse Square.\nAnd the most wonderful time of the year rolls on with even more events celebrating the sights and sounds of the season, including the Parade of Lights at the Independence Seaport Museum, the opening of The Nutcracker at the Academy of Music and A Very Philly Christmas events at the Historic Houses of Fairmount Park.\nCheck out all of our picks for this week in Philly, below.\n\u2018Subdued\u2019 demand from house buyers\nTrump Summons Steel and Aluminum Executives to White House Ahead of Potential Tariffs\nAt a London Hotel, Art Deco Design and Stylish Cocktails\nSpain police recover artefacts looted by IS in Libya\nCollege named for John Glenn to honor widow\u2019s 98th birthday", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 5163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Terry_Brooks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:25Z", "digest": "sha1:MXD72DD4DJMWF4VLVFASCRE5BJEZQJGY", "length": 198, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "fantasy.fandom.com", "title": "Terry Brooks | Fantasy-worlds | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Terry Brooks is the bestselling author of the Shannara books and the novelization of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.\nRetrieved from \"https://fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Terry_Brooks?oldid=2029\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 1587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 161.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://felixlgriffin.com/2014/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BJSZ77EWVZAX3BQ4URLGC3D5CYJFHHYS", "length": 1800, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "felixlgriffin.com", "title": "January | 2014 | Felix L. Griffin Online", "raw_content": "Instagram: Capture and Share Life\u2019s Moments\nInstagram is a fast, beautiful and fun way to share your images and video with friends and family. Take a picture or video, choose a filter to transform its look and feel, then post to Instagram \u2014 it\u2019s that easy.\u2026\nPosted in Advertising, Blogs, Business, Digital Marketing, Direct Selling, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Felix L. Griffin, Google +, Google Plus, Home-based Business, Hubspot, Instagram, Internet marketing, Linkedin, Marketing, Network Marketing, Networking, Online Marketing, Pinterest, Self Development, Self Help, Social Media, Social Media Marketing, Twitter, Uncategorized, Web Design, Web development, WordPress\nWhat is the fascination with numbers on social media sites? Watching your fan count throughout the day, hoping to get to a specific number and see an increase in sales typically isn\u2019t the winning plan. Whether the number is 100,\u2026\nThe Preferred Social Networks For Adults\nWhile Facebook is popular across a diverse mix of demographic groups, other sites have developed their own unique demographic user profiles, the report notes. For example, Pinterest holds particular appeal to female users (women are four times as likely as\u2026\nTagged with: Facebook, Google, Linkedin, Pinterest, Social media, Social Networking, Twitter, YouTube\nPosted in Advertising, Blogs, Business, Digital Marketing, Direct Selling, Entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, Facebook, Felix L. 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Jean-Baptiste Quero, an engineer at Google's Android Open-Source Project (AOSP),posted the announcement early this afternoon on a Google Groups message board, making Android devs the world over a very happy group of people.\nQuero had warned that it would take several hours for the code to finish pushing to the servers, but it should all be available now at Kernel.org -- but don't be surprised if speeds are crawling. Also keep in mind that this is just source code. If you don't know what to do with it, you should probably just wait a day or so, so the speeds aren't so bad for the various developers who will be putting it to immediate use.\nAnd you can bet the dev community is already hard at work doing just that. Custom ROMs (likeCyanogenMod) are built using the Android source code from the AOSP, so it's now only a matter of time (possibly just days, knowing this community) before new versions of popular ROMs are released withAndroid 2.3 underpinnings.\nNexus One owners can probably expect an update pushed to their phones sometime soon as well, since it doesn't usually take long after the AOSP release.\nFor those who can't stand the wait, you can have a small taste of Gingerbread right now by installing its updated keyboard. The APK is available in a forum thread at XDA Developers for Android 2.1 and 2.2, and it should work fine for most devices, though Sense might possibly cause some trouble if you've got that. Your phone doesn't have to be rooted, either. Once you install the APK, simply go to Android's Language & Keyboard settings, uncheck \"Android Keyboard\" and check \"Gingerbread Keyboard.\" It may not be the full OS, but at least it's something!\nBeing an Android fan this is good news but I reckon a 'final' version won't be far off when it's an actual manufacturers release", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://first-draft.com/2017/08/21/there-is-no-such-thing-as-white-culture/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KVN7HW5CUCHWRZGIRD6VXQ576FLQJ3SY", "length": 6498, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "first-draft.com", "title": "The Fog Of History: There Is No Such Thing As White Culture | First Draft", "raw_content": "By Peter Adrastos Athas\tAdrastos, Bigotry, Books, Diary, Fog Of History, Music, Political Crack, Race, Television\nThe Fog Of History: There Is No Such Thing As White Culture\nI\u2019m never certain as to whether white nationalists live in a fantasy world or a fugue state. They talk about a world that never existed with absolute certainty, which means they\u2019re absolutely wrong. They filter everything through their warped ideology and it ends up sounding like they\u2019ve followed Alice into the rabbit hole; a reference many of them would not get. The only Alice they know is the zany maid on The Brady Bunch. Why? They believe in white culture, and what\u2019s whiter than the bloody, buggery, bollocky Brady Bunch?\nAmerican white nationalists like to speak in buzz words and epithets. They have a label for everyone and everything. I\u2019m not sure what they\u2019d call me: liberal internet snarkmeister comes to mind. One label they insist of affixing to everything is white culture. They\u2019re a little vague as to exactly what they mean by this. High European culture? Bach was into fugues, after all. End of feeble attempt to make a fugue state pun. Do they mean American pop culture? I haven\u2019t the foggiest and, in the end, neither do they. They\u2019re as coherent as the President they so admire.\nSpeaking of cultural M*A*S*H-ups, I\u2019m reminded of Radar\u2019s attempt to be cultured:\nThe cleverer white nationalists like to contrast African and Asian cultures unfavorably with that of Europe. They almost sound like EU fetishists when they go on about European music, literature, and history. Of course, their version sounds very little like the agreed upon facts and more like delusions. It\u2019s always fun to see if they know how much of European high culture was the work of Jewish artists such as Gustav Mahler, his conversion notwithstanding. They probably think Mahler has something to do with the postal service\u2026\nThe vast majority of white nationalists only have a vague idea of what could be called Eurocentric culture. They call it white culture, which is something that does not exist. There is Polish culture, English culture, French culture, German culture and on and on and on. There is no such thing as a culture based on skin color, which is is a granfalloon on steroids. There are sub-cultures influenced by one\u2019s ethnicity but there is no such thing as white culture.\nAmerican white nationalist bigots have been with us a long time. They used to belong to xenophobic groups like the Know-Nothing party and the 1920\u2019s iteration of the KKK who were rabidly anti-Catholic. Today\u2019s white nationalists have dropped the anti-papist rhetoric in favor of ranting about black and brown people and that old standby, the Jews. It\u2019s an easier sell to the Trump base some of whom are Catholics who skipped the cafeteria stage\u2026\nOne thing I\u2019ve noticed in my time as a political observer is that we no longer hear much about pols seeking the votes of European ethnic groups. It used to be a big deal to go after, say, the Polish vote in Chicago, the Irish vote in Boston, the Italian vote in New York, the pan-Slavic vote in Cleveland, and the German vote in Milwaukee. That\u2019s a radical oversimplification that leaves out many groups but it\u2019s still pertinent to what passes for analysis in this piece.\nPeople don\u2019t seem to identify as much with their ethnic background as they once did. As someone who does, I\u2019ll often ask someone if their last name is, say, Croatian. It used to be that everyone knew the root of their names but that\u2019s increasingly less common. I guess the whole assimilation thing is working. Those European ethnic groups all had their baggage and discrete and insular prejudices but it was healthier for one to identify as, say, Polish than white. It\u2019s the difference between a karass and a granfalloon in Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s fictional faith Bokononism. It may be the time for a Bokononist revival. Anyone game? At the very least, we should all read Cat\u2019s Cradle the book from whence Bokononism sprang.\nThe next time someone mentions white culture as being bound up with Confederate monuments, just shake your head and walk away. I, too, am tempted to argue with them but it\u2019s as futile as arguing with one of the Robert E. Lee statues that are being taken down across the country. It\u2019s a pity that they\u2019ve settled upon harmful lies as opposed to the Bokononist idea of foma, which are: \u201c\u2026harmless untruths; lies that, if used correctly, can be useful.\u201d That\u2019s another term for a white lie which exist whereas white culture does not.\nRepeat after me: white culture does not exist, and white nationalism is the ultimate granfalloon.\n2 thoughts on \u201cThe Fog Of History: There Is No Such Thing As White Culture\u201d\nExcellent post! I agree. It\u2019s like the whites telling non-whites to go back to THEIR country. Or, I want MY country back again. My blood boils. And when The NumbNuts in Chief was rattling the Immigration reform sabre, I loved the ads of Native Americans speaking to the white man: \u201cNative Am.\u201d: \u201cSo you\u2019re against immigration, Splendid! When do you leave? \u201d There\u2019s a lot of them out there. They\u2019re Great & so on point.\nA) You misfire when you suggest that assimilation is why people are ignoring the ethic origins of their names, among other things. Assimilation is as silly a construct as race or White Culture. To have assimilation there needs to be a definable target culture, a set of characteristics that are essentially \u201cAmerican\u201d. There is nothing more essentially American than syncretic ethnic cultural traits, otherwise anyone going for tacos after their yoga class and sipping wine while Rhianna plays in the background is headed for deportation.\nPeople are forgetting their ethnic identities because they are no longer important signifiers of belonging. Being an O\u2019Malley or Szlizar used to mean something back when Anglo-nationalism was in crisis and the coming majority was an amalgam of nationalities only a couple decades away from stepping off the boat. That was when your nationality defined who you were more than your actions. Ethic pride then offered something familial and clubbish that worked to counterbalance the lack of access to the mainstream. Now that everyone has lost their accent and whiteness is the new goal, ethnicity is now mostly a party trick.\nB) To get a grasp of where these loonies get their Eurofetish identity you really need to read Camp of the Saints. This is a touchstone work for these wackaloons. None of it makes any sense, but it explains EVERYTHING.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 441, "original_length": 13084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://first5sandiego.org/event/summer-movies-in-the-park-coco-30/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ZY62JSAODNK35R7EXOYFIS7G5YTQHGGG", "length": 76, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "first5sandiego.org", "title": "Summer Movies in the Park: Coco", "raw_content": "\u00ab Summer Movies in the Park: The Princess Bride & Toy Story: House of Terror", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ford-focus.st/en/tag/object-detecting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ITMBHF75G5NVGZ7GJC5VMX3KFXA4NULW", "length": 323, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ford-focus.st", "title": "Archiwa: Object detecting - Ford Focus ST", "raw_content": "Tag: Object detecting\nFord with Smart Lighting to Detect Pedestrians, Cyclists and Animals\nFord Motor Company is currently working on the newest lighting technology, which detects pedestrians, cyclists and animals on the road, and also in the vicinity. This will allow drivers to easily and quickly identify dangerous [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 154.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://formajournal.com/article/pudewa%20interview", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:U3OJE7RRGFJI3FYRZKZFDRURMNSJLQH6", "length": 11084, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "formajournal.com", "title": "Andrew Pudewa on How He Discovered Classical Education \u2014 FORMA JOURNAL", "raw_content": "Andrew Pudewa was once described by a young Alaskan boy as the \u201cfunny man with the wonderful words\u201d\u2014perhaps the greatest fan endorsement in world history because it\u2019s both humorous and accurate. The founder and director of the award-winning Institute for Excellence in Writing, Pudewa is a much-loved public speaker best known for his ability to communicate complicated ideas with clarity, humor, and profundity all at once.\nFor years he has been speaking about writing, music, spelling, memory, and much more, but, of late, he can also be found at various classical education events (including at CiRCE conferences). In a way this makes sense, because classical education brings together so many of his interests; but he was late in discovering classical education, as he explains here.\nThis interview has been edited slightly for clarity.\nWhen did classical education first come on your radar?\nI read a book by John Taylor Gatto entitled, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education. That was probably in 1991 or 1992. I found the book to be very freeing, as it helped me answer the question I had been asking myself at that time, \u201cWhy am I so stupid?\u201d I had, at the age of 31, with a young and rapidly growing family, become acutely aware of how poorly educated I was, and in reading Gatto\u2019s book, I realized it might not only be because I was lazy or unapt. Perhaps it was the type of education I had experienced. The only problem, however, was that Gatto didn\u2019t really explain any alternatives other than his kind of eclectic teaching style . . . but that book planted the seed in my mind\u2014there must be a better way. After a while, the Gatto thinking kind of went off my screen, as I was busy teaching violin and early childhood music classes.\nThen, for a couple years, I quit teaching entirely and started a different business in California, which\u2014to make a long story short\u2014I found dissatisfying and even depressing. However, my wife and I were always thinking and researching the best options for educating our children, a couple of whom were in a small Christian school at the time while a couple were being home schooled. I don\u2019t recall exactly where it came from, but somehow a copy of Doug Wilson\u2019s Recovering the Lost Tools of Learning made it into our hands, and that was the beginning of our pursuit of classical education. It provided the solution to the Gatto problem. We were excited.\nSo excited, in fact, that we left California and moved to Moscow, Idaho so that one of our children could attend Logos School! So I got to know Doug Wilson, James Nance, Wes Callihan, and other \u201cpioneers\u201d in classical Christian education.\nWe lived in Moscow three years, and that\u2019s where I started IEW. In fact, the second TWSS (Teaching Writing: Structure & Style) seminar I ever taught was at Logos school for their teachers and a few homeschoolers in town. By the time we left Idaho in 1999, there were many other classical schools coming into existence around the country, and soon after that, Veritas Press began to provide classical education curriculum to the home education market.\nSo in those days when you were first discovering Classical Education, what about it was most attractive to you? Was it initially just that it was a viable alternative to what you found in Gatto, or was there more to it?\nI would say that in the early days, things were a bit confusing. It was possible to go to a homeschool convention and hear three different talks on classical education and come out more confused than before, wondering if the presenters were actually talking about the same thing. Trying to sort it out and reading more books, I came to see better the commonalities and found that the differences were more in priority than in content; some people explained classical education primarily in terms of methodology (talking about the \u201cgrammar stage,\u201d \u201clogic stage,\u201d and \u201crhetoric stage\u201d a la Dorothy Sayers\u2019 essay). Others seemed to talk more about curriculum, with Great Books and Latin at the core. Others, like DeMille in his \u201cLeadership Education\u201d model (which he never called \u201cClassical\u201d but instead \u201cthe education of great leaders like Thomas Jefferson\u201d) had a fuzzier approach: Classics and Mentors (with the mentor idea pointing toward a Socratic teaching approach). One large book published around that time seemed so comprehensive that it made me feel a bit overwhelmed and hopeless; giving up halfway through, I thought, \u201cWe\u2019ll never be able to do all that in a million years!\u201d\nSo I was attracted to Classical Education like by a tremendous force of gravity, but what I came to realize was that it is a huge planet with different continents. The question for me was, \u201cOn which continent do I want to plant myself and my family?\u201d\nDid you settle on a particular flavor of classical education? Where did your studies take you?\nOne of the most significant influences on our direction was John Senior\u2019s collection, The Restoration of Christian Culture, which I found in 2002. Reading it, I really woke up to the vital importance of literature. Until then I probably gave lip service to literature, but I didn\u2019t truly see the good and great books as the core of a curriculum. Being the product of the public school system and having been required to read many depressing existentialist books in high school, I was somewhat ambivalent towards literature. Then, as a young adult, I read mostly non-fiction and books pertaining to my professional interests. Honestly, I probably didn\u2019t read a novel for ten years. But Senior\u2019s book opened my mind and heart to the need for placing an emphasis on literature in my teaching and in our home. For the first time, I read\u2014with a group of teenagers\u2014books such as Jane Eyre, Don Quixote, A Tale of Two Cities.\nSo I guess the \u201ccontinent\u201d I landed on might be called the \u201cWhy Classical Education\u201d with the answer provided by Andrew Kern: \u201c\u2026the cultivation of wisdom and virtue by nurturing the soul with goodness, truth, and beauty\u2026\u201d\nFor my wife and me, this gave us a good discernment tool: If a curricular decision would bring goodness, truth, and beauty into the lives of our children, it should be considered; if it didn\u2019t, we could comfortably ignore it. It helped us navigate the many options available.\n\u0093I feel a bit like Moses\u2014I can see the promised land of a great education although I may not live long enough to get there myself. But getting closer is worth the effort, so I shall blunder on.\u0094\nNow almost fifteen years later, most of my children are grown up and out of the house, and I wish we all could have done even more reading\u2014aloud to each other at home, in discussion classes, and individually. Fortunately, I still have some classes of students in our local homeschool community, so I have an excuse to keep reading and teaching literature.\nWhat other aspects of classical education do you consider most important?\nWell, obviously writing, since that\u2019s my business, but I might unpack that a bit. Composition is obviously the integration of the skills of Trivium\u2014the liberal arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and while I have continued to teach our system of Structure and Style, I have also become aware of the importance of the formal study of those three foundational liberal arts as well.\nAbout seven years ago, I heard Cheryl Lowe give a talk entitled, \u201cThe Top Ten Reasons to Teach Latin,\u201d and by the end of it I was miserable\u2014and convicted that I was going to have to teach Latin in our community, something I had only a smattering of in high school decades ago. In California, my kids had a Latin teacher and I didn\u2019t know much of what they were doing, but at least I could trust that they were getting something.\nAfter moving to rural Oklahoma, it became evident that if the younger kids were going to get any Latin, I was going to have to teach it. So I did.\nI started a first year class with twenty-three students age ten to seventeen. Desperately trying to stay a few lessons ahead of them, I carved time out of my life to learn and teach. The next year I lost a few few students, but continued on. The third year, I started to learn all sorts of interesting grammar things, and by the end of teaching the fourth year, I realized that I had learned more about grammar and the structure of language in four years of studying Latin than I had in the past twenty years of teaching English composition! Needless to say, I am now a strong proponent of Latin for every student\u2014it is absolutely the best way to have \u201cx-ray vision\u201d into English.\nI also undertook the teaching of formal logic, also something with which I had very little experience. As I taught a two-year logic class, staying just a few lessons ahead of the students, I watched it slowly improve my own listening and thinking. Some of the students, of course, were faster than I was at grasping concepts, but persistence paid off. I am now convinced of the importance of explicit teaching of logic, not just within the context of math or writing.\nThen with a smattering of experience in real grammar and logic, my teaching of rhetoric was more effective (or at least easier). I only wish I had begun twenty years ago, since at my age now it is unlikely I will become a master of any of it, though I hope to continue to study the rest of my life. Sometimes, when discouraged, I remember a most helpful G.K. Chesterton quote: \u201cAnything worth doing is worth doing badly.\u201d I do believe my floundering pursuit of a real education has been worth it.\nIn what ways has practicing classical education in your life changed you? That is, has your attempt to study and teach classically affected your daily habits, rituals, etc?\nWell, that is hard to say, since I don\u2019t really know what I would be like had I not taken this path. Certainly there\u2019s been a need for more discipline in study and preparation. Owning a growing business has made it a challenge for me to carve out time to teach for a day each week during the school year, but it\u2019s been very good for me\u2014kind of slowed me down a bit. And we all know the best way to learn something is to teach it, and I\u2019m on my second or third time through some books\u2014books I probably would not have read twice had I not volunteered to teach them.\nIn teaching writing, Andrew Kern and I both discovered the same thing: it\u2019s all about the questions. So I hope I\u2019ve been able to learn to ask better questions of my students and myself. Now with my own children grown and the available grandchildren quite young, I\u2019m tempted to quit my classes, but something inside me says no, keep doing it for the other people\u2019s kids\u2014which may be an excuse for me to keep studying myself. I do want to read Homer and Dante again, and without some teenagers to do it with, I doubt I would take the time. So it seems that the pursuit of a classical education for me has become a lifestyle and a journey, although I feel a bit like Moses\u2014I can see the promised land of a great education although I may not live long enough to get there myself. But getting closer is worth the effort, so I shall blunder on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 12419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://formfactory.co.za/gap-analysis-template/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:12Z", "digest": "sha1:DXTCJ6KODJBTWPIGPUN726LWGE2EQHKM", "length": 1561, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "formfactory.co.za", "title": "Download a Free Gap Analysis Template - FormFactory", "raw_content": "/ Download a Free Gap Analysis Template\nThe definition of a gap analysis, according to BusinessDictionary, is \u201ca technique that businesses use to determine what steps need to be taken in order to move from its current state to its desired, future state.\u201d\nIt measures the difference between the two different states by forcing the company to consider \u201cwhat is\u201d and \u201cwhat should be.\u201d Thereby, the company can create action plans or strategies to close the gap. A gap analysis helps the company move forward and achieve its goals.\nA gap analysis can be applied to any business area or at any stage of a project. It contains specific, clear, measurable terms. There are four main types of gap analyses:\nPerformance gap analysis \u2013 analysis of the difference between expected performance and the actual performance.\nMarket gap analysis \u2013 analysis of the difference between budgeted sales and actual sales.\nProfit gap analysis \u2013 analysis of the difference between targeted profit and actual profit.\nManpower gap analysis \u2013 analysis of the difference between required the number and quality of workforce and actual strength of the company.\nFor example, a gap analysis is useful when a small business is trying to determine how to allocate resources. Or, in software development, it can be used to map features and functions that currently exists versus featured and functions required in the future.\nDownload Gap Analysis Template\nThere are many gap analyses templates available online. You can download a free gap analysis template for Excel and Word from TemplateLAB.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forzaitalianfootball.com/2017/08/who-are-the-11-men-that-have-played-for-ac-milan-inter-and-juventus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:10Z", "digest": "sha1:AVBI4OZ6EGPELZHZUZJZ4VIF7HUTWWFR", "length": 495, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "forzaitalianfootball.com", "title": "Who are the 11 men that have played for AC Milan, Inter and Juventus? | Forza Italian Football", "raw_content": "Who are the 11 men that have played for AC Milan, Inter and Juventus?\nDate: 9th August 2017 at 1:07pm\nWith his unexpected move from Juventus to AC Milan, Leonardo Bonucci has joined a very special group of players, those who have played with all three of the big Italian clubs: Juventus, Inter and AC Milan.\nHe started his career with the Nerazzurri, then became one of the best defenders in the world at Juventus and is now ready to guide Milan out of a relatively dark period in their history.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 202.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fos.wales/shopping/salon-swish/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BUNZU672NCXGCRIH3SWO2QF4MVZ7ZHWO", "length": 537, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "fos.wales", "title": "Salon Swish \u2013 Llandeilo Festival of Senses", "raw_content": "Address: 23 Carmarthen St, Llandeilo SA19 6AN\nSalon Swish is a welcoming family friendly salon, catering for all ages and current trends.\nOver the weekend of the Festival of Senses we will be offering 10% off all product sales and every customer is entered into a free raffle.\nCall in anytime or ring us on 01558 824040\nhttps://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Hair-Salon/Salon-Swish-261341267401690/\nSalon Swish \u2013 a unique and unforgettable salon experience, the latest trends in haircuts, colour, hair care and styling for a total look.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?article8244", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:39Z", "digest": "sha1:UK6S6HWHZZJX7RHYDWK324AKA4WMZNX3", "length": 338, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "franceintheus.org", "title": "\ufeff In support of United Nations efforts, France contributes to solving the Lybian crisis (July 25, 2017) - France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.", "raw_content": "In support of United Nations efforts, France contributes to solving the (...)\nIn support of United Nations efforts, France contributes to solving the Lybian crisis (July 25, 2017)\nJoint declaration by Fayez al-Sarraj, Chairman of the Presidential Council of Libya, and Khalifa Haftar, Commander of the Libyan National Army (July 25, 2017)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 10864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 184.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://franceintheus.org/spip.php?article8442", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:YLOMFDHS4CKDE24IHNBSBEPKLLSOOH2X", "length": 886, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "franceintheus.org", "title": "\ufeff Official speeches and statements - December 22, 2017 - France in the United States / Embassy of France in Washington, D.C.", "raw_content": "1. United Nations - North Korea - Remarks to the press by the Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations (New York - December 21, 2017)\nQ - On the negotiations on North-Korea?\nA - Negotiation are going on in a good spirit. As you know we, as France, have always favored a tightening of the sanctions, by that I mean both a better implementation of the existing sanctions, but also the establishment of new sanctions, the goal being to maximize pressure on North Korea. Not for the sake of the pressure, but in order to push for a dialogue and to have a better leverage for the negotiations and the political solution that we need.\nSo we hope there will be a consensus and vote, the sooner, the better. And we are on board.\nQ - And do you know when?\nA - The sooner, the better.\nQ - And any signs of China, Russia? I know you can\u2019t speak for them.\nA - I prefer you ask them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 6115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 205.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freebeacon.com/issues/climate-change-trial-starts-rough-footing-environmentalists/?utm_source=akdart", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPAKVSE4WRVYABZXPNWRIYB6MLL76JT7", "length": 4143, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "freebeacon.com", "title": "Climate Change Trial Starts on Rough Footing for Environmentalists", "raw_content": "Climate Change Trial Starts on Rough Footing for Environmentalists\nA layer of pollution can be seen hovering over Los Angeles / Getty Images\nA civil suit playing out between five American oil companies and the municipalities of Oakland and San Francisco started off poorly for climate change activists.\nIn preparation for California v. Chevron, the date for which has yet to determined, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup ordered the litigants converge for a \"climate change tutorial\" in an effort to ensure all parties understood the scientific foundation that would form the basis of the trial. The city attorneys of San Francisco and Oakland, the suit's plaintiffs who are championed by climate change activists, were reportedly thrilled by the prospect. Some activists even compared the tutorial to the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial, according to the Wall Street Journal.\nThe suit accuses the energy companies\u2013BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Conoco Phillips, and Shell\u2013of contributing to climate change and conspiring to cover up their knowledge of the associated detrimental effects.\nThe lead attorney for the plaintiffs, Steven W. Berman, is expected to argue that because of the companies' contributions to climate change, municipalities are now being forced to commit financial resources to combatting environmental changes.\nIn defense, the companies' lawyers don't seem to be questioning the science behind climate change, but rather their clients' responsibility. The lawyers are expected to argue that the individuals who burn fossil fuels, rather than companies, are responsible for contributions to climate change.\nDuring the tutorial, the judge pointed to several inaccuracies in the data and materials provided by the plaintiffs, sometimes to the embarrassment of climate change activists.\nAlsup also castigated the plaintiff's claims of a \"smoking gun\" document that would prove the conspiracy claims true. The plaintiffs pointed to a report that the companies had in their possession as proof they knew about the nefarious effects of climate change in 1995.\nThe \"smoking gun\" document in question proved to be a regurgitated summary of a 1995 report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. At the time of its release, the report was subject to significant scrutiny by many in the scientific community because it was riddled with huge uncertainties.\n\"There was a conspiratorial document within the defendants about how they knew good and well that global warming was right around the corner,\" Alsup said. \"Well, it turned out it wasn\u2019t quite that. What it was, was a slide show that somebody had gone to the IPCC and was reporting on what the IPCC had reported, and that was it. Nothing more.\"\nThe judge pointed out that since the report was widely and readily available, proving a conspiracy claim would be difficult.\n\"So they were on notice of what in IPCC said from that document, but it\u2019s hard to say that they were secretly aware,\" he said. \"By that point they knew. Everybody knew everything in the IPCC.\"\nSince the release of the report, many of its key projections have been proved unfounded.\nBerman, the plaintiffs' lead attorney, is a high-profile trial lawyer who played an instrumental role in bringing a similar suit against the nation's largest tobacco producers in the 1990s. Berman worked on the team that helped craft the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) of 1998, which at the time was the largest settlement in history. The MSA resulted from a suit between the four largest tobacco producers in the United States and the attorneys general of 46 states. The attorneys general argued the states were entitled to compensation for the medical costs associated with caring for individuals suffering from smoking-related illnesses. The tobacco companies settled the suit, agreeing to pay $206 billion over the first 25 years of the agreement. The companies also agreed to impose restrictions and prohibitions on marketing tobacco products, especially to children and youth.\nThis entry was posted in Issues and tagged California, Chevron, Climate Change, Exxon. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 6501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 183.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freebeacon.com/national-security/murphy-no-smoking-gun-on-collusion-between-russia-and-trump-but-were-getting-closer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:F3MKLRLY4MUGWO7I3BYATZQREPCSKJID", "length": 1750, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "freebeacon.com", "title": "Murphy: No 'Smoking Gun' on Russia and Trump Colluding, But We're Getting Closer", "raw_content": "Murphy: No \u2018Smoking Gun\u2019 on Russia-Trump Collusion, But We\u2019re Getting Closer\nSen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn.) admitted Tuesday on MSNBC that Congress does not have a \"smoking gun\" proving President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with the Russian government.\n\"So, I don't know. We certainly don't have a smoking gun today, but it seems that this story is unfolding only in one direction,\" Murphy said on MSNBC's \"Morning Joe.\"\nMurphy's comments came after Monday's congressional hearing in which former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates testified about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's connections to Russia.\nMSNBC host Willie Geist pointed out that Clapper said he could not find a straight line of collusion from the Trump campaign to Russia.\n\"Do you believe there's been collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia from what you know?\" Geist asked Murphy.\nMurphy indicated that while he does not have direct evidence of collusion, it is likely that future evidence will point in that direction.\n\"Every few weeks, we get new evidence that suggests that there was more, not less, coordination than we previously thought between the Trump campaign and the Russian government,\" Murphy said.\n\"I have a feeling that there is a number of additional chapters here that haven't been told, but no, today we don't have that direct, clear evidence of collusion between Trump himself, high levels of the campaign, and the Russian government,\" Murphy added. \"But we certainly seem to be getting closer to that moment.\"\nThis entry was posted in National Security and tagged Chris Murphy, Donald Trump, James Clapper, Michael Flynn, Morning Joe, MSNBC, Russia. 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Just follow these steps to help you in looking for the best deal.\nFirst things first: find out how much you can afford to spend. Calculate your finances first and come up with an amount you can surely afford within a time frame. Since car loans give you three years, you can also make it three years in your computation.\nYou may come up with an amount wherein you cannot afford a car that you want. It is not really advisable for you to borrow money from other people because you do not know what may happen. There are some cases like losing a job. These may disallow you to fully pay for the car and even pay for the money you have borrowed from other people. So make sure that you choose a car affordable to you.\nThe next thing you can do is to call banks or credit unions. This will let you find for the best price. For the banks to assess if you will be approved for a loan, they will require you to personally visit them. Once this happens, you should ask about discounts, offer, and automatic payment draft. You should be able to visit a few banks so you can compare rates.\nYou should have your financial information ready and available after you have selected a bank or a credit union. This will be needed for the pre-approval process. You will be required to give proof on your current source and amount of income. Make sure that all the requirements and financial information needed are already once you will undergo a pre-approval process or signing of the loan.\nThe time you can start looking or a car is after you are approved for a car loan. There are car dealers who will go for a negotiation if only you have the courage to open up about it. Once you have selected a car, the next thing you will do is to finalize the loan process. All you need to do is to follow the steps and sign a contract. After all these processes, you can finally have your car.\nWhen it is about car loans, you should always look for the best deal. 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They were all in one place \u2013 in the maze, passing through the portal of time. To get out of this trap, they will have to work together, fighting against opposing enemies.\nProceed with the mouse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fromatob.org/2011/12/22/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:49Z", "digest": "sha1:QXX2HMLK5GZGOVRE4TUSRGYYJCPUMYTG", "length": 46, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fromatob.org", "title": "22 | December | 2011 | fromalaskatobrazil", "raw_content": "0December 22, 2011Tequila\u2026\u2026It Makes Me Happy !", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://g-lamadrid.com/lostinfabrics/2017/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4YHZDIOOMAIYLIBPBLUAHCFXWEH6KIRE", "length": 485, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "g-lamadrid.com", "title": "September 2017 - Lost in Fabrics", "raw_content": "We present you a fascinating house. This is the private house of the Memphis ceramist Peter Shire. The house was built by his father and Peter still lives there despite the criticism. A wonderful house that combines the sobriety and\nThe Casa Estudio Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museum is a magnificent functionalist construction, one of the first in Latin America, designed by Juan O'Gorman in 1931. It is the impressive workshop house where artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo lived", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gallery.robbinsfarmgarden.org/october-1-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:41Z", "digest": "sha1:NBFL54ZJDO2W6NV3FPHM75OQLEBTU4SC", "length": 78, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gallery.robbinsfarmgarden.org", "title": "October 1, 2017 | Robbins Farm Garden Photo Archive", "raw_content": "This entry was posted in 10 - October 2017, 2017 on October 1, 2017 by nathan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1528, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 100.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gallerysensei.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:53Z", "digest": "sha1:CKWR37ORH7AWULXPIJPILNRW2L4FRPNH", "length": 625, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "gallerysensei.com", "title": "Privacy Policy - Gallery Sensei", "raw_content": "Privacy Policywp_gallssenssi2019-01-25T17:31:40+00:00\n1.1. PURPOSE OF POLICY. gallerysensei.com (\u201cus\u201d, \u201cwe,\u201d \u201cCompany\u201d) is committed to respecting the privacy rights of visitors and other users of gallerysensei.com (the \u201cSite\u201d). We created this Privacy Policy (this \u201cPolicy\u201d) to give you confidence as you visit and use the Site, and to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices. This Policy is only applicable to the Site, and not to any other websites that you may be able to access from the Site, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 6366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 269.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://galois.com/reports/code-re-use-attacks-mitigation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:17Z", "digest": "sha1:WFL63ONSMQ23WJXZMPDXJI5L72MB6NZW", "length": 1319, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "galois.com", "title": "Code re-use attacks and their mitigation - Galois, Inc.", "raw_content": "Code re-use attacks and their mitigation\nCode-Reuse Attacks (CRAs) are well studied in the academic community. In this article, we provide a brief summary of notable attacks and mitigations with a focus on Return-oriented Programming (ROP). Our goal is to provide a roadmap for readers who may or may not be familiar with CRAs and who want to become more familiar with the research. As this is a roadmap, our aim is to be broad and concise with executive summaries, including citations, but otherwise defer to the original publications for a detailed account.\nWe have included a glossary at the end of technical terms and acronyms. In addition, our bibliography includes more articles than are covered and we recommend the enthusiastic reader to review the bibliography to discover additional reading material in this area.\nThis material is based upon work supported by the Maryland Procurement Office under Contract No. H98230-15-D-0035. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Maryland Procurement Office.}\n@techreport{code-reuse-mitigation-tr,\ntitle = {Code re-use attacks and their mitigation},\nnote = {Available at \\url{https://galois.com/reports/code-re-use-attacks-mitigation/}}}", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gareth-worthy.com/2013/10/08/indents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:42Z", "digest": "sha1:PZUV6ZB7ZDBZY62JO3POHH2FQC3HJW7B", "length": 690, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "gareth-worthy.com", "title": "Gareth Worthy I Music For Picture | Music Production | Sound Design | Audio Post Production", "raw_content": "Over the past few months I have worked on several projects that involved producing indents. I really love working on these projects. Producing an ident, sound effect or short piece of music that may only be 2-5 seconds in length can be very challenging, but it is something that i really love to do. I thought I would upload a selection of these for you to have a listen to.\nOctober 8, 2013 by garethworthy\tadvertising, Audio, audio post production, Barcelona, bass, commercial, Composer, composition, Content, fender, focusrite, Freelance, Gareth Worthy, gibson, guitar, indents, moog, Music, Music for Picture, Music Production, recording, Sound Design, synthesiser, www.gareth-worthy.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gcaptain.com/photos-hurricane-florences-enormity-is-best-seen-from-space/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:23Z", "digest": "sha1:UIEFR7QHVJTNYI6TBVOCQKFSFSXYQOGF", "length": 2807, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "gcaptain.com", "title": "Photos: Hurricane Florence's Enormity is Best Seen from Space \u2013 gCaptain", "raw_content": "Photos: Hurricane Florence\u2019s Enormity is Best Seen from Space\nFILE PHOTO: Hurricane Florence is seen from the International Space Station as it churns in the Atlantic Ocean towards the east coast of the United States, September 10, 2018. NASA/Handout via REUTERS\nWith Hurricane Florence continuing on a collision course with the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast, officials are warning of life-threating conditions consisting of hurricane-force winds, massive storm surge, and an obscene amount of rainfall.\nAs of 2 p.m. ET, Hurricane Florence was located about 435 miles (700 km) southeast of Wilmington, North Carolina, moving toward the west-northwest near 17 mph. On the forecast track, the center of Florence is expected to approach the coast of North Carolina or South Carolina on Thursday and Friday before moving slowly near the coastline through Saturday.\nA reconnaissance aircraft on Wednesday found that Florence was packing maximum sustained winds of 125 mph, with higher gusts, making it a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. While this slight downgrade from the 130 mph winds (Cat 4-strength) observed over the last few days, the downgrade negligible for anything (or anyone) caught in its path.\nRelated: U.S. Navy Sorties Ships Ahead of Major Hurricane Florence\nForecasts are calling for some weakening is expected to begin by late Thursday, Florence is still forecast to be an extremely dangerous major hurricane when it nears the U.S. coast on Friday.\nWhat\u2019s striking about Hurricane Florence is not just its intensity, but also it\u2019s vast size. Florence is estimated to be about 400 miles in diameter, roughly equivalent to the size of Arizona \u2013 the sixth largest state by area. To make matters worse, the aircraft data also indicate that Florence\u2019s inner-core wind field has expanded, with the 50-kt winds extending outward up from the eye by about 100 nautical miles to the northeast.\nIn order to get a true sense of just how large Hurricane Florence is, it\u2019s best to take a look from above. Check out these photos taken Wednesday from aboard the International Space Station, orbiting about 245 miles from above Hurricane Florence\u2019s eye.\nPhoto courtesy Alexander Gerst, an EU scientist on the International Space Station. Via Twitter\nPhoto: Alexander Gerst / Twitter\nAn up-close shot of Hurricane Florence\u2019s eye. Photo: Alexander Gerst\nISS Astronaut Ricky Arnold tweets: \u201c#HurricaneFlorence this morning with Cape Hatteras #NorthCarolina in the foreground. The crew of @Space_Station is thinking of those who will be affected.\u201d\nHurricane Florence pictured Sept. 12, 2018 at 14:15 UTC. Photo: NOAA\nCheck the NWS National Hurricane Center for the latest forecasts, warnings, and advisories on Hurricane Florence.\nFiled Under: Maritime News Tagged With: hurricane florence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 270.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/brett-worthington/9271", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FUMKMVFURNUYEDZ2QIPHKBPE7TOSAYLO", "length": 1308, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "generalassemb.ly", "title": "Brett Worthington | General Assembly", "raw_content": "General Manager for Americas & VP of Global Business Development, Samsung SmartThings\nBrett Worthington is the General Manager for Americas and Vice President of Global Business Development at Samsung SmartThings, the easiest way to turn your home into a smart home. In this role, he oversees the development of SmartThings\u2019 partnerships and services globally as well as its go to market strategies. Prior to joining SmartThings, Brett was the General Manager of Wink for 2 years, taking the company from launch to commercialization and its eventual exit sale to Flex Inc. Prior to building and launching Wink, Brett worked in several leadership positions across various business units at Ingersoll Rand Corporation over a period of 13 years. Brett joined Ingersoll Rand in 2001 and ended his tenure as Director of Business Development of its connected home business, Nexia Home Intelligence. Before joining Ingersoll Rand, Brett worked for BMC and served for 10-years in the US Army\u2014he is a Veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom IV & V. Brett holds a Bachelor\u2019s Degree from the University of Utah and resides in Los Angeles, CA with his wife and two children.\nAmazon Echo and the Future of the Connected Home\nJoin Belkin, Samsung, Amazon and Slate Studio to explore the design and future of the Connected Home!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 4263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gettingthedealthrough.com/people/40825/hermes-marcelo-huck/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:19Z", "digest": "sha1:I36IRY4FYG4HIPJRN5E2DRTLS76J7GVB", "length": 615, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "gettingthedealthrough.com", "title": "Hermes Marcelo Huck \u2013 Getting The Deal Through \u2013 GTDT", "raw_content": "Hermes Marcelo Huck\nLilla, Huck, Otranto, Camargo Advogados\nHermes Marcelo Huck has acted as lawyer, counsel, expert witness and arbitrator both in Brazil and abroad. He participates in the leading arbitration institutions in Brazil and around the world. Mr. Huck received his LLM from University of California, Berkeley, and his master\u2019s degree and PhD in International Law by the School of Law of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo. He is full professor of Economic Law at the School of Law of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo. Fluent in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.\nAuthor of Brazil for Arbitration 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 128.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://giantgnome.com/2016/06/star-trek-still-relevant-even-not-cool-cerebral/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:09Z", "digest": "sha1:LLGFPIPGBJYVW65USYMKGQSWUWWLDVUE", "length": 903, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "giantgnome.com", "title": "Star Trek is still relevant (even when it's not cool to be \"cerebral\") - Giant Gnome Productions", "raw_content": "Star Trek is (still) incredibly relevant, even in an age when it\u2019s not cool to be \u201ccerebral\u201d.\nThere\u2019s this moment in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country where Chekov, trying to find common ground, asks of the visiting Klingon ambassadors, \u201cYou do believe that all planets have a sovereign claim to inalienable human rights?\u201d\nThe Chancellor\u2019s daughter points out that \u201cinalien\u201d and \u201chuman rights\u201d are racist phrases when you\u2019re talking to people from another planet who aren\u2019t human.\nWhen most political discussion is talking past one another and civil discourse is out the window, it\u2019s a nice reminder that context is subjective \u2013 even things that most could agree on are subverted by mostly harmless word choice evoking the wrong subjective context.\nA decade of degrading political discourse all wrapped up in 30 seconds of dialog from a \u201csilly\u201d show set in space about the adventures of future humans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ginnlibrary.tufts.edu/about-us/about-ginn-library", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VPEZ23LRC34BT4SSNCNU4YUSYKJGMBP7", "length": 2693, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ginnlibrary.tufts.edu", "title": "About Ginn Library | Ginn Library tufts_full_logo Search_Icon dot-single instagram search user times-circle bars caret-down caret-up angle-double-right angle-right angle-down youtube envelope clock bubbles2 twitter phone", "raw_content": "The Edwin Ginn Library provides collections, services, and technology that anticipate and meet the research and instructional needs of The Fletcher School. The Library maintains a graduate-level research and study environment conducive to exploration, discovery, and knowledge creation.\nThe collection at Ginn Library supports research and teaching within the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Materials in the collection include those addressing topics of international relations, law, diplomacy, peace and conflict studies, business, economics and international development, military and security studies, and a variety of related social sciences displines. The library contains over 120,000 volumes, including 270 current periodicals and serials, and provides access to over 30,000 electronic resources and databases through the Tufts University Libraries system.\nUnited Nations and Other International Organizations Documents\nThe Ginn Library has League of Nations and United Nations documents, as well as publications from numerous international organizations, in print, on microfiche, and online. The library maintains a large collection of international treaty documents, and also has case reports of the International Court of Justice, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights.\nThe papers of Edward R. Murrow and of Ambassadors John Moors Cabot and Philip Kingsland Crowe have been deposited in the Ginn Library. They are now physically housed in Digital Collections and Archives in the Tisch Library building, so that they may be properly preserved, and they are available for research there.\nPerspectives Gallery (Photography & Art)\nThe Fletcher Perspectives Gallery is an exhibit space for photography and art, with the goal of highlighting world cultures and promoting understanding and tolerance.\nThe gallery has been in Ginn library since 2001 and contributes to our role as a space for introducing and sharing a diversity of viewpoints and perspectives on the world we live in. A second gallery space in the Office of Development and Alumni Relations at 128 Professors Row was opened in 2017. Photographs displayed in Perspectives have been submitted by Fletcher School students, faculty, and staff, and serve to showcase the technical skill, artistry, and international experiences of this community.\nEdwin Ginn\nGinn Library was established in 1938 and is named after donor Edwin Ginn, a Tufts alumnus (1862) and founder of the World Peace Foundation. The original materials in Ginn Library were part of Edwin Ginn's personal collection as the Library for World Peace Foundation.\nRead more about Edwin Ginn at American National Biography Online", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 5531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 169.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://girlscoutsnow.com/2017/07/05/gencyber-the-next-wave-of-cyber-security/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:08Z", "digest": "sha1:FCBTYO5PIHSV6TZXBA2ETQNRTAPGQNQB", "length": 5046, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "girlscoutsnow.com", "title": "GenCyber: The Next Wave of Cyber Security \u2013 Girl Scouts Now! GSSGC Blog", "raw_content": "GenCyber: The Next Wave of Cyber Security\nHands down, GenCyber is one of the most anticipated Girl Scout events of the year, not to mention the largest STEM event Girl Scouts of San Gorgonio Council offers. This year, over 200 girls attended and each participated in this amazing, week long program. Each day, the girls participated in a new set of cyber related activities, ranging from working with Pi\u2019s to performing cyber security skits with IBM. Google, Facebook, Department of Homeland Security, Cisco, and IBM are just a few of the companies that participated in the spectacular event.\nI was able to participate in this years GenCyber as a Cyber Leader. Each day, my group and I embarked on a new Cyber Adventure. Although I had not previously participated in GenCyber, I heard so many great things about it, and when my sister couldn\u2019t stop talking about how much fun she had, I knew that I had to be involved in this event!\nThe first class we participated in was \u201cGame of Drones,\u201d and the girls were extremely excited to start flying drones. The students of CSUSB taught the girls the basics of flying drones and the many uses that they have. Along with this, the girls learned the dangers of drone hacking and how important it is to have a secure wifi network for the drone. Each girl got the chance to fly a drone and some even learned how to do a few tricks and flips.\nThe students at CSUSB also educated the girls in the basics of Pi. The super powerful, mini computers were popular among the girls. In this rotation, the girls practiced with programming their own games, practicing with hacking, all while learning the basics of the Pi system.\nDuring the Router Runway course, the girls played a truth or dare game that taught them about the different types of websites. The girls also participated on a simulation of a router, where they partnered up to run a maze. They could only accomplish this by working together and fully understanding the concept of a router.\nOutdoors, the girls went to new heights in the ropes course. Some girls walked across a tree trunk that was suspended at least 15 ft., while others were harnessed to a swing that was released mid-air. While watching the girls, I saw many that were able to overcome fears of heights by taking one step at a time and facing their fear in order to reach their goal. They had to work together to pull their friends up the swing and motivate each other \u2013 in this they learned the importance of teamwork and communication.\nAnother crowd favorite among the girls was the skits that they each put together with IBM and the students of CSUSB. After the girls learned the rules of hygiene, they were each assigned a rule to present in a skit. I saw everything from a catwalk to a slumber party; but the most important thing was that no matter what format the rule was presented in, the girls seemed to understand it. This was a constant goal of the classes during GenCyber, for the girls to understand the importance of being safe on the internet.\nAmong one of the special guest that participated in this years event, Facebook provided a challenging puzzle for the girls. At each level the girls were given a code, puzzle, or mind trick that they worked together to solve. They were also given access to the internet, so to complete certain online codes and to give them a resource when solving these puzzles. At the end, the group who completed all of the challenges earned a prize from Facebook. Facebook also gave another gift \u2013 a sundae bar!\nBank of America also had an amazing activity for the girls. The girls were split into groups, and led to five separate tables. At each table there were the following supplies; a trash can filled with miscellaneous supplies, a computer bag, along with some paper and pens for the girls to write notes. They were acting as bank robbers, who had to scour for evidence at the CEO\u2019s desk. The girls worked together to find clues in the trash or in the bag of the CEO. When a girl found a clue, they were given a puzzle that they had to crack. At each level, they uncovered a little piece of the password. B of A even centered their password and clues around the Girl Scout Law.\nAt the end of every day, we gathered together in the SMSU Event Center and watched a performance by the famous Jimosh. This band is composed of two students at CSUSB who are volunteer to teach the girls; they definitely added humor and music to the world of cyber security. The girls learned many valuable lessons in teamwork, and the proper way to stay safe when using the internet. They were exposed to more technology and made friendships. GenCyber week is definitely a fun learning experience and if you haven\u2019t attended, you should sign up next year.\ngirlscoutcookielove July 5, 2017 July 5, 2017 featured, gencyber, GenCyber2017, science and technology, STEM, STEM camp, STEM for girls, technology\nPrevious Previous post: GSSGC\u2019S Scout Wins First Place at the Fair\nNext Next post: Girl Report | Kick off your summer at the San Bernardino County Fair", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gizmodo.com/question-of-the-day-hows-your-iphone-3g-reception-5028749", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:34Z", "digest": "sha1:LNXRBXFTJB7AZ2CM722HOVDPMLQMDBCO", "length": 667, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "gizmodo.com", "title": "Question of the Day: How's Your iPhone 3G Reception?", "raw_content": "Question of the Day: How's Your iPhone 3G Reception?\nWhile some of us at Giz actually have better reception with the iPhone 3G than before, that's not the story raging in Apple's support forums, where few or no bars is the order of the day-and not just in the US, but worldwide, apparently. For AT&T's part, they're redeploying a bunch of 850MHz spectrum (which penetrates indoors better) for 3G service through the end of the year, so it should get a little better, at least. In the meantime, how's your reception? [Apple]\niPhone 3G Review Addendum: Reception is Better\nAmong other tweaks, I've updated the iPhone 3G review with some more data on reception. In\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalpossibilities.org/105172-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DEN2XIZTV5AJHYURZJNVUUH7VFSRZ7WE", "length": 7819, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "globalpossibilities.org", "title": "Why Are U.S. Universities Arming Themselves with Grenade Launchers? | \"Global Possibilities\"", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb News \u00bb Why Are U.S. Universities Arming Themselves with Grenade Launchers?\nWhy Are U.S. Universities Arming Themselves with Grenade Launchers?\nEducation should never feel like a warzone\nBy Frank G. Karioris / Truthout\nThis piece originally appeared on Truthout\nSending an ominous signal to student protest movements nationwide, universities across the US are once again able to equip their police forces with castoff military gear, tying them ever more intimately into the military-industrial complex.\nIn August, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced at a Fraternal Order of Police convention that Program 1033 would resume providing ex-military equipment to police organizations, including university police departments.\nProgram 1033 has been running since the 1990s but was stopped two years ago by President Obama. Part of the program\u2019s initial aim was for \u201cuse in drug enforcement by federal and state law enforcement.\u201d As we well know, the \u201cwar on drugs\u201d has been an abysmal failure.\nAs part of the program, already at least 117 colleges and universities received surplus-military gear. At least 117 places of higher education felt they needed military gear. At least 117 educational institutions are now armed and armored. This is the state of higher education in the US.\nJen Day Shaw, associate vice president and dean of students at the University of Florida, told The Chronicle of Higher Education, \u201cFor me, this is a cost savings for taxpayers.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Michael Qualls, an associate professor of criminal justice at Fort Valley State University, said, \u201cIf we continue on with the 1033 program, as those items become obsolete at the military level and if they become available, why not get \u2019em? It\u2019s better to be prepared than not prepared.\u2019\u201d The flimsy \u2014 if paranoid \u2014 excuse for obtaining these items is boiled down to its purest essence: Why not?\nWhat Universities Are Receiving\nThe list of items that are included in these transfers includes things as mundane as gauze \u2014 yes, gauze \u2014 and some standard pickup trucks. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee received mundane items, such as four adapter sockets, two key set socket heads and fours shelves for food service. No one, I would guess, has any problem with a university owning these items.\nAt the other end of the spectrum are armored vehicles. As part of the program, throughout the US, in total nine armored vehicles were exchanged \u2014 some being armored pickup trucks, and others being \u201cMine Resistant Vehicles.\u201d MRAPS, as they\u2019re known, were originally designed to withstand improvised explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan. The University of Florida was one of the recipients of an armored truck.\nAcross the country, numerous universities also received guns and ammunition. These include small arms (pistols) and rifles (M-14), as well as assault rifles (M-16). And two universities \u2014 Hinds Community College and University of Central Florida \u2014 obtained grenade launchers. For scale, the 2014 report states that 930 guns were provided in total to 87 different universities.\nThis supply of military gear is part of the process of universities throughout the US taking on various policing roles outside of their buildings. At many universities, these roles addressed issues that fell under the label \u201cpublic safety\u201d \u2014 often mostly about alcohol. In the past 20 or 30 years, universities have begun having increasingly active, working police forces dedicated solely to policing the life and boundaries of the university. It is these organizations that are receiving these weapons and vehicles.\nConcerns about this supply of military gear is exacerbated by the reality that many campus police organizations are privatized, leading to less oversight and accountability in many cases. A 2014 Vice article laid out the difficulties faced regarding the University of Chicago Police force, which is privatized, and the fact that these private police forces often have \u201cthe legal status of a private police force and the powers of a public one.\u201d How these privatized police forces are themselves policed is a critical question that is still, in many ways, unanswered.\nReinstituting Program 103\nAll of this is crucial, as President Trump and Jeff Sessions, making good on a campaign promise, stated that they would be resuming the transfer of weapons to police departments across the country. Jeff Sessions said, \u201cWe will not put superficial concerns above public safety\u2026. The executive order the president will sign today will ensure that you can get the lifesaving gear that you need to do your job and send a strong message that we will not allow criminal activity, violence and lawlessness to become the new normal. And we will save taxpayer money in the meantime.\u201d\nThe assertion that this is about fiscal responsibility seeks to waylay the reality that arming police on campuses has a dramatic impact on the campus community, and an even greater impact on the engagement with communities outside of the student body. The increased policing in all communities is worrying. When on campus, this increased policing acts as a deterrent to student resistance, and as an obstacle between dialogue within and outside of the university communities.\nAll of this is part of a broader pattern of police enforcement, and is simultaneously connected to unemployment. At this juncture in history, the system is producing not simply excess workers, as capitalism almost always has, but completely expendable workers to a degree that it never has before. And in the US, we are asking many of these expendable workers to pay tens of thousands of dollars to attend university. The average student who graduated in 2016 is left with $37,172 in student loan debt.\nIt should not be surprising that the majority of the military gear requisitions went to states with the highest poverty rate. High levels of poverty with increases in military-grade equipment is a recipe for disaster. These weapons are not only designed to keep students in line, they also perpetuate a racial and class divide between campus and community. This is especially true for urban campuses, where brand new multimillion-dollar buildings sit comfortably just inside the invisible walls of campus, while run-down houses and apartments sit precariously just outside. This invisible wall is where many of these police acquisitions will be utilized, as the wall is the most common route for squad cars on many campuses.\nUniversity Campuses as Police Zones\nThe US public should be outraged that colleges are undertaking a militarization of their campuses and that higher education administrators are actively supporting this process. Administrators are actively engaged in violently assaulting and bludgeoning our 17-22-year-olds, demonstrating to them the force of the state. Henry Giroux has written previously about these changes in higher education in his prescient book \u201cUniversity in Chains: Confronting the Military-industrial-academic Complex.\u201d The continued supplying of weapons to universities now moves the connections between higher education and the military industrial complex even closer.\nAcademia is now becoming an even more direct part of the violent controlling arm of the neoliberal state apparatus by enmeshing itself in the military-industrial complex. Nowhere is this more clear than in the continuation of Program 1033, where \u201cmoney savings\u201d is used as a way of introducing the military to campus, and where administrators oversee the elaboration of a system whereby dissent is quelled by a show of direct force. For what else is an armored vehicle besides a show of force? Bringing the military to campus is providing students an education in living in a police state, and giving them a front-row seat in the classroom of neoliberal politics in the 21st century.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 10675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalpossibilities.org/5-organizations-representing-5-million-serve-legal-notice-to-hhs-for-failure-to-conduct-vaccine-safety-tests-civil-action-to-follow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:U3V7E5XMWOFGNDD3OBNWKJX3B3WMVSOL", "length": 13792, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "globalpossibilities.org", "title": "5 Organizations Representing 5 Million Serve Legal Notice to HHS for Failure to Conduct Vaccine Safety Tests: Civil Action to Follow? | \"Global Possibilities\"", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Health \u00bb 5 Organizations Representing 5 Million Serve Legal Notice to HHS for Failure to Conduct Vaccine Safety Tests: Civil Action to Follow?\n5 Organizations Representing 5 Million Serve Legal Notice to HHS for Failure to Conduct Vaccine Safety Tests: Civil Action to Follow?\nThe public turned out in mass in California in 2015 to oppose SB277 which removed parental rights to refuse vaccines based on religious or philosophical objections.\nEach time a parent decides to have their child vaccinated, they do so believing that each vaccine has been rigorously tested for vaccine safety and efficacy. Equally, they are of the understanding that their child will be protected from deadly diseases once they have received the vaccine.\nIn reality, however, vaccines are not being tested for safety before entering the market. This is because the creation of the 1986 National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program took all liability away from the pharmaceutical industry and transferred it to the health department. Due to these actions, it is now the responsibility of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to conduct all the safety testing that the pharmaceutical industry no longer has to do.\nMr. Del Bigtree, producer of the film VAXXED which chronicles the revelations of a CDC whistleblower who revealed that data showing a vaccine-autism connection was covered up, stated on camera that:\n\u201cWe believe that there is a major failure of Health and Human Services (HHS) to do the appropriate safety tests.\u201d\nAngered by what he believes to be the lack of science and appropriate testing being carried out by the HHS, Mr. Bigtree and the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), supported by 55 organizations representing over 5 million people, have taken the unprecedented step of serving a notice to Mr. Don Wright, M.D., M.P.H., who is the acting secretary of the HHS department, demanding action to be taken.\nThis notice, served on October 12, 2017, outlined exactly how the HHS department had failed in their duty to conduct the proper scientific research required to demonstrate vaccine safety.\nIt stated that:\n\u201cAll drugs licensed by the FDA undergo long-term double-blind pre-licensure clinical trials during which the rate of adverse reactions in the group receiving the drug under review is compared to the rate of adverse reactions in a group receiving an inert placebo, such as a sugar pill or saline injection.\nFor example: Enbrel\u2019s pre-licensure trials followed subjects up to 80 months and controls received a saline injection.3 Lipitor\u2019s pre-licensure trials lasted a median of 4.8 years and controls received a sugar pill.4 Botox\u2019s pre-licensure trials lasted a median of 51 weeks and controls received a saline injection.5 And even with these long-term studies, drugs are still often recalled.\u201d\nThe authors continued:\n\u201cIn contrast, vaccines are not required to undergo long-term double-blind inert-placebo controlled trials to assess safety.\nIn fact, not a single one of the clinical trials for vaccines given to babies and toddlers had a control group receiving an inert placebo.\nFurther, most pediatric vaccines currently on the market have been approved based on studies with inadequate follow up periods of only a few days or weeks.\u201d\nThey identified several vaccinations that had been inadequately tested and in particular highlighted the hepatitis B vaccination which had been licensed by the FDA for injection into newborn babies. They stated:\n\u201cHepatitis B vaccines licensed by the FDA for injection into one day old babies, Merck\u2019s was licensed after trials that solicited adverse reactions for only five days after vaccination and GlaxoSmithKline\u2019s was licensed after trials that solicited adverse reactions for only four days after vaccination.\u201d\nTo inject a newborn baby with a vaccine that had only been, at best, checked for adverse reactions after five days, is not only dangerous, but it is also wholly irresponsible and this travesty was made clear in their letter.\nQuestions were asked of the secretary to explain the following points:\nPlease explain how HHS justifies licensing any pediatric vaccine without first conducting a long-term clinical trial in which the rate of adverse reactions is compared between the subject group and a control group receiving an inert placebo?\nPlease list and provide the safety data relied upon when recommending babies receive the Hepatitis B vaccine on the first day of life?\nThese are important questions which need to be answered, especially when you consider that the U.S. vaccination schedule currently recommends that children receive a total of 56 injections of 73 doses of 30 different vaccines beginning on day one of their life.\nOnly a Fraction of Vaccine Injuries and Deaths Have Ever Been Reported\nBigtree and his colleagues pointed out that only a fraction of the true number of adverse events are reported to Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database.\nHe referred to the HHS-funded study conducted by Harvard Medical School, which had tracked reporting to VAERS over a three-year period at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, and he highlighted how they had discovered that less than 1% of vaccine adverse events are reported.\nThey stated that:\n\u201cA U.S. House Report similarly stated: \u2018Former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler has estimated that VAERS reports currently represent only a fraction of the serious adverse events.\u2019\u201d\nWorrisomely, they continued by highlighting the fact that:\n\u201cWhile HHS strongly supports automating public health surveillance systems, when it comes to vaccine safety, the CDC has only supported projects that would limit VAERS to passive surveillance.\nAutomation would improve safety and address many of the long-standing issues and limitations raised by CDC regarding VAERS.\nCapturing \u2018fewer than 1% of vaccine adverse events\u2019 thirty years after the passage of the 1986 Act is unacceptable \u2014 and potentially deadly.\u201d\nThey questioned why HHS had failed in their duty to cooperate with Harvard and automate the VAERS database and asked what steps had been made by the HHS to improve the reporting of adverse reactions to VAERS.\nBigtree and his colleagues highlighted in full the many adverse reactions known to be caused by vaccines. They stated that:\n\u201cIn 2011, more than fifteen years after the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Reports in 1991 and 1994, HHS paid the IOM to conduct another assessment regarding vaccine safety.\nThis third IOM Report reviewed the available science with regard to the 158 most common vaccine injuries claimed to have occurred from vaccination for varicella, hepatitis B, tetanus, measles, mumps, and rubella.\nThe IOM located science which \u201cconvincingly supports a causal relationship\u201d with 14 of these injuries, including pneumonia, meningitis, hepatitis, MIBE, febrile seizures, and anaphylaxis.\nThe review found sufficient evidence to support \u201cacceptance of a causal relationship\u201d with 4 additional serious injuries.\u201d\nContinuing that:\n\u201cThe IOM, however, found the scientific literature was insufficient to conclude whether or not those vaccines caused 135 other serious injuries commonly reported after their administration, including:\nEncephalitis, Encephalopathy, Infantile Spasms, Afebrile Seizures, Seizures, Cerebellar Ataxia, Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis, Transverse Myelitis, Optic Neuritis, Neuromyelitis Optica, MultipleSclerosis, Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, Brachial Neuritis, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Small Fiber Neuropathy, Chronic Urticaria, Erythema Nodosum, Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Polyarteritis Nodosa, Psoriatic Arthritis, Reactive Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, Arthralgia, Autoimmune Hepatitis, Stroke, Chronic Headache, Fibromyalgia, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Hearing Loss, Thrombocytopenia, and Immune Thrombocytopenic Purpura.\nThus, out of the 158 most common serious injuries reported to have been caused by the vaccines under review, the evidence supported a causal relationship for 18 of them, rejected a causal relationship for 5 of them, but for the remaining 135 vaccine-injury pairs, over 86 percent of those reviewed, the IOM found that the science simply had not been performed.\u201d\nThese are all extremely serious failures in the duty of care and have affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, and yet nothing is being done to protect the health and safety of our children.\nBigtree and his team made it clear that immediate action was required, demanding an explanation why the HHS had not identified, as instructed, which children were most at risk of suffering a vaccine injury.\nThey highlighted the known fact that some children are more susceptible to vaccine injury than others and highlighted the fact that the IOM had previously acknowledged the need to research on such susceptibility, on an individual basis, considering a child\u2019s personal genome, behaviors, microbiome, intercurrent illness, and present and past environmental exposure.\nQuestions were raised as to why, after all these years, this research had still not been carried out.\nHHS Failed in Their Duty to Take Vaccine Safety Seriously\nBigtree and his team pointed out that the HHS has continued to treat the subject of vaccination safety as little more than a public relations issue and demanded to know why. They stated that:\n\u201cHHS, unfortunately, has treated vaccine safety as a public relations issue rather than a public health imperative. For example, the CDC claims on its website that \u2018Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism\u2019 even though this broad claim is plainly not supported by the scientific literature.\u201d\n\u201cInstead, HHS\u2019 claim that \u2018Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism\u2019 relies almost entirely upon studies exclusively studying only one vaccine, MMR (which is administered no earlier than one year of age), or only one vaccine ingredient, thimerosal, with regard to autism.\nPutting aside the controversy surrounding these studies, studies which focus on only one vaccine and one ingredient while ignoring the entire balance of the CDC\u2019s pediatric vaccine schedule cannot support the CDC\u2019s overarching declaration that \u2018Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism.\u2019\nAs for the MMR vaccine, the CDC\u2019s own Senior Scientist, Dr. William Thompson, recently provided a statement through his attorney that the CDC \u2018omitted statistically significant information\u2019 showing an association between the MMR vaccine and autism in the first and only MMR-autism study ever conducted by the CDC with American children.\nDr. Thompson, in a recorded phone call, stated the following regarding concealing this association: \u2018Oh my God, I can\u2019t believe we did what we did. But we did. It\u2019s all there. It\u2019s all there. I have handwritten notes.\u2019\u201d\nWill There be Civil Action Taken Against HHS for Their Failure to Ensure Vaccine Safety?\nIn its entirety, their notice consisted of 19 pages. They concluded that:\n\u201cHHS can do better. With hundreds of vaccines in the pipeline it must do better.\nChildren susceptible to vaccine injury are as deserving of protection as any other child. Avoiding injury to these children is not only a moral and ethical duty, but will in fact strengthen the vaccine program.\nEvery parent that does not witness their child suffer a serious reaction after vaccination, such as a seizure or paralysis, is another parent that will not add their voice to the growing chorus of parents opposed to HHS\u2019s vaccine program due to safety concerns.\nUnless HHS performs its vital statutory obligations regarding vaccine safety, and until a frank conversation is possible regarding vaccine safety, children susceptible to vaccine injury will not be protected from such injuries. Nor will children injured by vaccines be able to access the services they need. We can do far better in protecting and serving children who are susceptible or succumb to serious injuries from vaccination. The first step in avoiding these harms and helping children already harmed is admitting there are deficiencies and working diligently to improve vaccine safety.\u201d (own emphasis)\nIn serving this notice together, Mr. Bigtree and ICAN have recognized and made a stand, the HHS needs to be held accountable for their actions. If they do not address these concerns, Congress has given authority for Civil Action to be taken:\nWe respectfully request your attention to the important concerns outlined above and hope you agree that addressing these concerns is in everyone\u2019s best interest.\nThese, in fact, reflect nothing more than what Congress already explicitly recognized when passing the 1986 Act: vaccines can and do cause serious injury and HHS needs to work diligently to identify and reduce these harms.\nIf you would like to meet and discuss the foregoing, we would welcome that opportunity and hope to work cooperatively to address these issues.\nIf that is not possible, Congress, as a final resort to assure vaccine safety, authorized a \u201ccivil action \u2026 against the Secretary where there is alleged a failure of the Secretary to perform any act or duty under\u201d the 1986 Act. (42 U.S.C. \u00a7 300aa-31(a).)\nWe are prepared to authorize such an action and this letter constitutes the notice required by 42 U.S.C. \u00a7 300aa-31(b).\nIt is, however, our hope that the vaccine safety issues identified herein can be resolved cooperatively, with all interested parties working together toward the common goal of vaccine safety entrusted to HHS under the 1986 Act.\nParents trust such organizations to get vaccine safety right. If these organizations fail in their duty to protect children from harm, then that trust is broken, and if parents do not trust that the routine vaccinations have been adequately tested, then they have a right to refuse to have their children vaccinated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 19855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalpossibilities.org/big-banks-are-committing-major-crimes-against-the-climate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:11Z", "digest": "sha1:SW2LEKW2J4K5KYXOQKWUAEBABP3BBR3Y", "length": 3306, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "globalpossibilities.org", "title": "Big Banks Are Committing Major Crimes Against the Climate | \"Global Possibilities\"", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Environment \u00bb Big Banks Are Committing Major Crimes Against the Climate\nBig Banks Are Committing Major Crimes Against the Climate\nRunaway climate change can\u2019t be stopped without the financial industry on board.\nBy Alison Kirsch / AlterNet\nPhoto Credit: testing/Shutterstock\nAt the start of next week, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the U.N.\u2019s negotiating body on climate change, will meet in Germany to discuss next steps after the historic agreement by 195 countries to curb global climate change to 1.5\u00b0 Celsius, or 2\u00b0 at most\u2014an agreement whose only logical conclusion is that the world cannot afford expansion of the fossil fuel industry.\nVarious players in the financial industry have talked a big game on their commitments to the Paris Agreement. But their business practices prove otherwise.\nAccording to the new report Funding Tar Sands: Private Banks vs. the Paris Climate Agreement, in the first three quarters of 2017, major international banks have financed the extraction and transportation of tar sands at levels one and a half times higher than in the whole of 2016.\nHow can it be that in the last 9 months, $32 billion has gone to an extreme fossil fuel whose development is flatly incompatible with meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement?\nMoreover, banks continue to stand behind their clients whose proposed tar sands projects, from Teck Resources\u2019 Frontier open-pit mine, to Enbridge\u2019s Line 3 pipeline, would further damn our climate and infringe upon Indigenous rights.\nWhen President Trump announced he would pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, he drew a line: the Paris Agreement\u2019s goal of limiting climate change to 1.5\u00b0C on one side, and his administration on the other.\nOn what side of the line do banks fall? Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said, \u201cI absolutely disagree with the administration on this issue.\u201d And yet, JPMorgan Chase has increased its financing for tar sands this year, banking on major companies as they acquire new tar sands assets. Meanwhile, the bank\u2019s policy grade comes in at a disappointing D+. JPMorgan Chase\u2019s actions declare its support not for the Paris Agreement and the world\u2019s desperate need to stymie climate change, but rather for the Trump administration\u2019s pro-fossil fuel agenda.\nFinancial institutions have shown that they are able to make significant steps toward aligning their businesses with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Three weeks ago, BNP Paribas published a new policy restricting its financing for tar sands oil, among other extreme fossil fuels, in a move that the Wall Street Journal called \u201cone of the clearest signs yet the banking industry is re-evaluating its relationship with the oil sector.\u201d\nIt\u2019s a relationship that direly needs reevaluation. Banks can\u2019t keep funding business as usual expansion of fossil fuels, especially when it comes to the carbon bomb that is the tar sands.\nLike it or not, we can\u2019t meet the goals of the Paris Agreement without the financial industry on board, especially as governments like Trump\u2019s loosen the reins on the fossil fuel industry. Banks must take the immediate step of exiting the tar sands sector. Independent of governments, these major multinational institutions must say they\u2019re on board with the Paris Agreement\u2014and then prove it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2016/11/07/887563/10165952/en/WORLD-TOURISM-AWARDS-2016-HONOURED-LINDBLAD-EXPEDITIONS-DER-COMMITTED-TO-THE-WORLD-INITIATIVE-BY-DER-TOURISTIK-AND-TOMPKINS-CONSERVATION.html?print=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MTUOYZQSBWAQCHVP5GSS5BGZLVAUQ5W7", "length": 5696, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "globenewswire.com", "title": "Print - WORLD TOURISM AWARDS 2016 HONOURED LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS, DER COMMITTED TO THE WORLD INITIATIVE BY DER TOURISTIK AND TOMPKINS CONSERVATION", "raw_content": "Source: The World Tourism Awards\nWORLD TOURISM AWARDS 2016 HONOURED LINDBLAD EXPEDITIONS, DER COMMITTED TO THE WORLD INITIATIVE BY DER TOURISTIK AND TOMPKINS CONSERVATION\nNovember 7, World Travel Market London\nNEW YORK, Nov. 7, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WTM London -- Lindblad Expeditions, DER Committed to the World Initiative by DER Touristik and Tompkins Conservation were presented with the 2016 World Tourism Awards today, 7 November 2016, the opening day of World Travel Market London at Excel Centre. Peter Greenberg, CBS News Travel Editor, multi Emmy Award-winning investigative reporter as well as world renowned travel expert, hosted the Awards presentation.\nThe World Tourism Awards, celebrating its 19th Anniversary, are co-sponsored by\nCorinthia Hotels, The New York Times, United Airlines and Reed Travel Exhibitions. Inaugurated in 1997, the World Tourism Awards were established to recognise \"individuals, companies, organisations, destinations and attractions for outstanding initiatives related to the travel and tourism industry, and in fostering sustainable tourism and developing programmes that give back to local communities.\"\nPresenting the Awards on behalf of the sponsors were Fiona Harris, Director of International PR, Corinthia Hotels, Patrick Falconer, Managing Director \u2013 UK, The New York Times, Bob Schumacher, Managing Director Sales, UK and Ireland, United Airlines, and Charlie Cracknell, Senior Exhibitions Director, Reed Travel Exhibitions.\nThe first award honoured Tompkins Conservation \"in recognition for its 25 years of work establishing new protected areas, recovering imperiled species, supporting leading-edge activism, and promoting healthy communities in Chile and Argentina through the creation of national parks.\" Accepting the Award on behalf of Tompkins Conservation was Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, Co-Founder.\nThe second award honoured the DER Committed to the World Initiative by DER Touristik \"in recognition of its Give Education a Home program, which since 2014 has funded through the DER Touristik Foundation e.V., the construction and expansion of more than 20 schools in 15 countries around the world, providing children and young people with a better education and future.\" Accepting the award on behalf of DER Touristik Group, was CEO, S\u00f6ren Hartmann.\nThe third award honoured Lindblad Expeditions \"in recognition of its commitment to conservation, research, education and community development in the geographies they explore, and their establishment of the Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Fund. Together with their guests, Lindblad has raised over $12.7 million for critical projects since 1997.\" Accepting the Award on behalf of Lindblad Expeditions was CEO and President, Sven Lindblad...\nThe World Tourism Award itself, Inspire, was specially designed and handcrafted on the Mediterranean Island of Malta by Mdina Glass, and celebrates the qualities of leadership and vision that inspire others to reach new heights.\nThe World Tourism Award ceremony was followed by a reception hosted by United Airlines.\nATTACHED: Photo Caption From Left to Right Peter Greenberg, CBS News Travel Editor, Patrick Falconer, Managing Director \u2013 UK, The New York Times, Sven Lindblad, CEO and President, Lindblad Expeditions, Bob Schumacher, Managing Director Sales, UK and Ireland, United Airlines, Kristine McDivitt Tompkins, Co-Founder, Tompkins Conservation, Fiona Harris, Director of International PR, Corinthia Hotels, S\u00f6ren Hartmann, CEO, DER Touristik Group, Charlie Cracknell, Senior Exhibitions Director, Reed Travel Exhibitions, Karen Hoffman, President, The Bradford Group, Bianca Pappas, Director of Media Relations & Client Services, The Bradford Group\nAbout the World Tourism Awards\nThe World Tourism Awards, celebrating its 18th Anniversary, are presented annually at World Travel Market London and sponsored by Corinthia Hotels, New York Times, United Airlines and Reed Travel Exhibitions. It was inaugurated to \"recognize individuals, companies, organisations, destinations and attractions for outstanding initiatives related to the travel and tourism industry, and in fostering sustainable tourism and developing programmes that give back to local communities.\" The World Tourism Award is organized by The Bradford Group on behalf of the sponsors.\nAbout World Travel Market London\nWTM London, the leading global event for the travel industry, is the must-attend three-day business-to-business exhibition for the worldwide travel and tourism industry. Almost 50,000 senior travel industry professionals, government ministers and international press, embark on ExCeL - London every November to network, negotiate and discover the latest industry opinion and trends at WTM London. WTM London is the event where the travel industry conducts and concludes its deals. WTM London will generate around \u00a32.5 billion of travel industry contracts. WTM London is part of Reed Travel Exhibition's World Travel Market events, which also includes Arabian Travel Market, World Travel Market Latin America and World Travel Market Africa.\nReed Travel Exhibitions (RTE) is the world's leading provider of exhibitions in the travel and tourism industry. Its wide-ranging portfolio of events around the globe covers leisure travel, luxury travel, meetings, incentives and business travel, as well as golf, ski and spa travel. RTE, which organises more than 22 events around the world, includes three divisions; World Travel Market, IBTM Events and International Luxury Travel Market. RTE is a business unit of Reed Exhibitions.\nWorld Tourism Award Contact\nThe Bradford Group: Karen Hoffman/Bianca Pappas\nE-mail:info@bradfordglobalmarketing.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 6078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gmhl.net/article.php?article_id=57296", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:41Z", "digest": "sha1:7WML5GR2CTVA7RCPZZIVOYCLYYONTTSI", "length": 4906, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "gmhl.net", "title": "Article :: Greater Metro Jr. A Hockey League", "raw_content": "February 1st, 2019 at 11:31AM February 1st, 2019 5:34PM\nBradford, Ontario- The GMHL is proud to release its choices for Players of the Month for the month of January. To recap, last months Players of the Month for the month of December were Anton Trublin of the Bradford Bulls (Forward), Bryce Martin of the Niagara Whalers (Defence), Allan Mennary of the Meaford Knights (Goalie), and Cameron Carvalho of the Tottenham Steam (Rookie). Now here are the Players of the Month for January.\nForward \u2013 Dmitri Selyutin (Tillsonburg Hurricanes)\nSelyutin is a tremendous player, and has one of the best resumes in the league. Beofre coming to the GMHL Selyutin played two full years in the MHL, which is the Russian Major Junior League, and split last season between the MHL and the VHL, the affiliate league of the KHL. Selyutin decided to come to North America this season to play hockey, and landed on the Tillsonburg Hurricanes where he has made a huge impact for the team. He is 2nd in the GMHL for Goals (57) and 4th in Points (88). On his team he is first in Goals and Points as well. In January alone Selyutin has been directly involved in 35 of the 45 Goals the Hurricanes Scored. He earned the honours of First Star of the Game four times and the honours of Second Star of the Game once in the month of January. Selyutin has also appeared in the GMHL All-Star Game for Team Pro South, and finished the evening with a goal and an assist. The Hurricanes hope that Selyutin can continue his dominance for them, and help lead them to their best finish in franchise history, and maybe even a Russell Cup Championship\nDefence \u2013 Terrance McLean (Bradford Rattlers)\nTerrance is in his fifth year of junior hockey, and second year with the Bradford Rattlers. McLean is an important part of the Rattlers squad, where he is Captain of the team. The Rattlers have themselves a great year thus far, in the GMHL North Division they are in first place, and have a record of 29-3-1. McLean has definitely made an impact on their remarkable season thus far. Known for his size and mean-streak, McLean is an intimidating defenceman to play against. However, this year, McLean has began to find a scoring touch as well, potting 17 Goals and 37 Assists for 54 Points in 31 Games Played so far, which is 3rd in the GMHL for Points by a Defenceman, and 1st in the GMHL North for Points by a Defenceman. In the month of January, McLean was involved in 11 of the Rattlers 43 Goals, and earned the Third Star of the Game twice, with the team going 6-1 on the month. McLean also appeared in the GMHL All-Star Game for Team Pro North, where he scored one goal. The Rattlers hope that McLean can continue to shutdown opposing teams as well as his offensive production, while leading the Rattlers on their run for 1st Place in the North Division, as well as the Russell Cup.\nGoalie \u2013 Elio-Emmanuel Noce (St. George Ravens)\nNoce is a four-year GMHL veteran, and is in his second year of with the St. George Ravens. Noce has been a big part of the Ravens success this year, which includes a 25 Game Win-Streak, and who are currently in 1st in not only the South Division, but in the entire league. Noce even received a call up to the ECHL this season, joining the Brampton Beast who are a farm team of the Ottawa Senators in the NHL. So far this year Noce has a 16-1-0 record with the Ravens, with a Save Percentage of .908 and GAA of 2.88. His Wins Record is 3rd in the league and his GAA is 4th in the League. In the month of January, Noce started four of the Ravens seven games, and had a record of 4-0. Noce also appeared in the GMHL All-Star for Team Pro South. The Ravens hope that Noce can continue to be successful for them between the pipes on their run for first place in the South Division and the Russell Cup.\nRookie \u2013 Antoine Michaud (Niagara On-The-Lake Nationals)\nAntoine Michaud is in his first season of junior hockey this year as a seventeen year-old. Although Michaud is still young, that hasn\u2019t stopped him from producing at the junior level. With a couple of moves occurring on the Nationals at the trade deadline, Michaud has taken sole possession of top-point scorer on the Nationals squad, an incredible feat for a seventeen year-old rookie. He is 3rd on his team in Goals (20), 1st on his team in Assists (40), and 1st on his team in Points (60). Within the league he is 23rd in the GMHL for points, but leads all rookies (2000 and Younger & Haven\u2019t played Juniors) in points. In the month of January Michaud was directly involved in 12 of the 26 Goals the Nationals scored, and earned First Star of the Game once in an 8-4 Win against the Niagara Whalers where he posted 2 Goals and 3 Assists for 5 Points. Michaud also appeared in the GMHL All-Star Game as a rookie, where he scored once. The Nationals hope that Michaud continues to develop for them, and can continue his tremendous production for the team.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 8387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://godloveshimself.com/2016/01/13/selfishness-as-sin-40/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHJMNRIRGYTWHZ2GSCYV3NDYAA2AYVY7", "length": 3477, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "godloveshimself.com", "title": "Selfishness as Sin 40 | God Loves... Himself", "raw_content": "Worship by Charnock \u00bb\nIn the paragraph above we see what moral monsters human beings are in the eyes of God. We see that the most cultured people in the world are living in a hideous way before the living God covering themselves with filth and with even more filth coming from their hearts. We see that the actors and actresses of Hollywood who pretend to be someone as a living are in fact pretending to be righteous to themselves and others. We see that those who are rich in this world are incredibly impoverished in the world to come (apart from the few who have Christ). We see the powerful politicians are weak and helpless against their own lusts for power and honor. All of those people live in a way that is opposite to God, opposite to His law of love, and they do those things in a way that is against His kingdom. It is sometimes easier to see these things in others, especially when they are famous. Clearly what is thought to be the upper echelon of society live in obvious enmity against God.\nBut from Scripture we see that Jesus reserved His hardest words for the religious elite. Could it be that the worst of people in this sense are some of the most religious? Could it be that some of the worst people are those who pretend to speak and write for God when in fact they are only doing it for themselves? The vile heart of a man who would speak biblical theology and do it for the sake of obtaining honor for himself is on display in the presence of God. The wretchedness of a minister (in name) who would use the name of Christ in order to obtain honor for himself is a wretched act of idolatry. Imagine how wicked it is in the sight of God to speak of His glories and wonders and yet that only be a way for a man to obtain honor for himself!\nIt takes humble men and women for God to advance His kingdom in, which is really the reign and rule of Christ by grace in the souls of human beings. A selfish heart is a proud heart and as such it is in direct opposition to the kingdom of God and in reality a selfish heart fights the kingdom of God with its every breath. It may be true that a minister in name may do a lot or apparent good and may be orthodox, but that same man may be unconverted and as such have a selfish heart and so all he does is for himself. As the Pharisees sought honor from men in all that they did, so men today can do the same damnable things.\nIt takes far more than orthodox theology and niceness to be a Christian and/or a minister. It takes free-grace to take a heart and deliver it from the bondage and dominion of sin and the devil to the kingdom of Christ. The glory of free-grace shines forth in delivering sinners from the dominion of selfish hearts to where instead of fighting the reign and rule of Christ by their selfish hearts they seek Christ for delivery from the vestiges of selfish hearts. Christ does not just deliver sinners from the guilt of sin, but He delivers them from the power and dominion of sin as well. No, He does not perfect them in this life, but they are under His dominion rather than the complete dominion of sin. Saved sinners are under the dominion of grace and they live by that free-grace. They don\u2019t live by sin and by their own strength, they live by grace.\nThis entry was posted on January 13, 2016 at 11:34 am and is filed under Selfishness as Sin, Uncategorized.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 6209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://goodcasinos.org/10-craps-tips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:13Z", "digest": "sha1:QOKWIY3V5TWECAUCTWGRPEMPYWRDXKBN", "length": 12041, "nlines": 90, "source_domain": "goodcasinos.org", "title": "Top 10 Rules For Winning Casino Craps", "raw_content": "Craps is intimidating to newcomers. And it\u2019s easy to see why.\nThe table is littered with different betting options, many of which seem to make little sense. Moreover, in land-based casinos, there\u2019s often a throng of people standing around the table, expectantly watching each roll of the dice. When the shooter hits the right numbers, these players tend to get excited. Some cheer.\nThat\u2019s a daunting experience for the beginner.\nHere\u2019s the good news: when you play craps online at places like Bovada Casino and Slots.lv, you don\u2019t have to worry about infiltrating a crowd of experienced players. Learning how to play the game need not be a trial by fire.\nYou can learn at your own pace.\nAnd here\u2019s a secret\u2026 you can play craps for free while learning the ropes. Both Bovada and Slots.lv offer a free-play environment where you can get some experience without putting a dime at risk.\nWhat about strategy? As you know, there\u2019s a smart way to play craps, and a not-so-smart way. Below, I\u2019m going to show you the former. You\u2019ll learn how to minimize the house edge and maximize your chances of walking away from the table with a profit.\nNote that it is possible to lose money. But use the following suggestions and you\u2019ll stand a good chance of hitting your numbers and increasing your bankroll.\nWithout further ado, here are my top 10 tips for winning at casino craps.\nMaximize Your Odds Bets\nThe odds bet is the best bet you can make playing craps. In fact, it\u2019s the best bet in the casino. The house edge on the odds bet is zero since the bet is paid at true odds.\nThis is a separate wager that\u2019s made after the come out roll. It\u2019s associated with your come bet, don\u2019t come bet, pass bet, or don\u2019t pass bet. That being the case, the casino still has a net advantage. But that doesn\u2019t change the fact that the odds bet is the best bet in the house.\nMost casinos will allow you to take (or lay) odds up to three times your pass line bet. For example, if you bet $10 on the come out roll, you can place an odds bet up to $30.\nMaximize this bet. Since the casino pays true odds on it, betting the maximum gives you the best chance to make money. So, if you wager $10 on the flat bet (before the come out roll), take (or lay) odds at $30. If your flat bet is $25, you can buy odds up to $75.\nBe Willing to Play the \u201cDark Side\u201d\nThis is a controversial tactic. Not because it doesn\u2019t work, but because it\u2019s likely to put you out of favor with your fellow craps players.\nPlaying the dark side in craps means placing lay bets and \u2018don\u2019t come\u2019 bets. Instead of buying odds, you\u2019ll be laying odds. In practical terms, that means betting against the shooter. You\u2019re hoping he rolls a 7 before he hits the point. That essentially means you\u2019re betting against everyone at the table.\nTo appreciate why this is a controversial method, imagine how this might play out in a land-based casino\u2026\nThe point is rolled on the come out roll and everyone starts placing their bets. The majority of the bets are that the shooter will hit the point before he rolls a 7. You, on the other hand, place lay bets, hoping the shooter hits a 7 before he hits the point.\nLet\u2019s suppose he does exactly that. What happens next? You win your bet, but everyone else loses. Can you see how this might put you out of favor with the rest of the table?\nPlaying the dark side in craps is smart from a strategic point of view. But it won\u2019t make you any friends in a land-based casino. Expect to get a few hard glares from other players.\nFortunately, you won\u2019t have to deal with the glares when you play online. The casino has the edge in both bets so they do not care which way you bet.\nPlace the 6 or 8 to Win\nPlace bets on both the 6 and 8 carry a low house edge. On a table paying 7:6 for these numbers, the edge is only 0.46%. That\u2019s slim!\nThere are five ways to roll a 6: 1-5, 2-4, 3-3, 4-2, and 5-1.\nThere are five ways to roll an 8: 2-6, 3-5, 4-4, 5-3, and 6-2.\nMeanwhile, there are six ways to roll a 7: 1-6, 2-5, 3-4, 4-3, 5-2, and 6-1.\nThe odds are against you, but not by much. Bottom line, place 6 and 8 are solid wagers on craps.\nLay Against the 4 And 10\nThere are only three ways to roll a 4: 1-3, 2-2, and 3-1.\nLikewise, there are only three ways to roll a 10: 4-6, 5-5, and 6-4.\nFrom above, we know there are six ways to roll a 7. That means the chances of seeing a 7 before a 4 or 10 are high. Given that, it\u2019s a good idea to lay against those numbers.\nBovada and Slots.lv pay \u201cfair odds\u201d on these wagers. That means you\u2019ll earn 1:2 if you see a 7 before the 4 or 10. You\u2019ll also have to pay a small commission (4%) to the casino if you win. The commission is charged because the odds of winning are in your favor.\nYou don\u2019t have to wait until after the come out roll to lay against the 4 and 10. You can do it at the same time you place your pass line bet. If you do so and see a 7, you\u2019ll win on the pass line and win payouts for your lay bets.\nDon\u2019t Double Your Lay 4 or 10 on an Outside Point\nSuppose you\u2019ve laid $25 on the 4 and $25 on the 10. The shooter rolls a 10 on the come out roll. You lose the lay 10 and that number becomes the point.\nYou may be tempted to double the amount of your lay bet on the 4 (or vice versa if the shooter rolls a 4 on the come out).\nDon\u2019t do that. Just place full odds, either on your pass or don\u2019t pass bet, and leave your existing lay bet as is. For example, if the come out roll is a 10, leave your lay 4 at $25. Don\u2019t double it to $50 in an attempt to make up the loss on your lay 10.\nThese first five tips have focused on the bets you should make on craps. Let\u2019s shift gears and talk about the bets you should avoid. We\u2019ll start with field bets.\nIgnore the Field Bets\nTake a look at the craps table. Between the don\u2019t pass bar and the area labeled \u201cCome,\u201d you\u2019ll see a space designated \u201cField\u201d with numbers 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, and 12. The first and last numbers (2 and 12) are circled.\nThis area of the table is for making field bets. Field bets are one-time wagers on whether any of the numbers listed will appear on the next roll. Here are the payouts:\nIf the next roll is a 3, 4, 9, 10, or 11, you\u2019ll be paid even money on your bet.\nIf the next roll is a 2, you\u2019ll be paid 2:1.\nIf the next roll is a 12, you\u2019ll be paid 3:1.\nAt first, this seems like a good bet to make. After all, there are lots of numbers on which you can win.\nBut statistically, field bets are terrible bets. Consider that there are 16 ways to roll a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, and 12. But there are 20 ways to roll a 5, 6, 7, and 8.\nThe odds are against you.\nYou might think being paid 2:1 to roll a 2 and 3:1 to roll a 12 makes up for the added risk. But there\u2019s only one way to roll a 2 and one way to roll a 12. That means each number only has a 1 in 36 chance of appearing.\nAgain, terrible odds. To put it perspective, the house edge on field bets is 2.78%.\nIgnore The Hardways Bets\nBetting a hardway is betting that the dice will end up on an even number with both dice showing the same number. A 5-5 makes a hardway 10. A 2-2 makes a hardway 4. Shooting a 4-6 is considered an easy way 10. Likewise, shooting a 1-3 is an easy way 4.\nThere are four numbers on which you can make a hardway bet: 4, 6, 8, and 10.\nYou win if the shooter rolls the number you bet before rolling a 7 or rolling the number bet the easy way. For example, if you bet a hardway 10 and the shooter rolls a 7 or 6-4, you lose your bet.\nTake a look at the payouts for these bets. You can tell at a glance that the odds of winning are low.\nHardway 4 \u2013 7:1\nHardway 10 \u2013 7:1\nThe house edge on these wagers is 2.78%. That\u2019s high. It\u2019s best to ignore these bets.\nIgnore the Yo, the Horn, and the Any 7\nFirst, let\u2019s quickly define these three bets.\nThe Yo bet is a wager that the next roll will be an 11.\nThe Horn bet is a wager that the next roll will be a 2, 3, 11, or 12.\nThe Any 7 bet is a wager that the next roll will be a 7.\nFor some reason, these bets are popular with craps players \u2013 at least in land-based casinos. Stand at a craps table for less than a minute and you\u2019ll see at least one person \u2013 and probably a few \u2013 make these bets.\nBut they\u2019re sucker bets.\nLet\u2019s do the numbers, starting with the Yo bet.\nThere are only 2 ways to roll an 11: 5-6 and 6-5. With true odds (the actual probability or rolling that number), you have a 1 in 17 chance. Meanwhile, the payout is 15:1. The house edge? 11.1%.\nWith the Horn bet, your true odds are 1 in 5. Meanwhile, the house typically pays 27:4 on 2 and 12, and 3:1 on 3 and 11. The overall house edge? 12.5%.\nThe Any 7 bet gives you true odds of 1 in 5. Meanwhile, the house only pays 4:1. That gives the house an edge of 16.67%.\nAll three of these wagers are terrible. You may as well as burn as your money.\nIgnore Craps Betting Systems\nIf you\u2019ve read my other online casino tutorials, you\u2019ll already know how I feel about betting systems. Simply put, they\u2019re generally a waste of time in the context of improving your chances of winning.\nMost of the people who use these systems are under the delusion that doing so will move the odds of winning in their favor. In reality, there\u2019s no truth to that presumption.\nThe best known betting system is arguably the Martingale. It entails doubling your bets when you lose. For example, if you bet $25 on the pass line and lose, your next bet should be $50. The idea is that you\u2019ll make up your previous losses when you finally win. The problem is, an extended losing streak can easily eat through your entire bankroll.\nOther systems include the Iron Cross and the Paroli.\nWith the Iron Cross, you make place bets on 5, 6, and 8, and simultaneously make field bets. That ensures you get paid on every roll as long as the shooter doesn\u2019t roll a 7. That strategy lowers the house edge to 1.36%. While that\u2019s reasonably low, it\u2019s worth noting the effect is because the house edge on a place 6 or 8 is so low (0.46%). As we covered above, the house edge on field bets is 2.78%. You\u2019d be better off to ignore the field bets and make place bets on the 6 and 8.\nThe Paroli system is a progressive betting scheme. It\u2019s based on a 3-bet progression whereby wagers are doubled with each win until the final bet of the progression. For example, suppose you bet $10 on the pass line. If you win, your next bet (the 2nd wager of the progression) would be $20. If you win again, your 3rd wager would be $40. At that point, win or lose, you would start a new progression with $10. Like all betting systems, the Paroli system is flawed.\nThe takeaway is that you should ignore betting systems when playing craps. They make you feel as if you\u2019re doing the right thing, but offer no advantage.\nCome Up With A Craps Bankroll Management System\nYou should have a bankroll management system in place whenever you play casino games. Such a system is doubly important when playing craps. With so many different betting options available, it\u2019s possible to have hundreds of dollars at risk even if you bet the $1 minimum bet on the pass line.\nIf you\u2019re not careful, you can easily blow your bankroll.\nCome up with a system that helps you to preserve your cash. For example, limit each bet to $3 and stick to the bets I recommended above. Also, establish a stop-loss figure at which point you log off and walk away for the evening (e.g. $50).\nHaving these type of rules in place will allow you to enjoy playing craps without worrying about burning through your money in a single session.\nArmed with the above tips, you\u2019re probably excited to get started. I highly recommend visiting Bovada Casino and Slots.lv, two of the most reputable casinos online. As I mentioned earlier, both will let you play craps for free with zero risk.\nRegister your accounts, make your first deposits, and claim your New Player bonuses. 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No amount of human effort or good work will suffice in lieu of this and none is required or necessary to supplement it.\nWe believe that our salvation is laid up in heaven, free for the asking, granted to everyone without condition or prejudice, out of the incomparable riches of God\u2019s grace.\nWe believe that each human can, and indeed must, individually seek this salvation by choosing a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus.\nWe believe that all who ask will receive, all who seek will find, and to all who knock the door will be opened. It is our Father\u2019s will that all who look to His Son and believe in Him will be saved.\nWe believe that once this relationship is sought and granted it can never be revoked or relinquished. While the Bible encourages us to live our lives in a manner pleasing to God, our salvation is not contingent upon maintaining certain standards of behavior.\nWe believe that the only true church is that invisible body of believers from all walks of life and every Christian denomination and faith who have trusted Him and only Him for their redemption.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://graduation.schoolofarts.be/student/kelly-de-nauw/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:35Z", "digest": "sha1:3QRFD3PDQQP76BHG64QKKIKTUCB2CNHD", "length": 633, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "graduation.schoolofarts.be", "title": "Kelly De Nauw \u2013 Graduation 2018 Kelly De Nauw \u2013 Graduation 2018", "raw_content": "Hidden worlds lurk behind tall buildings, in alleys, in the in-between-spaces \u2013 of that which shouldn\u2019t be there \u2013 or in people\u2019s gardens. The outside world often lures me into photographing or filming a setting that looks out of place in its surroundings. The location vanishes into the world, enclosing everything in sight, ready to be rediscovered. The unknown has always been there, lying in the embrace of the world, unaware of its existence until I take out my camera. The elements in the photo are part of a story, captured in one shot, a timeless presence which establishes a sense of familiarity after I detect it.\nVoet Leen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greaterfergusfalls.com/faq/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:35Z", "digest": "sha1:SF2AYT35GKDB7OIBHVI5YA2L3CHPFRFI", "length": 5227, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "greaterfergusfalls.com", "title": "Frequently Asked Questions \u2013 Greater Fergus Falls | Fergus Falls, Minn. Economic Development", "raw_content": "What is Greater Fergus Falls?\nGreater Fergus Falls is a newly formed private, not-for-profit organization that is committed to growing and revitalizing our business community. Made up of a diverse group of community members, Greater Fergus Falls will focus on economic development with a goal of attracting 20 new businesses to our area or expanding our existing businesses by the year 2020.\nHow does Greater Fergus Falls differ from the other organizations in our community, like Forward Fergus Falls or the Chamber of Commerce?\nGreater Fergus Falls is focused on business. Our region is lucky to have many organizations and groups working tirelessly to showcase what a great community we have and to constantly improve the experience of living and working here. Greater Fergus Falls exists to recruit new business to the area, retain our current businesses, and revitalize the local business economy. We believe that the creation of this new Greater Fergus Falls model will enable quick growth and the ability to amass a depth of resources in order to achieve the goals we have set out for our community in the coming years.\nWho is leading the efforts of Greater Fergus Falls and what should the community expect?\nLed by consultant Bruce Thom (currently serving as CEO of Greater Fergus Falls), the staff and board of directors are working tirelessly to help attract businesses and revitalize our local economy. Bruce has worked as the CEO of Varistar Corporation (a subsidiary of Otter Tail Corporation, the parent company of Otter Tail Power Company), General Manager of KFGO Radio, is the current owner of the FM Redhawks baseball team, and was responsible for attracting several new businesses to our community, which provided 325 new jobs. Bruce has a proven track record of success and we are honored to have him here to represent our organization.\nWho convened the Greater Fergus Falls Board of Directors?\nFergus Falls Mayor Ben Schreier assembled the inaugural Greater Fergus Falls Board, pulling from the many business and culture sectors that make Fergus Falls unique. The Board will grow and change as the organization works to fulfill its mission.\nWill it cost me anything to work with Greater Fergus Falls?\nNo! Greater Fergus Falls is funded through the generous donations of local business and government and it will not cost you anything to work with us. We fully anticipate the need for others beyond the Board of Directors to assist as projects are identified \u2013 if you are interested in certain areas or have ideas, please let us know! We know this effort will take many to be successful and look forward to working with all stakeholder groups to see our goals achieved.\nWhat has Greater Fergus Falls done to date?\nEven though this organization is in its infancy, there are several successes to report:\nWe have brought together a diverse board that represents the arts, philanthropy, education, healthcare, government, and other business professionals. This group is diverse in age and gender, with all members taking a vested interest in revitalizing our community.\nWe have retained Bruce Thom, an experienced leader with a proven track record of success and someone who knows Fergus Falls well, to lead our efforts.\nWe have established a downtown economic development headquarters, which provides a visible presence for us and other organizations to facilitate economic development.\nWe are working diligently with the owners of the abandoned mill downtown to facilitate downtown riverfront development.\nAren\u2019t communities like Fergus Falls dying?\nThere is no denying that smaller communities are dealing with economic uncertainties in today\u2019s global economy. Due to changing consumer preferences, traditional brick and mortar retail stores have suffered greatly, even though consumers are actually spending more. Retail aside, there are a lot of strong businesses in our area and we are proud of them. We know there is opportunity for growth and we are focused on capturing those opportunities \u2013 with the development of the industries we have and bringing in new businesses to the area by 2020. Greater Fergus Falls is committed to reframing the narrative surrounding our beautiful community to reflect its position as a viable, regional success story.\nWhat types of things could Greater Fergus Falls help me with if I want to start a new business?\nGreater Fergus Falls employs staff and expert consultants to help remove common barriers to start-ups and expansions and to assist in aligning resources to current businesses facing challenges. You can expect that you will have our time, attention and passion for your project and assistance with locating resources, finding suitable space, creating a business plan, navigating financial requirements and zeroing in on target markets. Greater Fergus Falls staff will connect you to the right people and services to allow you to move forward quickly.\nI would like more information and wish to speak with someone from Greater Fergus Falls.\nPlease contact us here or reach out to our staff or a member of our board of directors. Because we share a passion for the greater Fergus Falls area, we are always interested in meeting new people and hearing new ideas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 5802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greentradertax.com/about-us/in-the-media/reuters-hedgeworld/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:05Z", "digest": "sha1:JQJGTIB73RFRTNPHIFYPSDWEQR2M2CD3", "length": 1919, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "greentradertax.com", "title": "Reuters Hedgeworld | GreenTraderTax", "raw_content": "http://www.hedgeworld.com/\nA Flood of Start-up Funds\nRobert Green, a non-lawyer member of Green & Company CPAs, LLC, says the increase in the number of fund managers he has as clients has little to do with the February 2006 deadline.\n\u201cMost of our clients are small start-up funds, and they are still below SEC requirements,\u201d he says. \u201cRegistration has always been a bigger issue in the media than in reality.\u201d\nBecause the clients most interested in SEC registration are larger funds, the rush to get everything in order has been far less apparent among smaller funds that are just starting out. Mr. Green says that he hasn\u2019t seen a huge swell in the number of clients who want help with registering because the majority of smaller funds are already registered within their states.\n\u201cThere are maybe only 1,000 or so funds that need to register with the SEC,\u201d he adds. What he has seen is an increase in the number of funds themselves, coupled with an increase in a demand for the amount legal service provided by the law firms working for the funds.\n\u201cHedge fund attorneys and accountants are in tremendous demand, and they need to do twice the work,\u201d Mr. Green says. \u201cHedge funds are proliferating.\u201d\nThe high demand for attorneys who focus on small funds has its basis in geography, he says. Because smaller hedge funds are regulated on the state level, the attorneys who service them need to be knowledgeable about state-level regulations. But an attorney may be an expert in one state, but lacking knowledge in another. \u201cSo it\u2019s hard to assemble supply to meet demand,\u201d Mr. Green says.\n\u201cIt\u2019s gotten more complex because of the democratization of hedge funds,\u201d he adds. \u201cSomeone has to put together a coordinated national program. We have, but it hasn\u2019t been easy.\u201d\nStar (Johnson CPA), Thank you so much. I definitely will be getting you to handle my future situations. Your guiding me set things on their right course.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 4550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grist.org/article/rich-countries-invested-less-money-in-renewables-last-year-in-the-u-s-cities-are-picking-up-the-slack/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5RVYDPHPRZS3CSHHCHXFY2YG7XBX6UOE", "length": 2789, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "grist.org", "title": "Rich countries invested less money in renewables last year. U.S. cities are picking up the slack. | Grist", "raw_content": "Rich countries invested less money in renewables last year. U.S. cities are picking up the slack.\nBy Zoya Teirstein on Apr 6, 2018\nHere\u2019s some bad news: A new report shows that U.S. investment in renewable energy fell by 6 percent last year. Ready for the good news? Six percent ain\u2019t too shabby considering President Trump spent his first year in office announcing plans to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris agreement, slapping tariffs on solar panels, and reneging on decades of environmental policy.\nIn fact, despite federal setbacks, the report called the U.S. \u201crelatively resilient.\u201d Compare that 6 percent drop to Europe and the U.K, which saw investments in clean energy fall by 36 percent and 65 percent, respectively. The U.S. and its neighbors across the pond face a similar set of obstacles: the end of subsidies for renewables, growing interest rates, and policy uncertainties. In the U.K., the massive drop in investments coincides with the end of a big subsidy for renewables. By comparison, China invested 10 percent more in renewables than it did in 2016, and added 53 gigawatts of capacity \u2014 that\u2019s equal to more than half of the world\u2019s total renewable energy capacity.\nOne reason for U.S. resiliency? Our cities are stepping up to the plate. \u201cThe rise of solar power over the past decade has been largely driven by cities,\u201d the Environment Texas Research & Policy Center found in a recent report. Researchers looked at the total solar photovoltaic capacity installed by 20 major cities across the U.S. and found that, as of the end of last year, those cities alone have more solar energy capacity than the entire country had installed by the end of 2010.\nGrist / Environment Texas\nLos Angeles, San Diego, Honolulu, Phoenix, and San Jose were the top five producers of solar photovoltaic capacity in 2017. But the report also highlighted 18 \u201cSolar Stars\u201d \u2014 cities that had 50 or more watts of solar installed per person. Honolulu is the shiniest of those solar stars, with three times as much capacity as the next runner up: San Diego. Fresno, California; Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Tucson, Arizona were close behind.\nThe groundswell of support for renewable energy in American cities is linked to the goals laid out in the Paris agreement. In 2017, Dan Firger (a member of Grist 50 2018) teamed up with former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and California Governor Jerry Brown to launch a Bloomberg Philanthropies project called America\u2019s Pledge. Since the project went live, 110 cities and have pledged to cut emissions, 13 leading academic institutions have signed on to reduce their environmental footprints, and even local businesses are taking steps to mitigate their impact on the climate. In all, this coalition accounts for half of the spending power in the U.S.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://group.bnpparibas/en/news/history-partnership-roland-garros-bnp-paribas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:57Z", "digest": "sha1:R5OOD722ZCT573Z3SXHE2ZHYRSPO5EK6", "length": 2366, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "group.bnpparibas", "title": "The history of the partnership between Roland-Garros and BNP Paribas - BNP Paribas", "raw_content": "A showcase for the bank\u2019s innovation in the 1970\u2019s\nThe history between tennis and BNP Paribas began in 1973 in Roland-Garros. For over 40 years, the Group is official sponsor of this global resonance event, which welcomes the most famous stars of tennis.\nTennis courts and tennis courses\nGood stories often start in a discreet manner. This was the case with BNP Paribas and tennis. In 1932, the Banque Nationale pour le Commerce et l\u2019Industrie (BNCI), formerly the BNP, was established. In the same year, Henri Cochet, one of the \u201cmusketeers\u201d, won his fourth and last victory at Roland-Garros. More than ten years later, the champion was regularly giving tennis lessons to BNCI employees at the holiday camp and training centre in Louveciennes. This experience announced a long partnership between the bank and tennis.\nThe official partnership between Roland-Garros and the Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) started thirty years later in 1973. The French Tennis Federation had its bank account at the Auteuil branch of the BNP and its Chairman Philippe Chatrier wanted to build loggia over the centre court at Roland-Garros. The bank agreed to finance the works. In return, the famous banners at the end of the courts bear the name of the BNP. A BNP automatic teller machine was also installed, the first one being mobile.\nGreat commitment\nRoland-Garros, one of the four tournaments of the Grand Slam, increased its reputation and received world media coverage. BNP, then BNP Paribas in 2000, pursued its partnership loyally. In 2015, the group was the \u201cofficial sponsor\u201d for the 42nd year. But the connection with tennis has gone deeper and now extends to amateur tennis, disabled sports and tournaments for youngsters. As well as its partnership with Roland-Garros, BNP Paribas entered into partnerships with major competitions like the Bercy Open in 1993 which thereafter became the BNP Paribas Masters, then the Davis Cup in 2001. The group supports numerous competitions abroad \u2013 the Fed Cup, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells and the Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia via the Italian subsidiary BNL\n- In Australia since 1881\nKnow more about the history of BNP Paribas\nNGO WPDI and BNP Paribas launch a programme of ambassadors for peace and entrepreneurship in South Africa\nOn Friday, 14 December 2018, BNP Paribas and the foundation Whitaker Peace & Development...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 7136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 209.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://groupthink.kinja.com/that-moment-when-1712612717", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FUTNDJJ4UTIYFCB7R267KSK2WET4OYMT", "length": 331, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "groupthink.kinja.com", "title": "That moment when", "raw_content": "Work is slow and all there is to do is look at news online. I started by reading about gun control in the US. That led me to a three year old article about Japanese gun laws, which led me down the rabbit hole of yakuza articles, and now I\u2019m not at all bored and insanely enthralled in this. I\u2019m fascinated and I can\u2019t stop digging!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://groupthink.kinja.com/women-in-the-muay-thai-ring-a-woman-fighters-perspect-1530821318", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:23Z", "digest": "sha1:2NPSFVDR46N5O2XY4XK57NRIXRKV2JYG", "length": 1563, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "groupthink.kinja.com", "title": "Women in the Muay Thai ring: a woman fighter's perspective", "raw_content": "Women in the Muay Thai ring: a woman fighter's perspective\nSylvie Von Duuglas-Ittu is a Muay Thai fighter who has been training and fighting in Thailand for the past two years. As in sports in the West, Thailand divides Muay Thai by gender...but many fighting rings, including the famous Lumpinee Stadium, will not host women at all. The ones that do host women require them to enter the ring under the lowest rope, which is an expression of women's position as lower than men and symbolically contaminating (specifically because of menstruation).\nIn this interesting piece, Sylvie writes about Thai culture and boxing, ultimately coming to the conclusion that Thai culture and religion (Theravada Buddhism with elements of magical animism) can be respected and preserved without treating women as lesser than men. She notes that there are native Thai fighters working to equalize women's treatment in the ring and out of it, but says Westerners often see Thai culture as monolithic and feel like a suggestion of change is disrespectful. She feels they are incorrect, and may not feel insulted simply because they don't understand the symbolism behind the tradition that women enter the ring under the lowest rope. She does not comment on whether fights should be coed.\nGreenHunk has been a Muay Thai fighter for the past 7 years. His take on the article was 100% agreement, and he also adds that he thinks fights should be coed: \"I think it makes both parties fight harder. It pushes the sport forward for girls who have the potential to compete professionally.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids.com/episode/222/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7NGCEJ7U7CG7D47L3QKFFLTO6VCU2ISN", "length": 109, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids.com", "title": "\"A couple of popped-out eyeballs\" (Winnipeg) \u00b7 Episode 222 \u00b7 Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids", "raw_content": "\"A couple of popped-out eyeballs\"\nEpisode 222 was recorded live in Winnipeg, and released on October 12, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 154.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gvn.org/newsletter/htlv-in-the-guardian-copy-01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:09Z", "digest": "sha1:PW7W6EET5AWFH73LHIVLYHG45ONKG2QM", "length": 265, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gvn.org", "title": "HTLV in The Guardian (copy 01) \u2013 GVN", "raw_content": "HTLV in The Guardian (copy 01)\nhttp://gvn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logoGVN.png 0 0 Communications http://gvn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/logoGVN.png Communications2018-05-07 12:31:162018-05-16 13:02:40HTLV in The Guardian (copy 01)\nAnnecy Register Now htlv", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 2122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hadleyjf.com/2011/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3LLQLU7LP6UFLYCST6VLTSMSUPGR2M7R", "length": 9216, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "hadleyjf.com", "title": "November | 2011 | Middle School Matrix", "raw_content": "My classes are starting a research project this week. We have been studying the Roman Empire, and they are creating a museum exhibit around a topic of their choice. We have spent the last month learning about the rise and the height of the empire, looking at the different characteristics of empires that can be found in Rome. We will use this model to then look at the Islamic Empires.\nThe students chose topics of interest to them, ranging from Roman baths to arches to how various gods were worshipped. I worked with them to expand or contract the topics that they had chosen, as they only have 3 days to do their research. Then, before moving into the research itself, I wanted them to pause and think about what it was about their topic that interested them. What questions did they hope to answer? What did they already know, and what did they want to find out?\nI decided to give them a 10 minute \u201cThinking Time\u201d to reflect on their topic. I didn\u2019t give them any specific questions to answer; I just told them to consider what they were interested in. Each of them took a sheet of unlined paper and went to find places around the Middle School where they could sit and not be disturbed. I cautioned them to no sit too closely to their best friends, as they might be distracted. I encouraged them to draw or write if they wanted to, but that I mostly wanted them to focus on thinking about the topic.\nI sent them out and then began to slowly walk around the halls. It quickly became apparent that many of them felt like they had to fill up the sheet of paper, that just having it represented a \u201ctask to be done\u201d and they were madly scribbling away. Others were clearly watching other students walk by or paying attention to conversations down the hall. Others were simply sitting, looking around them or focusing on the wall in front of them, no outward sign of mental activity at all.\nWhen I called them back after the 10 minutes, I asked them if they had learned anything. The main response was that they loved the quiet. Simply sitting still felt like a treat to them, an almost unknown kind of time that they really enjoyed. They clearly were surprised at how much they liked it. I think they thought that they were getting away with \u201cno work\u201d by having time to be still. That part made me smile, because part of what I want to train them to recognize is their brains at work, without a lot of outside stimulation. To teach them that, I have to give them quiet time to listen to their own thoughts. I am willing to give up some \u201cteaching\u201d time to have them learn to hear their own ideas rattling around inside their brains.\nWhen I asked about using the paper, many of them acknowledged that it had been more of a distraction than a help. They had felt the need to \u201cshow\u201d that they were working and focused on recording more than on thinking. Note for next time: no paper.\nWhile I am not sure how much they accomplished in terms of thinking about their topic, they clearly loved the time to pause and think. Time to be in control of their own minds. They recognized that too often, they just give in to each new distraction, and without anyone or any task to intrude, they enjoyed the work of their mind. As they started researching today, many of them seemed to have a sense of purpose and attention to the facts they found. They demonstrated a connection to their topic and to what they wanted to learn that appeared deeper than I have seen in the past.\nWe shall see! If nothing else, it showed me that it is a good thing to pause and let my students\u2019 brains relax and then build. It is a good skill to for them to know their own thinking. And there is so much that comes at them all day long. Some peace and quiet can not hurt.\nPortfolios Published!\nIt has been a wild couple of weeks as my two classes of 7th graders have created and published their portfolios. We are on a trimester system, so this is the end of the first trimester. For the first time, I am teaching an ungraded, portfolio assessed class. As I have written earlier, the students have grown more and more adept at identifying the skills that they are learning as well as their strengths and challenges. They have moved away, not completely but to a large extent, from expecting that I will tell them, through a grade, how they are doing, and they have begun to develop an independence around their learning, which is very exciting.\nHistory 7 is the only class in the school with this form of assessment, so it is new for the parents and for the students. I wanted to make sure that I guided the students carefully through the process of building a portfolio that showed what they had learned. I gave back to them examples of their earliest work of the year that I had saved just for this purpose.\nTogether we created a Google Doc in their History collection that was titled \u201cPortfolio Planning.\u201d We talked about the skills that they had been working on and the kinds of activities that they had done to learn and practice their skills. We generated a great list, everything from new memorization strategies to taking walks to get the blood circulating, from how to annotate a history text to writing an effective paragraph. They did a great job of remembering the trimester.\nI then organized the skills that they had generated into four categories: Studentship (which included preparation for class, class participation and collaboration), Thinking and Learning (memorization, organization, learning styles: strengths and challenges), Reading and Writing. For each of these categories, the student wrote about what she felt comfortable with and where she felt challenged. For each page, she needed to chose at least one photograph, scan or screen shot to add to the page, very some visual interest. They had an album of photographs that I had created with images of them working at various tasks. Then we had an amusing \u201creenactment\u201d of hand-raising to answer a question. They took screen shots of the lists of documents in their Google History collection. They scanned examples of their first attempts at annotating and their last. They took screen shots of mind maps that they had created. When they had generated all of their ideas and images, I went through their documents and left comments: How will you do this? What steps will you take to make this happen? Explain your thinking more. It definitely took more time than slapping a grade onto a piece of paper, but I wanted to push their thinking beyond their initial ideas.\nWith that feedback, they wrote paragraphs. They took those and put them into their Haiku ePortfolio, along with the images they had chosen. They also created a movie, 20-30 seconds, in Photo Booth to use as an introduction for their parents, explaining how to navigate their way around the portfolio and what its goal was. At that point, I again reviewed all of them \u2013 very time consuming, but also very exciting. They were demonstrating a control over their growth as students that was very exciting!\nI decided that I was not going to do the actual editing of their work. While I knew that that would mean that there might well be uncorrected errors, I wanted what was there to fully be their own, awesome writing as well as spelling errors. I made a Word document for each student. When I saw a mistake, spelling or grammar, I cut and pasted it onto the document for them to find and correct. Also, if there were places where the language was confusing or the student needed to explain further, I did the same thing and added a question to help her understand what was missing. I emailed each girl her corrections and gave them time in class the next day to make the changes.\nI then wrote a blurb that was posted in the report cards, directing the parents to the online portfolio:\n\u201cIn history this trimester, your daughter has grown in her understanding of herself as a student. She has learned to identify the skills that she is practicing and to monitor the level of her mastery. With my guidance, she has reflected on her learning at each stage, and has then set new goals for herself.\nEach girl built a portfolio to share how she sees herself as a student of history at the end of the first trimester. Without worrying about grades, each girl focused on the process of her learning, becoming increasingly empowered to develop, articulate and understand her strengths and challenges.\nAll of this work was closely monitored throughout the trimester. While I edited every website and gave each girl notes for revisions, some errors have been allowed to remain. One goal is for the girls to improve their proofreading over the course of the year, and when they look back on these, see their growth.\nIt was a lengthy process, one that was not specifically devoted to learning more history, but nonetheless it was one that clearly led the students closer to owning their work and being able to set and achieve new goals for themselves.\u201d\nI did have one student turn to me and say, \u201cNow that we are done the portfolios, will you give us our grades?\u201d It was unbelievable to her that I had actually meant it when I said it was ungraded, not un-assessed, that there had been no gradebook hidden away somewhere.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 11634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hastingslawlibrary.wordpress.com/2010/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:10Z", "digest": "sha1:P32SYXKMBU65AUOBA62XILDRMWAE6NC5", "length": 2528, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hastingslawlibrary.wordpress.com", "title": "December | 2010 | Hastings Law Library News", "raw_content": "Report of Current Opinions (RECOP)\nPublic.Resource.Org an organization committed to making government information more accessible, will begin providing in 2011 a weekly release of the Report of Current Opinions (RECOP). The Report will be freely available in electronic format and consist of all slip and final opinions of the appellate and supreme courts of the 50 states and the federal government. The feed will be available for reuse without restriction under the Creative Commons CC-Zero License and will include full star pagination. Once available we will make the feed accessible through the Hastings Law Library web site. More details here.\nAlso coming early 2011, the Hastings Law Library is working with Public.Resource.Org and the Internet Archive to provide free internet access to 3 million pages of 9th Circuit briefs from 1892 to 1968. We all hope to have the project up and running within the first quarter of 2011.\nE.U. Documents Since 1952 Now Online\nThe European Union Publications Office has created an electronic library of more than 14 million pages of PDFs available to the public free of charge. It includes all publications ever edited by the Publications Office on behalf of the E.U. institutions, agencies, and other bodies since 1952. Publications include \u201cThe ABC of European Union Law,\u201d \u201cYour Guide to the Lisbon Treaty,\u201d \u201cUrban Sprawl in Europe,\u201d and much more.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 17, 2010 by Hilary Hardcastle.\nJewish Authors Month\nDecember is Jewish Authors Month! If you\u2019re looking for something to read over the holidays, consider Justice Breyer\u2019s new book Making Our Democracy Work. Described as \u201cprovocative\u201d by the New York Times, the book discusses \u201chow the Supreme Court should do its work and how, in history, it has sometimes failed the challenge\u201d (New York Review of Books). Or if you prefer lighter fare, consider this year\u2019s Man Booker Prize winner, Howard Jacobson\u2019s The Finkler Question, described by Janet Maslin as \u201ca riotous morass of jokes and worries about Jewish identity.\u201d Happy Holidays!\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 3, 2010 by Hilary Hardcastle.\nAfrican Case Law Analyser\nThe Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa and the Human Rights Documentation Systems have developed a free online collection of case law from the African Human Rights System. The Analyzer, available at http://caselaw.ihrda.org, includes the full text of each case, along with links to citing cases and cases cited in the decision.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 6907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 237.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hcahoustonhealthcare.com/locations/clear-lake/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:PN7T7DCFPUZTTJEG2EJYEUGTEVXP4IZR", "length": 2991, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "hcahoustonhealthcare.com", "title": "About Our Hospital | HCA Houston Clear Lake", "raw_content": "Welcome to HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake, formerly Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, where sophisticated, world-class medicine meets the comfort, care and convenience of a community hospital. For more than 40 years, we have proudly been providing high quality, cost-effective, comprehensive healthcare to the Houston Bay Area.\nWe opened our doors in 1972 and now employ over 2,000 staff members and 900 physicians in a wide range of specialties. Our specialists offer more talent and experience than any other hospital in the region.\nAs our community expands so do we. We recently opened a $92 million patient tower that includes 155,000-square feet of operating rooms and intensive care and observation units. It is also the site of our newly expanded and renovated Women and Children\u2019s Center.\nWe are the only exclusive heart hospital south of Houston. Our accredited center provides nationally-recognized care in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and recovery of cardiovascular diseases.\nAdditionally, HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake offers:\nWomen\u2019s services, including advanced OB/GYN care, treatment of reproductive problems and breast health screenings\nSpecialized pediatric care, including pediatric experts in neonatology and nephrology\nBreast Diagnostic Center where we use the most advanced technology to work toward prevention and early detection of cancer\nComprehensive, multidisciplinary cancer care\nLevel II trauma emergency room\nACR-accredited imaging center\nOne-on-one therapy through our Inpatient Rehabilitation Center\nLeading experts in neurology and neuroscience with access to cutting-edge technology\nMinimally-invasive and robotic surgical options\nWound treatment center featuring hyperbaric oxygen therapy\nOur mission is to provide compassionate care and exceptional service to every patient, every day.\nOur vision is to be a world-class hospital.\nOur values encompass the ideology of \u201cthe power of one\u201d:\nOur goals are to provide exceptional quality and unparalleled service.\nMedical professionals committed to you\nTo contact our chief nursing officer, please call (281) 338-3110 during regular, weekday business hours. After hours and on weekends, please call (281) 332-2511, and ask for the administrator on site.\nAt HCA Houston Healthcare Clear Lake, we know the importance of establishing a relationship with medical professionals is key to your family\u2019s health. Our staff offers diverse education and experience in a broad spectrum of specialties. The care and comfort of our patients is the top priority for our nursing staff. Experience, talent, commitment and compassion are at the core of each member of you care team.\nAn HCA Houston Healthcare Hospital\nWe are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 6995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://headington-institute.org/blog-home/232/thinking-consciously", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:50Z", "digest": "sha1:G5NJADXCKR4OWOWHY3OIGMMFQEXLRVAW", "length": 2937, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "headington-institute.org", "title": "Headington Institute | Blog | Thinking Consciously", "raw_content": "Life is all about choices. And one choice that we face daily, hourly, every minute...is how we think. Many different things happen to us in life. Often we have limited or no control over these events. However, even as they are unfolding, we are interpreting and evaluating them. We\u2019re thinking some version of \u201cthis is good or bad\u201d and, usually, \u201cI am good or bad.\u201d\nOur minds are always busy interpreting life\u2019s events. Sometimes our thoughts are so habitual, and happen so quickly, that it doesn\u2019t seem like there was any thought at all. We practice some thoughts and reactions so many times that certain ways of thinking become almost automatic. For example, you miss an important appointment and powerful feelings of frustration, guilt and self-loathing begin to mount. If you slow down the tape recorder in your mind you might see that you\u2019ve been telling yourself repeatedly, \u201cI\u2019m a complete idiot. That was an unpardonable screw-up. I can\u2019t do anything right this week!\u201d The feelings of frustration and self-loathing stem directly from your interpretation of the event. You have thought them into being. Your thoughts have produced a mood. That mood will influence behavior.\nWe are always telling ourselves something. The only choice you have in the matter is whether you\u2019ll do it consciously or unconsciously. Today, try taking the role of a neutral observer \u2013 of yourself. At intervals throughout the day watch your mind as if from the outside. Try labeling what you\u2019re thinking at different points as if witnessing someone else. For example, after you miss that appointment, your witness might comment dispassionately and without judging, \u201canxious, self-hating.\u201d At another point during the day the witness might note that you are \u201cworrying\u201d or \u201cplanning.\u201d You may wonder what the point of this is, but I encourage you to try it. The witness stance by its nature facilitates change. Simply observing from a neutral perspective that we\u2019re worried and anxious can sometimes help those thoughts and feelings to arise, crest, and depart. Practicing detached observation can help our negative thoughts to lose some of their compulsive hold and toxicity.\nHowever, the benefits of learning to pay more attention to the constant stream of \u201cmind-chatter\u201d running through your head go beyond just being able to cultivate detachment. When you can identify what you\u2019re thinking, you can consider the possibility that your first thought and reaction may not be accurate or helpful. You can challenge your thinking and look for other explanations for what happened. You can choose more balanced and positive thoughts.\nToday: practice being a neutral observer. Make notes. Don\u2019t judge!\nThis month: Look at your notes. What patterns do you see? What other options are there of messages to tell yourself?\nAdapted by Fara Choi from our Peace by Piece series written by Lisa McKay. For more from the Peace by Piece series check the resource index.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 6523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://heavy.com/games/2014/03/sxsw-2014-battle-4-greatness-pusha-t-ps4-video-games/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QAUMVZEQSETTQJRZT5X37MLIRSIVSGFO", "length": 922, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "heavy.com", "title": "SXSW 2014: Sony PlayStation 'Battle 4 Greatness' Event | Heavy.com", "raw_content": "SXSW 2014: Check Out the Sony PlayStation \u2018Battle 4 Greatness\u2019 Event\nSXSW 2014 is right around the corner (Friday, March 7, 2014 \u2013 Sunday, March 16, 2014). One of the cooler events that will take place in Austin, Texas during this huge annual festival will feature live music, gaming and a special appearance by G.O.O.D. Music\u2019s own Pusha T!\nCheck out the official poster for the event and official RSVP details below:\nYou can RSVP at the following LINK. Spectators will get the chance to play some pre-released versions of upcoming PS4 games, enjoy some live music spinning by an in-house DJ and get to see Pusha T perform live and in person. Note \u2013 the \u201cBattle 4 Greatness\u201d is free and will end at 12 a.m.\nSXSW 2014 Gaming Expo: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know\nGames, Hip-Hop, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, PS4, Pusha T, Rap, SXSW\nMake sure you're present in Austin, Texas for the SXSW 2014 PlayStation \"Battle 4 Greatness.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 254.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://helpcentre.lta.org.uk/hc/en-gb/articles/115003948451-Can-the-RPDC-nominate-any-players-to-be-eligible-for-the-subsidy-who-aren-t-selected-for-Regional-Training-or-the-National-Age-Group-Programme-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JNROLO557NR5R35WTOSFJSBDCC7HAYIR", "length": 373, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "helpcentre.lta.org.uk", "title": "Can the RPDC nominate any players to be eligible for the subsidy who aren't selected for Regional Training or the National Age Group Programme? \u2013 LTA Help Centre", "raw_content": "No. Given the breadth of our investment (which includes all players selected for Regional Training) we believe that we are offering a subsidy to the players showing the highest potential to reach the next stage of the pathway. If the operator of an RPDC chooses to offer a subsidy to a player outside of our investment then that is a decision for the operator\u2019s leadership.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://helpresearch.com/landing-page/additional-resources", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RQIEYH53IISEOFFA65LL2GZ6ZOZ6BK66", "length": 567, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "helpresearch.com", "title": "Additional Resources | Celerion - Clinical Research, Participate in a Study, Lincoln NE, Phoenix AZ, Belfast Northern Ireland", "raw_content": "http://www.aahrpp.org/\nThe Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP)\nhttps://www.ciscrp.org/\nhttp://www.clinicaltrials.gov/\nOHRP (Office for Human Research Protections)\nEthical Principles and Codes\nThe Belmont Report: Ethical Principles and Guidelines for the Protection of Human Research Subjects\nThe Nuremberg Code: Directives for Human Experimentation\nWorld Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki: Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects\nhttp://www.wma.net/en/30publications/10policies/b3/index.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 189.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://highschool.latimes.com/garfield-senior-high-school/the-underlying-reason-behind-high-black-infant-mortality-rates-in-the-u-s/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7BQUFTDVQ6ERV4XGXQ3WZSEKGX3NXSQ", "length": 4684, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "highschool.latimes.com", "title": "The Underlying Reason Behind High Black Infant Mortality Rates in the U.S. \u2013 HS Insider", "raw_content": "Camille Tokerud Via Getty Images\nThe Underlying Reason Behind High Black Infant Mortality Rates in the U.S.\nMelissa Barales-Lopez May 9, 2018\nThe prevailing socio-economic disparities between black and white women in modern America evidently affect more than crime rates, yearly income, and education level; they also extend to infant mortality rates and childbirth deaths.\nIndeed, black infants and mothers are over twice as likely to die during pregnancy and childbirth than their white counterparts, according to the most recent government data. The tragedy of infant mortality rates is espoused closely with the alarming crisis of the death of black women during or shortly after delivery.\nIn fact, the United States is now ranked 32nd, out of the 35 wealthiest countries, in infant mortality rates, and is currently one of 13 countries where the rate of maternal mortality has increased, not decreased, in the last 25 years.\nYet, these disarming statistics detail an epidemic strictly involving only one half of the female population in America. The U.S. boasts some of the most sophisticated medical care in the world, not to mention it spends more money on health care than any other nation, but African American women giving birth in America have worse odds of celebrating their baby\u2019s first birthday than some mothers in underdeveloped, third world countries.\nAt first, these extraordinarily high infant mortality rates were accredited to a multitude of underlying reasons, including poor nutrition, lack of access to adequate medical resources and care, insufficiency of money, tendency to smoke and drink, or prevalence of health issues including obesity and diabetes.\nAll aforementioned issues affect black women at higher rates than white women, and were believed to be the leading causes behind the disproportionate discrepancy in infant and maternal mortality rates between black and white women.\nIn the early 1980s, however, the U.S. reformed its medical care system, particularly focusing on prenatal care so as to prevent possible future complications. In general, women across the U.S. received more care but mortality rates did not go down.\nDoctors and specialists then began to attribute the disparity to genetic differences. Researchers began to believe that a black woman with the best medical care in the U.S. was more likely to give birth to an underweight infant than a white woman with absolutely zero prenatal care because of a \u201cpreterm birth gene.\u201d\nUltimately, the hypothesis was disproved. Science proves that genetic variations don\u2019t depend solely on racial background or ethnic heritage. Moreover, if a \u201cpreterm birth gene\u201d did exist, it would also affect black women in other countries, not only the U.S. Yet, this wasn\u2019t the case.\nOn the contrary, a growing amount of evidence points to social issues instead of scientific alternatives as being the culprit for this medical catastrophe. Now, the persistent racial differences in maternal and infant health are found to be linked to the stresses of discrimination endured by black women in a race-conscious society. Indeed, it\u2019s not race that is a determining factor in mortality rates among black women and infants, but rather racial discrimination.\nThough the idea seems extremely radical and, scientifically speaking, almost impossible, research indicates that the lived experiences of black women can have harmful effects on their pregnancy. In 2007, Richard David and James Collin, two neonatologists from Chicago, published a paper in The American Journal of Public health, discussing a correlation between racism-induced stress and high mortality rates for black infants and delivering mothers.\nNancy Krieger, professor of social epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, further explains the relationship between discrimination and the crisis of black infant deaths in an article in The Nation published on Feb. 15, 2017. Evidence suggests that decades of living with systemic racism as a black women in the U.S. can result in chronic stress, which can irreversibly alter the female body\u2019s biological ability to give birth.\nIn other words, the racial divide in maternal and infant healths could be linked to the unseen, yet axiomatic, consequences of years of enduring racism. As Kriegler puts it, \u201cWe literally embody, biologically, the societal and ecological conditions in which we grow up and develop and live.\u201d\nIt\u2019s not until we begin to change the way we think and perceive others and actively fight against all internal stereotypes and biases, that we can decrease mortality rates among black mothers and infants.\nCSUSB Women\u2019s Resource Center starts feminist book club", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 418, "original_length": 14817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 192.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hitconsultant.net/2017/02/27/fhir-medlio-byline/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:39Z", "digest": "sha1:PO42KNTOZ2ORFJJQTA3KISH5BCEIVPLM", "length": 3708, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "hitconsultant.net", "title": "FHIR: Summer is Coming - HIT Consultant Media", "raw_content": "FHIR: Summer is Coming\nI read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called FHIR: Summer is Coming and is located at https://hitconsultant.net/2017/02/27/fhir-medlio-byline/.\nEditor\u2019s Note: Lori Mehen is the Co-founder of Medlio, a next-generation platform that empowers healthcare consumers to engage and manage their healthcare experience.\n\u201cLet me give you some advice, bastard. Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.\u201d \u2013 Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones\nTrust me. The irony is not lost on us.\nAfter years of toiling in obscurity on a set of problems repeatedly \u201cnegged\u201d by investors and industry pundits, we are starting to hit our stride. I\u2019d like to say that this newfound success (and I use the term loosely) was the force of our argument, our insight and ability to persuade not just a few, but an entire industry. It wasn\u2019t. It\u2019s the result of CMS\u2019 Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) requirements, which became optional in 2017 and become mandatory at the beginning of 2018.\nFor a company whose vision has been to reimagine the healthcare consumer experience \u2013 government policy be damned \u2013 it\u2019s a little disheartening that the only reason people are taking notice is that we now help them check a box that is tied to Medicare reimbursement. Don\u2019t get me wrong, even a Pyrrhic victory feels pretty good at this point. Furthermore, for all its numerous missteps (don\u2019t even get me started), I really think the government has gotten it right on this batch of mandates.\nIn fact, I\u2019ll go a step further. I predict that, short of the rise of high deductible health plans (HDHPs) and the broad employer shift to defined contributions for health benefits, MU3 combined with the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) interoperability standard will have a larger impact on how we understand and interact with our health than any other driver in the next decade.\nIt\u2019s easy to dismiss this forecast, or even worse, brush it aside as though it\u2019s irrelevant. I wasn\u2019t able to attend HIMSS this year, but the headlines, the blogs and the watercooler chat seem to confirm exactly what every past visit has informed \u2013 the existing technology is pretty darn bad, so let\u2019s focus on the next big thing\u2026 (this year, virtual reality, blockchain, and AI). A lot of hand-waving and very little accountability. In other words, why the hell are we talking about a drone-assisted virtual consultation performed by Alexa when the act of rounding up your child\u2019s immunization record is a Sisyphean task only slightly less comic than tragic?\nOk, I lied. I really didn\u2019t want to revisit government missteps, but I feel compelled to point out that we (taxpayers) poured billions of dollars into propagating the adoption of EHRs from a few beneficiary vendors without requiring them to support open standards and interoperability. And no, I\u2019m not referring to making them show how they could potentially support it later for a fee.\nMU3 is our chance to get it right. Neither vendors nor providers own our data. We do. FHIR makes it possible for us to access it, manage it, and control it. There\u2019s still some work to get it perfect, but when all the kinks have been ironed out (do you iron kinks?), and the standard is widely supported, the data will flow and it will change the world. Count on it\nTo learn more about the app that is setting the world on FHIR, join Medlio\u2019s webinar on February 28 at 1PM EST, co-sponsored by Allscripts.\nTagged With: FHIR, FHIR Apps, Medlio\n\u00ab 3 Things EHRs Can\u2019t Do For You And Why\nCTCA, Allscripts, NantHealth Team Up to Launch Clinical Pathways Program \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hollyhedge.org.uk/contact-us/holly-hedge-animal-sanctuary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:41Z", "digest": "sha1:AHAETQAXVLSWXRUMIA56Q37SI3CTGOY7", "length": 549, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "hollyhedge.org.uk", "title": "Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary - Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary", "raw_content": "Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary, Wild Country Lane, Barrow Gurney, Bristol BS48 3SE\nEmail: info@hollyhedge.org.uk\nOpening Times \u2013 we are open during the following hours, 7 days a week. No appointments are necessary although we do recommend that you leave enough time to view all the animals and speak with our staff if you are interested in adopting a cat or dog.\nMonday \u2013 11.00am \u2013 4.00pm\nTuesday \u2013 11.00am \u2013 2.00pm\nWednesday \u2013 11.00am \u2013 4.00pm\nThursday \u2013 11.00am \u2013 4.00pm\nPlease note that we are closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hollymueller.blogspot.com/2014/03/nonfiction-wednesday.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:38Z", "digest": "sha1:G5SPSRMKDNIEUTJCUIE5VAH337A4SKR6", "length": 3376, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "hollymueller.blogspot.com", "title": "Reading, Teaching, Learning: Nonfiction Wednesday", "raw_content": "This is the nonfiction I read this week:\nSugar Hill: Harlem's Historic Neighborhood by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by R. Gregory Christie\n2014-book, african-american, biography, civil-rights, mock-caldecott-2015, mock-sibert-2015, nonfiction, nonfiction-challenge-2014, picture-book, poetry\n\"Sugar Hill, Sugar Hill Where Life is Sweet...\" Sugar Hill, a Harlem neighborhood where many of the most successful African Americans lived in the early twentieth century, teemed with art, intellectual pursuits, and performances. Cultural icons such as Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, Miles Davis and Lena Horne lived there, as well as civil rights leaders Thurgood Marshall and W.E.B. Du Bois. I loved the sing-song prose and energetic illustrations.\nMumbet's Declaration of Independence by Gretchen Woelfle, illustrated by Alix Delinois\n2014-book, abandoned, african-american, biography, civil-rights, mock-caldecott-2015, mock-sibert-2015, nonfiction, nonfiction-challenge-2014, picture-book, slavery, women\nI didn't know Mumbet's story before this book. What a courageous woman! When she was ordered by her cruel mistress to serve the men in the study food and drink, she overheard them talking about the injustice of Britain's taxes and laws imposed upon Americans. When she heard Colonel Ashley, her owner, say, \"Mankind in a state of Nature are equal, free, and independent...,\" it made her think, \"Wasn't she part of mankind?\" After that, she approached the young lawyer present at the meeting and asked...more I didn't know Mumbet's story before this book. What a courageous woman! When she was ordered by her cruel mistress to serve the men in the study food and drink, she overheard them talking about the injustice of Britain's taxes and laws imposed upon Americans. When she heard Colonel Ashley, her owner, say, \"Mankind in a state of Nature are equal, free, and independent...,\" it made her think, \"Wasn't she part of mankind?\" After that, she approached the young lawyer present at the meeting and asked him to represent her when she declared her right to be free. They won the case, and she was freed. This book would be great to use in my classroom with my sixth graders right now because we're talking about liberty/freedom vs. safety during our dystopian unit. What would you be willing to risk for freedom?\nWeeds Find a Way by Cindy Jenson-Elliott, illustrated by Carolyn Fisher\n014-book, figuative-language, mock-caldecott-2015, mock-sibert-2015, nonfiction, nonfiction-challenge-2014, picture-book, science\nI love this book because it looks at weeds the way children do - as beautiful. I can remember my girls when they were young being perplexed when we hated the dandelions sprouting all over our spring lawn. The beautiful language and illustrations combine to make a fascinating text about how creative weeds are. Excellent information in the back about adaptation and various weeds. I really enjoyed this book. Be sure to read Alyson Beecher's (Kid Lit Frenzy) interview with Cindy Jenson-Elliott here.\nTammy and Clare March 5, 2014 at 9:53 PM\nThese are all new titles for us. Thank you so much. We can't wait to read them.\nTammy and Clare\nAlyson Beecher March 5, 2014 at 10:51 PM\nHolly - I can't wait to pick up both Sugar Hill and Mumbet's. I have to see if my local bookstore or library have them. 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Governor Parson Announces Kelli Jones As Public Relations/Communications Coordinator\n(JEFFERSON CITY) \u2013 Lieutenant Governor Mike Parson has announced an addition to his staff in Jefferson City. Kelli Jones has joined the Lieutenant Governor\u2019s office as Public Relations/Communications Coordinator. She is filling the position that was held by Tyler Habiger, who accepted a job with the Kansas University Endowment Association in Lawrence, Kansas.\nKelli Jones\u2019 career in communications brings over 25 years of experience to the Office of the Lieutenant Governor. She was on the faculty of State Technical College of Missouri since 2003, having served the past seven years as the Department Chair of Communication and Social Science.\n\u201cNothing pleases me more than being invited to work in the Office of Lieutenant Governor,\u201d said Kelli Jones. \u201cI am looking forward to taking my experiences and strengths in public relations and communications to a whole new level,\u201d Jones said.\n\u201cI am thrilled that Kelli Jones has joined our team and is bringing her years of experience to the office,\u201d said Lieutenant Governor Mike Parson. \u201cI take pride in the fact that a well-qualified individual such as Kelli wants to be a member of my staff, benefiting our office, the State Capitol, and the people of Missouri,\u201d Lieutenant Governor Parson said.\nScouts Constructed Bat Houses Furing Bat Week Educational Program\nC of O President Jerry C. 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That was your marketing strategy, and it worked.\nWant to watch the latest episode of The Dukes of Hazzard? You had to sit through that commercial for cereal. Enjoying an article in the new issue of HBR? You at least glanced at the ad for the new Volkswagen as you flipped the pages.\nMarketing messages were everywhere as they are today, but one thing has fundamentally shifted in favor of the consumer: they now have the ability to tune them out, skip them entirely, or block them completely.\nDVR allows viewers to fast-forward through commercials. Podcast and YouTube ads can be skipped immediately or after a few seconds. Streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime are commercial-free. Good old-fashioned terrestrial radio is on life support.\nAnd let\u2019s not forget about AdBlock and similar services. A tiny extension or a standalone browser dedicated to better user experience like Brave lets you stop them in their tracks. These tools either block or filter advertising content from websites, pages, and apps. Consider:\nAd blocker penetration is pegged at 18% in the United States. That number is even higher in Canada and many parts of Europe.\nThere were 600 million devices with ad blocking software in December 2016, and 62% of those were mobile.\nReasons for using the technology include exposure to malware, interruption, speed issues, too many ads, and privacy concerns.\neMarketer predicts that 30% of all internet users will be blocking ads by the end of 2018.\nWe\u2019ve entered the Age of Ad Blocking. And banner blindness. And instant gratification. Patience may be a virtue, but it seems to be in dwindling supply. Ain\u2019t nobody got time for commercials and ads. (Unless it\u2019s the Super Bowl).\nAnd if you think the solution is using an adblock wall \u2013 restricting or prohibiting access to content until users turn it off \u2013 think again: 74% will simply leave your site.\nIt might seem a catch-22. You need ads to market your products and/or monetize your website. You need to attract visitors to click those ads. But those same visitors claim to despise ads.\nLook at the reasons why people use ad blockers for some quick insight. According to PageFair:\nAnd according to MarketingSherpa:\nAnd according to Hubspot:\nYou\u2019ll notice quite a bit of overlap. People don\u2019t like sketchy ads, intrusive ads, ads that negatively affect page performance, ads that are irrelevant, ads that are annoying, and more.\nWhat takeaways can you glean from that? It\u2019s a straightforward list of what not to do with your advertising and messaging.\nSo, is marketing dead? Far from it.\nDespite the seemingly overwhelming odds, marketers are still able to get their message across in an ad-blocking world. How? By adapting to the changing landscape. If the old ways don\u2019t work, you have to find innovative new ways. Intrusive ads that interrupt the user experience are out. Honest, timely, and relevant \u201cads\u201d are in.\nSay hello the rise of Digital Advertising 3.0.\nIn the simplest terms, an influencer is a content creator or personality with a relatively large following on a given platform. Their popularity or expertise gives them a great deal of clout with their fans.\nBut they need not be celebrities in the traditional sense of the word. Individuals like Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, and Justin Bieber have tens of millions of followers, but that doesn\u2019t automatically make them a good fit for you and your brand.\nIn fact, research has shown that influencers with fewer than 1000 followers \u2013 often called micro-influencers \u2013 saw likes 8% of the time, and comments 0.5% of the time on their posts and shares. Celebrities with 10+ million fans? Those numbers plummet to 1.6% and 0.04% respectively.\nInfluencer marketing is a partnership with an influencer to review, promote, or link to your content, brand, and products. It\u2019s widely used and considered one of the most cost-effective and powerful strategies used today. Interest in it grew 90x between 2013 and 2016, and doubled again in the first nine months of 2017. 2018 looks to be no different.\nAnd because there is no \u201cad\u201d in a sense, nothing is blocked or filtered. This puts your message in front of as many eyes as possible, and if you\u2019ve done your homework beforehand in finding the right influencer, it\u2019s a targeted audience.\nIf you haven\u2019t tried it yet, there\u2019s no time like the present. A few things to remember:\nDecide on the most appropriate platform for your ideal customer. Are they business professionals? You\u2019ll do better on LinkedIn. Are they teenagers? Snapchat is a safe bet.\nMove away from targeting just the numbers. Kim Kardashian has 58.6 million followers on Twitter, but she\u2019s probably not the best fit for your new email marketing service. Look for micro-influencers \u2013 say 50,000 or less \u2013 active in your industry or popular with your target audience.\nCheck a potential influencer\u2019s post history before making contact. You don\u2019t want to discover objectionable, racist, or sexist material after they\u2019re already linked to your brand.\nFinding the right influencer is the most important part of the whole strategy. Take your time. Do it right.\nLook at the engagement a typical post generates. Is it getting plenty of likes, shares, and comments?\nNext, follow them. Engage with their content. Leave genuine comments. Then, reach out to them via email or a private direct message. Talk about why you think a partnership would benefit you both, and how your product fills a need for their audience.\nDon\u2019t give them too much or too little in crafting a message that will resonate with their audience. Work together.\nDone right, influencer marketing bypasses ad-blockers and delivers marketing that people actually want to see. Teenagers on YouTube, for example, trust the opinion and recommendations of influencers more than celebrities. They relate better to them, and believe the influencer understands them as well or better than their friends.\nTraditional online ads try and stand out from the background. They might use a different font or color. They might flash, or wiggle, or bounce. They might autoplay a video or audio clip.\nThey want you to notice them. And that\u2019s their downfall: traditional display ads are very easy for blockers to identify and filter.\nThat\u2019s where native advertising comes in.\nNative ads mimic the digital environment in which they appear. They try and blend in. They don\u2019t want to interrupt the user experience in any way, and ideally, they don\u2019t even want you to notice it\u2019s an ad at all. In fact, they might only be discernible as an ad by the Sponsored or Promoted tag most sites place on them.\nClick a native ad, and it usually leads to a page that looks and feels like a regular blog post or article. It can easily be shared.\nBut it still has a message. The post includes or features the brand, product, or service being promoted in some way. It often has a call-to-action such as signing up to receive a special report or newsletter.\nYou\u2019ve encountered native ads in your daily web browsing, even if you don\u2019t realize it. They\u2019re very popular on news and aggregate sites:\nScroll down the top stories on Yahoo, and you might not even notice the \u201cSponsored\u201d tag on the post about an investment opportunity. It looks like any other article (with perhaps a bit of a clickbait headline).\nClick on it, and you\u2019re taken to a landing page that looks like a blog post. It mentions that Jeff Bezos \u2013 the richest man in the world \u2013 is pouring millions into a new tech innovation. Others are following his lead.\nWhat is it? Just enter your email and download the free report.\nThe post is a native ad for The Motley Fool to collect leads for their financial services. And it works because there\u2019s nothing to block. Users choose to click it.\nGoogle search ads are another powerful example of native ads at work. For any given search query, you\u2019ll be presented with thousands of organic results\u2026and a few paid ones, too. These are identified by the Ad tag, but otherwise look exactly like a regular search result.\nFacebook in-feed ads are considered the most lucrative type. As you\u2019re scrolling through your account feed, you\u2019ll encounter them all the time, but they blend in with posts from your friends, family, and pages you follow.\nSome are a bit more obvious, like this ad for ChinesePod, an online platform to learn Mandarin. It\u2019s definitely an ad, but because it appears in your feed rather than your sidebar \u2013 and includes like, shares, and comments \u2013 it takes on the appearance of a regular post.\nOthers appear decidedly un-ad like, like this one promoting the new Netflix film The Cloverfield Paradox. You\u2019ll notice the Sponsored tag if you look for it, otherwise it just seems like someone posted the trailer for a cool new sci-fi movie. From the stats at the bottom, we can see hundreds of thousands have watched it, thousands have liked it, and hundreds have shared and commented on it.\nIn essence, it\u2019s an ad that\u2019s not an ad. And that\u2019s the most powerful and effective type of ad you can create.\nWith this \u201cad\u201d, Netflix has generated interest, excitement, and buzz for its latest big budget release.\nYahoo\u2019s recent Perception Study found 4 key components to a native ad that produces a positive impression:\nPhotos of people rather than objects\nLegible and identifiable logos\nShort format (15 seconds or less) videos\nProminent brand name placement\nNative ads can generate a click-through rate (CTR) 4x higher than non-native display ads, and they\u2019re predicted to generate 74% of ad revenue by 2021.\nWant to experiment with Google search ads? Go through Google. Facebook in-feed ads? Contact Facebook. For various news and aggregate sites, you\u2019ll need to work with a native ads network such as Native Ads, Outbrain, Taboola, or Nativo.\nAnd if you want some inspiration, check out a few spectacular native ad examples.\nNative ads are not a fix-all. You still need to find the right platform(s) for your target market, and deliver relevant and timely \u201cads\u201d.\nYou don\u2019t need me to tell you just how popular social media is today. We spend more time on social platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Twitter, and others than we do on any other type. It\u2019s our favorite online activity.\nThere are over 2 billion monthly active users on Facebook, 800 million on Instagram, 500 million on LinkedIn, 330 million on Twitter, and 178 million on Snapchat. Worldwide, there are 3.03 billion active social media users (compared to 3.82 billion internet users). That\u2019s a massive potential reach and audience.\nSo it makes sense that social ads are taking over.\nEveryone spends time there. And it\u2019s relatively easy to blend in and make your ads appear less like ads and more like shares, posts, and tweets.\nEvery social media platform now offers the ability to advertise and market in some way. Facebook makes the majority of its revenue \u2013 the vast majority \u2013 via selling ads space to businesses. In 2017, it earned $39.94 billion in ad revenue, up 49% from the $26.85 billion it made in 2016.\nThe story is the same for Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. Ad revenue is big, big bucks. But as an SMB, you don\u2019t have to spend millions, or even thousands, to get in on that action.\nOn Facebook, you can work with sponsored posts, in-feed video or image ads, or more traditional banner ads. Instagram? Sponsored posts, Stories, or video ads. Twitter? Promoted tweets and hashtags. YouTube? Video and banner ads. LinkedIn ads? The #1 rated platform by marketers for B2B leads. You\u2019re spoiled for choice. Where does your market hang out online?\nAnd let\u2019s not forget Snapchat. Its growth may have slowed recently, but it\u2019s still a tremendously popular platform for tweens, teens, and millennials. It provides traditional ads, Stories, geofilters, and lenses to spread awareness, increase engagement, and have fun. It may not seem so at first glance, but Snapchat and business can be a match made in heaven.\nSocial ads don\u2019t strike social users as ads at all. They\u2019re part of the experience. It\u2019s marketing in a more organic, natural, and unobtrusive way. The hardest part is choosing the right platform and the right ad type to reach and resonate with your customers, not deciding whether you should try it in the first place.\nGlobal social ad spend doubled from $16 billion in 2014 to $31 billion in 2016, and is expected to have grown another 26% in 2017. Big bucks. Big results. And nary an ad-blocker to be seen, because the ads are part of the platform experience itself.\nThat\u2019s winning the advertising game the 2018 way.\nYou\u2019ve no doubt noticed the proliferation of in-app ads over the past few years. Any time you download and install a free app, you\u2019re most likely going to be subjected to at least a few ads. It\u2019s only fair, right?\nApps are big business. As the saying goes, there\u2019s an app for that. Gaming, entertainment, finance, travel, reviews, meditation, exercise, and on and on. You need something, anything? An app exists to help you with it.\nAnd in 2018, in-app ads are the fuel that drives the mobile app engine.\nAs you can see in the graphic above, video ads, display ads, and native ads account for 56% of app revenue sources. Developers need to make a living, too.\nBut it is a very fine line. If you\u2019ve ever encountered an in-app ad, you\u2019ve also likely been annoyed by one. There\u2019s only so much space on a smartphone or tablet screen. Losing any to an ad can be irritating and frustrating.\nSo what\u2019s the secret sauce? Many marketers and developers are seeing positive results with rewarded video ads.\nApp users are offered a choice: watch a brief video ad in exchange for an in-app reward (a free upgrade, additional life, downloadable template, exclusive content, etc), or skip it. No coercion. No aggressive sell. It\u2019s entirely up to the individual whether they watch or not.\nBut those that do agree are actually seeing your ad. Typically 30 seconds or less, the videos play while the user patiently waits and watches. It\u2019s a captive and willing audience for marketers.\nServices like AdColony and Unity can connect advertisers and publishers in the app world to the benefit of both\u2026and the app users themselves. That\u2019s a triple win. Everyone\u2019s happy.\nAs with any type of advertising, actively work to improve it over time. Monitor. Tweak. Manage. Improve.\nPerhaps the original ad-blocker killer, content marketing is still going strong. Even without the existence of blockers, it would still be a crucial cog in your digital marketing efforts.\nProviding valuable, targeted, and useful content for free is a great way to spread awareness of your brand, increase engagement, build authority and expertise, and generate both goodwill and leads. Creating and sharing blog posts, infographics, videos, podcasts, and more is the ultimate method for winning in the digital arena.\nIt\u2019s not salesy. It\u2019s not pushy, or aggressive, or in-your-face. But pound for pound, content marketing delivers like no other. According to the Content Marketing Institute:\nIt delivers 3x more leads per dollar spend than paid search ads\nIt costs 62% less than traditional outbound techniques, but generates 3x more leads\nIt combats ad overload by delivering your message without the use of true ads\nIt produces conversion rates 6x higher than other methods\nContent marketing is a long game. It\u2019s not based on clicks or conversions, per se. Use it to engage, connect, and build relationships that you can leverage into sales and revenue down the road. When it comes to business in 2018, just getting known is more than half the battle.\nAnd because the ad is the content itself, blockers won\u2019t block, filters won\u2019t filter, and your audience is being advertised to without realizing it. They get something valuable from you, and you get to deliver your message to them.\nIf you market online at all, content marketing should be a cornerstone of your strategy whether you\u2019re concerned about ad-blockers or not.\nI could go on in great detail about other methods to slay the ad-blocker beast, but I\u2019m sure what we\u2019ve already covered is more than enough to get you started. Suffice to say, there are other channels to explore:\nEmail marketing is still one of the most powerful methods to connect, engage, educate, and nurture leads and customers.\nInteractive ads are a fun way to engage with your fans, leads, and customers. Give them something enjoyable and active to do while delivering your message, and the likelihood of getting blocked goes down exponentially. 360-degree video, augmented reality, virtual reality, and clickable maps are just a few examples of what you can do and use.\nAdapting to the growing use of mobile devices. Smartphones are ubiquitous. Start delivering content \u2013 and ads \u2013 on the platform your audience uses every day. You need to create mobile ads that target engagement and conversions if you want to succeed.\nKeep looking, and you\u2019ll find plenty of additional tips, tricks, and channels to beat the blockers.\nIf you\u2019re only pushing ads the traditional ways \u2013 popups, banners, sidebars \u2013 you\u2019re doing it wrong.\nAdvertising is changing. Evolving. Understand why people are blocking to better understand how to win them back. The idea isn\u2019t to sneak past the blockers anymore, but rather to make them unnecessary.\nPeople are using them because of performance \u2013 some studies suggest ad-blockers can reclaim 24 hours annually by making sites load faster \u2013 privacy, and security concerns. Keep that in mind when designing and launching your ad campaigns.\nThey don\u2019t like repetitive display ads. 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This new world looks and feels like perfection, but a strange horror lingers below the surface. The women are beautiful, the men tall and handsome, but behind their smiles and stares something awful is lurking. Safia must make a choice: will she run away from the truth? Or will she find out what The Neighbourhood is really hiding?\n\u2018The Neighbourhood\u2019 is a project that is being led by a group of eight extremely enthusiastic crew members that have worked on dozens of film projects over the last few years. As a group, we are all devoted to bringing our passions, talents and creativity together, in order to bring to life the character of Safia, and her journey to The Neighbourhood.\nThe world we want to create has to look perfect, but perfection comes at a cost. This is where we need you help! Our fundraising target is \u00a32000 and every penny will be used to best serve our incredible story and give justice to Safia - be that through securing amazing locations, to getting fantastic actors for our lead roles. Not to forget the supply of biscuits to keep our cast and crew as happy as possible!\nBelow is the budget for our film.\nTravel and Living for Cast and Crew- \u00a3400\nProduction Sound - \u00a330\nSet Design/ Props - \u00a3120\nWardrobe/ Costume - \u00a3200\nMake Up and Hairstyle - \u00a3100\nTransportation of Equipment - \u00a3100\nPublicity and Distribution (rewards, posters and distribution) - \u00a3100\nMusic - \u00a350\n(Based upon a budget of \u00a32000)\nBE PART OF OUR JOURNEY:\nBe part of the team and follow our journey as we battle through the elements of pre-production, filming and post-production. 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For your incredible donation of \u00a3100, you will receive an invitation to the private screening of 'The Neighbourhood' in our incredible cinema at the University of York (travel and accommodation expenses not covered) & all of the above.\nFor your extremely generous donation, you will receive THE Rainsford sign used within the film & all of the above!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 6272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://humanwithuterus.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/more-surgery-for-fun-and-profit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:07Z", "digest": "sha1:42B2F22G6D4EHEUMKMZAVTIFKTM6MXN2", "length": 4218, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "humanwithuterus.wordpress.com", "title": "More Surgery for Fun and Profit | human with uterus", "raw_content": "\u00ab Performing Surgery for Fun\u2013or Not\nUpdate on Surgery for Fun and Profit \u00bb\nMore Surgery for Fun and Profit\nA new study was just released on best practice for twin delivery: planned c-section or planned vaginal birth. You can read lay-versions of the study from the Los Angeles Times, Medscape, and the Daily Globe and Mail (the leads on the study are Canadian). You can also watch a video outlining the study where the article appears on the New England Journal of Medicine website (note that the woman birthing vaginally in the video is on her back\u2013not an evidence based position for birthing).\nThe basic conclusion of the study is that in absence of complications, there is no reason to plan a cesarean for a twin birth. While many women who plan vaginal twin births still wind up facing complications that lead to cesareans, well over half successfully deliver vaginally. Among women who had planned twin cesareans, outcomes were no better than among the planned vaginal birth group (in which the majority of cesareans were not planned and would therefore be classified as \u201cemergency\u201d cesareans). One of the only differences found was that, on average, the vaginally birthed twins gained about a day of gestational age before birth, a small gain that can make a big difference for a preterm infant. Nearly half of the twins in the study were born preterm (before 37 weeks gestation).\nDespite the finding that there is no advantage to planned cesarean, according to the Globe and Mail article\nMichael Greene of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said that while the outcomes are the same, \u201cthese results do not indicate that all sets of twins should be delivered vaginally.\u201d Rather, he said that decision should rest with the obstetrician-gynecologist and that current practices \u2013 75 per cent of twins born by C-section in the United States \u2013 should remain.*\nShould remain. Should.\nAnd the decision should rest with the obstetrician-gynecologist. Not with the person giving birth. With the person who is not.\nBecause if you are a pregnant woman, planning major abdominal surgery when there is no advantage to you or your infants should be your doctor\u2019s choice?\nAs the title says, fun and profit.\nThe study notes that even under current practice, about a quarter of twins are born vaginally, so there must be OBs who support planned vaginal birth even without the results of randomized control trial (RCT, considered the gold standard for evidence-based practice) that show it is safe as the alternative.\nI would always recommend working with OBs who practice evidence based medicine and with OBs who don\u2019t feel that their own preferences entitle them to perform unnecessary surgery on other people.\n* Michael Green has an editorial in the NEJM to accompany the twin study article. Here is the link, but you need a subscription to read it.\nTags C-section, Caesarean section, Childbirth, New England Journal of Medicine, Twin, Vaginal birth, woman as human\nCategories Birth, Preterm Birth\n[\u2026] human with uterus Pregnancy * Birth * Lactation * Personhood \u00ab More Surgery for Fun and Profit [\u2026]\n[\u2026] have posted on vaginal birth vs. cesarean for twin delivery. A new, high-quality study shows that planned cesarean does not improve outcomes for twins as long as Twin A is head down. [\u2026]\n[\u2026] a woman who told her OB that she refused to schedule a routine C section for her twin pregnancy (not evidence based) reported that she was [\u2026]\nAvoid an Unnecesarean | human with uterus says:\n[\u2026] First Visit (7 weeks), \u201dCongratulations you are having twins. I will go ahead and schedule your C/S at 38 weeks, but don\u2019t worry if you go in to labor early I will cut you right away!\u201d Translation, \u201cI am scared out of my mind for you to deliver your babies vaginally because I am not trained on what to do when the second baby is coming, plus it pays more to cut you open. Oh yeah, I don\u2019t have that great a rapport with you because I only spend 2 minutes (fundal height, heart beat and \u2018I\u2019ll see you next time\u2019) with you each visit, so I am afraid I will be sued for trying to do the right thing.\u201d (note from Human with Uterus: planned cesarean for twins is not evidence based.) [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iantheswriting.com/2006/06/25/i-am-alive/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:48Z", "digest": "sha1:DEA7HWRYSVAP7FXLRL2EA7GQXJ7CT7VJ", "length": 1578, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "iantheswriting.com", "title": "I am alive \u2013 And another thing\u2026", "raw_content": "I know that I have been really quiet now for a good few weeks. What with hospital appointments and exams, and then a really crummy time at work things have been a little bit hectic.\nWork has been really diabolical. While I was away (study leave) they had a huge meeting in which they announced to all stuff that not only were the majority of staff not getting bonuses (i.e. all the staff that already got crap salaries) but we are also not getting pay rises. That\u2019s fine, they have already lost about 50 staff in the last 4 months or so, some of them rather high up, including a Director\u2026but now they are telling the staff that could really do with money because the mandatory payrises were a pile of pointless low numbers that they aren\u2019t going to get anything extra. Needless to say, I am now looking for a new job!\nAll I really have to say to the idea of them is \u201cThank god that they are over\u2026\u201d well, that is of course guaranteeing that I passed them. If I didn\u2019t then I will have to go through all that again in October, but at present I am just waiting and seeing!\nNot much else is going on. I have been pretty much trying to write something that doesn\u2019t resemble fanfic (and sort of managing), and trying to find a life that doesn\u2019t focus entirely on studying and a job that shows no reward. Also I have been wanting not to spend all my time on LJ ranting about how crap things are.\nAnd that\u2019s it. Really this post is just an assurance that I am still around.\nPosted in College, Life, RandomTagged College, Random, Work\nPrevious postF*cking World Cup Shite!\nNext postBlech", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://idateadvice.com/dating-over-50-is-it-a-good-idea-to-move-in-with-your-new-partner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WFFFLVKWY7ATDXHRAK5FWHQEUH6WJBUV", "length": 6027, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "idateadvice.com", "title": "Dating Over 50: Is It a Good Idea to Move in with Your New Partner?", "raw_content": "In Australia, it\u2019s very common to see couples who have been together for nearly three decades have never lived together. For instance, Kate and Larry (both in their 50s) have been dating since 1992, but they still live separately (in two different houses) & their relationship has been great! You may wonder why, right? In fact, Kate and Larry see each other almost every day, and Kate goes to Larry\u2019s house to stay the night at least once a week. But they choose not to move in & here\u2019s their reasons for senior dating in this way:\nLiving together means this relationship is actually a marriage which brings more liabilities than benefits. According to the law in Australia, as long as a couple have lived together for at least 12 months, they can apply for property settlement when they break up. Therefore, if Kate and Larry actually lived together for at least one year, they might begin to worry about their finances \u2013 and anxiety can lead to problems in a relationship, which may cause a breakup. That\u2019s why not living together actually gives both of them peace of mind, and peace of mind is the most important factor in a person\u2019s health and wellbeing, isn\u2019t it? Experts claim that dating over 50 should be stress-free if people would like to make the most of senior dating. And money problems are usually the No. 1 stress in modern-day society, so why not avoid it in the first place by not moving in with your new partner?\nLiving separately maintains the spark between them. When there is some distance between a man and a woman, the relationship is actually healthier. In contrast, when a man and a woman are too close to each other, there is no room to breathe. Consequently, human nature will probably find a way for them to separate from each other. No wonder the divorce rate is increasing these days. According to Kate and Larry, their relationship is very sustainable because they give each other space by not living together. They still share a lot with each other, but they don\u2019t spend 24/7 together all the time. That\u2019s their secret of keeping their relationship alive and colorful.\nCan you afford to live separately? Theoretically, living separately sounds so cool. But realistically, living in two different houses means there are more bills to pay! In other words, you can save money by living together & two people living individually increase their cost of living automatically. As a matter of fact, most senior singles have more money than younger people in the dating scene; thus, the majority of senior singles looking for love can afford to live individually when they find someone suitable. However, if you are a pensioner and don\u2019t have financial abundance, you probably should consider living with your new partner so that your financial stress can be alleviated, which is very important to your health and wellbeing in the long term.\nLiving individually is a popular way of being together for senior daters. It is said that having regular sex is one of the benefits of living together. But I have to argue that living together actually doesn\u2019t help you improve your sex life because sleeping in the same bed every night desensitizes your physical desire. Also, when you know you can have sex with your partner any time you want, you tend to make less effort in front of your partner. Yet when you only sleep with your partner once a week, chances are you will want to make an effort to impress your partner. That\u2019s a very good way to improve your sex life. Statistics show that senior daters who live individually have a much lower breakup rate than those who live with their partners. This is very true for dating over 50.\nIf you don\u2019t want to become your partner\u2019s purse or nurse, try not to live together. A very realistic issue faced by senior singles looking for love is that as people get older, their physical health gets worse. As a consequence, when you think you\u2019ve found a good partner on a senior dating site, that person can become sick and need long-term care from you. Are you sure you are ready to do that for 10-20 years? Unless that person is the mother/father of your children, you probably don\u2019t want to do that. (Well, even if that\u2019s the mother/father of your kids, you might still say no.) Hence, if you don\u2019t want to become a nurse, try not to move in with your new partner. Also, if you know your new partner doesn\u2019t have much money and they want to live with you in order to lower their cost of living, then you must be careful \u2013 don\u2019t become that person\u2019s purse!\nEven if you decide to move in with your new partner, consulting with a lawyer before doing that is necessary in senior dating. We understand that some senior singles looking for love actually want to find a new partner and live with them. That\u2019s okay! But before joining a free senior dating website, please consult with a lawyer first. There are two reasons: 1) You need to know how to protect your money. Because the breakup rate is quite high in this day and age, your partner may claim half of your money when they leave you. So, you should ask the lawyer to give you legal advice before moving in with your new partner. 2) You need to know how to protect your children\u2019s money, i.e. your money will become your children\u2019s money when you pass away. That means if you live with your partner, will your partner become a member of the beneficiaries in your Will automatically? You can only answer this question after speaking to a lawyer. Therefore, you would be well-advised to invest in good legal advice now. Yes, senior dating isn\u2019t the most romantic thing in the world when it comes to money, but handling your money correctly is the prerequisite of enjoying this new romance!\ndating over 50, senior singles looking for love\nA difficult part of life is to deal with the emotional pain...\nPrevious articleHow to get your hot girlfriend to pay you.\nNext articleLuxury Gifts You Can Give Your Rich Woman for Christmas, New Year or Valentine\u2019s Day\n10 Biggest Mistakes Men Dating Mexican Women Always Make", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 8158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-4458-3-5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XMJNLURKVNKPFYLYP267XLWTCVPFNGIZ", "length": 25655, "nlines": 91, "source_domain": "ijmhs.biomedcentral.com", "title": "Knowledge, attitudes and practice pertaining to depression among primary health care workers in Tanzania | International Journal of Mental Health Systems | Full Text", "raw_content": "Knowledge, attitudes and practice pertaining to depression among primary health care workers in Tanzania\nJoseph Mbatia1,\nAjit Shah2 and\nRachel Jenkins3Email author\n\u00a9 Mbatia et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2009\nExamination of consultation data in a variety of primary care settings in Tanzania shows that, while psychoses are routinely diagnosed and treated at primary care level, depression is rarely recorded as a reason for consultation. Since, epidemiological studies elswhere show that depression is a much more common disorder than psychosis, a series of studies were undertaken to elucidate this apparent paradox in Tanzania and inform mental health policy; firstly, a household prevalence study to ascertain the prevalence of common mental disorders at community level in Tanzania; secondly, a study to ascertain the prevalence of common mental disorders in primary care attenders; and thirdly, a study to ascertain the current status of the knowledge, attitude and practice pertaining to depression among primary health care workers. This paper reports the findings of the latter study.\nAll the primary health care workers (N = 14) in four primary health care centres in Tanzania were asked to complete the Depression Attitude Questionnaire, which assesses the health worker's knowledge and attitude towards the causes, consequences and treatment of depression.\nThe majority of respondents felt that rates of depression had increased in recent years, believed that life events were important in the aetiology of depression, and generally held positive views about pharmacological and psychological treatments of depression, prognosis and their own involvement in the treatment of depressed patients.\nHowever, the majority of respondents felt that becoming depressed is a way that people with poor stamina deal with life difficulties.\nThe findings suggest a need to strengthen the training of primary health care workers in Tanzania about the detection of depression, pharmacological and psychological treatments, and psychosocial interventions.\nHuman resources devoted to health systems in sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. In order to bring health care to the population, strategic primary care structures have evolved, although there is widespread concern about their performance and capacity to deliver in resource poor settings. Primary care of mental disorders is crucial in all parts of the world because of the sheer scale of psychiatric morbidity, and specially in sub-Saharan Africa where specialist expertise is very scarce. Tanzania only has 13 psychiatrists for a population of 37 million, and nine of these psychiatrists are in Dar es Salaam. In fact Tanzania has produced a total of 25 psychiatrists, of whom 11 are working in the Tanzanian public service, 2 work in private practice, 9 are aborad and 2 have retired. In addition, 1000 mental health nurses have been trained, but only 460 are currently deployed in the mental health services.\nExamination of consultation data in primary care settings in Tanzania shows that while psychoses are routinely diagnosed and treated at primary care level, depression is rarely recorded as a reason for consultation. Since depression is much more common than psychosis, a series of studies were intiated to elucidate the situation and inform mental health policy in Tanzania. Firstly a household prevalence study was initiated to ascertain the prevalence of mental disorders at community level, secondly a study to ascertain the prevalence of common mental disorders in primary care attenders and thirdly a study to ascertain the current status of the knowledge, attitude and practice pertaining to depression among primary health care workers. This paper reports the findings of the latter study.\nThe Tanzanian primary health care system has several levels or tiers. The first tier consists of volunteer village health workers, who each look after about 50 houses, have a first aid box, and are taught to give injections, wash and dress wounds etc. The second tier is the dispensary level, each covering about 10,000 population and staffed by rural medical aides and clinical officers, who are primary school leavers with a period of 3 years training in assessment, diagnosis and management of some general physical health conditions (e.g. malaria, maternal health, tuberculosis, leprosy, parasitic infections and other infectious diseases). Thus the catchment area of each dispensary might be expected to have at least 50 people with schizophrenia, 50 people with bipolar illness, 250\u2013400 people with severe depression, and 50 people with epilepsy. However, in practice a large proportion of people consult traditional healers first [1\u20133], the rural medical aides lack the necessary medical skills to assess and treat, and do not have appropriate psychotropic medications. Dispensaries may also have one bed for overnight observations. The third tier is the health centre level, covering a population of 120,000 to 150,000, of which there are 3 or 4 in a district. They have a clinical officer and qualified nurses who may also have additional training in midwifery, psychiatry, opthalmology, ENT etc. These health centres essentially function as out-patient clinics and may also have 2\u20134 inpatients beds, where patients may be treated for 2 to 3 days before discharge or referral to a district hospital. However, these facilities are not evenly distributed and in some areas this service is provided by non-governmental organisations rather than the state. The fourth tier is the district hospital.\nThere have been very few prevalence studies of mental disorders in primary care settings in Tanzania.\nA Tanzanian study of primary health care attenders (tier 3) and those consulting traditional healers, using the Clinical Interview Schedule (Revised) [4], reported prevalence rates of common mental disorders as 24% and 48% in these two settings respectively [5]. The prevalence rates of depression, mixed anxiety-depressive disorder, phobias and obsessive compulsive disorders among primary care attenders were 3.3%, 15.2%, 7.3% and 5.1% respectively; the corresponding figures in those consulting traditional healers were 14.2%, 27.8%, 2.2% and 5.1% [5]. A population-based study in Zanzibar, one of the two political units of the United Republic of Tanzania, reported a prevalence rate of 0.55% of mental disorders, but no cases of depression were identified [1]. However, the low prevalence of mental disorders and the absence of depression was likely to have been an artefact of the method of case ascertainment, whereby household members were asked to identify those with mental disorders on the basis of a description of symptoms, and this approach was heavily biased towards presence of behaviour disturbance and psychosis. Twenty percent of referrals to a specialist mental health unit in Dar es Salaam had neurotic (non-psychotic common mental) disorders [6]. There have been no previous studies of attitudes to depression amongst primary care attenders in Tanzania.\nThe National Mental Health Pilot Programme in Tanzania, [7, 8], aimed to provide seamless mental health care at all tiers of primary care through to specialist psychiatric services and raise the awareness of mental health in communities. It informed the Tanzanian government's overall health policy of 1990 which included mental health in primary health care and made provision for the basic primary care health structure to diagnose and treat mental disorders.\nHowever, due to lack of government financing in subsequent years, it was not possible to sustain the implementation of this policy across Tanzania over the ensuing years, until in 2002/3 when mental health has now been included in the national health sector strategic plan, enabling some continuing professional development for primary care to restart. This paper therefore reports a study of four pilot health clinics in urban Dar es Salaam, which had not been part of the earlier National Mental Health Pilot (held in Kilimanjaro and Morogoro regions). The study was conducted prior to the re-initiation of the continuing professional development programme for primary care.\nThe study population in Tanzania consisted of all health workers employed in four primary health care clinics (third tier), selected as a convenience sample, in urban Dar es Salaam. The health workers were ten nurses with a three year or four year general nurse training, and four assistant medical officers with a three year training. They had received a short mental health module in their basic training, received according to the Tanzanian national curricula, but had not at that time received any mental health continuing professional development (CPD) since their basic training. This situation was similar to that pertaining across East Africa and indeed sub Saharan Africa, although there are now systematic efforts to provide mental health CPD across several regions of Tanzania, and some other countries including a national programme in Kenya, and a pilot programme in Malawi (all to be reported elsewhere). Staff numbers were low in the four clinics since health workers are scarce in sub Saharan Africa. We studied staff attitudes in these four clinics as part of a wider study (to be reported elsewhere) which also examined the GHQ prevalence of attenders in those clinics over a representative week.\nThe Depression Attitude Questionnaire (DAQ) [9], is a self completion questionnaire which assesses health workers knowledge and attitude towards the causes, consequences and treatment of depression. Each question has four possible responses: strongly disagree, moderately disagree, moderately agree and strongly agree. The DAQ was translated into Swahili by a psychiatrist and back translated into English by a sociologist to check for accuracy for use in the Tanzanian context. The back translation confirmed the accuracy of the original translation into Swahili. Some questions were adapted for local circumstances. Although it was originally devised for use in the United Kingdom, it has been successfully used in a number of other countries, including Brazil [10], and Abu Dhabi [11].\nThe primary health care workers were asked to complete the DAQ on a specified day.\nThe data was transcribed on to an SPSS sheet, entered into a computerised database and analysed using SPSS. Simple descriptive statistics were used to describe the responses to the questions on the DAQ. For the purpose of analysis the categories of strongly disagree and moderately disagree were collapsed into a single category of disagree; the same was repeated for the two categories of agree.\nAll 14 primary health care workers in the four primary care clinics in Tanzania completed the DAQ. All the primary health care workers were between the ages of 40 years and 55 years (except one whose age was 27 years), half were males and half were females. Table 1 shows the responses to the DAQ questions.\nTanzanian responses to DAQ\nDAQ question\nDont' know N (%)\nDuring the last 5 years I have seen an increase in the number of patients presenting with depressive symptoms\nThe majority of depression we see originated from recent misfortune\nMost depressive disorders improve without medication\nBiochemical abnormality is at the basis of more severe depression\nDifficult to differentiate unhappiness or a clinical depressive disorder that needs treatment\nIt is possible to distinguish two groups of depression, one psychological in origin and the other caused by biochemical mechanisms\nBecoming depressed is a way that people with poor stamina deal with life difficulties\nDepressed patients are more likely to have experienced deprivation in early life than other people\nI feel comfortable dealing with depressed patients\nDepression reflects a characteristic response which is not amenable to change\nBecoming depressed is a natural part of becoming old\nThe primary health care worker could be a useful person to support depressed patients\nWorking with depressed patients is heavy going\nThere is little to be offered to depressed patients who do not respond to what primary health care workers do\nIt is rewarding to look after depressed patients\nIf depressed patients need antidepressants, they are better off with psychiatrists than with primary health care workers\nAntidepressants usually produce a satisfactory result in the treatment of depressed patients in general practice\nPsychotherapy for depressed patients should be left to a specialist\nIf psychotherapy were freely available, this would be more beneficial than antidepressants for most depressed patients\nRates of depression\nThe vast majority of primary care workers perceived an increase in the rates of depression in the last five years.\nStigmatising attitudes to depression\nAlmost two-thirds of the sample believed that becoming depressed is a way that people with poor stamina deal with life difficulties, but almost two thirds disagreed with the statement that becoming depressed is part of growing old.\nAbility to diagnose depression and categorising depression\nTwo thirds did not feel they had difficulties in differentiating between unhappiness and a clinical depressive disorder that requires treatment, and, the majority of primary care workers felt that it is possible to distinguish two main groups of depression, one psychological in origin and the other caused by biological mechanisms.\nThe vast majority of primary care workers acknowledged the role of life events in the development of depression.; however, only 29% believed that depressed patients are more likely to have experienced deprivation early in life. The majority of primary care workers believed that biochemical abnormality was the basis of severe depression.\nAttitudes to treating depression\nThe vast majority of primary care workers felt comfortable dealing with depressed patients and felt that they could be a useful person to support depressed patients. The majority of primary care workers felt that it was rewarding to work with depressed patients, but found working with depressed patients \"heavy going\". Two-thirds of primary care workers disagreed with the statement that there is little to be offered to those depressed patients who do not respond to treatment from them.\nHalf of the sample disagreed with the statement that depressive disorders improve without medication. The vast majority of primary care workers believed that psychotherapy would be more beneficial than antidepressants for most depressed patients. Only 40% of primary health care workers believed that if depressed patients need antidepressants, they would be better off with psychiatrists than community health workers; but 70% primary care workers agreed with the statement that psychotherapy for depressed patients should be left to specialists.\nPrognosis of depression\nOver two-thirds of primary care workers disagreed with the statement that depression reflects a characteristic response which is not amenable to change.\nAlmost four-fifths of primary care workers felt that antidepressants usually produce a satisfactory result in the treatment of depressed patients in general practice.\nThis is the first study of attitudes, knowledge and practice about depression in primary care workers in Tanzania, and it found that the majority of respondents felt that rates of depression had increased in recent years, believed that life events were important in the aetiology of depression, and generally held positive views about pharmacological and psychological treatments of depression, prognosis and their own involvement in the treatment of depressed patients.\nThe study is limited by the small size of the sample of primary care workers, and by the fact that they were all working in Dar es Salaam, so the results may not be generalised to the rest of the country.\nIt is not known whether rates of depression are in fact increasing, but we have conducted a baseline study of common mental disorders in urban Tanzania (Jenkins et al 2009-submitted to JAMA) so it will be possible to repeat this and assess prevalence trends. Indeed, it is possible that rates are not increasing susbstantially, but rather that awareness of depression is rising in the general population and in health workers.\nThe majority of respondents reported felt that becoming depressed is a way that people with poor stamina deal with life difficulties. The finding that the majority of the sample felt that it is possible to distinguish two main groups of depression, one psychological in origin and the other caused by biological mechanisms, and only a third reported difficulties in differentiating between unhappiness and a clinical depressive disorder that requires treatment, is in fact somewhat better than observations among general practitioners in other countries [10].\nThe majority of the sample did however hold some stigmatising attititudes about depression, (believing that becoming depressed is a way that people with poor stamina deal with life difficulties) which may contribute to the difficulty which some experience in differentiation between unhappiness and clinically significant depressive illness. However, it was encouraging that the vast majority of primary care workers disagreed that becoming depressed is part of growing old. It was also encouraging that the vast majority of primary care workers acknowledged the role of life events in the development of depression, and nearly a third believed that depressed patients are more likely to have experienced deprivation early in life than other people; The aetiological importance attached to life events and deprivation early in life is consistent with previous studies in East Africa [12\u201315], and training in the detection and treatment of mental illness should also incorporate the increasing body of literature on risk factors and life events related to the development of depression in Kenya and Tanzania. Food insecurity was associated with depression and anxiety in four ethnic groups in rural communities in Tanzania [16]. The majority belief that biochemical abnormality is the basis of severe depression is consistent with similar observations among general practitioners in other countries [5].\nThe attitudes of the sample to treatment were mixed, It was encouraging that over two-thirds of the primary care workers on Tanzania mainland disagreed with the statement that depression is not amenable to change, and this is consistent with observations in Zanzibar in a mixed sample, including health workers and traditional healers [2].\nAbout half of the primary care workers disagreed with the statement that depressive disorders improve without medication, and the vast majority felt that antidepressants usually produce a satisfactory result in the treatment of depressed patients in primary care, a finding consistent with observations among general practitioners in other countries [5, 10]. Nevertheless, three-fifths of patients referred to a Tanzanian specialist psychiatric clinic had previously received inadequate treatment with psychotropics and 17% of patients had received treatment with antimalarials for their mental illness [5]. Fourty percent of primary health care workers belived that if depressed people need antidepressants they would be better off with psychiatrists than community health workers, and this has been observed among general practitioners in other countries [10].\nAs found in general practitioners in other countries [5], the vast majority of primary care workers believed that psychotherapy would be more beneficial than antidepressants for most depressed patients. Nonetheless four-fifths of primary care workers agreed with the statement that psychotherapy for depressed patients should be left to specialists, and this is also consistent with observations among general practitioners in other countries [10].\nIt is encouraging that the majority of primary care workers in Tanzania felt comfortable dealing with depressed patients, that they could be a useful person to support depressed patients, that it was rewarding to work with depressed patients, and they disagreed that there is little to be offered to those depressed patients who do not respond to treatment from them.\nHowever, the majority of primary care workers in Tanzania found working with depressed patients \"heavy going\". These findings have been observed among general practitioners in other countries [5, 10]. This paradox of high prevalence rates, toegther with low levels of treatment but nonetheless generally positive attitudes has been found in a number of countries [17], and can be addressed by a systematic approach as set out in the recent WHO Guidance on intergation of mental health in primary care [18].\nDepressive illness is under-diagnosed and under-treated in primary health care setting throughout the world [17]. The generally positive attitudes towards depression found in this study of primary care workers in Tanzania may be capitalised on in the training and continuing professional development of primary health care workers in the detection and management of depression. This is now being conducted across several regions of Tanzania, and across all regions of Kenya, both through structured one week ministry of health programmes, accompanied by provision of WHO primary care guidelines, tailored for each country, medicine supply to the clinics, incusion of mental health in health management information systems, and regular supervision from the district level, funded by the national health sector reforms.\nWe are grateful to the staff of the primary care centres who participated in the study.\nThe project was conceived and designed by RJ who wrote the first draft of the paper, data was collected by JM, analysed by AS and all authors contributed to the final draft.\nMinistry of Health,, Dar es Salaam,, Tanzania\nInstitute for Philosophy,, Diversity and Mental Health, Centre for Ethnicity and Health, University of Central Lancashire,, Preston,, UK\nWHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Section of Mental Health Policy,, Health Service and Population Research Department, PO35, David Goldberg Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park,, SE5 8AF, London,, UK\nBondestam S, Garssen J, Abdulwakil A: Prevalence and treatment of mental disorders and epilepsy in Zanzibar. 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Geneva: WHO, [http://www.who.int/mental_health/policy/services/index.html]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 28955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-4458-5-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:09Z", "digest": "sha1:AHKCUEFL6ZSVSG7WHSIEVUOKDJI3VTTD", "length": 46723, "nlines": 214, "source_domain": "ijmhs.biomedcentral.com", "title": "Three models of community mental health services In low-income countries | International Journal of Mental Health Systems | Full Text", "raw_content": "Three models of community mental health services In low-income countries\nAlex Cohen1Email author,\nJulian Eaton2,\nBirgit Radtke3,\nChristina George4,\nBro Victor Manuel5,\nMary De Silva1 and\nVikram Patel1\n\u00a9 Cohen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011\nTo compare and contrast three models of community mental health services in low-income settings.\nData Sources/Study Setting\nPrimary and secondary data collected before, during, and after site visits to mental health programs in Nigeria, the Philippines, and India.\nQualitative case study methodology.\nData were collected through interviews and observations during site visits to the programs, as well as from reviews of documentary evidence.\nA set of narrative topics and program indicators were used to compare and contrast three community mental health programs in low-income countries. This allowed us to identify a diversity of service delivery models, common challenges, and the strengths and weaknesses of each program. More definitive evaluations will require the establishment of data collection methods and information systems that provide data about the clinical and social outcomes of clients, as well as their use of services.\nCommunity mental health programs in low-income countries face a number of challenges. Using a case study methodology developed for this purpose, it is possible to compare programs and begin to assess the effectiveness of diverse service delivery models.\nLivelihood Program\nGlobal Mental Health has emerged as a significant field in public health [1], as evidenced by series in The Lancet[2\u20137] and PLoS Medicine[8\u201314], as well as by the establishment of the WHO mental health Gap Action Programme [15] and the development of intervention guidelines for the treatment of mental, neurological and substance use disorders in non-specialized settings [16]. However, a major obstacle to the goal of improving and expanding mental health services in low-income countries (LIC) is the comparative lack of evidence about how mental health services in LIC function in actual practice [17]. The Case Studies Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was established with the objective of developing a methodology to address this deficiency. In this paper, we compare and contrast three models of community mental health services in low-income settings, based on information gathered according to a qualitative case study methodology that we have developed.\nThe three programs that are the foci of this paper are:\nServices for People with Disabilities, Abuja, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria;\nHoly Face Rehabilitation Center for Mental Health, Tabaco City, Albay Province, the Philippines;\nAsia Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program, Karakonam, Kerala, India.\nThe programs that were to be the subjects of the case studies were selected by the CBM Mental Health Advisory Working Group. All of the programs described here are funded, in part, by CBM, an international non-governmental organization that funds programs for persons with disabilities in many of the world's poorest countries.\nA qualitative case study methodology was employed to document the services of the three programs. The major component of the study was site visits (by AC) of five to ten days to each program: November 2008 and January 2009 (Nigeria), June 2009 (the Philippines), and November 2009 (India). Site visit activities included accompanying staff in the field and on home visits, observing community clinics, visiting with Self-Help Groups, and interviewing staff. Whenever possible, documentary evidence was utilized to confirm and/or augment the information collected during site visits.\nInformation about the programs was collected according to a set of narrative topics and program-level indicators (Table 1) that were developed and refined during the course of the study.\nNarrative topics, program-level indicators and outcome measures\nNarrative topics\n\u2022 Context and history of the program\n\u2022 Present status\n\u2022 Nature of interventions\n\u25cb Clinical\n\u25cb Psychosocial\n\u2022 Engagement with political systems\n\u2022 Health systems in which program functions\nProgram-level indicators\n\u2022 Use of protocols and guidelines\n\u2022 Medication supplies\n\u2022 Accessibility of services\n\u2022 Case-finding methods\n\u2022 Treatment coverage\n\u2022 Self-Help Groups & Livelihood Programs\n\u2022 Referral systems\n\u2022 Program costs\n\u2022 Symptom severity\n\u2022 Functional status\nObservations, information about the programs and interviews with key personnel were documented by AC in narrative accounts of site visits. When possible, interviews were audio-recorded and then transcribed. Program records were reviewed to collect statistical data. Information was also derived from documents, e.g. brochures, materials on the internet, annual reports, and periodic site visit reports by CBM staff. After the site visits, AC often asked (via email) program and CBM staff to fill in gaps in the information already collected.\nFollowing the site visits, AC converted the narrative accounts, transcripts of interviews, and, whenever possible, the documentary evidence, into text files that were analyzed (HyperResearch, version 2.8.3) according to the narrative topics and program-level indicators. Site visit reports were then prepared by AC and, to be certain that the reports were accurate and did not contain significant gaps, circulated among the heads of the programs, the CBM Mental Health Advisory Working Group, and the co-authors at LSHTM. To present the results here, we have arranged information about the programs into the following domains: History and context; Pathways to care and characteristics of clients; Treatment coverage; Accessibility of services; Clinical interventions; Psychosocial Interventions; Referral pathways; Outcomes.\nHistory, context, and organization\nThe three programs discussed here all began operations in the period 2004-2006 when CBM piloted a number of community mental health programs in order to assess their feasibility and effectiveness when carried out as components of Community-Based Rehabilitation projects in LIC. The program in Abuja, Services for People with Disabilities, was established because several CBM staff recognized the need for mental health care - mainly for psychosis and epilepsy - in Nigeria. The Holy Face Rehabilitation Center for Mental Health, in Tabaco City, the Philippines, was established, first, as a result of discussions between CBM and the Brothers of Charity - a non-governmental organization with a focus on care for persons with mental disorders - and, second, because a Bishop in the Bicol Region of the Philippines appealed to the Brothers to provide care for mentally ill indigents. The Asia Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program evolved out of the crisis brought about by the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that devastated communities on the southwestern coast of India in the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu.\nThe Abuja program operates in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, which encompasses the central city of Abuja, a number of satellite towns, and large rural areas with dispersed populations. The Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja operates and partially funds the program. CBM provides about half the funding. The long-term goal is to have the Archdiocese support the program entirely, with CBM providing expertise and occasional financial assistance. Mental health services are just one component of Services for People With Disabilities, a Community-Based Rehabilitation program that provides services for a range of physical disabilities, as well as psychosocial interventions to promote economic integration and social inclusion. The program employs 17 field workers who are each based in a different zone of the Federal Capital Territory. The field workers are responsible for case-finding and follow-up of all clients, not just those receiving mental health services. One community psychiatric nurse is responsible for the clinical care of all mental health clients (Table 2).\nThree models of community mental health services in low-resource settings\nHoly Face Rehabilitation Center for Mental Health\nAsia Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program\nTabaco City, Albay Province, Philippines\nDr Somerville Memorial CSI Medical College & Hospital, Karakonam, Kerala India\nCommunity catchment areas: Pozhiyoor, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Thuthoor & Colachel, Kanyakumari,Tamil Nadu\n8,000 sq km [29]\nAlbay Province: 2,553 sq km\nKerala: 25 sq km*\nBicol Region: 18,130 sq km [30]\nKanyakumari: 60 sq km\nAlbay Province: 1.3 million Bicol Region: 5.7 million [30]\nSocioeconomic Context\nLow-income, but within a region of great economic inequalities\nMostly low-income\n.511 (Nigeria) [31]\n.577 (Albay Province) [32]\n.763 (Kanyakumari, TN) [34]\n.775 (Kerala) [33]\nMental health services comprise one component of a multi-faceted CBR program\nResidential facility and outpatient clinic; on-going collaborations with 2 CBR programs and local governments\nInpatient and outpatient clinics at a general hospital; community-based activities and clinics; collaboration with CBR program\n\u2022 Archdiocese of Abuja\n\u2022 CBM\n\u2022 Internally generated revenue from drug receipts\n\u2022 Brothers of Charity\n\u2022 Municipalities of Tiwi and Tabaco City subsidize client expenses and provide transportation to outpatient clinic.\n\u2022 Dr Somerville Memorial CSI Medical College & Hospital\u2020\n1 Program Coordinator\n17 FWs\n1 Physio assistant\n1 Special Educationalist\n1 consulting psychiatrist\u2021\n2 social workers\n1 field worker\n1 psychiatrist\n6 Brothers of Charity; 2 security guards; 1 driver; 1 maintenance person; 1 cook; 1 laundry person\n2 psychiatrists\u00a7\n1 psychologist\u00a7\n1 social worker\u00a7\nCase-finding\nActive presence of FWs in the community; community clinics.\nEnrolled 76 new clients (2008): 80% epilepsy, 20% psychosis.\nNo direct outreach. Have trained community health workers who, in turn, refer clients.\n354 new clients (2008); 119 new clients (first six months of 2009). Data (2007) suggest \u224880% of new clients have schizophrenia, remainder appear to have major depressive disorder.\nHouse-to-house surveys in catchment areas (\u22482,000 house visits)\nCases detected = 181\n\u2022 CMD = 94\n\u2022 Psychosis = 55\n\u2022 Other = 32\nNew cases recruited = 60\nFWs and CPN will hold periodic meetings in local churches; FWs will consult with parish priests and village chiefs\nSocial workers and nurses will hold periodic community workshops and mental health trainings for local government health workers and NGO community volunteers\nAll staff participate in community meetings; consultations with parish priests\nHome visits by FWs; follow-up treatment during home visits by CPN or community clinics\nEvery week, FW looks for clients who have not returned to outpatient clinic; presence of local government and NGO health workers in the community.\nFollow-up treatment in weekly outpatient clinic.\nHome visits by CVs; follow-up treatment in community clinics and/or at the hospital\n\u224888 per month (2008)**\n354 new clients (2008)\n119 new clients (Jan-May 2009)\u2020\u2020\nSince 2004,120 admitted to residential facility & about 1,800 seen as outpatients (as of May 2009)\n70 to 120 patients are seen in the outpatient clinic each week\nInpatient facility never has more than 20 residents.\nColachel: 90 received services, and, of these, 25 received inpatient treatment and followed-up in the community. 30 active clients as of December.\nPozhiyoor: 35 clients received services; of these, 5 received inpatient treatment.\nThuthoor and surrounding areas: 42 clients received services. Of these, 22 accessed care first at the hospital and subsequently followed in the community.\nEpilepsy (\u224875%) & psychosis\nPsychosis & CMD\nCMD (\u224850%)\nPsychosis (\u224825%)\nOther disorders (\u224825%)\nOlder psychotropic medications\nFull range of psychotropic medications; specialist psychotherapy and non-specialist counseling\nSHGs (3)\nFSGs; livelihood activities Supporting FSGs in 4 municipalities and 1 island in Albay Province (as of June 2009)\nSHGs; livelihood activities; prevention and promotion groups; community workshops 14 SHGs with a total of 204 members, of whom 36 (almost 18%) were clients and caregivers (Nov 2009).\n* Does not include areas added in 2010-2011\n\u2020 Dr Somervell Memorial CSI Medical College & Hospital provides a portion of staff salaries, as well as administrative and infrastructure support. Patients are eligible to buy insurance that is subsidized by the college. This will partially cover costs of the program.\n\u2021 CBM Mental Health Advisor, supporting many similar projects, all of which receive occasional support visits.\n\u00a7 These staff are based at the hospital and have duties that are not part of the program.\n** Estimated from number of client visits in the year\n\u2020\u2020 No information on number of active clients\nThe Tabaco City program was established as a residential facility for people with chronic psychoses and an outpatient clinic for individuals suffering from a range of mental disorders. The program receives funding from the Brothers of Charity and, through the end of 2010 received support from CBM Australia, which is presently reviewing a Tabaco City program proposal for multi-year support. Two local municipalities - Tiwi and Tabaco City - provide limited funding for clients in the residential program and for the purchase of medications for outpatients. The inpatient and outpatient facilities are located about 12 km from the center of Tabaco City, on 10 acres of a former coconut plantation at the foot of Mt. Mayon, an active volcano. The staff consists of two social workers, three nurses, one psychiatrist (who works one day a week), and one field worker who have a degree in sociology. The program also employs administrative and house keeping staff. In addition, several of the resident Brothers of Charity conduct classes for the residential clients (Table 2).\nThe Karakonam program is based in the Department of Psychiatry at Dr. Somervell Memorial CSI Medical College & Hospital. The program is funded by CBM, but salaries for staff are paid, in part, by the hospital, which also provides the infrastructure for the inpatient and outpatient facilities and makes it possible for the program to offer inpatient care for people with acute psychiatric episodes and serious medical conditions. The hospital's catchment area covers the Trivandrum and Kanyakumari districts of Kerala and Tamil Nadu, respectively, but the mental health program covers a much smaller areas. The program maintains offices in the communities of Colachel, Pozhiyoor, and Thuthoor, and offers monthly clinics in the first two, while clients in the third must travel to the hospital for treatment. Clients in Colachel and Pozhiyoor can also, if they choose, to seek treatment at the hospital. The program employs two psychiatrists (part-time in the community, the remainder in the hospital), one part-time psychologist, three social workers, and 10 community volunteers (Table 2).\nSalaries for staff in all of the programs are comparatively low, particularly for the lay mental health workers in the Abuja and Karakonam programs.\nThe programs all function in regions with high levels of poverty. According to the Human Development Index, a composite measure of life expectancy, education levels, and standard of living, the areas in which the Karakonam program functions appear to be better off than Albay Province and Nigeria as a whole (Table 2).\nHealth services, in general, are lacking in Abuja, and virtually nonexistent for neuropsychiatric disorders. The Karakonam program operates within a complex health system of private, non-profit, government, and Ayurvedic services - although the available practitioners are not sufficiently trained to treat mental disorders effectively. The Tabaco City program operates in a setting somewhere in-between, although Albay Province, with its hospitals (e.g., the Bicol Medical Center, which includes a psychiatric facility) more closely resembles the southwest coastal region of India than Abuja. Seeking the help of traditional or alternative healers is common in Nigeria and India; anecdotal evidence suggests that this is not true in Albay Province. In regard to mental health services, specifically, precise data are not available for the program settings. However, data from the WHO Project Atlas [18] indicate that mental health resources are extremely limited in Nigeria, India, and the Philippines.\nBecause of the size of the catchment areas, or in the case of the Karakonam program the need to travel one to two hours from the hospital to reach the communities being served, provision of transportation for staff is critical. The Abuja program provides field workers with motorbikes. The program also owns a pick-up truck that is used to transport the community psychiatric nurse and the psychiatrist when conducting field visits. The Tabaco City program mostly relies on public transportation for staff to travel to meetings in the community. Staff are reimbursed for these costs. Hospital-based staff in the Karakonam program are driven to the catchment areas by a car service that is associated with the hospital. A motorbike was given to one of the social workers so that he could travel among the catchment areas. The community volunteers walk or take public transportation in the course of their fieldwork or to attend meetings at the hospital. The program reimburses them for their transportation costs.\nPathways to care & characteristics of clients\nThe Abuja program field workers and the Karakonam program community volunteers conduct active case-finding. This entails going house-to-house in search of potential clients and consulting key informants, e.g., village chiefs or parish priests. However, there are major differences in the approaches to case-finding. First, the Abuja program field workers are responsible for locating persons with mental disorders and persons with physical disabilities, while the Karakonam program community volunteers are only trying to locate persons with mental disorders. Second, since the Karakonam program was established in response to the tsunami, it was originally oriented to identifying persons suffering from common mental disorders. In contrast, the mental health component of the Abuja program was established because of the burden of epilepsy and psychosis in Nigeria, and the recognition that treatments for these disorders would be feasible and effective in the context of a community-based rehabilitation program (Table 2).\nThe Tabaco City program does not conduct case-finding and depends on referrals from local government health workers and two non-governmental organizations that provide community rehabilitation services in Albay Province (Table 2).\nAll three programs conduct out-reach activities, e.g., consultations with government officials, other non-governmental organizations, and community leaders, as well as holding public meetings to inform people about the services offered. The Abuja program trains members of the community to recognize and refer individuals to the local field worker. The Tabaco City program trains municipal and non-governmental health workers to refer individuals and to follow-up current clients. Soon after it started, the Karakonam program trained school teachers to recognize and refer children who were displaying behavioral problems (Table 2).\nOne can also assume that former or current clients act as informal sources of referral by suggesting to friends or family members that they seek help for a mental disorder by visiting an Abuja program field worker in his office, going to the weekly outpatient clinic at the Tabaco City program, or attending one of the monthly community clinics provided by the Karakonam program.\nEven though the programs all provide multiple pathways to care, the clinical characteristics of clients in the three programs are markedly different (Table 2). This is surprising given that the programs operate in settings that offer few, if any, mental health services and one would expect that individuals with a broad range of disorders would seek and receive care. Yet, a large majority of clients in Abuja receive treatment for epilepsy while the large majority of clients in the Tabaco City program receive treatment for psychosis. In contrast, about half of the clients in the Karakonam program are being treated for a common mental disorder and only one-third are being treated for psychosis.\nAs can be seen in Table 2, the geographic and population sizes of the catchment areas in Nigeria and the Philippines are very large. Yet, the number of clients receiving care from the Abuja and Tabaco City programs indicates that the programs are reaching only a tiny fraction of those in need of care. An estimate of the prevalence of psychosis (3.3%) [19] suggests that there may be as many as 43,000 persons with psychosis in Albay Province, and an estimate of the prevalence of epilepsy in sub-Saharan Africa (1.5%) [20] suggests that there are about 21,000 persons with epilepsy in Abuja. The Karakonam program serves much smaller catchment areas. Assuming that about 10% of a given population will be suffering from a mental disorder at any given time [21], one can estimate that about 10,000 persons are in need of mental health services.\nTogether, these data suggest that, according to the available epidemiological evidence, the three programs are reaching only a tiny fraction of potential clients. Furthermore, one might speculate that large geographic or political boundaries are not necessarily accurate reflections of actual service areas. For example, the Bicol Region is the stated catchment area of the Tabaco City program, but a review of records indicates that the vast majority of clients come from Albay Province. In the case of the Abuja and the Karakonam programs, determining the effective composition of the mental health service areas will require further research, i.e., mapping where clients reside.\nAccessing services does not appear to be an issue for clients of the Abuja and Karakonam programs. The former provides most treatment in the homes of clients, whereas the latter provides services in the community and at the hospital, which is readily accessible via public transportation. However, the small number of clients in the Abuja program leads one to speculate that barriers to care do exist. Further research is required to identify those barriers.\nEven though the Tabaco City program provides services to the largest number of clients, its distance from city center and the expense of transportation are barriers to care. We were told that some families could not afford the expense of transportation to the facility. As a result, clients stopped attending the program's day hospital services when a free daily van service was discontinued because of budget cuts. Budget cuts also forced the program to discontinue its van service to the weekly outpatient clinic. Fortunately, Tabaco City now operates the van service and the outpatient clinic continues in operation.\nThe Abuja program operates a drug revolving fund that sells medications at a small fraction above cost, which is generally affordable to clients and families. CBM also maintains a fund to help those who cannot afford the medications. Anecdotal reports suggest that the cost of medication to clients in the Tabaco City program, even though it is sold on a sliding scale, leads to a degree of non-adherence. No doubt, the cost of outpatient sessions (between $2.25 and $4.50) also makes services inaccessible for some clients.\nThe Karakonam program, using its own funds, provides medication free of charge to clients. This is possible, at least in part, because medications are comparatively inexpensive in India.\nThe Abuja program community psychiatric nurse is responsible for the diagnosis and medication management of all mental health clients. Clinical care takes place during home visits or at a clinic in a remote rural community. Psychiatrists in the Tabaco City and Karakonam programs provide clinical care during outpatient or community clinics (Table 2).\nMedication is the mainstay of treatment in all three programs. Limited funding means that the Abuja and Tabaco City programs must rely on older, less expensive medications. An additional challenge for the Abuja program is ensuring the quality of medications since much of what is available in Nigeria is of poor quality [22]. Therefore, the program purchases, whenever possible, medications from the Christian Health Association of Nigeria, which imports high-quality generic medications. Only the Karakonam program has ready access to newer medications, including atypical antipsychotics and newer anti-depressants. None of the programs have developed explicit guidelines and protocols for the use of medication. All programs regularly inquire about side effects.\nUnlike the other programs, the Karakonam program has specialists who have the time and expertise to provide formal psychotherapy.\nThe Tabaco City and Karakonam programs offer inpatient services. However, the former limits admissions to chronic patients who do not require acute care, while the latter provides care in a hospital with extensive resources and is capable of caring for persons who are acutely ill.\nNone of the three programs are well-equipped to handle emergencies in the community, although the Karakonam program is in the best position to mobilize resources if necessary.\nThe Abuja and Karakonam programs follow-up clients regularly. The Abuja program community psychiatric nurse tries to see clients once a month. During these visits, the nurse will, if necessary dispense medications. Field workers attend these visits and will visit clients at other times, too. The Karakonam community volunteers visit clients twice a month. Clients mostly receive their medications in the community clinics or at the hospital, although community volunteers do make home deliveries of medications to about 10% of the clients. The Tabaco City program relies, for the most part, on municipal and non-governmental organization community health workers to follow-up clients.\nAll of the programs have organized Self-Help Groups, referred to as Family-Support Groups in the Tabaco City program.\nThe Tabaco City program has organized Family Support Groups in several communities of Albay Province (Table 2). One advantage of membership, at least for the group in Tabaco City, is that members are eligible to participate in two Livelihood Programs: skills training and loans to raise pigs or to establish or expand small roadside shops. Meetings of the groups are structured and include psychoeducation, sharing of experiences, and updates on livelihoods. Anecdotal reports suggest that membership in Family Support Groups is associated with fewer relapses and more regular clinic attendance of clients.\nThe Karakonam program offers the broadest range of psychosocial interventions. Follow-up sessions with community volunteers may include interventions aimed at improving self-care, activities of daily living, and social functioning. Community volunteers also provide informal counseling, e.g., listening, relaxation techniques, and support for caregivers. Additionally, community volunteers organize and run on-going promotion and prevention activities for groups of children (6-15 years), adolescents (16-19 years), and adults. Topics discussed in the groups include nutrition, hygiene, study skills, stress management, substance abuse, mental illness, and (for with the adults) communicable and chronic illnesses. The program also has organized Self-Help Groups for women, which, in addition to providing social support, undertake income-generating activities, e.g., soap making, tailoring, selling cloth with printed designs, and operating small shops. Unlike the groups organized by the other programs, the groups organized by the Karakonam program are open to all women, and, thus, may provide clients and care-givers greater opportunities for social integration.\nThe Abuja program recently started one Self-Help Group in each of three zones. Plans are in place to eventually organize groups in all of the zones. The intention of the groups is to foster advocacy, provide peer support, and participate in livelihood activities.\nThe absence of psychiatric services in the Federal Capital Territory makes it difficult for the Abuja program to refer cases for specialist services - this is only possible if a family can bring the client to a better-resourced city. Clients can be referred to other components of the community-based rehabilitation program, e.g., the economic integration program, but such referrals are not made frequently. The Tabaco City program has not established official referral pathways with a nearby medical center and a psychiatric hospital. In contrast, because the Karakonam program is based at a hospital that also maintains community primary care centers, referring clients for treatment of physical disorders or inpatient psychiatric care is done routinely.\nAlthough all of the programs collect data, none organize it so that statistics are readily available on the number of clients receiving services or clients' basic clinical and sociodemographic characteristics. Nor can the programs provide data about the treatments that clients are receiving, the length of time clients have been in treatment, or the consistency with which clients have accessed services. Last, data on the outcomes of intervention are not available. However, this is changing. The Karakonam program has (as of September 2009) initiated monitoring of clinical, functional, and caregiver outcomes, as well as client satisfaction. Additionally, the Abuja program is currently piloting a data collection system that will enable the generation of routine process and outcome data.\nThis paper describes the results of case studies of three community mental health programs in LIC. Information was collected according to a set of narrative topics and program-level indicators, then analyzed and organized to describe, compare, and contrast the programs. In this way, we found a diversity of service delivery models, common challenges, and unique strengths and weaknesses of each program. Furthermore, the case study methodology that we developed was found to be a useful tool to examine the strategies used by community mental health programs to deliver services within the constraints of low-resource settings.\nTwo common challenges were found. Above all, without CBM funding it is unlikely that any of the programs would continue to exist, at least in their present form. Without CBM funding and technical expertise the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja would likely reduce the scope of the Abuja program, and there is no guarantee that the mental health services would be retained. Without funding from CBM the Brothers of Charity would, no doubt, continue to support the Tabaco City program but would probably be forced to curtail or discontinue the community programs and the weekly outpatient clinic. The Karakonam program might survive without CBM funding, but only if the Dr Somerville Memorial CSI Medical College & Hospital managed to secure other sources of support.\nThe second challenge is the comparative lack of human resources. In Abuja, there are no psychiatrists to which the program community psychiatric nurse can refer challenging cases. For the Tabaco City program the situation is different: there are psychiatrists in Albay Province but, at least when the program was established, it was difficult to find one who would accept the position. In contrast, the Karakonam program has been successful in recruiting qualified psychiatrists and social workers - probably because it is based at a teaching hospital - but there is always the danger that they will be lured away by higher salaries in the United Kingdom, North America, or Australia. It is also difficult to retain female community volunteers because after getting married they often stop working. Hiring men as community volunteers is not easy since men can make much more money working as fishermen.\nDespite the challenges, the programs all have strengths. Most importantly, all manage to function and deliver services to persons who, without those services, would likely be neglected. In addition, program staff must be given credit for their support and respect for clients, and the ability to remain positive and dedicated even though their work is physically and emotionally difficult, pays poorly, and offers little chance for advancement within any of the programs.\nNevertheless, one must not ignore obvious weaknesses. For example, despite the size of its target population, the Abuja program has provided services to relatively few clients. The program could also be criticized for its lack of specialist support for the community psychiatric nurse. Two weaknesses can be readily identified in the Tabaco City program. First, its clinical staff is not large enough to handle the number of residential or outpatient clients. Second, its relatively isolated location means that it is difficult to consider it a community-based program. The Karakonam program is well-resourced with specialists who are willing to work in community settings, knowledgeable and skilled community volunteers, a wide range of medications, and access to a large hospital. At the same time, this means it is not a likely candidate as a model for most low-income settings.\nThe programs described here represent a range of service models [23]: from an exclusively community-based model (the Abuja program), to one (the Tabaco City program) that is mostly clinic-based but with some activities in the community, to a model that provides community, clinic, and hospital care (the Karakonam program). Each of these models may be appropriate, depending on the available human, technical, and financial resources in a given setting. It is critical, however, when planning or reforming services, that developers in other settings consider the strengths and weaknesses of each of these programs and models.\nThe evidence presented here also suggests that when planning or establishing programs it is critical to consider whether program resources are reasonably sufficient for providing services in the intended catchment area. For example, the Abuja program community psychiatric nurse must travel many hours and long distances to visit clients in each of the 18 zones of the Federal Capital Territory, and the Tabaco City program psychiatrist must see 70-120 clients during each outpatient clinic. Both situations demand tremendous efforts. Whether these efforts are sustainable and/or undermine the quality of services is a question that must be examined.\nA major strength of the case study methodology that we have developed is its ability to provide detailed descriptions of models of care and how they function within specific sociocultural and socioeconomic contexts. Using a defined set of narrative topics and program-level indicators also allows one to compare and contrast the programs, whether they utilize the same or different models. A knowledge base of case studies would be an invaluable resource in attempts to scale up mental health service in LIC.\nThe methodology that was the basis for our case studies has several limitations. First, most of the evidence was collected during relatively short site visits. Longer visits would have allowed the collection of more information and the opportunity for more verification of the information that was collected. Second, to reduce the possibility of bias the case studies were carried out by an independent observer. However, this is an expensive process and it is unlikely that programs in LIC will have the resources necessary to commission independent case studies.\nThird, more focused research is necessary to assess certain aspects of the programs. For example, client and family satisfaction is an important issue but one that is not easily assessed. Client reports of satisfaction of services may not accurately reflect objective measures of clinical services [24], and, even if measures of client satisfaction do offer valid assessments of the quality of services, conducting such a survey is a major project [25]. Much the same can be said about assessing the ability of livelihood activities to improve the quality of life of clients and families. Revealing why there was such variation in the clinical characteristics of clients in the three programs would also require additional research. Based on the case studies, we can speculate about the reasons: identification and treatment of epilepsy is compatible with other community-based rehabilitation services, the remote location of the Tabaco City program means that only the most serious cases of psychosis and mood disorder will be brought to care, and the ability of the Karakonam program community volunteers to identify persons with common mental disorders is the result of comprehensive case-finding. However, only further research will determine the reasons for the variation. Assessing the effects of Self-Help Groups and Livelihood Programs is another example of research that would add depth to our understanding of community mental health services. Such studies might collect evidence of the effects of these interventions on specific mental disorders by linking data about participation in the Self-Help Groups and/or Livelihood Programs with measures of outcomes and use of services. Qualitative research would be useful, too, because the effects of Self-Help Groups and Livelihood Programs are often found in the domains of personal and family relationships, social reintegration, and feelings of self-worth.\nLack of data was the greatest limitation on our ability to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. None of the programs had information systems that could easily generate routine process data, and even if process data were available, we believe that clinical and social outcome data are essential for evaluation of program effectiveness [26]. Unfortunately, at the time of the site visits none of the programs routinely assessed and documented the clinical status of clients. To address this deficiency, we are now undertaking a pilot project in Abuja to establish a data collection system that will have the capacity to generate statistics about the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of clients, their use of services, and measures of clinical, functional, quality of life, and social outcomes. The Karakonam program is now undertaking a similar project.\nWe believe that one of the major challenges to scaling-up mental health services is the lack of evidence about the community-based strategies that are effective in delivering efficacious interventions to populations in LIC. The qualitative case study methodology that was used to describe programs in Nigeria, the Philippines, and India begins to address that need by describing service models as they function in practice. The methodology also makes it possible to compare and contrast different models. Finally, case studies such as these generate questions for further investigation and set the stage for more rigorous evaluations of effectiveness [27, 28].\nAC is a Senior Lecturer, MDS is a Lecturer, and VP is a Professor of International Mental Health in the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. VP is also a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Clinical Science. JE is the CBM Mental Health Advisor for West Africa. BR is the CBM Programme Director for Community Mental Health. CG is an Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Dr Somervell Memorial Medical College. VM is the Director of Holy Face Rehabilitation Center for Mental Health.\nFSG:\nCBM International provided the funding the research reported in the paper.\nCBM International funded the Case Studies Project, which is lead by Prof Vikram Patel and employs Drs Alex Cohen and Mary De Silva. Drs Julian Eaton and Birgit Radtke are members of the CBM Mental Health Advisory Working Group. Dr Christina George and Bro Victor Manuel lead programs that are supported by CBM International.\nAC, VP, MDS, JE, and BR all contributed to the concept and design of the research. AC conducted the site visits, collected data, drafted the manuscript. CG and VM hosted the site visits and reviewed the manuscript for accuracy. All authors reviewed the manuscript and assisted in revising it for important intellectual content. All authors have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for appropriate portions of the content. 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So I wondered, as I eagerly unwrapped my Google Cardboard this morning, how long it will be before they get to grips with virtual and augmented reality and the huge opportunities presented by these two forms of communication.\nIt can be applied in so many different areas of stakeholder and community communication. Really, its application is only limited by our imaginations - and perhaps the imaginations of our organisations.\nI was delivering a training session last week on developing digital content and one of the delegates was obviously frustrated with the barriers her organisation continually raised when it came to engaging in any form of social communication. Introducing virtual reality into such a culture is going to be a huge challenge for her - but, as a public sector organisation - it will be missing out on huge opportunities for engagement if it fails to keep up.\nLifelong learning is a must for public relations and communication professionals. Only when we learn something new can we then challenge old paradigms and outdated approaches to communication and engagement. And if we don't learn, the reality is that we will simply be left behind or drift quietly into irrelevance. PRINZ and CIPR - along with many other public relations associations have active professional development programmes. And I hope - some time soon - those too will make good use of virtual reality to help us learn something new every day. 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Samsung apparently made this decision because it wants to compete more effectively against Apple and the attacks of several Chinese smartphone brands are starting to pose a serious threat to them.\nThe report even claims that LG G7 will be launched earlier than expected, where LG is rumored to be launching the flagship smartphone in January next year. If true, of course it will be a fierce competition between Samsung and LG which is a rival of the same country. 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In the end, he finished the tour in second place.[4] In 1943 he died during a veteran race in Argenteuil.\nFrench national road race champion\n3rd place general classification\n5th place general classification\nWinner stages 11, 13 and 15\nTour de France: did not finish\n2nd place general classification\nWinner stages 4, 5, 7, 8 and 15\nCircuit des Champs de Bataille\n3rd place overall classification\nWinner stages 4 and 6\nWinner stages 5, 6 and 7\n14th place general classification\n\u2191 Most stage wins per rider in the Tour de France\n\u2191 See list on Daniel Marszalek article\n\u2191 Not a record, as Fran\u00e7ois Faber won five stages in a row in 1909.\n\u2191 Torelli's History of the Tour de France: the 1920s\nOfficial Tour de France palmares\nJean Alavoine profile at Cycling Archives\nPalmares of Jean Alavoine (French)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 4840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 97.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipvaluations.com.au/blog/top-reasons-getting-property-valuer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NUYCPULDDLPAPOCXNY42RFKEE2UWROUF", "length": 2540, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "ipvaluations.com.au", "title": "Reasons For Getting a Property Valuer in Sydney", "raw_content": "If you are planning to sell your Sydney property for whatever reason, be it due to a family dispute, moving house, or selling an investment property, you need to have it independently valued.\nProperty valuers, unlike real estate agents, are independent and objective professionals whose sole job is to fairly evaluate your property according to the current market, the property\u2019s condition, and any other variable factors.\nIf you need to have your property valued, then here are the 4 main reasons that a property valuer is the right person to do the job for you:\nProperty valuers have no vested interest in the value of your property.\nUnlike real estate agents who appraise your house for free in the hope that you will use them to sell it, property valuers simply perform an assessment, factor in the different variables and fluctuations of the housing market and then present you with the estimated worth of your house, apartment or property.\nIn the case of a valuation for divorce or similar family law valuations, a property valuer can act as an expert.\nIf you are simply selling for profit or because you\u2019d like to move house, then a property valuer can help make sure that you are informed and are able to budget accordingly.\nThey Can Advise on Legal Matters and Act as an Expert Witness\nAccredited property valuers are qualified to provide advice on property matters and disputes. They have intimate and expert knowledge of the property market, as well as legislation and are able to offer advice on these accordingly.\nA property valuer can also act as an expert witness in a court of law should your property dispute result in litigation.\nThey are able to provide a fair and balanced opinion without any personal bias and are able to back up their evidence with the relevant training market evidence, experience and knowledge.\nThey Can Give Market Advice\nDue to their knowledge and experience within the property market, a professional property valuer is a great source of information and a great person to seek advice from on all of the financial aspects of buying and selling property.\nThey are able to provide you with a valuation that willo allow you or your accountant to advise on financial decisions such as the impact of capital gains tax on investment property and government stamp duty.\nIndependent Property Valuations have experience and knowledge and offer a range of property services. From property litigation to helping you buy and sell, we can help.\nPlease give us a call on 02 9659 5446 or contact our team online.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 6306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/handle/1803/6837", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:40Z", "digest": "sha1:D5WDQSHNUPYNJG27N4KAOB53LOFWJFSQ", "length": 1145, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ir.vanderbilt.edu", "title": "The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information", "raw_content": "The Market Value of Reducing Cancer Risk: Hedonic Housing Prices with Changing Information\nGayer, Ted, 1970-\nHamilton, James T., 1961-\nIn this paper, we use housing price changes occurring after the release of a regulatory agency's environmental risk information to estimate the value people place on cancer risk reduction. Using a large original data set on the repeat sales of houses, matched with detailed data on hazardous waste cancer risk and newspaper publicity, we find that housing prices respond in a rational manner to changes in information about risk. Since the new information indicated that the sites in our sample pose relatively low cancer risk, the informational release led residents to lower their risk beliefs, resulting in an average housing price increase of $56 to $87. This price change implies a statistical value per case of cancer of $4.3 million to $8.3 million, which is similar to the estimates obtained in labor market studies of the value of a statistical life. Newspaper publicity about the local sites increased housing prices, suggesting that residents perceived the news as good.\nMarket Value of Reducing.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ishouldbeaklingon.com/2013/11/13/a-very-strange-dream-about-the-ex/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BENB7CHF33G5ZJLOXCOLKRUIMRKGT7WG", "length": 3124, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "ishouldbeaklingon.com", "title": "A very strange dream about the Ex | I Should Be a Klingon's Blog", "raw_content": "A very strange dream about the Ex\nI should be a Klingon / November 13, 2013\nI dream about my ex all the time. Yes, its been over 3 and a half years, but she still remains on my mind. I\u2019m always reminded of her, and despite people saying that I have to forget her, its over and done\u2026 well, I just have not made it that far.\nBut I\u2019m in a much better place than I\u2019ve been. I\u2019m starting to crawl out from my shell. I\u2019m slowly starting to reassert myself, and that is a good thing.\nBut this dream I had last night\u2026. well, its one for the psychiatrists to talk about. Freud would have a field day with this one.\nHere is what I remember. I needed to go see her for something, and was taking my small car down the road to see her. While on the road, I was sideswiped by a truck and a fifth-wheel trailer. I knew it was them, but didn\u2019t know it at the time. (Dreams are so weird).\nI only had minor body damage, so I continued on to her house, where I needed to pick up some vitamins, and leave her some papers. I went inside, but no one was home. So I proceeded to just leave the papers, and pick up the vitamins. While I was at it, I grabbed a bottle of water and some Advil to take. I filled my mouth with vitamins, and water, and grabbed my stuff to put back in the car outside.\nWhen I got outside, in my dream, I felt a gun nozzle on my head, and I immediately knew it was the Ex\u2019s new husband. I said \u201cHello, (his name)\u201d, with my mouth full of vitamins and water. I told him to hold on a moment, while I put my stuff down.\nWell, the dream fast forwarded to the fact we were all friends, and I was visiting with him. I told him that I hated his guts because he married my ex, but I figured we would have been good friends had we met under different circumstances. We talked about sharing photos of her (the nude kind), and he agreed that we should do that. He showed me his Harley, which in the dream was a 1973 model. I told him that when I got my bike back, that we needed to ride the Three Sisters (a group of winding roads in the Hill Country of Texas, southwest of Kerrville). He said yes, but not with my ex, as she had caused him to fall over. I nodded that yes, that had happened to me also (even though in real life, my ex was an excellent BOB (biker talk for \u201cBitch on Back\u201d).\nThe dream ended with all of us sharing a beer, and saying we would get together again soon.\nIt was all so very vivid, but in real life, I can\u2019t see that I would ever want anything to do with the new husband.\nI just wanted to share my dream\u2026. and the weirdity that it is.\nNovember 13, 2013 in Dealing with Divorce. Tags: accepting a breakup, breakup, breasts, caring for the ex, dealing with divorce, divorce, getting on with life, good guys really do finish last, motorcycle, nude, relationships, strange dreams, the ex, the ex with her new boyfriend\nOh, those strange dreams\u2026 what do they mean\n\u2190 Musings of an ADD idiot\nOne thought on \u201cA very strange dream about the Ex\u201d\nFreud, blog readers, friends..the only person who can give this dream meaning is you. (or to decide it was just your brain trying to make sense of random neurons firing\u2026)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 5812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 273.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ita.habitants.org/notizie/autorita_locali/the_global_charter-agenda_for_human_rights_in_the_city_adoption_to_be_planned", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:10Z", "digest": "sha1:EVCCA5B35SJRC3XMN7MD33SWGLU3Y547", "length": 1070, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ita.habitants.org", "title": "The Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City Adoption to be planned / Autorit\u00e0 locali / Notizie / Home - International Alliance of Inhabitants", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Notizie \u00bb Autorit\u00e0 locali \u00bb The Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City Adoption to be planned\nFonte della Notizia: The Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City Adoption to be planned , http://www.spidh.org/en/home/index.html\nThe International Permanent Secretariat Human Rights and Local Governments ( SPIDH) of Nantes will participate in the next UCLG World Council (United Cities and Local Governments) which will be held between 9 and 11 December 2011 in Florence (Italy).\nSince 2007, the SPIDH has been leading the working group which, within the Commision Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy and Human Rights of the World Federation of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), elaborated the Global Charter for Human Rights in the City .\nAfter being recommended for adoption by the UCLG Executive Bureau in November 2010, the text of the Charter-Agenda will be presented for formal adoption at the World Council of Florence.\nMore info on UCLG\u2019s website\nCISDPDH , CGLU , Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://j-ba.or.jp/drafes/english/whats/index01.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:38Z", "digest": "sha1:44XKHLAXQW7572F2NRS3IWD4EOJMI7EN", "length": 6340, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "j-ba.or.jp", "title": "International Drama Festival:About the Festival:Festival Profile", "raw_content": "In recent years, numerous discussions about broadcast content distribution have been happening in many media-related institutions, and broadcasters producing a lot of content are urged to further promote the distribution of their programs. Japanese broadcast programs, such as TV drama has been highly received worldwide, and the broadcasters are striving to maximize the global exposure. Even with the effort, they are yet to reach their goal due to some difficulties in the current systems.\nDrama programs in China and Korea are distributed extensively in Japan and other countries and they are successful in drawing attentions of many audiences because the governments provide assistance to TV programs so that they can organize competitions and awards to promote the distribution of their broadcast contents. It seemed that Japan was still lagging behind on that aspect.\nIn light of those circumstances, JBA and NHK took an initiative to found \"International Drama Festival in TOKYO\"which involved all the specialists in film production companies and other media-related organizations for the establishment of \"All Japan\" structure in 2007. Representing overall Japanese broadcast scene, International Drama Festival in TOKYO is working on overseas expansion with a goal to promote Japanese broadcasting content.\n\u25a0 \"Tokyo Drama Award\"\n1. Establishment of \"Tokyo Drama Award\" based on a clear concept, \"competitiveness in a global market\"\nFounded in 2008, Tokyo Drama Awards recognizes excellent dramas that we, as Japanese, are excited to bring overseas. In order to achieve further global exposure of the nominated programs, the awards' judging criteria place emphasis on \"marketability\" and \"merchantability\" rather than \"artistry\" or \"show quality\" which had been more important aspects in other conventional awards. Additionally, we present \"Special Award\" to the excellent dramas from abroad for better cultural understanding and business partnerships. Since 2014, we have been broadcasting the annual Tokyo Drama Awards ceremony domestically and internationally. So far it has been broadcast on BS SKY Perfect TV in Japan, WAKUWAKU Japan TV with localized subtitles in Indonesia, Myanmar, Singapore, Taiwan, Sri Lanka and Mongolia.\nIn addition to annual awards ceremonies, with the aim of creating more impressive dramas, we hold symposiums, which encourage positive interaction among producers between abroad and Japan and follow the global trend of contents.\nIn 2017, we commemorate the 10th anniversary of Tokyo Drama Awards. Not only the award ceremony, also we held a symposium titled \"New TV Dramas Beginning Here and Now\".\n\u25a0Overseas expansions\n2. J Series Festival\nAs one of the new strategies to promote Japanese broadcast content for the audience worldwide, we have organized a promotional event titled \"J Series Festival\" which is targeted to specific Asian countries.\nIn 2013, the first J Series Festival took place in Thailand in conjunction with the intensive broadcast of Japanese dramas and TV commercials. We held festivals in Thailand four times, in 2014, 2016 and 2017, twice in Indonesia in 2015 and 2017, and once in Viet Nam in 2016 (Please see \"J Series Festival\" page for details). We will continue to work on such projects in order to induce a \"Japan boom\" overseas.\n3. Projects at MIPCOM (Cannes, France)\n\"MIPCOM Buyers' Award for Japanese Drama\" was founded in 2009 as a project in collaboration with MIPCOM. Since then, it has been held annually as one of the MIPCOM official events.\nThe award is selected among the Japanese dramas by European, American or Middle Eastern buyers based on their opinion on \"what they want to buy\". The award ceremony takes place as an official event during MIPCOM. The event has become a great opportunity to publicize Japanese content as the attendees included VIPs in broadcast industries and leading buyers from all over the world. Especially, it was appealing to the European and American attendees who had imported very few Japanese contents before.\nIn 2013, the event was renewed as the \"J-Creative Party\" in collaboration with \"Treasure Box Japan\", a promotion initiative of format rights by NHK and other commercial broadcasting companies. It included not only \"MIPCOM Buyers' Award\" but also Japanese cuisine parties and performances underlining the \"Cool Japan\" concept.\nSince 2015, we have set up pavilion called \"Japan Regional Pavilion\", consisted of Japanese local TV stations, to support their overseas expansion.\nIn 2016, Japan was named as the \"Country of honour\" of MIPCOM, representing participating country at MIPCOM. Japan organized opening ceremony and various conferences, and International Drama Festival in TOKYO supported these events.\n4. Exhibition at \"Japan Pavilion\" at ATF Singapore\nInternational Drama Festival in TOKYO created the \"Japan Pavilion\" in cooperation with JBA and NHK at ATF (Asia TV Forum & Market) in Singapore in December 2010. Though being a first attempt to present Japanese Television in such a way, the Japan Pavilion that featured Japanese content as a whole was a great success, initiating much more business opportunities than our initial expectations. It also left a strong impression on the global broadcast scene that Japan, which had potential energy, had finally set off to promote their content proactively. The Japan Pavilion at ATF has continued to expand every year. In 2015, it included a booth dedicated to the regional broadcast companies.\n5. Exhibition of \"Japan TV Content Pavilion\" at Hong Kong Filmart\nIn 2018, we established the \"Japan TV Content Pavilion\" at Hong Kong Filmart, which is the largest international content market in Asia. As the fair has taken place simultaneously with the Hong Kong International Film Festival, it developed as a film fair. In recent years, demand for TV contents increases considerably, but there is no pavilion that responds to this call. So International Drama Festival in TOKYO set up the pavilion consisted of only TV contents holder. This is the first time to exhibit such a specialized pavilion, and we continue to satisfy the demand for Japanese TV contents.\nSince 2008, we have entered into partnerships with \"Shanghai Television Festival\" and \"Seoul International Drama Awards\" to strengthen the presence of the East Asia broadcast content collaboratively.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 6731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://japan-cars.world/nf_sub/10974/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIB2MNLIVJB3SCM7XTYQRBMQM7T6WXOB", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "japan-cars.world", "title": "| hiroshi bangladesh ltd, car price in bangladesh, toyota car price in bangladesh, corolla car price in bangladesh, used car sale in dhaka bangladesh, reconditioned toyota car price in bangladesh, honda car price in bangladesh, noah car price in bangladesh, sports car in bangladesh, premio car price in bangladesh, toyota car Models,", "raw_content": "Posted On: Friday June 1st, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaxenter.com/diversity-tech-interview-persing-149627.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MM6ELUP5JECEKLSFA67POX47QGG2XDLF", "length": 11126, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "jaxenter.com", "title": "Diversity talk: \"Tech is one of the most flexible and evolving industries that can work in women's favor\" - JAXenter", "raw_content": "Profile: Sandra Persing, Global Strategist for Developer Outreach, Sponsorship and Events at Mozilla\nWomen are underrepresented in the tech sector \u2014myth or reality? Last year, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we\u2019d like you to meet Sandra Persing, Global Strategist for Developer Outreach, Sponsorship and Events at Mozilla.\nLast year, we launched a diversity series aimed at bringing the most inspirational and powerful women in the tech scene to your attention. Today, we\u2019d like you to meet Sandra Persing, Global Strategist for Developer Outreach, Sponsorship and Events at Mozilla.\nSandra Persing, Mozilla\nSandra Persing is the Global Strategist for Developer Outreach, Sponsorship and Events at Mozilla. Sandra serves on the Advisory Board for Women Who Code to fight for the advancement of all women in tech and is the founder of DevRel Summit, an annual leadership event that promotes the exchange of best practices to serve the developer community. Find her at most major airports catching flights and on the metaverse.\nFollow her on Twitter: @SandraPersing\nI think we, as humans, are always interested in technology! I remember \u201cprogramming\u201d games with our TI 81 graphing calculators. Or playing games on that first Apple II as a reward after being first to finish my assignment during first grade. Or taking apart a TV to see what\u2019s really going on inside.\nI was always a strong math and science student who had access to gadgets of all sorts. I just happened to love liberal arts more and decided to start my early career in publishing. We see tech as an opportunity to satisfy our curiosity, to connect with others, to do something better, and to stretch beyond what we currently believe ourselves to be capable of doing. I believe that technology definitely serves to improve our lives. Sometimes, our human nature skews this directive, and we can, of course, abuse this resource. Whether it\u2019s software or hardware, it\u2019s about the desire to know more about how it works, and having the drive to tinker with the status quo to hopefully make it something personal and unique.\nI decided to get involved in the tech industry as a career switch from spending over 10 years in international publishing (it was years of understanding how to work with people and problem solve on a global scale). As with many others, I was attracted by the startup-life first, because it allowed programming and business management to all come together. I formed a team, learned how to code, and created a wellness web app-based platform to monitor and motivate people to lead healthier lives. When that first idea failed to fulfill that \u201cJ curve\u201d success model, I turned to working with developers, instead of becoming a developer, as my full-time job, creating and producing events and managing an active sponsorship program with my current company.\nI also serve on the Advisory Board for Women Who Code to make sure we are doing everything to advance the careers of women in tech. And finally, I run an annual Summit for tech leadership, DevRel Summit which is happening in Singapore this year.\nWe see tech as an opportunity to satisfy our curiosity, to connect with others, to do something better, and to stretch beyond what we currently believe ourselves to be capable of doing.\nThere are always obstacles for everyone in their paths to doing anything, but as we are becoming more and more outspoken about this issue these days, there are so many layers of blockers that compress women, and especially women of color. I once heard during a talk or a conversation that many successful women in high places have flat heads \u2013 from being patted on for so many years for doing a good job. There\u2019s also lots of stereotypes and expectations people impose on me because of the way I look, the way I talk, even the things I like. I am always surprised at how these stereotypes are actually said to me, directly, with such a \u201cmatter-of-fact\u201d tone.\nI remember the first developer conference I attended. It was supposed to be a warm and welcoming open source event. The engineer who came up to introduce himself from one of the most prominent browser company looked me up and down and said with all seriousness: \u201cDo you even belong here?\u201d I want to share this moment because I know that many, many people have experienced this moment.\nI would say my father encouraged me to look at the mechanics of everything, so in essence, everything is technical.\nAnd my mother encouraged me to do whatever I want (with of course some quirkiness in our cultural expectations, like \u201cdo whatever you want, but it would be wonderful if you got married and had kids before you turned 30!\u201d), which helped me get this mindset early on that I could do anything, but that I should also expect some contradictions on how society would react to my actions. And of course, that what people say and what people expect in reality may be misaligned.\nI look at everyone who\u2019s done greater things as people I can learn from every day. I also look now at the younger generation who have to have the tenacity to be brave and do more than what\u2019s \u201cexpected\u201d of them as role models.\nAny bumps in the road?\nI don\u2019t think anyone has tried to stop me from learning and advancing in my professional and personal life, and I acknowledge this as a huge privilege in my life. I grew up working hard and making opportunities, but these opportunities were available to me. And again, this is a privilege that not everyone can even imagine.\nMy mother, who is Korean, and grew up as a young girl during the Korean War, was actually prohibited by her stepfamily (her birth mother died during the war) to continue her schooling. And when she was able to return to high school, the Japanese occupation prohibited her from speaking her language and using her name. So I have some understanding of what oppression looks like, but I cannot say that I actually know what it is in my life.\nI am still learning to speak up and take more ownership of my accomplishments, and it\u2019s hard!\nI think there are moments in my professional life where I know that I didn\u2019t advance as quickly as some of my colleagues. And there\u2019s research to show how my face as Asian, my gender as female, perhaps even my small stature, prevents me from \u201cfitting in\u201d to what a company sees as a leader. I try to be with teams, with people, who help me receive recognition and support for my work. And I have of course moments when I know that my work and accomplishments may be bypassed because of things that I cannot control. I am still learning to speak up and take more ownership of my accomplishments, and it\u2019s hard!\nA day in Sandra\u2019s life\nI am currently at Mozilla as the Global Strategist for Events and Sponsorship, working with our Developer Outreach team in the Emerging Technologies group. I like to explain my day to day activity as a lot of research that leads to evaluating and deciding where our Mozilla team (both staff and contributors) should invest our resources (money, people, swag, etc). And I find Mozilla to be one of the most unique companies out there, as a not for profit organization that fights to keep the web and the internet through our active policy work, open and accessible for everyone. Working as part of a mission-driven company makes Monday mornings that much more exciting!\nI started out at Mozilla creating an operational process to be able to review inbound requests for support developer events from all around the world. This led to making sure that a code of conduct was highlighted as a critical component for our team to decide whether we wanted to invest in an opportunity. Most recently, my team and I worked to create a developer roadshow program for regional communities to get to know Mozilla better and to get more Mozillians opportunities to speak and share their work with communities. And we even expanded our programming to include creative festivals like Sundance Film Festival and Tribeca Film Festival to allow more people who may be creating with code but not necessarily call themselves developers, to get to know Mozilla. Needless to say, we were able to bring in more diversity and include more people in our events because we stripped away a lot of the stereotypes of who can be labeled as a someone who builds technologies that work to make the web a better place.\nWhat I do best is navigate my team from desk to stage: to bring their work into the spotlight, whether that through our owned conferences, or through collaboration with other community organizations. I am proud of having the power to create these collaborative moments \u2013 some may see the browser vendors at \u201cwar\u201d but it\u2019s actually the opposite, where we are trying to make things work better for everyone on the web \u2013 to bring forth tech that helps our developer communities build better.\nI believe that current leadership, sitting in that C-Suite strata \u2013 must do everything possible to support women and keep women in the tech industry. This is one of the most flexible and evolving industries that can work in women\u2019s favor. I work for Mozilla, where over 40% of our company\u2019s workforce is distributed. We have the flexibility to manage life and work.\nThe discussion about diversity is gaining momentum. How long will it take to see results from the current debate?\nIt depends on how results are defined and measured. I think it\u2019s never going to have a \u201cmission accomplished\u201d celebration moment. And I think that women have to keep working and striving to be actively part of the diversity movement and to become leaders to help others through the door, and rise to positions of power.\nI think there are definitely unique stories that serve as obstacles and challenges specifically for this industry, but I believe that women face in every industry the same stereotypes that keep them from advancing and succeeding. There\u2019s blatant sexism in tech. There\u2019s blatant sexism in society. People like to say we\u2019re all working to be inclusive, but reality shows that there are biases and prejudice actively expressed every day.\nI just go back to those moments (at school, during my past career in publishing, and now in tech) when someone will come up to me and brazenly ask (as if there should be an answer): Do you even belong here?\nI believe that current leadership, sitting in that C-Suite strata \u2013 must do everything possible to support women and keep women in the tech industry.\nDear women who want a career in tech, please join us! We need you. We need more energy and support. Those who have been working (and fighting) in this industry take heart and inspiration from the women just starting their career. And we need fresh ideas and perspectives to help evolve this industry to become better than it is today.\nThere are challenges, there are bad people, but there are also good people and so many opportunities to shape tech into something that makes our lives better.\nWomen in Tech: Diversity talk \u201cunder construction\u201d\nThe hidden potential of developers: Bringing billions to businesses", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 19673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jennydreams.com/2012/09/23/anniversary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TVRRB6Z6THC47IVBIYOAOCYVG4ONUFTF", "length": 8112, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "jennydreams.com", "title": "Quantifying the Unquantifiable: An Anniversary Post \u2013 jenNYdreams", "raw_content": "September 23, 2012 October 5, 2016 Posted in The MundaneTagged anniversary, independent woman, long-term, love, relationships\nNext week, Anthony and I celebrate our one-year anniversary. This is a big deal for both of us, but especially for me because I have never been in a relationship for this long. I first attended an all girls\u2019 private school for thirteen years, and then a small liberal arts college full of hipsters who were \u201ctoo postmodern\u201d for monogamy. Two years ago, if you had asked me if I could picture myself in a serious relationship at the age of 22, I\u2019d have laughed and said, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t be able to put up with anyone long enough.\u201d It seemed like a reasonable hypothesis; I had spent most of my life as a proudly independent woman who dabbled, albeit quite passionately, in fleeting crushes, and had more fun gossiping with her friends about the men with whom she happened to be involved than actually dealing with the guy. Of course I didn\u2019t want to get involved in a serious relationship.\nAnthony proved my hypothesis wrong. In fact, he proved a lot of things wrong. He proved that not all guys want open relationships, not all young people are scared of discussing a future with their significant other, and, most importantly, when you\u2019ve found someone you love, you\u2019re not gonna let them go.\nFor those of you who read Anthony\u2019s insightful post about relationships, I am now here to prove him wrong. I, too, can be publicly mushy. So bear with me.\nHow I have been able to put up with Anthony for an entire year:\nHis intellectual curiosity. Possibly the most desirable quality that can be found in a person, intellectual curiosity keeps people young, life exciting, and conversations interesting.\nHe can make me laugh and understand my humor, which is often esoteric and sarcastic. The saying is trite but true: Laughter is necessary for any successful relationship.\nHe\u2019s an atheist Filipino (yes, they do exist!). It\u2019s so rare to be able to have discussions with someone who shares both my beliefs and my cultural background.\nHe is an optimist, which perfectly balances out my unwavering cynicism.\nHe reaches for my hand whenever we\u2019re in public. I\u2019ve never been one for public displays of affection, but, somehow, I find Anthony\u2019s desire to showcase our relationship endearing. Plus, holding hands means a lower chance of losing each other on crowded New York sidewalks.\nHe gives me good mood nuzzles, which I constantly need when stressed about the many obstacles in life, e.g., not finding parmesan at the grocery store, losing my favorite yellow cashmere cardigan.\nHis family is an anomaly \u2014 it\u2019s large, tight-knit, and everyone loves each other. I didn\u2019t know those still existed in America.\nHe makes leftovers taste better than the original, whether it\u2019s warming up pizza on a skillet or making garlic fried rice out of plain white rice.\nHe is very good at folding clothes.\nHe can complete the Rubrik\u2019s cube faster than anyone I know.\nHe gives great massages. Often.\nHe values my opinion but is not afraid to argue if he disagrees with it.\nHe\u2019d rather watch Hitchcock and have a two-person wine-and-cheese party at home with me than go out to a crowded bar.\nThere are fine lines between giving me my space and being too absent, between being affectionate and being overbearing. Anthony has mastered those fine lines beautifully.\nHe\u2019s a beer snob. Drinking with him has taught me that I like dark ales. Plus, I could never date someone who drank Coors or PBR or other piss-like liquids.\nHe\u2019s organized. More organized than me, in fact. I may create the lists and calendars, but he\u2019s the one who keeps our room tidy.\nHe is constantly trying to please me, and by this, I don\u2019t mean that he puts my happiness before his own. Such a relationship would be unhealthy. The stronger a relationship becomes, the more the happiness of both partners align. What made us happy when we were single has changed since going out with each other. More often than not, my happiness is now consistent with that of Anthony\u2019s, and when that\u2019s the case, he does everything in his power to satisfy.\nHe eats real food. After spending half my life with diet-obsessed friends from ballet, and then my college years in Portland surrounded by vegans, it\u2019s almost too predictable that I would end up with someone who appreciates a good steak \u2014 cooked medium-rare, of course.\nI have been told that this is the time to explore my options, to not get tied down to any particular guy, to have fun in my youth; I don\u2019t have to settle down with anyone until I have lost my looks or charm. Apparently, this is what twenty-something-year-olds are supposed to think. I seem to have found the one self-proclaimed Relationship Guy in his twenties who eagerly rejected these standards of being progressively hip and instead never gave up on his lifelong dream of finding a long-term girlfriend.\nHe knows me, sometimes better than I know myself, and still (or thus?) loves me. He understands my odd obsessions, my sporadic bad moods, my irrational insecurities. Just as my favorite character said in Anna Karenina, \u201cI love him, and therefore understand him,\u201d love entails a deep understanding of the beloved. Without both a desire to understand and a success in that understanding, love cannot flourish.\nThat was merely an abridged list; I can\u2019t possibly think of everything right now, and I doubt people would want to read all that anyway. Besides, it seems almost blasphemous to create a list of justifications for being in love \u2014 and this is coming from someone with a penchant for quantifying the unquantifiable.\nYou\u2019ve probably noticed that most things on the list revolve around feeling respected, appreciated, and secure. This is, in essence, why we begin relationships. Not just romantic relationships, but those with our careers and with our platonic friends. Humans want to be appreciated for their passions and idiosyncrasies. I know I\u2019ve found my dream career when I deem its main purpose respectable and stimulating, and it takes advantage of my talents and interests. I\u2019ve found a friend when that person seeks my presence and is someone I can call up whenever something upsets me. A romantic partner is the most important person you choose to share your life with because of exactly that \u2014 you are choosing to share your life with that person. Unlike other people in one\u2019s life, a romantic partner has many roles. This person knows the intimate details of your life, shares your living space, and has the possibility of sharing the rest of your life. I have never spent so many hours of every day with a single person since my mother took off from work to take care of me as a baby. And you know what? I have enjoyed every hour.\nThis past year has defined my life. It has felt like more than a year, but at the same time, it has flown by without me even realizing. Anthony\u2019s put up with me this long. Hopefully, he\u2019s up for more.\n5 thoughts on \u201cQuantifying the Unquantifiable: An Anniversary Post\u201d\nfrancescascrive says:\nAwww, Jenn, this is not only really well written and articulate, but also refreshing to read\u2013not to mention, wise. You seem to have learned a ton so far\u2013thanks for sharing!\njennykvbautista says:\nThank you so much, Fran! That means a lot from you. I will never forget hanging out at Albina Press, gossiping and mending our tender hearts. Hope you\u2019re doing well.\nmalorijoan says:\nJenn! This is one of your most beautiful posts yet. Filled with pure, unadulterated truth and a hint of optimism for romantic cynics like myself. It\u2019s nice to see you\u2019ve come so far from our days of gossip. \ud83d\ude42 I wish you both much more happiness to come. (Wow, that sounded like a fortune cookie)\nMalori!\nI\u2019m so glad you read this one, as you have been here through everything, for better or worse. This same happiness is on its way to you (now who sounds like a fortune cookie?). Hope I get to see you in December!\ngolesillo says:\nI met Anthony \u201d To\u00f1ito \u201d here in Morelia, Mexico. Met him in 2007 summer language exchange. He is awsome! Take care of him and say Hello from Enrique \u201d capi \u201d . Congratulations Jenn!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 9930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeramiah.net/2012/06/cloud-computing-and-marriage-when-language-trumps-reason/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:04Z", "digest": "sha1:AEJEJX73D6QNZJBODCUBCHI5QJBMY5WY", "length": 13199, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "jeramiah.net", "title": "Cloud Computing and Marriage: When Language Trumps Reason | Jeramiah.net", "raw_content": "Cloud Computing and Marriage: When Language Trumps Reason\nPosted by Jeramiah Dooley on June 10, 2012 in Cloud, Converged Infrastructure, Personal | 5 Responses\nI\u2019ve had this post sitting around for a while, and I\u2019m still not sure I should publish it. Of course if you are reading it then I\u2019ve pushed the button and am bracing for the inevitable\u2026\nToday, in the technology arena, there is an endless debate that borders on religious at times. Sides are drawn, battles are pitched, evangelists shout from the rooftops.\nIn one corner, we have an evolutionary step forward in the traditional client/server computing model that has been the staple of every IT organization since the demise of the mainframe. It leverages some of the technology advances that have made IT denser and more efficient, and it layers on new kinds of software designed to change HOW we consume traditional IT architectures. It also maintains some pieces of the existing IT model that are harder (but not impossible) to evolve, including the kinds of apps that are used, how those apps are abstracted from the OS/hardware, ownership and proximity of the underlying infrastructure infrastructure. It allows businesses to maintain some of their investments in staffing and training while driving towards more efficiency. This type of computing is extremely common, and almost every infrastructure company on the planet has a solution in this space, and they all cater to the same kind of customer and use the same terminology. Almost every traditional enterprise has an internal roadmap that references it in ways large or small.\nIn the other corner, we have a revolutionary new model for IT that is clearly the way of the future. It changes the core of WHAT the business is consuming from an IT standpoint, moving away from a client/server model to one of almost pure application consumption. It abstracts those apps away from all of the underlying software and hardware, and allows for scale and flexibility in ways that are impossible in a traditional model. It promises faster go-to-market, the ability for businesses to focus almost exclusively on the applications and end users, scaling to practically infinite size and the most efficient consumption model yet, where demand informs scaling and operational patterns, and cost is tied directly to consumption. The challenge is that in return for these benefits, it demands that enterprises make wholesale changes in many parts of the IT stack, from people to applications to processes and technology, a demand that is hard and expensive. For some companies it\u2019s impossible in the short term.\nOn the face of it, we have two IT consumption models that shouldn\u2019t really overlap, except that one could be a logical stepping stone to the other. One for new apps, one for old. One revolutionary, one evolutionary. One changing HOW we consume, the other changing WHAT we consume. Both landmarks on an IT evolution that has been on-going for years, both counting some of the most intelligent people in the industry as fans, both providing distinct benefits to companies of every size and type.\nBut what if, just what if, those two models shared the same name? What if BOTH of those things, which we\u2019ve just differentiated in almost every way that matters, were called \u201ccloud\u201d? That\u2019s when all hell breaks loose, and frankly both sides are to blame.\nFact: every traditional hardware manufacturer in every segment has a portfolio of \u201cprivate cloud\u201d technologies which generally encompass a market that is more than just virtualization, but is still ensconced in the traditional OS/App/Hypervisor worldview. Almost every hardware vendor is also working hard to converge the different parts of the infrastructure stacks that make up these private clouds, trying to provide as much efficiency as possible in a world still dominated by Windows and Linux servers, fat clients, virtual desktops and hypervisors. The products exist, the market exists, customers are spending Billions of dollars a year making this evolutionary step, changing how they consume IT without gutting the people, processes and applications that support the business. So what\u2019s the problem?\nIf you want an example, check out this piece by Phil Wainewright on ZDNet. It\u2019s painfully obvious that Phil is on the \u201ccloud is apps and nothing else\u201d side of the equation, and even if he has a valid point that companies market what they want to sell (shocking, I know) it gets overridden by the religious fervor used in excoriating the article in question. In the end, there\u2019s no critique of what the customer needs, there\u2019s no evaluation of where the customer is, there\u2019s just the shrill cry of \u201cyou shouldn\u2019t be using cloud because you aren\u2019t using my definition!\u201d No one wins and the world is simply more noisy. I think Brian Gracely put it best when he laid out the thinking to be like this:\nEnterprise = Private Cloud = False Cloud = Old Stupid Apps = Stupid People = Waste of Time\nIt gets even harder to understand the conflict when you realize there are great examples of success and happiness on both sides. Netflix is, understandably, one of the poster children for the new paradigm of application development. Built from the ground up to provide all of the features and resilience that the company needs, it\u2019s the quintessential app-driven environment. And obviously it works well for the Netflix business model!\nAaron Delp and I had a brief but very intense Twitter DM conversation a couple weeks ago, where he was very concerned with some of the newer messaging being put out by the company we both work for, because he didn\u2019t feel like we were able to \u201cdeliver a cloud environment\u201d. I asked him, somewhere in the two dozen messages we exchanged, if there was ANYONE out there who WAS delivering what he felt a \u201ccloud environment\u201d should be, and he didn\u2019t think anyone was. My takeaway was that he wasn\u2019t arguing that there were two different markets and use cases, but instead was objecting to the word \u201ccloud\u201d being used in any way other than the purest form, and saying that calling the Vblock a \u201cprivate cloud system\u201d wasn\u2019t acceptable. His argument was passionate, well reasoned and not factually wrong, but it ignored the basic truth that one word can have many meanings, even if that is confusing or done in an opportunistic way. And I\u2019m certainly willing to concede that much of this could have been solved by hardware vendors not co-opting the word \u201ccloud\u201d just because it resonated with customers\u2026\nWith that, I\u2019m going to segue into another current issue where two groups using the same word causes tension and bad feelings. I warn you now, this has NOTHING to do with technology, so if you close the browser now you aren\u2019t going to miss anything. Since I think I hit every taboo subject there is in the next few paragraphs, consider this your fair warning\u2026\nI warned you. Did you feel that warning? I did, and I\u2019ll say I told you so later\u2026\nAs many of you know, I\u2019m a fan of the rational and logical reading of the US Constitution. I\u2019m not a full-on Libertarian, because I don\u2019t think the founding fathers intended for the Constitution to be a static document, but one that maintained the core values of the country while taking into account the changing of the world and of the United States itself. In my opinion, this is why some of the smartest guys who ever lived wrote some very non-specific statements; they intended for there to be flexibility in the interpretation. The Constitution is a blueprint, not a straightjacket. I understand that there are people who feel differently, that the Constitution is an inflexible document that does not allow for interpretation, and while I disagree, I respect their right to that opinion.\nIn much the same way, I believe the Bible is a collection of wisdom, anecdotes and parables, that were meant to provide moral and legal guidance to people who lived a long, long time ago. It\u2019s a\nfascinating and powerful look at a point in time, and it includes some values that were meant to be held on to regardless of the time period, and it includes some very era-sensitive observations that are little more than historical footnotes today. I mean, being stoned to death for planting different crops side-by-side or for wearing clothing that contains more than one kind of thread (Leviticus 19:19) are examples of things that may have been relevant and even critically important to society when they were written, but they don\u2019t have any relevance today, and they aren\u2019t taken seriously or adhered to in everyday life. Some parts of the Bible seem to be historically relevant with little direct religious reference, some of it seems to be pure allegory and some of it is designed to provide the foundations of the religion that is Christianity. Much the same way the Constitution is the blueprint for the country that is the USA, the Bible is the blueprint for people who wish to be Christians. I understand that there are people who feel differently, that the Bible is the divine word of God and that every word it contains is Scripture, and while I disagree, I respect their right to that opinion.\nSo what happens when the two documents, and their most ardent, inflexible adherents, cross paths? Language and religion gone wild. Contemplate the following:\nIn this corner, we have a core sacrament of the Christian faith. It\u2019s an institution that God has a particular fondness for, and it\u2019s one where a man and a woman profess their love for one another in the sight of God and his followers. It\u2019s typically bestowed by a member of the Clergy, and carried out in a place of worship. The sacrament itself isn\u2019t really relevant to the larger world; it\u2019s not recognized specifically by the Federal government any more or less than any other religion because the government doesn\u2019t recognize sacraments. The believers of the Christian faith are guaranteed the freedom to worship as they see fit, and their right to participate in this religious institution is protected by the First Amendment.\nIn the other corner, we have a secular institution that is defined by law and recognized as binding by the Federal government. It\u2019s not a sacrament; in fact it\u2019s not a religious thing at all. It\u2019s one that allows two American citizens to take advantage of a long, long list of rights and protections, some of them so basic and fundamental in nature that they aren\u2019t offered anywhere else in US law! This legal arrangement isn\u2019t really relevant to religious organizations since it\u2019s a 100% secular agreement. It\u2019s typically put in place in a court of law, and it\u2019s offered to people of all religions and to those who don\u2019t believe in any religion. The right to participate in this legal contract is protected by the Fourteenth Amendment.\nOn the face of it, we have two things that shouldn\u2019t ever really intersect, don\u2019t we? One religious, one secular. One a commitment to God, one a legal arrangement. One for believers only as a gift from God, one for all Americans as a birthright. Both guaranteed by the US Constitution as a right of all Americans.\nBut what if, just what if, those two things shared the same name? What if BOTH of those things, which we\u2019ve just differentiated in almost every possible way, were called \u201cmarriage\u201d? Oh boy, people lose their minds\u2026\nFor those of you who know me, you know where I fall in this argument. I will fight for your right to believe in anything you want, because you are an American and the Constitution gives you that right. But it also promises equal protection under the law to ALL Americans, and so while people of faith can put any limits they want on the first definition of marriage, it\u2019s discriminatory and unconstitutional to limit the government recognized protections in the second version from being available to all Americans. It has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the Constitution. Unfortunately, the two definitions must be able to stand side-by-side in order for everyone to be able to have their rights respected, and those who subscribe to the religious definition seem to be unable to make that leap. Until they do, we\u2019ll have Americans who are ostracized and oppressed, and who aren\u2019t treated as full Citizens. This will ultimately be destructive to both sides and both definitions, and in the meantime it\u2019s the society of Americans that suffers.\nOf course, much like not every technologist is bigoted against cloud models, not every Christian is either when it comes to marriage. I have found people who feel strongly about their faith and their convictions who are willing to listen and understand and maybe find some common ground. I am an optimist by nature, and I believe that people will find a way to get along. After all, the same book of the bible that condemns also affirms that it\u2019s not man\u2019s place to judge others, and that we should love our neighbors as ourselves. Maybe we can say the same about technology, after all it\u2019s the customers who ultimately decide on and validate products in the market, and as long as everyone is working to identify those needs and serving them, there\u2019s room for many different models of IT.\nPosted in Cloud, Converged Infrastructure, Personal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 14229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 201.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeviscachee.com/2019/01/29/books-of-the-week-psychotherapy-writing-and-voodoo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:SDKLWTDAP7Z7K4TFWDKXHMJTIQBNA7Z2", "length": 5274, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "jeviscachee.com", "title": "Books of the Week: Psychotherapy, Writing, And Voodoo \u2013 scar", "raw_content": "This year\u2019s reading list is mostly things I need to read for the various strands of my life, and this week\u2019s pile was no exception. That\u2019s not to say it\u2019s no fun: these books are things I\u2019d have chosen to read anyway, and sometimes it\u2019s nice to have a bit of direction. This week\u2019s list consisted of one book for uni, and three books that counted as research for the novel I\u2019m writing.\nTheories of Counseling and Psychotherapy by C.H. Patterson\nThis is one of those \u2018overview of the field\u2019 books that are helpful to read when you\u2019re starting training in a new area. Theories of Counseling and Psychotherapy was written a few decades ago, and it shows. Whilst some of it is still relevant, if a bit clunkily-worded for a fluid modern ear, a lot of it is outdated and some of it is downright offensive. Homosexuality is seen as something to be cured, for instance, and there\u2019s a particularly harrowing passage in one of the early chapters that includes a transcript of a session with a homosexual client in which he\u2019s being convinced to \u201ctry it with the girls\u201d \u2013 the counsellor is essentially trying to talk him out of being gay.\nDespite its outdatedness I\u2019m glad I read it, because I think it\u2019s important to have an appreciation of the background of the field and how a lot of modern theory is grounded in theories that made problematic assumptions. It made me step back and think about what we pathologise today which we might accept in the future, how prejudices can be deeply woven into the context of a subject area and how important it is to recognise and acknowledge when that\u2019s happening so we can work past it.\nSo no, I wouldn\u2019t recommend it as such, but I\u2019m still pleased to have read it.\nThis book was recommended somewhere \u2013 I can\u2019t remember whether someone told me I should read it, or whether I read about it on a book blog or in a magazine for authors. In any case it came highly recommended, and I thought I\u2019d check it out despite my genre not being the same as King\u2019s. I\u2019ve read a few of his books and while I\u2019ve found it hard to lose myself in the storylines because I find them too outlandish, I\u2019ve appreciated his style and pace.\nOn Writing is a brilliant book, and I\u2019d be very surprised if it doesn\u2019t make it onto my \u2018Books of the Year\u2019 list in December. It\u2019s an excellent mixture of biography, CV and advisory text. Two things that particularly stood out for me:\nKing doesn\u2019t distinguish between life experience and writing experience; both are seen as important for the life of a writer, and I fully agree.\nAt the end is a list of books that influenced the writing of this one, and I liked how King listed all the books he\u2019d recently read that had stayed with him; I am firmly of the belief that it\u2019s not just the strictly relevant books that make a new piece of writing, but also the ones the writer has read for entertainment.\nAnd the passage in which he finds out he\u2019s sold Carrie made me cry in the middle of a restaurant.\nDefinitely recommended if you\u2019re looking for inspiration and a guiding hand.\nI bought this for two reasons: it was recommended in King\u2019s On Writing; and it was short, and therefore cheap.\nI loved it, but I\u2019m not sure everyone else will. It\u2019s very precise and very opinionated, and while it\u2019s technically correct all the way through, there are certain points which have moved on since the book\u2019s publication.\nIf you\u2019re very dedicated to tidying up your prose, and you\u2019d like a reference work you can dip into; or if you\u2019re happy wading through swathes of grammatical pedantry; then you should acquire a copy. I could read about grammar all the time and not get bored, so I thoroughly enjoyed it, but it\u2019s definitely a text for the serious writer rather than the hobbyist.\nYup, that\u2019s right. Another voodoo book.\nI wasn\u2019t sure what to expect from The Serpent and the Rainbow: often \u2018astonishing journeys\u2019 by middle-class white men into other cultures end up being patronising and culturally insensitive. Wade Davis manages to be neither of those things, and it\u2019s interesting to watch his mind changing and his views adapting as he comes to properly understand the people he\u2019s meeting and the structure he\u2019s studying.\nThere\u2019s so much rich material here that I could easily write several posts on it \u2013 just reading the book gave me ideas for new research projects aplenty \u2013 but what I need to say could be summed up in a simple recommendation. If you\u2019re interested in voodoo, particularly from a scientific perspective, this book is well worth a read.\nWhat have you read this week? 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The team are all excellent at the different skills they undertake and we would have no hesitation in commending their services to you for your project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jmf.com/category/oil-gas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:27Z", "digest": "sha1:VBWSPJVCNEGKLBS2COB4HOGQQGSFPEWZ", "length": 575, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jmf.com", "title": "Oil & Gas Archives - JMF", "raw_content": "Home/Oil & Gas\nYour business may be entitled to money from the BP Oil Spill Claim Settlement\nBy Bobby M. Bragg| 2015-06-05T19:11:14+00:00\tJune 14th, 2012|Accounting & Auditing, News & Events, Oil & Gas, Press Releases|\nThe BP Settlement Agreement entered into on April 18, 2012, has broad application to most businesses operating anywhere in Alabama, meaning your business may be eligible for a settlement. Eligibility is based upon a gross revenue test with no requirement to prove direct causation. The revenue test is fairly simple but does require analyzing monthly [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 8067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jobs.nussbaum.com/meet-our-leaders", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:50Z", "digest": "sha1:D32MGDMRVBCNAABUKTGXSAT7Y72DWEP6", "length": 7281, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "jobs.nussbaum.com", "title": "Meet Our Leaders", "raw_content": "Brent Nussbaum\nGuided by faith. Inspired by culture. Brent Nussbaum is building a better trucking company.\nPrioritizing family, putting people first, shaking the hand of every driver in the company \u2013 these are just some of the things Brent does differently.\nWhen Brent became CEO in 2000, he began transforming the company his father had founded into an industry standout. From innovations in equipment and driver compensation models, to a hands-on approach to driver retention, Brent has the foresight to do things in new ways.\nBrent began his Nussbaum career in 1970, working in equipment maintenance. After graduating from high school, he began driving a truck before transitioning into the operations area of the company. In 1990, he left Nussbaum to pursue a bachelor\u2019s degree in international business from Illinois State University in Normal, IL. He went on to receive a master\u2019s degree in international business management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in Glendale, Arizona.\nBrent returned to the family business as VP of Sales for the truckload division in 1997. From there, he assumed the role of CEO. With his hands-on leadership, Nussbaum has enjoyed record growth and has been recognized with multiple accolades within the transportation industry for its innovative spirit, exceptional driver retention rates, and commitment to integrity. Nussbaum Transportation\u2019s state-of-the-art corporate headquarters and maintenance facilities, opened in 2013, are a manifestation of Brent\u2019s ideals and vision for the company\u2019s future.\nThe media frequently looks to Brent for insights into real-time industry issues, and his expertise makes him a sought-after panel participant and speaker for the many organizations of which he is a member including: American Trucking Association, Truckload Carriers Association, and Illinois Trucking Association.\nUnder Brent\u2019s leadership, Nussbaum Transportation has earned numerous awards including: Top 50 Green Fleet, Top 100 Trucker, Innovator of the Year (100-500 trucks), and Pella Corporation\u2019s Carrier of the Year.\nBrent and his wife, Cheryl, live in Bloomington, Illinois, They have been married for 31 years and are blessed with five children. Outside activities include ministry, travel, biking and hiking.\nBill Wettstein\nBill Wettstein is not your typical CFO. Yes, he has an impressive knack for numbers, a talent that has served Nussbaum Transportation well. He tends to financial strategy and manages the company\u2019s banking relationship and taxes. But the majority of Bill\u2019s time is spent on sales and pricing for customers. By analyzing every single lane the company travels, and adjusting pricing or terms if needed, Bill creates win-win contracts with customers that keep Nussbaum and our drivers profitable.\nAfter graduating from Illinois State University in 1997, Bill was working as an accountant when he heard about an opening in the Nussbaum accounts payable department. He was well-aware of the outstanding reputation of Nussbaum, so he jumped at the opportunity to join the team.\nBill was promoted to the role of CFO in 2001. With his financial guidance, Nussbaum weathered the recession of 2008-2009. As a short-term strategic change during those years, Bill and his team rethought pricing structures to keep all of their trucks on the road, while simultaneously switching from short-haul to long-haul. The tactics proved effective, and since then, Nussbaum has prospered, achieving record fiscal growth while simultaneously offering industry-leading driver pay.\nBill has numerous certifications and affiliations including:\nWhile financials and balance sheets are important in his role as CFO, character is Nussbaum\u2019s most valuable asset, in Bill\u2019s opinion. He appreciates the people he works with at Nussbaum and the trust, integrity, and respect they exhibit toward one another.\nMarried with seven children, Bill enjoys spending time with family on their farm, complete with goats, pigs, cows, rabbits, and chickens! He also likes to spend time outdoors hunting and fishing.\nDoug Bradle\n\u201cWhat probably drives me the most here is bringing satisfaction to the lives of others.\u201d\nOur Director of Operation, Doug Bradle, has a passion for serving people. Whether helping to provide a good work atmosphere or bring resolution to a customer\u2019s problem, he is driven to help others succeed.\nDoug was born and raised on a grain farm in Secor, IL. After high school, he received his CDL and drove a truck hauling grain while attending college. He graduated in 2003 with a degree in Agriculture Science from Illinois State University. Soon after, he accepted a job at Nussbaum as a Load Planner/Driver Manager in Operations.\nIn 2007, Doug was promoted to Operations Manager where he was involved in the planning, design, and implementation of PeopleNet, a fleet management tool combining communications, safety compliance, and electronic logging tools. Other projects Doug has had direct responsibility include: the redesign of operations into three areas, driver managers, load planners, and customer service, the planning and implementation of Nussbaum\u2019s driver scorecard, a maintenance planning software, and a driver app that allows a driver to access load, pay and benefit information from a smartphone.\nIn his free time, Doug enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, working around his home, traveling, and church activities.\nVice President of Human Resouces & Safety\nAs director of human resources and safety at Nussbaum Transportation, Jeremy Stickling ensures Nussbaum is a company people will want to work for. Honoring the corporate values of honesty, integrity, and character, his team\u2019s innovative ideas have put Nussbaum on top of the industry when it comes to hiring the best drivers and offering competitive pay and benefits.\nAlthough Jeremy was exposed to commercial trucks while working at a gravel pit during college, his first role at Nussbaum was with the accounting department. As his responsibilities at the company expanded to include human resources functions, he was involved in instituting processes for more effective internal driver communications and insurance administration. Jeremy was promoted to the HR director role in 2013.\nAs the first point of contact for new driver recruits at Nussbaum, the human resources department serves a critical role. Jeremy believes in the \u201cNo Surprises\u201d recruiting philosophy, a manifestation of Nussbaum\u2019s values of honesty, integrity, and respect for its employees. Jeremy also has helped develop a comprehensive driver orientation program and overseen the restructuring of the company\u2019s compensation plans. Combined, the efforts and leadership of Jeremy and his team have contributed to Nussbaum\u2019s industry-leading driver retention rates.\nJeremy graduated from Western Governor\u2019s University with a double-major in accounting and finance in 2010 and received his Professional in Human Resources (PHR) certification in 2011. He is also a member of the Society of Human Resources Managers (SHRM).\nA native of Peoria, Illinois, Jeremy enjoys music, especially playing guitar, and is a history buff (ask him what book he\u2019s currently reading!). He is active in his church and likes to spend his free time with his wife and children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 8861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://johnjustthinking.com/2015/11/19/you-cant-put-god-in-a-test-tube-why-not/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GPSEMUC6TKY3XIEMX35DP4JSLJGAQ3D3", "length": 14455, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "johnjustthinking.com", "title": "You can\u2019t put God in a test tube. Why not? | John just thinking . . . .", "raw_content": "\u2190 American exceptionalism, American bloviation\nPlanned Parenthood and pandering politicos \u2192\nI\u2019ve long wondered why Christians and other theists ignore the successful truth-seeking process of science when dealing with whether a god exists. Quite often I\u2019ve been told, \u201cYou can\u2019t put God in a test tube.\u201d This phrase, a fairly common Christian retort, is normally stated with a \u201cgot you on that one!\u201d inflection.\nThe implication, of course, is that the Hebrew/Christian Yahweh is far too magnificent, too powerful, and too universal to be subject to human inquiry. The question seems to need no answer, because it\u2019s so obvious that it is arrogant for us, mere humans, to think God is subject to our tests. It\u2019s like standing before a judge in a court of law, demanding to inspect her law school transcript before submitting to judgement. Moreover, if there is testing to be done, a religious person might say, it will be God testing us, not we God.\nTheists think\u2014with what seems to me rather opaque logic\u2014that when it comes to being convinced of really extraordinary claims, faith is a more virtuous guide than evidence . . . especially when there seems to be no evidence. What\u2019s more, faith strong enough to ignore or even to deny opposing evidence is better still. This peculiar characteristic puts religionists in the same class as astrologers, fortune tellers, extreme political partisans, dedicated sports fans, and infatuated teenagers.\nMoreover, this malady of anti-reason, while a distinguishing mark of religious believers, is rarely applied to the secular parts of their lives. In other words, one doesn\u2019t have to be constitutionally dismissive of evidence to be religious, just be so in one\u2019s religious life. This is a bizarre compartmentalization of superstition in otherwise rational people. One can be a perfectly reasonable, clear-thinking engineer, historian, politician, carpenter, accountant, mathematician, or lawyer while his or her peculiar thinking about theism is kept in its place.\nConsequently, the framework of propositions that hold a religion together is a vulnerable structure, unable to stand if examined with the same fastidiousness used to evaluate a medical treatment, financial investment, farming practice, or astrophysics quandary. It is because of this susceptibility that religion, unlike other hypothetical schemes, fights for and is given special protection. In some cultures (and likely in all cultures at some time), even criticism of religion is or has been banned. In Western democracies in the modern age, the more frequent special protection is to give religion a \u201cpass\u201d with respect to verification, taxation, and social respect. Thus it is that religion is widely thought to be a \u201cgood thing\u201d even by persons who are not particularly religious. Thus it is that when some moral uncertainty faces a community, it is a group of clergy brought together to expound on morality. Thus it is that religion demands and is largely granted the right to define morality for everyone, its theistic claims seldom questioned and normally not criticized.\nBut let\u2019s get back to the test tube. I\u2019ve been an atheist for over a half century, yet I\u2019ve never sought to put God to a test. What I put in a test tube is not God (whose existence is at best questionable), but the thinking or theology of anyone who proclaims such an overwhelming proposition with absolutely no evidence. Can I put not God, but believers\u2019 opinion about a god in a test tube? Well, of course! Frankly, to do otherwise would be not only reckless, but would testify to my low opinion for truth, as it does theirs, for \u201cextraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence,\u201d not less as believers would have us accept.\nThat quote from Carl Sagan was based on earlier wisdom, like \u201cThe weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness,\u201d by Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, as well as \u201cA wise man . . . proportions his belief to the evidence\u201d and \u201cNo testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish,\u201d both by David Hume.\nYou see, I\u2019ve no argument with God, no more than I\u2019ve an argument with Thor, Allah, or Vishnu. My argument is with my colleagues on this planet who insist they know what (I maintain) they can only imagine. Their regard is not for truth, but for what Stephen Colbert called truthiness . . . the preposterous assertion that because we feel something to be true, therefore it is. St. Paul, the Bible says, dismissed the need for substantiation by defining faith as \u201cevidence of things unseen,\u201d as childish an approach to ascertaining fact as one can imagine.\nHumans lived and observed their environment for tens of thousands of years before happening upon what came to be called the scientific method. The purpose of science, I\u2019ve heard it said not quite jokingly, is to keep us from believing stupid things. And it works exceedingly well, as our command of the world of matter and energy has shown in just a few centuries. As science discovered more and more, the arena left to superstitions (including religion) became smaller and smaller. Even the most religious people in America now rarely see a warning from God in the reddish total lunar eclipse. Still, many of the faithful are heard to proclaim about any remaining mystery that God is therefore proven. After all, how could my son have been spared in that awful accident?\nTheir God is shrinking, remaining only the \u201cGod of the gaps,\u201d a concept described originally by a Christian lecturer, Henry Drummond, in the 1800s. In fact, it was another Christian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, martyred German theologian, who said during World War II, \u201chow wrong it is to use God as a stop-gap for the incompleteness of our knowledge. If in fact the frontiers of knowledge are being pushed further and further back (and that is bound to be the case), then God is being pushed back with them, and is therefore continually in retreat. We [should] find God in what we know, not in what we don\u2019t know.\u201d The actual phrase \u201cgod of the gaps\u201d is attributed to Methodist leader and Oxford mathematician Charles Coulson\u2019s 1955 book Science and Christian Belief.\nThe test tube analogy brings to mind men or women in white coats doing laboratory experiments. But, of course, the phrase actually has nothing to do with labs or chemistry. The point is whether we can use the scientific method to guide our gullible minds in seeking truth. It is not that methods of science can answer all questions, for they cannot. However, it can answer them better than our otherwise undisciplined, subjective casting about in the epistemological dark, seeing phantasms all about. In our yearning for knowledge, there is little disagreement about the acceleration of gravity or the atomic composition of salt, but wide disagreement on what exists supernaturally. Incidentally, virtually no one fights over the former, but many have fought over the latter.\nPremonitions, individual proclivities, and earnest feelings are useless tools in the search for reality. But religions do not give up easily. Is there a god? We don\u2019t know. Are there other-worldly visitors from space? We don\u2019t know. We can propose probabilities, but the tools of science come up with nothing. In a bizarre approach to reality, religionists often use this very lack of scientific evidence as proof that science is an unfit guide.\nWhether God exists is not a scientific question, they say. While science finds nothing, human imagination finds volumes of contradiction and detail, constructing complex configurations of pure fantasy. No, make that fantasies, for there are almost as many of these illusions as there are human minds to conceive them.\n6 Responses to You can\u2019t put God in a test tube. Why not?\nBernad says:\nThanks john for your \u2018elaborate\u2019 lecture on the non existence of God. There is enough evidence that God exists. The only problem with atheists is that they \u2018seek\u2019 Him in the wrong direction. What you dont believe even if it was to be hanged on your neck might still make no sense to \u2018you\u2019.\nTo be fair to the writer of Hebrews (whether it be Paul, or someone else) I think we should acknowledge that he was writing to believers in the Hebrew God, encouraging them to persevere in a stressful life situation in the latter half of the 1st century AD. He was NOT, of course, submitting a document for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Therefore, his statement regarding \u201cfaith\u201d being \u201cthe assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen\u201d (Heb. 11:1 ESV) should not be regarded as a failed attempt at a \u201cscientific finding.\u201d For sharing scientific evidence was clearly never the writer\u2019s intent.\nSuperimposing the scientific method on the statement in Hebrews11:1 is like using a ruler to find out how much a person weighs, or putting them on a scale to measure height.\nI am curious about your statement that \u201cnatural processes frequently (though not always) end up appearing designed.\u201d Other than your example of a personified puddle and its thoughts (should I say this is a far-from-scientific literary allusion?), I am curious what other examples you might provide.\nRegarding your statement about building a case for deism, not theism \u2013 I heartily agree. One step at a time. Whether or not this deity wants to have a relationship with humans is truly a separate question requiring a great deal more experiential information and testimony.\nI always enjoy reading your blog posts; I love the precision in your writing and thinking. There are times that your diatribes are a bit stinging, and I do not always agree with your conclusions, but they are a benefit for me to read and consider. Thanks for that. There are two comments I would make about the above post:\n(1) I think that the universe around us and the matter within us can serve as the test tube to which you refer. And when the scientific method is applied to that test tube there is a striking, resounding result, repeated ad infinitum, i.e. Design. One might argue that this design is the random, chance result of eons of evolutionary progression, or that it points to a designer. I think the latter makes more sense; the ancient teleological argument is still a good one. This is, in fact, the approach to which the Apostle Paul alludes in Romans 1.\n[No doubt you would prefer to put Deity itself into some test tube, but good luck with that. Unfortunately, we will have to be satisfied with examining created things instead of the Creator.]\n(2) Your mention of the Apostle Paul and his \u201cchildish\u201d approach which \u201cdismisses the need for substantiation\u201d needs clarification. The quote from Hebrews does not suggest that there is no evidence; quite the contrary. It suggests that there is evidence, and that that evidence is for \u201cunseen\u201d things. In much the same way scientists say dark matter is unseen, but there is evidence (e.g. gravitational force) that it exists.\nThanks. I try for precision, though often unsuccessfully. As to your comment, I agree that much of what we observe looks designed. But I disagree that to \u201clook designed\u201d implies \u201cdesigner.\u201d Natural processes frequently (though not always) end up appearing designed (like a puddle looking at its boundaries and marveling that this hole was obviously designed just to fit it). The history of human beliefs is one in which repeatedly some previously God-caused phenomenon is explained, pushing the assumed \u201cdesigner\u201d back one level at a time\u2014the famous God of the Gaps. Accepting Paul\u2019s faith supposition to be, in effect, evidence for itself (as I maintain it is) doesn\u2019t get even close to what is demanded of a scientific finding (including on dark matter). Paul\u2019s notion argues for a belief that cannot be falsified, a condition that will cause a proposed scientific finding to be rejected. A proposition that is not falsifiable can be believed without end no matter how wrong it is, something the writer of Romans 1:20 seemed not to recognize. Humanity is full of conflicting religious teachings with negligible (or no) substantiation other than believers\u2019 feelings. Yet despite the circularity in all this and despite the lack of evidence, it is still possible that some religion might be true.\nIn other words you certainly may choose to believe a proposed deity is the long sought creator-God. I even admit that your faith object may be the real one out of countless false ones. But going the next step requires more suppositions about this creator\u2019s detailed specs, for at this point you will have only built a case for deism, not theism. In other words, having shown convincingly that there is a god does not mean such an entity has personal relationships with humans, needs to be worshipped, or cares about human prayers, dogmas, and religion\u2014a being that would not necessarily have anything to do with religion at all.\nIn your next to the last paragraph you write: \u201cIs there a god? We don\u2019t know\u201d. That sounds more like the definition of an agnostic than an the atheist you claim to be. Please clarify.\nYour quandary is understandable. Many people think \u201catheism\u201d means certainty there\u2019s no god. While it can be used that way, the more widespread meaning is \u201cwithout belief there\u2019s a god.\u201d The difference is between \u201cI know there are no WMD in Iraq\u201d and \u201cI have no belief there\u2019re WMD in Iraq.\u201d That is like \u201cthere is no Santa Clause\u201d versus \u201cI don\u2019t have a belief there\u2019s a Santa Clause.\u201d Because language can be used loosely as well as meticulously, most people would simply say \u201cThere\u2019s no Santa Clause,\u201d when what they mean in precise terms is \u201cI don\u2019t believe there\u2019s a Santa Clause,\u201d for unlikely as the Jolly Old guy is, we cannot know he isn\u2019t somewhere we haven\u2019t looked yet. I, along with the majority of atheists, never describe myself as an atheist in terms of certainty. That is why I can say I am an atheist, but cannot say with 100% conviction that I know there\u2019s no god. I suspect I am less adamant about the matter than most Christians are about other gods, that is, they\u2019d be more likely to declare \u201cThere is no Vishnu.\u201d At any rate, do the two definitions of atheism lead to confusion? Yep. Does it cause an overlap of atheism and agnosticism? Yes again. For a more careful treatment of the atheist/agnostic overlap, see my May 18, 2013 post \u201cAtheist, Agnostic\u2014It\u2019s So Confusing.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 18474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jonmitchell.net/blog/micro-blog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KIGQJPBTHQMDS57UD2OGFXHOXYQ5OTP5", "length": 569, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jonmitchell.net", "title": "Get on Micro.blog While the Getting\u2019s Good \u2013 Jon Mitchell, author and musician", "raw_content": "Manton Reece has created a service called Micro.blog, which, as you will see, is basically like Twitter without any of the bad stuff. I\u2019m @ablaze on the service, and if you want your preferred user name, I suggest you head over there and get it. I\u2019m following 38 people, and it\u2019s getting pretty lively.\nI\u2019m not ready to write a long Micro.blog soliloquy, but if you ask me questions about it, I will answer them. For now, just this: I did back the Kickstarter, but I am using the service on an ongoing basis completely for free, powered by this very website you are on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://journalism.berkeley.edu/donate/chauncy-bailey-fellowship/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:17Z", "digest": "sha1:GEK7HW5Q7DJSKUSPPLN3CTTDRSXVBW73", "length": 1373, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "journalism.berkeley.edu", "title": "The Chauncey Bailey Graduate Fellowship | UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism", "raw_content": "Home / Donate / The Chauncey Bailey Graduate Fellowship\nThe Chauncey Bailey Graduate Fellowship\nThe Chauncey Bailey Graduate Fellowship, established in 2012 by J-School lecturer Alan Mutter, is named for Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr., the editor of the weekly Oakland Post, who was murdered on Aug. 2, 2007, while reporting on a story regarding the suspicious activities of the Your Black Muslim Bakery. His murder, at 57, was the most recent killing of a U.S. journalist since 1993, and one of the most prominent since the 1985 murder of Chinese-American journalist Henry Liu by Taiwanese intelligence agents, and the 1976 car-bombing death of Don Bolles.\nRecipients will be students who demonstrate the potential for leadership in promoting cross-cultural understanding, or who seek to use journalism to shed light on racial and ethnic injustice.\nFor more information, see the award-winning documentary \u201cA Late Day in Oakland,\u201d directed by J-School alum Zachary Stauffer (\u201808); Killing the Messenger, by J-School lecturer Thomas Peele, who called Bailey\u2019s murder \u201cone of the most blatant attacks on the First Amendment and free speech in American history,\u201d and The Chauncey Bailey Project, an award-winning investigative project by reporters and editors from across the Bay Area who knew him. The project proved their motto \u201cYou can't kill a story by killing a journalist.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 10129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jrul.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/jrul/search/authors/view?firstName=Robert&middleName=L.&lastName=Barchi&affiliation=Rutgers%20University&country=US", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:25Z", "digest": "sha1:LEPNW56VCE67AF53VWWCERNN4SNQV455", "length": 186, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jrul.libraries.rutgers.edu", "title": "Author Details", "raw_content": "Barchi, Robert L., Rutgers University, United States\nGreetings from the University President On the Occasion of The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries\u2019 Seventy-fifth Anniversary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 615, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 122.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://justcatholic.org/uk-car-insurance-admiral/who-has-the-best-car-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:22Z", "digest": "sha1:EB47HJYPUMUSP55SQIYUPPWNE36V3YMY", "length": 4573, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "justcatholic.org", "title": "Who Has The Best Car Insurance \u2013 Car Insurance Quote Free", "raw_content": "In 1915, purchasing a house would have typically set you back $3,200, according to Census records. 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Following a grassroots pressure campaign led by the globa.\nCar Insurance Bmw Z4 Front Bumper", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 7089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kakaduplumco.com/collections/all/products/ngarinyman-bush-soaps-bardigi", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5CJZZXCX3YVUE2TJILTV6MQ2KD2FE7L5", "length": 733, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "kakaduplumco.com", "title": "Ngarinyman Bush Soaps - Bardigi | Kakadu-Plum-Co", "raw_content": "Ngarinyman Bush Soaps are made from hand harvested traditional bush plants, with healing properties that have been used by Aboriginal people for thousands of years. During the production process, the plants are infused in the soap extracting the healing properties of the plant.\nThe two varieties of Ngarinyman Bush Soaps are:\nDimilan is used to get rid of bad spirits, and is commonly used in smoking ceremonies to show respect for the land. The plant is also used to smoke babies and young children to help keep them calm and grow up strong and healthy.\nBardigi is primarily used by Ngarinyman people as a cure for the flu, as well as a remedy for joint and muscle pain.\nThank you everything is and was perfect from start to finish", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kashmirglobal.com/2012/03/21", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:55Z", "digest": "sha1:QEPZX5OREVKOLBL45Q4QTN5H6EWWV3GX", "length": 843, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kashmirglobal.com", "title": "March 21, 2012 - Kashmir Global - News and Research on Kashmir", "raw_content": "Political will not rhetoric needed for Freedom\u2014Farooq Rehmani\nIslamabad| 21 March 2012: The Chairman Jammu and Kashmir People\u2019s Freedom League, Muhammad Farooq Rehmani has expressed serious concern over the receding situation of Kashmir issue before the world, causing great harm to the core demand of the Kashmiris for the right of self-determination, and basic human rights of the people. Expressing disappointment over the [\u2026]\n\u2018National consensus must for granting MFN status to India\u2019\nIslamabad, Mar 20(NISAR AHMED THOKAR): Speakers at a Round Table Conference hosted by Institute of Policy Studies here on Monday agreed that there was a dire need to have national consensuses on the issue of granting most favoured (MFN) nation status to India. Attended by a selected gathering of former diplomats, economic experts and intellectuals, [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 318.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/French-literature/353152", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2SBZG44X6OGPQLWGIA6AK3I6D535QQF4", "length": 10744, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "kids.britannica.com", "title": "French literature - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help", "raw_content": "The French people are proud of their language and of their long tradition of poetry, prose, and drama. Pure language and perfect form have been traditionally prized in French literature. This article will focus on the literature of France. For information on Canadian and African writing in the French language, see Canadian literature and African literature.\nThe French language developed over many centuries. It developed from the Latin language used by ancient Roman soldiers and settlers who occupied Gaul, or the land that is now France, until the 5th century ad. They were driven out by Franks and other Germanic tribes who enriched the language with words from their own tongues. The Franks gave Gaul the name France, and the Frankish version of the language of Gaul became what is now called Old French.\nFrench literature began in the form of traditional verses that people recited aloud from memory. The jongleur was a touring entertainer who knew many such verses and went from place to place to present them. Because few people could read, the arrival of the jongleur at a fair, marketplace, or castle was a big event.\nBy the 1200s people had begun to write these poems down. One early form of narrative (story-telling) poem was the chanson de geste. A chanson de geste was a tale of heroic deeds in the time of Charlemagne. Among the earliest and greatest of these was the Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), which was composed in about 1100. Another early form was the fabliau, a short tale that was usually comic and sometimes vulgar. The best-known fabliau is Roman de Renart (Reynard the Fox), an epic featuring animal characters that talk, think, and act as people do. Also popular were adventure stories about ancient Greece and Rome.\nMedieval French literature reached its height in the 12th and 13th centuries. Chr\u00e9tien de Troyes wrote poetic romances about King Arthur of Britain and the knights of King Arthur\u2019s Round Table. One of the greatest works of the French Middle Ages was the Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose), a very long love poem begun by Guillaume de Lorris and finished by Jean de Meung. In the south of France, poet-musicians called troubadours traveled from village to village. In lyrics of courtly love, a troubadour would declare his undying devotion to a fair lady.\nProse, not poetry, was usually used to write about historic events. For example, Jean de Joinville\u2019s 13th-century Histoire de Saint Louis (History of Saint Louis) gives an account of the Seventh Crusade and its leader, King Louis IX of France. Jean Froissart used prose to write a chronicle of the first stages of the Hundred Years\u2019 War (1337\u20131453) between France and England.\nThe movement called the Renaissance began in Italy but by the early 1500s had spread to France. The Renaissance was led by humanists\u2014writers and scholars who showed more interest in the lives of people than in God and religion. Fran\u00e7ois Rabelais, one of the early humanists, wrote Gargantua (1534), Pantagruel (1532), and other stories celebrating the intellectual and physical life. The works also spoof the customs of his day.\nHumanism revived interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome. A group of poets called the Pl\u00e9iade set out to reform French poetry by studying ancient literature. The leader of this group was Pierre de Ronsard.\nMichel de Montaigne is famous for establishing a literary form\u2014the essay. In this form of prose, a writer addresses a subject in a rather informal and personal manner. Although both the ancient Greeks and Romans had written essays, Montaigne revived the form, named it, and made it popular. His wisdom, curiosity, and directness set an example for future essayists.\nThe Classic Period\nBy the early 1600s the freedom of the Renaissance was replaced with formal style, structure, and order. People tried to set down rules about how language was to be used and how stories were to be told.\nDrama became the main literary form. Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine wrote mostly tragedies, often taking their subject matter from ancient history or the Bible. The playwright Moli\u00e8re specialized in the \u201ccomedy of manners,\u201d in which he ridiculed the foolishness and vanity he saw in the society around him.\nNot all French writers of the time chose weighty subjects, however. Charles Perrault is known for his collection of children\u2019s stories called Contes de ma m\u00e8re l\u2019oye (1697; Tales of Mother Goose).\nPhilosophers dominated the literature of the 1700s, a time called the Age of Reason or the Enlightenment. The leading thinkers of the period were known as philosophes. Among the philosophes were scientists and literary writers as well as philosophers. The philosophes stressed the rule of reason in human affairs. This sometimes brought them into conflict with church and government leaders.\nVoltaire was the most famous of the philosophes. In his poetry and drama, he used his sharp wit to mock and criticize government, society, and the accepted ideas of the day. His free-thinking views got him into trouble with the authorities. In his best-known novel, Candide (1759), he pokes fun at the then-fashionable idea that this is the \u201cbest of all possible worlds.\u201d\nMany of the philosophes contributed articles to the Encyclop\u00e9die, the first modern encyclopedia. This work was edited by Denis Diderot and published in many volumes starting in 1751. The writers included Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a philosopher and literary figure who championed revolutionary ideals. Among his more literary works, the most famous is the Confessions (1782\u201389).\nThe French Revolution, which began in 1789, swept away the roles and conventions of earlier literature. Feelings became more important than logic and reason. Writers appealed to the senses as well as the mind. The trend became known as the romantic movement, or romanticism. French writers of this period also showed a new concern for portraying the past or present as faithfully as possible. This form of literature is known as realism.\nFran\u00e7ois de Chateaubriand was one of the first of the romantics. He championed Christianity for its connection with great art and poetry. In his novels he created the figure of the world-weary, misunderstood hero. Similar characters would appear often in the literature of the day.\nVictor Hugo brought romanticism\u2019s bold ideas to the stage with his play Hernani (1830). Hugo\u2019s violation of the old rules of literature upset many people who preferred more traditional works. The play\u2019s great success was a major victory for the romantics. Hugo is now best known, however, for his historical novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) and Les Mis\u00e9rables (1862). In Les Mis\u00e9rables, he shows great sympathy for people who are used or forgotten by society. Alexandre Dumas the Elder was a writer of historical novels. His The Three Musketeers (1844) and The Count of Monte Cristo (1844\u201345) are still popular stories.\nHonor\u00e9 de Balzac combined the ideals of romanticism with the new realism. Realistic literature aims to present the world as it really is. La Com\u00e9die humaine (The Human Comedy) is a vast collection of his novels and stories describing every type of person in French life, published starting in 1834.\nGustave Flaubert\u2019s masterpiece is Madame Bovary (1857). The novel is a realistic portrait of a middle-class woman who falls into disgrace and suicide.\nThe interest in realism among the romantic writers led to a new movement called naturalism. Naturalist writers tried to represent the world around them even more accurately than realists did. Among the leading naturalists was \u00c9mile Zola. He wrote a series of 20 novels, each describing modern life in a different environment\u2014from a Parisian marketplace to a mining community. Zola stirred controversy by revealing social problems. Guy de Maupassant, a master of the short story, also realistically portrayed human behavior. Alexandre Dumas the Younger took naturalism\u2019s principles of careful observation, social criticism, and moral themes to the stage.\nA group of writers called the symbolists rebelled against naturalism. Instead of conveying messages to the reader, they wanted to produce feelings. They brought a sense of mystery back to literature. The poet Charles Baudelaire inspired the movement with Les Fleurs du mal (1857; The Flowers of Evil), a collection that included the sonnet Correspondences. It describes the world as a \u201cforest of symbols\u201d that speak to the poet.\nThe movement\u2019s leading figure was St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9, who played with words and sentence structure in his poems, making meaning difficult to decipher. Another important symbolist was poet-philosopher Paul Val\u00e9ry, whose works examine the processes of thought and creativity.\nTwentieth-century French writers reacted in a variety of ways to a world characterized by wars, social conflicts, and rapid technological advancements. Marcel Proust chronicled a fast-changing society in his masterpiece \u00c0 la recherche du temps perdu (1913\u201327; Remembrance of Things Past), a novel in seven parts. The narrator closely studies and describes the motives of each character. Andr\u00e9 Gide also included psychological insights in his fiction. He attacked society\u2019s values in such works as The Immoralist (1902).\nMany writers began to view modern life as lacking meaning. One such writer was Samuel Beckett, who was born in Ireland but wrote many works in French. His En attendant Godot (1952; Waiting for Godot) and other plays show how ridiculous human lives can be. Eug\u00e8ne Ionesco, a French dramatist born in Romania, created comedies in the same \u201cabsurdist\u201d style. His one-act play La Cantatrice chauve (1949; The Bald Soprano) has characters who cannot communicate meaningfully. Albert Camus, a French novelist born in Algeria, was an absurdist who saw dignity in human struggle. His works include La Peste (1947; The Plague). The philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre believed that people are responsible for themselves and for their place in the world. Among his best-known writings is the play Huis-clos (1944; In Camera, 1946; U.S. title, No Exit, 1946).\nA later literary reaction to modern life was the \u201cnew novel.\u201d Bold young authors did away with traditional form, style, plot, and character development. Sometimes necessary facts were left out. It was up to the reader to come up with the meaning. An example of the new novel is Alain Robbe-Grillet\u2019s The Voyeur (1955), which simply describes the objects that appear before a man\u2019s gaze.\nAfter the 1970s French writers turned away from experiments in form. Novelists used fantasy to comment on the world, returned to historical fiction, and explored the new role of women in society.\nThe Story of Babar is a well-known French story for children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 13360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 147.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kinghorngardens.com/our-work/rooftop-garden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:20Z", "digest": "sha1:YKBYNBUNPSLX3HO4W4BCGNJW7X3ZEU2H", "length": 280, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kinghorngardens.com", "title": "Kinghorn Gardens \u00bb Small Rooftop Garden", "raw_content": "Project Year: 2015 | Omaha Nebraska\nThis small space rooftop garden is a great place to retreat from the daily demands of city life. It's planters are filled with boxwoods, evergreens, and annuals. The garden provides a place to enjoy anything from a meal or a moment of solitude.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://knightofsteel.com/the-gray-area/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:36Z", "digest": "sha1:BBISATAJTS23YMW5BBVF64ZXYQHXF24V", "length": 3621, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "knightofsteel.com", "title": "The Grey Area. - The Knight of Steel", "raw_content": "Boundaries. Limits. Something that we always say exist, but in social circumstances, they seem to be very poorly defined. The diversity of people on this planet sometimes astonishes, there used to be a time when I was fascinated by how much diversity there actually is. Some people like to stay in the safe zone, far away from those limits we talk about. They like to play it safe and stay as distant to a risk as possible. Some people, on the other hand, like to push limits. They want to test those limits and boundaries and see how far a person is willing to go. It is also important to note that if a person likes to keep it safe on some issues, doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t push limits on something else. People are hybrids of both of these personalities. The curious thing to note here is that people from these groups, who identify themselves as either risk takers or safe players, tend to have a certain repulsion against each other. If a person doesn\u2019t take risks in something that you do, the person becomes boring or scared of trying something new. On the other hand, if a person pushes the boundaries of something you don\u2019t, well then the said person is a brat who doesn\u2019t have any manners.\nBoundaries are not limited to just social issues. Even in science, after a certain point it becomes hard to ascertain whether something is part of a core science or not. Art and Science share a narrow border with each other in some cases. In the past few years I seem to have developed a penchant for pushing boundaries. I seem to enjoy taking things as far as I can to ensure where a person\u2019s limit is. This concept fascinates me to be honest and that is why I chose to study psychology. Psychology lies in the grey area between science and philosophy. Some parts of psychology are purely scientific while others don\u2019t have any repeatable proof to be considered scientific yet. I have been asked a lot about why I chose to give up medicine to study this. The truth is, I would like to know where the boundaries of science end and the realm of philosophy begins. I like such conflicts where a definition of a certain could change the significance of the whole word or subject. Psychology is not a proper science yet, if it was it would be called neurology and that is exactly why I would like to study it. These grey areas always expose the lack of understanding of a subject among mankind as a whole. It tells us how much we, or science doesn\u2019t know for sure yet. There are many sciences out there that are core ones but psychology is special in particular because it has the potential and resources to soon be considered as a real science. Until that day comes, I will just have to learn the shortcomings of humans\u2019 understanding of nature, of our own mind.\nIt is quiet obvious at this point that I also want to study psychology because of the previous mental health issues I have faced. I don\u2019t talk a lot about them now because I seem to have improved a lot in the last 2 months but I would like to understand my brain better and try to pick out the root cause of what may have caused my depression. I do have a vague answer right now, I want a more accurate one and I am going to look for it in the books I study, the people I talk to and the teachers I interact with. Until then, This brain of mine will continue to try and unlock itself and understand itself better no matter how long it takes.\nTags: blogdepressionlifemental healthmental illnessphilosophypsychologyscienceteen\nHuman mind is really an enigma.its difficult to understand but it\u2019s good that you are trying to do so.best wishes for this herculian task.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 5256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://knoema.com/atlas/Latvia/Maternal-mortality-ratio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:05Z", "digest": "sha1:25O5PFXP5LOIYDNTPI6ZPEW76SFSRM34", "length": 347, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "knoema.com", "title": "Latvia Maternal mortality ratio, 1960-2018 - knoema.com", "raw_content": "Latvia - Maternal mortality ratio\n18.0 (deaths per 100,000 live births)\tin 2015\nIn 2015, maternal mortality ratio for Latvia was 18 deaths per 100,000 live births. Maternal mortality ratio of Latvia fell gradually from 43 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1996 to 18 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2015.\nWhat is Latvia maternal mortality ratio?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 201.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kotaku.com/celebrate-a-million-age-of-conan-beta-sign-ups-with-wom-389888", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:43:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MZEDT2Y5GRVGYRHWXCQPMHQOQWCRXZUR", "length": 2984, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "kotaku.com", "title": "Celebrate A Million Age Of Conan Beta Sign Ups With Women In Leather", "raw_content": "Celebrate A Million Age Of Conan Beta Sign Ups With Women In Leather\nFuncom has announced that over one million people have signed up for the beta of their upcoming MMO Age of Conan, possibly the largest beta numbers for an MMO since the very dawn of time. To celebrate, they've released a trailer highlighting the role of women in the world of Conan, showcasing women in tiny, impractical armor stabbing people and riding mammoths. If this isn't what gaming is all about, then I don't know how to please you people. Hit the jump for the full press release!\nMore than 1 million people sign up for the Age of Conan beta!\n- More than 5 million unique visitors to the official Age of Conan website in 2008 -\nDurham, USA - May 13, 2008 - Funcom and Eidos are proud to confirm some of the impressive figures powering the Age of Conan launch, and the two companies are happy to reveal that the Age of Conan Beta has passed 1 million sign-ups! As one of the most anticipated MMO's ever, the 1 million mark confirms the amazing interest in the game.\n\"Funcom has not been able to find any higher beta numbers for MMOs in the western world,\" said Morten Larssen, VP of Funcom Sales and Marketing. \"We believe it represents the largest ever beta sign-up figure in the history of the genre.\"\nIn addition to the incredible beta numbers, Funcom confirms that almost 800.000 gamers have signed up for the Clan of Conan newsletter. The hundreds of thousands following the development of the game have moreover resulted in a rapidly growing forum community. Last week Funcom registered over 115.000 posts on the official forums, across four languages. This comes in addition to Age of Conan discussions on external forums and in other languages.\nIn 2008, Funcom has also seen a tremendous growth in the amount of people who visit the official Age of Conan websites. Since January 2008, Funcom has registered more than 5 million unique visitors, from more than 200 countries. Last week alone over 725.000 unique visitors came to the Age of Conan sites.\nThe coverage and interest on external gaming sites has skyrocketed as a result of the growing anticipation. Age of Conan has topped numerous charts as the most read about, most popular and most anticipated PC game in development. As an example, GameSpot.com has Age of Conan as the #1 most read about upcoming game over the last month, on any format. The game has seen a similar interest on genre specific sites, including being the #1 most popular MMO over the last 12 months on MMORPG.com. Print gaming publications have also covered the game widely, and the game now has over 20 covers, including the coveted cover of PC Gamer US.\n\"How all of our strong figures convert into later sales and subscription figures is still unknown,\" continued Larssen. \"But our pre-order numbers in some important retail chains track as among the highest for any MMO launched.\"\nAge of Conan launches 20th of May in North America / Oceania and 23rd of May in Europe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kronozio.com/card/f013f5dd-e951-410c-92e6-ef4ee40fc4eb/2013-14-Panini-Titanium-Steven-Stamkos-93", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:5Y6FNONU7X2KEGPLBYKEHFKMCK2X5WCI", "length": 237, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kronozio.com", "title": "2013-14 Panini Titanium Steven Stamkos #93 on Kronozio", "raw_content": "2013-14 Panini Titanium Steven Stamkos #93\nThis is a Hockey trading card of Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning. It comes from the 2013-14 Panini Titanium set, card number 93, serial numbered 035/199. It is for sale at a price of $ 3.88.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 5391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 240.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ksoutdoors.com/KDWPT-Info/News/Weekly-News/6-20-17-Governor-s-Travel-Tourism-Council-Meeting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:35Z", "digest": "sha1:NWZRBUIUIALERDVFWFAQFQOHLSHKK3PT", "length": 457, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ksoutdoors.com", "title": "6-20-17 Governor's Travel/Tourism Council Meeting / Weekly News / News / KDWPT Info / KDWPT - KDWPT", "raw_content": "Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Commission To Meet With Governor\u2019s Travel and Tourism Council\nKANSAS CITY \u2013 A joint meeting between the Kansas Governor\u2019s Council on Travel and Tourism and the Kansas Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) Commission will occur Thursday, June 22 at Children\u2019s Mercy Park, 1 Sporting Way, Kansas City, Kan., home of the Sporting KC soccer team.Attendees will gather for a facility tour beginning at 9:30 a.m., fo ... Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 370, "original_length": 7608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 189.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/24559", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:K7FYASVSFWXWLMUJHFFD7TWATCSYPWXX", "length": 1648, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "kuscholarworks.ku.edu", "title": "Relation and interactions among reading fluency and competence for adult education learners", "raw_content": "Center for Research on Learning Scholarly Works\nRelation and interactions among reading fluency and competence for adult education learners\nMellard_2013.pdf (1.033Mb)\nFall, Emily E.\nWoods, Kari\nStatistical analyses of data from an academically diverse sample of 276 adult basic and secondary education learners extends understanding of the relation of and interactions between oral reading fluency and reading competence indices. Significant interactions between total word rate and word error rate that differed in relation to two measures of reading competence suggest that adult literacy instructors should emphasize fluency instruction to a greater or lesser degree depending on whether the major goal of instruction is academic reading (e.g., being able to comprehend a textbook) or functional reading (e.g., being able to fill out a job application).\nThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Mellard, D. F., Fall, E. E. and Woods, K. L. (2013), Relation and Interactions Among Reading Fluency and Competence for Adult Education Learners. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 28: 70\u201380. doi:10.1111/ldrp.12008, which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1111/ldrp.12008. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.\nhttps://doi.org/10.1111/ldrp.12008\nCenter for Research on Learning Scholarly Works [125]\nMellard, D. F., Fall, E. E. and Woods, K. L. (2013), Relation and Interactions Among Reading Fluency and Competence for Adult Education Learners. Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 28: 70\u201380. doi:10.1111/ldrp.12008", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 240.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lakesuperiorcircletour.com/tag/shipwrecks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FFREQQWZLCUWUFYO34W4SLAPZ4FESICL", "length": 558, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lakesuperiorcircletour.com", "title": "Shipwrecks \u2013 Lake Superior Circle Tour", "raw_content": "My Favorite Spots\nI am happy to report that I completed the Lake Superior Circle Tour September 10-16, 2012. My mileage from Duluth to Duluth, clockwise, was 1,522 miles. My favorite spots were the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (seeing the Edmund Fitzgerald bell) and the last 10 miles of Highway 41 coming in to Copper Harbor. My least favorite bits were the first 15 miles of Highway 26 coming out of Copper Harbor More\nTagged Clockwise, Copper Harbor (Michigan), Duluth (Minnesota), Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum (Michigan), Marquette (Michigan), Shipwrecks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lambethtroxlerfuneralhome.com/tribute/details/119563/Betty-Michael/obituary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LG3UDFNKPI2FSH4PLILJV6YGSZYLY35W", "length": 1364, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "lambethtroxlerfuneralhome.com", "title": "Obituary of Betty Michael | Lambeth-Troxler Funeral & Cremation Ser...", "raw_content": "Obituary of Betty Michael\nBetty Sue Michael, 70, went home to be with Jesus on January 29, 2019. A Memorial Service will be held at Bethel Baptist Church on Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 2:00PM\nSue was born April 4, 1948 in Guilford County to the late Dorothy Lamb Hipp and James Hipp. In addition to her parents, she is predeceased by her husband Wade H. Michael.\nThose left to cherish her memory include her daughters, Julie K. Boyette, Rhonda L. King; sons, William \u201cJeff\u201d King and wife Delois, Christopher B. Michael, Billy W. Michael and brother, Terry Johnson. She was also blessed with ten grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren.\nSue was one of the oldest living members of Bethel Baptist Church, having been a member for over fifty years. She served the church in many capacities, including Sunday School Teacher. She attended Northeast High School in McLeansville. She enjoyed a long career as a Beautician. Her interests included sewing, collecting dolls and brooches and decorating extensively for the Christmas holidays. Sue was the type of person that would comfort family and friends in their times of need. She loved and supported her children unconditionally and showed the true definition of a mother\u2019s love.\nIn lieu of flowers, memorial donations are asked to be made to the American Diabetes Association (http://www.diabetes.org/donate/).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 4960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 141.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/kavita-das/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4RRKGJM5R3PYCA336ZYJWD5G6CLLVL2", "length": 1451, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "lareviewofbooks.org", "title": "Kavita Das - Los Angeles Review of Books", "raw_content": "Kavita Das worked in social change for fifteen years on issues ranging from homelessness, to public health disparities, to racial justice, and now focuses on writing about culture, race, feminism, social change, and their intersections. Nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize, Kavita\u2019s work has been published in Longreads, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Washington Post, Kenyon Review, NBC News Asian America, Guernica, Quartz, McSweeney\u2019s, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. Her first book, Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar (Harper Collins India, Fall 2018), is a biography about the Grammy-nominated Hindustani singer, who played a pivotal role in bringing Indian music to the West. Kavita is also at work on a collection of personal essays.\nStruggling with a Puzzling Illness, Then Living with Its Answer: A Conversation with Porochista Khakpour\nKavita Das interviews Porochista Khakpour, the author of \u201cSick: A Memoir.\u201d...\nPassing and Being Passed Over in the United States\nA new anthology on the social pressures of passing....\nThe Perils of Denialism on the Left\nTHIS MONTH the Oxford Dictionary chose \u201cpost-truth\u201d as its word of the year, which it defines as \u201crelating to or denoting ...\nBiography: Where White Lives Matter\nKavita Das bemoans the lack of diversity in the biography genre....\nWho Gets To Write About Whom: Examining Authority, Authenticity, and Appropriation in Biography\nRed Ink of Revisionist History", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 6516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 172.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://latebloomingentrepreneurs.wordpress.com/2018/10/29/from-crunching-numbers-to-chopping-veggies-how-a-40-something-found-her-calling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:35Z", "digest": "sha1:RCAZ4M72LVCUR6KGDIPBLFLYKKA3GJOW", "length": 6619, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "latebloomingentrepreneurs.wordpress.com", "title": "From Crunching Numbers to Chopping Veggies: How a 40-Something Found Her Calling | Late Blooming Entrepreneurs", "raw_content": "\u2190 Can a Childhood Dream Become a Business?\nInstant Pot\u2019s Inventor Shows It\u2019s Never Too Late to Create \u2192\nColette Wilson, ColMoni\u2019s Catering\nFor 20 years, Colette Wilson earned a good living as an accountant who did work for the federal government. Now she\u2019s found joy in pleasing taste buds through scrumptious hors d\u2019oeuvres and mouthwatering sweets.\nWilson is a co-founder of ColMoni\u2019s Catering, a Lorton, Virginia-based business that caters a full range of events throughout the Washington, D.C. area. ColMoni\u2019s creations include a full array of specialty cakes and other desserts as well as pre-made meals for busy families and professionals who don\u2019t have time to cook.\nHow did Wilson make the leap from accounting executive to culinary entrepreneur? Smart financial planning, a strong work ethic and a willingness to ask for help (even when she didn\u2019t want to) all came into play. So did a desire to identify and pursue her true passion. This wasn\u2019t a top priority at the beginning of her career, however.\nAfter graduating from Mary Washington College, Wilson took a job with a CPA firm in Alexandria, Virginia. She worked her way up the corporate ladder as a CPA, making partner before she turned 29. Along the way, she married and had two children.\nWilson was good at what she did, as evidenced by her appointment as Chair of the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants in 2012. By then, she was in her early 40s and had a long list of clients. But she also had an exhausting schedule and yearned to spend more time with her children.\nAfter a talk with her husband and a meeting with her financial advisor, Wilson made a life-changing decision. She sold her partnership interest and left the accounting firm that had been her home for so many years. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure where I was headed but knew I needed to take a break and wanted to do something different,\u201d she says.\nDuring that time, she gave herself permission to explore her interests. She began cooking for others because it was something she had always enjoyed doing.\nThe ColMoni\u2019s Catering team: Monica Yates (left) and Colette Wilson (Photo credit: Frontier Kitchen)\nIn June 2013, a former colleague hired her to cater an event, marking her first paid gig. Another pivotal moment occurred in March 2014. That\u2019s when Wilson met Brenda Brown, who was in the early stages of opening a business incubator for culinary entrepreneurs.\nWhile Brown searched for an incubator location, Wilson prepared food in her own kitchen and developed a following as a caterer. She also recruited Monica Yates, her longtime friend and college roommate, to be her business partner.\nIn 2015, Brown found space in Lorton and opened Frontier Kitchen. That March, Wilson and Yates \u2013 both in their mid-40s \u2013 put in $10 thousand each and combined their first names to found ColMoni\u2019s Catering, LLC. They joined Frontier Kitchen as one of its first startups.\nThe move provided access to a commercial grade kitchen as well as training in marketing, pricing and other aspects of running a culinary business. It also enabled Wilson and Yates to join a supportive community where they could learn from other food entrepreneurs.\nColMoni\u2019s Catering has seen steady growth since its launch three years ago. Sales increased 18% from 2015 to 2016, and 19% from 2016 to 2017. As of the third quarter in 2018, the company had matched 2017 revenues and expects to do well over the holidays.\n\u201cMy God-given gift is my desire to serve people. And my passion is cooking. When you can combine your natural gift and your passion, that\u2019s the best of all worlds.\u201d \u2014 Colette Wilson, ColMoni\u2019s Catering\nWilson\u2019s journey offers useful lessons for those seeking to leave a traditional job and become an entrepreneur. Here are some key takeaways:\nPlan ahead. Wilson and her husband began saving money towards long-term goals several years before she went out on her own. As a result, the couple had sufficient reserves to tie them over while ColMoni\u2019s Catering found its footing.\nGet a financial advisor. The Wilsons already had an advisor whom they liked and trusted. When Colette Wilson decided to leave her accounting firm, the advisor devised a financial plan based upon her husband\u2019s income. A portion of the accounting firm\u2019s payout funds was used to create a \u201csalary\u201d for Wilson as she explored career options.\nChoose business partners who have different strengths. ColMoni\u2019s two partners each have clearly defined areas. Wilson handles the logistics, contracts and client interaction. Yates is in charge of baking, food presentation and various behind-the-scenes duties. \u201cMonica is a calming influence and I\u2019m an energetic worrywart,\u201d Wilson laughs. \u201cWe have different personalities and different strengths, yet we still come together for success.\u201d\nHave a safety net. While she builds the catering business, Wilson is maintaining her CPA license and her professional contacts in accounting. This gives her peace of mind should she decide to switch gears again in the future.\nGet help. Initially, Wilson was reluctant to reach out to others but soon realized that she couldn\u2019t start a business by herself. \u201cThe more you know, the more you realize you don\u2019t know,\u201d she acknowledges.\nCompartmentalize your time. Like many late-blooming entrepreneurs, Wilson has both professional and family responsibilities. She organizes each day by blocking hours for different areas of her life. This lets her focus on one task at a time, whether it\u2019s preparing a contract for a client or ordering uniforms for her children\u2019s soccer teams.\nGoing forward, Wilson wants to increase revenue and hire staff to prepare recipes so she and Yates can concentrate on running the business. Her long-term goal is to open a brick-and-mortar caf\u00e9 one day.\nIn the meantime, Colette Wilson is enjoying her entrepreneurial ride, which she\u2019s doing at her own pace. For her, one of the best parts has been building a business on referrals.\n\u201cI love to help my customers bring their vision to life,\u201d says Wilson. \u201cI remember each and every client and what he or she likes.\u201d\n\u201cMy God-given gift is my desire to serve people,\u201d she adds. \u201cAnd my passion is cooking. When you can combine your natural gift and your passion, that\u2019s the best of all worlds.\u201d\nThis entry was posted in Business, Career Changes, Careers, entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Retirement, Success and tagged cooking, Entertainment, Family, food, Work. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 Responses to From Crunching Numbers to Chopping Veggies: How a 40-Something Found Her Calling\nAwesome job, Lynne! Very inspirational blog post.\nThank you. Happy holidays \u2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 10950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://laurendaigle.lnk.to/BeholdDeluxe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:34Z", "digest": "sha1:YPDOTK2MMQGOSQQK7U4DEE2CIANWAYBF", "length": 23, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "laurendaigle.lnk.to", "title": "Behold (Deluxe Edition) by Lauren Daigle", "raw_content": "Behold (Deluxe Edition)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 195.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lawaspect.com/crime-and-punishment-an-economic-approach-a-synopsis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:45Z", "digest": "sha1:AM4YLPSIXQPSLLDIQ6JUMGRPUEMVNUBE", "length": 6760, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "lawaspect.com", "title": "Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach A Synopsis", "raw_content": "Crime and Punishment: An Economic Approach A Synopsis\nThe world nowadays is not as peaceful and as calm as it was before. It used to be a place where people can move around worrying about nothing\u2014strolling around and watching the birds fly, and watching the the sun set. At present, the number of people committing crimes are getting higher and higher as time passes by. The streets that were once safe roads, are turning into this disorderly world where people become afraid of what might happen to them, especially when night time falls. Sometimes, a person entering a grocery store is stabbed to death just because of the shirt he/she wore.\nEven little kids, who enjoy the comfort of their homes are not as safe as before. Site for an example, the little girl who was kidnapped in front of her home while watching the fireworks last 4th of July. She was a naive little girl, who was just enjoying the display, and soon after, she was nowhere in sight. All her parents could hear after were her trembling screams and screaches. Unfortunately, all of these are now happening. The article, \u201cCrime and Punishment: An Economic Approach\u201d by Gary Becker focuses mainly on the relevance and depth of a crime and its corresponding punishment.\nFor the author, the level of punishment given or imposed on some crimes, does not necessarily suffice with the weight or the gravity of the crime committed. The author also resolved to the fact that in order for the crime rate to go down, or decrease in number for that matter, one must hire more security personnel, more court officials, marshals, and those highly effective technological discoveries, that could help pin down the unlimited number of rule breakers. This discovery however, may cause too much monetary loss for a government to handle.\nThe maintainance of the equipment and the salaries of the personnel hired to control the nuisance might affect the economical stability of a city, or a country for that matter, in the sense that too much money is being deducted from the over-all funds. This result, will in turn, cause a lot of problems concerning the other payables, for the total budget would have to be adjusted to suit all of the others needs. Another observation made by the author is about the costs due to the punishments. According to the author, the offenders are not the only ones affected by this dilemma.\nThe government, and other civilians are also affected, in the sense that some of the dues made are used as payment for the services rendered, specifically by the guards, court officials, damages done to the complainants, and not to forget the expeditures in the maintainance of the prisoners' quarters and the food. The author resolved to the fact that in order to lessen the number of crimes, if not eliminate all of them, one must resort to the practical reasons of imposing rules other than just wasting time trying to make them.\nMeaning, instead of just wasting time and effort focusing on the given policies of certain law enforcements, one must focus on how to actually devise a method that could and would actually work in decreasing the crime rate. According to the author, his main concern was to show the readers that money plays a big role in this aspect. The higher the crime committed, the higher the payment made. Although this concept is of good reasong, one can still conclude that the payments and the monetary amount given out is not enough to suffice for the crime committed.\nTake for example, a case wherein one is convicted of murder with rape of a 10-year old child. Regardles of the fact that the murderer was convicted, you cannot bring back what was lost. The life and the future of the 10 year old child cannot be revived, and can no longer be planned. Thus, irrespective of whether justice was rendered to what happened to the child, it is now pointless and irrelevant. The next example I am giving is that of a driver fined for not following the speed limit allowance.\nBeing fined and given a ticket would not only mean that there is a sanction given by the government, but also there is also a fine that you have to pay for comitting that mistake. In a way, one could say that retrieving the license back would take much of one's time, and the effort in doing so would mean that you have to fit the retrieval in your busy schedule. At the same time, paying the fine would be too much from one's pocket, since the amount of ticket fines are really costly.\nAnother case is that of the homeless who were charged of a crime or crimes for that matter, and were then sentenced to jail. Most of these, if not all, would rather be put in jail than go back to their old life in the streets. This is primarily due to the fact that inside the prison cells, they are well cared for\u2014they have a food, have something good to do, and most especially, have a cozy place to sleep especially during the cold winter days. The results of the author were of practical reasons, and are relevant to the growing crime rate of the country, and of the world.\nWhen these are implemented, one can see that it can have a lot of positive outcome, especially in terms of discipline and in the depletion in the crime rate in the vicinity. To summarize the whole article, Mr. Becker wanted the readers to see and realize that the amount to be paid off by an offender for every punishment he/she makes is based on the intensity or the severity of the crime one has committed. This article, when taken into careful consideration, would bring both positive and negative outcomes and will therefore help in the upheaval of the discipline in one's country.\nIf one would notice, the author, Mr. Gary Becker, suggested that readers and further researchers focus more on the works of Beccaria and Bentham, both known as two of the greatest criminology contributors from the 18th and 19th century, respectively. Having more knowledge of the two mentioned,and that of their works would definitely be a big help in the discovery of new ideas. These ideas, in turn, would be a big contribution for the economic, moral and ethical upheaval of a country.\nAll one needs to do is to futher enhance the ideas and knowledge that have been deciphered from earlier days. With all that has been said and done, one can say that it is not yet too late to rise up from the mistakes and the circumstances that have happened in the past. Living in a peaceful world, the way it was before, is still as feasible as it seems. All we need is to device a way to go and convince everyone that everything is worth while.\nWorks Cited: Gary Becker, \u201cCrime and punishment: An Economic Approach\u201d. Journal of Political Economy. 76. 2 (1968): 169-217.\nChild Crimes\nOrganized Crimes in USA\nCrime or mystery stories\nGuilty of crimes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 8689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 193.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://legalherald.com/reading-pennsylvania-former-reading-evangelical-free-church-youth-pastor-charles-holt-charged-with-sexual-assault/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:GFFDLV3VN723C7E3IGHOUONO4L7RXUBQ", "length": 2733, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "legalherald.com", "title": "Attorney Commentary: Former Reading Youth Pastor Sexual Abuse Case", "raw_content": "Reading, Pennsylvania \u2013 Former Reading Evangelical Free Church Youth Pastor Charles Holt Charged With Sexual Assault\nFactory Ministries in Lancaster, where Charles Holt is current president and CEO.\nYouth Pastor Accused of Sexually Assaulting Teen Several Times\nA former Reading youth pastor has been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting a teenage member of his youth group several times, beginning in 2001. 51-year-old Charles Holt has been charged with several sexual assault charges, along with corruption of minors. The investigation began after detectives with the Berks County District Attorney\u2019s Office received a call from the PA Department of Human Services regarding a 17-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by her youth pastor.\nInvestigators say that the sexual assault began after the then-16-year-old victim joined Holt\u2019s youth group at Reading Evangelical Free Church in Mohnton. They say that the assaults began in June of 2001 when the victim was 17 years old and continued past her 18th birthday. Holt became friends with the girl\u2019s parents and the girl babysat at his home, where many of the sexual assaults allegedly occurred.\nHolt is currently the CEO and president of The Factory Ministries in Lancaster County. Police are not currently aware of other victims but have asked any potential victims to contact the Berks County District Attorney\u2019s Office.\nLegal Options For Survivors of Church Sexual Abuse\nAttorney contributor Brian Kent of AbuseGuardian.com specializes in helping sexual assault survivors find justice in civil courts and has a background as a criminal sex crimes prosecutor. We\u2019ve asked him to share some information on the legal options available to those who have been sexually abused in religious organizations:\nUnfortunately, many cases of sexual violence involve a power dynamic where the perpetrator is in a position of trust or authority. Many victims in these situations may struggle to come forward, especially in cases of child sexual abuse. However, survivors of sexual abuse should know that they have legal rights in both the criminal justice and civil court systems.\nIn cases of sexual abuse in religious institutions, these institutions may be considered liable for the abuse if their negligence resulted in a failure to prevent such abuse. For example, a church may be considered liable for failing to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement. When negligence is a factor in enabling abuse, the victims and their families may have grounds for a lawsuit.\nIf you or someone you love has been sexually abused in a religious organization, you can learn more about your legal options in a free consultation with one of our experienced sexual abuse survivors lawyers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 6047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 186.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lessonslearnedinlife.com/page/674/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:20Z", "digest": "sha1:D6FOXF32RC5NENKP3KIFWZZCAITUDG6P", "length": 941, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "lessonslearnedinlife.com", "title": "Lessons Learned in LifeTo encourage you to keep going. To remind you to be strong. - Lessons Learned in Life | To encourage you to keep going. To remind you to be strong. Lessons Learned In Life\u00ae Copyright \u00a9 2013\u2122 | Page 674", "raw_content": "Mothers are a special gift.\nMothers are a special gift, sent down from God above. To share a bit of heaven with all her\u2026\n\u201cThis is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, Smiles when sadness intrudes, Rainbows to follow the clouds,\u2026\nSouls falling in love.\nWhen two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the yearning to be close to the other\u2026.\nI have loved. I have lost and I have changed. It has been difficult but I have learned so\u2026\nWho simply adores you.\nWait for the one who simply adores you. The kind of person who brings out the best in you\u2026\nDo not settle for second best.\nLove someone who is honest. Honest with you, with others, and with themselves. You cannot love someone you do\u2026\nEither they like you or they don\u2019t. Never try to convince somebody of your worth. If a person doesn\u2019t\u2026\nI\u2019ve let people take advantage of me.\n\u201cI\u2019ve made mistakes in my life. I\u2019ve let people take advantage of me, and I accepted way less than\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 197.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/item/lc.jrn.preface.v08", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:48Z", "digest": "sha1:TR3EYH2D6FLKTANNUJMFPS2YIUUOAOBC", "length": 3603, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu", "title": "Volume 8 Preface | Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition", "raw_content": "Again, this space provides a welcome opportunity to thank the many persons who helped to bring another volume to completion. Their aid, whether friendly advice, scholarly consultation, or financial assistance, made the task less demanding and the way more pleasant. Gladys Watkins Allen (Alton, Illinois), Emilie W. Betts (New York City), Samuel H. Douglas III (Whittier, California), William P. Sherman (Portland, Oregon), Nelson S. Weller (Piedmont, California), and Lyle S. Woodcock ( St. Louis, Missouri) provided financial support to aid the editing of this volume. Finanial aid also came from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and from the Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, whose many members support this endeavor beyond their financial contributions.\nA special friend of the project has died since publication of the last volume. Robert E. \"Bob\" Lange was a ceaseless laborer in the service of any cause connected with the Lewis and Clark expedition. He aided this project in countless ways; his unselfish assistance, ready encouragement, and great good will shall be sorely missed and never forgotten.\nWe again benefited from the expert service of librarians and archivists at repositories of the Lewis and Clark journals. Beth Carroll-Horrocks, Martin L. Levitt, Martha Harrison, Roy E. Goodman, Edward C. Carter II, and Randolph S. Klein, of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, and Duane R. Sneddeker and Bryan Stephen Thomas of the Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, were helpful and gracious during our work at their institutions. Staff, office, and administrative help came from the Center for Great Plains Studies and the project itself at the University of Nebraska\u2013Lincoln. John R. Wunder, Lori L. Gourama, and Linda J. Ratcliffe of the Center, and Thomas W. 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Back in 1997 an identity-challenged and yet statistically-smart chap in America worked out that more guns had lead to less crime. Specifically, he looked at states that had introduced \u201cshall-issue\u201d laws for concealed carry (CC) handguns and found that the laws had lead to less crime.\nThis started a big academic debate, which is well summerised at the beginning of the latest contribution by Moody & Marvell (The Debate on Shall-issue Laws, Econ Journal Watch, Vol 5, No 3, Sept 2008, pp269-293). This is a quick summary of the story so far\u2026\nA year after the 1997 article by Lott & Mustard (L&M) showed \u201cmore guns, less crime\u201d, two other academics by the name of Black & Nagin (B&N) came out with a different conclusion. By doing state-by-state analysis (instead of aggregate analysis) they found that the outcomes were mixed, with no significant effect in either direction. Lott responded quickly, showing that the B&N averages missed the trends. Specifically, L&M suggested that crime may follow an inverted-V with crime increasing before the CC laws and decreasing afterwards, so that an average of before and after might show no difference.\nIn 2000 Lott updated his study and in 2001 various other studies came out supporting the \u201cmore guns, less crime\u201d hypothesis in the Journal of Law and Economics. Lott updated his study yet again in 2002, which again supported the original idea. At this stage, Lott was winning the debate.\nEnter\u2026 Ayres & Donohue (A&D), who in 2003 did another study which adjusted for when the laws were introduced. And they criticised L&M for not controlling for the crime-spike caused by crack-cocaine. L&M had modelled the impact of crack-cocaine and found it to be insignificant\u2026 but given the A&D criticism, this became an issue that needed to be explicitly addressed in future studies.\nA&D looked at the five years after the introduction of the laws in each State, and found different outcomes in different States. They concluded that there were more States were the \u201cshall-issue\u201d laws created a bad outcome, with an \u201coverall small increase in crime\u201d.\nMoody & Marvell (M&M) have done two things to update the A&D study. First, they are using more recent data, which is always nice. But more importantly, they are extending their time-frame beyond 5 years. This is important. A&D found that the CC laws created a negative effect for the first few years and then a positive effect each year after that. So if you study the laws over 5 years it gave a negative result. But if you studied the laws over 6 years you get a positive result. If you put the impacts into dollars and then discount the future impacts at 5% per year, after 7 years you get a positive result. Generally, policy cost-benefit analysis is done over 20 or 30 years. M&M were conservative and chose only 10 years, and found a benefit from the CC laws.\nM&M also look at the academic score-card. They mention significant papers on the issue, of which 14 say \u201cmore guns, less crime\u201d, 8 say \u201cdunno\u201d and 3 say \u201cmore guns, more crime\u201d. All of the \u201cmore crime\u201d studies are in non-refereed journals. A meta-study done by the National Research Council (NRC) concluded that they could make no conclusion, though some of their own reserach supported the \u201cless crime\u201d scenario.\nPersonally, I feel most comfortable with NRC conclusion that we don\u2019t have enough information to make strong conclusions in either direction. On balance, the evidence is for \u201cmore guns, less crime\u201d but as will all new areas of study, it is reasonable to be modest about how much we really know.\nAs a person who believes that freedom is a good thing, I think that the burden of proof is on the person who wants to take away freedom. Given the lack of evidence that \u201cguns are bad\u201d then the only reasonable conclusion is to not introduce excessively burdonsome gun laws. Of course, this will run against the polite opinion of the gentrified chattering classes. I can only offer my apologies. I wish I could tell you what you want to hear, but unfortunately that\u2019s just not where the facts lead.\nThis entry was posted in Law and tagged Gun laws. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 Heard tries to defend conservatives\nWho correctly predicted the financial crisis? \u2192\n41 thoughts on \u201cGuns & crime\u201d\nI didn\u2019t think we had excessively burdensome gun laws in Australia \u2014 I thought, for example, if I wanted, say, a rifle for shooting ducks, it would be fairly easy for me to get one \u2014 or are you saying that I should be able to get a handgun too, which I can\u2019t get easily now?\nHandguns or rifles, the current laws are inappropriate. Living in a more regional town so I can attend university, I have met many young people who are hunters who simply cannot comply with the burdernsome storage and transfer regulations. If you don\u2019t have a driver\u2019s licence forget about it, you will never be a shooter. If you rent, forget about it, unless you\u2019re willing to avoid seeking permission from your landlord and install a safe illegally.\nI think another point Temujin is making is that conventional knowledge on guns and self defence is often far from reality. People should be able to make their own choices as to what is appropriate to their defence. Obviously background checks are necessary but the value of licencing and registration is questionable.\nUltimately, as Temujin wrote, seeing as there is little evidence that more liberal gun laws lead to more crime, why not? There must be a genuine proven need to violate property rights or impede individual negative liberty.\nGun laws are the sincere effort by \u2018liberals\u2019 to defang and declaw whom they believe to be the world\u2019s worst predator: humanity. To be opposed to guns, one must have a personal psychology which believes the worst about human beings. The \u2018liberal\u2019 is frightened by human nature, so liberals constantly want to control it.\nThe \u2018trust\u2019 in government is the fear of the human\u2026and vice versa.\nConrad \u2014 the studies references above are in reference to being able to carry a concealed handgun.\nWith regards to the current laws \u2014 even if you don\u2019t want to consider handguns or CC laws, I still think the laws are excessively strict. Indeed, if you go through the laws (and chat with shooters and anti-shooting groups) you are left with the distinct impression that the laws are designed NOT to protect the public, but simply to make life difficult for shooters. Anti-gun groups admit this is their goal, and they want to eventually get rid of shooting as a sport.\nJust some of the most obviously stupid laws are the need to wait a month in NSW before being able to buy a second firearm. The supposed justification is to prevent a \u201ccrime of passion\u201d\u2026 but the person already has one (or more) firearms! And licences go for 5 years, but nobody tells you when you need to renew\u2026 so if you\u2019re not careful it\u2019s easy to suddenly be unlicenced and a \u201cdangerous criminal\u201d. As Seb references, storage & moving requirements make many people criminals by necessity. Various firearms have been banned for no other reason than they \u201csound\u201d dangerous, while not actually being more dangerous than other legal firearms. To get a licence for hunting you need two written affidavids from farm owners\u2026 but many people go and hunt on farms owned by people they don\u2019t know.\nAnother point of contention is the reasons for owning a firearm. I believe that \u201cself-defence\u201d should be a legitimate reason, but currently it is not.\nBut perhaps more importantly in Australia, there is a wide-spread misunderstanding about what the laws currently are. Several times I have been in conversations with anti-gun people, and I ask them what they think the law should be. When they name their preferred laws, they are actually more liberal than the current laws. And yet they were arguing for stricter gun laws! People seem to only think \u201cguns are bad\u2026 do something\u201d and then move on to the next problem. That\u2019s fine for them\u2026 but not for the group who is victim of this bigotry.\nDuoist\u2026 I am a \u201cliberal\u201d in one sense of the word.\nI think you\u2019re referring to a \u201csocial democrat\u201d or a \u201csocialist\u201d or perhaps just the catch-all \u201cleftist\u201d\u2026 or at least say \u201cAmerican liberal\u201d. Though in Australia you could equally be talking about a \u201cconservative\u201d, who tend also to be anti-gun. Sigh.\nTem, that waiting period for second and subsequent firearms has been removed thanks to the work of The Shooters Party. I believe it comes into force in October\u2026\nThere was some discussion of the NSW firearm reforms here:-\nhttp://catallaxyfiles.com/?p=3695&cp=all\nHowever I haven\u2019t heard of any change to the waiting period for subsequent firearms.\nActually for NSW Seb is correct.\nhttp://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/nswbills.nsf/0/0ba2807bb3509b2fca25744a000791d4/$FILE/b2008-050-d12-House.pdf\nOn page 6 of the amendment it says:-\nItem [9] restates the 28-day waiting period currently in section 31 of the Act but provides\nthat it does not apply if the applicant already has registered in his or her name a firearm\nof the same kind as the firearm that is the subject of the permit application.\nIs that just for the same firearm? So if I own a .303 and I apply for a .22 then I\u2019ll still have to wait a month?\nThanks \u2014 I wasn\u2019t sure sure what the laws were, although it doesn\u2019t surprise me they are convoluted given the nature of the situation.\nOne problem is that if there is still a V-curve (should that really be U, otherwise it isn\u2019t a curve ;), then it obviously means you will get an initial increase in gun deaths from the current situation. The other problem is that it\u2019s surely culturally specific \u2014 the number of gun deaths varies considerably across countries, so it\u2019s not clear to me what would happen in Australia. In this respect, are we more like Switzerland or the US? My bet is that it\u2019s the second of these based on current crime rates (the highest in the OECD), which means we\u2019d end up with numerous more gun deaths (note that the US figures about gun ownership are from a high baseline \u2014 the Aus baseline is currently low \u2014 so there\u2019s only one way it can go).\nWhat makes you think gun ownership in Australia is particularily low? Last I heard it was something like 1 in every 12 adults in NSW have a gun. Although I think it is comparably higher in the USA and extremely high in Switzerland.\nBig Bunny says:\nConrad\u2026. Mate- you are so far in left-field to be right out of it!\nA \u2018rifle for shooting DUCKS\u2019\u2026.c\u2019on \u2013 pull the other one!\nFirstly duck hunting is severely quota-ed and licenced. Secondly you also have to do a special extra test before you even start! If you tried to shoot ducks with a rifle you could go to jail for 10 years and be severely fined. I could go into just how many regulations you would have broken, but won\u2019t, so just don\u2019t even think of it!\nIf you don\u2019t have around $3K available and still want to be a NSW licenced shooter \u2013 don\u2019t even start is my advice!\nExpect to have to take $90 test/pass clearance from police and then fill in many police application forms and pay at least $200 in fees. Then you will need an approved safe+inspection- say $600 cost and a lot of bother +6 months of your time at least. Then if you are approved, you will need a $35 PTA for your \u2018duck-rifle\u2019 purchase and also costs for ammo, all gear, permits and accessories, say another $2,200?\nThe police can re-inspect your safe \u2018at any reasonable time\u2019 and enter your home legally.You have given them permission!\n[Just don\u2019t get me started on licencing/costs etc for target pistols, the only ones most people can have in Aus, it was never \u201clike USA\u201d \u2013 they are really complicated and will cost far far more in time and money.]\nooroo!\nI don\u2019t think rifles would much difference, given that I imagine almost anyone can get one now, despite the administrivia involved (which doesn\u2019t look much worse than that for cars incidentally \u2014 also, you can change ducks to rabbits if you want, I just said duck since they were animal on my mind). It was more the effect of handguns I was thinking of.\nTo be honest Conrad, if you compared the incidence of accidents while driving to accidents in shooting you will see there is no comparison. Also, the risk of a learning shooters killing someone or himself must be considerably lower than a learner driver hitting the road.\nUltimately, the point is that this bureacracy has not been shown to make anybody safer, so why have it?\nSeb \u2014 I don\u2019t think we have the evidence on handguns. My bet would be to get the US figure for handguns (which I can\u2019t find right now), and divide it by 15 (for population), and then multiply by about 1.5 (for the additional crime Australians create).\nAs for does bureacracy make you safer \u2014 at least with cars, the evidence is certainly yes \u2014 Australia has some of the safer roads on Earth thanks to speed cameras, low speed limits etc. However, I think that would be the case if we didn\u2019t have this vast and complicated system for registering cars, getting your license etc. I don\u2019t think that part makes much difference, and nor do I think it does for non-concealed weapons \u2014 but most of that is there for political reasons in any case.\nWhen I was a child it would have been the rare household that didn\u2019t have a gun yet guns were rarely involved in crime or accidental death. They were tools for gathering game and for controlling feral pests.\nThere is ample evidence that the anti-gun lobby was strongly boosted by feminists who see guns as the tools of \u2018violent\u2019 men and boys and used the State to disarm them. The political correct mantra that guns = bad, masculinity = bad and masculinity + guns = domestic violence is taught in schools. The politics of gun control provide many examples to prove that such feminist inspired political correctness is aimed at taking away individual freedom and subverting the democratic processes.\nConrad, you will have to supply some evidence that safer Australian roads is down to speed cameras, low speed limits etc. Here is a lot of numbers showing that good road design is a major contributor to road safety:\nhttp://www.ausrap.org/ausrap/library.htm\nLooking at something different, yesterday saw the report of another toddler drowned in his parents\u2019 backyard pool. While our hearts go out to the parents in their hour of need, no-one will call for the banning of pools, nor of the nappy buckets, baths and so on that contribute to the awful loss of toddlers\u2019 lives.\nFirearms however have been made into the bete noir of the chatterati through the sensationalism of of the media of some very rare, terrible events. In Port Arthur a man who was known to be a risk to society was able to wander at large and through being wealthy was able to get black market firearms (and petrol). The awful outcome proved he would use anything, including guns and petrol to commit his crimes. An incendiary device at a major event could have been much more costly.\nHowever this case study says much more about the failure of the State to be proactive and provide a safe place for Bryant, where he could not harm himself or others. But PM Howard and others had already sold off mental institutions and returned the mentally ill to the community with the blessing of the Left.\nGovernment bureaucracy, like a politician\u2019s spin, only make you feel safe, whereas it could most likely be concealing a much higher risk (and failure).\nThe prestigious Time magazine recently ran a well researched article that arrived at the conclusion that there is no evidence that Howard\u2019s billion dollar gun buy-back and the expensive gun registries that tie up police in needless bureaucratic paperwork, have delivered any value for money at all.\nSo there were freedoms lost and huge monies spent for no appreciable returns at all. That should be news were it not for the political correctness of editors.\nThere\u2019s no need to be quite so equivocal.The NRC (Centre for Disease Control actually) has a well known anti-gun bias that led to its government funding being stopped at one point. For it to be neutral says a lot.\nApart from M&M I\u2019ve studied these papers and others too (including Australian ones) and in my view Lott shows pretty clearly a relationship between concealed carry and reductions in certain types of crime. He\u2019s careful to nominate which ones they are though, being mostly muggings and public mass shootings.\nWhether gun control laws have any difference on crime in general is more moot. Despite perceptions, the US has a substantially lower rate of crime than the UK or Australia, except for murder. If guns were responsible for the higher murder rate, they couldn\u2019t also be responsible for the lower rate of other crimes. Clearly there are bigger factors operating.\nIsrael also allows concealed carry, with a far higher percentage of the population actually doing it than the US. Its murder rate is very low. Switzerland doesn\u2019t allow concealed carry but has very high gun ownership. Its murder rate is even lower, if I recall correctly. Malaysia has the death penalty for illegal gun ownership, but has a higher murder rate than either of them. I think it\u2019s safe to say that guns do not account for the difference.\nJust to reinforce the point, a 2001 study of crime and gun control laws across a broad range of countries found a lack of evidence to link gun control or availability with rates of violence. It suggested that differences in the enforcement of drug prohibition were important in explaining such differences. Details here:\nChrisPer says:\nGood to see a few knowledgeable people discussing things here.\nThis particular US debate is focused on ocncealed carry by ordinary citizens. Lott did his work and any conclusions are clearly able to be tweaked by weighting or fudging to support either viewpoint \u2013 because the bigger truth is being missed. The bigger truth is that CCW appears to make no significant difference! The strategic implication is important \u2013 it means the activist/media hysteria over it is completely wrong-headed.\nThe relevance to Australia is as follows:\n1) Concealed carriage by the public is and hopefully will remain pretty much irrelevant.\n2) Our laws are focused on hampering and obstructing legitimate people from doing legitimate things. They threaten legitimate hobbyists with penalties up to 14 years jail for breeches of victimless laws, which are never enforced against actual criminals.\n3) If the hysteria over CCW was a pointless exercise in moral posturing, how much more so the smug, self-righteous Australian media and Government campaign against the legitmate shooter.\nConcealed carriage by the public is and hopefully will remain pretty much irrelevant.\nThe point of this post was that the burden of proof falls on those who seek to deprive us of our freedom.\nSince the right to self defence is about as fundamental to freedom as there is, the burden is on you Chris. Assuming you are not into base appeasement, what benefit can you nominate from keeping concealed carry \u201cirrelevant\u201d that the statistics fail to demonstrate?\nConrad \u2014 the US does not have a high crime rate. The crime rate in gun-free UK is much higher. And if you want the closest cultural cousin in the world, it\u2019s probably New Zealand\u2026 a country which seems to manage fine with relatively more liberal gun laws.\nI don\u2019t think the car/gun analogy is appropriate. In driving you are directly impacting everybody else every time you go out on a public road. With shooting you do not generally impact on other people. Of course, both can be mis-used\u2026 but that\u2019s a different point.\nAlso, surely the point of regulation is to improve the situation. If any regulation (car, gun or otherwise) is not making Australia better then we shouldn\u2019t have it.\nBtw, there is some evidence that increased speed cameras in Australia (and the UK) have NOT lead to lower deaths on the roads. An initial glance at the stats can be misleading. There has been a long term downward trend in road-deaths, so if you look at the introduction of anything (GST, Playstation II, etc) they will appear to be linked to a reduction in road deaths. But that\u2019s a separate issue.\nAs for does bureacracy make you safer \u2014 at least with cars, the evidence is certainly yes \u2014 Australia has some of the safer roads on Earth thanks to speed cameras, low speed limits etc. However, I think that would be the case if we didn\u2019t have this vast and complicated system for registering cars, getting your license etc\nAs the commenters above point out, the facts don\u2019t support that. However, in some respects the idea of applying car laws to guns is appealing.\nRoad laws do not apply to private property to which the public has no access. Thus you can build a race track on your own land, own a very fast unregistered car and do any speed you like without a seatbelt or a licence. Unless you take the car onto the public roads, no law is broken.\nIf you have an unregistered gun without a licence on your own land, you don\u2019t even have to shoot it to get your door kicked in by a SWAT team.\nHere is a good site for no-nonsense factual data on Australia\u2019s gun laws post 1996.\nhttp://www.ic-wish.org/\nSee report by McPhedran, S., & Baker, J. (2008) on the Impact of Australia\u2019s 1996 Gun Laws\nThe report proves that all of the political spin about Australia\u2019s gun laws being needed or being effective is all baloney. That is a sickening lack of government accountability when one considers what good uses a spare billion dollars could have been put to, including heal and education \u2013 or even better pensions for the aged.\nMcPhedran and Baker\u2019s work is good, but Lee and Suardi\u2019s is probably the final word. http://www.melbourneinstitute.com/wp/wp2008n17.pdf\nDavidLeyonhjehn, Sept 21.\nThank you for the link to the Lee and Suardi paper.\nScanning it quickly I am astounded that the findings, which are of significant international interest, have not received broad coverage in the media.\nHopefully those who read this blog might have ways to give the report some of the circulation it deserves.\n\u201cthe US does not have a high crime rate\u201d\nYes, I realize that \u2014 that\u2019s why I think if you want to estimate likely handgun deaths in Australia, you need to estimate higher per head than the US.\nOh\u2026 I see what you\u2019re saying. Except that there is some reason to believe that more handguns in Australia would decrease our violent crime rates. I would suggest that they might go lower than the USA as Australia is generally a more socially harmonous place.\nif you want to estimate likely handgun deaths in Australia, you need to estimate higher per head than the US\nIt\u2019s possible that if carrying a concealed handgun was legalised in Australia (ie in addition to police, security guards etc), there\u2019d be a few more murders with handguns. However, that would be due to method substitution. Some people would use a handgun instead of a steel pipe, for example. The victim would be dead in either case.\nThe overall rate of murder would not increase, based on experience in the US and Israel, and certain types of crime may actually decrease. Australia\u2019s violent crime rate is around double that of the US (except for murder), so there is plenty of scope for improvement.\nI agree that it would be hard to work out what is substitution versus plain old additivity \u2014 but I think to convince the general public that handguns are fine, then you need good arguments that they can understand about this versus just the suggestion (off hand, it\u2019s really hard for me to think of any substitution arguments that have ever been used along these lines, excluding harm minimization ones in health areas \u2014 but even these don\u2019t seem to go down well with the general public).\nI think to convince the general public that handguns are fine, then you need good arguments that they can understand about this versus just the suggestion\nI agree the public won\u2019t accept the idea initially. Even in the US there is resistance in the few remaining states that don\u2019t allow it.\nIt would be a huge step forward if we simply had the right to carry something for self defence, even if it wasn\u2019t a gun. Pepper spray, Taser, knife, etc. Australians are not even permitted to have these for self defence in their own home. The public would support that being changed, I\u2019m quite sure.\nTemujin, Perhaps you could persuade \u2018Policy\u2019 to compare Australia and New Zealand, re guns. That would make a fascinating article!\nI read a book about Britain, called \u201cGuns and Violence\u201d. It looks at the history of firearms and ownership in the UK, and the author concludes that the recent tightening up of guns laws (and the romantic spin put on shootouts by movies!) has caused an increase in violent crimes.\nTemujin, I know the American activists like to say that stuff, but you and I know that almost no-one in the UK had guns for self-defense before the bullshit law changes anyway. The Americans are picking unrelated social change and blaming gun laws for it, because it reinforces their own situation.\nGun laws biggest effect is harassing decent people, not impeding criminals. We could have the same crime control for half the restrictions. Give back our rabbit and duck rifles! \ud83d\ude09\nno-one in the UK had guns for self-defense before the bullshit law changes anyway.\nBullshit Chris. Guns for self defence were quite common in Britain in the latter part of the 19th century and early 20th century. And stop being such a Quisling. The argument is unwinnable on sport and hunting grounds.\nDavid, you used the words \u2018base appeasement\u2019 in regard to my suggestion that I hoped CCW would remain pretty much irrelevant. You know who I am and that I have been an activism for gun owners for the long term. Take a Bex, mate.\nCCW is irrelevant to most Australians because most of us live at astonishingly low risk of violence. A few should be able to have arms in public \u2013 for instance, publicans, jewellers, gun dealers, women (and men) who are escaping violent partners \u2013 but there is no need to make it a big issue, it should just quietly be arranged.\nThats what I mean \u2013 it should stay irrelevant to most of us.\nIn addition, our ideological opponents get away with a lot of bullshit because they promote the false idea that we want every idiot on the street to have a gun without restriction. We end up having to argue on ground where no-one needs to win anyway. I want air pistols on A class, Ruger 10/22 on B and sensible rules for handgun target shooters. These are things we have no chance of getting because the debate is played out on the wrong ground. It does us no good when f***wits, give a false idea that plays into the hands of the opposition.\nDavid, re the UK: yes, that was in 1890. Not 1996.\nPingback: Politics at sw\u2019as\nFinland is being revealed to be a violent place! I wonder what their gun-laws are?\nI don\u2019t oppose success by stealth but if by irrelevant you mean illegal, we could not disagree more Chris. Neither compromise nor appeasement are appropriate on this issue.\nCCW is irrelevant to most Australians because most of us live at astonishingly low risk of violence.\nAustralia\u2019s violent crime rate is double that of America\u2019s. I don\u2019t have figures for Israel but I understand it\u2019s also lower. Americans and Israelis don\u2019t think CCW is irrelevant.\nYou might not want to carry Chris, but it\u2019s not your right to decide on behalf of everyone else.\nWell, David, I thought I was making myself clear but it seems not. If you re-read my post 34 above, I hope you will see the kind of categories that imply a good reason people SHOULD be able to have CCW.\nI don\u2019t try to decide for everyone, but I think I have a fair grasp of what SHOULD be politically possible even if it isn\u2019t obvious how to get the law changed yet. We should not adopt everything-or-nothing as our approach, because it guarantees we get nothing.\nYour quislings-dont-want-CCW attitude is a bit like what the Greens and Leftists do: moral high ground based on ideological purity. Being perfectly right, and kicked out, becomes under that stance better than being almost completely right and part of an effective team. (Whatever happened to the Judaean People\u2019s Front? Oh HE\u2019s over there. SPLITTER!)\nWe should not adopt everything-or-nothing as our approach, because it guarantees we get nothing.\nChris, you may be confusing the objective with strategy. I hope so, because otherwise your denials are hollow.\nMy objective is for any adult who wants a CCW permit to have a right provided they haven\u2019t forfeited it due to criminal activity or mental illness. I don\u2019t mind a basic training course as a prerequisite, but not proving a need.\nAs a strategy, I\u2019m happy to argue for home self-defence as a first step. Once that\u2019s achieved, I would move on to self-defence outside the home.\nThat\u2019s a lot different from saying CCW \u201chopefully\u201d will remain irrelevant, as you did in #19. My view is that CCW will \u201chopefully\u201d become relevant to just about everyone. I don\u2019t mind taking one step at a time as long as they are leading to the right place.\nPingback: The case for gun control \u00ab Thoughts on Freedom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 33651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://libraries.wm.edu/databases/by-initial/w", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4K6JV2C625FRGHVHAG63LU2M3WAUUXGH", "length": 8375, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "libraries.wm.edu", "title": "W Databases | William & Mary Libraries", "raw_content": "W Databases\nStudent & faculty research, student publications, digitized material from the Special Collections Research Center, and select university records. 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Life according to the one involves death according to the other.\"\nHe also captured the essence of our reading from Matthew, saying; \"The Gospel... teaches us that the fruits of our lives will be hurtful or profitable, according as we regard or disregard the will of our Father who is in heaven. Thus, while we recognize a never-failing Providence, we also recognize the indispensability of bringing our wills into accord with God's will.\"\nPsalm 127 reiterates these lessons. It tells us that the most hurtful, harmful, self-destructive thing we can do to ourselves, our families, our churches, or our nations, is to attempt to build them according to our own plans, ideas, and values, rather than upon God's. If God does not build the house, \"their labour is but lost that build it.\"\nMoses learned this the hard way. In Exodus 2:11 he killed the Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew, \"one of his brethren.\" Acts 7:25 tells us Moses thought his action would show the Hebrews that God was going to use him to deliver them from their slavery, \"but they understood not.\" Moses didn't understand either. Moses was brought up in the palace and educated in the ways of the Egyptians. His education included training in warfare, for leading the army was expected of the house of Pharaoh, and the Pharaoh himself led the army in pursuit of the Hebrews (Ex. 14:8). Moses probably thought God was going to have him organise the Hebrews into an army to rise up against Egypt and gain their freedom in battle. Moses was trying to build the house of Israel according to his own plan, but that was not the way God intended to do it. Moses' labour was lost.\nLet's go further back than Moses. Let's go back toAbraham and Sarah, when their names were still Abram and Sarai, when they decided God wasn't moving fast enough in His promise to make a great nation out of their descendants. They decided Abram should beget a child with Sarai's slave, Hagar. Through that unholy union Ismael was born, and immediately began to make trouble for Abram and Sarai. And the descendants of Abraham through Isaac and Ishmael have been at odds ever since. Abram was trying to build the house of Israel according to his own plan, but that was not the way God intended to do it. Abram's labour was lost.\nLet's go back a little further. Let's go back to Abraham's nephew Lot. Lot is a significant person in the Bible because Lot wasn't trying to serve God or build a nation for God. Lot was only concerned about Lot. You remember that the shepherds of the flocks of Abraham and Lot argued over the water and grazing resources of the land, so Abraham, trying to make peace, suggested they separate, and he told Lot, \"if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will depart to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left\" (Gen. 13:9). And Lot chose the land of the plains of Jordan, for Lot wanted the bright lights and night life of the cities. So he settled in Soddom and Gomorah, and with his wealth, he probably became a big hit on the party circuit. He forgot all about God. He settled into the pagan culture and built his life upon it. And it nearly killed him and his family because they barely escaped with their lives. When God destroyed the cities, they were miraculously saved because Abraham interceded for them with God. But Lot's wife died because of her disobedience to God, and Lot's daughters were never able to rid themselves of the pagan ways they learned in Sodom and Gomorah. Lot was trying to build his house Lot's way, but Lot's way wasn't God's way. Lot's labout was lost.\nLet's go back even further into history. Let's go back to the beginning, to Adam and Eve. Here were people who literally owned paradise. They had everything, and they threw it all away because it didn't fit their idea of what paradise should be. To them, paradise meant they were in control. They would decide what was good and what was evil. They would decide what was right and what was wrong. They would decide what was beautiful and what was ugly, and what was true and false, and what was valuable and what was worthless. And the result of their sins and their choices and their values was the loss of paradise. Strife became a part of human relationships. Adam and Eve became estranged from each other. Within one generation, probably less than twenty years after the Fall, the children of Adam and Eve were at odds with each other, and their son, Cain, murdered his brother, Abel. Adam and Ever were trying to build their house their way, but their labour was lost.\nThe lesson to us today is quite obvious, if God does not build the Church, the family, the nation, and our very lives, our labour to build them is lost. We labour in vain. In other words, if we build by the ideas and values of the world, if we build by our own passing whims and desires, or upon whatever ideas and life-styles are the current fad or politically correct, whatever we build will fall apart like the foolish man's house that was built upon the sand.\nSo how does God build? He builds upon the foundation of Jesus Christ who died to redeem His people and to establish His Kingdom. In Him we have the forgiveness of sin, which we receive by faith. That is the first principle of the way God builds. The second principle is that God uses His own tools when He builds. He builds with the Church, public and private worship, the reading and preaching of the Bible, the sacraments, and holy, Biblical living. That's how God builds His people and His Kingdom.\nAnd so, if you want your life to be able to stand the tests of time and eternity, it must be built by God using His tools. Thus we pray according to the Collect for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity:\n\"O God, whose never failing providence ordereth all things both in heaven and earth; We humbly beseech thee to put away from us all hurtful things, and to give us those things which are profitable for us; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.\"\nLabels: Trinity VIII", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 759, "original_length": 18878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifetailored.com/girls/amanda-seyfried/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:28Z", "digest": "sha1:GHKY4EOXC3P5V6TUY3GII3NMSL6E6JSZ", "length": 4607, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "lifetailored.com", "title": "Amanda Seyfried Net Worth, Photos, Wiki & More", "raw_content": "Amanda Seyfried's Net Worth is\nAmanda Seyfried Instagram\nFollow @mingey on Instagram.\nAmanda Seyfried is an American actress best known for her roles in Mean Girls and Mamma Mia! She is considered one of Hollywood\u2019s up-and-coming actresses.\nAmanda Seyfried Biography\nAmanda Seyfried is an American actress born December 3, 1985, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She broke into acting via soap operas, went on to a supporting role in HBO\u2019s Big Love, and then broke through in the film Mean Girls. Her first major lead film role was in Mamma Mia!, co-starring Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan. Seyfried has appeared on many \u201cup and coming in Hollywood\u201d lists.\nAmanda Seyfried is an American actress born on December 3, 1985, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Seyfried\u2019s father, Jack, worked as a pharmacist, and her mother, Ann, as an occupational therapist. Amanda grew up in a close-knit family: \u201cMy older sister, Jenn, is like my best friend,\u201d she has said. \u201cMy parents are still together. They were amazing parents.\u201d\nSeyfried started modeling at age 11 and appeared on the covers of three Francine Pascal books. By the next year, Seyfried was modeling for The Limited Too with future Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester.\nSeyfried also wanted to act and sing. She studied opera with a voice coach during her teen years. On the acting front, her first contract role came at age 15, playing Lucinda Marie \u201cLucy\u201d Montgomery on the soap opera As the World Turns (2000). She next appeared as Joni Stafford on another soap opera, All My Children (2002).\nHer acting commitments meant she missed a lot of classes at William Allen High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, but she graduated in 2003. She secured a place at Fordham University in New York City, but a career-changing movie role in a teen flick changed her plans.\nSeyfried\u2019s big break came playing Karen Smith, a ditzy popular blonde, in the hit film Mean Girls (2004), written by Saturday Night Live alum Tina Fey. After appearing with co-stars Lindsay Lohan and Rachel McAdams, Seyfried later said, \u201cOh, thank God for Mean Girls! That put me on the map!\u201d\nSeyfried acted in several supporting TV and film roles over the next two years, such as in Nine Lives (2005), American Guns (2005), Alpha Dog (2006) and Veronica Mars (2004-2006). Her next prominent role was in the HBO drama series Big Love (2006), where she played one of the daughters in a polygamous Mormon family and co-starred with Bill Paxton, Chloe Sevigny and Jeanne Tripplehorn. Seyfried stayed on the show for four seasons before leaving to focus on her film career.\nA lead role in the ABBA-based musical film Mamma Mia! (2008) lifted Seyfried to A-list status. Co-starring with Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth, Seyfried played Sophie, a girl looking to find out the identity of her father before getting married. The actress also sang one of the lead songs, \u201cGimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight),\u201d on the film\u2019s album. Since its release, the film has grossed over $609 million dollars.\nIn early 2012, Seyfried appeared in the film Gone. Other 2012 films yet to be released include the comedy The Wedding, the drama The End of Love, the musical Les Mis\u00e9rables and the biopic Lovelace.\nPlanned 2013 projects are the animated movie Epic, the dramedy Pete and Goat and the drama The Girl Who Conned the Ivy League.\nFrom an early age, Seyfried suffered from anxiety attacks. She claimed these were assets: \u201c\u2026that kind of anxiety in me, that obsession, was helpful. I use it in my acting. It\u2019s something I don\u2019t want to give up feeling, because it gives me an edge.\u201d\nSeyfried\u2019s hobby of taxidermy also sets her apart from other Hollywood starlets. Seyfried revealed, \u201cWhen taxidermy is done well it\u2019s an amazing piece of art. I love animals and they\u2019re very easy to look after when they\u2019re dead. I have a horse, a miniature horse, it\u2019s a baby.\u201d\nRegarding her love life, Seyfried has dated a string of actors, including Jesse Marchant, Dominic Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Josh Hartnett, Alexander Skarsgard and Desmond Harrington.\nAmanda Seyfried Wiki\nAmanda Seyfried D.O.B December 3, 1985\nAmanda Seyfried Age 34\nAmanda Seyfried Hometown Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA\nAmanda Seyfried Nationality American\nAmanda Seyfried Marital Status Single\nAmanda Seyfried Height 5'3\nAmanda Seyfried Hair Color Blonde\nAmanda Seyfried Bra Size 32D\nAmanda Seyfried Measurements 36-26-33\nAmanda Seyfried Eye Color Green\nAmanda Seyfried Ethnicity White\nAmanda Seyfried Instagram @mingey\nAmanda Seyfried Twitter @amandaseyfried\nAmanda Seyfried Facebook View on Facebook\nAmanda Seyfried Website View Website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 181.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://liliputing.com/2016/06/interview-blocks-modular-smartwatch-co-founder-serge-didenko-lpx-show.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIYQO73MA3RTN6C7LRH65I5LM6BCADUV", "length": 2527, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "liliputing.com", "title": "Interview with BLOCKS modular smartwatch co-founder Serge Didenko (LPX Show) - Liliputing", "raw_content": "Interview with BLOCKS modular smartwatch co-founder Serge Didenko (LPX Show)\nThe BLOCKS modular smartwatch is set to begin shipping to customers in September. This follows a $1.6 million Kickstarter campaign in 2015 and a lot of other behind-the-scenes work to turn the idea of a modular smartwatch into an actual, working product.\nBLOCKs started showing off the final hardware designs earlier this month, and co-founder Serge Didenko joined me for the latest episode of the LPX Show to discuss the company\u2019s vision for a wearable gadget that uses the wrist strap as more than a fashion accessory.\nYou can listen to the full podcast at LPXShow.com.\nAt first glance, BLOCKS looks a lot like other smartwatches. It has a 1.4 inch, 400 x 400 pixel round AMOLED display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 processor. The watch itself runs a custom version of Android (not Android Wear), and can display notifications and alerts from your phone and comes preloaded with a number of other apps.\nWhat makes the watch unusual is the strap, which is made up of a series of modules that you can snap together. Each can house a sensor, a battery, or other hardware.\nA handful of modules will be available at launch, including a heart rate sensor, environment sensor, extra battery, GPS, flashlight, and programmable button. Some upcoming modules are expected to include SIM card, NFC, fingerprint, and gesture control hardware.\nThe idea is that you can not only buy the exact hardware you want for your watch, but also that you don\u2019t need to use the same modules all the time. They\u2019re all hot swappable, which means you can remove a battery and replace it with a heart rate sensor before a workout without rebooting the watch, for example.\nYou can pre-order a BLOCKS smartwatch plus four modules for $330. Most modules are expected to sell for around $30 to $50.\nWhile I\u2019m still not convinced I need a smartwatch, I certainly prefer the idea of a modular one that can change over time to the idea of one that you spend a lot of money on today\u2026 but which may be obsolete in a year or two. Allowing users to add hardware features could extend the life of the watch\u2026 and even if you eventually want a watch with a faster processor or a better screen, it\u2019s possible that BLOCKS will be able to sell you one that you can use with all of your existing modules.\nYou can learn more about BLOCKS by listening to the podcast.\nYou can also subscribe to LPX to make sure you never miss an episode, or follow the show on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lincolnshirereporter.co.uk/2017/01/street-lights-in-more-lincolnshire-towns-to-be-switched-off-at-midnight/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:34Z", "digest": "sha1:Z22TXCZXHP7P56MLRBAVWHZHUZZWZI6Q", "length": 2057, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "lincolnshirereporter.co.uk", "title": "Street lights in more Lincolnshire towns to be switched off at midnight", "raw_content": "Street lights in more Lincolnshire towns to be switched off at midnight\nStreet lights in Boston, Horncastle and the Lincolnshire coast will be switched off at midnight as part of the county council\u2019s cost-cutting drive.\nThe lights will be switched off until 6am, with the measure affecting 38,000 street lights across the whole of the county.\nBelow is a list of when and where the changes will take place:\nJanuary: Boston, Gosberton, Sutton St James\nJanuary \u2013 February: Skegness, Wrangle, Spilsby\nJanuary \u2013 March: Mablethorpe, Chapel St Leonards, Horncastle\nPhased \u2018part-night lighting\u2019 has already been introduced in Lincoln, with the council reversing its original decision to turn the lights off at 10pm.\nLights were switched off in many of the county\u2019s market towns in September, with towns in the south of the county having the changes implemented in October and November.\nLincolnshire County Council has said it wants to save \u00a31.7 million from its annual \u00a35 million street lighting budget.\nCouncillor Richard Davies, responsible for highways and transportation at the council, said: \u201cThe council\u2019s budget has been cut by more than \u00a3100 million over the last few years, and we need to save a further \u00a341 million this year.\n\u201cWe simply can\u2019t afford to do everything we\u2019ve done in the past.\n\u201cStreet lights are expensive, and, frankly, many of them do not need to be on during the small hours of the morning \u2013 all they are doing is burning taxpayers\u2019 money.\n\u201cThe evidence shows that, by turning these lights off at times when there is less traffic, we can save money without affecting the majority of road users.\n\u201cAnd by saving money in this way, we can protect other vital areas, like the pothole budget.\n\u201cOf course, public safety remains an overriding concern, so at every location, we\u2019ll give careful consideration to the effects of any reduction in lighting. In some places, changes won\u2019t be appropriate, so we\u2019ll keep things as they are.\u201d\nRevised plans for new Spalding care home to go before councillors\nMissing boy, 15, believed to be in Mablethorpe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13412-019-0539-4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:53Z", "digest": "sha1:K4SIIO4OR643NKGI7ZSMKLJG3QAV5Z3V", "length": 1909, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "link.springer.com", "title": "Is the European push for Open Access bad for environmental science? | SpringerLink", "raw_content": "Is the European push for Open Access bad for environmental science?\nAndrew J. Wright\nEurope intends to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies\u2019 research funding and seeks to build a coalition of funding institutions willing to do the same. By covering the costs of Open Access publishing, the idea is that \u2018no science should be locked behind paywalls.\u2019 However, not all environmental science receives funding from large institutions and much work, especially in developing nations, is undertaken on small grants from environmental non-governmental organisations. The European move is likely to push journals to abandon free-to-publish options in favour of costly Open Access, leaving such Small Science with fewer publication options and establishing a monopoly on peer-review for Big Science. While the goal of removing the publication paywall is a laudable one, the consequences of the proposed coalition may act contrary to the goal of making all science available to all people. Instead, other solutions should be explored, such as free-to-all publication supported a \u2018publication tax\u2019 on universities and other research institutes around the world that is linked to their economic situation.\nOpen Access Publication fees Big Science Citizen science Environmental science Discrimination\nEsposito J (2013) The natural limits of gold open access. The Scholarly Kitchen (online) https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2013/11/19/the-natural-limits-of-gold-open-access/. Accessed 30 Jan 2019\nSchiltz M (2018) Science without publication paywalls: cOAlition S for the realisation of full and immediate open access. Front Neurosci 12:656. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2018.00656 CrossRefGoogle Scholar\n1.Ocean and Ecosystem Sciences DivisionMaritimes Region Fisheries and Oceans CanadaDartmouthCanada\nWright, A.J. 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The places where wetlands exist are now getting transformed due to a host of factors which lead to the loss of such biologically diverse ecosystem. The investigation towards the existence of wetlands in respect of its physical background can guide to identify the suitable condition of wetland concentration in one hand and reasons for wetland loss on the other. Diara is one of the most naturally dynamic regions of India due to the presence of three shifting rivers in its three sides and River Ganga is one of them. River Ganga being the major river affects both the physical set up and wetland status of this region, as within a time span of 90 years (1926\u20132016), it produces a migration corridor of 855.55 km2 along this region and such dynamicity has created 25 riverine wetlands with an average area of 1.41 km2. 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Soils and soil management. In S. Finch, A. M. Samuel, & G. P. Lane (Eds.), Lockhart & Wiseman\u2019s crop husbandry including grassland (9th ed., pp. 37\u201362). Cambridge: Woodhead Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1533/9781782423928.1.37.CrossRefGoogle Scholar\n\u00a9 Korean Spatial Information Society 2019\n1.Department of GeographyChandidas MahavidyalayaKhujutipara, BirbhumIndia\nMukherjee, K. Spat. Inf. Res. 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Our Art and Design & Technology areas showcase students\u2019 work both within school and in local exhibitions.\nThe Duke of Edinburgh scheme is well established and popular at all levels with expeditions for Bronze, Silver and Gold becoming regular features of the school calendar. Many clubs and societies are available to pupils, both during and after school, and new staff are encouraged to contribute to this vital aspect of school life. The school celebrates achievements of the pupils in an annual presentation evening. A number of visits abroad take place each year including skiing and trips across Europe.\n5 x 60 Club\nWHAT IS 5\u00d760?\nThe 5\u00d760 Project is a Sport Wales initiative and was launched in Llanidloes High School in September 2007 in response to challenges set by the Welsh Assembly Government. Its aim is to increase the number of secondary pupils taking part in extra curricular sport.\nThe role of the 5 x 60 officer is to consult with the pupils, listen to their needs and identify the barriers which prevent them from participating in physical activity. Following this, they timetable a programme of extra-curricular activities that suit the pupils\u2019 needs. These activities target the individuals who do not currently participate in any physical activity, or who are in danger of losing interest, and will compromise of traditional activities such as football and hockey, to recreational activities such as dance, aerobics and outdoor activities such as orienteering, kayaking and mountain biking.\nInformation about the 5\u00d760 timetable can be found in the windows of the school gym and on the television screens dotted around school \u2013 this changes each term. An up-to-date timetable can also be found on the school website. If you have any suggestions for activities that you would like to see, please let Kate know.\nVOLUNTEERS \u2013 PARENTS, 6th FORM PUPILS, WIDER COMMUNITY\nThe 5\u00d760 project is heavily reliant on volunteers \u2013 roles include taking registers, organising festivals or tournaments, refereeing matches and leading sessions. Incentives are offered to those who contribute a number of hours to the project; from t-shirts and hoodies to extra training and qualifications, the possibilities are endless! 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Whether you want to go for a swim in the warm waters, nap on the picturesque beaches, or take in the high-energy nightlife, you won't be bored here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 148.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://locations.theupsstore.com/tx/schertz/17460-i-35-n", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:09Z", "digest": "sha1:H3FKBCQ2YERZEU5IPHR333KKIN5NVGKQ", "length": 4516, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "locations.theupsstore.com", "title": "The UPS Store Schertz: Shipping & Packing, Printing and Mailboxes in Schertz , TX", "raw_content": "The UPS Store Schertz\nYour resource for mailbox, shipping, and printing services in Schertz, TX.\nForest Ridge Shopping Center Next To H.E.B.\nAt The UPS Store located on 17460 I-35 N in TX, we are your professional packing and shipping resource. 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This is for Health and Safety reasons with fire evacuations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 175.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://londonist.com/london/news/jeff-goldblum-jazz-album-piano-st-pancras-station", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:32Z", "digest": "sha1:WGBY4N6G5VRFKX4BIGHLWXKT4NQRT7XZ", "length": 1026, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "londonist.com", "title": "Jeff Goldblum's Been Tinkling The Ivories In St Pancras Station | Londonist", "raw_content": "Jeff Goldblum's Been Tinkling The Ivories In St Pancras Station\nLaura Reynolds Jeff Goldblum's Been Tinkling The Ivories In St Pancras Station\nIs there anything that man can't do? When he's not wrestling dinosaurs, saving the world from extra-terrestrial threats or, er, lounging around half-naked by Tower Bridge, Jeff Goldblum's playing the piano. And not just playing the piano, but playing it well enough to make a jazz album.\nThe actor (and, apparently, musician) was at St Pancras station today, playing one of the station's free pianos in order to drum up some support for the album.\nJeff Goldblum apparently commented:\nI always like playing out and about never know who yer gonna meet. And music soothes the savage breast! Or is it beast?\nAnd because you lot liked these photos so much, here are couple from today's antics:\nJeff Goldblum and The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra's debut album, The Capitol Studios Sessions is released on 9 November 2018. If you missed today's performance, see him at Cadogan Hall in October.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lonestar995fm.com/an-open-letter-to-kliff-kingsbury-thank-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:19Z", "digest": "sha1:MMZQDNVTPDEB3HV2SLIZBVI3UECF62QB", "length": 2750, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "lonestar995fm.com", "title": "An Open Letter to Kliff Kingsbury: Thank You", "raw_content": "An Open Letter to Kliff Kingsbury: Thank You\nDear Coach Kingsbury,\nA decision on your job security has not been officially announced yet, but Kirby Hocutt was mysteriously absent from the post-game press conference after today's game.\nIt's not looking great. (Update, 11/25, 12:14 p.m.: According to two outlets with inside sources, Kingsbury has indeed been released. Read more here.)\nThis letter isn't to speculate on the outcome of Hocutt's final decision, and I don't envy the position he's in, but I do think a split can be mutually beneficial as you would undoubtedly get another job at a name brand program as an offensive coordinator or even make the jump to the NFL and its evolving offensive game plans. The Dallas Cowboys are in need of an offensive guru. You might even go dominate the AAC or Conference USA.\nThe move would also allow Texas Tech to move on to a coach with immeasurably less pressure than you have carried in the last six seasons as the head coach. Of course, I'm not going to rule out another season and a final shot at redemption, though that seems less likely today than it did in weeks past.\nWhatever happens in the next 24 hours, whether you are job hunting or recruiting for Texas Tech, I just want to say thank you for what you have given to Texas Tech University and the City of Lubbock.\nWin Texas Tech basketball tickets & more with the free 1340 The Fan app\nIt can't be easy to carry the weight of a program on your shoulders with absolutely zero experience as a head coach and less than three years of experience as an offensive coordinator, but you did just that. Hell, you sacrificed a great job at Texas A&M and a Heisman-winning quarterback to come back to Lubbock and try to turn things around.\nAfter six seasons and a losing record, that didn't happen. But I still respect the job that was done with the hand you were dealt.\nTo be completely frank, I get the #firekliff crowd on social media. What I don't understand is the blatant disrespect you've been getting railed with. Texas Tech has had a top 15 offense for six straight years with a revolving door at QB. You worked hard. You represented the school well, even when your players didn't. You always took the high road, even when the number one overall NFL draft pick dragged your name through the mud. That's not something I could have taken gracefully.\nYou have earned my respect, and I'll always support you as a man and will follow your career wherever it takes you.\nIf you do get the axe here at Texas Tech, I have no doubt that you will land on your feet.\nIt sucks, but the business of football sometimes gets in the way of the heart of it.\nThank you, Kliff, for giving your all to Texas Tech for the last six seasons. It was a hell of a ride.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lonestar995fm.com/kliff-kingsbury-releases-statement-to-red-raider-nation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:03Z", "digest": "sha1:CNAMIEZYFNNLN2XLQYBFQG63WB5QI6QT", "length": 1169, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "lonestar995fm.com", "title": "Kliff Kingsbury Releases Statement to Red Raider Nation", "raw_content": "Kliff Kingsbury Releases Powerful Statement to Red Raider Nation\nWe've heard from the fans, we've heard from the Athletics Director, we've heard from the players, and now we hear from the man himself.\nIn a statement released via Kliff Kingsbury's Twitter account:\nRelated: Texas Tech players react to Kliff Kingsbury's firing\nKingsbury started by thanking the people of Texas Tech and the community.\n\"It has been the honor of my life to be the Head Coach at Texas Tech and live in this community with the finest people in the world for the last six years.\" Kingsbury continued: \"From the first day I stepped foot on campus as a freshman, I knew this place was home. In my heart, it always will be.\"\nKingsbury also reiterated his feelings toward the university.\n\"This was never just a job to me,\" he wrote. \"Texas Tech was a dream come true and I am sincerely humbled to have worked at a special place that I love so dearly. My only regret is that we didn't get this program to the level that this University and community deserves.\"\nThen, Kingsbury brought it home and closed strong: \"I will always be Texas Tech and West Texas' number one fan with my Guns Up forever.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lonestar995fm.com/texas-tech-2018-football-schedule/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:53Z", "digest": "sha1:VGZHPNBNT2W2Q7H52MO6MQ4CVOSOFZVS", "length": 1617, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "lonestar995fm.com", "title": "Texas Tech 2018 Football Schedule Kicks Off Against Ole Miss", "raw_content": "Texas Tech 2018 Football Schedule Kicks Off on the Road Against Ole Miss\nTexas Tech Football has released its 2018 schedule, and the team will be on the road for its first game of the season.\nAs with the 2017 season, the Red Raiders will play three games in Lubbock in September, one in October and two in November. Their game against TCU in Fort Worth will happen on a Thursday.\nHere's the full rundown. Game times are TBD. A printable version of the 2018 football schedule is available at Texas Tech's website.\nOle Miss -- Saturday, Sept. 1, 2018, 11 a.m., at NRG Stadium, Houston, Texas\nLamar -- Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, 3 p.m., at Jones AT&T Stadium, Lubbock, Texas\nUniversity of Houston -- Saturday, Sept. 15, 3 p.m., 2018 at Jones AT&T Stadium, Lubbock, Texas\nOklahoma State -- Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018, 6 p.m., at Boone Pickens Stadium, Stillwater, Oklahoma\nWest Virginia -- Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, 11 a.m., at Jones AT&T Stadium, Lubbock, Texas\nTCU -- Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, 6:30 p.m., at Amon G. 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They will always provide you with all available options so that you can find the cheapest flight to Moscow apart from allowing you to choose where you want to do your bookings. Here, there are also special offers for air tickets from the city of Buenos Aires to Moscow. Last week for instance, the cheapest round-tip prices stood at $923 while the cheapest one-way price that was available within the last week cost $482\nPopular airlines flying from Buenos Aires to Moscow\nFlight Buenos Aires \u2013 Moscow is served by 9 airlines.\nSales of tickets from Buenos Aires to Moscow in the last 48 hours\nDynamics airfare Buenos Aires \u2014 Moscow by month for the last year\nThe airfare depends on the departure date. Our chart shows the low season prices on route from Buenos Aires to Moscow\nBahia Blanca \u2014 Moscow\nMontevideo \u2014 Moscow\nParana \u2014 Moscow\nRosario \u2014 Moscow\nSanta Rosa \u2014 Moscow\nMar Del Plata \u2014 Moscow\nPunta Del Este \u2014 Moscow\nSanta Fe \u2014 Moscow\nThe return flights Moscow \u2013 Buenos Aires\nBuy airfare from Buenos Aires to Moscow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 6878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lowerbackpainproblemsbiz.site123.me/blog/how-to-eliminate-lower-back-pain-effortlessly", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QDVWARH6PUA2OMDPLX5HUSNBAYGOPMK6", "length": 2759, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "lowerbackpainproblemsbiz.site123.me", "title": "How To Eliminate Lower Back Pain Effortlessly - Lower Back Pain Problems", "raw_content": "Lower back pain is a standard issue which affects millions of individuals all over the globe. Among the common causes of back pain is severe slip which damaged your back, pregnancy, lack of workouts or doing it the wrong way, obesity wrong sleeping method as well as using the wrong kind of mattress. Luckily, there are several means on how to eliminate lower back pain. While on a surgery may be the last solution, one ought to put into consideration trying some of the pain-relieving techniques highlighted below:\nUsing pain relievers. This drug will only provide a short-lived relief back pain. However, an individual experiencing frequent back pain ought not to depend on this as the only form kind of treatment. It is more so essential for an individual to continue ignoring lower back pain treatments and merely taking pain relievers to bring about a temporary effect. The key to solving the back discomfort once and for all is identifying the primary cause of the pain. Visit link!\nChiropractic treatments. A chiropractor will most likely be I a position to solve and may be doing away with the back irritation. A chiropractor will advise a month treatment course with treatment administered thrice on a weekly basis. In case the problem is severe, the chiropractor will suggest having an X-ray to determine the cause of the pain and how it ought to be treated. An individual with frequent lower back pain ought to consult a chiropractor. Carry some internet research and look for a perfect one with excellent reviews and has a top ranking with the better business bureau. Anyone who consults a chiropractor ought to experience some impact after the initial stages of treatment.\nSelecting the appropriate mattress. A mattress which is too soft, too hard or too unsmooth in most cases result or will intensify the pain. An expectant mother ought to rest on a firm mattress which provides a high level of support. An individual's exhibiting lower back itching while sleeping on a firm bed may wish to give a try to a soft mattress. To have an idea on how to get rid of lower back pain, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic_education.\nExercises. Workouts that assist relieve the lower back itching are comfortable yet very efficient. However, an individual experiencing extreme pain in their back ought not to start an exercise program before they can consult a chiropractor or any medical specialist. The inappropriate kinds of workouts may worsen the pain, click here!\nThere is no specific technique for eliminating the back pain which may be useful for everyone. Much depends on the cause if the pain. The initial step to dealing with back pain is identifying the cause. From there you may wish to give a try to various remedied to the pain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ltrr.arizona.edu/node/4519", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:59Z", "digest": "sha1:GIGNABLSLPHNOJ3KYYFPJGHYEFYWIDKD", "length": 3091, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ltrr.arizona.edu", "title": "Dick Warren | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research", "raw_content": "Dick Warren\nBannister 309A\nward@ltrr.arizona.edu\nRichard Warren, Research Associate in Dendrochronology, received a B.A. degree in Anthropology from The University of Arizona in 1962 and has been at the Laboratory since 1964. Warren is the most experienced and accomplished dendrochronological technician in the world, maintaining unmatched high rates of analytical speed, accuracy, and reliability. He developed and honed his tree-ring skills as a principal analytical contributor to the Dendrochronology of Southwestern United States Project, an NSF-sponsored reanalysis of the LTRR\u2019s archaeological tree-ring sample holdings that extended from 1963 through 1975. Since that time, he has been responsible for numerous archaeological assignments and has participated in many field collection operations including archaeological sampling with the Three-Mile Draw, Tsegi, Chetro Ketl, Walpi, and Acoma projects and living-tree coring for several phases of the Southwest Paleoclimate project. Through the years, he has served as a general dating \u201ctroubleshooter\u201d for the LTRR, providing chronological quality control for a wide range of research projects involving several principal investigators. In addition to archaeological dating, his experience includes analyzing bristlecone pine samples, dating and measuring living-tree samples for dendroclimatic analysis, constructing long tree-ring chronologies for Alaska and the Southwest, geological tree-ring dating, preparing samples for non-dendrochronological analysis, and checking other technicians\u2019 crossdating and chronology construction. He also assisted in teaching laboratory sections of the Introduction to Dendrochronology course, delivering lectures to visiting groups, and guiding tours of the Laboratory. Finally, he supervised the LTRR\u2019s shop, maintaining and repairing equipment, requisitioning supplies, training individuals in the use of shop machines, and ensuring a safe working environment for the users of this facility. Warren officially retired from the University in 2004 but continues to work half-time in the archaeological dating program.\nDuring the last seven years, Warren analyzed 8,833 archaeological and living-tree tree-ring samples and derived 3,067 dates. During this period, he reanalyzed the Harvard Peabody Museum\u2019s tree-ring sample collection from Awatovi, a large prehistoric-historic period Hopi site in northern Arizona. Major accomplishments include: analyzing archaeological tree-ring samples from sites in northern Sonora; the production of dates that illuminate the prehistory and history of the Four Corners area, the Navajo homeland in Din\u00e9tah, the Upper Pecos River Valley, northern Colorado, and central New Mexico; preparing dated wood samples for exhibits at several museums and Park Service facilities; analysis of wood samples designed to characterize the environmental history of the Mesa Verde National Park pinyon-juniper woodland over the last 500 years; and checking the dating of samples for research projects directed by J. S. Dean, R. H. Towner, I. Panyushkina, and L. N. 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All models, actors, actresses and other persons that appear in any visual depiction of actual sexual conduct appearing or otherwise contained in this adult site were over the age of eighteen years at the time of the creation of such depictions. Some of the aforementioned depictions appearing or otherwise contained in or at this site contain only visual depictions of actual sexually explicit conduct made before July 3, 1995, and, as such, are exempt from the requirements set forth in 18 U.S.C. 2257 and C.F.R. 75. With regard to the remaining depictions of actual sexual conduct appearing or otherwise contained in or at this adult site, the records required pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2257 and C.F.R. 75 are kept by the custodian of records of this company whose address is available public information at Internic whois.\nERIKA LUST FILMS\nPasseig Picasso 32 Pral", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 129.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lutris.net/games/by/firaxis-games", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Q326PBBR2DP4TDQ5QPDSFVT5VZJ5XWHL", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lutris.net", "title": "Games - Lutris", "raw_content": "Platforms: Windows Developed by Firaxis Games Published by 2K", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 3815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 160.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.jpost.com/Jpost-Tech/Zionist-innovators-awarded-536890/amp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:26Z", "digest": "sha1:2REUP3W5Y56B47UXU5L65DNPIN5Y2ENF", "length": 6631, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "m.jpost.com", "title": "\u2018Creating the impossible\u2019 | The Jerusalem post", "raw_content": "\u2018Creating the impossible\u2019\nWinners of NBN\u2019s first Initiative for Zionist Innovation grants. (photo credit:\" BEN KELMER)\nNefesh B\u2019Nefesh lauds its first group of Initiative for Zionist Innovation grant winners who found creative ways to contribute to the Jewish state.\nMost Israelis enjoying a fun night out know getting the check is the ultimate buzzkill. A couple of appetizers and a few beers out in a pub can set a young professional back quite a bit, especially when one enjoys going out on a regular basis.\n\u201cI moved to Tel Aviv paying incredible amounts to just drink a beer. You get your credit-card bill at the end of the month and it\u2019s like, \u2018Whoa, there\u2019s no way it should cost this much,\u201d Jason Barnett, who made aliya from Kansas, chuckled. Rather than sit back and accept the exorbitant cost of going out, he decided to try his hand at making beer at home.\n\u201cI found I could produce beer at home for a fraction of the cost,\u201d Barnett who has been making beer out of his home for the past year said.\nThe oleh and former lone soldier has parlayed that skill into a fledgling business called Opus Brewing. Barnett brings his equipment to homes and businesses for team-building workshops that show how making beer at home can be fun, relatively easy and a money saver.\n\u201cIsrael is this progressive country and a hotbed for start-ups and finding your own way. It\u2019s totally possible to do that here, all you need to do identify your own strengths. I\u2019m sustaining the Zionist ideals with a practical operation,\u201d Barnett said.\nThis first crop of Initiative for Zionist Innovation (IZI) winners are doing just that \u2013 tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of Zionism \u2013 in their own unique ways.\nBarnett is just one example of the 20 organizations selected by Nefesh B\u2019Nefesh for this new grant, which awards the recipients from $1,000 to $5,000.\nThe initiative, launched this year and funded by Keren Kayemeth Le\u2019Israel and the Avram and Sharon Blumenthal family, awards the next generation of social and business entrepreneurs. As Barnett proved, merely complaining about a problem just won\u2019t do. Instead, with gumption, creativity and some newly acquired Israeli chutzpah, they decided to find ways to solve these problems themselves.\n\u201cI\u2019m looking at a room specializing in the impossible,\u201d Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, co-founder and executive director of Nefesh B\u2019Nefesh, said at the grant award ceremony, which took place at NBN\u2019s new work hub in Tel Aviv.\n\u201cWe are thrilled to award these grants to the inaugural recipients of the Initiative for Zionist Innovation, which will enable these successful olim to expand their ventures and further impact the State of Israel,\u201d Fass added.\nThe grant winners\u2019 work ranges from social-based and fun projects like Barnett\u2019s to more serious ones hoping to rectify serious deficiencies within a community.\nDR. RINAT Green is part of the latter. As a mother of a dyslexic child, she decided to establish Kol Koreh, a learning hub for children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. At Kol Koreh, the goal is to identify learning disabilities in children at an early age, so treatment can be more preventive-oriented and not corrective.\nAs a psychologist by profession, Green was able to identify her child\u2019s condition but saw many kids in her children\u2019s classroom who went undiagnosed. With one out of five children affected by dyslexia, it seemed that this was a phenomenon largely ignored in Israeli schools.\n\u201cI realized very quickly that there are kids who were being misunderstood,\u201d Green recalled. \u201cThey give other reasons why the child is struggling \u2013 ADD, behavioral issues \u2013 but at times, it\u2019s really dyslexia which, if caught early, can be treated.\u201d\nThe center is currently based in Beit Shemesh, but they are looking to open a larger facility in Jerusalem in the near future.\nAt the moment, their curriculum is integrated into two schools: Yeshivat Sha\u2019alvim (a high school for boys) and the Beit Shulamit High School for Girls in Jerusalem. Their work is two-pronged: helping not only high school kids, but also children in kindergarten, so intervention can occur early on.\n\u201cI and everyone on my board all made aliya,\u201d Green explained. \u201cWe all have children who have struggled because of learning disabilities. We are able to come in as outsiders and look in and say something is not as it should be and it should be corrected. We can bring our collective knowledge in education and mental health into the Israeli system.\u201d\nFor Green, there is no excuse for sending a child to school with a condition that can easily be treated.\n\u201cEvery day that a kid comes with a stomach ache, it\u2019s a day lost. There\u2019s no reason it should be that way,\u201d she said.\nZEHAVA ARKY and Michal Lichy are deeply familiar with the struggle of caring for children as well, especially when most of their familial support system lives an ocean away.\nThe two young mothers opened Hub-Sheva, a hub center in Beersheba, where working parents can pay by the hour for a place to work that also provides daycare services for their children.\nIt\u2019s an ideal solution for parents who usually work from home and paying for day care per month would be money wasted. This way, parents can load hours onto a card and swipe in whenever they need peace and quiet to get things done.\nIn Beersheba, a city regarded as being on the cusp of a boom socially, technologically and culturally, a facility like this is filling a gaping void for many working parents.\n\u201cLots of people in Beersheba telecommute,\u201d Lichy explained. \u201cWe know day care is very expensive and if you pay by the month it\u2019s a use-it-or-lose-it scenario when it comes to the hours. As such, we wanted to come up with a solution so parents could work and have their children cared for and only pay for the hours they use.\u201d\nThe two believe the hub \u2013 which has yet to open \u2013 will be extra beneficial for Anglos.\n\u201cPart of the challenge about making aliya in the south is many don\u2019t realize there\u2019s an English-speaking community here,\u201d Arky explained. \u201cWe are going to have classes and different community events as part of our initiative to reach out to the community.\u201d\nBenji Davis, NBN Israel program manager, hopes the IZI grants will be part of an NBN tradition.\n\u201cThis is the beginning of so much. Our communal strength creates the greatest impact. The strength of Jewish people is our strength in numbers. Please know that Nefesh B\u2019Nefesh as an organization looks to strengthen olim and the impact they strive to create,\u201d he said at Sunday\u2019s ceremony. \u201cWe are here celebrating the Zionist dreamers.\u201d\nThis article was written in cooperation with Nefesh B\u2019Nefesh.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Encountering-Peace-558791/amp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:2SN6WXHLUGKSCGLWADTFC4TLKPUF2O34", "length": 6485, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "m.jpost.com", "title": "Encountering Peace | The Jerusalem post", "raw_content": "An Israeli solider looks at ID of a Palestinian man at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus January 10, 2018. (photo credit:\" REUTERS/MOHAMAD TOROKMAN)\nUndoing the two-state solution.\nThirty years ago, during the fourth month of the First Intifada, I launched the creation of IPCRI (Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information), a joint Israeli Palestinian public policy think tank. IPCRI was created to enable Israeli-Palestinian joint strategic thinking and planning of professionals and decision makers to figure out how to create and implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By March 1988 it was clear that the First Intifada had propelled the Palestinian national movement into greater pragmatism that would lead to a process of mutual recognition and a peace process.\nOver the next 24 years, I helped to organize, facilitate, negotiate, co-chair and run more than 2,000 working group meetings of mainstream Israelis and Palestinians, mostly professionals in their fields, from all walks of life on every subject that touches on the Israeli-Palestinian relationship including security, border management, refugees, Jerusalem, water, economics and business, agriculture, tourism, legal issues, environment, public health and more. It became clear very quickly that there were possible solutions to every issue in conflict, but that in order to be productive and constructive, the discussions began with the agreement that the end game was the two-state solution based on the June 4, 1967 lines. We engaged in a kind of reverse engineering \u2013 knowing where we wanted to get to and then working on how to get there.\nWith a failed peace process behind us, and with no current peace process on the horizon and no negotiations having taken place for more than four years, it has become fashionable to imagine other possible solutions. I seriously question the assumption that there are solutions to this conflict other than the two-state solution, because at the core this conflict is a shared desire for territorial expression of identity. No other solution enables that within the given territory between the River and the Sea.\nThere is possibility of a \u201cUnited States of Israel-Palestine\u201d \u2013 a state without a national identity that answers what both people are fighting for. In fact, when I hear Israelis or Palestinians speak of a \u201cone-state solution\u201d I only have to scratch a little below the surface to discover that the Jews are talking about a Jewish state and the Palestinians are talking about a Palestine state.\nThere is also no solution in which Israel annexes the settlement blocs, surrounds the Palestinians with its military, does not allow them to have any control of their external borders, but grants them real autonomy within Israeli control. No Palestinian leader would ever agree to that, nor would the overwhelming majority of Palestinian people.\nBut just as 30 years ago when I pushed forward on trying to understand the hows of creating a two-state solution, I have been lately wondering how it would be possible to create a one-state solution \u2013 just for the sake of argument.\nI travel every week all around the West Bank. There is no part of the West Bank that I have not driven through and explored, meeting people and getting to know them. I have been doing this for 40 years. In recent years my efforts have been devoted mostly to creating partnerships in the advancement of renewable energy projects to help to create Palestinian independence.\nAcknowledging the very partial authority of the Palestinian Authority, and recognizing that the Israeli army is really in control of the West Bank, I began this process by thinking about what would happen to the institutional infrastructure that the Palestinians have created over the past 30 years. What would happen to the Palestinian Energy and Natural Resources Authority (PENRA), to the Palestinian Energy Regulatory Commission (PERC), the Palestinian Electricity Transmission Company Ltd. (PETL), and the Palestinian electricity distribution companies (JDECO, SELCO, NETCO, TUBASECO, HEBCO) \u2013 and this is in just one small sector.\nThe institutions of Palestinian statehood exist and they are working, and some function quite well. The Education Ministry, Local Governments Ministry, Water Authority, Monetary Authority, National Economy Ministry, Finance Ministry, courts, police, fire brigades \u2013 basically every aspect and institution of a state government exists in Palestine today. I have no idea how one would go about dismantling all of that in order to be integrated into parallel institutions that exist in Israel.\nI don\u2019t believe that anyone who supports a one-state solution has actually given any real thought to how to create that one state. Of course those who see the one-state solution as being a one nation-state solution, with a large, passive, non-participatory minority, is simply living on another planet. And those who believe that the 50-year-old, binational, one-state non-democratic reality would ever be acceptable to the millions of Palestinians living it are also living on another planet.\nThis is not to say that a democratic state of Israel-Palestine could never exist, but rather that such a state can never be a solution to the territorial-identity conflict.\nWhile being open and willing to consider other proposals on how to resolve this conflict, I am also willing to accept the idea that there are no solutions. I have heard almost nothing constructive and realistic that would move us to a place where we decrease hatred and improve the lives of people living on both sides of the conflict.\nOne of the many lessons learned from the failure of the peace processes until now should be that in order to reach a destination of peace, we have to know a lot better where we want to be. I have not yet seen a better destination than a two-state solution, with two peoples living in peace and cooperation with permeable borders people and goods can move easily across. The separation paradigm offered by the Israeli Left, based on walls and fences, is as much of a disaster as the unilateral annexation paradigms of the Right.\nThe author is now working on the encouragement of Palestinians to run for the Jerusalem City Council as a form of the Palestinian struggle and as a means of challenging the status quo. His new book In Pursuit of Peace in Israel and Palestine has been published by Vanderbilt University Press.\nSettlement blocs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/23/democrats-begin-2020-presidential-race/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:M46AVYQTX4CMN7MQJ3JZV6OXRWEON6YS", "length": 4813, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "m.washingtontimes.com", "title": "Democrats to begin 2020 presidential race - Washington Times", "raw_content": "2020 Dems are a pathetic pack of losers\nSo Joe\u2019s gonna\u2019 go, dontcha\u2019 know. Pocahontas is gearing up, too. The newest race-baiters are getting ready. And ol\u2019 Bernie is soaking his dentures in Polident (when he\u2019s not yelling at those pesky kids to get off his lawn).\nYes, 2020 is right around the corner, people. Once we get past this midterm election in two weeks, it\u2019s a flat-out blitz to Election Day 2020. Sure, no one cares (seriously, NO ONE CARES!), but that\u2019s never stopped politicians from running for the White House before and, unfortunately, it won\u2019t stop them now.\nIn fact, the Democrats are going to start having debates in a few months. Seriously. Not kidding.\n\u201cBy the early spring at the latest, you\u2019ll be seeing debates, and I think probably in the first quarter of 2019,\u201d David Axelrod, a top adviser to former President Barack Obama, said on a recent podcast (yes, he has one). \u201cI think the sense of urgency among Democrats and the sense of possibility among potential candidates is such that you\u2019re going to see that.\u201d\nOf course, no one is running. No full-time, career politician will come out and say the words, \u201cSure, yeah, I\u2019m running in 2020.\u201d They say that stupid thing like, \u201cI am not currently a candidate for the presidency\u201d or \u201cI am just happy to be \u2026\u201d blah, blah, blah.\nBut they\u2019re running. They\u2019re all running. We know they\u2019re running, you know they\u2019re running, so why the games? It\u2019d be funny if it weren\u2019t so pathetic.\nSo let\u2019s take a look at a few of the top dogs, the alphas, the cream of the Dem crop.\nFirst, you gotta put Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermontistan independent, at the top of the list. The 77-year-old socialist from Brooklyn got aced out of the nomination in 2016 as the Hillary Clinton team stacked the deck. But the party has changed the rules so Uncle Bernie might have a chance this time around.\n\u201cDemocratic Party officials, after a years-long battle between warring ideological wings, have agreed to sharply reduce the influence of the top political insiders known as superdelegates in the presidential nomination process,\u201d The New York Times reported in August.\nUnder the new plan, superdelegates \u2014 set up to make sure the Establishment candidate breezes through \u2014 can cast substantive votes only in extraordinary cases such as contested conventions, and they won\u2019t even get a vote in the first go-through.\nBernie\u2019s making nine campaign stops in the coming month, but his support is cooling after his last whooping in 2016. So Democrats are turning to the new crop of candidates at their disposal.\nLike that young kid from Delaware, Joe \u201cSpring Chicken\u201d Biden. He\u2019s waaaay younger than Bernie. Joe\u2019s only 75.\nBiden knows he\u2019s old, and he\u2019s already trying to address the issue. \u201cI think age is a totally legitimate thing to raise,\u201d Biden says. \u201cI think it\u2019s totally appropriate for people to look at me and say, if I were to run for office again, \u2018Well God darn, you\u2019re old.\u2019 Well chronologically, I am old.\u201d\nChronologically speaking. But his hair and teeth implants make him look young so, hey, maybe it\u2019s just Joe\u2019s time.\nCrazy Joe has been making all kinds of noises like he\u2019s running. Heck, he turned the funeral of Sen. John McCain into a campaign speech, and only the most craven politicians would do something like that, right? And in a recent CNN poll, Biden drew support from 33 percent of those surveyed, with Sanders a distant second at 13 percent.\nSen. Elizabeth \u201cPocahontas\u201d Warren is also getting ready. She\u2019s been all over the news with her recent DNA test that showed \u2014 despite her longtime claims to the contrary \u2014 that she\u2019s got virtually no American Indian blood in her. Yes, the test showed she\u2019s 98.5 percent to 99.9 percent white. Poor Pocahontas. But she\u2019s trying to kill off one of President Trump\u2019s favorite attack lines, and for the liberal mainstream media, she\u2019s put the issue to bed.\nThen there\u2019s Sen. Cory Booker, who pulled down 5 percent in the CNN poll. He\u2019s already swung through Iowa with a high-profile speech at the Iowa Democratic Party\u2019s Fall Gala. And he\u2019s jumping on the \u201cfree everything\u201d bandwagon championed by Mr. Sanders with his own plan to set up \u201copportunity accounts\u201d to give lower-income children up to $50,000 to use for a down payment on a house or college tuition.\nAnd there\u2019s Sen. Kamala Harris, who, like Booker, used the recent confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to grandstand on a national stage. She\u2019s already campaigned in Ohio and South Carolina and says she will \u201cseriously take a look at\u201d 2020 after the November elections.\nThe list of hopefuls drops off steeply after that. Yes, those are the front-runners for 2020.\n\u2981 Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. 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I will be working with guitarist Billy Stein. We really look forward to seeing you in this special performance at such an historical theater (watch out for the ghosts of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Paul Robeson).\nRegina Ress , storyteller, actor, teacher, writer and long time Greenwich Village resident has performed stories of love and life from the summit of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii to Copacabana Beach, Brazil, with stops across the US, Central and South America, and Europe. Many of her New York stories have been heard on NPR outlet WFUV\u2019s Cityscape. When she is not in NYC, Regina is Storyteller-in-Residence at the Santa Fe Hillside Market, an artists cooperative and event space. This is her 12th year performing in this storytelling series and 10th as its Producer. www.ReginaRess.com\nReed player and composer Michael Moss has been involved in the music scene for many years leading his own musical groups including Mike Moss/4 Rivers and Free Energy. He has played with an eclectic group of musicians including William Parker, Sam Rivers, Dave Liebman, Dave Burrell, Badal Roy, and storyteller Diane Wolkstein. Moss is President of 4th Stream Records and ERG Publishing, past-President of Free Life Communication (a musician\u2019s co-op in NYC), and is the recipient of numerous Meet the Composer and NYSCA grants. www.m2-Theory.com\nFor the past 30 years, native New Yorker guitarist and composer Billy Stein has been involved in multiple music scenes in and around NYC, including R&B, funk, blues, rock, salsa, bossa nova, as well as both mainstream and free jazz. The many eclectic musicians he has performed and recorded with include legendary bassist Milt Hinton, mainstream jazz icon Sahib Shihab, Latin composer Joe Blanco, the rock group The Coasters, and free-jazz drummer Rashid Bakr. Stein recently recorded the critically acclaimed CD \u201cHybrids\u201d and is a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.\nTags: free jazz, Greenwich Village, New York City, Provincetown Playhouse, Storyteller\n\u00ab LIVING THE QUANTUM LIFE\nA Rolling Stein Gathers No Moss \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 9277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://manystudios.co.uk/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YOMHRJG7WZANB2QKEIZHTTGJXZOSJMQI", "length": 2414, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "manystudios.co.uk", "title": "About \u2014 Many Studios hire", "raw_content": "Many Studios is a creative organisation committed to championing multidisciplinary practice through quality workspaces, diverse arts programming and challenging the creative sector.\nAs part of the legacy of the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the wide ranging placemaking and programming skills of the organisation were employed to design, develop and operate a new creative hub in the East End of the city. Since 2016, the hub has played a major part in the development of The Barras neighbourhood as a new cultural destination through the building of a creative community alongside public events, outdoor markets, unique partnerships and international collaborations.\nA fully serviced suite of managed workspaces, shop front creative units, contemporary art galleries, multifunctional meeting rooms and event spaces are all designed not only to support creativity, innovation and business growth but also be flexible enough to meet the ever-changing needs of the creative industries.\nThe Gallow Gate, which currently presents an interdisciplinary arts programme from our hub in the East End, shares these principles and produces projects which work locally and globally, modelling new civic acts of tolerance, resolution and resistance in response to todays socio-political landscape.\nMany Studios CIC is directed by Becca Thomas, Marc Cairns and Natalia Palombo. Becca Thomas and Marc Cairns founded creative consultancy studio, Pidgin Perfect, where they engage diverse communities in the process of change; using design and cultural activity to create connections between people and place to build more resilient communities for everyone. Managing Director, Natalia Palombo, is a creative producer with a focus on contemporary visual art and film. Her research is centred on critical and convivial conversation in the arts, addressing issues of access to creative and cultural activity, expectations within arts practice, and creative outcomes in areas of regeneration.\nAs a Community Interest Company (CIC), all surpluses are reinvested into supporting our tenants, maintaining our property and investing back into the creative industries. 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The best way to do this is by studying a lot of different techniques and approaches so that you can find the ones that work for you. Here are five resources you may find helpful this month.\nCreating fresh content for your blog and maintaining an active presence on your social media channels is an important part of building your brand and connecting with your leads and prospects. This article contains a list of holidays, general topics, and real estate-related content that your followers may be interested in this February. For more ideas, download the free eBook, 300 Content Ideas for Your Blog and Social Channels.\nThis article has popular decor trends that would be great to incorporate into any of the homes you have listed for sale this year. It will explain how to use gray and neutral tones, metal accents, and the 90/10 rule in your listings to help them sell faster.\nAsk the Expert: What Are the Best Tips for Pricing Listings?\nHomeowners often overestimate the value of their home, causing a negative effect on the sale as you try to realign their expectations and often still end up with a listing price that will likely need adjusting in a few months. In this article, Homes.com\u2019s vice president of sales discusses how to start pricing your listings to sell at asking price so that you can make 2019 one of your strongest ever.\n10 Steps to Create Your Custom Theme in Google Slides\nIn today\u2019s competitive market, it\u2019s the little things and the personal touches that give you a leg up on your competitor. And like having custom stationary for your office, you should have a custom slideshow theme with your company colors, logos, and other branding. This easy-to-follow article will walk you through how to create your own theme step by step.\n4 Reasons Your Client\u2019s Home Isn\u2019t Selling\nThere are a lot of reasons a listing may not be selling. The market could be slowing down, interest rates could be high, or any other number of uncontrollable factors could be having an effect. However, there are some factors that you can control that may also be the cause. Find out what they are here and learn how to address them.\nKeeping abreast of the latest news, trends, and techniques is an important part of building your best business. When you\u2019re ready to learn even more, Secrets of Top Selling Agents is a great place to start. Tune in for the next live webinar on February 20, 2019. 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The first session of the Procurement by Co-Design program has now come to an end, so we\u2019re looking back on what we\u2019ve learned so far, plus looking ahead to what\u2019s next.\nReflecting on the last year, I remember how the program team felt unsure of whether we\u2019d meet our goals. Even though we developed this co-design process based on extensive consultations and research, you never know how things will actually unfold. Would people understand our terminology? Would the healthcare service providers and vendors get along? Would the participants realize the value of this approach?\nMy anxiety lessened as the program got underway and the value of the approach proved itself at various stages. At our opening workshop there was an enthusiastic vibe in the room as participants ran through exercises together. Later, during our weekly check-in calls with individual project teams, I could feel their optimism through the phone as they shared the new insights they\u2019d gained around the problems they were working on.\nFor service providers, the program acted as a catalyst by providing a pathway to tackle challenges they\u2019ve wanted to address for a long time. For vendors, this was a unique opportunity to really engage with providers and to learn about their needs from a first-hand perspective.\nDuring our visits to the project teams with our judges, eager front-line workers told us how empowered they felt when shaping their solutions. In the final weeks, it was remarkable to witness the new friendships and business relationships that had formed between service providers and vendors, and that will extend beyond the program. Some teams have even told us that they are committed to scaling their co-designed solutions together to other organizations.\nCohort 1\u2019s journey taught us a lot about how to introduce the design-thinking approach to healthcare professionals and about whether our process was a practical approach to procurement. We started with 22 teams on Dialogue Day, but only 17 teams finished the discovery, ideation and initial prototyping phases, and just three teams made it to procurement.\nIn order to understand why five of the teams dropped off, we reviewed their design journals and held debriefing interviews with them. We learned that a couple of the teams dropped out due to funding-related issues; because they didn\u2019t receive the first grant they did not feel encouraged or simply could not continue the project. Others lacked approval from their organizations\u2019 senior leadership teams as priorities had changed, so they lost their project champions. Unexpected policy changes stumped some teams when it was time for implementation too.\nBefore I started working on the Procurement by Co-Design program I was a perfectionist\u2014failure was not an option. The program\u2019s drop-off numbers would have bothered the old me. But my teammates, who have been working on systems change initiatives a lot longer than I have, reminded me that this cohort was a test itself. Our team and the Cohort 1 participants learned just how hard it is to realize the vision we have for the healthcare system.\nWe want decision-makers, procurement officers and project leads to have the confidence to take on innovation partnership methods, just as they would with other procurement approaches such as requests for proposals and requests for services. We learned that there is a fine line between incenting teams to try out the innovation partnership approach and raising the wrong motivations, like funding for pet projects. Each team that dropped out of the program highlighted areas that we need to refine for Cohort 2, insights we would not have gained otherwise. In the true design spirit, we are making adjustments to our plans for the second session of the program based on these learnings before testing the approach again.\nHere are some of the changes we are making.\nWe can\u2019t change the amount of funding we provide. We realized that if we want to create real systems change, service providers and purchasers will have to take on the co-design approach without our involvement and without grants to offset the cost of participating or purchasing. For Cohort 2, we will be providing grants to teams that are ready and committed to taking on the approach much earlier in the program. We\u2019ll also vet the service providers so that only those that are ready (with funds, senior leadership and committed project champions) will participate. We will also offer more guidance to service providers on how to budget for innovation. This will include exploring new business models such as revenue sharing, payments on outcomes and group purchases.\nCo-design as a procurement approach is not a panacea for all problems in all cases. We realized that co-design is an approach that is best suited for challenges that are still \u201cfuzzy around the edges\u201d\u2014that is, problems without one definitive cause or one obvious way to solve them. For that reason, we will provide more guidance during the challenge formation and discovery phase.\nWe will encourage more low-fidelity (frugal) prototyping, as well as prototyping in the early stages of the design process. These tests challenge assumptions about users and staff, as well as about workflow processes and information technology systems, and should take minimal resources to create. In these projects, it is easy to become excited about an idea and go straight to full development. We want participants to make decisions based on evidence, even if that means letting go of an idea or strategically exiting.\nIt is challenging to develop products in a limited time frame. For Cohort 2 we want participants to think about creating minimum viable products for the purpose of testing their learning goals so that a procurement decision can be made. This means that teams will have to be more strategic and choose a minimal number of necessary features to test rather than trying to build out every feature they want.\nWe are now gearing up for another test of this refined approach to procurement by co-design. If you have a healthcare challenge that you want to tackle and want to be part of our second cohort join us for our launch event on September 28, 2017, at MaRS. Both healthcare service providers and vendors are welcome. Request an invite by contacting designchallenge@marsdd.com.\nCohort 2 timeline", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 8537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://martinzigzag.com/2018/02/10/attempting-to-play-the-ball/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:24Z", "digest": "sha1:7VAHG7GQSUKYIAC2XGNPNFCPFTNATB4W", "length": 415, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "martinzigzag.com", "title": "Attempting to play the ball | Rules of Hockey", "raw_content": "\u00ab A peculiar interpretation | A silly question \u00bb\nPosted on February 10, 2018 at 21:11 in Obstruction, Obstruction Rule\t| RSS feed | Reply\t| Trackback URL\n2 Comments\tto \u201cAttempting to play the ball\u201d\nUnfortunately, you are in the minority, but that is also the way I see it. It doesn\u2019t matter much. I am a rookie.\nI am used to being told that a reasonable common sense approach is a minority view -I don\u2019t believe it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 10992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mashable.com/category/justin-chadwick/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:51Z", "digest": "sha1:U6Q7EXVSRDM7VUROM62OUHKMZDBICZTX", "length": 220, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mashable.com", "title": "justin chadwick", "raw_content": "Idris Elba Portrays Nelson Mandela in 'Long Walk to Freedom' Trailer\nWeinstein has released the first official U.S. trailer for the Nelson Mandela biopic \"Long Walk to Freedom,\" pegged to the global icon's 95th birthday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 2322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 200.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maslibertad.com.co/tag/neoliberal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RCXM67JBRCDSSNAOXS54EGGTYFHVFP5A", "length": 28, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "maslibertad.com.co", "title": "neoliberal archivos | M\u00c1S Libertad", "raw_content": "Posts tagged as \u201cneoliberal\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matchbuilt.com/jobs/homebuilding-regional-sales-manager-ft-myers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:40Z", "digest": "sha1:RQNGOOV6MSTL2IRFCZM7OZ7SQKWT4TJE", "length": 384, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "matchbuilt.com", "title": "Regional Sales Manager | Homebuilding Jobs | MatchBuilt", "raw_content": "We are teaming with a leading regional builder in Ft Myers / Cape Coral, FL in search of a Regional Sales Manager with a strong new-homes-sales management background. The position will report directly to the Division President. Local or non-local candidates with experience at a high volume builder are preferred as this company is growing fast and is among the largest in the market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://math.wvu.edu/mad2019/participants.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:50Z", "digest": "sha1:KJU5B6KZW2JE6GKPT4US6IC3I2GFHVMV", "length": 182, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "math.wvu.edu", "title": "participants", "raw_content": "Below you will find a list of registered participants. If you do not see your name on this list within a week of registering, please contact Ela Celikbas (ela.celikbas@math.wvu.edu).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matijevic2kikis.fandom.com/wiki/Bay_Center", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TJTKFN7VEJBW2DVCSOPTANTUYJFCZQQE", "length": 994, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "matijevic2kikis.fandom.com", "title": "Bay Center | Matijevic2kiki's Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "The Bay Center building\nThe Bay Center is one of the largest and most important buildings in Bay City. It is a 54-floor building surrounded by Hopps Street on the east, Bay Road on the south, Pocket Road on the west and Sunset Road on the east.\nNumerous advertisements cover it, all about TrackMania, Zootopia and Puppy in my Pocket. The Bay Center was opened in 2001.\nImportant locations in Bay Center building\nThe 45th floor (in red), and Kristijan and Panda's home on the floor (in green)\nKristijan and Panda's home - 45th floor\nBay Channel headquarters - 54th floor\nSunset Hotel - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th floor\nCongress Center - 1st floor\nLe Exquisite restaurant - 1st floor\nBay City News headquarters - 32nd floor\nUrbania Update Newsletter headquarters - 47th floor\nCity Resources - 22nd floor\nLiving flats and apartments - 14th to 21st, 26th to 35th and 41st to 50th floors\nAdvertising on the building\nRetrieved from \"https://matijevic2kikis.fandom.com/wiki/Bay_Center?oldid=5356\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://maxaviation.com/en/news/max-is-that-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MUNT2Z56CUB3GDSUWFHHEYOGAOEBEMBZ", "length": 814, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "maxaviation.com", "title": "MAX? Is that you? - Max Aviation", "raw_content": "The new features start with this new, more modern design. The graphic design of the letters evokes the importance of going forward and being in movement, while symbolizing the speed and dependability of our services. We chose a very deep blue as the dominant colour to maintain a link to our origins. Various shades of gold highlight our over 50 years of experience in the aviation industry in Qu\u00e9bec.\nThroughout this evolution, we repeat our promise to become your partner for safe charter flights in Canada and the United States tailored to your schedule and your expectations.\nFrom the logo to our signature, this modernistic wave will be deployed across our new aircraft and in the unique graphic design of our fleet, as well as on the new website that we will be unveiling soon.\nThank you for your confidence!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mbird.com/2008/03/conference-update-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:30Z", "digest": "sha1:M45A66IQCNJCULP76CB3UNIGBF4GCKRB", "length": 2423, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mbird.com", "title": "CONFERENCE UPDATE | Mockingbird", "raw_content": "by Sean Norris on Mar 24, 2008 \u2022 8:55 am\nWe are so excited for the upcoming Life and Ministry Conference! It\u2019s hard to believe that it is less than two weeks away (April 3-5th). Dave and I wanted to give you a quick update on a key change to the program.\nAs many of you know, our scheduled keynote speaker for the conference was Dr. Steven Paulson of Luther Seminary in St Paul, MN. Late last week Dr. Paulson called us with the unfortunate news that his wife was very ill, and that as a result he would not be able to join us in New York. He was very sad to have to miss the conference and wanted us to know how much he was looking forward to the gathering. Please remember Steven and his wife Crystal in your prayers over the next few weeks, and let\u2019s hope for a quick recovery.\nBut there\u2019s good news as well: Dr. Paulson graciously asked his friend and colleague, Dr. Mark Mattes, to fill in for him as keynote speaker, and Dr. Mattes agreed! He and Dr. Paulson have worked together on many projects over the years and could not be more \u201con the same page\u201d. In fact, when we were initially brainstorming about the conference, we thought it would only be worth doing if we could get either Dr. Paulson or Dr. Mattes to speak! Seriously.\nDave and I see this as a major answer to prayer and hope you share our excitement. Here is some more info on our new speaker:\nMark Mattes chairs the Departments of Philosophy and Religion at Grand View College in Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to this call, he served parishes in Gardner, Illinois and Antigo, Wisconsin. He has authored \u201cThe Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology\u201d, co-authored \u201cImaging the Journey\u201d, co-translated \u201cTheology The Lutheran Way\u201d by Oswald Bayer, and co-edited the collected papers of Gerhard Forde, \u201cA More Radical Gospel\u201d and \u201cThe Preached God\u201d. In addition, he has published numerous essays and reviews for peer-reviewed journals.\nAll other details of the conference remain unchanged.\nOne more thing: If you haven\u2019t registered yet, please do so asap! We need to know how much space we\u2019ll need, how much food/coffee to order, etc. Even if you\u2019re only planning on coming for a portion of the conference, please drop us a line. Details on how to register are still up on our delightfully lo-tech website, www.mockingbirdnyc.com.\nTags: CONFERENCE, Gerhard Forde, Gospel, Mark Mattes, Ministry Conference, MN, Mockingbird, New York, Radical Gospel, St Paul", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 6906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mbird.com/2009/05/robots-are-coming/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:VTE43ZEBARYAC4X4X7XL7CMRT5L6T373", "length": 2473, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mbird.com", "title": "The Robots are Coming | Mockingbird", "raw_content": "In light of the anticipated release of the next Terminator installment, I ran across this article entitled How Worried Should You Be About the Robot Takeover? P.W Singer writes:\nTerminator: Salvation, the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise, takes place in 2018, a number of years after an artificial-intelligence network devised by the U.S. military, called Skynet, has turned on its masters and set off a nuclear war. The sentient computer now controls an army of killer robots tasked with hunting down and killing every last member of the human race. It\u2019s Hollywood popcorn at its best, if not for the scary fact that the movie touches on some very real trends in modern military technology.\nHe goes on to argue that there is no cause for alarm, but I\u2019m not so sure. Anyway, what it really made me think about was (IMHO) one of the greatest SNL commercial ever \u201cOld Glory Insurance,\u201d and I thought that maybe you\u2019d like to be as prepared as possible for the inevitable day the robots come alive\u2013because, as we know, thanks to Sam Watterson: you\u2019re probably aware of the threat robots pose. Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people\u2019s medicine for fuel.\nTags: P.W. Singer, Robots, Saturday Night Live, Terminator\namazing! i\u2019d never seen that one before. \u201crobots are strong and made of metal\u201d \u2013 in your face, John Connor!\np.s. AMAZING photo. Remember the video? Arnold was actually in it.\nJust heard an interview with a brain researcher who maintained that we cannot understand the brain until we are able to model its activities through robotics. In other words, when our brains can design similar systems, then we\u2019ve \u2018got a grasp\u2019 of how we work. True or not, what makes films like Terminator so great is that they play upon the idea that the whole thing could go pear shaped\u2026with the robots that our brains designed turning against us. However, what is most interesting is the idea that whether the computer program or the robot itself is to blame, each carries a sinister seed (ostensibly) because they were the product of imperfect human engineering. Is there any relationship here to the fall? What is funny is that in these movies, some ubermensch usually rises to the challenge of defeating evil, often at great personal cost to life and limb. Then humanity has this collective epiphany about why robots/neural networks are dangerous and vows never to go down that road again\u2026until the sequel!\nLove that clip J! I\u2019ve got Old Glory Insurance\u2026do you?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 7097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mellorarchaeology.org.uk/mellor-mill-1792-1892/bobs-mill-diary/bobs-diary-chronological.html?start=30", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:12Z", "digest": "sha1:JJWXRX5RFGN5ZQ33BDCRMUZDP5UX6FZW", "length": 4503, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mellorarchaeology.org.uk", "title": "Mellor Archaeological Trust - Chronological Order", "raw_content": "Some recent images and text from the Mellor Mill project:\nAfter much discussion, between Bob H-T and John Riley, it was worked out that the centre projection of the mill, at ground level is in fact a stable for visitors. John has produced a 3D drawing of the likely layout of the wheel pit, cellars and stable. Visitors to the mill would have arrived either on horseback or by horse drawn carriage. On arriving at the steps leading to the main entrance their transport would have been collected from them. Their horse, taken into the visitors stable, would have been groomed, fed and watered ready for the visitor leaving on their return journey.\nJohn Riley's 3D drawing of the likely layout of the wheel pit, cellars and stable.\nJohn Glithero had written: I have now had a better look at the 2009 report and here are some comments. 3.2 Worrall's Trade Directories for 1887 and 1891 show that the mill was run by John Clayton & Co Limited. I have looked at the National Archives (Kew) website (www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/) and found that a John Clayton & Co Limited was incorporated in 1875 and that 2 Board of Trade files exist. These are BT/31/2170/100118 and BT34/159/10118. I have looked at BT files for many companies and found a wealth of information.\nHowever, I have no appetite for going to Kew at the moment. Kew are able send photocopies but it might work out expensive.\nI have looked at The London Gazette on line (just Google London Gazette) and found that in 1883 the company reduced its share capital from \u00a340,000 to \u00a324,000 (solicitor Edward Kyander of Dukinfield) and again in 1889 to \u00a38,000 (Solicitor J H Garforth of Ashton). The company was wound up in 1895, S W Swire being the Chairman. I do not know the reason for reducing the capital and wonder if it was the same company.\n4.1 I have overlaid the plans of the trenches (Figures 10, 11 and 12) onto the 1898 1:2,500 OS map, but the fit is not very good at the gap between the mill and the brick extension to the east. I think that this is because I am magnifying the map well beyond its limit of accuracy and the mill is coming out a little too wide. I cannot see any dimension connecting Trench 1 to Trench 2.\n4.2.3 I do not recognise the foundation stones in Area C as engine beds. They might have been for some piece of cotton processing machinery or possibly for a hoist. We do know a hoist was fitted sometime between 1812 and 1832, and it might well have been replaced later.\nBob responded: Thank you for all that research. I feel I may have to go and stay with one of my nieces who lives in Kew just around the corner from the National Archives.\nPity about the map. We really could do with something drawn to a much larger scale. There is a glimmer of hope that the Deeds for the Oldknow Estate may well reside in the records at Worsley [Willersley- jh] Hall. It is quite likely that they will contain very detailed maps and plans. John and Ann are pursuing that lead.\nWhat appears to be a copper button (or part of a button) found yesterday between the cobbles in the day stable whilst excavating the second slurry drain.\nNote the Waterloo wheel house and the tunnel to carry the drive shaft into the mill. The tunnel lines up nicely with the right hand promontory of the mill building.\nJohn Riley had commented: Thanks for the image - I 've seen it before but not at such a good resolution- which newspaper is it from ? It's interesting to note that there is a chimney stack asymmetrically located at the junction of the central bay and linear factory block (A) - evidenced on both photographs - also a door way below the steps to the side bays (B) - I am unsure whether there was also a single stack serving the offices or whether feature C was architectural decoration to the central bay parapet.\nWhat does your red dotted line on the second picture indicate?\nThe chimneys make sense since there would at least need to be flue for the water wheel basement (viewing platform) fire and I can't imagine the central offices would be without some heat. I had noticed what seems to be a doorway under the steps up to the right promontory. We are currently working on the cellar area below that which is the mill end of the tunnel bringing the auxiliary power from the Waterloo wheel. At the moment there is no evidence of a ground level floor in that promontory and it maybe that the door under the stairs led onto a flight down into the cellar/ shaft service areas.\nTime for you to pop down and have another look!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://memegenerator.net/instance/39078831/ugly-beyonce-this-is-the-face-i-make-when-the-docs-still-see-patients-that-are-20-minutes-late", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:32Z", "digest": "sha1:MG6Y2O2SJDHCVNDBZRU4MN5UL6DSKE5Q", "length": 369, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "memegenerator.net", "title": "This is the face I make........................... when the docs still see patients that are 20 minutes late!! - Ugly Beyonce | Meme Generator", "raw_content": "This is the face I make........................... when the docs still see patients that are 20 minutes late!! - Ugly Beyonce\nberyernce\n99 problems and...\nok, 100 problems\nwe outta popeye's?\nDuuuuuuuu...\nUrrr.\nYou don't know jon snow!\nThis is the face I make...........................\nwhen the docs still see patients that are 20 minutes late!!\nMore from Ugly Beyonce\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 5653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 146.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://memim.com/hc-'05-banska-bystrica.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:56Z", "digest": "sha1:2BIQQTNUUAUPQBY66W5P7TMGDMR5PSC6", "length": 862, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "memim.com", "title": "\ufeff HC \u201905 Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica", "raw_content": "Master of the 1st League 2006, 2008\nThe HC 05 Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica is a Slovak ice hockey club in the town of Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, which was founded in 2005 and since 2008, plays in the Slovak Extraliga. Play their home games, the club made \u200b\u200bin the arena Zimn\u00fd Banska Bystrica, which holds 3,000 spectators.\nBetween 1933 and 2005 existed in Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica an ice hockey club, the last SaHK Iskra Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica was called and played in the first second-rate league. This club was disbanded in 2005. 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Wachesaw Plantation is a little piece of paradise, nestled under centuries-old live oak trees shrouded with Spanish moss and surrounded by azalea bushes and magnolia trees. A short walk brings you to the bluff overlooking the Waccamaw River where you can watch the sun set.\nThe Wachesaw Plantation Golf Club, available to members and their guests, was chosen as the South Carolina Golf Association's \"2009 Course of the Year\" and named to Golf Week magazine's \"Top 100 Best Residential Golf Courses in America.\" Natural undulation, impeccable greens and historical markers along the fairways capture the essence of lowcountry golf at its finest.\nNearby is the popular Wacca Wache Marina, a popular stopover point for weary Intercoastal Waterway travelers as well as a place for local boaters, fishermen and hunters to launch their craft. Wacca Wache Marina is a fresh water marina, conveniently located at ICW Marker #57 on the Waccamaw River in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina, and less the one mile from the gates of Wachesaw Plantation. The Waccamaw River is one of the most scenic stretches of the Intracoastal Waterway.\nTall cypress and oak trees draped in Spanish moss and grass covered picnic areas have made the marina property a popular recreation area. In addition to full service docks, wet slips, PWC slips and dry dock storage, boaters can enjoy the comfort and convenience of the Wacca Wache Marina store and Hannah Banana\u2019s Sunshine Cabana.\nBrookgreen Gardens, a national historic landmark and the largest outdoor sculpture garden in the United States, is just minutes from Wachesaw Plantation. With more than 9,000 acres dedicated to preserving low country history and wildlife, Brookgreen Gardens has a zoo accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association in addition to the Center for American Sculpture.\nAdjacent to Brookgreen Gardens and minutes from Wachesaw Plantation, Huntington Beach Park offers the best preserved beach on the Grand Strand - three miles of uncrowded, secluded and natural beach landscape. The Park\u2019s freshwater lagoon, saltmarsh, maritime forest and beach are outstanding examples of South Carolina\u2019s natural coastal environment. These protected wetlands also provide some of the best habitat for birds that along the East Coast.\nHuntington Beach is also the site of the historic \u201cAtalaya\u201d castle. The former winter home and studio of noted American sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington, and her husband, Archer Milton Huntington, Atalaya is also listed as a National Historic Landmark.\nWhy work with a RE/MAX Southern Shores' Real Estate agent?\nRE/MAX Southern Shores sells more real estate on the Grand Strand than any other agency. Because our expert agents know the Wachesaw Plantation market, they can help you to find the perfect low country home where natural light floods into bright and airy floor plans. These are custom homes with first floor living, split bedroom plans, ample storage and shelving as well as estate-sized saltboxes and two stories. There are properties in Wachesaw Plantation that are perfect for a primary residence or for long or short term rental/investment property.\nRE/MAX Southern Shores can help you to find a buildable lot, a newly constructed home or a resale. Wachesaw Plantation is filled with towering pines where homes are adjacent to a lake, a golf course, a pond, or a serene wooded setting. Traditional low country designs, true southern plantation style homes with columns and wide porches, as well as contemporary homes are found throughout Wachesaw Plantation. Call RE/MAX Southern Shores at 843-839-0200 today to talk with an agent about Wachesaw Plantation properties!\nSearch Wachesaw Plantation Homes for Sale\nToday's Market Trends for Wachesaw Plantation *\nWachesaw Plantation Listings Search\nWachesaw Plantation New Listings (49)\nWachesaw Plantation Foreclosure Listings (1)\nWachesaw Plantation Short Sale Listings (1)\nWachesaw Plantation Single Family Homes for Sale (356)\nWachesaw Plantation Condos & Townhomes for Sale (130)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 8560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 327.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mhc.ab.ca/Employees/CITE/Geekapalooza", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:SVJZ6JL5AGKMRGJSIH3PUSJJGJ6AG4BH", "length": 507, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mhc.ab.ca", "title": "Geekapalooza", "raw_content": "Geekapalooza is an annual event held the day after College Day when the majority of faculty are back for the Fall Semester. It is a day of technology show and tell by some of the college\u2019s biggest geeks.\nThe goal for Geekapalooza is to inform, inspire, and engage participants on the use of technology in education by sharing the types of technology tools or techniques that are effectively being used by faculty and staff at Medicine Hat College so that others may learn and benefit from these experiences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 196.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mhwmagazine.co.uk/albert-heijn-and-norbert-dentressangle-shorten-fresh-supply-chain.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:06Z", "digest": "sha1:54ECXH5K323Y2ENWZ62CCSUKP6MQXEI5", "length": 3246, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mhwmagazine.co.uk", "title": "Albert Heijn and Norbert Dentressangle shorten fresh supply chain - MHW Magazine", "raw_content": "Home / Warehouse / Albert Heijn and Norbert Dentressangle shorten fresh supply chain\nAlbert Heijn and Norbert Dentressangle shorten fresh supply chain\nMHWmagazine April 10, 2014\tWarehouse\nAlbert Heijn and Norbert Dentressangle have signed a memorandum of understanding for a new fresh centre. They have thus established a long-term partnership to realise a major Shared Fresh Centre (SFC) that will service more than 900 Albert Heijn stores. This new joint SFC for suppliers and Albert Heijn will be managed by Norbert Dentressangle. Its realisation will ensure that a large volume of fresh products will find their way to shelves more rapidly and efficiently. The SFC will be centrally located in Nieuwegein and is expected to become operational in Q2 2015.\nLast year, Albert Heijn announced its intention to speed up the supply chain for a large number of fresh products, including deli products, cheese, salads, meat, fish, convenience meals, fresh juices and pastries. Recent years have seen the number of Albert Heijn stores grow together with the number of fresh products they stock. In light of this development, the fresh supply chain needs to be optimised in order to create opportunities for future growth, and to have these products reach the stores in an even fresher state. For this reason, Albert Heijn decided last year to start working with Shared Fresh Centers (SFCs)., to which suppliers can transport their products directly after production. This will reduce the number of stock points and transportation, and make it possible to deliver fresh products to stores sooner. In addition, stores will receive these products grouped according to category, making it easier for employees to stock shelves. Fast running fresh products, such as fruit and vegetables, have not been included in this project as their distribution processes have already been optimised.\nIn due course, the new SFCs will replace the current National Fresh Centres in Nieuwegein and Utrecht. Albert Heijn\u2019s employees at the National Fresh Centres have been promised job security and a social plan has been agreed with the unions\nNorbert Dentressangle is a specialist in the field of logistics services and is well known to Albert Heijn, having operated the retailer\u2019s warehouses for frozen and non-food products for many years now. Norbert Dentressangle considers retail logistics as one of its core activities and its operations include more than 80 temperature-controlled distribution centres throughout Europe.\n\"The fresh products department is the pride of our stores,\" says Sander van der Laan, CEO of Albert Heijn. \"We are pleased to be working with a very experienced logistics service provider. This collaboration will enable us to offer our customers even fresher products in our stores.\"\nCEO of Norbert Dentressangle, Herv\u00e9 Montjotin, comments, \"We are delighted that Albert Heijn has selected us as its fresh logistics partner for the SFC in Nieuwegein. It shows confidence in our strong expertise in both the retail industry sector and temperature-controlled logistics. This agreement is fully in line with our ambition to become a leading supply chain management partner that is able to collaborate with clients on their strategic development.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 318, "original_length": 15189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://michellenickolaisen.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HOQMT7KOUFFOKRSSTXW2UBK2XRSGAJFT", "length": 2583, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "michellenickolaisen.com", "title": "Michelle Nickolaisen \u2013 collected works & writing", "raw_content": "In case you don\u2019t know me, I\u2019m a writer/artist/general creative-about-town with a penchant for picking up more side projects than I can put down. A lot of my time is spent freelancing or writing about freelancing, but my list of other projects is long enough that I thought it best to have them all in one spot. Below, you\u2019ll find information on current art & merch availability, podcasts, fiction writing, and more, and on the \u201cwriting\u201d page, you\u2019ll find essays and short stories that didn\u2019t quite fit in any of my other writing venues.\nThe recurring theme throughout all of these projects is people who are often left on the fringes of society trying to find their place in it. I want to create things that actually reflect the worlds and experiences of me and my friends. If you like sass, action, magic in unexpected places, and a little bit of angst, you\u2019ll fit right in.\nYou might know me from:\nUnplaced is a podcast about a woman who wakes up one day to realize she\u2019s invisible and everyone she knows is slowly forgetting about her. Season one is now complete \u2014 it\u2019s a great time to catch up before season two starts!\nThe Worldslip Trilogy\nWhat would happen if the world of fantasy and folklore collided with our own?\nThe Worldslip series asks that question. The first book, Keys and Needles, follows Tania \u2013 one of the Marked, a much-maligned group with supernatural powers in this alternate world \u2013 as she investigates the mysterious disappearances of children and finds herself drawn into a much bigger conflict than she\u2019d ever anticipated. Available in paperback as well as on Kindle, iTunes, and Audible.\n(Book two is in the works, so stay tuned!)\nUpcoming creative projects\nComing along in varying stages of progress are\u2026\nAn urban fantasy Powered by the Apocalypse hack\nA serialized fiction audio drama following the adventures of a queer time-traveling heist crew\nA sequel series to the Worldslip trilogy set in the same universe, following a scrappy supernaturally-inclined PI\nMultiple short stories\nA choose-your-own-adventure text-based mobile game\nOther places you may have seen me or my work include:\nThe Freelancer Planner (productivity tools for freelancers, originally funded via a successful Kickstarter)\nPortfolio (freelance B2B writing, content marketing, and content strategy)\nBombchelle blog (mostly freelancing/productivity focused writing)\nMedium (mix of biz-focused & personal/opinion essays)\nWant to support these projects? There\u2019s a Patreon for that:\nBy becoming a patron, you can get perks like:\nHead here to become a patron and get all of the above!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mifa.eu/en/specifications/alloys", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:35Z", "digest": "sha1:BWZH2FRDRDUHMLLLDCVVOI7MBXEK3O2D", "length": 299, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mifa.eu", "title": "Alloys - Mifa extrusion", "raw_content": "Choosing the correct aluminium or magnesium alloy is of major importance for an optimum end result. Mifa has the expertise and experience to ensure that the correct alloy is selected for each product.\nMifa extrudes the following aluminium and magnesium alloys. Other alloys are available on request.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 3894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mikefrandsen.org/2010/06/04/family-coat-of-arms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:7UW7JLIET5INWZIHOUNF3SGDUWEF6XMK", "length": 856, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mikefrandsen.org", "title": "Family Coat of Arms | Mike's Blog", "raw_content": "\u00ab Congress: CDC misled public about Washington, D.C. lead in water crisis, lead was toxic for some\nKids Enjoy Exercise Now (KEEN) holds annual sports festival for D.C. area kids with disabilities \u00bb\nI decided to make a family coat of arms for me and my future family. The words mean virtue, diligence, honor, and faithfulness. I was inspired to do it after I was stabbed in the back last fall. I\u2019ll never forget that and will always use the events to motivate me. It reminds me how I should live my life, even though I was already living it that way. Consider it like a rededication.\nTags: Frandsen family coat of arms, Mike\nThis entry was posted on June 4, 2010 at 3:40 am and is filed under Autism, Disabilities.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mikekernfiction.com/2012/08/15/icarus-april-17th-2099/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLOBFNMHBV734VP2VJ3EBNKNLYX2ANQM", "length": 2060, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mikekernfiction.com", "title": "Icarus \u2013 April 17th, 2099 | Mike Kern, Author of Science Fiction and Fantasy", "raw_content": "Anne is dead but we don\u2019t know how long she\u2019ll stay dead. I don\u2019t know what to say, I can\u2019t think straight. Nothing I write will make this whole thing make sense. She just went crazy and attacked her, biting and clawing at her.\nAfter, we watched the whole thing on the cameras. When it happened, Anne was just there with Kira\u2019s body in Medical, talking to her like she was still alive. I felt for her, it was the saddest thing I\u2019ve seen in a while.\nWhen it happened, there was no warning. Kira\u2019s body jerked and suddenly she was up and screaming, biting at Anne\u2019s face and shoulders, her fingers flailing, tearing. The worst of it was the blood, but it wasn\u2019t Anne\u2019s. It came from Kira\u2019s mouth or eyes, we couldn\u2019t tell.\nEvan and Jennie both went in when they heard the Anne\u2019s screams. They couldn\u2019t have known what they were walking into. They managed to get Kira away from her but she turned on them too. Jennie has a good gash on her cheek and Evan was bitten so bad we almost lost him right then. Kate shot her, right in the head.\nI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m writing this, but she didn\u2019t die. We thought it was over, the damn flechettes took half her face off. They\u2019re wood, made to splinter against the Icarus\u2019s hull rather than punch a whole through, but at that range it should have killed her. It didn\u2019t and Kate just managed to pull Evan and Jennie out before she was up and screaming again. Kate locked and sealed Medical from the outside and we set up the same thing we\u2019d done with Kate\u2019s room. She\u2019s still in there, banging on the door and wailing like a damn banshee. I can\u2019t shut it out.\nJennie and Evan are in Quarantine and Alex is doing what he can for them but Kira and Anne were the medical people. They\u2019re both restrained too, in case what happened to Kira happens to them.\nWe need to get out of here.\nThis entry was posted in Icarus, Original Fiction, Science Fiction and tagged Anne, blog fiction, blood, Horror, Icarus, Kira, Mike Kern, Science Fiction, SciFi, screaming, space, suspense, undead, William Shriver, zombie. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://minecraftcreepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Lion%27s_Den", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VU775KA3QMMRUE3BHT4ZGJOCAWMF7K35", "length": 5992, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "minecraftcreepypasta.fandom.com", "title": "Lion's Den | Minecraft CreepyPasta Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Dramapasta, Long Pastas, Creepypasta,\nI lied when I said that I had no more experiences with the Raiders.\nVersion ___:\nA while after the Timeline incident, I made a new world called \u201cStronghold,\u201d my goal being to create an adventure map of a fortress the player would have to escape to be able to make it to the main world, where more structures and challenges would be found. I was about a fourth of the way through of building the main Fortress, when I heard a war horn, out in the distance. I merely shrugged and continued on building. I made it about half way through when I had to save and quit to go to my aunt\u2019s birthday party, but when I returned \u201cStronghold\u201d was renamed \u201cLeo\u2019s Stronghold,\u201d and I knew no one named Leo. The world was in adventure mode with no cheats, so out of curiosity I went in. Nothing had been destroyed, but there was a time machine set to The Update That Never Came. Thinking that answers might be found, I went through.\nThe Update That Never Came:\nI spawned in the middle of a labyrinth, the walls made of obsidian and the floors of bedrock, I could not see how large it was. A mob came round one of the corners, flanked by two Steves? armed with bows. I presumed they were Raiders, and typed in chat, \u201cWhat do you want?\u201d I heard a voice, deep and powerful, reply, \u201cEscape.\u201d They disappeared, so I chose a direction and went off. It went well at first, until I found a dead Alex?, bleeding and rotten, being ripped apart by crows. I took this as a warning and went in the opposite direction. I eventually managed to find a sign saying, \u201cAlmost there.\u201d I ran off in the direction an arrow on the sign pointed too, when I heard a keening, soft and slow at first, but it soon rose in volume and tempo, till it was the loudest thing I have ever heard! It was a dreadful noise, so dreadful, I turned off my speakers, yet it continued, on and on and on and on. A murder of crows and a flock of ravens soon joined, turning an annoyance into torture, and I turned and twisted through the twists and turns, never finding a way out. I grew insane, so much that I yanked the power cord out, but instead of the computer turning off, everything in the house but the computer turned off. I found a room filled with lava and a parkour challenge, but I just threw myself in, to end it all!\nInfdev:\nI respawned in an odd biome, and thankfully the keening had stopped. There was no tall grass, and a brick pyramid. I walked to the pyramid and climbed up it to get a better view, but there was nothing interesting in sight. I was unsure what to do so I gathered some materials and made a pick and dug through the pyramid (I was now on survival). Oddly, I fell into a room, even though I'm sure brick pyramids have nothing but bricks inside them. It was empty except for an End Portal, so I thought, \u201cWhy not,\u201d and jumped in.\nThe portal lead me to the Sky dimension, which confused me. I walked around for a while until I found a tower made of gold and diamonds. I mined it all with my pick and went on my way. I was starting to get bored, until a message appeared in chat, \u201cLet the hunt begin.\u201d An Alex? came out of hiding from behind a tree and drew its stone sword. I readied my pick, deciding not to go down without a fight. It circled me, slowly drawing closer, and closer, and closer. It lunged, and I barely dodged, and I managed to get a couple of hits on its back before climbing a tree. It looked at me with cold, unforgiving eyes, and walked away. I waited a couple of minutes before jumping down and heading in the opposite direction. I came across a Steve? killing a sheep, and I hid between some rocks and watched. It killed the sheep, and instead of the body despawning like normal, the body remained and started bleeding. The Steve? bent over and began to eat the sheep, and more Steves? soon joined. I sat in horror as the Steves? ripped the sheep apart, eating everything, the intestines, the brain, and the heart, like lions at a kill. A group of Alexs? appeared and ambushed the Steves?, but the Steves? held them off, but there was only one Steve? left. It finished its meal, turned around, looked me straight in the eyes, and charged. I ran as fast as I could, but I didn\u2019t make it. It killed me, took my diamonds and gold, and ran off.\nI respawned in a bedrock cave, with one light shining through, and I heard chanting and screaming, for blood and death. My inventory was cleared except for an iron sword and some steak. Three lions (from UTNC) appeared from the dark and crawled slowly towards me. The light shining through disappeared and the lions prepared to pounce. I drew my sword, and I did not want to die and respawn in some other horrible spectacle, so I lunged first. It was a long, bloody fight, and I killed two lions, but the third one snuck up on me and brutally ripped me to shreds.\nI respawned in a mega taiga, and it was night, and I was not sure what to do, so I dug a hole and waited till morning. When I came out there were three signs and three buttons. The first sign said, \u201cCoward,\u201d the next said, \u201cFool,\u201d and the last said \u201cSlave.\u201d The buttons were under each sign, and I realized it was a test to see which one I thought I was. I considered the events that have happened, and came to a conclusion. I realized what I really was to the Raiders, and chose, \u201cSlave.\u201d\nVersion ____:\nI respawned back into my original world, with the fortress and whatnot. I was in creative so I continued to build the Fortress till I glanced at my watch and saw it was 3:42 AM. I went to bed, and when I woke up, all signs of the Raiders were gone, and an update came out, removing the time machine.\nI have come to the conclusion that the only power that things like Herobrine, the Raiders, or .null have is the power we give them. Notch may have been being sarcastic when he posted that the only way to defeat them was to ignore them, but maybe he was right\u2026\u2026\u2026..\nRetrieved from \"https://minecraftcreepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Lion%27s_Den?oldid=245615\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 7549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/05/22/crashed-ice-brought-in-extra-20m-to-st-paul-officials-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VOHF6DH3X7BEBE7X3J6H6HZJ5T45NERP", "length": 1055, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "minnesota.cbslocal.com", "title": "\u2018Crashed Ice\u2019 Brought In Extra $20M To St. Paul, Officials Report \u2013 WCCO | CBS Minnesota", "raw_content": "\u2018Crashed Ice\u2019 Brought In Extra $20M To St. Paul, Officials Report\nFiled Under:Crashed Ice, Hockey, Minnesota, Race, Red Bull, Red Bull's Crashed Ice, Revenue, Sales Tax, St. Paul\nST. PAUL (WCCO) \u2014 Red Bull\u2019s Crashed Ice contributed to an additional $20 million spent in Minnesota\u2019s capitol this past January, according to City officials.\nSt. Paul\u2019s Director of the Office of Financial Services Todd Hurley reports that the year over year sales tax collection for St. Paul was $1.5 million for January 2011 and $1.6 million for January 2012. It takes $20 million to account for a $100,000 increase with the half cent sales tax.\n\u201cRed Bull has been a great partner for the City of Saint Paul and this analysis proves without a doubt the positive impact Crashed Ice had in our community,\u201d Mayor Chris Coleman said. \u201cSaint Paul is a world-class city that attracts world-class events, and events like Red Bull Crashed Ice provide great strength for our local economy.\u201d\nThe Crashed Ice event was held January 12 through January 14 near the Cathedral of St. Paul.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 9247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mlbforlife.com/2013/07/01/nonprofits-unite-to-make-italian-heritage-day-at-angel-stadium-a-success-on-september-22-2013/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SYRZ4273LPDMTAHSKDGDYUA7PUCV3JH7", "length": 4515, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "mlbforlife.com", "title": "Nonprofits unite to make Italian Heritage Day at Angel Stadium a success on September 22, 2013 \u2013 mlbblogger", "raw_content": "Nonprofits unite to make Italian Heritage Day at Angel Stadium a success on September 22, 2013\nJuly 1, 2013 November 13, 2013 Roberto Angotti\n2013 is the Year of Italian Culture in the United States. September brings two very important events to Orange County. For those who love to indulge in a good book, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Heritage Archive at Chapman University in Orange welcome Italian best-selling author Gianrico Carofiglio on campus to present the English version of his most recent novel The Silence of the Wave. As an anti-Mafia prosecutor in the port of Bari on the coast of Puglia, Carofiglio has been involved with trials concerning corruption, organized crime and human trafficking. Having sold over 2.5 million books, the politically-charged writer has been an influential member of the Italian Senate for many years. Italian American MLB manager Mike Scioscia has been lobbying for another Angels postseason berth for just as long. We will cheer him on as well as fellow Italian American catcher Chris Iannetta on Sunday, September 22nd at Angel Stadium in honor of Italian Heritage Day.\nCome join the fun at Angels Italian Heritage Day on Sunday, September 22nd.\nThe Order Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) is the largest and oldest national organization for men and women of Italian heritage in the United States. The Orange County OSIA Lodges graciously commend our efforts to bring Italian Heritage Day to Angel Stadium for the first time since the Anaheim landmark was resurrected in 1962. With a common goal to make this family event an annual celebration of everything Italian, the Sons of Italy have been instrumental in preserving our cultural heritage in Orange County. We salute OSIA for supporting our mission in reaching both young and old Italians through Major League Baseball for some great fun at Angel Stadium.\nBollettino is the official newsletter\nof the Italian Catholic Federation.\nThe Italian Catholic Federation (ICF) is a family-oriented, nonprofit fraternal organization dedicated to promoting activities that build faith and family spirit and bring men, women and children of all ages together. ICF members enthusiastically embrace the concept of of a long overdue Italian Heritage Day at Angel Stadium and welcome the opportunity to expand its member-ship through fellowship with Italians and Catholics in Orange County. Another proud supporter of Angels Italian Heritage Day is Lex Romana (the Italian American Lawyers of Orange County). Taking pride in being the premier Orange County Bar Association affiliate that places equal emphasis on the importance of legal, cultural, epicurean and fermented contributions Italians have made to our society, Lex Romana sponsors many special events and hosts a renowned speaker series. Membership to Lex Romana is open to non-Italians and non-lawyers alike who share the group\u2019s passion for Italy.\nThank you Orange County Italians for your support!\nWith the National Italian American Federation (NIAF) working closely with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make 2013 the Year of Italian Culture in the United States, we are proud to present and celebrate Italian Heritage Day in Anaheim.\nFIBS, Italian Baseball League, Italian Coaches Convention, Italian Heritage, Major League Baseball, MLB Italian Baseball Academy, Team ItaliaAngels Italian Heritage Day, Bollettino, Federazione Italiana Baseball Softball, FIBS, Gianrico Carofiglio, Italian Catholic Federation, Italian Cultural Institute, Italian Heritage Archive at Chapman University, Italian Heritage Day, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lex Romana, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Major League Baseball, MLB, National Italian American Federation, Order Sons of Italy in America, Seattle Mariners, Team Italia, the Italian American Lawyers of Orange County, The Silence of the Wave\nPrevious Article Angels and Mariners game ticket sales help bring Italian Americans at Bat to Orange County in 2014\nNext Article Buon Compleanno to Team Italia\u2019s Chris Denorfia!\n3 thoughts on \u201cNonprofits unite to make Italian Heritage Day at Angel Stadium a success on September 22, 2013\u201d\nMark Gebhardt July 1, 2013 / 4:35 am\nCan I sit next to the young lady in the picture?\nJanet DeMay July 2, 2013 / 12:52 pm\nCasa Italiana Opera Company a CA non-profit will be happy to join you for this wonderful Italian Heritage Day.\nSports betting October 8, 2013 / 1:11 am\nMama mia!!! 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And most times I\u2019ve had an infant in my arms.\nThe weather can be a bit unpredictable, and oftentimes we plan ahead, but rain will come and go.\nSo, what is there to during those 10-15 minute rainstorms here in South Florida? Here\u2019s a list of 10 things you can try:\n1. Catch up on social media gossip. There\u2019s always someone posting about something that might catch your interest.\n2. Read the latest post from a friend\u2019s blog. This is one of my favorite things to do since there are times I forget to keep up with fellow bloggers. So sorry!\n3. Call a family member or a friend. Although texting has practically replaced picking up a phone and dialing in, there\u2019s nothing more rewarding than hearing someone on the other end. It can really brighten up your day \ud83d\ude09\n4. Plan ahead. Now that you have time to just think, it\u2019s probably one of the best things to do. Brainstorm what you\u2019d like to do as soon as the clouds clear up.\n5. Answer that email/text you\u2019ve been putting off. Whether it\u2019s intentionally or not, sometimes we\u2019ll read someone\u2019s message and plan to respond at a later time. More so if you\u2019ve been driving, doing errands all morning, etc.\n6. Look up recipes for the week. If you\u2019re headed to the store to pick up some groceries and caught in the rain, then I suggest thinking about meals for the week. This way you not only shop for what you need at the moment but can minimize trips to the store throughout the week.\n7. Check your voicemails. I never really do this until I see a number I don\u2019t know, but it\u2019s good manners to check your voicemails every so often. Even if all you do is delete them. At least you\u2019re making room for important ones.\n8. Hydrate. If you carry water with you whenever you go out, then it might do your body some good to just sit back and sip away.\n9. Discuss the colors you see with your little one. If you\u2019re traveling with your child, then it might be a good idea to keep them entertained too. Try chatting them up about the different colors and things you see.\n10. Embrace the scenery. Sometimes we forget how beautiful nature can be or even the silly things people do when they think no one is watching them. Take this time in your car to just take it all in.\nHow do you keep yourself busy while the clouds pass?\nCongrats On Your Newborn -- Don't Forget About Your Toddler!\nWorkingMomMagic\nI love this post! Us Florida gals know what it is like to get stuck a storm that will pass in 3 minutes!! 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If I can impact one student each year on the\n\ufeff My Dear Fellow Humans, I consider going on March of the Living a privilege accorded to me not only by the MOTL organization but by providence itself. Standing beside the cattle car in Auschwitz in 1998, where I arrived in May 1944 as a 14 year old decades ago,\nOn Monday evening, January 29, the Permanent Mission of Israel to the United Nations hosted a special ceremony to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day and honor the International March of the Living for 30 years of outstanding Holocaust education programming. The event also launched the March of the Living\u2019s photo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://motls.blogspot.com/2016/12/deceptive-excuses-for-bohmian-mechanics.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VNGW3STWECNA4B7DAJKA5GBMIZNCC7KO", "length": 32348, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "motls.blogspot.com", "title": "The Reference Frame: Deceptive excuses for Bohmian mechanics", "raw_content": "In the first sentence, Bohmian mechanics is promoted as \"one interpretation that manages to skip... all the mysterious ideas\". This is, of course, rubbish. The thing that Bohmian mechanics skips is that the world is quantum mechanical, not classical. And this \"skipping\" is a fundamental and lethal flaw, not a virtue, of Bohmian mechanics because it's the quantum mechanical nature of our theories that is absolutely needed to get an agreement between the reality and the experiment. It's been needed for more than 90 years. It's a long enough period of time for people to notice.\nMoreover, while Bohmian mechanics is a classical theory, it in no way \"skips\" bizarre features. In particular, Bohmian mechanics has to introduce straight non-local influences \u2013 which are really voodoo and have been known to be prohibited by the 1905 theory of relativity. Also, it contains new classical waves that spread and their number and dilution is constantly getting out of control. A \"janitor\" that would clean all this mess \u2013 the spreading omnipresent wave functions that are no longer needed for any predictions and won't be observed \u2013 would be badly needed.\nBut no one has provided Bohmian mechanics with a well-defined janitor of this kind. So while these critics of quantum mechanics (=Copenhagen interpretation) identify the measurement as their pet \"problem\", Bohmian mechanics doesn't say and really cannot say anything coherent about the measurement at all. Instead, Bohmian mechanics only proposes a different story for the phase of the unitary evolution in between two measurements \u2013 something that is considered OK in quantum mechanics, even by the critics of quantum mechanics. During the measurement, the pilot wave should \"shrink\" to emulate the collapse in proper quantum mechanics. Proper (=Copenhagen) quantum mechanics defines very clear rules what happens during the measurement (these insights are really the bulk of quantum mechanics as a new framework of physics, not some optional makeup); while Bohmian mechanics simply doesn't have and cannot have any replacement for these rules.\nNo Bohmist has ever written down any rules that would govern how the pilot wave shrinks. Also, and it's related, none of them has ever explained how the initial state of the particle after the measurement \u2013 which has to be randomly placed within the realm of the pilot wave, to agree with the probabilistic distribution extracted from the pilot wave \u2013 is determined.\nBohmian mechanics claims to remove the need for the intrinsic randomness of Nature. However, in reality, it only rewrites the random result of the final measurement as a function of the random initial conditions \u2013 position of the Bohmian particle. To agree with the observations, the initial position has to be random, anyway, and no one knows how this random number is prepared. It means that Bohmian mechanics doesn't actually say anything new, original, or coherent about the ultimate origin of the random numbers that we measure at the end.\nBohmian mechanics violates locality \u2013 as required by relativity. It has no explanation for the linearity of the equation that governs the evolution of the wave function (rebranded as the pilot wave). Any completion of it that also takes care of the measurements etc. will unavoidably disagree with the low heat capacity of the atoms. Also, Bohmian mechanics implies a frantic \u2013 and experimentally unjustified \u2013 very fast motion of particles around places with \\(\\psi=0\\) which are needed to repel the particle from the interference minima. Bohmian mechanics isn't consistent with the spin, particle production, and other intrinsically relativistic quantum phenomena. And it has many other serious flaws that have been discussed in numerous previous blog posts on Bohmian mechanics.\nAnd yes, the very claim that quantum mechanics (like understood in Copenhagen etc.) is \"near mystical\" or \"wildly extravagant\" is just a widespread laymen's delusion. Laymen may have trouble to understand modern physics but that doesn't make modern physics extravagant or similar to mystical cults.\nAnd despite its alluringly intuitive nature, for some reason, it remains a fringe theory.\nThis meme is repeated about 10 times in the video. It's clearly being hoped that a lie repeated many times becomes the truth. Bohmian mechanics is mainly \"alluringly intuitive\" for the laymen \u2013 and de facto laymen \u2013 who just aren't capable of learning a framework of physics that goes beyond classical physics. My point is that the term \"alluringly intuitive\" is absolutely subjective and the people who assign this adjective to Bohmian mechanics suck as physicists.\nThe adjective is in no way an objective appraisal of any features of Bohmian mechanics. It is a subjective feeling, and one as perceived by the intellectually inadequate people.\nAlso, Bohmian mechanics doesn't remain a fringe theory just for \"some\" reason; the vagueness about the hypothetical \"some\" reason makes the viewers think about some evil conspiracy. Bohmian mechanics remains a fringe theory for a very important, totally well-known, and completely standard reason: It just doesn't agree with the empirically discovered properties of Nature. The laws of relativity that imply locality are a principle that has been experimentally verified and very accurately verified. A theory that prohibits locality is in existential trouble, to put it euphemistically. A theory that doesn't predict the spin has a problem. And so on. If I use a slightly non-technical language that is free of equations, Bohmian theory remains a fringe theory simply because it's a pile of \u0161it. To claim otherwise \u2013 e.g. to claim that Bohmian mechanics is being suppressed by the brute force of some evil, white, male, pro-capitalist or bigoted physicists \u2013 means to deceive the audiences.\nYou may see that Mr Matt is literally trying to brainwash the listeners and make them suspicious about the physicists, starting from Heisenberg and Bohr, who must surely have \"some\" (dirty) reasons for their conclusions. This is not how popularization of science works. You're not really trying to make science popular, Mr Matt. You're trying to make science unpopular, disliked, and make it (and its heroes) look suspicious by repeating your pseudoscientific populist clich\u00e9s.\nProper popularization of science tries to communicate the insights made by science and by scientists to broader audiences. What (not only) PBS Spacetime is doing in these videos about (or against) quantum mechanics is exactly the opposite thing. It wants to intimidate the scientists and push them in a direction that would be favored by the laymen. This behavior is immensely counterproductive. Science proceeds by careful calculations, argumentations, and especially comparisons of the empirical data with proposed hypotheses. It doesn't work by imposing prejudices of large bodies of people on everyone else. If you don't get this point, you are misunderstanding something much more fundamental about all of science than just a technicality about a particular physics experiment.\nMisinterpretations of the ideas of quantum mechanics has spawned some of the worst quackery pseudoscience hoo-ha and unfounded mystical storytelling of any scientific theory.\nRight. But what Mr Matt forgot to say is that Bohmian mechanics is pretty much exactly the same kind of bad quackery pseudoscience hoo-ha as other stories that try to deny or misinterpret the very basic principles discovered during the quantum revolution. I think that Mr Matt is an atheist fundamentalist of a sort so he thinks that a quackery attempting to confine physics in the era of classical physics is better than more idealist types of quackeries. But it's not better.\nMr Matt says a few sentences trying to make proper quantum mechanics look \"weird\". But again, it's not weird and if it looks weird to you even after years of thinking about them, it's because you're stupid, not because there's something \"weird\" about quantum mechanics.\nBut there is one interpretation that remains comfortably, almost stodgily, physical. Bohmian mechanics.\nAgain, this is basically a repetition of the lie I've discussed above. You may focus on the key word in the sentence. It's the word \"physical\". Why does he say that Bohmian mechanics is more \"physical\" than proper quantum mechanics? It's simple. It's because he thinks that the word \"physical\" means what physicists actually call \"classical\". It's very clear that the actual thing he wanted to say is the sentence with the word \"classical\". Mr Matt makes this fact obvious when he says that Bohmian mechanics postulates \"a real wave and a real particle\". What he calls \"physical\" \u2013 and also what he calls \"real\" \u2013 is that the theory assumes that everything is about some observer-independent, objective values of some classical degrees of freedom.\nBut \"classical\" and \"physical\" are entirely different, inequivalent adjectives. After all, almost all of new physics has been quantum mechanical \u2013 i.e. non-classical \u2013 for over 90 years. The word \"physics\" comes from the ancient Greek \"physis\" or \"\u03c6\u03cd\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2\" which is Nature, not classical physics. Nature follows the laws of quantum mechanics. The identification of the words \"real\" and \"classical\" is also problematic. The word \"real\" is undefined but it's clearly being used because the property is assumed to be \"good\". But being \"classical\" is no good in physics. So the words can't be equivalent. You're bound to reach wrong conclusions if you treat them as equivalent.\nI think that sentences like that \u2013 and especially words like \"physical\" \u2013 are rarely being fought against but they should be confronted vigorously because these \"microagressions\" may be the main reason that keeps most laymen, even laymen who are interested in modern physics, clueless and deluded. People are being constantly told that theories of Nature should be classical by talking heads who pretty much deliberately conflate the adjective \"physical\" (and other, positively sounding adjectives such as \"real\") with the totally different adjective \"classical\". In this way, instead of being explained in what sense they need to update their reasoning if they want to understand modern physics, the laymen's incorrect prejudices that the world must be fundamentally classical are being reinforced.\nPilot wave theory is perhaps the most solidly physical, even mundane of the complete and self-consistent interpretations of quantum mechanics.\nIt's really amazing how many times these primary lies have been repeated in the video. So again: Pilot wave theory is not more \"physical\" than proper (Copenhagen) quantum mechanics. At most, it's more \"classical\". It may be \"mundane\" but the goal of physical theories isn't to be mundane. Their goal is for them to be correct \u2013 to agree with the empirical observations. \"Mundane\" and \"correct\" are completely different things. A person who tries to study and believe things that are maximally \"mundane\" is unlikely to become a good theoretical physicist.\nAs Mr Matt admits at other places, pilot wave theory is surely not \"complete\". Later in the video, he admits that it's incompatible with relativity and the corresponding phenomena in quantum field theory etc. But even independently of quantum field theory, Bohmian mechanics is obviously incomplete because it doesn't say how and why the pilot wave is \"cleaned\" after the measurement when the particle is absorbed, how the initial (random) position of the particle is determined, and so on.\nThe theory may be said to be \"self-consistent\" only to the extent to which it is incomplete. If you tried to make a Bohmian theory complete, it would unavoidably be internally inconsistent. There's simply no consistent yet complete way to describe the quantum mechanical phenomena classically \u2013 and Bohmian mechanics is nothing else than a subset of the attempts to describe quantum mechanical phenomena classically.\nBohmian mechanics is also considered the least orthodox one because orthodoxy is radicalism plus time.\nWell, it's not a goal of a physical theory to be orthodox or non-orthodox, either. Nevertheless, Bohmian mechanics is clearly the least orthodox interpretation because it seems most incompatible with the founders of quantum mechanics who actually defined the orthodoxy \u2013 and with the propositions that these physicists have made. And among the available misinterpretations of quantum mechanics, Bohmian mechanics has also attracted some of the loudest criticisms by the actual founders of the orthodoxy such as Bohr and Heisenberg. Of course, the abandonment of the classical reasoning is a fundamental part of the quantum revolution \u2013 therefore a part of the orthodoxy \u2013 so if someone tries to deny this very basic point, that we need a new theory to connect the equations with observations, he's obviously a highly non-orthodox quantum mechanics guy. He's really not a quantum mechanics guy at all. If a person were this non-orthodox relatively to religions, he would be a full-fledged heretic and would be burned at stake.\nSo the \"non-orthodox\" adjective doesn't really matter for the evaluation of the theory but the reasons why this adjective is being used are sociological, historical, and very clear.\nBohr and Heisenberg were radicals.\nThey considered themselves and they were conservative physicists and they were extending thinking in physics that has been so successful long before they started with their successful careers. Just to be sure, let me quote a sensible book about this very question (read the whole page!):\nContrary to common claims and some appearances, however, in Bohr's case (or that of Heisenberg or several others who may be invoked here, Pauli, for example), one encounters what might be called the extreme disciplinary conservatism or, extending the notion, the extreme conservatism in theoretical thinking. I mean by this an extreme reluctance to bring in a radical change, which is finally done only at points and in regions where there is really no choice, in the sense that their discipline (in either sense) in fact requires it. [...]\nIn particular, Heisenberg always thought that he learned about the need for the positivist thinking from Einstein. While finding special relativity, Einstein has warned that one must be careful to only talk about things that can be operationally defined i.e. measured, and e.g. \"the absolute time\" isn't one of those. Heisenberg only applied this insight to a broader set of observations. Only the results of observations by observers must be addressed by a theory; a theory may refuse the existence of some values of quantities before the observations \u2013 just like a relativistic theory rejects the very notion of absolute time! This positivism was already well-known in physics more than 100 years ago (it's too bad that some people still fail to get it even in 2016 but it's their fault, not because these insights would be \"radical\" or \"new\").\nOtherwise, Heisenberg kept as much as he could. His Heisenberg equations of motion (for quantum mechanics) basically coincide with Newton's equations. The difference really is that \\(xp-px\\) is no longer zero but \\(i\\hbar\\) instead (a tiny number, a tiny change, relatively to macroscopic values of quantities with the same units).\nSociologically and by self-description, the statement that Bohr and Heisenberg were \"radicals\" is just another lie. The qualitative modifications \u2013 e.g. the insight that one needs to pick an observer to apply the laws of physics \u2013 weren't chosen because Heisenberg, Bohr, Pauli, and pals were obsessed with producing as new and radical things as possible, just for fun. Instead, these insights were adopted because there was absolutely no other choice and they were remarkably able to see and understand the reasons why there was no other choice. And there is still no other choice. There will never be any other choice.\nWhen quantum mechanics was discovered in the 1920s, they were fervent about the need to reject all classical thinking in interpreting the strange results of early quantum experiments.\nNo. They found their amazing proofs that it was needed to reject the foundations of classical physics \u2013 and to construct the actual new theory, quantum mechanics, that can do much better. It was clearly one of the greatest revolutions in the history of science and they were only fervent once the proofs were settled down. A revolution was in no way their initial plan.\nThey were only as fervent as any scientist is fervent when talking about an important result that has been scientifically settled. And all competent physicists are as fervent as the founders of quantum mechanics when it comes to the need to reject all classical thinking. Who hasn't understood that to do modern physics, one must abandon classical thinking, it a crackpot \u2013 whether or not he or she has a lipstick. This fact was known already in the 1920s and it is equally known today.\nOne aspect was that the wave function was nothing physical but an abstract distribution of probabilities.\nAgain, the word \"physical\" is used instead of what he really means, \"a classical wave\". The fact that the wave function isn't a classical wave but a template for probability distributions isn't a personal opinion that may be left to the personal taste. It is one of the crucial insights that underlie quantum mechanics. A person who rejects this insight is a person who misunderstand the heart of quantum mechanics. He's clueless about everything.\nIn fact, the sentence \"the wave function is an abstract distribution of probabilities\" must be largely true even in any Bohmian mechanics approach to explain the experiments. The initial position of the Bohmian particle has to be random and has to be chosen according to the probability distribution that coincides with the initial values of the wave function (rebranded as the pilot wave). De Broglie's equations are then able to preserve this property \u2013 the Bohmian particle is distributed according to the pilot wave at later times, too \u2013 after some evolution. This preservation is really the only \"achievement\" of Bohmian mechanics. And it is not something to celebrate because we had to adjust as many things as the things that we got out. Bohmian mechanics' equations may be derived as the equations that have this property. There's no independent test of the theory with a good result. But it's still true that there has to be a mechanism that picks the particle position according to the probability distribution extracted from the wave function.\nProper quantum mechanics postulates that this selection takes place at the moment of the measurement \u2013 and the particle's position is unknown before the measurement. Bohmian mechanics tries to assume that the particle's position exists at all times. But it still needs to pick a particle position in the initial state and it must be picked by some \u2013 unspecified (because Bohmian mechanics is totally incomplete) \u2013 mechanism, according to the same logic of probability distributions as those in proper quantum mechanics. The fact that Bohmists never talk about the picking of the initial position from the distribution \u2013 because they would only have embarrassing things to say \u2013 doesn't mean that \\(|\\psi|^2\\) ceases to be a probability distribution. Everyone who \"interprets\" the objects in quantum mechanics in a viable way must agree that it is a probability distribution. Like other crucial, physically well-defined statements in physics, this statement isn't a subjective optional \"opinion\" that could depend on people's moods and culture.\nThis required an almost mystical wave-particle duality.\nThere is nothing \"mystical\" about the wave-particle duality. Mathematically, this statement boils down to rudimentary properties of the Fourier transform. Aside from the words \"almost mystical\", the word \"required\" is demagogic, too. Quantum mechanics required the wave-particle duality but it still requires and will always require the wave-particle duality. It's textbook stuff. The past tense is another deception.\nMr Matt also tries to sling mud on quantum mechanics because of its \"fundamental randomness\". But any viable theory that reproduces the quantum experiments must have some fundamental randomness simply because the random results are observed and a viable theory must be compatible with the experiments. As I mentioned, Bohmian mechanics at most needs to change the moment when the random number is generated. It must be already generated in the initial state, before the evolution. But if it would try to eliminate the fundamental randomness entirely, it would immediately contradict the experiments because the randomness of the outcomes is an experimentally proven fact.\nOK, Mr Matt said historically correctly that Louis de Broglie asked in 1927: Why not real waves pushing real particles? Well, there are very good reasons, they have been communicated to de Broglie, and he abandoned those ideas. Decades later, the stuff was reinvented by David Bohm in 1952. This historical portion of the video is decent. Well, except for claims such as \"the pilot wave is entirely deterministic\". It simply cannot be because there has to be a random generator that prepares the Bohmian particle's initial position. The random generator is just being moved to a different place, it isn't eliminated and it cannot be eliminated.\nThese days, more and more serious physicists favor Bohmian ideas.\nNo, there are no serious physicists who \"favor\" Bohmian ideas. A corrected version of the sentence above would say: There are many crackpots who are keen on Bohmian mechanics and who love to call themselves serious physicists. Note that this self-confidence is observed not only on Bohmian crackpots but on almost all crackpots.\nBohmian theory differs in \"special thinking\". Most of the arguments for or against it are about \"special thinking\". Are you more comfortable with this or that?\nThis is just an utter lie. The reasons why Bohmian mechanics isn't considered a viable theory have nothing to do with any special thinking \u2013 just with the standard comparison of predictions with the experiments. And Bohmian mechanics simply cannot correctly explain most of the observations that are being made by the physicists.\nQuite generally, unlike pop-science babblers and demagogues, physicists almost never use this kind of vague \"special thinking\". If a hypothesis is comparable with the data, it's considered as a possibility by almost all physicists who study these issues. Bohmian mechanics isn't seriously considered because it doesn't agree with the empirical facts. There's just almost no room for the vague subjective stuff referred to as the \"special thinking\" in physics. Physics \u2013 and science \u2013 simply isn't about some subjective emotional appraisals. By claiming otherwise, Mr Matt seriously distorts the very meaning and character of science in general. The \"methods\" he claims to be relevant in science \u2013 laymen's vague feelings, \"comfort\", and votes \u2013 simply have nothing whatsoever to do with the scientific method.\nWhat are the uncomfortable features of Bohmian mechanics? Mathematically, it requires an extra equation, a guiding equation governing the evolution of the particle.\nIt is not a serious problem at all for a candidate theory to have a doubled number of equations. An actual problem of this kind is that one may show that the Bohmian particle position is entirely unphysical \u2013 recall that the word \"physical\" doesn't mean \"classical\", it basically means \"observable by physical apparatuses\". So all the quantities that seem to be added \u2013 the actual Bohmian particle positions or their generalizations \u2013 seem to be metaphysical rubbish.\nBut they could still exist even if it were hard or impossible to measure them. But even with these additions, the theory just can't account for the whole processes without using another theory \u2013 most likely quantum mechanics \u2013 to do the actual heavy lifting, explain the preparation of the initial state and the measurement at the end, the form of the actual equations, linearity, and other things.\nBohmian mechanics is just a silly caricature that can't be used to make any predictions a physicist cares about independently of other theories. It is a parasitic, ideologically driven superstructure that actually needs proper mechanics to be fully used \u2013 while it wants to undermine the very foundations that allow quantum mechanics do the heavy lifting.\nMr Matt discusses Bohmian \"hidden variables\" as another problem. That's silly because the hidden variables are exactly the Bohmian particle positions so this criticism is the same as the previous one (about the extra equation). He says something about the bad rap of hidden variables in quantum mechanics. John von Neumann has proven a no-go theorem that wasn't quite right because it excluded all hidden variables, not just \"local hidden variables\".\nBut while one might criticize some technical points of von Neumann's proof, the criticism of the overall conclusions is just totally wrong. First, since 1905, we knew that \"excluding hidden variables\" and \"excluding local hidden variables\" are equivalent things if you restrict yourself to viable theories because the laws of Nature must be local. So the difference doesn't matter \u2013 we know that non-local theories are fatally ill for other, relativistic reasons.\nSecond, it is simply not true that Bell's theorem is the only theorem or the strongest theorem of a similar spirit that one may prove. Bell's theorem is just one of thousands of simple homework exercises with inequalities following from classical physics that one may explicitly solve. And this particular theorem shows that the assumption of local hidden variables has some implications for the measurements of spins' correlations. Because those inequalities are violated in Nature, Nature can't run on local hidden variables.\nBut that doesn't mean that Nature can run on non-local variables. Even if you allowed a conflict with relativity, there are other theorems \u2013 homework exercises \u2013 that similarly exclude many well-defined classes of non-local hidden variables, too. If you need a name, Leggett-style inequalities have been used to exclude classes of non-local realist theories. I don't want to emphasize this particular work because like Bell's inequality, Leggett's inequality is just another homework exercise. You can invent thousands of additional ones. Leggett's inequalities has implications that \"look\" stronger than Bell's inequalities, at least from some viewpoint.\nFounders of quantum mechanics didn't focus on silly high school setups such as one analyzed in Bell's papers. They looked at the physically important questions \u2013 how atoms, molecules, nuclei, solids work etc. And they have found a highly viable new theory along with the evidence that its basic properties are needed to agree with the experiments \u2013 no classical, hidden-variable theory (whether it's local or non-local) can do the same job.\nPeople like Matt try to present Bell's theorem as some ultimate, crowning achievement in physics that forever defines what can be excluded and what cannot. But this is totally wrong. Bell's theorem is just one particular example of a situation explicitly showing how classical physics and quantum mechanics produce seriously differing predictions. And it's really just the ancient, known-to-be-incorrect, classical side of the calculation that was carefully analyzed by Bell and where the inequality was derived. Bell's inequality doesn't say anything about theories that are correct or may be correct; it only carefully studies theories that were believed to be incorrect from the 1920s.\nIn almost all other situations, classical physics and quantum mechanics differ, too. They often differ in different ways than in Bell's theorem. The idea that you understand the bulk of quantum mechanics if you follow Bell's derivation of the inequalities is absolutely preposterous. The derivation takes place in classical physics so you obviously don't learn anything about quantum mechanics if you only study that derivation, just like you don't learn too much about electric cars by playing with the steam engine.\nExperiments indicate that some type of non-locality is real whether or not we accept pilot waves\nNo, experiments unambiguously imply that the amount of non-locality in Nature (at least in the absence of quantum gravity phenomena) is exactly zero. There is no non-locality in Nature, this fact was settled by Einstein in 1905, and everyone who claims otherwise is a crackpot or a liar or both.\nOK, bouncing droplets as a proof of Bohmism, my stomach has run out of patience. At least in the final minute, Mr Matt admitted that the pilot wave theory is \"at best incomplete\" because it doesn't account for relativity. Too bad that he has previously called it \"complete\".\nPilot wave theory hasn't gotten there (to relativity and QFT) yet. But there is good effort in that direction.\nStatements like that are absolutely fraudulent, too. In science, hypotheses are abandoned \u2013 falsified \u2013 when they contradict the empirical data. Anything that has been presented as \"Bohmian mechanics\" contradicts the relativistic, characteristically quantum-field-theory-based observations in particle physics. So Bohmian mechanics is excluded. Claims about \"directions\" are just rubbish. There is no interesting \"direction\" from death. Whoever buys promises about \"good efforts\" and \"directions\" and dilutes his totally sharp and obvious understanding of the fact that e.g. Bohmian mechanics is ruled out because it contradicts relativistic, QFT-like observations in particle physics, is a brainwashed dimwit. He is being fooled into imagining a completely different theory \u2013 a hypothetical theory in some \"direction\" or transformed by some unknown promised \"effort\" \u2013 than one that is actually being pushed down his throat.\nSorry but these are two different theories. There is one Bohmian mechanics that has been spelled out and that unequivocally contradicts relativity and is therefore excluded; and then there is a hypothetical future Bohmian (a misnomer) theory that doesn't suffer from these lethal flaws. The disadvantage of the latter theory is that it just doesn't f*cking exist. But if you don't have a problem when someone conflates these two theories, the wrong one and the non-existent one, and after hearing some totally cheap, vague, and moronic words about \"efforts\" and \"directions\", you conclude that there is a viable theory, then you have the IQ of a bumpkin (which rhymes in Czech).\nThe testing of hypotheses just isn't about promises of efforts and directions. We may only test hypotheses that have been formulated in one way or another, at least to a well-defined nonzero extent so that they imply something, and when they disagree, they're dead.\nWhen we talk about gravity, no sort of quantum mechanics has sorted it out.\nThat's a complete lie, too. If you want a totally complete and consistent, really specific, 1925-like version of a quantum mechanical theory that contains a full sector of quantum gravity with everything it needs to contain, why don't you study the BFSS Matrix theory \u2013 a light-cone gauge description of string/M-theory? Or some version of AdS/CFT? For simpler purposes, like neutrons bouncing in the Earth's gravitational field, the original Schr\u00f6dinger's equation with an extra Newton's gravitational potential term is just fine (and experimentally validated), too. And even for the broad features (and perturbative expansions) of the Hawking radiation of black holes, quantum field theory on curved spaces is enough.\nMr Matt repeats some of the misconceptions again at the end. Perhaps, some of them are said a bit more carefully but it's still terrible. There are just so many illogical, deceitful, idiotic, demagogic things in this kind of videos \u2013 and books and articles \u2013 that I am losing any optimism that more than \"thousands\" of people in the world can ever learn how the things work. If there were 3 mistakes, one could imagine that they're fixed. But the whole way of thinking about everything and anything \u2013 including the very meaning of the scientific method \u2013 that is promoted by similar videos seems to be absolute rubbish and such a starting point is probably pedagogically hopeless.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 453, "original_length": 44514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://motopangaea.com/2017/12/11/sumatra-and-the-elephants/comment-page-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:12Z", "digest": "sha1:TGMAEDXHC7N6ZCFF477AMNVU6WYJ42LN", "length": 34615, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "motopangaea.com", "title": "Sumatra and the Elephants. \u2013 MOTOPANGAEA", "raw_content": "Sumatra and the Elephants.\nSimpang Pematang, Sumatra. Monday 27th November 2017\nJava is Indonesia\u2019s most populated island, at over 141 million people. Sumatra is its largest island, more than three times the size of Java, and yet has just over one third the number of people. Having discovered this I could understand why Java was such a busy place. So as I rode off the ferry I was looking forward to calmer traffic, emptier roads and a less frenetic pace.\nHow it got there, I can\u2019t say.\nAs I rode up the hill, heading out of town, I came across a truck parked by the side of the road and people waving down the traffic. I pulled over to the right hand side, where there were several other bikes parked, and realised that yet another truck had managed to disappear down an embankment. I asked one of the guys there if the driver was OK and getting an affirmative answer I pulled out my camera and watched the fun. This truck was a 16 tonne tipper which had gone over the edge backwards. How? I can only guess that he had to stop on the hill and suffered brake failure. I\u2019m extremely glad I wasn\u2019t behind him! It took two other 16 tonne tippers to haul it back up the steep embankment then one of them towed it up to the top of the hill. It looked very sorry for itself. I must say that I saw a great deal of resourcefulness going on there, necessarily so given that a heavy duty recovery truck was unlikely to be anywhere nearby, even if one existed.\nTwo tippers rescue one.\nWith that little bit of fun over with I rode on. Most of Sumatra\u2019s beauty lies in its natural environment. Rainforest, mountains and beaches. There were Orang Utans there too, plus other wildlife. But I was short on time so had decided to ride straight up to the Lake Toba area, where could be found a beautiful lake up in the mountains. After that I hoped to get to Banda Aceh, right up at the northern tip of the island and supposedly its most beautiful area. I pushed on, enjoying the scenery and the riding, although the road was very poor in places. By contrast, many of the houses were nicely built, mostly brick, and with nice gardens around them, suggesting a degree of prosperity in this part of the island.\nI had a problem that needed solving. The bike was due a service again and I needed a bike shop at which to do it. The problem became more urgent when I realised that my clutch cable was getting slack, which I knew meant that it would break soon. This was very annoying as my spare had already fitted, at 16,000kms, and it had barely covered 9,000kms since. As I came into Simpang Pematang I spotted a bike repair shop and pulled in. I asked them if they had any clutch cables, hoping to find one to match mine, but they didn\u2019t. Instead they directed me to a spares shop just down the road, who could supply me with a universal cable, albeit light duty and designed for the small bikes they all use here. I didn\u2019t buy it immediately but went back to the bike shop. By this time a guy named Juan, who spoke good English had turned up (summoned by the bike shop I suspect) and he interpreted for me. With his help I was able to explain the need for not only a replacement clutch cable but also to change my oil. So while I did the oil change one of the lads went and got the cable, plus a spare one, and between us we fitted it on. It was just an inner cable, which slides into the original outer cable and was only about half the thickness of the old one, so I\u2019ve no idea how long it will last. But having oiled the nipple at the lever end and adjusted the position of the lever too, I\u2019m hopeful it will last a while. The cost of their work, plus parts? An amazingly cheap IRP70,000 (About \u00a34). They were delighted when I gave them 100k and said to keep the change. That price included the oil too. Fantastic.\nMy friendly, and very cheap, fixing crew.\nI found a local hotel then went out for a meal. Chicken soup this time. I was both disturbed and amused to find it contained not only the chicken\u2019s feet but also its comb. Now it may have been that I was being honoured by their inclusion, and leaving them behind could have been, for all I knew, a huge insult to the caf\u00e9 owners. But I accepted that risk and there they sat on the edge of the bowl when I\u2019d finished.\nChicken feet soup? Err, no thanks!\nAnother day\u2019s riding passed by, with more bad roads and good scenery. Many more trucks this time, and a near collision between me and one of them. This came about because of an indicator problem. In Indonesia an indicator can mean many things. Not so much the left hand one, which usually just means the vehicle is turning left or pulling over. It\u2019s the right hand one that gives the problems. It can mean: I\u2019m turning or pulling over to the right; I\u2019m about to overtake; I can\u2019t overtake right now but I\u2019m going to as soon as I can; the road ahead isn\u2019t clear so it\u2019s best if you don\u2019t overtake me; I\u2019ve forgotten to turn it off (scooters especially). I tended to ignore them because it was usually one of the latter four reasons and I was happy to make my own judgement and use my nimbleness to get past them. This time I nearly got caught out because the truck actually was pulling over to the right. Who did he think he was! But I managed to zip round the front of him anyway, so no harm done.\nBut further along it was a different matter. There is kind of hierarchical system which scooters follow, where the really slow ones keep right over to the left; the not so slow ones ride in the middle of the lane and the faster ones will ride close to the centre line. \u2018Fast\u2019 is a relative term here as everyone drives and rides quite slowly. This time I was passing some of the slower scooters when one old guy decided he wanted to go over to the opposite side of the road, and did so, right in front of me and with no indicator at all. I slammed on the brakes but I was too close to avoid him and collided with the back end of his scooter. We both tumbled to the ground, me in a gentle \u2018falling off in slow motion\u2019 kind of way; him with much more of a crash. People came rushing over and picked up both bikes. I put mine on the stand and checked to see if he was alright. It seemed he\u2019d bruised his hip and arm, but was otherwise OK. I checked my bike over and straightened out the mirror. His scooter seemed to have suffered a dent or two but it wasn\u2019t easy to spot a fresh dent among the old ones. I wasn\u2019t sure what would happen next. Would the police be called? Would I be facing a hostile crowd demanding I compensate the \u2018victim\u2019 even though it was his fault? Would I be spending the next few days in a police cell? It was none of these in the end. To the delight of the crowd I just shook the hand of the other guy, then got back on my bike and rode off, breathing a sigh of relief that my first collision on the whole of the journey so far hadn\u2019t been worse.\nBricks drying.\nBricks in storage.\nA local industry of brick making seems to explain these stored piles of bricks.\nI had another interesting event in the hotel that evening. The room rate was IRP100k, which I duly handed over, along with my passport so the young receptionist could copy it. I went to the room and a while later she came back with my passport and some English words, written on a piece of paper so she could quote them to me. It said that I had to pay another 100k \u2018for the police\u2019. Straight away I smelled a scam so I just said no. She went away and came back with another guy, probably the manager, who repeated the same thing, saying they get fined by the police for having foreign tourists. Now I knew that was ridiculous, so I point blank refused and went out for something to eat.\nAbout ten minutes after I came back there was a knock at the door and standing there were two smartly dressed policemen, along with the manager. One of them spoke good English and asked me where I was from and going to. I explained and he asked me if everything was OK. I said that it was, that I had a nice room and all was well. He shook my hand and told me to contact them if I had any problems, and then they left. No mention of money, tourist tax or anything of that nature. But what puzzled me was why the manager thought the police would back him up in his demand for extra money, or perhaps he just thought I\u2019d be frightened into paying the extra anyway. Maybe they do work together sometimes in this way. It was the first time anything like that had happened, anywhere on the journey. I woke up with a dickey tummy so decided to stay another night. The reception girls seemed very pleased at this, although it\u2019s hard to figure out why, and there were no repeats of yesterday\u2019s scam attempt.\nWhenever it rained I was tempted to do this.\nVery much on my mind as I continued along the island was how to get across from there to Malaysia. The certain option was to put my bike on a boat, known as the Onion Boat, which did a regular run from Belawan, near to Medan, Sumatra\u2019s main city, across to Penang. The less certain method was to see if I could get my bike onto a passenger ferry. There are no RoRo ferries between Indonesia and Malaysia, despite their proximity to each other. I\u2019d heard of people being able persuade ferry crews to allow their bike on to the passenger deck, after the correct amount of money had changed hands. One such ferry ran from Dumai across to Melaka so I diverted there to see what could be done. The security guys at the port were sympathetic to my mission and one of them led me to the ferry ticket office, where the answer was a very firm NO. Back at the port one of the harbour staff said I would need to talk to the harbour master so he led me to the office. He was very helpful and rang up the manager at the ticket office. This seemed very encouraging but unfortunately it was still NO. He even rang up a local boat owner for me, but he couldn\u2019t help. So it looked like it was to be the Onion Boat after all.\nOften seen outside mosques. A colourful celebration.\nDuring the few days I\u2019d been riding in Sumatra I\u2019d realised that the drivers and riders here operated on a level of aggression that I hadn\u2019t come across on the other islands. The car, truck and bus drivers seemed to be homicidal while the scooter riders seemed to be both suicidal and carelessly oblivious of the effect of their actions. Meanwhile I\u2019d morphed from a take it easy, go with the flow rider into Mr Angry. I found myself yelling and cursing at other road users, a pointless exercise as they couldn\u2019t hear me anyway. I\u2019d twice been run into the dirt by oncoming vehicles overtaking, one of them a bus which pulled out to overtake in full sight of me. Scooter riders were no better. When in traffic they\u2019d just pull across in front of me or shove their front wheel into the tiny space I\u2019d left in front of my bike when queuing in traffic. Cars tended to hang out behind the trucks, blocking my view of oncoming traffic and preventing me from overtaking, even though they couldn\u2019t overtake either. I was starting to get very frustrated and I had to force myself to sit back a bit and take it easy. Eventually I managed to find an alternative route, away from the main road, taking me up into the mountains towards Lake Toba. The map suggested it was quieter back route in, and so it proved.\nOne thing I\u2019d noticed in Sumatra, although I\u2019d also seen it elsewhere, were the number of new mosques being built and, along with that, the constant presence of collection points outside of them. I\u2019d ride into a village or town and it wouldn\u2019t be long before I\u2019d see some traffic cones or oil drums along the centre line, with rope strung between them and people sitting in the middle of the road holding shrimp nets on poles, for passing drivers to throw money into. These people would always be wrapped up against the sun and the traffic fumes, reminding of me of the invisible man, with his hat and bandages. I felt sorry for them as they sat there, hoping to get funds for the partially built mosque that was invariably just behind them. I couldn\u2019t help wondering how long it took to collect enough money to get them finished. There seemed to be plenty of opportunities to donate, for those who were minded to.\nCollect the money, build the mosque.\nTalking of roads, I was fascinated by how each island seemed to have its own variant on cheap passenger transport. The micro buses were pretty ubiquitous but mixed in with them was always a variety of three wheeled transport. Or, on some of the islands further east, four legged in the shape of pony carts. Tri-cars were common, pedal or engine powered, and some of those had clearly been around long enough to have worn out their original engine, which was usually replaced with a Honda generator engine. It would be connected to the wheel by a very Heath Robinson design of belts and pulleys, converting stationary power into motive power, as in the example below. They would chunter along the streets, getting in everybody\u2019s way because they moved so slowly. Another one of Indonesia\u2019s traffic frustrations.\nIn Sumatra the three wheeler of choice was the motorcycle and sidecar, sometimes with a 250cc engined bike to haul it, but more often another worn out 125cc, struggling to move it and its passengers along the road. Invariably the sidecar had some kind of cover over it, with at least two seats inside and usually highly decorated. At school finishing time I\u2019d often see them piled up with six or seven kids, all looking happy to be getting a ride home.\nHow about this for your ride home?\nOne thing about Indonesia\u2019s roads I discovered quite quickly (and helped by experience in other third world countries) is that despite the appearance of there being no rules, there very definitely are. It\u2019s just that they\u2019re a little different to elsewhere. Bear in mind here that Indonesians drive on the left. I mentioned the extra uses of indicators earlier, relating to overtaking. Perhaps the other big difference is turning out of T junctions. Left turning scooters will simply pull out, regardless of what\u2019s coming along. Many of the riders don\u2019t even look. Cars sometimes do the same but with more caution. For turning right the scooters will move over to the right hand side of the turning they\u2019re in as they reach the junction, and when the traffic coming towards them from their right is clear they will pull out onto the right hand side of the road they\u2019re turning into then slowly drift over to the left and blend in with the traffic stream. This means that if you\u2019re turning right into that same turning you have to go behind the vehicle rather than across the front of it. It all seems very strange at first but you soon get used to it and it actually seems quite sensible. The other thing is that traffic moves very slowly, even when the road is clear. I had to remember this because other road users didn\u2019t expect me to be travelling quickly so they therefore assumed I wasn\u2019t. That caused me a couple of \u2018nearlies\u2019 until I adapted.\nAn unusual sight in the very Islamic island of Sumatra.\nAs I got nearer to the Lake Toba area some changes started to happen in the villages I passed through. I noticed the presence of churches. One place had four, with not a mosque to be seen. It was a Sunday and I saw plenty of women dressed in their Sunday best walking down the road. The older women wore traditional dresses, which were long and had a heavily decorated, brocaded top half. The younger women wore summer frocks, usually nice and colourful, and all of them with their hair done up nicely. It surprised me how refreshing that seemed to me as I rode by. The reason for all this was because I was entering the Batak region. Although a few of these people are Muslim, most of them are Christian, hence the churches and less restricted way of dressing. As I found out when I stopped for a cup of tea, many of them speak some English and I sat chatting for a while to an English teacher. Because they lived mostly inland they were influenced far less by Arab traders and Islam. Lake Toba is the centre of their region and is the place where their cultural influences can mostly be found. The town I\u2019d stayed in the previous night had some buildings constructed in their particular style, prompting me to stop and take a look at this different design.\nLake Toba. Shame about the gloomy weather.\nLake Toba sits at around nine hundred metres above sea level. After my friendly tea break I turned onto a smaller road, winding its way through the hills, eventually taking me to a viewpoint where I could get my first look at this huge lake, all 1,100 square kilometres of it. It sits in the caldera of a volcano, which last erupted over 70,000 years ago and is reckoned to have had a world wide influence, reducing global temperatures by 3-5 degrees Celsius, as well as depositing ash as far away as East Africa. That\u2019s quite a blast! Despite the gloomy weather it looked incredible. As I rode nearer to it I could get more views and could also see the island of Samosir, my target for the day. The road wound back down the hill, showing signs of previous landslips along its edge, almost certainly caused by rain. At one point the surface was just mud and there was a drop in level of about 400mm. There were plenty of trucks parked up while their drivers tried to find a way round this problem. \u201cGood luck fellas,\u201d I thought as I hopped the bike over the edge and carried on down. I kept stopping to photograph the view, while the other people there took snaps of me. It\u2019s such a shame the weather was so gloomy. Eventually I crossed the small river which creates the island of Samosir and made my way to the small town of Tuk Tuk. There I found a homestay to lodge at for a few days, then went in search of that very traditional Batak meal of pizza and beer. A very tasty end to one of the better days of my Indonesian journey.\nA Tugu. A home for ancestral bones.\nI spent the next couple of days exploring the island and learning more about the Batak culture. Although they now follow mainstream religions their history is one of cannibalism and war. (Now I\u2019m wondering what was on that pizza!) Cannibalism had pretty much died out by the mid 19th century, especially as Islam and Christianity took hold. The warring tendency also died away and they became traders. But they still hold on to one of their key tenets, that of their belief in spirits of both life and death. Tendi (life spirit) disappears when the individual dies but the Begu (death spirit) lives on for some time before it too dies. To prevent the Begu returning to cause trouble to the family the body is buried some way away from the family home and is taken there along a very confusing route so the Begu can\u2019t find its way back. After several years the bones are dug up, cleaned and polished, then laid to rest in a Tugu, or bone house. These can be very ornate and are placed somewhere on the family land. On my tour round the island I saw plenty of these buildings, many of them very ornate. Nobody had any objections to me photographing them either.\nBatak village.\nAncient Batak village, with the heavily decorated Chief\u2019s house.\nI visited other cultural sites too, including those of ancient rulers and their tombs. The traditional villages I went to had fine examples of their particular style of housing, with definite elements of boat design in their architecture. No surprise really, given that their well being centred on the lake where they lived. They have very steep roofs, upswept at each end, like a boat, and the gables overhang significantly, with the front one being heavily decorated. Traditionally thatched, these days corrugated iron is used and the recently built houses will have more living space attached to the rear, especially for the kitchen etc. They look very elegant indeed. Other Batak areas will have a different design of house, reflecting their local culture, but I can\u2019t comment on them as I didn\u2019t visit any.\nThe people at my homestay noticed how dirty my bike was and recommended a nearby place where I could get it cleaned. I went round there and was charged IRP25k for a very thorough job. Think back to when I was in Java and the place that wanted 200k. I was very happy indeed. A bit further along that road I stopped to admire a very large roadside tomb. An elderly woman came over to talk to me and it soon became evident that she had a small shop nearby and wanted me to come and look at her carvings. She had some very nice pieces there, all hand carved by her, she assured me. She told me her story (while holding my hand and stroking my palm) about the Swiss lover she had when she was young (she was now stroking my beard because he had one too) and how she waited for him but he never came back. Therefore she got married in her thirties and only had one child, who had moved away. Her husband had died so she was on her own. She struggled to make a living from her carvings and couldn\u2019t afford new tools (she showed me the old, worn out ones she was forced to use). I couldn\u2019t resist that level of appeal so I bought a pair of figures from her. Was I mugged? I like to think not as she seemed s genuine, but I would say that wouldn\u2019t I.\nVery worn out carving tools.\nTime to leave Samosir Island and head back to the coast and the port of Belawan. I needed to make sure I knew the drill for getting my bike shipped to Malaysia and it\u2019s always best to do these things in plenty of time. I took the ferry across the lake, a rather strange boat where vehicles had to reverse onto the deck because there was a ramp only at one end. A nice ride through the mountains until the road found its way down to the coast, Batak culture was left behind and the Muslim world came to the fore once more. My phone battery had gone flat by now but I was able to use the services of a local lad who kindly led me to a hotel, a long way off his route, I suspect. I was happy to give him some money for his services. The hotel initially stated there were only the most expensive rooms available but when I said I\u2019d have to go elsewhere the manager went off to check something and came back saying a cheaper one was available. Was this another attempt to \u2018mug off a tourist\u2019? Actually no. When he took me to the room I could see that the hotel grounds had suffered some flooding in the recent heavy rain but it had drained away enough for me to get access to the cheaper rooms. I was highly amused though, when he said I must either leave my bike in a car park by the security hut or put it in my room. There was even a ramp to assist with this. I unloaded my bag and left the bike with the guys at security.\nOne Batak family\u2019s idea of a Christmas tree.\nAnd a local trader\u2019s suggestion as to how to enjoy it.\nOne Batak family\u2019s idea of a Christmas tree, and a local trader\u2019s suggestion as to how to enjoy it.\nThe agent who handles this particular crossing is based in Penang. Mr Lim had given me the map coordinates for the agent in Belawan, along with the location of the customs office and the warehouse. Once I\u2019d found the agent and discussed it all with them it became clear everything would be straightforward. The boat sailed on Monday afternoon and I needed to come to the agent\u2019s office Monday morning to sort out the paperwork and the money. I\u2019d spoken to Deon, The Aussie guy I met in Java, about it all and he said to go to customs first to get my carnet signed off, then go to the agent after that. The agent concurred so I left there with a firm plan in place and a relieved mind. I had three days to kill and I\u2019d decided to go and visit some elephants.\nThe village of Tangkahan has set itself up as a CTO \u2013 Community Tourist Operator. The idea is to discourage illegal logging and provide an alternative income from tourism. Work for the local Karonese people is provided by supplying accommodation and by the elephant sanctuary. The sanctuary is a CRU \u2013 Conservation Response Unit. As well as for entertaining tourists, the elephants are used to patrol the jungle against illegal loggers. It\u2019s located on the edge of the Gunung Leuser National Park and my ride out there took me along a muddy and stony track, through palm oil plantations. To leave behind the palms and suddenly arrive in native rain forest provided a sharp contrast and underlined the importance of these ecological projects more than any words ever could. As I\u2019ve mentioned before, the problem with plantations doesn\u2019t relate to CO2 but the destruction of native ecosystems and the effect on wildlife.\n\u201cWhere\u2019s my breakfast!\u201d\nThe accommodation there was basic but comfortable, in very rustic wooden cabins, and quite cheap too. My cabin was called Ten Bears and as a fan of the film, The Outlaw Josey Wales, I felt quite at home there. Although elephant rides were on offer, I came for a different, and possibly unique experience. I was going to wash an elephant. How do you wash an elephant? (Insert your own punchline.) In this case it was going to be in the river. After a briefing the little crowd that had now gathered trooped off down to the bank and we watched the elephants come down out of the jungle and wade across. Included in this small herd were two calves and a slightly older one too. The team there were delighted with him because rearing a male meant that the breeding programme was assured.\nWashing an elephant.\nThe simple pleasure of washing an elephant. A delightful way to spend a morning.\nThe elephants were given food and then they lay down in the river ready to be scrubbed. We were all given brushes and got stuck into our task. I have a suspicion that scrubbing them is actually completely unnecessary, but there\u2019s no doubt that it\u2019s great fun and you certainly get up close and personal to these wonderful creatures. Some of them have skin that\u2019s become mottled, faded to white but with black spots on it. I did jokingly wonder if it was caused by too much scrubbing but was assured it was just age, a kind of reverse of liver spots. Let\u2019s face it, their skin is as tough as old boots, and with it\u2019s wrinkled appearance, looks just like them too. Their beautiful brown eyes look at you with complete trust and relaxation while you scrub away. They all behave perfectly, even the calves, as they give them selves up to our ministrations. Looking at them walking around, no more than a couple of feet away, you cannot escape their sense of dignity and obvious intelligence. They instantly obey the orders of their Mahouts and none of us felt in any danger from their size. After the scrub up we were given food to hand out to them, with the calves rushing about, as kids will, trying to get more than their share. It is amazing to watch how their trunks work as they grip the food and transfer it to their mouths. While I was washing them I\u2019d been fascinated by the design of their trunks and how fine the muscle control was. It\u2019s almost impossible to express how delightful is to be so intimate with these wonderful creatures and the thought that they\u2019re murdered just for their tusks or, even worse, for \u2018sport\u2019, fills me with anguish. It was a wonderful experience.\n\u201cStop there and get in line, Junior.\u201d\nFun elephant facts. The Asian elephant is from the genus Elephas, lives to about 50 and weighs in at about 5.4 tonnes. In Africa there are two species, the Bush and the Forest Elephant. Both are of the genus Loxodonta. The bush elephant lives to about 60 and weighs in at about 6 tonnes. The lifespan of the forest elephant is the same but it is a tiny (by comparison) 2.7 tonnes. These figures refer to males. The African elephant\u2019s trunk ends in two opposing lips whereas the Asian elephant only has one. An adult African elephant\u2019s tooth weighs about 5kg and is around 300mm long. Big, huh! Lastly, the easiest way to tell them apart is to look at their ears, especially the right one. The African elephant\u2019s ear is shaped like Africa, almost like a badge of origin.\nLots more elephant facts here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant. And Tangkahan\u2019s excellent website is here: https://www.tangkahanecotourism.com/\nAfter that happy couple of hours it was time to negotiate the muddy track once more and return to Medan. It never fails to impress me how the locals negotiate these tracks on the standard bikes while I, on my big (relatively) off road demon machine sometimes struggle to stay upright. Light weight and a low centre of gravity are the answer, I\u2019m sure, something obviously not shared by this truck (over)loaded with palm oil nuts. Back in Medan I found the hostel I\u2019d booked myself into and made plans for the last day in Indonesia, before taking my bike to the ship.\nOverloaded and stuck in the mud.\nMedan is Sumatra\u2019s capital city so is, of course, big and busy. But nothing like as chaotic as some others I\u2019d been to and there were a few cultural places that seemed worth a visit. I created a list of five, but only visited three in the end. The first was the Shri Mariamann Hindu Temple, which was just across the road from the hostel. It\u2019s in Little India, as you can guess, the area of the city where Indian immigrants have settled. I found some gates, but they were closed. I walked round the opposite side of the building and found myself in an area full of smartly dressed Indians obviously enjoying some kind of celebration. They didn\u2019t seem in the least bit fazed as I wandered among them in search of the entrance. Eventually I realised the temple wasn\u2019t open until later in the day.\nI was invited to pose with this family, who were having fun dressing up.\nMaiman Palace is a former Sultan\u2019s home, part of which is still occupied by the family, with the remainder open to the public. People are able to dress up in Sultanate style clothing and pose in the rooms, with the exotic decorations and furniture as a backdrop. One group invited me to join them in a kind of mega selfie, them all in robes, me in my very nondescript travelling clothes. Good fun. Equally interesting was being interviewed by various groups of students. As I\u2019ve mentioned before, they are tasked with interviewing Europeans as part of their English coursework and they needed at least six minutes of conversation, which they\u2019d record on one of their phones. Well, there\u2019s no hardship in chatting to pretty young women, which they mostly were, although after the seventh interview I had to cry \u201cEnough!\u201d. My voice was going. Passers by were often amused by what was happening, with a small crowd gathering at one point, to see what was going on. Some students asked me if I could speak any Indonesian and were highly amused when I told them, in Indonesian, that I didn\u2019t understand Indonesian.\nA strange thing I noticed with one group of girls was that three of the four were happy to shake my hand, both before and after our chat. But the fourth one managed to have both hands full at those moments, clearly an avoidance tactic. It saddened me to think that she\u2019d been convinced there was something wrong with connecting with me. She was also the one who recorded, but didn\u2019t engage in, the conversation. Perhaps I\u2019m making an assumption here and there was some other reason for this behaviour. I guess I\u2019ll never be sure, but I know how it seemed. She was really the only young woman I\u2019d encountered anywhere in Indonesia with this attitude, all others being open and friendly, often voluntarily smiling at me as we passed in the street.\nThree friendly interviewers, with the fourth one behind the camera, and not as friendly.\nMy second cultural visit was to a large shopping centre where I enjoyed a much needed \u2018cultural\u2019 cup of coffee. And then I finally got to see the Shri Mariamann Temple, dedicated to worshipping the Goddess Mariamann, popular among the Tamils who populate Indonesia. It\u2019s full of intricate carvings and statues of gods and goddesses. It\u2019s good to see how colourful these modern temples are, compared to the dull, grey, ancient buildings I\u2019d seen elsewhere, although I appreciate they will have looked better in their heyday.\nMonday arrived. An auspicious day. My departure day from Indonesia and also my birthday. No celebrations allowed until my bike was safely loaded on that onion boat. I rode out to Belawan and found the customs office. My carnet was stamped so then it was off to the agent\u2019s office, not far away. Once business was done one of the staff showed me where the boat was docked and Trixie was immediately winched aboard and lashed to the deck. \u201cSee you on the other side\u201d I thought, although looking at the battle scarred condition of the boat I did wonder. One of the dock workers spoke to a guy who\u2019d just delivered a load to the boat, who was going back to Medan and was happy to give me a lift. That was good news as it was a fair way away and a taxi would have been rather expensive.\nSee you on the other side Trixie. Bon voyage.\nBack at the hostel I chatted to Mr Yauw, the kindly owner, who\u2019d taken me under his wing somewhat. He lived in America for thirty years and has a great sense of the spiritual. We\u2019d enjoyed some good conversations. He arranged for a scooter to come and pick me up, which took me to where I could catch the airport bus. I made it to check-in with not much time to spare, but all was well and it wasn\u2019t long before I was rolling down another runway, saying goodbye to Indonesia and heading to the 23rd country of my journey, Malaysia.\nA very hospitable hostel, and Mr Yauw, its owner.\nThings you see.\nGuiding the blind. Full marks for intent. Zero for execution.\n11/12/2017 geoffkeys\tSumatra; Asian Elephants; Medan; Lake Toba; Batak People; Tangkahan Eco Tourism;\n6 thoughts on \u201cSumatra and the Elephants.\u201d\nYet another fascinating read Geoff,I won\u2019t make comment about a missed opportunity when the carvings lady was buttering you up!\nI must be honest Bob, I wasn\u2019t sure exactly what her motives were at one point. But I think it was always about a sale.\nPingback: Sumatra and The Elephants\u2026 | huggers.ca\nHi. Thanks for sharing. \ud83d\ude42\nInteresting and entertaining as always Geoff. Thanks for sharing all your endeavours in this way. And as for the old lady carver, she obviously shares the unsurprising belief, as pretty much all residents in developing countries share, of never letting a chance go by. The difference to, say, car salesmen types (sorry) is that they need the money to survive and usually bear no resentment when turned down.\nStay safe. It\u2019s a big world.\nI was happy to buy from her Phil and it made an appreciated Christmas present for a friend. She definitely needed the money and I had already talked the price down a bit anyway. So we ere both happy with the deal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 38397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://motorcyclespecs.co.za/Techinicale/Acronyms/EXUP.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:53Z", "digest": "sha1:PGJKJPSGQJ2TIZTGOM53WT7PLJBS4UIN", "length": 2703, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "motorcyclespecs.co.za", "title": "EXUP", "raw_content": "EXUP - Exhaust Ultimate Power Valve\nA variable valve system that eliminates \u201cvalleys\u201d in the torque development curve in 4-stroke engines. With continual improvement since the first adoption on the \u201987 model FZR400R, the latest version is used on the YZF-R1.\nIn this system a variable EXUP valve is placed in the muffler that functions in accordance with engine rpm to control the reflection wave cycle in the muffler. It was developed to help optimize the exhaust flow in the exhaust valve area in a way that makes the exhaust as well as the intake function more efficient and reduces power loss due to the \u201cblow-back\u201d phenomenon. It is a device that in effect creates an adjustable valve that changes the cross-section shape of the interior of the muffler depending on engine rpm to improve performance.\nAn exhaust servo motor is one component of the exhaust valve system (sometimes called the ex-up or power valve system) found on almost every modern sportbike including all Honda, Kawasaki, Yamaha, Suzuki, BMW, Ducati, Triumph and a few others. The system consist of a few parts, the first is the valve assembly inside the exhaust pipe. This is a simple butterfly valve that can open or close to change the amount of exhaust flow. Connected to this valve is a set of cables that run to the other part of the system, the servo motor. This motor, which is controlled by the engine control unit, has a pulley on top that rotates the cables to open and close the valve in the exhaust. The cables are used to isolate the motor from the hot exhaust and allow it to be placed in a more convenient place on the bike.\nThe purpose of this system according to the motorcycle manufacturers\u2019 marketing departments is to create back-pressure at lower RPM\u2019s to increase torque. Unfortunately, this probably isn\u2019t the real reason; the true purpose of the exup valves is to meet noise and emissions regulations. The exhaust valves are partially closed at idle and low rpm to reduce noise, and closed again at the upper RPMs to meet peak noise and emissions regulations. The proof of this has been shown on the dyno where removing the valves and retuning the engine creates a flatter better torque curve. Additionally, in the USA, most bikes close the valve again at the upper RPM range, but in Europe they do not (different regulations) and the European bikes typically create a few more HP on the top end as a result.\n1) Realizes elimination of low torque in certain rpm ranges and smooth acceleration all the way up to high speed.\n2) Improved actual fuel economy.\n3) Improved low-speed range combustion for\n(a) more stable idling,\n(b) less idling noise and\n(c) reduced HC levels in the exhaust.\nSources: Skutr.net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 3845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 244.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mouritz.org/?page_id=661", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:14Z", "digest": "sha1:T46AOO6H5XUH26U5BOWVZ4OUER6HB5R2", "length": 2517, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "mouritz.org", "title": "Sports & Fitness > Bodywork | Mouritz ORG", "raw_content": "History The first yoga teachers to train in the Alexander Technique in the UK were Ken Thompson (starting April 1976), Chris Stevens and Ray Evans (starting September 1976).[1] Writings \u2013 Books Yoga and the Alexander Technique by David Moore.[2] Smart Yoga, by David Moore.[3] Yoga and the Alexander Technique by Karyn Chapman, [\u2026]\nJoseph Pilates (1880\u20131967) developed a system of exercises which puts emphasis on alignment, breathing, and developing a strong core, and improving balance. Pilates called his method \u2018Contrology\u2019 but it is today known as \u2018Pilates\u2019. Writings \u2013 Books The Mind Body Workout \u2013 With Pilates and The Alexander Technique by Lynne Robinson and Helge Fisher.[1] [\u2026]\nFran\u00e7oise M\u00e9zi\u00e8res (1909\u201391) was a French physiotherapist who developed her own method, which posthumously has been named \u2018Postural Reconstruction\u2019. \u2018The use and abuse of anatomy\u2019 by Joel Carbonel, a teacher of the Alexander Technique, argues, like M\u00e9zi\u00e8res, that back musculature is too strong and shortened, and therefore it goes against the conclusions of Dr [\u2026]\nLaban movement analysis is a method and language for describing, visualising, interpreting and documenting movement. It is based on the work of Rudolf Laban (1879\u20131958), and developed and extended by Irmgard Bartenieff (1900\u20131981) and others. \u2018Body-mind therapies \u2013 A sensory based comparison of systems\u2019 by Aileen Crow reports on a meeting September 1985 of [\u2026]\nFeldenkrais is a type of exercise therapy devised by Mosh\u00e9 Feldenkrais (1904\u20131984). Feldenkrais and F. M. Alexander Moshe Feldenkrais had lessons in the Alexander Technique with Walter Carrington in the 1940s. When Feldenkrais\u2019 book, Body and Mature Behaviour, came out in 1949, F. M. Alexander was alerted to it, and upon reading it, realised [\u2026]\nFascial Unwinding (FU) is a therapy through which physical and emotional blocks can be released. \u2018An introduction to fascial unwinding\u2019 by Mika Hadar-Borthwick; the author has worked with Fascial Unwinding often in conjunction with the Alexander Technique.[1] References [1] \u2018An introduction to fascial unwinding\u2019 by Mika Hadar-Borthwick in The Congress Papers 2015, Empowering [\u2026]\nCarl Stough (1926\u20132000) developed a way of approaching breathing which has similarities with the Alexander Technique. His method is used by some Alexander Technique teachers. Jessica Wolf, a teacher of the Technique, developed a teaching based on Stough\u2019s method called \u2018The Art of Breathing\u2019. Writings and video \u2018Misconceptions about breathing\u2019 by Jessica Wolf.[1] [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mraclassroom.com/2013/11/11/remembrance-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OMTFU5QOQI3XAJZLWD6LY7VKUDV3NLMU", "length": 4898, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "mraclassroom.com", "title": "Remembrance Day \u2013 3/4A CLASSROOM", "raw_content": "Follow the link to watch the video based on Remembrance Day.\nWhy do we have Remembrance Day?\nPrevious Previous post: Chance and Data \u2013 The Melbourne Cup\nNext Next post: Adding and Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers\n13 thoughts on \u201cRemembrance Day\u201d\nWe have Remembrance day to remember people that fought in the wars, to celebrate the moments that they had and to remember how they sacrifice their life so others could live with freedom. People went to war so they could protect their country and freedom.\nRemembrance Day is a day to celebrate all of the woman and men that fought\\died to save their own countries. It is on the 11 of November, because that\u2019s when the World War I ended. Our country was one of the country\u2019s that sacrificed ourselves to save the country from getting ruled by Japan. It was very small, until some other countries wanted to help, and join, until it became a huge war around the war around the world. The war was so terrible that everyone thought that another one wouldn\u2019t ever occur, which is why it used to be called the \u2018Great War\u2019. Today, people have a big parade to celebrate everybody that fought\\died, and we all have a minute of silence to think about everyone that dies! and all the experiences that they had.\nShanghai says:\nWe have Remembrance Day because it\u2019s to celebrate the brave war people for sacrifice their life\u2019s to save their country and other peoples life\u2019s and we also celebrate Remembrance Day because the people who fought for our country made peace for everyone and we respect all the people that fought and lived or died (R.I.P).\nI think we have remembrance day because to remember the the people that fought in the war to claim our country and so we could live in freedom and so that no one can take our country away from us.\nTerry meers says:\nWe have Remembrance Day to think about the people you lost in the war.\nWe have remembrance day on the 11th of November every year. Every year on the 11th of the 11th at 11 O\u2019clock we have a minute of silence to show our respects to the people that died in world war 1 and world war 2. In the First World War 60,000 Australian died. At that time Australia had only 5 million people as a total population. Millions of people died fighting for there country and their allays country\u2019s.\nNyanom. L. R says:\nRemembrance is a day that when we thinking about the people\u2019s who served the country in times of war. Many peoples in Australians stop what they are doing at exactly 11am in their local times on November 11 each year to dedicate a minute of silence for remembering peoples that die for a war around the world.\nWe have Remembrance Day because it celebrates the people who died in the war and people who helped us and now it is celebrated on the 11/11 every year and we have one minute of silence of those that died for our country, they will never be forget\u2019 n and they have made our world a better place.\nWhy do we celebrate Remembrance Day?\nWe celebrate Remembrance Day because the war was a small war that began with Germany, Hungry and Turkey invading Serbia but it was just a small war between them. Later on through the year the world started to interact with the two teams. The war grew through flinders field in Europe which created the war poppy. In 1965 on the 11th of November at 11am and finally it was over.\nWe have remembrance day is for all of the people who was fighting for freedom on the 11/11/18.Some people have forgotten them who have fight tern and Remembrance Day is also because we have know got the freedom back.they where always being far but the japan people wasn\u2019t and they where declaring war and then America got in involved and then they got a boom and then they unleashed the boom in Australia and then they declared war and then they did this contracted saying that they have to stop the war and then they did the war again 2 decades later the war started again and then it all happened again.\nRememberance day is about all the Australian people that sacrificed their lives to defend Australia so that other countries couldn\u2019t get their unfair ways. When World war 1 finished it was the war that was supposed to end all wars but it didn\u2019t because decades later Adolf Hitler commences war and starts another world war.\nWe have remembrance day is for all of the people who was fighting for our freedom on the 11/11/18. It was called the world war, 2 decades after they wanted to have war again most countries where defending there boarders not letting any one in to there country it was also the war against Germany and someone else who had Hitler in there war.\nWhat is the meaning of remembrance day? I believe that we have remembrance day to honor the people who fought in the war to protect our country and our rights of freedom. They fight to protect us from people who would abuse us. They also fight to stop other countries from changing the way we live.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 9576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mt.prospect.org/trickle-downers?page=5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:20Z", "digest": "sha1:N5KUHFWTYMDZB3VI5QOFCGVWODJLUC4E", "length": 6453, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "mt.prospect.org", "title": "Trickle Downers", "raw_content": "D.C. Council Members Join Congressional Republicans to Override Voters\u2019 Decision to Raise Tipped Workers\u2019 Wages\nDistrict voters passed Initiative 77, but \u201cFreedom Caucus\u201d House leaders and Democrats on the council say the vote shouldn\u2019t count.\nPrarinya/Shutterstock trickle-downers_54.jpg T he fight over increasing the tipped minimum wage in Washington, D.C., is making for strange bedfellows. Having long bemoaned congressional Republicans\u2019 habit of meddling in District affairs, a majority of the D.C. Council now find themselves in the uncomfortable position of joining in common cause with two members of the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus. The Republican representatives\u2014Mark Meadows of North Carolina, who chairs the Freedom Caucus, and Gary Palmer of Alabama\u2014moved Wednesday to block Initiative 77, a voter-approved ballot measure that would increase the minimum wage for tipped workers in the District. The measure passed with 55 percent of the vote in the June primary elections after a vicious (and expensive) messaging campaign to defeat it. The Freedom Caucus push arrived the day after seven of the council\u2019s 13 members co-introduced legislation to overturn Initiative 77, aligning local Democrats and congressional...\nRead more about D.C. Council Members Join Congressional Republicans to Override Voters\u2019 Decision to Raise Tipped Workers\u2019 Wages\nHow Justice Kennedy\u2019s Retirement Could Lead to an Increase in Housing Discrimination\nKennedy was the swing vote on a case that affirmed the Fair Housing Act protects against discrimination even if it isn\u2019t explicit.\nAP Photo/Evan Vucci Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, from left, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Stephen Breyer, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor in 2016 trickle-downers_54.jpg J ustice Anthony Kennedy\u2019s retirement has pushed a number of significant issues to the forefront of discussion, since his more right-wing replacement could join the rest of the conservatives on the Court to overturn such landmark decisions as Roe v. Wade and Obergefell v. Hodges . One case of particular importance on which Kennedy provided the swing vote involves curbing discrimination\u2014even if it\u2019s subtle discrimination\u2014in housing policy. 2015\u2019s Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, Inc. confirmed that the government can use \u201c disparate impact \u201d as means to prove discrimination in housing, which is how the Fair Housing Act had been interpreted since its inception in 1968. Disparate impact is the idea that...\nRead more about How Justice Kennedy\u2019s Retirement Could Lead to an Increase in Housing Discrimination\nFederal Reorganization Plan Is Sleight of Hand to Gut the Safety Net\nThe plan to consolidate departments may be how Trump plans to corral assistance programs in order to destroy them.\nKalena ThomhaveJun 28, 2018\n(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on June 21, 2018. O ver a year ago, the now-ousted Steve Bannon declared that a priority of the just-settling-in Trump administration was the \u201cdestruction of the administrative state.\u201d Trump\u2019s cabinet appointees, Bannon said, \u201cwere selected for a reason and that is the deconstruction.\u201d While Bannon no longer roams the halls of the White House, his legacy persists (one need only look to the white nationalist immigration policies seeping out of the administration). And the destruction of the administrative state continues. Last week, the Trump administration released a plan to consolidate federal agencies and move certain programs to different agencies. While this news may seem innocuous\u2014perhaps nothing more than federal housecleaning\u2014the proposal is likely rooted in a desire to cut social programs. The first clue that social programs may be threatened...\nRead more about Federal Reorganization Plan Is Sleight of Hand to Gut the Safety Net\nWill Another D.C.-Based Government Disdain Democratic Norms?\nHarold MeyersonJun 21, 2018\nOdua Images/Shutterstock trickle-downers_54.jpg W hen is a free and open election invalid? Apparently, when elected officials don\u2019t like the result. That\u2019s the philosophy of Maine\u2019s Trumpier-than-Trump Republican Governor Paul LePage, who has refused to expand Medicaid in his state despite the legally binding vote of Maine\u2019s citizens, who passed a Medicaid-expansion initiative. LePage has been ordered by the courts to implement the expansion, but still refuses. Mercifully, LePage is termed out of office at year\u2019s end. Something like that could never happen in the nation\u2019s most liberal jurisdiction, right? Well, maybe it could. On Tuesday, voters in Washington, D.C., passed an initiative that would raise the minimum wage of tipped workers\u2014currently, only $3.30\u2014to the same level as the city\u2019s non-tipped workers: $15, to be phased in over the next eight years. Unlike the Maine initiative, this one (Initiative 77 by name) was only advisory, but avowed liberals on the D.C. Council and the...\nRead more about Will Another D.C.-Based Government Disdain Democratic Norms?\nMissouri's Greitens Guts Public-Sector Unions on His Way out the Door\nThe scandal-plagued governor scrambled to sign anti-union legislation and a stack of other bills before he resigned.\nManuel MadridJun 07, 2018\n(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) Former Governor Eric Greitens speaks on January 29, 2018, in Palmyra, Missouri. trickle-downers_54.jpg I n the waning hours of his tenure as governor of Missouri, Eric Greitens delivered on his campaign pledge to kneecap the state\u2019s labor unions. A former up-and-comer in the Republican Party, Greitens\u2019s star quickly dimmed after allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced and a felony charge of invasion of privacy and a charge of potential campaign-finance violations followed. Under the threat of impeachment proceedings in the state legislature, Greitens announced his resignation right after Memorial Day, giving himself until the end of that week to tie up loose ends on his way out the door. And tie them up, he did. Greitens signed a staggering 77 bills into law before handing the reins over to Mike Parson, his lieutenant governor. One of those bills was H.B. 1413 , which would require unionized government employees to vote every three years on whether they want...\nRead more about Missouri's Greitens Guts Public-Sector Unions on His Way out the Door", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 8648, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://music.amazon.fr/albums/B00H1XCPN4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TJN6N66OZWPORFFTEYS5NNSH3R6UOO5M", "length": 150, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "music.amazon.fr", "title": "Anyone Who Has a Heart (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks) de Dionne Warwick sur Amazon Music Unlimited", "raw_content": "Anyone Who Has a Heart (Original Album Plus Bonus Tracks)\nWishin' and Hopin' (Bonus Track)\nIt's Love That Really Counts (Bonus Track)\n\u2117\u00a9 Salt & Pepper", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 8066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 178.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musiccritic.com/the-a-frames/black-forest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:E3AQY75IDOOQJPPUOSPEIWJOELGEOYYB", "length": 1207, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "musiccritic.com", "title": "Review: BLACK FOREST by The A-Frames Scores 80% on MusicCritic.com", "raw_content": "Album Review of Black Forest by The A-Frames.\nHome \u00bb Indie \u00bb Black Forest\nThe A-Frames\nBlack Forest - Very Good, Based on 2 Critics\nCavernous and cacophonous, the A-Frames' third album and Sub Pop debut, Black Forest, delivers more of the trio's theatrically doomy, witty art-punk. The nuclear fallout paranoia and Nazi/Teutonic flirtations on the album hark back to the attempts of '70s and '80s punks to shock the system, and like their forebears, the A-Frames find the fun in death, destruction, and nihilism, albeit with an even more tongue-in-cheek spin. Erin Sullivan's deadpan vocals and snotty lyrics (\"One-way mirror on the wall/Who's the loneliest of them all?\") aid and abet the band's chugging, clanking mix of guitars, deep, deep bass, and electronics, but underneath the noise and chaos, there are strong, even catchy, songs.\nThe A Frames have what most every artist is looking for \u2013 an immediately recognizable sound. Songs are simple but eccentric. They plod menacingly, driven by loud basslines and deadpan vocals, with jolts of noise punctuating the paranoid lyrics. The themes are dark, and while they never smirk or wink, their technophobia is so persistent that an irony shines through.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musicreprise.com/category/genres/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IIVMGPNX3PWMSQVYFENXDY2FY5BOHU5X", "length": 624, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "musicreprise.com", "title": "Genres \u2013 Musicreprise", "raw_content": "Published by Bhooshan at January 5, 2014\nSo this is first post of 2014 year, well, Happy New Year !!! Almost 4 years ago, Ishqiya was released. The combo Vishal Bhardwaj \u2013 Gulzar, [\u2026]\nRandom Access Memories is the fourth studio album by French electronic music duo Daft Punk, \u201cThomas Bangalter\u201d, \u201cGuy-Manuel de Homem-Christo\u201d. It was released by the duo\u2019s imprint Daft Life, under exclusive license [\u2026]\nSawai-Gandharwa-Bhimsen Mahotsava\nSawai-Gandharwa-Bhimsen Mahotsava Sawai-Gandharwa-Bhimsen Mahotsav. This one program is the thing for which I wait the whole year impatiently. I don\u2019t have exact words to describe how [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 712, "original_length": 12289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 228.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mwsasse.com/tag/american-pastime/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FVF3SKRDK4JKBLIFOVGQ3PNSD6KTHDR5", "length": 2637, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "mwsasse.com", "title": "american pastime | mwsasse", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: american pastime\nThe Greatest Game Ever Invented in the Words of Ken Burns\nIn 1994, Ken Burns\u2019 iconic nod to the nation\u2019s pastime, the gargantuan 18 hour epic, \u201cBaseball\u201d aired on PBS for the first time. I had just arrived in Vietnam at the time and so I clearly missed it \u2013 the highest rated PBS show of all time. What is it about baseball that brings back so much nostalgia? It\u2019s because the history of baseball parallels the history of America in remarkable ways. Eventually, I was able to watch the entire series on a friend\u2019s VHS, and, since then, have purchased my own DVD copy of it. The episode on Jackie Robinson is required watching in my US History class.\nMany complain that baseball is too slow. I contend that life is too fast, and that baseball perfectly compliments an evening of small talk, revelry, and excitement. The minutia of baseball is incredible \u2013 the individual performances \u2013 the nuances \u2013 the unpredictability \u2013 the boredom \u2013 the excitement \u2013 the slowness \u2013 the fastness.\nOn the 20th anniversary of the release of \u201cBaseball\u201d, MLB interviewed Ken Burns. Here\u2019s what he said why he thinks baseball is the greatest game ever invented. I couldn\u2019t agree more:\nI love this game! Let\u2019s just say, \u201cWhat are the elements that make this the greatest game ever invented?\u201d\nNo clock. And in what other sport does the defense have the ball? Baseball is the evolutionary improvement on cricket. In baseball, the defense has the ball. In all the other sports, the ball scores. In baseball, the man scores. And he comes home! The ball could be going in the other direction. In fact, if it is going in the other direction, he does go home.\nBaseball demands blinding speed but it has this strange, contemplative pace to it. There is an amazing set of things that go on in this game that make it observable at any level. You can keep score of every pitch or at-bat, or you can just follow the game avidly, as I do.\u201d\nThe pace is terrific. All meaning accrues in duration. The work you\u2019re proudest of, the relationships that mean the most to you, have benefited by your sustained attention. Baseball rewards attention. Life rewards attention. Most of our consumer society is based upon inattention. It\u2019s the tortoise and the hare. I\u2019m happy to be with something that people might think is really slow because the others will sit down and rest and we will always cross the finish line. It\u2019s the greatest game ever invented.\u201d\nREAD the FULL MLB ARTICLE HERE!\nPosted in Life\t| Tagged american pastime, baseball, jackie robinson, ken burns' baseball, the greatest game ever invented, us history and baseball\t| Leave a reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 9424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mysask411.com/north-battleford/investment-advisory-service/sun-life-financial-aaron-m-cadrin-investment-insurance/933283", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WYXM6FQOZAFKUMR6L36KSTFHUXR3SVFS", "length": 912, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mysask411.com", "title": "Sun Life Financial (Aaron M Cadrin Investment & Insurance) - Investment Advisory Service - North Battleford, SK - mysask411.com", "raw_content": "1512 100th St, North Battleford SK S9A0W4 1512 100th St, North Battleford SK S9A0W4\nAaron M. Cadrin Investment and Insurance Solutions provides holistic lifelong financial planning and advice to clients of all ages. We have all the insurance products to protect clients and their families from any uncontrollable expenses, while still taking a long-term approach on retirement savings and estate planning. Some of the products offered are:\nInsurances - Life, Health, Illness, Disability, and Long-Term Care\nInvestments - RRSPs, TFSAs, Annuities, Mutual Funds, GICs, Bonds\nWe are also the local area representative for the Chambers of Commerce Group Insurance Plan. A huge benefit of being a part of any Chamber of Commerce is access to their prestige group benefits plan for corporations with up to 50 employees and their families.\nWe specialize in estate planning\nwww.sunlife.ca/aaron.cadrin\nIllness, Disability", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 3704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nabuxmont.com/2015/08/04/global-spiritual-and-humanitarian-leader-to-bless-hundreds-in-philadelphia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:53Z", "digest": "sha1:S3GCY2LC6ZZGKWBH7LN2EO66ZP2QT627", "length": 1767, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "nabuxmont.com", "title": "Global Spiritual and Humanitarian Leader to Bless Hundreds in Philadelphia | Natural Awakenings \u2013 Healthy Living Healthy Planet", "raw_content": "Global Spiritual and Humanitarian Leader to Bless Hundreds in Philadelphia\nSai Maa, an international spiritual master and humanitarian leader whose global headquarters is located in Denver, will be in Philadelphia from August 29 to 30 for a program titled The Becoming of You: Enlightening Your Brain. A highlight of the weekend will be a free opportunity for hundreds to receive Darshan\u2014a rare gift from an enlightened master\u2014at 7 p.m. on August 29.\nOther events held during the weekend are Transformational Healers Day, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., August 29, and Enlightening Your Brain, held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., August 30.\nDuring the weekend, those attending will learn how we are all activating the oneness consciousness, so each one can realize that we are all connected, interconnected, interdependent and interrelated. Participants will reprogram the neural pathways in their brain to align with higher aspects of their being, bringing the consciousness of enlightenment into their experience.\nIn addition to the public events, Sai Maa will speak to invited Philadelphia community and spiritual leaders at 4 p.m. on August 30, to continue a dialogue on how her organization can work with local groups for the betterment of Philadelphia and the world.\nFull schedule of events and costs can be found online. Location: Loew\u2019s Philadelphia Hotel, 1200 Market St., Philadelphia. Community meeting will be held at Embassy Suites, 9000 Bartram Ave., Philadelphia. For more information, call 720-377-0041 or visit Sai-Maa.com/PhillyWeekend2015. August 2015.\nThis entry was posted in DEPARTMENTS, NewsBriefs and tagged august 2015, darshan, news brief, philadelphia, sai maa by Healthy Living Bucks and Montgomery Counties. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nammco.no/team/samuel-smith/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:34Z", "digest": "sha1:64AVFZX5Z5RVAZ4XSSDNVGMEF2K4T2EB", "length": 1409, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "nammco.no", "title": "Samuel Smith - NAMMCO", "raw_content": "Samuel SmithIntern\nSamuel Smith is a British Masters Graduate from Nottinghamshire, England. He completed his Joint Honours MSci in Marine Biology and Zoology at Bangor University\u2019s School of Ocean Science, Wales. During his studies, he participated in an international experience year in Bergen, Norway, where he undertook courses at UiB.\nHe has an interest in marine mammal biology and population analysis with relation to fisheries management. His BSc dissertation was centred around the diving ability of pinnipeds, and for his final MSci Paper, he applied otolith shape analysis to evaluate stock structure of Irish Sea plaice. This combined interest in marine mammals, and the application of science-based management of marine living resources lead him to NAMMCO to join as an intern in September 2018.\nWhile at Bangor, he was a part of the Endeavour Society; a student lead society that organised weekly marine science talks for the student body. In his role as marketing secretary, he was responsible for publicity for the events, yet also aided in organising external speakers for the talks.\nWhile at NAMMCO, Sam will be exposed to the various functions of the Secretariat and help perform many of the office duties and research in relation to the role.\nIn his spare time, Sam enjoys cycling, hiking, and generally being out in nature. At home, he has an interest in reading, drawing and photography.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nashvillekitchencabinet.wordpress.com/2017/05/26/military-appreciation-month-jordan-gothard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:59Z", "digest": "sha1:VUGYNWJLCL372CDR4IACHT5NOCRJP6H6", "length": 4110, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "nashvillekitchencabinet.wordpress.com", "title": "Military Appreciation Month: Jordan Gothard \u2013 Nashville Kitchen Cabinet", "raw_content": "Jordan Gothard was born a Nashville native, but it was his father\u2019s work that took him to Texas. In a roundabout way, it was the same thing that brought him back to Tennessee.\nHis family moved to Round Rock, Texas, when Jordan was 12, just weeks before the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. It was at that moment that sparked his interest in serving in the United States Armed Forces.\n\u201cI was a fourth grader and we watched it all on TV in the classroom,\u201d Jordan says. \u201cI knew right then that I wanted to serve.\u201d\nAs a high schooler, he joined the Junior ROTC program and, upon graduation, he enlisted on an eight-year contract with the Army National Guard. After basic and advanced training, he was assigned to a duty station in his home town of Round Rock, with the 136th Movement Enhancement Brigade. His military occupational specialty was military police, which provided some memorable experiences.\n\u201cI had just returned to Texas when we had a major chemical plant explosion, the same week as the Boston Marathon bombing,\u201d he says. \u201cAt the time it was suspected as potential terrorism and we secured the site while the CIA and FBI investigated, confirming that it was actually an accident. That was one of the most memorable events of my military career.\u201d\nGothard would ultimately serve four of his six years as an active National Guardsman as a full-time enlisted soldier. His unit received orders to deploy to Kabul, Afghanistan in late 2012, and began training for combat service. But the military sequestration effort cut the deployment in half, and Jordan\u2019s number wasn\u2019t called.\nHe would start at the bottom at Camp Mabry, a facility that handles official identification and other credentials for members of the military across the state of Texas, and Jordan rose quickly to become the Site Security Manager over five satellite facilities. It was that experience that prepared him for his leadership role in the restaurant world.\n\u201cMy dad, Mark, had been a grocery store executive, but he took an opportunity with an old friend to become CFO of a very successful restaurant group,\u201d Jordan says. \u201cMy active service was ending and I was ready for a change in scenery, and I had determined that I wasn\u2019t going to pursue law enforcement as a career. I decided I would move at the same time as my parents back to Nashville, and I took a position as a host at Puckett\u2019s Gro. & Restaurant.\u201d\nWithin months, he had become a front-of-house manager. He says the familial aspect reminds him of the military \u2013 in the way that he had managed a small squad of soldiers, now he manages servers, bussers and hosts.\n\u201cWe work together as a team, and that goes hand in hand with the \u2018selfless service\u2019 core value of the Army. I love seeing a customer smile and hearing their stories,\u201d he says.\n\u201cIn the military we all wore the same uniform but we were from all over. It\u2019s the same thing here with tourists and people moving to Nashville\u2026 everyone has a story, and we have a lot of regulars too.\u201d\nJordan is working on a pathway to becoming a General Manager, and he sees great opportunity to build a career in the restaurant industry. He finds joy in taking care of people and setting a good example for his team members.\nThat makes him think of another story that, every now and then, he looks back on for inspiration.\n\u201cWe were returning from field training one day, a three-hour drive in a hot HMMWV (Humvee) convoy, and we stopped at a Burger King to grab something quickly,\u201d he says. \u201cI was guarding the vehicles so I went in last when everyone else was done. A little boy about eight years old pulled on my sleeve and asked for my autograph, while his mom told me how thankful she was for my service.\n\u201cThat experience has stuck with me \u2013 sometimes we don\u2019t realize it, but everything we do means something to somebody. I hope I can be a leader and a good teammate and provide a great experience for our customers. If that\u2019s my role to play, and I do it well, then we all win.\u201d\nnashvillekitchencabinet May 26, 2017\nPrevious Previous post: Military Appreciation Month: Greg Adkins\nNext Next post: Juan Reyes: Salsa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 201.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://naturistdigest.com/2018/12/02/nudism-is-natural-youtube/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:11Z", "digest": "sha1:GWPN6N4F7LKGT57V5Z2SCVKU7I3BAOFU", "length": 132, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "naturistdigest.com", "title": "Naturist Digest | Nudism is Natural \u2013 YouTube", "raw_content": "Nudism is Natural \u2013 YouTube\nDecember 2, 2018 December 2, 2018 Naturism Explained, Videos\nSource: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S08eMAbBc00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 183.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ncreview.com.au/2017/10/17/chipping-away/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KPRIKF5UM23PCIHE2EJOT5STR325XOJD", "length": 1436, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ncreview.com.au", "title": "Chipping away - The North Central Review", "raw_content": "Home News Entertainment Chipping away\nIt was a big weekend for wood chopping when three local residents participated in the Australian Stihl Timbersports Championships at Albert Park.\nHeld over three days, from October 6 to 8, local residents Brayden Meyer, Blake Meyer and Adele Deverel all vied to be crowned Australian champion. Broadford\u2019s Brayden Meyer came second in the Australian Men\u2019s Champion with 33 points, securing his spot on the Chopperoos. The placing sets him up to compete in the Australian team relay competition at the 2017 STIHL TIMBERSPORTS\u00ae World Championship, in Lillehammer Norway next month.\nBrayden\u2019s day got to a flying start, setting a new Australian record in the first discipline of the day, the springboard. Leading the competition all day, Brayden looked set to reclaim the Australia champion title however an issue with his hotsaw saw him place second.\n\u201cI\u2019m pretty happy with the way I went. I am a bit disappointed with the overall outcome after leading the whole day but my hotsaw didn\u2019t start and I ended up losing by one point,\u201d Brayden said.\n\u201cNorway\u2019s my next big competition on the world stage. Australia are going in the favourites having won the three years in a row. Hopefully we can make it a fourth year in a row and take that crown once again.\u201d\nBrayden thanked Stihl Australia for all their support over the last six years, as well as sponsors Sovereign Lending, Sun Brewery and his family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nearsay.com/c/581540/273704/how-kids-benefit-from-learning-music-theory?utm_campaign=LV-Social-Sharing&utm_medium=social&utm_source=social&utm_term=273704-DEA%20Music%20and%20Art%20School&utm_content=How%20Kids%20Benefit%20From%20Learning%20Music%20Theory", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RPHRISGLE4IPETKFQ5XYPAO4HCM2IWP5", "length": 2392, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "nearsay.com", "title": "How Kids Benefit From Learning Music Theory - DEA Music and Art - | NearSay", "raw_content": "How Kids Benefit From Learning Music Theory December 20, 2018\nSigning your child up for music lessons won\u2019t only help cultivate an appreciation and lifelong love of the arts. During sessions, they\u2019ll also learn how to read, interpret, and understand written notes and other symbols. Below are advantages young musicians gain by studying music theory.\nWhy Is Music Theory Important for Children?\nBuild a Sense of Independence\nChildren will develop stronger abilities as musicians by learning music theory. During music lessons, they will study how to pick up on written cues to determine how composers want their work to be played. This includes learning how long to hold beats, when to crescendo and decrescendo, and how to find the proper key. Soon, they won\u2019t need to rely on playing by ear or memorization to grasp and master a piece of work. This will make it easier to practice on their own without constant step-by-step guidance from an instructor.\nPick Up Other Instruments Faster\nBecause music theory is like learning a foreign language, children with a strong understanding of how to read what\u2019s written are able to learn other instruments with fewer difficulties. This could help boost their confidence, self-esteem, and sense of accomplishment. In turn, they might become more eager to continue their music lessons into adulthood.\nKnowing how music is constructed provides kids with building blocks to create their own works. This means they can let their creativity shine through in their music, expressing their character traits and individual style. Understanding the basics of compositions will also make it easier to experiment with classical, folk, jazz, and other music genres in their own work.\nIf you want to give your child the tools to flourish as a musician, contact the instructors at DEA Music and Art School. With three locations in Staten Island, NY, the staff is committed to helping New York City kids cultivate their creativity and strengthen musical abilities through music theory and AP music theory classes, as well as instrument and voice lessons. They also offer visual art classes. To inquire about music lessons the school provides, call (718) 370-7733. A team member will help you decide what instrument is best for your child. You can also visit the school online for course details. Connect on Facebook to see videos of student concerts and rehearsals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nerdhall.com/2017/06/18/rumor-pokemon-go-whats-coming-next/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MQOKDIJWH2K7C5ZKKSHL6BITWK5GQOBY", "length": 4544, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "nerdhall.com", "title": "Rumor: Pokemon GO \u2013 What\u2019s Coming Next? | NERD HALL", "raw_content": "Rumor: Pokemon GO \u2013 What\u2019s Coming Next?\nDo you remember Pokemon GO? The smash hit for mobile gaming that echoed around the world? Chances are, you probably pop open the app when you\u2019re walking to a friends house or if you\u2019re bored during a commute. Believe it or not, Pokemon GO is still being played by millions daily. According to IGN, Pokemon GO still has about 65 million daily active users trotting around the globe trying to catch them all. So don\u2019t count the game out just yet, there are updates coming soon that are going to drastically change the game. The Pokemon GO we\u2019ve all been waiting for isn\u2019t behind us, it\u2019s ahead. That\u2019s if the developers keep their word, and rollout updates to make the game truly immersive and competitive once again.\nWe\u2019re going through a list of upcoming update rumors that definitely have us excited to venture into the great outdoors again. Let\u2019s just hope these see the light of day\u2026\nSeems like an obvious addition, I know. Trading has been a staple in Pokemon since the beginning. Trading in Pokemon GO has been eluded to since the first trailer, but there hasn\u2019t been a single inkling of it coming as an actual usable mechanic in the game (besides in the initial beta.) That might be changing in the next big update. Of course this is just a rumor, but according to senior product manager of Niantic, Tatso Namura, \u201cit won\u2019t be through the internet,\u201d when it\u2019s released.\nNow some people feel that this defeats the purpose of the game, but think about it, if there are added mechanics to the game, the actual purpose of the gameplay changes. There will be more challenges besides catching Pokemon, picking up Pokestops and fighting over gyms. Trading makes absolute sense, it\u2019s time.\nAgain, another staple of Pokemon games since the beginning. It seems odd that they\u2019re making these two decade old mechanics seem like an exciting new prospect. Trading and battling should have been something included on day one. Most of us remember that time thought; failing servers, crashing apps, and for a lot of us, insanely hot summer days to contend with. The time for PVP was in 2016, but I myself am excited to see how the developers are going to integrate it. What will the reward system look like if there is one? How will battle be initiated? Not holding my breath just yet, but I think Niantic is finally getting the ball rolling with this game. They have my faith for now.\nWe\u2019ve had implications of legendary events since the first trailer with the elusive Mewtwo in Times Square. We\u2019ve also had hacking issues involving the three original legendary birds which led to accounts being apparently banned. Now we\u2019re seeing hints at upcoming legendary events in the upcoming months. An actual schedule and official announcements are yet to be see, but Niantic really has to do something to entice users to return.\nSo, it seems like Niantic is really committing to their first even July 22nd, 2017 in Chicago\u2019s Grant Park. At the time of writing this it\u2019s uncertain what the event actually entails, but we\u2019ll find out soon enough. Right now it seems just like a large networking even for Pokemon lovers throughout the city, and tourists driving, training or flying in. This sets a pretty cool precedent for Pokemon related events, something I haven\u2019t really attended for almost 20 years. These events might be reminiscent of all the meet-ups that took place during the summer of 2016. Now that the user-base has shrunken it might take actual, official events to get people to congregate the way they did at its peak.\n(Tickets go on sale for this event tomorrow, June 19th (by the way.)\nIt seems there isn\u2019t too groundbreaking going on in the Pokemon GO universe right now. It would be fantastic to see unexpected updates and additions included in the next version. Pokemon GO at its core is a truly fun game that brought people together, and I\u2019m not quite sure lightning will strike twice in this case. It will forever go down in pop culture history as making the summer of 2016 one of the best summers of an angsty millennial\u2019s adult life. I\u2019m all for the phenomenon to pickup again, but like I said before, I\u2019m not holding my breath.\nWhat do you think of the update rumors coming to Pokemon GO? Is it enough to get you playing again or have you been playing every day since release?\nandroidfestiosiphonepokemonpokemon festpokemon gopokemon go festpokemon go gymVIDEO GAMES\nPrevious PostE3 2017: Middle-Earth: Shadow of War DetailsNext PostNew Twin Peaks Funko Two-Pack Debuting At San Diego Comic-Con 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.bartdurham.com/blog/2014/12/families-of-fatal-product-liability-victims-can-receive-damages", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:42Z", "digest": "sha1:4WTFEBENMRIW63BZSBU6CVXFR3CKF2OD", "length": 1829, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "news.bartdurham.com", "title": "Families of fatal product liability victims can receive damages", "raw_content": "Families of fatal product liability victims can receive damages\nWhen a fatal product liability accident occurs, the relatives of the victim are often left to deal with many emotional and financial challenges. Wrongful death lawsuits offer an avenue with which these families can address these issues, as they can provide compensation for both financial injuries and emotional losses. At Bart Durham Injury Law, we help the families of Tennessee victims understand the details of wrongful death litigation so that they can make an informed decision on pursuing this legal option.\nProduct liability law is concerned with ensuring the safety of consumers. Under these rules, manufacturers, distributors and other parties can be held liable for designing, manufacturing or selling products that suffer from dangerous defects. To succeed in a wrongful death suit based on product liability, victims\u2019 families must establish that a defect existed or that the product did not bear adequate labeling or warnings. In addition, plaintiffs must show that the product caused harm when used.\nCompensation may be awarded to victims\u2019 families for specific, quantifiable financial losses. These can include all related medical expenses for the deceased and address the family\u2019s loss of the deceased\u2019s income.\nAccording to Cornell University\u2019s Legal Information Institute, a person who files a wrongful death suit may also be able to receive compensation for loss of consortium. Under such a claim, the spouses of the deceased victims can argue that they should be compensated for the loss of a family relationship.\nIf you have lost a loved one in a fatal product liability accident and would like to get a better understanding of your legal options, please visit our page on product liability.\nWhen car accidents involve pedestrians, we can help", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 484, "original_length": 11187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.enecogroup.com/eneco-and-jaguar-land-rover-benelux-partnership-for-electric-charging-services/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:17Z", "digest": "sha1:N4VC6QRHY7JFGTYT4RL25HP57CMLWM4W", "length": 2386, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "news.enecogroup.com", "title": "Eneco and Jaguar Land Rover Benelux partner up for electric charging services", "raw_content": "jaguaripacefirstedition039\nEneco and Jaguar Land Rover Benelux are going to collaborate in the area of electric charging services. The importer and the sustainable energy company will work together to make driving electric vehicles even more attractive and accessible.\nAs a result of the collaboration, customers that order a new electric model at Jaguar Land Rover - such as the all-electric e Jaguar I-PACE or the Land Rover Plug-in Hybrid - can easily include an Eneco charge spot in their order. The division of Eneco specialising in charging services, Eneco eMobility will then take care of the entire process surrounding the installation of a charge spot and ensure that customers will quickly and easily be able to charge their car with green power. Furthermore, Eneco will install charge spots at nearly all the Jaguar Land Rover dealer locations in the Benelux.\nMarc Bienemann, managing director of Jaguar Land Rover Benelux: \u201cIn addition to offering our customers the Jaguar Land Rover experience with our electric models, we also wish to assist them with the installation of a premium charging facility at home and/or at their workplace. Sustainability also plays an important role in this. In Eneco we have found a partner that shares these values.\u201d\nBram Poeth, managing director of Eneco eMobility: \u201cThis partnership will make driving the electric and hybrid cars of these iconic British brands even more attractive and sustainable. I am very proud of this.\"\nPhoto: Marc Bienemann (rechts) and Bram Poeth.\nJaguar Land Rover is the largest automotive manufacturer in the United Kingdom and is built around two iconic British car brands: Land Rover, the world's leading manufacturer of premium all-wheel-drive vehicles, and Jaguar, a premier manufacturer of luxury sports sedans and sports cars.\nThe company has more than 44,000 employees worldwide and supports around 260,000 more through dealerships, suppliers and local businesses. Manufacturing is centred in the UK, with additional plants in China, Brazil, Austria and Slovakia.\nAbout Eneco eMobility\nEneco eMobility provides full support in the area of electric charging for corporate customers in the automotive sector. Using an Eneco charge card or charge spot means that only Eneco HollandseWind wind power is used for every kilometre travelled. Eneco eMobility is part of the sustainable energy company Eneco Group.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.europawire.eu/the-metrology-laboratory-of-clh-appointed-collaborating-laboratory-by-the-spanish-centre-of-metrology-cem-becoming-its-only-reference-laboratory-for-metrology-activities-in-the-fie-76543212345434567/eu-press-release/2014/10/21/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WWJUVIAPRWFFZN76OTBIFYIJX2CEZTCW", "length": 3374, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "news.europawire.eu", "title": "The Metrology Laboratory of CLH appointed \u201cCollaborating Laboratory\u201d by the Spanish Centre of Metrology (CEM) becoming its only reference laboratory for metrology activities in the field of oil products | EuropaWire.eu", "raw_content": "The Metrology Laboratory of CLH appointed \u201cCollaborating Laboratory\u201d by the Spanish Centre of Metrology (CEM) becoming its only reference laboratory for metrology activities in the field of oil products\nPosted on 21, October 2014 by EuropaWire PR Editors | This entry was posted in Energy, Gas & Oil, Management, Spain, Technology and tagged Bego\u00f1a Cristeto, CEM, Ministry of Industry Energy and Tourism, reference laboratory for metrology activities in the field of oil products, The Metrology Laboratory of CLH, the Spanish Centre of Metrology, \u201cCollaborating Laboratory\u201d. Bookmark the permalink.\nThe Metrology Laboratory of the CLH Group appointed \u201ccollaborating laboratory\u201d by the Spanish Centre of Metrology (CEM), under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism\nThe Company has signed a collaboration agreement to appoint CLH\u2019s laboratory as the reference centre of the CEM for metrology in the field of oil products.\nMadrid, 21-10-2014 \u2014 /EuropaWire/ \u2014 The CEM, under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, is responsible for the custody and preservation of national standards of measurement and calibration.\nThe Metrology Laboratory of CLH has been appointed \u201cCollaborating Laboratory\u201d by the Spanish Centre of Metrology (CEM). This will enable the use of laboratory facilities for performing joint calibrations, verifications and tests of oil products measuring equipment.\nThe Managing Director of the CLH Group, Salvador Guill\u00e9n, and the General Secretary and ex officio President of the CEM, Bego\u00f1a Cristeto, have signed today the collaboration agreement at a ceremony held in Madrid.\nThrough this agreement, the Metrology Laboratory of CLH widens the scope of activities, providing services to the CEM, thus becoming its only reference laboratory for metrology activities in the field of oil products, apart from performing its usual certification activities for both the Company and other firms.\nThe agreement also involves CLH\u2019s commitment to participate in reinforcing the country\u2019s metrology infrastructure, cooperating with the CEM in joint R&D projects, exchanging experiences and metrology information with the other associated laboratories and collaborators, and participating in international forums.\nThe Metrology Laboratory of the CLH Group, located in Loeches (Madrid), is responsible for verifying, calibrating and adjusting the measuring equipment of oil products. This centre, the only metrology laboratory in Spain that is accredited by the Spanish Accreditation Body (ENAC) in the field, also designs, develops, and manufactures most of the equipment used for carrying out these controls, and have patented several systems.\nThe CEM, an autonomous institution under the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Tourism, is responsible for metrology organisational structure in Spain. Among other tasks, this centre is competent for the custody and preservation of national measuring standards, the development of a Spanish calibration service, the performance of State functions in national metrological control, carrying out R&D projects in the metrological field, and the training of specialists in metrology.\n\u2190 QIAGEN N.V. announces new capabilities for its Ingenuity\u00ae Variant Analysis\u2122 and CLC Cancer Research Workbench solution\nRabobank report: Brazil to increase fed beef production by approximately 2.5 million tonnes per annum by 2023 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 496, "original_length": 35173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/204722", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:56Z", "digest": "sha1:IVBNITNPRVOAFSSXTSBZZHGNG6ROAXOS", "length": 5865, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "news.illinois.edu", "title": "News Bureau | ILLINOIS", "raw_content": "Study: Renewable fuel standard needs to be modified, not repealed\nIn a new study, University of Illinois law professor Jay P. Kesan, right, and Timothy A. Slating, a regulatory associate with the Energy Biosciences Institute, say that the Renewable Fuel Standard should be slightly modified, not repealed.\nCHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Congress should minimally modify - and not, as petroleum-related interests have increasingly lobbied for, repeal - the Renewable Fuel Standard, the most comprehensive renewable energy policy in the U.S., according to a new paper from two University of Illinois researchers.\nIn the study, U. of I. law professor Jay P. Kesan and Timothy A. Slating, a regulatory associate with the Energy Biosciences Institute, argue that RFS mandates merely ought to be adjusted to reflect current and predicted biofuel commercialization realities.\n\"The RFS is the first and only federal policy that directly mandates the use of renewable energy in the worthwhile effort to displace the use of fossil fuels for our energy needs,\" said Kesan, who also is the principal investigator for the Biofuel Law and Regulation project at the institute.\n\"As with any pioneering regulatory regime, unforeseen implementation issues will arise,\" Kesan said. \"But this does not justify throwing out the baby with the bath water. Every effort should be made to keep the RFS in place, but efforts should also be made to revise its regulatory regime to make it operate as efficiently as possible.\"\nIn the paper, Kesan and Slating contend that the RFS can serve as a \"model policy instrument\" for the federal support of all types of socially beneficial renewable energy technologies.\n\"By mandating a market for emerging biofuels, it sends a clear signal that if they are produced, they will be effectively commercialized,\" said Slating, who also is an adjunct professor in the law school. \"This, in turn, provides the necessary certainty to free up credit constraints and incentivize investment in the socially beneficial biofuels industry. Additionally, it does so with very little impact on the federal budget because regulated parties bear its costs.\"\n\"While the federal government has traditionally incentivized renewable energy development through tax credits and funding R&D grants, these approaches are more costly than simply mandating a market,\" said Kesan, who also holds U. of I. appointments in the College of Business, the Institute for Genomic Biology, the department of electrical and computer engineering, and the department of agricultural and consumer economics.\nThe researchers also contend that the biofuel categories of the RFS ought to be expanded to encompass all emerging biofuel technologies, as well as having its biomass sourcing constraints relaxed.\nBut while the current RFS policy is by no means flawless, and some of the current implementation issues would necessitate statutory changes, the authors say it would be more efficient for these changes to be made by the Environmental Protection Agency, as opposed to Congress.\n\"We recommend that Congress simply amend the RFS' statutory provisions to grant the EPA the authority to address its implementation issues via the regulatory rulemaking process,\" Kesan said. \"For example, the RFS's volumetric mandates need to be adjusted to reflect current biofuel production realities. But since Congress has demonstrated an inability to properly set these mandates in the past, it would be more efficient for the EPA to set the RFS mandates for future years through a formal rulemaking process with input from all affected stakeholders.\"\n\"It's clearly a step in the right direction that the EPA has finally initiated rulemaking to address the issue of RIN fraud and help promote liquidity in the RIN market,\" Slating said. RIN stands for renewable identification number, a number assigned to a given amount of biofuel by the EPA so that its production, use and trading can be tracked.\nAlthough the biggest issue with traditional biofuels usually can be reduced to the food vs. fuel argument, the researchers stress that if the RFS is successful in achieving its goals, it will usher in the use of emerging biofuels that will have significantly less impact on food-related markets.\n\"The ultimate goal of the RFS is to incentivize the increased commercialization of second-generation biofuels, such as cellulosic biofuels that do not rely on food-related feedstocks for their production,\" Slating said. \"But in order to efficiently accomplish this goal, the RFS also must continue to incentivize the use of first-generation biofuels like corn ethanol.\"\n\"In the short-term, if any food vs. fuel tradeoffs result from the RFS' implementation, they will likely be minimal and probably justified in order to effectuate the long-term goal of facilitating the widespread adoption of second-generation biofuels.\"\nKesan and Slating's study also notes that the RFS has only been fully implemented in its current form for three years, and legislatively revising it in an overly reactionary manner would be ill advised at this point.\n\"Stakeholders and markets must be given time to adjust to the existing regime before serious and informed discussion about significantly altering the RFS, beyond what we propose, can be had,\" Kesan said. \"Likewise, you've got to allow some time for the maturation of this pioneering and socially beneficial renewable energy policy.\"\nThe research will be published in a forthcoming issue of the New York University Environmental Law Journal.\nThe Energy Biosciences Institute, supported in part by BP, funded the study.\nTo contact Jay P. Kesan, call 217-333-7887; email kesan@illinois.edu. To contact Timothy A. Slating, call 217-333-6178; email slating2@illinois.edu.\nThe paper, \u201cThe Renewable Fuel Standard 3.0?: Moving Forward with the Federal Biofuel Mandate,\u201d is available online.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 7893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/500138", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YYO5OKBVB2RDQM7VW7MCOOIVC5VJ2FPR", "length": 4722, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "news.illinois.edu", "title": "News Bureau | ILLINOIS", "raw_content": "Electroplating delivers high-energy, high-power batteries\nMay 12, 2017 2:00 pm by Liz Ahlberg Touchstone | Biomedical Sciences Editor | 217-244-1073EngineeringPhysical Sciences\nIllinois professor Paul Braun and Hailong Ning, the director of research and development at Xerion Advanced Battery Corporation, led a research team that developed a method for directly electroplating lithium-ion battery cathodes.\nCHAMPAIGN, Ill. \u2014 The process that makes gold-plated jewelry or chrome car accents is now making powerful lithium-ion batteries.\nResearchers at the University of Illinois, Xerion Advanced Battery Corporation and Nanjing University in China developed a method for electroplating lithium-ion battery cathodes, yielding high-quality, high-performance battery materials that could also open the door to flexible and solid-state batteries.\nAn electron micrograph cross-section shows aluminum foil plated with lithium cobalt oxide, a common material in lithium-ion batteries.\nImage courtesy of Hailong Ning and Jerome Davis III, Xerion Advanced Battery Corp.\n\u201cThis is an entirely new approach to manufacturing battery cathodes, which resulted in batteries with previously unobtainable forms and functionalities,\u201d said Paul V. Braun, a professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab at Illinois. He co-led the research group that published its findings in the journal Science Advances.\nTraditional lithium-ion battery cathodes use lithium-containing powders formed at high temperatures. The powder is mixed with gluelike binders and other additives into a slurry, which is spread on a thin sheet of aluminum foil and dried. The slurry layer needs to be thin, so the batteries are limited in how much energy they can store. The glue also limits performance.\n\u201cThe glue is not active. It doesn\u2019t contribute anything to the battery, and it gets in the way of electricity flowing in the battery,\u201d said co-author Hailong Ning, the director of research and development at Xerion Advanced Battery Corporation in Champaign, a startup company co-founded by Braun. \u201cYou have all this inactive material taking up space inside the battery, while the whole world is trying to get more energy and power from the battery.\u201d\nThe researchers bypassed the powder and glue process altogether by directly electroplating the lithium materials onto the aluminum foil.\nElectroplating can be applied to textured, three-dimensional or flexible substrates, opening the door to new battery designs. The right side of this quarter was plated with lithium cobalt oxide.\nSince the electroplated cathode doesn\u2019t have any glue taking up space, it packs in 30 percent more energy than a conventional cathode, according to the paper. It can charge and discharge faster as well, since the current can pass directly through it and not have to navigate around the inactive glue or through the slurry\u2019s porous structure. It also has the advantage of being more stable.\nAdditionally, the electroplating process creates pure cathode materials, even from impure starting ingredients. This means that manufacturers can use materials lower in cost and quality and the end product will still be high in performance, eliminating the need to start with expensive materials already brought up to battery grade, Braun said.\n\u201cThis method opens the door to flexible and three-dimensional battery cathodes, since electroplating involves dipping the substrate in a liquid bath to coat it,\u201d said co-author Huigang Zhang, a former senior scientist at Xerion who is now a professor at Nanjing University.\nThe electroplating method could enable flexible, three-dimensional battery designs. This plated aluminum foil rolled up without cracking.\nThe researchers demonstrated the technique on carbon foam, a lightweight, inexpensive material, making cathodes that were much thicker than conventional slurries. They also demonstrated it on foils and surfaces with different textures, shapes and flexibility.\n\u201cThese designs are impossible to achieve by conventional processes,\u201d Braun said. \u201cBut what\u2019s really important is that it\u2019s a high-performance material and that it\u2019s nearly solid. By using a solid electrode rather than a porous one, you can store more energy in a given volume. At the end of the day, people want batteries to store a lot of energy.\u201d\nThe U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science supported this work at the U. of I. Materials science and engineering professor Jian-Min Zuo also was part of the Illinois team.\nEditor\u2019s notes: To reach Paul Braun, call 217-244-7293; email pbraun@illinois.edu.\nThe paper \u201cElectroplating lithium transition metal oxides\u201d is available online. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.1602427", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 7137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.kobo.com/blog/the-new-voice-of-cindy-lou-who-and-her-favourite-books", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:36Z", "digest": "sha1:7J7NVPHFIIXLQRZXEUQT7PHX7TYQRK4P", "length": 1502, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "news.kobo.com", "title": "The new voice of Cindy Lou Who and her favourite books | Kobo", "raw_content": "The new voice of Cindy Lou Who and her favourite books\nThe new voice of Cindy Lou Who in the latest animated version of Dr. Seuss\u2019s The Grinch is none other than rising star Cameron Seely, that\u2019s who\nCindy Lou Who in the latest animated version of Dr. Seuss\u2019s The Grinch\nThe Grinch, the beloved tale of how kindness can make even the biggest of curmudgeons\u2019 heart swell, is an evergreen classic that started off as a book and grew to entertain many on TV screens and in movie theatres across the globe. We caught up with Cameron Seely, the new voice of Cindy Lou Who, to chat about her favourite books.\nRising star Cameron Seely is the new voice of Cindy Lou Who\nFirst up, Dr. Seuss\u2019s Fox in Socks. Her dad used to read her this tongue twister of a story, rarely stumbling on the words. Impressive! Two of her other must-read recommendations: Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George and Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo.\nDr. Seuss's Fox and Socks is one of Cameron's favourite reads.\nWe couldn\u2019t end our chat with Cameron without asking about her current read. Pet-Sitting Peril is that book, of which she said: \u201cIt's about this kid named Nick who takes care of these pets in this apartment and he decides to spend the night there, where he finds out what really happens behind the walls of \u2018normal\u2019 apartments.\u201d\nThe Grinch is now available on digital and 4k Ultra HD, 3D Blu-ray\u2122, Blu-ray\u2122 and DVD!\nFor similar blog content, read \u201cThe House with a Clock in its Walls\u201d cast & crew favourite reads", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.livejournal.com/147459.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:IYLW2FYG76PIFQEIIBKA627QXJQT3KTO", "length": 1879, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "news.livejournal.com", "title": "LiveJournal apps, new headquarters, and a lawsuit: news", "raw_content": "LiveJournal apps, new headquarters, and a lawsuit\nEarlier this week, we announced that a redesigned version of the LiveJournal app for Android has been released, the redesigned iOS app has undergone a major update, and that the older version of the app will be re-released soon as LiveJournal Classic. Check the full release notes out over here!\nLiveJournal Video\nWe asked for your feedback a few weeks ago about a new video we made to help describe what LiveJournal is to people who might not be familiar with it. We've made a few minor adjustments to fix some typos/grammatical issues based on your feedback. The new version can be seen below, please feel free to help spread the word about LiveJournal and share the video with your friends!\nOur main headquarters has moved! Don't worry, we're still located in San Francisco, we've just relocated into a bigger space to accommodate our growing team.\nONTD Lawsuit\nAs you may have seen, LiveJournal was sued by Mavrix, a photography agency who was the copyright holder of several images which had been posted to Oh No They Didn't! (ONTD). We are glad to report that the district court ruled in LiveJournal's favor. For those interested in reading the decision, it is available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/240594730/Mavrix-v-Livejournal-Summary-Judgment-Order.\nThe point we want to address today, however, is that during this process moderators & maintainers of ONTD felt harassed & threatened, and Mavrix attempted to force us to reveal their identities. It was our opinion that community moderators should not be forced to reveal their identities or be subjected to harassment for content posted by other members of that community. We take your privacy seriously here, tirelessly fought all requests for this information, and were not required to release any information about any member of LiveJournal as part of this lawsuit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.otc.edu/otc-students-honored-at-mcca-50th-annual-convention/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:19Z", "digest": "sha1:C3FWNGYZNBSZ3ICO7P75WYWWLU5XQNCT", "length": 2420, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "news.otc.edu", "title": "OTC students honored at MCCA 50th annual convention - OTC News & Information", "raw_content": "BlogHome \u00bb News \u00bb OTC students honored at\u2026\nOTC students honored at MCCA 50th annual convention\nThree students from Ozarks Technical Community College were recognized at the Missouri Community College Association\u2019s 50th annual convention. MCCA presented Student Leadership Awards to 21 state-wide community college students during the convention\u2019s closing ceremony, which was held Friday, Nov. 7 at the Branson Hilton Convention Center.\nEach year, representatives from MCCA-affiliated colleges and campuses across Missouri nominate students who demonstrate outstanding leadership skills for the award. OTC\u2019s 2014 Student Leadership Award recipients are:\nAshley O\u2019Neal, OTC Springfield Campus\nO\u2019Neal is president of the campus\u2019 Phi Theta Kappa chapter. In 2013, she was the chapter\u2019s vice president of promotions. She is working toward an associate degree in teaching and plans to transfer to a four-year university to pursue her bachelor\u2019s degree.\nCatie Myers, OTC Richwood Valley Campus\nMyers is pursuing an associate degree in behavioral science and plans to transfer to Missouri State University to complete a degree in social work. Her ultimate goal is to pursue a master\u2019s degree and work with the elderly.\nMindy Martin, OTC Table Rock Campus\nMartin is an active member of the campus\u2019 Phi Theta Kappa chapter and is training to become a licensed practical nurse. Martin has been on the OTC Dean\u2019s List and gave the student commencement address for the LPN program in July 2014.\nThe Missouri Community College Association is a professional education association designed to promote the growth and development of Missouri\u2019s community colleges and community college employees. MCCA is the only professional organization that exclusively serves the public community college system.\nJack and Pete Herschend to receive Excellence in Business Award from OTC\nJack and Peter Herschend, co-founders and co-owners of Herschend Family Entertainment Corporation (formerly Silver Dollar\u2026\nOTC to host community job fair\nOzarks Technical Community College\u2019s Career Services will host a job fair on Wednesday, March 29\u2026\nOTC instructors receive Governor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Teaching\nThree Ozarks Technical Community College instructors were recognized for excellence in the classroom by the\u2026\nprevious post: Sgt. Joseph M. Peters honored with Distinguished Alumni Award\nnext post: Meet OTC Table Rock Campus President Cliff Davis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 7146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.tj/en/news/tajikistan/laworder/20180712/resident-of-khujand-gets-a-lengthy-jail-term-for-membership-in-isis-terror-group", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:05Z", "digest": "sha1:CMNPFYRK3S75S45JESZYYFG2EHWI5VYB", "length": 2046, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "news.tj", "title": "Resident of Khujand gets a lengthy jail term for membership in ISIS terror group | Tajikistan News ASIA-Plus", "raw_content": "Tajkistan / Law-order / Resident of Khujand gets a lengthy jail term for membership in ISIS terror group\nResident of Khujand gets a lengthy jail term for membership in ISIS terror group\nFile photo/Tel\u00e9grafo\nA resident of the northern city of Khujand has got a lengthy jail term for membership in the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group.\nThe Khujand city court sentenced the 37-year-old Sunatullo Muhammadiyev to fifteen years in prison on July 11. The sentence followed his conviction on charges of illegal involvement of citizens in foreign armed conflicts (Article 401\u2019). Sunatullo Muhammadiyev will serve his term in a high-security penal colony.\nJudge Shuhrat Saidmukhtorzoda, who presided over the trial, says Sunatullo Muhammadiyev together with his mother, his wife and three underage children traveled to Turkey in July 2016 and from there to Syria. He reportedly fought alongside ISIS militants during two months before being detained by Syrian law enforcement authorities and extradited to Tajikistan.\nRecall, Sunatullo Muhammadiyev\u2019s brother, Masrourkhon Muhammadiyev (doctor by profession), 36, was sentenced by the Khujand city court to 12 years in prison on June 13 for joining the ISIS terror group. He was found guilty of preparation for crime or attempted crime (Article 32 (3) of Tajikistan\u2019s Penal Code) and illegal involvement of citizens in foreign armed conflicts (Article 401\u2019). He is also serving his term in a high-security penal colony.\nMasrourkhon Muhammadiyev reportedly joined the ISIS terror group in 2016 following calls from his Sunatullo Muhammadiyev, who was already fighting alongside ISIS militants in Syria.\nMasrourkhon Muhammadiyev together with his wife and two underage children traveled to Istanbul, where he was detained by Turkish law enforcement authorities and extradited to Tajikistan.\nLast year, courts in the northern Sughd province reportedly considered 165 criminal proceedings instituted against 257 local residents charged with involvement in terrorist and extremist activities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news784.com/local-news/community-consultations-on-medicinal-cannabis-legal-framework/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:VW4P45H25OZR7Y3VGK473FRCVW6S4GND", "length": 1789, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "news784.com", "title": "Community Consultations on Medicinal Cannabis Legal Framework", "raw_content": "HomeNationalCommunity Consultations on Medicinal Cannabis Legal Framework\nAugust 13, 2018 admin National Comments Off on Community Consultations on Medicinal Cannabis Legal Framework\nThe Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines through the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Rural Transformation, Industry and Labour will be conducting a series of community consultations to educate and solicit feedback on the legal framework for the establishment of a Medicinal Cannabis Industry here.\nThe legal framework is comprised of three draft bills:\nThe Medicinal Cannabis Industry Bill 2018 which has the objective of establishing a Medicinal Cannabis Industry to provide for the lawful access to medicinal cannabis as an alternative treatment for persons who are suffering from a qualifying medical condition.\nThe Cannabis Cultivation (Amnesty) Bill 2018 which provides for an amnesty to grant a reprieve to persons in illegal cultivation of cannabis to transition them into legitimate medicinal cannabis farmers and\nThe Permitted Use of Cannabis for Religious Purposes Bill 2018 which seeks to provide for decriminalization and not legalization of cannabis for religious purposes.\nThe Bills are expected to have their first reading when Parliament convenes on Monday August 20th, 2018.\nTwo community consultations are scheduled for Tuesday, August 14th at the Diamond Government School and Thursday, August 16th at the Troumaca Government School each commencing at 6:00 pm.\nConsultations are expected to be held in other communities within St. Vincent and the Grenadines.\nThe panel will consist of Dr. Jerrol Thompson, and a representative from the Attorney General\u2019s Chambers.\nAn invitation is extended to the public to participate in the process of establishing this industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 247.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsinfo.atavist.com/remote-database-consulting-and-administration-the-cost-and-operational-advantages", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:FM5X6LYOBROSYFJDISFTO5M6YAOR7DM4", "length": 3419, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "newsinfo.atavist.com", "title": "Remote Database Consulting and Administration \u2013 The Cost and Operational Advantages", "raw_content": "The heart of modern businesses is their databases that store the information of each and every aspect of their existence; sales, finance, vendors, staff, the competition, and much more. The continuous availability of the database, as well as its high performance, is critical for operations. However, for databases to perform efficiently, they need to be constantly monitored and attended to.\nThe Need for Database Administration\nThe size of the database and the need for performance depends on the size and nature of the business, however, in the typically competitive environment; a finely-tuned database can often be the difference between success and failure. Large business will generally have dedicated teams of database administrators while smaller businesses may make use of shared resources to reduce effort and cost. Whatever be the operational setup, DBAs need to be extremely familiar with how databases are structured, what the requirements are of operating systems and must be expert in working comfortably with both data architects and developers of applications.\nNot only are database administrators required to undertake performance analysis and fine-tuning of the database but also undertake essential functions like backups and recovery in the eventuality of database crashes or breaches. Essentially, DBAs are responsible for ensuring the continued database availability and ensure it is operating at its peak performance.\nThe Need to Outsource Database Administration\nLike it or not, most of the IT resources of a business are consumed by the need to perform administrative tasks that are essentially low-level and while these tasks need to be done, they rarely contribute to revenue generation. In the current strained economic environment that needs to deal with pressure on IT budgets, high employee attrition, better employee benefits, heavier cost of manpower replacement, etc. companies are increasingly turning to outsourcing the database administration in order to focus better on their core competencies and fighting competition. Switching over to a remote database administration regime allows CTOs to streamline their department\u2019s operations, reduce their staff strength, get rid of the responsibility of looking after legacy systems and yet boost the performance of the database in one go.\nHow the ROI of Remote Database Management Makes It More Attractive\nEngaging remote database administration services is a proven way of streamlining operations and incurring lesser costs while being able to access a larger and deeper talent pool and advanced technologies. By outsourcing the database administration, you can raise the enterprise productivity, significantly reduce costs, compete better with the competition as well as reduce the vulnerability of the database to crashes and security breaches. Engaging remote DBA service providers frees you from having to invest in IT infrastructure, gives you the opportunity of redeploying skilled employees in functions that lead to better productivity, ensure problems are resolved faster and increase the database availability.\nOutsourcing database administration is a great way of businesses being able to focus on what they do best; meeting customer demand and achieving targeted revenue and profitability. 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In addition, as part of a 15-year exclusive training agreement, Avianca will conduct all its pilot training at the Avianca-CAE joint venture. The equally-owned joint venture will also offer training in Colombia to airlines in the region. The creation of this joint venture was approved in May by Colombia\u2019s Superintendency of Industry and Commerce (SIC).\nThe Avianca-CAE Flight Training joint venture will provide Airbus A320, A330, ATR and Boeing 787 training in Bogota on seven full-flight simulators (FFS), offering the highest level of fidelity. Four simulators are already in operation and the joint venture will be deploying three additional CAE-built simulators. The Avianca-CAE initial investment for this joint venture will be approximately US$70 million, shared equally.\n\u201cWith this company, training of Avianca\u2019s pilots will be carried out locally, which implies that they will not have to travel to other countries to acquire this service, improving their quality of life and optimizing training times,\u201d said Hernan Rincon, CEO of Avianca. \u201cThis new joint venture will significantly increase the number of flight simulators available in Latin America, benefiting not only Avianca but all airlines operating in the region. Also, this company together with other projects such as the MRO (Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul Center) in Medellin and the CEO (Operational Excellency Center) in Bogota, will allow Avianca to stay on track in positioning Colombia as a center for specialized aviation services with leading-edge technology, and will make Avianca the greatest generator of currency for the region.\u201d\n\u201cWe are honored to join forces with Avianca to become its Training Partner of Choice and to provide best-in-class training to other airlines in Colombia and the region,\u201d said Marc Parent, President and CEO of CAE. \u201cCAE is dedicated to offering customers in the growing Latin American market the most innovative training solutions to achieve the highest levels of safety and efficiency.\"\nSubject to regulatory approvals, the joint venture is expected to start operations in late summer 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 184.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newyorkminute.blog/2018/01/10/al-frosolone-retires-as-president-ceo-of-niagaras-choice-fcu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3KCKD4OEWJZSN4KPFN2S34VLULRFHQBK", "length": 1540, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "newyorkminute.blog", "title": "Al Frosolone retires as president/CEO of Niagara\u2019s Choice FCU \u2013 The New York Minute", "raw_content": "Al Frosolone retires as president/CEO of Niagara\u2019s Choice FCU\nOn January 10, 2018 By nycuaIn Credit Unions\nLongtime credit union leader Al Frosolone of Niagara\u2019s Choice FCU, a past New York Credit Union Association board chairman, has retired. His last day with the credit union was Dec. 30.\nFrosolone served for nearly 30 years in a leadership capacity at the Niagara Falls-based credit union, where, as CEO, he grew the credit union from $23 million in assets to more than $180 million.\nHe was the Association board chairman from 2009-2011, serving 16 years total on the Association\u2019s board.\nFrosolone, who received the Association\u2019s Professional of the Year award in 1997, also served on the boards of the New York Credit Union Foundation, OwnersChoice Funding and UsNet, as well as on many Association committees.\n\u201cFor the past three decades, Al has been a tremendous credit union leader who has made invaluable contributions to Western New York and our statewide movement,\u201d said Association President/CEO William J. Mellin. \u201cWhile it\u2019s difficult to see someone of Al\u2019s stature go, his retirement is certainly well-deserved, and his contributions to our movement will be evident for years to come. I wish Al a very happy and healthy retirement.\u201d\nDan Keleher has been appointed by the Niagara\u2019s Choice FCU board of directors to serve as the credit union\u2019s new CEO. Keleher previously served as the credit union\u2019s executive vice president. Prior to that, Keleher worked for nearly a decade at SEFCU, where he served in various capacities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nickandmeryl.uk/galleries/2015-11-burley/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2RTLSHCWYSOBSGE6BHAUV2MJIE3EJXHX", "length": 176, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nickandmeryl.uk", "title": "Burley - Nick and Meryl - Ipswich, UK", "raw_content": "In November 2015 we adopted a new cat from the local RSPCA branch named Burley. He's an elderly chap, around 16, and enjoys an early morning sing-song but is very affectionate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nma.org/2017/07/18/kinross-gold-a-shining-example-of-caring-for-our-neighbors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:11Z", "digest": "sha1:PDPVVNGCLX7HBQ7RVDE7CV6M42336LST", "length": 2459, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "nma.org", "title": "Kinross Gold: A Shining Example of Caring for Our Neighbors - National Mining Association", "raw_content": "Kinross Gold: A Shining Example of Caring for Our Neighbors\nMining and its employees are at the center of communities all across America, and the mining industry is committed to being good neighbors wherever operations are located. That means our mining companies are dedicated to upholding environmental standards while providing the critical resources that fuel the economy, foster innovation, build infrastructure, promote job creation and secure the nation\u2019s energy future.\nPart of being a good neighbor isn\u2019t just reclaiming in the land, but giving back to the community during the process. Kinross Gold is a shining example of being a good neighbor.\nIts Bald Mountain operations recently donated $30,000 to help enhance the 911 emergency services in Elko, the mine\u2019s neighboring community, located in a remote area of Nevada. The current system lacks GPS technology, which means that if someone needs assistance, especially on a rural road where emergency crews don\u2019t know the exact location, it would be very difficult to quickly find those in need of assistance.\n\u201cOur donation is an example of our core value, Putting People First, in action\u201d said Randy Burggraff, vice president and general manager of Bald Mountain. \u201cWe are proud to be able to make a contribution to help upgrade 911 services in Elko. You never know when an emergency will happen and we want to help make sure that this vital service is available for everyone, regardless of their location.\u201d\nIn addition, Kinross\u2019s Round Mountain donated $35,200 to support public health care access in the remote Nye County. The money will go towards helping the public health nurse provide full-time services in the remote region. Due to public funding shortages, the office hours had been significantly cut and the community was facing the loss of many services like immunizations, medical treatments and wellness checks. The critical donation makes it possible for the public health nurse to provide services to the community in 2017.\n\u201cWe are happy to be contributing to such an important cause in our community. Our county doesn\u2019t have other options for public health care and the prospect of it closing would have impacted many families in the area. The donation goes a long way to help keep the service up and running for this year,\u201d said Ranay Guifarro, head of corporate responsibility at Round Mountain said. \u201cIt\u2019s a small part that we can play in the community and we are proud to do it.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 173.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nordicdesign.ca/tag/finnish-illustrator/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:00Z", "digest": "sha1:53SHRU6JJB32L2QRSAIU65IKUBSJX7SR", "length": 127, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nordicdesign.ca", "title": "Finnish illustrator Archives - NordicDesign", "raw_content": "Tea Towels from Finland\nKauniste's tea towels are inspired by the Finnish kitchen linens from the 60s' and 70s', and promote...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 204.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nwtaac.org/events/boise-id-event-april-12-2018-introduction-nafta-3-free-trade-agreements-korea-colombia-panama/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:03Z", "digest": "sha1:OV7FL7MBFKKMZYQY5PY2YU2FFPMJKAZJ", "length": 1213, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "nwtaac.org", "title": "Boise, ID event, April 12, 2018: Introduction to NAFTA & 3 Free Trade Agreements Korea, Colombia, & Panama - NWTAAC", "raw_content": "Boise, ID event, April 12, 2018: Introduction to NAFTA & 3 Free Trade Agreements Korea, Colombia, & Panama\nIntroduction to NAFTA & 3 Free Trade Agreements\nKorea, Colombia, & Panama\nPresented by Allocca Enterprises, Inc. in cooperation with the U.S. Commercial Service and the Idaho District Export Council\nThis program will help you be in full compliance with all NAFTA regulations. You will know where to go and what to look for to be able to determine if your products qualify for the benefits of NAFTA. Most companies are exposing themselves unnecessarily to NAFTA penalties. In some cases, your goods have low or zero duty already and therefore no need to expose your company to potential NAFTA violations or to fill out a NAFTA certificate if your products do not qualify. You will also have an overview of the Free Trade Agreements with Panama, South Korea, and Colombia.\nWhen - Thursday, April 12, 2018; 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.\nWhere - Holiday Inn Express, 2970 West Elder Street, Boise, ID 83705\nCost - $250 per person if registered before March 30, $295 per person after March 30\nPrice includes all reference material, morning pastries/coffee, and lunch.\nQuestions - Contact\nRegister online for this event!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nypost.com/2007/09/30/reel-good-37/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YPDPTLA2OB2LPY2Z733UKJOR4OZGT3BD", "length": 1521, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "nypost.com", "title": "REEL GOOD", "raw_content": "Monday, 2 a.m., TCM\nA somewhat overwrought but terrific howler about a mean, cheap, rotten headmaster (Paul Meurisse) who gets his due when his former mistress (Simone Signoret) and his sickly wife (Vera Clouzot) plot to kill him. But nothing is as it seems in this intriguing whodunit. Is he dead? Is he somehow alive? And what\u2019s with the dry-cleaned suit?\nMonday, 8 p.m., TCM\nEight Oscars including best actor, picture, and director, went to this stunning story of the struggle for India\u2019s independence from Britain under the guidance of passive-resistance leader Mohandas Gandhi (Ben Kingsley). A sterling cast includes Candice Bergen, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills and Martin Sheen.\nWednesday, 8 p.m., TCM\nWoody Allen is Isaac, a writer (you\u2019re kidding!) whose wife (Meryl Streep) has left him for another woman and is writing a book about her life with Isaac. Isaac, however, is now dating a 17-year old high school student (Mariel Hemingway) when he meets his old roommate\u2019s mistress (Diane Keaton) and starts an affair with her. Reel life or real life, Woody?\nSaturday, 9 p.m., HBO\nLeonardo DiCaprio is Danny Archer, an ex-mercenary, and Djimon Hounsou is Solomon Vandy, a fisherman, and their lives intertwine during political upheaval in Sierra Leone. After Vandy, who\u2019s been taken prisoner and made to slave away in the diamond mines, finds a rare pink diamond, and hides it, he becomes invaluable to Archer. The mercenary wants to deal: Vandy\u2019s missing family for the stone.\n'GREY'S' TAKES ADULT SWIM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 5573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nypsnetwork.com/2018/11/17/watch-brandon-karson-marathon-part-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:55Z", "digest": "sha1:D46TDZE6FQ2NRTCJODCETRHF54T2WXSO", "length": 86, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nypsnetwork.com", "title": "Watch \u201cBrandon Karson Marathon Part 3\u201d \u00ab The NYPS Network", "raw_content": "In the final part of the marathon we take a look at two of Brandon\u2019s current projects.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 136.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/11/23/remarks-president-pardoning-national-thanksgiving-turkey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:40Z", "digest": "sha1:DN2ULADTTBNBNE3ZJX2COJCJYJ3JRSIM", "length": 3780, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "obamawhitehouse.archives.gov", "title": "Remarks by the President at the Pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey | whitehouse.gov", "raw_content": "Remarks by the President at the Pardoning of the National Thanksgiving Turkey\nTHE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody! Well, it is wonderful to see all of you here today. Happy Thanksgiving, and welcome to the White House.\nTomorrow is one of the best days of the year to be an American. It\u2019s a day to count our blessings, spend time with the ones we love, and enjoy some good food and some great company. But it\u2019s also one of the worst days of the year to be a turkey. (Laughter.) They don\u2019t have it so good.\nThe rare exception, of course, are the two birds who\u2019ve joined me today. Now, is Peace here, or just Liberty? Just Liberty is here, but Peace is back here somewhere. Some of you may know that recently I\u2019ve been taking a series of executive actions that don\u2019t require Congressional approval. (Laughter.) Well, here\u2019s another one. We can\u2019t wait to pardon these turkeys. (Laughter.) Literally. Otherwise they\u2019d end up next to the mashed potatoes and stuffing.\nI want to thank Richard Huisinga, the Chairman of the National Turkey Federation, and his wonderful family for donating this year\u2019s turkey from his farm in Willmar, Minnesota. The turkey\u2019s name is Liberty -- there he is -- and along with his understudy named Peace, he has the distinction of being the luckiest bird on the face of the Earth. Right now, he\u2019s also probably one of the most confused. (Laughter.)\nLiberty was chosen from a flock of about 30 other contestants for the honor of being here today. And for the first time in history, these two turkeys were raised by four students from nearby Willmar High School.\nNow, I\u2019m told that in order to prepare Liberty and Peace for their big day, the students exposed them to loud noises and flash bulbs so that they\u2019d be ready to face the White House press corps. This is actually true. They also received the most important part of their media training, which involves learning how to gobble without really saying anything. (Laughter.)\nSo Liberty is ready for his turn in the spotlight. And after he finishes a round of cable hits and a few Sunday shows, he\u2019s going to retire to a life of leisure at Mount Vernon -- the same place where George Washington spent his golden years.\nAnd later today, Michelle, Malia, Sasha and I will also be taking two unnamed turkeys, who weren\u2019t so lucky, to a local food bank here in D.C. that helps those in need. And I want to thank the folks at Jaindl\u2019s Turkey Farm in Orefield, Pennsylvania, for donating these dressed birds for the third year in a row.\nA great writer once called Thanksgiving the \u201cone day that is ours \u2026 the one day that is purely American.\u201d\nWhen we gather around our tables tomorrow to share the fruits of our blessings, let\u2019s remember what that means. Let\u2019s be grateful for what we have. Let\u2019s be mindful of those who have less. Let\u2019s appreciate those who hold a special place in our lives, and make sure that they know it. And let\u2019s think about those who can\u2019t spend the holiday with their loved ones \u2013- especially the members of our military serving overseas. I\u2019d like to thank all our men and women in uniform and their families for their incredible service and devotion.\nAnd that\u2019s what being an American is all about. Even when times are tough, we look out for each other. We lift each other up. And we remind ourselves just how lucky we are here, together, in the greatest country on Earth.\nSo from our family to yours, I want to wish everybody a wonderful and happy and healthy Thanksgiving.\nAnd now, since Liberty and Peace have been so patient, it is my privilege to grant them the official pardon. And I\u2019m going to -- I\u2019ve got to give them a little symbol. (Laughter.)\n(The turkeys are pardoned.)\nTHE PRESIDENT: All right, you are hereby pardoned. (Laughter.) Give them a round of applause. (Applause.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 9298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://odiasamachar.wordpress.com/2014/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:O2CKA5BNXFS5RR3VJLC5DKMYCYIE3JL5", "length": 17250, "nlines": 75, "source_domain": "odiasamachar.wordpress.com", "title": "April | 2014 | odiakhabar", "raw_content": "NGOs vulnerable to risk of terror financing: Govt\nPTI | Mar 19, 2014, 07.11 PM IST\nhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/NGOs-vulnerable-to-risk-of-terror-financing-Govt/articleshow/32304400.cms\nA total of 43,527 NGOs were registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act upto March 31, 2012.\nNEW DELHI: With voluntary organizations receiving more than Rs 11,500 crore of foreign funds annually, the Union home ministry has warned that the NGOs in the country were vulnerable to risks of money laundering and terror financing.\nIn its latest annual report on receipt and utilization of foreign contribution by voluntary associations, the home ministry said since the NGOs work independently outside the government, it is expected that they should be self- regulating and law abiding.\nOne of the objectives of the national policy on the voluntary sector is to \u201cencourage NGOs to adopt transparent and accountable system of governance and management\u201d.\n\u201cWhile it is not proper to make sweeping generalizations, it is necessary to note that the NGO sector in India is vulnerable to the risks of money laundering and terrorist financing,\u201d the report said.\nIn his foreword, Union home secretary Anil Goswami said the general policy of the government is not to encourage soliciting of foreign contribution and the endeavour of the ministry has been to bring in transparency and accountability in the operation of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act while ensuring national security.\nInterestingly, the returns have not been received from nearly 19,000 organizations for which appropriate action has been taken by the home ministry for non-compliance of their statutory obligations.\nAmongst the purposes for which foreign contribution was received and utilized are: rural development (Rs 945.77 crore), welfare of children (Rs 929.22 crore), construction and maintenance of school/college (Rs 824.11 crore) and research (Rs 539.14 crore).\nThe figures have been captured from the amounts indicated under various standard heads of utilization prescribed in the annual returns.\nFurther, some NGOs, which have reported receipt and utilization of foreign contribution, have not classified utilization appropriately under the respective standard heads and, therefore, such amount has been shown under the miscellaneous head.\n\u201cThus, these figures may not accurately reflect the utilization of foreign contribution under the specific standard heads. However, they do represent a statistical trend,\u201d the home ministry report said.\nDuring the year 2011-12, 22,702 NGOs reported receipt of foreign contribution amounting to Rs 11,546.29 crore. Among the NGOs, which have reported receipt of foreign contribution, the World Vision of India, Chennai, received the highest amount of foreign contribution (Rs 233.38 crore).\nOther NGOs which have received sizeable foreign contribution are the Believers Church India Pathanamthitta, Kerala (Rs 190 crore), the Rural Development Trust, Ananthapur, Andhra Pradesh (Rs 144.39 crore), the Indian Society Of Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, Delhi (Rs 130.77 crore) and Public Health Foundation Of India, Delhi (Rs 130.31 crore).\nThe list of foreign donors is headed by the Compassion International, USA (Rs 99.20 crore) followed by the HCL Holdings Pvt Ltd, Mauritius (Rs 69.98 crore), the Action Aid, UK (Rs 62.66 crore), Population Service International, USA (Rs 61.34 crore) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA (Rs 48.91 crore).\nThe five major donor countries are USA (Rs 3838.23), UK (Rs 1219.02 crore), Germany (Rs 1096.01 crore), Italy (Rs 528.88 crore) and the Netherlands (Rs 418.37 crore).\nOnly 2% NGOs registered with govt\nPTI | Mar 23, 2014, 09.42 AM IST\nhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Only-2-NGOs-registered-with-govt/articleshow/32532804.cms\nNEW DELHI: Despite voluntary organizations receiving over Rs 11,500 crore of foreign funds annually, only two per cent of the 20 lakh odd NGOs operating in the country have been registered, raising eyebrows in the home ministry.\nAccording to a home ministry report, although there is no centralized database on the number of NGOs in the country and the quantum of finance involved in their operations, unofficial figures indicate that there are over 20 lakh NGOs registered under Societies\u2019 Registration Act, Trust Act etc.\nHowever, the number of NGOs registered under Foreign Contribution Regulation Act would be less than 2 per cent of the total number of NGOs.\n\u201cThough, the number of associations reporting receipt and utilization of foreign contribution is increasing; yet, it is a matter of concern that a large number of registered associations still do not submit their statutory annual returns mandated by the law,\u201d the latest Home Ministry report on receipt and utilization of foreign contribution by voluntary associations said.\nA total of 43,527 NGOs were registered under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act up to March 31, 2012. During the year 2011-12, a total of 22,702 NGOs reported receipt of foreign contribution amounting to Rs 11,546.29 crore.\nAltogether 9,509 NGOs have reported \u2018Nil\u2019 receipt of foreign contribution while many have not filed their returns.\nAmong all states and Union Territories, Delhi received highest amount of foreign contributions in 2011-12.\nWhile Rs 2285.75 crore of foreign contribution has been received by 1482 NGOs in the national capital, 3341 NGOs in Tamil Nadu received Rs 1704.76 crore, 2527 NGOs in Andhra Pradesh received Rs 1258.52 crore and 2056 voluntary organizations in Maharashtra received Rs 1107.39 crore.\nThe five major donor countries are the US (Rs 3838.23 crore), the UK (Rs 1219.02 crore), Germany (Rs 1096.01 crore), Italy (Rs 528.88 crore) and the Netherlands (Rs 418.37 crore).\nPosted in news\t| Tagged NGO, NGOs vulnerable to risk of terror financing | Leave a comment\n3 new rice varieties invented by Central Rice Research Institute\nRabinarayan Panda, Odisha\nBhubaneswar 22/04 : Central Rice Research Institute (CRRI), cuttack, have developed three new high-yielding varieties of rice for different farming condition. Scientists of CRRI invented the new paddy seeds, CR Dhan 205, CR Dhan 306 and CRR 451, were recently identified by central variety identification committee under the ministry of agriculture for release. \u201cThe committee gave its approval for release of the three new varieties last week. These have been developed keeping in mind the changing climatic conditions and requirements of different states,\u201d said CRRI director Trilochan Mohapatra.\nThese three new varieties were tested in different parts of the country. Field test held under various climatic conditions for three years by scientists of Central Rice Research Institute. CRRI have developed 110 varieties of rice since 1946 for welfare of nation and farmer.\nThe CR Dhan 205 is suitable for Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha and Gujarat, which have serious irrigation problem. It can grow under water-deficiency conditions and yield 5.3 to 5.8 tons a hectare. It will go up to 8 tons a hectare under favorable conditions. It takes only 110 days to mature and can endure strong winds.\n\u201cIt requires 70% less water than traditional varieties. It is best for rain-fed Balangir and Kalahandi districts in Odisha,\u201d said principal scientist of CRRI S K Pradhan.\nCR Dhan 306 is suitable for irrigated areas and has been recommended for Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Puducherry. The variety takes only 125 days to mature and yields 6 tons per a hectare.\nThe CRR 451 matures in 95 days and is best suitable for Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh. The long thin grain will help traditional tribal farmers for their roof and it will ensure better profits to farmers. The rice variety is resistant to leaf blast disease and also tolerant to drought-like situation. On an average, it yields 3.5 to 4 tons a hectare.\nFarmers of coastal region will benefit by growing short-duration and drought-tolerant rice varieties.\nPosted in news\t| Tagged 3 new rice varieties invented by Central Rice Research Institute, Central Rice Research Institute | Leave a comment\nRe-polling tournout is 80% in 9 booths of odisha.\nFIR lodged against Poling agent and polling officer\nwhen fraud comes forward at kendujhara in the time of second phase polling by video clip, election commissioner grant to take action against polling agent and polling Officer for their irresponsibility.\nMisguided crusade against India\nWith exquisite timing, Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) is pushing a dishonest resolution that gratuitously insults the man who is the odds-on favorite to win that election. Ellison is teaming up with some Christian conservatives\u2026..\nCongress\u2019s misguided crusade against India\nThere is simply no comparison between India, where the government and dominant culture strive to accommodate religious diversity under very difficult conditions, and the many countries (including several in India\u2019s neighborhood) where the government and dominant culture work together to systematically stamp out religious diversity.\nFormer Deputy Assistant Sec. of the Interior\nRead more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/21/congresss-misguided-crusade-against-india/#ixzz2za650aSq\nIndia is a budding economic powerhouse which, as a multicultural democracy, shares America\u2019s most important fundamental values. Our relationship with India will be hugely important to us for years to come. This is especially true given recent revelations that our other supposed friend in South Asia, Pakistan, has been secretly (or not so secretly, to those of us who have been paying attention) acting as our enemy. India is in the midst of an important election to choose its next prime minister.\nWith exquisite timing, Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota) is pushing a dishonest resolution that gratuitously insults the man who is the odds-on favorite to win that election. Ellison is teaming up with some Christian conservatives like Frank Wolf (R-Virginia) and Tim Huelskamp (R-Kansas) who are, good intentions notwithstanding, picking the wrong battle against the wrong target.\nThe focus of the congressmen\u2019s ire is Narendra Modi, a free-market, anti-corruption reformer whom I have suggested might be India\u2019s Ronald Reagan. Ellison might agree with that comparison but, as a man of the far left, he would mean it as a slur rather than a compliment. House Resolution 417, co-sponsored and pushed by Ellison, is certainly a slur rather than a compliment\u2014a slur against Modi and against India. It is a ham-fisted attempt to influence India\u2019s election. While it will not succeed in doing that, it could certainly succeed in souring our relationship with what should be an important natural ally if passed.\nThe resolution creates the impression that Christians are persecuted in India, but the primary example used to support that notion is fairly dated: a single outbreak of Christian-Hindu violence that occurred seven years ago (and had nothing to do with Modi).\nI respect that the Republican co-sponsors of the resolution have a sincere desire to protect Christians. However, a little perspective is in order: Of all the countries in the world where Christians are a minority, few are more hospitable to Christians than Hindu-majority India. That is why over 25 million Christians choose to live in India, almost 10 times the number in neighboring Pakistan. Given the large number of countries where besieged Christian minorities are in constant mortal danger, it shows a distinct lack of moral judgment to single out India for its supposed persecution of Christians.\nThe real target of Resolution 417, however, is Modi, who is currently chief minister (governor) of the Indian state of Gujarat. The resolution essentially blames him for anti-Muslim violence that occurred in Gujarat in 2002. That violence occurred after Muslim arsonists burned almost 60 Hindu pilgrims alive on a train. Modi\u2019s critics accused him of facilitating the anti-Muslim retaliation, or at least not doing enough to stop it. The Supreme Court of India appointed a special investigation team that cleared Modi of any wrongdoing, but the authors of Resolution 417 somehow forgot to mention that.\nThose who don\u2019t like Modi, for political or other reasons, will always cling to the belief that he was somehow responsible for the 2002 violence. But beliefs, even sincere ones, are no substitute for evidence derived from a thorough investigation.\nBy ignoring the Supreme Court\u2019s findings, Ellison and his comrades are essentially impugning the integrity of India\u2019s highest court. What evidence do they have that Modi was indeed at fault? The best they can come up with is a magazine report quoting some of the rioters. According to these rioters, the riots wouldn\u2019t have been possible without Modi\u2019s \u201cconnivance.\u201d In yet another glaring and dishonest omission, the resolution fails to inform us that the magazine quoted, Tehelka, supports the very political dynasty that Modi is trying to unseat. And it strains credulity that street rioters would have first-hand knowledge that the chief minister was \u201cconniving\u201d behind the scenes. In the face of the Supreme Court\u2019s exhaustive and authoritative investigation, Resolution 417 presents a pretty pathetic case for our continued ostracization of India\u2019s likely next prime minister.\nThe resolution praises the U.S. State Department\u2019s 2005 decision to deny Modi a visa because of his alleged \u201cegregious religious freedom violations.\u201d According to the resolution, this was the \u201cfirst and only time such a denial has been issued\u201d on those grounds. That says more about the moral confusion of the State Department than it does about Modi.\nThe religious violence that occurs from time to time in India is indeed tragic, and India has not yet fully erased the rivalries created by centuries of divide-and-rule colonialism. But there is simply no comparison between India, where the government and dominant culture strive to accommodate religious diversity under very difficult conditions, and the many countries (including several in India\u2019s neighborhood) where the government and dominant culture work together to systematically stamp out religious diversity. Muslims and other religious minorities practice their faith freely in Modi\u2019s Gujarat; there are few places in the Muslim world where Hindus, Christians, or other minorities are given the same respect.\nRead more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/21/congresss-misguided-crusade-against-india/#ixzz2za6EughG\nKCR plays minority card to win the 2014 election.\nThough TRS is contesting all 118 assembly seats in Telangana region, he is mainly focusing on about 70 seats, where TRS has significant presence. Unless he could win 60 seats it would be difficult for him to form the government on his own.\nUnfortunately, organizationally TRS is weak in southern Telangana districts and its hold is mostly limited to Northern Telangana. For the first time TRS is contesting on its own without alliance with any party.\nMost of the pre-poll surveys predicted hung assembly in Telangana, though TRS has potential to emerge as single largest party. Such a phenomena is likely to scare KCR, who is not known as a `team leader\u2019 to head a coalition government.\nHe is known to his day from afternoon. His political activity also began then. However, for the first time, he is conducting electioneering starting from morning, daily touring upto 10 places in various districts. A week ago also he hardly addressed 4 to 5 meetings a day.\nThe Congress is mainly targeting TRS by refuting its claims of championing the Telangana state. Making strong claims that it was their president Sonia Gandhi\u2019s strong willpower helped realize six-decade old dream of Telangana people, Congress leaders ask \u201cis it possible for a party of having two MPs to form a state?\u201d\nCongress is also projecting KCR\u2019s inconsistent attitude by stating how he went back from his promise to merge his party with Congress for chief ministership. Heckling Congress claims in this regard the first time opened his mouth and asked \u201chad I ever given written commitment to merge my party with Congress?\u201d\nHe seems to be worried realizing that many TRS supporters were to vote for Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha polls, though they might vote for him in the assembly polls. In every meeting, he is appealing people not to come to such conclusion.\nKCR is making efforts to win support from minority communities in the region by stating that he was keen on his promise of making a minority leader the deputy chief minister of the Telangana. He also promised that \u201cI will give two prominent posts in the Cabinet to my minority brethren.\u201d\nHe also giving assurance for providing 12 percent reservation for minorities and see to it that the Wakf Board is given judicial powers so that it can reclaim its encroached lands, he said.\nPosted in news\t| Tagged KCR plays minority card | Leave a comment\nOdisha Election phase -2 for 11 MP and 77 MLA seat\nElection prachara end today in Odisha for 2014. 17th April is the final day for polling of second phase.Please come to cast your vote for a batter future.\nPosted in news\t| Tagged Odisha Election phase - 2, Odisha Election phase -2 for 11 MP and 77 MLA seat | Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 20813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oiac.org/brief-on-iran-boi-220/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:20Z", "digest": "sha1:BCO6S66UUZSMIFK5UDPN6CHSZE2QELXT", "length": 12857, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "oiac.org", "title": "Brief on Iran (BOI - 220) | OIAC", "raw_content": "Happy Nowruz! Persian New Year!\nMarch 20th, is the start of Spring and the Persian New Year (12:15pm ET).\nWe would like to take this opportunity to wish you, a very Happy Spring, when the Nature rebounds and a new Life begins, leaving behind the Cold and dark days of Winter. We wish the dark days of our beloved country will be soon over! Peace, Prosperity, and Love for Iran, The Middle East, and the whole world!\nIn the Persian calendar, the first day of Spring, the exact time of change of season, marks the New Year, Nowrouz (New Day).\nThe New Year celebration lasts for 13 days, of which the last day (13th), friends and families venture outdoors together, having large picnics, preferably near rivers and ponds or lakes, barbecuing, dancing to music, children playing, finishing off Nowrouz in good fun.\nOrganization of Iranian American Communities- (OIAC)- USA\nUS Senators Pledge Help to Iranian Group Seeking End to Iran\u2019s Islamist Rule\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Two U.S. senators \u2013 one Republican and one Democrat \u2013 have pledged greater support for a U.S.-based Iranian-American group that calls for replacing Iran\u2019s Islamist leadership with a democratic, secular government.\nRepublican Senator John Boozman and Democratic Senator Ben Cardin spoke to the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) on Thursday, as the group held an annual luncheon to celebrate the Nowruz holiday, or Persian New Year, at the Russell Senate Office Building.\nIn remarks to the gathering, Cardin, of Maryland, promised to keep working with OIAC to, as he put it, \u201cplan strategies to help the people of Iran escape the oppressive regime they currently have and return Iran to its roots, to its proud history, so it can have a bright future.\u201d He said his membership on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations gives him the ability to promote causes, such as protecting Iranians\u2019 human rights from what he called \u201cviolations of international norms\u201d by the Iranian government.\nRep Tom McClintock (R-CA) at OIAC 2018 Nowruz Celebration on Capitol Hill\nSo I\u2019m here to tell you I\u2019ve worked closely with some of the members that are here today from the Iranian community and we will continue on the foreign affairs committee, put pressure on this regime. And we want to make sure that we tell them that we want them to stop interfering in other countries, putting the life of Iranian people in danger, putting relatives or you is in danger. This is not the Iran that should be. You have a great history. You\u2019re a great hardworking people, educated people. You don\u2019t need that kind of government.\nSteel Workers #Protests Continues, Ahwaz, March 17, 2018\nDespite of Regimes Propaganda, Recent #IranProtests are still alive, and very much active, that has spread in different part of country. Workers chanting \u201d Tortures, Prison, intimidation, Wont work anymore\u201d!\nOIAC- Organization of Iranian American Communities.\n#IranProtest continues: Youth attack Security Forces cars in Bukan, Sunday March18, 2018\nOn March 18, 2018, Youth clashed with security forces after a soccer game. Iran Regime tries to hide the uprisings, and block out the #Protests. However, #Iranprotests are growing around the country, despite of regime\u2019s crack downs. Organization of Iranian American Communities- USA (OIAC)\nIlam province , West of Iran, Protests clash with Security Forces, March 17, 2018\nDespite of Regimes Propaganda, Recent #IranProtests are still alive, and very much active, it has spread in different parts of country. On Saturday night, a peaceful protest turned to clash between people and security forces. OIAC- Organization of Iranian American Communities.\nHoma Airlines (Iran Air) Pilots Protest In Tehran, Iran Against Working Conditions\nOur Iran\nA group of pilots of the Homa Airlines (Iran Air) gathered on Saturday, March 17, 2018 and sit down in protest against the working conditions, salary arrears, and how they airline\u2019s directors have not responded to the demands of the pilots.\nSeveral representatives of the protesting pilots arrived on Saturday morning to convey their message and other pilots to Homa Airlines\u2019 financial office, where he tried to make the protesters leave his office.\nFollowing the release of the news, other pilots joined the protesters against the state of economic recourse and the unsatisfactory and unacceptable response from the Homa Airline\u2019s Financial Administer Deputy.\nIran Publicly Hangs Two Brothers, Executes Father Of Twin Girls\nTwo brothers were publicly hanged early morning today in Gachsaran according to the state-run Rokna news agency. They were charged with armed robbery from a jewelry during which they killed two tradesmen late 2017. Incessant executions have been stepped up, only days before the Iranian calendar new year.\nIn yet another case on the dawn of Saturday March 10, another inmate, Javad Gol Niat, father of 8 year old twin girls was hanged in the Central Khoy Prison.\nIran: Baluch Prisoner Suffering From Tuberculosis Passes Away Due To Medical Negligence\nA Baluch prisoner passed away in Saravan Prison due to a lack of medical treatment.\nAccording to reports, 30 year old Abdul Raouf Pahang, known as Hanif, who was suffering from tuberculosis died at 1am on Saturday March 13.\nInformed sources report that despite frequent requests by other prisoners to send Pahang for medical treatment outside of prison, Iraj Nourbakhsh, the current head of prison, refused.\nIn recent weeks, tuberculosis has become widespread in Saravan Prison and at least seven prisoners have been infected, including Pahang, Yaghoub Damani, and Hamid Shirzad. After the death of this prisoner, all prison phones were cut off which has led to concerns among the prisoners\u2019 families.\nIranian Lawyer Who Investigated a Prisoner\u2019s Suspicious Death, Expecting the Court Decision\nAccording to a close source, on the morning of Thursday, March 15, Mohammad Najafi, raised his last defence at Branch 1 of Arak\u2019s Interrogation Center and expecting a court decision.\nHis case was processed earlier at Shazand Judiciary. Mohammad Najafi, arrested on Monday, January 15, was investigating the suspicious death of Vahid Heidari, one of the detainees from Iran\u2019s recent protests in Arak.\nA close source told IHR, \u201cMohammad Najafi is facing nine charges, all of which he denies. The police have filed one of the charges.\u201d He also added, \u201cIt seems that the authorities are determined to charge him and they are very serious about it.\u201d\nMohammad Najafi had earlier talked to IHR about Vahid Heidari\u2019s death. He said, \u201cThose who saw Vahid\u2019s body noticed a fracture and a bump on the left side of his head that could have been caused by a baton\u2019s blow to his head. They determined the burial place and didn\u2019t deliver any reports including forensics reports to the victim\u2019s family. There has been no explanation so far, and the family does not know anything else.\u201d Mohammad Najafi is now held at ward 8 of Arak Central Prison, and his detention order has been extended recently.\nIran; Secret and Unannounced Executions in 2017\nMARCH 2018): The 10th annual report on the death penalty in Iran by Iran Human Rights (IHR) shows that in 2017 at least 517 people were executed in the Islamic Republic of Iran. With an average of more than one execution every day and more than one execution per 167.000 inhabitants in 2017, Iran remained the country with the highest number of executions per capita.\nApproximately 79% of all executions included in the 2017 report, i.e. 406 executions, were not announced by the authorities. This is significantly higher than in 2016 when 298 of 533 executions were not announced by official sources. Some of these executions were carried out secretly, without the family or the lawyer being informed, and some have simply not been announced by the official media. Only unofficial reports with a sufficient amount of information have been included in this report. The actual numbers are believed to be much higher. In 2017, IHR received reports of secret or unannounced executions from 31 different locations across the country.\nIran Regime Should Be Held to Account for Human Rights Abuses in Syria\nThe US wants Iran, Russia, and Syria to be held responsible for \u201csome of the worst atrocities known to man\u201d, committed during the seven-year-long Syrian Civil War.On Thursday, US national security adviser H.R. McMaster said that all three countries must be held accountable for the human rights abuses that they have committed during the conflicts, which includes, but is not limited to, torture, starvation, rape, arbitrary arrests, abductions, attacks on schools and hospitals, and the use of chemical weapons on civilians.\nMenace of Iran Regime\u2019s Hackers Increases\nIranian regime\u2019s hackers are becoming more and more dangerous and are able to conduct spying operations in many countries. There are a number of Iranian criminals that are wanted by the United States and they have the ability to potentially create a lot of chaos.One group in particular has been especially prominent \u2013 Chafer. In the past five years it has launched cyber-attacks on the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Israel, Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The group has been able to cause disruption to their telecommunication networks and systems.\nIran\u2019s Cultural Expression And Democratic Aspirations Go Hand In Hand\nIn Iran, this Tuesday marked the festival of Chahrshanbeh Suri. With its roots in pre-Islamic ritual, this festival of fire precedes the Iranian New Year, called Nowruz, or \u201cnew day\u201d in English. Chahrshanbeh Suri celebrations have long been a target of repression by Iran\u2019s clerical regime, partly because of the fact that they can facilitate spontaneous public gatherings and partly because of their symbolic significance. For the mullahs, any acknowledgement of a broader Iranian cultural identity is a threat to the regime\u2019s effort to create a society based exclusively on the strictures of fundamentalist Shiite Islam.\nSir David Amess MP: How the West can help Iranians usher in a new day\nPolitic Home\nI make a conscious effort to keep myself informed of the situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran and so should others. Western politicians and human rights advocates should aim to keep abreast of the conditions in the country, especially because the world international community has a long-standing habit of neglecting the plight of the Iranian people for political expediency. This fact was sadly on display at the opening of last week\u2019s session of the United Nations Human Rights Council.\nBritain, France, Germany Propose New Iran Sanctions in Confidential Paper\nBritain, France and Germany have proposed fresh EU sanctions on Iran over its ballistic missiles and its role in Syria\u2019s war, according to a confidential document, in a bid to persuade Washington to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.\nThe joint paper, seen by Reuters, was sent to European Union capitals Friday, said two people familiar with the matter, to sound out support for such sanctions because they would need the support of all 28 EU member governments.\nIran Cut off From Apple\u2019s App Store as of March 15th\nToday, according to Bleeping Computer, iPhone users in Iran found themselves unable to access the App Store, in what appears to be a total block of the country.\nIranians must import Apple products from another county, and set their devices to access portions of the App Store meant for other regions, because Apple doesn\u2019t sell phones or operate the App Store in Iran. There are thought to be millions of iPhones in Iran, where around two-thirds of the country\u2019s 80 million people have a smartphone, and smuggled iPhones pour into the country.\nApparently, Apple has now closed that loophole, and has blocked access to traffic coming from inside Iran to the App Store.\nSaudi Nuclear Energy Policy Highlights Threat of Further Escalation With Iran\nOn Thursday, Business Insider reported that the government of Saudi Arabia had confirmed its plans for a national nuclear energy policy. It was the first public commentary on the subject since Saudi officials had met with US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry earlier in the month to discuss prospective deals whereby American companies would assist in the development of as many as 16 nuclear reactors over the course of 25 years.\nThe Business Insider report emphasized that a major topic of interest both during and after those negotiations was whether Saudi Arabia would be held to the terms of a \u201c123 Agreement,\u201d in which the party receiving American nuclear technology or no how commits to using them only for peaceful purposes while eschewing all domestic enrichment of nuclear material. This in turn gave rise to renewed discussion of the perceived flaws in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, derided by US President Donald Trump as the \u201cworst deal ever.\u201d\nAn Overview of Relations Between US and Iran", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 23396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://old.liu.se/international-cooperation/Internationalisation?l=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OY2PT7ISQYAZKGVC5LEFYDVKYJOUXWHP", "length": 937, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "old.liu.se", "title": "International Cooperation: Link\u00f6ping University", "raw_content": "LiU \u25b6 International Cooperation\nInternationalisation at Link\u00f6ping University\nLiU\u2019s Internationalisation Plan for 2013-2020 incorporates a broad range of measures, to ensure the quality and competitiveness of the university in the future. It will benefit the students, the staff and the university as a whole, as well as the local and global communities.\nThe plan has two overarching aims. Firstly, to increase the quality of education and research at LiU. An important part of this is injecting a more global perspective into teaching and research, and delivering a richer student experience. The second aim is to boost competitiveness \u2013 both nationally and internationally. Because a more international university is better positioned to attract the most talented students, teachers and researchers.\nSTARS - Read reports from former Exchange students\nAIV - Association for International Visitors\nISA - International Students Association", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 182.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oniscience.com/space/watch-iss-crew-try-not-to-laugh-as-their-floating-robot-starts-emotionally-glitching/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XM66LD7MNH53J5SD7ESTTKE5DXMQCAOS", "length": 2198, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "oniscience.com", "title": "Watch ISS crew try not to laugh as their floating robot starts emotionally glitching - Oni Science", "raw_content": "The Intentional Space Station can be a fabulous place of learning and wonder. But to get to that wonder, there\u2019s always some troubleshooting to be done \u2013 and that work falls to the astronauts crewing the ISS missions.\nTake this recent footage of astronauts grappling with CIMON \u2013 a floating robot head similar to Siri or Alexa \u2013 which seems to still need\u2026 a bit of fine tuning.\nCIMON, or \u2018Crew Interactive MObile companioN\u2019, is a floating ball with a display \u2018face\u2019 that weighs about 5 kilograms (11 pounds). It can answer questions, take photographs and videos, display and explain information for experiments or repairs, and even search for objects.\nAnd it seems that the developers have also attempted to give it some personality, with mixed results.\n\u201cI come from Friedrichshafen at the lake of Constance. It\u2019s a nice place,\u201d it says.\nIn the ESA video below, CIMON starts off well, chatting with expedition 56/57 astronaut Alexander Gerst, flying around the station, and helping with instructions to a technical procedure \u2013 similar to what CIMON would be asked to do on a trip to Mars.\nBut when Gerst asks CIMON to play his favourite song, things take a bit of a turn.\nThe song is Man Machine by Kraftwerk, and when asked to cancel the music mode, it gets pretty defensive.\n\u201cBe nice, please,\u201d it requests \u2013 followed by \u201cdon\u2019t you like it here with me?\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019t be so mean please.\u201d\nBasically, the robot got a little flustered; or was it just really enjoying the song and didn\u2019t want to turn it off?\nYou can watch these slightly bizarre interactions just after 3\u201930\u201d in the video below. In the background, you can see crew member Serena Au\u00f1\u00f3n-Chancellor react with laughter when CIMON asks the astronaut to be nicer to him. It\u2019s just priceless.\nAs this was a test run, the astronaut also identified a couple of issues with CIMON\u2019s floating ability \u2013 it kept wanting to slowly drift towards the floor, rather than stay at a comfortable height to interact with the crew on the space station.\nStrange emotional problems aside, both the developers and Gerst are actually pretty happy with the robot\u2019s first outing on the ISS.\nOnly time will tell how much help this little guy will be in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 7152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://opencommons.uconn.edu/srhonors_theses/19/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5AAZUKUCW4IPXRCEWTG4KXYVGFY4U5UP", "length": 1558, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "opencommons.uconn.edu", "title": "\"Adjustable Art Table Project\" by Bruce Bassi", "raw_content": "Adjustable Art Table Project\nBruce Bassi, University of Connecticut\nAn adjustable art table was designed for the artists at Passion Works Studio to fulfill a need for a wheelchair-friendly art table. The client desired that the table be sturdy, not electronic and can be used by multiple users. In response, a mechanical approach was taken and various raising devices were explored. A mechanical height adjustment would make for a more stable table and would not require any electricity or motor to adjust. The table also was built with a large, smooth tabletop designed specifically for multiple users making art. The highlight feature is the height adjustment which allows the table to adjust between 29 and 42.5 inches. The table requires just one person to raise, and two people to lower. To raise the table, an individual only needs to unlock the legs and then press in a button to activate the gas springs, which raise the table. Once the table is set to the desired height, the table can lock into place securely. To lower the table, one person must activate the gas springs and push down simultaneously with another person pushing down on the other side of the table. There is enough room for three people, depending on the size of the wheelchairs. With no wheelchairs, as many as six people can use the table. Therefore, the specifications were met, since it raises and lowers within the desired range, and it provides a solid surface for multiple users to do art work.\nBassi, Bruce, \"Adjustable Art Table Project\" (2006). Honors Scholar Theses. 19.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://openpub.fmach.it/handle/10449/19454", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JZVKXNSK2BEGRPFYN42BQQC3WANBSYFD", "length": 1275, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "openpub.fmach.it", "title": "Proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry monitoring of the evolution of volatile compounds during lactic acid fermentation of milk | OpenPub Attention: all modified data aren't persisted until you use the \"save button\" at the bottom of the page.", "raw_content": "Proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry monitoring of the evolution of volatile compounds during lactic acid fermentation of milk\nSoukoulis, C.; Aprea, E.; Biasioli, F.; Cappellin, L.; Schuhfried, E.; M\u00e4rk, T.D.; Gasperi, F. (2010). Proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry monitoring of the evolution of volatile compounds during lactic acid fermentation of milk. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY, 24 (14): 2127-2134. doi: 10.1002/rcm.4617 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/19454\nCitation: Soukoulis, C.; Aprea, E.; Biasioli, F.; Cappellin, L.; Schuhfried, E.; M\u00e4rk, T.D.; Gasperi, F. (2010). Proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry monitoring of the evolution of volatile compounds during lactic acid fermentation of milk. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY, 24 (14): 2127-2134. doi: 10.1002/rcm.4617 handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10449/19454\nAuthors: Soukoulis, C.; Aprea, E.; Biasioli, F.; Cappellin, L.; Schuhfried, E.; M\u00e4rk, T.D.; Gasperi, F.\nTitle: Proton transfer reaction time-of-flight mass spectrometry monitoring of the evolution of volatile compounds during lactic acid fermentation of milk\nJournal: RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY\nDigital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1002/rcm.4617", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://osae.org/aws/OSAE/pt/sd/news_article/179079/_PARENT/layout_details/false", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VZYVTXXR37IOPRWYGWT3TCOTCZKXHWUE", "length": 713, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "osae.org", "title": "Your Culture Should Be Your Strategy", "raw_content": "Your Culture Should Be Your Strategy\nAdaptation and adjustment must be included in any smart strategy\nBerlin School Professor Paul Verdin explores the foundations and evolution of strategy and international management on our EMBA program.\nAfter his latest session at the school, we caught up with him about teaching a balance between the traditional foundations of strategy with more contemporary concepts of \"strategy as learning.\"\nWe also spoke about his recent series of research with Amy C. Edmondson (Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School) on treating strategy as a hypothesis to be adjusted and adapted, and the implications of this on big business and internal structure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://otlibrary.com/invention-of-the-aqua-lung/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:50Z", "digest": "sha1:CCVOCSDPXDSUB6TC7V57G3D7AI4RAFOI", "length": 7704, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "otlibrary.com", "title": "Invention of the Aqualung \u2013 \"OCEAN TREASURES\" Memorial Library", "raw_content": "For centuries human beings have been fascinated with the concept of being able to \u201cbreathe\u201d underwater while exploring the deep blue sea. As early as the third century, Aristotle is said to have made references to some type of breathing apparatus that would allow a person to stay underwater for an extended period of time. After years of somewhat crude inventions ranging from goggles to snorkels to 16th century \u201cdiving bells\u201d technology began to advance and inventors devised equipment such as the air pump, created in 1771 by John Smeaton; a breathing belt, invented in 1825 by William James; underwater breathing systems created in 1828 by John Deane and Charles Deane and in 1837 by Augustus Siebe; a self-contained underwater breathing unit created by Henry Fleuss in 1873; and a breathing system for the U.S. military designed by Christian Lambertson in 1939. Lambertson\u2019s system, designed for the military\u2019s SCUBA program (\u201cSelf-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus\u201d) was somewhat successful, but divers were injured or killed frequently from oxygen toxicity. Shortly thereafter in 1943, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and \u00c9mile Gagnan invented a system that would revolutionize the world of deep-sea exploration and push diving into the mainstream, allowing people around the world to become exposed to a magical oceanic wilderness they had been unable to experience before. The system they developed is known as the \u201cAqualung\u201d, which was registered under the Aqualung Diving Equipment Patent #2,485,039. Cousteau modified the regulator, adapted it and made it the crowning piece of his Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA), the Aqua-Lung.\nThe story of the Aqua-Lung goes back to World War II. In June 1943 on a small beach of the Riviera, Jacques-Yves Cousteau wearing rubber fins, shouldered the new completely autonomous diving gear. It was inspired by the discoveries that preceded it particularly that of Captain Yves Le Prieur, pioneer of autonomous diving who in 1925, perfected an open-circuit, compressed-air device. There was one problem: the continuous flow of air limited how long the device could be used. During the war, the solution was born in Paris as the Germans requisitioned automobile gas. Engineer \u00c9mile Gagnan invented a demand regulator that would feed cooking gas to a car\u2019s carburetor in the exact amount the jet needed. Cousteau modified the regulator, adapted it and made it the crowning piece of his Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA), the Aqua-Lung. In 1966, Cousteau brought together his best divers, engineers & designers to provide Calypso with sophisticated equipment they called \u201cstreamlined scuba\u201d. This new equipment reduced fatigue and consequently air consumption, allowing the divers to move about more quickly and for a longer time. The membrane of the regulator was positioned on the chest, closest to the center of the volume of air in the lungs.\nCousteau was born June 11, 1910 in Saint-Andre-de-Cubzac, France near Bordeaux. He was well-traveled thanks to his lawyer-father, who moved often and took his family with him on frequent trips. Cousteau was a restless student but an avid swimmer with an interest in film and natural technical ability. In 1930, he was admitted to France\u2019s Naval Academy. He served in the navy and later entered naval aviation school but after a car accident at age 26, he was transferred to sea duty and began a rigorous swimming program to regain strength in his arms. During World War II, he served as a spy for the French Resistance and was decorated with the Legion of Honor at the war\u2019s conclusion. Meanwhile, he pursued an interest in sea exploration and managed to make several underwater films during wartime. He also met fellow Frenchman and engineer \u00c9mile Gagnan, with whom he collaborated on creating a machine that he hoped would turn him into somewhat of a \u201cman-fish\u201d under the sea. Oxygen and air-pressure regulation he knew would be key.\n\u00c9mile Gagnan was born in Burgundy, France in 1900. He earned a technical degree and began working as an engineer for L\u2019aire Liquide, with specialization in high-pressure pneumatic design. With Cousteau he began working to create a demand-valve for what was to become the Aqualung system. A similar type of valve had been used in gas-generator engines and Gagnan imagined it would also be useful in regulating air supply in a variable pressure environment. His theory was correct and this valve would be a central component of the Aqualung\u2019s demand regulator, which adjusts air pressure automatically and supplies air as a diver needs it, so that air pressure inside a diver\u2019s lungs match the pressure of the water. This would prove a critical and groundbreaking safety feature. After a few unsuccessful attempts, Cousteau and Gagnan perfected a device that was incredibly safe, reliable and easy to use. This would change the diving scene forever. The Aqualung was first sold in France in 1946. By 1951, Aqualung systems were being sold in England and in Canada. U.S. distribution rights were acquired in 1952 and U.S. Divers launched to great success. Air Liquide a French company, bought U.S. Divers in 1958 and changed the name to Aqua Lung America which became part of Aqua Lung International, established by Air Liquide in 1988 and now the world\u2019s largest diving company. The Aqua-lung system is now part of virtually every set of modern SCUBA gear in the world, with thousands upon thousands of units sold and recreational scuba diving has become an international phenomenon.\nIn 1947, Gagnan emigrated with his family to Montreal, Canada where he began working for Canadian Liquid Air Ltd. There he set up a lab to designed & developed a large number of technologies integral to the evolution of modern SCUBA equipment and proceeded to engineer, design, prototype and patent an incredible number of SCUBA & undersea technology firsts including the direct ancestors of virtually every type of Scuba regulator in common use today. \u00c9mile Gagnan died in 1979 of a heart attack. Meanwhile Cousteau who had already become known in his field, developed an international reputation as a pioneer of deep-sea exploration as well as an environmental activist. In 1952, he published \u201cSilent World\u201d with Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dumas and James Dugan which attracted many to the world of recreational diving. He later wrote many more books including \u201cThe Living Sea\u201d in 1963 and \u201cWorld Without Sun\u201d in 1965. His acclaimed documentary television series \u201cThe Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau\u201d began in 1968 and ran until 1976. He was nominated for 40 Emmys with his documentaries and won three Oscars for them as well, for \u201cThe Silent World\u201d, \u201cThe Golden Fish\u201d and \u201cWorld Without Sun\u201d.\nIn 1950, he became president of the French Oceanographic Campaigns and began sailing his ship \u201cCalypso\u201d on regular explorations. Soon he retired from the navy, but not until after he had helped create post-war mine-sweeping techniques for use in shipwrecks as well as in French harbors. In 1963, he developed the \u201cCalypso-Phot\u201d underwater camera and with Jean Mollard, the SP-350 deep-sea, two-man submarine. In 1974, Cousteau started the \u201cCousteau Society\u201d for the protection of ocean life. He was awarded the Medal of Freedom by President Reagan in 1985 and in 1987, he and Peter Scott received the United Nation\u2019s International Environment prize. In 1992, he became a regular consultant for the United Nations and the World Bank on habitat development and global environment. Cousteau also served as chairman of the U.S. division of the Aqua-lung company\u2019s board of directors, working well into his 80\u2019s. 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The Ministry of Justice has launched an Office of the Public Guardian Fee Refund Scheme for fee payments made between 1 April 2013 and 31 March 2017 because the Office of the Public Guardian for England and Wales have admitted to charging excessive fees for issuing Powers of Attorney over the last four years. The application fee was \u00a3110 up until April 2017 which, according to the Ministry of Justice, was well above the cost incurred in actually processing the application. As a result, there is now a refund available from \u00a334 to \u00a354 with an additional 0.5% interest on top and therefore certainly worth claiming.\nIn order to obtain a refund, you will need access to the website www.gov.uk/power-of-attorney-refund and, according to the website, it will take about 10 minutes to claim online and you will need to enter the following information:-\nDetails of your Attorneys\nReference number (if you have this to hand, otherwise you can select \u201cNo, I cannot give a reference number\u201d)\nYour email address or mobile/telephone number\nYour bank account name, account number & sort code\nYou can also claim via telephone by phoning the refund helpline on 0300 456 0300 (choose option 6).\nAccording to the website, it will take up to 12 weeks for your claim to be processed and, if the claim is approved, the refund will be paid into the nominated bank account.\n5 ways to choose a good lawyer when selling your house Directorship Announcement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 6453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pabsttheater.org/event/ultimatequeencelebration2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:44Z", "digest": "sha1:BSX3VJV6TNKSY64A4TAFM7PWUPTZGWXN", "length": 1148, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pabsttheater.org", "title": "The Ultimate Queen Celebration starring Marc Martel | The Pabst Theater | Sep 19", "raw_content": "Brennan Seehafer Productions Presents\nThe Ultimate Queen Celebration Starring Marc Martel is a highly theatrical, eye-popping production that incorporates 23 of the songs that Queen made famous: \u201cWe Will Rock You,\u201d \u201cRadio Gaga,\u201d \u201cWe are the Champions,\u201d \u201cFat Bottomed Girls,\u201d \u201cAnother One Bites the Dust,\u201d \u201cSomebody to Love,\u201d \u201cBohemian Rhapsody,\u201d \u201cCrazy Little Thing Called Love,\u201d and many more. In a novel twist, the concert will also include a selection of songs that reflect Mercury\u2019s interest in musical styles beyond rock \u2013 including \u201cAve Maria\u201d and the great operatic aria, \u201cNessun Dorma\u201d \u2013 all performed by Martel as they might have been performed by Freddie Mercury.\n\u201cMarc Martel\u2019s ability to sound like Freddie Mercury remains staggering.\u201d \u2013 USA Today\n\u201cMartel\u2019s vocal resemblance to Mercury is striking.\u201d \u2013 Rolling Stone\nMarc not only sounds dead-on like Freddie Mercury, but he embodies the heart-and-soul Freddie poured into every song he performed. Don\u2019t miss The Ultimate Queen Celebration, an evening you\u2019ll be talking about long after the lights go down.\nROWS AA-CC + VIP Meet & Greet: $125.00\nReserved Seating: $75.00, $49.50, $29.50", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 6892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://painterspath.blogspot.com/2014/08/drawing-line_26.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QOXQNOM4J5DTDQRZPHGLHVMYOBZYDV7G", "length": 519, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "painterspath.blogspot.com", "title": "drawing the line", "raw_content": "this summer the summer of 2014, I made a lot of drawings. pen & ink drawing on paper - sketchbook paper, cheap paper, nice, expensive rag paper. I draw with pen & ink - the old-fashioned kind with a wooden handle with steel nib. I like pen & ink, working with it helps me to feel, to think, to see. a pen & a bottle of ink. when i draw with pen & ink on paper it sounds like this:\ndip, dip, scratch, scratch - like a chicken pecking at the ground.\nthe following drawings are available for sale at patrick gordon framing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 2635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pakistannewsreports.com/washington-to-host-conference-of-global-coalition-to-defeat-isis-on-feb-6/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:00Z", "digest": "sha1:6JXOG73P7FKMFBXC66EB7U3RBID6QOFN", "length": 1738, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pakistannewsreports.com", "title": "Washington to host conference of Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS on Feb 6 \u2013 Pakistan News Reports", "raw_content": "Home > Sports > Washington to host conference of Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS on Feb 6\nThe full 79-member coalition will meet for in-depth discussions on the impending territorial defeat of the terror gang in Iraq and Syria, which is the result of four years of coalition and our partners' efforts, and a significant milestone towards delivering Daesh an enduring defeat, the US Department of State said in a statement on its website.\nMinisters will discuss the next phase of the campaign in Iraq and Syria, which will focus on protecting against a resurgence of Daesh through stabilization and security assistance. They will also discuss important next steps in degrading ISIS's global networks and affiliates outside Iraq and Syria.\nThe United States is determined to prevent a resurgence of the terror group in Syria and Iraq after the withdrawal of US forces from Syria takes place, and remains committed to working with the \"Global Coalition\" to continue to destroy ISIS remnants and thwart its global ambitions, the statement said.\nAs Daesh is defeated on the battlefield, the coalition will continue its stabilization efforts to facilitate the safe and voluntary return home of those who have been displaced by the violence, it added.\nThe Global Coalition regularly meets to coordinate and enhance combined efforts to counter the terror group of Daesh. The last Ministerial took place in Brussels on July 12, 2018, with select members of the Coalition. The last meeting at the Political Director level took place in Rabat, Morocco, on June 26, 2018.\nLaunching of Pakistan Embassy Forum in Washington D.C\nGB Speaker, Governor discuss development of Gilgit-Baltistan\nGirls Badminton Championship to be held in Rawalpindi on Monday", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://paragoncomics.comicretailer.com/William-Tell/comics-series/85973?ref=Y3JlYXRvci92aWV3L2Rlc2t0b3AvbGlzdC9jcmVhdG9yTGlzdA", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:28Z", "digest": "sha1:F4ABDIF4NKYNOA6WIC5CP2PBCTWQZPYX", "length": 503, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "paragoncomics.comicretailer.com", "title": "William Tell Digital Comics - Paragon Comics Digital Store", "raw_content": "This graphic novel tells the story of the marksman William Tell and his fight against the tyrant bailiff Gessler and the premise of the Swiss struggle for independence from the Habsburg Empire in the early 14th century. Directly adapted from Schiller's famous play and beautifully drawn, this graphic novel offers the perfect reading experience for all ages. This new adaptation of \"The Legend of William Tell\" is a modern and easily accessible graphic novel that will rekindle the myth for new readers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://parclick.com/parking-granada/apk2-mondragones", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:17Z", "digest": "sha1:CZDKIKDHCWVB6UAN3EBIVELAZXTUAJX2", "length": 2170, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "parclick.com", "title": "Car park in Calle Ribera del Beiro 10 in Granada | Parclick", "raw_content": "APK2 Mondragones\nCar park in Calle Ribera del Beiro, 10 - 18012. Granada, Spain\nCar park in Granada, located on Ribera del Beiro street, right next to the Hospital Virgen de las Nieves. If you have to visit Granada for medical reasons and need to park near the Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, you\u2019re in luck: the APK2 Mondragones car park is the best option since it\u2019s located only 200 meters away from both the Hospital Materno Infantil and the Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves. Likewise, if you need to park near the Hospital Universitario San Cecilio, the APK2 Mondragones car park is located only 600 meters from this medical center. Don\u2019t wait any longer and book your parking spot in Granada if you\u2019re planning to visit any of these hospitals, and also if you\u2019re not planning to, because you always can book at a moment's notice without any trouble. Visit Granada with your car and don\u2019t worry if you don\u2019t know where to park in Granada, with the APK2 Mondragones car park, you\u2019ll have your car constantly monitored, providing you greater security during your visit to the city.\nDon\u2019t waste any more time driving unnecessarily in circles while looking for parking in Granada, with the APK2 Mondragones car park, you\u2019ll have parking near the Plaza Toros in Granada, where you can attend a programmed event at any time of day, since it provides a 24-hour operating schedule. To make your stay in Granada easier and more convenient, park your car at the APK2 Mondragones car park and get around the city in public transit, since in only 10 minutes you\u2019ll find the Granada Station. Likewise, from this station, you have the opportunity to travel to other Spanish cities, since it offers long and medium distance services. Lastly, about 15 minutes from this car park, you\u2019ll find the University of Granada and the Triumph Gardens, another reason why leaving your car at the APK2 Mondragones car park is a great idea. Enjoy your trip to Granada and make the most of the climate, good atmosphere and renowned tapas that this city offers without worrying about your car, knowing that it\u2019s in good hands at the APK2 Mondragones car park.\nCalle Ribera del Beiro 10", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://parentzone.org.uk/tags/parenting?page=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OJUME3RK3CU46OZJIICPK73KUQGUPN2Y", "length": 1220, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "parentzone.org.uk", "title": "parenting | Parent Zone", "raw_content": "Don't be afraid of the dark net\nAdults can be alarmed by the dark side of the internet, but can you help the children in your care build resilience online if you haven't investigated it yourself?\nChildren need boundaries to make them feel safe - and to push against. This is as important online as off. The Parent Zone's Sophie Linington offers some tips on digital boundary-setting.\nWhat is an abusive relationship? How do you spot when someone is trying to exercise too much control over you? And how to warn your child against relationships that are going to hurt them?\nSex, drugs, internet porn - no, no, no, you don't want to talk to your child about that! How embarrassing. Especially as you know hardly anything about any of it. But it's one of those jobs (like changing nappies) that parents are put on earth to do. Here are our tips for making it less of an ordeal.\nDo you sometimes feel your child is sharing not just too much information, but the wrong kind of information? Do you worry that their adolescent attitudes are going to hang over them for the rest of their lives? How do you talk to them about the identity they're creating with their friends - and how the internet makes that visible to everyone?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 4427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://partnerships.typepad.com/civic/2004/06/community_tech_.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:39Z", "digest": "sha1:2PWQTGPC4XJGK37YRR5A2YXMZPKIJ7V5", "length": 7013, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "partnerships.typepad.com", "title": "Designing for Civil Society: Community tech isn't reaching those who need it (if they do)", "raw_content": "\u00ab Welsh e-communities project closes | Main | Circuit rider consortium sets out its stall \u00bb\nCommunity tech isn't reaching those who need it (if they do)\nA major literature review of community informatics projects - using technology to bring social and economic benefits to the disadvantaged - paints a pretty gloomy view of the effectiveness of 'official' programmes linked to schools, libraries, colleges and public sector venues. And while there is evidence of increased civic participation rising from community informatics projects, this is limited, mainly involving existing political activists, concludes the review carried out for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.\nI have been rather sniffy about some community informatics academics missing current realities, but in this review two of the UK's leading researchers in the field, Brian Loader and Leigh Keeble, have cut to the heart of the issues facing community technology centres, local online networks and other initiatives.\nOn my reading, they offer strong evidence to challenge the current government moves to push the \u00a3400 million UK online centres programme- now facing an end to funding - to focus almost entirely on just the type of formal course activities least likely to appeal to people who are not attracted by schools and colleges. As usual, it is the articulate, confident middle-class who benefit most. They flag up the problems of sustaining projects that do target those in greatest need.\nThe review's main conclusions are:\n* The use of public access and support sites (such as UK Online centres) by those currently perceived as excluded from the benefits of ICTs is generally low.\n* The location of many public access sites in libraries, schools, further education colleges and other public-sector venues may be a significant barrier for those who do not associate such institutions as being part of their lives.\n* Similarly, ICT training and education which replicate earlier negative feelings of failure are unlikely to attract those who have been categorised as underachievers.\n* The problem of sustainability is a common feature of almost all community informatics projects, with the role of public investment requiring clarification.\n* Evidence of increased civic participation arising from community informatics initiatives was limited to a few cases, mainly involving existing political activists.\n* Negotiations between the Government and commercial providers over pricing and regulation are likely to make a significant contribution to challenging differential patterns of access and usage.\n* Good-quality research exists, but the extent and robustness of current empirical research in community informatics is not sufficient to help policy-makers and practitioners to design and implement effective strategies and actions.\n* Both the barriers to low take-up and the cases of good practice identified could inform future development. However, these are not sufficient to support the contention that community informatics initiatives have yet made significant challenges to the social inequalities associated with adoption of ICTs\nBrian and Leigh - who are based at the Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit, University of Teesside, use language that is appropriately cautious in a literature review, but I get a strong sense that their research is the latest deflation of the grander hopes some people (me included) had for the social benefits of the Net. Definitely reality check time.... although of course, it may be that research is lagging behind current practice and there is more good news out there..\nThey write: \"Worldwide, many thousands of initiatives are experimenting with innovative ways of adopting ICTs for community development. However, the review's findings suggest that the general optimism of such approaches is not yet sufficiently matched by a similar scope of research providing systematic lessons to be learnt from these initiatives.\"\nDealing with community networking initiatives under the heading \"Connecting community places to community spaces?\" they write:\n\"Much work has been carried out on the use of websites, email lists (listservs), discussion groups (usenet groups) and chat groups that enable virtual communities to provide social support. Research has identified a broad consensus that social support can have a beneficial effect on health and well-being. A growing literature has demonstrated the potential benefits to those who access computer-mediated social support. But when the demographics of those taking part are examined, participants tend to be characterised by reasonably high levels of education and skills.\n\"Inequalities in accessing ICTs do not arise just as a result of income. A whole host of other reasons can contribute to individuals not being able to participate in these virtual communities and thus not gain the benefits in terms of support and information. As a result, the potential for such support to become dominated by middle-class, articulate individuals who are already more likely to make more effective use of and demands on welfare services becomes perpetuated.\n\"Significant barriers to the adoption of ICTs by those currently excluded often arise from the inappropriate location of public access sites and ICT training which is perceived as irrelevant to their life experiences.\n\"This would suggest that a key challenge for policy-makers might be to foster and sustain virtual community 'spaces', informal training opportunities, and appropriate access which is identified, developed and shaped by the perceived needs of excluded groups. These spaces for interaction, information sharing and social support would not be shaped by the e-government agenda or commercial markets. Instead, they would provide an intermediate virtual space between the two.\"\nIt is here that there is some comfort and support for those who are developing centres and other initiatives that don't just offer formal computer training and e-learning - and who aim to support activities relevant to people's day to day lives and their communities. As a member of the DirectSupport consortium , funded by Government to work with community-based initiatives, I'm a little biased. But recent research confirms that it is these - rather than the institutional centres - that are reaching those with greatest disadvantage.\nThe general lesson that I would take is that technology-led projects don't work... particularly when focussed on those least able or confident to use the technology. As one researcher said to me \"we found that most of those using centres already had computers at home and wanted to improve their skills.\" Nothing wrong in that, but hardly social transformation.\nThe associated lesson is that technology doesn't work on its own. It offers another tool to add to the range of means we have to access information, communicate, collaborate, and learn. It does change the world.... but so far not from the bottom up.\nEarlier items on community technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 9532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://partwaythere.com/2017/07/13/sunrises-and-sunsets-in-bagan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:46Z", "digest": "sha1:LA3T5EJWDPWTTF3VZQH4H6BH2DPBB2VD", "length": 3070, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "partwaythere.com", "title": "Sunrises and Sunsets in Bagan - Partway There", "raw_content": "Sunrises and Sunsets in Bagan\nOne of the highlights I\u2019d planned for this trip was getting to see sunrise and sunset in Bagan. Bagan is a place in Myanmar where there are over 4,000 pagodas, stupas, and temples dotting the landscape. The pictures other people took were breathtaking, and so I decided I wanted to go.\nOne highlight is climbing up these ancient stupas or temples to get a great vantage point for watching the sun. There\u2019s something so incredible about getting to sit there, in silence, and watch the sun come up or down.\nI\u2019m lucky I came right now \u2013 starting in September (the start of their next high season), people will no longer be allowed to climb the temples. Long-term, this is definitely a good thing for the preservation of Bagan \u2013 on the temples you can see the effects of people constantly traipsing up and down them. There are loose bricks, and some areas that almost cave with all of the tourists.\nNot to mention, it\u2019s honestly quite dangerous. The temples have these tiny staircases that have ceilings around 5 feet \u2013 I am constantly hitting my head. These are also pitch black, even in daytime! It\u2019s worth it to carry your headlamp with you, because you never know when you might need it.\nAnd there\u2019s the part where you navigate your electric motorbike over rock-filled extremely sandy paths. The bikes will frequently fishtail, and when you\u2019re trying to navigate in the pitch black before sunrise or after sunset, it\u2019s honestly quite difficult. The bikes have a headlamp on them, but that tends to not be quite enough. I made it through two sunrises uneventfully, and then on my third (my last), I accidentally crashed the motorbike not once but twice!\nThe good thing about the sand is that it is very forgiving, so I\u2019m completely fine. But it did rattle me more than a bit!\nIt\u2019s sad to sit watching sunset knowing that I\u2019m among the last people to have the opportunity. I\u2019m so glad I came, and so thankful for the opportunity. And I think this will end up being like climbing the Pyramids in Egypt \u2013 people today barely remember that you used to be able to.\nWhen the sun comes up in Bagan, it puts on a show. The fiery reds and oranges remind me a lot of Oklahoma (in fact, a lot of this landscape reminds me of Oklahoma. More on that in tomorrow\u2019s post. \ud83d\ude42 ). Then there\u2019s always a bit of mist rising up and as the sun reveals spires as far as the eye can see, there\u2019s nothing like it in the world. It took my breath away every morning I saw it.\nOne funny thing with Bagan is that it tends to be a very sleepy and chill town \u2013 sunrise and sunset are the main attractions, so you have a ton of people waking up early, going to sunrise, seeing a few temples, and then heading back to their hotels to nap or lay by the pool for most of the day.\nThen, come sunset, everyone comes back out. It\u2019s an amazing and relaxing feeling because I feel so wonderfully lazy all day long but then I\u2019ve also done so much by the time all is said and done.\nthose pictures are breathtaking and I am so thankful to see them! Really amazing and wonderful to see.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pathfinder.fandom.com/wiki/Sihedron_medallion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BKLH5BEUVDX3CXZK4MQTUM7PL43QSMP5", "length": 1460, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "pathfinder.fandom.com", "title": "Sihedron medallion | Pathfinder Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "PathfinderWiki featured articles, Articles containing spoilers, Magic items,\nA sihedron medallion is an artifact from the ancient empire of Thassilon. It is generally found in the form of a silver disk and worn around the neck on a leather cord.[1] The medallions come in many sizes, tailored to the creatures to whom they belong.[2] The disk is inscribed with the sihedron rune, a seven-pointed star which symbolized the seven virtues of rule of early Thassilon. With the decline of the empire the rune became more closely associated with the seven vices and with rune magic in general.[1]\nThe medallion gives the wearer increased resistance to many forms of danger and allows him or her to draw temporary life force from it. If placed on a dead body, a sihedron medallion will keep the body from decomposing. What few suspect is that they also serves as a scrying connection for the runelords of Thassilon.[1]\nIt is known that these medallions are used by followers of the runelords to identify each other, as they are generally only given out to trusted individuals.[3][4]\nA sihedron medallion radiates necromantic magic.[1]\n\u2191 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 James Jacobs. (2007). Burnt Offerings. Burnt Offerings, p. 55. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-035-3\n\u2191 Stephen S. Greer. (2008). Sins of the Saviors. Sins of the Saviors, p. 20. Paizo Publishing, LLC. ISBN 978-1-60125-040-7\nRetrieved from \"https://pathfinder.fandom.com/wiki/Sihedron_medallion?oldid=33558\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pauluslandericus.com/2017/08/24/learn-about-and-read-one-of-the-greatest-works-of-classical-roman-literature/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:29Z", "digest": "sha1:V4S5ZOYYRWGQQCVBEM5QYZFZEWOEAWVF", "length": 775, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pauluslandericus.com", "title": "Learn about and read one of the greatest works of Classical Roman Literature \u00ab Acerbity [\u0259\u02c8s\u025c\u02d0b\u026at\u026a]", "raw_content": "Learn about and read one of the greatest works of Classical Roman Literature\nAeneid.co is a production of LatinTutorial, a site and YouTube channel designed to help Latin students all around the world learn and practice Classical Latin. Most of the videos produced by LatinTutorial involve Latin grammar, but learning Latin is more than just the language. Embedded in the study of Latin is all of ancient Roman and Greek culture. So when you visit LatinTutorial or watch videos on YouTube, you\u2019ll see a wide range of topics on the ancient world.\nhttps://aeneid.co/\nIn linguistics\taeneid, ancient languages, ben johnson, classical world, classics, latin, latin literature, latin phrase, latin quote, latintutorial, latinus, linguistics, roman history, roman literature, virgil", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://peacefulwarrior9.com/tag/hope-fest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:26Z", "digest": "sha1:LKNBRLFRG3F77WJHZYHODW5GQCOA44L7", "length": 17738, "nlines": 79, "source_domain": "peacefulwarrior9.com", "title": "Hope Fest | A Sagittarian Seeker", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Hope Fest\nPaper Erase\nPosted by righteousbruin9 on June 20, 2017 in Personal Values, Striving\nJune 20, 2017, Prescott-\nMy last day of Spring was spent, hydrating, of course.\nThere was a meeting for Hope Fest, the annual spiritual event,\nthat this year precedes the Bicentenary of Baha\u2019u\u2019llah\u2019s birth,\nMy main concern, otherwise, was clearing out the dining area closets.\nThese were filled with lots of stationery,\nextra greeting cards, loose-leaf binders, paper clips,\nand a couple of board games, which were once meant\nto stimulate Penny\u2019s interest, in the last year of her life.\nShe loved that I tried, but it was all too much.\nI will keep the games, and one box of holiday cards,\nbut it will likely be to the Women\u2019s and Children\u2019s shelter,\nwith the rest, tomorrow.\nMy clean-up goes on.\nOne comment was about the minimalist garden.\nWe will soon see a minimalist apartment.\n4 Comments | Tagged Bicentenary of Baha'u'llah's Birth, board games, Hope Fest, hydrating, minimalist, stationery, Women's and Children's Shelter\nPosted by righteousbruin9 on January 1, 2017 in Community, Family, Hiking and Nature, Matters of Faith, Personal goals, Personal Values, Spiritual, Travel\nJanuary 1, 2017, Chula Vista- Seems people were so fed up with the year just past, that my retrospective montage was received like a lead balloon. No matter- the clouds have cleared, from the torrential rains of the past two days (most welcome, here in southern California, and the neighbouring states of Arizona, Nevada and Baja California Norte). My hope is that the clouds hanging over our nation, and over many parts of the world, will dissipate, as well.\nI have a few, short-term, goals for this year:\nJanuary- This week, for the most part, will find me in the San Diego area, largely here in CV, with an Orange County outing, to Crystal Cove, on Thursday, before I head to Phoenix, and a dental check-up on Friday. Training in Psychological First Aid, on Saturday, will let me bone up on those skills. Who knows, as to just how many occasions such will be necessary? Next Sunday, my penultimate trek along Black Canyon Trail will bring me to the Emery Henderson Trailhead, in New River. The last hike on that trail will follow, later in the month, (probably on the 21st. ) Over the Martin Luther King Day weekend, Aram is likely to visit, so the three days will be open-ended, to his preferences. Other weekends will be divided between Baha\u2019i studies and the trail.\nFebruary- Son heads out to South Korea, the second week of this month, so I will spend 2-3 days in southern California once again, to see him off. It\u2019ll mean 1-2 ,years of Skype and a once-a-year visit. I\u2019ve been in those shoes, several times. President\u2019s Day weekend will likely find me in the McDowell Mountains, northeast of Phoenix. A service project will also be done, during the Baha\u2019i days of giving and service to others, known as Ayyam-i-Ha (Feb. 25-28).\nMarch- This being a month that features a Nineteen-Day Fast, with Spring Break coming towards the end of said Fast, my plans are open-ended. The inclination is to head over to southern New Mexico and western Texas, to pay a couple visits to friends in the area, and take some relatively moderate hikes, the likes of which have worked out nicely, over the past few Fasts. The Baha\u2019i New Year (March 20, this year) will be followed up by a journey to Native American Baha\u2019i Institute, to re-charge spiritually.\nApril- This is the month of the twelve-day Baha\u2019i festival known as Ridvan, commemorating the days when Baha\u2019u\u2019llah declared His mission, in 1863. My energies will be thus directed. A few jaunts along trails in the Sedona and Payson areas will also be on the agenda.\nMay- Decision time, as to keep my current position, or move to a different school, will be at hand. A long-postponed revisit to Boyce Thompson Arboretum, and neighbouring Superior, is the only existing item on the hiking agenda, for this month.\nJune-The first month of summer will keep me in the Southwest. A week in SoCal will focus on Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. Visits to Navajo and Hopi are also on the agenda.\nJuly- My now customary week in Carson City and Reno will move to the first seven days of this month. Then it will be northwest, to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. From there, finances and circumstances will dictate my direction- either a week\u2019s visit to Korea, or down the road, through Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado.\nAugust-Back to whatever work assignment awaits, and whichever forays into nature are allowed by the Monsoon rains.\nSeptember-The Bicentenary of Baha\u2019u\u2019llah\u2019s Birth will be celebrated next month, so this foot soldier will be ready to do whatever the Commemoration Committee needs done. Otherwise, Labor Day will take me up Granite Mountain, and the end of the month will mean a weekend in Flagstaff\u2019s Inner Basin.\nOctober- The aforementioned Commemoration will take place on October 22. Hope Fest will also happen this month, so there will be much work, in service. Fall Break is a cypher, at this point: Tucson and vicinity will get first dibs.\nNovember- Thanksgiving, this year, will be observed at Desert Rose Baha\u2019i School, between Phoenix and Tucson.\nDecember- Christmas week will find me in Massachusetts, with family whom I feel have been somewhat neglected, over these past several years. Several fences need mending. That will include a train trip to Philadelphia, right before New Year\u2019s, and on down to Tampa Bay, for the first week of 2018.\nBooks? \u201cThe Brothers Karamazov\u201d slog continues. \u201cThe Standing Stones Speak\u201d, by Natasha Hoffman, \u201cThe Century Trilogy\u201d, of Ken Follett, \u201cThe Alchemist\u201d, by Paolo Coelho and a pair of books on rebuilding communities take top priority. Speaking of which, my long put-off book of poetry and short prose will be put together, starting with choosing the better of the poems I wrote, over the past year, and adding verse as it comes to mind. No specific promises, as to date of publication, but it will be sometime this year.\nSo, off we go- Trump\u2019s wild ride, widespread exercises in patience with one another, and continued healing (on both a personal and a collective level) will define this next chapter in the life of this beautiful humanity.\n5 Comments | Tagged \"The Brothers Karamazov\", \"The Century Trilogy\", Baha'i, Bicentenary of Baha'u'llah's Birth, Black Canyon Trail, Boyce Thompson Arboretum, Carson City, clouds, Desert Rose, Granite Mountain, Hope Fest, Hopi, Inner Basin, Ken Follett, Massachusetts, McDowell Mountains, Native American Baha'i Institute, Navajo, northwest, Paolo Coelho, Payson, Philadelphia, Psychological First Aid, Reno, San Diego, Sedona, South Korea, southern California, Tampa Bay\nPosted by righteousbruin9 on October 24, 2016 in Community, Inner Struggles, Personal goals, Personal Values, Service Activities, Spiritual\nA number of things happened today, far and wide. Here, I was part of a large group who celebrated faith in God, and the healing that often results from commitment, both spiritual and emotional.\nThere were testimonies galore, at the fifth annual Hope Fest, a fine blend of vendor booths, children\u2019s play sites and sound stages. There were a number of self-help groups present, a puppet theatre, well-trained young singers who belted out show and movie tunes and inspiring musicians and performers.\nThere was Todd, an accomplished country and Christian singer, a living testimony to Celebrate Recovery. There were Mia and Bill, who have weathered one emotional storm after another, to stand before a thoroughly-supportive crowd and bask in our admiration. There was Vanessa, an immensely-gifted young lady, who painted two portraits of Jesus the Christ, to the accompaniment of the two fine acts mentioned above. She painted Him from images in her mind. One was Christ in the Passion and the second was the Shroud of Turin.\nAs with last year, my larger role was to provide moral support and physical assistance to the sound crew at the Main Stage. This work started when Todd thanked everyone for attending and the audience began to head home, at 8:20 PM. We finished with everything at 12:30 A.M. That is almost two hours less than we took last year. We certainly had more people helping, than last year.\nSo, I helped good friends accomplish a major public event- and continue to honour both Spirit and Body, in becoming far more unified.\n2 Comments | Tagged Christian music, Hope Fest, Main Stage\nThe Road to 65, Mile 311: Role Models\nPosted by righteousbruin9 on October 6, 2015 in Inspiration, Personal Values\nOctober 4, 2015, Prescott- I went to view the film, \u201cThe Martian\u201d, this evening, it being one of three offerings that pique my interest, among the films being shown at our local Picture Show Cinema. I like that theater, because of the $5 Senior tickets. It is always crowded, as the General tickets are also economical.\n\u201cThe Martian\u201d focuses on Matt Damon\u2019s character, and his solitude on Mars. An equally interesting backflow is the depiction of two strong women astronauts- the Commander (Jessica Chastain- always a force of nature) and the Engineer (Kate Mara). The men on the crew, including Damon\u2019s character, look upon these two as equals, if not superiors.\nI\u2019ll not say anything further about the film. It\u2019s too much worth seeing on your own. The thoughts it generated in me were that we have finally reached the time, as a species, when gender should have nothing to do with limiting who is a role model for whom. A strong woman is vital to the self-concept of young girls, AND there is much that boys can take away from her example. This shouldn\u2019t be too much of a stretch. Girls have looked up to men, as character models and teachers, for hundreds of years.\nWhen I was at Hope Fest, yesterday, the Security Team was led by a young woman, who stood 5\u20191\u2033. She had gravitas, a very strong sense of command. This is the sort of presence that will, over time, serve to erase sexism and misogyny. I have written, previously, of a time when my 50-year-old self worked under the supervision of an 18-year-old woman, who simply had deep knowledge of the particular situation, and was worthy of every ounce of respect I mustered. I would not have done well in that situation, without her leadership.\nWe are entering a fine New Age.\n2 Comments | Tagged \"The Martian\", character, Hope Fest, Picture Show Cinema, Security Team, strong woman, women astronauts\nThe Road to 65, Mile 310: Springing Eternal\nPosted by righteousbruin9 on October 6, 2015 in Assistance, Matters of Faith\nOctober 3, 2015, Prescott- This was a very long day- 5:30 A.M.- 1:15 A.M. The wake-up was necessary, in order to be up in Flagstaff, in time for a Baha\u2019i gathering- our region\u2019s annual consultation session and election of a delegate to the National Convention, held the following Spring. It takes about two hours to go from Prescott to \u201cFlag\u201d.\nOnce we finished our session, I stayed behind to help with cleaning the hall. I mention this only because what was waiting for me back here was: Manning the Registration Table for volunteers at Hope Fest, a faith-based event at Courthouse Square, followed by breaking down the site, when a concert ended at 10 P.M.\nHope Fest was initiated by Evangelical Christians, four years ago, to help homeless families, and domestic violence victims, with access to programs that alleviate suffering and offer relief from the cold, in the months to come. I joined the effort, because that\u2019s what I do. A lot of people were here today, as they were at earlier events that came to the aid of the disadvantaged: Stand Down for Veterans and Empty Bowls, both in mid-September. It\u2019s what our community does.\nOur clean-up crew spent three hours transforming the Court House grounds from \u201cThe Day After Mardi Gras\u201d to a place prepared for the next day\u2019s Oktoberfest gathering. Trust me, all three dumpsters in the back were piled high, but the grounds were spotless, otherwise. I left right at 1 A.M., walking the mile to my cozy apartment, my pants soaked with salad dressing leakage, to my chagrin and to the discomfort of a twenty-something neighbour, who held her nose as she walked past. I totally understand- and can\u2019t wait to get all the clothing I wore today, into the washer.\nThe fun part of the evening, actually, was watching the antics of my supervisor\u2019s three pre-school age children. As late as it was, they showed no sign of fatigue, leaving at 9:45. This newest generation, sometimes called GenZ, gives credence to Alexander Pope\u2019s wry observation. Hope is still springing eternal.\n4 Comments | Tagged Alexander Pope, Baha'i, Evangelical Christians, Flagstaff, GenZ, homeless and domestic violence victims, Hope Fest, Oktoberfest\nThe Road to 65, Mile 261: Trusting the Journey\nPosted by righteousbruin9 on August 17, 2015 in Personal goals, Spiritual\nAugust 16, 2915, Prescott- It is coming down to a very telling choice. Perhaps as early as November, maybe not until January, 2017, or at some point in between the two, my intuition is telling me it\u2019s time to move on.\nI say November, because by then, my pledges to the Yavapai County Angels and Hope Fest will have been honoured, the snows will be gathering in Massachusetts, and I don\u2019t want to leave my mother alone, in that house where we grew up, while the rest of my family is facing stresses of their own.\nI say it\u2019s time to move on, because all my friends in this town of Prescott are doing just fine, and will continue to be fine whether I\u2019m here or not. Truth is, I am spending more, in a modestly expensive apartment, with minimal day-to-day work, then I have in any given month on the road, these past few years. I am not a salesman, yet I have looked to help people with a product in which I believe, but without seed money, one cannot do much in establishing an essential oils trade, and I am NOT going to go the \u201cFund Me\u201d route. I have been offered a minimum wage position as an apartment complex manager, but would still have to pay my own full rent- so that\u2019s out.\nI have had some places come into my head, in quiet moments. I could settle in a more economical living space, live in a place where I could pretty much walk to a school, where I could substitute teach, and a few such places have entered my consciousness. I could also go somewhere where people live in community, not in semi-anonymity. Places where my presence would be discomfiting to people I know online or in real time, and there are a few such people, would not be on my list of options.\nThese are all rather petty-sounding, I know, and many have it far worse than me. The issue for me, though, is more existential. It\u2019s more a matter of no place having really felt like home, since Penny passed. It\u2019s more a matter of people having their own priorities and life patterns, in which someone like me does not belong. I know, that will be the same, no matter where I go, and that will be something I have to face. My welcome here, though, is wearing thin, and so it\u2019s time to trust the journey and start planning ahead.\nUPDATE: I will be removing a couple of photos from a post I did on Santa Monica, a few weeks ago, and hopefully the post will be less discomfiting to those concerned.\n5 Comments | Tagged Hope Fest, IIntuition, Yavapai County Angels\nThe Road to 65, Mile 215: Challenges/Opportunities\nPosted by righteousbruin9 on July 2, 2015 in Personal goals\nJuly 1, 2015, Prescott- As is always the case when I return from a wandering, there were lots of base camp tasks in front of me. Not the least of these was tracking down my pile of mail, so as to get two pay checks deposited and thus stave off NSF. I have had a good track record, since recovering from the Great Recession, and aim to keep it that way.\nFinance has neither been my strong suit, nor has it been an Achilles heel. The best way, for me, to go about life is with cash and check. Work will be quite constant this coming academic year, and that\u2019s a great thing.\nMy yard project was pretty much done for me, by the landlord himself, while I was away. He is a trouper: That work was done during the period that Prescott, and much of the continent, endured 100+ ,for nearly three weeks. I will keep at the process of building raised beds, so that next year, seeds may be planted. At least the onion bulbs will go in shortly, and we\u2019ll see how they do.\nJuly will be prime time for volunteering, I can sense, so I will show up at things like the Fourth of July Parade, and the Red Cross float, the Hope Fest kickoff event on July 18, and whatever things Slow Food and Yavapai County Angels have going. Then, too, there would be any disasters that happen, but we will let sleeping dogs lie, for now.\nThe travels? Yes, I have gotten to be the Poster Child for wanderlust. As another friend recently remarked, this seems to be a Sagittarrian thing. This Sagittarian will be more inclined to short, focused bursts, for the next five years at least. There may be a faith-based trip down to Chile, late in 2016, but my primary focus is on family and friends: My son, and a couple of good friends, in southern California; my paternal uncle, in Colorado; my soon-to-be hexagenarian brother, in Atlanta; and the bulk of my biological family, at Christmas-time, in New England. I want to do more day trips from here, that could draw in a good friend. Finally, there are my long-neglected Native American friends in northeast Arizona, and at least one weekend in early August will see me up there.\nThis day finds me in a very relaxed frame of mind, ready for whatever life sends. It\u2019s just too hot and languid to be otherwise.\n1 Comment | Tagged base camp tasks, Hope Fest, primary focus, raised beds, volunteering, Yavapai County Angels", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 378, "original_length": 28689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://people.howstuffworks.com/president9.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JJQX4EFROURP6PNGIMJVZX6KNS42W427", "length": 4096, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "people.howstuffworks.com", "title": "The First Family and the White House | HowStuffWorks", "raw_content": "The First Family and the White House\nMamie Eisenhower, wife of President Dwight Eisenhower, was known as a sterling hostess to the unprecedented number of heads of state who visited the White House during the administration.\nPaul Schutzer/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images\nPresidents generally take every effort to keep their families out of the limelight afforde\u00add by the office, though they're not always successful. The American press has always held a fascination with the first family; a president's family directly reflects on his ability to lead and the moral guidance he's expected to give the nation. As such, some first ladies have helped to frame their husband's character for the nation. Sarah Polk and Lucy Hayes, for example, both banned liquor in the White House in the mid-19th century.\nSome presidential children have found themselves the subject of tabloid fodder. Jenna Bush, daughter of President George W. Bush and granddaughter of President George H.W. Bush, made headlines when she was arrested for underage possession of alcohol at age 19 in 2001 [source: Roiphe]. Others have been targeted simply because they're their parents' children. President Bill Clinton's 13-year-old daughter Chelsea was famously referred to as a \"dog\" by conservative talk host Rush Limbaugh in 1993, much to the public's distaste [source: Ivins].\n\u00adWhile some have remained content to quietly support the president, first ladies have sometimes played very public and vital roles during their husband's administrations. Perhaps the most celebrated first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of President Franklin Roosevelt, helped guide the nation during the Depression and World War II. Reports of her rationing food in the White House showed the nation the administration felt their pain. She was also an outspoken advocate of civil rights and admitted she felt a duty to use her unique access to the president to help the nation.\nThey also can play a role in policy. Nancy Reagan helped bolster her husband President Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs by launching her own \"Just Say No\" campaign. The overwhelmingly successful public relations blitz targeted American children and taught an entire generation about the pitfalls of drug use. President Bill Clinton's wife Hillary took the first lady's involvement to new heights with an ambitious federal health care program. Though the initiative was defeated by a Republican Congress, the first lady actively pushed the legislation on Capitol Hill, meeting with lawmakers to convince them to vote for the program.\nThe first family's official residence, the White House, is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C. It wasn't until the administration of John Adams that the residence served as the home to the president and his family. The building was painted white to cover the scorch marks left after British troops set fire to it in the War of 1812. It was first opened to the public by President Thomas Jefferson after his inauguration in 1805. The custom continued until President Andrew Jackson's inauguration in 1829, when 20,000 citizens overran the home and had to be lured out with bathtubs filled with whiskey on the front lawn [source: White House].\nOver the years, some first ladies have renovated the White House during their husband's tenures. President Harry Truman's wife Bess completely gutted the residence, and the renovation lasted almost the entire administration, from 1945 to 1953. President John Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline, famously redecorated the White House and gave a televised tour to the nation in February 1962. Three out of four Americans tuned in to watch [source: MBC].\nThe White House has also served as the setting for several weddings. Twenty-three first children or grandchildren have been married in the White House, beginning with President James Monroe's daughter Maria in 1820 and most recently President George H. W. Bush's daughter Dorothy's wedding in 1992.\n\u00adHolding a wedding in the White House is only one perk the president is afforded. Read the next page to learn about other presidential perks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 157.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://perennialpower.com/net-metering-what-is-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:07Z", "digest": "sha1:UAQLMFMHQMLXREK53IXNLBLYDO6HF72B", "length": 1725, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "perennialpower.com", "title": "Net Metering", "raw_content": "Net metering allows residential and commercial customers who generate their own electricity from renewable resources to feed electricity they do not use back into the grid. Many states have passed net metering laws. Nebraska became the 43rd state with a \u201cnet metering\u201d law when Governor Dave Heineman signed LB 436 in May 2009 after the measure received strong support in the Nebraska Unicameral.\nNet metering is a billing mechanism that credits renewable energy system owners for the electricity they add to the grid. For example, if a residential customer with a solar system generates more electricity than the home uses during daylight hours, if the home is net-metered, the excess electricity will flow to the grid and the customer will receive a credit against what electricity is consumed at night or other periods where the home\u2019s electricity use exceeds the renewable energy system\u2019s output. Customers are only billed for their \u201cnet\u201d energy use. However, they are still charged their normal monthly Facilities Charge so the utility can recover the costs associated with maintaining the utility\u2019s electric distribution system, in which the customer will need when the renewable energy system is unavailable.\nLB 436 was adopted to encourage customer-owned renewable electricity resources like wind, solar, biomass, hydro power, methane, and geothermal. The law also contains important safety-related interconnection guidelines to make sure customers and utility employees are not injured, and electrical equipment is not damaged, by the operation of customer-owned electric generation.\nNebraska Statute 70-2003\nNet Metering Application\nNet Metering Application with References\nSmall Renewable Interconnection Agreement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://peteranthony.co.uk/buy/area-guides/levenshulme/-in-category/categories/area-guides/sights", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:52Z", "digest": "sha1:S3BNP6LG3XVMNU5KMC4F6Z3O2YGLHZNW", "length": 604, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "peteranthony.co.uk", "title": "Levenshulme Property & Area Guide | Property in Levenshulme", "raw_content": "Levenshulme Train Station\nLocated just off the A6 on Albert Road, the train station provides easy access to both Manchester and Stockport within minutes; making Levenshulme a popular place for commuters. It's famed for its \"Street With No Name\" sign.\nLevenshulme Antiques Village; a treasure trove of interestingly diverse and truly remarkable artefacts offers an eclectic collection of products, ranging from fine furnishings, statuary, decorative ornaments, pine antiques, reclaimed bricks and tiles, and historic toys, to collectors items, elaborate fireplaces, stained glass, and quality hardwood ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 3152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://philosophy.wisc.edu/staff/vranas-peter-b-m/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:14Z", "digest": "sha1:IKM2C23S2FZ6OEYNZHRRHQF5YFWVNHYM", "length": 819, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "philosophy.wisc.edu", "title": "Vranas, Peter B. M. \u2013 Department of Philosophy \u2013 UW\u2013Madison", "raw_content": "Vranas, Peter B. M.\nPeter B. M. Vranas\nProfessor (MIT, Sc.D. 1992; Michigan, Ph.D. 2001)\nPhilosophical Logic, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Formal Epistemology, Metaphysics\nvranas@wisc.edu\nProfessor Vranas\u2019s research in philosophical logic focuses on imperative and deontic logic. He is also currently working on moral dilemmas, time travel, and the implications of situationist psychology for ethics. His recent publications include \u201c\u2018Ought\u2019 implies \u2018can\u2019 but does not imply \u2018must\u2019: An asymmetry between becoming infeasible and becoming overridden\u201d The Philosophical Review (2018), \u201cI ought, therefore I can obey\u201d Philosophers\u2019 Imprint (2018), \u201cInformative aboutness\u201d Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2017), and \u201cNew foundations for imperative logic III: A general definition of argument validity\u201d Synthese (2016).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pickupsforbreastcancer.org/donation-pickup-port-st-lucie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:34Z", "digest": "sha1:NJGSXSIXJJ7WBDHUAQX76S3GQXHGKFMT", "length": 6468, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "pickupsforbreastcancer.org", "title": "Donation Pickup Port Saint Lucie | Port Saint Lucie Donation Pickup", "raw_content": "Donation Pickup Port St. Lucie\nPort Saint Lucie Donation Pickup\nPort St. Lucie is the highest populated city of Saint Lucie County, Florida. In fact, it was so densely populated in 2015 that it surpassed the population of one of the major cities of its neighboring Broward County, Fort Lauderdale. This fact alone has helped the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation add this city to as a service area, so any single resident among the masses can schedule their donation pickup in Port St. Lucie.\nPort St. Lucie wasn\u2019t always as populated however, in fact, it was entirely deserted territory in the fifties. All that was established at the time were fishing camps, farms and a couple of businesses. Fishing camps were cozy little sheds in the 1930s and \u201940s that popped up along the waters where passerby could purchase live bait and rent fishing equipment. Then, the makeshift fishermen would take their fresh catch to be grilled or fried in the shed along the water. Aside from those minor attractions, the area didn\u2019t have much to offer.\nPort Saint Lucie\u2019s \u201cghost town\u201d status was about to change in 1958, when the General Development Corporation (GDC) bought the area for an entire $5, astonishingly. Soon after, the GDC had its first bridge constructed over the St. Lucie River, which finally allowed for direct automobile access to Port St. Lucie.\nThe masses started teeming in from then, and within the decade there were over two hundred new homes in the city. With this first round of successful progress, Port St. Lucie became an official city on April 27, 1961. This was the first major step in becoming an official FBCF service pickup area, where the residents could donate their unwanted household items, old clothes, shoes, electronics and more to the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation. These donations cover much of the funding for the foundation\u2019s breast cancer research, constantly striving to find a cure for the disease. Without these local donations, the FBCF wouldn\u2019t be able to contribute as much to the cause. That\u2019s why it is of utmost importance that anyone within the area schedules their donation pickup in Port St. Lucie. Anything helps, even worn and used clothes as long as they are still in wearable condition.\nToday, Port St. Lucie boasts a high-income town, with illustrious golf courses, lovely public parks with wide open fields, and extremely low crime rate. The residents of Port St. Lucie are very comfortable, in fact, in 2012 BizJournals.com professed Port Saint Lucie as the city with the highest homeownership rate in the nation. Port St. Lucie also offers snug Florida temperatures from the sixties to the eighties, which makes for an everyday paradise. And if you would like to explore the sights in the city but still contribute to a good cause, the FBCF offers a free pickup service in Port Saint Lucie to enable everyone to have a good time. You don\u2019t have to stay home to contribute. We do not require anyone to be present at the time of pickup. Consequently, anyone can explore the Post Saint Lucie sights and donate to the FBCF without being confined to their household, however, the donations must be under a covered area.\nThere\u2019s plenty to do after scheduling your donation pickup in Port Saint Lucie. For instance, the Savannahs Preserve State Park is one of Florida\u2019s natural gems. The park offers all the essentials for every kind of outdoor lover. From kayaking and fishing in the wetlands to eight miles of trails for hiking, bicycling and horseback riding. You can also head to the Environmental Education Center where visitors can procure guided walks throughout this beautiful natural ecosystem, or even guided canoe tours for a more immersed view.\nFor more exotic plant species not native to Florida, take a drive down to visit the Friends of the Port Saint Lucie Botanical Gardens instead. This one is not just for the tourists. Anyone would be in awe of 21 acres of land. Starting with the Bamboo Gardens. The serene atmosphere of bamboo surroundings is the perfect place for a sunny day out. For a pop of color and more lively wildlife in your day, take a stroll through the other gardens. The other gardens offer a variety of seasonal and exotic plants and flowers, from every color of bromeliad to all shades of hibiscus plants and orchids, the Botanical Gardens have a special section for each kind of flower they showcase. Colorful butterflies also wander the gardens thanks to all the blooming buds. Actually, over a dozen distinct species of butterflies have made the Port Saint Lucie Botanical Gardens their home. Snap a picture of these gorgeous Florida natives, and if you\u2019re fast, you may even catch a wild hummingbird in the background.\nLocals and tourists can take in all the wonders of the garden and still contribute to breast cancer research by scheduling a donation pickup in Port Saint Lucie. Most of the locals contribute already by leaving their donation bags or boxes outside their home, and tourists can join too and schedule their pickups right from their hotel. The FBCF will collect donations from wherever you may be if you schedule your pickup ahead of time.\nDonation Pickups in Port Saint Lucie\nWith all the wonders Port Saint Lucie has to offer, it\u2019s no wonder that The Florida Breast Cancer Foundation (FBCF) is collecting donations in the area. Thanks to its free donation pickup service in Port Saint Lucie, Pickups for Breast Cancer, the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation(FBCF) is able to collect bags and boxes of clothes, household items, electronics, furniture and much more.\nYou can schedule a pickup by choosing a date that works for you. We can arrange to have our drivers travel to your specified location in Port Saint Lucie, whether it\u2019s a place of residence or not, as long as you can leave your donations in bags or boxes under a covered area. Again, you do not need to be present for the pickup, so long as our drivers have the specific instructions on how to arrive to the pickup place. Afterwards, we will leave a blank tax-receipt for your tax deductions for the fiscal year.\nIf you live in Port Saint Lucie and are ready to schedule your donation pickup in Port Saint Lucie, simply call us at 1-888-492-4483 or click here to search your specific zip code. Your donations go a long way to support breast cancer research, advocacy and education so that the Florida Breast Cancer Foundation can find a cure to breast cancer once and for all. Thanks, Port Saint Lucie!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 8286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://picsofthen.com/2011/09/07/gals-on-the-roof/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:58Z", "digest": "sha1:QGVND3AW7USEG6OLGPBUMQQVHPGDQ6ZO", "length": 1030, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "picsofthen.com", "title": "Gals on the roof | Pics of Then", "raw_content": "Two young men from Princeton, Minn.\nTags: fashions, photography, vintage photography\nTwo photos, measuring 3.5 x 5.25 and 3.5 x 5 inches respectively. The one on the right is printed on slightly heavier paper stock.\nThese two photos were sold to me together, and they certainly look like they belong together. If you count the women left to right from 1 to 6, then #3 looks like #5, and #2 looks like #6, but #1 and #4 don\u2019t quite look the same to me. But it\u2019s hard to tell. Not to mention, all six dresses are different. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on here. My best guess is that a bunch of friends went on a shopping spree to stock up on the latest fashions, and then headed to the roof to document their purchases. And while my automatic assumption is that this is Manhattan, who knows? The dress on #4 looks like it was inspired by a dirndl, but the buildings look North American to me. How many of these friends were there? And how many more photos were taken that I don\u2019t have? At least I have these, and I think they are fun.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 170.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pipsc.ca/groups/osfi/osfi-bargaining-update-november-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4KN3TPCC55SQARCCZKBJKGQMSMYHG6SO", "length": 726, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "pipsc.ca", "title": "OSFI Bargaining Update \u2013 November 2017 | The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada", "raw_content": "Further to our last bargaining update, we would like to inform you that the parties have met at the PSLREB on November 9, 2017 to negotiate a Memorandum of Agreement and to discuss the terms of the upcoming binding conciliation. The name of the Conciliator and dates of hearing will be communicated to you shortly. Binding conciliation is a new process and has taken some time to put in place. Neither the Employer nor the Institute are responsible for this lengthy process. The parties have agreed on the outstanding items to be resolved in conciliation. Salaries, vacation, and performance pay are some of the items to be addressed in conciliation. We will let you know as soon as a date for conciliation has been scheduled.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 305, "original_length": 6864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pixels.com/featured/amaizeing-rc-dewinter.html?product=shower-curtain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OF2XZVS2LF4IWPE6H7XFW5Q3VIBIIVJU", "length": 436, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "pixels.com", "title": "Amaizeing Shower Curtain for Sale by RC DeWinter", "raw_content": "Corn Shower Curtains\nAmaizeing Shower Curtain\nshower curtains corn corn on the cob food produce still life vegetables\npaintings corn corn on the cob food produce still life vegetables\nNice treatment Gina!\nCopyright 2010 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved ________________________________________________ Okay, it's a bad pun, but this market display of fresh corn on the cob was so enchanting I felt like my eyes were caressing the cobs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 565, "original_length": 10153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 102.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://planetofbrides.com/list-user/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:25Z", "digest": "sha1:V76N3XOY3TEV2N3MNIAUNVRZ4DOZJZL4", "length": 4954, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "planetofbrides.com", "title": "Russian & Ukrainian Women Dating Website", "raw_content": "Single Ladies Dating Profiles from Ukraine and RUssian\nWe Offer the Unlimited Choice of Russian Women for Relationships!\nEveryone dreams of a good family. Unfortunately, one of the highest blessings such as love is not given to everyone. If you dream of a calm family harbor, then it is worth thinking about choosing a reliable partner. The site Planetofbrides can help you in this matter!\n- The mission and concept of Planetofbrides.com\nWith the help of Planetofbrides, it is very easy to find Russian women to marry. For this, it\u2019s enough just to go through a simple registration and fill out a personal profile. The support is available around the clock and can help you anytime. As with any dating site, there are paid features that can help you find your soul mate faster. It is the choice of everyone to get them or not.\nThe main advantage of this resource is its seriousness. It is aimed solely at helping people find their love. An important advantage of this site is an extensive database. Hundreds of lonely hearts register there every day. That is why the chance to find your love is extremely high. Moreover, moderators carefully monitor the activity of profiles. Thus, the possibility of fraud on the site is completely excluded. If you want to find love, then you should visit Planetofbrides.\nYou will find a perfect partner for yourself. The site provides a variety of convenient services: you can chat with Russian women, read the blog, etc. And all this is absolutely free! No matter how far you are from each other, we will help you find your dream. Upload a photo, describe yourself, send a message and start dating with Russian girls.\nYou will open a new world with our site and will be able to find new people from other countries. You will get a good opportunity to completely change your life. No matter what you want from acquaintance with Russian girls \u2013 easy flirting, spending leisure or serious relationships \u2013 all this is absolutely free at Planetofbrides. If you are interested in Russians and dream of finding someone special, then you are in the right place.\n- Russian brides: why they are perfect for love and marriage\nMaybe you have heard that Russian women combine all the good traits of women. What does it mean? This means that being mostly educated, cultured, and self-developed women they are not so infected with feminism \u2013 a disease that has long struck Europeans and Americans. Therefore, a man is not someone with whom a Russian woman just lives and demonstrates her own success and independence. A man is her hope and support. He is a real man who can protect her and give confidence in the well-being of a family. What\u2019s more?\n1. They are family-orientated\nWhy do men date Russian women? They give their men the right to solve many important issues. Therefore, having a Russian wife, you can be sure that she will be grateful to you for your love and ability to be responsible.\n2. They are very beautiful\nBeauty is an integral sense of Russian women\u2019s life. Going to all conceivable and inconceivable sacrifices, wastes and contrivances, they manage to look amazing even having a low salary.\n3. They are sympathetic\nAbility to empathize and willingness to go further for the sake of their family\u2019s happiness, sincerity and care of Russian women distinguish them from selfish Western ladies that are focused on their own \u201cI\u201d, personal interests, and career aspirations.\n4. They are smart\nThe majority of Russian women, seeking to find their happiness abroad, get a good education. They have developed thinking and broad outlook. This makes them great companions with whom men don\u2019t feel bored.\n- Where to meet your love and how to date happily\nDating agencies, dating sites, Russia itself or even somewhere abroad, etc. are the places where you can meet beautiful Russian women. If you choose dating sites, then it should be remembered that Russian women, who have profiles on the Internet, don\u2019t seek to marry at any cost and are not ready to run after the first who offers them to get married. They know their worth, they are able to defend their rights, and they know what to strive for. You should work hard in order to conquer the heart of a Russian lady.\nAlso, it is very important to know the language of the country where your loved one lives. This will show her that you want a long and serious relationship. After all, Russian women, who get acquainted with men on dating sites for the purpose of getting married, have certain fears. Therefore, men who want to date hot Russian women, take into account the peculiarities of their psychology, so that you don\u2019t have a misunderstanding after an acquaintance, which can be caused by a banal difference in the value system and features of the mentality. But a woman remains a woman in any country and at any time. 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She has also worked with Project FIAT in Las Delicias, El Salvador, volunteering with a team to build a home, a school, and water infrastructure in an underdeveloped area on the outskirts of the capital, San Salvador.\nAbizadeh was being groomed to become an executive director when she heard about an opening at the Latin American Legal Defense and Education Fund, which is based in Trenton and serves the Mercer County community.\nShe was hired last month to replace Maria Juega, who stepped down after leading the group for 12 years.\n\u201cAs the recent results of the presidential election show, our work is more important than ever now, advocating for immigration reform,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are ramping up education efforts to inform people of their rights in the event that the campaign rhetoric about immigrants becomes reality. We are also creating safety plans for families. Some families have mixed immigration statuses.\u201d\nLike the rest of the country, the group does not know what will happen yet, but is continuing to advocate for immigration reform and preparing to mobilize in the event that Trump seeks to deport millions of immigrants.\n\u201cWe\u2019re partnering with larger organizations to make our voices heard,\u201d she said. \u201cRegardless of what happens, whether outcomes are on the negative side or whether there is positive immigration reform, we will be super busy as we work to serve so many people.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 6294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 182.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://plasticsurgeryofsomd.com/noninvasive/botox/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:53Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZONT2N23KAPHY5Z3S7T6RHCWRTTBHXD", "length": 1510, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "plasticsurgeryofsomd.com", "title": "Botox in Southern Maryland | Wrinkle Treatment St. Mary's | Plastic Surgery of Southern Maryland", "raw_content": "Botox is a neuromodulator for the treatment of fine lines and wrinkles that develop as a result of repetitive movements and expressions. Botox is a brand of botulism toxin type A, which is a safe and FDA approved injectable treatment. The function of a neuromodulator is to block the nerve signals that cause the repetitive movements such as frowning and squinting. With the nerve signals blocked the muscles can remain relaxed, with fine lines and wrinkles softened.\nHow is Botox Treatments Performed?\nTo start the treatment, the areas you would like treated will be marked to help the injector. The most common areas injected are the glabellar muscles between the eyebrows and the upper forehead to relax any horizontal lines running across. Once the treatment area is marked, Botox cosmetic will be injected into the area using a specific number of units (CC\u2019s) determined f=by your injector.\nThis treatment is minimally invasive and most patients find that the injections are rather painless. Because of this, there are few side effects associated with the treatment other than some redness or minor swelling at the injection site. These side effects typically subside within a few hours. Makeup can be applied to cover this redness and patients can then go about their day without downtime. Patients can expect to see results last approximately 4 months.\nIf you are curious about Botox treatments and what they can do for you, contact Dr. Ehrmantraut\u2019s Maryland Office today to schedule your consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 6185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pocahontastimes.com/category/pocahontas-county-bicentennial-1821-2021/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:12Z", "digest": "sha1:4OIEIHDEC27WWJQBOJSSGPX5H2ZBENGA", "length": 1673, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pocahontastimes.com", "title": "Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 \u2013 2021 | The Pocahontas Times", "raw_content": "Home Pocahontas County Bicentennial ~ 1821 - 2021\nFrom the Archives of The Pocahontas Times February 12, 1903 FATAL FIGHT WITH PISTOLS Granville Messer, as special constable, attempted to arrest Wm. J. Colley; the two men engaged in a desperate fight with pistols and both were...\nFrom the Archives of The Pocahontas Times Wise men are cautious about new legislation and rightly so, for self interest is at the bottom of most of it. If there were need of it, it would...\nFrom the archives of The Pocahontas Times General M. J. McNeel was the holder of the lucky number 001718, which drew the Winchester rifle given by C. J. Richardson at his 28th anniversary sale. - -...\nJanuary 27, 1927 The Pocahontas Times Continued\u2026 Lee had not seen any of the spruce woods. His camps were all in hardwood territory where a man may walk with some degree of comfort and speed. But to...\nJanuary 27, 1927 continued\u2026 Lee made his main camp on the Seneca Trail twenty miles north of Marlinton. All the histories say that he rested on Valley Mountain. That is true, in part, for that...\nJanuary 27, 1927 edition Continued from last week\u2026 It is the intention of this article to relate how Cheat Mountain got the collective goat of an army in war time and changed the history of the...\nThe Pocahontas Times January 27, 1927 A mountaineer is an inhabitant of a mountain region as opposed to lowlander who lives on the levels or low lying lands. The mountaineer is the wilder of the two....\nExcerpts from The Huntersville Road Calvin W. Price Thursday, April 26, 1928 This is supposed to be the last of the series under the title of the Huntersville road. It has been said that I got stalled...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://portside.org/2013-08-02/new-kind-trade-agreement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ZDT3UGDSEEXPCXKZRVGUYVLCG34XVGHQ", "length": 6951, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "portside.org", "title": "A New Kind of Trade Agreement? | Portside", "raw_content": "The series of agreements between Haiti and Vietnam, are proof that the South-South cooperation can lead to the fruitful exchange of resources, technology and knowledge. This cooperation provides the framework for a new form of long-term cooperation, which will enable Haiti to address food security, one of its main challenges. The government of Haiti hopes that these agreements will enable Haiti to leapfrog development stages and create a resilient agricultural system.\nAugust 2, 2013 Haiti Libre\nHaiti - Economy : Signing of a framework agreement Vietnam Haiti\nMonday, Wilson Laleau, Minister of Economy and Finance, also acting Minister Minister of Trade and Industry, accompanied, among others by, Thomas Jacques, Minister of Agriculture and Philippe Cin\u00e9as, Secretary of State for Public Works and Transport, signed in Hanoi (Vietnam), a framework agreement for cooperation on trade and investment Vietnam-Haiti, with his Vietnamese counterpart of trade, Mr. Vu Huy Hoang. This agreement aims to create a legal framework for the strengthening of cooperation in all areas and attract new investment in Haiti\nThis South-South agreement is the result of efforts made by the Prime Minister, Laurent Lamothe during his official visit to Vietnam from 16 to 18 December 2012. http://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-7411-haiti-diplomacy-lamothe-in-vietnam-signing-of-3-agreements.html\nThe Vietnamese Minister of Trade, expressed the willingness of his country to expand its relations with Haiti in energy, textile, food and electronics, noting \"Haiti is an important partner for Vietnam and we are honored of the opportunity offered to us to invest in Haiti and export our products to that country, including rice.\"\nFor his part, the Minister Laleau declared that Vietnamese cooperation is a priority of President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Laurent Salvador Lamothe. During their talks, the two ministers agreed on the need to increase trade between the two countries and promote public-private partnership between the two Republics.\nTran Tuan Anh, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade stressed that Vietnamese ministries wished to cooperate with the Committee of reconstruction of Haiti to provide products and construction services, participate in infrastructure construction projects on the basis of the common interest of businesses and people of both countries. Noting that Vietnam wished to cooperate with Haiti in the development of an environment conducive to the promotion of the cooperation between enterprises, particularly through the development of legal documents on foreign investment and the creation of conditions for Vietnamese companies wishing to invest in Haiti in the production of consumer goods and heavy industry.\nIn addition, Wilson Laleau proposed the creation of a distribution center of Vietnamese products in Haiti on the basis of a joint venture between the two governments and the private sector to create the favorable conditions for access to Vietnamese goods of quality and cheap in Haiti as well as in other Latin American countries.\nThe Haitian delegation also met Trinh Dinh Dung, Minister of Construction, to discuss the need to create a bi-national Joint Commission in the perspective of exploring other potential investment sectors such as the various manufacturers products made through the Caracol Industrial Park.\nAt the end of the visit, the delegation will hold discussions with companies specialized in the production of electricity and manufacturing. The Vietnamese Prime Minister and the Minister of agriculture will also discuss of the production and agricultural recovery and the possibility of signing other cooperation agreements.\nIn the coming months, Haiti will host a large delegation composed of Vietnamese business men and women, which will be led by the Head of Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Nguyen Tan Dun. . These investors will enjoy their stay in Haiti to explore other areas of cooperation, particularly in infrastructure, construction and finance.\nHaiti - Agriculture : Impact of the strategic alliance with Vietnam\nThe series of agreements signed in Hanoi in December 2012, between the Government of Haiti and Vietnam, are proof that the South-South cooperation can lead to the fruitful exchange of resources, technology and knowledge. This cooperation provides the framework for a new form of long-term cooperation, which will enable Haiti to address food security, one of its main challenges.\nThe government of Haiti hopes that these agreements will enable Haiti to leapfrog development stages as it attempts to create a resilient agricultural production system. As 2013 rolled in, these agreements are translated into concrete positive benefits including lower prices for rice, Haiti's key staple food.\nAccording to Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe, \"The principal goal of the agreements we have signed with Vietnam is to find innovative ways to insure food security for all of our citizens.\" The strategic plan of the Prime Minister, identifies ways to mitigate the impact of natural disasters on Haiti's food supply and to reduce its reliance on the import of agricultural products such as rice. The Haitian government's goal is to achieve self-sufficiency in the production of food.\nThe Vietnamese experience is particularly relevant to Haiti which imports most of the rice its citizens consume. In the past thirty years this small Southeast Asian country has gone from facing periodic food shortages in the aftermath of the war with the United State and being a net importer of rice, to becoming the world's second largest exporter of rice.\nImprovements came by increasing land under cultivation, relying on technology to improve seeds and mountain rice production techniques, and by depending on smallholders rather than on large farming estates. In 2011 Vietnam produced 40 million tons of rice a year, most of it grown on 7.2 million hectares by some 10 million farming households each cultivating between one half to one hectare.\nVietnam will provide Haiti with technical cooperation to address the production of rice and other agricultural products. It will send experts to help introduce a progressive system of mountain rice production that includes the mechanization of agriculture, soil erosion prevention techniques, and the introduction of drought resistance rice varieties.\nThe agreements include a few immediate benefits for Haiti. Vietnam will supply Haiti with 300,000 tons of rice annually [at a preferential rate], which will address periodic food shortages. As a result, Haitians are welcoming 2013 with the price of rice 33% lower than last year.\nIn addition, as part of the new relationship with the Vietnamese company, the state-owned mobile phone, has donated 400 tonnes of rice for the school feeding program.\nVietnam: An Unfinished Debt\nSOTU, TPP, TAFTA -- WTF?\nGrowth of Income Inequality Blocks Recovery\nTrans-Atlantic Rifts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 7683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://protectedplanet.net/183407", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YN2MCIQMGBKR2OJOFZFQQZNOXQGG67NL", "length": 239, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "protectedplanet.net", "title": "Loch Lomond and The Trossachs | Protected Planet", "raw_content": "Loch Lomond and The Trossachs in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland\nOriginal Name Loch Lomond and The Trossachs\nManagement Authority Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Government, National Park Authorities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 72.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://provost.blog.gustavus.edu/2019/02/07/lucie-holmgreen-psychological-science-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:01Z", "digest": "sha1:3KXBH5OB6TMRE3PIESIRWYIUKUL6PYLE", "length": 45, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "provost.blog.gustavus.edu", "title": "Lucie Holmgreen (Psychological Science) - Posted on February 7th, 2019 by Shanon Nowell", "raw_content": "Posted on February 7th, 2019 by Shanon Nowell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 702, "original_length": 17473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 252.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pwner.net/guides/fortnite-battle-royale-grenade-launcher-322", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:36Z", "digest": "sha1:7543V3TKUU6CD6OQCZEVHMVO2FIXXQME", "length": 2172, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "pwner.net", "title": "Fortnite Battle Royale: Grenade Launcher", "raw_content": "Grenade Launcher is one of the coolest weapons in Fortnite Battle Royale. It\u2019s one of the best weapons for destroying structures. Legendary modification deals 413 damage to the structures which is great. It also deals high damage to the enemies, but it\u2019s difficult to use it against foes because of aiming.\nYou can find only 3 modifications of this weapon: Rare, Epic and Legendary. The image below shows the difference between them.\nMany players usually ask where to get the grenade launcher in Fortnite Battle Royale. As any other weapon, you can get it in floor loot, chests and in Supply Drops. The chance to appear depends on the item rarity.\nRare (Blue) launcher is easy to find in floor loot (28.6%) and in chest loot (14.3%).\nEpic (Purple) is much more difficult to find in floor loot (3.8%). The probability of finding it in a chest is also small (1.9%).\nLegendary (Yellow) is almost impossible to find in floor loot (1%) and in chests (0.5%) but the Supply Drops has 10% chance of having this weapon. In general 1 out of 10 Supply Drops will give you the launcher.\nHow to fire?\nThe weapon uses Rockets as ammo. But it doesn\u2019t fire standard rockets which explode right after they reach the target. It fires grenades instead. And the grenades don\u2019t explode immediately. There is a delay after it reaches the target. You have to keep it in mind.\nPay attention: grenades may bounce from different objects! They don\u2019t explode as soon as they reach the object. They explode a little bit later. That\u2019s why you must be careful when using this weapon in a small area. You may destroy yourself.\nThe other difficulty is the arc trajectory of the projectile. This weapon is interesting to use because of its firing mechanics. A player has to master this weapon because of the arc trajectory. That\u2019s why it\u2019s more difficult to aim with this weapon rather than with a standard pistol or rifle. If you really want to become a master in firing grenades you will have to practice a lot.\nGrenade launcher is a good weapon against enemy groups. If you know how to aim you can knock out multiple foes with only several shots. 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ROIS will provide Users with the Service for experimentation, comprised of the following services, on the Website:\n(1)\tService through which Users can request computations for computational problems set by ROIS with respect to quantum neural network computing systems and a simulator that simulates their computational principles, obtain the results of requested computations, and display them; and\n(2)\tOther services related to the above item.\n2. For the purpose of enhancing and improving the Service, ROIS may, at any time, alter the content thereof (expand or reduce functions, add new functions, etc.). In cases where the content of the Service will be altered pursuant to this paragraph, ROIS will, in advance, announce the details of said alteration, and the time at which said alteration will become effective, to users through the Website.\nArticle 4 Suspension of the Service\n1. In cases that fall under any of the following items, ROIS may suspend or interrupt the provision of all or some of the Service:\n(1)\tIn the case of carrying out inspections or maintenance work of computers and systems pertaining to the Service;\n(2)\tIn the case of infrastructure failures, including power supply outages and telecommunication line failures;\n(3)\tIn the case of security incidents;\n(4)\tIn the case where it becomes impossible to operate the Service due to forces majeure, such as earthquakes, lightning, fires, storms, flood damage, power outages, and other natural disasters; or\n(5)\tIf ROIS otherwise finds it necessary to suspend or interrupt the Service.\n2. In cases where it suspension becomes necessary due to the occurrence of a security incident, ROIS may restrict access to the Service.\n3. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 14, ROIS shall not be liable for any losses suffered by a User arising from measures taken by ROIS pursuant to this Article.\nArticle 5 Termination of the Service\n1.\tThe purpose of the Service is to provide Users with an opportunity to experiment with quantum neural network computing systems. ROIS shall terminate the Service as of the last day of December 2018. Even before the last day of December 2018, ROIS may terminate the Service, at its own discretion. If the Service will be terminated before the last day of December 2018, ROIS will, in advance, notify users to that effect through the Website.\n2.\tIf the Service is terminated, ROIS may use the User Information, except for information that can be used to identify a specific individual (\u201cUser Information\u201d refers to Users\u2019 information including personal information acquired under the Service when ROIS provides the Service to Users; the same applies hereinafter) for the purpose of research on quantum neural network computing systems after termination of the Service.\nArticle 6 User Registration for the Service\n1.\tPrior to using the Service, an Applicant shall register as a User according to the procedure, etc. designated by ROIS. An Applicant must register as a User only if he/she understands and consents to the content of the Terms of Use. Information registered by an Applicant must be true and accurate.\n2.\tAlthough an Applicant may register as a User in a country other than Japan, the Service shall be provided in accordance with the laws of Japan as prescribed in paragraph 1 of Article 21 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction). If an Applicant uses the Service in a country other than Japan after registering as a User pursuant to this Article, and if the laws of said country are to apply to the provision of the Service of ROIS, and the provision of the Service is considered unlawful in accordance with the laws of said country (including both, the case where providing the Service is considered unlawful, and the case where use of the Service is considered unlawful), an Applicant shall not register as a User.\n3.\tIf an Applicant is a person with limited capacity, including a minor, said Applicant may not use the Service unless he/she obtains the consent of a statutory representative including a person with parental authority (including consent to the Terms of Use) required for User registration. A person with limited capacity, including a minor, shall not use the Service if he/she is unable to obtain said consent.\n4.\tROIS will issue an account to an Applicant who has applied for User registration pursuant to paragraph 1 of this Article.\n5.\tWhen issuing the account prescribed in the preceding paragraph, an Agreement for Using the Service (hereinafter referred to as the \u201cService Use Agreement\u201d) will be formed between the User and ROIS, and the User will become able to use the Service pursuant to the Terms of Use.\nArticle 7 Account Management\n1.\tThe account issued upon registering with the Service shall be available only to the User to whom the account was issued. The User shall not cause a third party to use it, loan or assign it, change the title to it, or sell it.\n2.\tThe User shall, on his/her own responsibility, properly manage and store the password and User ID (registered e-mail address will be used as the User ID) that the User has set on his/her own with respect to the Service.\n3.\tThe User shall be liable for any losses arising from insufficient management of, errors in use of, or use by a third party, etc. of his/her password or User ID (e-mail address). ROIS shall not be liable for such losses.\n4.\tAny and all actions taken on the Service arising from the use of an account issued shall be deemed to be actions of the User to whom said account has been issued.\nArticle 8 Charge\nThe Service shall be provided free of charge.\n1.\tWhen using the Service, the User shall not engage in any act that falls under, or is deemed by ROIS to fall under, any of the following items:\n(1)\tActing to develop a conventional weapon or a weapon of mass destruction;\n(2)\tActing to develop and conduct research for the purpose of bringing disorder to society;\n(3)\tActing in contrary to the nature of the Service, which provides an opportunity to experiment with quantum neural network computing systems, such as using the Service for profit-making activities;\n(4)\tReverse engineering or any act similar thereto;\n(5)\tActing to cause the Service to malfunction and obstructing its proper operation;\n(6)\tActing to illegally access or attempt to illegally access the network or system, etc. of ROIS;\n(7)\tActing to alter the system, etc. comprising the Service;\n(8)\tActing to register false information;\n(9)\tActing to cause a third party to use an account by means including loaning or assigning it, changing the title to it, or selling it;\n(10)\tActing to impersonate a third party;\n(11)\tActing to collect information of a third party, etc.;\n(12)\tActing in violation of laws and regulations, judgments, decisions, or orders of a court, or legally binding administrative action;\n(13)\tActing to of infringing on intellectual property rights, such as patents, copyrights, and trademark rights;\n(14)\tActing to infringe on privacy rights or portrait rights, etc.;\n(15)\tActing to slander or discredit ROIS or a third party;\n(16)\tActing in contrary to the public order and good moral;\n(17)\tActing in violation of the Terms of Use; or\n(18)\tOther acts deemed to be inappropriate or improper by ROIS.\n2.\tThe Service shall be provided in accordance with the laws of Japan. If the User uses the Service in a country other than Japan, and if the laws of said country apply to the Service of ROIS, and the provision of the Service is considered unlawful in accordance with the laws of said country (including cases where providing the Service is considered unlawful and cases where using the Service is considered unlawful), the User shall not use the Service.\n3.\tIn the event that the User engages in any of the acts listed in the items of paragraph 1 or paragraph 2, ROIS may suspend the User\u2019s use of the Service, delete the User\u2019s account, cancel the Service Use Agreement, delete the information that constitutes the violation, and otherwise take action considered necessary by ROIS.\nArticle 10 Attribution of Rights and Third Party\u2019s License\n1.\tAny and all rights including intellectual property rights (including trademarks) with respect to the Service belong to ROIS and third parties (including licensors of OSS) that grant a license to ROIS. Authorization to exploit the Service hereunder shall not be interpreted as authorizing exploitation or licensing of the intellectual property rights (including trademarks) of ROIS or the third party (including the licensor of OSS) that grants a license to ROIS beyond the use of the Service.\n2.\tIf the User needs to exploit the intellectual property rights (including trademarks) of a licensor (including the licensor of OSS) other than ROIS pursuant to the terms of the license of said licensor with respect to the use of the Service, the User shall use the Service pursuant to said terms of such license.\nArticle 11 Cancellation of the Service Use Agreement\nIn the event that a User falls under any of the circumstances listed in the following items, ROIS may temporarily suspend said User\u2019s use of the Service, delete the User\u2019s account, or cancel the Service Use Agreement without issuing advance notice or warning:\n(1)\tIn the event the User violates any of the provisions hereof;\n(2)\tIn the event the User\u2019s false statement or insufficient statement is discovered in the registered information;\n(3)\tIn the event the User fails to use the Service for six (6) months or more;\n(4)\tIn the event the User fails to respond to a message requesting his/her response, including inquiries from ROIS, for thirty days or more;\n(5)\tIf ROIS finds that the User happens to be an antisocial force, etc. (referring to an organized crime group, an organized crime group member, an antisocial force, a person who attempts to obstruct national and international security, or other person equivalent thereto; the same applies hereinafter), or to have dealings or be involved with an antisocial force, etc., such as providing cooperation to or being involved with the maintenance, operation, or management of an antisocial force, etc. by providing funds or by other means.\n(6)\tIf ROIS finds that the User happens to be a person who violated an agreement with ROIS in the past or a party involved with said person; or\n(7)\tIf ROIS otherwise finds it inappropriate to provide the Service to the User, register the User, or continue the Service Use Agreement.\nArticle 12 Termination of the Service Use Agreement\nA User may terminate the Service Use Agreement and delete his/her User account for the future by notifying ROIS.\nArticle 13 No Warranty\n1.\tROIS does not guarantee that the Service conforms to any specific purpose of a User; that the Service has the expected functions, accuracy, or usefulness; that a User\u2019s use of the Service conforms to laws and regulations applicable to a User; or that no malfunction will occur.\n2.\tROIS does not guarantee that Data will not be lost in all or in part.\n1.\tROIS shall not be liable for any interruption, suspension, termination, or change in the provision of the Service by ROIS (including third parties providing ROIS with technologies and services necessary for the Service; the same applies hereinafter in this Article), deletion of a User account, data loss due to the use of the Service, or failure or damage of equipment, and any other losses in relation to the Service within the scope permitted by applicable laws, except in cases caused by reasons attributable to ROIS.\n2.\tExcept in cases caused by ROIS\u2019s intentional acts or gross negligence, ROIS shall not be liable for compensating for any losses suffered by a User, including incidental losses, indirect losses, special losses, future losses, and any losses pertaining to lost profit, within the scope permitted by laws applicable to the individual Service Use Agreement including the Consumer Contract Act.\n3.\tROIS shall not be liable for any transactions, communications, or disputes, etc. that occur between one User and another User or a third party with respect to the Service.\nArticle 15 Handling of User Information\n1.\tThe handling of User Information by ROIS with respect to the Service shall be subject to the Privacy Policy for \u201cQNNcloud\u201d separately posted on the Website. The User shall consent to ROIS\u2019s handling of User Information pursuant to said Privacy Policy.\n2.\tROIS may use and disclose statistical information concerning the use of the Service in collaboration with third parties that conduct joint research (including Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation; the same applies hereinafter in this paragraph). Moreover, ROIS may use the Data as the subject of research, and present it at academic conferences or in academic papers, etc. (including presentations overseas at academic conferences or in academic papers, etc.) in collaboration with third parties that conduct joint research (including joint researchers overseas).\nArticle 16 Use of the Data\n1.\tROIS has the sole and exclusive right to exploit and use the Data. ROIS may use the Data as the subject of research in collaboration with third parties that conduct joint research on the Data (including Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation and joint researchers overseas), and provide the Data to third parties through presentations at academic conferences or in academic papers, etc. (including presentations overseas at academic conferences or in academic papers, etc.).\n2.\tA User may use the Data only for academic purposes including writing a paper; provided, however, that a User shall clarify that the Data has been generated by QNNcloud so as to make it clear that the Data has been used as the data in a paper.\n3.\tWith regard to any inventions, discoveries, technologies and know-how, etc. created by a User as a result of using the Service, a User shall grant to the Organization a nonexclusive, unlimited and irrevocable worldwide license free of charge, and a right to sublicense.\n4.\tROIS may delete the Data without the prior consent of a User or notification to a User.\nArticle 17 Amendment of the Terms of Use\nROIS may amend the Terms of Use. In the case of amending the Terms of Use, ROIS shall disseminate the details of said amendment and the time said amendment will become effective to Users by posting such information at an appropriate location on the Website before said amendment takes effect. The amendment hereof shall take effect as of said time of effectuation. If a User uses the Service after the posting of a notification of the details of said amendment, or fails to complete the procedures for terminating the Service Use Agreement and for deleting an account (Article 12) within seven (7) days thereafter, said User shall be legally bound by the amended Terms of Use as of said time of effectuation and thereafter.\nArticle 18 Communication and Notification\nThe support team mentioned below shall handle any inquires with respect to the Service, and other messages or notifications from Users to ROIS:\n\"QNNcloud\u201d Support Team\nE-mail\uff1asupport\uff20qnncloud.com\nAny notifications with respect to amendments hereof, and other messages or notifications from ROIS to Users shall be posted on the Website.\nArticle 19 Assignment of Contractual Status under the Service Use Agreement\n1.\tA User may not, unless ROIS gives its prior consent, assign or transfer to a third party, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of his/her contractual status under the Service Use Agreement, or the rights or obligations under the Terms of Use.\n2.\tIn the case of assigning the business pertaining to the Service to a third party, ROIS may, in association with said assignment of business, assign its contractual status under the Service Use Agreement, rights and obligations under the Terms of Use, User Information including registered information of Users and any Data related to the Service to the assignee. Users shall be deemed to have consented to such assignment of business in advance under this paragraph. For the avoidance of doubt, the assignment of business as used in this paragraph shall include not only the ordinary assignment of business, but also any other cases of business transfer such as the restructuring of ROIS.\nEven if any of the provisions of the Terms of Use or part thereof is found to be invalid or unenforceable by laws and regulations including the Consumer Contract Act, other provisions of the Terms of Use and the remaining part of the provision that is found to be invalid or unenforceable in part shall remain in full force and effect.\nArticle 21 Governing Laws and Jurisdiction\n1.\tThe Terms of Use and the Service shall be governed by the laws of Japan.\n2.\tThe Tokyo District Court shall be the agreed court of first instance with exclusive jurisdiction for all disputes arising out of or in relation to the Terms of Use or the Service.\nIn the case of any inconsistency, discrepancy or difference between the Japanese version and the English version of the Terms of Use, the Japanese version shall prevail.\n[November 27, 2017.]\n[Revised on February 26, 2018.]\n[Revised on November 1, 2018.]\nPrivacy Policy for \"QNNcloud\"\nThe Inter-University Research Institute Corporation, Research Organization of Information and Systems, (hereinafter \u201cService Provider\u201d) sets forth the following policy (hereinafter \u201cthis Policy\u201d) for handling any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter \u201cPersonal Data), it acquires when providing its cloud-based experiential service, \u201cQNNcloud\u201d (hereinafter \u201cthe Service\u201d), to users (hereinafter \u201cUsers\u201d), which enables them to experiment with a simulator that simulates quantum neural network computing systems and their computational principles. This Policy and the Terms of Use concerning the Service apply to the use of this Service.\nThe Service Provider shall pay consideration to protecting the privacy of Users of the Service. When handling Personal Data, the Service Provider shall comply with laws and regulations including GDPR, and will protect Personal Data based on the policy below.\n2. Name and Contact Information of the Service Provider\n\u201cQNNcloud\u201d Support Team\nE-mail\uff1aprivacy@qnncloud.com\n3. Personal Data Collected, Purpose and Lawfulness of Processing, Necessity of Provision\nWhen providing the Service, the Service Provider shall acquire Personal Data as stated below, and use such information within the scope necessary for accomplishing the purpose of use stated below.:\n(1)\tInformation provided by Users at the time of registration\nNecessity of provision\n\u30fbE-mail addresses\n\u30fbPasswords\n1. For the purpose of performing the obligation to provide the Service\n\u30fb\tTo register and identify a User when providing this Service;\n\u30fb\tTo contact a User when providing the Service; and\n2. For the purpose of securing legitimate interests\n\u30fb\tTo prevent security incidents and conduct investigations.\nUnless the information concerned is provided, a User cannot be registered, and thus is unable to use the Service.\n(2)\tInformation collected by the Service Provider when Users use the Service\n\u30fb\tStatus of use of the Service, result of use (generated User ID, problem ID, parameters entered by Users, computational problems generated by parameters, and results of computations);\n\u30fb\tTo use the information as the subject of research on quantum neural network computing systems;\n\u30fb\tTo use the information as the subject of research on quantum neural network computing systems, and present the results in papers, etc. to third parties (including presentations overseas at academic conferences or in papers, etc.);\n\u30fb\tTo provide the information to third parties (including Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) when conducting joint research on quantum neural network computing systems (including providing the information to joint researchers overseas as part of joint research projects);\nSince the information concerned is the information to be surely generated as a result of using the Service, a User may not refuse to provide the said information.\n\u30fb\tAccess log (IP address, timestamp, terminal type, browser information); and\n\u30fb\tTo obtain the status of use of the Service and improve the quality of the Service;\n\u30fb\tTo contact Users when providing the Service;\nThe information concerned will be acquired without fail for the purpose of ensuring security.\n\u30fb\tInquiry information.\nThe information concerned will be acquired without fail.\n4.\tManagement of Personal Data\nThe Service Provider shall take necessary security control measures to protect Personal Data against risks, such as loss, destruction, falsification, and leaks, and endeavor to maintain confidentiality.\n5.\tAccount Deletion\nA User may, upon fling a request to the Service Provider on his/her own, suspend the use of the Service and delete the account. If a User deletes his/her account for the Service, the User\u2019s personal data will be deleted as well.\nThe Service Provider may, after the deletion of the account, use anonymized personal data for research on the quantum neural network computing systems.\nThe administrator may provide the following personal data to third parties:\nPersonal Data Provided to Third Parties\nMode of Provision to Third Parties\n\u30fb\tStatus of use of this Service, results of use (generated problem IDs, parameters entered by Users, computational problems generated by parameters, and results of computations).\n\u30fb\tWhen conducting research on quantum neural network computing systems, information will be presented in papers, etc. to third parties (including presentations overseas at academic conferences or in papers, etc.); and\n\u30fb\tWhen conducting joint research on quantum neural network computing systems, information will be provided to third parties (including Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) which conduct joint research (including providing information to joint researchers overseas as part of joint research projects).\n\u30fb\tAccess log (IP address, timestamp, terminal type, browser information)\n\u30fb\tIn order to prevent security incidents and conduct investigations, the information concerned will be provided to a third party with expert knowledge.\n7.\tRelocation to Outside of the Region\nPersonal data collected by the Service Provider will be handled in Japan, The status of use of the Service and the result of use thereof (generated problem identification ID, parameters entered by Users, computational problems generated by parameters, and result of computation) may be published as a paper in any country other than Japan, and may become the subject of joint research in any country other than Japan.\nWith regard to an email address, an e-mail may be delivered via a sever in any country other than Japan.\nWhen Personal Data is relocated to any country other than Japan, it will comply with appropriate legal measures.\n8.\tPersonal Data Retention Period\nPersonal data collected by the Service Provider will be deleted within three months after the termination of the Service.\n9.\tUse of Anonymized Information\nThe Service Provider may, upon anonymizing the result of use of the Service (generated problem identification ID, parameters entered by Users, computational problems generated by parameters, and result of computation) by removing the information which can identify a specific individual and the like, for the purpose of research on quantum neural network computing systems after the deletion of the account or the termination of the provision of the Service.\n10.\tRights of Data Subject\nIn accordance with the applicable data protection laws of the relevant countries, a User may be able to exercise the right to demand an access to personal data held by the Service Provider, correction or deletion of personal data, or the right to obtain from the Service Provider restriction of the processing in relation to a User, or the right to object to the processing, and the right to data portability. Please contact \u201cQNNcloud\u201d Support Team with respect to the method of exercise of such rights.\nIn the event of finding that the personal data processing with respect to the Service violates the applicable data protection laws of the relevant countries, a User may raise an objection to supervisory authorities in his/her area of residence, etc.\n11.\tDisclosure of the Privacy Policy and Consent\nThis Policy will be disclosed to Users before the commencement of the use of the Service to seek their consent.\nIf a User is a minor, said User is expected to consent to this Policy upon obtaining the consent of a statutory representative, including a person with parental authority.\n12.\tRevisions of the Privacy Policy\nThe Service Provider may review the matters stated herein as needed, and revise this Policy for the purpose of improving it.\nIn the case of revisions to the matters stated herein, Users will be notified of such revisions through the Service in advance.\n13.\tFor Inquiries\nPlease contact us at the e-mail address below for any inquiries concerning the handling of Personal Data under this Policy and through the Service (including disclosure, correction, and suspension of use of personal information):\n[Enacted on November 23, 2018.]\nSend Provisional Registration Mail", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 29103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://quinersdiner.com/tag/benghazi/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:M4RXF4SQ2D7VJRMLPRV7XEY7NXIWHQB4", "length": 6859, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "quinersdiner.com", "title": "Benghazi \u00ab A Heapin' Plate of Conservative Politics & Religion", "raw_content": "Welcome to Hillary\u2019s world 1\nby quinersdiner \u2022 Politics \u2022 Tags: Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, Scott Gration\nDoes it seem a tad bit hypocritical that Scott Gration lost his job as Ambassador to Kenya for the same offense that Hillary Clinton says is irrelevant in her quest for the White House? More\u2026\nHillary Clinton and the seven dwarfs 4\nby quinersdiner \u2022 Politics \u2022 Tags: Benghazi, Hillary Clinton, Travelgate, Vince Foster, Whitewater\nThe name Hillary Rodham Clinton engenders waves of revulsion in the typical conservative.\nThe root cause of this animus isn\u2019t partisan politics; it is phoniness. Ms. Clinton drips with insincerity.\nWhen God handed out the integrity gene, He seems to have bypassed the Clintons. To conservatives, it is clear that Hillary Clinton (and her husband, too) are in politics to serve themselves, not the greater good. Their passion for power trumps the public desire for a more perfect union. More\u2026\nWhen Susan Rice goes on television, you know the truth is about to take a beating 5\nby quinersdiner \u2022 Politics \u2022 Tags: Benghazi, Benjamin Netanyahu., Bowe Bergdahl, Susan Rice\nSusan Rice\u2019s latest foray into disingenuousness came on Charlie Rose\u2019s show, where she proclaimed that John Boehner was being \u2018partisan\u2019 when he invited the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netenyahu, to speak before Congress. As columnist Star Parker put it,\n\u201c[that\u2019s] like saying that accepting an invitation from the president for a meeting in the White House is partisan because Barack Obama is a Democrat.\u201d More\u2026\nThe oddity of the president\u2019s leadership 5\nby quinersdiner \u2022 Culture, Politics \u2022 Tags: \"The Innocence of Muslims\", \"The Interview\", Benghazi, Cheryl Attkisson\nAs our Ambassador died at the hands of terrorists in Benghazi, our president\u2019s behavior was odd.\nHe told us the uprising in Benghazi was spontaneous, caused by an anti Islam, American-produced film called \u201cThe Innocence of Muslims.\u201d He asked YouTube to \u201creview\u201d the film to be sure it wasn\u2019t violating their user standards. He intoned that:\nHe told us this story knowing that it was a matter of time until the public would learn it was an untruth.\nHe went on the David Letterman Show ten days later and repeated the story, again knowing that we\u2019d eventually discover that his story lacked one iota of integrity. All that mattered to him was that the falsehood wouldn\u2019t be exposed until after the 2012 election.\nIt wasn\u2019t, and Barack Obama was reelected.\nAn attack on an American embassy is the equivalent of an attack on American soil. And yet the president jumped on a plane as this crisis unfolded to attend a political fund raiser in Las Vegas.\nInvestigative reporter, Cheryl Attkisson, formerly of CBS News, requested photographs taken in the White House of the president the day our Ambassador was murdered in Benghazi. Said Ms. Attkisson:\n\u201cIf you know how the White House works, a photographer is omnipresent. He would have been there taking photographs in the Situation Room.\nHe would have been taking photographs of the president that night. So we asked for the photos, which in my view, are public information. They are paid for with tax dollars, and they release them when they want them released and they are positive .\nThe photo office indicated initially, this was probably in October or November 2012, that we could have the photos at the end of the day and that never materialized.\nThey suddenly started referring us a White House deputy press secretary, Josh Earnest, who is now press secretary. And they said Josh would have to approve it, and he would never return a call or e-mail.\nWe would try to maintain communication with him or try to make communication with him over a long period of time, and he wouldn\u2019t even answer.\nWe would go to the press, photographer\u2019s office and say you have given us an impossible task, you have told us to talk to someone who will not talk to us.\nYou need to give us another route to follow to try and get these photos, and they would say no, you have to talk to Josh Earnest. So that just went down a dead-end road.\nI think that is entirely unacceptable. The press offices work for the public. They are publicly paid to be responsive to the press and the public . Those White House photos belong to the public, in my view, to the extent that they would not reveal national secrets.\nTo this day, they remain secret.\u201d\nOdd, isn\u2019t it, that the \u201cmost transparent\u201d president in history (candidate Obama\u2019s self description) is actually quite opaque.\nLet\u2019s shift to another incident involving a film. As you know, North Korea threatened to kill people who attended a film that offended them. The film is called \u201cThe Interview\u201d, and it depicts North Korea\u2019s dictator in a bad light.\nA few reactions:\n\u2022 Large movie theater chains refused to carry the movie on the advice of their lawyers who said they would be sued and would lose if anyone got hurt. Tort reform anyone?\n\u2022 Small, independent art house theaters said, \u201check, we\u2019ll show the film.\u201d God love our intrepid entrepreneurs who won\u2019t be pushed around by bullies.\n\u2022 The president, the same guy who said the \u201cInnocence of Muslims\u201d shouldn\u2019t be shown since it offended Muslims, said Sony should screen \u201cThe Interview\u201d, even though it offends North Koreans. Hmmm.\n\u2022 Even more, the president said he wished that the president of Sony, Michael Lynton, would have called him before pulling the film. In fact, Sony didn\u2019t pull the film, the big boys who control most of the movie theaters simply wouldn\u2019t accept the product.\n\u2022 And for the record, says Mr. Lynton, I did try to call the president. Mr. Lynton is a big Obama campaign supporter, but he couldn\u2019t through to his buddy.\nWe are left with questions:\n1. Why should an anti-Muslim film NOT be shown that may incite violence, but an anti-North Korean film that might incite violence SHOULD be shown?\n2. Why would the president concoct a false narrative on Benghazi and stick with it for ten days knowing he would get caught in the lie?\n3. Why won\u2019t the White House release photographs of what the president was doing while Americans were killed in Benghazi?\n4. Why do we have a tort system that subjects companies to blackmail?\n5. Why would the president suggest the president of Sony didn\u2019t try to call him, when he did?\nHillary to Diane Sawyer: \u2018I take responsibility, but I don\u2019t mean it\u2019 Reply\nby quinersdiner \u2022 Politics \u2022 Tags: Benghazi, foreign policy, Hillary Clinton\nThe anchor [Diane Sawyer] continued pressing, asking Clinton whether the people might be seeking from her a \u201csentence that begins from you \u2018I should have\u2026\u2019?\u201d Clinton sort of ducked that one. The accountability-heavy moment came when Sawyer\u2019s slow and steady line of questioning on Benghazi security prompted Clinton to utter this self-contradictory and sure-to-be-repeated statement: \u201cI take responsibility, but I was not making security decisions.\u201d More\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 10176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://qumedia.net/2018/09/09/first-sga/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:GTE6QD5LWHGBNWNNIL4WKES3JVFDNWPY", "length": 3218, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "qumedia.net", "title": "SGA Moving Fast to Start Semester \u2013 QUTV", "raw_content": "Posted on : September 9, 2018 By Quincy Fuehne\nThe Student Government Association reassembled for the first time this school year August 31 with only a few senators present.\nThe governing body began its meeting with guest speaker Larry Ruemmler, a voter registration advocate.\nRuemmler volunteers his time by registering people to vote. He goes door to door in Quincy asking residents if they are registered, and if they are not, if they would like to be.\nHe stressed the importance of voting and the simplicity of getting yourself registered.\nSGA plans on holding voter registration days for students throughout September before the upcoming election on November 6.\n\u201cOur initiative is really just to spark the drive for young people to get involved in the political systems because we see that as a problem,\u201d Co-President Mary Argana said.\nYou can register with a senator on September 10, 17 and 24.\nOne big goal for the senate this year is to give students a better experience and making the university more like a home.\n\u201cI know my freshman year it was a different environment than it is now for sure, but I think it\u2019s definitely on its way to becoming more and more of a home for these kids. It\u2019s quite a change from high school to college,\u201d Jack Waddell, SGA senator, said.\nThe next big event to boost student experience is homecoming. SGA plans to organize the powder puff football game and the coronation that week.\nThe group split into two committees for these events. The committees will be in charge of the planning, advertising and budget of the event.\nVoting for money spent on each event will be settled within each separate committee.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t have to necessarily have everyone\u2019s approval,\u201d Argana said after being questioned about needing the full senate\u2019s vote to spend money on events.\nThe powder puff committee hopes to get the faculty involved in the night.\nAnother way SGA plans on enhancing the student experience is to make improvements or changes around campus.\nSenators are required to write a short legislative piece proposing a campus project.\nThe proposal should have details regarding the project, including a budget and how they plan to go about that change.\nThe legislation will be due at the end of September.\nSGA advisor Fr. John Doctor encouraged senators to think about ways to get the SGA brand out there for students to know who they are and what they do.\nMatt Friddle, a sophomore transfer, says he is not really familiar with the SGA on QU\u2019s campus. The idea is new for him considering it was not a large organization at his previous school either.\nHe is unsure of what SGA exactly does for the school.\nFriddle\u2019s suggestion for the governing body lines up with Doctor\u2019s suggestion.\n\u201cI would like to see more promotion for the student body,\u201d Friddle said.\nFor now, the senate is considering signage around campus and residence halls and possibly advertising during streamed university sports productions.\nThe SGA typically meets on Friday afternoons at 1:00 p.m. but will not have a regular meeting Sep. 7. The homecoming committees will be meeting separately in place of the senate\u2019s weekly meeting.\nThis is the fist year that this senate is governing under its new constitution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 6371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://racinggamesw.wordpress.com/2014/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CTJ3O54XLRPSJ4HI6ZSJWUB33XW6Z5ZY", "length": 5168, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "racinggamesw.wordpress.com", "title": "May | 2014 | Racing Games", "raw_content": "Uphill Rush 7-Exceptional Game\nUphill Rush 7 is the seventh installment that has been published online after a great success of the sixth installment. It is a very uncommon game where you have to choose the vehicle at the beginning and then you can start racing. The game is available here http://www.uphillrush7.org.\nUphill Rush 7 is the racing game that will be a wonderful one for you and you can easily pass hours and hours with the game. The game is a very unique one that you should play online to share your scores with your friends. It will be a wonderful time for you if you play the game because it will hardly let you know how much time you are playing the game. You must try this exciting game and hopefully you will have the best time in your life with this game. Just play the game online and share it with your friends and make it more enjoyable.\nExclusive Game-Garden Inventor\nTags: Garden Inventor\nGarden Inventor is a high quality game which is available online for you with lots of fun and obviously you will get a nice time with it. The game is a free one which is available online for you for free and you will be having a great time with it.\nGarden Inventor is really a thrilling game and it can help you to pass hours and hours. If you are having problem to pass your boring time you can just play the game and it will give you the real fun. The game is available online and it will be a wonderful time for you. The game is available online and you can pass a nice time with it. The quality of the game is very good and it has the greatest graphical view. It is a good one for you and you can play it as long as you want.\nBuild Your Robot Team in Bot Arena 3\nTags: Bot Arena 3\nDo you love robot fighting? If you do then you can play the game Bot Arena 3. This is the third installment which is very thrilling game to play. Here in this game you have to build your bot team to fighting against the enemies.\nBot Arena 3 is very interesting game to play and when you will start playing it you will enjoy your time a lot. It is quite challenging matter for you to beat the other robots so you must prepare your team with strong hand. The game is really an interesting one which can give you amazing time. The robotic battle is exciting enough to help you to pass some hours. After building your robot team you can go to the battle field to start fighting. The stronger robot team you have the better performance you can show. So why are you waiting for? You should try this awesome game and hopefully you will love it a lot.\nReal Creepy Game-Scary Maze Game 5\nScary Maze Game 5 is the fifth installment which will give you lots of fun. In this game your task is to take the ball from one point of the maze to the end point. It will be a great time for you to play this game and you will enjoy your time a lot. Find the game for free here at http://www.scarymazegame5.net.\nScary Maze Game 5 is an excellent game which is very interesting and you can play this game online for passing very good time. You will get a very scary image if your ball touches the maze wall. It is really an exciting game to play that you should try right now and you will get lots of fun from it. It is not so easy to take the ball through the maze to the destination because the mazes are too close in some of the positions. It is very challenging game for you that you can play for free.\nReturn Man 3-Awesome Football Game\nTags: Return Man 3\nReturn Man 3 is the third installment of this amazing football game. It is a different type football game; American football concept is used in this game. You have to take the ball from the middle of a field to the goal point avoiding all other players. Play it on http://www.returnman5.com/return-man-3.\nReturn Man 3 is a unique football game which will be a great opportunity for you to play it. It is really a wonderful game that you can start to play whenever you like. In this amazing game your task is to take the ball from the middle of the field to the end point to win it. It has really great graphical view that you can play online for free. It has really a great game to play that you can enjoy a lot. It is your task to take the ball without clashing with opposition players. The computerized players are very powerful and they can take away the ball from you any time.\nHave Entertainment with Red Ball 7\nTags: Red Ball 7\nRed Ball 7 is the seventh installment that is available for you online that can give you lots of fun. In the game your task is to take the red ball to its destination so that you can easily proceed to the next level. In order to play the game you have to check http://www.redball6.com/red-ball-7.\nRed Ball 7 has come to online with some more features that you can really enjoy. The game can give you lots of fun and you will be very pleased with it. Whenever you want to play this game you can start it. You have to move the ball properly so that you can easily reach to your destination and you can win the game. The graphical view of the game is really wonderful that can make your time awesome. If you love to play online games you can try this one and it will be really a great time for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 7851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://radiopaedia.org/encyclopaedia/all/gynaecology?page=5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KFGHU3VO5IHGGVBWVQNBJYTPA7ED32NB", "length": 27713, "nlines": 135, "source_domain": "radiopaedia.org", "title": "Articles | System: Gynaecology | Radiopaedia.org", "raw_content": "Placental infarction refers to a localised area of ischemic villous necrosis. It is a significant cause of placental insufficiency. Epidemiology A localized infarction can occurs in up to ~12.5% (range 5-20%) of all gestations. Pathology It usually results from an interrupted maternal bloo...\nPlacental mosaicism is a situation where there discrepancy between the chromosomal makeup of the cells in the placenta. According to one study fetal mosaicism was found in 50% of cases with placental mosacism. When the fetal cells are normal in chromosomal composition, this is then known as conf...\nPlacental septal cyst\nA placental septal cyst is a placental cyst typically located in the mid-placenta. It forms between the cotyledons of the placenta. The cysts contain gelatinous material and are usually 5-10 mm in diameter. They may be present in 10-20% of placentas from full term uncomplicated pregnancies. See...\nPlacental site trophoblastic tumor (PSTT) is rare and one of the least common (~ 0.2% 7) forms of the gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD). Epidemiology PSTT typically occurs in women of reproductive age with the average age around 30. It may occur after a normal pregnancy, molar pregnancy ...\nPlacental surface cyst\nPlacental surface cysts are often related to cystic change in an area of subchorionic fibrin. They can be variable in size. Sub types subchorionic cyst: commonest type 2 amniotic epithelial inclusion cyst Significance Most placental surface cysts are associated with a normal pregnancy outco...\nA placental teratoma is a very rare placental tumor. Pathology A placental teratoma is benign and almost never associated with congenital deformities in the fetus. Radiographic features Antenatal ultrasound May show a heterogeneous mass at the placental margin. Hyperechoic foci consistent w...\nPlacental thickness tends to gradually increase with gestational age in a linear fashion. Sonographically, this can be seen to be approximately 1 mm per week and the thickness of the placenta can be used to approximate gestational age: approximate gestational age (in weeks) = placental thicknes...\nPlacental trophotropism refers to a phenomenon where there is a dynamic migration of the placenta at its insertion through gestation. The placenta tends to grow in areas of good blood supply and nutrition and atrophies in areas with poor blood supply and poor nutrition. It may play a role in the...\nThere are many tumors that can involve the placenta. These can be of very different pathology and can include placental chorioangioma (considered the most common primary tumor of the placenta 1) placental chorioangiomatosis placental teratoma placental metastases placental site trophobla...\nPlacental venous lakes refer to a phenomenon of formation of hypoechoic cystic spaces centrally within the placenta. Finding placental lakes during a second trimester ultrasound scan is not associated with any uteroplacental complication or with an adverse pregnancy outcome. They can, however, b...\nPlacentomegaly is a term applied to an abnormally enlarged placenta. Pathology Associations It can be associated with a number of maternal and fetal disorders which include: maternal maternal anemia(s) maternal diabetes chronic intrauterine infections alpha-thalassemia fetal umbilical...\nPolycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), recently referred also as hyperandrogenic anovulation, is a chronic anovulation syndrome associated with androgen excess. The diagnosis of PCOS generally requires any two of the following three criteria for the diagnosis, as well as the exclusion of other et...\nPolycystic ovarian syndrome in the exam\nGetting a film with polycystic ovarian syndrome in a subfertile patient is one of the many exam set-pieces that can be prepared for. Description Transabdominal and transvaginal pelvic ultrasound show an anteverted uterus with a normal size. There is diffuse thickening of the endometrium to 17...\nPolycystic ovaries (PCO) is an imaging descriptor of a particular type of change in ovarian morphology. A proportion of women with polycystic ovaries will have the polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), which in turn requires additional clinical, as well as biochemical, criteria; otherwise polycyst...\nPolyhydramnios refers to a situation where the amniotic fluid volume is more than expected for gestational age. It is generally defined as: amniotic fluid index (AFI) >25 cm largest fluid pocket depth (maximal vertical pocket (MVP)) greater than 8 cm 6: although some centers, particularly in ...\nPolysyndactyly refers to the combined presence of polydactyly as well as syndactyly involving either the hands or feet. Polysyndactyly can be associated with a number of syndromes which includes: acrocephalopolysyndactylies (GCPS) type I: Noack syndrome type II: Carpenter syndrome (typically...\nPopcorn calcification refers to amorphous calcifications often with rings and arcs that resemble popped corn kernels. This type of calcification may be seen in many radiological settings including 1: chondroid lesions (e.g. enchondroma, chondrosarcoma) fibrous dysplasia pulmonary hamartomas ...\nPost-ablation tubal sterilization syndrome (PATSS) is a recognised delayed complication seen in patients who have undergone both endometrial ablation and tubal sterilization. It has been reported in 6-8% of these patients and occurs when bleeding from residual endometrium is obstructed due to su...\nPost dates fetus\nPost dates fetus is when there is prolonged gestation when the fetus remains in-utero beyond 2 weeks beyond expected date of delivery (>42 weeks gestation). Epidemiology The reported frequency is at approximately 3-12% of pregnancies. Pathology Associations maternal obesity Complications ...\nPosterior urethral valves (PUVs), also referred as congenital obstructing posterior urethral membranes (COPUM), are the most common congenital obstructive lesion of the urethra and a common cause of obstructive uropathy in infancy. Epidemiology Posterior urethral valves are congenital and only...\nPost partum hemorrhage (PPH) refers to uterine bleeding after delivery and remains one of the major worldwide causes of maternal mortality. Pathology Classification A post partum hemorrhage can be board classified as primary or secondary. Primary post partum hemorrhage This is the most com...\nThe Potter sequence is a constellation of findings demonstrated postnatally as a consequence of severe, prolonged oligohydramnios in utero. Clinical presentation It consists of: pulmonary hypoplasia: often severe and incompatible with life growth restriction (IUGR) abnormal facies (Potter f...\nPredominantly solid ovarian neoplasms\nPredominantly solid ovarian neoplasms account for a minority of ovarian neoplasms. They include a wide pathological spectrum: epithelial tumors: ~28% of all solid ovarian tumors 1 Brenner tumor germ cell tumors: ~22% 1 ovarian teratoma: noncystic type ovarian dysgerminoma sex cord / strom...\nPremature rupture of membranes (PROM) refers to a rupture of the amniotic sac and chorion (membranes) occurring prior to the onset of uterine contractions. When this occurs prior to 37 weeks it is then termed a pre term premature rupture of membranes (PPROM). By this definition, PROM is classifi...\nPrimary fallopian tube carcinoma\nPrimary fallopian tube carcinoma (PFTC) is an extremely rare malignancy that arises from the fallopian tube. They account for ~1 (0.2-1.1)% all gynecological malignancies (least common of all gynecological malignancies 3). Epidemiology The estimated incidence is at ~3-4 per million women 3. It...\nPrimary fallopian tube carcinoma (staging)\nThe staging used for primary fallopian tubal carcinoma is the FIGO system and is as follows: stage I: limited to fallopian tubes stage Ia: limited to lining of one fallopian tube (intraluminal) stage Ib: limited to inner linings of both tubes (intraluminal) stage Ic: invasion beyond the inne...\nPrimary fetal hydrothorax\nA primary fetal hydrothorax (PFHT) is a rare situation and refers to a primary accumulation of fetal pleural fluid without any underlying abnormality. It can present with a wide spectrum of severity and can be uni or bilateral. Epidemiology The estimated prevalence is at ~ 1:10,000-15,000 preg...\nPrimary ovarian lymphoma (POL) refers to involvement of the ovary with lymphoma but without the involvement of any other site. It is an extremely rare yet well-recognised condition. Epidemiology POL accounts for ~1.5% of ovarian tumors 5. Pathology The rarity of this condition is probably co...\nPrimary peritoneal neoplasms\nPrimary peritoneal neoplasms comprise an uncommon group of heterogenous entities. The list includes: mesothelial derivatives primary (malignant) peritoneal mesothelioma primary peritoneal multicystic mesothelioma primary peritoneal well-differentiated papillary mesothelioma primary periton...\nPrimary serous papillary carcinoma of the peritoneum\nA primary serous papillary carcinoma of the peritoneum (PSPCP) is an extremely rare primary peritoneal tumor. Epidemiology They usually present in postmenopausal women. Clinical presentation Patients tend to present with non-specific complaints such as abdominal pain, anorexia, and abdominal...\nPrimary vaginal carcinoma\nPrimary vaginal carcinoma, although being a rare overall, is still the 5th commonest gynecological malignancy. A primary vaginal carcinoma is defined as a neoplasm that arises solely from the vagina with no involvement of the external os superiorly or the vulva inferiorly, the importance of this...\nPrimary vulval cancer is a rare gynecological malignancy that originates from the vulva. Epidemiology It accounts for ~3-5% of female genital tract malignancies and typically presents in postmenopausal patients peaking around the age of 65-70 years of age 1. Pathology The commonest histolog...\nProboscis is a rare congenital anomaly where an anterior appendage-like structure is seen projecting from the midline fetal face/forehead. Depending on the exact location, this has further been classified into various subtypes (e.g. interorbital proboscis). Pathology Associations The presence...\nProlonged rupture of membranes refers to a rupture of membranes lasting longer than 18-24 hours (i.e. between time of rupture and time of delivery) 1-2. This situation can occur in either the term or pre-term newborns where in the latter case it is also termed prolonged preterm rupture of membra...\nPsammoma bodies are round microscopic calcific collections. It is a form of dystrophic calcification. Necrotic cells form the focus for surrounding calcific deposition. They have a lamellated concentric calcified structure, sometimes large enough to be seen on CT. Psammoma bodies are found in ...\nPseudodysraphism\nA pseudodysraphism refers to the splayed appearance of a normal spine created due to excessive craniocaudal angulation during sonographic evaluation. This can erroneously lead to the diagnosis of a spinal neural tube defect.\nPseudo Meigs syndrome\nPseudo Meigs syndrome refers to a clinical syndrome of pleural effusion, ascites associated with an ovarian tumor that is not a fibroma or a fibroma-like tumor. Pathology Entities that have been reported to result in pseudo Meigs syndrome include Krukenberg tumors colon carcinoma metastases ...\nPulmonary hypoplasia (PH) refers to deficient or incomplete development of parts of the lung. It can develop as a result of a number of other in utero anomalies. Epidemiology The true prevalence is not well known (1.4% of all births according to Knox et al. 13), but in cases of premature ruptu...\nPure primary ovarian choriocarcinoma\nA pure primary ovarian choriocarcinoma is an extremely rare form of ovarian malignancy. It falls under the sub category of ovarian germ cell tumors. Epidemiology They are thought to to account for less than 1% of ovarian tumors. Pathology They are a type of non gestational choriocarcinoma. A...\nPyometrium\nPyometrium refers to infection of the endometrial cavity with resulting expansion due to accumulated pus (pyometra). The post-menopausal demographic are most commonly affected due to the association with uterine malignancy. Pathology Causes endometritis / pelvic inflammatory disease uterine...\nPyosalpinx refers to a Fallopian tube that is filled, and often distended, with pus. Pathology A pyosalpinx often tends to be a complication of background pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Inflammation results in tubal and peritubal adhesions with superimposed obstruction of the fimbrial end....\nRetained products of conception (RPOC) refer to the persistence of placental and/or fetal tissue in the uterus following delivery, termination of pregnancy or a miscarriage. Epidemiology Retained products of conception complicate ~1-5% of all pregnancies (routine vaginal deliveries 12). Acc...\nA retroverted uterus is a normal variation of female pelvic anatomy in which the body of the uterus is tilted backwards (usually leans forward, i.e. anteverted) on itself to match the isthmus of the neck and lower uterine segment. There are variable grades of uterine retroversion. Epidemiology ...\nRhizomelic dwarfism\nRhizomelic dwarfism is a type of dwarfism where the dominant feature is proximal (i.e. femoral, humeral) limb shortening. Pathology The following conditions fall under the heading of rhizomelic dwarfism 3 metatropic dysplasia achondrogenesis rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata achondropla...\nRight iliac fossa mass (differential)\nRight iliac fossa mass is a common clinical presentation and has a range of differentials that need to be excluded. Radiology plays an important role in this differentiation. Differential diagnosis appendicular mass appendicular abscess appendicular mucocele appendicular neoplasms ileoceca...\nRing of fire sign (adnexa)\nThe ring of fire sign, also known as ring of vascularity, signifies a hypervascular lesion with peripheral vascularity on color or pulsed Doppler examination of the adnexa due to low impedance high diastolic flow 1. This sign can be seen in: corpus luteum cyst (more commonly) ectopic pregnancy\nRobinow syndrome is a rare heterogenous genetic disorder with at least two distinct forms. Clinical spectrum The syndrome can affects several systems which include: mesomelic limb shortening: mesomelia hemivertebrae characteristic facies anomalies fetal facies hypertelorism 3 frontal bos...\nRokitansky nodule\nA Rokitansky nodule or dermoid plug refers to a solid protuberance projecting from an ovarian cyst in the context of a mature cystic teratoma. It often contains calcific, dental, adipose, hair, and/or sebaceous components 1. This region has the highest propensity to undergo malignant transformat...\nRothmund-Thomson syndrome (RTS) is an extremely rare autosomal recessive disorder with heterogeneous clinical features. Clinical presentation It is characterized by many features which include: poikiloderma: characteristic rash, typically develops in infancy sparse hair, eyelashes, and/or ey...\nRubinstein-Taybi syndrome (RTS) is a very rare genetic multi-system disorder primarily characterized by mental retardation, broad and often angulated thumbs and halluces, and distinctive facial features. Epidemiology The estimated incidence is 1 in 100,000-125,000 live births 5. Clinical pres...\nRuptured ovarian cysts are one of the most common causes of acute pelvic pain in premenopausal women. The sonographic appearance depends on whether a simple or hemorrhagic ovarian cyst ruptures, and whether the cyst has completely collapsed. The most important differential consideration is a rup...\nA rupture of membranes (ROM) or amniorrhexis is a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac. This can occur as part of normal birth (or \"spontaneously\") if it occurs at full term at the onset of, or during, labor. It is also colloquially known as \"breaking water.\" S...\nRussell-Silver dwarfism\nRussell-Silver dwarfism is a very rare syndrome characterized by: intrauterine growth restriction: tends to give an asymmetrical IUGR postnatal growth restriction relatively large calvarium: pseudohydrocephalus clinodactyly/clinobrachydactyly of the small finger a typical triangular type fa...\nSacrococcygeal teratoma (SCT) refers to a teratoma arising in the sacrococcygeal region. The coccyx is almost always involved 6. Epidemiology It is the commonest congenital tumor in the fetus 11 and neonate 3. The incidence is estimated at ~1:35000-40000. There is recognised female predilectio...\nSalpingitis refers to inflammation of the fallopian tube, it can be a part of pelvic inflammatory disease. See also salpingitis isthmica nodosa\nSalpingitis isthmica nodosa (SIN), sometimes also referred to as perisalpingitis isthmica nodosa - PIN, refers to nodular scarring of the fallopian tubes. In very early stages, the tubes may appear almost normal. As scarring and nodularity progress, the changes become more radiographically appar...\nSampson syndrome\nSampson syndrome refers to a type of superficial endometriosis, where multiple superficial plaques may be seen scattered in the peritoneum and pelvic ligaments. Clinical presentation The patient may present with non-specific abdominal pain. Radiographic features At laparoscopy, they are typi...\nSandal gap deformity\nA sandal gap deformity, also known as hallux varus, is an imaging observation in antenatal ultrasound (typically second trimester) where there is an expanded first interspace, i.e. the gap between the great toe of the foot from the rest of the toes (likened to the gap caused by a sandal). Whil...\nScar endometriosis\nScar endometriosis is a term given to endometriosis occurring in a Caesarian section scar. It can be located in the skin, subcutaneous tissue, rectus muscle/sheath, intraperitoneally, or in the uterine myometrium (within uterine scar). Epidemiology The reported incidence of abdominal scar endo...\nSclerosing stromal tumor of the ovary\nSclerosing stromal tumor (SST) of the ovary is a rare ovarian neoplasm. It is considered a subtype of ovarian sex cord / stromal tumor and is included in the fibroma-thecoma group of ovarian tumors 9. Epidemiology It occurs predominantly in young women, and its incidence peaks around the 2nd t...\nSecondary involvement of the ovary with lymphoma\nSecondary involvement of the ovary with lymphoma is more common than primary ovarian lymphoma. It usually occurs a late manifestation of an advanced systemic disease, and are almost always of the non-Hodgkin type.\nSemilobar holoprosencephaly is a subtype of holoprosencephaly characterized by incomplete forebrain division. It is intermediate in severity, being worse than lobar holoprosencephaly and better than alobar holoprosencephaly. Epidemiology Please refer on the general article of holoprosencephaly...\nA septate uterus is a common type of congenital uterine anomaly, and it may lead to an increased rate of pregnancy loss. The main imaging differential diagnoses are arcuate uterus and bicornuate uterus. Epidemiology It is considered the commonest uterine anomaly (accounts for ~55% of such anom...\nSerous inclusion cysts of the ovary\nSerous inclusion cysts of the ovary are benign cysts typically seen in postmenopausal women. They are typically small (i.e. less than 5 cm), smooth walled and have no septations or solid components. They can alter through time and often disappear. See also ovarian cysts\nShading sign (endometrioma)\nShading sign is an MRI finding typically seen in an endometrioma. It may also be seen with some endometrioid tumors (e.g endometrioid carcinoma of the ovary) It helps to distinguish endometriomas from other blood-containing lesions (e.g. hemorrhagic corpus luteum cysts), with a sensitivity of 9...\nShortened fetal femoral length\nShorted fetal femur is a morphological descriptor and is usually defined when the femoral length falls below the 5th centile for gestational age (some define it when it is under the 2.5th centile 5) or less than 0.91 predicted by the bi-parietal diameter. It can occur in isolated or in associati...\nShortening of the uterine cervical canal as the name implies refers to an abnormal shortening of the uterine cervical length. It is considered a sign of cervical incompetence during pregnancy and can lead to premature delivery. Pathology Etiology primary (i.e. congenital/idiopathic) secondar...\nShort maxillary length\nA short maxillary length can result from many congenital and acquired causes. If seen in an antenatal ultrasound scan, it is often considered to have a high association with trisomy 21 1. Congenital conditions Many conditions that can cause midfacial hypoplasia will result in a short maxillar...\nShort rib polydactyly syndrome(s) (SRPS) comprise a rare group of severe osteochondrodysplasias. There are four major recognised types present: type I: Saldino-Noonan type type II:: Majewski type type III: Verma-Naumoff type type IV: Beemer-Langer type There may also be other very rare type...\nSHORT syndrome refers to an acronym which primarily comprises of the following features: S: short stature H: hyperextensibility of joints and/or inguinal hernia O: ocular depression R: Rieger anomaly T: teething delay In a addition to these there can be numerous associated minor features w...\nShort umbilical cord has been variably defined. Considering the mean length of the umbilical cord is 50-70 cm 1-2, a short cord in absolute terms is usually taken as one that is under 35-40 cm in length at term 1-2. Pathology Associations Recognised associations include chromosomal anomalie...\nSirenomelia (also known as the mermaid syndrome) is a rare congenital malformation characterized by the fusion of lower limb structures. Epidemiology The estimated incidence is at ~1 in 60,000-70,000 of pregnancies 9. There may be greater male predilection (somewhat paradoxical given the usage...\nA Sister Mary Joseph nodule is a metastatic lesion involving the umbilicus. The most common primary source is an intra-abdominal adenocarcinoma. Epidemiology Umbilical metastases are uncommon, reportedly present in 1-3% of all intra-abdominal and/or pelvic malignancy 7. Clinical presentation ...\nSliding sign\nThe loss of the normal sliding sign is a dynamic sonographic sign performed during transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) of women with suspected pelvic peritoneal endometriosis. It indicates pouch of Douglas (POD) involvement and obliteration and is suggestive of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE). ...\nSmall cell carcinoma of the cervix\nSmall cell carcinoma of the cervix is a rare histological subtype of carcinoma of the cervix. Epidemiology Small cell carcinoma is thought to account for ~0.5-6% of all uterine cervical cancers 3. Pathology It is a type of neuroendocrine tumor and is similar to pulmonary small cell carcino...\nSnowstorm sign (disambiguation)\nSnowstorm sign may refer to: snowstorm sign: complete hydatiform mole (ultrasound) snowstorm sign: extracapsular breast implant rupture (ultrasound) snowstorm sign: thyroid pulmonary metastases (chest radiograph)\nSoft-tissue sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of malignant tumors of mesenchymal origin (sarcoma) that originate from the soft tissues rather than bone. They are classified on the basis of tissue seen on histology. The commoner sarcomas in the adult and pediatric population are listed below. A...\nSonographic values in obstetrics and gynecology\nObstetric and gynecological ultrasound is rampant with numerous cut off values. Some of these get revised over the years. The following list is a useful aid to refer to and revise. 1 mm rate of increase of a mean sac diameter per day in early pregnancy 2 mm generally accepted value for a thi...\nSonohysterography, also referred as saline induced sonohysterography (SIS), is an ultrasound technique that better characterizes the uterine cavity and endometrium. It is particularly useful for evaluation of endometrial polyps. Indications fertility evaluation / recurrent pregnancy loss intr...\nSpecialized teratoma (ovary)\nSpecialized teratomas of the ovaries are a rare subtype of ovarian teratomas where there is a monodermal differentiation of tissue element. Therefore they usually contain only endodermal, ectodermal or mesodermal elements. Entities that are classified under this sub group include: struma ovari...\nSquamo-columnar junction of cervix\nThe squamo-columnar junction (SCJ) of the cervix refers to a transitional area between squamous epithelium of the vagina and the columnar epithelium of the endocervix. This shifts in location through age from being more external to internal. Carcinoma of the cervix develops almost exclusively wi...\nSquamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the cervix is the most common histological subtype of cervical cancer and accounts for 80-90% of cases. Pathology Most cervical squamous cell carcinomas grow at the squamocolumnar junction (SCJ). In younger women, the SCJ is located outside the external uterine...\nSquamous cell carcinoma (ovary)\nSquamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the ovary is extremely rare and usually arises in a mature cystic ovarian teratoma 2. As only parts of the lesion are composed of malignant tissue, it is difficult to diagnose malignant transformation of a teratoma preoperatively, unless invasion into adjacent st...\nStenosis of the uterine cervix\nStenosis of the uterine cervix is the pathologic narrowing of the uterine cervix. The term cervical stenosis is clinically defined as cervical narrowing that prevents the insertion of a 2.5 mm wide dilator. Epidemiology One-fifth of patients have a history of exposure to diethylstilbestrol whi...\nString of pearls sign (disambiguation)\nString of pearls sign can refer to: string of pearls sign on an abdominal radiograph of fluid-filled dilated small bowel loops string of pearls sign on ultrasound in polycystic ovarian syndrome string of pearls sign for angiographic appearances in fibromuscular dysplasia\nStruma ovarii tumor\nStruma ovarii tumor is a subtype of an ovarian teratoma and is composed entirely or predominantly of thyroid tissue and containing variable-sized follicles with colloid material. Epidemiology It accounts for 0.3-1% of all ovarian tumors and ~3% of all mature cystic teratomas 1. Clinical prese...\nSubendometrial cysts\nSubendometrial cysts can arise from several pathologies which include adenomyosis 2 tamoxifen-associated endometrial changes 1,3 Differential diagnosis Considerations include superiorly positioned Nabothian cyst\nSubendometrial halo\nThe subendometrial halo is a hypoechoic stripe formed at the innermost part of the myometrium directly bordering the endometrium. It is important to assess its continuity in order to rule out myometrial invasion in endometrial carcinoma.\nSubmucosal leiomyoma in the exam\nGetting a film with submucosal fibroid in the exam is one of the many exam set-pieces that can be prepared for. Description Transabdominal and transvaginal pelvic ultrasound scans show an anteverted uterus with endometrium that is 7 mm wide and has a trilaminar appearance indicative of the pe...\nSubmucosal uterine leiomyoma\nSubmucosal leiomyomas of the uterus refer to a subtype of uterine leiomyoma that primarily projects into the endometrial cavity. They are least common albeit the most symptomatic type of leiomyoma. Clinical presentation Submucosal leiomyomas can be a common source of abnormal uterine bleeding ...\nSubserosal leiomyoma of the uterus\nSubserosal uterine leiomyoma is a subtype of uterine leiomyoma that often exophytically projects outwards from a subserosal location. While its exact definition may vary, a leiomyoma is often called subserosal if >50% of the fibroid protrudes out of the serosal surface of the uterus 2. Clinica...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 426, "original_length": 32993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rakam.io/blog/understanding-event-data-615b3b19ebd1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UL635EIAXD4HSQVKG6PUU7R5OWK2UZGW", "length": 9182, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "rakam.io", "title": "Understanding Event Data \u00b7", "raw_content": "Event Data, as most people think, is not a new concept. You may not know it by its name, but it doesn\u2019t mean you are not familiar with it already. Let\u2019s try to understand it in detail.\nFor starters, it is the most powerful type of data there is and it is ubiquitous.\nA lot of events are happening around us, regardless of our active participation in them. Be it in our phone applications, servers, cars, appliances, or even in our brains. This is great. We are now able to collect, analyze, and organize events in a huge way. Most of the things are connected via the internet these days and this makes it easier to collect information and structure them well. Imagine the kind of discoveries we can make about others\u2019 behaviors, society, applications, and even ourselves. Wouldn\u2019t that be something?\nSo what exactly is event data? Read on.\nThe simplest way to understand the concept of event data is by comparing it to entity data. Have you ever worked on an excel spreadsheet or with an application database? If you have, then you already know about entity data. It looks something like this:\nEntity data is stored in tables. In simple terms, entities are nothing but users, accounts, posts, products, levels, and the like. For every type of entity, there is a separate table; and every table has columns that hold information about these entities. Also, one row is dedicated to each entity. In the example above, the entities are enemies.\nDatabases are usually designed to store entity data and these databases are sometimes called Relational Databases.\nNothing works as well as entity data to capture your applications\u2019 current state, say accounts payable, number of each kind of product, users, etc. Whatever information you are looking for, you can find it quickly and easily.\nOne of the major attributes of entity databases is that they are all normalized. Data are seldom replicated. Say you have a table for \u2018Accounts\u2019 with features like account name, category, type, etc. These accounts have several users allocated to them, but you need not save those users\u2019 information in the \u2018Accounts\u2019 table. Instead, you simple have allocate a key to each user, which in turn links to its account. This is especially useful when it comes to data storage.\nThe only drawback of entity data model is that you must check out the data from several tables. For example, if you want to sort customers by the products they purchase, you must cross check the data from several tables. This can be time-consuming.\nLet us now understand the attributes of Event Data.\n\u201ccollection\u201d: \u201cpageView\u201d,\n\u201cuser_agent\u201d: \u201cFirefox\u201d,\n\u201clocale\u201d: \u201cTR-tr\u201d,\n\u201curl\u201d: \u201chttp://mysite.com/blog-post\",\n\u201creferrer\u201d: \u201chttp://google.com/?q=term\",\n\u201cip\u201d: \u201c186.45.356.33\u201d,\n\u201cplatform\u201d: \u201cweb\u201d,\n\u201cpage_duration\u201d: 5,\n\u201csession_id\u201d: \u201cc88d7bad-af01\u2013433f-bef1-dc107cee4334\u201d\n\u201c_user\u201d: \u201csomeuser@rakam.io\u201d\n\u201c_time\u201d: 1480457838042\nEvent data example: \u2018Pageview\u2019 event\nOne of the outstanding attributes of event data is that it doesn\u2019t describe entities alone: it also describes the *actions* that are performed by the entities. The above example describes the actions of publishing this article. Imagine a set of events called \u2018Pageview\u2019 that track events when a visitor comes into your website and views the webpages.\nSo what makes this \u2018Pageview\u2019 an \u2018Event Data\u2019? Simple. Event data has three pieces of data.\nThe \u2018Action\u2019 is nothing but a thing that\u2019s happening, say, \u2018viewing a page\u2019. The \u2018Timestamp\u2019 is the exact time the thing happens. And finally, \u2018State\u2019 refers to the relevant data we know and understand about this event, including the data regarding the entities associated with the event, like the author, for example.\nNote: Take a look at Ben Johnson\u2019s take on Event Data in his Speaker Deck (he calls it \u2018Behavior Data\u2019)\nDifferent use-cases of event data:\n*Social media*: Let\u2019s think of a social media application that allows users to register, login, follow each other, like someone\u2019s post or post a new content on the application. Each of these actions are user events. The social media application tracks all the events performed by the app\u2019s users and analyze the data to increase their retention rate. Since they usually spend money for marketing in order to acquire users, they want the users to stick in the app so they analyze the users who stick in app and find the \u201cNorth star metric\u201d; which is the set of actions that are performed by the power users. Then, they optimize their app to convince the potential customers who are going to use the app to stick in the app.\n*E-commerce:* The e-commerce applications usually want to optimize their revenue so they collect all the user actions from sign-up to transaction in order to create funnels. If a user adds an item to his/her basket and doesn\u2019t do the transaction, then want to optimize the workflow and try to make it highly optimized so that the users seamlessly complete the transaction funnel.\nWe can easily find out all of these things with the help of event data model. Some of the special characteristics of the data model are as follows:\nData is Rich\nData is Denormalized\nData is Nested\nData is Schemaless\nLet\u2019s go through the above one by one.\nEvent Data is Rich\nIn order to be able to analyze the data and create meaningful insights, you usually want to make your data as rich as possible so that you don\u2019t miss any data points. It\u2019s rather easy to delete the data if you decide that you don\u2019t need it but if you don\u2019t collect the data that may be useful for your business, there is usually not an easy way to recover that data.\nEvent Data is Denormalized\nUnlike in a relational database, you will see the same information repeated multiple times in an event database. User attributes, difficulty settings, app versions, etc., could be repeated at each and every single event, even if they seldom change. It is not super intuitive, of course; but at the time of the event, this kind of repetition is the only way to capture the application state\u2019s representation.\nNow compare this with relational databases. The properties (player settings, for instance) are upgraded, but all the previous values are lost forever. On the contrary, event databases provide us with the potential to capture the entity data at a particular point in time. Having said that, event databases are not a replacement for entity databases. They are merely companions to entity databases.\nEvent Data is Nested\nAs explained before, event data can have multiple properties. It is important to note that most databases that are optimized and structured let you store properties with the help of nested JSON. This is especially helpful when you have a lot of properties and several entities to describe.\nEvent Data is Schemaless\nEvent data usually doesn\u2019t follow a specific, strict schema. You can remove or add data based on your business needs. Your data warehouse should be able to handle the schema evolution without hassle as the business usually change the event schema often depending on their needs. Compared to the application databases which are mostly transactional, event databases are thus designed to manage any number of properties you send.\nHowever; it\u2019s often a good practice to have the schema as organized as possible. You may have 500 different event types but you shouldn\u2019t get lost when trying find specific data-set. You need to have taxonomy system in order to be able to organize your data, have descriptions for each of the event types and even some of your event properties. Also, you need to give appropriate access to different organizations in order for them to analyze the event data themselves.\nEvent Data at Scale\nEvent data is different than your application data. It\u2019s append-only, immutable, denormalized and streaming data. It\u2019s also time-series data in some cases but since the data is collected from the client, the events can arrive the server after some time because of the network issues especially on mobile.\nEven though you may only have a few thousands of users in your application, if they spend too much time on your application you may end up millions of events. In most cases, you usually want to track all the user actions in order to be able to analyze them later on, if you miss the user events, there is usually no way to recover them so it\u2019s usually a better practise to collect all data and drop some of them if it\u2019s not needed.\nSince the characteristics of event data is different than the application data, you usually want to store it in an appropriate database in order to be able to ingest and run queries on that data-set easily. However; the event data warehouse solutions require different set of expertise since they\u2019re optimized for different workloads and you either hire data engineers in order to maintain them or use solutions such as Rakam API in order to avoid starting from scratch. Also there are solutions such as Segment Warehouse for managed alternatives but if you have billions of events, the cost is usually too much.\nEvent Data is a very powerful data model there is. It lets us analyze and track things around us in an effective manner.\nTake a look at the table below that compares entity data and event data.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 11047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://raoulpop.com/2009/08/02/120th-anniversary-of-the-eiffel-tower/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QWDLBPT3B2QLLSDMLLAZTKXJ2JFQFRNH", "length": 3220, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "raoulpop.com", "title": "120th Anniversary of the Eiffel Tower \u2013 Raoul Pop", "raw_content": "120th Anniversary of the Eiffel Tower\nEiffel Tower under construction, 1878\nBuilt between 1887 and 1889 by French engineer Gustave Eiffel, the tower has since become the most recognizable landmark (and the most visited) in the world. For its size, the tower is amazingly light \u2014 its mass is less than the mass of the air contained in a cylinder of the same size. For its time, the system for joining the metal girders together was truly innovative, and was inspired by the design ideas of a Romanian engineer named Gheorghe Panculescu.\nEiffel Tower Girders, 1889\nThe shape of the tower was dictated purely by mathematics, and the primary design goal was wind resistance. Eiffel and the other engineers wanted to make sure it could withstand strong winds, being at the time the tallest building in the world. Being a very tall building, made almost entirely of metal, it\u2019s also a very large lightning rod, which attracts amazing lightning bolts, as you can see in this photo from 1902.\nLightning striking the Eiffel Tower, 1902\nAlso interesting is the use of the tower as a radio antenna. Over time, antennas were mounted to the tower, or the tower itself was used as a large antenna for radio communications. In 1910, the first cosmic rays were observed with the aid of the tower by Father Theodore Wulf. Nowadays, 9 radio and TV stations broadcast content with the aid of the tower.\nThis year, the French celebrated the tower\u2019s 120th anniversary on Bastille Day. A concert by Johnny Hallyday was held at night, while fireworks blazed forth from the tower. It was an amazing lightshow, captured fittingly by Alta Media Productions and Toys Prophet, two Vimeo users. You can see their videos below. Taken from different vantage points, one focuses on the Paris nightscape and the tower lightshow, while the other captures the interaction of people with the evening\u2019s events.\nEiffel Tower on Fire from Alta Media Productions on Vimeo.\n-SPEED OF LIGHT- \u2026.. ESSAI N\u00b05.1 from toys prophet on Vimeo.\nI haven\u2019t yet visited the Eiffel Tower, and I look forward to doing it someday. It\u2019s a structure unlike any other. When you think of it in the context of architectural design, it fits into no category. Its design is pure engineering, with no allowances for the niceties of normal architecture. Sure, it\u2019s been adapted for human use over time, and you can even eat there now, but these are all add-ons, insignificant to the initial design goals. It didn\u2019t fit within the times when it was made, in spite of some of the Victorial wrought iron work it faintly resembles, and it still doesn\u2019t fit within any normal design constraints today, even in post-modernist times. And yet it has become a symbol of architectural design, of Paris, and of French culture, odd as it may be. If nothing else, Gustave Eiffel had serious guts to undertake such a work and to withstand all of the criticism leveled at him during and after the construction of the tower. He was right all along.\nEiffel Tower by briandeadly on Flickr\nHistoric photos of the Eiffel Tower used here are public domain, obtained courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.\nPrevious Post Condensed Knowledge \u2013 August 2, 2009\nNext Post Life Inc \u2013 another perspective on today's society", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 9370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rd.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00466-018-1584-7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TRYBGJIYEJEUH45N7JE7HYMSZCEM2MUL", "length": 81993, "nlines": 298, "source_domain": "rd.springer.com", "title": "Identification of viscoelastic properties from numerical model reduction of pressure diffusion in fluid-saturated porous rock with fractures | Springer for Research & Development", "raw_content": "Ralf J\u00e4nicke\nBeatriz Quintal\nThis paper deals with the computational homogenization and numerical model reduction of deformation driven pressure diffusion in fractured porous rock. Exposed to seismic waves, the heterogeneity of the material leads to local fluid pressure gradients which are equilibrated via pressure diffusion. However, a macroscopic observer is not able to measure the diffusion process directly but senses the intrinsic attenuation of an apparently monophasic viscoelastic solid. The aim of this paper is to establish a reliable, yet numerically efficient, computational homogenization method to identify the viscoelastic properties of the macroscopic substitute model. Inspired by the Nonuniform Transformation Field Analysis, we incorporate a Numerical Model Reduction procedure. The proposed method is validated for several scenarios ranging from pressure diffusion in an unfractured poroelastic matrix, via localized pressure diffusion in interconnected fractures embedded in an impermeable matrix, to the fully coupled pressure diffusion both in fractures and the embedding poroelastic matrix.\nPoroelasticity with fractures Computational homogenization Numerical model reduction\nFractures that are present in subsurface formations dominate not only their mechanical properties but also their hydraulic properties [2, 31]. When interconnected, they can increase the hydraulic conductivity of a rock by several orders of magnitude [20, 28]. This makes the detection and characterization of fracture networks of enormous interest for applications such as the geological sequestration of CO\\(_2\\), production of deep geothermal energy, nuclear waste storage, and the exploration and production of oil and gas. On the one hand, this interest is associated to the necessity of extremely low permeabilities over time in nuclear waste storage sites as well as in cap rocks on top of CO\\(_2\\) injection sites. On the other hand, high permeability zones are the targets in geothermal and in non-conventional hydrocarbon reservoirs.\nFluid-saturated fractured rock in a multiscale representation\n1.1 Pressure diffusion in fluid-saturated fractured rock\nSquirt flow in interconnected micro-cracks causes dissipation of acoustic waves due to viscous friction [19]. This dissipation mechanism is governed by fluid pressure diffusion. An identical phenomenon occurs at a larger spatial scale in hydraulically interconnected mesoscopic fractures [26], here referred to as squirt-type flow. Two interconnected fractures are differently deformed by the propagating wave mainly as a consequence of their different orientation. Hydro-mechanical coupling induces different fluid pressures in the fractures and, thus, fluid pressure diffusion occurs from one fracture into the other one, causing dissipation. The resulting dissipation is frequency dependent and associated with dispersion of the elastic moduli. These effects of fracture interconnectivity on seismic waves represent a great potential for inferring hydraulic characteristics of subsurface formations through the interpretation of seismic data.\nA few numerical upscaling approaches have been used in the recent years to compute, at the level of a Representative Volume Element (RVE), frequency-dependent attenuation and the corresponding dispersion of the elastic moduli caused by squirt-type flow in interconnected fractures [22, 23, 26, 30]. They describe the squirt-type flow within the fractures either by using Biot\u2019s quasi-static equations of poroelasticity or quasi-static, linearized Navier\u2013Stokes equations, whilst the embedding rock matrix is described either as a poroelastic medium or as a monophasic linear-elastic medium based on Hooke\u2019s law.\nNumerical simulations of wave propagation can be used to predict the effect of fracture interconnectivity on surface seismic data, when the subsurface geometry and properties are known. However, in this case, model domains much larger than the RVE considered for the previously mentioned numerical upscaling approaches are necessary which, if feasible at all, requires tremendous computational efforts. A solution for this problem is to replace the heterogeneous medium at the macro-scale by an equivalent homogeneous viscoelastic medium [4] exhibiting identical frequency-dependent attenuation and stiffness modulus dispersion. This presumes that the fluid pressure diffusion observed in the heterogeneous medium at the mesoscopic scale is not observed at the macroscopic scale [13]. In [15], the attenuation-dispersion behavior of a heterogeneous poroelastic medium, consisting of a two-dimensional periodic array of circular inclusions, was roughly approximated with a Maxwell-Zener model containing one single Maxwell chain. This procedure matched the maxima of the corresponding frequency-dependent P- and S-wave attenuation curves but failed to predict the high-frequency limits of the stiffness moduli. Hence, it is an open challenge to find a more fundamental approach for the identification of a suitable viscoelastic model that is able to provide a precise match of attenuation-dispersion behavior. Additionally, such an approach should be able to handle more realistic description of heterogeneities and stochastic fracture networks on the meso-level.\n1.2 Computational homogenization and numerical model reduction\nIn this paper we develop a Numerical Model Reduction (NMR) technique based on the concepts of computational homogenization. We, therefore, refer to the length scales involved in the problem as shown in Fig. 1. We distinguish between, firstly, the macro-scale with the characteristic length L where propagation and attenuation of seismic waves is observed, secondly, the meso-scale with the characteristic length \\(l\\ll L\\) where the squirt-type flow in fracture networks as well as pressure diffusion in the embedding porous rock takes place and, thirdly, the micro-scale with the characteristic length \\(\\lambda \\ll l\\) as the scale of discrete grains and pores. In order to connect the micro- and the meso-scale we employ the Theory of Porous Media (TPM) [6, 7] to model the fluid-saturated porous rock as a biphasic poroelastic medium with possibly heterogeneous material properties. In fact, the resulting mesoscopic description of the rock matrix corresponds to Biot\u2019s equations of quasi-static linear consolidation [3]. In addition, the mesoscopic model is enriched by a fracture network, where we treat the fractures as fluid-filled mechanically and hydraulically open sharp interfaces embedded in the poroelastic matrix. Hence, fluid pressure diffusion occurs in the poroelastic matrix as well as along the fractures. We denote the resulting model that couples fluid pressure diffusion on those two topology levels as \u201chybrid-dimensional interface model\u201d [30].\nIt is important to remark that quasi-static considerations are admissible and reasonable on the SVE-level due to separation of scales. Hence, the macroscopic wavelength at seismic frequencies is much larger than the SVE size. Moreover, the inertia forces at those low frequencies remain, at the SVE-level, much smaller than the viscous drag forces in the SVE, see [24].\nThe primal interest in this contribution, however, is the scale transition from the heterogeneous meso-level towards the homogenized macro-scale. Here, we promote the concept of computational homogenization based on volume averaging techniques. This concept, often referred to as FE\\(^2\\) approach as coined in [8], is well established in the literature for various applications. A comprehensive overview of the concept can be found for example in [17, 32]. Applying the FE\\(^2\\) approach to pressure diffusion in fractured rock requires that we define a mesoscopic volume element considered to be representative for the entire meso-structure. This Representative Volume Element (RVE) represents one single material point on the macro-scale. It is important to remark that, for practical applications, the volume element that can be used for simulations with reasonable numerical efforts is usually much smaller than a true RVE. We, therefore, introduce the concept of Statistical Volume Elements (SVE) as proposed for example in [21]. In order to correlate macroscopic and mesoscopic quantities we execute volume averaging of selected mesoscopic quantities to compute their macroscopic counterparts. However, we assume that squirt-type flow and pressure diffusion in the embedding matrix induced by seismic waves are local phenomena. In other words, fluid pressure diffusion takes place inside the SVE, but any macroscopic transport is neglected. In this case the macroscopic substitute material behaves like a monophasic viscoelastic solid. This phenomenon was discussed in detail in [13] for heterogeneous poroelastic media. The influence of the chosen SVE size for pressure diffusion in fractured porous media was studied in [5] similarly to the classical homogenization problem investigated in [14].\na Periodic SVE including a fracture of thickness \\(\\tau \\) in the full 3D representation. b Periodic SVE with the sharp interface \\(\\partial F_k\\). c Positive and negative fracture surfaces\nHowever, the FE\\(^2\\) approach requires the nested solution of one macroscopic and numerous mesoscopic initial boundary value problems, which leads to tremendous computational costs thus restricting practical applicability to rather coarse meso-scale problems. In this paper, we therefore propose a NMR strategy that significantly reduces the numerical efforts in solving the SVE problems. Our approach is inspired by the Nonuniform Transformation Field Analysis (NTFA), which was initially established for elasto-viscoplastic materials [18, 25] and recently extended towards solids with cohesive interfaces [10], generalized standard media [9, 27], poroelastic composites [12] and transient heat flow [1], to name only a few application fields. The advancement presented in this paper is that we significantly extend the NMR-methodology that was initially proposed for undamaged poroelastic media in [12] towards pressure diffusion in a hybrid-dimensional formulation.\nThe key ingredient of our scheme is that we approximate the fluid pressure in the hybrid-dimensional domain as a linear combination of so-called pressure modes which we identify via a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) from training computations on the SVE level. The pressure modes span a reduced basis for the spatial approximation of the mesoscopic pressure diffusion problem and, as a consequence, allow for the identification of the viscoelastic evolution equations of the macroscopic substitute model. Hence, the reduced FE\\(^2\\) scheme is split into two stages: The numerically expensive training computations on SVE level define the first stage. They need to be executed only once in advance to derive the homogenized substitute model. Therefore, the first stage is often referred to as \u201coffline\u201d phase. The macroscopic substitute model is used in the second stage, called \u201conline\u201d phase, to solve the macroscopic initial boundary value problems. This allows us to access the full sub-scale information during the \u201conline\u201d phase without explicitly solving the underlying SVE problems and, thus, we succeed to reduce the computational costs tremendously.\nThe paper is organized as follows: In Sect. 2 we describe the hybrid-dimensional modeling approach on the SVE-level. We, therefore, employ a sharp interface model for pressure diffusion along fractures embedded in a poroelastic rock matrix. Section 3 is devoted to the computational homogenization framework and the definition of the mesoscopic initial boundary value problem for the hybrid-dimensional description in a FE\\(^2\\) sense. In Sect. 4 we develop the novel NMR technique which allows us to derive viscoelastic substitute models for arbitrary diffusion problems. Finally, we validate our methodology in several numerical experiments presented in Sect. 5.\nThroughout the manuscript, vector and tensor quantities are written as bold types. Taking into account Einstein\u2019s sum convention we write out simple and double contractions as \\(\\mathbf{a}\\cdot \\mathbf{b}=a_i\\,b_i\\) and \\(\\mathbf{A}:\\mathbf{B}=A_{ij}\\,B_{ij}\\). In Voigt notation, vector and matrix quantities are written as underlined italic types, for example \\(\\underline{a}\\) and \\(\\underline{\\underline{A}}\\).\n2 Hybrid-dimensional interface model for fractured poroelastic media\nWe introduce a cubic SVE in the mesoscopic domain \\(\\varOmega _\\Box \\) with the volume \\(V_\\Box :=|\\varOmega _\\Box |=l^3\\), where l is the edge length l of the SVE. The SVE contains n fluid-filled thin fractures in the domain \\(\\varOmega _F\\subset \\varOmega _\\Box \\) with \\(V_F:=|\\varOmega _F|\\). They are considered to be mechanically and hydraulically open. Thus, we assume that the fracture surfaces are not in contact and fluid transport along the fractures is possible. Moreover, we assume that the fractures are penny-shaped and that each fracture can be represented by a symmetry plane.1 The fractures are surrounded by a poroelastic matrix occupying \\(\\varOmega _M\\subset \\varOmega _\\Box \\) with \\(V_M:=|\\varOmega _M|\\) as shown in Fig. 2a. Hence, we can state that \\(\\varOmega _\\Box =\\varOmega _M\\cup \\varOmega _F\\) whilst \\(\\varOmega _M\\cap \\varOmega _F=\\emptyset \\). The internal surface separating the matrix material from the fracture space is denoted \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M^i\\). We define the surface normal vector \\(\\mathbf{n}\\) such that it points from \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M^i\\) into \\(\\varOmega _F\\).\nFor seismic attenuation and pressure diffusion in fracture networks the case of very thin fractures is of major interest. In fact this means that we consider the case that \\(V_F\\ll V_M\\). Since it would be numerically extremely costly to discretize the volume of such thin fractures we aim to simplify the geometrical description of the fracture space. We, therefore, condense the fracture volume towards a set of n possibly intersecting planar interfaces \\(\\partial F_k\\), \\(k=1,2,\\dots ,n\\), see Fig. 2b, whilst \\(\\partial F:=\\cup _{k=1}^n\\partial F_k\\). In the fracture space, we assume all quantities to be homogeneous in thickness direction. In other words, we neglect any gradients perpendicular to \\(\\partial F_k\\). This hybrid-dimensional interface model is discussed in detail in [29].\nHence, we can state that a volume element \\(\\hbox {d}v\\) in the fracture \\(\\varOmega _{F,k}\\) computes as \\(\\hbox {d}v=\\tau \\,\\hbox {d}a\\). Here, we use the interface element \\(\\hbox {d}a\\) of \\(\\partial F_k\\) and introduce the (current) fracture opening \\(\\tau (\\mathbf{x},\\,t)\\) of \\(\\partial F_k\\). The now one-dimensional intersection of \\(\\partial F_k\\) with the external surface \\(\\partial \\varOmega _\\Box \\) is denoted \\(\\partial \\partial F_{\\Box ,k}\\).\nIn order to distinguish between positive and negative fracture surfaces \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M^{i,\\pm }\\) we assign the fracture normal vector \\(\\mathbf{n}_{F}\\) perpendicular to the interface \\(\\partial F_k\\). By convention, \\(\\mathbf{n}_{F}\\) shows in the direction of the positive fracture surface \\(\\partial \\varOmega _{M,k}^{i,+}\\) and, therefore, \\(\\mathbf{n}^+:=-\\mathbf{n}_{F}\\) and \\(\\mathbf{n}^-:=\\mathbf{n}_{F}\\).\nThe fracture opening is defined as the apparent normal distance of the fracture surfaces and can be computed, for all \\(k=1,2,\\dots ,n\\), as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\tau = \\tau _{0} + \\llbracket {\\mathbf{u}}\\rrbracket _{F}\\cdot \\mathbf{n}_{F}\\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial F_k. \\end{aligned}$$\nHere, we evaluate the solid displacement \\(\\mathbf{u}\\) of the poroelastic matrix material at the fracture surfaces and connect the displacements via the fracture jump operator\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\llbracket {\\diamond }\\rrbracket _{F}(\\mathbf{x})= & {} \\diamond (\\mathbf{x}^+)- \\diamond (\\mathbf{x}^-)\\quad \\forall \\ \\mathbf{x}^\\pm \\,\\in \\,\\partial \\varOmega _{M,k}^{i,\\pm }. \\end{aligned}$$\nWe denote the quantity \\(\\tau _{0}(\\mathbf{x})=\\tau (\\mathbf{x},t=0)\\) the initial fracture opening and treat it as a geometry parameter that is constant in time. However, it is important to remark that we do not resolve \\(\\tau _{0}\\) geometrically. In the following, we address the material models used for the sub-scale description.\n2.1 Poroelastic rock matrix\nThe fluid-saturated porous rock matrix is treated as a biphasic mixture consisting of the solid skeleton and the saturating fluid phase. We follow the notation proposed in [7] and denote quantities referring to solid and fluid phase respectively with index s or f. We adopt the concept of effective stress and use Biot\u2019s quasi-static theory of linear consolidation [3] in a displacement\u2013pressure formulation. This leads us to the strong form of the coupled equation system\n$$\\begin{aligned} {\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\cdot {\\varvec{\\nabla }}= & {} {\\mathbf{0}}\\quad \\hbox {in}\\ \\varOmega _M, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} {\\varvec{\\nabla }}\\cdot \\mathbf{q}_M + \\dot{\\varPhi }^M= & {} 0\\quad \\hbox {in}\\ \\varOmega _M, \\end{aligned}$$\nwith the boundary conditions\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathbf{u}= & {} \\mathbf{u}^*\\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial _D^u \\varOmega _M, \\qquad {\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\cdot \\mathbf{n}= \\mathbf{t}^*\\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial _N^u \\varOmega _M, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} p^M= & {} p^*\\quad \\hbox {on} \\partial _D^p \\varOmega _M, \\qquad \\mathbf{q}_M\\cdot \\mathbf{n}= q^*\\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial _N^p \\varOmega _M. \\end{aligned}$$\nThe subscripts \\(\\partial _D\\) and \\(\\partial _N\\) refer to Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions, respectively, pertaining to the solid displacement \\(\\mathbf{u}\\) and the pore pressure \\(p^M\\). Quantities with index \\(*\\) are given boundary values on the boundary \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M\\). In (3), \\({\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\) is the total stress in the mixture, and it is defined via the constitutive relation\n$$\\begin{aligned} {\\varvec{\\sigma }}:= \\underbrace{2\\,G\\,{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}^\\mathrm{dev}+3\\,K\\,{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}^\\mathrm{vol}}_{=:{\\varvec{\\sigma }}^\\mathrm{eff}({\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}(\\mathbf{u}))} \\underbrace{-\\alpha \\,p^M\\,\\mathbf{I}}_{=:{\\varvec{\\sigma }}^{p,M}(p^M)} \\end{aligned}$$\nwith the shear and the bulk moduli G and K of the try solid rock skeleton, the Biot\u2013Willis parameter \\(\\alpha \\) and the pore pressure \\(p^M\\). We assume small deformations and define the linear solid strain tensor \\({\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}= (\\mathbf{u}\\otimes {\\varvec{\\nabla }})^\\mathrm{sym}\\). We execute the volumetric-deviatoric decomposition and define the volumetric strain tensor \\({\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}^\\mathrm{vol}=e\\,\\mathbf{I}/3\\) with \\(e=\\hbox {tr}\\,{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}\\) and the deviatoric strain tensor \\({\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}^\\mathrm{dev}={\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}-{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}^\\mathrm{vol}\\).\nPoroelastic material parameters\n\\(k^s\\)\nIntrinsic permeability of the solid skeleton\n\\(\\phi \\)\nPorosity (\\(\\phi :=\\phi (t>0)=\\phi (t=0)\\))\nElastic moduli of the dry skeleton\n\\(K^s\\), \\(K^f\\)\nBulk moduli of solid grains and pore fluid\n\\(\\eta ^{fR}\\)\nEffective dynamic viscosity\nBiot\u2013Willis parameter\nStorativity\n\\(=1-K/K^s\\)\n\\(=\\phi /K^f + (\\alpha -\\phi )/K^s\\)\nIn (4), we identify \\(\\mathbf{q}_M\\) as the seepage velocity, whereas \\(\\varPhi ^M\\) is the amount of fluid stored in the saturated pore space. The corresponding constitutive relations are chosen as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathbf{q}_M = -\\frac{k^s}{\\eta ^{fR}}{\\varvec{\\nabla }}p^M \\quad \\hbox {and} \\quad \\varPhi ^M = \\phi + \\alpha \\,e + \\frac{p^M}{M}. \\end{aligned}$$\nDefining the initial value of \\(\\varPhi ^M\\) completes the initial boundary value problem. The material parameters used for the poroelastic model are summarized in Table 1.\n2.2 Pressure diffusion along fractures\nThe fluid pressure diffusion along the fractures \\(\\partial F_k\\), \\(k=1,2,\\dots ,n\\), is described in terms of the continuity equation\n$$\\begin{aligned} {\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F\\cdot \\mathbf{q}_{F} + \\dot{\\varPhi }^{F}= & {} -\\frac{1}{\\tau _{0}}\\,\\left( q_{L}-\\hat{q}_k\\right) \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\hbox {with}\\ \\varPhi ^{F}= & {} 1 + e_{F} + \\frac{p^{F}}{K^f}. \\end{aligned}$$\nThe operator \\({\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F\\) evaluates the gradient in the plane that is tangential to \\(\\partial F_k\\). The strong form (9) is completed with the initial value of the fluid storage \\(\\varPhi ^F\\) and Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions pertaining to the fluid pressure \\(p^{F}\\)\n$$\\begin{aligned} p^F = p^*\\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial \\partial _D F_{k}, \\qquad \\mathbf{q}_{F}\\cdot \\mathbf{n}= q^*\\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial \\partial _N F_{k}, \\end{aligned}$$\nwhere \\(\\partial \\partial F_k=\\partial \\partial _D F_{k}\\cup \\partial \\partial _N F_k\\) is the boundary of fracture \\(\\partial F_k\\). Here, we introduce the fluid velocity \\(\\mathbf{q}_{F}\\) along \\(\\partial F_k\\) and the fluid storage \\(\\varPhi ^{F}\\) associated with \\(\\partial F_k\\) with the volumetric fracture strain \\(e_{F}\\). \\(K^f\\) is the fluid bulk modulus. Moreover, we introduce the leak-off \\(q_{L}\\) or, in other words, the outflux of fluid from \\(\\partial F_k\\) into the surrounding porous matrix, and we define the mass supply \\(\\hat{q}_k\\) from one fracture to another, in the case they intersect, as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\hat{q}_k:=\\sum _{l=1}^n\\hat{q}_{kl}\\,\\delta _{kl}(\\mathbf{x}), \\end{aligned}$$\nwhere \\(\\hat{q}_{kl} = -\\hat{q}_{lk}\\) is the influx from fracture l to fracture k along their intersection \\(\\partial F_k\\cap \\partial F_l\\). Here, we use the Dirac-function2\\(\\delta _{kl}\\) at the intersection of fractures k and l. The volumetric fracture strain is defined as\n$$\\begin{aligned} e_{F} = \\frac{\\tau }{\\tau _{0}}-1, \\end{aligned}$$\nwhereby the volume change of the fracture due to elongation in tangential direction is ignored. For the fluid velocity \\(\\mathbf{q}_{F}\\) along the fracture we suppose that the velocity profile has a quadratic shape across the thickness of the fracture. The Poiseuille flow assumption allows for computation of the effective seepage velocity \\(\\mathbf{q}_{F}\\) in \\(\\partial F_k\\) in form of Darcy\u2019s law as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathbf{q}_{F} = -\\frac{\\tau _{0}^2}{12\\,\\eta ^{fR}}\\,{\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F p^{F} \\end{aligned}$$\nwith the apparent fracture permeability \\(\\frac{\\tau _{0}^2}{12}\\).\n2.3 Hydro-mechanical coupling between matrix and fracture space\nFinally, we specify the interaction between the poroelastic matrix and the fluid-filled fractures. We, therefore, compute the volumetric fracture strain rate \\(\\dot{e}_{F}\\) with (1) and (13) and define the leak-off \\(q_{L}\\) as the outflux of fluid from the fracture space into the poroelastic matrix. Hence, we write\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\dot{e}_{F} := \\frac{\\llbracket {\\dot{\\mathbf{u}}}\\rrbracket _{F}\\cdot \\mathbf{n}_{F}}{\\tau _{0}} \\quad \\hbox {and} \\quad q_{L} := -\\llbracket {\\mathbf{q}_M}\\rrbracket _{F}\\cdot \\mathbf{n}_{F} \\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial F_k, \\end{aligned}$$\n\\(k=1,2,\\dots ,n\\). Vice versa, the fluid pressure in the fracture acts on the internal surface \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M^{i,k}\\). The assumption of a continuous fluid pressure leads to the interface conditions\n$$\\begin{aligned} p^M= & {} \\phantom {-}p^{F} \\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial \\varOmega _M^{i,k}, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} {\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\cdot \\mathbf{n}= & {} -p^{F}\\,\\mathbf{n}\\quad \\hbox {on}\\ \\partial \\varOmega _M^{i,k}, \\end{aligned}$$\n\\(k=1,2,\\dots ,n\\). Henceforth, we simplify notation and write p instead of \\(p^M\\) and \\(p^{F}\\).\n3 Computational homogenization\n3.1 Scale transition\nIn the subsequent section, we aim to embed pressure diffusion in fluid-saturated fractured rock in the multiscale framework of computational homogenization and derive a macroscopic substitute model for the hydro-mechanically coupled problem on the meso-level. To this end, we define a SVE for the mesoscopic pressure diffusion problem and impose separation of scales in space and time. This means that macroscopic gradients have a wavelength that is much larger than the SVE size (\\(L\\gg l\\)). Similarly, due to the scaling of spatial gradients, processes within the SVE will occur at much higher rates than those occurring on the macroscopic level. We conclude that, under these conditions, transient pressure diffusion, brought on by macroscopic waves, occurs on the meso-scale only. In standard fashion, we assume the SVE to be periodic and apply periodic boundary conditions. Thereby, we a priori ensure that the amount of fluid stored within the SVE is conserved. It remains to discuss pressure diffusion through the SVE: Firstly, due to separation of time scales and negligible macroscopic time rates, pressure diffusion through the SVE will be stationary. Secondly, due to the linearity of the problem, it does not interfere with the transient processes and is, therefore, ignored. See [13] for a more thorough discussion.\nAltogether, the macroscopic substitute medium can be described as a monophasic material. In fact, the attenuation properties of the macro-model represent viscoelastic damping of the Maxwell-Zener type.\nWe tackle the scale transition between meso- and macro-scale with the aid of the volume averaging operator\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\diamond } = \\left\\langle \\diamond \\right\\rangle _\\Box:= & {} \\left\\langle \\diamond \\right\\rangle _M + \\left\\langle \\diamond \\right\\rangle _F\\nonumber \\\\= & {} \\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\varOmega _M} \\diamond \\,\\hbox {d}v + \\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\varOmega _F} \\diamond \\,\\hbox {d}v. \\end{aligned}$$\nHere \\(\\bar{\\diamond }\\) represents the macroscopic counterpart of an appropriate subscale quantity \\(\\diamond \\). Taking into account the dimensional reduction \\(\\varOmega _F\\rightarrow \\partial F\\), we obtain the hybrid-dimensional form of the volume averaging operator as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\diamond } = \\left\\langle \\diamond \\right\\rangle _\\Box:= & {} \\left\\langle \\diamond \\right\\rangle _M + \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^{n}\\left\\langle \\diamond \\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}\\nonumber \\\\= & {} \\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\varOmega _M} \\diamond \\,\\hbox {d}v + \\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\sum \\limits _{k=1}^{n}\\, \\int \\limits _{\\partial F_k} \\diamond \\,\\tau _{0}\\,\\hbox {d}a. \\end{aligned}$$\nPeriodic boundary conditions on the SVE surface are imposed as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\llbracket {\\mathbf{u}}\\rrbracket _\\Box (\\mathbf{x},t)= & {} \\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t)\\cdot \\llbracket {\\mathbf{x}}\\rrbracket _\\Box , \\quad \\mathbf{t}(\\mathbf{x}^+,t)+\\mathbf{t}(\\mathbf{x}^-,t) = {\\mathbf{0}}\\nonumber \\\\&\\forall \\ \\mathbf{x}\\,\\in \\,\\partial \\varOmega _M^+, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\llbracket {p}\\rrbracket _\\Box (\\mathbf{x},t)= & {} 0, \\quad q_M(\\mathbf{x}^+)+q_M(\\mathbf{x}^-,t)=0\\nonumber \\\\&\\forall \\ \\mathbf{x}\\,\\in \\,\\partial \\varOmega _M^+, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\llbracket {p}\\rrbracket _\\Box (\\mathbf{x},t)= & {} 0, \\quad q_F(\\mathbf{x}^+,t) + q_F(\\mathbf{x}^-,t) = 0\\nonumber \\\\&\\forall \\ \\mathbf{x}\\,\\in \\,\\partial \\partial F_{\\Box ,k}^+, \\end{aligned}$$\n\\(k=1,2,\\dots ,n\\). We use here the SVE jump operator \\(\\llbracket {\\diamond }\\rrbracket _\\Box (\\mathbf{x}^+)=\\diamond (\\mathbf{x}^+)-\\diamond (\\mathbf{x}^-)\\) to connect points on opposite parts of the SVE surface \\(\\partial \\varOmega _\\Box =\\partial \\varOmega _M\\cup _{k=1}^n\\partial \\partial F_{\\Box ,k}\\) [16]. The surface tractions and the fluid outflux across \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M\\) and \\(\\partial \\partial F_{\\Box ,k}\\) are defined as \\(\\mathbf{t}={\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\cdot \\mathbf{n}\\), \\(q_M=\\mathbf{q}_M\\cdot \\mathbf{n}\\) and \\(q_F=\\mathbf{q}_F\\cdot \\mathbf{n}\\) with the outer surface normal vector \\(\\mathbf{n}\\). With this choice, it is obvious that \\(\\int _{\\partial \\varOmega _M}q_M\\,\\hbox {d}a + \\sum _{k=1}^n\\int _{\\partial \\partial F_{\\Box ,k}} q_F\\,\\tau _{0}\\,\\hbox {d}s=0\\). Thus, the fluid mass in the SVE is conserved. Moreover, we observe that the macroscopic strain \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}\\) is the only loading applied on the SVE. This corresponds to the modeling assumption of a monophasic solid overall material model.\n3.2 Weak form and macro-homogeneity condition\nIn the next step, we establish the weak representation of the balance equations (3), (4) and (9) using the notation for the generalized variational format presented in [16]. Hence, we seek solutions in the trial spaces \\(\\mathbb {U}_M\\) and \\(\\mathbb {P}_\\Box =\\mathbb {P}_M\\times \\mathbb {P}_{F}\\) of admissible displacements and fluid pressure fields3 that are sufficiently regular in \\(\\varOmega _M\\) and \\(\\partial F\\). Furthermore, we introduce the corresponding trial spaces of self-equilibrated fluxes \\(\\mathbb {T}_M\\), \\(\\mathbb {Q}_M\\) and \\(\\mathbb {Q}_{F}\\) that are sufficiently regular on \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M^+\\) and \\(\\partial \\partial F^+\\). We write the equations for finding \\(\\mathbf{u},\\,p,\\,\\mathbf{t},\\,q_M,\\,q_{F}\\,\\in \\,\\mathbb {U}_M\\times \\mathbb {P}_\\Box \\times \\mathbb {T}_M\\times \\mathbb {Q}_M\\times \\mathbb {Q}_{F}\\) as\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\mathfrak {a}^u_M(\\mathbf{u},\\delta \\mathbf{u}) + \\mathfrak {b}^u_M(p,\\delta \\mathbf{u}) -\\, \\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\mathbf{t},\\delta \\mathbf{u}) - \\mathfrak {d}^u_M(p,\\delta \\mathbf{u}) = 0,\\nonumber \\\\\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&-\\, \\mathfrak {a}^{p}_M(p,\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {b}^{p}_M(\\dot{\\mathbf{u}},\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {m}^{p}_M(\\dot{p},\\delta p)\\nonumber \\\\&+ \\,\\mathfrak {c}^{p}_M(q_M,\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {d}^{p}_M(p,\\delta p) =0, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&- \\,\\mathfrak {a}^p_F(p,\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {b}^p_F(\\dot{\\mathbf{u}},\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {m}^p_F(\\dot{p},\\delta p)\\nonumber \\\\&+ \\, \\mathfrak {c}^p_F(q_F,\\delta p)+ \\mathfrak {d}^p_F(p,\\delta p) + \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\mathfrak {e}^p_{F,k}(\\hat{q}_k,\\delta p) = 0, \\end{aligned}$$\nfor \\(k=1,2,\\dots ,n\\), under\n$$\\begin{aligned} - \\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\delta \\mathbf{t},\\mathbf{u})= & {} - \\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\delta \\mathbf{t},\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}\\cdot \\mathbf{x}), \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {c}^{p}_M(\\delta q_M,p)= & {} 0, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {c}^{p}_F(\\delta q_F,p)= & {} 0, \\end{aligned}$$\nwhich hold for any admissible test functions \\(\\delta \\mathbf{u}\\), \\(\\delta p\\), \\(\\delta \\mathbf{t}\\), \\(\\delta q_M\\), \\(\\delta q_{F}\\)\\(\\in \\,\\mathbb {U}_M\\times \\mathbb {P}_\\Box \\times \\mathbb {T}_M\\times \\mathbb {Q}_M\\times \\mathbb {Q}_{F}\\). Here, we use the abbreviations\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {a}^u_M(\\mathbf{u},\\delta \\mathbf{u})= & {} \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\sigma }}^\\mathrm{eff}({\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}(\\mathbf{u})):(\\delta \\mathbf{u}\\otimes {\\varvec{\\nabla }})\\right\\rangle _M, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {b}^u_M(p,\\delta \\mathbf{u})= & {} \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\sigma }}^p(p):(\\delta \\mathbf{u}\\otimes {\\varvec{\\nabla }})\\right\\rangle _M, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\mathbf{t},\\mathbf{u})= & {} \\frac{1}{V_\\Box } \\int \\limits _{\\partial \\varOmega _M^+} \\mathbf{t}\\cdot \\llbracket {\\mathbf{u}}\\rrbracket _\\Box \\,\\hbox {d}a, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\mathbf{t},\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}\\cdot \\mathbf{x})= & {} \\frac{1}{V_\\Box } \\int \\limits _{\\partial \\varOmega _M^+} \\mathbf{t}\\otimes \\llbracket {\\mathbf{x}}\\rrbracket _\\Box \\,\\hbox {d}a:\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {d}^u_M(p,\\delta \\mathbf{u})= & {} -\\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n \\frac{1}{V_\\Box } \\int \\limits _{\\partial \\varOmega _M^{i,k}} p\\,\\delta \\mathbf{u}\\cdot \\mathbf{n}\\,\\hbox {d}a, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {a}^p_M(p,\\delta p)= & {} \\left\\langle \\mathbf{q}_M({\\varvec{\\nabla }}p)\\cdot {\\varvec{\\nabla }}\\delta p\\right\\rangle _M, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {b}^p_M(\\dot{\\mathbf{u}},\\delta p)= & {} \\left\\langle \\alpha \\,\\dot{e}\\,\\delta p\\right\\rangle _M, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {m}^p_M(\\dot{p},\\delta p)= & {} \\left\\langle \\frac{\\dot{p}}{M}\\,\\delta p\\right\\rangle _M,\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {c}^p_M(q_M,p)= & {} \\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\partial \\varOmega _M^+} q_M\\,\\llbracket {p}\\rrbracket _\\Box \\,\\hbox {d}a,\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {d}^p_M(p,\\delta p)= & {} -\\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n \\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\partial \\varOmega _M^{i,k}}q_M\\,\\delta p\\,\\hbox {d}a, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {a}^p_F(p,\\delta p)= & {} \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n \\left\\langle \\mathbf{q}_F({\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F p)\\cdot {\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F\\delta p\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {b}^p_F(\\dot{\\mathbf{u}},\\delta p)= & {} \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n \\left\\langle \\dot{e}_{F,k}\\,\\delta p\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k},\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {m}^p_F(\\dot{p},\\delta p)= & {} \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n \\left\\langle \\frac{\\dot{p}}{K^f}\\,\\delta p\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {c}^p_F(q_F,p)= & {} \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n \\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\partial \\partial F^+_k}q_F\\,\\llbracket {p}\\rrbracket _\\Box \\,\\tau _{0}\\,\\hbox {d}s,\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {d}^p_F(p,\\delta p)= & {} \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n \\left\\langle q_{L}(p)\\,\\delta p\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {e}^p_{F,k}(\\hat{q}_k,\\delta p)= & {} -\\left\\langle \\hat{q}_k\\,\\delta p\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}. \\end{aligned}$$\nUsing (12) and the constraint \\(\\hat{q}_{kl}=-\\hat{q}_{lk}\\), we see that \\(\\sum _{k=1}^n\\mathfrak {e}^p_{F,k}(\\hat{q}_k,\\delta p)=0\\). Moreover, using (15)\\(_2\\), we conclude that \\(\\mathfrak {d}^p_M(p,\\delta p)+\\mathfrak {d}^p_F(p,\\delta p)=0\\). In order to abbreviate notation we introduce \\(q=(q_M,q_F)\\) and the corresponding set \\(\\mathbb {Q}_\\Box =\\mathbb {Q}_M\\times \\mathbb {Q}_{F}\\). For a unified description of the fully coupled pressure diffusion process on SVE level we add (24) and (25), and we write the SVE continuity equation solving for \\(p,\\,q\\,\\in \\,\\mathbb {P}_\\Box \\times \\mathbb {Q}_\\Box \\) as\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\, -\\mathfrak {a}^p_\\Box (p,\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {b}^p_\\Box (\\dot{\\mathbf{u}},\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {m}^p_\\Box (\\dot{p},\\delta p) \\nonumber \\\\&\\quad +\\, \\mathfrak {c}^p_\\Box (q,\\delta p) = 0, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\mathfrak {c}^p_\\Box (\\delta q,p) = 0, \\end{aligned}$$\nwhich holds for any admissible test functions \\(\\delta p,\\,\\delta q\\,\\in \\,\\mathbb {P}_\\Box \\times \\mathbb {Q}_\\Box \\). In (45) we introduce the SVE forms\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {a}^p_\\Box (p,\\delta p)= & {} \\mathfrak {a}^p_M(p,\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {a}^p_F(p,\\delta p), \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {b}^p_\\Box (\\dot{\\mathbf{u}},\\delta p)= & {} \\mathfrak {b}^p_M(\\dot{\\mathbf{u}},\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {b}^p_F(\\dot{\\mathbf{u}},\\delta p),\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {m}^p_\\Box (\\dot{p},\\delta p)= & {} \\mathfrak {m}^p_M(\\dot{p},\\delta p) + \\mathfrak {m}^p_F(\\dot{p},\\delta p),\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {c}^p_\\Box (q,p)= & {} \\mathfrak {c}^p_M(q_M,\\,p) + \\mathfrak {c}^p_F(q_F,p). \\end{aligned}$$\nFor the sake of completeness, we derive Hill\u2019s principle of macro-homogeneity for the given problem. We, therefore, choose \\(\\delta \\mathbf{u}\\rightarrow \\dot{\\mathbf{u}}\\) and \\(\\delta p\\rightarrow p\\). We add (23) and (45) and write in expanded form\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\sigma }}:\\dot{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}\\right\\rangle _M - \\left\\langle ({\\varvec{\\nabla }}\\cdot \\mathbf{q}_M)\\,p\\right\\rangle _M - \\left\\langle \\mathbf{q}_M\\cdot {\\varvec{\\nabla }}^M p\\right\\rangle _M \\nonumber \\\\&\\qquad - \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left[ \\left\\langle p\\,\\dot{e}_{F}\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k} + \\left\\langle ({\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F\\cdot \\mathbf{q}_F)\\,p\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}\\right. \\nonumber \\\\&\\qquad \\left. + \\left\\langle \\mathbf{q}_F\\cdot {\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F p\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k} \\right] \\nonumber \\\\&\\quad = \\underbrace{\\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\partial \\varOmega _M^+} (\\mathbf{t}\\otimes \\llbracket {\\mathbf{x}}\\rrbracket _\\Box )^\\mathrm{sym}\\,\\hbox {d}a}_{=:\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}} : \\dot{\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}}. \\end{aligned}$$\nHereby, we employ the periodic boundary conditions in the form of (20), (21) and (22). On the right-hand side of the macro-homogeneity condition (51) we can see that, under the chosen periodic boundary conditions, the macroscopic substitute medium is represented by a monophasic Cauchy continuum model. We use the divergence theorem and rewrite the macroscopic stress tensor \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}\\) as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}:= & {} \\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\partial \\varOmega _M^+}(\\mathbf{t}\\otimes \\llbracket {\\mathbf{x}}\\rrbracket _\\Box )^\\mathrm{sym}\\,\\hbox {d}a\\nonumber \\\\= & {} \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\right\\rangle _M - \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\frac{1}{V_\\Box }\\int \\limits _{\\partial \\varOmega _M^{i,k}}(\\mathbf{t}\\otimes \\mathbf{x})^\\mathrm{sym}\\,\\hbox {d}a\\nonumber \\\\= & {} \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\right\\rangle _M - \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n \\left\\langle p\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}\\,\\mathbf{I}. \\end{aligned}$$\n4 Numerical model reduction for the RVE problem\nIn this section we aim to enhance the computational homogenization concept in a way that enables us to explicitly derive the macroscopic viscoelastic material properties of the pressure diffusion problem on the sub-scale. We, therefore, extend the NMR technique introduced in [12] towards the deformation-driven hybrid-dimensional pressure diffusion problem.\n4.1 Decomposition of the sub-scale field quantities\nThe key ingredient to our NMR approach is the series expansion of the pressure field \\(p(\\mathbf{x},t)\\) in terms of\n$$\\begin{aligned} p(\\mathbf{x},t) \\approx \\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N\\bar{\\xi }_a(t)\\,p_a(\\mathbf{x})\\quad \\hbox {in}\\ \\varOmega _M\\bigcup _{k=1}^n\\partial F_k. \\end{aligned}$$\nThe pressure modes \\(p_a\\), \\(a=1,2,\\dots ,N\\), form a linearly independent reduced basis of the space \\(\\mathbb {P}_\\Box \\). We show in the sequel that even rather small numbers N result in very good approximations of the pressure field and the depending quantities. The pressure modes satisfy the condition \\(\\sum _{a=1}^N\\bar{\\xi }_a\\,p_a=0\\) only by the trivial choice \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a=0\\), \\(a=1,2,\\dots ,N\\). The quantities \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a\\) are called mode activity coefficients. They represent internal variables of the macroscopic substitute medium. Altogether, the current state of the hybrid-dimensional medium on the meso-level at time t is defined by the overall strain \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t)\\) and by the internal variables \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a(t)\\), \\(a=1,2,\\dots ,N\\).\nThe pressure modes \\(p_a\\) are generated via a Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) of a set of S snapshots \\(\\hat{p}_s\\), \\(s=1,2,\\dots ,S\\), of the pressure distribution obtained from training computations. As described in [11, 25], training computations take place on the SVE level and are driven by a macroscopic loading\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t) = \\sum \\limits _{i=1}^6\\gamma _i(t)\\,\\mathbf{B}_i. \\end{aligned}$$\nHereby, the tensors \\(\\mathbf{B}_i\\), \\(i=1,2,\\dots ,6\\), represent the irreducible orthonormal basis of the symmetric strain tensor \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}\\). The training function \\(\\gamma _i(t)\\) may, for example, prescribe stress-relaxation tests or a frequency sweep. The pressure snapshots are used to compute the system correlation matrix\n$$\\begin{aligned} g_{st} = \\left\\langle \\hat{p}_s(\\mathbf{x})\\,\\hat{p}_t(\\mathbf{x})\\right\\rangle _\\Box , \\quad s,t=1,2,\\dots ,S. \\end{aligned}$$\nWe solve the eigenvalue problem \\((g_{st}-\\lambda \\,\\delta _{st})\\,v_t=0\\) and arrange the resulting eigenvalues in the order of decreasing absolute values \\(|\\lambda _s|\\). We reduce the set of eigenvalues to the \\(N\\ll S\\) persisting eigenvalues \\(\\lambda _a\\), \\(a=1,2,\\dots ,N\\), for which holds \\(|\\lambda _a|>1{{\\texttt {e}{} \\texttt {-}}}6\\,|\\lambda _1|\\). Finally, we compute the N pressure modes as\n$$\\begin{aligned} p_a(\\mathbf{x}) = \\sum \\limits _{s=1}^S v_s^a\\,\\hat{p}_s(\\mathbf{x}), \\quad a=1,2,\\dots ,N. \\end{aligned}$$\nDue to the orthonormality of the eigenvectors \\(v_s^a\\), the pressure modes are orthogonal such that\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\left\\langle p_a\\,p_b\\right\\rangle _\\Box= & {} \\left\\{ \\begin{array}{ll} \\lambda _a, &{}\\quad \\hbox {if } a=b,\\\\ 0, &{}\\quad \\hbox {otherwise.} \\end{array}\\right. \\end{aligned}$$\nIn the hybrid-dimensional case we have to take into account that, usually, \\(|\\varOmega _F|\\ll |\\varOmega _M|\\). In other words, the matrix contribution to the volume integral in (55) exceeds the fracture contribution by far. By consequence, the diffusion processes in the fracture space might be underrepresented in the POD procedure. One way to avoid this problem is to introduce scalar and dimensionless weights \\(w_M,w_F>0\\) to compute the correlation matrix as\n$$\\begin{aligned} g_{st} = w_M\\,\\left\\langle \\hat{p}_s(\\mathbf{x})\\,\\hat{p}_t(\\mathbf{x})\\right\\rangle _M + w_F\\,\\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle \\hat{p}_s(\\mathbf{x})\\,\\hat{p}_t(\\mathbf{x})\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}\\nonumber \\\\ \\end{aligned}$$\nwith \\(w_M\\ll w_F\\). A self-evident choice would, for example, be based on the volume fractions such that \\(w_M=\\frac{|\\varOmega _F|}{|\\varOmega _\\Box |}\\) and \\(w_F=\\frac{|\\varOmega _M|}{|\\varOmega _\\Box |}\\). In this manuscript, however, we choose another yet comparably simple concept and execute the POD for the different topologies \\(\\varOmega _M\\) and \\(\\partial F\\) separately. We, therefore, use \\(S_M\\) snapshots covering the pressure diffusion processes in the matrix material and \\(S_F\\) snapshots covering the pressure diffusion in the fracture space. We define the correlation matrices accordingly as\n$$\\begin{aligned} g_{M,st}= & {} \\left\\langle \\hat{p}_s(\\mathbf{x})\\,\\hat{p}_t(\\mathbf{x})\\right\\rangle _M,\\ s\\,t=1,2,\\dots ,S_M, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} g_{F,st}= & {} \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle \\hat{p}_s(\\mathbf{x})\\,\\hat{p}_t(\\mathbf{x})\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}, \\ s,t=1,2,\\dots ,S_F. \\end{aligned}$$\nThus, the \\(N=N_M+N_F\\) members of the reduced set of basis modes consist of \\(N_M\\) modes that are derived from (59) and \\(N_F\\) modes that are derived from (60). It is important to remark that this procedure might, in general, lead to a non-orthogonal reduced basis and therewith to a basis that is larger than necessary. However, the detailed investigation of optimal identification procedure of the reduced basis is outside the scope of the present investigation.\nAfter having computed the reduced modal basis according to (56), we now decompose further mesoscopic fields according to (53) and write\n$$\\begin{aligned} {\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}(\\mathbf{x},\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t),\\bar{\\xi }(t))\\approx & {} \\mathbf{E}^0(\\mathbf{x}):\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t) + \\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N \\bar{\\xi }_a(t)\\,{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}_a(\\mathbf{x}), \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathbf{u}(\\mathbf{x},\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t),\\bar{\\xi }(t))\\approx & {} \\mathbf{U}^0(\\mathbf{x}):\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t) + \\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N \\bar{\\xi }_a(t)\\,\\mathbf{u}_a(\\mathbf{x}),\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} {\\varvec{\\sigma }}(\\mathbf{x},\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t),\\bar{\\xi }(t))\\approx & {} \\mathbf{C}(\\mathbf{x}):\\mathbf{E}^0(\\mathbf{x}):\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}(t)\\nonumber \\\\&+ \\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N \\bar{\\xi }_a(t)\\,{\\varvec{\\sigma }}_a(\\mathbf{x}), \\end{aligned}$$\nwhich hold for \\(\\mathbf{x}\\in \\varOmega _M\\). We have introduced the 4th rank strain and the 3\\(^\\mathrm{rd}\\) rank displacement localization tensors\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathbf{E}^0(\\mathbf{x}) = \\sum \\limits _{i=1}^6 {\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}_i(\\mathbf{x})\\otimes \\mathbf{B}_i,&\\mathbf{U}^0(\\mathbf{x}) = \\sum \\limits _{i=1}^6 \\mathbf{u}_i(\\mathbf{x})\\otimes \\mathbf{B}_i, \\end{aligned}$$\nwhereas \\(\\mathbf{C}(\\mathbf{x})\\) is the elastic stiffness tensor for the dry solid skeleton. Moreover, we use the mode-dependent strain, displacement and stress tensors \\({\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}_a\\), \\(\\mathbf{u}_a\\) and \\({\\varvec{\\sigma }}_a\\). All resulting fields on the meso-level depend linearly on the prescribed overall strain \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}\\) and the mode activity coefficients \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a\\), \\(a=1,2,\\dots ,N\\).\nThe contributions associated with the strain localization tensor \\(\\mathbf{E}^0\\) or, in other words, depending on the macroscopic strain tensor \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}\\) represent the instantaneous response of the dry linear-elastic solid skeleton under kinematic loading and zero mode activity, that is \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a=0\\), \\(a=1,2,\\dots ,N\\). We, therefore, solve for \\(\\mathbf{u}_i\\) and \\(\\mathbf{t}_i\\), \\(i=1,2,\\dots ,6\\), from\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {a}^u_M(\\mathbf{u}_i,\\delta \\mathbf{u}) - \\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\mathbf{t}_i,\\delta \\mathbf{u})= & {} 0, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} -\\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\delta \\mathbf{t},\\mathbf{u}_i)= & {} -\\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\delta \\mathbf{t},\\mathbf{B}_i\\cdot \\mathbf{x}), \\end{aligned}$$\nfor all admissible test functions \\(\\delta \\mathbf{u},\\delta \\mathbf{t}\\,\\in \\,\\mathbb {U}_M\\times \\mathbb {T}_M\\).\nThe unknown fields \\({\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}_a\\), \\(\\mathbf{u}_a\\) and \\({\\varvec{\\sigma }}_a\\) are driven by the activity coefficients \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a\\). They are computed by solving \\(b=1,2,\\dots ,N\\) linear-elastic eigenstress problems corresponding to the unit loading cases\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\xi }_a= & {} \\left\\{ \\begin{array}{ll} 1, &{} \\quad \\hbox {if}\\ a=b,\\\\ 0, &{} \\quad \\hbox {if}\\ a\\ne b \\end{array}\\right. \\end{aligned}$$\nwhilst \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}={\\mathbf{0}}\\). Since, \\(p_a\\) is known, we solve for \\(\\mathbf{u}_a\\) and \\(\\mathbf{t}_a\\) from the system\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\mathfrak {a}^u_M(\\mathbf{u}_a,\\delta \\mathbf{u}) \\nonumber \\\\&-\\, \\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\mathbf{t}_a,\\delta \\mathbf{u}) = -\\, \\mathfrak {b}^u_M(p_a,\\delta \\mathbf{u}) + \\mathfrak {d}^u_M(p_a,\\delta \\mathbf{u}), \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\mathfrak {c}^u_M(\\delta \\mathbf{t},\\mathbf{u}_a) = 0 \\end{aligned}$$\nfor test functions \\(\\delta \\mathbf{u},\\delta \\mathbf{t}\\,\\in \\,\\mathbb {U}_M\\times \\mathbb {T}_M\\).\nFinally, we compute the total macroscopic stress \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}\\) as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}= & {} \\underbrace{\\left\\langle \\mathbf{C}:\\mathbf{E}^0\\right\\rangle _M:\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}}_{=:\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}^\\mathrm{eff}}\\nonumber \\\\&+ \\underbrace{\\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N \\left[ \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\sigma }}_a\\right\\rangle _M - \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle p_a\\,\\tau _{0}\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}\\,\\mathbf{I}\\right] \\,\\bar{\\xi }_a}_{=:\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}^p}. \\end{aligned}$$\nEquation (70) allows us to identify the macroscopic effective stress \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}^\\mathrm{eff}\\) and the macroscopic pressure-dependent stress \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}^p\\). It is particularly remarkable that \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}^p\\) is not necessarily a spherical tensor. This is in sharp contrast to the pressure-dependent stress \\({\\varvec{\\sigma }}^p\\) in the meso-scale formulation (7). This is a consequence of the heterogeneity of the SVE: Any fluid pressure distribution on the sub-scale causes eigenstresses in the SVE which are, in general, anisotropic.\nFinally, it remains to identify a relation for the temporal evolution of the activity parameters \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a\\) which we interpret in the following as internal variables of the macroscopic substitute medium.\n4.2 Evolution of the internal variables\nWe now insert the decompositions (53) and (61)\u2013(63) into the weak form of the continuity equation (45) and find\n$$\\begin{aligned}&-\\, \\mathfrak {a}^p_\\Box \\left( \\sum \\limits _{b=1}^N\\bar{\\xi }_b\\,p_b,\\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N\\delta \\bar{\\xi }_a\\,p_a\\right) \\nonumber \\\\&\\quad +\\, \\mathfrak {b}^p_\\Box \\left( \\mathbf{U}^0:\\dot{\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}}+\\sum \\limits _{b=1}^N\\mathbf{u}_b\\,\\dot{\\bar{\\xi }}_b,\\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N\\delta \\bar{\\xi }_a\\,p_a\\right) \\nonumber \\\\&\\quad +\\, \\mathfrak {m}^p_\\Box \\left( \\sum \\limits _{b=1}^N\\dot{\\bar{\\xi }}_b\\,p_b,\\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N\\delta \\bar{\\xi }_a\\,p_a\\right) = 0. \\end{aligned}$$\nHere, we take into account the periodicity of the SVE such that \\(\\llbracket {p_a}\\rrbracket _\\Box =0\\) and \\(q_b^++q_b^-=0\\) on \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M^+\\) and \\(\\partial \\partial F^+\\), \\(a,b=1,2,\\dots ,N\\). Thus, we can state that\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {c}^p_\\Box \\left( \\sum \\limits _{b=1}^N\\bar{\\xi }_b\\,q_b,\\sum \\limits _{a=1}^N\\delta \\bar{\\xi }_a\\,p_a\\right) = 0. \\end{aligned}$$\nSince the mode activity coefficients \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a\\) represent macroscopic variables we can rewrite (71) as\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\sum _{a,b=1}^N \\delta \\bar{\\xi }_a \\left[ -\\mathfrak {a}^p_\\Box \\left( p_b,p_a\\right) \\,\\bar{\\xi }_b\\right. \\nonumber \\\\&\\qquad + \\left. \\left[ \\mathfrak {b}^p_\\Box \\left( \\mathbf{u}_b,p_a\\right) + \\mathfrak {m}^p_\\Box \\left( p_b,p_a\\right) \\right] \\,\\dot{\\bar{\\xi }}_b\\right] \\nonumber \\\\&\\qquad = - \\sum _{a=1}^N \\delta \\bar{\\xi }_a\\,\\mathfrak {b}^p_\\Box \\left( \\mathbf{U}^0:\\dot{\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}},p_a\\right) . \\end{aligned}$$\nFor a more compact notation, we introduce the N-dimensional vector \\(\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}^T=[\\bar{\\xi }_1,\\bar{\\xi }_2,\\dots ,\\bar{\\xi }_N]^T\\) and the vector representation for the macroscopic strain \\(\\underline{\\bar{\\varepsilon }}^T=[\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}\\), \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{22}\\), \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{33}\\), \\(2\\,\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{12}\\), \\(2\\,\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{13}\\), \\(2\\,\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{23}]^T\\). We write\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\delta \\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}^T \\left[ \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {A}}}}\\,\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }} + \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}}}\\,\\dot{\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}}\\right] = \\delta \\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}^T\\,\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {B}}}}\\,\\underline{\\dot{\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}}}. \\end{aligned}$$\nHere, the matrix components for \\(a,b=1,2,\\dots ,N\\) and for \\(i=1,2,\\dots ,6\\) read\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {A}}_{ab}:= & {} -\\mathfrak {a}^p_\\Box (p_b,p_a), \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {B}}_{ai}:= & {} -\\mathfrak {b}^p_\\Box (\\mathbf{u}_i,p_a),\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {M}}_{ab}:= & {} \\phantom {-}\\mathfrak {b}^p_\\Box (\\mathbf{u}_b,p_a) + \\mathfrak {m}^p_\\Box (p_b,p_a). \\end{aligned}$$\nNow, we use (30) and (35) to identify\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {b}^p_M(\\mathbf{u}_b,p_a) = -\\mathfrak {b}^u_M(p_a,\\mathbf{u}_b). \\end{aligned}$$\nFrom (68) together with the periodicity conditions \\(\\llbracket {\\mathbf{u}_b}\\rrbracket _M ={\\mathbf{0}}\\) and \\(\\mathbf{t}_a^++\\mathbf{t}_a^-={\\mathbf{0}}\\) on \\(\\partial \\varOmega _M^+\\), \\(a,b=1,2,\\dots ,N\\), and inserting (33) and (40) into (78) we can derive\n$$\\begin{aligned}&-\\,\\mathfrak {b}^u_M(p_a,\\mathbf{u}_b) = \\mathfrak {a}^u_M(\\mathbf{u}_a,\\mathbf{u}_b) - \\mathfrak {d}^u_M(p_a,\\mathbf{u}_b)\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned}&\\Leftrightarrow \\mathfrak {b}^p_M(\\mathbf{u}_b,p_a) + \\mathfrak {b}^p_F(\\mathbf{u}_b,p_a)\\nonumber \\\\&\\quad = \\mathfrak {a}^u_M(\\mathbf{u}_a,\\mathbf{u}_b) \\underbrace{- \\mathfrak {d}^u_M(p_a,\\mathbf{u}_b) + \\mathfrak {b}^p_F(\\mathbf{u}_b,p_a)}_{=0}. \\end{aligned}$$\nThus, it holds that\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\mathfrak {b}^p_\\Box (\\mathbf{u}_b,\\,p_a) = \\mathfrak {a}^u_M(\\mathbf{u}_b,\\,\\mathbf{u}_a), \\end{aligned}$$\nand we write for the matrix components, for \\(a,b=1,2,\\dots ,N\\), and, for \\(i=1,2,\\dots ,6\\),\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {A}}_{ab}:= & {} \\bar{\\mathcal {A}}_{M,ab} + \\bar{\\mathcal {A}}_{F,ab}\\nonumber \\\\= & {} \\left\\langle \\frac{k^s}{\\eta ^{fR}}\\,{\\varvec{\\nabla }}p_a\\cdot {\\varvec{\\nabla }}p_b\\right\\rangle _M\\nonumber \\\\&+ \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle \\frac{\\tau _{0}^3}{12\\,\\eta ^{fR}}{\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F p_a\\cdot {\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F p_b\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {B}}_{ai}:= & {} \\bar{\\mathcal {B}}_{M,ai} + \\bar{\\mathcal {B}}_{F,ai}\\nonumber \\\\= & {} - \\left\\langle \\alpha \\,E^0_i\\,p_a\\right\\rangle _M - \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle T^0_i\\,p_a\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {M}}_{ab}:= & {} \\bar{\\mathcal {M}}_{M,ab} + \\bar{\\mathcal {M}}_{F,ab}\\nonumber \\\\= & {} \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}_b:\\mathbf{C}:{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}_a\\right\\rangle _M + \\left\\langle \\frac{1}{M} \\,p_a\\,p_b\\right\\rangle _M\\nonumber \\\\&+ \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle \\frac{\\tau _{0}}{K^f}\\,p_a\\,p_b\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}. \\end{aligned}$$\nHereby, \\(\\underline{E}^0\\) is the vector representation of the trace \\(\\mathbf{I}:\\mathbf{E}^0\\) of the strain localization tensor. Similarly, \\(\\underline{T}^0\\) is the vector representation of the second rank tensor \\(\\mathbf{n}_{F}\\cdot \\llbracket {\\mathbf{U}^0}\\rrbracket _{F}\\) and, therefore, describes the opening opening of fracture \\(\\partial F_k\\) under the external loading cases \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}}=\\mathbf{B}_i\\), \\(i=1,2,\\dots ,6\\). Since the test functions \\(\\delta \\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}\\) can be chosen arbitrarily, the evolution equation for the mode activity coefficients can be derived from (74) as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}}}\\,\\dot{\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}} + \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {A}}}}\\,\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }} = \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {B}}}}\\,\\dot{\\underline{\\bar{\\varepsilon }}},\\quad \\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}(t=0)=\\underline{0}. \\end{aligned}$$\nThis form of the evolution represents a coupled system of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE). The evolution of the variable \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a\\) depends on the values of possibly all other variables \\(\\bar{\\xi }_b\\), \\(a,b=1,2,\\dots ,N\\). Hence, we make use of the symmetry of \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {A}}}}\\) and \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}}}\\) and execute the basis shift \\(\\{\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}\\}\\rightarrow \\{\\underline{\\bar{\\chi }}=\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {R}}}}^{-1}\\,\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}\\}\\), whereby \\(\\underline{\\underline{R}}\\) represents the matrix of eigenvectors of the generalized eigenvalue problem for \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {A}}}}\\) and \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}}}\\) with their spectral counterparts \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {A}}}}^*= \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {R}}}}^T\\,\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {A}}}}\\,\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {R}}}}\\) and \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}}}^*= \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {R}}}}^T\\,\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}}}\\,\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {R}}}}\\). This leads to the decoupled ODE system of evolution equations for the macroscopic viscoelastic substitute medium written as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\dot{\\underline{\\bar{\\chi }}} + \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {C}}}}\\,\\underline{\\bar{\\chi }} = \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {D}}}}\\,\\dot{\\underline{\\bar{\\varepsilon }}},\\quad \\underline{\\bar{\\chi }}(t=0) = 0. \\end{aligned}$$\nThe spectral matrix \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {C}}}}:=(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}}}^*)^{-1}\\,\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {A}}}}^*\\) contains the characteristic frequencies (or inverse relaxation times) of the particular viscous variable. The matrix \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {D}}}}:=(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}}}^*)^{-1}\\,\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {R}}}}^T\\,\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {B}}}}\\) represents the sensitivity of a particular viscous mode for the macroscopic loading \\(\\dot{\\underline{\\bar{\\varepsilon }}}\\). It is particularly remarkable that (86) corresponds to the system of evolution equations of the generalized Maxwell-Zener model with N Maxwell chains. It is important to remark that the structure of the evolution equation solely results from the unified SVE continuity equation (45) under the assumption of conservation of fluid mass (21)\u2013 (22) and employing the additive decomposition (53).\nWe now aim to demonstrate the capability of our approach to predict the viscoelastic properties of the macroscopic substitute model in a reliable way. We have, therefore, implemented the hybrid-dimensional SVE problem in the Finite Element Software COMSOL Multiphysics and investigate three different cases. In example 1, we study pressure diffusion in the case of a so-called patchy saturation. In this case, pressure diffusion occurs only in the poroelastic matrix material in the absence of fractures. In example 2, we choose a SVE consisting of a simple fracture network embedded in an impermeable matrix. In this case, on the other hand, pressure diffusion only occurs in the fractures. Finally, we investigate the full hybrid-dimensional diffusion problem including pressure diffusion in both the matrix and the fracture network.\n5.1 Example 1: patchy saturation\nWe start our considerations with the 2D SVE shown in Fig. 3, where we use the plain-strain assumption. The SVE consists of a homogeneous poroelastic material which is saturated with two different fluids: Water and gas. The material parameters are given in Table 2.\nExample 1\u20142D SVE with a patchy saturated porous matrix\nExample 1\u2014poroelastic material parameters for water and gas saturation (1 mD\\(\\,\\approx \\,\\)1e\u221215 m\\(^2\\)) in the 2D patchy saturated SVE, see Fig. 3\nRock matrix\nWater-saturated\nGas-saturated\n\\(k^s\\) (mD)\n\\(\\phi \\) (\u2013)\nG (GPa)\nK (GPa)\n\\(K^s\\) (GPa)\n\\(K^f\\) (GPa)\n\\(\\eta ^{fR}\\) (mPa s)\nBecause the SVE contains no fractures, the volume averaging operator is simplified as \\(\\bar{\\diamond } = \\left\\langle \\diamond \\right\\rangle _\\Box := \\left\\langle \\diamond \\right\\rangle _M\\). Consequently, the weak form of the diffusion equation (25) vanishes, and it follows in (82) \u2013 (84) that \\(\\bar{\\mathcal {A}}_{F,ab}=0\\), \\(\\bar{\\mathcal {B}}_{F,ai}=0\\), \\(\\bar{\\mathcal {M}}_{F,ab}=0\\). The macroscopic stress response computes as \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}= \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\right\\rangle _\\Box = \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\sigma }}\\right\\rangle _M\\). We execute training computations in terms of stress relaxation tests on the SVE level. In view of (54), we choose a maximum strain \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }^\\mathrm{max}=-0.01\\), a ramp time \\(t^\\mathrm{ramp}=1{{\\texttt {e}{} \\texttt {-}}}5\\) s and prescribe the three loading cases in two dimensions as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\gamma _i(t)= & {} \\left\\{ \\begin{array}{ll} \\frac{t}{t^\\mathrm{ramp}}\\,\\bar{\\varepsilon }^\\mathrm{max}, &{}\\quad t\\le t^\\mathrm{ramp},\\\\ \\bar{\\varepsilon }^\\mathrm{max}, &{}\\quad t>t^\\mathrm{ramp}. \\end{array}\\right. , \\quad i=1,2,3. \\end{aligned}$$\nIn Fig. 4 we show examples of snapshots of the pore pressure distribution during the stress relaxation computation for the case \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\) whilst all other macroscopic strain components equal zero. We observe an instantaneous pressure gradient between the water-saturated patch (high pressure) and the gas-saturated matrix (low pressure). This is due to the given bulk moduli \\(K^f\\) of the involved fluid constituents. As time passes, the heterogeneous pressure causes local redistribution of pore fluid, and the pressure gradient is equilibrated via pressure diffusion.\nExample 1\u2014snapshots of the evolving pressure field in the patchy saturated porous medium during stress relaxation experiment with \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\)\nExample 1\u2014evolution of the internal variables (a) \\(\\bar{\\xi }_a(t)\\) and (b) \\(\\bar{\\chi }_a(t)\\) during the stress relaxation \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\)\nWe execute the POD as described in Sect. 4 and identify a reduced basis with 9 members. After having computed the system matrices constituting the viscoelastic evolution Eq. (86) we can identify the characteristic frequencies of the involved Maxwell chains as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {C}}_{aa}= & {} [0,\\,1.15\\hbox {e}\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 0,\\,5.91\\hbox {e}\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 0,\\,1.61\\hbox {e}\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 1,\\,4.58\\hbox {e}\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 1,\\nonumber \\\\&\\quad 1.30\\hbox {e}\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2,\\,4.0\\hbox {e}\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2,\\,1.75\\hbox {e}\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 3,\\,4.66\\hbox {e}\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 3]^T\\ \\text{1/s }. \\end{aligned}$$\nThe first mode \\(a=1\\) with \\(\\bar{\\mathcal {C}}_{aa}=0\\) controls the equilibrium pressure. The remaining 8 modes are spread about 3 decades in frequency domain. The strain sensitivity matrix \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {D}}}}\\) computes as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {D}}}}= & {} \\left[ \\begin{array}{ccc} 1.11\\texttt {e+}0 &{} -2.26\\texttt {e+}2 &{} -3.22\\texttt {e+}2\\\\ 1.11\\texttt {e+}0 &{} -2.26\\texttt {e+}2 &{} -3.22\\texttt {e+}2\\\\ 0 &{} 0 &{} 0 \\end{array}\\right. \\nonumber \\\\&\\left. \\begin{array}{ccc} -\\,4.10\\texttt {e+}2 &{} 4.93\\texttt {e+}2 &{} 3.98\\texttt {e+}2\\\\ -\\,4.10\\texttt {e+}2 &{} 4.93\\texttt {e+}2 &{} 3.98\\texttt {e+}2\\\\ 0 &{} 0 &{} 0 \\end{array}\\right. \\nonumber \\\\&\\left. \\begin{array}{ccc} -\\,3.52\\texttt {e+}2 &{} -1.74\\texttt {e+}2 &{} 3.51\\texttt {e+}1\\\\ -\\,3.52\\texttt {e+}2 &{} -1.74\\texttt {e+}2 &{} 3.51\\texttt {e+}1\\\\ 0 &{} 0 &{} 0 \\end{array}\\right] . \\end{aligned}$$\nHereby, we use the plain-strain vector representation of the macroscopic strain defined as \\(\\underline{\\bar{\\varepsilon }}=[\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11},\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{22},2\\,\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{12}]^T\\). Obviously, the macroscopic shear deformation does not cause any pressure diffusion. This can be explained by the fact that the solid phase material properties are those of a homogeneous porous rock with isotropic properties. Hence, the macroscopic shear strain causes a purely deviatoric deformation state in the entire SVE which does not interact with the fluid pressure according to (8).\nExample 1\u2014validation of the reduced viscoelastic substitute model in a uniaxial stress relaxation test under the macroscopic loading \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\)\nExample 1\u2014validation of the reduced viscoelastic substitute under a wavelet-type loading with different central frequencies. Hereby, the volume average of the macroscopic effective stress \\(\\bar{{\\varvec{\\sigma }}}^\\mathrm{eff}\\) corresponds to the linear-elastic instantaneous stress response of the dry skeleton\nIn the next step, we use the reduced viscoelastic substitute model to recompute the macroscopic stress relaxation experiment \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\). In Fig. 5 we show the temporal evolution of (a) the internal variables \\(\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}=\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {R}}}}\\,\\underline{\\bar{\\chi }}\\) and (b) \\(\\underline{\\bar{\\chi }}\\). We observe that, as expected, the evolution of the viscoelastic variables \\(\\underline{\\bar{\\xi }}\\) is strongly coupled whilst the variables \\(\\underline{\\bar{\\chi }}\\) show the typical relaxation behavior of uncoupled viscoelastic variables in a generalized Maxwell-Zener model. In order to validate the reduced viscoelastic substitute model, we consider the stress response computed for the SVE problem with full resolution to represent a reference solution. In Fig. 6 we plot the pressure dependent stress contribution \\(\\bar{\\sigma }_{ij}^p\\) as defined in (70) for the reference solution and for the reduced viscoelastic model. We find an excellent agreement with the reference solution in the case of the stress relaxation experiment. Finally, we modify function \\(\\gamma _1(t)\\) and use a wavelet-type loading with two different central frequencies. The total macroscopic stress response of the SVE is successfully validated in Fig. 7 against the reference computation.\nExample 2 \u2013 SVE with two perpendicular fractures in the \\(x_1\\)-\\(x_2\\)-plane (fracture 1) and in the \\(x_2\\)-\\(x_3\\)-plane (fracture 2), \\(l=10\\,\\)m, \\(a_1=8\\) m, \\(\\tau _0=\\)1e\u22125 m\nExample 2\u2014material parameters of the meso-scale problem\n\\(a_1\\) (m)\n\\(\\tau _0\\) (m)\n1e\\(\\texttt {-}\\) 5\nExample 2\u2014snapshots of the evolving pressure field in the fractures during stress relaxation experiment with \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\)\n5.2 Example 2: fractures in impermeable matrix\nIn example 2, we investigate a simple 3D network of two intersecting perpendicular fractures saturated with water and embedded in a linear-elastic and impermeable matrix material, see Fig. 8. The used material parameters are given in Table 3. Similar to the previous example, this second example represents a special case of the modeling concept. Here, pressure diffusion occurs in the fractures only. Hence, the weak form of the diffusion equation (24) in \\(\\varOmega _M\\) can be neglected, several coupling terms in the remaining weak forms vanish. In particular, it holds \\(\\mathfrak {b}_M^u(p,\\delta \\mathbf{u})=0\\) and \\(\\mathfrak {d}^p_F(p,\\delta p)=0\\). Moreover, we need to condense the system matrices that constitute the viscoelastic evolution equation as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {A}}_{ab}:= & {} \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle \\frac{\\tau _{0}^3}{12\\,\\eta ^{fR}}{\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F p_a\\cdot {\\varvec{\\nabla }}^F p_b\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}, \\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {B}}_{ai}:= & {} - \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle T^0_i\\,p_a\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k},\\end{aligned}$$\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {M}}_{ab}:= & {} \\left\\langle {\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}_b:\\mathbf{C}:{\\varvec{\\varepsilon }}_a\\right\\rangle _M + \\sum \\limits _{k=1}^n\\left\\langle \\frac{\\tau _{0}}{K^f}\\,p_a\\,p_b\\right\\rangle _{\\partial F_k}. \\end{aligned}$$\nIn analogy to the previous example and (87) we compute 6 stress relaxation experiments as training cases. Hereby, we choose \\(t^\\mathrm{ramp}=1{{\\texttt {e}{} \\texttt {-}}}1\\) s and \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }^\\mathrm{max}=-1{{\\texttt {e}{} \\texttt {-}}}6\\). We show snapshots of the pressure field at selected time instances during the relaxation experiment under \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\) in Fig. 9. We observe an instantaneous pressure increase in fracture 2 which is oriented perpendicular to the macroscopic perpendicular loading whilst fracture 1 remains nearly unaffected. As time passes by, fracture 2 and 1 exchange fluid mass which allows for a diffusive equilibration of the pressure gradients.\nExample 2\u2014validation of the reduced viscoelastic substitute model with a successively enriched basis in a uniaxial relaxation test with \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\): \\(\\bar{\\sigma }_{11}\\) and \\(\\bar{\\sigma }_{12}\\)\nIn accordance with our numerical model reduction scheme, we now use snapshots obtained from all training computations, execute a POD and identify a reduced basis with 6 members. The characteristic frequencies are spread over 2 decades and read\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {C}}_{aa} = [0,\\,4.71\\hbox {e}\\texttt {-}3,\\,4.26\\hbox {e}\\texttt {-}2,\\,1.58\\hbox {e}\\texttt {-}1,\\,3.14\\hbox {e}\\texttt {-}1,\\,4.35\\hbox {e}\\texttt {-}1]^T\\ \\hbox {1/s}\\nonumber \\\\ \\end{aligned}$$\nAgain, the first mode \\(a=1\\) represents the equilibrium state of a homogeneous pressure distribution. The strain sensitivity matrix \\(\\underline{\\underline{\\bar{\\mathcal {D}}}}\\) computes as\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {D}}_{ai}= & {} \\left[ \\begin{array}{rrr} 2.13e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2 &{} 5.32e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 1 &{} 2.13e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2\\\\ 3.40e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 5 &{} 5.00e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 0 &{} -\\,3.40e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 5\\\\ 1.03e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 6 &{} -\\,6.02e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 1 &{} -\\,1.03e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 6\\\\ 2.90e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 6 &{} -\\,3.84e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2 &{} -\\,2.91e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 6\\\\ 2.65e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 6 &{} -\\,5.04e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 3 &{} -\\,2.69e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 6\\\\ 4.39e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 6 &{} -\\,5.23e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 3 &{} -\\,4.43e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 6 \\end{array}\\right. \\nonumber \\\\&\\left. \\begin{array}{rrr} 3.72e\\texttt {-}2 &{} 2.63e\\texttt {-}2 &{} 2.11e\\texttt {-}3 \\\\ 7.62e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 1 &{} -\\,1.48e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2 &{} -\\,1.89e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 1 \\\\ -\\, 4.94e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2 &{} 5.65e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2 &{} 7.71e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2 \\\\ 1.58e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 3 &{} 7.25e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 2 &{} -\\,6.13e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 4 \\\\ 7.81e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 4 &{} -\\,1.96e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 5 &{} 5.54e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 5 \\\\ -\\, 1.90e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 4 &{} 2.10e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 4 &{} -\\,5.13e\\,\\texttt {+}\\, 4 \\end{array}\\right] \\end{aligned}$$\nHereby, the matrix representation is based on the full 3D strain vector \\(\\underline{\\bar{\\varepsilon }}=[\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11},\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{22},\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{33},2\\,\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{12},2\\,\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{13},2\\,\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{23}]^T\\). We observe that the viscoelastic variables are mainly stimulated by the axial strains, but also shear deformations may cause a small viscoelastic reaction, see in particular mode \\(a=5\\).\nExample 3\u2014material parameters of the meso-scale problem (1 mD \\(\\approx \\) 1e\\(\\texttt {-}\\) 15 m\\(^2\\))\nWe validate the reduced viscoelastic substitute model against a reference computation of a uniaxial stress relaxation experiment on the SVE level with full resolution. The resulting macroscopic total stresses are shown in In Figs. 10 and 11. Hereby, we increase successively the number N of pressure modes that span the reduced basis until we reach an excellent agreement with the reference computation for \\(N=6\\).\nExample 3\u2014snapshots of the evolving pressure field during stress relaxation experiment with \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\)\n5.3 Example 3: fractures in permeable matrix\nFinally, we investigate the full hybrid-dimensional diffusion problem, whereby we utilize the same SVE geometry as in example 2, see Fig. 8. However, the matrix is defined as a poroelastic material. Both, poroelastic matrix and fractures, are saturated with water. The material parameters are specified in Table 4. As in the previous examples we compute six stress relaxation experiments where we choose \\(t^\\mathrm{ramp}=1{{\\texttt {e}{} \\texttt {-}}}4\\) s and \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }^\\mathrm{max}=-1{{\\texttt {e}{} \\texttt {-}}}6\\). In Fig. 12 we show snapshots in time of the evolving pressure field during the uniaxial stress relaxation experiment \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\). We see that fracture 2 is compressed instantaneously whilst fracture 1 as well as the matrix material remain nearly unaffected. In other words, we observe a strong pressure gradient between fracture 2 and fracture 1 as well as between fracture 2 and the surrounding porous matrix. With increasing time the pressure gradient in the fracture space is equilibrated first. Afterwards, pressure diffusion occurs between fractures and matrix.\nExample 3\u2014example pressure modes \\(\\bar{\\chi }_a\\), \\(a=4,6,13,15\\)\nExample 3\u2014validation of the reduced viscoelastic substitute model in a uniaxial relaxation test with \\(\\bar{\\varepsilon }_{11}(t)=\\gamma _1(t)\\): \\(\\bar{\\sigma }_{11}\\) and \\(\\bar{\\sigma }_{12}\\)\nWe use snapshots from all training computations for a POD and identify a reduced basis with 18 members. The characteristic frequencies are spread over 3 decades and read\n$$\\begin{aligned} \\bar{\\mathcal {C}}_{aa}= & {} [0,\\,1.87\\hbox {e}\\, - \\, 2,\\,3.95\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 2,\\,5.19\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 2, \\,9.43\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 2,\\nonumber \\\\&1.77\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 1,\\,1.79\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 1,\\,3.32\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 1,\\,6.52\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 1,\\,7.43\\hbox {e}- 1,\\nonumber \\\\&1.59\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 0,\\,1.83\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 0,\\,3.77\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 0,\\,4.96\\hbox {e}\\,-\\, 0,\\nonumber \\\\&\\,1.14\\hbox {e}+ 1, 1.16\\hbox {e}\\,+\\, 1,\\,3.05\\hbox {e}\\,+\\, 1,\\,3.71\\hbox {e}\\,+\\, 1]^T\\ \\hbox {1/s} \\end{aligned}$$\nAgain, mode \\(a=1\\) represents the equilibrium state of a homogeneous pressure distribution. It is important to remark that the basis in example 3 (18 modes) is significantly larger than the basis in example 2 (6 modes). The reason for this increase is that the pressure diffusion process in example 3, compared to example 2, is far more complex as it involves pressure diffusion in the fractures, in the embedding poroelastic matrix as well as the exchange of fluid mass between fractures and matrix. This complexity increase is mirrored in the number of basis modes.\nIn Fig. 13 we show example pressure modes. Whilst the modes \\(a=4,6\\) are related to processes in the fracture space, modes \\(a=13,15\\) describe processes in the matrix.\nFinally, we validate the reduced viscoelastic basis against a reference computation of a uniaxial stress relaxation test on the basis of a fully resolved SVE. The resulting macroscopic total stresses are shown in Figs. 14 and 15, where we observe a very high accuracy of the reduced viscoelastic model.\nWe establish a NMR procedure that enables us to identify macroscopic viscoelastic substitute models for strain-driven pressure diffusion problems in fractured porous rock in a reliable and numerically highly efficient way. The overall viscoelastic response is caused by squirt-type fluid flow which causes fluid pressure diffusion in interconnected fractures and in the embedding porous rock within a mesoscopic SVE. The fluid mass stored in the SVE is conserved throughout the entire process. This allows us to treat fluid pressure diffusion as a local process which is, on the macro-scale, only observable indirectly via overall frequency-dependent properties such as dispersion of the stiffness moduli and attenuation. Hence, the macroscopic substitute medium represents a monophasic viscoelastic solid. For the mesoscopic model we employ a hybrid-dimensional interface model treating fractures as fluid-filled open conduits embedded in a poroelastic matrix material. Pressure diffusion occurs along the fractures as well as in the poroelastic matrix. Moreover, exchange of fluid mass between fractures and matrix is incorporated.\nWe employ volume averaging techniques to derive a computational homogenization scheme that links the heterogeneous meso-scale to the viscoelastic macro-model. We propose a NMR technique that is based on the approximation of the space-time dependent fluid pressure in the SVE by a linear combination of pressure modes. Hereby, the pressure modes span a finite-dimensional reduced basis. They are identified via a POD from a set of training computations. Evaluation of the mesoscopic continuity equation together with the pressure decomposition and accordingly decomposed further quantities allows us to derive the evolution equation of the desired viscoelastic substitute model which turns out to be of the Maxwell-Zener type. Finally, we investigate the performance of the proposed method in three different numerical examples. Throughout the examples, we observe a convincing agreement between NMR and reference solutions.\nThe main achievement of the present contribution is that we establish a general, yet reliable, method that enables us to compute seismic wave propagation on the macro-level with full access to the mesoscopic pressure diffusion effects but without the numerical drawbacks of the FE\\(^2\\) concept. 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Such interventions should be based on QoL domains considered as important from older people\u2019s viewpoint. It is unclear whether and how much these domains may vary over time as people age. This study aims to assess the importance of QoL domains, their pattern and determinants of change among the non-institutionalized older population over a 5-year period.\nThis longitudinal study included community-dwelling older adults (N\u2009=\u20091947, aged 68\u201377 years at baseline) from the Lausanne cohort 65+. In 2011 and 2016, participants rated the importance of 28 QoL items in seven domains. The difference between scores (0\u2013100) of importance attributed to each QoL domain between two assessments was calculated and used as a dependent variable to assess the associations with covariates in multivariable analysis for each domain.\nImportance scores slightly but significantly decreased in five of the seven QoL domains. Despite the majority of participants did not modify their ranking of importance for each QoL domain between the two time points, the proportion of change was still substantial. Bivariate and multivariable analyses showed that education and to a lesser extent age, living arrangement and morbidity, were associated with decrease in the importance of specific QoL domains; characteristics indicating vulnerability (e.g., low education or morbidity) were associated with a decline in the importance.\nAlthough aging individuals modified the importance they give to the seven QoL domains, at population level, changes in opposite directions overall resulted in only small decline; importance seems less stable over time among individuals with vulnerable sociodemographic and health profiles.\nQuality of life Importance Older people Longitudinal study\nThis work was supported by a prize awarded by the Leenaards Foundation. 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Such a system is generally very suitable for generating stationary squeezing of the mirror motion in the long-time limit under the unresolved sideband regime. Based on the master equation and covariance matrix approaches, we discuss in detail the respective squeezing effects. We also determine that in both approaches, simplifying the system dynamics with adiabatic elimination of the highly dissipative cavity mode is very effective. In the master equation approach, we find that the squeezing is a resulting effect of the cooling process and is robust against thermal fluctuations of the mechanical mode. In the covariance matrix approach, we can approximately obtain the analytical result of the steady-state mechanical position variance from the reduced dynamical equation. Finally, we compare the two approaches and observe that they are completely equivalent for the stationary dynamics. 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Recurrent aphthous stomatitis is seen in Beh\u00e7et\u2019s Disease. Mucous membranes are protected by general host defenses, a specific immune response to damage caused by free radicals under normal conditions. Nitric oxide is a free radical that plays a role in chronic and acute inflammation and systemic inflammatory response. Our purpose was to investigate the levels of nitric oxide in serum and saliva samples from patients with Beh\u00e7et\u2019s Disease and recurrent aphthous stomatitis and from a control group. In the clinical study, 22 patients with Beh\u00e7et\u2019s Disease, 24 patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis, and 27 healthy individuals were included. Serum and saliva samples were taken from each group to examine nitric oxide levels. When the nitric oxide levels of serum and saliva were evaluated, the only statistically significant finding was that nitrate and nitrite levels were lower in the control group than in patients with Beh\u00e7et\u2019s Disease and recurrent aphthous stomatitis. There was no difference between patients with Beh\u00e7et\u2019s Disease and patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis. We conclude that nitric oxide levels increase in patients with Beh\u00e7et\u2019s Disease and recurrent aphthous stomatitis, both in serum and saliva. The results of nitric oxide in saliva and serum were found to be compatible. Saliva can be used to evaluate nitric oxide in Beh\u00e7et\u2019s Disease and recurrent aphthous stomatitis. Salivary nitric oxide levels may be an important marker for estimating the severity of Beh\u00e7et\u2019s Disease for clinicians.\nNitric oxide Serum Saliva Beh\u00e7et\u2019s disease Recurrent aphthous stomatitis\nThis article is part of the Topical Collection on Medicine\nBeh\u00e7et\u2019s disease (BD) was first identified in 1937 by Professor Dr. Hulusi Beh\u00e7et. Uveitis and oral and genital ulcers are the classic triple symptoms of BD. In addition, the involvement of the joints and the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, and central nervous systems is found in BD. The etiopathogenesis of BD is not clearly understood, although it appears to be caused by intensive inflammatory response triggered by an infectious agent in genetically predisposed individuals [1].\nRecurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is an oral mucosa disease. RAS is painful, chronic, and idiopathic. Viral or bacterial infections, malnutrition, trauma, stress, systemic diseases, the immune system, and/or genetic factors are thought to be effective in the etiology of RAS [2]. However, the etiology of RAS has still not been explained in detail [3]. The oral lesions seen in BD and RAS are the same [4].\nMucous membranes are protected by general host defenses, a protective surface phenomenon and specific immune response to damage caused by free radicals under normal conditions [5]. Free radicals affect all important compounds of cells, such as lipids, proteins, DNA, and carbohydrates, causing their structure to deteriorate [6]. Nitric oxide (NO) is a free radical that plays a role in chronic and acute inflammation, systemic inflammatory response, and sepsis. It is known that BD is an inflammatory disease, and increased NO production has been reported in the serum of patients with BD [7]. However, to our knowledge, no study has yet examined NO levels in the saliva of patients with BD. Our purpose was to investigate the levels of NO in serum and saliva samples from patients with BD and RAS.\nThis study was carried out with the Faculty of Dentistry of Selcuk University and the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Dermatology Clinic of Konya Baskent Research Hospital. All patients were informed about the study, and their written consent was obtained. Seventy-three patients (37 male, 36 female) were included in the study. The mean age of the patients was 34.5\u2009\u00b1\u20098.4 years. History of smoking habits, alcohol consumption, periodontal problem, and any systemic disease were among the exclusion criteria. Three groups were planned in the study.\nPatients who had oral aphthous stomatitis at least 4\u20135 times a year but who were without systemic diseases or nutritional deficiency formed the RAS group. All patients with RAS were in the ulcerative stage. Four patients had major aphthous stomatitis, 2 patients had herpetiform aphthous stomatitis, and 18 patients had minor aphthous stomatitis. All BD patients fulfilled the criteria of the International Study Group for BD [8]. All patients had an oral aphthous stomatitis, genital ulcers in 16 patients, ocular lesions in 5 patients; cutaneous lesions (including papulopustular lesions and/or acneiform nodules and/or erythema nodosum) in 13 patients and arthralgia in 13 patients were found. The patients who had at least two of the diagnostic criteria were assumed to be in the active stage [4]. Fourteen patients with BD were in the active phase and 8 patients with BD were in the passive phase. Healthy individuals with no systemic problems formed the control group. They did not have any history of RAS or BD.\nVenous blood samples of 5 ml were taken between 9.00 and 10.00 a.m. from each participant. The blood samples were placed in tubes containing 1 ml ethylendiamine tetrasetic acid (EDTA) and centrifuged at 500\u00d7g for 15 min. The tubes were stored at \u2212\u200980 \u00b0C. Before the saliva samples were taken, the patient\u2019s mouths were rinsed with 10% povidone iodine to reduce bacterial contamination. The serum and saliva samples were taken in the same session. A 2 ml sample of saliva was collected in a sterile container. The samples were then centrifuged for 10 min at 4000\u00d7g and stored at \u2212\u200940 \u00b0C. Both the saliva and the blood samples were taken at the same time. Biochemical analyses were carried out at the Research Laboratory of the Selcuk University Faculty of Dentistry.\nBiochemical solvents (chloroform and methanol) were used for analysis of biochemical parameters, and chromatographic purity was ensured using a degasser process. Preparation and dilution of solutions was carried out using ultra-pure water. For spectrophotometric analysis, the \u03bcQuant device (Bio-Tek Instruments, Inc.) was used at the Research Laboratory of the Faculty of Dentistry at Selcuk University.\nDetermination of Nitrate/Nitrite\nNitric oxide, a free radical, is not stable in an oxygenated environment. It spontaneously reacts with molecular oxygen and transforms into various nitrogen products [9]. The most stable of these products are NO3\u2212 (nitrate) and NO2\u2212 (nitrite). Nitrate and nitrite combined gives NO. The Griess method was used to determine nitrate and nitrite concentrations in the saliva and serum samples (Cayman Chemical Nitrate/Nitrite Assay Kit, 780001).\nDistribution data was tested with Shapiro-Wilk. The nitrate and nitrite distribution differences in the serum and saliva samples from each group were evaluated using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). The differences between the groups were compared using Tukey\u2019s test. Results were given as the mean \u00b1 SD. The significance limit was accepted as 0.05 (p\u2009<\u20090.05).\nTwenty-two patients with BD (11 male, 11 female), 24 patients with RAS (9 male, 15 female), and 27 healthy individuals (17 male, 10 female) were included in the study.\nThe mean age of the patients with BD was 38.54\u2009\u00b1\u20096.62 years, the mean age of the patients with RAS was 30.2\u2009\u00b1\u20098.71 years, and the mean age of the control group was 33.4\u2009\u00b1\u200910.06 years. The patient groups and the control group showed a similar distribution in terms of gender and age (p\u2009>\u20090.05) (Table 1).\nDistribution of gender and age in all groups\nBeh\u00e7et group\nWhen levels of nitrate and nitrite were evaluated in the BD group, the RAS group, and the control group, the only statistically significant finding was that nitrate and nitrite levels were lower in the control group than in the BD and RAS groups (p\u2009=\u20090.01). Levels of nitrate and nitrite were found in patients with active BD in comparison with patients with inactive BD (p =\u20090.045). The serum mean nitrate levels in patients with BD, RAS, and control group were found to be 1.631\u2009\u00b1\u20090.28, 1.777\u2009\u00b1\u20090.32, and 1.237\u2009\u00b1\u20090.18 \u03bcmolar respectively. The saliva mean nitrate levels in patients with BD, RAS, and control group were found to be 9.168\u2009\u00b1\u20091.30, 8.532\u2009\u00b1\u20090.77, and 7.343\u2009\u00b1\u20090.57 \u03bcmolar respectively. The serum mean nitrite levels in patients with BD and RA, and the control group were found to be 0.180\u2009\u00b1\u20090.037, 0.161\u2009\u00b1\u20090.02, and 0.079\u2009\u00b1\u20090.023 \u03bcmolar respectively. The saliva mean nitrite levels in patients with BD and RAS and the control groups were found to be 3.326\u2009\u00b1\u20090.424, 3.098\u2009\u00b1\u20091.152, and 1.326\u2009\u00b1\u20090.574 \u03bcmolar respectively. There was no difference between the patients with BD and the patients with RAS (p\u2009=\u20090.42) (Figs. 1 and 2).\nSerum and saliva nitrate levels in all groups\nSerum and saliva nitrite levels in all groups\nIn many pathophysiological conditions and normal physiological conditions, NO is an important product for maintaining homeostasis. NO causes no damage to tissues under normal physiological conditions, because it is quickly removed from the blood by the reaction of oxyhemoglobin. However, the presence of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) enzyme leads to increased production of NO in pathological conditions such as diseases of the cardiovascular and nervous systems, immunological diseases, and cancer. Certain proinflammatory cytokines, particularly in inflammatory reactions, cause an increase in iNOS enzyme in monocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, and some other cells [7].\nNO is a colorless radical that can be dissolved in water and oil. The half-life of NO is 30 s. It can be oxidized to nitrate (NO3\u2212) and nitrite (NO2\u2212), and it may lead to endothelial damage. The radical structure and very short life of NO makes it difficult to examine. Because of this, in the present study, the final products of NO (nitrate and nitrite) were examined in serum and plasma [10]. For the examination of levels of nitrate and nitrite, the patients were told not to eat or drink for at least 8 h before the blood samples were taken; this is because nitrate and nitrite enter the body through food, and digestion begins in the mouth. Samples were collected from the patients between 9.00 and 10.00 a.m. in order not to affect the NO values in the serum and saliva.\nSaliva has been used very frequently in the diagnosis, imaging, and prognosis of systemic diseases, and in monitoring the progression of such diseases. Saliva is helpful in the examination of biomarkers in fields such as clinical pathology, forensic medicine, immunology, and sports medicine [11]. However, the use of saliva is not common in the examination of possible indicators of BD or RAS [12].\nStudies examining changes in NO metabolism in BD have so far been limited to examinations of tears and serum [13]. A few studies have investigated NO levels in the saliva of patients with RAS, but the present study is the first to examine the saliva of patients with BD; NO levels in serum and saliva were measured in both BD and RAS patients. We believe that saliva, like serum or plasma, should be examined routinely. The number of studies conducted using saliva should be increased so that a useful literature can be built up.\nThe role of NO in saliva has not been fully explained [14]. However, Moncada et al. and Stuehr et al. reported that NO production in the salivary glands is regulated by the central and peripheral nervous system with a neural mechanism [15, 16]. As a result of the placement of the neural nitric oxide synthase (nNOS) enzyme in the salivary gland, it is clear that NO plays a role in the regulation of blood flow and secretion of the salivary gland and is effective in the etiology of RAS [17]. Emotional stress causes the neuroendocrine level of the saliva to increase [18], and as a result, an increase in nNOS activity causes NO to be released [19].\nIn our study, both patients with BD and patients with RAS were generally from lower socioeconomic classes, and the patients reported that their lives were stressful. Therefore, increased activity of nNOS due to stress in patients with BD and RAS may explain the production of NO.\nNO is a key mediator that can cause tissue injury and cell damage when excessive quantities are produced [20]. Researchers believe that ulceration occurs as a result of increased presence of free radicals such as NO [21]. For these reasons, it has been claimed that free radicals, including NO, play a role in the pathogenesis of RAS [22]. In our study, NO levels were found to be increased in both BD and RAS patients, and we therefore believe that increased levels of NO may be a cause of ulceration in the oral mucosa.\nMany articles have examined levels of NO in the serum and plasma of patients with BD. Djerabaa et al. [23], and Sancak et al. [24] found increased NO levels in BD. Evereklio\u011flu et al. [7] reported increased NO levels in 42 patients with BD. Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m et al. [25] found that NO levels in serum were higher in patients with BD than in patients with RAS and in healthy subjects. G\u00fcnd\u00fcz et al. [4] examined NO levels in plasma and found no significant differences among patients with BD, patients with RAS, and the control group. As a result, they concluded that NO did not play a primary role in inflammation reactions in BD or RAS.\nOhashi et al. [22] measured NO levels in the saliva of 39 patients with oral mucosal disease (RAS and oral lichen planus). They detected significantly increased levels of NO compared to healthy individuals and attributed this to cell damage. Sunitha et al. [26] and Jagtap et al. [27] examined levels of NO in the saliva of patients with oral lichen planus and RAS. They concluded that increased NO levels were effective in the pathophysiology of these diseases.\nSome studies have shown that NO levels in blood are especially increased in inflammatory reactions, owing to increased levels of iNOS [28]. In our study, NO levels were examined in both serum and saliva. There was no significant difference between patients with BD and patients with RAS. However, NO levels were found to be lower in the control group.\nThe number of patients should be increased and a multicenter study can be planned. These are limitations to our study. In order to confirm the results, further studies should be done to evaluate the levels of nitric oxide in saliva of patients with BD and RAS.\nTo the best of our knowledge, this article is the first study to examine the role of NO in saliva in patients with BD and RAS. We found increased levels of NO in the saliva of patients with BD and RAS. Saliva can also be used to evaluate levels of NO in BD and RAS. We conclude that salivary NO levels may be an important marker for estimating the severity of BD. The clinicians may use this for prognostic implication.\nZeidan MJ, Saadoun D, Garrido M, Klatzmann D, Six A, Cacoub P. Behcet\u2019s disease physiopathology: a contemporary review. Auto Immun Highlights. 2016;7:4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar\nPreeti L, Magesh K, Rajkumar K, Karthik R. Recurrent aphthous stomatitis. J Oral Maxillofac Pathol. 2011;15:252\u20136.CrossRefGoogle Scholar\nLewkowicz N, Lewkowicz P, Kurnatowska A, Banasik M, Glowacka E, Cedzynski M, et al. 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Or maybe I\u2019ll just have to wait for more interesting things to post about.\nI cannot promise that this one is going to be overly interesting, but I think you might think it is.\nLast week our team from Sydney went on a drive down to the Sydney airport (Australia). The goal was not to take a trip but rather take a tour of the airport in a bus around the tarmac. Around thirty of us met at the airport near the heliport to start our 10 am tour. The group is from the Advanced Products Group in Sydney with a variety of job titles in the mix. Most are considered either developers or testers but there were some managers and even a technical writer and a web developer. This was the first team event for the former Aurema employees (who were brought in as part of the recent acquisition). We usually have some kind of event every quarter. Sometimes we skip quarters but we always eventually do something. Since we have been doing this for awhile it gets harder to find different things to do. Taking a trip to the airport was certainly different.\nAfter some morning tea (how Australian!) the group was told to board the bus after a safety lecture. Apparently security has been becoming tighter and tighter over the last few years and it is now necessary to not only have a roll call but also have a special visitor badge that must be worn at all times. All of this is a bit odd considering that you are not allowed to get off the bus except for a security check that is performed as if you are going to get on the planes.\nAirside Tarmac Tours has been running since 1998 and has a contract to continue until 2010. It is highly unlikely that they will be allowed to continue operation after that date due to ongoing security concerns. Our tour guide (which I unfortunately have forgotten his name) was excellent and knew just about everything that you would possibly need to know about Sydney Airport.\nThe two pictures above are directly scanned from the brochure we got before boarding the bus. You can click these images if you are more interested in the detail of why going on this tour is good. It even has some other options like being able to see it at night or being able to fly in an old DC3.\nFor those of you that like even more detail, I suggest staying for a few minutes after the tour and talking with the driver/tour director. He can reveal more of the ins and outs of what is going on at the Sydney Airport and make it even that much more interesting.\nFor me, the highlights of the tour were seeing disassembled 747s with missing engines (being serviced) and seeing the planes take off and land as close as possible (bus parked right next to runways). If it was not for our guide, the tour would not have been quite as interesting as it turned out to be. He knew everything cold and could handle any random element with ease. \u201cOh, that is the Qantas flight that is going to Melbourne at 11\u201d. \u201cThat over there is the flight going to Peru in South America\u201d. This guy was good. Exceptionally good.\nIt was sad to hear that they are not going to continue these kind of tours for much longer. Eighty percent of the riders in the bus are school children (which explains why everyone at the airport waves at the bus\u2026 pilots, air traffic controllers, you name it). These children are subsidised by the Sydney Airport Corporation as an act of goodwill to the community. The tickets are less than half price what they would normally be.\nWe got up close and personal with everything you could possible see at the airport. Not only that we had excellent commentary as we went. It really could not have been much better than that.\nOur guide was pretty sure this is the only tour of its kind in the world. There were others but they were shutdown in the recent years.\nSo, if you happen to be going through Sydney and have a couple of extra hours to spend, I highly recommend taking the Airside Tarmac Tours. If you have young boys in your family, you would be silly not to go. Your son will be talking about that tour for years. I suspect even you will be impressed.\n\u2039 Nothing for Money\nLest We Forget \u203a\nPosted in Australia, Sydney Office Event", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 7829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 309.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reforgedgaming.org/2019/02/08/the-hype-train/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:17Z", "digest": "sha1:BRKGDGXLPQP73GXJWYHU5CFBTDIASLQ7", "length": 5809, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "reforgedgaming.org", "title": "The Hype Train \u2013 Reforged Gaming", "raw_content": "We all know it, we can all hear and see it coming. The hype train. It hurtles down the proverbial tracks with fervor at a shockingly slow speed. We get an announcement of a game now sometimes years before it even launches. We get a slow drip feed of information leading up to the release of the game. Of course, there has to be a long pre-order window. This is the prevailing wisdom for the AAA game industry and to a certain extent it makes sense. The goal of marketing is to grab the most attention possible and that goal takes time to accomplish. Then, along comes a game like Apex Legends, which announces and releases on the same day from out of nowhere and immediately has over 1 million unique players in the first day.\nSo let\u2019s question the conventional wisdom of the slow and building hype train then. Is this really the way to go about marketing for games? First, let\u2019s take a look at why the hype train works. With the hype train approach, the first taste consumers get of a game is a reveal trailer. This is the chance for the developer to really shine. It is a chance to put the best foot forward in a highly controlled and highly polished manner. There is no impression like a first impression and if the first impression of a game is something that is just overwhelmingly positive, that stick with consumers. This move gets the game instant fans and most importantly gets the game into the press before it is even complete. The more people are talking about the game the better it is likely to do in the long run.\nNext comes the long process of ensuring that the hype train keeps building. Now that the title has grabbed the attention of the media and it has got people talking, the hype train needs to maintain that. A long social media campaign ensues. Development updates, testing phases, and pre-orders keep the game in the headlines and keep the conversation going. Even just screenshots of development progress and comments from the developers keep the fans that were grabbed with the initial reveal engaged. After this long campaign to remain in the spotlight, the hype train should have acquired an ever increasing number of consumers leading up to the launch. The pay off. Or is it?\nHow does the hype train approach fail? It fails in many respects for developers and in some cases it can fail the consumer as well. The initial reveal of a game might turn many heads, but if those people don\u2019t stay engaged all the way then the game may soon be forgotten. When the game reaches the launch day train station reactions very well may be similar to \u201cWait, I thought that game already came out?\u201d or maybe \u201cOh wow, I forgot that even existed\u201d. This has happened many times before and really derails the entire purpose of the hype train approach to start with. This is a sad result for both the developer and the consumer. An otherwise great game may suffer in sales for trying to play the long game with its marketing.\nThe hype train may also have the opposite of the intended effect. Instead of building hype along the way, it can lead to burnout before a game even launches. With long pre-order bonuses, early access, and testing phases while maintaining an aggressive presence in the media, it is very easy for fans to get burnt out on the game or even just the idea of the game well before it even releases. Not only that, but playing with such a long marketing campaign inevitably reveals a ton of information about the game. This means that skeptics of the title have plenty of opportunities to disembark the train and in some cases run with negative media. This amount of information that this necessitates is great for consumers usually, barring any lies from the company.\nNow, to Apex Legends. There are several reasons that this launch was as successful as it was. Obviously the fact that the game is free to play does factor in to this equation, but we\u2019ve seen other free to play titles fall on their face before as well. One of the other major factors is the timing of the release. Apex feels very well timed, it released mostly alone with no other major titles on either side of it. The biggest factor I believe though, is the lack of hype train. That initial bump that other games get with their first reveal trailer, is the bump that Apex experienced on its launch day. From a marketing perspective this does something pretty magical, especially in the internet age where social media can move across the world nearly instantaneously. Instead of looking for more information after the trailer, people go play the game. This quick pace removes the decision making process of the consumer and replaces it with an emotional process. \u201cKnowing what I know about this game, I\u2019m not sure if I really want to play it.\u201d instead becomes something more like \u201cThat was awesome! I can play it now?!? Let\u2019s go!\u201d. This leads to a very rapid snowball effect as well, empowered by social media. Tweets get fired off and Twitch streams fire on all cylinders. Public opinion rolls quickly, and within 8 hours Apex Legends hit the 1 million player mark that I mentioned earlier. The out of left field approach meant that the entire hype train started and finished its journey in that 8 hour stretch. This translated to a ton of press coverage, a ton of viewers and streamers, and most importantly a ton of players.\nThere is a lot more to be said on marketing, but I suppose the point of this discussion is merely to say that the conventional wisdom may not always be as wise as the alternatives. The hype train approach has become a bit of a meme and a tired one at that. 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Only one discount can be applied to any individual registration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 15873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reliawire.com/remove-skin-tags/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:52Z", "digest": "sha1:DVVCCL3AZ53CYGN3OHZCVGSDFFAIWRTS", "length": 3047, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "reliawire.com", "title": "Remove Skin Tags", "raw_content": "by Florian Rosado October 21, 2006\nSkin tags can be unsightly, embarrassing, or just plain annoying. There are many options to remove skin tags, but you should be aware of all of them so before you get started so you can make the best choice. Many people want to try to remove skin tags on their own, but that isn\u2019t recommended. If you do the procedure improperly, you can give yourself an infection. If possible, it is best to get a surgeon to do the procedure for you. It is generally a quick procedure that takes only minutes.\nA doctor can remove skin tags by several methods, the first of which is freezing. This is generally identical to the method used by a doctor to remove warts. There may be some pain and swelling associated with this method, depending on the size of the tag.\nA doctor can also remove your skin tags by simply cutting them off. This is done by using a scalpel or sterilized scissors. It sounds painful, but it generally very quick and causes very little bleeding. You should make sure to use antiseptic to keep the area clean to prevent infection.\nThe third common method for removing skin tags is to cut off the blood supply to the tag. In this procedure, the doctor uses a suture or some small device and applies it to the base of the tag, cutting off the blood supply. After a few days, the tag will die from lack of blood supply and simply fall off. There can be some pain from the suture, but it\u2019s usually short-lived.\nA doctor can also remove skin tags through laser surgery. The laser is used to destroy the cells in the skin tag. This method can be more pricey than other methods due to the fact that your doctor probably doesn\u2019t have laser just sitting around in his office.\nThe last option that your doctor may use to remove your skin tags is called diathermy. With this method, the area is numbed with local anesthesia and then the tag is removed with a heated probe. Antiseptic should also be used after treatment for this method.\nThe cost for a doctor to remove skin tags is about 50 to 200 dollars; although laser treatment and diathermy may cost a bit more. Just remember, many insurance companies consider the removal a cosmetic procedure and will not cover it. Be sure to check with your insurance company before you have the tags removed.\nIf a skin tags changes size or color, or obstructs vision, it is probably considered medically necessary to remove it and should be covered. Also remember that even once all skin tags are removed, they can grow back or new ones can develop. While no one really knows what causes skin tags, losing weight will probably help prevent new growth because they often occur in overweight people.\nFind out the truth about how to feel better and raise self-esteem by watching your moles, warts, and skin tags literally drop to the floor in as little as 3 days. Follow this link and get instant access to the FREE, 5-part email report \u201cThe Five Big Myths Of Removing Moles, Warts, and Skin Tags\u201d.\nPrevious Post: Nutrition and Children\nNext Post: Diet Program to Lose Weight", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/142414", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:23Z", "digest": "sha1:QOIFSSMC3LIMLNK62DFJUU3D2JYTSCIN", "length": 1124, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "repository.ubn.ru.nl", "title": "Dual function of C-type lectin-like receptors in the immune system.", "raw_content": "Title: Dual function of C-type lectin-like receptors in the immune system.\nAuthor(s): Cambi, A. ; Figdor, C.G.\nSource: Current Opinion in Cell Biology, vol. 15, iss. 5, (2003), pp. 539-546\nDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ceb.2003.08.004\nSubject: UMCN 1.3: Tumor microenvironment\nCarbohydrate-binding C-type lectin and lectin-like receptors play an important role in the immune system. The large family can be subdivided into subtypes according to their structural similarities and functional differences. The selectins are of major importance in mediating cell adhesion and migration, and the mannose receptor subfamily is specialised in the binding and uptake of pathogens. Recent advances show that some of the type II C-type lectin-like receptors, such as DC-SIGN, can function both as an adhesion receptor and as a phagocytic pathogen-recognition receptor, similar to the Toll-like receptors. Although major differences in the cytoplasmic domains of these receptors might predict their function, recent findings show that differences in glycosylation of ligands can dramatically alter C-type lectin-like receptor usage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 152.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/79480", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OSLXXICNGXNVQXMI4PGXJO55JZFPO53O", "length": 1240, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "repository.ubn.ru.nl", "title": "Structure of the pyrimidine-rich internal loop in the poliovirus 3'-UTR: the importance of maintaining pseudo-2-fold symmetry in RNA helices containing two adjacent non-canonical base-pairs.", "raw_content": "Title: Structure of the pyrimidine-rich internal loop in the poliovirus 3'-UTR: the importance of maintaining pseudo-2-fold symmetry in RNA helices containing two adjacent non-canonical base-pairs.\nAuthor(s): Lescrinier, E.M.; Tessari, M. ; Kuppeveld, F.J.M. van ; Melchers, W.J.G. ; Hilbers, C.W. ; Heus, H.A.\nSource: Journal of Molecular Biology, vol. 331, iss. 4, (2003), pp. 759-769\nFormation of non-canonical base-pairs in RNA often plays a very important functional role. In addition they frequently serve as factors in stabilizing the secondary structure elements that provide the frame of large compact RNA structures. Here we describe the structure of an internal loop containing a 5'CU3'/5'UU3' non-canonical tandem base-pair motif, which is conserved within the 3'-UTR of poliovirus-like enteroviruses. Structural details reveal striking regularities of the local helix geometry, resulting from alternating geometrical adjustments, which are important for understanding and predicting stabilities and configurations of tandem non-canonical base-pairs. The C-U and U-U base-pairs severely contract the minor groove of the sugar-phosphate backbone, which might be important for protein recognition or binding to other RNA elements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://research.chalmers.se/publication/215155", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IRCUQYNWFPJWN6CSBWUC2KM6JAEHR4Z2", "length": 1193, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "research.chalmers.se", "title": "A preliminary study on the application of thermal storage to merchant ships", "raw_content": "A preliminary study on the application of thermal storage to merchant ships\nThe shipping industry is focusing more and more on reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. A non-negligible amount of fuel is consumed while ships are in port, waiting for loading or unloading, for heating up accommodation spaces and fuel tanks, while when at sea waste heat from engines exhaust is under-used because of low demand. In this paper we propose the use of thermal energy storage as a solution for the mismatch between heat availability and demand. A simplified system is proposed and the influence of design parameters (storage size, heat exchangers surface, secondary fluid mass flow rate, storage temperature) on the performance of the system is analyzed. The results of the application of a thermal energy storage system to a case study ship show that the installation of a storage tank of 1000 m3 could reduce the fuel consumption from the boilers by 80%, which would lead to yearly savings of 268,000 USD. This preliminary analysis shows that there is potential of both economic and environmental benefits from the application of thermal energy storage to merchant vessels.\nF. Melino", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 172.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://research.utdallas.edu/facilities/bsb", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PF3Y6WZUH56QOUE2TEXKBHEBBIC3E4VM", "length": 870, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "research.utdallas.edu", "title": "Bioengineering and Sciences Building | UT Dallas Research", "raw_content": "The Bioengineering and Sciences Building (BSB) contains approximately 220,000 gross square feet and houses instructional laboratories, faculty and teaching assistant offices, computational infrastructure, and research space. The purpose of the new Bioengineering and Sciences Building is primarily research.\nThe building is designed to focus on learning and research of the functions of the brain, the nervous system, the cell, the gene, and the disciplines of science and engineering as they relate to improvement of human functions and electronic sensing devices.\nThe building brings together interdisciplinary groups of scientists and engineers from multiple fields in research facilities and teaching laboratories. Facility focuses on innovation at the intersection of classic disciplines, ensuring dynamic interactions, continuous learning, and ingenious discovery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://resources.strategiccoach.com/10x-thinking/when-it-comes-to-communicating-and-setting-team-expectations-more-is-more", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:53Z", "digest": "sha1:2K65OEVZUDQHLEPDMMMDI4A3RN6N6SQU", "length": 5685, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "resources.strategiccoach.com", "title": "When It Comes To Communicating And Setting Team Expectations, More Is More", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb 10x Thinking \u00bb When It Comes To Communicating And Setting Team Expectations, More Is More\nSetting Team Expectations: Your Ticket To A Self-Managing Company\u00ae\nhttp://content.blubrry.com/inside_strategic_coach/SettingTeamExpectationsWithThe4x4YourTicketToASelfManagingCompany.mp3\nImagine you\u2019ve been given the task of building a boat. You\u2019ve been told what a boat is, who you\u2019ll be building it with, and when it needs to be completed by\u2014but that\u2019s it. You don\u2019t know the type of boat you have to build, what it will be used for, or which specific features would make it a pleasing and successful boat versus an ugly, useless one. In other words, you don\u2019t have clear expectations to meet.\nYou\u2019d probably feel pretty frustrated. What\u2019s more, you\u2019d have no confidence in your ability to deliver a great result.\nNow imagine you\u2019ve been given design schematics. Even better, you\u2019ve been told who will be using this boat, for what purpose, and under what circumstances.\nYou\u2019d probably feel a lot better about your ability to not only build a boat, but build it well.\nHow do you want people to show up?\nJob descriptions are just like this project. If someone doesn\u2019t know how their performance is being judged, they don\u2019t know how to do a good job. They don\u2019t know whether they\u2019re doing well or poorly, or even just adequately. They don\u2019t know if you\u2019re happy or unhappy with them. And that\u2019s an awfully stressful situation to be in.\nA team member in this environment is going to go home worrying about work, and they\u2019re going to leave the house dreading their return the next day. The reason? Their confidence has been undermined by unclear expectations.\nThat\u2019s where setting team expectations comes in, and I use a tool called the 4\u00d74 to make this process as efficient and effective as possible. It\u2019s an easy process that anyone can go through on their own and share their thinking with their team members.\nIn the simplest of terms, it\u2019s an agreement, or contract, between you and your team. It tells them what you want and what you don\u2019t want, and it empowers them to take their job\u2014and your vision\u2014into their own hands.\nThe benefits of this power shift are huge for everyone. When people are confident in their roles, they don\u2019t need to be managed. This \u201cagreement\u201d is now the manager, and people have only to refer to it to solve most problems they might encounter. This frees you up to focus on coming up with great ideas to grow your business, and frees them from uncertainty and stress, not to mention resentment at being micromanaged.\nSetting team expectations effectively, then, is your ticket to a Self-Managing Company\u2014a company whose team members are batteries-included, meaning they create their own momentum and motivation rather than needing you to do it for them.\nThis might sound like magic, but it\u2019s not. It\u2019s just a matter of clarity, direction, and purpose, which you need to provide. It\u2019s a small investment of time and thought that will yield endless returns for you.\nWith capable, focused team members in place, you can go after what you really want\u2014a Self-Managing Company\u00ae. Find out what it is, how to get one, and if you have what it takes. Download The Self-Managing Company ebook today!\nSpecifically, there are four areas I focus on when setting expectations: Performance, Results, Being A Hero, and Drives Me Crazy. Each of these has four success criteria, so the team member knows exactly what\u2019s expected of them. Broken down, it looks like this:\nAlert, curious, responsive, resourceful: This is how your team members need to show up for you, and the ways they represent these ideals will change depending on their role. Generally speaking, however, high performers keep an eye out for opportunities to grow your business. They\u2019ll ask questions and develop new ideas rather than just settle for what\u2019s been handed to them.\nBetter performance means better results, but it still helps to quantify what \u201cbetter\u201d means to you. I think we can all agree that faster, easier, cheaper, and bigger are what all entrepreneurs are looking for. When you work in a Results Economy versus a Time and Effort Economy, which every entrepreneur does, what matters is that you make the sale, not how much effort it took to make it.\n3. Being A Hero\nTrust me: Your team members want to be a hero to you. They want to make your life easier and be great at their jobs, so tell them exactly what going the extra mile looks like!\n4. Drives Me Crazy\nHave you ever hired someone who, according to the job description, did everything right, but you still fired them because they drove you crazy?\nI\u2019d be willing to bet this has not only happened to you, but has happened to you more than once. What\u2019s more, you probably thought it was the result of poor luck each and every time.\nBut did it ever occur to you that they don\u2019t know what drives you crazy? That your triggers are unique to you?\nDo yourself, and your team members, a favor by figuring out what your \u201cdrives me crazy\u201d things are and communicating them\u2014before they become a problem.\nFreedom from managing gives you freedom to do more of what matters.\nThe more intentional and specific you are about what you\u2019re looking for, the more confident your team members will be in their roles. They\u2019ll know exactly what\u2019s expected of them and what they\u2019re striving for, which gives them the freedom to strive in new and innovative ways. With a clear goal in sight, people can get excited about finding the best\u2014that is, fastest, easiest, and cheapest\u2014ways to achieve it.\nAnd isn\u2019t that what everybody wants from their team?\nWhat\u2019s one thing you\u2019ve done every year for 30 years? For many entrepreneurs, it\u2019s attending Strategic Coac...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 12653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://respawning.co.uk/featured/ubisoft-reveals-assassins-creed-odyssey-post-launch-plan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:07Z", "digest": "sha1:E4YYVXNGF6RMGY3QVVM5Q6FYEZGWXULZ", "length": 1148, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "respawning.co.uk", "title": "Ubisoft reveals Assassins Creed Odyssey Post-Launch Plan! | Respawning", "raw_content": "Ubisoft reveals Assassins Creed Odyssey Post-Launch Plan!\nToday, Ubisoft announced the Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey post-launch plan, including a Season Pass with two major, episodic pieces of narrative content and Assassin\u2019s Creed III Remastered. Additionally, all Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey players will have access to free content, including the story-focused and episodic Lost Tales of Greece, as well as daily and weekly in-game events.\nThe Season Pass is included in the Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey Gold, Ultimate, Spartan and Pantheon Editions, and is also available for purchase separately.In addition, an extensive lineup of free content, including new narrative content and in-game events, will be available for all players after launch, including:\nThere will be more to come as the Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey development team is committed to support the game and continued improvement of the core experience with additional content, yet to be revealed.Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey will be released worldwide on October 5th, 2018. Gold, Collectors and Ultimate Editions owners will have access to the game three days early, starting October 2nd, October", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 5141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ritaokrent.com/products/ancient-item-016a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:25Z", "digest": "sha1:JTP5SU3YAEMAMDAJLPXROK6RD6JONQUZ", "length": 88, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ritaokrent.com", "title": "Ancient Item 016a - Rita Okrent Collection", "raw_content": "Ancient glass bead from a special collection in Syria. Purchased in Syria in the 1980's.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 157.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://robbiewildhudson.com/2015/04/30/swimminglakeullswaterexhibition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EOMFKF6OF5MRRBPMSH3V6VROVWKHED5G", "length": 2525, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "robbiewildhudson.com", "title": "Swimming Lake Ullswater Exhibition | Robbie Wild Hudson - Landscape Artworks inspired by Wild Swimming", "raw_content": "Swimming Lake Ullswater Exhibition\nIn 2012 I swam the 7.5-mile length of Lake Ullswater. Starting at Glenridding and ending at Howtown, the swim took 6 hours to complete. This exhibition is a visual account of that experience.\nI believe that in order to see and represent a landscape in an original way, you must look from a new perspective. To earn a deeper understanding of the lake, I decided to trace a line through the water, from one end to the other, and by swimming that route, I was able to depict this landscape in a unique way.\nIn the words of Roger Deakin:\n\u2018I grew convinced that following water, flowing with it, would be a way of getting under the skin of things, of learning something new\u2019.\nI developed an abstract visual language of imagery and motifs based on ripples, watermarks, reflections, shorelines, rock formations, fell tops and the repetitive physical act of swimming and breathing. Natural flowing water was used to create the shapes and patterns that structure the artworks, and many of the canvases were also submerged in the lake itself in order to create these effects.\nI wanted to produce an aesthetic that would be dictated by the properties of water as a material, as well as offering a representation of the Lake as a landscape. This was also done to strengthen the ties between form and content throughout the exhibition. The artworks were built up in layers that combine colour washes and mono prints, as well as drawn and painted elements.\nWhilst walking on its shores, Lake Ullswater was the place that inspired William Wordsworth\u2019s \u2018Daffodils\u2019 poem. The Lake has a rich historic connection with the romantic poets and artists, and rests deeply within the cultural psyche of the English countryside. The aim of this exhibition is to add to this cultural heritage, but in my own way. I also experienced Lake Ullswater, and this exhibition is an account of that journey, except that where Wordsworth quaintly \u2018wandered lonely as a cloud\u2019, I dived into the water and swam.\nRobbie Wild Hudson was raised in the Lake District, in a house with the River Eden running through its garden. He attended Newcastle University and has exhibited in London, Istanbul and Toronto. This year he will show in Berlin, where he currently lives and paints. In August, Robbie and his brothers, Calum and Jack, will attempt to become the first people ever to swim the 90-mile length of the river Eden. They will complete 9 miles a day for 10 consecutive days. This is the inspiration for his next art project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://roccasisters.wordpress.com/2017/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NVEFXDHKNK7REAXLLNQGUQOVYMJZI7UX", "length": 7517, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "roccasisters.wordpress.com", "title": "December | 2017 | The Rocca Sisters & Associates", "raw_content": "What Lies Ahead for 2018\nIt\u2019s hard to believe the New Year is upon us and in just a few short days, we will say goodbye to 2017.\nAs many of us prepare our goals and New Year\u2019s resolutions, it is also a great time to reflect back on the last twelve months\u2026what dreams came true? What changes did you make? What are you most grateful for? What would you like to improve?\nTaking inventory of your life is an important step in setting goals for 2018. Whatever your dreams and goals may be for 2018, we are here to support you any way that we can.\nHere at the Rocca Sisters & Associates office, a new year brings new opportunities and new goals for us as well. We believe in continual growth and wish to offer nothing but the best to our clients and those in our community.\nThe year ahead will bring us many more opportunities to do what we love and that is serving our clients and helping people in our community. In 2018, we will continue to be innovators in the industry and provide our clients with an experience that is not just the best, but remarkable. And we will continue to support local events and find new ways to support the families and organizations who make a difference in our community.\nA Special Thank You to all our clients for your support and referrals throughout 2017. It is your support that continues to drive our success and invites others to experience firsthand our unique and genuine hands on family-focused approach to buying and selling your home. Our relationships truly recommend us, as the majority of our business is done with repeat clients and referrals to their family and friends.\nIf your New Year\u2019s Resolution is to move your family in 2018 and would like to experience a memorable buying or selling experience, then be sure to contact the Rocca Sisters & Associates first. We would be happy to provide you with a free, no-obligation home evaluation or answer any questions you may have about the housing market in your neighbourhood.\nWe look forward to continuing to serving you, your family and your friends in 2018!\nFrom our family to yours, we wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!\nComments Off on What Lies Ahead for 2018\nHappy Holidays from The Rocca Sisters & Associates!\nWith the holidays upon us, we wanted to take a moment to thank every one of our clients for your continued support and referrals throughout the year. When our clients entrust us to their family and friends, it is a testament to our success and assurance of a job well done. At The Rocca Sisters & Associates, keeping our clients as well as the public up to date on the current market conditions is so important to us. Here is a brief recap of the current market in Burlington, Oakville and Hamilton before we head into the new year!\nIn Burlington, Average days on market for the month of November were 34 and properties were selling for, on average, 95% of the original listing price \u2013 very similar to Oakville results. In both Burlington and Oakville, 58% of the Active listings at the end of November had been on the market for over 30 days. Year to date for the City of Burlington, sales are down just over 9% and prices are up 14.7% as compared to the same period last year.\nYear to date, Oakville has held onto a very healthy 13.6% increase in prices. Likely more telling however, is that at the end of November, there were approximately 450 properties on the market and more than half of those had been on the market for over 30 days, and half of those have been on the market for over 60 days. We don\u2019t feel that the full impact of this market softening has yet been felt. If all of those properties were to sell for very close to their asking price (which is very unlikely given the amount of time they have been on the market), or if the majority of them don\u2019t sell and the listing expires, the numbers will remain the same and the market will stabilize (and in fact could return to a sellers market).\nNovember proved to be fairly flat in most of the Greater Hamilton communities, with the exception of Waterdown with an over 11% increase in sale prices as compared to November 2016. Otherwise, each of these areas, Ancaster, Stoney Creek, Glanbrook and Flamborough appear to be back to Buyer\u2019s markets with at least 3 months of active inventory of which at least 50% have been on the market for over 30 days. The only other exception was Dundas which seems to intuitively control the number of listings at any given time. It\u2019s one of those communities that seems to increase inventories when demand is strong and decrease when demand drops off. Incredibly, these communities all continue to show very high increases in values when you look at the year to date numbers.\nIf you have any questions about the market in your neighbourhood or want to learn more about if it\u2019s the right time for you to sell, give the experts at The Rocca Sisters & Associates a call at 905-335-3042 or email at info@roccasisters.ca. Wherever you decide to celebrate the holidays, from our family to yours, The Rocca Sisters & Associates team wishes you all the very best the season has to offer!\nComments Off on Happy Holidays from The Rocca Sisters & Associates!\nThe Rocca Sisters Annual Holiday Movie Event Is All About Giving\nExcitement and holiday spirit was plentiful this past Saturday, December 9th at SilverCity Oakville as The Rocca Sisters Team hosted their Client Appreciation Christmas Movie Event. Cathy and Tanya Rocca hold this special holiday event as a thank you to their clients for all of their support and referrals throughout the year.\nApproximately 500 past, present and future clients were treated to their choice of three popular movies \u2013 Justice League, The Star, and Murder On The Orient Express- while also enjoying free concession combos and even a special visit from Santa!\nWith every event, The Rocca Sisters Team designate a local charity to help give back to the community. This year, we appointed our efforts to the McMaster Children\u2019s Hospital. Clients that attended the event were asked to bring along an unwrapped toy in hopes of bringing some joy and a much needed smile to a child this holiday season. We would like to send a HUGE thank you to all our wonderful, generous clients who filled a very large toy bin with donations for these children. In addition to running a toy drive for the McMaster Children\u2019s Hospital, we also ran a Facebook contest on The Rocca Sisters Team Facebook page with the opportunity to win 4 Free Movie Tickets!\nThe Rocca Sisters Team throw many events throughout the year, but this event is among our favorites. We consider ourselves very privileged to create long-lasting relationships with our clients and their families. It is from these relationships that we gain the majority of our business \u2013 from repeat clients and from our relationships recommending us. With such close ties to our clients and their families, it is wonderful to have the chance to gather during the holidays, to catch up and to show them just how much we appreciate all they have done for us. It is a gift from our family to theirs. We could never have made it to being #1 in Burlington and #3 in Canada for sales production & volume.\nTo check out additional photos from this and other past client events, please visit us at www.RoccaSisters.ca. You can also watch our event videos on our webTV site, www.RoccaSistersTV.com. We hope to see you at our 2018 Christmas Movie Event!\nComments Off on The Rocca Sisters Annual Holiday Movie Event Is All About Giving", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 12270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://roddiecleere.com/2015/12/04/anderson-the-button-factory-dublin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:04Z", "digest": "sha1:HQ255XLVFSLCP42TP5TCOBYT3W3Q3C42", "length": 1605, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "roddiecleere.com", "title": "ANDERSON \u2013 THE BUTTON FACTORY, DUBLIN | Roddie Cleere's Irish Music Show (iMS)", "raw_content": "ANDERSON \u2013 THE BUTTON FACTORY, DUBLIN\nFollowing a hectic few months, which saw his debut album \u2018Patterns\u2019 released, a video of him selling the album door to door going viral with over 1,000,000 views on various platforms, and across the board acclaim, Daniel Anderson rounds off the year next week with his biggest headline show to date, at the Button Factory in Dublin.\nThe Dubliner, whose video documenting the journey from building his own studio to selling his album door to door, took on a life of its own when posted online, reaching a combined Facebook/Youtube audience of over 100,000 people sending sales of his Debut LP \u2018Patterns\u2019 soaring and bringing him into the consciousness of an audience spanning Glen Hansard, Roddy Doyle, Mattress Mick, Dustin the Turkey, thus prompting Ryan Tubridy to invite him to perform on RTE\u2019s Late Late show on the evening of the release.\n\u2018Patterns\u2019 was both Niall Byrne\u2019s (Nialler9) and Dan Hegarty\u2019s album of the week. The Ian Dempsey breakfast show made the first single from the LP \u2018Things We Have In Common\u2019 their song of the week. Jim Carroll of the Irish Times described Anderson as \u201cthe real deal\u201d and \u2018Patterns\u2019 as \u201cone of the gems of the current season\u201d\nIn an industry in a constant state of flux, Anderson has found a footing on which to build something viable. His enterprising DIY approach from start to finish has led to almost 500 12\u201d Vinyl copies of the album being sold door to door and directly through his website in the first week of the release.\nTickets are available from www.tickets.ie\nAlbum available from iTunes and www.andersonsongs.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rollingout.com/tag/democratic-national-convention/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XU5ICLDF6EB7RD3NBUPPCY2EHQEFQM72", "length": 1604, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "rollingout.com", "title": "Democratic National Convention Archives - Rolling Out", "raw_content": "Stars and politicians align at DNC\nLast night, the Democratic National Convention came to a close. In this photo gallery, party\u2026\nBeyonc\u00e9, Alicia Keys and Other Celebrity Women on Obama\u2019s Presidential Campaign\nEvery four years, we are privileged to see celebrities stand up for a cause other than their own\u2026\nRenee Gardner October 23, 2012\nIs President Obama\u2019s Lead Built to Last?\nOver the past two weeks, the Republican and Democratic conventions have been billed as an\u2026\nHoward Franklin Jr. September 14, 2012\nThe 5 Best Photos From The Democratic National Convention\nMemorable DNC Photos\nDanielle Canada September 8, 2012\nPresident Obama Closes DNC With Promise of a \u2018Better Path\u2019\nPresident Barack H. Obama accepted the Democratic Party\u2019s nomination for president of the United States\u2026\nBill Clinton Galvanizes Democrats With Rousing Speech\nThere was high anticipation on the DNC floor on Wednesday, Sept. 5 comparable to the\u2026\nBill Clinton\u2019s Historic DNC Speech in Its Entirety: Transcript and Video\nBill Clinton\u2019s 2012 DNC Speech in Its Entirety\nBest Parts of Michelle Obama\u2019s Appearance at the Democratic Convention\nThe mom-in-chief owned the convention floor Tuesday evening. First lady Michelle Obama\u2019s speech was a\u2026\nAre African Americans \u2018Better Off\u2019 Since Obama?\nA strange thing happened on the way to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.\u2026\nTorrance Stephens September 4, 2012\n5 Events Black People Should Attend During the Democratic National Convention 2012\nThe Democratic National Convention is right around the corner and it\u2019s about time for the\u2026\nTai Applewhite September 2, 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 3613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sacrebleu.xyz/2018/12/03/world-becoming-more-allergic-to-food/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:42Z", "digest": "sha1:VBFSOVVNMVZZUE2D4AZHNZLEWUCAPE6V", "length": 740, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "sacrebleu.xyz", "title": "World becoming more allergic to food | Sacre Bleu", "raw_content": "World becoming more allergic to food\nby -NO AUTHOR- | Dec 3, 2018 | Education, Front Page, Health, World |\n(BBC NEWS) \u2014 Around the world, children are far more likely than ever before to develop food allergies.\nRecent inquiries into the deaths of two British teenagers after eating sesame and peanut highlighted the sometimes tragic consequences. In August, a six-year-old girl in Western Australia died as the result of a dairy allergy.\nThe rise in allergies in recent decades has been particularly noticeable in the West. Food allergy now affects about 7% of children in the UK and 9% of those in Australia, for example. Across Europe, 2% of adults have food allergies.\nThe post World becoming more allergic to food appeared first on WND.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sacrebleu.xyz/2018/12/04/schwarzenegger-tells-un-global-warming-conference-he-wishes-he-could-travel-back-in-time-and-terminate-fossil-fuels/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:12Z", "digest": "sha1:SJ35YDIJE5Q7CT5F7D6OZYJHIXLVU3NF", "length": 1920, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "sacrebleu.xyz", "title": "Schwarzenegger Tells UN Global Warming Conference He Wishes He Could Travel Back in Time and Terminate Fossil Fuels | Sacre Bleu", "raw_content": "Schwarzenegger Tells UN Global Warming Conference He Wishes He Could Travel Back in Time and Terminate Fossil Fuels\nArnold Schwarzenegger told the UN climate change conference in Poland that if he could go back in time he would terminate fossil fuels.\nIf the world did not use fossil fuels we would still be burning wood to keep warm.\nHow would that work out, Arnold?\nSchwarzegger also insulted President Trump \u2014 like any good Hollywood elite.\nSomeone should notify Arnold that the US is currently leading the global community in reductions in CO2 emissions.\nArnold Schwarzenegger says he wishes he could travel back in time like the cyborg he played in \u201cThe Terminator\u201d so he could stop fossil fuels from being used.\n\u201cIf we would\u2019ve never started in that direction and used other technology, we\u2019d be much better off,\u201d the actor and former California governor said Monday at the start of a U.N. climate conference in Poland.\n\u201cThe biggest evil is fossil fuels: it\u2019s coal, it\u2019s gasoline, it\u2019s the natural gas,\u201d he told conference delegates.\nSchwarzenegger also insisted that the United States was \u201cstill in\u201d an international accord to curb global warming despite U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to walk away from the agreement.\nCalling Trump \u201cmeshugge\u201d \u2013 Yiddish for \u201ccrazy\u201d \u2013 for abandoning the accord, Schwarzenegger said the 2015 agreement has widespread support at the local and state levels even if the federal government isn\u2019t on board.\nAmerican states, cities, businesses and citizens can do a lot to curb global warming, and representatives from those arenas should be invited to next year\u2019s climate conference, he told the audience in Poland.\n\u201cAnd if you do that, I promise you: I\u2019ll be back,\u201d he said in another reference to \u201cThe Terminator.\u201d\nThe post Schwarzenegger Tells UN Global Warming Conference He Wishes He Could Travel Back in Time and Terminate Fossil Fuels appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://safebabyhealthychild.com/kathleen-fry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PH6YHHVFFKARDQRW3C6Z7U57N7Y6LVAQ", "length": 2237, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "safebabyhealthychild.com", "title": "Dr. Kathleen Fry | Safe Baby Healthy Child", "raw_content": "Dr. Kathleen Fry, MD, CTHHom. has the exceptional distinction of being the only doctor in the world who is both a licensed Ob/Gyn, Surgeon and Certified Hahnemanian Master Homeopath, the purest form of homeopathic practice. Throughout her 30-year career, Dr. Fry has drawn on her extensive knowledge and experience both as a traditional medical doctor and homeopathic physician in helping thousands of people unlock their own vital force to find true healing rather than suppressing symptoms through the use of conventional pharmaceutical drugs. She is a past president of the American Holistic Medical Association (now the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine) and was a Founding Diplomate of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine.\nDr. Fry is passionate about helping others incorporate holistic medicine and homeopathy into their lives to achieve wellness and overcome chronic conditions. She appears regularly on television and radio and is a featured speaker at national and regional conferences such as the Women\u2019s Summit and Celebrate Your Life!\nDr. Fry has authored two books on Homeopathy. The recently released book, \u201cWhat\u2019s the Remedy for That? The Definitive Homeopathy Guide to Mastering Everyday Self-Care Without Drugs\u201d is a must-have resource that explains in a clear, understandable way how to use each of the most commonly available homeopathic remedies to treat over 60 conditions such as: colic, colds, flu, fever, sore throats, strep, ear infections, motion sickness, bladder infections, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, ADD and ADHD. You can easily start experiencing life-changing homeopathy with the customized 20-remedy travel kit Dr. Fry has created along with a signed copy of her book available on her website.\nHer first book, \u201cVITALITY! How To Get It and Keep It: A Homeopath\u2019s Guide To Vibrant Health Without Drugs\u201d explains the underlying principles of homeopathy with case stories from actual clients who have recovered from illnesses as diverse as chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, ADHD and acute appendicitis without pharmaceutical drugs.\nDr. Kathleen Fry is available for private consultations via telephone or Skype. She can be reached through her website: www.drkathifry.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://safebabyhealthychild.com/my-account/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:31Z", "digest": "sha1:LVYG3E47Y3SALMKAKXSNSH6U2LKYPS3P", "length": 106, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "safebabyhealthychild.com", "title": "My Account | Safe Baby Healthy Child", "raw_content": "Shopping with us signs you up for our bi-monthly newsletter. If you wish to opt-out, just uncheck the box.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 2088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 288.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sandstonepress.com/authors/farnoosh-moshiri", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FPP5XRMXUNLF4RTRQORSGGOXZIW2PIQ3", "length": 667, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sandstonepress.com", "title": "Farnoosh Moshiri | Sandstone Press", "raw_content": "Iranian born writer Farnoosh Moshiri has published plays, short stories, and translations in Iranian literary magazines before she fled her country after a massive arrest of secular intellectuals, feminists and political activists. She lived in refugee camps in Afghanistan and India for four years before emigrating to the US in 1987. Her novels and collections include At the Wall of Almighty (Interlink 1999), The Bathhouse (Black Heron Press 2001, Beacon Press, 2002), The Crazy Dervish and the Pomegranate Tree (Black Heron Press 2004), and Against Gravity (Penguin, 2006). Currently, she is a professor of creative writing at the University of Houston-Downtown.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 126.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sandstonepress.com/authors/iain-fionnlagh-macle%C3%B2id", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QINZEDFKWMZIB2CRWQPLNUD2QVBDNDPO", "length": 489, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sandstonepress.com", "title": "Iain Fionnlagh MacLe\u00f2id | Sandstone Press", "raw_content": "Iain Fionnlagh MacLe\u00f2id is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist based on the Isle of Lewis. He is the author of five Gaelic novels. Iain\u2019s stage plays include Somersaults for the National Theatre of Scotland and St Kilda: the Opera for the Edinburgh International Festival. He has written extensively for radio including The Summer Walking (adapted from his original stage play The Pearlfisher). He is currently working on adaptations of Ann Cleeves\u2019 novels Raven Black and White Night.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 110.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sapdcareers.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:12Z", "digest": "sha1:S7K3XUGTSVKUAOGL2R6LKOSENNMZGSGC", "length": 2186, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "sapdcareers.com", "title": "SAPD Careers | San Antonio Police Department Careers", "raw_content": "At $45,000 plus a $5,000 hiring bonus we\noffer one of the highest cadet salaries in Texas.\n$7,500 Hiring Bonus for Qualified\nTexas Peace Officers and Military Veterans\nEvening PT Readiness Program San Antonio Policy Academy 12200 South East Loop 410 San Antonio, TX 78224\n20feb6:00 pm7:00 pmEvening PT Readiness Program6:00 pm - 7:00 pm\nSan Antonio Policy Academy\nfebruary 27, 2019 6:00 pmmarch 6, 2019 6:00 pmmarch 13, 2019 6:00 pmmarch 20, 2019 6:00 pmmarch 27, 2019 6:00 pmapril 3, 2019 6:00 pmapril 10, 2019 6:00 pmapril 17, 2019 6:00 pmapril 24, 2019 6:00 pmmay 1, 2019 6:00 pmmay 8, 2019 6:00 pmmay 15, 2019 6:00 pmmay 22, 2019 6:00 pmmay 29, 2019 6:00 pmjune 5, 2019 6:00 pmjune 12, 2019 6:00 pmjune 19, 2019 6:00 pmjune 26, 2019 6:00 pmjuly 3, 2019 6:00 pmjuly 10, 2019 6:00 pmjuly 17, 2019 6:00 pmjuly 24, 2019 6:00 pmjuly 31, 2019 6:00 pmaugust 7, 2019 6:00 pmaugust 14, 2019 6:00 pmaugust 21, 2019 6:00 pmaugust 28, 2019 6:00 pmseptember 4, 2019 6:00 pmseptember 11, 2019 6:00 pmseptember 18, 2019 6:00 pmseptember 25, 2019 6:00 pmoctober 2, 2019 6:00 pmoctober 9, 2019 6:00 pmoctober 16, 2019 6:00 pmoctober 23, 2019 6:00 pmoctober 30, 2019 6:00 pmnovember 6, 2019 6:00 pmnovember 13, 2019 6:00 pmnovember 20, 2019 6:00 pmnovember 27, 2019 6:00 pmdecember 4, 2019 6:00 pmdecember 11, 2019 6:00 pmdecember 18, 2019 6:00 pmdecember 25, 2019 6:00 pmjanuary 1, 2020 6:00 pmjanuary 8, 2020 6:00 pmjanuary 15, 2020 6:00 pmjanuary 22, 2020 6:00 pmjanuary 29, 2020 6:00 pmfebruary 5, 2020 6:00 pm\nNorthwest Vista College 2019 Criminal Justice Day Northwest Vista College 3535 N Ellison Dr\n26feb10:00 am3:00 pmNorthwest Vista College 2019 Criminal Justice Day10:00 am - 3:00 pm\nJOIN US for NVC 2019 Criminal Justice Day! The San Antonio Police Department is excited to talk to you about our\nJOIN US for NVC 2019 Criminal Justice Day!\nThe San Antonio Police Department is excited to talk to you about our open career opportunities and your future as a San Antonio Police Officer! Come out and learn about the benefits of joining THE BEST Police Department in the country and what makes the city of San Antonio a great place to live!\nJohn Zuniga\nSAPD in Action\nView Civil Service Rules", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saportareport.com/toilets-a-two-decade-mission-for-decatur-educator/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ITELUCY66J6GP4C4Y3QWYS3FUIGX7HFC", "length": 5177, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "saportareport.com", "title": "Educator finds his mission leading students 'from soap to citizenship' - SaportaReportEducator finds his mission leading students 'from soap to citizenship' - SaportaReport", "raw_content": "Educator finds his mission leading students \u2018from soap to citizenship\u2019\nAnother school year will be beginning soon, and Tom Keating will be about the mission which has occupied nearly half his 40-year career as an educator: school toilets.\nHe has, he says, \u201cbeen a lot of places, and done a lot of stuff\u201d as a consultant and director of Project CLEAN (Citizens, Learners, and Educators Against Neglect), the organization he launched as the vehicle for his crusade to make school restrooms cleaner, safer and generally more civilized. He and his cause have been the subject of numerous articles, including a front-page Wall Street Journal story. He\u2019s worked in 18 states, and several foreign countries.\nConsulting with school systems on how to improve their restrooms has never been a lucrative calling, however, and even more so in these days when music teachers are getting layoff notices and school janitorial services are being outsourced. It\u2019s increasingly harder to get the attention of harried principals and school superintendents, but Keating is nothing if not insistent.\n\u201cThey can blow me off, but I don\u2019t go away,\u201d he said.\nThat quality of insistently bringing up what no one wants to talk about can be very wearing, but it\u2019s an essential ingredient of civic activism. You don\u2019t usually see it in quite as pure a form as Keating, but there\u2019s hardly a worthwhile public program which didn\u2019t start with someone\u2019s refusal to go away.\nSome might consider Keating\u2019s work to be about an uncomplicated biological function, and not so much about education. But for Keating, leading students \u201cfrom soap to citizenship\u201d is a higher calling.\n\u201cIt is the most basic educational work that I\u2019ve done, including being called the Dropout Doctor, including lobbying, including getting world languages into the Decatur school system,\u201d he said. \u201cHealth, education and citizenship \u2013 all of that is tied up in poop.\u201d\nPoop is also political. He\u2019s had a few contracts torn up, Keating said, because he made too much trouble for the powers-that-be in a school district.\nA key element in this particular scheme for making the world a better place is, obviously, getting people to discuss something they seldom talk about directly. He has a variety of strategies for bringing the subject out in the open, including showing up at meetings in yellow rubber janitor\u2019s gloves.\n\u201cOut of every 10 middle school and high school kids, four of those 10 avoid the use of the restroom every day,\u201d Keating said. \u201cNobody has ever told me about the health costs of that statistic, because nobody wants to talk about it. So I talk about it.\u201d\nWhen Keating, who has a doctoral degree in education, first became interested in this subject after hearing complaints from his children and his neighbors, he found there was practically no professional literature on the subject. He\u2019s helped to change that with a number of articles, and along the way found a kindred spirit in Jack Sim, a Singaporean businessman who also felt called to bring this sensitive subject out in the open.\nSim is the founder of the World Toilet Organization and a sponsor of the World Toilet Summit, an annual event at which Keating has spoken three times. Sim is dedicated not only to cleaning up existing facilities around the world, but doing something about the very real public health problems created by a crowded world in which an estimated 40 percent of the people don\u2019t have toilets.\nIt was while talking with students from around Europe in a Brussels hostel that Keating experienced an epiphany of sorts: that his mission was also global.\n\u201cSchool restrooms always suck,\u201d a Dutch student told him. Keating has adopted that as the working title of a book he\u2019s planning about his life\u2019s mission.\n\u201cI realized, this is worldwide. I don\u2019t ever have to turn back. Half the planet has never read or written a single word, and half the planet has never pooped in a toilet. I will never be unemployed. I will never make a lot of money, but I\u2019ll be doing something worthwhile.\u201d\nSo you go find a better way to save the world. Keating, at least, can point to some tangible results, and he\u2019s had a ball working on one of the least inviting issues in the world.\nTeacher strikes speak to anxiety in the Red State heartland\nRandolph County only part of a bigger battle over ballot access\nNorth Carolina dispute puts absentee voting in the spotlight, and a new face on fraud\nSpirit of sine die wafts over Washington budget standoff\n\u2018Adoptive forfeitures,\u2019 \u2018equitable sharing,\u2019 and seizing people\u2019s stuff\nplanning says:\nThanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful for me.Report\nMissouri payday loans says:\nThe information and the aspect were just wonderful. I think that your viewpoint is deep, it\u2019s just well thought out and truly incredible to see someone who knows how to put these thoughts so well. Good job!Report\nTransit is becoming more visible in last days of regional sales tax push Atlanta BeltLine releases 2012 list of artists and performers for fall seas...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 310, "original_length": 17805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://satisfactionpsychology.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/best-possible-self/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:03Z", "digest": "sha1:2FXK76Q6GGBNT3YDVU5YVSA2O5TO564K", "length": 1142, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "satisfactionpsychology.wordpress.com", "title": "Best Possible Self | The Psychology of Satisfaction and Happiness", "raw_content": "\u00ab Adaptation and Happiness\nHappiness and Decision-Making \u00bb\nIt turns out thinking positively about yourself in the future improves present happiness as well. Researchers dub this the \u201cbest possible self\u201d approach.\nThe idea is to set aside 20 minutes each day to think about the best-case scenario for yourself for some definitive time in the future. Even better \u2014 write down a detailed description of what that life will be like for you. Be realistic, but don\u2019t be afraid to reach as well. Studies show that having just-out-of-reach goals greatly improves your overall feelings of well-being. To keep things fresh, try changing the topic from day to day. For example, focus on your job one week or your personal life the next. Finally, try using this technique for 30 days straight and see if that doesn\u2019t produce a more habitual way of thinking for you, especially if you don\u2019t typically project yourself much in the future.\nThis certainly doesn\u2019t work for everybody, but if you want to feel happier today, try putting yourself in the best possible light of tomorrow.\nSource: Toward a Durable Happiness by Jaime L. Kurtz and Sonja Lyubomirsky", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sciblogs.co.nz/honestuniverse/2015/10/22/pharmacists-dont-want-to-sell-unproven-products/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BQOJBNFWAFMTUG2B7HNA5KNZTY2RFSMO", "length": 13253, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "sciblogs.co.nz", "title": "Sciblogs | Pharmacists Don\u2019t Want to Sell Unproven Products", "raw_content": "Mark Hanna on Colloidal Silver Blues\nAngela on Colloidal Silver Blues\nGrant Jacobs on Official information kept secret too long\nShadow Mind on NZ Police pursuits keep killing people\nSearch within Honest Universe\nBack to Honest Universe\nPharmacists Don\u2019t Want to Sell Unproven Products\nBy Mark Hanna \u2022 22/10/2015 \u2022 2 This post was syndicated from Honest Universe - View original source\nThe Pharmaceutical Society doesn\u2019t think pharmacists should be able to sell healthcare products with no evidence of efficacy.\nLast week I wrote about the Pharmacy Council\u2019s proposal to change their Code of Ethics, and summarised the submissions that I was aware of. One important organisation that was missing from that roundup is the Pharmaceutical Society.\nThe Pharmaceutical Society is a professional association representing New Zealand pharmacists. Given their important position in the pharmacy industry, I think their submission might arguably be the most important. Earlier this week I spoke with Bob Buckham, Chief Pharmacist Advisor at the Pharmaceutical Society, about their submission on the Pharmacy Council\u2019s proposal.\nThe Pharmaceutical Society does not support the proposed change. Coming from the perspective of pharmacists, their submission also raised two important points around this issue:\nPharmacists need clarity: what behaviour is consistent with the Code of Ethics, and what is not?\nThe Code of Ethics is important and cannot be ignored. The Pharmacy Council must be willing to provide guidance and to enforce the code.\nThe reason why the Pharmaceutical Society does not support this change is similar to the reasons given by other organisations, in that it would implement a double standard:\nThe Society does not support the proposed supplementary wording in obligation 6.9 as the split wording in the two parts separates the therapy terms \u201cmedicine or herbal remedy\u201d in 6.9a from \u201ccomplementary therapy or other healthcare product\u201d in 6.9b. The result is that the subsequent obligation attached to those therapies does not apply to the other.\nTo clarify further, \u201ccredible evidence of efficacy\u201d is only required when supplying or promoting a \u201cmedicine or herbal remedy\u201d (Obligation 6.9a) and \u201cno reason to doubt\u2026 quality or safety and when sufficient information about the product can be provided\u201d only applies to \u201cany complementary therapy or other healthcare product.\nThe Society considers that the obligations of \u201ccredible evidence of efficacy\u201d and no reason \u201cto doubt\u2026 quality or safety\u201d should apply to the supply or promotion of all therapies and products \u2013 ie. any medicine, herbal remedy AND any complementary therapy or other healthcare product.\nSubmission to the Pharmacy Council of New Zealand (Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand)\nLike other submissions, the Pharmaceutical Society does support the addition of a new clause about providing sufficient information for patients to make informed choices. However, they also made a similar suggestion to one in the Society for Science Based Healthcare\u2019s submission in that the wording of this clause should be strengthened:\nThe Society also considers that \u201csufficient information about the product\u201d must be provided in order for purchasers to make an informed choice with respect to efficacy of that product and the risks and benefits of that against other treatment options.\nAside from their comments on the new proposed wording, the Pharmaceutical Society raised concerns about the application of this section of the Code of Ethics. Part of their submission focussed on pharmacists\u2019 responsibility to comply with the Code of Ethics:\nPharmacists must comply with the Code of Ethics\nThe Council have stated that it is not the purpose of the Code, or the Council, to endorse or prohibit the supply of any particularly complementary and/or alternative medicine, product, or practice. However, as the responsible authority for pharmacy under the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003, standards of ethical conduct set by the Council must be observed by pharmacists. Indeed, in the Code of Ethics the Council requires that pharmacists must comply with \u201call the implied requirements of ethical practice\u201d within the Code.\nThe Medicines Regulations 1984 (in Schedule 2 related to applications for a licence to operate a pharmacy) also refers to how pharmacists being employed or engaged in duties in a pharmacy are\nnot requested or required to act in a way that is inconsistent with the applicable professional or ethical standards of the pharmacy practice\nTherefore, the obligations within the Code of Ethics must be interpreted clearly so that pharmacists have a clear understanding of what is considered ethical practice, but also so that the Council can investigate and act upon breaches of the Code.\nThis call for clarity has been a common theme among submissions. Both the NZ Skeptics\u2019 submission and Dr Ben Albert\u2019s submission called for guidelines on product categories that should not be sold in pharmacies due to a lack of evidence. Also, when the Society for Science Based Healthcare complained to the Pharmacy Council last year, one of the recommendations made was to for the Pharmacy Council provide guidance on this issue:\nAs a result of this complaint, we want pharmacists to have the opportunity to do the right thing and fulfill their ethical obligations. In order to achieve this, we suggest that the Pharmacy Council consider the following courses of action:\nTo assist pharmacies in evaluating whether or not a healthcare product is supported by credible evidence of efficacy, the Pharmacy Council should develop and publish guidelines regarding what constitutes credible evidence of efficacy. This need not be a strict requirement so much as a useful guide that pharmacists can use to establish a consistent minimum standard of evidence.\nNaturoPharm Wartoff Complaint (Society for Science Based Healthcare)\nIf it\u2019s unclear where the line is drawn with regard to \u201ccredible evidence of efficacy\u201d, it makes it more difficult for pharmacists to practice ethically. The Pharmaceutical Society\u2019s submission raises questions about where this line might be drawn regarding alternative healthcare products, and talks about how the Code will be applied in practice:\nDefinition and interpretation of obligations\nThe wording of the proposed obligations 6.9a and 6.9b make reference to \u201ccredible evidence of efficacy\u201d and \u201cquality and safety\u201d. Therefore, if presented with a complaint against a pharmacist claimed to be in breach of the obligations within the Code of Ethics, the Council is expected to determine what is \u201ccredible evidence of efficacy\u201d and/or \u201cquality or safety\u201d.\nThe Society recognises that the application of a principles-based Code of Ethics to individual scenarios or circumstances is open to interpretation and challenge. Such scenarios are often not \u201cblack and white\u201d, but \u201cshades of grey\u201d where a group of peers may have differing opinions to the acceptability or otherwise of a particular practice. It is expected that such \u201cshades of grey\u201d will always exist in pharmacy practice, as indeed it does in medicine and other areas of professional practice. However where a particular practice is determined to be unethical or unacceptably, this must be made clear. This is a difficulty faced when considering the evidence and use of complementary treatments against regulated medicines.\nThe submission goes on to compare \u201cnatural\u201d or herbal healthcare products with homeopathic products, in terms of plausibility:\nComplementary/alternative medicine: natural/herbal remedies\nThe Society recognises the history of pharmaceuticals, and indeed of the pharmacy profession, where the first \u201cmedicines\u201d were derived from natural products. Many of these have been purified, refined and further manipulated in the development of modern day pharmaceutics. Much of modern pharmaceutical research continues to analyse the therapeutic potential of compounds found naturally occurring substances derived from flora and fauna. We recognise how the levels of evidence of the therapeutic benefits (or otherwise) of natural products can vary markedly, but understand the science behind their potential mechanisms of action has the same pharmacological basis and pharmaceuticals.\nWe note the Council\u2019s own \u2018Complementary and alternative medicines \u2013 best practice guidance for pharmacists\u2019 document makes reference to the Natural Health and Supplementary Products Bill which states:\ncurrently there is no accepted scientific evidence for the effectiveness of homeopathy and therefore that health benefit claims should not be made for homeopathic products\nThis aligns with further documents and statements issued internationally, including the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)(1), the Cochrane Library and others have noted homeopathic products show no effects beyond placebo. A large number of government committees, professional pharmacy and medical organisations internationally have issued statements reinforcing this lack of effectiveness of homeopathy in treating health conditions. The Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand does not at this time have a position statement on complementary medicines or homeopathy.\nHomeopathy is not herbalism, and homeopathic science is not consistent with currently accepted medical and pharmacological science. Some pharmacists, and indeed other health professions, have argued for the role of homeopathy as a valid form of treatment to meed patient demand, while acknowledging any \u201cbenefit\u201d is achieved through a placebo effect, while not necessarily agreeing with the purported science behind homeopathic practice.\nThe question for the Council must then be whether it is considered ethical practice for pharmacists to charge a fee for products for which there is no accepted scientific evidence for effectiveness; OR for which they acknowledge a lack of evidence yet sell for the purposes of providing a placebo effect.\n(1) National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC). NHMRC Information Paper: Evidence on the effectiveness of homeopathy for treating health conditions [Internet]. Canberra: National Health and Medical Research Council; 2015. Available from: https://www.nhmrc.gov.au/guidelines-publications/cam02\nThe Pharmaceutical Society also noted something that was raised in a few other submissions; when pharmacies sell ineffective products they lend them the credibility of their profession, which can inadvertently lead to patients being misled about their efficacy.\nWhile we again note that the Council have expressed that it\u2019s not their purpose or the purpose of the Code of Ethics to \u201cendorse any particular complementary or alternative medicine or practice\u201d, in setting the requirements for pharmacists to conform with obligation 6.9 (or 6.9a and 6.9b), the Council must determine whether the practice of homeopathy is consistent with the Code. Particularly when having homeopathic products available alongside pharmaceutical medicines, or indeed herbal/complementary medicines with their varied levels of evidence, potentially implies clinical benefit by association and provision through a respected and regulated health professional.\nI\u2019ve not yet been made aware of any other submissions that have been made to the Pharmacy Council, but I imagine a number of individuals at least will have made submissions that have not been publicised. As it stands though, the Pharmacy Council\u2019s proposal seems to have strong opposition from all sides, with the only significant support I have seen so far coming from the Pharmacy Guild, who represent only those pharmacists who own their own pharmacies.\nIt seems no group other than pharmacy owners wants to keep the status quo of pharmacies selling ineffective products without consequences.\n2 Responses to \u201cPharmacists Don\u2019t Want to Sell Unproven Products\u201d\nHi well since it is an Honest Universe and the omission of certain facts can be consider dis honest.\nI am hi jacking this thread in the name of truth..\nHERE it is all you gravity loving relativist freaks The SAFIRE project\nA look at the role Electricity and Plasma play in the universe, finally some common sense in science and the application of Occam\u2019s Razor when it comes to looking at the universe .\nDerek, commenting to call me dishonest for no particular reason and share completely unrelated content to the article you\u2019re commenting on is incredibly rude.\nI have let your comment stay as a testament to your rudeness but I have removed the links from it. My blog is not your platform for sharing pseudoscience.\nAbout Honest Universe\nThe name of this blog, Honest Universe, is derived from the idea that the universe in which we live is honest \u2013 if you ask the right questions in the right way you\u2019ll eventually get the right answer. This is the premise upon which science is based. It also reflects Mark's philosophy of putting a high value on honesty and integrity.\nDavid Miller on NZ Police pursuits keep killing people\nBeth Freeman on New Zealand should not regulate naturopaths\nMark Hanna on NZ political parties\u2019 transgender health plans\nC on NZ political parties\u2019 transgender health plans\nCharlie on NZ political parties\u2019 transgender health plans", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 18106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scienceblog.com/79779/telltale-biomarker-detects-early-breast-cancer-nihfunded-study/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5SUOT3PN3ZGY6QBUFPTKQFE53RXPS5KX", "length": 6099, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "scienceblog.com", "title": "Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer - ScienceBlog.com", "raw_content": "Home Health Tell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer\nTell-tale biomarker detects early breast cancer\nResearchers have shown that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can detect the earliest signs of breast cancer recurrence and fast-growing tumors. Their approach detects micrometastases, breakaway tumor cells with the potential to develop into dangerous secondary breast cancer tumors elsewhere in the body. The approach may offer an improved way to detect early recurrence of breast cancer in women and men. The work was completed at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland and was funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), part of the National Institutes of Health.\n\u201cMRI has a wide array of diagnostic applications and shows promise in breast cancer detection and treatment monitoring,\u201d said Richard Conroy, Ph.D., director of NIBIB Division of Applied Science and Technology. \u201cThe technique used by researchers in this study enables very early detection of metastatic spread, which would allow adaptation of treatment more quickly and hopefully lead to better outcomes in the future.\u201d\nThe study, published online in the Aug. 12, 2015, issue of Nature Communications, was led by Zheng-Rong Lu, Ph.D., CWRU M. Frank Rudy and Margaret Domiter Rudy Professor of biomedical engineering and an expert in molecular imaging for cancer and other diseases.\n\u201cWe showed with this technique that we can detect very tiny tumors of just a few hundred cells,\u201d Lu said, adding that the study pushed imaging boundaries, revealing smaller cancers than can be detected with current clinical imaging modalities. \u201cOur imaging technology has the potential to differentiate aggressive tumors from low-risk tumors. These are two things that potentially can make a big impact on clinical practice and also management of cancer.\u201d\nOne-third of patients diagnosed with breast cancer eventually develop metastases in distant organs, with an increased risk of death. Breast cancer has a high rate of metastasis to bone, lung, liver, lymph nodes, and the brain. Since small, early-stage cancers are the most responsive to drug treatments, screening is an important aspect of follow-up care for breast cancer patients, and early detection is critical in tailoring appropriate and effective therapeutic interventions. While multiple imaging techniques, including MRI, are currently used in breast cancer detection and clinical management, they are neither able to detect specific cancer types or early cancer growth.\nThe earliest signs of cancer spread are called micrometastases. As the name implies, they are often too small to be detected with standard screening. Dr. Lu\u2019s team used a biochemical approach combined with MRI to detect molecular changes that signal micrometastases. To detect micrometastases, Lu and his team used MRI imaging \u2014 which uses a magnetic field and radio waves to produce images \u2013 and combined it with a special chemical contrast solution.\nThe contrast solution that the team developed contains a short piece of protein, or peptide, tagged with a minuscule magnet. They chose the peptide \u2014 a chain of just five amino acids \u2014 for its inclination to bind to protein matrix structures around cancer cells, called fibrin-fibronectin complexes. More importantly, the fibronectin part of the complex is expressed during a cell\u2019s transition to cancer and plays a role in cell growth, migration and differentiation. Fibronectin is associated with high-risk breast cancer with poor prognosis.\nThe researchers collected images depicting metastases where breast cancer had spread beyond the original tumors. Metal molecules within the contrast solution are magnetized during the MRI process and enhance the image wherever the molecules of solution bind with the targeted protein.\n\u201cThe primary tumor sends signals to distant tissue and organs to prepare the soil for metastasis,\u201d Lu said. \u201cBy also binding with the magnetically tagged peptide, the biomarker is enhanced, generating enough signal for MRI detection of small, high-risk cancer and micrometastases.\u201d\nThe researchers tested the approach in mice into which they had introduced breast cancer cells. After a two-week waiting period, the researchers injected the contrast solution and performed MRI. The MRI imaging detected metastatic tumors, including micrometastases, in lung, liver, lymph node, adrenal gland, bone, and brains of the mice.\nAnalysis of images showed that the contrast used by the research team bound almost exclusively to the fibrin-fibronectin complexes, producing a strong and prolonged image enhancement of micrometastases and tumors compared with normal tissue. Using a microscopic imaging approach, called cryo-imaging, and MRI, the researchers verified that the MRI technique could detect micrometastases, even observing bone micrometastases that were less than 0.5mm \u2014 the diameter of a very fine pencil lead.\nPrior to their study with this contrast agent, Lu\u2019s team had conducted studies to determine its clearance from the body after the imaging, which is essential for safe clinical use. Their testing showed that the agent is readily cleared from the body and has a low level of retention in tissues. Therefore, they expect it will be safe if ultimately developed for clinical use.\n\u201cThe recurrence rates of some forms of breast cancer and the consequence of metastatic cancer make these efforts urgent and important,\u201d said Lu, adding that his research team also hopes to advance the approach for prostate cancer detection. \u201cWe think this targeted approach holds great promise for earlier imaging of high-risk cancers in the clinic. It could also become useful as a non-invasive way to assess breast cancer treatment progress.\u201d The team plans to complete safety testing of the imaging agent during the next three years. They will then pursue human trials with this approach. This work was supported in part by NIH grants EB00489.\nPrevious articleRed, White and Blue: Sustainable, Domestic Dye for Denim\nNext articlePelvic pain may be common among reproductive-age women", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 10379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scifichick.com/2011/02/04/allison-pang-blog-tour/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:13Z", "digest": "sha1:TLK7YJBBKJ7S46EM6BR6HQIG7SZGP67B", "length": 2687, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "scifichick.com", "title": "Allison Pang Blog Tour | SciFiChick.com", "raw_content": "Book News, Interviews\nAllison Pang Blog Tour\nFebruary 4, 2011 SciFiChick\t1 Comment\nAllison Pang stops by SciFiChick.com today to discuss her recent release A Brush of Darkness, the first in a new urban fantasy/paranormal romance series from Pocket Books.\nRomancing the Incubus\nThe working title of A Brush of Darkness was Shadow of the Incubus. An obvious title, given that Brystion, the \u201chero/love interest\u201d, actually is one. Most people are probably aware of the general mythology of the incubus \u2013 a male demon who sits on the chest of sleeping women and has some form of metaphysical sex with her. Over time, the woman would get weaker and weaker and it was assumed the demon was slowly sucking the life out of her.\nAs the potential love interest in a book, it\u2019s a pretty easy way to get some smexy times worked up\u2026but I wanted to give Brystion a more relatable edge. Yes, he\u2019s arrogant and a bit of an ass at times, but a good deal of that is defensive. Although he has the ability to make his potential lovers weak at the knees with a simple smile or a gesture, the truth of the matter is that much of how he presents himself is completely dependent upon their whims, even if the women themselves aren\u2019t aware of it.\nHe\u2019s forced to submit to their fantasies in order to drink their dreams (similar to the vampire needing blood concept), but as a result, there is very little of himself that is \u201chim.\u201d His physical appearance, his talents, even some of his mannerisms are directly influenced by their dreams. Naturally he\u2019s a little bitter about it. Inwardly he despairs that he\u2019ll never be able to do anything to change it. Hence the shadow bit of the original title \u2013 in a way, he\u2019s living in his own shadow because he doesn\u2019t really want to accept himself for what he truly is.\nOf course, he does have an \u201cactual\u201d form, but he\u2019s rather loathe to show it to anyone, particularly because he knows it\u2019s nothing anyone dreams about. When Abby (our heroine) enters the scene he has his own reasons for attempting to seduce her (which I\u2019m not going to get into here for spoiler reasons), but much of his motivation gets an overhaul as they work together to try to find his missing sister and her missing employer.\nA major theme of the book is about acceptance \u2013 of things you can\u2019t change, for example\u2026but in this case it\u2019s also about Brystion finally allowing someone to accept him for what he is, and in doing so, finally accepting himself as well.\nPrevious PostSneak Peek: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Super Bowl SpotNext PostFace Off Sneak Peek\nOne thought on \u201cAllison Pang Blog Tour\u201d\nPingback: Tweets that mention Allison Pang Blog Tour - SciFiChick.com -- Topsy.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4601, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://screencrush.com/dunkirk-the-mole-explained/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:36Z", "digest": "sha1:VM5GQ57A65ML7WTGR32IU7HZO2UUY75V", "length": 3389, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "screencrush.com", "title": "Why Is One Part of \u2018Dunkirk\u2019 Called \u2018The Mole\u2019?", "raw_content": "Why Is That First Part of \u2018Dunkirk\u2019 Called \u2018The Mole\u2019?\nThe action in Christopher Nolan\u2019s Dunkirk takes place in three distinct timelines in three different parts of the battle and evacuation of Dunkirk during World War II: with some of the troops on land awaiting their rescue, with one boat of volunteer sailors attempting to evacuate them, and with one group of pilots providing air support for the evacuation from above. Land, sea, and air - but that\u2019s not what the title cards in Dunkirk call them. At least not all of them.\nOnscreen, the film refers to the stuff in the boat as \u201cThe Sea,\u201d and the scenes in the fighter planes as \u201cThe Air.\u201d The scenes on the beaches of Dunkirk are not called \u201cThe Beach\u201d or \u201cThe Land\u201d though. They\u2019re referred to as \u201cThe Mole.\u201d But what, or who, is the mole?\nNo, it\u2019s not a short-lived reality series hosted by Anderson Cooper. (I mean, it is. Just not in this particular situation.) In this case, the word is being used in one of the lesser-known applications. A mole, per the dictionary, is \u201ca large solid structure on a shore serving as a pier, breakwater, or causeway.\u201d That\u2019s what the British forces use to evacuate their men from the beaches of Dunkirk because the waters are too shallow to get the ships all the way to the shore. As Wikipedia (which is never wrong) puts it, \u201cmany of the troops were able to embark from the harbor's protective mole onto 39 British destroyers and other large ships, while others had to wade out from the beaches, waiting for hours in the shoulder-deep water.\u201d\nThere\u2019s a line from Kenneth Branagh\u2019s character, a Naval commander in charge of the evacuation, about the mole and its purpose, but it\u2019s easy to miss amidst the chaos and explosions on the beach, not to mention the chaos on the soundtrack, which can get a little murky at times. A lot of people who\u2019ve seen the movie (including, uh, me) didn\u2019t catch Branagh\u2019s reference to the mole.\n\u201cThe Mole\u201d also has a double meaning. (The rest of this paragraph has a minor SPOILER.) Near the climax of that section of the story, a group of British troops gets stranded inside a boat that is rapidly filling with water and under fire from German forces; someone will need to leave and face certain death so the others can live. With tensions rapidly escalating, the soldiers turn on one of their own who can\u2019t or won\u2019t speak. They accuse him of being a German spy \u2014 AKA a mole.\nSo those are the key textual reasons for \u201cThe Mole\u201d instead of something more obvious. It may also serve another purpose: To signal the viewer early to pay close attention to everything that\u2019s going on. A series of title cards of about land, sea, and air, are expected and simple. Mixing it up with \u201cThe Mole\u201d throws the viewer off-balance, and indicates Nolan doesn\u2019t plan to spoon-feed the audience the information they need. And sure enough, the movie that follows features very little exposition beyond the absolute basics, even while Nolan ambitious cuts back and forth between three different groups of actors in three different locations, with events transpiring in three different time frames. To get the most out of Dunkirk, you need to watch carefully, and then dig into the stuff going on beneath the surface, kind of like a small, furry animal who likes to burrow underground and eat earthworms. You know a ... uh, what are those animals called?\nScreenCrush\u2019s Dunkirk Review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib3_1215439469", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:L5E4CFYKGH2ORRXJNFFNQH5M62ZUH7AS", "length": 758, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sculpture.gla.ac.uk", "title": "Cav V. Fraccaroli - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951", "raw_content": "Cav V. Fraccaroli\nExhibited at International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Dublin, 1865\np. 104, no. 79. 'The Virgin Mary'. Marble bust. Offered for sale 60-0-0. p. 114, no. 260. 'Atala and Chactas' - Marble Group. [located at] Milan. p. 114, no. 261. 'The Slave' - Statuette p. 114, no. 262. 'Venus'.\nMay be connected to V. Fracarolli\nAlmost certainly the same person but present source data not conclusive.\nOfficial Catalogue of Dublin International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures 1865\n'Cav V. 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(NYSE:TOT) | Seeking Alpha", "raw_content": "Quick Picks & Lists | Basic Materials | France\nTotal S.A.: Major Offshore Gas Discovery In South Africa\n| About: TOTAL S.A. (TOT)\nby: Fun Trading\nSpecial situations, contrarian, long/short equity, value\nTotal S.A. has made a significant gas condensate discovery at the Brulpadda prospect on Block 11B/12B offshore South Africa.\n\"It could be around 1 billion barrels of total resources of gas and condensate,\" said Patrick Pouyann\u00e9, Total CEO.\nTOT is one of the most active oil supermajors and ought to be among the first oil stocks held as a long-term investment.\n(Image: Semi-submersible Deepsea Stavanger (2010), managed and owned by Odfjell Drilling)\nTotal S.A (TOT) is one of the most active oil supermajors and ought to be among the first oil stocks held as a long-term investment in any savvy investor's portfolio.\nLike Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A) (RDS.B), the French integrated oil company has a dividend increasing or stable every year since 1982, with an attractive trailing yield of about 4.70% (according to Nasdaq.com). It has been considered a preferred stock for various institutional investors for many decades.\nThe company released its fourth-quarter results on February 7, 2019, and I will present my key takeaways soon in a separate article.\nHowever, as a preview, Total S.A. revenues (minus excise taxes) came in at $46.312 billion, up 11.8% from $41.442 billion generated in the year-ago quarter. Total S.A. is present worldwide, and its upstream production in K Boep/d is as follows:\n(Note: Liquids represent 55.3% of the total output. Production was up 2.6% sequentially.)\nAccording to a study from Rystad, Total S.A. is among the most successful oil and gas companies when it comes to success in exploration.\nImportant Gas Discovery on February 7, 2019\nFrom OffshoreEnergyToday, we learn that:\nFrench oil company Total has made a significant gas condensate discovery at the Brulpadda prospect on Block 11B/12B offshore South Africa.\n(Source: Africa Energy Corp.)\nNote from the company:\nAfrica Energy holds a 4.9% effective interest in the Exploration Right for Block 11B/12B. The Company owns 49% of the shares in Main Street 1549 Proprietary Limited, which has a 10% participating interest in the block. Total as operator holds a 45% participating interest in Block 11B/12B, while Qatar Petroleum and CNRI hold 25% and 20%, respectively.\nThe Brulpadda 1AX well encountered \"a total of 57 meters of net gas condensate pay over two Lower Cretaceous high-quality reservoirs.\"\nThe well was drilled at about 1,400 meters of water and necessitated a semi-submersible harsh-environment rig. As we can see in the map indicated above, the potential for a massive gas reserve is evident.\nThe contract was awarded to Odfjell's Deepsea Stavanger semisub for a total value of $55 million (including demobilization/mobilization costs and excluding options) with a duration between 60 to 80 days, or ~$786k/d, which is quite high due to the location that is far from the Maria Field in the Norwegian Sea, where the rig operated before for Wintershall Norge. With this discovery, the semisub Deepsea Stavanger contract will undoubtedly be extended.\nPatrick Pouyann\u00e9, chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of Total, said:\nIt is gas condensate and light oil. Mainly gas. There are four other prospects on the license that we have to drill; it could be around 1 billion barrels of total resources of gas and condensate\nConclusion and Technical Analysis\nTotal S.A. is a solid company with a very successful track record in exploration. This new discovery is another example of its constant effort to find oil and gas worldwide.\nThis new discovery offshore South Africa can be a game-changer for South Africa.\nHowever, Andrew Latham, vice president, global exploration at natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, said:\nSouth Africa is now an encouraging \"hot spot\" exploration drilling, alongside Guyana, Brazil, Mexico, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Cyprus, and the Barents Sea in Norway. However, the deep water in this part of the world is similar to the North Sea harsh environment which fit perfectly Transocean's (RIG) fleet rigs and expertise.\nTOT is forming an intermediate ascending wedge pattern, which is not shown by Finviz. The line support is about $54.50 (I recommend buying a little at this level depending on the oil prices), and the line resistance is about $56.25 (I recommend selling about 15% of your portfolio at this level).\nThis intermediate ascending wedge pattern is closed to its apex (crossing of the line resistance and line support), and it suggests that a final crossing of the pattern (breakout) will happen very soon.\nGenerally, a rising wedge pattern is considered bearish short term, and we may re-test the $52 support (I recommend buying at this level).\nAuthor's note: If you find value in this article and would like to encourage such continued efforts, please click the \"Like\" button below as a vote of support. Thanks!\nDisclosure: I am/we are long TOT. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.\nFollow Fun Trading and get email alerts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 6456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://selfcareglobal.com/team/wendylovas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LMFR3LEUUOPXUOBLDWWLABPX4DX7JDOT", "length": 11957, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "selfcareglobal.com", "title": "wendylovas | SelfCare Global", "raw_content": "Wendy Lovas\nConnect with Wendy Lovas\nThere once was this dog...\nIsn\u2019t that how a lot of great stories start? Well, the most important chapter of my life was centered around 20 pounds of canine craziness and his name was Solan. I\u2019ve had more than my fair share of dogs in my life (I did rescue work for years), but I knew the moment that I set eyes on this little Jack Russell Terrier that something was different. Something in my heart clicked and it sighed a deep, \u201cFinally, you\u2019re here.\u201d\nSolan wasn\u2019t the perfect dog by a long stretch, but he was perfect for me. I wasn\u2019t the perfect owner for the first half of his life either. I did everything by the book with conventional medication and food for him and myself, for that matter, but there was something about him that made me want to do better, be better. So, I started researching natural health and alternatives and just about everything that I found that could improve his life turned into something that improved mine. He set me upon a path that has led me here, to this moment and to this lifestyle with Young Living.\nEventually time catches up with all of us. In the Fall of 2013, Solan became very ill and was hospitalized a few months shy of his 16th birthday. I was told that his best prognosis was to live a few more weeks or months. I was devastated. What they weren\u2019t counting on was my determination, his strength and the power of nature! We celebrated his 16th birthday a few months later and had another five months together before I finally had to say goodbye\u2026\nBut this wasn\u2019t the end. Just as he did in life, Solan continues to inspire me to learn and grow and his spirit lives on within me. If you\u2019d like to join me on this amazing journey, please reach out to me!\nA Few of Wendy's Favorite Young Living Products\nSacred Mountain\u2122 is a blend of Ylang Ylang and conifer oils that evokes the sense of sanctity found in nature and promotes feelings of strength, empowerment, grounding, and protection when diffused.\nJasmine essential oil (Jasminium officinale) has a rich, sultry aroma that makes this oil feel alluring and romantic. It\u2019s extracted from the flowering jasmine plant\u2014part of the olive family\u2014through absolute extraction.\nTo maximize the fragrance of Jasmine oil, the flower must be picked at night before sunrise, adding to the oil\u2019s mystique and allure. Additionally, this precious oil requires more than 10 pounds of flowers to make one 5-ml bottle.\nIn addition to its romantic and exotic qualities, Jasmine essential oil uses include support for healthy-looking skin. In fact, Jasmine oil is found in many Young Living personal care products, including Sensation\u2122 Massage Oil and Evening Peace\u2122 Bath & Shower Gel. Add it to your favorite lotions or skin treatments to enhance your natural glow and support the appearance of healthy, youthful-looking skin.\nYour physical health affects everything you do and every area of your life. Fitness is about feeling good, looking good, being healthy, and being productive. It\u2019s how you move your body and what you put into your body.\nThe INFUSED Fitness\u2122 Inspired by Oola essential oil blend has been specially formulated to uplift, energize, and give you the inspiration to set and achieve your strength and fitness goals.\nFitness affirmation: I am fit, healthy, disciplined, and strong.\nPart of the INFUSED 7 kit which includes the Inspired by Oola\u00ae essential oil blends: Faith\u2122, Fitness\u2122, Finance\u2122, Friends\u2122, Family\u2122, Field\u2122, and Fun\u2122\nNotable Facts on Wendy Lovas\nController - Commercial Real Estate\nEssential Oils Dallas, TX\nWendy's Upcoming Events\nContact Wendy Lovas\nNatural Health - not just for us!\nWolf in Dog's Clothing\nA Toy Poodle. A Boxer. A Saluki. A Gray Wolf. If you were to judge a book by its cover, you would think that these were all vastly different animals. However, if you look on the inside, you would find that less than 1% of the mitochondrial DNA between these canines is different. Despite the fact that internally all dogs function just like their wild cousins, at some point we decided that it was in their best interest to feed them differently. Why is this? What changed? And what do we know that should lead us back to a natural diet for our canine companions?\nThousands of years ago, dogs joined men as domestic companions. Theories abound as to how this came about, but the end result can be seen today with the various breeds of dogs that share our lives. While today most dogs fulfill a roll mostly of companion and are considered a member of the family, the majority of their history with humans has been as a working animal with a specific job to perform to assist their human and earn their keep. Until very recently in human culture, people hunted, raised or grew their own food or lived very closely to the people who did. This meant that food was usually fresh and wholesome. Our canine companions were either responsible for feeding themselves by hunting, received scraps leftover from the slaughter of the animals we ate or from our home prepared meals. This is how it went for thousands of years up until about a couple of hundred years ago and the Industrial Revolution. As human culture changed, so did the eating habits of people and their canine companions. With the passing years, the focus has become less on fresh food that is prepared in the home towards a more processed food that is prized for its convenience over nutrition and is sourced from a few large corporations. A corporation\u2019s primary goal is to earn a profit for its shareholders, so it was only a \u201cnatural\u201d progression that someone would eventually come up with the idea that there could be a use for all of the refuse from human food production. Dog food was invented!\nSo, let\u2019s go back to the fact that our domesticated dogs are essentially a wolf in dog\u2019s clothing. This means that their body is designed and functions the same as the wolf from nose to tail. If you look in their mouths, you will discover a bunch of sharp pointed teeth \u2013 not a flat molar designed for grinding in sight. These are teeth that are meant to be used to rip, tear and shred meat before chunks are swallowed whole aided by the saliva that lubricates the food. Unlike herbivores and omnivores, there is no amylase present in the saliva to begin the digestion process. Digestion begins when the food enters the stomach which contains hydrochloric acid ten times stronger than that found in the stomach of an omnivore such as a human. This is one reason why bacteria that would make a human very sick if ingested is no problem for a carnivore to handle. Another reason is that any bacteria that survive the stomach will be pushed quickly through the small intestine which is proportionately much shorter than that of a human\u2019s, so the food is not sitting around in the gut giving the surviving bacteria a chance to multiply. The carnivore\u2019s organs function differently, too, to process a diet of raw animal flesh. The pancreas secretes enzymes which break down the large amounts of protein and fat in the diet. It is not designed to create the amount of amylase necessary to break down carbs, so diets filled with grains and vegetables will be very taxing to a dog\u2019s system. Even the end result is different as feces of a carnivore fed grains and veggies will be larger and smellier as much of what went in was not digested by a system designed for raw meat and bones. When was the last time you saw a wolf eating their meal out of a can or bag? There is no dispute that a wolf is a carnivore, so why the disconnect when it comes to our pets?\nThis brings us back to the invention of processed food for our dogs. As stated, commercial dog food as we know it was designed primarily as a way to make use of the waste by-products of human food production. As with most products that aren\u2019t good for us, a large marketing strategy was put into place to make us believe that our dogs needed this processed food. That it is nutritionally balanced and complete, in fact, far better for them than the whole, raw foods eaten by the wolves in the wild. Maybe because we no longer view our dogs as wild predators that kill living creatures to survive, it was easier to swallow the lie. What started off as a convenient way for people to feed their dogs when they traveled to places like dog shows with them, quickly spread to the general populace as an easy way of feeding the four-legged member of their family. The convenience of opening a bag or can supplanted the idea of nourishing our pets with whole, real food. Our meals now came out of a box or can, so why shouldn\u2019t our dog\u2019s, too?\nThe degradation of the human food system is a whole other issue; however, what is happening with humans is mirrored in the care of our pets. Food is becoming increasingly processed and contains ingredients that sound like something out of a chemistry lab rather than a farm. Price has become more important than quality and the corporations answer this demand by using lower quality sources to manufacture their products (the fact that we refer to food as \u201cmanufactured\u201d is incredibly disturbing in itself). As we and our carnivore friends eat more and more food that our bodies are not designed to eat, we see the inevitable increase in chronic disease and health problems as our bodies cannot keep up with the toxins we are placing in them. A carnivore is biologically designed to eat raw protein that comes from the flesh of another animal \u2013 instead we feed them processed foods comprised primarily of grain and vegetable scraps. Even when there is meat included in the food, it is all cooked for an extended period of time at high temperatures. This destroys all the enzymes and amino acids that the dog\u2019s body needs to gain proper nutrition and thrive. Since they are not getting the nutrition they need from the food they are eating, it is common for them to overeat in an attempt to gain the nutrition their body needs and thus can create the additional problem of obesity \u2013 just like in people.\nAs a general rule, people follow the status quo and the lies fed to them by the corporations to keep using their products and then when the inevitable illness results, the drug companies have the pill to \u201ccure\u201d the problem. This leads to a vicious cycle of the body being kept out of balance and unable to heal itself as it was designed to do. Some people are beginning to see the light, however, and realize that things aren\u2019t working the way they are when it comes to what we are eating and how we are caring for our health and that of our animals. All of the companies and individuals who stand to lose money when a client takes the road less traveled for their pet are fighting with lies upon lies to ensure that this doesn\u2019t happen: the pet food industries, the pharmaceutical companies and the veterinarians. It\u2019s not even that any of these individuals actually want your pet to be ill, but they have been so deeply indoctrinated into the machine that they believe the lies themselves. They can\u2019t afford not to. So, it is up to the individual to step up and take responsibility for their pet\u2019s health and to learn what is necessary for their carnivore companion to truly be healthy and thrive. The first step towards this is to start feeding a species appropriate raw diet of raw meaty bones. They need to realize that not only are the processed diets, no matter their ingredients, not healthy for our pets, but that they will not thrive on whole foods that we perceive as healthy for ourselves like fruits and vegetables. Pet owners need to get past the \u201cick\u201d factor that they may feel when feeding raw meat \u2013 you are asking a carnivore to eat what is natural for them, not eating it yourself after all. As a small animal health coach, it is my responsibility to help others see this truth and begin to apply it to their own pets\u2019 lives.\nWant to learn more about the Young Living Promo? Click here to contact Wendy \u2014 Essential oils Dallas, TX", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 15550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sensenbrenner.house.gov/jim-in-the-news?ContentRecord_id=5CE1BA7B-AC04-4EFA-A8AC-128D3C34612F", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7DNYBYZVDETIP6APBFVWJL34XR5ANAV3", "length": 10926, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "sensenbrenner.house.gov", "title": "Wisconsin members of Congress are divided on whether they need to protect the Mueller investigation into Russia and Trump - Jim in the News - Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner", "raw_content": "Wisconsin members of Congress are divided on whether they need to protect the Mueller investigation into Russia and Trump\nBy: Craig Gilbert and Bill Glauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel\nWASHINGTON - Mike Gallagher says it would be bad for the country if the president fired special counsel Robert Mueller.\nJim Sensenbrenner says he respects Mueller and thinks he should be allowed to finish his job.\nSean Duffy says Mueller\u2019s investigation is \u201cbased on a sham.\u201d\nThese three Republicans represent the Wisconsin congressional districts where Donald Trump enjoyed his biggest victory margins in 2016.\nBut their comments illustrate the different signals GOP lawmakers are sending about their level of support for the Mueller investigation as it has come under attack from President Trump and some of his allies.\nThe Journal Sentinel asked all 10 members of Congress from Wisconsin \u2014 six Republicans and four Democrats \u2014 how they view Trump\u2019s recent criticisms of Mueller, whether they think Mueller should be allowed to complete his job, and how they would react if Trump fired Mueller.\nDemocrats said they supported legislation aimed at limiting the president\u2019s ability to dismiss Mueller. And two \u2014 Mark Pocan of Dane County and Gwen Moore of Milwaukee \u2014 suggested firing the special counsel would be an impeachable offense.\nNo Republican expressed support for bills to protect Mueller, saying such legislation exceeds the authority of Congress or is unnecessary.\n\u201cThat legislation is obviously unconstitutional. The \u2026 Constitution gives the president almost unlimited authority over executive branch employees,\u201d said Sensenbrenner.\nBut in an interview, Sensenbrenner said he respects Mueller, had a productive relationship with him when Sensenbrenner chaired the House judiciary committee and Mueller was FBI director, and \u201cI\u2019ve publicly stated Mueller ought to be allowed to complete his job.\u201d\nSensenbrenner was not critical of Trump for his attacks on Mueller, which escalated earlier this month when the president invoked Mueller by name on Twitter in assailing the probe as biased. The White House has said there are no plans to dismiss Mueller.\n\u201cI take the president at his word that he\u2019s not going to fire Mueller,\u201d said Sensenbrenner. \u201cI think he\u2019s entitled to his opinion (about Mueller) just like Bill Clinton was entitled to his opinions on the Starr investigation.\u201d\nGreen Bay\u2019s Gallagher was the most pointed of any Wisconsin Republican in expressing concern about the issue underlying the Mueller investigation \u2014 Russian interference in the U.S. elections.\nAsked, \u201cAre you troubled by President Trump's attacks on the special counsel?\u201d Gallagher answered in a series of written responses to questions the newspaper asked of each lawmaker: \u201cOur nation\u2019s problems are not best solved using Twitter.\u201d\n\u201cWould firing Mueller be bad for the country?\u201d he was asked. He answered, \u201cYes, because it would spark even greater partisan hysteria than we've seen so far, thereby distracting everyone from the real issues of Russian aggression, and potential law enforcement and legal lapses.\u201d\nHe was asked: \u201cAre the president's attacks on the special counsel a threat to the rule of law? Would the special counsel's firing be such a threat?\u201d\nGallagher answered, \u201cI\u2019m confident our rule of law is stronger than Twitter. This is also why the founders, in their infinite wisdom, separated powers in our government.\u201d\nGallagher, who has been very critical of Russia\u2019s role, said: \u201cIf Congress is concerned about Russian aggression and violations of our sovereignty (as it should be), we should uncover any and all involvement, and hold those who broke the law accountable. Mueller has already indicted at least 17 individuals with criminal charges, including 13 Russians, and the administration (to their credit) used the power we granted under (last year\u2019s sanctions bill) to sanction many of these same individuals. We should sanction (Vladimir) Putin and his corrupt cronies, and put our full economic, diplomatic, and military might at use to push back and hold Russia accountable.\u201d\nOn legislation to protect Mueller, Gallagher said that \"while I believe firing the special counsel in this situation would be a serious mistake,\" he has questions about the constitutionality of such bills, and has asked legal scholars for their views on the subject before taking a position.\nOther Republicans responded more tersely to the newspaper\u2019s questions.\nGlenn Grothman told a reporter Tuesday: \u201cI just finished a day of listening sessions. My constituents are worried about excessive government spending, health care costs and school safety. And, therefore, I am spending my time on the above issues. If and when Mr. Mueller is let go, I will develop a position at that time.\u201d\nDuffy, whose northern Wisconsin district gave Trump his biggest victory margin in Wisconsin (just over 20 points), responded with this statement: \u201cI\u2019m not going to speculate about what will happen to Mueller, but his investigation is based on a sham. The only collusion that we have seen is from the Clinton campaign and Democrat National Committee paying an ex-British spy who used Russian sources to write a phony dossier. I agree with Chairmen Goodlatte and Gowdy in their call for a special counsel into the abuses of power and poor decision-making of the DOJ in 2016 and 2017. President Trump knows there has been no collusion and is rightfully frustrated when the media perpetuates this story.\u201d\nAn aide to Sen. Ron Johnson referred the newspaper to a recent radio interview Johnson did in which he said he wasn\u2019t concerned about Trump firing Mueller, saying at that time: \"I don\u2019t think he will \u2014 he said he won\u2019t ... and I think there are plenty of members that have talked about that \u2014 that would be very counterproductive for the president to do that.\u201d\nIn the same interview with WHBY radio last week, Johnson also expressed some reservations about the Mueller investigation:\n\u201cI really wanted the Senate and House intelligence committees to complete their work before we even considered appointing a special counsel. The problem with special counsels \u2014 the problem with any prosecution as it relates to congressional investigations \u2014 is once you have a criminal investigation or something that might lead to prosecution it gets very difficult for members of Congress to obtain the information they need to conclude our work as well. I think it was unfortunate that Robert Mueller was appointed prior to the completion of that work.\u201d\nAides to House Speaker Paul Ryan of Janesville referred the newspaper to a raft of public statements Ryan has made about the Mueller investigation.\nAt a news conference March 20, Ryan said: \u201cThe special counsel should be free to follow through with its investigation to completion without interference. Absolutely. I am confident that he\u2019ll be able to do that. I\u2019ve received assurances that his firing is not even under consideration. We have a system based upon the rule of law in this country. We have a justice system and no one is above that justice system.\u201d\nIn comments last year on a Wisconsin talk radio show, Ryan said, \u201cRemember, Bob Mueller is a Republican who was appointed by a Republican who served in the Republican administration who crossed over and stayed on 'til his term ended. I don't think many people are saying Bob Mueller is a person who is a biased partisan. He's really, sort of, anything but.\u201d\nAmong Wisconsin Democrats, Sen. Tammy Baldwin said she backs two bipartisan bills to protect Mueller\u2019s independence.\n\u201cThere is a pattern of the president attempting to interfere with, and undermine, the investigation,\u201d she said in written answers to the Journal Sentinel\u2019s questions.\nBaldwin said, \u201cFiring the special counsel would be crossing a red line and a clear attack on the rule of law,\u201d and called on lawmakers in both parties to \u201cspeak out and impress upon President Trump that if he has nothing to hide, he should cooperate with the Mueller investigation, not end it.\u201d\nBaldwin called Russia a hostile power and said, \u201cPutin directed an attack on our democracy that interfered with our elections. This isn\u2019t a hoax and Special Counsel Mueller\u2019s investigation is not a witch hunt.\u201d\nPocan has also signed on to legislation aimed at protecting Mueller.\n\u201cI've watched (President Trump) repeatedly try to do everything he can to derail the Mueller investigation, including his most recent attempts to try and intimidate and threaten people who might be trying to testify,\u201d Pocan said in an interview.\nIf Mueller were fired, \"That would be something that would rise to the level of me actively pursuing the impeachment process,\u201d said Pocan. \u201cWith an issue like that, I think there are enough rank-and-file Republicans that I've had private conversations with that also share some of the things I have in this area. I think we would be at a point that we actually could impeach the president. I think that would be the proper response for someone who obstructed justice.\"\nIn the event of Mueller's firing, Moore said she would \"prevail upon Paul Ryan to allow various articles of impeachment to come forward.\"\n\"If he gets fired then presumably Donald Trump and his supporters will see that as the end of the investigation,\" she said. \"I think clearly that would be obstruction of justice and that should be the first article of impeachment.\"\nMoore said that Trump has attacked the courts and an independent Justice Department and Mueller's potential ouster would be \"the crown jewel\" of such attacks.\nShe remained hopeful that Mueller's investigation would proceed and cautioned about the enormity of the stakes.\n\"The president said right from the beginning that his financial affairs, his businesses in his mind, were off-limits,\" she said. \"He only wanted them to look at so-called collusion and 'there's no collusion.' \"\n\"I think as the president gets more irritated by Mueller of getting close to him, not only is there a threat of him being fired, there's a threat of saber rattling with Iran and North Korea,\" she added. \"So this is a very frightening time for all of us.\"\n\"I think we need to protect this investigation for the sake, not only of our country, but of the world,\" she said.\nDemocrat Ron Kind of La Crosse said in a statement:\n\"Any type of foreign government interference in our election process is an all-hands-on-deck moment. We need to find out what weaknesses we have in our election processes, and take steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.\n\"The president and his administration must continue to allow Special Counsel Mueller and his team conduct their investigation, so we can get back to dealing with issues that matter to Wisconsinites, like creating jobs and growing our local economy.\"\nPermalink: https://sensenbrenner.house.gov/2018/3/wisconsin-members-of-congress-are-divided-on-whether-they-need-to-protect-the-mueller-investigation-into-russia-and-trump", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 13007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sentry.ca/en/press-release.html?media_id=2751", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:31Z", "digest": "sha1:LELNATSBMGPLBHNFC6WZOHXNEYX5RIKM", "length": 2243, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sentry.ca", "title": "Sentry Select Diversified Income Trust (TSX: SDT.UN) announces special distribution of $0.10 per unit", "raw_content": "Sentry Select Diversified Income Trust (TSX: SDT.UN) announces special distribution of $0.10 per unit\nTORONTO: As previously announced on June 6, 2007, Sentry Select Diversified Income Trust (the \u201cTrust\u201d) will make a special distribution of $0.10 per unit, in addition to the regular distribution of $0.045 per unit, to unitholders of record at the close of business (Toronto time) on June 29, 2007. The distributions will be payable on July 6, 2007. Sentry Select Diversified Income Trust: Sentry Select Diversified Income Trust is a closed-end trust that aims to maximize distributions to unitholders by investing primarily in a broad range of royalty and income trusts, real estate investment trusts and other high-yielding securities. Trading information and NAV: Sentry Select Diversified Income Trust units trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (\u201cTSX\u201d) under the symbol SDT.UN. As of June 11, 2007, the Trust\u2019s closing price on the TSX was $5.40 per unit and the most recent net asset value, as of June 7, 2007, was $5.72 per unit. Distribution reinvestment plan: The Trust offers a distribution reinvestment plan whereby residents of Canada may elect to have their cash distributions reinvested in additional units of the Trust. Future distributions: The distributions are based upon the current make-up of the Trust\u2019s portfolio and the indicated distribution policies of the income funds in the portfolio. If the make-up of the portfolio changes or if such income funds make distributions other than in accordance with their indicated policies, the actual monthly distributions could change. Sentry Select Capital Corp.: Sentry Select Capital Corp. is a Canadian wealth management company that manages over $8 billion in gross assets as of April 30, 2007. The company offers a diverse range of investment products including closed-end trusts, mutual funds, principal-protected notes and flow-through limited partnerships, covering a variety of domestic and global mandates. Sentry Select provides management and advisory services to 32 exchange-listed entities. More information: Investor Services (broker/investor inquiries) or Kinga Lam (media inquiries) Tel: 1-888-246-6656 Fax: 416-364-1197 info@sentryselect.com www.sentryselect.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sgpexotics.com/company/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LEL6DJVSURYOMU7CUJ4ZXSIS4ZRXPLB6", "length": 1793, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "sgpexotics.com", "title": "COMPANY \u2013 SGP EXOTICS #1 ORANGE COUNTY RENTAL SERVICE", "raw_content": "NO NEED TO BE A STRANGER!\nWHY SGP EXOTICS?\nWE WANT TO DOWNRIGHT IMPRESS YOU.\nWE PRIDE OURSELVES ON PROVIDING HIGHLAY PROFESSIONAL, SEAMLESS EXOTIC CAR RENTAL EXPERIENCE.\nAWARD- WINNING\nWe were named to the prestigious Inc. 500 list of America\u2019s fastest-growing companies, an honor shared by companies such as Oracle, Intuit, Go Daddy, Jamba Juice, and American Apparel. We\u2019re also an accredited member of the Better Business Bureau (BBB), and have been in business for over 14 years under the same name (no fly-by-night operation here). We\u2019re not going anywhere soon!\nWe are fully licensed and insured. We do not lie to our insurance company or hide the fact that we\u2019re a vehicle rental company. It costs us more, but it means we\u2019ll be around for the long haul.\nLots of people call and ask \u201cwhat\u2019s the catch?\u201d or \u201cwhat am I missing?\u201d There is no catch; it\u2019s all here on our website. There are no hidden fees, obscure taxes, or secret vehicles that we\u2019re keeping from you. You are seeing us as we are, and that\u2019s the way it should be.\nEver wonder why other exotic car rental companies don\u2019t list an address on their website? It\u2019s because they don\u2019t have one (or worse, they\u2019re operating out of their homes). We have professionally-staffed facilities and showrooms that are open to the public \u2013 you can visit us 7 days a week and see, touch, smell (but probably not taste) our fleet of amazing automobiles. We\u2019re as real as it gets.\nREAL CAR ENTHUSIASTS\nOur team at SGP are all car enthuasist with 10 + years combined experienced with fully customizing vehicles. We designed, and customized A-Z on all of our SGP fleet.\nSGP EXOTICS - OWNED BY REAL CAR ENTHUSIAST\nSGP EXOTICS IS LOCATED IN THE HEART OF ORANGE COUNTY. GARDEN GROVE CA.\nNOT ALL FERRARI\u2019S ARE FOR MILLIONAIRES. CALL US 714.202.1406.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 3537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 267.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shalom.kiwi/2018/01/gideon-levys-sell-tour-of-new-zealand/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:00Z", "digest": "sha1:X5PV3RNBV3S7H3RNMY5H4HPH3CPH5PR5", "length": 6317, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "shalom.kiwi", "title": "Gideon Levy\u2019s sell-out tour of New Zealand - Shalom.Kiwi", "raw_content": "I\u2019m no biblical scholar, but if I was asked to name great Jewish prophets off the top of my head, Moses, Abraham and Jonah would likely get a mention. Gideon Levy, the Israeli commentator, would not.\nNevertheless, on Levy\u2019s visit to New Zealand in December, the unctuous RNZ interviewer Wallace Chapman observed with awe that Noam Chomsky had called Levy a \u201cJewish prophet\u201d. That, Levy replied, was an exaggerated description, noting however that Chomsky is an \u201cintellectual giant\u201d. On searching for the source for this Chomsky quote, all I found was Levy\u2019s own pronouncement that Chomsky had anointed him as such.\nLevy spent much time in his self-aggrandising interviews \u2013 including one on each of TVNZ1 and RNZ, as well as in Australia \u2013 explaining how he holds a mirror up to Israeli society and tells Israelis the truth that they are blind to and brainwashed about. Blind and brainwashed, I guess, because Israelis are not interested in politics, Jews are not ones for self-reflection and enquiry, and the Palestinian issue garners scant attention in the media, at the UN, and on campuses. He heroically takes on this role \u2013 despite the vitriol he attracts and near-death experiences on his regular West Bank visits \u2013 because he cares about his people, and is a patriot. A patriot, mind you, who wants to dismantle his homeland, the one Jewish state in the world.\nLevy, as with most one-staters, obfuscates this, cloaking his desire for the demise of Jewish self-determination in the language of human rights. He has written that Zionism \u201ccontradicts human rights, and thus is indeed an ultranationalist, colonialist and perhaps even racist movement, as proponents of justice worldwide maintain\u201d. His solution is a state where Jews and Palestinians have equal rights. Who could not want that, he asks?\nSure, it is a beautiful notion. It\u2019s just that, in looking for a paradigm, British Mandate Palestine does not inspire optimism, and out of the 49 Muslim majority states, it\u2019s hard to find a true democracy, let alone one that has warmly embraced its Jewish population; at best they have been granted dhimmi status (protections granted to non-Muslims) for a time before fleeing for their lives. What, then, could possibly go wrong?\nSome interviewers raised the issue of Palestinian rejectionism of the Jewish state \u2013 as evidenced by their terrorism and the Hamas charter. This was both dismissed by Levy as Israeli propaganda, and justified (with no apparent sense of irony, as he repeated himself over several national broadcasts) as being the last resort of a desperate people with no other means to alert an indifferent world to a brutal occupation. He declared concerns over Israel\u2019s existence and security to be \u201cminor\u201d, while asserting the \u201cbasic truth\u201d that settlements are the major obstacle to peace, because 700,000 settlers in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and East Jerusalem have apparently killed off the possibility of a two state solution. No interviewer questioned whether land swaps could incorporate three-quarters of the settlers, or whether, just as Israel has over 1,000,000 Arabs citizens, the settlers could be citizens of a future Palestinian state, should the settlers be brave (or mad) enough to do so.\nLevy\u2019s advance publicity gleefully touted the fact that he has been called Israel\u2019s most hated man. This was intended to be a drawcard, immediately conferring legitimacy upon him. There is nothing that Israel-haters love more than a self-hating Israeli, and no newspaper they love more than Haaretz, for whom he writes. Indeed, given that its circulation hovers around 5% of the Israeli print media, the paper\u2019s main purpose seems to be to demonise Israel to the international press, NGOs, academics and other bien pensants. In an astonishing acknowledgment of its agenda in 2014, the paper\u2019s owner wrote in an open appeal for subscribers that \u201cyou will become a partner in the ongoing effort to shape Israel as a liberal and constitutional democracy that cherishes the values of pluralism and civil and human rights. You will become a partner in actively supporting \u2026the right to Palestinian self-determination\u201d.\nIn the service of that agenda, Levy has told numerous lies. For example, in 2004 he purported to quote Golda Meir as saying that \u201cafter what the Nazis did to us, we can do whatever we want\u201d. He later admitted that he had no source for the quote, but he continues to recycle it, including in his public lecture hosted by the \u201cPalestine Solidarity Network in conjunction with Quaker Peace and Service Aotearoa New Zealand\u201d. In 2012, his front page article \u201cMost Israelis support an apartheid regime in Israel,\u201d made headlines around the world. Inconveniently, the relevant survey showed the opposite. Haaretz issued a clarification.\nAny credible journalist would question whether Levy himself is a credible journalist. And any person with more than a superficial knowledge of this conflict, or something less than antipathy towards Israel, would realise that Levy\u2019s discourse does not withstand scrutiny. What struck me, in his interviews in both New Zealand and Australia, apart from the repetitiveness of the different interviewers\u2019 questions and Levy\u2019s answers \u2013 word for word in many cases \u2013 was what was not asked, and not answered. There was no discussion of Egypt\u2019s blockade of Gaza, Palestinian rejection of statehood, or that over 90% of Palestinians live under Palestinian Authority administration in the West Bank. Levy wants to \u201crehumanise\u201d Palestinians, but, as if it\u2019s a zero sum game, he dehumanises Israelis as a monstrous homogeneous abstraction. He infantilises Palestinians, minimising their agency and accountability, stating that it is not for him to criticise them, while hysterically accusing Israel of apartheid and ethnic cleansing.\nLevy\u2019s sell-out tour may earn him a sizeable profit, but he is no prophet. He would have us believe that the Jews need saving from themselves, rather than from their neighbours, and they must follow him on the path to righteousness. But they refuse to take that path, because righteous self-destruction is not the Jewish way.\nTOPICS:Australia | British Mandate | Egypt | Gideon Levy | Palestine Solidarity Network | Palestinian | Quaker Peace and Service Aotearoa | RadioNZ | TVNZ | Wallace Chapman | West Bank", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 9479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shalom.kiwi/tag/nazi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:55Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5ZLZBZYYGLLDL4ZPTPARBWXHIXJRMSC", "length": 451, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "shalom.kiwi", "title": "Nazi Archives - Shalom.Kiwi", "raw_content": "Nelson students have been part of a new humanity education outreach programme that aims to reach regional centres in the South Island. Last week, members from the Holocaust Centre of New Zealand visited Nelson College, Nelson College for Girls and\u2026\nNeo Nazi uniform has no place in a march against child abuse \u2013 Susan Devoy This month when I opened a copy of the Wairarapa Times Age, a New Zealander wearing a Neo Nazi uniform stared back at me. I\u2019ve\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 7009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shiodome.or.jp/a-virtual-office-or-serviced-office-in-japan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:37Z", "digest": "sha1:AHMWTU3Y5DQ3QGSXICPLULPMS7YSWMPC", "length": 2069, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "shiodome.or.jp", "title": "Home", "raw_content": "Home General A Virtual Office or Serviced Office in Japan : Which is Right for You?\nThese days there are many ways to create an enabling environment for setting up a new business in Japan. In this article we will discuss two of them (virtual offices and serviced offices) to help you decide which is right for you.\nIf you are a foreigner who is setting up a company in Japan, a physical address for your company is essential. However, many newly established companies do not have the financial means to acquire their own business property. To fulfil this need there are a number of companies in Japan offering offices and support for all of your business needs.\nThe two types of offices offered are virtual offices and serviced offices. One huge advantage of using virtual and serviced offices over renting standard property in Japan is that you usually do not need to have a guarantor to form a rental contract. Another is that the companies offering these services often do not require key money (reikin) and the amount for security deposit is small or waived.\nVirtual Offices in Japan\nA virtual office is a good choice for a company which needs a real company address for correspondence and communication, but doesn\u2019t need a physical office space. Along with a virtual office lease contract, you can also get virtual assistant and call centre services. Virtual offices also offer the advantage of allowing flexible working time and longer office hours.\nHowever, you cannot have a virtual office for your company if you need an Investor/Business Manager visa. In this case, you need both a physical address and a physical office space. In this case, a serviced office would be an appropriate choice.\nServiced Offices in Japan\nServiced office is an office that you can lease for a period of time and according to terms decided when the rental contract is formed. This type of office is always fully-furnished and ready to go, with internet, phone lines and other facilities necessary to conduct a business. 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This map is perfect for noodle lovers!\nThis map features 33 of New York\u2019s most interesting and delicious noodle shops, plus a special glossary and regional map of ramen in Japan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 3341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shopfrontandshutters.co.uk/contact-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:BFIJN67RPEDTTLF2UXXO243CSJHQYBFX", "length": 98, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "shopfrontandshutters.co.uk", "title": "Contact Discount shop fitters", "raw_content": "Please fill in the form below and click on Submit and we will get back to you as soon as possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shopfrontandshutters.co.uk/shop-fronts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:01Z", "digest": "sha1:3MD63EQTU27PSRTOPC725H22B25TXNFI", "length": 973, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "shopfrontandshutters.co.uk", "title": "Shop Fitters", "raw_content": "A storefront or shopfront is the entryway of a shop located on the ground floor or street level of a commercial building, typically including one or more display windows. A storefront functions to attract visual attention to a business and its merchandise.\nBefore the middle of 19th century, shop fronts did not have large display windows, but often included features such as awnings and bay windows to attract the attention of passersby. Modern storefronts with display windows developed at mid-century after architectural cast iron became widely available and glass manufacturers began producing large panes of glass at relatively low cost.\nThe storefronts of commercial buildings often are substantially altered even when other architectural elements remain intact. Such alterations can adversely affect a historic building\u2019s architectural and historic character.\nShopfronts designed, manufactured and installed. 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France is very powerful, and England's Royal Navy has set up a blockade. Austria is mighty, but hard to control. And Russia is immense. As in real life, the capital cities are key to these nations. There are wars to be fought. Vive le Emperor!\nVersion 1.1: Scenario added! This is from approximately 1805, so France has conquered Spain and most of Italy. Prussia and Austria are the weakest players, and probably need to ally to survive. However, they have the potential for large reinforcements. Russia is quite powerful, if they are careful. They must hold Russia proper to survive. The Ottoman Empire is fairly strong, if they don't over expand. They too have the potential for large reinforcements, with careful diplomacy. England is in a solid position, having England, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, and Hannover. All must beware of the massive army of France; France is equal in strength to any two of the others. Britain and Russia are the next strongest, then the Ottomans, and finally the Austrians and Prussians. In order to balance this scenario, I added a new continent, the Caucasus, to allow both the Ottomans and the Russians to survive for a while.\nVersion 1.2: Connections modified; London now one-way touches a number of locations, simulating the Royal Navy. Also, the setup in Scandinavia is very different; it is now essentially unnocupied; first come first served. This is in keeping with the desire to make this scenario historical. Also, some strength was added to Prussia and Austria, as they are usually hammered. A two-way connection was added at the Pas-de-Calais\nCreated by Daniel Myers. 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From the principles of flight to aerodynamics, material science, centre of gravity, forces, and gyroscopic torque, there are tons for them to learn about.\nAt the end of the workshop, they\u2019ll even get to bring home a drone, a workbook, and receive a certificate of completion.\nSuitable for children aged 10 to 14 years old. 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Approximately 20-30 patients are transplanted per year with most receiving an allogeneic bone marrow transplant. In allogeneic transplants, donors are from someone other than the patient, either from a related or unrelated person. This contrasts with an autologous stem cell transplant, where the patient is their own donor, and hematopoietic stem cells are first harvested from the patient prior to them receiving them at a later time. In both types of transplants, patients first receive a preparative regimen, which usually entails high doses of chemotherapy, followed by the infusion of hematopoietic stem cells. Although most people may recognize the term \u201cbone marrow transplant\u201d or BMT, Dr. Goldman explained it is now referred to as a hematopoietic stem cell transplant. The reason for this is that while in the past, the source of hematopoietic stem cells was always from bone marrow, we now have the ability to collect and isolate these same hematopoietic cells from other sources, including the peripheral blood or umbilical cord blood.\nThe BMT program offers transplants for a wide range of diseases, both malignant and non-malignant conditions. Dr. Goldman specializes in transplanting patients with non-malignant conditions, including immune deficiencies and bone marrow failure syndromes such as Diamond-Blackfan anemia, Dyskeratosis congenita, Fanconi anemia, and Schwachman-Diamond syndrome. In marrow failure disorders and immune deficiencies, allogeneic transplants are most often performed using reduced-intensity preparative regimens. These \u201cpreps\u201d utilize less intense chemotherapy and are generally more easily tolerated. In contrast, fully ablative transplants, which are often necessary in malignant conditions such as acute leukemia, may be more important to help eradicate any remaining malignant cells. Dr. Goldman added \u201cWe are coming to realize we don\u2019t have to give all patients the same transplant preparative regimen, and the type of prep used is best based upon the disease, donor source, and other clinical measures of organ function\u201d.\nLeukemia, either acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is the most common disease for which a transplant is done at Children\u2019s of Alabama. For some \u201chigh risk\u201d leukemia patients, transplant is recommended early after initial diagnosis based upon certain molecular and genetic tests that predict disease relapse. In other instances, transplant may only be recommended if a patient with leukemia relapses while undergoing conventional chemotherapy treatments. Even with transplant there is always the potential for patients to relapse with their original leukemia. Using very sensitive tests we are now able to evaluate for \u201cminimal residual disease\u201d in the marrow, and were this to be found, new cell therapy strategies are being employed at Children\u2019s of Alabama to keep these patients in remission.\n\u201cWhen a patient undergoes a hematopoietic stem cell transplant, the infusion, or \u201ctransplant\u201d of the stem cells is actually the easy part. The much more challenging aspect of transplant relates to managing the myriad of complications that can occur after the transplant. Such complications may be direct toxicities of the chemotherapy, infections, severe kidney, liver, or lung dysfunction, or the development of graft versus host disease. In transplant we often employ a prophylactic strategy, as it is far easier to prevent a complication than it is to treat it\u201d.\nFinding a donor for Allogeneic Transplants\nIn an allogeneic transplant, the ideal donor is most often a brother or sister who is HLA identical (10/10 match). However, the likelihood of a full sibling being perfectly matched is only 25%, and with smaller families these days, this can be a problem. When a family member is not available, a donor search is undertaken through the National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP). The NMDP is a registry that has nearly 10 million potential donors enrolled, and quite often we are able to identify a matched unrelated adult who is able to donate bone marrow. Of note, if anyone is interested in being placed on the registry, one can simply complete paperwork and undergo a cheek swab at your local Red Cross. Unfortunately, there is an underrepresentation of ethnic or minority donors in the registry, and locating a 10/10 matched unrelated adult donor may not be possible. In such instances we often resort to using a cord blood donor, as for these sorts of transplants, full matching is not required. It is very rare that we are unable to locate a cord blood donor that is adequately matched. However, the limitation of cord blood relates to the size of the cord blood unit and how many cells are in it. For large pediatric patients or adults, finding a cord blood unit with sufficient cell numbers can be difficult. Not surprisingly, there is also a shortage of minority donors in the cord blood registries. Plans are currently in place to expand the collection of potential cord blood donors in the state of Alabama.\nAutologous Transplants\nAutologous transplantation is currently the treatment of choice for certain conditions, including relapsed Hodgkins and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, neuroblastoma, and certain types of brain tumors. Approximately one-third of all stem cell transplants done at Children\u2019s of Alabama are autologous. In some instances patients may receive multiple autologous transplants, or tandem transplants, as a way to keep the cancer under control. Autologous transplants are similar to allogeneic transplants in that both receive high dose ablative chemotherapy prior to the infusion of stem cells. Many complications are also similar, including the potential to harm organs and a predisposition to infection. However, there is no graft versus host disease in autologous transplantation, as a patient gets their own immune cells back. In general, recovery is quicker and long term complications are less frequent with autologous transplants. According to Dr. Goldman, once a patient is approximately a month past their transplant date, they are often referred back to their primary hematology/oncology physicians. Dr. Goldman states \u201cWe are currently participating in several national studies through the Children\u2019s Oncology Group (COG) where autologous transplantation is used for high risk neuroblastoma and ATRT, a rare brain tumor. Results are encouraging, and many patients are long term survivors and living free of disabilities. Nonetheless, more work needs to be done to obtain higher cure rates for these conditions\u201c.\nGraft versus host disease, or GVHD, is an immune complication found after an allogeneic transplant and is related to the fact that donor immune cells that are present in the graft recognize the patient tissue (host) as being foreign. Acute GVHD can attack the skin, GI tract, and liver, and usually occurs within the first three months. Chronic GVHD usually occurs later and can affect nearly every organ of the body. In some instances, low grade GVHD can be advantageous as it has a concomitant graft versus leukemia effect, effectively preventing disease relapse. However, in non-malignant conditions there is no advantage in developing any GVHD. Also, advanced grades of GVHD are associated with lower survival rates and higher incidence of severe infections. Dr. Goldman states \u201cIt is always a fine line between not enough and too much GVHD, and much attention is paid to closely monitoring a patients clinical condition and their levels of immunosuppressive medications. He also noted that while GVHD immunosuppressive therapies are becoming better and safer, they are not perfect and trying to predict who develops GVHD and determining the best drugs to use can be difficult. To this end, Dr. Goldman is working with Joseph Chewning, MD, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics who also sees transplant patients at Children\u2019s. Dr. Chewning has a basic research laboratory that uses a mouse model to study the cause and effects of GVHD.\nAnother focus area of the program is transplanting patients with sickle cell disease. The pediatric hematology service at Children\u2019s of Alabama currently cares for more than 1000 patients with this condition. As Dr. Goldman explained, while transplant is the only known cure for this condition, it is still not yet known which sickle cell patients would benefit the most from this procedure. Many hematologists and transplant physicians believe that sickle cell patients with matched sibling donors should be transplanted early in the course of their disease, prior to the development of complications of their underlying disease. For patients without a sibling donor, currently there are open transplant protocols at Children\u2019s of Alabama using matched unrelated donors. However, to be eligible for these types of transplant, patients have to meet certain eligibility requirements. These requirements are essentially markers of severe sickle cell disease, and may include a history of stroke, recurrent severe pain crises, or recurrent chest syndrome. Many sickle cell patients do well with current medical management strategies and do not require transplant, though roughly 10-15% of sickle cell patients do have severe complications and would meet these eligibility requirements. Nonetheless many do not come to transplant, in part due to our inability to locate matched unrelated donors in the NMDP registry. Unrelated cord blood transplantation has not been shown to be as effective as marrow transplantation due to a high rejection risk. Currently the only cord blood transplants being done in the US for sickle cell disease are those where the cord blood is from an HLA identical sibling. A potential barrier to transplanting sickle cell patients is the parent\u2019s perception and fear that transplant could result in the death of their child. While this is true, current national data suggests that there is greater than 95% chance of survival following transplant using a matched sibling donor, and greater than 80% survival using a matched unrelated donor. In addition, it is well known that as sickle cell patients get older they develop more problems, making it harder for them to undergo transplant. Recently there has been a change in how we approach sickle cell transplants, and efforts are now being made to minimize toxicity of transplant using reduced conditioning preparative regimens. Dr. Hilary Haines, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, consults on most of the sickle cell patients being transplanted at Children\u2019s of Alabama. She is also principle investigator for a national sickle cell bone marrow transplant study that utilizes a less intense conditioning regimen. In addition, in collaboration with Tim Townes, PhD, director of the Stem Cell Institute at UAB, Dr. Goldman is involved in basic laboratory research that uses a mouse model for sickle cell disease. Current laboratory studies are being undertaken using the sickle cell mouse model to try to identify agents other than chemotherapy that can be used in the transplant process that will make it safer. The focus is trying to find ways to open up the marrow space that will allow stem cells to more easily engraft. These preclinical studies are necessary to get these agents approved for human use.\n\u201cFear of Transplant\u201d\nMost everyone is afraid of the word \u201ctransplant\u201d, just as they are afraid of the word \u201ccancer\u201d and Dr. Goldman understands the devastation that hearing \u201cYou have cancer\u201d or \u201cYou\u2019re going to need a bone marrow transplant\u201d can bring. \u201cAs both a parent and a healthcare provider, I understand it\u2019s a lot to take in the first time,\u201d he acknowledged. \u201cI know that families and patients have a hard time absorbing the complexities of transplant, and when I first talk to them they are often shell shocked. I tell them that transplant is a complicated process that takes a great degree of preparation and planning, and that one cannot always predict what problems will be encountered. Sympathizing with his patients\u2019 plight, Dr. Goldman offers encouragement, telling them transplant can feel like a marathon. \u201cIt\u2019s a long race with many hills, ups and downs, feeling of exhaustion, and wanting to give up. But in the distance is the sight of the finish line, the cure, which makes it all worthwhile. Dr. Goldman understands the uncertainty patients and their families face when making the decision to transplant. \u201cSome parents of children with leukemia understand that if transplant is recommended, despite its potential toxicity, it will give their child the best chance to survive. \u201c[As such,] they are often willing to take that risk without hesitation. Other times it can be very challenging to convince families that transplant does in fact offer them the best chance for cure with good quality of life\u201d. It is also true that outcomes for transplant, in general, are better than they were several years ago. There are several reasons for this, including better tissue typing, better anti-viral drugs, and improvements in our ability to monitor patient for complications.\nInnocent victims of Cancer\nDrawn to oncology for several reasons, Dr. Goldman really wanted to do something to advance the field of cancer. \u201cBefore medical school, I received a master\u2019s degree in immunology and I wanted to combine that background with cancer,\u201d he explained, \u201cand bone marrow transplantation is the perfect combination of these fields.\u201d\nAs a medical student in the 1980s, Dr. Goldman recalled being naturally drawn to Pediatrics. \u201cI always loved kids, and was easily able to empathize with them and their families. Children so often seemed to be the innocent victims of their disease. By misfortune their diseases are often inherited, and in instances where they acquire a disease, such as cancer, it was not the consequence of an unhealthy life style\u201d.\nDespite the challenges encountered in the transplant world, Dr. Goldman appreciates the trust and care families place in him. \u201cI\u2019ve always considered it an honor to care for children and get them through what may very well be hardest time of their lives\u201d.\nOther articles in the Focus on Childhood Cancer Series:\nIn recognition of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month\nProgram Offers Cutting-Edge Therapies for Pediatric Cancers\nTLC - Childhood Cancer Survivorship Program\nTeenage Pregnancy: What\u2019s the Evidence?\tThe 3 \u201cRx\u2019s\u201d of Prescribing Controlled Substances: Rules, Regulations and Risks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 16720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://smart-union.org/news/final-fmcsa-rule-regarding-operators-with-diabetes-takes-effect/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:DH2TQMSGDME4NGQLCVSFB2NX66LJS5WF", "length": 1275, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "smart-union.org", "title": "Final FMCSA rule regarding operators with diabetes takes effect \u00ab", "raw_content": "Final FMCSA rule regarding operators with diabetes takes effect\nA final rule published from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) permits medical examiners to allow commercial operators with insulated-treated diabetes to get behind the wheel without a months-long waiting period, Transport Topics reports.\nThe permission given by the rule, which went into effect in November, is contingent on a medical assessment and consultation between the operator\u2019s physician and the carrier\u2019s medical examiner.\n\u201cThe rule eliminates a typical two- or three-month delay for diabetic drivers to navigate a bureaucratic process requesting an exemption from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration after being automatically disqualified for having the condition,\u201d Transport Topics\u2019 Eric Miller wrote.\nThe rule was initially published in the Federal Register in September.\n\u201cThis final action delivers economic savings to affected drivers and our agency, and streamlines processes by eliminating unnecessary regulatory burdens and redundancy,\u201d FMCSA Administrator Raymond P. Martinez said in September when the final rule was initially announced. \u201cIt\u2019s a win-win for all parties involved.\u201d\nMiller\u2019s article about the rule is available on the Transport Topics website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 277.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://societyofrock.com/report-peter-jackson-making-beatles-documentary-heres-whatll-make-it-special/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:28Z", "digest": "sha1:UFO7EHDIGUE3BTL6ANTBP5FUOKQUSRE5", "length": 2715, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "societyofrock.com", "title": "Report: Peter Jackson Making Beatles Documentary \u2013 Here\u2019s What\u2019ll Make It Special\u2026 | Society Of Rock", "raw_content": "Report: Peter Jackson Making Beatles Documentary \u2013 Here\u2019s What\u2019ll Make It Special\u2026\n(LEFT) Frank Micelotta / Getty Images -- (RIGHT) PA Images / Getty Images\nAfter the massive success the Freddie Mercury biopic \u2018Bohemian Rhapsody\u2019, the season for rock & roll movies is in full effect, and we\u2019re loving every bit of it. The next one to hit theaters will be the Elton John biopic \u2018Rocketman\u2019, and after that, the long-awaited Motley Crue biopic \u2018The Dirt\u2019. Needless to say, 2019 is going to be a great year for movies.\nOn top of all these movie releases, legendary filmmaker Peter Jackson (director of the iconic \u2018Lord Of The Rings\u2019 franchise) has announced that he will be at the helm for a documentary about arguably the most well-known band in history\u2026\nLONDON \u2013 NOVEMBER 6: (L-R) English musician, singer and drummer Ringo Starr, English singer, songwriter and guitarist John Lennon (1940-1980), English musician, singer, songwriter and guitarist George Harrison (1943-2001), and English singer, songwriter and bassist Paul McCartney of the Beatles at TVC\u2019s animation studios, participating in \u201cMod Odyssey,\u201d a film about the creation of Yellow Submarine, November 6, 1967 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images)\nThat\u2019s right, Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson is going to be bringing The Beatles to the big screen through a documentary. Jackson had this to say in a news release.\n\u201cThe 55 hours of never-before-seen footage and 140 hours of audio made available to us, ensures this movie will be the ultimate \u2018fly on the wall\u2019 experience that Beatles fans have long dreamt about. It\u2019s like a time machine transports us back to 1969, and we get to sit in the studio watching these four friends make great music together.\u201d\nThis doc will focus on journey the band went on the make \u2018Let It Be\u2019.\nLONDON \u2013 January 30: (L-R) American photographer Linda McCartney (1941-1998) sitting beside English musician, singer and drummer Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Paul McCartney, English musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist George Harrison (1943-2001), and English singer, songwriter and guitarist John Lennon (1940-1980) of the Beatles as they play their final live performance on the roof of 3 Savile Row, Apple Corps headquarters, January 30, 1969 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Jeff Hochberg/Getty Images)\nNot much else is known about the film as far as when it will be released or who will be featured in it for interviews, but nevertheless, I think it\u2019s time to get excited.\nThe Beatles will always be one of THE most iconic and legendary rock bands of all time and to finally see them featured on the big screen will be a massive treat for us all!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 146.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sotosewn.com/2009/11/21/color-week-day-6-purple/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:06Z", "digest": "sha1:LG3QBNOVPW7VRUSH7PSWU6UWGZFXLFBR", "length": 631, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sotosewn.com", "title": "color week \u2013 day 6 \u2013 purple \u2013 sotosewn", "raw_content": "color week \u2013 day 6 \u2013 purple\nColor week is winding down with just one more day to go. I might keep going just because it\u2019s been fun playing with a theme. At least it\u2019s reignited my interest in photography, not to mention that it\u2019s got me looking at things differently. Walking around today looking for purple things to photograph I was surprised by the lack of purple in my neighborhood. Lots of greens, blues, reds, and yellows on stores\u2019 signage and people\u2019s homes, but there was definitely a lack of purple and violet (and orange, too, for the record). Purple in nature, on the other hand, was in abundance. Funny how that works.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sourceharrogate.co.uk/media/yorkshire-property-predictions-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GRC6NB2H2HQQECMUFYJH3W2JBCFVJQPI", "length": 165, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sourceharrogate.co.uk", "title": "Yorkshire Property Predictions for 2017 - Source Harrogate", "raw_content": "Yorkshire Property Predictions for 2017\nhttps://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/lifestyle/homes/yorkshire-property-market-experts-reveal-their-predictions-for-2017-1-8294027", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 181.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://southerncrossvet.com.au/camperdown-vet-nsw/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IOP3SHFWAHUEGSONTDFCQUTVLJ7MDHRE", "length": 1041, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "southerncrossvet.com.au", "title": "Camperdown Vet NSW - Southern Cross Veterinary Clinic", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re looking for a great veterinary clinic in Camperdown, you probably know that there are lots of options in Sydney and the surrounding area. However, we believe that Southern Cross Vet is the best choice for your dog or cat because we provide the highest-level care with the best services and friendliest staff. For two years now, we\u2019ve been happy to care for pets in Camperdown and beyond, and hope that you will choose us as your Camperdown vet.\nWe provide skilled, friendly care for pets large and small: dogs, cats, rabbits, and rodents such as guinea pigs. If your pet needs surgery, you can rest assured that they are in the most experienced hands with us. All of our surgeries have a day-stay (no overnight) and we offer the safest anesthesia experience, with a 0% morbidity/mortality rate. We are confident that our staff surgeons have the best skill and experience of any provider in the Camperdown area. In addition, our pricing is highly competitive. Let us be the Camperdown vet you call on for the best care for your pet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 4695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://southhillsag.org/events-calendar/2017/4/14/alpha-retreat-antiochian-village", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:02Z", "digest": "sha1:TW7FAVKGBZWXIENWNUR4VHQZSEAXZRG5", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "southhillsag.org", "title": "ALPHA Retreat @ Antiochian Village \u2014 South Hills Assembly", "raw_content": "Leaving at 11:30 am on Friday, April 14 and returning on Saturday, April 15", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 49.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://speakerdeck.com/cobyism/remote-by-default-bacon-2014", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VPEQCYMMSQYEMPTCABETUCTDRJ336SFU", "length": 579, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "speakerdeck.com", "title": "Remote by default (BACON 2014) - Speaker Deck", "raw_content": "Remote by default (BACON 2014)\nThis is a talk from BACON 2014 in London, where I spoke about how GitHub makes working remotely not suck.\nAt GitHub, approximately 75% of our 245 employees work remotely, regularly covering over 100 cities around the world at any one time. Making this work for everyone isn\u2019t easy, but it\u2019s definitely achievable, and with the right approach can become one of your company\u2019s greatest strengths. This talk aims to share insights into how you too can reap the benefits of embracing remote work, while ensuring it stays awesome for everybody involved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spilledcoffeeonancientscrolls.com/the-altar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:XR6ZEFDUMRPNJXXVJMNLVLHRGHLCKHL6", "length": 3021, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "spilledcoffeeonancientscrolls.com", "title": "The Altar \u2013 Spilled Coffee on Ancient Scrolls", "raw_content": "Question: What am I looking for?\nFear: I\u2019ll never find it.\nWhile wandering the streets of Las Vegas, the epitome of American vice, greed, and materialism, Bono famously shot a music video where he sang, \u201cI still haven\u2019t found what I\u2019m looking for.\u201d In so doing, he identified the gut feeling of his generation. OK, my generation. But it\u2019s not a new one. The context certainly changes. But as one studies the great men and women of the past, even characters of the Bible, this nagging dissatisfaction is everywhere in history. And in spiritual formation, it eventually leads to an altar, a place of sacrifice, where we are forced to go beyond the narcissism to find the answer.\nNow, this is no easy task. And sometimes what works for one person will flop with someone else. Perhaps this is why Paul said you had to \u201cwork out your own salvation with fear and trembling\u201d (Phil. 2:12).\nBut one common pattern that emerges is a moment of transubstantiation, suggesting that the \u201cwhat\u201d that we are looking for isn\u2019t so much the dream job or the dream lover or the dream house, but it is more of a metamorphosis. Now, this might lead to nice things, and it may not. But through the process we discover that what we attain or achieve no longer is what\u2019s important.\nIt\u2019s becoming who we were meant to be.\nTransubstantiation, then, is what happens to you when you push through your fear and pain, abandon the baggage that has been holding you back, and move forward in the direction you were meant to go, thus becoming what you were meant to become.\nIt sometimes involves a moment of clarity where you are able to see clearly before you the path you need to take. Now, I don\u2019t want to sound as if there is only one moment. There are many course corrections along the way. But the altar becomes the place for us to experience them.\nAt the altar, we consume the flesh and blood of Christ that then becomes our source of nourishment for our journey. We make our offering, which is nothing less than ourselves, so that we can be intimately joined with God, who is Father, Son, and Spirit, the perfect union of love. And, we revisit this sacred place over and over again, not always in church or corporate worship, but most often in silence and solitude. It is there that we recall our own passion (suffering) in light of Christ\u2019s. We dump any baggage that we have picked up again. We correct our course to make sure we are heading where we are supposed to be heading, and we move forward, having received the grace and power to do so through the gift of God.\nThe problem is that it\u2019s easy to get distracted. We procrastinate. We get busy with families, church, jobs, and in the process we get lost. Hungry. Discouraged. If we are not careful, we can attempt to satisfy our hunger and thirst with easier substitutes\u2013what C.S. Lewis called \u201cthe sweet poison of the false infinite.\u201d\nThe altar, however, demands that we become the living sacrifice again and again.\nThomas A\u2019Kempis, The Imitation of Christ\nHenri Nouwen, Spiritual Direction", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 5822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spl225.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/our-favorite-books-of-2016-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:IKPOU3JWY7PBPUCA6P5QZFXMKGHWCXP4", "length": 2247, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "spl225.wordpress.com", "title": "Our Favorite Books of 2016 (Pt. 2) | The Syosset Public Library Blog", "raw_content": "Neela, Head of Acquisitions:\nLove, Loss and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi\nThe host of \u201cTop Chef\u201d presents a memoir about her immigrant childhood and complicated life in front of the camera, tracing her formative experiences in her grandmother\u2019s South India kitchen and her relationships with people who influenced her culinary skills and career.\nBraving It: A Father, A Daughter and an Unforgettable Journey into the Alaskan Wild by James Campbell\nThe author describes his journey to the far reaches of Alaska with his teenage daughter where the harsh environment tested them and their relationship.\nAccused by her in-laws and imprisoned for the murder of her husband, Zeba forges bonds with a group of women who have also been locked up for social violations and places her fate in the hands of an Afghan-born, American-raised civil rights lawyer.\n\u201cThese are the books that I truly enjoyed reading in 2016.\u201d\nBetty, Reference Librarian:\nHorrified when she spots her husband\u2013who was reported dead weeks earlier\u2013playing with their toddler on her nanny cam, former special ops pilot Maya confronts deep secrets and deceit in her own past in order to discern the truth\nLisa J., Readers\u2019 Services Librarian\n\u201cTold in alternating chapters between past & present about a young girl who grows up in a Hebrew orphanage and the effects of the medical experiments she was subject to.\u201d\nA tale inspired by the first wife of Albert Einstein follows the experiences of Mitza Mari, a female physics student at an elite late-nineteenth-century school in Zurich, where she falls in love with a charismatic fellow student who eclipses her contributions to his theory of relativity.\n\u201cA well written, moving account of the brilliant, but largely unknown woman behind Einsteins success.\u201d\nAn immigrant working class couple from Cameroon and the upper class American family for whom they work find their lives and marriages shaped by financial circumstances, infidelities, secrets, and the 2008 recession\n\u201cAn Impressive debut with deeply flawed but unforgettable characters that stay with you long after the final page has been read. A story of the immigrant experience and what it takes to achieve the American Dream.\u201d\nPrevious PostOur December DisplaysNext PostNew in DVD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 8627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://startupiceland.com/2017/10/27/sales-and-marketing-support-groups-for-the-non-salesperson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GVMG7GSUEKU7UH352ED77I2NQMBJ25VR", "length": 11016, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "startupiceland.com", "title": "Startup Iceland - Building a vibrant, sustainable and antifragile entrepreneurial ecosystem in Iceland - Sales and Marketing Support Groups for the Non-Salesperson", "raw_content": "Customer Development Marketing Relationship Selling Sustainability\nPosted by mtschu1 on October 27, 2017\nMost of us in the startup world find ourselves playing many roles, some of which do not play to our strengths. Maybe you are like me and dread salespeople. A common pain point is when a founder must play the role of salesperson. I would contend that the success of a startup rises and falls on the ability of a founder to sell, not only to sign clients but to get people to believe in her/his authenticity. I am launching my practice, Fearbox Solutions, a consultancy aimed at providing CFO/COO services to small to midsize clients during a transformation (startups would fall into the scope) and sales is probably the hardest part of this journey. However, I think I happened upon a tool you might want to try \u2013 forming a sales and marketing accountability group.\nMy Accountability Group\nWe all need straight talk \u2013 people who will tell us like it is. We need a group of advisers who can look at us objectively in a safe, confidential environment and provide feedback on what we are doing right and where we are off course. The best advisers are people with whom you share a common purpose or bond and people who are not your closest friends, spouses/partners or business partners. One of the best things I did recently was to join an accountability group whose primary focus was on implementing individual sales and marketing action plans to increase clients.\nRecently, I got involved in the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement, specifically, the B Corp certification process. B Corp is to business what Fair Trade certification is to coffee or USDA Organic certification is to milk. B Corps are for-profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. I took an online class called \u201cThe Secrets of B Corp Consulting\u201d, lead by Ryan Honeyman, the author of The B Corp Handbook and Matt Mayer. Out of this group, several of us including Matt decided to organize a book club of sorts, oriented around C.J. Hayden\u2019s book, Get Clients Now! which teaches a 28-day sales and marketing program. Our diverse group included 6 members, located across the world in Hong Kong, Germany, Canada and the US. Each of us had launched consulting practices and all of us shared the common bond of a commitment to the CSR movement and helping for-profit businesses to be forces for good. Like almost every business on the planet, we all are faced with the constant challenge of getting and retaining clients.\nGet Clients Now! is essentially a \u201chow to\u201d guide to building an effective sales and marketing strategy and involves building and executing a highly personalized 28-day sales and marketing program. While the target audience is consultants, the sales fundamentals could be applied across any industry. All of us in the group committed to implementing the program. The 28-day program involved:\n1.) Choosing a stage in the sales process to focus on (filling the pipeline, following up, having sales conversations and closing sales)\n2.) Building \u201csuccess ingredients\u201d or tools to enable the sales and marketing program (marketing kits, contact management systems or blogs)\n3.) Selecting 10 sales and marketing actions to focus on throughout the 28 days. Actions could include things such as sending emails to 3 prospects per day, attending one live event per week or spending 2 hours per week researching target markets.\nOur group decided to meet via video call once a week to discuss the progress on our action plans. Scheduling across time zones was a challenge, but several people graciously sacrificed sleep time as the person in Hong Kong got up in the middle of the night to talk to us (on a video call no less \u2013 and did not wear pajamas!) and the people on Pacific time woke up early in the morning.\nThe Value of a Group\nOne of the things that C.J. Hayden emphasizes is the importance of getting outside help as you set up your sales and marketing program. We all need someone who will hold us accountable to sticking to programs and goals. The fact that we all had to attend a video call and provide a status on our action plans was reason enough for me to stay caught up.\nThe accountability group provided perspective, as predicted by C.J. Hayden. One member of our group had been through the program once and was extremely helpful in setting realistic expectations. We all set aggressive goals and designed challenging programs. It was not uncommon for many of us to only accomplish half of what we sought out to do during the week. On more than one occasion, the person who had been through the program talked us off the ledge, explaining that achieving 60-70% of what we intended most likely translates into success. Life happens, and we must adjust. During the middle of our program, my father-in-law passed away, which caused me to lose momentary focus. I received many valuable words of encouragement from members of our group. There were also several offline calls that I had with individuals in the group. I tend to take an interest in the financial impact of CSR programs and one of my friends in the group shared his perspective that successful CSR programs can\u2019t be divorced from profitability, as well as his experiences working in sustainability.\nAn accountability group can also provide support. During one of the weekly calls, I must have sounded particularly depressed or uncertain about my business. After the call, one of my friends in the group took the time to send me a note that provided a tremendous amount of encouragement and pointed out that the group was there to help.\nPrioritize Direct Contact with Potential Clients\nThe degree of success in sales can be greatly influenced by habits \u2013 repeating the same behaviors and actions every day and adhering to priorities. Entrepreneurs have the intimidating task of trying to balance business development and service delivery. They need to make time to \u201cfill the pipeline\u201d with clients. One of the most important actions to repeat every day must be \u201coutreach\u201d, as C.J. Hayden calls it \u2013 direct contact with potential clients. This is by far the most effective sales strategy and perhaps the one that scares us the most. It might be obvious, but the more direct the contact, the better. Emails can be effective, but in-person visits or phone calls \u2013 and maybe even video calls assuming a good internet connection on both ends \u2013 are the best. I am an extrovert and enjoy meeting with people, but I am uncomfortable selling myself. I take great joy in making people happy. Sales means putting my product on the line and taking a risk that things may not go as planned and that there may be dissatisfied people. I discovered that my discomfort with sales was translating into how I was attacking my action plan. My friends in the group noticed that I was completing the softer, indirect contact tasks such as developing marketing materials and blogging first and avoiding the hard task of outreach.\nDon\u2019t Forget About Developing Brand\nIt might sound like I am contradicting the previous statement about prioritizing direct contact with potential clients, but an entrepreneur can\u2019t forget about doing things that support building their brand. As most of you are aware, brand continues to increase in value in the eyes of consumers. Consumers care about authenticity and credibility. The high value place on brand is one reason I believe in the fundamentals of the B Corp corporate social responsibility framework, as the movement is rooted on the idea that consumer will be drawn to companies that are perceived as authentic in their purposes.\nIn Cohn & Wolfe\u2019s Authentic Brands 2014 Study , a study on the mindset of the global consumer, they found that more than 63% of consumers would rather buy from a company they find to be more authentic than the competition. In that same Cohn & Wolfe study, three of the top behaviors people expect of brands were the fact that they communicate openly and honestly about their products and services (91% of respondents), don\u2019t let their customers down (91%), and that they act with integrity at all times (87%). Because people want to relate to you, they want to trust you and know you\u2019re going to do what you say. This study is often quoted in B Corp circles, where a high importance is place on brand and authenticity.\nSo how do you build brand, especially in a market or area where you have no previous experience? You need to put yourself out in public physically and virtually to create opportunities for potential customers to see you in action. Several of the individuals in our group actively pursued speaking engagements. One person suggested that speaking at graduate program classes and events at universities were opportunities to get in front of people who have decision making power in their respective companies or at least can influence decision makers. Several of us had action plans to not only attend live events once a week where potential customers might be in attendance but also to look for opportunities to speak at the events. Some of us built in daily and weekly actions to work on blogs or comment on other blogs. Actions as easy as making it a point to post an article on social media or commenting on a blog can help to establish yourself as an expert.\nA good sales person never underestimates the value of networking. All of us built specific networking actions into our plans. One great tip I picked up from the group included having a game plan for types of individuals you might want to meet at a live event. The book encourages a broad view of networking, not limited to circulating a room handing out business cards. Especially nowadays with all sorts of social media options, the book emphasizes focusing on using multiple means (attending live events, emailing, posting on social media to create \u201ca pool of contacts from which you can draw clients, referrals, resources, ideas and information\u201d and that \u201cnetworking is interactive\u201d.\nWe can\u2019t do this thing called \u201clife\u201d or starting a business alone. One thing I have always emphasized with my son Sam (some of you may have met him at Startup Iceland) is that you need to hang with people who raise you up, not pull you down. Our accountability group did not disappoint. One of our group members, Matt Mayer, habitually signs his emails with a wish of \u201chigh vibes\u201d to the recipient. The Urban Dictionary defines this term as \u201c\u2026the state of joy one achieves when a person\u2019s actions and beliefs are aligned, and all the pieces of their life have integrity and love at its core.\u201d I would encourage you to form a sales and marketing accountability group so that you might be lifted up and receive the same benefits of high vibes that I received from our group.\n#Brand#Networking#Sales#salesman\n\u2190 How do you focus on the Right Customer?\nStartup Iceland 2018 \u2013 Back to Basics \u2192\nAbout mtschu1\nView all posts by mtschu1 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 12304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stillunfold.com/science/10-planet-similar-to-earth-that-give-us-a-hope-for-doomsday", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:13Z", "digest": "sha1:SUTFGMK2ZAXXZHFELMBPVGLXE5PAUTIO", "length": 4482, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "stillunfold.com", "title": "10 Planet Similar to Earth That Give Us A Hope For Doomsday | Stillunfold", "raw_content": "Have you ever thought of traveling to another planet? You might have heard or read about the aliens living on the other planets and astronomers explaining about their existing nature.\nIf you are still wondering to check about the planets that resembles with Earth in any way including water level, atmosphere level or equivalent life, here is a quick rundown on the planets that are similar to Earth in many traits.\nThe planets that are similar to Earth lie within the \u2018Goldilocks zone\u2019 i.e. the planets in the zone are neither too hot nor too cold to ease life. Though there is no complete evidence of the existence of these planets, because of long distance, there is a high probability that they do exist.\n1. Gliese 581d\nSource = Softpedia\nThe planet is nearly 20.2 light years away from Earth and resides in the outer parts of the habitable zone. Due to this, it is assumed that the water exists there with at least one or two ocean. It is also referred as the cold planet as it has no accurate atmosphere, but to be honest if the earth had no atmosphere, the planet would also be marked as a cold planet with a temperature of - 18\u00b0C. It might look like.\n2. Gliese 667 Cc\nThe planet is nearly 3.8 times the size of earth. It has 85% similarity to Earth with temperature ranging from -18.85\u00b0C and receives 90% of the light what Earth receives. Gliese 667 Cc has been announced as the most Earth-like object outside the solar system. It allows the existence of liquid water on the planetary surface and is estimated to be 4.5 times that of Earth. Well, you can\u2019t live on this planet as the life would face challenges which may include different light conditions and higher atmospheric pressure. (14.1)\n3. Kepler \u2013 62e\nKepler -62e is another planet outside the solar system that resembles Earth in many ways. It also has rocky surface and has a high probability of water existence. According to the study the planet is almost covered by ocean. It has cloudy sky and usually has warm and humid temperatures.\nThe planet has the highest chance of having water in the habitable zone planets. In fact, there might have so water that it can be referred to as the \u2018ocean world\u2019. Even it is speculated that there might be life and someone has already been living there. So, if you wondering if there is any planet other than Earth where you can enjoy life, it is Kepler 22b.\n5. Tau Ceti e\nThe planet which is so close yet so far - Tau Ceti e is 12 light years away from Earth and located very close when compared to other planets. It has rocky surface and considered as the extremely stable planet, but it is still not known if human life is completely feasible there or not. (14.2)\n6. Proxima b\nThe rocky planet Proxima b is 1.5 times the mass of Earth and warm enough to maintain liquidity on the surface. It is situated about 4.2 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Centaurus, making it the closest exoplanet to the solar system. Like many Earth-like planets, it could have an icy composition with a thick layer of hydrogen on its surface. It has a similar atmosphere similar to Earth or even made of only nitrogen or carbon dioxide. (14.3)\n7. Kapteyn B\nIt is 13 light years from Earth in the constellation Pictor. It is estimated that Kapteyn B is 8 billion years old. It is 5 times heavier than the Earth and contains surface water. A lot more known about this exoplanet is, that it is capable of supporting human life. (14.4)\nSource = Trinitynewsdaily\nExoplanet Kepler 438 is only 12% larger than the Earth. It has rocky surface and allows the presence of liquid water. While all these factors resemble to planet Earth; it has an average temperature of 3 degrees Celsius which could be trouble for human lives.\n9. GJ 667C\nSource = Kosmonauta\nWell, GJ667C is still awaiting its confirmation as a planet. It weighs nearly 2.7 times that of the earth. According to the study, this exoplanet is comfortable within habitable zone and also contain some liquid presence. GJ667C is also capable of sustaining human life.\n10. Wolf 1061 C\nSource = Indianexpress\nIt is situated 14 light years away from the planet Earth. This planet is rocky and posses the average temperature for water to reside on the surface. Just like you live on Earth, life is not sustainable on Wolf 1061 C but you can live on the border between the two zones.\nThere are many exoplanets which could easily hold in the near future. Now you can easily plan to travel to another planet. So when you are planning?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stmaxkolbe.org/liturgy-sacraments", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:34Z", "digest": "sha1:MGHSHVQ3PM7C5VBPRYLLBWFNYMSJ4KFS", "length": 374, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "stmaxkolbe.org", "title": "Liturgy & Sacraments | St. Maximilian Kolbe Catholic Church | Almond, WI", "raw_content": "In the Church's liturgy the divine blessing is fully revealed and communicated. the Father is acknowledged and adored as the source and the end of all the blessings of creation and salvation. In his Word who became incarnate, died, and rose for us, he fills us with his blessings. Through his Word, he pours into our hearts the Gift that contains all gifts, the Holy Spirit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 195.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stopgooglecensorship.online/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RQGNADEAVLYFFJRWVXQIXR6TWMWJKDLG", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "stopgooglecensorship.online", "title": "Stop Google Censorship \u2013 Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "This page was updated 19 November 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 7419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 82.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/michaelhagglund2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:41Z", "digest": "sha1:GLF2FVQEBJH3NSWAYZMWO6DEBV66PKJW", "length": 565, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "store.cdbaby.com", "title": "Michael Hagglund | Christmas Morning | CD Baby Music Store", "raw_content": "by Michael Hagglund\n\u00a9 Copyright - Michael Hagglund / Widdershins Records (888174445595)\n'Christmas Morning' is a solo piano piece that I wrote for the holidays. It's in a new age classical style, and has an ambient and emotional feel to it. I hope you like it!\n1. Christmas Morning\nI wrote 'Christmas Morning' wanting to somehow convey the feeling of hope, and the sense of community that comes to us naturally this time of year. We seem to 'see' each other better. And there's a kind of power and emotional depth to the season too, which I tried to put into music.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://store.negativepress.com.au/product/collateral-damage-2013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:04Z", "digest": "sha1:6CNEC62LCF63UEATLSU43XVXWMV3UUOJ", "length": 304, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "store.negativepress.com.au", "title": "Collateral Damage 2013 | Negative Press Store", "raw_content": "This print edition, coupled with Untitled 2013, was made for the exhibition In The Cut, curated by Hannah Mathews, at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA) for Melbourne Festival 2013. Newman collages disparate pictorial elements on the paper's surface using digital and hand printing techniques.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 240.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://storywarren.com/author/glenn-mccarty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:21Z", "digest": "sha1:TXI6VKEC2JJZI6JI3TK6GAZUIKEDC2YN", "length": 701, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "storywarren.com", "title": "Glenn McCarty", "raw_content": "I teach in a small rural school, where the building houses students from grades six through 12. This means on most trips across the building, I end up crossing paths with a nice cross-section of young people, ages 12-18. This sort of developmental juxtaposition provides some interesting food for thought. I see seniors trudging downstairs [\u2026]\nJanuary 22, 2018 by Glenn McCarty 3 Comments\nI\u2019ve been fortunate the past ten years or so since I started teaching in Bloomfield, New York, my morning commute takes me essentially due east. So, for the first few months of the year and the last few months \u2013 those which bookend all those jet-black, western New York mornings after daylight savings time \u2013 [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://strangelynaked.com/2015/01/19/contemplative-martin-luther-king-jr-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:36Z", "digest": "sha1:B5TMECTEG3EUWZODBXTVZKRGSQF77US4", "length": 5697, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "strangelynaked.com", "title": "Contemplative Martin Luther King Jr. Day! | Strangely Naked", "raw_content": "Today in the U.S. is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. A holiday in celebration of the life of one person who was bold enough to challenge the established order and say, \u201chey, uh, excuse me, would you mind treating everyone like human beings?\u201d I\u2019m paraphrasing. You may have heard his famous speech, \u201cI have a dream that people won\u2019t be complete assholes to one another.\u201d Again, I paraphrase. He was rewarded for his efforts with a bullet in his head. So, after much resistance from racists and people who don\u2019t know they\u2019re racist but still make ignorantly racist statements like, \u201chow come there\u2019s not a White History Month,\u201d we have set aside this day to celebrate Rev. King for having the temerity to hope people could live in harmony.\nTo him and the people who believe in his message, I say, Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!\nNo, wait, \u201chappy\u201d doesn\u2019t seem like the right adjective. It doesn\u2019t seem like a day set aside for a guy promoting racial equality should be considered \u201chappy.\u201d Especially when his work isn\u2019t done, his dream is only partially manifest. \u201cBut we have a black president, racism is over,\u201d says the person who apparently never been online or doesn\u2019t understand that the black experience in the U.S. is drastically different from the white due to institutionalized racism.\nMaybe, Reflective Martin Luther King Jr. Day! No, that doesn\u2019t have the same ring to it. I need an adjective that flows off the tongue but has the same impact. Revolutionary Martin Luther King Jr. Day! No, too strong. That\u2019s too much expectation on one day. Maybe just be aware, Awareness Martin\u2026No, that\u2019s definitely not right, but maybe a word similar to awareness that connotes a similar feeling of just recognizing that Rev. King\u2019s work isn\u2019t done. Mindful Martin Luther King Jr. Day! That\u2019s pretty good, but I\u2019d have to drop the exclamation point. No one has ended a sentence with \u201cmindful\u201d in it with an exclamation point.\nThe most accurate thing to wish people today would be, \u201cGood Luck with Your Hangover this Martin Luther King Jr. Day.\u201d \u201cAnd an observant Martin Luther King Jr. Day to you, good sir.\u201d\nMaybe I should just stick with \u201chappy.\u201d He\u2019d probably want people to be happy, but presumably not the type of people who led to his assassination. Happy for some, examine your pointlessly bigoted beliefs for others this Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (I recommend going here and reading or listening to just one of his speeches. His words still resonate.)\nI have a dream, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther King Jr. Day, MLK\nHow about: \u201cHave a soul-searching MLKJr Day\u201d?\nOh, I like it. Good thing you weren\u2019t around to give suggestions earlier or I may not have had anything to write.\nA great human being, for sure.\nI was looking at a poll this morning that shows that \u2013 for the first time in a couple decades \u2013 more white people believe race relations are bad in this country than believe race relations are good.\nThat\u2019s right: Two years ago, 75% of whits were thinking everything was fine!\nThen last summer came and now things are all messed up.\nPart of me believes that the mere fact that white people can see that there\u2019s a problem right now might be progress.\nHave a socially acceptable MLK Day full of awareness and reflection and tolerance!\n\u2026That was so PC it almost hurt.\nI like mindful. It\u2019s a word I\u2019ve never used before, but perhaps I\u2019ll start today. My friend Carol, who is 74 and black, and I, 25 and white, think it\u2019s wrong to have a black history month because black history should be taught all the time along with all the other history.\nYes, of course, Black History should be woven into history lessons in general, but that\u2019s what people mean by \u201cinstitutionalized racism\u201d. The racism runs so deep that we have to forcibly set aside a month to point out, \u201cHey, these people that you used to help build this country then marginalized when you weren\u2019t able to exploit as free labor? They contributed to history too. How about acknowledging that? Oh, you won\u2019t? Then we will need to drag you kicking and screaming into humanism.\u201d\nSo, until we can collectively say, \u201cwhy do we need this, we learned about Frederick Douglass back in November?\u201d then we need Black History Month.\nJanie is so right. black history should be taught in school all the time. We should always keep in mind the things that history has taught us. MLK-Day, is one of many days that we should think hard on for all the stupid mistakes that have happened in America.\nYep, and Janie\u2019s comment made me sad because we still do need a Black History Month because there are teachers, history books, and standardized tests who/which will only teach the language of the dominant.\nTru dat (same thing with women\u2019s history. Teach the history of the marginalized!)\nAlso, I\u2019m sorry I said \u201ctru dat\u201d\nDon\u2019t ever say tru dat again, or I\u2019ll send you back to nerd school.\nMichael D'Agostino January 19, 2015 \u2014 8:24 pm\nWas he famous before he became an activist? I figure people don\u2019t just listen to a guy on the street, even if he\u2019s got something good to say.\nHe was a preacher so he knew how to draw a crowd and make a compelling speech.\nHe wasn\u2019t famous as a kid and very young man, but his fame grew quickly and it didn\u2019t take long for him to become well known. He won the Nobel Peace Prize.\nHis Nobel Peace Prize speech (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-acceptance_en.html) is depressingly prescient, and amazingly profound. If you\u2019re looking for an example of why he is revered, please read that speech.\nYou\u2019re right, that was beautiful.\nTemerity is a great word, Pickleope. I don\u2019t know what it means, but I like it.\nI like your sentiment too. We would all do well to examine our bigotry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 8882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studentblogs.swan.ac.uk/mental-health-awareness-week-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ETWKKVSSWZJB6TO5VCIHQE4RKDNSX2OM", "length": 8042, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "studentblogs.swan.ac.uk", "title": "Mental Health Awareness Week 2017 \u2013 Swansea Uni Student Blog", "raw_content": "I hope you are all well. Apologies for not posting last week, I was extremely busy with work and creating the content for this blog slipped my mind and I wanted to put aside some time to make a good blog. For this post, I wanted to post about Mental Health Awareness Week which takes place in the second week of May. Previously this week has focused on how mindfulness, anxiety, sleep deprivation and relationships can impact a person\u2019s mental health. This year the theme is \u2018surviving or thriving\u2019 and I wanted to write a bit about mental health and how it can impact students in particular.\nMental health issues are becoming increasingly pervasive and affecting an increasing number of people. University is often described as the best time of one\u2019s life, but according to a recent article (which can be found through the link here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2016/08/11/one-in-four-university-students-suffer-from-mental-health-proble/) the reality for over a quarter of undergraduates could be very different.\nAdditionally a YouGov survey of 1,061 students found that 1 in 4 undergraduates reported having a mental health problem. This number rose to a 1/3 for female students compared to 19% for male undergraduate students. This percentage was also high among LGBT students where almost \u00bd (45%) stating that they suffered from mental health issues.\nThe survey also found that more than half of the student population it surveyed know between 1 and 5 people who suffer from a mental illness in contrast to just 8% who know no-one with mental health issues. According to this report, it is clear that anxiety and depression are the most common mental health problems as nearly \u00be of students who were suffering from a mental health problem reporting both as a health issue.\nStudents are often portrayed as happy-go-lucky young people, who party and enjoy life to the full, in reality 1 in 10 students; actually fail to complete their degree (according to the Complete University Guide). This may not necessarily be due to mental health issues but it can be due to things like being on an inappropriate course, the cost of education, the location in which the university is based or the pressure. In numerical terms according to the YouGov survey mentioned before, of those who were approached almost 50% reported that their mental health issues affected their ability to complete everyday tasks with 4% stating that even the most basic of tasks felt to be beyond their ability to complete.\nA number of people feel that things are not right at university and attempt to soldier on (the old English action of having a stiff upper lip and all that). When thinking about this it is not surprising that individuals can struggle to the adjustment. Moving away from home, family and friends, making new friends, becoming independent, the pressure to pass, do well, not fail, forge a career have an impact on us really early on (often this will come from ourselves).\nI remember that for myself, the first few months at university were the hardest to adapt to. Not only was I ill and wanting the comfort of home but I was quite shy and felt as though I couldn\u2019t connect to my flatmates who all wanted to go out partying most of the time. I am aware that others feel or have felt similar emotions at university but it is important to know and understand that you are not alone and do not have to deal with things by yourself.\nThe first step to seeking and getting help is to talk about your issues (this isn\u2019t to say that you will be diagnosed with a medical condition), but please note that if you are struggling in any way that there are people and procedures put in place to help you cope with the change and feel mentally and emotionally well. You can also approach your friends or family and speak to them. I think the old mantra of \u2018a problem shared is a problem halved\u2019 is relevant here. But the first step in helping yourself is to speak up about it. If you feel like speaking to someone outside of the university community for any mental health or well-being issue the Samaritans can be contacted 24 hours a day for 365 days a year on 116 123. The call is free and they can be of immense help. They can also be emailed at jo@samaritans.org or you can write to them at Freepost RSRB-KKBY-CYJK, PO Box 9090, Stirling, FK8 2SA.\nI know in the past it has been said that if you were struggling and were feeling low, you would be thought of as weak but this simply isn\u2019t the case. I recall a BBC article last week or so which stated that young men are the most likely to take their own life and many suggested that this was in part due to the reluctance of men to speak about their problems because they would be considered weak or ridiculed for not being \u2018strong enough\u2019. But as a community and a society it is extremely important to speak about the things that are affecting us to not only help ourselves but to reduce the stigma around mental health. Even Princes Harry and William (alongside Lady GaGa) have noted how detrimental the stiff upper lip ethos is. So please don\u2019t be afraid to speak out.\nThe university offers many services to help students, who may be struggling, from in-house counselling, well-being services, and pastoral support from staff. There is no shame in using these services of acknowledging and admitting that you aren\u2019t enjoying yourself at university (as hard as this may be).\nAnother thing to remember is that University is not solely about study, there are other aspects that are there to help you develop your interests. So, past advice from a student who suffered from mental health issues (her article can be found through this link: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/dec/02/dropping-out-of-uni-university), is to focus on the aspects of university life that you do enjoy. This should not be to the detriment of your studies but having an outlet like a sport can help you socialise and feel less isolated and make you feel happier (through an endorphin rush). This can also help you to develop a support network if you are struggling. Sometimes, university can feel like a lonely place but having people accept and care about your well-being can help to off-set these feelings of isolation\nIt is also important to note that if you are too ill, you do not have to solider on and make yourself worse (and feel as though you are in a rut) there are options for medical leave or extenuating circumstances. This can enable you to get extra support on work if you need it, or in the instance of medical leave, this can give you the space you need to work on feeling better and getting well.\nStudents are not immune from mental health issues and it is important to recognise this and address it. I would urge people to speak out and seek help for themselves or others or simply to just be supportive of others. University is a fun time of our lives but this does not mean we can feel down or struggle along the way. You do not have to be diagnosed to have an issue, you may have a short term issue but there is no point in attempting to forge ahead alone when there are people and places to help you. You are not weak simply because you may have a mental illness or mental health issue. Let us help and support each other to not only survive but to thrive as well!\nI hope this post is helpful. If you want some more information on mental health issues I have included the links and information for\u2026\nThe NHS website: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/studenthealth/Pages/Mentalhealth.aspx\nStudent minds (mental health charity)- http://www.studentminds.org.uk/\nSwansea University mental health advice: http://www.swansea.ac.uk/wellbeingcampuslife/mentalhealthadviceandsupport/\nDetails of the Swansea university wellbeing service: Wellbeing@CampusLife, Horton Building, Swansea University, Singleton park, Swansea, SA2 8PP. Telephone: 01792 295592 or email mental.health@swansea.ac.uk\nSamaritans: jo@samaritans.org\nOr speak to your friends, family or supervisor.\n\u2190 Facilities available at Swansea University", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 10333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 210.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://subscribemediumtheresa.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:07Z", "digest": "sha1:JYGL3NJA6A4H4EPTOOR44K4OHLTHNMO3", "length": 3572, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "subscribemediumtheresa.com", "title": "Theresa", "raw_content": "I am medium Theresa and first of all I would like to welcome you to my website. You are curious about me and my powers and I am pleased to offer you an insight into my life. I have no secrets whatsoever.\nMy special background\nI was raised in a warm family. My mother has the same clear, omniscient and sentient gifts that I have. My father was only spiritually minded. I inherited my special powers from my mother\u2019s bloodline.\nI did not know much about this as a little girl and my mother protected me from it too. Still, I recognised certain signs even then. My intuition has always been very strong and, for example, I foresaw that my school teacher was pregnant before she knew she was. Extraordinary, don\u2019t you think?\nI did occasionally see ghosts, which was very frightening. I knew my mother saw it too because one day she took me to one side and told me that I had nothing to fear. They are simply souls that have passed on to the other world and she made me realise that it is a blessing that I can see them. After all, later on in my life I would be able to help people with this gift. I did not understand what she meant by that at the time, but now I know different.\nUnfortunately my troublefree childhood did not last long. One fateful day we got into a car accident while we were on holiday. I foresaw this too but fate would have it that my father decided to drive that day and dismissed my vision as a child\u2019s fantasy. I will never know why my mother did not stop my father that day. To this day, she sends me visions showing me that it was simply their time.\nA truck hit us from behind. I was thrown out of the car and fell against the concrete. My parents died instantly. I too saw the light and my parents at the end of the tunnel. As I almost reached the light myself I felt a hand on my back. I knew I still had unfinished business in the astral world. My spirit guide brought me back to earth and whispered in my ear that I was to develop my psychic abilities. I was only seven years old when I lost my parents.\nFollowing my lengthy rehabilitation I moved in with my grandmother. She was renowned in the spiritual world and she turned out to be much stronger than my mother in her psychic abilities. While I was living with her I developed my own talents with my strict grandmother as the teacher.\nI am able to describe someone\u2019s character in great detail immediately and I foresee things from past, present and future. My clear omniscience and sentience has proved itself by now.\nI have given comfort to many people because through my spirit guides I am able to communicate with the dead. Not only do I provide solace, I have also showed hundreds of people the future and provided answers to important life questions. I do not always use props like numerology or tarot cards. My gifts are entirely innate and intuitive, and only occasionally will I use something like hand reading to help me.\nOver time it became clearer and clearer that I was to follow in my ancestors\u2019 footsteps and what my destiny was; to help people who are in trouble.\nBecause of my past I know like no other what it feels like to be unhappy. But I found the spiritual power to overcome this. It is my mission to help others to find their happiness in life as well.\nNowadays I apply all my psychic abilities full-time to be of service to those who need it. I do this in a very personal way, with much love and attention. Are you the one who needs my clairvoyant gifts and do you want be open to a better and spiritual world?\nDo not hesitate any longer; I am reaching out to you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suffragistmemorial.org/mary-gertrude-fendall-1889-1971/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3PXHQQSBHLM5OS73ZSIXYAH3QES4O7LV", "length": 815, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "suffragistmemorial.org", "title": "Mary Gertrude Fendall (1889 \u2013 1971) | Turning Point Suffragist Memorial", "raw_content": "Home Mary Gertrude Fendall (1889 \u2013 1971)\nMary Gertrude Fendall (1889 \u2013 1971)\nMary Fendall\nMary Gertrude Fendall of Baltimore, Md., campaigned for the National Woman\u2019s Party in the West in 1916 and was national treasurer of the NWP June 1917 to December 1919. She was the national organizer for the NWP in Oregon.She was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College. She holds the distinction of being the sergeant of the guard on the first day the NWP picketed the White House in January of 1917. She was often referred to as \u201cthe girl who managed the picket line\u201d since one of her key duties while working for the NWP was enlisting women to picket. During the demonstration of March 4th, 1917 she provided a line of nearly a thousand. She was arrested and sentenced to three days in jail, January 1919, for applauding in court.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 116.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sunlightfoundation.com/2006/02/02/former-doggett-aide-admits-to-stealing-campaign/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JTV2WNNVOFJV2ONSR3XAX7EJ4WUW7HXT", "length": 506, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sunlightfoundation.com", "title": "Former Doggett Aide Admits to Stealing Campaign Cash: : Sunlight Foundation", "raw_content": "Former Doggett Aide Admits to Stealing Campaign Cash:\nKristi Willis, a former aide to Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), admitted to embezzling $166,000 from Doggett\u2019s campaign and taking tens-of-thousands from another campaign and Texas organization. The Austin American-Statesman reports that Willis has apologized and is seeking psychiatric care for a spending addiction. She also plans to pay back the money and is cooperating with prosecutors. Doggett admits to being \u201cshocked and saddened\u201d by the revelation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sunlightfoundation.com/2007/05/03/fact-checking-allegations-of-corruption/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:44Z", "digest": "sha1:RJ7I2OKD7WG6JEQYS7Z22VQG3R3FVUPE", "length": 28634, "nlines": 108, "source_domain": "sunlightfoundation.com", "title": "Fact checking allegations of corruption : Sunlight Foundation", "raw_content": "Fact checking allegations of corruption\n(Note: After posting this piece, I had an email exchange with Peter Byrne. I am adding some of the information he provided, in his words, and responding as well. New material can be found by searching for the words \u201cnew material\u201d. I also moved the disclosure statement to the top of the post. In many ways this post is now moot, as Byrne clarified what he meant in his article\u2013see here.)\nOne of the few downsides of the Internet age is that inaccurate information and completely unsubstantiated allegations can be dressed up as an \u201cinvestigative\u201d expose and then be recycled over and over, regardless of how wildly unfounded they are. Such is the case with this piece that ran in some small California weeklies that, on the basis of what appears to be no evidence at all, alleges serious ethical improprieties by Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The story has been recycled by David Keene, who writes a column for the Hill, and subsequently picked up by various blogs. I should note right away (this disclosure was originally at the bottom of this lengthy piece) that I got interested in this story because it prominently mentions the Sunlight Foundation\u2019s co-founder, Michael Klein. Mike can speak for himself (as he already did in response to the article). I limited my review to the central allegation of the article, and asked whether I as an editor would publish it on the basis of the evidence presented. I wouldn\u2019t.\nThe piece\u2019s author, a freelance journalist named Peter Byrne, alleges that, \u201cTwo defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader\u201d of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee (MILCON), part of the Senate Appropriatins Committee. To substantiate this allegation, he misrepresents or mischaracterizes both the transcripts of MILCON hearings, and information gleaned from the Web sites and press releases of the companies in question. He consistently distorts the plain meaning of words or omits key information and context in his effort to suggest scandal. But don\u2019t believe me \u2014 read the rest for yourself, and see whether Byrne\u2019s central allegation \u2014 \u201cTwo defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader\u201d of MILCON \u2014 can be substantiated by the examples Byrne cites. Unlike the publication for which he wrote his article, I\u2019m providing links to all the committee transcripts and press releases and other information I cite. I leave it to readers to draw their own conclusions.\nFirst allegation: At a MILCON hearing in 2001, Feinstein interrogated defense officials about the details of constructing specific missile defense systems, which included upgrading the early warning radar system at Cobra Dane radar on Shemya Island, Alaska. In 2003, Perini reported that it had completed a contract to upgrade the Cobra Dane radar system. It has done similar work at Beale Air Force Base in California and in the United Kingdom. URS also bids on missile defense work.\nByrne leaves out a great deal of information about this subject that appears in the hearing transcript, most importantly, that the money to pay for the project would come out the Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation (RTD&E) budget, not MILCON:\nSenator Feinstein. I wanted to begin, if I might, with Dr. Sanders. I understand there are no MILCON funds for Fort Greely in the 2002 budget; is that correct?\nDr. Sanders. That is correct.\nSenator Feinstein. But there are funds in the 2001 budget?\nSenator Feinstein. Could you explain to me why a decision was made to use research and development funds instead of MILCON to construct the missile defense testbed which is now going to be at the initial deployment site at Fort Greely?\nDr. Sanders. The Department believes that the testbed facility should be funded with RDT&E, reflecting the reality that the testbed is a research and development effort, and as such the cost of constructing the testbed should be included in the cost as a research and development cost of developing a ground-based midcourse missile defense system. The RDT&E funding will provide the needed flexibility to make the required changes to the testbed that we identify through testing in this realistic environment.\nLater in the same hearing, we learn that the Shemya Island facility will be funded with RDT&E funds:\nDr. Sanders. We have really determined that aspects of the testbed project clearly fall within Title 10, Code 2353 authority, and use of and RDT&E funding would be authorized. There are some aspects of the testbed that could be viewed as having general utility and therefore are not authorized for RDT&E funding. But neither the statute nor the legislative history have a clear definition of \u201cgeneral utility.\u201d So in order to clarify that, the Department has proposed legislation that would clarify the authority to construct a testbed to include some facilities that might be considered general utility with RDT&E funds.\nSenator Feinstein. What are those facilities?\nDr. Sanders. The ones that might be considered general utility?\nSenator Feinstein. Right.\nDr. Sanders. I would hesitate to say right now because that is an ambiguous area, but it could be, for example, at one aspect of the testbed it is an upgrade to the radar, the Cobra Dane radar in Shemya, the upgrade to the radar\u2019s software. It is not even a construction element. But there is an upgrade to the power plant needed there in order to support that radar, and that might or might not be considered general utility.\nByrne didn\u2019t bother to check it, but the MILCON committee approved the shift to RDT&E for the missile defense program:\nTo help make up the services\u2019 urgent shortfall in funding, the Committee recommends that the unobligated balance of $55,030,000 remaining in the fiscal year 2001 Defense-wide account, \u201cNational Missile Defense Initial Deployment Facilities Phase 1,\u201d be rescinded and that the funds be reallocated to the base realignment and closure account, part IV, specifically to offset the Navy and Air Force BRAC environmental shortfalls. The Committee recommends this offset as a result of the Department\u2019s decision to shift the proposed national missile defense construction program from military construction into research, test, development, and evaluation.\nIt is also worth noting that the contract to upgrade the Shemya Island facility was awarded to Raytheon, not Perini Corporation. Did Feinstein also have influence over the decisions that contractors made about their subcontractors?\nRaytheon hired Perini for both Shemya Island and the Beale Air Force Base projects, which can clearly be read here:\nPerini Corporation has completed design and construction contracts for Raytheon Electronic Systems at Beale Air Force Base in California, the Cobra Dane facility on Shemya Island, Alaska and at a radar facility in England. The projects are all part of the Upgraded Early Warning Radar Element of the overall Ground-based Midcourse Defense program.\nPerini applyied directly to Raytheon, not the federal government, for the work. And \u201cGround-Based Midcourse Defense program\u201d is another name for missile defense\u2013again, paid for with RDT&E funds, not those from MILCON.\nNew Material: This was probably the most contentious single item raised during our email exchange. Byrne argued MILCON approved requests for funding submitted on 1391 forms \u2014 which are detailed requests from the military that omit the names of contractors \u2014 for Cobra Dane and Beale Air Force Base. He also told me that he wrote a sidebar on this subject, which was not published**, which he offered to share it with me on background, an offer he soon withdrew:\ni am not going to give you the sidebar, but just so you know, so that you can better do your own homework: the milcon-approved cobra dane and beale missile defense systems, as Saunders [SIC] indicated, were funded by milcon, not r&d funds. without seeing the 1391 forms you probably wouldn\u2019t have been able to figure that out. not that any of this matters in terms of what i wrote, because the point is that the seantor was involved in deciding how to fund these projects, and the rest is history.\nI\u2019m not sure that he accurately characterizes Sanders\u2019 testimony (see above), and I\u2019m not sure about the funding issue (again, see the MILCON committee report quoted above). But assuming he\u2019s right about both, there is another problem I raised\u2013that Raytheon was the prime contractor seeking the Cobra Dane business. My last email to him read,\nIn the Cobra Dane example, I think you\u2019re missing some crucial information. You\u2019re assuming that Klein would have informed Feinstein about any subcontracts that Perini sought from other companies like Raytheon. He didn\u2019t, because Perini wouldn\u2019t be seeking business from the government. Feinstein couldn\u2019t possibly have a conflict because it was Raytheon that awarded the business. So she would have been in the dark about Perini bidding on a Raytheon RFP, just as Klein wouldn\u2019t have bothered to inform her about any interests Perini had in bidding on work from, say, the Louisiana government.\nHe hasn\u2019t responded.end new material\nSecond allegation: In the 2002 MILCON hearings, Feinstein questioned an official about details of the U.S. Army\u2019s chemical demilitarization program. URS is extensively involved in performing chemical demilitarization work at key disposal sites in the United States.\nAt the March 5, 2002, hearing of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Subcommittee, Feinstein submitted the following question, in writing (not orally), to Mario P. Fiori, Assistant Secretary of the Army:\nQuestion. Dr. Fiori, the President\u2019s budget requests $168 million for the Defense Department\u2019s Chemical Demilitarization Program in fiscal year 2003. Yet, in an evaluation from the Office of Management and Budget accompanying the fiscal year 2003 budget, the program was rated \u201cineffective\u201d because of a 60 percent cost increase estimate and delays stemming from \u201cunrealistic schedules, site safety and environmental concerns, and poor planning.\u201d That evaluation doesn\u2019t give me a lot confidence that the budget request is justified or will be well spent.\nSince it is the Army that administers that program, could you please comment on the budget evaluation and tell us what your department is doing to improve the chem-demil program?\nByrne omits any reference to the substance of the question. Any fair minded reader would agree that the question indicates that Feinstein does not want to spend more money on the program, and that what money has been spent has been spent badly. It doesn\u2019t seem like that would benefit URS.\nThird allegation: At that same hearing, Feinstein asked about the possibility of increasing funding for anti-terrorism-force protection at Army bases. The following year, on March 4, 2003, Feinstein asked why the antiterrorism-force protection funds she had advocated for the year before had not yet been spent. On April 21, 2003, URS announced the award of a $600 million contract to provide, among other services, anti-terrorism-force protection for U.S. Army installations.\nAt the March 5, 2002, heaing, Feinstein submitted a single, written question about anti-terrorism force-protection (available, as above, here) that reads:\nQuestion. General Helmly and General Squier. I see no specific requests in the budgets of the reserve components addressing increased force protection requirements. However, understanding that this amount could be in the billions of dollars, the Army Guard has made an initial cut as to the amount that could be executed in the next fiscal year. I assume the USAR has a similar estimate. Would you please provide your estimated requirement for the Committee?\nFeinstein does not ask for increased funding\u2013she asks for specific information on funding. And, to be clear, the \u201cincreased funding\u201d to which she refers comes from President George Bush\u2019s budget request. This is from the House Report on the 2003 Military Construction Bill:\nThe President\u2019s fiscal year 2003 budget request includes $20,055,000,000 for the Defense Emergency Response Fund (DERF) account to support DOD\u2019s efforts to respond to and protect against terrorist acts on the United States. Of the amount, $594,384,000 is to address anti-terrorism/force protection vulnerabilities at installations worldwide. Though requested in the fiscal year 2003 Defense Appropriations legislation, these projects fall under the jurisdiction of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee. To reflect properly these requirements in the fiscal year 2003 budget, the Committee has subtracted the request from the Defense Appropriations bill and added it to this appropriations measure.\nAnd here\u2019s the written question on Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection from the March 4, 2004, hearing:\nQuestion. It is my understanding that funding previously approved by the Committee for Antiterrorism/Force Protection (ATFP) is not finding its way to the reserve components. Could you provide the Committee with your funding plan for ATFP?\nAnswer. As it pertains to military construction force protection projects, the Army National Guard has validated requirements of $1.952 million in fiscal year 2004 for planning and design of future year construction of antiterrorism/force protection related projects. In addition, each military construction project routinely incorporates all necessary antiterrorism/force protection features. These requirements are funded as part of the military construction project. The Army National Guard continues to work with the active Army to further validate their increased force protection requirements.\nThe Army Reserve has not identified any requirement for military construction projects that are exclusively for antiterrorism/force protection. However, each military construction project incorporates all necessary antiterrorism/force protection features. The Army Reserve antiterrorism/force protection projects at existing facilities will be funded with Operations and Maintenance, Army Reserve appropriations.\nAs for the URS Corp. contract, the April 21, 2003, URS Corp. press release to which Byrne refers clearly states that what the contract that its subsidiary, EG&G , won:\nUnder the terms of the contract, EG&G will provide support services for operations planning, troop mobilization planning and execution, training services for weapon systems, antiterrorist assessment and force protection training for Army installations.\nAre training and construction the same thing?\nFourth allegation: Beginning in 2003, both Perini and URS were awarded a series of open-ended contracts for military construction work around the world, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Under Feinstein\u2019s leadership, MILCON regularly approved specific project \u201ctask orders\u201d that were issued to Perini and URS under these contracts.\n\u201cTask orders\u201d are not awarded by congressional committees, but by executive branch agencies that issue contracts (see here for this definition:\nTask order contracts are enormously adaptable contracting instruments used by a growing number of Government agencies \u2014 allowing agencies to enter into contracts before their specific service/product requirements are known. A task order contract obligates a contractor to render services or deliver products as ordered from time to time. Thus, the award of the contract puts the contractor on standby. The contract statement of work is a general description of the service or product the contractor will be obligated to produce on demand. And after the contract award, the Government buyer will issue, when needed, task orders to specify specific, detailed requirements.\nBeyond that, there is no specific example cited here. No correspondence from Feinstein\u2019s office. No citation of an earmark inserted for one of these two companies.\nNew material:Peter Byrne writes,\nYou appear to be unfamiliar with the military construction appropriation process. Otherwise you would know that \u201ctask orders\u201d on existing open-ended IDIQ contracts are often submitted to MILCON by the DOD on 1391 forms. If you do not know how to access those forms online, despite your career as an investigative journalist (now cut short, in my humble opinion, by your going to work for a non-profit lobby group, the Sunshine Foundation, which is funded by an Iraq war contractor with close business and personal ties to Feinstein and her husband, Richard Blum), I will be glad to give you a lesson in how to search public records.\nI may well be wrong here, but my sense remains that agencies approve task orders, that task orders are parts of contracts, and that the committees approve something else (forms 1391, perhaps). But I may well be incorrect about the terminology. In any case, I emailed Byrne the following:\nYou mention signing off on contracts for Perini in Afghanistan and Iraq\u2013here\u2019s the passage:\nBeginning in 2003, both Perini and URS were awarded a series of open-ended contracts for military construction work around the world, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Under Feinstein\u2019s leadership, MILCON regularly approved specific project \u201ctask orders\u201d that were issued to Perini and URS under these contracts.\nI couldn\u2019t help noticing the construction. You don\u2019t say that Feinstein regularly voted to approve specific project \u201ctask orders\u201d for Perini (about which she should have been tipped off), you say under her leadership (when she would actually have been the ranking member, not the chair), the committee regularly approved them. So what is Feinstein supposed to have done wrong here? How does this support the charge (where we began the section) that Feinstein \u201cdid act on legislation\u201d in which Perini had an interest? I\u2019m not trying to badger you, I\u2019m just trying to understand what you think this paragraph is suggesting.\nIn his final email to me, Byrne responded that I was annoying him, and added:\nFeinstein was the chair of milcon until the repubs took the congress, remember?\nThe Republicans retook the Senate in the 2002 elections.\nYour article says, \u201cBeginning in 2003, both Perini and URS were awarded a series of open-ended contracts for military construction work around the world, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Under Feinstein\u2019s leadership, MILCON regularly approved specific project \u201ctask orders\u201d that were issued to Perini and URS under these contracts.\u201d\nI\u2019m sorry if pointing out things that seem to me to be inaccurate bothers you\u2013that\u2019s not my intention. I\u2019m trying to understand what your article means and why you wrote it the way you did.\nHe chose not to respond. end new material\nFifth allegation: At a March 30, 2004, MILCON hearing, Feinstein grilled Maj. Gen. Dean Fox about whether or not the Pentagon intended to prioritize funding the construction of \u201cbeddown\u201d maintenance facilities for its new airlifter, the C-17 Globemaster. After being reassured by Fox that these funds would soon be flowing, Feinstein said, \u201cGood, that\u2019s what I really wanted to hear. Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much, General.\u201d Two years later, URS announced a $42 million award to build a beddown maintenance facility for the C-17 at Hickam Air Base in Hawaii as part of a multibillion dollar contract with the Air Force. Under Feinstein\u2019s leadership, MILCON approved the Hickam project.\nAt the hearing, Feinstein asks about funding for C-17 beddowns at Vandenberg Air Force Base and Travis Air Force Base, both of which are in California. Here is the whole exchange:\nSenator Feinstein. Thanks very much, Madam Chairman, and thank you gentlemen for your service. I just want to assure that the bed down costs for the C-17 and the C-5 transformation are in the FYDP, aren\u2019t they?\nMr. Gibbs. To the extent that we know them, yes, ma\u2019am.\nSenator Feinstein. Okay. To the extent that you know them, right. So the commitment is to put them in the Future Years Defense Program (FYDP). I recognize that in the 2005 bill we have two facility projects, two at Travis for $15 million, and two projects for $10 billion at March. So I think that California is going to be very happy about that, and we thank you for that.\nMr. Gibbs. That\u2019s one of the earlier locations.\nSenator Feinstein. Pardon me?\nMr. Gibbs. That\u2019s one of the earlier locations from the list that the Chairman read.\nGeneral Fox. Senator Feinstein, if I can answer. The way that we prioritize our military construction program, when we bring in a new weapon system like the C-17 to California we will ensure that those requirements are funded up front in our President\u2019s budget submission.\nSenator Feinstein. Good, that\u2019s what I really wanted to hear. Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much, General.\nHow any of this relates to the URS Corp. winning a contract to provide C-17 a beddown at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii in 2006, two years after the hearing, is not clear. Feinstein does not mention the Hickam, Hawaii, base at the hearing\u2014-nor does anyone else.\nSixth allegation: In mid-2005, MILCON approved a Pentagon proposal to fund \u201coverhead coverage force protection\u201d in Iraq that would reinforce the roofs of U.S. Army barracks to better withstand mortar rounds. On Oct. 13, 2005, Perini announced the award of a $185 million contract to provide overhead coverage force protection to the Army in Iraq.\nApparently, Feinstein need not be mentioned to imply nefarious actions on her part.\nSeventh allegation: In the 2005 MILCON hearings, Feinstein earmarked MILCON legislation with $25 million to increase environmental remediation at closed military bases. Year after year, Feinstein has closely overseen the environmental cleanup and redevelopment of McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento, frequently requesting that officials add tens of millions of dollars to that project. URS and its joint ventures have earned tens of millions of dollars cleaning up McClellan. And CB Richard Ellis, a real estate company headed by Feinstein\u2019s husband Richard Blum, is involved in redeveloping McClellan for the private sector.\nMcLellan AFB is a Superfund site and is on the EPA\u2019s National Priorities List (click on California). Here\u2019s a brief description of the site from the EPA:\nThe 2,952-acre McClellan Air Force Base (McAFB) site was established in 1936 and operated as an Air Force Logistics Command Base with a primary mission of management, maintenance, and repair of aircraft, electronics, and communication equipment. The operation and maintenance of aircraft have involved the use, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials including industrial solvents, caustic cleansers, paints, metal plating wastes, low-level radioactive wastes, and a variety of fuel oils and lubricants. The Air Force has identified 326 waste areas and potential release locations divided into 10 operable units. Approximately 22,800 people live within a 3-mile radius of the site.\nAnd here\u2019s a description of what\u2019s there:\nGroundwater, sludge, and soil have been contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Surface soils have been contaminated with PCBs, heavy metals, and a wide range of non-VOCs. People may face a health risk if they accidentally ingest or come into direct contact with contaminants. People also may be at risk if they eat foods containing accumulated contaminants or if they inhale contaminated dust and soil vapors. Risks to wildlife and their habitat may occur on and adjacent to the former base in some areas of the creeks, vernal pools, and other parts of the flood plain.\nOh, and here\u2019s the question Feinstein submitted in writing:\nQuestion. General Fox, the Air Force plans to spend $34.7 million in fiscal year 2006 for environmental remediation at the former McClellan AFB. Could you please tell me, what is the extent of remediation efforts still required at McClellan, how much time and how much funding is still required?\nAnswer. Former McClellan AFB is on the EPA National Priorities List (NPL) list and is a very complex environmental site. There are nine operable units, which have been organized into 15 specific Records of Decision (RODs). Two RODs are completed. 2010 is the projected Final ROD date, with 2015 being the final remedy in place date. The Estimated Cost to Complete is $752 million. The Air Force is seeking to implement alternate contracting methods to buyout all or portions of the environmental program over the FYDP. Currently 11 percent of the property is conveyed. All conveyances are estimated for completion by end of 2016.\nI couldn\u2019t find any reference in the hearing transcript to Feinstein\u2019s earmarking $25 million for closed bases; how that relates to McClellan is not clear.\nEighth allegation: At a 2001 MILCON hearing, Feinstein, attending to a small item, told Maj. Gen. Earnest O. Robbins that she would appreciate receiving an engineering assessment on plans to build a missile transport bridge at Vandenberg Air Force Base. He said he would give it to her. She also asked for and received a list of unfunded construction projects, which prioritize military construction wish lists down to the level of thousand-dollar light fixtures. While there is no evidence to point to nefarious intent behind Feinstein\u2019s request for these details, it is worth noting that Perini and URS have open-ended contracts to perform military construction for the Air Force.\nHere\u2019s the exchange on the bridge:\nSenator Feinstein. Pretty good fitness center. The budget also includes $11.8 million for Vandenberg to construct a missile transport bridge. According to the project description, the bridge is used for transporting Minuteman and Peacekeeper missile. Again, would a decision to retire the Peacekeeper have any impact on the need for this project?\nGeneral Robbins. That also would remain a requirement. That road is the only road between the north and south portions of the base. As you noted, it transports both Peacekeeper and Minuteman missiles for test firing, and so the elimination of one of those systems would not matter.\nSenator Feinstein. Is this an improvement of the existing road?\nGeneral Robbins. It is replacement of an existing bridge.\nSenator Feinstein. So it\u2019s a new road.\nGeneral Robbins. Bridge.\nSenator Feinstein. Bridge. I beg your pardon. As a replacement for an existing bridge?\nGeneral Robbins. That\u2019s correct.\nSenator Feinstein. And the existing bridge cannot be fixed?\nGeneral Robbins. Correct.\nSenator Feinstein. Why?\nGeneral Robbins. I\u2019ll have to get you the engineering assessment on it.\nSenator Feinstein. Would you please? I would appreciate that very much.\nFrom the exchange, it\u2019s fairly clear that Feinstein is questioning a) whether the new bridge is needed and b) why can\u2019t the current one be repaired.\nAnd, a general comment: \u201cno evidence\u201d is a phrase that should have been recurring throughout the article.\nThe most charitable thing one can say about Byrne is that he has confused what may be an appearance of a conflict of interest with actual wrongdoing. It\u2019s a shame that so many bloggers have taken it at face value.\n\u2014\u2013Original Message\u2014\u2013 From: iallison@comcast.net [mailto:iallison@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 12:53 AM To: Bill Allison Cc: iallison@comcast.net Subject: original post\n(Note: After posting this piece, I had a back and forth email conversation with Peter Byrne. I am adding information he provided, in his words, and responding as well. New material can be found by searching for the words \u201cnew material\u201d. I also moved the disclosure statement to the top of the post.)\nNew Material: This was probably the most contentious single item raised during our email exchange. Byrne argued MILCON approved requests for funding submitted on 1391 forms \u2014 which are detailed requests f\\from the military that omit the names of contractors \u2014 for Cobra Dane and Beale Air Force Base. He also told me that he wrote a sidebar on this subject, rejected for publication, which he offered to share it with me on background, an offer he soon withdrew:\nI will happily admit error on the budget issue as soon as I see the forms 1391; however, since Raytheon was the prime contractor seeking the Cobra Dane business, I\u2019m still not sure why this is an issue. And did Sanders say the budget request as coming from MILCON, or RDT&E? end new material\nI may well be wrong here, but my sense remains that agencies approve task orders, whereas committees deal with priorities. 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While it happens to women often, I know men don't get to voice their opinion on the matter seeing as it happens to them too! And people also forget that ghosting doesn't only apply to dating and relationships, it also applies to friendships as well.\nSo, I decided to ask 13 men what it is like to be ghosted and to tell the story behind what happened. These are their stories:\n1. \"She blocked me, so I left her a voicemail\"\n\"I was talking to this girl from Tinder and we were having a good conversation. Out of the blue, she blocked me on everything. I got pissed so I called her and left her a voicemail telling her how it was messed up.\n\"On ghosting itself, I wouldn't do it. It's f*cked up. I would at least tell the person it isn't going to work.\" - Stephen, 23\n2. \"He gave me my first kiss and a few days later said he wanted to be friends\"\n\"Well, he was the first man I ever seriously dated. He was an artist, he played the guitar, and smoked cigarettes. So, needless to say, I was into him. We went on a couple dates and I really enjoyed hanging out with him. One night, he walked me to my car and gave me my first kiss. It was the most romantic experience of my life. He told me how happy he was that he did that and that he met me. However, a couple days later he was over at my place and suddenly has to leave in the middle of it all because he's having 'issues.' It was at that moment that I told him I really liked him. He canceled again on me the next day. Come Sunday, he tells me that he'd rather be friends with me. I haven't heard from him since.\n\"To me, ghosting is cowardly and immature. You're selfish enough to give someone else heartbreak and emotional pain because you yourself cannot bring yourself to be honest with someone. Be honest with someone. Tell them early on if it isn't going to work out. Don't ghost them and leave them feeling like they aren't lovable or attractive.\" - Zach, 22\n3. \"My girlfriend of a year and a half went on a mission trip and called me and told me she didn't have feelings for me anymore\"\n\"So for me getting ghosted I was dating this girl for a year and a half. She went on a mission trip and in the middle of the trip she decidedly calls me and tells me she doesn't have any feeling for me anymore. That moment I told her 'OK' and that I wish her the best. I didn't say anything else because I felt that she just needed some space. She wanted to get closer to God or whatever... Plus she was in freaking Asia and I wasn't going to have this conversation now. I figured to just have a future conversation with her when she got back. However, it never came... when she came back to the states, nothing. She didn't reach out to me or anything. I saw more and more pics of us from online disappearing one by one and boom, just like that. Whenever I reached out I just got ignored over and over again.\n\"My mindset is you can't have love without sacrifice and man did I sacrifice a lot. Fast forward a bit, pretty soon, boom, I was blocked on every social media site. Every pic was slowly gone and whenever we saw each other in school/mall/walking etc, we acted like strangers towards each other. It's the weirdest feeling in the world and I just wish I had a word for it... like you're talking to someone each and every day and the next thing you know you're strangers towards each other. I wished that it was face to face. At least give me that decency of doing it face to face and not like a coward. Because of that, it showed me how to come out of my shell more and to be more open about everything. That's why, now in my relationship with my current girlfriend, we talk about everything and are in constant communication.\" - Isaac, 25\n4. \"He blocked me on Facebook because he was hiding that he was in a relationship\"\n\"My ex-boyfriend cut me out before breaking up with me. He blocked me on Facebook and told me he just decided to delete it. He stopped answering my phone calls. Eventually, it was like pulling teeth to get a text back. I had suspicions he might be having an emotional affair and he blew up on me and accused me of not trusting him and abruptly ended things. Three days later I found out he was Facebook official, in a relationship with someone else, before he broke up with me.\n\"Ghosting is stupid. If you can't be adult enough to tell someone you aren't interested in them or things aren't working then you aren't adult enough to be dating. Just don't.\" - Thomas, 25\n5. \"He ghosted me the day we were supposed to hang out\"\n\"I was talking to a guy who showed a lot of interest and initiative. We had plans, but ghosted me the day we were supposed to get together.\n\"Do whatever you want but we're adults, be a little mature and responsible in your actions, especially if it involves others. Plans change. Feelings change. But you can go about it in so many different ways. Having things organically fizzle out is is also an option. But ghosting is not this passive thing that everyone thinks it is. You have to actively make the choice to cut the person out with no reason or warning. You have to actively ignore the other person while at times (at least with Grindr or Tinder) knowing that they can see you are still online. Honestly, I would so much rather people be honest.\" - Derek\n6. \"I posted a #WCW post of us and she told me to take it down and blocked me\"\n\"I was dating this girl for three months. I had posted a #WCW post of her and me. Nothing crazy, just some cute photos and she told me to take it down. I did and then she blocked me from social media AND my number without any explanation.\n\"Ghosting sucks. Nobody should be left on ghost. There always should be an explanation as to why you are gonna ghost someone.\" - Doug, 30\n7. \"My co-worker who I befriended ghosted me after our trip to Chicago\"\n\"I was ghosted by a developing friendship with a co-worker of mine. He worked at another store, the same position. We had a lot in common and decided to drop everything and take a trip to Chicago for fun. Everything was good the whole week there until the day we came back to Florida. We both went back to work in our stores. I texted him about something work-related, he didn't reply. I didn't worry about it. The next day I saw he read the message but didn't reply. Still, I was OK with that since he's probably busy at work since we both were returning back with a lot of tasks. Usually, he calls at night and sometimes throughout the week to just talk about the day, but not that week. I tried calling him near the end of the week. No answer. I then texted him asking him if anything was wrong at work or was it something about me that I did to him. He read it and no reply. Now, I was confused but also upset. I decided not to worry after that and just resume next week and see if he called or texted me, even if it's not personal. Nothing.\n\"Then, finally, at the end of the week, he had the audacity to text me that he needs some supplies from our store to transfer to his. I replied ASAP willing to help him out. He read it and didn't reply. Every since that text, there has been zero communication between us. I went out of my way to call and text him if I did anything wrong and he said nothing. I felt embarrassed because now my reputation between him and I was bare to nothing anymore since everyone knew that we became close buddies at work and outside of work, going to Chicago together.\n\"Ghosting shows more who you are and that's not going to get you far in life. You can't run away from your problems if there is one. I did my part and asked if there was an issue, now the ball is in your court and that ball hasn't come back.\" -Jan, 25\n8. \"He ghosted me to go out with his friends\"\n\"One time I was talking to a guy on Grindr and I was looking forward to meeting him, but he kept on re-scheduling. I figured out that he was canceling to go out with his friends and after a while, he ghosted me without no explanation. Truthfully, I get that people can be turned off for hundreds of reasons, but it made me feel played. You meet someone and you talk for hours via chat; you wait for their messages hourly and when he ghosted me I felt like I wasted so much time.\n\"I think it is just a way for people to away confrontation. Like, it's OK to ghost if they aren't getting the hint or they bother/stalk you, but don't let it be the first thing.\" - David, 21\n9. \"She told me she wanted to go to a museum and then never texted me again\"\n\"There was one time where I went on a couple dates with a girl. We went to Delray Beach to watch the 4th of July fireworks. I drove her back to her car and we kissed in parting. She texted me later that week and said she had been dying to go to the Frost Museum in Miami and asked if I'd be down. I told her I would, but that I had to work that weekend. Then she never responded to my texts.\n\"I get why ghosting is a thing. It's easy. The girl doesn't have to explain why she's dropping the dude. But it leaves the guy wondering why he got dropped when he thought things were going well and all the sudden it's dead. Because it happens so often without any obvious reason, it also makes me think I could be getting ghosted any moment when a girl takes a while to respond.\" - Zach, 25.\n10. \"She made the first move. We went on a date, kissed, and never heard from her\"\n\"There was this girl I met in college. She was so interested in me. She made the first move, something I never usually see. We hit it off pretty well and we even went on a date. I cooked dinner for us. We had some light conversation ended our date sharing a kiss and her explaining she was under the impression that me being an older guy, I was just going to take her into my room and try to get some. Contrary to popular belief, I am kind of a gentleman. Taken back for a second, we ended up making out even harder before she left. I had aspirations of seeing her and eagerly texted her on multiple occasions to get together go on another date but never heard from her again. It was quite a perplexing situation.\n\"I personally think ghosting is a part of life but it sucks and is honestly pretty mean. I've ghosted people on Tinder and Bumble, so I am guilty but when you meet someone in person or create a physical bond, it would be a decent gesture to let them know you are not really feeling their vibes.\" - Ricardo, 26\n11. \"My opinion is that they need to man or woman up\"\n\"The story about getting ghosted is too long, but my opinion is that it's an awful thing to do and people need to man or woman up and just say they don't want a relationship, friend or dating wise, instead of leaving the person with questions\" -Anonymous, 25\n\"So, I met this girl in middle school. We'll call her A. A and I got along famously, talks on the phone every day, texting, Skyping, the whole shebang. A moves to Texas. Unfortunate. We start playing Runescape together as a way to like, still hang out. Years go by, we always keep in touch, talking on the phone a few times a week, Runescape. We'd have the times where I was dating someone, she'd not talk to me as much but still keep it friendly and respectful, and vice versa. Anytime I was single, she'd have a boyfriend and anytime she was single I'd have a girlfriend, again, unfortunate but we were still young so it didn't matter. We always told each other that if we were ever single at the same time, and able to visit the other we would. And we did this all throughout high school. Even when I was dating my ex, I had to almost like cut her off because back then having a girl that was a friend was such a huge issue. Oh well.\nFast forward to 20-years-old. Same thing different day with her and me. She's in a relationship, she loves the dude. I'm in a relationship, I found out I'm having a kid (Spoiler, two years later I find out that it isn't even my kid). But one day, out of the blue, I had even made plans to come up and visit her, even bought us tickets to the Austin City Music Fest. The texts start changing, and I don't care what anyone says but you can tell a difference in text. They weren't as energetic. The calls stop, the Skyping stops. Till one day, I can't find her on Facebook or Instagram? Even her family did it. I didn't ever even talk to them. Phone number changed and all, and she had the same one from the first day I met her.\n\"If you've made someone invest time and emotion into you, then they deserve an explanation if you're just going to cut them off. Even if you think the reason will hurt them, it's better than the sh*t they probably come up with on their own in their head. I've ghosted someone before. But it was because I didn't want to string them along and I couldn't figure out how to explain how I was feeling. But I was also in 9th grade when I did that, so.\" - Casey, 25", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 22185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/category/resistance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:50Z", "digest": "sha1:GGOHODZA5E77CGNFU2O3PROXNDXJHRXZ", "length": 2903, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "syrianfreepress.wordpress.com", "title": "Resistance | the real Syrian Free Press", "raw_content": "Category Archives: Resistance\nSyrian Armed Forces killed foreign mercenaries and their commanders in Daraa and other areas\nPosted by syrianpatriots in Daraa, foreign mercenaries, foreign-backed terrorists, Resistance, SAA Military Reports, Syrian Arab Army, Syrian Army, Syrian Free Press, Syrian Patriots, Syrian Resistance, Terrorism By Proxy, Terrorist killed, Terrorists, Terrorists Gangs, War Against Terrorism, War on Syria, War Strategy\nAleppo, Daesh, Damascus Countryside, Daraa, Daraa al-Balad, foreign mercenaries, foreign-backed terrorists, Hama, Homs, idleb, ISIL, ISIS, Quneitra, SAA Military Reports, Syrian Arab Army, Syrian Army, Syrian Heroes, Syrian Patriots, Syrian People, Syrian Resistance, Terrorism By Proxy, Terrorisme, Terrorist attack, Terrorist killed, Terrorists, Terrorists Gangs, War Against Terrorism, War by Proxy, War Criminals, War on Syria, War Strategy\nIn the northern mountains of al-Qalamoun, Army units, in cooperation with the Lebanese resistance, continued their operations against terrorists\u2019 hideouts and gatherings in the al-Misherfa and al-Jarajir towns, eliminating a number of terrorists in al-Zamrani crossing point in the mountains of Qara town.\nAnother Army unit launched intensive strikes against terrorist organizations\u2019 hideouts in the eastern parts of al-Zabadani mountains, killing many terrorists, injuring many others and destroying their weapons and ammunition.\nIn Harasta, the Army killed a number of terrorists, injured many others and destroyed their ammo and weaponry in the area surrounding al-Shukr mosque, also destroying a 200-meter-long tunnel that terrorists were using for movement and storing up weapons.\nCategories Select Category +All Articles (3,077) 104th Airborne Brigade (1) 1984 (2) 2011 (1) 2013 (1) 2014 (2) 2015 (3) 2016 (1) 2017 (2) 2018 (3) 2022 FIFA World Cup (1) 9/11 (11) A-321 (12) AAB (1) Abbey Martin (1) Abducted (1) Abducted Christians (1) Abdul Basit Sieda (1) Abdul Hadi Awang (1) Abdul Salam Harba (1) Abdullah al-Dardari (1) Abdullah Azzam Brigades (3) Abdullah Gul (3) Abu Bakr Al-Baghdaadi (22) Simon Elliot (11) Abu Dhabi (2) Abu Mohammed al-Joulani (2) Abu Sakkar (1) Acqua Potabile in Siria (1) Adana (2) ADL (1) Adnan Aroor (2) Adnan Mansour (1) Adra (12) Afghanistan (10) AFP (3) Africa (3) Afrin (4) AfriSynergy (1) Afshin Rattansi (1) Afterlife (1) Agenzia Stampa Italia (1) Ahmad al-Jarba (8) Ahmad Jannati (1) Ahmadinejad (6) Ahmed Jibril (1) Ahmet Davutoglu (5) Ahrar al-Sham (11) AIPAC (14) AKP (2) Al Jadid TV (1) Al Jazeera (13) Al Quds (5) Al Saud (14) Al Shabaab (2) Al-Akhbariya TV (1) al-Alam (3) Al-Aqsa Mosque (8) Al-Arabia (9) al-Azhar (1) al-Baath Party (5) Al-Ba\u2019ath Brigades (1) Al-Baath University (1) Al-Bouti (7) al-Dweireneh (1) Al-Farok Brigade (3) Al-Farouk Brigade (2) al-Halqi (3) al-Hossen citadel (1) al-Houla (42) al-Khateeb (3) Al-Kindi Hospital (1) Al-Mahdi al-Harati (1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 591, "original_length": 204553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-attacks-congressional-dems-fbi-mcmaster-clinton-obama-schiff-and-more", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:39Z", "digest": "sha1:24TFJGYANKAJ7FWJUHRLGT4M2CZGM4P7", "length": 4317, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "talkingpointsmemo.com", "title": "Trump Attacks Congressional Dems, FBI, McMaster, Clinton, Obama, Schiff, Others \u2013 Talking Points Memo", "raw_content": "Trump Attacks Congressional Dems, FBI, McMaster, Clinton, Obama, Schiff, Others\nOn Twitter Saturday night and Sunday morning, President Donald Trump flooded the zone with his takes on a variety of topics, all seemingly sharing one message: It\u2019s not my fault.\nThe past week was a taxing one for the President, politically: A mass shooting in Florida increased the pressure on Congress to enact gun control legislation. Robert Mueller indicted 14 people, Russian and American, and additional entities on various charges in the course of his special counsel investigation \u2014 one that the administration has maintained is a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d based on a \u201choax.\u201d And the New Yorker magazine detailed another extramarital affair the President reportedly paid to keep quiet.\nTrump\u2019s tweets deflected responsibility in bursts.\nDespite congressional Republicans constituting the only obstacle to new gun control legislation, the President blamed Democrats for just that.\nHe said the FBI\u2019s focus on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election \u2014 one in which his administration has repeatedly attempted to interfere \u2014 distracted the bureau from the threat posed by the gunman who ultimately committed a shooting massacre in Parkland, Florida on Wednesday.\nThe bureau admitted that a lapse in protocol occurred when a tip about the gunman was not flagged to the relevant local authorities. The bureau did not say it had been distracted by the Russia probe. Trump\u2019s tweet echoed a widespread sentiment among the far-right.\nTrump nitpicked with his own national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, who said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that Robert Mueller\u2019s recent indictments provided \u201cincontrovertible\u201d evidence of Russian meddling in the election \u2014 but did not say that that such meddling didn\u2019t affect the election. In announcing the indictment against 13 people for various charges Friday Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said only that there was no allegation \u201cin the indictment\u201d of any effect on the outcome of the election.\nAt 7:02 a.m. he attacked former President Barack Obama for a cash payment to Iran that Obama administration officials have consistently defended. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u2014 who\u2019s facing his own troubles at home \u2014 attacked Iran and the Iran deal at the Munich Security Conference on Sunday.\nNever gotten over the fact that Obama was able to send $1.7 Billion Dollars in CASH to Iran and nobody in Congress, the FBI or Justice called for an investigation!\nAnd he seized on a comment made by the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who told NBC News on Friday that the Obama administration should have provided a \u201cmore forceful deterrent\u201d to foreign cyber attacks following the 2014 Sony hack.\nFinally, Liddle\u2019 Adam Schiff, the leakin\u2019 monster of no control, is now blaming the Obama Administration for Russian meddling in the 2016 Election. He is finally right about something. Obama was President, knew of the threat, and did nothing. Thank you Adam!\nI never said Russia did not meddle in the election, I said \u201cit may be Russia, or China or another country or group, or it may be a 400 pound genius sitting in bed and playing with his computer.\u201d The Russian \u201choax\u201d was that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia \u2013 it never did!\nNow that Adam Schiff is starting to blame President Obama for Russian meddling in the election, he is probably doing so as yet another excuse that the Democrats, lead by their fearless leader, Crooked Hillary Clinton, lost the 2016 election. But wasn\u2019t I a great candidate?\nTrump is incorrect in saying \u201cI never said Russia did not meddle in the election.\u201d At times he has specified that his campaign did not collude with Russia. But he has also frequently tossed nuance aside and called the entire Mueller investigation a \u201cwitch hunt,\u201d or declared that \u201cRussia is fake news.\u201d\nAccording to the White House press secretary\u2019s schedule, the President had no public events Sunday. But on Twitter, as the day began, he had more to say.\nGreat Pollster John McLaughlin now has the GOP up in the Generic Congressional Ballot. Big gain over last 4 weeks. I guess people are loving the big Tax Cuts given them by the Republicans, the Cuts the Dems want to take away. We need more Republicans!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 7577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://targetjobs.co.uk/postgraduate-providers/university-of-wolverhampton/457815-professional-practice", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:41Z", "digest": "sha1:NWDLI56W4ILY6H6JZWP3D3MMGVYONLU3", "length": 756, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "targetjobs.co.uk", "title": "Professional Practice at University of Wolverhampton | TARGETjobs", "raw_content": "The course provides students with the opportunity to develop in depth knowledge of an area of chosen legal interest. It encourages students to challenge current intellectual thinking whilst developing an advanced knowledge and ability to analyse their selected specialist area of law directly.\nLLM: Applicants should have successfully completed either the Legal Practice Course (LPC) or the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)(formally known as The Bar Vocational Course (BVC) of England and Wales.\nThe module consists of the study of research methods followed by the completion of a dissertation on a topic of the students choice as agreed with the module leader.\nLLM Part-time \u00a3 2,007 (Whole course) Home/EU 1 Years\nLLM Part-time January 2020 1 Years", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 5949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 198.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://taxfoundation.org/taxing-review-twelve-days-christmas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:32Z", "digest": "sha1:TSYFVCRSZSITQRHZQQGB5LUVD6XUBN3X", "length": 9449, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "taxfoundation.org", "title": "A Taxing Review of the Twelve Days of Christmas | Tax Foundation", "raw_content": "A Taxing Review of the Twelve Days of Christmas\nThere\u2019s nothing practical about the gifts from the Twelve Days of Christmas\u2014just how often do you really need lords a-leaping? But have you ever considered the tax implications? (No. I realize that the answer is no.) Let\u2019s remedy that by taking a look at the list, in declining order:\nIn India, drummers play an important role in raising tax revenue. I\u2019m not talking about the entertainment tax, though there is one, but rather the role of drummers in tax enforcement. In some cases, local government officials now dispatch drum bands to the businesses of those in arrears on their taxes in an attempt to shame the owners into payment. And it works: in Mumbai, collections rose 20 percent after the drummers were deployed. So perhaps with the twelve drummers drumming, it\u2019s not so much a question of how much you owe on the drummers but how much you owed to get the drummers\u2019 attention in the first place.\nYou\u2019re off to hear a holiday woodwind ensemble, but you\u2019re vexed by the question of whether your concert ticket is subject to sales tax. The answer: it depends. In some states, concerts are considered educational events and therefore potentially exempt from the sales tax. The Wisconsin Supreme Court, however, isn\u2019t convinced. The court ruled, in Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue, that an orchestral performance is primarily a form of entertainment, not education, making admissions subject to the state sales tax. You might want to go elsewhere to listen to those eleven pipers.\nThe peerages must be in really bad shape if the lords are leaping to make a quick buck (Lords of Misrule of their own estates, perhaps), but in Nevada under the state\u2019s old Live Entertainment Tax, you might have been in luck. The 10 percent tax was not imposed if the entertainment in question was provided by employees who only occasionally served as entertainers, so I suppose it all depends on your view of how entertaining members of the Lords are as a rule. Under the old tax, live music was subject to the tax as well, but patrons seated too far away to hear it well had their seats exempted, and the tax didn\u2019t apply if the performers roamed the audience while singing. It was all just about as crazy as booking a peer of the realm for a spot of entertainment.\nThese nine ladies were likely carolers, meaning that they performed a \u201ccarole,\u201d a kind of circle dance that originated in pagan festivals but later became associated with medieval mystery plays, which were dramatizations of the \u201cmystery of faith\u201d (telling the story of Christ\u2019s life, death, resurrection, and future return, and often of the entire Bible) in word, song, and dance. One early partially surviving sequence, the Coventry Mystery Plays, gave us the familiar Coventry Carol. Typically, each play in the cycle was sponsored by a different guild (in the York Plays, for instance, the shipbuilders covered Noah\u2019s ark, while the goldsmiths took responsibility for the adoration of the Magi).\nThese guilds originally came into being largely as a response to arbitrary taxation in a time when feudal lords had nearly unfettered authority to levy taxes on trade within their fiefs. Craft guilds united craftsmen for the purpose of a sort of collective bargaining with the lord over taxes, with each member of the guild responsible for an established share of the tax. Not that the guilds ever had nine ladies dancing in their plays; while women performed in pagan caroles, the female roles all went to men by the time of the mystery plays.\nLet\u2019s talk about the preferential treatment of dairy cattle in the tax code, shall we? In a county in Alberta, Canada, ranchers feuded with local government over a $3 per head tax on large beef cattle operations. Dairy cattle, however, were exempt. It\u2019s the same story in Virginia, where handlers owe 25 cents per head of cattle sold, unless it\u2019s a dairy cow going back to a farm for milk production. Apparently everyone loves milk, except perhaps the maids you\u2019re anachronistically forcing into service on your dairy farm.\nSwans are notoriously territorial, especially if you have nesting pairs, so if you expect seven swans to swim peacefully, you need an awfully big lake. And large lakes typically mean high property tax assessments, leading to a bill you might regret if your investments are ever wiped out by a \u201cblack swan\u201d event.\nAre these wild geese? Because if so, you might just qualify for Texas\u2019s wildlife tax exemption. To qualify, though, your land has to be used for at least three of seven habitat management activities including habitat control, predator management, and shelter or supplemental food provision, so unless you\u2019ve found the goose that lays the golden egg, it\u2019s probably not worth the outlay. Also of note, a 2014 tax bill would have extended bonus depreciation to capital investments in fruit that grows on trees, but not to fruit that grows on bushes\u2014which is good news if you subscribe to the (rare) medieval view that a certain species of goose was actually a fruit that grew on trees.\nFive Gold(en) Rings\nIn 1991, the U.S. adopted a 10 percent luxury tax on a range of luxury goods, including jewelry priced in excess of $10,000. After disappointing revenues and a major hit to certain industries, Congress reversed itself two years later, scrapping all but the tax on cars valued in excess of $30,000 (later repealed as well). Some states, however, continue to impose their own luxury taxes. Major League Baseball also imposes a \u201cluxury tax\u201d\u2014not a real tax, of course, inasmuch as it isn\u2019t levied by a government\u2014on payroll above league guidelines, in lieu of imposing a hard salary cap.\nSo, potentially, a team might face two luxury taxes in a given year: first on their roster, and then on their World Series rings. They probably wouldn\u2019t mind, though, under the circumstances. (Oh, by the way: it\u2019s quite possible that the five gold rings are actually ring-necked pheasants, which were favored among the upper classes due to their legendary association with Jason and the Argonauts, who introduced pheasants to the West on their return voyage with the Golden Fleece. That would mean that days one through seven are all about birds, which, let\u2019s face it, is a lot of birds.)\nWe need to address a misconception here. The song isn\u2019t actually speaking of \u201ccalling\u201d birds, but \u201ccolly birds,\u201d which is to say blackbirds (really a kind of thrush). These birds, though not as regal as pheasants\u2014you wouldn\u2019t swear a \u201cbird oath\u201d over a mere colly bird\u2014were consumed as a delicacy (remember the blackbirds baked in a pie?), so check to see if your jurisdiction imposes a meals tax.\nOverdoing it a bit on the birds, aren\u2019t we? The thing is, these French hens might actually be roosters, since the Latin word for France (Gaul, from Gallia) is very close to the word for rooster. Three roosters on a Christian holiday? Well, one did crow thrice when Jesus was led away, according to the gospel accounts, so it might prefigure the crucifixion. And if these are indeed mistaken roosters, it\u2019s not the only time a rooster and a location have been conflated.\nThe historian Procopius claimed that the last emperor of the western Roman Empire, told by a eunuch that Rome had fallen, wept bitterly, thinking the messenger was informing him of the death of his prize rooster of that name, but cheered up when he learned that it was only the city that had perished. Incidentally, it has often been argued that ruinous taxation precipitated the final collapse of the Western Empire.\nMore birds, probably symbolizing fertility or love or maybe just the poet\u2019s maddening obsession with birds. Doves, according to lore, mate for life (and there\u2019s a lot of bird lore; check out the Book of Saint Albans!), making them a fitting symbol of marriage. A less romantic symbol of marriage is the extra income tax married couples owe at the federal level and in states which, by failing to double bracket widths for joint filers, impose a \u201cmarriage penalty.\u201d\nI\u2019m tired of birds, so let\u2019s talk about the pear tree. In 1944, the Soviet Union burdened its already downtrodden farmers with a punitive tax on fruit trees. As a result, weary farmers felled their trees to avoid paying the tax. Only later would the Soviets learn, in the words of Nikita Khrushchev, that economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one\u2019s wishes.\nBut then, there may never have been a pear tree to begin with. According to one theory, the original lyrics were \u201ca partridge, une perdrix,\u201d repeating the phrase \u201ca partridge\u201d in French for some unknown reason. Over time, this morphed into the mondegreen \u201cin a pear tree.\u201d (What\u2019s a mondegreen, you ask? It\u2019s the word for misheard lyrics, originating in a misrepresentation of the line \u201claid him on the green\u201d as \u201cLady Mondegreen\u201d in the Scottish ballad \u201cThe Bonnie Earl o\u2019 Moray.\u201d)\nOne more thing: we as a society have the twelve days of Christmas all wrong, and I don\u2019t just mean in our failure to associate them with tax policy. The twelve days are not a countdown to Christmas Day, but rather from it. Christmas Day is actually the first day of Christmastide or Twelvetide, a twelve-day season culminating in the straightforwardly-named Twelfth Night (think Shakespeare) on the eve of Epiphany. So if you haven\u2019t ordered those colly birds for your true love\u2019s Twelfth Night pie yet, don\u2019t worry, there\u2019s still plenty of time!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 15205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://taxmap.irs.gov/taxmap/ts0/sportutilityandcer_o_3755bae4.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GYIS5RYCVDJHEHAYD2MJEW2EMX5R36C2", "length": 150, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "taxmap.irs.gov", "title": "Sport Utility and Certain Other Vehicles", "raw_content": "Sport Utility and Certain Other Vehicles\nSport Utility and Certain Other Vehicles. You cannot elect to expense more than $25,000 of the cost of any...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tayepperson.com/2018/03/20/my-spring-tbr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:12Z", "digest": "sha1:X7YM5QO7R5AHKAJL6UTBSO6HU4XLRJNX", "length": 4071, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "tayepperson.com", "title": "My Spring TBR - Taylor Epperson", "raw_content": "Happy first day of spring bookworms! It\u2019s slowly starting to get warmer here in Colorado, though I\u2019m pretty sure it snowed yesterday. But I\u2019m excited for spring and summer and the warmer weather. I\u2019m also excited about all the books that have come out recently or that are coming out soon! I feel like there have been so many good books being released lately and I just want to read them all. I wish I could read a new book every day but that\u2019s just not possible (if you have that superpower could ya please share with the rest of us?) my TBR keeps growing and growing and growing and I\u2019m probably drowning in it, but I\u2019m also LOVING all of the great books I\u2019ve been reading lately. This post is all about the top books that are on my TBR that I really really really am going to read in the next few months.\nClick on image for more info and to buy.\nTo be honest, I\u2019m not 100% sure how I feel about this novella. I love the ACOTAR series so, yes, I\u2019m excited to be in that world again, but we\u2019ll see how this one goes. That being said I\u2019m a sucker for Rhysand so I\u2019ll definitely be reading this one once it hits the shelves in May.\nI\u2019ve heard so many good things about The Hazel Wood and I\u2019m currently listening to the audiobook and it\u2019s so creepy and wonderful and I never want it to end but I also want to know what\u2019s going on.\nI keep seeing this book everywhere and right now it\u2019s really on the top of my list, just waiting for it to come in from the library or I\u2019ll end up buying it. But a dystopian world where everything is perfect and there are people who are trained to be Scythes (who kill people) just sounds super interesting. Plus\u2026 this book has a lot of hype and I just really want to read it. And just look at that cover!!\nI bought this book back in January and I\u2019d really love to read it. I love memoir/personal growth books and I cannot wait to read this one. Plus, this book is gorgeous!\nLiving Well Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life\nI love Ruth\u2019s blog and this year one of my goals is to spend less and really focus on the good things I have in life! (One goal that I have in regards to buying books is that I can only buy a new book after I\u2019ve read 10 that I already have) But I\u2019m super excited to dive into this book and focus on the things that matter most!\nI received Furyborn via the publisher on NetGalley. I think this one comes out in April or May but I cannot wait to read it! I actually don\u2019t know anything about it (I think I read the summary when I requested it, but now I can\u2019t remember) but I\u2019m excited to dive into this one!\nI read Ever the Hunted last year and LOVED this story and this world. I\u2019m currently just waiting for Ever the Brave to come from the library and then I\u2019ll be reading it. Full of magic and mystery I am ready to get back into this world.\nThis is one of my most anticipated reads of 2018. I was intrigued when I first read the synopsis and saw the cover and now that people have been reading it I\u2019ve heard so many good things. This will be my next purchase I am sure. Hoping to read this one in April.\nI wanted to read this one before I go see Love, Simon and I\u2019m currently reading it and I cannot put it down and as soon as I finish this blog post I\u2019m planning to go and read (and finish) this one. And yes, I\u2019m aware of that terrible run on sentence but I love this book so much and I need to learn how to type faster so I can get back to reading.\nAgain, another book that has a lot of hype but this one has been on my TBR since I heard about it. I\u2019m hoping it lives up to its hype and that it will be as amazing as everyone has been saying it is.\nBasically, over the next few months, I\u2019m really hoping to catch up on a lot of the new releases that I haven\u2019t been able to read, as well as reading some personal growth books that I hope will inspire me to be a better person!\nWhat are you planning to read this spring? How do you manage your TBR? I\u2019m a big mood reader, so having seasonal TBR\u2019s helps me stay on track a little more than monthly TBR\u2019s. Are you a mood reader?\nTags: Book List, Spring TBR, TBR", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tdtrust.org/category/webinars", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:43Z", "digest": "sha1:IDKCJWBZPK5S7PX3LNJDQQ4WEDLMTBV4", "length": 2631, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "tdtrust.org", "title": "\u00bb Webinars", "raw_content": "Category : Webinars\nIf we know how to make CPD more effective, why isn\u2019t it happening?\nThis blog first appeared on the Pearson School Model blog In his last guest post Daivd Weston, Chief Executive of the Teacher Development Trust, relates the discussion had in their recent webinar exploring the thorny question: if we know how to make CPD more effective, why isn\u2019t it happening?\u2026\nShould CPD providers require a license to train teachers?\nThis blog first appeared on the Pearson School Model blog \u201cAbsolutely not\u201d was the resounding answer to the question Should CPD providers require a license to train teachers? This question was the focus of the fifth webinar debate on CPD hosted by the Teacher Development Trust. In the first unanimous vote\u2026\nShould CPD best practice be a mandatory part of training for headship?\nThis blog first appeared on the Pearson School Model blog [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_EBI0G0aI&w=450] Professional development of staff should be the number one priority for every head, according to the attendees of the fourth Big CPD Debate series of webinars. David Weston from the TDT outlines why\u2026\nShould schools be forced to schedule staff collaboration time? How can they lead it effectively?\nThis blog first appeared on the Pearson School Model blog [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Yu2HdM2o4&w=450] The third of the debates hosted by the Teacher Development Trust around CPD took on the hot topic of whether schools should be forced to schedule staff collaboration time? David Weston, their Chief Executive,\u2026\nShould teachers be required to plan lessons collaboratively?\nThis blog first appeared on the Pearson School Model blog. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2BnhqHSWs4&w=450] In the second of our guest posts from the Teacher Development Trust, David Weston, the CEO, recounts the discussions that took place around the question \u201cshould teachers be required to plan lessons\u2026\nShould we ban one-off professional development (CPD) courses for teachers?\nThis blog first appeared on the Pearson School Model blog Last week David Weston, the Chief Executive for the Teacher Development Trust, chaired the first of a series of Webinars exploring the findings of a research report we\u2019ve commissioned from the Centre for the Use of Research\u2026\nA professional development revolution\nTraditional approaches to professional development for teachers aren\u2019t working. That\u2019s the stark message that comes out of a new report we commissioned from the Centre for the Use of Research Evidence in Education (CUREE). Too many courses and consultancy services lacked a serious evidence base,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teaching-english.prestwickhouse.com/books/Dr-Jekyll-And-Mr-Hyde-Study-Guide", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LVUJQAXIAPNVBQ73JA35Y5WP54JITQA7", "length": 1105, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "teaching-english.prestwickhouse.com", "title": "Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Study Guide - Prestwick House", "raw_content": "Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Study Guide\nDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Downloadable Complete Teacher's Kit\n\u2026and chapter-by-chapter study questions promote close reading. Save countless hours preparing teaching materials, and save some money - these downloadable Kits cost less than buying individual teaching guides. This downloadable Complete Teacher's Kit for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde comes with three PDF\u2026\nDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Complete Teacher's Kit\nDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 30 Books and Complete Teacher's Kit\n\u2026unit are designed to help students increase their vocabulary by studying the meanings of words selected from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This class bundle comes with 30 copies of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde automatically upgraded to our highest discount, as well as the\u2026\n\u2026help them practice a variety of language arts skills using the included daily lessons, and easily assess each student's understanding through study guide questions and unit tests. Each LitPlan Teacher Pack will help you: * Prepare to teach a new title with in-depth Introductory Materials, including\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 7678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teaching-english.prestwickhouse.com/books/Run,-Boy,-Run", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:22Z", "digest": "sha1:52GV4DFJ2M7L2RLFDY5KN466PBCLWXEU", "length": 2211, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "teaching-english.prestwickhouse.com", "title": "Run, Boy, Run - Prestwick House", "raw_content": "George, Jean Craighead(2)\nDahl, Roald(1)\nIrving, John(1)\nOrlev, Uri(1)\nWatch imaginations run wild in your classroom with this scary, but fun, story. A 7-year-old boy discovers there are real witches among us working to rid the world of children by turning them into mice. With the help of his eccentric grandmother, our hero does all he can to stop the witches before\u2026\nRelated Products: The Witches\nStudents will love this adventurous story about a boy fed up with the abundance of family in his New York City apartment. Sam is fed up with his life in the big city, as well as life with his seven brothers and sisters. So, he decided to run away to the mountains, where he befriends a falcon and a\u2026\n\u2026of John Irvings The Cider House Rules will capture the hearts of your students. The story follows the life of Homer Wells, a boy brought up in an orphanage run by a secret abortionist. Homer is faced with many moral decisions, and though he often breaks the social norms, he remains genuine\u2026\nPalmer LaRue is running out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten-the day he'll take his place beside all the other ten-year-old boys in town, the day he'll be a wringer. But Palmer doesn't want to be a wringer. It's one of the first things he learned about\u2026\nFighting Ground, The\nThe Fighting Ground is a 1778 young adult novel about a boy who runs away to fight in the Revolutionary War. This book is eligible for Prestwick House paperback volume discounts. You'll always save at least 25% on any paperback you order. If the retail value of your order is at least $500, you'll\u2026\n\u2026action-packed childrens novel sure to keep your students captivated. Ralph runs away from home on his motorcycle and ends up at Happy Acres Camp, where he shares a cage with a hamster named Chum and makes friends with a boy named Garf. An exciting tale of freedom and adventure, this will be a\u2026\nThis sequel to My Side of the Mountain continues the story of a run-away boy. This book is eligible for Prestwick House paperback volume discounts. You'll always save at least 25% on any paperback you order. If the retail value of your order is at least $500, you'll save 30%. And if the retail value\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 4516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/03/apple-wants-the-link-between-your-devices-to-be-you-not-a-shared-wi-fi-network/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:29Z", "digest": "sha1:LK6HHATZF775FPBTMGC2GPKMWM56KHL2", "length": 1897, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "techcrunch.com", "title": "Apple Wants The Link Between Your Devices To Be You, Not A Shared Wi-Fi Network \u2013 TechCrunch", "raw_content": "Apple has made some changes to its core inter-device sharing protocols in iOS 8, including AirPlay and AirDrop. AirDrop, the simple file sharing mechanism introduced in OS X Lion and iOS 7, now works between Macs and iOS devices; and AirPlay, the video and audio streaming protocol that plays back music and movies from iPhone, Macs, etc. on Apple TV and approved accessories, will apparently work without requiring a shared network once the update hits.\nThis is part of a larger effort to make devices work together without making end users have to worry about what transit technologies are involved. The new Continuity features in both iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 Yosemite serve a similar purpose and operate on similar principles. Apple uses a combination of shared network, proximity signals and iCloud account identification to make those work, but the point is that in use, these underlying elements are mostly invisible to users; to borrow the old Apple maxim, \u201cit just works.\u201d\nWe\u2019ve become used to the necessity of a shared network as the backdrop for tasks across devices: The local network as an analogy for \u2018home\u2019 is almost taken for granted at this point, as is its role as the interstitial material tying together our growing web of connected devices.\nThe problem is, it\u2019s increasingly an outdated metaphor \u2013 users want sharing that extends beyond their network. The nexus point of a web of personal gadgets sensibly should be the person who owns them, too, and not the crutch of a single access point to bring them together. Apple\u2019s multiple approaches to greater gadget interoperability still use the local network where it makes sense, but it doesn\u2019t use it exclusively. This is about the right transit tech for the right moment, and it prefaces a future where we don\u2019t care how our devices are connected, and instead just take for granted that they are when and where we need them to be.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 2137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techmania.cz/en/product/future-on-a-plate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MXRZZCETCO5TN2MRPCD465KZ4ZTRBKOC", "length": 711, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "techmania.cz", "title": "Future on a Plate | Techmania Science Center", "raw_content": "We eat to live, not the other way around. Every day, we have to provide nutrients and water to our bodies and this biological necessity has evolved into a cultural and industrial issue. Food has become one of the most important topics these days and its importance will only grow with the continued development of our society.\nAn interactive TSC exhibition will guide visitors through the plethora of information related to food: how to create a balanced diet, how meat gets to our shops, how a microwave oven works, how long you have to run to burn calories form one chocolate bar and so on. We must not forget about the most important aspect: that the quality of our life depends on what we put on our plates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://technewstube.com/gizmodo/1058303/marriott-hack-investigators-eye-chinese-intelligence-multiple-hacking-groups-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ALNAEO4TULEVVZHCFVQQ5OG6A7YLMJLZ", "length": 443, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "technewstube.com", "title": "Marriott Hack Investigators Eye Chinese Intelligence, Multiple Hacking Groups: Report", "raw_content": "By Rhett Jones Dec 6, 2018, 10:42 am80 pts\nLast week, the Marriott hotel group disclosed that it had been the victim of what\u2019s shaping up to be the second biggest data breach of all time. Few details have been made public on who might be responsible for the theft of data from 500 million guest records, but Reuters reports that\u2026\nContinue reading Marriott Hack Investigators Eye Chinese Intelligence, Multiple Hacking Groups: Report at Gizmodo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techsavvyav.com/about/company", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5BUZLYFQN2QVGOT4PSZV64F6YJI3ZQJ3", "length": 3580, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "techsavvyav.com", "title": "Tech Savvy -- Custom Home Automation Marin County, CA -- 707.574.8728", "raw_content": "Tech Savvy is a technology contractor providing custom home automation services to clients throughout Northern California, including; home theater and control, multi-room audio, lighting control, energy monitoring, surveillance, audio/video, computer networks, and boardroom systems.\nTech Savvy strives to be the go-to technology partner for architects, designers, builders and homeowners throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.\nIn 2009, after working for some of the top residential electronic systems companies in the country, industry veteran Vinny Bagala founded Tech Savvy on a new approach; less is more. Home technology opportunities have multiplied exponentially with the introduction of the iPad along with advanced network-based systems. Tech Savvy offers possibilities utilizing the latest technology yet are custom to the client\u2019s needs.\nWhat makes TECH SAVVY different?\nWe design systems for our clients based on their individual needs, not what a salesperson is motivated to sell.\nWe assign the same person to be your contact throughout the entire process to ensure consistency.\nWe become an essential part of the design and construction team simplifying the process for everyone involved.\nWe develop long-term relationships with our clients beyond the completion of the project to support them as their needs change and as technology develops.\nVinny Bagala, President\nBorn and raised in Sonoma County, industry veteran, Vinny Bagala discovered his passion for Audio Video at a young age. After High School Vinny went right to work as an AV Technician. Vinny continued working as a Technician while attending college at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo where he majored in Business Management. Upon graduation, Vinny moved back to Santa Rosa where he held roles as Operations Manager and then General Manager of a Sonoma County AV Company. To expand his industry experience, Vinny moved into a role as Senior Regional Project Manager at the largest Residential AV firm on the West Coast. After overseeing projects across Northern California, Colorado, Hawaii, and abroad Vinny took the leap to start his own company, TECH SAVVY.\nVinny brings over 20 years of experience to TECH SAVVY, a company dedicated to providing elite home and business audio video systems. His attention to detail, precise project management skills, expertise and communication allows for a unique and rewarding experience for both clients and contractors. Its TECH SAVVY\u2019s mission to deliver audio video solutions that integrate seamlessly into your lifestyle for years to come.\nJohn Wieschendorff, System Designer\nJohn started his career in the Audio Industry back in 1995 after working at Bay Area recording studios where he had been trained as an Audio Engineer. It was during this time that he realized he loved sharing the experience of music and film with others.\nOver the years he has harnessed his skillset to include High End Stereo and Home Theater, Home Automation, Computer Networks and Camera Systems. Today as our System Designer, John is the in-house engineer who handles system design and documentation and works closely with our clients to develop a system to meet their needs.\nHe enjoys the challenge and diversity of these distinct disciplines. Putting it all together for his clients in an easy to understand package is his perpetual goal. \u201cHome technology should work with you; seamlessly and quietly, until you are ready to turn it up!\u201d In his spare time, he enjoys activities such as cycling, and touring the Bay Area to find the hidden gems for live music and incredible food.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tedunderwood.com/2011/02/17/using-clustering-to-explore-the-relationships-between-trending-topics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:41Z", "digest": "sha1:J4KHPHL4SLDUCHCFFO3OEJTZSAZ233QI", "length": 6940, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "tedunderwood.com", "title": "Using clustering to explore the relationships between trending topics. | The Stone and the Shell", "raw_content": "Using clustering to explore the relationships between trending topics.\nUntil recently, I\u2019ve been limited to working with tools provided by other people. But in the last month or so I realized that it\u2019s easier than it used to be to build these things yourself, so I gave myself a crash course in MySQL and R, with a bit of guidance provided by Ben Schmidt, whose blog Sapping Attention has been a source of many good ideas. I should also credit Matt Jockers and Ryan Heuser at the Stanford Literary Lab, who are doing fabulous work on several different topics; I\u2019m learning more from their example than I can say here, since I don\u2019t want to describe their research in excessive detail.\nI\u2019ve now been able to download Google\u2019s 1gram English corpus between 1700 and 1899, and have normalized it to make it more useful for exploring the 18th and 19th centuries. In particular, I normalized case and developed a way to partly correct for the common OCR errors that otherwise make the Google corpus useless in the eighteenth century: especially the substitutions s->f and ss->fl.\nHaving done that, I built a couple of modules that mine the dataset for patterns. Last December, I was intrigued to discover that words with close semantic relationships tend to track each other closely (using simple sensory examples like the names of colors and oppositions like hot/cold). I suspected that this pattern might extend to more abstract concepts as well, but it\u2019s difficult to explore that hypothesis if you have to test possible instances one by one. The correlation-seeking module has made it possible to explore it more rapidly, and has also put some numbers on what was before a purely visual sense of \u201cfittedness.\u201d\nFor instance, consider \u201cdiction.\u201d It turns out that the closest correlate to \u201cdiction\u201d in the period 1700-1899 is \u201cversification,\u201d which has a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.87. (If this graph doesn\u2019t seem to match the Google version, remember that the ngram viewer is useless in the 18c until you correct for case and long s.)\nThe other words that correlate most closely with \u201cdiction\u201d are all similarly drawn from the discourse of poetic criticism. \u201cPoem\u201d and \u201cstanzas\u201d have a coefficient of 0.82; \u201cpoetical\u201d is 0.81. It\u2019s a bit surprising that correlation of yearly frequencies should produce such close thematic connections. Obviously, a given subject category will be overrepresented in certain years, and underrepresented in others, so thematically related words will tend to vary together. But in a corpus as large and diverse as Google\u2019s, one might have expected that subtle variation to be swamped by other signals. In practice it isn\u2019t.\nI\u2019ve also built a module that looks for words that are overrepresented in a given period relative to the rest of 1700-1899. The measures of overrepresentation I\u2019m using are a bit idiosyncratic. I\u2019m simply comparing the mean frequency inside the period to the mean frequency outside it. I take the natural log of the absolute difference between those means, and multiply it by the ratio (frequency in the period/frequency outside it). For the moment, that formula seems to be working; I\u2019ll try other methods (log-likelihood, etc.) later on.\nOnce I find a list of, say, fifty words that are overrepresented in a period, I can generate a correlation matrix based on their correlations with each other, and then do hierarchical clustering on that matrix to reveal which words track each other most closely. In effect, I create a broad list of \u201ctrending topics\u201d in a particular period, and then use a more precise sort of curve-matching to define the relationships between those trends.\nOne might imagine that matching words on the basis of change-across-time would be a blunt instrument compared to a more intimate approach based on collocation in the same sentences, or at least co-occurrence in the same volumes. And for many purposes that will be true. But I\u2019ve found that my experiments with smaller-scale co-occurrence (e.g. in MONK) often lead me into tautological dead ends. I\u2019ll discover, e.g., that historical novels share the kind of vocabulary I sort of knew historical novels were likely to share. Relying on yearly frequency data makes it easier to avoid those dead ends, because they have the potential to turn up patterns that aren\u2019t based purely on a single familiar genre or subject category. They may be a blunt instrument, but through their very bluntness they allow us to back up to a vantage point where it\u2019s possible to survey phenomena that are historical rather than purely semantic.\nI\u2019ve included an example below. The clusters that emerge here are based on a kind of semantic connection, but often it\u2019s a connection that only makes sense in the context of the period. For instance, \u201cnitrous\u201d and \u201cinflammable\u201d may seem a strange pairing, unless you know that the recently-discovered gas hydrogen was called \u201cinflammable air,\u201d and that chemists were breathing nitrous oxide, aka laughing gas. \u201cSir\u201d and \u201cde\u201d may seem a strange pairing, unless you reflect that \u201cde\u201d is a French particle of nobility analogous to \u201csir,\u201d and so on. But I also find that I\u2019m discovering a lot here I didn\u2019t previously know. For instance, I probably should have guessed that Petrarch was a big deal in this period, since there was a sonnet revival \u2014 but that\u2019s not something I actually knew, and it took me a while to figure out why Petrarch was coming up. I still don\u2019t know why he\u2019s connected to the dramatist Charles Macklin.\nThere are lots of other fun pairings in there, especially britain/commerce/islands and the group of flashy hyperbolic adverbs totally/frequently/extremely connected to elegance/opulence. I\u2019m not sure that I would claim a graph like this has much evidentiary value; clustering algorithms are sensitive to slight shifts in initial conditions, so a different list of words might produce different groupings. But I\u2019m also not sure that evidentiary value needs to be our goal. Lately I\u2019ve been inclined to argue that the real utility of text mining may be as a heuristic that helps us discover puzzling questions. I certainly feel that a graph like this helps me identify topics (and more subtly, kinds of periodized diction) that I didn\u2019t recognize before, and that deserve further exploration. [UPDATE 4/20/2011: Back in February I was doing this clustering with yearly frequency data, and Pearson\u2019s correlation, which worked surprisingly well. But I\u2019m now fairly certain that it\u2019s better to do it with co-occurrence data, and a vector space model. See this more recent post.]\nThis entry was posted in 18c, 19c, methodology by tedunderwood. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 thoughts on \u201cUsing clustering to explore the relationships between trending topics.\u201d\nPingback: Recent Linkage 8 \u00ab Signifying Media\njual serum vege on April 7, 2015 at 8:19 am said:\nIt\u2019s great that you are getting thoughts from this article as well as from our argument made at this time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 8329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tenkdays.wordpress.com/2007/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:EMXEBRMEDPKW5IDRU4BU4NYCWNZI7EZI", "length": 8681, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "tenkdays.wordpress.com", "title": "August | 2007 | 10kdays", "raw_content": "Song 322-\nAfter yesterday\u2019s struggle, I\u2019m happy to be visiting the land of giant ketchup- Illinois. It\u2019s all the place where my good friend, Genevieve, is getting married this weekend. Congrats to her!! Gen is a big fan of Chicago House music, so in tribute of her big day I\u2019m gonna to pick one of my favorite songs from the genre by a band that\u2019s also from Chicago.\nSong 322- \u201cThat\u2019s the Way Love Is\u201d by Ten City\nAnd now to an Iram Extra. And this time she picked a song that I had never heard of by an artist I really like. She choose \u201cDisappointed\u201d by Morrissey. I was excited to hear this song as Moz\u2019s fans seem to think this is one of his best songs ever. So I checked out the song and I liked it\u2026because I\u2019ve liked it for years\u2026back when it was called \u201cHow Soon Is Now\u201d. He blatantly built it around his old Smiths work. I asked Iram if the song was a half-assed knock off. She dodged that but stated her reason for choosing it:\n\u201cHe\u2019s performing at the Hammerstein in October and tickets start at well over $100 a seat \u2013 so this song goes out to all the fans who cannot or will not (moi) shell out that kind of cash. But on the grand scale, it\u2019s a nice song for all of us who have experienced the sting of thwarted hopes.\u201d\nI hoped for a new song. Thwarted. Hmmm, can he be sued for self plagiarism like John Fogerty?\nAnd don\u2019t forget to check out the other 10kdays journals! Glenn! Rachael! Andy! Heuristics Inc!, Troy!, Albatross! and Alex!\nWelcome to potato country. Of course I\u2019m talking about Idaho. So what\u2019s up in Idaho music? Hmmm, I could talk about resident songfighter Marcus Kellis but I won\u2019t. The band Idaho isn\u2019t from Idaho. Built to Spill is from there but I don\u2019t really dig them much. Quiet Riot was from Idaho and though I loved the way that Rudy Sarzo would toss his bass over his shoulder and spin it back into its rightful position, I will refrain from picking \u201cCum On Feel The Noize\u201d. So who will I choose? I have no idea. This one is a hard one. Dammit, I think I have to pick one of those bands. It\u2019s either that or Josh Ritter. Ugh. Who wins. Marcus Kellis.\nSong 321- \u201cIs it Cold?\u201d by Marcus Kellis & the Legitimate Businessmen featuring Spud of #\nDamn that was hard. I hope I have better luck with the state where you can find the world\u2019s largest bottle of ketchup/catsup. Hell yeah! And there will be an Iram Extra tomorrow as the two of us dispute if an artist can plagiarize himself.\nAloha! Welcome to the state where you can get lei\u2019d but you can\u2019t put a coin in someone\u2019s ear, Hawaii. I think I may have a bit of a struggle on my hands here. When it comes to Hawaiian musicians, the first thought that comes to mind is Don Ho. Not good. Then there\u2019s Jack Johnson and I would prefer Don Ho. So this is gonna take some research. And what did I find out? Shannyn Sossamon, a Hawaii native, has a band. And y\u2019all know how much I enjoy actors with rock bands. Will she be successful like Thirty Seconds To Mars, only okay like Dogstar or will it be as bad as Steven Seagal and Thunderbox. Well, it did better than Thunderbox. (I definitely think actor bands needs a three week theme, c\u2019mon Zero1!) The band is called Warpaint and features her sister. There\u2019s some footage of them on YouTube but I don\u2019t wanna use one of those tunes. They have a great tune on their myspace to try out instead.\nSong 320- \u201cElephants\u201d by Warpaint\nhttp://www.myspace.com/worldwartour\nTomorrow, the world\u2019s largest baked potato. Why?\nWelcome to Georgia, land of the joggle. Well, at least, it had a world record joggle. On look at youtube tell me that joggling has gotten around. But in Georgia, they know how to joggle. But I guess you have gotta do something in a state where you can\u2019t buy sex toys. But I\u2019m not here to talk about jogging while juggling or sex toy bans. I\u2019m here for music from Georgia. It would be too too easy to just pick a Southern rock band from Georgia so there will be Black Crowes today. And I\u2019m gonna avoid the Athens scene so no REM< B-52's, Neutral Milk Hotel or Widespread Panic. And again, it would be way to easy to pick something that's either R&B or Hip-Hop. Atlanta is a home to a lot of exceptional groups in those genres, like Outkast, TLC, Gladys Knight, Otis Redding and Ludacris. Even picking a country artist feels too easy with the plethora of choices including Trisha Yearwood and Alan Jackson. Nope, I'm gonna go heavy metal. I would choose Mastodon but I posted \"Colony of Birchmen\" back at #102. Instead I will choose Sevendust. How bad ass is Sevendust especially the powerhouse frontman Lajon. Here's the song that put them on the map.\nSong 319- \u201cBlack\u201d by Sevendust\nTomorrow, we go to a place where it was once illegal to put a coin in someone\u2019s ear. (The more I do this theme, the crazier the US becomes in my eyes)\nAnd check out my occasionally updated internet radio show:\nThe Other Night I Dreamt of Knives.\nWho\u2019s thirsty?! Of course, Florida is the home of the world\u2019s biggest glass of orange juice. So what band will I talk about from there? The possibilities are almost endless. Well I am definitely not gonna talk about 7 Mary 3 or Matchbox 20. It seems that Florida has a vibrant death metal scene with bands like Morbid Angel, Death, and Deicide. But I guess that balances out the boy bands like \u2018Nsync, Backstreet Boys and O-Town. Maybe some Gloria Estefan? Nyah. There\u2019s a band from Jacksonville that I know very little about. They have stayed kind of under the radar in many ways. I look on wikipedia and it says that they have had seven songs on the Billboard Rock Charts that got to the top 5. I can believe that because I\u2019m a New Yorker and frankly we miss out on a lot and they have a definitely Southern twang to them. I only stumbled over this song by accident but I\u2019m so grateful that I did because everytime I hear it, it effects me so strongly. It\u2019s got such raw power and emotion to it. Please take a listen to this one and tell me what you think. This song for some reason strikes a big chord with me.\nSong 318- \u201c45\u201d by Shinedown\nTomorrow, it\u2019s time to visit the state where Will Howard made a world record for joggling. That\u2019s juggling + jogging.\nWelcome to the home of the world\u2019s largest frying pan, Delaware. Delaware, why do you have such a large kitchen utensil? Did the whole state want eggs at the same time? Anyway, I\u2019m here to talk about some music of Delaware. Well, Bob Marley lived in Delaware for some time according to wikipedia. That\u2019s interesting. Zen Guerrilla is from there. \u201cEmpty Heart\u201d is pretty badass and its from my all time favorite video game \u201cGrind Session\u201d. But I\u2019m a Songfighter and as a Songfighter I should with pride talk about our band that made good. If there\u2019s some 10kdays reader that doesn\u2019t know what Song Fight is, go to http://www.songfight.org then come back. It\u2019s okay, I\u2019ll wait.\nOkay, are we on the same page now? So, one of the Songfight bands is Carol Cleveland Sings. Have you heard of them? They\u2019re from Delaware and did a lot of Songfights. They have even won a couple of the fights. And now they are touring around the world and a couple of those songs that were Songfight enters are now their hits with music videos and everything. Oh, did I forget to mention that Carol Cleveland Sings is a psuedonym? See CCS is really Thomas Hughes. He\u2019s a part of the Spinto Band. Now, that should be a bit more familiar. They aren\u2019t colossal yet but they are making waves. And here\u2019s a song of theirs that started on Songfight\nSong 317- \u201cBrown Boxes\u201d by the Spinto Band\nNext, a state has a 730 gallon glass of OJ. Are ya thirsty?\nWelcome to the birthplace of the Ivory Soap Girl who was cute kid who girl up to be porn legend Marilyn Chambers, Connecticut. So what CT resident do I go with? Definitely not Michael Bolton. However amused I am by his metal days, I\u2019d be damned if I place him in 10kdays. One of the Monkees is from CT but it\u2019s Peter Tork so it doesn\u2019t count. JK, Peter. It would be an easy one to pick Weezer as I love that band and Rivers Cuomo is from CT and they have a bunch of songs I can choose from but I\u2019m going to go against the grain. Instead I\u2019ll go with a Texan who has recently become a Connecticutian. Not exactly how I\u2019ve been doing this theme but I didn\u2019t establish any standard criteria, so nyah :P. Plus, it\u2019s a shock that I haven\u2019t posted this before because it\u2019s a classic. I remember being a kid and going on a flight to Panama. And I hate the great idea that I would fly with my walkman. Good idea but what did I have on me? One cassette single to listen to. That was one long flight of the B-side \u201cI Do\u201d and\u2026\nSong 316- \u201cWhat I Am\u201d by Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians\nTomorrow we visit the world\u2019s largest frying pan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 11496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://termlifeinsurancemales.com/life-insurance-by-state/colorado-term-life-insurance-quotes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:47Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7MDQG4Q4S6WR326IGQC5JA5YU3Z7LQ6", "length": 1906, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "termlifeinsurancemales.com", "title": "Tips for Buying Life Insurance in Colorado | Term Life Insurance for Males", "raw_content": "If you want to know where to find the best deals on low cost life insurance policies in Colorado, then read on.\nWe\u2019ll show you what\u2019s available and explain the differences to help you make an informed choice.\nAlso, we\u2019ll give you some valuable tips on how to find the right policy that suits your individual needs.\nLife Insurance Policies Available in Colorado\nColorado is what I would call a \u201cno exclusion\u201d state. For example, if an insurance company comes out with a new 10 year term policy and they want to sell it in all 50 states, there are usually a few problem states like Washington or New York, where the product might not get approved in (every state has to separately approve the new 10 year term product to be sold there.)\nBut I rarely ever see policies being offered in certain states, but not Colorado. You pretty much have access to just about every company\u2019s policies that are available in any other state.\nHaving said that, let\u2019s review the types of policies you do have available to you.\nThere are 2 types of life insurance policies which can be found in Colorado. The types of life insurance are known as term insurance and permanent insurance. They both have some similar features with when it comes to death benefits, but permanent insurance has a cash value feature which I\u2019ll explain about later on.\nThe cheapest form of life insurance you buy is term insurance. Term life insurance covers you for life but you buy the policy in chunks of time such as 10, 20, or 25 years. You will be given the option of renewing the term, buying a different term or may even be given the option of switching over to permanent insurance such as a whole life policy or a universal policy.\nAnother good thing about the premiums is that they are fixed for the life of the term policy so what you\u2019re paying per month in year one, will be the same that you will be paying in the final year of the policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 6099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://terrehautelocalnews.com/airborne-wireless-network-real-time-performance-that-never-fails/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KTG4IEKN7BWFXSJSOL4E2EMY4KIESEAU", "length": 194, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "terrehautelocalnews.com", "title": "Airborne Wireless Network: Real-time Performance That Never Fails", "raw_content": "https://terrehautelocalnews.com/airborne-wireless-network-real-time-performance-that-never-fails/\nhttps://terrehautelocalnews.com/airborne-wireless-network-real-time-performance-that-never-fails", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 8933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 220.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://test-ua.urbanadventures.com/blog/gracia-great-barcelona-barrio.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GSDIJS3WKSKQQQ36T4ZTAXSTMKGKJC7I", "length": 5118, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "test-ua.urbanadventures.com", "title": "Gracia the great: A guide to the Barcelona barrio \u2013 Urban Adventures", "raw_content": "Ditch the tourist map, forget the sand (for a minute) and head to a place in Barcelona that really captures the Catalan way of life. Beyond its famed beaches, tucked inside the heart of this buzzing city lies the halcyon barrio Gracia. Entering this quaint neighbourhood provides a snippet of the traditional, easy-going Mediterranean life with lively plazas, terraces, local caf\u00e9s and restaurants combined with alluring narrow streets and minimal traffic. A jaunt to Gracia lets you experience Barcelona like a local.\nThe author taking a whirl around Gracia | Photo via Julia D\u2019Orazio\nThis charming district remained an independent village until the late 19th century when it was engulfed by Barcelona\u2019s urban sprawl, giving Gracia a distinct flavour which sets it apart from neighbouring barrios.\nGracia holds its own in architecture with a small grid village layout punctuated by low-rise Mediterranean buildings, one-way streets and a series of plazas enhancing this cosy neighbourhood. Its intimate feel is reinforced by an abundance of local and independent bars, restaurants and shops that are a world away from the major food and retail outlets populating the city centre. There\u2019s a variety of Catalan cuisine plus international gastronomy spilling out of hole-in-the-wall gourmet street-food outlets. The Argentinean empanadas are a highlight and I have to admit they were just as tasty as those found in Argentina itself!\nDespite its central location, Gracia has somehow managed to escape the mayhem of its surrounds, and its peaceful aura lures bohemians and creatives aplenty. Strolling through its pedestrian streets you will encounter local street art sandwiched between alternative art galleries and stores selling local trinkets. One of its oldest streets, Travessera de Gracia, dating back to 1057, hosts a string of independent boutiques and the renowned fresh produce market Mercat de l\u2019Abaceria Central (established in 1892). After dark you can forget about pumping nightclubs and the associated fracas; Grarcia\u2019s nightlife is dominated by the lively yet chilled Spanish caf\u00e9 culture enveloping the outskirts of its plazas and terraces.\nThis barrio is home to a large ethnic and elderly population, making it not only a diverse neighbourhood but also one that has held on to longstanding traditions. To get a true feel for the Catalan way of life, pay a visit to Gracia\u2019s historical square, Placa de la Vila de Gracia. Enjoy local and international delights in one of its long reigning bars and restaurants while soaking in the views of the colossal clock tower built circa 1864. Another sight to behold is the beautiful Casa de la Vila, the district\u2019s headquarters, which were designed by local architect Francesc Berenguer i Mestres in 1905. The delightful light blue facade adorned with a wrought iron balcony and windows provides the perfect backdrop to witness the energetic and remarkable sport that is Castell. If your stars align you may catch a glimpse of this inventive Catalan pastime in the picturesque square. The rich tradition of Castell dates back to the 18th century and remains ever so popular with locals today. The unusual sport consists of people standing on top of each other\u2019s shoulders and holding one another in a ring-type formation in order to build a human tower. It really is a fascinating sight to behold, watching small children climbing like mountain goats to the top of the human tower!\nThe tradition of Catell, something you\u2019ll find nowhere else! | Photo by Julia D\u2019Orazio\nGracia may be lacking in any major tourist attractions but you don\u2019t need to travel far to find them. A visit to Barcelona would be incomplete without admiring the work of renowned architect crusader Antoni Gaudi, and as luck would have it many of his masterpieces are just a stone\u2019s throw away. The colourful mosaics and imaginative designs of Gaudi\u2019s Parc Guell converges on the outskirts of Gracia\u2019s historic streets. The barrio is also home to the astonishing Casa Vincens, Gaudi\u2019s first modernist house, which was a ground-breaking design in its time. Combining Hispano-Arabic and oriental influences, the reddish tone brick house is covered with green and white tiles decorated with Moorish carnations and iron railings. It was a beacon to a new era of architecture when the building was completed in the late 19th century. The world heritage-listed building is soon to open as a public museum celebrating Gaudi himself.\nWith so much on offer you can forgive yourself for wanting to take up residence in Gracia for a day (or more). There are culinary treats from across the globe to be savoured alongside local favourites, works of art both old and new to be appreciated, and hours to be whiled away sipping coffee on a terrace immersed in the heart of Catalan culture. Taking influence from near and far and overflowing with old-world charisma, Gracia provides a glimpse into a unique facet of Barcelona. This charming community is sure to leave its quaint mark on your very soul.\nBarcelona Tours | Urban Adventures\nbarcelona neighbourhoods3 barcelona travel4 local life in barcelona4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 439, "original_length": 12460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://texasbluesalley.com/store/product/jump-blues-rhythms-vol-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:16Z", "digest": "sha1:D7HSVRYOZGKMX7LL2TAG272WKWQVWNY2", "length": 84, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "texasbluesalley.com", "title": "Jump Blues Rhythms - Vol. 1 - TXBA Store", "raw_content": "More information about this course can be found on the course page in The Woodshed.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 3379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 153.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://texasbluesalley.com/woodshed/free-lessons/how-i-learn-guitar-solos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HF4DAK4G74PTE3D63FHZQUUCL5L5FAJG", "length": 274, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "texasbluesalley.com", "title": "How I Learn Guitar Solos - TXBA Free Lesson Friday", "raw_content": "If you've ever tried to learn a guitar solo and gotten to the end, but forgotten how to play the beginning, this lesson is for you. I'll talk about the process I used and still used today when learning solos so that I retain what I already learned, while tackling new parts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 4598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theactivityguideblognow.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/a-list-of-what-to-do-in-san-diego/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:57Z", "digest": "sha1:GKDFUS2QDX7PHTEENSTKHWG6F7HZWRAF", "length": 2507, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theactivityguideblognow.wordpress.com", "title": "A List Of What To Do In San Diego \u2013 Local Activities", "raw_content": "A List Of What To Do In San Diego\nThere is no better place to visit than the city of San Diego in California. This is a great place to visit any day of the week or during your vacation. There are countless fun things that you can do to have a memorable and fun experience. Besides, you can engage your kids in the fun as the city accommodates all. In fact, you need to plan your time well if you are to explore every part of the city. If you are looking to have the time of your life in the city, the following are fun things to do in san diego.\nYou have to visit the San Diego zoo. Here, you get to make contact with a range of wild animals from various parts of the world. The animals provide are such a spectacular view and you get to see how they interact with nature. If you have never seen wild animals in your life, this is the place to be. The tour guides will take you all around the park explaining all you need to know about the animals. They share details that include the origin of the animals and their behavior. They might also allow you to feed the animals and take pictures with them. Such an experience is not only enjoyable but also educational. Besides, those that fear wild animals end up understanding them and get rid of their fears by interacting with them. What is more, the list of animals that are present in the zoo is endless and you might spend an entire day here without getting bored. You could also go for the San Diego zoo safari and touch base with a various animals from Africa.\nAnother thing you can do is visit the Balboa Park. The park is a multi-attraction site with many fun things to do in san diego. There are many museums in the park that carry histories of various cultures across the world. They include the Museum of Art, Natural History Museum, Museum of Man, Mingei International Museum, Model Railroad Museum, the Air & Space Museum, the Automotive Museum and the Art Institute\u2019s Museum of the Living Artist. If you plan to visit any of the museums, you must know the opening and closing hours. Also, inquire if there are any entry charges.\nYou could also visit SeaWorld San Diego. This is an animal themed park that has a range of water animals from marine mammals and turtles. There is also an oceanarium with a range of sea animals and fish species that are of different sizes and colors. If you are a lover of the ocean and seas, then this is the place to be. The view of the oceanarium is simply magnificent.\nPrevious Post Fun Things To Do In San Diego", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 148.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/noam-chomsky-interviewed-by-peter-jay-the-relevance-of-anarcho-syndicalism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BSTECTQTVQAK5T6SKP6NE2FLB6OLFKR5", "length": 42978, "nlines": 78, "source_domain": "theanarchistlibrary.org", "title": "The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism | The Anarchist Library", "raw_content": "Title: The Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism\nSubtitle: The Jay Interview, July 25, 1976\nTopics: interview, syndicalism\nSource: Retrieved on February 3rd, 2015 from http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/19760725.htm\nNoam Chomsky interviewed by Peter Jay\nThe Relevance of Anarcho-syndicalism\nThe Jay Interview, July 25, 1976\nQUESTION: Professor Chomsky, perhaps we should start by trying to define what is not meant by anarchism -- the word anarchy is derived, after all, from the Greek, literally meaning \"no government.\" Now, presumably people who talk about anarchy or anarchism as a system of political philosophy don't just mean that, as it were, as of January 1st next year, government as we now understand it will suddenly cease; there would be no police, no rules of the road, no laws, no tax collectors, no post office, and so forth. Presumably, it means something more complicated than that.\nCHOMSKY: Well, yes to some of those questions, no to others. They may very well mean no policemen, but I don't think they would mean no rules of the road. In fact, I should say to begin with that the term anarchism is used to cover quite a range of political ideas, but I would prefer to think of it as the libertarian left, and from that point of view anarchism can be conceived as a kind of voluntary socialism, that is, as libertarian socialist or anarcho-syndicalist or communist anarchist, in the tradition of, say, Bakunin and Kropotkin and others. They had in mind a highly organized form of society, but a society that was organized on the basis of organic units, organic communities. And generally, they meant by that the workplace and the neighborhood, and from those two basic units there could derive through federal arrangements a highly integrated kind of social organization which might be national or even international in scope. And these decisions could be made over a substantial range, but by delegates who are always part of the organic community from which they come, to which they return, and in which, in fact, they live.\nQUESTION: So it doesn't mean a society in which there is, literally speaking, no government, so much as a society in which the primary source of authority comes, as it were, from the bottom up, and not the top down. Whereas representative democracy, as we have it in the United States and in Britain, would be regarded as a from-the-top-down authority, even though ultimately the voters decide.\nCHOMSKY: Representative democracy, as in, say, the United States or Great Britain, would be criticized by an anarchist of this school on two grounds. First of all because there is a monopoly of power centralized in the state, and secondly -- and critically -- because the representative democracy is limited to the political sphere and in no serious way encroaches on the economic sphere. Anarchists of this tradition have always held that democratic control of one's productive life is at the core of any serious human liberation, or, for that matter, of any significant democratic practice. That is, as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role in production is simply that of ancillary tools, then there are striking elements of coercion and oppression that make talk of democracy very limited, if even meaningful.\nQUESTION: Historically speaking, have there been any sustained examples on any substantial scale of societies which approximated to the anarchist ideal?\nCHOMSKY: There are small societies, small in number, that I think have done so quite well, and there are a few examples of large scale libertarian revolutions which were largely anarchist in their structure. As to the first, small societies extending over a long period, I myself think the most dramatic example is perhaps the Israeli kibbutzim, which for a long period really were constructed on anarchist principles, that is: self-management, direct worker control, integration of agriculture, industry, service, personal participation in self-management. And they were, I should think, extraordinarily successful by almost any measure that one can impose.\nQUESTION: But they were presumably, and still are, in the framework of a conventional state which guarantees certain basic stabilities.\nCHOMSKY: Well, they weren't always. Actually, their history is rather interesting. Since 1948 they've been in the framework of a conventional state. Prior to that they were within the framework of the colonial enclave and, in fact, there was a subterranean, largely cooperative society, which was not really part of the system of the British mandate, but was functioning outside of it. And to some extent, that's survived the establishment of the state, though of course, it became integrated itself into the state and in my view lost a fair amount of its libertarian socialist character through this process, and through other processes which are unique to the history of that region which we need not go into.\nHowever, as functioning libertarian socialist institutions, I think they are an interesting model that is highly relevant to advanced industrial societies in a way in which some of the other examples that have existed in the past are not. A good example of a really large-scale anarchist revolution -- in fact the best example to my knowledge -- is the Spanish revolution of 1936, in which, over most of Republican Spain, there was a quite inspiring anarchist revolution that involved both industry and agriculture over substantial areas, developed in a way which to the outside, looks spontaneous. Though, in fact, if you look at the roots of it, you discover that it was based on some three generations of experiment, thought and work which extended anarchist ideas to very large parts of the population in this largely pre-industrial -- though not totally pre-industrial -- society.\nAnd that, again, was, by both human measures and indeed anyone's economic measures, quite successful. That is, production continued effectively; workers in farms and factories proved quite capable of managing their affairs without coercion from above, contrary to what lots of socialists, communists, liberals and others wanted to believe. And in fact, you can't tell what would have happened. That anarchist revolution was simply destroyed by force, but during the brief period in which it was alive I think it was a highly successful and, as I say, in many ways a very inspiring testimony to the ability of poor working people to organize and manage their own affairs, extremely successfully, without coercion and control. How relevant the Spanish experience is to an advanced industrial society one might question in detail.\nQUESTION: It's clear that the fundamental idea of anarchism is the primacy of the individual -- not necessarily in isolation, but with other individuals -- and the fulfillment of his freedom. This in a sense looks awfully like the founding ideas of the United States of America. What is it about the American experience which has made freedom as used in that tradition become a suspect and indeed a tainted phrase in the minds of anarchists and libertarian socialist thinkers like yourself?\nCHOMSKY: Let me just say I don't really regard myself as an anarchist thinker. I'm a derivative fellow traveler [of anarchism], let's say. Anarchist thinkers have constantly referred to the American experience and to the ideal of Jeffersonian democracy very very favorably. You know, Jefferson's concept that the best government is the government than governs least, or Thoreau's addition to that, that the best government is the one that doesn't govern at all, is one that's often repeated by anarchist thinkers through modern times.\nHowever, the ideal of Jeffersonian democracy -- putting aside the fact that it was a slave society -- developed in an essentially pre-capitalist system, that is, in a society in which there was no monopolistic control, there were no significant centers of private power. In fact, it's striking to go back and read today some of the classic libertarian texts. If one reads, say, Wilhelm von Humboldt's critique of the state of 1792 [English language version: The Limits of State Action (Cambridge University Press, 1969)], a significant classic libertarian text that certainly inspired Mill, one finds that he doesn't speak at all of the need to resist private concentration of power, rather he speaks of the need to resist the encroachment of coercive state power. And that is what one finds also in the early American tradition. But the reason is that that was the only kind of power there was. I mean, Humboldt takes for granted that individuals are roughly equivalent in their private power, and that the only real imbalance of power lies in the centralized authoritarian state, and individual freedom had to be sustained against its intrusion -- the State or the Church. That's what he feels one must resist.\nNow, when he speaks, for example, of the need for control of one's creative life, when he decries the alienation of labor that arises from coercion or even instruction or guidance in one's work, he's giving an anti-statist or anti-theocratic ideology. But the same principles apply very well to the capitalist industrial society that emerged later. And I would think that Humboldt, had he been consistent, would have ended up being a libertarian socialist.\nQUESTION: Don't these precedents, suggest that there is something inherently pre-industrial about the applicability of libertarian ideas -- that they necessarily presuppose a rather rural society in which technology and production are fairly simple, and in which the economic organization tends to be small-scale and localized?\nCHOMSKY: Well, let me separate that into two questions: one, how anarchists have felt about it, and two, what I think is the case. As far as anarchist reactions are concerned, there are two. There has been one anarchist tradition -- and one might think, say, of Kropotkin as a representative -- which had much of the character you describe. On the other hand, there's another anarchist tradition that develops into anarcho-syndicalism which simply regarded anarchist ideas as the proper mode of organization for a highly complex, advanced industrial society. And that tendency in anarchism merges, or at least inter-relates very closely with a variety of left-wing Marxism, the kind that one finds in, say, the Council Communists that grew up in the Luxembourgian tradition and that is later represented by Marxist theorists like Anton Pannekoek, who developed a whole theory of workers' councils in industry and who is himself a scientist and astronomer, very much a part of the industrial world.\nSo, which of these two views is correct? I mean, is it necessary that anarchist concepts belong to the pre-industrial phase of human society or is anarchism the rational mode of organization for a highly advanced industrial society? Well, I myself believe the latter, that is, I think that the industrialization and the advance of technology raise possibilities for self-management over a broad scale that simply didn't exist in an earlier period. And that in fact this is precisely the rational mode for an advanced and complex industrial society, one in which workers can very well become masters of their own immediate affairs, that is, in direction and control of the shop, but also can be in a position to make the major, substantive decisions concerning the structure of the economy , concerning social institutions, concerning planning, regionally and beyond. At present, institutions do not permit them to have control over the requisite information, and the relevant training to understand these matters. A good deal could be automated. Much of the necessary work that is required to keep a decent level of social life going can be consigned to machines -- at least, in principle -- which means that humans can be free to undertake the kind of creative work which may not have been possible, objectively, in the early stages of the industrial revolution.\nQUESTION: I'd like to pursue in a moment the question of the economics of an anarchist society, but could you sketch in a little more detail the political constitution of an anarchist society, as you would see it in modern conditions? Would there be political parties, for example? What residual forms of government would in fact remain?\nCHOMSKY: Let me sketch what I think would be a rough consensus, and one that I think is essentially correct. Beginning with the two modes of organization and control, namely organization and control in the workplace and in the community, one could imagine a network of workers' councils, and at a higher level, representation across the factories, or across branches of industry, or across crafts, and on to general assemblies of workers' councils that can be regional and national and international in charter. And from another point of view, one can project a system of government that involves local assemblies -- again, federated regionally, dealing with regional issues, crossing crafts, industry, trades, and so on, and again at the level of the nation or beyond.\nNow, exactly how these would develop and how they would inter-relate and whether you need both of them or only one, well, these are matters over which anarchist theoreticians have debated and many proposals exist, and I don't feel confident to take a stand. These are questions which will have to be worked out.\nQUESTION: But, there would not be, for example, direct national elections and political parties organized from coast to coast, as it were. Because, if there were that would presumably create a kind of central authority which would be inimical to the idea of anarchism.\nCHOMSKY: No, the idea of anarchism is that delegation of authority is rather minimal and that its participants at any one of these levels of government should be directly responsive to the organic community in which they live. In fact, the optimal situation would be that participation in one of these levels of government should be temporary, and even during the period when it's taking place should be only partial; that is, the members of a workers' council who are for some period actually functioning to make decisions that other people don't have the time to make, should also continue to do their work as part of the workplace or neighborhood community in which they belong.\nAs for political parties, my feeling is that an anarchist society would not forcefully prevent political parties from arising. In fact, anarchism has always been based on the idea that any sort of Procrustean bed, any system of norms that is imposed on social life will constrain and very much underestimate its energy and vitality and that all sorts of new possibilities of voluntary organization may develop at that higher level of material and intellectual culture. But I think it is fair to say that insofar as political parties are felt to be necessary, anarchist organization of society will have failed. That is, it should be the case, I would think, that where there is direct participation in self-management, in economic and social affairs, then factions, conflicts, differences of interests and ideas and opinion, which should be welcomed and cultivated, will be expressed at every one of these levels. Why they should fall into two, three or n political parties, I don't quite see. I think that the complexity of human interest and life does not fall in that fashion. Parties represent basically class interests, and classes would have been eliminated or transcended in such a society.\nQUESTION: One last question on the political organization. Is there not a danger with this sort of hierarchical tier of assemblies and quasi-governmental structure, without direct elections, that the central body, or the body that is in some sense at the top of this pyramid, would get very remote from the people on the ground? And since it will have to have some powers if it's going to deal with international affairs, for example, and may even have to have control over armed forces and things like that, that it would be less democratically responsive than the existing regime?\nCHOMSKY: It's a very important property of any libertarian society to prevent an evolution in the direction that you've described, which is a possible evolution, and one that institutions should be designed to prevent. And I think that that's entirely possible. I myself am totally unpersuaded that participation in governance is a full-time job. It may be in an irrational society, where all sorts of problems arise because of the irrational nature of institutions. But in a properly functioning advanced industrial society organized along libertarian lines, I would think that executing decisions taken by representative bodies is a part-time job which should be rotated through the community and, furthermore, should be undertaken by people who at all times continue to be participants in their own direct activity.\nIt may be that governance is on a par with, say, steel production. If that turns out to be true -- and I think that is a question of empirical fact that has to be determined, it can't be projected out of the mind -- but if it turns out to be true then it seems to me the natural suggestion is that governance should be organized industrially, as simply one of the branches of industry, with their own workers' councils and their own self-governance and their own participation in broader assemblies.\nI might say that in the workers' councils that have spontaneously developed here and there -- for example, in the Hungarian revolution of 1956 -- that's pretty much what happened. There was, as I recall, a workers' council of state employees who were simply organized along industrial lines as another branch of industry. That's perfectly possible, and it should be or could be a barrier against the creation of the kind of remote coercive bureaucracy that anarchists of course fear.\nQUESTION: If you suppose that there would continue to be a need for self-defense on quite a sophisticated level, I don't see from your description how you would achieve effective control of this system of part-time representative councils at various levels from the bottom up, over an organization as powerful and as necessarily technically sophisticated as, for example, the Pentagon.\nCHOMSKY: Well, first, we should be a little clearer about terminology. You refer to the Pentagon, as is usually done, as a defense organization. In 1947, when the National Defense Act was passed, the former War Department -- the American department concerned with war which up to that time was honestly called the War Department -- had its name changed to the Defense Department. I was a student then and didn't think I was very sophisticated, but I knew and everyone else knew that this meant that to whatever extent the American military had been involved in defense in the past -- and partially it had been so -- this was now over. Since it was being called the Defense Department, that meant it was going to be a department of aggression, nothing else.\nQUESTION: On the principle of never believe anything until it's officially denied.\nCHOMSKY: Right. Sort of on the assumption that Orwell essentially had captured the nature of the modern state. And that's exactly the case. I mean, the Pentagon is in no sense a defense department. It has never defended the United States from anyone. It has only served to conduct aggression. And I think that the American people would be much better off without a Pentagon. They certainly don't need it for defense. Its intervention in international affairs has never been -- well, you know, never is a strong word, but I think you would be hard put to find a case -- certainly it has not been its characteristic pose to support freedom or liberty or to defend people and so on. That's not the role of the massive military organization that is controlled by the Defense Department. Rather, its tasks are two -- both quite anti-social.\nThe first is to preserve an international system in which what are called American interests -- which primarily means business interests, can flourish. And, secondly, it has an internal economic task. I mean, the Pentagon has been the primary Keynesian mechanism whereby the government intervenes to maintain what is ludicrously called the health of the economy by inducing production, that means production of waste.\nNow, both these functions serve certain interests, in fact dominant interests, dominant class interests in American society. But I don't think in any sense they serve the public interest, and I think that this system of production of waste and of destruction would essentially be dismantled in a libertarian society. Now, one shouldn't be too glib about this. If one can imagine, let's say, a social revolution in the United States -- that's rather distant, I would say, but if that took place, it's hard to imagine that there would be any credible enemy from the outside that could threaten that social revolution -- we wouldn't be attacked by Mexico or Cuba, let's say. An American revolution would not require, I think, defense against aggression. On the other hand, if a libertarian social revolution were to take place, say, in western Europe, then I think the problem of defense would be very critical.\nQUESTION: I was going to say, it can't surely be inherent to the anarchist idea that there should be no self-defense, because such anarchist experiments as there have been have, on the record, actually been destroyed from without.\nCHOMSKY: Ah, but I think that these questions cannot be given a general answer. They have to be answered specifically, relative to specific historical and objective conditions.\nQUESTION: It's just that I found a little difficulty in following your description of the proper democratic control of this kind of organization, because I find it a little hard to see the generals controlling themselves in the manner you would approve of.\nCHOMSKY: That's why I do want to point out the complexity of the issue. It depends on the country and the society that you're talking about. In the United States, one kind of problem arises. If there were a libertarian social revolution in Europe, then I think the problems you raise would be very serious, because there would be a serious problem of defense. That is, I would assume that if libertarian socialism were achieved at some level in Western Europe, there would be a direct military threat both from the Soviet Union and by the United States. And the problem would be how that should be countered. That's the problem that was faced by the Spanish revolution. There was direct military intervention by Fascists, by Communists and by liberal democracies in the background, and the question how can one defend oneself against attack at this level is a very serious one.\nHowever, I think we have to raise the question whether centralized, standing armies, with high technology deterrents, are the most effective way to do that. And that's by no means obvious. For example, I don't think that a Western European centralized army would itself deter a Russian or American attack to prevent libertarian socialism -- the kind of attack that I would quite frankly expect at some level: maybe not military, at least economic.\nQUESTION: But nor on the other hand, would a lot of peasants with pitchforks and spades...\nCHOMSKY: We're not talking about peasants. We're talking about a highly sophisticated, highly urban industrial society. And it seems to me, its best method of defense would be its political appeal to the working class in the countries that were part of the attack. But again, I don't want to be glib. It might need tanks, it might need armies. And if it did, I think we can be fairly sure that that would contribute to the possible failure or at least decline of the revolutionary force -- for exactly the reasons that you mentioned. That is, I think it's extremely hard to imagine how an effective centralized army deploying tanks, planes, strategic weapons, and so on, could function. If that's what's required to preserve the revolutionary structures, then I think they may well not be preserved.\nQUESTION: If the basic defense is the political appeal, or the appeal of the political and economic organization, perhaps we could look in a little more detail at that. You wrote, in one of your essays, that \"in a decent society, everyone would have the opportunity to find interesting work and each person would be permitted the fullest possible scope for his talents.\" And then, you went on to ask: \"What more would be required in particular, extrinsic reward in the form of wealth and power? Only if we assume that applying one's talents in interesting and socially useful work is not rewarding in itself.\" I think that that line of reasoning is certainly one of the things that appeals to a lot of people. But it still needs to be explained, I think, why the kind of work which people would find interesting and appealing and fulfilling to do would coincide at all closely with the kind which actually needs to be done, if we're to sustain anything like the standard of living which people demand and are used to.\nCHOMSKY: Well, there's a certain amount of work that just has to be done if we're to maintain that standard of living. It's an open question how onerous that work has to be. Let's recall that science and technology and intellect have not been devoted to examining that question or to overcoming the onerous and self-destructive character of the necessary work of society. The reason is that it has always been assumed that there is a substantial body of wage slaves who will do it simply because otherwise they'll starve. However, if human intelligence is turned to the question of how to make the necessary work of the society itself meaningful, we don't know what the answer will be. My guess is that a fair amount of it can be made entirely tolerable. It's a mistake to think that even back-breaking physical labor is necessarily onerous. Many people, myself included, do it for relaxation. Well, recently, for example, I got it into my head to plant thirty-four trees in a meadow behind the house, on the State Conservation Commission, which means I had to dig thirty-four holes in the sand. You know, for me, and what I do with my time mostly, that's pretty hard work, but I have to admit I enjoyed it. I wouldn't have enjoyed it if I'd had work norms, if I'd had an overseer, and if I'd been ordered to do it at a certain moment, and so on. On the other hand, if it's a task taken on just out of interest, fine, that can be done. And that's without any technology, without any thought given to how to design the work, and so on.\nQUESTION: I put it to you that there may be a danger that this view of things is a rather romantic delusion, entertained only by a small elite of people who happen, like professors, perhaps journalists, and so on, to be in the very privileged situation of being paid to do what anyway they like to do.\nCHOMSKY: That's why I began with a big \"If\". I said we first have to ask to what extent the necessary work of the society -- namely that work which is required to maintain the standard of living that we want -- needs to be onerous or undesirable. I think that the answer is: much less than it is it today. But let's assume there is some extent to which it remains onerous. Well, in that case, the answer's quite simple: that work has to be equally shared among people capable of doing it.\nQUESTION: And everyone spends a certain number of months a year working on an automobile production line and a certain number of months collecting the garbage and...\nCHOMSKY: If it turns out that these are really tasks which people will find no self-fulfillment in. Incidentally, i don't quite believe that. As I watch people work, craftsmen, let's say, automobile mechanics for example, I think one often finds a good deal of pride in work. I think that that kind of pride in work well done, in complicated work well done, because it takes thought and intelligence to do it, especially when one is also involved in management of the enterprise, determination of how the work will be organized, what it is for, what the purposes of the work are, what'll happen to it, and so on -- I think all of this can be satisfying and rewarding activity which in fact requires skills, the kind of skills people will enjoy exercising. However, I'm thinking hypothetically now. Suppose it turns out there is some residue of work which really no one wants to do, whatever that may be -- okay, then I say that the residue of work must be equally shared, and beyond that, people will be free to exercise their talents as they see fit.\nQUESTION: I put it you, Professor, that if that residue were very large, as some people would say it was, if it accounted for the work involved in producing ninety per cent of what we all want to consume -- then the organization of sharing this, on the basis that everybody did a little bit of all the nasty jobs, would become wildly inefficient. Because, after all, you have to be trained and equipped to do even the nasty jobs, and the efficiency of the whole economy would suffer, and therefore the standard of living which it sustained would be reduced.\nCHOMSKY: Well, for one thing, this is really quite hypothetical, because I don't believe that the figures are anything like that. As I say, it seems to me that if human intelligence were devoted to asking how technology can be designed to fit the needs of the human producer, instead of conversely -- that is, now we ask how the human being with his special properties can be fitted into a technological system designed for other ends, namely, production for profit -- my feeling is that if that were done, we would find that the really unwanted work is far smaller than you suggest. But whatever it is, notice that we have two alternatives. One alternative is to have it equally shared, the other is to design social institutions so that some group of people will be simply compelled to do the work, on pain of starvation. Those are the two alternatives.\nQUESTION: Not compelled to do it, but they might agree to do it voluntarily because they were paid an amount which they felt made it worthwhile.\nCHOMSKY: Well, but you see, I'm assuming everyone essentially gets equal remuneration. Don't forget that we're not talking about a society now where the people who do the onerous work are paid substantially more than the people who do the work that they do on choice -- quite the opposite. The way our society works, the way any class society works, the people who do the unwanted work are the ones who are paid least. That work is done and we sort of put it out of our minds, because it's assumed that there will be a massive class of people who control only one factor of production, namely their labor, and have to sell it, and they'll have to do that work because they have nothing else to do, and they'll be paid very little for it. I accept the correction. Let's imagine three kinds of society: one, the current one, in which the undesired work is given to wage-slaves. Let's imagine a second system in which the undesired work, after the best efforts to make it meaningful, is shared. And let's imagine a third system where the undesired work receives high extra pay, so that individuals voluntarily choose to do it. Well, it seems to me that either of the two latter systems is consistent with -- vaguely speaking -- anarchist principles. I would argue myself for the second rather than the third, but either of the two is quite remote from any present social organization or any tendency in contemporary social organization.\nQUESTION: Let me put that to you in another way. It seems to me that there is a fundamental choice, however one disguises it, between whether you organize work for the satisfaction it gives to the people who do it, or whether you organize it on the basis of the value of what is produced for the people who are going to use or consume what is produced. And that a society that is organized on the basis of giving everybody the maximum opportunity to fulfill their hobbies, which is essentially the work-for-work's-sake view, finds its logical culmination in a monastery, where the kind of work which is done, namely prayer, is work for the self-enrichment of the worker and where nothing is produced which is of any use to anybody and you live either at a low standard of living, or you actually starve.\nCHOMSKY: Well, there are some factual assumptions here, and I disagree with you about the factual assumptions. My feeling is that part of what makes work meaningful is that it does have use, that its products do have use. The work of the craftsman is in part meaningful to that craftsman because of the intelligence and skill that he puts into it, but also in part because the work is useful, and I might say, the same is true of scientists. I mean, the fact that the kind of work you do may lead to something else -- that's what it means in science, you know -- may contribute to something else, that's very important quite apart from the elegance and beauty of what you may achieve. And I think that covers every field of human endeavor. Furthermore, I think if we look at a good part of human history, we'll find that people to a substantial extent did get some degree of satisfaction -- often a lot of satisfaction -- from the productive and creative work that they were doing. And I think that the chances for that are enormously enhanced by industrialization. Why? Precisely because much of the most meaningless drudgery can be taken over by machines, which means that the scope for really creative human work is substantially enlarged.\nNow, you speak of work freely undertaken as a hobby. But I don't believe that. I think work freely undertaken can be useful, meaningful work done well. Also, you pose a dilemma that many people pose, between desire for satisfaction in work and a desire to create things of value to the community. But it's not so obvious that there is any dilemma, any contradiction. So, it's by no means clear -- in fact, I think it's false -- that contributing to the enhancement of pleasure and satisfaction in work is inversely proportional to contributing to the value of the output.\nQUESTION: Not inversely proportional, but it might be unrelated. I mean, take some very simple thing, like selling ice-creams on the beach on a public holiday. It's a service to society: undoubtedly people want ice-creams, they feel hot. On the other hand, it's hard to see in what sense there is either a craftsman's joy or a great sense of social virtue or nobility in performing that task. Why would anyone perform that task if they were not rewarded for it?\nCHOMSKY: I must say, I've seen some very cheery-looking ice cream vendors...\nQUESTION: Sure, they're making a lot of money.\nCHOMSKY: ... who happen to like the idea that they're giving children ice-creams, which seems to me a perfectly reasonable way to spend one's time, as compared with thousands of other occupations that I can imagine.\nRecall that a person has an occupation, and it seems to me that most of the occupations that exist -- especially the ones that involve what are called services, that is, relations to human beings -- have an intrinsic satisfaction and rewards associated with them, namely in the dealings with the human beings that are involved. That's true of teaching, and it's true of ice cream vending. I agree that ice cream vending doesn't require the commitment or intelligence that teaching does, and maybe for that reason it will be a less desired occupation. But if so, it will have to be shared.\nHowever, what I'm saying is that our characteristic assumption that pleasure in work, pride in work, is either unrelated to or negatively related to the value of the output is related to a particular stage of social history, namely capitalism, in which human beings are tools of production. It is by no means necessarily true. For example, if you look at the many interviews with workers on assembly lines, for example, that have been done by industrial psychologists, you find that one of the things they complain about over and over again is the fact that their work simply can't be done well; the fact that the assembly line goes through so fast that they can't do their work properly. I just happened to look recently at a study of longevity in some journal on gerontology which tried to trace the factors that you could use to predict longevity -- you know, cigarette smoking and drinking, genetic factors -- everything was looked at. It turned out, in fact, that the highest predictor, the most successful predictor, was job satisfaction.\nQUESTION: People who have nice jobs live longer.\nCHOMSKY: People who are satisfied with their jobs. And I think that makes a good deal of sense, you know, because that's where you spend your life, that's where your creative activities are. Now what leads to job satisfaction? Well, I think many things lead to it, and the knowledge that you are doing something useful for the community is an important part of it. Many people who are satisfied with their work are people who feel that what they're doing is important to do. They can be teachers, they can be doctors, they can be scientists, they can be craftsmen, they can be farmers. I mean, I think the feeling that what one is doing is important, is worth doing, contributes to those with whom one has social bonds, is a very significant factor in one's personal satisfaction.\nAnd over and above that there is the pride and the self-fulfilment that comes from a job well done -- from simply taking your skills and putting them to use. Now, I don't see why that should in any way harm, in fact I should think it would enhance, the value of what's produced.\nBut let's imagine still that at some level it does harm. Well, okay, at that point, the society, the community, has to decide how to make compromises. Each individual is both a producer and a consumer, after all, and that means that each individual has to join in these socially determined compromises -- if in fact there are compromises. And again I feel the nature of the compromise is much exaggerated because of the distorting prism of the really coercive and personally destructive system in which we live.\nQUESTION: All right, you say the community has to make decisions about compromises, and of course communist theory provides for this in its whole thinking about national planning, decisions about investment, direction of investment, and so forth. In an anarchist society, it would seem that you're not willing to provide for that amount of governmental superstructure that would be necessary to make the plans, make the investment decisions, to decide whether you give priority to what people want to consume, or whether you give priority to the work people want to do.\nCHOMSKY: I don't agree with that. It seems to me that anarchist, or, for that matter, left-Marxist structures, based on systems of workers' councils and federations, provide exactly the set of levels of decision-making at which decisions can be made about a national plan. Similarly, state socialist societies also provide a level of decision-making -- let's say the nation -- in which national plans can be produced. There's no difference in that respect. The difference has to do with participation in those decisions and control over those decisions. In the view of anarchists and left-Marxists -- like the workers' councils or the Council Communists, who were left-Marxists -- those decisions are made by the informed working class through their assemblies and their direct representatives, who live among them and work among them. On the state socialist systems, the national plan is made by a national bureaucracy, which accumulates to itself all the relevant information, makes decisions, offers them to the public, and says, \"You can pick me or you can pick him, but we're all part of this remote bureaucracy.\" These are the poles, these are the polar opposites within the socialist tradition.\nQUESTION: So, in fact, there's a very considerable role for the state and possibly even for civil servants, for bureaucracy, but it's the control over it that's different.\nCHOMSKY: Well, see, I don't really believe that we need a separate bureaucracy to carry out governmental decisions.\nQUESTION: You need various forms of expertise.\nCHOMSKY: Oh, yes, but let's take expertise with regard to economic planning, because certainly in any complex industrial society there should be a group of technicians whose task it is to produce plans, and to lay out the consequences of decisions, to explain to the people who have to make the decisions that if you decide this, you're likely to get this consequence, because that's what your programming model shows, and so on. But the point is that those planning systems are themselves industries, and they will have their workers' councils and they will be part of the whole council system, and the distinction is that these planning systems do not make decisions. They produce plans in exactly the same way that automakers produce autos. The plans are then available for the workers' councils and council assemblies, in the same way that autos are available to ride in. Now, of course, what this does require is an informed and educated working class. But that's precisely what we are capable of achieving in advanced industrial societies.\nQUESTION: How far does the success of libertarian socialism or anarchism really depend on a fundamental change in the nature of man, both in his motivation, his altruism, and also in his knowledge and sophistication?\nCHOMSKY: I think it not only depends on it but in fact the whole purpose of libertarian socialism is that it will contribute to it. It will contribute to a spiritual transformation -- precisely that kind of great transformation in the way humans conceive of themselves and their ability to act, to decide, to create, to produce, to enquire -- precisely that spiritual transformation that social thinkers from the left-Marxist traditions, from Luxembourg, say, through anarcho-syndicalists, have always emphasized. So, on the one hand, it requires that spiritual transformation. On the other hand, its purpose is to create institutions which will contribute to that transformation in the nature of work, the nature of creative activity, simply in social bonds among people, and through this interaction of creating institutions which permit new aspects of human nature to flourish. And then the building of still more libertarian institutions to which these liberated human beings can contribute. This is the evolution of socialism as I understand it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 45800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theathletic.com/358508/2018/05/18/initial-numbers-dont-tell-the-entire-story-of-gary-sanchezs-season-at-the-plate-so-far/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GVL26HNSGXAQHMM27JTN3VXDGB6DHXZJ", "length": 1077, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "theathletic.com", "title": "Initial numbers don\u2019t tell the entire story of Gary S\u00e1nchez\u2019s season at the plate so far \u2013 The Athletic", "raw_content": "Initial numbers don\u2019t tell the entire story of Gary S\u00e1nchez\u2019s season at the plate so far\nBy Katie Sharp May 18, 2018 12\nThe buzz from Aaron Judge\u2019s historic, mind-boggling 2017 rookie season, combined with the arrival of reigning NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton, made Gary S\u00e1nchez a relatively overshadowed player entering this season. But despite the media- and fan-fueled hype of those two massive sluggers within the clubhouse, several Yankees called out S\u00e1nchez as the top hitter on the team this spring.\n\u201cI think Sanchy\u2019s probably the best hitter in the lineup, you don\u2019t talk about him at all,\u201d Sabathia said in early March. \u201cHe has power to all fields. He reminds me of a young Manny Ramirez. That\u2019s enough said right there.\u201d\nNo pressure, right? One-quarter of the way into the season and a quick look at S\u00e1nchez\u2019s back-of-the-baseball-card stats would show he\u2019s hardly living up to those expectations and is on pace to regress from his outstanding rookie and sophomore campaigns. His .211 batting average, .316 on-base percentage, and .504 slugging percentage would each be...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 6874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theawesomer.com/jenga-playing-robot/424518/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:48Z", "digest": "sha1:AMJTZS4AJHEYWMZXUD56AI2ZGUVJJ5XJ", "length": 304, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "theawesomer.com", "title": "Jenga-playing Robot", "raw_content": "Jenga-playing Robot\nIt may look a little bit like a sideways stargate, but this robot is designed to carefully position itself around a Jenga stack, methodically pluck out a wooden block, and move it to the top of the stack. We\u2019d be curious to see if it could play an entire game, but we\u2019re guessing not.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theblackbusinessschool.com/courses/black-money-101/lectures/1898918", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2B346IBI5LUVVQ7BKV5YGO5CYWZE2HZP", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "theblackbusinessschool.com", "title": "Black Wealth Conversation - 12/23/16 | The Black Business School", "raw_content": "Black Wealth Conversation - 12/23/16", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 238.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=172310&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:21Z", "digest": "sha1:IHJNZELKBRAUBJ6BEZ4XCHQVRP6UBJDA", "length": 3947, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "thebostonpilot.com", "title": "Benedictine sisters use social media as way to spread the Gospel. Published 10/22/2014. Nation.", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Nation \u00bb Benedictine sisters use social media as way to spread the Gospel\nBenedictine sisters use social media as way to spread the Gospel\nOn: 10/22/2014, By Allana Haynes , In: Nation\nMissionary Benedictine Sister Kevin Hermsen uses one of the computers at her order's monastery in Norfolk, Neb., Oct. 20 to check out Pinterest and other websites. Sister Kevin said they are following the direction of Pope Francis regarding evangelizing by using various forms of media available today. (CNS photo/courtesy Immaculata Monastery & Spirituality Center)\nWASHINGTON (CNS) -- For nearly 130 years, the Missionary Benedictine Sisters have made it their mission to spread the Gospel, reaching 19 countries and five continents.\nHowever, in recent years, the sisters have been expanding their mission to reach cyberspace.\n\"It was because of our development office that we had a need to expand our ministry via cyberspace,\" said Sister Kevin Hermsen, the development director at the Immaculata Monastery in Norfolk, Nebraska. \"We are following the direction of the Holy Father regarding evangelizing using the forms of media that are available today.\"\nThe sisters at Immaculata Monastery have been able to use social media as a way to evangelize both nationally and globally.\n\"We are an international missionary congregation,\" said Mackenzie Clayton, the monastery's media coordinator. \"We want to share the word of God around the world. We have contact with sisters around the world and they give us updates on situations that are going on.\"\nThe Immaculata Monastery in Norfolk is the location of the order's province headquarters, but sisters are stationed in countries across the globe -- including Uganda, the Philippines, Spain and Argentina.\n\"We are a missionary benediction and social media helps us build that missionary benediction all over the world -- not just in Norfolk, Nebraska,\" said Sister Fidelis Marie Lanowich, who with others at the monastery spoke to Catholic News Service in a telephone interview.\nAs a way to get their message out globally, the Missionary Benedictine Sisters created a website to interact with those outside of the monastery -- www.mbsmissionaries.org. One of the ways that people like to interact with the sisters, according to Sister Kevin, is through their website's \"Adopt a Sister\" program, which allows people to send in prayer requests.\n\"The 'Adopt a Sister' program is starting to take off,\" said Sister Kevin. \"Knowing the name of the sister that is praying for you is a good way to stay in contact and create an interaction. It is heartwarming to know there is a sister that is praying just for you. People have come to know us through the social media we promote.\"\nThe website provides information about the order's history and current events and also provides links to the sisters' Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube pages as well as their blog.\nAccording to Sister Rita Marie Tofflemire, the younger women in the monastery are not the only ones who have taken to social media -- it has become a helpful tool for women all of ages.\n\"We have an 86-year-old sister who is on Facebook all the time just to evangelize and reach out to people. She calls it 'faithbook,'\" said Sister Rita Marie.\nAs a part of their website, the sisters have created a blog where they share with readers what occurs in their daily lives in the monastery.\n\"Our way to promote vocations is by sharing our lives with others so they can see the joy in our lives,\" said Sister Fidelis Marie. \"Being able to express our lives through pictures and stories gives women an avenue to see our life before they come.\"\nOne of the misconceptions that the sisters aim to break through the use of social media is to demonstrate that their life is not unlike life for other people.\n\"Religious life is not stiff and boring,\" said Sister Kevin. \"We really do interact and have good relationships with each other like a family would.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 6950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thedenvernewsjournal.com/lifestyle/polish-sejm-illuminated-with-hanukkah-lights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XS5TG7AGCEXI6AXUP2UPRUXGWWZNIYGX", "length": 3337, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "thedenvernewsjournal.com", "title": "Polish Sejm Illuminated with Hanukkah Lights | The Denver News Journal", "raw_content": "Polish Sejm Illuminated with Hanukkah Lights\nSenior Polish government officials and Israeli rabbis light Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament. Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau \u201cFor me, this constitutes a closing of circles.\u201d\nWARSAW, POLAND, December 06, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ \u2014 In a stirring ceremony attended by senior Polish government officials and Israeli dignitaries, Hanukkah candles were lit in the Polish Sejm (Parliament) tonight. Gracing the event were senior government officials including Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Gli\u0144ski; Chairman of Law and Justice Party Jaros\u0142aw Kaczy\u0144ski; and Parliament Chairman Marek Kuchci\u0144sk, along with Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Lau; Chabad Rabbi of Warsaw Shalom Dov Ber Stambler and a large delegation from Israel.\n\u201cLight is a universal symbol of wisdom and tolerance,\u201d expressed Rabbi Shalom Stambler, the longtime Chabad rabbi in Poland who has orchestrated the candlelighting ceremony in the Sejm for the past 13 years, turning Hanukkah in the Sejm into something of a tradition. \u201cSpecifically in a country as Poland, there is great significance to lighting Hanukkah candles here in Parliament. Whereas all of Europe is afflicted with anti-Semitism, and Jews throughout the continent are compelled to conceal their Jewish identity, there is great meaning and unity when senior government officials and rabbis perform this ceremony together and garner nationwide approval.\u201d\nIsrael\u2019s Chief Rabbi David Lau, who was given the honor of lighting the menorah, shared emotionally, \u201cFor me, this constitutes a unique closing of circles. Most of my family perished on this country\u2019s soil, but today I am illuminating the darkness with these Hanukkah candles and thus perpetuating our glowing Jewish heritage.\u201d\nLau\u2019s father and predecessor former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau was born in June 1937 in Piotrk\u00f3w Trybunalski in south Poland, a scion of an unbroken chain of 38 generations of famous rabbis.\nThe senior Lau\u2019s father and brother were deported along with the majority of Jews in their Polish town to the Treblinka extermination camp in 1942, where they all perished, while he, his mother and another brother managed to escape. In November 1944, they were rounded up again, and this time, he was separated from his mother and imprisoned in the Nazi slave labor camp in Cz\u0119stochowa at the age of seven. From there, they were deported to the Buchenwald extermination camp. Lau attributes his miraculous survival to the heroic efforts of his older brother Naftali, as well as a Russian teen by the name of Fedor Mikhailichenko who took the boy under his wing and saved his life.\n\u201cIt is extremely meaningful to be lighting the menorah here in Warsaw, on the soil where the Nazis tried to exterminate us all,\u201d he concluded emotionally.\nThe Jewish Festival of Lights is being celebrated in a variety of locales and frameworks throughout the eight-day holiday. The highlight is a gala Hanukkah extravaganza in the Jewish Museum of Warsaw that will be attended by some 500 community members and feature Israeli performing artist and musician Dudu Fischer.\nLark in Boystown Will Be The Go-To Place During Northalsted Market Days\nActress and Animal Activist Leesa Rowland Hosts Animal Ashram\u2019s Vegan Pop-Up Penthouse\nTaco Bueno Wraps Up the Year with a Big Deal, Half Off Quesadillas on Dec. 29", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theglobalobservatory.org/2016/09/peacekeeping-reform-united-nations-south-sudan-congo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:22Z", "digest": "sha1:BWSQYJKMC6VCRVNTDAD6F4PVQWCSZ3XO", "length": 5836, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "theglobalobservatory.org", "title": "Peacekeeping Needs Reform, Not Just Reinforcement | IPI Global Observatory", "raw_content": "Peacekeeping Needs Reform, Not Just Reinforcement\nSeptember 14, 2016 by Charles T. Hunt\nPeacekeepers patrol the area around the UNMISS compound after rebel attacks. Juba, South Sudan, July 15, 2016 (Eric Kanalstein/UN Photo)\nIt costs $7.87 billion a year to deploy around 120,000 United Nations peacekeepers to protect civilians from direct harm and support rebuilding of state institutions, facilitation of humanitarian aid, implementation of peace agreements, and more. Peacekeepers are deployed in greater numbers and in response to more complex conflict situations than ever before. Yet many of their missions are failing to meet objectives.\nThe UN Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial held on September 8 in the United Kingdom sought to address some of these challenges. As a follow-up to last year\u2019s historic Leaders\u2019 Summit on Peacekeeping, co-hosted by US President Barack Obama, the meeting brought together representatives of around 70 UN member states. It is thus indicative of widespread international support and momentum behind improving peacekeeping and making it fit for purpose in the 21st century.\nPersistent capacity gaps mean that peacekeeping mandates cannot meet the high expectations placed upon them. The UN mission in South Sudan has failed to protect the thousands of civilians who have sought refuge inside and adjacent to its bases. In Mali, the mission is struggling to protect itself from extremist attacks, let alone provide a safe and secure environment for civilians and others working to assist them. Efforts to stabilize countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo rely on bargains with governments that can undermine the impartiality of the UN and leave peacekeepers susceptible to the whims of unpalatable leaders. The world body\u2019s reputation is also being eroded by instances of sexual exploitation and other malfeasance.\nThe recent UK gathering appears to have produced some laudable achievements in addressing these issues. A total of 31 countries made new pledges with a significant portion of these earmarked for rapid deployment, and vital commitments were made for much-needed \u201cmission enablers\u201d\u2014assets such as intelligence gathering capacities, engineering units, field hospitals, and strategic air capabilities.\nThe meeting culminated with a blueprint for improving peace operations based on \u201cthree Ps\u201d of better planning, additional pledges, and improving performance, which should all help peace operations become more fit for contemporary purposes. Yet the meeting also showed that peacekeeping policy continues to skirt over several important issues.\nThe majority of commitments from the recent meeting constitute technical treatments for the symptoms of under-performance rather than political responses to its causes. They fail to sufficiently take into account key findings of last year\u2019s High-Level Independent Panel on Peace Operations report and recent academic research highlighting the \u201cprimacy of politics\u201d in enabling effective missions. As former UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Jean-Marie Gu\u00e9henno has argued, there can be no exclusively military solutions to the conflicts that peace operations are sent to address. Peacekeeping must be deployed in support of a political strategy, not as a substitute for one.\nYet there is little understanding about what political planning needs to look like among UN member states, with the focus instead falling on military and technical planning for clear and sequenced mandates. There is no clarification on who is responsible for ensuring the primacy of politics or where it fits into the reform agenda of work going forward.\nPeacekeeping also remains a highly militarized affair. While many civilian experts attended the UK meeting, this was primarily a gathering of ministers and chiefs of defense. This portrays a peace operations system where decision-making remains in the hands of defense personnel. While this might be perfectly logical when it comes to dealing with troop contributions and military hardware, it makes little sense regarding other vital civilian components or, more importantly, when crafting the political strategies that underpin peace operations themselves.\nPeace operations should not be thought of as a panacea for responding to all conflict. The consequences of attempting to fit a square peg in a round hole may be severe. Where there is no peace to keep, the UN Security Council may need to consider enforcement action and stabilization operations in order to protect civilians and prevent the escalation of violence. However, to do this under the banner of peacekeeping may potentially jeopardize its established principles, lead to major troop-contributing countries stepping back from their roles, and possibly undermine the viability of the whole enterprise. Some have argued that it may therefore be necessary to develop another modality\u2014with associated doctrine and frameworks\u2014for executing the robust stabilization operations increasingly required.\nIn the meantime, UN peacekeeping must continue to muddle through. The UK meeting gives cause for hope that there are tangible efforts underway to close the contribution and capabilities gap plaguing current missions. \u201cDoing better with more\u201d sounds like a better proposition than \u201cdoing more with less,\u201d which was the mantra of the previous decade of austerity-shaped peacekeeping. However, what is urgently required is for member states to debate and negotiate what UN peacekeeping should look like in the 21st century. Without crucial structural reforms, explicit political strategies, and conceptual clarity, it will struggle in the face of enormous challenges and is likely to lose further legitimacy.\nCharles T. 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Our programs and partnerships with other youth serving organizations are designed to meet the needs of under-served and at-risk youth, as well as youth with special needs.\nRising Stars is a free soccer program for children and adults with cognitive and/or physical disabilities that takes them off the sidelines and puts them onto the field where they get to taste the joy of team experience. Ages range from 4 years old to adult, and players are matched based on cognitive ability and skill. The unique design of Rising Stars allows players to achieve personal success using Buddies, volunteers who translate each session to the level and ability of their players, ensuring each player is successful on the field.\nThe Goals for the Wins Scholarship provides scholarships for under-served and at-risk youth who have a financial barrier to participate in soccer leagues, Lil\u2019 Athletes and camps. Access to and participation in sports enrichment programs is directly tied to success in the classroom.\nThe Goals Foundation is proud to support sports programs for under-served and at-risk youth, as well as special needs youth and adults by providing free field and court time. In addition, we offer space for nonprofit fundraisers, including bowling, trampolines and dine & donate fundraisers.\nThe Goals Foundation purchases, collects and distributes new and gently used sports equipment to underserved kids, teams and clubs in need. The Passback Program allows us to enrich lives through sports and provide desperately needed equipment to those who need it most. Most recently, Goals Foundation collected equipment for the many youth and youth organizations impacted by the Nor Cal Fires.\nHoused at Sports City, used outdoor soccer cleats are available to youth in need at no cost. Where possible, we ask that players bring in a used but good condition pair of cleats to trade up for a new size. The shoe bank runs on donated cleats from the community. Donated shoes are welcome always.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2019/01/russian-hacker-ad-fraud.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:14Z", "digest": "sha1:AKZWXMJBXX556P5DKZAKK5NPTCCMN3CV", "length": 2560, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "thehackernews.com", "title": "Alleged Russian Hacker Pleads Not Guilty After Extradition to United States", "raw_content": "A Russian hacker indicted by a United States court for his involvement in online ad fraud schemes that defrauded multiple American companies out of tens of millions of dollars pleaded not guilty on Friday in a courtroom in Brooklyn, New York.\nAleksandr Zhukov, 38, was arrested in November last year by Bulgarian authorities after the U.S. issued an international warrant against him, and was extradited by Bulgaria to the United States on Thursday (January 18, 2019). He is currently in prison in Brooklyn.\nIn November 2018, law enforcement and multiple security firms collaborated to shut down one of the largest digital ad-fraud schemes, which they dubbed 3ve, that infected over 1.7 million computers worldwide to generate fake clicks used to defraud digital advertisers for years and made tens of millions of dollars in revenue.\nPronounced \"Eve,\" the online ad-fraud campaign was believed to have been active since at least 2014, but its fraudulent activity grew last year, turning it into a large-scale business and earning their operators more than $30 million in profit.\nAt the time, the US Justice Department announced a 13-count indictment against eight people from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, three of them had already been arrested including Zhukov, Boris Timokhin (39, Russian Federation who was arrested from Estonia), and Sergey Ovsyannikov (30, Republic of Kazakhstan who was arrested from Malaysia).\nOther defendants who have not yet been caught by the authorities include:\nMikhail Andreev (34, Russian Federation and Ukraine)\nDenis Avdeev (40, Russian Federation)\nDmitry Novikov (Russian Federation)\nAleksandr Isaev (31, Russian Federation)\nYevgeniy Timchenko (30, Republic of Kazakhstan)\nZhukov, along with other suspects, has been accused of organizing an advertising fraud scheme, dubbed \"Methbot,\" from September 2014 through December 2016 wherein he rented out more than 1,900 computer servers hosted in commercial data centers to load ads from advertisers on over 5,000 counterfeit websites.\nThe scheme flawlessly generated billions of ad views and caused businesses to pay over $7 million for \"ads that were never actually viewed by real human internet users,\" US prosecutors said in a November indictment.\nAll the eight defendants have been charged with 13 counts of criminal violations, including wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, among others.\nHowever, Zhukov denied all the charges against him on Friday, when he appeared in a Brooklyn courtroom in New York.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 181.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehightechhippie.com/author/ndtv/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:40Z", "digest": "sha1:N6DDHF3HSZUQCET5BQEPMOV47MN2SEHB", "length": 19, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thehightechhippie.com", "title": "NDTV, Author at Latest Technology News and Reviews", "raw_content": "NDTV - June 5, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 5137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 50.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/269949-time-is-right-for-an-asian-pacific-american-supreme-court", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UXNWLX7KZSULQNCN4AC66IGA3Q2RBBS2", "length": 5134, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "thehill.com", "title": "Time is right for an Asian Pacific American Supreme Court nominee | TheHill", "raw_content": "Time is right for an Asian Pacific American Supreme Court nominee\nBy Jin Y. Hwang \u2014 02/19/16 10:30 AM EST\nSince the passing of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, speculation about his replacement has been intense, as has been speculation about the prospects for confirmation by a Republican-controlled Senate. Given the many highly qualified and confirmable Asian Pacific American candidates, the President must seriously consider nominating an Asian Pacific American and the Senate must give such a nominee a full and fair hearing.\nBut why should an Asian Pacific American be on the Supreme Court?\nAsian Pacific Americans are an important part of American society. We are the fastest growing population of color in the country, with a voting electorate expected to double in the next 25 years. Already, we can swing elections in battleground states like Colorado, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia, and we also can make a difference in close Senate races in states like Illinois and Pennsylvania. Much like the members of the Latino American community who sat on the edges of their seats waiting for President Obama to nominate Sonia Sotomayor, we anxiously await the nomination of the first Asian Pacific American to be a Supreme Court Justice. And when that happens, we will fiercely advocate to ensure that the President\u2019s nominee\u2014our nominee\u2014has a timely and fair confirmation.\nWe have many well-qualified candidates for the current vacancy. A few stand out.\nFamously known for sending a strong warning to Wall Street when he sentenced Bernie Madoff to 150 years in prison, Judge Denny Chin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has had a distinguished career on both the appellate and district courts. He would be an excellent consensus nominee, having been confirmed to the Second Circuit by a 98\u20130 vote, and supported by prominent Republicans including Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and James Comey, former Deputy Attorney General under President George W. Bush and current FBI Director. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Hell's Kitchen in New York City, Judge Chin would be only a year older than was Justice Ginsburg was when she was nominated, and he is younger than at least one person on the \u201cso-called\u201d short list.\nIn 2010, Goodwin Liu was characterized as \u201cunfit\u201d to be a judge on the Ninth Circuit because he allegedly was inexperienced and would impose an \u201cextreme liberal agenda\u201d from the bench. Now, Associate Justice Liu has served on the California Supreme Court for five years. His intellectually thoughtful and well-reasoned opinions show that fears expressed by some about a purported ideological extremism were unfounded. For example, during his Ninth Circuit confirmation, 42 district attorneys accused him of being a death penalty abolitionist. Yet, Justice Liu has consistently voted to uphold application of the death penalty, including authoring 10 majority opinions affirming death judgments. A former law school associate dean and professor, Justice Liu is a recognized expert on constitutional law and education policy, with wide experience in private practice, government, and academia.\nJudge Jacqueline Nguyen fled the Vietnam War when she was nine years old to start a completely new life in the United States as a refugee. Thirty-eight years later, Judge Nguyen was confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is the first-ever Asian Pacific American woman federal appellate court judge in U.S. history. A former federal prosecutor and federal district court judge, Judge Nguyen is well respected on the bench, and would bring years of law enforcement experience to the Supreme Court. She was confirmed by overwhelming bipartisan margins twice in the last seven years\u201497-0 for the federal district court and 91-3 for the federal appellate court.\nBorn in India and raised on Jayhawk basketball in Kansas, Judge Sri Srinivasan was confirmed 97\u20130 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Noted for his collegiality and consensus building, Judge Srinivasan\u2019s grasp of complex legal issues and quick wit have been evident during his time on the court and were previously on display when he appeared before courts as a litigator. Judge Srinivasan served in the U.S. Solicitor General\u2019s Office for three Presidents spanning both parties, and has earned praise from a bipartisan group of Solicitors General and judges. He has appeared before the Supreme Court over two dozen times, having served as Principal Deputy Solicitor General and chair of the Supreme Court and Appellate Practice at O\u2019Melveny & Myers.\nJudges Chin, Liu, Nguyen, and Srinivasan all share an immigrant family background, and they attained the American dream that their parents had hoped for. Their life stories resonate strongly with all Americans: through hard work and dedication, anything is possible regardless of a person\u2019s circumstances. This is America. It\u2019s time for an Asian Pacific American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.\nHwang is president of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 9438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 158.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-two-mysteries-of-medicare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:00Z", "digest": "sha1:MMDZBBUCNRCPZLVCY2MLBOH7HZGC26X7", "length": 5742, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "theincidentaleconomist.com", "title": "The two mysteries of Medicare | The Incidental Economist", "raw_content": "The two mysteries of Medicare\nA growing proportion of Medicare beneficiaries are opting out of the government-run insurance program. They are instead choosing a private plan alternative, one of the Medicare Advantage plans. The strength of this trend defies predictions from the Congressional Budget Office, and nobody can fully explain it.\nHere\u2019s another mystery. Traditional Medicare spending growth has slowed, bucking historical trends and expectations. Though there are theories, we don\u2019t fully know what\u2019s causing that either.\nPinning down explanations for these two mysteries is important. Doing so could help us understand the structure and cost of Medicare in the future.\nThe mysteries may be connected by something that appears, at first, to be unrelated: Doctors and hospitals tend to treat insured patients the same way, regardless of what kind of coverage they have. A traditional Medicare patient admitted to the hospital with, say, pneumonia will receive the same standard of care as a similar but privately insured pneumonia patient.\nFrom this, an idea emerges that links the two mysteries. As enrollment in Medicare Advantage plans grows, so too do the plans\u2019 influence over how doctors and hospitals provide care. Unlike the traditional program, Medicare Advantage plans establish networks, covering care provided only by certain doctors and specific hospitals. Often those are the ones with lower cost growth. As doctors and hospitals reduce their cost growth to gain access to Medicare Advantage networks and the increasing number of patients enrolled in the plans, they do so for traditional Medicare patients as well.\nSo, as Medicare Advantage enrollment swells, the growth in the cost of care for traditional Medicare falls \u2014 a spillover effect. That\u2019s the theory, anyway. Does it hold water?\nA few studies have examined the question, and all support the spillover theory. The first study, examining the period from 1994 through 2001, found that when the proportion of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare H.M.O.s grew by an additional percentage point, per enrollee spending in traditional Medicare fell by one percentage point. Another study, focused on the period from 1999 to 2009, found that a 10-percentage-point increase in Medicare Advantage market share was associated with a 4.5 percent decrease in per enrollee traditional Medicare hospital costs and a commensurate reduction in duration of hospital stays.\n\u201cThese studies extend on a body of research that demonstrates that health care markets are connected,\u201d said Michael Chernew, a Harvard health economist who participated in both studies. For example, research in the 1990s showed that when H.M.O.s grab enough of a health care market, Medicare spending is reduced.\nA study published this year by Kevin Callison, an economist at Grand Valley State University, corroborates the phenomenon. It found that greater Medicare Advantage market penetration is associated with reduced hospital costs for traditional Medicare heart attack patients. But such patients were also more likely to die, a finding at odds with other work by Mr. Chernew and researchers at Harvard and Stanford that showed that the expansion of Medicare Advantage is associated with lower mortality.\nThose studies examined periods that predate the Affordable Care Act, which changed how Medicare pays plans and hospitals. Since then, Medicare spending has continued to decelerate, and Medicare Advantage enrollment has continued to grow. So it\u2019s important to look at more recent data to see if the spillover could still be connecting the two phenomena. Two studies published in the last year have done so, and they support previous findings.\nA study spanning the 2010 passage of the A.C.A. by Katherine Baicker and Jacob Robbins, health economists at Harvard, found that a 10-percentage-point increase in Medicare Advantage market penetration was associated with a 7.3 percent decline in days that traditional Medicare patients spent in the hospital. Instead, patients receive more care in less expensive settings: Outpatient visits increased 5.5 percent, for example. In total, annual per enrollee traditional Medicare costs were lower by $252 for each 10-percentage-point gain in Medicare Advantage market share.\nFinally, a study published last month by researchers with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health provided the most up-to-date look, using data through 2014. It found that in counties with Medicare Advantage market penetration above 17.2 percent, greater growth in Medicare Advantage was associated with slower growth in traditional Medicare spending. According to the study, the spillover effect accounts for 11 percent of the recent traditional Medicare spending slowdown. Because of the methods used, this may be a conservative estimate \u2014 the spillover effect could be even larger, explaining more of the slowdown.\nIf Medicare Advantage is responsible for slower traditional Medicare spending growth, should policy makers do more to encourage greater Medicare Advantage enrollment? One way to do so would be to coax more plans into the market by paying them more, which is controversial. \u201cThere\u2019s almost continuous policy debate about how much we should pay Medicare Advantage plans,\u201d Mr. Chernew said. \u201cIn addressing that, we should consider the full impact of Medicare Advantage, not just impact on those who choose to enroll in the program.\u201d\nWe still don\u2019t know exactly why Medicare Advantage is growing in popularity or why Medicare spending is slowing. But now we know that the two are related. Medicare Advantage growth doesn\u2019t completely explain slower Medicare spending growth, but it is one piece of the puzzle.\nMedicare Advantage, spillover, Upshot", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 10883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thejupital.com/the-age-of-plastic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:16Z", "digest": "sha1:4O7XU2HBB25YSJSK4PVEKSVEX6KLPANQ", "length": 4556, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "thejupital.com", "title": "The age of plastic | Productive News | the Jupital", "raw_content": "The Seabin project aims to clear the ocean of pollution and debris.Credit@Seabin\nThe Seabin project has developed a device to reduce the pollution in the oceans, ranging from plastics to oils, it may be an ideal solution to the cleaning of enclosed water coves. The team are optimistic in the Seabin\u2019s competency and start manufacturing in the near future.\nWith the health of the oceans a current topic of discussion, technologies to curtail the amount of waste, plastic and oils are needed. Plastics in particular are dispersed evenly around the globe having an impact on ocean life and accumulate in enclosed areas like marinas, harbours, lakes and other water sources. Conventional strategies for reducing the levels of waste, oils and plastics may be time consuming or expensive and in the process only remove particular types of pollution. The ramification of this is 5 trillion pieces of plastic distributed in the world\u2019s oceans.\nThe Seabin project team have created an innovative solution to the challenges faced in aiming to capture and reduce this pollution; designing an automated debris bin intended to be submerged in the water to collect debris, oil, fuel and detergents, four years in the making. Specifically constructed for use in enclosed water areas such as marinas, harbours, yacht clubs, lakes and Ports, where this type of debris collects and where boats are often present. The project aims to work with authorities to place the Seabin in these water catchments, reducing the transport of these materials into the wider ocean.\nThe Seabin works by being placed in the water and collecting debris circulated by natural currents and surface winds. A pump extracts water down through the bottom of the bin to the pump and all that\u2019s remaining is clean water returned to the water source and a catch-bag of debris. An oil/water separator may also be installed aiding the improvement of water quality, focusing on the oils, detergents and fuels. The ingenuity of the device seems to be constantly working to improve the health of the water source, meaning water users and wildlife benefit from a safer environment. It may also be attached to yachts or boats collecting debris on the move or in static water.\nThe project seems to have ambitious goals for improving the health of oceans, ideally to help completely remove plastics and pollution from the oceans. To achieve this, importance has been placed in developing education programs persuading individuals to be more thoughtful in the disposal of plastics. With an obvious care and passion for the ocean ecosystem the team is aiming to create Seabins using sustainable materials and to have the minimum possible carbon footprint in the production process. Thought put into the plastic captured may be demonstrated by the team aiming to recycle all plastic for energy purposes or to be put to other uses.\nIndividuals may show support for the project using the crowd funded \u201cIndiegogo\u201d to donate funds, the team aimed for $230,000 to turn the dream into a reality and to date have raised $267,767, many believing in the dignity of the project.\nDirector of the project Pete Ceglinski spoke with The Positive to explain how the project is now in negotiations with a European manufacturer, which has agreed to worldwide manufacturing and distribution; the team are also searching for manufacturers in South America. The Seabin project may be up and running by the end of the year or early next year, with the team currently working on high level product development and are open to expressions of interest particularly from environmental groups.\nThe project\u2019s founders seem to place the health of the oceans over any financial gain; epitomised in the wish for pollution free oceans and a reduced need for Seabins. If the Seabin becomes popular it may support the environmental clean up of the oceans, which are affected by pollution in various ways. The beneficial effects may help stimulate the activity of ocean life. The project aims to place an importance on the education of populations in order to demonstrate an understanding of what may be needed to be done, to realise its goal.\nHow may individuals contribute to an improved environment?\noceans pollution Seabin The Seabin project\nThe industrial revolution may have been a prosperous period for Great Britain, a time, which saw the country undergo \u2026 more\nGround-breaking project to clean urban air from pollution\nDaan Roosegaarde, a Dutch designer, has unveiled a device he claims will clear Beijing\u2019s sky from smog. The smog \u2026 more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theleaparentsassociation.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/year-6-trip-to-caythorpe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:49Z", "digest": "sha1:IZHVPGYN7XOUNR7Q7FRDIURDGWVT3O34", "length": 655, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "theleaparentsassociation.wordpress.com", "title": "Year 6 Trip to Caythorpe | The Lea School Association (LSA) Blog", "raw_content": "Year 6 Trip to Caythorpe\nFrom what has been reported to me, our Year 6 pupils have been having a fantastic time at Caythorpe this week, although I think they are likely to come home rather tired this afternoon after all the activities they have been taking part in throughout the week!\nA huge thank you to Miss Lincoln and Mrs Cross who accompanied the children on the trip. I think they are likely to be coming back a little tired too!\nThis entry was posted on Friday, May 22nd, 2015 at 3:14 pm and is filed under Class Trips.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 331.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thelionwire.com/2016/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RMEENFE6ZJHNGCH7DBN4I3UBTLWPK5TJ", "length": 2550, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "thelionwire.com", "title": "April | 2016 | THE LION WIRE", "raw_content": "Update on the Passing of Dr. Dan Jones\nTo say that I am in shock is a tremendous understatement. Today I heard someone very important to the Lion family had passed, but never in a million years did I think that the President had. So, after reading tons of news sources, I have some additional information that will shed some light on\u2026\nBreaking: Dr. Daniel Jones Passes Away\nPer news reports and a University release, Dr. Daniel Jones passed away this morning. Details are unknown at this time, but I have to say I was shocked to say the least. We Will be keeping you updated with anything factual that comes up, but pray for Dr. Jones\u2019 family and the entire\u2026\nTaking PRIDE in Commerce, America\nRecently I was in Commerce and decided to head to the downtown area. I swung by the old Cow Hill Express Coffee like I had done so many times in my undergraduate days where I studied, did homework, used the WIFI and took in a great coffee drink. None of that happened. I see the building\u2026\nRoad Trippin\u2019-A look at the Roads to Travel in 2016\nDoesn\u2019t every love a good road trip? I guess it depends on who you ask. For the upcoming season though, the A&M-Commerce Football team will be doing a whole lot of driving. Let\u2019s take a look at where they are headed and the difficulty of the trips. Week 2-McCool Stadium-Cleveland, Mississippi vs. Delta State. One\u2026\nUpdated Stats: Top Ten Passers in Program History\nHere are the top ten passers and what they did after Commerce. 1. Bob Bounds-1987-1991-5,955 passing yards. Conference Champion (1990), First Team All Conference, All American, two time NCAA National Quarterfinalist. Arena Football League, Canadian Football League. 2. Kyle Mackey-1980-1983\u20135,814 passing yards. Conference Champion (1980, 1983) First Team All-LSC, All American. National Football League, Arena\u2026\nCompleting the Great Wall Of Commerce-The Rest of the Best Linemen in School History.\nOnce again, our attention stays on the some of the greatest linemen to ever wear the uniforms of the East Texas State/Texas A&M-Commerce jersey. So here they are, and in no particular order. First, I am starting with a very special group, I had 3 Lion greats say this was a special offensive line, and\u2026\nHonoring Coach Ernest Hawkins: The Time is Now.\nIn collegiate athletics, every University has that one coach that is the epitome of what their school embodies. That coach has success, but is not just known for his or her success, but for their actions. Several young Men and Women in this country have spent 4 years with a coach away from home that\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thelydiaproject.com/gleaning-in-the-fields/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:13Z", "digest": "sha1:XBGBG3AO4WPFUYZJFK3IIKHEJD5ERU4G", "length": 2045, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thelydiaproject.com", "title": "Gleaning in the Fields - The Lydia Project", "raw_content": "Who Is That Young Damsel Gleaning In The Corners of Your Field?\nDasha is a believer living in the Land of Israel. Her Muslim family rejected and disowned her when she embraced Yeshua as her Messiah. She speaks Hebrew and Arabic and ministers alongside Jewish Messianic Believers as an invaluable co-worker bringing the Gospel of the Kingdom to both Arabs and Jews\u2026an important and high calling, but not an easy one.\nThe Torah instructs Israel concerning the strangers in the land. The children of Israel are to be the testimony to strangers in all the world that the God of Israel is the One True God. As it has been throughout history, every stranger who believes in his heart and decides to receive Yeshua as his One True Elohim and live by His commandments, is welcome to become part of Israel in all respects.\nLike Ruth, Dasha has become part of Israel. The Messiah of Israel has become her Messiah too. She has been ostracized and cast out by her own people. She needs your help. Caught between two worlds, she is working to learn how to support herself. She cannot make ends meet. There is no one from her own world who will help her now. She is cut off from any support system in the culture into which she was born.\nLike Ruth, she needs to glean in the corners of the fields with the poor in the Land of Israel. This is Yeshua\u2019s provision for her as HE ordained it in the Torah so long ago, and it is to your fields that she must now come to glean. The abundance of your fields is her provision. The Lydia Project is using the widow\u2019s portion of your tithes and offerings to help her and others like her meet their needs for food and shelter.\nThank you for joining the widow\u2019s portion of your tithes and offerings with ours as, by the grace of Heaven, The Lydia Project meets the needs of the widows, the orphans, the poor and the terror victims in the Land of Israel.\n\u201cThe foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I Am the YHVH your ELOHIM\u201d. \u2013 Lev. 19:34", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theminiapartment.com/2018/08/22/finding-magic-in-marriage-the-best-way-to-overcome-conflict-in-marriage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:34Z", "digest": "sha1:XDNG7MFSQXJUAAKZ4VJCNJSHZL6PIMVI", "length": 7042, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "theminiapartment.com", "title": "Finding Magic in Marriage: The Best Way To Overcome Conflict In Marriage \u2013 The Mini Apartment", "raw_content": "Thank you Melissa for being a part of our Real-Girls: Wives community! Finding magic in the midst of motherhood + marriage is something we are all doing, together. Becoming a wife is a huge transition, and it takes trial and error to figure out the best groove to make your marriage work. Read below for Melissa\u2019s post, and don\u2019t forget to sign up for her weekly devotional at the bottom!\n\u201cIn marriage, a man and a woman should become a new entity, functioning not as two individuals but as a team. They should learn to plan together and to carry out that plan together. Having a cooperative and caring life partner gives us a great advantage over anything we could have been as an individual. And we\u2019re much wiser than we could have ever been on our own. But it takes skill to work as a team \u2013 negotiating skill.\u201d Willard F. Harley, Jr.\n\u201cConflicts are inevitable within a marriage. My husband, Tony, and I confront several conflicts a week! Not to mention that our ideas about how conflicts should be resolved are pretty different. But in spite of those differences, we\u2019ve molded our ideas together to give us a great negotiation plan that we use to meet eye to eye when conflicts pop up.\nWhat if we had not studied the marriage books that we have studied, and continue to read? What if we acted like we just didn\u2019t care about what the other person thought or felt? It might\u2019ve seemed a heck of a lot easier to have just ignored the conflicts that arose. But it wouldn\u2019t have made it better for us in the long run. We did not want that to happen in our marriage, so we did all we could to ensure we were equipped with the tools and knowledge needed to understand how to approach our conflicts in a healthy way.\nIf conflicts are left unresolved in a marriage, over time, you will barely be able to tolerate living together. This fact explains these 4 points:\nThe majority of adults today are single\nAbout one third of children are raised by a parent that has never been married\nThe number of adults choosing to marry is dropping by the year\nThose who decide to marry face the possibility of a divorce\nSo in this post, I want to cover just one of the major issues why marriages fail: the failure to negotiate conflicts healthily and successfully. My husband and I don\u2019t have this down perfect, but because we are both in pursuit of mutual satisfaction as the outcome of our conflicts, our marriage is everything we\u2019d hoped it would be!\nEven after seeking marriage counseling and being given a resolution to the conflict, it is still possible that the conflict \u201cresolution\u201d will leave both spouses feeling unsatisfied. If the love between a husband and wife is built as an effect of the resolution to their conflict\u2026it has been done right.\nHere are a few points that my husband and I have discovered are most important to be aware of in order to have a healthy and thriving marriage relationship:\nIt might not be easy, but it\u2019s not impossible to find a common goal that both of you can agree on. What you want is a win-win outcome: it should be a resolution that makes both you and your spouse happy. Long term resentment can be countered when conflicts are resolved the right way: when both husband and wife are happy with the outcome.\nOn our wedding day, we vowed to care for each other, so it would make sense for us to search for win-win outcomes that allowed our marriage to stay healthy and our relationship to strengthen.\nCommunicate your feelings\nThe premarital counseling class my husband and I took last year before our September wedding helped us discover (through an assessment we both took) that I tend to avoid conflict while my husband likes to settle and resolve conflicts. It\u2019s much easier for me to just let things go than to point something out that has been bothering me and explain why. In his view, if I say it\u2019s fine and just let it go, then the conflict would \u201cbe resolved.\u201d But in my view it wasn\u2019t because I didn\u2019t take the time to share my feelings and approach him with my concerns.\nWe can\u2019t expect our spouse to make decisions that are considerate of our feelings and interests if we don\u2019t communicate our feelings and interests to them. And it is certainly not fair to expect them to give us the best outcome imaginable from a conflict when we neglect to open up and share with them our thoughts and feelings.\nIf a husband and wife do not know how to resolve a conflict without one running over the other, the disagreement will lead to a fight rather than a resolution. For my husband and I to see to a clear win-win outcome without it becoming a fight, we enter the conversation with a mutual agreement to see the other person\u2019s perspective as a missing piece to the puzzle.\nWe also try to understand that our own view has a possibility of being flawed. That way, we can show the other that we respect and want to listen to their opinion. This drastically opens the door for humility throughout the whole process. Don\u2019t enter into the conflict already declaring in your mind that you are right and they are wrong \u2013 this sets you up for a fight and shows them that you are not considering their feelings and thoughts, only your own.\nhappy wife couple, happy life\nJust as I mentioned earlier, it\u2019s vital to not ignore your spouse\u2019s feelings and know that no one\u2019s cares or happiness is above the other\u2019s. But in many marriages, there is this idea that the only way to show love to your spouse is to place their happiness above your own. What people are not thinking about is how they\u2019re not giving their spouse the same privilege to make them happy, too.\nI know. I know\u2026us ladies like to have our way\u2026and as the saying goes, \u201chappy wife happy life.\u201d But if we really view our marriage in this light, then we are just digging a hole that our husbands can never get out of. We end up wishing our husbands would open up more so that we could know how to make them happy. We end up putting ourselves on a pedestal, and not considering that both people need to be happy in order for a marriage to succeed. The truth is that it\u2019s far more important to understand each other than it is for only one of us to get our way.\nI hope that these 4 points encourage and uplift you, and most importantly that they give you hope for your own marriage. Marriage is beautiful and it is one of God\u2019s greatest gifts! Fight for it, and never give up!\u201d\nMelissa Coryell | Blogger at MelissaCoryell.com\nIf you would like to sign up to be emailed when new posts from my blog Empowering Women become available, OR if you want to sign up to receive my weekly devotional, you can subscribe here!\nIf you loved this post, check out my other blog posts geared towards The Dating Girl, and Why Quick Fixes Aren\u2019t The Answer.\nPosted in: Communication, Featured Essays: Wives, Married Life | Tagged: communication in marriage, conflict in marriage, healthy arguing, how to have a healthy argument, how to not get divorced, how to resolve marital conflict, how to talk about your feelings with your spouse, marriage blog, resolving a fight in marriage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 18860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thepeakmagazine.com.sg/lifestyle/6-singapore-artists-and-their-personal-art-collections/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:S6ZMH22ZE2YW7MU6SQOSUAKMKTKJKSZH", "length": 15796, "nlines": 92, "source_domain": "thepeakmagazine.com.sg", "title": "6 Singapore artists and their personal art collections | The Peak Singapore - Your Guide to The Finer Things in Life", "raw_content": "Unlike art collectors, artists build their art collections with a vastly different approach.\nMASTER POTTER GOES FOR WORKS WITH A PERSONAL TOUCH\nNearly every corner of Iskandar Jalil's terraced house in Kembangan is filled with some sort of art, running the gamut from ceramic works by the 78-year-old master potter himself to pieces by acclaimed British potter Bernard Leach and Iskandar's students Aida Khalid and Agnes Lim.\nIn a way, these artworks are artefacts, objects that bear the messy traces of personal memories.\n\"When I collect (art), I want to know the person. I need to see how he feels,\" says the Cultural Medallion recipient who is married to a retired teacher. They have two children.\nIn his home, he has three porcelain bowls by the late New Zealand architect and potter David Brokenshire, which skilfully capture the motion of waves.\n\"He had one of the most unique kilns in the world,\" says Iskandar, recalling his visit to Brokenshire's home in Christchurch. \"(His work) was made from porcelain clay... You had to fire it to 1,310 deg C for two days and one night.\"\nIskandar, who also has paintings and collects basketry and metal beetle nut cutters on his travels, recalls one trip to Lombok, Indonesia, when he bought an earthenware pan from a woman in a village who was using it to fry coffee beans.\n\"I said, 'I don't want a new one. I want the old one.' They thought that 'this man must be mad',\" says Iskandar, who, in 1972, studied ceramics in Japan under a Colombo Plan scholarship.\nEven the most unobtrusive thing in his house might be construed as art. The living room table was a gift from the former governor of Japan's Miyazaki Prefecture, who crafted it himself from cedar wood more than four decades ago.\nA sculpture by Iskandar's student, Hiroko Mita, consisting of twin crescent shapes yoked to each other by a 1.4m-long chain of linked clay shapes, was inspired by the relationship between Iskandar and his wife.\nIskandar does not collect works by his mentors because \"the prices are astronomical\". He would like to own some works by potters Hans Coper, Shoji Hamada and Lucie Rie, but says he cannot afford them. A small bowl by Rie recently sold for half a million pounds (S$881,000), he says.\nHe was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014, but remains active and has continued to present solo exhibitions. His latest, Paradox, runs at the Japan Creative Centre till Friday.\nSeveral cupboards in his house are filled with ceramic works which he euphemistically describes as \"teaching aids\". One of them is a round piece by a former student who smoothened the surface with a bamboo stick.\n\"I kicked her out,\" says Iskandar, whose art often has an organic style. \"It was too perfect.\"\nBUYING PAINTINGS AS A SHOW OF SUPPORT FOR FELLOW ARTISTS\nStep into the Housing Board flat of Singapore's most famous watercolourist Ong Kim Seng, and a painting depicting a leafy road up to Cameron Highlands will be one of the first things you see.\nThis is a work by second-generation Singaporean artist Wan Soon Kam, an artist whom 73-year-old Ong admires.\nWan, a prolific watercolour and acrylic painter, is known for his scenes of rustic kampungs, old buildings and city landmarks.\n\"He has his own way of doing leaves, plants and trees, a very special technique,\" says Ong of his friend, who is two years his senior.\n\"I don't think there is anyone else who paints the way Wan Soon Kam paints.\"\nOng, a Cultural Medallion recipient, has about 100 watercolour and oil paintings by Singaporean and foreign artists in his five-room HDB flat in Hougang.\n\"Artists need support and the biggest support comes from (artists) themselves. There's nothing like buying to give encouragement,\" says Ong, who often buys works at exhibitions. Works by local artists Tan Ai Ngin, Chen Chong Swee, Chong Ah Tong and Marvin Chew are among those in his collection.\nBut money is a limiting factor, he says. The artist, who tends to spend less than $10,000 on each painting, once set aside $35,000 for a Willem Hofker painting at an auction. Sadly, this was no match for the winning bid of $60,000.\nOng, a father of three, says the works he hangs in his living room are \"serene and peaceful\" to offer some reprieve from the stresses of daily life.\nEach work is also technically brilliant in its own way.\n\"We can't just say, 'My work is the best,'\" he says.\n\"There are artists who are good at what they do and we have to admit it. I know where I stand.\"\nHe points to two paintings of ballerinas by Liu Yi. The Chinese artist is known for his mastery of \"wet-on-wet\" technique, where one colour is laid over another before the first layer has dried.\nOng, who paints mainly landscapes and street scenes, bought Liu's dreamy ballet dancer paintings Preparing (2007) and At Rest (undated) when he was in Shanghai. It is \"very difficult\" to paint human figures in watercolour, he says.\n\"If you asked me to produce something like that, I wouldn't be able to.\"\nHe rummages through his collection and pulls out a painting of Singapore by Dong Kingman, one of the pioneers of the California style of watercolour painting. This was a particularly hard-won piece, he notes, but not because of how much it cost.\n\"When I met him, I gave him my painting. But he said, 'I can't exchange with you because you haven't reached my standard.'\n\"Finally, after I won quite a number of awards from the American Watercolor Society, he gave me this painting,\" he recalls.\nARTIST COUPLE SNIFF OUT QUIRKY WORKS THAT ARE AFFORDABLE\nYou might not recognise the artist's name, but you will probably know of the Local Mynas, a trio of painted bronze sculptures that once perched in front of the Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall.\nHome-grown sculptor Lim Soo Ngee, 56, who teaches at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (Nafa), is known for his whimsical spirit, as seen in the myna sculptures, and has a home to match it.\nHis terraced house in Hougang, which he shares with his wife April Ng, a printmaker, is an eclectic jumble of works by artists such as the acclaimed sculptor Han Sai Por, Malaysia-born potter Peter Low, emerging ceramicist Nelson Lim and visually impaired printmaker and sculptor Chng Seok Tin.\nThe pieces range from artsy metallic flowerpots and a glow-in-the-dark human figure in a state of struggle, to bronze sculptures their friend Han gave them years ago as a gift for their now-adult son, their only child.\n\"Some people who don't know us think we sell antiques ,\" says Ng, 55, who also collects prints and paintings.\nOne cheeky sculpture is a ceramic finger by the late pioneer artist Ng Eng Teng. Lim, who is convinced that it must be a middle finger, bought it at an exhibition for about $750.\nAnother quirky piece is by Japanese artist Toshimatsu Kuremoto, featuring a wooden squashed baseball structure coated with aluminium, with an epoxy figurine balancing on top. They bought it for about $1,300 at a contemporary art fair in Singapore two years ago.\n\"I create human figures too,\" says Lim. \"And when you see someone working well with the medium or having a good composition, you appreciate his craft.\n\"Usually, it's not the work itself that influences me, but the artist's spirit. Sai Por, for example, is really hardworking. When I see the artwork, I think of the person,\" he adds.\n\"Actually, it's very simple... We know these people. Sometimes we support each other... If (the work) is fun, we like it and the price is reasonable, we will buy it.\"\nBARTERING HER ART TO BUILD UP A COLLECTION\nCeramics artist Madhvi Subrahmanian may have a fine selection of sculptures, paintings, and antique furniture in the living room of her condominium near Bukit Timah, but she will be the first to say that she is not much of a \"collector\".\n\"I'm not interested in so-called blue-chip artists,\" says the full-time artist and curator, who is in her early 50s. \"I only buy things I know I want to live with. Each one is connected to a memory.\"\nMumbai-born Madhvi is known for her organic, earthy ceramic works that break the mould - from latticed structures inspired by the shape of her pregnant womb to large scale obelisk-like \"seedpods\".\nShe has had solo exhibitions in Singapore, India and the United States and helped curate India's first Ceramics Triennale this year.\nSome of the works by other artists that she owns are, quite literally, priceless. She acquired a number of them by swopping her own pieces for them.\nA prized artefact from one such barter trade is an airy rattan sculpture by Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich, fashioned in the shape of the letter \"S\" in the Khmer alphabet. Pich's works, which often feature rattan and bamboo, have been exhibited at the New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Singapore's National Gallery, among other locations.\nMadhvi is a big admirer of Pich's work. He gave the work to her and picked her sculpture, a 15-inch porcelain work called Tree Of Life, in exchange.\nAside from Pich's sculpture, which she displays on a side table, she has several works by well-known Indian artists.\nOne of them is a paper on canvas piece by the late Indian abstractionist Mehlli Gobhai - called the Mark Rothko of Mumbai.\n\"It's almost like a skin,\" says Madhvi, admiring the layered surface. She adds that it took five years to persuade the artist to sell it to her.\nIn the corner of her living room is a photo-montage of Hungarian Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil. Created by the late artist's nephew Vivan Sundaram in 2001, it comprises a 1920s self-portrait juxtaposed against a photo of her taken around the same time .\nAll these works, Madhvi says, influence her practice \"by osmosis\".\n\"(The art) comes into your subconscious. It grows on you.\"\n'DARK ARTIST' DRAWN TO WORKS UNLIKE HER OWN\nMultidisciplinary artist Sarah Choo Jing, 28, a rising star in Singapore's arts scene, comes up with ideas for her projects in interior spaces ranging from her bedroom to hotel rooms in Geylang and Katong.\n\"Whatever's around me will translate to my artwork,\" says Choo, who is known for her immersive installations and fine art photography.\nThe brainstorming for her multimedia installation, The Hidden Dimension II (2013), which probes the themes of family, people and relationships, happened in her bedroom in her parents' home, a condominium near Hougang MRT station. This room (\"my stage, my backstage\") contains a mix of vintage and contemporary art works that she has collected, including several by Singapore female artists.\nAmong them are a pink, plump and high-heeled ceramic figurine from Xin Xiaochang's Please Lah! Singapore (2012) series and a digital print by Zu Orzu, featuring a female swimmer with a face composed of splash-like splotches.\n\"I am very drawn to works I know I cannot do, \" says Choo, who teaches art at Nanyang Girls' High School.\nThe prints by Zu, a friend from her undergraduate days in Nanyang Technological University's School of Art, Design and Media, have an \"amazing\" use of negative space.\n\"My works tend to have a lot of content, a lot of details,\" Choo, who is single, adds. \"One thing I admire is that (Zu) can place a figure off-centre and be comfortable with all the white space...\n\"Xiaochang's works have tongue-in-cheek humour and the colours are brighter. My works, on the other hand, are very dark.\"\nDuring work trips, she buys trinkets such as a vintage tin train in London, a porcelain doll in Paris and a mask during last year's Venice Biennale.\nShe is fascinated by marionettes and suggests that the work she does has parallels to that of a puppetmaster.\n\"I manipulate documented images... I manipulate people I see on the street and present them in a specific time and place without them being aware of it.\"\nMidway through the interview, she stumbles on an oil painting of pigs in a pigsty. It was painted in the 1950s by her late paternal grandfather, who worked as a driver.\n\"My very first memory was of me looking up at this painting on the wall. I would eat dinner and this is something that I would stare at.\n\"I wondered, why pigs? Is it because I am Sarah Choo? I could never understand it. Why not put up paintings of mountains, scenery... Why a pigsty?\" The surname Choo is \"zhu\" in Chinese, which sounds like the Chinese word for \"pig\".\nChoo, who is the only other artist in her family, also keeps some old hand-tinted photos by her grandfather in her room.\n\"He was doing photography during that era when it was all black and white, and they used watercolour to tint it. I remembered looking at them and thinking, 'Why can't I do it now?' And that's when I started painting on my photographs.\"\nHer grandfather was a jack of many trades or, as Choo quips, \"multidisciplinary\".\nSURROUNDED BY CALLIGRAPHY HE CAN LEARN FROM\nThe bitter cold adds fragrance to the plum blossom.An intimate friend is hard to come by. Never cease from exploring famous mountains. These are the poetic sayings carved from the \"xian zhang\", or \"unofficial seals\", that Chinese calligrapher Tan Siah Kwee, 70, has in his study at his terrace house in Katong.\nAfter he finishes a piece of calligraphy, he sometimes stamps it with one of these seals, which were carved from stone by craftsmen in China about three decades ago. He choses the seal according to the mood he wants to convey.\nCall them the literary equivalent of modern-day emojis, if you will.\n\"When these sayings are sophisticated, they make people pay attention to the work,\" he tells The Straits Times in Mandarin.\nTan, who was born in Guangdong, China, moved to Singapore in the 1950s. In 1968, he founded the Chinese Calligraphy Society of Singapore and is now its president.\nThe Cultural Medallion recipient has a collection of more than 3,000 works of calligraphy at his home, but displays only a handful, keeping the rest wrapped in newspapers. He is married to a retired teacher and they have two daughters.\nHe hangs his friends' calligraphy works on the walls of his house. These range from a 1980s painting of a green bamboo by Qigong - a renowned calligrapher descended from Qing emperor Yongzheng-to a vivid piece by Ma Quanyi, depicting two galloping horses.\nOne piece on the wall of his study is Hong Shichuan's painting of Lin Daiyu - the beautiful, unhappy woman from the Chinese classical novel Dream Of The Red Chamber - burying fallen petals at a hillside.\nIn this famous scene, Daiyu, overcome with melancholy after a misunderstanding with her beloved, wonders: \"But who will bury me when I leave the world?\"\nTan, describing Daiyu - gentle, narrow-waisted - as a model of Chinese femininity, says of the work which was given to him in 1983: \"The tricky thing is that the written words go on for so long - they are bigger than the painting - but you don't feel they weigh it down. People don't write in such fine script anymore... The lines here are not too thick, so they don't overshadow the painting below.\"\nThe adjacent wall features another piece of calligraphic script - a kind of foreword for a 1971 exhibition by his first calligraphy teacher when he was a student at Chung Cheng High School, the late Tan Keng Cheow.\n\"It suggests that calligraphy is a traditional art and you need to remember the importance of developing a good foundation,\" says Tan. \"At the beginning, we should imitate others and learn from them. Everything we do bears traces of someone else.\"\n(RELATED: 3 art collectors in Singapore have turned their homes into beautiful galleries)\nAgnes LimAida KhalidApril NgArtArtistsBernard LeachChen Chong SweeChng Seok TinChong Ah TongDavid BrokenshireDong KingmanHan Sai PorHiroko MitaHong ShichuanIskandar JalilLim Soo NgeeLiu YiMadhvi SubrahmanianMarvin ChewMehlli GobhaiNelson LimNg Eng TengOng Kim SengPeter LowSarah ChooSopheap PichTan Ai NginTan Keng CheowTan Siah KweeToshimatsu KuremotoVivan SundaramWan Soon KamXin XiaochangZu Orzu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 18036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Populism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:24Z", "digest": "sha1:QQHAJSRZFGNLRIRXVHV7GUELDHSW6ZGF", "length": 92526, "nlines": 295, "source_domain": "thereaderwiki.com", "title": "Populism - The Reader Wiki, Reader View of Wikipedia", "raw_content": "\"Populist\" redirects here. For other uses, see Populist (disambiguation).\nPopulism is a range of political approaches that deliberately appeal to 'the people', often juxtaposing this group against the \"elite\". There is no single definition of the term, which developed in the 19th century and has been used to mean various things since that time. In Europe, few politicians or political groups describe themselves as 'populist' and in political discourse the term is often applied to others pejoratively. Within political science and other social sciences, various different definitions of populism have been used, although some scholars propose rejecting the term altogether.\nA common framework for interpreting populism is known as the ideational approach: this defines populism as an ideology which presents \"the people\" as a morally good force against \"the elite\", who are perceived as corrupt and self-serving. Populists differ in how \"the people\" are defined, but it can be based along class, ethnic, or national lines. Populists typically present \"the elite\" as comprising the political, economic, cultural, and media establishment, depicted as a homogeneous entity and accused of placing their own interests, and often the interests of other groups\u2014such as foreign countries or immigrants\u2014above the interests of \"the people\". According to this approach, populism is a thin-ideology which is combined with other, more substantial thick ideologies such as nationalism, liberalism, or socialism. Thus, populists can be found at different locations along the left\u2013right political spectrum and there is both left-wing populism and right-wing populism.\nOther scholars active in the social sciences have defined the term populism in different ways. According to the popular agency definition used by some historians of United States history, populism refers to popular engagement of the population in political decision making. An approach associated with the scholar Ernesto Laclau presents populism as an emancipatory social force through which marginalised groups challenge dominant power structures. Some economists have used the term in reference to governments which engage in substantial public spending financed by foreign loans, resulting in hyperinflation and emergency measures. In popular discourse, the term has sometimes been used synonymously with demagogy, to describe politicians who present overly simplistic answers to complex questions in a highly emotional manner, or with opportunism, to characterise politicians who seek to please voters without rational consideration as to the best course of action.\nThe term populism came into use in the late 19th century alongside the promotion of democracy. In the United States, it was closely associated with the People's Party, while in the Russian Empire it was linked to the agrarian socialist Narodnik movement. During the 20th century, various parties emerged in liberal democracies that were described as populist. In the 21st century, the term became increasingly popular, used in reference largely to left-wing groups in the Latin American pink tide, right-wing groups in Europe, and both right and leftist groups in the U.S. In 2017 'populism' was chosen as the Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year.[1]\nEtymology and common use\nThe term populism is a vague and contested term that has been used in reference to a diverse variety of phenomena.[3] The term originated as a term of self-designation, being used by members of the People's Party active in the United States during the late 19th century,[4] while in the Russian Empire during the same period a group referred to itself as the narodniki, which has often been translated into English as populists.[5] The Russian and American movements differed in various respects, and the fact that they shared a name was coincidental.[6]\nAlthough the term started out as a self-designation, part of the confusion surrounding it stems from the fact that it has rarely been used in this way, with few political figures openly describing themselves as \"populists\".[7] As noted by the political scientist Margaret Canovan, \"there has been no self-conscious international populist movement which might have attempted to control or limit the term's reference, and as a result those who have used it have been able to attach it a wide variety of meanings.\"[8] In this it differs from other political terms, like socialism, which have been widely used as a self-designation by individuals who have then presented their own, internal definitions of the word.[4]\nTypically, the term is usually used against others, often in a pejorative sense to discredit opponents.[9] In being applied in this way, the term \"populism\" has often been conflated with other concepts like demagoguery and generally presented as something to be \"feared and discredited\".[10] Some of those who have repeatedly been referred to as \"populists\" in a pejorative sense have subsequently embraced the term while seeking to shed it of negative connotations.[10] The French far-right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen for instance was often accused of populism and eventually responded by stating that \"Populism precisely is taking into account the people's opinion. Have people the right, in a democracy, to hold an opinion? If that is the case, then yes, I am a populist.\"[10]\nCanovan noted that \"if the notion of populism did not exist, no social scientist would deliberately invent it; the term is far too ambiguous for that\".[11] The confusion surrounding the term has led some scholars to suggest that it should be abandoned by scholarship.[12] In contrast to this view, the political scientists Cas Mudde and Crist\u00f3bal Rovira Kaltwasser stated that \"while the frustration is understandable, the term populism is too central to debates about politics from Europe to the Americas to simply do away with.\"[13] Similarly, Canovan noted that the term \"does have comparatively clear and definite meanings in a number of specialist areas\" and that it \"provides a pointer, however shaky, to an interesting and largely unexplored area of political and social experience\".[8] The political scientist Ben Stanley noted that \"although the meaning of the term has proven controversial in the literature, the persistence with which it has recurred suggests the existence at least of an ineliminable core: that is, that it refers to a distinct pattern of ideas.\"[14] Although academic definitions of populism have differed, most of them have focused on the idea that it should reference some form of relationship between \"the people\" and \"the elite\".[15]\nIdeational definition\nA common approach to defining populism is known as the ideational approach.[13] In this definition, populism is applied to politicians and groups which make appeals to \"the people\" who they then contrast against \"the elite\".[13] Daniele Albertazzi and Duncan McDonnell define populism as an ideology that \"pits a virtuous and homogeneous people against a set of elites and dangerous 'others' who are together depicted as depriving (or attempting to deprive) the sovereign people of their rights, values, prosperity, identity, and voice\".[17] In this understanding, note Mudde and Kaltwasser, \"populism always involves a critique of the establishment and an adulation of the common people\",[13] and according to Ben Stanley, populism itself is a product of \"an antagonistic relationship\" between \"the people\" and \"the elite\", and is \"latent wherever the possibility occurs for the emergence of such a dichotomy\".[18] This understanding conceives of populism as a discourse, ideology, or worldview.[13] These definitions were initially employed largely in Western Europe, although later became increasingly popular in Eastern Europe and the Americas.[13]\nIn this approach, populism is viewed as a \"thin ideology\" or \"thin-centred ideology\" which on its own is seen as too insubstantial to provide a blueprint for societal change. It thus differs from the \"thick-centred\" or \"full\" ideologies such as fascism, liberalism, and socialism, which provide more far-reaching ideas about social transformation. As a thin-centred ideology, populism is therefore attached to a thick-ideology by populist politicians.[19] According to Stanley, \"the thinness of populism ensures that in practice it is a complementary ideology: it does not so much overlap with as diffuse itself throughout full ideologies.\"[20]\nAs a result of the various different ideologies which populism can be paired with, the forms that populism can take vary widely,[16] and populism itself cannot be positioned on the left\u2013right political spectrum.[22] The ideologies which populism can be paired with can be contradictory, resulting in different forms of populism that can oppose each other.[16] For instance, in Latin America during the 1990s, populism was often associated with politicians like Peru's Alberto Fujimori who promoted neoliberal economics, while in the 2000s it was instead associated with politicians like Venezuela's Hugo Ch\u00e1vez who promoted socialist economics.[23] Populist leaders thus \"come in many different shades and sizes\" but, according to Mudde and Kaltwasser, share one common element: \"a carefully crafted image of the vox populi\".[24] Stanley expressed the view that although there are \"certain family resemblances\" that can be seen between populist groups and individuals, there was \"no coherent tradition\" unifying all of them.[20]\nWhile many left-wing parties in the early 20th century presented themselves as the vanguard of the proletariat, by the early 21st century left-wing populists were presenting themselves as the \"voice of the people\" more widely.[25] On the political right, populism is often combined with nationalism, with \"the people\" and \"the nation\" becoming fairly interchangeable categories in their discourse.[26]\nPopulism is, according to Mudde and Kaltwasser, \"a kind of mental map through which individuals analyse and comprehend political reality\".[16] Mudde noted that populism is \"moralistic rather than programmatic\".[27] It encourages a binary world-view in which everyone is divided into \"friends and foes\", with the latter being regarded not just as people who have \"different priorities and values\" but as being fundamentally \"evil\".[27] In emphasising one's purity against the corruption and immorality of \"the elite\", from which \"the people\" must remain pure and untouched, populism prevents compromise between different groups.[27]\nIn simplifying the complexities of reality, the concept of \"the people\" is vague and flexible,[29] with this plasticity benefitting populists who are thus able to \"expand or contract\" the concept \"to suit the chosen criteria of inclusion or exclusion\" at any given time.[20] In employing the concept of \"the people\", populists can encourage a sense of shared identity among different groups within a society and facilitate their mobilisation toward a common cause.[29] One of the ways that populists employ the understanding of \"the people\" is in the idea that \"the people are sovereign\", that in a democratic state governmental decisions should rest with the population and that if they are ignored then they might mobilize or revolt.[30] This is the sense of \"the people\" employed in the late 19th century United States by the People's Party and which has also been used by later populist movements in that country.[30]\nA second way in which \"the people\" is conceived by populists combines a socioeconomic or class based category with one that refers to certain cultural traditions and popular values.[30] The concept seeks to vindicate the dignity of a social group who regard themselves as being oppressed by a dominant \"elite\" who are accused of treating \"the people's\" values, judgements, and tastes with suspicion or contempt.[30] A third use of \"the people\" by populists employs it as a synonym for \"the nation\", whether that national community be conceived in either ethnic or civic terms. In such a framework, all individuals regarded as being \"native\" to a particular state, either by birth or by ethnicity, could be considered part of \"the people\".[31]\nPopulism typically entails \"celebrating them as the people\", in Stanley's words.[32] The political scientist Paul Taggart proposed the term \"the heartland\" to better reflect what populists often mean in their rhetoric.[33] According to Taggart, \"the heartland\" was the place \"in which, in the populist imagination, a virtuous and unified population resides\".[34] Who this \"heartland\" is can vary between populists, even within the same country. For instance, in Britain, the centre-right Conservative Party conceived of \"Middle England\" as its heartland, while the far-right British National Party conceived of the \"native British people\" as its heartland.[35] Mudde noted that for populists, \"the people\" \"are neither real nor all-inclusive, but are in fact a mythical and constructed sub-set of the whole population\".[35] They are an imagined community, much like the imagined communities embraced and promoted by nationalists.[35]\nPopulism often entails presenting \"the people\" as the underdog.[32] Populists typically seek to reveal to \"the people\" how they are oppressed.[35] In doing so, they do not seek to change \"the people\", but rather seek to preserve the latter's \"way of life\" as it presently exists, regarding it as a source of good.[28] Although populist leaders often present themselves as representatives of \"the people\", they often come from elite strata in society; examples like Berlusconi, Fortuyn, and Haider were all well-connected to their country's political and economic elites.[36]\nSlovakia's Vladim\u00edr Me\u010diar and Venezuela's Hugo Ch\u00e1vez are examples of populists who were elected to office and then had to shift their concepts of \"the elite\" to account for their own newly elite status. [37]\nAnti-elitism is widely considered the central characteristic feature of populism.[38] In populist discourse, the \"fundamental distinguishing feature\" of \"the elite\" is that it is in an \"adversarial relationship\" with \"the people\".[39] In defining \"the elite\", populists often condemn not only the political establishment, but also the economic elite, cultural elite, and the media elite, which they present as one homogenous, corrupt group.[40] When operating in liberal democracies, populists often condemn dominant political parties as part of \"the elite\" but at the same time do not reject the party political system altogether, instead either calling for or claiming to be a new kind of party different from the others.[35]\nAlthough condemning almost all those in positions of power within a given society, populists often exclude both themselves and those sympathetic to their cause even when they too are in positions of power.[37] For instance, the Freedom Party of Austria (FP\u00d6), a right-wing populist group, regularly condemned \"the media\" in Austria for defending \"the elite\", but excluded from that the Kronen Zeitung, a widely read tabloid that supported the FP\u00d6 and its leader J\u00f6rg Haider.[37]\nWhen populists take governmental power, they are faced with a challenge in that they now represent a new elite. In such cases\u2014like Ch\u00e1vez in Venezuela and Vladim\u00edr Me\u010diar in Slovakia\u2014populists retain their anti-establishment rhetoric by making changes to their concept of \"the elite\" to suit their new circumstances, alleging that real power is not held by the government but other powerful forces who continue to undermine the populist government and the will of \"the people\" itself.[37] In these instances, populist governments often conceptualise \"the elite\" as those holding economic power.[41] In Venezuela, for example, Ch\u00e1vez blamed the economic elite for frustrating his reforms, while in Greece, the left-wing populist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused \"the lobbyists and oligarchs of Greece\" of undermining his administration.[41] In populist instances like these, the claims made have some basis in reality, as business interests seek to undermine leftist-oriented economic reform.[41]\nThe Bolivian government of left-wing populist Evo Morales and his Movement for Socialism has been described as the \"prototypical case\" of ethnopopulism. [42]\nAlthough left-wing populists who combine populist ideas with forms of socialism most commonly present \"the elite\" in economic terms, the same strategy is also employed by some right-wing populists.[41] In the United States during the late 2000s, the Tea Party movement\u2014which presented itself as a defender of the capitalist free market\u2014argued that big business, and its allies in Congress, seeks to undermine the free market and kill competition by stifling small business.[41] Among some 21st century right-wing populists, \"the elite\" are presented as being political progressives committed to political correctness.[43] The Dutch right-wing populist leader Pim Fortuyn referred to this as the \"Church of the Left\".[43]\nIn some instances, particularly in Latin America, \"the elites\" are conceived not just in economic but also in ethnic terms, representing what political scientists have termed ethnopopulism.[44] In Bolivia, for example, the left-wing populist leader Evo Morales juxtaposed the mestizo and indigenous \"people\" against an overwhelmingly European \"elite\",[45] declaring that \"We Indians [i.e. indigenous people] are Latin America's moral reserve\".[42] In the Bolivian case, this was not accompanied by a racially exclusionary approach, but with an attempt to built a pan-ethnic coalition which included European Bolivians against the largely European Bolivian elite.[46] In areas like Europe where nation-states are more ethnically homogenous, this ethnopopulist approach is rare given that the \"people\" and \"elite\" are typically of the same ethnicity.[42]\nIn various instances, populists claim that \"the elite\" is working against the interests of the country.[41] In the European Union (EU), for instance, various populist groups allege that their national political elites put the interests of the EU itself over those of their own nation-states.[41] Similarly, in Latin America populists often charge political elites with championing the interests of the United States over those of their own countries.[47] Another common tactic among populists, particularly in Europe, is the accusation that \"the elites\" place the interests of immigrants above those of the native population.[45] In instances where populists are also anti-Semitic, such as Jobbik in Hungary and Attack in Bulgaria, the elites are accused of favouring Israeli and wider Jewish interests above those of the national group, with some instances in which \"the elite\" is accused of being made up of many Jews as well.[45] When populists emphasise ethnicity as part of their discourse, \"the elite\" can sometimes be presented as \"ethnic traitors\".[32]\nA third component of the ideational approach to populism is the idea of the general will, or volont\u00e9 g\u00e9n\u00e9rale.[48] An example of this populist understanding of the general will can be seen in Ch\u00e1vez's 2007 inaugural address, when he stated that \"All individuals are subject to error and seduction, but not the people, which possesses to an eminent degree of consciousness of its own good and the measure of its independence. Because of that its judgement is pure, its will is strong, and none can corrupt or even threaten it.\"[49] For populists, the general will of \"the people\" is something that should take precedence over the preferences of \"the elite\".[50]\nAs noted by Stanley, the populist idea of the general will is connected to ideas of majoritarianism and authenticity.[50] Highlighting how populists appeal to the ideals of \"authenticity and ordinariness\", he noted that what was most important to populists was \"to appeal to the idea of an authentic people\" and to cultivate the idea that they are the \"genuine\" representatives of \"the people\".[32] In doing so they often emphasise their physical proximity to \"the people\" and their distance from \"the elites\".[32]\nIn emphasising the general will, many populists share the critique of representative democratic government previously espoused by the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.[49] This approach regards representative governance as an aristocratic and elitist system in which a country's citizens are regarded as passive entities. Rather than choosing laws for themselves, these citizens are only mobilized for elections in which their only option is to select their representatives rather than taking a more direct role in legislation and governance.[51] Populists often favour the use of direct democratic measures such as referenda and plebiscites.[52] For this reason, Mudde and Kaltwasser suggested that \"it can be argued that an elective affinity exists between populism and direct democracy\",[51] although Stanley cautioned that \"support for direct democracy is not an essential attribute of populism.\"[50] Populist notions of the \"general will\" are usually based on the idea of \"common sense\".[53]\nPopulism versus elitism and pluralism\nProtesters from the Tea Party movement, a right-wing populist formation in the United States\nStanley noted that rather than being restricted purely to populists, appeals to \"the people\" had become \"an unavoidable aspect of modern political practice\", with elections and referenda predicated on the notion that \"the people\" decide the outcome.[21] Thus, a critique of the ideational definition of populism is that it becomes too broad and can potentially apply to all political actors and movements. Responding to this critique, Mudde and Kaltwasser argued that the ideational definition did allow for a \"non-populism\" in the form of both elitism and pluralism.[54]\nElitists share the populist binary division but reverse the associations. Whereas populists regard the elites as bad and the common people as good, elitists view \"the people\" as being vulgar, immoral, and dangerous and \"the elites\" as being morally, culturally, and intellectually superior.[55] Elitists want politics to be largely or entirely an elite affair; some\u2014like Spain's Francisco Franco and Chile's Augusto Pinochet\u2014reject democracy altogether, while others\u2014like Spain's Jos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset and Austria's Joseph Schumpeter\u2014support a limited model of democracy.[56]\nPluralism differs from both elitism and populism by rejecting any dualist framework, instead viewing society as a broad array of overlapping social groups, each with their own ideas and interests. In this context, diversity is seen not as a weakness but a strength.[57] Pluralists argue that political power should not be held by any single group\u2014whether defined by their gender, ethnicity, economic status, or political party membership etc\u2014and should instead be distributed. Pluralists encourage governance through compromise and consensus in order to reflect the interests of as many of these groups as possible.[58] Some politicians do not seek to demonise a social elite; for many conservatives for example, the social elite are regarded as the bulwark of the traditional social order, while for some liberals, the social elite are perceived as an enlightened legislative and administrative cadre.[39]\nThe popular agency definition to populism uses the term in reference to a democratic way of life that is built on the popular engagement of the population in political activity. In this understanding, populism is usually perceived as a positive factor in the mobilization of the populace to develop a communitarian form of democracy.[59] This approach to the term is common among historians in the United States and those who have studied the late 19th century Populist Party in the US.[59]\nThe Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau developed his own definition of populism. He regarded it as a positive force for emancipatory change in society\nThe Laclauan definition of populism, so called after the Argentinian political theorist Ernesto Laclau who developed it, uses the term in reference to what proponents regard as an emancipatory force that is the essence of politics.[59] In this concept of populism, it is believed to mobilise excluded sectors of society against dominant elites and changing the status quo.[59] Laclau's initial emphasis was on class antagonisms arising between different classes, although he later altered his perspective to claim that populist discourses could arise from any part of the socio-institutional structure\".[18] This definition is popular among critics of liberal democracy and is widely used in critical studies and in studies of West European and Latin American politics.[59]\nThe socioeconomic definition of populism applies the term to what it regards as an irresponsible form of economic policy by which a government engages in a period of massive public spending financed by foreign loans, after which the country falls into hyperinflation and harsh economic adjustments are then imposed.[60] This use of the term was used by economists like Rudiger Dornbusch and Jeffrey Sachs and was particularly popular among scholars of Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s.[59] Since that time, this definition continued to be used by some economists and journalists, particularly in the US, but was uncommon among other social sciences.[61]\nAn additional approach applies the term populism to a political strategy in which a charismatic leader seeks to govern based on direct and unmediated connection with their followers.[61] This is a definition of the term that is popular among scholars of non-Western societies.[61] Mudde suggested that although the idea of a leader having direct access to \"the people\" was a common element among populists, it is best regarded as a feature which facilitates rather than defines populism.[33]\nIn popular discourse, populism is sometimes used in a negative sense in reference to politics which involves promoting extremely simple solutions to complex problems in a highly emotional manner.[62] Mudde suggested that this definition \"seems to have instinctive value\" but was difficult to employ empirically because almost all political groups engage in sloganeering and because it can be difficult to differentiate an argument made emotionally from one made rationally.[62] Mudde thought that this phenomenon was better termed demagogy rather than populism.[15] Another use of the term in popular discourse is to describe opportunistic policies designed to quickly please voters rather than deciding a more rational course of action.[62] Examples of this would include a governing political party lowering taxes before an election or promising to provide things to the electorate which the state cannot afford to pay for.[63] Mudde suggested that this phenomenon is better described as opportunism rather than populism.[62]\nSome scholars argue that populist organizing for empowerment represents the return of older \"Aristotelian\" politics of horizontal interactions among equals who are different, for the sake of public problem solving.[64][65]\nPopulist mobilization\nThere are three forms of political mobilization which populists have adopted: that of the populist leader, the populist political party, and the populist social movement.[66] The reasons why voters are attracted to populists differ, but common catalysts for the rise of populists include dramatic economic decline or a systematic corruption scandal that damages established political parties.[67] For instance, the Great Recession of 2007 and its impact on the economies of southern Europe was a catalyst for the rise of Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain, while the Mani pulite corruption scandal of the early 1990s played a significant part in the rise of the Italian populist Silvio Berlusconi[67] and Brazil's Operation Car Wash advantaged Jair Bolsonaro's rise to power in 2018.[68] Another catalyst for the growth of populism is a widespread perception among voters that the political system is unresponsive to them.[69] This can arise when elected governments introduce policies that are unpopular with their voters but which are implemented because they are considered to be \"responsible\" or imposed by supra-national organisations; in Latin America, for example, many countries passed unpopular economic reforms under pressure from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank while in Europe, many countries in the European Union were pushed to implement unpopular economic austerity measures by the union's authorities.[70]\nPopulist leader\nPopulist leaders often play on gendered stereotypes. US-based Sarah Palin portrayed a maternal image as a \"mama grizzly\"; [71] Italy's Silvio Berlusconi boasted of his sexual virility. [72]\nThe populist leader is, according to Mudde and Kaltwasser \"the quintessential form of populist mobilization\".[73] These individuals campaign and attract support on the basis of their own personal appeal.[73] Their supporters then develop a perceived personal connection with the leader.[73] For these leaders, populist rhetoric allows them to claim that they have a direct relationship with \"the people\",[74] and in many cases they claim to be a personification of \"the people\" themselves,[73] presenting themselves as the vox populi or \"voice of the people\".[75] The overwhelming majority of populist leaders have been men,[73] although there have been various females occupying this role.[76] Most of these female populist leaders gained positions of seniority through their connections to previously dominant men; Eva Per\u00f3n was the wife of Juan Per\u00f3n, Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen, Keiko Fujimori the daughter of Alberto Fujimori, and Yingluck Shinawatra the sister of Thaksin Shinawatra.[77]\nPopulist leaders often present themselves as men of action rather than men of words, talking of the need for \"bold action\" and \"common sense solutions\" to issues which they call \"crises\".[72] Male populist leaders often express themselves using simple and sometimes vulgar language in an attempt to present themselves as \"the common man\" or \"one of the boys\" to add to their populist appeal.[78] An example of this is Umberto Bossi, the leader of the right-wing populist Italian Lega Nord, who at rallies would state \"the League has a hard-on\" while putting his middle-finger up as a sign of disrespect to the government in Rome.[79] Another recurring feature of male populist leaders is the emphasis that they place on their own virility.[72] An example of this is the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who bragged about his bunga bunga sex parties and his ability to seduce young women.[72] Among female populist leaders, it is more common for them to emphasise their role as a wife and mother.[71] The US right-wing populist Sarah Palin for instance referred to herself as a \"hockey mom\" and a \"mama grizzly\",[71] while Australian right-wing populist Pauline Hanson stated that \"I care so passionately about this country, it's like I'm its mother. Australia is my home and the Australian people are my children.\"[71]\nPopulist leaders typically portray themselves as outsiders who are separate from the \"elite\". Female populist leaders sometimes reference their gender as setting them apart from the dominant \"old boys' club\",[80] while in Latin America a number of populists, such as Evo Morales and Alberto Fujimori, emphasised their non-white ethnic background to set them apart from the white-dominated elite.[46] In instances where wealthy business figures promote populist sentiments, such as Ross Perot, Thaksin Shinawatra, or Silvio Berlusconi, it can be difficult to present themselves as being outside the elite, however this is achieved by portraying themselves as being apart from the political, if not the economic elite, and portraying themselves as reluctant politicians.[81] Mudde and Kaltwasser noted that \"in reality, most populist leaders are very much part of the national elite\", typically being highly educated, upper-middle class, middle-aged males from the majority ethnicity.[82] Mudde and Kaltwasser suggested that \"true outsiders\" to the political system are rare, although cited instances like Venezuela's Ch\u00e1vez and Peru's Fujimori.[83] More common is that they are \"insider-outsiders\", strongly connected to the inner circles of government but not having ever been part of it.[84] The Dutch right-wing populist Geert Wilders had for example been a prominent back-bench MP for many years before launching his populist Party for Freedom.[77] Only a few populist leaders are \"insiders\", individuals who have held leading roles in government prior to portraying themselves as populists.[85] One example is Thaksin Shinawatra, who was twice deputy prime minister of Thailand before launching his own populist political party;[85] another is Rafael Correa, who served as the Ecuadorean finance minister before launching a left-wing populist challenge.[77]\nSome populist leaders give their name to wider populist political movements; examples include the Peronism of Juan Per\u00f3n or the Fortuynism of Pim Fortuyn.\nPopulist leaders are sometimes also characterised as strongmen or\u2014in Latin American countries\u2014as caudillos.[86] In a number of cases, such as Argentina's Per\u00f3n or Venezuela's Ch\u00e1vez, these leaders have military backgrounds which contribute to their strongman image.[86] Other populist leaders have also evoked the strongman image without having a military background; these include Italy's Berlusconi, Slovakia's Me\u010diar, and Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra.[86] Populism and strongmen are not intrinsically connected, however; as stressed by Mudde and Kaltwasser, \"only a minority of strongmen are populists and only a minority of populists is a strongman\".[86] Rather than being populists, many strongmen\u2014such as Spain's Francisco Franco\u2014were elitists who led authoritarian administrations.[86]\nIn most cases, these populist leaders built a political organisation around themselves, typically a political party, although in many instances these remain dominated by the leader.[87] These individuals often give a populist movement its political identity, as is seen with movements like Fortuynism in the Netherlands, Peronism in Argentina, Berlusconism in Italy and Chavismo in Venezuela.[73] Populist mobilization is not however always linked to a charismatic leadership.[88] Mudde and Kaltwasser suggested that populist personalist leadership was more common in countries with a presidential system rather than a parliamentary one because these allow for the election of a single individual to the role of head of government without the need for an accompanying party.[89] Examples where a populist leader has been elected to the presidency without an accompanying political party have included Peron in Argentina, Fujimori in Peru, and Rafael Correa in Ecuador.[89]\nPopulist political parties\nA second form of mobilization is through the form of the populist political party. Populists are not generally opposed to political representation, but merely want their own representatives, those of \"the people\", in power.[90] In various cases, non-populist political parties have transitioned into populist ones; the elitist Socialist Unity Party of Germany, a Marxist-Leninist group which governed East Germany, later transitioned after German re-unification into a populist party, The Left.[91] In other instances, such as the Austrian FP\u00d6 and Swiss SVP, a non-populist party can have a populist faction which later takes control of the whole party.[92] In some examples where a political party has been dominated by a single charismatic leader, the latter's death has served to unite and strengthen the party, as with Argentina's Justicialist Party after Juan Per\u00f3n's death in 1974, or the United Socialist Party of Venezuela after Ch\u00e1vez's death in 2013.[93] In other cases, a populist party has seen one strong centralising leader replace another, as when Marine Le Pen replaced her father Jean-Marie as the leader of the National Front in 2011, or when Heinz-Christian Strache took over from Haider as chair of the Freedom Party of Austria in 2005.[94]\nMany populist parties achieve an electoral breakthrough but then fail to gain electoral persistence, with their success fading away at subsequent elections.[95] In various cases, they are able to secure regional strongholds of support but with little support elsewhere in the country; the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZ\u00d6) for instance gained national representation in the Austrian parliament solely because of its strong support in Carinthia.[95] Similarly, the Belgian Vlaams Belang party has its stronghold in Antwerp, while the Swiss People's Party has its stronghold in Zurich.[95]\nPopulist social movements\nThe Occupy movement is an example of a populist social movement\nThe third form is that of the populist social movement. Populist social movements are comparatively rare, as most social movements focus on a more restricted social identity or issue rather than identifying with \"the people\" more broadly.[90] However, after the Great Recession of 2007 a number of populist social movements emerged, expressing public frustrations with national and international economic systems. These included the Occupy movement, which originated in the US and used the slogan \"We are the 99%\", and the Spanish Indignados movement, which employed the motto: \"real democracy now \u2013 we are not goods in the hands of politicians and bankers\".[96]\nFew populist social movements survive for more than a few years, with most examples, like the Occupy movement, petering out after their initial growth.[93] In some cases, the social movement fades away as a strong leader emerges from within it and moves into electoral politics.[93] An example of this can be seen with the India Against Corruption social movement, from which emerged Arvind Kejriwal, who founded the Aam Aadmi Party (\"Common Man Party\").[93] Another is the Spanish Indignados movement which appeared in 2011 before spawning the Podemos party led by Pablo Iglesias Turri\u00f3n.[97]\nPopulism and other themes\nCanovan proposed that seven different types of populism could be discerned. Three of these were forms of \"agrarian populism\"; these included farmers' radicalism, peasant movements, and intellectual agrarian socialism.[98] The other four were forms of \"political populism\", representing populist dictatorship, populist democracy, reactionary populism, and politicians' populism.[98] She noted that these were \"analytical constructs\" and that \"real-life examples may well overlap several categories\",[98] adding that no single political movement fitted into all seven categories.[99]\nThere have been intense debates about the relationship between populism and democracy.[100] Some regard populism as being an intrinsic danger to democracy; others regard it as the only \"true\" form of democracy.[100]\nMudde and Kaltwasser argued that \"populism is essentially democratic, but at odds with liberal democracy.\"[101] It undermines the tenets of liberal democracy by rejecting notions of pluralism and the idea that anything should constrain the \"general will\" of \"the people\".[101] In practice, populists operating in liberal democracies often criticised the independent institutions designed to protect the fundamental rights of minorities, particularly the judiciary and the media.[101] The Italian populist Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for instance criticised the Italian judiciary for defending the rights of communists.[101] In countries like Hungary, Ecuador, and Venezuela, populist governments have curtailed the independent media.[102] Minorities have often suffered as a result; in Europe in particular, ethnic minorities have had their rights undermined by populism, while in Latin America it is political opposition groups who have been undermined by popular governments.[103] In several instances\u2014such as Orban in Hungary\u2014the populist leader has set the country on a path of de-democratisation by changing the constitution to centralise increasing levels of power in the head of government.[104]\nAt the same time, populism can serve as a democratic corrective by contributing to the mobilization of social groups who feel excluded from political decision making.[105] When some populists have taken power\u2014most notable Ch\u00e1vez in Venezuela\u2014they have enhanced the use of direct democracy through the regular application of referenda.[106]\nEven when not elected into office, populist parties can have an impact in shaping the national political agenda; in Western Europe, parties like the French National Front and Danish People's Party did not generally get more than 10 or 20% of the national vote, but mainstream parties shifted their own policies to meet the populist challenge.[107]\nMainstream responses to populism\nMudde and Kaltwasser suggested that to deflate the appeal of populism, those government figures found guilty of corruption need to be seen to face adequate punishment.[108] They also argued that stronger rule of law and the elimination of systemic corruption were also important facets in preventing populist growth.[109] They believed that mainstream politicians wishing to reduce the populist challenge should be more open about the restrictions of their power, noting that those who backed populist movements were often frustrated with the dishonesty of established politicians who \"claim full agency when things go well and almost full lack of agency when things go wrong\".[110] They also suggested that the appeal of populism could be reduced by wider civic education in the values of liberal democracy and the relevance of pluralism.[110] What Mudde and Kaltwasser believed was ineffective was a full-frontal attack on the populists which presented \"them\" as \"evil\" or \"foolish\", for this strategy plays into the binary division that populists themselves employ.[111] In their view, \"the best way to deal with populism is to engage\u2014as difficult as it is\u2014in an open dialogue with populist actors and supporters\" in order to \"better understand the claims and grievances of the populist elites and masses and to develop liberal democratic responses to them\".[112]\nMainstream politicians have sometimes sought to co-operate or build alliances with populists. In the United States, for example, various Republican Party figures aligned themselves with the Tea Party movement, while in countries like Finland and Austria populist parties have taken part in governing coalitions.[113]\nA more common approach has been for mainstream parties to openly attack the populists and construct a cordon sanitaire to prevent them from gaining political office [113] While mainstream parties may continue to hold their ideological positions, evidence from the United Kingdom suggests that mainstream politicians may adopt a populist political style.[114]\nIn November 2018, Hillary Clinton recommended mainstream politicians should restrict immigration into Europe. Doing so, she believed, would starve populist politicians of electoral support from voters concerned over large-scale immigration: \"I think it is fair to say Europe has done its part, and must send a very clear message - 'we are not going to be able to continue to provide refuge and support' - because if we don't deal with the migration issue it will continue to roil the body politics.\"[115] Similarly, Tony Blair said centrist politicians had to accept that immigration is a key issue for voters and is driving populist movements.[116]\nOnce populists are in political office in liberal democracies, the judiciary can play a key role in blocking some of their more illiberal policies, as has been the case in Slovakia and Poland.[117] The mainstream media can play an important role in blocking populist growth; in a country like Germany, the mainstream media is for instant resolutely anti-populist, opposing populist groups whether left or right.[117] Mudde and Kaltwasser noted that there was an \"odd love-hate relationship between populist media and politicians, sharing a discourse but not a struggle\".[118] In certain countries, certain mainstream media outlets have supported populist groups; in Austria, the Kronen Zeitung played a prominent role in endorsing Haider, in the United Kingdom the Daily Express supported the UK Independence Party, while in the United States, Fox News gave much positive coverage and encouragement to the Tea Party movement.[117]\nIn some cases, when the populists have taken power, their political rivals have sought to violently overthrow them; this was seen in the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'\u00e9tat attempt, when mainstream groups worked with sectors of the military to unseat Hugo Ch\u00e1vez's government.[113]\nAuthoritarianism and populism\nScholars have argued that populist elements have sometimes appeared in authoritarian movements.[119][120][121][122][123][124] Conspiracist scapegoating employed by various populist movements can create \"a seedbed for fascism\".[125]\nNational Socialist populism interacted with and facilitated fascism in interwar Germany.[126] In this case, distressed middle-class populists mobilized their anger against the government and big business during the pre-Nazi Weimar period. The Nazis \"parasitized the forms and themes of the populists and moved their constituencies far to the right through ideological appeals involving demagoguery, scapegoating, and conspiracism\".[127]\nAccording to Fritzsche:[128]\nThe Nazis expressed the populist yearnings of middle\u2013class constituents and at the same time advocated a strong and resolutely anti-Marxist mobilization...Against \"unnaturally\" divisive parties and querulous organized interest groups, National Socialists cast themselves as representatives of the commonwealth, of an allegedly betrayed and neglected German public...Breaking social barriers of status and caste, and celebrating at least rhetorically the populist ideal of the people's community...\nAt the turn of the 21st century, the pink tide spreading over Latin America was \"prone to populism and authoritarianism\".[129] Steven Levitsky and James Loxton,[130] as well as Ra\u00fal Madrid,[131] stated that Venezuelan president Hugo Ch\u00e1vez and his regional allies used populism to achieve their dominance and later established authoritarian regimes when they were empowered. Such actions, Weyland argues, proves that \"Populism, understood as a strategy for winning and exerting state power, inherently stands in tension with democracy and the value that it places upon pluralism, open debate, and fair competition\".[132]\nLocalism and populism\nJane Wills, a Professor of Human Geography in the University of Exeter, argued that the increasing numbers of populist politicians are endorsing localism as the framework for public policy.[133] She defined that populism is the form of politics that involves actions to speak for the people in a register that is more authentic to the experiences and needs of those people.[133] In other words, most likely that Populist Party policies would contradict with parties supporting the elites.[133] She also used anti-politics to describe populist or localist politician because they stood against mainstream politics.[133] She used the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) as an example where UKIP adopted localism into frame working their policies. Mainstream politicians from Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat threatened by the rise of UKIP and their adoption on localism policy, in which they increasingly exposed from the emotional connection to the people.[133]\nScholars who have studied populism agree that it is a modern phenomenon.[134] Its origins are often traced to the late nineteenth century, when a populist movement arose in the United States and another different kind of movement, but with a name frequently translated as \"populist\" in the Russian Empire[134] Populism has often been linked to the spread of democracy, both as an idea and as a framework for governance.[134]\nThe 2016 presidential election saw a wave of populist sentiment in the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, with both candidates running on anti-establishment platforms in the Democratic and Republican parties\nIn North America, populism has often been characterised by regional mobilization and weak organisation.[135] During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, populist sentiments became widespread, particularly in the western provinces of Canada, and in the southwest and Great Plains regions of the United States. In this instance, populism was combined with agrarianism and often known as \"prairie populism\".[136] For these groups, \"the people\" were yeomen\u2014small, independent farmers \u2014while the \"elite\" were the bankers and politicians of the northeast.[136] In some cases, populist activists called for alliances with labor (the first national platform of the National People's Party in 1892 calling for protecting the rights of \"urban workmen\".[137] In the state of Georgia in the early 1890s, Tom Watson (later the Populist candidate for Vice-President) led a major effort to unite white and Negro farmers[138][139]\nThe People's Party of the late 19th century United States is considered to be \"one of the defining populist movements\";[140] its members were often referred to as the Populists at the time.[136] Its radical platform included calling for the nationalisation of railways, the banning of strikebreakers, and the introduction of referenda.[141] The party gained representation in several state legislatures during the 1890s, but was not powerful enough to mount a successful presidential challenge. In the 1896 presidential election, the People's Party supported the Democratic Party candidate William Jennings Bryan; after his defeat, the People's Party's support declined.[142] Other early populist political parties in the United States included the Greenback Party, the Progressive Party of 1912 led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party of 1924 led by Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and the Share Our Wealth movement of Huey Long in 1933\u20131935.[143][144] In Canada, populist groups adhering to a social credit ideology had various successes at local and regional elections from the 1930s to the 1960s, although the main Social Credit Party of Canada never became a dominant national force.[145]\nBy the mid-20th century, US populism had moved from a largely progressive to a largely reactionary stance, being closely intertwined with the anti-communist politics of the period.[146] In this period, the historian Richard Hofstadter and sociologist Daniel Bell compared the anti-elitism of the 1890s Populists with that of Joseph McCarthy.[147] Although not all academics accepted the comparison between the left-wing, anti-big business Populists and the right-wing, anti-communist McCarthyites, the term \"populist\" nonetheless came to be applied to both left-wing and right-wing groups that blamed elites for the problems facing the country.[147] Some mainstream politicians in the Republican Party recognised the utility of such a tactic and adopted it; Republican President Richard Nixon for instance popularised the term \"silent majority\" when appealing to voters.[146] Right-wing populist rhetoric was also at the base of two of the most successful third-party presidential campaigns in the late 20th century, that of George C. Wallace in 1968 and Ross Perot in 1992.[148] These politicians presented a consisted message that a \"liberal elite\" was threatening \"our way of life\" and using the welfare state to placate the poor and thus maintain their own power.[148]\nIn the first decade of the 21st century, two populist movements appeared in the US, both in response to the Great Recession: the Occupy movement and the Tea Party movement.[149] The populist approach of the Occupy movement was broader, with its \"people\" being what it called \"the 99%\", while the \"elite\" it challenged was presented as both the economic and political elites.[150] The Tea Party's populism was Producerism, and thus implicitly racialized, while \"the elite\" it presented was more party partisan than that of Occupy, being defined largely\u2014although not exclusively\u2014as the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama.[150] The 2016 presidential election saw a wave of populist sentiment in the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, with both candidates running on anti-establishment platforms in the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively.[151] Both campaigns criticized free trade deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.[152][153][154] Trump's electoral victory coincided with a similar trend of populism in Europe in 2016.[155]\nPre-modern antecedents\nPopulism has been identified with aspects of the Protestant Reformation by German historian Peter Blickle, who stresses the tradition of populist, corporative, anti-feudal politics.[156][157] Protestant groups like the Anabaptists formed ideas about ideal theocratic societies, in which peasants would be able to read the Bible themselves. Attempts to establish these societies were made during the German Peasants' War (1524\u20131525) and the M\u00fcnster Rebellion (1534\u20131535). The peasant movement ultimately failed as cities and nobles made their own peace with the princely armies, which restored the old order.[158]\nPopulist elements appeared in the English Civil War of the mid-17th century, especially among the Levellers. The movement was committed to popular sovereignty, extended suffrage, equality before the law, and religious tolerance. The hallmark of Leveller thought was its populism, as shown by its emphasis on equal natural rights, and their practice of reaching the public through pamphlets, petitions, and vocal appeals to the crowd. [159]\nIlya Repin's painting, Arrest of a Propagandist (1892), which depicts the arrest of a narodnik.\nIn the Russian Empire during the late 19th century, the narodnichestvo movement emerged, championing the cause of the empire's peasantry against the governing elites.[160] The movement was unable to secure its objectives, however it inspired other agrarian movements across eastern Europe in the early 20th century.[161] Although the Russian movement was primarily a movement of the middle class and intellectuals \"going to the people\", in some respects their agrarian populism was similar to that of the U.S. People's Party, with both presenting small farmers (the peasantry in Europe) as the foundation of society and main source of societal morality.[161]\nIn the early 20th century, adherents of both Marxism and fascism flirted with populism, but both movements remained ultimately elitist, emphasising the idea of a small elite who should guide and govern society.[161] Among Marxists, the emphasis on class struggle and the idea that the working classes are affected by false consciousness are also antithetical to populist ideas.[161]\nIn the years following the Second World War, populism was largely absent from Europe, in part due to the domination of elitist Marxism-Leninism in Eastern Europe and a desire to emphasise moderation among many West European political parties.[162] However, over the coming decades, a number of right-wing populist parties emerged throughout the continent.[140] These were largely isolated and mostly reflected a conservative agricultural backlash against the centralization and politicization of the agricultural sector then occurring.[163] These included Guglielmo Giannini's Common Man's Front in 1940s Italy, Pierre Poujade's Union for the Defense of Tradesmen and Artisans in late 1950s France, Hendrik Koekoek's Farmers' Party of the 1960s Netherlands, and Mogens Glistrup's Progress Party of 1970s Denmark.[140] Between the late 1960s and the early 1980s there also came a concerted populist critique of society from Europe's New Left, including from the new social movements and from the early Green parties.[140] However it was only in the late 1990s, according to Mudde and Kaltwasser, that populism became \"a relevant political force in Europe\", one which could have a significant impact on mainstream politics.[163]\nFollowing the fall of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc of the early 1990s, there was a rise in populism across much of Central and Eastern Europe.[164] In the first multiparty elections in many of these countries, various parties portrayed themselves as representatives of \"the people\" against the \"elite\", representing the old governing Marxist-Leninist parties.[165] The Czech Civic Forum party for instance campaigned on the slogan \"Parties are for party members, Civic Forum is for everybody\".[165] Many populists in this region claimed that a \"real\" revolution had not occurred during the transition from Marxist-Leninist to liberal democratic governance in the early 1990s and that it was they who were campaigning for such a change.[166]\nJean-Marie Le Pen, founder and leader of the French National Front, the \"prototypical radical right party\" which used populism to advance its cause. [167]\nAt the turn of the 21st century, populist rhetoric became increasingly apparent in Western Europe, where it was often employed by opposition parties.[168] For example, in the 2001 electoral campaign, the Conservative Party leader William Hague accused Tony Blair's governing Labour Party government of representing \"the condescending liberal elite\". Hague repeatedly referring to it as \"metropolitan\", implying that it was out of touch with \"the people\", who in Conservative discourse are represented by \"Middle England\".[168] Blair's government also employed populist rhetoric; in outlining legislation to curtail fox hunting on animal welfare grounds, it presented itself as championing the desires of the majority against the upper-classes who engaged in the sport.[169]\nBy the 21st century, European populism was again associated largely with the political right.[26] The term came to be used in reference both to radical right groups like J\u00f6rg Haider's FP\u00d6 in Austria and Jean-Marie Le Pen's FN in France, as well as to non-radical right-wing groups like Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia or Pim Fortuyn's LPF in the Netherlands.[26] The populist radical right combined populism with authoritarianism and nativism.[163] Conversely, the Great Recession also resulted in the emergence of left-wing populist groups in parts of Europe, most notably the Syriza party which gained political office in Greece and the Podemos party in Spain, displaying similarities with the US-based Occupy movement.[166] Like Europe's right-wing populists, these groups also expressed Eurosceptic sentiment towards the European Union, albeit largely from a socialist and anti-austerity perspective than the nationalist perspective adopted by their right-wing counterparts.[166]\nFurther information: V\u00f6lkisch movement\nFriedrich Ludwig Jahn (1778\u20131852), a Lutheran Minister, a professor at the University of Berlin and the \"father of gymnastics\", introduced the concept of Volkstum, a racial notion which draws on the essence of a people that was lost during the Industrial Revolution. Adam Mueller went a step further by positing the belief that the state was a larger totality than the government institutions. This paternalistic vision of aristocracy concerned with social orders had a dark side in that the opposite force of modernity was represented by the Jews, who were said to be eating away at the state.[170] Populism also played a role in mobilizing middle class support for the Nazi Party in Weimar Germany.[171] In this case, distressed middle\u2013class populists mobilized their anger against the government and big business during the pre-Nazi Weimar period. According to Fritzsche:\nThe Nazis expressed the populist yearnings of middle\u2013class constituents and at the same time advocated a strong and resolutely anti-Marxist mobilization... Against \"unnaturally\" divisive parties and querulous organized interest groups, National Socialists cast themselves as representatives of the commonwealth, of an allegedly betrayed and neglected German public...[b]reaking social barriers of status and caste, and celebrating at least rhetorically the populist ideal of the people's community...[128]\nItaly's Deputy Prime Minister and League's leader, Matteo Salvini, is considered one of the most prominent right-wing populist politicians in Europe.\nWhen Silvio Berlusconi entered politics in 1994 with his new party Forza Italia, he created a new kind of populism focused on media control.[172] Berlusconi and his allies won three elections, in 1994, 2001 and, with his new right-wing People of Freedom party, in 2008; he was Prime Minister of Italy for almost ten years.[173] Throughout its existence, Berlusconi's party was characterised by a strong reliance on the personal image and charisma of its leader\u2014it has therefore been called a \"personality party\"[174][175] or Berlusconi's \"personal party\"[176][177][178]\u2014and the skillful use of media campaigns, especially via television.[179] The party's organisation and ideology depended heavily on its leader. Its appeal to voters was based on Berlusconi's personality more than on its ideology or programme.[180]\nItaly\u2019s most prominent right-wing populist party is Lega Nord (LN).[181] The League started as a federalist, regionalist and sometimes secessionist party, founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties of Northern and Central Italy, most of which had arisen and expanded during the 1980s. LN's program advocates the transformation of Italy into a federal state, fiscal federalism and greater regional autonomy, especially for the Northern regions. At times, the party has advocated for the secession of the North, which it calls Padania.[182][183][184][185] Certain LN members have been known to publicly deploy the offensive slur \"terrone\", a common pejorative term for Southern Italians that is evocative of negative Southern Italian stereotypes.[182][183][186] With the rise of immigration into Italy since the late 1990s, LN has increasingly turned its attention to criticizing mass immigration to Italy. The LN, which also opposes illegal immigration, is critical of Islam and proposes Italy's exit from the Eurozone. Since 2013, under the leadership of Matteo Salvini, the party has to some extent embraced Italian nationalism and emphasised Euroscepticism, opposition to immigration and other \"populist\" policies, while forming an alliance with right-wing populist parties in Europe.[187][188][189]\nIn 2009, former comedian, blogger and activist Beppe Grillo founded the Five Star Movement. It advocates direct democracy and free access to the Internet, and condemns corruption. The M5S's programme also contains elements of both left-wing and right-wing populism and American-style libertarianism. The party is considered populist, ecologist, and partially Eurosceptic.[190] Grillo himself described the Five Star Movement as being populist in nature during a political meeting he held in Rome on 30 October 2013.[191] In the 2013 Italian election the Five Star Movement gained 25.5% of the vote, with 109 deputies and 54 senators, becoming the main populist and Eurosceptic party in the European Union.[192]\nThe 2018 general election was characterized by a strong showing by populist movements like Salvini\u2019s League and Luigi Di Maio\u2019s Five Stars.[193][194] In June the two populist parties formed a government led by Giuseppe Conte.[195]\nIn 2010s the United Kingdom politics was shocked by the emergence of left-wing and right-wing populist politicians [citation needed], like Jeremy Corbyn, current leader of the Labour Party, and Nigel Farage, former leader of the UKIP.\nThe UK Labour Party under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn has been called populist,[196][197][198] with the slogan \"for the many not the few\" having been used.[199][200][201] The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) had been characterised as a right-wing populist party.[202][203][204] After the 2016 UK referendum on membership of the European Union, in which British citizens voted to leave, some have claimed the \"Brexit\" as a victory for populism, encouraging a flurry of calls for referendums among other EU countries by populist political parties.[205]\nMain article: Populism in Latin America\nMudde and Kaltwasser noted that Latin America has the world's \"most enduring and prevalent populist tradition\".[206] They suggested that this was the case because it was a region with a long tradition of democratic governance and free elections, but with high rates of socio-economic inequality, generating widespread resentments that politicians can articulate through populism.[207]\nThe first wave of Latin American populism began at the start of the Great Depression in 1929 and last until the end of the 1960s.[208] In various countries, politicians took power while emphasising \"the people\": these included Get\u00falio Vargas in Brazil, Juan Per\u00f3n in Argentina, and Jos\u00e9 Mar\u00eda Velasco Ibarra in Ecuador.[209] These relied on the Americanismo ideology, presenting a common identity across Latin America and denouncing any interference from imperialist powers.[210]\nThe second wave took place in the early 1990s.[210] In the late 1980s, many Latin American states were experiencing economic crisis and several populist figures were elected by blaming the elites for this situation.[210] Examples include Carlos Menem in Argentina, Fernando Collor de Mello in Brazil, and Alberto Fujimori in Peru.[210] Once in power, these individuals pursued neoliberal economic strategies recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), stabilizing the economy and ending hyperinflation.[211] Unlike the first wave, the second did not include an emphasis on Americanismo or anti-imperialism.[212]\nThe third wave began in the final years of the 1990s and continued into the 21st century.[212] Like the first wave, the third made heavy use of Americanismo and anti-imperialism, although this time these themes presented alongside an explicitly socialist program that opposed the free market.[212] Prominent examples included Hugo Ch\u00e1vez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, Rafael Correa in Ecuador, and Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua.[212] These socialist populist governments have presented themselves as giving sovereignty \"back to the people\", in particular through the formation of constituent assemblies that would draw up new constitutions, which could then be ratified via referendums.[160]\nDuring the 1990s, there was a growth in populism in both Australia and New Zealand.[213]\nRobert Muldoon, the 31st Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1975 to 1984, had been cited as a populist leader who appealed to the common man and utilised a personality-driven campaign in the 1975 election.[214]\nPopulist leader Winston Peters of the New Zealand First party\nPopulism has become a pervasive trend in New Zealand politics since the introduction of the mixed-member proportional voting system in 1996.[215][216] The New Zealand Labour Party's populist appeals in its 1999 election campaign and advertising helped to propel the party to victory in that election.[217] Labour also articulated populism in its 2002 election campaign, helping return the party to government, despise its being entrenched as part of the establishment under attack by other parties employing strongly populist strategies, drawing on their outsider status. Those parties\u2014New Zealand First and United Future\u2014benefited greatly in 2002 from running almost textbook populist advertising campaigns, which helped both parties increase their proportion of the party vote to levels unanticipated at the commencement of the election campaign.[217] The New Zealand National Party made limited attempts at articulating populism in its advertising, but suffered from the legacy of being part of the 1990s establishment.[217]\nIn preparation for the 2005 election, then-leader of the National Party Don Brash delivered the Orewa Speech in 2004 on allegations of M\u0101ori privilege. This speech has been labelled populist due to the polling beforehand which had revealed to the National Party that the topic of race relations was sensitive enough to sway voters, and its perceived intent to exploit long-held grievances in society.[218] The success in the polls granted to the National Party by this speech led to the delivery of a speech dubbed \"Orewa 2\" the next year, this time on welfare dependency. This second attempt at a populist speech was less successful as voters perceived it as such.[219]\nNew Zealand First has presented a more lasting populist platform. Long-time party leader Winston Peters has been characterised by some as a populist who uses anti-establishment rhetoric,[220] though in a uniquely New Zealand style.[221][222] New Zealand First takes a centrist approach to economic issues,[215] typical of populist parties, while advocating conservative positions on social issues.[223] Political commentators dispute the party's classification on the ideological spectrum, but state that its dominant attribute is populism.[224] The party's strong opposition to immigration, and policies that reflect that position, as well as its support for multiple popular referenda, all typify its broadly populist approach. Peters has been criticised for reputedly inciting anti-immigration sentiment[221] and capitalising on immigration fears\u2014he has highlighted the threat of immigration in both economic and cultural terms.[225] Some academics have even characterised New Zealand First as a right-wing populist party,[226] in common with parties such as UKIP in Britain.[220]\nIn much of Africa, populism has been a rare phenomenon.[227] In North Africa, populism was associated with the approaches of several political leaders active in the 20th century, most notably Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.[227] However, populist approaches only became more popular in the Middle East during the early 21st century, by which point it became integral to much of the region's politics.[227] Here, it became an increasingly common element of mainstream politics in established representative democracies, associated with longstanding leaders like Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.[228] Although the Arab Spring was not a populist movement itself, populist rhetoric was present among protesters.[229]\nIn southeast Asia, populist politicians emerged in the wake of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. In the region, various populist governments took power but were removed soon after: these include the administrations of Joseph Estrada in the Philippines, Roh Moo-hyun in South Korea, Chen Shui-bian in Taiwan, and Thaksin Shinawatra in Thailand.[230]\nLate 20th and early 21st century growth\nMudde argued that by the early 1990s, populism had become a regular feature in Western democracies.[169] He attributed this to changing perceptions of government that had spread in this period, which in turn he traced to the changing role of the media to focus increasingly on sensationalism and scandals.[231] Since the late 1960s, the emergence of television had allowed for the increasing proliferation of the Western media, with media outlets becoming increasingly independent of political parties.[231] As private media companies have had to compete against each other, they have placed an increasing focus on scandals and other sensationalist elements of politics, in doing so promoting anti-governmental sentiments among their readership and cultivating an environment prime for populists.[232] At the same time, politicians increasingly faced television interviews, exposing their flaws.[233] News media had also taken to interviewing fewer accredited experts, and instead favouring interviewing individuals found on the street as to their views about current events.[233] At the same time, mass media was giving less attention to the \"high culture\" of elites and more to other sectors of society, as reflected in reality television shows such as Big Brother.[233]\nMudde argued that another reason for the growth of Western populism in this period was the improved education of the populace; since the 1960s, citizens have expected more from their politicians and felt increasingly competent to judge their actions. This in turn has led to an increasingly sceptical attitude toward mainstream politicians and governing groups.[234] In Mudde's words, \"More and more citizens think they have a good understanding of what politicians do, and think they can do it better.\"[235]\nAnother factor is that in the post-Cold War period, liberal democracies no longer had the one-party states of the Eastern Bloc against which to favourably compare themselves; citizens were therefore increasingly able to compare the realities of the liberal democratic system with theoretical models of democracy, and find the former wanting.[236] There is also the impact of globalisation, which is seen as having seriously limited the powers of national elites.[237] Such factors undermine citizens' belief in the competency of governing elite, opening up space for charismatic leadership to become increasingly popular; although charismatic leadership is not the same as populist leadership, populists have been the main winners of this shift towards charismatic leadership.[235]\nPeter Wilkins argued that \"The end of history and the post-Cold War extension and deepening of capitalism are central to understanding the rise of contemporary populist movements.\"[238] Pippa Norris examined two widely held views on the causes of populism growth. 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ISBN 0801432944\nPopulism and Neo-populism in Latin America, especially Mexico\nThe Return of Populism\nRight-Wing populist resources\nStudy of populism that discusses Canovan\nOfficial site of Seattle's Poet Populist contest\n2007 University of Michigan 7th annual Dewey lecture, on populism as a politics of civic agency and popular empowerment\nPopulist themes in 2008 US elections\nAmerican Populist Party", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 495, "original_length": 98157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 174.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://therecruitingcode.com/tag/mens-basketball/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:43Z", "digest": "sha1:O3G44FP24RLH2JZKTFZUGGX5C5W4GTHR", "length": 195, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "therecruitingcode.com", "title": "Men's Basketball Archives - The Recruiting Code", "raw_content": "Archive Tag: Men\u2019s Basketball\nWelcome to Interview #35. I am excited to present to you NCAA Division 2 Men\u2019s [\u2026]\nWelcome to Interview #4. I am pleased to share with you the wisdom of longtime [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 165.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theregoesmykokoro.com/2016/03/30/myriad-colors-phantom-world-episode-13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:11Z", "digest": "sha1:2DGH4HU2NB5EQ3DDVLBQRM5F5JMINQFE", "length": 3900, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "theregoesmykokoro.com", "title": "Myriad Colors Phantom World, Episode 13 | There Goes My Kokoro", "raw_content": "It\u2019s finally over. As Myriad Colors Phantom World comes to a close, so does my first ever episodic review series\u2026I probably should\u2019ve picked a better show. That being said, I had a fun time, and I hope you did too. This show definitely had its ups and downs, now all that\u2019s left is to determine what side Phantom World decided to end on.\nNo intro sequence this time, due to the urgency of picking up from a cliffhanger. If you don\u2019t remember from the last episode, here\u2019s a quick wrap up: Haruhiko kissed his mom and then they passed out and so did Ruru for some reason. That\u2019s really all that\u2019s important here. What\u2019s concerning is that although Ruru losing consciousness was the very last thing to happen in that episode, it wasn\u2019t the first thing address in the following episode. Instead we see that Haruhiko\u2019s mom is in a coma and Haruhiko is fine but doesn\u2019t have his powers anymore. Then Ruru\u2019s part is put into play and it\u2019s just this odd role reversal thing that leads to the revelation that Ruru and Haruhiko are intrinsically tied for some reason and they kiss and are officially shipped and I\u2019m getting ahead of myself.\nBack to Haruhiko, I\u2019d like to point out that we\u2019ve learned more about him and his backstory in the last three episodes than the rest of the series combined. That\u2019s kinda odd, considering he\u2019s the supposed main character, but clearly it\u2019s just meant to create a sense of emotion and meaning for the finale, albeit a needless sense at that. Phantom World has spent so much time creating an ensemble, so it seems counterintuitive to focus on one character for the series final moments, and to spend that time on Haruhiko no less! He\u2019s by far the most unlikeable character in the show and isn\u2019t really deserving of a three episode spotlight. But I digress.\nNow onto other details, that thingy from the second episode is back. And it turns out to be just a convenient tool for the gang to hack into the evil corporation\u2019s servers. Who is this evil corporation? No idea. Where did they come from? Absolutely no clue. But we need some sort of super bad guy and a final fighting ground, so here it is. Apparently this evil company has been conducting experiments on Phantoms and the one that possessed Haruhiko\u2019s mom the other day escaped from there. And so the Phantom returns there with all her new powers to destroy the place.\nLet\u2019s take a look the generic plot-points checklist so far, shall we? Evil corporation: check. Evil research facility (check). Test subject escapes (check). Test subject wreaks havoc in search of power (check). Test subject comes back with power to have revenge (check). We\u2019re at four now! Let\u2019s see how many we can get before the show ends!\nThe group makes it to the company in order to confront Enigma (test subject). Haruhiko says he\u2019ll go in by himself because he\u2019s a man and that\u2019s what men do (check). Girls call him out on his bullshit and go in instead (minus check). When in their fighting poses, villain reveals her backstory and her plan (check and check). When the girls get nowhere in the fight, Haruhiko jumps in because a man always has to save the day (check). Villain shapeshifts into his mother so Haruhiko now can\u2019t fight her (check). Haruhiko gets his powers back for some reason and releases his summons, now in their final form (check). Happy ending and everything returns to normal (check).\nI felt like the series as a whole tended to walk the line between generic and self-aware generic, making it somewhat not generic, but this ending was as generic as they come, and I can\u2019t say I\u2019m not a little disappointed. Myriad Colors Phantom World definitely ends on a downside, but what\u2019s my final overall judgement? Find out in my next weekend post: The Myriad Colors Phantom World Review (working title).\n+ Nice visuals\n+ Teddy bear hacker\n\u2013 Generic climax\n\u2013 Generic villain\n\u2013 Shoehorned emotional material\n\u2013 Shoehorned villain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 9027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thermaflex.com/southeast-asia/posts/what-are-you-waiting-for", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OTLG3VESPIO452SWWF3JHD67S5PF5HAA", "length": 1193, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thermaflex.com", "title": "What are you waiting for? | News | Thermaflex", "raw_content": "By Kasper Baars on October 01, 2015 in Press\nWe, Thermaflex, stand close to nature and always use it as a source of inspiration. That\u2019s also why we highly value our environment, and care for it as much as we can. We see it as our duty to leave behind a better world, and we strive towards that line on the horizon in everything we do. Everbody can make an impact \u2013 Let\u2019s start now!\nOn the 6th and 7th of October, Gerrit-Jan Baars, our CEO, will give a thought-provoking lecture on how we can actively evolve towards a sustainable society at Frankfurt\u2019s very 1st environmental summit. He will show how we, as Thermaflex, are on a mission \u2013 to create a sustainable world in respect to the environment and for the generations to come \u2013 and how we, involving the rest of the world, can break through the barriers and make it happen. In this respect, he will raise awareness on how important it is to act now! Among the participants of the summit are governors, directors, managers and professors in the field of sustainability, energy and environment.\nUmweltgipfel in Frankfurt\n6th and 7th October 2015\nInterCity Hotel, Frankfurt Airport Cargo City South\nGerrit-Jan Baars on 6th October at 12:00 h", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 6817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesalesblog.com/2014/05/25/the-three-questions-a-leader-must-answer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:40Z", "digest": "sha1:BFV3W4Y6H4FUKXGGXLEKZM45JHULGSVL", "length": 1893, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "thesalesblog.com", "title": "The Three Questions a Leader Must Answer \u00b7 The Sales Blog", "raw_content": "A leader has to provide a vision. Part of that vision has to include an idea about where the organization is now and where she is leading it.\nIf you aren\u2019t going anywhere, you really don\u2019t need a leader. If you are going from where you are to someplace better, you want a leader with an idea as to where that better place is and how you can get there.\nThe best leaders relentlessly reiterate their vision for the future state to which they are guiding their organization.\nWhy Are We Going There\nGreat leaders don\u2019t make change for the sake of making change. They\u2019ve done the work to know exactly why they have chosen the future they\u2019re moving towards and what it means to the organization.\nIf you are leaving the warm comfort of the status quo, you need to know why you are doing so. What do you risk by staying where you are and doing what you are doing? What do you gain by capturing the new future that you can\u2019t already gain by staying put?\nThe best leaders tell stories that answer the question, \u201cWhy?\u201d\nWho Will We Become\nWhen you change, you become someone different, something different. But what is it that we are becoming? Effective leaders explain how the organization\u2013and the individuals that make up that organization\u2013will be changed.\nWhen leaders ask the organization to change, they are asking the individuals to change. The leader is asking for the individuals to adopt a new set of beliefs, a new set of behaviors, and a new set of skills.\nThe leader answers the question, \u201cWho will I become by changing?\u201d\nIf you are a leader, you need to answer these questions as often as you can. In every speech, email, or individual conversation, you have to make the answers to these questions known, until you reach your goals and set on a new path.\nTagged with: Best LeaderCommunication And Leadership During ChangeGreat LeaderleadershipMaking ChangesStrategic LeadershipThree Questions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thespun.com/news/video-surfaces-of-kevin-durants-nsfw-message-to-fan-at-game", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:28Z", "digest": "sha1:MUDXUPFD7JQI4LRVNIH7JEWB5GQGOE3B", "length": 1436, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "thespun.com", "title": "Video Surfaces Of Kevin Durant\u2019s NSFW Message To Fan At Game", "raw_content": "Video Surfaces Of Kevin Durant\u2019s NSFW Message To Fan At Game\nEver since Kevin Durant and Draymond Green clashed over a fourth-quarter mistake, the defending champions have been extremely vulnerable. Last night, the Golden State Warriors fell short against the San Antonio Spurs to lose three consecutive games.\nWhile that recent defeat will be the major news revolving around the Warriors, an interesting clip is circulating on Twitter. On Saturday, Golden State lost to the Dallas Mavericks, and clearly Durant had issues with some fans.\nAlthough the reasoning for this confrontation is unknown, the former MVP shouted several degrading comments toward the sideline.\nKevin Durant to a Mavericks fan\n\u201cWatch the f\u2014king game and shut the\nf\u2014k up\u201d.pic.twitter.com/itQNPmCiyo\nMaybe this outburst is just a result of his frustration with Green. However, that wouldn\u2019t be a justifiable excuse for these actions.\nGetting into a heated exchange with teammates is very different from yelling at spectators, and although these fans may have instigated, Durant should know better. Considering all the criticism he receives on a daily basis, the All-Star forward should have just taken the high road.\nRegardless of all the distractions in Golden State, Durant is averaging 27.2 points per game this season.\nThis year won\u2019t get any easier for the Warriors, as they have upcoming contests with the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Portland Trail Blazers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thewalrus.ca/sheila-barry-was-the-superhero-of-canadian-childrens-literature/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NC4KAOPRGSWXEQJAHBISOQKDX2GT5BCC", "length": 9843, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "thewalrus.ca", "title": "Sheila Barry Was the Superhero of Canadian Children's Literature | The Walrus", "raw_content": "Page title: Sheila Barry Was the Superhero of Canadian Children\u2019s Literature\nSheila Barry Was the Superhero of Canadian Children's Literature\nAs publisher of Groundwood Books, she was the type of editor who would encourage you to jump\u2014and then be your net\nPublished 10:28, Nov. 24, 2017\nCourtesy House of Anansi / Carolyn McNeillie\nLast week, House of Anansi Press sent an email to its contributors with the subject line \u201cSheila Barry.\u201d Inside was a photo of Sheila Barry\u2019s smiling face. On its own, that photo told me all I needed to know. Barry, who was the publisher of Anansi\u2019s children\u2019s imprint, Groundwood Books, was far too self effacing to have let an email like that go out had she been alive.\nBarry was both an editor and a friend to me. Her death on November 15, from complications resulting from cancer, came as a shock to many in the world of children\u2019s publishing. On the day that we received the news, I had a mournful conversation with Caroline Adderson, who has a long publishing history with Groundwood, about how much we would miss Barry. \u201cShe had only one rule that I ever heard her mention,\u201d Adderson told me. \u201cIf someone is jumping on a trampoline, give her a net. She urged us to take chances, walked us through the impossible, and so she kept her writers safe and published books that gave kids the chance to soar. Sheila was our net.\u201d\nBarry\u2019s work as publisher of Groundwood Books has garnered prizes and accolades, including the naming of Groundwood Books as best publisher in North America in 2016 by the Bologna Children\u2019s Book Fair. Before joining Groundwood, Barry was editor-in-chief for Kids Can Press for eight years. Originally from Newfoundland, she completed a PhD in English literature at York University. She was a passionate, engaged, intelligent champion of children\u2019s literature, and she will be missed.\nI worked with Barry on A Family Is a Family Is a Family, my picture book with Toronto illustrator Qin Leng, which was published by Groundwood just last fall. Taking it through development with Barry was a joy, and I was looking forward to working with her on something new when news of her illness leaked last spring. My last phone chat with her was in September, when a scheduled meeting about illustrators for a book I had written, titled Night Walk, turned into a discussion of how her hopes of returning to the office would have to be postponed.\nDuring that call, she told me that her favourite part of making picture books was seeing the first set of roughs come back from an illustrator\u2014that moment when an idea starts to become a book. \u201cAfter that, I\u2019m kind of done!\u201d she said, and burst into laughter. I laughed, too, because, of course, it wasn\u2019t true. Sheila was apologetic about the fact that my new book was delayed. One of the last things I said to her was that I wasn\u2019t worried about it, really. I was just looking forward to getting to work and back to a rhythm of regular phone conversations with her\u2014that was my favourite part of making a book.\nBarry cared deeply about children\u2019s books and understood the need children have to see themselves reflected in the pages of the books they read. A look at recent Groundwood catalogues reveals a list that includes the continuing adventures of a dog and a hedgehog; a book about the experience of an immigrant child; and an ode to small-town life in Nunavut, written in English and Inuktitut. The varied list shows her desire to reflect the complex and overlapping inner and outer realities children experience.\n\u201cSheila Barry was simply one of the best people that I\u2019ve ever worked with,\u201d Sarah MacLachlan, president and publisher of Anansi, tells me. \u201cShe had an infectious and irreverent sense of humour, a keen intelligence, and a real gift for pairing authors and illustrators in the creation of the award-winning picture books she published at Groundwood.\u201d The list put together by Barry managed to feel distinctly Canadian and to hold a strong international appeal. Books on Groundwood\u2019s list have been picked up internationally, with Sidewalk Flowers, by Toronto writer JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith, appearing in seventeen countries\u2014and counting. Smith\u2019s artistry makes this wordless picture book come to life, but the alchemy of it occurred in Sheila Barry\u2019s mind before it ever happened on the page.\n\u201cWhen I see a picture book that is somehow quietly devastating, with stunning art and really profound, thoughtful writing, I\u2019m never surprised to see that it\u2019s published by Groundwood,\u201d says Maria Russo, children\u2019s book editor at the New York Times. \u201cSo many of those books that have grabbed me, I\u2019ve later learned, were nurtured by Sheila Barry.\u201d It\u2019s no small wonder that in recent years, three books edited by Barry and illustrated by Sydney Smith have been winners of the coveted New York Times Best Illustrated Children\u2019s Books Awards. Barry not only had a keen eye for spotting new talent, she also made the necessary second step to determining how best to use it.\n\u201cI have never worked so hard to make someone proud of me and my work,\u201d says Smith. \u201cI would run marathons and climb mountains for her.\u201d Town Is by the Sea, written by Joanne Schwartz, is the latest of those feted books illustrated by Smith. It\u2019s the tale of a small boy growing up in Cape Breton, observing his father\u2019s life as a coal miner and imagining his own future underground. It is difficult to imagine a more regional book, and yet its appeal is clearly universal.\nBarry\u2019s mandate extended to publishing diverse books, and she believed that children\u2019s books needed to provide both mirrors and windows. She was aware of the the need for more diversity when it came to creators and pushed for an inclusive environment. Jael Richardson, founder and artistic director for the Festival of Literary Diversity, told me about a FOLD panel where Barry affirmed her commitment to publishing a certain number of books by people of colour, as well as a certain number by women. \u201cIf you don\u2019t do that, you\u2019ll never change the diversity landscape,\u201d Richardson remembers Barry saying. \u201cIt makes it someone else\u2019s problem rather than something you\u2019re committed to.\u201d Richardson is also author of the picture book The Stone Thrower (illustrated by Matt James). \u201cShe was good at being really responsive with writers who got overlooked in other spaces,\u201d says Richardson. \u201cShe said yes and approached editing more like a mentorship.\u201d\nSheila Barry\u2019s warmth\u2014her smile and her laughter\u2014come up often. \u201cSheila was my dear friend and a mentor to me, in many areas of my life,\u201d says Tara Walker, vice-president and publisher of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers. \u201cWe laughed a lot together and continued to have long check-ins even when she was no longer my boss.\u201d The ongoing success of those who worked under Barry is a tribute to her mentorship. Danielle Daniel, author and illustrator of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox and this year\u2019s Once in a Blue Moon, wrote to me: \u201cWorking with Sheila felt like a belonging. She invited us into her home, hugged us and made us laugh while championing our books and even our lives outside of publishing.\u201d\nAfter a week of reaching out to other people who worked with Barry, I\u2019ve come to think more and more of that word belonging. Of how she has made a kind of family of those who knew her and worked with her\u2014connecting us to each other through our connection to her. The books that she brought into the world are also about belonging. The list that Groundwood Books published under Barry\u2019s watch is about inclusion\u2014her true gift was for inviting both creators and readers in. I now feel profoundly connected to Qin Leng, for instance, because of the book we made together with Barry. As her former colleague Walker says: \u201cShe has left an indelible mark on children\u2019s literature and the countless authors, illustrators, editors, and book lovers who came into her brilliant, funny, and loving orbit.\u201d\nBarbara Howson, vice-president of sales at Anansi and Groundwood, tells me: \u201cShe would not hold with those who wanted to make her a saint, that is unless this made her in control of the entire world so that she could push her agenda of wonderful, diverse, and beautiful books that reflect all children.\u201d There is comfort in knowing that we still have books Barry worked on to look forward to. One of these is Jillian Tamaki\u2019s debut picture book, They Say Blue. Another\u2014just announced in Publishers Weekly\u2014is the first picture book with Sydney Smith as both illustrator and writer. Barry had many reasons to be proud of the work she did and the work she will continue to inspire.\nI\u2019ve tried so hard to get a complete picture of Barry, but of course, I am only able to catch glimpses. When you tried to compliment Barry, she would always find a way to neatly deflect it and turn it back on you. She might say that the books she produced were good because she worked with good people, but her particular genius was in finding those people and bringing them together.\nToward the end of my phone conversation with Caroline Adderson on the day Barry died, Adderson told me that earlier in the week she had sent Barry a card to let her know she named a character Sheila in an upcoming book. I\u2019ve now decided to do the same and we\u2019re hoping this could become something of a movement. The world needs more Sheilas.\nSheila Barry is survived by her husband Kim Michasiw and her daughter Miriam Barry. A ceremony to celebrate her life will be announced at a later date.\nJack Rabinovitch was one of my father\u2019s truest friends\u2014and a pillar in my own life\nBY Noah Richler\nThe Unbearable Whiteness of CanLit\nBlack writers are not marginal to our literature; they are our literature. So why aren\u2019t they being taught?\nBY Paul Barrett and Darcy Ballantyne and Camille Isaacs and Kris Singh\nGoodbye, Jim\nA renowned bookseller\u2019s last day on the job", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 13201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theycallmetater.com/2018/07/23/10-years-on-wordpress/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LQOZVARW2ZUSRD6JSFWGRU2WIK6M26ZU", "length": 833, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "theycallmetater.com", "title": "10 Years on WordPress! | The World's Common Tater", "raw_content": "I just got a notification that I set up this blog 10 years ago. I then proceeded to basically ignore the blog for about 8 years before I really started regularly posting. That\u2019s a lot of wasted years on the blog. Instead of a couple of hundred of disappointed follwers, I could be disappointing as many as 500. Anyho, here is a link to my first ever post. Enjoy.\nhttps://theycallmetater.com/2008/07/23/an-introduction-to-me/\nCongratulations! I shudder to think about my own neglected blog.\nposted July 24, 2018 at 7:56 pm by theycallmetater in reply to LAReply\nI\u2019m really behind but congratulations on 10 years!!! I never settle long enough to make it even a tenth of that! Lol.\nposted August 22, 2018 at 3:38 am by Jess (Randomly Jess) Reply\nposted August 22, 2018 at 7:17 am by theycallmetater in reply to Jess (Randomly Jess)Reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thiswww.wishmich.org/wishes/wish-nation-blog/2018/october/oct-26/teaching-kids-to-fundraise", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:18Z", "digest": "sha1:U4KE7AKPAP4Q4WBRKKTBHF2Z5YQYFRIF", "length": 2420, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thiswww.wishmich.org", "title": "Teaching Kids to Fundraise Is As Easy As 1-2-3 | Wish Nation | Wishes | Make-A-Wish\u00ae America", "raw_content": "Richard Weissman, the Founder and CEO of The Learning Experience, has personally been active in charitable organizations throughout much of his adult life. Richard currently sits on the Board of Directors of Make-A-Wish\u00ae Southern Florida, where he has provided leadership and guidance in all facets of the organization since 2011.\nIt was in this role that Richard realized The Learning Experience could do so much more as a brand to make a difference than hosting fundraisers and making donations; we could bring the importance of philanthropy directly into the classroom, teaching it right alongside the ABCs and 123s. To make this vision a reality, Richard made Make-A-Wish the charity choice for The Learning Experience while creating a first-of-its-kind philanthropy curriculum that would teach children the core values of selflessness, generosity and giving.\nBy intertwining our fundraising and volunteering efforts with our curriculum, we\u2019re able to turn lessons from a wide variety of subjects into an extension of our philanthropic activities. For instance, The Learning Experience is currently hosting the biggest philanthropic endeavor of our brand\u2019s history, Bubbles\u2019 Road to Wishes. This virtual walk-a-thon takes our mascot, Bubbles the Elephant, on a month-long trip around the nation with the goal of raising money for Make-A-Wish.\nA unique curriculum was developed specifically for this fundraiser, tying in lessons from a variety of subjects, from math to geography to physical fitness. The children have spent the month tracking Bubbles\u2019 progress on their school\u2019s map, counting the number of miles Bubbles has traveled (equal to the number of dollars they have raised), and learning about all the places he has visited. Some centers have even hosted wish kids as part of the Bubbles fundraiser.\nMost importantly, the children at The Learning Experience are learning about the difference they can make in the lives of kids just like them who are battling critical illnesses, who deserve a wish to help them replace fear with confidence, sadness with joy and anxiety with hope.\nSee how The Learning Experience's partnership with Make-A-Wish transforms kids' lives here!\nLooking for ways to engage your students with Make-A-Wish? Get involved with Kids for Wish Kids, a popular program that encourages K-12 students to raise funds and help grant life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thrivesearch.com/head-googles-web-spam-team-matt-cutts-extends-leave-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:50Z", "digest": "sha1:WIGOL3NH2YWY46M53DWJV2M7DGLQLE46", "length": 1763, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thrivesearch.com", "title": "Head Of Google\u2019s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Extends Leave Into 2015 | Thrive Business Marketing", "raw_content": "Head Of Google\u2019s Web Spam Team Matt Cutts Extends Leave Into 2015\nIt feels weird talking about Matt Cutts at this point. Back before he took his leave from the company, it felt that every other post written was about something Matt Cutts said or did. But I guess it\u2019s just something you get used to, right?\nAs many of you know, Matt took his leave from Google as the head of search spam back in July, telling everybody that he would be gone for several months. But today, Matt shared some news as a note added to his original July post about going on leave by saying:\n\u201cWhen I went on leave, I wanted to see how webspam would go without me. I\u2019ve been talking to people on both the algorithmic and manual webspam teams during my leave, and they\u2019ve been doing a top-notch job. So I\u2019m planning on extending my leave into 2015.\u201d\nBecause the end date of his original planned leave was through October, he made that statement on Halloween. But now that his leave has been officially extended, who knows when he\u2019s planning on returning to Google. Either way, I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll enjoy the extra time away with family.\nBecause he\u2019s admitted himself that the current search spam team set up has been doing fine without him, and since he wants to spend more time with family, does this mean that Matt could decide to be done? Could this be a precursor to retirement?\nThe only reason Matt would have to return as head of search spam is because of his status at Google as well as among other SEOs. He\u2019s known as a rockstar to people in the industry, and who knows if that could hurt Google if Matt decides to stay gone. 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It is the only metal that has no adverse effect on the human autonomic system and taste system and definitely does not cause any allergy. Titanium is called \"pro-bio-metal\" in medicine. It is not toxic or harmful to human body and never reacts with the muscle or bone of human body, so it is widely used in medical devices as well as artificial joint, heart valve and teeth root, etc.\nEfficacy of Titanium\nMedical studies have shown that titanium has the ability to regulate the body's currents though cell ionization, making it the natural killer for electromagnetic radiation. At the same time, adjustment of the body current improves blood circulation, and the increased blood flow in turn helps eliminate fatigue, factors and the agents in the blood generated by pain, which is beneficial to both physical and mental health.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timesofislamabad.com/13-Jul-2018/peshawar-zalmi-launches-madrasa-cricket-league", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UGYUKNWHR4Q4LVRZZKPN5W62NNJWRJXT", "length": 1686, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "timesofislamabad.com", "title": "Peshawar Zalmi launches Madrasa cricket league", "raw_content": "Peshawar Zalmi launches Madrasa cricket league\nLAHORE \u2013 Pakistan Super League\u2019s number one brand Peshawar Zalmi has announced the launch of the third league, \u201cThe Madrasa Cricket League\u201d, shortly.\n\u201cThe main aim of this league is to promote peace and interfaith harmony among the youth,\u201d Chairman of Peshawar Zalmi , Javed Khan Afridi said here on Friday.\n\u201cAfter launching Pakistan\u2019s first school league and the Global league, Peshawar Zalmi will be holding \u201cMadrasa Cricket League\u201d in collaboration with the Zalmi Foundation and the World Council of Religions.\nThe first phase of Madrasa league will be played in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) with 10 teams taking part.\nWith the launch of another innovative cricket league, Peshawar Zalmi has proved that it is not only a cricket franchise, it is a long-term ideology built on the foundation of promoting sports in the region and to empower the youth of KP through the initiatives of Zalmi Foundation.\nHe said, \u201cThrough sports, the message of peace and prosperity can be spread throughout the world.\u201d\nThrough this league, the students of madrasas will be diverted towards cricket and with this, they will also be exposed to religious conferences that will help them in enhancing their knowledge, Javed Afridi said.\nIn the first phase of the league, following teams will take part:- Al-Haq Smashers, Al-Maqasid Fighters, Al-Hilal Challengers, Al-Nasr Swingers, Al-Wahda Hitters, Al-Wasl Supernovas, Al-Noor All-Rounders, Al-Khair Riders, Al-Muttahidoon Creatives and Al-Ittihad Peace builder.\nAfter phase one in KP, the league will be spread throughout other provinces of the country where there will be a final between the best madrasa teams.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tinyofferings.com/author/adutchmanswife/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:17Z", "digest": "sha1:72ENFL46FGVPAJZ3CGUFJYEXPRULRYFW", "length": 121, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tinyofferings.com", "title": "sveenema \u2013 Tiny Offerings", "raw_content": "Author: sveenema\nEnjoying this journey of life to the max. Trying my best to take it with one foot in front of the other.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 28448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tn.milesplit.com/meets/338806/info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MOZWUJ3EDKPQBWAAHD5KV3GGST6MIZHZ", "length": 51, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tn.milesplit.com", "title": "Gibbs Home Meet #1 - Meet Information", "raw_content": "Gibbs Home Meet #1\nThe meet will begin at 5:00 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 1365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 176.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://torforum.org/general/you-dont-need-to-install-an-tor-server-with-less-250-kbs.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VUF43RZEAFUQXHQZOZJCCZ4GXK6UJHKK", "length": 326, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "torforum.org", "title": "You don't need to install an 'Tor server with less 250 KB/s - TorForum.org", "raw_content": "You don't need to install an 'Tor server with less 250 KB/s\nYou don't need to install an 'Tor server with less then 250 KB/s, because it is ignored by the Tor network!\nSimply read here: http://torforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=65421\nand of course here: http://torforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21580\nIt's really a sad story ....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 309.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://totallytigers.wordpress.com/2015/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:30Z", "digest": "sha1:WCJQOKBFQH2IW6QHMASAVLKLCNFXOTNR", "length": 40257, "nlines": 212, "source_domain": "totallytigers.wordpress.com", "title": "May | 2015 | Totally Tigers", "raw_content": "WOULD A HEALTHY VMART HELP OFFENSE? MAYBE!\nRemember the sweep in Baltimore last season? Who can forget it. Remember the implosion in the bullpen, the leads blown, the playoff run that never got started? Yeah, unfortunately, the wounds still sting.\nAs a result, fans were enraged. Everyone seemingly knew that if there was one thing we needed to do in the off-season, it was fix the bullpen. It had failed this team all season, and it was almost fitting that it would be our undoing in the playoffs. But no one thought it would cost us so soon.\nBut in the spring, even before the bullpen could be addressed, there was some more pressing housekeeping that the organization needed to take care of. The Tigers knew and most fans agreed, that if there was one free agent that needed to return to the Tigers, it was Victor Martinez.\nThere was no choice. In an off-season where the Tigers were at risk of losing their top starting pitcher in Max Scherzer, they certainly could not risk losing someone who had finished runner-up in the AL MVP voting.\nVictor Martinez had been the perfect complement to Miguel Cabrera. He made teams pay over and over for walking Cabrera. And when Cabrera struggled with more injuries, VMart was there to pick up the slack. Something Prince Fielder could not do in 2013 when Cabrera was hurt.\nIn 2014, VMart became the team\u2019s MVP, and nearly won the League MVP as he put up career numbers. They were ridiculous really. After a career spanning over a decade, Victor hit a career high 32 homers, drove in 103 runs and struck out only 42 times.\nSo even at 35 years old, Victor had put himself in a situation where he was going to get paid one more time. But he really had no interest in getting paid by anyone but the Tigers. He wanted to stay, told Illitch he wanted to stay and Illitch obliged him.\nThat\u2019s your little history lesson on VMart. We knew what the ramifications would be if the 2015 Tigers had a lineup without Victor Martinez. The offense would take a dreadful hit. It was something no one wanted to envision. So you better believe, if the Tigers did anything in the off-season, they were going to sign the league\u2019s best DH.\nSo as we sit here today, with VMart hurt and on the DL, the Tigers have struggled offensively. And for some odd reason, no one can seem to figure out what the problem is.\nPersonally, I thought, in the short-term, the Tigers could take advantage of this situation and really start putting their speed to good use. We could certainly win in other ways, the team was rebuilt to win with speed that could supplement a lineup anchored by Cabrera and VMart.\nBut it hasn\u2019t worked out that way and we can now quit scratching our heads over what on Earth is wrong with the offense. Hasn\u2019t it been blatantly obvious that the absence of a guy, who had just given us over 30 homers, 100 RBI\u2019s and a .335 batting average, might just be THE reason for the struggling offense?\nI am a little embarrassed about how puzzled I have been, but I guess it\u2019s the old \u201cout of sight, out of mind\u201d concept. We have forgotten how VMart had impacted the lineup. His position was critical in getting the most out of Miguel Cabrera. And pitchers certainly attack the Tiger hitters differently now without Martinez.\nSure we moved up some pretty good hitters into the #4 and #5 spots in JD and Cespedes, but these are guys with holes in their swings. They have their fair share of strikeouts. They are the opposite of what VMart gave them behind Cabrera. It was what makes him so valuable. Pitchers now, when faced with the heart of the lineup, not only know they have the ability to get out of innings with minimal damage, they actually have a real shot at getting out of jams altogether.\nVictor prolonged innings, made pitchers work, drew walks, and rarely struck out. Not to mention the fact that it was a fair bet he was going to hurt you. And all of this is contagious. Hitting can be extremely contagious. And I can\u2019t tell you how valuable it must be just for Tiger hitters to be able to watch how Victor works at the plate. And they don\u2019t have that luxury right now. He\u2019s a hitting coach on the field.\nSo there are many VMart factors that have contributed to the anemic offense we have seen for most of the month of May. And don\u2019t expect it to get consistently better until Victor returns with the hitting prowess we have come to love about him.\nHe\u2019s the reason, folks. So we will have to battle with good pitching and some unexpected contributions across the board to compensate. We can stay in the race without Victor. But we can\u2019t win it.\nAs ugly as May has been, the Tigers should actually be applauded for not being 7 or 8 games out of first instead of 3. They have kept themselves in it, despite a starting rotation still waiting for even 1 inning from JV and also without that huge hole in the lineup that most seem to be ignoring.\nMay 30, 2015 May 31, 2015 / totallytigersblog\t/ 1 Comment\nI\u2019ve amassed quite a collection of random stats and interesting observations that fall outside of our general blog parameters. I\u2019ve also started keeping count of some interesting patterns exhibited by our team. All of this not covered by the traditional media. Join me in a few raised eyebrows of this potpourri of potential pitfalls and some possible positive points to ponder.\nBASES LOADED AND UNABLE TO SCORE \u2013 The count is up to 13 times so far this season. Three more were added this week.\nTIGERS QUOTED AS SAYING \u201cTHAT\u2019S BASEBALL!\u201d \u2013 9 this year, including Brad (multiple offender), Alex Avila, Wally Joyner, Ian Kinsler, Joe Nathan, Angel Nesbitt, Anibal Sanchez, Justin Verlander and JD Martinez. Maybe more but I don\u2019t know the Spanish translation of the phrase.\nUM, WRONG PLAYOFF GAMES \u2013 After the last game with Oakland, at least 8 or 9 Tigers stayed in town instead of traveling with the rest of the team to Anaheim. They attended the Golden State Warriors basketball playoff game.\nWhile players certainly deserve personal time, was it really a good idea to participate in an event that would surely interrupt the amount of rest they needed? And when the team is really struggling? How much of this was a factor in their flat, listless performance and trouncing by the Angels the next day? Given the overall drop in performance, it\u2019s fair to question their priorities. The next time the Tigers are told they need to make the playoff games, we should be more specific about which ones.\nGAMES WITH 2 OR FEWER RUNS SCORED \u2013 11 in April. 15 in May out of 27. That\u2019s 55% of their games! In the last 42 contests, they failed to score more than 2 runs in 24 games. While April showed 17 wins and 10 losses, May\u2019s drop in offense has produced an under .500 record with 13 wins and 14 losses through Friday.\nMLB TEAM STANDINGS \u2013 The Tigers have fallen from #1 to #14 in team batting (#9 in the AL). Pitching has fallen to #7 in the AL. Defense ranks #6 (#2 in the AL). Only Miggy remains in the top 5 offensive categories and Soria ranks #2 in total saves. Miggy is tied for #1 in defensive stats for both leagues.\nAnd on that positive note, we\u2019ll end here\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\nHouston came to Detroit this past week with one of the best records in baseball, certainly an unexpected occurrence when you previewed the schedule before the season.\nAfter splitting the series, the Tigers headed to Oakland to face a team going in the opposite direction. So as the Tigers have been spinning their wheels of late, you could easily predict how they would fair.\nBut what did we notice most? What stood out? Guess you just have to read to find out.\nIf another sports writer ever again mentions that the Tigers are an ageing team, I just might implode. Quite the opposite is true and was never more evident than this past week when the Tigers fielded a team where half the team was either farm or fresh (rookies).\nThe infield is particularly susceptible with 2 veterans and both Iggy and Castellanos only in their second full years. Then you\u2019ve got Romine with a handful of years of part-time bench experience and rookies in Perez, McCann and Machado. This week we saw a couple of games with 4 rookies in the starting lineup.\nThe bigger issue is how this lack of depth and inexperience impacts the ability of the manager to field a strong team on a daily basis. There is almost no wiggle room for a player to have a day off or to cover in case of injury. We saw how the team struggled when Iggy hurt his knee. Replacing Iggy and Kinsler with Machado and Perez should qualify for jail time.\nBut players also need to have a day off so they can recharge. Kinsler played every game but one last year and the daily grind affected his bat. We see it happening again this year.\nAnd then there\u2019s Miggy. Give him a day off and who has experience playing first base? And where\u2019s Don Kelly when you need him?\nI don\u2019t know, what do you make of this team? Against Houston, 2 steps forward, 2 steps back. I know, a series split against a good team is not the end of the world, but we win the series more than likely without the continued implosion of Anibal Sanchez. His poor pitching is the most disturbing part of the team right now.\nSome may disagree and focus on the poor offensive effort, which reared its ugly head again in Oakland. But I think it will come, there is too much talent on this team and we can\u2019t discount the absence of VMart from the middle of this lineup. Luckily for us, the A\u2019s are no longer any good and couldn\u2019t score runs themselves, allowing the Tigers to take the series.\nBut if the Tigers are going to be a playoff team, Sanchez will be one of several who must lead them. The team has been challenged enough trying to score runs consistently without Victor protecting Cabrera and we continue to hold our breath waiting for the return of a healthy and ready to contribute JV.\nBut we won\u2019t get anywhere if we offset the return of key pieces with continued poor performances from guys like Sanchez. Anibal has to find it. If this continues, he may have to take a page out of Max Scherzer\u2019s book from a few years ago and work out some kinks in Toledo. We can\u2019t afford for this to continue.\nBut we couldn\u2019t score a lick in Oakland and actually won a game without a starting pitcher, so it ain\u2019t all bad. All the W\u2019s look the same in the standings, right?\nIN THE END, WE ARE ALL JUST TIGER FANS\nEvery so often, we remind our readers how our writers, Holly and me, are so different, and how our perspectives on baseball come from different inspirations. Holly\u2019s a numbers cruncher and Kurt dabbles in emotions. But together, we are still just baseball fans. It\u2019s a bond that we share.\nBut there are different kinds of fans. And as we head into June, what kind of fans are we? Below I have outlined 5 factions of fans. You may find you have spent time in each locale. I know I have. Some are nice neighborhoods and others are dumps.\nSo let\u2019s take a quick tour. But be careful on the way in.\n1. The Complainers\nYou don\u2019t want to be here. There are fans that come here and never leave. In 2015, the complainers have spent the entire season pounding on Brad Ausmus and his perceived inability to manage a baseball team. And I have been one of them. I have spent more time complaining about our manager than I feel comfortable with.\nTo be fair, I don\u2019t think he was ready to become a manager of a contender, especially a team that has been so close, only to be turned away. We needed a vet to get us over the hump, not a rookie.\nSee what you do here? It\u2019s just not healthy.\n2. The Negative\nThis is The Complainers\u2019 big brother. Who\u2019s been here? Well, all of us. But, it\u2019s really no fun. The Tigers are never going to win another championship. Not with this manager. Not with Dave Dombrowski. We will never have a good bullpen. Verlander is making too much money. Our offense is so bad.\nSee, this is an ugly, ugly group of fans. I know them like the back of my hand. I\u2019m leaving but I still have a key just in case.\n3. The Trustworthy\nYou can dabble in this group, visit for a while, but don\u2019t get too comfortable. Trustworthy fans think everything the Tigers do is right. Every move, every transaction, everything the team does makes sense and has justification.\nEven in 2015, the Tigers continue to hear from us, the fans, about the Doug Fister trade. But there will always be the trustworthy ones who can somehow find a method to the madness, and still defend a move that just didn\u2019t work out well.\nI have spent time here and sometimes run for comfort under this often false shelter of \u201ceverything\u2019s gonna be alright.\u201d The Tigers certainly know what they are doing, right? Dombrowski and company have to be smarter than us.\n4. The Optimistic\nWho doesn\u2019t want to be here? Most of us meet here at the start of the season. No games have been played. Nobody is hurt. All the names look good on paper. It\u2019s going to be a great year. We should all force ourselves to come here as much as we can. People are happy and feel comfort.\nIf you have visited these last couple days, there is excitement. Verlander is feeling better. Rondon is feeling better. And when he comes back, Victor will be the Victor of old, not just an old Victor.\n5. The Hopeful\nThis is a much more understanding faction of fans. We get that things aren\u2019t perfect. We understand we don\u2019t have the best manager, but we are hopeful the light bulb will go on. Brad actually thought his way through an inning for a change the other night. So maybe there is hope for him.\nCespedes hit a 3 run homer Wednesday, meaning the Tigers finally scored more than 2 runs in a game. Again, more hope. It\u2019s all about discovery here. I think we are discovering that the Central just may be the toughest division in baseball. And we are only a game out of first place.\nAre you where you want to be? If not, gravitate towards The Hopeful. It\u2019s a tough road to get there, because both optimism and negativity cloud our thinking. Our hope is so conflicted, because we struggle with both emotions. But, we wouldn\u2019t pay much attention if we didn\u2019t care. We wouldn\u2019t watch games. We wouldn\u2019t read blogs. We wouldn\u2019t write blogs.\nAfter 50 games, there is one simple truth. This is a good Tiger team. There is a big time starter working his way back. There is a promising reliever working his butt off to return and impact our bullpen. And there is a trade deadline out there when, in most cases, our GM pulls a rabbit out of his hat.\nSo hang your hat on all of that. And pin your hopes on a team that has just as much promise as anyone in a year when anyone can win it.\nWith only 2 more days until the Tigers hit game 50, they have reached their first grading period in the inaugural year of Totally Tigers.\nSo let\u2019s look at how our writers have graded each Tiger through 48 games.\nJames McCann (B+/A-) \u2013 Hoping he\u2019ll make everyone forget about Brian.\nMiguel Cabrera (A+) \u2013 normal scale; (A) \u2013 Miggy scale.\nIan Kinsler (A-) \u2013 Prince who? This guy cares.\nJose Iglesias (A+) \u2013 The Human Highlight Reel.\nNick Castellanos (C) \u2013 Awaiting the day he stays in a game late defensively.\nYoenis Cespedes (C+/B-) \u2013 Love the bat. Not so much the fielding stats.\nAnthony Gose (A-) \u2013 Finally! A bona fide leadoff hitter.\nJ.D. Martinez (A-) \u2013 He\u2019s the real deal folks.\nVictor Martinez (NA) \u2013 He\u2019ll be baaaaack\u2026.\nRajai Davis (B+) \u2013 Reminds me of Roadrunner in speed and attitude.\nAlex Avila (C-) \u2013 Yeah, yeah, good defense but I don\u2019t dig walks.\nAndrew Romine (C+) \u2013 The next Don Kelly.\nHernan Perez (E) \u2013 Not Ready for Prime Time Player.\nTyler Collins (NA) \u2013 His potential could make me forget his namesakes, Eddie and Tom.\nBryan Holaday (NA) \u2013 But he gets an A+ for attitude after being sent down.\nAlfredo Simon (A-) \u2013 Simon says \u201cI have more wins than any other starter.\u201d\nShane Greene (B) \u2013 Still a little greene.\nDavid Price (A-) \u2013 The price is right, at least for this year.\nAnibal Sanchez (C-) \u2013 Anibal, whatthehell?\nKyle Lobstein (C+) \u2013 Grading down on the curve due to potential arm injury.\nAlex Wilson (A-) \u2013 May just make us forget about Porcello.\nJoba Chamberlain (NA) \u2013 Not enough info; he\u2019s like a box of chocolates.\nJoakim Soria (A+) \u2013 Sales of Mylanta & Tums have dropped considerably.\nBlain Hardy (NA) \u2013 Not enough info.\nAl Alburquerque (D) \u2013 Stats show him at the bottom of the pen.\nTom Gorzelanny (C-) \u2013 Hits-a-plenty.\nAngel Nesbitt (B) \u2013 Based upon potential, hope we\u2019ve been sent an angel.\nBrad Ausmus (D) \u2013 Nice guy, but we all know what Leo Durocher said about that.\nDave Dombrowski (B) \u2013 A for his acquisitions, but a C for keeping Brad.\nJames McCann (A) \u2013 The future is bright at catcher.\nMiguel Cabrera (A) \u2013 The franchise always gets an A.\nIan Kinsler (B) \u2013 Second base in good hands.\nJose Iglesias (A) \u2013 When the wizard isn\u2019t at SS, you notice.\nNick Castellanos (C) \u2013 Still waiting for him to take off; will he?\nYoenis Cespedes (B+) \u2013 Big upgrade in left field, worth the trade.\nAnthony Gose (A) \u2013 Shockingly good, just what the doctor ordered.\nJ.D. Martinez (B-) \u2013 Ramping back up, knows how to hit.\nVictor Martinez (NA) \u2013 Haven\u2019t seen the real VMart yet, hope we will.\nRajai Davis (A-) \u2013 One of the most valuable Tigers.\nAlex Avila (C-) \u2013 The question has been answered, hasn\u2019t been missed.\nAndrew Romine (B) \u2013 What more can you ask? Key bench strength.\nHernan Perez (E) \u2013 Should be released, not a big leaguer.\nTyler Collins (NA) \u2013 Too early to tell.\nBryan Holaday (B) \u2013 Not too early to tell; very effective backup catcher.\nAlfredo Simon (A-) \u2013 Surprise #2 starter, very impressive.\nShane Greene (C) \u2013 Too streaky, but maybe that\u2019s ok for soon to be #5.\nDavid Price (A-) \u2013 Definition of an Ace, when you need a win, you\u2019ll get it.\nAnibal Sanchez (D) \u2013 I don\u2019t even know who this guy is.\nKyle Lobstein (C+) \u2013 Has bailed out this team subbing for JV.\nAlex Wilson (A) \u2013 Huge addition in trade for Porcello. Has been gold.\nJoba Chamberlain (C+) \u2013 He scares me, but has been decent lately.\nJoakim Soria (A) \u2013 A sense of calm in the ninth? In Detroit?\nBlain Hardy (B-) \u2013 Has been solid, no complaints.\nAl Alburquerque (C) \u2013 Always a puzzle.\nTom Gorzelanny (C) \u2013 New Coke better than Old Coke.\nAngel Nesbitt (B-) \u2013 Finding his niche, has been valuable piece of pen.\nBrad Ausmus (D) \u2013 Will be the difference if we don\u2019t go to the Series.\nDave Dombrowski (B) \u2013 But it doesn\u2019t stand for Brad.\nMANAGERIAL MOVES OF A DIFFERENT STRIPE\nThe elephant in the room can no longer be ignored. Social media, as well as the national press are buzzing about the Tigers. And not in a good way. The whispers of mismanagement from 2014 have only grown louder in 2015.\nBut really, this should be no surprise. The Tigers took a gamble in hiring a former player with no managerial experience hoping that the catcher resume and trend towards hiring guys with fresh perspectives like Williams and Matheny would work. But it didn\u2019t \u2013 and hasn\u2019t. And probably won\u2019t.\nGreat player talent can mask the skills of a manager in the short-term. And it\u2019s primarily their offensive stats that have put Brad\u2019s job in question. The team is at or near the top in runs, hits, total bases and batting average, to name a few. Ironically, very little blame can be attributed to the bullpen.\nBut the Tigers are also at the bottom of both leagues with games in which 2 or fewer runs are scored (25) and failing to score runners from 2B and 3B. Yes, injuries have played a part, but not as much as some might think. The Tigers are leaders at getting runners on base despite missing VMart.\nIt\u2019s one thing to not have the talent, it\u2019s another to have it and not effectively prosper from it. And this is the smoking gun.\nCombine these stats with Brad\u2019s tendency to leave pitchers in well beyond their expiration dates and multiple examples of head-scratching strategy including Monday\u2019s fresh-from-the-farm lineup and omission of Miggy for the day game where he punishes opponents. Brad has admitted that the team is \u201cunderachieving\u201d, but we have yet to see him change his strategies, let alone a lineup card.\nWhen you add in a midnight meeting with your recently recovering and elderly owner, plus GM, some comments from Rajai Davis and VMart and Brad\u2019s increasing testiness to the media, it all points to signs that there is unhappiness in the clubhouse and owner\u2019s box. And in the stands, given the outcry on social media and the round of boos for Brad the other day.\nBut the good news is that this season is very salvageable. The talent is there \u2013 it\u2019s just not being harnessed. And the team is lacking leadership, motivation and passion, which are just as important as the gloves and bats.\nI do believe that Mr. I and Dave had concerns about Ausmus going into the off-season and decided to put in a safety net named Alan Trammell. Oddly enough, Dombrowski stated that Tram\u2019s job description was not defined but that he would do Dave\u2019s bidding.\nBut Tram was not brought back to be the manager. He was either considered to inherit the bench coach job when Lamont\u2019s contract expires after this year or, in a worst case scenario, as a short-term interim manager in case Brad leaves.\nSo let\u2019s imagine coming into a new job with no experience. Then, a year later, someone with previous coaching and management experience (12 years!) with three teams is hired. Wouldn\u2019t you be looking over your shoulder? It happens all the time in the business world. Why not in baseball?\nConceivably, the wheels of change may already be in motion. Two managers are already gone with 5 others rumored to be close. Owners are investing more money and as a result, they have become more impatient waiting for the desired results.\nAnd if you think that all managers are fired because their work was unsatisfactory, think again. Unsure owners, unreasonable expectations, personality mismatches or conflicts with management are often the culprits. Only three Hall of Fame managers in history weren\u2019t fired. One was sick and resigned, one died and the other owned the team. It\u2019s all about fit and potentially Dave may be waiting for the right manager to become available.\nBut in response to those who say Dombrowski will never admit to making a mistake, I say that his legacy as a GM and contract extension after this year depend upon having a successful manager. Terminating your current one puts the blame on the manager. Keeping him puts the blame on you.\nMr. I is in the habit of extending Front Office contracts in August so it\u2019s logical a change would happen mid-season instead of end-of-the-year. And you\u2019ve got to believe Dave wants to stay, especially with two children in those crucial high school years.\nAnd it\u2019s not just Brad with an uncertain future. There are coaches, too, who are being anointed with some of the blame. And they will be a further clue as to how long the manager\u2019s tenure will be. A new manager brings in his own people, so if the coaches are the first to walk, it\u2019s probably a sign that the manager has been given a temporary pardon.\nIn business school, one of the first things you learn is to admit mistakes, cut your losses and move forward quickly. Mr. I is a stellar businessman and Dave has a degree in business administration. Will the owner\u2019s loyalty and professionalism win out over this business mantra? It\u2019s all going to depend upon how badly he wants that ring.\nSparky Anderson thought you could never really get a gauge on your team until you played at least 40 games.\nWell, here we are. We have eclipsed the 40 game mark, and he was right. There are some conclusions we can draw about the team at this point. There have been some surprises and some disappointments.\nSo as we head out on the road for a West Coast trip, let\u2019s take a look at what has made us take notice so far, from both ends of the spectrum.\n1. What is the most pleasant surprise this year so far?\nThe Tigers have learned a valuable lesson from the Kansas City Royals; the importance of speed. The Tigers, with some key additions are a substantially faster team this season.\nAnd I can\u2019t believe I am saying this, but it\u2019s true, the Tigers lead the American League in stolen bases. Team speed is finally something opponents must be concerned about when they play Detroit.\nThe surprises start with Gose at the top of the lineup who has been hitting .300 since spring training and has not let up. He has been a tremendous boost for a lineup that begins and ends with speed.\nMy hope is that they will force the issue even more as they have several guys that can really run on this team, and even though we have shown that ability, somehow we have managed to have trouble scoring runs. So being even more aggressive is a must.\nWith VMart out of the lineup for the foreseeable future, the Tigers can take advantage by adding more speed to the everyday lineup. Putting Davis and Gose in the lineup together is something they should do as much as possible.\nIggy has returned and resumed the glorious performance that we tasted very briefly back in late 2013. Many who said the .303 BA was a fluke, stress fractures in both legs and a year away from the game \u2013 yet, he comes back and performs above expectations.\nHe is the complete player. Currently, a .333 BA, .811 OPS, 7 stolen bases and minimal strikeouts. And he has the much-needed high-energy, enthusiastic play that is so contagious to watch.\nBut let\u2019s talk about what is even more exciting than what he does at the plate. It\u2019s the glove! Currently ranked as the #2 defensive SS, the man is simply incredible with his combination of ballet and gymnastics in the field. And he makes the national highlight reels almost every time he plays. Let\u2019s change his nickname to HHR \u2013 Human Highlight Reel.\n2. What is the most disappointing surprise this year?\nAs much as the Tigers have added an element of speed to their offense, you would think it would be a lethal combination with such a powerful middle of the order. But, it\u2019s amazing how difficult it has been for them to score runs.\nAs much as I hate to fill articles with stats, let me discuss them without a lot of numbers. The Tigers are near the top of the majors in batting average, trailing only Kansas City. Impressive right? They lead the American League in stolen bases. Wow, this offense must be electric.\nBut add in the fact they rank in the top 5 in leaving runners in scoring position and the incredible stat of leading all of baseball in grounding into double plays, you suddenly have an offense that doesn\u2019t know if it\u2019s coming or going.\nI am totally confused by an offense that appeared to have the ability to score in different ways, when instead, they have found just about every opportunity not to score. They are destined to struggle to stay above .500 with all of the inconsistencies littered throughout their team.\nThe key word here is \u201csurprise\u201d so I won\u2019t be addressing Ausmus for obvious reasons. But rather than identify one person, I\u2019m going to address the established and worsening pattern of play which has to do with failing to score with RISP.\nThe Tigers lead MLB with games in which they have scored 2 runs or less \u2013 25 of them. Taken alone, this would indicate that the team has problems offensively. But this is not the case. They rank #6 in all of MLB for runs, #1 (by far) in hits, run away with the lead in TB and are #2 in BA.\nYes, they put lots of runners on which impacts this figure but it also shows they are unable to cash in effectively when they have runners on 2B and beyond. How many of these 2-runs-or-less games could they have won? Technically, a maximum of 15 of these 25 games had the chance to be winnable. And unfortunately, I don\u2019t see any visible effort by management and coaching in addressing this problem.\nWINNING UNDER PRESSURE\nMay 24, 2015 / totallytigersblog\t/ 1 Comment\nWhile we take this day to honor those who gave their lives for this country, please enjoy a previously-published blog from March.\nIs there more pressure for teams to win championships the longer they go without one? It\u2019s a fair point.\nDo teams operate differently depending on when they last won? It\u2019s an interesting question I think. It depends on the city perhaps. It depends on the ownership perhaps. In some cases, winning is just a bonus.\nThe Chicago Cubs have been floundering for my whole life outside of an odd year they win more than they lose, or an occasional playoff cameo. It hasn\u2019t been until now that they have aggressively pursued a championship. The Cubs and losing have run hand in hand within the fabric of their franchise, almost in an acceptable manner, given their last championship took place not far beyond the 1800\u2019s.\nSo frankly, Cubs games are events, reasons to gather with friends and family for a good time. Winning or losing is a side note. If I need to be set straight on that, I would welcome the enlightenment.\nBut in Detroit, the goals have been different. Since the Tigers emerged from a decade long slumber with an inexplicable World Series appearance in 2006, a series they most certainly had the ability to win, the team has been in desperation mode.\nHas losing that series had implications on the goals of the franchise? I would guess they would say no, the goals are always the same. But how much easier would things have been for all involved if they had actually won the 2006 World Series?\nSure after another 9 years, we would certainly be hungry for another, but urgency wouldn\u2019t be blasting through the ceiling of expectation. There wouldn\u2019t be such pressure on the team to win a title for their owner. And there wouldn\u2019t be so much pressure on our general manager to operate under a \u201cwin now\u201d mandate. Smarter decisions could be made without potential fallout.\nThey could build and tweak their team logically and without so much risk. They could make decisions that are smarter for their future because they wouldn\u2019t feel the constant need to scramble so desperately for a title they haven\u2019t held in 31 years.\nI am envious of the San Francisco Giants. When you win a title, your fans are able to bask in it for a while. If you don\u2019t win it the next season, fans aren\u2019t so vocal about every move, every transaction. They don\u2019t question decisions or motives. There is an element of trust.\nAs a Giants fan, you can sit back, watch the team evolve and see if they make a run. And if they don\u2019t, you trust they will make the right moves to get themselves back in position very soon, knowing that if given the opportunity, their team can close the door.\nWinning buys time to win again. And the Giants, having won 3 titles in the last 5 years, have given their fans everything they could ever want; constantly competing for and frequently winning championships.\nUnfortunately, most teams don\u2019t get to experience the kind of run the Giants are on. Certainly you must have luck, but you also must possess strength at all levels of your organization to be able to consistently win; from your ownership to your scouts to your manager in the dugout.\nThis season, the Giants may not have a team that will compete for a title. They may end up spending the season building for next year. They have that luxury. There is no pressure to win. And that\u2019s an incredible advantage.\nThey will hover under the radar again, without unfair expectations. The St. Louis Cardinals are another franchise able to operate in the same manner. Winning rewards a franchise far beyond the trophy and the championship flag.\nUnfortunately the Tigers enter another season under the guise of ultimatums along with huge expectations. They have to win it. It was the same last season and the year before that, and the year before that. Unfortunately, that\u2019s the attitude here. But, when you don\u2019t win a title in over 30 years, I guess you can understand the frustration, at least in this town.\nBut frustration brought on from a long draught, I believe, makes a franchise operate differently and with more of a sense of urgency which may not be a good recipe for success.\nSure the Tigers have won division titles, and been to the big stage, but if they aren\u2019t raising the trophy, it\u2019s not enough anymore. We long for the feeling we had in 1984, at least the fortunate ones who actually remember it or were there to see it.\nThe images are forever emblazoned in my memory. It was the greatest season I have ever witnessed as a baseball fan. I lived at that ballpark in 1984, attending certainly no less than 60 games.\nBut it\u2019s been a long time now. And there are way too many \u201cremember when\u201d stories with this franchise. And we now await another season where the Tigers once again will try to make it all come together. They don\u2019t have a choice.\nMay 24, 2015 May 24, 2015 / totallytigersblog\nWhile we take this day to honor those who gave their lives for this country, please enjoy a previously-published blog from last month. These guidelines for how to evaluate a story are always relevant.\nI always find it interesting to see how readers of the local newspapers react to the latest media stories. They are all over the board concerning how the writer handled his subject. Ironically, many of these threads end up focused, not on the stories, but debating the merits of the journalist instead.\nBut how does this impact, you, the reader? Well, it\u2019s not just about the information you are offered, it\u2019s about how much detail and quality you are given. Equally important is how much info was omitted or not explored. And all of this is added to the information you use in forming your own opinions and beliefs about what this team can do, should do and cannot do.\nOne of my jobs as a media coach is to help clients navigate the purpose and goals of the media. Believe it or not, all media is not created equal and each organization and individual have different purposes and objectives. Gone are the days when it was only about being objective.\nToday, it\u2019s about creating buzz, generating \u201cclicks\u201d, attracting viewers, gaining access to information and building a resume. Sure, there are those who are solely committed to reporting the hard facts but just as many, if not more, who have a different primary plan in mind. It\u2019s a much more competitive world out there where news organizations will quickly replace established writers because they aren\u2019t generating enough readership \u2013 or advertising dollars. And much of this new way of doing business is a result of the internet and explosion of televised programs.\nSo when we, the fans, read articles on the Tigers, how should we digest the information we read or see? Here are some of the factors you should consider:\nLOCAL MEDIA VS. NATIONAL\nThe local media is especially dependent upon access to the management and players of a team. Therefore, they often have to temper their analysis and criticism of the team in order to keep the channels of information open. It is also not unusual for a team to ask a reporter to sit on some info while promising them a \u201cscoop\u201d down the road.\nAnd because they are local, it is very hard for them to put the team into perspective within the sport overall. It is rare to read comparisons that differentiate the strengths and weaknesses of the Tigers compared with their opponents, leaving many fans to think that their team is the only one stuck with a weak-hitting catcher or a manager who leaves his starter in too long.\nNational media, on the other hand, doesn\u2019t have the time or the resources to analyze any team to the degree of the local media. But they don\u2019t have to depend upon strong relationships with the sports organization and are often the ones who beat local writers to the punch on a big story.\nCase in point is the Justin Verlander story. The Detroit media has been strangely silent, with the reasons listed above, on the implications of JV\u2019s injury. However, this is one of the top stories covered daily on national radio and tv with speculation and concern only growing.\nBut as a counterpoint, who isn\u2019t already tired of the national media regularly referring to James McCann as \u201cBrian\u201d?\nThe best example between the two groups is the contract extension to Cabrera. It garnered widespread criticism from the national media who focused completely on the financial details, not the psychological, marketing or local implications. In contrast, local media was much more understanding of the emotional and historical relevance of keeping Miggy a Tiger for life with less emphasis on the financial and potential ageing concerns.\nDIFFERENT ANALYTICAL SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT\nCurrently, there are three different schools of thought about evaluating player talent \u2013 old school traditional stats, sabermetrics and one that combines a little bit of both. It\u2019s important to understand where each baseball analyst \u2013 whether in print or on tv \u2013 sits on the analytical spectrum. As a result, it is no surprise that a tv show discussing the merits of a particular player with a panel of \u201cexperts\u201d often results in few unanimous answers with rationales that differ greatly.\nLook no further than the topic that drives all Tiger fans mad \u2013 let\u2019s call it the Three M\u2019s. Miggy, Mike (Trout) and MVP. Where each analyst stands in statistical school is predictable in this case, but consider how fans\u2019 views may be influenced when the discussion is about players who are not well-known.\nLOYALTY AND EXPERIENCE\nSimply put, what is the background of the media personality? Is he a \u201chomer\u201d, raised or working locally, or a foe of the team in question? How often does he or she sing the praises of their favorite team? It\u2019s no coincidence that a national broadcaster who is always stating his love for his NY team, is also denigrating Boston\u2019s players on a regular basis.\nAlso consider the person\u2019s background. Is he a journalist by trade? A former ballplayer? A former GM? Or even a frustrated former team executive feeling scorned? Is he offering first-hand experience or speculation? Is he using information gained from an interview or from a long-time friend who played with him? Is he too close to the topic in question or is he an outsider who is able to offer an unbiased opinion?\nWe all know of several tv personalities who rarely have a good thing to say about the Tigers. In fact, the other day, one of the afore-mentioned\u2019s tv counterpart told him on-air to stop dissing Miggy and Detroit. While his hidden agenda is quite obvious, there are others who are harder to fathom for their bias.\nThis a huge factor to consider and an issue that has become much more complicated in recent years. To quote Deep Throat from the Watergate scandal, \u201cfollow the money.\u201d That will tell you a lot about why certain media types cover the topics they do in the way they do.\nSports reporting has gone beyond the primary salary source. Many journalists now have multiple streams of revenue coming in from satellite partners, social media companies, secondary employment and other business partnerships.\nMainstay newspapers are now hiring supposedly independent bloggers from outside their company to write or comment weekly. Bloggers are now being bought out by major sports media but you have to look hard on the blog site to find reference to them. Even MLB has hired \u201cindependent\u201d writers to cover each team with the caption about the article not being subject to MLB review. But, bottom line, MLB signs their paychecks.\nAnd many writers use the reporting platform to quietly plug their own radio and tv shows, Twitter and Facebook feeds, as well as their own creations. Beware the journalist who writes an inflammatory or out-of-the-mainstream piece as he\u2019s usually looking to create interest or buzz around himself and his publications.\nSo how can you ensure you are exposed to the best information and perspectives out there? Do your homework for the information that matters to you. Look for repeat patterns in reporting and suspect the ones that fall outside the mainstream. Google reporters you find interesting \u2013 or crazy.\nBut most of all, balance your reading with a variety of media. Watch and read local, but also national. Change the stations \u2013 there are a myriad of baseball-based shows and channels on tv now. The clearest of all possible pictures is to understand the media\u2019s true objectives, which will help you understand their message.\nWhile we take some time off to remember those who have given their lives for our country, please enjoy a previously posted blog from last month. Maybe even more relevant today than when first written.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 47469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tranio.com/italy/adt/1685728/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7RZYHTAG5L3WBMOERN3BKUMSKSI722FG", "length": 788, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "tranio.com", "title": "Listing #1685728 in Casole D'elsa, Tuscany, Italy \u2014 Villa - Tranio", "raw_content": "Casole D'elsa Villa 600,000 \u20ac\nTwo-storey villa with a pool in Casole d'Elsa, Tuscany, Italy\nThe newly renovated villa includes a swimming pool, a garden and a parking.\nLower floor \u2014 a living room, a dining room, a kitchen, a bathroom, a pantry room.\nUpper floor \u2014 four bedrooms with bathrooms, a terrace of 50 m\u00b2.\nCasol\u00e9 d'Elsa is a small urbanization located on a hilltop. The city has preserved fortress of the XIV century and the church of the XI century! There is a museum and a famous center of arts. Casole d'Elsa is located 25 km away from Siena and 50 km from Florence.\nYou can see more houses, villas, cottages for sale in Casole D'elsa elsewhere on our website.\nReal Estate Expert Tranio in Casole D'elsa\nTwo-storey villa with a pool in Casole d'Elsa, Tuscany, Italy \u00b7 600,000 \u20ac", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 3893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://travel.startsat60.com/articles/mediterranean-islands-where-youll-want-to-stay-forever", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:36Z", "digest": "sha1:33Y23HNGK4RMKUOL7RQAZIQGSYTLJHY6", "length": 4422, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "travel.startsat60.com", "title": "Mediterranean islands where you\u2019ll want to stay forever - Travel at 60", "raw_content": "Mediterranean islands where you\u2019ll want to stay forever\nA trip to the Mediterranean is utterly opulent \u2013 even if it\u2019s just in the sense that it\u2019s a feast for the soul.\nYou don\u2019t have to spend big to have a good time, her best charms are free, bar a cocktail or three.\nThe Mediterranean\u2019s distinct aesthetic of clear aqua waters against rocky cliffs, charming little towns seemingly left decades in the past and abundance of citrus, olives and oily fish lure travellers back time and time again.\nPack your togs, a straw sun hat and your best beach towel, because it's time to go island hopping.\n1. Formentera, Spain\nForget the party island of Ibiza, its neighbour Formentera is wilder in the natural sense and less populated.\nThe beaches on Formentera stretch for kilometres, so you\u2019re not going to be in the pockets of other tourists.\nOn the other hand, if you don\u2019t mind sharing the beach with a few others, Calo des Mort is one of the most beautiful places to take a dip.\nSoak up the Spanish culture while you\u2019re here with a feast of paella, the seafood in which the local fishermen will tell you is second to none.\nThe best way to explore the island is by renting a scooter or bike and don\u2019t worry about the traffic \u2013 there\u2019s very little.\nPeople often say it was love at first sight the moment they spied Sardinia.\nWhile it\u2019s a little pricier to visit than some of the other islands on the list, you won\u2019t regret it.\nIt\u2019s a large Italian island with more than 2,000km of coastline of snow-white beaches below rugged cliff-faces with rainbow-painted villages sitting atop.\nThe island is home to some very swanky hotels and five-star resorts, as well as boutique shopping galore.\nIt\u2019s a place where you can spend a day at a stunning beach and wander upon some Ancient Roman ruins on the way back to your hotel.\nAfter being used as a military base until the late eighties, Vis today is an island coming to grips with its immense tourism potential while remaining as it was in decades passed.\nIt\u2019s a little-known secret that Vis is the place to go for fresh lobster paired with great local wines, best enjoyed from a quiet little restaurant overlooking the azure waters and white stone that fringes the island.\nRead more: A beginner's guide to driving in Greece\n4. Patmos, Greece\nPatmos is a popular place for Christians to make pilgrimages as it\u2019s famously where Saint John wrote the New Testament\u2019s Book of Revelations.\nOne of the island\u2019s most special attractions of the Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, built in 1088 in a distinctly Byzantine style, appearing like a castle with a fortress.\nThe Cave of the Apocalypse is here as well, where it\u2019s said Saint John had the visions he recorded in the Book of Revelations.\nAfter you\u2019ve soaked up one of the most holy places of Christianity, the beaches and food in Patmos aren\u2019t bad, either.\nTuck into the catch of the day at a local fish taverna and reflect on the history the island has seen, which you are now a part of.\n5. Kefalonia, Greece\nAlthough Kefalonia is popular as a family travel destination, the island\u2019s impressive size means there\u2019s plenty of space for everyone.\nAs well as its gorgeous beaches, the island is home to some monstrous mountains, which make for a stunning backdrop.\nThe real point of different for Kefalonia however is its caves.\nThe Cave of Nymphs was rediscovered in 1951 where relics of former Minoan culture such as lamps, plates, deities and nymphs were discovered.\nToday, travellers can take a boat ride in the cave, which looks like a bright blue lake cut into the earth.\nAnother of the island\u2019s spectacular caves is the Drogarati Cave, its namesake being from a legend that said it was once the home of a dragon.\nThe cave is full of limestone formations and was only uncovered 300 years ago when an earthquake revealed its entrance.\nRead more: 7 of the most charming Italian villages\nCorsica\u2019s landscape is incredibly varied \u2013 it\u2019s somewhere you can go to the beach, hike and stroll through a charming village all in the same day.\nAlthough it\u2019s an island of France, life in Corsica is a world away.\nOne experience that cannot be missed is a performance by a Corsican singers, famous for their polyphonic hymns, perhaps enjoyed with a glass of wine.\nThe cuisine of Corsica is distinct, heavily featuring fish accented with oregano, marjoram and mint, and brocciu cheese made with sheep\u2019s milk.\nWhich would you most like to visit?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://travelingzookeeper.com/2016/06/05/on-being-an-introverted-expat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6FRDTVHS5FL35LLADVITNYSCHV5LX4L", "length": 7137, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "travelingzookeeper.com", "title": "On being an introverted expat \u2013 The Traveling Zookeeper", "raw_content": "On being an introverted expat\nSome people just seem like the type that would travel the world or move to a foreign country. I never thought that would be me, and I still don\u2019t think that I exude that type of personality, because I see myself as an introvert.\nMaybe some of you wouldn\u2019t think of me as an introvert. That\u2019s because once I get to know someone, I tend to get more comfortable around them, talk more, and open up. But there is no doubt in my mind that I am an introvert. Being around groups of people wears me out, and I need alone time to recharge. I do not like being the center of attention. Large crowds stress me out. Meeting new people makes me nervous. And I would rather cuddle up with Mitzy and a good book than go out to a crazy party.\nMy personality is full of paradoxes. Somehow, I am an adventurous introvert. One who loves to travel, yet is terrified of flying. Learning new things excites me, and I love teaching others about what I\u2019m passionate about, but public speaking is scary. I want to learn and practice speaking Spanish, but I feel embarrassed and afraid of making mistakes when I talk to others. Despite the challenges, I am here, and for that I should be proud.\nYet sometimes I\u2019m not. Sometimes I put myself down, doubt myself, or give myself a hard time for things that I shouldn\u2019t. There is always something that I could be doing better. Although that is definitely true, where is the line between self-improvement and unrealistic expectations? What limits do we place on continually getting better, making more money, doing more things, learning more, pleasing more people, taking more chances? Of course, we shouldn\u2019t just settle for something less than our best, nor should we be okay with living a mediocre life. But sometimes I feel like our society places too much pressure on being better. I have learned here that the word \u201cambitious\u201d is seen as negative. In Spanish, ambition is when you aren\u2019t happy with what you have, and are motivated by money and material things. In Spain, the focus is placed on slowing down, appreciating what you have, spending time with family, and enjoying life. And I\u2019m trying to adapt more to that way of life because I think there\u2019s something beautiful about it.\nOne of the pressures I\u2019m continually putting on myself is how I\u2019m learning Spanish. For example, I\u2019ll get really frustrated when I don\u2019t understand a song in Spanish. But then I have to remind myself that there are a ton of songs in English that I don\u2019t understand at all. Sometimes I get frustrated because it feels like everyone speaks better Spanish than me. So I have to tell myself, okay, you\u2019re in Spain! Of course Spaniards are going to speak better Spanish. Today I was thinking about how I wish I spoke Spanish as a first language, then I quickly realized that learning English is also difficult. And how many people here are trying to learn a language that I speak fluently? A lot! English is actually seen as \u201ccool\u201d here. Stores put random signs and tags in English to sell more, and it\u2019s very popular to wear t-shirts with English words or phrases. I get a little chuckle every time I see a shirt that says something extremely vulgar or something that doesn\u2019t make sense in English. It reminds me of that time in the 90\u2019s in the US when it was super popular to get tattoos in Chinese and a lot of people got tattoos that didn\u2019t exactly say what they thought it did.\nSome of my best days here have been days where I pushed myself to do something I didn\u2019t think I would like, or to push myself out of my comfort zone. When I give myself that push, even if it doesn\u2019t go perfectly, I end up being proud of myself and glad that I took the risk. This is going to sound really stupid, but one of my proudest moments was when I ordered pizza over the phone. The first time I ordered delivery pizza, I was able to do it online and avoid my fear of messing up speaking what I wanted over the phone. But the second time I wanted to try a different restaurant and they didn\u2019t have an option to order online. So I decided what I wanted, and mustered up a bunch of courage before dialing the number with the nervousness of a young girl calling her crush. Diego was not here to help me if the person taking my order didn\u2019t understand me. But it went totally fine. I understood him, he understood me, and he didn\u2019t laugh at me like my crazy brain wanted me to think. The pizza arrived just as I ordered and I ate it with so much satisfaction. Ha!\nRecently, I took Mitzy to the vet because I suspected she had a UTI. Diego couldn\u2019t come with me, so I mentally prepared and took her myself. I walked in, asked for an appointment, and the vet saw us right away. I was able to describe all of the symptoms Mitzy was having and talk to the vet about treatment and understood everything she said. Another very satisfying and rewarding moment here.\nOf course there are times when I get weird looks, laughs, or a \u201chuh?\u201d.And you know what, it\u2019s okay if people laugh at what you say. There are going to be miscommunications and mispronunciations. If something comes out the wrong way, just breathe and try again. I\u2019m glad when people correct me, because it helps me to learn.\nThe difference between being an introvert that survives an international move and one that doesn\u2019t is your attitude. You definitely have to have a sense of humor, some patience, and a willingness to push yourself. I have to remember that I\u2019m here because I want to be here. This is a once in a lifetime adventure and experience for me. It\u2019s not going to be perfect. I\u2019m going to make mistakes. It\u2019s definitely challenging, and it\u2019s definitely worth it. And hey, sometimes you need to cut yourself a break, take some time alone, or get a way for a while. Appreciate how far you have come, wherever you are. As one of my favorite Post Secrets says, \u201call you are, right now, in this very moment, is enough.\u201d\nPrevious Post A very Spanish wedding\nNext Post Post secrets for the traveler\u2019s soul\nYou are doing pretty well!! Don\u2019t be shy in speaking, your Spanish is much better than you think.I wish we were able to speak English as you speak Spanish! As you said, attitude is key for getting to know new cultures just relax and enjoy. Big hug\nOMG Heidi You were reading my thoughts today. I had a similar conversation with myself wondering if I will ever believe I am enough just as I am. What does it mean to be successful anyway?\u2026Why do I limit my belief that to measure success I use productivity, status, and money? Does that ambition come from growing up as an American? Does our culture promote competition within ourselves and with each other, creating stress and inadequate feelings, instead of acceptance and celebration of who we are as human beings? You brought up some very thought provoking points. Thank you for sharing.\nThanks Robyn. You are an amazing person just the way you are! I do believe that as Americans we have too much pressure to be \u201csuccessful\u201d and we compare ourselves to others too much. Everyone is different.\nSlowing down in life and appreciating the right now. You got that right. Thanks for the reminder.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 9067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://travelstudio.com.au/car-rentals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XYQ5X7UCHWEFZ3HZH7SUUCW5D5QSW6CU", "length": 2504, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "travelstudio.com.au", "title": "Car Rentals - The Travel Studio", "raw_content": "Home/Car Rentals\nCar Rentalsadmin2018-03-14T01:52:59+00:00\nDriveAway Holidays specialise in Car hire in over 130 countries worldwide and Motorhome rentals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, USA and Canada. Plan your next self drive holiday with DriveAway Holidays today!\nWhy Driveaway?\nDriveaway are Australia\u2019s leading Car Hire specialists.\nRent Motorhomes in 12 countries worldwide\nOver 20 years experience in self drive holidays\nGreat prices at over 8,000 locations worldwide\nExtensive range of vehicles to suit all needs and budgets\nFind a better price and Driveaway will beat it!\nBOOK CAR HIRE ONLINE NOW\nFREE Driving Guides\nPacked full of driving itineraries, travel tips and destination facts, choose from 14 FREE Driving Guides covering USA, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and more. Whether it\u2019s by car hire or motorhome rental, these essential guides will help planning your next self-drive holiday. So download your FREE driving guides and start planning today! Click Here.\nAn International Driving Permit (IDP) is proof that you hold a valid driver licence in your home country at the date of issue of the IDP. This should be carried with your domestic driver licence. It is a very useful travel document and is required or recommended for many countries when hiring a motor vehicle.\nPlease note that the following conditions apply for Australian Drivers Licence holders\nIt is compulsory to possess an IDP for the following countries: Armenia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, Paraguay, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates.\nIt is recommended to possess an IDP for the following countries: Argentina, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Finland, Hong Kong, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Kenya, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, Switzerland, Uganda, Uruguay, USA, Vanuatu, Zimbabwe.\nFor non-English drivers licence holders, an international drivers licence is required for all countries worldwide.\nIDPs are issued through state and territory motoring clubs and the cost to obtain one ranges from about $25 to $50.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://traveltriangle.com/greece-tourism/thessaloniki/places-to-visit/jewish-museum/timings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:28Z", "digest": "sha1:6LKOLFO336S47NJIPVM6MB5PRKDS6OFN", "length": 915, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "traveltriangle.com", "title": "Jewish Museum Entry Timings | Best Time To Visit Jewish Museum (Thessaloniki)", "raw_content": "Timings For Jewish Museum\nExplore the history of Thessaloniki\nBest Time To Visit Jewish Museum\nJewish Museum Thessaloniki timings are 10 AM to 3 PM from Monday to Friday, with additional hours of 5 PM to 8 PM on Wednesday. On Sundays, it is open from 10 AM to 2 PM. The place is closed on Saturdays.\nIs the Jewish Museum Thessaloniki museum suitable for the disabled?\nYes, there are amenities for people with visual or motor disability \u2013 audio guides and wheelchairs are readily available upon asking the staff.\nIs entry fee to Jewish Museum Thessaloniki very costly?\nEntry fee to the museum is only 5 euros, which converts to around 5.73 dollars and 401 INR.\nWhat is there to see in Jewish Museum Thessaloniki?\nOne can find out all about the Jews who resided in the city, their lifestyle, their rituals and daily chores as well as how the Holocaust affected their lives just as much as the east European countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 491, "original_length": 12682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trenchlesstechnology.com/echologics-founder-bracken-to-leave-company/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5BFT4UD4DMZN25PEVWMPEXYFK5U3SBXK", "length": 2486, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "trenchlesstechnology.com", "title": "Bracken Departs Echologics to Helm Mobiltex Data", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbNews\u00bbBusiness/People\u00bbEchologics Founder Bracken to Leave Company\nBy Trenchless Technology Canada Staff on\t January 16, 2019 Business/People, Canada, Canadian News, News\nMarc Bracken, vice president and general manager of Echologics, a Mueller Technologies company and provider of leak detection and condition assessment technology for water utilities, has announced he is leaving the company he founded to pursue a new opportunity.\n\u201cAfter founding Echologics 15 years ago, and eight years after being acquired by Mueller Water Products, it is with mixed emotions that I am announcing that I am leaving Echologics to become CEO of Mobiltex Data,\u201d Bracken announced in a recent LinkedIn post.\nRELATED: Echologics Continues to Advance Acoustics- Based Condition Assessment, Leak Detection\nBracken formed Mississauga, Canada-based Echologics in 2003 and helped commercialize an acoustic leak detection system for PVC pipes as a joint venture with the National Research Council of Canada. At the time, it was Bracken\u2019s first venture into the world of water and sewer infrastructure. Under his leadership, the company has since grown to be a global player in the condition assessment and leak detection market.\nIn 2011, the company was acquired by Mueller Co., and has since worked with some of the largest public and private utilities in the United States including the Las Vegas Valley Water District, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, American Water and many others. Bracken now has more than 18 years of experience in acoustical and vibration engineering, and 11 years of management experience in the water industry.\n\u201cI am incredibly proud of my time at Echologics, what my team has accomplished, and the technologies we have developed,\u201d Bracken added. \u201cThese are technologies that are changing the way utilities manage their water pipelines. I am also very proud of the growth we achieved as part of the Mueller family. I can honestly say that there isn\u2019t a better group of people to work with in the industry.\u201d\nBracken also announced that Eric Stacey, Echologics\u2019 director of operations and finance, will transition to the role of vice president and general manager. Bracken will become the new CEO of Mobiltex Data, a designer and manufacturer of industrial mobile data systems, based in Calgary.\nPrevious ArticleOx Equipment Inc. Announces Strategic Partnership with I-Quip Inc. (Video)\nNext Article J.F. Lehman & Company Acquires Inland Pipe Rehabilitation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trippy.me/tag/ferrofluid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:00Z", "digest": "sha1:XPSLO4PMXLN2KXMHYGBL6DNLN7GCDNUC", "length": 748, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "trippy.me", "title": "ferrofluid - Trippy.me", "raw_content": "Home \\ Tag \"ferrofluid\"\nGENESIS Directed by Roman Hill http://www.hillroman.com https://www.facebook.com/romanhillwork Edited by Cecil Cahen Music : \u201cPiece of Paper\u201d by Amon Tobin, ISAM (2011), Ninja Tune Records http://www.amontobin.com http://ninjatune.net In the Beginning how the Heav\u2019ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos, a dark Illimitable Ocean without bound, Without dimensions, where length breadth, and height, And time and place [\u2026]\nHaving Fun with Fluids\nThe demoscene is a computer art subculture that generates beautiful visuals and music out of a few lines of code. 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These ubiquitous vehicles are extremely durable and practical, capable of mounting an array of support weapons and protecting embarked Infantry Squads from all but the most destructive of onslaughts.\nThis box set contains one multi-part plastic Imperial Guard Chimera. This 95-piece set comes with a range of assembly options allowing you to customise your miniature, including: a turret-mounted multi-laser, a turret-mounted heavy flamer, a turret-mounted heavy bolter, a hull-mounted heavy flamer, a hull-mounted heavy bolter, a hunter-killer missile and two different tank commanders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 786, "original_length": 15108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tuetego.net/article/electricity-outage", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:42:36Z", "digest": "sha1:KDCHPEIW5ML676BKQIE3FMXAQSOT2YVX", "length": 2430, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "tuetego.net", "title": "Electricity outage - Tuetego", "raw_content": "Outage is a serious problem to the energy supplier so how does energy meet the demands. Let's take a look in a country e.g Bangladesh. The country has severe outage problems and still trying to meet the country's energy demand it also has other energy sources such as solar power for electricity generation but it's still not enough because the country's pay for electricity is not pay as you use but a fixed monthly fee for electricity supplied to each and individual customers with no obligations whatsoever. A customer doesn't need to satisfy it's energy use it can use as much as it wants for the price of single tariff for all use. It's not just an outage problem it causes but also the environment. The government has made some changes to it's electricity supply policy recently in the past.\nOutage is a serious problem to the energy supplier so how does energy meet the demands. Let's take a look in a country e.g Bangladesh.\nThe country has severe outage problems and still trying to meet the country's energy demand it also has other energy sources such as solar power for electricity generation but it's still not enough because the country's pay for electricity is not pay as you use but a fixed monthly fee for electricity supplied to each and individual customers with no obligations whatsoever. A customer doesn't need to satisfy it's energy use it can use as much as it wants for the price of single tariff for all use. It's not just an outage problem it causes but also the environment. The government has made some changes to it's electricity supply policy recently in the past.\nTiggerfantoo \u203a what are the changes the government have made recently?\nwhat are the changes the government have made recently?\nScorpio311 \u203a I used to live in India. They would cut off the power for one hour every day. Every day it would be a different hour of the day and you never knew when it would happen.\nI used to live in India. They would cut off the power for one hour every day. Every day it would be a different hour of the day and you never knew when it would happen.\nShavkat \u203a It is really a bad thing to endure if there is a power outage.\nIt is really a bad thing to endure if there is a power outage.\nHer\u0103str\u0103u Park, Bucharest, Romania\nHanging: the mysterious anticancerigenic plant in Romania - Sp\u00e2nzul: misterioasa plant\u0103 anticancerigen\u0103 din Rom\u00e2nia\nAnna Sewell, the author of Black Beauty\nSo we have a hung parliament?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tulanelakeside.com/about/newsroom/tulane-lakeside-hospital-for-women-and-children-hosts-3rd-annual-paintfest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:43Z", "digest": "sha1:5EBTJDH3R5Z5XQJEIFTTUBS6LR75GW7E", "length": 1473, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "tulanelakeside.com", "title": "Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Hosts 3rd Annual PaintFest", "raw_content": "Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children Hosts 3rd Annual PaintFest\nTulane Health System\u2019s Arts in Medicine (AIM) program has partnered with the George Rodrigue Foundation for Arts, Mardi Gras Customs and Yaya Studios to present the 3rd annual PaintFest at Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children (4700 S I-10 Service Road W., Metairie, LA 70001) from 10 a.m.-noon on Aug. 18. The event welcomes the general public to join patients and their families for a morning of artistic fun.\nChildren and adults are invited to help create murals, 3D art and art inspired by the New Orleans 300th Anniversary. The completed artwork will be displayed in the halls of Tulane Lakeside Hospital for patients and visitors to enjoy for years to come. Attendees will also be invited to create their own works of art on blank canvases that they will be able to take home. Additionally, there will be a music area, story corner and face painting.\n\u201cThis event encompasses everything AIM believes. We love bringing color and character to the halls of our hospital, making our patients\u2019 day a little better,\u201d said Julie Connelly, coordinator of the AIM program.\nTulane Health System recognizes the integral role of arts in healing the spirit and transforming the hospital experience, which is why the Arts in Medicine Program was created in 2010. PaintFest is another way to use engaging visuals and artwork to express comfort and love.\nThe event on is free and open to the public.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 16809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://turtlemeat.com/forex/Accommodative_monetary_policy.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:05Z", "digest": "sha1:EN67TWMV4HKYH5D7QXJ2O3O35357ONNZ", "length": 746, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "turtlemeat.com", "title": "Accommodative Monetary Policy - Forex, terms and definitions", "raw_content": "Accommodative Monetary Policy is the central bank policy that strives to stimulate economic growth by increasing the supply of money that banks may lend the market. When a central bank eases the money supply it effectively lowers short term rates, decreasing the cost to borrow. The theory is that this stimulates investment and thereby employment and economic growth. Overall Accommodative Monetary Policy is thought to pursue growth at the expense of potential inflationary pressures which tend to accompany high demand and wage growth. Tight Monetary Policy is the reverse of Accommodative, where central banks rein in money supply, increasing the cost to borrow. Tight Policy is thought to decrease inflationary pressures and economic growth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 1003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://turtlemeat.com/forex/Commodity_pairs.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:34Z", "digest": "sha1:BHXTJBI6HYN7XLOTQIT7RO2VGG5MW42V", "length": 467, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "turtlemeat.com", "title": "Commodity Pairs - Forex, terms and definitions", "raw_content": "Commodity Pairs\nUSD/CAD, USD/AUD, USD/NZD are the three commodity forex pairs. They are called commodity pairs because they include currencies from the countries Canada, Australia, New Zealand which possess large amounts of commodities. Although there are many countries with large natural resource and commodity reserves, such as Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, the commodities of many of these nations are usually highly regulated by their domestic governments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tvtonight.com.au/2018/07/pamela-rabe-wins-logie-as-she-attends-wentworth-fan-event-in-uk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GXXSJW34AYXUQOA5WW3EVF7WWUGKBYNI", "length": 1597, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "tvtonight.com.au", "title": "Pamela Rabe wins Logie as she attends Wentworth fan event in UK \u2013 TV Tonight", "raw_content": "July 4th, 2018 By David Knox 1 commentFiled under: Logies, Pay TV,\nMost Outstanding Actress winner Pamela Rabe heard about her Logie win as she attended an event with Wentworth fans in the UK.\n\u201cI found out literally a minute before I walked into a room with a couple of hundred very excited Wentworth fans,\u201d she tells TV Tonight.\n\u201cSo it was a great place to be for it because they were absolutely over the moon to be able to share the news with me. And Wentworth had just won both the Most Popular and Outstanding Drama categories a few minutes earlier.\n\u201cSo they were on a high which was just great.\u201d\nRabe, currently appearing in F***ing Adelaide, has previous won an AACTA Award for her performance as Joan Ferguson.\n\u201cThat\u2019s right. I\u2019d forgotten about that!\u201d\nBut she is staying silent on any inclusion of The Freak beyond last year\u2019s Season 5.\n\u201cI can\u2019t say,\u201d she laughed. \u201cIt\u2019s the first question that always gets asked. Hang in there.\n\u201cClearly that\u2019s a tension they\u2019re having fun playing with. Very interesting\u2026.\u201d\nWentworth is currently screening 8:30 Tuesdays on Showcase while F***ing Adelaide airs on ABC from from 9.25pm Sunday July 15 and is already available on iview.\nTags: F***ing Adela\u00efde, Logie Awards, Wentworth\nMac July 6, 2018 12:28 pm\nWell deserved win! Pamela took an iconic role (so brilliantly defined by Maggie Kirkpatrick) and has made it her own. I reckon the season will focus on other dramas and let the Mystery of the Missing Freak fade into the background before an absolute belter of a reappearance in the final episode or two. Only four more sleeps to the next episode\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 4789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseCars", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JUH4TSXEFMIOS6RU4UGLURN5SP2WWJPP", "length": 31638, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "tvtropes.org", "title": "Artistic License \u2013 Cars - TV Tropes", "raw_content": "http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseCars\nThis is a listing of liberties taken with how cars are presented in fiction.\nOften Acceptable Breaks from Reality, since portraying how real cars work can sometimes be considered incredibly boring. Many of these are either impossible or incredibly difficult to do in Real Life.\nMay overlap with Artistic License \u0096 Engineering or Artistic License \u0096 Physics.\nThe Alleged Car: The level of decrepitude seen in most examples of this in popular media would, at the very least, render the vehicle illegal to drive, as it would not pass inspection under any circumstances. Yes, there are plenty of sketchy garages that will just sell you the sticker for an extra twenty bucks, but doing so is also illegal, you'll eventually get pulled over anyway, and the officer who pulled you over will be very curious as to why there's an up-to-date inspection sticker on a vehicle that never would have passed in a million years. Even if your state doesn't require mandatory vehicle inspections, the law still gives officers the right to pull over anything that they feel is too dangerous to be on the road. At its most extreme, the vehicle outright shouldn't even start, let alone drive. That's not to say that there aren't plenty of these on the road (and, as mentioned, plenty of shady garages that enable this), just that they're almost never as awful as portrayed in fiction.\nCarload of Cool Kids: Although it's not unheard of to have people sitting on the rear deck of a convertible, it is unlikely, let alone while driving. It is even more unlikely that the car will be able to drive fast when the convertible is filled past capacity with people even clinging to the back. On top of all that, the cops won't take kindly to any car with this kind of seating set-up, since there's the potential for disaster in the event of a sudden stop, because none of the cool kids are wearing seatbelts.\nChronically Crashed Car: As anyone who has driven a car that has been in anything more than a minor fender-bender can tell you, most cars will never be quite the same after a major accident, even if fully repaired. A car that has been in multiple serious accidents will generally wind up in the junkyard, as its structural integrity has most likely been irreparably compromised (if the damage affects its crumple capabilities, it is a hazard to life and limb, as the next crash can and quite possibly will make it crunch up like a soda can), ergo it should not be back on the road after some repairs.\nDriver Faces Passenger: Driving while spending more time looking at your passenger(s) than the road? Not a good idea.\nDriving a Desk: Often while still in Park. It is, however, becoming more common for cars to be filmed on a special-built trailer.\nEvery Car Is a Pinto: Oars don't actually explode in collisions, though they may catch fire. The infamous defect on the Pinto was the rear axle bolts, which would rupture the gas tank, coupled with a lack of a proper bumper on pre-1974 models, and the friction from the two cars could cause a fire. Interestingly, only the Pinto (and Mercury Bobcat) coupes were affected. The wagon and Ford Mustang II did not have the defect because they had the fuel tanks situated differently and used a different rear axle. The Mustang II also didn't appear until model year 1974 so always had bumpers that met the tough new standard introduced that year. This trope largely still lives on because it's been shown so many times on TV and in movies, leading to some people dragging victims out of cars and potentially causing even worse injuries over something that wasn't a danger in the first place.\nGasoline Lasts Forever: As anybody who's taken on an older car or motorcycle as a restoration project knows, if left to sit, gasoline degrades over a matter of months to a useless varnish that then has to be cleaned out of the fuel system. The useful shelf life of gasoline is about 3-5 months at most. Treating the gas with fuel stabilizer helps, and other fuel oils last longer, but not for the decades or centuries often depicted in fiction.\nHassle-Free Hotwire: Every vehicle made for the North American market since 1969 has a steering column lock to prevent this very trope. And even then, crossing two wires may start the engine, but if only two are crossed, it won't stay running unless a third wire is connected. There are better ways that defeat the column locknote But not even that may help you, as most cars built in the early 1990's and on often have a computer module that will shut off the fuel pump if there is no key detected when you attempt to start the vehicle, but it's probably best not to list them here.\nHollywood Police Driving Academy: Cops are required to pass a driving test just like the rest of us. Most cops also have to undergo special driving courses to learn how to act in a high-speed chase, as well as other police techniques like the PIT Maneuver.\nHonest John's Dealership: Truth in Television to a point with budget used car lots and especially buy-here pay-here lots, but the excesses seen in fiction are incredibly illegal and would make them prime targets for lawsuits and criminal investigations. Buy-here pay-here lots are usually very close to the stereotype depending on how much their business model relies on consumer defaults, and it is because of this that many states subject them to heavy regulation and overall scrutiny.\nHummer Dinger: Large liftkits very rarely carry consistent legality from one jurisdiction to another, and sufficiently modified examples are not street legal in virtually any jurisdiction and will have to be treated as offroad and/or show vehicles. Coal rolling mods (typically a bypass device to allow for the engine to be flooded, or the removal of the particulate filter), on the other hand, are illegal everywhere and can often carry extremely expensive penalties if they are found to be installed (primarily bypass devices).\nKids Driving Cars: Small children can't drive normal-sized cars, as they lack the body size, strength, and coordination to control a vehicle. Driving, particularly driving very fast and with complex maneuvers, also takes practice, and rarely goes smoothly on your first time.\nMy Car Hates Me: In a new or newer used car, this is what warranties and lemon laws exist for; while the latter's scope depends heavily on the jurisdiction, it is generally based around some combination of a persistent mechanical problem that multiple attempts to fix cannot quash, and the car being in the shop for mechanical issues for an overly long length of time, and if you qualify under a lemon law, the manufacturer will usually buy back the vehicle. On the other hand, if it's an old used vehicle or a newer one that is either past the eligibility for used lemon laws or in a jurisdiction with weak or nonexistent used lemon laws, you are shit out of luck.\nRice Burner: Their legality varies by jurisdiction, though states that require vehicle inspections will not pass them, and while police generally have better things to do unless there's an official crackdown on vehicles with these mods (usually if they're aware of a stanced/slammed car meet in their area), these vehicles are often not street legal and need to be treated as show vehicles, and if you're uncertain of their legality in a given area, you should tow it to the destination.\nV8 Engine Noises: Considering that most cars use an engine with six cylinders or less...\nVehicular Sabotage: Usually seen as cutting a brake line. Every vehicle made since the 1967 Model Year has been required to have a dual split master cylinder, which splits the braking power between the front and rear wheels (and, in newer front wheel drive cars, the left front and right rear, and the right front and left rear), for the express reason to keep half the brake power in the event one of the lines is ruptured. A light turns on when a loss of pressure is detected. Interestingly, victims hardly ever seem to try using the handbrake or changing to a lower gear as ways of slowing down (though Truth in Television, as the general public can be untrained in how to handle such situations).\nWhat a Piece of Junk: Just like The Alleged Car, in Real Life if the car looked too beat-up or unsafe to drive, it would immediately be ticketed, towed and maybe even ordered to be destroyed. Depending on the country, the modifications that make the car special (such as having hidden weapons) could also be illegal anywhere from fine-worthy up to a guaranteed prison sentence. The street legality of \"rat rods\" and similar vehicles also varies heavily by jurisdiction, and most people who own them will use them as show vehicles and tow them to their destinations rather than drive them there.\nNon-subtrope examples:\nAn ad for the Castrol Magnatec engine oil aired in 2005 in Poland proudly exclaimed that the product reduces engine wear by sticking to the upper surfaces of the pistons. Actually, if your car has oil in the combustion chamber, you should see a mechanic, because it indicates that the engine is broken. usually due to broken piston rings-and heaven help you if it's a cracked block.\nIn the first half of That Yellow Bastard, Hartigan, after dispatching Clump and Schlubb (Fat Man and Little Boy), tells himself to think like a cop and disable Junior's 1962 Jaguar XKE. He then leans over the engine, and the next panel has him holding two spark plugs... somehow, mentioning that Junior wouldn't be getting away, even though it's a six cylinder engine (it would misfire like crazy, but nothing else). A simple solution would to show Hartigan holding distributor cap instead.\nThe \"bat country\" scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, the Shark is clearly in Park for all of the closeup shots of the interior.\nThe Fast and the Furious has the wrong wheels powered quite a bit, accomplished by either disabling the front wheels (by removing the CV shafts) on an all wheel drive Nissan Skyline, to filming a front wheel drive car doing a powerslide in reverse, then played backwards.\nThe CV shaft removal bit is actually justified, since many tuners convert Skylines and other AWD cars to RWD that way.\nThe Blues Brothers has several:\nThe Bluesmobile 'throws a rod' halfway through the chase through Chicago and sprays oil on the windshield, which then disappears moments later. The rear window that is shot out early on also reappears throughout the film, finally disappearing in final chase.\nWhile being chased through Chicago, Elwood takes a wrong turn on the highway and ends up on an unfinished portion, slams on the brakes, and shifts to reverse. The rear end dips down, causing the Bluesmobile to flip end over end, and somehow face the opposite direction. No one's figured out how.note Clearly the car was on a mission for God The Nazis chasing them drive right off the end, and crash into a street, causing a hole to break open in the road, which the second car then drives into.\nA deleted scene had Elwood fill the tires of the police cars at the concert with an overcharged glue that would cause the tires to explode when heated up.\nWord of God says that the Bluesmobile is \"a magic car\" and left it at that.\nGone in 60 Seconds (2000) uses hotwiring almost exclusively to steal the cars.\nThe Last Stand. Ahnold jumps a Corvette onto the guard rail of a highway, slides sideways like a skateboard, hops off and drives away.\nNear the end of Speed, the bus flies off an unfinished highway, without a ramp, and manages to land on the other side. MythBusters proved this completely impossible: it would have fallen no matter what.\nThe camera work at this part used a lot of rapidly changing camera angles to disguise what was really happening, but with high quality video and the ability to advance frame by frame, you can very easily see that for the filming sequence they very obviously used a ramp. The front end of the bus also appears to have been lifted by cables at the moment it leaves the ramp.\nWanted has a Conspicuous CG Viper and Lada 1200/VAZ 2101 leap into the air without ramps, do barrel rolls, and otherwise handle in impossible ways. This is the film that gave physics the finger, but still.\nLess excusable- The (automatic) Corvette Fox drives at the end has a (manual) transmission taken from the aforementioned Viper in a rather obvious error.\nLittle Cars In the Big Race has a scene where Wrangler, one of the racecars, spits out a wad of gum on the racetrack. Somehow, one car manages to get stuck on the gum and can't move, despite the gum having very little to hold onto the tire with.\nIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade:\nThe King of Hatay is given a 1935 Rolls Royce 20/25 h.p. by the Nazis (donated by an American traitor) to convince him to lend them equipment and the tank (which he had modified with a turret). He calls it a Phantom II, but describes the slightly newer 25/30 h.p., and even uses the taxation horsepower rating.\nRolls-Royce Phantom two. 4.3 litre, 30 horsepower, six cylinder engine, with Stromberg downdraft carburetor, can go from zero to 100 kilometres an hour in 12.5 seconds. And I even like the color.\nThe Phantom II had a 7.7 L straight six and a Rolls Royce-made twin jet downdraft carb, and never received a power rating. The 20/25 h.p. had a 3.7 L, an SU type carburetor, 25 HP rating (but actual output was closer to 70 or 80), and a 0-100 of about 14.5. The 25/30 h.p. had a 4.3 L engine (a bored out version of the 20/25's engine) and a Stromberg carb.\nThe motorcycles used to chase Indy are 1977 Honda XL 500 trail bikes, with almost nothing done to resemble a BMW.\nThere were no K\u00fcbelwagens in 1938. Ferdinand Porsche wouldn't develop them until 1940. Also, the two seen in the film are given to the Nazis by the Hatayan sultan along with the tank and trucks (they have the Hatayan symbol on them). This is likewise impossible, as Germany never exported the K\u00fcbelwagen.\nThe 1961 Ferrari 250 GT Spyder California in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Actually a fiberglass replica built on an MGB, it has a back seat (the real Spyder Californias were only available as a two seater), and an odometer with anti-tamper mechanicals to stop it from being rolled back (such devices were first mandated in the 1970s), which would not be on a 1961 model year vehicle.\nIn Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the T-X hacks into, and remotely controls, two police Crown Victorias, an Econoline ambulance and a 1985 Chevy C-30 crew cab. None of those vehicles had the type of computers that would allow this. They all used cable-driven throttles, ignition cylinders that require a physical key to operate and mechanical steering with hydraulic boost. note In fact, the types of computer controls that might allow remote control (drive-by-wire throttles, computer-controlled ignition modules and remote start, self parallel-park) weren't commercially or, in the case of remote start, commonly available until a few years after the film's release. Even then, for obvious reasons, every car on the road is still designed with a purely mechanical or hydro-mechanical linkage between the gear shifter and the transmission \u2014 it's impossible for a parked car to get into gear without someone physically manipulating the gear shifter.\nIn National Lampoon's Vacation, Clark takes his old car, a 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser, to a dealership as a trade-in on his new car. The dealership, which, for some reason, has an on-site crusher, crushes his car when he has them evaluate its value, then, having ordered the wrong model, forces him to buy it. Clark should have called the police for destruction of private property, bait and switch, and coercion. They also do not transfer the license plates from the old car to the new one, and Clark never puts a License Applied For sticker on the window. Clark would have been ticketed as soon as he left the dealership.\nIn a Bollywood film, Ra.One, we see several Volkswagens, all right-hand drive, driving along the right lane of every road in an American city. Surely, product placement gone wrong.\nBollywood again: this time, in 3 Idiots, the Smug Snake Chatur brags of his 'new Lamborghini, 6496cc, very fast'. He's talking of the Murcielago, but on his phone, shows an image of a Diablo, a decade-old Lamborghini, at least 500cc less, and surely not so fast.\nBollywood is called so because it is the film industry (like Hollywood) in erstwhile Bombay (now Mumbai), but they still make obvious mistakes pertaining to Mumbai's traffic rules. They mention southern/central city districts, but show autorickshaws (three-wheeled mini taxis) there, which do not ply in the city districts, beyond the suburbs.\nTowards the climax of the British movie Doomsday, the main characters find a getaway vehicle that was stored inside an underground bunker... because the plot said so. The car was stored there for at least twenty-seven years. Even if it were fresh off the assembly line, most of the car parts wouldn't work from lack of use. The metal would become stiff and the rubber in the tires would start to rot, among other things. The gasoline in its tank would also have gone bad many years previously.\nTransformers claims that cars were developed by reverse-engineering Megatron. Apparently Michael Bay has never heard of Karl Benz: the first internal combustion engine was patented in 1879, eighteen years before Megatron was said to have been discovered in the Arctic.\nAli G Indahouse has 2 such mistakes:\nAli's Renault 5, a car made between 1982 and 1990, has an \"RE 58 ECT\" numberplate. This is impossible, as numberplates with \"58\" as the 3rd and 4th character only apply to cars first registered in late 2008 and early 2009, which, in fact, is over 4 years after the film's premiere.\nThe film shows car electrical systems in models like the Volvo 940 and Vauxhall Nova as able to cause an electric shock. Such devices actually use electricity under a voltage that poses absolutely no danger to a human.\nIn Eagle Eye, references of Driving Stick are made when Jerry yells at Rachel to \"Use the clutch\" when the latter is driving the Porsche Cayenne Turbo that they're in. The Cayenne Turbo has only ever been offered with an automatic transmission (Initially a 6-speed, and later an 8-speed). Only the non-Turbo models (Such as the base V6 model for the first-generation, and the V8 GTS trim) have been offered with a 6-speed manual transmission.\nTorque is basically The Fast and the Furious on two wheels, with added Conspicuous CGI and even less regard for keeping the stunts within the bounds of the physically possible.\nIn Murder With Peacocks, protagonist Meg is familiar with the trope of removing a car's distributor cap to temporarily disable it. Needing to keep her best friend from leaving town without choosing and getting fitted for a wedding gown, Meg enlists friends to help her stage a daring midnight raid on her car. But first, they have to figure out, with Meg's own car, where exactly the distributor cap is, how to get it off, and then how to get it back on properly so that her car will be drivable. Which is all a lot more complicated than the movies made it seem to be.\nIn Season 3 of House of Cards (US), set in 2015-2016, the Presidential State Car is shown to be a 2005 Cadillac DTS from the Bush era, rather than the unique 2009 Cadillac limousine introduced in the Barack Obama era. The use of such a vehicle is rather justified, as the current State Car is a unique, highly classified model not based on any existing Cadillac models (it is instead an amalgamation of various Cadillac parts built on a GMC TopKick heavy truck chassis) and the White House certainly would never loan it for filming.\nIn \"The Bris\", George's car is in Park during the drive to the hospital.\nJerry's Saab 900 in \"The Bottle Deposit\". After Kramer and Newman pack groceries unde the hood because they had bought so much they ran out of space elsewhere, Jerry mentions the AAA guy told him it was \"this close to sucking a muffin down the carburetor.\" Saab 900s are fuel injected. When the police find a similar model chopped up in a a garage, he refers to the \"angle of the V6\" and says it was turbocharged, which a woman mentions is her 9000. Saab never offered either the 900 or 9000 with a turbocharged V6. Jerry then says his is a 900S, but the car Tony is driving when Kramer finds him is the higher up 900SE.\nIn \"The Money\", Morty and Helen claim to never use the Northstar System in their Cadillac Fleetwood. The Northstar System is another name for the Northstar V8 engine, which was never available on any Fleetwood; the Fleetwood was only offered with a Chevy L05 350 in 1993 and the Chevy LT1 350 in 1994-96. Earlier in \"The Cadillac\", they are seen driving without a license plate or a temporary registration, required by Florida law.\nOne episode of Person of Interest had a Marine vet who lost his right arm defusing an IED steal a motorcycle from a dealership and drive off with it at speed. Now granted, he had one of the fancy electronic prosthetics, but even so it's highly unlikely he would even have been able to get it moving, seeing as how 99% of stock bikes have the throttle on the right handlebar (the new prosthetics are a definite improvement over the plastic arm with a hook/claw at the end, but they're not that good). Overlaps with Artistic License \u0096 Medicine\u2014the POI is also shown aiming a gun with the thing.\nAn ubiquitous one is an actor moving the steering wheel even if they're driving on a straight road. In many Driver's Ed classes the instructor has to explain how the car will continue to follow a straight course even if the wheel isn't moved.\nA good example of this is in the pilot of The Rockford Files, where James Garner is vigorously rocking the steering wheel back and forth, even though he's driving on a straight highway. This is especially funny because when they cut to the car he's chasing, the other actor has his hands in the 10 and 2 positions and keeps them there.\nAlso parodied in the DVD Gag Reel of one season of Burn Notice when Jeffrey Donovan starts pretending to turn the steering wheel back and forth while the car is sitting still between takes.\nIn The King of Queens, Arthur cashes in his IRA to buy Doug and Carrie a new car to replace Doug's aging '80s Toyota Tercel wagon. He buys a \"Douchenburger\", apparently made in Luxembourg and quite popular there. The actual car, however, is a 1970 Mini 850 Mk. III, and is even right hand drive. Luxembourg is left hand drive like the rest of Continental Europe and does not have any local automakers (their cars are from the rest of Europe). About the only thing done to disguise the fact it's a Mini is the emblem has been removed.\nMission: Impossible, when the story is set in a Soviet Bloc nation, frequently used Checker A12 Marathons in place of Soviet cars, most likely meant to represent GAZ M-13 Chaikas and M-23 Volgas (M-21 with the V8 and automatic transmission of the M-13). Both vehicles were available only to KGB and Soviet officials and not common folk (though the Chaika could be rented for weddings and special occasions, and the four cylinder standard trans M-21 could be bought by anyone), and were therefore definitely not available to Hollywood filmmakers. The three cars look nothing alike.\nIn M*A*S*H, a character tries to leave the camp to get back to his unit by hotwiring a Jeep, and in \"Abyssinia Henry\", Henry gives Radar the keys to a Jeep. Jeeps, like all military vehicles, were expected to be used by anyone at any time, so they had a pushbutton ignition switch instead of keys, which could easily be misplaced or lost in the field.\nIn \"Welcome to Korea\", Hawkeye sarcastically asks if a Jeep is olive drab and made in Detroit. All Korean War-era Jeeps were made in Toledo, Ohio.\nVery few M 38 A 1 Jeeps, with the distinctive rounded hood and wrapover fenders, saw service at the very end of the Korean War (production began in 1953). Around half the 4077's motor pool is made up of them, many stood-in by civilian CJ-5s, although they tried to keep the ones used by characters to the older \"flat-fender\" models.\nCommunity has a minor example. In \"Spanish As A Second Language\", both Jeff and Abed refer to Jeff's Lexus being a 2002. The Lexus in question is a second generation IS making it a 2005 at the earliest.\nThe Castle episode \"Ghosts\" has a murder victim found in a bathtub full of motor oil, with emptied jugs everywhere. Only problem is, the oil is black. Fresh motor oil is yellow, and only turns black after it's been in an engine for a couple thousand miles (because it's picked up various kinds of gunk from circulating in the engine). Might cross over with Reality Is Unrealistic since an average person might not recognize unused motor oil as quickly as used.\nNash Bridges: In \"Resurrection\", a plotwise-dramatic collision involving main character's daughter has a set of details that don't add up. The truck runs a perpendicular course and hits the passenger door of a sedan to drag said sedan across and smash it against a big bulldozer that chilled at the other side of intersection. Sedan had to have enough momentum to not stay in place to be speared into the bulldozer. And the said bulldozer was blocking off that side of road intersection, so the truck had nowhere to travel to at such high speed. Truck driver wasn't unconcious either, per his testimony, which is milked for tears a bit later.\nIn season two of Arrested Development, George Sr. is looking at a Ford Escape at a dealership and is told by a salesman that it's the replacement for the Bronco, which was dropped to distance Ford from the \"fugitive from justice\" image from the O J Simpson police chase. It isn't, and it wasn't. The Bronco was discontinued because of a combination of declining sales, safety concerns regarding the removable roof note In 1992, Ford began using Torx bolts instead of hex bolts and ceased publishing literature explaining removal (because safety equipment such as the seat belts and third brake light were attached to the roof, it was no longer legally removable), though it was still physically possible to remove it. Conversely, Dodge redesigned the Ramcharger in 1981 to have a non-removable steel roof and GM did the same with the K5 Blazer/Jimmy in 1992 for that exact reason. and the increasing redundancy compared to the two-door, fixed roof Explorer coupled with the lack of a competitive product for the GM Suburban. The Bronco's replacement was the full size, four door Ford Expedition. Naturally, this was done to make a pun about George Bluth Sr.'s escape from prison.\nLampshaded on Top Gear, when Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond ruin days' worth of filming on the remake of The Sweeney, due to Clarkson's inability to grasp the concept of Acceptable Breaks from Reality, and of course for comedy. Clarkson shows the director the stunts the car can do with and without the traction control engaged; the director states that he wants the traction control off but Clarkson insists that car nerds will watch and their immersion will be spoiled by the knowledge that the car in question won't do the cooler stunt work with the traction control on, and then sends said director right over the edge by adding over a minutes' worth of footage to the chase scene to show the protagonists going through the process of deactivating the traction control, which means holding down the button for ten seconds!\nIn Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Pilot episode: when Cromartie scans Cameron's truck outside the Dyson residence he identifies it as a 1988 Ford F 150, the truck is actually a 1996 Ford F 250.\nThe Driver series has several:\nIn the opening cutscene of Driver 2, Jericho is driving a Pontiac Catalina (for some reason with a 1977 Chevy front), but the interior scenes show it's in Park and has no key in the ignition (or signs of hotwiring).\nIn the cutscene before the final level, the front wheels of the 1964 Thunderbird Tanner pursues Pink Lenny's helicopter in spin when he peels out, despite the Thunderbird being rear wheel drive for almost its entire lifetime (moved to a FWD platform in 1999, then axed in 2004).\nDriv3r has a number of front wheel drive French and Italian compact cars perform as though they were rear wheel drive.\nIn Forza Motorsport 4 and every subsequent game in the series it has appeared in, the rear-wheel-drive Bugatti EB110 SS is depicted as all-wheel-drive, which only the base variant had. The only game in which the car appeared with its correct rear-wheel-drive drivetrain has been in Motorsport 3. In a case of Aluminum Christmas Trees however, AWD SS models exist......as the Dauer EB110 (Dauer Sportwagen purchased the remaining parts and inventory of the EB110 SS from Bugatti, and the Dauer-produced EB110's were SS models but with AWD.)\nLeisure Suit Larry 6: Shape Up or Slip Out!: Larry is escorted from the Stallions set to La Costa Lotta in a taxi which Larry comments in awe how it's a \"cherry '73 Pacer\". The AMC Pacer was first introduced in 1975 and no Pacer with a 1973 model year exists. However, this could just be Larry not being very knowledgeable about cars.\nIn Need for Speed 2015 one of the hints states \"Donuts in a FWD car? Forget.\" Except that, both in real life and the game, you can do donuts in an FWD car - you just need to do it in reverse.\nThis is an interesting case, since it is using that trope to car behaviour in the game, which also is quite unrealistic - drifting is much, much easier than IRL, Artistic License Inception?\nIn Outsiders, Siobhan Pattinson and her mother are revealed to have driven a 1975 Triumph Lynx as their own personal car. The Triumph Lynx, however, never went beyond the prototype stage, with only a single unit built which was never made available for private ownership. The author stated in accompanying blogs that this was done to satisfy his own adoration of the Lynx concept, and hypothesised a world where it had in fact entered production.\nThe Simpsons has Homer accidentally cut the rear brake line on Marge's station wagon while doing... something underneath (and supporting the car with a wicker basket), which causes the \"Brakes Cut\" light to illuminate while Marge was in the hill district of Springfield note This isn't too far off from reality. There is an actual light the alerts the driver of a loss in hydraulic pressure, but it lights up as soon as the pressure drop is detected. and somehow prevents the front brakes or emergency brake from being engaged.\nAlthough the rendering is excellent, for some reason all the GM G-series vans have mid-'70s (F-series-based) Ford Econoline front ends, and the VW Type 2s have late-'60s (snubnosed) Econoline front end. The tricked out 1970 Dodge Challenger spy car Archer receives for his birthday has very BMW style gauges \u2014 in particular, a fuel consumption gauge \u2014 which a Dodge doesn't have.\nIn \"Coyote Lovely\", Archer, Lana and Cyril use a 1973 Chevy Impala station wagon in a border patrol mission. With the hood open, it appears to have strut towers and an LT1 350 from a 1990s Caprice, with the home plate delete mod. It also has Impala trim all around, but a Caprice grille up front.\nIn the Adventure Time episode \"We Fixed A Truck\", the Banana explains how a petrol engine (with spark plugs) works as he prepares to fix the truck's engine, but the truck is very soon afterwards stated to be diesel powered (and hence with a compression-ignition engine).\nAlternative Title(s): You Fail Auto Shop Forever, Cars Do Not Work That Way, Somewhere A Mechanic Is Crying\nAmphibious Automobile", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 34404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tyres-test.com/bridgestone-named-to-the-dow-jones-sustainability-world-index-for-the-third-consecutive-year-achieved-the-highest-score-in-the-auto-components-industry-sector-in-the-environmental-dimension-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:36Z", "digest": "sha1:4H2S5OOTZVEZNN4AAAJVVVP4O2LDDZ2O", "length": 2707, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "tyres-test.com", "title": "Bridgestone Named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the Third Consecutive Year \u2013 Achieved the highest score in the Auto Components industry sector in the environmental dimension \u2013 \u2013 Tyres Test", "raw_content": "Bridgestone Named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the Third Consecutive Year \u2013 Achieved the highest score in the Auto Components industry sector in the environmental dimension \u2013\nTOKYO (September 19, 2018) \u2013 Bridgestone Corporation (Bridgestone) has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) for the third consecutive year and the Dow Jones Sustainability Asia Pacific Index for the ninth consecutive year. These indices, maintained collaboratively by S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM, measure the performance of the worlds sustainability leaders based on a comprehensive analysis of long-term economic, environmental and social criteria.\nBridgestone achieved again the highest score in the Auto Components industry sector in the environmental dimension and the maximum score of 100 in the environmental assessment criteria: environmental reporting. Bridgestone also obtained the highest score in its sector for climate strategy in the environmental dimension.\nIn February 2018, Bridgestone launched a new Global Sustainable Procurement Policy for further driving sustainable procurement. It is applicable to all purchased materials and services, as well as all suppliers globally. Such an advanced effort that enhanced the sustainability of Bridgestone is highly evaluated.\nIn March 2017, the Bridgestone Group launched its global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) commitment, Our Way to Serve. This commitment organizes Bridgestone\u2019s CSR efforts under three Priority Areas: Mobility, People and Environment to improve the way people move, live, work and play through innovation and technology. Along with these Priority Areas, the Group continues to strengthen the basic governance, compliance and behavioral characteristics expected of any responsible company through its Management Fundamentals.\nPriority Areas and Management Fundamentals of \u201cOur way to Serve\u201d\nAbout DJSI World\nDJSI World is a stock index that was launched through collaboration between S&P Dow Jones Indices and RobecoSAM. Every year, DJSI World evaluates and quantifies the sustainability of roughly 2,500 major companies around the world from an environmental, economic and social perspective. Companies within each industry that rank in the top 10 percent are selected for inclusion in the index. This year, nearly 320 companies were selected for inclusion, with Bridgestone being selected within the Automobiles & Components industry group category.\nBridgestone\u2019s CSR web page\nBridgestone Group\u2019s Sustainability Report 2017-18\nBridgestone Group\u2019s Annual Report 2017\nBridgestone\u2019s Sustainable Procurement web page\nOur Way to Serve special web page\nExternal Assessments for Bridgestone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 5071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://untappedcities.com/2019/02/07/8-highlights-from-nycs-new-museum-of-the-dog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:20Z", "digest": "sha1:QXKSRX3SNSMEJYCOXITFTEIXUVFD4HLF", "length": 2209, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "untappedcities.com", "title": "8 Highlights from NYC's New Museum of the Dog | Untapped Cities", "raw_content": "Park Avenue is going to the dogs. This Friday, February 8th, the American Kennel Club will host the grand opening of the brand new Museum of the Dog inside the Kalikow Building at 101 Park Avenue, just steps away from Grand Central Terminal, and yes, there will be real live dogs in attendance! Friday\u2019s opening marks the MoD\u2019s return to New York City after more than thirty years in West St. Louis County. The museum\u2019s first exhibit, For the Love of All Things Dog, combines famous pieces by dog artists like Sir Edwin Landseer and Maud Earl from the AKC\u2019s collection of over 200 works of art featuring man\u2019s best friend (one of the largest in the world), and the collection of paintings, sculptures, and objects that the museum has been amassing since it was founded in 1982. Untapped Cities got a preview of the brand new, hi-tech museum with Alan Fausel, the Executive Director of the AKC Museum of the Dog, and picked out some of the most intriguing items to share!\nThe museum will be open starting at 11:00am on Friday, February 8th. You can purchase tickets for admission online here.\n1. The Skeleton of Belgrave Joe\nThe Museum of the Dog Library has an unconventional mascot, the skeleton of a smooth fox terrier called Belgrave Joe. Joe lived in the 1880s and had a long life of almost twenty years. He was a foundational sire credited with establishing a variety of fox terrier breeds. Joe\u2019s DNA was passed down through multiple generations and led to championship winning dogs. His remains were originally cared for by the Royal Veterinary College in England, but he made his way to the AKC Library in the 1930s and has remained a beloved fixture in the organization ever since. He can now be found in the Museum of the Dog\u2019s library where 4,000 of the AKC\u2019s 15,000 volume collection of books are available for visitors to peruse. There are also interactive digital displays in the library where visitors can learn more about the work of AKC, get information on the organization\u2019s breeders and breeding standards, and find out more of the history of Belgrave Joe. 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They then flow into metal conductor plates placed on either side of the panel. Electrons then flow back into the cell to complete the closed loop.\nWhat Are the Benefits of Solar Panels in Glen Cove, ME?\nThat is only a few them. Let's take a closer look at these benefits. The cost of solar energy is one of the biggest reasons why people either want or don't want to use the panels. On one hand, solar panels cost a bit to install. Costs have become significantly cheaper over the years, but it still requires that initial investment that some people just can't justify. On the other hand, it means never paying for electricity again (if the house in Glen Cove, ME is completely dependent on a solar power systems) or at least lowering the electric bill dramatically.\nWhy Wait For Your Glen Cove, Maine Solar Panel Installation?\nDon't wait to be the last person taking advantage of having solar power installed. in Glen Cove, ME Even if you don't go completely off the grid, having solar panel installers installing a few solar panels around the home can save you money and lessen your impact on the environment.\nDeciding to go solar is something many Americans are doing these days. Renewable energy is good for the environment and it is beneficial to your budget. The money you will save and the return on your investment in solar panel installation in Glen Cove, Maine will be significant. We look forward to being your choice for installation and offer you many benefits including our expertise and services.\nWe are solar panel installers certified by the most respected solar organization around. We will also help you with the paperwork you need to prepare for submission to your utility. After the installation in Glen Cove, Maine is complete, you can be sure we will monitor it to make sure it is working perfectly. We are as invested in this as you are and will make sure your system provides you with the power and energy your whole house or company needs. Call us today.\nGlen Cove, Maine, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 10361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://utilita.co.uk/blog/utilita-link-up-with-canaries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:MCPCJ4CGA56JKJGHS7NPP3YY4OS6CBZY", "length": 1968, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "utilita.co.uk", "title": "Utilita link up with Canaries | Blog | Utilita Energy", "raw_content": "Norwich City Football Club and Utilita Energy, Britain\u2019s fastest-growing independent energy provider, have extended their partnership for a further two seasons.\nUtilita will continue as the Official Energy Partner of Norwich City as the Club looks to challenge for promotion back to the Premier League. The partnership will provide Utilita with a platform to increase brand awareness across Carrow Road and beyond, as well as offering customers the chance to win fantastic prizes throughout the season.\nCanaries fans who switch to Utilita via the club will get the opportunity to win \u2018money can\u2019t buy\u2019 experiences AND every fan will receive an exclusive Norwich City-branded In Home Display cover for their smart meter, which comes at no extra cost. They will also not have to pay a standing charge.\nIn addition, customers will have access to a host of other benefits including exclusive access to festivals and music tickets through its partnership with the world\u2019s leading entertainment promoter, Live Nation.\nBen Tunnell, Head of Business Development for Norwich City commented: \u201cIt\u2019s great to have Utilita on board again this season. They\u2019re a company with big ambitions working within football, and we\u2019re pleased to be associated with such a strongly performing business.\u201d\n\u201cAs a commercial department we endeavour to not only find the most favourable partnership deals for the club but for our supporters too, and this is a great example of that.\u201d\nJem Maidment, Head of Communications at Utilita Energy, added: \u201cNorwich City is a huge club with a fantastic, loyal support \u2013 we are excited to continue as its official energy partner.\n\u201cWe want to engage with the club and the community in a smart way. We believe this will be a great deal for the club, for us, and most importantly Norwich City\u2019s large army of fans who can benefit from our fantastic services.\u201d\nFans can sign up now by going to www.utilita.co.uk/canaries or call 0345 206 8777 and quote \u2018CANARIES\u2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://utlib.ut.ee/en/databases%20", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BLWQEYWS6NEPV7Y3FKRRTAG5ORJTYFEL", "length": 33017, "nlines": 231, "source_domain": "utlib.ut.ee", "title": "Databases | University of Tartu Library", "raw_content": "UT computer network\nFilter databases\nOutside UT computer network use Open VPN connection. 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Contains more than 300 volumes.\nAllows four simultaneous users.\nCORDIS - the Community Research and Development Information Service\nCSIRO Publishing e-journals\nCSIRO Publishing publishes journals presenting the latest research by leading Australian and overseas scientists and covering a broad range of subjects in natural and health sciences.\nDatabase of Estonian Articles Index Scriptorum Estoniae (ISE)\nThis database contains articles, from newspapers, magazines and journals, serial publications and anthologies and collections from the 1990s on allowing the full-text to be accessed in free digital archives and Web publications.\nDatabases of CELR (Center of Estonian Language Resources)\nEstonian language digital resources (dictionaries, text and speech corpora, linguistic databases) and language technology tools (software).\nDatabases of EKI (Institute of the Estonian Language)\nThe databases of EKI (The Institute of the Estonian Language) contain various resources of Estonian language (dictionaries and linguistic databases).\nDatabases of EKM (Estonian Literary Museum)\nISIK (database of pseudonyms); GRAFO (digital library where more than 400 publications (mainly calendars) can be found in the format of picture files); KIVIKE (general digital repository of Estonian Literary Museum, therefore it also contains manuscripts, photos, audio files and other documents on Estonian cultural history and folklore); AL (Electronic catalogue of memorial collections) etc.\nDentistry & Oral Science Source covers all facets relating to the areas of dentistry. The database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.\nDIGAR - National Library Digital Archive\nThe National Library of Estonia\u2019s digital archive DIGAR stores online publications, print files and digitised copies of publications. DIGAR contains books, newspapers, journals and magazines, maps, sheet music, photos and postcards. Archived publications can be searched via the e-catalogue ESTER and bibliographic databases created by the National Library of Estonia.\nDIGAR \u2013 Estonian Newspapers\nThe aim of DIGAR\u2019s collection of Estonian newspapers is to provide a unite web portal for all digitally created or digitised newspapers that are published abroad in Estonian or here in Estonia and make them accessible.\nDigital archive of Estonian University DSpace\nfull texts of doctoral theses since 2009\nfull texts of master and bachelor theses since 2014\nsummaries of master and bachelor theses defensed in 2012-2013\nDigital Collection of TUT Library\nThe aim of the Digital Collection of TUT Library is to provide web-based access to the dissertations and graduation theses of TUT, to the digitized textbooks and publications about TUT history.\nDigital resources of CEES (Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies)\nThe Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (CEES) is supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund in the years 2016\u20132023. The centre assembles 15 research groups with more than 60 researchers with a doctoral degree and more than 50 post-graduate students from the Estonian Literary Museum, the University of Tartu (from the sphere of the humanities and arts as well as natural and exact sciences), the Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn University, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and the Institute of Cybernetics at the Tallinn University of Technology.\nOpen access peer-reviewed journals.\nGives detailed information on more than 4,500 reagents and catalysts.\nEbook Central (previous ebrary)\nContains e-books from the publishers BMJ Publishing Group, Brill Academic Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cornell University Press, CRC Press, Harvard University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Johns Hopkins University Press, S. Karger Publishers, Lawrence Erlbaum, Marcel Dekker, Inc., The McGraw-Hill Book Companies, MIT Press, National Academies Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Royal Society of Chemistry, Rutgers University Press, Sage Publications, Springer/Kluwer, Stanford University Press, Taylor & Francis, University of California Press, University of North Carolina Press, Viking Penguin, World Bank Group etc.\nEBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers (PsycInfo, ERIC, Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, Medline etc).\nSearch portal for academic literature EBSCO Discovery allows search through a single searchbox in a number of databases and mostly addresses the needs of students and professors in search for new research information. Discovery finds research journal articles, e-books, research works and other many other materials. Search in EBSCO Discovery is similar to a regular EBSCO database search. Link Content Provider in the left-hand column of search results shows the databases that were searched. To get more exact results, it is advisable to search these individual databases as well. Discovery works in the UT computer network, but it does not include all databases accessible to UT (Scopus, Beck Online, WestlawNext and some others).\nEconPapers provides access to RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software.\nEEVA, Digital Text Repository for Older Estonian Literature\nThe Digital Text Repository for Older Estonian Literature EEVA is a joint project of the UT Library and the UT Department of Literature and Folklore, supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture programme \"Literary Classics\".\nELLEN, database of manuscripts (Estonian Literary Museum)\nSearch database of manuscripts (Estonian Literary Museum) ELLEN\nEmerald Fulltext contains more than 150 e-journals from the publishers Emerald Group Publishing, mainly on economics, management, librarianship and engineering sciences. IP-numbers-based access over the UT computer network.\nEOD portal\nEOD Search is the fastest way to find already digitised items or books offered for digitisation. EOD search engine gives free access to the full text of nearly 40 000 copyright-free books and near 6 million other books offered for digitisation for a moderate fee on the request of users. The items in 30 languages available via the EOD Search cover the fields of science, social science, history, medicine, language and literature, law, philosophy, psychology, religion and other subjects.\nERIC provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records of journal articles, books, dissertations and theses, conference papers, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, dating back to 1966.\nERNI, Estonian literary history in texts (1924-1925)\nEducational program on history of Estonian literature that contains materials illustrating the Estonian literary world in the 1920s. The database is comprised of library of literary texts, anthology of critical material, photo gallery, author biographies, and meanings of literary terms.\nEstonian cultural history - Kreutzwaldi sajand\nCollection of texts, photos, books and e-books about Estonian cultural history starting from the 19th century up to the mid-20th century.\nEstonian e-repository\nThe Estonian E-varamu portal is part of the Estonian Research Infrastructure Roadmap what is founed by European Regional Development Fund.\nThe Estonian e-repository is an integrated e-environment created for digitized resources of the Estonian memory institutions: libraries, archives and museums. The e-repository enables to link national heritage collections with the Pan-European library Europeana.\nEstonian folklore-related databases and e-publications\nThe majority of electronic publications and data corpora in the server are in the Estonian language, which belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family. The server offers a wide range of information on oral heritage, folklore and folk belief, on the institutions actively engaged in folkloristic research in Estonia as well as researchers and research projects. The covered aspects of folklore also include the heritage of other peoples of the Uralic language group. The server features two journals that have been published online and in print since 1996: M\u00e4etagused and Folklore: An electronic Journal of Folklore.\nEstonian Language Web\nEstonian dictionaries on the Internet.\nEstonian Standards\nEstonian Standards. Information on more than 22,000 Estonian standards in on-site computer in the library. Texts can be read, but not to print or download. Further information: https://www.evs.ee/shop.\nEstonian Statistical information\nThe database contains two databases: the statistics database and the regional development database; it presents national statistics and regional statistics. The regional development database offers official regional and also unofficial statistics. Both databases have the following divisions: environment, economics, population, social sphere. Data from the population and housing census and the agricultural census are presented separately. Each division is broken into subdivisions. Both databases are in Estonian and English.\nEstonian Subject Thesaurus (EMS)\nThe Estonian Subject Thesaurus is a universal controlled vocabulary in Estonian for indexing and searching various library material. EMS enables to browse subject terms by subject fields, to search terms by English equivalent and to search by every term in the online catalogue ESTER, in the database of Estonian articles ISE or in Google.\nEstonian-language textbooks\nSelected Estonian open access textbooks in the UT digital archive DSpace.\nETERA Digital library\nEtera includes books, journals, newspapers, photographs, postcards, maps, tutorials, and theses.\nFind, read about, and research all 7,097 living languages. Ethnologue is the ultimate source of information on the world's languages. Subscriptions for university users are valid for 12 months (01.09.2018 - 31.08.2019).\nEUR-Lex provides free access, in the 24 official EU languages, to:\nthe Official Journal of the European Union;\nEU law (EU treaties, directives, regulations, decisions, consolidated legislation, etc.);\npreparatory acts (legislative proposals, reports, green and white papers, etc.);\nEU case-law (judgements, orders, etc.);\nEFTA documents;\nother public documents.\nPublic Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission.\nThe European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) defines requirements for the qualitative and quantitative composition of medicines, the tests to be carried out on medicines and on substances and materials used in their production. The European Pharmacopoeia and its requirements are legally binding in the member states of the European Pharmacopoeia Convention and the European Union.\nEuropean Sources Online gives information on the economics, politics and legislation of the EU and its member states. It contains full texts, overviews, legal acts and press releases.\nNational Library of Finland\u2019s digital collection of Finno-Ugric publications.\nCollection of medical journals available online, free, full-text and with ISI Impact Factors.\nCollection of medical literature that are available online, free and in full-text.\nA comprehensive Internet resource for researchers in the Earth Sciences. EJournals platform, geoscienceworld.org, provides a single point of access to 46 online journals from 28 leading global societies. GSW is integrated with the GeoRef abstract and index service.\nGrove Art Online contains the 34-volume Dictionary of Art (1996), and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001).\nOn-line fulltext version of the 29-volume The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2. ed), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2. ed).\nCollection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines on EBSCO platform.\nDatabase provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Coverage of nursing and allied health is particularly strong. On EBSCO platform.Andmebaas v\u00f5imaldab juurdep\u00e4\u00e4su ligi 550 teadusajakirja t\u00e4istekstidele meditsiini erinevatest valdkondadest. Eriti p\u00f5hjalikult on kajastatud \u00f5endus. Juurdep\u00e4\u00e4s EBSCO platvormil.\nArchive of legal journals, books and documents, containing full sets of mostly American, Canadian and Australian core journals and English-language journals from several European publishers \u2013 OUP, Sweet & Maxwell, Blackwell.\nNB! Only single articles can be downloaded! Complete books and journal issues cannot be downloaded.\nThe Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection of specially prepared animated audio visual presentations with synchronized narration, regularly updated.\nA common database of older books (publ. 1455\u20131839) in European and North American major research libraries.\nInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) digital library: Books, Journals, Magazines, Conference Proceedings, Standards.\nComparative statistical data on 51 states and 9 regions. Ten sametime users allowed in the UT computer network.\nThe extensive Elsevier's educational encyclopedia includes over 1350 articles.\nContains materials on radiation from physical, chemical, medical, biological and economic aspects, on the ecology of energy sources and nuclear energy.\nIOP (Institute of Physics Publishing) e-journals\nInstitute of Physics Publishing e-journals provide content in these subject areas: atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics, materials science,medical physics, biological physics, astrophysics, mathematical, statistical and quantum physics.\nJoVE publishes the peer-reviewed video methods journal in natural and life sciences. Articles consist of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols. The scope of the journal includes novel techniques, innovative applications of existing techniques, and gold standard protocols.\nThe following sections are available via UT computer network:\nArchive of e-journals. JSTOR Arts & Sciences I Collection, JSTOR Arts & Sciences II Collection, JSTOR Arts & Sciences III Collection, JSTOR Arts & Sciences IV Collection, JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII Collection, JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection.\nLAN. Literature from Russian publishing houses LAN\nExtensive collection from one of the leading Russian publishing houses LAN. Free access to more than 30 000 literary compositions: classical works on history, philosophy, literature and other sciences; Russian and foreign literature in the original language; more than 40 periodicals, published by Russian Universities.\nMathEduc (formerly MATHDI) is the only international reference database offering a world-wide overview of literature on research, theory and practice in mathematics education.\nMathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature since 1940.\nThe Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. Written and edited by an incomparable team of over 800 scholars and practitioners, published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and updated throughout the year.\nMEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing. Time coverage: generally 1946 to the present, with some older material. Accessible on EBSCO platform.\nThe MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, contains information for the journals and series that are available in the MLA International Bibliography database. The Directory covers journals articles on language, literature, folklore, and pedagogy.\nThe MLA International Bibliography is a database to search content matter of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, journals, and books on literature, folklore, and language.\nThe database includes thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography.\nMuIS - Museums Public Portal\nMuseums Public Portal is the online gateway to Estonian museums, giving everybody an opportunity to study the collections of the museums that have joined the system.\nLearn about museum objects by using the search engine or browsing the collections by museums.\nThe SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.\nThe ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 12.8 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable through the new ADS \u201cBumblebee\u201d modern search form as well as the traditional classic search form. A browsable paper form is also available.\nNature e-journals\nNPG is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information. NPG publishes journals across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. List of ordered journals.\nAccessible over the UT computer network.\nContains audiobooks in English, French and German.\nThe Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places.\nOAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors.\nOECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD\u2019s analysis and data.\nOECD iLibrary also contains content published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), the OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and the International Transport Forum (ITF).\nE-journals and conference papers of the Optical Society of America (OSA).\nOUP e-journals\nAccess to all OUP e-journals from 1996.\nOnline version of the 2nd edition of the 20-volume OED.\nOUP Premium reference portal Oxford Reference Online connects ore than 100 reference works in different fields of science. Dictionaries (The Concise Oxford Dictionary, The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English, etc.), subject dictionaries (Concise Medical Dictionary, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, etc.), biographic lexicons (Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, Dictionary of Political Biography, etc.).\nOxford Scholarship Online offers full-text access to scholarly works from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law, providing quick and easy access to Oxford University Press scholarship. Oxford Scholarship Online is now available in the 20 subject areas.\nPEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database.\nReference database (1940\u2013).\nCollection of e-journals on the humanities and social sciences (Standard Collection).\nOver 80 psychology e-journals (American Psychological Association, Canadian Psychological Association).\nThe PsycINFO\u00ae, database, American Psychological Association\u2019s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.\nFree access peer-reviewed journals on medicine and biology.\nPubMed created by the US National Medical Library (NLM) and the US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), allows searches in Medline and other databases (Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, etc.). Has links to full texts of journal articles and other Internet resources. Free access.\nPubMed Central\u00ae (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).\nRed Book of Estonian Publications\nThe third part of THULE - a joint preservation project of Estonian memory institutions (1998-2006) dedicated to the preservation of document heritage, lists Estonian national imprint from the very first copies up to the year 1850, constituting the first part of the complete list of national publications which are significant in the context of Estonian culture.\nIncludes summaries and articles appearing\nin scholarly journals in the fields of Religion and Theology and English language abstracts of articles in English,\nHebrew, Afrikaans, and major European languages.\nRiigi Teataja (Officcial Gazette)\nOfficial database of Estonian legal acts. Database contains the translations of Estonian legal acts into English.\nRoyal Society of Chemistry (RSC) e-journals\nRoyal Society of Chemistry e-journals contain chemical science, physics, biology, biophysics and materials science high impact journals.\nA collection of 250 IT books. 5 simultanous users are allowed.\nSAGE publishers' e-journals contains over 700 full text journals.\nOver 640 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, two major works collating a selection of journal articles, newly commissioned videos.\nAccess to all e-journals of Elsevier publishers. NB! Access over the ScienceDirect platform is not granted to e-journals offered by other publishers or scholarly societies.\nScienceDirect Reference Works and eBooks\nReference works from publisher Elsevier. Access to 21 encyclopedias\nEncyclopedia of Forest Sciences\nEncyclopedia of Virology.\nAmerican Chemical Society (ACS) the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences. Access only at the university computer network after registering on the website https://scifinder.cas.org/registration/index.html?corpKey=1611BD60-86F3-F00A-1177-65927C8AE23F\nIt is necessery to use @ut.ee e-mail address for registration.\nBibliographic database of Elsevier Science publishers, abstracting more than 21 000 scholarly journals. This multidisciplinary database excludes only journals on the humanities. According to the publisher, the database contains about 80% of international pre-reviewed scholarly journals.\nSocial Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. Each of SSRN's networks encourages the early distribution of research results by publishing Submitted abstracts and by soliciting abstracts of top quality research papers around the world.\nSPORTDiscus is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals.\nBiomedical and Life Sciences Collection (selected books 2005\u20132010), Computer Science (selected books 2005\u20132014), Earth and Environmental Science (selected books 2007\u20132011).\nMultidisciplinary electronic library SpringerLink contains about 2700 scholarly journals. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.\nThe Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) is an online database of genetic and molecular biology data for the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.\nTaylor & Francis e-journals. Access to full text articles from 1997.\nTranslation Studies Bibliography is enhanced by a thesaurus.\nRelated Benjamins Online Handbook: Handbook of Translation Studies Online\nSubscriptions are valid for 12 months (01.03.2018 - 28.02.2019), IP-numbers-based access over the UT computer network.\nUniversity of Tartu Digital Archive on DSpace\nDSpace at University of Tartu is a repository for all electronic materials incl e-theses and e-publications, digitized theses and books, manuscripts and images etc.\nSearch interfaces such as Base, DART-EUROPE etc provides integrated access to millions records from more than 2000 contributors worldwide\nVAU. Databases of the National Archives of Estonia\nPortal VAU provides access to many databases of the National Archives of Estonia.\nThe Web of Science platvorm provides access to the database Web of Science Core Collection, which includes the following citation databases:\nScience Citation Index Expanded (1980\u2013present)\nSocial Sciences Citation Index (1980\u2013present)\nArts & Humanities Citation Index (1980\u2013present)\nConference Proceedings Citation Index (1990\u2013present)\nBook Citation Index (2005\u2013present)\nEmerging Sources Citation Index (2015\u2013);\nto the database Essential Science Indicators\nand the database Journal Citation Reports\nLists of journals included in the indexes: http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/\nWestlaw UK is a part of Westlaw databases, but it is more user-friendly and its content is revised. Provides full text access to following books: Anton's Private International Law 3rd Ed. Beaumont; McEleavy\nContains more than 3000 legal databases, incl. about 700 journals (WORLD-JLR), legal acts, court cases and other materials, and integrated news databases from USA, UK, Canada, EU. Contact: Sille Plaksi sille.plaksi@ut.ee\nWiley Online Library e-books\nOutside UT network use VPN connection.\nE-books from collection Geography (27 e-books)\nWiley Online Library e-journals\nWiley publishers' e-journals. Access to full text from 1997.\nZentralblatt MATH (zbMATH) is the world\u2019s most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics.\nZoological Record is the world's oldest continuing database of animal biology. It is considered the world's leading taxonomic reference, and with coverage back to 1945, has acted for a long time as the world's unofficial register of animal names. 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You can choose it from All Databases search option.\nUsing databases and e-journals in Tartu University network\nPrinciples of information search in databases\nIf you cannot access the database over the UT network, use the UT proxy server.\nAsk us: paring@utlib.ee\nand (+372) 737 5780\n\u200bduring working hours", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 660, "original_length": 46132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://variety.com/2017/music/news/cardi-b-drops-new-single-bartier-cardi-featuring-21-savage-listen-1202647966/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:15Z", "digest": "sha1:CGBE7H4LRHAME47PKSHSJFOAM2MIVXCR", "length": 1113, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "variety.com", "title": "Cardi B Drops New Single, \u2018Bartier Cardi,\u2019 Featuring 21 Savage (Listen) \u2013 Variety", "raw_content": "Cardi B Drops New Single, \u2018Bartier Cardi,\u2019 Featuring 21 Savage (Listen)\nGrammy nominee Cardi B rounds out a big year with a new single, \u201cBartier Cardi,\u201d featuring 21 Savage. While the provocative rapper has been ubiquitous in 2017 \u2014 she\u2019s currently featured on\u2013 G-eazy\u2019s \u201cNo Limit\u201d with A$AP Rocky, Migos\u2019 \u201cMotorsport\u201d with Nicki Minaj, and Ozuna\u2019s \u201cLa Modelo\u201d \u2013 is the official follow-up to \u201cBodak Yellow,\u201d which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks.\nWhile \u201cBodak Yellow\u201d is her first hit, Cardi has been in the spotlight for several years, thanks to her role on the VH1 reality TV series \u201cLove & Hip Hop: New York,\u201d where she made her debut as a cast member in 2015 during season six. She released her first single \u201cCheap Ass Weave\u201d during her first year on the show and an appearance on reggae superstar Shaggy\u2019s single \u201cBoom Boom.\u201d She left the show last December and signed with Atlantic early in 2017. 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The entire plant is covered with oil glands, which are in the star-shaped hairs that cover the plant\nLavender, without a doubt, is the most commonly used essential oil in aromatherapy and cosmetics. Its scent is so neat and clean and tidy and soothing and pleasant - in short, reminiscent of grandma's linen closet. Lavender is indeed used in numerous household products, such as soaps and washing powders. But Grandma probably placed a little sachet stuffed with Lavender flowers between her linens, which not only lent them that special scent of floral freshness, but also kept the moths and bugs away. The very name 'Lavender' is descriptive of these age-old uses, which go back to Roman times. The Latin word 'lavare' from which 'Lavender' derives, simply means 'to wash'. Although Lavender is a Mediterranean herb and at home in the dry, hot climate of the Provence, it has also long been cultivated as a commercial crop in Britain. In southern Europe, Lavender flowers early and provides welcome spring nectar for busy bees. The resulting honey is sold as a precious delicacy. However, in France the deeply violet flowered French Lavender (L stoechas) is by far the most common species encountered in the wild. It has been used medicinally in France as well as in England until about the middle of the 18th century and was an important ingredient of the famous 'vinegar of the four thieves', which at the time was hailed as one of the most effective preventative remedies against the plague. Lavender also had the power to ward off other invisible demons and devils, and was burnt for protection at the summer solstice.\nColor : Greenish yellow to green brown,\nIt mainly consists of linalool (51%) and linalyl acetate (35%). Other components include \u00e1-pinene, limonene, 1,8-cineole, cis- and trans-ocimene, 3-octanone, camphor, caryophyllene, terpinen-4-ol and lavendulyl acetate.\nLavender is perhaps one of the best oils to use for purification, protection and for healing rituals. It calms and centres the mind and is a great aid for meditation. Its superior balancing qualities are ideal for chakra-balancing. It can be used to seal a platonic friendship, especially between teacher and student. Lavender is a plant of Mercury, and is well suited to calm an overactive mind and to stabilize emotions. 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The show is broken into four sections: Democracy, Gender Trouble, Desire and Longing, and The End Is Near, each addressing themes of concern to artists of the time.\nHelen Molesworth, chief curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Boston and guest curator for the originating institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago, talks with Walker assistant curator Bartholomew Ryan about the impetus for This Will Have Been and what she hopes will resonate with viewers.\nBartholomew Ryan\nHow did the exhibition come together originally? Was it something you had been thinking about for a while?\nI think it first started to form in my mind around 2007/2008, before the troop surge in Afghanistan, and then the economic crisis happened. The return of an intensely militarized foreign policy and increasingly inequitable economic policies certainly put one in mind of the \u201980s. I was surrounded by a lot of people who felt confused about what had happened and how it happened, and I thought, \u201cWell, the chicken has come home to roost. If you dismantle Keynesian\neconomics in the early \u201980s, this is what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d I first got interested in the period for that reason.\nGlobal Feminisms and Wack! Art and the Feminist Revolution opened in 2007\u2014two important exhibitions in which the decade of the \u201980s was just left out, and that\u2019s when I began to feel that we can historicize the \u201960s and \u201970s endlessly but can\u2019t get anywhere with the \u201980s.\nGiven the monumental reputation of the \u201980s as this tumultuous mix of aesthetic, political, and social registers\u2014were there potential pitfalls you were trying to avoid? How did you come to a decision about where you would concentrate your attention?\nThere were tons of pitfalls. The first path I took was to organize the show based on the kind of critical nomenclature of the period. I did Neo-Geo and Neo-Expressionism and Appropriation and it looked, to my eye, really terrible, really stale. I realized I needed an organizing structure that remained true to what was important in the work in that\nperiod, but also offered a way to think about what is important for now. Instead of looking at the material in the way it was discussed at the time, I tried to reimagine what was still vital about it for our present. The exhibition covers the period from 1979 through 1992, which is a way of talking about how the \u201980s is not so much simply a decade as it is a historical period that encompasses the Reagan/Thatcher era but that also begins with punk and ends with the election of Clinton.\nYou wanted an approach to the exhibition that was conscious of what was resonating today?\nYes, or what was missing, compared to what was happening then. For instance, much of that work had a sense of urgency that I don\u2019t feel is really present in a lot of work today. I wanted people to see that there may have been things that have been lost along the way. Curator Ann Goldstein says of the \u201980s that it was the \u201clast movement.\u201d I think she\u2019s right, even though the movement doesn\u2019t have a name, but the \u201990s and the first decade of the 2000s don\u2019t feel like they can be narrated as concisely as the \u201980s. I think that\u2019s because of a lot of social conditions, not the least of which is the Internet and what has come to be the fully global character of the art world and of information in general. There\u2019s still a lot of time delay in the \u201980s. Even though the fax machine felt revolutionary, it had nothing on the Internet [laughs]. It might as well have been teletype.\nAlso, with the coming election, the show feels more and more germane to me in ways that I didn\u2019t see coming. For instance, it didn\u2019t occur to me that the right wing would organize itself in such a repressive way around women\u2019s reproductive rights, but it has, and of course it\u2019s shades of the culture wars from the 1980s. And I think Occupy Wall Street is strongly indebted to Act Up [AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, an activist group that in the late 1980s began using civil disobedience to raise awareness around the AIDS crisis]. It shows in their strategies and their discourse and in the number of artists who are involved in Occupy movements across the country, just as they were with national Act Up chapters. So the show felt timely when I first started organizing it, and it continued to feel timely as the process developed. When it finally opened, even I was a little surprised.\nCould you talk about why New York is such a dominant center for a lot of the artwork within the exhibition?\nAfter Magiciens de la Terre [a controversial exhibition of global contemporary art in Paris in 1989] and the subsequent rise of a star curator, there was a move to make a certain scale of exhibition \u201cglobal\u201d as a kind of mandate. Fairly early on, I decided that I would not do such as show. I didn\u2019t have the expertise, and the story I wanted to tell about the decade is that it actually was the last moment before that mandate, before a certain discourse around globalism took hold, to the extent that now I feel it\u2019s almost a received idea. I really wanted to make a show about this moment when New York is beginning to feel the pressure from other places but has yet to cede its vision of itself as the center of the art world.\nDo you think that, in a way, a facet of this exhibition has a memorial quality? The audience is experiencing, for instance, many artworks by people who died of AIDS-related illnesses.\nThat\u2019s definitely part of it. To see the work of a lot of the artists who died of AIDS interwoven into a larger context makes one very aware of how many people didn\u2019t make it and how many careers are frozen in time. You become aware of how much time has passed. I also think the emotional quality of the exhibition, which was apparent at the opening at the MCA last winter, also comes from, again, the sense of urgency that the work still has. It\u2019s prickly and unresolved, and very little of it is designed to be comfortable in a domestic interior.\nYou know, I feel like in the \u201990s and the 2000s we\u2019ve all gotten \u2026 not complacent, but very, very good at accommodating power. And there was a period when we were a lot more vocal about not wanting to be so accommodating. I think people kind of miss that.\nObviously, history is always changing, and what seemed important 10 years ago seems much less important today. It\u2019s interesting to consider artists in the show\nsuch as Lorraine O\u2019Grady or Peter Hujar\u2013I\u2019m sure there are other examples\u2013who were making very relevant work, but only time has allowed the mainstream of the art world to see that. What\u2019s your take on our shifting notions of what seems pertinent now compared to 30 years ago?\nI\u2019ve come to feel that at any given moment there are more artists working than can be adequately shown or received in their time. There is the possibility, and we know this, that they might get picked up later in life or after they\u2019re gone. How is it we come to cycle through artists in this way? The only answer I\u2019ve come up with is that we get the art we need and that\u2019s both for the shallow and the deep. Sometimes you need the shallow art of the moment because something about it helps prick an awareness or consciousness of our current condition.\nIs there anything about coming to Minneapolis after its premiere in Chicago that interests you specifically? Are you anticipating a different kind of reception here?\nI am curious about how it\u2019s going to feel at the Walker, because in the 1980s, even though New York didn\u2019t understand the global character of the art world, I feel that the Walker did. The Walker has such an interesting relationship with the avant-garde\u2013it\u2019s always had an awareness of the European avant-garde and its pull in the United States\u2013and with acquisitions, as evidenced by its in-depth collecting of Sherrie Levine and Robert Gober, for instance. The MCA Chicago, I think, has a much more classic American \u201980s collection. And both cities had great music scenes, which were such an important part of what happened during this time. 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And that is the season of Advent, which finds itself more and more shorn of its original and sacred meaning. That high and holy time has been high-jacked by the secularists. Advent now signifies in the popular mind a fixed number of shopping days before the real sales begin once the fleeting distractions of Christ\u2019s birth are put behind us. And not only do fewer and fewer of us object, many of us seem not even to notice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://westriversc.org/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&view=events&date=2018-05-05&layout=day&Itemid=204", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OZIWNXDM3QN7AMGMNUMKPCKKE4CWWEEV", "length": 52, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "westriversc.org", "title": "Race Management", "raw_content": "Spring Regatta (Sat. 5 May, 2018 11:00 am - 3:00 pm)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 105.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whatstrending.com/trending-videos/trending-now/8212-pulitzer-photos-are-haunting-stunning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HRY6DZA3VI3XTTHH2YPOPQY3BLHUSWJK", "length": 2414, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "whatstrending.com", "title": "Pulitzer Photos are Haunting, Stunning | What's Trending", "raw_content": "Pulitzer Photos are Haunting, Stunning\nAs journalism\u2019s highest honor was announced yesterday, the news put a spotlight on the winners of best journalistic photography. The photos are both haunting and stunning.\nThe first, by Massoud Hossanini, was taken immediately after a suicide bomber struck a crowded area in Kabul, Afghanistan.\nMassoud Hossaini / AFP \u2013 Getty Images\nReads the Pulitzer description:\nTarana Akbari, 12, screams in fear moments after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in a crowd at the Abul Fazel Shrine in Kabul on December 06, 2011. \u2018When I could stand up, I saw that everybody was around me on the ground, really bloody. I was really, really scared,\u2019 said the Tarana, whose name means \u2018melody\u2019 in English. Out of 17 women and children from her family who went to a riverside shrine in Kabul that day to mark the Shiite holy day of Ashura, seven died including her seven-year-old brother Shoaib. More than 70 people lost their lives in all, and at least nine other members of Tarana\u2019s family were wounded. The blasts has prompted fears that Afghanistan could see the sort of sectarian violence that has pitched Shiite against Sunni Muslims in Iraq and Pakistan. The attack was the deadliest strike on the capital in three years. President Hamid Karzai said this was the first time insurgents had struck on such an important religious day. The Taliban condemned the attack, which some official viewed as sectarian. On the same day, a second bomber attacked in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Karzai said on December 11 that a total of 80 people were killed in both attacks. Published December 7, 2011\nThe second prize, for Feature Photography, went to Craig F. Walker of the Denver Post, for his series on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from returning war vets.\nCraig F. Walker \u2013 The Denver Post\nScott looks over his military service records and weeps after being told his apartment application had been turned down. The leasing manager said he couldn\u2019t allow Scott to move in because of an assault charge on his background check. Though Scott had his honorable discharge papers and his good-conduct medal, Scott said they meant nothing. \u2018I\u2019m not a criminal. You would think this would be worth something. It should be. It\u2019s not, though.\u2019 (Craig F. Walker, The Denver Post \u2013 December 29, 2011)\nMillennium Falcon-Shaped School a Hit\nWT/Movies: Looper Claims Future Box Office Victory", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 6933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wheresthejump.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MCKHZKDHMUYVCNRLFEMM6PX5GZ3RSFJY", "length": 1464, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "wheresthejump.com", "title": "Where's The Jump? \u2013 A Movie Jump Scare Database", "raw_content": "11 Jump Scares\n4.3 Jump Scares Per Episode\n1 Jump Scare\nWelcome To Where\u2019s The Jump?\nWhere\u2019s The Jump? is a movie jump scare database. Our aim is to provide a comprehensive listing of the jump scares in horror and thriller movies along with a short description of the scene and the time in the movie they occur.\nWe give each movie a star rating based on the intensity and frequency of jump scares in the film. A movie with 4 or 5 stars suggests a seriously \u201cjumpy\u201d experience while a 0 star movie indicates a movie completely free of jump scares.\nWe also have a collection of movie subtitle files available that will enable a warning message to display on screen shortly before a jump scare (requires a media player that supports .srt files). In most cases we try and use the blu-ray version of the film to derive our jump scare timings.\nFind a movie using the search bar at the top of the page or browse our full list of movies. You can also search by tag. If the movie you are looking for is not on our list please let us know and we will do our best to add it.\n2/1 \u2013 Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) \u2013 10 Jump Scares\n1/29 \u2013 Suspiria (2018) \u2013 2 Jump Scares\n12/28 \u2013 Bird Box (2018) \u2013 4 Jump Scares\n12/28 \u2013 Searching (2018) \u2013 0 Jump Scares\n12/28 \u2013 The Little Stranger (2018) \u2013 0 Jump Scares\n12/6 \u2013 The Predator (2018) \u2013 6 Jump Scares\n11/30 \u2013 The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) \u2013 8 Jump Scares\n11/23 \u2013 Cam (2018) \u2013 1 Jump Scare\n11/17 \u2013 Overlord (2018) \u2013 12 Jump Scares", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wilocalfood.com/2014/08/07/apricot-pistachio-squares/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:50Z", "digest": "sha1:VWUXEHF3N4ZXNGULLK6CIJCZHSR65PJG", "length": 204, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "wilocalfood.com", "title": "Apricot Pistachio Squares \u2013 Wisconsin Local Food Network", "raw_content": "August 7, 2014 August 20, 2014 wilocalfood Uncategorized\nfrom Smitten Kitchen \u2013 http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2014/08/apricot-pistachio-squares/\n3/4 cup (a scant 4 ounces or 110 grams) shelled pistachios", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 8981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://winecellarmedia.com/2016/09/08/the-clinton-email-non-scandal-continues-feat-colin-powell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:56Z", "digest": "sha1:UHZOULNBSNNYXQOSB3EYBARYFUWBLWQV", "length": 3922, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "winecellarmedia.com", "title": "The Clinton Email Non-Scandal Continues \u2013 (feat: Colin Powell) \u2013 winecellarmedia.com", "raw_content": "Political News\t September 8, 2016\nThe Clinton Email Non-Scandal Continues \u2013 (feat: Colin Powell)\nFormer secretary of State Colin Powell advised his successor, Hillary Clinton, on how to circumvent federal records requirements in a newly released email exchange about how best to handle communications over digital devices.\nThe email, dated two days after Clinton was sworn into office in 2009, was released by Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee. Cummings also included documentation showing that, during his tenure, Powell had sent classified emails over his private AOL account \u2013 but as of July, had still not responded to a request to contact his service provider to retrieve them.\n\u201cI had an ancient version of a PDA and used it,\u201d Powell said in the exchange with Clinton. \u201cIf it is public that you have a Blackberry,\u201d he said, \u201cit may become an official record and subject to the law.\u201d\n\u201cBe very careful,\u201d warned Powell. \u201cI got around it all by not saying much and not using systems that captured the data,\u201d he said, referring to private discussions outside the agency\u2019s classified system.\nThe exchange shows that Powell gave Clinton \u201ca detailed blueprint on how to skirt security rules and bypass requirements to preserve federal records, although Secretary Clinton has made clear that she did not rely on this advice,\u201d said Cummings. It \u201calso illustrates the longstanding problem that no secretary of State ever used an official unclassified email account until the current secretary of State,\u201d said Cummings.\nRepublicans are pressing for additional investigations into Clinton\u2019s use of a private email server after FBI director James Comey declined to press criminal charges, even as he concluded that Clinton was \u201cextremely careless\u201d in her use of a private server. The email corroborates what Clinton told the FBI about Powell\u2019s advice to her, according to transcripts of her interview released last week.\nIn both 2014 and 2015, the State Department asked Powell to provide all of his records that were not in the agency\u2019s record-keeping system. In March of 2015, Powell said during an appearance on ABC\u2019s This Week that he no longer had emails from his personal account: \u201cI do not have thousands of pages somewhere in my personal files,\u201d he said.\nAs of July, Powell still had not responded to a request to contact AOL. The Powell emails containing classified information had been identified by the agency\u2019s inspector general in February.\n\u201cThe Republican obsession with Secretary Clinton has reached a fever pitch, and they have been using taxpayer resources to single her out in a desperate and abusive attempt to hurt her presidential campaign,\u201d said Cummings.\n\u201cIf Republicans were truly concerned with transparency, strengthening FOIA, and preserving federal records, they would be attempting to recover Secretary Powell\u2019s emails from AOL, but they have taken no steps to do so despite the fact that this period \u2014 including the run-up to the Iraq War \u2014 was critical to our nation\u2019s history,\u201d said Cummings.\nThe release also shows the nature of Clinton\u2019s original solicitation for advice, dated Jan. 23 of 2009: \u201cWhat were the restrictions on your use of your blackberry? Did you use it in your personal office? I\u2019ve been told that the DSS personnel knew you had one and used it but no one fesses up to knowing how you used it! President Obamahas struck a blow for berry addicts like us.\u201d\nPowell has disputed the suggestion that he played a role in Clinton\u2019s decision to use a private system. \u201cThe truth is she was using it (her personal email) for a year before I sent her a memo telling her what I did,\u201d Powell told the New York Post in August. \u201cHer people have been trying to pin it on me,\u201d he said.\nBlack Woman Murdered By A Black Man. The Black On Black Crime We Actually Need To Address.\nA White Woman Makes A Gesture Of Solidarity And Her Organization Tries To Hide It.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 16881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://womenwholiveonrocks.com/island-beach-crusader/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:50Z", "digest": "sha1:HW5QWIR3IP3LOIRNEPELH5NHJ4FDIYJQ", "length": 3808, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "womenwholiveonrocks.com", "title": "Island Beach Crusader | Women Who Live On Rocks", "raw_content": "Parking on the beach seems to be considered normal on St. Martin, especially on Great Bay Beach in Philipsburg. Every Friday night and every weekend day, the beach is completely filled with cars. Some come to enjoy the bars and restaurants along the Boardwalk, while others come with their families and friends to soak up some well deserved beach time in what is an otherwise busy island life. In the cars, people bring food, drinks, diapers for the babies, and more beach day necessities.\nUnfortunately, after the party is over, the beach looks like a miniature dump. Throwing trash on the beach is something many islanders don\u2019t seem to take issue with. In their wake is not just your typical food trash, but more disgusting refuse as well like poop-filled diapers and used condoms for those who\u2019ve had their \u201csex on the beach.\u201d And no, I\u2019m not talking about the cocktail \u2013 although that is exactly what I need after I\u2019ve cleaned up this mess. Sex on the beach is fantastic \u2013 go for it, people! Sex in the ocean is super too! Just do me a favor, lovers, and clean up your rubber duckies when you\u2019re finished please.\nLiving right on Great Bay Beach and being a Property Manager Extraordinaire (a title I\u2019ve been given by some of our guests at Ocean\u2019s \u2013 hey, I\u2019ll take it), I personally clean up \u201cour\u201d stretch of beach every single day of the year. The never-ending trash people leave behind makes me feel like they almost know I will pick up after them so they don\u2019t need to bother picking up after themselves. I can see them secretly laughing behind their hands when they leave the beach\u2026 Hee, hee, hee, that woman from Ocean\u2019s will have a nice bit of work tomorrow! Ok, maybe I\u2019m being paranoid but picking up gross trash carelessly left behind by others will do that to a person.\nAnyhow, in 2015 I decided to begin my campaign to bring an end to this mucking up of one of our island\u2019s premier beaches. I wrote a letter to the government, copied it, brought it to the government building, and had it stamped so it would go to the correct Ministry. As I\u2019m sure you can imagine, not much changed right away. Now, three and a half years later, I\u2019ve still been fighting for the cause. I\u2019ve written multiple letters (at least 20!), submitted numerous newspaper articles with pictures, and even got an official report from our Ombudsman (an entity which oversees the correct working of the government). I\u2019ve also been in my share of fights with the local \u201cbeach boys.\u201d Still, there\u2019s been no answer, no solution. Nix, nada from government.\nSo, we took it a step further. Ocean\u2019s took the Port St. Martin and the government to court and won! A big hoorah for the judicial system. Did I forget to mention that there is already a Beach Policy in place in which driving or parking on the beach is forbidden?! And has been since 1994?!\nNow, the government has 30 days to block off the alley which allows cars to enter onto the beach. After that, the beach will be wide open, free of cars as it should be \u2013 no doubt cleaner with more space for both islanders and our visitors to enjoy. I mean, can you imagine coming on a cruise ship to St. Martin and you head to the beach, only to find a parking lot in its place? I look forward to our visitors finally being able to experience the beach in all its glory. This also sets a precedent for the whole island of St. Martin, where parking on our other beaches should be eradicated as well.\nBeing an avid member of our Nature Foundation and our EPIC Foundation, this verdict has been double sweet for me! I think my persistence over the three and half years and my relentless pit bull attitude towards looters paid off in the end. When complaining and picking up trash day in and day out simply won\u2019t do, we can\u2019t be afraid to take action for the greater good of our rock.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 8010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://womynmakingwaves.wordpress.com/2012/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SOXV4JTRSF5I5G5TYX6RXUTXUYRSV4D3", "length": 3307, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "womynmakingwaves.wordpress.com", "title": "February | 2012 | womyn making waves", "raw_content": "Coffee, Tea and WEFT\nHelp support WEFT radio by purchasing fresh roasted WEFT Radio Coffee\nor Artisan Loose Leaf Teas!\nThese fine coffees and teas are now available thanks to a partnership with\nHerriott\u2019s Columbia Street Roastery of Champaign. Columbia Street\nRoastery has been providing high quality coffees and teas to the area since\n1998. Coffee is available in 12 ounce bags either whole bean or ground in\nregular or decaffeinated. Three types of tea are available in 4 ounce bags.\nWe have chosen a medium roast blend coffee that comes from four growing\nregions in the world to create a coffee with a complex and unparalleled\nflavor. A traditional Ceylon Estates English Breakfast Pekoe Black Tea and\na Sencha Chinese Green Tea (regular or Decaf) are also available.\nA generous portion of the proceeds helps support WEFT community radio.\nYour source of REAL radio for thirty years.\nPlease go through WEFT to order this coffee and tea. It can not be purchased directly from Herriots.\nWEFT Regular\n12 oz. $10\nQty WEFT Decaf.\nQty Teas\nWhole Bean Whole Bean English Breakfast\nGround Ground Sencha Green\nSencha Green (decaf.)\nTotal Order $_________ Date of Order______________\nOrdered by ______________ Deliver to: ________________\nContact phone______________ ____________________\nOr Email _________________ _____________________\nPay by cash or a check made out to WEFT. Credit card sales can be\narranged. Orders can be shipped for additional shipping and handling fee.\nFor more information, 217-359-9338, stationmanager@weft.org\nWhitney Houston: 1963-2012\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/whitney-houston-iconic-pop-star-dies-48/story?id=15565260\nPlaylist for February 12, 2012 Host: Abby\nConnie Francis \u201cStupid Cupid \u201958\u201d from The Very Best of Connie Francis\nEtta James \u201cA Sunday Kind Of Love\u201d from At Last!\nMelissa Etheridge \u201cI\u2019ve Loved You Before\u201d from THE AWAKENING\nMimi Noland \u201cPentagram Moon\u201d from Self Produced\nDale Ann Bradley \u201cSUMMER BREEZE\u201d from Somewhere South of Crazy\nLia Ices \u201cWish You Were Here\u201d from Return to the dark side of the moon\nLaura Wetzler \u201cLove, You Are a Mystery to Me\u201d from Flying\nReba McEntire \u201cSomebody\u2019s Chelsea\u201d from All The Women I Am\nMimi Noland \u201cA Garden Of Evergreens\u201d from Self Produced\nMarcia Ball \u201cBelieving In Love\u201d from Roadside Attractions\nRosemary Clooney \u201cLet There Be Love\u201d from Girl Singer\nCris Williamson \u201cSong of the Soul\u201d from The Changer and the Changed\nJudy Garland & Gene Kelly \u201cFor Me & My Girl \u2013 Me and My Gal\u201d from The Greatest Hits of Hollywood & Broadway Volume 3\nHolly Near \u201cLady At The Piano\u201d from Imagine My Surprise!\nHolly Near and Ronnie Gilbert \u201cPerfect NIght\u201d from Lifeline\nBillie Holiday \u201cCOME RAIN OR COME SHINE\u201d from billie\u2019s best\nThe JaneDear Girls \u201cSaturdays In September\u201d from The JaneDear Girls\nLaura Marling \u201cThe Muse\u201d from Creature I Don\u2019t Know\nEva Cassidy \u201cKathy\u2019s Song\u201d from Simply Eva\nAmy Cervini \u201cDown With Love\u201d from Digging Me Digging You\nBlossom Dearie \u201cIF I WERE A BELL\u201d from Once Upon A Summertime\nSarah Barielles \u201cKaleidoscope Heart\u201d from Kalidoscope Heart\nShelby Lynne \u201cLead Me Love\u201d from Revelation Road\nPatti Smith \u201cTrampin\u2019\u201d from Outside Society\nTiger Darrow \u201cWith Love\u201d from You Know Who You Are\nLove\u2019s Recovery- Indigo Girls from Indigo Girls\nStevie Nicks \u201cSecret Love\u201d from In Your Dreams (Reprise 2011) N Buy it!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 344, "original_length": 13598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://workmall.com/wfb2001/caribbean_islands/caribbean_islands_history_historical_setting.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FSHITPUPCW2TXMNRLMRCN4JRWI7LDFWD", "length": 10579, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "workmall.com", "title": "Caribbean Islands Historical Setting - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System", "raw_content": "Caribbean Islands Historical Setting\nhttp://workmall.com/wfb2001/caribbean_islands/caribbean_islands_history_historical_setting.html\nBefore the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492, most of the Caribbean was peopled by three types, or groups, of inhabitants: the Ciboney or Guanahuatebey, the Taino or Arawak, and the Caribs. The cultural distinctions among the three groups are not great; the single greatest differentiating factor appears to be their respective dates of arrival in the region. The Ciboney seem to have arrived first and were found in parts of Cuba and the Bahamas. They also seem to have had the most elementary forms of social organization. The most numerous groups were the Arawaks, who resided in most of the Greater Antilles--Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola (presently, Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and Puerto Rico. The smaller eastern island chain was the home of the Caribs, a tropical forest group related to most of the indigenous Indians found in Central and South America. Barbados and a number of smaller islands were not permanently inhabited.\nEstimates of the size of the pre-Hispanic population of the Americas vary considerably. Both Columbus and Father Bartolom\u00e9 de Las Casas (who wrote the first history of the Spanish conquest and treatment of the Indians) produced estimates that appear to defy credibility. Las Casas thought the population of the Caribbean might have been in the vicinity of several million, and by virtue of his having lived in both Hispaniola and Cuba where he held encomiendas, or the right to tribute from Indians, he is as close as we get to an eye-witness account. Las Casas had a penchant for hyperbole, and it is doubtful that he could have produced reliable estimates for areas where he did not travel. Nevertheless, some more recent scholars have tended to agree with Las Casas, estimating as many as 4 million inhabitants for the island of Hispaniola in 1492. Although the dispute continues, a consensus seems to be developing for far lower figures than previously accepted.\nAn indigenous population of less than a million for all of the Caribbean would still be a relatively dense population, given the technology and resources of the region in the late fifteenth century. Probably one-half of these inhabitants would have been on the large island of Hispaniola, about 50,000 in Cuba, and far fewer than that in Jamaica. Puerto Rico, Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Trinidad all had fairly concentrated, if not large, populations.\nThe pre-European populations of the territories that later formed the Commonwealth Caribbean belonged to the groups designated as Caribs and Arawaks. Both were tropical forest people, who probably originated in the vast expanse of forests of the northern regions of South America and were related linguistically and ethnically to such present-day tropical forest peoples as the Chibcha, the Warao, the Yanomamo, the Caracas, the Caquet\u00edo, or the Jirajara--in short, the peoples found anywhere from Panama to Brazil.\nThe Arawaks lived in theocratic kingdoms, with a hierarchically arranged pantheon of gods, called zemis, and village chiefs, or caciques. The zemis were represented by icons of wood, stone, bones, and human remains. Arawaks believed that being in the good graces of their zemis protected them from disease, hurricanes, or disaster in war. They therefore served cassava (manioc) bread as well as beverages and tobacco to their zemis as propitiatory offerings.\nThe size of the community and the number of zemis he owned were directly related to the chief's importance. Chiefs lived in rectangular huts, called bohios, while the regular members of the community lived in round huts, called caneyes. The construction of both types of building was the same: wooden frames, topped by straw, with earthen floor, and scant interior furnishing. But the buildings were strong enough to resist hurricanes.\nFrom the European perspective, the wealth of the indigenous Indians was modest indeed. While Columbus and his successors sought gold and other trading commodities of value on the European market, the native Antilleans were not interested in trade and used gold only ornamentally. Their personal possessions consisted of wooden stools with four legs and carved backs, approximately two-meter- long hammocks of cotton cloth or strings for sleeping, clay and wooden bowls for mixing and serving food, calabashes or gourds for drinking water and bailing out boats, and their most prized possession, large dugout canoes for transportation, fishing, and water sports. One such canoe found in Jamaica could transport about seventy-five persons.\nThe Indians painted their bodies in bright colors, and some wore small ornaments of gold and shells in their noses, around their necks, or hanging from their ears. Body-painting was also employed to intimidate opponents in warfare.\nArawak villagers produced about two crops per year of manioc, maize, potatoes, peanuts, peppers, beans, and arrowroot. Cultivation was by the slash-and-burn method common throughout the Middle Americas, with the cultivated area's being abandoned after the harvest. The Indians worked the soil with sticks, called coas, and built earthen mounds in which they planted their crops. They might also have used fertilizers of ash, composted material, and feces to boost productivity. There is even evidence of simple irrigation in parts of southwestern Hispaniola.\nHunting and fishing were major activities. Arawaks hunted ducks, geese, parrots, iguanas, small rodents, and giant tree sloths. Parrots and a species of mute dog were domesticated. Most fishing, done by hand along the coast and in rivers, was for molluscs, lobsters, and turtles. Bigger fish were caught with baskets, spears, hooks, and nets. In some cases, fish were caught by attaching the hooks of sharpened sticks to a small sucking fish, called a remora, which fastened itself to larger fish such as sharks and turtles.\nFood was prepared by baking on stones or barbecuing over an open fire, using peppers, herbs, and spices lavishly for both flavor and preservation. In some places, beer was brewed from maize. The descriptions of the first Europeans indicated that the food supply was sufficient and in general the inhabitants were well fed--until the increased demand of the new immigrants and the dislocation created by their imported animals created famine.\nThe Caribs of the eastern islands were a highly mobile group; they possessed canoes similar to those of the Arawaks, but they employed them for more warlike pursuits. Their social organization appeared to be simpler than that of the Arawaks. They had no elaborate ceremonial ball courts like those found on the larger islands, but their small, wooden, frame houses surrounded a central fireplace that might have served as a ceremonial center. Many of their cultural artifacts--especially those recovered in Trinidad-- resemble those of the Arawaks. This might be explained in part by the Carib practice of capturing Arawak women as brides, who then could have socialized the children along Arawak lines.\nThe social and political organization of Carib society reflected both their military inclination and their mobile status. Villages were small, often consisting of members of an extended family. The leader of the village, most often the head of the family, supervised the food-gathering activities, principally fishing, done by the men, and cultivation, a task for the women. In addition, the leader settled internal disputes and led raids against neighboring groups. The purpose of these raids was to obtain wives for the younger males of the village.\nWarfare was an important activity for Carib males, and before the arrival of the Spanish they had a justified reputation as the most feared warriors of the Caribbean. Using bows, poisoned arrows, javelins and clubs, the Caribs attacked in long canoes, capturing Arawak women and, according to Arawak informants, ritualistically cooking and eating some male captives. There are, however, no records of Caribs eating humans after the advent of the Europeans, thus casting doubts on the Arawak tales.\nWhen the Spanish arrived in the Caribbean at the end of the fifteenth century, the Caribs and Arawaks, like all other frontier peoples, were undergoing mutual adaptations. The generally more peaceful Arawaks were becoming more adept at fighting; and, away from the contested frontier, the Caribs, like those in Trinidad, were spending more time on agriculture than warfare.\nThe Caribs and the Arawaks were progressively wiped out by the after-effects of the conquest, with the peaceful Arawaks suffering the greater catastrophe. The concentrated populations on Hispaniola, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Jamaica declined rapidly, victims of enslavement, social dislocation, and unfamiliar epidemic diseases. The smaller, more scattered populations of the smaller eastern Caribbean islands survived much better physically and epidemiologically. In the seventeenth century, the Caribs resisted European settlements on Dominica, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent, destroying the first English colony on St. Lucia in 1641 and delaying the effective occupation of Dominica and St. Vincent until the middle of the eighteenth century. Some Caribs resisted assimilation or acculturation by the Europeans, and a few of their descendants still live on a reservation in Dominica. Both the Caribs and Arawaks left indelible influences on the languages, diet, and ways of life of the twentieth century people who live in the region. Caribbean food crops, such as peanuts, cashew nuts, potatoes, tomatoes, pineapples, pumpkins, manioc, and maize, have spread around the world. The Indians' habit of smoking tobacco has become widespread, and tobacco has become an important commercial commodity. Arawakan and Cariban words have permeated the languages of the region: words such as agouti, avocado, barbecue, bohio (a peasant hut), buccaneer, calpulli (an urban zone), caney (a thatched hut), canoe, cannibal, cassava, cay, conuco (a cultivated area), quaqua (a bus or truck), quajiro (a peasant), guava, hammock, hurricane, iguana, maize, manatee, and zemi (an icon).\nNOTE: The information regarding Caribbean Islands on this page is re-published from The Library of Congress Country Studies. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Caribbean Islands Historical Setting information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Caribbean Islands Historical Setting should be addressed to the Library of Congress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 11198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://workmall.com/wfb2001/costa_rica/costa_rica_history.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:19Z", "digest": "sha1:CSMFTGYK34HCGXYMQT4TVQC6HZ7MYSX2", "length": 1858, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "workmall.com", "title": "Costa Rica History - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System", "raw_content": "http://workmall.com/wfb2001/costa_rica/costa_rica_history.html\nThe small landowners' relative poverty, the lack of a large indigenous labor force, the population's ethnic and linguistic homogeneity, and Costa Rica's isolation from the Spanish colonial centers in Mexico and the Andes all contributed to the development of an autonomous and individualistic agrarian society. An egalitarian tradition also arose. This tradition survived the widened class distinctions brought on by the 19th-century introduction of banana and coffee cultivation and consequent accumulations of local wealth.\nCosta Rica joined other Central American provinces in 1821 in a joint declaration of independence from Spain. Although the newly independent provinces formed a Federation, border disputes broke out among them, adding to the region's turbulent history and conditions. Costa Rica's northern Guanacaste Province was annexed from Nicaragua in one such regional dispute. In 1838, long after the Central American Federation ceased to function in practice, Costa Rica formally withdrew and proclaimed itself sovereign.\nWith more than 2,000 dead, the 44-day civil war resulting from this uprising was the bloodiest event in 20th-century Costa Rican history, but the victorious junta drafted a constitution guaranteeing free elections with universal suffrage and the abolition of the military. Figueres became a national hero, winning the first election under the new constitution in 1953. Since then, Costa Rica has held 14 presidential elections, the latest in 2006.\nNOTE: The information regarding Costa Rica on this page is re-published from the US State Department. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Costa Rica History information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Costa Rica History should be addressed to the State Department.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 214.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wubbzy.fandom.com/wiki/Huggy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:16Z", "digest": "sha1:BFW2ZJSP3H4R5R6Q2COCGJB62XIRH4N5", "length": 948, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "wubbzy.fandom.com", "title": "Huggy | Wubbzypedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Characters, Females, Recurring Characters,\nFemales Charachers\nBear-like creature\nWubbzy, Widget, Walden, Daizy, Buggy, Earl\nHuggy is one of Wubbzy's friends. She usually hangs out/plays with Buggy and Earl, and Wubbzy often joins in on the fun.\nHuggy is very sensitive and kind to others.\nHuggy is a light blue, bear-like creature (similar to Walden). She normally wears a pink and white short-sleeve dress with a matching skirt.\nHuggy has appeared in many episodes throughout the Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! series, first appearing in Widget's Wild Ride as a racer in the Wuzzleburg racing competition. Her last appearance was in Run for Fun, as a member of the crowd along with Buggy and others.\nHuggy speaks in a normal and southern accent.\nA character that looks like Huggy, but has no clothes and is pink all over, appears in A Tale of Tails.\nShe looks like Walden, but blue and smaller.\nRetrieved from \"https://wubbzy.fandom.com/wiki/Huggy?oldid=37624\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 2763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.10news.com/news/us-judge-extends-halt-on-deportations-of-separated-families", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:04Z", "digest": "sha1:HAIYKFQHW2GXOX2K5G27MVTIMPBIONIA", "length": 2412, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.10news.com", "title": "US judge extends halt on deportations of separated families", "raw_content": "US judge extends halt on deportations of separated families\nSAN DIEGO (AP) \u2014 A federal judge has extended a freeze on deporting families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border, giving a reprieve to hundreds of children and their parents to remain in the United States.\nU.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw said in his order Thursday that \"hasty\" deportation of children after reunification with their parents would deprive them of their right to seek asylum.\nThe American Civil Liberties Union had requested families be given at least a week. The judge's order did not specify a date for when the reprieve would end.\nRELATED: Trump admin outlines plan to reunify separated children with deported parents\nThe government has opposed the move, saying parents waived the rights of children to pursue asylum claims after signing deportation forms. Both sides were to discuss the decision at a hearing Friday.\nIn his ruling, Sabraw said delaying the deportations \"would not unfairly or unduly tax available government resources,\" but that carrying out the removals would go against the public's interest in upholding the country's laws and protecting the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers.\nRELATED: San Diego judge upholds ban on deporting reunited migrant families\nHe said claims of people persecuted in their homelands should at least be heard. Many of the families have said they were fleeing violence in their home countries in Central America and planned to seek asylum.\n\"The Court is upholding the rights provided to all persons under the United States Constitution, rights that are particularly important to minor children seeking refuge through asylum, and rights that have been specifically recognized by the President's Executive Order in the particular circumstances of this case,\" Sabraw wrote.\nIn late June, Sabraw ordered that children under 5 be rejoined with their parents in 14 days and children 5 and older be rejoined in 30 days.\nRELATED: Ivanka Trump says family separations issue 'was a low point'\nThe order came days after President Donald Trump, amid public outrage at children being taken from their parents, halted the \"zero-tolerance\" policy implemented in the spring that split families up at the border.\nAs of Aug. 16, the government had reunified 2,089 children with their parents or to others, including sponsors. Nearly 600 were still separated, including 366 with parents outside the U.S.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 4683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.110words.com/592/history-of-free-stained-glass-windows-and-lampshade-patterns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:AXTBZHDT6VRQQCC2XL4XZ3V4JTJZ2SHA", "length": 4421, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.110words.com", "title": "History of Free Stained Glass Windows and Lampshade Patterns", "raw_content": "Accounts vary on the initial use of stained glass primarily because it was invented prior to recorded history. Some historians state it was first used as a domestic luxury in the homes of rich Romans in the first century. Stained glass finally gained recognition as an art form sometime in the fourth century as Christians began to worship explicitly and built highly structured churches to celebrate their religion. Other historians point to facts in ancient ruins that involve the use of stained glass in pagan traditions and interior decoration. While we may never know the exact derivation of the medium of stained glass it is open that the swell of Christianity is directly interconnected to the expansion of stained glass across the globe.\nThe twelfth century began what is identified as the Gothic Era and stained glass windows took center stage in highly structured and monumental cathedral designs. Beginning with the modern designs on the St. Denis, stained glass windows were used to bring light, both accurately and metaphorically, into cathedrals to improve the worship experience. Most of the stained glass from the St. Denis Cathedral was smashed during the French Revolution but a few select fragments and even some full windows can be found on exhibit in varying locations throughout Europe.\nThe bold lines and strong figures of Gothic style stained glass were finally phased out as Renaissance artisans leaned towards greater detail, more fine coloring and increased realism. Stained glass windows evolved into something more like a watercolour on glass than an architectural element and some of the outstanding elements such as lead lines disappeared. Although there were numerous pieces created and even some masterpieces, due to the teething troubles in expressing the great detail of requisite to the Renaissance era, true stained glass became somewhat of a lost art.\nStained glass had been largely used by the Catholic Church and much of the valuable art form was destroyed during the 1600\u2019s by order of King Henry VIII after his break with the Church. Not only were touching stained glass windows hastily destroyed, but many of the glass making amenities were ruined as well. Religious unrest was not the only cause in the decline of stained glass. During the Baroque age the fashion leaned toward more intricately detailed interiors and highly structured wall painting which necessitated the use of clear glass in the architecture. Many of the lingering stained glass windows were left unmaintained and allowed to rot during this period and very few new stained glass windows were produced.\nThroughout the late seventeenth century the hearts and imaginations of the people returned another time to the Gothic style of design. This revival was actually motivated by the need to escape the harsh realities of \u201cmodern\u201d life together with the daily grind of factories. With the arrival of Gothic architecture emerged a newfound interest in stained glass. Artists primarily continued to use the skill of painting on glass, but finally realized the superiority of the old pot metal glasses used in medieval times. Since the old proficiency had not been used for such a long time, the skill used for making the lead lines had been lost and the artisans of the period stagger when trying to recreate the dynamics of the Gothic stained glass. This tied with a reluctance to give up the newer more thorough \u201cmodern\u201d depictions of scenes and figures lead to windows with an out of the ordinary design with the old architecture and an remarkable blend of the old and new stained glass styles.\nThroughout the nineteenth century, artisans La Farge and Tiffany created new fluctuation of opalescent stained glass. La Farge tended to architecture and window designs with a small personal studio, while Tiffany boasted a larger studio that divided out into other areas, like the Tiffany Lamp which has become a household name. Today\u2019s stained glass artists are bound by no specific style or religious themes. Much of the work they do regard restoration, but can also be seen in both small and large attractive touches in homes of people from almost any economic background. New and modern techniques are perpetually being discovered and stained glass continues to add attention to our lives.\nArt Tags: Glass art, Stained Glass, stained glass doors, stained glass lamp, stained glass pattern, tiffany stained glass", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 4767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.12news.com/article/news/best-moments-in-waste-management-phoenix-open-history/75-a956713b-1e17-45a1-b781-86fe5324010a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:QRCEU4QO5EYENKOKZCODMFKVQX44M5U6", "length": 6105, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.12news.com", "title": "Best moments in Waste Management Phoenix Open history | 12news.com", "raw_content": "Best moments in Waste Management Phoenix Open history\nFrom the famous ace by Tiger Woods, to Phil's first win to the now-outlawed caddy races.\nAuthor: Cameron La Fontaine\nSCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The Greatest Show on Grass or Greenest Show on Grass or the biggest party in golf tees off in less than three weeks now and its time to get you excited by looking back on the good times.\nThere's a reason the Phoenix Open is on the \"Mount Rushmore\" of golf events for some people along with major tournaments like the Masters and British Open. It has to do with both the atmosphere and the rich history of the tournament.\nWith that said, let's look through some of the most memorable moments in tournament history.\nArnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus paired for the first time in final round of 1962 Phoenix Open\n26 Mar 2001: Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer laugh after the Shell Wonderful World of Golf at The King and Bear Golf Course in St. Augustine, Florida.Mandatory Credit: Harry How /Allsport\nHarry How /Allsport\nIt was the birth of one of the greatest rivalries and friendships in the history of the sport.\nJack Nicklaus had just turned professional in 1961 and then at the Phoenix Open, he was paired with Arnold Palmer for the first time, who was already a household name on tour with four major victories in the previous three years.\nThe two were paired in the final round as Palmer coasted to a 12-shot victory and Nicklaus finished T-2.\nThe roles were reversed later that year when Nicklaus got his first major victory at the 1962 U.S. Open, beating Palmer in a playoff. The rest is history.\nJohnny Miller wins by 14 in 1975, the largest ever margin of victory at the Phoenix Open\n13th July 1973: John Miller in action at the British Open Golf Championship held at Troon. He won the British Open in 1976 (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)\nJohnny Miller was so good in the mid-70s, there really was nobody better in the game during this time. After winning the 1973 U.S. Open, Miller won an additional 15 times between 1974 and 1976.\nMiller had 25 career PGA Tour wins and eight of those came at desert courses, including two in Phoenix.\nAt Phoenix Country Club in 1975, Johnny Miller was dominant. He won by a whopping 14 strokes over Jerry Heard and still holds the record for largest margin of victory at the event to this day. The next week, Miller won the Tucson Open by nine strokes.\nAndrew Magee hits the PGA Tour's only hole-in-one on a par 4 ever in 2001\n22 Apr 2001: Andrew Magee follows his drive during the Shell Houston Open at TCP at the Woodlands in The Woodlands, Texas.Mandatory Credit: Jeff Gross /Allsport\nJeff Gross /Allsport\nWhat if I told you, there's only been one hole-in-one on a par 4 ever in Tour history and there's no video of the ball actually going in the hole? It's not that dramatic, it happened, at the Phoenix Open in 2001.\nThe 17th hole was playing 332 yards and Andrew Magee stood on the tee box thinking he couldn't get it to the green. So, he didn't bother waiting for the group in front to clear the green. The ball hopped onto the green, deflected off Tom Byrum's putter and went right in the hole.\nIt can be argued that Magee's shot is the most bizarre, unique shot and outcome in PGA Tour history. And of course, it happened at the Phoenix Open.\nTo this day, it's the only ever par 4 hole-in-one in an official PGA Tour event. Aaron Baddely hit it in from the tee box on a par 4 in 2015, but it was his third shot after going out of bounds on his first drive attempt, so it was only a birdie.\nFans move \"loose impediment\" boulder out of the way for Tiger Woods in 1999\n31 Jan 1999: Tiger Woods watches as fans move the boulder out of the way during the Phoenix Open at the TPC of Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona.\n*Shouts*: Decision 23-1/3!!! The golf rule that became famous on Jan. 24, 1999. When Tiger Woods hit a shot that ended up in the rough (desert) right behind a large boulder, he called on the gallery for what would become one of the most iconic moments in Phoenix Open and golf fan history.\nTiger thanked the fans who helped move the boulder after he was able to get a clear shot. It's unclear how many patrons suffered back injuries after that but I'd set the over/under at five, maybe six.\nPhil Mickelson gets his first Phoenix Open win in 1996\nNobody (other than maybe Tiger) gets as much fan support at the Phoenix Open as Phil Mickelson. The Arizona State star burst on the PGA Tour scene in 1991, grabbing his first win as an amateur. He came into the 1996 season with five wins, but none yet at the Phoenix Open.\nThat all changed in 1996 when Phil tied Justin Leonard after 72 holes, sending the match into a playoff. Mickelson won the third playoff hole with a birdie and the crowd went absolutely bonkers. He also got a pretty legendary photo (above) out of it.\nThe now-banned caddy races\nOne thing we can all (hopefully) agree on is that when the Tour banned caddy races it was a sad, sad day in the history of the sport. Except for maybe you traditionalist curmudgeons.\nThe caddy races that took place on the 16th hole were one of the most enjoyable parts of the event for fans for a few years there, but sadly all we have is the memories. And videos. Enjoy.\nTiger Woods 1996 hole in one\n25 Jan 1997: Tiger Woods celebrates after making a hole in one during the Phoenix Open at the TPC of Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mandatory Credit: Craig Jones /Allsport\nCraig Jones /Allsport\nThis is one of the most well-known, most exciting golf shots in the history of the sport. It's not just that Tiger Woods hits a hole in one, but it's where he does it. Number 16 at TPC Scottsdale.\nTwo hops. In the hole. Electric. Eldrick. With that, the biggest party in golf was given new meaning.\nAnytime I want to start cutting down on coffee, I just watch this video to give me energy.\nI'd be remiss if I didn't include some other hole in ones made at the Phoenix Open.\nJarrod Lyle hits a hole in one on the 16th in 2011:\nMolinari hit a hole-in-one on 16 in 2015:\nRobot (yes, a robot) makes a hole-in-one on 16 in 2016:\nJan. 31 can not come soon enough.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.360cities.net/pt/image/felbrigg-house-kitchen-nofolk-england-uk-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WMIFLQJ36MMORJFHDJ7BIJN46RQUTVZE", "length": 329, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.360cities.net", "title": "Felbrigg House Kitchen, Norfolk, England, UK", "raw_content": "Felbrigg Hall its Park and Gardens belong to the National Trust. Its is a 17th Century building and many of the rooms are open to the public. The surrounding Park and Gardens cover a considerable area giving plenty of choice for walks and persuing the plants!\nTags: national trust; 17th century; hall; house; gardens; park; g8dhe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.72hourbeijing.com/yew-chung-college-of-early-childhood-education-yccece-is-the-first-degree-awarding-institution-in-asia-to-specialise-in-early-childhood-education-ece-creating-the-first-specialist-play-based-lear-20181217/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RMP3HXXFBIU4AZ64M736XK64RT43ULW7", "length": 8348, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.72hourbeijing.com", "title": "Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education (YCCECE) is the first degree-awarding institution in Asia to specialise in Early Childhood Education (ECE), creating the first specialist play-based learning hub \u2013 \u201cDiscovery Space\u201d \u2013 72 Hour Beijing", "raw_content": "Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education (YCCECE) is the first degree-awarding institution in Asia to specialise in Early Childhood Education (ECE), creating the first specialist play-based learning hub \u2013 \u201cDiscovery Space\u201d\nComments Off on Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education (YCCECE) is the first degree-awarding institution in Asia to specialise in Early Childhood Education (ECE), creating the first specialist play-based learning hub \u2013 \u201cDiscovery Space\u201d\nHong Kong, China, December 17, 2018 /Isentia Wire/ - Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education (YCCECE) is the first degree-awarding institution in Asia to specialise in Early Childhood Education (ECE), creating the first specialist play-based learning hub \u2013 \u201cDiscovery Space\u201d \u2013 in Hong Kong for families and birth to age 8, serving as an innovative platform for parent education, community engagement, teacher training and professional development, as well as academic research\nEstablished in 1932 by Madam Tsang Chor-hang, Yew Chung has always been synonymous with high quality education in Hong Kong. Dr. Betty Chan Po-king, daughter of Madam Tsang and a local pioneer in Early Childhood Education (ECE), was the first in Hong Kong to introduce the revolutionary concept of learning through play since the 1970s. Yew Chung College of Early Childhood Education (YCCECE), a member of the Yew Chung Education Foundation, an established non-profit Association in Hong Kong, offers a Bachelor of Education (Honours) degree in ECE starting from the 2018/2019 academic year. The newly founded specialist institution continues Yew Chung\u2019s ECE legacy of 86 years, by nurturing a new generation of passionate and innovative ECE educators for Hong Kong. As part of their dedicated efforts to promote quality learning through play, the College proudly announces the debut of an expert-designed play space \u2013 the Discovery Space. The on-campus facility, designed for children from birth to eight and their teachers, parents or caregivers, cultivates a positive attitude towards learning, and challenges children\u2019s cognitive, social-emotional and physical development in a stimulating and enjoyable environment.\nAiming to create synergies between academic research, pre-service and in-service teacher training, as well as community engagement and play-based learning lab, the Discovery Space with its unique designs encourages young children to engage in high quality experiential learning, promoting the best practices in ECE that Yew Chung firmly believes in. As the teachers, parents or caregivers bond with the children at the facility, they naturally learn the pedagogical skills of play-based learning, which will inspire them in their professional or parenting journey beyond the grounds of the Discovery Space. The hub also offers an excellent opportunity for YCCECE students to gain valuable first-hand experience on top of their Practicum, enabling them to immediately bridge theory and practice by consolidating their learning through child observations and interactions, conduct research, and preparing them to flourish as early childhood educators. The Discovery Space will be open to all ECE centres or children and their families, regardless of socioeconomic background, ethnicity, individual abilities or other diverse needs.\nAs the first of its kind in Hong Kong, YCCECE spent many months on the conceptual designs, taking inspiration from South Korea, Singapore, and Australia, and seeking advice from many international and local ECE experts, including those from Special Education, Infant and Toddler, as well as professional artists. The outdoor area of Discovery Space boasts an interactive garden where children can experience the nuances and textures of the natural world, seeing the world from different perspectives while playing on the climbing frame or wall, roaming over the playground on bikes, creating a whole new city in the sand box or having a first taste of archaeology, or learning about mathematics and science in the water exploration area.\nThe indoor section offers a space where children can discover and develop their talents and interests. From the Junk Boat interactive zone, the Bamboo frame construction corner, the thematic role-playing room, the MTR area with panels and passenger car, the mini theatre where children can showcase their dramatic talents, to the instrumental wall that caters for musical creativity and performance, the possibilities are endless.\nThanks to a generous donation from a local philanthropic foundation that has pledged lead gift of HK$40 million to YCCECE, which will fund capital projects, including the Discovery Space, this innovative play space on the Aberdeen campus will be open to the public in June 2019. As a non-profit institution serving a wide spectrum of students and families, the College is actively seeking support for their vision and aspiration to democratize quality Early Childhood Education, sharing their expertise through teacher training, research, and parent/community education and outreach.\nDr. Betty Chan, Chairperson of the YCCECE Board of Governors, remarked, \u201cFollowing the educational principles, vision and pioneering spirit of my late mother, Madam Tsang Chor-hang, Founder of Yew Chung Schools, we have never ceased to provide and promote high quality education, and now have the opportunity to do so at the Bachelor degree level. Being a specialist in Early Childhood Education, I am acutely aware of its critical and lasting impact on children\u2019s development and indeed their life trajectories. The creation of our Discovery Space on campus is therefore of great significance and will allow us to share our play philosophy and pedagogy much more widely with the entire Hong Kong community \u2013 whether practitioners, parents, or policymakers, raising public awareness and serving as a living ECE laboratory for our students, faculty and other collaborators, both locally and overseas. Despite being a veteran in this field, I remain deeply excited at the prospects of building greater bridges between research, policy, and practice, and witnessing the rise of a new generation of innovative and passionate early childhood educators, as well as inspired and skilled parents and caregivers who will together fundamentally transform our society.\u201d\nTo further discuss and explore ECE topics on play-based learning with local educators and parents, Professor Kathy Sylva, member of YCCECE Board of Governors and Professor of Educational Psychology and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Oxford Department of Education, will be visiting Hong Kong and giving a public talk on 22nd January 2019.\nYew Chung College of Early Childhood Education (YCCECE), a registered non-profit institution, was established in July 2018. It is an upgrade of the Yew Chung Community College (YCCC), which was started by the Yew Chung Education Foundation (YCEF) in 2008. The success of the upgrade is grounded on the impressive track record of YCCC and Yew Chung\u2019s 86+ years of experience in Early Childhood Education (ECE). YCCECE aims to nurture passionate and innovative early childhood education professionals who can advocate and bring about improvement in the field, and seeks to be recognised in Hong Kong and in the Asia-Pacific region as an ECE hub for its excellence. In order to be a tertiary institution of excellence, YCCECE brought in world-renowned ECE academics and local ECE leaders as advisors and consultants. Its teaching faculty is hired from all over the world to provide international perspectives and experiences. Its student body is also multi-cultural and from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. YCCECE offers Bachelor of Education (Honours) in Early Childhood Education (BEdECE), Higher Diploma in Early Childhood Education programme (HDECE) and Diploma in Early Childhood Studies programme (DECS). As part of the commitment to academic excellence, YCCECE is also committed to serving the wider community and sharing good practices. The Discovery Space (DS) at its Aberdeen campus, which is an interactive play space specifically designed for children aged 0 to 8 years old and their accompanying adults will welcome children from all our communities. 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You can also get help from advocacy organisations to write important letters.\nThere are likely to be a number of times, over the course of your child\u2019s time at school, when it will be important for you to be able to write the most effective letter that you can.\nTelephone calls or face-to-face meetings also have their place. But in many situations, a letter is a good way to make a complaint, to record your issue and any steps you have taken to address it, and make it \u2018official\u2019. A letter demands a reply, and if you write it in appropriate, effective language, can be a powerful tool for achieving the outcome you want for your child.\nTips for effective letter writing (39KB)\nHere are our top ten tips for effective letter writing:\nYour letter should focus on one issue only. Start your letter by clearly stating the reason that you are writing. Explain the main issue, including how the problem is affecting your child and family.\nStrive to keep your tone courteous at all times. You don\u2019t need to sound like a professional; you can be personal in how you explain the problem and its impact on your child and family. But always use appropriate and reasonable language \u2013 it makes it more likely that you will get a positive response.\nExplain what outcome you are seeking to resolve the problem (what you want to happen), and what action you are requesting from the person you have addressed the letter to, to assist with this.\nKeep your letter reasonably short \u2013 generally one to three pages, at most.\nIf you have relevant evidence that you wish to supply with the letter (such as an assessment report, for example), include a copy as an attachment to the letter, and refer to it in the letter.\nAddress your letter to the person most directly responsible for making the relevant decision. If you have already been through some steps of a complaints process (for example, talking with the teacher) and are not happy with the response, you might address your letter to the principal. Check and follow your school\u2019s complaints process. You might wish to address your letter to the regional DET office (or to the appropriate next step \u2018up the ladder\u2019 in the Catholic or independent school system) but remember that unless there is a special reason to not go through the school process first (for example, if the issue relates to the principal themselves), you will probably be required to go through the local process before taking your issue \u2018up the ladder\u2019. See the section A guide to the complaints process for more details.\nConsider whether you want to send copies of the letter to the supervisor of the person addressed, or to any other person. At the bottom of the letter, write \u2018CC:\u2019 and the person\u2019s name and title.\nReflect on your letter, and ask at least one other person to read it for you, to give you feedback. You can ask for assistance from an advocacy organisation, including feedback on a draft letter.\nInclude all of your contact details, and the best way to reach you, and suggest a timeframe for when you would like a reply. Complaints send to the DET, for example, should generally be acknowledged immediately, and all attempts made to resolve them within 20 working days.\nAlways keep copies of all correspondence on your home file.\nFor much more information about complaints processes in all types of schools, including external complaints mechanisms such as human rights bodies, see A guide to the complaints process.\nFor tips and family stories about how to effectively raise a concern with school, including thinking through the outcome you want and how best to express your concern, see Raising a concern with school.\nFor tips and strategies on how to tackle challenges commonly raised with ACD\u2019s support staff, see Tips for dealing with common challenges.\nWhat I need at school: an Education Support Planner Next \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 14828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.acha.org/MidAtlantic/Annual_Meeting/midatlantic/Annual_Meetings.aspx?hkey=e3275828-80b5-42b5-a973-1614c5f7204b", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2DZXJJKVTK5K2HOYLS7BZXRABKQXQVTE", "length": 186, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.acha.org", "title": "MACHA Annual Meetings", "raw_content": "The 2018 MACHA Annual Meeting was held in conjunction with the ACHA 2018 Annual Meeting.\nPlease save the date for Fall 2019 when we\u2019ll be back in Atlantic City! 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With nearly 3,600 professional and support staff, we serve clients through 60 offices in 11 countries.\nWe are part of one of the world's largest providers of financial services, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Operating since 1869, RBC is a leading international bank with more than US$360 billion in assets and one of the highest credit ratings of any financial institution (Moody's Aa2, Standard & Poor's AA-).\nToday, RBC serves more than 14 million clients worldwide, from individuals to corporations to institutions, through more than 2,000 offices in 30 countries.\nCompany: RBC Capital Markets\nFirst and Last Name: Mr. Shannon Harrington", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 64.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.addressreport.com/report/property/chicago-cook-county-il/11611-s-bell-ave-60643/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:THIGBFY4NHWDUOGND45OSHA7WK77W7FW", "length": 134, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.addressreport.com", "title": "11611 S Bell Ave Report: Reviews, Complaints & Public Records", "raw_content": "11611 S Bell Ave is a 1-floor Single Family Home in CHICAGO. 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We recognize the need to promote maritime training and awareness in the UAE and the region; so we worked tirelessly since 2012 to develop programmes for the cause.\nBeing in a specialized industry, and as such, it is imperative for us to acknowledge the need to build the next-generation of mariners and future leaders to join the regional maritime industry.\nThis led to Abu Dhabi Ports establishing the Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy \u2013 to contribute to the knowledge economy and position itself as leading maritime education and maritime training provider in the UAE and the region.\nInternationally Accredited Courses\nOur courses are locally and internationally approved by UK Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA), UAE Federal Transport Authority (FTA), International Association Lighthouse Authorities (IALA), and Lloyd\u2019s Register.\nWe are the first approved centre by IALA, to conduct Vessel Traffic Services (VTS), and Aids to Navigation (AtoN) Courses in the region and we also deliver International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Model Courses, all of which meet the requirements of the latest edition of Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) for seafarers.\nIn addition, the UK\u2019s Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) has accredited the ECDIS and Automatic Radar Plotting Aid (ARPA) courses, as well as the associated certificates, which make it the first training centre in the region to offer such courses with worldwide recognition.\nThe Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy is a dedicated one-stop maritime training centre that offers programmes across the whole spectrum of marine education and nautical sciences. With a strong academic infrastructure, all the academic instructors and trainers are accredited to train to the highest professional standards dictated by the global maritime sector.\nThe Academy is the first in the region to add state-of-the-art simulators to train marine professionals in all fields of maritime training such as ARPA (Automatic Radar Plotting Aid), ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System) and GMDSS (Global Marine Distress and Safety System) communications. The courses can be offered based on international training schedules or developed based on the maritime industry users\u2019 needs and requests.\nThe instructors and trainers also teach a wide spectrum of internationally mandatory and non-mandatory courses in leisure and pleasure, enhancement and progression. The Academy can also develop customized training modules based on specific requests and provide an extensive range of short courses for the marine offshore markets.\nTo meet the growing regional demand for young professionals in the maritime sector, the Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy is unique in the region in offering the Structured Cadetship Program (IMO Model) for high school graduates, aiming to become deck officers or marine engineering officers and sail the national and international waters.\nThese courses combine theory and practical with some of the tasks completed on board real ships. On successful completion of the courses, students are awarded bachelor degrees in Nautical Science/Marine Operation for Deck Officers or Marine Engineering for Marine Engineer Officers as well as professional Certificate of Competency.\nAs part of Emiratisation targets set by the UAE leadership, the Academy specifically seeks to train and develop ambitious UAE Nationals interested in the maritime sector through scholarship programs for UAE National students.\nWe have trained students from KSA (mainly Saudi ARAMCO), India, Iraq, and other countries and have facilitated the sharing of best practice in maritime knowledge and education, to an ever growing number of students reaching more than 1,000 trainees, so far.\nNational Women Empowerment\nIn aligning the efforts with the UAE\u2019s leadership vision to empower UAE national women to become a vital component in the development of the society, the portals of our Maritime Training Centre saw the first three Emirati women graduate as Masters of Coastal Waters and VTS Operator in 2017. Leading the way for future Emirati women to choose new career options in the UAE Maritime Industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 9281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 223.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.afsnet.org/news/412054/Your-Advance-Purchase-Makes-Special-Events-Possible.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:46Z", "digest": "sha1:NAEG4NJWIUWEZ4MX5VQWDJD7JGUF2XSA", "length": 2318, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.afsnet.org", "title": "Your Advance Purchase Makes Special Events Possible - American Folklore Society", "raw_content": "Your Advance Purchase Makes Special Events Possible\nMonday, August 6, 2018 (0 Comments)\nThe day of reckoning is sooner than you think!\nWhy? Well\u2026 A few special annual meeting events require advance ticket sales for the simple reason that ticket sales are necessary to generate revenue to cover the cost of events such as tours, workshops and the Saturday dinner/dance.* When ticket sales don\u2019t cover event expenses, the event is cancelled.\nUnfortunately for those who prefer more spontaneity, contracts with vendors invariably require payment well before the annual meeting even begins, and notice of cancellation must be given weeks in advance to avoid fees. Though many attendees may not think about their Saturday night plans before the day rolls around, the caterer does: final attendance numbers have to be submitted several days in advance.\nConsequently, our cut-off date for ticket sales is August 31 every year. At that point, we need to have collected enough funds to pay for all the fixed costs, such as tour buses, bands and venue rentals. If so, we may at that point be able to extend online sales for a few weeks more. In any case, though, firm numbers and rosters are needed for preconference workshop and tour leaders by October 1, and only a limited number of Saturday dinner/dance tickets can be available for purchase on site. All ticket sales must end by noon on Saturday, when the registration desk closes.\nVisit our online store to get your tickets now.\n*Since 2016, our partners on the local planning committees have successfully secured local funding to cover the cost of live music performances, allowing us to use some of the limited AFS funding for local meeting plans to subsidize the considerable food expenses. This year, the music at our \u201cDance Party\u2014Blues, Funk, Polka and Fine Food\u201d is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. AFS funding will offset a portion of the food expense, and ticket sales are necessary to cover the remainder.\nMusic will be provided by funk, jazz and R&B and blues musician Eric Crittenden\u2019s Critt\u2019s Juke Joint, and by Special Delivery, led by veteran polka musician Mark Kohan, with catering by acclaimed Italian restaurant Osteria 166 at the 1892 Market Arcade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.agilealliance.org/communities/agileyork/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5TCIVIKDPVFO3HJVYJCC3CQU7CX6DKBF", "length": 552, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.agilealliance.org", "title": "agileYork | Agile Alliance", "raw_content": "York, North Yorkshire, UK.\nAbout agileYork\nWe are a group of Agile advocates who'd like to share and help others develop the values and principles of the Agile manifesto in themselves. Welcoming beginners and those already experimenting with this new way of working who want to learn more.\nOur vision is to help individuals and teams make their working lives better. By improving the way we learn, share and communicate with others.\nYork St.John University\nYork, North Yorkshire YO31 7EX\nhttps://www.yorkdevelopers.org\nhttps://www.meetup.com/agileYork/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.agreatmeeting.com/2018/09/news-faculty-bov-representative-term-extension-prompts-governance-questions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GBFSMOYZX22DC6SHJVU3DLDMQQQLNVPD", "length": 650, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.agreatmeeting.com", "title": "News: Faculty BOV representative term extension prompts governance questions | Welcome to A Great Meeting, Inc.", "raw_content": "The Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA)\nSome University of Virginia faculty members are calling foul after the Board of Visitors extended the term of the faculty representative without consulting professors.\nIn June, the school\u2019s governing board extended 2017-2018 representative Mimi Riley\u2019s term until June 30, 2019. Previously, the board had selected the immediate past chair of UVa\u2019s Faculty Senate to serve a one-year term. 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As part of our work on affordability, AAE prepared a training manual on affordability of medicines and diagnostics. This manual will be used as basis for training of activist and community members from the WHO Europe region from 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2016-12-20/leonardo-delivers-atr-72-maritime-patrollers-italy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:26Z", "digest": "sha1:52H6M7SQYPLPEVG5HRW4WFXYDRVVEX5C", "length": 2294, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ainonline.com", "title": "Leonardo Delivers ATR 72 Maritime Patrollers to Italy | Defense News: Aviation International News", "raw_content": "Leonardo Delivers ATR 72 Maritime Patrollers to Italy\nThe first two of four ATR 72MP aircraft have been delivered to the Italian air force. (Photo: Leonardo)\nLeonardo has delivered the first two of four ATR 72MP aircraft for the Italian air force. Designated P-72A by the military, they are replacing obsolete Breguet Atlantic maritime patrol aircraft. They are based on the ATR72-600 twin turboprop regional airliners produced by European airframer ATR, in which Leonardo is a joint venture partner with Airbus.\nAccording to the manufacturer, the ATR 72MP is a multirole maritime patrol, electronic surveillance and C4I aircraft that is available \u201cat a very affordable price.\u201d Leonardo has integrated three main sensors: the company\u2019s own Seaspray 7300 AESA surveillance radar; a FLIR Systems Star Safire high-definition (HD) EO video turret; and an Elettronica ELT800V2 ESM system. The last includes a self-protection suite derived from that found on Leonardo\u2019s C-27J Spartan airlifter, including chaff and flare dispensers, missile and laser warning systems.\nThe aircraft carries the Leonardo Airborne Tactical Observation and Surveillance (ATOS) mission system. This consists of four operator stations with HD 22-inch monitors and touchscreen control panels that are fully integrated with the militarized ATR-600 glass cockpit, including AIS, TACAN, IFF, GPS/INS and radio/satellite communications management system.\nThe ATR 72MP has been designed to allow the future integration of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASuW) sensors and weapons. Of note, Leonardo has developed an armed ATR 72ASW variant for the Turkish Navy, in cooperation with Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI). TAI is completing six of these in Ankara, with deliveries due next year.\nThe Turkish ATR 72ASW version has the Thales Airborne Maritime Situation And Control System (AMASCOS) rather than Leonardo\u2019s ATOS mission system. The original Italian requirement for a Breguet Atlantic replacement called for ASW and ASuW capability, using AMASCOS, with deliveries starting in 2012. But the contract with Leonardo was renegotiated in 2014, to the configuration that is now being delivered.\nhttps://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2016-12-20/leonardo-delivers-atr-72-maritime-patrollers-italy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 5515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.airbnb.co.nz/things-to-do/top-places/san%20francisco/hiking%20trails", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:12Z", "digest": "sha1:4RPHR3IL3OCSTSD6IWE3Q7AHREGO3AP4", "length": 9144, "nlines": 94, "source_domain": "www.airbnb.co.nz", "title": "Best hiking trails in San Francisco - Airbnb", "raw_content": "Best hiking trails in San Francisco\nCheck out the top hiking trails in San Francisco, reviewed and ranked by the city\u2019s locals\nLands End is a park in San Francisco within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is a rocky and\u2026\nYou won't believe you're actually in the city of San Francisco when you take this hiking trail. The trail\u2026\nA flat hiking trail, but with stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the entrance to San Francisco bay. \u2026\nLands End is a park in San Francisco within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. It is a rocky and windswept shoreline at the mouth of\u2026\nJennifer Carolyn\nYou won't believe you're actually in the city of San Francisco when you take this hiking trail. The trail takes you from the corner of El\u2026\nA flat hiking trail, but with stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the entrance to San Francisco bay. One of the hidden gems of San\u2026\nhttp://sfrecpark.org/parks-open-spaces/golden-gate-park-guide/\nGolden Gate Park is a gorgeous way to spend the day. Check out the Bison, the gorgeous hiking trails,\u2026\nGolden Gate park is gorgeous and has so much to offer: museums, hiking trails, lakes and ponds, boat rides\u2026\nAmazing city park with Children's Playground, Tennis Courts, Museums gallore, jogging trails, hiking trails,\u2026\nGolden Gate Park is a gorgeous way to spend the day. Check out the Bison, the gorgeous hiking trails, museums, botanical gardens. Catch a\u2026\nGolden Gate park is gorgeous and has so much to offer: museums, hiking trails, lakes and ponds, boat rides etc. A must see for any visitor!\u2026\nAmazing city park with Children's Playground, Tennis Courts, Museums gallore, jogging trails, hiking trails, Buffalo, fly fishing ponds,\u2026\nUrban hiking? Yes, please! A 1,500 acre national park, the Presidio is a true gem within city limits. The\u2026\nFor 218 years, the Presidio served as an army post for three nations. World and local events, from military\u2026\nA former military base for both Spain and the US, the Presidio is loaded with local history, archaeological\u2026\nUrban hiking? Yes, please! A 1,500 acre national park, the Presidio is a true gem within city limits. The former military base now offers\u2026\nFor 218 years, the Presidio served as an army post for three nations. World and local events, from military campaigns to World Fairs and\u2026\nA former military base for both Spain and the US, the Presidio is loaded with local history, archaeological dig sites/artifacts, hiking\u2026\nElk St and Chenery Street, San Francisco\nhttp://sfrecpark.org/venue/glen-canyon-park/\nThis amazing canyon is only a few steps from our door and a real treasure in San Francisco. It is filled with\u2026\nThis is one of the greatest natural treasures of San Francisco. Walk in the canyon and you feel like you've\u2026\nThis 60 acres of wilderness, formerly referred to as the San Miguel Hills, not only provides critical habitat\u2026\nMichaele And Andy\nThis amazing canyon is only a few steps from our door and a real treasure in San Francisco. It is filled with hiking trails that range from\u2026\nThis is one of the greatest natural treasures of San Francisco. Walk in the canyon and you feel like you've left the city. One of the few\u2026\nThis 60 acres of wilderness, formerly referred to as the San Miguel Hills, not only provides critical habitat for a wide array of wildlife\u2026\nTwin Peaks, named for a pair of 922-foot-high summits, is a remote residential neighborhood with modern homes\u2026\nRenowned, 180-degree views of the Bay Area are offered at this 64-acre park with hiking trails. Best time to\u2026\nYou can walk up to Twin Peaks using the short hiking trail just up the street on Crestline. Twin Peaks is the\u2026\nTwin Peaks, named for a pair of 922-foot-high summits, is a remote residential neighborhood with modern homes densely packed on steep lots\u2026\nRenowned, 180-degree views of the Bay Area are offered at this 64-acre park with hiking trails. Best time to go there is around sunset, but\u2026\nYou can walk up to Twin Peaks using the short hiking trail just up the street on Crestline. Twin Peaks is the highest point in San\u2026\n6. Sutro Baths\n1004 Point Lobos Ave, San Francisco\nhttps://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/cliff-house-sutro-baths.htm\nSutro Baths is a vista point looking out on the ocean. Big parking lot with visitors' center and public\u2026\nThis is my absolute favorite spot in all of San Francisco. There is hiking trail that wraps around the bend\u2026\nCheck out the ruins of the former giant indoor swimming pools. There is a cool cave you can walk through. This\u2026\nLanalee\nSutro Baths is a vista point looking out on the ocean. Big parking lot with visitors' center and public restrooms. You can walk along the\u2026\nThis is my absolute favorite spot in all of San Francisco. There is hiking trail that wraps around the bend and the best view of Golden Gate\u2026\nCheck out the ruins of the former giant indoor swimming pools. There is a cool cave you can walk through. This is also a jumping off point\u2026\n7. John McLaren Park\n100 John F Shelley Dr, San Francisco\nhttp://sfrecpark.org/destination/john-mclaren-park/\nSecond largest park in SF, next to Golden Gate Park. Hiking trails galore. Also a great community sports area\u2026\nThe entrance 1.5 blocks away welcomes you with a duck pond, and from there are many hiking trails, an\u2026\nIt is one of the best kept secrets in SF. Endless hiking trails, soccer fields, tennis courts and VIEWS of\u2026\nSecond largest park in SF, next to Golden Gate Park. Hiking trails galore. Also a great community sports area with open fields for you to\u2026\nThe entrance 1.5 blocks away welcomes you with a duck pond, and from there are many hiking trails, an ampitheater, a eucalyptus grove and\u2026\nJacs & Steve\nIt is one of the best kept secrets in SF. Endless hiking trails, soccer fields, tennis courts and VIEWS of the bay and city once you do\u2026\n8. Fort Funston\nFort Funston Rd, San Francisco\nhttps://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/fortfunston.htm\nThis massive park has gentle hiking trails (some paved, some not) that meander through hills, forest, and\u2026\nDo you love dogs? Because if you do, this spot is a must-visit. Not only is it a beautiful leisure hiking\u2026\nDog lover? This is dog heaven. Off leash area for dogs along with gorgeous beachside hiking trails. So if\u2026\nThis massive park has gentle hiking trails (some paved, some not) that meander through hills, forest, and dunes. There's a path down to the\u2026\nDo you love dogs? Because if you do, this spot is a must-visit. Not only is it a beautiful leisure hiking trail that goes all the way down\u2026\nDog lover? This is dog heaven. Off leash area for dogs along with gorgeous beachside hiking trails. So if you need your dog fix head on\u2026\n9. Corona Heights Park\nCorona Heights Park, San Francisco\nhttp://sfrecpark.org/destination/corona-heights-park/\nAnother open space hill in San Francisco. Very central and has 360 degree views of the city. There's also a\u2026\nOne block to Corona Heights park (Local secret! Three tennis courts, hiking trails, truly amazing panoramic\u2026\nBustling, hilly park featuring hiking trails & sweeping, scenic city vistas.\nAnother open space hill in San Francisco. Very central and has 360 degree views of the city. There's also a great public museum here that\u2026\nOne block to Corona Heights park (Local secret! Three tennis courts, hiking trails, truly amazing panoramic views, and the Randall Museum)\n10. Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve\nMount Sutro Open Space Reserve, San Francisco\nhttp://www.ucsf.edu/about/cgr/current-projects/mount-sutro-open-space-reserve\nNetwork of hiking trails in 80 acre forest in the center of SF. Dog friendly. Sturdy shoes required. Dog\u2026\nNot many people know about the great hiking trail that hides in the wooded Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve\u2026\nTruly a hidden gem! These breathtaking hiking trails wind around the Mount Sutro green space through giant\u2026\nNetwork of hiking trails in 80 acre forest in the center of SF. Dog friendly. Sturdy shoes required. Dog friendly. Trailhead on Stanyan\u2026\nNot many people know about the great hiking trail that hides in the wooded Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve. It's a local favorite of mine\u2026\nTruly a hidden gem! These breathtaking hiking trails wind around the Mount Sutro green space through giant blue eucalyptus trees. Come here\u2026\n11. Ocean Beach\nOne of the biggest city beaches you'll ever see, Ocean Beach at the end of Golden Gate Park is a must-see. At\u2026\nThe hiking trails near by the great highway and the jogging paths are scenic and beautifu\nOne of the biggest city beaches you'll ever see, Ocean Beach at the end of Golden Gate Park is a must-see. At the north end of the beach\u2026\n12. Cliff House\nhttps://cliffhouse.com/\nIconic restaurant at Ocean Beach! Go for Brunch - the hot popovers are like popcorn! Bonus - fabulous views of\u2026\nSutro Bath Ruins sight seeing and hiking trails Cliff house Restaurant great food with stunning view of the\u2026\nStunning views during the day of the Pacific Ocean. Great hiking trails near Lands End.\nIconic restaurant at Ocean Beach! Go for Brunch - the hot popovers are like popcorn! Bonus - fabulous views of the ocean from the\u2026\nSutro Bath Ruins sight seeing and hiking trails Cliff house Restaurant great food with stunning view of the ocean and sunset", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 388, "original_length": 14023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aircharter.co.uk/destination-guide/city-guide/private-jet-charters-and-flights-to-hong-kong", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIE4EUJGBOSZM7DZ3DM6L4NQHTUSFQKS", "length": 2941, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.aircharter.co.uk", "title": "Private Jet Charter to Hong Kong", "raw_content": "Private jet charter to Hong Kong\nA true representation of the phrase, \u2018where east meets west\u2019 Hong Kong seamlessly blends its Chinese roots with British influences from its time as a colony. It also has a great range of landscapes, from the buzzing city centre, home to high-rise structures and plenty of hotels, restaurants and nightlife, to beaches, hills and mountains. Hong Kong also has over 200 offshore islands, ideal for a little private escape. One of Asia\u2019s biggest business hubs, Hong Kong is also an ideal stopover on any journey into China or beyond, so get in touch with Air Charter Service and charter flights to Hong Kong.\nThough small, Hong Kong has a great range of hotels, some offering slick modern styling whilst others offer a more classical luxury experience. The W Hong Kong is probably one of the most modern, with The Mira being somewhat futuristic and the quirky Luxe Manor bringing something a little different to the table. The Peninsula is the oldest hotel in Hong Kong and is justifiably proud of both its heritage and its service. The Langham is ideal for those looking for European luxury ideally located in the midst of Langham Place, abuzz with shopping, dining and entertainment options.\nHong Kong is perfect for foodies. Home to an array of Michelin-starred restaurants, quirky eateries and outstanding street food; you\u2019ll find yourself at a loss as to where to eat. Many of the big, luxury hotels have excellent dining options so this is always a safe place to start if you are feeling a little overwhelmed. You can also find out what\u2019s hip and happening by asking at your hotel or concierge service. Whether you fancy a gourmet burger at Burger Circus, innovative Ho Lee Fook, or the cutting-edge cooking techniques at Saam in the Soho district, you\u2019ll find something to suit every palate.\nFrom entire shopping areas to sprawling malls and street marks, if you\u2019re looking to shop, Hong Kong is ideal. You\u2019ll find shopping districts throughout Hong Kong but some of the most famous are the Admiralty, Central and SoHo as well as Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. A range of department stores are available to suit all tastes, from the family friendly Cityplaza to the fashion-savvy Fashion Walk and the hip and trendy apm to the chic Design Gallery. If you\u2019re looking for antiques, Cat Street is the market for you, whilst foodies should head to Chun Yeung Street and fashionistas to Granville Road. If you\u2019d rather explore at night, Temple Street has a popular night market selling practically anything you can think of, and haggling is encouraged.\nOur main terminal in Hong Kong is at the Hong Kong Business Aviation Centre, close to the main airport. If traveling by helicopter you\u2019ll find you have a few options as to where to land, though the Hong Kong Business Aviation Centre is still the most popular, see our at our airport finder or contact one of our team to charter a private jet to Hong Kong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 9020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aish.com/tp/i/sacks/The-Faith-of-God.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:RN425P3A353UDM7NL46ZZKYAZNUSTJHV", "length": 8101, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.aish.com", "title": "Covenant & Conversation Parshat Bereishit: The Faith of God", "raw_content": "Bereishit (Genesis 1:1-6:8)\nWhen God gave humans the freedom to act well, he gave them the freedom to act badly.\nThere is a deep question at the heart of Jewish faith, and it is very rarely asked. As the Torah opens we see God creating the universe day by day, bringing order out of chaos, life out of inanimate matter, flora and fauna in all their wondrous diversity. At each stage God sees what He has made and declares it good.\nWhat then went wrong? How did evil enter the picture, setting in motion the drama of which the Torah \u2013 in a sense, the whole of history \u2013 is a record? The short answer is man, Homo sapiens, us. We, alone of the life forms thus far known to us, have freewill, choice and moral responsibility. Cats do not debate the ethics of killing mice. Vampire bats do not become vegetarians. Cows do not worry about global warming.\nIt is this complex capacity to speak, think and choose between alternative courses of action, that is at once our glory, our burden and our shame. When we do good we are little lower than the angels. When we do evil we fall lower than the beasts. Why then did God take the risk of creating the one form of life capable of destroying the very order He had made and declared good? Why did God create us?\nThat is the question posed by the Gemara in Sanhedrin:\nWhen the Holy One, blessed be He, came to create man, He created a group of ministering angels and asked them, \u201cDo you agree that we should make man in our image?\u201d\nThey replied, \u201cSovereign of the Universe, what will be his deeds?\u201d\nGod showed them the history of mankind.\nThe angels replied, \u201cWhat is man that You are mindful of him?\u201d [Let man not be created].\nGod destroyed the angels.\nHe created a second group, and asked them the same question, and they gave the same answer.\nGod destroyed them.\nHe created a third group of angels, and they replied, \u201cSovereign of the Universe, the first and second group of angels told You not to create man, and it did not avail them. You did not listen. What then can we say but this: The universe is Yours. Do with it as You wish.\u201d\nAnd God created man.\nBut when it came to the generation of the Flood, and then to the generation of those who built the Tower of Babel, the angels said to God, \u201cWere not the first angels right? See how great is the corruption of mankind.\u201d\nAnd God replied (Isaiah 46:4), \u201cEven to old age I will not change, and even to grey hair, I will still be patient.\u201d [Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 38b]\nTechnically the Gemara is addressing a stylistic challenge in the text. For every other act of creation in Genesis 1, the Torah tells us, \u201cGod said, \u2018Let there be\u2019 \u2026 And there was\u2026\u201d In the case of the creation of humankind alone, there is a preface, a prelude. Then God said, \u201cLet us make mankind in our image, in our likeness \u2026\u201d Who is the \u201cus\u201d? And why the preamble?\nIn their seemingly innocent and childlike \u2013 actually subtle and profound \u2013 way the sages answered both questions by saying that with (to quote Hamlet) an enterprise of this pith and moment, God consulted with the angels. They were the \u201cus\u201d.\nBut now the question becomes very deep indeed. For, in creating humans, God brought into existence the one life form with the sole exception of Himself, capable of freedom and choice. That is what the phrase means when it says, \u201cLet us make mankind in our image after our likeness.\u201d For the salient fact is that God has no image. To make an image of God is the archetypal act of idolatry.\nThis means not just the obvious fact that God is invisible. He cannot be seen. He cannot be identified with anything in nature: not the sun, the moon, thunder, lightning, the ocean or any of the other objects or forces people worshipped in those days. In this superficial sense, God has no image. That, wrote Sigmund Freud in his last book, Moses and Monotheism, was Judaism\u2019s greatest contribution. By worshipping an invisible God, Jews tilted the balance of civilisation from the physical to the spiritual.\nBut the idea that God has no image goes far deeper than this. It means that we cannot conceptualise God, understand Him or predict Him. God is not an abstract essence; He is a living presence. That is the meaning of God\u2019s own self-definition to Moses at the Burning Bush: \u201cI will be what I will be\u201d \u2013 meaning, \u201cI will be what I choose to be.\u201d I am the God of freedom, who endowed humankind with freedom, and I am about to lead the children of Israel from slavery to freedom.\nWhen God made humanity in His image, it means that He gave humans the freedom to choose, so that you can never fully predict what they will do. They too \u2013 within the limits of our finitude and mortality \u2013 will be what they choose to be. Which means that when God gave humans the freedom to act well, he gave them the freedom to act badly. There is no way of avoiding this dilemma even for God himself. And so it was. Adam and Eve sinned. The first human child, Cain, murdered the second, Abel, and within a short space of time the world was filled with violence.\nIn one of the most searing passages in the whole of Tanakh, we read at the end of this week\u2019s parsha:\nGod saw that man\u2019s wickedness on earth was increasing. Every impulse of his innermost thought was only for evil, all day long. God regretted that He had made man on earth, and He was pained to His very core. (Gen. 6:5-6)\nHence the angels\u2019 question, the ultimate question at the heart of faith. Why did God, knowing the risks and dangers, make a species that could and did rebel against Him, devastate the natural environment, hunt species to extinction, and oppress and kill his fellow man?\nThe Talmud, imagining a conversation between God and the angels, is suggesting a tension within the mind of God himself. The answer God gives the angels is extraordinary: \u201cEven to old age I will not change, and even to grey hair, I will still be patient.\u201d Meaning: I, God, am prepared to wait. If it takes ten generations for a Noah to emerge, and another ten for an Abraham, I will be patient. However many times humans disappoint Me, I will not change. However much evil they do in the world I will not despair. I despaired once, and brought a Flood. But after I saw that humans are merely human, I will never bring a Flood again.\nGod created humanity because God has faith in humanity. Far more than we have faith in God, God has faith in us. We may fail many times, but each time we fail, God says: \u201cEven to old age I will not change, and even to grey hair, I will still be patient.\u201d I will never give up on humanity. I will never lose faith. I will wait for as long as it takes for humans to learn not to oppress, enslave or use violence against other humans. That, implies the Talmud, is the only conceivable explanation for why a good, wise, all-seeing and all-powerful God created such fallible, destructive creatures as us. God has patience. God has forgiveness. God has compassion. God has love.\nFor centuries, theologians and philosophers have been looking at religion upside down. The real phenomenon at its heart \u2013 the mystery and miracle \u2013 is not our faith in God. It is God\u2019s faith in us.\nvery deeply inspiring explanation\nG-d bless ysr and the world.\nfor over 22 years i have been studying via the net only.\nthis is one of the most inspiring lessons i have read on why G-d created humanity, even after knowing the mistakes we will make.\nthe most touching words, G-d has more faith in us than we in Him.\n(4) Eugenia Olavarria, October 14, 2017 3:04 AM\nDeeply insightful\nThank you for sharing a brilliant, clearsighted and first-class piece of work!\n(3) Richard, October 11, 2017 9:47 AM\nIsn't it possible that G-d just erred when he created us? The miracle of life is so beyond my comprehension, it is difficult for me to imagine that he would create a being so capable of evil on purpose. Either that or he just had a crazy sense of humor!\n(2) Sylvia Rollins, October 9, 2017 2:25 PM\nSuch an amazing article!! Thank you so much for sharing this, Rabbi Sacks!\n(1) Bracha, October 26, 2016 10:07 PM\nG-d truly is amazing. He has so much faith in us. I love this article. Thank you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 324, "original_length": 16457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alapala.com/en/compliments-for-alapala-by-the-turkish-prime-minister/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:10Z", "digest": "sha1:72YOEREFHUOLTQUOXXNMEU4DDOKCK6II", "length": 904, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.alapala.com", "title": "Compliments for Alapala by the Turkish Prime Minister - Alapala", "raw_content": "Compliments for Alapala by the Turkish Prime Minister\nAlapala Vice Chairman of the Board Mr. G\u00f6rkem Alapala, took part in the Prime Minister Mr. Binali Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m\u2019s official visit committee to Mongolia.\nNegotiations which aimed to strengthen the cooperation between two countries and to sign new agreements took place with the participation of the deputy Prime Minister Mr. Hakan Cavusoglu, Culture and Tourism Minister Mr. Numan Kurtulmu\u015f, Minister of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communication Mr. Ahmet Arslan who represented Turkey, Mongolia\u2019s Prime Minister Mr. Khurelsukh Ukhna and ministers from the cabinet on behalf of Mongolia.\nThe Prime Minister Mr. Y\u0131ld\u0131r\u0131m spoke highly of Alapala and said that \u201cAlapala must be taken as an example in terms of trade relations between two companies.\u201d\nThe prime minister also congratulated Alapala for the new contract of the 9th turnkey project in Mongolia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 310, "original_length": 7463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alconent.com/news/news-articles/alcon-press-releases/sony-pictures-to-distribute-blade-runner-internationally-1-25-16/?breadcrumb=pressRelease", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:09Z", "digest": "sha1:A7TPATSYMGMCSAVHAYSLXHZWETHBRL6S", "length": 2846, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.alconent.com", "title": "Alcon Entertainment", "raw_content": "Sony Pictures to Distribute 'Blade Runner' Internationally\nLOS ANGELES, CA, JANUARY 25, 2016 -Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute Alcon Entertainment's follow-up to Ridley Scott's 1982 masterpiece BLADE RUNNER in all overseas territories in all media; with Warner Bros. Pictures distributing in North America and Canada through its output agreement with Alcon, it was announced by Alcon co-founders and co-CEO's Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.\nDenis Villeneuve is directing the film starring Ryan Gosling (The Big Short) and Harrison Ford (Star Wars) who is reprising his role as Rick Deckard. Hampton Fancher (co-writer of the original) and Michael Green have written the original screenplay based on an idea by Fancher and Ridley Scott. The story takes place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original.\nThe film marks Villenueve's third collaboration with 13-time Oscar nominee Roger Deakins, who will serve as cinematographer, following Alcon's Prisoners and the hit drug-trafficking drama Sicario, which brought Deakins his latest Oscar nomination.\nPrincipal photography on Villenueve's new BLADE RUNNER film is scheduled to begin in July 2016.\nStates Kosove and Johnson: \"We are excited to work with Tom Rothman, Michael Lynton and then entire Sony team on this very special project as well as maintaining our important and long-standing relationship with our domestic partner Warner Bros. Pictures.\"\nStates Tom Rothman: \"At Sony, we have made a strong commitment to the international marketplace. We know of few projects with greater international potential than the long dreamed of sequel to Blade Runner, especially given the all-star creative team Andrew and Broderick have assembled. We are deeply grateful to everyone at Alcon, Denis and Ridley for entrusting us with such a gift. Working on a Blade Runner film also fulfills a long-time personal ambition, as I deeply love and admire the original.\"\nReleased in 1982 by Warner Bros. Pictures, BLADE RUNNER was adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and was directed by Ridley Scott, following his landmark film, Alien. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction) and is now regarded by media and cineastes as one of the greatest movies of all time and the defining vision of the cyberpunk genre.\nIn 1993, BLADE RUNNER was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\" The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and is frequently taught in university courses. In 2007, it was named the 2nd most visually influential film of all time by the Visual Effects Society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 3924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 135.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alec.org/model-policy/article-v-convention-of-the-states/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:35Z", "digest": "sha1:HLJ3YASKZQAGURW2WAOFSHJ25PDNOSNJ", "length": 3418, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.alec.org", "title": "Application for a Convention of the States under Article V of the Constitution of the United States - American Legislative Exchange Council", "raw_content": "Application for a Convention of the States under Article V of the Constitution of the United States\nPostcards from Texas Part I\nSecond Annual Center to Restore the Balance of Government Article V Event Showcased Bipartisanship and the Crucial Role of the States\nFederal Term Limits and the Article V Amendments Convention\nNick Tomboulides/3 years ago\nVideo: Governor Greg Abbott Advocates Article V Convention\nThe federal government has steadily consolidated its power while eroding state control in ways that are clearly inconsistent with the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Foreseeing this possibility, our constitutional framers created a method for states to introduce amendments to the U.S. Constitution through an Article V Convention. This draft model policy serves as an application to Congress to call an Article V Convention limited to proposing amendments to that will impose fiscal restraints on the federal government; limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government and limit the terms of office for federal officials and members of Congress.\nWHEREAS, the Founders of our Constitution empowered State Legislators to be guardians of liberty against future abuses of power by the federal government; and\nWHEREAS, the federal government has created a crushing national debt through improper and imprudent spending; and\nWHEREAS, the federal government has invaded the legitimate roles of the states through the manipulative process of federal mandates, most of which are unfunded to a great extent; and\nWHEREAS, the federal government has ceased to live under a proper interpretation of the Constitution of the United States; and\nWHEREAS, it is the solemn duty of the States to protect the liberty of our people\u2014 particularly for the generations to come\u2014by proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States through a Convention of the States under Article V for the purpose of restraining these and related abuses of power;\nBE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF _____:\nSECTION 1. The legislature of the State of ______ hereby applies to Congress, under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States, for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and for members of Congress.\nSECTION 2. The secretary of state is hereby directed to transmit copies of this application to the President and Secretary of the United States Senate and to the Speaker and Clerk of the United States House of Representatives, and copies to the members of the said Senate and House of Representatives from this State; also to transmit copies hereof to the presiding officers of each of the legislative houses in the several States, requesting their cooperation.\nSECTION 3. This application constitutes a continuing application in accordance with Article V of the Constitution of the United States until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the several states have made applications on the same subject.\nApproved by the ALEC International Relations and Federalism Task Force at the ALEC Annual Meeting on Thursday July 23, 2015 and Friday, July 24, 2015. Approved by ALEC Board of Directors on September 4, 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 6219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 166.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alerstallings.com/estate-taxes-and-its-impact-on-your-plan-if-hillary-wins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:49Z", "digest": "sha1:NHLECD3A5V6UWJ7WMCBRJTCZBC4Y2O2Y", "length": 1933, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.alerstallings.com", "title": "Estate Tax Attorneys Columbus | Cleveland Estate Tax Attorneys Call Us", "raw_content": "No matter if you turn on the TV, switch stations on the radio or even pick up the daily news, one thing is clear \u2013 we are in an election year. As of now, the front-runner of the Democratic Party is Hillary Clinton. Setting our political opinions aside for a moment, what estate tax implications would a Hillary Presidency have?\nEstate Taxes: As of 2016 the United States has an estate tax. That tax is forty percent on every dollar that an individual has over $5.45 million, or almost $11 million for a couple. Most average Americans will not have to pay tax simply based on the size of their estate. However, a Hillary Presidency could impact those limits. A Clinton administration carries with it the potential for a lower exemption amount (or the amount a person can have before they pay estate taxes). Hillary has been part of legislation for lower thresholds of $3.5 million dollars as well as a higher tax rate of forty-five percent. In other words, more people would be paying more tax.\nInvestment Strategies: One of the Clinton campaign\u2019s income sources is from life insurance companies. Traditionally, people make contributions to campaigns based on their own interests. In this case, life insurance has long stood as a tool which passes a tax free benefit onto a person\u2019s beneficiaries. With a lower estate tax threshold as well as a higher percentage that would need to be paid, a Clinton Administration could turn out to be a windfall for insurance companies. With more and more investors trying to structure their estates to avoid taxes, the life insurance companies\u2019 motivations become clear.\nAlthough current tax laws do not result in most Ohioans facing a large liability, understanding the proposed tax plan for each candidate is important. If you have questions regarding how to safeguard your estate plan from taxes, please feel free to contact AlerStallings. We would love to take the time to discuss it with you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alerstallings.com/farm-succession-planning-how-to-keep-the-family-farm-in-the-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3NP2KT2WDTGTA2PM2HCNEKSY5Q7SKPH2", "length": 1726, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.alerstallings.com", "title": "Farm Succession Planning Attorneys Ohio | Succession Planning Lawyers", "raw_content": "In today\u2019s litigious society, farmers must be aware of potential lawsuits stemming from accidents on the farm, operation of farm vehicles, or trespassers, horsing around, or perhaps simply passing through the farm property accidently. In addition to a proper umbrella insurance policy, many farmers utilize limited liability companies (or LLC\u2019s) as a means of limiting their liability (as the name implies).\nOne of the biggest threats to farmers today is the cost of long-term care. Nursing homes can cost between $7,000 and $10,000 per month, and the cost continues to rise at a rate faster than inflation. A proper estate plan addresses the potential threat of long-term care costs and incorporates asset protection into the farm succession equation.\nFamily Fighting\nOnce the farm passes on to the next generation, what happens if one child wants to farm, but the others want to sell? The time for addressing this situation is before the farm owner dies, not after. Contract provisions such as rights of first refusal can offer farming children the opportunity to purchase the shares of non-farming children, perhaps at a discount off of fair market value. If the buying child can\u2019t afford it, the selling child may be required to finance the purchase, perhaps for fifteen to twenty years and the then-going rate of interest.\nA solid estate plan considers all of the potential threats to keeping the farm in the family. The time to plan is before problems arise. You buy the plunger before you need the plunger. The attorneys at AlerStallings are here to help. Reach out to an AlerStallings attorney today to schedule a complementary one hour evaluation to make sure your estate and farm succession plans are up to the task.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/11/2012112811012138691.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PLCVU2OGXTBYPGE527M7N5UTTEQAGLA3", "length": 8385, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff Death penalty debate divides Singapore | Singapore | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "Death penalty debate divides Singapore\nReform of capital punishment laws leaves many questioning the balance of leniency for criminals and justice for victims.\nby Heather Tan\nA visitor arrival form to Singapore warns of the death penalty for peddling drugs [Heather Tan/Al Jazeera]\nSingapore, RoS - This Southeast Asian city-state was once described as \"Disneyland with the death penalty\" by science fiction writer William Gibson - highlighting the contrast between its easy-going lifestyle and zero-tolerance for serious criminal offences with hundreds hanged during the past few decades.\nBut Singapore's hardline, exemption-free policy of death for convicted killers and drug-traffickers was recently relaxed. As it prepares to change its laws on the death penalty, defence lawyers such as M Ravi are trying to obtain newly introduced \"certificates of co-operation\" for clients on death row.\nJudges will now be given more discretion in dealing with death penalty cases, enabling them to commute death sentences to life imprisonment under certain conditions.\n\"It is the universal notion that life is irreversible and once you claim a life, you can never get it back,\" says Ravi, a human rights lawyer from Singapore who represents two men in prison on death row. \"I welcome any amendment that preserves lives and gives hope to prisoners.\"\nIf granted, the certificates will show the courts those convicted had co-operated with authorities by providing information needed to bust bigger players in the lucrative narcotics industry - thereby allowing them to escape the gallows.\nUnder the amended legislation, a judge now has the discretion to impose life imprisonment on a person convicted of murder, if that individual has been found not to have intended to cause death.\nFor drug offences, courts can impose a life term if the accused is found to be \"only a drug courier\" or \"suffering from such an abnormality of mind that it substantially impaired his mental responsibility for committing the offence\".\nQualifying for these exceptions, however, will be no easy feat - as there is a lot more at stake now in Singapore's legal system.\n\"One of the requirements now in proving one's innocence is giving information of drug masterminds behind the act. But mere couriers will not be able to do that, because they are not the masterminds, but just cogs in the wheel,\" said Subhas Anandan, a prominent criminal lawyer in Singapore.\nHuman rights lawyer M Ravi defends those on death row in Singapore [Heather Tan/Al Jazeera]\nAnandan once represented a man who stabbed his girlfriend to death, but managed to have his client's death sentence overturned.\nThe man is now serving 20 years in jail. Anandan told Al Jazeera that defence lawyers will now have to work \"extra hard\" to hand over information on kingpins, producers, distributors and retailers to the authorities.\n\"A person can only tell you so much, like who passed him the drugs. But the moment he is arrested and that third party disappears, how will that be satisfactory to anyone?\"\n\"It's very unclear what the law wants,\" said Ravi, who received a letter from the courts asking for two of his clients to submit the substantive information required by the courts by December 3.\n\"How can we give the authorities substantive information or statements now? It would have been better at their time of arrest when they would have given their statements. So this is actually a big problem. What happens if one gives substantial information and it doesn't lead to the disruption of such activities?\"\n'Disneyland with the death penalty'\nSingapore's death penalty is designed to deter crimes such as murder, kidnapping and firearms offences. It also reinforces the country's zero-tolerance policy on narcotics - hanging hundreds of people, including foreign citizens.\nBut recent reports have suggested a rise in the number of young drug abusers. In response, the government has set up rehabilitation centres and passed laws barring drug parties. Those found guilty will be sentenced up to 20 years in jail and caned.\n\"Hanging almost 1,000 men and women in Singapore since the late 1950s has obviously been a complete waste of time: fear of the death penalty does not deter crime and never has.\"\n- Alan Shadrake, former journalist\nMore often than not, drug couriers - mainly from neighbouring Malaysia - have borne the brunt of Singapore's strict drug laws. A recent parliament session revealed that Malays made up nearly half of all drug-related arrests.\nAccording to the country's attorney general, 34 prisoners are currently being held on death row.\n\"Justice has not been served when you have people still coming here and basically being couriers for the big drug barons who are based in places like the Golden Triangle,\" said Chee Soon Juan, secretary general of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), an opposition political party that advocates a liberal human rights agenda.\nAlan Shadrake, a former journalist convicted of contempt of court in Singapore in 2010 after the publication of his book Once a Jolly Hangman, served five-and-a-half weeks in prison and is now based in Penang, Malaysia.\n\"Hanging almost 1,000 men and women in Singapore since the late 1950s has obviously been a complete waste of time. Fear of the death penalty does not deter crime and never has,\" Shadrake told Al Jazeera. \"History will tell you this.\"\nShadrake's book, banned in Singapore, has been credited with raising international awareness of the country's judicial system, and its flawed use of the death penalty.\n\"I think the stupidity in arresting me for criticising the way the death penalty is meted out in Singapore drew more international criticism than the government anticipated, and I think the global outcry had a major impact.\"\nA growing human rights movement\nHuman rights groups have long called for the abolition of capital punishment in the country, but the government has been careful to state that the amendments were only made after continuously reviewing the laws.\nWe Believe in Second Chances, a group that advocates for the complete abolishment of the death penalty, is one of a growing number of human rights groups in Singapore campaigning for inmates on death row.\n\"In the eyes of others, we may seem heartless, but why should we sell our security just to appease our critics?\"\n- Jeanne Pereira, retired schoolteacher\n\"Previously the death penalty used to be a very taboo subject,\" said co-founder Damien Chng. \"Now it seems like the issue has been brought out into the open now that local politicians are also representing a more diverse range of opinions.\"\nSingapore's Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Teo Chee Hean said the changes are not a reversal of the country's \"zero-tolerance\" stand on drugs, but are instead designed to make \"measured and carefully designed exceptions\" on the mandatory death penalty.\nHe also rejected calls to abolish executions, saying the death penalty still proves necessary in deterring serious crimes.\nThe SDP's Chee said, while it was not surprising for a minister to say this, it could also be seen as a means of discouraging activism in the country - where a legal permit is need to hold protests. \"All this came about because activists are willing to fight to highlight some of these discrepancies and that will really embarrass the government.\"\nDespite the efforts of human rights groups, the majority of the country remains deeply divided on the issue of the death penalty.\nMany are unsettled about a possible future without a death penalty to \"keep them safe\", said Aloysius Foo, a technical support officer, who felt the government's decision to change the law would send the wrong message to the narcotics industry. \"I feel uneasy, like we will become easy targets for drug lords watching us out there.\"\nJeanne Pereira, a retired schoolteacher, opposed the revision when it was announced in July.\n\"In the eyes of others, we may seem heartless,\" she said. \"But why should we sell our security just to appease our critics?\"\nEugene Tan, an assistant law professor at the Singapore Management University and a member of the Singaporean parliament, said he thinks the movement to abolish the death penalty will \"gain strength with time\".\n\"Societal attitudes are evolving and the younger generation of Singaporeans are not in awe of the death penalty as the older generations.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 12197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allgigs.co.uk/view/artist/6202/Good_Charlotte.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:59Z", "digest": "sha1:IT4KOUSASOJACB4YE7WCDXK77M73MI7O", "length": 661, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.allgigs.co.uk", "title": "Buy Good Charlotte Tickets for All 2019 UK Tour Dates and Concerts | allgigs.co.uk", "raw_content": "Buy Good Charlotte Tickets for All 2019 UK Tour Dates and Concerts | allgigs.co.uk\nPop/ Punk/ Rock\nMaryland-based punk-pop band who formed in 1996.\nKey members include Joel Madden - vocals, Benji Madden - guitar and vocals, Billy Martin - guitar and keyboards, Paul Thomas - bass and Dean Butterworth -drums.\nTheir first crossover hit was 2002's \"Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous\". The band released their debut eponymous album in 2000, followed by \"The Young and the Hopeless\" (2002), \"The Chronicles of Life and Death\" (2004), \"Good Morning Revival\" (2007), \"Cardiology\" (2010), \"Youth Authority\" (2016) and 2018's: \"Generation Rx\".\nEvents for Good Charlotte", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 2894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 120.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allischalmers.com/employees/edit.asp?id=5547", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ASLJIIUT6VN2WAGBZCMRKE3LI4F2KAGB", "length": 91, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.allischalmers.com", "title": "Allis Employee Registry", "raw_content": "My Grandfather (deceased) worked for A-C in La Crosse. Anyone with any information, thanks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alternativefuelfoundation.org/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3PK6JC3XHHSAFFSWQI4Y7DFEBXC4ZGAN", "length": 232, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.alternativefuelfoundation.org", "title": "Contact \u2013 Alternative Fuel Foundation", "raw_content": "Contactupandsocial2018-10-22T08:57:07+00:00\nPlease feel free to contact us if you are interested in finding out more information about the Alternative Fuel Foundation, or you are interested in partnering with us on LocallyGreen.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ambiental.co.uk/risk-of-extreme-rainfall-increases-25-in-england-wales/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:11Z", "digest": "sha1:PXGZVMJCTCE5M5D66N7IMCNT4OM2P52P", "length": 1626, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ambiental.co.uk", "title": "Risk of extreme rainfall increases 25% in England & Wales - AMBIENTAL", "raw_content": "Risk of extreme rainfall increases 25%\nA new study published by the University of Oxford\u2019s Environmental Change Institute suggests that the likelihood of a very wet winter in England and Wales has increased by around 25%.\nThe study, led by researcher Dr Friederike Otto, claims to have found \u201ca small but statistically significant increase in the probability of extremely wet winters in southern England\u201d. With extremely heavy rainfall bringing chaos and flooding to large parts of England and Wales in December 2013 and the first few months of 2014, the conclusions of this study will come as no surprise to many British residents.\nWriting on climateprediction.net, the researchers said that they \u201cfound a 1-in-100-year winter rainfall event (ie. 1% risk of extreme rainfall in the winter of any given year) is now estimated to be a 1-in-80 year event (i.e. 1.25% risk of extreme rainfall in any given winter) so the risk of a very wet winter has increased by around 25%. This change is statistically significant thanks to the number of computer simulations we were able to run\u2013 over 33,000 computer models run in the experiment.\u201d\nThe researchers say their work is not yet finished on this project. In the future, they will be looking to use their findings to estimate the increased risk of both material and economic losses.\n\u201cTotal winter rainfall, although useful as a benchmark, is not the direct cause of flood damage, so we are working with collaborators, such as the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, to explore the implications of our results for river flows, flooding and ultimately property damage\u201d explains Dr Otto.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 156.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amc.nl/web/leren/research-62/research/clinical-chemistry-research.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:04Z", "digest": "sha1:FNU2P74UAKMPEMG7VNCEIUK7BNP4NSIE", "length": 1008, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.amc.nl", "title": "Amsterdam UMC Locatie AMC - Clinical chemistry (research)", "raw_content": "Clinical chemistry (research)\nThe mission statement of the department is to be one of the international leading groups studying the functions of cell-derived vesicles in health and disease and to remain a \"state of the art\" facility that facilitates platelet studies within the AMC.\nGoals and ambition Generate a knowledge platform of scientists and clinicians for development of novel assays and equipment to study the relevance of cell-derived vesicles in health and disease. Provide state-of-theart knowlegde and facilities to study platelets in a clinical environment, including their emerging roles in inflammation, angiogenesis, cancer progression and wound healing.\nWorldwide, we have a firmly established international reputation on vesicle research. We have developed a unique infrastructure to perform platelet research. The increasing clinical interest in platelets requires continuous investment in novel techniques and methodologies to enable \"state-of-the-art\" platelet research within the AMC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/education-postsecondary/reports/2015/09/16/121161/credit-for-serving/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXNP44WGFMEWTJ7OJKWF7T5MMVIMAJHD", "length": 7028, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.americanprogress.org", "title": "Credit for Serving - Center for American Progress", "raw_content": "Credit for Serving\nA New Vision for National Service in Higher Education\nBy Carmel Martin, Ben Miller, Shiv Rawal, and Phoebe Sweet Posted on September 16, 2015, 9:01 am\nThis past spring, A\u2019licia Williams, 20, a student at Miami Dade College, spent a week working with Breaking Free\u2014an organization that serves survivors of sex trafficking in St. Paul, Minnesota\u2014as part of her college\u2019s alternative spring break service program. Even as Williams and her peers were making a difference in the lives of those who survived horrible circumstances, the one-week service experience altered the course of Williams\u2019 life as well. After speaking to a trafficking survivor and learning about the woman\u2019s efforts to reconnect with her daughter despite the trauma she had endured, Williams made a decision about the future. Reflecting on her service, as well as on her own difficult upbringing\u2014being raised by a mother who dropped out of high school and growing up without a father\u2019s presence\u2014Williams, a pre-med student, realized her true passion was to pursue a career as an adolescent psychologist.\nWilliams\u2019 experience working with the St. Paul service organization inspired her to become more involved in her community at home in Miami, Florida. Since her spring break experience, Williams has volunteered in the maternity ward at a local hospital and has become an advocate for student service through her work-study job at her college\u2019s Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy, where she works 17 hours a week. Moreover, Williams says that her service experiences are helping prepare her for a career of assisting children and teens overcome challenges similar to the ones she faced as a child.\nToday, Williams juggles a part-time job, which contributes to her family\u2019s bottom line, with her school and service schedules. She is determined to make the balancing act work. Williams is on track to graduate with an associate\u2019s degree in psychology in 2016 and plans to go on to a four-year college after graduation. And she says that service has become both a valuable part of her education and a way to prepare for a career in the social service field.\nLearning through service has been shown to have many important and tangible benefits for students, including enhanced leadership skills, increased self-confidence, and improved academic outcomes. It can also provide students with relevant workforce experience that builds the types of skills employers seek. Unfortunately, lower-income students, such as Williams, are less likely to participate in service while in college compared to their higher-income peers, which means they have limited access to the benefits that accrue from participating in service. More affluent students, meanwhile, may not be attending colleges that have established robust service opportunities, and all students need access to service programs that do not delay their progress toward completing a degree. Williams and other students who participate in service despite these challenges demonstrate a clear appetite for intensive service-learning opportunities on college campuses. But more must be done to help them pursue these opportunities.\nGiven the importance of service learning, colleges cannot keep treating service as merely an extracurricular add-on. Instead, the Center for American Progress proposes a new vision for service learning in higher education. Under the CAP proposal, colleges and universities would establish service programs that award college credit for service opportunities that directly relate to a student\u2019s area of study. A student would spend up to one-quarter of their degree program participating in intensive service opportunities. When paired with some additional academic work, these service experiences would yield sufficient academic credit so that students stay on track to graduate. Importantly, these service programs would be eligible for federal student aid funds, which would make them more affordable for students.\nWilliams\u2019 difficulty finding the time and resources to serve highlights the need for new ways of structuring these programs. She does not receive college credit for her service work at the hospital\u2014nor did she earn credit for the service trip to Minnesota because there was no formal academic component to the program. Taking a week off from work to go to Minnesota meant working extra hours at her part-time job for the next week in order to catch up financially. Since Williams helps support her siblings, mother, and grandmother, she needed to make up the income lost during her service. Furthermore, the trip to St. Paul itself cost several hundred dollars, a sum that Williams struggled to pay despite fundraising to cover a portion of the expense.\nAwarding credit for intensive service learning would go a long way toward overcoming the barriers that students such as Williams face. For the low-income and older students who make up an increasing share of today\u2019s college attendees, adding sufficient academic rigor in order to make service programs eligible for federal student aid would help them pursue service while worrying less about how to cover increasingly high tuition bills. And students from all income backgrounds would benefit from receiving college credit, so they do not have to choose between service and taking longer to graduate.\nThis credit-for-service proposal is also a way to bridge the disconnect that exists today between students and their preparation for the workforce. While most students see getting a good job as a key reason for attending college, the majority of students do not believe college adequately prepares them for employment. At the same time, employers say that college graduates lack the skills they need for the real world. National service\u2014community work that addresses the major challenges facing the United States\u2014can mitigate this disconnect by allowing students to gain practical, real-world skills. Supplementary coursework can help students grow academically at the same time. Schools can spread the benefits of service in a smart, accessible, and effective way by implementing programs that pair national service with learning, and the federal government can facilitate this process for community colleges and universities.\nThis report lays out what it would take for colleges and universities to establish the types of programs discussed above. In particular, it considers how these programs could overcome barriers to service, as well as what they would need to do to become eligible for federal student aid. The report also includes real-life examples of colleges and students participating in the exact type of opportunities this proposal would like to see flourish.\nCarmel Martin is the Executive Vice President for Policy at the Center for American Progress. Ben Miller is the Senior Director for Postsecondary Education at the Center. Shiv Rawal is a Special Assistant for the Economic Policy team at the Center. 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Here\u2019s the transcript:\nHey there amazing business owners, Angela here, and welcome to another episode of Business and Life Conversations with Angela Henderson. I hope your day is going brilliantly well and that you\u2019re ready to listen to another amazing episode of the Business and Life Conversations podcast.\nI\u2019m really, really excited to have you on the podcast today because I\u2019m talking to someone who I\u2019ve known for a while and seen her go from strength to strength. This person I\u2019m talking about is Rebecca from I AM Montessori, here in Brisbane, Australia.\nWhat I love about Rebecca is that she\u2019s always looking for the positives. She believes that life is made up of a series of choices. Choices only we can make and that we are exactly where we are based on these choices. And ultimately for Rebecca, she chooses to be happy.\nOn today\u2019s episode, we\u2019re going to be taking just about that, choices. But more importantly, making choices about pivoting your business for success, learning to be okay with the business starting out as something and morphing into something else, and remaining open minded during this process.\nWelcome to the show, Rebecca.\nThanks for having me, Angela.\nYes, how are you? Now you are a Brisbane based girl also, so how\u2019s your day going so far?\nYeah, really good. Really good, weather is good here.\nWe do live in luxury so we are very, very good with that. Now listen, we\u2019ve known each other for a few years now, but unfortunately, I think the last time we connected was by fluke at a park, right before you were about to have bub number two, I believe.\nOther than that we haven\u2019t connected, but we\u2019re friends on Facebook. I see what you do, you see what I do. And so it\u2019s amazing to be able to reconnect for the podcast, because you are just going from strength to strength with I AM Montessori. So before we get started though about digging into about I AM Montessori and how to pivot your business and choices, I want to know what your favourite movie is. I like to start off with something fresh and light for the audience.\nAbsolutely. Growing up and probably still to this day, my favourite movie would be Remember the Titans.\nI played a lot of sport when I was younger and it had a message in that still resonates for me now in business as well. But even when I had my two children, the lullaby song, you know, I would sing to them was that \u201cNah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey!\u201d.\nAnd then recently The Greatest Showman, I\u2019ve watched three times now and I \u2026 I never thought I would like a musical, but yeah, both of them.\nBoth of them. They\u2019re your go to. So yeah, with The Greatest Showman, high reviews. Something I\u2019ve yet to watch but I don\u2019t know a single person who has said a single bad thing about the movie, would you agree with that?\nA hundred percent. I watched it the first time drunk, very, very drunk. And it was awesome so the second time was even better so it is \u2026 The message is, yeah. It\u2019s \u2026 I would watch it with any aged child, it\u2019s life changing for me.\nWell that\u2019s good, because Finlee, my soon to be nine year old, at the time of this recording he is eight, he will be nine tomorrow. So by the time people listen he will be officially nine, and he keeps asking me, \u201cMum, will you let me watch it? Will you let me watch it?\u201d And I haven\u2019t done enough research to know, so that\u2019s good to know that you\u2019ve given me the tick of approval. That it\u2019s okay for him to watch it.\nNow listen, tell the listeners a little bit about who you are, how you started the business and where you\u2019re at today with business. So, we have a clear understanding about who Rebecca is.\nToo easy. I\u2019m 32, live in Brisbane, born here. Started I AM Montessori five years ago. My neighbour gave me a book on Montessori when my first child was one and three months later I started the company. I got my first investor from the local bowls club, because he\u2019d just sold his business. And I wanted to change education. I\u2019ve always been in business, I should say. My first ever business when I was 17 was Fashion Weekly and I sold that in 2011. And then started a PR and marketing business for small businesses and then yeah, I AM Montessori was just an idea that I took and went with it.\nYou\u2019re rocking and rolling. Because you started off with one facility or centre, you could say. And now you\u2019ve got how many different centres?\nSo I started off with like a play group, parent child classes that they would pay to come and learn about Montessori. And then in October, 2016 I started our first childcare centre at Alex Hills, which is a 64 place, long day care centre. And then I\u2019ve just taken on my second centre July, this year, 2018. And I also had a family day care scheme which I\u2019ve recently made the decision to close. So three services approved by the government. We\u2019re affecting about 400 families a week.\nThrough the I AM Montessori. So for those that are listening, those that aren\u2019t all over the Montessori element of education. But can you just give them a little tidbit, just a quick few sentences about what is Montessori. What\u2019s the difference about it?\nYeah, Montessori is child-led, it\u2019s a prepared classroom and children work more so independently and individually, rather than in groups. So, if a child is interested in mathematics and that\u2019s their strength, they can do that. Or if they\u2019re creative, they\u2019re not held back from art and have to wait until two o\u2019clock on a Thursday to be able to do what they\u2019re good at. So lots of entrepreneurs, successful entrepreneurs came out of a Montessori early childhood education. Maria Montessori, she was from Italy and the philosophy is over 110 years old.\nSo how cool is that? Again, like you\u2019re saying, it\u2019s child-led, kids get to kind of rock and roll wherever they feel for the day, what their strengths are. Obviously there\u2019s still some guidance from the adults and the educators that are in the room, but they\u2019re not being told or dictated, \u201cYou must sit, you must do this, you must do that\u201d. It\u2019s again, really nurturing their creativity, their imagination and allowing them the opportunity to rock and roll what they feel like they want to do. Is that right?\nAbsolutely. There is limits within, there\u2019s boundaries, it\u2019s not just free for all, but yeah. For me, it\u2019s modern education. It\u2019s what we need our kids to have.\nI know with Finlee my almost nine year old, he has ADHD. So one of the biggest things, especially I see in boys, just the way that their brain develops and all my mental health skills coming in I guess, is that he says, \u201cMummy, sometimes I just need to go outside. That\u2019s all I need, I just need a five minute break to go outside. My brain \u2026 \u201c, he goes, \u201cIt stops working, Mum\u201d. He goes, \u201cIt\u2019s just like I can\u2019t listen anymore. So then I look outside, but then I get in trouble for looking outside. But all I really wanted to do is just play for a minute, that\u2019s all, Mum\u201d. And you know, there\u2019s so much to be said I think about the value of play. I think people underestimate play, like, \u201cOh, the kids are just playing\u201d. But play is where creativeness comes from. They\u2019re able to problem solve, there is so much wealth in play, but yet it isn\u2019t obviously really looked upon in that formal education setting.\nAbsolutely. Well Maria Montessori would say, \u201cPlay is the work of the child\u201d.\nSo, you know, play is not just in the playground. Play should be how they\u2019re learning numbers and letters and everything in life. It should all be play.\nAnd do you find in Brisbane in particular \u2026 We can\u2019t probably talk about the world, but obviously, is it easier to do the I AM Montessori type of philosophy when they\u2019re younger? And then what happens when they get to like high school? Is it the only options we have in Brisbane or in Australia really like that formal education? Or what happens?\nThere\u2019s in Queensland \u2026 So Brisbane has got Brisbane Montessori School that currently goes to grade ten, and then you\u2019ve got Montessori International College on the Sunshine Coast, goes till grade 12. They\u2019re really your only options in our direct area, but yeah. I would say for me there is going to be more and I will have an entrepreneur high school in Brisbane in the next couple of years.\nSo it\u2019s changing.\nYay. So exciting for you. We could probably just keep talking and talking, but I\u2019ll pull us back to what we\u2019re talking about. And really that is about businesses pivoting their business.\nBut before we explore how you have pivoted your business, I just want to talk about the listeners who might be out there going, \u201cWell, that\u2019s a jargony word. What does that mean, Angela?\u201d So I just want to make sure that we\u2019re all on the same page, and really, for those of you listening, pivoting is super simple. It means changing your business model until you can prove that it works, that it is providing revenue for success. Sometimes pivots are major shifts and other times it is a small change that can produce sales results enormously. So, it just really, if you just think about it as just changing the direction of your current model.\nAn example I can use is that I, too, am currently pivoting my business. I\u2019m moving away from a one-to-one model because this model means I can only help a limited number of women in business, and I\u2019m now introducing my one-to-many model by creating an eight week, business coaching program called Profit Pillars. And this particular model will allow me to work with 50 or more women at one time, while at the same time scaling my business for future growth and success. So even though it\u2019s something that sometimes you might not want to do, the feedback that your clients give you, or it\u2019s just not working for your family life anymore, it means you\u2019ve got to look at what you\u2019re currently doing and where you want to go.\nSo I just wanted to bring everyone back so we\u2019re all on the same page about pivoting. So for you Rebecca, since you\u2019ve been in business, how many times have you pivoted, big or small? And what does that look like?\nThousands, thousands, definitely thousands in five years.\nThere\u2019s probably four major shifts that have happened in the five years. So when we started, we started as parent child classes and also selling materials that I imported directly from China. They were the two biggest issues we had, parents were on wait lists for years to be able to get their children into Montessori, so they were at least able to come and learn about it and how to do it at home. But also materials were so expensive. Something that I would sell for $14.95 was $104.00 before I started bringing it in.\nSo you know, that\u2019s how we started and that was what was in my business plan to start with. There was no other \u2026 Childcare was never a thing that I would ever have thought of doing, or opportunity that came up. And then I had a call to start a childcare centre for somebody, for a group. And I go with the whole Richard Branson, \u201cIf you don\u2019t know, just say, \u201cYes\u201d, and you\u2019ll work it out later\u201d.\nIt\u2019s the best way to go sometimes.\nOh, definitely. So I wasn\u2019t Montessori trained but I hired a Montessori teacher and I learned and enrolled and did my own study on it. But I always hired in the skills I didn\u2019t have, which is what I did when we took on that centre. So we successfully took on that centre, and we opened it for them, and within six months got it to 70%. It was an over-supplied area. So it proved to me that we could do it, so it\u2019s something that we started doing for more owners.\nAnd then an opportunity came up to have our own. I sold down equity at these key points because I didn\u2019t have the capital, but there\u2019s always a way. People make up lots of excuses like, \u201cI don\u2019t have time\u201d, or, \u201cI don\u2019t have money\u201d, but if you\u2019re creative, there\u2019s ways to do it.\nSo then yeah, the biggest change, the first change was \u2026 Do we do childcare? Do we do long daycare? What is this about? And we made the call to do it. And that service is not two years old and we just won the National Service of the Year award and we got exceeding \u2026\nI know, I know. It was \u2026 And that building is 30 years old, it\u2019s not \u2026 So for me it was that choice to go into childcare, was able to prove that you didn\u2019t have to have brand new buildings and you could do amazing education for children.\nSo that was the first big decision because that was a lot of money. It obviously required nearly half a million dollars to do that.\nSo that would be one big decision. Another one was, we had family daycare, and I think for me the most emotional decision I\u2019ve had to make. So people talk about, \u201cWomen are too emotional for business\u201d, blah blah blah. I\u2019m actually not that emotional as a person, but we do have to take into consideration emotion when we\u2019re making big decisions. Especially, if we\u2019re the sole decision maker in our businesses. And the choice to close or to stop offering something that is such a big identity of what you do.\nSo when we made \u2026 I made the decision to stop retail. But when I made the decision recently to stop family daycare, that was going to affect 200 and something families and 21 educators, and I cried a lot.\nBut I\u2019d given it everything \u2026 I should have closed it probably six months before we have. So we finish next week on that one. But I gave notice seven weeks ago, but I gave notice seven weeks ago, and I should have closed it six months before but I held on. And I don\u2019t regret holding on, because I don\u2019t regret anything, but letting go, and saying, \u201cNo\u201d. So making that change, and as soon as I made that change and made it public, the amount of opportunities that opened for the growth of the rest of the business, it\u2019s just like it freed up \u2026 I was holding space. Family daycare was taking up space and now there is all of this space for opportunity.\nYeah, and sometimes when we\u2019re in it though, aren\u2019t we, that emotional like, \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d. And you start questioning yourself, you start doubting yourself and then you just go around and round in circles, don\u2019t you really? But like you said though \u2026 It\u2019s like people who are also working in a full time job, and they finally agree to cut back to half time, right? And they\u2019re like, \u201cOh my goodness, I\u2019m making more money and I\u2019m more creative and I\u2019ve got more opportunity\u201d. And then you get done completely and you\u2019re like, \u201cOh my goodness, this is crazy\u201d. Like, \u201cWhy did I do this?\u201d But I guess it\u2019s so important that sometimes you\u2019re just where you\u2019re meant to be. So we can\u2019t change what we should have done or what we could have done, but it was part of that process.\nAbsolutely. You\u2019ve got to feel it, you\u2019ve got to really lean into it rather than avoid it, because when we avoid making decisions we lose a lot of opportunity. But you\u2019ve got to feel it and it\u2019s something that over the last few years I\u2019ve become okay with. To feel like you\u2019re making a big decision, but how to actually narrow in on your gut instinct, and get rid of all of the noise and be like, \u201cThis is the right decision\u201d, and trust in yourself. But that comes with time and \u2026\nSo when you \u2026 I know you mentioned a couple of times that, \u201cOh, I wish I would have done it six months earlier\u201d. Can we just go back a little bit, because I\u2019m curious to know, like, what were some of the warning signs for you, telling you, kind of inkling going, \u201cGosh, I really need to probably start pivoting this\u201d. And you know, when we look at signs, when it\u2019s time to pivot your business, they\u2019re going to be some different for everyone.\nSo for example, you\u2019ve got that \u2026 I do believe there\u2019s that gut feeling. And so many people don\u2019t go with their gut. But I do think that if your gut is kind of going, \u201cSomething\u2019s weird\u201d, and you keep going back to that, that\u2019s something to be said. I also think that when sales are dropping, there\u2019s too much competition, you\u2019re getting negative feedback on what you\u2019re supplying, your market has changed, you\u2019re not having fun anymore. There\u2019s so many things that are kind of like these red signs that we\u2019ve got to change, we\u2019ve got to start pivoting the business. Whatever that looks like. So what was some of those signs for you?\nParents not paying. So it getting harder, it costing me more money to run and carrying that debt. But also, we had to scale it up. So family daycare was something that you had to scale, you have to have a certain amount of staff, per educators, or that sort of thing. So your margin was quite tight.\nSo I was always, \u201cHigh quality, high quality, high quality\u201d, and then I went, \u201cOkay, if we\u2019ve got to try and make this work. I will take on whatever, people, anybody\u201d. And the first time I did that, two weeks later I had to close her. I couldn\u2019t handle. It was so bad for us.\nAnd that was the first sign. In the fact that I had \u2026 What\u2019s the word when you go against what you believe in? Or what your ethics \u2026 What you think you should be doing or what you want to offer, and then you go against it \u2026\nTo try and grow, you go against it based on money.\nAs in, \u201cI\u2019ve got to grow this, so I\u2019ll just see if it works\u201d. Didn\u2019t work. And then, some major things happened in the local area on family daycare, and a lot of educators were looking for schemes. So we were able to double overnight, basically.\nAnd we did that, but we only took on really good educators. So we were fussier, than we were the few weeks beforehand. But nothing changed. So I doubled the amount, but it was still time, for \u2026 It was taking up all of our resources, staffing. My brain power, it had taken all of my creativity and everything I had. And I\u2019m like, \u201cI\u2019m not actually \u2026 I\u2019m making like four thousand dollars a week from this\u201d.\nAnd it\u2019s killing me. And that\u2019s if all parents pay. That\u2019s if everybody \u2026 things happen. So I doubled it and it still didn\u2019t change. And I should have gone \u2026 As soon as I questioned and went against what I believe in, that\u2019s when I should have said, \u201cThis is not going to work. You\u2019re trying to do something against who you are\u201d. So that\u2019s probably on reflection, but I\u2019m a signs person as well. And when these schemes were closing and they were getting closer and closer to my head office, I was like, \u201cOh, maybe I\u2019m meant to, maybe I\u2019m meant to, maybe I\u2019m meant to\u201d. But I should have known when I asked other people what they thought, because I never do that. And as soon as I was asking people what did they think, I should have known that that was me trying to get what I knew was wrong, backed up by somebody telling me I was right. And everybody always tells me I\u2019m right.\nYeah, and it\u2019s so often that happens. And I also think as soon as you start asking, \u201cHey, should I do this?\u201d You actually know the answer.\nYou\u2019re just \u2026 And I also think people kind of look for certain people. Like, if I go to this person, she\u2019s going to tell me what I want because she will do this. And if I go to this person, they\u2019ll tell me what I want to hear. Whereas sometimes, even regardless of that, if you\u2019re already asking, you\u2019re already questioning, you already know your answer.\nA hundred percent. And my business mentor was the one who told me I should have closed it way before \u2026 Like, we\u2019d had conversations and made that decision. And I went against it all. And the people I asked, everyone else around me apart from other people who are in business, they\u2019ll all tell me, they\u2019ll always tell me, \u201cYes\u201d. Nobody ever questions or does anything against what \u2026 And I want people to do that. And it\u2019s really important.\nWhat\u2019s come out of that big decision is to find people and surround myself with people who are willing to tell me how it is, because I tell people how it is. I just need people to do that to me.\nYep. And I agree, sometimes you want the truth. It might suck, but that\u2019s what you need for growth. Sometimes you\u2019ve got to hear it. So interesting, so again, pivoting was very different, but again, if you still go back to it. Your gut knew.\nAnd I say this to so many of my own one-to-one clients is that, \u201cFollow your gut. Follow it\u201d. And I\u2019m not really into a lot of the, you know, what would you say, crystals and a lot of the woo stuff.\nThat\u2019s not me. But I do believe there is something about intuition that you can\u2019t mess with. It\u2019s like even with Mums. There\u2019s lots of times I\u2019m like, \u201cI think something is up with Chloe\u2019s ears\u201d. They\u2019re like, \u201cNo, no, no\u201d. I\u2019ll be like, \u201cI really think something is\u201d. Take her to the doctor, sure enough she\u2019s got middle ear infections and she\u2019s pretty much was going deaf. There\u2019s those things where you\u2019re like, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t I just do it three weeks ago?\u201d Because everyone was just like, \u201cOh, you\u2019re over-reacting\u201d. Or \u2026 So yeah, so people do tell you want they think you want to hear.\nSo now, so pivoting for business, so great. So for those of you that are out there, and I\u2019m not saying that if sales are down, that means you must pivot. But if sales are down on a regular basis and nothing is changing, that\u2019s an indicator that you need to start looking at things. As Rebecca said, if parents stop paying for their service, or they\u2019re late on payments. Same type of thing, red flags people. You\u2019re not \u2026 Again, I think happiness has to go back to it too, because as you said, you were trying to chase something that was going against what you were doing. So it was making you unhappy. But really, in the long run, it was wearing you out, emotionally, all of that. So again, if you\u2019re starting to really not be happy with what you\u2019re doing anymore, I\u2019d start looking at things.\nBut you know, as we know, as you talked about too, Rebecca, pivoting your business for success can be scary as all hell. So for you, how did you handle facing the fear of pivoting your business? You\u2019re really \u2026 You\u2019ve talked about leaning into it, but tell me a little bit more about how did you feel facing that fear?\nI \u2026 Are you there?\nYeah, that\u2019s cool. I\u2019ll start that question again.\nSo I think they would have got me. So one second, let\u2019s just let me go back to that for one second, and I\u2019ll make a little note for my editor. Right, can you hear me now?\nCool. So for you, Rebecca, pivoting your business, as we know, can be scary as all hell. For you though, you talk about leaning into it. Can you talk to me a little bit more about what you did when you actually needed to face your own fear when it came to pivoting your business?\nAbsolutely. So when I knew that I had to make the decision, I usually binge on podcasts and YouTube videos of motivational, businessy people. Everybody, definitely types of people because it\u2019s sort of like my \u2026 I don\u2019t know, like people pump up before a game.\nYeah. Like, \u201cWoo!\u201d.\nYou\u2019re like, no, yeah, I believe it. I can do this. And just made the first phone call. I wrote down what I had to do and just did the first phone call. And as soon as I told the first person, I was genuine and authentic and the letter that I wrote that I had to cancel it and all of this sort of stuff. I was straight up. And that\u2019s the thing. It felt good to be true to myself, but you really, for me I have to break it down. And you just do the first, eat that frog or whatever. You do the first call. And the one I did was the hardest one, I thought it was going to be. And as soon as it wasn\u2019t the reaction that I\u2019d built up that I was going to get, the rest became easier.\nAnd to be honest, it went amazingly well. My staff all got amazing jobs, that I had to let go because letting go of that unit, you know, they got great jobs. It\u2019s all flowed perfectly for the last seven weeks, and next Friday, I\u2019m \u2026 We\u2019re done.\nThe hard part is done.\nThat part is done, but so many new and exciting things that will come from that, as you mentioned.\nWell now it\u2019s changed. Now there\u2019s four opportunities in front of me and it\u2019s like, \u201cWell what am I going to do? Which one do I do now?\u201d So you\u2019re talking to accountants and solicitors and trying to make that decision which is a different change. But leaning in and breaking it down, we over-analyze and we make this big drama in our head, and it\u2019s not usually that. Be who you are.\nJust be who you are and just kind of go and do it. Break through it. And again, I talk about this I think on every single episode I\u2019ve ever done so far, is imperfect action is better than no action. If you\u2019ve got to do it, just do it. And as the more calls I\u2019m sure you did, or the more people you let know, it never took away the sadness maybe, but it became a little bit easier, because you\u2019ve got your words down, you know what you\u2019re saying, you\u2019re believing in what you\u2019re saying, you\u2019re true to yourself and everything else will just flow on.\nNow I do \u2026 What I love about you, Rebecca, though is that you talk about choices. And that you need to be okay with change, while remaining flexible and being on your toes, and just to take that opportunity when you\u2019re faced with it. So really, you\u2019ve also talked about just staying open-minded. So, can you talk with me about how remaining flexible and being open to opportunity can be a positive thing when pivoting your business?\nYeah, definitely. So I mean, I\u2019m pretty \u2026 I had a pretty tough childhood, but I\u2019ve always stayed optimistic, always, always. And I think you are who you hang around. So firstly, your mindset comes from who you spend the most time with. And that\u2019s extremely important, firstly. But with change, being responsible for our decisions. So we can\u2019t control everything that happens in our environment or to us, but we are responsible for how we react.\nSo for me, you know, may have been abused when I was younger, and but that \u2026 I would never want that to be gone, because that\u2019s such a strong part of who I am, but I am responsible for how I react to those type of things. And for the really heavy stuff in life, it is our choice on how we react. We are responsible for that. And so when it comes to small business and you want to start a business, and actually being responsible to yourself. And excuses, we make so many of them. And they are the things that kill so many amazing ideas, and for me, so many more women especially, could have amazing businesses and freedom, which is for me is a big word and big need of mine, if they stopped making excuses and made choices \u2026 Took responsibility and then made choices knowing that whatever they choose, whatever the outcome is, it\u2019s because they chose it.\nAnd when you have that control, life changes dramatically. Yeah, don\u2019t play the victim.\nAnd sometimes choices, like you said, there\u2019s always a positive or a negative to it. But again, at the end of the day, take responsibility for it.\nAnd when you\u2019re making these choices, again, I really think it is important that the choices, like for you to close down the family centre would have been hard, but as we talked about, you\u2019re now sitting with four wonderful opportunities in front of you, to help you grow, not only as a businesswoman, but also just as a person collectively. So you know, you\u2019ve got to just kind of roll with it sometimes. But ultimately, you\u2019re in the driver\u2019s seat.\nDefinitely. Every time. It\u2019s up to me, whatever happens to me. It\u2019s the same as my staff and the culture that we have that we\u2019ve built is amazing because they all need to take responsibility for their own actions. And if somebody is not happy, I try to find them \u2026 I try to work with them on what they want. And they need to make choices. Don\u2019t stay in a job if you are unhappy.\nWe are choosing to \u2026 We choose to hate Mondays.\nThat is a choice. Nobody else is controlling that. Your boss, your husband, if they are, get out of it but change your mindset that all of that is up to you.\nAnd I know people look at me weird, I love Mondays. I\u2019m like \u2026\nIt\u2019s my favourite day of the week. My son knows this.\nAnd just like, you know, I love my kids, but come Monday I\u2019m like, \u201cSayonara\u201d. You know what I mean? I get a little bit of freedom back.\nI think it\u2019s important. And I\u2019ve got no qualms saying that. Some people are like, \u201cOh, that means you don\u2019t love your kids\u201d. No, it doesn\u2019t mean that at all. I just think that it also shows my kids that I\u2019m able to do other things than just be a Mum, and that I\u2019ve got ideas. And I think my kids, equally though, I know when we were at daycare. They would say, \u201cMum, is it daycare day?\u201d Because I didn\u2019t play the games the way their friends would play, and I wouldn\u2019t dress up the way they wanted me to dress up. So I think kids too, equally long to be with people that they can relate to the whole time. So I think it\u2019s both ways on that one.\nI think from a parent perspective, and this is where I guess the background of Montessori helps me on this, but if we tell our children, \u201cI hate work\u201d, or \u201cWork\u2019s a joke\u201d. Like at what point do you think they\u2019re going to like work when they grow up? Like, what type of life is that? Just love what you do, and do what you love. And that\u2019s why I love Mondays. And my son knows it, both of my sons know it and one\u2019s only 15 months. But Mondays is my favourite day. And I\u2019m the same, I went back to work after both of them, because it\u2019s such a big part of who I am.\nBut I know who I am, and I make choices in the best interest of me and my family. And I own that and I\u2019m responsible for that and whatever the outcome is, I\u2019m okay with that because we\u2019re all happy.\nI don\u2019t care what other people think.\nYeah. So important, so many people \u2026 I was in a session yesterday with some clients and they kept referring to their competitors. And I\u2019m like, \u201cNo man, don\u2019t worry about them\u201d. He\u2019s like, \u201cYeah, but \u2026\u201d. I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, no. If you get anything from our meeting today, cut what your competitors are doing and worry \u2026 Like, play your own field. Just worry about you\u201d.\nBecause the choices that they\u2019re potentially making was is they were choosing to focus on their competitors, where I\u2019m like, \u201cIf you put that same amount of energy, and chose to focus on you and your own pathway. You would be potentially catching up to them. But because you\u2019re so focused on them, the choices \u2026\u201d. But again, all we can do sometimes is just plant the seed, plant the seed.\nThat\u2019s it. You\u2019ve got to be aware, you\u2019ve got to be aware of competitors but you can\u2019t sit on them.\nAnd again, I think it\u2019s good to know who they are, because it always helps you with your game, but never try to duplicate, never try \u2026 Again, that\u2019s probably another podcast \u2026 That\u2019s for another day. But yes, we could talk about that one forever.\nSo now listen, pivoting. For those of you out there who are going, \u201cHoly man, maybe I do need \u2026 Maybe I want to grow, maybe I need to get rid of something, maybe I need to \u2026\u201d. What I\u2019d suggest you do from this particular podcast on pivoting your business for success, is really look down. Take a piece of paper, sit with your team, map out what\u2019s working well, what isn\u2019t working well. Are there any financial stuff that\u2019s hindering you that needs to change? Or potentially you will lose your business, Sit down and really flesh that out. I\u2019m not saying anyone listening, \u201cG and pivot your business\u201d. It doesn\u2019t work like that. But what I am encouraging you to do, is look at your business and see whether or not you need to change or pivot right now for your business. Alright?\nNow, Rebecca, thank you so much for coming on the podcast today and sharing your experiences and the four different major, I guess, pivots that you\u2019ve had. And how ultimately, they\u2019ve all led you to where you are today. So which I would assume, at some stage you\u2019ll pivot again. Because that\u2019s what we do, we\u2019re constantly pivoting to make our business better.\nSo for the listeners that want to learn more about you, where can they find you?\nwww.iamontessori.com.au or www.rebeccagrugan.com\nAlright, fantastic and for those of you that would like to know, again, all these links. What we will do is my team and I will be putting everything together, the whole transcription for this episode at www.angelahenderson.com.au and of course, I cover all sorts of business related and life topics inside my Facebook group, The Australian Business Collaborative. Of over 3,000 different businesses, so, please make sure to head over and join, because I would love to see you there.\nBut until then everyone, have an awesome day no matter where you are in the world and I look forward to connecting with you soon. Bye!\nThanks for listening to the Business and Life Conversations podcast with Angela Henderson, Pivoting Your Business.www.angelahenderson.com.au.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 335, "original_length": 40220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.apcollegeadmissions.com/2014/02/ap-10th-social-new-text-book-climate.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BRSSZRON2OSHKEDTNZRQHJVAV6HUK6VK", "length": 2917, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.apcollegeadmissions.com", "title": "AP 10th Social New Text Book - Climate and Weather", "raw_content": "AP 10th Social New Text Book - Climate and Weather\nFactors influencing climate and weather: It is observed for some places (e.g. Chennai) that there is not much difference in the temperature across months. Some places (e.g. Delhi) have wide differences in temperature across the months.\nIndia experiences wide variations in temperature. The northern portion is bounded by the Himalayas whereas southern peninsula is surrounded by seas. Some places are far from the coasts; they are inland. Some places are at high altitude, whereas others are on the plain. The factors that affect climate are called climatic controls. These include:\n2. Land-water relationship\n4. Upper air circulation\n1. Latitude or distance from the equator\nThe average temperatures for the year drop the further an area is away from the equator. For this reason, we divide the regions on Earth as:\nTropical, those close to the Equator;\nPolar, as those close to the poles;\nTemperate, as those in between these two extremes.\nIf we compare the climate of, say, Indonesia and Japan, we can understand the differences. The reason for these differences is the differential heating of Earth that you have read in earlier classes. Intensity of temperature depends on the latitude. The temperature of the atmosphere at a particular place near the earth\u2019s surface depends upon the insolation (heat from sun rays) received at that location. This is more intense in the low than in the high latitudes. As we move away from the equator towards the poles, the average annual temperature shows lower values.\nQ. Using a globe recall and discuss what you may have read earlier. How does the angle of sun vary at different latitudes? What impact does this have?\nIn India the southern part lies in the tropical belt close to the equator. Owing to this, the region has higher average temperature than the northern part. This is one reason for the climate of Kanyakumari being entirely different from Bhopal or Delhi. India is situated roughly between 8o and 37o N latitudes and the country is divided in almost two equal parts by the Tropic of Cancer. The part south of the Tropic of Cancer lies in the tropical zone. The part north of the Tropic of Cancer lies in the temperate zone.\n2. Land water relationship:\nLook at map of India showing land cover and water bodies, and you will see another important factor which has an influence on climate: the land and water relationship . The amount of sunlight that is first absorbed and then radiated back or directly reflected depends on the nature of the surface. Darker areas, such as heavily vegetated regions, tend to be good absorbers; lighter areas, such as snow and ice - covered regions, tend to be good reflectors. The ocean absorbs and loses heat more slowly than land. This affects climate in many ways. One of this is the formation of land and sea breeze. From the illustration below explain how this happens.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arborsci.com/products/boat-rock-demo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:05Z", "digest": "sha1:CBLCY5K7JYDXBDA5ACRZDBU2JZP3N3FB", "length": 3459, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.arborsci.com", "title": "Boat & Rock Demo \u2013 Arbor Scientific", "raw_content": "Current: Boat & Rock Demo\nBoat & Rock Demo\nThe Boat & Rock demo is ideal for teaching the relationship between buoyancy and density. Use it to help simplify these concepts and provide your students with a visual demonstration of Archimedes' principle, fundamental to fluid mechanics.\nAs a simple demonstration of Archimedes' principle, put the included masses in the boat, and observe how the boat goes farther down into the water, and water overflows through the tube and into the container. Then, weigh the overflow water and find out that the water's weight is the same as the weight of the masses. The Boat & Rock Demo is included in our NSTA High School Physics Kit 2 (PK-0110) as part of the buoyancy lesson. The following is an excerpt from Using Physics Gadgets and Gizmos, Grades 9-12: Phenomenon-Based Learning that demonstrates classroom application of the Boat & Rock Demo:\nThe Boat & Rock (i.e. weight) activity explores the buoyancy that results from the pressure in a fluid. The weight of fluid makes the pressure higher as you go deeper. For an object in the fluid, the bottom of the object is lower and will therefore have a higher pressure on it than the top of the object. Therefore, there will be a greater force upward on the bottom of the object than downward on the top of the object. The net force from the water (which is the difference in pressure between the top and bottom) is an upward force \u2014 in the opposite direction of gravity. That force is called buoyancy. If an object is floating, the buoyancy equals the weight of the object. Buoyancy can be calculated with Archimedes\u2019 principle: An object immersed in a fluid is buoyed up with a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. This means that the displaced water in the \"Rock the Boat\" exploration should have a mass equal to that of the boat plus the rock (or in this case, the weight).\nThe weight doesn\u2019t float because its density is greater than the water\u2019s density. The combined boat and rock displace water from the container such that the weight of the displaced water is equal to the weight of the boat and mass. When the rock is moved into the water, two things happen: (1) The rock displaces an amount of water with the same volume as the mass. That would make the water level in the container rise a little. (2) At the same time, the boat rises up in the water (i.e., has less draft) because the weight of the rock is no longer causing additional water to be displaced. This makes the water level go down. So now the question is, which is greater \u2014 the amount the water goes up because of (1) or the amount that the water goes down because of (2)? The amount of water no longer displaced (as described in [2]) had a weight equal to the weight of the rock. Since the rock is denser than water, this amount of water \u2014 having weight equal to the weight of the rock \u2014 must have a greater volume than the rock. So the amount by which the water level goes down due to (2) is greater than the amount the water level rises due to (1), and the net effect is that the water level in the container goes down.\nSource: Bobrowsky, M., M. Korhonen, and J. Kohtam\u00e4ki. 2014. Using physics gadgets and gizmos, grades 9\u201312: Phenomenon-based learning, pp. 112\u2013\u00ad113. Arlington, VA: NSTA Press. Reprinted with permission from the publisher.\n2 100g masses\nPlastic container with drain tube\nPlastic overflow container\nUsing Physics Gadgets and Gizmos Grades 9-12 Book", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 300, "original_length": 8485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/news/2011/03/prominent-patent-litigation-team-to-join-arnold-__", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLNBSVH3H53EZ3QWZTQMMRZH5XTWLLBB", "length": 6725, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.arnoldporter.com", "title": "Prominent Patent Litigation Team to Join Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC and Los Angeles | News | Arnold & Porter", "raw_content": "Prominent Patent Litigation Team to Join Arnold & Porter in Washington, DC and Los Angeles\nGroup Brings Substantial Experience in Medical Device, Healthcare, and Life Sciences Sectors\nWashington, DC and Los Angeles, March 11, 2011 -- Arnold & Porter LLP announced today that a patent litigation team of 13 lawyers will join the firm's Washington, DC and Los Angeles offices. The group, which includes partners Matthew Wolf, Edward Han, and Jennifer Sklenar, brings extensive experience to Arnold & Porter's current team of patent litigation lawyers and will boost its intellectual property practice to more than 100 lawyers. The group has extensive technical and scientific knowledge in the medical device, pharmaceutical, and life sciences sectors. The team will be fully in place by March 16.\n\"Within a few moments of meeting Matt Wolf, I understood why clients respect him so much in the patent field,\" said Chair Thomas Milch. \"This team will help expand our East and West Coast capabilities, deepen our roster of patent litigators, and strengthen our ability to serve clients, particularly in the healthcare sector where we have shared client relationships.\"\n\"Arnold & Porter has a talented bench of IP lawyers throughout the firm,\" said Mr. Wolf. \"We believe our experience will complement and strengthen the firm's capabilities in both complex litigation and patent litigation. We are extremely pleased to join this firm.\"\n\"Our group looks forward to this opportunity to continue to grow our practice, not only because Arnold & Porter has an excellent reputation nationally for its intellectual property practice, but because this is truly an ideal fit for us,\" said Mr. Han.\nJoining the firm in Washington, DC are:\nMatthew M. Wolf, a trial lawyer who has been lead counsel in some of the most significant cases brought by and against leading technology companies. Mr. Wolf's practice focuses on patent, trade secret, licensing and business tort issues in the medical and biomedical technologies sectors as well as in the computer hardware and software industries. Chambers USA 2010, which ranks Mr. Wolf for patent litigation, noted he receives strong praise from his clients, one of whom said, \"I would highly recommend Matt to anyone except one of my competitors.\" He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.\nEdward Han, who has worked on a variety of complex commercial litigation matters, including intellectual property cases, antitrust and securities matters, and contractual disputes. He has represented clients in such diverse industries as medical devices, telecommunications, and precious metals. He has been in private practice for twenty years and served in a leadership position at his former firm. In addition, he has experience in economic forecasting and consulting. Mr. Han is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center.\nJohn E. Nilsson, who has represented clients in patent litigation in numerous states including California, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Texas, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. These cases have focused on matters in the medical device technology and life sciences sectors. Mr. Nilsson is a graduate of Boston College School of Law and served as a clerk for Judge Susan Bucklew on the US District Court for the Middle District of Florida.\nMarc A. Cohn, who specializes in medical device litigation and arbitration, including patent infringement, contract, and business tort cases. His experience includes cardiac stents and catheters, women's health, electronic tissue stimulators, magnetic resonance imaging, and medical ultrasound, as well as telecommunications systems, DNA sequencing reagents, diapers, and commercial lawn mowers. Mr. Cohn holds an undergraduate degree in engineering physics from Cornell University and is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.\nJoining the firm in Los Angeles are:\nJennifer A. Sklenar, whose practice centers on intellectual property litigation and counseling, particularly in the biotech and medical device fields. She has an extensive background managing litigation and significant in-court experience. She has experience drafting and negotiating licensing agreements and has counseled clients on intellectual property matters. She holds an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering and is a graduate of Hofstra University School of Law.\nWallace Wu, PhD, who concentrates his practice on patent litigation in the areas of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. He has represented clients in district courts across the country and before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in matters involving nucleic acids, medical devices, and scientific instruments. Dr. Wu is admitted to practice before the Patent and Trademark Office and has experience in patent prosecution and portfolio evaluation. He has a PhD in biochemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a degree from Santa Clara University School of Law.\nArnold & Porter has been expanding its focus on patent work for clients in both the prosecution and litigation areas in the past two years. Last month, a trial litigation team concentrating on intellectual property matters led by James DiBoise and Michael Berta joined in San Francisco. In December 2009, Ginger Dreger came on board with a patent prosecution team focusing on the life sciences sector and helped to establish the firm's Silicon Valley office. In January 2010, a patent litigation team led by David Perkins with experience in electrical, pharmaceutical, and medical device patent litigation joined in London. In October 2010, senior patent litigator Robert P. Taylor, who counsels Silicon Valley companies on IP and antitrust issues, joined the firm in San Francisco.\nArnold & Porter's intellectual property practice is international in scope, with more than 100 lawyers practicing in the areas of patents, copyrights, trademarks, rights of publicity, trade secrets, and related issues. Many members of the IP team also have backgrounds in scientific disciplines and engineering, as well as vital industry-sector experience that allows them to counsel clients on legal needs in the context of long-term strategic planning. The firm's IP lawyers work closely with lawyers from related practice areas who have experience addressing the special issues involving IP in other areas of law, such as US antitrust and European competition, corporate law, public policy, product liability, and government contracts. Chambers USA 2010 ranks Arnold & Porter in the number one band nationally and in Washington DC for IP: Trademark, Copyright and Trade Secrets. 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Margolis and Tirzah S. Lollar have joined the firm's White Collar Defense and Government Contracts practices as partners, and will reside in the firm's Washington, DC office. Their extensive experience handling False Claims Act matters will add further depth to Arnold & Porter's capabilities in this area.\nMr. Margolis focuses his practice on the investigation and defense of False Claims Act (FCA) matters, government contracts procurement fraud, health care fraud, tax and securities fraud, political corruption, and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He has served as lead counsel in numerous investigations, white collar criminal prosecutions, and dozens of FCA cases across a range of industries. Following law school, Mr. Margolis clerked for the Honorable Patti B. Saris of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Subsequently, he was an Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania from 1999 \u2013 2004, where he prosecuted Medicare/Medicaid and private payer health care fraud and abuse, identity theft, tax fraud, and labor organization embezzlement, among other matters. In 2004, Mr. Margolis moved to private practice. He has been recognized for his accomplishments in Chambers USA, Legal 500, the Financial Times, Best Lawyers, Washington DC Super Lawyers, Who's Who Legal, and Corporate Counsel, and was most recently named to Law360's 2017 Government Contracts MVPs list. Mr. Margolis earned his JD from Yale Law School, where he was the Notes Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He received his AB, with highest distinction, from the University of Michigan.\nMs. Lollar represents clients on matters pertaining to FCA defense, white collar criminal defense and government investigations, including trial and grand jury work. She has defended clients in government investigations and other proceedings related to the FCA, government contracts and procurement fraud, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and similar global anti-corruption legislation, tax fraud, and antitrust offenses. Ms. Lollar was named to Law360's 2016 Rising Stars list in Government Contracts, and has been recognized in the Financial Times and Washington DC Super Lawyers. She earned her JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she was a member of the Virginia Tax Review. She received her BA from the University of Virginia. Ms. Lollar clerked for the Honorable James C. Cacheris, US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division from 2004 \u2013 2005.\nJohn Nassikas, co-head of Arnold & Porter's White Collar Defense practice, said: \"Both Craig and Tirzah are exceptional additions to our team and outstanding resources for our clients. They each have substantial trial and FCA experience and demonstrated track records for handling significant investigations and enforcement matters.\"\nThe arrival of Mr. Margolis and Ms. Lollar follows the recent addition of former United States Attorney for New Jersey Paul J. Fishman, and John M. Fietkiewicz, former Counsel to the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey, also members of the White Collar Defense team.\nAbout the White Collar Defense Practice\nArnold & Porter's White Collar Defense Group represents companies and individuals in national and international complex criminal matters, and related civil cases and investigations. 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The theme about this painting is a message of hope as the angels descend from heaven to collect all those poor souls who lost their lives in Paris . They were innocent people going about their daily lives . 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People ask me how long I have been an artist and the answer is 'forever'.\" For inquiries and questions about pricing and more information, please visit https://www.saatchiart.com/richardheley. Read full article at the Winter 2019 issue of ArtTour International Magazine \u2026 [Read more...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asianjournal.com/features/opinion-editorial-columnists/sorry-pres-trump-most-americans-want-the-mueller-probe-report-on-the-alleged-russian-collusion-made-public/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RKB6Z77TOPUM2DZC3L6USCDUG7SJ5Y7A", "length": 4022, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.asianjournal.com", "title": "Sorry, Pres. Trump: Most Americans want the Mueller probe report on the alleged Russian collusion made public \u2014 Asian Journal News : Undefined index:focus in /home/rjoriel2017/public_html/wp-content/themes/thevoux-wp/inc/admin/option-tree/ot-functions.php on line 57", "raw_content": "PRESIDENT Donald Trump finally got to deliver his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, February 5, facing the divided and most diverse Congress for the first time in his two-year presidency, after the Democrats won back the leadership in the House of Representatives.\nThe address was consistent with Trump\u2019s record of embellishing his accomplishments, taking personal credit for gains he did not work on and reporting based on falsehoods and lies to the American people on why he needs taxpayer money for his border wall.\nAll the while, he continues to threaten to shut down the government again if he does not get his money from Congress or else he will declare a national emergency to circumvent the power of the purse accorded by the Constitution to the House of Representatives.\nWithout shame, Trump called for an end to investigations against him, just like what President Richard Nixon did before he resigned before facing impeachment because of the Watergate crime.\nPresident Trump and his family, business empire and foundation are facing criminal investigations and lawsuits in the judiciary, particularly in New York.\nThese suits are aside from the Mueller investigation that has indicted and received guilty pleas from at least six people in the Trump campaign on the alleged conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to damage Hillary Clinton and help Trump win the 2016 U.S. presidential election.\nDespite these facts, Trump now calls for an end to what he calls to be \u201cpartisan investigation\u201d without regard to the facts in his State of the Union Address.\nThis may work for his base, especially his blind followers who are insatiable consumers of Fox News and the White House propaganda, but not for most Americans who want to know the TRUTH based on FACTS and EVIDENCE.\nAccording to a new poll conducted by SSRS for CNN, nearly nine in 10 Americans say Robert Mueller\u2019s investigators should produce a full, public report on their findings, a sentiment that crosses party lines.\nThe study also revealed that even before the conclusion of the Mueller probe, nearly half (48 percent) of Americans think Donald Trump\u2019s campaign colluded with the Russian government to help get Trump elected, while 42 percent say there was no collusion.\nAn overwhelming majority of Americans (87 percent) say investigators should release a public report, while only 9 percent say that they should not.\nThis sentiment is true across party lines. According to the study, support for a public release is asked for by eight out of 10 Republicans and those who approve of the way the president is handling his job.\nOn the other side of the political spectrum, 92 percent among Democrats and those who disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job also want the Mueller report made public.\nAmong independents, 88 percent say the report should be released.\nQuoting more findings:\n\u201cOverall support for a public report is about the same as last May, when CNN last asked this question and 84 percent favored a public report. But support has risen among Republicans, from 72 percent in favor then to 80 percent now.\nViews on the investigation itself, the President\u2019s handling of it and Mueller\u2019s handling of it, are largely the same as they were in December.\nMost disapprove of the way Trump is handling the investigation (56 percent disapprove, 32 percent approve), while Mueller\u2019s ratings tilt narrowly positive (44 percent approve, 41 percent disapprove, 15 percent have no opinion). And about six in 10 say they think the investigation is a serious matter that should be fully investigated, while 37 percent call it an effort to discredit Trump\u2019s presidency.\u201d\nWith the Democrats now holding the leadership in the House of Representatives, Trump will now witness and understand the oversight, checks and balances function of co- equal branches as mandated by the Constitution \u2014 something that the Republicans failed to do in the past two years.\nNo one is above the law, not even the President of the United States of America.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 868, "original_length": 63319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asianjournal.com/usa/dateline-usa/trump-eyes-fil-am-utah-attorney-general-and-pastor-for-presidents-advisory-commission-on-aapis%E2%80%AF/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:53Z", "digest": "sha1:SWTDYX5IHDSLZHCKSSL3YX3SP6CHYYQJ", "length": 3157, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.asianjournal.com", "title": "Trump eyes Fil-Am Utah attorney general and pastor for president\u2019s Advisory Commission on AAPIs\u202f \u2014 Asian Journal News : Undefined index:focus in /home/rjoriel2017/public_html/wp-content/themes/thevoux-wp/inc/admin/option-tree/ot-functions.php on line 57", "raw_content": "Dateline USA, Midwest\nTwo Filipino-Americans are among the 12 individuals President Donald Trump intends to appoint to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs), the White House announced on Thursday, January 17.\nA White House press release revealed the names considered for the commission, including Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes and Herman Martir, a pastor from Texas.\nReyes, whose father is of Filipino and Spanish descent, has been attorney general of his state since 2013 \u2014 during which he became the first ethnic minority to hold that position or any statewide office in Utah.\nMartir, a pastor at Nations Worship Center in Fort Worth, Texas, is the president of the Asian Action Network and the Asian Prayer Network. He also founded Emerging Leaders International, \u201ca coalition of leaders working together to bring transformation in the seven spheres of society (church, family, government, education, media, entertainment and business),\u201d according to his bio on the AAPI Conservative Leadership Caucus\u2019 website.\nHerman Martir, a pastor from Fort Worth, Texas\nBoth Martir and Reyes were part of Trump\u2019s AAPI advisory committee during his 2016 presidential campaign.\nThe National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA) commended Trump on appointing Reyes and Martir to the commission.\n\u201cWe are proud that President Trump has selected two exceptional Filipino American leaders to represent our vibrant community on his AAPI Advisory Commission,\u201d said NaFFAA National Chairman Brendan Flores in a statement. \u201cAttorney General Reyes and Pastor Martir are dynamic leaders of our community, equipped with a unique understanding of the issues and policies that affect the more than four million Filipinos and Filipinos Americans that call the United States home.\u201d\nThe President\u2019s Advisory Commission on AAPIs, which was established by former President Barack Obama, seeks to work with all the agencies of the federal government to improve the health, education and economic status of AAPI communities.\nTrump signed an executive order in September 2017 to re-establish the commission.\nEarlier that year, 10 members resigned from the commission, citing their disapproval with the Trump administration\u2019s policies. Four existing members still remain, including Fil-Am entrepreneur Billy Dec of Chicago.\nOthers eyed for the commission according to Thursday\u2019s release include Michelle Park Steel of California, Paul Hsu of Florida, Jennifer Carnahan of Minnesota, David B. Cohen of California, Grace Y. Lee of Michigan, George Leing of Colorado, Jan-Ie Low of Nevada, Prem Parameswaran of New York, Amata Coleman Radewagen of American Samoa, and Chiling Tong of Maryland. Upon appointment, Steel and Hsu would be designated as co-chairs of the commission.\nThe announcement also stated that Trump intends to designate Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao to co-chair the White House Initiative on AAPIs.\nThe White House Initiative on AAPIs was first created by President Bill Clinton in 1999 and was renewed by subsequent presidents. 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The rhythmic filling and emptying of the _____________________________\twith water by mo\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 37.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/the-carpenters-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GGIFZ6IADOB7RO4ZIHRNCYCEVPI6FHA5", "length": 881, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.atgtickets.com", "title": "The Carpenters Story - ATG Tickets", "raw_content": "This highly acclaimed concert-style production continues to captivate audiences across the UK with its spectacular re-creation of the classic songbook that made The...\nThis highly acclaimed concert-style production continues to captivate audiences across the UK with its spectacular re-creation of the classic songbook that made The Carpenters a legend in the world of popular music.\nThe outstanding vocal talents of Claire Furley and pianist / artistic director Phil Aldridge take centre-stage, accompanied by Richard Carpenter\u2019s original orchestral arrangements from LIVE musicians, and a stage-wide backdrop of state-of-the-art video projection.\nFeaturing all of the Carpenters hit songs including (They Long To Be) Close To You, Yesterday Once More, We\u2019ve Only Just Begun, Superstar, A Song For You, Rainy Days & Mondays, and many more!\n\u2018Phenomenal vocals & great musicianship\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 219.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/Media/Pages/6PR-mornings-with-gareth-parker-30-may-2018.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:07Z", "digest": "sha1:YMA6CMLBZICDPTUNKOXJU6F6QT3UUQXG", "length": 11185, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.attorneygeneral.gov.au", "title": "6PR \u2013 Mornings with Gareth Parker", "raw_content": "GARETH PARKER: Let us begin, though, with a regular guest who usually joins us on a Thursday. We've asked him to come on a day earlier today because he's got big news about changes to the way the family law system works. The Attorney-General is Christian Porter.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Morning, Gareth.\nYeah, so, biggest changes to the Federal Court system in a couple of decades. It's a very substantial reform and designed to try and make life easier for people during very hard periods in their lives.\nGARETH PARKER: And it is a hard period. Anyone who's been through it, whatever side of it you're on, knows that it is stressful, it can be expensive, and it can certainly be very time consuming. What's the goal here, the main goal of these changes?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, WA maintains its own family law system effectively, but in the rest of Australia, there are two courts that presently deal with family law matters, the Family Court and the Federal Circuit Court. And having two courts that deal with matters, for 10 years has been the subject of criticism and complaint, and suggestions that you have to have a single entity. Because what happens is that people list in one court and get bounced around like family law footballs from court to court, which wastes their time and money, it delays matters.\nAnd over time, what's happened is the waiting period before your matter is finally resolved has blown out, transfers have caused massive wastes of time, and a backlog has developed. And ultimately, if you're in this sort of situation, which many people would have experienced out there, as your listeners first hand, or have got family members who have been through it or are going through it, it's a miserable time in your life. And if you're in court for longer than you need to be, and the longer the resolution takes, then you're in each other\u2019s faces and that is difficult for the couple, it's terrible for the kids.\nSo, this reform is designed to have one single court, a single point of entry, a simplified single system of rules and forms and procedures, that will cause waiting times to start to reduce, the backlog to be dealt with, and we hope somewhat better outcomes for everyone who's using the courts.\nGARETH PARKER: So, how long on average does it - and obviously cases are different, there's simple one, there's complicated ones, but how often, on average, does it take to get through the system, and what do you hope to cut that by?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, at the moment there are 22,000 matters listed for a final order, for a final resolution, 22,000-odd a year. And there is a backlog now of 21,000 cases, which has grown up over time. And we think that \u2026\nGARETH PARKER: So, that's about a year late then\u2026?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Yeah, effectively. And, there are a small number of cases that have been outstanding for many years, and they're often very complicated and litigious matters. But what we are wanting to achieve, and what our goal is, is that when these reforms get fully bedded down, and that will take some time, is to move up to 8000 more matters through a year. So, to hear and resolve 8000 more matters.\nThe goal here is to resolve more matters a year than are being listed. It's a bit like a one-day cricket run rate; you can't let the run rate fall too far behind because that's how you get this backlog.\nAnd in recent years, the waiting time to trial has blown out. So, for instance in the Family Court of Australia, the waiting time to trial not that long ago was 11 months and it's now gone up to 17. And that's a big difference because that's six extra months that people in these really difficult circumstances aren't able to resolve, move on, and start their life again after the relationship breakdown. So, it's very important reform, and we think that having a single point of entry, a single court, single set of rules. I'll give you one example,22,000 matters are listed every year for final resolution; 1200 matters get transferred from one court to the other, and some people wait on average 11 months to have a transfer from one court to the other, and then they have to start again, literally start again \u2026\nGARETH PARKER: And join the back of the queue.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Yeah. New court, new rules, new forms.\nSo, imagine the amount of money and time and angst that that causes for that family, not the least of which is a massive waste of very expensive and highly trained judicial resources, which we can better apply to dealing with more first instance matters. So, this system has been crying out for reform for over a decade. And the Prime Minister, myself and others have been working very hard to try and make it a better system for the families using it.\nGARETH PARKER: So, one thing I am interested in, you did make the point - and this is right - that the West Australian Family Court, whilst it operates under the federal law, has its own sort of system. How is the West Australian system captured by all of this or is it not captured by all of this?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, it's not immediately impacted. But there can be a long run benefit for West Australians using the West Australian system. And that is this new Federal Court that we're creating, we're also giving them $4 million to totally redraft their rules, procedures, practice directions, forms from the ground up for this new entity. And what historically has happened is that the WA court system has watched any reform that's happened federally and usually they adopt a very high percentage of the reforms in process and procedure and rules and practice management that occurs. So, there's a good opportunity for WA to dovetail off this reform and make itself an even better court, but largely the West Australian jurisdiction is kind of unique.\nGARETH PARKER: Alright. So, there is a backlog in WA as well, I don't know if it's of the same scale as what you've described. Is that, I mean, whose problem is that, so to speak, to try and bring that down, is that a State Government issue?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: It's a shared problem. And we're always looking for ways to try and get the most out of the resources that exist in the courts, and obviously always reassessing the adequacy of those resources. But one of the things that I have found going through this process in great detail, and it was process started by my predecessor George Brandis, is that some people will say the solution is just more judges. But applying more very expensive judicial resources to a system that's fundamentally dysfunctional in terms of its structure and the waste and inefficiencies and duplication overlap you get by transfers and a failure to properly triage and adequately assess the seriousness of cases, and then properly apply the right judicial resource to the right case, just isn't fixed by more of the same. Which is why we've headed down this very fundamental path of reform and merging two courts into one and giving Australians a simple pathway into the system, and we hope a much shorter experience inside the system.\nGARETH PARKER: Okay. Separately, George Brandis was also talking about perhaps alternatives to in-court litigation to resolve matters. Where are you at in terms of that issue? Because it does seem to me that, if you can keep people out of courts as much as possible, if you can negotiate outcomes - not always possible, get that, but if you can somehow figure up lower costs, less confrontation or less adversarial methods of resolving these things, then that is in everyone's interests.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Yep. So, there's about 46,000 divorces in Australia every year, and happily that number's kind of stabilised and actually come down a bit in recent years, and there's any number of thousands of de facto couples that separate, and it's actually hard to determine how many. But 70 per cent of all of the couples whose relationship ends don't come into the court system. So these reforms do deal with those 22,000 final order listings that come into the court system.\nBut you're right. Having more people able to deal with their relationship breakdown outside of the court environment, by consent, negotiation, mediation, agreement is very important.\nNow, we already spend a lot of money, particularly through the legal aid commissions in every state, who do a great job in working out those types of mediated settlements. The next step along that type of path and theory is what we're calling parenting management hearings. They're actually conducted inside the court, but what they're meant to do is have a non-litigious process inside the court where a panel of experts can help mediate agreements between parties, which again we think will try and avoid these long and costly experiences, which often end up in a trial, which is, of course, a very costly exercise. So we're constantly looking for new ways to keep the number of people up, who are able to resolve these things without a trial, or without even going to the court.\nBut ultimately, there are always going to be people who, because of disagreements, will end up needing a court and needing a trial, and our job as a government is to make that they're not spending 17 months waiting for that resolution, but a much shorter period of time, which is better for them and their kids.\nGARETH PARKER: As the chief law officer of the country, as Attorney-General, should it be legal for sitting MPs to be able to collect money from media outlets for interviews?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Look, I don't, that's a contextual question about a whole range of different circumstances, and whether or not you need a law that says that you shouldn't do it- you know, I wouldn't do it. I think it's pretty unusual, and obviously you're referring to Barnaby Joyce and the baby situation. But look, I can earnestly say to you that spending my time on those 22,000 families who need better services in courts\u2026\u2026\nGARETH PARKER: No, I get that, I get that, but - but - people, including pretty much every one of you and your colleagues have said: well, I wouldn't do it. Should anyone be able to do it? Is this really what we expect of elected people?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: As the first law officer of Australia, I don't think you pass a law in every instance where someone may have not exercised perfect judgement. All of us are responsible for exercising judgement, and I'm not in the business of passing a law to try and make perfect people.\nGARETH PARKER: Have you seen the promo?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: No, I haven't actually.\nGARETH PARKER: Are you going to watch the interview?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Mate, I think I might try and get on Foxtel or Sky and watch some cricket overseas instead.\nBy the way, we haven't had a chance to talk about Justin Langer's appointment.\nGARETH PARKER: Quite right.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: It's not terribly newsworthy now, but I've got to say, I reckon Australian Cricket is going to turn a corner in some great hands with that bloke. He's fantastic.\nGARETH PARKER: Yeah, I agree with you. Good deflection. Appreciate your time this morning.\nGARETH PARKER: Christian Porter, the Attorney-General. That was a leg glance if ever I've seen one, extending the cricket metaphor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 11889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.atzmut.com/good-night-yaakov-parashat-vayeitzei/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HZPPVNI4MJ4YKCWRAWN72BKHKXGFLDNU", "length": 1801, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.atzmut.com", "title": "Atzmut \u2013 Good Night, Yaakov \u2013 Parashat Vayeitzei", "raw_content": "Good Night, Yaakov \u2013 Parashat Vayeitzei\n\u201c\u2026.And he arrived at the place and overnighted there because the sun had set\u2026.and he lay down at that place\u2026..\u201d \u2013 Bereishit 28:11\n\u05f4\u2026.\u05d5\u05d9\u05e4\u05d2\u05e2 \u05d1\u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd \u05d5\u05d9\u05dc\u05df \u05e9\u05dd \u05db\u05d9 \u05d1\u05d0 \u05d4\u05e9\u05de\u05e9\u2026.\u05d5\u05d9\u05e9\u05db\u05d1 \u05d1\u05de\u05e7\u05d5\u05dd \u05d4\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0\u2026\u05f4 \u2013 \u05d1\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05d9\u05ea \u05db\u05d7, \u05d9\u05d0\nHere he lay down to sleep, but during the fourteen years when he studied under Ever he did not lie down\u2026 Here he lay down, but during the twenty years he spent in Lavan\u2019s house he did not lie down. \u2014Beraishis Rabbah 68:11\nFor fourteen years before this fateful night and twenty years after, Yaakov never lay down to settle in for a good night\u2019s sleep. Now, Yaakov was spending the night at \u201cthe place\u201d, precisely the spot where the Beis Hamikdash, Judaism\u2019s holiest site, would some day stand. How could it be that specifically here Yaakov lay down for a relaxing and peaceful sleep?\nThis tells us that there is a time and place that lowering your head to be on par with your feet is ideal. In practice, the physical aspects of our lives must be guided by the spiritual, as embodied in the human structure: our feet and lower faculties are lower \u2013 beneath and subject to \u2013 our minds, the seat of our spiritual awareness. Before G-d, however, the spiritual and the physical are equally incapable of expressing His essence, and the role for which He created each of them is equally significant.\nThe Beis Hamikdash was designated by G-d as the place wherein His presence would be most revealed. G-d therefore orchestrated for Yaakov to spend his time there asleep, with his higher faculties of cognitive thought inactive, with his feet on equal balance with his head. For in the presence of G-d, both the height of spirituality and the coarse material it affects and uplifts are on equal footing.\nCynical is Criminal - Parashat Tzav\n\u2190 Make the Time to Build a Home", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 8525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autotrader.com/cars-for-sale/Mercedes-Benz/280+CE/Mount+Pleasant+IA-52641", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OMDWBEEDEJGNVXFDDRL7ZP2A26QAGDXR", "length": 298, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.autotrader.com", "title": "Mercedes-Benz 280 CE for Sale in Mount Pleasant, IA 52641 - Autotrader", "raw_content": "Cars for SaleMount Pleasant, IAMercedes-Benz280 CE\nMercedes-Benz 280 CE for Sale in Mount Pleasant, IA\n1981 Mercedes-Benz 280 CE in Mount Pleasant, IA\nNew Mercedes-Benz 280 CE in Mount Pleasant, IA\nUsed Mercedes-Benz 280 CE in Mount Pleasant, IA\nCertified Mercedes-Benz 280 CE in Mount Pleasant, IA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 4777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aviationmegastore.com/dc6--vc118-us-air-force-the-independence--507943-herpa-wings-4013150507943-1500-herpa/product/?action=prodinfo&art=76001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3N76RXIROJ4ESR3LP6R3JEBMM7ZIBAZI", "length": 450, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.aviationmegastore.com", "title": "DC6 / VC118 (US Air Force \"The Independence\" )", "raw_content": "DC6 / VC118 (US Air Force \"The Independence\" ) (Herpa Wings 507943)\nOn 1 July 1947, the then US president Truman received his own company airplane. It was based on a DC-6, but was operated with the official classification VC-118. The Independence, named after the president\u2019s hometown, received a livery, which was originally intended for an airline, which discarded it. With this livery, the first DC-6 model will now be released in the 1/400 scale.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 3501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avonromance.com/book/9780062096326/trouble-at-the-wedding-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:43Z", "digest": "sha1:7UZL4UERJBGB2ZDQ4PIWUIBF5KAJDQLV", "length": 803, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.avonromance.com", "title": "Trouble at the Wedding - Avon Romance", "raw_content": "Annabel is about to marry the perfect man . . .\nThe last thing Miss Annabel Wheaton desires is true love. She learned the hard way that love makes a woman foolish and leads only to heartache. That\u2019s why she agreed to marry an earl who needs her money. He\u2019s got a pedigree and a country estate, and he won\u2019t ever break her heart. There\u2019s only one problem . . .\nChristian isn\u2019t about to let her marry that pompous prig . . .\nChristian Du Quesne, Duke of Scarborough, thinks the stubborn heiress is about to make the biggest mistake of her life, and he\u2019s determined to stop her. Tempting beautiful women is Christian\u2019s forte, after all. When her family offers him a nice sum of money to stop the wedding, he\u2019s happy to accept.\nFalling in love with Annabel was never supposed to be part of the bargain . . .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baeblemusic.com/musicblog/1-18-2012/song-of-the-day-the-day-the-lolcats-died.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:17Z", "digest": "sha1:OT5CJ2SD2HGGWHBI4R7RWRLWFUVD3VAE", "length": 800, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.baeblemusic.com", "title": "Song of the Day: The Day The LOLcats Died - Baeble Music", "raw_content": "Song of the Day: The Day The LOLcats Died\nIn case you haven't already noticed, potential legislation related to the internet (commonly known as SOPA and PIPA) is being protested by blackouts and notices all over the web. Websites like Reddit and Wikipedia are in full (or near-full) blackout mode, while other sites are doing their best to raise awareness of the internet legislation with pop-ups and other eye-grabbing additions to their homepages. If you're confused as to what the danger is of these bills, bored of reading rundowns of what the laws will entail, or you just want something to post on your Facebook wall before SOPA and PIPA censor your ability to vlog, this song is for you.\nIf you didn't know anything before and are still confused (which is likely), read more on SOPA/PIPA here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bafustago.com/buzzed-conversations-podcast/buzzed-conversations-episode-16-imperium-neptuni-regis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:21Z", "digest": "sha1:TZ3DLJBZ3CJTS7GSVCV2E36IH2GQQX6L", "length": 648, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bafustago.com", "title": "Buzzed Conversations Podcast - BAFUSTAGO", "raw_content": "Buzzed Conversations Episode 16 - Imperium Neptuni Regis\nWhether you are a civilian, or you have considered serving the military, or you do/did serve the military in your home country, it is always intriguing to learn about the experiences of those who have lived different lives than that of your own. In this episode, we welcome Jason's cousin, Matt, as he describes his journey as a member of the United States Navy. We hear his fascinating stories about what it is like to serve, and what it is like to live amongst the cultures we are not necessarily accustomed to. 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About two months ago, the telecommunication major\nBall State student gains 90,000 subscribers on YouTube\nby Ryan Howe / 1:05 a.m. Nov. 21, 2013\nType the word \u201cgay\u201d into YouTube and user MarkE Miller\u2019s video \u201cAsking Guys if I\u2019m Gay\u201d is the second video with more than 240,000 views. Type in the word \u201ckissing,\u201d and his video \u201cAwkward Kissing\u201d is the fifth video with more than 660,000 views.\nMark Miller, a Ball State senior telecommunications major, has gained more than 80,000 subscribers since he posted \u201cAwkward Kissing\u201d in August.\nSitting behind the corner desk in his bedroom, the YouTube user holds up his Canon PowerShot outstretched in front of him and presses record.\nYouTube user name \u2013 MarkE Miller\n\u201cAwkward Kissing\u201d \u2013 669,912 views\n\u201cBoyfriend Tag\u201d \u2013 267,331 views\n\u201cBloopers: Awkward Kissing\u201d \u2013 260,053 views\nView his channel here.\n\u201cGood morning, everybody,\u201d he said quickly to the camera. \u201cIt\u2019s going be a great day and do you know why?\n\u201cBecause every day is a great day.\u201d\nHe was recording the intro to his 45th YouTube video titled \u201cMy BestFriend,\u201d a video that gained more than 51,000 views in five days.\nMiller posted his first YouTube video Nov. 15, 2012, called \u201cMy Coming Out Story.\u201d In the video, he shared one of the most intimate times of his life with the Internet. Almost instantly, he became obsessed.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t think I was going to make videos after that,\u201d he said. \u201cI watched other coming out stories on YouTube, and it normalized homosexuality for me. So once I had a story to share, I posted it to share with people who it might help.\u201d\nAfter that, he started posting videos weekly \u2014 vlogs, or video blogs. This is a type of video where people document their day-to-day lives through videos, sharing funny, sad or even boring moments with viewers.\nMiller decided early on that simply sitting in front of the camera and talking wasn\u2019t enough for him. He wanted to show people what he was doing, rather than just telling them. With his GoPro camera, he gives viewers an inside look into the life of a Ball State student.\nFor the first nine months, he would gain a few followers here and there, but he continued to post videos even when doubts crept into his mind. Six months ago, he considered stopping.\n\u201cI think that artists think that their work doesn\u2019t get the recognition they think it deserves because of the time and effort they put into it, and I felt the same with my videos,\u201d Miller said. \u201cThey are my babies, and I wanted to show my work to new people. Luckily, I didn\u2019t stop.\u201d\nAfter Miller posted the video \u201cAwkward Kissing\u201d with his boyfriend Ethan Hethcote, an Indiana University student, his YouTube account blew up. He gained more than 80,000 subscribers and thousands of views on every video.\nViewers see the couple kiss each other and swap food from mouth to mouth, yawning and laughing. Almost instantly, the video made its way to Tumblr and his fan base grew.\n\u201cIt\u2019s weird seeing gifs of me and Ethan kissing on Tumblr,\u201d Miller said. \u201cIt\u2019s cool and flattering, but I\u2019m still not used to it.\u201d\nWhen his subscribers and views began to shoot up, he opted to sign up to start making money from his videos. YouTube\u2019s monetary system is set up so the number of views will determine the pay out. For example, 1,550 views will generate $1.50.\nA few weeks ago, a fan from Brazil who was visiting North Carolina drove roughly nine hours to hang out with Miller in Bracken Library for a couple of hours. It was the first time someone drove out of their way to see him, but not the first time he has been approached on campus by fans.\nRoss Hilleary, a senior urban planning and development major, saw the gifs of Miller on Tumblr and searched him out. Now, he said he watches his weekly videos almost religiously.\n\u201cHe\u2019s relatable,\u201d Hilleary said. \u201cHe\u2019s from Indiana, he\u2019s our age, he goes to our school and he\u2019s a positive influence on showing what it\u2019s like to be gay, in college and in love. It\u2019s great seeing him and his boyfriend grow.\u201d\nWhen Miller started dating Hethcote at the end of last semester, he quickly introduced him to his YouTube viewers in the video \u201cThe Perks of Being a Facebook Stalker.\u201d He said he realized his videos get more views when they feature Hethcote.\nHis videos have documented the relationship from its earliest stages and continue to show how it develops over time. Lucky for Miller, his boyfriend doesn\u2019t have a problem with having a very public relationship.\n\u201cWe make sure that we put out there what we want people to see, but we still keep the more intimate parts to ourselves,\u201d Hethcote said. \u201cIt hasn\u2019t caused any problems between us. It\u2019s just a part of him and I\u2019ve accepted it.\u201d\nMiller plans to graduate in May and to move to Bloomington, Ind., to be closer to Hethcote. He said he has no plans to stop making videos, and he hopes to continue making money. He eventually wants it to be his main source of income.\n\u201cI don\u2019t do it for the money, it\u2019s just an added bonus,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI want to share my story with those who need someone to look up to. 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Gormley, Paperback | Barnes & Noble\u00ae B&N Top 100 NY Times Bestsellers", "raw_content": "Saugatuck Summer\nOne summer can change everything.\nHi, I'm Topher Carlisle: twenty-one, pretty, and fabulous. At least, that's what I keep telling myself. But let's get real. Walking the fake-it-til-you-make-it road to independence and self-respect isn't easy. Especially since my mom's a deadbeat alcoholic, and most of my family expects me to turn out just as worthless. Oh, and I'm close to losing my college swimming scholarship, so let's add \"dropout\" to the list.\nMy BFF has invited me to stay at her beach house on the shore of Lake Michigan. That'll give me one summer to make money and figure out what I want to do with my life. So of course I decide to have an affair with my BFF's married, closeted dad. Because that always works out.\nNow I'm homeless, friendless, jobless. Worthless. Just like my family expects, right? Except there's this great guy, Jace, who sees it differently. He's got it all together in ways I can only dream of-he's hot, creative, insightful, understanding. He seems to think I don't give myself enough credit. And if I don't watch out, I may start to believe him.\nBy Amelia C. Gormley, Carrie White\nCopyright \u00a9 2014 Amelia C. Gormley\nWhy must you wallow in all your delusions?\nNail yourself to the cross at least once a week\nWell you've got some nerve to lay all your demons at my feet\nFar too used to expecting so much from me\n\u2014Casey Stratton, \"Sacrifice\"\nGod, the lake looked good.\nNo. Good didn't cover it. Awesome, amazing, some other superlative the English language hadn't invented yet. All of that. I wanted to be in it. I wanted to cleave through the water with distance-eating strokes. But it wasn't warm enough yet, not without a wet suit, and I didn't have one of those. I'd have to spend the next month driving to the aquatic center up in Holland to do laps. I absolutely needed to be in top shape when school started again in the fall; my swimming scholarship was hanging on the line. It might only cover half my tuition, and none of my books or living expenses, but losing it would catapult returning to school in the fall out of the realm of \"difficult\" and into \"no fucking chance.\"\nBut if I could train here, where my eyes didn't burn from chlorine fumes and I could smell honest-to-God seaweed ...\nJesus, I was gonna love staying with Mo and her family, especially once I could get into the water.\nSpeaking of Mo ... I turned back to trudge up the beach toward the blanket she'd spread on the sand. It was sunny, but also windy and cool, especially this close to the water. We were both in long sleeves and jeans. Michigan had a way of flipping spring into summer like a light switch, so within a few weeks it could quite possibly be sweltering.\n\"Quit pouting,\" Mo said as I sighed in yearning. I dropped onto the blanket beside her and looked back at the water. \"It's only a few weeks, then you can freeze your balls off to your heart's content.\" I gave her a dirty look. She was stretched out with a book, her freckled face covered in a sheen of SPF three gazillion. She shrugged off my glower and closed her book, grinning at me. \"So, what do you think?\"\n\"I think you lied, Mo.\"\nIt was my turn to grin. \"You said your family wasn't rich.\"\nShe narrowed her eyes and tossed her head, the lavender and teal chalk tones in her strawberry-blonde hair flipping like a rainbow in motion. \"We're not rich. Just, you know, comfortable. We inherited the beach house from my dad's parents. I won't say we're living hand-to-mouth, but it doesn't make us wealthy.\"\nJust wealthy enough to have two households, a vacation home, and the luxury of never wondering how they were going to pay for tuition. Her dad was a tenured professor at MSU and kept a house in Lansing. He drove to the other house in Ann Arbor to be with his wife\u2014a pediatric surgeon at the U of M hospital\u2014and only daughter on the weekends and during school vacations.\nI didn't point that out to Mo, though. She rocked her white liberal guilt pretty hard sometimes, and got very uncomfortable thinking about the advantages she had in comparison to my clusterfuck of a family and financial situation. And hey, I certainly wasn't going to complain that my BFF's family was loaded, not when they were putting me up in their beach house for the summer so I wouldn't have to worry about rent or food. I could just concentrate on finding a job, saving for tuition, and figuring my shit out.\n\"I got no problem with comfortable,\" I said with a careless shrug.\nWe fell quiet then, the only sounds the wind and the waves and the screeching of seagulls. I was definitely grateful to Mo and her family for making this offer. She wouldn't be spending the whole summer here with me; she had a job counseling at a summer camp up in Traverse City, and would only be home every other weekend, but that was actually a good thing. We'd tried being roommates briefly, and had discovered that we were much better friends when we weren't in each other's back pockets all the time. In the beach house up on top of the dune behind us, I'd opted for the cozy attic bedroom, with its own little three-quarters bath and huge half-moon window overlooking the lake, rather than the one on the second floor that shared a bath with Mo's room. It was perfect. We would be together, and yet not so closely or constantly that we got sick of each other.\nI was looking forward to getting settled in. Maybe this evening I'd set up my keyboard and practice for a while. I knew Mo wouldn't mind if I played and sang a bit, and her dad wasn't supposed to arrive for another day or two. Of course I might have to stop playing once he got here, even if I kept it quiet in my room. My family had always complained because they could hear me through the heating vents, despite the fact that I was down in the basement.\nMo shook herself, breaking our silent camaraderie. \"Oh, I almost forgot. Your phone rang when you were down by the water contemplating insanity.\" She pointed to the cheap Android I'd left on the blanket. I frowned at it, reluctant to pick it up. Aside from Mo, the only people to ever call me were my family, and that was rarely a good thing.\nFinally I dropped onto the blanket beside her and sighed when my sister's name came up on the caller ID. Thumbing the callback button, I made a mental wager with myself as to how long it would take Colleen to disregard or casually insult me.\n\"Family drama incoming in three ... two ... one ... Hey. You called?\"\n\"Hey, Topher. I was wondering when we could expect you in Flint, to stay with Mom for a while.\"\n\"Hi, big sis! Nice to hear from you! College is great! Swim season went well!\" That wasn't really true, but whatever. \"I got great grades on all my finals.\" That one was true, but it wasn't going to change the mess I was in now. \"Thanks for showing such a keen interest in my life and well-being! It's sotouching to know you care.\"\n\"Oh. Sorry. Hi.\" Wow, she actually sounded embarrassed at being called out. I didn't expect it to last long, though. \"So, you're doing good?\"\n\"I'm getting by. I need to train this summer\u2014next season is going to be important if I want to keep my scholarship\u2014and I'm looking for a job to help cover tuition, but other than that, I'm okay.\"\n\"Oh. Good. Good. I've been working hard, too. Trying to save up for a vacation this year. My new boyfriend Terry wants to go to Hawaii, and I want to go with him.\"\n\"Hawaii sounds fun,\" I said noncommittally. Her duty to pretend to care about my life having been discharged, I knew exactly where this conversation was headed next.\nColleen didn't disappoint. \"So, anyway, yeah. Mom. Helping. When can I expect you?\"\nI gripped a fold in the blanket in my fist. \"Hmmm, I dunno. What's the weather in Hell looking like? Any ice storms lately?\"\n\"Topher, don't be a dick. She's having a hard time getting around. I have to work all summer; I don't get summer break like you do, and running her errands takes up a lot of my time. You're not doing anything for almost four months. The least you could do is come help out. I would really love to take a vacation sometime this summer.\"\n\"Oh, hey, did I just do the time warp back into last year? Because, damn girl, if this conversation isn't giving me d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu all over again. The answer was no then, and it's no now.\" I grimaced at Mo. \"And I'm not doing nothing over the next four months, thanks. I just told you, I need to train. A lot. Not to mention get a job.\"\n\"They have a Y here in Flint, you realize.\"\n\"And yet the answer is still no.\"\n\"God, you're such a selfish little prick. This is family.\"\n\"Your family. Not mine. My association with Frederica ended when she took a truckload of pills, knowing I'd be arriving the next day to find her body.\"\n\"Not this again.\" I heard her growl on the other end of the line. \"Right, it's all about you, isn't it? She can't even get sick without you trying to make yourself the victim. She had a stroke and collapsed and spent a day and a half on the floor nearly freezing to death, and you still have to make it all about you and your self-centered fucking drama.\"\nI shook my head firmly, even if she couldn't see it. \"It wasn't a stroke. I know what I saw.\" I rubbed my forehead, where a headache was beginning to twinge. How many times were we going to have this fucking discussion?\n\"It wasn't a suicide attempt!\" Colleen practically shouted in my ear. \"She's too fucking melodramatic to do it that way, okay? If she'd been planning to kill herself, there would have been notes and she would have been giving shit away left and right, writing wills, making grand gestures.\"\nI slammed my fist down on the blanket, grateful for the sand beneath that prevented the little tantrum from hurting. \"That was her grand gesture. You don't know the way she thinks, Colleen! She never played the head games with you like she did with me. Why would she need to leave a note when she could arrange to have her funeral while everyone was home for the holidays already? She was putting on a show, and we were all cast in the roles of the grieving loved ones.\"\n\"She said she didn't try to kill herself!\"\n\"No. She said she didn't remember trying to kill herself. Which is Frederica code for Yeah, I did it, but I'm not going to cop to it, and hey, isn't brain damage a convenient fucking excuse!\" Damn it, now I was shouting.\nColleen heaved a long-suffering sigh and pitched her voice lower, adopting the tone that said she was trying to make herself the reasonable one. \"There are a lot of other reasons things could have looked the way they did.\"\n\"She didn't want to be lying there alone, undiscovered, eaten by her damned cats. She knew I was coming that day.\" I was jabbing my finger violently in the air, like I could point it in Colleen's face, and made myself stop. \"But you go ahead and pretend you're some brilliant forensic detective in your own little episode of CSI. Stage a recreation to prove how the way things look like they happened isn't the way they really happened. Convince yourself that there was some perfectly good, completely coincidental reason for her to have had a sixteen-ounce drinking glass full of pills spilled on the floor beside her.\"\nI glanced over to see Mo looking at me with gentle sympathy. She knew the whole story, of course. We'd met the semester before that incident, my freshman year, and bonded pretty much instantly. When I'd held my vigil in the ICU during Christmas break, I'd spent a lot of time talking and texting with her.\n\"... But you weren't there, Colleen,\" I continued, clinging to Mo's understanding gaze. \"You didn't see the scene. You didn't find her lying in a pool of her own puke. You weren't the one in the ICU that first night, with the nurses telling you not to wait too long before making the decision to pull the plug. If Frederica's having trouble getting around, it's her own fucking fault. She's pulled my leash for the last fucking time.\"\n\"Topher ...\" Colleen groaned, and I could practically hear her making the effort to rein her temper in. \"Even if you were right\u2014and I lived with her four years longer than you, so maybe I know a bit more than you think about how she operates\u2014she's sick. Okay? If she tried to kill herself, it's because she's sick. You can't hate her for that.\"\nOh lovely. Now it was time for a recitation from the Enabler's Handbook.\n\"I don't hate her.\" I busied my fingers trying to pick grains of sand off the dark blanket. \"Hating her would require caring about her, and I don't. Not anymore. She's toxic, and I need to protect myself.\"\nShe was silent a moment. Then: \"You better hope you don't ever need help from the family.\"\n\"Don't worry, sis. I learned long before puberty not to expect anything from this family.\" My mouth twisted bitterly and I hung up before she could take another opportunity to tell me what an awful person I was. It was the same old refrain, and I'd heard it all before. Topher, you're so self-centered. Topher, you're too dramatic. Topher, you just want attention.\nFeh. They used those insults to try to make me feel guilty so I would do what they wanted me to do. I had to remember that. I was doing what was healthy for me. Protecting myself. And that didn't make me a bad person.\nI sat beside Mo silently, staring out at the waves crashing against the beach as I tried to convince myself of that once again.\nThanks, Colleen. Way to fuck up a nice afternoon.\nMo didn't press me to talk. She knew I'd open up in my own time. I wasn't even close to manly enough to stuff down my feelings about shit. I wore them on my sleeve, and yes, that had gotten me my ass kicked regularly throughout my school years, thanks for asking.\nAfter a while, she asked softly, \"What do you think your mom will do if you go see her?\"\nI scrubbed my hands down my face. \"Same thing she's always done. Try to make me as sick as she is.\"\nShe tilted her head and looked at me, waiting for me to clarify.\n\"She just ... ever since I was a little kid\u2014and by that, I mean, like, six years old\u2014my job was to comfort her and make her feel better, you know? And probably at least some of that was my fault, because I was just one of those really oversensitive, overly empathetic kids who would do stupid things like bawl in sympathy with a cartoon character who was being picked on.\"\nI picked up a handful of cool sand and let it trickle through my fingers. \"So whenever she got drunk and went on a crying jag, or just got into one of her woe-is-me-everything-is-horrible-nothing-will-ever-get-better riffs, I was the one who heard about it. I'm the one who spent hours and hours crying with her, telling her it would be all right, that she wasn't a horrible person, a horrible mother, et cetera. And eventually she'd pass out, and then it would be fine until the next time. And she'd just ... suck me in. Every damn time. I couldn't not try to make her feel better. I had to try to fix it for her.\"\n\"She never got help?\"\nI shook my head. \"Her late husband kept offering to send her to rehab, but she always refused. She doesn't get drunk anymore because she says she can't handle the hangovers, but it doesn't stop the other behaviors. She's just a bottomless pit, emotionally speaking. She doesn't want to be reassured, she just wants attention and pity.\" My last shrink had called that \"narcissistic supply.\" Like I was a drug dealer helping her get her fix. It was either cut her off or stop caring about everyone and everything so I wasn't left wide open.\nMo nodded and massaged my shoulder. We fell silent again, and she drew me against her and let me rest my head on her shoulder while she rubbed my back.\n\"You know what really makes me feel like a selfish asshole?\" I said at length, as the afternoon began to age toward evening. \"There was a while there in the hospital when she was starting to improve ... and I didn't want to believe it. I cried when they told me she was out of the woods, and not because I was happy. I had accepted it, you know? Years before, really. Around the time I was fifteen or so, when she made a big production of telling me she had lumps and that she knew it was cancer even though all the doctors told her they were just cysts, and if it was cancer, she was just going to let herself die since she couldn't stand to lose her breasts. That's when I accepted that she was going to die. I knew someday she'd drink herself to death or kill herself, and, then, once it seemed like it'd finally happened, I was okay with it. I was fucking relieved. I just wanted it to be over with, you know?\"\n\"I don't think that makes you selfish, Topher.\" Mo's voice was gentle, and I found myself thinking, not for the first time, that she would make a damned good therapist once she finished her degrees in psychology and social work.\nMy eyes stung, and I wiped them on the back of my hand. \"I wished her gas hadn't been shut off the week before. I wished for once she'd managed to be a responsible fucking adult and pay her bill on time. Core temp of, like, eighty degrees, can you believe that shit? If she hadn't gotten hypothermic lying there on the floor overnight, it would have been game over. That's the only thing that kept the brain damage in check, and I wished it hadn't happened. What do you think Colleen would say if I ever admitted that?\"\nShe squeezed my hand without a word. Eventually, I laced my fingers with hers and squeezed back. After a moment I shook off my bout of self-indulgent moping and straightened up, trying to be a good guest.\n\"So, what's the nightlife like around here?\"\nShe shrugged. \"Well, there's a really good theater company here in town. I thought we might go see a show or two this summer. And I expect we'll head over to the club at the Dunes at least a couple times while you're here. I mean, you can't tell me you don't want to party and check out the action at a famous gay resort. Other than that, I suppose we'll drive into Grand Rapids if we want to hit some different clubs.\"\nExcerpted from Saugatuck Summer by Amelia C. Gormley, Carrie White. Copyright \u00a9 2014 Amelia C. Gormley. Excerpted by permission of Riptide Publishing.\nSaugatuck Summer 4.7 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 3 reviews.\nSaugatuck Summer, Amelia C. Gormley Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews I've read and enjoyed Amelia's co authored books - The Professor …. – sexy but short – and at first assumed this was also a short. It's not, its a great length at 326 pages, and lets the reader get fully immersed into Tophers problems...and boy does he have them! At first I found him irritating, he's the narrator and he's quite snippy, and in-your-face gay, but as we got to know him better I felt this was a long held defence mechanism, sort of get in first and premept the critisisms. The more the story goes on the more we learn about just how difficult his life has been, his family are not supportive, he's been pushed from pillar to post, constantly critised even before they knew he was gay – that's just one more stick to beat him with, and he seems to have spent so many year on medications and in therapy that this is what passes as normal for him. I really felt for him - underneath the bravado was a scared biy just wanting to be happy. Then there's the problem of the affair with his friends dad...that has disaster written all over, but we see how it plays out, unintentional and not pre-emtped by him, and I felt once again for poor Topher, no family support, now no best friend and place to live for the summer either. Luckily though there's some people who can help, and the delicious Jace...I loved him, he was so understanding – knowing when to push and when to sit back and listen, and not afraind to apologise when he got it wrong. It's a very emotional read, happy finally – for a while anyway – but its a long, tearjerking haul to get there and so many things to mull over. So much drama, so many lives affected. It's not just a sweet, sappy romance but a deep thinking, emotionally dark at times read. If you like books that are more than one person falls in love with another, want people with real problems, life with its ups and downs then ths book is for you. Stars: five. Arc supplied via Netgalley.\nIn the world of m/m books Ms. Gormley, with just this one book, has set herself apart from the pack with her deeply emotional and intimate characterizations that compel you to keep turning the pages. She digs deeply into each character's psyche and ends up with a cleverly crafted story full of emotional intensity, decisions with realistic ramifications, and a cast of characters with fully fleshed-out personalities that have you rooting for some and wishing evil on others. It's an emotionally draining book that makes its characters work for their HEA. Ultimately it's an uplifting story about one young man's rising above adversity to become the best he can be, warts and all. To say that Topher's childhood was bad would be an understatement. From his mother's emotional and physical neglect, to sexual abuse from a family member, to his entire family's constant put-downs and their destruction of his dreams and self-confidence we're left with a young man who's a bit touchy when having to deal with emotions and who often trades sex for affection and to boost his ego. After years of therapy he's still a man with lots of issues and no real plan for his future. He's an isolated soul with only one close friend, Mo, who lets him stay at her family's beach house while he gets back on his feet after yet another family drama dragged him under yet again. His indecisions lead to a very poor choice involving Mo's closeted father which ends with big emotional fallout and becomes the impetus to truly changing himself. His introduction to, and the deeply sensual and eye-opening encounter with the sexy Jace, also encourages his change in how he sees himself and what he wants out of life. Where the first half of the story finds a still damaged and lost soul, the second half has him taking control of his life and battling the demons from his past head-on. I was cheering him on every step of the way and happy he had someone as understanding and supportive as Jace standing beside him as he finally addressed the hurts and sins of his family and found a new family in Jace and the close-knit group of friends he found in this beachside town. Topher is a larger than life character who could be overly dramatic one minute and charming the next. He could admit his faults and knew when he did wrong but it was hard to stop the cycle of self-destruction that became ingrained in him courtesy of his family. I applauded his finally taking control though and found it a heroic moment which left me misty-eyed and proud of his truly becoming an adult. Jace is super sexy and supportive. He's got some baggage of his own but was always there for Topher, pushing him to follow his dreams and giving him the confidence he craved and had been searching for. Their scenes are scorching and earth-shattering and I become sweaty just thinking about them. More than just sex, they made a deep connection where Topher was able to see himself as something more, a man worthy of love and happiness. Jace had an old soul and was wise beyond his years and his softly spoken support was just what the doctor ordered. The other denizens of this beachside town that Topher slowly came to count on and call friend were just as supportive and didn't take any of his melodramatic crap. Each forced him to stop hiding and to stop spinning in circles, they gave him the tools to face his future head-on. I enjoyed each and every one of them and hope to see more of them in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 404, "original_length": 33714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.batemanbattersby.com.au/faqs_guides/updating-your-will/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:29Z", "digest": "sha1:U2GWAYTYPBYQQP3XDCTLIWOCP27IGQLL", "length": 3414, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.batemanbattersby.com.au", "title": "Updating your Will - Bateman Battersby Lawyers", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb FAQs and Guides \u00bb Updating your Will\nNow may be the best time to make a Will or update your existing Will\u2026\nWhen a person dies without a Will, or with a Will that is invalid or partly invalid, significant hardship can be incurred by the deceased\u2019s family. The administration of the deceased\u2019s estate may be delayed which could result in additional costs for the family. Careful preparation of a Will can also avoid the estate being administered under intestacy laws, where government rules determine the process through which the deceased\u2019s estate is allocated. Failing to have a valid Will often leads to disappointed beneficiaries, disputes between family members, and increased costs.\nAn up to date Will for you and for other members of your family makes administration of an estate simpler for an executor. A well drafted Will may also minimise income and capital gains tax and reduce the potential for legal challenges.\nIf your circumstances, or the circumstances of your family members, have changed since making your last Will, your Will should be reviewed. Relevant changes to circumstances could include:\nThe birth or death of children\nThe death of an executor, a business partner or a beneficiary\nThe acquisition or sale of a house, business or other significant asset\nEntering into or ending a de facto relationship\nIn many situations, you or your family members may require more than an updated Will when planning for the future. It is now common for a solicitor to also discuss a range of estate planning options with you including the preparation of additional legal documents, such as an Enduring Power of Attorney, and an Appointment of Enduring Guardian. These documents can provide greater peace of mind for the Will-maker in the management of their affairs.\nand consider granting an Enduring Power of Attorney\u2026\nThere are a wide range of advantages to making an Enduring Power of Attorney, no matter what your age or circumstances.\nMaking an Enduring Power of Attorney in favour of a trustworthy person, to take care of your property and financial affairs if you are not able to do so, is always advisable.\nYou can make the authority given to your Attorney as wide or as restrictive as you like. We can advise you on the likely consequences of the operation of your Enduring Power of Attorney, and the way in which it will assist you.\nIt is crucial to make an Enduring Power of Attorney while you have the mental capacity to do so. It is of course too late to make an Enduring Power of Attorney if you have lost mental capacity through an accident, illness etc. In these circumstances it would be necessary for a relative or friend to apply to the Guardianship Tribunal which will then appoint a \u2018Financial Manager\u2019 for you. Unfortunately, you have little control over this process, and it could result in an appointment which you certainly did not intend.\nand making an Appointment of Enduring Guardian\u2026\nBateman Battersby can assist you with all of these services, or offer you a combination to suit your particular needs in an affordable cost package. Consultation with one of our Lawyers can help to ensure that your affairs are managed in accordance with your wishes.\nPlease contact Scott Johnson or John Bateman on (02) 4731 5899 or by email to willsestates@batemanbattersby.com.au if you would like any further information or to make an appointment about updating or preparing a Will.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 7402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baty.net/2017/annie-leibovitz-teaches-photography/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:54Z", "digest": "sha1:FFHCRQ6VWAQWSJWMV4X7DNHPPIIKHULE", "length": 583, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.baty.net", "title": "Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography - Jack Baty", "raw_content": "A Masterclass featuring Annie Leibovitz looked like a great idea, so I paid the $90 and signed up.\nI enjoyed listening to her perspective and insights on shooting portraits. She works hard on concepts, plans meticulously, and has a \u201cvision\u201d for what and who she\u2019s shooting. The class, however, felt more like a 2-hour documentary than a class. I can\u2019t recommend it at the $90 price. On the other hand, if you\u2019ve already paid the $180 annual subscription fee for the \u201cAll Access Pass\u201d, the class is included and is well worth your time.\nBlog Consolidation Prev Blog consolidation Next", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bayrootcanal.com/procedures/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ENYR4VERM73HKBX6TS5GMZIW2QLLLT7M", "length": 277, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bayrootcanal.com", "title": "Endodontic Procedures Oakland | Root Canal | Apicoectomy", "raw_content": "Today\u2019s advanced endodontic treatments and materials can give you a healthier, more complete smile that can last you a lifetime. Your Oakland, CA Endodontist, Dr. Quang & Dr. Chiu, can help revitalize and maintain your teeth and gums, giving you the smile you\u2019ve always wanted.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/45402800", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:36Z", "digest": "sha1:H3ZM7B2R6YLMEOHVO5F77KFFYDDGBGKX", "length": 3380, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.bbc.co.uk", "title": "Matt O'Connor: Leicester Tigers head coach leaves with immediate effect - BBC Sport", "raw_content": "Matt O'Connor: Leicester Tigers head coach leaves with immediate effect\nO'Connor coached at Leicester between 2010 and 2013 before leaving to take the top job at Leinster and subsequently going to work for Queensland Reds and Tonga\nLeicester Tigers head coach Matt O'Connor has left the club with immediate effect.\nO'Connor, 47, departed 48 hours after the Tigers lost 40-6 at Exeter in their opening Premiership game of the season.\nAssistant coach and club stalwart Geordan Murphy has been put in temporary charge of the first team.\nLeicester missed out on a place in the Premiership play-offs for the first time in 14 seasons in May, ending the season in fifth place.\nListen to reaction in the latest Rugby Union Weekly podcast\nFormer Australia international O'Connor was in his second spell at the club, having been appointed in April 2017. He was a coach under Richard Cockerill between 2010 and 2013.\nHe replaced Aaron Mauger, who had been in charge for four months after Cockerill was sacked by the 10-time Premiership champions.\n\"We believe the time is right to make this change,\" chairman Peter Tom told the club website.\n\"We would like to thank Matt for his hard work and commitment to the club in two spells at Welford Road, and we wish him and his family well for the future.\"\nO'Connor 'lost the dressing room'\nLeicester got into Exeter's 22 just once in their defeat on Saturday - their biggest-ever opening day defeat\nO'Connor was in charge of Leicester for the final three games of the 2016-17 season as the club beat Newcastle and Worcester to seal fourth place, before losing out in the play-off semi-finals by one point at Wasps.\nBut last season the Tigers lost nine times, with defeat at home to Newcastle in the penultimate game of the season ending any hope of a top-four finish.\n\"I'm not surprised he's been sacked,\" former Leicester fly-half Bleddyn Jones told BBC Radio Leicester.\n\"The players weren't on his side and you could see that on Saturday. I think he had lost the dressing room.\n\"His demeanour showed an air of resignation. He played players that had been injured and didn't have match fitness.\n\"He didn't look happy, but I thought they'd give him a month. But obviously, things weren't right in the camp.\"\nMurphy knows Leicester's 'expectations and ambitions'\nGeordan Murphy won 72 caps for Ireland and scored more than 650 points in more than 300 appearances for Leicester as a player\nMurphy won eight domestic and two European titles as a Leicester player.\nHe will lead fellow coaches Mark Bakewell, Boris Stankovich and Brett Deacon until a successor is appointed by the club.\n\"Leicester Tigers will always aspire to challenge for major honours in the incredibly competitive arena of professional elite club rugby and everyone at the club will fully support Geordan and the management group in driving the team forward,\" Tom added in a statement.\n\"Geordan knows the expectations and ambitions of the Tigers as well as anyone after more than 20 years here as player and coach, and we wish him and the team the very best for the challenges ahead.\"\nRugby Union Weekly: Bad Tigers, good Bears and the best pass ever?\nRead more on Rugby Union Weekly: Bad Tigers, good Bears and the best pass ever?\nA blip or in decline? Why did Leicester miss out on play-offs?\nRead more on Leicester Tigers: What's behind Premiership club missing out on play-offs?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 8042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-46883037", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:30Z", "digest": "sha1:WINIKGMPMZOK6OY6DRG3NHXNQJ5WC4H3", "length": 11768, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "www.bbc.com", "title": "'I want to stand up for every woman experiencing abuse' - BBC News", "raw_content": "'I want to stand up for every woman experiencing abuse'\nImage copyright Dworks\nWhen nude photos of leading Ugandan model Judith Heard were published without her consent last year she not only found herself under arrest, but also under attack in the media and online. To break this pattern of victim-blaming, she is now urging Ugandan women to talk openly about sexual abuse - and to show solidarity with one another. She told her own story to Sophie Hemery and Alice McCool.\nSome readers will find this story disturbing\nShe arrives for our interview in a borrowed \u00a350,000 dress. She's a jetsetter and socialite, in London for some modelling engagements and charity events. On the surface, her life differs entirely from that of the average East African. But there is one thing Judith Heard has in common with many women in Uganda.\nA survey conducted in 2016 found that 50% of Ugandan women aged between 15 and 49 had experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence. Heard, whose pre-marriage name was Kantengwa, has experienced both. (We discussed with Judith which name to use for this story, and decided on Kantengwa, though she uses Heard for professional purposes.)\nThe publication of the nude photographs - downloaded, she believes, from a stolen computer or telephone - is just the latest in a long line of abuses she has suffered at the hands of men, she says. She has been silent about them for many years because she has been \"scared to be embarrassed and humiliated\".\n\"We are judged for this, so you keep it to yourself and end up getting your mind messed up psychologically,\" she says. \"I've decided to tell my story because I want to be a free woman. I don't want to walk for the rest of my life with this heavy stone.\"\nSome of Kantengwa's earliest memories are of her father beating her mother, who eventually left home in fear of her life. As a result, at the age of eight, Kantengwa moved to her father's family home in Rwanda - and was raised mainly by her grandmother after her father was killed in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi.\nIt was in Rwanda that she was first raped - at the age of 15, by a family member at home, on the night before her final school exams. The next day, after doing her exams, she ran away.\nKantengwa ended up in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, where she took refuge in a ghetto in the Nyamirambo district - \"a very, very crazy place\", as she puts it. Here she became a performer in a music group. \"Whoever wanted to join would come and you would have a place to sleep, some food,\" she laughs, giving a rendition of her Shania Twain act.\nShe wasn't paid for singing but would \"just survive by being nice to the people in the neighbourhood... to get some beans, some chapati.\" The ethos was: \"If I get, we share. If you get, we share.\"\nAt 17, Kantengwa got a job as a waitress in a club frequented by the rich and famous, and became known as \"the beautiful Ugandan girl who speaks English\". With her earnings, she was able to get her own apartment.\nThings were looking up. So when a woman approached her in the club one night offering her a better life, she felt fate was on her side. She arranged to meet the woman to travel with her to Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where, she was told, she \"might meet somebody nice\u2026 who can take care of you\".\nThe chance of security was too much to turn down. \"I was a little girl and just wanted to find a better life for myself, and find money, and one day go and look for my family,\" she says.\nSkip Instagram post by iamjudithheard\nFirst Tuesday of 2019 and we in it \ud83d\udcaf \ud83e\udd23\nA post shared by JUDITH HEARD \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfc\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@iamjudithheard) on Jan 1, 2019 at 4:12am PST\nEnd of Instagram post by iamjudithheard\nImage Copyright iamjudithheard iamjudithheard\nOn her first night in DRC, \"wearing a very beautiful blue dress, spaghetti straps, with a side cut\" Kantengwa was taken to a restaurant, to dine with the woman she'd met, her friends, and the owner. After dinner, the plan was to go to a nearby nightclub. She wanted to go with the other women, but they insisted she stay behind and travel there with the restaurant owner. She anxiously accepted the plan, though she now understands that \"these were older women, they knew why they had taken me there\".\nWhen the restaurant owner drove past the nightclub, Kantengwa recalls exclaiming, \"No, no, no, no, stop, the club is over here!\" The man explained that because he was married he didn't want people at the club see him, and insisted on parking around the corner.\nKantengwa never made it to the club. On the short walk, somebody hit her on the head and knocked her unconscious. Kantengwa generally tries not to think - let alone talk - about the incident. \"When I woke up, I had an AK47 on my head,\" she says. Two army officers then raped her, one at a time, while the other held the gun to her head.\nBleeding and muddied, Kantengwa walked back to the hotel. She guesses the women \"got money from the owner of the restaurant\" and then left her \"because I was the trophy, the diamond they had brought for this guy\". After identifying her rapists to the police, she returned to Kigali, intending to travel from there to Kampala, Uganda, in search of her mother and sister, and some stability.\nWith the help of a foreigner, Max (not his real name), who she'd met on her first night in Goma, Kantengwa succeeded in tracing them.\n\"He was like, 'I got your sister, I got your mother, so now everyone is fine. I want you to come to Kampala so you can be my girlfriend,'\" says Kantengwa.\nShe was attracted to this dynamic character, but describes her relationship as \"jumping into another fire\u2026 not the fire of being raped left, right and centre, but the fire of a man that is now obsessed with you\".\nMax supported Kantengwa financially, but in return expected her not to go out alone. He banned her from having a phone or working. \"I had to obey his rules,\" Kantengwa says. \"I had no choice.\"\nHer outings involved been taken by Max to see her sister, or accompanying him to high-end restaurants, bars and clubs. It was at these events that Kantengwa began to build up a social group - and get noticed by Kampala's fashion and photography circles. But this infuriated Max. One night he pulled out a gun in public and proceeded to beat her when they got home. She ran away to her sister's, but went back to Max when he apologised.\nSkip Instagram post 2 by iamjudithheard\n#BlackPanther #WakandaForever #blackmagic \ud83d\udda4\nA post shared by JUDITH HEARD \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddfc\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@iamjudithheard) on Feb 16, 2018 at 11:28pm PST\nEnd of Instagram post 2 by iamjudithheard\n\"As a young girl you think, 'He's fighting because he loves me.' But when I think about it today I'm like, 'Oh wow that was a very abusive relationship,'\" says Kantengwa. She finally ran away after Max slept with her cousin - but then had to hide from him. He would regularly drive round to look for Kantengwa at her sister's house, forcing them both to lie low and pretend that nobody was in.\nWith Max gone, Kantengwa could finally relax. She moved into a house with a group of female friends and would go out dancing in clubs until five in the morning. Simultaneously, her modelling career took off. She enjoyed the independence this brought her, so when - at 19 - she caught the eye of a wealthy 54-year-old American, Richard Heard, she initially brushed him off.\nHeard knew what to offer, however. Kantengwa's mother was seriously unwell at the time. He said he'd take care of her. He also offered to pay Kantengwa's sister's university fees, and to support the whole family.\n\"I was getting attracted to the way he treated me,\" says Kantengwa. With years of violence and insecurity behind her, she felt now was her chance at \"finally having peace and having a good life without struggling\". She felt the financial stability would allow her the freedom to do work she loved, and the idea of \"somebody who was taking care of me\" was reassuring.\nMarrying a rich white man thrust Kantengwa further into the spotlight, however, and exposed her to a blast of public criticism.\n\"I was judged by the public as a gold-digger,\" she says. \"I was bashed in every corner.\"\nWhile Kantengwa and Heard had three children together, one adopted, and \"a very nice house and cars\", she says she was still not free. Her husband didn't want her to go out on her own, she says, and she felt trapped \"having to live every day saying to myself, 'Oh, I cannot dress like this because he won't like it, I cannot write this [on social media] because he won't like it.'\"\nAfter an 11-year relationship the couple separated and Kantengwa says she now looks forward to expressing herself \"without constraints\".\nBut Kantengwa's problems arising from the publication of nude photographs of her have exposed her to more criticism than ever. The shots first emerged in 2013, but were republished last May, leading to her arrest in August under Uganda's strict new Anti-Pornography Act. Although able to travel, she is currently on bail waiting for a court date to be set, and faces a possible two-year sentence.\nImage caption The Anti-Pornography Act initially tried to ban mini-skirts\n\"So many people have judged me,\" she says, \"the media has bashed me.\"\nOn Instagram she has more than 160,000 followers - and while some stay loyal to her, others now dissect her choices in life on social media, leaving disparaging comments.\nLast May when the photos were leaked, one commenter accused her of publishing the photographs herself \"to show off\", another described her genitals as \"abnormal\". She now finds herself attacked on everything from her intelligence to her weight.\n\"Some people look up to somebody but they don't know their story,\" observes Kantengwa. \"Or some people end up judging you, and you ask yourself: 'Do they know what I've gone through to be where I am?'\"\nBut speaking out could gain her more enemies than fans.\nWomen the world over are often blamed for violence against them, and in Uganda legislation has fuelled this. The government attempted to use the Anti-Pornography Act to ban women from wearing miniskirts but then back-pedalled when they started getting attacked and undressed in the street. More recently it has used the act to arrest victims of revenge porn. Archaic laws also remain in place which allow courts to favour men in cases of marital rape.\nImage caption Judith Kantengwa / Heard in London in the borrowed \u00a350,000 dress\nStill, Kantengwa, who has noted the power of the #MeToo movement, hopes she can inspire women and girls to come out and tell their stories.\n\"If we have more people willing to listen and believe\u2026 that would make life much easier for women,\" she says.\nShe doesn't blame women for having been among her harshest critics.\n\"They are fighting because men are making us fight,\" she says. \"Women want validation from men, but we should give ourselves validation.\"\nHaving long searched for a man with whom to \"live happily ever after\", she says she is now \"living my best life not controlled by my past or any man\".\nInstead of seeking security from men, she wants women to feel: \"You know what? I'm going to love me, I'm going to love my friend\u2026 and we're going to team up and we're going to make a better world for everyone.\"\n\"I want to stand up for every woman that is out there who is going through something who cannot come out and say it,\" says Kantengwa. \"I want to help them, I want to take their hand.\"\nThey often fled their homelands to escape sexual abuse - but for many asylum seekers, it continues in the UK. Fear of deportation typically means they don't tell police, but one effect of the #MeToo revelations is that they have now begun to talk about their experiences among themselves.\nSecret world: The women in the UK who cannot report sexual abuse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 15385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 239.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beachside.co.uk/event/english-national-surfing-championships/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WV2LZKNHPEJQNPQE526O2H7EADLIEKNL", "length": 658, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.beachside.co.uk", "title": "English National Surfing Championships", "raw_content": "English National Surfing Championships\n\u00ab Falmouth Tall Ships Regatta 2014\nRNAS Culdrose Air Day \u00bb\nThe English National Surfing Championships will see the next generation of young surfers battle to knock established competitors off the top spot over three divisions.\nThe Championships are one of the UK\u2019s longest-running surfing competitions. The English Surfing Federation is a volunteer organisation that primarily exists in its current form to ensure that National Champions are awarded in various surfing categories and to ensure there is representation of a strong English Squad at the European Surfing Championships in both Junior and Senior categories.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 4129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beadinggem.com/2013/05/the-virgin-queens-jewels.html?showComment=1369795428762", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2KWAFBWQEZRIKPJC2TUG7NGIGRX76C3", "length": 15839, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "www.beadinggem.com", "title": "The Virgin Queen's Jewels - The Beading Gem's Journal", "raw_content": "The Virgin Queen's Jewels\nby The Beading Gem Sunday, May 12, 2013\nWhen she was born, no one thought Elizabeth I of England (1533-1603) would grow up to become queen, let alone one of the greatest queens in history. Her more than 40 years on the throne brought relative peace and prosperity to England after the unsettling reigns of her half-brother Edward and half sister, Mary and before that, of their father, Henry VIII.\nShe was the daughter of Henry and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. Her birth was disastrous for her mother as she was not the son and heir Henry desperately wanted. Anne later miscarried a son ironically on the day of Catherine of Aragon's (his first wife) funeral. By that time Henry had already set his eyes on his future third wife, Jane Seymour.\nElizabeth lost her mother when she was not yet 3. Henry had Anne executed on trumped up charges of adultery so he could be free to marry again. She was a precocious child even at that tender age. She asked her household governor why she was called \"my lady princess\" one day and then just plain \"my lady\" the next. Henry had had his daughter declared illegitimate and she was removed from the line of succession for a time.\nWhile Henry rarely saw Elizabeth, he did provide for her and she idolized him. Like her father, Elizabeth was highly intelligent and she thrived under the tutelage of some of the best scholars of her time. Her education and gift for languages stood her in good stead when she became queen.\nNo one knows when Elizabeth found out about her mother but it must have deeply affected her as she rarely referred to Anne Boleyn as an adult. She also didn't want to draw attention to her illegitimacy which was never rescinded.\nHowever, one surviving piece of jewelry is her locket ring, which now belongs to the Chequers Trust. This lovely ruby, diamond and pearl ring opens up displaying 2 miniature enamel portraits. One is that of Elizabeth when she was in her 40's. The other is of her mother. Her silent bond to Anne was through this ring which she wore right up to her death.\nDiamonds form the E and the R (for Regina or Queen) is in blue enamel\nAdversity in her youth strengthened her for her future role. Elizabeth learned the hard way how to keep her mouth shut, not to draw attention to herself and to control her emotions. Her reputation was nearly tarnished as a 14-year-old by a much older man who should have known better. She was living with her stepmother, the saintly Catherine Parr, Henry's last wife and widow at the time. Catherine quickly put her out of harm's way when she discovered her husband, Thomas Seymour, attempting to seduce Elizabeth.\nPrincess Elizabeth at about 13\nA far more dangerous period came along later when her half sister, the staunchly Catholic Mary, had become queen after the early death of their half brother, Edward VI, Henry's heir. Mary was convinced Elizabeth was a closet Protestant - which she was. When she was 21, Elizabeth spent a terrifying 3 months in the Tower of London on suspicion of involvement with a Protestant rebellion. Each day she thought might be her last. She remembered, \"I stood in danger of my life; my sister was so incensed against me.\"\nElizabeth became queen of England at 25 after Mary died. She had survived a turbulent time and still face many more challenges ahead. The England Elizabeth inherited was not a wealthy one and beset with financial, religious and political problems.\nBoth France and Spain, far more powerful nations, were serious threats to England's sovereignty. After her sister's murderous reign when 300 Protestants were burnt at the stake - Mary's brutal effort to return England back to the Catholic fold - her people too were very wary of another woman on the throne.\nQueen Mary I \"Bloody Mary\"\nSo one of the first acts Elizabeth did was to choose her advisers wisely. Her chief and best, most loyal councilor was William Cecil who served her for decades. He was discrete, hard working and above all, a wise man.\nThe other man she leaned on for much of her reign was the dashing Robert Dudley, the 1st Earl of Leicester, a childhood friend. He was the same age as her and they had much in common. Dudley had also spent time in the Tower and feared for his life around the time of her own incarceration so it was a shared experience.\nPair of stamp size miniatures of Elizabeth I and her favourite Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.\nDudley was the only man she ever really loved. He was a good match for her in many ways - well educated, attractive, witty, athletic, cultivated and able to dance and sing as well. Elizabeth loved to dance and she made no secret of her attraction for him. She showered titles and favors on him. For years Dudley hoped to marry her but he was not a free man. When his ailing wife was found dead in mysterious circumstances, his chances of marrying Elizabeth did not improve but were instead dashed forever. The suspicion he might have had her killed in order to free himself for marriage to his queen dogged him for the rest of his days. His lifelong affection for her was real though.\nEveryone expected her to marry and produce an heir. But Elizabeth firmly and consistently said she would marry no one. Dudley once recalled Elizabeth declaring she would never marry when she was just 8. This was around the time when her father, Henry had his 5th wife, the young and flighty, Catherine Howard, executed.\nThe sticky issue of marriage remained for years. The House of Commons even sent a petition asking her to marry to secure the succession. Her reply? She showed her coronation ring and said, \"I am already bound unto a husband, which is the kingdom of England.\" She promised that the kingdom would not be without an heir but consistently refused to name one.\nShe went further and said, \"In the end, this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a queen, having reigned such a time, lived and died a virgin.\" It was very hard for everyone to accept that she didn't want to marry as this was a very alien thought for her time. Elizabeth knew once she married, she would lose her independence. She also admitted certain events in her youth made her view the married state as a dangerous one.\nBut that didn't stop the politically astute Elizabeth from entertaining the hopes of foreign royalty that she might marry one of them. She dangled them the carrot for years. Her subjects weren't too keen on any of them because they were all Catholic. But Elizabeth knew she had to be on friendly terms with much more powerful nations like Spain and France.\nElizabeth had to work at convincing people she was strong enough to rule on her own. She aimed for a stable and orderly government. One historian said, \"her watchwords were to be caution, compromise and moderation.\" She made it absolutely clear to her Council and the members of the Commons she would not be easily manipulated just because she was a woman. Her councilors certainly found her stubborn and often unpredictable and not above shouting and swearing at them at times.\nAnother issue she had to tackle when she became queen was the lack of money. She had to pay off Queen Mary's debts and finance the needs of the court and government. She sold off Crown lands and lived within her means - her expenses stayed under \u00a3300,000 per annum throughout her long reign. Some called her mean but she was in reality prudent with her finances.\nElizabeth I Rainbow portrait courtesy of Hatfield House\nBut she knew she still had to set the tone for her status. Her legendary wardrobe consisted of some 3000 elaborate gowns encrusted in gems. These were mainly for official functions as she herself had simple tastes. It took her ladies 2 hours to get her ready each day. She wore so many jewels she often bedazzled observers in candlelight. Her extensive jewelry collection (over 600 pieces in 1587) was so famous even the Pope was envious.\nMany of the pieces were inherited from her parents like her mother's initial \"B\" pendant shown in Anne Boleyn's portrait above. Courtiers also gifted her jewelry and she received many looted from Spanish treasure ships. Several pieces were engraved with her motto Semper Eadem (Always the Same). Her favorite pieces were in the shape of ships or animals or were novelty pieces with puns on her name or had symbolic meanings.\nGalleon Ship Necklace by Bill Skinner, V and A Shop\nThis necklace is similar in feel to the 16th-century ship pendant given by Queen Elizabeth I to her cousin, Lord Hunsdon. Pendants of ships grew in popularity during this time.\nOne of her most spectacular pieces was the 6-stranded-necklace of large pearls which once belonged to Queen Mary of Scots. She outbid Queen Catherine de Medici of France for those. The pearls can be seen in several state portraits like the Armada portrait shown below. Pearls were a symbol of her virginity. Some of the pearls are now in the Imperial State Crown but most, like the majority of her jewelry collection, were dispersed after her death.\nHaving lived through a harrowing time under her sister's rule, Elizabeth disliked religious extremes, Catholic or Protestant. She killed a Puritan bill banning all entertainment and sports on Sunday because she thought people should be allowed to choose what they wished to do on the only day of rest they had. As head of the Anglican church, she insisted on retaining some features of Catholic ritual but in English in an effort to unite her people under her.\nBut there was one religious based threat which was not so easily overcome. Mary, Queen of Scots, her cousin, had the strongest claim to the English succession. Mary was a courageous but foolish woman whose poor decisions ultimately cost her own son's allegiance and her life (see biography linked below).\nMary fled to England after the Scottish nobles forced her to abdicate in favor of her young son. Her presence in England was untenable because Mary was a focus for Catholics in England who were against Elizabeth's rule. If Elizabeth was to die before Mary, then England would have a Catholic queen once more. Elizabeth agonized over the decision to execute Mary even after she knew Mary was plotting against her. But she reluctantly did so in the end.\nElizabeth was generally astute, pragmatic and not afraid to compromise. She stuck to her priorities to do what was right for her country and to avoid unnecessary war. The most serious crisis in her reign happened when Spain sent an armada to invade England. She acted decisively. Her ships helped repel the unfortunate fleet. She herself went to address her troops with a stirring and famous speech:\n\" I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too, and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any Prince of Europe should dare to invade the borders of my realm.\"\nA stylized depiction of key elements of the Armada story: the alarm beacons, Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury, and the sea battle at Gravelines.\nNo invasion occurred and her people rejoiced. There were those, who criticized her inaction after the Armada crisis. Spain lost that battle but they still had the upper hand in the skirmishes between both nations. Elizabeth refused to succumb to any action which smacked of vainglory.\nCecil paid her tribute, \"There was never so wise woman born as Queen Elizabeth for she spake and understood all languages, know all estates and dispositions and prices, and particularly was so expert in the knowledge of her own realm as no councilor she had could tell her what she knew not before.\"\nThe Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I commemorated the defeat of the Spanish Armada\nRobert Dudley died not long after the Armada crisis from what historians believe to be stomach cancer. Elizabeth was grief stricken with the loss of a man who was close to her for over 30 years. She called him \"her brother and best friend\". He willed her a diamond and emerald pendant, a rope of 600 beautiful pearls...... and left his third wife with debts of \u00a350,000!\nShe cultivated the aura of the Virgin Queen for most of her years as monarch. Some doubted her virginity but the rumors of impropriety were not likely to be true because she never had any privacy. The cult of courtly love persisted right until her old age.\nThis cult meant Elizabeth's portraits were almost all painted with the \"mask of youth\" - an eternally young looking queen even when she was old. One exception is the portrait below showing an aged queen.\nShe favored male courtiers with \"invisible\" wives -the men were expected to pay her attention in the way of a hopeless lover worships from afar. One courtier described it as \"fishing for men's souls\". She also hated Robert Dudley's third wife when he remarried (he denied marrying his second wife).\nElizabeth I in her sixties\nIt wasn't all one sided. She did fascinate men but kept them guessing all the time. She also had a wonderful sense of humor. The embarrassed Earl of Oxford went into self imposed exile for 7 years after breaking wind while bowing to her. When he returned, she received him warmly, and said with a twinkle in her eye, \"My Lord, I had forgot the fart.\"\nMarked by her early experiences, she hated loud noises, couldn't stand closed windows and spaces and had intermittent panic attacks. But in general, Elizabeth enjoyed good health for much of her long life. She survived a couple of serious illnesses including a bout of smallpox. She exercised vigorously and had a lot of nervous energy and stamina often exhausting her courtiers and foreign ambassadors. She did her regular progresses or royal tours well into her old age which all contributed to her enormous popularity.\nAs she grew older, she suffered from headaches and rheumatism. Things worsened after she was forced to have her upstart favorite, the irresponsible and ultimately rebellious 2nd Earl of Essex (stepson of Robert Dudley) executed for treason. Weary and sad after that, she suffered from bouts of depression in her final two years.\nRobert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex\nShe caught a cold. Fever set in, and she began to have trouble sleeping and eating. She refused to do what her doctors wanted or to go to bed. Instead she laid down on cushions on the floor. Her aides finally got her to bed where she eventually passed away in her sleep. She was 70.\nThe Tudor dynasty drew to a close with her death. James VI of Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots' son became James I of England, uniting both nations for the first time.\nAlison Weir, The Life of Elizabeth I\nMary, Queen of Scots' Jewels\nQueen Jane Seymour's Jewels\nCatherine de Medici - the Dark Queen's Jewels\nThe Virgin Queen's Jewels Reviewed by The Beading Gem on Sunday, May 12, 2013 Rating: 5\nWhat a fascinating account...just reading this made my day :)\nWilli May 13, 2013 at 7:00 AM\nVery interesting and well written post!\nAlmost Precious May 13, 2013 at 9:43 AM\nWonderful post and proves that the lives of monarchs is not all that easy or stress free. Most of the time they lived in fear of losing their throne and losing their lives.\nI adore the Queen's ring and think it is as relevant in style today as it was during her lifetime.\nShaiha May 16, 2013 at 12:02 AM\nWhat a wonderful account of her as it shows both her strengths and weaknesses. She really was a fascinating woman.\nShe was indeed a complicated but strong woman. I enjoyed writing about her. Sad really that she did not know her mother.\nBetteJo May 28, 2013 at 10:43 PM\nI would never seek out these history lessons on my own so I'm glad you make them so fascinating!\nmary ann October 20, 2013 at 12:21 PM\nI just love your articles on jewels historical figures and ancient cultures. Thank you for such a wonderful site.\nPearl Blay October 20, 2013 at 5:23 PM\nThanks Mary Ann! I love history too!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 20195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beautyinsuranceplus.com/minnesota-cosmetology-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:XBW4ZFSZ3NU7SX2OTBTQA537GG7TPMZ5", "length": 3419, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.beautyinsuranceplus.com", "title": "Minnesota Cosmetology Insurance - Beauty Insurance Plus", "raw_content": "Minnesota Cosmetology InsuranceTDG-admin2016-09-19T18:49:24+00:00\nWhen you think cosmetology, do yo think of hair styling? Nail techs? Make-up artists? All of these professions fall under the umbrella of cosmetology.\nOnce you obtain your cosmetology license in the state of Minnesota and begin practicing, it is critical to carry the appropriate liability insurance to protect your career and professional reputation. Cosmetology liability insurance covers you in case of a lawsuit and can also cover you financially by paying legal defenses in the event that a claim against you is made.\nYou may be thinking that you don\u2019t need insurance\u2014maybe you have partial coverage under your employer. But, this is not enough to protect a reputation and business you have worked thousands of hours to achieve. Due to the closeness of most cosmetic services, there will never be zero percent risk. Fortunately, beauty insurance covers these risks, so you can practice stress-free.\nProfessional liability (malpractice): protects any claims involving negligence or error on behalf of the services you provide. It covers you professionally if a client files claims that his or her error caused injury or financial loss. For example, if a hair dye causes a negative skin reaction on a client\u2019s scalp resulting in injury or financial loss on behalf of the client, he or she can choose to file a claim against you.\nGeneral liability (trip-and-fall scenario): protects any cosmetologist who allows clients into his or her property. General liability insurance covers you professionally from lawsuits stemming from damages that occurred on your business premise. For example, if a client slips on hair that hasn\u2019t been swept on the floor suffering an injury, he or she could choose to file a claim against you.\nMistakes can happen that are either in or out of your control. There are many different scenarios that could lead to a claim filed against you\u2014equipment malfunctioning, products that cause clients to have negative skin reactions, or instruments not sanitized properly that cause infection. These scenarios and more can be financially hindering to your business and cause a decrease in your credibility as a beauty professional.\nBecause of the vastness of the industry and the closeness of the majority of the services provided, there will never be zero percent risk of accidents happening. Even an experienced beauty professional can make a mistake or fall into a circumstance out of his or her control. Either way, it is best to be prepared with the appropriate beauty liability insurance to not let your financial well-being or license be at stake.\nMinnesota Cosmetology FAQs\nIf you have a high school diploma or GED, you are eligible to obtain a cosmetology license in the state of Minnesota.\nYes, you need a cosmetology license, 1,400 work hours, 38 training hours, and completed three exams.\nDoes the state of Minnesota require me to complete continuing education units (CEUs)?\nYes, cosmetologists are required to complete four CEUs every three years, and instructors are required to complete 45 CEUs every three years.\nA person practicing cosmetology must renew his or her license every three years\u2014along with a $81 dollar fee.\nMoving to Minnesota from another state?\nNo problem, just make sure you have verification of licensure, a high school diploma, and complete the appropriate exams and application for reciprocity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/news/craig-melvin-promoted-to-weekday-news-co-anchor-for-today-show", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:23Z", "digest": "sha1:PX7H5HB4TGDNU6GFOAGTHRN2AN7DAKLX", "length": 1723, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.becauseofthemwecan.com", "title": "Craig Melvin Promoted To Weekday News Co-Anchor For \u2018Today\u2019 Show \u2013 BOTWC", "raw_content": "Home \u203a News \u203a Craig Melvin Promoted To Weekday News Co-Anchor For \u2018Today\u2019 Show\nCraig Melvin Promoted To Weekday News Co-Anchor For \u2018Today\u2019 Show\n4th September 2018 by BOTWC Staff\nPhoto via: Craig Melvin\nLong-time news anchor Craig Melvin has just been promoted to weekday news co-anchor for the \u201cToday\u201d show. The announcement was made Tuesday morning by his new co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb.\nMost recently, Melvin served as a Saturday co-anchor for the \u201cToday\u201d show and a correspondent and fill-in anchor for the show\u2019s weekday edition. On August 25, he announced that he was stepping down from his Saturday position. At the time, he didn\u2019t mention any details about his next steps.\n\"For the better part of the past year, I have been pulling triple duty here at NBC News,\u201d Deadline reports him saying at the time. \"It's a lot for anyone, even someone who loves what he does as much as I do.\"\nThe 39-year-old tells South Carolina\u2019s \"The State\" newspaper that his new appointment as a weekday anchor for the popular morning show is a dream come true for him and an ultimate career highlight.\nDreams come true. So excited to join the @TODAYshow family. https://t.co/P1AXkAHI1k\n\u2014 Craig Melvin (@craigmelvin) September 4, 2018\nThe 'Today' show has been around for 65 years now,\" he explains. \"It's one of the few institutions left in broadcast television. So to be a part of that Monday through Friday, it's a pinch-myself moment. It really is.\"\nDuring today\u2019s announcement about his new position, Melvin said: \"Before we start this whole new thing, I wanted to just thank my parents, who sacrificed so much for me to go to school and get here.\"\nCongratulations, Craig! We wish you the best of luck in your new role.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 8543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beckon.com/press/beckon-expands-executive-team-names-bernardo-de-albergaria-ceo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RAXQ5YF7QVBNXTR7YCNDGK3WIYTUZ6YN", "length": 3441, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.beckon.com", "title": "Press | Beckon Marketing Intelligence, Analytics + Dashboards", "raw_content": "Technology and marketing veteran to continue Beckon\u2019s momentum in product innovation and customer expansion.\nSAN MATEO, CA\u2014March 16, 2017\u2014Beckon, The Source of Truth for Marketing\u2122 and performance analytics partner to many of the world\u2019s biggest brands, today announced the appointment of Bernardo de Albergaria to CEO, leveraging his go-to-market and technology experience to continue Beckon\u2019s remarkable growth. Former CEO and Beckon co-founder Jennifer Zeszut remains on the board of directors and will transition to Chief Customer Officer, continuing to play a critical and strategic role for the organization.\nThe Beckon board, which includes co-founders Zeszut and Jochen Frey, CTO, made the unanimous decision to add de Albergaria to the executive team as CEO to continue the company\u2019s rapid growth both globally and within top marketing verticals, including CPG, entertainment, and financial services. Beckon\u2019s customer base now includes many top brands at the forefront of today\u2019s agile marketing revolution\u2014The Coca-Cola Company, Campbell Soup Company, IBM, Nestle, Regal Entertainment Group, Scotts Miracle-Gro, Warner Bros., and more.\nThe addition of de Albergaria, who has extensive scaling experience, follows Beckon\u2019s recently announced funding round, led by Venrock, which had the express intent of rapidly growing the company. Since that announcement, the company has also welcomed new financial partner Focus Opportunity Fund to its investor base.\n\u201cWe knew brands needed a source of truth for marketing performance, so we built great software and created a category,\u201d said Zeszut. \u201cBut the kinds of brands that are choosing Beckon, how rapidly they\u2019re expanding with us, and how fast we\u2019re being pulled globally is beyond our wildest dreams. Our road ahead is scaling, scaling, scaling. Bernardo has run big, global, fast-growing software teams with tremendous success, and that\u2019s exactly what we need right now. Following in the footsteps of other great companies\u2014from Google to LinkedIn and the like\u2014this move strengthens our overall leadership team as we scale. And I get to increase my focus on our customers, ensuring that they come first in everything we do.\u201d\nMost recently, de Albergaria was VP and GM of the collaboration product group at Atlassian, where he was responsible for driving the growth and strategic direction of the company\u2019s collaboration product family, which includes Confluence and HipChat. Prior to Atlassian, Bernardo held several executive roles at Citrix, including VP and GM of the company\u2019s SaaS products, its collaboration line of business, and its global marketing and eCommerce division. He has also successfully built and launched new brands, products and services for several high-tech and consumer startups, including Sprint, Infonet, and Teletech.\n\u201cJennifer\u2019s vision to create the source of truth for marketing, and her incredible leadership in getting there, has resulted in one of the most disruptive companies in marketing technology today,\u201c said de Albergaria. \u201cThere\u2019s no limit to how far Beckon can go, and the opportunity to lead the next chapter is both humbling and exhilarating. We will continue to create breakthrough marketing technology. We will continue delighting customers at every turn. And we will continue to expand our leadership position because of it.\u201d\nFor more information, visit the Beckon blog.\nTo join the conversation, follow Beckon on Twitter at @BeckonInc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.behaviourworksaustralia.org/masters-sustainable-universe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:14Z", "digest": "sha1:56LMISRBD52C4QNVNZGMZV5QWXM4N354", "length": 2870, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.behaviourworksaustralia.org", "title": "Masters of the (sustainable) universe - BehaviourWorks Australia", "raw_content": "Firsts, facts and futures\nFirst things first; the inaugural Master of Environment and Sustainability course has begun in 2017 at Monash University. It\u2019s the first cross-faculty Masters course at Monash. It\u2019s also the first time a Masters unit in behaviour change has been offered in Australia. The first group of graduate students has completed their first semester, and all have passed!\nOne specialisation on offer is Leadership for Sustainable Development (run by Monash\u2019s Sustainable Development Institute) and within this unit is \u2018Understanding Human Behaviour to Influence Change\u2019. With the initial intake of 15 students presenting their projects on 25 May, it\u2019s time to celebrate this historic occasion for BehaviourWorks Australia (BWA).\nThese future leaders in sustainable development come from every continent and range in ages from 22 to 60. According to the course guide, they are committed to implementing \u2018sustainability solutions in a range of contexts\u2019, and that\u2019s exactly what they presented; behavioural change approaches to sustainability issues.\nThey also presented a surprising range of facts to back up their interventions, such as did you know \u2013\nEvery 30 days, the sun emits enough energy to equal all the energy gained from fossil fuels?\nOtters are one of the least hated animals?\nThere is a \u2018micro-season\u2019 for fashion every single week of the year?\nA \u2018maven\u2019 is not a bird, it\u2019s is an expert or enthusiast?\nThe 15 students in the BWA unit, in groups of three, took an environmental issue and gave it the \u2018BWA approach\u2019; applying the overall BehaviourWorks process of exploring the problem, deep diving into the background behaviours that contribute to it, and applying options and interventions to bring about change for good.\nEach had a few minutes to share their insights, tools for change and sustainable solutions to behavioural problems like poor employee engagement with recycling, solar uptake in Victoria, office power consumption, beef consumption in the US and reducing the overconsumption of fast fashion.\nWhile they may be locally focussed, these issues point to the big sustainability challenges of our time, as consumption of resources by developed societies is having global impacts. The course sets out to build an understanding of individual behaviours and identify opportunities for change by targeting specific drivers of behaviour. And although many principles of behavioural science are taught, the outcomes are designed for practical application to real-world problems and real-world solutions.\nWith the Sustainable Development Goals, outlined by the United Nations as being critically important, this particular unit (possibly one of the first of its kind in the universe) is equipping graduates with the behaviour change skills needed to take on the challenges of sustainability and create a future we all want to live in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beliefnet.com/wellness/health/emotional-health/bipolar/the-spiritual-life-and-bipolar-disorder.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4P34BBFU7UBRYHM6W64NWYA3NFJZXS4Z", "length": 2951, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.beliefnet.com", "title": "Beyond Blue blogger Therese Borchard discusses bipolar disorder and spirituality - Beliefnet", "raw_content": "The Spiritual Life and Bipolar Disorder\nHaving bipolar disorder doesn't mean you can't also have a spiritual life. In fact, it may help.\nI don't think I'm romanticizing my bipolar disorder in saying that my real faith, the engine that propels me to love better and be better, was born during my severely ill days, that my mood disorder has been a helping hand in teaching me what I'm made of.\nNot only can bipolar disorder act as a refiner's fire, purifying the faith of a believer, but manic depression itself, can mimic the behavior of someone growing in her spiritual life. That's great news for me! The next time I get manic and tell an inappropriate joke to a colleague, I can say that I'm just getting closer to God, that's all. A confusing statement, but a true one, I believe.\nCarmelite scholar Kevin Culligan, O.C.D., explains this concept in his fascinating essay that was published as part of Dr. Keith J. Egan's book, \"Carmelite Prayer: A Tradition for the 21st Century\":\n\"The spiritual life can also easily mask a bipolar disorder or what has traditionally been called a manic-depressive condition. As a mood disorder, depression has usually been linked in systems of classifications of mental disorders with mania, an agitated mood that is at the other end of the affective continuum opposite a depressed or dysphoric mood. Manic symptoms are many: inappropriate elation, excessive irritability, severe insomnia, grandiose notions, increased talking, disconnected and racing thoughts, heightened sexual desire, markedly increased energy, poor judgment, and disruptive social behavior. These symptoms may suddenly appear in a person committed to the spiritual journey and life of prayer as making dramatic prophetic gestures, for example, standing on the street corner denouncing abortion or announcing the imminent Second Coming, or giving away one\u2019s financial savings to charitable causes.\n\"Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross both stress that social consciousness and service of others are effects of genuine contemplative prayer. However, the sudden extreme, and, to one's family and friends, embarrassing character of a manic episode makes it easily distinguishable from the social fruits of contemplative prayer. Two or more of the manic symptoms noted above continuing over a two-month period can be an indicator of a bipolar disorder.\n\"As with serious depressive symptoms, evaluation and, if necessary, treatment are recommended. Just as we suspect something wrong when a person is continually down, with low energy, and withdrawn, so we also suspect something amiss when a person is on a continual high, with boundless energy, and talking incessantly.\n\"The diagnostic rule of thumb with mood disorders is balance between ups and downs. When we observe someone at either end of the mood continuum, higher or lower than we expect in normal everyday life, we may suspect a bipolar condition that is possibly in need of treatment.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 7256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bellinghamnetworking.com/join/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EJYJE2V6BQTHAZPUROKFLJSMCXIYAPCL", "length": 643, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bellinghamnetworking.com", "title": "Join the BEA | The Bellingham Executives Association", "raw_content": "How to Apply to the BEA:\nFor those who wish to join, the process is to attend 2 meetings in a row, and the second meeting an application can be turned in along with the application fee of $120. The membership will be voted on the application at the 3rd meeting, which the applicant would skip. The applicant will be notified after this meeting regarding membership approval. If the applicant is not voted in, the application fee is refunded.\nWe want BEA to be affordable yet functional. There is a one-time $120 application fee, $240 or prorated $20 per month regardless of whether or not you attend, are all due ($360) by the end of February.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 161.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bellsandwhistlesyvr.ca/events/2019/1/31/oscars-2019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OVLXN3275MWW2EYOGC2V6HDWL64U6644", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bellsandwhistlesyvr.ca", "title": "Oscars 2019 \u2014 Bells and Whistles", "raw_content": "Source:: https://www.bellsandwhistlesyvr.ca/oscars2019/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 240.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bendbulletin.com/localstate/education/6313640-151/education-notes?referrer=more", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZYUTKBP75HEDKUHDNHWBGIGMQOVE34R", "length": 3641, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.bendbulletin.com", "title": "Education notes;", "raw_content": "Heath Pickhardt - Bulletin\nHeath Pickhardt 7541769\nMckinzee Mode - Bulletin\nMckinzee Mode 7541836\nMaddox Johns - Bulletin\nMaddox Johns 7541754\n\u2022 Kristine Gu, of Bend, has graduated from Tulane University with a doctor of medicine degree and a master\u2019s degree in public health following the spring 2018 semester.\n\u2022 Maxwell Cook, of Bend, has graduated from Gonzaga University magna cum laude following the spring of 2018 semester.\n\u2022 Claire Henson, of Bend, has graduated from Gonzaga University magna cum laude following the spring of 2018 semester.\n\u2022 Abigail Sorlie, of Bend, has graduated from Gonzaga University summa cum laude following the spring of 2018 semester.\n\u2022 Brandon Pollard, of Sisters, has graduated from Gonzaga University following the spring of 2018 semester.\n\u2022 Hannah Church, of Bend, has graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor\u2019s degree from the Lutgert College of Business following the spring 2018 semester.\n\u2022 Heath Pickhardt, a 2018 graduate from Crook County High School, won the school\u2019s first-ever Booster Club Athlete of the Year (male) award. Heath, catcher for the Crook County Cowboys, earned a 3.90 GPA while batting a .274 for the season with a team high seven doubles, three home runs, 30 RBIs and 31 runs scored. He received a $1,500 scholarship with the award along with scholarships from the Rotary Club and Ward Rhodan Fund. He is the son of Dave and Amee \u201cAJ\u201d Pickhardt, of Powell Butte.\n\u2022 Mckinzee Mode, a junior at Crook County High School, member of the cross country, basketball and track and field teams, won the school\u2019s Booster Club Athlete of the Year (female) award and a $1,500 scholarship. She is the daughter of Ben and Angela Mode, of Prineville.\n\u2022 U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Levi K. Larson has graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in San Antonio, Texas. He is the son of Cindy and Thom Larson, of Bend.\nYouth notes\n\u2022 Maddox Johns, a fourth-grader at Tom McCall Elementary School, won first place in the statewide Sons and Daughters of Oregon Pioneers essay contest. He will receive a check for $150 and recognition at the annual SDOP picnic at Champoeg State Park this summer.\nFAN notes\n\u2022 Family Access Network has been awarded a $10,000 grant from New York Life insurance company, which will be used to connect disadvantaged children and family members in Redmond to essential services such as nutritious food, health care, adequate clothing and stable housing.\nSchool and district notes\n\u2022 Suzy Yecha, an English and language arts teacher at Pioneer Alternative School, has retired after 38 years of service.\n\u2022 Gale Clark, school librarian at Barnes Butte Elementary, has retired after 26 years of service.\n\u2022 Rosie Honi, head volleyball coach at Crook County High School, has retired after 30 years of service.\n\u2022 Kathy Hayes, records clerk for special education for Crook County School District, has retired after 36 years of service.\n\u2022 Redmond High School Class of 1973 is holding its 45th reunion Aug. 17 and 18.\nFriday is a meet and greet at Wild Ride Brewing, 332 SW 5th St., Redmond, from 5 to 10 p.m. in the group meeting area. Cash bar and food trucks will be on-site. Saturday is a buffet dinner at the VFW Hall, 491 SW Veterans Way, Redmond, from 5 to 10 p.m. Dinner will be served at 6 p.m. Cost is $30 per person, cash bar. Checks payable to Redmond High School Class of 1973 can be mailed to Becky Lash at 635 SW Highland Ave., Redmond, OR 97756 or PayPal at redmondhighschool classof1973@gmail.com . See \u201cRedmond (OR) High School Class of 1973\u201d on Facebook or Classmates.com or call 541-408-6477 for more details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 8975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bendbulletin.com/sports/6391277-151/mariners-poised-to-end-drought?referrer=pushstory", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:49Z", "digest": "sha1:OQ2DI6SI5K4BVNHD33QDC5ULKQHBOBTF", "length": 4573, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.bendbulletin.com", "title": "Mariners poised to end drought;", "raw_content": "Mariners poised to end drought\nThe Seattle Mariners last made the playoffs in 2001. Despite murmurs of doubts among fans, the team remains optimistic about ending the nearly two-decade dry spell. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file) - Bulletin\nThe Seattle Mariners last made the playoffs in 2001. Despite murmurs of doubts among fans, the team remains optimistic about ending the nearly two-decade dry spell. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file) 7642429\nChicago White Sox at Seattle\nSEATTLE \u2014 At some point it is going to end. The feeling of imminent failure among some Seattle fans is going to manifest on the field and this unexpected season is going to start crumbling until it is just like each of the previous seasons since the Mariners last made the playoffs in 2001.\nThat feeling is what nearly two decades without postseason baseball has created in the Pacific Northwest. While there is genuine excitement for what Seattle accomplished in the first 3\u00bd months of the season, there is also a sense of dread among the most fatalistic fans who have seen promising seasons go south before.\nThat will not go away until the Mariners officially end the longest current postseason drought in any of the four major pro sports.\nLucky for the doubters, this team is showing the type of resilience needed to do just that.\n\u201cI think the thing I\u2019m most proud of, I guess, with this group is the ability for them to be as tight as they are,\u201d Seattle manager Scott Servais said. \u201cI think there\u2019s a special bond within our team and it plays out on the field.\u201d\nThe Mariners are sitting at 58-39 and hold a three-game lead for the second American League wild-card spot coming out of the All-Star break.\nWhat makes that remarkable is that the Mariners have overcome enough obstacles thus far to derail most teams.\nFive different starting position players have spent time on the disabled list, and catcher Mike Zunino is currently on his second stint on the DL. Their bullpen has seen another four key arms go down at various times all the way back to spring training,\nAnd that does not take into consideration the 80-game suspension of second baseman Robinson Cano.\nRather than disrupt what Seattle had going, Cano\u2019s suspension seemed to galvanize the team. Seattle is 36-22 since Cano\u2019s suspension started.\n\u201cI think just team chemistry carries a team further than a lot of people think and just when guys are all on the same page and fighting for one another\u2009\u2026\u2009that\u2019s the big picture and it keeps everyone focused on that instead of their own individual performances and stuff like that,\u201d outfielder Mitch Haniger said.\nSeattle\u2019s success in the first half was based around beating the bad teams in the American League. The Mariners were 51-22 against the rest of the AL not named the Boston Red Sox, Houston Astros or New York Yankees.\nThey are third in the AL in batting average, and fifth in both slugging and OPS. Their staff ERA is fifth, and they have been one of the better defensive teams in the AL.\nTheir flaw is what has made them so good so far. They have been heavily reliant on being terrific in close games.\nBlowouts are foreign to Seattle, and that lack of consistent offense could be a problem in the weeks ahead.\nEdwin Diaz is on pace to challenge the single-season saves record with 36 at the break, but he cannot be relied upon to be nearly perfect the rest of the way. Seattle\u2019s 54 save opportunities are four more than anyone else in baseball.\nOf the three teams ahead of Seattle in the AL by record, Boston has faced 41 save opportunities, New York 37 and Houston 36.\nIn other words, not every late-game situation is filled with pressure for those teams, while Seattle has somehow thrived playing narrowly decided baseball. The Mariners have yet to lose when leading after eight innings. Going back 80 years, the 1978 Giants hold the mark for the most one-run wins in a season with 42. Seattle already has 26.\nBut there remains the lingering worry of a Seattle collapse, which was amplified when the Mariners went 2-7 over their final nine games prior to the All-Star break. What was a seven- or eight-game lead in the wild card over Oakland is down to three, and Seattle now trails Houston in the division by five games.\nBut that has not ended the belief that this is the year the postseason drought ends.\n\u201cI think we have a group of guys that genuinely likes playing for each other,\u201d starting pitcher Marco Gonzales said.\n\u201cI think we have a lot of guys with a common goal in mind and that\u2019s to win ballgames, and so I think that a lot of guys put the team before themselves.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 9770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.berlin-airport.com/berlin-tegel/terminals.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBGNTO73BGMZIXY7V5INHVQ5WYCQOWGS", "length": 1087, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.berlin-airport.com", "title": "Berlin Airport (TXL) \u2013 Terminals", "raw_content": "Berlin Airport (TXL) \u2013 Terminals\nBerlin Tegel Airport (TXL) has 3 passenger Terminals: Terminal A/B, Terminal C and Terminal D:\nIs the original and oldest building, divided in 2 parts, A and B. It is the main passenger and the biggest Terminal of TXL Airport, mostly Terminal A, Terminal B is a small extension of Terinal A. It operates mostly with the International and domestic flights with Air Berlin, Lufthansa, Germanwings and selected Star Alliance carriers (A) and International flights with Air Berlin or Turkish Airlines (B). To go shopping at Berlin Tegel Airport can be a bit complicated.\nWas opened in 2007, it mostly operates with International and domestic flights operated by Air Berlin, Air Baltic, Croatia Airlines and several other airlines. In Terminal C, D and E there are some small shops before and after the security check-in.\nOpened in 2001, previously it was a large parking space. International and domestic flights operated by Germanwings, SkyTeam carriers and several other airlines. There are a few shops before and after the security check-in at Terminal D.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bettingapps365.com/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MKV3PETXCTDYE7L3JTZ5LSPVMJ4VGJIK", "length": 722, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.bettingapps365.com", "title": "Blog | Betting Apps 365", "raw_content": "The PokerStars mobile app lets you access the same great games, but on your mobile devices. PokerStars is the most popular and trusted poker site in the world. The mobile app offers players the same [\u2026]\nBlake News\nRoulette is one of the most popular games found at a casino. You can be sure that all the tables will be crowded with punters when you turn up. With the game providing payouts of [\u2026]\nSlot machines are one of the biggest attractions to casino and online casino players alike. It is estimated that there are between 165,000 and 200,000 slot machines in Las Vegas alone \u2013 a city with [\u2026]\nEmbedAPCWVideo(240,192); //EmbedAPCWVideo(width, height) can be customized to fit your page //by changing the 2 parameters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biggaypictureshow.com/bgps/bgpsactor/brendan-gleeson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:10Z", "digest": "sha1:5EVT6BFQLRVYX5NOUAWDAE2JJBUDGMJ2", "length": 9550, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.biggaypictureshow.com", "title": "Brendan Gleeson Archives - Big Gay Picture Show", "raw_content": "Paddington 2 (Blu-ray Review) \u2013 Ben Whishaw\u2019s bear is back and he\u2019s heading to prison!\nStarring: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson\nBefore the first Paddington movie, a lot of people were convinced Michael Bond\u2019s classic character couldn\u2019t work as a live-action film. Not only was it a major success, but the sequel was even better received, with Paddington 2 becoming the first film ever to get more than 190 \u2018Fresh\u2019 reviews on RottenTomatoes, without a single negative notice. That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s the best film ever made, but it does mean it\u2019s one that\u2019s very difficult not to be charmed by.\nPaddington (Ben Whishaw) is happily living in London with the Brown family. He wants to get his beloved Aunt Lucy a special 90th Birthday present, and sets his sights on a unique pop-up book. Just when he\u2019s nearly got enough cash, the book is stolen and the police think the small bear is the one who took it. As a result, Paddington ends up in prison, at the mercy of a scary brute known as Knuckles (Brendan Gleeson). [Read more\u2026]\nNew Paddington 2 Trailer \u2013 Ben Whishaw\u2019s little bear is back and having a new adventure\nWhen Paddington was first announced, many were sceptical that Michael Bond\u2019s peruvian bear could make a successful transfer to the big screen. However, the resulting movie grossed almsot $270 million around the world and is now getting a sequel.\nHere\u2019s the synopsis for Paddington 2: \u2018The much-anticipated sequel to the worldwide hit family film finds Paddington happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy\u2019s hundredth birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber\u2019s antique shop, and embarks upon a series of odd jobs to buy it. But when the book is stolen, it\u2019s up to Paddington and the Browns to unmask the thief\u2026\u2019\nThe returning cast included Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Madeleine Harris and Samuel Joslin, with Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington and Imelda Staunton as Aunt Lucy. The are joined by new cast members such as Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson. Paddington 2 will be released in UK cinemas on 10 November 2017. [Read more\u2026]\nACTORS: Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Peter Capaldi, Hugh Grant, Brendan Gleeson DIRECTORS: Paul King\nPaddington 2 Trailer \u2013 Ben Whishaw\u2019s little bear is back and having a new adventure\nNew Live By Night Trailer \u2013 Ben Affleck directs a Prohibition era crime thriller\nBen Affleck has been working on bringing Live By Night to the big screen for around four years. Now it\u2019s preparing for its release, with Affleck hoping it\u2019ll be as well received as his last directorial effort, Argo.\nHere\u2019s the synopsis: \u2018Oscar winner Ben Affleck (\u201cArgo\u201d) directed and stars in the dramatic crime thriller \u201cLive by Night.\u201d Affleck also wrote the screenplay, based on the award-winning best-seller by Dennis Lehane; it marks the second collaboration for the fellow Boston natives, following the acclaimed drama \u201cGone Baby Gone.\u201d\n\u2018\u201cLive by Night\u201d is set in the roaring `20s when Prohibition hasn\u2019t stopped the flow of booze in an underground network of gangster-run speakeasies. The opportunity to gain power and money is there for any man with enough ambition and nerve and Joe Coughlin, the son of the Boston Police Superintendent, long ago turned his back on his strict upbringing for the spoils of being an outlaw. But even among criminals there are rules and Joe breaks a big one: crossing a powerful mob boss by stealing his money and his moll. The fiery affair ends in tragedy, setting Joe on a path of revenge, ambition, romance and betrayal that propels him out of Boston and up the ladder of Tampa\u2019s steamy rum-running underworld.\nStarring with Affleck are Elle Fanning (\u201cMaleficent\u201d), Brendan Gleeson (\u201cIn the Heart of the Sea,\u201d the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d films), Chris Messina (\u201cArgo,\u201d \u201cThe Mindy Project\u201d), Sienna Miller (\u201cAmerican Sniper,\u201d \u201cFoxcatcher\u201d), Zoe Saldana (\u201cGuardians of the Galaxy,\u201d \u201cAvatar\u201d), and Oscar winner Chris Cooper (\u201cAdaptation,\u201d \u201cThe Town\u201d).\u2019\nThe film will be in UK cinemas in January. [Read more\u2026]\nACTORS: Ben Affleck, Elle Fanning, Brendan Gleeson, Sienna Miller, Zoe Saldana, Chris Cooper DIRECTORS: Ben Affleck FILMS: Live By Night\nTrespass Against Us Trailer \u2013 Michael Fassbender wants out of the outlaw life\nMichael Fassbender plays so many role where he had to use accents, it sometimes a surprise when you hear him speak with his own natural Irish brogue. However, he gets to use it in Trespass Against Us, set amongst the Irish traveller community living in Britain.\nHere\u2019s the synopsis: \u2018Trespass Against Us is set across three generations of the Cutler family who live as outlaws in their own anarchic corner of Britain\u2019s richest countryside. Chad Cutler (Michael Fassbender) is heir apparent to his bruising criminal father, Colby (Brendan Gleeson) and has been groomed to spend his life hunting, thieving and tormenting the police. But with his own son, Tyson (Georgie Smith) coming of age, Chad soon finds himself locked in a battle with his father for the future of his young family. When Colby learns of Chad\u2019s dreams for another life he sets out to tie his son and grandson into the archaic order that has bound the Cutler family for generations. He engineers a spectacular piece of criminal business involving a heist, a high-speed car chase and a manhunt, which leaves Chad bruised and bloodied and with his very freedom at stake.\u2019\nThere\u2019s no release date current set. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more\u2026]\nACTORS: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson\nLive By Night Trailer \u2013 Ben Affleck directs a Prohibition era crime thriller\nSuffragette Trailer \u2013 The Carey Mulligan, Ben Whishaw & Meryl Streep movie will also open the London Film Festival\nThe London Film Festival may not be until October, but there\u2019s been a very early announcement of the opening film, as Suffragette will kick off the event with its European Premiere on October 7th. Alongside that news came the trailer for film.\nHere\u2019s the synopsis: \u2018The film stars Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson, Anne-Marie Duff, Ben Whishaw and Meryl Streep. It is directed by LFF alumna Sarah Gavron, who returns to the Festival for a third time, reteaming with her Brick Lane screenwriter Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady). SUFFRAGETTE is produced by Faye Ward and Alison Owen (Saving Mr. Banks, LFF Closing Night film, 2013).\n\u2018SUFFRAGETTE is an intense drama that tracks the story of the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement as they fought for the right to vote, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with an increasingly brutal State. These women were not primarily from the genteel educated classes, they were working women who had seen peaceful protest achieve nothing. Radicalised and turning to violence as the only route to change, they were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality \u2013 their jobs, their homes, their children and their lives. The character of Maud, played by Carey Mulligan, is one such foot soldier. The story of her fight for dignity is both heart-breaking and inspirational.\u2019\nTake a look trailer below. The movie will reach UK cinemas on October 30th. [Read more\u2026]\nACTORS: Carey Mulligan, Meryl Streep, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson FILMS: Suffragette\nEdge Of Tomorrow (Blu-ray Review)\nStarring: Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton, Brendan Gleeson\nI get the feeling there was a bit of \u2018I told you so\u2019 going round in Hollywood after Edge Of Tomorrow failed to live up to financial expectations. And in true Tinsel Town fashion they decided the problem was the name. As a result it\u2019s got a bit of a makeover for its home entertainment release, where the cover would suggest it\u2019s called \u2018Live. Die. Repeat\u2019 \u2013 which to be honest is a much better name than the pretty much meaningless Edge Of Tomorrow.\nThe fact it barely cracked $100 million in the US certainly isn\u2019t the film\u2019s fault as it\u2019s a great slice of big budget action, which for the first time in several years reminds us exactly why Tom Cruise is a movie star. And in an era of tentpole movies that try to outdo each other in how po-faced they can be (I\u2019m blaming you, Christopher Nolan), it\u2019s refreshing to find one that has a great sense of humour without being as dumb as much Hollywood fare (I\u2019m blaming you, Michael Bay). [Read more\u2026]\nBen Whishaw, Meryl Streep & Brendan Gleeson Join Suffragette\nA great cast is coming together for the women\u2019s rights movie Suffragette as Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Anne-Marie Duff and Samuel West have now been joined by Ben Whishaw, Meryl Streep and Brendan Gleeson have all signed on, according to Screen Daily.\nMullligan takes the central role a young woman who becomes part of the early British feminist movement, battling to get women the vote and engaging in violent acts to bring about change. Meryl Streep is playing small but pivotal role of leegendary suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst.\nIt\u2019s not known exactly who the other actors will play.\nSarah Gavron (Brick Lane) is directing from a screenplay by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, The Invisible Woman). Filming is set to start next week.\nACTORS: Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Anne-Marie Duff, Samuel West, Ben Whishaw, Meryl Streep, Brendan Gleeson DIRECTORS: Sarah Gavron FILMS: Suffragette", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 16858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.billgosling.com/blog/author/kenny-johnston", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:XAB3DIV3PH5RQY2SYWMPNPPMKJPMNKSK", "length": 855, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.billgosling.com", "title": "Bill Gosling Blog | Kenny Johnston", "raw_content": "Kenny brings over 20 years of industry experience to his role as president of Bill Gosling Outsourcing. He began his career in the United Kingdom in 1993, and has progressed his way through the ranks to his current role. Kenny is responsible for operational budgets, developing client relationships, and working to create the long-term vision, business philosophy, and company culture that Bill Gosling Outsourcing aspires to. He\u2019s a member of Vistage International, an organization that offers a peer advisory board for business leaders supported by one-to-one coaching, expert speakers, fast-paced learning, and global networking. Kenny also enjoys competing in triathlons and has completed several full Ironman events. He\u2019s currently striving to qualify for the world championship in Kona, Hawaii.\nFind Kenny Johnston on:\nRecent Posts by Kenny Johnston", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biobasedworldnews.com/students-reveal-the-worlds-first-bio-based-car-made-from-flax", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:32Z", "digest": "sha1:766JBABW7MD2SCOEB46HJLVZIYOQELGX", "length": 2584, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.biobasedworldnews.com", "title": "Students reveal the world's first bio-based car made from flax.", "raw_content": "Students reveal the world's first bio-based car made from flax.\nStudents in Amsterdam have designed the world\u2019s first bio-based car designed using bio-composites. The students at the Netherlands-based Eindhoven University of technology are part of the TU/Ecomotive, a university-based organisation that develops new electric cars each year. Lina is 2017\u2019s model and the next step to what they believe could be the car of the future \u2013 it is made from sustainable materials, is an efficient drive and practical. As a four-seat electric vehicle, Lina only weighs 300 kilograms and can reach up to speeds of 85km/h. During the design process the vehicle\u2019s weight became a priority in the design and production process. The car will now undergo an inspection carried out by the RDW Netherlands Vehicle Authority before it can tested on public roads in Amsterdam.\n\"This material has a structure that is comparable with carbon fibre, but more than 90 percent biological.\"\nWhat is particularly unique about the 2017 model is that it has been made from flax. The plant-based composite is becoming an increasingly effective material due to its strong latticed structure. Flax fibres are obtained from the stem of the plant and are two/three times as strong as cotton fibres. Surprisingly, its strength is comparable with carbon fibre but more than 90 percent bio-based. More increasingly, car manufacturers are using carbon and aluminium to keep their cars lightweight, however, they use six times more energy. This makes flax an interesting alternative which uses less energy, is lightweight and can be recycled. What\u2019s more is that the plant grows all over Europe, including the Netherlands.\nTo power the car, a redesigned battery pack from Nova will be used to enable easy battery swapping as well as using new battery technologies. Additionally, a sandwich panel is created by pressing two composite sheets against a 95 percent biological honeycomb PLA. These sandwich panels will be combined to form Lina\u2019s chassis.\nLina makes sets another innovative benchmark however - it is also future proof and can be locked with a smartphone. This means that the car is able to recognise the user and adapt to the user\u2019s personal setting like a music playlist or phone contacts.\nTo overcome the next milestone, Lina will undergo an office highway inspection to receive a licence number which will enable the car to be used on public roads. Once this has been confirmed, it is expected that Lina will be presented some time before the summer.\nFor more bio-based innovations in the automobile industry:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biowashing.com/uncategorized/identifying-testing-fire-alarms-part-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BDTIU3F6RPENQGZ3W7LHWDVGFYBHYTOL", "length": 2068, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.biowashing.com", "title": "Identifying & Testing Fire Alarms - Part 1 - Mold Solutions and Inspection Services", "raw_content": "Home / Uncategorized / Identifying & Testing Fire Alarms \u2013 Part 1\nfire, fire damage, home maintenance, Uncategorized\nTags: Active fire protection, Alarm device, Aspirating smoke detector, Carbon monoxide detector, Detectors, False alarm, Fire alarm system, Prevention, Safety, Smoke detector, United States\nSmoke detectors and fire alarms may be some of the most important items in your home when it comes to your family\u2019s safety. These early warning devices may help alert your family to fire and dangerous smoke while there is still time to evacuate, but they need to be periodically tested to help ensure proper function.\nElectronic devices are not infallible. Batteries die, and other parts of the smoke detector can wear out over time. Testing them regularly and replacing batteries (or the entire device) is one way to help ensure your family stays safe should there be a fire in your home.\nAccording to the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), smoke detectors should be tested at least once a month and batteries should be replaced at least twice a year. A good way to help remember to do this is to change your batteries when you change your clocks for daylight saving time \u2014 when you spring forward or fall back. Make sure to review your smoke detector\u2019s user manual \u2014 you may need to check more often if any of the following apply:\nThe detector often gives false alarms.\nThe alarm emits short beeps regularly without anyone touching it.\nFrequent kitchen smoke has caused it to activate often, which may wear it out faster.\nThere are two main types of smoke detectors, according to the USFA:\nBattery-powered: This type can be susceptible to defective or worn-out batteries. Monthly testing is critical. Never put old batteries into your smoke detectors and fire alarms.\nHardwired: These detectors are powered by your home electrical system, but they usually have back-up batteries so the device can remain operational in a power outage. Hardwired smoke detectors still require monthly testing to help ensure that both batteries and parts are functioning properly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.birtwistlewiki.com.au/wiki/Thomas_Allan_Bottrell", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:05Z", "digest": "sha1:V42F7T7CVZ53DEZLEFHZBGVXIRFBLZ7M", "length": 1649, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.birtwistlewiki.com.au", "title": "Thomas Allan Bottrell - Our Contribution", "raw_content": "; fair complexion ; brown eyes ; dark brown hair\nFather , Mr Joshua Bottrell\n28th Battalion, 9th Reinforcement, transferred to 48th Battalion on 25 Apr 1916.\nHMAT A46 Clan McGillivray Suez to Melbourne\nEntering camp on 29 Nov 1915, Thomas was allocated to the 9th reinforcement draft for the 28th Battalion on 16 Dec 1915, travelling with them to Egypt. On 26 Apr 1916 he was transferred to the 48th Battalion. On 12 May 1916 he presented to the 13th Field Ambulance with flat feet and on 18 May 1916 I was decided that he should face a Medical Board. On 19 May 1916 he transferred to the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Cairo to have his flat feet assessed, and the decision was that he was medically unfit, and was to return to Australia. On 13 Jun 1916 he was admitted to the 1st Australian Auxiliary Hospital in Heliopolis remaining in their care until 10 Jul 1916.\nReturned to Melbourne, he was then sent back to Perth by ship as the Transcontinental railway was not completed until October 1917.\nGranted a disability pension on discharge, the amount he received was reduced to 10 Shillings ($AUD 1) per fortnight from 8 Nov 1917.\nThomas married Violet Higgins in 1926. Violet died on 30 Mar 1960. They lived in Gosnells during the 1920s before moving to Victoria Park and later South Perth in the 1930s. By the 1940s they were living in North Beach, and in Bassendean in the 1950s.\nThomas enlisted during WW2 in the Citizens Military Forces - W68986 on 29 Mar 1942, and served with the Swanbourne Volunteer Defence Corps - 3rd Battalion.\nRetrieved from \"https://www.birtwistlewiki.com.au/index.php?title=Thomas_Allan_Bottrell&oldid=21956\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 208.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bis.org/review/r170724d.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4FYZDWAFIZA44WM7YGUEHHT7HDAWH2LR", "length": 1261, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.bis.org", "title": "Mark Carney: Opening remarks at the \u00a310 note launch", "raw_content": "Mark Carney: Opening remarks at the \u00a310 note launch\nOpening remarks by Mr Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board, at the \u00a310 note launch, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, 18 July 2017.\nby Mark Carney\nI would like to express my gratitude to Dean Catherine Ogle for her generosity in hosting this event in the magnificent Winchester Cathedral.\nThere can be no better place to unveil the new \u00a310 banknote, featuring Jane Austen, and there can be no better time than today, the 200th anniversary of her death. This building, admired by Austen herself, commemorates her legacy and has become a place of pilgrimage for her admirers. The inscription on her grave, in the north aisle of the Nave of the Cathedral, attests to her character: \"The benevolence of her heart, the sweetness of her temper, and the extraordinary endowments of her mind obtained the regard of all who knew her and the warmest love of her intimate connections\". A brass plaque on the wall alongside recognises her many writings. And the memorial window above them all, paid for by public subscription, testifies to the popularity and enduring appeal of her work. An appeal which draws a regular procession of tourists from all over the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 7910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 162.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bis.org/review/r180206d.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:29Z", "digest": "sha1:6D4ETIJ63JL3WIVJKCB4EPK3UMZTEO5W", "length": 14549, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.bis.org", "title": "Mario Draghi: Introductory statement to the plenary debate of the European Parliament on the European Central Bank's Annual Report 2016", "raw_content": "Mario Draghi: Introductory statement to the plenary debate of the European Parliament on the European Central Bank's Annual Report 2016\nIntroductory statement by Mr Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, to the plenary debate of the European Parliament on the European Central Bank's Annual Report 2016, Strasbourg, 5 February 2017.\nby Mario Draghi\nMr President of the European Parliament,\nMr Vice-President of the Commission,\nHonourable Members of the European Parliament,\nI am very pleased to be here to discuss with you the ECB's activities and your draft resolution on the ECB's Annual Report 2016.\nToday's debate represents a good opportunity to take stock of progress made and discuss the way forward.\nA decade ago, the global financial crisis was starting. Today, while further efforts are needed to overcome its legacy, the euro area economy is expanding and employment is rising.\nYour draft resolution points out that monetary policy has played a key role in this recovery process. The ECB has indeed acted decisively, in line with its mandate. We have addressed financial fragmentation and supported the economy, enabling inflation to gradually converge towards our objective.\nThe draft resolution also notes that the independence of the ECB has allowed us to take resolute action within our mandate. But independence is just one of the cornerstones of our institutional framework. Accountability is its necessary counterpart. And you, as the representatives of the people of the EU, are the heart of our accountability. Together, independence and accountability underpin our effectiveness and our legitimacy.\nIn my remarks today, I will focus on two particular issues that have been raised in the draft resolution. First, I will elaborate on economic developments in the euro area and the role of the ECB's monetary policy. Second, I will discuss the state of the financial sector and the measures needed to further strengthen its resilience.\nEconomic developments and the role of the ECB's monetary policy\nThe euro area economy is expanding robustly, with stronger growth rates than previously expected and significantly above potential. According to preliminary data, euro area real GDP increased by 2.5% in 2017, compared to the 1.7% that had been foreseen in our December 2016 staff projections for the same year.\nThe economic expansion is broad-based. The dispersion of growth rates across countries and across sectors is at its lowest level for 20 years. Accordingly, we see positive growth in over 85% of the sectors in the euro area economy, compared with an historical average of 74%. Employment growth has recently strengthened as well in all the main sectors, namely in industry, construction and market services. These developments bode well for economic growth, as expansions tend to be stronger and more resilient when growth is broad-based.\nThe number of people employed in the euro area has also increased by around 7.5 million since hitting a low in mid-2013. Employment has now reached its highest level since the introduction of the euro. The unemployment rate continues to decline and now stands at close to a nine-year low of 8.7%, down by 3.3 percentage points from its highest level.\nAs more people find jobs, household incomes rise. This has helped to strengthen private consumption growth, which in turn is boosting business investment. In addition, a number of other factors have supported investment. These factors include higher demand for euro area exports, rising corporate profitability and an increasing use of installed productive capacity.\nThese positive developments have been fostered and reinforced by the pass-through of the ECB's monetary policy measures, which have eased funding conditions for households and firms. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in particular have benefited from our policy measures. The growing inclusiveness of this economic expansion is partly due to the renewed vigour of small businesses, which are a key engine of income creation in our economy.\nWhile our confidence that inflation will converge towards our aim of below, but close to, 2% has strengthened, we cannot yet declare victory on this front.\nAfter increasing to 2% in early 2017 due to a rise in energy prices, headline inflation has fluctuated since May 2017 between 1.3% and 1.5%. Measures of underlying inflation, which exclude the most volatile components, remained subdued and have yet to show convincing signs of a sustained upward trend. Also, new headwinds have arisen from the recent volatility in the exchange rate, whose implications for the medium-term outlook for price stability require close monitoring.\nOn the back of improved economic conditions, the financial stability situation in the euro area has also continued to evolve positively. As I will explain in more detail, for the time being we have little indication that generalised imbalances are emerging.\nOverall, while we can be more confident about the path of inflation, patience and persistence with regard to monetary policy is still warranted for underlying inflation pressures to build up and inflation to converge durably towards our objective. That is why - at our last meeting - we re-affirmed the decisions taken at our October monetary policy meeting last year. Accordingly, our net asset purchase programme, running at a monthly pace of \u20ac30 billion, will continue until the end of September 2018, or beyond, if necessary, and in any case until the Governing Council sees a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation consistent with its inflation aim. In parallel, we will reinvest the principal payments from maturing securities purchased under the expanded asset purchase programme for an extended period of time after the end of those purchases, and in any case for as long as necessary. We expect our key interest rates to remain at their present levels for an extended period of time, and well past the horizon of our net asset purchases.\nLooking forward, we remain fully committed to our price stability objective and - in line with our monetary policy strategy - we aim to stabilise inflation around levels that are below, but close to, 2% within a meaningful medium-term horizon. As always, our monetary policy will continue to be guided by our assessment of the progress made towards our objective. Our forward guidance continues to provide a stable framework for our monetary policy stance and its outlook. In line with that guidance, monetary policy will evolve in a fully data-dependent and time-consistent manner.\nStrengthening the resilience of the euro area financial sector\nYour draft resolution also considers several aspects related to the euro area financial sector and I would like to follow up on some of them.\nLet me first of all emphasise that our monetary policy and a healthier financial sector are mutually reinforcing.\nBy supporting the economic recovery, our monetary policy measures have had a positive impact on the credit quality of banks' loans to businesses and households, and helped banks to further reduce their provisioning costs. Moreover, a stronger economy generates greater volumes of sustainable bank lending. Both factors have therefore strengthened the solidity of the European banking sector.\nA better integrated and sounder financial sector has also been able to transmit our policy impulses more evenly across the euro area. The improved health of the banking sector, coupled with our credit easing measures, has brought about a marked improvement in the transmission process, as shown by the reduced heterogeneity of bank lending rates across countries and improved borrowing conditions for SMEs.1\nThe difference between interest rates for loans to non-financial corporations of above and below \u20ac1 million also continued to decline, indicating easier access to finance for SMEs, in particular in the countries that were most affected by the financial crisis.\nA more robust financial sector has also allowed us to pursue an accommodative policy for as long as necessary, without any build-up of significant financial stability risks.\nThe draft resolution points in particular to the risks stemming from possible asset bubbles. We are closely monitoring developments in some market segments, such as prime commercial real estate and housing markets in some countries, and corporate bond markets for lower-rated issuers. As we explain in our Financial Stability Review,2\nThe publication is accessible on the ECB's website at: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/fsr/html/index.en.html\nasset price increases in euro area markets have so far not been accompanied by excessive credit growth. Although credit flows have been recovering, growth rates are still far below anything we saw before the crisis and on the low side of the range of growth rates historically seen during recoveries. So there is no evidence of systemic credit-fuelled bubbles.\nThe efforts we have made in recent years to strengthen prudential regulation and supervision, above all with the establishment of the banking union, have certainly played a role in protecting financial stability.\nIn particular, the ECB Banking Supervision plays a key role in ensuring the safety and soundness of banks. It enhances the banks' resilience through strengthened prudential regulation. It also fosters cross-border financial integration and provides a level playing field by harmonising supervision across the euro area.\nAlso on the macroprudential side, we see national authorities in close cooperation with the ECB being very active in further mitigating the emergence of possible systemic risks, especially with respect to residential real estate developments.\nDespite the improved cyclical environment, improved market sentiment and the substantial strengthening of its shock absorption capacity, the European banking sector continues to face structural challenges, as you also state in your resolution.\nIndeed, overcapacity and cost inefficiencies continue to weigh on bank profitability in certain banking markets.\nMoreover, the high stock of non-performing loans (NPLs) needs to be further reduced and any future build-up needs to be avoided. NPL levels have been declining for more than three years and good progress has been made on the EU Council Action Plan, although there is still a considerable way to go. Additional efforts by banks, supervisors, regulators and legislators are needed to create an environment in which NPLs can be effectively managed and efficiently disposed of.\nStrengthening the resilience of the euro area financial sector also means adapting to a changing operating environment.\nThe resolution mentions, for instance, the growing role of fintech companies. This means more competition for banks, including in the field of lending and payment services. At the same time, new technology presents an opportunity for banks to increase the value added and the cost-efficiency of their services.\nAnother factor shaping the euro area financial sector is the United Kingdom's decision to leave the EU. At this stage, we do not have clarity regarding the shape of the UK's future relationship with the EU. Well-managed preparations are thus essential for dealing with frictions in the transition from the current situation to the eventual new equilibrium especially in the event that no transitional agreement is reached between the EU and the UK.\nBanks and financial institutions are not the only ones that have to prepare for an operating environment in a state of flux. Policymakers too, at national and European level, have to make sure that the regulatory framework is fit and ready to safeguard the resilience of the financial sector in the face of the new challenges.\nLet me mention two examples.\nFirst, finalising the banking reform package is crucial. The package will strengthen the regulatory architecture, reduce risks in the banking sector and increase financial stability. It will introduce into Union law new internationally agreed standards, such as the leverage ratio requirement, which will restrict the build-up of excessive leverage in the banking system, and the standard on total loss-absorbing capacity (TLAC), which will strengthen the resolution framework. As co-legislators, you play a vital role in this process. I would encourage you to aim for a consistent implementation of the internationally agreed standards, so as to ensure a level playing field worldwide and to reduce options and national discretions as far as possible.\nSecond, it is important to complete the architecture of the banking union by putting in place the agreed common backstop to the Single Resolution Fund and by establishing a European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS). These are two fundamental pieces of the banking union project and their implementation should not be postponed further. The backstop should ensure that sufficient funding is available at all times to guarantee orderly resolutions. A fully fledged EDIS is an indispensable counterpart to the single currency as everyone in the euro area should be able to have confidence that the money in their bank account enjoys the same level of protection, regardless of where the account is held within the euro area.\nLet me conclude. We pay close attention to the European Parliament's resolution on our Annual Report. And we will respond in detail to the issues you raise there when we publish our ECB Annual Report for 2017.\nThe strong relationship between the ECB and the Parliament not only demonstrates the importance of accountability, but it also bears possible lessons for the reflection on the future of EMU whose strengthening should remain a priority.\nA well-designed and effective policy framework requires a clear institutional architecture, measurable objectives and the tools to achieve them. And it needs to be accompanied by strong accountability. This is essential not only to ensure that policies are effective. It is also crucial if the public is to understand those policies and play an active role, in particular via their representatives in Parliament.\nThank you for your attention. I am at your disposal for questions.\n1 The difference between interest rates for loans to non-financial corporations of above and below \u20ac1 million also continued to decline, indicating easier access to finance for SMEs, in particular in the countries that were most affected by the financial crisis.\n2 The publication is accessible on the ECB's website at: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/fsr/html/index.en.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 21299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bizbash.com/press_release.php?id=63", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:20Z", "digest": "sha1:BRYCDSIIBJYR7CHL6WOOQNKPZKCZFEI3", "length": 3265, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bizbash.com", "title": "Shelley Hymes Named Managing Editor for Masterplanner D.C., the New Conflict Resolution Calendar for Major Events", "raw_content": "Shelley Hymes Named Managing Editor for Masterplanner D.C., the New Conflict Resolution Calendar for Major Events\nWashington, D.C.\u2014February 3, 2010\u2014David Adler, founder and C.E.O. of BizBash Media, which owns BizBash Masterplanner, the major event conflict resolution calendar and event intelligence service for Washington, announced today that his company will partner with Shelley Hymes' Angel Enterprises to enhance, promote, and further secure Masterplanner D.C.\u2019s status as the premier event clearinghouse for official Washington. Hymes, along with newly appointed associate editor Jessica Marks, will provide BizBash Masterplanner D.C. subscribers with an unrivaled and indispensable event calendar that includes complete, up-to-date, and continuous information about major events, openings, and fund-raisers in the Washington metropolitan area.\nWhat makes Masterplanner different from other online calendar services is that each event is researched by an editor, with an emphasis on what is going on three to 12 months ahead. The service doesn\u2019t depend on anonymous feeds. While the subscription service provides premium information for $240 annually and gives users access to long-term information, a free newsletter called \u201cThe Next 7 Days\u201d provides immediate information on what is happening, who is sponsoring what, which venues are hosting what, who is being honored, and other detailed event intelligence. To subscribe, visit the Masterplanner Web site at www.masterplanneronline.com/subscribe.\nBefore founding Angel Enterprises, Hymes was a director at Burson-Marsteller, working on numerous award-winning campaigns and events. She previously was director of the 21st Century Workforce for the Bush administration and was executive director of the U.S. Joint Economic Committee.\nAccording to Adler, \u201cPlacing a great Washington event pro at the helm of a site dedicated to providing critical, up-to-date event information made perfect sense to me. Not only does Shelley have her fingers on the pulse of what\u2019s happening in D.C., but she can also help our customers use all of Masterplanner\u2019s valuable capabilities, including choosing the perfect date, researching past and future events, and locating potential sponsors, honorees, speakers, co-chairs, and venues, as well as complete event dossiers of major organizations.\u201d\n\u201cWe are thrilled to be a part of an organization we considered to be critically important and used on a daily basis,\u201d said Hymes. \u201cAs the owner of an event/PR firm, I know firsthand how critical the information supplied by BizBash Masterplanner can be to folks in our industry, or frankly to anyone in Washington trying to plan any type of event. No matter how big or small it is, no one wants to plan an event, conference, or fund-raiser and find out too late that they\u2019ve chosen the wrong day to do it. We\u2019re delighted to work with the outstanding BizBash Masterplanner team, we\u2019re thrilled to have the opportunity to enhance Masterplanner\u2019s profile in the D.C. market, and truly, we\u2019re excited about helping organizations benefit from the wealth of information they can access through Masterplanner.\u201d\nMedia Notes: For more information or for interview requests, please contact Shelley Hymes at shymes@masterplanneronline.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 265.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blackasterisk.co.nz/exhibitions/cuba-street-revisited", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:57Z", "digest": "sha1:EFVSLXNJQVZAMWGEHNHXXD3KCSJ5ZFD3", "length": 2476, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.blackasterisk.co.nz", "title": "Cuba Street Revisited | Black Asterisk", "raw_content": "Cuba Street Revisited\nTony Lane Returns to Wellington with a Selecton of Recent Paintings\nAmphorae.\nCuba Street Revisited.\nA Black Asterisk event at 243 Cuba Street, Wellington.\n\u2018Cuba Street Revisited\u2019 marks Tony Lane\u2019s return to the creative capital of New Zealand with an exclusive preview of recent works from the series leading up to the 2016 Auckland Art Fair. Showing at 243 Cuba Street, above Suite Gallery, \u2018Cuba Street Revisited\u2019 is a short run exhibition from April 8 \u2013 16th, with an opening party starting from 5.30pm Thursday 7th April.\n1975, \u2018Three Wellington Painters\u2019 showed at Peter McLeavey Gallery \u2013 the show that prompted the career of Tony Lane and contributed to his first solo exhibition at Elva Bett Gallery in 1976. After nearly 28 year\u2019s residence in Wellington, Lane moved on to travel and exhibit internationally, and Wellingtonians may remember his City Gallery retrospective \u2018Practical Metaphysics\u2019 in 2006. It\u2019s been 14 years since Lane returned to Auckland with his family, where he has been represented exclusively by Black Asterisk at 10 Ponsonby Road.\nTony Lane was born in Kati Kati, New Zealand, in 1949. He graduated in 1970 with a Diploma of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland University. Lane was awarded grants from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council in 1978 and 1984; the latter he used to travel to Europe and the United States.1992-94 saw the international tour of \u2018Distance Looks Our Way: Ten Artists from New Zealand\u2019 to the International Pavilion at Expo in Seville, the Conde Duque in Madrid, and public galleries in Barcelona and Zamora, the Netherlands and New Zealand. In 1995 Lane had a solo exhibition with Peter Bonnier Gallery in New York. Between 1997 and 2006 he exhibited solo exhibitions with Dreamtime Gallery, London and Gstaad, Switzerland. In 2001 he had a solo exhibition with Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney and in 2002 a solo exhibition with Galleria Camilla Hamm in Barcelona. After his 2006 survey, 'Practical Metaphysics', at City Gallery, his paintings were exhibited in 'Ultramarte', during 2007 and 2008. This exhibition travelled to Valencia, Palma de Mallorca and Hong Kong, as well as a number of venues in New Zealand. In 2008, also, the Tauranga City Gallery showed a survey exhibition entitled \u2018From Aongatete\u2019. This exhibition toured throughout New Zealand Public Art Galleries. His paintings are held in many public and private collections in Europe, the United States and Australasia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 213.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blandfords-online.com/factsheets/capital-taxes/inheritance-tax-a-summary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3GFHYYHBZ473AG42QUIW3HCY3XLOCECV", "length": 745, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.blandfords-online.com", "title": "Inheritance tax - a summary Middlesex : Blandfords & Co", "raw_content": "Inheritance tax is often called a voluntary tax in that, with planning, the payment of inheritance can be avoided. It is a tax levied on a person's estate when they die and on certain gifts made during an individual's lifetime. If you live in the Middlesex area we, at Blandfords & Co, can provide taxation advice to help you minimise the potential charge to inheritance tax.\nHowever there can be scope for substantial savings which may be missed unless professional advice is sought as to the appropriate course of action. If you live in the Middlesex area we, at Blandfords & Co, would welcome the opportunity to assist you in formulating a strategy for inheritance tax suitable for your own requirements. 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A couple was arrested in New Orleans earlier this month after taking selfies on a stolen phone, according to NOLA.com.\nThe couple allegedly assaulted a 61-year-old woman just before 2 A.M. on October 1st. They physically attacked her and stole her purse. The incident took place downtown on Tchoupitoulas Street.\nThe woman reported the crime to the NOPD. Unfortunately, many stolen property cases in New Orleans go unsolved. This crime looked to be just another statistic, until a string of selfies appeared on the victim\u2019s iCloud.\nSeems that somewhere in the midst of the getaway our would-be Bonnie and Clyde stopped to snap a few pictures. Hey, sometimes you\u2019re just looking #fresh right? Unfortunately, they didn\u2019t check the sharing settings on their stolen goods.\nNOPD was able to identify the suspects by their selfies. The couple has since been arrested.\nI don\u2019t know about you, but kinda feels like the new season of Black Mirror is running out of ideas\u2026\nTechnology and Crime\nAs technology continues to advance, law enforcement agencies across the country are incorporating the use of digital systems and social media in their operation.\nOne of the things Black Mirror fans love about the show is its sociocultural prescience. It\u2019s scary to us because it\u2019s becoming harder and harder to differentiate the fiction from our own reality.\nDrive down almost any street in New Orleans, look up, and what do you see? A camera lens staring back at you beneath flashing red and blue lights.\nThe multimillion-dollar surveillance system was installed all around the city under Mayor Mitch Landrieu. No one seems to know quite how many cameras there actually are, but suffice it to say this is a level of surveillance with very little precedence in a city the size of New Orleans.\nOstensibly, the surveillance network was the follow-through on Landrieu\u2019s campaign promise to mitigate crime in the city. But does it work?\nIn New Orleans, the system is still too new to offer up much concrete data one way or the other. However, studies conducted between 2008 and 2011 in other heavily surveilled US cities sought to answer the question of whether surveillance successfully reduces crime.\nShort answer: it doesn\u2019t.\nAccording to the ACLU , studies on the effect of surveillance in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, and Washington showed that there were no notable improvements on crime attributable to the surveillance. \u201cOnly Baltimore cameras reportedly had a positive impact on the levels of crime, though the writers of that report also noted that the significant costs associated with the cameras were a deterrent to their continued use.\u201d\nExtensive video surveillance is still a relatively new phenomenon in the realm of law enforcement. The majority of what we do know about its impact is dissuading to say the least. Nevertheless, the world is trending towards more and more surveillance in all aspects of life. In the coming decades, we\u2019ll have no shortage of data to examine the impact mass surveillance has on everything from crime and policing to psychology and culture.\nAside from the suspect effectiveness and astronomic costs of video surveillance policing, there\u2019s also the ethical component to consider.\nThe NOPD are solely responsible for collecting, utilizing, and storing the footage from the cameras. However, the department has been very taciturn as to what that entails in practice\u2014how and when the footage is consulted, how long it is stored for, etc.\nOpponents of the surveillance program have expressed concerns that it will compound existing issues of racial profiling and abuse by the police department.\nThe NOPD has a long and documented track record of questionable policies and racial profiling. In 2011, an investigation by the Department of Justice found that the NOPD had violated constitutional rights.\nSince then, the police department has been under federal supervision, and has made strides toward rectifying some of the policy and behavior issues. However, this is a long and arduous road.\nMass surveillance breeds distrust and division, inherently. On one side, there\u2019s an expectation of complete transparency. Landrieu himself said it, at the unveiling of the program: \u201cIf you\u2019re in public, you don\u2019t have that expectation of privacy\u2026people should conduct themselves accordingly.\u201d\nSurveillance seeks to normalize the erasure of privacy, but only on one side of the camera lens. If Landrieu\u2019s logic is to be believed\u2014people who know they are being watched will behave\u2014isn\u2019t the opposite also true? That is, who\u2019s making sure the people behind the cameras conduct themselves appropriately?\nBeyond the Cameras\nThe police can watch you when you\u2019re in public, but it doesn\u2019t just stop there. Law enforcement also use social media, cell phones, and GPS to combat crime. This is a new type of surveillance entirely, and it often means people end up incriminating themselves without even knowing it, as with the selfie couple above.\nIn February of this year, just after the security cameras went up around the city, a story broke about a mysterious organization known as Palantir and its operation in New Orleans. The piece detailed an extensive digital surveillance network, and gained national attention.\nPalantir, a large tech conglomerate based in Silicon valley, came to New Orleans to test their \u201cpredictive policing\u201d software. Predictive policing is exactly what it sounds like: police attempt to anticipate a crime and intervene before the crime actually happens. Now, I know what you\u2019re thinking, and the answer is yes. That is the exact plot of Minority Report. That\u2019s where we\u2019re at.\nPredictive policing employs complicated computer algorithms, which comb massive amounts of data\u2014from social media to criminal records, even the weather\u2014as a means to predict who will commit a crime and when.\nAbraham Lincoln famously said, \u201cIf you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will.\u201d Unsurprisingly, almost all the data we currently have about predictive policing indicates that it does not serve to decrease crime rates. And, like video surveillance, replicates and increases systemic bias against minorities in the realm of law enforcement.\nIn New Orleans, predictive policing was integrated and employed almost entirely in secret for years. Only Landrieu and a very tight circle around him knew anything about the work Palantir was doing. Not even city council was aware of the program, to say nothing of attorneys and public defenders.\nIn a court of law, the prosecutor is required to disclose information and evidence on which they built their case. This process is known as discovery. However, the surveillance data gathered from Palantir\u2019s program was routinely used to prosecute individuals in court without ever divulging the source of their evidence.\nThe city\u2019s deal with Palantir began as far back as 2012. That\u2019s right, five years before the mass surveillance camera program was implemented into the city, the local government was already amassing near inconceivable amounts of surveillance data on its citizens without their knowledge.\nAs attorneys, we always encourage individuals to know their rights when dealing with law enforcement. Unfortunately, in the digital age, the boundaries between public and private life are being broken down at a rapid pace, and laws surrounding surveillance have yet to be established in any extensive capacity.\nThe police can watch you and monitor your physical and digital lives, often without any knowledge or consent on your part. Things like social media posts, text messages, email\u2014all of it can be evidence used against you in a criminal proceeding. The moral of the story is that in 2018, everything you say, do, or post\u2014even your selfies\u2014can be used against you in a court of law.\nContact a Criminal Defense Attorney at Bloom Legal\nIf you are being investigated for a crime, a warrant has been issued for you, or if you have been arrested, you should speak to an attorney as soon as possible. The experienced criminal defense attorneys at Bloom Legal can help get you out of jail, gather evidence and build your defense, and do everything possible to help you avoid conviction.\nWe have been fighting for criminal justice in the greater New Orleans area for almost 15 years. Call us today for a free consultation, and to find out how we can help you.\n> What Kind of Criminal Defense Cases Do You Handle?\n> Arrested on Vacation? Here\u2019s What You Need To Know\n> 10 Questions To Ask Before Hiring a New Orleans Defense Attorney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 10920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomlegal.com/personal-injury/boating-accidents/causes-boating-accidents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:23Z", "digest": "sha1:I2L2EQIWSCIA3LBX7QT5PPTXZENV3LRO", "length": 4211, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.bloomlegal.com", "title": "Causes of Boating Accidents | Bloom Legal", "raw_content": "While spending time on a boat for recreation is usually much more fun than spending time in a car fighting traffic, boats and cars share a lot in common. They both require experienced, attentive, and responsible people behind the wheel or at the helm. They both require regular maintenance and review to ensure that they can run safely, and they are both vulnerable to equipment failures. Boats and cars also can also lead to tragic accidents that cause serious injuries or death.\nThe causes of boating accidents can be generally grouped into three broad categories: human error, equipment problems, and weather conditions. Sometimes, a combination of those factors can lead to accidents and injuries, as well as the loss of a vessel.\nSome of the most common causes of boating accidents include:\nIn many ways, speeding on a boat is more dangerous than speeding on the road. Boats don\u2019t have brakes, and it can be difficult to stop suddenly when moving at excessive speed. Speeding also limits reaction time and the ability to take evasive action if necessary, such as avoiding other boats, swimmers, or water hazards. Additionally, speeding on rough water can cause unexpected movements and loss of control of the boat, and can cause passengers to be thrown overboard.\nSpeeding is just one form of reckless boating. Failure to follow navigational rules, ignoring \u201cno wake\u201d zones, inattentiveness and distracted boating, and boating while under the influence of alcohol or drugs are just a few examples of operator recklessness that can lead directly to boating accidents. Operator use of alcohol is a particularly dangerous form of nautical recklessness. According to a 2017 report by the U.S. Coast Guard, \u201cAlcohol use is the leading known contributing factor in fatal boating accidents,\u201d That report found that in 2016, alcohol was the primary factor in 282 boating accidents, leading to 264 injuries and 87 deaths.\nInadequate Boat Maintenance\nAny boat owner knows the amount of work involved in keeping their vessel safe and seaworthy. Boats require regular, skilled, and thorough maintenance. Unknown or unaddressed problems with the engine, steering mechanism, hull, decks, or railings can lead to catastrophic, accident-causing failures.\nFire or Explosions Onboard\nBoats contain ample amounts of fuel. They also contain ample amounts of flammable materials. Both are often in confined and poorly ventilated conditions, and fuel can spill, creating additional dangers. Fires and explosions can lead to severe burns and injuries and can cause a boat to sink altogether.\nFlooding or Capsizing\nAs we all know from Titanic, there is no such thing as an unsinkable boat. Leaks or weaknesses in a boat\u2019s hull can lead to flooding, as can rough seas and stormy weather. For smaller vessels in particular, bad weather can cause a boat to capsize, sending passengers into the water or trapping them inside the boat.\nDefective Boat Equipment\nBoats are large, complex machines with many parts; engines, generators, electronics, batteries, wires, fuel tanks, drive lines, propellers, just to name a few. When even the smallest part is defective, it can create large problems and lead to accidents, from fires and explosions to sinking.\nDriving Without a Boating License\nSafe boating requires a thorough understanding of navigational rules, safety procedures, and the dangers inherent in boating. You must prove that you know what you are doing to get a boating license, so unlicensed boat operators are more likely to lack of proper training, experience and understanding of the rules than are licensed boaters.\nDiscuss the Causes of Boating Accidents and Your Injuries Today\nWhatever the cause, if a boat accident has resulted in injuries or the loss of a loved one, Bloom Legal can help. With experience, fierce advocacy, and a deep understanding of the unique issues involved in boating accidents, Bloom Legal will fight to get you what you deserve when you have been injured or lost a loved one in an accident on the water. Contact Bloom Legal today at 504-636-6729 or through our contact form to arrange for your free consultation to discuss the causes of boating accidents and the details of your specific claim.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 7068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bmwsporttouring.com/topic/86053-paul-winter-racer7-has-died/?tab=comments", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DXVKRKWJ35YZPKANOU3YYKGR7ZA5LULF", "length": 3451, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.bmwsporttouring.com", "title": "Paul Winter [racer7] has died - The Ride Home - BMWSportTouring", "raw_content": "Paul Winter [racer7] has died\nBy OldBMWMaster, April 22, 2017 in The Ride Home\nMany of you know Paul and know that he has fought kidney failure for years. He never did get a transplant and succumbed to his disease Thursday night 4/20/17.\nPaul is the one who convinced Barbie and me to attend the UnRally and was my best riding companion. He rode very fast and was safe while doing it. Not many can do that. I doubt anyone will ever make the run from Wilmington, NC to Savannah GA as quickly as he and I did. The memories will stay with me forever. RIP buddy.\nI am sorry for the loss of your friend and riding buddy.\nNever had the pleasure of meeting Paul in person , but swapped a few Carolina stories with him via pm through this site. Thoughts and prayers for his family.\nSo sorry to hear of his passing. Condolences on losing a great riding buddy.\nI met him at a couple of our events. He was a really nice guy, he will be missed.\nWow! I just saw this. I'm gutted. He was a terrific guy. I knew he was struggling last I PM'ed him, but didn't know how bad it was, of course.\nBecky Hucks is hosting a Low Country Boil tomorrow, in honor of our late club member Paul Winter. If your plans have changed and you would like to attend, please let me know by sending an email to ccbmwridersclub@gmail.com.\nPaul's obituary appears in today's edition of the Wilmington Star News. For those of you who do not subscribe to the local paper, here is his obituary.\nPaul Frederick Winter\nToday would have been your birthday. We miss you much.\nPaul Frederick Winter passed away on April 20, 2017, at the age of 70, in Wilmington, NC, from a sudden heart attack after a long struggle with polycystic kidney disease. He was born on October 27, 1946, in Jersey City, NJ. He was predeceased by his parents Frederick E. Winter and Lois (McCreery) Winter. Paul grew up in Cranford, NJ, and graduated high school in 1964. While in high school Paul and a close friend designed an astronomical observatory on the grounds of Union County College. He met world-renowned astronomer, Harlow Shapley, as well as Carl Sagan. Paul won a scholarship to Cornell University and graduated with a PHD in Microbiology in 1974. He went on to become a research scientist and management executive in the bio-pharmaceutical industry, working for Biogen Research, Burroughs Wellcome, Covance Biotech, DSM Catalytica, Del Labs, and others. He belonged to the American Society for Microbiology and played an instrumental role in developing many life saving drugs such as Beta Interferon and AZT. Paul had a myriad of interests that he pursued with a scientist's mindset of in-depth knowledge and precision. Some of these interests included astronomy, salt and freshwater big game fishing, hunting, scuba diving, wine tasting, beer brewing, gourmet cooking, auto racing, and motorcycling. He had a need for speed.\nPaul is survived by his devoted companion, Becky Hucks; of Bolivia, NC, two adult children, Scott Winter (Heather) of Falls Church, VA, and Elizabeth McLauthlin (Andrew) of Lakewood, CO; grandchildren, Celia and Andrea Winter and Ada McLauthlin; siblings, Mark Winter, Adrienne Presgraves, and Barbara Bledsoe and former wives, Katherine Kozlowski (mother of his children) and Christina Winter.\nA Celebration of Life will be held on October 28th in Bolivia, NC, and his ashes will be scattered at sea from Isla Mujeres, Mexico, on February 1, 2018.\nGo To Topic Listing The Ride Home", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 5929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bolerlaw.com/blog/2016/11/overview-of-texas-adoption-rules.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:19Z", "digest": "sha1:VXRE7GJTSMGFRZGIQSASOV3JCOYDIR77", "length": 1576, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bolerlaw.com", "title": "Overview of Texas adoption rules | Law Office of Nancy H. Boler", "raw_content": "Overview of Texas adoption rules\nOn behalf of Law Office of Nancy H. Boler posted in Family Law on Tuesday, November 29, 2016.\nAdoption laws vary from state to state. There has been an effort to move states to the Uniform Adoption Act however results have been spotty at best. It is best if you seek the advice of an attorney before attempting to adopt a child, to ensure that you comply and meet all rules. This post will go over the requirements to adopt a child in Texas.\nTexas allows anyone adopt a child. However, the child must consent to the adoption if he or she is 12 years or older. Texas never formally passed legislation recognizing same-sex marriage, however, the recent Supreme Court cases validating same-sex marriage likely overrule any state inaction. Same-sex couples may encounter institutional resistance, despite the recent developments in the law. If a married person is trying to adopt a child, both spouses must consent to the adoption.\nTexas requires that residents live in the state for at least six months before adopting a child. But this requirement can be waived, if necessary. Adoptions are handled by the Human Services/District. If an adoption is denied, you have six months to file an appeal, or you waive your rights and must start over.\nIf you are trying to adopt children, then you may want to sit down with an attorney. A lawyer can go over the various family law issues that you may confront, including threshold legal requirements to adopt a child. Adoption is a complicated process; you don't need to try and figure it out on your own.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 201.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boudisque.nl/classique/tips.asp?site=classiquehome&tipid=2239", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:31Z", "digest": "sha1:G4XEM2F3YIK7OHSUEFJ6CKBVURQVFO4K", "length": 1397, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.boudisque.nl", "title": "Welkom bij Boudisque.nl", "raw_content": "Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827) - Complete Piano Trios Vol. 2\nChamber music arrangements of symphonies were very common in the late 18th and early 19th century, and it is probably true that a large proportion of the people who were familiar with the symphonic repertoire at the time were so because of them. The Second Symphony is the only one for which Beethoven himself produced an arrangement, although there is evidence that his student Ferdinand Ries did the bulk of the work, with Beethoven adding the finishing touches.\nOf the three piano trios published under op. 1, the second announces its pretentions to the symphonic genre earlier than its siblings and has several common points with the Second Symphony that was written ten years later.\nThe Allegretto in E-flat, Hess 48, probably was one of the first works for piano trio that Beethoven wrote, dating back to the early\n1790s. Its form is a short, but humorous conversation between three different instruments.\nBeethoven: Piano Trio No. 2 in G major, Op. 1 No. 2\n1. Adagio - Allegro vivace (11:37)\n2. Largo con espressione (09:44)\n3. Scherzo. Allegro (03:59)\n4. Finale. Presto (07:51)\nBeethoven: Piano Trio after the Symphony in No. 2 in D Major, Op. 36\n1. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio (12:56)\n2. Larghetto (11:34)\n3. Scherzo. Allegro - Trio (04:41)\n4. Allegro molto (06:54)\nBeethoven: Allegretto in E-flat Major, Hess 48 (03:18)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 123.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brearley-greens.co.uk/news-october-2017-market-update.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:18Z", "digest": "sha1:AXNRNHMILC2ONOZN45ARIWWGD6DR4VKN", "length": 2666, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.brearley-greens.co.uk", "title": "Brearley-Greens : Market Update August 2017 | Brearley Greens", "raw_content": "Data from the September Council of Mortgage Lenders press release shows that lending to first time buyers was 14% up on a year previously. First time buyers will often start chains going as the seller becomes a second time buyer and so on. Similarly \u2018Home Movers\u2019 (those already owning a home), were reported to be borrowing 15% more than the same period last year, which equated to 10% more actual loans. So the most recent evidence indicates that market activity has been growing.\nThe table below shows the year on year house price growth that has been reported from various sources for our region. As the chart shows, measured house price growth in the Yorkshire & Humber region varies according to the business that is doing the measuring, but all are showing a positive score and the average reading of 2.4% is reasonably healthy, certainly by the standards of the past decade.\nSince the market crash of 2007, much of London has seen a doubling of house prices whilst other areas including Yorkshire and the Humber have seen little, if any, growth. But the signs are that the London market has now stopped growing and that the wave that spread out to its adjoining regions, such as the South East and East Midlands, is now coming further afield and starting to ripple on our shores. It does not seem likely that it will be the inflation driven wave of previous cycles but it is a recovery of sorts.\nBut there are some economic headwinds which are likely to limit any future growth. Firstly consumer sentiment is beginning to rein in which indicates a more cautious environment. High street spending is beginning to fall and new car registrations are also down on last year, indicating a reluctance to make big ticket purchases. Inflation is approaching 3% and this is outstripping wage growth which makes people feel poorer and the likelihood of a rise in the Bank of England Base Rate is also ever more likely.\nBut again there is a flip side to this as the limited / flat house price growth over the past decade has made our region less vulnerable to any house price falls or market turbulence. So we have more reason to expect a brighter future for the housing market than other regions where prices have been growing. This is illustrated in the chart below which uses data from the Nationwide\u2019s First Time Buyer Affordability Index. The chart shows mortgage payments as a percentage of mean take home pay and our region is one of the best performing, which means that buying your first home is much easier in our region.\nSo as always the economic and housing market messages are mixed, but the upsides for our region certainly seem to outweigh the downsides.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.breenfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Wanda-Hawkins-Farr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7Q643YRJCZFBI5ADT7GZ43XWKOADPSGQ", "length": 530, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.breenfuneralhome.com", "title": "Wanda (Hawkins) Farr Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Wanda (Hawkins) Farr\nWanda (Hawkins)\nMrs. Wanda (Hawkins) Farr, 74, a resident of North Andover, MA., passed away on Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 at the Prescott House Nursing Home in North Andover, MA. Born in Cowens, Colorado during the Dust Bowl, Mrs. Farr was raised in Andice,... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Wanda (Hawkins) Farr created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nMrs. Wanda (Hawkins) Farr, 74, a resident of North Andover, MA.,...\nSend flowers to the Farr's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2011/06/27/hastings-in-hot-water-congressional-ethics-investigation-launched/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:U5QJPZ7HJGWHQFNZA3AZWOHU4QEHWLZI", "length": 4264, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.breitbart.com", "title": "Hastings in Hot Water: Congressional Ethics Investigation Launched | Breitbart", "raw_content": "Hastings in Hot Water: Congressional Ethics Investigation Launched\nIn the wake of the Rep. Anthony Weiner scandal that ultimately forced the disgraced New York Congressman out of office (at least for the time being), Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) is now the subject of a congressional ethics investigation for a sexual scandal of his own. You will recall that Judicial Watch on March 7, 2011, sued Hastings on behalf of congressional employee Winsome Packer for \u201cunwelcome sexual advances\u201d and \u201cunwelcome touching\u201d.\nThe Wall Street Journal broke the story this past Wednesday:\nA congressional ethics panel is investigating allegations that Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings sexually harassed a member of his staff, according to people familiar with the matter.\nThe investigation of Mr. Hastings is being conducted by the Office of Congressional Ethics, the House\u2019s independent ethics investigative arm, and it is at a preliminary stage.\nIt began at least a month ago after Judicial Watch, a conservative group, filed a lawsuit as the legal counsel for Winsome Packer, a staffer on a commission Mr. Hastings headed. She alleged that she had been sexually harassed by the congressman and that he retaliated when she tried to report it.\nThe Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) will not issue any punishments or reprimands for Hastings. That\u2019s not its role. Instead, the OCE is an independent body that reviews ethics complaints and makes recommendations to the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct (or the House Ethics Committee). It can take up to 89 days for the OCE to review the charges and make its recommendation.\n(The OCE resulted from congressional ethics reform a few years ago. You may recall Judicial Watch took a leading role in helping to develop an independent body to review ethics complaints. We have also defended the OCE against attempts to weaken and/or undermine it.)\nAs the OCE reviews the facts of this case, there should be no doubt that Hastings deserves the attention of the House Ethics Committee. Judicial Watch confirms that Ms. Packer is cooperating with the Office of Congressional Ethics. She and Judicial Watch met with investigators for several hours in May.\nI detailed the full breadth of Ms. Packer\u2019s case against Hastings when we filed our lawsuit back in March, but I think it\u2019s worth repeating some of the basic charges as detailed in the complaint. (I do recommend you read it in its entirety to get a full sense of Hastings\u2019 abuse of his office.):\nFor over two years, from January 2008 through February 19, 2010, Ms. Packer was forced to endure unwelcome sexual advances, crude sexual comments, and unwelcome touching by Mr. Hastings while serving as the Representative of the Commission to the United States Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Although Ms. Packer repeatedly rejected Mr. Hastings\u2019 sexual attention and repeatedly complained about the harassment to the Commission Staff Director, Fred Turner, Mr. Hastings refused to stop sexually harassing her. Rather, Mr. Hastings and Mr. Turner began to retaliate against Ms. Packer\u2013including making threats of termination\u2013because she continued to object to Mr. Hastings\u2019 conduct. Ms. Packer was particularly vulnerable to such threats because she was a Republican working for the Democratically-controlled Commission, a point that both Mr. Hastings and Mr. Turner used to threaten and intimidate her. Eventually, the emotional distress, anxiety, and humiliation caused by the sexual harassment and retaliation caused Ms. Packer to suffer severe health problems and forced her to leave her prestigious position.\nAccording to our complaint, \u201cMr. Hastings\u2019 intention was crystal clear: he was sexually attracted to Ms. Packer, wanted a sexual relationship with her, and would help progress her career if she acquiesced to his sexual advances.\u201d\nHastings, of course, is flatly denying the charges made in our lawsuit. Rather than accepting responsibility for his behavior, Hastings has instead chosen to take the \u201cClinton approach\u201d and fight for his position of power.\n\u201cIn a race with a lie, the truth always wins,\u201d Hastings said back in March when we filed the lawsuit. Let\u2019s hope he\u2019s right.\nPoliticsAlcee HastingsIndependentWSJ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 7262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bridgeportdiocese.org/an-encounter-with-christ/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XNWYFPRS7BBEOBWWY6E5UVQMVIVJBIYF", "length": 2921, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bridgeportdiocese.org", "title": "An Encounter with Christ - Diocese of Bridgeport", "raw_content": "I am often amazed at what Hollywood can do with some of the special effects in the movies created these days. While sitting in the theatre, it is easy to feel as if we are transported to a place that doesn\u2019t truly exist while speaking to people that have been created out of someone\u2019s imagination. What is equally amazing is how, after the movie is over, people will stand around and discuss what they just saw and speak about the images as if the people and places were quite real.\nDuring a family gathering at Easter a few years back, some of my family members were having a similar discussion about a movie that had just been released. After listening to the discussion for few moments, one of my aunts interrupted the conversation and asked, \u201cWhy is it that so many of you find it so easy to believe what you see in the movies but have such a tough time believing what happened to Jesus during his passion and after his resurrection?\u201d\nOf course, she got a few wise remarks and no one really gave her a direct answer to her question, but I remember that the question struck me as if it needed to be answered; it has stuck with me over the years. Every year since that Easter Sunday, this conversation comes back to me, especially during the octave of Easter, as we hear scripture readings each day from the Acts of the Apostles and the Gospels, relaying to us those events that occurred after the Resurrection of Our Lord. We hear the detail of the witnesses that first met Jesus: Mary Magdalene, who was seen by soldiers having a conversation with Christ and was told not to fear and to tell the disciples to go to Galilee where he would meet them; the disciples he met on the way from Jerusalem to Emmaus, who conversed with Him and broke bread with Him before He left their presence; and when Jesus stood in the midst of the apostles and said, \u201cPeace be with you\u201d and showed them the wounds in His hands and feet and asked them for something to eat. These were not comments from someone recounting a show with special effects but rather someone reliving a conversation and sharing details after being an eyewitness to meeting someone very real! I can only imagine what it would have been like actually to have been in His presence and how I would have responded if He had said to me, \u201cDo not be afraid!\u201d\nI often wonder how many times I may have encountered Jesus in someone else and not realized it was Him until much later, thinking that the person I was with was \u201ctoo good to be true\u201d only to later realize that this person may have changed my life \u2013 an encounter with Christ?\nSo, I thank my aunt for asking that random question that Easter Sunday a few years back \u2013 or was it really a random question? Perhaps, it was another encounter with Jesus, who opened my eyes to confirm my belief that what I have heard during the Easter Octave was no special effect, but that He is truly risen!\nBy: Deacon John DiTaranto", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 7359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bridgeportdiocese.org/category/obituary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UIKVDRMDDD7CBDWULTBUVTHOL6VQ2NAG", "length": 2880, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.bridgeportdiocese.org", "title": "Obituary Archives - Diocese of Bridgeport", "raw_content": "Father Sangiovanni, former principal & president of N.D.H.S.\nFebruary 6, 2019 | By the Most Reverend Frank J. Caggiano\nI am sorry to inform you of the death of the Reverend William F. Sangiovanni yesterday, February 4, 2019. He was 77 years of age.\nWilliam Francis Sangiovanni was born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 24, 1941, son of Francis and Margaret (Muldoon) Sangiovanni. He was Read More \u203a\u203a\nFather William F. Sangiovanni, 77\nBRIDGEPORT\u2014Reverend William F. Sangiovanni passed away on Monday, February 4, at Bridges Memory Care Assisted Living in Trumbull. He was 77 years old. A full obituary with details on the Mass of Christian Burial and other funeral arrangements will be published as soon as it becomes Read More \u203a\u203a\nReverend Monsignor Ernest T. Esposito, 83\nLatest News Obituary Obituary Featured No Comments\nBRIDGEPORT\u2014Reverend Monsignor Ernest T. Esposito died on January 15, 2019 after a brief illness. He was 83 years of age.\n\u201cMonsignor Esposito will be remembered as a man who truly enjoyed his life as a priest and shared that joy and good spirit with all whom he Read More \u203a\u203a\nPriest, Musician Monsignor John C. Sanders, 93\nSTAMFORD\u2014Reverend Monsignor John C. Sanders passed away today, January 6, 2019, the Epiphany of the Lord. He was 93 years of age.\n\u201cKnown to jazz fans across the country as the priest who played in the Duke Ellington Band, Monsignor Sanders was also much loved in our Read More \u203a\u203a\nReverend Monsignor Thomas J. Driscoll, P.A., 81\nElizabeth Clyons\nBRIDGEPORT\u2014Reverend Monsignor Thomas J. Driscoll, P.A., passed away today, December 20, 2018. He was 81 years of age.\n\u201cMonsignor Driscoll will be fondly remembered by many for his service in several leadership posts in the diocese and for his faithful witness over many decades as a priest Read More \u203a\u203a\nFather Carducci D\u2019Amico, 83\nBRIDGEPORT\u2014Reverend Carducci D\u2019Amico, born on November 1, 1935, returned to his Heavenly Father on Friday, November 23, 2018 in Cercemaggiore, in the province of Campobasso. Italy.\n\u201cMany in the Bridgeport area fondly remember Fr. D\u2019Amico for his energy, vision and commitment to the renewal of St. Margaret Read More \u203a\u203a\nPerhaps best remembered for his long and distinguished service as Pastor of St. Theresa Church in Read More \u203a\u203a\nObituary of Sister Sheila O\u2019Brien O.P.\nWILTON- Sister Sheila O\u2019Brien, O.P., age 93, a member of the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of the Springs of Bridgeport, went to the Lord on Saturday, August 4, 2018 at Lourdes Health Care Center, Wilton. Born in Glen Cove, Long Island on March 11, 1925, Read More \u203a\u203a\nMsgr. Thomas Green, professor of canon law\nMsgr. Thomas Green, professor of canon law, died on April 28 at the Crozer-Chester Medical Center in Chester, Penn., at the age of 79.\nBorn in Bridgeport on August 10, 1938, to Thomas J. and Beatrice Green, he graduated from the Fairfield Prep in 1956 and received Read More \u203a\u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 298, "original_length": 10734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 219.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brigidconroy.com/new-orleans-ferry-oral-history-project/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HLYL5KFJ3LLR47LHYSHWNNIYIFCNGDOR", "length": 298, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.brigidconroy.com", "title": "New Orleans Ferry Oral History Project \u2014 brigid conroy", "raw_content": "The New Orleans Ferry Oral History project is a story-gathering initiative made possible by a grant from The Platforms Fund. Over the summer of 2018, we will collect stories about the history and public memory of the New Orleans Ferry.\nDo you have a story you'd like to share with us? Get in touch!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Bowden-Connally-Jr", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5XECURLTATIISR24ENNFNCGNEUPERSO6", "length": 4388, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "John Bowden Connally, Jr. | American politician | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "John Bowden Connally, Jr.\nJohn Bowden Connally, Jr., U.S. politician (born Feb. 27, 1917, Floresville, Texas\u2014died June 15, 1993, Houston, Texas), was an ambitious political figure who, besides helping elect Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, served as secretary of the navy in the Kennedy administration (1961), as a three-term governor of Texas (1963-69), and as secretary of the treasury (1971) under Pres. Richard M. Nixon; he was indelibly identified as the seriously wounded front-seat passenger who was riding in the presidential limousine in Dallas, Texas, when Kennedy was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. Connally, a tall, handsome man with an engaging yet forceful personality, was determined to transcend his impoverished childhood. After attending the University of Texas and earning a law degree, he became an aide to Johnson, who at the time was a freshman Democratic representative. Connally served in the navy during World War II but returned to the political arena to manage Johnson\u2019s brutal but successful Senate campaign in 1948. He put aside party loyalty to help Eisenhower, the Republican candidate, win the presidency in 1952 but returned to the Democratic fold to manage Johnson\u2019s ill-fated attempt to wrest the presidential nomination from Kennedy; he stayed with the ticket, however, when Kennedy named Johnson as his running mate. Though appointed secretary of the navy, he soon resigned to run for governor of Texas. It was during his first term in office that Connally (who was first sitting in the back seat with Kennedy but later in the motorcade moved to the front seat) was shot. The bullet passed through his body and resulted in scarring on his back, chest, wrist, and thigh and in a lifelong lung condition, pulmonary fibrosis, manifested by a shortness of breath during exertion. He was returned to office for two more terms. As secretary of the treasury, Connally took the U.S. off the gold standard and imposed wage-and-price controls. In 1973, shortly after Johnson died, Connally officially became a Republican. Though indicted by a Watergate grand jury in 1974 for accepting a $10,000 bribe from milk producers, he was acquitted. In 1980 Connally made an unsuccessful bid in the Republican presidential primaries. After spending more than $11 million, he had secured only one delegate. He then embarked on ventures in Texas real estate, oil, and other businesses before that state\u2019s economy collapsed in the 1980s. Connally declared personal bankruptcy in 1988 to satisfy debts of $93 million, but within a year he had emerged from that status. Shortly before his death of complications from pulmonary fibrosis, Connally completed his autobiography, In History\u2019s Shadow.\nJohn F. Kennedy: Assassination\n\u2026state of Texas between Governor John B. Connally, Jr., and Senator Ralph Yarborough, both Democrats. To present a show of unity, the president decided to tour the state with both men. On Friday, November 22, 1963, he and Jacqueline Kennedy were in an open limousine riding slowly in a motorcade\u2026\nassassination of John F. Kennedy: The assassination\nJohn Connally and his wife (who sat in jump seats in front of the Kennedys) to the president\u2019s next stop, the Trade Mart, where Kennedy was scheduled to deliver another speech. An estimated 200,000 people lined the roughly 10-mile (16-km) route to the Trade Mart.\u2026\n\u2026the ticket in favour of John Connally. Connally instead helped Nixon by forming \u201cDemocrats for Nixon.\u201d The longtime Democrat and friend of former president Lyndon B. Johnson could not swallow the idea of McGovern in the White House.\u2026\nUnited States presidential election of 1980: The Republican nomination\n\u2026Treasury secretary and Texas governor John Connally; and former representative and Central Intelligence Agency director George Bush.\u2026\nJohn B. Connally in an open-car motorcade in Dealey Plaza. Oswald took a bus and a taxi to his rooming house, departed, and about a mile away was stopped by Patrolman J.D. Tippit, who believed that Oswald resembled the suspect already being described over the\u2026\nMore About John Bowden Connally, Jr.\nIn John F. Kennedy: Assassination\nIn Lee Harvey Oswald\nIn assassination of John F. Kennedy: The assassination\nIn United States presidential election of 1980: The Republican nomination\ngovernor, Texas (1963-1969)\nsecretary of the Navy, United States (1961)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 8686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 127.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Schumacher", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JCHCMHARRTV344KIGFNJ6QOXAYTCIL6P", "length": 3996, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "Michael Schumacher | German race\u2013car driver | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "German race\u2013car driver\nAlternative Title: Schumi\nMichael Schumacher, byname Schumi, (born January 3, 1969, H\u00fcrth-Herm\u00fclhein, West Germany [now in Germany]), German race-car driver who set records for the most Formula One (F1) Grand Prix race victories and F1 series championships.\nAs a youth, Schumacher became interested in go-kart racing, an enthusiasm that was supported by his father\u2019s management of a go-kart track. In 1984 and 1985 he won the German junior karting championship, and in 1987 he captured the German and European karting titles. The next year, at age 19, he left karting and became a driver of Formula Three (F3) cars, vehicles that were less powerful than the F1 racers. Two years later, in 1990, he won the German F3 championship.\nIn 1991 Schumacher moved up to F1 competition as a driver for the Jordan team. He switched to Benetton the following year and won the drivers\u2019 world championship for that team in 1994 and 1995. Before the 1996 season he moved to the Ferrari team and finished third in the championship standings. After suffering a broken leg in a crash in 1999, Schumacher rebounded to win a third championship the following year, which was Ferrari\u2019s first drivers\u2019 title since 1979. His 2000 win was the first in a string of five consecutive world championships (2000\u201304), and his grand total of seven F1 titles broke Juan Manuel Fangio\u2019s record of five that had stood for nearly 50 years. In 2005 and 2006 he finished in third and second place in the F1 standings, respectively.\nMichael Schumacher, 2005. \u00a9 GGS/Shutterstock.com\nSchumacher retired at the end of the 2006 campaign to serve as a test driver and adviser for Ferrari. At the time of his retirement, he had 91 F1 Grand Prix race victories, which shattered the previous record of 51, held by French driver Alain Prost. In December 2009 Schumacher announced that he would return to F1 for the 2010 season as a driver for the Mercedes team. He spent three seasons with Mercedes, but he never won a race and never finished higher than eighth in the overall F1 standings during his comeback, and he retired again in 2012.\nWhile Schumacher experienced unprecedented success on the track, he was also\u2014through a combination of winner\u2019s purses and endorsements\u2014one of the best-paid athletes in the history of sport. His annual income was estimated at $100 million at the peak of his career. Schumacher was also known for his charitable efforts. He was named special ambassador for UNESCO in 2002 and made headlines for his $10 million donation to the relief effort for the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.\nIn December 2013 Schumacher fell while skiing in France and hit his head on a rock. Despite his wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, he sustained a significant brain injury and was placed in a medically induced coma until the following June.\nGrand Prix racing, automobile racing on closed highways or other courses somewhat simulating road conditions. Such racing began in 1906 and, in the second half of the 20th century, became the most popular kind of racing internationally. From the beginning, Grand Prix racing was national and controlled by automobile manufacturers under\u2026\nJuan Manuel Fangio, driver who dominated automobile-racing competition in the 1950s. Fangio began his Grand Prix career in 1948. He went on to win the world driving championship in 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, and\u2026\nUNESCO, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that was outlined in a constitution signed November 16, 1945. The constitution, which entered into force in 1946, called for the promotion of international collaboration in education, science, and culture. The agency\u2019s permanent\u2026\nIndian Ocean tsunami of 2004, tsunami that hit the coasts of several countries of South and Southeast Asia in December 2004. The tsunami and its aftermath were responsible for immense destruction and loss on the rim of the Indian Ocean. 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These areas extend as a narrow ring around the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea. Typical evergreen trees are oaks (several species including the cork oak, Quercus suber) and the pistachio relative Pistacia\u2026\ntypes of temperate forests\nIn temperate forest\n\u2026into two subcategories\u2014broad-leaved forests and sclerophyllous forests. (Sclerophyllous vegetation has small, hard, thick leaves.) The former grow in regions that have reliably high, year-round rainfall; the latter occur in areas with lower, more erratic rainfall. Broad-leaved forests dominate the natural vegetation of New Zealand; they are significantly represented in South\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/College-of-Wooster", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:55Z", "digest": "sha1:IPXZ6S3HN5U32ASMGDZPVOFWZAWPTNKE", "length": 409, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "College of Wooster | college, Wooster, Ohio, United States | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "college, Wooster, Ohio, United States\nIn Wooster\n\u2026is the home of the College of Wooster (1866; loosely affiliated with the Presbyterian Church [U.S.A.]) and the Ohio State University Agricultural Technical Institute (1971); the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center is just southeast. The Wayne County Historical Society and Museum houses natural-history specimens and pioneer relics and includes\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 103.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/181705", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7CVHVP25ZCT7YCO5IL2D2LFAPH4X3GHH", "length": 849, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.brownpapertickets.com", "title": "Eddy Ray", "raw_content": "Grasso's Magic Theater\nsales have ended - please call 215-413-2917 for availability\nEddy Ray began performing at the young age of five years old. Throughout school, magic was his main hobby performing in talent shows and for his classmates. Immediately after graduating Eddy began performing professionally. He entertained at private parties and other various events both locally and internationally. Notable highlights include Eddy performing at the World Magic Seminar in Las Vegas, Nevada and performing in Tokyo and Osaka Japan. Aside from performing over 250 shows a year, Eddy also teaches magic through his lectures and is the author of the book, Magic Tricks in Minutes. Eddy is known for mixing sleight of hand, hilarious comedy, tons of audience involvement and music into his performances!\nGrasso's Magic Theater (View)\n103 Callowhill St.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bruceslutsky.com/2010/09/spotlight-on-blind-willie-mctell.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TT6KBFIYTEIH5WZHWO3VWNJVBKB6WS4T", "length": 1085, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.bruceslutsky.com", "title": "Bruce's Journal: Spotlight on Blind Willie McTell", "raw_content": "The Sean Wilentz Book Bob Dylan in America discussed many of the recording artists who influenced Dylan. Several page were devoted to Blind Willie McTell. Dylan wrote a song about him that was recorded in 1983, but not released until the Bootleg Series in 1991. The Band covered that song in the CD called Jericho. As you can see from the lyrics below Bob says \" But nobody can sing the blues\nLike Blind Willie McTell.\"\nI had to satisfy my curiousity and hear the man for myself. I was able to purchase a compilation of his music from Amazon.com. Much of it was recorded on 78 RPM records in the 1920s and 30s. A fine job was done in transferring the recordings to CD in very good quality.\nSaying, \u201cThis land is condemned\nAll the way from New Orleans\nI traveled through East Texas\nWell, I heard that hoot owl singing\nBut nobody can sing the blues\nI can hear them tribes a-moaning\nHear that undertaker\u2019s bell\nNobody can sing the blues\nThere\u2019s a woman by the river\nHe\u2019s dressed up like a squire\nBootlegged whiskey in his hand\nThere\u2019s a chain gang on the highway\nI\u2019m gazing out the window", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 6802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/whats-on/music/classical-tunes-at-aylesbury-church-1-7684405", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ABVR3G5NQQYDBZXPWQUM3A7HUZNJ5WKF", "length": 1130, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.bucksherald.co.uk", "title": "Classical tunes at Aylesbury church - Bucks Herald", "raw_content": "Classical tunes at Aylesbury church\nAylesbury Choral Society rehearsal\nThe sounds of choral music will fill St Mary\u2019s Church in Aylesbury next month.\nAylesbury Choral Society, conducted by Jeff Stewart with Aylesbury Concert Orchestra will perform Pergolesi\u2019s Magnificat and Charpentier\u2019s Messe de Minuit together with carols for choir and audience.\nThe concert is Saturday December 3 starting at 7.30pm.\nPergolesi was an Italian composer of the Baroque period-\u2018The Father of Comic Opera\u2019. He also wrote sacred music and demonstrated a marked individuality with his Magnificat characterised by its simple beauty, charm, melodic interest and originality.\nCharpentier was one of the most outstanding musicians in late seventeenth century France. His output of sacred music was prodigious-the overture of his well-known Te Deum is used as the signature tune for the Eurovision Song Contest. He was particularly drawn to writing Christmas music including the delightful Messe de Minuit which dates from around 1690.\nTickets are \u00a315, \u00a36 for under 18s and are available from 01296 641221, any choir member or www.aylesburychoral.org.uk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buildfutureskills.com/sitemap-pt-post-2016-02.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XZFS3JW5IVPY2EVLRRBTK36RZYFY7TIZ", "length": 2655, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.buildfutureskills.com", "title": "XML Sitemap", "raw_content": "https://www.buildfutureskills.com/employment-levels-could-reach-pre-recession-peak/ 20% Monthly 2016-02-29 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"https://www.burmese-art.com/catalog/pair-of-antique-burmese-nat-statues-from-burma-3100-8-9", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:07Z", "digest": "sha1:NXNLV62UE2QN4ZBSILO4X7BIN5AY7IGH", "length": 66, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.burmese-art.com", "title": "Pair of antique Burmese Nat statues from Burma, made from wood", "raw_content": "The height is measured from the largest statue, including the base", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/how-large-scale-activitiy-is-eroding-the-ecosystem-in-central-western-ghats-119012500160_1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:27Z", "digest": "sha1:2KI2MUMFR4CWM732VB37LT4JNJGGFS42", "length": 3998, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.business-standard.com", "title": "How large-scale activitiy is eroding the ecosystem in central western ghats | Business Standard News", "raw_content": "Soon, drinking and cooking in open will attract fine up to 10,000 in Goa\nPerennial streams were found in regions that have greater than 70% of forest cover, showing the link between ecology and hydrology with land use\nSurat Parvatam | The Wire Last Updated at January 25, 2019 08:10 IST\nhttps://mybs.in/2X33lnK\nAzhiyar dam and Western Ghats near Pollachi | Photo: Wikipedia\nThe challenge of assessing future risks\nNPCIL's second nuclear power unit at Kudankulam shut for maintenance\nShedding Fukushima fears, Japan's nuclear industry makes a comeback\nIMD develops technology to assess rise of water level in rivers, reservoirs\nA recent study has found that unplanned developmental activities and haphazard land use are reducing evergreen forest cover and perennial streams in the central region of the Western Ghats.\nIndian researchers have mapped how large-scale activities have eroded the ecosystem in central Western Ghats, a biodiversity hotspot known for its rich ecology, natural forest systems and perennial rivers. The study focussed on the Kali river, which originates in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka and joins the Arabian Sea at Karwar. The river is as old as the Western Ghats, supports 325 species of flora and 190 species of fauna. It also has six major dams.\nUsing remote sensing data, the researchers found that between 1973 and 2016, forest cover around the river reduced from 85 per cent to 55 per cent. In addition, land use patterns in the region changed substantially between 1980 and 2000 due to developmental projects such as dams built on the Kali, the Kaiga nuclear power plant and the Dandeli paper mill. The paper mill has in fact led to large-scale conversion of forests to crops.\nALSO READ: Listening to nature: How sound can help us understand environmental change\nEvergreen forests have also shrunk from 62 per cent to 38.5 per cent during this period, and large water reservoirs have been constructed at the expense of forest cover, the study noted.\nThe eco-hydrological footprint is a measure of how the ecology of a region responds to changes in the water cycle and water use. This can be measured by assessing the ratio of available water and water lost due to usage and evaporation. Around 2,309 million cubic meters of water are required for people\u2019s needs and livestock in the region. Another 4,700 million cubic meters is required to maintain ecosystems and aquatic life.\nAn analysis showed that although the Kali river has sufficient water supply and perennial streams in the Ghats and the coastal area, regions that lie in plain lands with higher degree of agriculture and cultivation have an intermittent and seasonal flow that has led to water scarcity for four to nine months in a year.\nALSO READ: With over 400 dam projects, Asia seeks to harness power of Himalayan rivers\nPerennial streams were found in regions that have greater than 70 per cent of forest cover, showing the link between ecology and hydrology with land use. \u201cForests with native species of vegetation play a pivotal role in enhancing the water retention capability of the catchment,\u201d T.V. Ramachandra, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Science and a member of the research team, told India Science Wire.\n\u201cVillagers in the vicinity of native forests earn Rs 1.54 lakh per acre per year compared to Rs 32,000 in villages with stream catchments experiencing deforestation. This confirms the vital role of native forests in sustaining water and people\u2019s livelihood,\u201d he added.\nThe study said that management practices adopted by engineers were contributing to erosion of water retention capability in the river catchment with severe water scarcity. The government agencies should establish better management and conservation strategies to maintain forest cover for food and water security.\nP Surat writes for India Science Wire and tweets at @psurat22.\nPublished in arrangement with The Wire\nPerennial Rivers\nKaiga Nuclear Power Plant\nNatural Forest Systems\nDandeli Paper Mill", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 631, "original_length": 16159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessleader.co.uk/leaders-must-carry-the-beacon-for-mental-health/56427/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TE5OTXXPSJBPWZO22OJOXFIHZZCAAZTP", "length": 3129, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.businessleader.co.uk", "title": "Leaders must carry the beacon for mental health | Business Leader News", "raw_content": "Leaders must carry the beacon for mental health\nEmployment & Skills | Reports\nMental health in the workplace is no longer just an issue for HR departments. As someone in a leadership position at my firm, I have a personal and professional obligation to look after our employees beyond pay packets and bonuses, as do all other decision makers within a business.\nAccording to the TUC, someone falls ill from stress at work every two minutes. With a statistic like this, proactive measures and innovative solutions can provide a buffer from increased absenteeism. They serve as essential bolt-ons to an employer\u2019s legal duty of care.\nSome employees may be able to approach their managers to talk about a mental health issue they\u2019re experiencing. More often than not however, many labour under the false assumption that a traumatic event or extreme stress trigger is the only way to receive support or understanding. This is not the case. The spectrum of mental health covers everything from suicide prevention to daily chronic anxiety to postnatal depression.\nOpen and honest conversation is the first key step. This includes encouraging management to lead by example and speak up to declare their commitment to mental health, whether this is in strategy meetings or as part of the agenda for weekly team updates.\nLeaders must not assume that their existing in-house resources for maintaining good mental health are sufficient or even appropriate. Regular employee engagement and consultation are absolutely necessary to ensure that all the mental health needs of their employees are being met, based on regular feedback, assessments and dialogue. A workforce is a collective but it is made up of individuals, all with different backgrounds and circumstances. Support requirements can also differ greatly in nature and scope from firm to firm.\nThere are a wide variety of solutions out there, such as Employee Assistance Programs and Mental Health First Aid Training, the latter only requiring two days for an employee to become certified and armed with the knowledge to lend a hand to someone who may be suffering. An Employee Assistance Programme is a low cost employee benefit that provides a qualified counselling service to help contain problems and prevent them spiralling out of control.\nAll leaders want their workforce to be healthy, not only in order for them to perform their duties but also because a nurturing workplace culture is no longer a luxury. If you\u2019re looking to expand your workforce, be prepared to have tangible examples of how employee welfare is a priority at your company when interviewing candidates.\nThere is much talk about how a healthy workforce means increased productivity and a healthier bottom line. The point is so obvious now that it doesn\u2019t need me or anyone else to reiterate it. Mental health is now about doing the right thing for its own sake and for attracting (and retaining) the kind of people who may eventually assume senior roles at your firm. 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School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park\nAmeila Arria\nDeputy Director, Substance Abuse Research, University of Maryland, College Park\nSee all University of Maryland, College Park people", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.c-span.org/video/?286271-1/state-department-daily-briefing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DUKXTINQCSC3RUKMNADHKZQYOIFGFTJN", "length": 1612, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.c-span.org", "title": "State Department Daily Briefing, May 11 2009 | Video | C-SPAN.org", "raw_content": "2009-05-11T14:34:53-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c45/286271-m.jpgSecretary Clinton announced her new press secretary, Ian Kelly, and said she welcomed the release of an American journalist who had been jailed in Iran for four months. She said that the Obama administration disputes the spying charges against 32-year-old Roxanna Saberi and objected to the previous verdict rendered against her by an Iranian court.\nSecretary Clinton announced her new press secretary, Ian Kelly, and said she welcomed the release of an American journalist who had been\u2026 read more\nSecretary Clinton announced her new press secretary, Ian Kelly, and said she welcomed the release of an American journalist who had been jailed in Iran for four months. She said that the Obama administration disputes the spying charges against 32-year-old Roxanna Saberi and objected to the previous verdict rendered against her by an Iranian court. close\nFilter by Speaker All Speakers Hillary Rodham Clinton Ian C. Kelly\nHillary Rodham Clinton Secretary Department of State\nIan C. 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Ian Kelly spoke to reporters and answered\u2026\nIan Kelly briefed reporters and answered questions on a number of topics including policy in Afghanistan.\nSecretary of State Clinton talked to reporters about the coup in Honduras, U.S. troops withdrawing from Iraqi cities,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.calgarysatellite.ca/Inmarsat-Isatphone-Docking-Stations-s/3476.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:X2DLWAZ4OR7O4DIE37EUNDMV3GCWDX2Q", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.calgarysatellite.ca", "title": "Inmarsat Isatphone Docking Stations", "raw_content": "Inmarsat Isatphone Docking Stations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1607, "original_length": 20496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 154.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.californiapersonalinjurylawyersblog.com/avid-motorcyclist-killed-by-drunk-driver-in-lancaster-motorcycle-accident/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MGL4N447WHBXILFJGYEY4EWSX3PDPUD2", "length": 2370, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.californiapersonalinjurylawyersblog.com", "title": "Avid Motorcyclist Killed by Drunk Driver in Lancaster Motorcycle Accident \u2014 California Personal Injury Lawyers Blog \u2014 April 29, 2015", "raw_content": "Avid Motorcyclist Killed by Drunk Driver in Lancaster Motorcycle Accident\nA Lancaster motorcycle accident on Sunday, April 19, 2015, resulted in the death of Glenn Arnold Grimm. According to the Antelope Valley Times, Mr. Grimm, who was 69 years old, was struck by a drunk driver in a pick up truck. Mr. Grimm was stopped at the intersection of 90th Street East and Avenue K when he was rear ended by the truck.\nSadly, Mr. Grimm, who was involved in another motorcycle accident in 2005, where a vehicle ran a rad light and struck him, causing him to tear ligaments in his ankle, had spent much time searching for the yellow Harley Davidson that he was riding at the time of this accident. Mr. Grimm felt that the yellow color would help avoid a future motorcycle crash.\nMr. Grimm was a very experienced motorcyclist who often participated in motorcycle related charities for good causes. Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) will be honoring Mr. Grimm and accepting charitable donations for its cause.\nThe Los Angeles County District Attorneys\u2019 Office said that the man who struck Mr. Grimm, Javier Guzman Pena, was found to be intoxicated at the time of the motorcycle accident. He apparently had a .08 blood alcohol content, has been charged with murder and is being held on one million dollars bail.\nAlthough it is unlikely, we can only hope that Mr. Pena has sufficient automobile liability insurance to pay the significant Lancaster wrongful death damages, which could be in the millions of dollars. The family of Mr. Grimm should hire an experienced Lancaster personal injury lawyer to find out what coverage Mr. Pena had, included if he was driving a work truck, wherein a commercial insurance policy may apply. There may also be uninsured motorist coverage that may apply.\nRecently, our office handled a wrongful death pedestrian accident where a woman was struck by an intoxicated driver. It looked at first like there would be no insurance covering the responsible party. However, after much digging and investigation, we were able to find insurance and settle the wrongful death case for the woman\u2019s sons for over 1 million dollars. Our personal injury lawyers handle Lancaster motorcycle accident wrongful death claims and offer a free consultation to the family or friends of wrongful death victims. Our sincerest condolences go out to the family of Mr. Grimm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.calmwithyoga.com/mycauses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UX4Z72BCKKHWWIFI3DZ7IWMXRSQIQ54U", "length": 7998, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.calmwithyoga.com", "title": "My Causes - Calm With Yoga", "raw_content": "Activist & Nobel laureate\nSource: The Bravest Girl in the World\nPhoto by: Antonio Olmos\n1. I believe in the potency of global female empowerment as a means to shift the world for all of us because we\u2019re all interconnected. None of us can be left behind in the advancement of humanity as a whole.\nAt any given location on the planet (yet especially in the developing world), women are being oppressed, silenced, and abused at staggering rates:\n\u201cWomen make up half the world\u2019s population and yet represent a staggering 70% of the world\u2019s poor.\u201d (Global Poverty Project)\nOne in five women will be a victim of rape or attempted rape in her lifetime. (un.org)\nThere are approximately 21 million (forced labor and sex) slaves alive today \u2013 more than at any point in history and 55 percent are women. (ilo.org)\nThere are approximately 781 million illiterate adults in the developing world. Two thirds are women\u2026 That\u2019s 496 million women who cannot read. (World\u2019s Women 2015 report)\nEvery day, nearly 830 women die from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. (who.int)\nIf you consider the actual impact of the above statistics on humanity, you\u2019ll see that the effects far exceed just women:\nIf every Ethiopian girl finished school it would add almost US$4 billion to the country\u2019s economy.\nIf young Nigerian women had the same employment rates as young men, the country would add US$13.9 billion to its annual GDP.\nIf adolescent pregnancy was delayed in India, it would add US$767 billion in potential lifetime income. (girleffect.org)\nSo, if we are interconnected to everyone and everything then, it follows, that what we do has a veritable, direct influence on the whole. Our actions are not impactless; they create unseen ripples that touch the rest of our world, whether we are aware of it or not.\nIf you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that started you in the right direction. Remember also that you are indebted to life until you help some less fortunate person, just as you were helped.\nCo-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation\nSource and Credit: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Samar Jodha\n2. I believe in alchemy. Not in the obscure, over-used context of turning actual lead into gold. To me, the \u2018lead into gold\u2019 is a mere metaphor for what happens when we begin to create solutions out of our problems and inspired creativity out of our suffering.\n\u2018Alchemy\u2019 according to:\n\u201cAny magical power or process of transmuting a common substance,usually of little value, into a substance of great value.\u201d\n\u201cA power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way.\u201d\nI view alchemy as a basic principle found in all layers of nature. The very nature of nature is alchemy because life itself is always shifting, morphing, transmuting, and changing to become more elevated and more efficient.\nAny transformational process is alchemy. Anytime something or someone goes from one state to another more elevated state \u2013 alchemy is present.\nI am inspired and moved to be a catalyst in transforming what\u2019s disempowered, disenfranchised, voiceless, and disconnected into what\u2019s empowered, inspired, connected and fully realized.\nThe most powerful way I know to do this on the most efficient scale is to focus on supporting women from both the East and the West in finding their voice and their power because when they do, their light overflows out into their children\u2019s lives, their families, and their communities.\nThis creates ripples of transformation that span every vertical and horizontal spectrum.\nEmpower 1 woman > 1 child > 1 village > 1 community > 1 country > humanity\nWhile politics do not interest me, I certainly resonate and agree with these specific words:\nThe role and rights of women, their freedom and equality and dignity, is the unfinished business of the 21st century.\nAlthough by the world\u2019s standards I grew up in a privileged environment, the outside could not see what was going on within. The women in my family were largely disempowered and the dynamic was extremely patriarchal, as is the case in a lot of families, especially from developing nations.\nGrowing up, I was very disenfranchised and I felt not only like my voice did not matter, but that it was wrong of me to use it. Anything I sought to do that was beyond the norm was either laughed at or ridiculed. The men in my family ruled and made the decisions that impacted the whole. We, the women, had to go along with it without question or rebuttal. We were expected to play out supportive roles instead of leadership ones.\nThis is why I resonate so much with other women\u2019s shared similar circumstances. What I see going on in the Eastern regions of the world (and in developing countries overall) is a physical manifestation of my internal journey.. physically represents what I felt growing up. This is why I\u2019m so inspired to support them\u2026 Because by supporting them I am supporting myself and also opening up the space for women everywhere to be able to rise up and own their inherent power as well.\nWhen I first heard these words I got an electric shock up my spine and goosebumps all over my body:\nThe world will be saved by the Western woman\nI had an instant knowing that this was my call to arms because in many respects, I\u2019ve been so blessed in my life. The \u2018western woman\u2019 represents the educated and resource-rich side of the Feminine. We are literate. We have specialized knowledge. We have access to technology and other tools that can create big impact. I believe it is our duty and responsibility to pay that forward and to harness our natural-given talents, passions, and expertise in service of raising up the whole.\nWe, as Americans, have won the lottery of life and the distinction between us and people living in developing countries is not that we are smarter, not that we\u2019re harder working, not that we\u2019re more virtuous \u2014 it\u2019s that we\u2019re luckier.\nAward-winning journalist & co-author of \u201cHalf The Sky\u201d\nI\u2019m collaborating with READ Global*, an organization with operations in Nepal, Bhutan, and India.\nREAD focuses on empowering rural regions by bringing together education, enterprise, and community development to create lasting change in South Asia. They partner with villages to build Community Library and Resource Centers (READ Centers) that include a fully stocked library and computer room, as well as programs on topics ranging from literacy and women\u2019s empowerment to livelihood skills and health education. Each READ Center is paired with a for-profit enterprise that generates income to sustain the center in the long run.\nVia The Metamorphosis Project, we\u2019re raising funds for women\u2019s resources and empowerment programs at the Badhikel READ Center in Nepal.\nEn Via is a Mexican non-profit organization committed to supporting social and community development through the combination of three main programs: microfinance, responsible tourism, and education.\nTheir micro loan program gives women the opportunity to create or expand small businesses empowering them to better provide for themselves and their families. Their educational programs impart women with the knowledge they need to make better decisions regarding their businesses, personal finances, and use of loans. Their tourism model allows them to leverage the resources from tourism and direct them sustainably into communities, while connecting people to the ideas, strength and power of women working hard to improve their future.\nThrough a collaboration with En Via I travelled to Oaxaca, Mexico, where I spent ten days training over 85 micro-entrepreurial women via 1:1 private consults and group workshops.\nThese resourceful and driven women inspired me with their resilience and strength as well as with an admirable willingness to learn and leverage their understanding of themselves and their businesses in order to better provide for their families and empower their communities. I will never forget their smiles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 9889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.camerastuffreview.com/en/nikon-camera-review/review-nikon-z7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:03Z", "digest": "sha1:XX3DHQTWQZNIPTRZ3URLGKGTC5VAOQIJ", "length": 15327, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.camerastuffreview.com", "title": "Review Nikon Z7", "raw_content": "Review Nikon Z7\nThe Nikon Z7 is Nikon's first mirrorless full-frame camera. Nikon has made every effort to make a success of this first generation. The camera has a 45-megapixel sensor, image stabilization, a tilting touchscreen and Nikon's first new mount for 35mm since the famous Nikon F mount from 1959.\nThe Nikon Z7 is the first camera of a whole generation of new mirrorless models from Nikon. It is unique that with the Z7, Nikon has created a completely new system camera that does not feel like a \"first generation.\" A lot of things about the camera are very well thought out, well made and well executed. In part, Nikon was naturally able to call on proven qualities of the SLR models. The ergonomics and menus will thus feel instantly familiar for Nikon users. However, Nikon has had to develop many functions completely new for the Z7. Even Nikon's most recent full-frame SLR, the D850, did not have built-in image stabilization or good autofocus in live view. The Z7 does, and it works well. The 45-megapixel BSI sensor is largely similar to that of the D850, but it has phase detection autofocus on the sensor. The Z7 has 493 AF points covering about 90% of the image.\nNikon Z7 versus Nikon D850\nAs soon as you pick up the Z7, the advantages of a mirrorless camera become clear. The Z7 weighs almost 30% less than the D850, without compromising on ergonomics. According to Nikon, the autofocus should be about as good and as fast as on the D850, which would be quite an achievement if that's true. Compared to the D850, the Z7 does have many more AF points (493) that also cover a much larger part of the image. This allows you to follow subjects more easily, and you are freer in your composition. Another big advantage of the mirrorless design is the introduction of built-in image stabilization. The Z7 has a five-axis image stabilization with the Z lenses and a three-axis stabilization with lenses that are used via an adapter. Of course, this offers great advantages when working with lenses that previously had no stabilization. Also, the five-axis stabilization is better than the stabilization offered by the F-lenses, because there are simply two additional axes that can be corrected. Nikon claims a profit of 5 stops. This is more or less the same as what similar systems are getting from the competition and is better than what you achieve with an SLR. A possible concern for some photographers may be the lack of a second card slot.\nNikon z7 versus Sony A7r III\nThe Nikon Z7 actually has only one direct competitor, and that is the Sony A7R III. Both are mirrorless system cameras with a full-frame sensor with more than 40 megapixels. The Nikon has slightly more pixels than the Sony, but that difference is not perceptible in practice. The Nikon Z7 uses a faster and more modern XQD card but does have only one card slot. The Sony uses SD cards, two of which can be used in the camera. The Nikon has a viewfinder with the same resolution as the Sony, but it is the most beautiful viewfinder we have seen so far, perhaps with the exception of Leica. The Nikon is also slightly better than the Sony ergonomically, especially thanks to the clearly larger hand grip. The Sony has extra capabilities like pixel shift and eye-detection autofocus that works fantastically and is nice for making portraits. If you already have modern Nikon F lenses, then the Z7 is a logical choice, because they work fine with an adapter and the menus are instantly familiar. The Sony has much more choice in lenses specifically designed for the A7 and A9 models. Ultimately, the Sony is a slightly more sophisticated camera, which should not be a surprise, given that it is already the third generation from Sony. What is more striking is how little the Nikon Z7 gives up to the Sony.\nhttps://amzn.to/2FszIml\nBUILD QUALITY, DESIGN AND ERGONOMICS\nThe body is more compact and slightly more angular than the design of Nikon's current SLR models, without the camera looking \"retro.\" It is obviously a lot smaller and also thinner than, for example, the Nikon D850, but thanks to the sizeable grip on the front, it sits very comfortably in the hand. Fortunately, it has an on-off switch around the shutter release button, so you can easily operate it with one hand if you want. We like to see that on light mirrorless cameras. The Z7 has, next to the usual dual setting wheels, a screen on top of the camera so you can always check your settings. The selector switch is located on the left side of the top cover. At the front, the first thing that stands out is of course the huge mount, with a diameter of a full 55mm. It is the largest mount of all full-frame cameras. Now that Nikon is finally breaking away from the F-mount, they are doing things right, right from the start. On the back, you will find most of the buttons, and they are all familiar to Nikon users. The camera has a joystick for the autofocus, and that will please many users. The battery is a new type and can also be charged via USB in the camera. The older EN-EL15 batteries of the D850 and D7500 can also be used, but without the option of charging them in the camera.\nThe viewfinder is of course electronic and has a resolution of 3.6 megapixels and a magnification of no less than 0.8x. That is even more than the 0.75x of the D850. The difference is visible. This is one of the most beautiful electronic viewfinders available today: big, detailed, high-contrast and perfectly free of distortion. With a viewfinder like this, the transition from an SLR to the Z7 becomes a lot easier. It has a high refresh rate of 60 frames per second. The only time the viewfinder drops the ball a bit is when you take pictures in the highest mode with liveview. Then it can't sustain the refresh, and you see an older picture at a given moment, making it difficult to follow moving subjects. The rear screen has a resolution of no less than 2.1 megapixels and is touch-sensitive. You can select both your autofocus point and operate the menus with it. You can also use the touch option to easily browse through your images and zoom in on photos taken. What is missing is that you cannot shift your autofocus points while you have the camera at your eye. You are then dependent on the joystick. That works fine, but you do have to go through all your autofocus points. A touchscreen is often faster. The screen tilts for shots from high or low positions, but only if you hold the camera horizontally. The screen doesn't turn, so you can't use it for vlogging or selfies.\nMenu AND special features\nWhat some photographers will have to get accustomed to is that the Nikon Z7 only uses a single XQD card. This ensures that data transfer within the camera is fast, but you can no longer use CF or SD cards in the Z7. CF Express cards will also be supported in the future. The Z7 is therefore very future-oriented. However, the speed of the XQD card is only partly utilized by the Z7. The highest shooting speed is 9 frames per second, with the exposure locked. If you want a live image between the shots, the highest speed is 5.5 images per second. Not bad, but there are mirrorless cameras that do this better - also with this resolution - and the Z7 is not yet any match for the D850 or D5 in this respect.\nA unique feature is that the autofocus ring of the Nikon S lenses is programmable if you don't want to use it for adjusting the autofocus. You can then use it to choose the aperture or to set the exposure compensation. As soon as you switch the lens from AF to MF, this function will lapse, and the focus ring will simply become the focus ring again. This doesn't go as far as the extra programmable ring on the Canon EOS R, but it is a nice option.\nThe Nikon Z7, just like the Sony A7 series, has built-in image stabilization, and that distinguishes it from Canon's mirrorless camera. Thanks to this image stabilization, Nikon can afford not to provide the recently announced Nikon S-line lenses with built-in stabilization. And that should make designing them a lot easier. It also means that older Nikon lenses without image stabilization, which are used with an adapter on the Nikon Z7, are also suddenly stabilized. And that is a nice upgrade. The stabilization works over five axes, and that is two more than is possible with image stabilization in a lens. We have been able to test the effectiveness of the system with the Nikon 24-70 f/4 S, and we found a profit of about four to five stops. That is a really good result.\nThe 45-megapixel sensor of the Nikon Z7 is one of the best sensors available at the moment. The sensor has high resolution and - thanks to the extra-low ISO-64 mode - a dynamic range that is slightly larger than that of many other full-frame cameras. If you use the Z7 with good lenses, and the lenses from the S-line are specially designed for this, you will get beautiful files with high sharpness, good details and beautiful rendering of the lights and shadows. With its low weight and compact dimensions, it makes the Z7 an ideal choice for high-end travel photography and landscapes. But street photography and documentary work also benefit from the excellent image quality of the Z7. Of course, those 45 megapixels mean that you get fairly large files. So if you want to use the maximum speed of 9 images per second often, you have to provide a lot of storage space.\nDYNAMIC RANGEk\nThe sensor of the Nikon Z7 is roughly the same as that of the D850, and that is the camera with - at the time of testing - the highest dynamic range of all full-frame cameras. The dynamic range of the Z7 is almost its match. Some sites have discovered that there may be streaks in the image when you significantly brighten your shots. The pixels that are used for the phase detection are said to be the cause of this. After all, these are not used for registering image information. The examples that are online show that the problem really exists, but you will only see it if you apply extreme image editing. In our practical tests, we have not been able to find any trace of these stripes. It does mean that the usable dynamic range of the Z7 is slightly lower than that of the D850.\nThe Nikon Z7 has an extra low ISO value of 64, which also offers real benefits for the dynamic range. At the same time, it is also very good at high ISO values. The time when high pixel numbers seemed incompatible with good performance at high sensitivities is clearly behind us. The camera scores excellent at high ISO values, and the image quality is comparable to that of the best models of the competition, including the Sony A7R III. The shots are also well detailed at higher sensitivities, and the noise of course increases but remains well under control. For the best result, you do well to work in RAW, because the noise reduction at higher ISO values in jpeg is quite enthusiastic, and that is at the expense of the finest details, which can, however, be found in RAW.\nThe Nikon Z7 can film in full HD up to 120 frames per second and 4K up to 30 frames per second. In the DX mode, the Z7 fully uses the pixels for 4K, without pixel binning or line skipping, which results in good quality. In full frame, the Z7 uses the entire image, and you do not have any crop. This allows optimal use of the limited depth of field of bright lenses. The image quality is also very good in full frame. The Z7 also has both focus peaking and a warning for overexposure. Unfortunately, you can only use one of the two at a time. The fact that this Z7 is a serious hybrid camera is shown by the fact that you can film in 10-bit 4:2:2 in N-log and that you can send that via the HDMI output. You can also use the N-log profile for the most flexible post-processing. Even registration of Time Code is possible, which is useful when you are filming with multiple cameras. Slow motion is also possible, by recording at 120 frames per second in full HD (1080x 1920). Naturally, the Z7 also has an input for headphones and a microphone. If you want to film with a Nikon, this is the camera to have.\nThe Nikon Z7 has 493 phase-detection autofocus points. Finally, Nikon also has phase detection on the sensor. It goes without saying that this is a different system than that of the NIkon D850, and you notice that when you try to follow moving subjects. Most shots will be sharp, but the Z7 is just a bit less good than its SLR counterpart. The autofocus in S-AF is very precise and fast and, because the sharpness is measured on the sensor, you do not have to calibrate your lenses on the Z7, and you will not suffer from front or back focus. The autofocus system can use facial recognition and generally works well, although it is not as sophisticated as the eye detection of, for example, the Sony A7R III. Because the Nikon Z7 focuses with the aperture closed to the set value, the camera may have trouble focusing in low light. Opening the aperture manually can help, but that is not always what you want. A point where the Nikon devotes a lot of attention on the D850 is autofocus with video. The D850 uses a contrast detection system that now feels very dated. The phase detection autofocus on the sensor of the Z7 works in video just as well as for photography, and that makes a huge difference if you want to film with autofocus.\nA NEW MOUNT AND LENSES\nThe Z7 represents a break with the past in more than one respect. Besides the mirror, the camera also says goodbye to the famous Nikon F mount that has been in service since 1959. The new mount is completely electronic and much larger than the old one. This should clear the way for extra bright lenses such as a 50mm or 58mm f/0.95. Those are not available for the time being. However, three new lenses have already been announced: a 24-70 mm f/4, a 35 mm f/1.8 and a 50 mm f/1.8. There is also an adapter available with which Nikon F lenses can be used on the Z-mount.\nConclusiON: REVIEW Nikon Z7\nExcellent sensor with high dynamic range\nGreat built-in image stabilization\nLargely good autofocus in AF-S\nFine controls and good ergonomics\nGood video in 4K\nVery good viewfinder\nJoystick for AF point selection\nAutofocus not as good with moving subjects (as the D850)\nAutofocus not as good in low light\nAF selection via touchscreen not possible with the camera at your eye\nScreen doesn't turn\nThe Nikon Z7 is a very nice camera to work with. It sits nicely in your hand, and all the buttons are where they should be. The menu system is also familiar to every Nikon user. If we compare the Z7 with the Nikon D850 and the Sony A7R III, then here and there it falls a bit short, but it also wins on other points. And that in itself is a huge achievement, because we are comparing the Z7 with two of the very best cameras ever. That it comes so close is impressive. What you get with the Z7 is 95% of the quality and usability of the D850 in a much smaller, lighter and more portable package. The camera has an excellent electronic viewfinder that should convince almost every DSLR user, and the image quality you can achieve with this camera is fantastic. It is not perfect, but almost no camera is. If you do a lot of sports photography, the D850 will still be the better choice. But if you are on the road a lot with your camera, or if you just want something smaller, then the Z7 might be your ideal camera.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 16862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadiancasinosonline.ca/titan-casino.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:12Z", "digest": "sha1:4CMEUF33TQCUSTHKDK5U5444UY6O2B7A", "length": 2829, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.canadiancasinosonline.ca", "title": "Titan Canadian Casino: Play Here Now", "raw_content": "Eperience Titan And You'll be 'Reeling' In The Money\nTitan Canadian casino is one of the few online gaming sites that truly lives up to its name. The site is a major giant in the industry as it offers the best in table and card games as well as the best in slots. 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The loyalty program does a great job of rewarding players who continuously choose to play on their site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 3098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.caniretireyet.com/category/investing/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JY7BIHI5XRMXZ6WL5RNJTKA23SCGMOLD", "length": 4236, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.caniretireyet.com", "title": "Investing Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Can I Retire Yet?", "raw_content": "You can commit a large chunk of your life to becoming a better investor, if you want. You can read articles, devour books, and enroll in classes. Some people, myself included, will take that full plunge. But in the end, most experienced investors arrive back where they started, with just a few simple principles in \u2026\nIt was a Monday morning in the fall of 1987. I was young software engineer immersed in a technical project. The older guys in the office were talking about a crash in the stock market. It would become known as \u201cBlack Monday\u201d \u2014 the largest one-day percentage decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) \u2026\nMost of us want to be \u201csocially responsible\u201d \u2014 however we define that. We don\u2019t want to trash the planet for our children and grandchildren. We don\u2019t think corporations should exploit their workers or their communities. And we don\u2019t intend to profit from the misery of other human beings. Yet most of us also need \u2026\nIf your savings are growing, you tend to feel safe. And if they\u2019re declining, you tend to worry. That\u2019s truer than ever as you get older, and the options for replacing wealth via a job disappear. But your money lives in a fickle financial world, subject to a variety of risks. Your tools for reducing \u2026\nIf you are retired or on your way to financial independence, then you have assets. You\u2019ve stockpiled wealth in some form. But that wealth is embedded in an always fickle, sometimes hazardous world. To preserve your assets, you need to understand the variety of financial risks. Then, you need to prioritize them. Every risk has \u2026\nWhat makes a successful investor? Is it getting double-digit returns? Beating a certain stock index? Outperforming the market for years, and making millions? Or is it just growing and protecting your wealth well enough to achieve your lifetime goals? If you came here looking for sophisticated investing strategies from a self-assured financial wizard, you\u2019ll probably \u2026\nDividend stock picking is the most compelling investment strategy that I\u2019ve never tried. I\u2019ve been tempted several times over the years, including recently when we had some new money to invest. The arguments for holding more dividend-paying stocks are attractive. Dividends provide reliable income, and the total returns can be impressive. People I respect have \u2026\nIt was late 1998 and I had traveled across the country to present at a software conference. In the lobby of the hotel was a group handing out literature on the impending \u201ccrisis\u201d that would become known as \u201cY2K\u201d (Year 2000). I hadn\u2019t heard of it, so I began reading. I could see there was \u2026\nAsset allocation is the most important variable in your portfolio. The way you allocate your money to different asset classes will dictate the risk you take on. And it will likely prescribe the long-term returns you achieve. That\u2019s conventional wisdom. Modern Portfolio Theory says that by combining asset classes that have low correlation, you can \u2026\nHow do you actually manage your investment portfolio in a real-world retirement? Nearly every prospective or current retiree has this question. And there are lots of answers out there\u2026. The article I wrote at the end of 2012 disclosing my actual investment portfolio has been in the Top 10 Popular Posts here for most of \u2026\nDo you need to invest in real estate for a diversified portfolio? If so, what kind of real estate do you need to buy? And how should you own it: directly, through a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), or via a broad market index? Also, is your house just a home, or is it an \u2026\nI just completed an annual ritual that involves calculating one of my favorite metrics, other than monthly expenses and net worth, and that is overall portfolio return. This is an exercise that I\u2019ve performed annually for many years, and that I recommend to anybody who is seriously bent on financial independence and who really wants to understand the process \u2026\nIn writing about safe, simple investing, I often mention that I hold just 9 funds in 2 accounts. And often people ask me about those specific investments or accounts\u2026. I\u2019ve been reluctant to talk about this, for a variety of reasons. Originally I had some privacy concerns, though with a year of blogging behind me, \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 11414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carlabonnet.com/locarno-wedding-photographer-elopement-photography", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FJMGJCE3QWNCMNPXGWNAAETFVUTGBUQJ", "length": 288, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.carlabonnet.com", "title": "Locarno Wedding Photographer - Elopement Photography \u2014 Wedding & Elopement Photographer Spain, Barcelona, Madrid, Girona, Sitges, Mallorca, Menorca, Formentera, Ibiza", "raw_content": "Wedding & Elopement photographer in locarno, Switzerland.\nand I'm a Wedding Photographer based in Spain, available in Locarno, Switzerland. Born in Canary Islands, lived in NYC, currently in Madrid. Traveler & nomad.\nIf you are visiting locarno for your wedding, Elopement or love session", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carolinafep.com/blog/how-do-i-talk-to-my-parents-about-their-estate-planning-.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MFWDJ73BTPNLG4DLGVZJJ5TVVXIQ7RYZ", "length": 3168, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.carolinafep.com", "title": "How Do I Talk To My Parents About Their Estate Planning? | Carolina Family Estate Planning", "raw_content": "How Do I Talk To My Parents About Their Estate Planning?\nClients, friends and family often ask, \u201cHow do I talk to my parents about their estate plan without it seeming morbid or self-interested?\u201d After all, if you parents don\u2019t have an estate plan or has one that is inadequate or outdated, you are likely to be the one that will have to take care of things and clean up the mess after they\u2019re gone. While it\u2019s not an easy conversation to have, it is an important one. Here are some possible ways to broach the subject:\nIf you are in the process or recently set up your own estate plan, this is a great ice breaker. You might try something along the lines of, \u201cWe\u2019ve been working on our estate plan and our lawyer said we should talk to family members about our wishes and where our documents are if something happens to us so the family will know what to do. It occurred to me that I don\u2019t know much about your own planning. Where are your documents stored? What are your wishes?\u201d\nFor a variety of reasons, most estate plans become outdated over time. If your parents haven\u2019t had their estate plan reviewed in the last 3 to 5 years, then it may be out of date. So rather than starting out by asking the details of your parents plan, you might just start out more simply by asking when\u2019s the last time they had it reviewed and/or updated?\nEstate planning is not all about death planning. You may wish to focus the discussion on disability planning and health care decisions. Consider talking to your parents first about how they\u2019d wish to be cared for in the event of a potential disability. There are regular stories in the news about Alzheimer\u2019s and dementia that could be used as fodder for a potential ice breaker on the subject.\nSimilarly, the recent medical event or death of a friend or family member or event a news story can be an effective ice-breaker for initiating discussion about estate planning.\nDiscuss the fact that you recently learned that having no plan or an outdated plan can cause unnecessary stress and frustration for family members, including a surviving spouse.\nAlso keep in mind that for some, the thought of contact an attorney can be daunting, especially if they\u2019ve never worked with one before. Consider making this process easier for your parents by asking friends and family for a referral to an estate planning attorney in your area and do some of the \u2018due diligence\u2019 for your parents to make the process easier for them. If your parent\u2019s health is already failing, don\u2019t assume it\u2019s a lost cause, some attorneys will make hospital calls if necessary.\nConcerned about whether or not your parents have their affairs in order? Talk to them about scheduling a Peace of Mind Planning Session (a $750 value) at no-charge with our office. As a Cary wills and trusts lawyer, I will help you work with your parents closely to ensure their questions are answered clearly and that we create a comprehensive plan that aligns with their needs and goals. However, we only have 8 such Sessions available each month, so call (919) 443-3035 to immediately schedule an appointment with Cary wills and trusts lawyer, Jackie Bedard before they are gone!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.casebook.org/press_reports/fresno_weekly_republican/fwp890920.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:26Z", "digest": "sha1:Z5KDZ34K4UGNUNUQ42JFPBIYCIX7EO7T", "length": 390, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.casebook.org", "title": "Casebook: Jack the Ripper - Fresno Weekly Republican - 20 September 1889", "raw_content": "home > press reports > fresno weekly republican > fresno weekly republican - 20 september 1889\nFresno Weekly Republican (California, U.S.A.)\nJack the Ripper Heard From\nLondon, September 18\nA letter signed \"Jack the Ripper\" has been received at the News Agency of this city, in which the writer states that in about a week another murder will be added to the list of the Whitechapel horrors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 12237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.catpope.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:31Z", "digest": "sha1:FVHN4XM6KVH5ALQPBLBYBDEP2RELPS7T", "length": 1042, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.catpope.com", "title": "Mobile Alabama Fine Artist Cat Pope | Oil Paintings of the Coastal South", "raw_content": "Cat Pope is a professional artist and painting instructor working in Mobile, Alabama. Since 2011, Cat has been creating original oil paintings using traditional art pigments and materials, reflecting the unique landscape and culture of the southern Gulf Coast region. Cat\u2019s work endearingly captures the spirit of adventure found in the coastal South, with a fusion of contemporary realist and impressionist techniques and a dedication to impeccable craftsmanship.\nToday, Cat's oil paintings hang in beautiful homes throughout the United States. Whether you are looking for a custom piece of art for your home, or want to take one of Cat\u2019s painting workshops, you\u2019re in the right place.\nView Cat's portfolio of original oil paintings, large and small.\nWhether you're a seasoned painter or an inspired beginner, find out where Cat is teaching next.\nGain insight into Cat's inspiration and journey as a professional artist.\nNotes from the Studio!\nto be the first to know about new art and events\nCopyright 2019 by Cat Pope. All rights reserved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbre.cz/en/research-and-reports/London-Major-Report-London---The-Way-Forward-December-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:41Z", "digest": "sha1:U4HKIDURV6G767P4LBR3QPOKUUIP5B6D", "length": 568, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cbre.cz", "title": "London Major Report: London - The Way Forward, December 2016 | CBRE", "raw_content": "London Major Report: London - The Way Forward, December 2016\nLondon is both Europe\u2019s pre-eminent business hub and its leading global financial centre. Over the past decade the city\u2019s many strengths have supported exceptionally rapid economic growth.\nThe EU referendum result creates a fresh set of challenges for the capital, some of which are still unclear. However, what is clear is that London\u2019s competitive advantages, built up over many years, and in particular its openness and ability to innovate, will continue to create growth over the next decade and beyond.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 3306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 149.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbs.com/shows/big_bang_theory/video/f9rd7AXEKeHjQud4Tht9pKvL_rBTVlvH/the-big-bang-theory-the-donation-oscillation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VA2L5OTRU42YK5Y5O4GE7KZULGR6LOSL", "length": 340, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cbs.com", "title": "Watch The Big Bang Theory Season 12 Episode 15: The Donation Oscillation - Full show on CBS All Access", "raw_content": "Penny tries to seduce an abstaining Leonard to ruin his 'donation' for her ex-boyfriend, Zack (Brian Thomas Smith), and his wife, Marissa (Lindsey Kraft). Also, Wolowitz, Bernadette, Anu (Rati Gupta) and Koothrappali turn Koothrappali's canceled bachelor party into a couple's trip aboard the 'vomit comet,'. (TV-PG D) Air Date: Feb 7, 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ny-mom-who-killed-her-3-kids-wants-part-of-their-estate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:04Z", "digest": "sha1:JLB3QEUMAGI3EZXMWNSDLDWCSWHZNZ4T", "length": 2678, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "N.Y. mom who killed her 3 kids wants part of their estate - CBS News", "raw_content": "N.Y. mom who killed her 3 kids wants part of their estate\nMINEOLA, N.Y. Leatrice Brewer drowned her three young children in 2008, believing she was saving them from the deadly effects of voodoo. Afterward, she tried to commit suicide twice, but failed.\nNow the 33-year-old suburban New York woman who was found not guilty because of mental disease or defect in the deaths of her children, ages 1, 5 and 6, wants a portion of their $350,000 estate. Her attorneys say she shouldn't be subject to laws that bar convicts from profiting from their crimes.\nNassau County Surrogate's Court Judge Edward McCarty ruled Thursday that Brewer be taken from an upstate psychiatric facility to testify about her request next month.\nAlthough the case would establish a precedent in New York if Brewer succeeds, she's not expected to see any money because of a $1.2 million lien against her for psychiatric counseling and other services she has received since her arrest, attorneys said.\nBrewer admitted she drowned the children in the bathtub of her apartment in New Cassel, on Long Island about 20 miles east of New York City, in February 2008. She later placed the children's bodies on a bed and tried to kill herself by swallowing a concoction of household cleaning chemicals. When that suicide bid failed, she jumped out her second-story window but again survived.\nInstead of facing trial on three murder counts in the children's deaths, Brewer pleaded not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect. Psychiatrists had determined she suffered a major depressive disorder and believed she killed the children to save them from the potentially fatal effects of voodoo.\nBrewer is being kept at a state psychiatric hospital until psychiatrists determine she's no longer mentally ill.\nNew York's Son of Sam Law, named for the 1970s serial killer and amended in 2001, was designed to prevent criminals from profiting from their crimes, such as by selling their stories to book publishers or moviemakers. The judge in Brewer's case, though, has noted the unique aspect - that Brewer wasn't convicted.\nThe case drew attention to Nassau County's social services agency, whose caseworkers visited Brewer's apartment two days before the killings and found no one home but neglected to schedule an immediate follow-up visit. Two social workers were later suspended.\nLawsuits against the county filed by the father of Brewer's 1-year-old son, Innocent Demesyeux, and 5-year-old son, Michael Demesyeux, were settled for $250,000. A lawsuit filed by the father of Brewer's 6-year-old daughter, Jewell Ward, was recently settled for $100,000.\nThe judge has scheduled a Nov. 6 hearing on the matter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 10482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oil-spill-fears-send-gulf-property-into-slide/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LYTOSBX6OL76FNOB252GDFUZTH4FLAQU", "length": 5707, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "Oil Spill Fears Send Gulf Property into Slide - CBS News", "raw_content": "Oil Spill Fears Send Gulf Property into Slide\nThis was the year, Alicia Hollis and her fellow real estate agents thought. After a nasty batch of hurricanes and the bursting of the housing bubble, this was the year that condo sales along the Florida Panhandle's brilliant white beaches were going to rebound.\nThen came the oil - or more accurately, the mere threat of oil.\nThough most of the Gulf Coast remains free of tar balls, sheen and sludge from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico, owners and agents say the disaster has still stained a showcase piece of the real estate market.\nIt's the third sucker punch in six years for property owners, many of whom were depending on rental units to fund their retirement. State lawmakers are looking to let homeowners off the hook on some of their taxes, hoping to pass the cost along to BP.\nBut things won't get better as long as images of oiled sand keep buyers away.\n\"We can sell places in town - people need a place to live - but the beach: look how empty it is,\" said Hollis, who's been selling homes in the Panhandle since 1973. \"It's so heartbreaking.\"\nHollis' agency based on Okaloosa Island, where rows of condos line the beach, typically sells six or seven units a month. It hasn't sold a single beachfront property since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the Louisiana coast April 20. No one is even looking, she said.\n\"It's scaring people off,\" said Dale Peterson, who owns a real estate agency in Destin. \"It's a wait and see. It's the not knowing that's the hardest part for us.\"\nThe halt in sales comes on top of a downturn in the market. In the Fort Walton Beach area, including Destin, the median sales price for condominiums was $471,500 in 2005. Last year, that figure dropped to $254,700. Single-family home prices also dropped, but not as dramatically, from a median sales price of $244,500 in 2005 to $192,100 last year.\n\"We were on our way, too,\" Peterson said. \"Finally on our way up.\"\nOfficials in the region want a special legislative session to allow owners to pay taxes on the current property value rather than what they were worth before the spill.\n\"The market value on Jan. 1 is a lot different than the market value now,\" said state Rep. Dave Murzin, R-Pensacola. \"The potential buyers, just like vacationers, aren't coming down here because they think the oil is soaked on the beaches.\"\nThe state would seek compensation from BP PLC for the lost tax revenue caused by lower values. It's hard to tell exactly how far values have dropped right now, but Murzin said it could mean millions of dollars in lost taxes for each county along the Gulf.\n\"We think we see this train coming down that tunnel and if there is any way we can make it less disastrous, that is what we are trying to do,\" said Pete Smith, property appraiser for Okaloosa County.\nThe problem stretches all along the Gulf Coast, where the oil is and where it isn't.\nMike Boudreaux, president of a Biloxi, Miss., real estate and development company, said beach house sales have stalled even though \"if you walk up and down the beaches, there's not one bit of oil here yet.\"\nProperty owners are worried the problem will linger even longer than damage from a hurricane.\nGloria McCullar, 59, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., owns two Fort Walton Beach condos that she rents. Her retirement plan is to move into one and sell the other.\n\"My biggest fear is that when I'm ready to sell one, I can't because of the oil,\" said McCullar, a single mother who earns $32,000 a year as a secretary. \"I'm just not sure what the future holds. I don't think I can give them away at this point.\"\nAt the Jetty East condominiums on Holiday Isle in Destin, there are 16 units on the market ranging in price from $137,500 to $497,200 and no one is asking about them, said Jerry Stalnaker, who manages the property and sells condos.\n\"There's another 15 or 20 or 30 (owners) that would sell,\" said Stalnaker. \"They've been beat down and beat down. They're sick and tired of it.\"\nIn 2005, Stalnaker said people were buying units sight unseen. Condos wouldn't stay on the market for longer than a week or two. But then sales slowed because of beach erosion caused by storms, and now several owners are upside down on their mortgages after buying at the market peak.\nThe oil spill has just made things worse.\nMore Oil Spill Coverage\nThick Pools of Oil Wash Up on North Fla. Coast\nBP Removes Oil Well Cap after Gas Mishap\nNew Drilling Regulator Promises Investigations\nJoe Barton Keeps GOP Leadership Role\nJudge Who Tossed Drilling Ban an Oil Investor\n\"We're down at the bottom, bottom, bottom now and people who do make an offer make it for dirt cheap,\" Stalnaker said. \"It makes it almost unsellable right now because of the oil problem.\"\nAgents are trying to remind people that the sand is still white and the water is still clear. Peterson's website has live cameras and links showing the beaches.\n\"We're going every day and taking pictures of the beach and people playing in the water,\" Peterson said. \"We're trying to combat it by showing it's not what you see in Louisiana.\"\nHe and others are finding the perceptions are hard to fight. Hollis let out an exasperated groan when a headline \"Heavier oil from Gulf spill washes up in Florida\" popped up on her computer.\nMost people reading the headline will picture the entire coast, she said, even though the problem was in Perdido Bay on the Alabama line some 45 miles to the west.\nStill, she remained optimistic that the market will eventually recover.\n\"We'll survive this just like we've survived everything else. Just now it's a little harder. Until they cap it, we're in trouble,\" she said. \"I'm going to hate it if this doesn't stop pretty soon.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 13229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/shots-fired-sequence-of-events/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IPFBFAODJF2MDWQ2ZQ23ZJXCSGY6QT55", "length": 2879, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "Shots Fired: Sequence Of Events - CBS News", "raw_content": "Shots Fired: Sequence Of Events\nThe events at the U.S. Capitol unfolded with blinding speed this afternoon and evening. At this writing, here is an approximate sequence of events.\nFriday afternoon, the Capitol is filled with tourists. Congress is in session.\nAt approximately 3:40 p.m. ET, a gunman, later identified by police officials as Russell E. Weston, 42, of Missoula, Montana, enters the Capitol through an entrance on the east side of the first floor. According to police, the gunman is carrying a .38 caliber handgun, which sets off a metal detector at the main security checkpoint. Capitol Police Officer Jacob Chestnut, stationed at the checkpoint, asks the gunman to stop, and is shot. Shots are then fired by both the gunman and by at least one police officer, according to a lawmaker's aide.\nThe gunman runs around a corner, and reaches the office of Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas). After the gunman disregards an order to stop, a Capitol police officer standing by the door of the office opens fire. The officer is identified by Rep. DeLay as Officer John Gibson. The gunman and Gibson exchange shots, wounding each other. \"The gunman came into our office and started firing,'' said John Feehery, a spokesman for Rep. DeLay. ``We heard 20 shots.'' Also wounded is a female tourist, identified as Angela Dickerson, 24, who suffers facial and shoulder wounds.\nIn response to the shots, tourists and others inside the Capitol rush out the doors. Many hide behind pillars after the shots began.\nMoments after the shooting, officers raced through nearby offices, guns drawn, warning aides and others to take cover.\nResponding to a report of shots fired in the Capitol, law enforcement officers and rescue workers descend en masse to the Capitol building.\nSen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), a heart surgeon, is among those who rush to the frantic scene in the Capitol after the shooting. Frist says he came upon two injured people and performed CPR on a man who ``had multiple gunshot wounds.'' Frist accompanies the injured to the hospital.\nA U.S. Park Service helicopter lands on the east side of the Capitol to take away the wounded. Two of the wounded are brought out to the helicopter. The helicopter takes off. At least one of the wounded is taken to George Washington Hospital, where President Reagan was taken after he was shot in 1981.\nAbout an hour after the shooting, officers say they intend to evacuate the building, apparently so they can make a more extensive search.\nAt approximately 6 p.m. ET, officers Chestnut and Gibson die at the hospital. Each man is married, and is the father of three children.\nPolice begin to question Weston while he is handcuffed to a hospital bed at D.C. General Hospital. Reports indicate that he has made threats on President Clinton's life over the past two years, and had been identified by the Secret Service as a \"low-level threat.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 10647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-bowl-2016-championship-rings-look-inside-designer-company-jostens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:B4X7RSTMVQKEU2HPIIEYORJFIU4VS47B", "length": 3973, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "Super Bowl 2016 championship rings: Look inside designer company Jostens - CBS News", "raw_content": "Look inside the company creating the Super Bowl rings\nOn Super Bowl Sunday, players from the winning team get to briefly hold up the Lombardi Trophy.\nWatch Super Bowl 50 on CBSSports.com\nBut what they take home is the most coveted prize in football -- the Super Bowl championship ring, reports CBS News correspondent Omar Villafranca.\nComplete Super Bowl coverage on CBSSports.com\n\"For them, the owner gets to take the trophy back and put it in a case, either in Carolina or Denver and this is their trophy that will stay with them forever,\" Chris Poitras, vice president of the sports division at Jostens. The company has made Super Bowl rings for dozens of champions, including the first-ever Super Bowl ring.\n\"We created the first Super Bowl ring for Vince Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers in 1966, and we've continued on. We've done 31 of the 49 Super Bowls,\" Poitras said.\n50 glam designer footballs for Super Bowl 50\nFashion meets football - 50 eye-catching bespoke footballs up for auction to support the NFL Foundation\nThe first Super Bowl ring for the Packers had a simple design -- 40 grams of gold and a one-carat diamond in the center. But as the game got bigger, so did the rings.\nLast year's Super Bowl ring for the New England Patriots had 100 grams of gold and an astonishing 205 diamonds totaling almost five carats.\n\"In the last few years, it's getting to a point where I have a funny feeling the next ring is going to be a double finger,\" said Miran Armutlu, Jostens' master jeweler and the company's quarterback of design.\nAt the production facility in Denton, Texas, he's already thinking of the next championship ring before the game is even played, but the owner of the winning team will coach him through the ring's final design -- a process which can take months.\nArmutlu describes his designs as \"pieces of art that tell a story of a championship.\"\nMeet the friends who saw every Super Bowl\nLast year's Patriots ring shows off the team's winning history with four diamond-shaped Lombardi trophies. The Packers 2010 ring features the iconic Lambeau Field and the Lombardi Trophy coming home to the famous franchise.\nThe design starts as a 3-D computer model, then an actual ring is made for the team's owner to inspect. If the owner wants to add another diamond or put another logo on the ring, a new computer model is made and a new ring is cast.\nOnce the design is finalized, a mold is made for each of the 53 players on the team with their name and jersey number on the side. The team has the option to make more rings for their staff.\n50 years of Super Bowl photography\nJohn Biever is part of a small and very exclusive club -- one of only four photographers who've been on the field to chronicle every Super Bowl s...\nA 1,500-degree furnace melts gold pellets into a liquid, which is poured into each custom mold. The gold is then carefully polished and painted so sections of the ring can be soldered together. Then it's time to put bling in the ring.\nA small team of up to 45 people will work on each ring, but Ken Sprabeary makes it sparkle and oversees a select group of technicians who handpick and set the diamonds.\n\"You have to have that eye for bringing it all together. These guys work in space, so they create that space and fill it with the diamonds,\" Sprabeary said.\nAfter a final cleaning, the Super Bowl ring is ready for the hand of a champion.\nArmutlu personally delivered the rings to many winning players.\n\"I have seen everything from jumping up and down, words you don't want to mention on TV, to a lot of cases just going dead silent and crying,\" Armutlu said.\nThe ring is a symbol of hard work, sacrifice and victory that for many players is the defining moment in their career.\n\"When a team wins ... they're in heaven and they think they're invincible. And then they get the trophy, but the trophy is given back. They get the bonus money, then it's gone. The thing that's left to commemorate is the ring,\" Armutlu said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ccga.edu/page.cfm?p=2330", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TIQKCIYVYFP3Y64BCBTHANHMOPQE64BT", "length": 2645, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.ccga.edu", "title": "College of Coastal Georgia: Minority Outreach Program", "raw_content": "Boys of Summer Program\nGirls of Summer Program\nCollege of Coastal Georgia Summer Academic Outreach Programs\nThe College of Coastal Georgia Summer Academic Outreach Programs are composed of the Minority Outreach Programs, commonly known as Boys of Summer Program, and Girls of Summer Program. Both programs provide an intensive academic program in math, reading and language arts for elementary (5th grade) and middle school (6th grade) students. The Glynn and McIntosh County School Systems have been very supportive of the both programs. Certified teachers, counselors, and college personnel provides academic instructions and administrative support. The Boys and Girls of Summer Programs are an integral part of the College\u2019s overall academic outreach programs.\nAlthough academic standing is used to evaluate each student\u2019s needs, pre and post-tests are used for all students without regard to academic status. The ultimate academic goal is for each student to make measurable gains in all academic areas as well as improved self-esteem. Program evaluation and analysis of test results is conducted with the understanding that academic outcome represents only a portion of the program\u2019s overall impact on each student.\nBoth programs have shown outstanding achievement records. The Boys of Summer Program graduated over 1555 African American males. The Boys of Summer Program has graduated a minimum of 70 students annually. The Girls of Summer Program graduated 53 students. The Girls of Summer was launched during 2017. Both programs displayed outstanding attendance records as well. The 2017 Boys of Summer Program attendance record revealed 90%. The 2017 Girls of Summer Program attendance record showed 98%.\nThe Boys and Girls of Summer Programs are funded by private funds. Over the past years, the Fourteen Black Men of Glynn has served as the primary community partner for the Boys of Summer Program. The Brunswick Chapter of The Link has shown an interest in supporting the Girls of Summer as a community partner. The local area counties, Glynn and McIntosh, have provided funds through businesses, churches and private donors on a going basis. You to can help us continue these programs by clicking below.\nThe College of Coastal Georgia Foundation is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization. Your gift is tax deductible as allowed by law.\nFloyd Phoenix, Director\nMinority Outreach Program/Boys of Summer Lead\nEmail: fphoenix@ccga.edu\nMarcyline Bailey, Assistant Director\nMinority Outreach Program/Girls of Summer Lead\nOne College Dr\nEmail: mbailey@ccga.edu\nGeneral Program Questions:\nOffice of Student Affairs & Enrollment Management", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ccjubilee.com/cost/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6WZCJLY7RKCG4IRWIOXQBHKO4AIMAYVU", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.ccjubilee.com", "title": "Cost - Cinematic Casino Jubilee", "raw_content": "Just $77 per person and includes:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 90.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cehjournal.org/news/uses-effects-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-anti-vegf-drugs-worldwid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JGHB3MDVZF4V5KEQYLTSQBDTQJK7NZJK", "length": 630, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cehjournal.org", "title": "Community Eye Health Journal \u00bb Uses, effects, strengths and weaknesses of anti-VEGF drugs worldwide", "raw_content": "News and notices. December 29, 2014\nUses, effects, strengths and weaknesses of anti-VEGF drugs worldwide\nDavid Yorston, Consultant Ophthalmologist at Gartnavel Hospital, UK, discusses how anti-VEGF drugs are used to prevent blindness from the very damaging effects of excessive VEGF in the eye. He covers the side effects of anti-VEGF drugs and the treatment regimes for adults before going on to examine which eye diseases can be treated using anti-VEGF drugs before concluding by outlining some key reservations and issues around the use of anti-VEGF drugs.\nRead the full article \u201cAnti-VEGF drugs in the prevention of blindness\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?topic=7973.0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:18Z", "digest": "sha1:HPEAVS45DPXTKHCJKGIX2SSM5GLZCUBN", "length": 6802, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.cfb51.com", "title": "\"Impartial\" fact-checkers reveal their partisanship", "raw_content": "Topic: \"Impartial\" fact-checkers reveal their partisanship\nWith a veneer of impartiality, fact-checkers often engage in a uniquely dishonest style of partisanship.\nAnd the State of Union coverage gave us an abundance of examples of how they do it:\nWhether Doctors Without Borders\u2019 scary statistic is accurate or not, is one thing. Trump, however, was being called out for asserting that \u201cone in every three\u201d illegal immigrants has been abused attempting to cross the border rather than \u201c33.333 percent of women\u201d \u2014 probably a rounding error in the poll. It is almost surely the case that every past president and every politician has used \u201cone-third\u201d or \u201cone-half\u201d rather than a specific fraction, and walked away without being fact-checked.\nFact-checking subjective political assertions: The New York Times provided a masterclass in bad faith fact-checking by taking political contentions offered by the president and subjecting them to a supposed impartial test of accuracy. In his speech, Trump called the illegal border crossing \u201can urgent national crisis.\u201d The New York Times says \u201cthis is false.\u201d Why? Because illegal border crossings have been declining for two decades, they say. Customs and Border Protection agents, they go on to explain, had arrested around 50,000 people trying to illegally cross the southwestern border each of the last three months, which was only half of the arrests they had made in comparable months in the mid-2000s.\nEven if those numbers are correct, there is no way to fact-check urgency. After all, a lessening crisis doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it isn\u2019t a pressing one. We\u2019ve seen a steep decline in gun violence over the past 30 years. Would The New York Times ever \u201cfact-check\u201d a Democrat who argued that gun violence was an \u201curgent crisis\u201d of public safety? Of course not. But this fluctuating standard allows journalists to \u201cfact-check\u201d any subjective political contention they desire.\nIf I claim that socialism is the greatest threat to American freedom and prosperity, I may well be right. I may have a lot of historical and economic evidence to back up my assertion. You can argue that I\u2019m wrong. You can lay out statistics that attempt to prove me wrong. You can call me crazy. But you can\u2019t produce an unbiased \u201cfact-check\u201d establishing that my opinion is conclusively false. You\u2019re just writing an op-ed piece.\nPartisan talking point masquerading as a fact check: \u201cFACT CHECK: President Trump praised the record number of women in Congress, but that\u2019s almost entirely because of Democrats, not Trump\u2019s party,\u201d NPR tweeted, correcting the record on a statement that the president never made.\nHere\u2019s what Trump said: \u201cAnd exactly one century after Congress passed the Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in Congress than at any time before. That\u2019s great. Very great. And congratulations. That\u2019s great.\u201d\nTrump was offering his rundown on the state of the union, not the Republican Party. It\u2019s true that presidents take credit for all the good things that happen under their watch. Trump is no exception. In this rare case, however, Trump didn\u2019t even take credit for electing the female politicians. In fact, he congratulated them after they broke out into cheers over his comment. Some people have argued that NPR\u2019s piece was providing context to the president\u2019s comment. Perhaps. Still, their nitpicking created the impression that somehow Trump had misled the public. He did not.\nFact-checking meant to obscure actual facts: The Washington Post\u2019s fact-checking page offered a number of egregious examples of outright misinformation. In one of them, reporter Meg Kelly claimed that, \u201cAbortion legislation in New York wouldn\u2019t do what Trump said.\u201d There are a number of words in her post intimating that Trump lied about the New York and Virginia late-term abortion bills, but none of her words debunk Trump\u2019s core contention. Ramesh Ponnuru has a good rundown here.\nHere\u2019s what Trump said: \u201cLawmakers in New York cheered with delight upon the passage of legislation that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother\u2019s womb moments before birth. These are living, feeling, beautiful, babies who will never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world. And then, we had the case of the governor of Virginia where he stated he would execute a baby after birth.\u201d\nAs I\u2019ve noted before, the biggest clue that you\u2019re about to read a deceptive fact check on the abortion issue is an author mentioning that \u201conly\u201d few abortions of viable babies take place. \u201cIndeed,\u201d Kelly writes, \u201conly 1.3 percent of abortions \u2014 or about 8,500 a year \u2014 take place at or after 21 weeks, according to 2014 data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Guttmacher Institute.\u201d This number, as Ponnuru points out, is almost surely low. Whatever the case, Trump never claimed \u201cmost\u201d abortions were post-20 weeks. Whether 8,500 or 15,000, thousands of viable babies are being aborted. No fact-checker would ever point out that only .0001 percent of legal gun owners commit crimes when talking about more firearm restrictions (and, yes, that\u2019s an approximation).\nAnd yes, the president used a bit of rhetorical flourish to say that babies can be \u201cripped from the mother\u2019s womb moments before birth\u201d because, actually, they can be poisoned or dismembered in the mother\u2019s womb moments before birth. Both the Virginia bill, which was tabled, and the New York law allow, just as Trump says (in his blunt language), for the termination of infants who survive the abortion procedure. Absolutely nothing in The Post\u2019s \u201cfact check\u201d debunks the president\u2019s contention that in New York, and elsewhere, abortion on demand until crowning (and after) is now legal as long as the woman and a doctor decide that the baby is stressful in some way to the mother. How often it happens is up for debate. What the bill says is inarguable.\nFact-checking a truthful statement by demanding that Trump highlight information that has absolutely nothing to do with his contention: An astute reader points out this PBS fact-check of a Trump tweet from a couple of weeks ago. I\u2019ve noticed this genre, as well. In it, the president points out that a reputable Marist/NPR/PBS Poll had shown that his approval rating among Latinos had risen to 50 percent, an increase of 19 percent over a year\u2019s time. After confirming that, yes, Trump had been precise in his assertion regarding their poll, PBS spends around 700 words taking Trump to task for failing to highlight other negative information in the poll. Will this be a new standard for all politicians?\nThe state of American fact-checking is dreadfully misleading. There\u2019s no reason for conservatives to give its authors the deference they seek.\nKingsvol and highVOLtage like this", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 9219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chabadcv.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:26Z", "digest": "sha1:MJ74355LD2JPK4HOWBFTQRUREEVZKXQ2", "length": 377, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.chabadcv.com", "title": "Jewish Synagogue in Carmel Valley Del Mar", "raw_content": "Synagogue ServicesA community that prays together stays together. Join us for regular daily, shabbat and holiday services in a warm, friendly environment. Read More\nHere At CCV\nFri, February 15, 2019 - 6:30am - 7:30am\nFri, February 15, 2019 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm\nSat, February 16, 2019 - 9:00am - 10:00am\nSat, February 16, 2019 - 10:00am - 1:00pm\n11860 Carmel Creek Rd, S. Diego, C", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 136.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chamberelancs.co.uk/services/policy-and-lobbying/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6NZAAYEG4VXQ2HQEOKAL3ONFONZ5YSG5", "length": 1901, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.chamberelancs.co.uk", "title": "Policy and Lobbying | East Lancashire Chamber of Commerce", "raw_content": "Policy and LobbyingEast Lancashire Chamber of Commerce2018-12-18T19:15:42+00:00\nEconomy and QES\nTransport and Infrastucture\nEast Lancashire Chamber of Commerce is the collective voice for business in the area, representing the views and interests of our Members at local, County, regional and national levels.\nReaching Britain\u2019s true economic potential\nOur task is to create an environment where businesses can flourish and to act on those issues that are out of our members\u2019 direct control.\nBy joining together with Chambers of Commerce across the North West, Britain and Europe, we can raise your concerns, with expert staff influencing decisions wherever they are made. \u2018Chamber of Commerce\u2019 is uniquely recognised worldwide as the business-representative brand \u2013 correspondingly commanding access and respect at the highest levels.\nOur lobbying activities are shaped by regular surveys and by business meetings which are organised on both sector and locality bases, ensuring that we accurately reflect the interests of business across all parts of Pennine Lancashire. We run high-profile campaigns as well as acting discretely behind the scenes or with partner agencies.\nAnother key activity is to provide information to our members about European, national, regional and local policy proposals that are likely to impact upon business, and to provide feedback from the business community. Equally importantly we seek to influence policy formulation at the design stages, and we have accordingly deliberately positioned ourselves in positions of authority on many important agencies and government bodies, to ensure that East Lancashire\u2019s voice is to the fore.\nIf there are issues that you would like us to take up on your behalf, or you have comment on current Government or other policies, please contact our President president@chamberelancs.co.uk or Chief Executive m.barker@chamberelancs.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chapmantripp.com/news/financial-advisers-lose-limited-liability-under-new-act", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:21Z", "digest": "sha1:HDJWSFJLSO67USUZUEICX2VCGOWDX72N", "length": 2500, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.chapmantripp.com", "title": "Financial advisers lose limited liability under new Act - News - Chapman Tripp", "raw_content": "Home / News / Financial advisers lose limited liability under new Act\nFinancial-advisers-lose-limited-liability-under-new-Act\nFinancial advisers need to be aware that the new Financial Advisers Act will deny them the protection of operating through a limited liability company, making them personally liable for any financial advice they may give.\nThe warning was delivered by Chapman Tripp partner, Tim Williams, in a presentation to the recent IFA Conference on the many consequences of the new Act, which is expected to come into force on 1 December 2010.\nWilliams said that the new requirement that only individuals can provide financial advice was not widely understood and may not have been thought through entirely. He has suggested that officials reconsider the Act in this respect.The prohibition will also mean that broker tip-sheets will need to be attributed to individuals rather than coming from the broker firm.\nSome of the other anomalies identified by Williams were:\nThe ban on listed companies giving market guidance. This is inconsistent with the requirement in the NZSX and NZDX Listing Rules that listed companies give guidance through NZX when required under NZX\u2019s continuous disclosure rules.\nThe removal of the current general relief for issuers in favour of relief for offering documents and advertisements only.\nThe removal of the current relief for procedural advice on how to invest (rather than what to invest into) except in relation to KiwiSaver.\nThe failure to provide relief for financial advisers, who are not journalists, writing in the media on specific products, as frequently occurs.\n\u201cWhen it becomes effective, the Financial Advisers Act will apply more broadly than the current disclosure laws. It will apply when advising on an increased range of products and even when giving advice to wholesale investors,\u201d Williams said.\n\u201cThe Act also will extend the current disclosure obligations to include requirements for authorisation and registration and will set up qualifications and conduct standards. The Financial Service Providers (Registration and Dispute Resolution) Act will impose a requirement for financial advisers to have dispute resolution services available.\n\u201cWhile there will be opportunity to include exemptions in the Regulations, which are currently being prepared, if the prohibition on providing financial advice through companies is to be removed, amendments to the Act will be required because it would be such a fundamental change,\u201d he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.christinebailey.co.uk/why-i-love-kefir/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:40Z", "digest": "sha1:SLYEECQBEFQ32BIBJAZ6QR6WFCJFN23C", "length": 5930, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.christinebailey.co.uk", "title": "Why I Love Kefir: My road to health and gut healing - Christine Bailey", "raw_content": "Why I Love Kefir: My road to health and gut healing\nApril 3, 2015 Christine Bailey Health, News & Events beneficial bacteria, coconut kefir, fermented food, gut healing, kefir, microflora, milk kefir, water kefir\nFermented foods are a big part of my diet and my family\u2019s diet. As someone who has undergone two life saving bowel operations, diagnosed with coeliac disease and suffered with past parasitic infections fermented foods and other nutritional interventions have been crucial in healing my gut and restoring my health. I now experience true health and healing and it is for this reason I am so passionate about the role of food in restoring health and vitality. Healing the gut is the first crucial step towards long term health and healthy ageing. This is particularly true when it comes to children. One of my boys Isaac has a rare autoimmune disease which we have completely resolved through dietary changes and the use of fermented foods in his diet has been important for his healing. If you want to make a real difference to your health then start by including fermented foods daily.\nTraditional cultures have used fermented foods for centuries to improve overall health. Now their use is becoming more and more popular in Western diets as a means of improving digestive health and immune function. In addition scientific research is now supporting their therapeutic benefits.\nOne of the most researched is Kefir. Kefir is enjoyed by many different cultures worldwide. It can be made from the cows, goat or sheep\u2019s milk. You can also make it dairy free using coconut or nut milks.\nIt is slightly sour and fizzy taste due to the fermentation activity of the colonies of bacteria and yeast that make up the \u201cgrains\u201d (kefir starter) used to culture the milk. These are not actually grains \u2013 it\u2019s more of a grain like structure that supports the microbes. The lactic acid produced by the bacteria present contributes to its sour taste. During the fermentation process the beneficial bacteria and yeasts consume much of the lactose \u2013 the milk sugar present in dairy. Once fermented, kefir is actually very low in lactose meaning it is often tolerated by people who are lactose intolerant or find it difficult to break down lactose.\nWhat makes kefir particularly beneficial to health is the presence of an array of beneficial bacteria and yeasts. Milk kefir is also a good source of protein and amino acids that can support gut health. As the proteins are pre-digested it can be useful for anyone with a compromised digestion. It is also rich in various B vitamins, calcium, magnesium, phosphorous and vitamin K2 making it highly valuable for bone support. In fact vitamin K2 is particularly valuable for health and something I talk a lot about in my book Eat to Get Younger. Vitamin K2 plays a key role in calcium metabolism, helping to support healthy bones and teeth, and prevent it from depositing in the arteries which can contribute to heart disease.\nFor anyone with digestive problems it is worth considering kefir. Not only can it help to reinoculate the gut but there are various studies to support its anti-microbial and anti-fungal properties. Studies have found that kefir can inhibit the growth of dangerous bacteria like Salmonella and Escherichia coli. Kefir can also help to control Candida overgrowth. Other studies show that the good bacteria found specifically in kefir may reduce the effects of toxins released by Clostridium difficile. Beneficial bacteria also support the production of short chain fatty acids, like butyric acid known for their anti-inflammatory properties and are particularly helpful in nourishing the colon.\nThe bacteria in kefir produce a structural sugar called kefiran. Studies have suggested it can exert many health-promoting effects including immune modulation, lowering high blood pressure and reducing high cholesterol. This makes it beneficial for heart health.\nAs it can modulate the immune system it is helpful in lowering inflammation and reducing allergic responses. The beneficial yeast in kefir\u2014like Kluyveromyces marxianus and Saccaromyces reduce inflammation in the intestinal tract. Studies suggest that kefir may help treat colitis. If you suffer with allergies then consider including kefir regularly. One study found that kefiran may reduce allergic inflammation by suppressing mast cell degranulation and cytokine production. Other studies confirm its ability to lower general allergic responses.\nBy modulating inflammation and supporting a healthy gut flora there is good reason to use kefir for skin conditions. When applied topically, kefir extracts have been shown to possess antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory properties and result in improved wound healing.\nAnti-Cancer Action\nResearch has also demonstrated that kefir may have an anti-tumour effect. In one study, kefir inhibited tumour growth and induced apoptosis making it potentially beneficial in reducing the risk of cancer. Another study suggested that kefir may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer. While a separate study found that kefir may be reduce the risk of stomach cancer.\nMaking Your Own Kefir\nIt is easy to make your own kefir at home. The key is to use the best quality milk \u2013 organic full fat milk is important or if you have access to raw organic dairy you may wish to use this. If you cannot tolerate dairy you can make kefir with coconut milk. You can also use water kefir grains to make water or coconut water kefir.\nIn addition to simply drinking it you can use it to make superfood smoothies, raw dressings, dips and sauces. Do not heat it, as you will destroy the beneficial bacteria.\nIf you don\u2019t fancy making your own there are some excellent kefir brands available \u2013 here are may favourites for coconut kefir and milk kefir. If you want to know how to make your own fermented foods why not book onto one of my fermented food workshops. Your body will thank you for it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.churchilldowns.com/news/archives/wilkes-celebrates-first-official-stakes-win-with-candyman-pocahontas-romp-by-sara-loui", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:25Z", "digest": "sha1:V4DEDRAQMOYBZJL6JMBCXVXZYHXGTCVW", "length": 12111, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.churchilldowns.com", "title": "Wilkes Celebrates First Official Stakes Win with 'Candyman'; Pocahontas Romp By Sara Louise No Surprise To Romans | | Churchill Downs Racetrack | Home of the Kentucky Derby", "raw_content": "Wilkes Celebrates First Official Stakes Win with 'Candyman'; Pocahontas Romp By Sara Louise No Surprise To Romans\nWILKES NOTCHES \u2018FIRST' CHURCHILL STAKES VICTORY WITH \u2018CANDYMAN' IN IROQUOIS - Trainer Ian Wilkes has made many visits to the Churchill Downs winner's circle since he first arrived at Churchill Downs from Australia nearly 20 years ago - including a couple of stops in the exclusive Kentucky Derby winner's circle with mentor Carl Nafzger. But Saturday's \"Stars of Tomorrow I\" victory by Capt. Candyman Can in the $100,000-added Iroquois (Grade III) marked a first for Wilkes since he went out on his own a couple of years back.\nThe three-length victory by the gelded son of Candy Ride was Wilkes' first stakes triumph as a trainer at his home track. It was a nice milestone for the 43-year-old Aussie, but the performance his horse turned in under jockey Julien Leparoux meant much more.\n\"One of the reasons Carl turned some of his horses over to me was to give me recognition,\" said Wilkes. \"I guess that's a very satisfying aspect of it.\"\nWilkes said Capt. Candyman Can came out of the race in good shape and would be pointed toward the $150,000-added Kentucky Jockey Club (GII) at 1 1/16 miles on Nov. 29. That race will mark Capt. Candyman's debut at a two-turn distance after his flashy performance on Saturday over Churchill Downs' demanding one-turn mile.\nA strong effort at two turns would allow Wilkes to start thinking about next spring's Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (GI) on May 2. Capt. Candyman Can will have to prove that two-turn races are within his grasp, but Wilkes says his \"gut feeling\" on that is positive.\nWilkes also believes that Capt. Candyman Can could improve significantly off of his Iroquois win and in his training leading up to the Kentucky Jockey Club.\n\"He was fit to run - he was ready to run and needed to run,\" Wilkes said. \"But was he 110 percent? No, I didn't feel he was. I felt he had some more improvement in him. I think he's maturing a little more than you might hope - he's put on some weight and almost done too good. So I was coming into this race and hoping to move forward, and I'd love to win the next race.\"\nCapt. Candyman Can was a colt when he came into Wilkes' care, but the decision to geld him was made early in the year. That move often has an immediate impact on the physical and mental outlook of young horses, and that was the case with Wilkes' star.\n\"He had a lot of little issues,\" he said. \"Gelding got the weight off of him and it really helped him. I doubt that I would have been in this situation if I didn't geld him.\"\nThe Iroquois marked the second victory in three career starts for Capt. Candyman Can, with the other being a dazzling 7 \u00bd-length romp in his career debut at Saratoga. In between he finished a close sixth over Polytrack in Arlington Park's Arlington-Washington Futurity (GIII). His earnings now stand at $105,517.\nPOCAHONTAS ROMP BY SARA LOUISE NO SURPRISE TO ROMANS- Saturday's first \"Stars of Tomorrow\" program of the Churchill Downs Fall Meet saw plenty of strong performances by promising horses on the card devoted exclusively to 2-year-olds, but the most impressive of the day could have been the romp by Eldon Farm Equine's Sara Louise in the $100,000-added Pocahontas (GIII).\nThe Dale Romans-trained daughter of Malibu Moon rallied from just off the pace and quickly drew off under Robby Albarado to defeat favored Rachel Alexandra by 3 \u00be lengths. The quality of that dazzling effort was underscored by her stakes record winning time of 1:34.57. It was the first sub-1:35 clocking since the Pocahontas was extended from seven furlongs to a mile in 1981 and the time was nearly three-fifths of a second faster than the winning time turned in by the gelding Capt. Candyman Can against colts in the Iroquois fewer than 30 minutes later.\nRomans said all was well on Sunday with a horse that he called \"a very special filly.\" He said she \"came out of the race great,\" and that her dominating effort was no surprise to his stable.\n\"She had trained that way, and I've thought she was special since the first time I got to breeze her,\" said Romans. \"She's been just the total package. She had the speed when you called on her and she'd relax when you wanted her to, and that's a good horse.\"\nSara Louise was beaten in her career debut at Saratoga when she broke last in a field of 10. She rallied from 14 lengths back to finish fourth, beaten only 3 \u00be lengths, by the well-regarded Be Smart. She scored a three-quarter length victory at Belmont Park in her next start that was easier than the winning margin would indicate, as the race chart notes that she won under \"hand urging\" from jockey Edgar Prado.\nRomans said a run back in the $150,000-added Golden Rod (GII) at 1 1/16-miles on Nov. 29 is possible for Sara Louise. A decision on her next target will come after a discussion with Eldon Farm Equine owner John Luke.\n\"We'll look at it real hard,\" he said. \"I don't like to make those decisions after the emotion of a big win like that. In about a week or so we'll have a conference call with Mr. Luke and all of his people and decide what to do.\"\nSara Louise is the only horse Romans currently trains for Luke. He has had a handful over the years, with Spin Master, winner of the $100,000 Matt Winn at Churchill Downs in 2007, being the best of those before Sara Louise walked into Romans' barn.\nThe Pocahontas victory boosted the career earnings for Sara Louise to $101,381.\nEINSTEIN BREEZES, POSSIBLE FOR CLARK \u2018CAP - Woodford Reserve Turf Classic (GI) winner Einstein is moving closer to his first race since a disappointing run in the Arlington Million (GI), and that race could be a return to the dirt in the 135th running of the $500,000-added Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (GII) at Churchill Downs on Nov. 28.\nMidnight Cry Stable's 6-year-old son of 1985 Kentucky Derby winner Spend A Buck breezed an easy half-mile over a \"fast\" track in :52 on Sunday at Churchill Downs. It was the first breeze for Einstein since he finished fifth, beaten only two lengths, by front-running longshot Spirit One in the Million on Aug. 9 at Arlington Park.\nEinstein stumbled badly at the start of that race. The veteran turf star was found to have pulled muscles in his back end following his troubled run in the Million.\n\"He probably did it when he left the gate,\" said Pitts. \"I sent him for a bone scan and you could see where it was just black where he had pulled all those muscles in his back end.\"\nPitts said Einstein bounced back from the injury well, and his strong recovery has Pitts thinking over a bid for the 1 1/8-mile Clark. Although Einstein's major victories have come on turf, he has run very well over the main track at Churchill Downs. He finished second to reigning \"Horse of the Year\" Curlin in June in the $1 million Stephen Foster Handicap (GI) and notched his first career victory under the Twin Spires in November 2005.\nA bid for the Clark Handicap could involve a run against two-time Whitney (GI) winner Commentator, who could be pointed to that race by trainer Nick Zito. A Clark bid has not been completely ruled out for Curlin, who is back on the grounds following a fourth-place finish over the synthetic Cushion Track surface in the Breeders' Cup Classic (GI) at Santa Anita.\nPitts said Einstein is far from a sure thing to run in the Clark, but it is an attractive option.\n\"I'm going to kind of let him tell me, but the Clark is in the back of my mind,\" said Pitts. \"I know Commentator is contemplating it, but if I can run second to Curlin I guess I can attempt to beat him. I don't know what Curlin's doing, but I'm kind of going to let him tell me.\"\n\"If everything goes well it gives him four works and he didn't lose a whole lot,\" said Pitts. \"He seemed good. He went just nice and easy today and we'll go from there. It's not a necessary thing that he has to run, but if it happens that he's doing good then and it comes up a light spot, then I probably would run in the Clark and then sit on him until Florida.\"\nPitts said current plans call for Einstein to campaign next year as a 7-year-old, and says the Brazilian-bred is actually younger than that official listing because he was foaled in the Southern Hemisphere.\n\"He just turned six two months ago,\" said Pitts. \"He's only been six for two months. Everybody thinks he's been six this entire year when he's not.\"\nThe ultimate goal for Einstein would be a bid to repeat this year's win in the Woodford Reserve Turf Classic on Kentucky Derby Day.\n\"If we could get a couple of more good races into him next year I'd like to point him toward the Woodford Reserve again,\" said Pitts. \"Then we'll just kind of go from there. There's no reason not to.\"\nEinstein has a record of 3-3-0 in eight races this year and his career slate stands at 8-3-1 in 21 races with earnings of $1,366,431.\nMAMBO IN SEATTLE BREEZES, STILL POSSIBLE FOR CLARK - Travers (GI) runner-up Mambo in Seattle turned in an easy half-mile breeze on Sunday at Churchill Downs that kept the 3-year-old in the picture for the $500,000-added Clark Handicap Presented by Norton Healthcare (GII).\nMambo in Seattle, who is owned by William S. Farish and Mrs. William Kilroy, breezed four furlongs over a \"fast\" track under exercise rider Dane Noel in :50.40. The work was the first for the 3-year-old son of Kingmambo since his disappointing seventh-place finish behind Ball Four in the $150,000 Fayette (GIII) at Keeneland on Oct. 25.\nTrainer Neil Howard believes that Mambo in Seattle failed to handle the synthetic Polytrack surface at Keeneland in that race and he was pleased with what he saw in the colt's return to dirt at Churchill Downs. He caught Mambo in Seattle going a little faster than Churchill Downs clockers, as Howard had the colt going in \":49 and two, or :49 and three\" on his stopwatch.\n\"It was exactly what I was looking for,\" said Howard. \"I was just looking for a little maintenance half-mile in his first work since he ran, and he breezed very nice.\"\nHoward said he and Farish had discussed the prospect of a bid for the Clark, but said there is no rush to make that call.\n\"We're here, so we figure we can just train along,\" said Howard. \"He's had good year and he's had some tough races, so we're just going to play it by ear just a little bit. We are looking at the race, but we're not making any commitments yet.\"\nMambo in Seattle's career record stands at 4-3-0 in 10 races with earnings of $400,741.\nBARN TALK - Jockey Julien Leparoux and trainer Mike Maker continued to sustain their sizzling pace on Saturday in the battles for top honors in their respective categories in the Fall Meet. Leparoux won four races for the second time in three days to push his meet-leading victory total to 15. Robby Albarado, who won three races on Saturday, is a clear second in that category with nine wins. Maker saddled one winner on Saturday and has scored at least one win on each of the first five days of the 26-day meet. His victory total stands at nine, with Ken McPeek (six wins) and Dale Romans (five) giving closest chase. ... Brant Laue's Gun Salute, winner of the 2005 Secretariat (GI) at Arlington Park, is entered in the 9th race on Thursday, Nov. 9 at Churchill Downs. The son of Military is part of a full field in a 1 1/8-mile allowance optional claiming race on the Matt Winn Turf Course. Gun Salute ran third to Thorn Song in last fall's River City (GIII) at Churchill Downs for trainer Bill Mott, then ran twice earlier this year in Saudi Arabia. He returned to the U.S. to run second in an Ellis Park allowance race in his only effort for new trainer Cody Autrey.\nWORK TAB (Track: FAST) - Commonwealth Turf (GIII) candidate Amazing Results breezed a sharp five furlongs in :59. The move by Team Block's son of Grand Slam was the fastest of 33 at the distance. ... Dogwood Stable's Blackberry Road, runner-up in the 2007 Kentucky Jockey Club, breezed five furlongs for trainer David Carroll in 1:02.40. ...Isabull, winner of the 2006 WinStar Derby, breezed five furlongs in 1:01.60 for trainer Tom Amoss.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 13136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cindyderosier.com/2013/02/a-tasty-color-wheel.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:40Z", "digest": "sha1:V5VR2JDRPQAM5CBCTN7WUG2QPDGKQ4GB", "length": 1764, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cindyderosier.com", "title": "Cindy deRosier: My Creative Life: A Tasty Color Wheel", "raw_content": "I've been wanting to do a color wheel project with Trevor for awhile now, and having a playdate provided the perfect opportunity. I gave Trevor and his friend three Nilla Wafers and had them frost the flat side of each with one of the three primary colors.\nI asked what would happen if we mixed equal parts of blue with yellow, red with yellow, and blue with red. They knew that the primaries would mix to make orange, green and purple. They did the mixing and frosted three more cookies with the new shades. I told them these were called secondary colors.\nI gave them each 6 more cookies to arrange between each primary and secondary color. I asked what would happen if we mixed a primary with a secondary. Trevor guessed that we'd get an \"ish\" color, like \"greenish-yellowish.\" Good answer! I reminded them of the terms primary (meaning first) and secondary (meaning second) and asked what they thought this group of colors might be called. Trevor guessed \"thirdary.\" A good guess, and fairly close to the correct answer, tertiary. They mixed up the colors.\nHere they are with their completed color wheels.\nAnd now, the best part... eating them!\nFor the record, I usually serve fruit and/or crackers when a friend comes for an after-school playdate. This is the first time I've ever served 12 frosted cookies as a snack! But it's justified in the name of education and experimentation, right?\nIt certainly looks like the boys enjoyed the experiment. I don't think they'd complain at all! LOL\nJill Sarginson February 18, 2013 at 5:03 PM\nOhhhhh how fun! I loveeeeeeeeeee them!! They look like they are having so much fun!!!!\nPlay and eat. My fave combo. :)\nTotally justified! :0)\nWhat a fun and tasty way to teach the color wheel. This is such a great idea, Cindy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 6021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citizensaht.org/de-california-fires/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:00Z", "digest": "sha1:NSEKE4EJNNY5YSMS7FF3PI5FCISFQ3Y4", "length": 2821, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.citizensaht.org", "title": "DE-California Fires", "raw_content": "War on CaliforniaWoman's Image Burned onto Wall in Flash Death\nWoman's Image Burned onto metal wall during Santa Rosa Fire\nWhat is this image. Is this a person's possible death by flash incineration recorded by the flames themselves inside a trailer sitting in the street in front of a home that was hit by directed energy weapons around 2:00 a.m. on October 8, 2017? Could she have taken refuge in the trailer? She's holding something - a child?\nThe title picture was photographed by a videographer walking through the streets of Santa Rosa after the fire. It is the only known picture of a possible death recorded during this fire. She may have been holding something in her arms. Can you tell what it is?\nOn October 8, 2017, Santa Rosa, California was attacked by directed energy weapons in the form of lasers and particle beam weapons (disintegrate objects to dust like the twin towers on 9-11 before your eyes) and set on fire in the middle of the night when most people would have been asleep and unaware they were about to be killed. Cars, homes, concrete, metal and glass melted but plastic objects such as trash cans and children's play sets were left standing.\nThis was no forest fire because the trees did not burn. Various colored lasers have been photographed extending from the sky down towards the earth, starting the fire and keeping it burning or intensifying it. This indicates that this was a man-made phenomena and it resulted in the known deaths of at least 40 persons, the disruption of thousands of lives, loss of homes and personal property and the loss of loved ones and pets. This is war, an attack on private citizens by certain agencies and people controlling environmental weather and the military application of advanced weaponry. Officials are attributing the severity of the fire to diablo winds, which does not explain the extremely high temperatures and is a lie. \"Authorities\" are covering this up. See \"Effects of Directed Energy Weapons.\"\nThis above photo reminds one of the images\nleft on walls and sidewalks after the atomic\nblast in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, when\na US B-29 bomber unleashed the uranium\nmissile, which exploded around 1,800 feet\nabove the ground. The horrifying attack\ndestroyed the city centre and wiped out\n70,000 people instantly, with thousands\nmore dying from radiation poisoning over\nthe subsequent days, weeks and months.\nAt 8.15 in the morning, the devastating bomb was dropped. Such was the ferocity of the blast, eerie shadows of incinerated humans were left imprinted on steps, pavements and walls. The haunting impressions were caused by the heat of the explosion, which changed the colour of surfaces \u2013 hence the outline of bodies and objects that absorbed some of the blast. The shadows of Hiroshima: Haunting imprints of people killed by the blast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 4705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citybeautiful.ch/podcast/podcast/gifts-prophet-alarm-trumpet", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:33Z", "digest": "sha1:2ULWB7O2Q4IOTZVUF3TULX27GSFSLNTP", "length": 265, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.citybeautiful.ch", "title": "Gifts: Prophet - The Alarm and the Trumpet \u2014 City Beautiful Church", "raw_content": "Gifts: Prophet - The Alarm and the Trumpet\nOne of the most important things in regards to prophecy is self-confidence that I am worthy of hearing God's voice. The more that I step out and practice it the more that I am going to see that become a reality in my life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.climb-europe.com/RockClimbingCroatia/Photos/paklenica-mosoraski.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LGVAOPPSOGVSWQHNLJCUE2BMSDYVZZTA", "length": 246, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.climb-europe.com", "title": "Rock climbing photographs of Paklenica in Croatia", "raw_content": "The photograph shows an unknown climber on the crux pitch of Mosoraski, which is 350m and 9-pitches long; 3a, 4a, 4a, 4a, 4b, 3a, 5c, 4b, 4a.\nPhotograph was taken by Tom Prentice. This first appeared in the August 2004 edition of Climber Magazine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 118.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/07/paul-singers-elliott-to-make-all-cash-offer-for-athenahealth-of-155-160-a-share-sources.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KZXQVAWXF3DU2NATANHQNL2AX3BHUC7U", "length": 2546, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.cnbc.com", "title": "Paul Singer's Elliott to make all-cash offer for Athenahealth of $155-$160 a share: Sources", "raw_content": "Paul Singer's Elliott makes all-cash offer for Athenahealth of $160 a share\nElliott says it made an all-cash deal for Athenahealth of $160 a share.\nThe health-care technology company was co-founded by CEO Jonathan Bush.\nElliott took a 9.2 percent stake in the company about a year ago.\nPublished 9:15 AM ET Mon, 7 May 2018 Updated 11:06 AM ET Mon, 7 May 2018 CNBC.com\nElliott to make all-cash offer for Athenahealth, say sources 10:00 AM ET Mon, 7 May 2018 | 02:55\nElliott Management made an all-cash deal for Athenahealth, with a bid of $160 a share, the activist firm said in a letter Monday.\nThe proposal is a 27 percent premium to Athenahealth's share price as of Friday. The shares jumped nearly 24 percent in trading on Monday after CNBC's David Faber reported that Elliott was preparing to make the bid, citing sources familiar with the matter.\nPaul Singer's Elliott, which took a 9.2 percent stake in the health-care technology company about a year ago, said Monday its stake was now 8.9 percent. Athenahealth is led by CEO Jonathan Bush, the outspoken and controversial cousin of President George W. Bush and brother of Billy Bush.\nIn the letter to Athenahealth's management, which Elliott released publicly on Monday, the activist firm said it has had constructive discussions with management, \"and we greatly appreciate how much time the management team, led by Jonathan, and the Board have invested in evaluating our perspectives as well as the perspectives of our fellow shareholders.\"\nIn a statement, Athenahealth confirmed it received an unsolicited bid from Elliott and said its board will \"carefully review\" it. It hired Lazard as financial advisor and Weil, Gotshal & Manges as legal advisor.\nElliott's letter also says Athenahealth's management has \"revealed an unwillingness\" to pursue alternative strategies for realizing value. Elliott approached the company last fall about a take-private transaction involving Elliott or others and the company \"refused to engage.\"\nThe company has been the focus of activists before, with Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn taking a short position a few years ago.\nIn its letter, Elliott said: \"Unfortunately, we are faced now with the stark reality that athenahealth as a public-company investment, despite all of its promise, has not worked for many years, is not working today and will not work in the future. Given athenahealth's potential, this reality is deeply frustrating.\"\nElliott's deal could be worth about $7 billion, including debt.\n\u2014 CNBC's David Faber contributed reporting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.co3.bz/event/building-your-personal-leadership-resilience%E2%80%A6part-two-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:45Z", "digest": "sha1:L7C7J4ELEHXXY5CI3V6K4V6H6V56AA5W", "length": 4929, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.co3.bz", "title": "Building your personal Leadership resilience\u2026Part Two | CO3", "raw_content": "Taking steps to look after your wellbeing can help you deal with pressure, and reduce the impact that stress has on your life. This is sometimes called developing emotional resilience.\nResilience is not just your ability to bounce back, I prefer the word Bounce Forward, but also your capacity to adapt in the face of challenging circumstances.\nResilience isn't a personality trait \u2013 it's something that we can all take steps to achieve.\nThe workshop will focus on:-\nBuilding your Practical resilience toolbox.\nVenue: CO3 offices (34 Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, BT2 7DB)\nCost: none (please note that this event is for Full and Associate CO3 members only.\nTo register please email sarah@co3.bz\nThe toolbox might include for you some of the following and we will experiment with several of these during the workshop, obviously not the sleep one!\nGet enough sleep and exercise. When you take care of your mind and body, you're better able to cope effectively with challenges in your life.\nWe will explore and practice thought awareness . Resilient people don't let negative thoughts derail their efforts. Instead, they consistently practice positive thinking. We will explore how you can \"listen\" to yourself when something goes wrong \u2013 and reflect on whether these statements are permanent, pervasive or personalised, and practice correcting these thoughts in your mind.\nWe will practice Cognitive Restructuring which helps us change the way that you think about negative situations and bad events.\nLearn from your successes and notice what happens when you don\u2019t delete the successes, the 70:30 rule.\nChoosing your response is a classic tool to review. Remember, we all experience bad days and we all go through our share of crises. But we have a choice in how we respond; we can choose to react negatively or in a panic, or we can choose to remain calm and logical to find a solution. Your reaction is always up to you.\nDuring times of stress or adversity, the body goes through a number of changes designed to make us faster, stronger, more alert, more capable versions of ourselves. Our heart rate increases, blood pressure goes up, and adrenaline and cortisol (the stress hormone) surge through the body. In the short-term, this is brilliant, but the changes were only ever mean to be for the short-term. Here\u2019s what happens \u2026\nThe stress response is initiated by the amygdala, the part of the brain responsible for our instinctive, impulsive responses. From there, messages are sent to the brain to release its chemical cocktail (including adrenaline and cortisol) to help the body deal with the stress. When the stress is ongoing, the physiological changes stay switched on. Over an extended period of time, they can weaken the immune system (which is why we can get sick), the body and the brain.\nStress can also cause the prefrontal cortex at the front of the brain to temporarily shut down. The prefrontal cortex is the control tower of the brain. It is involved in attention, problem solving, impulse control, and regulating emotion. These are known as \u2018executive functions\u2019. Sometimes not having too much involvement from the pre-frontal cortex can be a good thing \u2013 there are times we just need to get the job done without pausing to reflect, plan or contemplate (such as crying out in pain to bring help fast, or powering through an all-nighter). Then there are the other times.\nResilience is related to the capacity to activate the prefrontal cortex and calm the amygdala. When this happens, the physiological changes that are activated by stress start to reverse, expanding the capacity to recovering from, adapt to, or find a solution to stress, challenge or adversity.\nAbout Nichola Lynagh\nI have worked for the last 25 years within the education system. Throughout this period, I have been responsible for developing leadership and management training and coaching interventions (both accredited and non-accredited programmes) for a range of audiences within all levels of leadership in the schooling systems and in other organisations such as Royal Bank of Scotland \u2013 Risk Team; De Paul Ireland; NSPCC; University of Ulster.\nMy work is characterised by integrity and interpersonal sensitivity.\nMy training and learning journey has enabled me be effective in developing relationships, establishing good rapport and trust by others.\nTo conclude I work from the philosophy of giving all I have got in terms of energy, creative ideas, honesty, humour, commitment and willingness.\nIn the coaching I offer currently the issues seem to fall mainly into several categories:\n\u2022 Managing staff - Dealing with underperformance, handling a difficult interpersonal relationship, conflict between staff.\n\u2022 Improving strategic leadership skills with a range of staff within the organisation/team.\n\u2022 Building emotional intelligence- resilience and well-being and managing the internal dialogues- dealing with dips in confidence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 7658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coastlive.com.au/news/local-sports/dominant-victory-for-perth-glory/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:58Z", "digest": "sha1:AEIJWMDJQWH54YAF354DKHO75GAY3G7F", "length": 848, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.coastlive.com.au", "title": "Dominant victory for Perth Glory - 97.3 Coast FM", "raw_content": "Dominant victory for Perth Glory\nPerth Glory have produced a clinical display to defeat Wellington Phoenix 3-0 in the distance derby.\nChris Ikonomidis returning from Socceroos duties found the back of the net as did Shane Lowry and skipper Andy Keogh.\nThe win hands Perth their seventh of the season and restores a four-point lead at the top of the A-League ladder.\nCoach Tony Popovic very pleased with the result.\n\"It's a great achievement [the four consecutive clean sheets] and I'm delighted for the players and the club. It's not easy to do, so credit to the players.\" Popovic said.\n\"When you're creating, you're always satisfied and we've always felt that if we continue to create chances, the goals will come. The focus and the intensity was there and we didn't slack off.\"\nPerth now face Melbourne Victory next Sunday afternoon in Melbourne.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coastmountainnews.com/news/women-in-vulnerable-demographics-most-at-risk-of-domestic-homicide-study-finds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RZOUS6UYAKEANAXNMTP37HKFFBVXR67S", "length": 5929, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.coastmountainnews.com", "title": "Women in vulnerable demographics most at risk of domestic homicide, study finds \u2013 Coast Mountain News", "raw_content": "Dec. 6 marks the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women after the 1989 murder of 14 women at l\u2019Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal. (Pixabay photo)\nOf the 476 people slain in a domestic homicide during that time, new report found 76 per cent of them were women or girls\nMore than three quarters of Canada\u2019s domestic homicide victims were women, according to a new report released Thursday that said belonging to some specific demographic groups elevates the risk of a violent death even more.\nThe report from the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative, a multi-year project studying domestic homicides with a focus on vulnerable groups, tracked data from across the country and analyzed relevant deaths between 2010 and 2015.\nOf the 476 people slain in a domestic homicide during that time, the report found 76 per cent of them were women or girls.\nThe study focused particularly on four vulnerable groups \u2014 those of Indigenous heritage, immigrants and refugees, people living in remote or rural areas, and children. Taken together, people belonging to those four groups comprised 53 per cent of homicide victims killed during that time period, the report found.\nMyrna Dawson, report co-author and University of Guelph professor of public policy and criminal justice, said the numbers should serve as a wakeup call to a society that may have been lulled into a false sense of security about the safety of women in general and vulnerable populations in particular.\n\u201cThere is much talk about the need for improved resources for women and children experiencing violence, but I think sometimes that the general public feels that we have addressed this issue,\u201d Dawson said.\nREAD MORE: Domestic violence on the rise in Canada after 8-year decline\n\u201cThese numbers are a stark reminder that, while we may have tried to improve our responses to domestic homicide for which women are clearly the primary victims, our efforts have fallen short somewhere along the line, particularly for some groups.\u201d\nSome of those shortcomings emerge when looking at the vulnerable groups highlighted in the study, she said, adding anyone hoping to address gender-based violence needs to examine the unique challenges those populations face rather than trying to devise a one-size-fits-all solution.\nThe data on homicide victims in rural and remote areas, for instance, suggests a need to rethink government responses to firearms.\nDomestic slayings in such communities accounted for 22 per cent or nearly a quarter of the homicides in the study, she said. Females were targeted in 78 per cent of those cases, the research found, but unlike in the rest of Canada where stabbings were the most common cause of death, killers in remote communities resorted to firearms most often.\nGovernments funnelling money to combat guns and gangs in urban environments should take note of the data, Dawson said, adding the numbers suggest a need to direct some of those funds to limit violence in rural areas as well.\nOther barriers for those in remote areas include limited employment opportunities and lack of resources to help people leave abusive relationships, the report said.\nSimilar risk factors were identified for immigrant and refugee populations, who may be isolated due to language barriers or lack appropriate or culturally relevant community supports.\nFor Indigenous women, for whom the rate of domestic homicide was twice as high as the non-Indigenous population during the report\u2019s time frame, the research found poor socioeconomic conditions and systemic racism play a role in keeping people in violent circumstances.\nIn order to provide meaningful help for people at risk of domestic violence, Dawson said everyone from researchers to service providers need to start looking at broader societal forces and not just individual circumstances.\n\u201cWe need to recognize that our efforts to address risk and safety for those experiencing violence are not working well,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need to examine more nuanced and targeted ways to better respond so that we capture the lived realities of those experiencing violence the most. \u201c\nThe report also found that 13 per cent of cases surveyed involved the death of so-called collateral domestic homicide victims, typically family members, new partners, friends or neighbours of the intended target. The children of the intended victim made up the bulk of those deaths, the report said.\nDawson said the risks faced by Canadian women are generally in line with global figures released last month by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.\nThat study found that 58 per cent of global homicides involving female victims in 2017 were domestic slayings. Dawson said the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative intends to continue surveying data until at least 2021.\nOne vulnerable population not factored into the report\u2019s analysis was disabled women, a demographic that both Dawson and Statistics Canada have identified as being at particular risk of violence in the home.\nA report released earlier this year found disabled people were twice as likely to experience domestic violence as non-disabled counterparts. It also noted that disabled women were more than twice as likely to report spousal violence than non-disabled women, though homicide rates were not specifically explored.\nBonnie Brayton, National Executive Director of the Disabled Women\u2019s Network, said omitting this demographic from a discussion of vulnerable populations is a \u201ccommon and problematic practice.\u201d\nBut she said a burgeoning interest in research on disabled women and girls will hopefully address this shortcoming while helping to broaden the conversation about gender-based domestic violence.\n\u201cThis report absolutely has gaps, but the implication that should stand out is that intersectional feminist research is the way forward if we are going to see a shift in female homicides,\u201d Brayton said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 11487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/06/28/victims-sue-federal-government-over-sweet-deal-given-to-elite-pedophile-jeffrey-epstein/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:37Z", "digest": "sha1:EMNFDE5GDOXV3QNTBIC5TMT2KOTCIA2W", "length": 8734, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.collective-evolution.com", "title": "Victims Sue Federal Government Over \u201cSweet Deal\u201d Given To Elite Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein \u2013 Collective Evolution", "raw_content": "Victims Sue Federal Government Over \u201cSweet Deal\u201d Given To Elite Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein\nIf you\u2019re unfamiliar with the prevalence of pedophilia, sexual abuse, and occult rituals within the elite and high-level government, then Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s case is a good place for you to start your research. The billionaire Wall Street financier gained a lot of attention in 2005 amongst the financial elite, but it wasn\u2019t until 2009 that he entered into the spotlight for a very different reason \u2014 as a registered sex offender.\nEpstein was accused of recruiting and forcing dozens of children into an underground network of sex slaves, who served many of the elite members of society, including former American President Bill Clinton. Epstein owned a private jet, referred to as the \u201cLolita Express\u201d by mainstream media (MSM), which was used to transport Epstein and his elitist friends to Little St. James, Epstein\u2019s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands \u2014 dubbed \u201cOrgy Island\u201d by the tabloids.\nMany of Epstein\u2019s victims identified his private island as the location for some of the darkest crimes Epstein and his friends committed. Epstein pleaded guilty to charges of soliciting prostitution from girls as young as fourteen, yet his only punishment was serving just over a year in jail time and becoming a registered high-risk sex offender. Details regarding what many are calling his \u201csweet deal\u201d were just released, provoking two victims to sue the federal government.\nHigh-Level Pedophilia and Trafficking on Epstein\u2019s Lolita Express\nEpstein apparently had an entire team of people working for him to seek out girls as young as 12 to be trafficked onto \u201cOrgy Island,\u201d where they would provide illegal sexual services to his elite friends. Police investigators stated that there was a \u201cclear indication that Epstein\u2019s staff was frequently working to schedule multiple young girls between the ages of 12 and 16 years old literally every day, often two or three times per day.\u201d\nProminent names who boarded the Lolita Express include former President Bill Clinton, Naomi Campbell, Kevin Spacey, Prince Andrew, Larry Summers, and other political figures, all of whom are listed on the flight logs. Even the current U.S. President, Donald Trump, has ties to Epstein, and was in fact accused of raping a 13-year-old girl at multiple different elite sex parties with Epstein. You can see the full logs here.\n\u201cBill Clinton . . . associated with a man like Jeffrey Epstein, who everyone in New York, certainly within his inner circles, knew was a pedophile,\u201d explained Conchita Sarnoff, an investigative journalist who, despite being bribed to stay silent, risked her life to expose the brutal reality of human trafficking. Sarnoff also wrote a book on the Epstein case called TrafficKing. \u201cWhy would a former president associate with a man like that?\u201d Sarnoff asked.\nPerhaps that\u2019s because Clinton was recorded on the Lolita Express\u2019 flight logs an astonishing 26 times. Former U.S. State Department official Steve Pieczenik explained that the Clintons and many more \u201chave been a major part and participant of what\u2019s called the Lolita Express, which is a plane owned by Mr. Jeff Epstein, a wealthy multi-millionaire who flies down to the Bahamas and allows Bill and Hillary Clinton to engage in sex with minors \u2014 that is called Pedophilia\u201d (source).\nIf you\u2019re trying to excuse any of the people who frequently visited Epstein\u2019s jet, keep in mind that many of the criminal acts occurred on the airplane itself. Fox News explained the reason behind naming Epstein\u2019s jet the Lolita Express: \u201cThe tricked-out jet earned its Nabakov-inspired nickname because it was reportedly outfitted with a bed where passengers had group sex with young girls.\u201d Plus, some of the logs detailed that he brought his team of secret service agents with him, and other flights indicated he did not.\nOne of the victims, Virginia Roberts, who was allegedly trafficked by Epstein at age 15, claimed that she saw Clinton at Epstein\u2019s private escape in 2002, though the flight logs don\u2019t detail this.\nIt wasn\u2019t just the sexual violations that occurred on the island that Epstein was penalized for; court documents in the original case proved that Epstein routinely paid girls as young as 14 between $200 to $1,000 for \u201csexually explicit massages\u201d in his homes all over America.\nOne victim, in sworn deposition testimony, said Epstein began sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old and molested her on more than 50 occasions over the next three years. The girls testified they were lured to Epstein\u2019s home after being promised hundreds of dollars to be his model or masseuse, but when they arrived, he ordered them to take off their clothes and massage his naked body while he masturbated and used sex toys on them.\nTo learn more about Epstein\u2019s history as a pedophile and human trafficker, as well as high-level government, celebrity, and elite involvement with the Lolita Express, check out the following RT video:\nThe Lawsuit Against the Government for Epstein\u2019s \u201cSweet Deal\u201d\nTo be clear, Epstein only spent 13 months in jail, despite being sentenced to 18. In addition, he was actually allowed to leave the premises during the day to go to work at his office. So, he really only slept in a jail cell for the most part. After completing his lightened sentence in jail, he had to register as a sex offender and was put on probation for a year.\nDespite there being approximately 30 known victims of Epstein\u2019s Lolita Express, he only plead guilty to one charge of soliciting an under-age prostitute. Epstein was known to buy the women and girls\u2019 silence, which perhaps is why so many of his victims refused to take the stand.\nHowever, two of the alleged victims are claiming that the federal government violated the federal Crime Victims Rights Act (CVRA), as they argued that they were never notified of the plea deal. Many people are now asking whether or not the deal accurately reflected the punishment Epstein deserved for his crimes, and so the prosecutors filed a detailed reason for the agreement.\nThe two victims\u2019 main argument surrounds a 2008 letter that apparently stated that the FBI had reopened their investigation against Epstein, thus the victims assumed he would be charged with federal crimes, leading to a longer sentence. To their surprise, Epstein was awarded with what the public are calling a \u201csweetheart deal,\u201d and instead of alerting the victims, they maintain that they had no idea, which would be a violation of the CVRA.\nThe U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office stated that they weren\u2019t bribed by Epstein, but rather were forced to offer this \u201csweet deal\u201d because not enough women would come forward. Perhaps the underlying issue here is that the judiciary system does not offer a safe place for rape and trafficking victims to come forward, especially when it involves the government and the elite.\nAttorneys Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, who represented two of the victims, referred to Epstein\u2019s agreement as \u201cone of the most extraordinarily lenient plea deal arrangements in modern history.\u201d\nIt certainly seems as though Epstein was let off easy in comparison to other pedophiles, which likely has something to do with his social status and involvement with high-level corruption.\nThe fact of the matter is that high-level political and elite involvement with pedophilia and sex slaves is nothing new. If you know anything about the government programs MK Ultra or Monarch Mind Control, it\u2019s easy to imagine how not only unwilling adults, but children can be manipulated and brainwashed into thinking that pedophilia and sex trafficking are okay. Either that or they\u2019re too terrified to come forward.\nThis isn\u2019t the first time people were concerned over sexual abuse and pedophilia by government officials and the elite. Ted Gunderson, former FBI special agent and head of their L.A. office, worked to uncover years\u2019 worth of information on high-level pedophilia, sexual abuse, and satanic rituals performed by the elite. You can read more about that in our CE article here.\nFormer U.S. representative Cynthia McKinney also knew about the government\u2019s relationship to human trafficking, and she actually addressed it in 2005. She grilled Donald Rumsfeld on DynCorp\u2019s child trafficking business of selling women and children (source).\nWe tend to dehumanize pedophiles, child molesters, rapists, and abusers, demanding punishment for their crimes and responding to their actions with hate and anger. However, if we fail to recognize the humanity in them, how will we ever learn why these violent acts occurred in the first place? We need to stop shunning these acts into the dark and shed light on them, so we can finally fix this broken system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 45167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 216.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.columbusceo.com/content/stories/2012/04/the-gold-rush-trust-the-experts-not-the-hype.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KDN2KBE5LLG5YQ3DVDJEO7HFGCDAKC2N", "length": 5001, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.columbusceo.com", "title": "The Gold Rush: Trust the Experts, Not the Hype - News - Columbus CEO - Columbus, OH", "raw_content": "The Gold Rush: Trust the Experts, Not the Hype\nThroughout the United States and the world, investors and companies of all shapes and sizes seek opportunities that will earn them good returns on their investments.\nThey try to manage risk effectively, which can take the form of everything from the risk that interest rates will rise to the risk that a foreign government may collapse. In the course of effectively reading the landscape, they hope to make a reasonable profit as legally free from tax as possible. This is true for the individual investor as well.\nSince 2010, the average consumer has been inundated with advertisements for gold bullion, gold-backed IRAs, and even to sell their own \u201cscrap gold\u201d to every jewelry and pawn shop from Washington to Maine. If you\u2019re a thinking person, you have probably deduced that the opportunity for record profits in gold has passed. But, if that\u2019s true, why do the commercials continue? Is there still an opportunity? The first factor to consider is inflation.\nRates Skyrocket?\nUsing the Consumer Price Index, there have been two instances of double-digit inflation since 1968, when the federal government stopped regulating the price of gold. Those were during 1974, in the wake of the 1973 oil embargoes, and the period from 1979 to 1981, as a result of another energy crisis and the Iran-U.S. hostage situation. Both periods saw unemployment over 7 percent, had rising energy prices and saw the average gold price triple in three years.\nIn 2012, there are elections looming, as there were in 1973 and 1979. Unemployment is well above 7 percent. Energy prices have soared \u2026 again. We are at war with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan and also dealing with Iran and the nuclear threat it poses. And guess what: The price of gold has nearly tripled in three years. While past performance is no guarantee of future results, there isn\u2019t much of a historical case for a continued increase in gold prices.\nInflation hasn\u2019t really moved much to date, but interest rates will rise. However, those expecting the double-digit rates of the late 1970s and early \u201980s will be disappointed. Looking beyond this country and at the broader picture, which contains countless variables, the outlook favors a modest rise in rates at reasonable intervals, probably not to exceed 3 percent to 5 percent a year.\n\u2018Buy, Buy, Buy!\u2019\nWith these words ringing in our ears, Jim Cramer on his CNBC show \u201cMad Money\u201d and others like him have led thousands of Americans to armchair-quarterback their investment accounts. Those with the patience to sit through his obstreperous ranting might have heard Cramer say near the end of 2011 that gold may be poised for a rally. Should you listen to this clanging cymbal to determine what is right for you and your family? In a word, no.\nOwning gold can make sense if done in the right way and for the right reasons. Owning the physical metal is an ordeal of sorts (storage, purchase, sale, security, etc.), and the yield is generally less than owning it inside of a mutual fund or exchange traded funds. There is the old 3 percent to 5 percent rule of thumb, which states that most risky assets could be held by an investor if they do not exceed 5 percent of one\u2019s overall portfolio. But that\u2019s still just a rule.\nThe fact is that the financial world is dizzyingly complex. Predicting the market or the price of gold is impossible. What we know is that gold already did what it has historically done when the economy acts the way ours has in the last three years.\nEqually as concerning is what happened to gold after those periods of rising gold prices and rising inflation. Three years after these increases, the price per Troy ounce was down as much as 20 percent from its peak.\nEven more relevant is the fact that gold prices have never been volatile. Gold was basically the same price from 1717, when Sir Isaac Newton set the price in the United Kingdom, through 1918. More recently, following the economic trauma of 1979 to 1981, gold prices stayed basically the same until 2004, appreciating less than 0.5 percent annually.\nAt the end of the day, defer to trusted experts and don\u2019t give in to the hype. The best advisors don\u2019t try to be stock pickers; they work hard at knowing who their clients are and where they want to go, and they work hard at making sure risk is appropriate and managed for each individual situation.\nMany advisors suggest investing in instruments where the amounts of volatile assets such as gold are determined by other experts. The bottom line is that someone who knows your overall financial picture, knows where to find quality answers to difficult questions and acts in your best interest will always be a better alternative than the latest craze on Wall Street.\nMike McMeans is a member of the Central Ohio Financial Planning Association and an Infinex Financial Advisor with FC Financial Services, located at Farmers Citizens Bank. He can be reached at (614) 946-6073 or mmcmeans@infinexgroup.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.combatbusinesssuccess.com/blog/toronto-tales-high-school-reunion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:17Z", "digest": "sha1:CCMVNV4JNJKA54RQNFLVXTWILXGBGCHX", "length": 5704, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.combatbusinesssuccess.com", "title": "Toronto Tales - High School Reunion", "raw_content": "Toronto Tales - High School Reunion\nThis past September I had my 20th high school reunion. I have to admit, I loved highschool and enjoyed my time there, but I haven\u2019t been back to any alumni weekends or events. I went to a boarding school, where alumni and the association are very important, but despite this I went on my merry way after graduation in 1998. Alumni Weekend 2018 was a great event, and re-connecting with people that I grew up with was really fantastic. There is a closeness that you feel with people when you lived, ate, learned, grew up, & competed side by side for years.\nAnother event from this weekend though, which I struggle to talk about, was my induction into the school\u2019s Athletic Lives of Distinction family. Every year they choose past grads that have had an impact in the sporting world through their own athletic or coaching endeavors. I was shocked to hear of my nomination, and was humbled by the Olympians, World Champions, and highly regarded coaches standing alongside me during the ceremony. As a list of my achievements were read aloud I realized two things; One: that I had forgotten about the majority of them.\nTwo: my alma mater had a creepy amount of reach and depth for obtaining knowledge. Exhibit A - In 2004 I received the \u201cPlay of The Year\u201d award during my tenure playing semi-pro rugby in Ireland, where I successfully kicked a 40 yard field goal, from the sideline, in a torrential downpour, without a kicking tee (I used a small pylon instead). When they read that out I realized that I was never alone, and probably had a microchip embedded somewhere in my body.\nBack to realization number One: I forgot about the majority of my achievements. It showed me that I never took time to enjoy my victories, whether they be small or large. Whenever I attained a long-term goal, I always said \u201cWell, that\u2019s done. I guess it\u2019s not that difficult then, let\u2019s do more stuff\u201d. Now, yes, it is always good to be constantly striving and growing, but at the same time we need to celebrate our victories and this is something that I have only learned recently through inspiration from my feelings after my award. When I don\u2019t understand something, I read. And here are some things that I have learned that will maybe help you as a business owner AND human.\nAs a former worker in critical care, research-based information has always been my most reliable guide so I went this route first. Research has shown that achieving even the smallest goal, such as making your bed in the morning, can release dopamine into your system\u2026and dopamine is your brains \u201chappy chemical\u201d. Dopamine has been linked to motivation, so by achieving small little goals throughout the day can provide you with a motivational freight train that will help you in reaching more and more goals! Imagine the release of dopamine that can be released when you reach your larger goals!? #recognize #doitforthedopamine\nIn terms of non-scientific perks from celebrating small victories, I can think of a few now that I have done a post-mortem on my lack of goal recognition. Firstly, I think that the ability to look back on the process is very important after achievements, especially large ones because it can provide you with extremely useful information. We always talk about looking back on failure and learning from it, but why can\u2019t we do that from a victory as well? It can show you what worked great, and where you could improve even further! When we don\u2019t even take time to acknowledge that a small victory has occurred, we certainly won\u2019t then make the time to analyze and understand why it went so well.\nSecondly, acknowledging victories can simply increase our confidence! As you hit milestones you can rest easy knowing that you are following the correct course of action. There is a 500-mile, marked course across the Sahara Desert in an area called Tanezrouft. Every 3 miles there is a 55 gallon oil drum to people from getting lost during the crossing of this deceptive terrain. At anytime you can only see the one behind you and the one that you are aiming for. By acknowledging every oil drum, by celebrating each one of these small victories, you psychologically gain momentum knowing that where you came from and where you are going are congruent with your long-term goal. As you build up these smaller accomplishments, the larger goal doesn\u2019t seem so unattainable. If you don\u2019t look at the barrels as anything special, and don\u2019t look at each marker as an achievement, you can get bogged down by the whole ordeal and your results may suffer.\nThirdly, to continue with the theme of confidence, wouldn\u2019t it be great to know that anytime you faced adversity or difficulty in any future goals you could always say to yourself \u201cWell, dummy, we crossed the Sahara, so this dinner with my in-laws should go fine\u201d. The recognition and celebration of your victories can show you that you CAN achieve things, and that you CAN overcome fear, because you HAVE ALREADY DONE SO. A few years ago, I was on an operating table and I had a cardiac event during a procedure. I know that there is nothing that I can go through now that I can\u2019t overcome, because that is the most afraid that I have ever been in my life, and I can refer back to that in future times of struggle.\nThe long and the short of it? Acknowledge your achievements, recognize when you have done something remarkable and/or positive. Your brain chemicals will thank you, and so will your soul. This translates over to business as well, give your staff compliments when they\u2019ve done well, or grab them coffee if they are working their fingers to the bone. 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With the help of his friend Kevin he begins to make his escape from this world, but they soon discover that there is more to this world than meets the eye. Follow Kevin and Alex and their adventures in Comatose.\nThe search for Alice begins, as the trio investigates the dungeons of level 1. They also run into some familiar faces during their search.\nRyan Alan Collinson\nDemonslayer, Vol. 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 7309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/scratch-teacher-review/3888609", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:HBHF4Q3ZUWVSMIUBUMVPUMM5J24GYFPP", "length": 841, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.commonsense.org", "title": "Scratch Teacher Review | Common Sense Education", "raw_content": "Open-ended and creative tool for students to explore programming and tell stories\nDirector of STEAM Innovation\nI have just started to use this with second grade students as a tool for them to explore computer programming and experiment with building stories and games on the computer.\nScratch is a great tool for students who are interested in being creators with technology. It allows students to learn some of the logic of programming and learn how to write programs and manipulate objects. Scratch also allows children to create animated stories and games, which can connect with their curriculum and provide another outlet for them to explore a topic or explain an idea. The program also provides a wonderful community where students can share work, get peer feedback, and learn to interact in a larger group of programmers and creators.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 5313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.comparethemarket.com/home-insurance/content/should-i-let-my-insurer-know-im-going-on-holiday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:33Z", "digest": "sha1:464HJBAZHQFF4EAVMVDUTA5R5ZTFJY4N", "length": 2087, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.comparethemarket.com", "title": "\ufeff A simple guide: should I let my insurance provider know I\u2019m going on holiday? | Compare the Market", "raw_content": "A simple guide: should I let my insurance provider know I\u2019m going on holiday?\nGoing away can increase the chance of a home break-in. So, if you\u2019re planning a trip, should you tell your insurance provider?\nDo I need to let my insurance provider know I\u2019m going on holiday?\nThere\u2019s a lot to think about when you\u2019re going on holiday \u2013 from checking your passports and visas are up to date, to making sure you\u2019ve stocked up on sun cream and swimwear. Telling your insurance provider that you\u2019re going away is probably low on that list. Thankfully, the good news is that you don\u2019t need to tell them.\nOf course, insurance providers know that people travel \u2013 you\u2019re not expected to be in your house 365 days a year. However, as a general rule, you\u2019ll need to tell your provider if you\u2019re going to be away for more than 30 consecutive days (but this isn\u2019t always the case).\nIf you\u2019re planning on being away for longer than that, you\u2019ll most likely need to let your insurance provider know as there may be conditions they need to place on your policy while you\u2019re away. In some cases, they may not be willing to offer you cover, so you may need to look for an alternative provider.\nHome security: keeping your home secure\nAre security systems worth it and can they lower my insurance?\nHow can I increase my home security while I\u2019m away?\nReports suggest that 816,000 UK homes are burgled while their owners are on their summer holiday. There are a number of ways to keep your home safe while you\u2019re away:\nDon\u2019t share your holiday snaps straight away on social media. This will make people aware that you\u2019re not at home and could lead to you being targeted by burglars\nAsk your neighbours to keep an eye on your home while you\u2019re away. It may even be worth joining a Neighbourhood Watch scheme \u2013 doing so could lower your insurance premiums. Your neighbours could also help by parking their car on your drive, taking your mail or opening and closing your curtains\nincrease your home security\nkeep valuables hidden from view\nuse automatic timers or connected home devices to turn on lights and radios", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 10757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.computerworld.com/article/3336447/security/get-140-hours-of-comptia-certification-training-for-59-90-off.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:12Z", "digest": "sha1:RCTIG7RE5ITJEFRAKC634NAELSVWQSIB", "length": 850, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.computerworld.com", "title": "Get 140+ Hours Of CompTIA Certification Training For $59 (90% Off) | Computerworld", "raw_content": "IT trainees have paid as much as $4,329 for this 12-course bundle, but you can get it for a limited time for just $59, or 98% off retail. Learn basic hardware/software fundamentals to integrating today's smartphones and other mobile devices into modern IT infrastructures, and everything else in between, including:\nCompTIA A+ 220-901 Certification\nCompTIA A+ 220-902 Certification exam\nCompTIA CSA+ Certification\nAs you can see, you can learn all the basics, as well as some of today's more exciting technologies, such as integrating with the cloud, setting up Linux server farms, and adapting all of these technologies to work together.\nOne of the impediments to IT training has always been the cost of the training materials. For a limited time, you can get around that, paying about the same as a nice dinner for two, just $59, or 98% off retail.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 5298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 217.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.countryandpolitics.in/2018/09/25/more-than-rs-12000-crore-business-recorded-on-gem/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XI7CVD6JO4HI2KVKKP75GYM4GVIGQSCI", "length": 2701, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.countryandpolitics.in", "title": "More than Rs. 12,000 crore business recorded on GeM | Country and Politics", "raw_content": "Home / Business / More than Rs. 12,000 crore business recorded on GeM\nMore than Rs. 12,000 crore business recorded on GeM\nThe National Mission on Government e Marketplace (GeM),waslaunched by the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Suresh Prabhu, on 5th of September 2018. This was followed by the launch of the Mission in 19 States and Union Territories.\nThe Government of India decided to launch a six week long National Mission on GeM from 6thSept. to 17thOct 2018in order to increase awareness, accelerate the use of GeM andto further augment the proven benefits of procurement through GeM for all government departments and organisations.\nIt covers all central government departments, states and public sector undertakings in a mission mode by organising workshops, roadshow, trainings, events and other information, education and communication activities, including buyer and seller registration.\nDuring the awareness period, a buyer registration drive has been launched for on-boarding and increasing procurement by Central, State and local agencies on GeM. A vendor registration drive has also been initiated for on-boarding additional categories and populating the available ones on GeM with more vendors. Central Ministries, States and their agencies, including local offices, have been tasked with sharing a list of key vendors for on-boarding on GeM.\nWidespread training initiatives are being undertaken across the country, ensuring on-boarded buyers and sellers are aware of all GeM features, thereby fully utilising the offerings for achieving greater efficiency. Moreover, GeM has committed to work with all entities in providing operational support for facilitating seamless transactions on GeM and resolving any issues in online procurement.\nIn two years of its operations, GeM has recorded till date more than 8 lakh transactions worth over Rs.12,239crore.GeM has established itself as an open, transparent, efficient and inclusive platform providing huge savings to the Government. GeM has nearly 27.9 thousand buyer organisations registered and about 1.43 lakh sellers and service providers offering more than 4.86 lakh products and services for online purchase. GeM contributes to approximately 20-25% average overall savings to the Government.\nGovernment e Marketplace is the National Public Procurement Portal offering an online, end-to-end solution for procurement of common use goods and services by government departments. It is used by Central and State Government Ministries and Departments, Central and State Public Sector Undertakings (CPSUs & SPSUs), autonomous institutions and local bodies. GeM provides an open, inclusive, transparent and efficient online marketplace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.couragetolead.com/courage-to-lead-blog/why-conferences-can-be-dangerous", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:40Z", "digest": "sha1:SLSRKFZMT7DTYN7M7LNAVHQMLPVCPYOJ", "length": 2869, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.couragetolead.com", "title": "CourageToLead.com", "raw_content": "Why Conferences Can Be Dangerous\nConferences have their place. Sometimes we just need that inspirational shot in the arm that inspires us to stay the course. However, conferences are effective but limited in their life change potential. They can even be dangerous! Conferences can inform and inspire indeed, but when we get new information, the trick is acting on it, isn\u2019t it? Even when we know what to do, we often don\u2019t yet know how to do it. In fact, at this point, we often become paralyzed because we don\u2019t know how to go about doing what needs to be done. If we do the right thing the wrong way, we still blow up everything and everyone. We need not only know the right thing to do, but the right way to do it. Conferences often lack that ability. This is why conferences can also dangerous!\nConferences can also be discouraging. We meet all of the other \u201csuccessful\u201d people there. We hear their stories from the stage. We can even become inspired in the short run as we dream about attaining what they have attained. However, if we get inspired at this year\u2019s conference (just like we did at last year\u2019s conference), and do not act on that inspiration, over time we begin to think: \u201cWhat is the use of being inspired year after year if nothing really changes?\u201d This is simply proof that:\nInformation and Inspiration without transformation leads to disillusionment.\nThis is why conferences can be dangerous! This is also why I believe so much in coaching. We often don\u2019t need more information or inspiration. We need transformation. We don\u2019t need to know what to do. We need to know how to do it and be held accountable for it. That\u2019s when we will change.\nContent delivery is not coaching. Content consumption is not coaching. Consulting is not coaching. Coaching requires a relationship.\nA coach has a relationship with his payers. A coach observes while the players practice and offers real-time, immediate feedback. A coach is also responsible for pushing a player past his/her accustomed capacity levels. A coach holds the players accountable for doing the details right.\nA great coach helps players focus on the process not the scoreboard.\nHere\u2019s the coolest part: as we experience transformation through coaching and accountability, it begins to INSPIRE us to believe that anything is possible!\nI\u2019m not knocking conferences. They have their place. But at the the end of the day, I still believe every leader needs a coach to experience long term transformation. If you are reading this, know this: You probably don\u2019t need new information or inspiration. In fact, information and inspiration without transformation leads to disillusionment! Instead, act on what you have already heard and learned. Start taking the smallest action. Get a coach. Get accountable. 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Whether that promise will crash against the rocks -- as has happened in the past -- will depend not just on Ms. Byrd-Bennett's talents, but also on the willingness of the people of the school district and the man who hired her to let this qualified woman do her job. On credentials and reputation alone, it appears the mayor has chosen well. Ms. Byrd-Bennett's experience with troubled schools in New York City and her focus on what happens in the classroom are just what the doctor ordered for a patient in critical condition. She obviously inspires a great deal of loyalty, as four of her top aides are following her from New York to Cleveland. We expect the presence of a trusted team will put Ms. Byrd-Bennett in a position to move quickly to instill a new culture within the district. It is our hope that Ms. Byrd-Bennett and her cohorts aren't viewed cynically by those within the district as big-city sharpies out to show the small-town folks how to run a school system. If ever there was a time to leave parochialism and petty politics behind, the arrival of Ms. Byrd-Bennett at school headquarters on East Sixth Street is it. Ms. Byrd-Bennett's challenge is truly monumental. Several others -- all of whom also arrived with high hopes -- have failed in the task. Ms. Byrd-Bennett's task will be more difficult than her predecessors as she must serve two constituencies. One is the vast constituency of the city's schools made up of students, parents, teachers and administrators. The second is a constituency of one, Mayor White. The mayor's demanding management style -- some call it micromanagement -- doesn't work with everyone, as evidenced by the revolving door at a handful of key City Hall jobs. Outsiders with strong credentials don't always prosper under Mayor White. Former police chief John J. Collins and short-lived director of Port Control Victor Whit e either couldn't cut it or couldn't take it, depending on who's doing the talking. The mayor and his advisers insist he won't try to be superintendent, principal and teacher. Rather, he will be like a corporate chairman, providing leadership and vision, while holding district officials accountable for their performance. Ms. Byrd-Bennett said last week, 'The mayor has made a commitment to autonomy for me to do the job.' It may well prove to be the most important promise Mayor White has made in his political life. 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Let\u2019s take a look at the 5 Key Components: the Database, Core files, Content files, Themes and Plugins.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crosbiematthew.co.uk/press-notices/kirk1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZM55FAPIJOEJBLXDNH2XSWN6MCOLYSU", "length": 366, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.crosbiematthew.co.uk", "title": "Funeral Notices | Crosbie Matthew Funeral Directors - Crosbie Matthew Funeral Directors", "raw_content": "Peacefully at Abbeyfield Care Home, Kirkcaldy on 14th April 2015, Isabella Traill, nee Lawson, aged 93 years, beloved wife of the late Bill, dearly loved mother of Nancy and Christine, mother-in-law of Derek and much loved grandmother and great-grandmother. Service at Kirkcaldy Crematorium on Monday 27th April at 1.30p.m. to which all family & friends are invited.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 2268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crossway.org/articles/10-things-you-should-know-about-persecution/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:08Z", "digest": "sha1:YLVKOSJP2FWS4SUIUCT7UH7AEHFNH2AM", "length": 9307, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.crossway.org", "title": "10 Things You Should Know about Persecution | Crossway Articles", "raw_content": "10 Things You Should Know about Persecution\nSeptember 12, 2016 by: Tim Keesee\n1. Persecution is bound up with Christ\u2019s persecution.\nJesus made that clear on His way to Jerusalem when he told his disciples that there he would \u201csuffer many things . . . and be killed, and on the third day be raised\u201d (Matt. 16:21). And then he told his followers that they were, in fact, to follow him by taking up their cross\u2014that is, by fully identifying with him, whatever that would cost them and wherever that would take them. Suffering for the sake of the gospel is a way in which we identify with Christ\u2019s sufferings\u2014and he, in turn, identifies with the sufferings of His people. \u201cBeloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.\u201d (1 Pet. 4:12\u201313).\n2. Persecution binds the members of the body of Christ together.\nAs Christians, our lives are forever bound up in Christ\u2019s life and, therefore, bound up with all other believers as well. When members of the body suffer, the rest of the body suffers. This connection is clear in Hebrews 13:3, \u201cRemember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.\u201d \u201cRemember\u201d is more than to think about\u2014or even to pray for\u2014though it would include both of those things. But there\u2019s a deeper, practical, heartfelt connection to a persecuted believer, as a hurting family member.\n3. Acts of persecution vary widely along a spectrum of suffering.\nPaul reminded Timothy that \u201call who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted\u201d (2 Tim. 3:12). And this verse isn\u2019t just for Christians living in Pakistan or North Korea. Persecution is purposeful suffering for the sake of Christ and for his glory, and it comes in many forms. It\u2019s not just martyrdom or prison. Suffering for the sake of the gospel may come suddenly and violently; but it often begins simply with intimidation and discrimination, as well as shunning by family and friends opposed to the gospel, and then more violent opposition may follow. This in no way implies that a Christian who is laughed at or who loses a job promotion for his faith is suffering in the same way a believer who has been beaten or jailed for his faith. It does mean, though, that following Christ will cost us\u2014whatever our context (Luke 14:25\u201333).\n4. Persecution historically\u2014and in much of the world\u2014is common.\nThis is especially true in places where Christians are a small minority, living as \u201clambs among wolves,\u201d and suffering for Christ is accepted as a normal part of one\u2019s faith. I recall what one Chinese house church pastor told me after he and his wife were arrested, interrogated, and their apartment raided, \u201cAs pastors, we always expect to be arrested. That\u2019s understood from the beginning.\u201d\nWe must remember that Christ never\u2014not for a moment\u2014ever abandons those he loves.\n5. Persecution should not be sought.\nIn the New Testament persecution, was an expected result of living and speaking for Christ, but it was not something in itself to seek. All persecution is not created equal\u2014sometimes it\u2019s just the result of arrogance. For example, there are accounts of Christians who have been arrested and deported for dropping into a country like China on a tourist visa and openly distributing Bibles on the streets. Typically, they manage to get themselves arrested and deported. They go home with great stories and bragging rights\u2014selfies of suffering\u2014while the host Christians in that city are left to truly suffer, some even going to prison for their ties to the commando-style missionary. \u201cIf you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name\u201d (1 Pet. 4:14\u201416).\n6. Perspective is important in reading media reports of persecution.\nIt\u2019s the nature of news reporting to generalize and sensationalize, and Christian news sources aren\u2019t much different than secular media in this regard. While the speed and reach of the internet can bring persecution incidents quickly to light, it can also result in the proliferation of poorly vetted stories that are then recycled for months\u2014even years.\n7. When it comes to advocacy efforts for the persecuted church, manage your expectations.\n\u201cCan\u2019t the government do something?\u201d is a typically American response, but in many parts of the world, governments are doing something\u2014they are persecuting Christians! As someone who has worked on and off Capitol Hill for years, advocacy efforts to leverage government intervention are limited and often discouraging. There are a few Josephs and Daniels who labor on behalf of their suffering brothers and sisters, but overall the amount of effort needed to get people in power to use their power to speak and act on behalf of persecuted Christians is enormous. It seems, at times, that we would get a better hearing if we simply stood on a street corner and shouted. Still, advocacy efforts have some limited value. Keep in mind that the best advocacy work is done behind-the-scenes because no country wants to appear to be caving into pressure from the United States. The most effective advocacy groups aren\u2019t the ones who are simply \u201craising awareness\u201d\u2014and funds\u2014off of persecution stories. The effective ones are those who have invested years in cultivating relationships and trust with congressional and agency officials and their staffs, who bring reliable intelligence from the field, and who handle it sensitively.\n8. Persecuted Christians are not celebrities or super saints.\nWhile it is right to \u201cgive honor to whom honor is due,\u201d we must remember that our persecuted brothers and sisters are sinners saved by Christ alone who face the same temptations and needs of daily grace and obedience that we all do. They are men and women \u201cwith a nature like ours\u201d (James 5:17). So, while we may not know what it feels like to be beaten and imprisoned for the sake of the gospel, as believers we all know what it feels like to battle anger, lust, fear, and discouragement. Understanding our common, daily, desperate need of Christ\u2019s sustaining work gives us empathy and a more meaningful prayer partnership with our suffering sisters and brothers.\nThis compelling travelogue shares stories of the bold faith and brave witness of Christians living in more than 20 of the most dangerous countries in the world, including China, Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.\n9. Persecution is a mark of gospel advance.\nWhen Stephen was martyred, it opened a floodgate of violent hatred toward Christians. \u201cAnd there arose on that day a great persecution against the church in Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria\u201d (Acts 8:1). But Stephen\u2019s martyrdom also opened a floodgate of gospel witness. \u201cNow those who were scattered went about preaching the word\u201d (Acts 8:4). Samuel Zwemer, pioneer missionary to Arabia more than a century ago, observed, \u201cWhen you read in reports of troubles and opposition, of burning up books, imprisoning colporteurs, and expelling workers, you must not think that the gospel is being defeated. It is conquering. What we see under such circumstances is only the dust in the wake of the ploughman. God is turning the world upside down that it may be right side up when Jesus comes. He that plougheth should plough in hope. We may not be able to see a harvest yet in this country, but furrow after furrow, the soil is getting ready for the seed.\u201d1\n10. Jesus keeps his promises to his people.\nThe last promise Christ made to his followers before his ascension, \u201cI am with you always\u201d (Matt. 28:20), is especially precious in the midst of gospel advance and gospel suffering. In these darkening days, when Christians in many countries are living \u201cas lambs among wolves\u201d and we see growing hostility and threats against Bible-believers even in our own country, we must remember that Christ never\u2014not for a moment\u2014ever abandons those he loves. \u201cBut now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: \u2018Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior\u2019\u201d (Isa. 43:1\u20133a).\n1. Samuel M. Zwemer and Amy E. Zwemer, Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children (New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1902), 116.\nTim Keesee is the founder and executive director of Frontline Missions International, which has served to advance the gospel in some of the world\u2019s most difficult places for over twenty-five years. He has traveled to more than eighty countries, reporting on the church from the former Iron Curtain countries to war-torn Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan. 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LaFrankie\nAs trade actions have globalized \u2014 and with the United States, the European Union, and national governments often undertaking parallel investigations into allegations of wrongdoing \u2014 the experienced international trade investigations and litigation team at Crowell & Moring provides effective dispute-resolution and litigation counsel on antidumping duty (AD), countervailing duty (CVD), suspension agreement, safeguard (Section 201), national security (Section 232), and emerging trade issues worldwide.\nWe draw on the capabilities of our lawyers and non-lawyer professionals in our Washington, D.C., Brussels, London, New York, and California offices to provide full-spectrum legal guidance to clients wherever and whenever trade disputes arise. 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We represent clients in proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), the Trade Policy Staff Committee, the U.S. Court of International Trade, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, including the following:\nProceedings arising under U.S. antidumping laws (concerning imported goods sold at \"less than fair value\")\nProceedings arising under countervailing duty laws (concerning sales of imported goods that benefit from unlawful government subsidies or other trade benefits)\nProceedings under Section 201 (escape clause) and Section 406\nProceedings under Section 232 (impact of importation on national security)\nEvaluation and presentation of material injury and threat of material injury issues\nCalculation and legal analysis of dumping calculation methodology in both market economy and non-market economy cases\nScope, like product, and circumvention\nPolicy issues presented in safeguard and other proceedings\nOver the past several years, our lawyers have been involved in approximately half of the anti-dumping cases initiated by the European Commission. We represent interested parties such as complaining EU industries, non-European exporters, EU importers, and end users of merchandise or goods in the following areas:\nPreparing and filing EU anti-dumping complaints against foreign merchandise and actively engaging the key decisionmakers to ensure the best results.\nRepresenting non-European exporters in sample inclusion requests, the filing of questionnaire responses, on-the-spot verification processes, and dumping margin calculations.\nDrafting and filing Market Economy Status (MES) submissions to prove the existence of market economy conditions and to ensure fair treatment in anti-dumping procedures.\nFormulating submissions based on economic analysis to show or disprove injury and causation aspects in EU anti-dumping investigations.\nDeveloping and implementing lobbying strategies to influence key decisionmakers in anti-dumping and anti-dumping procedures.\nDrafting and filing submissions to demonstrate where the overall interests of the EU lie in anti-dumping and/or anti-subsidy procedures.\nMaking requests for refunds of duties through the EU\u2019s anti-dumping refund procedure and following through on the subsequent procedures.\nOur lawyers regularly represent our clients in formal hearings before the European Commission, and are equally experienced in making written and oral representations, not only at the EU institutional level, but also before key national authorities of EU Member States. Members of our team have worked inside the Directorate General for Trade of the European Commission as well as the European courts. Our European lawyers and paralegals are proficient in numerous languages, including English, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, and Chinese \u2014 skills that are an essential component of effective service in the field of EU trade law.\nCrowell & Moring's safeguard actions lawyers also represent clients in investigations conducted by the U.S. International Trade Commission relating to the following:\nSection 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 (involving global safeguard investigations)\nSection 302 of the NAFTA Implementation Act (concentrating on imports from a NAFTA country)\nSection 406 of the Trade Act of 1974 (involving investigations into imports articles produced in a Communist country)\nWe also understand that litigation is not always the best solution to resolving our clients' trade-related problems. Many of our greatest successes for clients have been achieved through effective public policy representation before the key administrative and Congressional offices that influence or dictate trade policy and law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 11238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crozerkeystone.org/providers/doctor-search-results-basic/?termId=4b1fb9de-2e49-e011-9d7e-00505682182a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KB5VANAEAIBEAZFTJA5NCZ2G7N2F4D3H", "length": 54, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.crozerkeystone.org", "title": "Doctor Search Results Basic - Crozer-Keystone Health System - PA", "raw_content": "Joanne T. Connaughton, M.D.\nAshish V. Rana, M.D., FACP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 24684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 196.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Culture-Cafe/2015/1002/Watchmen-Could-an-adaptation-of-the-acclaimed-graphic-novel-end-up-on-HBO", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:BRXNPVOQIDJIUE2FHA7FUX6RJE2JZ3GR", "length": 3283, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.csmonitor.com", "title": "'Watchmen': Could an adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel end up on HBO? - CSMonitor.com", "raw_content": "'Watchmen': Could an adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel end up on HBO?\nHBO is reportedly in talks with director Zack Snyder, who already adapted the story for big screens, about a possible TV show based on the graphic novel 'Watchmen.'\n'Watchmen' stars Malin Akerman (l.), Billy Crudup (center), and Jackie Earle Haley (r.).\nIs Hollywood set to return to the story of \u201cWatchmen\u201d?\nThe acclaimed graphic novel written by Alan Moore, which is often called one of the best superhero stories of all time, may be adapted by HBO for TV.\nHBO is reportedly in talks with Zack Snyder, who directed a feature film adaptation of \u201cWatchmen\u201d in 2009, about creating a TV version of \u201cWatchmen.\u201d The graphic novel takes place in the 1980s in a version of our world where superheroes exist and Richard Nixon is serving multiple terms as president. In the 1970s, superheroes had grown unpopular and most are not working anymore.\nAfter the superhero the Comedian is found dead, a former colleague known as Rorschach decides to investigate his murder and visits other former superheroes such as Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, Doctor Manhattan, and Ozymandias.\nIt\u2019s unknown whether the show, if it moves forward, would be a remake of the same story or merely take place in the same fictional world.\nThe 2009 film adaptation was not well-received by critics and underperformed at the box office. However, Snyder is a big name in comic book movies right now, especially for studio Warner Bros., who releases movies based on characters from DC Comics (\u201cWatchmen\u201d was also published through DC Comics). Snyder directed the 2013 Superman box office hit \u201cMan of Steel\u201d and is directing the movie \u201cBatman v Superman,\u201d which will be released this March and will introduce Ben Affleck\u2019s take on the Batman character as well as Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.\nIn addition, the dark mood of \u201cWatchmen\u201d reflects other current projects. The plot of \u201cWatchmen\u201d involves grim secrets about the superheroes and flashbacks in which the characters behaved in ways far removed from the positive images some may have of superheroes. The \u201cDark Knight\u201d film trilogy, which was directed by Christopher Nolan, brought a dark take on Batman to the multiplex and the movies became huge critical and box office successes \u2013 the work he did on the second movie as the villain the Joker led Heath Ledger to a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.\nIn addition, comic book movies now are showing a greater range of tones, going both darker and lighter. 2014\u2019s \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy\u201d was a comedy about superheroes and became a big hit. But audiences are also showing they want a grimmer take on their stories of caped heroes. The upcoming movie \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d centers on \u201cBatman\u201d villains and so it seems safe to assume there may be a darker mood. Meanwhile, a movie about the superhero Deadpool is one of the most highly-anticipated superhero projects for next year. Deadpool is known for his profane language and for breaking the fourth wall in his stories. \u201c'Deadpool' is a hard R,\u201d producer Simon Kinberg said of the film in an interview. \u201cIt\u2019s graphic. Nothing is taboo.\u201d\nCulture Cafe 'Batman v Superman': Why the trailer's themes could make dubious fans pay attention\nCulture Cafe 'Deadpool': How the comic book movie triumphed at Comic-Con", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 6898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2019/0212/Baffled-by-Brexit-You-re-not-alone", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:27Z", "digest": "sha1:VZWDH6DZDQISKNIMDFJY6HVCUJRC5UEA", "length": 13407, "nlines": 109, "source_domain": "www.csmonitor.com", "title": "Baffled by Brexit? You\u2019re not alone. - CSMonitor.com", "raw_content": "Baffled by Brexit? You\u2019re not alone.\nKaren Norris/Staff\nTwo British staffers and one confused American staffer talk Brexit in a group message.\nRebecca Asoulin (engagement editor, representing the 99 percent of people confused by Brexit): Hey, Simon. How\u2019s the future?\nSimon Montlake (Brexit reporter, Brit): Hi, it\u2019s March 30th and Brexit has happened.\nIn the end Britain left the European Union without a deal. Nothing could be agreed on time, and there was lots of finger pointing about who was to blame.\nPeople stocked up on food and so far the day has started normally, no sign of panic, but more police on the streets. Still, life goes on.\nDoes that sound like a plausible future, Peter?\nPeter Ford (senior global correspondent, Brit): Perhaps you are being unnecessarily alarmist. Your future is quite conceivable, but there are other possible futures.\nFor a start, British Prime Minister Theresa May might manage to strike a last minute deal with the European Union on the terms of an exit agreement and get it through Parliament by March 29th. The prospect of Britain falling off the edge of a cliff in a \u2018no deal\u2019 Brexit might concentrate Parliament\u2019s mind.\nAnd there is also a strong chance that London will run out of time, as you suggest, and simply ask Brussels for more time to work out a solution. The EU would probably agree, it doesn\u2019t want a crash out either.\nSimon: The clock is ticking. Tick tock.\nRebecca: I thought March 29th was a hard deadline for Britain to leave?\nPeter: By law it is, but there are always ways around things in the EU.\nSimon: If you\u2019re May then you need a hard deadline to get a deal through Parliament.\nShe needs approval for her deal and so far she hasn\u2019t got it. I think she\u2019s trying to run down the clock so that members of Parliament (MPs) panic and fall into line.\nThe trouble is \u2026 some of them believe, or say they believe, that Britain can do perfectly well out of a no-deal Brexit.\nPeter: That is the nut of the problem. Until now, May has seemed to put those sort of hardliners (and her desire to keep them in a united Conservative Party) above the need for a reasonable deal with the EU. It strikes a lot of Europeans on the continent that she has put party above country. But there\u2019s not a lot they can do about it.\nSimon: Do we need to talk about the flavors of Brexit?\nPistachio is finished, sorry.\nPeter: May risks ending up with humble pie as the only flavor on offer.\nRebecca: Wait, so Britain can leave on March 29th with or without a deal. Are people referring to that as hard or soft? (Now I want soft-serve ice cream.)\nSimon: Hard and soft Brexit is really about the end destination, not just the \u201cdivorce\u201d on the table.\nHard Brexit means a clean break: Britain would have a free trade deal with the EU, similar to Canada and other large economies. But it would no longer have to follow all the rules of the EU.\nA soft Brexit comes in various textures. But it keeps Britain in a tighter embrace with its European peers.\nThe basic trade-off is autonomy vs. access. Does Britain want access to EU markets? Fine, then Britain has to play by the EU\u2019s rules. Does Britain want autonomy? Fine, then the EU and Britain will have a trade deal but Britain shouldn\u2019t expect any favors.\nRebecca: So how do we get to that destination? The EU and Britain seem to be playing a game of chicken.\nSimon: Free trade chicken!\nPeter: Or chlorinated chicken if it comes in a free trade deal with the USA.\nRebecca: This conversation is making me hungry, and more confused. The EU and Britain seem to be on a collision course. Who's going to give in?\nSimon: That is the million-euro question.\nPeter: Well, it\u2019s the same with all negotiations. If there is going to be a deal, both sides are going to have to make compromises. Which means stopping the game of chicken, stomping on the brakes, and getting out of their cars to talk.\nBut May has to contend with people in her party who don\u2019t want to talk: As far as they are concerned, going off the road is an adventure, not necessarily driving into a ditch. And on the other hand, Europe is not going to reopen talks on a deal that has already been done.\nRebecca: So it sounds like the members of Parliament need to get it together. What\u2019s stopping them from doing that?\nSimon: I blame cake. Or rather cakeism. One of the prevailing -isms that make covering Brexit something of a parallel universe.\nBrexit boosters assured the British public they could have their cake and eat it, when it came to leaving the EU.\nBoris Johnson, the former mayor of London, actually used this analogy. He\u2019s not known for his precision or policy detail, but he definitely was onto something.\nSince then, everyone pushing their version of Brexit in Britain has been susceptible to cakeism.\nWhich is how we ended up in deadlock. Because you can\u2019t have your cake AND eat it. Sadly, for cake lovers everywhere.\nPeter: There is also a special breed of cakeist known as a unicorn hunter, don\u2019t forget. He (or she) who spends his (or her) time tracking mythical beasts, such as totally unrealistic concessions from the EU.\nAnd to be honest, I think that there has been too much unicorn hunting, and raising of unrealistic expectations, for the British public. The way the whole Brexit negotiations have been handled over the past couple of years represents a pretty depressing failure of political leadership, and that has left voters on both sides of the debate angry and depressed.\nSimon: The latest example of unicorn hunting was last week\u2019s effort by the ruling Conservative Party to come together.\nThey proposed something called the Malthouse Compromise. Sounds like a bad airport novel, doesn\u2019t it?\nThe compromise \u2013 named after a Conservative MP called Kit Malthouse \u2013 basically boiled down to a Brexit deal with a reworked Ireland backstop and a highly imaginative application of World Trade Organization rules.\nIt took about 10 minutes for the flaws to become apparent and another day for EU negotiators to let it be known that, no, sorry, that unicorn does not exist and they would not agree to the Malthouse Compromise. Just like the others before it.\nPeter: OMG he mentioned the Ireland backstop. Now you\u2019ve done it, Simon. You have to explain!!!\nSimon: Oh no, the backstop.\nRebecca: It\u2019s some sort of analogy right?\nPeter: ...Deathly hush from Simon...\nSimon: It\u2019s a cricket analogy, of course. Beyond that, well...\nPeter: As you say: well.\nLet\u2019s keep this as simple as possible, but bear in mind that the whole Brexit agreement now hinges on \u201cbackstop\u201d arrangements on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.\nThe 1998 peace deal that ended the strife in Northern Ireland abolished a \u2018hard\u2019 border between the two. That was OK because both were in the same trade bloc. But on March 30th, Northern Ireland will not be in the EU anymore.\nBrussels and London agree Brexit should not upset the peace deal, and if the EU and UK negotiate the free trade deal they envisage there will be no problem.\nBut if they don\u2019t, the EU is insisting on a \u2018backstop\u2019 arrangement under which Northern Ireland would stay part of the EU customs union.\nBut if that happens, Northern Ireland would not be under the same law as the rest of the United Kingdom. Not so united. And no British government would accept that.\nThe only way out would be if the whole of the UK stayed in the customs union. But \u2018hard\u2019 Brexiters wont accept that. May is stuck between that rock and that hard place.\nSimon: Sounds intractable, right?\nPeter: Intractabilissimus.\nSimon: Actually I think there are ways to fix this problem....\nPeter: Make that man prime minister!\nSimon: Northern Ireland stays in the customs union. Britain is out. Goods can be checked when they cross the Irish Sea.\nNow the reason why that is not on the table is simple political math.\nMay\u2019s government is propped up in Parliament by 10 MPs from Northern Ireland.\nSo what they say goes. If she wants to stay in power. And they say, \u201cno way\u201d to a border in the Irish Sea between Northern Ireland and Britain.\nPeter: As I said: INTRACTABILISSIMUS.\nSimon: I find it ironic that the US is convulsed by political fighting over building a border wall.\nAnd the UK is convulsed by political fighting over how NOT to put up a border barrier.\n\u201cDon\u2019t Build The Wall!\u201d\nRebecca: But why is this issue over the Irish border called a backstop?\nSimon: The backstop in cricket is like the catcher in baseball. The last man stopping the ball from going out.\nThink of the backstop as an insurance policy. The backstop is there to stop the ball (i.e., Brexit) smashing the window of peace in Northern Ireland.\nPeter: Make that man poet laureate!\nRebecca: So there needs to be some kind of agreement on this issue, which means there needs to be a deal right?\nPeter: Rebecca, if there is no agreement on the \u2018backstop\u2019 there will be no agreement on Brexit, and Britain will crash out without a deal on March 29th, leading to all sorts of problems.\nOr the British government will ask for more time, or there might be a second referendum on Brexit, or there might be elections. Lots of dramatic possibilities, but on the street, there are an awful lot of BOBs (people who are \u201cBored of Brexit\u201d). Have you come across many in the UK, Simon?\nSimon: Britain is BOB central. You wouldn\u2019t know it from the news headlines but lots of people are sick of the whole thing.\nPeter: On my side of the channel, in Paris, it\u2019s hard to find many people who care much either. Partly it\u2019s because Britain has always been a bit \u2018semi detached\u2019 from the European Union, partly it\u2019s because continental Europeans have just got other more important things to worry about.\nRebecca: Why should people pay attention to every turn and machination? Every little detail seems really exhausting, but the consequences are so serious.\nSimon: I\u2019ve been back and forth to Britain for the last three months covering the ins and outs of Brexit so it\u2019s easy to get caught up in the details.\nRemember, Rebecca, that there are millions of EU citizens living in Britain on the basis of EU membership allowing internal migration, just as Texans move to New York.\nThe question of their right to remain is up in the air. And no matter how many assurances they hear from British leaders there is a lot of unease and a sense of not being as welcome as before. We don\u2019t know how this ends.\nI totally understand why Europeans are bored of British intransigence. Lots of misunderstandings and misgivings all around.\nPeter: And don\u2019t forget that a lot is hanging on this economically, too. Investment in the British car industry has fallen by EIGHTY PERCENT over the last year as a result of uncertainty over Britain\u2019s future.\nThere is no getting away from the fact that if this all ends as badly as it might, Britain is simply not going to be as attractive a place to invest as it is now. Companies are going to move to the place where they sell most goods \u2013 continental Europe \u2013 and they will take a lot of jobs with them.\nRebecca: The future of Britain really is at stake both economically and the way people see it. What do you both think is the most likely way Britain will leave?\nSimon: I\u2019ll go first.\nPeter: Brave man...\nSimon: I don\u2019t see any other deal on the table. May will go back to Parliament and there will be defections from the opposition that will get her over the line.\nShe will have to disappoint the hard Brexiters on her side. No other way to square the circle. Probably an extension of a few months will be needed to pass all the necessary legislation.\nThen we move on to the negotiations for what comes next. And that is going to take years.\nPeter: That means you expect her to swallow the backstop and risk being remembered as \u201cthe prime minister who destroyed the Union.\u201d Does she have the courage for that? I agree that your scenario is the most likely, but this is going to be a cliffhanger till the very last minutes of March 29th, I suspect.\nRebecca: It seems like a slow crawl to the 29th from here.\nSimon: OK Rebecca, what do you think? You\u2019ve heard what we have to say about unicorns and cake and backstops. Where do you see Brexit going?\nRebecca: This March 29th deadline seems like an internal deadline the UK needed to kick itself into gear to agree to something. It seems like they have to agree to something, whether that means they ask the EU for more time or they somehow agree by the 29th. I can\u2019t see them going off the cliff.\nBut really I don\u2019t know.\nPeter: That makes three of us. Uncertainty has been the name of this game for the past two and a half years, since the British electorate voted to leave the EU but without deciding exactly how. And I think you are right \u2013 it will stay uncertain till the end.\nRebecca: Thank you both for your time!\nSimon: Great. Time for lunch.\nRebecca: Have some free trade chicken and/or soft serve, both of which I\u2019m very much craving now.\nPeter: I shall have some supper and then must run to choir practice.\nSimon: Ciao, Peter.\nPeter: Ciao. This has been fun. Let\u2019s do it again sometime.\nThis transcript has been lightly edited for clarity and length.\nDid you enjoy this conversation format? Let us know.\nJacob Turcotte and Rebecca Asoulin/Staff, Photos by AP\nWith May\u2019s monumental defeat, no end in sight for Brexit\nWhy Brexit compromise hasn\u2019t defused political tensions in Britain\nBriefing As clock ticks down, Britain finally reveals its plan for Brexit. What now?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 276, "original_length": 17355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.csun.edu/eisner-education/summer-academic-enrichment-program/3d-printing-camp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:06Z", "digest": "sha1:AL7ZLUID2QYU5SJNCCJELZHZT2SOUARL", "length": 1321, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.csun.edu", "title": "3D Printing Camp | California State University, Northridge", "raw_content": "June 10- June 14, 2019, 8:00 - 12:45 p.m.\nSAEP will offer the week-long 3D Printing Camp for grades 6-12. The program takes place from June 10 to June 14, 2019, the week prior to the official start of SAEP Enrichment and Academic classes. This half-day camp begins each morning at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 12:45 p.m. in the afternoon. You do not need to register for the five-week program in order to participate in the 3D Printing Camp.\nCamp Description: SAEP has partnered with CSUN's Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) club and engineering students in order to create a week-long camp that teaches students the basics of 3D Printing and, ultimately, provide students with the knowledge and practical skills necessary to build their own 3D printed prototype. This camp will introduce the world of additive manufacturing through lectures and projects. Starting from the basic fundamentals of product development, and introduction to 3D Computer-Aided Design software with Autodesk Inventor. The main principles of 3D printing technology will be introduced. An innovative 3D printing prototype will be conducted which students apply what they learned in a design project, participating students got an outstanding and enjoyable experience of the emerging 3D printing technology.\nCost: The cost of this program is $280.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 90.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cuddledry.com/bathtime-tips/55/encouraging-reluctant-swimmers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WKAVK6LERY5NHMQ4347ZPCFBWIMNDLPU", "length": 1742, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.cuddledry.com", "title": "Encouraging reluctant swimmers - Baby Bath Products, Baby Bath Towel & Hooded Baby Towel with Cuddledry\u00ae", "raw_content": "\"My 3 month old baby hates bath time - is attempting swimming a waste of time?\"\nAbsolutely not! In fact, the longer you leave it, the worse your baby\u2019s fear or dislike might become. It's best to gently introduce them to warm water, in a calm, nurturing environment, from as early as possible. Often as a new parent you may well be unsure of what to do - and local pools can be a bit chilly - so joining a baby swimming class is a good alternative. Here you'll also be able to socialise with other parents and babies and you'll find there's plenty of support for the two of you.\nThere's also plenty you can do at home to help your baby. Share a bath with them, gently lying back with them on your chest and trickling water over their tummy and limbs (but not their face at this stage). If you show your baby you're really enjoying sharing the experience, they'll pick up on this and start enjoying it more too. Also, giving milk in the bath is a good way of allowing your baby to associate its comforting properties with that of warm water.\nAs they begin to grow in confidence, start trickling small amounts of water over their face, instantly wiping it away. Over time, a little watering can is a great way of increasing the amount, and they\u2019ll love playing with it too.\nFinally, it\u2019s worth remembering that your baby won\u2019t have been born with a fear of water \u2013 it will be other issues that might be spooking them. Perhaps they don\u2019t like feeling enclosed in the bath, or haven\u2019t enjoyed the change in temperature. Try alternating your bath-time routine a bit and see if that helps. And don\u2019t forget to wrap them up in a lovely warm towel once bath time is over to keep them nice and toasty!\nWritten by Jess Thompson, founder of Water Babies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.culinaryentertainmentagency.com/michael-mixon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:05Z", "digest": "sha1:I5FYL6USDPEW4EAATQD5OV76FC6JHDF3", "length": 1157, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.culinaryentertainmentagency.com", "title": "MICHAEL MIXON \u2014 Culinary Entertainment Agency", "raw_content": "Taking the lead from his father, \u201cthe winningest man in barbecue,\u201d MICHAEL MIXON started his career in barbecue at an early age. He has his own team, Jack\u2019s New South, and is part of Myron Mixon's world-championship-winning Jack\u2019s Old South barbecue team . Michael is the host of \u201cBBQ Rig Race\u201d on Food Network. He was also the co-host of Destination America\u2019s \u201cBBQ Rules\u201d and \u201cBBQ Pitmasters: Father vs. Son,\u201d and has appeared on several other food television shows.\nMichael began his journey into barbecue in 1996 while traveling alongside his father on the competitive circuit and working part-time for Myron's championship award winning team, Jack's Old South. In 2011, Michael was inspired, motivated and ready to make his own path in the world of BBQ and founded a new competitive team with a wink towards his father's legacy, Jack's New South. Michael's team quickly garnered attention. In 2012, they became the youngest ever team to be awarded Georgia BBQ Team of the Year and ranked 26th overall out of 10,000 teams. Having proven himself, Myron quickly hired Michael back to oversee Jack's Old South and ensure its continued and legendary success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 208.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.culturalweekly.com/secret-city-returns-la/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:M3QWSDHSVVREFX4LK2F72WZEOATYGKB5", "length": 2705, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.culturalweekly.com", "title": "The Secret City Returns to LA - Cultural Weekly", "raw_content": "The Secret City Returns to LA\nBy Cultural Weekly on October 10, 2018 in Art, Music, Theatre\nThe Secret City, the Obie Award-winning arts organization that presents community celebrations of everyday creative life, joyously returns to Los Angeles at the Ford Theatres on Sunday, October 14 at 12:00pm.\nPart ceremony, part salon, part show, each gathering has a different theme and an ever-changing roster of artists and performers. In addition to seats in the house, a limited number of seats are available on the Ford stage for this participatory and intimate event that will feature storytelling, a live band, performance, food, meditation, The Secret City Singers and joyful community interaction.\nFrom its origins as a fortifying ritual for beleaguered theatre artists, The Secret City has grown into a half-irreverent, half-earnest blend of revival meeting and group meditation session.\nFounding Artistic Director Chris Wells said, \u201cLately, I\u2019ve been thinking of The Secret City as a tent revival. But tent revival might make you think of fire and brimstone and people speaking in tongues. So, maybe I should say artistic tent revival, but don\u2019t let the artistic part of that phrase make you think it\u2019s exclusive: The Secret City is for anyone in need of reconnecting to their source. Thousands of people have taken part in our services. Since 2012, we\u2019ve been holding quarterly performances at the Bootleg Theater in Silverlake and are thrilled to be sharing our work on the Ford stage.\u201d\nWells is a writer, actor, and community leader who creates live events, music, and stories. In 2010, Wells received a special citation Obie Award for creating The Secret City, for service to the artistic community of New York City. Wells\u2019 theatrical work has also been honored with two LA Weekly Awards for Best Actor, a shared Garland award for playwriting and many Ovation awards for participating in ensemble-created work. In 2007, Wells was honored with The Charles Bowden Award from New Dramatists for his work in support of new play development.\nOlga Garay-English, Executive Director of the Ford Theatres, said, \u201cThe Secret City is quickly becoming the most open secret in town! It is one of the most joyful ways to celebrate the arts and our humanity and I welcome them to the Ford Theatres with open arms. It makes all of us here very happy to host Chris Wells and his company at our venue \u2013 which is perfectly configured to give them a larger space, while preserving an intimacy of experience that is their hallmark.\u201d\nTickets on sale now at https://www.fordtheatres.org/calendar/secret-city.\nTagsartChris WellscommunityFord TheatresThe Secret CityTheatre\nStage and Snooker: Bernhardt/Hamlet and The Nap", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.curetoday.com/printer?url=/expertconnections/myeloma-improving-outlook/options-following-recurrence-in-multiple-myeloma", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QRWPNREDU4Y3XHNJXRSEBZQFJYLIMLZJ", "length": 5460, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.curetoday.com", "title": "http://www.curetoday.com/expertconnections/myeloma-improving-outlook/options-following-recurrence-in-multiple-myeloma", "raw_content": "Options Following Recurrence in Multiple Myeloma\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: When the protein came back, we had to restart therapy. You had been off therapy for a year. You chose to not be on maintenance, as we had discussed. We tried this oral regimen of ixazomib, lenalidomide, dexamethasone. You had toxicities with it\u2014very profound fatigue and the nausea. It just didn\u2019t work out for you. Then, we said, \u201cLet\u2019s see what other options there are.\u201d I suggested that we use one of the new monoclonal antibodies. The daratumumab monoclonal antibody was one option. I told you that it could be given in combination with either an immunomodulatory drug, lenalidomide, or with pomalidomide, a related drug. Or it could be given with a proteasome inhibitor, bortezomib. The alternative would be to give it as a single drug\u2014daratumumab, alone. We talked about this.\nAurora Torres: Yes.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: And I said to you, \u201cIf I look at the literature, the combinations are more powerful. There\u2019s more efficacy there. Unfortunately, you also have to consider the risk of toxicity.\u201d We talked about that. I asked you what you felt was the right thing for you, and you said you wanted to try the single drug.\nAurora Torres: Right. Being that I had such adverse effects with everything else that I\u2019d taken, I decided to go with that.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: The discussion that you and I had was that if we picked a combination and it worked, that\u2019s great, but if we picked a combination and you had toxicity, we would have to start peeling back drugs. On the flip side, we could also start with the single drug. If that works, that\u2019s great. If it doesn\u2019t, then we can add in drugs.\nAurora Torres: Right.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: You said that you wanted to do the single-drug regimen, and that\u2019s what we did.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: We gave you the daratumumab by the FDA label. You got 8 weekly doses. Then, you got 8 doses, every other week. And now we\u2019re into monthly infusions.\nNow that you\u2019re on the daratumumab infusions, what\u2019s your experience been during and after the infusions? Have they changed over time?\nAurora Torres: Well, I noticed that the first infusion was very, very long. It was longer than what the other infusions have been. I was told that this was because of the side effects that you can get. They had to go very slowly in administering it. I started to feel redness or heat in my face. The nurse saw that I was red and she lowered the dose until I was alright again. Other than that, all of the other infusions had gone very well. I haven\u2019t had any other symptoms, or negativities, or anything like that. The only drawback to that is the time. But, like I said, I prefer it over anything else at the moment, because it works for me.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: The reaction that you described happened to you with the first dose?\nAurora Torres: Only for the first dose. It never happened again.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: If I look at the literature, and if I look in my own practice, it\u2019s the same. About 50% of all patients who receive daratumumab, at first dose, have some type of reaction to the drug\u2014an infusion reaction. After that, it just does not seem to come back. Now, at our institution, we are about to change the infusion time. We are going to start doing 2-hour infusions from the third dose onward. So, that is how we are moving forward. This is in accord with new data from the ASH meeting of 2018, which is the biggest hematology meeting, every year, in the United States.\nWhat\u2019s your thinking? You are now on a regimen where you have to come in and get an infusion. It\u2019s not just taking pills on your own.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: Is that an inconvenience for you?\nAurora Torres: No, not at all. It\u2019s no inconvenience. I look forward to it, because I know that it\u2019s helping me. I look at it in that light.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: So, if you have the option of taking an oral regimen, in your particular case, versus an infusion, the toxicities last for a short period of time and then it\u2019s done. So, that\u2019s what you would prefer?\nAurora Torres: Yes, exactly.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: Different people have different opinions. Some people like the freedom of taking tablets. Some people like that the toxicities are kind of short-lasting. And then, if they were there for a few days, they are over. So, I think it\u2019s good that there are options. There are different options to choose between.\nAurora Torres: Oh, definitely.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: How are you feeling, overall, right now?\nAurora Torres: Well, I have days where I feel better than others. When I have my treatment, during the first 2 or 3 days, I\u2019m good. And then, after that, I start to feel a little achy. My body starts to feel backaches. My legs ache. I feel that if I touch my body, I feel my nerves. But other than that, I\u2019ve been great. I\u2019ve been great with this treatment. I really can\u2019t say that I\u2019ve had too many negative things happen to me with this treatment. I\u2019m functional. I\u2019m not fatigued at all.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: You\u2019re traveling and you\u2019re very active?\nAurora Torres: Yes. I\u2019m able to do a lot of things that I wasn\u2019t able to do, previously, when I had the oral medications.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: You were in Florida, just recently?\nAurora Torres: I was in Florida.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: And I know that you\u2019re going to California, soon?\nAurora Torres: Yes. I\u2019m getting out there, because of this treatment.\nC. Ola Landgren, MD: I\u2019m very happy for you.\nAurora Torres: Thank you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 5772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cuterascals.com/coin-purse.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRQ23TZP2PEWHCJESL6D4QHJU2KRGNAA", "length": 295, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cuterascals.com", "title": "Coin Purse - Accessorise - Girls", "raw_content": "Little ones love nothing better than having their own pocket money to take care of. It also teaches them the value of money which is no bad thing. Our Cute Rascals coin purses take care of both the pennys and the dollars. We have so many pretty options to choose from, without breaking the bank.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1651, "original_length": 30033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cynthiaclawson.com/news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:22Z", "digest": "sha1:532H4KIBUMRJHD3ITKQSMHXZOR4EW2JM", "length": 16561, "nlines": 102, "source_domain": "www.cynthiaclawson.com", "title": "Cynthia Clawson - News", "raw_content": "This week we sent off the new album to be mastered and then traveled to Dallas to begin recording a new album with Bruce Greer. If you haven't joined the mailing list yet, please do so. We will have big news about the upcoming releases very soon!\nRead A New Interview From The Howard Payne University magazine, The Link.\nYou grew up as the daughter of a pastor and his wife. How did that help shape\nyour musical life?\nWe moved a lot, and I think that helped me in everything. I had to make new friends. I had to learn to live among different people and even their\nstyles of music. I learned how to communicate.\nWhat was the process that led you to Howard Payne?\nMy dad went to a preaching conference there. He said, \u201cI\u2019m going to Howard Payne. Would you like to go up there and check it out?\u201d I had already visited Baylor. I went to Howard Payne and met Mrs. [Sara] Baker. I loved the way Old Main looked. I thought, \u201cThis is college.\u201d It was just kind of a calling, I guess. I loved it. After I got there, it wasn\u2019t as big as Baylor but I felt like every single faculty member cared about me.\nYou mentioned Sara Baker. How big of an influence did she become during your college years?\nI talked to her yesterday on the phone. She\u2019s still my voice teacher. She was my substitute mother and was always so wonderful to me. She still sings better than I do.\nWere you one of the original Heritage Singers?\nYes, I was. I was an original member of Delta Chi Rho and an original Heritage Singer.\nWhat was the genesis of the Heritage Singers?\nDr. [O.J.] Bryson started that. Dr. [Guy D.] Newman, who was president then, wanted a group that would go around and advertise for Howard Payne. We were like a commercial.\nYou were one of the first members of Delta Chi Rho, too, you said. How was that organization created?\nWe put that together in the attic of Veda Hodge. We were always going up there late at night to have jam sessions and talk about stuff. We just said, \u201cLet\u2019s start a new club.\u201d We also called ourselves \u201cThe Terrific Twelve.\u201d We did little shenanigans here and there! [Laughs]\nThe first way we made ourselves known was through a show we did at Friday chapel. Monday was educational, Wednesday was spiritual and Friday was for whatever we wanted to do. We just put together shows. We were like Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney \u2013 or the Little Rascals!\nWhile you were a student at HPU, you performed on the Arthur Godfrey Talent Show. What are your memo- ries of that experience?\nThe Heritage Singers flew to Hollywood to be on it first, and then Arthur Godfrey asked me back because I was red- headed and loud and everything, and he liked the way I sang.\nDo you remember what you sang on those shows?\nI don\u2019t remember what we sang when we went, but when I went later I sang \u201cMy Man,\u201d because Barbra Streisand had just made the movie Funny Girl and, by that time, I had already seen it about 14 times.\nSo you knew it well!\nI ended up seeing the movie about 26 times \u2013 once in Hong Kong, in Chinese, and once in India, with Indian subtitles. After my senior year, I went on this tour and saw it in those places. I was going to be Barbra Streisand!\nWas she a big influence on your musical taste?\nYeah, I liked all those ballads. When I came to college, I wanted to be Julie Andrews and then, during my sophomore year, I liked Petula Clark.\nA few years after I got out of school, a producer said, \u201cTell me about your singing. Who are you? What do you sing?\u201d I said, \u201cWell, it\u2019s according to what kind of song you want. If you want a sort of Barbra Streisand thing, I can sound like Barbra Streisand.\u201d I don\u2019t think I really tried to sound like her but I could emulate that style. He said, \u201cNo. Who are you?\u201d I said, \u201cWell, I don\u2019t know,\u201d and I started crying. I was just mortified. He said, \u201cYou need to go find out who you are.\u201d It was the best thing, though. Around that same time I met George Gagliardi, a song- writer. There were songs that nobody else had ever sung, so I sang them like I sang them.\nWhat is the process of determining who you are and not just trying to imitate people you like?\nI really think it has to do with the material. I watch America\u2019s Got Talent and The Voice and people sound so much alike. It\u2019s not like in the old days, when everybody had a defi- nite sound. Carole King sounded like Carole King singing\nCarole King songs. I think it\u2019s when you get original material that nobody else has ever done and you have to craft it and make it your song.\nYou have the ability to communicate lyrics or hymn text as if you\u2019re just sharing your thoughts. it\u2019s a very conversational approach to performing. What is your process to engage with material that way?\nWhen I was in fifth or sixth grade, old enough to pick a song to sing in church, my father would ask, \u201cWhat are you going to be singing?\u201d I\u2019d say such-and-such and he\u2019d say, \u201cWell, darling, I don\u2019t think you need to sing that song. You don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d I\u2019d pick songs about sin and degradation and grace, but I hadn\u2019t gotten there yet. He made me be really honest about lyrics.\nMy friend George Gagliardi came along and he would say, \u201cHow are you feeling today?\u201d I\u2019d say, \u201cOh, kind of depressed,\u201d and he would write lyrics for me where I was. Then, of course, I married Ragan, who is a lyricist.\nI also find that some of the songs that I sang forever I\u2019ve discarded because I\u2019m not there anymore. I try to sing from where I am at that point, psychologically and emotionally.\nWhat happens, then, during the course of a concert, when you\u2019ve got several songs to perform and each one comes from a different emotional place? Is it hard to engage equally in every song?\nThere are some songs I can\u2019t wait to sing, but I may have gone through a thought process even during the concert so that the seventh or eighth song is going to be different than I had planned on it being. I have really wonderful accompa- nists, though, and they know me so well.\nIf it\u2019s not fresh for me, then it\u2019s not going to be fresh for anyone else. It\u2019s going to be rote. I\u2019ve had people say, \u201cThat didn\u2019t sound like it did on the album.\u201d Well, that\u2019s because I was in a different spot on the album.\nDo you ever get a reaction from someone in the au- dience that affects your approach in that moment?\nOh yeah, I think probably every single time. My father taught me to look people in the eye when I sing, because that\u2019s the way he preached. He had no fear.\nAfter the Godfrey performance, you went back to Hollywood to be on the summer replacement show for The Carol Burnett Show, called CBS Newcomers. Was it around that time when you made your first album?\nI made my first album, which is called One In The Spirit, before I went to Los Angeles that first time. It came out\nduring that time, in 1971.\nWhat was the experience like for you to see a brand- new copy of your first album?\nWell, we had a little bit of a tussle over that because I really didn\u2019t think it was very good yet, but then I probably would think that about everything. When it came, I was kind of embarrassed. I thought, \u201cOh, it\u2019s not very good,\u201d but it was my first.\nThere have been a lot of technological advances in recording since then, but how is the experience of making an album different now for you as a singer?\nWell, on that one, everybody was in the studio at once and that was wonderful. It was that \u201clive\u201d sort of feeling. Now you can go into your bedroom and make an album. It\u2019s changed so much. With Auto-Tune and other things, it\u2019s almost like singers are just robots now. It\u2019s taken the heart out of it.\nYou can do it so quickly and that\u2019s kind of nice. I can take two days and do an album, when before it would have taken longer, but it\u2019s kind of slick now. Also, with downloads and things like that, people hear one song and that\u2019s what they want. The craft and the angst you\u2019d go through in making an album \u2013 \u201cThat song will go here,\u201d \u201cNo, let\u2019s put that song down here\u201d \u2013 doesn\u2019t matter as much anymore.\nEarlier, you mentioned your husband. Did you meet during the course of the Celebrate Life project?\nYes. Ragan was an actor in New York and was writing it with Buryl Red. I met Buryl while I was living in L.A. I came to Dallas to work with Buryl, who was orchestrating something. He said, \u201cI\u2019m going to do this musical. Would you want to sing some solos?\u201d I went to Nashville and did the solos while Ragan was still in New York.\nThen, the following summer, Ragan came down to North Carolina, to Ridgecrest, and I was there to do the premiere and I met him. He asked me to marry him that day.\nWe realized we had a whole lot of connections, we liked the same actors and he liked the way I sang and all that. \u201cYou know, we\u2019ll probably get married.\u201d \u201cYeah, sure.\u201d\nI called my sister that night and said, \u201cI met this guy and I think I\u2019m going to marry him.\u201d She said, \u201cOh yeah, you\u2019ve said that before,\u201d [laughs] because I had, about several people! I said, \u201cNo, no, this is different!\u201d\nWe got married a few months later. It\u2019s been 42 years, so I guess something worked!\nYou sang at a Billy graham Crusade. What was that experience like?\nIt was in Nashville in 1979. I was really excited because it was a big deal to get to sing at a Billy Graham Crusade. I went to his Crusade in Houston when I was two years old. Billy Graham was huge in our lives.\ni\u2019d also like to discuss your involvement with the oscar-winning 1985 movie The Trip To Bountiful, which featured your version of \u201cSoftly and Tenderly.\u201d How did that take place?\nI went to do a concert at Chuck Swindoll\u2019s church, and I sang a whole bunch of hymns. J.A.C. Redford, who did the music for The Trip To Bountiful, was in the congregation. I did that on Sunday and on Tuesday he called me and said, \u201cI\u2019m working on this film. It\u2019s kind of a personal film.\u201d They called it \u201cpersonal\u201d because they weren\u2019t going to pay me much mon- ey. [Laughs] He said, \u201cIt\u2019s called The Trip To Bountiful and it\u2019s by playwright Horton Foote.\u201d I said, \u201cYeah, okay, alrighty! You got me!\u201d So I went out to Los Angeles and did it.\nI\u2019ve made connections to so many people because of that song. Their grandmother sang it, their mother sang it, they sang it. They remember it from their past. I would sing at concerts and people would ask, \u201cDid you sing in a movie?\u201d I\u2019d say, \u201cYeah.\u201d\nWhat was your experience of seeing that movie for the first time?\nA whole bunch of people from my church in Louisville, Kentucky, got together and went to this little theatre and saw it. That character was so much like my daddy\u2019s mother. Then she [actress Geraldine Page] won the Academy Award for that and they played \u201cSoftly and Tenderly\u201d when she went up to accept the award. It was a big part of my life.\nSpeaking of awards, you won a grammy and five Dove awards. What were those experiences like?\nThe Grammy was wonderful because I won it with a whole bunch of people: Andra\u00e9 Crouch, Reba [Rambo], B.J. Thomas, several of us.\nIt was called The Lord\u2019s Prayer. Dony [McGuire] and Reba [Rambo] had written a musical based on the Lord\u2019s\nPrayer. I sang the first song, which is called \u201cTeach Us To Pray.\u201d I walked out there to sing, six months pregnant, and I looked down and saw Streisand, Shirley Caesar, Dionne Warwick, Aretha [Franklin] \u2013 the whole front row with all these women singers. It was incredible.\nI won some Doves, and that was nice, but that Grammy thing ... Also, that was the first time the Grammys had ever done a gospel presentation. So Delta Chi Rho, Heritage Singers, first Grammy gospel presentation \u2013 I\u2019m sort of a pioneer! [Laughs] I\u2019m a sixth-generation Texas woman, so I should be!\nYou\u2019ve kept a close relationship with HPU through the years. Recently, you accepted a leadership role in HPU\u2019s campaign to become an all-Steinway School. How did you become involved with that project?\nDiana and Bill [Ellis] came to see us and she said, \u201cI\u2019ve got this idea.\u201d I really like them a lot. So I said, \u201cYeah, I\u2019ll do it. Sure.\u201d I didn\u2019t even think about it. It\u2019s been fun to try to raise money for this effort.\nHow different is the quality of a Steinway piano?\nIt makes you want to sing better and play better. When I was a student at Howard Payne, I would ask Mrs. Baker if I could go rehearse on the stage in Mims because that\u2019s where the Steinway was located. There was just something about it.\nHow big of an impact would it have on our music program for HPU to be an all-Steinway School?\nMusicians would come because it\u2019s an All-Steinway School. It just says, \u201cWe\u2019re special.\u201d We\u2019ve always known we\u2019re special at Howard Payne, \u201cwhere everybody is some- body,\u201d but having that Steinway stamp...\nWhat do you see as the key qualities that have made HPU special through the years?\nThe faculty members cherish every student. Also, when I look back now, I realize how safe it was. I went to school during the Vietnam War and the world was on fire. I would get to the outskirts of Brownwood, coming into town, and it was a haven. We knew people cared about us. I don\u2019t think I\u2019d be doing what I am today had I not gone to Howard Payne, because I got that freedom to express myself. There\u2019s even more freedom now than there was when we were there. You can wear shorts!\nTo learn more about HPU\u2019s all-Steinway School campaign, please contact the office of institutional advancement at development@hputx.edu or 800-950-8465.\nLUBBOCK, TX - On Sunday, April 12th at First Christian Church,\nCynthia will be joining in both worship services during the morning\nand will be giving a joint concert with the West Texas Children\u2019s Chorus\nin our sanctuary at 5:00pm. This concert is free admission and a love offering\nwill be collected for the West Texas Children\u2019s Chorus.\nFor more info, visit:http://www.fcclubbock.org/events\nCynthia Clawson and Bruce Greer\nA special free performance in Dallas, Texas\nA Rodgers organ that had a long career as a worship instrument at the renowned Glorieta Conference Center has just arrived at its new home - Criswell College in Dallas, Texas.\nFor many years, the organ resided at Glorieta in New Mexico, which offers retreats and outdoor adventures at its beautiful facility in the Sangre de Cristo mountain range of the Southern Rockies. Glorieta has been the site of countless worship services and celebrations using both its own organ and other Rodgers instruments that have been installed temporarily for various special occasions.\nPlease join us on Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 7:00 PM in Ruth Chapel for:\nCriswell College Presents\nA Winter Night of Music\nPrincipal guest instrumentalists will be Dr. William Hanson, Dr.Jerry Aultman, Sue Mitz, Mary Ruth Tucker, Dr. T. Bob Davis, Tommy Lander, and Jo Ellen Burch.\nGrammy-winning vocalist Cynthia Clawson will also perform in artistic collaboration with the piano artistry of Bruce Greer.\nFor more info, visit http://www.criswell.edu/\nCynthia Clawson and Marvin Gaspard\nHouston, Texas - December 21, 2014\nSt. Luke's Presbyterian Church\nVisit http://www.stlukespres.org/ for more information\nCynthia Clawson and Bruce Greer Together Again!\nCynthia and Bruce are in Dallas this week rehearsing for a new album to be released in 2015. She says from her Facebook Page :\n\"I am so excited! Bruce Greer and I are in rehearsal for three days (I love rehearsing best of all) for a new album that is to be released in 2015. The best part is that we will have total creative freedom! This will be our first album together since SEE ME, GOD and CAROLS & CHANT. It will be complete with chamber orchestra and new hymns. Thanks, Mark Cabaniss for making this happen. The best is yet to come!\"\nA new Christmas album from Marvin Gaspard\nfeaturing Cynthia Clawson\n15 Classic Christmas songs performed on a beautiful vintage 9ft Steinway grand piano and featuring Cynthia on \"Mary, Did You Know?\", \"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas\", \"Winter Wonderland\" and more...\nVisit the Store to download now!\nNew Album, BE STILL, Available Now!\nBe Still is Cynthia Clawson's first instrumental album. It was recorded as an album of instrumental prayer and meant as a tool to inspire and to help you, the listener, remain quiet and still and allow God to speak to your heart. Cynthia is known in music primarily as a singer, but those who have seen her in concert and read the credits on her albums knows that she is also a gifted pianist. After years of playing piano to accompany her voice, Cynthia decided to record an instrumental album of some of her favorite songs. It was recorded last year by Will Courtney at Desert Sound Studios in Santa Fe, NM and is available exclusively at CynthiaClawson.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 18612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dadsguidetowdw.com/dads-toy-story-land-construction-report.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:EQLCIH57TKQSLR23K26353I6BETKS5EL", "length": 7551, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.dadsguidetowdw.com", "title": "Dad's Toy Story Land Construction Report", "raw_content": "Dad's Toy Story Land Construction Report\nOn March 12, I got one of the most interesting emails I think I've ever received. It was from Disney inviting me to come see Toy Story Land being constructed. What? Yep, come to Walt Disney World every 30 days and see how Toy Story Land gets built.\nI was shocked. Disney has NEVER allowed anyone to go behind the scenes during construction and talk about it. WOW!\nSo, for the last 3 months, I've been hopping on a plane every 30 days and going to Disney World to watch the grass grow at Toy Story Land. Let me tell you about it.\nHere's the model where we met - Photo courtesy of Disney Parks Blog\nMrs. Mom and I have purchased 2 houses that were built from the ground up. Seeing the construction at Toy Story Land was kind of like watching those houses being built. Every time you visit you are excited to see progress. Sometimes you see it, sometimes you don't.\nThe Walls are Up\nSlinky Dog Dash looked ready to ride - Photo by Disney Parks Blog\nOur first visit was an March 22. Exactly 100 days before the opening date of June 30 which Disney had just announced.\nThat day, I arrived at the Toy Story Land model in Walt Disney Presents at Disney's Hollywood Studios. I was so excited. I almost got one of those Disney buttons that said I'm going to see Toy Story Land. Everyone I talked to I told, I'm going to see Toy Story Land (and you can't). No I didn't say and you can't, but I did stick out my tongue a couple of times.\nRight on time the Disney people started talking. Blah, blah... After minutes or so I heard, \"Let me introduce to you Ryan Wineingar, the lead Imagineer on the Toy Story Land project. He's going to take you into Toy Story Land.\" My ears perked up. It was time.\nRyan was cute. I don't mean that in a derogative way. He was excited. He told us the story of Andy's Backyard. He must have said at least 10 times how excited he was to show his project to some \"real people\". In fact, let me just show you...\nRyan briefing us about Toy Story Land\nTold you, excited.\nI was excited too.\nAfter Ryan finished, off we went through one of those doors marked Cast Members Only and back through the back lots of Disney's Hollywood Studios. We were escorted through a construction gate into Toy Story Land. Right in front of Slink Dog Dash (the new roller coaster).\nThey had built us an area using those big highway divider things. We could roam around some, but we were pretty confined. The good thing was we could see most of Toy Story Land.\nIt really was like the first time you see a new house when they put up the insulation on the outside. You can see most of what's happening, you can get a good idea of what things are going to look like. You walk through the inside and see the outlines, but you can see there's a lot of work to do.\nDisney had a lot of work to do. The structures were up but they were just like the house with the insulation. All white. No character or color. It was hard to imagine what they were going to be.\nI will say that at that time, 100 days before opening day, Slinky Dog Dash was pretty well done. Videos had already been posted of Jessie and Rex being placed and even one of Slinky Dog himself on the track. All the vegetation had been placed around the ride. The grass was tall. 3 feet tall.\nRyan told us all about it. He said that we were in Andy's backyard and we were the size of a green army man. 2 inches tall so 3 feet tall grass made sense.\nHe pointed out the new entrance area for Toy Story Mania. It was kind of hard to imagine. It was just a wall and a building. All white. Very white.\nDown the way was Woody's Lunch Box, the new quick service restaurant. Again, a white building. In fact, from where we stood it just looked like a white wall.\nUp from Woody's Lunch Box was the Alien Swirling Saucers building. Because of the a hill, we could only see the top of the building. We could see that the roof wasn't complete. We could see support beams. It was like that house with the siding but no roof yet.\nI don't want to make it sound like I wasn't impressed. I was. I could almost see the vision. It helped that Slinky Dog was pretty much done. (I think we could have ridden it, but they didn't let us.) There was a lot of work to do, but we could see the structure of the house. Really cool.\nDad's review of the 1st trip to the construction at Toy Story Land\nHard to See Progress\nWoody was just finished - Photo by Disney Parks Blog\nTrip 2 was the \"I know there's a lot of lot of work being done but I can't really see it\" trip. This one was on April 22. It was a hot and humid day that threatened rain. We arrived at the Toy Story model again right on time and were told that we wouldn't get into the land due to lightning. How disappointing.\nWe did get to go back to where we could see in, but we didn't get a good view. This was the exact day that the Woody entrance structure had been installed. In fact the Imagineers were telling us they had just finished painting the blocks that Woody sits on.\nPeering around it looked like nothing really had been done. The buildings still were white. A few more of the light standards were up, but really, it was like visiting the house under construction when you can't actually see progress, but you know it's happening.\nDad's Toy Story Trip Report #2\nColor Arrives!\nThey told us Alien Saucer Swirl was coming right along - Photo by Disney Parks Blog\nTrip #3 was on May 23.\nThis trip was very different from the others. It started with a briefing/luncheon at Ale and Compass, a new restaurant in the Yacht Club Resort where Disney stuffed us full of some really good food. Then we all jumped in our cars and hurried over to Hollywood Studios for our tour.\nWe followed the same procedure, meet at the model then head back to the land. There was a slight chance of rain, but we lucked out. No rain and we got to go right in through the construction fence and right back to our \"pen\" in front of Slinky Dog Dash.\nMy first impression was that COLOR had come to Toy Story Land. Buildings were no longer just white. They had color on them. The Tinker Toy light poles were all around and had Christmas lights strung around them. Forty foot tall trees had sprung up. Lots of them.\n(Disney Horticulture is pretty amazing. They can grow a 40 foot tall tree in 30 days. AMAZING!)\nLooking around the land, the entrance to Toy Story Mania was coming along. there was still scaffolding on the building and the wall still wasn't finished, but there was starting to be some color.\nFrom what I could see it looked like Woody's Lunch Box was ready to open. the roof was all done on Alien Saucer Swirl.\nThere was still a lot of work to do like putting the lightbulbs into the Christmas lights, finishing up the outside of Toy Story Mania's entrance and from what the Imagineers told us but the finishing touches on Alien Saucer Swirl, but all in all it was coming right along.\nIt really was like the house. You come back a couple of weeks before closing and the paint crews are finishing, the carpet layers are laying carpet, the landscape crew is starting to put in sod. That's really what it felt like.\nDad's Trip Report #3\nWatching the construction of Toy Story Land has been INCREDIBLE. I want to give a big thank you to the \"Disney Influencers Group\" for inviting me on this grand journey. It's now less than 35 days until Toy Story Land opens. I can't wait to see the final results.\nComments for Dad's Toy Story Land Construction Report\nThanks for the update can't wait will be there July 12th for our family vacation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 9486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailybulletin.com/2008/01/18/not-much-of-a-western-showdown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EVID22CVMDP2RY7BM73H2UVDX2YTORKK", "length": 2339, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.dailybulletin.com", "title": "Not much of a Western showdown \u2013 Daily Bulletin", "raw_content": "Not much of a Western showdown\nDavid Crane/Los Angeles Daily News\n\u0095 Photo Gallery: Lakers vs. Suns\nLOS ANGELES \u2013 The Lakers talked a good game in the days leading up to Thursday night\u2019s showdown for Western Conference supremacy against the Phoenix Suns.\nThey didn\u2019t play one, however.\nOr perhaps it would be more accurate to report that they couldn\u2019t play one without a healthy Andrew Bynum in uniform and dominating the paint.\nThe Suns controlled the game from start to finish, from inside and out, defeating the Lakers, 106-98, at Staples Center.\nThe Suns ended the Lakers\u2019 seven-game winning streak and their all-too-brief stay atop the West.\nThe Lakers started in disjointed fashion in their second game since Bynum suffered a dislocated left kneecap that will sideline him for at least two months.\nIn fact, they looked like a group of guys who just met for a pickup game at the park, rather than the cohesive unit that had won seven in a row. Their confidence was absent and their momentum was lost in a maze of unsteady play.\nShots clanged off the rim and backboard.\nPasses missed their mark.\nRebounds went unclaimed.\nDefensive plans crumbled.\nA sellout crowd of 18,997 grew restless almost from the opening tip. They were used to seeing the Lakers jump on their opponents, not the other way around.\nAfter all, the Lakers had not lost in 2008 and had won 17 of their last 20 games.\nKwame Brown, serving as Bynum\u2019s replacement for the second game, was an easy target of the fans\u2019 ire. He was booed each time he touched the ball in the second half, when the Lakers struggled to find a consistent rhythm.\nFinally, Sasha Vujacic jump-started the Lakers to start the fourth quarter.\nHe made a 3-pointer, then scored on a driving layup, and then followed with another 3.\nLamar Odom added a dunk and suddenly the Lakers were within 79-71 with a little more than 10 minutes to play.\nThe Lakers failed to complete the comeback, however.\nKobe Bryant led the Lakers with 30 points on 10-for-22 shooting. Odom added 19 points and matched his career high with 19 rebounds.\nBrown finished with eight points and six rebounds. He was cheered only after he picked up his fifth foul and Ronny Turiaf replaced him in the third quarter.\nLeandro Barbosa led Phoenix with 22 points. Shawn Marion had 20 points and Steve Nash had 13 points and 20 assists..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 7418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/pro/chicago-blackhawks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:01Z", "digest": "sha1:R745UXEWJ572J3KEMICMSKJUEPDCD4I4", "length": 2613, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.dailyherald.com", "title": "Chicago Blackhawks News, Scores, Highlights, Schelude & More", "raw_content": "Latest NHL Videos\nBlackhawks vs. Blue Jackets Sat, 2/16 - 8:30 pm\nBlackhawks vs. Senators Mon, 2/18 - 8:30 pm\nBlackhawks at Red Wings Wed, 2/20 - 7:30 pm\nBlackhawks vs. Avalanche Fri, 2/22 - 7:30 pm\nBlackhawks vs. Stars Sun, 2/24 - 3:00 pm\nBlackhawks at Ducks Wed, 2/27 - 10:00 pm\nBlackhawks at Kings Sat, 3/2 - 4:00 pm\nBlackhawks at Sharks Sun, 3/3 - 10:00 pm\nBlackhawks vs. Sabres Thu, 3/7 - 8:30 pm\nBlackhawks at Stars Sat, 3/9 - 8:00 pm\nFeb 15, 2019 7:00 AM - Patrick Kane scored his 34th goal and added two assists to lead Chicago to a 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils for the Blackhawks' eighth victory in nine games\nFeb 14, 2019 11:19 PM - The Chicago Blackhawks honored Chris Kunitz for playing in his 1,000th NHL game in a pregame ceremony at the United Center. \"Pretty happy for him,\" said coach Jeremy Colliton, who started Kunitz alongside Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews, Duncan Keith and Brent Seabrook. \"He's had a great career. His accomplishments speak for themselves.\"\nFeb 14, 2019 11:18 PM - Patrick Kane scored his 34th goal and added two assists to lead Chicago to a 5-2 win over the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night for the Blackhawks' eighth victory in nine games.\nScouting report: Blackhawks vs. Devils\nFeb 14, 2019 5:30 AM - Scouting report: Blackhawks vs. Devils\nWhy flip-flopping goalies is working for the Blackhawks\nFeb 13, 2019 2:33 PM - Since Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford was injured, Cam Ward and Collin Delia are forming an uncommon 1-2 punch that has not only kept the Hawks afloat but sprung them on a seven-game winning streak and right into playoff contention.\nFeb 13, 2019 7:00 AM - David Krejci, Danton Heinen and Brad Marchand each scored during a four-minute span at the end of the first period and the Boston Bruins beat the Blackhawks 6-3 to snap Chicago's seven-game winning streak\nRozner: Blackhawks' Murphy is having fun playing hockey again, and it shows\nFeb 12, 2019 2:32 PM - Connor Murphy is starting to look like the guy the Blackhawks thought they traded for in 2017.\nCrawford's return to game action takes initial step with full practice\nFeb 12, 2019 7:17 AM - Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford participated in his first full practice Monday since being injured against San Jose in mid-December. \"I feel great,\" Crawford said afterward.\nDelia signs 3-year extension with Blackhawks\nFeb 11, 2019 7:15 PM - The Chicago Blackhawks signed goaltender Collin Delia to a three-year extension contract Monday. It carries a cap hit of $1 million per season.\nFeb 11, 2019 12:52 PM - Blackhawks goaltender Collin Delia agrees to 3-year contract extension", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 5757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.daltontomich.com/michigan-court-rules-property-owners-do-not-have-riparian-rights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:29Z", "digest": "sha1:EBUTSHPL657ESC5RST2AHVFENZNY6CQM", "length": 4380, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.daltontomich.com", "title": "Michigan Court of Appeals Rules Subdivision Property Owners Do Not Have Riparian Rights - Dalton Tomich", "raw_content": "Written by Lawrence Opalewski on January 15, 2019 Category: Easements and Riparian Rights, Land Use and Zoning, Water Access\nOften, buyers purchase waterfront property assuming they have the right to access and use the water. If the neighbors in the community all agree and acquiesce to the use, the situation may continue for years without issue. However, when neighbor disputes arise, litigation may produce an outcome that nobody wants or predicts. The Michigan Court of Appeals decided last week that residents of a subdivision on Walled Lake all shared the same easement rights to use a park abutting the lake. However, the Court also decided that none of the owners had riparian rights to access and use the lake. To date, the dispute is ongoing.\nIn Va Park Subdivision Ass\u2019n v Pascal Brown & Mega Mgmt Group, the \u201cback lot\u201d owners in the Virginia Park Subdivision sued the \u201cfront lot\u201d owners. The subdivision consists of 26 lots, a street, and a park that abuts Walled Lake. The front lots are separated from Walled Lake by the park. The back lots are located west of the front lots. The back lots are separated from Walled Lake by both the front lots and the park. None of the back lots border the park or the lake. The plat dedication provides that \u201cthe street and park as shown on said plat are hereby dedicated to the use of lot owners only.\u201d\nIn 2017, a dispute developed between the front-lot owners and back-lot owners over the use of the park and, specifically, rights to install docks and moor boats. The front-lot owners argued that they exclusively owned the riparian rights in the park and that the back-lot owners only had an easement permitting them to use the park for customary park purposes that did not include the right to install docks or moor watercraft.\nThe back-lot owners filed the lawsuit seeking (1) a declaratory judgment that all subdivision lot owners held equal and coextensive rights regarding the ownership and use of the park and (2) to quiet title in favor of all lot owners with a declaration that all lot owners held fee simple title to the park. Plaintiffs also asserted a trespass claim and a nuisance claim. The Oakland County Circuit Court found that the plat dedication established that all lot owners have an easement in the park. Further, none of the lot owners have riparian rights. The ruling was appealed to the Michigan Court of Appeals.\nOn appeal, the Court of Appeals reasoned that a parcel is only considered \u201criparian land\u201d if it \u201cincludes therein a part of or is bounded by a natural water course.\u201d The Court found that the front-lot owners\u2019 argument that their land was riparian since it abutted the public waterfront park was unpersuasive. While there is an exception for riparian land separated from the water by a road or walkway, that exception did not apply to the park in this case. Therefore, neither the front-lot owners or back-lot owners possessed riparian rights.\nWhen interpreting the dedication of the park and the plat of the subdivision, the Court found that neither the front-lot or back-lot owners actually owned the park land. Further, the Court determined that all lot owners possessed the same rights to use the park under the existing easements. However, that did not resolve the dispute over which owners could install and maintain docks and otherwise use the lake. Since the trial court did not rule on that issue, the Court of Appeals remanded the case for further consideration.\nAs a result of this dispute between neighbors, the courts have ruled that none of the owners have riparian rights to the lake, none of the owners have any ownership of the park, and all the owners have the same rights to access the park under the existing easement. Moreover, it still had not been established whether the easement granted rights to use the lake, and if so, how much use would be permissible under the easement. In other words, after extensive litigation, it appears that the property owners are worse off than before the litigation began.\nThe attorneys at Dalton & Tomich, PLC have experience in all land use matters, including easements and riparian rights. If you feel your riparian rights or rights under an easement are being infringed, please do not hesitate to contact us. We would be happy to speak with you.\nCourt of Appeals Reverses ZBA Denial of Homeowner\u2019s Right to Rent Lakefront Property", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 9241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.damicopettinicchi.com/watertown/medical-malpractice-lawyers/suicide-malpractice.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:LH3YPLFFYOWLSELDD4KIXSICAOGPMGL5", "length": 3381, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.damicopettinicchi.com", "title": "Watertown Suicide Malpractice Lawyers | D'Amico & Pettinicchi", "raw_content": "Watertown Suicide Malpractice Lawyers\nSuicide and suicide attempts are serious public health problems that devastate individuals, families and communities.\nSadly, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's final data for 2013.\nThe U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services estimates that 11 suicides are attempted for every successful one. Depression and other mental illnesses, or a substance abuse disorder (frequently in connection with other mental disorders) are present in more than 90% of people who commit suicide.\nThere are few medical events more stigmatized or with more popular misconceptions and myths. Perhaps the most prevalent myth is that many or most people who have attempted suicide or expressed suicidal ideation are \"destined\" to commit suicide and nothing and no one can prevent it from happening.\nIn fact, the opposite it true: 90% of attempters do not go on to complete suicide. In fact, the majority of patients who are prevented from dying by suicide go on to lead rewarding and productive lives.\n...attempted suicide led to 228,366 emergency department visits...\nIn 2011, it was estimated by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration that attempted suicide led to 228,366 emergency department visits.\nWhen a patient is admitted to a hospital's emergency department following a suicide attempt, doctors will evaluate the person's physical and mental health. This evaluative procedure is a complex, detailed, and time-consuming process informed by the physician's training and experience. It is an active process in which the clinician is evaluating suicidal intent and lethality, dynamic meanings and motivations for suicide, the presence of a suicidal plan, the presence of overt suicidal/self-destructive behavior, the patient's physiological, cognitive, and affective states, his or her coping potential and epidemiologic risk factors.\nThe process is complicated by the fact that most suicidal people are highly ambivalent - they wish to die and they wish to live. And, if they are planning to commit suicide, they may not be the most reliable sources of information on certain issues.\nAfter a thorough assessment has been conducted, an individual treatment plan must be designed. Success is more likely when the treatment plan rests on a solid foundation of data and assessment. Psychiatrists (and other medical doctors or providers) in Connecticut have a duty to involuntarily commit a patient who is suicidal or poses and imminent risk of self-harm if efforts at encouraging voluntary admission fail.\nGiving the evaluative process short shrift or failing to appropriately respond to the clinical presentation can be deadly.\nIn such instances a medical malpractice lawsuit may be necessary to hold a healthcare provider accountable and to ensure that the opportunities to prevent further avoidable deaths are not squandered.\nFor instance, a psychiatrist or other healthcare provider may be liable for failing to properly assess a patient's suicide risk by failing to learn about prior suicide attempts, suicidality, and feelings of hopelessness and anxiety, by failing to take into account the person's behavior prior to discharge from the hospital, or failure to adequately obtain and consider data from collateral sources such as the patient's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 169.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.davidlida.com/blog/1783", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:44Z", "digest": "sha1:25IQFUMHFXC6G36RVXH3G2VF7XHGUQRH", "length": 833, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.davidlida.com", "title": "Nyman of the hour \u2014 David Lida", "raw_content": "Nyman of the hour\nUnofficially, this is Michael Nyman Week in Mexico City. While he is primarily known as a composer, Nyman, a part-time resident of Mexico City, is also a photographer and director of experimental films. On Wednesday the 24th at 7 pm, an exhibition of photos he took and a short film he shot inside the Cine Opera -- a crumbling wreck of a movie theatre that has been closed for years -- opens at the Museo Universitario del Chopo (Calle Dr. Enrique Gonz\u00e1lez Mart\u00ednez 10, Colonia Santa Mar\u00eda la Ribera). The following night, the 25th, he will be playing a concert entitled \"The Piano Sings,\" which includes various of his compositions, among them scores to his own films (which will be shown) at the Teatro de la Ciudad Esperanza Iris (Calle Donceles 36, Centro Hist\u00f3rico).\n\u2190 \"That was no lady ...\" Viva Cantinflas \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 2765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 200.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/construction-boom-downtown-dayton-projects/cjpgwcgs5x2VMqD6mLuPaJ/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YSSTV67YW477VEQJBN6XFO3PGGKJORYH", "length": 3176, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.daytondailynews.com", "title": "Construction boom: 10 downtown Dayton projects", "raw_content": "Work continues on the River Run at RiverScape MetroPark. The project will create whitewater passageways for paddlers. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF\nConstruction boom: 10 downtown Dayton projects\nGreater downtown Dayton is in the midst of a healthy construction boom that promises to bring new jobs, housing, amenities, entertainment and infrastructure upgrades.\nProjects already underway represent about $370 million in private and public sector investment, according to city of Dayton estimates. Here is a closer look at 10 of those projects:\n1) $140 million for Dayton Children\u2019s new patient tower, an eight-story building consisting of 260,000 square feet of space that should open in June.\nA view of Dayton Children\u2019s hospital from the kids park across the street. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF\n2) $64 million for Dayton Metro Library\u2019s new main downtown library, which is under construction and is expected to open in May.\nThe main Dayton Metro Library downtown is getting a major overhaul. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF\n3) $31.5 million for Sinclair Community College\u2019s new Health Sciences Center. The center will house more than 40 programs that are located at various points across campus.\n4) $25 million for the Delco Lofts apartment building, which is next to Fifth Third Field and will offer 129 market-rate apartments and a first floor restaurant and brewery, Lock 27.\nCrews install windows at the Delco Lofts apartments.\n5) $21 million for the Marriott at the University of Dayton, which is a full-scale renovation of 399 hotel rooms, nine suites and 13,600 square feet of meeting space. The project should be completed in February.\nCrews work on the outside of the Marriott at the University of Dayton hotel. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF\n6) $8 million for the rehabilitation of the vacant Weustoff & Getz building at 210 Wayne Avenue. The project will create about 40 loft-style apartments and a restaurant on the first floor by Louisville-based Troll Pub Under the Bridge.\nThe empty industrial building at 210 Wayne Ave. is being turned into 40-style loft apartments, and a restaurant is moving into a ground floor space. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF\n7) $6.4 million for the Monument Walk housing project, which is 17 upscale townhomes being constructed by Charles Simms Development. The homes, located on Monument Avenue close to the YMCA of Dayton, were expected to cost $450,000 or more.\nCharles Simms Development is constructing massive, high-end townhomes. The project is called Monument Walk. CORNELIUS FROLIK / STAFF\n8) $4 million for the RiverScape River Run, which is creating a whitewater play park downtown in the Great Miami River. Five Rivers MetroParks is constructing a rocky structure that spans the width of the river that has whitewater passage ways for paddling activities.\n9) $3 million for the CODE Credit Union expansion project, which will construct a 8,600-square-foot new facility adjacent to its offices on Monument Avenue. The expansion project is expected to add jobs.\n10) $2 million* for the construction of a new Dialysis Center at 821 Edwin C. Moses Blvd.\nSOURCE: Investment numbers compiled by City of Dayton staff and other local development officials", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 6144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dci.org/news/kiwanis-kavaliers-withdraw-from-2006-tour", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:39Z", "digest": "sha1:RQXBFNWK7BQAODGXD75JVVBFSSHTYPJI", "length": 1746, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.dci.org", "title": "Kiwanis Kavaliers withdraw from 2006 tour", "raw_content": "Kiwanis Kavaliers withdraw from 2006 tour\nFrom a Kiwanis Kavaliers press release: The Kiwanis Kavaliers regretfully announce a decision to withdraw from the 2006 Drum Corps International summer tour. At our most recent quarterly evaluation of the organization, it was agreed that the challenges surrounding the upcoming summer tour outweighed the corps beliefs, goals and values. In recent weeks, key staff and some membership have left the organization and acted independently when making what they considered to be a good decision for themselves, which unfortunately weakened the entire team. Although the Kavaliers have been persistent to field a corps over the past 35 consecutive years and have overcome numerous obstacles, with only weeks to go before the beginning of the season the organization feels that the decision to forge ahead without a strong team of designers and educators would be less than acceptable for our membership. The Kavaliers will not participate in the DCI competitive tour, however, 35th anniversary plans and performances will continue throughout the year as planned. Executive Director Doug Darwin stated, \"The Kavaliers are not folding and not going in-active, in fact we are just regrouping for the future. Our management team's efforts will be focused immediately on finding homes (other organizations) for the committed members, volunteers, and staff whose ambition is to participate on the DCI tour this summer\". The Kavaliers organization will continue to support the activity and others involved in the 2006 Summer events, however they have cancelled the two DCI exhibition shows which the corps was going to run in the early season. For more information on the Kavaliers please contact info@kavaliers.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dealstruck.com/resources/the-advantages-and-disadvantages-of-owner-financing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JONSW4EXTZFXWH4UYV2PCD45JWUZRHHT", "length": 5461, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.dealstruck.com", "title": "The Advantages and Disadvantages of Owner Financing", "raw_content": "The Advantages and Disadvantages of Owner Financing\nQualifying for a traditional mortgage is not an easy thing. Going with owner financing allows you to bypass the strict lender requirements. Sounds good, right?\nWell, it is. But there are some things you should consider before going that route, because it may not always be just roses. In fact, owner financing comes with a few disadvantages of its own, too.\nThe last thing you want is to make an uninformed decision about buying a new home. It\u2019s your job to stay informed so you can make the right choice.\nThis article will help you do just that. In it, we\u2019ll take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of owner financing. Let\u2019s dive in!\nWhat Is Owner Financing?\nFirst, let\u2019s cover a few questions. What is owner financing? How does owner financing work?\nOwner financing is the process of selling your home without a middleman. Yes, that\u2019s right\u2013 removing the banks and other people that typically get a cut from the home selling process altogether.\nInstead of using other people, you finance the transaction yourself. While traditional people like lenders and real estate agents are not included in the process, owner financing sets you up for both pros and cons as you look to move the property.\nIf you\u2019re looking to buy a home, owner or seller financing come with plenty of perks. For example, you can close the deal much faster. With this type of financing, you don\u2019t have to wait for a bank loan officer to approve the deal or the legal department to process your application.\nIt\u2019s also much cheaper to go this route. There are no bank fees or appraisal costs. Plus, you have more flexibility in terms of how much goes down for the downpayment, meaning you don\u2019t have to deal with any pesky minimums.\nFinally, if you struggle with credit, it may not be realistic for you to get a good financing deal with a typical mortgage set-up. In this scenario, owner financing can benefit someone by opening up doors to home ownership that wouldn\u2019t have been there otherwise.\nDisadvantages for Buyers\nAll of those things sound nice, right? Well, they are. But keep in mind that there will be some other disadvantages as well.\nFor example, your interest rate will likely be higher. And because you aren\u2019t dealing with a bank, you could be at the disposal of the seller giving you approval for it.\nAlso, something to consider is the Due On Sale clause. This means that if the seller has a mortgage on the property you\u2019re buying, their bank may immediately demand you to pay the debt in full. This helps protect the bank, but it can create hurdles for potential buyers to jump over.\nIt\u2019s not just the buyer that has advantages. As we answer \u201cHow does owner financing work\u201d, let\u2019s shift gears towards the home seller.\nOne advantage is that owner financing can help you stand out. Especially in a crowded housing market or in a situation where you\u2019re struggling to sell your property, this can be an advantage that attracts people to your home over similarly priced options in the area.\nThere is the added advantage in owner financing of selling your home \u201cas-is\u201d and not having to deal with the extra work that comes with readying a house during the traditional process. Most real estate agents will want to present the house perfectly, but if you are opting to go without them, you truly have final say (and your price points can reflect the work that needs to be done).\nFinally, if the buyer of the home stops making payments, you can get the house back and keep the down payment they made, plus any money they paid on top of it. This is obviously a worst-case scenario, but it\u2019s good to know that things will work out in the seller\u2019s favor if something does go wrong.\nDisadvantages for Sellers\nLike with buying, there are a few hoops to jump through. Here are a few things to consider:\nTypically, you need to own the home to set up an owner finance situation. If your mortgage isn\u2019t paid off, you must get approval from the lender before the deal can come to fruition.\nHopefully, this would never happen, but if the buyer stops making payments, you would need to go through the foreclosure process. This can be a difficult process involving plenty of people, which is what you\u2019re trying to avoid in the first place by going through owner financing.\nFinally, if you were to reclaim the house for any reason, you would likely incur the repair costs of any damages made to the house. After all, the person that was living there that was foreclosed on is probably not coming back any time soon to clean up or fix things.\nIs owner financing safe? Is it worth it? You\u2019ll have to decide for yourself. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages in all scenarios.\nOwner Financing- Wrap-Up\nWhile there are many benefits to owner financing, there are certainly some hoops to jump through if you choose to do the whole process on your own.\nAs for advantages, the seller and the buyer have more autonomy and flexibility to sell or buy the home on their own terms, cutting out the fees and hassles associated with the traditional people involved in the home buying process.\nAs for disadvantages, you lose the security and delegation that some of these middlemen and support systems (like real estate agents) bring to the table. You also likely have to educate yourself on things like taxes and legal ramifications if the person doesn\u2019t make payments.\nContact us with questions about owner financing and we\u2019ll be in touch!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 6913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.deccanchronicle.com/140416/entertainment-tvmusic/article/it%E2%80%99s-important-fans-follow-only-verified-accounts-actors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:13Z", "digest": "sha1:WQBOVBUAHIVVFILKMK6FSGLAXIHNT6FW", "length": 1837, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.deccanchronicle.com", "title": "It\u2019s important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors: Rithvik Dhanjani", "raw_content": "It\u2019s important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors: Rithvik Dhanjani\nPublished Apr 16, 2014, 10:08 pm IST\nThe actor talks about a fan lured by strangers pretending to be him online\nMumbai: Television actor Rithvik Dhanjani, who has gained immense popularity for his role in Pavitra Rishta and for winning the latest season of Nach Baliye, will be seen in an episode of MTV Webbed, Season 2.\n\u201cI appear in the show as myself, and although this is not inspired by any particular incident, it is my way of sending out a message to my fans to be extremely careful while surfing online,\u201d says Rithvik.\nIn this particular episode, the storyline has Rithvik gearing up for a concert meant only for his viewers and a female fan of his, who tries her best to make it to the show, is lured by strangers pretending to be the star. Ironically, in the show, the actor does not come to know of her plight and the episode ends on that morbid note.\n\u201cIt\u2019s important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there,\u201d he adds.\nRithvik had immediately agreed to be a part of the show after hearing the episode brief from Vikas Gupta, the channel head of MTV.\n\u201cVikas is a friend, and while discussing the viscous place that the Internet has now turned out to be, I realised this was the best way to express my concern. And even when I interact or meet my fans during events, I let them know of my actual Twitter handle so that they are not taken advantage of by anybody online, pretending to be me.\u201d\nTags: rithvik dhanjani, entertainment, tv\nVijay Kashyap to play Peshwa Bajirao in COLORS\u2019 'Khoob Ladi Mardaani Jhansi Ki Rani'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dewoskinlawfirm.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HCTBKKTXL4NB56ZCOGCFJOG5RZPHLAHZ", "length": 2387, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.dewoskinlawfirm.com", "title": "Kansas City MO Family Law Attorney | Personal Injury Criminal Defense", "raw_content": "Committed To Helping You\nAt Joseph A. DeWoskin, PC, we care about our clients. Whether your legal concern relates to personal injury, your family, military law or Social Security Disability, we can help.\nKansas City Personal Injury And Family Law Attorney\nWith offices in Kansas City, Kansas, Joseph A. DeWoskin, PC, serves Kansas and Missouri clients in a broad range of legal practice areas, including family law, military law, personal injury law and Social Security Disability. We follow the Golden Rule, treating our clients the way that we would want to be treated: with respect, congeniality, and prompt, efficient service.\nBy setting realistic expectations, we are always honest with you, and we work hard to exceed those expectations. We will not promise you the outcome that you want just to keep you as a client \u2014 if any lawyer ever does, you had better start looking for a new one. We will fight to protect your interests, but we will not mislead you about the potential outcome of your case.\nFor a consultation to discuss your legal matter, contact Joseph A. DeWoskin, PC. We are here to listen to your concerns, explain your legal options and help you achieve your goals.\nLegal Service With A Military Advantage\nAttorney Joseph A. DeWoskin has served in the military for more than 20 years, including nearly 9 years on active duty with the U.S. Army JAG Corps. He currently serves as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves. That experience has given him a thorough understanding of military law and the legal issues that can affect service members and their families. If you are or were a member of the armed forces, make sure your lawyer understands the legal issues related to your record of service.\nThe Golden Retriever vs. The Pit Bull\nJust as we focus on strong relationships with clients, we also strive to build good working relationships with opposing counsel. While some law firms go for the \"pit bull\" approach, we like to think of ourselves as being closer to golden retrievers. Throughout our extensive trial experience, we have found that when opposing attorneys get along well inside and outside the courtroom, everyone's best interests are served.\nFor skilled guidance in family law, military law, personal injury law or Social Security Disability, send us an email or call us at 888-431-4974 or 913-624-9220. We want to help you achieve your goals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dezeen.com/2018/09/20/montreal-tower-olympic-stadium-glazed-offices-desjardins-group/?s=&hPP=40&idx=vetg_livesearchable_posts&p=0&is_v=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:40Z", "digest": "sha1:QDMKTMLZOTW73G6PDGVNELGX5YXNCKHL", "length": 3693, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.dezeen.com", "title": "Montreal Tower to become glazed offices for Desjardins Group", "raw_content": "Montreal Tower to become glazed offices for Desjardins Group\nBridget Cogley | 20 September 2018 Leave a comment\nThe iconic angled tower of Montreal's Olympic Stadium is being converted into offices by local firm Provencher Roy.\nProvencher Roy is overhauling the Montreal Tower for Acc\u00e8sD, the online payment platform of the Desjardins Group \u2013 a leading cooperative financial group in Canada.\nThe iconic structure forms part of the stadium designed by French architect Roger Taillibert for the 1976 Olympic games.\nLocated at one end of the elliptic venue, the 541-foot-tall (165-metre) tower slants over and holds the cables that support its retractable tensile roof.\nThis portion of the building also originally contained a funicular that could carry 50 people at a time to the top, providing views of Montreal's Olympic Park.\nIt had been vacant for three decades, until Provencher Roy's renovation work began in 2015.\n\"After its 30 years of concealed existence, we are now finally unveiling to the whole world the structure of the Montreal Tower,\" said Anik Mandalian, project manager and partner architect at Provencher Roy.\nSet to complete later this year, the project involves rehabilitating the tower's concrete facades, as well as redesigning the interiors.\nA focal point of the renovation will be a glazed curtain wall across its sides, which will replace an existing prefabricated concrete envelope.\n\"The biggest challenge was undoubtedly the stripping of the tower's concrete facings to make way for the transparency afforded by a glass curtain wall covering 60 per cent of the facade \u2014 an essential element in creating a pleasant work environment,\" said a statement from the firm.\n\"The use of curved insulated glass being neither practical nor economically feasible, it was necessary to eliminate the curvature of the tower's facings by extending the existing slabs so as to make the latter parallel on all storeys.\"\n10 of the best stadiums and venues from past Olympics\nThe revitalisation of the 1970s building is made possible with building information modelling (BIM) technology. Laser-scans of the structure created point clouds of its form, which in turn produced a high-resolution 3D model.\n\"This provided the team with an extremely precise picture of the project and its challenges, and allowed them to update the drawings made in the 1970s,\" said the firm, which won a CanBIM Design & Engineering Award for its work on the project.\nThe technology gave further insight into the complex internal structure, which enables the tower's 45-degree angle and helped it become the tallest inclined tower in the world.\nThe total project entails facade work that spans 317,373 square feet (29,485 square metres), and curtain wall work of 277,289 square feet (25,761 square metres).\nInside, renovations will encompass an impressive 430,556 square feet (40,000 square metres) of floor space, including updated mechanical systems.\nRenderings of the interiors show a grey and white palette for modern workspaces, with added windows providing more sunlight than the original design.\nMontreal Tower perches atop the Olympic swimming pool, and sits beside the velodrome building that now contains the Biodome \u2013 an indoor zoo, an aquarium and a botanical garden.\nIn 2014, plans were revealed for a redesign of the Biodome, with a series of new spaces inside by local firm KANVA, and AZPML of London and New York.\nPhotography is by St\u00e9phane Br\u00fcgger.\nAZPML, Lacaton & Vassal and Kuehn Malvezzi to redesign Montreal's natural science Biodome\nMechanical and electrical engineering: Bouthillette Parizeau associ\u00e9s\nStructural engineering: WSP\nEnvelope and thermography specialist: CLEB\nProvencher Roy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 9064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.digit.in/general/wannacry-101-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-dangerous-ransomware-affecting-computer-systems-a-35137.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:58Z", "digest": "sha1:5KWA6LZTCAAMTNPKVCDWJ3G372BSIN6T", "length": 6509, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.digit.in", "title": "WannaCry 101: Everything you need to know about the dangerous ransomware affecting computer systems around the world | Digit.in", "raw_content": "WannaCry 101: Everything you need to know about the dangerous ransomware affecting computer systems around the world\nAs per CERT, very few incidences of the WannaCry ransomware have been reported in India so far. Here is all you need to know about the malware and how to prevent yourself from getting affected.\nOver the weekend, you may have come across the word \u2018WannaCry\u2019, plastered all over the internet. Afterall, it is one of the biggest malware attacks the world has witnessed in recent times. Yes, infrastructure services, banks, telecom companies, airports and hospitals across 99 countries and 200,000 computer systems have been affected by this massive cyber attack.\nAt least two new strains of the malware infection that exploits vulnerabilities in older Windows software such as XP and Windows Server 2003, have been found since the attack was initiated on Friday. As office-goers retired for the weekend, WannaCry hit organisations such as the National Health Services (NHS) in England and Scotland. As per a BBC report, Russia has seen the most number of infected computer systems. Spain\u2019s telecom behemoth Telefonica and utilities firms - Iberdrola and Gas Natural were also hit by WannaCry. In addition, worldwide shipping service FedEx also reported being hit by WannaCry. Governments across the world, including India, are taking steps to educate users about the ransomware. Are you affected? What can you do to prevent it? Here is everything we know so far about the WannaCry ransomware attack\nHow was WannaCry initiated, and by whom?\nWannaCry is a ransomware that is quick to spread once any computer in an organisation is affected. The WannaCry program then encrypts files on the computer, blocking users from accessing critical information and asking for a payment of $300 to $600 in Bitcoins to unlock files on each affected computer.\nCommenting on the attack, Mishi Choudhary, President and Founding Director at SFLC.in said, \"This is a flagrant example of a global blackmail facilitated by lax attitude of agencies and organizations on cyber security. In November last year, Sky News and Hacker House had warned about such risks but no heed was paid. Not installing regular software updates is the primary cause for such malware to spread like wildfire. This teaches us how something can wreak havoc without attacking the traditionally designated critical infrastructure like a power grid.\"\nAs against most malicious attacks, where people are fooled into clicking on phishing links, WannaCry is a ransomware that replicates itself. It is essentially deployed as a computer worm, which spreads using the computer\u2019s network. This is how WannaCry was able to scale through large organisations in rapid succession.\nBelow is a tweet showing the ransomware spread across a university computer lab in Italy.\nA ransomware spreading in the lab at the university pic.twitter.com/8dROVXXkQv \u2014 \uff11\uff12\uff22 (@dodicin) May 12, 2017\nExperts believe the malware takes advantage of a vulnerability in Windows PCs that was identified by the United States\u2019 National Security Agency (NSA). Details of an NSA tool named \u2018EternalBlue\u2019 were leaked by a hacking group called Shadow Brokers back in April. This tool apparently enabled hackers to add the worm feature to the WannaCry ransomware, giving it the ability to spread across systems.\nAlthough Microsoft had patched the flaw back in March, many users, IT departments in organisations did not apply the update to their systems, making them open to the attack.\nWas India hit by WannaCry?\nIndia was indeed one of the countries affected by the WannaCry malware attacks. Although most reports would have you believe that India was one of the worst affected countries, an official statement by the Computer emergency response team (CERT), the national nodal agency responsible for responding to cyber threats, said that \u201cvery few reports are reported from our country as well.\u201d CERT issued a nationwide alert on Monday, through a live webcast.\nAccording to CERT, users affected by WannaCry in India are being displayed an English version of the malware\u2019s user manual, which describes how payments can be made, thereby unlocking encrypted files. The response team has also released a list of file extensions that are being affected by WannaCry. These include - .der, .pfx, .key, .xls, .dot, .psd, .moc, .Mp3, and many more popular file formats. Once infected, these files are encrypted with the extension called .WCRY\nHow can users save themselves from WannaCry?\nThanks to a fortunate accident, MalwareTech registered a URL query which was built into WannaCry, thereby slowing its advance. However, CERT has given out a set of preventive measures which users, organisations can take to avoid the WannaCry malware. For starters, users are advised to patch their Windows systems as mentioned in Microsoft\u2019s Security Bulletin MS17-010. Microsoft has also issued a patch for unsupported versions such as Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008. The company wrote in a blogpost, \u201cWe also know that some of our customers are running versions of Windows that no longer receive mainstream support. That means those customers will not have received the above mentioned Security Update released in March.\u201d The patches can be downloaded from here. Further, organisations and individuals are also advised to take a backup of critical files and store them offline.\nMore preventive measures are highlighted in this video below\nWhat does Microsoft have to say?\nMicrosoft President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith, recently condemned NSA\u2019s practices of keeping security loopholes hidden from vendors, only to be stolen by hackers. In a blogpost, Smith wrote, \u201cAn equivalent scenario with conventional weapons would be the U.S. military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen. And this most recent attack represents a completely unintended but disconcerting link between the two most serious forms of cyber security threats in the world today \u2013 nation-state action and organized criminal action.\u201d\nHe added, \u201cThe governments of the world should treat this attack as a wake-up call. They need to take a different approach and adhere in cyberspace to the same rules applied to weapons in the physical world. We need governments to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits.\u201d\nLet us know if you have seen any incidents of the WannaCry ransomware attacks in your organisation or on your personal systems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 15329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.discoverythailand.com/World_Muay_Thai_Festival_and_Wai_Kru_Muay_Thai_Ceremony.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GON6QNLVZVMGTDODZYS443XSML43HPLM", "length": 1438, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.discoverythailand.com", "title": "World Muay Thai Festival and Wai Kru Muay Thai Ceremony - Thailand Travel Information", "raw_content": "World Muay Thai Festival and Wai Kru Muay Thai Ceremony\nVenue: Nai Khanom Tom Monument, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Stadium\nThe ancient capital of Ayutthaya is home to the annual World Thai Martial Arts Festival and Wai Khru Muay Thai Ceremony. For individuals trained in the ancient Thai art of boxing or 'Muay Thai', the annual Wai Khru Muay Thai Ceremony held during the annual Thai Martial Arts Festival is the most important date on their calendar. Muay Thai boxers from around the world return to Ayutthaya to pay respect to their teachers, and to pay homage to the legendary Muay Thai folk hero, Nai Khanom Tom.\nEach year, more than 300 boxers from 30 countries including the UK, Canada, Russia, Korea, France, Ukraine, and South Africa, participate in the festival and show their appreciation for the beautiful art of Muay Thai.\nThere will also be a Muay Thai tournament with boxers contending for the Nai Khanom Tom belt with a cash prize for the weight divisions of 60, 65, 70, and 80 kilograms. There will also be a Wai Khru competition for students.\nHighlights and Activities:\n- Muay Thai exhibition\n- Muay Thai performance\n- Muay Thai tournament\n- Visitors with a special interest in the art of Muay Thai will have an opportunity to learn about this combat sport.\n- Live demonstration of the making of Thai handicraft, and Thai cuisine.\nOfficial Website: http://www.muaythaifestival.com/\nMore information: http://www.tatnews.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.disruptorawards.com/new-blog/2017/1/20/alex-ross", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:41Z", "digest": "sha1:7NSRHQBDT6S25D6QSVLAJFLXNSNV3JED", "length": 1121, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.disruptorawards.com", "title": "Alec Ross \u2014 Disruptor Awards", "raw_content": "Alec Ross served as Senior Advisor for Innovation in the Office of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. In this role, Alec was tasked with maximizing the potential of technology in service of America\u2019s diplomatic and development goals.\nPrior to his service at the State Department, Alec worked on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team and served as Convener for Obama for America\u2019s Technology, Media & Telecommunications Policy Committee.\nIn 2000, Alec Ross and three colleagues co-founded One Economy, a global nonprofit that uses innovative approaches to deliver the power of technology and information about education, jobs, health care and other vital issues to low-income people. During his eight years at One Economy, it grew from a team of four people working in a basement to the world\u2019s largest digital divide organization, with programs on four continents.\nAlec started his career as a sixth grade teacher in inner-city Baltimore through Teach for America. He is a graduate of Northwestern University.\nTwitter \u2013 @AlecJRoss\nFacebook \u2013 Alec Ross\nThe Huffington Post \u2013 \u201cGovernments As Partners In Innovation\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 134.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dodgeglobe.com/x1681075264", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:56Z", "digest": "sha1:LBWLG6UDU63RJOQJGELIA3SQU66FHKFN", "length": 5479, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.dodgeglobe.com", "title": "Around the NBA: Trio creates excitement for Celtics - News - Dodge City Daily Globe - Dodge City, KS - Dodge City, KS", "raw_content": "Around the NBA: Trio creates excitement for Celtics\nAs soon as Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen entered the Fleet Center this summer -- joining All-Star Paul Pierce -- the Boston Celtics had their best trio of players since their title runs of the 1980s. And that has Pierce, a survivor of last season\u2019s train wreck and some other dismal years, excited about what could happen in Boston during the next eight to nine months.\nLarry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish did not walk through the door this summer at the Fleet Center.\nBut as soon as Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen did -- joining All-Star Paul Pierce -- the Boston Celtics had their best trio of players since their title runs of the 1980s.\nAnd that has Pierce, a survivor of last season\u2019s train wreck and some other dismal years, excited about what could happen in Boston during the next eight to nine months.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been carrying a heavy load for the Celtics over many years, and I\u2019m not getting any younger, and the load was getting heavier every year,\u201d\nPierce said last week. \u201cSo I\u2019m real happy to have the chance to play with these guys and hopefully aim for a championship.\u201d\nNBA training camps open this week, with Boston taking its new look to Europe for the start of its camp today. Talking to media during a conference call last week, Pierce made no attempt to lower expectations for a team that went 24-58 last season, then suffered awful luck in the lottery.\nWhen asked if an NBA title was possible, Pierce said, \u201cDefinitely. I don\u2019t see why not.\u201d\nJust last spring, the Celtics were hopeful to land the top pick in the draft lottery, rebuilding with either Greg Oden or Kevin Durant.\nBut for Pierce, who has won just three playoff series in nine seasons, the prospects of rebuilding did not seem pleasant. Injured much of last season and tired of waiting for more pieces to be added, he had grown impatient even before the Celtics slipped to fifth in the lottery.\n\u201cI started to think that it wouldn\u2019t happen and that they would get the No. 1 pick and probably trade me in a rebuilding process,\u201d he said. \u201cOnce we didn\u2019t get the No. 1 pick and then we traded for Ray Allen, then I started to think that things were going to work out.\u201d\nOnce he found out about the trade for Garnett, it \u201cwas icing on the cake\u201d \u201cI get to play with guys that want the same thing I want and nothing more than a championship,\u201d Pierce said.\nWith the team\u2019s 16 championship banners hanging overhead every home game, Pierce is well aware of the team\u2019s tradition. \u201cAs soon as you put on the uniform, you know that (expectations) will always be high, given the past and the history.\u201d\nThat\u2019s fine with him.\n\u201cThis will be the first year that I\u2019m coming into the season, and there are lots of expectations on us,\u201d Pierce said. \u201cIn all of my nine years, I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve been expected to do much. So it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun. There are going to be ups and downs, but I think we\u2019ll get through it.\u201d\nThe Celtics will spend 10 days overseas, playing a preseason game in Rome against Toronto before heading to London for another game with Minnesota. Pierce thinks it\u2019s a good opportunity for the team to create chemistry.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll get to know each other on and off the court. That\u2019s the good thing about us going out of the country,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter practice, guys will have a chance to bond together instead of going home to their families. It\u2019s just going to be us out there, and we\u2019re going to have to get to know one another 24/7.\u201d\nNot-so-merry Marion\nPhoenix forward Shawn Marion, often the subject of trade rumors, requested one last week.\n\u201cI\u2019m tired of hearing my name in trades,\u201d Marion told The Arizona Republic.\n\u201cI love my fans in Phoenix, but I think it\u2019s time for me to move on.\u201d\nThe highest paid of the star-studded Suns, Marion said his situation \u201cis like a nightmare. ... It\u2019s hurting me in my stomach.\u201d\nHis teammates, including two-time MVP Steve Nash, do not want to see Marion leave.\n\u201cIt\u2019s sad to hear he wants to go,\u201d Nash told Phoenix media Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019re very close to winning a championship, and we want everyone on board.\u201d\nIf the Suns move Marion, the Jazz or the Lakers could be trading partners.\nFormer all-star forward Andrei Kirilenko had his own nightmares last season in Utah and wants out. The Lakers could move the enigmatic Lamar Odom.\nC-Web to Greece?\nChris Webber has received two-year offer worth $10 million to $12 million to play in Greece, according to ESPN.com. It would make him the highest paid American player in Europe. Webber is considering a return to the Pistons and may wait a month or two to join them because of roster issues in Detroit.\nNo more \u2018Nasty\u2019\nCorliss Williamson, who won NBA and NCAA titles, retired this week after 14 seasons. The \u201cBig Nasty\u201d was the Most Outstanding Player of the 1994 NCAA Final Four, when he led Arkansas to the title over Duke. Ten years later, he helped the Pistons win an NBA title. Williamson is going to be an assistant coach at Arkansas Baptist College.\nAble to joke\nGreg Oden has not lost his sense of humor despite the knee injury that will force him to miss his entire rookie season. He does not know how he suffered the injury that resulted in microfracture surgery but joked with Portland media Thursday about how it did not happen.\n\u201cI just want everybody to know: I did not hurt my knee getting up off the couch this summer, and I didn\u2019t hurt my knee playing \u2018Dance Dance Revolution\u2019 (video game) and break dancing this summer. That did not happen.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.donaldinsallassociates.co.uk/people/edward-lewis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BI54B3TEUCEYA5DADEG275IZXFBXDUWL", "length": 827, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.donaldinsallassociates.co.uk", "title": "Donald Insall Associates | Edward Lewis - Donald Insall Associates", "raw_content": "Home > People > Edward Lewis\nBsc(Hons) MArch FDip PgC\nEducated at the Welsh School of Architecture and Bath University, Edward joined Donald Insall Associates\u2019 Conwy branch in 2012, moving to the London office in 2014. In Wales his work included the castles of Edward I, UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Conwy and Caernarfon, and Bodnant Garden. In London he has worked continuously at the Palace of Westminster, and with institutional and commercial clients on a range of restoration and adaptive reuse schemes.\nEdward\u2019s wide-ranging experience within the heritage sector includes time spent in the antiques trade, restoring historic furniture, and at Ty-Mawr Lime. This has developed his technical expertise with traditional materials, alongside a hands-on understanding of historic building repairs and construction processes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.donegaldemocrat.ie/news/home/330034/work-on-900-000-replacement-bridge-to-start-on-monday.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:01Z", "digest": "sha1:KIYZJWR2NXX5ZA3N3GSFXCAMA3AZY3W3", "length": 3481, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.donegaldemocrat.ie", "title": "Work on \u20ac900,000 replacement bridge to start on Monday - Donegal Democrat", "raw_content": "Work on \u20ac900,000 replacement bridge to start on Monday\nRoad closures and traffic management measures will take effect on Monday, August 27\nTirchonaill Street Bridge\nWork on the replacement of Tirchonaill Street Bridge in Donegal is to begin in the coming days.\nThe project, which will cost o\u20ac924,000, is due to begin on Monday.\nRoad closures and traffic management measures will take effect on Monday, August 27.\nDonegal County Council has apologised in advance for any inconvenience the closures may cause and has asked for members of the public to abide by the traffic management measures when implemented so as to help facilitate traffic flows around the works site.\nThe works will include the demolition of the existing bridge steel superstructure, the cleaning/repair and re-pointing of the existing substructure, works to the existing substructure to allow the construction of the replacement steel and concrete composite bridge superstructure, construction of replica bridge parapets to match the existing steel riveted panels.\nThe bridge was originally constructed in 1895, and then in 1920, the current structure was constructed. The bridge is a four-span steel bridge spanning the River Eske. Over the years, maintenance works were carried out to the bridge but due to the age of the bridge, the nature of the steel structure the bridge has deteriorated to the extent that it currently has a 3.5-tonne weight restriction and is in much need of a replacement.\nFunding for the project was secured after a delegation from the Donegal Municipal District met with Shane Ross, Minister of Transport, Tourism, and Sport in February 2017 to seek specific funding for the much-needed bridge replacement works at Tirchonaill Bridge.\nThe Council then arranged for Roughan & O\u2019Donovan Consulting Engineers to prepare the necessary tender documents and in early 2018 tenders were received from a number of contractors who were interested in carrying out the works.\nTender assessments were carried out and L & M Keating Ltd is the contractor appointed to carry out the works.\nWelcoming the signing of the contract Cathaoirleach of the Donegal MD Miche\u00e1l Naughton said the project had been lobbied for a long time by his predecessors as chairs of the MD: Tom Conaghan, Niamh Kennedy, and John Campbell.\n\u201cAll the councillors have worked down through the years to get this and I am delighted that it is going ahead. It will make a huge improvement to Donegal Town. We are delighted it is coming to fruition. We have had great announcements in Donegal Town in the last number of months and this is another one.\u201d\nCllr Tom Conaghan said he was very happy it was going ahead at long last.\n\u201cThis is a great thing for Donegal Town and the surrounding areas. It only spells good for what is happening in the town.\u201d\nCllr Niamh Kennedy said it was the result of a joint approach on Tirchonaill and Fintra Bridge. \u201cWe decided we would go together to meet the minister and I organised that meeting and here we are today with one bridge over the line and another starting. I am delighted.\u201d\nCllr John Campbell said it was great to see the project go ahead.\n\u201cObviously there will be disruption but it will be great to see it go ahead. It will give a chance to model traffic flows that were contained in a traffic report that I had commissioned here at the local area meeting and see how there work and see if we can adjust them. Hopefully, we move on with adjusting the traffic and parking management.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drdarrinlew.us/sustainable-development/drivers-of-corporate-social-responsibility.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:QC2ME6GK4ZPTDZLRVIXRRJPNAJINXOL4", "length": 14311, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.drdarrinlew.us", "title": "Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility - Sustainable Development", "raw_content": "Drivers of Corporate Social Responsibility\nCredibility and trust are everything in business. Corporate social responsibility first caught the attention of the public in the late 1960s and early 1970s, following a host of moral failings including neglecting consumer safety, bribing government officials, polluting the environment, exploiting child labor, and even toppling governments in developing countries (Paine, 2003). Angry Americans, whose mistrust in corporations was fueled by the belief that corporations only listen to complaints when forced to do so, began boycotting major brands, throwing up picket lines outside corporate headquarters and, aided by a 1970 federal court ruling allowing shareholders to use the proxy process to raise concerns about corporate behavior, bought stock in major companies to ensure a say at shareholder meetings. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, numerous exposes of exploitative labor practices in global supply chains put additional pressure on companies to adopt codes of conduct and demand compliance from their suppliers. The fall of Enron in 2001 - adding fuel to the fire of corporate malfeasance - renewed calls for greater corporate integrity, accountability, and transparency.\nTransparency is fundamental to business. Investors need to be confident that reported profits are real, that executives will not use their positions to enrich themselves, and that accountability systems are in place to expose and punish abuses. Workers have to believe in a company's commitment to build value if they are to put their careers, and the security of their families, into their hands. Customers assume the integrity of the transaction; once that trust is broken, they rarely give the company a second chance. In the absence of transparency, all of these relationships are at risk (Batstone, 2003).\n6.6.3.1 Pressures from Shareowners. Investors expect a competitive return from their investments in companies. In addition, they expect transparency, reliable forecasting, timely information, and opportunities to be heard. The quality and legitimacy of EHS, workplace and board diversity, and corporate governance and management's leadership in these areas are increasingly seen as a proxy for shareholder value. An Ernest & Young survey of 300 Wall Street analysts found up to 86 percent of oil and gas analysts confirmed that regulatory compliance, employee health and safety, community relations, and lawsuits can materially affect a company's value (Cap Gemini Ernest & Young, 1996). These performance pressures are today a normal part of corporate life.\nThere are also some growing investor pressures that are expanding the definition of corporate responsibility and demanding a greater say in how companies are run. There is mounting evidence, for instance, of the financial risks of global problems, such as climate change. European insurers claim that in the next decade, the annual cost to industry and governments of global warming will rise to $150 billion a year (Webber, 2002).\nThe social investment movement has become a significant source of pressure by investors on companies to manage more responsibly and to be more responsive to shareowner concerns. By 2001, more than $2 trillion, one out of eight professionally managed investment dollars in the United States, were part of a socially responsible portfolio. New share indexes have also emerged, such as the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and FTSE4Good, launched by the London Stock Exchange and the Financial Times publishing company, which track companies whose strategies integrate environmental and social considerations into their financial performance.\nThe long-held assumption that operating responsibly is too costly no longer holds up. For example, the Domini Social Index, a stock index created to track the performance of socially screened companies against other nonscreened indexes, has generally outperformed the S&P 500 on a total-return basis and on a risk-adjusted basis since its inception in May 1990, although it trailed the S&P 500 during 2000 (SRI, 2003). Furthermore, academic studies in finance and accounting have consistently found either positive or neutral performance differences between socially screened and unscreened investments.\nGroups of shareholder activists, representing institutional investors, such as the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of 275 religious institutional investors, submit numerous shareholder resolutions annually calling on management to change their company practices. Among the issues are sweatshops and human rights abuses, global warming, equal opportunity, executive compensation, and the election of board members. In 2003, chemical and pharmaceutical companies faced 24 shareholder resolutions, filed by ICCR and other activist shareowners whose concerns ranged from eliminating PVCs in manufactured goods to phasing out the use of dioxin.\nIn Europe, calls for increased disclosure got a boost in 2001 when the Association of British Insurers (ABI), a 400-member trade association of Britain's insurance industry, issued new guidelines. The ABI members account for more than 20 percent of stockmarket investment in London. These guidelines ask companies to disclose information about the social, environmental, and ethical risks and opportunities they face and how they plan to handle them. ABI officials say the guidelines \"represent an important opportunity for investors and companies to work together both to protect shareholder value and improve their understanding of corporate social responsibility\" (see www.abi.org.uk).\n6.6.3.2 Pressures from Employees. Employees want to be paid well, with competitive wages and salaries, benefits, and increasingly, stock. They want the resources to do their jobs well. And, equally important, they want an employer who treats them fairly and with respect and values their knowledge and different life experiences. Employee perceptions about how a company accepts and manages its social responsibilities are also increasingly part of employee decisions about where to work. Furthermore, unions and related institutions put pressure on companies to reform their labor practices to meet global labor standards.\n6.6.3.3 Pressures from Customers. Commercial customers, especially those who have a long-term relationship with or are dependent on a company, have a vested interest in the company's future as a going concern. They want suppliers who are reliable, produce quality products and services at a fair price, and, like employees, customers want to be respected and treated fairly. Most customers also want to know about their suppliers' safety and environmental records. With this in mind, customers want to know about the values and attitudes that underpin their suppliers' business dealings and the risks associated with their business practices, products, and services. This shift towards greater accountability can be seen in the rising number of companies seeking ISO certification and the adoption of nonfinancial auditing standards such as SA8000 and the Ethical Trading Initiative.\nConsumers too are increasingly pressuring companies to accept and manage more responsibly through their purchasing power. Many want to know that the products they are buying are environmentally safe and that companies recognize that their \"license to operate\" is a privilege, not a right. Studies by reputation experts point out that consumers admire most companies that consistently demonstrate their concern for employees, the environment, product quality and reliability, the communities in which they operate, as well as financial performance.\n6.6.3.4 Pressures from NGOs and Activists. Aided, in part, by the speed and ease of using the Internet, global activists and NGOs have emerged and are increasingly vocal in their demands that companies adhere to high expectations regarding safety, labor standards, the environment, human rights, and corporate governance. The capacity of activists to mobilize their own resources, disseminate negative information about companies, and take concerted action against practices they find offensive or problematic has never been greater (Waddock et al., 2002).\n6.6.3.5 Pressures from Communities and Governments. Communities and even nations, many of which fiercely compete for foreign investment by companies, are becoming aware of the negative consequences of eroding tax bases and a general lack of long-term commitment by companies to where they operate. While still offering generous incentives to induce companies to bring jobs and tax revenues to their communities, municipalities also expect companies to obey the laws, protect the environment, and help solve community problems. Consequently, companies find it increasingly necessary to act or become a \"neighbor of choice,\" by partnering with local citizen groups and living up to high standards of excellence with respect to communities (Burke, 1999).\nWithin the chemical industry are hundreds of local citizen advisory panels. Company representatives meet several times a year with interested residents, who represent schools, hospitals and health care specialists, businesses, environmental associations, community groups, and municipal authorities, to discuss immediate concerns such as emissions and traffic problems.\nThe chemical industry is one of the most regulated industries in the developed world. In general these regulations primarily relate to worker safety, air, soil and water quality, groundwater contamination, and waste handling and disposal. In response to the acceleration of a global marketplace, regional and country governmental entities are raising the safety bar for chemical manufacturers and users. One legislative proposal, which has far-reaching implications for the makers and users of chemicals, is REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals). Proposed by the European Commission in May 2003, the REACH System - created to allow users to choose safer alternatives - would require producers, importers, and users of chemicals to provide public information on the risks associated with their use. Registration of chemical substances, an integral part of the new system, would involve the release of extensive information on the intrinsic properties and hazard of each substance, intended use, and potential exposure and risks to people and the environment (see Section 3.4 for a more detailed discussion of REACH).\n6.6.3.6 Pressures from Institutional Developments. A number of institutional developments have led to pressures for more responsible corporate behavior, creating a need for greater transparency of and accountability for corporate actions.\nA major source of pressure on company performance is the numerous ratings and ranking schemes from prominent business publications in recent years, as well as highly visible awards for best practices. In contrast to traditional corporate rankings that have largely evaluated companies on financial criteria, size and growth, for example, the Fortune 500, these new ratings and rankings evaluate companies' performance with respect to their treatment of a variety of stakeholder issues. Fortune magazine's widely recognized \"Fortune's Most Admired Companies\" has been ranking companies on multiple criteria other than financial since the early 1980s. Employee issues are now covered, for example, in Working Women magazine, and Black Enterprise magazine. These rankings compete with BusinessWeek's \"Best Companies for Work and Family,\" rankings. Management quality is covered by Fortune's rating as well as Industry Week's \"100 Most Admired\" company ratings. Further, global \"most admired\" rankings of businesses are now published in Europe and Asia (Waddock et al., 2002).\nThese rankings are more than a name on a page. At 3M, ranked among the top ten companies on The Harris Annual Reputation Survey, company officials believe that its high scores for quality of management and innovation translate into shareholder value by enhancing brand preference amongst consumers and attracting and retaining a diverse and talented workforce (Low and Kalafut, 2002).\nGlobal standards and principles are another source of institutional pressure. The UN's Global Compact represents one prominent example to promote values-based practices in global corporations. The Global Compact is only one of over 400 different initiatives related to codes of conduct, principles, and standards globally, according to the International Labor Office. This proliferation of standards suggests that there are certain baseline expectations or responsibilities to which companies are increasingly expected to advance by a wide range of stakeholders. Codes related to corporate social policy encompass employment issues, training, working conditions, labor relations and child labor, anticorruption, as well as environmental performance and sustainability. Codes of any sort, whether internally or externally generated, will be respected and credible only when they are consistently reported. Public reporting of corporate activities provides the transparency necessary for codes to be implemented and monitored (Waddock et al., 2002).\nStandards, principles, and codes are only useful if they are implemented and to the extent that companies can assure stakeholders that they are living up to them. To establish credibility with stakeholders, particularly activists and critics, companies are beginning to engage in more transparent reporting practices, many of which are now emerging from international multistakeholder coalitions. According to one study, some 54 percent of the world's largest companies now disclose some type of social and environmental information on their websites. Perhaps the most prominent reporting and accountability initiative, which is linked to the implementation of both standards and codes, is the Global Reporting Initiative or GRI. Like the Global Compact and many other initiatives, the GRI is voluntary and companies are not currently required to provide external assurance as to the accuracy of the information reported (Waddock and Bodwell, 2002).\nFor an inventory of CSR standards, codes, guidelines, and organizations, refer to Appendix 2.\nAmmonia Curve", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 17160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drdarrinlew.us/sustainable-development/financial-markets-honor-sustainable-development.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KYLYJXXD4BBXE57E52OVA62UXRHARRSJ", "length": 1750, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.drdarrinlew.us", "title": "Financial Markets Honor Sustainable Development - Sustainable Development", "raw_content": "Financial Markets Honor Sustainable Development\nIncreasingly, investors are diversifying their portfolios by investing in companies that set industry-wide best practices with regard to sustainability. Reasons are:\n\u2022 Low risk. Companies applying the principles of sustainable development systematically assess future economic, social, and ecological risks. Strategies are developed early to minimize such risks.\n\u2022 Shareholder value. Business in accordance with sustainable development is attractive to investors because it aims to increase long-term shareholder value.\n\u2022 Success. Sustainability is considered a catalyst for enlightened and disciplined management, and, thus, a crucial success factor.\nWhich companies operate according to the principles of sustainability? The answer can be found in special share indices - the so-called sustainability indices. In 2003, BASF was again included in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for the third year in succession. This index includes only 10 percent of chemical companies represented in the Dow Jones Global Index. BASF shares are also listed in the FTSE4Good index and are included in the portfolios of various sustainability funds such as Storebrand's Principle fund.\nTo be included and to remain listed in these sustainability indices, BASF has to undergo an annual detailed assessment by a rating agency. The agency's analysts scrutinize to what extent we have integrated sustainability principles into our business processes and how we implement them using appropriate tools. This critical external investigation is an important supplement to our internal control mechanisms. Inclusion in sustainability indices is important for BASF because it shows our progress towards a sustainable company.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dreams2live4.org.au/audio-technica/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:10Z", "digest": "sha1:QPOLE2BCONM4GGUAI5DVBBGV7QVAJMDW", "length": 656, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.dreams2live4.org.au", "title": "Audio-Technica | Dreams2Live4", "raw_content": "Audio-Technica supplies only the best, high-performance electronics and we are so excited to receive such a generous donation! A pair of headphones will be auctioned off at our fundraising event: A Lunch with David Gyngell! The proceeds from the auction will help us continue to make a difference in our Dreamer\u2019s lives and for that we are so grateful.\nEstablished in 1962, Audio-Technica has a rich history of producing only the best products and they continue to create high-performance electronics. Audio-Technica is the go-to for all your headphone, microphone and turntable needs. We are incredibly thankful for their support to make dreams come true!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drjohnonhealth.com/do-you-need-to-supplement-with-dietary-fiber/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:29Z", "digest": "sha1:EPFUNOHPYOOTWFYQPJII3DWD2II5ZE33", "length": 2930, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.drjohnonhealth.com", "title": "Do You Need to Supplement with Dietary Fiber? | Dr John on Health", "raw_content": "People ask me, \u201cJohn, what do you think about dietary supplements, especially fiber?\u201d I tell them, \u201cI believe you can get all of the necessary nutrition your body needs from the food you eat and there is little proof that supplements are effective.\u201d\nIn my book, Surviving Cancer, I included a section on dietary fiber and my thoughts on the research around fiber & fighting diseases such as Cancer and Type 2 diabetes. I invite you to read this excerpt, watch the video that follows and get the book to learn more.\nDietary fiber refers to edible parts of plants and can be eaten directly. It has two main components:\nInsoluble fiber is not digestible by enzymes in the small intestine but provides bulk by absorbing water from the intestinal wall. Insoluble fiber provides nourishment for bacteria in the large intestine.\nSoluble fiber is readily fermented in the colon to physiologically active products that are beneficial to the body. In addition, gases generated during fermentation are absorbed into the body to be released through the lungs, the rectum, or compressed to reach the level of pressure necessary to initiate elimination of waste from the body. This could be the reason why not eating enough vegetable fibers, for the needed bulk, or not providing nutrition to the right type of bacteria in the gut to produce enough gas, leads to chronic constipation in some people.\nMany products are on the market claiming to contain beneficial fiber, including reducing the risk of colon cancer. There is evidence suggesting that consumption of fiber may offer the benefit of protecting against risk of progressing from prediabetes to Type 2 diabetes. Fiber might do this by delaying post-prandial (after meals) glucose absorption.\nHowever, dietary supplementation with fiber has not been clinically proven to be beneficial in controlled studies. For example, the authors of a study using flaxseed for glycemic control observed lower A1C blood tests when people had a low-dose intervention of flaxseed. Paradoxically, there was no change when people were given a high dose of flaxseed. The authors also could not explain the absence of improvement in fasting fructosamine values (another marker of glycemic control based on glycated albumin) at low and high dose supplementation.\nOne caution to watch out for: Many of the dietary fibers supposedly in some products are\nnot actually fibrous.\nNatural nuts, seeds, and legumes such as beans and peas are the most convenient and easily available sources of dietary fiber\u2014eating them is the solution I recommend.\nMany claims are made that supplements can fight cancer and diabetes. But frankly, little is known to prove it. But here is a video that shows what you can do to ensure that your body gets the nutrients you need.\nPreviousPrevious post:Yes You Can Lose Weight And Avoid Obesity Related Health ProblemsNextNext post:Cooking for Nutrition (Stuffed Red Bell Pepper Recipe)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drphil.com/advice/relationship-rescue-project-status/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:19Z", "digest": "sha1:MYGH2ZWLDRFNE4QVZF6KVPGZVR7A2NPL", "length": 3183, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.drphil.com", "title": "Relationship Rescue: Project Status | Dr. Phil", "raw_content": "Relationship Rescue: Project Status\nTo rescue your relationship, you have to put it on Project Status. This means that you must consciously decide to actively, purposefully work on improving your situation each and every day. It\u2019s not that you just \u201cwant to\u201d or \u201cintend to\u201d work on it. You need to do it, every single day. Discipline yourself to do the work. You make time for other things in your life every day, and your work on your relationship should be no different. You need to set aside time each day to get your relationship recharged. It may mean that you must consciously reschedule or forgo other activities in order to make the time needed to work on your relationship. It may mean that you change your long-term schedule in terms of everything from weekends to vacations to allow you to deal with the relationship\u2019s demands. Putting your relationship on Project Status means that it becomes of great conscious importance to you.\nPutting your relationship on Project Status also means you must be committed for the long haul. A tried and true formula fits the need here: Be \u2014 Do \u2014 Have. Be committed, do what it takes, and you will have what you want.\nThere will be setbacks, there will be pain, there will be disappointment, but there will also be change. Stay committed to facilitating that change. You have to be committed to the long-term development of an entirely new lifestyle of thought, feeling and action. It is not enough to have some sort of \u201cdesire\u201d or \u201chope\u201d that you will develop a better relationship. You must be willing to reach down and find that long-hidden hunger for excellence that lurks somewhere inside you, and then you must be willing to unleash it.\nDon\u2019t forget about the importance of your relationship with yourself. You must demand nothing less than the best of yourself and for yourself. It is not wrong to demand dignity, love, honor, and romance in your life. You must decide that you are worthy of everything that you want. You must decide that peace, joy, and abundance in a relationship is not just for other people. It is for you. It is not selfish to want it, it is not naive to want it, and it is not immature to expect it. What is immature is to sell out and settle for less than what you really want.\nIt is not wrong to want, expect, demand and aspire to a relationship in which you are treated with honor, dignity and respect. It is not unrealistic to believe that your mate can and should be your soft place to fall. It is not a pipe dream to believe that God has provided for you another person in this world whom you can trust with your most intimate and vulnerable secrets and needs.\nExercise the belief within yourself that you can do this, and that your relationship can be much better. You are able to reprogram yourself for success rather than failure, and you are able to go from an individual hoping for a future to an individual making your future happen. And then both you and your partner can begin working to get what you want, to stop the pain that both of you are feeling, and to create more peace, love and the deepest joy in your relationship.\nhttps://www.drphil.com/advice/relationship-rescue-project-status/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 5797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drphil.com/videos/the-last-words-young-woman-claims-her-father-said-to-her-before-taking-his-own-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HQPM7FJGNISOW4GMI4KLXDUZVML6DMIM", "length": 500, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.drphil.com", "title": "The Last Words Young Woman Claims Her Father Said To Her Before Taking His Own Life | Dr. Phil", "raw_content": "PLAYING The Last Words Young Woman Claims Her Father Said To Her Before Taking His Own Life\nThe Last Words Young Woman Claims Her Father Said To Her Before Taking His Own Life\nA young woman who claims she was forced to become her father\u2019s sex slave describes her last conversation with her father \u2013 and the last time she saw him.\nThis episode of Dr. Phil airs Tuesday. Watch more here.\nhttps://www.drphil.com/videos/the-last-words-young-woman-claims-her-father-said-to-her-before-taking-his-own-life/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 5045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.druginjurylawyerblog.com/judge_approves_glaxosmithkline/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:50Z", "digest": "sha1:DMFN2ZGQGWAB73KN5BSY3JWD5QIII42N", "length": 2451, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.druginjurylawyerblog.com", "title": "Judge approves GlaxoSmithKline's $3 billion settlement with DOJ. \u2014 Drug Injury Lawyer Blog \u2014 July 6, 2012", "raw_content": "Judge approves GlaxoSmithKline\u2019s $3 billion settlement with DOJ.\nIn continuing coverage, the AP (7/6) reports from Boston, \u201cA federal judge on Thursday approved an agreement by British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline to pay $3 billion for criminal and civil violations involving 10 drugs, the largest health care fraud settlement in US history.\u201d The AP adds, \u201cThe amount of money involved led US District Judge Rya Zobel to remark in court that she was having trouble keeping track of the numbers. GlaxoSmithKline pleaded guilty to promoting the popular antidepressants Paxil and Wellbutrin for unapproved uses.\u201d\nThe Boston Herald (7/6, Szaniszlo) reports, \u201cThe guilty pleas were part of the nation\u2019s largest-ever health-care fraud settlement, under which GSK agreed to pay $3 billion, including more than $35 million to the Massachusetts Medicaid program, to resolve allegations that the company engaged in illegal schemes related to the marketing and pricing of some of the drugs that it manufactures. Geoffrey E. Hobart, the defendant\u2019s attorney, said GSK was not agreeing to every allegation the government made, but was agreeing to facts sufficient to reach a plea deal. Assistant US Attorney Sara Bloom said the government agreed to the settlement because the company no longer incentivizes its sales representatives based on sales alone and has its research driven by GSK\u2019s research arm rather than its marketing arm.\u201d\nBloomberg News (7/6, Fisk) reports, \u201cThe settlement also requires Glaxo to abolish incentive compensation for its sales force and publish all GSK human research studies, not just those with positive outcomes for the company\u2019s drugs, the DOJ said. \u2018With these groundbreaking changes, GSK has committed to putting patients before profits; science before sales,\u2019 Carmen Ortiz, US attorney for the District of Massachusetts, said in a statement.\u201d\nIn op-ed commentary in the Christian Science Monitor (7/6), Robert Reich writes that the $3 billion settlement \u201cmay sound like a lot of money, but during these years Glaxo made $27.5 billion on these three antidepressants alone, according to IMS Health, a data research firm \u2014 so the penalty could almost be considered a cost of doing business.\u201d Reich adds, \u201cThe Department says the prosecutions are well worth the effort,\u201d but \u201cwhat\u2019s the point if the fines are small relative to the profits, if the wrong people are feeling the financial pinch, and if no executive is held accountable?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.druginjurylawyerblog.com/judge_oks_claims_of_strict_lia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:25Z", "digest": "sha1:6DX7N4Q6QDGJLWQXEUAUTLQSNQSRZ2EL", "length": 639, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.druginjurylawyerblog.com", "title": "JUDGE OKS CLAIMS OF STRICT LIABILITY AGAINST DRUGMAKER \u2014 Drug Injury Lawyer Blog \u2014 May 7, 2013", "raw_content": "JUDGE OKS CLAIMS OF STRICT LIABILITY AGAINST DRUGMAKER\nA federal judge has opened a window for plaintiffs to make a claim for strict liability against prescription drugmakers on a manufacturing defect theory. Despite developing case law in the opposite direction, U.S. District Judge Malachy Mannion of the Middle District of Pennsylvania ruled that Ryan Bergstresser could bring a manufacturing-defect claim against Bristol-Myers Squibb over its antipsychotic drug, Abilify. Bergstresser alleges he suffered from dystonia, which is characterized by involuntary muscle contractions, after his psychiatrist increased his dosage of the drug.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dubbocs.edu.au/about/our-people/mrs-sue-hosking", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:53Z", "digest": "sha1:XGSAIFWFCYZQA7NN7QQR4JAYH75KVLPG", "length": 872, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.dubbocs.edu.au", "title": "Mrs Sue Hosking - Dubbo Christian School", "raw_content": "Dip. Early Childhood Education\nPrior to joining the leadership team at Dubbo Christian School in 2010, Sue Hosking spent nine years as Director of Wellington Pre-School and 15 years as Deputy Principal at St Mary\u2019s Primary School in Warren.\nSue has seen her three adult children graduate from DCS and, as our Head of Primary (Kindergarten to Year 6) she is passionate about living out God\u2019s message to love our fellow man daily in the classroom, the playground, on the sports field, and in representing our school.\nSue loves the community feel of DCS where everyone feels they belong. \u2018We\u2019re all in this together\u2019 is fostered at all levels.\nSue and her husband Scott live on a small family cattle farm in Warren and Sue enjoys retreating home on weekends. They are active members of the local Presbyterian Church which faithfully serves God in the mission field of Warren.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dvhardware.net/article21600.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6OFGBIJO7JV6LWWDBURO4Q2J3OIWVRRW", "length": 853, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.dvhardware.net", "title": "AMD Barcelona launch takes place at 7 locations", "raw_content": "AMD Barcelona launch takes place at 7 locations\nNext week AMD will finally launch its new \"Barcelona\" Opteron processors. The Inq reports the firm has scheduled seven launch events all over the world: in Barcelona, San Francisco, Beijing, Bangalore, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo.\nAMD PR teams are now in sub T-7 mode meaning there's less than one week for preparation of one very important launch for the company. Given that the veil of secrecy is being lifted and that more and more scores are flying out, it will be interesting to see how the market will react to this low-voltage server part.\nSparks will be flying in October and November when AMD will go head to head against the 45nm Yorkfield processors, but by that time the B3 speedbin should be out the door, showing off the workstation Opterons, Phenom FX and X4 processors to their full potential.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dvhardware.net/article40751.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IEFYELWVZV5MGIKALXWO7QU7XOJMWZCJ", "length": 1054, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.dvhardware.net", "title": "IBM cleans the road for commercialization of graphene transistors", "raw_content": "IBM cleans the road for commercialization of graphene transistors\nIBM researchers claim they've removed one of the last roadblacks to commercialization of graphene-based transistors:\nIBM Research says it has opened a bandgap for carbon-based graphene field-effect transistors (FETs), removing one of the last roadblocks to commercialization of the technology. By utilizing a dual-gate, bi-layer architecture, IBM said it demonstrated a graphene FET that could someday rival complementary metal oxide semiconductor.\n\"Graphene doesn't naturally have a bandgap, which is necessary for most electronic applications,\" said IBM Fellow Phaedon Avouris, who oversees the company's carbon-based materials efforts. \"But now we can report tunable electrical bandgaps of up to 130meV for our bi-layer graphene FETs. And larger bandgaps are certainly feasible.\"\nAccording to Avouris, this opens the possibility of future applications for graphene in digital electronics and in optoelectronics devices such as photodetectors, imaging and others.\nMore info at EE Times.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dylankerrigan.com/opeds/what-does-an-intellectual-do", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:49Z", "digest": "sha1:YPLZ63XITTX3DGRXKKDF6JYATOVVM42F", "length": 4825, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.dylankerrigan.com", "title": "What does an \u201cintellectual\u201d do? - Dylan Kerrigan", "raw_content": "In the 21st century working out who are intellectuals (if there are such persons) and what their role might be is pretty contested. One thing to say might be that an intellectual is a varied type \u2013 more than an academic in a jacket or the person who knows everything.\nIn anthropological and cultural terms everyone is technically an intellectual. Paraphrasing what the famous Italian cultural Marxist Antonio Gramsci once said, some people may be intellectuals by profession, but everyone serves an intellectual function in the reproduction of culture and society.\nSociologists being \u201cgroupies\u201d look at intellectuals through the lens of groups and in 3 mains ways. One is that intellectuals are a \u201cclass in themselves\u201d. This means they are not linked to any economic class or other interests. They stand as a group apart. For ideals and righteousness, void of any corporate selfishness, corruption or personal interests.\nAside from Superman or maybe Jesus this first definition, as you might imagine, lacks evidence and lost its explanatory power by mid-20th century.\nThe second way is that intellectuals are \u201cclass bound\u201d. This means that the different classes produce their own intellectuals organically. These persons emerge from, and are always in the end, tethered to, the socio-cultural terrain and ideas of the social relations from where they come.\nFor example, we might understand Bob Marley as an intellectual of the down trodden who also emerged from them. Sidestepping the influence of his lighter skin, his life experience \u2013 a lot of what he sang about \u2013 determined his interests. He was class bound because as many would like to think, the fame and fortune he had did not transform those first ideas, or what might be described as his worldview.\nOn the other side, Arthur Cipriani, who we also know fought for those without rights, could still be described as an organic intellectual of the bourgeoisie. This is because his allegiance to the colony and its masses was ultimately trumped by his loyalty to the foreign political and economic capitalist formation, or put another way \u2013 white, bourgeois, metropolitan, class interests.\nElma Francois, the leader of the working class organisation, the Negro Welfare, Cultural and Social Association (NWA), may have also thought this when she described Cipriani, as \u201cBritain\u2019s best policeman in the colonies\u201d.\nCipriani was both a positive and negative instrument. He provided a space of change but ultimately was class bound because his actions maintained the reproduction of the long-term interests of the bourgeoisie and the economic subjugation of the masses.\nThe third sociological way to see intellectuals is as being \u201cclass-less\u201d and unanchored. This means that because of education (broadly defined) intellectuals are supposedly able to change their group affiliations based on the knowledge they collect.\nThis means intellectuals can attach to classes they are not originally from or socially attached to. They have interests, and these can change. An example might be Arthur Lewis who moved from being pro worker in 1939 to being pro foreign capital in later years.\nOver time the second and third sociological approaches blurred to dissolve any simple agreement about who are intellectuals and what\u2019s their role. For now the definition is wide-ranging. Intellectuals can be many things, including, but not limited to: responsible critics, radicals, spoke persons for the elite, crusaders for the powerless, resistors of power, and architects of conservatism.\nWe should also identify phases of Caribbean Intellectualism such as Creole Nationalism, Caribbean Marxism, New World, and Caribbean Feminism. Noting that perhaps intellectualism is not regular or constant but rather comes in waves and historical hotspots.\nThese phases and hotspots raise the question, is there an intellectual phase today? Are we in a hotspot or is does it feel cold?\nThere are certainly many persons doing great things. And of course we might have different choices about who these people are. They may include those we work with, or see that others don\u2019t, or persons in the public spotlight. The spaces are numerous. But can we talk of an historical hotspot?\nAnd what is the University\u2019s role in intellectualism? Do UWI, UTT and USC have an explicit role to play? Yes, they have a role to play, but the traditional values that sustained the ideals of public higher education have been eroded. Make and spend money yes, but this pressure makes them unable to foster any historical hotspot. One hopes this might change.\nIn the meantime then, perhaps the best way to answer the question, \u2018what does an \u201cintellectual\u201d do?\u2019 is in the way Gramsci would, and simply to ask each other: What do you do?\nhttp://guardian.co.tt/columnist/2013-11-03/what-does-%E2%80%98intellectual%E2%80%99-do", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 7036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earnthenecklace.com/ella-ross-wiki-age-instagram-pics-scott-disicks-girlfriend/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:01Z", "digest": "sha1:IRNFHZF2IPMITBXRLHQNX6ZBFYAGMY7Q", "length": 4121, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.earnthenecklace.com", "title": "Ella Ross: Everything You Need to Know about Scott Disick's Girlfriend", "raw_content": "Ella Ross: Everything You Need to Know about Scott Disick\u2019s Girlfriend\nDavid M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for W Hotel\nWho is Scott Disick\u2019s girlfriend? That\u2019s what everyone wants to know lately, now that the two have been spotted in public on more than one occasion. It\u2019s been rumored that Scott Disick\u2019s girlfriend is Ella Ross. It\u2019s getting harder to keep up with all the \u2018Scott Disick girlfriend\u2019 rumors than it is the Kardashians! If you\u2019re looking to learn more about the mystery woman, we have what you need.\nWho is Scott Disick Dating?\nMultiple reports claim that Disick is getting serious with a mystery blonde. Ella Ross is her name and she is a British model. She has been spotted with the 33-year-old all over Los Angeles. And for those wondering about Ella Ross\u2019 age: she\u2019s just 21 years old! It\u2019s not exactly a scandal and she can legally drink \u2014which is one of Disick\u2019s favorite things! It\u2019s also been reported that Disick is back to his old habits and his friends want him to stop drinking and go to rehab, before things get worse. What else is new?\nA post shared by E L L A R O S S (@ellarossalina) on May 5, 2017 at 10:34am PDT\nElla Ross\u2019 Instagram Account\nIf you\u2019re looking for more intimate photos and hot pics of Ross, then you\u2019re in luck, because the young model has Instagram! It\u2019s the best place to find out more about her and see what she\u2019s doing next. There aren\u2019t any shots of Disick on her Instagram, but that doesn\u2019t mean they aren\u2019t in contact. Could she be hiding him? Or maybe he\u2019s not ready to be official? Either way, fans of the reality star want to know more about her.\nAlso Read: Max Minghella\u2019s Girlfriend: Who is He Dating?\nShe Loves Horses\nRoss not only loves horses, she even used to own one named Charlie for six years, but she had to give him up when she moved to London. She still rides occasionally and there are no shortages of horse pictures on her Instagram. Is anyone else slightly jealous that Ross got the pony everyone wished they had growing up?\nMiss ya buddy.\nA post shared by E L L A R O S S (@ellarossalina) on Sep 22, 2016 at 1:53pm PDT\nShe\u2019s Not a Trump Fan\nTo no surprise, Ross is not a fan of the country\u2019s new commander in chief. In a post honoring legendary singer Prince, Ross fired back at Trump and wrote that the president should be the one to leave. So far, the Secret Service haven\u2019t collected her!\nIf 2016 could stop taking legendary musicians and actors, and start taking politicians (ie Trump), reality TV 'stars', and idiots\u2026 That'd be great. ?\nA post shared by E L L A R O S S (@ellarossalina) on Apr 22, 2016 at 1:54am PDT\nIs Scott Jealous?\nIt seems that Disick isn\u2019t the only one moving on: Kourtney Kardashian, 38, is also dating! The reality star socialite is dating a 23-year-old model named Younes Bendjima, and so far they\u2019re keeping things casual. But E! News reported that Disick isn\u2019t happy about it, even though he brought a girl on the family\u2019s Costa Rica trip, which will air on an upcoming episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians.\nAlso Read: Tess Ward Wiki: Age, Instagram, Recipes & Facts about Harry Styles\u2019 Girlfriend in 2017\n\u201cScott doesn\u2019t like Kourtney dating Younes at all,\u201d the source said. \u201cHe doesn\u2019t want to see photos of them or know about it. Kourtney has tried to give Scott a heads up that he might be seeing photos, but Scott can\u2019t stand seeing her with someone else, especially Younes.\u201d\nEven though Disick isn\u2019t loving the idea of his ex-girlfriend seeing someone else, he\u2019s still devoted to be a co-parent to their three children: Mason, Penelope, and Reign.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think we know any other way, to be honest,\u201d said Disick to People. \u201cWe never had any negativity between us and we made a very smooth transition into the way we live, and luckily, thank God, we\u2019re able to see one another and still be with our children and, knock on wood, that we have that. Thank God we have that and everyone is somewhat happy and it seems to work. It\u2019s not broke, so don\u2019t fix it.\u201d\nWhether they\u2019re dating or not, we expect to be seeing much more of Ella Ross, who doesn\u2019t seem to shy about being seen in public with Disick!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eastwoodadvertiser.co.uk/news/samurai-sword-woman-accused-of-chasing-motorist-in-blidworth-1-9246930", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3LTZ3IYLT55P55AZHIO2U7WFGZD7SF66", "length": 1904, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.eastwoodadvertiser.co.uk", "title": "Samurai sword woman accused of chasing motorist in Blidworth - Eastwood Advertiser", "raw_content": "Samurai sword woman accused of chasing motorist in Blidworth\nA woman who carried a samurai sword in the boot of her car \u201cfor protection\u201d was stopped by police after a motorist reported being chased by her and three others in Blidworth.\nUrmilaben Harlow\u2019s vehicle was stopped on Eakring Road, at 7.30pm on June 21, after a member of the public claimed they were being \u201cchased by a red car with a machete,\u201d near the Post Office.\nProsecutor Robert Carr said Harlow was one of four occupants, and a small kitchen knife was found, tucked between the back seats.\nThe samurai sword was found in a black bag in the boot, and Harlow told police it was ornamental and she carried it for security.\nShe told officers she normally carries pepper spray in her car. She denied any knowledge of the kitchen knife.\nProbation officer Lucy Harrison said: \u201cShe is adamant that she wasn\u2019t chasing the vehicle and didn\u2019t know anyone in the other vehicle. She doesn\u2019t understand why the police were called.\n\u201cShe was subject to horrific incidents many years ago, and as a consequence she has been carrying this weapon.\n\u201cShe appreciates the seriousness of the offence and understands the grave consequences of her behaviour.\u201d\nHarlow, 47, of The Crescent, Bilsthorpe, admitted possession of a blade, when she appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Court, on Wednesday.\nDistrict judge Jonathan Taaffe said: \u201cI don\u2019t buy a word of it. I suspect that the information about what is going was only the tip of the iceberg.\n\u201cThis is a most serious matter. Your vehicle has been involved in some sort of altercation with some other people who have rung police to say they have been threatened by a red car with a machete.\u201d\nHe gave Harlow a 16 week sentence, suspended for 12 months, and ordered her to carry out 140 hours of unpaid work.\nShe was also ordered to pay \u00a385 court costs and a \u00a3115 government surcharge. The blades were confiscated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 264.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.easybedandbreakfasts.co.uk/things-to-do-town?a=Bucks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:IPHOF4E3FCDSJ5JU7DKGCQDDHBQJKGPE", "length": 315, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.easybedandbreakfasts.co.uk", "title": "Things to do Bucks | Bucks Activities and Business Directory", "raw_content": "Things to Do in Bucks & Businesses in Bucks\nClick on a town below to find things to do and businesses in Bucks.\nThings to Do in Farnham Common\nThings to Do in Gerrards Cross\nThings to Do in Near Aylesbury\nThings to Do in Newport Pagnell\nThings to Do in Stoke Poges\nThings to Do in Wendover\nThings to Do in Kingsmead", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 245.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ebony.com/tag/jackie-robinson-west-little-league/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5AX3ZSLLVBLHTIHN5Y3MRA3LDNZRHGWE", "length": 236, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ebony.com", "title": "jackie robinson west little league \u2022 EBONY", "raw_content": "All posts tagged \"jackie robinson west little league\"\nIn Defense of Jackie Robinson West\nI began playing baseball at the age of 8 on the Dolton Boys League, in the South Suburbs of Chicago. I knew...\nBy The Boy IllinoisFebruary 16, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ebony.com/tag/the-floacist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PDZJZ4AVTNXNUPMLDGEJ27OLOPB54ZCJ", "length": 152, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ebony.com", "title": "the floacist \u2022 EBONY", "raw_content": "All posts tagged \"the floacist\"\nTeyana Taylor reminds us that she\u2019s a singer, Redhead makes fun of \u201cTalking White,\u201d the Floacist still isn\u2019t over the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 223.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.echiropractor.org/environmental-toxins-and-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:35Z", "digest": "sha1:TBUULXQGGGYCBA6NEQGRIGHQ6NLQMO2U", "length": 5317, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.echiropractor.org", "title": "Environmental Toxins and Health", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Nutrition / Environmental Toxins and Health\nEnvironmental Toxins and Health\nThe philosophy of chiropractic care is aimed to provide preventative and overall health care to patients. Care covers a variety of problems that the patient might face. This can include reducing stress, exercise, promoting a healthy diet, and removing toxins. Toxins might be found in a variety of forms, in the air, water, and in products used and consumed every day by average people. With allergies and environmental\nsensitivities on the rise, chiropractic care could assist with a healthy lifestyle. Dr. Joseph Mercola noted 10 of the most prevalent toxins in the environment. Pesticides can cause cancer, birth defects, Parkinson\u2019s disease, and they block the absorption of nutrients. They could be found in foods and bug sprays. PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) is an organic pollutant that can be found in salmon. Fungal and mold toxins could cause allergic reactions, asthma, heart disease, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. They can be found in some foods and alcohol, as well as contaminated buildings. VOCs (volatile organic compounds) contribute to ozone, and they are in many products such as water, paint, carpets, deodorants, air fresheners, and cosmetics. These can cause headaches and dizziness, irritate the eyes and lungs, and contribute to cancer. Phthalates soften plastics and may leach into our food from plastic wrap and storage containers. These could cause hormonal problems, especially in children. Asbestos can cause mesothelioma (a rare cancer), and it is found in older buildings, prior to changes in building codes. Dioxins are from fuels that are burned and can cause skin problems, liver damage, and cancer. They are also found in animal fats. Heavy metals from fish, vaccines, drinking water, pesticides, dental amalgams, and building materials can cause Alzheimer\u2019s, cancers, nausea, and blood vessel damage. Chloroform is used to make other chemicals, and it might be found in the food, air, and water supplies. It can cause liver and kidney damage, headaches, and cancer. Finally, chlorine, found in drinking water and household cleaners, can be an irritant to the eyes, skin, throat, and lungs. It can cause asthma and burns. With toxins all around them every day, there are fortunately some options for patients to counteract their negative effects.1\nHealthier Water at Home\nIt is common to hear about the benefits of filtered drinking water, or even filtered cooking water. Pitcher filters, tap filters, and under-the-sink\nfilters are available in many stores and online, and people typically have the capability to install those themselves. One water source that may be overlooked, however, is the shower head. Chlorine has benefits of killing germs in the water, but it can be toxic. Chlorine in the shower covers the body\u2019s surface, and it is also inhaled when people bathe. There are now shower-head filters on the market that are very easy to install. There are many side benefits noted by those who have used showerhead filters, such as softer hair, better lathering, and relief from dry skin and scalp.2\nPeople can also choose not to introduce more toxins into their body. These toxins would not otherwise occur naturally outside of voluntary use. Patients might choose to abstain from alcohol, caffeine, cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, drugs, and processed junk foods to avoid the negative effects on health and wellbeing that these toxins have. They can also choose personal care products that limit their exposure to toxic chemicals that can build up over time. Some products sacrifice prolonged exposure safety to be cheaper, which is why many patients unknowingly\nintroduce toxins to their body regularly. People can use home cleaning, painting, and carpeting products that decrease the risk of poor air quality. Many aerosol sprays are very harmful and do damage to the ozone and the body. Putting plants and filters in the home may also contribute to the improvement of air quality, both in the home and outside. Using food and drink storage devices that do not contain harmful chemicals, such as using glass storage containers to hold food rather than plastic, can also help. Exercising, and eating a healthy, plant-based diet, with organic and fresh foods (instead of processed foods with additives and artificial colors and flavors), as well as taking helpful supplements, can also contribute to a healthier lifestyle. A diet that contains little-to-no animal products is healthier for both the environment, the animals, and the body and mind in both the short term and long run. Additionally, minimizing overall waste by making cleaning supplies at home and reducing consumption of non-recyclable packaged products saves the environment and the wallet.\nChiropractors advocate overall health and prevention. They may have recommendations of healthier personal choices for their patients to start them on the right track. Regular chiropractic adjustments can keep the body in alignment and help the organs and systems function optimally. Some chiropractors may also recommend homeopathic support and detoxification.3\n1 http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=57586947-9466-4fcf-bb1b-2c464dd19e5c\n2 http://www.realityzone.com/rainshowr.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 7673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.echiropractor.org/glossary/otc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:20Z", "digest": "sha1:76CGL2MXEHUSFUIMAQSJ7OEG6HHEOAF6", "length": 148, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.echiropractor.org", "title": "OTC - Chiropractor Resources, Chiropractic Techniques, Chiropractic Advice", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Glossary Terms / OTC\nOTC is the abbreviation for medicines that are available over-the-counter, or without a prescription (Rx).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 203.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.echo-summit.com/Broomfield-property-management", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HEBNPX2PGFK24AO2VKUGVS3PXNDHKJCG", "length": 3084, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.echo-summit.com", "title": "Broomfield Property Management, Broomfield Property Managers, Broomfield Property Management Companies", "raw_content": "Broomfield Property Management\nWe Can Help Manage Your Broomfield Rental Property\nWith over 1,000 properties managed, and pioneers of RentHammer and the 16-Touch inspection system, Echo has the experience, technology, process and scale that sets us apart from the pack. Echo is the preferred choice for local investors and real estate agents who understand that there can be no compromise in quality and ethics in the choice for Broomfield property management.\nProperty management is the core service ensuring that your property is managed to the highest standards during the rental cycle. Where other Broomfield property managers simply collect rent and oversee maintenance, Echo Summit better serves the owner by conducting 12 annual drive by inspections and are inside the property an average of 4 times a year. Best of all we have no maintenance mark-ups and hire only the best vendors and pass our considerable purchasing power right to the owner.\nVacancies are the number-one killer for a rental property. Echo Summit has an unparalleled wealth of experience in the Broomfield rental property leasing.... locating qualified tenants and placing them quickly into homes that match their needs. Not surprisingly, this process takes a tremendous amount of resources and know-how.\nEcho Summit has an unparalleled wealth of experience in Broomfield rental property leasing... locating qualified tenants, and placing them quickly into rental properties that match their needs. Not surprisingly, this process takes a tremendous amount of resource and know-how.\nAs most of our customers have learned over the years, there is typically one right way - and many wrong ways - to do property repairs and maintenance... especially in the Broomfield region, where extreme weather and 'exotic' building codes and are the norm.\nWhether you own Broomfield rental property and just need help with maintenance, or you want somebody to own the maintenance of your own home... or maybe just need a light fixture installed... we can help.\nBroomfield Area Information\nThe municipality of Broomfield was incorporated in 1961 in the southeastern corner of Boulder County. It received its name from the broomcorn grown in the area. Over the next three decades, the city grew through annexations, many of which crossed the county line into three adjacent counties: Adams, Jefferson and Weld. In the 1990s, city leaders began to push for the creation of a separate county to avoid the inefficiencies of dealing with four separate court districts, four different county seats, and four separate county sales tax bases. It also had longstanding political differences with Boulder County, which impelled it to separate. Broomfield reasoned that it could provide services more responsively under its own county government, and sought an amendment to the Colorado State Constitution to create a new county. The amendment was passed in 1998, after which a three-year transition period followed. On November 15, 2001, Broomfield County became the 64th, newest and smallest county of Colorado. Source From Wikipedia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 10780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ecogeneration.com.au/chaos-before-calm-the-inevitable-impact-and-opportunities-of-the-clean-energy-transition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:09Z", "digest": "sha1:HRQ47W3OWBTQTRBENDELSDFEJK22AS3K", "length": 9805, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.ecogeneration.com.au", "title": "Chaos before calm \u2026 the inevitable impact and opportunities of the clean energy transition | EcoGeneration", "raw_content": "Chaos before calm \u2026 the inevitable impact and opportunities of the clean energy transition\n12th December, 2017 | Comment, Policy, Renewables, Solar, State Policy, Storage |\nThe disruption wrought by the transition to clean energy will challenge distribution networks and set a mighty task for battery-makers, Capgemini\u2019s Anastasia Klingberg tells EcoGeneration.\nThe energy market in Australia is often compared to a circus, where those who decide policy are the clowns and the ones who get to corral the dangerous animals are the practitioners. But a kinder analogy is the game Newtonian Shift, where players assume roles such as energy supplier, consumer, grid operator, indigenous community, investor and policymaker to condense decades of energy transition into one day.\nAt the end of it all the made-up country Newtonia is either humming along on renewables and nothing else \u2013 or it\u2019s all fallen in a heap.\n\u201cIt is chaotic, and you have people who want to win \u2013 because it\u2019s commercial. But at the end of the day the way you get to the [point] is that everybody works together,\u201d says Anastasia Klingberg, director and practice lead energy and utilities at global consultant Capgemini. \u201cBut it takes a while to get there.\u201d\nCapgemini director and practice lead energy and utilities Anastasia Klingberg sees tough times ahead for distribution networks.\nNewtonian Shift may sound like a bit of frivolity for PhDs and MBAs but Klingberg says it\u2019s completely relevant to what\u2019s happening in the energy market in Australia. \u201cThere is a lot of chaos at the moment, depending on who you talk to.\u201d\nKlingberg\u2019s role in the real energy game is to help her clients think ahead. She offers examples of two sectors facing inevitable change: battery-makers and distribution networks.\nBattery-makers know in their bones that as the cost of their technology continues to fall more consumers will decide it is time to invest in a way to store energy. There will be policy upsets along the way that may disturb investment in renewables but it\u2019s fairly safe to assume battery-makers will be busy for a few years to come at least.\nIt\u2019s a different story for traditional distribution companies, however. How relevant is a distributor to a property development that includes enough solar and storage to be practically self-sufficient? Any trend towards embedded networks would have to be a major concern to networks, the same if metering is taken away from the distributor.\nOn top of all this is pressure to offer lower prices and improve operational efficiencies. These power utilities were once the \u201ccash cows\u201d that provided reliable, generous income, but it\u2019s not going to the case anymore, says Klingberg. \u201cThey will keep being pushed [with users demanding] \u2018How efficient are you? We want lower network costs.\u2019\u201d\nMany paths to one destination\nIn the future, the bulk of energy will be generated by renewable resources. I can happen and it will happen. Between now and then, however, there are guaranteed to be a few mishaps. New technologies will make today\u2019s record-breakers redundant and some investments made today will look sorely expensive. State-based targets might also lead to generation being built in suboptimal spots, for example. It makes you wonder if a federal network would be a better approach.\n\u201cHonestly and truly if you had one policy across the whole lot [nationally] \u2026 we\u2019d be better off,\u201d Klingberg says. \u201cAt the moment we\u2019ve got bits and pieces.\u201d Will that ever happen? Possibly not, and therefore we all must suffer some pain during the transition. On the other hand, she says, ambitious state targets could be the catalysts that push the feds along. If it were all left to Canberra, it would likely be a lot slower.\nKlingberg was reluctant to comment on the National Energy Guarantee other than to say if the policy provides \u201cone lane forward\u201d and any change of government doesn\u2019t bring a wild alteration in course then things could turn out OK. \u201cEvery time there\u2019s a change in government or even prime minister, you get new policy \u2013 and that doesn\u2019t help anybody.\u201d\nSouth Australia\u2019s tentative market is a product of disruption and \u201ca streak ahead\u201d in implementing projects to supply intermittent clean energy, where the consequences are very high prices. \u201cGreat policy; they were leading everybody. What they didn\u2019t do is think about the consequences of not having a base load,\u201d she says. \u201cCoupled with some bad luck with infrastructure, they moved too quickly in one area without seeing the bigger picture.\u201d\nThe state\u2019s response to its blackout in September 2016 shows it has the nerve to get back up and handle its own problems. \u201cIf you couple renewables with batteries, eventually you\u2019ll get there,\u201d Klingberg says. \u201cBut the other thing you need to think about is the interconnector and how you can be able to draw electricity from other states when you have peak demand.\u201d\nEnergy users fed up with rising prices are taking matters into their own hands, of course, and installing solar PV solutions to best fit their needs. The tipping point comes when energy bills are so high as to challenge a business\u2019s cash flow or profit expectations. Large commercial customers frustrated by rising costs will desire self-sufficiency and ask themselves, What\u2019s the best investment so we cannot be hit with these prices? \u201cThere\u2019s nothing wrong with smoothing your energy price by implementing new technologies, and solar is a new technology,\u201d Klingberg says. \u201cAnd batteries make it even better.\u201d\nPrice changes consumers\u2019 behaviour. It also changes suppliers\u2019 behaviour.\nIncumbent utilities running fleets of coal-fired generators up to 50 or 60 years old realise they are in a precarious position. For them, there is a tipping point where renewables become the favoured technology. A similar change in favour describes clean energy\u2019s relevance to consumers and suppliers, Klingberg says. Take a consumer faced with the choice of flying in a conventional jet or one fuelled by biofuel. At the moment, she suspects the majority of people would choose the conventional method because it\u2019s, say, $40 cheaper. \u201cThere are certain people who are early adopters and other people are hit by price,\u201d she says. \u201cIf it were only another $5, maybe more people would choose. A lot of people will wait, and price really changes their behaviour \u2013 both companies and individuals.\u201d\nAs costs drop\nKlingberg is a believer in batteries, especially at utility scale. The technology still looks expensive for commercial and residential users but the cost is coming down. \u201cIt will get cheaper and cheaper until the payback is not a big problem,\u201d she says. For batteries in the network, however, it\u2019s a different story. In some cases payback is pretty much \u201cstraight-away\u201d, she says, citing the Powercor trial of a 2MW storage system in Victoria that could provide an hour\u2019s back-up supply to 3,000 households in Bendigo and Ballarat.\nRetailers and distributors who offer residential solar-and-storage packages that include maintenance are a step ahead in staying relevant in a fast-changing market. Another option is housing developments where the infrastructure is owned by residents and profits from trading within it or with the grid are used to finance something new, maybe a caf\u00e9, or to buy groceries using energy credits.\nThe rise of demand response aggregators will challenge the operations and culture of distribution networks, Klingberg says, as will the automation of back-up systems. \u201cWe need to update our systems to be able to cater to all this change,\u201d she says. \u201cA two-way flow of information and lots of different players working on a network is a new way of thinking and working, and it\u2019s going to be a hard journey to change. But with slow, small incremental steps eventually you get there.\u201d\nIt\u2019s taken people a while to wake up to renewables because electricity is taken so much for granted. \u201cIt\u2019s until we get hit in the pocket [that people wake up],\u201d she says. As the technology gets easier to manage, cheaper and more available, take-up will accelerate.\n\u201cEverybody likes to see an end state and where we\u2019re going, but we really don\u2019t have an end state. We just know there\u2019s disruption and we\u2019ll end up somewhere down the track where renewables [provide most of the energy we use]. As long as we\u2019re heading in that path \u2026 and I think that\u2019s what investment is doing.\u201d An example is AGL\u2019s change of heart about its metering department and subsequent sale to AusGrid after only a few years\u2019 ownership. \u201cYou have to be agile enough to invest, check it out and change tack.\u201d\nDuring the swap from coal to wind and solar we are likely to see many cases of new entrants swimming or sinking, but it\u2019s such a momentous and complex transition that everyone knows you won\u2019t have a chance at success unless you are prepared to jump in. \u201cIt\u2019s a fine line,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s hard.\u201d\nAs rebates and subsidies are removed, the incentives change. Major funding is still available via the CEFC and ARENA, but not forever. \u201cAs the technology gets cheaper the incentives are not necessarily required.\u201d\nIt\u2019s all a bit like a game of Newtonian Shift, where a steady state slowly emerges from chaos. \u201cIt really depends how much chaos the government wants as to how much it needs to subsidise,\u201d she says. If it doesn\u2019t subsidise renewables it may have to address the networks directly to ensure they operate properly. \u201c[Government] will still have to do something \u2013 it\u2019s just a matter of where they focus.\u201d\nPreviousAGL\u2019s plan to convert coal-fired Liddell into a hub of clean energy\nNextARENA backs Greatcell Solar with $6m grant funding for printable cell\n2016 a record year for clean energy: CEC report\nImprove frequency control to build network stability: Pacific Hydro\nStacked perovskite/CIGS solar module achieves 17.8% efficiency", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 11963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eenews.net/special_reports/shale_at_10/stories/1060097107", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:21Z", "digest": "sha1:6SPTMEIKOGESBGOKFT3U3XPVDN47EPKH", "length": 11603, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "www.eenews.net", "title": "SHALE@10: Will it end in tears? Enron author examines fracking boom -- Monday, September 17, 2018 -- www.eenews.net", "raw_content": "Will it end in tears? Enron author examines fracking boom\nBethany McLean, the author of \"Saudi America.\" Miranda Sita\nHalfway through her new book, Bethany McLean offers an epitaph for the late Aubrey McClendon, one of the pioneers of the fracking boom.\nMcClendon's company, Chesapeake Energy Corp., had become the second-largest U.S. gas producer after Exxon Mobil Corp., but he was forced out as CEO after complaints about his lavish perks and the company's debt load. He died in a car accident in 2016, a day after being indicted on bid-rigging charges, which were later dropped (Energywire, March 3, 2016).\n\"Is Chesapeake the model for this business? It changes the world but it ends in tears?\" McLean quotes a hedge fund manager as asking.\nIt's the kind of question McLean has built a career around. In 2001, she wrote an article for Forbes magazine asking how Enron Corp., the Houston-based energy trading giant, made its money. The article helped push Enron into bankruptcy, and produced a book and documentary, \"The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron.\"\nHer latest book, \"Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World,\" is an attempt to ask the same kind of pointed questions about the unconventional drilling boom that's been going on since the mid-2000s.\nThe answer, McLean found, is complicated. The shale drilling industry has overturned assumptions about energy scarcity and given the United States an economic advantage that a lot of observers didn't think was possible at the turn of the century.\nBut it was built on mountains of debt and survived the oil bust of 2015 and 2016 because of easy access to credit, whether it's in the form of bank loans, bonds or investment from private equity companies.\nColumbia Global Reports, New York\nAs The Wall Street Journal and other publications have reported, the major fracking companies have rarely lived within their cash flow. The problem is that oil and gas production from shale wells often falls by more than half within in a year, so companies have to constantly drill to keep up their production. And they use borrowed money to do it.\nThat reliance on debt leaves the industry exposed if interest rates go up, or if something else happens to cut off the supply of money, McLean argues.\nSince The New York Times published an excerpt from the book, critics have said McLean missed key points: Companies have become much more cost-conscious and can turn a profit at far lower prices than before the bust. And besides, fracking could be the key to the Trump administration's goal of \"energy dominance.\"\nIn a telephone interview, McLean told E&E News she came to think of shale drilling as \"calculus rather than algebra\" and said no one's sure how the story will play out. But she added that it's important not to overlook long-term trends, like the move away from fossil energy.\nSo who is at risk here? Is it the oil companies themselves, is it the banks, is it the bondholders?\nI don't really think the important takeaway here is risk in the financial system from this, although I do think there is risk in the debt of companies, and I think there's risk to pension plans that are pouring their money into private equity firms, which in turn are pouring billions into shale companies.\nThat's not so much, to me, the key question as it is, how much oil and gas would we be producing if companies had to live within their cash flow?\nIf the capital markets stopped granting this incredible largesse to these companies, what would the shale revolution look like then?\nAs we beat our chests about American energy independence, the reliance on the capital markets is really worth thinking about. And that's, to me, the key point of the book.\nIt's a bigger-picture risk, you know, a risk to this thing we're all now starting to take for granted.\nWhat impact would it have if all of a sudden you couldn't get easy credit in the oil patch?\nI wish I had an answer, and I think my arrogance in setting out to write this book was believing that I could answer that question. What I learned in doing the book is that anybody who has ever forecasted anything about shale has been wrong \u2014 usually on the downside, right? They usually have missed the upside.\nAnybody who has ever forecast about oil has been wrong. So I have a lot of humility about knowing what's going to happen.\nI came to think of shale as calculus rather than algebra \u2014 meaning that there's so many factors that go into where this thing is headed from oil prices, which are set by factors no one can see coming around the globe, to technological improvements to geology itself.\nTo have an answer would be the height of arrogance.\nMy point is ... there is much more risk to this thing from the financial side than most people think. And maybe that makes the book less satisfying than it could be because I don't have a conclusion at the end of it.\nThe book echoes a lot of discussion among industry and analysts about where the industry is going. There's been talk about a wave of consolidations. Is that a possibility if interest rates go up?\nThat's what everybody thought would happen in the bust from 2015 to 2016. And it didn't happen for the basic reason that credit was still available.\nWall Street allowed firms to extend their loans. Distressed-debt credit funds stepped in and allowed restructurings.\nAnd so, as a result, you didn't have the cleaning and the washout that people predicted would happen.\nSo maybe in the next downturn, maybe it happens, maybe there's consolidation. But there's this wave of easy capital, easy credit that has lasted longer than anybody would've believed.\nPredicting when that's going to end is another fool's prediction, I think.\nWhat happens if we get another oil boom, if the price bounces up about $80 or $90 per barrel, would all these debts get paid off?\nYou would think they would go away, but this industry didn't make money even when oil prices were well over $100 a barrel.\nSo it's not that it doesn't make money at, you know, $40, $50, $60 a barrel; it's that it didn't make money at over $100 a barrel, either.\nI think about the cost of this broadly in two buckets. The tech improvements, yes, can drive the cost of drilling a well down and increase the amount of oil and gas you get out, at least in the short term, making this stuff more profitable on a near-term basis.\nBut the service costs are cyclical \u2014 they go right in line with the price of oil. And so, as the price of oil starts to escalate and more and more drilling starts to happen, the service costs start to escalate, too.\nI quote some people who have looked at this saying that, you know, service costs are sort of the swing factor. People are going to say, \"What happened to my $40-a-barrel break-even?\" But as service costs start to escalate, that break-even number moves higher, too.\nI've heard the service companies are sort of the Levi Strausses of the gold boom. They get rich during the boom selling shovels and supplies, and they know when and how to raise their prices.\nRight, and they cut to the bone as oil prices fall in order to preserve what business they have, but then the prices rise really quickly.\nYou talk about a little bit about the private equity players. ... The private equity money moves into a field like shale in order to buy it, develop it and flip it, right?\nWell, they do, yeah. They've been able to make a lot of money \u2014 and they've had some really bad deals, too, by the way \u2014 but they've been able to make a lot of money because so far, the whole daisy chain has worked.\nIf you can assemble land and prove out the resource through a smart team, then you can sell that land to another publicly traded company. And everybody gets paid because the publicly traded companies have been valued not on cash flow but on a multiple of the acreage they own ... or production growth.\nThe whole thing has worked because of this kind of noneconomical way of valuing companies. And I don't know if at some point that doesn't end.\nFor companies that aren't planning to buy and flip, do you see an endgame for those guys?\nOne smart criticism I got, at least with the op-ed, is that a well can be really profitable. You can earn a return on capital on that single well, although even that depends on where and how you drill.\nThe problem is in publicly traded vehicles, where companies have to keep production growing every year, and so the capital needs continue to mushroom every single year as you have to surpass the previous year's production numbers.\nI think there are privately held companies that are quite profitable. I think there's also a difference in the vehicle used to hold these assets.\nThere's been some concern that the majors aren't living within cash flow over the last couple of years.\nAnother criticism I've gotten of the book, which is valid, is that the oil industry overall kind of sucks and that this issue of outspending cash flow has been true of the majors, as well.\nThat said, I think the important difference is that the majors have for stretches of time gotten religion and been able to deliver a return to shareholders.\nShale hasn't even proven it can do that and that it can deliver a return even during a specific period. So I'd say shale looks one step worse than oil, overall.\nThe oil industry has always been a lot more willing to live with risks. Are we to some extent applying our own standards to the oil business?\nTo some extent, yes. I think the book, and I hope you agree, offers a pretty nuanced portrait of Aubrey McClendon. I'm obviously not negative about him. There's some negative stuff, but there's a quote in the book: \"The world moves when people who like to take risk take action,\" and I think that's true.\nI'm all for the ingenuity and the risk-taking of the entrepreneurs in this business who really have changed the world. I just think their fate is not entirely theirs to control. Unless they are producing cash flow, their fate is in the hands of the financial markets, and I think that's worth everybody understanding and being clear about.\nTo some extent, are the markets drawn to shale because there's no other place they can get the kind of returns they get out of shale?\nI think that's a really smart point. Part of the reason pension funds, private equity funds have been putting money into shale is because in a very slow-growth world, where there isn't much economic growth, shale at least is growing.\nIt's been a growth spot in an otherwise fairly stagnant world.\nAre the private equity firms and other investors coming into this with their eyes open?\nI think they are, actually. I think there's a lot of questioning among private equity firm ... about how this plays out in the end.\nEven more what I was really struck by and really surprised by were the smart private equity people I talked to who are no longer even investing in shale because they think the dawn of the age of renewables is that close.\nAnd ... once you see the end of oil, even if the end of oil is 20 years off, once you see it, the price goes into a secular decline and it never recovers. That's what happened with coal.\nPeople are actively spending tons of time trying to figure out when that might be.\nI think that's the other reason I'm kind of skeptical about this whole notion of beating our chest about American energy independence when the world is rapidly moving away from nonrenewables.\nFor us to be so proud of ourselves for having this oil and gas wealth and not to invest in renewables is sort of missing the way the world is going to be.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 13998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elgaronline.com/view/nlm-book/9781782547228/b-9781782547235-F_14.xml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5TCKP73V4PIBVUAGI36SMT7WKPUXXNIL", "length": 88, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.elgaronline.com", "title": "Full Faith and Credit clause : Encyclopedia of Private International Law", "raw_content": "Full Faith and Credit ...\nSymeon C Symeonides\nhttps://doi.org/10.4337/9781782547235.F.14", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 713, "original_length": 21872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 130.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elliman.com/connecticut/159-columbus-avenue-stratford-wswctnt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HR2OSOZPNACGW62ZEVZZZWZKOWQGKY5Y", "length": 2108, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.elliman.com", "title": "159 Columbus Avenue - Stratford, Connecticut | Douglas Elliman", "raw_content": "\u00ab Back to Previous Page | \u00bbConnecticut\u00bbFairfield County\u00bbStratford\u00bb159 Columbus Avenue\n159 Columbus Avenue - Stratford, Connecticut\nWelcome to DoubleSide. 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I\u2019ve advised the readers to do the decent thing and buy it. What more do you want from me?\nUgh, fine. Here\u2019s why you should buy it.\nIf you\u2019re an old school gamer who enjoyed classic game books like Fighting Fantasy, Endless Quest, Lone Wolf, or even the godawful Choose Your Own Adventure line, which I distinctly remember having a kung-fu book that featured a karaoke section (I shit you not) like some sort of analog Yakuza game...anyway. If you enjoyed gamebooks, then this is what they have grown up, matured into and become. Legacy of Dragonholt has taken a few cues from Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective, but more in terms of presentation than in terms of execution. This is a narrative adventure, where you create your own characters and play through a GM-less adventure.\nValens is one of the finest game designers working at the moment, having given us Eldritch Horror and Mansions of Madness 2e. What she does is push boardgames towards RPGs. Have you seen how much like a game of Call of Cthulhu (the RPG) Mansions of Madness is becoming? Now, here she\u2019s given us a GMless RPG for the fantasy genre. There\u2019s character creation, high adventure...it\u2019s glorious.\nOkay, have you ever played a TellTale video game? It does stuff like that. The decisions you (as a group) make will affect things that happens a long way down the line. The story is organic and fluid and it is yours to shape. If you\u2019re a video gamer, imagine TellTale Skyrim, and you\u2019re getting there.\nThe only real shame here is that FFG just let this plop out, almost like they were ashamed of it. For what this game has achieved, it should have had all the pomp and ceremony that Star Wars: Legion is currently receiving.\nIt\u2019s January, and we may be looking at the game of the year already.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 6814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.encirclephotos.com/gallery/encircle-cartagena/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:W2NE52TPWRATP4KOACGREMHW4KHV4F6J", "length": 10704, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "www.encirclephotos.com", "title": "Encircle Cartagena - Encircle Photos", "raw_content": "Encircle Cartagena\nEncircling the Old Town of Cartagena, Colombia, are several other neighborhoods. Each of them has something unique to explore and enjoy.\n1\tOuter Wall of Castillo San Felipe de Barajas in Cartagena, Colombia\nCartagena\u2019s landmark fort was first built on the Hill of San L\u00e1zaro during the early 16th century. When the citadel was significantly expanded in 1657, it was named in honor of Felipe IV. He was the King of Spain from 1621 until 1665. The Castillo has the distinction of being the largest military fortification ever built within the Spanish colonies. It is easy to see how these massive walls repelled an attack by over 23,500 British soldiers in 1741. The Castillo San Felipe de Barajas was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984.\nCra. 17 #30-35, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n2\tInside of Castillo San Felipe de Barajas in Cartagena, Colombia\nWhen visiting Cartagena de Indias, a must-do attraction is walking up a huge ramp to explore the Castillo San Felipe de Barajas. This fortress played such an essential role in the city\u2019s defense since it was built by the Spanish beginning in 1536. One word of caution: it is hot. The thick walls intensify Cartagena\u2019s average high temperature of 88\u00b0 Fahrenheit. The only respites are a few tunnels. But the perspiration and admission charge are worth the historic experience.\n3\tCannon at Castillo San Felipe de Barajas in Cartagena, Colombia\nAfter the expansion of Castillo San Felipe de Barajas was complete in the mid-17th century, it was armed with 63 cannons. Most of them are gone but a few remain along the upper bulwark next to a watch tower. These mortars were very effective against the British in 1741. The Spanish called it the Defeat of the British Armada. Although outnumbered by almost ten to one, the Cartagenans sunk six Royal Navy ships and damaged 17 others.\n4\tEntrance to Centennial Park in Getseman\u00ed, Cartagena, Colombia\nThis arch, crowned with a statue of an angel protecting a soldier, celebrates the first 100 years of Cartagena\u2019s independence on November 11, 1811. It is also a gateway to Centennial Park. Extensively renovated in 2013, this refreshing greenspace offers plenty of trees, gardens, benches and fountains. If you are lucky, you might also spot some resident iguanas and sloths.\nCra 9 No 31-72,Cartagena, Getseman\u00ed, Colombia\n5\tPegasus Statue and Clock Tower in Getseman\u00ed, Cartagena, Colombia\nPegasus was a white stallion in Greek mythology. He flew Bellerophon on his back during battle with a monster. This winged horse is an appropriate symbol at the Paseo o Camell\u00f3n de los M\u00e1rtires. In 1811, Cartagena de Indias declared its independence from Spain. In retaliation, Pablo Morillo and his army of 10,000 men starved the city before overthrowing it in 1815. Over 7,000 residents died. The Spaniards then publically executed resistors now called the Nine Martyrs. In 1821, an army brigadier general from Venezuela named Mariano Montilla defeated the Spanish during the War of Independence. This Pegasus sculpture is one of three in the Getseman\u00ed neighborhood across from the Torre del Reloj (Clock Tower).\nPier Los Pegasos Cl. 32 #821, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n6\tNol Me Tangere Monument in Getseman\u00ed, Cartagena, Colombia\nIn the center of a narrow square dedicated to the Nine Martyrs of Independence is the Nol Me Tangere Monument. Skillfully carved from white Carrara marble by Felipe Moratilla, it was erected in 1911 on the centennial of Cartagena de Indias declaration of independence. The name translates to the warning, \u201cTouch Me Not.\u201d This means Cartagenans always stand ready to defend their freedom.\nNol Me Tangere Cl. 24, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n7\tConvention Center in Getseman\u00ed, Cartagena, Colombia\nThe Cartagena Convention Center was built in 1982 along the Bah\u00eda Las \u00c1nimas waterfront in the Getseman\u00ed neighborhood. It is a few steps away from the Clock Tower and the entrance to Old Town. The 215,000 square feet of meeting and exhibition space of Centro de Convenciones was renovated in 2011.\nCl. 24 #8A-344, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n8\tBeach Facing Caribbean in Bocagrande, Cartagena, Colombia\nIf \u201cCaribbean Beach\u201d conjures up images of secluded white sand beneath swaying palm trees, then you will be disappointed in the Bocagrande beach facing the Caribe. It resembles a gritty Miami Beach. The narrow shore in the shadow of endless high-rises is jammed with tourists and hawkers. The waves are rough despite rings of breakwaters. Yet it is close to the new major hotels so it is convenient for a quick dip or tanning in the sunshine.\nCra. 1 #812, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n9\tPainting of City Landmarks in Bocagrande, Cartagena, Colombia\nThe rusted metal box wedged into the seawall of the Bocagrande beach seemed like an odd canvas for a painting. However, the colorful images are immediately recognizable as the city\u2019s landmarks. They are, from left to right, a sentry tower on the defensive wall, the Torre de Reloj or Clock Tower, and the Cathedral Cartagena\u2019s belfry.\nBocagrande Beach, Cra. 1, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n10\tBigfoot Statue in Bocagrande, Cartagena, Colombia\nIf you stay at the Hotel InterContinental or are just walk down Carrera 1 in the Bocagrande neighborhood, you can\u2019t miss this sculpture by Israeli artist Idan Zareski. The bronze and resin statue is appropriately called Bigfoot. It seems Zareski has created similar works in all sizes: small, medium, big, and baby big feet. Apparently none of his art features Sasquatch.\nCarrera 1 #51, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n11\tBeach Facing Bay in Bocagrande, Cartagena, Colombia\nThe Bocagrande district is built on a narrow peninsula. If your hotel is along the Caribbean, it is worth the short walk to reach the beach facing Bah\u00eda de Cartagena. The water is calmer and it attracts more locals than tourists. Other beaches nearby are at El Laguito and Castillogrande. However, if you are an aficionado of sand, surf and sun, then go to one of the picturesque outlying islands. Some of the best are San Bernardo, Baru and del Rosario.\nCra. 5 #8a150, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n12\tConvent de la Popa Church in Cartagena, Colombia\nIn 1607, an Augustinian monk named Fray Alonso Paredes was told by the Virgin Mary to travel to Cartagena and establish a monastery on the highest elevation. The Spanish called the 492 foot hill Cerro de la Popa. This means Stern Hill because it resembles the back of a ship. The cloister was confiscated from 1822 until 1961 by the government and occasionally used as a military barracks. It was then given back to the Augustinians. This historic church and convent is best reached by cab or guided tour.\nConvent of Santa Cruz de la Popa Cl. 37, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n13\tConvent de la Popa Altar in Cartagena, Colombia\nIn the center of the gilded altar at El Convento de la Popa is the image of La Virgin de la Candelaria. She is shown as a Black Madonna holding a dark skinned baby Jesus and a candle in her other hand. The image is patterned after a statue appearing on a beach in 1594 in Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands. This shrine was visited by Pope John Paul II in 1986. An annual pilgrimage is held on February 2, the feast day of the Virgin of Candelaria.\n14\tConvent de la Popa Courtyard in Cartagena, Colombia\nThe Convent de la Popa is definitely worth a visit for its historic value, the museum and incredible views of the city below Stern Hill. Without question, however, the most beautiful feature is this inner courtyard. Blooming bougainvilleas and other gorgeous flowers grace the two-story, stone arcade in all four directions.\n15\tPanoramic View of High-rises in Cartagena, Colombia\nThis panoramic view of Cartagena from Convent de la Popa shows its very modern cityscape. There are about 150 high-rises and skyscrapers. The majority has been built since 2003, especially in the Bocagrande neighborhood in the background. Most of them are condominiums to house the population of about 900,000 people. Several are luxury hotels with lots more planned before the 2017 tax incentive expires. The towers in the middle stand on Manga Island. Some experts have compared Cartagena\u2019s construction boom to Panama City and Miami.\n16\tCasa Rom\u00e1n on Manga Island in Cartagena, Colombia\nThis exquisite, 19th century Moorish mansion along Calle 25 on Manga Island is the life-long residence of Teresita Rom\u00e1n V\u00e9lez and her collection of 1,500 dolls from around the world. Her countless civil contributions to Cartagena earned her the title of honorary mayor in 2006. A noted chief and writer, she published her first collection of local recipes in 1963 called \u201cCartagena de Indias en la Olla\u201d which means Cartagena in the Pot. Since then, her books have sold over 600,000 copies. This splendid home should not be confused with the Hotel Casa Cordoba Rom\u00e1n in Old Town.\nCl. 25 #18-101, Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n17\tAzulamarillo Macaw at Cruise Terminal in Cartagena, Colombia\nThis handsome blue-and-yellow macaw is native and abundant to the forests in the northern half of South America including Colombia. He is among 30 other macaws delighting cruise ship passengers as they disembark at the Manga Terminal Maritimo. The colorful parrots loudly greet all who walk through the port\u2019s enjoyable aviary.\nSPRC Terminal Cl. 28 Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\n18\tMale Indian Peafowl at Cruise Terminal in Cartagena, Colombia\nAs the bird\u2019s name suggests, the Indian peafowl originated across India but has been introduced into the wild of numerous countries including Colombia. The male\u2019s head crest, iridescent feathers and long, eye-spotted train have also made the peacock a popular resident at zoos across the world. This impressive male is among several strutting freely near the cruise ship piers at Manga Terminal Maritimo.\n19\tKeel-billed Toucan at Cruise Terminal in Cartagena, Colombia\nThis keel-billed toucan is another Colombian native on display at the aviary in Cartagena\u2019s cruise port terminal. Perhaps the alternative name \u2013 rainbow-billed toucan \u2013 best describes its most prominent feature. The red, green, orange and blue bill can extend up to six inches. Equally colorful are their yellow chest and blue feet. Their natural habitat is forests extending through Central America and northern South America.\n20\tEl Laguito Peninsula At Sunset in Cartagena, Colombia\nAlong the tip of El Laguito Peninsula in the Castillogrande neighborhood is a lighthouse. Faro Castillo Grande provides a welcoming beacon into the Bah\u00eda de Cartagena. A few steps away is the Naval Officers Club. The glass balconies of Club Naval provide an outstanding view of the sun setting over Cartagena.\nCra. 14a #5a-91 Cartagena, Bol\u00edvar, Colombia\nSee more of Colombia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 13762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.encirclephotos.com/gallery/vancouver-canada/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:48Z", "digest": "sha1:HYXR4AZ4UA4TMZD46CADNGMDKFT7CJBF", "length": 25156, "nlines": 140, "source_domain": "www.encirclephotos.com", "title": "Vancouver, Canada - Encircle Photos", "raw_content": "Vancouver, British Columbia has it all \u2026 a spectacular glass skyline, wonderful outdoor art, waterways for boating, paths for hiking plus professional sports, farmers markets, parks \u2026 well, you\u2019ll get the idea as you enjoy this photo tour of Western Canada\u2019s largest city.\n1\tCouple with Dog on Kitsilano Beach in Vancouver, Canada\nVancouver, Canada, has done the perfect job of blending tall, beautiful skyscrapers with surrounding waterways and plenty of green spaces like Stanley Park on the left. It creates a wonderful environment for working, living or a day at Kitsilano Beach like this couple is enjoying with their dog near Hadden Park.\n1305 Arbutus St, Vancouver, BC V6J 5N2, Canada\n2\tVancouver Maritime Museum in Vancouver, Canada\nThis tent-shaped building in the Kitsilano neighborhood of Vancouver has a wonderful view of English Bay, a perfect setting for a maritime museum. Since 1959, the non-profit has told the story of the Pacific Ocean and Artic waterways. Also located near Vanier Park is the HR MacMillian Space Centre, the Museum of Vancouver and, in the summer, a Shakespeare Festival called Bard on the Beach.\n1905 Ogden Ave, Vancouver, BC V6J 1A3, Canada\n3\tBoat Harbor and West End Skyline in Vancouver, Canada\nAs you would expect of a large metropolitan area that is surrounded by bays, harbors and inlets that connect to the ocean, there are plenty of docks to moor your pleasure boat. This one is on the south shore of English Bay between Vanier Park and Granville Island. On the left of this view of downtown\u2019s West End is the Burrard Street Bridge. It was named after the peninsula that Vancouver is built on and marks the entrance to False Creek.\n1502 Island Park Walk Vancouver, BC V6H, Canada\n4\tGranville Island Sign Below Bridge in Vancouver, Canada\nWhat does a street, a bridge, a peninsula and a 19th century Canadian town all have in common? The name Granville. In 1886, that city was renamed Vancouver. The Granville street and bridge are behind this sign. And on the south bank of False Creek is Granville Island which hosts eateries, shops and galleries plus displays lots of fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers in their public market.\n1508 Anderson St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3S1, Canada\n5\tKids Market at Granville Island in Vancouver, Canada\nKids are people too, so I was thrilled to see that Granville Island did not just cater to adults and hope to pacify their children with a swing set or playground. Instead, inside this 100 year old factory is the Kids Market. It offers over 25 stores devoted to children. They also have an old train caboose and boat to explore, an arcade, a water park, a pond full of swimming waterfowl and so much more. What a delightful place to entertain the whole family.\n1496 Cartwright St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3Y5, Canada\n6\tLittle Girl Feeding Birds in Vancouver, Canada\nHave you ever seen a skinny bird at a public park? Nope, and you never will as long as parents bring their children and bags of goodies to share with their feathered friends.\n7\tFalse Creek Ferries Boat in Vancouver, Canada\nThis blue boat is one of 14 \u201clittle blue ferries\u201d that are operated by the False Creek Ferries company for scenic transportation to nine docks along the banks of Vancouver\u2019s most famous waterway. For a reasonable price, you can book a 25 or 40 minute sightseeing cruise. Better yet, see all of the wonderful venues along False Creek while saving your feet by purchasing their hop-on hop-off day pass.\nJohnston St & Duranleau St, Vancouver, BC V6H, Canada\n8\tGranville Street Bridge and Downtown Skyline in Vancouver, Canada\nTaking a pretty photo like this one of Vancouver\u2019s skyline framed by the Granville Street Bridge is never sufficient for me. I always hope to find something interesting about its history. The original bridge at this spot over False Creek was built of wood in 1889. It was replaced by a steel bridge in 1909. When the current eight lane cantilever bridge was finished in 1954, the first person to drive across was a woman in her new Cadillac \u2026 just as she had done 45 years before when the previous bridge opened.\n1585 Johnston St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3R9, Canada\n9\tDowntown Skyline from Sutcliffe Park in Vancouver, Canada\nThis lovely and quiet lagoon is formed by the southwest end of Granville Island and the Island Park Walk on False Creek\u2019s south bank. The Sutcliffe Park offers a perfect place for a family picnic while enjoying this picturesque view of downtown Vancouver.\n1318 Cartwright St Vancouver, BC V6H 3R8, Canada\n10\tYellow Water Taxi on False Creek in Vancouver, Canada\nThere are numerous tourist destinations on the north and south banks of False Creek in Vancouver, Canada. If you have all the time in the world on a perfect summer day you can walk around its circumference on pedestrian paths. Or climb aboard one of several companies\u2019 ferries, taxis or sightseeing boats. They offer a host of services from an all-day pass, a sightseeing cruise or just a fast way to get to the other side.\nJohnston St & Duranleau St, Vancouver, BC V6H 3s2, Canada\n11\tScarecrow at Granville Farmers Market in Vancouver, Canada\nThis scarecrow is welcoming you to the Farmers Market on Granville Island. You will be delighted by the displays of fresh fruits, vegetables and flowers. But it only lasts for five hours every Thursday from June through October. In case you missed it, I have lots of mouthwatering photos in the \u201cCanada Markets\u201d gallery on this website.\n12\tRomantic Couple on Bench Viewing Downtown Vancouver, Canada\nA perfect way to spend a warm weekend afternoon with the one you love is to enjoy a leisurely stroll on the pedestrian path around False Creek in Vancouver, Canada. And when the moment is right, sit on a bench with a gorgeous view of downtown and then snuggle close.\n1859 Spyglass Pl, Vancouver, BC V5Z 4K6, Canada\n13\tScience World Geodesic Dome in Vancouver, Canada\nThis impressive geodesic dome at the east end of False Creek became an instant Vancouver landmark when it was built as the Expo Center for the 1986 World\u2019s Fair. It was then transformed into Science World, a non-profit museum. After a Canadian telecommunications company made a sizeable donation in 2005, the science center became the Telus World of Science. Despite all of its name changes, I just call it stunning.\n14\tWestern View of False Creek in Vancouver, Canada\nThe name False Creek is apropos because it is actually an inlet. It defines the southern shoreline of downtown Vancouver, a British Columbia city of about 600,000 people yet the full metropolitan area is home to nearly 2.5 million residents. This view from the eastern edge of False Creek shows the BC Place Stadium and Sports Hall of Fame on the right and, in the middle, the Edgewater Casino and Plaza of Nations.\n15\tEdgewater Casino Glass Building in Vancouver, Canada\nThis beautiful glass structure that looks like a giant greenhouse on the waterfront of False Creek is the Edgewater Casino. By 2016, it will be replaced by a new casino and resort to be located nearby at the cost of over $535 million. The area to the left is called The Plaza of Nations. Four event facilities were built here as part of Expo 86. However, they were demolished in 2008. The open square is often used as an outdoor performance venue.\n760 Pacific Blvd Vancouver, BC V6B 5E7, Canada\n16\tRebirth of False Creek\u2019s East End in Vancouver, Canada\nUp until the late 1970s, this east end of False Creek was a rail yard and a rundown industrial area. However, the brownfield was reborn as the location for the 1986 World\u2019s Fair that had a transportation and communications theme. During the 2010 Winter Olympics, it housed athletes at the Olympic Village along the Southeast False Creek. The area is now vibrant with housing, walkways, parks, boating and seabirds.\n760 Pacific Boulevard, Vancouver, BC V6B 5E7, Canada\n17\tBC Place Stadium Facade in Vancouver, Canada\nThe BC Place Stadium in Vancouver has a long history of hosting major events including a visit by Pope John Paul II in 1984, the opening of the 1986 World\u2019s Fair by Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and the 2010 Winter Olympics. It is also home to the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League and the Vancouver Whitecaps, a Major League Soccer team. Their BC Hall of Fame is also worth seeing.\n777 Pacific Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6B 4Y8, Canada\n18\tBC Place Stadium Retractable Roof in Vancouver, Canada\nWhen the BC Place Stadium in Vancouver was built in 1983, it had the world\u2019s largest inflatable roof. Several years later it lost that distinction. However, after the sports stadium served as a main event venue for the 2010 Olympics, the roof was rebuilt so it still inflates but now also retracts thus reclaiming its world\u2019s largest status.\n19\tVancouver Canucks Hockey Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada\nSince 1995, Rogers Arena has been the proud home of the Vancouver Canucks, the city\u2019s NHL hockey team. Prior to 2010, it was called GM Place after its sponsor General Motors. Notice the crane on the left. This construction is part of three new towers that are being built next to the stadium. When finished, they will contain 650,000 square feet of rental units and commercial office space \u2026 the largest such project in Vancouver in 30 years.\n800 Griffiths Way, Vancouver, BC V6B 6G1, Canada\n20\tHockey Player Murals on Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada\nThese giant murals on the side of Rogers Arena show how proud the Vancouver Canucks are of their hockey players. On the left is Kevin Bieksa, a defenceman and alternative captain who joined the team in 2005. On the right is Ryan Kesler. He spent the first ten years of his hockey career with the Canucks as a forward until being traded in 2014.\n21\tDigital Orca Whale Statue by Douglas Copeland in Vancouver, Canada\nAs a photographer, I spend almost every day managing pixels so I was delighted to see this digitized whale statue next to the Vancouver Convention Center. \u201cDigital Orca\u201d was created in 2009 by Douglas Copeland. At night, it sparkles with LED lights. For obvious reasons, the locals often call it the \u201cLego Orca.\u201d\nJack Poole Plaza 1075 Canada Pl, Vancouver, BC V6C 3L5, Canada\n22\t2010 Olympic Cauldron at Convention Center in Vancouver, Canada\nIn February, 2010, Vancouver, Canada, hosted 2,600 athletes from 82 nations during the XXI Olympic Winter games. The Olympic flame traveled over 100 days and 28,000 miles from Greece through British Columbia. The torch was carried by 12,000 Canadians before hockey legend Wayne Gretzky lit the cauldron during opening ceremonies at the BC Place Stadium and then proceeded downtown to lite this permanent, 33 foot cauldron in Jack Poole Plaza next to the Vancouver Convention Center\u2019s West Building. It is relit occasionally to celebrate major achievements and events. Behind its five leaning pillars of glass is North Shore Mountain.\n23\tThe Drop Sculpture by Inges Idee in Vancouver, Canada\nPerhaps this blue, steel sculpture called \u201cThe Drop\u201d is a tribute to Vancouver\u2019s 162 rainy days a year. Commissioned by the Vancouver Convention Center in 2009, this 65 foot raindrop stands on Bon Voyage Plaza along the waterfront with Burrard Inlet in the background. It was created by four German artists who call themselves Inges Idee.\nCanada Pl & Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3, Canada\n24\tConvention Centre West in Vancouver, Canada\nThe Vancouver Convention Centre consists of two buildings that are the equivalent of four city blocks along the downtown waterfront. This West Building is the newest addition with enormous glass windows surrounding 466,000 square feet of event and exhibition space plus plenty of \u201cgreen\u201d technology that earned it the LEED Platinum designation by the Canada Green Building Council. It also offers two plazas and walkways to enjoy the views of the North Shore Mountain range across Burrard Inlet.\nBurrard St & Canada Pl, Vancouver, BC V6C 3L5, Canada\n25\tMarine Building Reflected in Skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada\nWhen this beautiful Art Deco building opened in 1930, its 22 floors made it the tallest building in Vancouver for the next nine years. But because the building cost was twice the original budget, the Marine Building was sold to the Irish Guinness family for about 40 cents on the dollar. If it looks vaguely familiar, you might recognize it as the Daily Planet during the \u201cSmallville\u201d TV series.\n909 W Cordova St Vancouver, BC V6C 3L5, Canada\n26\tCanada Place Facade in Vancouver, Canada\nCanada Place is a multi-purpose, 23 story complex that houses Vancouver\u2019s convention center, World Trade Centre, the Pan Pacific Hotel, and an IMAX theater called FlyOver Canada. It is also a terminal for cruise ships. Built along the shoreline of Burrard Inlet in 1987 at the cost of $400 million Canadian dollars, it received a $21 million CAD renovation in 2011.\nHowe St & Canada Pl, Vancouver, BC V6C 3T4, Canada\n27\tCanada Place\u2019s Sails Roof and Cruise Ship in Vancouver, Canada\nCanada Place\u2019s white sails roofline along Vancouver\u2019s waterfront has become an iconic landmark. Approximately one million passengers a year walk by them as they board or disembark their Alaskan cruise ship from this terminal. This is the Norwegian Sun, one of several ships that sail along the Inside Passage from May through September.\n28\tGrant Thornton Place Glass Dome in Vancouver, Canada\nThe grand entrance to the Grant Thornton Place is through this glass dome on Seymour and Hastings Streets and then up an escalator. When the 17 floor office complex was built in 1985, it was called the Price Waterhouse Centre. It is nice to see major accounting firms swapping their office space.\nSeymour St & W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 0A4, Canada\n29\tHarbor Center Lookout Tower in Vancouver, Canada\nIn about 40 seconds, you can be skyrocketed up over 500 feet on the side of Harbor Center and then enjoy the panoramic scenery from the Lookout Tower. After your stomach settles down from the elevator ride, enjoy something to eat at Top of Vancouver. The restaurant slowly rotates giving you splendid views of the city, mountains and waterways.\n555 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6B 4N6, Canada\n30\tTwo Women Faces Mural Belonging Action by Melanie Schambach in Vancouver, Canada\nThis stunning mural of two women\u2019s faces is called \u201cThe Belonging Action\u201d in Vancouver, Canada. Look deeper to see the stories of people who migrated to British Columbia. Melanie Schambach and 80 artists worked for five months in 2011 to create this colorful, 24 by 32 foot masterpiece in Harbour Center between Homer and Cordova Streets. It was partially funded by the Celebrate Vancouver 125 mural program. It is outstanding!\n422 W Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2V2, Canada\n31\tColorful Red Post Office Boxes in Vancouver, Canada\nTo me, certain things will always remain iconic even as they slowly disappear. A great example is the phone booth that\u2019s been replaced by cell phones. But apparently mail boxes have not lost their fight against the digital age. The Canadian Post Office claims to offer 900,000 street letter boxes across the country. When they are this decorative, perhaps the younger generation mistakes them for street art.\nHomer St & W Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6B 2V2, Canada\n32\tLanding Building Arched Window in Vancouver, Canada\nThe Landing Building was a warehouse for gold rush prospectors when it was built on Water Street in 1905. It was refurbished in 1987 with this spectacular arched window that faces the cruise ship terminal at Canada Place. Apparently I am not the only one who thinks this view is gorgeous. Security guards frequently report seeing a ghostly woman dressed in white that walks this hall before stopping to stare out at the harbor. Then, she just disappears.\n375 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6, Canada\n33\tGastown Steam Clock in Vancouver, Canada\nMost famous landmarks that attract gawking tourists are old, but not the Gastown Steam Clock in downtown, Vancouver. It was built in 1977 by the local merchants as part of the revitalization of the city\u2019s first neighborhood. Most appealing is the clouds of bellowing steam, the whistle that announces the hour, and the Westminster Quarters tune that is played on the quarter hour. Its mechanism of balls and chains is complicated but visible through the glass-enclosed body of the clock.\n305 Water St Vancouver, BC V6B 1B8, Canada\n34\tWoodward\u2019s Building in Vancouver, Canada\nOn this site in 1903, the Woodward\u2019s department store opened for business in the luxury shopping district of downtown Vancouver. It went bankrupt 90 years later and all but a small portion of the original building was demolished. In 2008, this 43 floor tower took its place and is commonly referred to as the W Building. That name is reinforced by the \u201cW\u201d sign that is displayed nearby. It used to be on top of the original Woodward\u2019s Building.\nWoodward's W43, 128 W Cordova St, Vancouver, BC V6B 0E6, Canada\n35\tHotel Europe Flatiron Building in Vancouver, Canada\nAll of the skyscrapers in downtown Vancouver are wonderful but my camera is still in love with flatiron buildings like the Hotel Europe in the Gastown district. I suspect this six-story triangular hotel was grand when it opened in 1909. Since its renovation in 1983 it has become affordable housing. An interesting side note: A tavern used to serve cold beers behind those locked front doors. That space is now filled with $200,000 of gravel to prevent its collapse.\n41 Powell St, Vancouver, BC V6A 1E9, Canada\n36\tThe Guardian Warrior by Mandy Boursicot in Vancouver, Canada\nIn 210 B.C., Emperor Qin Shi Huang was buried in China along with 8,000 terracotta soldiers made from clay. The tomb was discovered in 1974. This sculpture called \u201cThe Guardian Warrior\u201d by Mandy Boursicot is a tribute to that historic tomb. It was one of 33 life-sized terracotta warrior sculptures that were painted by local artists in 2012 and displayed at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden in Chinatown. Next they lined the street corners of downtown, Vancouver, before being auctioned off with proceeds going to the BC Lions Society Easter Seal Houses.\n578 Carrall St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K2, Canada\n37\tThe Sun Tower Building in Vancouver, Canada\nThe Sun Tower literally glows in the setting sun because of its faux-patina steel dome that looks like copper. At 270 feet, it was the tallest building in the city and the British Empire when it was built in 1912 as the headquarters for The Vancouver World newspaper. It was also a challenge for Harry Gardiner, better known as the Human Fly, who scaled the 17 story building in 1918.\n128 Pender St W, Vancouver, BC V6B 1R8, Canada\n38\tMillennium Gate and Guardian Lion at Chinatown in Vancouver, Canada\nThrough the mid-1990s, Chinatown was a bustling, thriving neighborhood for Chinese immigrants and their descendants when approximately 300,000 lived in Vancouver. But it began to decline in favor of a new community in the City of Richmond called the Golden Village. Efforts to revitalize the old ethnic district have included the installation of the Millennium Gate on Ponder Street in 2002 and some wonderful wall murals by Arthur Cheng showing previous generations. See my World Murals galley for examples.\nW Pender St & Taylor St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1R3, Canada\n39\tHoly Rosary Cathedral Fa\u00e7ade in Vancouver, Canada\nThe Holy Rosary Cathedral in downtown Vancouver was built in 1900 and became a Roman Catholic Cathedral in 1916. Its French Gothic architectural style features sandstone from Gabriola Island, British Columbia, a magnificent rose window and two towers that contain eight bells. The tallest steeple stands 271 feet.\n646 Richards St, Vancouver, BC V6B, Canada\n40\tHoly Rosary Cathedral Interior in Vancouver, Canada\nIt is hard to describe the beauty you\u2019ll find inside the Holy Rosary Cathedral. For example, red Scagliola marble arches support the nave\u2019s arcades and the Gothic tunnel vault. Carved into the oak altar and the surrounding towers are gilded angels in relief. What is also hard is to believe is it only took 491 days to construct this beautiful church.\n41\tReflection of Vancouver Clock Tower at Granville and Broadway in Vancouver, Canada\nDowntown Vancouver, Canada is a sea of beautiful, modern and glass skyscrapers. In the Vancouver Block neighborhood is a 15 story building with white, terra cotta cladding. Atop this 1912 Edwardian landmark sits the Vancouver Clock Tower. This photo reflects the multi-generational architectural styles that grace the City of Vancouver in British Columbia.\nGranville St & W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC, Canada\n42\tOld Court House now Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada\nNestled among the modern high-rises is the old Court House. Its neoclassical style was designed in 1905 by Francis Rattenbury, the same architect who built the exquisite BC Parliament Building and Empress Hotel in Victoria. In 1979, the law courts moved to a new building across Robson Square and the Vancouver Art Gallery moved in. However, discussions are underway for a new building for the gallery\u2019s $100 million art and photograph collection.\n750 Hornby St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2H7, Canada\n43\tLiving Shangri-La Skyscraper in Vancouver, Canada\nThe tallest skyscraper in Vancouver and in all of British Columbia is the 659 foot Living Shangri-La. Finished in 2008 at a construction cost of $350 million CAD, it now serves as a luxury hotel on the first 15 floors and the rest of the 47 floors are condominiums. Imagine what the view must be like from the private garden on the top floor.\n1115 Alberni St Vancouver, BC V6E 4T9, Canada\n44\tCanadian Coat of Arms in Vancouver, Canada\nThe official name for Canada\u2019s coat of arms \u2013 Arms of Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada \u2013 is as complex as its design. It includes the queen\u2019s crown, several English lions, French fleurs-de-lis, an Irish harp, Canadian maple leaves plus a Scottish unicorn and English lion as supporters. Its Latin motto is \u201cA mari usque ad mare\u201d which means \u201cFrom sea to sea.\u201d\n495 W Georgia St, Vancouver, BC V6B 1Y0, Canada\n45\tVancouver Public Library Central Branch in Vancouver, Canada\nAt the downtown intersection of Homer and Robson Streets you enter Library Square which is dominated by this handsome convex building that resembles the Coliseum in Rome. This is the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library. Walk inside to be delighted by a glass roof concourse which leads to its 1.3 million books. The sign in front that reads, \u201cThe Words Don\u2019t Fit the Picture,\u201d is by artist Ron Terada and was sponsored by the Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program in 2010. It contains nearly 1,300 LED lights.\n46\tA-maze-ing Laughter Series Statue in Morton Park in Vancouver, Canada\nDuring the 2009-11 Vancouver Biannual Art Exhibitions, 14 playful bronze sculptures called A-maze-ing Laughter were added to Morton Park in Vancouver, Canada. The faces are the likeness of Beijing artist Yue Minjun and have become his signature trademark. Each ten foot statue strikes a different, almost cartoonish pose of hysterical laughter and solicits smiles, smirks and laughs from those who walk around them. The collection was purchased in 2012, so the laughing giants will be permanently displayed near the shore of English Bay.\nMorton Park, 1800 Morton Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada\n47\tLost Lagoon with Downtown Skyline in Vancouver, Canada\nAn extremely enjoyable walking excursion from the west end of downtown to Stanley Park is the one mile footpath around the Lost Lagoon. The 41 acre artificial lake is filled with ducks and geese plus offers spectacular views of Vancouver\u2019s glass skyline.\n715 Stanley Park Dr, Vancouver, BC V6G 3E2, Canada\n48\tTotem Poles in Stanley Park in Vancouver, Canada\nIn 1886, when Vancouver was incorporated as a city, about 1,000 acres of land was reserved as Stanley Park. It is surrounded by water and covered with a dense forest. Some of the trees reach 250 feet and are almost 100 years old. In short, it appears like it did when the Aboriginal people inhabited it before the British arrived. These First Nation totem poles are reproductions of the ones that once stood here near Brockton Point.\n1501 Stanley Park Dr, Vancouver, BC V6G 3E2, Canada 4\n49\tLonsdale Quay Public Market in Vancouver, Canada\nA delightful side trip is to take a Seabus ferry across the Burrad Inlet to the North Shore and visit Lonsdale Quay. A highlight is to climb that red staircase for a wonderful view of Vancouver\u2019s skyline. But you can also explore the public market. It is filled with shops, restaurants and, on certain days, an outdoor farmers\u2019 market. Please see my \u201cCanada Markets\u201d gallery for samples of the wonderful produce that is available.\n123 Carrie Cates Ct, North Vancouver, BC V7M 3K7, Canada\nVancouver, Canada Composite of Five Photos\nFive photos of Vancouver in British Columbia Province, Canada are Vancouver skyline and Aquabus Ferry in False Creek from Granville Island, Farmer\u2019s Market scarecrow at Granville Island, Bronze statue in A-maze-ing Laughter series by Yue Minjun in Morton Park near English Bay, Cat woman wall mural painting, and the Fabric roof that resembles sails of Canada Place on Burrard Inlet which was built for Expo \u201986 World\u2019s Fair.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 30935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.encryptionconsulting.com/2019/01/04/big-data-security-and-privacy-issues/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:07Z", "digest": "sha1:WAGMQNIKCODLLJ462RMHWVWSZG42DDA6", "length": 4314, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.encryptionconsulting.com", "title": "Big Data Security and Privacy Issues | Encryption Consulting", "raw_content": "Big Data refers to collecting large volumes of data, giving us greater insight into our data which can be used to drive better business decisions and greater customer satisfaction. Securing Big data is difficult not just because of the large amount of data it is handling, but also because of the continuous streaming of data, multiple types of data and cloud-based data storage.\nSome of the major challenges in securing Big data are:\nSecure Computations: Big data technologies use distributed programming frameworks to process large amounts of data. These distributed frameworks like MapReduce don\u2019t have good security protections. In MapReduce, the data is split, then processed by a mapper and allocated storage. If someone can change the mapper settings as it doesn\u2019t have any additional security layer, it can manipulate the data being processed. Also, it is very difficult to detect these untrusted mappers. It is very important to secure the computations being handled in these distributed programming frameworks so as to ensure that the integrity of data is maintained.\nProtecting Data and Transaction logs: Due to the size of data and transaction logs, these are stored in multi-tiered storage environments with auto-tiering functionality. Auto-tiering does not keep track of the data location. Auto-tiering systems can expose new vulnerabilities because of unknown physical data locations, untrusted storage devices which can result in organizations losing control over data. Data transmission between tiers can also provide information regarding user activities and data properties which can be used by attackers. Data and transaction logs need to be protected to maintain the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data.\nValidation of Inputs from Endpoints: Big data collects data from a variety of input devices including endpoints. It may be collecting logs from a large number of devices and applications. The data which Big data is receiving might contain rogue data being sent by an untrusted endpoint. This can affect the organization\u2019s analytical outputs. A challenge here is to validate all the inputs the Big data is receiving to ensure that it came from a trusted source.\nSecure Non-Relational Data Stores: Non-Relational data stores like NoSQL are rapidly being used in Big data technologies. These data stores are not mature and secure enough, as of today. They have many security issues like no encryption support for the data files, weak authentication between client and server, data at rest is unencrypted which can cause privacy threats.\nPrivacy-preserving data analytics: Privacy is an important issue in applying Big data technologies for analytics. As more and more data is being collected, this data aggregation along with data analytics could result in user privacy violation. If the data analytics is outsourced, an untrusted third party employee can infer personal information of users. The organizations want to use Big data analytics tools to enhance customer satisfaction, but they need to ensure protecting user privacy while doing so.\nAccess control: Big data handles a variety of data including sensitive data such as Personally Identifiable Information of users. There are many legal and compliance requirements to protect those data. Granular access control policies should be implemented so that only authorized users to have access to sensitive user data and analytics done on those data sets. This is needed to ensure the confidentiality of data.\nReal-time security monitoring: Real-time security monitoring is needed for Big data infrastructure and the analytics it is handling. It has always been a difficult task because of the number of alerts generated by devices. These alerts have a large number of false positives as well. Due to this reason, companies often struggle to monitor real-time data.\nEncryption can help in handling data protection in Big data technologies at multiple stages to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data is maintained. If you want to know more about it, watch out for our next blog on Data Protection in Big data using encryption.\nAnuradha is a cybersecurity expert with 15 years of experience in Cybersecurity space. 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They refuel hydrogen at the same station as the fuel cell-electric vehicles.\nOn March 18, 2016, I got on at Bolzano central station and rode in a fuel cell-bus going to Bolzano South.\nIn this picture below, I am photographing out of the window of the Hyundai ix35 FCEV (fuel cell-electric vehicle) as I am on the last leg of the Hydrogen Challenge #2 from Bergen to Bolzano.\nIn this picture, hydrogen refuelling at 350 bar is about to take place at the Hydrogen Refuelling Station in Bolzano South. The bus model is a Mercedes Benz 0 530 Citaro new Fuelcell.\nThese are two articles (in German) for further reading:\n1) http://www.h2-suedtirol.com/de/projekte/chic/\n2) http://www.sasabz.it/sasa-spa-ag/das-unternehmen/die-autobusse/\nIf you are going to Bolzano, look out for silver/blue-coloured buses (the other ones are grey/yellow or orange). Bus information", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enforex.com/culture/don-quijote.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:KJP7DBHVLS2JAWYUZHN7LOT4GVAFQ6TR", "length": 1838, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.enforex.com", "title": "\ufeffDon Quijote - Spanish Culture", "raw_content": "Home/Spanish Culture/Don Quijote\nCharactersEl CidC\u00e1rmenDon QuijoteDon Juan\nDon Quijote, the character created by Miguel de Cervantes, is one that is known very well around Spain and throughout the world- and for good reason. Don Quijote has been an inspiration for Spain with his complex personality as well as for his contributions to the Spanish language.\nHis story is broken down into two main sections. The first is quite relaxed and doesn't shy too far away from the comedic side of things, whilst the second half dives much more into the philosophical issues at hand. It lends itself not only to the written word but also music and art. Furthermore, the character has brought inspiration to many. Don Quijote has also had a strong influence on the Spanish language, which is seen by the example 'de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme' ('whose name i do not want to remember'), nowadays a commonly-used Spanish expression.\nOn his first run Don Quijote is named named Alonso Quijano and he goes on his quest to find an adventure. He gets in a fight with muleteers trying to water their mules, after which he is assured by the innkeeper that he is in fact a knight; this is mainly just in Don Quijote's mind, but the innkeeper felt obliged to do so. Following this he goes into Toledo, where he is made fun of by traders for his imaginary \"Dulcinea\", his imaginary lady in waiting. He then goes home with Pedro Crespo.\nIn the second part he manages to convince Sancho Panza, his neighbour, to become his squire. From here the mayhem commenses, in scenes such as the epic battles with the windmills in La Mancha, which he believes to be giants. Along the way they bump into all kinds of people and Don Quijote enjoys getting involved in matters that aren't of his concern and which often get him into trouble.\nMore About Spanish Characters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 6999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eng.mcmaster.ca/bachelor-technology-combined-degreediploma-program", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:11Z", "digest": "sha1:SENXJYKFDMASGA67CQCRU7REPKZQNMDY", "length": 5079, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.eng.mcmaster.ca", "title": "Bachelor of Technology - Combined Degree/Diploma Program | Faculty of Engineering", "raw_content": "Bachelor of Technology - Combined Degree/Diploma Program\nFuture Undergraduate Students \u2192 Programs & Options \u2192 Bachelor of Technology \u2192 Combined Degree/Diploma Program\nWhat is Bachelor of Technology - Combined Degree/Diploma?\nThe Walter G Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology offers the Bachelor of Technology Combined Degree/Diploma program in response to today\u2019s industry needs. Our students go beyond learning from a textbook \u2013 they learn from experiential projects in lectures, labs, and paid industry employment through our mandatory 12 months of co-op.\nPost-graduate pathways for B.Tech. grads include master\u2019s and doctoral programs in engineering, science, or business. Additional professional and educational pathways are available for your continued learning and success.\nGraduates from these 3 streams receive a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree from McMaster University as well as an Ontario advanced diploma in technology and business management certificate from Mohawk College. Additionally, graduates will have received 12 months of paid co-op work experience.\nStudents learn about the construction, operation, design, and manufacturing of modern vehicles by evaluating current and future automotive propulsion technologies, advanced combustion systems, hybrid powertrains, and alternative fuel vehicles.\nStudents study in an interdisciplinary field that merges basic science, applied science, and engineering through concepts related to genetic engineering, cell biology, molecular biology, microbiology, analytical instrumentation, bioprocessing, immunology, virology, genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics.\nStudents develop knowledge and skills in sensors, instruments, actuators, industrial networks, process control and automation, SCADA, programming, statistical process control, Internet technologies, and the integration of plant floor data with business systems.\nWhy Bachelor of Technology?\nStudents earn more than just 1 credential in both the Combined Degree/Diploma Program and Degree Completion Program.\nClose mentorships with faculty are possible by average lecture sizes of 40 (Combined Degree/Diploma) and 28 (DCP) students. Lab sizes are a maximum of 20 students per section.\nAll students must satisfy a 12 month (Combined Degree/Diploma) or 8 month (DCP) co-op requirement in order to graduate. In addition to gaining practical skills, this means all B.Tech. grads have relevant work experience on their resumes ahead of graduation.\nBusiness Management Component\nStudents take business management courses alongside their core technical curriculum in order to have a greater complement of skills. Courses in leadership, project management, communication, and financial systems ensure our students have transferable skills upon graduation.\nB.Tech.\u2019s \u201chands-on\u201d approach to engineering curriculum guarantees that our students \u2018hit the ground running\u2019 as soon as they are employed. Experience with industry equipment in lectures, labs, and co-op gives our students an employable edge for working in engineering industry. Combined Degree/Diploma students spend more than 700 hours in the lab throughout their 4.5 years in the program!\n\u201cThe McMaster-Mohawk joint curriculum has a great balance of hands-on and in-class learning, which makes each day different and exciting.\u201d \u2013 Natalie, Automotive and Vehicle Engineering Technology Student\nBachelor of Technology Association (BTA)\nThe BTA is a student run organization that is similar to that of a student council. It seeks to maximize B.Tech. students' academic and social experiences. Representatives of the BTA support B.Tech. students who are looking for a variety of assistance - health and wellbeing, used textbooks, and social engagements, to name just a few. Because courses become much more specialized in second year, the BTA is also an excellent tool for students to reconnect with the friends they made in first year who may be in a different stream.\nTo speak with someone from the BTA, email them at btechassociation@gmail.com or visit their office in the basement of the Engineering Technology Building (ETB).\nB. Tech Student Ambassador Program\nStudent volunteers are an integral part of the B.Tech. program. We are always recruiting students to participate in such events as the Ontario Universities Fair, Fall Preview Days, the Degree Completion Program (DCP) Open House, and May@Mac, to name just a few.\nB.Tech. student volunteers are eligible to become B.Tech. Student Ambassadors. As a B.Tech. Student Ambassador, you accrue points for your volunteer efforts. Within the different levels of points, students receive some kind reward for their hard work, such as listing your Official B.Tech. Ambassador status on your resume.\nMcMaster Engineering Society (MES)\nBorn in the fall of 1959, the McMaster Engineering Society (MES) is one of the largest student groups on campus. Several B.Tech. students are members on the MES. There are 35 affiliated groups within the MES, allowing students to find their niche in engineering-related extra curriculars. Find yours!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 7143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enhamtrust.org.uk/Pages/FAQs/Category/trustee", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ROPNHBDP7HL6O4WEBQ4TKRFUI5LRPYBI", "length": 10139, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "www.enhamtrust.org.uk", "title": "Enham Trust | FAQs | Trustees", "raw_content": "Our Trustees are responsible for setting Enham Trust's strategic direction and reviewing its operating and financial position. They are also responsible for the Trust's system of internal control and its effectiveness.\nGet to know more about Enham Trust\u2019s Trustee\u2019s below:\nChairman - Professor Khalid Aziz LVO DL FRSA\nMeet our Trustee Chairman - Professor Khalid Aziz LVO DL FRSA\nArea of expertise: Leadership, Media and Communications\n\"I see Enham Trust as a widely established charity that is greatly admired. There is tremendous potential to spread the word about the quality and variety of its work.\"\nProfessor Khalid Aziz was appointed Chairman of Enham Trust in November 2012 after joining the Board in February 2012 as Chairman.\nProfessor Aziz brings a wealth of experience in media communications and organisational development. He is Chairman of The Aziz Corporation, Life President of Naomi House Children's Hospice and an International Ambassador for The Prince\u2019s Trust.\nIn 1997, Professor Aziz was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order by HM The Queen and shortly afterwards, a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire. He lives a few miles from Enham Alamein in St Mary Bourne.\nVice Chairman - Rob Childs\nMeet our Vice Chairman - Rob Childs\nArea of expertise: Organisational Strategy & Risk Management\n\"I live in Hampshire and, since Enham Trust is a local charity, I have always been aware of its good work. The Trust provides a very valuable service to disabled individuals.\"\nAs a businessman who has board experience of a FTSE 250 company working in both the UK and the US, Rob brings his knowledge of setting organisational strategy and its subsequent execution.\nRob was educated at London University, is an Honorary Fellow of Royal Holloway and former Chairman of the Management School Advisory Board.\nHe has worked at Hiscox for 26 years and is currently the Chief Underwriting Officer and main Board Director and Chairman of Hiscox USA.\nRob has extensive experience in the insurance industry and is presently a member of the Council of Lloyds.\nTrustee - Neil Palmer\nMeet our Trustee Neil Palmer\nArea of expertise: Residential Property and new start-up businesses\n\"Enham Trust is an essential charity for disabled people and the Trust requires support throughout the community. I relish the opportunity to work with this worthwhile organisation.\"\nNeil has developed small-scale property developments since a road traffic accident left him paralysed in 2001 and unable to continue his career in the lithographic printing industry. He owns a portfolio of local property and is a Director of a residential letting agency based in Hampshire, which was set up in 2015.\nRecently, Neil has set up a micro-brewery in Broughton in the heart of the Test Valley and he has a real passion for supporting local businesses, especially new start-ups. His role within the brewery will be within sales and marketing.\nDue to his complete spinal injury, Neil understands the challenges that disabled people can face; he believes that physical and mental challenges is a complex and ever changing issue. The only way we can begin to meet these needs is through educating the wider community.\nNeil lives in the Abbotts Ann with his wife, 2 young children, Cockapoo, 2 cats and 4 chickens. His wife is a Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist with an interest in Neonatology.\nTrustee - Liz Wallace\nMeet our Trustee Liz Wallace\nArea of expertise: Talent and Leadership\nLiz Wallace has a particular interest in talent and leadership development, ensuring people have the opporturtunity to achieve their potential across both the commercial and charity sectors. She was Director of Talent & Leadership for the BT Group and Head of Talent for Vodafone\u2019s emerging markets where she worked in Africa, Asia and the Middle East to identify and develop the future leaders of the business. Her original background is in marketing of software, computers and telecommunications.\nShe is currently Vice Chair of the Board of Naomi House and Jacks Place and Chair of their Remuneration Committee, a Trustee at Winchester Science Centre and their Chair of the Remuneration Committee and finally, Chair of Newbury Choral Society. She also sits on the Governance Committees of both Naomi House and Winchester Science Centre.\nLiz loves the theatre, her garden and walking. She is married with one son and three gorgeous grandchildren.\nTrustee - Judy Gillow MBE\nMeet our Trustee Judy Gillow\nArea of expertise: Nursing and Organisational Development\nPrior to joining University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Judy was a Director of Nursing, Organisational Development and Assistant Chief Executive at Winchester and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust.\nShe has worked in the health service for many years in a variety of roles in the Acute, Primary Care and Educational settings. Qualifying as a registered adult and paediatric nurse at The Hospital for Sick Children and Great Ormond Street.\nJudy\u2019s career has covered a wide range of areas including senior clinical, education and management and Board leadership positions.\nShe now leads the Trust\u2019s Quality Governance, Organisational Development and Clinical redesign agenda, and has facilitated progression of delivery of key quality metrics to upper quartile performance nationally.\nTrustee - Clare Scheckter DL\nMeet our Trustee Clare Scheckter DL\nArea of expertise: Manufacturing, Process Development & Customer Interface\nClare was the Chief Operating Officer and Co-founder of a high tech company based in Atlanta, USA which provided simulators for police and military training.\nClare and her husband Jody Scheckter, founded the organic biodynamic Laverstoke Park Farm in Hampshire 12 years ago. The 2,500 acre farm is home to a large herd of water buffalo, sheep, cattle, wild boar, pigs and poultry and produces organic cheeses, meat, ice cream, ale, compost, eggs, vegetables, fruit \u2026.\nIn 2003, Clare set up the Laverstoke Park Education Centre, which has since welcomed more than 15,000 pupils, students and adult learners on free educational visits, to learn about sustainable land management, biodiversity, farm animal welfare and healthy food production.\nShe has been a Governor of Testbourne School since 2006.\nIn 2013, was appointed as a Deputy Lieutenant of Hampshire.\nClare lives in north Hampshire with her husband, four children and three dogs.\nTrustee - Matthew Samuel-Camps\nMeet our Trustee Matthew Samuel-Camps\nArea of expertise: Commercial and Residential Property\n\"My first impression when visiting Enham Trust was the infectious passion from everybody involved with the Trust to improve all aspects of disabled people's lives.\"\nMatthew is a member of the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) and an equity partner and board member of Vail Williams LLP.\nHe has 25 years\u2019 experience across the commercial and residential property industry. His operational speciality is in property receivership for lending banks, where his team currently manages around \u00a3250 million of impaired loans in the UK.\nHe also heads a Social Housing team, which provides valuation, development and occupational advice to a number of major social housing providers in central southern England.\nMatthew lives in Meon Valley with his family. His wife is active in the local voluntary field.\nTrustee - Marianne Black MBE\nMeet our Trustee - Marianne Black MBE\nArea of expertise: Law, Education & Governance\nMarianne Black most recently held the position of Chair of Trustees of the British School in Tokyo, which she held for 5 years during her residency in Japan, before her relocation back to the UK in 2017.\nMarianne is a UK and Hong Kong qualified lawyer and started her career at Allen & Overy in London before transferring to their Hong Kong office specialising in corporate insolvency. On moving to Shanghai she focused on the education, training & development of lawyers as a member of the legal HR team for Clifford Chance. It was during this time she took on her first voluntary governance role for Lifeline Shanghai, a telephone helpline for English speakers, which she chaired for 3 years. She was awarded an MBE in 2017 for her services to British Education Overseas.\nMarianne has an interest in education and disability in the non-profit sector and hopes to expand her work in these areas. She has four primary school aged children, lives locally and enjoys singing, riding and running... when she has time.\nTrustee - Stuart Lindsay\nMeet our Trustee - Stuart Lindsay\nArea of expertise: Finance\nStuart is a Chartered Accountant who worked for 30 years for Deloitte, one of the 'Big Four' accounting organisations. He specialised in corporate finance work, mainly involved with mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and corporate restructuring.\nSince leaving Deloitte, he has established his own consultancy business and acts as non-executive director or strategic advisor to a number of companies. Stuart has experience of both public and private companies and in equity and banking finance markets.\nAs well as being a Trustee of Enham Trust, Stuart is a Trustee of Citizens Advice Winchester District.\nStuart lives in Winchester and has two grown up sons.\nTrustee - Dawn Fowler-Stevens\nMeet our Trustee - Dawn Fowler-Stevens\nArea of expertise: Social Housing and Governance\nDawn has a career spanning 25 years across the public and private sectors. Dawn\u2019s other areas of expertise include the creation of value through stock transfers, group structure establishment and corporate structure consolidation. Dawn has also served as a board director of a specialist care provider and currently holds other executive directorships within Aster Group where she has executive responsibility for growth and assurance.\nPrevious experience has included providing support to housing associations and local authorities focusing on: governance, organisational change, strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, as well as, project management consultancy.\nDawn is a member of the Chartered Management Institute, the Institute of Business Administrators and ICSA: the governance institute.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 15300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enroute.com.bd/industry/telecommunication-electronics-and-communication-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:40Z", "digest": "sha1:T3MEFI5X43OIW4HFABYTK7BEX3QJNT5I", "length": 3046, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.enroute.com.bd", "title": "Telecommunication, Electronics and Communication Technology \u2013 Enroute International Ltd. Telecommunication, Electronics and Communication Technology | Enroute International Ltd.", "raw_content": "Telecommunication, Electronics and Communication\nEnroute is considered to be a market leader to initiate and eventually materialize the new ideas relevant to the one of the largest industry of this country. Over last fifteen years this industry created some revolutionizing transformation with the concept of reaching the targeted individual/customers/consumers by structured development of the overall network based connectivity with the use of innovative technical instruments. We have a rich portfolio of working with globally recognized organizations like Nokia, Sony, L M Ericsson, Philips Lighting, Qubee, Rahimafrooz, Rangs, e.co, GP, Banglalink, Robi Axiata, Citycell etc. and some others.\nTelecom Operator: Enroute from it\u2019s very beginning concentrated it\u2019s focus on this very industry and has successfully managed number of various types of loyalty programs, activation, client acquisition, customer/user awareness, sales marketing project designed to involve people/user from various segments of society. And with much confidence, excellence, magnificence our highly skilled team have successfully completed all those project after achieving highest level of efficiency. We have experience to work with all the major telecommunication organizations of the country like Grameenphone, Banglalink, Robi Axiata Limited, Citycell etc. and more importantly we have had worked with them on several of their mainstream projects.\nCommunications Technology: As per the current economy of Bangladesh, this is one of the growing industries of Bangladesh that has been moving forward with un-emancipated acceleration for few years. Enroute is a market leader in case of understanding this growth rate as well as adapt with the changing and/or evolving nature of this industry and quite capable to provide the required services when required. We already have experience to work with global leader like L M Ericsson Bangladesh Limited in this sector. We also have momentous experience to work with organizations like e.co, Robi Axiata Limited (IT), Qubee etc. on different projects.\nElectronics: Electronics Industry is an evolving industry of Bangladesh comprised of a number of globally recognized giants. Enroute with it\u2019s multiple business entities/services has been involved with number of those global leaders competing in this very segment. We have a clear understanding of the ups and downs, ins and outs of this industry\u2019s business since we have been partnered with several of those global pioneers. We even are quite confident to provide the required services within the minimum possible timeline. We already have momentous experience to work with organizations like Nokia, Samsung, Sony, Philips Lighting Bangladesh Limited, Rahimafrooz, Rangs etc. We are very much confident to provide any type of customized services with the targeted efficiency rate for any number of clients belonged to this very industry and highly experienced to manage people, their day to day HR services as well the processes involved with the overall operations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.envisionalachua.com/news_items/view/698", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PVMVF5KAEVAK6IRACT4FPWD3I4YUP2DN", "length": 606, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.envisionalachua.com", "title": "Envision Alachua", "raw_content": "Editorial: New Leadership\nAlachua County is experiencing a confluence of changes in leadership.\nSince Tim Giuliani was hired as president of the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce in 2012, the group has become more involved in local government.\nThe group's members have advocated for the Plum Creek development and will hopefully be leaders of the campaign for the transportation surtax on the ballot in November. Even if you don't agree with the chamber's positions on these issues, it is a positive development that a broader array of community members than before has become involved in public policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 131.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esjnews.com/cdu-csu-split?utm_source=https://www.esjnews.com/rss&utm_medium=rss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:22Z", "digest": "sha1:QIVNHLK2OM2ZPT6XY6GDYJ6CAEOUR6KI", "length": 3828, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.esjnews.com", "title": "CDU/CSU in danger of split due to Germany's approach on migration | European Security Journal", "raw_content": "CDU/CSU in danger of split due to Germany's approach on migration\nMigration , Western Europe , Commentaries , Politics ,\nOn 14 June, sources from the conservative Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) have confirmed for the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper that there currently is a possibility for it to break its historical alliance with its sister-party - the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with which it forms a single parliamentary bloc, currently governing Germany in coalition with the Social-Democrats. The reason for this rift is the approach to the sensitive issue of migration.\nThe differences of opinions on migration between the CDU leader and long-standing Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the leader of the CSU, and presently Minister of Interior - Horst Seehofer, can be traced for a long period of time, as, in addition to questioning the compatibility between Islam and the German society, the Bavarian politician has nurtured a close personal relationship with the anti-immigrant Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban, and expressed support of the leader of the far-right Lega Nord, and for the V4's stance on the issue. But the present unprecedented split was triggered by a so-called \"Masterplan for Migration\" drafted by Seehofer, which he intended to present to the Bavarian voters ahead of the October elections present as a tougher approach on the issue, so as to stop the outflow of conservative voters to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). The document was not published, precisely because Merkel has opposed the part of it which would empower German authorities to reject migrants who reach its frontiers, after being previously registered in southern EU states. Such a move would reverse Germany's decision of 24 August 2015, by which it voluntarily accepted to receive asylum applications for which it was otherwise not responsible under the Dublin III Regulation. This voluntary suspension of the Dublin regulation resulted in 1.6 million migrants entering Germany, and while the applications are now at the lowest rate since 2015, a European-wide, burden-sharing solution, has proven to be elusive due to opposition from Central and Eastern Europeans unwilling to take any migrants at all.\nMerkel's 2015 handling of the migration crisis, although intended to provide a humane response to this unprecedented challenge, was subsequently blamed for the rise of the far-right in Germany and elsewhere, as extremists have been quick to capitalize on the fears and dissatisfactions of the native European population which became more and more pronounced as the difficulties accompanying the process of helping the people became increasingly apparent, while the EU's political establishment's inability to find a pan-European solution became obvious. Three years later, the elections in Poland, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Slovenia, the US, as well as the Brexit, have left Merkel more and more isolated internationally in her approach on migration, while the German internal political developments prove that this isolation is starting to manifest itself in relation with her traditional political partners at home.\nCzech Republic to contribute to joint V4 migration project in Libya\nVisegrad Summit confirms rejection of migration quotas\nPESCO: Possible implications in the field of migration\nGermany, Italy underscore common stance on migration\nOrban criticises West, migration as election campaign begins\nFrance works on new immigration law, critics call it unbalanced\nSputnik key influencer in the migration debate, Italian elections\nHungary lays counterclaim to ECJ in EU's infringement procedure on migrant quotas\nMigration drops, returns remain problematic\nMerkel hopes to replace illegal migration with legal migration\nDisputes over migration, EU put Italian Lega-M5S government on hold", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 8116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esskateboarding.com/us/giftcard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:14Z", "digest": "sha1:GEY6H4J2TPFG3I3D75KTXDM6TUB6W6KG", "length": 342, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.esskateboarding.com", "title": "Sites-es-usa-Site | eS Skateboarding", "raw_content": "Online Gift Card can be ordered in any amount between $20 and $300.00. They are sent via e-mail to any individual with a valid e-mail address. The recipient of an Online Gift Card will receive an e-mail with a Gift Card Code redeemable only at esskateboarding.com. The code is activated within 24 hours after receiving the e-mail.\n*Amount $ :", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 147.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/tos-pho062614.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:36Z", "digest": "sha1:S2A3MFPMYFOTXVBGSKWZLIY6GDQJ367P", "length": 6382, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.eurekalert.org", "title": "Packing hundreds of sensors into a single optical fiber for use in harsh environments | EurekAlert! Science News", "raw_content": "New technology for gas flow measurement sets temperature record of 800 degrees Celsius -- ideal for use in deep drilling operations, nuclear reactor cores and outer space\nIMAGE: This is an artist's rendering of the fiber optic flow sensor. The glowing red sections along the optical fiber are the sensors -- hundreds of these sensors can be packed... view more\nCredit: Kevin Chen, University of Pittsburgh.\nWASHINGTON, June 26, 2014--By fusing together the concepts of active fiber sensors and high-temperature fiber sensors, a team of researchers at the University of Pittsburgh has created an all-optical high-temperature sensor for gas flow measurements that operates at record-setting temperatures above 800 degrees Celsius.\nThis technology is expected to find industrial sensing applications in harsh environments ranging from deep geothermal drill cores to the interiors of nuclear reactors to the cold vacuum of space missions, and it may eventually be extended to many others.\nThe team describes their all-optical approach in a paper published today in The Optical Society's (OSA) journal Optics Letters. They successfully demonstrated simultaneous flow/temperature sensors at 850 C, which is a 200 C improvement on an earlier notable demonstration of MEMS-based sensors by researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.\nThe basic concept of the new approach involves integrating optical heating elements, optical sensors, an energy delivery cable and a signal cable within a single optical fiber. Optical power delivered by the fiber is used to supply energy to the heating element, while the optical sensor within the same fiber measures the heat transfer from the heating element and transmits it back.\n\"We call it a 'smart optical fiber sensor powered by in-fiber light',\" said Kevin P. Chen, an associate professor and the Paul E. Lego Faculty Fellow in the University of Pittsburg's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.\nThe team's work expands the use of fiber-optic sensors well beyond traditional applications of temperature and strain measurements. \"Tapping into the energy carried by the optical fiber enables fiber sensors capable of performing much more sophisticated and multifunctional types of measurements that previously were only achievable using electronic sensors,\" Chen said.\nIn microgravity situations, for example, it's difficult to measure the level of liquid hydrogen fuel in tanks because it doesn't settle at the bottom of the tank. It's a challenge that requires the use of many electronic sensors--a problem Chen initially noticed years ago while visiting NASA, which was the original inspiration to develop a more streamlined and efficient approach.\n\"For this type of microgravity situation, each sensor requires wires, a.k.a. 'leads,' to deliver a sensing signal, along with a shared ground wire,\" explained Chen. \"So it means that many leads--often more than 40--are necessary to get measurements from the numerous sensors. I couldn't help thinking there must be a better way to do it.\"\nIt turned out, there is. The team looked to optical-fiber sensors, which are one of the best sensor technologies for use in harsh environments thanks to their extraordinary multiplexing capabilities and immunity to electromagnetic interference. And they were able to pack many of these sensors into a single fiber to reduce or eliminate the wiring problems associated with having numerous leads involved.\n\"Another big challenge we addressed was how to achieve active measurements in fiber,\" Chen said. \"If you study optical fiber, it's a cable for signal transmission but one that can also be used for energy delivery--the same optical fiber can deliver both signal and optical power for active measurements. It drastically improves the sensitivity, functionality, and agility of fiber sensors without compromising the intrinsic advantages of fiber-optic sensors. That's the essence of our work.\"\nBased on the same technology, highly sensitive chemical sensors can also be developed for cryogenic environments. \"The optical energy in-fiber can be tapped to locally heated in-fiber chemical sensors to enhance its sensitivity,\" Chen said. \"In-fiber optical power can also be converted into ultrasonic energy, microwave or other interesting applications because tens or hundreds of smart sensors can be multiplexed within a single fiber. It just requires placing one fiber in the gas flow stream--even in locations with strong magnetic interference.\"\nNext, the team plans to explore common engineering devices that are often taken for granted and search for ways to enhance them. \"For fiber sensors, we typically view the fiber as a signal-carrying cable. But if you look at it from a fiber sensor perspective, does it really need to be round or a specific size? Is it possible that another size or shape might better suit particular applications? As a superior optical cable, is it also possible to carry other types of energy along the fibers for long-distance and remote sensing?\" Chen noted. \"These are questions we'll address.\"\nPaper: \"Fiber-optic flow sensors for high-temperature-environment operation up to 800\u00b0C,\" R. Chen at al., Optics Letters, Vol. 39, Issue 13, pp. 3966-3969 (2014). http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-39-13-3966&id=294332\nEDITOR'S NOTE: An artist's rendering of the sensor is available to members of the media upon request. Contact Angela Stark, astark@osa.org.\nPublished by The Optical Society (OSA), Optics Letters offers rapid dissemination of new results in all areas of optics with short, original, peer-reviewed communications. Optics Letters covers the latest research in optical science, including optical measurements, optical components and devices, atmospheric optics, biomedical optics, Fourier optics, integrated optics, optical processing, optoelectronics, lasers, nonlinear optics, optical storage and holography, optical coherence, polarization, quantum electronics, ultrafast optical phenomena, photonic crystals, and fiber optics. This journal, edited by Xi-Cheng Zhang of the University of Rochester and published twice each month, is where readers look for the latest discoveries in optics. Visit http://www.OpticsInfoBase.org/OL.\nAll-Optical Flow Sensor (IMAGE)\nhttp://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/2014/packing_hundreds_of_sensors_into_a_single_optical/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 11417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/miot-anw111715.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LRXAK3QKXKEKTVWMFX2EEPJSF6ITKVJQ", "length": 4856, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.eurekalert.org", "title": "A new way to monitor vital signs | EurekAlert! Science News", "raw_content": "A new way to monitor vital signs\nIngestible sensor measures heart and breathing rates from within the digestive tract\nCAMBRIDGE, MA -- Using technology invented at MIT, doctors may one day be able to monitor patients' vital signs by having them swallow an ingestible electronic device that measures heart rate and breathing rate from within the gastrointestinal tract.\nThis type of sensor could make it easier to assess trauma patients, monitor soldiers in battle, perform long-term evaluation of patients with chronic illnesses, or improve training for professional and amateur athletes, the researchers say.\nThe new sensor calculates heart and breathing rates from the distinctive sound waves produced by the beating of the heart and the inhalation and exhalation of the lungs.\n\"Through characterization of the acoustic wave, recorded from different parts of the GI tract, we found that we could measure both heart rate and respiratory rate with good accuracy,\" says Giovanni Traverso, a research affiliate at MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, a gastroenterologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, and one of the lead authors of a paper describing the device in the Nov. 18 issue of the journal PLOS One.\nThe paper's other lead author is Gregory Ciccarelli, an associate staff member at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. Senior authors are Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT and a member of the Koch Institute, and Albert Swiston, a technical staff member at Lincoln Laboratory.\nSensing from within\nDoctors currently measure vital signs such as heart and respiratory rate using techniques including electrocardiograms (ECG) and pulse oximetry, which require contact with the patient's skin. These vital signs can also be measured with wearable monitors, but those are often uncomfortable to wear.\nInspired by existing ingestible devices that can measure body temperature, and others that take internal digestive-tract images, the researchers set out to design a sensor that would measure heart and respiratory rate, as well as temperature, from inside the digestive tract.\nThe simplest way to achieve this, they decided, would be to listen to the body using a small microphone. Listening to the sounds of the chest is one of the oldest medical diagnostic techniques, practiced by Hippocrates in ancient Greece. Since the 1800s, doctors have used stethoscopes to listen to these sounds.\nThe researchers essentially created \"an extremely tiny stethoscope that you can swallow,\" Swiston says. \"Using the same sensor, we can collect both your heart sounds and your lung sounds. That's one of the advantages of our approach -- we can use one sensor to get two pieces of information.\"\nTo translate these acoustic data into heart and breathing rates, the researchers had to devise signal processing systems that distinguish the sounds produced by the heart and lungs from each other, as well as from background noise produced by the digestive tract and other parts of the body.\nThe entire sensor is about the size of a multivitamin pill and consists of a tiny microphone packaged in a silicone capsule, along with electronics that process the sound and wirelessly send radio signals to an external receiver, with a range of about 3 meters.\nIn tests along the GI tract of pigs, the researchers found that the device could accurately pick up heart rate and respiratory rate, even when conditions such as the amount of food being digested were varied.\nThe researchers expect that the device would remain in the digestive tract for only a day or two, so for longer-term monitoring, patients would swallow new capsules as needed.\nFor the military, this kind of ingestible device could be useful for monitoring soldiers for fatigue, dehydration, tachycardia, or shock, the researchers say. When combined with a temperature sensor, it could also detect hypothermia, hyperthermia, or fever from infections.\nIn the future, the researchers plan to design sensors that could diagnose heart conditions such as abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias), or breathing problems including emphysema or asthma. Currently doctors require patients to wear a harness (Holter) monitor for up to a week to detect such problems, but these often fail to produce a diagnosis because patients are uncomfortable wearing them 24 hours a day.\n\"If you could ingest a device that would listen for those pathological sounds, rather than wearing an electrical monitor, that would improve patient compliance,\" Swiston says.\nThe researchers also hope to create sensors that would not only diagnose a problem but also deliver a drug to treat it.\n\"We hope that one day we're able to detect certain molecules or a pathogen and then deliver an antibiotic, for example,\" Traverso says. \"This development provides the foundation for that kind of system down the line.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 9236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.euronews.com/2019/02/06/the-farm-underneath-the-streets-of-london", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:59Z", "digest": "sha1:BDNIA6JHWONBVEWB4POMXBMO4LT75JQN", "length": 1088, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.euronews.com", "title": "The farm underneath the streets of London | Euronews", "raw_content": "The farm underneath the streets of London\nBy Nikolai Miller, NBC News \u2022et; last updated: 06/02/2019\nCountryside and farms have become almost synonymous but in a former World War II air-raid shelter in London two entrepreneurs are aiming to change that.\nThe complex, which is 30 metres beneath the ground, is filled with herbs, salads and \u2018micro-greens\u2019 destined for some of London\u2019s best-known restaurants.\nRun by Richard Ballard and his business partner Steven Dring, the underground farm was created to be fully sustainable. Plants are grown on carpet beds and nourished with newly developed LED lighting. The pair says the venture has been so successful that supply has outstripped demand.\nThe site used to be an air-raid shelter. It was used by some 8,000 Londoners at the beginning of the 1940s but fell into disuse soon after.\nIt was taken on by the business-focused pair following a crowdsourcing campaign, which raised more than one million euros.\nNBC\u2019s Nikolai Miller took a trip deep down into the farm to see what the fuss was all about. 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It explains how fat is not about food, but rather about protection, sex, mothering, strength, assertion, anger, and love.\nPsychoanalytic psychotherapist, Jane Haberlin will be in conversation with Susie Orbach on this milestone anniversary to discuss how the text is even more relevant today than ever.\nThe story of the past 40 years is grim. It\u2019s a story of malice, of greed and of mendacity. Not content with destabilising the eating of many western women and exporting body hatred all over the world as a sign of modernity, the combined forces of what investigative health reporter Alicia Mundy so aptly termed \u201cObesity Inc\u201d set about to create new so-called disease entities; these would medicalise and pathologise people\u2019s relationship to food and bodies so successfully that vast industries would grow up to treat problems that these industries had themselves instigated.\n-\tSusie Orbach, The Guardian, June 2018\nSusie Orbach is a psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, writer and social critic. She has campaigned against media pressure on girls to feel dissatisfied with their physical appearance. Orbach created the Women's Therapy Centre in 1976 and the Women's Therapy Centre Institute, a training institute in New York, in 1981. In addition to FIFI she has written 12 books including In Therapy. She received the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Psychoanalytic Council in 2017. She was a member of the Government Expert Panel on Bodies. She took the issue to UN Women with the British Government in 2012 Mining Bodies: The New Colonialism, Huffington Post, 8th March 2012\nJane Haberlin is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist who has been accredited with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy since 1996. She works as both a clinician with individuals, couples, and families, and as a clinical supervisor. Jane began her career in therapeutic communities, providing residential care and treatment to adolescents. Subsequently, she worked intensively at the Arbours Crisis Centre, an internationally renowned facility providing an alternative to in-patient hospital treatment for adults who have experienced acute emotional distress and mental illness. From there, she worked for a decade as a psychotherapist at the Women\u2019s Therapy Centre in London.\nFat is a Feminist Issue: 40 Years On, Susie Orbach and Jane Haberlin at Freud Museum London\nStress: External Threat or Internal Conflict? An Interactive Workshop\nDreams: The Unconscious Revealed - An Interactive Workshop with Laura Smith\nRelationships: An Introduction to Transactional Analysis\nThe Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read - Philippa Perry\nPROJECTIONS: Lars von Trier\u2019s Depression Trilogy, Intensive day course\nPROJECTIONS: Lars von Trier\u2019s America Trilogy, Intensive day course", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-justice-tickets-55144961063", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:07Z", "digest": "sha1:2KLTOXYM2SWARPGZVSSYYWDEDZQPBTKE", "length": 3474, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.eventbrite.com", "title": "No Justice Tickets, Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 8:00 PM | Eventbrite", "raw_content": "Tanner Fenolglio\nNo Justice Performs at Tower Theatre in Oklahoma City on March 8th.\nGA Floor - Standing Room ONLY\nBalcony - Reserved Seating\nWhen asked \u201cwhat is the best music advice you have ever been given?\u201d Steve Rice quipped, \u201cDon\u2019t quit your day job.\u201d Taken in the literal sense, Rice would have coveted his caution from the wind and settled down into the normalcy of forty hours a week permanently engraved on a time card. Luckily, Rice\u2019s literal sense mapped a far greater landscape of normalcy heading one of the top ranking bands in the independent music scene whose broad style and catalog is as robust as the hordes of fans that span the country and a decade. Hatched from the Red Dirt music mecca of Stillwater, Oklahoma and adopted into the live music epicenter of Texas, No Justice has cultivated a powerful brand built on unforgettable melodies, miles of solid comprehensive songwriting, and adorned with four acclaimed record releases with combined record sales topping over 100,000 units, two #1 hits and eight Top 10 singles on the Texas Music Chart, and a demand for live performances that keep them on the road over 200 days a year. To succeed in chartering a career with this kind of longevity today is not fundamentally based on awards or chart action or even sales stats, though No Justice has all of that and more in spades. The absolute key, the very core of any successful music career depends ultimately on the quality of the music and the continuity in which that music is produced. To put it simply, you have to create a pool of music that people want to swim in and No Justice has done just that, now five records deep.\nAMERICA\u2019S SON marks the band\u2019s fifth record release and will be available to fans on December 4th. Newer fans that found themselves addicted to the rock infused sound of their previous 2010 release SECOND AVENUE might be caught a little off guard by this lighter fix, but long time No Justice fans will be quickly transported back to the early days and immersed in the country music sound and heartbreaking melodies that No Justice is most revered for. AMERICA\u2019S SON is a family affair with a repeat performance from producer Dexter Green (Collective Soul) and released by Smith Music Group, longtime friends and partners who are responsible for the release of three previous records including FAR FROM EVERYTHING in 2003, NO JUSTICE in 2006 and LIVE AT BILLY BOB\u2019S TEXAS in 2008. Brand new songs cloaked in the gains and losses of a nomadic life are wiser for the wear here and the nuances of a greater appreciation in life do not go unnoticed. The record also features a star-studded cast both on the recordings and behind the scenes including guest vocal performances by Elizabeth Cook on \u201cSongs On The Radio\u201d and Rebecca Lynn Howard on the rejuvenated piano soaked \u201cDon\u2019t Walk Away.\u201d Jason Isbell, previously of the Drive By Truckers, provides brilliant slide guitar and backing vocals on the record\u2019s first single \u201cNever Gonna Be Enough\u201d and Texas music fans will pleasantly discover a couple of tunes co-written with Casey Donahew as well as Trent Willmon and Clint Ingersol. By going back to their roots No Justice has taken a huge step forward much like the bravest of us who venture out of our comfort zones and then return home with a stronger sense of self having faced the new and unknown with audacity. 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Through improvements in education, equality, energy poverty and access to water and sanitation we always strive to make a sustainable and long-term impact with our work, for local communities and the Earth as a whole.\nEngineers Without Borders Sweden is a Non-Governmental Organisation striving to make a long-term impact in the work towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. With our engineering expertise from industry and academia, we are active both in Sweden and internationally to solve engineering challenges related to inequality and global development. The access to quality education, reduced inequalities and gender equality, sustainable and cheap energy and clean water and sanitation are some of the key areas in which we are active.\nWe think that everyone has a right to improve their standard of living and we want to provide the means and infrastructure for people to do so, no matter where they live or where they come from. We are inclusive and curious, encouraging local initiatives and are always eager to learn from others. We realise that we cannot just teach engineering, but must also learn about cultures to improve our own way of life. Together we will build an equal and sustainable world and we need everybody to take part!\nEngineers Without Borders Sweden's work towards the Sustainable Development Goals is split between five different operations.\n- We do international projects in low-income countries mainly involving energy, water and sanitation. These areas are often combined with work for schools to improve the quality of education. The international projects serve as our knowledge exchange between cultures.\n- We inspire young people to study engineering or other kinds of higher education. With this work, we try to close the gap between well-off and less privileged areas in Sweden.\n- Our work within the theme Den Reflekterande Ingenj\u00f6ren revolves around making engineers and engineering students more curious about the world and what they can do with their education to support sustainable development.\n- Engineer to Engineer connects progressive companies with newly arrived engineers and scientists to improve work and social integration. Engineers and scientists can network and exchange experiences with working professionals in Sweden.\n- OpenHack is an Open Source hackathon organized to create a platform for collaboration, where organizations and tech-volunteers can meet and exchange both ideas and knowledge.\nAll of these areas further the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and the important progress that 193 countries have agreed on. We accept our responsibility for this development and are honoured to be part of the progress.\n\u25cf We challenge ourselves and welcome new ideas and initiatives from our members, local groups or others\n\u25cf We want to understand our society and our impact on the world, as an organisation and as individuals\n\u25cf We know that we always have more to learn\n\u25cf We believe that everyone should be entitled to a safe life and an opportunity to reach their full potential\n\u25cf We believe in people's intention to develop and to do right\n\u25cf We are strengthened by our differences\n\u25cf We achieve excellent results through collaboration based on local initiatives\n\u25cf Our work is long-term and sustainable\n\u25cf We view our knowledge and experience as our most valuable resource, which we are happy to share\n\u25cf We acknowledge our mistakes, correct them and learn from them\nIt all started in 2007. On a patch of grass outside the technical university in Gothenburg. A handful of students and a retired engineer decided to start Engineers Without Borders in Sweden (Ingenj\u00f6rer utan gr\u00e4nser). Early on, seminars with the aim to reflect upon the world and the role that an engineer can have in its development were arranged, and international projects were supported. The interest spread. Things started to happen. After five years, around 100 members were organized in three local chapters. Four international projects were on-going. Seminars were held, and the area of work to inspire young people to become engineers had started.\nOnly two years later, in 2014, the number of members was 600, the number of international projects was 15, and five new local chapters were established. Things had started to happen fast! In the coming years, larger and larger contracts were signed with partners in Sweden and abroad, an office was established, our focus was expanded to include Engineer to Engineer \u2013 our effort to facilitate for companies and engineers newly arrived in Sweden from other countries to meet, and OpenHack \u2013 a hackathon where the participants are set to use 48 hours, their brains and their programming skills to solve humanitarian and social challenges.\nIn 2017, after 10 years, we are over 1000 members organized in 10 local chapters. We have some 20 international projects ongoing simultaneously, with increasing level of complexity and extent. Weekly, we run several activities to inspire youth to become engineers, support children and youth in studies of technical subjects, organize forums where the world and the role of the engineer are discussed. We assist engineers who have newly arrived in Sweden to find their way into companies that seek for their competence, and we expand and spread the concept of OpenHack. 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Because of the closed nature of those devices, it's not a simple deal to take them apart in the event of a device failure to save the data on it, if it's not backed up to the cloud or to another computer.\nImage representing Apple as depicted in CrunchBaseImage via CrunchBase\nThat's where data recovery specialist Kroll Ontrack comes in. The Minneapolis-based company has some new data recovery techniques to address logical failures, or operating system (OS) failures, on personal Apple devices, including those aforementioned iDevices.\nKroll, which over a span of 20-plus years has developed its own set of data recovery tools for both logical and physical failures, now offers a diagnostic report that shows the quality of recoverable Apple device files so that users know exactly what will be returned to them prior to committing to the cost of the recovery.\nKroll, which has had a Macintosh recovery toolset for more than a decade, has the ability to recover data that is logically inaccessible on the Apple device's permanent storage. Common logical failures leading to data loss are deleted files, corrupt software, misplaced passwords and OS upgrade issues.\nAccording to CNBC's recent All-American Economic Survey, more than 50 percent of U.S. households own at least one Apple product. Consistent with the widespread adoption of these devices, are an increasing array of backup options -- whether it be the cloud or backup software. However, when individuals go to their backup, it may not be up to date, accessible or good quality.\nAs a result, Kroll says that it has seen a 350 percent increase in Apple device recovery requests in the past year. The most requested data needed from these devices are photos/videos and contacts, followed by notes and text messages. In addition to the increase in personal device activity, Kroll has also recovered more than 1.1 petabytes of data from Apple devices in the past 12 months, which is a 16 percent increase over the prior 12 months.\nIf you've got an Apple mobile device, and there's a good chance you do, and you're concerned about a data loss (or simply thinking ahead), check out Kroll's offering here.\nPrevious Overland Launches New Autoloader for LTO Systems\nNext Toshiba Jumps Ahead With 19nm SSDs for Notebooks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 16123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.exeter.edu/faculty/jay-donovan-tilton", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6TZC2SX2N6E7CKTWSHV7YUXGVPBOQDXT", "length": 2106, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.exeter.edu", "title": "Jay Donovan Tilton | Phillips Exeter Academy", "raw_content": "Jay D. Tilton\njtilton@exeter.edu\nB.A. Hobart and William Smith Colleges\nWhy the Admissions Office at Phillips Exeter Academy? That\u2019s easy. I\u2019ve discovered a place that reflects my past experiences and shares the passions I have and the values I believe in. I\u2019ve always had a love for athletics and, as the son of educators, learned at an early age how important a role education and sports could play in my life. The notion of \u201cteam\u201d has always been important to me. And the Bissell House team is a good one. Every day provides a new challenge. Whether it\u2019s traveling to Middle America in search of talented students or greeting prospective candidates on campus, our Admissions team takes great pride in helping others learn how Exeter could impact their lives.\nAfter spending half of my early education in a public high school in Berlin, New Hampshire, I moved on to spend my final two years at New Hampton School. It was there that I first experienced dormitory life with students from all over the world. I\u2019ve always valued both my public and private school experiences, and I frequently lean on them when discussing the merits of attending Exeter with candidates. It was during my undergraduate days at Hobart College, and later as a graduate student at Dartmouth College, where I learned what it\u2019s like to be part of a Harkness class. It was definitely challenging at first, but once I found my voice, it afforded me the confidence to handle many of the future challenges that I\u2019m faced with now, whether interviewing students or hosting Exeter Evenings on the road \u2014 and even in my passion for coaching. I have coached mens basketball at Dartmouth College and, for the past 11 years, have coached the boys varsity basketball team at Exeter. It\u2019s incredibly gratifying to see our student athletes compete at a high level while balancing their academic challenges. When I think of the passion my colleagues share for working with bright, motivated kids, and the amount we get to laugh in the process, it\u2019s easy for me to want to be a part of this team.\nI can be reached by email at: jtilton@exeter.edu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 230.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.exodusbooks.com/faith-science/3411/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LV7FWBHXGNG2WDJCSPPYYU2PQQJQTMVU", "length": 10779, "nlines": 79, "source_domain": "www.exodusbooks.com", "title": "Faith & Science - Exodus Books", "raw_content": "In 1987, the United States Supreme Court heard the Edwards v. Aguillard case. The case concerned a Louisiana state law requiring creationism to be taught alongside evolution in public schools. The law was deemed unconstitutional, as it defended the promotion of a particular religion under the auspices of the U. S. government.\nMany Christians were outraged (and continue to be), exclaiming that evolution is also a religion, and the real issue is that secular religious beliefs are being privileged over Christian ones. Some go one step further, claiming that America is/was a Christian nation, and that our First Amendment rights specifically defend the Christian faith in and out of the public sphere.\nSuch claims are so wide-ranging it's difficult to counter them. Was the United States ever explicitly a Christian nation? Were the rights and beliefs of Muslims, Jews, atheists, and Buddhists self-consciously excluded from the Constitution, and if so, what are the implications for the way we live now? Is atheism really a religion, or just a way to avoid having one?\nThese questions deserve answers. But there's another more basic question needs to be answered first: is evolutionary theory really synonymous with science, and is creationism really an anti-rational, anti-scientific belief without any factual basis? To answer this, we need to know what is meant by science, evolution, and creation.\nFirst, science. In the history of thought, science is more commonly called \"natural philosophy,\" indicating why it was pursued and what its practitioners thought it useful for. The goal of science initially wasn't to construct a unified theory of everything, but to provide one of the building blocks toward developing such a theory.\nThe early Greek philosophers, for instance, sought to understand the nature of the elements, what they saw as the building blocks of all that truly exists. They based their ideas on observable data, and while some of them reached some pretty absurd conclusions, they were at least starting from a point of fact.\nWhich is where all good science begins and ends. Science is about fact, and while hypotheses and theories help us reach true fact they are not in and of themselves factual. What is factual are the observable data of the physical universe, and analyzing these is the work of a scientist. So in the case of origins, fossils are observable data, but their history is a matter of conjecture.\nSecond, evolution. Evolution refers to change, development\u2014in the case of Darwinism it refers to the gradual development of living organisms from primitive forms to more advanced ones. This is a theory, the idea being that the reason we see so many variations in the fossil record and living species is because they are in a constant state of flux, always becoming something else.\nIt's a theory that tries to make sense of the observable data. Why do species change, or seem to change? How can we account for biological differences? Why have whole species gone missing? Scientists wrestling with these questions have found Darwinian evolution in its broadest form to be a valid way to answer them.\nThird, creation. This is simple: creation, or rather creationism, is the idea that God created all things seen and unseen. But there are as many variations to this broad perspective as there are to the evolutionary perspective. Did God create all at once in seven 24-hour days? Did he utilize evolution to produce multiple species? Did he take a long time to make the world?\nSome people believe the physical evidence points to an old earth, and therefore see the seven days in Genesis as long periods of time, perhaps even eons. Others say that the earth is only six or seven thousand years old, and that men and dinosaurs lived together, and in some obscure regions of Africa may perhaps even continue to do so.\nBoth evolutionists and creationists cite science in their arguments, but they do so in very different ways. Evolutionists look only at the physical record, and attempt to reconstruct biological origins simply by analyzing the evidence. Creationists, however, at least the Christian variety, begin with the Bible and move to interpreting the physical evidence in light of Scripture.\nThe result is often very messy, and frequently embarrassing. And unfortunately for Christians who believe God to be the sole author of all life, the embarrassment is usually a result of the arguments (or lack thereof) of the creationists. Even worse are the depths to which they'll sink in order to discredit evolutionary theory and promote their own.\nFor instance, there's a group among 6-day creationists who assert that the Medieval British epic poemBeowulfprovides proof that dinosaurs and humans lived together. Oddly, they don't even point to the dragon in the third section\u2014they invoke Grendel and his mother as evidence. Apparently, Grendel was a dinosaur....\nAnd thus are all those who believe that God created the world made to be fools. But we have no need of producing such dubious \"evidence\" for our beliefs. Attempts like this to validate creation science are neither scientific nor rooted in the authority of God's Word which every Christian affirms.\nThat's not to say that there is no scientific evidence for creation. There is, but it isn't found in fictional poems, nor in sightings of dinosaurs in Africa, nor in accounts of pterodactyls who burrow underground and eat island dwellers. Nor is it in the Bible, though that's a statement that requires a lot of qualification.\nFirst of all, as Christians we believe the Bible to be authoritative on all matters of faith and life. The Bible clearly tells us that all that exists was made by God, that God created the world and the stars and humans and chipmunks and trees, that from God alone proceed all things. This is undeniably the teaching of Scripture, and as such we accept it.\nBut the Bible doesn't tell ushow God created all things. Some things are certain: Adam, as created uniquely in God's image and the agent by whom sin entered the world, did not have animal ancestors; God spoke and all things came to be from the power of his will; even if evolution is at work it is under God's direct guidance, not as a random natural force.\nOther than that (and maybe a few other concerns), we are left to interpret the physical record in our attempt to understand the world around us. We do not accept ideas that are in direct conflict with Scripture (such as atheistic views of evolution), but we do not determine which interpretation of the physical evidence we accept based on our theology.\nAt least, not entirely. As Christians, we think about everythingas Christians. The Bible doesn't pronounce directly on science, but it does pronounce on things related to science, such as God's sovereignty, the rational source of all created matter as opposed to its random generation, etc. So we don't go to science trying to match it directly to the text of Scripture, but we do go to science as we go to all other endeavors looking through eyes transformed by the Gospel.\nIf you're getting the sense that the interplay between science and faith is more complex than reductionists on either side of the debate acknowledge, you're getting the right idea. For the sake of full disclosure, I would fall into the old-earth creationist camp, but I'm not a scientist, and can't claim to understand or even be aware of much of the evidence. (Note: The owners of Exodus hold a young-earth stance, though the same caveat applies.)\nWhat I can claim to understand is the command in Scripture to take every thought captive to Jesus Christ. There are certain claims of certain evolutionists that I must reject out of hand as a Christian, but these are statements that address areas of faith, metaphysics, or worldview, things of which science knows nothing.\nThe problem arises when these sorts of statements are dressed up in the clothing of objective science. Things get even stickier when these wolf-in-sheep's-clothing statements are codified into law, as in the landmarkEdwards v. Aguillard case. The real issue there, of course, is that God isn't allowed into public discourse, and any theory that relies on his existence and power is therefore declared unscientific and therefore summarily untrue.\nAt this point Christians must take exception to the common view. We worship and serve the all-powerful God of the universe, a God who himself declares to us in the Bible that he in fact created everything. But we do not worship a God who intends we should dogmatically insist on that which we have no concrete evidence to support. That God created, we believe; how he did so, we must find out.\nTo put it another way, it is not humility to deny or prevaricate concerning that which God has declared. However, it is the height of arrogance to insist on theories and ideas that are not explicitly explained or defined in the Bible. As Christians, our duty is to proclaim Christ and him crucified, not to dogmatically defend a concept open to interpretation within the guidelines that God's Worddoes set.\nWorldview & Apologetics for Kids\n5 Reasons to Believe in Recent Creation\nfrom Institute for Creation Research\nAnswers Book for Kids collection\n22 Questions from Kids on Creation and the Fall\n22 Questions from Kids on Dinosaurs and the Flood of Noah\n22 Questions from Kids on God and the Bible\n22 Questions from Kids on Sin, Salvation, and the Christian Life\n20 Questions from Kids on Space and Astronomy\nby Bodie Hodge, Ken Ham\n22 Questions from Kids on Babel and the Ice Age\nby Alan Gillen\nby Gary Parker\nin Master Book Science (Location: H6D-SCI)\nby Helen & David Haidle, Mary A. Hake\nCreation and Change\nby Douglas Kelly\nfrom Mentor Books\nby Earl & Bonita Snellenberger\n2015 Printing from Master Books\nin Dinosaurs & Fossils (Location: H8E-SCI)\nby Duane Gish\nA Biblical Journey Through Time\n2nd edition from Master Books\nThe True Story about Dinosaurs and Humans\nby Eric Lyons, Kyle Butt\n2nd edition from Apologetics Press\nby Philip Yancey & Dr. Paul Brand\nFlood by Design\nLegends & Lore of Survival\nby Bodie Hodge, Laura Welch\nby Georgia Purdom\nGenesis for Kids\nScience Experiments that show God's Power in Creation!\nby Doug Lambier & Robert Stevenson\nGeology By Design\nInterpreting Rocks and Their Catastrophic Record\nby Carl R. Froede, Jr.\nby Tom Vail\nIt Couldn't Just Happen\nFascinating Facts About God's World\nby Lawrence O. Richards\nby Michael & Beverly Oard\nEvolution: The Grand Experiment Volume 2\nby Carl Werner\nLiving Fossils - Presentation CD\nLiving Fossils - Set\nLiving Fossils - Teacher's Manual\nNew Answers Book - 3-volume set\nFormerly, Noah's Ark and the Lost World\nby John D. Morris\nNoah's Ark and the Great Flood\nby Gloria Clanin, Lloyd R. Hight\nNoah's Ark, Noah's Flood", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 430, "original_length": 19475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.faimer.org/news/2011/11/network-towards-unity-health-2011-conference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:18Z", "digest": "sha1:EPPNL7TZKW54MKPHBBD2NVEJNPG44RUA", "length": 2505, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.faimer.org", "title": "The Network: Towards Unity for Health 2011 Conference | FAIMER News", "raw_content": "Home > News > The Network: Towards Unity for Health 2011 Conference\nAuthor J DrendallPosted on November 4, 2011 November 18, 2016 Categories conferencesTags Austria, Network: TUFH\nThe Network: Towards Unity for Health (The Network: TUFH) held its annual conference September 17-21 in Graz, Austria. Approximately 250 participants from more than 40 countries gathered for this year\u2019s meeting, themed \u201cIntegrating Public and Personal Health Care in a World on the Move.\u201d The conference was co-hosted by the Medical University of Graz and the Styrian Academy of Family Practice.\nMore than 20 FAIMER faculty, staff, and Fellows participated in the meeting, serving as conference organizers, keynote speakers, presenters, facilitators, and discussants. Two Fellows, Sarah Kiguli (PHIL 2004) and Francisco (Pacho) Lamus Lemus (PHIL 2009), are members of The Network: TUFH Executive Committee. Co-Director of the FAIMER Institute Page Morahan participated in a round table plenary session, and FAIMER Associate Director of Evaluation and Planning Stacey Friedman gave a keynote presentation entitled \u201cMeasuring Social Networks: Understanding and Supporting Relationships to Transform Health Care.\u201d\nConference activities included a session for the FAIMER Regional Initiative in Latin America (FRILA). This session, co-facilitated by Ricardo Borda (PHIL 2008) of Colombia and Irene Durante-Montiel (PHIL 2008) of Mexico, invited FRILA members and other interested conference participants to discuss current and future opportunities for advancing the field of health professions education in the Latin American region. It also provided a forum for participants to brainstorm about future collaboration between FRILA and The Network. Another session, co-facilitated by Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde (PHIL 2005) of Uganda, who represented the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), and Ben van Heerden (PHIL 2006) of South Africa, who represented the Southern Africa-FAIMER Regional Institute (SAFRI), provided an opportunity for discussion among those interested in FAIMER initiatives or MEPI projects in Africa. Attendees were encouraged to share information about their respective activities in an effort to identify common themes and objectives and to explore opportunities for future cooperation to advance them.\nFor more information on the 2011 conference, visit http://www.the-networktufh.org/conferences/previous-conferences/2011.\nNext Next post: FAIMER Staff Members Appointed to Key Positions in AERA Division I", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 8762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Views-Born-in-the-U-S-A-I-was-born-in-the-13054541.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:43Z", "digest": "sha1:UH5QVMRPBAURHRKDPXWH6CDCNC5I3IWB", "length": 361, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com", "title": "Views: Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A. - Fairfield Citizen", "raw_content": "https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Views-Born-in-the-U-S-A-I-was-born-in-the-13054541.php\nViews: Born in the U.S.A., I was born in the U.S.A.\nPublished 2:32 pm EDT, Friday, July 6, 2018\nThe words to the Pledge of Allegiance at the corner of Reef and Oldfield roads.\nThe words to the Pledge of Allegiance at the corner of Reef and Oldfield roads", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 99.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fairplanet.org/support/support-the-1st-international-transgender-festival-in-india/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XPQYAOCXCXOVREV5FE4JV5GRSSSXQUKH", "length": 20497, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "www.fairplanet.org", "title": "Support the 1st International Transgender Festival in India! | FAIRPLANET.ORG | Read, Debate: Engage.", "raw_content": "https://www.fairplanet.org/support/support-the-1st-international-transgender-festival-in-india/\nSupport the 1st International Transgender Festival in India!\nAllgemein, NGO, Project, Volunteering\nAt the outset, Trans Diamond is a 5-day long festival dedicated to celebrate diversity and be the platform for active citizenship and international collaboration. The festival contains a set of distinctive events that brings world leading transgender activists, like-minded corporations, government bodies, communities, civil societies, leading LGBTIQ* groups, artists, film-makers and policy makers together. The larger aim of the festival is to foster international collaboration and accelerate the movement.\nTransgender movement across the world has reached an accelerated phase where the community is fighting for basic rights, identity and acceptance. Despite the increasing acceptance and mainstream media discussion, transgender individuals still face socio-economical\nand systemic barriers across the world. These challenges make it important for an international cooperation to foster the empowerment of transgender individuals.\nUsing Arts as tool for social change, the Festival draws attention to a wide range of issues faced by the transgender community. Leveraging the power of creative and performing arts, the Festival aims to catalyse the struggle for equal rights, acceptance and sensitize society. The Festival will also identify leaders from within the community, build capacities to engage in a\ndialogue with policy-makers and society at large to highlight pertinent issues. Right from capacity building workshops, open forum to film festival, social beauty pageant and a musical performance, the Festival is a confluence of arts, intellect, humanity and hope.\nIf you work within the sector of transgender rights, are committed to driving positive social change within your community and/or are just a passionate and a concerned citizen \u2013 get involved and contribute to create a festival for all!\ntransdiamond.com\nSupport the War Childhood Project!\nAuthors, Donation, Education, Project, Volunteering\nEntering the War Childhood Museum in the historical centre of Sarajevo, the first thing visitors can see is a colorful swing for children. An item like any other, one might think, until one reads a text on the wall describing its history and meaning for a small boy somewhere in the Yugoslavian countryside, in a region of what is today the nation of Bosnia and Hercegovina. This little swing was the only thing which made him forget the miseries and difficulties, the loss and pain a child has to endure when it witnesses war. And saved his life while his house was bombed down.\nThe War Childhood Museum opened in Sarajevo in January 2017. The Museum\u2018s collection contains a number of personal belongings like the before mentioned colorful swing, next to many more stories, audio and video testimonies, photographs, letters, drawings and other documents offering valuable insight into the unique experience of growing up in wartime. The idea started with a book: In June 2010, the author of the project Jasminko Halilovi\u0107 (29) launched a call for people who spent a part of their childhood in war to send a short answer to the question \u2018What was a war childhood for you?\u2019 In the first three months, over 1,000 people from 35 different countries sent their memories. The idea was to tell the stories of war survivors by creating a mosaic of memories out of these short and unique attachments. The edition of these recollections, initially supposed to last for several months, in the end lasted for about two years. The book which gathered these memories with the title \u201cWar Childhood \u2013 Sarajevo 1992-1995\u201d was finally published in 2013. During this time, Halilovic kept staying in touch with 1000 of the participants. Inspired by their different stories as well as by their personal belongings shown to him, Halilovi\u0107 elaborated the concept of \u2018War Childhood Museum\u2019, which was finally realized four years later.\nThe crucial part of the War Childhood Museum represents this collection of personal belongings of war survivors. However, these objects do not express much if standing on their own. Their importance lies exactly in the meaning they have for their owner. Therefore, every item that is displayed in the Museum is accompanied by a personal story of its owner, like the little swing which saved a small boy from being hit by a granade.\nIf you would like to support this greatly humane project, you can support the War Childhood team by visiting the museum, volunteering as a team member, helping them financially by buying the book \u201cWar Childhood \u2013 Sarajevo 1992-1995\u201d or you may promote it in your circles of preference.\nwarchildhood.org\nSpain: Support human rights author Do\u011fan Akhanl\u0131!\nAuthors, Donation, Protest\nCold metal of handcuffs on his wrists, accusing gazes watching every move he does \u2013 the Turkish writer Do\u011fan Akhanl\u0131 knows this situation too well from his former life in Turkey. But this time it is not Turkey, but the Spanish state that makes the author and political activist remember his darkest days in prison in his home country. Living in Germany since the 1990s as an exiled author, Akhanl\u0131 went on a regular holiday trip with his family to Granada in Spain. A day after his arrival the Spanish police knocked on his hotel room door, heavily armed and in bullet proof vests- as if he would be a dangerous criminal.\nSince 2013 the Turkish government is carrying out an extradition procedure against him. Akhanl\u0131 is accused for participating in a robbery in 1989 during his time as a political activist. Eyewitnesses said he was not the culprit. After his trial and acquittal in Turkey, he left his country of origin to live in Germany \u2013 a place where he felt safe from the threatening Turkish authorities. After years of living and travelling safely through Europe the international police cooperation INTERPOL finally reacted to his case with new accusations: Terrorism and an attempt to overthrow the government. \u201cI believe the state cannot bear my acquittal,\u201d Akhanl\u0131 explains. His lawyer suspects that he was spied on by the Spanish authorities \u2013 in a time of mass accusations, detainments and trials initiated by the current Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.\nIn his novels, essays, interviews and in his projects, Do\u011fan Akhanl\u0131 continually argues for the true treatment of historical violence and the indivisibility of human rights \u2013 topics of his own life until this very present moment: For 40 days Akhanl\u0131 will not be allowed to leave Spain. For 40 days he is required to report to the local authorities once per week. The costs for a Spanish and a German lawyer taking care of his case will ruin him and his family. For this reason, the German center of the international writers association P.E.N. calls for donations to help the author in this difficult situation. The money donated is used exclusively for the costs arising in context of this legal dispute. Should a surplus remain, the amount would benefit the Writers-in-Prison program of the P.E.N. Center Germany, a project committed to persecuted and imprisoned authors and journalists. Donations go to:\nPEN-Zentrum Deutschland e.V\n\u201eDogan Akhanli\u201c.\nIBAN: DE22 5089 000 0058 9207 11\npen-deutschland.de\nStop corporate funders of hate groups!\nThe big payment processing companies \u2013 Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover \u2013 are processing funds for some of the vilest white supremacist groups \u2013 including the groups behind the racial terrorism in Charlottesville.\nWhite supremacist hubs are able to easily receive funding from their members because these companies are allowing them to. And thanks to transaction fees, these companies are making money every time someone donates to these hate groups.\nWhite supremacist groups like Stormfront have played a major role in the recent and rapid rise in anti-Black, anti-Jewish and anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in the last year and a half. These groups plot to turn their hatred into violence. Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the site was put up in 1995. In the past decade alone, Stormfront members have murdered close to 100 people. Other hate groups, like Label 56, Crew 38, National Alliance and Northwest Front have been responsible for the radicalization of terrorists like the Charleston shooter Dylann Roof or Wade Michael Page.\nBy profiting from donations to hate groups these companies are directly enabling the rising violence and vitriol directed at marginalized communities. Help stopping corporate funders of hate groups and sign the petition on Color Of Change! Show them which credit card YOU use to make them see just how many of the users are outraged!\nact.colorofchange.org\nTransmodernity - A Film About Changemakers\nA Serbian drama therapist, a swiss drug expert, an Armenian performace artist and a former monk from India- what do these different people and their professons have in common? They are all changemakers. The three young filmmakers Halea, Luisa and Friedi from Berlin decided to portrait these people who are part of their circle of friends and acquaintances and created this great movie about personalities with inspiring life projects as an inspiration and appeal to take responsibility, dream and act upon it.\nThe movie\u2019s title \u201cTransmodernity\u201d is an umbrella term that addresses a socioeconomic, political and philosophical shift way beyond our globalised hyper-capitalist world. It is an exemplary term that could be used to describe the new age that we are diving into. While being critical of modernity and postmodernity, it takes the best elelments of both \u2013 trans-forming our society into something improved. Old systems that over the course of time, proved to not work out need to be reformed from within. The makers of \u201cTransmodernity- In The Blue Hour\u201d suggest to stay playful, have courage and optimism that people can make a difference collectively if they take responsibility as individuals.\nIf you liked the idea of this film and got inspired, you have the possibility to support Halea, Luisa and Friedi with their project via kickstarter. Only a few hours are left!\nZMAG: A place where nature loves society\nZMAG (Zelena Mre\u017ea Aktivisti\u010dkih Grupa, Green network of activist groups) is an NGO founded in 2002 and is engaged in permaculture education, environmental protection and raising awareness on sustainable living. The organization\u2019s members are organic gardeners and food producers, sustainable and natural building practitioners, permaculture designers and teachers, researchers of fair and egalitarian social and organizational models, environmental activists and those interested in sustainable living.\nZMAG is one of the Centers of Knowledge for Social Development in Croatia in the area of sustainable living and development of permaculture. The NGO promotes, develops and practices permaculture, environmental knowledge and skills, applicable models and technology as well as relations that are important for sustainable living. Over the years ZMAG has established itself in the areas of permaculture education, natural building and promotion of renewable energy resources and development of low-tech DIY technologies. ZMAG is working through several projects, on promoting Food Sovereignty, helping startup Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) groups in Croatia and creating good economic models that support family-owned small eco-famers. Through advocacy and education on seed protection and saving, they are acting on a local level in order to create community resilience.\nAt the same time, the members of ZMAG are actively involved in several educational programs in schools on subjects from climate change, seed saving, food production and preparation, composting and energy. In addition to advocacy work, policy analyses, networking and campaigns, their members participate in national working groups that create public policies, strategies and plans in areas relevant to our organization. All of the subjects which are addressed \u2013food, economy, energy, political power, ideologies, social values and consumerism \u2013 through their practical hands-on approach, are an endeavor of creating a new culture of collaboration and environmental stewardship that is necessary to sustain a livable planet.\nZMAG aspires to a world where an adequate standard of living, social and human rights for all people is met with respect to environment and sustainability. Support them by donating, volunteering and/or spreading their contents through your preferred channels!\nzmag.hr\nKenya: Lighting a Candle of Hope\nDonation, Education, NGO, Project\nLukenya Pillars of Transformation (LPT) is a Kenyan Non-profit, Student led Community Based Organization that seeks to build a people\u2019s capacity for self-reliant skills through projects and initiatives, active participation in training and mentorship programs and thereby improving the standards of life.\nThe Lukenya Community is one of the major communities surrounding Daystar University Athi River Campus and is located approximately 50 kilometers south of Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. It is home to close to 10,000 people. It is a commercial as well as an educational center which is rapidly urbanizing due to a high demand of houses and food products. Being an educational center, Daystar Athi River campus has seen an influx of students from within and outside Kenya coming to pursue their careers and improve their living standards. This has further attracted a large number of people from outside coming to invest in rental houses and in business. The University has offered employment to close to 2,500 people majority being security guards, cooks, drivers and cleaners.\nLPT has two mayor projects underway: One sponsorship program with the main aim to boost the less fortunate children at Daystar Mulandi, especially in terms of paying their school fees which is only Ksh 450 to 500 KES (not even 5 USD) for the pre unit children per term. This program will have a tremendous impact not only in the child\u2019s life but also endorse their families\u2019 financial stability.The second mayor program is a mentorship program with the goal to connect the youth in the community with individuals who are fully skilled in their area of interest. Currently the mentors are undergoing a two week training before they are connected with their mentees.\nSupport the students of Lukenya Community in their future-oriented and sustainable project and either donate directly or share and like their contents on your preferred channels!\nlukenyapillarsoftransformation.org\nTrack 11: A movie about integration in Germany\nIn 1966 Fehmi G\u00f6n\u00fcle\u011flendiren, a young man from Adana in Turkey arrived in the German city M\u00f6nchengladbach. He was one of the so called guest workers (Gastarbeiter) who came to help building up post-war Germany. He came among throusands of other unprofessional workers from Turkey. They were living in collective accommodations, ten to twelve men sharing a room. Because of the shift work in the factories, there was a permanent coming and going, day and night.\nFehmi G\u00f6n\u00fcle\u011flendiren was the grandfather of \u00c7a\u011fda\u015f Eren Y\u00fcksel. The young filmmaker never got to know his grandfather, because he died much too early in a car accident. But now, Y\u00fcksel \u2013 who is known for his film \u201cAsyland\u201d \u2013 is retracing his family\u2019s roots and thus putting up a historical phenomenon to discussion which is more than ever an up-to-date topic in Germany: \u201cI want to tell the story of the first generation of Turks who came to Germany in the 1960s,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s our last chance, because these people will leave us soon.\u201d\nFor several months now, he has been talking intensively with first-generation guest workers as with Germans who recall the 1960s and 1970s. The first days in rainy Germany. The first Turkish neighbor. The first German-Turkish love.\n\u00c7a\u011fda\u015f Y\u00fcksel processes the stories he collected in his film \u201cGleis 11\u201d, meaning \u201cTrack 11\u201d which was the arrival track of guest workers at the station in M\u00f6nchengladbach. Thanks to the stories told, Y\u00fcksel provides the audience with a glimpse of the living conditions and circumstances at that time. \u201cI want to tell the untold stories,\u201d he explains.\nThe team of young filmmakers involved in this project are in need of funding in order to continue their production of this independently produced film which is planned to be released in spring 2018- more than half a century after Y\u00fcksel\u2019s grandfather arrived on track 11. Feel encouraged to donate on the crowdfunding platform startnext, or like and share this great and necessary project!\nSupport civilians before they are hit by mass violence\nCrowd Funding, Donation, Education, NGO, Project, Volunteering\nAs fighting rages in Aleppo, Mosul, Sana\u2019a, Donetsk, Kunduz, and beyond, and even hospitals and schools have been hit, millions of civilians are trapped in the crossfire. Many families have disabled, elderly, or young dependents who are difficult to evacuate, or cannot afford to flee, so they are at high risk of getting killed or injured.\nHow does one speed up evacuations? Prepare bomb shelters? Convert items at home to shield family members with a reinforced shielded bed, a combat crib, or a sniper blind? How do you zone living space and courtyards for risk of gunfire or sniper fire? What alternate foods can one eat during shortages in isolation?\nThere are many medical, humanitarian, and mine action response teams aiming to help them, but the realities of war mean that most of that help comes months or even years after the community has already been destroyed. Therefore, most civilians are left to their own devices in the lead up and first months of violence and isolation. That\u2019s why the non-profit organisation Humanitarian Bazaar decided to create the War Survivors Advisory as a multimedia project harvesting the wisdom of survivors of past wars to create advocacy and training tools to help protect civilians newly at risk. The main goal of the NGO with its vast network of aid workers, war journalists, and refugee advisers, is to provide a more local, organic approach to \u201cpre-combat\u201d civilian protection.\nYou can support this important project by donating an amount of your choice and like and share the contents of Humanitarian Bazaar. You may also support them by signing up for one of their webinars or workshops or contribute your own knowledge and skills in case you are a war survivor.\nCredits: Humanitarian Bazaar\nPhoto: Daniel J. Gerstle\nThe Turkish government arrested Taner K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, the Chair of Amnesty International Turkey, for being part of the so called \u201cG\u00fclen movement\u201d which the Turkish authorities blame for last year\u2019s attempted coup during which 240 people were killed. Since then, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan ordered the arrest of about 50.000 persons and removed about 150.000 persons from public offices.\nAccording to Amnesty International, K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 had been taken into custody on June 6th together with 22 other lawyers in the province of Izmir and charged three days later. He is being held in detention pending trial.\n\u201cThe fact that the Turkish cleansing campaign after the Putsch has also pulled the chairman of Amnesty International in Turkey into their vortex, shows once again how far and arbitrary this campaign has become\u201d, declared AI Secretary General Salil Shetty after K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7\u2019s detention. Currently there is no indication that the arrest is related to his work for Amnesty and does not seem to be a specific action against the organization. It is unclear why K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 is suspected of having connections with the G\u00fclen network. According to the Turkish newspaper H\u00fcrriyet the attorneys are accused of the use of the messenger app ByLock which is popular among G\u00fclen followers, according to the government.\nShetty: \u201cTaner Kili\u00e7 has a long and distinguished record of defending exactly the kind of freedoms that the Turkish authorities are now intent on trampling.\u201d Taner K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 is a lawyer, political activist and struggled for the rights of refugees during his work as chair of the NGO \u201cM\u00fcltecilerle Dayan\u0131\u015fma Derne\u011fi\u201d (Association for Solidarity with Refugees).\nAmnesty International fights for the release of Taner K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7. Support their campaign #FreeTaner and sign their letter to the Turkish government demanding to drop the charges against him and release him immediately.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 407, "original_length": 28747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fanaticalfuturist.com/tag/immortality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EEW6X6NI6R5KZ35ATMH6ZIKTYXPSE6HO", "length": 365, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fanaticalfuturist.com", "title": "Immortality Archives \u2013 Fanatical Futurist by International Keynote Speaker Matthew Griffin", "raw_content": "Scientists have reverse engineered the genome of a man who died 200 years ago\nWHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many of today\u2019s emerging technologies are aimed at keeping us alive, and helping edge us closer towards immortality, but what if we could bring our relatives back from the dead? 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It will cost developers an estimated $2 million and replace an existing Powerhouse Plaza outlet; that store will remain open during construction.\n\u201cWe\u2019re just adding the 19,000-square-foot building to that parking lot, kind of reconfiguring things a little bit but leaving the (property) pretty similar,\u201d said Brian Pratt, an engineer with the Manchester-based Fuss & O\u2019Neill, according to an audio recording of Monday\u2019s meeting.\nPratt said the building itself will be nearly double the size of the existing Powerhouse Plaza store, and will include a larger warehouse designed to decrease the number of shipping trucks coming to West Lebanon.\nThe current store is one of the New Hampshire Liquor Commission\u2019s best-selling outlets. Located just north of Exit 20, it made $14.2 million in sales in 2016, the 10th highest statewide.\nThe new store will be surrounded by 155 parking spaces, Pratt said, adding that the construction will leave plenty of room for Weathervane customers to park. An existing grassy strip will separate the outlet from the Valley News building on Interchange Drive.\nThe 4.1-acre lot currently is owned by the Gagner Family Limited Partnership and Weathervane Seafood, and is valued at $2.4 million, according to city records. The liquor store is being proposed by Manchester developers Dick Anagnost and Alex Vailas, who will lease the building to the state through their company, AVG2 Lebanon LLC.\nTraffic to the store will be funneled through two routes, planners were told on Monday.\nVehicles will either be able to enter the parking lot through Weathervane Drive, the property\u2019s main driveway, from Route 12A, or they could connect through Martin Drive, a small connector road near the Walmart parking lot.\nThe new store is expected to generate 159 vehicle trips during peak weekday traffic hours, according to an impact study by Fuss & O\u2019Neill. Peak weekend traffic is expected to generate 167 trips.\nBut engineers told the Planning Board those numbers likely were an overestimate. About 20 percent of all traffic to the store could come from nearby businesses, they said, while another 20 percent might come from customers already traveling down Route 12A.\nThe Planning Board also approved eight waivers on Monday night that pave the way for the store\u2019s development. Most of those allow developers to forgo landscaping and buffer requirements on the property.\nThe waivers were necessary due to space constraints and a need to improve drainage in the Weathervane parking lot and driveway, Pratt said.\nA new catch basin system is proposed for the site, he said, along with rain gardens and pipes that tie the lot into the city\u2019s wastewater system.\n\u201cThe current site has some issues with stormwater,\u201d Pratt told the board. \u201cOver 30 years, it\u2019s clogged up. So what happens now is there\u2019s just big ponds in the parking lot.\u201d\nBut some board members questioned why the city\u2019s landscaping regulations couldn\u2019t be implemented along with drainage improvements. The site for a new store should be spacious enough for both, they said.\n\u201cI\u2019m struck by the number of justifications for waivers that begin with \u2018We can\u2019t,\u2019 \u2018We don\u2019t have enough room to \u2026\u2019 \u201d board member Lewis Greenstein said.\nCarl Porter, the board\u2019s vice chairman, agreed.\n\u201cIf we\u2019re looking at so many waivers because there\u2019s not enough room, perhaps the building\u2019s too large,\u201d he said.\nThe developers\u2019 requests also drew concern from board member Joan Monroe, who worried too few trees could contribute to a \u201cheat island effect\u201d in the area.\nHeat islands are formed when the heat captured by urban roofs and pavement leads to increased air temperature, according to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. More energy is therefore required to cool the surrounding homes and businesses, increasing the demand for fossil fuels.\nHowever, Pratt countered that the rain gardens might be more beneficial to the area, allowing for better drainage and preventing sediment from mixing with stormwater runoff.\n\u201cPersonally, I prefer to have the rain gardens,\u201d he said. \u201cI think they do much more to treat (problems) than having shaded trees would do.\u201d\nThe board ultimately settled on a compromise, and asked the developers to eliminate two parking spaces from an original plan of 157 spaces in favor of space for two shade trees. The board also called for additional trees along the property\u2019s boundary lines.\nA request to forgo some city fees associated with the project also drew concern from the Planning Board.\nThe city requires developments along Route 12A to contribute to a fund designated to improve traffic along the busy corridor. For the liquor and wine outlet, developers estimated that contribution would total $72,000.\nCity Planning Director David Brooks said the fees are designed to help Lebanon pay for street improvements that become necessary when several projects pop up in the corridor. A single development might not trigger the need for upgrades by itself, he said, but taken together, multiple projects could impact the roadway.\nPratt said the developers should be allowed to skip the payment because they plan on building a sidewalk to Route 12A from the Weathervane. They also intend to repair the parking lot and driveway leading out to the main road.\n\u201cThis is all going to be fresh new pavement,\u201d he said, estimating the sidewalk and driveway work to cost $77,000.\nBut board members were reluctant to drop the fees, saying the money might be needed down the line and that it partially eases taxpayers\u2019 burden. They decided to keep the fee in place, saying the money raised might be useful for future projects around the site.\n\u201cWe\u2019re behind on roads, and taxes are going up and nobody\u2019s thrilled about it,\u201d said Jim Winny, the City Council\u2019s representative to the Planning Board.\nMore from Valley News>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 8514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.farmaline.uk/vitamins-supplements/chondroitine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HDJZQFUP7PZZJBVYPHRXAXVZ5CTHYFUE", "length": 335, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.farmaline.uk", "title": "Vitamins & Supplements > Chondroitin -", "raw_content": "Chondroitin is in dietary supplements used as an alternative medicine to treat osteoarthritis and also approved and regulated as a symptomatic slow-acting drug for this disease (SYSADOA) in Europe and some other countries. It is commonly sold together with glucosamine. Chondroitin and glucosamine are also used in veterinary medicine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fashionfoiegras.com/2014/07/instagrammer-takes-celebrity.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:43Z", "digest": "sha1:MSDEZLYMT6RQDGZBUZRATUNQ2S5RDCRL", "length": 817, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fashionfoiegras.com", "title": "Instagrammer takes celebrity impersonations to a new level with homemade outfits", "raw_content": "Instagrammer takes celebrity impersonations to a new level with homemade outfits\nposted on: Wednesday, 16 July 2014\nWhen it comes to random discoveries on Instagram, this one takes the cake. There is a young man who is spending, what appears to be all his time, dressing up as celebs. He's impersonated Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lawrence, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Jessica Simpson, and the list goes on and on. The actual reproductions are priceless. This waverider_ puts a lot of time and energy into his artwork. Truly, that's all you could call it - art. Perhaps it's better to describe it as \"abstract art.\" But said art has resulted in a massive following on instagram- nearly 1.5 million to be exact.\nHere are a few favorites from his instagram collection. What a find.\nLabels: celebrities . instagram", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fashionweekelpaseo.com/x-portfolio/ralph-rucci/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:13Z", "digest": "sha1:BPJDCY4PSZWCVK3CBYQXAY7FEHT3DF76", "length": 6210, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.fashionweekelpaseo.com", "title": "Fashion Week El Paseo 2018 Designer Ralph Rucci", "raw_content": "2018 Designer Ralph Rucci\n\u201cFashion is always about eccentricity. Given our present cultural uniformity, that\u2019s very important,\u201d says Ralph Rucci. The American designer\u2019s fashions are eccentric in the best sense \u2014 at once exuberant and austere, yet never loud or capricious. Rucci\u2019s garments are an ode to craft and to the grace of the female body. They are all about the miracles that can be achieved by the human \u201chand.\u201d Rucci\u2019s style follows laws of its own and creates its topicality over and beyond the daily round of the fashion business. \u201cMy clothes evolve one season at a time,\u201d he says. \u201cEvery collection builds on the past.\u201d\nRucci draws his inspiration from a private aesthetic universe, a mixture of diverse elements: Far Eastern asceticism, modern art, and ethno-folklore. His personal pantheon includes Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon, Joseph Beuys, Flemish Renaissance, Crist\u00f3bal Balenciaga, Madame Gr\u00e8s, Coco Chanel, Charles James, Gianfranco Ferre, Halston, Hubert de Givenchy, James Galanos, Pauline de Rothschild, Elsa Peretti, Diana Vreeland, Mrs. Deeda Blair, Patti Smith, and Silvana Mangano.\nRucci\u2019s trademarks are scintillating paintings made into prints, meandering Frankenstein and \u201cworm\u201d stitches, suspension techniques, the vibration technique, the thread of life technique, and many more, with an unerring eye for volume and structure. But above all, he has an almost obsessive interest in the materials.\n\u201cI love unusual materials that mix and reference both luxury and technology. Materials such as stiff horsehair, paper taffeta, silk faille, silk moire, double-faced wools and cashmeres, materials that speak and whisper \u2014 chiffon, georgette, cotton piqu\u00e9, hammered satins, and heavy satin Duchess. They are all equally important as rubber, bonded leathers, latex, and all sorts of embroideries on tulle to create fabrics, from leather to religious couching thread.\u201d\nThe clothes that emerge from all this are as magnificent as they are wearable. Despite their architectural precision, they look gossamer light. They are made for women of taste, those with enormous style and a penchant for understatement.\nRalph Rucci was born in Philadelphia in 1957. An artistic child, he later studied philosophy and literature at Temple University. He later attended The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After graduating, he apprenticed with Halston before going off on his own in 1981. In September of that year, he showed his first collection \u2014 made to order in essence. He borrowed $10,000 from an aunt and labored alone for months, draping and cutting all of the first toiles and samples. He showed formally at the old Westbury Hotel on Madison Avenue, and as the story goes, he wheeled the racks to the hotel himself, assisted by several sample-makers. A select clientele slowly developed, for whom he worked tirelessly thereafter.\nIn 1987, he had built the business to some significance only to succumb to the worst crash in American economic markets since the Great Depression in 1929. He barely remained afloat, and in 1994 he renamed the company Chado Ralph Rucci, an allusion to the chado Japanese tea ceremony and its values, such as harmony, purity, and respect \u2014 elements he\u2019s always strived for in his work. His international breakthrough finally came in 2002 when the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture Francaise invited him, as the only American in history, to show a couture collection in Paris as part of the official calendar. Never had an American been invited under his own name to show together on the calendar great houses. He showed haute couture in Paris for five seasons. He returned in 2007 to show a ready-to-wear collection for the international market.\nRucci has been the subject of many retrospectives, notably The Costume Institute of the Kent State University Museum (2005\u20132006), The Fashion Institute of Technology (2007), The Costume Institute of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2007), and The Phoenix Art Museum (2008).\nPrestigious awards have included The Star Award from the Fashion Group International of New York (2005), The Cooper Hewitt National Design Award (2008), The Couture Council of the Museum at FIT (2006), The Pratt Institute Icon Award (2009), The Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts Visionary Award for Fashion (2011), The SCAD Andr\u00e9 Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award (2012), and an Honorary Doctoral Degree from The Drexel University College of Art and Design (2015).\nRucci\u2019s clothes are in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The de Young Museum in San Francisco, The Phoenix Art Museum, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Texas Fashion Collection in Denton, Texas, among others.\nFilms have included David Boatman\u2019s Ralph Rucci: A Designer and His House (2008), narrated by Martha Stewart and produced by the Sundance Channel, and Christian Leigh\u2019s Ralph Rucci (2010).\nBooks published on Rucci include The Art of Weightlessness by Valerie Steele, Patricia Mears, and Clare Sauro (2007) and Autobiography of a Fashion Designer (2011) by Bauer and Dean Publishers with photographs by Baldomero Fernandez.\nIn 2011, Rucci received the great honor of being inducted into the Fashion Group International Walk of Fame. His plaque sits on the southeast corner of 39th and Seventh avenues, right before Halston and James Galanos, set within the sidewalk for all time.\n\u201cI always approach a new collection with the idea of beginning with something unfinished or incomplete from the previous collection. I take these threads of thought and begin, on an entirely conceptual level, to braid and enmesh them all into something new, always seeking an evolution of thought and design. For me, each new collection has its own point of view, but they are all ultimately related to the same body of work that I started in the beginning, in 1980. Each collection is an outward visual of the state of the mind \u2014 an extension of my mind personally and how the work must now be suggested to the ever-changing clients within a culture in constant confusion and without any clarity of what denotes taste in the modern world.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 6770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 185.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.feedbackcasino.com/glossary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:04Z", "digest": "sha1:I46GUZUBXCYUBRLNM6WY4MOWKJM6EV4Q", "length": 3135, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.feedbackcasino.com", "title": "Gambling & Onlince Casino glossary A to Z", "raw_content": "Lexicons of words used in the casino :\nDo not stay in the blur, learn finally the definitions of the terms used at the casino!\nIn the online casino world there is a whole new vocabulary to learn. Indeed, there are many words and expressions to the somewhat barbaric as waggering , re- spins or gamble that may frighten particularly novices. Here are some definitions to better understand this language seeming somewhat exotic at first.\nEmployee of the customer support that is only available for VIP players.\nOld name for a slot machine (usually the ones with 3 reels).\nPromotional offer of an online casino.\nVery effective strategy for blackjack that tracks the distributed cards to determine whether or not the remaining cards provide an advantage over the house.\nDeveloper of games in online casinos.\nA free game round in a slot machine.\nSpecial feature in a slot machine game where you can stake your winnings and try to double or sometimes quadruple them.\nA software that calculates the random numbers that are used in the games.\nMaximum win that you can get in a slot machine or video poker game.\nA jackpot without a fixed value, it grows as the players play the game.\nSpecial feature of a slot machine that usually comes in the form of a mini game where you can win money.\nOfficial document that allows the online casino operator to offer games on the internet.\nLines in a slot machine on which you have to line up a combination of symbols in order to win money.\nA Roulette betting strategy.\nOnline table games hosted by a live dealer where you can participate via a webcam.\nA free game mode that allows you to try the game without betting real money.\nSee Demo mode.\nGame mode that allows you to play with real money.\nThe company that runs the online casino.\nSee random number generator.\nA free spin in which one or more symbols are held in their place on the reels.\nSpinning column on which one or more symbols are displayed.\nA special symbol that does not need to appear on a payline in order for it to pay out. It pays regardless of its position on the Slot machine\nThe general name for a casino video slot game.\nSecure Socket Layer \u2013 Internet security protocol.\nThe basic blackjack strategy is often presented in form of a table that gives you the play option with the best chance of winning, depending on your hand and the dealer's open card.\nThe customer support of an online casino.\nItems on the reels of a slot machine.\nOverall percentage of the bets that are paid back to the players.\nSection on the operation of the online casino and your and our commitments.\nSee Volatility\nA game mix of a slot machine with poker. In this game you can try to get the best hand in usually two attempts where you can select the cards you want to keep.\nA slot machine that is digital and not analogue, It has a video screen instead of a mechanical set of reels.\nA term describing the risk and payout frequency of the slot machine (usually low, medium or high).\nBetting conditions imposed on bonus money and accumulated winnings.\nA special symbol of a slot machine that can replace other symbols to form or complete winning combinations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 5756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fercoseating.com/projects/all/the-vinson-centre-at-the-university-of-buckingham/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:52Z", "digest": "sha1:NPBRZQHIPEJJ7RMURYCU7TQMFSLMQFFI", "length": 1555, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.fercoseating.com", "title": "The Vinson Centre at the University of Buckingham | Ferco", "raw_content": "With fewer than 3,000 students and around 400 (teaching and administrative) staff in total, Buckingham is one of the UK\u2019s smaller universities but being small in size doesn\u2019t mean small in ambitions or facilities for students.\nThe University of Buckingham is a non-profit, private university and the oldest of the country's five private universities. It was founded as the University College at Buckingham in 1973, admitting its first students in 1976. It was granted university status by royal charter in 1983. Buckingham offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and doctoral degrees through five \"schools\" (or faculties) of study.\nThe Vinson Centre for Liberal Economics and Entrepreneurship was built for the study of free-market economics. It is partly funded by Lord (Nigel) Vinson, a Tory peer who earnt his fortune from plastics in the 1960s before helping to set up the Centre for Policy Studies.\nThe three-storey learning centre designed by Panter Hudspith Architects has a 180-seat lecture theatre, a double-height study centre complete with a mezzanine and informal learning spaces, a student caf\u00e9 and a new university bookshop.\nAs well as research collaborations between the University and the Institute of Economic Affairs, the centre will be used by economics students, research fellows, and for conferences and internships.\nThe university installed the market-leading FT10 with Wrimatic\u2122 tablet seat with shared power and data ports. A bespoke stitching pattern on the backrest and seat was requested to complement the bright red fabric.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 165.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/aca/premiums-for-employer-sponsored-insurance-increase-slightly-for-sixth-straight-year", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KTSPWHJVS4GUWZ3BIFT7S76N65NTR2GG", "length": 3177, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.fiercehealthcare.com", "title": "Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance increase slightly for sixth straight year | FierceHealthcare", "raw_content": "Premiums for employer-sponsored insurance increase slightly for sixth straight year\nPremiums in employee-based plans increased slightly this year. (Getty/Minerva Studio)\nPremiums for employer-sponsored insurance have edged up for the sixth straight year, according to a new report.\nPremiums increased by an average of 3%, to an average of $18,764 this year, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation, Health Research and Education Trust and Health Affairs. The increase is slightly higher than the rise in workers' wages, which as about 2.3% on average, and 2% inflation.\nThese moderate increases of the past several years mark a slowdown compared to other recent windows. Family premium rates have increased 19% since 2012, compared to a 30% jump between 2007 and 2012 and a 51% increase between 2002 and 2007.\n\u201cWhile the marketplaces seem to get all the attention, the much larger employer market where more than 150 million people get their coverage is very stable,\" Kaiser Family Foundation CEO Drew Altman said in an announcement.\nRELATED: Trends for payers to watch in employer-based insurance\nThis stability is in sharp contrast to the individual marketplaces, where premiums have increased significantly. The problem is exacerbated by a lack of options available in the insurance exchanges, research shows.\nThe analysis did find differences in how large and small employers pay for their employees' insurance. While there are more small employers than large ones, significantly more covered employees work at large firms (71% versus 29%).\nSince 2012, workers\u2019 contributions to family health premiums are up 32% to average $5,714. KFF/@HRETtweets survey: https://t.co/RiRoiKCrmv\n\u2014 Kaiser Family Found (@KaiserFamFound) September 20, 2017\nWorkers at small firms also tend to contribute more to their family coverage, according to the report. These employees contributed on average $1,550 more than those employed by a larger company. Smaller employers are more likely to make the same insurance contributions across the board, for individuals and family coverage, leading to more than a third (36%) of their employees paying most or all of their family premiums themselves.\nRELATED: Midsize and small employers add coverage in 2016 after years of decreases\nThe report also found that employees at smaller firms have higher average deductibles. Employees at smaller companies had an average deductible of $2,120, compared with $1,276 at larger firms.\nFor workers w/ health insurance #deductible, average is now $1,505 - similar to last year but up sharply over time https://t.co/fSKLE3G97X pic.twitter.com/NIA98ORNQI\n\u201cAs policymakers and providers continue to work to improve health care, ensuring it remains affordable and accessible is critically important,\" Jay Bhatt, M.D., president of HRET and senior vice president and chief medical officer at the American Hospital Association, said in the announcement.\nInsurance Premiums Employer-Sponsored Health Plan High-Deductible Health Plans Health Insurance Exchanges Research Affordable Care Act (ACA) Finance Kaiser Family Foundation Health Research & Educational Trust Health Affairs Drew Altman Jay Bhatt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmink.com.au/public-notice/nida-comes-stories-couldnt-tell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:M7VJ5YLF55W5XM2HVZS5VWGYRKJDUMUE", "length": 3783, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.filmink.com.au", "title": "NIDA comes out: the stories we couldn't tell you | FilmInk", "raw_content": "NIDA comes out: the stories we couldn\u2019t tell you\nNIDA turns 60 and comes out\nTom Ballard opens NIDA\u2019s year of 60th anniversary celebrations with In Conversation: Love is Love, examining LGBTQI+ stories on stage and screen\nFor almost half of NIDA\u2019s 60 years, homosexual activity was illegal, persecuted and discriminated against at all levels of law and society in Australia. This had a major impact on how LGBTQI+ stories were told on stage and screen \u2013 if at all.\nThis Valentine\u2019s Day, to open NIDA\u2019s 60th anniversary celebrations, multi-award-winning Australian storytellers including comedian and broadcaster Tom Ballard, Sydney Theatre Company Artistic Director Kip Williams, and award-winning performance artist and theatre director Harriet Gillies, come to NIDA to lead In Conversation: Love is Love.\nThe panel discussion will look at LGBTQI+ depictions in film, theatre and television, and their impact on the lived experience and the national consciousness, including controversies such as straight actors playing gay and lesbian roles, and whether gender fluid roles are being written and viewed differently.\nAustralia\u2019s most iconic LGBTQI+ story, Priscilla: Queen of the Desert, starring NIDA graduate Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp\u00ad, was released 10 years after homosexuality was decriminalised in NSW, but its writer-director Stephan Elliott didn\u2019t come out as gay to the Australian public until 2012.\nFor most of Australian history, being LGBTQI+ was not only illegal, but could end someone\u2019s career and even put their life in danger.\nIn 2019, those dark times seem well behind us as a cohort of NIDA students are busy fundraising and preparing for NIDA\u2019s inaugural participation in the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade, an initiative the students spearheaded themselves.\nIt signifies an important milestone, not only for NIDA, but also for Australia, reflecting a cultural turning point in the stories Australia is now eager to tell.\nIn Conversation: Love is Love will be held on Thursday 14 February 2019 from 6pm at NIDA\u2019s Parade Theatre. Tickets available from nida.edu.au/love-is-love\n1959 \u2013 2019: NIDA\u2019s In Conversation series\nCelebrating six decades of supporting Australian storytellers on stage and screen, NIDA\u2019s In Conversation event series brings together exceptional Australian artists and arts practitioners to talk about their work and career path, as well as the inspirations and challenges that shaped their creative voices and craft.\nIn Conversation: Love is Love\nWhen: 14 February, 2019\nWhere: Parade Theatre, National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), 215 Anzac Pde, Kensington NSW 2033\nHow much: $50/$40, including a glass of sparkling for ages 18+, or a free soft drink for under 18s\nTICKETS ON SALE NOW: nida.edu.au/love-is-love\nThe National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia\u2019s leading institution for education and training in the dramatic arts. Under the guidance of NIDA tutors, and the leadership of the Board of Directors and Academic Board, NIDA has grown to become a world leader, with a highly-regarded educational program of graduate and undergraduate degrees, vocational diplomas, open short courses, school-holiday programs, and corporate training.\nNIDA is celebrating 60 years in 2019. Our graduates, such as Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin, Jessica Marais, Kip Williams, Sarah Snook and many more, have been recognised for their contribution to the success and vibrancy of the Australian and international arts and entertainment industries. Our actors, designers, writers, directors, and technical and production professionals go on to achieve acclaim on the stage, on screen, and at major cultural events, creating new ways to share stories with audiences around the world", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/payments/alibabas-ant-financial-hikes-bid-moneygram-acquisition-1-2-billion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:52Z", "digest": "sha1:3T4JDDN43QA2ZQTV5EKFEYJF5GXEHBWR", "length": 2344, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.financemagnates.com", "title": "Alibaba\u2019s Ant Financial Hikes Bid for MoneyGram Acquisition to $1.2 billion | Finance Magnates", "raw_content": "Alibaba\u2019s Ant Financial Hikes Bid for MoneyGram Acquisition to $1.2 billion\nEuronet openly lobbied U.S lawmakers, saying Ant's proposal created a national security risk.\nAnt Financial, e-commerce giant Alibaba\u2019s financial arm, announced on Monday that it has raised the value of its bid to acquire U.S. money-transfer company MoneyGram to $1.2 billion, up 36 percent of its original $880 million offer, as well as making it more lucrative than what was offered by Euronet.\nThe company which owns Alipay, one of China\u2019s biggest online payment platforms, was forced to sweeten its bid after U.S.-based Euronet Worldwide Inc jumped in the game last month with an unsolicited $1 billion offer. The Ant\u2019s new offer easily beats Euronet\u2019s bid, which proposed $15.20 per share, and also represents a 9 percent premium to MoneyGram\u2019s last traded share price on Thursday, noted Reuters.\nMoneyGram said in a joint statement on Sunday that its board unanimously approved the new deal. However, the planned takeover is expected to face more regulatory scrutiny than the lower bid made by Euronet for its Dallas-based rival. A Euronet deal would face fewer hurdles than a bid from a Chinese company and also doesn\u2019t not require clearance by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a U.S. agency that reviews foreign acquisitions of domestic assets for national security concerns.\nAccording to media reports, Euronet openly lobbied U.S lawmakers, saying Ant\u2019s proposal created a national security risk although MoneyGram will remain headquartered in Dallas and continue to operate under its existing brand. Several congressmen criticized the deal with the affiliate of Alibaba saying that the Chinese government has nearly 15 percent stake in Ant.\n\u201cShould this transaction be approved, the Chinese government would gain significant access to, and information on, financial markets and specific international consumer money flows,\u201d said U.S. congressmen Robert Pittenger and Chris Smith.\nAccording to Ant Financial, the transaction will connect its vast network of users with MoneyGram\u2019s money transfer network of 2.4 billion bank and mobile accounts and 350,000 physical locations. In turn, MoneyGram will tap Ant Financial\u2019s global presence and existing network to cater to over 630 million users and increase its business in Asia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 6784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flatworldsolutions.com/IT-services/mobile-applications/case-studies/plant-recognition-mobile-app.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:59Z", "digest": "sha1:YFR4P7HTAVHUAJWD3CJRHM3TIK3BWZLC", "length": 2813, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.flatworldsolutions.com", "title": "Case Study | Plant Recognition Mobile App for US Entrepreneur - FWS", "raw_content": "Case Study on Plant Recognition Mobile App for US Entrepreneur\nThe client is a well-known and dynamic entrepreneur based in the United States and is deeply involved in the field of technology and is a nature enthusiast.\nThe client was looking for a reliable mobile app development partner who could develop a mobile application which would recognize the plant by just uploading the image of the flower, leaves, or the fruit. They were looking for a user-friendly solution which would help the users to easily recognize the plant within a quick time.\nOur mobile app development team had to face a few challenges while implementing the project for our client. Some of them were -\nThe existing solution made use of crowdsourcing which would take a long time when some other user would guess the name of the plant on the social platform. Our solution needed to recognize the plant instantly by using image recognition\nThere are more than 300,000 species of plants in the world, which meant we had to collate over 90 million plant images into our database\nAfter carefully analyzing the requirements of the client and various challenges involved, our experienced team of mobile app developers devised the following plan -\nWe first created the database of tens of thousands of plants images along with details of each of the plant species\nOur mobile app developers created a mobile app which would recognize the plant instantly by searching in the plant database and through different learning algorithms\nThe app is designed to work even with low resolution and dark images as long as the subject of the image is in the center of the frame and has the right exposure\nIn cases where the app is unable to identify the plant, it provides the user with different options to choose the best match\nWe used SQLite and MySQL for the database, PHP and Smarty 2.0 for the framework, and the Facebook SDK for social integration\nThe client was extremely delighted to see the app identifying plants from across the globe with over 92% accuracy. This app has made it very simple for users, especially nature enthusiasts, to identify plants from different parts of the world.\nFlatworld Solutions has been a leading provider of mobile app development services and a plethora of other software development services. Our team comprises of some of the most talented and experienced mobile app developers who are capable of developing apps for different platforms including Android, iOS, Hybrid, Xamarin, etc. We also have a data science team onboard who can help us make the mobile apps more intelligent by incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.\nIf you are looking for a reliable, cost-effective, efficient, and high-quality mobile app development provider, then look no further. Get in touch with us today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 441, "original_length": 150074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fleetequipmentmag.com/alternative-fuels-increase-medium-duty-truck/?utm_source=GTA+Insider_Jan.+26%2C+2017&utm_campaign=GTA+Insider+012617&utm_medium=email", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:56Z", "digest": "sha1:AMP5LPJVTKQF3ZPJISMNFHWYW5SRZWWF", "length": 4305, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.fleetequipmentmag.com", "title": "Fueling choices: Fleets' use of alternative fuels continues to increase", "raw_content": "Featured/Medium-duty\nFueling choices: Fleets\u2019 use of alternative fuels continues to increase\nIt is clear that growth in the use of alternative fuel and electric vehicles by fleets continues to expand. At the same time, an ongoing concern about the availability of a fueling and charging infrastructure is still giving some fleets a reason to hold off on deploying the latest offerings from a range of manufacturers.\nLate last year, however, the federal government took a step that it hopes will help alleviate that issue: the U.S. Department of Transportation\u2019s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) announced the first of a nationwide set of alternative fuel corridors in November. Initially, 55 routes spanning nearly 85,000 miles in 35 states will serve as the basis for a national network of fueling and charging stations for natural gas, propane, hydrogen and electric vehicles.\nThis news comes as manufacturers continue to offer more alternative fuel choices. For example, including 2017 and 2018 models, Chevrolet and GMC will have more than 25 cars, trucks and vans that use alternate fuels or electric propulsion in their product lines.\nThe two manufacturers also recently announced expanded alternative fuel fleet offerings, including a broader CNG/LPG lineup. In particular, the companies are partnering with Power Solutions International (PSI) to introduce heavy-duty pickups and full size vans powered by 6.0-liter V-8 compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) engines.\nTo streamline the ordering and delivery process for fleets, PSI was also named General Motors Fleet\u2019s preferred upfitter for CNG and LPG trucks. The provider of turnkey alternative fuel powertrain solutions will install fuel systems and other hardware and ship the vehicles directly to Chevrolet and GMC dealers in 50 states.\nChevrolet also announced it will offer CNG and LPG versions of its 3500 and 4500 model low cab forward trucks. The new Class 3 though 5 models in GVWRs up to 19,500 lbs. are available in regular and crew cab styles with 6.0-liter V-8 gas, 3.0-liter turbo-diesel or 5.2-liter turbo-diesel engines.\nWith those additions, CNG and LPG models available from the manufacturers include Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana Cargo van and Cutaway chassis and Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickups. Chevrolet Express van and Silverado pickups, along with GMC Savana and Sierra models are also being offered in E85 ethanol versions.\nOther recent additions to the expanded lineup of alternative fuel trucks in GM Fleet\u2019s portfolio are biodiesel (B20) capable models. Included are a Duramax 2.8-liter diesel for Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana vans and an all-new 6.6-liter Duramax diesel engine for Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD pickups.\n\u201cExpanding choice is the key to helping more commercial and government fleets reduce their fuel consumption, fuel costs and emissions using alternative fuels versus traditional gasoline,\u201d said Ed Peper, the U.S. vice president of GM Fleet. \u201cThere are no \u2018one size fits all\u2019 solutions for fleet managers.\u201d\nIn the future, those choices may also include fuel cell electric vehicles. Last October, General Motors and the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) revealed a Chevrolet Colorado-based fuel cell electric pick up being developed under an agreement between TARDEC and GM signed in 2015.\nStarting this year, the Army will use the vehicle to assess and demonstrate the capabilities of fuel cell electric propulsion and power generation systems, including quieter mobility, exportable power, low-end torque and water generation. While neither GM nor TARDEC released vehicle specifics, they noted that fuel cell propulsion has characteristics that can be valuable in both military and commercial applications.\n\u201cThis project is another example of how fuel cells can play a role,\u201d said Charlie Freese, executive director of GM\u2019s global fuel cell activities. \u201cWe need to continue pursuing these opportunities along with our plans for production of a commercial fuel cell system in the 2020 time frame.\u201d\nMeanwhile, alternative fuels are already playing a growing role in helping the U.S. meet its 2015 pledge to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 80% or more by 2050.\nLubes & Filtration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 248.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fm-magazine.com/news/2013/dec/20139220.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:31Z", "digest": "sha1:MDTHT2OXM2MZFEJNGIGD55ATJ3DTC6MT", "length": 3827, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.fm-magazine.com", "title": "Effects of non audit services at audit firms concern PCAOB, SEC", "raw_content": "Effects of non audit services at audit firms concern PCAOB, SEC\nUS regulators are asking whether the increasing provision of nonaudit and consulting services by audit firms poses risks to audit quality, and the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) plans a formal examination of the issue in 2014.\nThe PCAOB plans to hold round-table discussions on the issue next year with audit firm leaders and other stakeholders, board Chairman James Doty said Monday at the American Institute of CPAs Conference on Current SEC and PCAOB Developments.\nDoty said the PCAOB is interested in examining the implications of consulting arrangements on the independence of the audit function and issues such as:\nHow firms will avoid having their best personnel work in consulting at the expense of audit expertise and competence.\nWhat risks are associated with non audit business lines.\nHow non audit activities affect resource allocation and investment in the audit function.\nAccording to Doty, audit firms have said that the acquisition and ownership of non audit expertise benefits and supports audit expertise. He said those benefits need to be continually re-examined by firms and articulated.\n\u201cTo what extent does it in fact enhance and support audit quality?\u201d Doty told reporters after his speech Monday. \u201cTo what extent can it be maintained without the firm losing its identity as an audit firm? \u2026 I think these are the questions that the public has and will be with the audit firms for the long haul.\u201d\nSecurities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chief Accountant Paul Beswick said at the conference that he is concerned about the effect that growth in firms\u2019 consulting practices could have on their audit functions.\n\u201cIt seems that while in the early 2000s, audit firms were disposing of their consulting practices because of regulatory constraints and restraints, more than ten years later, those same firms now believe similar consulting practices can achieve greater growth under firm leadership notwithstanding the significant challenges,\u201d Beswick said.\nBeswick said the concern is being raised across the globe. A provision of a draft law approved by the European Parliament\u2019s Legal Affairs Committee in April would prohibit audit firms from providing nonaudit services that could jeopardise independence. But the draft law has yet to be approved.\nThe discussion of nonaudit services in Europe has captured the PCAOB\u2019s attention, Doty said.\n\u201cWhat are its implications \u2026 [for] the expansion of nonaudit services?\u201d Doty said. \u201cWe simply can\u2019t be unaware of the implications for independence, objectivity, scepticism, audit quality, of any of these developments. There is no syllabus that has written that down. It\u2019s a process that is going to unfold, and we have to be attentive to the unfolding.\u201d\nDoty said it\u2019s part of the PCAOB\u2019s ongoing work to find out what a firm has done when it has announced a major acquisition or investment in nonaudit or consulting services.\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to be important for us to know what the firms are doing, which in their view should yield compliance with the SEC\u2019s independence standards requirements and should not blend services,\u201d Doty said. \u201cThey\u2019re all going to be working very hard at that. And we\u2019ve got to find out what their techniques are, what changes they\u2019re making, what procedures they\u2019re putting in place.\u201d\nCindy Fornelli, executive director of the Center for Audit Quality (CAQ), which is affiliated with the AICPA, said the CAQ looks forward to discussing the issue.\n\u201cThe CAQ welcomes the opportunity to discuss the profession\u2019s approach to consulting work, its commitment to preserve independence and objectivity, and our view that the capabilities and skills used for consulting work can benefit audit quality and reduce risk for investors,\u201d Fornelli said in a statement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/10/30/a-foolish-take-millennials-are-more-frugal-than-yo.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:05Z", "digest": "sha1:7PKIU7AML5EKQVYKMW7F734KQM23YL4J", "length": 1509, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.fool.com", "title": "A Foolish Take: Millennials Are More Frugal Than You Think -- The Motley Fool", "raw_content": "A Foolish Take: Millennials Are More Frugal Than You Think\nForget the stereotypes: They're actually saving a larger share of their incomes than older generations.\nA seemingly endless number of reports assert that millennials are spendthrifts with poor saving habits. It's an image that people have broadly come to accept: In a recent Merrill Edge survey, only 8% of respondents saw millennials as \"very good savers\" -- compared to 54% for seniors, 45% for Baby Boomers, and 19% for Gen Xers.\nYet that same survey revealed millennials are actually saving more money than older generations, in terms of the percentage of their annual incomes they set aside.\nData source: Merrill Edge. Chart by author.\nThis indicates that the problem isn't the amount younger workers save -- it's the amount they earn. The average salary for a millennial in the U.S. today is just $35,592 per year, according to numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics crunched by SmartAsset. That's well below the national average of $44,148.\nGiven their lower salaries, rising living costs, and high levels of student debt (an average of $37,172 per graduating student in 2016) it's impressive that millennials actually save a higher percentage of their paychecks than older generations. The notion that they spend too much on food and entertainment, require instant gratification, and live off their parents might be based more on stereotypes than reality.\nA Foolish Take: Millennials Are More Frugal Than You Think @themotleyfool #stocks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 6384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/02/24/netflix-will-be-profitable-in-the-long-run.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:GMHQZFD6R6TCEW4KR73IFS7DWPOYGQO4", "length": 4906, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.fool.com", "title": "Netflix Will Be Profitable in the Long Run -- The Motley Fool", "raw_content": "Netflix Will Be Profitable in the Long Run\nMany claim that elevated content costs will make Netflix\u2019s business unprofitable in the long run. Is this plausible? How might Apple and Amazon impact Netflix's profitability?\n(Hyenaman)\nMany bears claim that elevated content costs will make Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) unprofitable in the long term. However, multiple factors seem to indicate otherwise. For example, Netflix appears ready to launch new markets internationally, and the company is also planning to broaden its strategy by providing multiple streaming services for different prices to maximize income. Netflix will also continue developing original shows.\nThe International segment will prove an asset\nThere are indications that Netflix is ready to launch new markets in Latin America, Nordic countries, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Canada. In the U.K., broadband Internet connections using fiber optic or cable were used by 42% of households, up from 30% in 2012. Nordic countries dominate broadband Internet connection access rankings, with all five Scandinavian countries ranking in the top 10. Canada improved marginally since the previous survey, moving from 10th place to 9th. According to the Central Statistics Office, 81% of people living in Ireland now have access to the Internet at home. Latin America has more than 50 million households with access to broadband Internet connections. At a 20% annual growth rate, Netflix should significantly grow its international subscriber base in the next few years.\nDifferent prices will boost revenue\nNetflix wants to broaden its operations by offering streaming services at different prices. Users would have a choice to service levels to accommodate multiple budgets and usage needs. This move should serve to maximize Netflix's revenue and gain new customers by catering to the varying needs and capabilities of consumers. Netflix added more than 2 million new domestic subscribers in the fourth quarter, bringing its total U.S. subscriber base to more than 33 million. Netflix's original forecast called for 1.6 million-2.4 million new customers. Clearly, the company has a room to increase its number of subscribers. If it maximizes its income through the implementation of new service plans, Netflix's revenue should rise without affecting content costs.\nBuilding a strong fan base\nNetflix had phenomenal success developing original shows last year, and the company is building on that tradition. Ultimately, this strategy will have an impact on the company's streaming revenue. In the U.S., multichannel video programming distributors have remained stable at 100 million subscribers. Netflix has slightly more than 30 million domestic customers, which suggests there is room to improve its margins. The development will have a positive impact on the company's profitability.\nAmazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) recently licensed programs from Viacom in an effort to become a major competitor to Netflix. The company added TV shows from Viacom's networks to the Prime Instant Video service, which brought the number of movies and TV shows available to around 15,000, up from 13,000. Amazon has also given the green light to five original series. The number of U.S. digital TV viewers will reach 145.3 million in 2017, up from 106.2 million in 2012, according to eMarketer. Amazon is clearly motivated to improve its streaming content to gain a significant share of the market.\nApple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is planning to introduce a new AppleTV set-top box. This move seems to signal Apple's new-found aggressiveness regarding the TV and video streaming sector. According to Juniper Research, the 2017 revenue from streaming and download services on mobile TV and tablet devices will reach $9.5 billion, up from $4.5 billion this year. This will be a result of the maturation of the market for streaming subscription services and pay-per-title content. Apple is interested in gaining a share of that revenue.\nThe bears who believe that elevated content costs will make Netflix's business unprofitable over the long term are simply incorrect. The launch of new markets will significantly expand the company's international subscriber base. Netflix's plan to provide streaming services at different price points will maximize income in the near future. The company's intention to continue developing original shows should also improve its bottom line in the long run.\nMark Girland has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool recommends Amazon.com, Apple, and Netflix. The Motley Fool owns shares of Amazon.com, Apple, and Netflix. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.\nNetflix Will Be Profitable in the Long Run @themotleyfool #stocks $AMZN, $NFLX, $AAPL", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 9644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/fixtures-results/latest-chelsea-news-sarri-barkley-15250561", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DKFAQRYVW3BAY76DBQN3VOUR7IT5BBVD", "length": 3246, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.football.london", "title": "Maurizio Sarri press conference: Every word on Barkley, Morata's goal and the title race - football.london", "raw_content": "Maurizio Sarri press conference: Every word on Barkley, Morata's goal and the title race\nThe Blues manager was delighted with their 3-0 win at Southampton\n31 passes for Morata, is this your type of football?\n\u201cSomething like this, something like this. We moved the ball very quick. I think one touch, sometimes two. We arrived at the goal so easy. I think it\u2019s my football.\u201d\nYour favourite goal?\n\u201cSure, of course because I can see my way of football in this situation.\u201d\nMorata, has the confidence now?\n\u201cI am really very happy with him, for him. It is always very important for the striker to score, to have scored in the Europa League and to have scored today. But it was very important the performance. Alvaro has played very well in the Europa League and today in the last 30 minutes. I think we can restart easily now.\"\nChelsea press conference live: Maurizio Sarri on Southampton win Hazard's brilliance & Barkley\nWas today your perfect way of playing?\n\u201cI think sometimes, not always. I think today we can do better, especially in the centre part of the second half. We have given them two or three opportunities. We need to be in control of the match, we can do better in the defensive phase and sometimes also in the offensive phase. Today we did wrong in two or three counter attacks, four against three, three against two. I think we have the possibility to do better.\u201d\nRoss Barkley, his best performance?\n\u201cI think the best performance of Ross was in the Carabao Cup in Liverpool. Today he has played very well, but I am really happy with him. From the beginning he has improved day by day, week by week and match by match. So I am very happy with him and for him, for the goal, for the national team. I think he had a very serious injury in the previous season, but I think he is improving.\u201d\nRoss Barkley celebrates after scoring for Chelsea against Southampton. (Image: Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)\nImproved the way he is training, what have you talked to him about? An example?\n\u201cNot in particularly, I said to him from the first day that he has great quality, physical and technical quality. But you have to improve from the tactical point of view, but now he has improved (tactically).\nWhat is his potential?\n\u201cI don\u2019t know. But potentially he is a great player. He has quality, very important qualities in the physical and technically point of view, now he is improving in the tactical point of view. He will become a very important player in England and for the England national team.\u201d\nChelsea player ratings: Barkley & Kepa superb with Hazard in scintillating form at Southampton\nTop of the league, stay there?\n\u201cIt\u2019s the same that I thought exactly one week ago and what I said. I think Manchester City and Liverpool are a step forward from us. We need to recover the gap. The gap last season was 30 points between City and Chelsea, now we are trying to cover the gap and we are working on that. I think it will be very difficult to cover so large a gap in one season.\u201d\nRuben Loftus-Cheek, injured?\n\u201cNo, not at the moment. I preferred for him after 70 minutes in the last match for the first time in the season, I preferred for him to have training.\u201d\n'Chelsea got an absolute bargain!' - Fans rave as Ross Barkley rips Southampton apart", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 11218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.footballpalestine.com/2017/02/palestinians-abroad-banner-day-for.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:07Z", "digest": "sha1:WJ4SKFFMGXOC6PUIRIC4VZ5ZH72PWMFN", "length": 3021, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.footballpalestine.com", "title": "Palestinians Abroad: Banner day for Palestinians in continental cup competitions", "raw_content": "Palestinians Abroad: Banner day for Palestinians in continental cup competitions\nCarlos Salom: first Palestinian to score in both South American cup competitions\nWhen the AFC announced a reduction in Palestine's AFC Cup allocation in December of last year it seemed improbable to envision a week like the one we are currently experiencing.\nA Palestinian national team player has scored in the AFC Cup, The Asian Champions League, and Copa Libertadores within less than 72 hours of each other.\nVideo of all the goals after the jump...\nShabab Al-Khaleel victorious in the AFC Cup\nWith Ahli Al-Khaleel unceremoniously stripped of their place in the AFC Cup playoffs- it fell to their cross town rivals Shabab to try and better the achievements of WBPL clubs over the past two seasons (when the allocation was 1.5 as opposed to .5).\nDespite a tumultuous league season, Shabab Al-Khaleel duly delivered overcoming a 1-0 first half deficit to win the game 2-1 with goals from Fahed Attal and Ahmad Abu Nahyeh.\nShabab now will hope that the slender one goal lead will hold up in the return leg next week.\nAhmad Maher makes Asian Champions League History\nThat opening act was followed by Ahmad Maher Wridat who made his debut for Jordanian giants Al-Wehdat in the AFC Champions League. The former Dhahrieh and Ahli Al-Khaleel player became the second Palestinian to play in the AFC Champions league following Abdelatif Bahdari who played with Wehdat in this stage of the competition two years ago.\nThe playmaker, who is one of only four players to score more than one goal in the AFC Cup (Mahmoud Wadi, Fady Zidan, and Abed Morjan are the others) became the first Palestinian to score in the AFC Champions League when he slotted home the opening goal against Bengaluru in the 47th minute. He nearly doubled Wehdat's lead with a spectacular bicycle kick minutes later.\nThe diminutive attacker made way in the 73rd minute with Wehdat up 2-0 in a game they eventually won 2-1. The Jordanian champions will face Al-Wahda of the UAE next week with a spot in the AFC Champions League group stage on the line.\nCarlos Salom scores in Copa Libertadores\nThe final act of Palestinian dominance on the continental stage was provided by Carlos Salom who continued his fine 2016 form in his first competitive match in 2017. His opportunistic run busted Cerro's offside trap to give Union Espa\u00f1ola a 2-1 lead at the stroke of halftime.\nSalom became only the second Palestine national team player to score in South America's most prestigious cup competition following in the footsteps of Pablo Abdala who scored in the 2001 edition of the tournament.\nMuch like Ahmad Maher, Salom is also the first Palestinian to score in both the Copa Sudamericana and Copa Libertadores.\nSalom was also involved in the build up for the winning goal blocking a Cerro clearance and deflecting the ball to Sebastian Jaime. Union Espa\u00f1ola will host the return leg next week knowing that a draw or a low scoring one goal loss will see them through to the next round.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 6127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foundry-planet.com/equipment/detail-view/sinosteel-to-invest-us-4-bln-in-indian-steelworks/?cHash=9aa35c8c91b4dfcb278706f3510e0877", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:47Z", "digest": "sha1:JWPY362NFNX4RCDQZZCTFCO5ZTAO6F5Z", "length": 1195, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.foundry-planet.com", "title": "Sinosteel to Invest US$4 Bln in Indian Steelworks | foundry-planet.com - B2B Portal", "raw_content": "Sinosteel to Invest US$4 Bln in Indian Steelworks\nSinosteel Corporation, a large Chinese enterprise group engaged mainly in development and processing of metallurgical and mineral resources, said that it plans to invest more than US$4 billion over the next eight to ten years to build a steelworks with annual output capacity of 5 million tons in India.\nWang Hongsen, general manager of Sinosteel India Company, said the proposed factory with designed final capacity of 5 million tons will be put into operation before the end of 2008 and it will be Sinosteel's first steel factory in India.\nThe first phase of the steelworks will form an annual capacity of 1.5 million tons and cost 800 million tons, Wang said, quoted by Beijing Business Today.\nIt is learned that Sinosteel hopes to secure the agreement on the project with the local government of India before the end of June this year.\nHuang Tianwen, president of Sinosteel Corp., said the group and its joint venture partner will also invest at least US$200 million in iron ore and steel projects in India.\nFor inadequate raw material supply, quite a few Chinese steel makers are eyeing on overseas resources and plan to build works abroad.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.francesfdenny.com/PORTFOLIOS/MAJOR-ARCANA:-WITCHES-IN-AMERICA/6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:29Z", "digest": "sha1:TZDHDJINZRIHRCJTBAR6ZCANZ2EGYIAY", "length": 18, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.francesfdenny.com", "title": "Frances F. 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Their work, which has been exhibited widely in major international spaces, locates them in the intersections of contemporary art, historical enquiry, philosophical speculation, research and theory \u2013 often taking the form of installations, online and offline media objects, performances and encounters. They live and work in Delhi, based at Sarai-CSDS, an initiative they co-founded in 2000. They are members of the editorial collective of the Sarai Reader series.\nInstallation view of 'Everything Else is Ordinary', K21 St\u00e4ndehaus, D\u00fcsseldorf, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 181.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.frontrowcentre.com/theatres+movies/quebec/en-pleine-tempete/132805/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:37Z", "digest": "sha1:I5HRXDVNKLDSJUPD7E3WWRR52VBPFS3E", "length": 52, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.frontrowcentre.com", "title": "En pleine temp\u00eate movie times in Qu\u00e9bec | local showtimes & theatre listings", "raw_content": "En pleine temp\u00eate is not playing anywhere in Canada.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fullhurst.leicester.sch.uk/page/?title=Contact+Us&pid=140", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BEJL5MBSVWFTXPUSVHFDBCMVMGMIEGLD", "length": 228, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fullhurst.leicester.sch.uk", "title": "Fullhurst Community College - Contact Us", "raw_content": "Please contact us using any of the methods provided below. The relevant member of staff will then respond.\nShould you require a paper copy of any of the information displayed on our website, please do not hesitate to contact us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fullhurst.leicester.sch.uk/page/?title=Geography&pid=132", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:LVUC63OP7XJH3SNZYHA6Q6WRUQZ5UVPN", "length": 3647, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.fullhurst.leicester.sch.uk", "title": "Fullhurst Community College - Geography", "raw_content": "In order to develop students\u2019 sense of curiosity about the world they live in and to promote high standards of attainment, we teach a broad range of topics in depth, which meet the demands of the new National Curriculum. Links between what is studied at Key Stages 3 and 4 are explicitly made so that students build on what they already know when acquiring new knowledge.\nWe aim to ensure that every student will have an interest in and a sense of wonder about our planet. In this complex and dynamically changing world, we will equip students with the skills to be able to articulate their own opinions about global issues that affect them as well as understand the views of others. Through their study of Geography, students will be able to explain where places are, how places and landscapes are formed, how people and their environment interact, and how a diverse range of economies, societies and environments are interconnected. Students will learn to think spatially, use maps, visual images and new technologies, including geographical information systems (GIS), to obtain, present and analyse information.\nIn year 7, students begin by looking at the Geography of the UK, investigating the physical and human landscape, population, weather and economy, whilst getting to grips with some of the geographical skills they will be using over the course of the year. This leads onto looking at urban issues within the UK, developing their understanding of the process of urbanisation, followed by energy and sustainability where students will discover the future energy options for the UK and how we can ensure these are sustainable. In the spring term students study weather and climate, taking a look at the processes behind the weather we experience in the UK and finally students will look at global ecosystems where they learn about the major biomes, their locations and characteristics. Students end the year with a geographical fieldwork investigation which revisits urban issues and includes a field trip enabling students to collect their own primary data which they can then analyse back in college.\nIn year 8, students begin by looking at water on the land, where they learn about the key processes which help to shape the physical geography of our landscape, through looking at rivers and coasts. Students then go on to looking at population and migration, including population structures, the issues of ageing populations and the effects of migration. In the spring term, students study development along with human and physical hazards, which includes plate tectonics, drought, flooding, crime and avalanches. Again, students end the year with a geographical fieldwork investigation where they will develop their geographical skills further and visit a river landscape to carry out their investigation. Again, they collect their own primary data and analyse this back in college.\nThe OCR A GCSE Geography course examines what it is like living in the UK today, from the different landscapes and people, to the environmental challenges facing the UK. Students also study the world around us, which looks at the variety of peoples and ecosystems across the globe and develop and improve their geographical and fieldwork skills, by taking part in fieldwork operations that allow them to put their geographical skills in action. Students complete the course by taking three exams at the end of year 11.\nThe Geography department contribute to the school\u2019s diverse enrichment programme by facilitating students taking part in:\nthe geographical worldwise quiz.\na study of ecosystems at the Yew Trail, Markfield.\nthe year 7 community day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fusionsleep.com/your-options/credibility-commitment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GLBVWGRZ7S3YC3V2V7COX3D5UUB4Z2VZ", "length": 3087, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.fusionsleep.com", "title": "Credibility & Commitment \u2014 Sleep Apnea Treatment - Sleep Apnea, Snoring, Sleeping Disorders", "raw_content": "Credibility & Commitment\nNationally Accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine\nOur Sleep Medicine Program is Nationally Accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), the benchmark for excellence in Sleep Medicine.\nAt FusionSleep\u00ae, we not only meet these standards, but we surpass all national expectations and serve as a model for the future of Sleep Medicine Programs.\nBoard Certified in Sleep Medicine\nOur Sleep Medicine Physicians are specialty trained in Sleep Medicine and Board Certified in their specialties. Our Medical and Clinical Staff members are extensively trained and highly knowledgeable in the field of Sleep Medicine.\nSleep is Our Passion\nSleep Medicine is a Complex Specialty requiring years of training. We focus strictly on Sleep Medicine, as we believe that Physicians should not take responsibility for treating Sleep Disorders as an adjunct to another specialty, including General Neurology, Otolaryngology, or Pulmonology.\nAt FusionSleep\u00ae, we offer a Sleep Medicine Program that is focused on the prevention of chronic illnesses by restoring healthy sleep and efficient, daytime function. We dedicate 100% of our time to the study of sleep, which means you are getting the highest quality of care by a professional specialty staff.\nTraining Tomorrow\u2019s Sleep Medicine Experts\nFusionSleep\u00ae offers one of the few Sleep Medicine Fellowship Programs in the Southeastern United States. Graduates of this Program are eligible to sit for the Sleep Medicine Specialty Boards, conducted by the American Board of Specialty Training. Eligible physicians must be Board Certified in Neurology, Pulmonology, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, or Internal Medicine, and are selected based on demonstrated professional excellence. As the leaders in Sleep Medicine, we are dedicated to promoting and providing advanced professional and technical education in our field.\nAdvancing the Field of Sleep Medicine\nFusionSleep\u00ae makes it a priority to participate in Sleep Medicine research through our collaboration with Dr. Russell Rosenberg an NeuroTrials Research. We play a key role, both nationally and globally, by participating in projects, investigator initiated trials, and technology development. We have created a clinical model that is unique and distinct from previous medical practice paradigms. Our research program is focused on patient-oriented advances in Sleep Medicine that result in disease prevention.\nThe Trusted National Experts in Sleep\nAt FusionSleep\u00ae our Clinical and Research team members are regularly called upon to give lectures on advanced topics in the field of Sleep Medicine. From lecturing on the Neuro-Cognitive Implications of Sleep Deprivation, to serving on the Medical Advisory Board for the Restless Legs Foundation, our staff educates professionals in the field of Sleep Medicine.\nWe have earned respect from our local medical community to become the experts in clinical sleep medicine. Most importantly we are acknowledged around the country for our unique approach to Sleep Medicine, a benefit which directly relates to you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gaggle.net/speaks/what-is-a-teacher-to-a-student/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JSQMRPXMJJYLGYTTLDTHMDL3XTMXWKSS", "length": 2379, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.gaggle.net", "title": "What is a Teacher to a Student? | Gaggle Speaks", "raw_content": "What is a Teacher to a Student?\nAs a teacher, how you relate to your students is greatly significant. You could possess a vast and varied wellspring of knowledge in comparison to the less learned minds in your classroom. But, as we all know, if you don\u2019t have the respect and trust of your students, you can certainly curb your effectiveness as a teacher.\nSo, I ask: \u201cWhat is a Teacher to a Student?\u201d In other words, how do you appropriately establish this relationship between yourself and your students?\nOne traditional answer seeks to define the relationship between a teacher and his or her students by way of opposites. For instance, teachers are the source of knowledge, whereas students are recipients of knowledge. Teachers represent an authority, whereas students are subordinates. Although it is important to maintain the respect and control of a classroom, there is one issue with taking this approach to an extreme:\nDefining the teacher-student relationship in terms of opposites can create an atmosphere of opposition.\nWhile it\u2019s both important to be regarded as a source of knowledge and as an authority in the classroom, consider these two suggestions on how to stress continuity (rather than opposition) between you and your students.\n1. As a teacher, be an advanced student.\nThe goal of education is not to someday finish. Quite the opposite, teaching requires continued learning. Be clear with your students that you still learn and educate yourself. Communicate with them when you learn from them. There is so much knowledge to be had in the world. It would be false to presume that you cannot pick up insights from your students.\n2. 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This makes us the best company in Orlando when it comes to installing, repairing and maintaining your system!\nHere at Garage Door Repair Orlando, we know that your automated door may have been expensive and that you would like it to give you plenty of years\u2019 worth of convenience, safety, and security. That\u2019s where we come in! Our expertise and knowledge will go a long way in ensuring that you get the most out of your door!\nOur excellence can not only be seen in our quality workmanship and good service, it is also immediately apparent in our professional technicians. They\u2019ve studied the trade and know exactly what it takes to install and fix your garage door and all its components. They\u2019re the core of our business as they provide excellent service while still being friendly and polite.\nNot Just Repairs\nDon\u2019t let our name fool you. Yes, repairing garage doors is our core business but we also offer reliable door installation services. We offer a wide range of materials to choose from, including wood and aluminum. We also professionally install electric openers to give you the complete automated experience.\nHowever, we are the Repair Experts!\nYes, we\u2019re really good at installing garage doors and openers but we\u2019re just as good at repairing them! We know that these automated systems are complex electro-mechanical devices and that even though they\u2019re there to offer convenience, they will take up some of your time when it comes to DIY maintenance. However, there will be times when your door or your opener will need to be professionally repaired. That\u2019s where we come in! We replace spring systems, panels, rollers, and cables. We\u2019re also really good at fixing openers!\nGarage Door Repair Orlando will always be there for you, even in an emergency situation. We love nothing more than guaranteeing your satisfaction! 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[our figs. 33 and 34], will be improved by the removal of the large square pond. Water reflecting only the sky (which is the case with this and every other pond raised above the level of the natural ground), acts like a mass of light placed betwixt the eye and the more distant objects. Every one knows the effect that a lantern or a torch has, to prevent our seeing what is beyond it; and this same cause operates in all cases in proportion to the quantity of rays reflected, whether from water, from snow, from white paling, or any other luminous object. This accounts for the pleasure we derive from seeing water at a proper distance, and of a natural shape. Water is said to attract our notice with irresistible power; but the pond at Lathom, placed in the foreground, engrosses too much of the landscape, and is neither sufficiently pleasing in its shape, nor natural in its situation, to deserve the place it holds, as the leading feature of the scene.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gasworld.com/air-liquide-annual-general-meeting/841.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:26Z", "digest": "sha1:43UZB6ATP6TQYINUVIYPI7WBHQV2R3UN", "length": 1003, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.gasworld.com", "title": "Air Liquide annual general meeting | News | gasworld", "raw_content": "Air Liquide annual general meeting\nAir Liquide\\\\$quot;s annual general meeting held on Wednesday attracted a remarkable 4,666 people.\nThe shareholders, representing 38.1 per cent of the voting rights (129,358 shareholders in attendance or being represented at the meeting), passed all the proposed resolutions and also approved the new Articles of Association which provide for the setting up of a board of directors.\nThe shareholders appointed all the members of the former supervisory board as members of the board of directors of Air Liquide, for the remaining period of their term of office. 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Combining the strength and durability of deep metal frames with the natural beauty of hand selected timber infill to create a truly elegant side gate, that really does \"make an entrance\". Using the finest Iroko (hardwood) - a naturally aesthetically pleasing wood. Expertly crafted by hand to any size in the UK. First by our skilled fabricators then to our experienced joiners for infill. Our metal framed gate range is what we are most proud of. Attention to detail both for look and durability is paramount. Sturdy 40mm x 40mm premium frame work, smooth welded joints, solid 30mm x 15mm rear bracing bars (if required - dependant on design) and stainless steel screws to fix the timber into place. To help prevent the gate from twisting or warping, welded braces are placed throughout the rear of the gate to ensure the cladding is correctly fixed.\nPlease Select 2ft (609mm) 2ft 1\" (635mm) 2ft 2\" (660mm) 2ft 3\" (685mm) 2ft 4\" (711mm) 2ft 5\" (736mm) 2ft 6\" (762mm) 2ft 7\" (787mm) 2ft 8\" (812mm) 2ft 9\" (838mm) 2ft 10\" (863mm) 2ft 11\" (889mm) 3ft (914mm) 3ft 1\" (939mm) (+\u00a360.00) 3ft 2\" (965mm) (+\u00a360.00) 3ft 3\" (990mm) (+\u00a360.00) 3ft 4\" (1m 016mm) (+\u00a3120.00) 3ft 5\" (1m 041mm) (+\u00a3120.00) 3ft 6\" (1m 066mm) (+\u00a3120.00) 3ft 7\" (1m 092mm) (+\u00a3180.00) 3ft 8\" (1m 117mm) (+\u00a3180.00) 3ft 9\" (1m 143mm) (+\u00a3180.00) 3ft 10\" (1m 168mm) (+\u00a3240.00) 3ft 11\" (1m 193mm) (+\u00a3240.00) 4ft (1m 220mm) (+\u00a3240.00) 4ft 1\" (1m 244mm) (+\u00a3312.00) 4ft 2\" (1m 270mm) (+\u00a3312.00) 4ft 3\" (1m 295mm) (+\u00a3312.00) 4ft 4\" (1m 320mm) (+\u00a3384.00) 4ft 5\" (1m 346mm) (+\u00a3384.00) 4ft 6\" (1m 371mm) (+\u00a3384.00)\nOur \"Prestige\" side gate range, the Lemmington. Combining the strength and durability of deep metal frames with the natural beauty of hand selected timber infill to create a truly elegant side gate, that really does \"make an entrance\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 9618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/local-news/plan-for-better-station-access-3778803", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:05Z", "digest": "sha1:AI72YQWGXBJWT7OPTPC4BXFCYSYPJN65", "length": 1386, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.gazettelive.co.uk", "title": "Plan for better station access - Teesside Live", "raw_content": "Plan for better station access\nMiddlesbrough railway station has been selected for a major overhaul to make it more accessible for disabled travellers.\nPlans are being prepared to make it far easier for passengers to move from the platform. The Government has agreed to a \u00a3370m improvement programme at stations across the country.\nMaking the rail network more accessible for disabled passengers has moved up the transport agenda. Many stations are extremely difficult to use for people in wheelchairs or those who have difficulty walking.\nBut before the improvement scheme goes ahead, the Government wants to ensure that those who will be most closely affected by the changes are fully consulted and allowed to suggest just how the programme should proceed.\nMiddlesbrough is one of 47 stations identified as being in particular need of improvement.\nNetwork Rail has been asked to start drawing up its ideas - and to make sure that local advice is taken into consideration at each station.\nRailway chiefs acknowledge that the infrastructure of many stations dates back to the 19th century and improvements are long overdue.\nRail Minister Derek Twigg also admits that the rail network can be \"a difficult environment for disabled people\".\nBut he said that, with around ten million disabled people in Britain, it is important that action is taken to remove barriers which restrict access.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 9892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.genesis-technologies.com/adobe-coldfusion-builder-2018-government-605224.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:24Z", "digest": "sha1:QJBKJFDIDXAJLBELLMXCWQTAZT2DIDCR", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.genesis-technologies.com", "title": "Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2018 (Government) | Technology Solutions for Local, State and Federal Government", "raw_content": "Adobe ColdFusion Builder 2018 (Government)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 12595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.genesishealth.com/today/cancer/fighting-colorectal-cancer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6MAUM6R6NMR3PDLTSLVC6MD5MHY636M5", "length": 4355, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.genesishealth.com", "title": "Fighting Colorectal Cancer - Genesis Health System", "raw_content": "Home > Genesis Today > Fighting Colorectal Cancer\nFighting Colorectal Cancer\nTwo Genesis Patients Share Their Story\nKay Friederichs and her granddaughter, Jill.\nKay Friederichs hadn\u2019t been feeling well. After a trip to the Emergency Room and subsequent surgery, she received an unexpected diagnosis: advanced colon cancer.\nThe Dixon, Iowa grandmother has these words of wisdom during March\u2019s National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. \u201cIf you\u2019re 50 and older, get a colonoscopy. I never had one, and I hear the screening isn\u2019t so bad\u2026it\u2019s definitely easier than cancer.\u201d\nShe is now undergoing cancer treatment with Dr. Susannah Friemel at Iowa Cancer Specialists with the support of her family, including granddaughter, Jill, with whom she shares a special bond. \u201cI just want to be there for her,\u201d her granddaughter says. \u201cI can be a second set of ears for her at doctors\u2019 appointments\u2026help her out at home\u2026get her medications ready. We\u2019re doing this together.\u201d\nColorectal cancer is a serious disease, and prevention is made all the more challenging because many don\u2019t want to talk about it.\nEnter the 20-foot-long, 8-foot-high inflatable \u201cStrollin\u2019 Colon,\u201d which made a March 14 appearance at the Genesis Cancer Care Institute. Visitors walk through this very large visual aid and see replicas of cancerous and non-cancerous polyps and various stages of colon cancer. It\u2019s an effective way to get people aware of the disease and the importance of screening.\nColorectal cancer is the third leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. However, it can be prevented and detected early with the help of a screening colonoscopy. Routine testing is recommended beginning at age 50, or earlier if there is a family history, says Wendy Ballou, Genesis cancer nurse navigator.\nBy avoiding a colonoscopy when recommended, people miss the opportunity for prevention or life-saving early detection and treatment. Nearly all colon cancers begin with benign polyps on the bowel wall. Over time, they may grow and become cancerous. During a colonoscopy, the polyps can be removed without surgery for further study.\n\u201cLooking back, I wish I would have had a colonoscopy,\u201d Kay Friederichs says.\nYounger People Getting Colon Cancer\nAmy Vargas was diagnosed last May with colon cancer\nAt age 38, Amy Vargas wasn\u2019t thinking about screening colonoscopy. Like most people her age with no family history of the disease, she figured the test was at least 10 years down the road for her.\nHowever, she experienced symptoms that signaled something wasn\u2019t right for an entire year before getting medical attention. Today, the busy mom and wife acknowledges she waited too long to get checked out. \u201cBy the time I went to the doctor, I was 98 percent sure I had cancer. I had a colonoscopy, and in two weeks, I was having 8 inches of my colon removed. The cancer had metastasized to my liver, and I also had surgery to remove parts of my liver.\u201d\nDiagnosed with advanced colon cancer last May, Vargas completed her last chemotherapy treatment in December 2016 and says she couldn\u2019t have done it without the support of family and friends.\n\u201cChemotherapy is hard; I won\u2019t say it\u2019s not,\u201d Vargas says. \u201cIt\u2019s the side effects that get you down. Some days, it was hard to get out of bed, and it changed my daily living.\u201d\nVargas represents a growing statistic. While the vast majority of colorectal cancers are still found in older people, scientists are reporting a sharp rise in colorectal cancers in adults as young as their 20s and 30s. Colorectal cancer rates have been increasing for every generation born since 1950, the study by the American Cancer Society found.\nYoung people with colorectal cancer run the added risk of getting a diagnosis later in the course of their disease when the cancer is less treatable, because doctors often don\u2019t consider the diagnosis at such a young age.\n\u201cDon\u2019t second-guess your symptoms,\u201d Vargas says. \u201cIf you experience anything out of the ordinary, get it checked out.\u201d\nSymptoms of colorectal cancer can include:\nA change in bowel habits such as diarrhea, constipation or narrowing of the stool\nSudden weight loss and fatigue\nPeople at higher risk include those who:\nHave a family history of colorectal cancer or inflammatory bowel diseas;\nAre sedentary, overweight or obese\nEat red and processed meats\nAre heavy alcohol users\n--By Linda Barlow, Genesis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.getthedata.com/openactive/thame-leisure-centre-ox9-2bb/swim-fit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:42Z", "digest": "sha1:657NOVODPBT7YPVR7VBZCASJRBLZKNGT", "length": 179, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.getthedata.com", "title": "Swim Fit times at Thame Leisure Centre - timetable", "raw_content": "Swim Fit times at Thame Leisure Centre - timetable\nSwim Fit timetable. Sessions run on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. See session times below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 892, "original_length": 10784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.givemesport.com/666210-manchester-city-are-ready-to-pay-leo-messi-800000aweek", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:00Z", "digest": "sha1:PYSEKXWPVAKE76XBDL7VDW7G3L2LTGEY", "length": 2465, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.givemesport.com", "title": "Manchester City are ready to pay Leo Messi \u00a3800,000-a-week | GiveMeSport", "raw_content": "Manchester City are ready to pay Leo Messi \u00a3800,000-a-week\nThe Sun have chosen this dreary Friday morning to drop the mother of all transfer stories. It involves Leo Messi and the Premier League. That alone should be enough to entice you in.\nThe journalistic powerhouses of Shaun Custis and Martin Lipton have joined forces to produce a story that does not only contain an epic transfer story, but also explains why Barcelona and Messi may be ready to part ways after 11 glorious years together.\nFirst of all, let us look at the headline. Apparently Manchester City have already held informal discussions with the 28-year-old and have told him that they are ready to pay \u00a3800,000-a-week to make sure he chooses the Etihad.\nManchester United would almost certainly throw their hat in if Messi decides to leave Camp Nou, hence why Sheikh Mansour is ready to throw the power of Middle Eastern oil behind this transfer bid.\nThe wage could see Messi earn a staggering \u00a340million a year, with \u00a332m coming in a standard wage packet and \u00a38m more through performance-related bonuses. It is a huge increase on the \u00a3500,000-a-week he currently earns in Barcelona.\nWhy he wants to leave\nWhile Messi will no doubt enjoy playing with the likes of Luis Suarez and Neymar, he has spent his entire career in La Liga and is tempted by the challenge of winning in the Premier League. He knows his legacy will only be further strengthened if he can repeat his success in the English game.\nThere is also bad blood between Messi and Nou Camp officials over supposed contract talks. His current deal does not expire until 2018, but he has still been left insulted by their decision to prioritise Neymar's contract talks over his own.\nThe Brazilian superstar has also emerged as a genuine contender for his crown, scoring 12 goals in 11 La Liga games. Alongside Suarez, Neymar made sure Messi's two-month absence with a knee injury went more-or-less unnoticed.\nThis is big because Messi's \u00a3250m release clause would have certainly been the biggest obstacle for Manchester City to overcome. But this new report claims Barcelona would be willing to accept an offer in the region of \u00a3120m if Messi made it clear he wanted to leave.\nOf course, that would still shatter the transfer record, but considering the commercial power of Messi, it would be something of a bargain for the Citizens. Indeed, Messi would bring millions of fans with him, earning City higher sponsorship deals as a result.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 6025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.glaciervehicles.com/news/find-the-best-catering-vehicle-for-all-of-your-needs-today/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:05Z", "digest": "sha1:NMUGQOIIC6PWSLEEOKZM2BN7OIKXLSHR", "length": 1458, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.glaciervehicles.com", "title": "Find the best catering vehicle for all of your needs today. | Glacier Vehicles Find the best catering vehicle for all of your needs today. \u2013 Glacier Vehicles", "raw_content": "Find the best catering vehicle for all of your needs today.\nThe vast range of high quality, affordable refrigerator and freezer vehicles at Glacier Vehicles could be the perfect catering vehicle for you and your business.\nWe understand that for many businesses in the food industry it is hard to find vehicles that meet the needs and requirements of your business; however we believe that have and can provide you with the best possible solutions to your business\u2019 needs.\nWe supply a wide range of new and used vehicles that are either refrigerator vans, freezer vans or both. This is to ensure that you and your business can find the ideal ones that meet all of your needs and requirements. There are many different styles, shapes and sizes now available as we want to ensure that all businesses can find the perfect vehicle for their needs.\nWe also have our bespoke vans, these vans are ideal if you cannot already find a vehicle that meets all of your needs and requirements. We have on hand electricians and technicians who are able to bring your entire ideal to life and to present you with a vehicle that has all of your needs and requirements incorporated into it.\nIf you are looking to find the perfect refrigerator vehicle for your business, look no further as we can ensure that you will be able to find the perfect new or second hand vehicle for you needs and requirements today.\nHomeNewsFind the best catering vehicle for all of your needs today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 6557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/the-role-of-cybersecurity-due-diligence-as-an-ma-priority/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EHBNKHFATYQK2VEMRZSII7NCZ6WJDEE4", "length": 4274, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.globalbankingandfinance.com", "title": "THE ROLE OF CYBERSECURITY DUE DILIGENCE AS AN M&A PRIORITY", "raw_content": "THE ROLE OF CYBERSECURITY DUE DILIGENCE AS AN M&A PRIORITY\nBy Shawn Henry, CSO CrowdStrike\nLast year alone, M&A activity reached fever pitch, with the global market valued at over $4 trillion \u2013 its highest since 2007. If 2016 follows suit, we\u2019re looking at over 18,000 M&A events to occur this year, many of which may be \u201cmegadeals\u201d exceeding $50B. Furthermore, it\u2019s not just the global market that is booming, with the UK tipped as the top European target for inbound deals from emerging markets.\nWith this market opportunity reaching staggering heights, no company can afford to take on a partner organisation without exploring all the areas of risk involved. This involves much more than just the traditional financial calculations. Whether it\u2019s a large company acquiring a niche business that sits outside of current client offerings, or a smaller company partnering with another organisation to expand its footprint, businesses must prioritise security.\nWhen organisations make an acquisition, they are essentially investing in the intellectual property and R&D of the proposed partner organisation. Typically, there are few individuals on the buyer side who truly understand the network systems they\u2019re about to purchase, which contain valuable IP. The integrity of this data must be assessed prior to an acquisition \u2013 and the team assessing it must be able to provide a level of scrutiny that ensures all areas are fully evaluated, diagnosed and proven secure. Currently this isn\u2019t a process that is routinely adhered to because companies lack clarity on what exactly they should be looking for, prior to a deal being finalised.\nIt\u2019s like buying a first home \u2013 typically the biggest personal investment an individual ever makes. When you are house hunting, you don\u2019t do it without some kind of guidance from an estate agent or a property manager who asks the important questions. M&A activity is no different, as it involves a significant business investment. You wouldn\u2019t make a home purchase without an inspection or without the guidance of a reputable source, so why would you accept less vigilance when it comes to your business? Being able to fully vet a target company\u2019s systems, data, and environment in order to assess and protect the valuable assets being acquired is essential.\nDetermining a partner\u2019s security profile begins with knowing what questions to ask. For starters, are there any vulnerabilities in the partner organisation that could be exploited to access your systems? And, how secure will the data be during the integration process? Has their network been compromised before and what are the security risks posed by merging both environments? Ultimately the assessment a business undertakes prior to any activity should aim to determine whether an organisation has the same level of security controls in place and meets their existing standards, even without absorbing their technological resources.\nWorking with a third party throughout this process can help businesses to explore these critical security questions and prevent the introduction of any unnecessary risk. This involves undertaking a comprehensive assessment to identify the gaps in security posture, examine security documentation, review IT processes, and conduct interviews with key staff to understand where cyber security falls on their list of priorities. By doing so, the business can paint a full picture of what\u2019s being acquired, the intrusion detection controls in place and the current employee mindset on security. It also helps to determine what precautionary technical measures the business should take in terms of network-based monitoring for example, which helps provide visibility into potentially malicious traffic entering and exiting the networks.\nUltimately, the nominal cost of being proactive and predictive about security saves significant time and money in the long run. It\u2019s always harder and more expensive to react to something than preventing it from happening in the first place. The best protection method is having a team on hand to provide recommendations on how to prioritise resources based on the actual risk, create an implementation plan of effective detection measures, and have a comprehensive security strategy to actually prevent damage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 6759, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalresearch.ca/a-new-space-race-for-a-new-cold-war/5652413", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:49:01Z", "digest": "sha1:5NRVUQGH4IRUGQJZUFVEEJSKOTXPCSCR", "length": 6415, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.globalresearch.ca", "title": "A New Space Race for a New Cold War - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization", "raw_content": "A New Space Race for a New Cold War\nSpace weapons, not economy, might prove to be the decisive argument in the geopolitical standoff\nThe New Cold War, despite being very different from its predecessor in many ways, is replicating it when it comes to the impending resumption of the Space Race.\nThe world is in the midst of a New Cold War between the unipolar and multipolar forces, or as one can argue, between the American-led and Chinese-led direction of multipolarity. The US\u2019 post-(Old) Cold War unipolar hegemony over global affairs during the 1990s has progressively given way to the emergence of a handful of influential Great Powers that are exerting ever more influence over the course of International Relations, thus leading to the overall system\u2019s diversification away from its previous American centrality. The US is using a variety of proactive kinetic (e.g. military, \u201cinsurgent\u201d) and non-kinetic (e.g. sanctions, infowar) means to retain its predominant hold over the world, with the resultant friction that it\u2019s creating with its Russian, Chinese, and Iranian challengers manifesting itself in the most dramatic way in the Ukrainian, South China Sea, and Syrian battlefields of the New Cold War.\nSome observers are of the opinion that the US will never regain the near-total control over international affairs that it had immediately after the dissolution of the USSR, instead settling to be the \u201cfirst among equals\u201d in what increasingly seems to be the irreversibly multipolar system of the future. To that end, the US is relying on a combination of Kissingerian Great Power \u201cbalancing\u201d through its \u201cLead From Behind\u201d strategy of co-opting stakeholders to participate in campaigns of shared interest (e.g. convincing India to cooperate with America in \u201ccontaining\u201d China) and the Brzezinskite \u201cweaponization of chaos theory\u201d to provoke Hybrid Wars in pivotally important transit states along China\u2019s New Silk Road. Whether one believes that unipolarity can still be saved or that the US is trying to shape the emerging Multipolar World Order, the aforementioned situational description roughly describes the general contours of contemporary International Relations.\nFor as dynamic as events may be on earth, the real game-changer in the New Cold War will be all about what happens in space.\nRussia\u2019s recently unveiled hypersonic missile technology neutralized decades\u2019 worth of the US\u2019 anti-missile investments and restored the nuclear strategic parity that America was dangerously trying to undermine in order to blackmail its nuclear-armed rivals in Moscow and Beijing. Caught flat-footed and unable to conceive of how its current technological investments in the field could be modified to adapt to this new development, the US realized that the only way for it to regain what it originally believed could be its edge over everyone else was to take the New Cold War into space through the creation of a so-called \u201cSpace Force\u201d. Previously discussed in the media over the past year and obviously deliberated on in private among the members of the US\u2019 permanent military bureaucracy for decades, one of the many purposes of this newly proposed branch of the armed forces is to respond to Russia\u2019s hypersonic missiles.\nThere\u2019s literally no technology on earth that could detect these missiles in time to respond to them, let alone intercept them, which is why the US has been publicly flirting with the creation of a planetary space-based sensor network that would realistically be the most visible element of the Space Force. Because of its presumably \u201cdefensive\u201d (or at the very least, \u201cnon-offensive\u201d) role, the US would portray its unprecedented official military foray into space as \u201creinforcing peace\u201d instead of disrupting it, even though its true purpose would be to detect hypersonic missile launches and then feed the information into possibly automated space-based attack vehicles such as the secretive X-37B that would be part of its \u201cPrompt Global Strike\u201d strategy for immediately responding to such scenarios. In layman\u2019s terms, the public face of this program would be \u201cdefensive\u201d/sensory while the clandestine one would be offensive/\u201dretaliatory\u201d.\nIf the US acquires the capability to respond to Russia\u2019s hypersonic missile advancements, then the aforesaid \u201csuperweapon\u201d would no longer have the peacemaking strategic edge that it once did.\nIt would still theoretically be capable of restoring the pre-2001 strategic balance with the US prior to America\u2019s unilateral development of its so-called \u201cmissile defense shield\u201d, which is in and of itself a tremendous achievement because it would keep the US\u2019 conventional military forces in check, but only so long as the Pentagon doesn\u2019t move its anti-missile infrastructure to space and enhance it to the point of being able to shoot down Russia\u2019s hypersonic missiles. Should that happen, then the same dangerous state of affairs that Russia originally sought to rectify through this technology would return, with the main difference being that the US would now be relying on assets in outer space to assist in its campaign to neutralize its rivals\u2019 nuclear second-strike capability and thus make them susceptible to nuclear blackmail. Nevertheless, Russia could still devise solutions for combatting this.\nThe most realistic options presently at its disposal are to continue investing in its hypersonic missile technology in parallel with building up the submarine component of its nuclear triad. Looking forward, however, Russia will eventually need to unveil anti-satellite weapons such as lasers, missiles, and kamikaze satellites that can take out the US\u2019 space-based sensors in the event of war and blind its retaliatory systems such as the X-37B. Of course, it should be assumed that the US is preparing for these eventualities and is also deviously planning to pretend that Russia already has this technology in order to \u201cjustify\u201d its proactive deployment of these same weapons on the false pretense that it\u2019s doing so \u201cdefensively\u201d and in \u201cresponse\u201d to so-called \u201cRussian aggression\u201d even though Moscow once again promised not to be the first one to field this technology in that domain.\nAt the end of the day, the outcome of the New Cold War might not be decided by geostrategic or economic factors, but by whichever side wins the military ones related to the New Space Race.\nThis article was originally published on InfoRos.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 12135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-preserving-sovereignty-or-sliding-into-western-sponsored-color-revolutions/5523019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:33Z", "digest": "sha1:S3O3HHPJKJIMHY6JIKMFK6XPDDFVN3QF", "length": 16729, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.globalresearch.ca", "title": "China: Preserving Sovereignty or Sliding into Western Sponsored \u2018Color Revolutions\u2019 - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization", "raw_content": "China: Preserving Sovereignty or Sliding into Western Sponsored \u2018Color Revolutions\u2019\nWashington and its Vassals are Demonizing China for Keeping a Check on Foreign NGOs\nOn April 28, the New York Times was blasting \u201cClampdown in China Restricts 7,000 Foreign Organizations\u201d. A perfect reason for demonizing China for infringing on the liberties of foreign NGOs \u2013 NGO\u2019s that try to help and do good in China. The \u2018doing good\u2019 is a concerted effort by foreign agents, including international and national organizations and NGOs that receive foreign training and funding to influence public opinion and eventually to cause civil unrest. Imagine, foreign agents teaching and influencing students at Chinese universities with western interests of, for example, privatizing China\u2019s public and social services; or directly interfering in sovereign state affairs, by for instance attempting to rig the Shanghai stock exchange.\nLet\u2019s put this Chinese \u2018clampdown\u2019 in perspective. What would Washington say and do, if thousands of Chinese and Russian \u2018NGO\u2019s were to infiltrate US territory under all sorts of philanthropic pretexts, but in reality to subvert the US population against their government? \u2013 Well, there is no need to speculate with the answer. It\u2019s very clear, they would simply be banned. So, this is not even a game on equal footing. It\u2019s as usual \u2013 Washington pretends making the rules.\nWhen China announced in March 2015 a planned reduction in GDP growth from 12%-14% of the past years to 6%-7% for at least 2016 and possibly beyond, it was a well-calculated move by the Chinese Central Bank. The past more than 10% growth was not sustainable \u2013 not for Chinese internal equality and stability, nor for the stagnant western export markets.\nThe stock market plunge was made to look like a reaction to a \u2018faltering\u2019 Chinese economy. It peaked at a drop of about 30% in mid-July 2015. The decline had nothing to do with the \u2018Chinese economy failing\u2019, as western pundits wanted the general public to believe. Something even Forbes journalists argued, the \u201cstock market crash does not indicate a blowout of the Chinese physical economy\u201d, but it may indicate a \u201cshift from a focus on manufacturing to service industries.\u201d After all, a 6% to 7% growth rate is more than any western country can claim.\nThe Shanghai stock crash had much to do with foreign \u2018agents\u2019, in this case Wall Street banks, some of which have been accredited to the partially liberated Shanghai bourse. A bust in the Chinese stock market meant the Chinese economy is faltering \u2013 negative propaganda, so much needed these days by Washington and its minions, to boost their own empty glory. The western media were immediately lambasting the Chinese economic model as failure. In order for foreign banks to intervene so drastically, foreign trained and funded local counterparts are necessary. To exacerbate the propaganda message, such prominent financial institutions, as Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Bank of America warned that China\u2019s market was a \u201cbubble\u201d.\nOn 29 June 2015, the market regulator, China Security Regulatory Commission (CSRC) called out on their Sino Weibo site, \u201cThere have been people calling out the Chinese economy in an attempt to destabilize faith in the stock market and to disrupt the order of the market. The CSRC wishes investors to act independently of such rumors, not to fall for such claims, and not to follow them blindly.\u201d\nWestern Interference\nNo wonder under these circumstances, and merely observing what is going on around the globe with western interference in national elections, organizing \u2018regime change\u2019 by all possible illegal means, \u2018Color Revolutions\u2019, parliamentary \u2018coups\u2019, proxy wars and conflicts, it is but common sense for President Xi Jinping, as reported by the New York Times, to take \u201ca major step on Thursday, imposing greater control and limit Western influences on Chinese society, as [the government] passed a new law restricting the work of foreign organizations and their local partners, mainly through police supervision.\u201d\nThis affects some \u2018good-hearted\u2019 7,000-plus NGOs working in the fields of environment, philanthropy, cultural exchanges, and maybe even in business promotion. What a shame. The authoritarian Chinese Government clamps down on those foreign agencies, which attempt to destabilize China by influencing people via the media, universities, industries and by associating with local civil society. Most of these foreign and dissident local \u2018groups\u2019 and individuals are trained and funded by the \u2018National Endowment for Democracy\u2019 \u2013 NED, a Washington based, fully State Department sponsored and funded agency, receiving hundreds of millions of dollars for precisely the purse of training and financing local dissidents and \u2018NGOs\u2019. There are others in the US doing similar work. They are very strong and determined. They set an objective and won\u2019t let go.\nAgain, ask yourself \u2013 what would Washington do, if similar Chinese and Russian trolls were to intrude the US of A with the same objective \u2013 mobilizing the American public against their government?\nFragmented and Twisted News\nThis piece of fragmented and twisted China news reported by the NYT was copied and blasted into the airwaves every hour on the hour by every European mainstream radio and TV station for every European to once more getting the message, China is an oppressive police state.\nMost of these 7,000 NGOs, if not all, are foreign agents with one purpose \u2013 destabilizing \u2018unaligned\u2019, sovereign and autonomous China. Russia is facing the same phenomenon, especially now, shortly before parliamentary elections. Heeding the lessons from the various \u2018NGO\u2019 initiated coup attempts and demonstrations before the 2012 elections, and in foresight of this year\u2019s elections, Mr. Putin has already put similar laws in place, especially the so-called \u2018undesirable\u2019 organization legislation which he introduced soon after his re-election in 2012. It requires those agencies or NGOs receiving foreign funding to register as \u2018foreign agents\u2019, who may be surveilled by police and whose finances are subject to government control.\nIn March 2015, Mr. Putin called NGOs a threat to national security. \u201cWestern special services continue their attempts at using public, non-governmental and politicized organizations to pursue their own objectives, primarily to discredit the authorities and destabilize the internal situation in Russia. They are already planning their actions for the upcoming election campaigns of 2016-18.\u201d\nA similar law limits foreign ownership in Russian media to 20%. Of course, the western media in which neither Russia or China would be allowed to own a single percent, lambasted Russia for censuring freedom of press and freedom of expression. Vladimir Putin was personally accused of stifling dissent. As you know by now, this has nothing to do with censuring freedom of expression. It is just a means of limiting the public damage caused by propaganda-lies propagated by the western media throughout any territory they have access to and want to conquer. Curtailing foreign media influence is what all of sovereign South America should have done long ago, especially Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela. Now it\u2019s (almost) too late. The Washington \u2018backyard\u2019 is nearly cooked, ready for usurping and atrocious consumption.\nForeign Funded and Trained NGOs\nForeign-funded and trained NGOs and other politicized \u2018groups\u2019 can be extremely dangerous, as many of them are so well camouflaged and integrated into society that they become almost invisible. They may be in a country for several years before they act, pulling the \u2018trigger\u2019 when the right time arrives to launch an act of unrest and destabilization, almost always with the goal of \u2018regime change\u2019. The new puppet chief of state is usually groomed by Washington, ready to take over at command.\nThe various \u2018Arab Springs\u2019, were the brainchild of the CIA, prepared during several years and executed by foreign groups and nationals, trained for subversion and funded abroad. The Arab Spring, launched in Tunisia in December 2010, also known as the Tunisian Revolution, spread subsequently and conveniently throughout the Arab League countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) \u2013 and is ongoing, always guided by foreign trained, funded and armed locals; and supported by the secret services of Washington and its allies. It was successful in creating sufficient chaos to justify foreign military intervention \u2013 US-CIA, NATO, Mossad, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf States, applying the old principle: divide to conquer \u2013 a doctrine still valid after hundreds of years \u2013 and counting.\nThis Washington sponsored, State Department funded around-the-globe destabilization program has been a success story in most cases. One of the most glaring examples in recent history was breaking the tenacity of the Soviet Union, where they, the Masters of the Universe, used heavier artillery than just NGOs \u2013 with the final financial blow coming from the Washington Consensus \u2013 FED, IMF, World Bank. The Washington Consensus moved in quickly after the Soviet Unions manufactured collapse, \u2018restructuring\u2019 the new Russia with billions of dollars in loans, as well as privatization of almost the entire state apparatus, leaving behind a country in shambles; a country that was not prepared with legislation to deal with the private \u2018market place\u2019 western-style. The ensuing chaos, corruption and mafia-type crimes have since become legendary. Only with President Putin after 2000 order and control with the appropriate legal framework was re-instated.\nThe destabilization effort continued almost seamlessly to the former Soviet Republics which became the CIS countries (Commonwealth of Independent States). Internal subversion by foreign sponsored groups early on in their new found identity as \u2018free\u2019 states was necessary for the west, lest these new republics may stay in the Russian orbit, and not allow expansion of NATO closer to Moscow. The German-US promise to never expand NATO eastwards was a farce.\nHere is what the Spiegel-Online of 26 November 2009 says about the promise: On Feb. 10, 1990, between 4 and 6:30 p.m., Genscher spoke with Shevardnadze [Soviet Foreign Minister]. According to the German record of the conversation, which was only recently declassified, Genscher said: \u201cWe are aware that NATO membership for a unified Germany raises complicated questions. For us, however, one thing is certain: NATO will not expand to the east.\u201d And because the conversion revolved mainly around East Germany, Genscher added explicitly: \u201cAs far as the non-expansion of NATO is concerned, this also applies in general.\u201d Shevardnadze replied that he believed \u201ceverything the minister (Genscher) said.\u201d\nSo much for trusting the West. NATO was expanded in 1999 to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic, followed in 2004 by the Central and East-European countries Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. In 2009 Albania and Croatia joined. Under debate is now NATO membership of Sweden, Finland and Serbia. At its creation in 1949 NATO had 12 members. At present it has 28members; all in an expansion towards the east, encroaching Russia.\nAl this goes to say that without the infamous \u2018NGOs\u2019 or foreign trained and funded political \u2018inserts\u2019 into the former Soviet Republics, countries the west needed to convince that NATO was good for their protection, NATO expansion may not have been possible. The \u2018convincing\u2019 was done with massive anti-Russia propaganda, the danger to be absorbed again by expansionist Russia, leading to the so-called \u2018Color Revolutions\u2019, a western invention, promoting western friendly parties in the country targeted for \u2018regime change\u2019, with massive displays of brightly colored flags.\nSecretary of State, John Kerry\u2019s sidekick, Victoria Nuland is famous for boasting in a recorded telephone call with US Ambassador Pyatt in Kiev with such infamous words, fuck the EU; we have spent 5 billion dollars for regime change [in Ukraine] and won\u2019t let others interfere. She and US Ambassador Pyatt, with the help of CIA and NATO intelligence, instigated the bloody coup in Maidan Square in February 2014. Ukraine, for hundreds of years was part of old and new Russia; today it is a shambles, a bloodbath; corrupted to the bones by a US-NATO installed and maintained pro-western Nazi Government.\nColor Revolutions in Latin America\nA Latin formula of \u2018Color Revolutions\u2019 was also conceived to destabilize Washington\u2019s backyard \u2013 Central and South America \u2013 also ongoing. Already under US control are Panama, Honduras, Guatemala, Peru, Colombia, Uruguay, and since December 2015 Argentina. Currently thousands of foreign (US) trained destabilizing local \u2018politicos\u2019 are working hard on a parliamentary coup in Brazil. After having turned the Venezuelan Parliament from the left to the extreme right last December, they \u2013 Washington\u2019s Secret Services, be sure, always with the help of Mossad \u2013 using their local patsies, have now initiated a referendum with the objective to overthrow President Maduro.(left)\nThere is apparently no way of halting them. And there is no decisive move by affected governments in peril, aka Brazil and Venezuela, to use constitutional legislative forces to stop these illegal coups. Have the leaders of these countries and their families been threatened with their lives? \u2013 John Perkins\u2019 Economic Hit Man, the old and the new versions, tell plenty of such stories. This website, albeit incomplete https://wikispooks.com/wiki/US/Foreign_Assassinations_since_1945 may also give insight.\nIn this western instigated moves to subdue \u2018non-obedient\u2019 governments, NGOs and other foreign trained, funded and often also armed groups and individuals, merely prepare the ground. They make sure the time is right and are in constant communication with CIA and other secret services under the Empire of Chaos. Before Washington\u2019s actual move to check-mate, they \u2013 Washington and its stooges \u2013 put the appropriately bought local puppets into key positions, using to the extent possible constitutional procedures \u2013 no matter whether the executioners are crooks, corrupt or even murderers. The empire has no scruples. Why should they? They get away with murder all the time.\nChina has first-hand experience with the student uprising in Hong Kong, the so-called Umbrella Revolution that lasted from 24 September to 15 December 2014, protesting against what they called the Beijing influenced Hong Kong Congress electoral process. After all, Hong Kong is part of China. Although it was clear to most observers that this show of force was foreign funded, instigated and supported throughout, nobody in the western media reported the truth. Every Anglo-Saxon MSM bashed China for using dictatorial means in imposing electoral rules in Hong Kong. The Umbrella Movement failed miserably.\nMind you, those swell-sounding NGOs like Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Green Peace and more of the sort, they are all majority US-western funded and know very well who is their master. For example, you probably have never seen any Amnesty International Report accusing the United States of America of human rights abuses. Yet, by all accounts the US and its minions are arguably by far the most atrocious human rights abusers on this globe, being responsible for the death of at least ten to twelve million people over the past 60 years by wars and conflicts carried out directly by US-NATO forces, or indirectly by Washington instigated and paid proxy wars and conflicts. Obama boasts about being involved in 7 wars around the globe, let alone the thousands and thousands of drone killings carried out under his personal command.\nNo wonder President Xi and President Putin put measures in place to stop these Washington directed, paid and often armed aggressive and violent separatist groupings, camouflaged as NGOs. The lies, uncomplete and biased reporting have turned the New York Times and similar \u2013 once-upon-a-time \u2013 prominent and credible media outlets into a ridiculous farce.\nPeter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, CounterPunch, TeleSur, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion \u2013 An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed \u2013 fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! \u2013 Essays from the Resistance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 21987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/karen.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:15Z", "digest": "sha1:U37UCWOTPFZP5DOXSM5VZUNKX3WHAOSG", "length": 12147, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.globalsecurity.org", "title": "Karen National Union (KNU) / Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO) \u00ef\u00bb\u00bf", "raw_content": "Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO)\nDemocratic Karen Burmese Army (DKBA)\nKawthoolei is a name for the state the Karens want to establish. Karen state has the distinction of being home to the longest ongoing armed conflict on the planet. The Karen are the second largest ethnic group in Burma. Estimates of the Karen population as of 2007 vary widely, from 3 to 7 million. The Karen National Defense Organization (KNDO) has 2000 fighters, 90% Karen (2% Shan, 2% Mon, 6% others). At first, the Karen were fighting for independence and later, in 1976, they began pursuing semi-autonomy within a federal union. Karen political leaders had gone to the negotiating table at least five times seeking a cease-fire without success.\nTo many a visitor to Burma, who viewed the country from the deck of an Irrawaddy River steamer or from the window of a railway carriage, there appeared to be little difference between the Karen and the Burman. This is not strange, for many individuals of the non-Burman tribes wear the Burmese costume and speak the Burmese language; and they present no markedly different characteristics in feature or color of skin. Though the Karen have lived for generations in the closest proximity to the Burmese, they preserve their own traits, which are quite distinct from those of their more volatile neighbors with whom they have had little in common.\nThe Karen are a group of Indo-Chinese tribes living principally in Burma, in the Indo-Chinese peninsula, and in the adjoining country of Thailand to the east. They are found between the tenth and twenty-first degrees of north latitude and between the ninety-fourth and one hundredth degrees of east longitude. Karen persons are ethnically distinct from other groups living in Burma and Thailand, and rather than being a single ethnic group, are comprised of at least 20 sub-groups. The name \"Karen\" is an imperfect transliteration of the Burmese word \"Kayin,\" the derivation of which has puzzled students of that language. An anglicized form of Kayin \u2013 their name for themselves \u2013 the term \u201cKaren\u201d is used only by people outside the community and refers to those who live in rural communities (Karen State) along the Burmese-Thai border.\nKaren communities are indigenous to the hills and plains of southeastern Burma and western Thailand. In Burma, Karen people inhabit the hill forests, valleys and plains as well as cities and towns along the border, while in Thailand, they live on the lower-altitude hills, valleys and lowlands among the provinces of Mae Hong Son, Tak, and the western part of Chaing Mai.\nGeographically and linguistically, the Karen can be divided into Southern, Central, and Northern groups. There are several subgroups of Karen, each with their own language and group name. These subgroups have also been distinguished by the dominant color of their clothing, including: the Sgaw (pronounced Skaw) and Pwo from the Northern Karen state who are sometimes referred to as the white Karen; the Karenni from the Central Karen state, also known as the red Karen; and thePa-o from the Southern Karen state who are also referred to as the black Karen.\nAlthough the earliest Karen settlement in Burma was 739 BC, it is unclear whether they began settling in Thailand prior to the eighteenth century. The traditions of the Karen clearly indicate that they have not always lived in their present home. The most striking story is that of \"Htaw Meh Pa,\" the mythical founder of the Karen race, who lived with his numerous family in some unknown land to the North. According to some, the Karen are descendents of the Mongols .\nDuring the colonial period, the British government practiced a policy of \u201cdivide and rule\u201d in Burma by drawing clear lines that established the modern ethnic states, between the Burmans in the plains and the other ethnic minorities in the hills, a practice that exacerbated the historical ethnic rivalries. British colonial authorities allowed the continued existence of local rulers, such as the Karenni sawbwa, seen as less of a threat than members of the Burman majority. Eventually, the ethnic minorities, including Karen persons, became semi-autonomous in their villages with the help of Aung Sang, a Burman, who unified the modern country of Burma and helped to forge the path to independence.\nSome Karen retreated to India with British forces, later returning to Burma to help in the resistance against Japanese occupation. While Karen units, among others, were seen as instrumental in 1944\u201345 in helping the Allies recapture Burma, by that time Aung San and the BIA had already switched sides and were also fighting the retreating Japanese. While many Karen had hoped they would be rewarded for their loyalty to the British after the war, even the ensuing political arrangement under the Panglong Agreement \u2013 promising an eventual federal Burma \u2013 was concluded without Karen approval.\nWhile accounts differ as to what exactly occurred after independence in January 1948, by 1949, Karen units openly went into armed rebellion, as their demands for independence, or at least federalism, from organizations such as the Karen National Union (the KNU) and its armed branch, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), appeared increasingly futile. During the weak constitutional period from 1948 to 1962, Burma suffered widespread political and ethnic conflict and internal struggle. In 1962, the democratic government of Burma was overthrown by the army and became entrenched in civil conflict and political unrest. The military led a coup abolishing the constitution and took control of the government. Ethnic minority insurgent and political groups, such as the Karen National Union and the Karen National Liberation Army, were formed which fought to regain democratic participation for ethnic minorities in Burma.\nThousands of Karen civilians have died since the rebellion began a year after Burma's independence. Hundreds of thousands more Karen peasants have been made homeless during one of the world's longest running insurgencies. The two sides have tried to open ceasefire negotiations but these efforts stalled over the government's demand that the rebels first lay down their arms.\nKaren leaders say years of government aggression have subjected their people to human rights abuses that include forced labor, looting, extortion and destruction of property. Thousands of villagers have been forced to flee to escape the fighting, with many of them currently living in refugee encampments just across the Thai border.\nThrough the 1950s and 1960s, more ethnic groups joined the Karen and others in armed opposition to the Burmese government until almost a third of the country was controlled by about a dozen rebel groups by the 1970s. The tide turned, however, after the 1988 popular uprisings and the subsequent takeover by the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC), which responded with a massive build-up of the armed forces (tatmadaw) and the gradual whittling away of the territorial gains of the KNLA.\nIn 1997 Myanmar's State Peace and Development Council, or SPDC (formerly known as the State Law and Order Restoration Council, or SLORC) crushed the Karen National Union (KNU), the mainstream rebel movement, which has been fighting for autonomy from the Myanmar government for some 50 years. The Karen National Union, with an estimated 4,000-6,000 fighters, mostly carries out hit-and-run attacks.\nIn March 1998 soldiers, probably Democratic Karen Burmese Army (DKBA) forces, shelled the Wang Ka camp for displaced Burmese Karen located in Thailand. They killed two persons and wounded dozens more. The troops set fire to nearly all the huts in the camp, leaving thousands of persons homeless before the soldiers returned to Burma.\nOn 21 January 2004 the Karen National Union wrapped up a week of unprecedented talks with government officials in Rangoon. Rebel leaders said progress had been made toward a formal ceasefire after decades of insurgency. The Burmese government was tight-lipped about the talks, but a leader of the rebel Karen National Union, Lieutenant Colonel Nerdah Mya, said KNU delegates told him they went well. Colonel Mya, who spoke from Thailand, is the son of KNU Vice Chairman Bo Mya, the senior military commander who headed the delegation to Rangoon. During the visit, the delegation met with Burmese Prime Minister Khin Nyunt.\nAfter 60 years of military rule, Burma peacefully transitioned in 2010 to a quasi-civilian government. But active or retired army officers continue to wield great authority. Since coming to power in 2010, the government unveiled for the first time new peace proposals to rebel groups that call for cease-fires followed by development assistance and a national conference to discuss political grievances.\nThe political wing of the Karen resistance said in 2011 that attacks by the army have led to the displacement of nearly half a million people, and driven more than 140,000 refugees to nine camps along the Thai-Burma border. Despite the hardships, many remained committed to the cause.\nBy March 2011 more than 10,000 refugees from eastern Burma had crossed into Thailand since fighting erupted between government troops and the opposition Democratic Karen Buddhist Army in November 2010 after the country\u2019s first national elections in two decades. Thailand considered them to be illegal migrants, so they are not allowed in the refugee camps, and have little access to humanitarian aid. Instead, they seek shelter in the jungle or in squatter camps. The conflict escalated after the election, as the Burmese army tries to gain control over more Karen territory.\nOn January 11, 2012 the Burmese government signed a cease-fire with the ethnic Karen rebel group, in an apparent move toward ending one of the world's longest-running insurgencies and meeting a key condition for improved ties with the West. The two sides signed the deal after a series of meetings in Pa-an, the capital of Karen state in southeast Burma. The agreement marked the first declared break in fighting between the government and the rebel force since just after the country gained independence from Britain in 1948.\nBurma's information minister said 21 March 2011 that neighboring Thailand could do more to help curb a decades-old insurgency in Burma's east. Burma's state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said Information Minister Kyaw Hsan told a parliamentary session that if Thailand stood as a friendly nation, the problems in Burma's Karen State would soon be solved. He said the insurgents remain active with the assistance of certain super powers, international non-governmental organizations and Thailand. The insurgents use refugee camps in Thailand as their base to launch attacks on the Burmese army.\nDespite Burma\u2019s political opening, by 2013 most of the Burmese refugees in Thailand were not expecting to return any time soon. A first-of-its kind U.N. survey of refugees indicated that many remained wary of heading back across the border. About 130,000 refugees are residing in nine border camps in Thailand. Many of those were born in exile. Eighty percent of the camps' residents were ethnic Karen.\nAlong the Thai-Burma border, by mid-2014 more than 120,000 refugees remain in nine camps, including at Mae Sot, the largest settlement, established 30 years earlier. In July 2014 Thailand\u2019s military government said it had reached an agreement with Myanmar for the return of refugees. The agreement called for as many as 130,000 people to be sent back to Myanmar. Rights activists opposed the move. They say refugees should not be returned until security and Myanmar\u2019s economy have improved.\nEthnic Karen rebels signed a truce in January 2012, halting their fight for more autonomy. The Karen National Union, suspended its membership in the coalition group that had been working with the government of Myanmar, also known as Burma, on a nationwide cease-fire agreement. The move came 01 September 2014 after the union\u2019s representatives walked out of a four-day conference of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 12922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 182.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gm.k12.mn.us/page/hot_news/view/497", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:12Z", "digest": "sha1:256L7BHDIPBAOMIZLJMJTGZGRMT5AGCV", "length": 970, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.gm.k12.mn.us", "title": "Principal E-News - Grand Meadow ISD 495", "raw_content": "Friday, January 18th was a traditional snow day; meaning school was cancelled and there was not any school based learning or activities which took place.\nMoving forward, if there is a weather related situation or other circumstances where the school needs to be closed, it will be an E-Learning day. Students and faculty have been discussing this at school, so your children should be aware of what to do in the case of an E-Learning day.\nEach grade level and teacher has a link on the schools webpage (www.gm.k12.mn.us). Under the category of district links, click on E-Learning Day Info. Once you have clicked on that link you will see all grade level and teacher links to assignments for students to work one. Keep in mind that current assignments need to be posted by teachers no later than 10:00 AM.\nTeachers will be available via their school e-mail address or by calling the school and connecting to their direct classroom extension if a student needs assistance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 4720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/entertainment/the-art-of-living-casually/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5WTOX22UXONKHESYWG3IYBWDD2PZXVMO", "length": 3079, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.goldstreamgazette.com", "title": "The art of living casually \u2013 Goldstream News Gazette", "raw_content": "The art of living casually\nGrassroots group celebrates a decade of artistic support\nCameron Kidd\nIt\u2019s hard to imagine an art gallery running year after year without any staff whatsoever.\nBut that\u2019s basically what the Ministry of Casual Living has been doing for the past decade, surviving mostly on grant money and the generosity of a dedicated group of volunteers.\n\u201cI added up the rent and pure money that the volunteers that ran the place had put in over the last nine-and-a-half years, and it was close to $85,000 that artists paid out of pocket to keep it going,\u201d says Aubrey Burke, who is just completing a year-long stint as the \u201cminister\u201d \u2013 the grassroots organization\u2019s term for curator \u2013 of the arts collective. \u201cAnd that doesn\u2019t count time.\u201d\nIt should be pointed out that the Ministry isn\u2019t exactly your typical gallery. All artists are welcome, and the group\u2019s primary focus is on giving emerging artists a chance to show their work for the first time.\n\u201cWe\u2019re trying to make this available to everybody. It\u2019s not exclusive at all,\u201d says Cameron Kidd, the group\u2019s new minister. \u201cIt\u2019s set up in a way that there is a space available for people if they want to submit. We try to encourage people to submit as many proposals to show as they can.\u201d\nA recent move from the Ministry\u2019s original home has opened up new opportunities for potential exhibitors. After occupying a space on Haultain Avenue for its first nine-plus years of existence, the Ministry now has a trio of display spaces in the heart of downtown Victoria.\nThe windows \u2013 in Odeon Alley, at 625 Johnson Street and at 407 Government Street \u2013 allow the Ministry to host up to six different exhibits per month; given the normal two-week run of each display. They can also co-ordinate the display spaces to support a single artist.\n\u201cWe just had John Luna show in all three windows, and that went really well,\u201d says Kidd.\nNot only has the move allowed the Ministry to spread the wealth, it\u2019s exposed them to a whole new audience.\n\u201cWe\u2019re definitely getting a different crowd, different exposure \u2013 probably more exposure \u2013 downtown with the citizens of Victoria than we were on Haultain in Fernwood,\u201d says Kidd. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot more foot traffic.\u201d\nLast week the Ministry hosted a two-day party to celebrate its first 10 years. Judging by the sold-out crowds on both nights, there\u2019s plenty of support in Greater Victoria for their artists-supporting-artists approach.\n\u201cWe\u2019re vibing off the community and people are excited about what we\u2019re doing,\u201d says Burke.\nTen years in, the Ministry continues to look for ways to reach out to the arts community. Collaborations with local musicians are being explored, beach tours are being arranged, and there\u2019s even a documentary in the works that examines the group\u2019s first decade of existence.\n\u201cI think that the Ministry has been an important space for artists over the last 10 years, and has given hundreds of people the opportunity to showcase their works in Victoria,\u201d says Kidd. \u201cWe\u2019d like to continue doing so.\u201d\nC\u2019mon get Celtic on Saturday\nCanadian duo hit Victoria stage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 8981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/sports/belmont-girls-volleyball-team-in-top-form/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:45Z", "digest": "sha1:UWHWH2FH5QW3P3ABTPMPXKAJIJNICXPO", "length": 2555, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.goldstreamgazette.com", "title": "Belmont girls volleyball team in top form \u2013 Goldstream News Gazette", "raw_content": "Belmont Bulldogs\u2019 Abbey Nault (6) winds up to spike the ball in a home game against Claremont as her teammates Elise Gagnon (8), Sierra Coles (12), Taylee Pomponio (9), Kylie Kennedy and Jasmyn Loo (2) are poised for the next play. (Lindsey Horsting/News staff)\nBelmont girls volleyball team in top form\nBulldogs currently ranked No. 1 in the province\nThe Belmont Secondary senior girls volleyball team is back at it again.\nIn just over a month of action, the squad has put their skills to the test in four tournaments and several league games. The team graduated seven players after last season, five that have gone on to play post-secondary volleyball, and one playing basketball.\nThis season, head coach Mike Toakley said the team has four strong players returning who have exhibited great leadership so far.\n\u201cLast year our players were experienced and really tested,\u201d Toakley said.\n\u201cThis year, we have strong players and they are playing at this level for the first time,\u201d he added, noting that libero Jasmyn Loo has given the Bulldogs a strong defensive presence.\nREAD ALSO: Belmont volleyball coach wins coach of the year award\nToakley said Oak Bay is very good this year, currently ranked No. 3 in the province, and although Belmont has been able to edge the Bays in all three contests so far this year, it\u2019s been close every time.\nThe Bulldogs beat the Bays in the Camosun tournament (26-24, 25-19) where Belmont\u2019s Jocelyn Sherman took home MVP honours and Gracie May and Taylee Pomponio were named to the all-star team.\nAt the Vancouver Island University tournament, the Bulldogs were in familiar form, sweeping the tournament and beating St. Thomas Aquinas in the finals.\nThe team travelled to the mainland for a tournament at the University of British Columbia, showcasing the best teams in the province from single-A to quad-A.\nThe quad-A Bulldogs played seven games and knocked off top 10 teams at UBC, including Crofton House, the No. 1 ranked team in AAAA, in the semifinals.\nToakley said Belmont had a disappointing loss in the final game to Little Flower Academy, the No. 1 ranked team in AAA.\nIn league play, Belmont played two matches Tuesday evening beating Claremont (25-14, 25-17) and Reynolds (25-20, 25-16).\nBelmont won the B.C. Senior Girls High School Volleyball Championships the past two seasons, but Toakley said they can\u2019t look past the competition on the Island to qualify for provincials.\n\u201cWe\u2019re not thinking about it [three-peat],\u201d he laughed, adding that there are five teams that could easily take the crown this season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 8606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/635665/telstra-offers-australia-first-taste-5g/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QJ5IBUIV2QAGFVV5TXU2Q6KCV3VBVSGE", "length": 3641, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.goodgearguide.com.au", "title": "Telstra Offers Australia\u2019s First Taste of 5G - Good Gear Guide Australia", "raw_content": "Telstra Offers Australia\u2019s First Taste of 5G\nCredit: Sdecoret | Dreamstime.com\nTelstra has turned on the first precinct of 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hotspots in the world, allowing Gold Coast locals and visitors to enjoy free broadband while Telstra evaluates 5G technology.\nTelstra\u2019s Group Managing Director of Networks Mike Wright said Telstra is using the connectivity via its recently opened 5G Innovation Centre on the Gold Coast to power a series of Wi-Fi hotspots on Scarborough and Nerang streets in Southport as well as a 5G Connected Car.\n\u201cWe have said we intend to lead on 5G and with these 5G-enabled Wi-Fi hotspots Australian consumers will be among the first people in the world to try the technology,\u201d said Mr Wright. \u201cTaking 5G technology out of a lab and into the hands of consumers is another key milestone on Telstra\u2019s roadmap to offering 5G services in 2019.\u201d\nThere are no 5G compatible commercial smartphones or tablets available today. However, by connecting 5G backhaul and infrastructure in the Southport Exchange, to a standard Wi-Fi access point then people can use the technology on their existing device.\nUsing Wi-Fi access as part of Telstra\u2019s 5G technical program is an innovative way to show the benefits of 5G capability in real world conditions. The 5G hotspots will be open to anyone in the area and are free with a download limit of 10GB per day per device.\n\u201cWi-Fi has limited throughput so a single hotspot alone cannot come close to reaching the limits of 5G at our Innovation Centre. By using multiple hotspots with potentially hundreds of smartphone users served through a single 5G device we are able to get closer to demonstrating 5G in a real world environment,\u201d said Mr Wright. \u201cOur 5G backhaul is capable of delivering download speeds of more than 3 Gbps, which is capable of supporting around 1,000 HD movies being streamed simultaneously.\u201d\nTelstra is also using mmWave spectrum and its 5G Innovation Centre to put a Connected Car on the road with the Intel 5G Automotive Trial Platform, one of the most advanced 5G prototype devices available in the world today.\n\u201cWorking with global technology companies Ericsson and Intel, we have put Australia\u2019s first 5G Connected Car on the road. We are in the very early stages of development and are achieving download speeds approaching 1 Gbps inside the car and the vehicle is also equipped with a Wi-Fi access point,\u201d added Mr Wright.\n\u201cThis shows how quickly the technology is evolving. At the start of the year our 5G prototype device was the size of a bar fridge and weighed more than 200 kilograms. Now, in collaboration with Intel and Ericsson, we have one that has been shrunk down to the size of a personal computer and can be installed in a car.\u201d\nThe Connected Car will help Telstra to start getting real results on mobile performance over mmWave and ensure 5G network readiness. These advances are part of a series of 5G related activities that Telstra, Ericsson, Intel and other technology companies will undertake on the Gold Coast in 2018/\nThe 5G Innovation Centre is central to a $60 million Investment Telstra has made to upgrade infrastructure on the Gold Coast to support growing demand and major events in the area.\nActual broadband speeds experienced on the 5G enabled Wi-Fi hotspots and Connected Car will vary and are likely to be lower than the maximum depending on factors such as the type of device being used, distance from the hotspot and the number of people connected to the hotspot at one time.\nRead more Telstra Announces New Smart Home Internet Bundle\nSamsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ Awarded Telstra Blue Tick Certification\nTags Telstra5G", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 280, "original_length": 10475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goodnewsfl.org/big-cardio-back-celebrating-10-years-good/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:EIF3QT7MEMNPJNV6ZG5FHIF7AX6B4NDA", "length": 4318, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.goodnewsfl.org", "title": "BiG Cardio is Back Celebrating 10 Years of Doing Good | Good News Christian News", "raw_content": "The Good News in HealthHomeHome LifeLifeLocal\nBiG Cardio is Back Celebrating 10 Years of Doing Good\nBiG Cardio returns on Saturday, May 6 celebrating its 10th anniversary and organizers say it will be better than ever. Produced by BiG Children\u2019s Foundation (BCF), a non-profit organization that provides opportunity and support for at-risk youth, the annual BiG Cardio is a unique blend of all things fitness, sports, cycle and fun. With 10 fitness activities and sports to choose from, and dozens of other attractions, it\u2019s become one of South Florida\u2019s favorite events.\nSetting it apart from other events BiG Cardio is designed to make fitness a fun activity for everyone at every age. \u201cPerfect for the entire family\u201d said BiG Cardio Executive Producer, Joyce Feldman. \u201cThis was the vision from its inception in 2008. The intention was to be innovative and continually add new activity segments and attract multiple communities of people simultaneously. My heart was to utilize BiG Cardio as a community platform to advocate for children and youth in crisis or at-risk, and generate awareness and revenue.\u201d\nBiG Cardio boasts Soccer Tournaments run by Kaptiva Sports and youth soccer clinics run by FCBESCOLA Soccer School. In addition, there is a CEO Challenge that participants won\u2019t want to miss and a few new surprises that you\u2019ll just have to stay tuned in to find out.\nBiG Cardio is about raising awareness and much needed funding to create change in the lives of young people in crisis and at-risk in our own community.\n\u201cChildren are our future. We are committed to developing the programs that lead young people to positively change their lives \u2013 programs that give them the confidence, knowledge and tools to succeed,\u201d said BCF Board Member, John Marley. \u201cWe will either pay later if they choose a life of crime to survive, or we can choose to pay now\u2014with our love, time and resources. We want to invest in them now!\u201d\nProceeds from the event benefit BCF\u2019s programs, which support kids in the foster care system preparing to age-out, those who have aged-out, at-risk youth and victims of human trafficking.\nWhat makes BiG Cardio unique\nIf you take a look on a weekend race calendar, you\u2019ll find an average of 5 \u2013 8 events on any given weekend in South Florida. But BiG Cardio is unlike any of them because it ties together multiple activities and extends well into the afternoon for those playing in the soccer, volleyball and basketball tournaments (as well as anyone who wants to hang out and enjoy a day at the park). BiG Cardio is truly the best bang for the $30-buck registration fee you can find.\nThere are many ways to get involved. While you can register for the 5K Run/Walk, fitness activities and sports tourneys, you don\u2019t have to be the sports sort or a fitness fanatic to make a BiG impact in our community. Show up for the event (and bring some friends) or sign up to volunteer \u2014 plenty of help is needed to pull off this event \u2014 or consider financially supporting BiG Cardio by sponsoring a participant through their individual fundraising page or making a general donation at BiGCardio.org.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very important for corporations to be involved in the community. Ryder has been around for a very long time and we have a strong history of being involved in the South Florida community. Over the past few years, we\u2019ve expanded our partnership with BiG Cardio,\u201d said Hunter Tully, Managing Director of Finance, Ryder Supply Chain Services.\nWe encourage other companies to get involved in this worthy cause.\nConsider forming a team for your group and utilizing the event as your \u201ccompany day\u201d or \u201cchurch retreat.\u201d You can rent a tent in various sizes depending on the size of your group and enjoy a day of fun with your staff or congregants without the headache of planning an event. You can also earn a tent and a team t-shirt by recruiting member. Go to bigcardio.org for more info.\nReady to get your heart rate up?\nRegister as an individual, create a team, or join a team. Donate to an individual or team, make a general gift to BiG Cardio or sponsor the event. Consider volunteering at the event. Service hours are even available for high schoolers. Start fundraising. You can raise funds as a participant, or fundraise without participating. It\u2019s all at BiGCardio.org.\nNext Read: No Vacancy \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 5033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goodnewsfl.org/freedom-becoming-realist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:34Z", "digest": "sha1:3EHGWOCAKKK4KJC3BTUCKAVI5IPQSEWN", "length": 4155, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.goodnewsfl.org", "title": "The Freedom of Becoming a Realist - Good News Christian News", "raw_content": "The Freedom of Becoming a Realist\nLife, suffering, and failure have a way of transforming you from an idealist to a realist \u2014 from thinking that you\u2019re strong to reminding you that you\u2019re weak.\nWhen I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 42, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people\u2019s. Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns\u2014whatever it is for you\u2014live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person. Life has had a way of proving to me that I\u2019m not on the constantly-moving-forward escalator of progress I thought I was on when I was twenty-five.\nSin vs sanctification\nA while back, I received an email from a friend inquiring about my understanding between the relationship of ongoing sin in the life of a Christian and sanctification (Christian growth). He said he understood that Christians continue to be sinful, but the question he asked me was whether I thought Christians continue to be statically sinful. I told him that I hadn\u2019t considered the categories of statically or non-statically sinful because while those categories may be moderately helpful in a theoretical discussion, they are categories that don\u2019t correspond to life as it is actually lived. For instance, it becomes pretty subjective as to what is static and what isn\u2019t static. I have improved over the years in some ways, but I also see areas in my life that seem better or worse given the day, the circumstances, the season of life, etc. Some things I\u2019ve \u201clicked\u201d (although I\u2019m typically proud of those things so that becomes a \u201cnew\u201d problem) and others I\u2019m sure will plague me the rest of my life with more or less success depending on a variety of situations, moods, people I\u2019m dealing with and so on. I told him that the category which speaks to the reality of life as it is actually lived is Martin Luther\u2019s Simul iustus et peccator (Christians are both justified and sinner simultaneously) \u2014 a category that the Apostle Paul gives existential voice to in Romans 7.\nI think most people can probably relate better to what my life has actually looked like: Try and fail. Fail then try. Try and succeed. Succeed then fail. Two steps forward. One step back. One step forward. Three steps back. Every year, I get better at some things, worse at others. Some areas remain stubbornly static. To complicate matters even more, when I honestly acknowledge the ways I\u2019ve gotten worse, it\u2019s actually a sign that I may be getting better. And when I become proud of the ways I\u2019ve gotten better, it\u2019s actually a sign that I\u2019ve gotten worse. And \u2019round and \u2019round we go.\nGrandeur of grace\nIf this sounds like a depressing sentiment, it isn\u2019t meant to be one \u2014 quite the opposite. In fact, as my friend Mike Horton says, \u201cThe hype of a radical calling to change the world can creep into every area of our life and make us tired, depressed and mean.\u201d If I am grateful for anything about these past 17 years, it\u2019s for the way God has wrecked my idealism about myself and the world and replaced it with a realism about the extent of His grace and love, which is much bigger than I had ever imagined. Indeed, the smaller you get\u2014the smaller life makes you\u2014the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace.\nSo, while I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.\nTullian Tchividjian is a South Florida native, senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, a visiting professor at Reformed Theological Seminary, and grandson of Billy and Ruth Graham. He is the founder of LIBERATE (liberatenet.org), a bestselling author, a contributing editor to Leadership Journal, and a popular conference speaker. Tullian and his family reside in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Follow Tullian on twitter at: @pastortullian", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 8651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goodnewsfl.org/the-importance-of-quality-friendships/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RQIWOEKF26G27DSCXBLRGIJVVXK27QJU", "length": 4621, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.goodnewsfl.org", "title": "The Importance of Quality Friendships Good News Christian Newspaper", "raw_content": "The Importance of Quality Friendships\nZsofi Schindler\nIf you ask people what they think is really important in life, having quality friendships is usually high on the list. The Bible says, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone\u201d (Genesis 2:18). Although this line refers to Adam and Eve, it also conveys the importance of not doing life alone. It is good to be friends with your spouse, but why is that not enough? Why do we need friendships beyond the love of our family? While friendships are important throughout life, there are two time periods in life when friendships have a more leading, and sometimes even lifesaving, role.\nFriendships in teenager\u2019s lives\nWho do we consider real friends? The ones we can count on, right? Those who have our backs, who broaden our minds by sharing their own thoughts, who stop us from making bad decisions, and who encourage us to do the right thing. Real friends become one in spirit with us and love us as ourselves (1 Samuel 18:1). The advantages of having a good friend cannot be summed up in one sentence, or even in one page. Still, parents are often concerned about the company of their teenage children, which is completely understandable. As the Bible says, \u201cOne who has unreliable friends soon comes to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother\u201d (Proverbs 18:24). The kind of friendships that we keep makes a difference.\nBeing a teenager is about discovering identity and developing a personality. Part of that process is shaping beliefs, behaviors and opinions by comparing them to others\u2019. Thus, friends can intensify or change each other\u2019s minds. A healthy friendship functions like a compass, not forcing you to go one direction but showing you the right one.\nTeenagers are between childhood and adulthood. Teenagers are trying to understand the changes in their bodies, emotions and life in general. They are in a constant search for answers, mostly expecting friends to tell them the right answers. Therefore they spend more time with classmates or kids next door and, in many cases, shut their parents out. The advice they exchange counts a lot; the most important opinion might be their close friend\u2019s.\nWe should not forget the danger connected to this age: drugs, alcohol, wild parties, premarital sex, romance and suicide. Teenagers might become especially vulnerable to these dangers if they lack healthy friendships. The wrong friendships might make them question their self-esteem and they might also be susceptible to becoming desperate for love, respect and acceptance from their peers.\nMost of us have felt the need to fit in. A real friend helps keep this need in check and keeps it on a safe level. It is not about having many friends, but about having real ones.\nFriendship in older people\u2019s lives\nPeople over a certain age tend to avoid company. They prefer staying at home and watching TV, reading a book or spending some time with the grandchildren a few days a week. Some eventually isolate themselves out of embarrassment. Being with young people can be intimidating because the elderly cannot hear or speak the way they used to. Or, they might even feel ugly and lame. It is hard to deal with old age, to think about the past and still find motivation and joy in life. Spouses and friends might have passed away, making all their memories seem far away. Death seems more threatening than ever before. Many old people get depressed and find life meaningless, especially those who live alone. They do not feel needed anymore.\nThere is some interesting research: old people who still have friends live significantly longer than the lonely ones. A close friend gives support and helps them think over their life in a positive way. They are able to share experiences from 20 or even 50 years ago. These friendships between the elderly have a way o putting them in a good mood and motivating them to set new, achievable goals. These kinds of friends can even inspire them to fight an illness.\nOld friends make each other still feel needed and interesting. They do not feel the pressure to hide imperfections. Drinking a cup of tea and conversing about old times keeps them from feeling alone. These sorts of same age friendships help them because they have similar memories and deal with the same health problems and life changes.\nQuality friendships are essential to healthy living and growth. The movie Bride of Frankenstein put it simply when the monster states, \u201cAlone, bad. Friend, good.\u201d\nZsofia Schindler is a freelance writer. To contact her email her at [email protected] or visit her blog at bakingfootprints.blogspot.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 9039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.google9ja.com/2018/12/2019-apc-blasts-pdp-for-demanding.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DNG5TYTL4JO6M3VRQY6IUBPJLHUHUEVS", "length": 1793, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.google9ja.com", "title": "2019: APC blasts PDP for demanding resignation of INEC Chairman, Police IG | Google9ja | Entertainment | Nigerian Latest News online", "raw_content": "The APC in a statement on Sunday said it was 'amused by the latest utterances of the Chairman, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus calling on both the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Yakubu Mahmoud and the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim to resign on account of the PDP's baseless suspicions ahead of the 2019 General Elections\". Describing the call as suspicious and a red flag, the APC added; \"It is a pity that the once boisterous PDP, having undermined the country for 16 years through mindless undemocratic actions, has now become a caricature of a political party.\n\"This latest outburst is yet another reminder of how the PDP government serially abused state institutions in the pursuit of selfish political and economic interests.\nPDP is now being haunted by its sordid past and the ruinous party is now scampering from its own shadow. PDP chides APC as wicked for attempting to justify Buhari's stand on soldiers' killing \"It is sad that the PDP hounds have continued to take Nigerians for granted, thinking by embarking on scaremongering, the voters could forget their wanton crimes. 'Nigerians are not gullible, it is now apparent that the PDP in a bid to hide their inadequacies and undesirability as elections approaches has chosen to populate the public space with unfounded allegations.\n\"The All Progressives Congress (APC) continues to stand for and would defend a participatory democracy where elections are transparent, credible, free and fair. We also call on relevant agencies to monitor the PDP as its recent utterances are a red flag. We must prevent a reoccurrence of the PDP's typical undemocratic practices during elections. Never again will a selfish few distort the wishes of the electorate\", it added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 176240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gopubmed.org/cysteinyl-trna+synthetase.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EYI3NZVQEZIPHW3R3UH4V3QRTJSLCIWO", "length": 5522, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.gopubmed.org", "title": "Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase: Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase", "raw_content": "Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase, CARS\nAntibodies onlineCars (Rattus norvegicus)\nTop mentioned proteins: CAN, ACID, HAD, AGE, SET\nPapers on Cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase\nLoss of cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase (CARS) induces the transsulfuration pathway and inhibits ferroptosis induced by cystine deprivation.\nStockwell et al., New York City, United States. In Cell Death Differ, Feb 2016\nWe determined that loss of CARS, the cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase, suppresses ferroptosis induced by erastin, which inhibits the cystine-glutamate antiporter known as system xc(-).\nThe levels of blood mercury and inflammatory-related neuropeptides in the serum are correlated in children with autism spectrum disorder.\nAl-Ayadhi et al., Cairo, Egypt. In Metab Brain Dis, Feb 2016\nThere was a positive linear relationship between the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) and both serum neurokinin A and BHg.\nBringing obesity to light: Rev-erb\u03b1, a central player in light-induced adipogenesis in the zebrafish?\nLegler et al., Amsterdam, Netherlands. In Int J Obes (lond), Dec 2015\nAdipogenesis was characterized using coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy (CARS) and whole-mount lipid composition was analyzed by gas chromatography.\nLight- and pH-activated intracellular drug release from polymeric mesoporous silica nanoparticles.\nXing et al., Winnipeg, Canada. In Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces, Nov 2015\nMultimodal nonlinear optical imaging microscopy (NLOM) was employed to acquire in vitro coherent anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) and two-photon excited fluorescence (TPEF) images of live MCF-7 cells and showed that the nanoparticles can be taken up by breast tumor cell MCF-7 with high efficiency, indicating its great potential for anti-cancer drug delivery system.\nImmunoproteomic profiling of Rickettsia parkeri and Rickettsia amblyommii.\nMacaluso et al., Baton Rouge, United States. In Ticks Tick Borne Dis, Sep 2015\nSerum specimens from patients with R. parkeri rickettsiosis reacted specifically with cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase, DNA-directed RNA polymerase subunit alpha, putative sigma (54) modulation protein, chaperonin GroEL, and elongation factor Tu of R. parkeri which have been reported as virulence factors in other bacterial species.\nNonorthogonal tRNA(cys)(Amber) for protein and nascent chain labeling.\nHuang et al., Taipei, Taiwan. In Rna, Sep 2015\nAs cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase was previously shown to aminoacylate tRNA(cys)(Amber) with lower efficiency, multiple tRNA synthetase mutants were designed to optimize aminoacylation.\nSeatbelts in CAR therapy: How Safe Are CARS?\nDi Stasi et al., Birmingham, United States. In Pharmaceuticals (basel), 2014\nT-cells genetically redirected with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) to recognize tumor antigens and kill tumor cells have been infused in several phase 1 clinical trials with success.\nRecent advances in candidate-gene and whole-genome approaches to the discovery of anthelmintic resistance markers and the description of drug/receptor interactions.\nPrichard et al., Brisbane, Australia. In Int J Parasitol Drugs Drug Resist, 2014\nThe Consortium for Anthelmintic Resistance and Susceptibility (CARS) provides a forum for scientists to meet and discuss the latest developments in the search for molecular markers of anthelmintic resistance.\nCurrent views on the mechanisms of immune responses to trauma and infection.\nS\u0142otwi\u0144ski et al., Warsaw, Poland. In Cent Eur J Immunol, 2014\nThe changing concepts of systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and compensatory anti-inflammatory response syndrome (CARS) early inflammatory response, presented in this work, have been extended to genetic studies.\nPerilipin-related protein regulates lipid metabolism in C. elegans.\nKostrouchov\u00e1 et al., Praha, Czech Republic. In Peerj, 2014\nVisualization of lipid containing structures by CARS microscopy in vivo showed that lipid-containing structures become gradually enlarged during oogenesis and relocate during the first zygotic division around the dividing nucleus.\nEndogenous Two-Photon Excited Fluorescence Provides Label-Free Visualization of the Inflammatory Response in the Rodent Spinal Cord.\nKirsch et al., Dresden, Germany. In Biomed Res Int, 2014\nThe extent of tissue damage was retrieved by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) and second harmonic generation imaging.\nThe immune response to surgery and infection.\nExtensive surgery in cancer patients is associated with simultaneous activation of pro- and anti-inflammatory processes defined as SIRS (systemic inflammatory immune response) and CARS (compensatory anti-inflammatory immune response).\nThe immune response to surgery and trauma: Implications for treatment.\nFlemmer et al., Norfolk, United States. In J Trauma Acute Care Surg, 2012\nThe hosts' immune response to tissue injury is widely believed to follow a bimodal response, with the systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) followed by the compensated anti-inflammatory response syndrome (CARS).\nAn aminoacyl tRNA synthetase whose sequence fits into neither of the two known classes.\nSchimmel et al., Los Angeles, United States. In Nature, 2001\nHere we describe a different cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase from M. jannaschii and Deinococcus radiodurans and its characterization in vitro and in vivo.\nOne polypeptide with two aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase activities.\nS\u00f6ll et al., New Haven, United States. In Science, 2000\nHowever, a single cysteinyl-tRNA synthetase activity was detected and purified from one such organism, Methanococcus jannaschii.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gospelherald.com/articles/65567/20160727/rainbow-six-siege-operation-skull-rain-expansion-dlc-release-date-and-features.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EOSZRRD6L3Q5X2E3IBOKOYDKVIXURRO5", "length": 3147, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.gospelherald.com", "title": "\u2018Rainbow Six Siege\u2019 Operation Skull Rain Expansion DLC Release Date and Features", "raw_content": "\u2018Rainbow Six Siege\u2019 Operation Skull Rain Expansion DLC Release Date and Features\nBy Mark Rollins ( [email protected] ) Jul 27, 2016 06:18 AM EDT Comment\nRainbow Six Siege: Operation Skull Rain coming August 2nd. Ubisoft\nIf you are not familiar with Rainbow Six Siege, it is a highly popular video game based on a novel by the late Tom Clancy, author of several acclaimed and best-selling spy novels. It is a part of the Rainbow Six game series focuses on an international counter-terrorist unit code-named \"Rainbow\". There are many sequels and expansion packs since the game's first release in 1998, and the newest expansion is Operation Skull Rain, the third expansion to the Rainbow Six Siege. This is everything that is known about Rainbow Six Siege Operation Skull Rain release date and features.\nOperation Skull Rain will feature two new operators of Caveira and Capitao, both from Brazil's Batalh\u00e3o de Opera\u00e7\u00f5es Policiais Especiais (BOPE). These new Operators will be instantly available to Season Pass holders, and they will have exclusive access to them for the first seven days.\nAccording to Ubiblog, Caveira is a defensive operator of the two. She possesses the \"Silent Step\", a skill that enables her to sneak up on enemies to immobilize and then interrogate them to reveal their teammates' location. She has an M12 and SPAS-15 for primary weapons, a PRB92 as a secondary weaspon, not to mention Nitro Cell C4 as well as Barbed Wire for gadgets.\nAs for Capitao, this attacker has a tactical crossbow that can fire asphyxiating bolts that can burn oxygen within a certain radius, not to mention micro smoke grenades that can mask positions and team movements. Capitao has an M-249 and PARA-308 for primary weapon options, a PRB92 for secondary, and frag and stun grenades rounding out his available arsenal.\nWithin Operation Skull Rain will be a new map that will allow teams to do battle, and it will be free for all players. This new map is set in a Brazilian favela, supports exterior shell destruction, which will be the most destructible map to date.\nIn addition to all of this, the development team is going to add a lot of \"tweaks and improvements\" to the game. The biggest of these is the addition of a Tactical Realism custom game mode. The Tactical Realism mode prevents players from marking enemies, allowing only the timer, compass, gadget, and weapons panels to be visible in the HUD, which is by popular request. There are also no kill confirmations, as well as a more realistic magazine management will be implemented. The purpose is to get players to rely even more on their teammates and communication information, which are very important elements to the game.\nThere will also be a new angled grip attachment to make the transition between hip fire and ADS much faster in order to create a faster-paced style of combat. There is also a new surrender system which will make it possible for your team to surrender during a ranked match with a majority vote, but matches can only be surrendered before the third round.\nOperation Skull Rain will be available for Rainbow Six Seige on PS4, Xbox One, and PC as of August 2nd.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 9564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-a-licence/house-to-house-collection-licence/forest-of-dean/tell-us-once-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:KWOGIHFZ3TAFERBSLEK2QVCI5JPVMT2G", "length": 84, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.gov.uk", "title": "Supply a return for a house-to-house collection from Forest of Dean District Council", "raw_content": "Supply a return for a house-to-house collection from Forest of Dean District Council", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 182.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gracemarques.com/listing/643987304/red-and-black-native-inspired-leather", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:57Z", "digest": "sha1:I34DPXWPPWDCUZKDRN6DTYYBTGVBBDU7", "length": 196, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.gracemarques.com", "title": "Maasai Mara", "raw_content": "Inspired by the Maasai Mara Warriors on a trip to Africa recently.\n100% Deer Hide Red and Black Leather Bag\nIt Measures 12 long X 10 wide\nThere's a pocket on the inside and on the back of the bag.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.grandstrandpowerequipment.com/search/inventory/type/Residential%20Lawn%20Mowers/type/Commercial%20Lawn%20Mowers/sort/best-match", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IFQIGTXWFMI2M2DSYH76FX2UWLE2RVIL", "length": 195, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.grandstrandpowerequipment.com", "title": "Residential Lawn Mowers and Commercial Lawn Mowers Grand Strand Power Equipment Myrtle Beach, SC (843) 444-1109", "raw_content": "Automatic (4) Battery (12) Commercial Walk-Behind Mowers (19) Commercial Zero-Turn Mowers (41)\nHomeowner Walk-Behind Mowers (25) Homeowner Zero Turn Mowers (52) Stand On (10) Stand-On Mowers (10)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 608, "original_length": 14647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 234.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenedgecycling.com/race-and-results/milano-torino-10251583", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:28Z", "digest": "sha1:43JBL56AFAYTMPWY7VASX3ZJII4U6J3W", "length": 1329, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.greenedgecycling.com", "title": "Milano Torino | Mitchelton-SCOTT GreenEDGE Cycling", "raw_content": "Milano Torino - Race Overview\nMitchelton-SCOTT produced strong team display full of intent at Milano-Torino in Italy today, before an explosive double ascent of the Superga climb blew the race apart with Adam Yates finishing in the top twenty.\nThe Australian WorldTour outfit set their stall out early, controlling the tempo of the peloton behind the breakaway for much of the day alongside FDJ until the race came back together for the grand finale.\nAttacks peppered the front of the race with Yates, Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) and eventual winner Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) all prominent as the leaders went over the top of the Superga, down the descent and up the other side for a brutal close to the race.\nYates lost contact with the front runners over the last two kilometres before Pinot made the most of an unfortunate crash within the leading group to sail away for a solo win.\n2 Miguel Angel Lopez Moreno (COL) - Astana Pro Team 00:00:10\n4 Mattia Cattaneo (ITA) - Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec 00:00:36\n5 S\u221a\u00a9bastien Reichenbach (SWI) - 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Absolutely. Raised largely 'off the grid' in rural Idaho - without school, doctor visits, a birth certificate, or even a family consensus on the date of her birth - Tara nevertheless decides she wants to go to college. This is a story in two parts: First, Tara's childhood working in a dangerous scrapyard alongside her six siblings, her survivalist father, and her mother, a conflicted but talented midwife and healer, while fearing Y2K and the influence of the secular world; then, her departure from her mountain home to receive an education. Both halves of her story are equally fascinating. Educated is a testament to Tara's brilliance and tenacity, a bittersweet rendering of how family relationships can be cruel or life-saving, and a truly great read from the first page to the last.\u201d\nTara Westover was born in Idaho in 1986. She received her BA from Brigham Young University in 2008 and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She earned an MPhil from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2009, and in 2010 was a visiting fellow at Harvard University. She returned to Cambridge, where she was awarded a PhD in history in 2014. Educated is her first book.\n\u201cBeautiful and propulsive . . . [Tara Westover\u2019s] voice is so sui generis it feels in debt to no one. . . . And despite the singularity of her childhood, the questions her book poses are universal: How much of ourselves should we give to those we love? And how much must we betray them to grow up?\u201d\u2014Vogue\n\u201cAn amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. It\u2019s even better than you\u2019ve heard.\u201d\u2014Bill Gates\n\u201cHeart-wrenching . . . a beautiful testament to the power of education to open eyes and change lives.\u201d\u2014Amy Chua, The New York Times Book Review\n\u201cWestover is a keen and honest guide to the difficulties of filial love, and to the enchantment of embracing a life of the mind.\u201d\u2014The New Yorker\n\u201cWestover\u2019s one-of-a-kind memoir is about the shaping of a mind. . . . In briskly paced prose, she evokes a childhood that completely defined her. Yet it was also, she gradually sensed, deforming her.\u201d\u2014The Atlantic\n\u201cIf [J. D.] Vance\u2019s memoir offered street-heroin-grade drama, [Tara] Westover\u2019s is carfentanil, the stuff that tranquilizes elephants. The extremity of Westover\u2019s upbringing emerges gradually through her telling, which only makes the telling more alluring and harrowing. . . . By the end, Westover has somehow managed not only to capture her unsurpassably exceptional upbringing, but to make her current situation seem not so exceptional at all, and resonant for many others.\u201d\u2014The New York Times Book Review\n\u201cTara Westover is living proof that some people are flat-out, boots-always-laced-up indomitable. Her new book, Educated, is a heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir about striding beyond the limitations of birth and environment into a better life. . . . \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 out of four.\u201d\u2014USA Today\n\u201c[Educated] left me speechless with wonder. [Westover\u2019s] lyrical prose is mesmerizing, as is her personal story, growing up in a family in which girls were supposed to aspire only to become wives\u2014and in which coveting an education was considered sinful. Her journey will surprise and inspire men and women alike.\u201d\u2014Refinery29\n\u201cRiveting . . . Westover brings readers deep into this world, a milieu usually hidden from outsiders. . . . Her story is remarkable, as each extreme anecdote described in tidy prose attests.\u201d\u2014The Economist\n\u201cIncredibly thought-provoking . . . so much more than a memoir about a woman who graduated college without a formal education. It is about a woman who must learn how to learn.\u201d\u2014The Harvard Crimson\n\u201cA subtle, nuanced study of how dysfunction of any kind can be normalized even within the most conventional family structure, and of the damage such containment can do.\u201d\u2014Financial Times\n\u201cWhether narrating scenes of fury and violence or evoking rural landscapes or tortured self-analysis, Westover writes with uncommon intelligence and grace. . . . One of the most improbable and fascinating journeys I\u2019ve read in recent years.\u201d\u2014Newsday", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 8047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.habsburger.net/node/6419", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WC67ML75AWJFTY3LPTUKOBOU5Z6WWXJI", "length": 1091, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.habsburger.net", "title": "Ferdinand I | Die Welt der Habsburger", "raw_content": "Leopold Kupelwieser: Emperor Ferdinand I in the robes of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 1847\nEmperor of Austria (reigned 1835\u20131848)\nBorn 19 April 1793 in Vienna\nDied 29 June 1875 in Prague\nA weak leader, during his reign Ferdinand stood in the shadow of his state chancellor, Prince Metternich, and the so-called Privy State Conference that had been established to \u2018relieve\u2019 him. After his abdication in favour of his nephew Franz Joseph in 1848 he withdrew to Prague, where he devoted himself to his financial interests and gardening. Venerated by the Bohemians as the last crowned king, he died at Prague on 29 June 1875.\nFerdinand: A malfunction in the House of Habsburg\nFerdinand: The imperial puppet\nAn atmosphere of upheaval in the Monarchy\nCitizens take heart! The first public speeches\nA courageous vanguard. The Republic is proclaimed\nInitial successes. The abolition of censorship\nG\u00f6d\u00f6ll\u00f6 Palace \u2013 Country residence of the Hungarian royal couple\nThe Emperor who was incapable of governing: Ferdinand I\nArchduchess Sophie: the \u2018only man\u2019 at court?\nMetternich: \u2018coachman\u2019 and \u2018rock\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 2669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hamburgjournal.com/tag/egg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:36Z", "digest": "sha1:LCWUPK7GVXGALPP3Q7NRFRD5DT3HQSI2", "length": 57, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hamburgjournal.com", "title": "egg Archives - Hamburg Journal", "raw_content": "Easter Egg Hunts in Lexington KY 2018\nAJ - March 25, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hamiltonplacestrategies.com/insights/what-weill-missed-over-past-3-years/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NMITLFGQBKZANHIHEG6N6KTXFY5I73RK", "length": 4039, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hamiltonplacestrategies.com", "title": "What Weill Missed Over the Past 3 Years \u2013 Hamilton Place Strategies", "raw_content": "Yesterday, I addressed the political nature of Sandy Weill\u2019s argument and why his conclusions are wrong.\uffa0 In addition to his political argument, Weill also tried to make a systemic safety and soundness argument.\uffa0 Lost in Weill\u2019s political and public relations justification for a return to Glass-Steagall is the fact that the system is far safer than the one he seems to be concerned about.\uffa0 I\u2019m no fan of the Dodd-Frank act \u2013 I would have preferred a far less confusing and prescriptive reform of our financial system.\uffa0 The law makes it more difficult for U.S. firms to serve customers and compete globally.\uffa0 However, there\u2019s no question that Dodd-Frank, however flawed, is contributing to a more safe and sound banking system.\nWeill cited the need for more capital and less leverage.\uffa0 Generally, everyone agrees, and in fact, since the end of the crisis the entire financial sector has increased capital and liquidity levels. As highlighted in the Hamilton Financial Index, the Tier 1 Common Capital Risk-Based Ratio for commercial banks is at an all-time high and has risen 38 percent since the crisis (Exhibit 1).\nThe four largest banks have increased this ratio by the same amount. At the same time, they\u2019ve increased the quality of their capital, as their common equity to assets ratios are at new all-time highs.\nSo as more people in Washington clamor for higher capital levels, remember, banks not only have more capital already, but better quality capital than ever before.\nSimilarly, for all the press the Volcker Rule receives, banks have already dismantled and sold virtually all but the barest ability to make markets for clients. Proprietary trading at banks has largely gone away, reducing so-called speculation. Personally, I would prefer to repeal the Volcker Rule \u2013 it remains a solution in search of a problem, but the reform is working in ways Sandy Weill would seemingly approve.\nFinally, Weill\u2019s call for a return to Glass-Steagall was spiced with the common concern that we should never again bail out banks. Weill is either unfamiliar with Dodd-Frank\u2019s actual provisions or has simply chosen to join the collection of eternal disbelievers. If by \u201cbailouts\u201d Weill is referring to the government\u2019s response to the financial crisis in 2008-2009, then he should be pleased. I supported that government response. I continue to support it and would support it again. But that\u2019s not the response you\u2019ll find in Dodd-Frank. Instead, the law\u2019s Resolution Authority only allows the government to wind down \u2013 not preserve \u2013 failed financial institutions. In the event of failure, it guarantees that bondholders will take losses and shareholders will be wiped out.\nThe past three years have seen significant changes that Weill and others continue to ignore. Rather, they flack an old rule that would not have prevented the financial crisis. The financial crisis actually showed that diversified banks were safer than the simpler commercial and investment banks. And as a result of Dodd-Frank, banks have made real and significant reforms. Going back to an anachronistic law will only hobble both our banks\u2019 abilities to compete in the global market and the ability of our regulators to regulate the global financial sector.\nWhen Glass-Steagall was being repealed in the late 1990\u2019s, economist Michael K. Evans, then of the Kellog School of Management at Northwestern University, wrote how the Asian financial crisis presented the U.S. financial sector with a \u201cunique opportunity to participate fully in these [global] markets\u201d and that the financial services firms that took advantage of the situation then would have \u201can insurmountable lead for many years.\u201d\nRepealing Glass-Steagall helped enable our banks to expand their services and geographies to best serve U.S. clients\u2019 global needs. Now, in the wake of our own financial crisis, a globalizing economy with large banks throughout Europe, Asia and the rest of the world, do we want to hinder the competitive advantage of U.S. firms and reduce the reach of our regulators?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.handsatwork.org/newsroom/2016/8/31/drought-responce-the-international-church", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:WYRUSCQMJ7KINJ25CW24ABKP4HJG4DDV", "length": 4436, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.handsatwork.org", "title": "Drought Response - The International Church \u2014 Hands at Work in Africa", "raw_content": "Drought Relief, Fundraising\nWhen long-term partners from New Horizons Church in Australia heard about the effect that the drought was having on many of the countries in Southern Africa, they said they couldn\u2019t do anything else but respond. The Sunday after they received the first news about the drought, the church took up a special mission\u2019s collection during their service which kick-started their fundraising efforts for the drought relief. Additionally, earlier this month, New Horizons Church hosted a variety night/auction at which George Snyman \u2013 co-founder of Hands at Work \u2013 spoke at. A longtime friend and advocate of Hands at Work, Shane Lepp, said \u201cIt just seems so natural that if a part of our family is in need, we do what we can to support them.\u201d Additionally to the financial support, the church is committed to praying regularly for the many communities that are being affected by the drought.\nTerri and Rick Tuers, advocates of Hands at Work in Florida, host a bi-weekly prayer meeting in their home where they provide an information update on what is happening in Africa. People come together to pray, sing and read scripture as they lift up the children and families affected by the drought. They distribute a \u2018Sphere of Influence\u2019 handout to each person, along with drought business cards and a coloured pebble. The \u2018Sphere of Influence\u2019 handout is a chart that demonstrates to those receiving it all the different areas of their lives where they can influence people. The pebble handed out is a reminder that every time the message of the drought crisis is shared with someone new, a pebble has been dropped and has created a positive ripple effect. As a result of these prayer meetings; friends have begun actively supporting Hands at Work and are organising fundraisers and awareness campaigns.\nWellspring Church in San Francisco had a special focus on the drought during their annual Vacation Bible School. Meg Larson and Jennifer Kim, advocates in the US, held activities with the children which included role-playing a child-headed household. The kids wore chitenges \u2013 traditional African fabrics, carried dolls on their backs, fetched water and tried to carry buckets on their heads. They shared real stories of children in Africa, watched drought related videos, and made magnets to remember to pray for those affected by the drought.\nSara Waldvogel, advocate in New York, served on the hospitality staff at a Christian camp where a retreat was held for pastors and workers from East Asia and Asian-American churches. The leader of the retreat asked Sara to share on the drought situation in Africa. Sara shared about how Hands at Work is responding to the considerable drought crisis and the desperation many families and children are facing. She challenged the pastors that it is up to God\u2019s people to shine in the midst of this crisis. The leader of the retreat urged those in attendance to give sacrificially, and they did. Sara shares, \u201cI was greatly encouraged as I heard pastors from all over the world cry out to God on behalf of our communities.\u201d\nRecently, the Hands at Work Office in Canada encouraged people to participate in a day of fasting and prayer for the drought crisis. On that same day, Louise Buhler, an advocate living in Saskatoon, was deeply impacted by a drought video that was shared. In the video, John, from the local office in Zimbabwe, explains that mothers and fathers are leaving their children because they are unable to bear the burden of their hunger and desperation, leaving them extremely vulnerable. After the day of fasting, Louise shares, \u201cMy heart broke for the moms and dads whose pain, hunger, frustration, devastation and shame caused them to run from the people they loved most.\u201d Louise and her family put a call out to their community in Saskatoon and, along with raising funds for the drought crisis, a group of people began gathering together to meet monthly to pray, lifting up those who are being affected by the drought.\nYou can make an impact wherever you are. Share and challenge your church and community group, family and friends to join Hands at Work and the International church as we strive to relieve the devastating impact of the drought and food crisis affecting the most vulnerable children in Africa.\nTagged: International Church, Drought Relief, Advocate, 2016\nNewer PostMy Calling: Simon Mgwenya\nOlder PostA Picture of Expansion in Zimbabwe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 13745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hardcoregamer.com/2013/06/26/first-dragon-age-inquisition-screenshot/46128/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:12Z", "digest": "sha1:UVOA3UYUJRYPXPAT5XHBEXWCHBFRHHKP", "length": 908, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.hardcoregamer.com", "title": "First Dragon Age: Inquisition Screenshot - Hardcore Gamer", "raw_content": "First Dragon Age: Inquisition Screenshot\nBy Adam Beck on June 26, 2013\nNormally we don\u2019t post about a company releasing a single image for a game, but this is just too juicy to pass up. Bioware has posted the first screenshot for the upcoming Dragon Age sequel, showing off\u2026 the back of some young lady among the Seekers of Truth. Dragon Age: Inquisition will be taking advantage of DICE\u2019s Frostbite 3 Engine, and if this is any indication of the visual quality, it\u2019s off to a good start (especially for a game that isn\u2019t even in a pre-alpha stage yet).\nBioware is already starting the hype train, but here\u2019s hoping the Canadian-oriented developer will go back to their roots after the second game was a bit of a letdown. Dragon Age: Inquisition will be out late 2014 for the PC, PS4, PS3, Xbox One and Xbox 360.\n\u2190 Ikaruga\u2019s Creator Releases New 3DS Game Tomorrow\nReview: Best of PlayStation Network Vol. 1 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 230.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hardcoregamer.com/2018/05/29/from-everything-to-nothing-cyberpunk-rpg-announcement/300601/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EXPQKBWUQSBVFNKIEQN4PQQPWHYW4RZF", "length": 2742, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hardcoregamer.com", "title": "From Everything to Nothing: Cyberpunk RPG Announcement - Hardcore Gamer", "raw_content": "From Everything to Nothing: Cyberpunk RPG Announcement\nBy Fran Soto on May 29, 2018\nIt\u2019s been an established mythos that great art can come from great pain. Van Gogh painted his greatest works while in emotional torment, Kahlo\u2019s physical and emotional pain are subjects of her most recognized works, Lennon and McCartney forged their creative partnership following the death of their respective mothers. Matthew R. Walsh, of Logic Nine, poured his heart, soul and pain into Nothing: a third-person, open world cyberpunk RPG set in a dystopian Los Angeles. In his own words in a Reddit post, Walsh says that the sudden loss of both his best friend and mother to a rare cancer thew him into a self-destructive depression from which he thought he would never recover. To honor his mourning, he used his creation as an outlet for his grief. Drawing from personal experience, Walsh created a protagonist with a backstory similar to his own. His character is also a successful software engineer who is very close to his mother and, when tragedy strikes, gives up everything to save her.\nNo cyberpunk game is complete without lots and lots of neon.\nUsing every possible resource, Walsh has built Nothing from the ground up. Using his pain as motivation, he wrote, sketched and recorded everything for the game. He has personally hired artists, actors and musicians by digging into his own pockets. With close friends and family at the helm, it\u2019s obvious that the game is \u201cNothing\u201d but a labor of love. Walsh has stated that his team is close to producing a trailer and that a beautifully haunting dystopian soundtrack teaser created by Ron Wasserman (yep, Go Go Power Rangers Ron Wasserman) is available for a listen. Additionally, initial details for the game promise a meticulous RPG for fans of the genre. In the year 2108, players can drive motorcycles, fly cars, hack systems, hack brains and a myriad of other abilities in order to control the future. Walsh promises twelve possible endings and a plethora of side missions. There are zero building facades which mean that if you can see it, you can enter it. Underground sewers, tunnels and other environmental elements add more depth to the world. Upgrade your protagonist with cybernetic augmentations, in-depth crafting systems and tons of personal and vehicle upgrades. More than anything, Walsh is committed to a story-driven adventure that will challenge your emotions. Currently, there is no release date information other than 2019. Walsh hopes to have a small showing at this year\u2019s E3 and plans to set up a Kickstarter soon for release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.\n\u2190 Mega Man 11 Gears Up For an October Release With New Trailer\nLe Mans Coming to Gran Turismo Sport May Update \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.harmonyart.com/blog/super-weeds-super-scary1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:49Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7CE4J5T4SVOECN5AC4TR6FBQWQACZ5U", "length": 56, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.harmonyart.com", "title": "Super Weeds = Super Scary - HARMONY ART ORGANIC DESIGN", "raw_content": "In case you were wondering the photo is of cotton seeds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 3360, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hartford.jobs/jobs/teach-for-america/entry-level-teacher-grades-pre-k-12-an-o/1548821389157497188", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VVSDNJ6ANO6DDQCUFSV37TK2733VBHNY", "length": 209, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hartford.jobs", "title": "hartford | Entry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact in Willimantic, CT", "raw_content": "hartford | Entry Level Teacher (Grades Pre-K-12) - An Opportunity for Impact in Willimantic, CT\nAssociated topics: archaeology, art, b.d., esl, french, literature, m.div, master of divinity, victorian, writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hbfuller.com/en/north-america/news-and-events/glue-talk-blog/2018/october/shoutout-to-our-team-during-customer-service-week", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PBMVJ6OHVQOOYRXNCPQMMBGBJWDUPXUM", "length": 4585, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.hbfuller.com", "title": "Shoutout to Our Team during Customer Service Week | H.B. Fuller Shoutout to Our Team during Customer Service Week | H.B. Fuller", "raw_content": "Posted 10/02/2018 by Mike Carney, Customer Service Manager\nCustomer Service Week is an opportunity for organizations around the world to recognize and celebrate the importance of customer service excellence. Held October 1-5 this year, we at H.B. Fuller understand that the longstanding and deep customer relationships that we hold are our organizational cornerstone.\nWe also understand that our superior customer service is a competitive advantage, which is why we wanted to take the opportunity to discuss the many ways that our Customer Service Team goes above and beyond to make our customers happy.\nHere\u2019s a little more about them.\nThe H.B. Fuller Customer Service Team\nThe H.B. Fuller Customer Service Team is the first point of contact for clients for any kind of request, such as orders, complaints, legal questions, and regulatory matters. The team links the two worlds\u2014that of H.B. Fuller and the customer. It\u2019s a critical touchpoint that sets the tone for a positive experience throughout the engagement.\nThe 39-member team in EIMEA, for example, collectively speaks nine languages so as to ensure the highest quality communication and let customers know that they are important. The North America team, on the other hand, meets weekly to review customer feedback so the team is well acquainted with success stories on a consistent basis. They also have a department communication board where they display these comments for all to see as they better familiarize themselves with the \u201cvoice of the customer.\u201d\nIn Latin America, the team works with customers across the entire region, including Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Central America and Mexico, enabling team members to learn about other cultures, policies and interesting facts about each country. In fact, every year each Customer Service Specialist visits with the commercial team in another country in order to better understand the customer\u2019s requirements, visit their warehouses to learn more about plant operations, and overall build a stronger, more intimate relationship.\nDue to the variety of requests and the number of teams and departments that the Customer Service team works with, members are required to have an excellent understanding of the organization and knowledge of its products.\nThe H.B. Fuller Customer Service Team, together with the account managers, know the customers better than anyone else in the company. They understand the issues, concerns and expectations, as customers are their top priority. They collaborate with clients every day by phone and email, delivering what they expect and building strong relationships that foster trust and loyalty.\nDedicated to their businesses and helping them achieve their goals, the Customer Service Team furthermore acts as counsels of the clients, making sure that all requests are responded to promptly. Additionally, the team serves as H.B. Fuller ambassadors, representing the organization\u2019s values to the external world, and ensuring the brand experience has a positive impact on what they feel about H.B. Fuller.\nRelationships, both internal and external, are what make us different. We are able to cultivate strong relationships with our customers which increases our ability to problem solve, meet customer requirements, communicate delays with sensitivity, provide solutions, and offer top-notch service based on their unique business needs.\nOur customers are appreciative that we help them solve their adhesion challenges day in and day out by developing solutions that enable them to improve their processes, introduce new processes, and look to new, innovative products.\nWe continuously advocate for our customers within the walls of H.B. Fuller. According to one customer, H.B. Fuller provided \u201cexcellent support to our plants and regional teams. H.B. Fuller provided breakthrough collaboration in Asia to localize raw materials and drive value. [H.B.] Fuller\u2019s proven global supply footprint and agility to support our needs is evident.\u201d\nThe H.B. Fuller Customer Service Team holds a unique position within the organization, where providing superior service is as important as providing superior products. We are grateful for our global Customer Service Team that ensures our clients are happy so that we can continue to focus on our mission to\nto be a leading worldwide formulator, manufacturer and marketer of technology-driven specialty chemical products and related services and solutions.\nSee what our customers are saying below, and find out for yourself just how great the Customer Service Team is by contacting them now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 368, "original_length": 17231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthism.co/2018/06/13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:26Z", "digest": "sha1:345HGROKLRD4LLNC6PWMP253C6KBYTMH", "length": 2035, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.healthism.co", "title": "June 13, 2018 | Healthism", "raw_content": "Mental illness is a mental health problem that affects a person\u2019s thinking and behaviour. Everybody is susceptible to mental illness. While genetic factors do play a role in the onset but it is not always the case. There are families with a history of mental illness, and other family members show no signs of it. [\u2026]\nMental health is a major concern worldwide. Mental illness affects a person\u2019s cognitive process and slowly develops insecurity,low self esteem and low confidence; ignoring mental health is a major default in our society. We simply cannot treat anxiety and depression like cold and cough, these are not mood swings they are serious issues and can [\u2026]\nThe stellar drawback lying with the Indian Healthcare System is its failure to cater to the ever increasing Population. Improper implementation of various programmes and Initiatives launched by Government where one can find a considerable degree of mis-match amongst the reports in office files and on ground scenario, reveals all the bitter truth of mis-managemant [\u2026]\nImportance of Mental Health Awareness. What does it mean to be aware of mental health? It means taking care of you. it means being mindful of your triggers and noticing if something makes you anxious or depressed. When you feel those feelings, own them. Don\u2019t run away from something that\u2019s causing you distress. That can [\u2026]\nClose to 800 000 people die due to suicide every year, which is one person every 40 SECONDS. Many more attempt suicide which most of the times is not looked upon. Have you ever wondered why the suicide rates are soaring high continuously each year? Have you ever thought about depression that most of us [\u2026]\nMental health is the balanced development of the individual\u2019s personality and emotional attitudes which enable him to live harmoniously with his fellow men. In 1959 W.H.O. Expert Committee on mental health review\u00aded the various definitions of mental health and observed that mental health is influenced by both-biological and social factors It is not a static [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 197.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthyandnaturalworld.com/health-benefits-of-various-tea-types/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:CPJPPJBXLNGAB52VNIYD5HTQNAMIUPCA", "length": 13318, "nlines": 84, "source_domain": "www.healthyandnaturalworld.com", "title": "Scientifically Proven Anti-inflammatory Teas & Delicious Chai Tea Recipe", "raw_content": "Scientifically Proven Anti-inflammatory Teas for Great Health & Delicious Chai Tea Recipe\nCertain types of tea have proven anti inflammatory properties that could be as effective as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). These drugs have adverse effects especially gastric irritation leading to the formation of gastric ulcers.\nBlack tea, white tea, and green tea can be used as natural pain killers and to fight inflammation. These teas are loaded with polyphenols, naturally occurring phytochemicals that can boost the immune system and protect against certain inflammation-causing diseases.\nDid you know that tea is the most consumed beverage in the world after water? Yet the huge variety of teas available at your local supermarket can be very confusing for the average person: black tea, green tea, oolong tea, rooibos tea, jasmine tea and much more.\nWhen you want to know what to buy, you first of all need to understand the main tea varieties, the differences between them, and their main health benefits.\nA Short History of Tea\nTea plants (Camellia sinensis) are native to East and South Asia. Tea has been used for thousands of years in China for medicinal purposes, and later on people have started to use it as a beverage.\nDrinking tea arrived for Great Britain around 1660, but was not widely consumed there until the 18th century due to its expensive price. Tea became more widespread beverage among other parts of the British society by the late 19th century, but it was still mainly used for special occasions.\nDuring the 19 century tea was first introduced into India by the British, who wanted to break the Chinese monopoly on tea. The British started to develop tea industry in India, resulting in export to Europe in large amounts which brought the tea price down.\nScientifically Proven Anti-inflammatory Teas\nThis article will explain the differences between the main tea types black, oolong, green and white tea. These 4 types of tea all come from the Camellia sinensis plant. The difference between them comes from the difference in the way they have been processed.\nBlack Tea has Anti-inflammatory Proprieties\nBlack tea is the most processed tea. When the tea leaves are picked, they are left in the sun to slightly wilt. Then the leaves are rolled to break their tissue.\nThen starts the process of fermentation where the leaves darken from green to red and finely become black. In the fermentation process the leaf cells are exposed to oxygen, and a chemical reaction (oxidation) takes place that causes the leaf to darken.\nHealth benefits \u2013 according to a medical study, black tea may protect lungs from oxidative damage and inflammation caused by exposure to cigarette smoke.\nAccording to one study black tea has anti-inflammatory properties.\nBlack tea may also reduce the risk of stroke. This tea has also been linked to lower levels of cholesterol in people with mildly high levels. Other attributions include helping lower blood pressure, regulating blood sugar, and stimulating the circulatory system.\nOolong Tea can fight inflammation\nOolong tea goes through the wilting process like black tea, but this stage is shorter, so the color of the leaves is dark green or red to almost black. The longer the fermentation is, the closer to black tea it will become.\nOne scientific study found the oolong tea contains nutrients that can fight inflammation.\nHealth benefits \u2013 In my article about the amazing benefits of oolong tea & how to use it you can find more information and research about its antioxidative properties and how it can help you in losing weight, controlling blood sugar levels, reducing the risk of developing certain cancers, reducing the risk of plaque buildup in the arteries and more.\nGreen tea can reduce pain and inflammation\nWhereas black tea goes through full fermentation, and oolong tea is partly fermented, green tea doesn\u2019t go through fermentation process. Instead, after the leaves are picked, they are steamed or pan fired. Then the leaves are dried and packaged.\nAs a result of the different processing, green tea has less caffeine than black tea, and it also has HGCG which is a powerful antioxidant that can be only found in green tea.\nAnother type of green tea is Matcha tea which is believed to be the highest quality powdered green tea on Earth. You can read more about the health benefits of this tea in my previous article 9 Amazing Health Benefits of Matcha Tea.\nAccording to a medical study, green tea can help fight chronic inflammatory diseases. Another study found that green tea can be better in reducing inflammation than black tea.\nHealth benefits \u2013 Medical studies have found that green tea\u2019s antioxidants may interfere with the growth of various types of cancer. It also helps prevent clogging of the arteries, boosts metabolism, regulates blood sugar levels, reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, reduce risk of neurological disorders like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s diseases, reduce risk of stroke, and improve cholesterol levels.\nWhite Tea has anti-inflammatory proprieties\nWhite tea is also not fermented and is the least processed tea, and therefore contains the most antioxidants. The tea leaves are picked from newer buds, early in the year.\nOnly the top leaf and bud are picked. Then they are dried in the sun (or mechanically baked) and are not steamed or pan fired like green tea. The result is a very pale yellow tea with slightly sweet taste. This tea has a very low level of caffeine.\nA medical study found that white tea has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activity.\nHealth benefits \u2013 one study showed that white tea has the most potent anticancer properties compared to more processed teas. Other health benefits include lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, reducing blood sugar levels, reducing the risks for heart diseases and strengthening the immune system due to its anti bacterial and anti viral properties.\nThese are created when one of the four major types of tea (black, oolong, green or white tea) is the base, and added to it are other herbs. For example: a blend of black tea and bergamot is called Earl Gray, and black tea blended with a mixture of aromatic Indian spices and herbs is called masala chai.\nAnti-inflammatory Herbal Teas\nHerbal teas are not \u201ctrue\u201d teas, as they come from different plant sources and not from the tea plant Camellia sinensis. They are made from herbs, fruits, flowers, seeds or roots steeped in hot water.\nVarieties include rooibos, peppermint, chamomile, echinacea, jasmine, ginger, mint and many more. Rooibos for example, sometimes called red tea, is made from another plant entirely, Aspalathus linearis, and is a traditional South African infusion.\nHealth benefits \u2013 Limited research has been done on the health benefits of herbal teas in comparison to the traditional teas.\nSome findings include a small scientific study published in the Journal of Nutrition that found that drinking three cups of hibiscus tea daily could help lower blood pressure in people with modestly elevated levels.\nOther references mention chamomile tea whose antioxidants may help prevent complications from diabetes and inhibit the growth of cancer cells. You can also find in my website a variety of herbal infusions to treat various conditions, including studies regarding their health benefits. For example:\nTurmeric Ginger Tea can fight pain and inflammation.\nChamomile Tea. Medical studies have shown that chamomile is a natural medicine for the treatment of inflammation-related disorders.\nEchinacea Tea can help with inflammation.\nAlthough a lot of questions remain as for how long a certain tea needs to be steeped for the most benefits, and how much you need to drink of it, nutritionists agree that drinking tea is good for you.\nSo if you want to incorporate healthy beverages in your diet on a more regular basis to benefit from these health-promoting properties, it\u2019s not just about which foods to eat. It\u2019s also about what you drink that can contribute to your health.\nHow To Make Chai Tea To Boost Immunity, Fight Inflammation and Support Digestion\nChai tea is a combination of tea, spices and milk. When prepared in the right way, this Indian drink can be a real health booster. Chai tea comes from the Ayurvedic medical tradition and is particularly good for immunity and digestion support.\nIf you decide to prepare it at home, many different recipes are available. Chai teas served in restaurants and bars often contain large amounts of sugar and cow\u2019s milk, which reduces their medicinal value. If you prepare your chai at home, you can tailor it to your own needs and desires and make it a truly healthy beverage.\nMain Anti-inflammatory Spices for Chai Tea\nThe spices traditionally used in chai tea vary between different Indian regions and include:\nEach of these botanical components is known for its own health benefits, and when used together, the benefits get increased.\nCinnamon aids digestion, balances blood sugar, acts in an anti-inflammatory way and is a powerful antioxidant. Cinnamon can also be used as a natural remedy for weight loss and as a natural medicine for numerous ailments. For best medicinal effect, use the Ceylon cinnamon.\nCardamom is an important ingredient in many Tibetan medicinal formulas. It helps with digestion, improves circulation, boosts immunity and has a detoxifying effect on the body.\nGinger is an old favorite, used for digestion problems and colds, and helps to reduce inflammation (especially when used with turmeric). Ginger is also one of the medicinal plants mentioned in my e-book the Herbal Remedies Guide which will teach you how to treat common ailments using herbs.\nClove has great digestion properties, relieves pain from stomach ulcers and is also one of my natural remedies for treating gum infections naturally.\nFennel is rich in antioxidants, vitamin C, potassium and fiber. It has been suggested that it protects the body from cancer.\nBlack pepper has a positive effect on metabolism, aids digestion and has anti-bacterial and antioxidant properties.\nMost commonly, the tea used for chai is some variety of black tea, but green or oolong tea can be used as well.\nSome people like to prepare the infusion using spices only and omit the tea all together (for example, if trying to avoid the caffeine effect). The spices themselves are so potent that the beverage is going to provide you with a real immunity kick no matter how you choose to prepare it.\nIf you opt for a more traditional version, black tea is a powerful antioxidant. Antioxidants obtained from black tea are different from those in fruit and vegetables. They block DNA damage associated with tobacco or other toxic chemicals.\nBlack tea does contain some caffeine, but much less compared to coffee and can replace the need for stronger caffeinated drinks. De-caffeinated tea is available as well.\nMilk is used for taste and richness and doesn\u2019t add any medicinal value to chai tea. You can avoid using cow\u2019s milk and replace it with coconut milk, rice milk or you can use my healthy home-made milk substitutes.\nHow to Make Anti-inflammatory Chai Tea\nDue to its soothing effect on digestion, chai tea is best consumed after a meal.\nSimply, simmer the spices and tea for 10 minutes, add your choice of milk, sweeten with raw honey (which has amazing health benefits) and strain before serving.\nYou can be sure that your cup of chai tea is filled with powerful antioxidants and your immune system will rejoice while you enjoy the delicious beverage.\nScientifically Proven Anti-inflammatory Teas for Great Health & Delicious Chai Tea Recipe was last modified: November 2nd, 2018 by Jenny Hills, Nutritionist and Medical Writer\n13 Responses to Scientifically Proven Anti-inflammatory Teas for Great Health & Delicious Chai Tea Recipe\nadele smith says:\nRooibos is the best tea you can get. In South Africa you get the Annique Rooibos tea with diferent herbs and it helps for different health conditions there is even a green rooibos tea available.\nRooibos tea is indeed great!\nIrene Tan says:\nWhat type is called white tea? Can you share brand of white available in supermarket?\nAll the big brands have white tea, such as Twinings and Lipton. It is says on the package \u201cwhite tea\u201d.\nLeilani C. Junio says:\nI appreciate all your posts. Very informative. And this one i love so much.\nI just want to ask, where does Ginseng belong? Herbal? Thanks so much.\nYes, ginseng is an herbal tea.\nkerry dodd says:\nThanks for posting this. i drink alot of tea. and i make sweet tea. (With less sugar than normal) i have actually stopped drinking coffee, as it was bothering my stomach.\nHerbal Infusion\u2019s Are Called Tisane\u2019s And Have Nothing To Do With Tea Beside\u2019s The Fact That They Are Made Like Tea And That Is All.\nIs decaffeinated green tea as benificial as regular caffein green tea?\nHi Janet, according to Livestrong website, decaf processes remove some of the antioxidants \u2013 read more here: http://www.livestrong.com/article/468122-does-decaffeinated-green-tea-still-have-antioxidants/\nAccording to this article, white tea seems the best for your health, so why is green tea always the one talked about for health benefits?\nBecause green tea contains EGCG which is a unique substance. see here \u2013 http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/egcg-green-tea-8453.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 16724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.healthypathinc.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:17Z", "digest": "sha1:XUZ5QDJWS3AS3GNQMB3SNFCJ22EDVQ6O", "length": 2373, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.healthypathinc.com", "title": "Home", "raw_content": "A Journey to Wellness...\nHealthy Path Inc. has been in operation since 1999, and is based out of Rothesay, New Brunswick. We offer the following services:\n*Naturopathic Consultation/Therapy consists of helping people to live a balanced life in Mind, Body and Spirit. It is always recommended to maintain a healthy lifestyle; drinking a sufficient amount of water, eating well and exercising to help the body maintain balance. Naturopathic therapy can also help to eliminate stress, anxiety, tiredness and nervousness. We integrate a range of different therapies into our sessions based on TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Naturopath modalities.\n*Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique (N.A.E.T), is a natural, drugless, painless, non-invasive method that eliminates allergies and can be used safely from a one-day-old infant, to the elderly. NAET is based on Oriental Medicine principles and viewed from a holistic perspective. When contact is made with an allergen, it causes blockages in the energy pathways called meridians. The allergens that cause blockages are viewed by the brain as a threat to the body's well-being. This blocked energy flow is the first step in an allergic response, leading to a diminished state of health in one or more organ systems. N.A.E.T. removes these blockages allowing your body to heal, and consequently relieves your discomfort. ELIMINATE YOUR ALLERGIES PERMANENTLY!\n*Bioenergetic Sensitivity Testing, is done on your first appointment along with your consultation, using the Biomeridian's BEST system. We test approximately 120 different foods and 80 environmental items. This is our opportunity to show you what sensitivities you may have and how we will help you eliminate those. We will also answer any questions you may have about the NAET Treatments that we offer. There are no needles, it is completely non-invasive.\n*Acupuncture is an ancient healing method that involves insertion of fine needles to specific acupuncture points on the body. The acupuncture points are along the energy pathways called meridians, which when stimulated with needles can help the energy to flow and remove blockages, allowing the body to heal and restore balance.\n*Direct Billing is available for many of our services*\nHealthy Path Inc. Allergy & Wellness Clinic is accepting new clients.\nPlease call 847-0254 to book an appointment. \u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hedgesonline.co.uk/deciduous-shrubs-and-hedges/beech-hedging.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LU4P2R2XNFGL5C4VEAZHKICZGKIU5DTT", "length": 7611, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.hedgesonline.co.uk", "title": "Beech Hedging", "raw_content": "The beech or fagus sylvatica is one of the most widely used hedging plants, particularly in the field of native species of trees and shrubs. Despite being deciduous, the common beech has a special quality in that it holds on to most of its leaves throughout the winter. Most of them will not fall until the new, green growth pushes them off during springtime. It would be misleading however, to call the beech an evergreen, because its leaves do gradually change colour from green to coppery red in the fall. These properties make the beech ideal for year-round screening hedges and as windbreaks, with the pleasant bonus of a beautiful autumn and winter colour.\nAlthough the beech is most commonly associated with tall trees, it is not unusual to see beech hedges in public parks. This likely has to do with the fact that the beech has relatively low maintenance requirements. Since the common beech is native to Europe, it will flourish well on our soil and really only requires pruning to prevent it from growing too tall. In a dense forest, a common beech is able to reach heights of up to 45 metres, which of course is not recommended for hedging. With this minimal maintenance routine, your beech hedge will be dense and resistant to wind and all that is left to do for you is to enjoy the vibrant colours and the elegant shapes of the leaves.\nBeech for Native Hedging\nDespite being native to Europe, the beech only survived the last glacial period around the Mediterranean Sea. From there, it reconquered its original habitat. Traditionally, beeches were planted as solitary trees, often as windbreak for a farmstead. This is not the only way in which the history of the beech is inextricably linked with farming. For instance, young branches with the leaves still on were often dried to feed the cattle. Goats in particular appear to be fond of beech branches. It is suggested that feeding these branches to the cattle had a positive effect on the production of dairy. The nuts of the beech are slightly poisonous to humans. The leaves, however, are edible and allegedly have anti-inflammatory effects.\nDue to its fine and short grain, the wood of the common beech is considered to be easy to work with. It can easily be soaked, glued, dyed and varnished, especially when steamed. Its wood is especially popular with carpenters and is therefore often used in furniture, since apart from heavy structural support, it is more or less suited for anything. However, it may be even more popular as firewood, as it is known to burn a long time without too much noise. Beechwood is also very well-suited for grilling and smoking meat and other foods.\nWith so much use for all the separate parts of the beech, it is perfectly understandable that it took a relatively long time for people to find out its excellent qualities for hedging purposes. Other plants were generally used for hedges between farmsteads or other properties. However, since garden enthusiasts discovered the beauty of a straight beech hedge in the eighteenth century, the popularity of beech hedging rapidly increased and the common beech quickly became one of the most popular hedge plants of the world. Given its origins in this part of the world, it is hardly surprising that the beech flourishes really well on European soil. It is certainly a good fit for our environment and climate.\nSince beech is a very useful plant, all parts of the plant were used before it was discovered as a hedge plant. In addition, it does not make a good flowering hedge, it has no thorns to serve as an intruder hedge and for privacy, evergreens are more popular choices. However, along with the privet, it is one of the very few deciduous hedge plants that can provide screening even during the winter months. The dry leaves of the beech may not enhance its appearance as much as the green leaves do during the spring and summer, but they keep your hedge dense enough to shield your garden from whoever passes by on the other side. This quality makes the beech a very cost-efficient plant for screening purposes, especially as a bare-root plant.\nBeech Hedge Planting and Maintenance\nBare-root beeches are relatively cheap, especially when compared to potted plants or instant hedges, but they are only available during the winter. Fortunately, the winter is an ideal time to plant your beech hedge. This hedge plant is very hardy and though it prefers a position the full sun or partial shade, it will thrive in a wide range of sites. It would be wise to plant your beech hedge in a location that is not too windy, however. This is not because the species cannot cope with the wind, because the common beech and the copper beech are very sturdy plants, but strong winds can blow some of the dry leaves off before the new leaves have appeared. This will not keep your beech hedge from thriving in the following year, but it will greatly impair its screening qualities.\nBeech is a relatively fast-growing plant. With an average annual growth rate of 30 to 60 centimetres, it grows remarkably fast for a native deciduous tree. As a result, it is necessary to prune your beech hedge frequently, especially if you want its appearance to remain relatively formal. One pruning session per year, preferably in late summer or early autumn, should suffice. It is possible to trim your beech hedge in the spring, but be sure to hold off on cutting into any part of the plant until the first shoots have reached a length of approximately 20 centimetres. Either way, you can enjoy its gorgeous foliage for a long time.\nAdvantages of a Beech Hedge\nBeeches tolerate a wide variety of soil conditions. Most well-drained soils \u2013 acidic or alkaline (chalky) \u2013 are suitable, save for heavy clay, exceptionally dry or wet soil or waterlogged sites. The fairly similar, but tougher hornbeam would be better suited for these conditions. The beech is also a poor choice in very cold or exposed areas, in which the hornbeam would again be the better option. Despite the fact that hornbeams offer a wider array of options in terms of challenging locations and conditions, it is important to keep in mind that it does not retain as many reddish-brown leaves in the winter. In short, while more demanding than the hornbeam, the beech has more aesthetic value and offers more privacy during the cold months. Should you desire a display of colour all year round, consider the copper beech. As its English name suggests, the fagus sylvatica 'Atropurpurea' has beautiful dark red to purple foliage.\nYoung beeches bear no fruits; only mature trees can produce nuts. In addition, the flowers produced by beech hedges in April and May are rather insignificant, so the aesthetic value of the beech mostly lies in its handsome winter foliage. Also, they fit nicely among other types of hedge plants and are therefore an ideal component of mixed hedges, while also providing shelter for wildlife, which is not very common for evergreen hedges, such as conifers. Beech trees make outstanding native, wildlife-friendly, traditional hedges with the privacy of evergreen hedges at a great price. Beech hedges will add visual interest during all seasons.\nThough it took garden enthusiasts some time to realise what an amazing hedge plant the beech is, it has since become one of the most popular deciduous plants for hedging. It is easy to understand why, as it has a number of qualities that make it ideal for this purpose. 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It is founded on our strong values and confirms our commitment to comply with applicable laws and act in an ethical, sustainable and socially responsible manner.\u200b\nHaving one set of values and clear ethical expectations helps us make choices in a consistent way, irrespective of where in the world we are doing business.\u200b\nOur Employee Code of Conduct is available in 16 languages.\u200b\nDownload the Hempel Employee Code of Conduct", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.heritagecommunity.org/sermons/series/body-life-were-all-in-this-together", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:4FKCD45DWHD6MS3RFJLNBPKDK6XUUCVC", "length": 38, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.heritagecommunity.org", "title": "Heritage Community Church: Fruitland Park, FL > Body Life - We're All In This Together", "raw_content": "Body Life - We're All In This Together", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 183.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.herzig-eye.com/eye-conditions/astigmatism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:14Z", "digest": "sha1:X7NOGAJJ2UVN2QABWDAZA432WJSP4ZAH", "length": 918, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.herzig-eye.com", "title": "Astigmatism Treatment Toronto | Herzig Eye Institute", "raw_content": "Astigmatism occurs when your cornea is shaped more like a football than a basketball.\nSometimes astigmatism can be caused by an irregularly shaped lens inside the eye. It\u2019s this irregular shape that causes distortion or blurry images due to the unequal bending of light rays entering your eyes. Astigmatism is a very common condition and most people (especially those with nearsightedness or farsightedness) have it to some degree. People with mild astigmatism can experience slightly blurred or distorted vision at all distances, but people with severe astigmatism can have vision affected so much, that it prevents them from performing their daily activities.\nAstigmatism can be corrected with either LASIK, PRK, SMILE, RLE or ICL. To explore the best astigmatism correction treatment (or confirm that you have astigmatism), please complete our simple form above or below to schedule your complimentary consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 3970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.highfieldleadershipacademy.com/about/british-values-statement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:17Z", "digest": "sha1:QCVQR7YBCGNVPUOYVYEX4JTPW3ILNHZU", "length": 9558, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.highfieldleadershipacademy.com", "title": "British Values Statement | Highfield Leadership Academy", "raw_content": "| About | British Values Statement\nAs part of our vision to nurture today\u2019s young people and inspire tomorrow\u2019s leaders, we understand that character education is every bit as crucial to our pupils\u2019 development as academic success. Our STAR values of Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect are designed to actively promote and complement the five fundamental British values identified by the Department for Education:\nWe teach our pupils the importance of being kind, compassionate and respectful to everyone that they meet, irrespective of their faith, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class or any other perceived differences. Through our leadership specialism, community service projects, and interfaith alliances, our pupils meet inspirational people from a diverse spectrum of backgrounds, beliefs and cultures, and are encouraged to embrace all that life in modern Britain has to offer.\nWe also consider it essential for our staff to lead by example and exemplify and model British values. British values are therefore built into our staff induction processes and reiterated in all staff training exercises.\nThe examples provided below \u2013 whilst by no means exhaustive \u2013 serve to demonstrate how British values permeate our curriculum, ethos and a wide range of leadership activities, along with our commitment to providing ample opportunities for our pupils to develop a strong moral foundation and a drive to make a positive impact in their local community, Britain and beyond.\nOur pupils are introduced to the concept of \u201cdemocracy\u201d and \u201cthe majority vote\u201d from a young age, participating in Pupil Council elections (where representatives are elected by way of a democratic process) and engaging in a wide range of discussions concerning issues that directly affect them. Pupil voice is considered to be of utmost importance, and members of the Pupil Council are encouraged to vote on key issues that are likely to affect their classmates, as well as bringing their own proposals to staff for consideration.\nPupils who are appointed to leadership roles are taught how to effectively represent their classmates and the importance of considering everybody\u2019s viewpoint when making an informed decision and reaching a common consensus. Such pupils must demonstrate civic, moral and performance character in order to command the respect of \u2013 and act as an advocate for \u2013 their peers.\nPupils are encouraged to become politically aware from a young age and participate in debates concerning age-appropriate issues, developing arguments for and against carefully-chosen topics. In doing so, they learn how to put forward a strong case for causes they believe in (an essential part of the democratic process), as well as how to employ both facts and emotion in order to resonate with other people.\nDemocracy is also studied as part of Citizenship, PSHE, RE and History lessons, where clear contrasts are drawn between democratic and autocratic states, and the inextricable links between democracy, fairness and equality. These issues are also explored in English Literature, where the importance of democracy and/or freedom of speech often crops up as an explicit or underlying theme in texts studied by pupils.\nWe believe it is important for pupils to understand why rules are in place, the purpose that they serve, and the consequences of breaking them. We are keen to create an environment where pupils are able to clearly distinguish between right and wrong; and do the right thing because they want to, not simply because they feel compelled to. A key part of achieving this is through helping pupils to understand that rules are essential in order to safeguard their wellbeing, protect the welfare of others, and ensure that everybody has the opportunity to fully achieve their potential. We also teach them to understand the relationship between cause and effect and the importance of taking responsibility for their own actions, which is vital to becoming a productive and upstanding member of society.\nPupils quickly grow to understand that the rules that govern their school are microcosms of the laws that govern the workplace and, ultimately, society. Clear correlations are drawn between school rules and the rules that pupils encounter in their day-to-day lives, so pupils are fully aware that there are actions and behaviours which are prohibited and punishable in all contexts.\nIn order to ensure that pupils respect our rules, we take care to apply them fairly and consistently so that boundaries \u2013 and the repercussions of overstepping them \u2013 are clearly defined. We have an explicit Code of Conduct and Home-School Agreement, as well as robust Anti-Bullying, Attendance, and Behaviour for Learning Policies. Our high expectations with regard to behaviour are also regularly reinforced during assemblies and form time. Pupils are rewarded and celebrated for exemplary behaviour, attendance and academic performance. Those who frequently break the rules, meanwhile, are subject to appropriate sanctions.\nWe also organise visits from individuals in the legal and judicial sectors, police officers, members of the Fire Service, and road safety officers to reinforce the importance of respecting rules and the repercussions of breaking them.\nWe are committed to keeping our pupils safe, happy and well, and we empower them to make sensible and informed choices by providing guidance on a range of key topics, such as online safety, bullying, child sexual exploitation, physical and emotional abuse, radicalisation and extremism \u2013 all of which are built into the pastoral curriculum in an age-appropriate and sensitive manner. These issues are also explored in assemblies, interactive workshops and during PSHE and Citizenship lessons.\nPupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and are advised how to recognise when these are being violated, and what to do/who to approach if they are concerned about this.\nWe also understand that our pupils must make their own choices and learn from their own mistakes as part of establishing their identity as individuals, and we encourage them to do so within the context of a supportive, positive and non-judgmental environment, where developing their self-esteem and self-confidence is of primary importance. Pupils are encouraged to make independent choices, resist peer pressure, and take responsibility for their own actions.\nAll of our pupils are valued for their individual talents and contributions and are encouraged to pursue their specific areas of interest through a variety of enrichment, sporting and leadership activities. We encourage pupils to see themselves as unique individuals, able to make a unique contribution to society, whilst also emphasising the importance of teamwork in achieving their goals.\nLessons are differentiated to ensure that pupils are sufficiently challenged and they are encouraged to engage in independent learning during lesson time and as part of their homework activities.\nRespect is one of our core STAR values, and we define this as simply, \u201ctreating others as we wish to be treated.\u201d This is evidenced in the charity work and community service projects our pupils undertake for the benefit of people who are experiencing the effects of food poverty, loneliness and isolation; our zero-tolerance approach to bullying; the strong sense of community and camaraderie felt by all of our pupils; and the high standards that characterise our teaching and learning environments.\nPupils are encouraged to communicate openly and honestly, and to listen to \u2013 and respect \u2013 the views of others, even in instances where disagreements arise. We expect all pupils in leadership roles, as well as our staff members, to model exemplary behaviour and conduct themselves in a manner that commands the respect worthy of someone in a position of authority.\nAssemblies and class work are designed to highlight the diverse nature of British society and the right for each person to be respected for their choices. We teach pupils that they should never judge a person, and encourage them to become compassionate, open-minded and accepting.\nWe aim to promote not only tolerance, but also a genuine understanding of different faiths and beliefs by offering a culturally rich and diverse curriculum in which all major religions of the world are studied and respected. We encourage all pupils to embrace the culturally diverse society in which they live, and by giving pupils opportunities to experience this diversity first-hand \u2013 through organising a range of interfaith activities and providing opportunities for pupils to undertake civic projects in their local communities \u2013 pupils are able to meet and work alongside people from a range of backgrounds and beliefs. Our Religious Studies curriculum, which is compulsory for all pupils, provides a broad and balanced education on a range of faiths, religions and cultures. Members of different faiths or religions are also invited to school to share their knowledge and enhance learning within assemblies and in class.\nBritish values are ingrained in everything we do and represent all that we strive to achieve in our vision to nurture today\u2019s young people and inspire tomorrow\u2019s leaders. 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David Merkel Heritage Society for Education\nHigh Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care raised $10,000 in 2013 and then received $10,000 in matching funds from the Adirondack Foundation (formerly Adirondack Community Trust). The total amount raised is now invested in our endowment fund at Adirondack Foundation - the Ann & C. David Merkel Heritage Society for Education Fund.\nHPHPC is committed to growing this endowment.\nYour support of the Ann & C. David Merkel Heritage Society for Education has taken on greater meaning in the past year. On September 15, 2012, the compassionate co-founder of High Peaks Hospice & Palliative and its medical director since its founding, David Merkel (seen 2nd from right in photo), died suddenly and peacefully. This has been a huge loss not just to David's family and our agency but also to the many of agencies that he has worked with and supported throughout the years. Your donation to this fundraising initiative would be a wonderful testament to David's life.\nWhat exactly is the Heritage Society and why is it important?\nIn 2006 on the occasion of the agency's 20th anniversary, and in honor of its founders, High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care established the Ann & C. David Merkel Heritage Society for Education at Adirondack Community Trust. This endowment fund is restricted to providing education and professional development to all paid staff and volunteers.\nTo live up to the goal of providing dignity, comfort and peace at the end of life, it has always been the highest priority, and challenge, of the organization to address the ever-increasing needs of patients by facing the challenges of finding and retaining highly committed and qualified staff. While High Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care is committed to providing the highest caliber of patient care available, net revenues from patient services will never be sufficient to keep pace with the ever changing standards and best practices of care without the support of the community. To assure the professional development of staff and volunteers in these times of decreased reimbursement it is philanthropy that can provide the margin of excellence needed to better serve you and your loved ones when you need us.\nHigh Peaks Hospice and Palliative Care is committed to meeting these growing needs by ensuring that all staff are offered the best possible, most comprehensive professional training, development and certification through this endowment.\nThe income from this endowment fund will ensure excellence in the specialized, acute and intensive care we provide to all patients and their families by investing in our staff. New or enhanced skills include but are not limited to:\nBest practices in serving remote areas of socio-economically diversity and underserved communities;\nExpanded bereavement counseling programs for residents (including children) who have suffered a loss;\nTherapies for patients including comfort touch massage, aromatherapy and music therapy at bedside to assist with pain management, increase comfort and reduce anxiety about impending death;\nPalliative care treatments;\nCommunity education on end of life issues such as Health Care Proxy and other health benefits.\nEnd-of-life planning through our hospice nurse liaisons at area nursing homes and hospitals as well as through our hospice admissions staff and social workers in patients' homes.\nIf you would like more information or would like to make a contribution to the Ann & C. David Merkel Heritage Society for Education, please contact Susan Rdzanek at 891-9631 or srdzanek@hphpc.org or send your check to : The Ann & C. David Merkel Heritage Society for Education c/o High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care Inc, PO Box 840, Saranac Lake NY 12983", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 6049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/jaipur/8-year-old-girl-raped-by-unidentified-man-in-jaipur/story-6UNk8tdvUicuyZQS4LHhgL.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:35Z", "digest": "sha1:X6D4RAOSOTMAKX7BFMI5HODMUNOCZTQL", "length": 1004, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hindustantimes.com", "title": "8-year-old girl raped by unidentified man in Jaipur | jaipur | Hindustan Times", "raw_content": "8-year-old girl raped by unidentified man in Jaipur\nAn eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an unidentified man in Jaipur\u2019s Sanganer area, police said on Thursday.\nThe girl had gone to a local madarasa to attend classes on Wednesday evening when the accused lured her and took her to the terrace of the institution and raped her, said Sanganer station house officer (SHO) Rajendra Singh.\nThe incident came to light around 6pm Wednesday, after the girl came down crying and bleeding, the SHO said, adding that the classes at the madarasa were in progress when the rape took place.\nThe madarasa authorities informed the girl\u2019s parents about the incident around 8pm, who then reported the matter to police.\nThe girl was admitted to a local hospital where medical examination confirmed rape, the police official said, adding that victim\u2019s condition is stable.\nA case has been registered under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act and efforts are on to identify the accused, he added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 3398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.historicalmarkerproject.com/markers/HMONL_site-of-milfords-first-methodist-church_Milford-DE.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:23Z", "digest": "sha1:LGVMLSVPIRHURAK6X33SQJFLNM3DXCVL", "length": 1749, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.historicalmarkerproject.com", "title": "Site of Milford's First Methodist Church - Milford - DE - US - Historical Marker Project", "raw_content": "Site of Milford's First Methodist Church\nSite of Milford's First Methodist Church (HMONL)\nLocation: Milford, DE 19963 Kent County\nThe beginning of Methodism in this community can be traced to the organization of a local \"society\" in 1777. Early meetings were held in the homes of its members. On December 3, 1787, Joseph Oliver conveyed a lot of ground at this location for the purpose of \"building a preaching house or church\" for the Methodists. A frame chapel was constructed here and completed in 1790. The growth and prosperity of the congregationresulted in the construction of an addition to the church in 1800. Prominent visitors included Methodist pioneers Francis Asbury and Freeborn Garrettson.The building continued to serve the congregation until 1842, when a new church was constructed across the street at the northwest corner of Third and North Streets. The old building was then sold and moved. Interments here had commenced in the late 18th century, and following removal of the first church, the site was used exclusively as a burial ground for members. Notable burials include those of Peter F. Causey, Governor of Delaware (1855-1859), and Civil War General Alfred T. A. Torbert.\nHMONL\nCemeteries and Burials, Churches and Religion\nThe Delaware Public Archives\nAt or near 301-309 North St, Milford DE 19963, US\nShow me all markers in: Milford, DE | Kent County | 19963 | Delaware | United States of America\nMispillion River Greenway Historical Sites\nMajor General Alfred T.A. Torbert\nParson Thorne Mansion\nVale-Williams Memorial City Hall\nThis marker can also be identified by its HM code. You can use the hashtag #HMONL in tweets, and any other place where you might refer to this marker, including when searching on this site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 5588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hogwired.com/coach-antonio-thinks-patience-and-long-term-planning-is-the-way-for-chelsea-to-succeed/208/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MCXOXL57YWM2BRJBEASI3N5AMO4SLULF", "length": 2456, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hogwired.com", "title": "Coach Antonio Thinks Patience And Long Term Planning Is The Way For Chelsea To Succeed", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbFootball\u00bbCoach Antonio Thinks Patience And Long Term Planning Is The Way For Chelsea To Succeed\nCoach Antonio Thinks Patience And Long Term Planning Is The Way For Chelsea To Succeed\nAntonio Conte, who was appointed as the coach of the Chelsea Football Club this April, said that more time is required for his side to play the game he wants. Antonio also added that it is wrong for the club owners to judge the manager solely on the results of the team. He said that he prefers the Arsenal Football Club\u2019s model of patience and long-term planning.\nAntonio found it difficult to see Liverpool dominate Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in the Blues\u2019 last Premier League game. But he does not seem to have lost hope. Antonio in a recent comment has said, \u201cIt is normal when you start to work in a new team, and you bring a new idea and method of football you need time, But I\u2019m confident about this and trust in the work. We can improve a lot.\u201d\nIn the Chelsea-Arsenal match on Saturday Arsenal\u2019s boss Arsene Wenger celebrated 20 years in charge of the club. It should be noted that Antonio is the 12th Chelsea Manager the Frenchman Wenger has faced in the Premier League.\nChelsea Football Club is an English professional football club based in Fulham, London, which competes in the Premier League of England. Founded in 1905, the club\u2019s home ground since then has been Stamford Bridge. This football club which is owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, in 2016 has been ranked as the seventh most valuable football club in the world at \u00a31.15 billion by Forbes magazine.\nConte, commenting Wenger\u2019s loyalty with Arsenal and the role of a manager in a football club said, \u201cIt is fantastic if someone is able to stay for 20 years in the same club. There is satisfaction in both sides. Sometimes I think it is important to value a manager not only if he wins, loses or draws. Sometimes if you judge only if they win, you make a big mistake and you pay for this in the future.\u201d\nAntonio, who had previously played for the Italian National football team has managed five football teams.\nSupportive of defensive improvement, Antonio has said, \u201cWhen we concede a goal, all the team concede a goal, not only the defenders, It means we must work together to improve the defensive situation. This problem was already there in the last season. We must work a lot on this aspect because if you want a great championship, you mustn\u2019t concede so many goals.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holidaycamp.it/en/blog-en/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:31Z", "digest": "sha1:6GYORYGWQARSSESIWDA34DR5L6YTXCLK", "length": 381, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.holidaycamp.it", "title": "Blog EN | Holidaycamp.it", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Blog EN\nCamping Lido & Village Holiday Camp is the most serene and peaceful Camping Village of Lake Maggiore, directly on the splendid, large and well known \u2018Parco Giona\u2019 beach, in the residential area of \u200b\u200bthe village, easily reachable from all over Europe. Because it is equipped with: Mobile homes type bungalows; Well-topped pitches, for tents, campers [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.homecuresthatwork.com/21794/relieving-hemorrhoid-pressure-naturally/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5AR2HP6ME4ZGC47Y6FTNHGY3VAVZLM22", "length": 3515, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.homecuresthatwork.com", "title": "Relieving Hemorrhoid Pressure Naturally", "raw_content": "Preparation H is one of the most stolen items from stores. The funny nature of this statistic causes people to try and guess why. One theory is that people are too embarrassed to admit they have hemorrhoid problems. So rather than face the store clerk, they just steal it. Another theory is that hemorrhoids are so common that the cream is easy to sell on the \u201cgrey market.\u201d Even companies that sell remedies for hemorrhoids sweep this prevalent problem under the proverbial rug.\nIf you have hemorrhoids, read on! You\u2019ll not only find out why you have it, but also what to do about it so you don\u2019t have to face another store clerk with that tube of relief.\nPeople often seek relief from any discomfort before looking for the cause of the problem. After all, we just want to be out of pain! This is why pain is so important. Pain tells us if something\u2019s wrong and motivates us to do something about it. If I had a broken leg, I would avoid walking on it, allowing the bone to heal. Why are hemorrhoids so different? People suffer with hemorrhoids for years without fixing the problem. But why continue to seek pain relief without understanding the cause?\nHemorrhoid Anatomy\nFirst stop: The anatomy of the rectum. The rectum probably has the lowest regard of any part or organ of our body. But it\u2019s so important to our health \u2013 just ask anyone who has a colostomy bag! There are several important parts of its anatomy.\nEssentially, hemorrhoids are like having varicose veins of the rectum. The veins in the rectum enlarge for the same reasons people get varicose veins in their legs: pressure, inflammation or lack of nutrition.\nFrom outside the rectum to about an inch inside, there is normal skin with nerves. The skin is important because it explains why certain things happen. The skin near the anus has nerves so it can have itching, burning, and pain. But the skin is also tough so it protects the veins from bleeding. However, deeper inside the rectum there is no skin, just the normal lining of the intestines. This lining:\nStretches easily\nHas no sensory nerves (except some pressure nerves)\nIs very flimsy, allowing the veins to get damaged and bleed\nThus, internal hemorrhoids (deeper inside) bleed but don\u2019t hurt. External hemorrhoids (near the anus) burn and itch, but don\u2019t bleed.\nHemorrhoids are predominately caused by poor diet. However, there are other factors involved like pressure and inflammation.\nPressure on the veins over a long period causes the veins to swell. This pressure comes from different sources, such as:\nSitting for long periods (truck drivers frequently have this issue)\nConstipation (HARD stools)\nBesides pressure, inflammation from various sources causes swelling and pain. Inflammation comes from:\nTrauma \u2013 such as anal intercourse, which can increase the enlargement of the veins\nBacteria \u2013 Good bacteria reduce inflammation. The right kind of bacteria in the colon produces butyrate and other substances that heal and calm the rectum. Bad bacteria increase inflammation by increasing the acidity of the lining.\nInfections \u2013 such as colitis\nHemorrhoid Prevention and Treatment\nFiber is essential \u2013 this is the sine qua non of all treatments for the rectum. If you want to care for your rectum, you need fiber. Fiber comes from fruit, vegetables and whole grains. Fiber does so many good things for our colon and rectum because it:\ncolon constipation fiber good bacteria hard stool hemorrhoids Inflammation october 2017 soft stool varicose veins\nIs \u201cNatural Flavor\u201d Unnatural?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hoobysbrew.com/story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:04Z", "digest": "sha1:HEBCPIG2LISU3HOLNZ4QCYXBWCYXEEI7", "length": 1275, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hoobysbrew.com", "title": "Brewery - Hooby's Brewing", "raw_content": "The story of Hooby's brewing\nWhat began as an ongoing joke, has now become reality!\nFor the past few years, the Stocking family always said they were going to open a brewery. Opening day was also to be on April 1st (\u2013 in all fairness, we never clarified of what year). As time went on, more and more friends were starting to get excited about the idea and kept asking us when we were really going to open the brewery we had always talked about \u2013 to which we would just laugh and say April 1st. The constant questioning created more and more of a desire to stop procrastinating and make it a reality, so that\u2019s what we did.\nToday, you can find us brewing our own beer out at our Highway 128 location just a few miles outside of Winters. Stop by our tasting room to try our delicious beers. We\u2019re located within the Winters city limits at 9 E Main Street, Suite J (just next door to the Steady Eddy\u2019s, Velocity Bicycles, and Ficelle).\nHooby\u2019s Brewing is a family owned and operated brewery. We pride ourselves in making this a fun and safe atmosphere for family gatherings and date nights. We hope you enjoy our establishment as much as we\u2019ve enjoyed making this dream a reality.\nThe Stocking Team -- Curtis, Susie, Melanie, Chad, Courtney, & Jackie\n* Thanks for the photo, Mom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hopetv.org/shows/unhooked/episode/ml/unhooked/tobacco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:56Z", "digest": "sha1:GGBFX3KEWDCS3YZZO6MF4JALHIVB4EKS", "length": 471, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hopetv.org", "title": "Tobacco / Unhooked: Hope Channel | Christian Television", "raw_content": "Tobacco abuse is an accepted addiction in many societies. It is easily obtained and legal for young adults. Its availability is one reason why it is a common gateway drug for addicts. In this episode of Unhooked, the addictive effects of nicotine are outlined, along with why some can kick the habit \u201ccold turkey\u201d and why others struggle for years. In her own words, Dee explains how she realized that she was simply puffing her life away. Guest Expert: Dr. Ricardo Whyte", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 649, "original_length": 10111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.housinginsandiego.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WW4YLWSPGR5QT4LA6ASWRRUV6XBL6S2K", "length": 221, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.housinginsandiego.com", "title": "HousingInSanDiego.com | Tony J. Molina, REALTOR - Broker Associate | San Diego Homes For Sale", "raw_content": "Thank you for taking the time to visit my website. I specialize in assisting buyers and sellers in your area. My website contains listings from Real Estate Agents, there's no need to look anywhere else for your next home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 186.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.houstonpress.com/news/whats-craig-biggio-got-to-do-with-paula-marshall-not-much-but-hear-us-out-6400307", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QDBYHF6KJNC6M7ZCG457UGFY7URT5L5Z", "length": 5708, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.houstonpress.com", "title": "What's Craig Biggio Got to Do with Paula Marshall? Not Much, But Hear Us Out. | Houston Press", "raw_content": "What's Craig Biggio Got to Do with Paula Marshall? Not Much, But Hear Us Out.\nHouston Press | September 12, 2007 | 10:28am\nI\u2019m watching the Astros battle the Cubs last night, and Jim Deshaies and Bill Brown start talking about how Cecil Cooper\u2019s not playing J.R. Towles in the games against the Cubs because he doesn\u2019t want to mess with the dreaded integrity of the game. You see, the Chicago Cubs, unlike the Astros, are involved in a pennant race, and the integrity argument is that you always play your best team so as not to give an advantage to another team.\n(For any of you with a memory, the Astros benefited from Davey Johnson, then managing the Dodgers, ignoring that argument and not pitching Kevin Brown on the final day of the 1999 season when the Astros were in need a win to clinch the division.)\nI\u2019m all for the integrity of baseball, but here\u2019s where the argument breaks down with the Astros. First, Mark Loretta\u2019s batting fifth and playing shortstop. I like Loretta, but batting him fifth and playing him at short is not fielding your best team. Second, Craig Biggio\u2019s playing at second. So I don\u2019t really seeing how playing September call-up J.R. Towles is going to screw with the integrity of the game. And if Cooper\u2019s so concerned about integrity, shouldn\u2019t he have Brad Ausmus or Eric Munson catching? Those are the two guys who have caught the majority of this season, not Humberto Quintero, who got the start last night.\nAnd there\u2019s one more way that the integrity argument breaks down: Next week, the Astros play the Milwaukee Brewers, who are tied with the Cubs. So if Cooper plays Towles against the Cubs, then he plays him against the Brewers.\nSee, just that simple.\nOh and here\u2019s my final response to the integrity argument: Catcher is one of the many positions that the Astros have a problem with next season. There\u2019s some talk that Towles might be that answer. But the only way to find out if he can handle the position on the major league level is to play him on the major league level. Otherwise, when the Astros are trying to convince Brad Ausmus to strap on the gear one more time next season, at least they can say that yeah, they played the end of the season with integrity.\nAnd before I get on with the summary of the game, I\u2019ve got to actually link to something in the Chron I found amusing and interesting \u2013 hint, it\u2019s not from Jesus Ortiz. I\u2019ve got my reasons for watching the rest of the Astros games: I promised the Press and I\u2019ve got a free lunch riding on the outcome of the season \u2013 if the \u2018Stros win less than 75 games, I get the free lunch. But the Chron\u2019s Brian McTaggart goes all David Letterman and provides us all with 10 reasons why we should keep watching. And Brian, for what it\u2019s worth, you\u2019re not the only one who hates the Astros stadium experience, but we don\u2019t matter. Just like the Texans don\u2019t care about people who actually go to watch the football game, the Astros don\u2019t actually care about the people who go to watch the baseball game.\nAnd here\u2019s something else I really really hate to do, but Richard Justice of all people made a good point yesterday: The primary reason that no one from inside the Astros should be hired for the GM job is that the Astros are soon to be ranked as 29 out of 30 in organizational development of players. Does Drayton really think that the team will be improved by hiring someone who helped to make this team number 29 out of 30?\nOh, yeah, that\u2019s right, it\u2019s Drayton we\u2019re talking about.\nBut beyond that, I\u2019ve finally figured out what\u2019s really bugging me about the Astros GM search. The Astros are interviewing the baseball equivalents of Paula Marshall. Who? Well, go with me.\nSome of you might actually remember Paula Marshall. She\u2019s an attractive actress who, for awhile, was seemingly cast in the lead of a new series every year. She got this because the shows in which she was cast were invariably cancelled before the first season was over. Some of these shows were very good. Some of these shows were very bad. But for about a half-decade or so, you just knew that, come the new TV season, Paula Marshall would be starring in something. The problem wasn\u2019t that she wasn\u2019t talented. The problem was just that she didn\u2019t have what it took to help push the show over the top. And it got to the point where she wasn\u2019t being cast as the lead anymore \u2013 the last that I heard, she was playing one of David Duchovny\u2019s conquests on his new Showtime series.\nWhat\u2019s this got to do with the Astros? Simple: The Astros are interviewing the Paula Marshalls of the GM-world. They\u2019re settling for the so-so talents. They\u2019re not going for the stars. They\u2019re talking to people from the Kansas City Royals and the Philadelphia Phillies of the baseball world, teams that aren\u2019t known as the best in baseball. They should be calling the Oakland A\u2019s and the Minnesota Twins and the Boston Red Sox, those teams that have developed good farm systems \u2013 and with the A\u2019s and the Twins, have learned to deal with budget constraints. So instead of casting about for a Felicity Huffman or a Tina Fey, they\u2019re settling for Paula Marshall.\nAnd as numerous TV producers will tell you, if you\u2019re settling for Paula Marshall, you aren\u2019t going to succeed.\nThe Astros pulled off the win last night, and the Milwaukee Brewers are really happy. Luke Scott\u2019s 11th inning gapper to right-center field scored Eric Bruntlett and gave the team a 5-4 win over the Cubs, the team that had been tied with the Brewers for first place. Brad Lidge got the win, after walking the bases loaded in the top of the 11th, but still holding on to get the necessary outs.\nThe Astros take on the Cubs again tonight with Matt Albers getting the start. \u2013 John Royal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 9039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.houzz.co.nz/browseReviews/pellettieriassoc/pellettieri-associates-inc/pprid=663224", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:11Z", "digest": "sha1:AD7CDKJYVNENJYIVCQ6JACSZMBXLCXNN", "length": 380, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.houzz.co.nz", "title": "Reviews of Pellettieri Associates, Inc. - Warner, NH, US 03278", "raw_content": "I have had the pleasure of working with Pellettieri Associates on several projects over the last 5 years, and continue to be impressed. They are talented designers, with great landscape sensitivity. They know how to handle all the subtleties of waterfront regulations, and how to work through the process. We have had great success with Pellettieri, and will work with them again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 4653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 181.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.howardstern.com/show/2005/12/9/high-tech-memories-RundownGalleryModel-14907/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:35Z", "digest": "sha1:AIXU255N4JMPVLBKWQFH3NRHI65E6OVQ", "length": 1244, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.howardstern.com", "title": "High-Tech Memories | Howard Stern", "raw_content": "High-Tech Memories\nJeff Schick, the man from IBM who has taken care of all the technology on the show for years, came into the studio for his goodbye.\nJeff reminded Howard that he used to have meetings with his staff on nearly a daily basis to go over ideas, but that the process changed once he introduced the show to email.\nHoward pointed out that, although Jeff may have harmed him by allowing him to limit his interaction with people even more thanks to technology, he has, in fact, been able to do all kinds of work that he couldn't do previous to his arrival.\nHoward's favorite memory of Jeff was when he demonstrated his singing talent in the studio. Howard proceeded to play a clip of Jeff performing \"Whole Lotta Love,\" when it was done, Gary acknowledged sounded surprisingly good.\nJeff then recalled going over to Howard's house shortly after they met, and telling him about a computer he had heard someone was developing that would allow users to have simulated intercourse.\nHoward revealed this on the air the next morning but said that IBM was developing this special computer.\nAfter this, Jeff recalled receiving a call from one of his bosses at IBM informing him that 85,000 had contacted the company looking to buy the machine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.howellmainfour.com/staff/?writer=Natalie+Martin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:48Z", "digest": "sha1:LKJAEMZ5AQVDAKZS6F24CQT7VVYBEQLB", "length": 587, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.howellmainfour.com", "title": "Staff \u2013 THE MAIN FOUR", "raw_content": "This is Natalie Martin\u2019s first year writing for The Main Four. She has grown up writing and drawing. In her free time she is watching Netflix or hanging out with her friends. She travels to the beach with her mom and brother as often as they can. Natalie attends Howell High School, she has lived in Howell since she was two years old. In the summer Natalie enjoys sitting in the sun, listening to music and playing with her dog, Smore. Natalie enjoys the little things in life that can make anyone smile.\n2018 Girls Basketball tryouts (Story)\nMusic Mondays: \u201cSun City\u201d by Khalid (Story)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.howtogeek.com/129178/why-does-64-bit-windows-need-a-separate-program-files-x86-folder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:34Z", "digest": "sha1:7YPN6ED7DX4ERZ3SOELEBE4LB4F5MDUS", "length": 5992, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.howtogeek.com", "title": "What\u2019s the Difference Between the \u201cProgram Files (x86)\u201d and \u201cProgram Files\u201d Folders in Windows?", "raw_content": "What\u2019s the Difference Between the \u201cProgram Files (x86)\u201d and \u201cProgram Files\u201d Folders in Windows?\nUpdated October 2, 2017, 1:18pm EDT\nThere\u2019s a good chance you have both the \u201cC:\\Program Files\u201d and \u201cC:\\Program Files (x86)\u201d folders on your Windows PC. If you poke around, you\u2019ll see that some of your programs are installed in one folder, and some are installed in the other.\nRELATED: What\u2019s the Difference Between 32-bit and 64-bit Windows?\nOriginally, Windows was only available as a 32-bit operating system. On 32-bit versions of Windows\u2014even 32-bit versions of Windows 10, which are still available today\u2014you\u2019ll only see a \u201cC:\\Program Files\u201d folder.\nThis Program Files folder is the recommended location where programs you install should store their executable, data, and other files. In other words, programs install to the Program Files folder.\nOn 64-bit versions of Windows, 64-bit applications install to the Program Files folder. However, 64-bit versions of Windows also support 32-bit programs, and Microsoft doesn\u2019t want 32-bit and 64-bit software getting mixed up in the same place. So, 32-bit programs get installed to the \u201cC:\\Program Files (x86)\u201d folder, instead.\nWindows runs 32-bit applications on 64-bit versions of Windows using something called WOW64, which stands for \u201cWindows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit.\u201d\nWhen you run a 32-bit program on a 64-bit edition of Windows, the WOW64 emulation layer seamlessly redirects its file access from \u201cC:\\Program Files\u201d to \u201cC:\\Program Files (x86).\u201d The 32-bit program tries to access the Program Files directory and is pointed to the Program Files (x86) folder. 64-bit programs still use the normal Program Files folder.\nWhat\u2019s Stored In Each Folder\nIn summary, on a 32-bit version of Windows, you just have a \u201cC:\\Program Files\u201d folder. This contains all your installed programs, all of which are 32-bit.\nOn a 64-bit version of Windows, 64-bit programs are stored in the \u201cC:\\Program Files\u201d folder and 32-bit programs are stored in the \u201cC:\\Program Files (x86)\u201d folder.\nThat\u2019s why different programs are spread across the two Program Files folders, seemingly at random. The ones in the \u201cC:\\Program Files\u201d folder are 64-bit, while the ones in the \u201cC:\\Program Files (x86)\u201d folder are 32-bit.\nWhy Are They Split Up?\nThis is a compatibility feature designed for old 32-bit programs. These 32-bit programs may not be aware that a 64-bit version of Windows even exists, so Windows keeps them away from that 64-bit code.\n32-bit programs can\u2019t load 64-bit libraries (DLL files), and could crash if they tried to load a specific DLL file and found a 64-bit one instead of a 32-bit one. The same goes for 64-bit programs. Keeping different program files for different CPU architectures separate prevents errors like these from happening.\nFor example, let\u2019s say Windows just used a single Program Files folder. A 32-bit application might go looking for a Microsoft Office DLL file found in C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office and try to load it. However, if you had a 64-bit version of Microsoft Office installed, the application would crash and not function properly. With the separate folders, that application won\u2019t be able to find the DLL at all, because the 64-bit version of Microsoft Office would be at C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office and the 32-bit application would be looking in C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Office.\nThis also helps when a developer creates both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of an application, especially if both need to be installed at once in some situations. The 32-bit version automatically installs to C:\\Program Files (x86), and the 64-bit version automatically installs to the C:\\Program Files. If Windows used a single folder, the application\u2019s developer would have to have the 64-bit folder install to a different folder to keep them separate. And there would likely be no real standard for where developers installed different versions.\nWhy Is The 32-bit Folder Named (x86)?\nYou won\u2019t always see \u201c32-bit\u201d and \u201c64-bit.\u201d Instead, you\u2019ll sometimes see \u201cx86\u201d and \u201cx64\u201d to refer to these two different architectures. That\u2019s because early computers used the Intel 8086 chip. The original chips were 16-bit, but newer versions became 32-bit. \u201cx86\u201d now refers to the pre-64-bit architecture\u2014whether that\u2019s 16-bit or 32-bit. The newer 64-bit architecture is referred to as \u201cx64\u201d instead.\nThat\u2019s what \u201cProgram Files (x86)\u201d means. It\u2019s the Program Files folder for programs using the older x86 CPU architecture. Just note, however, that 64-bit versions of Windows can\u2019t run 16-bit code.\nThis Doesn\u2019t Normally Matter\nRELATED: What Is the AppData Folder in Windows?\nIt doesn\u2019t normally matter whether a program\u2019s files are stored in Program Files or Program Files (x86). Windows automatically installs programs to the correct folder, so you don\u2019t have to think about it. Programs appear in the Start menu and function normally, no matter where they\u2019re installed. Both 32-bit and 64-bit programs should store your data in folders like AppData and ProgramData, and not in any Program Files folder. Just let your programs automatically decide which Program Files folder to use.\nIf you\u2019re using a portable app, it can run from any folder on your system, so you don\u2019t have to worry about where to put them. We like putting portable apps in Dropbox or another type of cloud storage folder so they\u2019re available on all our PCs.\nYou\u2019ll sometimes need to know where a program is stored. For example, let\u2019s say you want to go into your Steam directory to back up some files. You\u2019ll find it in C:\\Program Files (x86), as Steam is a 32-bit program.\nIf you\u2019re not sure whether a program you installed is 64-bit or not and you\u2019re looking for its installation folder, you may need to look in both Program Files folders to find it.\nYou can also look in Windows 10\u2019s Task Manager.\nOn 64-bit versions of Windows, 32-bit programs are tagged with the additional \u201c(32-bit)\u201d text, giving you an indication that you\u2019ll find them in C:\\Program Files (x86).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 7343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hrk.de/hrk-international/study-in-germany/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:25Z", "digest": "sha1:JF64E4YYEJD6WLCLNJWWDJQAAK7UBUQN", "length": 2615, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hrk.de", "title": "Study in Germany - German Rectors' Conference", "raw_content": "A key prerequisite for the internationalisation of German universities and the raising of their international profiles is a diverse student population. On average, over 11% of students currently studying at German universities are from outside Germany, either attending as part of an exchange programme or with the goal of attaining a German university degree.\nDue to the substantial increase in applications from non-EU countries over the past decade, the German Rectors\u2019 Conference (HRK) has helped to establish the uni-assist (e.V) service which pre-processes the applications of prospective international students in order to ease the burden on university administration services.\nGood German-language skills at an academic level are essential to study successfully German taught programs in Germany. The HRK has worked together with the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs (KMK) and other partners in developing a regulatory framework and series of examinations for assessing language competency. The Professional Association of German as a Foreign Language (FaDaF) verify the content and standard of the universities\u2019 DSH examinations, which are registered by the HRK; this then guarantees that they are recognised by other universities.\nThe use of the TestAS (assessment test which measures intellectual abilities particularly important for university studies), which was developed by the TestDaF Institute, enables universities to evaluate the chances of an applicant\u2019s success. The subject-specific sections of the test make it particularly suitable as a university entrance examination.\nApplicants from China, Vietnam and Mongolia are required to have their documents pre-checked at the Academic Evaluation Centre (APS) in order to obtain a student visa. However, German universities may request that this procedure be fast-tracked, known as a \u201csimplified procedure\u201d, if the quality of the applicant has been confirmed through a university\u2019s internal selection process. A special programme then prepares these students for studying in Germany.\nStudents from schools abroad that have a connection to Germany represent an especially interesting group of potential applicants. In this case, it can be assumed that students have had some preparation for studying in Germany in terms of knowledge of the language and culture. It is even possible to take the German \u2018Abitur\u2019 at accredited German schools abroad.\nIn November 2009, the General Meeting of the German Rectors' Conference adopted a\nNational Code of Conduct for German Universities Regarding International Students.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 148.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hse.ru/en/news/archive/edu/2017/12/28/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:55Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2UVC727TZ7MP7XOJG4OLEN4GD4WVNJL", "length": 396, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.hse.ru", "title": "Education news at the Higher School of Economics \u2014 National Research University Higher School of Economics", "raw_content": "29We30Th\nRussian Studies: UCL at HSE St. Petersburg\nThursday, December 21, 2017 the student group of University College London gathered to take tea with traditional pancakes, to speak Russian, and to thank the academic staff for the time they have spent in St. Petersburg. We asked them about the city, studies, student life, and overall impressions.\nEducationinternational studentsSt. Petersburg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 5344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hse.ru/en/news/archive/edu/2018/12/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4MDELTX2VFXP4RDZBOLJ2P77JHX6OBE", "length": 582, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.hse.ru", "title": "Education news at the Higher School of Economics \u2014 National Research University Higher School of Economics", "raw_content": "Online Classes Should Replace Traditional Lectures Only When Necessary\nLarge online courses will become even more in-demand since the quality and accessibility of education is rising. They will not, however, replace traditional in-person interactions between student and teacher. This was the conclusion of participants in the eSTARS 2018 international academic conference on the present and future of online education. HSE and the online learning platform Coursera teamed up to host the event in Moscow on December 5-6.\nEducationideas & experienceReporting an eventonline education", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 5901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/tag/diefenbunker-museum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OFX6BKSYRQI26I5ZVLEWO37KKOVGE4FI", "length": 53, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.ca", "title": "Diefenbunker Museum | HuffPost Canada", "raw_content": "Diefenbunker Museum\nWhat to Do on a Weekend In Ottawa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 3847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/talking-saved-my-life-why-shying-away-from-suicide_uk_5b94041fe4b013f66bd56b2d?utm_hp_ref=uk-mental-health", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:07Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4HJBHGVWSRHWDJ3QOPGXNLZMN2SIIKL", "length": 7005, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.co.uk", "title": "Talking Saved My Life: Why Shying Away From Suicide Protects Nobody | HuffPost UK", "raw_content": "Talking Saved My Life: Why Shying Away From Suicide Protects Nobody\nToday is World Suicide Prevention Day, and I believe that we need a national programme aimed at destigmatising suicide across public life\nFarknot_Architect via Getty Images\nContent warning: this blog contains description of attempted suicide\nWe live in a society where we keep death behind closed doors. In our attempt to preserve life and our striving to live it to the full, we keep the process of dying at bay.\nThis reality struck me when at 20, I started my first full-time job working in a nursing home. The immediacy of death was a daily concern. Whilst doing everything we could to help our patients have as comfortable and peaceful deaths as possible, I was acutely aware of the way in which the realities of dying were being hushed away from the rest of society. This dying-place would never need to be encountered in daily life, unless death was happening to you or someone you loved.\nIf this is how we treat physical illness and old age, then death by suicide is an even more silenced subject. Death poses an existential threat to us all, and the idea of taking your own life seems a threat to the inherent value we place on life. We all tend to agree that life is worth fighting for, protecting and maximising - that it is our moral imperative to cultivate our \u201cbest selves\u201d in order to live our \u201cbest lives\u201d. Somehow we see the idea of not wanting to live any more - even attempting or completing suicide - as a rejection of all we uphold as important.\nSo we don\u2019t talk about suicide. We steer conversations away from dark places, dismiss the proximity we all have to death, and make all sorts of judgements about suicide and those who contemplate or complete it.\nBut our collective silence around suicide is not risk-free. In reality, keeping talk of suicide at bay protects nobody. By failing to provide opportunities for people to vocalise their thoughts and feelings about death and suicide, people are left contending with these difficulties alone. Being unable to listen to people talking about suicide without reacting in horror, playing it down or focussing on the positive, is in itself dangerous.\nI know this from my own experience of being dogged by thoughts of suicide for several years. For a lot of that time, nobody wanted to hear what was going on in my head. I was already in mental health services with anorexia, but when I told anyone about suicidal thoughts, I was given little space to talk about how that felt. Doctors prescribed and prescribed, and sought to minimise the risk of me actually attempting suicide rather than listen to what was driving the impulse. I didn\u2019t want to be drugged out of my pain and made safe enough until next time - I wanted to talk.\nPowerful suicidal thoughts were made more frightening by not being able to talk about them. Attempts by the professionals to \u201cfix\u201d my suicidal thoughts, in a way that avoided actually talking about suicide in depth, did little to abate their relentless presence in my mind. The fact that the professionals were made uncomfortable by suicide made me have very little confidence that anyone else would be able to sit with the subject either, if I were to tell them.\nSo the thoughts grew, the plans elaborated, and my own death became a shadow that was ever closer at hand. A lot of the time I didn\u2019t really want to die - I just didn\u2019t want to life the life that I was having, and there seemed few options and little prospect that things would become easier. I was unable to access treatment for my eating disorder, was losing opportunities, and felt I was causing pain to those around me as I lost my physical and mental health. Thinking about suicide wasn\u2019t a rejection of the value of life in general, or that life was something worth living for. I just felt I couldn\u2019t do life justice, and I wanted to protect those I loved, who I thought could live better without me.\nIn the end, talking saved me, but the space to talk about suicide was found almost too late. I\u2019d had times when I\u2019d been ambivalent about living, and had attempted overdoses without the intent to actually die. Whilst I still feel ashamed about these times, I believe that if I\u2019d received the help I needed before this stage, and had developed other ways to cope, then I wouldn\u2019t have needed to use an overdose to express of my anguish. At other times it was darker than this. After having to drop out of my studies I felt there was little point in carrying on. I went to the GP. \u201cSome people think eating disorders are just attention seeking\u201d, she said. What more could I do? It seemed I had exhausted all the options.\nJust days later I took a large overdose. I wanted my life to end and not to wake up - just as I had prayed I wouldn\u2019t for so many weeks. But after some time, panic crept in. Was this what it felt like to die? Despite the terror that washed over me, I was still full of ambivalence about whether I wanted to carry on living. I didn\u2019t want an ambulance and medics - to be fixed and sent away without talking to a single person about my thoughts, as I\u2019d been before. I needed to talk, so I rang the last place I could think of - the Samaritans.\nI can\u2019t remember much of what happened after that, or even how I got to hospital that night. But I do remember the power of someone finally listening to me without judgement, without rushing in to problem-solve and push the subject away. I remember the realisation that there were other options, that hope still existed outside of this dark place of no escape which was my life as I knew it. Whilst the intervention of ambulance staff and medical care meant I could recover, it was talking that saved my life.\nWhat shocks me most about my experience is the lack of availability of spaces to talk about death and suicide. If mental health services struggle to provide that safe and non-judgemental space, then what can be said about society as a whole? Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, and I believe that we need a national programme aimed at destigmatising suicide across public life. For example, I would love for young people to visit nursing homes, college students to volunteer in hospices, and schools to talk fearlessly about death and suicide as part of the curriculum.\nTalking about suicide doesn\u2019t \u201cplant an idea\u201d. Instead, it makes it a subject that is OK to talk about. This is essential when society upholding a taboo around suicide means that people struggling with suicidal thoughts uphold their silence. Value for life and the choice to keep living requires that we also acknowledge our deaths, and the possibility that the impulse to live can wane. Death is part of what it means to be living, and should be talked about. And talking saves lives.\nWe Should Be Encouraged By The Drop In Male Suicide - But The Facts Are Still Shocking\nMy Friend Died By Suicide, In No Way Do I Think It Was A Selfish Act\nMORE: Health Mental Health suicide suicide prevention World Suicide Prevention Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 10603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/janell-burley-hofmann", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:25Z", "digest": "sha1:WDNQPFQ2JLTPLBJTFZZ6WWGDYM7HT2UX", "length": 262, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Janell Burley Hofmann | HuffPost", "raw_content": "Janell Burley Hofmann is the author of the book, iRules: What Every Tech-Healthy Family Needs to Know About Selfies, Sexting, Gaming and Growing Up. She is also a speaker and consultant on topics like technology, media, health, relationships and personal growth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 204.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/humber-bridge-board-suicide-messages-2424471", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:42Z", "digest": "sha1:BJRK2HIH44EJTAT57LVCAONDMWA5BR2R", "length": 2978, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.hulldailymail.co.uk", "title": "Humber Bridge Board removes messages left by families touched by suicide - this is why - Hull Live", "raw_content": "Humber Bridge Board removes messages left by families touched by suicide - this is why\nThe messages were only put up on Saturday afternoon\nThey want people know there is always someone to talk to (Image: Richard Addison)\nSigns put up in a bid to provide hope to people thinking about taking their own lives on the Humber Bridge have been removed - less than 24 hours after they were put up.\nVolunteers from Mysterious Minds, along with a group of other members of the public who have been touched by mental health issues, took to the bridge on Saturday afternoon to attach signs containing inspirational quotes.\nHowever, they have already been removed by the Humber Bridge Board which says it took action \"due to safety implications\".\nThe group were hoping the messages would make people think twice before using the popular landmark to try and end their lives.\nThe laminated quotes included lines such as \"the world is a better place with you in it\" and \"the thoughts in your head are not always correct...especially the negative ones\".\nGaynor Lewis (right) putting up a quote (Image: Richard Addison)\nDespite the sentiment, the board that runs the bridge says it already works with a number of agencies to find the best way to resolve the issue but that the quotes put up on Saturday were not the best way of doing so.\nIn a statement, a spokesman for the board said: \u201cThe decision was made last night to remove the signs due to safety implications.\nSam Conlin's dad reveals his one final wish for tragic son\n\"All permanent signage that exists on the Humber Bridge is secured to remove the potential for an incident to occur and we do not give permission to third parties to add signs for this reason, among others.\nWatch: The group speak about their messages\n\u201cWe work with representatives from Humberside Police, fire, NHS, public health, Samaritans and Mind and it is agreed that the Samaritans signs already in place, along with human interaction, is the best way to prevent suicide.\n\u201cThe Humber Bridge take suicide prevention seriously and we have a comprehensive range of procedures in place to identify emotionally distressed individuals, intervene along with the emergency services and, in the vast majority of cases, lead them safely from the bridge.\u201d\nWas the Humber Bridge Board right to remove the messages?\nYes, the rules are there for a reason\nNo - if they helped even one person it would be worth it\nWhat the messages said\nThe messages all carried a different message along with a telephone number to call for support.\n\"The world is a better place with you in it. Someone cares.\"\n\"No. You aren't alone. Yes. We all feel this way sometimes. No. You won't always feel like this. You are loved.\"\n\"The thoughts in your head are not always correct...especially the negative ones! Don't believe them. You matter.\"\n\"If you're having a rough day, place your hand on your heart. Feel that? That's called a purpose. You're alive for a reason...don't give up! You are loved.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 11731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huntspost.co.uk/things-to-do/the-little-stranger-in-cinemas-now-1-5722425", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:AYKWLQYRKQQVH7E7AMWJAFBNUM56YAIJ", "length": 871, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.huntspost.co.uk", "title": "The Little Stranger in cinemas now | What's on and things to do in Huntingdon - Hunts Post | Hunts Post", "raw_content": "Recommended Film of the Week: The Little Stranger (12A)\nThe Little Stranger by Sarah Walters\nBased on the best-selling novel by Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger, tells the story of Dr Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor.\nDuring the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked as a maid. The hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. It is now in serious decline and its inhabitants - mother, son and daughter - are haunted by something more ominous than a dying way of life. When he takes on his new patient, Faraday has no idea how closely, and how disturbingly, the family\u2019s story is about to become entwined with his own.\nStars Domhnall Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter and directed by Lenny Abrahamson.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 5111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 141.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hvstampede.org/judith-mazzucco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:14Z", "digest": "sha1:FVAIXHC6CCQX33KNTM37JIVVFU3CU4GM", "length": 520, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.hvstampede.org", "title": "Judith Mazzucco : Hopewell Valley Stampede", "raw_content": "Ox: Oxymoron\nJudith Mazzucco is an interdisciplinary artist and art educator who works in mixed media, film and photography. Her process investigates interspecies relationships and the marginalizing effects of domestication on animals and consequently, on creativity.\nThe artist earned her BA from Monmouth University and her work has been exhibited in the United States, the UK, the Netherlands and Berlin, where she recently was awarded an MFA in New Media from Transart Institute.\nWebsite: http://www.judymazzucco.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 165.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hyperoffice.com/news-billingworld/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YUQZG3G3WD4LI65F6QP2GAEIYQYTSUFU", "length": 5133, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.hyperoffice.com", "title": "Service Provider Opportunity in the Enterprise Cloud | HyperOffice", "raw_content": "There is universal recognition among service providers that in order to take advantage of the rapidly growing cloud market, they must diversify into OTT data services. Data traffic is growing exponentially, while voice traffic is flat. The future is clearly more data-centric, and service providers that deliver value-added OTT services while controlling where data is stored will have strategic leverage. Service providers are perfectly poised to leverage their position in the data-delivery value chain and to capture market share without sacrificing margins or seeding the market for nontraditional competitors hailing from the technology sector.\nIn addition to delivering a long-term strategic benefit, this helps business managers hit hard numbers, grow margins and reverse a downturn in ARPU. This recognition has sunk in, but the next big question is, what categories should service providers invest in?\nThe Growth of the Enterprise Cloud\nA parallel development is the growth of the cloud (Gartner predicts that from 2013 through 2016, $677 billion will be spent on cloud services worldwide). While consumers got off to an early start, the really dramatic shift took place when businesses started embracing cloud services and moving their IT workloads to the cloud. This has led to a rapid growth of the \u201centerprise cloud\u201d and business SaaS services. The meteoric growth of the cloud can be attributed in large part to the success of communication and collaboration services like social collaboration, UCC and video/Web conferencing, which by their very nature, are designed to bring together people spread across locations. Wintergreen predicts that the cloud collaboration market will grow to $17 billion by 2018. IDC found that collaboration was one of the top three areas of growth in enterprise software, growing at nearly twice the rate of other categories.\nPerfect Fit for Service Providers\nAs PwC insightfully observed in its recent report, service providers are perfectly positioned to serve the enterprise cloud market for the following reasons:\n1) They own the network upon which the cloud applications and services are delivered; they can guarantee exceptional SLAs and value-added services. This option is not available to pure cloud vendors, who deliver their services over the public network.\n2) They have expansive networks, universal brand recognition and trust, which gives them broad reach.\n3) They have experience in managing large communication and hosting centers, thereby being able to achieve high levels of scalability and application performance, capabilities not available to smaller vendors.\n4) They already provide businesses key connectivity services, which gives them the opportunity to offer cloud services through innovative service bundles, and offering a unique customer experience will be the key to their success.\n5) Service providers typically have more established IT customer relationships and can up-sell and cross-sell cloud services easily to current customer bases and increase account penetration.\nThe good news for service providers is that the cloud collaboration market is fragmented and offers significant growth opportunities. Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365 are estimated to have generated around $1 billion each in revenue in 2012, roughly representing 12 percent market share, while the rest was captured by hundreds of smaller vendors.\nThe opportunity is clearly here and now. The options for service providers however are not as clear. There are two paths forward:\nPassively resell services from third party technology vendors like Google or Microsoft. This is a convenient option that offers an incremental rather than transformative approach. There is the potential to generate short-term revenue by riding the coattails of another technology vendor at the risk of a diminishing role in the service value chain, eroding margins and lowering customer barriers for exit \u2013 classical side effects of selling a commodity. In addition, this approach is potentially damaging, as service providers will effectively seed the market for cloud technology vendors that have already shown an appetite for competing directly with them.\nActively participate in this market by offering a branded service. It is understandable that service providers are skeptical of building their own cloud applications and developing new competencies. But this concern can easily be addressed by private-labeling proven collaboration services that they can control. Using this approach, service providers can drive their long-term strategic goals as well as effective sales strategies by packaging, pricing and deploying collaboration services that meet the requirements of their target markets. By investing in their brand and promoting a unique, value-added offering, service providers can take control of their sales and marketing plans, protect their customers and enjoy much better margins. Furthermore, service providers can choose the deployment option (their data centers or third-party data centers) that protects their customers, offers added value and drives their long-term strategy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iaks.info/en/congress-archive", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:14Z", "digest": "sha1:RHMFT3AYG42OA2DPU2D5X3TFPMVT7R37", "length": 2305, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.iaks.info", "title": "Congress archive | International Association for Sports and Leisure Facilities (IAKS)", "raw_content": "In 1969, the IAKS held an international Congress on the Planning, Modernization and Management of Sports and Leisure Facilities in cooperation with Koelnmesse. This Congress was held concurrently with the sports facility fair in Cologne, known at the time as the International Exhibition for Sports Facility Construction and Pool Facilities.\nToday the trade fair is called the International Trade Fair for Amenity Areas, Sports and Pool Facilities (FSB) and the IAKS Congress has developed into a permanent fixture.\nOver the last 46 years, a total of 909 experts from 47 countries have given talks and supplied technical information at the total of 24 congresses.\nIAKS Congress 2017\nThe world of sports and leisure facility development has been converging on Cologne every two years since 1969: At the international IAKS Congress, global infrastructural trends, technical topics and best practices are presented and discussed.\nThe 24th IAKS Congress focused worldwide trends in the construction of sports and leisure facilities and presented pioneering projects.\nThe 22nd IAKS Congress, which focused on global trends in the construction of sports and leisure facilities and presented pioneering projects, was again very well attended. Dr. Stephan Holthoff-Pf\u00f6rtner, President of the IAKS, came to this conclusion: \u201cThe perfect symbiosis between FSB and the IAKS Congress makes Cologne the centre of the international sports and leisure sector every two years.\nTo mark its 40th anniversary the IAKS Congress from 28th to 30th October 2009 once again lived up to its reputation as the worldwide think tank for the sport and leisure industry. Around 550 guests and delegations from more than 40 countries seized the opportunity to inform themselves about the latest trends.\nThe IAKS Congress for the Design, Construction, Modernization and Management of Sports and Leisure Facilities is celebrating its anniversary. At the end of October 2007, the world of sports facility development converged on Cologne for the 20th time.\n19th International IAKS Congress with international trade fair FSB Design, Construction, Modernization and Management of Sports and Leisure Facilities Cologne, 26th to 28th October 2005.\nView Congress Programme\nVer m\u00e1s Congreso Programa\nEnglish (Download pdf)\nEspa\u00f1ol (Download pdf)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibbclaims.co.uk/site/blog/child-abuse/the-ultimate-betrayal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MXAWICZO3PJ7NEM4W6V4OLLRSXGQ4ACD", "length": 3818, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ibbclaims.co.uk", "title": "Compensation For Abuse By a Parent", "raw_content": "There is no greater betrayal to a child than an abusive parent. The one person who is supposed to love and protect you, not only fails to perform this fundamental parental task, but is the deliberate cause of harm.\nAccording to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NCPCC), there are currently over 57,000 children who are identified as needing protection from abuse in the UK today. But for every one of these children, a further eight are suffering from abuse but are not on the authorities\u2019 radar[1].\nOne in 14 children have been physically abused, whilst reports of sexual abuse have increased sharply over the last few years, with 90% of victims being abused by someone they know[2].\nCan you sue your parent/s for child abuse?\nIt is possible to claim compensation from not only the abusive parent, but the parent who failed to stop the abuse. For example, in 2010, a 32-year-old man sued his mother for \u00a350,000 in damages. He claimed that she was negligent and breached her duty of care because she failed to protect him from beatings from his father over a period of years. The man and his siblings had already successfully claimed compensation from their father[3].\nThe claimant told the court his father was a \u201ctormentor\u201d and a \u201cbully\u201d who would attack him up to 10 times a day. From the age of five, he said, he was routinely hit with a variety of household objects, including a belt, an electrical cable, a hairbrush and a cane.\nHe argued that his mother had a duty to take reasonable steps to protect her children from harm, for example, obtaining an injunction to keep her husband away from the house.\nSuing a local authority for failing to protect you from your abusive parents\nIf a local authority failed in their duty of care to protect you, then you may be able to bring a claim for compensation against them. For example, if you or a friend or relative reported abuse or neglect to social workers, and the allegations were ignored, or not adequately followed up, then a claim for damages can be brought.\nLimitations on claiming compensation\nUnder the Limitation Act 1980, a claimant has three years to bring a claim for negligence. However, the Courts do have a wide discretion when it comes to cases involving abuse which has occurred in childhood.\nFor a Court to allow a case to proceed out of time, it has to consider the effect this will have on both a claimant and defendant. It will take into consideration whether the lapse of time will mean a fair trial can be achieved, if there is sufficient evidence/witnesses available and the reason for the delay.\nIt is widely accepted that it can take victims of childhood abuse many years to garner the courage to face their abuser. With experienced, sensitive legal representation, a strong case can be made for bringing a claim for compensation.\nHow compensation can help\nMoney can never replace a stolen childhood, or a bond with a parent, something that every child deserves and needs. It can however assist with paying for professional counselling and other support required so you can rebuild your life and look forward to a more positive future.\nAt IBB, our abuse and personal injury team, led by Malcolm Underhill, has the expertise and knowledge to advise and represent those who have suffered physical, emotional and/or sexual abuse and wish to claim compensation.\nTestimonial for Malcolm Underhill\nTo talk about how we might be able to help, please phone us on 0333 123 9099, email us at enquiries@ibbclaims.co.uk or fill in our contact form. Any discussions you have with us will be in the strictest of confidence\n[1] https://www.nspcc.org.uk/services-and-resources/research-and-resources/statistics/\n[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7764258/Son-sues-mother-for-failing-to-prevent-beatings-by-father.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 7542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 178.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-show/mastergate-5949", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CMH2TSG2IBXCUQBBSZY4VUIO2SUZXK5K", "length": 154, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ibdb.com", "title": "Mastergate \u2013 Broadway Show \u2013 Play | IBDB", "raw_content": "Play, Comedy, Satire\nSetting: Washington, D.C. The Morning After.\n#1 Oct 12, 1989 - Dec 10, 1989 Play, Original Criterion Center Stage Right, New York, NY", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 199.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibu.edu.ba/en/burch-news/2015/burch-coffee-with-prof.-dr.-damir-marjanovi.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:50Z", "digest": "sha1:KHRPBQ525UPOOOQTVPCOM4RRGNBZKDPR", "length": 1081, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ibu.edu.ba", "title": "Burch Cafe with Prof. Dr. Damir Marjanovi\u0107 - International Burch University", "raw_content": "Burch Cafe with Prof. Dr. Damir Marjanovi\u0107\nAt the university premises on Monday, January 12, 2015, the Burch Journalist Club organized the first Burch Caf\u00e9 with Prof. Dr. Damir Marjanovi\u0107, with whom students discussed various topics, including his professional, as well as private, life.\nIn the course of the interview, Prof. Dr. Marjanovi\u0107 emphasized the importance of motivation in different situations, ranging from motivating university students, to employees at work, where he shared his personal experiences from the positions he held in the past.\nIn the second part of the program, inspired by the musical performance of Nadina \u0106osi\u0107 and Zlatan Idrizovi\u0107, Marjanovi\u0107 showed his own musical talents, after which he answered the questions of the Caf\u00e9 attendees.\nThe interview was concluded with the message that a person is never too young to express their own opinion and disagreement with others, but also never too old not to try to change the way things are.\nInternational Burch University, Burch Journalist Club, Burch Cafe, Damir marjanovi\u0107, motivation, student activism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 4993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.icafrica.org/en/news-events/infrastructure-news/article/12-million-dollars-to-improve-ict-in-west-african-universities-1649/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IQ7G5VTI4ZKXTOP6PFGRXA4E5DLXPTV2", "length": 977, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.icafrica.org", "title": "12 million dollars to improve ICT in West African universities - ICA", "raw_content": "12 million dollars to improve ICT in West African universities\nUNESCO has signed a financing agreement with the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) with a value of 12 million dollars to finance a project to improve ICT infrastructures in West African universities.\nLasting three years, this project is aimed at developing the use of ICT by creating a virtual library interconnected at regional level and the installation of infrastructures giving access to ICT, such as fiber-optic Internet via a minimum of 200 computers per campus.\nSouma\u00efla Ciss\u00e9, president of the UEMOA, said in a press release from UNESCO to be \"conscious that education is the key to the future, as emerging countries are founded on the quality of human resources\".\n\"With the expert assistance of UNESCO, this project will empower teachers, students and researchers\", he added.\nThe Member States of the UEMOA are Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Mali, Senegal and Togo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 4111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 196.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.icewarm.com.au/news/article/rajasthan-fellows-water-frenzy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:51Z", "digest": "sha1:MPP6ZDW34GLAFH2USFG25ZXXQAWFVKZB", "length": 3065, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.icewarm.com.au", "title": "Rajasthan Fellows in a water frenzy - ICE WaRM", "raw_content": "Rajasthan Fellows in a water frenzy - ICE WaRM\nThe two female Masters students from Malaviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) and five water professionals, are sharing knowledge and expertise during their busy schedule with their counterparts at the South Australian Water Corporation (SA Water), the South Australian Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) and Flinders University.\nThe program is designed to promote people-to-people links and support for the Australian Government\u2019s international policy goals through increased understanding of the cultures and opportunities in each of these countries. ICE WaRM\u2019s priority consideration in the program is the development of new innovative ventures that build on water technology.\nJodhpur City, the second largest city of Rajasthan State, is known for deep ground water and has no major water body due to limited rainfall. It had experienced a drinking water shortage for centuries until Himalayan water reached abundance in 1996.\nSome of the areas of int erest for the Fellows include achieving efficient and sustainable water use, and designing a Smart Water Distribution Network.\nThis week Miss Neelam and Miss Bhavana were inducted into the laboratories at SA Water to learn how water samples are being analysed. This research will greatly benefit their thesis work in India.\nMr Niril Kumar, from the Public Health and Engineering Department (PHED) in Rajasthan, had an informative tour of Adelaide\u2019s desalination plant and compared it to the 2000 Community Water Purification Plants (CWPP) installed to date in Rajasthan.\n\u201cCWPPs are established in villages where the groundwater is contaminated with fluoride, nitrates or salinity and provides safe water for drinking and cooking only, whereas the desalination plant is a contingency measure for Adelaide.\u201d Mr Kumar explained.\nWhile the 2000 CWPPs have a cumulative capacity of 16 million litres per day and draw from ground water, the desalination plant has a capacity of 300 million litres per day, draws from ocean water and is not a cost effective option for Rajasthan.\nAlso from PHED, Dr. Dinesh Kumar Periwal visited waste water treatment plants in Christies Beach and Glenelg as well as the Seacliff mini-hydro pumping station, SA Water\u2019s North South Interconnection System Project (NSISP).\n\u201cI was very impressed with SA Water\u2019s fully automated supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, said Dr Periwal.\n\u201cIt links river basin water levels, all the raw water pumping stations, water treatment plants, clear water reservoirs, pumping stations and system peripheral pump stations to head office.\n\u201cIt also reports on and actions faults, activity and even generates information for invoices for water delivered.\u201d\nICE WaRM looks forward to continuing projects with Rajasthan and further strengthening the sister-state relationship.\nhttp://dfat.gov.au/people-to-people/foundations-councils-institutes/australia-india-council/grants/Pages/grants.aspx\nwww.icewarm.com.au/news/article/rajasthan-fellows-water-frenzy/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.idaireland.com/newsroom/the-curious-case-of-dr-jo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:32Z", "digest": "sha1:IMXZZVS2OLYF42XL6EPOHUDJY7ECB3RA", "length": 6396, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.idaireland.com", "title": "The curious case of Dr Joseph Roche: an Irishman\u2019s mission to Mars", "raw_content": "The curious case of Dr Joseph Roche: an Irishman\u2019s mission to Mars\nNews > The curious case of Dr Joseph Roche: an Irishman\u2019s mission to Mars\nHaving first announced its plans in 2003, a Dutch non-profit group known as Mars One is attempting to achieve what the leading government space agencies of the world have failed to do, that is, making it actually possible to become an interplanetary species within the first half of the 21stcentury.\nThe obvious difference is that those making the trip a decade from now will not have originally been former fighter pilots but rather members of the public who would have trained from scratch and eventually become the stars of a scientific experiment and reality TV show based on what would be the greatest event ever to bestow mankind.\nRoche, research projects co-ordinator and education learning manager at the Science Gallery in Trinity College Dublin (TCD), made a name for himself in Ireland as one of the final 705 candidates remaining from more than 200,000 across the world who could find themselves a part of the first four-person crew to take part in the Mars-bound programme and go down in history.\nHaving studied astrophysics for his bachelor\u2019s degree and having been interested in the imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope as a child, the chance to work at US space agency NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center in the US could be seen as the achievement of someone\u2019s life dream, but it now seems this could potentially be broken if Roche is to make it through the tough selection process.\nA man of the stars\nThere is one slight downside, however, that is, if he is selected, he will have to be prepared for the fact that he will never see the Earth again, as existing technology is only capable of getting spacecraft to the red planet. There is yet to be a way of getting a spacecraft to take off from Mars.\nSo is it really that simple to accept the notion that it will be a one-way trip? \u201cI\u2019ve thought a lot about it in the intervening period and my opinion on it hasn\u2019t changed at all,\u201d says Roche.\n\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to even comprehend all the things you\u2019d miss back on Earth as no one has ever had to do it before but I think it becomes a bit more understandable if they think it\u2019s something someone is passionate about.\n\u201cI know it sounds like a lot to give up but what you\u2019ll be gaining as one of the first inter-planetary scientists is immense. Even if they called me right now and said there\u2019s a taxi waiting outside, you need to go, I\u2019d go in a heartbeat.\u201d\nReality TV vs \u2018reality\u2019 TV\nIn June this year, Endemol, producers of the reality-TV show Big Brother signed a deal with the Mars One project to provide coverage of almost the entire process, from the training of astronauts to the actual mission itself.\nWhile it provides much-needed funds for a multi-billion-dollar project, there does remain the fear that genuine science and discovery will be used as a vehicle for rather mundane or drama-based scenarios.\nAs a person fully immersed in the field of science and far removed from the entertainment business, Roche is obviously aware of people\u2019s concerns but believes the plans in place are far removed from peoples\u2019 worst fears.\n\u201cThe reality aspect to it makes people think that it\u2019s going to be like Big Brother on Mars but I think they\u2019re looking at it in a different form of reality TV.\n\u201cTaking one example, the Olympic Games is an event that the world tunes in to watch and the recent 2012 Olympics raised between US$6bn-US$8bn in TV and sponsorship deals, which is exactly what the Mars mission would need ... The training will be televised and that will be rigorous so they don\u2019t need to add any elements for the public but they what they might give the public a say in is which team would go first, but not which astronauts would go, for as that\u2019s too much of a risk.\u201d\nSustaining life on Mars\nSo how feasible is it for the first human beings to live on Mars? With almost zero atmosphere, any human on the planet\u2019s surface, whether they are in a spacesuit or not, are being bombarded with potentially lethal doses of the sun\u2019s radiation if they stay for more than four or five hours at any one time.\nThis means the habitat that houses the first crew will need to be protected by the construction of a bunker built underneath a thick layer of Martian soil.\nAccording to Roche, for whomever is selected, the facility will have a considerable degree of self-sustenance, with hydroponic plants being grown in safe greenhouses and even potentially breeding insects to give the astronauts a regular source of protein.\nHowever, this will only take them so far and the team will be left waiting for new teams to arrive from Earth every two to three years, which could prove worrying if, as a commercial venture, interest in the TV show wains over the years and finances begin to dry up.\nThis hasn\u2019t made Roche change his mind set on the chance to go to Mars, either, but he does believe that while the future does appear to be heading more towards commercial enterprises, the work of government organisations, including NASA and the European Space Agency, is important.\n\u201cIt\u2019s why we\u2019re in this position in the first place with Mars One doing things that the traditional space programmes wouldn\u2019t be able to do. Sending a one-way human mission is so at odds with how they do things but the good thing about the (government) space programmes these days are the number of international collaborations.\u201d\n\u2018Curiosity isn\u2019t just accepted but expected\u2019\nFor now, Roche carries on with his busy life, trying to encourage the expansion of scientific knowledge for everyone. As a speaker at the recent Festival of Curiosity, he sees the event as the best of its kind in Ireland. \u201cThroughout my scientific career I\u2019ve been fascinated by the idea that science can inspire people and awaken that curiosity in people.\n\u201cThat\u2019s why I work at the Science Gallery and the Festival of Curiosity fits in so well with that field as we try to get everyone involved with science but also be OK with asking these questions and providing these events so that your curiosity isn\u2019t just accepted, but expected, and the (public) should have these questions.\u201d\nhttp://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/item/37745-the-curious-case-of-dr/\nPhoto Caption: Dr Joseph Roche, research projects co-ordinator and education learning manager at the Science Gallery in Dublin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 10258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.idisciple.org/post/fasting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:6EILA4LOEBYNLMCJGSHHG65BTSHDMXLI", "length": 4330, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.idisciple.org", "title": "Fasting: What Physical Effects to Expect - iDisciple", "raw_content": "Fasting: What Physical Effects to Expect\nAlthough fasting can be an indescribable blessing, it's not always easy for everyone. In this time of discipline, self-sacrifice and reflection, don't be surprised if you experience mental and physical discomforts.\nAlthough fasting can be an indescribable blessing, it is not always easy for everyone. In this time of discipline, self-sacrifice and reflection, do not be surprised if you experience mental and physical discomforts.\nTo begin, you may experience some inner conflict when you deny yourself the pleasure of eating delicious food. Any sort of fast may sometimes leave you feeling impatient and irritable. During a 3-day fast, this struggle can intensify toward the end of the second day. That seems to be a favorite time for the \"self\" to rise up and say, \"This is as far as I want to go. I have done enough.\"\nPhysical Effect:\nHunger Pangs - These are greatest usually during the first three days of the fast. Your body is adjusting from using the food in your digestive tract (which remains about three days) to consuming stored fats.\nSuggested Relief:\nPsyllium Bulk - Help eliminate hunger pangs and also aids in cleansing the body. Several capsules can be taken throughout the day with plenty of water.\nSilymarin tablets may also be helpful, for they are believed to protect and enhance the cleansing of the liver.\nColdness, bad breath and heightened body odor, changes in elimination (constipation or diarrhea), light-headedness, changes in sleeping and dreaming patterns, aches and pains.\nA white-coated tongue at the beginning of a fast may be a part of the body's pattern of throwing off toxins.\nAlso expect to go the the bathroom often (you will be drinking lots of water!)\nAfter the first two weeks of an extended fast, many of these symptoms subside. Continuing aches in a certain area of the body usually means elimination of fatty tissue is going on in that area, which is not harmful. However, any extensive pain should be examined immediately.\nYOU SHOULD STOP FASTING IF YOU ARE EXPERIENCING SEVERE PAIN OR SWELLING.\nHeadaches or stomachaches may be a result of salt, sugar, or caffeine withdrawal.\nEliminating those items from your diet prior to fasting is the best way to avoid these pains.\nLower back pain may indicate that you are dehydrating\nDizziness may be caused by a sudden change in position, such as rising suddenly from a chair.\nStop for a second or two, then recover. Move slowly. (A word of caution: these conditions may be symptoms of other problems requiring medical attention).\nMinor fasting discomfort\nTake one teaspoon of psyllium-seed powder morning and evening. Mixed in lukewarm water, it becomes like Jell-O. This powder will hasten the elimination of toxins from your colon and help to prevent headaches and dizziness for most healthy people. Alfalfa tablets can help control bad breath and cleanse the system. Two tablets at a time can be taken several times a day.\nIn my desire to be absolutely faithful to my first 40-day fast, I stopped taking my usual vitamins and minerals. However during subsequent fasts, I have felt strongly impressed to continue my vitamin and herbal therapy and also using psyllium. I do this to keep my \"temple\" healthy while continuing to deny myself the pleasure of eating solid food.\nDuring your fast, you may have your struggles, discomforts, spiritual victories, and failures. In the morning you may feel like you are on top of the world, but by evening you may be wrestling with the flesh-sorely tempted to raid the refrigerator and counting how many more days are left in your fast. This is especially true if you are new at fasting. To counteract temptations like these, take extra time with the Lord to spend with God. Step outside for fresh air and a moderate walk of a mile or two, and talk to the Lord as you walk along. And in the process always keep on sipping water or juice frequently during your waking hours.\nAlthough fasting can be an indescribable blessing, it's not always easy for everyone. In this time of discipline, self-sacrifice and reflection, don't be surprised if you experience mental and physical discomforts. By Dr. Bill Bright via iDisciple\nDon't Waste Your Sorrow\nHow God Responds When His People Turn Back to Him\nAccept No Substitute\nMagnify and Multiply: Falling and Rising", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.idology.com/blog/2010-full-speed-ahead-for-id-verification/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TFZXMXD34A67QNXWQ36OOPYV4UAG3DDI", "length": 742, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.idology.com", "title": "2010: Full Speed Ahead for ID Verification | IDology", "raw_content": "Here we are a full month into 2010 and I\u2019m just now finding the time to blog. I resolve that for the rest of the year I will not let so much time between posts. Of course, I can\u2019t speak for John.\nThings are in full swing at IDology for the new decade. Already, we have announced a partnership with ARX, a digital signature company, been involved in the launch of Wikiloan, a financial social network that offers a peer-to-peer lending platform, and made some changes to our website including launching a new partners page. Be on the lookout for more partner announcements this month, as well as some product news.\nAnd if you happen to be in Vegas the week of February 21st, stop by and see us at Booth #534 during the PrePaid Expo at the Rio.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ifw-kiel.de/datenmigration/publikationen/document-store/liberalizing-international-trade-in-services-challenges-and-opportunities-for-developing-countries-6651/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DL25NJTUPH3RZEESY5677LP3MNITVBHP", "length": 2520, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ifw-kiel.de", "title": "Liberalizing International Trade in Services: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries", "raw_content": "Liberalizing International Trade in Services: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries\nd5367d3576b9e11b0a4ca931d300aef8.\nSeveral developments in international trade in services impact strongly on developing countries: First, the world-wide diffusion of information technologies (IT) has created new export opportunities for developing countries in IT services. Second, the recently proclaimed Millennium Development Goals for poverty reduction can only be attained if key services are provided more efficiently in developing countries\u2014particularly through the liberalization of service imports. Third, in the ongoing Doha Development Round (DR) of trade negotiations, developing countries are asked to formally commit to liberalizing their service imports under the terms of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). - Developing countries will benefit from liberalizing service imports if liberalization enhances competition on the supply side. This is typically the case for producer services, such as domestic and international transport, financial services, and telecommunications. The lifting of restrictions on the market access by foreigners (including through direct investment) will often improve service quality or lower prices and thereby enhance the international competitiveness of downstream industries. In Doha Development Round negotiations, therefore, developing countries may find it useful to commit to liberalizing imports of producer services. - By contrast, the benefits of import liberalization are less clear for some consumer services where supply is subject to network monopolies (e.g., water and energy distribution) or demand is constrained by poverty (health care, education). Here, achieving a socially optimal level of supply may require carefully calibrated government policies, possibly with international donor support. For developing countries, such sectors should not be priority areas for commitments on service imports under the GATS. - Most service exports by developing countries, especially IT services transmitted electronically, face few import barriers in industrialized countries. However, under the GATS, service exports may also be delivered through temporary movement of natural persons, e.g., developing country nationals working in industrialized countries without becoming residents there. If Doha Development Round negotiations were to increase opportunities for such temporary labor migration, the benefits to developing countries could be huge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 221.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.image.ie/amp/life/happens-comedian-two-daughters-autism-103541", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HULC2HE2PBMSLXLNBUOWO3ZYMHT32WTT", "length": 11718, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.image.ie", "title": "What Happens When A Comedian Has Two Daughters With Autism | IMAGE.ie", "raw_content": "What Happens When A Comedian Has Two Daughters With Autism\nAward-winning comedian-turned- author, Aidan Comerford tells Sophie White how letting go of one lifelong dream helped him realise what he really wanted for his future\nRunning late to meet Aidan Comerford is a really stressful, stressful thing. Not only because his life sounds insane, off-the-charts in the busy scale, but also because he states that he believes lateness to be a form of hate crime on page 29 of his just-released book Cornflakes For Dinner. So it's intense. I decide the crime of sweatiness has got to rate lower on his meter than lateness and opt for that instead of keeping him.\nYou see, the facts of Comerford's life are such that one would imagine trivialities like the lateness of sweaty journalist might really piss him off. His two daughters were diagnosed with autism in their toddler years, his wife Martha has a rare sleep disorder to manage and Comerford has had a major task keeping sanity and household together through some difficult years of redundancy from his day job (as a structural draughtsman), considerable mortgage arrears and grave disappointments. The book's tagline is 'a heartbreaking comedy about family life' and it is a testament to Comerford's talent and affability that by the end of chapter one, I had already cried and laughed out loud. A lot.\nComerford has always been ambitious, though his goals lay somewhat left of field for a young guy in his 20s:\n\"I was a singer-songwriter for years, bare feet on stage and everything. Terrible, terrible, it gives me cringe when I think of it now. I gave that up after Ailbhe was born and that was fine. One of my major dreams was to be a family man, I wanted to be the dad with the kids.\"\nAfter ditching the Damian Rice vibes and presumably putting his shoes back on, Comerford moved on to writing musical comedy and gradually began gigging, \"it became a bit like a part time job.\"\n\"I had a funny song in my show called 'I write songs cuz I wanna get laid' which is not entirely true because I actually wrote songs because I wanted to get married. I just wanted to get a woman naked so I could marry the sh*t out of her. I always had that thing of 'I want to get married as soon as possible and have kids as soon as possible'.\"\nHe met Martha shortly after the breakup of a long relationship and knew immediately that she was the woman he would marry.\n\"We've been together ever since, as Marthas says 'nothing ever went wrong', she never suddenly said 'I don't like the Princess Bride or something,\" Comerford peals off into laughter at what is evidently his personal deal-breaker.\nSadly the 'nothing ever went wrong' streak was to be seriously challenged when the couple who were planning to have four kids, found themselves facing straight into fertility struggles just after their wedding. Comerford sets the tone of his darkly funny, fantastically real book in the opening chapter which hilariously details his struggles to produce and transport a sample for the couple's fertility tests. To say Comerford and his wife find humour in everything is an understatement, there is barely a page of the book I didn't laugh at.\nHumour is a well-known coping mechanism but one can't help but feel there is something very special about this family, that they have stayed so unified through all the ups and downs of the last decade and beyond that are still laughing together. After a year of issues, the couple conceived and had their first Daughter Ailbhe in 2006, with Sophie following 18 months later.\n\"Sophie was around one when the word 'autism' first came into the house,\" Comerford says. Ailbhe showed the first signs that something was unusual when the couple noticed that she would repeat dialogue from films. This repetition (called echolalia) is a thing that most children do when learning to speak, but they noticed Ailbhe would do it in order to cope with stress. It was a speech therapist friend of the family who alerted them to the quirk and suggested that Ailbhe was not understanding much of what was being said to her.\n\"This was news to us, she was two and a half at the time and she had spoken her first word at seven months which is incredibly early. We were like 'we're nailing this parenting!' She continued along saying single words, she didn't say 'yes' or 'no' or 'mama' or 'dada', she had no way of putting together sentences... she also had touch sensitivity, if you tried to touch the top of her head, she'd bark like a dog. You can imagine, it made washing her hair really fun!\"\nThe couple opted for early intervention for their daughters and the diagnosis was devastating. As Comerford put it at the end of his award-winning comedy show in 2014, \"Ailbhe is mildly autistic and Sophie is wildly autistic\".\n\"It's like living in a world where everyone speaks another language and Sophie didn't speak for years. Not until she was about four or five, when she started saying lots of little words or bits of sentences which is where she is now at 10 years old. She can speak her needs but you can't really have a conversation with her.\" Sophie, the Comerford's younger daughter has a more profound form of autism. \"There's a lot of unknowns in it, no one can really tell what she's going to be like when she's sixteen, she may never develop conversational language. This might be her plateau. She's a lovely happy, healthy kid, very self contained to a certain extent. She doesn't like when things don't go to plan and she could have an hour or two-hour long tantrum about small things.\" Sophie goes to St Michael's in Trim, a dedicated centre for children on the autistic spectrum.\nWith some additional help and social therapy, Ailbhe has thrived in a mainstream school and enjoys English. Comerford is clearly proud when talking about her love of word play and puns.\n\"One of the myths about autistic kids is that they're good at maths... only about four or five percent of the people with autism have savant abilities, but because it's what you see in movies...\" he scoffs. \"People say to me 'what's her special powers?', I say 'She can shoot lasers out her eyes, it's unbelievable.'\"\nComerford's relationships with his daughters is absolutely gorgeous, he seems to have vast reserves of patience which even parents of nuero-typical children struggle to access, and more than admirable patience. He clearly has fun with his girls.\n\"I brought Ailbhe as a treat to the late showing of Dr. Strange when it came out, and I had to explain that we could not talk through this movie and the second it came on she immediately said (he roars): 'I can't believe it, they never said Sherlock was in this!' at that volume,\" Comerford laughs, shaking his head. \"I was like 'remember the no talking thing? That was it!'\"\n\"I had to try and explain the whole concept of actors to her because another time she saw Martin Freeman in The Avengers and was like 'What is Dr. Watson doing in The Avengers?'\" Comerford had the idea to set her a project on Benedict Cumberbatch to help her understand, a mark of his dedication to being a good father.\nComerford's portrait of his wife, Martha, is one of the most endearing things in the book. She's like the supporting actor who steals every scene, basically Bill Murray in Tootsie. She's razor sharp and utterly hilarious. At my suggestion that she should be the one writing a book, Comerford bursts out laughing, telling me that that came up and her response was characteristically harsh and funny as hell: \"I just don't need the constant affirmation that you need, Aidan!\"\nRecently Ricky Gervais retweeted a piece of Comerford's writing, \"I went into Martha in bed, saying 'Ricky Gervais is after retweeting my story,' to which she responded 'oh god, there was already no living with you.'\" Comerford laughs.\nMartha was the first person to read the book which was nervewrecking. \"When I was still doing musical comedy, I'd play her a song and if she didn't laugh, that was it even if I'd spent a week on it, I wouldn't play it (on stage),\" says Comerford.\n\"Don't lie and don't hold back\" was her generous advice when Comerford embarked on the book about their life together.\n\"We've always been a good team, but it's like extreme parenting and it has tested us,\" which Comerford writes quite frankly about in the book. He assures me he didn't put every row in there, though he does include Martha's struggles with depression and a crippling sleep disorder (idiopathic hypersomnia) meaning she has to sleep far more than the average person which sounds good until you really consider how limiting and frustrating it must be to have exponentially less time than everyone else in which to live your life.\nComerford is forthcoming on Martha's behalf but it was all with her blessing, she even joined him for a radio interview with Ray D'Arcy and \"was, of course, funnier than me,\" Comerford mock-complains. Martha goes to counselling to manage her illness and as Comerford says \"that's her outlet for the stress\" while after the children were born, performing musical comedy became his.\nPeople had started to take notice of Comerford's gigs which led him to bring his comedy show to Edinburgh in 2014 where he won the coveted So You Think You're Funny award.\nAs Comerford was performing, unbeknownst to him back home, traumatic events were unfolding. Sophie, then seven, had gone missing near a lake for several hours. Thankfully she was unharmed but the incident served to highlight the constant push/pull that Comerford's comedy career would bring to the already stretched young family should he pursue it.\n\"Coming home on the flight, I was thinking 'this could be something I could do, I can't waste this,' I was trying to work out how I could make that work. Then, when I got back and I found out Sophie had gone missing, all that went away. I felt guilty, like if I was there that wouldn't have happened and Martha said 'I feel guilty as well because I feel if you were here, it wouldn't have happened.'\"\nAt this time, the couple were in mortgage arrears which the prize money thankfully made a dent in, and then Comerford began to get more and more paid gigs in Ireland.\nComerford had worked a section into the end of his Edinburgh show about his daughters and autism and he now planned to write a full show on this subject for the next year.\n\"I had just gotten the job I'm in now, we were doing much better financially and out of our mortgage arrears and we didn't need the money any more which had always been one of my excuses to do it. So then I had to ask myself 'what am I doing this for?' I don't need the emotional crutch anymore. If I wanted to do it fulltime I'd have to really throw myself into it and did I really want that?\"\n\"The end of the book is the big argument we have about it, she said 'what do you want? It feels like if you keep going then family will become your second priority.' I never wanted that. I thought about it for a few days and then said I'd give it up and see what I feel like and I gave it up that Christmas and I didn't miss it at all. I did it and I did almost everything I wanted to do. Travelling and being away from the family is not what I wanted to do.\"\nComerford has a restless mind though and soon began scouting for a different creative outlet. Cornflakes For Dinner came about after an editor at Gill publishers read a post he shared on the Facebook forum, Oh My God What A Complete Aisling.\n\"We met over a pint and she said 'I think you should write a book', so that's what happened.\"\nCornflakes For Dinner by Aidan Comerford is available in all good bookshops and online.\nIf you would like to watch his full Edinburgh set (and I highly recommend you do) click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 12484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 276.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.imsglobal.org/markleuba.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:14Z", "digest": "sha1:S4ECHRZHZO3EG4KLOSBYE3CEYPPOYEZC", "length": 1625, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.imsglobal.org", "title": "Mark Leuba | IMS Global Learning Consortium", "raw_content": "Mark Leuba is a technology leader in education, with particular expertise in online higher education. Through his former firm, Pathway Technology Partners and affiliates Mark provided advisory and strategy services for leading institutions, foundations, non-profit and for-profit education organizations. A recent engagement was TIP - Technology Interoperability Pilot project sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mark also consulted to BMGF and others assessing innovations in digital courseware and personalized learning products, competency-based education, strategic program management and product selection, organizational due diligence and education technology market analysis.\nPrior to forming his consultancy Mark served as Chief Technology Officer for Moodlerooms, a leading provider of open source learning management solutions where Mark led their transition to cloud-based platform services - at the time the largest migration of its kind in online education. As the Chief Information Officer for American Public University System from 2005-2009 Mark developed and executed a five year plan laying the technology foundation for unparalleled growth in the University\u2019s online programs. Before joining APUS, Mark held leadership roles in corporate IT, including nine years as Vice President of Applications for Random House, the world\u2019s largest consumer trade publisher.\nMark's role in IMS Global is to guide its product management strategy and execution, building on the substantial success of the IMS team. Mark received his B.A. in Business Administration/Finance from the University of Baltimore.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.independentrecorder.com/sama-wins-the-title-of-the-first-veiled-in-boxing-1076.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:12Z", "digest": "sha1:OL4JVIIPFDTOKUP2RMAV3QYYIBIYGH74", "length": 1518, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.independentrecorder.com", "title": "Sama wins the title of the first veiled in boxing \u2013 Independent Recorder", "raw_content": "Sama wins the title of the first veiled in boxing\nAmiya Zafer, the American woman, entered history after becoming the first boxing to participate in a formal dress wearing an Islamic headscarf after a battle with the US Boxing Federation to change its regulations, Sky News reported.\nThe regulations of the American Boxing Federation allow Muslim boxers to wear headscarves during official competitions, and illiteracy (16 years) lost her first career in the hijab, but her joy was great in realizing her dream.\nUmayya has been banned from practicing boxing since she wore the hijab according to US laws, but the Islamic Relations Council announced that Umayyad was allowed to participate in tournaments wearing the hijab with a long sleeve jacket and long pants.\nAt the time Zafer expressed her happiness with the event and her willingness to participate in the games, especially as she weighed in the place you wish.\n\u201cWe welcome this victory and look forward to the day when athletes from all religions will compete at the national and international levels while preserving their religious principles,\u201d Ibrahim Huber, director of communications at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), told Reuters.\nZafer will not stop there. Her dream and declared goal are to participate in the 2020 Olympic Games in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, so the player is expected to go to the American International Boxing Association (AIBA) to recognize her right to participate in world championships. , Wearing a headscarf.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com/news-multimedia/photos/2018/10/07/red-bull-air-race-sunday-october-7-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:17Z", "digest": "sha1:EB54FC2YN7KVNMP3FOK72XUZ3NWLGEB5", "length": 263, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.indianapolismotorspeedway.com", "title": "Indianapolis Motor Speedway", "raw_content": "Photos: Race Day at the Red Bull Air Race\nPhotos: Race Day at the Red Bull Air Race View photos of the greatest moments of the Master and Challenger Class during race day at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. View Photos October 07, 2018 Indianapolis Motor Speedway", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 12795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.industryweek.com/workforce/us-jobless-claims-continue-fall", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OUPNOMLGMFWE6XIQ5T4MP5KIRHLOKCXR", "length": 686, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.industryweek.com", "title": "U.S. Jobless Claims Continue To Fall | IndustryWeek", "raw_content": "U.S. Jobless Claims Continue To Fall\nIn part because of fewer hurricane-related claims in Louisiana, the number of initial claims for unemployment in the U.S. fell last week for the third consecutive week. Claims for the week ending Oct. 29 were a seasonally adjusted 323,000, a decrease of 8,000 from the previous week's revised total of 331,000, the U.S. Labor Department reported on Nov. 3.\nThe department's four-week moving average of claims, which tends to give a better picture of underlying labor market conditions because it smooths out week-to-week changes, also fell last week. The average was 350,500, a decrease of 17,000 from the previous week's revised average of 367,500.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 178.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.injurytriallawyer.com/blog/reckless-driving-leads-to-serious-wreck-on-interstate-5.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TPP62UJXXR3QCYM5GVEIDQSHURPLGTN3", "length": 2012, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.injurytriallawyer.com", "title": "Reckless Driving Leads To Serious Wreck On Interstate 5", "raw_content": "Reckless Driving Leads To Serious Wreck On Interstate 5\nThe Washington State Patrol says a woman\u2019s reckless driving contributed to a two-car crash on Interstate 5, sending two people to the hospital Wednesday morning.\nA 25-year-old woman driving a Subaru was reportedly driving recklessly on I-5 northbound just south of Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, making hand gestures before crashing into the back of a van. The collision caused both vehicles to roll and crash into a ditch alongside the freeway.\nTwo injured people in the van were trapped and had to be freed. They were taken to the hospital with broken bones. The driver of the Subaru was taken into custody. She was not injured.\nWho Can File A Claim After An Accident?\nIt\u2019s not uncommon for injured victims to be confused and have plenty of questions after a serious accident. Can they file a personal injury claim against the at-fault driver\u2019s insurance? Who will pay for their medical expenses? How will they handle the claim while recovering from their injuries?\nUnfortunately, many people do not seek the compensation they deserve after an accident. Going up against insurance companies can be intimidating, and some people don\u2019t believe they can negotiate these claims.\nIn a crash like the one above, the at-fault party \u2013 the woman driving the Subaru \u2013 would likely be liable for the damages caused to the two people injured in the van. In Washington State, the injured people could seek compensation from the Subaru driver\u2019s liability coverage, as well as Personal Injury Protection (PIP) coverage and possibly their own Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist coverage.\nNavigating insurance laws can be complex. If you or someone you know has been seriously injured in a car accident, it\u2019s a good idea to contact an experienced car accident attorney. For a free consultation with our legal team about your rights as a victim, you can get in touch by using our convenient chat feature, calling (206) 727-4000, or using our contact form on this page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 9370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insidecrosspointe.com/blog/post/announcements-march-11-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:J2BBADG3APHKQFVN66JDYMGRIUABMN4V", "length": 1854, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.insidecrosspointe.com", "title": "CrossPointe Church: Columbus, GA > Announcements, March 11, 2016", "raw_content": "Several months ago we started a journey through the Sermon on the Mount, and this Sunday we'll bring it to an end as we look at Matthew 7:24-29. I hope you've benefitted from this as much as I have. It has been challenging, encouraging, and convicting for me.\nJesus ends the sermon by contrasting two types of builders, one wise and one foolish. This illustration serves to summarize all that Jesus has taught in this sermon. The man who hears His teaching and does it is like the wise man who builds on the rock and withstands the storm. The one who hears but does not heed Jesus' words is the fool who perishes in the storm. Both men were building, but on drastically different foundations.\nI'd encourage you to read the passage before Sunday. It might be helpful as well to read over the whole sermon (Matthew 5-7) in one sitting. Pray for God to open our hearts and minds. Pray that He draws unbelievers and gives them new life so that they can respond to Jesus.\nLooking forward to gathering with you,\n***Remember to \"spring forward\" one hour on Saturday night!***\nChildren's Ministry Training (Sunday, 9 a.m.) || Bless the children and families of CrossPointe by serving in a room once every five weeks. Share the gospel, care for the \u201cleast of these,\u201d and connect with members of the church and visitors! You can sign up for the next training by contacting Cristin Wise.\n\u201cOne Another\u201d Member Meeting (Sunday, 6\u20137:30 p.m.) || CrossPointe\u2019s members gather bi-monthly to discuss matters pertinent to the life of the church. Non-members are welcome to join us, and childcare is provided!\nLadies\u2019 Lunch (March 15, noon) || Join the women of CrossPointe for lunch ($5 Chicken Salad Chick), fellowship, and our continuing discussion of Jerry Bridges\u2019 book, The Transforming Power of the Gospel. Childcare begins at 10 a.m. Contact Nicole Carey to sign up!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insurancetimes.co.uk/ri3k-bid-report/1329889.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:51Z", "digest": "sha1:KJMGJ7LRAJQWGBA3QECGFQCKK3S2PKJL", "length": 1155, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.insurancetimes.co.uk", "title": "RI3K bid report | Archive | Insurance Times", "raw_content": "RI3K bid report\nRI3K has dismissed reports suggesting US company Advisen is considering a bid for all or part of Brit's 85% holding in the electronic trading platform.\nAccording to reports, Advisen could make an offer on Brit's \u00a320m share in the trading marketplace, which has a growing reputation in the reinsurance industry.\nBut Alex Letts, chief executive of RI3K, told Insurance Times: \"At any point in any company's life, people may or may not make a bid. You cannot stop them. It is just something that can happen. But there is no specific agenda here.\"\nConcern has been expressed in the past that, as a majority shareholder, it has impeded Brit competitors from using the system.\nLetts said: \"Brit has always taken a very enlightened view on this that, if that is the case, then maybe something needs to be addressed by selling down its share. But that has been the case for a number of years, which is why I am surprised by the report because no one's position has changed.\"\n\"If at some point people are interested in making a bid then we shall pursue that.\"\nBrit is estimated to own \u00a310m worth of shares in RI3K and provided a \u00a310m debt facility.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 3721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.intelligenthighwaysolutions.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NFGFPXNWRLX7GZFWHK563YJ3ZU2PNBCN", "length": 586, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.intelligenthighwaysolutions.com", "title": "Privacy Policy | IHSI - Lighting and Construction Solutions", "raw_content": "This privacy policy sets out how IHSI uses and protects any information that you give IHSI when you use this website.\nIHSI is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.\nIHSI may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from January 01, 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.interaction-ld.com/graduates-and-new-talent/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:24Z", "digest": "sha1:WY4UUNWVUBUWA6HCFUDPEYIXECS3DJ6X", "length": 1405, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.interaction-ld.com", "title": "Graduates and new talent \u2014 Interaction learning and development", "raw_content": "Graduates and new talent development\nWe love working with new talent; in fact we\u2019ve won awards for it. We\u2019ve been helping graduates, apprentices and school leavers hit the ground running at work for over 20 years. Many of our programmes are large multi-year modular programmes, but we\u2019re also renowned for our stand-alone business-focused induction module that helps new-starters get under the skin of the business and showcase their talent to the wider business.\nThese are exciting times - there\u2019s never been such a strong focus on \u2018growing your own\u2019 to feed the talent pipeline; but it\u2019s also a pretty tough environment for those starting their careers. Expectations around ROI and workloads are high, and the climate\u2019s pretty challenging too with many different generations working alongside each other.\nSo not only do our programmes focus on:\ntransitioning \u2013 helping people adapt from the academic world to that of work, to learn for themselves, stand on their own two feet and drive their own development\nbehaviour matters \u2013 it\u2019s not just what you know, but how you go about things that makes a difference, landing the message that emotional intelligence is essential for success\nBut we also help people work effectively within a multi-generational workforce, helping both young talent and their managers alike to dispel myths, understand difference and adapt to meet different styles and approaches.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.irishmirror.ie/tv/vicky-pattison-says-shes-stronger-13961055", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RJ7TPRZFDEOZIOS6C3EJJ6U2DY4HR2UH", "length": 2163, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.irishmirror.ie", "title": "Vicky Pattison says she's 'stronger than I've felt in a long time' with new beau - Irish Mirror Online", "raw_content": "Vicky Pattison says she's 'stronger than I've felt in a long time' with new beau\nVicky Pattison had an emotional interview on This Morning, where she said she'd 'dodged a bullet' with her and John Noble's break-up\nVicky Pattison has said she feels \u2018happier than I\u2019ve felt in a long time\u201d after finding love again.\nThe Geordie Shore star broke up with her former finance John Noble, and was interviewed on This Morning last week where she became incredibly emotional as she addressed the relationship.\nBut she has since been pictured with TV star Ercan Ramadan, and now says she is \u201dputting her life back together\u201d with him.\nShe sent a video message to This Morning\u2019s Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, saying: \u201cI just wanted to say a huge, huge thank you to you guys for having me on the show last week.\nVicky smiled in her video message to This Morning (Image: ITV)\nShe said she felt 'stronger than I've felt in a long time' (Image: ITV)\n\u201cAs you know it was an incredibly sensitive topic but you handled it so respectively that I felt safe.\n\u201cA huge thank you to everyone who\u2019s watched the show, Vicky Pattison: The Break-Up. The response has been so great.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m feeling stronger, more confident and happier than I\u2019ve felt in a long time and I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve seen me putting my life back together.\u201d\nPhil noted how Vicky must be referencing her new beau with that comment, after the pair were pictured snogging in the street last month.\nThe group watched her message on the show (Image: ITV)\nIn the tearful interview last week, Vicky said she was still angry at John, who she says cheated on her, breaking up their relationship.\nShe said: \"We've spoken probably a handful of times and he\u2019s instigated most of that contact to be fair.\n\"It's not positive. He\u2019s not remorseful. There's no guilt or contrition. He doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s done anything wrong.\n\"He says he didn\u2019t cheat and hasn\u2019t done anything wrong. He actually said he was set up and it was my fault because of the position I\u2019m in.\"\nShe cried on the show the week before (Image: ITV)\nShe said she believes she has \"dodged a bullet\" when it comes to John, who she says still blames her for their split.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 8599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.islamiccenterofvallejo.org/donate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:40Z", "digest": "sha1:4OZLYHZCTGS37YS7TRNIHGNPG7YUBZT2", "length": 1576, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.islamiccenterofvallejo.org", "title": "Donate \u2013 Islamic Center of Vallejo", "raw_content": "Ibn Maajah (242) narrated that Abu Hurayrah said: \u201cThe good deeds that will reach a believer after his death are: knowledge which he learned and then spread; a righteous son whom he leaves behind; a copy of the Qur\u2019aan that he leaves as a legacy; a mosque that he built; a house that he built for wayfarers; a canal that he dug; or charity that he gave during his lifetime when he was in good health. These deeds will reach him after his death.\u201d\n\u201cIn fact, the mosques of Allah are built up only by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and those who establish prayer and pay zakah and who fear none but Allah. So, it is in all likelihood that they are to be among those on the right path.\u201d (Al-Qur\u2019an 9:17-18)\nThe Islamic Center of Vallejo (\u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u064a) is a community-based, independent non-profit organization funded by contributions from members of our community. We rely on the generosity of donors like you to operate on a daily basis.\nYou can always drop of a donation at the masjid!\nIf you\u2019d like to make a donation by mail, send a check payable to \u201cIslamic Center of Vallejo\u201d to:\nICOV\nThe Islamic Center of Vallejo is an IRS-approved charitable organization under Section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Your gift is deductible to the fullest extent allowed by the IRS. Gifts to the Islamic Center of Vallejo are deductible when included among your itemized deductions on your federal income tax return. The Islamic Center of Vallejo will mail you a gift receipt after you make your donation. Please contact us if you have not received your receipt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itgovernance.asia/australian-privacy-act", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5VXDOPFUU5ME3G4QZQYA7FCIKW2ZQ7AE", "length": 6573, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "www.itgovernance.asia", "title": "The Australian Privacy Act 1988", "raw_content": "Compliance The Australian Privacy Act 1988\nData privacy and protection in Australia are regulated by several federal, state and territory laws.\nThe broadest in scope is the Australian Privacy Act 1988.\nWhat is the Australian Privacy Act 1988?\nThe Privacy Act is a federal law that regulates the use of personal information.\nIt sets out 13 APPs (Australian Privacy Principles) that apply to Australian and Norfolk Island government agencies, and businesses and not-for-profit organisations with an annual turnover of more than AU$3 million \u2013 with some exceptions. These are collectively known as \u2018APP entities\u2019.\nThe Act also applies to some types of small business (with a turnover of AU$3 million or less), as well as applying extraterritorially in certain circumstances.\nFor full information about the APPs\u2019 applicability, please consult the Act itself.\nThe APPs are listed below, and summarised here >>\nThe Act defines personal information as:\n\u201cinformation or an opinion about an identified individual, or an individual who is reasonably identifiable: (a) whether the information or opinion is true or not; and (b) whether the information or opinion is recorded in a material form or not\u201d.\n(Section 187LA of the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979 extends the meaning of personal information to cover information kept under Part 5\u20111A of that Act.)\nSensitive information is defined as information or an opinion \u2013 that is also personal information \u2013 about an individual\u2019s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political association, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs, membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, sexual orientation or practices, or criminal record. \u2018Sensitive information\u2019 also covers individuals\u2019 health, genetic or biometric information.\nIndividuals\u2019 rights under the Privacy Act\nIndividuals have a number of rights in relation to how their personal information is processed, including the right to:\nKnow why their personal information is collected, how it is used and to whom it is disclosed;\nNot identify themselves or use a pseudonym in certain circumstances;\nAccess their personal information;\nStop receiving unwanted direct marketing;\nAsk for incorrect personal information to be corrected; and\nComplain about entities covered by the Act if they have mishandled their personal information.\nSchedule 1 of the Act lists 13 APPs, which give individuals greater rights about how APP entities (organisations in the Act\u2019s scope) handle their personal information:\nPart 1 \u2013 Consideration of personal information privacy\nPart 2 \u2013 Collection of personal information\nDealing with unsolicited personal information\nNotification of the collection of personal information\nPart 3 \u2013 Dealing with personal information\nAdoption, use or disclosure of government related identifiers\nPart 4 \u2013 Integrity of personal information\nPart 5 \u2013 Access to, and correction of, personal information\nFind out more about the APPs >>\nThe Privacy Act was amended on 22 February 2017 to include the NDB (Notifiable Data Breaches) scheme, which applies to organisations with personal information security obligations under the Act.\nUnder the scheme, individuals must be informed of incidents in which unauthorised access to, or loss or disclosure of, their personal information is likely to result in serious harm to them that cannot be prevented with remedial action. These are referred to as \u2018eligible data breaches\u2019. There are some exceptions to the notification obligations.\nThe OAIC (Office of the Australian Information Commissioner) must also be informed.\nThe Commissioner has a number of enforcement powers under the Privacy Act to ensure that organisations meet their obligations under the NDB scheme, including:\nAccepting an enforceable undertaking and bringing proceedings to enforce an enforceable undertaking;\nMaking a determination and bringing proceedings to enforce a determination;\nSeeking an injunction to prevent ongoing activity or a recurrence; and\nApplying to court for a civil penalty order for a breach of a civil penalty provision, which includes a serious or repeated interference with privacy.\nThe Commissioner is also required, in most circumstances, to investigate complaints made by individuals relating to interference with their privacy, including failing to notify them of an eligible data breach where required.\nThe OAIC\u2019s 2018 guide to managing data breaches in accordance with the Privacy Act 1988 contains guidance on data breaches, preparing and implementing a breach response plan, and the requirements of the NDB scheme.\nIt cautions that it \u201cdoes not provide detailed information about the systems or processes an entity may put in place to manage data breaches\u201d. You can, however, find such information in international best practice, such as ISO 27001, the international standard for information security management.\nOther relevant laws in Australia\nMost states and territories also have their own data protection laws:\nThe Australian Capital Territory\u2019s Information Privacy Act 2014.\nNew South Wales\u2019 Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998.\nThe Northern Territory Information Act 2002.\nQueensland\u2019s Information Privacy Act 2009.\nTasmania\u2019s Personal Information Protection Act 2004.\nVictoria\u2019s Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014.\nOther laws that relate to privacy include:\nThe Privacy Regulation 2013.\nThe Telecommunications Act 1997 and the Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979.\nThe Data-matching Program (Assistance and Tax) Act 1990.\nThe Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 and the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Rules 2007.\nThe Healthcare Identifiers Act 2010 and the Healthcare Identifiers Regulations 2010.\nThe Personal Property Securities Act 2009.\nHelp complying with the Privacy Act\nThe APPs aim to reduce the risk of a personal data breach by reducing or removing risks at each stage that personal data is processed \u2013 including when it is collected, stored, used, disclosed, anonymised and destroyed.\nISO 27001 sets out the specification for a best-practice ISMS (information security management system), an organisation-wide approach that encompasses people, processes and technology. Organisations can be independently audited and certified against the Standard.\nIf you need more guidance or advice on implementing ISO 27001, please contact us by following the button below.\nPlease contact us for further information or to speak to an ISO 27001 expert.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 327, "original_length": 11352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itpaystobecovered.com/category/cyber-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WI5F7OPCLSPMFL7TNHP5NI42HWIL4CPA", "length": 5559, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.itpaystobecovered.com", "title": "Cyber Insurance | It Pays to Be Covered\u0099", "raw_content": "Subscribe to Cyber Insurance\nBy Emily M. Ruzic on August 29, 2018\nPosted in Cyber Insurance, Events\nBradley attorney Emily Ruzic will present \u201cInsurance for Cyber Risk \u2013 and the Disputes About Its Scope: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly\u201d as part of DRI\u2019s Cybersecurity and Data Privacy conference.\nThe event will discuss an overview of cyber threats that now include hacking, ransomware attacks, social engineering, and other schemes. The panel is presented by guest speakers Michael Carr of Brit Global Specialty USA and Anna M. Stafford of Travelers, and moderated by Bradley attorney Emily M. Ruzic.\nWhen: Thursday, September 6, 2018, 1:30PM \u2013 2:15PM CDT\nWhere: Lowes Chicago Hotel\nWhat: As insurance for cyber risks becomes increasingly common, so too do disagreements about the scope and application of the coverages available. This panel will examine underwriting and claims challenges, insurance coverage disputes, and regulatory pressures on financial and other institutions regarding cyber insurance.\nFor more information about the event, please review the conference agenda and register on the conference website.\nBy Emily M. Ruzic on March 6, 2018\nPosted in Cyber Insurance, Risk Management\nRegulatory components to cyber insurance policies are becoming increasingly valuable as data-breach enforcement continues to surge. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission), the nation\u2019s primary privacy and data security enforcer, has announced another record year of enforcement actions regarding consumer privacy. In 2017, the FTC brought nearly two hundred privacy and data security cases. Generally, getting hacked alone will not invite a lawsuit from the FTC, but failing to take corrective actions (resulting in a subsequent breach) could attract attention from regulators. To ensure enforcement, the Commission requires companies to take affirmative steps to remediate unlawful behavior. In addition, the FTC may impose civil, monetary penalties.\nRecent FTC Enforcement Activities\nMany well-known companies were targets of FTC investigations or enforcement actions in 2017, including Equifax, Lenovo, and VIZIO. Just last month, the FTC announced a settlement with electronic toymaker VTech, stemming from a data breach in 2015. VTech agreed to pay $650,000 to settle allegations that it violated the Children\u2019s Online Privacy Protection Act, which generally requires websites and apps to obtain parental consent before collecting personal information from children under 13 years of age. The FTC alleged that VTech had collected personal information from children without providing the requisite notice or obtaining the parent\u2019s consent. The Commission also claimed that VTech had failed to take reasonable steps to secure the data it had collected.\nCoverage for Fines and Penalties\nAs the FTC continues to increase enforcement actions, regulatory components to cyber-insurance policies are becoming increasingly valuable. Cyber regulatory defense and penalties coverage is one of the rare types of insurance that may affirmatively cover fines and penalties. For example, the AIG CyberEdge Security and Privacy Liability Insurance defines covered \u201cLoss,\u201d in part, as \u201ccivil fines or penalties imposed by a governmental agency and arising from a Regulatory Action, unless the civil fine or penalty is uninsurable under the law of the jurisdiction imposing such fine or penalty.\u201d Other cyber policies provide coverage for \u201cPenalties,\u201d meaning \u201cany civil fine or money penalty payable to a governmental entity that was imposed in a Regulatory Proceeding by the Federal Trade Commission . . . or any other federal, state, local or foreign governmental entity.\u201d Like the AIG definition, these policies also caution that applicable state law may not allow for coverage, stating \u201cthe insurability of Penalties shall be in accordance with the law in the applicable venue that most favors coverage for such Penalties.\u201d As with the insurability of punitive damages, there is no uniform view regarding whether fines and penalties can be insured, despite policy language expressly providing for such coverage. Insurers are likely to challenge coverage for fines and penalties that stem from intentional or willful conduct, claiming that loss is uninsurable based on public policy arguments.\nCoverage for Defense and Investigative Costs\nCyber policies can also provide coverage for defense and investigative costs in connection with governmental investigations. Typically, the insurer will agree to pay attorneys\u2019 fees, as well as other legal costs, excluding the insured\u2019s internal costs, such as salary or overhead. Commonly, the insurer agrees to pay \u201cClaims Expenses and Penalties in excess of the Retention, which the Insured shall become legally obligated to pay because of any Claim in the form of a Regulatory Proceeding.\u201d Notably, FTC actions and investigations are included in traditional definitions of \u201cRegulatory Proceeding.\u201d Defense and investigation costs can add up quickly, making this portion of cyber coverage quite valuable.\nInsurance for regulatory actions stemming from data breaches is readily available in the marketplace. While it remains unclear whether fines and penalties are insurable, as a matter of public policy, insurers are consistently providing coverage for defense and investigative costs in connection with cyber events. As the FTC continues to investigate data security and privacy issues, companies should continue to evaluate cyber-regulatory coverage as it can be a valuable part of business insurance portfolios.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 13059, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itproportal.com/news/cisco-backs-calls-for-us-gdpr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:50Z", "digest": "sha1:X5WA5EF2ESYR2P4RRXINVWOYPHDLEJNT", "length": 1579, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.itproportal.com", "title": "Cisco backs calls for US GDPR | ITProPortal", "raw_content": "Cisco backs calls for US GDPR\nAmerican firm follows Apple in calling for a GDPR-esque legislation for the US.\nNearly a year on from coming into force, GDPR is widely perceived among businesses and large corporations as a positive thing. This is perhaps best shown by US companies that are voicing, ever louder, their opinion that the US should have its own version of the legislation, the sooner \u2013 the better.\nJust recently, the media were reporting of Cisco and Apple calling for an American GDPR. The underlying theme, however, is that it should be somewhat different from GDPR.\nMark Chandler, Cisco\u2019s chief legal officer, told the Financial Times: \u201cWe believe that the GDPR has worked well, and that with a few differences, that is what should be brought in in the US as well.\u201d\nOne of the key differences the US version should have, is not to allow users to remove their information from search engines. Apple\u2019s Tim Cook recently said the EU is leading the charge and that other parts of the world should now follow.\nFT says there are also \u201cindustry executives\u201d that are calling for an US GDPR, but different. \u201cIf the US is going to do this, it should reflect a more American approach to business and regulation,\u201d said one industry executive.\nCalifornia already has a data law of its own, and in case of a nation-wide legislation, California\u2019s one would be overruled.\nGDPR has done a lot in the first few months of its existence. It has raised consumer awareness of the value of their private data, and has put ill practices into the limelight.\nImage Credit: Flickr / Prayitno", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jameswhite.co.uk/75cl_beet_it", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CL3W4N5GXYRV2VAS7AV3KJMZLMLRTIPE", "length": 55, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jameswhite.co.uk", "title": "Beet It - 6 x 75cl - James White Drinks", "raw_content": "Organic beetroot juice (90%), organic apple juice (10%)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 3896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 216.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.janetanscombe.com/news/payg-mobile-owners-reminded-they-now-have-only-3-months-left-in-which-to-register-their-phones.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6SE5HDPP6VV27ABKMU4YGMET5ZFTTFEK", "length": 2122, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.janetanscombe.com", "title": "PAYG mobile owners reminded they now have only 3 months left to register their phones \u2013 Janet Anscombe", "raw_content": "PAYG mobile owners reminded they now have only 3 months left to register their phones\nThe Spanish Interior Ministry, equivalent to the UK\u2019s Home Office, has reminded all users of Pay As You Go mobile phones that they must register them within three months. It seems that several million PAYG users have not taken seriously the Government\u2019s requirement to register their phones before 9 November, and users have now been reminded that if they fail to do so they will lose their telephone lines and numbers.\nThe Ministry stressed that under Government legislation mobile phone operating companies will have no choice but to deactivate any SIM cards that have not been identified by 9 November. Registration is simple, and just involves going to any point of sale run by a user\u2019s mobile operator with ID, which in the case of foreigners will be passport, old-style Residencia or new-style Certificado de Registro.\nThe requirement will only affect users of PAYG mobiles bought before November 2007 because all those bought subsequently will have been registered upon sale under the Electronic Communication Data Conservation law of 9 November 2007. Under this legislation, mobile details can be demanded by a judge investigating serious crimes. In the main, of course, it is intended to be an anti-terrorism measure, but everyone must comply with the requirement to register their PAYG mobiles. Any who do not will lose their lines and numbers. Canarias7\nPrevious Post: Puerto de la Cruz launches Canaries\u2019 first tourist TV via internet\nNext Post: Two Adeje men arrested for aggravated robbery in Playa Paraiso supermarket\nTook your advice and went to the Vodafone shop in Adeje, same as Gran Sur, said it wasn\u2019t possible, only between the hours of 09.00 \u2013 09.30, also tried Vodafone at Chafiras on Saturday, said it was impossible and to call in again on Monday. I have readon the internet there are 15 millions pay as you go in Spain and only 3 million had registered!!!\nmarilyn pendleton\nHi, and yes I\u2019ve been hearing the same things. They aren\u2019t making it easy! Try the one in Los Cristianos, which is quite a main office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jbhifi.com.au/features/games/rdr2-steelbook/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:12Z", "digest": "sha1:UE6JJLR6YKCYIS7GXIUKSHKFGBWNI3RF", "length": 215, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jbhifi.com.au", "title": "\ufeff RDR2 SteelBook | JB Hi-Fi", "raw_content": "RDR2 SteelBook\nDeveloped by the creators of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption, Red Dead Redemption 2 is an epic tale of life in America\u2019s unforgiving heartland. The game\u2019s vast and atmospheric world will...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1344, "original_length": 26150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 200.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jetlinecruise.com/blog/the-many-sides-of-south-africa-27", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:09Z", "digest": "sha1:B3KIBUGGJP6Z5IEUPEF72XCWNRMXIPZE", "length": 5688, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.jetlinecruise.com", "title": "The many sides of South Africa | Holidays | Jetline Cruise", "raw_content": "The many sides of South Africa\nIt is fair to say that South Africa\u2019s history over the last few decades has been fairly tumultuous. From the dark days of apartheid to Nelson Mandela\u2019s release from prison, the dramatic events associated with the country\u2019s politics has often taken attention away from the fact that it is one of the world\u2019s most naturally beautiful locations.\nFortunately, South Africa is now a nation which opens its arms to visitors from all over the world, and this is demonstrated by its increasing popularity as a premier holiday destination. The \u2018rainbow nation\u2019 is nowadays perhaps best-known for its reputation as one of the leading places to enjoy a safari, but the truth is that \u2013 whatever you enjoy doing on holiday \u2013 South Africa has something to offer.\nWe have compiled a list of three of the very best things you can look forward to discovering the next time you are lucky enough to visit this incredible corner of the world; we hope you find it inspirational.\nBloukrans Bungy\nUndoubtedly one of South Africa\u2019s biggest and most enduring attractions is its natural wonder. A haven for all manner of rare flora and fauna and home to a huge range of imposing mountains, verdant forests, stunning canyons and golden beaches, the nation\u2019s environment is fantastically diverse.\nWhere South Africa comes into its own is how it is able to combine its natural beauty with its taste for adventure. The perfect example of this is Bloukrans Bungy, owned and operated by the Face Adrenalin company, which allows its guests to perform a bungee jump in a truly incredible setting \u2013 directly above the Bloukrans River in the backdrop of Nature\u2019s Valley, a particularly striking spot along the world-famous Garden Route.\nThe team behind Bloukrans Bungy told us why visitors to South Africa should be sure to fit in a trip there: \u201cBloukrans Bridge is home to the world\u2019s highest bungy jump from a bridge, operated by Face Adrenalin. Bloukrans Bungy utilises pendulum bungy technology to ensure the most comfortable bungy jump possible, and the best experience of your life. Walking tours are also available, to view the bungy up close and personal.\u201d\nEstablished over 20 years ago, boasting a 100% safety record and home to multiple world records \u2013 including the most jumps performed in a 24-hour period (107) \u2013 Bloukrans Bungy offers a wonderful opportunity to experience both South Africa\u2019s amazing landscape and one of its very best adrenaline-pumping activities.\nIt is impossible \u2013 or, at least, highly inadvisable - to visit South Africa without having an awareness of its turbulent political history, which is still fresh in the memory for many of the country\u2019s residents.\nThere is no more important or poignant reminder of South African apartheid than the Robben Island Museum which, from the 17th century until as recently as the 1990s, existed as a prison, mainly for people found guilty of political crimes.\nRobben Island\u2019s most famous former inhabitant is, of course, Nelson Mandela \u2013 South Africa\u2019s first black president spent two-thirds of his total time served behind bars there. Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and living museum, the maximum security prison at Robben Island remains intact and has become one of the country\u2019s leading visitor attractions; tours here are unlike any other you will have experienced on holiday, with many of the guides themselves being former inmates.\nJust four miles from the coast of Cape Town, the island may have a troubled history (it was also a leper colony and animal quarantine area), but it is actually another example of South Africa\u2019s varied environment. Far from being limited to the prison cells and grounds, visitors to Robben Island may also see penguins, ibis and almost certainly some of the estimated 25,000 or so rabbits which live there!\nFinally, we will look at another of South Africa\u2019s amazing outdoor attractions which, again, has a very interesting story behind it.\nThe aptly-named Big Hole, in the Northern Cape city of Kimberley, is a former open-pit and underground diamond mine which claims to be the largest hole in the world to have been excavated by hand. Although mining operations only lasted for just over 40 years at Big Hole, the legacy and interest in it has only increased since work was wound down there in 1914.\nToday, visitors to Big Hole can see much more than the 463-metre wide, 240-metre deep spectacle when they take a trip there. As well as learning about the fascinating history of Big Hole and the South African diamond trade in general, guests can also explore the nearby \u2018Old Town\u2019 area. This is an impressive and faithfully reproduced selection of buildings and shops which perfectly demonstrate what life would have been like for the miners and their families who worked at Big Hole in its heyday of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.\nEducational tours, a range of retail outlets (including an excellent jewellery shop) and several dining options all contribute to Big Hole making for yet another memorable day out on your next South African holiday.\nIn this article, we have merely scratched the surface of the countless activities and experiences which can be enjoyed by anyone who visits the wonderful, eclectic and vibrant country of South Africa.\nFor a nation which seems so far away from home both in distance and in terms of its environment and attractions, it may be hard to believe that it is relatively easy to get to. In fact, fans of travelling in style by sea may be surprised to learn that several lines operate cruises from Southampton Port which travel all the way to South Africa.\nImage Credits: Face Adrenalin, April Killingsworth, David Brossard, Flowcomm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 9373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 173.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jewishlearningmatters.com/B-Ora-de-Despertar-Time-To-Wake-Up-3212.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:47Z", "digest": "sha1:NHGOS3G56I7YKWTXE557ANHXKRHIPZE2", "length": 625, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.jewishlearningmatters.com", "title": "Ora de Despertar- Time To Wake Up", "raw_content": "Resource Types >> Books >> Ora de Despertar- Time To Wake Up\nAuthor: Sarah Aroeste\nIllustrator: Miriam Ross\nTags: Modeh Ani , Sephardic Jews , Sarah Aroeste , Ladino\nBased on the award-winning children's album of the same name, the Ora de Despertar (Time to Wake Up!) children's book is an all-original bilingual story in Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) and English that highlights rituals of the morning and what to be thankful for upon waking up. Written by Sarah Aroeste and illustrated by Miriam Ross, the book includes a fresh, contemporary look at Sephardic culture and the relevance of Ladino today. Meant for children ages 0-5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 6221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BPC618/postdoctoral-research-associate-in-logistics-and-operational-research", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:49Z", "digest": "sha1:DVPI5J46WHBCTIB4IWINRTK7WT4ER7KX", "length": 69, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jobs.ac.uk", "title": "Jobs | Job Search | Job Vacancies on jobs.ac.uk", "raw_content": "Postdoctoral Research Associate in Logistics and Operational Research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johnsoncitypress.com/Football/2018/11/18/Playoff-bid-has-Bucs-ready-to-go.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLZY3M2XK7HLSG6NDGTJYFI2BN3SZSPP", "length": 3262, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.johnsoncitypress.com", "title": "Johnson City Press: Playoff bid has Bucs ready to go", "raw_content": "Playoff bid has Bucs ready to go\nThere was no sense of \u201cmission accomplished\u201d surrounding the East Tennessee State football team Sunday night.\nHours after the Bucs learned they would be in the Football Championship Subdivision playoffs for the first time since 1996, they were happy their magical season was still going, saying they still have some unfinished business.\nETSU will play at Jacksonville State on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Both teams are 8-3.\n\u201cEvery team has a one-year life expectancy and when the season\u2019s over, that team is done,\u201d ETSU coach Randy Sanders said after putting his team through a light practice. \u201cAnd we get to keep this team alive one more week.\u201d\nETSU, ranked 22nd nationally, won a share of the Southern Conference championship. No. 7-ranked Jacksonville State, located in Jacksonville, Alabama, won the Ohio Valley Conference title for the fifth year in a row. This is the sixth consecutive playoff appearance for the Gamecocks, the national runners-up in 2015.\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t a new experience for them,\u201d Sanders said. \u201cThey\u2019re kind of used to going to the playoffs.\u201d\nIn ETSU\u2019s only previous playoff appearance, the Bucs beat Villanova before losing to Montana.\nSunday\u2019s selection show was on ESPNU, and the reality of the situation hit when ETSU\u2019s name popped up on the bracket.\n\u201cIt was really exciting,\u201d Bucs quarterback Austin Herink said. \u201cI guess I was more excited than I thought I would be.\u201d\nEach team enters the playoffs coming off a loss. ETSU fell 38-27 to Samford on Saturday. Jacksonville State lost 60-52 to Kennesaw State in a game that went to five overtimes.\nThe Gamecocks average almost 42 points per game and wide receiver Josh Pearson leads the country with 17 touchdown catches. Quarterback Zerrick Cooper, a sophomore who saw action in seven games as Clemson\u2019s backup last season, is fifth in the nation with 27 touchdown passes.\nDespite all that throwing, the Gamecocks also have 28 touchdowns on the ground in a balanced attack.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s a good draw,\u201d Jacksonville State coach John Grass said. \u201cI\u2019m excited about our home game in the first round. The playoffs are a new season. We\u2019ve got new life. I think this team is really excited about playing and I\u2019m excited about getting them ready.\n\u201cI know Coach Sanders has done a great job with their program. They won that conference and that is big-time.\u201d\nThe winner plays at Maine on Dec. 1. The seventh-seeded Black Bears earned one of the top eight spots in the national field and a first-round bye.\nThere are 125 FCS teams and 24 of them made the playoffs.\nETSU and Jacksonville State have met twice on the football field. The Bucs won 20-14 in 1960 and the Gamecocks won 13-0 in 1959.\nThe Bucs received the Southern Conference championship trophy on Sunday after sharing the title with Wofford and Furman.\n\u201cThat\u2019s pretty special,\u201d Sanders said \u201cThat means something. Obviously we would have like to have gotten the only one, but just to get that trophy with our name on it is special.\u201d\nPlayoff tickets can be purchased through the Jacksonville State ticket office via www.JSUGamecockSports.com/Tickets or by calling 256-782-8499. Tickets purchased online before game day will be $15, and all tickets purchased in the ticket office or on game day will be $20.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johnsontucker.co.uk/longbeck-road-marske-by-the-sea-redcar-october-2009/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:25Z", "digest": "sha1:O3HQYL6XUM2QCQVYDXUW4I6WHXYEAVTN", "length": 2458, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.johnsontucker.co.uk", "title": "Longbeck Road, Marske by the Sea, Redcar - October 2009 | Johnson Tucker", "raw_content": "Longbeck Road, Marske by the Sea, Redcar \u2013 October 2009\nThis former car dealership and fuel forecourt is held on a lease that was acquired by Top Spot Services (Marske) Ltd from receivers in 2007. There was a rent review in February 2009 and we were instructed by Top Spot to act.\nThe long lease is from 1967 and there have been further supplemental leases and deeds of variations between then and November 2003. The rent payable form 2002 was \u00a315,000 per annum and the landlord proposed a new rent of \u00a350,000 per annum. For obvious reasons, the client was extremely concerned with the landlord\u2019s proposal.\nThe problem was made worse by the fact that the property was acquired from a receiver and there was very little documentation or information made available at the time of purchase.\nAfter considering the leases we carried out extensive research and established that the property originally demised in 1967 was only 3,600 sq ft whereas the existing building is around 13,300 sq ft. We established that approximately 10,000 sq ft of the accommodation was a \u201ctenant\u2019s improvement\u201d which had to be disregarded for the purposes of assessing the rent at review. After considerable negotiation we convinced the landlord\u2019s surveyor that, if the rent review was referred to an arbitrator, our argument would win. We managed to agree the rent at \u00a320,000 per annum, which was only 40% of the landlord\u2019s proposed figure.\nDavid Penny of Top Spot Services (Marske) Ltd commented \u201cwhen we first approached Andy Tucker we were considering one or two other surveyors to act for us. However, Andy very quickly convinced us that we should stick with him because he has dealt with many similar complicated cases, which most surveyors don\u2019t really get to grips with\u201d.\n\u201cWe were extremely concerned when we received the landlord\u2019s proposal and knew that we had to put our trust in someone that would fight for us all the way. The outcome was a fantastic result. It has given us peace of mind because three quarters of the property actually belongs to us and not the landlord. This has also set a precedent for all future rent reviews\u201d.\n\u201cProfessional fees are always an issue, but on this occasion Andy managed to deal with the legal and valuation side of things without the need for solicitor or barrister fees, which we thought we might have to pay as well. What Andy charged was negligible compared with the saving that he has achieved on this and the future rent reviews\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jonathanmetzl.com/op-eds-and-commentary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ET35WZ6PDI2K3AIBEXXMRKGX2TRZG6XN", "length": 1293, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.jonathanmetzl.com", "title": "Op-Eds and Commentary \u2013 Jonathan M. Metzl", "raw_content": "Before the initial shock wore off in the aftermath of yet another horrific American mass shooting\u2014before we knew about the extent of the injury and ...\n\u201cCDC Gets List of Forbidden Words.\u201d This was the headline of a December 15th Washington Post story that alerted the public to behind-the-scenes bu...\nPresident Trump, who is quick to label other global acts of mass violence as \u201cradical Islamic terrorism\u201d well before investigations establish such...\nWe\u2019re in the midst of yet another electrifying March Madness basketball tournament,......\nThe furor that ensued after the tweet raised an important question: How would Trump\u2019s gun policies affect life for communities of color in cities li...\nThey said it was a parking dispute, an everyday interaction between neighbors. That the exchange emerged from charged tensions of the banal. That ...\nWhat role should mental health care professionals play in helping heal psychical wounds exposed in the aftermath of Ferguson and New York?...\nThe male gender has all too frequently functioned as the white elephant in the room when it came to understanding mass shootings in the United States....\nRestricting gun rights for people with mental illness is the one gun-control initiative that Republicans feel free to support. In the aftermath of the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.journalpioneer.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-tweedledee-and-tweedlenasty-252420/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:15Z", "digest": "sha1:GGQHNWYHHQOPQNEWPZ5K73PCT34FU5O2", "length": 2842, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.journalpioneer.com", "title": "Editorial: Tweedledee and Tweedlenasty | Editorials | Opinion | The Journal Pioneer", "raw_content": "Editorial: Tweedledee and Tweedlenasty\nDon\u2019t be distracted by political mudslinging in the months leading up to a federal election. \u2014 123RF Stock Photo\nThe next federal election is less than a year away, and the two leading parties seem convinced they know what kind of campaign it\u2019s going to be.\n\u201cIt\u2019s going get worse, it\u2019s going to get nasty,\u201d said Scheer, who argued that the news media, pundits and academics are on Justin Trudeau\u2019s side. (That sounds familiar \u2014 you\u2019ll know if he starts talking about the \u201celites\u201d or \u201cfake news.\u201d)\nBut Scheer\u2019s not alone.\nIn fact, his biggest opponent, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has said much the same thing.\n\u201cWe are now looking at perhaps what will be the most divisive and negative and nasty political campaign in Canada\u2019s history,\u201d Trudeau said in early October.\nTrudeau has argued that the Conservatives are the champions of divisive politics. Scheer, meanwhile, has said that honour goes to the Liberals.\nAt the time, Trudeau maintained that the Liberals won\u2019t go in that direction, and will stay away from personal attacks. Well, good luck with that \u2014 the Liberals have shown themselves to be as reflexively nasty as anyone else in the House of Commons.\n\u201cIt\u2019s this Liberal government that\u2019s been engaged in some of the most divisive politics in recent years,\u201d Scheer has maintained.\nTrudeau on the Conservatives? \u201cOnce you\u2019ve gone and divided and angered people in order to get elected it becomes very difficult afterward to pull them. \u2026To run on division and fear and easy populism actually makes it harder to do the good things that must be the central purpose of why we run for office.\u201d\nDo our leaders want a dirty, nasty election, one where parties outdo each other, reaching ever-downwards for the lowest common denominator? Are they each just looking for an excuse to bring us the kind of divisive politics that seems to be tearing up our neighbour to the south?\nOr, as both Scheer and Trudeau maintain about their own parties, are they both focused on high-minded campaigns that are based on serious policies and issues?\nThe proof in the electoral pudding is just how unpalatable the thing is when it actually gets close to the table.\nIn the end, there\u2019s one group that has the power to determine who gets rewarded for the behaviour that actually unfolds in next year\u2019s election.\nHow do we all make an election revolve around the issues, instead of hate, envy and petty grievances?\nBy voting on those issues, and punishing the parties and candidates that choose to take the low road, whatever political stripe they are.\nWe\u2019ve got a year to listen carefully to what\u2019s being said and by whom. Let\u2019s use the time to think about ideas, rather than about who throws the nastiest mud.\nVote for ideas, and you should get ideas. Vote for pettiness and hate, and you know what you\u2019ll be getting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 6336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.journals.elsevier.com/information-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-integrating-process-oriented-and-event-base", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:52Z", "digest": "sha1:P5LQXWHQWSJA5ZQWSAPKOP7RUUDBZAXE", "length": 2857, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.journals.elsevier.com", "title": "Special Issue on Integrating Process-oriented and Event-based Systems - Call for Papers - Elsevier", "raw_content": "Special Issue on Integrating Process-oriented and Event-based Systems\nProcess-oriented information systems (POIS) control operations by coordinating the execution of elementary activities. Recently, there has been a significant uptake of POIS in transportation, logistics, and medical infrastructures \u2013 domains that impose new challenges in terms of system reactivity and adaptability. Here, trends such as sensing of data and advancing system integration represent opportunities to strengthen the event-perspective in process-oriented systems in order to achieve more flexible and comprehensive process control.\nEvent-based systems (EBS), in turn, have been put forward to integrate heterogeneous systems in a flexible and scalable manner by separating communication from application logic. EBS have found their way into many applications where event generation is relatively deterministic and follows structured behaviour, i.e., events are created by processes. Exploiting the process-perspective promises to lead to advancements in the design, analysis, and optimisation of event-based systems.\nThe increasing overlap of application scenarios that involve concepts and techniques of process-oriented as well as event-based systems, however, is only marginally supported by exchange and convergence of the related research fields. Despite the manifold opportunities for cross-fertilisation as highlighted by a recent Dagstuhl Seminar (http://www.dagstuhl.de/16341/), only a small amount of research has been conducted on how process-oriented systems and event-based systems can be integrated. Given this background, this special issue invites submissions focusing on various aspects of the interplay of process-oriented and event-based systems. We welcome both theoretical contributions as well as papers describing interesting applications. Topics include, but are not limited to:\nProcess-driven distribution of event processing\nProcess-driven handling of event data quality issues\nProcess-driven definition of complex events\nProcess-driven optimisation of event processing\nEvent semantics in processes\nProcess-event correlation\nEvents for flexible and adaptive process management\nEvents in inter-process correlation\nEvent-driven choreographies\nApplications of event-driven process management\nBenchmarks and evaluation of event-driven process management\nSubmission: 4th January, 2017\nFirst Round Notification: 1st April, 2017\nFirst Round Revisions: 1st June, 2017\nSecond Round Notification: 1st August, 2017\nFinal Submission: 1st October, 2017\nPublication: 1st December, 2017\nDavid Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand\nAvigdor Gal, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel\nHans-Arno Jacobsen, Technische Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen, Germany\nMatthias Weidlich, Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin, Germany\nSubmission: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/infosys", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 7491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jrrefractoryfirebricks.com/about-us.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SVPZFPJAWMO45NX5WFTQOFYNEJUTDQ3P", "length": 3751, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.jrrefractoryfirebricks.com", "title": "J R Refractory - Manufacturer from Jodhpur, Ahmedabad, India | About Us", "raw_content": "Established in the year 2003, at Ahmedabad, Gujarat (India), we, \u201cJ. R. Refractory,\u201d are one of the leading Manufacturer, Supplier and Exporter of Insulating Bricks, Mica Insulation Brick, Calcium Silicate Bricks, High Alumina Refractory Tiles and Blocks, Shape Bricks, Refractory Pots, Acid Proof Bricks, Fire Bricks, Insulating Bricks, Fire Refractory Bricks, Ceramic Blankets, Insulating Castables, Refractory Castables etc. The product range available with us is highly appreciated by the clients, and well received in the international market. Apart from manufacturing, our activities also include marking the bricks, bags & pallets manufactured by us with the label of the client's company. We also hold expertise in customizing the product line available with us, as per the specific requirements of the clients. Our agent in the international market is Mr. Kunjan Shah, who is based in New York, U.S.A., and is responsible for our stupendous market presence offshore.\nWe are also backed by a sound infrastructure, which comprises a manufacturing unit, a testing laboratory, a research & development wing and a warehousing & packaging division. These facilities are equipped with state-of-the-art machines & cutting edge technology that assist the team in manufacturing a product range that is deemed best-in-class by industry experts. Our team members conduct their respective operations very meticulously, and ensure that the product range is flawless. The product range offered by us is successfully serving the variegated requirements of numerous industries like Sugar, Textile, Fertilizer, Construction and Leather.\nOur organization is headed by our mentor, Mr. Vanraj Shah, who possesses an experience of three decades in this field. He directs us in the successful completion of all endeavours undertaken by the organization, and is the driving force behind our pursuit of excellence. Under his able guidance, we have moved from strength to strength, and have carved a niche for ourselves in this highly competitive industry. Also we export our products in mainly following countries like USA, UK, UAE, West Indies, South Africa, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt and Sri Lanka.\nInto cast UK limited, United Kingdom\nHands worth refractory, United Kingdom\nAl-Farfs Eng. Company, Kuwait, U.A.E\nNo. 406, Aditya Plaza, Near Jodhpur Cross Road, Satellite, Ahmedabad, Gujarat - 380 015, India\nRefractories and its accessories.\nMr. Vanraj Shah\n24ABVPS5480N1ZN\nWe possess a large pool of trained engineers and application specialists that offer the customers Total Solution for Refractory for flow control backed with technologically advanced tools and machineries. We also have a huge and well-established network spread across different regions of the world, backed with proper modes of transportation that assist us in timely delivery of these products to any desired destination.\nClients can be offered by us with a quality range of Refractory Bricks and other Refractory\u2019s Allied Accessories, which have numerous industrial applications. These are manufactured using several quality material like fire clay, bauxite, calandum and grog and adhere to defined industry standards. To assure our clients with the quality of our product line, we also provide free samples of the product range manufactured by us. All these ranges available with us is highly appreciated by the clients, and well received in the market.\nWith premium refractory products, we have garnered a long list of valuable clients based in national and international markets. Within a short span of time, we have spread the business prospects in all over India USA, UK, UAE, West Indies, South Africa, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Sri Lanka and various other countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 6025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justcollecting.com/clocks/funky-1960s-clock", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:41Z", "digest": "sha1:S6WK2EOEQERWQKNZIELJV3YGSD2DNWST", "length": 302, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.justcollecting.com", "title": "Funky 1960s Clock", "raw_content": "Funky 1960s clock\nNo, this isn't a cartoon drawing of a clock, it's just a charmingly funky clock from 1965. It manages to re-invent the classic clock look while still being a unique little piece on its own. Estimated value for the clock is $500-700 from the auctioneers Wright.\nAdded from wright20.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-requires-divestiture-danone-s-stonyfield-farms-business-order-danone", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KW4KDCJHQTKDMF2EQWAC6GFN2IKXRUMV", "length": 4047, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.justice.gov", "title": "Justice Department Requires Divestiture of Danone\u2019s Stonyfield Farms Business in Order for Danone to Proceed with WhiteWave Acquisition | OPA | Department of Justice", "raw_content": "Justice Department Requires Divestiture of Danone\u2019s Stonyfield Farms Business in Order for Danone to Proceed with WhiteWave Acquisition\nDivestiture Will Preserve Competition in Markets for Procurement of Raw Organic Milk and Sale of Fluid Organic Milk\nThe Department of Justice announced today that it will require Danone S.A. to divest Danone\u2019s Stonyfield Farms business in order for Danone to proceed with its $12.5 billion acquisition of The WhiteWave Foods Company Inc. The department said that, without the divestiture, the proposed acquisition likely would reduce competition between the two leading participants and top brands in the markets for raw and fluid organic milk, potentially harming dairy farmers in the northeast and U.S. consumers of fluid organic milk.\nThe Justice Department\u2019s Antitrust Division filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to block the proposed transaction. At the same time, the department filed a proposed settlement that, if approved by the court, would resolve the department\u2019s competitive concerns.\n\u201cThe proposed acquisition would have blunted competition between the top two purchasers of raw organic milk in the northeast and the producers of the three leading brands of organic milk in the United States,\u201d said Acting Assistant Attorney General Brent Snyder of the Justice Department\u2019s Antitrust Division. \u201cToday\u2019s proposed settlement will ensure competitive marketplaces for both farmers in the northeast that sell raw organic milk and consumers who purchase fluid organic milk in stores nationwide.\u201d\nAccording to the department\u2019s complaint, as a result of Danone\u2019s long-term strategic partnership and supply and licensing agreements with WhiteWave\u2019s primary competitor, CROPP Cooperative (CROPP), the proposed acquisition would have provided incentives and opportunities for cooperative behavior between the two leading purchasers of raw organic milk in the northeast. This cooperation likely would have resulted in farmers receiving less favorable contract terms for the purchase of their raw organic milk. Similarly, the proposed acquisition would have aligned the interests of the producers of Stonyfield, Horizon and Organic Valley, the only three national fluid organic milk brands, and risked higher prices and fewer choices for U.S consumers.\nUnder the terms of the proposed settlement, Danone must divest its Stonyfield Farms business to an independent buyer approved by the United States. The department said that the divestiture will sever Danone\u2019s and CROPP\u2019s strategic partnership thereby eliminating the entanglements between CROPP and the merged firm. As a result, the divestiture will preserve competition for the purchase of raw organic milk from northeast dairy farmers and the sale of fluid organic milk to consumers.\nDanone is a France-based global food company that produces and sells a wide range of food products. Danone\u2019s annual sales for 2015 were approximately $24.3 billion. Stonyfield Farms Inc., a subsidiary of Danone, is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Stonyfield Farms produces and sells a range of organic dairy products.\nWhiteWave is a Delaware corporation headquartered in Denver, Colorado. WhiteWave produces and sells a range of organic dairy products, including organic fluid milk, yogurt and cheese. WhiteWave had $3.86 billion in sales in 2015.\nAs required by the Tunney Act, the proposed consent decree, along with the department\u2019s competitive impact statement, will be published in the Federal Register. Any person may submit written comments concerning the proposed settlement during a 60-day comment period to Maribeth Petrizzi, Chief, Litigation II Section, Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 450 Fifth Street, N.W., Suite 8700, Washington, D.C. 20530. At the conclusion of the 60-day comment period, the court may enter the final judgment upon a finding that it serves the public interest.\nDanone Complaint\nDanone Explanation of Consent\nDanone HSSO & PFJ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/baltimore-man-indicted-witness-retaliation-and-tampering-resulting-death-baltimore-woman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:56Z", "digest": "sha1:J4SK5J2XR5RMGCQLGRMZJAHJL7MUUGR7", "length": 2286, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.justice.gov", "title": "Baltimore Man Indicted For Witness Retaliation and Tampering Resulting in the Death of a Baltimore Woman | USAO-MD | Department of Justice", "raw_content": "Baltimore Man Indicted For Witness Retaliation and Tampering Resulting in the Death of a Baltimore Woman\nBaltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland returned a six count indictment against Davon Carter, age 37, of Baltimore, Maryland. The indictment was unsealed today following the initial appearance of Carter in federal court. Four of the counts relate to the murder of Latrina Ashburne, age 41, on May 27, 2016. For these charges Carter faces a possible death sentence or mandatory life in prison. Carter is also charged with being a felon in possession of ammunition the day of the murder as well as possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Those charges carry a maximum term of 10 years in prison.\nThe indictment was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Stephen M. Schenning; Special Agent in Charge Nicholas DiGiulio of the Department of Health and Human Services, Special Agent in Charge Gordon B. Johnson of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Commissioner Kevin Davis, Baltimore Police Department.\nAccording to the six-count indictment, Carter killed Ashburne with intent to retaliate against a witness for providing to a law enforcement officer information relating to the commission and possible commission of a Federal offense and to prevent the attendance and testimony of a person in an official proceeding. The witness who was the target of the killing was not named in the Indictment.\nAccording to the Baltimore Police Department, Ashburne was murdered in the early morning as she got into her car outside the home she shared with her mother in the 2900 block of Rosalind Ave. in the Cylburn neighborhood. The police reported that an unknown male approached and shot Ms. Ashburne in the upper body as she tried to run. At the time, the police also released a video they said showed the suspect fleeing the scene of the shooting on foot.\nA detention hearing is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. today in U.S. District Court in Baltimore before a U.S. Magistrate Judge Beth P. Gesner.\nActing United States Attorney Stephen M. Schenning commended HHS, FBI and BPD, for their work in the investigation. Mr. Schenning thanked Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sandra Wilkinson and Judson Mihok, who are prosecuting the case.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 190.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndny/pr/saratoga-springs-man-sentenced-10-years-heroin-overdose-death", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:39Z", "digest": "sha1:SB7YFAY7TVP7TBB3Q3YK7UYKPYYABJZH", "length": 3184, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.justice.gov", "title": "Saratoga Springs Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Heroin Overdose Death | USAO-NDNY | Department of Justice", "raw_content": "Saratoga Springs Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Heroin Overdose Death\nALBANY, NEW YORK \u2013 Matthew P. Charo, age 36, of Saratoga Springs, New York, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for distributing heroin to a 30-year-old woman who died from taking it.\nActing United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith stated: \u201cToday\u2019s sentence holds Matthew Charo accountable for causing the death of a young woman who was struggling to overcome her addiction. Though his decade of imprisonment cannot undo the harm to the victim and her family, who will continue to endure the unimaginable loss of their daughter, vigorous enforcement is a key component of prevention. Heroin kills, and dealing heroin is a deadly choice that can subject the dealer of even a small amount to severe consequences if a customer dies from taking heroin. As part of our multi-pronged approach to the opioid crisis, we will continue to work with our law enforcement partners to hold drug dealers accountable for fatal overdoses.\u201d\nFBI Special Agent in Charge Vadim D. Thomas stated: \u201cToday\u2019s sentencing is the culmination of many long hours and dedicated work, but the effort to make our communities safer continues. The FBI is committed to investigating those like Mr. Charo, who endanger our families and our communities with drugs.\u201d\nAs part of his guilty plea on August 14, 2017, Charo admitted that on October 2, 2014, he sold heroin to a 30-year-old woman who was his acquaintance from high school. Before the sale, the victim told Charo that she had tried all day to buy heroin without success. Charo agreed to help the victim buy heroin, and used the victim\u2019s food stamp EBT card to buy heroin from another individual, which he then distributed to the victim. She ingested the heroin and died due to acute heroin intoxication.\nNew York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II stated: \u201cI want to thank our law enforcement partners at the federal, state and local level for bringing this man to justice. Drugs such as heroin destroy our communities and put lives at risk. This sentencing sends a clear message that we will not tolerate the illegal drug activity and the deadly consequences that are associated with such activity. We will remain vigilant in pursuing and prosecuting criminals who threaten the safety of our neighborhoods through the distribution of these illegal and harmful narcotics.\u201d\nSaratoga Springs Police Department Chief Gregory Veitch stated: \u201cAs this investigation has clearly demonstrated, drug dealing is not a victimless crime. No prison sentence will ever bring this victim back to life or alleviate the suffering of her loved ones. The Saratoga Springs Police Department remains committed to working with our state and federal partners in law enforcement in this never-ending battle against those who choose prey on our community.\u201d\nAs part of the sentence, Senior United States Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. also imposed a 3-year term of supervised release, to begin following Charo\u2019s release from prison.\nThis case was investigated by the FBI, the New York State Police, and the Saratoga Springs Police Department, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel Hanlon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justwravel.com/trip-from-Muktsar-to-Palitana", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWT2WPVWX6S6JDZCZH4JP3QWIXBI4A4X", "length": 1268, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.justwravel.com", "title": "Trip from Muktsar to Palitana | Book Taxi from Muktsar to Palitana | Bike Rentals", "raw_content": "Trip from Muktsar to Palitana\nPalitana nbsp;is a city in Bhavnagar district, nbsp;Gujarat, nbsp;India. It is located 50 km southwest of Bhavnagar city and is a major pilgrimagecentre for Jains\nPalitana is associated with Jain legends and history. Adinath, the first of the Jain tirthankaras, is said to have meditated on theShatrunjaya hill, where the Palitana temples were later constructed.\nThe nbsp;Palitana State was a princely state, founded in 1194. It was one of the major states in Saurashtra, covering 777 km\u00b2. In 1921 it had 58,000 inhabitants in 91 villages, generating a 744,416 Rs revenue.\nPalitana is the world\u2019s only mountain that has more than 900 temples.[ ] The Palitana temples and whole mountain are considered the most sacred pilgrimage place (tirtha) by the Jain community, and is the world's largest Temple Complex.\nThere are more than 3000 temples located on the Shatrunjaya hills, exquisitely carved in marble. In 2014, Palitana became the first city in the world to be legally vegetarian. It has outlawed, or made illegal, the buying and selling of meat, fish and eggs, and also related jobs or work, such as fishing and penning 'food animals\nAttraction in Palitana\nPalitana Shatrunjaya Hill\nVishal Jain Museum\nDistance From Muktsar: 1262 Km.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1325, "original_length": 34062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.karangupta.com/career-guidance/learn/interior-design", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:29Z", "digest": "sha1:BI2UYPEYATAEJS6QJXC2QP5TGOWGB72U", "length": 3384, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.karangupta.com", "title": "Course: Interior Design - Karan Gupta Consulting", "raw_content": "Learn >> Interior Design\nThis major provides academic preparation for professional practice as an interior designer. You learn how to create indoor environments that are both beautiful and functional; they are intended to improve the quality of life, increase productivity, and protect the health and safety of the public.\nInterior design majors study all aspects of the built environment: scale, proportion, arrangement, light sources, acoustics, temperature, textures, colors, and materials. Because interior design projects are complex, you learn to employ a systematic process, you balance the client\u2019s needs and resources, on the one hand, with the goal of creating safe, attractive, and practical interior, on the other.\nTo design successful interior environments, you must be trained in building construction, materials specification, lighting techniques, technical drawing, and business practices. You learn to analyze problem areas; develop detailed design solutions; and organize and oversee the project to completion. You must be familiar with building codes and fire regulations. And because interior designers usually function as members of a team rather than as individual designers, you need to be able to work well with other professionals.\nPrograms usually consist of a series of design courses that culminate in a senior thesis. Generally, studio courses use a hands-on approach; the professor presents a problem and you work on a solution, discussing and evaluating your progress with the instructor. As you advance through the program, you will be expected to demonstrate increasing skill in tackling such problems.\nUndergraduate majors receive a generalized education in interior design. Nevertheless, some programs may emphasize architecture or environmental design, whereas others stress fine arts or family and consumer science. Programs with an architectural focus generally concentrate on three-dimensional design, construction practices, and large-scale commercial projects. These programs tend to prepare you for wok in large architectural and interior design firms. Programs that concentrate on fine arts or family and consumer sciences usually focus on the decorative aspects of the field-fixtures and furniture, selection and layout, and coordination of finishes. Also some programs feature residential design, while others highlight commercial and/or institutional design. However, standards ensure that all accredited programs prepare you for entry-level professional work in either residential or commercial/institutional design.\nInterior designer*; furniture designer; lighting designer; facilities manager; real estate broker; trade show exhibit designer, product representative.\nInterior designers work for interior design firms, architectural firms, department and home furnishing stores, theme parks and resorts, and hotel and restaurant chains. Some designers do freelance work full-time, part-time, or in addition to a salaried job. Beginning designers usually receive on-the-job training and normally need one to three years of apprenticeship before they advance to higher-level positions.\nErgonomics and \u201cgreen design\u201d are trends to watch. 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The course focuses on the requirements of due process as a limitation upon the personal jurisdiction that courts may exercise over defendants and on the subject matter jurisdiction of the federal courts imposed by Article III and congressional legislation. The course also addresses pleadings, challenges and amendments to pleadings, pretrial discovery, adjudication without trial, and other procedural issues.\nJD Required Doctrinal\nFive credit hours.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 7071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kentucky.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:23Z", "digest": "sha1:L6PIRGXPBMDZNED4Z5UM3GTSOE7JSKYY", "length": 268, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kentucky.com", "title": "Central Kentucky Breaking News, Sports & Crime | Lexington Herald Leader", "raw_content": "The Kentucky Senate approved a bill Thursday that would allow people to carry a concealed handgun without a permit or training on the first anniversary of the Parkland, Fla., school shooting that killed 17 students and staff members.\nMore in Paul Prather\nMore in LexGo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ketv.com/article/10-year-old-papillion-girl-fighting-brain-cancer-with-positive-determination/7265274", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:55Z", "digest": "sha1:IIBMYNUE6KRUFUUD3XFNK76A6WB35UEQ", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.ketv.com", "title": "10-year-old Papillion girl fighting brain cancer with positive determination", "raw_content": "Brain cancer took a 10-year-old Papillion, Neb., girl's hair, but she is battling back.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 183.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kidsdelco.com/2013/04/fly-school-circus-arts-at-philadelphia.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:24Z", "digest": "sha1:UR3KF77UHSFQTGZXEKJP4HD4OOILXXLS", "length": 1267, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.kidsdelco.com", "title": "Fun Things To Do With Kids: Fly School Circus Arts at Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts", "raw_content": "Fly School Circus Arts at Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts\nThursday, March 28 through Saturday, April 27,2013,\nat 9:00am, 11:30am, 4:30pm and 7:00pm\nFly School Circus Arts returns to the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) with \u201cDaringly High\u201d outdoor flying trapeze lessons and performances. Adults and children (ages 6 and up) are invited to celebrate the empowerment, confidence and freedom found in doing the unexpected. Flying trapeze lessons run daily from Thursday, March 28 through Saturday, April 27,2013, at 9:00am, 11:30am, 4:30pm and 7:00pm. Outdoor rigging, reaching 25 feet in the air, will be set up in the University of the Arts empty parking lot (313 S. Broad) between Spruce and Pine streets. Each two hour class is geared to the individual, the first time student or the seasoned returning flyer.\nFlying trapeze lessons are $55 for a two-hour lesson.\nReservations are available at the Kimmel Center Box Office, by calling (215)\n546-PIFA or by visiting www.pifa.org.\nFor more information: www.flyschoolcircusarts.com\nLabels: Circus Philadelphia, Delaware County family fun, What to do with kids in Philadelphia, What to do with kids in Philadelphia area\nLocation: 313 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 224.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kleinauto.com/blog/video/2016/may/12/Chrysler-Featured-Pre-Owned-Vehicles-Clintonville-WI-54929.htm?locale=en_US", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ML6HBJ6ADAG4HYGXOS5APRHTMHJXO4XD", "length": 727, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kleinauto.com", "title": "Video | VIN: | Klein Auto", "raw_content": "Chrysler Featured Pre-Owned Vehicles Clintonville WI 54929\nIn the market for a pre-owned Chrysler? You'll find it here at our dealership, we've got what you're looking for. Like the 2005 Chrysler 300. It comes equipped with all the standard amenities for your driving enjoyment. Experience driving perfection in the 2015 Chrysler Town & Country. Feature-packed and decked out! And finally, step into the 2017 Chrysler 200. It offers great fuel economy and a broad set of features! Our knowledgeable sales staff is available to answer any questions that you might have. They'll work with you to find the right vehicle at a price you can afford. We are here to help you.\nTags: Van, Sedan, Chrysler, Town & Country, 200, Used, 300", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.knowthis.com/planning-with-the-product-life-cycle/planning-late-maturity-stage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7UZBS35PV32BPYKKG5T2TPW622GVHQXJ", "length": 2241, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.knowthis.com", "title": "Planning: Late Maturity Stage - KnowThis.com", "raw_content": "Competition: The competitive landscape has stabilized. The only survivors remaining consist of a few market giants and several small niche firms.\nTarget Market: The market has very few first-time buyers and almost all companies focus on getting existing customers to remain loyal.\nProduct: There is a significant reduction in the introduction of new models. Any new models focus mostly on just a few minor performance enhancements and stylistic improvements.\nPrices: Overall prices stabilize and may rise due to limited competition.\nPromotion: Large competitors begin to cut back on expensive promotions designed to attract new customers and focus on reminder promotions to loyal customers.\nDistribution: Overall, distribution has stabilized with few new distributors agreeing to handle product. For products sold at retail stores, there is a noticeable reduction in shelf space devoted to the product.\nProfits: Companies see profits recover as demand stabilizes, prices rises, and marketing expenditure to support the product declines.\nIf companies have failed to extend the PLC in the early part of the Maturity stage, there is a low probability the product form will experience growth again. Instead, companies will continue to market the product, albeit with little effort other than making it available to customers who have been purchasing it for some time.\nBy the late part of the Maturity stage, marketers that are still selling may no longer consider the product to be important for the future of the organization. However, this does not mean the product no longer holds value. In fact, the product may be extremely valuable for the profit it continues to generate (a.k.a. cash cow), which is then used to fund new products. Consequently, some attention is still paid to the product but only to ensure that it is still available for those who want to purchase.\nPosted in Planning with the Product Life Cycle Tutorial Tagged market stabilization, niche market strategy, niche marketing, stabilized market\nPlanning: Late Maturity Stage (2019). From Planning with the Product Life Cycle Tutorial. KnowThis.com. 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Your Ultimate Resource for Costa Mesa and Orange County Real Estate.", "raw_content": "2,638 results in Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Fountain Valley, Tustin, North Tustin, Irvine, Santa Ana, Orange, Yorba Linda,Placentia,Anaheim,Anaheim Hills for All Types", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 311, "original_length": 9163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/it-looked-like-a-lagoon-san-marcos-victims-still-suffer-from-2015-flood-damage/269-598421099", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:30Z", "digest": "sha1:42AH6DEY3O5CX37UM72LTIDV3TTZRBMS", "length": 4483, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.kvue.com", "title": "'It looked like a lagoon' | San Marcos victims still suffer from 2015 flood damage | kvue.com", "raw_content": "'It looked like a lagoon' | San Marcos victims still suffer from 2015 flood damage\nSome San Marcos flood victims said they're still in need of repairs, three years after two devastating storms filled neighborhoods with floodwater.\nSAN MARCOS, Texas \u2014 Some San Marcos flood victims said they\u2019re still in need of repairs three years after two devastating storms filled neighborhoods with floodwater.\nThe first flood happened overnight on May 23 and early May 24 in 2015.\n\u201cThe Memorial Day Flood was noted for its extreme water velocities, analogous to the velocities of Niagara Falls,\u201d according to the damage assessment in the city\u2019s performance report.\nThen, on October 30, 2015, another flood hit.\nThe death toll topped at 12 people. In all, 21 percent of homes in the city were damaged or destroyed.\nDamage from the Memorial Day 2015 flood in Austin, Texas.\nVictims of Memorial Day floods remembered\n12 dead, 2 children missing in Memorial weekend flooding\n2015 Memorial Day floods: When the river breaks\nNow, millions of dollars promised to help affected homeowners still sits unspent. City leaders said federal requirements for how that money is spent is to blame.\n\u201cWe just cleaned all of this out and it got flooded out and we had to redo it again,\u201d said Richard Barrera, whose home was flooded in both storms.\nHe said his insurance covered some repairs, but his foundation is still shifted. Cracks line his walls and run along the ceilings in several rooms.\n\u201cIt went up to the good 3 feet,\u201d said Barrera.\nBarrera applied for federal disaster relief money, provided through a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).\n\u201cThey said if my house wasn\u2019t repairable, they would life it up and fix it, but they said I was making too much money,\u201d said Barrera.\nBarrera was denied the relief. He and his wife made more than 80 percent of the median household income cap. For a family of four, it would mean an income of less than $50,000 to qualify.\nLast victim from 2015 Memorial Day flood in Taylor finally moves home\nHeavy rain evokes memories of May 2015 flood in Wimberley\n\u201cThis program is for the last resort. The people that couldn\u2019t do it on their own,\u201d said Stacy Brown, Housing and Community Development manager for the City of San Marcos.\nSo far, 6 of the 79 applicants have been approved over the three-year process. Five are approved for a rebuild, one will be rehabilitated and three are pending approval.\n\u201cThere so many regulations we have to comply with. In hiring people, in getting consultants, in planning, and we want to do this right,\u201d said Brown.\nHiring consultants and planning are part of the federal requirements.\n\u201cFor the residents, yes, it does not come out fast enough. But, we appreciate all the money that we\u2019re getting right now,\u201d said Brown.\nBrown said Hurricane Harvey slowed down their effort to rebuild for those approved.\n\u201cHurricane Harvey took our inspectors, took our construction workers,\u201d said Brown. \u201cIt\u2019s been very frustrating.\u201d\nIn the meantime, a non-profit formed to help regulate how public donation money was spent.\nThe Blanco River Regional Recovery Team (BR3T) formed in June 2015. It took at least a year before they could start widespread recovery efforts, due waiting for approval of the IRS 501(c)(3) status.\n\u201cSometimes FEMA doesn\u2019t cover it. Sometimes insurance doesn\u2019t cover it. In this way, we are able to help anyone who needs the help,\u201d said Peggy Jones, executive director for BR3T.\nThe charity took in $340,000 from 2015 through 2016.\nFrom 2015 to 2017, the group helped repair 1,600 homes over a four-county area. The money received by the organization buys materials. The charity seeks volunteers and partners with other charities to do the labor. No money contributions are given to flood victims.\nJones said donations stalled last year. The money is almost gone.\n\u201cI want (the house) for my grandkids. When I (die) my daughter can have it. I don\u2019t know. I just got a let God take his place because I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll be able to ever pick it up,\u201d said Barrera.\nBarrera has one more chance.\nThe City of San Marcos is accepting another round of applications for the CDBG disaster relief grant.\nBarrera retired since he first applied. He hopes his drop in income will help him qualify.\nIf you or someone you know still needs help, resources are available.\nFor information on the Community Development Block Grant and how to apply for relief money, click here. For information on the Blanco River Regional Recovery Team, go here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kwcommercial.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:52Z", "digest": "sha1:GRYTABROX3TW3Y3E3TDLBZNAGG5FXOWG", "length": 9252, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.kwcommercial.com", "title": "KW Commercial - Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "Keller Williams Realty, Inc. (\u201cKeller Williams\u201d) provides you with this privacy policy (\u201cPrivacy Policy\u201d) to let you know Keller Williams\u2019 information collection and usage policies and practices that apply to information collected on the Keller Williams website at www.kw.com (the \u201cSite\u201d). 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Or the very beautiful life. Many people have suggested that I blog about this unique experience of living in Italy and traveling in Europe. Andrew and I thought about it and we want something to remember this very beautiful life! In addition, this blog is a great way to stay connected with all of our international friends and family. I hope it will encourage you to travel to some of these places, immerse in a different culture, and perhaps it will change your life\u2019s perspective like it did mine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2019/regulations", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:30Z", "digest": "sha1:YECL45AIEJI67Y2EU4XNICKVCTMRSZPT", "length": 20984, "nlines": 106, "source_domain": "www.labiennale.org", "title": "Biennale Cinema 2019 | Regulations", "raw_content": "The 76th Venice International Film Festival is organised by La Biennale di Venezia, and will be held on the Lido di Venezia from 28 August to 7 September 2019. The Festival is officially recognised by the FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association).\nThe aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. In addition to the sections mentioned in the following paragraphs, the Festival also organises retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.\n3. Official Selection\nAn international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres.\n3.2 Out of Competition\nSome of the most important works of the year will be presented in the non-competing section, for a maximum of 18 films; to these will be added the films produced within the Biennale College-Cinema program. They may include the works of established authors who have participated in Competition in previous editions of the Venice Film Festival, documentaries or films in which the spectacular dimension is accompanied by forms of expressive or narrative originality. Some films Out of Competition may be screened during the Midnight time slot, if their characteristics make them particularly suitable for showing at this time of night. Only feature films presented as world premieres at the Venice Film Festival will be admitted to the selection.\nAn international competition reserved for a maximum of 18 films, dedicated to films that represent the latest aesthetic and expressive trends in international cinema, with special attention to debut films, young talents who are not yet firmly established, indie features and lesser-known cinema, as well as works that address specific genres and current production, with the aim of innovating and demonstrating creative originality. The Orizzonti section features a selection of competing short films lasting a maximum of 20 minutes, selected on the basis of criteria such as quality and originality of language and expression. Only feature-length and short films presented as world premieres at the Venice Film Festival will be admitted to the selection.\n3.4 Venice Classics\nThis section features the world premiere screenings of a selection of the finest restorations of classic films carried out over the past year by film libraries, cultural institutions and productions around the world, committed to the preservation and cultivation of the cinematographic heritage and the rediscovery of neglected or undervalued works of the past. The section may be completed with the presentation of documentaries about cinema or individual authors of yesteryear or today, that can offer innovative elements for historical and critical assessment.\nThis non-competitive section features a selection of a maximum of 10 works of different genres, lengths and targets, provided their length is more than 60 minutes. The Sconfini section may include art-house and genre movies, experimental and artists\u2019 films, TV series and crossover productions, which may be preceded or accompanied by public encounters and conversations with the directors, actors and personalities from the world of art and culture. Only films presented as world premieres at the Venice Film Festival will be admitted to the selection.\nThe Festival will present works in competition and out of competition. A maximum of 30 world premieres or international premieres of VR Immersive Stories/Experiences of any length and of any format (Samsung Gear, HTC Vive, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, SONY Playstation, haptic devices, AR , MR; any other format needs to be discussed with the Director of the Venice Film Festival). The works of the teams participating in the third edition of the Biennale College Cinema-VR, and the previous films of the Venice Production Bridge invited project teams are presented Out of Competition.\nA film market has been organized as part of the Venice Film Festival, not only to ensure the continuity of the services developed in the past (Industry Club, Venice Gap Financing Market, Business Centre, Digital Video Library and Market Screenings), but to offer a meeting ground and networking opportunity for all categories of professionals involved in the production of films: producers, funders, distributors, sales, public and private investment funds, banks, film commissions, broadcasters, and Internet platforms. The Venice Production Bridge (29 August \u2013 3 September) will present a wide selection of projects in an advanced phase of development and pre-funding in the categories of films, documentaries, VR Immersive Stories, TV series. It will also organize the seventh edition of Final Cut in Venice (reserved for works-in-progress from African countries, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria), and the fourth edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market.\n5. Independent and parallel Sections\n5.1 Settimana Internazionale della Critica (SIC - International Critics\u2019 Week)\nA series of no more than 8 films \u2013 debut works \u2013 independently organised by a commission appointed by the National Syndicate of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) in accordance with its own regulations.\nA series of no more than 12 films, independently promoted by the Italian filmmakers association (ANAC) and by the 100 Autori association. Films are selected in accordance with the regulations of these associations.\n6. Juries and Awards\nEach Jury will operate according to its own regulations. The Director of the Festival may attend the meetings to advise on matters of regulations or procedures, when required.\nAn International Jury composed of no more than 9 personalities from the world of cinema and culture from various countries, excluding any person involved in any capacity in the production of the invited films or who may have an interest in their distribution, will award the following prizes for the feature films:\n\u00b7 Golden Lion for Best Film\n\u00b7 Silver Lion - Grand Jury Prize\n\u00b7 Silver Lion - Award for Best Director\n\u00b7 Coppa Volpi for Best Actor\n\u00b7 Coppa Volpi for Best Actress\n\u00b7 Award for Best Screenplay\n\u00b7 Special Jury Prize\n\u00b7 Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Young Actor or Actress\nThere will be no joint winners.\nFurthermore, individual films may receive no more than one of the awards listed in the Regulations. Exceptionally and just in one case, after consultation with the Festival Director, the Jury may confer the Coppa Volpi or the Marcello Mastroianni award to an actor or an actress featured in a film which has won the Grand Jury Prize, the Award for Best Director, the Special Jury Prize or the Award for Best Screenplay. This exception cannot be applied more than once on bestowing the awards.\nAn International Jury, composed of no more than 7 personalities from the world of cinema and culture from various countries, excluding any person involved in any capacity in the production of the invited films or who may have an interest in their distribution, will award the following prizes (no joint awards permitted):\n\u00b7 Orizzonti Award for Best Film\n\u00b7 Orizzonti Award for Best Director\n\u00b7 Special Orizzonti Jury Prize\n\u00b7 Orizzonti Award for Best Actor\n\u00b7 Orizzonti Award for Best Actress\n\u00b7 Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay\n\u00b7 Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film\nA jury composed of students in their last year of film studies in Italian universities, chaired by a personality from the world of cinema and culture, will assign the Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film, with no joint awards permitted. The jury may also give an award to the best documentary on cinema presented within the section.\n6.4 \u201cLuigi De Laurentiis\u201d Award for a Debut Film\nAll the debut feature films presented in the various competitive sections of the Venice Film Festival (Official Selection and Independent and Parallel Sections) are eligible for the Lion of the Future \u2013 \u201cLuigi De Laurentiis\u201d Venice Award for a Debut Film. An International Jury of no more than 5 personalities from the world of cinema and culture from various countries, including one producer, will award a prize of 100,000 US dollars, donated by Filmauro, to be divided equally between the director and the producer. No joint awards will be permitted.\nAn international Jury, composed of 3 figures in the creative world from different countries, excluding anyone involved in any way in the creation of the films invited or who have any interest in their distribution, will award the following prizes:\n\u00b7 Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Immersive Work\n\u00b7 Best VR Immersive Experience for interactive content\n\u00b7 Best VR Immersive Story for linear content\nNo joint awards will be allowed.\n6.6 Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement\nThe Director of the Festival will make a recommendation to the President and Board of Directors to award two Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement: the first, awarded to a director (or a leading professional figure) for the contribution made through his/her body of work to the advancement of the art of cinema; the second to an actor or actress, who has best interpreted the expressive requirements of the directors for whom he/she has worked, while bringing his/her own personal aesthetic, symbolic and authorial contribution to the dramatic arts.\n6.7 The producers and distributors of the films presented pledge to display a notice with the announcement of the award received and the Biennale logo when any of these films are released in theatres.\n7. Selection of films\n7.1 Conditions for the submission of a film\nAll films submitted must be recently produced, completed not prior to 8 September 2018, and must not have been presented earlier in any other format or length, not even as a work-in-progress, for any selection in previous editions of the Venice Film Festival. The directors of first or second films (feature length or short length) are invited to provide information on their curriculum vitae as requested in the online submission form, for the purposes of research and documentation. Under no circumstances may films to be presented at the Venice International Film Festival have been shown in prior public screenings. Works previously presented in competing or non-competing sections at other international festivals are also excluded, as are those already available on the web. VR Immersive Stories/Experiences in competition may have been screened in public in their country of origin or, Out of Competition, in other International events. Possible exceptions to these conditions may be decided at his discretion by the Festival Director.\n7.2 Accepted formats\nFor films invited officially to the Venice Film Festival, only the following screening formats will be accepted:\n\u2022 VR immersive formats (Samsung Gear, HTC Vive, Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, SONY Playstation, haptic devices, AR, MR; any other format needs to be discussed with the Director of the Venice Film Festival).\nFilms invited to the Sconfini section may be accepted in formats other than the ones listed above, on condition that the Director of the Venice Film Festival has given his approval.\nRegarding the selection of the films submitted, the Festival Director will be assisted by his staff of experts, as well as by a group of correspondents and international consultants, each responsible for different geographical areas. The Cinema Department will put each decision on the record.\nFor each film submitted to the selection of the Venice Film Festival, a registration fee is requested to cover administrative costs. The fee is \u20ac 120 for feature length films and VR Immersive Stories/Experiences, \u20ac 60 for short films. For films submitted after 31 May 2019 the fee will be \u20ac 140 for feature length films and \u20ac 80 for short films. The registration fee for VR Immersive Stories/Experiences will be \u20ac 140 if they are submitted after May 15. This fee will not be reimbursed under any circumstance. The costs of screenings organised outside the main venue (Venice) must be met by the participants.\n7.5 Materials to submit for the selection\nIn order to be eligible for selection, the films presenters must, no later than 14 June 2019 (31 May for VR immersive projects):\na) fill out the pre-selection entry form exclusively online on the website www.labiennale.org;\nsee also the pre-selection entry form for VR projects;\nb) pay the registration fee;\nc) upload the film file to our streaming service, exclusively through the link that will be indicated at the moment of registration, or send a copy of the film to the Venice Film Festival (formats allowed for feature length films: DCP, DVD, Blu-ray disc; formats allowed for short films: file upload only). In case of Interactive VR, indicate a link to download the film file (the link must be valid at least until 31 July 2019);\nd) send an information sheet on the director and on the film, with an information kit including a synopsis, director\u2019s notes and the film production context;\ne) for all non-Italian films, we request the submission of a copy sub-titled in Italian or in English (including films for which the original language version is in English). VR Immersive Stories/Experiences must be in English or in original language with English subtitles.\nAny other information regarding the film submitted for selection must be sent exclusively in electronic format to the following address: selection@labiennale.org.\nThe Venice Film Festival is under no obligation to return the films submitted for selection, unless they arrive with prepaid return packaging via express carrier (courier or diplomatic bag). Any returns must be requested no later than 30 September 2019. The work-in-progress materials and films for which no return has been requested may be transferred to the Biennale Archives for exclusive purposes of documentation and research. They will not be used for commercial purposes, in order to protect the interests of the filmmakers and the producers.\n8. Invited films\n8.1 Entry Form\nInvited films will receive an Entry form to be duly completed and returned no later than 21 July 2019. Receipt of the form by the Venice Film Festival implies the legal acceptance of the invitation by all concerned and will be considered definitive and irrevocable.\nThe invitation of a film to participate must remain absolutely confidential until the programme is announced by the Venice Film Festival. Failure to comply will result in its exclusion from the selection. The general scheduling and screening times are the sole responsibility of the Management of the Festival.\n8.3 Film copies\nThe presenters of invited films must send the following on or before 16 August 2019:\n\u00b7 2 copies of the original version with Italian subtitles (English subtitles for Italian films) for the official gala and press preview screenings. For VR Immersive Stories/Experiences only English subtitles are accepted;\n\u00b7 1 copy of the original version, preferably with subtitles in English, as a reserve copy (if so wished by those presenting the film);\n\u00b7 1 DVD or Blu-ray disc of the original version with English subtitles for exclusive internal use by the Festival services;\n\u00b7 the list of subtitles.\nAll subtitling costs are to be paid by those submitting the film.\nOnly in exceptional cases, which must be authorised in writing by the Director, the deadline set for 16 August 2019 may be extended. However, should the film copies not be delivered to the Festival by 26 August 2019, the relevant screenings will be cancelled.\nThe Festival reserves the right to refuse any copy which, on advice of the Festival technicians, is considered to be of inadequate quality for public screening.\n8.4 Specifications for the Digital Cinema copy of the film\nSpecifications for the systems used by the Venice Film Festival for digital cinema are available on the official website. Specifications for VR Immersive Stories/Experiences: Samsung Gear, HTC Vive, Oculus GO, Oculus Rift, SONY Playstation, haptic devices, AR, MR; any other needs to be discussed with the Festival Direction.\nAll the material required for the catalogue of the Venice Film Festival (synopses, cast and credits, biography and a complete filmography of the director, photographs of the director, of the actors and scenes from the film in b/w and colour, plus a brief director\u2019s comment on the film) must reach the Festival as soon as possible, but no later than 21 July 2019, and must be marked as \u201cMaterial for Catalogue\u201d.\n8.6 Press Material\nThe presenters of films invited to the Festival must send the promotional material for distribution to the press and potential buyers (press book, digital images of the film and the director, video material, audio clips, etc.) no later than 19 August 2019.\nThe advertising and promotional material must state \u201cFilm Selected for the 76th Venice International Film Festival\u201d and the words \u201cWorld Premiere\u201d.\n8.7 Official Logo\nAfter the official presentation of the programme by the Venice Film Festival, those submitting the films must explicitly guarantee that all forms of publicity will mention their participation in the 76th Venice Film Festival, including the official logo of the Biennale di Venezia, as supplied by the Venice Film Festival. Films awarded a prize must also indicate which award was won, using the official graphic designs devised and supplied by the Biennale di Venezia.\nAll shipping costs for the films from the place of origin to the venues of the Venice Film Festival and return (including any shipping costs from Venice airport to Venice Lido and custom charges for films sent from outside the European Union), will be at the expense of the participants.\nIn case of DCPs and 35mm films, the presenters should contact the Cinema Department beforehand for instructions regarding shipment (print.traffic@labiennale.org). Copies of films in DVD and Blu-ray disc formats, as well as all the materials for the selection, must be sent by courier or post directly to the address of the Venice Film Festival:\nCa\u2019 Giustinian - San Marco 1364/A, 30124 Venezia, Italia\nFrom 27 May to 13 September 2019 the address will be:\nPalazzo del Cinema, Lungomare Marconi, 30126 Lido di Venezia, Italia\n9.3 Shipping of Promotional Material\nAll costs relative to the shipment of advertising, promotional and photographic material for the films from the place of origin to the Biennale offices or the venues of the Venice Film Festival will be at the expense of the participants, including all customs charges for material sent from outside the European Union. Advertising and promotional material sent to the Festival will not be returned.\n9.4 Shipping Insurance\nAll insurance costs covering the transport of films and press material to and from the Venice Film Festival will be at the expense of those presenting the films.\n9.5 Insurance at the Venice Film Festival\nThe Biennale provides \u201cfully-comprehensive risk\u201d insurance coverage for the entire period during which the film copies are in the care of the Venice Film Festival. The insurance value of a film may not exceed the average laboratory costs for a standard copy. Furthermore, all necessary measures will be taken by the Festival to protect the author\u2019s copyright for works entrusted to the Festival, in accordance with the FIAPF dispositions regarding safeguarding against piracy.\n10. Copies for the Archives\n10.1 Donation to the Archives\nDirectors and producers of the films presented at the Venice Film Festival are invited to donate a copy of their work, to be stored in the Biennale\u2019s Historical Archives of Contemporary Arts (ASAC), destined solely for the purposes of research and documentation, and excluding all commercial use in order to protect the interests of the filmmakers and the producers. Moreover, the directors and producers of all films that receive awards are obliged to deposit a copy of their film with the ASAC, at least in high-definition Digibeta, complete with the official logo, along with the indication of the competition section and every award won by the film at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.\n10.2 Conservation of the films\nThese copies will be conserved at the ASAC for the sole purpose of documentation and research, excluding any commercial use, in order to protect the interests of the filmmakers and the producers.\nParticipation in the Venice International Film Festival automatically entails observance of the present Regulations. Producers, distributors or other parties who submit films to the Festival must guarantee they are legally authorised to do so.\nThe Director of the Venice Film Festival reserves the right to adjudicate any cases not covered by the Regulations herein, and can make exceptions to the Regulations in justified, well-motivated cases. Should any dispute arise regarding the interpretation of any article contained in these Regulations, the original Italian version is to be considered binding.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 345, "original_length": 25177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lake-winnipesaukee-travel-guide.com/ice-skating-rules.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UITZ7OFNXOU4S3FZYDI2S34ZF4Z55LXB", "length": 2277, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.lake-winnipesaukee-travel-guide.com", "title": "New Hampshire Ice Skating Rules - Learn Ice Skating Safety Tips", "raw_content": "Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire Indoor Ice Skating Rules\nIt's best to skate with people of the same abilities. When skating at a public rink, that's impossible. Here you'll find skaters at all levels, from never been on skates before to those practicing high level routines. Usually it's recreational skaters. Those that practice routines generally do so during scheduled times just for the figure skater.\nIf there is someone practicing routines or jumps, other skaters should give them the right of way. Some of their jumps have blind maneuvers and they may not see another skater which could cause a collision. Mostly these jumps are practiced in a corner of the rink.\nSkaters that are practicing their moves in indoor ice skating rinks around Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire need to make sure there is enough space to perform their maneuver safely. If not, then the skater should wait until it is safe.\nWhen a skater falls at an indoor ice skating rink, they should get up as quickly as they can. It's harder to see someone lying on the ice rather than standing.\nIf someone falls, they should look into beginner ice skating lessons or learn ice skating basics on how to fall and keep their hands away from the skate blades to avoid injury. If there is a major injury, someone should stand over to prevent anyone else from crashing into them.\nLake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire Outdoor Ice Skating Rules\nMake sure the ice is thick enough. The ice needs to be a minimum of four inches thick for safe ice skating. Different ponds and other bodies of water around Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire have varying thicknesses of ice. It's helpful to have an ice pick with you. Push the ice pick into the ice with force. If it goes through, it's not safe. If it chips the ice a bit, then you can move out on the ice. Repeat every foot or so to make sure the ice is safe.\nTo ensure your safety, a life jacket can be worn. If you do fall through the ice, you will stay afloat making it easier for someone to get you out.\nUse common sense with these ice skating rules. If you feel that you need a life jacket, then the ice is not safe enough to skate on. Once you fall through, you still have to deal with hypothermia.\nReturn to New Hampshire Ice Skating From Ice Skating Rules.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lastingmemories.com/memorial/milton-bro-bivins-jr", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2SWZ7O63UIK2HBOXG5U7DVRTIT2LXYJX", "length": 266, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.lastingmemories.com", "title": "This online memorial is dedicated to Milton \"Bro\" Bivins, Jr.. It is a place to celebrate his life with photos, stories, music and other tributes.", "raw_content": "Milton \"Bro\" Bivins, Jr.\nThis memorial website was created in the memory of our loved one, Milton \"Bro\" Bivins, Jr., 57, born on August 24th, 1957 and passed away on May 28th, 2015. We will remember him forever.\nAdministered by Joe Arrington\nGlover Memorial Mortuary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lawyermarketing.com/blog/some-comments-on-comments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VH3NG5DHYEUQQZQJSYCN6YEI7DJTU6PN", "length": 5361, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.lawyermarketing.com", "title": "Some Comments On Comments - Lawyer Marketing", "raw_content": "Some Comments On Comments\n(And Why Law Firms Should Embrace Them)\nAh the comments section!\nThe wild west of internet marketing.\nA variable that cannot be predicted, yet must be accounted for.\nAttorneys often fear that a negative comment will derail a well-crafted marketing message, laying waste to their best-laid marketing plans. It\u2019s no surprise they want nothing to do with them.\nBut the way attorneys react to and interact with comments (or don\u2019t) can actually determine whether a comment becomes a liability or a benefit to their firms. You see, the real value of comments has almost nothing to do with the people leaving them. [tweet this]\nWho Are Comments For?\nWhen you wonder if comments are worth the risk, remember that the number of people stepping up to the podium is proportionally very small compared to your readership. Even though there\u2019s a wide net of potential influence, any back-and-forth you participate in isn\u2019t about winning the argument. It\u2019s not even about the nature of the conversation. It\u2019s about swaying the happenstance visitor who stumbles upon the discussion in the weeks, months, or even years to come.\nThink of comments like a public debate or even a juried trial. The people doing all the talking aren\u2019t trying to change each other\u2019s minds. They\u2019re trying to influence the spectators and convince them to return an opinion in their favor. In the online world, the \u201cjury\u201d is everyone who takes a moment to read the comments and see how the attorney responds.\nBe Not Afraid of Negative Comments\nNow I\u2019m sure some of you are still skeptical and worried about negative comments. From a marketing point of view, those are the ones that everyone frets over.\nAnd yes, negative comments can certainly do damage in isolation \u2013 though not always. In my experience, attorneys and law firms are often too quick to shy away or turn the other cheek when faced with a public complaint. But the big question isn\u2019t whether to respond, it\u2019s how, and more importantly to whom do you respond?\nIn that case, remember that the reason you\u2019re responding isn\u2019t to change the mind of the person who spoke up, but the minds of those who didn\u2019t. Address the challenge, but do so in a way that proves your mettle and displays your tact.\nA Case Study in Dealing with Negativity\nIn our recent white paper on social media, we explain that one of the main reasons people seek out businesses on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and other interactive, social platforms is because they want to learn more about whether they emotionally resonate with a business. Particularly with businesses like law firms, people increasingly want to know what the client experience is like.\nIn essence, legal consumers want to see interactions first hand, and there\u2019s almost no better place to demonstrate this than in comments. A smart, measured and tactical response to even the most mean-spirited comment can be powerful. It is an almost perfect opportunity to get in front of people who are close to make a purchasing decision, but want to validate that they like the firm.\nConsider this interaction between some negative commenters and an immigration attorney that shared a video advertisement on social media:\nIt\u2019s an understatement to say that many of the comments in the thread were \u2026 challenging. But, the law firm was exceedingly disciplined in responding to both positive and negative comments, and staying on message to their brand. (In case it\u2019s not clear, the firm\u2019s response is highlighted in yellow.)\nIt seems unlikely that the firm changed a lot of the negative commenter\u2019s minds, but the ad and follow-up post were very effective nevertheless. The post received 128 likes, numerous shares and had a notably low Cost-Per-Click. In short, the negative activity didn\u2019t lead to negative engagement and click-thru signals.\nThe people who were responsive to the firm\u2019s core message seemed to respond positively, if not vocally, to the way the business conducted itself under fire.\nAn Opportunity That Should Not Be Missed\nI\u2019ve worked with numerous clients who have received negative comments like those shown above. Their gut reaction was usually to delete the comments completely and it\u2019s not hard to understand why. But then and now, in the vast majority of cases, that initial response is wrong.\nThink of it this way: As an attorney, you create some content for your firm (an ad, a blog post or a social post) and as luck would have it, some of the people who read your content want to keep on reading. This is the mindset people are likely in when they go into a comments section. You\u2019ve sparked their interest, and they want more.\nAs a business, your response to a comment, good or bad is an opportunity to provide more material for that primed audience. What matters at that point isn\u2019t whether you change the minds of the commentariat. It\u2019s how you impact the third-party viewer who was interested enough in your original piece to stick around and scan the comments. Those people are the ones you should think about most. They\u2019re the folks most likely to be moved closer to a conversion by your strong, smart response.\nThat\u2019s a marketing opportunity that doesn\u2019t exist very often, and shying away from comments of all kinds is to give that opportunity away.\nDifferent platforms have distinct user bases, often with their own set of expectations. 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Therefore, it is essential to keep up with the newer trends of search engine algorithms and updates if you want to ensure that your website continues to rank and perform well.\nHere are 5 of the best SEO techniques that will help your business website perform well in 2018.\n1. Re-optimizing the existing content\nContent is the main thing that makes every other aspect of SEO align back together. If you own a website which is rich in content or if you are a blogger, then you would know that once people publish a particular article or blog, they forget about it after a while and start working on new projects. It is essential to conduct a site audit and merge, remove or refurbish the existing content that is already present from time to time.\n2. A linkable asset promotion and development\nA linkable asset is a particular piece content that makes it possible to attract relevant backlinks from other websites to your website. This is a very beneficial approach to enhance your SEO with the help of the acquisition of backlinks. Most of the SEO marketing companies in the Middlesex county NJ are making use of this type of SEO practice to make it easier for acquiring a better type of backlink.\n3. Redirecting management and 404 link reclamation\nRedirect management is one of the most important aspect when it comes to proper websites and not just the blogs. It is very important that every web page of the website is responsive and opens up in the exact configuration as it was developed by the developer. There are a number of pages that might show up to be 404 error or 404 pages must be redirected to some other link. Also, for the web pages that show up the strong referring domains or RDs must be reclaimed and redirected.\n4. Accelerated Mobile Pages ( AMP)\nAccording to some of the guidelines of google search engine, the overall website ranking is highly affected by the fact that if the website is mobile friendly or not. In order to make the same possible, most of the SEO marketing companies in Middlesex county of NJ make use of accelerated mobile pages. AMP is known enhance the overall on-site metrics like the bounce rate of the website. Google give more preference to website that load faster and is often found to rank these websites high on the SERPs.\nThe major use of linkable assets are in facebook advertising and very few SEO marketers have an idea of the same. Facebook is one of the most common platform which makes it easy to access and target a large audience at a single time. Therefore, making use of facebook advertising, paid marketing and other related things is a sure fire way to make your business reach the heights.\nWith the evolution of better techniques the older ones get replaced with the new ones in search engine optimization. Therefore, updating towards better and newer techniques of search engine optimization is extremely essential and this is what the entire blog focuses on. LBMS is known for providing some of the finest SEO Marketing services in Middlesex county NJ.\nfacebook advertising Search Engine Optimization SEO Marketing services in Middlesex county NJ", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legacycremationservices.com/cremation-services-cost/arkansas/bismarck", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EGQT6OY6K4ECTKOJSR36C2VOVZNFPPT7", "length": 4023, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.legacycremationservices.com", "title": "Bismarck, AR Cremation Services | Cremation Costs", "raw_content": "Bismarck, AR Cremation Services\nWhat to Expect from Cremation Services in Bismarck, AR\nCremation services in Bismarck, AR completely understand how you will be devastated by the loss of a loved one and will need help and assistance in arranging a cremation.\nOne of the main reasons that people regularly choose a cremation over a burial is linked to the cremation costs in Bismarck, AR. The final bill for cremating a person is usually far lower than the cost of arranging a burial because you do not have to pay for the land, its preparation and then the long-term upkeep.\nAcross all of America cremations are rapidly increasing as the most popular choice of interment and it is predicted that over 50% of people will choose cremation within the next 20 years or so. An exact and full price list will be passed to the person organizing the cremation so that you fully understand all of the cremation costs in Bismarck, AR.\nWhy Do People Choose Cremation in Bismarck, AR?\nWhen you have experienced standing around a graveside as the body is lowered into the earth, it is an experience that many prefer to forget. The very different, and less dramatic experience of attending a cremation, focuses more on the person who has died rather than the events organized by Bismarck, AR cremation services.\nSome religions will only accept a cremation as the only option for interment and this will be explained by cremation services in Bismarck, AR. In the past, other religions would not accept a cremation as an alternative, but in modern times, the majority of religions are completely accepting of the cremation method being used.\nWere you to cast a survey, you would find that modern cemeteries are regarded as extremely sterile and lacking of great character and if you live in a colder area, a grave is a difficult place to visit because of the weather, especially the snow and even more so in a northern state. This explains why many people look at the Bismarck, AR cremation costs and choose it as their best option\nIn the majority of states, you can care for the deceased at your own home, but the majority of people will prefer that cremation services in Bismarck, AR will undertake the facility.\nBismarck, AR cremation services will explain that the body of the deceased is placed into a container which can be a coffin or casket, but a simple and suitable container is all that the law requires. At the crematorium, the employees will remove jewelry and medical devices, like pacemakers, to reduce the safety hazards for the cremation process. An efficient tagging system is used so that the individual can always be properly identified.\nThe individual will be cremated in the furnace at temperatures between 1400?F and 2000?F during the course of 2 to 3 hours, when the body will be reduced completely to fine powder, mostly a grey color. These are the ashes that are then returned to the nominated person as part of the cremation costs in Bismarck, AR.\nAll of the options related to the memorial service will be carefully discussed with Bismarck, AR cremation services.\nThe Bismarck, AR cremation costs will detail whether the crematorium will be supplying a standard urn to return the ashes to you or whether you have opted to purchase a model for display which you may decide to use for a number of years.\nThe individual is always cremated alone, so you can rest assured that the ashes being returned to you are always correct and all of the procedures will be explained in detail by Bismarck, AR cremation services.\nReligious Questions in Bismarck, AR\nSome religious groups will require for a cremation to be completed inside 24 hours after the death of the person. This will be arranged by the funeral director and included within the Bismarck, AR cremation costs, once all of the legal documentation is complete.\nThere are so many things that you need to think about after someone has died so you should not be worried about leaning heavily on the skills and experience offered by Bismarck, AR cremation services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 8635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billInfo/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2019&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=386", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:56Z", "digest": "sha1:P6J4UK6RBRAY5NSPWXMJSTCYB3PK5OKC", "length": 245, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.legis.state.pa.us", "title": "Bill Information - House Bill 386; Regular Session 2019-2020 - PA General Assembly", "raw_content": "An Act amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, in powers and duties of the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, further providing for powers and duties.\nDrug & Alcohol Placement Criteria", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 2751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 214.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.linkpen.co.uk/listing/147860/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7U4LPX5MBZJDA4IMKS3PJQYMIB6E2O75", "length": 975, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.linkpen.co.uk", "title": "ProCare Environmental Services Ltd Pest Control in Birmingham Pest Control in West Midlands", "raw_content": "ProCare Environmental Services Ltd\nTurnberry House, Great Barr, Birmingham.\nB422HP\nhttp://www.procareenvironmental.co.uk\nProcare Environmental Services Limited provides Pest Control, Hygiene Services and Grounds Maintenance to the Midlands Area. With over 15 years experience we work towards Delivering a Safer Environment We only use fully trained and qualified operatives ensuring the highest standards of advice and service is provided to achieve the desired result. Whether you are a householder or business needing a one off visit or require a regular fully managed service, ProCare will put together a bespoke package that is tailored to your specific needs. We specialise in providing managed soft services where this is of the utmost importance such as schools, public amenities, restaurants and / or other areas where food is stored, prepared, cooked and consumed. Working in association with our clients ensuring their premises Delivers a Safer Environment for all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.litlisted.com/2017/03/you-wont-visit-these-tourist-destinations-after-reading-this.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:12Z", "digest": "sha1:4IIOCUSWNXRVRE36HP64V5OTHDOIBNJW", "length": 3932, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.litlisted.com", "title": "You Wouldn't Want to Visit These 8 Tourist Destinations After Reading This - LitListed", "raw_content": "We all like travelling, vacationing and visiting some world famous tourist destinations. Reaching your destination is not the only thing you need to keep in mind. Many people like to know about the history of that place while some just enjoy the scenic beauty of that place and enjoy the moment. Most of all just visit famous places without knowing the story and this can lead to many thrills or disappointments, one thing is surely certain. So before including any tourist destination into your travelling plan, you need to do some research : the more you know the better it is.\nThe research should be not only about how to get their, where to stay and where to visit, but also about the facts that you need to keep in mind to abstain yourself from some kind of problems. Furthermore, every piece of land has its own history which can be either bad or good, but sometimes a dark fact can come out about the place that can blow your mind. Here are some bizarre facts you should know before you plan your next vacation.\n1 1. Eiffel Tower \u2013 Paris\n2 2. Ganges River \u2013 India\n4 3. The Louvre \u2013 Paris\n5 4. Nu\u2019uanu Pali \u2013 Hawaii\n6 5. Mount Everest\n7 6. Tokyo \u2013 Japan\n8 7. Mount Fuji \u2013 Japan\n9 8. Indonesia\n1. Eiffel Tower \u2013 Paris\nAmong all tourist destinations, Eiffel Tower is the most loved and visited places in the world. It is always on the top of the list of every traveler. Especially it attracts the people who are in love, but it has some dark facts that you need to know. According to the stats, around 349 people have committed suicide by jumping off the tower. People have even hanged themselves to death. Weird, isn\u2019t it?\n2. Ganges River \u2013 India\nGanges is a holy river in India. Starting from the Himalayas, it flows across India and finally merges to Bay of Bengal. Many people from around the world visit Ganges to seek spiritualism. People bathe in it to cut out their sins and become spiritually pure, but you need to know about it\u2019s strange fact before visiting. The river is full of human as well as animal excreta and bodies.\n3. The Louvre \u2013 Paris\nThe Louvre is a historic monument in Paris. It is the largest museum in the world. According to the facts, the artwork of this museum has been stolen. Napoleon captured many nations, and it is said that the artwork has been stolen from those nations. Yes, you can call it a store house of stolen arts!\n4. Nu\u2019uanu Pali \u2013 Hawaii\nIt is a beautiful cliff located on the island of O\u2019ahu. The view from the cliff is breathtaking and hence, attracts many tourists. From this cliff, King Kamehamesha\u2019s military forced Oahu military to jump to their death.\nMount Everest is among world\u2019s famous tourist destinations, but is also the dirtiest mountain in the world. Yes! It\u2019s true. According to the reports, waste matter is more than 50 tonnes. It is not only full of waste matter, but also full of climbers\u2019s dead bodies.\n6. Tokyo \u2013 Japan\nTokyo is a beautiful city in Japan. It is said that some bars which belong to crime syndicate \u201cYakuza\u201d offers free drinks to the tourists. You need to abstain yourself from such offers as it can get you in serious trouble.\n7. Mount Fuji \u2013 Japan\nThere is a dense forest at the bottom of this amazing peak. The forest is known as the \u201cSuicide Forest\u201d. Many deaths have been reported from this forest. The reason is still unknown. Scary isn\u2019t it?\nIndonesia has 127 active volcanoes and millions of people are going about their daily lives within the danger zone. Brave or stupidity? It can\u2019t be answered.\nSo, these are some strange facts about some famous tourist destinations. Tell us if you liked or disliked something about this fact-file in the comment section below.\nTags: bizarredark factsfamous placesstrange factstourisimtourist destinationtourist destinationstraveltravellingvacation\nNext story US Bans Electronic Devices on Flights For These 8 Countries\nPrevious story 7 Times When Priyanka Chopra Proved That She Is Still a Desi Girl", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.littlespaceonline.com/viewtopic.php?p=21660", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:51Z", "digest": "sha1:JNWVGXGRJZ5UCKLQDUJ26VBK3C5ZOLET", "length": 5586, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.littlespaceonline.com", "title": "Example Introduction & Tips - Littlespace Online", "raw_content": "Example Introduction & Tips#21660\nDo not post a personal, match-making, or \"looking for a special someone\" ad in the introductions section! 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I am a little and I like adult coloring books with small details, the color pink, and my big brown teddy bear named Teddy. Aside from that, I live in the Northern part of the U.S. and go to college full-time, studying in psychology. I'm always either really busy or really bored so I am a big chatter throughout the day.\n(Over 350 characters!)\nExample 2: (Primarily basic-life aspects)\nI'm Ash and live in the US. I like biking, swimming in the summer heat, kayaking, hiking when everything is in full bloom, and anything else you can imagine is related to exercise. I was even a sprinter in high school! My favorite activity is probably surfing in competitions now. I'm learning about these Caregiver/little dynamics so I'm a little clueless where or if I fit into this yet.\nExample 3: (Primarily Caregiver/little aspects)\nI have been a Caregiver for the past 6 years to a wonderful little I call mine. No, really, I call them \"mine\"! 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I also like feeding our goldfish (Mine always forgets to feed the fishy guy) and drinking chocolate milkshakes with my little.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 8903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loeb.com/en/insights/publications/2011/10/nlrb-postpones-effective-start-date-for-its-new-__", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:21Z", "digest": "sha1:7FPD5KIFQHZNA2HJ5H237WELJBOHSJEF", "length": 1279, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.loeb.com", "title": "NLRB Postpones Effective Start Date for its New Mandatory Posting Requirements | Publications | Loeb & Loeb LLP", "raw_content": "NLRB Postpones Effective Start Date for its New Mandatory Posting Requirements\nThe National Labor Relations Board (the \u201cNLRB\u201d) has postponed the effective start date for its new mandatory posting requirements. As we mentioned in our September 1, 2011, advisory, the NLRB announced in August that private sector employers must post a notice of employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act (\"NLRA\") if the NLRA applies to the employer. Because many smaller businesses were unclear as to whether or not the NLRA and this mandatory posting requirement applies to them, the NLRB decided to delay the implementation of the posting requirement from November 14, 2011, to January 31, 2012. The basis for the delay is \"to allow for enhanced education and outreach to employers\" concerning the NLRB's jurisdiction and the mandatory posting requirement.\nFor more information on the content of this alert, please feel free to contact Michelle La Mar or any other member of our Employment and Labor Practice Group.\nThis alert is a publication of Loeb & Loeb LLP and is intended to provide information on recent legal developments. This alert does not create or continue an attorney client relationship nor should it be construed as legal advice or an opinion on specific situations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loriezapf.com/meet-lorie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:15Z", "digest": "sha1:FQ3WXAV7FG42MT5OLIGWAAPSM3HXP67J", "length": 2647, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.loriezapf.com", "title": "Meet Lorie Zapf | 2018 San Diego City Council Candidate | District 2", "raw_content": "Meet Lorie\u200b\nLorie Zapf - San Diego City Council Member\nSan Diego City Council Member, Lorie Zapf, was reelected in 2014 with the goals of improving the quality of life in San Diego and bringing common-sense solutions to City Hall. She is serving her second term, representing the Beach & Bay Communities of District 2. She serves as Chair of the City Council's Audit Committee where her top priority is cutting waste at the City and delivering better services to San Diegans. She is currently a member of the City\u2019s Public Safety & Livable Neighborhoods and Smart Growth & Land Use Committees.\nLorie Zapf - San Diego City Council Member since 2010\nCouncil Member Zapf brings years of business experience to City Hall as the former owner of a successful natural food company that she and her husband grew from an idea to a nationally distributed product. Lorie uses her experience as a small business owner to help bring about common sense reforms and initiatives at City Hall that reduce the burdens of costly government regulations and fees.\nLorie with her husband and two daughters\nAn avid outdoor enthusiast, Council Member Zapf frequently partners with The San Diego River Park Foundation and I Love a Clean San Diego in river, canyon, and beach clean-up efforts. (Little known fact: Council Member Zapf spent over a year backpacking around the world \u2013 from hiking the Himalayas to scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef). Her office has partnered in dozens of community cleanups which, to date, have resulted in the disposal of 87 tons of trash and 15.8 tons of recyclables. She also led the charge to obtain final approval for the San Diego River Park plan, which will create 17.5 miles of new riverfront park.\nCouncil Member Zapf\u2019s experience as a foster child instilled in her a passion to help disadvantaged children. She has been an active volunteer for non-profit organizations that help abused, neglected and foster youth. When youth age out of foster care, often they have no place to go. She partnered with the San Diego Housing Commission to ensure one of their newest developments downtown--the Hotel Churchill--will set aside units for youth aging out of foster care in perpetuity.\nDuring her career, Lorie has worked in radio and television broadcasting as a news reporter, a video producer, public relations manager, and executive director of a non-profit fighting frivolous lawsuits. She received her Bachelor\u2019s Degree in Broadcast Journalism from Cal State Northridge and a Master\u2019s Degree in Marketing Communication from the University of Denver.\n\u200bLorie lives in the Bay Ho area of Clairemont with her husband and two daughters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 174.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lukejerram.com/glass-stock-exchange/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:07Z", "digest": "sha1:46UHFN2LVA6BJZFZANP4TF75JLZKXP7J", "length": 1615, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.lukejerram.com", "title": "Stock Exchange Artworks - Luke Jerram", "raw_content": "These glass sculptures were made using graphs of the New York Stock Exchange (Composite 2004-2012) and the Dow Jones (Industrial Average 1980-2012). The artworks were made to contemplate the meaning of the current global financial crisis and are a method for capturing and crystalizing important periods of time in the economy.\nThe sculptures are the artists attempt to understand the meaning behind the numbers and graphs we are presented with in the media.\nPresenting the stock exchange as fragile forms the sculptures solidify data and frame important periods of time in glass. The crash of 2009 is clearly visible.\nJerram said \u201cThe human impact of the 2009 crash, as shown in the sudden change in the artworks diameter is really significant, and yet this is just an altering line in piece of glass. What will the sculpture defining the next 10 years look like?\u201d\nThe Dow Jones artwork is made in solid cast optical glass. For the NYSE artwork, a new composite glass bead material was especially developed for casting. In 2015 the artworks were presented at the Brussels Stock Exchange and in 2014 at the Heller Gallery, NYC.\nThis website shows a graph of the Dow Jones spanning from 1930-2012.\nThe concept for this work was developed during Jerram\u2019s residency at the Museum of Glass, Washington 2011. The Dow Jones measures 31cm long and the NYSE 21cm long. Created as a limited edition these works are for sale.\nAn edition of the NYSE sculpture is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Glass, Washington.\nThe original wooden forms used for casting were made in collaboration with wood turner Paul Brooks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.macewan.ca/wcm/SchoolsFaculties/Business/Programs/OfficeAssistant/Admissions/Requirements/index.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:41Z", "digest": "sha1:BXZ5G3SC7CHZSGGMFWNIYPDY6NSLE7ML", "length": 3152, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.macewan.ca", "title": "Requirements - MacEwan University", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Schools & Faculties \u00bb School of Business \u00bb Programs \u00bb Office Assistant \u00bb Admissions \u00bb Requirements\nAdmission requirements include the high school subjects or post-secondary equivalents you need to complete and the minimum grades you need to achieve to be considered for admission into this program. Along with academic criteria, you will need to ensure additional admission criteria are met.\nYou must meet the following requirements to apply for Fall 2019 intake.\nApplicants may be admitted to one of the following:\nTo be evaluated through the Office of the University Registrar\nThree subjects from Group A, B, C, or D\nApplicants with nine or more post-secondary credits must also present a minimum Admission Grade Point Average (AGPA) of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale.\nLearn more about Group A, B, C or D courses\nApplicants must be 20 years of age or older and have been out of full-time high school at least one year by the beginning of the intake term. Applicants must have a minimum overall average of 65 percent, with no course grade lower than 50 percent, in the following high school courses:\nPrevious Post-Secondary Admission\nAdmission in this category does not imply or guarantee the transfer of any coursework and/or credential unless a block transfer agreement (internal or external) is in effect and published in the Calendar by the Office of the University Registrar. In addition, transfer of coursework does not imply or guarantee that an applicant will be admitted.\nApplicants must present a minimum of 24 post-secondary credits with a minimum Admission Grade Point Average (AGPA) of 2.0 on the 4.0 scale and must have completed the required core courses listed under the Regular or Mature Category.\nAll applicants must meet the following:\nTo be evaluated through the Office of the University Registrar | Applicable to all admission categories\nAll applicants must meet an acceptable level of English language proficiency. We will require official documents such as high school or post-secondary transcripts or proof of successful completion of standardized language evaluation. Full details are available in MacEwan University\u2019s academic calendar or online at MacEwan.ca/ELP.\nLearn more about English language proficiency\nTo be evaluated through the program | Applicable to all admission categories\nApplicants are required to successfully pass a five-minute keyboard test.\nLearn more about the keyboarding test\nFor medical major only:\nApplicants offered admission are required to submit the following:\nA clear Police Information Check (or equivalent from another policing agency) that includes a Vulnerable Sector Search. The Police Information Check must be submitted by the published document deadline and have been issued within three months of the start of the program intake term.\nRead about the police information check \u00bb\nA valid Immunization record form meeting provincial regulations for health care workers.\nRead the instructions and complete the record of immunization \u00bb\nWe want your admission experience to be successful and straightforward. To help you along the way, we've prepared a step-by-step guide to the admission process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 7092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk/news/north_essex_news/17271649.braintree-woman-who-stole-68000-from-disabled-army-veteran-is-jailed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:51Z", "digest": "sha1:KX2GTT4GYGXBW5J2QWEDLNUTBUAKEKSO", "length": 1858, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.maldonandburnhamstandard.co.uk", "title": "Braintree woman who stole \u00a368,000 from disabled army veteran is jailed | Maldon and Burnham Standard", "raw_content": "Woman who stole \u00a368,000 from disabled 94-year-old veteran is jailed\nBraintree woman who stole \u00a368,000 from disabled army veteran is jailed\nJailed: Pauline Tagg\nA CALLOUS thief who stole \u00a368,000 from a 94-year-old disabled army veteran and spent the money on holidays and gambling has been jailed.\nPauline Tagg, of Hay Lane, Braintree, befriended the elderly woman before taking control of her bank accounts under the pretence of helping her to do shopping.\nTagg, 67, then began to transfer the money between the victim\u2019s accounts, withdrawing cash and making purchases using the vulnerable woman's bank card.\nShe also intercepted the victim\u2019s post to make sure nobody could find out about her thefts and spent much of the cash on luxury holidays and gambling.\nSuspicions were raised when the victim received letters from her bank and a utility company telling her of direct debit cancellations due to a lack of funds in her account.\nTagg was arrested by officers on July 25, 2017 and was jailed for two year and four months at Chelmsford Crown Court on Friday, November 30, after admitting to stealing the money over the course of two years.\nSentencing her, Recorder Mark Weekes described Tagg\u2019s actions as \"a sophisticated theft that inflicted a high degree of pain on the victim.\nHe added: \"You lived a luxurious lifestyle on the proceeds of the crime, an offence so serious that a custodial sentence had to be imposed.\"\nDetective Sergeant Mick Carrington, of Braintree CID, said: \"This was a particularly sad crime which targeted an elderly and vulnerable victim who had served her country in the army and also worked as a nurse.\n\"To have her life savings stolen by this callous individual left the victim understandably devastated.\n\"We will always work hard to bring those who prey upon, and take advantage of, elderly and vulnerable people, to justice.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 5663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mallorca-property.co.uk/blog/alcudia-bets-for-the-birdwatching-tourism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:17Z", "digest": "sha1:QERV736VEFLFAUYFA6CWJYDVLDJ3GR3P", "length": 2184, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mallorca-property.co.uk", "title": "Alcudia, bets for the birdwatching tourism | Mallorca Property & Properties for sale: Luxury Villas & Apartments in Majorca Spain", "raw_content": "The fact that Mallorca is a tourist destination that goes far beyond the well know formula of sun + beach is an affirmation that today no one dares to deny. From the island are launched constantly alternatives with which it is intended to extend the tourist season and open up new market segments.\nThat is why the municipality of Alc\u00fadia, in northern Mallorca has decided to bet strongly for the one known as birdwatching, centralized in bird watching tourism. They could not have made a better bet considering it has a territory where no bird watching is almost impossible. In the area are cited more than 200 different species of birds, many common and some very rare and difficult to see elsewhere.\nThe Balearic Government declared S\u2019Albufera Natural Park on January 28, 1988, constituting the first protected natural area of the Balearics. This statement implies the conservation and restoration of natural and cultural values, enhancement of educational, scientific activities and contact between man and nature, as well as harmonization in the local and Mallorca socioeconomic context, being its main function the conservation of nature. In addition, S\u2019Albufera has been Special Protection Area from the moment when Spain became a member of the European Community.\nBordering the area is located Club Pollentia Resort & Spa, a four star hotel which has shown particular sensitivity to tourism. The hotel installed years ago a set of information panels on the resort grounds, next to the entrance to the nature reserve, where there is information on the most emblematic birds can be seen, the ornithological calendar, etc. In addition, since the complex you have access to a bird watching center.\nLooking for houses for sale in North Mallorca in such outstanding areas as Pollen\u00e7a and Alcudia is always a pleasurable experience. These are such pretty little towns and a highly popular choice for people who come to Mallorca often returning here to look for houses for sale.\nWhatever type of house in North Mallorca you desire, whether it\u2019s an apartment, a luxury villa, a quaint townhouse or even a rural finca, we can help you in your search for that dream house for sale.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2007/12/privately-insured-use-emergency-room-less", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:32Z", "digest": "sha1:7IDV2Q7VI5QN3FR2TBP27J6ZURS2QVYQ", "length": 1753, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.managedcaremag.com", "title": "Privately Insured Use Emergency Room Less | Managed Care magazine", "raw_content": "Privately Insured Use Emergency Room Less\nA recently issued brief from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation seeks to characterize and analyze persons who frequently, or infrequently, use hospital emergency departments (EDs). The report, titled \u201cCharacteristics of Frequent Emergency Department Users,\u201d found that frequent users, those who had four or more visits over two years, often belong to groups with greater need for health care services: the elderly, the poor, and persons living with chronic conditions, all of whom are likely to be in poor health.\nHigh ED users are far more likely to have Medicare (28 percent) or Medicaid (23 percent) coverage than low ED users (18 percent and 12 percent, respectively) and non-ED users (12 percent and 8 percent, respectively).\nIn contrast, a majority of both low ED users (54 percent) and non-ED users (64 percent) have private health insurance coverage.\nIn addition, there is little variation between ED user groups in terms of the proportion without insurance, with 14 percent of low ED users, 15 percent of non-ED users, and 17 percent of high ED users lacking insurance.\nWhen comparing the ED visits of different health insurance groups, Eric Becker and Bianca DiJulio, researchers at Kaiser, found that the uninsured are no more likely to use the ED frequently than are others.\nThey report a consistently different pattern of ED use. Medicaid and Medicare beneficiaries are typically ED users at rates exceeding the group average, the privately insured are consistently below average, and the uninsured are near the average.\nThe uninsured, while making up roughly 15 percent of the sample population, account for about 14 percent of total ED visits and less than 12 percent of aggregate ED expenses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.managedcaremag.com/archives/2014/7/should-mental-health-patients-get-pharmacogenomic-testing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:21Z", "digest": "sha1:HTZBSO64ZYEZXNMOZ7NEZHG427WAJ5ZR", "length": 12394, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.managedcaremag.com", "title": "Should Mental Health Patients Get Pharmacogenomic Testing? | Managed Care magazine", "raw_content": "Should Mental Health Patients Get Pharmacogenomic Testing?\nBehavioral health companies are using cheek swabs to help choose the drugs that will work best for certain individuals. But psychiatrists say such testing still needs to prove itself.\nA new tool promises to make treatment of the mentally ill more cost-effective, but some experts wonder if it\u2019s really ready for prime time. Pharmacogenomics \u2014 the burgeoning science of how individual genetic makeup affects a person\u2019s response to medications \u2014 is being recruited to predict how effective certain drugs will be in treating mental health patients, with a goal of ensuring that drugs most likely to be effective are prescribed.\nGenoa Healthcare, the nation\u2019s largest behavioral health pharmacy provider, is collecting cheek swabs to identify patients who could benefit from certain medications aimed at treating mental illness. It takes the swabs from high-utilization patients and sends them to a laboratory for pharmacogenomic testing to determine how patients will respond to medications.\nThe testing is designed to improve the effectiveness of prescribing, says Julia Bartlow, RPh, the company\u2019s regional operations manager. These tests also will allow Genoa to identify patients who might experience adverse effects from antidepressant or antipsychotic medications and thus may help to improve adherence, she adds.\n\u201cRight now, it\u2019s art as well as science,\u201d says Julia Bartlow at Genoa Healthcare. \u201cThese tests would certainly add to the prescribers\u2019 toolkit.\u201d\nSince 2013, Genoa has been working with SureGene, a Louisville, Ky.-based company that uses genetic testing to identify genes responsible for psychiatric illnesses and drug response. In collaboration with Louisville\u2019s PGXL Laboratories, SureGene developed a test to identify biomarkers useful in predicting whether antipsychotic drugs are likely to be safe and effective for patients with mental health disorders such as severe depression and schizophrenia.\nPredicting patient response\nOther companies that specialize in treatment of patients with severe mental illness are developing similar tests. Last year, Mayo Clinic and AssureRx Health received a patent to identify genes to help physicians improve the selection of medications for patients with depression and other psychiatric disorders.\nAssureRx Health has licensed the technology from Mayo and developed the Gene\u00adSight pharmacogenomic tests to identify genetic variants affecting patient response to psychiatric medications. GeneSight is intended to help clinicians make informed, \u00adevidence-based decisions about the most appropriate medications for patients, the companies said.\nEarlier this year, ValueOptions, a managed behavioral health care company, began working with Geno\u00admind, a personalized medicine company, to study pharmacogenomic testing to treat patients diagnosed with such psychotic disorders as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The study began this spring at Zucker Hillside Hospital, in Glen Oaks, N.Y.\nIn the study, researchers will compare outcomes from treatment as usual with those of patients who receive pharmacogenic-guided-treatment using Genomind\u2019s Genecept Assay. The research will help to determine the efficacy of testing, its effects on treatment decisions, and its impact on costs and quality of care. Like the SureGene test, the Genecept Assay uses saliva and identifies genetic and biological markers that can inform clinicians\u2019 treatment decisions for patients diagnosed with a variety of psychiatric conditions, ValueOptions and Genomind said.\nNot ready for adoption\nThis level of activity is an indication that researchers believe these tests can help clinicians treat patients with mental illness more effectively. But even if this is the wave of the future, some observers don\u2019t see it crashing on the shore quite yet.\nThe tests aren\u2019t ready for widespread adoption in mental health clinics, says Shaili Jain, MD, a psychiatrist at Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System. A researcher affiliated with the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Jain is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford University School of Medicine.\n\u201cIncreasingly, psychiatry is combining pharmacogenomic findings with new therapeutic drug monitoring in the hope of improving the safety and efficacy of pharmacotherapy,\u201d Jain says. \u201cThe problem is that much of the scientific data on pharmacogenomic testing might be statistically significant but is not necessarily clinically relevant because the number of patients tested is still very low.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t really yet know how to use pharmacogenomic data to improve medication options for people with psychiatric illness,\u201d says Jain. \u201cRight now we have identified a lot of biomarkers, which means that one day we should be able to improve medication options with these tests. But little of what we have so far is definitive.\u201d\nTo be fair, what we know today has some clinical utility, Jain adds. For patients of Asian ancestry who require the mood-stabilizing medication carbamazepine, for example, the FDA recommends a pharmacogenomic test, because such patients who take this medication are highly susceptible to Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which manifests as a severe skin rash.\n\u201cThe FDA recommends that people appropriate for this medication who are of Asian ancestry be screened for the presence of a certain gene that makes them more susceptible to that side effect,\u201d she says. \u201cIf the patient has that allele, she should not be treated with that medication unless there is a very strong clinical indication for it.\u201d\nAnother example would be a test to identify patients who rapidly metabolize medications. \u201cWith data, we may know what kind of dose that person should be taking,\u201d says Jain. \u201cBut we\u2019re not ready to do that testing routinely.\u201d\nWhile some psychiatrists prescribe pharmacogenomic testing for their patients, Jain questions whether such testing is worth the cost. \u201cMany companies who provide the test kits are doing a lot of marketing for their use, but the jury is still out on what the test results mean clinically and whether the tests are necessary,\u201d she says.\nShe adds that \u201cWe don\u2019t have the data to support the use of these tests yet. To explore this avenue of care, we should definitely be doing testing, and that\u2019s where we are right now: trying to figure out how to use these tests.\u201d\nA diagnostic odyssey\nOn that point, you\u2019ll get agreement from Anil K. Malhotra, MD. Malhotra is a professor of molecular medicine and psychiatry at Hofstra University North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine and the director of psychiatry research at Zucker Hillside Hospital, where he is conducting the study for Genomind.\nWhat we have for one patient might work for another patient, but we have very little data to suggest which way to go,\u201d says Anil Malhotra, MD, who is investigating a pharmacogenomic assay.\n\u201cThe Genomind test has a number of genes on it that either help to identify the best medications or help to identify the best dose of the medications for these patients \u2014 or both,\u201d says Malhotra. \u201cTake risperidone, an antipsychotic, for example. There is a certain gene responsible for how that medication is metabolized. Knowing how it metabolizes will help with dosing in a particular individual.\u201d\nWhile these tests may have limited utility now, researchers hope they will be more useful in the future. Until then, Malhotra echoes Jain\u2019s refrain. \u201cFrankly,\u201d he says, \u201cthere is more hope right now than reality.\u201d\nCurrently, psychiatrists treat patients with a strategy that resembles flipping a coin, he adds. Often, a prescribing physician will begin with one medication and then try another and another until he or she finds one that produces the best response. This prescribing pattern is called a diagnostic odyssey, and that is what Malhotra\u2019s research is designed to make unnecessary. \u201cWhat we have for one patient might work for another patient, but we have very little data to suggest which way to go,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s why there is hope that with these pharmacogenomic strategies, we can identify better matches between patients and drugs.\u201d Malhotra\u2019s research for Genomind is one of several smaller studies that will lead to larger studies, all designed to assess the clinical utility of pharmacogenomic testing for patients with mental illness.\nNeeded: a big study\n\u201cNo one has yet done a large-scale prospective study in which half of the patients get some kind of pharmacogenetic testing with a product and the other half do not,\u201d Malhotra explains. \u201cThe clinician would treat all patients as usual. And the point would be to record some economic benefit such as reduced time in the hospital, reduced outpatient visits, reduced side effects, or whatever the results happen to show. We need a large-scale prospective study of 1,000 patients or more showing that kind of an outcome.\u201d\nBut before anyone will do a large-scale trial, smaller studies are needed. \u201cYou have to power it with preliminary data, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re doing now,\u201d says Malhotra. He has funding to do the research for one year and collect and report the results in a second year.\n\u201cRight now, we are enrolling 100 patients, and 50 will get the pharmacogenomic intervention and 50 will not,\u201d he says, adding that he expects to have results by about 2016.\nGenomind has already conducted a study published earlier this year in the American Journal of Managed Care that assessed the cost of care for 300 patients with mental health disorders.\nInvestigators found that the per-patient outpatient cost in those using the Genecept Assay was 9.5% lower \u2014 that\u2019s $1,686 annually \u2014 than the per-patient cost in a matched control group, says Rachel Scott, PharmD, Genomind\u2019s vice president of clinical research and operations.\n\u201cThis study also looked at close to 700 patients to assess medication adherence and found that Genecept patients had 6% higher medication adherence than matched controls,\u201d she adds.\n\u201cThe savings largely reflected a reduction in outpatient visits,\u201d Scott explains. \u201cIn a follow-up study that measures inpatient resource utilization, we will see an even more dramatic cost savings.\u201d\nBartlow, of Genoa Healthcare, says that for many patients, such as those with treatment-resistant depression, this kind of testing could be beneficial. These people are high utilizers of the health care system, she says, so any medications that effectively control their depression may also help to cut expenses for inpatient stays or other high-cost services.\n\u201cMany psych drugs have markers that can be tested to aid in dosing, and there are a few proprietary tests that can aid in drug selection,\u201d she adds. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s art as well as science, so these tests certainly would add to the prescribers\u2019 toolkit.\u201d\nFor this reason, Genoa says, such testing can aid pharmacists and mental health professionals in caring for behavioral health patients. Genoa Healthcare\u2019s pharmacies are embedded in community mental health facilities in 27 states and the District of Columbia. Most of its patients are on Medicaid and Medicare.\n\u201cBecause our pharmacies are in community mental health centers, we deal with a specific segment of the population that includes those with serious and persistent mental illness,\u201d Bartlow says. \u201cSome of our mental health center clients are for-profit, but most are not for profit.\u201d\nPrescribing guided by testing\n\u201cFor specific prescribers who have identified the way they want to incorporate this testing into their practices for certain patients, phamaco\u00adgenomic testing could be useful,\u201d says Bartlow. \u201cSome prescribers have already picked the group of patients they believe will be more apt to see value in this testing. They plan to consistently test patients with the same diagnosis and then use that information to guide their prescribing.\u201d\nJain is more cautious. \u201cPharmacogenomics will be useful one day because it will add one more piece to a complex puzzle,\u201d she says. \u201cBut it won\u2019t provide all the answers. It will be nice to have a few more clues, and we might be close, but we are not at the point of using pharmacogenomics on patients in everyday practice.\u201d\nTackling Psychosis & Depression with Pharmacologic Biomarkers\nThe Show-me State Shows the Way On \u2018Health Homes\u2019 for Mental Health\nNot Making Sense of Mental Health Parity Rules", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 14622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marietta.edu/beta-beta-beta-biology", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:01Z", "digest": "sha1:R6ZZBECI5YDS4B7FVCE6WJSO6MVVFHIT", "length": 498, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.marietta.edu", "title": "Beta Beta Beta (Biology) | Marietta College", "raw_content": "Beta Beta Beta, national biological society, was founded in 1922. The Iota chapter, the sixth oldest of more than 250 active chapters, was installed at Marietta in 1926.\nStudents selected for membership must meet the scholastic standards and have completed the amount of work in biology established by the society. 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Check out this story on marionstar.com: http://ohne.ws/2xmGR1E\nRob McCurdy, Reporter Published 7:14 a.m. ET Sept. 22, 2017\nJeff Ruth of WMRN adjusts his headphones after speaking to his listeners two years ago. Ruth broadcasted his 500th high school football game on Friday.(Photo11: Matthew Hatcher/The Marion Star)Buy Photo\nMARION - Over the course of calling 500 high school football games, most run together, but a few are special.\nWMRN's Jeff Ruth has worked with 39 different football coaches over 35 years in Marion County, but has four games that stand out for different reasons.\nTwo obvious games were the 1996 and 2002 state championships won by Pleasant.\n\"The year they beat Versailles (in 1996), Versailles had won 54 in a row and nobody gave Pleasant a chance, and Pleasant scored two touchdowns in the fourth quarter to come from behind and win,\" said Ruth, who is in his 35th year of broadcasting games over the radio. \"(In 2002) when they beat Smithville, that was a situation where Pleasant was behind in the fourth quarter and again scored a couple of touchdowns.\"\nThe craziest and most exciting game he ever witnessed came on Nov. 4, 2000, when Marion Harding went to Massillon Washington for a playoff game.\nI'll let Ruth tell the story:\n\"Harding scored with little over a minute to go on a 34-yard touchdowns pass,\" he said. \"(Massillon and future Ohio State quarterback) Justin Zwick had a 60- or 50-yard touchdown run with four seconds to go, and you see the flag come out at about the 25 yard line, and of course they got Massillon for holding.\n\"The place just erupted and anybody who was there remembers that fans were throwing stuff on the field. The Harding players and the band were dodging things as they got onto the bus.\n\"A guy tried to get into the booth. Jim Oyster was doing the game (with me). He tried to climb in and knock all our equipment on the ground. It was a glass window and Jim slammed the window on the guy. I don\u2019t think he broke his hand, but he slammed it. He wasn\u2019t going to let anyone in.\n\"That whole game with Harding, nobody gave Harding much of a chance. Harding was 8-2 that year and had a very good football team, but going into Massillon, they had a great team that year and many people thought they could go to state that year. And Harding just knocked them off.\"\nMemorable for another reason was a long ago Harding regular season game played at Mansfield Senior's Arlin Field. It was the only time Ruth thought they might not make the air.\n\"Back then you had to install phone lines,\" Ruth said. \"I called Monday morning and spoke to the phone company to get the order to put it in Thursday or whatever.\"\nRuth and Oyster got to the game 90 minutes before kickoff and discovered there was no phone line.\n\"We called the guy at the phone company and he came out and looked. It was too late to do anything, basically,\" he said. \"We\u2019re five minutes from going on the air, and we\u2019re trying to figure out how we\u2019re going to get on the air.\"\nIt was the early years of cell phones. Both broadcasters had one, but neither had a charger.\n\"A phone would last maybe a half-hour or 45 minutes and they would die out,\" he said. \"I remember at halftime I\u2019m doing an interview and Jim is going through the stands trying to borrow a couple of cell phones so we could keep the game on the air.\n\"That\u2019s really the only time we really sweated it. We\u2019ve always gotten a game on the air.\"\nOr else next week would have been No. 500 for Ruth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 257.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marketing-partners.com/newsroom/rock-point-schools-cj-spirito-interviewed-on-education-and-burlington-impact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:X5UWJR3PWFXJNZYVXZX73SQJTFCJZIGH", "length": 335, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.marketing-partners.com", "title": "Rock Point School's CJ Spirito Interviewed on Education and Burlington Impact", "raw_content": "Tom Torti referred to the School as \"an asset to our community\" and highlighted the beautiful Rock Point lakeside campus in his introduction. 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Sometimes I just force myself to do it to get him off my back and then I feel dirty, resentful and upset in the morning. If I don\u2019t, he is distant in the morning and I feel guilty.\nHe suffers from chronic pain and has trouble sleeping in general. He takes Valium and muscle relaxants but they don\u2019t always work. During the day he will say things like \u201cI\u2019m so tired, I need my sleep tonight. Will you help me?\u201d I feel very uncomfortable with this whole situation as for me, intimacy should be based on feelings and being close to someone.. What can I do?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.massey.vcu.edu/about/news-center/2012/novel-radiation-therapy-safely-treats-prostate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:33Z", "digest": "sha1:T2TG5E4I3QLBLOJQDIH6JE656K6RKKVD", "length": 3027, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.massey.vcu.edu", "title": "Novel radiation therapy safely treats prostate cancer and lowers the risk of recurrence - VCU Massey Cancer Center", "raw_content": "Home / About Massey / News center / 2012 Archive / Novel radiation therapy safely treats prostate cancer and lowers the risk of recurrence\nA recent phase 2/3 clinical trial has shown that a new combination of radiation therapies developed at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center escalates radiation doses to safely and effectively treat prostate cancer and lower the risk of recurrence with minimal radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissue and organs.\nRecently published in the journal Brachytherapy, a novel treatment protocol designed by Michael Hagan, M.D., Ph.D., radiation oncologist at VCU Massey Cancer Center, that combines intensity-modulated radiation therapy with high-dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy was tested on 26 prostate cancer patients. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy uses computer-controlled linear accelerators to modulate the intensity of an external radiation beam to more accurately deliver radiation to tumors. HDR brachytherapy is an internal form of radiation therapy that uses small radioactive pellets implanted near the tumor.\n\u201cRecent studies have shown that both higher daily doses and higher total doses of radiation are better than standard doses in controlling prostate cancer, but these higher doses may be associated with higher rates of bladder and bowel complications,\u201d says the study\u2019s lead author Mitchell Anscher, M.D., Florence and Hyman Meyers Chair of Radiation Oncology and program co-leader of Radiation Biology and Oncology at VCU Massey Cancer Center. \u201cOur study was designed to reduce radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissue and organs and we were pleased to find that this unique dosing schedule is safe and effective.\u201d\nThe toxicity of the therapy was relatively low and all 26 patients were able to complete treatment. The treatment required only one HDR brachytherapy implant, and all participants were treated as outpatients. After 4.5 years, none of the patients relapsed and the rate of long-term side effects was low.\n\u201cOur goal is to improve outcomes for our patients, so we are continually researching ways to reduce unnecessary radiation exposure to healthy tissues and make treatments shorter and more manageable. We\u2019re hopeful our findings will lead to better tumor control rates and fewer complications for men with prostate cancer,\u201d says Anscher.\nMoving forward, the researchers plan to continue exploring prostate cancer therapies using higher dose rates and shorter treatment times. The next step will likely be a four-treatment study utilizing stereotactic body radiosurgery, a technique popular with brain cancer that provides higher accuracy and requires fewer treatments by focusing high-powered X-rays on a very small area.\nIn addition to Hagan, Anscher collaborated on this study with Michael Myers, M.D., Dorin Todor, Ph.D., Lynn Gilbert, Ph.D., Nitai Mukhopadhyay, Ph.D., Jessica Randolph, M.D., and Jeffrey Heilmiller from VCU Massey Cancer Center\u2019s Department of Radiation Oncology.\nView the full manuscript of this study at:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1264, "original_length": 53462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.masterstudies.com/universities/Online/Anthem-College-Online/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:44Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7NXIDFTKHGIQDFYDZSR2JIL3KWE44MH", "length": 723, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.masterstudies.com", "title": "Anthem College Online in", "raw_content": "Anthem College Online\nThe mission of Anthem College Online is to provide quality online learning focused on advancing students to the next level of education in the fields of Health Care, Business, Technology and Criminal Justice.\nFocus on the School\nAnthem College Online was created to provide students with the opportunity to expand their higher education while maintaining an active lifestyle and keeping their job. The school offers multiple degree programs at the Associate and Bachelor level. These degrees cover a wide variety of skills and are designed to be career-focused.\nFrom enrollment through graduation and beyond, Anthem College Online is dedicated to each individual student\u2019s academic and career success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 3185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 179.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.matarikinetwork.org/news-events/newsletters/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:05Z", "digest": "sha1:GS7QXUB35FQYO2FCMFS6XPSRV6EIIZOD", "length": 455, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.matarikinetwork.org", "title": "Newsletters - Matariki Network", "raw_content": "The MNU e-newsletter News from the Matariki Network provides regular updates on events and activities around the network. If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive the newsletter, please visit this following link.\nNews from the Matariki Network, September 2018\nNews from the Matariki Network, March 2018\nNews from the Matariki Network, December 2017\nNews from the Matariki Network, August 2017\nNews from the Matariki Network, April 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.math.ias.edu/seminars/abstract?event=44700", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:59Z", "digest": "sha1:DHJC6TUGK3NBQECO46BRNOFBS44ADZF6", "length": 1884, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.math.ias.edu", "title": "Combinatorial PCPs with Short Proofs | IAS School of Mathematics", "raw_content": "Combinatorial PCPs with Short Proofs\nTopic: Combinatorial PCPs with Short Proofs\nAffiliation: Stanford University; Member, School of Mathematics\nVideo Link: https://video.ias.edu/1213/csdm/OrMeir-1211\nThe PCP theorem (Arora et. al., J. ACM 45(1,3)) asserts the existence of proofs that can be verified by reading a very small part of the proof. Since the discovery of the theorem, there has been a considerable work on improving the theorem in terms of the length of the proofs, culminating in the construction of PCPs of quasi-linear length, by Ben-Sasson and Sudan (SICOMP 38(2)) and Dinur (J. ACM 54(3)). One common theme in the aforementioned PCP constructions is that they all rely heavily on sophisticated algebraic machinery. The aforementioned work of Dinur (J. ACM 54(3)) suggested an alternative approach for constructing PCPs, which gives a simpler and arguably more intuitive proof of the PCP theorem using combinatorial techniques. However, this combinatorial construction only yields PCPs of polynomial length, and is therefore inferior to the algebraic constructions in this respect. This gives rise to the natural question of whether the proof length of the algebraic constructions can be matched using the combinatorial approach. In this work, we provide a combinatorial construction of PCPs of whose length blow-up is quasi-poly-logarithmic, coming very close to the state of the art algebraic constructions (whose length blow up is poly-logarithmic). To this end, we develop a few generic PCP techniques which may be interesting in their own right. It should be mentioned that our construction does use low degree polynomials at one point. However, our use of polynomials is confined to the construction of error correcting codes with a certain simple multiplication property, and it is conceivable that such codes can be constructed without the use of polynomials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maximpowercorp.com/corporate-information/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:5BXKKHAU2RHKI4WZHU4KZKEA47DWQ62U", "length": 469, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.maximpowercorp.com", "title": "Maxim Power Corp. - Corporate Information", "raw_content": "Email: investors@maximpowercorp.com\nThe Corporation trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol MXG.\nThe 2018 Annual General Meeting was held in the Main Floor Conference Center at, 715 \u2013 5 Ave SW, Calgary, Alberta on Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. (MT).\nMay 24, 2018 Investor Presentation\n2700, 205 \u2013 5 Avenue S.W.\n600, 530 \u2013 8th Avenue S.W.\nSecurities documents filed with SEDAR.\nFor specific information requests, please use the Contact Us page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 193.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mckeever.photos/2013-Fireground-Images/05-14-13-Coshocton-FD-House-Fire", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SIRVKWYK4BOK4N5XHGMSWXZRNPL5XSUQ", "length": 66, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mckeever.photos", "title": "05-14-13 Coshocton FD House Fire - Fireground Images by Jim McKeever", "raw_content": "Coshocton FD makes a quick stop to a house fire on Cambridge Road.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mdvamilk.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ONBRSMOUEZGYZ67E3CMDVIL2FZ3CMXJT", "length": 1119, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mdvamilk.com", "title": "About Us \u2013 MDVA", "raw_content": "Owned and operated by nearly 1,500 dairy farm families from Pennsylvania to Georgia, our members have upheld a passion for providing safe and nourishing dairy products for nearly 100 years. We invite you to learn more about our community, our farmers and our promise that we deliver with each and every glass.\nStarted in 1920 by an impassioned group of dairy farmers, our member owners have remained dedicated to supplying fresh, wholesome and nutritious dairy products for nearly 100 years.\nOur 1,200 dairy farm families are at the heart of who we are. Whether they share dairy goodness by the glass or inside a cone, we invite you to learn a little more about our farmers and their passions.\nWe are on the honest pursuit of nourishing lives worldwide. Whether it's delighting our customers, caring for our cows or sustaining our land, we are proud to do it the right way.\nThere\u2019s no substitute for timeless values, which is why we continue to embrace the same principles that drove our founders today.\nWe're hiring! Interested in joining the Maryland & Virginia family? 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In India, gastric sleeve costs are substantially lower than in the West, thereby making the country a good option for potential medical [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 6005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 196.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.meetrv.com/difference-between-junior-bridesmaids-and-flower-girls/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:48Z", "digest": "sha1:BTX5E4QYBJOO7EEWZCNIAPM5TAJI2AFE", "length": 3548, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.meetrv.com", "title": "What\u2019s the Difference Between Junior Bridesmaids and Flower Girls?", "raw_content": "What\u2019s the Difference Between Junior Bridesmaids and Flower Girls?\nadmin October 19, 2018 What\u2019s the Difference Between Junior Bridesmaids and Flower Girls?2018-10-19T16:31:55+00:00 Lifestyle No Comment\nIf you\u2019ve been planning your wedding for any period of time \u2013 whether it\u2019s been two weeks or two years \u2013 you probably already have become privy to the ever-confusing vernacular that surrounds traditional weddings.\nIf you find yourself confused about terminology, that\u2019s okay, wedding lingo is a little tricky! This is especially true when it comes to terms like \u201cJunior Bridesmaids\u201d and \u201cFlower Girls.\u201d Aren\u2019t Junior Bridesmaids just bridesmaids? If they\u2019re young girls, aren\u2019t they just flower girls? What\u2019s the difference between the two, anyway?\nThere are tons of questions that are probably spinning around in your head. Don\u2019t let your intimidation get in the way of how you plan your wedding. If you\u2019re looking for a little explanation, we got you covered.\nCheck out our brief explanation that lays out the differences between junior bridesmaids and flower girls and how you should shop for each of them!\n1 What is a Junior Bridesmaid and What Does She Do?\n2 What is a Flower Girl and What Does She Do?\n3 How to Shop for a Junior Bridesmaid\n4 How to Shop for a Flower Girl\nWhat is a Junior Bridesmaid and What Does She Do?\nA junior bridesmaid is a young girl who is part of the wedding party. She\u2019s typically aged 9-15 and is either too old to be a flower girl (something that\u2019s determined by the bride and groom) or too young to be a full-fledged bridesmaid who can take part in all of the action (such as the bachelorette party, etc.). The junior bridesmaid typically has several of the same responsibilities as the regular bridesmaids, such as holding bouquets, wearing the uniform dresses, taking care of the bride on her wedding day and more, however, she is likely going to sit out from all of the responsibilities due to the age difference.\nWhat is a Flower Girl and What Does She Do?\nA flower girl is a young girl who is usually related to either the bride or groom who is part of the wedding ceremony. Traditionally, the young girl is anywhere from ages 3-12 and is responsible for not only looking adorable but also preceding the bride down the aisle and lining the pathway with flower petals of the bride\u2019s choosing. While you are welcome to choose as many flower girls as you\u2019d like, typically, the flower girl responsibility goes to one child who is willing to take on the role in the wedding.\nHow to Shop for a Junior Bridesmaid\nWith Junior Bridesmaids, you\u2019re going to want to match her as best as possible to your full-fledged bridesmaids, so taking color, style, and cut into account is going to matter.\nHow to Shop for a Flower Girl\nWe\u2019re going to give you the exact same advice to start this off \u2013 check out JJ\u2019s House. They have an insanely wide array of flower girl dresses out there that take style, cut, color, and theme into account. You can pick out the perfect flower girl dress for your little beauty in all age groups. Even if your girl is only 1-2 years old, you can find stunning toddler flower girl dresses here. Make sure you\u2019re considering the season, the fabric, and the comfortability of the dress as well because you\u2019ll be buying the dress for a young girl \u2013 and with kids, being comfortable counts.\nBridesmaids, Flower Girls, Girls, Junior Bridesmaids, Lifestyle, Wedding, Wedding Ceremony, Wedding Party\n\u00ab Why is Construction a Growing Industry in India?\nTips that will help you Secure your Linux VPS \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 8755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/55774/facebook-accused-of-introducing-extremists-to-one", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6VG5MALCCSHFJ2ADJVBQCXDVS34GZ3FP", "length": 967, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.meforum.org", "title": "Facebook accused of introducing extremists to one another through 'suggested friends' feature :: Islamist Watch", "raw_content": "Facebook accused of introducing extremists to one another through 'suggested friends' feature\nhttps://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/55774/facebook-accused-of-introducing-extremists-to-one\nFacebook has helped introduce thousands of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) extremists to one another, via its 'suggested friends' feature, it can be revealed.\nThe social media giant - which is already under fire for failing to remove terrorist material from its platform - is now accused of actively connecting jihadists around the world, allowing them to develop fresh terror networks and even recruit new members to their cause.\nResearchers, who analysed the Facebook activities of a thousand Isil supporters in 96 countries, discovered users with radical Islamist sympathies were routinely introduced to one another through the popular 'suggested friends' feature.\nUsing sophisticated algorithms, Facebook is designed to connect people who share common interests.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 237.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metrofloristandgifts.com/birthday-for-him", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:34Z", "digest": "sha1:MXYYQUCINATDPS6V5LLZJW5GLPFOPHTQ", "length": 291, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.metrofloristandgifts.com", "title": "Birthday Flowers for Him | Metro Florist and Gifts - Ferris, TX Florist", "raw_content": "Birthday gifts for him can be tough to find. Make it easy by choosing from our selection of masculine flower arrangements and specialty gift baskets in Ferris, TX. Whether your gift is sent to his home or his office, it'll be a perfect way to send your best wishes and say, \"Happy Birthday!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/article/20120330/NEWS/303309995", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XUTT2VCYQMOSMCU4EJ5IHYA7MNMOTGMU", "length": 3056, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.metrowestdailynews.com", "title": "Tenant transformation: The new face of renters - News - MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, MA - Framingham, MA", "raw_content": "Tenant transformation: The new face of renters\nMolly Logan Anderson%%GateHouse News Service\nWhat once was a position primarily filled by those just starting out in life, renting is not just for today\u2019s youth anymore. Instead, condos and homes are being rented more frequently compared with years past, and the demographics of who is renting just might surprise you.\nIn the past five years, there has been a marked difference in the percentage of our population that is choosing renting as opposed to homeownership.\n\u201cWhen we look at some of the census data and compare it to five years ago, there are more renter households,\u201d says Paul Bishop, vice president for research of the National Association of Realtors, who says 34 percent of households are renting today, compared with about 29 percent five years ago.\nWhere the increase is\nIn contrast, research does support an escalation of renters in the middle-aged population, who might consider renting a viable option for myriad reasons.\n\u201cThere are proportionally more renters in the 30- to 64-year-old group,\u201d says Bishop. \u201cThis is likely due to the events in the economy over the last several years.\u201d\nEconomic changes that have affected family incomes and resulted in home sales or losses are likely contributing to the growth of this sector of renters.\nIn addition, Bishop sees an increase in those renters older than 65.\n\u201cPart of this is certainly due to the increase in this sector of the population overall, but the characteristics of renters are changing,\u201d says Bishop. \u201cIt\u2019s a lifestyle choice, and we\u2019re seeing many folks opting to downsize.\u201d\nInstead of staying in the family home indefinitely, many seniors desire the freedom that downsizing provides, in terms of income and maintenance.\nRenters on the decrease\nWhen it comes to the breakdown of current renters, there seems to be an uptick in many facets of our population; however, that growth does not include the very young.\n\u201cYounger households are having a harder time getting started than before, so we\u2019re not seeing as many being created,\u201d says Bishop, who perceives a relatively smaller proportion of younger renters in his research.\nInstead of venturing out on their own after college, it seems many of today\u2019s young folks are conservatively staying home and waiting until the time is financially right to start their own households.\nWhat\u2019s next for housing?\nAccording to the NAR, the seemingly dormant housing market is beginning to show signs of life.\n\u201cThere is a pent-up demand in the market today,\u201d advises Bishop, who says that younger households that have been slow to start total only 500,000 new households annually, whereas five years ago 1 million new households were started.\n\u201cAs the economy picks up, which we are starting to see already, there will be job opportunities and reasons for new purchases, relocations and more home building.\u201d\nThe modest positive changes seen in the employment market are an indicator that we\u2019ll see correlating changes in the housing market over the next two to three years as well, Bishop says.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 5755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/20190204/schools-grapple-with-rising-health-costs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:57Z", "digest": "sha1:XHZKJJBDIQBNPCHRK4RUZW4ZVUVL2BAD", "length": 3329, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.metrowestdailynews.com", "title": "Schools grapple with rising health costs - News - MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, MA - Framingham, MA", "raw_content": "Schools grapple with rising health costs\nMassachusetts residents have become accustomed to watching local school budgets increase over the years.\nThe annual growth -- somewhat routine -- is typically chalked up as reasonable, and there\u2019s not much pushback in a state where education performance repeatedly ranks No. 1 in the nation.\n\u201cSchool districts, especially those that are spending at or about foundation levels (minimum funding) have been faced with the choice of essentially funding their health care benefits or funding programs and teachers and classrooms,\u201d Peyser said. \u201cOf course, not funding health care benefits is not really an option, so the fact that they were absorbing high health-care costs meant that they had to make choices and tradeoffs.\u201d\nIn some cases, fluctuations in health insurance costs determine whether a community pays more or less in any given year. The Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School Committee on Jan. 28 approved a 3 percent increase to next year\u2019s school budget totaling $62.3 million. However, the total could turn into a 2.5 percent decline pending a vote on health insurance rates by the Cape Cod Municipal Health Group, where the district buys its health insurance. If the rates don\u2019t increase, the school district is expected to adopt the lower budget figure, according to Wicked Local Yarmouth.\nOf course, rising health care costs are not solely a challenge of the school system. From 2013 to 2017, total health care expenditures in Massachusetts -- including money spent in both the public and private sectors -- grew 21 percent to $61.1 billion, according to annual reports by the Massachusetts Center for Health Information and Analysis.\nBut health care costs nonetheless became a major focus for schools beginning in 2015 when the state Legislature created the Foundation Budget Review Commission to review how the state calculates how it provides funding to municipalities, known better as Chapter 70 funding.\n\u201cThe actual costs of health insurance and special education have far surpassed the assumptions built into the formula for calculating the foundation budget,\u201d according to the report.\nFast-forward four years and Republican Gov. Charlie Baker, a former health care executive, has proposed increasing Chapter 70 funding by $1.1 billion over seven years. The proposal includes funding for the four areas detailed in the 2015 report. But the lion's share will go toward health insurance, according to a presentation by Peyser, who argues the boost will give schools more leeway to spend in other areas.\n\u201cWhen you see health care what you should really see is teachers,\u201d Peyser said. \u201cFunds to health care benefits means you\u2019re taking them away from classrooms and education supports. To the extent we can fill that gap, it frees up resources.\u201d\nThe proposal comes as a welcomed sign to proponents of greater school funding. But it falls short for some Democrats, who argue Baker\u2019s proposal doesn\u2019t live up to the recommendations from 2015. Competing legislation has been filed in both houses of the Legislature, which would boost pre-K-12 funding by more than $1 billion per year.\n\u201cWe give the governor\u2019s proposal a C-plus for effort. But unfortunately, it falls short in several serious ways,\u201d wrote a group of nonprofits and lawmakers, including Rep. Mary Keefe, D-Worcester.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 7897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metrowestdailynews.com/x1525679663/Framingham-Rotary-auction-is-all-online", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:51Z", "digest": "sha1:HZMNACVLRT3QWBN6UHXBW2AYTYIXOXTI", "length": 1969, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.metrowestdailynews.com", "title": "Framingham Rotary auction is all online - News - MetroWest Daily News, Framingham, MA - Framingham, MA", "raw_content": "Framingham Rotary auction is all online\nThe Framingham Rotary Club auction, a tradition for 40 years, has a new look this time around.\n\u201cIt\u2019s now entirely on the Internet,\u201d said Mark Lawless, chapter president.\nIn past years, the auction was a weekend event aired on local cable TV, but the change means people throughout the region and across the country can take part.\n\u201cIt\u2019s much easier for people\u201d to bid on items now through Dec. 7, said Lawless. \u201cFamilies can gather in front of the computer to view and bid on items at any time of day or night, and track their progress over time.\n\u201cIt\u2019s just a matter of communicating with them and letting them know what\u2019s going on.\u201d\nWhat\u2019s going on is 197 items are currently available, with more likely to be added.\n\u201cHaving a good mix is important,\u201d Lawless said.\nItems up for grabs include Red Sox tickets; gift certificates for local restaurants such as the Aegean, CJ\u2019s Northside Grill, Firefly\u2019s, La Cantina, T.J. Spirits and the Wayside Inn, plus chain eateries including Chili\u2019s, Olive Garden and Ruby Tuesday; fine wines; trips to Cancun and the Grenadines; books on CD; golf lessons; dental checkups; furniture; a photo of Ted Williams and Babe Ruth; a first-aid class at MetroWest Medical Center; and Tommy\u2019s Taxi gift cards.\n\u201cOne important aspect of the auction has not changed,\u201d said Lawless. \u201cAll of the proceeds go to local charities and nonprofits in the form of grants for which these organizations apply in late winter for spring distribution.\u201d\nPast recipients have included Bay Path Elder Services, the Danforth Museum of Art, Boy Scouts Knox Trail Council, A Place to Turn and Jewish Family Services of MetroWest.\nThere will be cable TV shows capping the auction on Dec. 6 and 7, but the shows will focus more on ways local groups are helped by the club that draws members from Framingham, Ashland, Holliston, Hopkinton and surrounding towns.\nTo access the bidding site and view items, go to rotaryauction.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 4567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.miamisnextleaders.com/2019cohort", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:W43U2WEHA3MGBS443NVK3BDWOIULJODG", "length": 26757, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "www.miamisnextleaders.com", "title": "2019 MNL Cohort \u2014 Miami's Next Leaders", "raw_content": "Each year, Miami\u2019s Next Leaders hosts a selective, six-month leadership development institute which seeks to support and train the next generation of Miami\u2019s progressive leadership.\nMeet the 2019 MNL Fellows!\nVIRGINIA ANSALDI\nVirginia Ansaldi graduated from the University of Miami with a BA in Marine Affairs and Policy in 2010. She has been an educator since 2009, having worked for a variety of programs and institutions across the country. In 2015, she became a high school science teacher and in 2018 was awarded the Rising Star Award for Sustainability from the City of Coral Gables due to her efforts in environmental education. In addition, Virginia has been teaching yoga since 2013, working not only in yoga studios and schools, but also in rehabilitation centers, prisons, and juvenile detention centers. Today, Virginia is running her own nonprofit after school program for high school students in Miami-Dade County, Aim Miami. Aim seeks to enrich young peoples\u2019 personal development with exercises that teach emotional awareness and interpersonal skills. By investing in our youth, Virginia hopes to build a healthier and stronger Miami.\nAROHI BHATT\nArohi is very excited to be a part of MNL\u2019s inaugural cohort. A native of Toledo, Arohi studied Economics and International Development at Miami University (the one in Ohio). Her experience has largely been in non profit finance and operations and her current work allows her to learn about what makes organizations sustainable and maximize impact. She currently serves as a Manager on the Development team at Teach for America Miami-Dade and is a Civic Impact Fellow with Radical Partners. She is deeply passionate about women's leadership, progressive issues, art & design, travel, organizational development, and cultivating joy at work.\nANDY CAESAR\nAndy Caesar is a 4th year math instructor at Miami Northwestern Senior High School where he teaches Financial Algebra, coaches both boys & girls soccer, and sponsors multiple clubs. 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Through persuasive writing and creative web development, her team helped Democratic candidates win elections across the country. Upon relocating to Miami, Rachel worked as a Social Content Analyst at the digital agency, SapientRazorfish. Focusing on social media analytics, she helped develop creative solutions for a wide range of clients. Her passion for political advocacy led her to leave SapientRazorfish to manage a state house race in the 2018 cycle. As the campaign manager, she led a team of interns, organized the candidate\u2019s schedule, planned fundraisers and meet and greets, and coordinated days of action. This experience allowed Rachel to immerse herself in the progressive movement of Miami and led to her current role as the District Coordinator for County Commissioner Eileen Higgins. As the District Coordinator, Rachel builds relationships with the members of the Miami Beach Government, neighborhood associations, and community organizations. She also leads the team\u2019s small business initiatives and Mom and Pop grant program. When she's not working you can find her cheering on The Dawgs, scouting out Miami\u2019s newest restaurants, and showing off photos of her golden retriever.\nALYSSA CUNDARI ROELANS\nAs a community activist, Alyssa Cundari Roelans has dedicated her life to building power and standing in solidarity with marginalized communities. Alyssa is currently the Florida Area Director for the Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU (CIR), a union representing resident physicians. In seven years she has grown the membership by 20%; prioritizing leadership development, collective bargaining and member engagement. She is a national leader within CIR, working to strengthen strategic planning initiatives, and implementing consistent and efficient systems and processes, while also managing CIR\u2019s National Orientation strategy. She sits on the SEIU Florida State Council. As a result of her work, she was presented with an award of recognition in May 2018.\nAlyssa was a Teach for America-Miami corps member, teaching middle school civics and language arts. Alyssa was awarded \u201cRookie Teacher of the Year\u201d in 2010, and founded a girls soccer team and book club for students.\nAlyssa is an avid volunteer and has worked with the Miami Workers Center, Power U Center, and New Florida Majority; she has served on the steering committees of the Student Farmworker Alliance and United Students Against Sweatshops and the boards of the League of Women Voters of Miami-Dade County, Miami-Dade County Living Wage Commission, and Miami Springs Educational Advisory Council. Alyssa participated in the 2015-2016 United Faculty of Miami-Dade College\u2019s Candidates Academy.\nAlyssa received her Masters in Education & Social Change from the University of Miami. She lives in Miami Springs and loves to travel with her husband, Ryan, and daughter, Madison.\nNicole Graham is a proud third generation Miamian who relishes the daily chaos of her hometown. She currently works as an Associate Director of Development at the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Florida Region, focusing on engaging the Miami community.\nNicole graduated from the Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in the History of Science and a concentration in Public Health. She holds a law degree from UF and is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Florida. Nicole began her career in government affairs at the Maryland and District of Columbia MS Society. After law school, Nicole served as a federal judicial clerk in the Southern District of Florida and later as a legislative aide in the Florida Senate. Nicole then returned to the legal field, specializing in health care and intellectual property law. As a Woodrow Wilson fellow at Hopkins, Nicole researched health policy as applied to Medicaid eligible women and children in Baltimore city. She also focused on health policy throughout law school, analyzing the applicability of electronic medical records in the context of HIPPA and related state laws.\nNicole is committed to Miami and improving social justice throughout the community. She is member of the National Council Jewish Women\u2019s Listen and Engage Leadership Program and co-chaired NCJW\u2019s 2018 \u201cYou Be the Judge\u201d event designed to inform voters about the federal judiciary. She is a member of the Junior League Public and Governmental Affairs Committee, working with state and local officials on legislation benefiting children and women.\nKAREN IGLESIAS\nBorn and raised in South Florida. Karen is a public health professional and advocate with 6+ years of experience in community engagement and program implementation and evaluation. She currently works as a Health Education Supervisor with the Florida Department of Health in Miami-Dade County, STD/HIV Prevention and Control Program. She oversees all risk reduction efforts and educational initiatives to lower the rate of HIV/AIDS in Miami and leads community mobilization efforts for Latinx communities as the Chair of the Hispanic Initiative. Karen also serves as co-chair of FIU\u2019s Center for Latino Health Research Opportunities (CLaRO) Board that looks to research intervention approaches to address substance abuse, psychological trauma and HIV/AIDS among vulnerable Latinx communities.\nShe graduated with her Master\u2019s Degree, specializing in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, from Florida International University and is currently the Founder and President of the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work Alumni Chapter as well as member of the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society. Karen has a passion for social justice issues and has focused most of her work and efforts in leading initiatives for farmworker communities in South Dade. She is committed to addressing the intersectionality of health inequities in order to create an equitable Miami and values storytelling and spaces that foster human connectivity and mutual understanding.\nDAVID L. JACKSON\n\u201cHe who sits and eats with turmoil and triumph at the same table with the same regards will surely be successful.\u201d\nDavid L. Jackson is a teacher, author, workshop director, and motivational speaker who prides himself on the above quote. Born in the inner city of Miami Dade County to immigrant Jamaican parents, Jackson has become a young mover and shaker in his home county. Through several juvenile run ins with the law, family financial issues, and survivors guilt, he has learned to turn adversity into possibility. Upon earning the Posse Academic and leadership scholarship (1 out of 1100 selected in 2013), he went on to completing his Undergraduate Degree majoring in history and secondary education at Syracuse University.\nAs a student activist Jackson has answered a call to fight injustices against an underrepresented people, addressing cuts to scholarships, study abroad programs, and financial aid which all support Black students. Jackson has fearlessly placed himself on the forefronts of action, in an effort to voice the voices of those who feel their voices don\u2019t exist. As a motivational speaker, Jackson has engaged students of all ages in hands-on activities and lectures to inspire them to reach their true potential; even serving as the key-note speaker at several commencement ceremonies, and on campus seminars. As a workshop director Jackson has designed and implement workshops spanning from work in the Juvenile sector, to summer workshops for high school students, which proves the versatility in Jackson\u2019s work. As a teacher Jackson teaches at the high school in which he graduated from. He currently serves as The Law Academy lead teacher over at Miami Central Senior High School.\nKATHERINE LEIVA\nKatherine has spent the past seven years advocating for students as a teacher and leader in South Florida schools, with a particular focus on equity and social justice. A perpetual innovator, she has co-founded two companies in the last three years: her first venture is FitLit, a non-profit that blends fitness and literature for students, and her second is MetaMindset, an LLC that trains teachers, parents, and students on mindfulness, understanding the brain, and the importance of emotional intelligence. She has a Masters in Education from Johns Hopkins University, claims Spanglish to be her first language, is a twitter aficionado, and is a natural born storyteller.\nOSCAR LONDONO\nOscar Londo\u00f1o is a Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney at the Community Justice Project. As a community and movement lawyer, Oscar partners with workers\u2019 centers and community-based organizations in South Florida. He provides wage theft representation, community education, and strategic litigation and policy support to low-wage immigrant workers, including domestic workers, day laborers, and farmworkers. Born and raised in Miami, Oscar received his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar and a Derrick Bell Scholar for Public Service, and his B.A. in Sociology from Cornell University. During law school, Oscar interned at a number of community and movement lawyering organizations, including Make the Road New York, the Community Activism Law Alliance in Chicago, and the Community Justice Project. Prior to law school, Oscar worked at City Year Miami, Public Allies Miami, and the Children\u2019s Movement of Florida. Oscar was a 2018 Legal Innovator Fellow with Law for Black Lives and Movement Law Lab.\nFrancisco is a Senior Associate at the Council of the Americas (COA), an international business organization whose members share a common commitment to promoting democracy, open markets, democracy and the rule of law in the Western Hemisphere. At COA, Francisco facilitates dialogue between Miami\u2019s business community and public sector leaders from across the Americas for substantive public policy discussions. He also leads the Young Professionals of the Americas (YPA)\u2014the young leaders initiative of COA. Francisco\u2019s work in the YPA initiative focuses on uniting future leaders who share a passion for business, policy, and culture in Latin America, by providing a unique opportunity for Miami\u2019s rising stars to develop professional and social networks and to share ideas, advice, and experiences, under COA\u2019s umbrella. Prior to COA, Francisco worked in Washington D.C, where he gained broader professional experience in public affairs, strategic communications, and business associations. He graduated from the University of North Carolina (UNC) - Chapel Hill with a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics and political science. He is also a proud alum of Miami Dade College and completed courses at the National University of Singapore (NUS).\nDanny Mendoza is a Cuban-American producer, director, writer, and actor who was lucky enough to be born and raised in Miami. He is a proud graduate of Belen Jesuit Preparatory School and NYU\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts. During more than a decade of work in film and television, he has directed and produced a wide variety of documentaries, independent films, television shows, web series, and commercials. His interest is primarily in the intersections of the arts and service, building his career on the foundational belief that stories can effectively further the cause of justice.\nWALKER MOSELEY\nAfter graduating from North Carolina State University in 2010, Walker moved to Miami to complete an AmeriCorps year of service with the education-focused non-profit City Year. Upon completing his year of service, he accepted a Program Manager position and oversaw City Year\u2019s implementation in Allapattah and Liberty City public schools. In the Fall of 2014, Walker moved to Philadelphia to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and completed a master\u2019s degree in Public Administration and Organizational Development. While in graduate school, Walker was a Lipman Leadership Fellow with the Wharton School of Business and worked for the Committee of Seventy, a think tank focused on ethical governance, where he launched a successful pilot program that engages juniors and seniors in Philadelphia high schools through elections-focused service learning.\nUpon completing his graduate degree, Walker accepted a position with the School of Education at Drexel University. At Drexel, he oversaw the creation, development, and implementation of a pilot program called DragonsTeach Middle Years, which aims to expand the middle school teacher pipeline in Philadelphia by creating a pathway for Drexel undergraduates, from any major, to add a teacher-certification track to their plan of study without changing their major. Walker moved back to Miami in the Summer of 2018 and joined Guitars Over Guns (GOGO) staff as the Miami Regional Director. With GOGO, Walker oversees the successful implementation of their model in Miami, which engages students from disadvantaged backgrounds through a powerful combination of arts education and mentorship with professional artists.\nCARSON OSBERG\nCarson is an Immigration Attorney at Americans for Immigrant Justice. She has worked in AI Justice\u2019s Lucha Program for five years, providing representation to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking in their immigration matters in and out of court. She also provides \u2018Know Your Rights\u2019 presentations and other information to immigrant communities.\nPrior to joining AI Justice, Carson was a Public Interest/Public Service (PIPS) Scholar at the American University Washington College of Law, where she focused on immigration law and workers\u2019 rights. While in law school, she interned and volunteered at various non-profit organizations, including Ayuda, KIND, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, the National Immigrant Women\u2019s Advocacy Project, CARECEN, and CAIR Coalition. Also an active student organization member, Carson chaired the board of her school\u2019s Equal Justice Foundation, which raised funds to provide summer scholarships for unpaid work in the public interest sector. She also wrote and edited for the Human Rights Brief and co-chaired the Immigrants\u2019 Rights Coalition.\nPrior to law school, Carson worked at the International Organization for Migration (IOM), managing a family reunification program providing reunification assistance for human trafficking survivors choosing to remain in the United States. She has a B.A. from Tufts University, a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, and is a member of the Maryland Bar. Carson speaks Spanish and has lived and volunteered in Spain, Mexico, and Ecuador. In Miami, Carson enjoys biking, outdoor yoga, book club, and supporting her friends\u2019 public interest endeavors.\nGustavo currently works for FIS Global, a financial software firm, as a consultant focusing on the retail and commercial banking sector. He mainly works doing implementations for new clients and helps clients manage liquidity, credit risk, and keep up to date with regulations. Gustavo has been with FIS Global for eight years. Outside of work, he is involved with several Democratic clubs, but mainly with the Miami-Dade Young Democrats, where is currently the treasurer of the club. Additionally, he is part of the Miami Forever Bond oversight board and the Community Advisory Board within the City of Miami. Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Gustavo came with family to Miami in 1996 and attended Coral Gables Senior High School. He graduated from Babson College in 2010 with a Bachelor of Science. In his spare time he reads non-fiction books and plays tennis.\nVanessa Pierre is a community leader with a S.T.E.M. and Arts education program in the city of North Miami serving youth in grades K-8 and teaches students the fundamentals of science, art, and technology. Art-Cademics Academy provides afterschool, weekend, and summer programming year-round. Miss. Pierre has been an educator for the past 7 years specializing in Reading and English for K-12 and adult education. Vanessa matriculated at Bethune-Cookman University : Bachelor of Science in Exceptional Student Education with a minor in Spanish, Nova Southeastern University : Master of Science in Curriculum, Instruction, Technology, and Morgan State University : Doctor of Education in Community College Leadership. As an engaged community leader, Vanessa also serves on the City of North Miami Parks and Recreation Commission as well as the Quality Education Board. Vanessa was a Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2017 nominee and overall, prides herself in focusing on identifying barriers to student learning and providing relevant and meaningful K-12 and adult education. Her passion for education is at the core of who she is and shapes her desire to serve and lead. Miss. Vanessa Pierre models her steps in life by the words of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman University, \u201cEnter to Learn, Depart to Serve.\u201d As a millennial community servant, Vanessa is a progressive thinker and do-er in terms of effectuating change and progress amongst her peers and community.\nKAMILA Przytula\nA Program Officer at Planned Parenthood, Kamila specializes on sexual and reproductive health in Latin America. She focuses on the integration of innovation and technology to remove barriers that exist in accessing services and information. She has worked to strengthen health systems and improve access to quality care in Guatemala, Ecuador, Peru, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. With over 10 years of experience, she has has worked with the Centers for Disease Control, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Harvard University, Partners In Health, and PEPFAR. Kamila envisions a community that genuinely supports women; at work, at home, and in our democracy. She is the co-founder of Femme Book Club Miami -- a group of 40+ members who are engaged in their communities and active in local politics -- and a volunteer for Ruth\u2019s List Miami. A Miami-transplant, Kamila was born in Poland and raised in Spain. She has a Masters in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BA from Boston University.\nLasonya Rodgers\nLasonya Rodgers is a Miami native and a proud first-generation American. She is a 2012 graduate of Florida State University where she earned a B.S in Sociology and a minor in Child Development. She is also a 2014 graduate of Florida International University where she earned a Masters in Public Administration .\nShe is currently employed by the City of Homestead where she serves as an Assistant to the Mayor and Council. In her position she helps to facilitate projects, tasks and events spearheaded by the various members of the Homestead City Council.\nIn her previous position at the YWCA of Greater Miami, Lasonya served as the Director of the Economic Empowerment Program. Through the Economic Empowerment program, participants learned how to take charge of their financial situations by learning various financial skills such as budgeting, credit establishment and improvement and how to create a savings plan. Clients attributed their participation in this program with their ability to make the best financial decisions for themselves as well as their families. It was also here at the YWCA that Lasonya\u2019s passion for social justice and economical development blossomed.\nLasonya believes that, \u201cservice never sleeps\u201d. In her free time, she continues her mission of being invested and involved in her community as the Co-Founder of The Women\u2019s Empowerment Circle, a member of the Junior League of Miami, and a mentor with Women of Tomorrow.\nJOSHUA A. SIMMONS\nJosh is the first African-American Commissioner to be elected to the Coral Springs City Commission since the city became incorporated in 1963. With a mother who serves in the United States Navy, Josh was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, but moved to - and attended - high school in Virginia, before relocating to Florida. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University, Josh earned a B.S. in Political Science. After earning an M.S. in Psychology, Josh worked in the mental health field for a company that provided services in Broward County. In 2015, Josh was offered an opportunity to teach in the Broward County School System. He is currently assigned to Coral Springs High, where he teaches 12th grade Government and Economics and 10th grade Modern World History. During Josh\u2019s run for Commission Seat 4, he knocked on more than 4,500 doors of City residents engaging in hard, but beneficial conversations. He believed this was the best way to introduce himself, while better understanding the pulse of the Coral Springs community. Josh believes the City is a microcosm of the State of Florida, with great diversity. Of the City, Josh is proud of the 49 parks, multitude of events, schools and outstanding restaurants. His goal is to ensure Coral Springs remains a great, safe community for people of all ages, races and religious backgrounds. Josh enjoys reading, sports, video games and traveling. As a history teacher, he enjoys learning about other cultures, history and the people he meets.\nMONICA SKOKO RODRIGUEZ\nMonica Skoko Rodr\u00edguez is a first generation college graduate and Miami-native dedicated to the public health of the South Florida community. She is a University of Miami trained nurse who has done minority health disparities research with the NIH, provided oncology care, worked with the DOH in Title 1 schools in Miami-Dade County, and currently is a nurse providing reproductive healthcare at Planned Parenthood. Before nursing, Monica studied writing, theater, and film at New York University, and worked in media. She uses that creative training and deep understanding of communications to inform her work in public health programming, policy, and campaign organizing. She is currently finishing her Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University and works as the Public Health Director for the Florida Health Justice Project. Monica has worked to effect systemic change at a policy level by working as a fellow on a congressional campaign, lobbying extensively for reproductive rights, and working on immigration policy. She marries this work with grassroots efforts like door to door canvassing to get out the vote, mentoring young women on reproductive health, going to at risk neighborhoods to explain Zika prevention, and gathering hundreds of felony voting petition signatures. Through her work, Monica keeps in mind the goal of eliminating inequities regarding health outcomes and access to healthcare in South Florida. She is excited to continue working with the people of Miami to find solutions to mitigate injustice and improve outcomes in matters most important to this community, such as climate change.\nSABRINA VELARDE\nSabrina V. Velarde is currently the Housing Program Manager at Miami Homes For All, a housing advocacy organization seeking to ensure that all Miami residents have a safe and stable home. Miami Homes For All does this through policy advocacy, research, and collective impact initiatives. Sabrina is a passionate public servant who has focused her career on addressing the need for affordable housing in Miami-Dade County and protecting the rights of those living in affordable units. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Political Science and Philosophy from Florida International University and is a 2013 graduate of St. Thomas University School of Law, where she received the St. Thomas University Pro Bono Commendation Certificate for completing more than 100 hours of pro bono service. As a law clerk and Certified Legal Intern at Legal Services of Greater Miami, Sabrina worked directly with many Public Housing, Section 8, and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit tenants and helped them apply for, maintain, and reinstate their status as housing benefit recipients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 27597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.michigandaily.com/section/columns/miles-stephenson-new-media-solution-sensationalism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4YCJBWENNVPJ4IEN37G7YQUJBIIAVXRJ", "length": 5433, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.michigandaily.com", "title": "From The Daily: On the government shutdown | The Michigan Daily", "raw_content": "Between the dates of Dec. 22, 2018, and Jan. 25, 2019, the United States government was partially shut down after President Donald Trump refused to sign any funding bills that did not include the $5.7 billion he wanted for his wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. This 35-day shutdown was the longest in American history, and resulted in more than 420,000 federal workers being furloughed, an estimated 0.13 percent of economic quarterly growth lost per week and wasn\u2019t ended until Trump ultimately agreed to sign a stopgap bill, funding the government through Feb. 15. Trump, however, still doesn\u2019t have his wall, which he desperately wants. Despite many people \u2014 including some who voted for Trump \u2014 blaming him for the shutdown, Trump has threatened to either declare a national emergency or shut down the government once again if not given his desired wall funds.\nWhile the Democratic Party should advocate for its political principles, it is important to remember that the well-being of the American people is the most important issue the party should focus on. Thus, avoiding a government shutdown should be a goal high on the agenda, as so many Americans\u2019 livelihoods depend on an open and well-functioning federal government. Trump\u2019s hardheadedness means that it is likely that he ultimately rejects anything the Democrats put forward.\nHowever, the Democrats completely giving up on the negotiation process would not be ideal either. Both a shutdown and national emergency would cause chaos, and the adults in the room should at least try to do what they can to avoid either scenario. The sitting administration has taken such malevolent policy positions that means attempting to find middle ground would, in effect, turn the Democrats into co-conspirators in a marginally less objectionable crime. The optics of extending a hand across the aisle may prove politically advantageous for them going forward. While it seems unlikely that Trump would accept anything the Democrats sign off on, the party can still take the high road. To be clear, since it is the Republicans \u2014 not the Democrats \u2014 insisting their demands be met, Democrats are under no practical obligation to come to the table, though they certainly have the right to pursue such a tactic.\nGoing forward, Trump has placed himself in an extremely tight position in regards to the wall, leaving him little room for success or recovery. After Democrats and Republicans were able to compromise on a bill which allocated $1.3 billion to border security back in December, Trump initially said he would agree to sign it \u2014 but ultimately ended up reneging. It is also worth noting that in March 2018, Democrats were ready and willing to give the administration the full $25 billion it wants for the construction of a border wall in exchange for a path to citizenship for DACA recipients, but this was also turned down.\nWhile polls show that 59 percent of Americans oppose the wall, Trump, out of fear of losing his core base of supporters, has been driven away from compromise and towards more extreme options. With Congress seemingly content to go on without funding for a wall in place, Trump\u2019s two options appear to be another shutdown or declaring a state of national emergency \u2014 unfortunately for him, neither are very popular nor promising.\nFirst, of course, Trump could do what he has already done and shut down the government. However, it\u2019s unclear what exactly that would accomplish. This could prove politically perilous, as Trump bore most of the brunt for the last shutdown and the multitude of negative effects should not be compounded by taking such a disastrous course of action again. Secondly, Trump could declare a national emergency. However, that would be unpopular among Senate Republicans, a group who has previously, for the most part, stood behind him. In addition to being unpopular, declaring a national emergency could also be unconstitutional.\nWhile the Supreme Court has a history of favoring executive power, Trump isn\u2019t exactly strengthening his case for a national emergency by threatening to declare one if Congress doesn\u2019t do his bidding. Emergencies are supposed to be declared when congressional approval would be too slow to handle an emerging crisis, so patiently waiting before declaring one runs contrary to the assertion that the matter at hand is an \u201cemergency\u201d at all. Since the recent government shutdown proved to be an exercise in futility, Trump ultimately does seem to be leaning towards the national emergency route.\nAs mentioned earlier, it seems unlikely that Trump would accept any deal the Democrats would propose. However, seeing as though he seems to be in a rather desperate position, it might make sense to re-propose a path to citizenship for DACA recipients in exchange for the $5.7 billion. If Democrats were, at one point, ready to fork over $25 billion for a DACA path to citizenship, then this deal would effectively save $19.3 billion that would have gone toward a project that Speaker Nancy Pelosi decried as \u201cimmoral\u201d just last month.\nWe look toward Feb. 15 and hope for the best. Arriving at an equitable solution to this looming problem is an absolute necessity and the soul of our nation depends on it. We urge that our elected officials do their jobs and uphold their oath to do what\u2019s best for their country and their constituencies.\nDACA uncertainty continues as US Supreme Court refuses to hear case", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mildenhallmontessori.com/tina-bio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:25Z", "digest": "sha1:S3HFA3DGCAQFEY4ZR4EHMQSLYBXAA7MW", "length": 463, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mildenhallmontessori.com", "title": "Tina Bio \u2014 Mildenhall Montessori", "raw_content": "Tina Farmani\nI was born in Iran and have lived in Iran and Canada.\nI studied in Iran and Canada and completed a Pediatric Nursing Degree, and hold an AMI Assistant and a Childcare Assistant diploma. I have taught for 18 years.\nI speak Farsi and English.\nWhen I am not at school, I like walking and reading.\nIf you knew me really well, you would know that I am very patient. I also escaped from Iran because of religious persecution, on a camel through the desert.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.milebymile.com/main/highway-2484.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:30Z", "digest": "sha1:FB62E3XON64VGSHXBY4XORIJALYIWJLA", "length": 23137, "nlines": 214, "source_domain": "www.milebymile.com", "title": "Trip Planning for: Oklahoma Highway United States #270", "raw_content": "Oklahoma/Kansas State Line, south of Liberal, Kansas, enters US Route #270 and starts its journey through Tennessee, to end at Arkansas/Oklahoma State Line where it crosses over to Arkansas.\nJunction : US #83/64\nJunction US Route #83 & 64, A Highway rest stop, Community of Turpin, Oklahoma, a small unincorporated community in Beaver County, Oklahoma, lies nearby.\nBroadway Ave : Forgan, Oklahoma\nBroadway Avenue, Forgan, Oklahoma, a town in Beaver County, Oklahoma,\nJunction : US #64/OK #23\nJunction US Route #64/ Oklahoma Highway #23, Community of Mocane, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community in Beaver County, Oklahoma, Billy Rose Archaeological Site, a site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.\nAccess : Beaver Dunes State Park\nAccess to, Beaver Dunes State Park, a state park located on US Route #270,\nBranch 4th St. : Beaver, OK\nBranch 4th Street, Beaver, Oklahoma, a town in and the county seat of Beaver County, Oklahoma, Beaver County Memorial Hospital, Jones & Plummer Trail Museum, Beaver County Library, The Presbyterian Church building, a historic building built in 1887, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance and association with settlement of the area. Beaver Municipal Airport, a public-use airport located southwest of Beaver, Oklahoma, along Hollow N1390 Road.\nUS Rte #412 : Elmwood, OK\nUS Route #412, Oklahoma Highway #3, Community of Elmwood, Oklahoma, a small unincorporated community located in Beaver County, Oklahoma,\nHollow N1620 : Slapout, OK\nHollow N1620, Community of Slapout, Oklahoma, a small unincorporated community in Beaver County, Oklahoma,\nIntersection : US Rte #283\nIntersection US Route #283, Laverne, Oklahoma, a town in Harper County, Oklahoma, Laverne Municipal Airport, a public airport located nearby.\n4th Street : May, OK\nIntersection Oklahoma Highway #46, 4th Street, May, Oklahoma, a town in Harper County, Oklahoma,\nJunction : US #183\nJunction US Route #183, to Buffalo, Oklahoma, a town in Harper County, Oklahoma,\nMain Street : Fort Supply, OK\nMain Street, Fort Supply, Oklahoma, a town in Woodward County, Oklahoma, Fort Supply Reservoir, E0304 Road to, Fort Supply Historic Site, Camp Supply then was a United States Army post in Indian Territory to protect the Southern Plains.\nE0334 Road : Cooper Wildlife Mgmt Area\nE0334 Road, Cooper Wildlife Management Area, a wildlife management area located on the east side of US Route #270, Fort Supply Reservoir, lies on the west side.\nOklahoma Ave : Airport\nOklahoma Highway #15/Oklahoma Avenue, to West Woodward Airport, a general aviation airport located in the west along OK #15.\nOklahoma Ave: Woodward, OK\nJunction of Oklahoma Highway #34\nJunction Oklahoma Highway #50 connects with US #412 near Mooreland, Oklahoma, a town in Woodward County, Oklahoma,\nE0510 Road : Sharon, OK\nE0510 Road, to Sharon, Oklahoma, a town in Woodward County, Oklahoma,\nE0540 Road : Mutual, OK\nE0540 Road, to Mutual, Oklahoma, a town in Woodward County, Oklahoma,\nUS #183 : Taloga, OK\nUnited States Route #183, Taloga, Oklahoma, a town in and the county seat of Dewey County, Oklahoma,\nJunction : US #60/281\nJunction US Route #60/281 concurrent, to Community of Chester, Oklahoma, a rural unincorporated community in Major County, Oklahoma, Seiling Municipal Hospital, lies near this junction, Seiling Airport lies nearby.\nShepherd St. : Seiling, OK\nShepherd Street, Seiling, Oklahoma, a city in Dewey County, Oklahoma, Seiling Public Library, McAllister House in Seiling, Oklahoma, built in 1920, a historic place listed on the National Register of Historic Places,\nE0610 Rd/Indian Road : Wildlife Area\nE0610 Road/Indian Road, to Canton Wildlife Management Area, a wildlife management area, located east off US Route #270.\nOK Hwy #51: Canton Lake/Recreation Areas\nE0748 Rd/Main St. : Oakwood, OK\nE0748 road/Main Street, Oakwood, Oklahoma, a town in Dewey County, Oklahoma,\nJunction : OK Rte #58/OK Rte #33\nIntersection Oklahoma Highway #58, Oklahoma Highway #33, Community of Fay, Oklahoma, a small community located along Oklahoma State Highway #33. Community of Eagle City, Oklahoma, a small rural community located on Oklahoma State Highway #58 in western Blaine County, Oklahoma south of Canton Lake.\nRussworm St. : Watonga, OK\nRussworm Street, Oklahoma Highway #8, to Watonga, Oklahoma, a city in and the county seat of Blaine County, Oklahoma, Blaine County Sheriff, Blaine County Treasurer, Watonga Park Dept., Watonga Library, Watonga Municipal Hospital, TB Ferguson Museum, Watonga Municipal Airport, a public airport located just north of the city of Watonga, Oklahoma, Blaine County Courthouse, built in 1906 is a historic place listed on the National Register of Historic Places is located in Watonga, Oklahoma.\nMain Street : Greenfield, OK\nMain Street, Greenfield, Oklahoma, a town in Blaine County, Oklahoma, Left Hand Spring, a well-known watering stop on the old Chisholm Trail in present day Blaine County, Oklahoma lies nearby in the east on 248th Street NW.\nAmerican Horse Rd : American Horse Lake\nAmerican Horse Road, to American Horse Lake, a lake located west off US Route #270.\nW Main St. : Geary, OK\nW Main Street, Geary, Oklahoma, a city in Blaine and Canadian counties in Oklahoma, Geary Public Library, Geary Tag Agency,\nJunction : US #281/OK Hwy #8\nJunction US Route #281/Oklahoma Highway #8, Bridgeport, Oklahoma, a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, lies along Interstate Highway #40.\nMain St. : Calumet, OK\nMain Street, Calumet, Oklahoma, a town in Canadian County, Oklahoma, Laughlin Lake, lies nearby.\nJunction Interstate Highway #40, Hinton, Oklahoma, a town in Caddo County, Oklahoma, Hinton Municipal Airport, a public airport located along Intertate Highway #40.\nSunset Drive : Lake Rolla/Lake El Reno\nSunset Drive/Oklahoma Highway #66, to El Reno, Oklahoma, Lake Rolla, and Lake El Reno, are lakes lying between I-40 and OK #66.\nCountry Club Rd : El Reno Airport\nCountry Club Road, to El Reno College, El Reno Airport, Redlands Community College, Parkview Hospital, El Legion Park, Adams Park, located in El Reno, Oklahoma, on the north side of US #270 along Country Club Road. On the south side along Reno Road lies El Reno Regional Airport, a public-use airport located southwest of El Reno, Oklahoma.\nUS #81 : El Reno, OK\nUS Route #81/Rock Island Avenue, OK Hwy #66, El Reno, Oklahoma, a city in Canadian County, Oklahoma, El Reno Library, El Tag Agency, El Reno Convention and Visitors Center, Frank Knight Park, Canadian County Historical Museum, Canadian County Sheriff's Office, Burton Park, El Reno Regional Airport Rqo,\nExit 132 : Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport\nExit 132, Cimarron Road, to Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport, a public-use airport located in Canadian County, Oklahoma,\nExit 136 : Yukon, OK\nExit 136, Oklahoma Highway #92/Garth Brook Blvd., Yukon, Oklahoma, a city in Canadian County, Oklahoma, Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital, Kimbell Park,\nCzech Hall Rd : Czech Hall\nCzech Hall Road, The Czech Hall also known as Bohemian Hall, a building near Yukon, Oklahoma, built in 1925, listed on the National Register of Historic Places lies nearby on Czech Hall Road. West Watch, Patco Village, Spring Meadows are neighborhoods located nearby.\nJohn Kilpatrick Turnpike : Lake Overholser\nJohn Kilpatrick Turnpike, to Lake Overholser, a reservoir within the city limits of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge, Woodlawn Park, Oklahoma, a town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Wiley Post Airport, a public-use airport located northwest of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,\nS Council Rd : Wheatland, OK\nS Council Road, Council Road RV Park, Wheatland, Oklahoma, a rural community located south off US Route #270, within the city limits of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma,\nExit 145 : Will Rogers World Airport\nExit 145, Will Rogers World Airport, the principal commercial airport, located in southwestern Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, The Museum of Women Pilots, a non-profit museum, White Water Bay, a water park built in 1981 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Celebration Station, Oklahoma State University-Oklahoma City, Classic Corbin Park, Hilldale, Windsor Hills, are nearby neighborhoods.\nIntersection: I-44/Will Rogers Expy\nIntersection of Interstate Highway #44/Oklahoma Highway #3\nSW 4th Street : Oklahoma City, OK\nJunction : Interstate Hwy #235/35/US #77/62\nJunction Interstate Highway #235/35, US #77 & 62, Valley Brook, Oklahoma, a town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, business district of this town is comprised mostly of adult/strip clubs, Moore, Oklahoma, a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, Crossroads Mall, a super regional shopping mall and trade area located in south Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, located south along Interstate Highway #35. Along I-235 lies The Supreme Court of Oklahoma, one of the two highest judicial bodies in Oklahoma,\nUS #62/I-35 : Oklahoma City Zoo & Botanical Garden\nJunction of US Route #62/Interstate Hwy #35\nSE 15th Street : Midwest City, OK\nSE 15th Street, Smith Village, Oklahoma, a town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Del City, Oklahoma, a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Sooner Park, Rose State College, Mid-Del Area Vocational College, Midwest City, Oklahoma, a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, lies east of Del City, Oklahoma,\nS Air Depot Blvd : Tinker Air Force Base\nS Air Depot Boulevard, to Tinker Air Force Base, a major U.S. Air Force base, with Navy and Department of Defense missions, located south of Midwest City, Oklahoma a suburb of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Tinker AFB Airport, Rose State College, US Marine Corps Reserve Training,\nDouglas Blvd : Spencer, OK\nDouglas Boulevard, to Spencer, Oklahoma, a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, City of Spencer, Oklahoma, is a historic community, Midwest Regional Medical Center, Specialty Hospital of Midwest City, Pecan Grove Park, located nearby in Midwest City, Oklahoma. Lake Stanley Draper, a reservoir in southeast Oklahoma City, lies at the south end of Douglas Boulevard, Stanley Draper Drive, traverses the shores of the lake. Outdoor activities such as fishing from piers, Riding ATV's or Dirt Bikes, or fly R.C. airplanes, Water Skiing and Jet Skiing are allowed on and around the lake.\nAnderson Road : Nicoma Park, OK\nAnderson Road, Nicoma Park, Oklahoma, a city in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Jones, Oklahoma, a town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Eastern Oklahoma County Area Vocational College, lies nearby in Choctaw, Oklahoma, the oldest chartered town in Oklahoma, 10 Acre Lake Park,\nExit 166/Choctaw Rd : State Park\nExit 166/Choctaw Road, to Lake Thunderbird State Park, a Oklahoma state park located in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, near the city of Norman, Oklahoma. The State Park offers a wide range of opportunities for water and outdoor activities.\nPeebly Rd : Little River State Park\nPeebly Road, to Lake Thunderbird, a reservoir located south off US Route #270, within the city limits of Norman, Oklahoma, Lake Thunderbird State Park, Little River State Park, a state park with a number of recreational activities like Horse Back Riding, Camping, Swimming, and Boating. Riverview Estates, Oklahoma, a nearby neighborhood.\nHarrah-Newalla Rd : Newalla, OK\nHarrah-Newalla Road, to Community of Newalla, Oklahoma, a community in rural eastern Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, Wes Watkins Reservoir, a reservoir located in central Oklahoma,\nMcCloud Rd : McCloud, OK\nMcCloud Road, OK Highway #102, to McLoud, Oklahoma, a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma,\nHwy Dr. : Shawnee Reservoir\nJunction Highway Drive,OK Highway #102, Community of Dale, Oklahoma, a small community located on State Highway #270 in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma lies just north of this Junction. Shawnee Reservoir, a reservoir located south along OK Hwy #102.\nBridge on North Canadian River\nA bridge spans the North Canadian River carrying US Route #270/Interstate Hwy #40 across,\nJunction : I-40/US #177\nJunction Interstate Highway #40, US Route #177, At the junction, US Route #270 leaves Interstate #40 ending its concurrency, Johnson, Oklahoma, a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, lies nearby.\nW MacArthur St. : University\nW MacArthur Street, St. Gregory's University, Unity Health Center North Campus, Gordon Cooper Technology Center, located in Shawnee, Oklahoma.\nW Kickapoo Spur St. : Shawnee, OK\nW Kickapoo Spur Street, US-270 Bus., Shawnee, Oklahoma, a city in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, Shawnee Regional Airport, a public airport located in Shawnee, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist University, Rose Garden Park, Prague Kolache Festival,\nHardesty Rd : Bethel Acres, OK\nHardesty Road, Bethel Acres, Oklahoma, a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, Shawnee Reservoir lies nearby.\nBenson Park Rd : Tecumseh City Lake\nBenson Park Road, to Tecumseh Lake, a lake located west of US Route #270,\nBroadway Ave : Tecumseh, OK\nBroadway Avenue, US Route #177, Tecumseh, Oklahoma, a city in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, Tecumseh Tag Agency, Pentecostal Church of God, C12505 Reservoir,\nJunction : US #177/OK Hwy #3W\nJunction US Route #177, Oklahoma Highway #3W, to Brooksville, Oklahoma, a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma,\nOk Hwy #9A : Harjo, OK\nOklahoma Highway #9A, to Community of Harjo, Oklahoma, a small unincorporated community in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, Rose-Fast site, a prehistoric Indian base camp, listed on the National Register of Historic Places lies nearby.\nLamar Ave : Earlsboro, OK\nLamar Avenue, OK Hwy #9A, Earlsboro, Oklahoma, a town in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma,\nWrangler Blvd : Seminole State College\nWrangler Boulevard, Oklahoma State Highway #9, Seminole State College, a state supported community college located in Seminole, Oklahoma, Seminole Jr. college, Integris Seminole Medical Center, Jasmine Moran Children's Museum, in Seminole, Oklahoma.\nMilt Phillips Ave : Seminole, OK\nMilt Phillips Avenue, Oklahoma Highway #99/US Route #377, Seminole, Oklahoma, a city in Seminole County, Oklahoma, Johns Park, Seminole Public Library, Chase Park, Legion Park, Maguire Park, Seminole County Elder Care, Jasmine Moran Children's Museum, Seminole State College,\nLake Rd : Sportsman Lake Recreation Area\nLake Road, to Sportsman Lake, a lake located southeast of Seminole, Oklahoma, Sportsman Lake Recreation Area, a recreation area around Sportsman Lake,\nE1270 Rd : Lima, OK\nE1270 Road, Lima, Oklahoma, a town in Seminole County, Oklahoma, Big Wewoka Creek Site No 15, 17, and 18 Reservoirs located nearby, Wewoka Lake, a lake lying adjacent to Sportsman Lake Recreation Area.\nUS #270 Bus. : Wewoka, OK\nUS #270 Business Route, to Wewoka, Oklahoma, a city in and the county seat of Seminole County, Oklahoma,\nOk Hwy #59 : Bowlegs, OK\nOklahoma Highway #59, to Bowlegs, Oklahoma, a town in Seminole County, Oklahoma, lies west of Wewoka, Oklahoma.\nHoldenville Blvd : Wewoka, OK\nHoldenville Boulevard, US #270 Business Route, Wewoka, Oklahoma, a city in and the County Seat of Seminole County, Oklahoma, Seminole Nation Museum, The Hotel Aldridge, built in 1927 a historic place, and Seminole County Courthouse, built in 1927, a historice place, both are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, located in Wewoka, Oklahoma. Westside Park, Wewoka Public Library, Tag Agents Wewoka,\nMain St. : Holdenville, OK\nMain Street, Broadway of America, Holdenville, Oklahoma, a city in and the county seat of Hughes County, Oklahoma, Holdenville Municipal Airport, a public airport located just west of the city of Holdenville, Oklahoma, Holdenville Public Library, Honorable B Gordon Allen, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Stroup Park, Capitol Heights Baptist Church, Holdenville General Hospital, Lake Holdenville, a lake located south of Holdenville, Oklahoma, along Oklahoma Highway #48.\nUS Rte #75 : Horntown, OK\nUS Route #75, County Road #1330, Horntown, Oklahoma, a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, Lamar, Oklahoma, a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, lies in the east on County Road EW133.\nWalnut Street : Calvin, OK\nWalnut Street, to Calvin, Oklahoma, a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma,\n2nd Street : Calvin, OK\nOklahoma Highway #1, 2nd Street, Calvin, Oklahoma, a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, Atwood, Oklahoma, a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma, US #75 leaves ends concurrency with US #270 and heads south.\nRoosevelt Ave : Stuart, OK\nRoosevelt Avenue, Highway 31A, Stuart, Oklahoma, a town in Hughes County, Oklahoma,\nState Hwy 31A : Haywood, OK\nState Highway 31A, to Community of Haywood, Oklahoma, a small community in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, has its northern entrance at Haywood, Oklahoma.\nInterchange : Indian Nation Turpike\nInterchange on to Indian Nation Turnpike, a toll road, connects with Interstate Highway #40 in the north.\nJunction Oklahoma Highway #31, to Community of Haywood, Oklahoma, southwest of McAlester, Oklahoma,\nMain Street: McAlester, OK\nJunction of US Route #69/Main Street\nN George Nigh Expy : McAlester Regional Airport\nN George Nigh Expressway, US Route #69, McAlester Regional Airport, a public airport located southwest of McAlester, Oklahoma, Community of Bugtussle, Oklahoma an unincorporated community located along U.S. Route #69 on the shores of Eufaula Lake north of McAlester, Oklahoma.\nWashington Ave : Kerbs, OK\nWashington Avenue, Oklahoma Highway #31, Krebs, Oklahoma, a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma,\nS Main St. : Krebs, OK\nS Main Street, Krebs, Oklahoma, a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, All Saints Episcopal Church,\nWashington St. : Alderson, OK\nWashington Street, Alderson, Oklahoma, a town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, Community of Richville, Oklahoma, lies in the north on Oklahoma Highway #31, Nearby lies Highway 31 Landing Recreation Area, on a fork of Eufaula Lake.\nBache Rd : Bache, OK\nBache Road, to Community of Bache, Oklahoma, located on US #270.\nHailey Ave : Haileyville, OK\nJunction Oklahoma Highway #63, Hailey Avenue, Haileyville, Oklahoma, a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma,\nN Twelveth St. : Hartshorne, OK\nN Twelveth Street, Hartshorne, Oklahoma, a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, National Guard Armory, Holy Rosary Parish, Hartshorne Lake, a lake located south along Savage Hwy/N4190 Road, In the north of Hartshorne, Oklahoma, on Adamson Road lies Adamson, Oklahoma, a ghost town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, Hickory Point Recreation Area, lies nearby.\nJunction : OK Hwy #63 & #1\nJunction Oklahoma Highway #63 OK Hwy #1, to Community of Higgins, Oklahoma,\nCambria Church Rd : Gowen, OK\nCambria Church Road, Community of Gowen, Oklahoma,\nAirport Rd : Wilburton Municipal Airport\nAirport Road, Wilburton Municipal Airport, a public airport located just off US Route #270 west of Wilburton, Oklahoma.\nOK Hwy #2 : Lloyd Church Lake\nOK Highway #2, Taft Road, to Lloyds Church Lake, a lake located south off US Route #270, Eastern Oklahoma State College, a state college located nearby just off US #270, Correctional Training Academy,\nOk Hwy #2 : State Park\nOklahoma State Highway #2, to Robbers Cave State Park, a state park in Oklahoma, located north of Wilburton, Oklahoma, in the scenic, hilly woodlands of the San Bois Mountains, This State Park has so many opportunities for outdoor activities lovers. RV sites, tent sites and equestrian campsites are available here at the state park. Lake Wayne Wallace, Lake Carlton, located within the Robbers Cave State Park. Latimer County General Hospital, lies just off OK Hwy #2 in Wilburton, Oklahoma.\nCentral Ave : Wilburton, OK\nCentral Avenue, Wilburton, Oklahoma, a city in and the county seat of Latimer County, Oklahoma, Latimer County Public Library, latimer Health Dept., Robber's Cave Fall Festival, Robers Cave Recreation, Sacred Heart Church, Ki-Bois Community Action, Lutie Coal Miner's Museum,\nPanola Rd : Panola, OK\nPanola Road, Community of Panola, Oklahoma, a small unincorporated community in Latimer County, Oklahoma, The high school and gymnasium are two historic places, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Panola, OK\nMain Street : Red Oak, OK\nMain Street, Red Oak, Oklahoma, a town in Latimer County, Oklahoma, Fair Miller Park,\nJunction Oklahoma Highway #82, connects with Oklahoma Highway #31 near Community of Lequire, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community in Haskell County, Oklahoma,\nMain Street : Fanshawe, OK\nMain Street, Community of Fanshawe, Oklahoma, a town in Latimer and Le Flore counties in Oklahoma, located on US Route #270.\nUS #271 : Summerfield, OK\nUS Route #271, to Community of Summerfield, Oklahoma, Talimena State Park, lies south, US Route #271/Oklahoma Highway #1 traverses through the State Park.\nJunction : US Route #271\nJunction US Route #271, to Poteau, Oklahoma, a city in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, located northeast of this junction.\nHighland Ave : Wister, OK\nHighland Avenue, County Road 133, Wister, Oklahoma, a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, Seventh Day Church of God, Wister Assembly of God, Cavanal Lake, lies northeast along Old Wister Highway.\nBridge on Caston Creek\nA Road Bridge spans Caston Creek carrying US Route #270 across.\nCo Rd 138 : Lake Wister\nCounty Road 138, Lake Wister, a reservoir created by Poteau River and Fourche Maline Creek, in southeast Oklahoma, Wister State Park, a state Park located on the shores of Lake Wister.\nCo Rd 179 : Lake Wister State Park\nCounty Road 179, Lake Wister State Park, a Oklahoma state park located in Le Flore County, Oklahoma around the Lake Wister, It is a gateway to the beautiful Ouachita National Forest. The State park is popular for recreational Activities such as hiking, camping, bicycling, picnics, fishing, hunting, boating and water skiing. Water Spray Park for children and adults is located within the state park.\nUS #59 : Howe, OK\nJunction US Route #59, to Howe, Oklahoma, a town in Le Flore County, Oklahoma,\nMain St. : Heavener, OK\nMain Street, Heavener, Oklahoma, a city in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, Heavener Branch Library, Catholic Mission of Sacred, Heavener Runestone State Park, a Oklahoma state park located in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, an inscribed stone on Poteau Mountain just outside the city of Heavener, Oklahoma,\nLoving Rd : Hogden, OK\nConser Road, Loving Road, to Community of Hodgen, Oklahoma, a small, unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, Peter Conser House, located west off US Route #27, To the east lies Community of Hontubby, Oklahoma,\nCo Rd D1550 : Recreation Site\nCounty Road D1550, Hoston Valley Road, Cedar Lake, Cedar Lake Recreation Site, located off US Route #270.\nAccess : Campground\nAccess to, Talking Trees Campground, a campground located along US Route #270\nUS #259 : Wilton Mountain\nUS Route #259, Talimena Scenic Drive/OK Highway #1, to Wilton Mountain, in Ouachita National Forest, a summit in the Ouachita Mountains in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, The Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness, located nearby.\nCo Rd D4770 : Page, OK\nCounty Road D4770, Community of Page, Oklahoma, an unincorporated community in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, Community of Haw Creek, Oklahoma, lies in the northeast.\nOklahoma/Arkansas State Line, in Ouachita National Forest, This is where US Route #270 crosses over to Arkansas ending its journey across Oklahoma. -ND11-", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 572, "original_length": 25976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mindxmaster.com/2018/11/sales-funnel-questions-for-small-business.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UHCIB6KLY3I4PXBL2H2WCLMBATOUCDV7", "length": 5692, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.mindxmaster.com", "title": "4 sales funnel questions for small businesses", "raw_content": "4 sales funnel questions for small businesses\nThe Sales Funnel is the journey of a customer from awareness of a product or service, through the phases of interest and decision making toward final purchase. The phases of the sales funnel and sales strategy based on it vary depending upon the type of sale.\nIs it different for small businesses? What sales funnel questions are relevant to small businesses?\nThe Sales Funnel is the journey of a customer from awareness of a product or service, through the phases of interest and decision making toward final purchase. The phases of the sales funnel and sales strategy based on it vary depending upon the type of sale (B2B or B2C) and also the type of company. The B2B sale will include negotiation phases and drawing up of contracts before the purchase is made.\nAlso it depends on the scale of the company, and the ability of the company to put out digital messages. In the case of small-scale companies, very often the marketing team out on the street is the only source of information and leads. In that case a digital sales strategy would not be effective. The marketing messages being put out by the company need to be in sync with the marketing team that is actually talking to the client. This brings us to the first major question relevant to small businesses.\n1. Working closely with the marketing team:\nSince the \u201cfeet-on-the-street\u201d or the sales team is the primary means of communication with prospective customers, it is necessary for them to be well acquainted with the sales strategy and the messages to be communicated to potential leads. It is the sales team that also brings feedback about the product and this is essential toward product development as also filling unmet needs of the customers which might also give rise to the development of new product lines.\nAlso the sales team brings information about how well the sales strategy is being received at the various stages of the sales process. For example: If the sales team has been charged with making public a new offer for an upcoming festival, it is impossible to know how well the offer is received and availed of in the market until the sales team brings back cogent numbers as to how many leads showed interest and how many actually availed the offer. This sales team-centric sales strategy is most effective in rural areas and in terms of products that may not be suitable for digital media.\n2. Average sales cycle length:\nIt is imperative to know the average time it takes for a prospect to become a customer.\nIf the sales process is spread over a long period of time, a smaller, lesser known company would not have the benefit of having \u201ctop-of-mind-recall-\u201c power, as compared to larger companies making similar products. A lesser-known producer of mosquito repellent may just get passed over for a larger company like Bayer, as the customer might not necessarily remember the name or the logo of the smaller business. It is, therefore, necessary to provide continuous interactions with the brand at every step of the sales funnel to keep the product active in the customer's mind.\n3. The importance of going digital:\nNo matter how small a business is, there will always be a way to grow, and one of those is to go digital. This is quite a major decision for a small business whose sales strategy would probably have to be modified to accommodate the new digital world, not to mention allocate resources towards it. Going digital entails identifying the digital platform on which to have a presence, and then allocating sufficient resources towards fulfilling that part of the sales strategy. The advantage of going digital is the ease of managing and mining for new leads as also monitoring the progress of the sales process. Since digital media have larger reach it is necessary to ensure that the business is capable of handling the increased business successfully or for growing fast enough to do so. The digital sales strategy is an excellent way of managing the sales funnel for a small business.\n4. How much is too much? And budget constraints\nAs a small business, it is quite essential to maintain constant interactions with potential leads, in order to keep the product on offer active in the mind of the consumer. However, it is also very easy to overdo interactions and cause a sort of aversion to the brand due to the barrage of marketing messages. Hence a critical evaluation of the sales strategy and the sales funnel is needed on a regular basis to ensure that the quantum of material being shared with the customer at various stages of the sales funnel is not any more than is actually needed.\nBudget constraints are another factor that is critical in terms of small businesses, who can\u2019t spend very lavishly on the implementation of sales strategy. The sales budget can eat a large chunk of the overall business budget if the sales strategy isn't properly streamlined to be cost-effective and efficient at the same time. Certain low-cost strategies can be chosen to ensure the customers in the sales funnel are kept engaged to the correct extent while keeping in mind budget constraints too. In certain cases, digital strategies can save a whole lot of expense for the small business that is endeavoring to be profitable.\nBusinessGuestSocial\nMindxMaster: 4 sales funnel questions for small businesses\nhttps://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t1uSr3pG9_o/W_FQkcvsz-I/AAAAAAAASG0/zU8_SDFi8SYe67BgrlIJY54tgNrgHtvxgCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/sales-funnel.png\nhttps://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t1uSr3pG9_o/W_FQkcvsz-I/AAAAAAAASG0/zU8_SDFi8SYe67BgrlIJY54tgNrgHtvxgCK4BGAYYCw/s72-c/sales-funnel.png\nhttps://www.mindxmaster.com/2018/11/sales-funnel-questions-for-small-business.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 53336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mix96.co.uk/news/local/1254624/4m-savings-achieved-by-home-building-council/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:02Z", "digest": "sha1:APY76VQB3EV4SDD6BU4JPXD2ZYGYR3ND", "length": 4106, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.mix96.co.uk", "title": "Mix 96 - News - \u00a34m Savings Achieved By Home Building Council", "raw_content": "\u00a34m Savings Achieved By Home Building Council\nPublished by the Mix96 News Team at 6:30am 11th April 2014.\nBy building more homes for vulnerable people across Bucks, the County Council claims it's saved \u00a34m.\nThe authority's \"My Life, My Home\" programme has now been going for 4 years where homes are specially built for people with learning difficulties.\nBucks County Council says the savings come from effective use of the authority's resources. But BCC says the scheme is more about helping people than it is about cutting cash.\n62 year-old Richard Ives is given as a prime example of someone who has benefited from the life-changing initiative.\nWheelchair-user Richard, who has mild learning and physical disabilities, moved into a spacious one-bedroom flat in the brand new Grove Gardens complex in High Wycombe last September.\nPreviously, he had been in a care home in Princes Risborough and had never before lived in his own property.\nBut, under this supported living scheme, Richard now leases his flat from MacIntyre Housing Association, and with the help of on-site care staff from Radian Support, pays his own bills, and does his own cooking and washing.\n\"It's great living in my own flat. I'm happy here,\" who has a fully-fitted kitchen complete with dishwasher and washing machine, as well as his own flat-screen television in the lounge.\nLinda Hodges, manager of Grove Gardens, explained:\n\"The best thing for Richard is he can lock his front door and be alone whenever he wants. But he can enjoy the best of both worlds, because staff are there to support him when he needs it, and there is a communal area to mix with other residents.\nHe likes his door being closed at night. It's a big thing for him that he can sit and lock the front door, but he can socialise when he wants to.\"\nIn total, there are eight residents in Grove Gardens living in similar supported circumstances. There is also a six-bed spacious care home in the same complex.\nGrove Gardens, which opened last year, was one of many similar complexes all across the county built specially or adapted for the various projects. Since the first of the associated projects started in 2005, there have been 29 new or redeveloped services for vulnerable adults, not including new care homes for older people. Two more services are nearing completion, with more in the pipeline.\nAinsley MacDonnell, the Council's Interim Service Manager - Strategic Commissioning, said:\n\"A lot of people with learning disabilities would have spent a big part of their life living in a hospital ward or in institutional settings. It was commonplace to share bathrooms and sometimes bedrooms, but now people such as Richard have got their own things in their own homes and it's really nice to see them have this independence, choice and control and be able to call the shots.\"\nShe is convinced that the social benefits of the project are enormous, but the added bonus is that this initiative has also resulted in large savings for the Council:\n\"We have saved money by being more efficient and more effective at using our resources, 'The My Life, My Home' programme has saved \u00a33.8m. Some of this has come from us renegotiating costs with providers or bringing together smaller older style accommodation into slightly larger, but more efficient and independent purpose built accommodation. We have also saved money by bringing people back to Bucks from more expensive placements out of the county.\"\nOver in Sands, nine residents with mental health issues live in a modern, residential care home run by Hightown Praetorian & Churches Housing Association. This is part of a similar council project called Home Options.\nThe key difference with this accommodation to many others is that each resident has their own room, own bathroom and can come and go as they please.\nPatricia Birchley, the County Council Cabinet Member for Health and Wellbeing, said:\n\"We are very proud of all that has been achieved by these projects. Our Council is committed to improving the lot of vulnerable adults, while at the same time helping them to be as independent as possible.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 8718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mlambe.co.uk/news/infrastructure-investment-the-chosen-route-to-economic-success/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:15Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2FI6A4Z56G7JV4MFYQOVMJ6J6DZZUNV", "length": 3141, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mlambe.co.uk", "title": "\ufeff Infrastructure investment: the chosen route to economic success | M Lambe Construction | Civil Engineering and Groundworks Specialist | Birmingham", "raw_content": "Infrastructure investment: the chosen route to economic success\nBoth major political parties are committed to boosting \u2018long-term economic growth\u2019 by putting infrastructure investment at the heart of their strategy.\nThe government has drawn up ambitious plans that will help push through \u00a3600 billion of public and private sector funding in infrastructure projects over the next decade.\nLaunched together with the Transforming Infrastructure Performance programme, the National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline provides greater assurance to the supply chain and long-term investors around housing and commercial developments. It is also intended to increase productivity across the construction sector, deliver efficiency and encourage investment in innovation and training.\nAcross England, the pipeline includes schemes like the Northern Hub rail improvements programme, Northern line extension to Battersea, A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon upgrade, Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, HS2 London to Birmingham, as well as financial backing from the Transforming Cities Fund for Greater Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridgeshire, Peterborough and the West of England.\nFor the Midlands Engine, billions of pounds is flowing in to improve roads, railways, schools and hospitals. Major schemes and programmes to benefit, include: \u00a3297 million for the new Midland Metropolitan Hospital; \u00a31.4 billion to increase school places and improve buildings for the West Midlands; over \u00a3350 million to upgrade the M42 junction 6; \u00a3200 million to construct a new junction linking the M54, M6 and M6 Toll; \u00a3137 million for the Midland Metro Eastside extension and \u00a362.5 million towards a road improvement scheme in Worcestershire.\nSetting out a long-term infrastructure vision will provide developers with confidence that their projects will be financially viable. Importantly, it will help unlock the much needed housing developments across the region and contribute towards tackling the housing shortage.\nAt M. Lambe Construction, we understand that our clients insist on more than just \u2018excellent project delivery\u2019 from their supply chain. They want to form \u2018successful partnerships\u2019 with companies with a shared cultural fit, whose standards, expertise and approach are more in tune with their own. This is why we have adapted our business to work in collaboration with our clients, providing \u2018expert advice\u2019 and \u2018bespoke solutions\u2019 to help solve their problems, reduce costs, deliver efficiency and eliminate risk.\nAndrew Kielthy, Contracts Manager, St. Modwen Homes, said of our relationship: \u201cThank you for your hard work in helping us achieve our targets on the Meon Vale scheme. You have gone above and beyond to support St. Modwen Homes and the site team. I have to admit that what has happened at Meon Vale over the past 3 months has been astonishing, a credit to you and your teams. Please pass on my gratitude.\u201d\nSo, if you\u2019d like to work with a civil engineering and groundworks specialist with a \u2018can do attitude\u2019 and \u2018right first time\u2019 approach, fill out the contact form below or call us on 0121 554 2108 to talk with one of our experts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mlb.com/news/justin-ruggiano-chooses-to-become-free-agent/c-156651602", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYWTGTXFNT4DNIKKPWXTUJDYKYSQNYD5", "length": 2240, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mlb.com", "title": "Justin Ruggiano chooses to become free agent | MLB.com", "raw_content": "Five Dodgers become free agents\nClub declines options on Utley, Peralta, Arroyo while Ruggiano, Heisey elect free agency\nLOS ANGELES -- Dodgers Chase Utley, Joel Peralta, Bronson Arroyo, Justin Ruggiano and Chris Heisey became free agents on Friday.\nThe club declined options on Utley, Peralta and Arroyo, while Ruggiano and Heisey elected free agency.\nThe 36-year-old Utley, acquired from Philadelphia to fill in for injured second baseman Howie Kendrick, hit .202 for the Dodgers in 34 games and will be remembered for his takeout slide that broke the leg of Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada in the National League Division Series. The option was for $15 million and would have vested if Utley had 500 plate appearances, but he missed considerable time with an ankle injury.\nThe 38-year-old Arroyo, a former All-Star, was a salary dump as part of the complicated Hector Olivera trade to Atlanta. He spent the entire 2015 season recovering from Tommy John surgery and the Dodgers declined his $11 million 2016 salary. Atlanta is responsible for paying Arroyo a $4.5 million buyout.\nThe 39-year-old Peralta, acquired last winter from Tampa Bay, finished with a 4.34 ERA in a season plagued by injuries from the day he reported to Spring Training, nearly requiring mid-season neck surgery. The club declined his $2.5 million salary, but he is a favorite of president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman and could return in some role.\nRuggiano, who made $2.505 million in 2015, would have been eligible for salary arbitration had he remained on the 40-man roster. The Dodgers outrighted him to clear a roster spot.\nRuggiano, 33, was purchased from the Seattle Mariners at the Aug. 31 waiver Trade Deadline and filled in for the injured Yasiel Puig against left-handed pitching, batting .291 with a .968 OPS. But he was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts in the postseason.\nThe 30-year-old Heisey, acquired in a trade last winter from Cincinnati for Matt Magill, hit .182 in five stints with the Dodgers.\nOutfielders still on the 40-man roster: Carl Crawford, Andre Ethier, Kik\u00e9 Hernandez, Joc Pederson, Puig, Scott Schebler and Scott Van Slyke.\nRead more: Los Angeles Dodgers, Bronson Arroyo, Chris Heisey, Joel Peralta, Justin Ruggiano, Chase Utley", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 359, "original_length": 7982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mobilemarketer.com/news/warner-bros-readies-rampage-debut-with-ar-game/519599/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:UQGV4EU5YUN5RXO5K5YV6NAUVMTTFZGA", "length": 2705, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mobilemarketer.com", "title": "Warner Bros. readies 'Rampage' debut with AR game | Mobile Marketer", "raw_content": "Warner Bros. readies 'Rampage' debut with AR game\nWarner Bros. is promoting the April 13 release of action film \u201cRampage\u201d starring Dwayne Johnson with an augmented reality (AR) app that lets fans see their surroundings torn apart by genetically modified giant animals, according to information provided to Mobile Marketer. \u201cRampage: AR Unleashed\u201d shows George the gorilla, Ralph the wolf and Lizzie the alligator wreaking havoc in two different attack modes. The game was developed with Trigger.\nFans can enter a sweepstakes by creating videos using the AR app and sharing them on social media with the #RampageMonstersUnleashedContest hashtag. Dwayne Johnson this week announced the contest on his Instagram account.\nWarner Bros. also plans a Rampage Monster Week to publicize the film with poster giveaways and demonstrations of a video game based on the film. The app is available for a free download from Apple\u2019s App Store and Google Play.\nThe promotion for \u201cRampage\u201d shows how AR apps are entering the mainstream after Apple and Google began supporting the technology with software tools to help developers create AR features for mobile devices. \u201cRampage: AR Unleashed\u201d requires fans to take the extra steps of downloading an app, but once they do, it may lead to much greater engagement with the film. \u201cRampage\u201d is based on a video game released in 1986 by Bally Midway.\nWarner Bros. has developed gaming tie-ins with its movie franchises, including a \"Harry Potter: Wizards Unite\" game that has AR features developed by Niantic, which also created Pokemon Go, the game considered to have kicked off the recent interest in AR. Sony Pictures is expected to release its \u201cGhostbusters World\u201d AR game this year that lets fans capture virtual ghosts projected onto their surroundings. With an onslaught of AR-enabled apps hitting the market, it remains to be seen how deep the interest level from consumers is and if the excitement around the technology will be enough to encourage them to download an app.\nWarner Bros. moved the release date of \u201cRampage\u201d up a week to April 13 after Disney-Marvel announced plans to shift the opening of \u201cAvengers: Infinity War\u201d from May 4 to April 27, per Variety. Even though Dwayne Johnson is a major box-office draw with hit films like \u201cJumanji: Welcome to the Jungle\u201d and several \u201cFast and Furious\u201d sequels, it\u2019s evident that Warner Bros. wanted more room for \u201cRampage\u201d to top the box office before the summer onslaught. Johnson returns on July 13 with the opening of \u201cSkyscraper\u201d from Universal Studios.\nVenture Beat ARKit games are the top AR downloads in the Apple App Store\nComing Soon Warner Bros. Celebrates Rampage Monster Week\nTop image credit: Warner Bros.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mojoweb.com/what-im-reading/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2DMWYNH5RQRRQANAM6E2TAUMZ3S35VGU", "length": 3409, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.mojoweb.com", "title": "Milwaukee Web Design | MojoWeb Productions | What I'm Reading \u2026", "raw_content": "My inbox is deluged each day with great newsletters and insightful articles on digital marketing, web design and social media strategies. Reading them all is a labor of love, but I know that my clients and students rarely have the time or knowledge to find them.\nThat said, here\u2019s a list of articles that I\u2019ve read recently and tweeted to MojoWeb\u2019s Twitter feed.\nIf you\u2019d like to share one of your own for a future list, just drop me an e-mail.\nWhy Email Should Be at the Center of Your Social Strategy\n\u201cWhile social is a great place for publishers to meet readers, email should be at the center of your social strategy in order to build a strong marketing program. Email allows publishers to connect with their fans in a direct capacity and learn more about them through first-party data. This approach helps publishers build long-term relationships with interested subscribers and creates the ability to personalize content.\u201d (SocialTimes)\nE-mail Continues to Deliver Strong ROI and Value for Marketers\n\u201cDespite whisperings of its decline in recent years, email remains a growing, go-to channel for marketers. However, for email to continue that success, marketers must consider how and why mobile use, increases in message volume and frequency and data-driven relevancy impact performance.\u201d (eMarketer)\nHow to Calculate the ROI of Social Media Marketing [Infographic]\n\u201cQuick: Can you list the goals of each and every one of your social media efforts? Do you know how each campaign performed when measured against those metrics, and how they contributed to the bottom line?\u201d (Business 2 Community)\n\u201cIt\u2019s now interesting to see that AIG, the Global Insurance Corporation (88 million customers in 130 countries) is underwriting a new online reputation insurance product for businesses, aimed particularly at SMEs. The new product, which will be available to Irish Businesses, will allow them to avail of insurance protection against the risks of social media and other online crisis.\u201d (State of Digital)\nBest Times to Post on Social Media Sites [Infographic]\n\u201cSocial media is one of the best ways to amplify the great content you\u2019re creating. But it isn\u2019t enough to just post content to social whenever you feel like it. Some times are better than others.\u201d (Hubspot)\nUX Is Brand Experience\n\u201cThe success of a brand is not about creating an association between a logo and a company: it\u2019s about creating a positive emotional association with it.\u201d (Nomensa Blog)\nTired of Being \u2018Bombarded,\u2019 US Internet Users Turn to Ad Blockers\n\u201cAccording to May 2016 research, internet users download ad blockers for a variety of reasons, including the fact that they\u2019re simply tired of being bombarded by ads.\u201d (eMarketer)\nHubspot\u2019s State of Inbound Marketing Report (PDF)\n\u201cThe State of Inbound report is here, and some of the data is shocking.\u201d (Hubspot)\nWhy Most SEO Budgets Are Being Wasted\n\u201cThe reasons for [businesses] having a negative outlook about SEO are usually the same. They tried it, and it didn\u2019t work. There are numerous reasons for this to happen, but here are the reasons it generally did not work, and why their budgets were wasted.\u201d (Small Business Trends)\n9 Things Most People Don\u2019t Understand About SEO\n\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of misinformation (and missing information) about what it takes to rank a page in organic search results. Here are nine things most people don\u2019t understand about SEO.\u201d (Search Engine Land)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.monckton.com/publication/privacy-international-and-greennet-others-v-the-secretary-of-state-for-foreign-and-commonwealth-affairs-and-the-government-communications-headquarters-gchq-2016-ukip-trib-14_85/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:47Z", "digest": "sha1:TC4HVUJDGF3XIUUXOB5YOFQRFXSR4LAM", "length": 1128, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.monckton.com", "title": "Privacy International and Greennet & Others v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and The Government Communications Headquarters (\u201cGCHQ\u201d) [2016] UKIP Trib 14_85-CH | Monckton Chambers", "raw_content": "Home / Publications / Case notes / Privacy International and Greennet & Others v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and The Government Communications Headquarters (\u201cGCHQ\u201d) [2016] UKIP Trib 14_85-CH\nPrivacy International and Greennet & Others v The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and The Government Communications Headquarters (\u201cGCHQ\u201d) [2016] UKIP Trib 14_85-CH\n01 Mar 2016 | by Jack Williams\nFollowing revelations by American whistleblower Edward Snowden (the former NSA employee and CIA contractor) regarding the extent of surveillance carried out by national authorities, Privacy International and seven Internet Service Providers (\u201cISPs\u201d) launched a legal challenge against GCHQ\u2019s alleged use of Computer Network Exploitation (\u201cCNE\u201d) and so-called \u201cthematic\u201d warrants under the Intelligence Services Act 1994 (\u201cthe ISA 1994\u201d).\nDaniel Beard QC was instructed for the Respondents.\nPlease click here to view the full case note.\nThe comments made in this case note are wholly personal and do not reflect the views of any other members of Monckton Chambers, its tenants or clients", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 5335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.monolithicpower.com/en/about-mps/careers/employee-testimonials.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:17Z", "digest": "sha1:W5LN2Y6Q3BBEMTO6KVHSXKJDCKJHOBE3", "length": 2434, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.monolithicpower.com", "title": "Employee Testimonials - Careers - About MPS", "raw_content": "MPS offers key employees overseas training in Silicon Valley, USA. Employees can learn from and work with world-class IC experts in the semiconductor industry. MPS assigns senior mentors to coach and assist in an employee\u2019s career development. In the model of \u201ctransfer, aid and lead,\u201d employees can learn from on-the-job assignments and easily adapt to the new environment.\nI love working at MPS. MPS is the perfect size company. It has the benefits of both large and small size companies. MPS is small enough that one is exposed to the many different products and big enough to have the experts to help understand and analyze the technology at hand. MPS also ensures you have the resources to get the job done. I have been here for four years already and have accomplished and learned a lot. Finally, the people are a joy to work with. They are both knowledgeable and easy to work with. I\u2019ve made many friends that will last a life time.\nSince joining MPS, I have met many knowledgeable leaders and colleagues. The culture at MPS is very collaborative, innovative, and helpful. MPS is a company that values corporate and individual development. I am very fortunate to be a part of this team where our contributions and efforts are valued by the company as a whole. I would like to continue to develop myself while experiencing the company\u2019s advancements in the technological industry.\nAs I approach my 10th year anniversary with MPS and my 18th year working with a lot of MPS employees from Technicians to Sr. VPs, there is a lot to say. However, no words are more precise than, \u201cMPS fosters a business environment in which its employees will excel and grow along with the company\u201d (Michael Hsing \u2013 CEO). Working for MPS is not a job but a career that shapes one\u2019s future. MPS has been and will always be a part of my life.\nWorking at Monolithic Power Systems has been a great opportunity for me. I\u2019ve grown and gained important, useful skills that will not only help me in the working environment but also outside the office. Knowledge of the Analog industry is another thing that I\u2019ve gained from working at Monolithic Power Systems. You really get a feel for how things work and that every single part is important in making any product work to its best abilities. The work environment is great with friendly employees who are always willing to help and work with you, which makes it easy and enjoyable to come to work every day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 383, "original_length": 9057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.morganfuneralsandcremations.com/obituaries/Bobby-Wooten-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IV2TSQ63PSL3SEDV7HDZHEB6M4JEL3L5", "length": 409, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.morganfuneralsandcremations.com", "title": "Mr Bobby Ray Wooten Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Mr Bobby Ray Wooten\nMr. Bobby Ray Wooten, age 62, died at South Village Nursing Center in Rocky Mount, NC. A Memorial Service will be held at the funeral home at 4:00 PM Saturday, February 2, 2019. View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Mr Bobby Ray Wooten created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nMr. Bobby Ray Wooten, age 62, died at South Village Nursing Center...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 2738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2006/07/homelessness-blight-our-streets-and-blot-our-conscience/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2SLLPC55TV5OKEINCK6EMXFWNJAVJDZH", "length": 2088, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.motherjones.com", "title": "Homelessness: A Blight On Our Streets and a Blot On Our Conscience. \u2013 Mother Jones", "raw_content": "Homelessness: A Blight On Our Streets and a Blot On Our Conscience.\nJulian BrookesJuly 18, 2006 12:33 AM\nThe annual conference of the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) is going on in Washington Monday through Thursday. Mike Bloomberg spoke there today, announcing a new, more aggressive approach to street homelessness in New York City. As reported by the Times, he brushed aside the widely held view that homelessness is a stubborn feature of urban life, to be managed but not eradicated:\n\u201cOur view is that any level of street homeless, no matter how reduced in scope and visibility, is an inexcusable civic failure that consigns our fellow human beings to lives tragically shortened by exposure to the elements, to the ravages of disease, and to their own self-destructive behavior. Such chronic homelessness remains a blight on our streets and a blot on our conscience.\u201d\nAs best anyone can tell, around 3.5 million people, 1.35 million of them children (PDF), are likely to experience homelessness in a given year, and the number of homeless has been rising over the past 20-25 years (PDF), thanks largely to a growing shortage of affordable rental housing and a simultaneous increase in poverty (in turn a function of eroding work opportunities). Homelessness in New York is down from its high three years ago. (I\u2019m not aware of research finding the same trend nationally.)\nBloomberg\u2019s administration has committed to creating thousands of new units of supportive housing and providing more services (job training, day care) to keep the formerly homeless from sliding back. Good moves. Mother Jones published an article last year about an approach to supportive housing pioneered in New York City in the 1990s. Called Pathways to Housing, the program is premised on the idea that reversing the order of services to put housing first produces much better results with no greater costs. And it works! Since it launched, Pathways has moved hundreds of mentally ill and homeless New Yorkers into apartments.\nPrevious: Iraq: No Oil for War\u2026\nNext: Entire Country Tilts Republican", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moyomedical.com/press", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:18Z", "digest": "sha1:P4R67SKCSAWDPWGAMEUAHO4GTIBG2BSN", "length": 237, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.moyomedical.com", "title": "Press \u2014 MoyoMedical Technologies", "raw_content": "Moyomedical Technologies has been featured at -------. The team has won prestigious prizes including grants from organizations like ---------, and IS currently seeking to raise money from angel investors. Check out our latest news below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mscklaw.com/blog/2018/05/how-do-i-know-if-im-facing-illegal-discrimination.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YVKFV7VBCQQXOIOBTMDIPRU62RBFWXZC", "length": 1965, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mscklaw.com", "title": "How do I know if I'm facing illegal discrimination? | Shulman Kessler LLP", "raw_content": "Unfortunately, some workers must deal with constant adversarial relationships with their co-workers and supervisors. Difficult relationships may be based on jealousy, petty arguments or even warped senses of subservience. This may lead to continual disagreements, a substantial level of dissatisfaction in the workplace, and ultimately the loss of a job.\nAn employee may want to pursue a lawsuit against their former employer after being unceremoniously dismissed or being subjected to a prickly supervisor\u2019s constant barbs. However, a key question in these disputes is whether the employer\u2019s (or supervisor\u2019s) behavior is actionable as a matter of law. Many plaintiffs automatically believe that if a supervisor or fellow employee is rude or disrespectful, such behavior can form the basis of a lawsuit.\nAfter all, an employee who is constantly being singled out, harassed or treated in a demeaning manner must be victim of illegal discrimination, right? This should be especially true when the victimized employee is a member of a protected class.\nUnfortunately, the law does not require supervisors to be warm, kind or understanding. With that, claims against an employer for not being nice may not be actionable under New York state law. However, if it can be shown that this type of behavior is directed towards people of a protected class, or is based on a person\u2019s feelings about such a class, an employment discrimination suit may be way to seek a remedy. Moreover, if such behavior is condoned by an employer, this may form the basis of a lawsuit\nIndeed, it is not always easy to determine when rude statements or prickly personalities cross the line from poor management and disrespect to illegal discrimination. There are several variables to consider, from the exact words or actions and the employer\u2019s response in addressing an employee\u2019s complaints. Because of this, it is prudent to discuss your situation with an experienced employment law attorney.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 196.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mtshastanews.com/lifestyle/20180502/lost-in-suburbia-pretty-in-raspberry-pink", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:19Z", "digest": "sha1:LZEGYBZOIBRUT7ASNHK3J6O4ENWU6ZXT", "length": 2965, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.mtshastanews.com", "title": "Lost in Suburbia: Pretty in raspberry pink - Lifestyle - Mount Shasta Herald - Mount Shasta, CA - Mount Shasta, CA", "raw_content": "Lost in Suburbia: Pretty in raspberry pink\n\u201cI got a pedicure today,\u201d I said to my husband, showing off my freshly painted toes that glimmered from beneath my flip flops. \u201cWhat do you think?\u201d\n\u201cThey\u2019re orange,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThey\u2019re not orange.\u201d I corrected him. \u201cThey\u2019re cantaloupe.\u201d He blinked a couple of times trying to process this irrelevant piece of information.\n\u201cOkay, he replied. \u201cBut they don\u2019t match your pink fingers.\u201d\nI shook my head. \u201cThey\u2019re not pink. They\u2019re raspberry.\u201d\n\u201cDoes it really matter what you call them?\u201d he asked.\n\u201cYes. If you just say pink, they could be a soft pink, or a vibrant pink or a cotton candy pink. But when you say raspberry, you know exactly what color pink they are. They are raspberry-colored pink.\u201d\nHe stared at me dumbly.\n\u201cDon\u2019t you have anything you want to say?\u201d I asked, fishing for a compliment.\n\u201cYes,\u201d he replied. \u201cI wish I was color blind.\u201d\nI put my hands on my hips in a huff. Yes, I knew that in the grand scheme of things, clarifying my nail color to my husband was not going to solve the problem of world peace. But I felt it was my job to enlighten him on behalf of all the misunderstood manicured women in the world.\nWe had been through this once before, he and I. Before I decided it was cool to be gray, I had colored my hair for a number of years. I tried out a bunch of different browns including warm medium brown, chestnut brown, mocha brown, latt\u00e9 brown, and the ones that dare-not-be-named that made me look alternately like Elvis and Bozo the clown. When I tried to explain to my husband that there was more than one kind of brown and I needed to be clear about which brown I wanted or there could be dire consequences (see above Bozo reference), his eyes glazed over and he fell into some kind of boredom-induced trance that only a pint of Ben and Jerry\u2019s could revive him from.\nI realized eventually that this wasn\u2019t something that was unique to him. After conversations with my brother and my son about my raspberry nails, I thought that this might, in fact, be a gender-related issue.\n\u201cDo you like my raspberry colored nails?\u201d I asked my son.\n\u201cThey\u2019re pink,\u201d he said.\n\u201cYes, but they\u2019re raspberry pink,\u201d I said.\n\u201cWill they make my dinner cook faster?\u201d he asked.\n\u201cThen I don\u2019t care,\u201d he replied.\nI was pretty much at the point where I thought that gene therapy was the only thing that would help bridge this gender gap. And then my husband decided it was time for us to get a new car.\n\u201cI\u2019m looking at this model, but I can\u2019t decide on the trim,\u201d he said, showing me the car he wanted on the computer.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s a trim?\u201d I asked.\n\u201cIt\u2019s the features you can get with the car.\u201d\n\u201cOK, what are the options?\u201d\n\u201cWe can get an LX, an LX-S, an EX, an EX-L, or a Touring.\u201d\n\u201cThey all look exactly the same,\u201d I said.\n\u201cNo they don\u2019t,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re very different.\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t see it,\u201d I said.\nHe sighed. \u201cYou can\u2019t see it. It\u2019s inside.\u201d\n\u201cOk. Whatever,\u201d I replied. \u201cGet what you want. Just don\u2019t get it in Raspberry.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 5360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.muchbetteradventures.com/products/6064-skiing-apartment-in-courchevel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:37Z", "digest": "sha1:62AYUCJKCEKOJHEKRGE3LKOH43HIITN3", "length": 142, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.muchbetteradventures.com", "title": "Apartment in Courchevel | Much Better Adventures", "raw_content": "ANTARES Park is an apartment on 3 levels that sleeps up to 8 people in its 4 double bedrooms with bathrooms and toilet, and 2 commons toilets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 1928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.multihousingnews.com/tag/wangfujing-department-store/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:21Z", "digest": "sha1:G5RWMJCGJGVGHIVIQYNIJ2SJ4EMRCMHB", "length": 1198, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.multihousingnews.com", "title": "Wangfujing Department Store Multifamily News | MultiHousing News", "raw_content": "Taubman TBCL\u2019s First Foray Into the Chinese Market\nTaubman TCBL and Beijing Wangfujing Department Store Co. Ltd are teaming up for a joint venture that will own a majority stake and manage an upcoming retail development in Xi\u2019an, China.\nDue to skyrocketing housing prices in and around the city, many nurses, school teachers and first responders drive an hour to their jobs. What can be done to make building workforce housing more enticing?\nGoldman Sachs Snags 821-Unit Philadelphia Community\nThe purchase of Chestnut Hill Village marks the company's 18th investment, bringing its total portfolio to 5,600 units. HFF worked on behalf of the new owner to arrange a 10-year, fixed-rate acquisition loan.\nNeeds vs. Expectations: What Today\u2019s Renters Want\nIn partnership with Kingsley Associates, NMHC unveiled the results of its Renter Preferences Report, shedding light on the factors that are most important to today's multifamily residents.\nPropertyShark compiled the top 5 multifamily sales for October 2018 in New York City.\n$31M Refi Earmarked for Baton Rouge Apartments\nEyzenberg & Co. facilitated the loan for the developers of the 224-unit River House Apartments, a live-work-play community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 4381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.multimart.org/tags/samp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SANGTFPNAANGTYRKWWKEP2HB6C3LLC5F", "length": 6284, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.multimart.org", "title": "Showing results for tags 'samp'. - MultiMart", "raw_content": "Showing results for tags 'samp'.\nSantos Streets Roleplay [OPEN-BETA]\ntunerx11 posted a topic in Server Advertisements\n~SANTOS STREETS ROLEPLAY~ We are BACK!! for those who played before, You can enjoy the game once again! Experience the Very essence of Role-play! with lots of things you can do. Job system is Great, we have Basketball system where you can Place your bets, an Unknown Island where you can Plant weed safe or illegal Faction meet ups and much more updates coming, as we're still on BETA. this is not exaggeration this is all FACTS and TRUE! Come and play with us at Santos Streets Role-Play. Discord Invite Link: >>Join our Discord!<< Server IP: 217.182.199.106:7787 Forum: Forum Link Thank you.\n[0.3.DL] [Vice City Liberty City] Verloor Mindstate (Freeroam)\nlongjoobaloo posted a topic in Server Advertisements\nEver wanted to play liberty city, Vice city, and San Andreas all on the same map in freeroam? Well now you can, on Verloor Mindstate we have all the cities on the same map in a freeroam environment. Godmode, teleporting, spawning vehicles and weapons, all free. Server: Verloor Mindstate (173.31.162.239:7777) Discord: https://discord.gg/R26aNF7\nSelling two SARP accounts\nZakaih posted a topic in Virtual Items\nGot a level 29 account and one other high level account for sale, looking for offers, will namechange them to something new so it stays discreet, stats are a bit poor, about 1m on each probably, three cars, one has a sultan and some other vehicles, other has three cars too, can use $Hustle as middleman if you want, I'm verified anyways. PM me or add me on skype. [email protected]\nPewRepy posted a topic in Coding & Scripting\nAny SAMP Scripter or Developers around?\nAlpha Gaming Roleplay\ncrossbreak posted a topic in Server Advertisements\nHostName: Alpha Gaming Roleplay(Double XP) Address: 80.211.29.22:7776 Players: 4 / 100 Ping: 232 Mode: AL:RP v1.0(c) Language: English Server is completely fineand all things are managed. Forums will be managed in a day Not much refunds Join our community now Reply Quick Reply\nFunky's DeathMatch [0.3d]\nc00x posted a topic in Server Advertisements\n______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Forum: http://funkys-dm.xyz/ Server IP: -Soon- Discord servera: https://discord.gg/xwcaGZY Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Funkys-Deathmatch-217066689029943/ Funky's Deatmatch team started working on the gamemode and forums for a while now,but because of the problems with the host that we are dealing with you can except server IP very soon. Server game mode is being worked on full throtle our developer is finishing last bits of the script and its only a matter of time when the server will be up and running. The forum is made to be simple for new players and contains everything for those who are active. While waiting on the server you can join us on our discord server where you can give suggestions for forum/server and talk to other members of our discord server. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SERVER INFORMATION In game you can expect: Simple registration system. Unique spawn. A bunch of deathmatch arenas which will be updated. Unique duel system. Clan system where clans will compete for tursf and money. A bunch of interesting events. Deathmatch ranks, so the players can compete among each-other. Achievement system with rewards for those who accomplish those achievements. Custom skins for clans, donators and regular players. Registration: Simple server registration that doesn't take much time,easy game access. Spawn: Curent spawn is a classic interier , meanwhile it is planned to create a unique spawn that will give a nicer impression while staying in it. Using command /dm you activate a menu where you can see a list of arenas , clicking on them teleports you to the arena. Arenas: Every arena has a different set of weapons, where the player chooses with which one he will fight. Duels: Simple duel system where you choose your opponent , then the menu opens where you chose a map and weapons. Clans: Clans work like squads. Fights for the teritories in the Los Santos,also with money supremacy over other clans. Clans rank list. Events: Events in which everyone can participate,events will be unique and updated. Participating in them you win money prizes and some other prizes. Ranks: Rank list of players with most kills. Fights for the best players,with money prizes and others. Achievements: Players get quests for which they have to fight ,one of them is MVP (first player to get ''X'' kills). Custom skins: Clans have custom skins that are requested by the clan leader. Donators have personal custom skins that only they can use. Players get skins with achievemnts,events or ranks,they can also buy some of the skins. Since the server is relativly new , for more information we suggest you join our server or forums where we post about development changelogs. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SCREENSHOTS Registracija/Login /stats Admin sistem Lista komandi Donator sistem Acchievement sistem Gasenje textdrawa Arene\nsa-mp dm\nDesert Forest Roleplay (Heavy RP)\nHey all, it's me Tango one out of two of the owners who run DFRP (formerly known as Visionary Gaming Roleplay/VGRP). We are a server based in Las Ventaurus & the Bone County area.As of currently we are looking for a couple Trial Administrators to help us progress and hold a few positions before release so we can be prepared ( visionary-gaming.boards.net/thread/12/trial-admin-application-open?page=1&scrollTo=21 ). We hope you join us as we are trying to reach a goal of a good grand opening when our scripts are finished.All development questions are to be posted in the website ( visionary-gaming.boards.net ) or discord ( discord.gg/nAAkE6F ).TLDR: - Hiring Staff.- Server isn't finished however we need some staff to help make it happen.Info:discord.gg/nAAkE6Fvisionary-gaming.boards.net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 433, "original_length": 26159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 167.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.murraysmortuary.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VQ7TTROMYU5IGEMT2ZNXWBQJUOUOXLMW", "length": 498, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.murraysmortuary.com", "title": "Murray's Mortuary | North Charleston SC funeral home and cremation", "raw_content": "Christopher Odom\nLinda Moore Washington\nPhilip Jones, Sr.\nThe loss of a loved one can leave you with a lot of unanswered questions, feelings of stress and anxiety and grief that makes events difficult to handle. The experienced funeral directors at Murray's Mortuary, LLC will guide you through the aspects of the funeral service with compassion, dignity and respect. From casket choices to funeral flowers, we will provide individualized funeral services designed to meet the needs of each family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 3951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.my13cents.com/2013/01/personal-capital.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:13Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6JZXHO3HMUTLEFJMBDJTEVB3LFHY527", "length": 821, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.my13cents.com", "title": "My 13 Cents: Free $10 - Personal Capital", "raw_content": "Just register an account and link a bank account to the site (just like mint.com) You must do it through the link below to get the free $10.\n>>Sign Up<<\nYes, it's only $10. It's not that much I guess, but it's free and literally takes no more than 5 min. to create an account. The money will be sent to your paypal account (if you don't have a paypal account, then it's about time you get one...it's free too.). I got my $10 in about 1-2 weeks.\np.s. Personal Capital actually seams like a pretty cool website if you want to keep track of your money/investments.\nQuestions? Leave a comment!\nChristian Briggs January 12, 2013 at 8:57 AM\nLooks like a pretty cool blog idea. Shoot, if you make it popular enough maybe you'll start making money from it!\nDavid Bennion January 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM\nI just signed up for my $10 !!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mybabysheartbeatbear.com/blogs/pregnancy/emergency-c-section-3-reasons-for-unplanned-c-section", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JBUOML4J232ZC5XWQTQ7FQTAYMQPS4EV", "length": 4648, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.mybabysheartbeatbear.com", "title": "Emergency C- Section: 3 Common Reasons for an Unplanned C-Section \u2014 My Baby's Heartbeat Bear", "raw_content": "Emergency C- Section: 3 Common Reasons for an Unplanned C-Section\nWhile C-section rates are declining, they are still well above where they should be. Doctors have begun to work better with their patients in achieving a vaginal birth. There is, however, one thing you can do to prepare for labor and prevent an unplanned c-section: BE EDUCATED.\nYou want to know everything so that you have the ability to make informed decisions and understand your options. I am so grateful that we have the ability to save a mother and baby through surgery, but avoiding it whenever possible should be the key. Too many mothers are ending up in the operating room for birth when it could still be prevented.\n3 Most Common Reasons for an Emergency C-Section\n#1 Failure to Progress\nAccording to Evidence Based Birth, failing to progress is the #1 reason for an unplanned c-section today. There is this expectation of birth that you should dilate 1cm every hour and push for an hour and then be holding your baby. But the reality is so much different. Every woman\u2019s labor is different. The baby and body work together to reach the point of bringing baby into the world. It can be fast and furious, or a slow, long journey taking a few days. If medication intervention is given (like and epidural) it can greatly slow the journey down. A first time mother may push for 2-3 hours on average.\nThis timeframe is not reason for a c-section. The baby is not \u2018too big\u2019 after this timeframe. There can be extreme cases of poor positioning for the baby, but even that may be helped by moving the mother\u2019s pushing position. However, a mother confined to her back on a bed may have trouble altering her position, especially with an epidural. But, slight changes can be made before opting for a c-section.\nThe key is that labor should not be placed on a clock. That, and a mother should be able to trust in her body\u2019s abilities.\n#2 Induction\nAn induction, both elective and necessary, greatly increases the risk of experiencing a c-section. When labor is \u2018jump started\u2019 before the baby and body have finished growing together, it includes many interventions. These interventions can affect the labor, the pain, the birth, and the baby. If medically necessary, preparing for an induction should include being knowledgeable on c-sections and your wishes if a c-section is needed.\nAn elective induction, one in which you agreed upon with your doctor (not due to medical problems, preeclampsia, or placenta previa), generally leads to a labor that fails to progress. Waiting for your baby to come when he is ready, even if that is an extra week or more longer than you had planned, provides the healthiest birthing opportunity for both you and baby.\n#3 Fetal Distress\nAccording to AmericanPregnancy.org: \u201cThe term fetal distress has been used to describe when the fetus does not receive adequate amounts of oxygen during labor. It is oftentimes detected through an abnormal fetal heart rate. However, while the term fetal distress is commonly used, it is not well defined. This makes it more difficult to make an accurate diagnosis and provide proper treatment. Because of the term\u2019s ambiguity, its use has the potential to lead to improper treatment.\u201d\nWhile the term itself is scary to hear, being educated and understanding when it is being used correctly is the key. Most people believe that fetal distress means birth asphyxia, but the two are not the same thing. A baby\u2019s heartrate should drop during a contraction, that is normal. It then begins to recover after the contraction ends. As a mother labors through the transition stage, the contractions hit continuously and painfully. A mother who has had an epidural may not feel the pain aspect, but the body is still experiencing these continuous waves of contractions. This means that the baby\u2019s heartrate may stay lower than normal for a period of time until the transition has ended. An unmedicated laboring mother who is connected to heartrate monitors clearly demonstrates the transition stage and it is easy to understand that it is not fetal distress, but part of a natural labor. In cases of fetal distress situations, it is very hard to know if it truly is an emergency or not.\nYou will make the decision you feel is right in the moment, but it doesn\u2019t mean you won\u2019t do it differently during the next pregnancy - or perhaps, the exact same way. The beauty of your birth is that it is yours alone to learn from and treasure forever.\nFiled in: birth, C SECTION, top reasons for a c-section\nPrevious article The Things No One Tells You About Giving Birth\nNext article 7 Valentine\u2019s Day Date Ideas For a Pregnant Couple", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 8254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myfashioncampus.com/2018/06/mahesh-babu-wiki-height-weight-age-wife.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:13Z", "digest": "sha1:S2U4OCXP2SFKFLOOWZNUDHGPVUVRNEWH", "length": 2179, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.myfashioncampus.com", "title": "Mahesh Babu Wiki, Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Family and Biography - My Fashion Campus", "raw_content": "Mahesh Babu Wiki, Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Family and Biography\nAdmin June 01, 2018 Actor , Mahesh Babu 0 Comments\nMahesh Babu Wiki, Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Family and Biography: Mahesh Babu is an Indian Film Actor and Producer. His real name is Mahesh Ghattamaneni.\nMahesh Babu Height and Weight\nMahesh Babu has a height of 6\u2019 2\u201d i.e. 188 cm and his weight is approx 70 kg i.e. 154 lbs. His Hair color is Black and His eye color is Dark Brown.\nMahesh Babu Birth Date and Age\nMahesh Babu was born on 9 August 1975 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His age is 42+ years as on May 2018\nMahesh Babu Wife and Family\nMahesh Babu Father is Krishna Ghattamaneni who is an actor and His Mother is Indira Devi. He has two brothers Ramesh Babu and Naresh Babu who is Step-brother. He has three sisters Padmavathi, Manjula and Priyadarshini. He is Married to Actress Namrata Shirodkar and is blessed with one son Gautam Krishna & one daughter Sitara.\nMahesh Babu Education\nHe has completed Bachelor of Commerce from Loyola College, Chennai.\nMahesh Babu Movies/ TV Shows\nMahesh Babu mainly works in Telugu Film Industry. He has established his own production house named G. Mahesh Babu Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. He made his on-screen debut with the film Needa (1979) as a child artist and his lead role debut Film was Rajakiuarudu (1999). He won Best Male debut Nandi Award for this film. His popular & Commercially successful movies are Athadu (2005), Pokiri (2006), Dookudu (2011), Businessman (2012), Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu (2013), 1: Nenokkadine (2014), Srimanthudu (2015). He has received Several awards like Nandi Awards, Filmfare Awards, CIneMAA Awards, South Indian International Film Movie Awards and International Indian Film Academy Awards etc.\nMahesh Babu Net Worth\nMahesh Babu is Highest-paid Actor of the industry. Mahesh Babu Net Worth is $20 Million and He charges around 20 Crore Indian rupees per movie.\nMahesh Babu Facebook\nhttps://www.facebook.com/urstrulyMahesh/\nMahesh Babu Twitter\nMahesh Babu IMDb\nMahesh Babu Instagram\nhttps://www.instagram.com/urstrulymahesh\nMahesh Babu Wiki\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahesh_Babu\nLabels: Actor, Mahesh Babu, Producer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 154.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/eia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:59Z", "digest": "sha1:35VOUDLDHVYD57VBFISWYOXGJIDLVNYG", "length": 1907, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.mygov.scot", "title": "Check an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) - mygov.scot", "raw_content": "Types of projects that need an EIA\nView an EIA\nEnvironmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a tool used to assess the significant effects of a project or development proposal on the environment.\nEIAs make sure that project decision makers think about the likely effects on the environment at the earliest possible time and aim to avoid, reduce or offset those effects. This ensures that proposals are understood properly before decisions are made.\nStages of the EIA process\nEIA has 5 main stages. If an EIA is required, an Environmental Assessment Impact Report will be written and submitted with the application for development consent. The public will have the chance to comment. This makes sure you're given a chance to be involved in decision making.\n1. Screening Deciding if an EIA is required\n2. Scoping Deciding what needs to be covered in the assessment and reported in the 'EIA Report'\n3. Preparing the EIA Report The EIA report has to include the likely significant environmental effects of the development\n4. Making an application and consultation The EIA Report and development application must be publicised (including electronic advertisement), interested parties and the public must be given an opportunity to give their views on it\n5. Decision making The EIA Report and any comments made on it must be taken into account by the competent authority before they decide whether to give consent for the development. The decision notice has to be published\n6. Post decision The developer starts any monitoring required by the competent authority.\nCompetent authorities decide whether to grant consent for a project. Information from the EIA process must be looked at when making a decision. Comments from statutory consultees and the public are also taken into account.\nIn Scotland there is a broad range of EIA development. This ranges from small-scale agricultural projects to major infrastructure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myshiptracking.com/vessels/00000-mmsi-200027193-imo-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EL7RIM6FHEORFRT3SDJEQHHWXA2PJLBX", "length": 113, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.myshiptracking.com", "title": "00000 - Fishing (MMSI: 200027193) | MyShipTracking", "raw_content": "Size 1022 x 126 m\nThe vessel 00000 (MMSI: 200027193) is a Fishing and it's sailing under the flag of [00] Unknown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myshiptracking.com/vessels/aisb-mmsi-9022974-imo-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:54Z", "digest": "sha1:D2F4427JMZQHBSOGCKD63QJOWISACJY6", "length": 170, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.myshiptracking.com", "title": "AISB - Not available (MMSI: 9022974) | MyShipTracking", "raw_content": "The current position of AISB is in South China Sea with coordinates 20.90867\u00b0 / 110.75550\u00b0 as reported on 2018-08-19 17:22 by AIS. The vessel's current speed is 4.5 Knots", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nassauinstitute.org/article659/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:52Z", "digest": "sha1:GVLJG4SVVHQL3VK2XE4457W76IPFBJK6", "length": 1848, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nassauinstitute.org", "title": "Join us for an evening with Larry Reed, Tuesday, May 29, 2007 | The Nassau Institute", "raw_content": "Join us for an evening with Larry Reed, Tuesday, May 29, 2007\nThe Nassau Institute invites you to attend the Larry Reed Invitational Dinner on May 29th at the British Colonial Hotel. Lawrence W. Reed is the president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.\nThe Center is located in Michigan, the historic center for the mass production of automobiles. Since the early 1970s it has been challenged by the emergence of high quality, low cost rivals in the global market. Simply put, the impact has been massive and has raised a broad range of tough public policy issues on taxation, education, public welfare, labor relations, etc.\nThe Center is devoted to providing answers to these troubling problems and to improve the quality of life for all Michigan citizens. It has become a very large nonpartisan research and educational institute.\nLarry Reed, age 53, started his career teaching economics before moving to Idaho to manage a public policy institute there. He became the President of the Mackinac Center in 1987.\nLike the state of Michigan, the Bahamas has its own array of challenges and problems. You are well acquainted with them. The Nassau Institute believes the country can profit from the experiences others. We know that Larry Reed is an effective and inspiring public speaker. This is why we have invited him to the Bahamas and we hope that you will set aside time to join us at the Nassau Institute Invitational.\nBy the way, there is no charge for the dinner. Cocktails at a cash bar start at 7:00pm and dinner starts at 8:00pm.\nPlease call 326-5728 to reserve your seat(s) as we are limited to 100 people.\nThis event is sponsored by The Nassau Institute, NMC Leasing and the Brass & Leather Shops.\nIf you would like to consider sponsorship please let us know.\nVisit the Mackinac Center for Public Policy web site by clicking here\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 158.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalcivicleague.org/videos/jettisoning-belief-human-hierarchy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:33Z", "digest": "sha1:PT374T42GDKN2FGKSJGLKUGYXBEEAWXE", "length": 1289, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nationalcivicleague.org", "title": "Racial Equity and Healing - National Civic League", "raw_content": "Jettisoning the deeply held, and often unconscious, belief in a hierarchy of human value\nThe Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) enterprise of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation is a comprehensive, national and community-based process to plan for and bring about transformational and sustainable change in our society, and to address the historic and contemporary effects of racism by unearthing and jettisoning the deeply held, and often unconscious, belief in a hierarchy of human value based on physical characteristics such as skin color and facial characteristics. People experience the effects of this hierarchy in their everyday lives\u2014when they take their children to school, when they apply for jobs, when they try to rent or buy a home, when they shop, when they interact with the police and more.\nIn this webinar, a consultant to the TRHT enterprise, Michael Wenger:\nExamines the effects of racism in the social, economic and government policies all around us and in the places in which we live, learn, work and play,\nDiscusses the origins and background of the TRHT,\nShares the vision of the TRHT for the future of our society and the strategies it is utilizing to achieve this vision, and\nExplores what we must do\u2014individually and collectively\u2014to make this vision a reality.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalclub.org/news/2015/02/25/home_news/national_club_conference_programs_announced_registration_now_open/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:WBYUT47RD3TB7DOQOGU3VHRSAYOIUUFU", "length": 4375, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.nationalclub.org", "title": "National Club Association - National Club Conference Programs Announced, Registration Now Open", "raw_content": "National Club Conference Programs Announced, Registration Now Open\n2015 Conference Returns to Washington, D.C. (May 3-5)\n(Washington, D.C., February 25, 2015) \u2014 Private club industry professionals will come together in Washington, D.C., May 3-5, at The Westin DC City Center for the National Club Association\u2019s twelfth annual National Club Conference. The National Club Association\u2019s premier event convenes industry leaders for educational programming on topics impacting private clubs across the country.\nProgramming will focus on three key themes: Strategic Issues for Private Club Governance; The Club Industry Outlook and Trends for the Future; and Legislative, Regulatory and Legal Issues for Clubs.\nBuilding a Team-Based Organization with Transformational Leadership\nTransformational leaders are often described as those who stimulate and inspire followers to achieve extraordinary outcomes and develop their own leadership capacity. This program will focus on the key tenants of developing a transformational leadership style.\nStrategic Decisions and Decisive Leadership: The Essence of the Board\u2019s Role\nLearn new ways to build support for a club\u2019s strategic plan and how to use it effectively to ensure that your club stays on track in pursuit of its mission and goals.\nSuccession Planning for Club Executives\nThis presentation provides an overview of the steps that a club should consider to ensure that it is prepared for a change in the chief staff position and other key personnel.\nTechnology Outlook for Private Clubs: Ways to Maximize Your Club\u2019s Investments\nWhat\u2019s on the horizon for technology innovation in the private club industry and what are some creative solutions being used today? These and many other questions regarding technology\u2019s impact on the club industry will be answered during this discussion.\nConcerns about cyber attacks, attacks on corporate networks and theft of member information are growing issues for private clubs. This program will discuss technology security, risk management and crisis communications, including case studies of private clubs that have been hit by attacks, and ways to add protections for information security liability.\nThis program highlights the evolving nature of both facilities and programs with options that will appeal to club members of all ages in years to come and demonstrate the importance of integrating these programs with other areas of club services.\nWhether it\u2019s membership policies, operational matters, employment law questions or dealing with errant golf balls, clubs are often confronted with issues that could have a significant impact on potential liability and how they operate. This program will involve a panel of legal experts to analyze developments in the many potential liability areas that can arise from club operations. It will also explain proactive measures clubs can take to protect themselves, how clubs can benefit from using alternative dispute resolution and issues that can be critical to protecting the club\u2019s private status.\nAlphabet Soup: Dealing with the Agencies of the Federal Government\nFederal regulatory agencies have a significant impact on the operations of a private club. Get an inside perspective on what several Congressional Committees are doing to reign in key agencies and regulations like the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the Department of Labor (DOL), and the implementation of the health care law (ACA).\nLegislative Update: The Changing Landscape and What You Need to Know\nFind out the latest from Capitol Hill and what it means to private clubs. A key element of this program will focus on the Affordable Care Act and the steps clubs are taking to deal with its challenges.\nThe National Club Conference will be held at The Westin DC City Center from May 3-5, 2015. Online registration is now available on the NCA website www.nationalclubconference.org. Special events will be held at The University Club of Washington, D.C., Congressional Country Club, the National Republican Club of Capital Hill, and an optional golf outing at Army Navy Country Club.\nCondon O\u2019Meara McGinty Donnelly LLP is the lead sponsor for the 2015 National Club Conference. The NCA Foundation and Judd Brown Designs/Jefferson Group Architects also are sponsors for this event. Contact Louise Martin at martin@nationalclub.org for information on becoming a sponsor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 9493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/business/label-mechanically-tenderized-meat", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:15Z", "digest": "sha1:Y3BONPL26MDQ5MA3KXBMMZWTT37SANLN", "length": 833, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.nationalhogfarmer.com", "title": "Label Mechanically Tenderized Meat | National Hog Farmer", "raw_content": "Label Mechanically Tenderized Meat\nThe Safe Food Coalition is asking USDA to approve a proposal to label beef products that are mechanically tenderized.\nThe Safe Food Coalition is asking USDA to approve a proposal to label beef products that are mechanically tenderized. In a letter to USDA, the coalition said that \u201cconsumers need to be provided with labeling information, so that they can make appropriate selections and take the necessary steps in handling and cooking these products.\u201d Coalition members signing the letter included Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumer Federation of America, Food & Water Watch and STOP Foodborne Illness. A proposal by USDA\u2019s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is under review at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).\nComment Period on RFS Waiver Extended\nFarm Bill Now", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 305.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naturalnews.com/027325_milk_raw_health.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:43Z", "digest": "sha1:RF3SFNSFIX3QRQH4ZC5HNCJCYQCXMB6Y", "length": 8285, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.naturalnews.com", "title": "Dairy Un-Forbidden: Discover the Virtues of Raw Milk (Opinion) - NaturalNews.com", "raw_content": "Monday, October 26, 2009 by: Elizabeth Walling\nhttps://www.naturalnews.com/027325_milk_raw_health.html\n(NewsTarget) Dairy has come under attack in recent years, and it's no wonder why. Milk has been linked to all sorts of health problems such as allergies, sinus infections and even cancer. But the commercial dairy industry touts milk as a health food that is necessary for healthy bones and teeth. So, what is fact and what is fiction? Is milk a superfood or a wicked fiend? The truth is that milk began as a powerful health food and has been corrupted by greed into its modern commercially-processed counterpart.\nThe fact that milk is an inherently unhealthy food is a misconception which is not entirely unfounded. The truth is that almost all of the milk we encounter today is an industrialized, processed product. It is not anything close to a whole, natural food. Modern milk is hit hard when it comes to commercial processing:\nMost people can link the term pasteurization with Louis Pasteur, but few people realize he originally developed the pasteurization process to preserve beer and wine, not milk. In the world of dairy, pasteurization only became necessary when dairy operations became more concerned with profits rather than the cleanliness of their milk. Pasteurized milk meant they could cut corners and produce filthy milk, only to \"clean\" it up with a nifty, high-heat sanitation process.\nThe purpose of pasteurization is to eliminate all bacteria and enzymes. The process is not selective - all friendly bacteria and beneficial enzymes are destroyed along with any potential pathogens. Most people don't realize this actually makes pasteurized milk more susceptible to contamination because it has no good bacteria to fight off the bad.\nAmong valuable living organisms destroyed during pasteurization Lactobacilli bacteria aids in the digestion of lactose. Many people who are lactose-intolerant may find they can add milk back into their diet if it's raw, simply because of this specialized bacteria. Enzymes are also destroyed during pasteurization. Lipase, an important fat-assimilating enzyme, is non-existent in pasteurized milk, as well as phosphatase, the enzyme that makes calcium absorption possible.\nIn addition to killing off beneficial bacteria and enzymes, pasteurization also destroys other nutritional aspects of milk. Pasteurized milk often contains less than half the vitamin A, C, D and E compared to raw milk (the vitamin D content in commercial milk is synthetic). Valuable B6 and B12 vitamins are completely obliterated when exposed to heat. In addition, the minerals in pasteurized milk are not bioavailable like those in raw milk. Amino acids like tyrosine and lysine are also altered during pasteurization.\nUltra-pasteurization is a process that involves even higher temperatures for longer periods. This method has become an industry standard because it virtually kills milk and makes it completely sterile. It is no longer a living food rich in vital substances - it is simply dead.\nThis process essentially breaks up and redistributes the fat in milk so the cream will no longer rise to the top. Almost all commercial milk is homogenized. The homogenization process is harmful because it causes the milk fat to oxidize. Oxidized fat is a dangerous substance that can be linked to modern diseases like cardiovascular disease.\nLow-fat versions of commercial milk are made more palatable with the addition of powdered milk, which is blasted with high temperatures during dehydration. This causes oxidation and the formation of potentially carcinogenic compounds. Commercial milk may also be completely reconstituted from powdered milk or milk solids. This does not have to be stated on the food label because according to legal technicalities it is considered to be \"milk.\"\nDrinking milk that has gone through these types of processing is akin to eating irradiated vegetables or hydrogenated oils. Commercial processing mutates a health food into a disaster, and we have learned this the hard way.\nIs Milk the Real Problem?\nOne of the most objectionable aspects of the dairy industry is its treatment of dairy cattle, who are often confined in filth, shot up with growth hormones and antibiotics, and kept in such harsh conditions that their life span is barely one-quarter of that of the average pastured cow. Although the commercial diary industry insists the milk that comes from such cows is healthy, that is very difficult to believe. It can be said that all of the problems associated with the dairy products have nothing to do with milk and everything to do with commercialized industry and its obsession with the almighty dollar, coupled with complete disregard for the health and well-being of consumers.\nThere is a special recipe for nourishing milk, and it begins with a healthy cow. Dairy cattle should be raised humanely, primarily on pasture, and without the use of hormones, antibiotics or unnatural feeds. All milking cows should be visibly healthy and preferably certified. Ideally, raw milk should come from a local dairy where you can actually visit and see the operation in person. Bringing home a gallon of milk from a farm you have actually seen with your own eyes is a reward in itself, and the experience of bringing home a truly wholesome local food is priceless.\nThe Amazing Health Benefits of Raw Milk\nThe nutritional content of raw milk is broad and highly bioavailable. Raw milk is a complete package of proteins, natural carbohydrates, natural fats, vitamins, and minerals complete with the enzymes necessary to completely digest and assimilate all of these valuable nutrients. It is rich in minerals like calcium, magnesium, chloride, zinc, selenium, manganese, iodide, phosphorus and many others. Its range of vitamins includes A, C, D, E, K, B1, B2, B6, B12, niacin, pantothenic acid, biotin and folic acid. All of these vital nutrients remain intact only when milk is raw.\nRaw milk is considered a complete protein - meaning it contains all eight of the essential amino acids that can't be manufactured by the body. These aminos are important building blocks for cells, neurotransmitters, bones, muscles and the other non-essential amino acids. The natural fats in raw milk are essential for using all the important fat-soluble vitamins in raw milk. Again, these remain undamaged only in raw milk.\nThere are groups of native people, such as those from the Loetschental Valley in Switzerland, whose traditional diets consisted of mostly raw milk and its various food products (such as raw cheese, butter and cultured dairy foods). These people exhibited fine health and longevity. Several early studies revealed that raw milk can be vital for growing children, preventing common maladies such as asthma, allergies, tooth decay, influenza, pneumonia and many others, while improving overall growth and development (studies are cited below). Naturopathic doctor Ron Schmid, author of The Untold Story of Milk and raw milk enthusiast, regularly prescribes raw milk in his practice as a healing food. He especially notes raw milk's ability to reduce allergies, prevent infections and improve overall health. It is possible for us to learn from examples such as these, and consider raw milk a healthy choice.\nFor many of us, the decision about whether or not we include dairy products in our diet is a multi-faceted one. Consuming milk isn't right for everyone, for a variety of reasons. But if you've avoided milk because of its tainted reputation, it's important to realize raw milk can be a wholesome and healing addition to your diet.\nhttp://www.realmilk.com/healthbenefits.html\nhttp://www.realmilk.com/moreraw.html\nhttp://www.realmilk.com/rawvpasteur.html\nhttp://www.westonaprice.org/transition/dairy...\nLancet, p 1142, 5/8/37\nAm J Dis Child, Nov 1917\nLancet, 2001 358(9288):1129-33\nOhio Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, 518, p 8, 1/33\nElizabeth Walling is a freelance writer specializing in health and family nutrition. She is a strong believer in natural living as a way to improve health and prevent modern disease. She enjoys thinking outside of the box and challenging common myths about health and wellness. You can visit her blog to learn more:\nwww.livingthenourishedlife.com/2009/10/welco...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 21236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.navy-net.co.uk/community/media/paper-jpg.2298/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:49Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5X5SRDSWFYBXNMLQFMJ524UWUCLXDFO", "length": 3430, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.navy-net.co.uk", "title": "paper.jpg | Navy Net - Royal Navy Community", "raw_content": "thincomme72\nNeed to Buy a Term Paper?\nWe know how it is: you\u2019re down to the last minute and you know there\u2019s no way you\u2019re going to be able to pull off that 8 page essay before it\u2019s due. 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Give us a call today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/faro-s-daughter-abridged/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:35Z", "digest": "sha1:JWMZZ3QSQE5M7QDHX6RZSYHJOZTHKI5F", "length": 7294, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.naxosaudiobooks.com", "title": "Faro\u2019s Daughter (abridged) \u2013 Naxos AudioBooks", "raw_content": "Fiery, strong-willed Deb Grantham, who presides over a gaming house with her aunt, is hardly the perfect wife for the young and naive Lord Mablethorpe. His lordship\u2019s family are scandalised that he proposes to marry one of \u2018faro\u2019s daughters\u2019, and his cousin \u2013 the proud, wealthy Max Ravenscar \u2013 decides to take the matter in hand. Ravenscar always gets his way, but as he and Miss Grantham lock horns, they become increasingly drawn to each other. Amidst all the misunderstandings and entanglements, has Ravenscar finally met his match?\nGeorgette Heyer\u2019s novels are second to none in recreating Regency times, and most of them are available on audio. The latest of Naxos\u2019s lively abridged versions to be released is Faro\u2019s Daughter, another tale of a poor but feisty girl using her mind as well as her looks to make good. From the instant that the wealthy and noble Max Ravenscar frowns at the news that his naive young cousin is in love with a gamester\u2019s daughter, we can guess the outcome, but the journey, voiced with bounce and bonhomie by Laura Paton, is a delight.\nAlthough Georgette Heyer\u2019s name is synonymous with the Regency romance, she also wrote numerous novels set somewhat earlier in the Georgian era, including Faro\u2019s Daughter. The events of the novel take place during or shortly after the year 1795, while King George III was still on the throne. Though the historical context of the period does not play such a foreground role here as it does in much of her other work, like The Grand Sophy or Venetia, it provides an ever-present backcloth to the escapades of the characters. As is so often the case with Georgette Heyer\u2019s work, historical references are woven so deftly into the fabric of the book that they pass almost unnoticed \u2013 although her knowledge of the Georgian period was extensive, she wore her erudition lightly.\nOur first clue as to when the events take place appears early on in the book, when the old-fashioned Lady Mablethorpe reacts with horror to Max Ravenscar\u2019s hair, observing that it is \u2018cut into something perilously near a Bedford crop\u2019. The Bedford Crop was a hairstyle devised and made popular by Francis Russell, 5th Duke of Bedford (1765\u20131802) in 1795. Prior to this date, most men wore their hair powdered and tied back, but when the Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (1759\u20131806) passed a tax on hair powder on 23 February 1795, one of several emergency taxes brought in to mitigate the severe financial consequences of war with the French, Bedford organised a protest, the results of which were reported in the London Chronicle:\nThe noblemen and gentlemen who agreed to the Duke of Bedford\u2019s cropping proposal a few days ago at Woburn Abbey, when a general cropping and combing out of hair took place, were Lords William Russell, Villers. Paget, Sir H. Featherstone, Mr. Lambton, Mr. Ant. Lee, Mr. R. Lee, Mr. Trevers, Mr. Dutton, Mr. Day, and Mr. Vernon. They entered into an engagement to forfeit a sum of money if any of them wore their hair tied or powdered within a certain period. Many noblemen and gentlemen in the County of Bedford have since followed the example. It has become general with the gentry in Hampshire, and the ladies have left off wearing powder.\nThe short, cropped cut became symbolic not only of protest against the taxes, but of political allegiance to the Whigs. Lady Mablethorpe\u2019s horror, then, is more than simple personal preference, and in this one throwaway reference Heyer is able to subtly impart a wealth of information about the two characters.\nHeyer produced\nnovels at the\nrate of almost\none a year,\nspawning a new\n\u2013 the Regency\nIn general, dress is an important means of characterisation for Heyer. When Miss Grantham dresses herself up to look \u2018like some dreadful creature from the stage\u2019, she wears bright, clashing colours and heavy make-up, including patches. Patches \u2013 small pieces of black fabric that were attached to the face \u2013 and excessive rouge became unfashionable around 1790, and Miss Grantham deliberately uses them to suggest a lack of style and elegance.\nThe gaming house presided over by Deborah and her aunt plays a central role in the novel. The eighteenth century was seized by a passion for gambling, and such houses, often run by aristocratic women, were common \u2013 a 1796 estimate put the number of gambling clubs in London at forty-three, six of which were run by women. Faro was a popular game, as was E.O. (even/odd), a precursor of roulette. Lady Bellingham may have been modelled on such infamous real-life characters as Mrs. Albinia Hobart (1738\u20131816), who later became Lady Buckingham, and Lady Sarah Archer (d. 1801). An influx of French aristocrats after the Revolution saw an increase in the number of gaming houses, but there was an immediate backlash, and the 1790s saw the so-called \u2018faro ladies\u2019, or \u2018faro\u2019s daughters\u2019, get an increasingly bad press. Lady Bellingham\u2019s comments on the \u2018absurd stuff written in the daily papers about the wickedness of gaming-houses\u2019 probably refer to the many articles written on the dangers of gambling. Women like Deb Grantham were routinely characterised in these moralistic screeds as lascivious, dissipated and predatory \u2013 precisely the qualities that Ravenscar assumes her to possess.\nBorn in London in 1902, Heyer inherited a love of books from her father, George Heyer, and two of her closest childhood friends, Carola Oman and Joanna Cannan, with whom she spent many hours discussing literature, grew up to be authors. She showed promise from an early age, writing her first book, entitled The Black Moth, at the age of seventeen. It was published, with George Heyer\u2019s help, in 1921, initiating a steady stream of novels. In 1926, Heyer had her first major success with These Old Shades. By this time, she had been married for a year to a young mining engineer named Ronald Rougier, and had already published five books.\nFrom 1932 until her death in 1974, Heyer produced novels at the extraordinary rate of almost one a year, spawning a new literary genre \u2013 the Regency romance. Yet despite her undeniable success, she was frequently troubled by plagiarism and financial problems. Throughout the fifties and sixties, her company Heron Enterprises was a source of contention between her and the tax authorities, and a large chunk of the profits from books written around this time went towards paying back money to the Treasury. Plagiarism also became a problem \u2013 from the 1950s onwards, several other writers traded on her popularity by writing novels using names, phrases and events from her books. She was even accused by some of her fans of publishing substandard work under a pseudonym. Although Heyer sought legal advice on several occasions, she never chose to sue.\nFaro\u2019s Daughter was published in 1941, as Heyer was reaching the height of her popularity. It bears all the hallmarks of her best romances, being witty, charming and brimming with historical insight. It features a number of familiar comic characters, including the kind-hearted, ineffectual Lady Bellingham, the bewildered ingenue Phoebe, and the dissipated, ageing rake Lord Ormskirk. Miss Grantham and Mr Ravenscar are flawed, though ultimately likeable protagonists, and their many misunderstandings and entanglements only make them more endearing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 11282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/movies/NATL-Bill-Clinton-To-Appear-In-The-Hangover-2-108026179.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:18Z", "digest": "sha1:HOFUFNNRXY2RZXW3I4HMRXWQYZR62RZL", "length": 1088, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.nbcbayarea.com", "title": "Bill Clinton To Appear In \u201cThe Hangover 2\u201d - NBC Bay Area", "raw_content": "Bill Clinton To Appear In \u201cThe Hangover 2\u201d\nHe's appearing as himself\nPublished Nov 14, 2010 at 4:46 PM | Updated at 10:39 AM PST on Mar 1, 2011\nFollowing in the footsteps of Ronald Reagan, former President Bill Clinton put on his acting shoes for a cameo in \u201cThe Hangover 2.\u201d\nClinton shot his character part in Bangkok on Saturday, where he talks about clean energy, according to People magazine. That part would have been a snap for Clinton\u2019s former right hand man, former Vice President Al Gore. Gore took home two Oscars for his 2006 environmental documentary \u201cAn Inconvenient Truth.\u201d\nThe first film boasted a now famous cameo from former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. Mel Gibson was also slated to appear in the Todd Phillips directed flick, but he was scrapped amid reported tension from the cast and crew. Liam Neeson stepped in as a repllacement and shot the scenes earlier this month.\nGibson was reportdly furious that his cameo coeback was nixed, but he doesn't blame old buddy Neeson for getting the role, Neeson said in a recent interview.\nSelected Reading: People, IMDb, E!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iran-nuclear-talks/iran-nuke-pact-supreme-leader-says-deal-not-sure-thing-n338281", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:19Z", "digest": "sha1:5JEZHTZXVHCQ62FDIWKKMXHGTFTSGYBH", "length": 1956, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.nbcnews.com", "title": "Iran Nuclear Pact: Supreme Leader Says Deal Is Not Sure Thing", "raw_content": "Iran Nuclear Pact: Supreme Leader Says Deal Is Not Sure Thing\nMoniz: Iran Deal 'Not Built on Trust,' 'Built on Hard-Nosed Requirements'\nTEHRAN \u2014 Iran\u2019s most powerful man warned that a tentative agreement on the country\u2019s nuclear program did not make a final deal a sure thing.\nAyatollah Ali Khamenei also lashed out at the West for allegedly reneging in the past.\n\u201cThe other side which is known for backpedaling on its commitments may want to corner our country when it comes to the specifics [of the negotiations],\u201d the Islamic republic's supreme leader said on live television in his first public comments since the agreement was announced on April 2. \u201cWhat has been done so far neither guarantees [the clinching of] an agreement itself and its contents, nor ensures that the negotiations would proceed to the end.\u201d\nHe added: \"They will not be allowed to inspect our military bases.\"\nKhamenei's support for any agreement is crucial to its success. Iran, which Western powers worry is trying to develop an atomic bomb, has engaged in intermittent talks about its disputed nuclear program for over a decade.\nKhamenei also said a U.S. fact sheet showing terms of the preliminary pact didn't match the Iranian view of the agreement. He suggested this showed \"devilish\" U.S. intentions.\nPresident Hassan Rouhani earlier said that Iran would only sign a final agreement if international sanctions were lifted the \u201csame day.\u201d The U.S. has said the sanctions would be phased out gradually.\nIran and the P5+1 \u2014 the U.S., Russia, France, U.K., China and Germany \u2014 signed the preliminary agreement and negotiators are now working towards a June 30 deadline.\nObama Prepares to Sell Iran Deal to Congress\nIran Depoloys Warships Off Yemen's Coast\nObama's Next Test on Iran Is Keeping Democrats on Board\nIran Nuclear Deal Means 'Peaceful' Enrichment: Rouhani\n\u2014 Ali Arouzi and F. Brinley Bruton\nReuters contributed to this report. F. Brinley Bruton reported from London.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbm.org/collections/american-brick-collection/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:07Z", "digest": "sha1:CZ5F7ETXPDR2R2JHPICS34YXIM6F5YEO", "length": 1388, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nbm.org", "title": "The American Brick Collection at the @BuildingMuseum", "raw_content": "Gift of Raymond Chase\nBrick is one of the oldest and most enduring man-made building materials. Sun-dried mud brick, or adobe, appeared about 10,000 years ago. The earliest kiln-fired or clay-baked brick dates to 3,500 B.C. This marked the first time humans were able to construct permanent fireproof structures without stone.\nSince at least 1611, when English brick makers were recruited to Virginia, fired brick has been part of the North American landscape. Tied to the colonial era, brick came to define the nation\u2019s industrial age and remains linked to contemporary notions of the American factory, school, and single-family house. Although once manufactured with incredible variety, brick production today is far more limited because the material is no longer used structurally, but rather as veneer.\nThe American Brick Collection contains 1,800 bricks, most from the late 19th- and early 20th-century, each stamped with the manufacturer\u2019s name, logo, or hometown. Donor Raymond Chase spent 24 years collecting them. There are examples of decorative, face, fire, paving, pressed, and common bricks from around the nation. All told, the collection weighs around 10,000 pounds.\nThe American Brick Collection is in storage and not on view. Please check current exhibitions for a list of what is publicly accessible.\nBrick Collection, 2013. CItyscapes.\nBaltimore Brick Collection, 2006.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncc-business.com/category/compliance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3PJ7G6BAOVLXKCZ5KYV627HJZGAQ4ROF", "length": 391, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ncc-business.com", "title": "Compliance Archives - NCC Business Services", "raw_content": "By NCC Business Services | Compliance\nNew Personally Identifying Information Standards go into effect on September 15, 2017. Beginning September 15th, the National Consumer Assistance Plan will additionally require social security numbers and dates-of-birth (DOB) for all tenants. If full social security number is not available, full DOB will be required by credit reporting agencies (CRA).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nellam.com/pages/returns-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AOQZQENO2VZB5YSKQLKKQE7HAFVBN4EB", "length": 1637, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nellam.com", "title": "Returns Policy \u2013 Nellam", "raw_content": "Thank you for shopping at Nellam. If the product itself is defective, or if the final product is materially different than the design displayed in the campaign, we're here to help and have a 100% satisfaction guarantee. Under these conditions, our products can be returned within 30 days of the original purchase of the product. Please ensure that:\nThe product was purchased in the last 30 days; and the product isn't used; and either a) the product itself is defective, or b) the final product is materially different than the design displayed in the campaign.\nProducts that do not meet these criteria will not be considered for return. To return a product to Nellam please email support@nellam.com and we will assist you as soon as possible.\nPlease be advised that once your item has been shipped, your order cannot be modified or cancelled. Orders are shipped within 12 hours in some cases.\nAfter you have sent an email tosupport@nellam.com you will receive instructions for returning your item(s). Shipping charges incurred in connection with the return of a product are non-refundable. You are responsible for paying the costs of shipping and for the risk of loss of or damage to the product during shipping. Once your return has been received we will refund your order for products only - the shipping cost will not be refunded.\nDamaged items: If you received a damaged product, please notify us immediately for assistance. We will be more than happy to get a solution so you are 100% happy.\nPlease note: Due to the popularity of certain items in our catalog, shipping times may take longer than the estimates shown on the website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nelsonfuneralhomes.com/obituary/robert-guzman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:33Z", "digest": "sha1:EHT6LT6HUPDTUGHQW5VRO7EKYR57CCMT", "length": 2623, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nelsonfuneralhomes.com", "title": "Robert Guzman - Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory Nelson Funeral Homes & Crematory", "raw_content": "Robert Guzman, age 88, of Yorkville, IL passed away on Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at his home surrounded by his family. He was born on August 24, 1930 in Eola, Illinois the son of Manuel and Petra (Rangel) Guzman.\nRobert was united in marriage on May 26, 1956 to the former Lois Joanne Mount and they spent the next 62\u2026read more\nRobert was united in marriage on May 26, 1956 to the former Lois Joanne Mount and they spent the next 62 happy years together. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather, brother, and uncle who will be deeply missed by his family and friends.\nMr. Guzman was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Yorkville, IL. Robert served his country proudly as a sergeant in the United States Army during the Korean War in which he was awarded two bronze stars. He was employed for 45 years by the Arnold Lies Company in Aurora, IL until his retirement. Robert was a proud member of Union Laborers Local 149. He was a former member of the Aurora Moose Lodge, the Lucky 50 Club, and the Turners Club all of Aurora, IL. Robert was a lifelong member of the VFW and the former American Legion Post, both in Aurora, IL. Mr. Guzman was proud to be on the Honor Flight Chicago on October 11, 2017. Robert was a former member of the Aurora Clippers Football Team. Robert and his wife Joanne were very active with the Kendall County Senior Center in Yorkville, IL. He enjoyed fishing and camping with his family and friends. Robert loved being with his grandchildren and great grandchildren.\nHe is survived by his wife, Joanne Guzman of Yorkville, IL; his children, Jeffrey (Laura) Guzman of Kaneville, IL, Mark (Robin) Guzman of Yorkville, IL, Lori Anne (William) Hanson of Yorkville, IL, Wayne (Ellie) Guzman of Oswego, IL, and Mary Lynn (Jeff) Pawlowski of Oswego, IL; his nineteen grandchildren and twenty-five great grandchildren; his brothers, Rudy (Sonja) Guzman of Bettendorf, IA, Butch Guzman of Aurora, IL, and John (Anne) Guzman of McKinney, TX; his sisters, Carmen Lewis of Aurora, IL, Josephine Stevens of Aurora, IL, and Rosemary Martins of Milwaukee, WI; as well as many nieces and nephews.\nHe was preceded in death by his parents, Manuel and Petra Guzman; and his one great grandson.\nA Funeral Mass will be held at 10:00 AM on Friday, February 8, 2019 at St. Patrick Catholic Church, 406 Walnut St., Yorkville, IL with Father Gabriel Cillo, M.I.C. officiating. Interment will follow in River Hills Cemetery in Batavia, IL.\nFriends may visit from 3:00 until 8:00 on Thursday, February 7, 2019 at the Nelson Funeral Home, 1617 N. Bridge St., Yorkville, IL.\nRiver Hills Cemetery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 181.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nemoequipment.com/nemo-equipment-named-one-of-new-hampshires-top-10-places-to-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ZDGSCHQUMAALGOHXHHCEO3IRBS45FG7K", "length": 2388, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nemoequipment.com", "title": "NEMO Equipment Named One of New Hampshire's Top 10 Places to Work", "raw_content": "NEMO Equipment Named One of New Hampshire\u2019s Top 10 Places to Work\n[Dover, NH] \u2013 NEMO Equipment, an award-winning outdoor gear manufacturer focused on shifting the way people enjoy and interact in the outdoors, has been ranked #8 in New Hampshire for top places to work by Business NH Magazine. Of the nineteen companies from across the state that were honored, the average number of employees was 284. NEMO has just 19 employees, the 2nd smallest company on the list.\n\u201cWhen I started NEMO 15 years ago, I wanted it to be a different kind of place to work; I didn\u2019t want it to feel like a job at all,\u201d said NEMO CEO & Founder, Cam Brensinger. \u201cWe strive to build camaraderie, the kind that comes with sharing an epic adventure with your best friends. I want folks to be passionate about what they\u2019re doing and live authentically to the brands\u2019 mission. I\u2019m thankful that we have a solid team in place that treats each other like family and enjoys not only coming to work together each day, but adventuring together.\u201d\nBusiness NH Magazine and the NH Businesses for Social Responsibility have been recognizing New Hampshire businesses with the Best Companies to Work For competition for 20 years. The competition includes an employee engagement survey that must be completed by at least 50% of the company\u2019s workforce, as well as an in-depth survey of the business\u2019s practices and benefits.\nSome of the highlights from NEMO\u2019s survey include:\nThe GO FAR Program, encouraging and incentivizing employees to go out and adventure domestically and abroad using NEMO gear.\nThe GO HELP Program, which encourages employees to give back to communities and volunteer for conservation or sustainability-oriented projects during work time.\nCompany adventures throughout the year, where employees get outside together for company-sponsored activities such as skiing, hiking, camping, ice climbing, and mountain biking.\nA flexible culture that supports being active, including lunchtime team runs, surfing together before work, and sponsoring NEMO teams for events such as the upcoming Reach the Beach Ragnar.\nA dog-friendly culture, complete with a company dog walker.\nUnlimited use of NEMO gear, allowing all employees to use NEMO tents, sleeping bags, pads and furniture on their own adventures.\nCompany meetings with beverages; meetings are kept brief and informal, and usually served with craft beer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 6371, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newcivilengineer.com/fines-will-fund-huge-rise-in-speed-cameras/813046.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:13Z", "digest": "sha1:RFRJ4PSLYQXTID27RVTFWOP5SAVHR7RE", "length": 1644, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.newcivilengineer.com", "title": "Fines will fund huge rise in speed cameras | Archive imported | New Civil Engineer", "raw_content": "Fines will fund huge rise in speed cameras\n14 June, 2001 By Alan Sparks\nELECTRONICALLY ENFORCED speed limits could soon be imposed across large areas of the road network if a campaign by police chiefs is successful.\nThe Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) wants local forces to take advantage of new legislation which will allow them to plough money from speeding fines into speed monitoring equipment.\nIt is anticipated that all police forces will start to take advantage of this policy over the next two years.\nThe move bodes well for consultant Symonds, which has developed a pioneering digital speed control system christened SPECS. The system offers the ability to monitor 'speed control zones', rather than the limited 'spot' detection method currently available.\nGloucester Safer City Project is the most recent to announce the installation of SPECS, whose digital data collection permits up to 52,000 speed violations to be held per unit, compared to around 400 on existing systems.\nThe system has been piloted in Nottingham with encouraging results. Stewart Thompson, road safety service manager at Nottingham City Council, declared that 'the use of the SPECS system has had a dramatic effect on vehicle speeds and accidents'.\nSince the introduction of SPECS in July 2000, the number of serious road accidents in the controlled zone has dropped by 52%.\nSuccessful trials over roadworks on the M1 and M5 have led to an endorsement from ACPO.\nThe speed control scheme aims to prevent the growing trend of drivers decelerating only for the crucial few yards before the camera, then speeding off once clear.\nwww. speedcheck. co. uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newman.ac.uk/course/doctor-of-education-edd/part-time/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TULJNFHUBJDNISBU76AMVAEYPWF2KRSJ", "length": 4508, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.newman.ac.uk", "title": "Doctor of Education EdD (Part-time)", "raw_content": "Call Admissions 0121 476 1181 to find out more about applying directly to Newman University and when the next cohort is recruiting for.\nThe Doctor of Education (EdD) has been specifically designed for professionals working in a variety of education-related, public service and charity sectors and who are ready to make the next step to doctoral study in part-time mode. Those joining the programme will typically come from occupational backgrounds such as teaching, learning support, advisory roles, police work, social work and health-related professions. The shared interest for this student community will be a desire to pursue an area of doctoral research related to and drawing on their professional work with the aim of creating new knowledge, applications and understanding that will bring both personal benefits and a contribution of originality and innovation in the wider professional and academic community.\nValidated by Liverpool Hope University, the programme has a strong emphasis on individualised learning and personal critical reflection related to professional identities, values and contexts. The programme provides a structured environment in which students engage at an advanced level with a range of academic and professional issues relevant to their own practice. The learning and teaching strategy seeks to develop key skills of independent learning, independent research, and sustained critical self-reflexive analysis through a blend of academic and professional themes.\nThe programme has a minimum registration period of four years and is taught over a series of five study week-ends divided into two parts. In the first of these, students undertake three \u2018strands\u2019 of taught study (equalling 40 credits each) involving Professional Identity and Values; Knowledge, Truth and Values in Research; Research Skills and Methods. This is followed by the writing of a substantial research proposal (60 credits), which forms the foundation for the supervised thesis in part 2 on a research question related to individual professional practice.\nThe professional doctorate is undertaken on a part time basis. Part One (Years 1 and 2) consists of three \u2018strands\u2019 of taught study (equalling 40 credits each), followed by the writing of a substantial research proposal (60 credits) on a research question broadly related to professional practice. On successful completion of Part One, students progress to Part Two (Years 3 and 4) which comprises a substantial independent research project (60,000 words).\nTo apply please visit the EdD applications page\nThe University\u2019s requirements for admission to a programme of study leading to the award of a Professional Doctorate are that an applicant should:\n[a] submit an application form including a summary statement to indicate how undertaking study at the level of a professional doctorate relates to the applicant\u2019s professional context;\n[b] normally possess:\nA 1st or 2.1 Bachelors degree from UK University (or overseas equivalent)\n[c] have at least 3 years\u2019 significant and relevant experience in a professional area appropriate to the programme of study.\nApplicants who do not meet clause b above, but do meet clauses a and c, may be considered for admission to Part One of the Professional Doctorate programme only. Successful completion of Part One would enable a student to progress to Part Two, should they wish to complete a Professional Doctorate.\nIn addition to satisfying the requirements above, applicants must be able to demonstrate a high level of competence in written and spoken English.\nContact: EdD Programme Leader\nProfessor Dave Trotman\nEmail: D.Trotman@newman.ac.uk\n\u00a31,990 p.a. for Home/EU students*\nFinance Information - GOV.UK\nYou can get funding for postgraduate study through loans, studentships, bursaries and grants - you might also get help from your employer. A Postgraduate Doctoral Loan can help with course fees and living costs while you study a postgraduate doctoral course, such as a PhD.\nPostgraduate Doctoral Loan.\nIf you\u2019re starting a doctoral degree on or after 1 August 2018, you could get a Postgraduate Doctoral Loan of up to \u00a325,000 to help with course fees and living costs. It isn\u2019t based on your income or your family\u2019s and it\u2019s paid directly to you. You\u2019ll be able to apply from summer 2018\nSee: Funding for Postgraduate Study \u2013 from GOV.uk\nPlease view the course modules that are taken over a minimum of 4 years.\nCourse modules are taken over a minimum of 4 years see the above course modules link", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 6127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.news-medical.net/news/2004/10/05/5337.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:PEPOJEIU7BQP7ROQUXIJMHRXWFBBQXTL", "length": 2394, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.news-medical.net", "title": "Testosterone may help men recover from a stroke", "raw_content": "Testosterone may help men recover from a stroke\nTestosterone \u2013 the hormone responsible for a man's sexual characteristics \u2013 may help him recover from a stroke, according to preliminary animal research at Saint Louis University.\nResearchers will present their findings at the annual meeting of the American Neurological Association in October.\n\u201cIt looks like testosterone speeds up the recovery from a stroke,\u201d said Yi Pan, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of neurology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and principal investigator on the study. \u201cWhile the results are encouraging, this is still very preliminary and we need to do more research.\u201d\nThe scientists compared two groups of castrated rats that had suffered strokes. Half received testosterone and half a placebo. The rats that received testosterone showed significant improvement in neurological deficits while those in the control group did not.\nBased on the promising findings, plans are on the drawing board to test whether testosterone helps people recover from strokes, said Aninda B. Acharya, M.D., assistant professor of neurology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine and a researcher on the project.\n\u201cWe are trying to find newer, better techniques including pharmacological techniques to improve the outcomes of patients who have had strokes,\u201d Dr. Acharya says. \u201cMany of the techniques for physical rehabilitation were designed for people returning from combat without a limb. They may not be applicable for stroke patients.\u201d\nHe acknowledges that testosterone replacement therapy usually is given to men who have low testosterone, whose symptoms include low libido, poor muscle strength, depression and cognitive problems.\n\u201cWe\u2019re studying giving testosterone for a different indication than people are used to. But the patients who have low testosterone have the same symptoms we treat in stroke patients. If you look at what happens to patients with strokes, their strength is affected. Their thinking is affected. They\u2019re depressed. Their sex drive is decreased. There are all sorts of similarities. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re superficial similarities.\u201d\nTags: Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Disease, Depression, Hormone, Libido, Low Testosterone, Muscle, Neurology, Placebo, Research, Stroke, Testosterone, Vaccine\nEnglishEspa\u00f1olFran\u00e7aisDeutschPortugu\u00easItaliano\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\ud55c\uad6d\uc5b4\u7b80\u4f53\u4e2d\u6587\u7e41\u9ad4\u4e2d\u6587NederlandsNorsk\u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439SvenskaPolski", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 8274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2018/02/07/msnbcs-odonnell-trashes-kelly-worst-chief-staff-ever-full-hatred", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PECSIXIMZ7QG2GVN4IAJYNFMMVYIBZLO", "length": 7973, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.newsbusters.org", "title": "MSNBC\u2019s O\u2019Donnell Trashes Kelly as \u2018Worst\u2019 Chief of Staff Ever; \u2018Full of Hatred\u2019 Like Trump", "raw_content": "MSNBC\u2019s O\u2019Donnell Trashes Kelly as \u2018Worst\u2019 Chief of Staff Ever; \u2018Full of Hatred\u2019 Like Trump\nReacting late Tuesday to White House Chief of Staff John Kelly\u2019s comments about illegal immigrants and the DACA program, MSNBC\u2019s The Last Word host Lawrence O\u2019Donnell lashed out at Kelly as \u201cthe worst White House chief of staff in history\u201d and someone who\u2019s undoubtedly \u201cfull of hatred\u201d like President Trump.\nUpon hearing the soundbite of Kelly knocking illegals who didn\u2019t apply for DACA status, an enraged O\u2019Donnell screeched that \u201cJohn Kelly works for the laziest President in history who might very well be the laziest federal worker in history\u201d while the retired Marine General \u201cis the worst White House chief of staff in history.\u201d\nO\u2019Donnell\u2019s grievances included falsely asserting that Trump caused the January government shutdown and that Kelly\u2019s criticism of Democratic Congresswoman Fredericka Wilson (Fla.) and former President Obama was so awful that \u201c[n]o other White House chief of staff in history has ever told such a poisonous lie about a member of Congress or about a former President.\u201d\nTherefore, he added that \u201cwe can no longer be surprised when John Kelly opens his mouth and ugly prejudice and poison comes out as it did again today.\u201d\n\u201cThere is not a shred of evidence now that John Kelly has even the slightest bit more sympathy or understanding of the Dreamers than Donald Trump has. There is not the slightest hint now that John Kelly\u2019s heart is not as full of hatred as Donald Trump\u2019s is for all of the people that Donald Trump rages against, from Mexicans to Muslims to undocumented immigrants, including children,\u201d O\u2019Donnell continued, on the verge of a breakdown.\nBack during the Kelly-Wilson feud, O\u2019Donnell argued with zero evidence that Kelly was a racist who \u201cdemonized\u201d a \u201cblack woman\u201d solely because of her skin color.\nMoments later, immigration activist Marielena Hincapie praised O\u2019Donnell, stating that Kelly\u2019s comments were \u201csimply outrageous\u201d and proved that \u201che is out of touch with who young immigrants are.\u201d\n\u201cHe is clearly ignorant and that he shares Trump\u2019s, [Stephen] Miller\u2019s and [Steve] Bannon\u2019s white nationalist views about immigrants. Kelly\u2019s comments today are just as offensive as offensive as Trump\u2019s racial slurs against Haitians and African immigrants,\u201d claimed Hincapie.\nFor good measure, O\u2019Donnell brought on faux Republican and new liberal Washington Post columnist Max Boot, who complained that the GOP \u201cis now objectively a threat to the constitutional order, to the rule of law, to everything that we hold dear, because now the Republican Party is not just looking the other way at Donald Trump\u2019s atrocious conduct and his inexcusable rhetoric, including, for example, calling Democrats treasonous.\u201d\nBoot hilariously emphasized that he\u2019s \u201cnever been a cheerleader for Democrats,\u201d but Trump has left him \u201cdelighted to see Democrats doing well because what it speaks to is this repudiation by a lot of the American people of everything that Donald Trump stands for and it\u2019s really, I want \u2014 the Republican Party deserves what\u2019s coming to it.\u201d\nTo see the relevant transcript from MSNBC\u2019s The Last Word with Lawrence O\u2019Donnell on February 6, click \u201cexpand.\u201d\nMSNBC\u2019s The Last Word with Lawrence O\u2019Donnell\nLAWRENCE O\u2019DONNELL: John Kelly works for the laziest President in history who might very well be the laziest federal worker in history. John Kelly is the worst White House chief of staff in history. His only possible competition for that distinction is the first Trump White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. But Reince Priebus did not help Donald Trump steer the government into a shutdown during his time as chief of staff. Reince Priebus did not insult and lie about a member of Congress and call her an empty barrel and lie about President Obama while he was at it and then refused to apologize to either President Obama or Congresswoman Frederica Wilson. Reince Priebus never did that, only John Kelly did that. No other White House chief of staff in history has ever told such a poisonous lie about a member of Congress or about a former President and so we can no longer be surprised when John Kelly opens his mouth and ugly prejudice and poison comes out as it did again today. There is not a shred of evidence now that John Kelly has even the slightest bit more sympathy or understanding of the Dreamers than Donald Trump has. There is not the slightest hint now that John Kelly\u2019s heart is not as full of hatred as Donald Trump\u2019s is for all of the people that Donald Trump rages against, from Mexicans to Muslims to undocumented immigrants, including children. If John Kelly is more enlightened than Donald Trump, if he is more humane than Donald Trump, if he is a more decent person than Donald Trump, why has he never said one word while in the service of Donald Trump to show us in any small way that he is not exactly the same as Donald Trump Donald Trump\u2019s views hatred and never apologizes John Kelly in service to Donald Trump spews hatred and never apologizes. Tonight at the Capitol, when reporters questioned John Kelly about calling young immigrants lazy, he made no attempt to apologize, no attempt to clarify what he meant, instead he insisted that they just should have probably gotten off the couch and signed up for DACA.\nMARIELENA HINCAPIE: It is simply outrageous. The comments made by Kelly just indicate that he is out of touch with who young immigrants are. He is clearly ignorant and that he shares Trump\u2019s millers and Bannon\u2019s white nationalist views about immigrants. Kelly\u2019s comments today are just as offensive as offensive as Trump\u2019s racial slurs against Haitians and African immigrants.\nMAX BOOT: I worked on three Republican Presidential campaigns and finally resigned the party the day after Donald Trump was elected. I completely agree with what Ben Wittes and John Rauch have to say, which is the Republican Party is now objectively a threat to the constitutional order, to the rule of law, to everything that we hold dear, because now the Republican Party is not just looking the other way at Donald Trump\u2019s atrocious conduct and his inexcusable rhetoric, including, for example, calling Democrats treasonous. But they are actively assisting him in obstructing justice. They are assisting him in an unprecedented assault against the Justice Department and the FBI and the men and women who keep us safe. This is so unconscionable, so shocking and it is being a countenance at the highest levels of the Republican Party, not just Trump but Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, they could stop people like Devin Nunes. They can pass legislation to protect Robert Mueller. They refuse to do that. They\u2019re becoming complicit in this unprecedented attempt to subvert the rule of law. For that reason, I completely agree, vote against Republicans because Republicans have shown they will not uphold our constitution against the unprecedented threat posed by Donald Trump.\nBOOT: I\u2019ve never been a cheerleader for Democrats, believe me, quite the opposite, but now I am delighted to see Democrats doing well because what it speaks to is this repudiation by a lot of the American people of everything that Donald Trump stands for. And it\u2019s really, I want -- the Republican Party deserves what\u2019s coming to it. What I hope it gets and it really deserves to be destroyed because it has sold its soul to somebody who is the most openly racist President we\u2019ve ever had, a President who has made the most shocking and unprecedented assault on the rule of law of any President in American history, demonized the media, attacked the judiciary, tried to destroy every check and balance including up until now calling his political opposition treasonous and un-American. I mean, this is un-American, but this is what the Republican Party stands for.\nNBDaily Immigration Conservatives & Republicans Liberals & Democrats MSNBC The Last Word Video Frederica Wilson Lawrence O'Donnell John Kelly Donald Trump", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 9918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorkemploymentattorney-blog.com/federal-government-bans-transgender-discrimination-in-employment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HWEU6CWO6MGD73V53CELW43A3626DAAD", "length": 4096, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.newyorkemploymentattorney-blog.com", "title": "Protection Against Transgender Discrimination in Employment is Available to Some Employees, but Not All \u2014 New York Employment Attorney Blog \u2014 October 19, 2011", "raw_content": "Protection Against Transgender Discrimination in Employment is Available to Some Employees, but Not All\nThe federal government took an important step last year in recognition of the rights of trangender individuals to live and work free from discrimination and harassment based on their gender identity. The Obama administration modified the language in the federal jobs website to include an explicit ban on gender identity discrimination in government employment. This only applies to jobs in the federal government, and the change was really only a formality, as the government had informally prohibited such discrimination for several years. The change still signals the improvements occurring in legal protections against employment discrimination, not only based on gender identity but on characteristics like gender and sexual orientation. It also demonstrates the difference between the scope of public anti-discrimination laws and private anti-discrimination policies set by individual employers.\n\u201cTransgender\u201d is a very broad term encompassing a wide range of characteristics and identities. The National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) defines \u201ctransgender\u201d as \u201cpeople who live differently than the gender presentation and roles expected of them by society.\u201d Gender identity exists independent of sexual orientation, although the two are often incorrectly conflated.\nTransgender people are still a very misunderstood and marginalized group, and this is reflected in their employment. A study released by NCTE in February 2011 revealed that transgender people are unemployed at twice the rate of the general population. Ninety percent of the people surveyed reported some sort of harassment or discrimination in their jobs. Forty-seven percent said they had suffered some negative job outcome, including getting fired or losing a promotion, because of their gender identity. Sixteen percent reported that, after losing their jobs, having to work in the \u201cunderground economy,\u201d which includes sex work and drugs. Transgender people also reported four times the rate of homelessness as the general population.\nStatistics such as the ones discovered by the NCTE study are difficult to verify because of the very few legal protections available to transgender people to combat employment discrimination. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia, as well as over 100 local jurisdictions, have laws prohibiting discrimination based on gender identity in employment and other areas. Multiple attempts to enact legislation at the federal level to prevent gender identity discrimination have stalled or failed. A proposed law, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, has lingered in Congress since the 103rd Congress in 1993. A version of the bill with gender identity included appeared in the 110th Congress in 2007, and again in 2009 and 2011, but has never found enough support to pass. New York does not have a law addressing transgender workplace discrimination, although it enacted a law in 2010, the Dignity for All Students Act, which includes protections against bullying based on gender identity.\nThe majority of protections for transgender people against employment discrimination therefore come from employers themselves. Wal-Mart announced in September 2011 that it had added provisions protecting transgender people to its employment non-discrimination policy. The Human Rights Campaign identified 337 major U.S. companies that earned the top ranking in its 2011 Corporate Equality Index, which analyzes and rates businesses\u2019 policies relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees.\nThe New York gender discrimination lawyers at Phillips & Associates represents employees and job seekers who have been the victims of discrimination in the workplace based on gender or gender identity. To schedule a free and confidential consultation, contact the firm today.\nInjustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (PDF), National Center for Transgender Equality, February 2011\nCorporate Equality Index 2011, Human Rights Campaign", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nextavenue.org/american-idol-votes-integrity-why-harry-connick-jr-became-newest-judge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:15Z", "digest": "sha1:GYT5EOSH6F2OD7KHHDKWHOSSJYKBCSV3", "length": 4330, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.nextavenue.org", "title": "'American Idol' Votes for Integrity: Why Harry Connick Jr. Became the Newest Judge - Next Avenue", "raw_content": "\u2018American Idol\u2019 Votes for Integrity: Why Harry Connick Jr. Became the Newest Judge\nThe star brings his special message to the hit show: Be true to the music (and yourself)\nBy John StarkSeptember 3, 2013\nCredit: Courtesy HarryConnickJr.comHarry Connick Jr.\nIt looks like after much speculation that Harry Connick, Jr., will indeed be a judge on American Idol\u2019s 13th season, which starts in January. He\u2019ll be joining Jennifer Lopez and Keith Urban. His addition to the show is great news, and not just for the young performers. This is a victory for boomers.\nIt\u2019s about someone being recognized and rewarded for having integrity in the workplace. Integrity can get you in a lot of trouble. Anyone who\u2019s challenged company policy or taken on a boss at the conference table knows there can be unpleasant consequences for being honest and direct. Despite being a superstar, Connick found this out when he disagreed with Idol judge Randy Jackson on the air last May.\nAs a guest mentor, Connick challenged the show\u2019s credibility. He spoke out against a value system that puts style over substance, one that encourages talented-but-unskilled singers to execute empty vocal pyrotechnics. Connick tangled with Jackson over this central issue.\nConnick\u2019s heated point was that a singer must master a song before he or she can interpret it. You have to know the melody and why the song starts on a certain note and understand its lyrics before you can make it your own.\n(MORE: Why Harry Connick Jr. Couldn't Sit Idol During 'Idol')\nJackson insisted that night that one of the women contestants should have performed either the Etta James or Lena Horne version of Harold Arlen's \"Stormy Weather\" \u2014 \"and then be you.\" That's when Connick left his seat in the audience to confront Jackson. \u201cNo! You got to pick the Harold Arlen version!\u201d Connick proclaimed. \u201cYou got to learn the song, and then you can be you!\u201d\nIt looked as if Connick wasn\u2019t going to be invited back anytime soon.\nThat night after the show aired, I wrote a blog for Next Avenue about Connick\u2019s controversial appearance. I wanted to congratulate and cheer him. I\u2019ve always been an Idol fan and have followed every season. But I\u2019ve never liked its emphasis on the judges praising singers for throwing subtlety to the wind. As I mentioned in my blog, a minimalist like Billie Holiday or Peggy Lee could never survive the show\u2019s first round of eliminations. I was thrilled that someone \u2014 a brilliant musician, someone far more knowledgeable about music than I, no less \u2014 had finally spoken out.\nSo too, it turned out, were millions of people on this planet. The blog went viral. Musician after musician praised Connick for being an artistic whistle blower.\nBut it wasn\u2019t just musicians who related to his outrage.\nConnick\u2019s point was that you can't break the rules until you understand them. This speaks to everyone who has spent years perfecting his or her craft, be it music, drawing, writing, carpentry, architecture, child rearing, teaching, dancing or you name it. And the only way you learn this is from experience.\nI wasn\u2019t sure I was going to stick around for the next season of Idol. But with Connick onboard, I won\u2019t miss an episode. How fortunate the contestants will be to receive constructive comments from someone who knows the Great American Songbook inside and out. I can\u2019t wait to hear what he has to tell them. Besides Connick, the young singers will also have Keith Urban and Jennifer Lopez to learn from \u2014 they\u2019ve already proved themselves to be excellent critics and teachers. Gone are the mean old days of Simon Cowell and, at the other extreme, the \u201cGee, you\u2019re good, and I wouldn't change a thing\u201d days of judge Ellen DeGeneres.\nThe public was definitely on Connick\u2019s side on that fateful Idol night in May. He told me in a phone conversation I had with him after my blog came out that he didn\u2019t know it at the time. He was afraid he might be perceived as an arrogant bully.\nWelcome to American Idol, Judge Harry. For once integrity didn\u2019t get the boot.\nQ & A With American Idol Judge: Harry Connick Jr.\nTop 10 Picks for New \u2018American Idol\u2019 Judges\nHow Marilyn Monroe\u2019s Vocal Coach Taught Me to Sing\nThe 13 Best Broadway Songs About Getting Older\nHuff/Post: The Singer's Addiction: Is It Time for a Career Change?\nMore.com: From TV Writer to Singer Songwriter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 10043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nextavenue.org/obama-breaks-gay-silence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:15Z", "digest": "sha1:PUUJ4NZJPSWJLCTIID6HXE6KYGT3JEXL", "length": 5644, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.nextavenue.org", "title": "Obama Breaks the Gay Silence - Next Avenue", "raw_content": "Obama Breaks the Gay Silence\nFor most of my life being gay was not to be mentioned. The president changed that.\nBy John StarkJanuary 21, 2013\nThe word \u201cgay\u201d wasn\u2019t used to describe gay people when I was growing up in the 1950s and \u201960s. I\u2019ve never liked the word \u201cgay.\u201d I think it sounds frivolous. But I prefer it to \u201chomosexual,\u201d which sounds so clinical, and takes five syllables to pronounce. Still, both words beat out what I grew up hearing: queer, faggot, pansy, fairy, homo.\nBut the most hurtful of all was the absence of any word, silence. My parents never spoke of my sexuality. My brother never spoke of it, at least to me. For most of my life my sexuality was something to be hidden from family, employers, co-workers, landlords and even friends. At social gatherings it was something to be danced around. When I went to Christmas parties at work, I took a \u201cgirlfriend.\u201d All gay men did.\nSometimes silence couldn\u2019t be avoided, though. When an elderly relative would want to know why I still hadn\u2019t gotten married, I learned to say, \u201cJust lucky I guess.\u201d It got me off the hook.\nMy mother finally had to acknowledge that my cousin, Sandy, and her partner, Mary, who\u2019d been together for more than 40 years, were more than roommates. Shortly before she died my mother said to me, \u201cThey\u2019re that way.\u201d She didn\u2019t say it in a judgmental tone. She just couldn\u2019t say the word \u201cgay.\u201d\nBut on Monday, President Barack Obama did say the word, and not just anywhere, but on the steps of our nation\u2019s Capitol, making history. Describing struggles for equality in his inaugural address, he said, \u201cOur journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law \u2014 for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.\u201d\nI have never been an out-front activist for gay rights, even though I lived in San Francisco from 1972 to 1985, and in New York City from 1985 to 1995. I never marched in gay freedom day parades, though I did volunteer for two years at an AIDS hospital in Manhattan. When I was asked to ring doorbells last fall in Minneapolis, where I now live, to help defeat a proposed amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as being between a man and a woman, I declined. I gave money instead.\nBut it\u2019s not that I was silent. When I was 17 I told my parents that I thought I was \u201cdifferent.\u201d I couldn\u2019t bring myself to say \u201cqueer.\u201d I\u2019ll never forget the look on their faces as they clung to each other as if they were watching The Blob. I\u2019ll never forget the shrink they sent me to, who tried to tell me I wasn\u2019t who I was.\nWhen I was in my late 20s, and a feature writer for The San Francisco Examiner, I wrote a story about David Goldstein, the late publisher of the national gay newspaper, The Advocate. The publisher of the Examiner killed the story, stopping the presses as it was being printed. He sent a note to the Sunday editor saying that he found the story offensive to mothers; it was running on Mother's Day. He then sent me a terse note saying that I should look for work elsewhere.\nIn the 1990s I lived for four years in Birmingham, Ala. I was surprised at how many gay people I met there. Most of them, however, were closeted. Many of them were married and had children. Did their wives know they were gay? Maybe, maybe not.\nIn the Deep South I learned it was OK to be gay as long as you kept your mouth shut. After a friend of mine came out to his wife, his cousin showed up with a gun and shot him in the stomach. \"We don't have queers in our family,\" he told my friend before pulling the trigger. My friend lived, but couldn't tell his office why he was in the hospital for fear of being fired.\nWhen word got out in 1997 that Ellen DeGeneres was going to come out of the closet on her eponymous sit-com, her show was yanked from the airwaves in Birmingham on the grounds that it violated community standards. Everyone loved DeGeneres until she broke her silence.\n(More: Can Gay Be Cured? My Psychiatrist Tried)\nI\u2019m always amazed at how far gay acceptance has come since DeGeneres\u2019 announcement. Every day it seems that another TV newscaster, politician or movie star says they\u2019re gay. Not being silent doesn\u2019t seem to be hurting their careers. Over the last few months MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts publicly announced his marriage to another man, as did Good Morning America weatherman Sam Champion.\nIn 2004, when I was teaching a college course in travel writing at a Boston college, a female student told me she was going to write about Puerto Rico for her next assignment. \u201cI\u2019m going there on my honeymoon with my fianc\u00e9e, Rosalie,\u201d she said. I was taken aback at her openness. But the young students weren\u2019t. \u201cCongratulations, when do you leave? Where are you staying?\u201d they all wanted to know. I knew then that the world had changed.\nLast fall I was watching TV with a neighbor's grandson who is 22. He\u2019s a conservative; his political views and mine are always at odds. But when an ad came on to stop gay marriage, he said to me, \u201cI don\u2019t get it, what\u2019s the problem?\u201d\nThe moment that the president finished his inaugural address my phone rang. A friend of mine who lives in Los Angeles, and who is my age, and is straight, was on the line. \u201cObama just said the gay word in his speech,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat do you think about that?\u201d\nI didn\u2019t know what to say. I was silent, but in a good way.\nWhat Obama\u2019s Re-Election Means for Caregivers\nNew Estate Planning Essentials for Same-Sex Couples\nGay Travel 2013: 8 Designations for LGBT Travelers to Visit or Avoid\nTop 10 Cities Where Gays Are Looking for Marriage and Kids", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 11484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 212.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nickmilton.com/2013/03/learning-before-during-and-after-how-to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:54Z", "digest": "sha1:JOIWTFKY3AGOQZRWZ5NGQSEJRDXEWYVX", "length": 2338, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nickmilton.com", "title": "Knoco stories: Learning before, during and after - how to embed KM", "raw_content": "Learning before, during and after - how to embed KM\nLearning before, during and after was one of the early bywords for Knowledge Management at BP - a simple and memorable mantra that project staff can grasp easily and quickly. It forms the basis for an operating philosophy for KM, and describes how Knowledge Management activities can be embedded within the cycle of business activity.\nThe management of knowledge, like any management discipline, needs to be systematic rather than ad hoc, and needs to be tied into the business cycle. In any project-focused business, where business activities (projects) have a beginning and an end, knowledge can be addressed at three points.\nThe project team can learn at the start of the project, so that the project begins from a state of complete knowledge (\u2018learning before\u2019). This is where processes such as Knowledge handover and Peer Assist can be applied.\nThey can learn during the project, so that plans can be changed and adapted as new knowledge becomes available (\u2018learning during\u2019), for example through the use of After Action Review.\nFinally, they can learn at the end of the project, so that knowledge is captured for future use (\u2018learning after\u2019) and entered into the Lesson-Learned workflow.\nThese activities of \"Learning before,\" \"Learning during\" and \"Learning after\" can become an expectation, or even a mandatory activity, for projects. This model of \u2018learn before, during and after\u2019 was developed in BP during the 1990s, and also appears to have been developed independently in several other organizations. Shell refers to this as \u201cAsk, Learn, Share\u201d.\nHowever, there is more to the model than the \u2018learning before, during and after\u2019 cycle. The knowledge generated from the project needs to be collated, synthesised, and stored as Knowledge Assets (guidance documents such as SoPs, or Wiki-based guidance) in order that knowledge deposited in the \u201cknowledge bank\u201d at the end of the project becomes more useful when accessed at the start of the next project. Communities of Practice need to be established to manage and share the tacit Knowledge Assets.\nThis five component framework (learning before, learning during, learning after, synthesis of knowledge into Knowledge Assets, and building Communities of Practice) is a robust model which creates value wherever it is applied.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 7330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nigeria-news-world.com/2019/01/osinbajo-presides-over-nec-meeting-minimum-wage-may-top-agenda.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:23Z", "digest": "sha1:D4RC5FPXMA2I4EI6YA4USPA5LTDNKSYB", "length": 1160, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nigeria-news-world.com", "title": "Osinbajo Presides Over NEC Meeting, Minimum Wage May Top Agenda", "raw_content": "National Executive Council (NEC) News Politics Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo\nOsinbajo Presides Over NEC Meeting, Minimum Wage May Top Agenda\nThe new National Minimum Wage is expected to feature as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo presides over the National Economic Council meeting on Thursday.\nOsinbajo presides over NEC meeting\nAlhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, had told State House correspondents after the emergency meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Tuesday that the cabinet discussed the minimum wage.\nMohammed said that NEC\u2019s decision on the minimum wage was being awaited.\nNEC, which is chaired by the vice president, has governors of Nigeria\u2019s 36 states as members.\nOther members of the council are the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.\nMany state governors say they can only pay N24, 000 minimum wage but organised labour insists that tripartite committee set up by government to work out a new minimum wage agreed on N30,000.00.\nIn attendance are governors of Zamfara, Lagos, Jigawa, Plateau and Ekiti states.\nMinister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige is also at the meeting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 9654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nintendo.com/whatsnew/detail/learn-new-details-about-the-upcoming-paid-service-nintendo-switch-online", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:26Z", "digest": "sha1:6SVVPCQS6SJBSBYCDTYNLQJO45ZSZW7L", "length": 1780, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nintendo.com", "title": "Learn new details about the upcoming paid service, Nintendo Switch Online - Nintendo Official Site", "raw_content": "Learn new details about the upcoming paid service, Nintendo Switch Online\nIn 2018, Nintendo will launch a paid service called Nintendo Switch Online, which allows Nintendo Switch owners to enjoy online multiplayer gaming as well as a dedicated mobile app that connects to the Nintendo Switch console. This app will help players chat with their friends during online matches in compatible games, set play appointments, and invite their friends to join them online.\nPlease note that online play will continue to be free for Nintendo Account holders until the paid service launches in 2018.\nClassic Game Selection* access \u2013 Subscribers will get to download a compilation of classic titles with added online play, such as Super Mario Bros. 3, Balloon Fight, and Dr. Mario.\nNintendo eShop Deals \u2013 Special offers that may include discounts on select digital games and content.\n1-month membership: $3.99\n12-month membership: $19.99\nA free, limited version of the mobile app will also be available summer 2017 if you want to try it out until the service launches. We\u2019ll provide more details when they are available!\n* Product name subject to change.\nA Nintendo Account is required to access online services, and internet is required for online play. Compatible smart device required to use app, data charges may apply. Subscription terms for the Nintendo Switch Online service will apply and be made available prior to purchase.\nCurrently, the paid online service will be available for customers in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. For the latest list of countries, please contact Customer Support. Prices are listed in U.S. dollars and do not include tax. Pricing for additional countries, as well as details of the subscription terms, will be available closer to the launch of the service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 5917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 316.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2011/09/no_message_no_traction_for_sta.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:30Z", "digest": "sha1:WQDUTU5UEVEECTRQXEO6MEZAWCDUCWTJ", "length": 4655, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.nola.com", "title": "No message, no traction for state Dems: Stephanie Grace | NOLA.com", "raw_content": "No message, no traction for state Dems: Stephanie Grace\nBy Stephanie Grace, The Times-Picayune\nFile photoState Sen. Karen Carter Peterson\nLouisiana Democrats didn't manage to put up a single well-known candidate for any statewide office this fall, nor anyone with the resources to purchase quick prominence. They have no realistic hope of reclaiming their recently lost majorities in either the state House or the Senate. With less than a month before primary day, Democratic leaders aren't just off the playing field, they're back in the cheap seats.\nSo it's really no wonder that a certain pall hangs over party gatherings.\nAt a meeting earlier this month of the Democrats' governing board, state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, one of the Legislature's most unabashed partisans, urged activists not to \"act as if this is a funeral.\" Instead, she called the lost political season an opportunity to \"rebrand\" the party.\nPeterson has a point, although she could have chosen a better term. It's hard to rebrand a party when it has no particular identity in the first place.\nThe truth is that Democrats didn't stay competitive statewide for so long by embracing a distinct message, the way modern-day Republicans have. They've done it by not really standing for much of anything.\nSome candidates have succeeded by running as centrists willing to compromise, and painting their opponents as too rigid and extreme. This was Kathleen Blanco's strategy in her winning 2003 gubernatorial campaign against Bobby Jindal, when she positioned herself as sort of populist on economic issues, and slightly less conservative and more compassionate than Jindal.\nOthers have thrived by sidestepping ideology. In his successful runs for lieutenant governor, Mitch Landrieu campaigned almost exclusively on advocacy for the state's tourism and cultural interests. Even though Landrieu hails from one of the state's most prominent Democratic families, no Republican laid a glove on him.\nThis strategy sometimes mystified national Democrats, like the folks at the 2004 Democratic National Convention who embraced Blanco as a potential rising star, someone who'd cracked the code of winning as a Democrat in the increasingly solid red South. They didn't seem to get that she did it by keeping people like them at arm's length.\nIt also frustrated those voters who wanted their standard bearers to actually embrace the national party's philosophy.\nBut it worked. Or it did until the Republicans figured out how to brand the Democrats for them.\nLouisiana was due to tip Republican anyway, but the presence of President Barack Obama has clearly helped the GOP cause. Obama won just 40 percent of the vote here, less than even John Kerry, and his poll numbers remain dreadful. You can pick your preferred reason -- how much voters are reacting to his policies and to what extent they're reacting to him -- but there's no denying that GOP has figured out how to use his name as negative shorthand.\nThe dynamic was on full display during last year's U.S. Senate race, when David Vitter did little but link his conservative Democratic opponent Charlie Melancon to the president, even though he'd opposed many of Obama's major initiatives. Turns out it was more than enough. Despite a sex scandal that would have ended most careers, Vitter trounced Melancon, who tried to follow the old non-partisan Democratic playbook and wound up with a thoroughly muddled message.\nThere's every indication that this is also a winning strategy for offices in Baton Rouge, which is becoming more partisan but is still nothing like Washington. In fact, some of the conservative Democratic lawmakers who switched parties before the election admit they feared being linked to Obama.\nDespite the bleak landscape, Democratic voters actually do have a significant role to play this fall. Where they face a choice of Republicans, they can rally behind the more centrist of the candidates.\nAs for party leaders, Peterson is right, they've got no choice but to rebrand -- to attack the GOP image of the president and the party head-on, to argue that the state needs the infrastructure improvements Democrats support, and that many Louisianans will benefit from health-care reform.\nIt certainly won't be easy. They'll be fighting trends that are much longer-term than electoral results suggest, as well as relentless GOP rhetoric.\nBut what else can they do, if they don't want to sink even further into irrelevance? Times have changed. And ducking the issues just doesn't work the way it used to.\nStephanie Grace is a columnist for The Times-Picayune. He can be reached at sgrace@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3383.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 8506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northwooduk.com/articles/third-article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:5MGCKI6YA7UKYV2LSXRBCWY3V5XC2TGF", "length": 2226, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.northwooduk.com", "title": "Buy-to-Let Landlords Planning for Steady Growth | Estate Agents, Letting Agents | Northwood UK", "raw_content": "Buy-to-Let Landlords Planning for Steady Growth\nThere has been a big jump in the number of landlords looking to buy semi-detached property, whereas the demand for terraced houses is at almost half previous levels.\nResearch coming from leading Buy-to-Let mortgage lender, Paragon Mortgages, which specialises in delivering lending solutions designed for professional landlords with more complex requirements, reveals that the traditional terraced property much favoured by landlords is falling out of favour.\nParagon, which has been tracking landlord confidence and views on the buy-to-let market for 13 years, says there has been a marked increase in the number of landlords on the look-out for semi-detached properties amongst those expecting to purchase buy-to-let property soon\nThe search for semis it seems is up from 23% in Q4 2014 to 35% in Q1 2015, whereas the proportion of landlords looking to buy terraced property had fallen from 67% in Q4 2014 to 35% in Paragon\u2019s most recent survey.\nThis change in demand for the two different property types will result in a more even distribution of interest across the broad spectrum of property types from landlords than previously. In total, among those looking to buy soon, 30% of landlords said they were interested in adding a flat to their portfolio, 35% were on the looking for a semi-detached house, 35% for a terraced house and 22% said they were considering more specialist units such as multi-unit blocks and houses in multiple occupation (HMOs).\nParagon\u2019s Q1 2015 report also reveals that a higher proportion of landlords are now optimistic about the prospects for their property portfolios, with more than one quarter (27%) feeling positive about the future and there\u2019s been an increase in those expecting to buy soon, up from 15% to 18%.\nJohn Heron, Director of Mortgages, said:\n\u201cThe growing proportion of landlords looking to purchase buy-to-let property sometime soon points to continued, steady growth in the Private Rented Sector.\n\u201cMeanwhile, a closer look at interest levels for different property types suggests landlords are taking a broader perspective in order to cater for the wider range of households looking for a suitable home in the rental sector.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 10349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.notreble.com/buzz/2011/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PJQISGZOGHA327TWUVITRGVFYMKHHM5E", "length": 3642, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.notreble.com", "title": "January 2011 \u2013 No Treble", "raw_content": "Victor Wooten Offers Remastered \u201cMe & My Bass Guitar\u201d as Free Download\nAs we reported a couple of weeks ago, Victor Wooten has launched his own record label, VIX Records. His first release is A Show of Hands-15, a remastered version of his solo debut album from 15 years ago. Vic has just announced his iconic track, \u201cMe & My Bass Guitar\u201d is being offered in its remastered form as a free...\nTechnique Series: Pizzicato (Plucking) Exercises\nThe simple, straightforward exercises below are the best I have seen to develop and maintain right hand pizzicato (plucking) on the upright bass. They isolate the technique to focus one just one thing: your right hand technique. There is certainly room in a practice routine to work on right hand/left hand coordination, or tricky patterns, but these have proven to...\nLucio Marrone: 2 Bass Arrangement of \u201c11 and 6\u201d\nLucio Marrone, a bassist from Argentina sent in this video, featuring his arrangement of a popular Argentinian tune, \u201c11 and 6\u201d, by Fito Paez. Lucio performs his all bass arrangement on both fretted and fretless basses.\nRewind: Tons of Bass Gear, TC Electronic Contest, Awesome Solo Bass Videos and more\nHere are the most read, most popular stories and features on No Treble for the week of January 23 \u2013 29, 2011. 1. Win a TC Electronic BG500 Don\u2019t Miss Out: TC Electronic and No Treble are teaming up for an ultimate gear contest! One lucky Grand Prize winner will receive a TC Electronic BG500\u2026 2. Todd Matthews: Kashmir, the...\nBootsy Collins with James Brown Live (1971)\nBootsy Collins sent us this video, saying \u201csee 18 yr old Bootsy with James Brown\u201d. The video was shot in April 1971, live in Bologna, Italy.\nWarwick to Release \u201cFuss on the Buss\u201d DVD\nWarwick announced they will be releasing Warwick Live: Fuss on the Buss, a DVD release which documents the coming together of 11 bassists on a bus under the Manhattan Bridge. The group includes T.M. Stevens, Larry Graham, Bootsy Collins, Norwood Fisher, Divinity Roxx, Jonas Hellborg, Ryan Martinie, John B Williams, Brandino, Hansford Rowe and Steve Bailey. Warwick says the event...\nPeterson Releases StroboStomp Classic\nFor NAMM 2011, Peterson released the StroboStomp Classic, a retro stomp box tuner modeled after their Conn ST-11 Strobotuner from the \u201870s. The new pedal boasts .1 cent note detection and the company\u2019s \u201cSweetened Tunings,\u201d which are presets for specific instruments. A USB input allows for you to drop in your own presets and update firmware. The display is a...\nMarcus Miller with Miles Davis, Live: Ife (1982)\nRecorded live at the Hammersmith Odeon in London in 1982, here\u2019s the \u201cWe Want Miles\u201d line-up of Miles Davis\u2019 band, including Marcus Miller on bass, Mike Stern on guitar, Bill Evans on sax, Al Foster on drums and Mino Cinelu on percussion.\nRon Carter: \u201cAll Blues\u201d 40th Anniversary Edition\nSony Masterworks Jazz is celebrating the 40th anniversary of CTI Records, the jazz label founded in 1970 by producer Creed Taylor. The label is releasing several CTI classics, including Ron Carter\u2018s 1973 release, All Blues. The album has been remastered from the original two-track analog tapes and packaged in a softpack sleeve, to replicate the original LP\u2019s gatefold packaging. Carter...\nJeff Ament Speaks on Pearl Jam\u2019s Anniversary, Film and Future\nIn an interview with Rolling Stone, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament revealed the band\u2019s future, including a documentary on their time together, directed by Cameron Crowe. Crowe, whose films include Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire, is a long-time friend of the group. On the film, Ament said, \u201cI just saw a rough cut. It was so weird seeing footage of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 5516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.notstarring.com/actors/zeta-jones-catherine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OQL3QYFZJRGNQDTSEVR7KG2I4RELOORA", "length": 1883, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.notstarring.com", "title": "Catherine Zeta-Jones - Trivia", "raw_content": "Catherine Zeta-Jones \u00ab \u00bb\nRoles turned down by Catherine Zeta-Jones:\nCatherine Zeta-Jones was considered for the role of Penny Lane.\nWas announced to play the lead for then-director Oliver Stone and would have played the philanthropist socialite.\nCatherine Zeta-Jones was reportedly considered to play the third angel.\nWas supposed to play Roxie, but at the last minute, that role was given to Ren\ufffde Zellweger, and Cath was chosen for the role of Velma Kelly.\nAmong many actresses who screen tested for the lead role.\nCatherine Zeta Jones turned down the role of Jenny due to scheduling conflicts.\nCatherine Zeta-Jones was considered for the role of Lara Croft.\nConsidered for the role of Satine.\nZeta-Jones was considered to play Jane Smith.\nWebber apparently said in an interview that he would like to have cast Catherine Zeta-Jones but she passed to play Velma in the movie musical \"Chicago\" and didn't want to do two singing roles in a row.\nActor who got the part: Emmy Rossum\nStompanato\nIn 2005, the actress was said to be in talks to play legendary film sex goddess Lana Turner.\nConsidered for the role of Frances.\nSeriously considered for a role in the film.\nDid you know that Catherine Zeta-Jones was not the only choice for these movies? (click to learn more)\n\u00bb Intolerable Cruelty\n\u00bb No Reservations\n\u00bb Stompanato\nEfrem Zimbalist Jr. \u00b7 Stephanie Zimbalist\nNote: This Catherine Zeta-Jones trivia and all celebrity trivia on notstarring.com is submitted and reviewed by movie fans from around the world. We strive to provide reliability with our rejected movie roles, and we go to great lengths to try and corroborate entries. Still, by its nature, this type of trivia will always be prone to rumor and funny Hollywood gossip and should be relied upon with appropriate caution. Please help by reporting corrections for this Catherine Zeta-Jones trivia or other celebrity trivia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/scoreresults.php?keywords=Politics,%20power%20and%20political%20economy%20in%20Latin%20A&start=7440&end=7460", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:17Z", "digest": "sha1:DHCTSGE55REDF5VJBXDBEQ5WENQVYZVW", "length": 8784, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.nottingham.ac.uk", "title": "Xpert search results for Politics, power and political economy in Latin A", "raw_content": "Art in Public Places: Jo Kreiter\nSPARK follows choreographer/dancer Jo Kreiter and the Flyaway Productions company members as they mix art and politics in a site-specific work about the history of protest on San Francisco's Market Street. This Educator Guide addresses the history of public performance art.\nUnited States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates Address at Duke University\nSecretary Gates delivers the Ambassador S. Davis Phillips Family International Lecture at Duke University. The event was organized by Duke political science professor Peter Feaver, a former special adviser for the National Security Council. It was sponsored by the American Grand Strategy Program, which Feaver directs, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, Duke's Sanford School of Public Policy and its Office of Global Strategy and Programs, and the university's \"A World Together\" initiati\nAfter several classroom discussions on anti-slavery issues, students will study the \"American Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1838.\" The students will understand the importance and role of political cartoons during the anti-slavery movement. Students will observe and identify details in a political cartoon. Students will understand that there were people both in favor of and against slavery here in the North and how both sides are represented in the cartoon. Students will create their own anti-slavery\nThe Nile of New England\nWhat were the distinguishing characteristics of the people of the Deerfield and their relationship with the land as illustrated through changes in lifestyles, economy, and governance? This curriculum is a semester-long course and is comprised of three units: 1. The Colonial Period 1680 \u2013 1720 2. The Federal Period 1780-1820 3. The Progressive Era 1880-1920 Features of the Course: \u2022 The course features an inquiry-based curriculum, based on constructivist learning theory. \u2022 Students will le\nChauncey Sparks, Governor of Alabama, 1943-1946\nThis image is a black and white photographic portrait of Alabama Governor Chauncey Sparks. Postcard text: (back) Chauncey Sparks, 43rd Governor of Alabama, planter, banker, lawyer, legislator; born in Eufala, Ala., October 8, 1884; elected Governor November 3, 1942 for a term of four years.\nThis image is the property of the Auburn University Libraries and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Auburn University Libraries. For information about\nHow to Ski. Part of the series: Ski Basics for Beginners. Learn how to ski, from proper body position to how to turn, from an expert ski instructor in this free step-by-step skiing video. The rest of the series has more merit (listed beneath this video on the site) as this is basically limited in content.\nAngry Words: What Goes Around Comes Around\nThis is a simple, concrete lesson to illustrate the power of anger to travel from one person to another and to linger in the environment even after the immediate emotion is gone. Strategies for coping with angry feelings are shared.\nThe purpose of this text is to introduce the interested reader to a broad overview of ideas about how the economy is and should be related to society and the individuals who compose that society. The intent is to keep the text short to avoid discouraging readers who are being introduced to the ideas for the first time.\n\"A Hungery Savage Look which was Truly Fearful\": Samuel Chamberlain's Recollections of the Mexican W\nIn the mid-nineteenth century, many Americans were eager to acquire the Mexican land of California and New Mexico, enough to provoke a war with Mexico. In 1845 U.S. President James K. Polk sent envoys who offered to buy Mexican territory and stationed federal troops in the border areas. Naval forces patrolled the Gulf coast and American consuls in California stirred up annexation fever. When the presence of those troops brought an anti-American government to power in Mexico in 1846, Polk ordered\nA. F. of L. Delegates.\nFaced with stiff business opposition, a conservative political climate, hostile courts, and declining membership, leaders of the American Federeration of Labor (AFL) grew increasingly cautious during the 1920s. Labor radicals viewed AFL leaders as overpaid, self-interested functionaries uninterested in organizing unorganized workers into unions. A cartoon by William Gropper published in the Communist Yiddish newspaper Freiheit (and reprinted in English in the New Masses ) caricatures delegates t\nApartheid protest at the South African Consulate, tape 2\nApartheid protesters gather in front of the South African Consulate at 100 Charles River Plaza in Boston. Mel King (political activist), Charles Yancey (Boston City Council) and Willard Johnson (Head, TransAfrica) demand to see Richard Blankstein (honorary consul to South Africa). Police officers bar entry to the building. Johnson announces that the protestors will ask for Blankstein's resignation from his post. He adds that they will ask Blankstein's law firm to sever ties with South Africa. Jo\nBill Owens vs. Royal Bolling, Sr.\nCarmen Fields reports that the Ballot Commission must determine whether several dozen signatures included in the nominating papers of Bill Owens (candidate for State Senate) are valid. Fields notes that if the signatures are invalidated, Owens' name will not appear on the primary ballot for the second Suffolk County seat, the only district ever to be held by an African American. Fields interviews Owens about his nomination papers and about the race. Fields' report includes footage of Owens at a\nCalibrated Peer Review Help for Instructors\nAt this website, the Chemistry Learning and Support Studios offers directions for how to use Calibrated Peer Review (CPR). The site links to the CPR homepage (http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu) for helpful handouts and white paper and FAQ information. They also provide information regarding how to use CPR in the classroom, upcoming CPR workshops, and tips for instructors. Users can also access a Power Point and streaming video overview of CPR.\nDigital Durham\nFor many years scholars have recognized that late nineteenth-century Durham, North Carolina makes an ideal case study for examining emancipation, industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in the context of the New South. \"With its tobacco factories, textile mills, black entrepreneurs, and new college,\" the historian Syd Nathans observes, \"Durham was a hub of enterprise and hope.\" By the early twentieth century, Durham became renowned for its vibrant entrepreneurial spirit. Both W.E.B. Du\nThe Sioux Treaty of 1868\nThis lesson examines Native American sovereignty and the Constitutional power granted to the president and the Senate to make treaties with foreign nations. The site presents the Treaty and related documents, including a photograph of the Indian leader, Spotted Tail. Explanatory text, materials for teachers, and links to further resources accompany the documents.\nBeyond the Genome: the challenge of synthetic biology\nThe 1970s introduced genetic modification, the 1990s cloning and GM food, and the human genome was sequenced in 2000. Synthetic biology is heralded as the next frontier. But what is synthetic biology and how do we imagine its future directions? What are the implications of this new field for scientists, lawyers, regulators and ethicists? What social and political challenges does it pose and what role will the social sciences, the humanities and the public play in shaping the direction of this ne\nThis site offers suggestions for projects that use the Archives' photographs, letters, drawings, and it highlights economic, social, and political factors that prompted thousands to migrate to Alaska.\nAnti-Railroad Propaganda Poster: The Growth of Regionalism, 1800-1860\nThis lesson uses a poster decrying the disruptive influence of railroads on local culture to launch a discussion on local differences and their effect on American politics. Explanatory text, materials for teachers, and links to further resources accompany the documents. This lesson correlates to the National History Standards and the National Standards for Civics and Social Sciences. It also has cross-curricular connections with history, government, and art.\nThe Credit Crunch and the U.S. Economy\nBeginning with the subprime meltdown last summer, U.S. markets and the economy have been thrown into turmoil. Liquidity and default fears have created the worst conditions in financial markets in many years. These adverse developments have spilled over in the \"real\" economy, raised the specter of recession and worse. Steven Rattner is Managing Principal of Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm with more than $6 billion of assets under management. Quadrangle invests in media and communi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 22109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/bid-transform-93-year-old-1802178", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:58Z", "digest": "sha1:JGWAPPRKKFNU4NARFXCMLGODSGXZVXEZ", "length": 4031, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.nottinghampost.com", "title": "Bid to transform 93-year-old former car showroom into shops near Nottingham train station - Nottinghamshire Live", "raw_content": "Bid to transform 93-year-old former car showroom into shops near Nottingham train station\nIt was formerly used as a car showroom\nThe multi-million pound regeneration of the south side of Nottingham city centre could be developed further after plans were revealed to transform a 93-year-old former car showroom into shops.\nArchitects said they wanted to fully renovate the iconic Gordon House, at 12 Carrington Street to the rear of intu Broadmarsh Centre, which sold classic British cars and was also formerly a furniture shop.\nThe ground floor has been earmarked to be used as retail space, which experts said was \"generating much interest\", and the upstairs would continue to be used as offices occupied by solicitors.\nNottingham-based architecture firm Rayner Davies has submitted the application in partnership with property consultant Bruton Knowles.\nJames Bailey, managing partner of Bruton Knowles, said: \u201cThe restoration of Gordon House, together with the new build Broadmarsh bus station and car park opposite will indeed transform this section of Carrington Street and present a new experience for those thousands of pedestrians, businesses and visitors, that use this as a main route from station to city.\nNew nine-storey Station Street building will include more than 300 student flats, plans reveal\n\"As a result, redesigned ground floor units earmarked for new retail space are already generating much interest.\u201d\nRayner Davies project architect, Mark Welsford, added: \u201cThe transformation of this key approach into Nottingham is already underway and with visible results.\n\"Plans to further improve the areas around Station Street and Carrington Street are vital to connect with the new works underway around the Broadmarsh car park and bus station.\"\nThe building has changed a lot over the years.\nAn artist impression of the rejuvenated Gordon House building in Carrington Street. (Image: Bruton Knowles)\nConservationist Ian Wells, of the Nottingham Civic Society, told the Post: \"It was like a drive-through garage at one time. It was angled and you could drive through and get petrol.\n\"It's a really elegant building, as a lot of these are. We have just said goodbye to the Brutalist car park which did not match that type.\n\"The inter-war period was one of the high points of design. It's very historic.\"\nScott Knowles, chief executive at the East Midlands Chamber (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire), said: \u201cIt is very positive to hear of regeneration of this type, where underused buildings are given a new lease of life.\n\"The new shops will create new jobs, which will mean more money available to be spent in the area which will, in turn, help to create more new jobs. It\u2019s a virtuous circle of growth.\u201d\nArchitects want to rejuvenate the frontage of the building, reinstating the fully-glazed windows that were in place in the 1920s when it was a furniture retailer and then an early car showroom selling popular British cars such as the MG and Wolseley.\nThe ground floor would feature 356 sq m of retail space for tenants, plans reveal.\nMalt Cross bosses explain why they have closed down the popular bar\nUpstairs the office space would continue to be occupied by Bhatia Best Solicitors - with plans to create a new reception area.\nAnd on the outside careful cleaning and repair work will recondition the historic fa\u00e7ade.\nPlans have been submitted to Nottingham City Council and a decision is expected in mid-September.\nIn 2016, the council was awarded \u00a3682,400 of Heritage Lottery Funding to create the Townscape Heritage Scheme with the purpose of rejuvenating the Carrington Street area into an attractive entry-point for business visitors, tourists and potential investors.\nTraffic warden, 61, 'cried with relief' as bodybuilder who punched and kicked her is jailed\nThe scheme will run until 2021 and comprises the restoration of historic buildings and a variety of community activities set about preserving the history of the area.\nThe Post attempted to contact Bhatia Best Solicitors for comment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 11543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nowtolove.com.au/royals/british-royal-family/royal-family-reality-tv-show-19651", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RW3FNJFQ32UYQR3OMMGBVU7CW6ZEY66G", "length": 7126, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.nowtolove.com.au", "title": "The Royal Family were reality stars in the Sixties | Now To Love", "raw_content": "The Royal Family were reality stars in the Sixties! Watch Keeping Up With The Queen\nLong before Kim Kardashian and co, the British Royal family captivated millions with their fly-on-the-wall series. But why did it suddenly vanish from the face of the earth?\nIf you've ever wondered what goes on behind the gates of Buckingham Palace \u2013 your prayers have been answered!\nIn news more surprising than why The Queen has been rocking so many snazzy sunnies of late, back in the day Lizzie, Philip and the kids were the stars of their very own reality show.\nBritish Royal Family14 times the Queen rocked a pair of sunglasses better than anyone we know\nBritish Royal FamilyWhy Meghan Markle stood in the back of the balcony at Trooping the Colour\nIt was the swinging Sixties and in a bid to show the public just how normal and down-with-the-times they were, the Windsors commissioned a 105-minute documentary, aptly called Royal Family.\nThe film also coincided with Prince Charles' investiture as the Prince Of Wales and was released to celebrate the milestone.\nAccording to The Queen's Speech author Ingrid Seward, at the time it was described as \"the most fantastic piece of eavesdropping of all time.\"\nNothing was off-limits \u2013 from The Queen, Prince Philip, Prince Charles and Princess Anne interacting at the dinner table, to how Her Majesty keeps that incredible poker face when she's on duty.\nIt was a never-before-seen side of the usually stoic family unit and it understandably went gangbusters among the public.\nThe off-duty Queen: The 1969 documentary, aptly titled Royal Family, shows Her Majesty in a whole new light. Relaxed and with a cheeky sense of humour is how you'll find the Head of State kicking back at home.\nIn one scene from the docco, The Queen recalls a particularly hairy moment to a young Charles and Anne, both in their early twenties at the time.\n\"It is extremely difficult sometimes to keep a straight face. When Home Sec [the Home Secretary] said to me, 'there's a gorilla coming in. So I said to him, 'what an extraordinary remark to make about anybody. Very unkind.'\"\n\"And I stood in the middle of the room, pressed the bell and there was a gorilla! And I had the most terrible trouble in keeping [a straight face]. I had the most appalling trouble,\" she giggled as her family erupted in laughter.\nWATCH: The Queen Buys ice cream on the her royal reality show. Post continues...\nA then-21-year-old Prince Charles found his mother's anecdotes most hilarious.\nRoyal Family was aired on the BBC on June 21, 1969, and then again on ITV the next week.\nAccording to Ingrid Seward, over three-quarters of the British population tuned in and it was such a success that it was repeated for the rest of the year.\nIn another shot, The Queen and The Duke look like any other couple relishing in domestic life as they cook up a batch of sausages on the barbeque at their beloved Balmoral estate.\n\"Are the sandwiches ready?\" The Queen, then 43 years old, politely asks her husband.\nBut perhaps the most intriguing revelation is how jovial, funny, relaxed and loving the Head of State is when surrounded by her nearest and dearest.\nNot a fan: Princess Anne later revealed she \"never liked the idea\" of the reality show but she participated in it regardless.\nDomestic bliss! The Queen watches on as her husband Prince Philip turns the sausages on the barbeque.\nClearly at ease around her young children, the viewers are shown a rare glimpse of an off-duty Queen \u2013 who is just like them. Gone is the stiff upper-lip with the mother-of-four instead opting for a constant smile.\nLater, she takes a five-year-old Prince Edward to the local milk bar for a sweet treat.\n\"This is what he really would like. He always goes straight for the ice creams,\" she laughs at the shop assistant before carefully counting out her pennies and adding, \"This is all I've got!\"\nWho knew the woman whose face is on the currency would ever be strapped for cash?\nAs she bundles her young son into the car, she warns him not to get his sticky hands on the seats.\nThe Queen's softer side was very much apparent when she took a five-year-old Prince Edward to the corner shop for an ice cream.\nHowever by 1970, The Queen was concerned the film was bad press for her family and portrayed them as too mundane. As a result, she pulled it from the airwaves and it hasn't been seen in its entirety ever since.\nAll that remains is a short three-minute snippet, which was featured in the 2011 documentary The Duke at 90 to commemorate Prince Philip's milestone birthday.\nThe axing of Royal Family was fully supported by Sir David Attenborough, who was the BBC's director of programmes at the time and has worked closely with the monarch for years.\n\"The whole concept of royalty is a mysterious one and not a logical one. It depends on the proposition that the monarch is different from us,\" the naturalist explained.\n\"If you then say 'no, no, no! They're exactly like everybody else. They fry sausages, they get up in the morning and they're occasionally bad tempered and do all the things that the rest of us do'\u2026 In the end if you're not very careful, you diminish the stature of royalty,\" David, 89, concluded.\nMeanwhile, in 2011 the Duke of Edinburgh acknowledged the success of the unprecedented film.\n\"It went down quite well. I think it achieved a sort of curious status now, which it never had at the time. We don't belong to a secret society. It's much better that they should know than speculate. We didn't invite them into the bathroom! People have judgement,\" the 97-year-old told reporter Fiona Bruce.\n\"It went down quite well. I think it achieved a sort of curious status now, which it never had at the time. We don't belong to a secret society,\" Prince Philip later reflected of the series.\nOff with its head! By 1970, The Queen was concerned the film was bad press for her family and portrayed them as too mundane. As a result, she pulled it from the airwaves and it hasn't been seen in its entirety ever since.\nYears later, Princess Anne confessed she \"never liked the idea\" of the letting the cameras into their world.\n\"I always thought it was a rotten idea. The attention that had been brought on one as a child, you didn't want any more. The last thing you needed was greater access. I don't remember enjoying any part of that,\" the Queen's only daughter scoffed.\nMeanwhile, forums across the internet have urged anyone who may have taped the elusive series on VHS to share it with the world.\nFor now, we can only hope that the full version one day surfaces.\nBut until then, perhaps Prince William and Duchess Catherine may consider a Keeping Up With The Cambridges special? Or better yet, Newlyweds: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex edition?\nWatch the very rare clips from the fascinating film in the video players above!\nThe film coincided with Prince Charles' investiture as the Prince Of Wales and was released to celebrate the milestone.\nThey're just like us... 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Each year approximately 99,000 hospital deaths occur due to......\nInfection Control Technician (ICT) Purpose\nThe Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN), the Center for Disease Control (CDC). Each year approximately 99,000 hospital deaths occur due to......\nAnesthesiologist Experience supervising/teaching residents, fellows and student nurse anesthetists; Position requires training/experience in the management of acute......\nExperience supervising/teaching residents, fellows and student nurse anesthetists; Position requires training/experience in the management of acute......\nCertified Nursing Assistant Nursing Assistant Certification required. Travel to other work locations, if required. Travel independently throughout the surgery center (which may include......\nRevo Health, LLC.\nNursing Assistant Certification required. Travel to other work locations, if required. Travel independently throughout the surgery center (which may include......\nNurse Practitioner Urology Nurse III - Master's degree in nursing or related field with BSN and approximately 2-3 year's of nursing practice/experience;......\nNurse Practitioner Urology\nCertified Surgical Tech (CST) Adapts to unpredictable situations within the perioperative setting. Availability to travel to and provide support at other sites within the River Corridor, as......\nCertified Surgical Tech (CST)\nAdapts to unpredictable situations within the perioperative setting. Availability to travel to and provide support at other sites within the River Corridor, as......\nSurgery Center Aide - CNA Nursing Assistant Certification preferred. Travel to other work locations, if required. Travel independently throughout the surgery center (which may include......\nSurgery Center Aide - CNA\nNursing Assistant Certification preferred. Travel to other work locations, if required. Travel independently throughout the surgery center (which may include......\nChief Nursing Officer Licensed Registered Nurse (RN) or CRNA, PT, DNP. Must be able to travel 50% of the time. 5 years\u2019 of experience in the ASC industry and / or perioperative......\nLicensed Registered Nurse (RN) or CRNA, PT, DNP. Must be able to travel 50% of the time. 5 years\u2019 of experience in the ASC industry and / or perioperative......\nPerioperative Nursing Salary | More details for Perioperative Nursing Jobs | Salary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nutritionexpress.com/article+index/health+concerns/heart+health/showarticle.aspx?id=904", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:26Z", "digest": "sha1:D4WHTH3LWZ7LF25EQJEJS6TMHLA3R6IK", "length": 2590, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.nutritionexpress.com", "title": "Genistein improves blood sugar control, heart disease risk and BMD", "raw_content": "Article Index > Health Concerns > Heart Health\nGenistein improves blood sugar control, heart disease risk and BMD\nPlant-based antioxidant lowers blood sugar, increases insulin sensitivity and builds bones\nGenistein, a plant-based antioxidant, helped control blood sugar, reduced risk for heart disease and increased bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women, in two new studies.\nResearchers from the University of Messina, Italy, recruited 389 otherwise healthy postmenopausal women aged 47 to 67 with low BMD scores (between -1 and -2.5), a condition known as osteopenia. Scores below -2.5 indicate osteoporosis. The women ate a low-soy, low-fat diet for the first four weeks and then took a placebo or 54 mg of genistein per day for the next 24 months. All participants also took daily doses of calcium and vitamin D3.\nAt the beginning of the study and at 12 and 24 months, researchers measured blood fats, sugar, how well the cells used insulin to convert sugar into energy (insulin sensitivity), and risk factors for heart disease including signs of blood clotting, oxidation and inflammation. After 12 and 24 months, compared to placebo, the genistein group had significantly lower blood sugar levels and increased insulin sensitivity. After 24 months, compared to placebo, the genistein group had more normal clotting and less oxidation. Doctors noted that the genistein group had no change in blood fats. They concluded that genistein plus calcium and vitamin D3, along with a healthy diet, improved blood sugar control and reduced some risk factors for heart disease in postmenopausal women with osteopenia.\nIn the second study, using the same 389 women in the first study, researchers measured signs of bone forming and breaking down in the blood and urine, how well the pituitary gland regulated calcium, and the thickness of the uterine lining, a cancer-risk factor. At 24 months, the genistein group had increased BMD while the placebo group had lost BMD. Genistein produced no change in thickness of the uterine lining and, compared to placebo, the genistein group had fewer signs of bone breaking down and more signs of bone forming. Doctors noted that some participants reported gastrointestinal side effects and discontinued the study\u201419% in the genistein group, 8% for placebo\u2014and concluded that genistein improved BMD in postmenopausal women with osteopenia. A 25g serving of soy protein contains about 25-75mg of a combination of isoflavones such as genistein, daidzein and glycitein.\nReference: Annals of Internal Medicine: June, 2007; Vol. 146, No. 12, 839-47.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 585, "original_length": 12279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nycitycenter.org/education/resources-for-educators/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WY4D6VNLR5WBMBQSLFZPD6NCJSZCAKVX", "length": 273, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nycitycenter.org", "title": "Resources | New York City Center", "raw_content": "Study guides are created by City Center Education to accompany our student matinee, workshop, and residency programs. They offer supplemental information that will enable them to better contextualize the themes of the show and make curricular connections for their classes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 5076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/missing-wash-teen-left-behind-chilling-note-journal-article-1.1858995", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HBHK7IUJ6QQ63QMO2JXSWMAIPVXSPDHI", "length": 3145, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.nydailynews.com", "title": "Missing Washington teen, feared victim of human trafficking, left chilling note in journal - New York Daily News", "raw_content": "Missing Washington teen, feared victim of human trafficking, left chilling note in journal\nAngelic Tracy 'Anji' Dean, 17, has been missing from her Camas, Wash., home since June 23. Authorities fear that she may have become a victim of human trafficking. (handout)\nA 17-year-old Washington girl missing for the last two weeks left a chilling message in her journal no mother should have to find.\n\"If you're reading this, I'm either missing or dead,\" the entry penned by Angelic Tracy 'Anji' Dean read.\nAuthorities fear she's become a victim of human trafficking after mysteriously vanishing from her Camas home June 23.\nThe blue-eyed brunette left behind her cellphone, ID, bank cards and the eyeglasses she needs to see, according to the National Women's Coalition Against Violence and Exploitation (NWCAVE), which is assisting in her search.\nAfter Anji vanished, her mother discovered a chilling journal entry in her bedroom that read: 'If you're reading this, I'm either missing or dead.' (kgw)\nIn an additional twist, she was found to have a second cellphone her mother didn't know about.\n\"She had been telling some people for a while that she was involved in something, that she was in over her head, that she was scared. But they couldn't get any more information than that out of her,\" her frightened mother, Lynda Jorgenson, told the Camas Post Record.\nSuch warning signs were seen in a final text message to her boyfriend.\nAnji is described as 5-feet, 6-inches tall, weighing 135-145-pounds, with blue eyes and brown hair. (handout)\n\"They were going to kill you and my family.. And I loved you,\" read one cryptic text obtained by KGW.\nOn the day she vanished, authorities say she was seen being dropped off at her home about 4:30 p.m. by a man driving a light blue, late-model Volvo and described by a neighbor as black, between 25 to 35 years old, with a goatee. He is now wanted for questioning by police.\nAnji's mother said returned home from work that evening, it was just another day.\nOn the day she vanished, authorities say she was seen being dropped off at her home, pictured, around 4:30 p.m. by a man driving a light blue, late-model Volvo. (kgw)\nThey went for a walk in their neighborhood, had dinner, and then got ready for bed.\nWhen the mom went to say goodnight to her daughter, about 10:40 p.m., the girl was gone.\n\"We don't believe she was abducted from there,\" Donna Bart, Director of Social Enterprise for NWCAVE told the Daily News. \"Someone must have texted her to come outside.\"\nBecause of the items she left behind, authorities believe that the teen fully intended to return.\n\"She left everything that one would take with them if they were running away from the safety of their own home,\" said Bart.\nAnji was last seen wearing exercise clothes: black tights that stop at midcalf; white Nike tennis shoes with light green soles; and a white, razor-back tank top. She may also have a white backpack.\nAnyone with information on Anji's whereabouts or disappearance is urged to contact the Clark County Sheriff's Office at (360) 397-2028.\nUpdates on her search are also being posted on a \"Help Find Anji\" Facebook page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/inside-the-park-homer-mets-new-stadium-winner-team-fans-article-1.371847", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CQ3IQ5LVWLX6MJ3XAFA6YYWX3XOUWFPS", "length": 2516, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nydailynews.com", "title": "Inside-the-park homer: Mets' new stadium is a winner for the team and the fans - New York Daily News", "raw_content": "Inside-the-park homer: Mets' new stadium is a winner for the team and the fans\nA right-hander by the name of Tim Adleman will claim a place in New York baseball lore tomorrow when he becomes the first pitcher to take the mound in Citi Field, new home of the Mets.\nWhether he tosses a ball or strike or gives up a hit, Adleman will go down through the ages as a neat bit of trivia for fanatics. But what's happening in Flushing is anything but trivial.\nTomorrow's intercollegiate game between St. John's and Georgetown, for whom Adleman plays, is the start of a new era for New York sports. First the Mets and then the Yankees are inaugurating new stadiums.\nNo surprise here - Citi Field is sold out, 42,000 strong, to fans eager for the first public look at the Mets' $800 million ballpark. Having toured the premises, we're confident Mets maniacs will not be disappointed by this dramatic upgrade from Shea.\nPrincipal owner Fred Wilpon, his son, chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon, and lots of others, including Paul Romeo of Elwood, L.I., who painted an orange home-run line on the outfield fence this week, have delivered a park the big town can be proud of.\nBehind a brick, granite and limestone facade that recalls Ebbets Field, seats - in Polo Grounds green - are wider and softer than the traditional instruments of torture. They are pulled in closer to the field and oriented to the infield.\nOpen concourses allow for moving about the stadium - for refreshments or between-innings relief - while staying in touch with developments on the field. There's a high plaza from which to watch the game and a seating overhang above right field. If you are of a certain mindset, you can observe the opposing bullpen up close and personal through chain-link fencing. Like at the zoo.\nTomorrow's game between St. John's and Georgetown will be a shakedown cruise before major leaguers arrive Friday for an exhibition game. It's a testament to our hunger for sports facilities worthy of a world-class city that every seat for the college game is gone.\nThere have been many historic baseball seasons hereabouts, going back to the infancy of the sport. Stars with names like Ruth, Gehrig, DiMaggio, Ott, Berra, Robinson, Mantle, Mays, Snider, Seaver and Jeter have shined in a firmament like no other.\nAnd, now, a city that has seen most everything that can happen in baseball is outdoing itself by opening two state-of-the art parks. It's a grand accomplishment, and the Mets can take justified pride in doing their part.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/nyregion/philharmonic-to-give-home-a-new-interior.html?scp=17&sq=John+Burgee&st=nyt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:17Z", "digest": "sha1:FOGZXLLBZ62H62X5OTYF2DZD7FOLY2DV", "length": 8406, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Philharmonic To Give Home A New Interior - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Archives|Philharmonic To Give Home A New Interior\nPhilharmonic To Give Home A New Interior\nBy ROBIN POGREBIN MAY 20, 2004\nThe New York Philharmonic has decided to rebuild the inside of Avery Fisher Hall with a more intimate, acoustically improved auditorium and boldly redesigned public spaces while leaving the shell intact, the orchestra said yesterday.\nFor years the Philharmonic has wrestled with the poor acoustics of Avery Fisher Hall, which have yet to improve despite various attempts and which contributed to the orchestra's interest last summer in merging with Carnegie Hall.\nThe new plan, agreed to by the Philharmonic at a recent board meeting and endorsed by Lincoln Center, which owns the 42-year-old hall, comes seven months after the orchestra abandoned discussions to move to Carnegie Hall.\nThe project would require the orchestra to be out of its home for one to two seasons and could cost as much as $300 million, those involved say. [An Appraisal, Page B3.]\nThe renovation could not begin until Lincoln Center's redesign of West 65th Street and Alice Tully Hall is complete in 2009, Lincoln Center executives said, because they do not want to have two halls out of commission at the same time.\n''I think we've all said, 'If you're going to do something to the hall, there should be a transformative look to the place, and we and Lincoln Center would like to pursue that as an objective,''' said Zarin Mehta, the executive director of the Philharmonic.\n''It's not just the acoustics,'' Mr. Mehta said. ''I've always said the problem with the acoustics here are comparisons to Carnegie Hall. We need to make the hall more livable, more attractive. The bars, restaurants, staircases -- all of that needs to be thought about and updated. There's nothing wrong with bringing it into the 21st century. New York deserves that.''\nReconstructing the interior has been tried before, most famously in 1976, by Philip Johnson and John Burgee.\nMr. Mehta stressed that there were several issues to be resolved, like the logistics of moving to a temporary location, something he asserted would be more complicated than the Museum of Modern Art's temporary move to Queens during the renovation of its Midtown home, still underway. ''It's one thing going to an essentially free exhibition space in Queens,'' he said, ''but to go out and pay $80 to $90 for a ticket, I don't know how people would do it.''\nIn deciding on a large-scale renovation of the interior, the Philharmonic has decided against the two other options that had been under consideration. At one point the Philharmonic considered tearing down the entire building and starting over from scratch, a plan that was largely rejected as too costly, time-consuming and full of other problems given that the Avery Fisher family threatened legal action if the hall's name was changed.\nAn internal renovation allows the orchestra to offer the auditorium as a naming opportunity for a large donor, an enticement generally considered essential for such an ambitious fund-raising effort.\nThe Philharmonic also considered doing minor renovations to improve the hall without substantially changing its look, a strategy that seemed prudent a year ago during an economic downturn that affected donations to the arts and charities. But with the economy improving, this approach seemed overly cautious and unexciting, officials said.\n''What you want is a state-of-the-art facility,'' said Bruce Crawford, the chairman of Lincoln Center. ''You want Avery Fisher Hall to be aesthetically at the forefront. To do a patch job doesn't really make sense.''\nThis kind of thinking was in part inspired by the enthusiastic reaction last month to Diller, Scofidio & Renfro's plans for redesigning West 65th Street, people involved with the project said. The successful opening of Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall, home to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in October was also a motivating factor, they said.\nThe orchestra and Lincoln Center have agreed to share in the fund-raising for the renovation; a chairman will be appointed to lead the effort, Mr. Crawford said.\nThe Philharmonic must figure out how to juggle this kind of capital campaign with its current plans to increase its endowment by $75 million, to $263 million from $188 million. The orchestra is projecting a deficit of $3.3 million for the fiscal year that ends Aug. 31, a shortfall its officials attribute to investment losses.\nWhen the New York Philharmonic last considered how to renovate the hall, before the planned merger with Carnegie Hall, Norman Foster was the architect selected to come up with a plan. Lord Foster has transformed the interiors of buildings to great acclaim, including the Reichstag in Berlin and the British Museum.\nAmong his ideas was eliminating the third balcony and raising the ceiling up to the roof to create greater acoustical volume. The Foster plan proposed shifting the auditorium to create space for a smaller recital hall that could also be used for lectures and educational programming, people familiar with the plans said.\nSome Philharmonic board members have said it is important to create a second space for more adventuresome programming to attract new audiences. This seems particularly pressing given the opening of Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall's third and more experimental stage, last fall.\nThe Philharmonic plans to revisit the Foster plans, although the architect has not been officially designated and the specifics of the renovation have yet to be resolved. ''We still want Foster to do it,'' Mr. Crawford said.\nMr. Mehta said he believed that Avery Fisher Hall, which has 2,738 seats, would benefit from a more intimate setting, with a platform stage surrounded by audience members on all sides -- as in Disney Hall -- and 350 fewer seats. ''You're listening to music, and we have a hall that is rather long,'' he said. ''Today I think people feel they want to be more involved.''\nIn addition to being the landlord at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center presents its own programming there -- Great Performers, Mostly Mozart, the Lincoln Center Festival, for example -- although the Philharmonic dominates the schedule. A renovation of Avery Fisher Hall would require Lincoln Center to find temporary quarters for these events.\nIdeally the Philharmonic would like to build its temporary home in Damrosch Park, between the Metropolitan Opera House and the New York State Theater, so the orchestra could remain on campus and reduce the risk of losing some of its audience.\nBut creating an acoustically adequate temporary theater, with office space, would be difficult, and costly, those involved say. The idea, which was explored before the Philharmonic turned to Carnegie Hall, had been estimated at about $30 million. A tent of the kind used by the Big Apple Circus in Damrosch Park would not be acoustically suitable, Lincoln Center officials pointed out.\nThe Philharmonic is also considering the Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue at 67th Street. Under its previous music director, Kurt Masur, the orchestra looked at the armory as a summer home or as a setting for more informal concerts modeled after the London Proms, to attract a young audience.\nMr. Mehta said a temporary move to Carnegie Hall was not an option because it would force Carnegie Hall to oust its regular presentations.\nThe Philharmonic's redevelopment team is being led by Katherine G. Farley, the chairwoman of the board's real estate committee. Ms. Farley, who also serves on Lincoln Center's board, was instrumental in pursuing the merger with Carnegie even as she was leading the Philharmonic's renovation plans for Avery Fisher Hall, prompting some to question her loyalties at the time. Ms. Farley's husband, the developer Jerry I. Speyer, is on the board of Carnegie Hall.\nLast June, Mr. Mehta said in an interview that he hoped to earmark $3 million to $4 million for a new pipe organ when Avery Fisher Hall was rebuilt or renovated. Reynold Levy, the president of Lincoln Center, said the possibility of an organ had yet to be resolved, along with many other issues.\n''We've got a lot of work to do and a lot of time to spend with one another,'' Mr. Levy said.\nA version of this article appears in print on May 20, 2004, on Page A00001 of the National edition with the headline: Philharmonic To Give Home A New Interior. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 11338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ohioexploration.com/paranormal/hauntings/clarkcounty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:39Z", "digest": "sha1:JPKIQQSAEYGKUIX3ENDL67NGWP3BJGVR", "length": 4387, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.ohioexploration.com", "title": "Clark County Hauntings & Legends \u2013 Ohio Exploration Society", "raw_content": "Clark County Hauntings & Legends\nOn this page you will find haunted locations and legends of Clark County. Many of these are genuine and documented haunts, but others may be legend or hearsay. Remember, we do not condone trespassing. Always seek permission before entering private property. If you know of a haunting or legend not listed for this county, please submit them through our Haunting Submission Form.\nBlacks Cemetery \u2013 This cemetery about four miles outside of town is the scene of ghostly voices and apparitions walking among the tombstones.\nRoute 40 House \u2013 The daughter of the home\u2019s landlord is believed to haunt the home. Renters have felt her presence in the house and claim she is even a little mischievous as objects mysteriously get knocked off the dresser and bookshelf. Various people have reported feeling like the girl is telling them to tell her daddy she loves him. (Credits: Donna)\nOld School House \u2013 An old school house off Route 54 is said to be haunted by a little girl who was hanged there.\nGeorge Rogers Clark Park \u2013 This was the site of the battle between the Pique tribe and the Kentuckians. An old house in the park is said to be haunted and reports of seeing a figure appearing in the window are frequent. This window can be viewed from State Route 4 as you pass by. Some witnesses have claimed to have seen ghosts of Indians and soldiers, including George Rogers Clark and Daniel Boone.\nGunn Road \u2013 A young boy was killed here years ago by a hit and run driver. It is said that if you stop your car on the spot marked by a sign and turn off your car, you won\u2019t be able to restart it until you push it off the spot.\nNorth High School \u2013 The stage in the auditorium is said to be haunted by the ghosts of a boy and girl. Before the school had been built, the grounds were used as a cemetery for the children\u2019s home across the field. Most of the graves were moved to a nearby cemetery, but two were lost. The location of theses graves was near the auditorium\u2019s stage. Reports of seeing a boy playing on the catwalks and hearing the footsteps and laughter of children playing are common.\nRockaway School \u2013 Located near Springfield on Route 40, this school is where a boy died in a fire he had set. At night, ghostly voices can be heard and the smell of smoke is heavy.\nWittenberg Avenue Old House \u2013 This old home on Wittenberg Avenue was once an old boarding house, possibly a bordello, and is at least 150 years old. The home has apartments upstairs that are no longer used, but they once were rented out years ago. One apartment in particular is haunted. At least two witnesses have seen two men wearing railroad hats. One witness reported that one man was halfway into the door digging and pitching out dirt, and the other man was watching the first man dig. Both railroad workers then turned, looked at the witness and faded away. There is a section of basement with a dirt floor directly under this apartment. It is believed something could be buried there due to the fact that it is the only dirt spot in the basement\u2026the rest of the floor is concrete. There once was a railroad directly behind the house (now a bike path) and railroad workers often stayed in the home.\nWittenberg University \u2013 A site of multiple hauntings, see Wittenberg University below for details.\nYork Street Homes \u2013 Many of the older homes on this street are said to be haunted, as they were used on the Underground Railroad. Some of the basements have tunnels that connect the homes. It is in the basements where strange noises are often heard. The spirits of the homes have woken the residents. Apparitions that have been seen are of men in Confederate uniforms.\nMyes Hall \u2013 Myes Hall was once a Civil War hospital. A dying soldier\u2019s last wish was to see his horse. The horse was brought into the room but refused to leave the side of his partner. The horse was shot and killed and dragged out of the hospital. The horse\u2019s spirit is said to roam the halls.\nSigma Kappa House \u2013 This house is haunted by a man named Gus Sun and his daughter. Gus was a theatre owner and a booking agent headquartered in Springfield. Some headliners who Gus helped in the early days included Bob Hope, Ted Lewis, Sophie Tucker, and Will Rogers. Gus died of pneumonia at Mercy Hospital after breaking his hip in a fall on the street. He was 90 years old. Gus\u2019 daughter supposedly died in a fire.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 236.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oig.dot.gov/library-item/28902", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LIQC5NREZVDITYZCJIB7GWKRGVQEJ2E7", "length": 1857, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.oig.dot.gov", "title": "Testimony | Office of Inspector General | U.S. Department of Transportation", "raw_content": "On July 29, 2009, the Principal Assistant Inspector General for Auditing and Evaluation (PAIGAE) testified before the House Subcommittee on Aviation regarding FAA\u2019s efforts to modernize airspace through Area Navigation (RNAV) and Required Navigation Performance (RNP). The PAIGAE noted that RNAV and RNP are key to NextGen\u2019s success and have shown some benefits, but fundamental issues need to be addressed. While RNAV and RNP have considerable industry support, some stakeholders are dissatisfied with the Agency\u2019s overall method for implementing these initiatives. Of particular concern is FAA\u2019s practice of laying most \u201cnew\u201d routes over existing routes and the fact that air carriers are not using them. Stakeholders and FAA also disagree on the potential role and responsibilities of non\u2013Government third parties in speeding the adoption of RNP. Unless these are clearly defined, it will be difficult to establish an effective oversight framework for third parties. To ensure the safe and effective implementation of RNAV and RNP\u2013and to realize their full benefits\u2013the PAIGAE stated that FAA will need to focus on the following areas: (1) aligning Agency goals with producing quality RNP procedures that have significant benefits rather than focusing on the number of procedures, (2) establishing priorities for new routes and funding requirements for related airspace redesign projects and systems that controllers rely on to manage traffic, (3) performing cost\u2013benefit analyses in close coordination with all stakeholders before and after implementing RNP procedures, (4) ensuring controllers and pilots are aware of and trained on procedures before they are implemented, and (5) developing and establishing a policy on how and to what extent third parties will be used to help support FAA\u2019s NextGen efforts and ensure an effective oversight approach.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 279, "original_length": 12124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onedirection.community/conversations/2017/11/13/time-with-jesus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:N3I6UOL2XXVGOBVLNYTV4YQGQFELW2YL", "length": 3979, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.onedirection.community", "title": "Time With Jesus \u2014 One Direction Community", "raw_content": "Good morning Jesus, I begin this work week centered in you.\n\u201cNow Jesus went up the mountain and called for those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve (whom he named apostles), so that they would be with him and he could send them to preach and to have authority to cast out demons. He appointed twelve: To Simon he gave the name Peter; to James and his brother John, the sons of Zebedee, he gave the name Boanerges (that is, \u201csons of thunder\u201d); and Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.\u201d (Mark 6:13-19)\nJesus called twelve people to be follow him, to be his disciples, to be members of his \u201cchurch.\u201d What was the first and most important thing Jesus required of them? To spend time with him. At the core of being a disciple, at being a follower of Jesus is the necessity of spending time with Jesus and developing a deep relationship with Him.\nJesus\u2019 call of his disciples reveals three things. First, Jesus \u201ccalled those he wanted\u201d (v.13). Jesus\u2019 wanted and desired a close, personal friendship with his followers. Jesus did not call them as a marketing plan or to hire workers. He did not call them with a \u201chuman resource model\u201d like most churches of getting them to sign up to be greeters, ushers, childcare workers\u2026and the list goes on. He simply wanted to spend time with them. Second, \u201cthey came to him.\u201d (v.13) The disciples attraction was simply Jesus. It was not a program, building, or ministry. They came and desired to spend time with Jesus. Third, \u201cSo that they could be with him.\u201d Again, though whole point of Jesus calling those to follow him was so so that they could be with him. Yes, he wanted to \u201csend them out to preach and cast out demons\u201d however all authority and power for them to be able to do this has its source and is only possible from a deep abiding relationship with Jesus.\nWhat is the whole goal and purpose of being a follower of Jesus today? Why did he Jesus call you to follow him? To spend time with him. At the core of Jesus calling of you is his desires to personally and intimately spend time with you. At the core of your Christian walk needs to be a desire to personally and intimately spend time with Jesus. I have found as a Christian leader that if I do a service project of some sort people willingly show to serve and work even though the tasks may be difficult and outside in hot conditions. I have found that people willingly get up on Sunday mornings and get dressed, get in cars and drive to a church to attend a service. However, I have found that getting people to spend time daily with Jesus: to sit comfortably on a couch in their pajamas with a cup of coffee or tea in their own home and read the Bible and prayer, is a struggle for them.\nYet \u201cdoing\u201d things: attending church services, serving in a church or in a ministry and teaching or leading a church event is not at the core of Jesus call of you, just as \u201cdoing\u201d things was not at the core of the first group he called to follow Him. It is \u201cbeing\u201d with Him. You must first desire to be with Jesus before you can go out and do things for Jesus. The great commandment, to love God with all you heart, soul, mind, and strength ( Mark 12:30) comes before and is a pre-requisite to fulfilling the great commission, \u201cGo and make disciples.\u201d (Matt. 28:18-20)\nThere is nothing myself or any other leader can do to get you to desire to spend time with Jesus. As much as Jesus desires to be with you, he can\u2019t make you spend time daily with Him in Scriptures and prayer. All he can do is call out to you, and expectantly await your response.\nMy family, I pray today as you begin your work-week, you will come to realize that answering your call to follow Jesus is not centered on \u201cdoing\u201d things for Jesus, but \u201cbeing\u201d with Jesus. May you desire to be with the one who desires to be with you, Jesus Christ. Please pray the same for me! God bless you my friends!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlinecasinoukhelper.com/uk-lotteries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PUVMXD6HTNO77W4BC3VS5SUUPEW6JOXG", "length": 5281, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.onlinecasinoukhelper.com", "title": "List Of UK Lotteries | Weekly UK Lotteries", "raw_content": "You will find that the National Lottery is the supplier of the most played lotteries in the UK, there are several other lotteries which are licensed and recognised in the UK and they include ones such as the Postcode Lottery and the Health Lottery, and those are held on different days of the week or month.\nHowever, the National Lottery is the one most players choose to play and there are in fact several different draws you can enter which are run by the National Lottery. All profits made are donated to a range of different charities and there have been billions of pounds raised over the years.\nHere are the different National Lottery draws that are offered and alongside each of them you will find the days that these lotteries are held and how you can play in each of them.\nLotteries in the UK\nLotto \u2013 The lotto draws are held every Wednesday and very Saturday and when you take part in these lotteries you will have to pay \u00a32 per ticket you purchase, that will then see you being able to pick six numbers from one to forty nine in number and when you match at least three of the numbers you have chosen with the six drawn out of the machine you will win a cash prize.\nThunderball \u2013 The Thunderball lottery draws are held three days a week those being on a Wednesday a Friday and also on a Saturday. The ticket price is \u00a31 on this draw and there are thirty nine numbers in the first machine and 14 numbers in the second you have to pick five main numbers and a Thunderball number when you enter this draw.\nLotto Hot Picks \u2013 This draw is held on both a Wednesday and also on a Saturday and you have to pick just five numbers from one to forty nine on each ticket you purchase. If you manage to match at least three numbers with those that have been drawn out of the lottery machine then you will win \u00a3450, however the more numbers that you do manage to match the larger that jackpot payout can and will become.\nTo buy lottery tickets in the UK you have to be at least the age of 16.\nYou should not have too many questions regarding entering a UK lottery draw for they are quite self explanatory however below are a few of the most commonly asked questions which may be of inertest to you and the answers to those questions will be found below too!\nWhich casino site has lottery based games on offer?\nIf you are looking for a range of lottery based and themed casino games and a site which is fully licensed and regulated in the UK then we can recommend the Titan Bet Casino, this is a casino that uses the Playtech gaming platform and you will have access to lots of different games when play there.\nTo learn more about this first class casino site please take a look at our review of Titan Bet Casino as we have a high valued welcome bonus to introduce to you which will allow you to boost the value of your initial deposit.\nOne of the main benefits that all UK based gamblers have is that they are never going to be charged any type of tax on nay winnings they achieve when gambling. This is also very true for all lottery based winnings, and as such if you do win any amount when playing a lottery in the UK then the entire amount of cash you won, no matter how large is yours to keep tax free!\nIn fact the UL laws and regulations surrounding lotteries is that all winning players have to be paid their winning sin one single payment, and as such you will not be drip fed your winning over weeks, months or even years which is often the case with lotteries held in different countries!\nWhere can I buy UK lottery tickets?\nYou are going to be able to buy lottery tickets either online at the official National Lottery website or you can buy then in cash from any designated retail outlet. Please do not buy lottery tickets from any other source as there have been the odd website set up to trick player into buying tickets at those sites and the sites are fake sites and no lottery tickets will ever come your way if you do make a purchase from those fraudulent websites!\nIf you wish to learn more about playing at UK licensed venues then we have a wide range of different resources that will enable you to get a much better understanding of those topics. Keep on reading for details of our additional articles and news stories that you will find helpful.\nLand based UK Casinos \u2013 If you are thinking of visiting in person a land based UK casino site then we have a very informative guide and resource that will explain how you can become a member of such a venue and what is on offer at all land based casinos in the UK.\nUK Bingo Clubs \u2013 You will find there are lots of bingo clubs in the UK at which you can play bingo in a social setting morning, noon and night! If you have an interest in doing so then take a look over this land based bingo guide for more details.\nRacecourses in the UK \u2013 Betting on the horses is something a lot of people do in the UK however many of those people will occasionally visit a racecourse in the UK and if you are thinking of doing so then this informative guide will be of interest to you.\nUK Gambling Laws and Regulation \u2013 If you wish to learn how all UK based and licensed gaming venues and sites are regulated then take a look over our guide to the UK Gambling Commission for it is that government agency that is tasked with doing so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 5996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onyourmark.org/2015/congratulations-to-our-gold-medal-champs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KIGTV3AUXDJQX3QIW6GRZGE3JJUVYJSC", "length": 120, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.onyourmark.org", "title": "Congratulations to our Gold Medal Champs! - On Your Mark, Inc. : On Your Mark, Inc.", "raw_content": "A Big Congratulations to our Special Olympics Floor Hockey team for their Gold Medal!!! We are all so very proud of you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.opentohope.com/sue-matthews-cancer-treatment-for-kids-needs-to-change/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ZM47PWBARCPIWLC5RYDU36XG5PQHAO55", "length": 409, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.opentohope.com", "title": "Open To Hope Radio", "raw_content": "Written by admin on Thursday, September 27, 2018\nSue Matthews, along with her sister Andrea Cohane is the author of Paint Your Hair Blue, a mother\u2019s longing to give enduring eloquence to her daughter\u2019s voice, to not let it go silent. Sue is President of the Taylor Matthews Foundation, Tay-Bandz, an organization, whose mission is to fund innovative research and treatments that can reach sick children today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.operanews.com/Opera_News_Magazine/2015/7/Departments/Sound_Bites%C2%A0%E2%80%94%C2%A0Alexey_Lavrov.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:46Z", "digest": "sha1:JFQRAQPLTZUX7P54CPZH6QXUCIAFFYKG", "length": 2818, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.operanews.com", "title": "Sound Bites: Alexey Lavrov", "raw_content": "Sound Bites: Alexey Lavrov\nClothes by Massimo Dutti / Grooming by Affan Malik\nAlexey Lavrov\u2019s baritone has a diamond-hard core, but there\u2019s nothing \u201ctough\u201d about his singing; he knows how to spin out a line with exquisite suppleness, and he is dramatically incisive without lapsing into excess. His talents have been recognized with prizes from the Gerda Lissner and Loren L. Zachary Foundations. He is now under top industry management, a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and he appears this month at Cincinnati Opera as Malatesta in Don Pasquale. It might sound like he has enjoyed a streamlined, untroubled path to success. He hasn\u2019t.\nA native of Russia\u2019s Komi Republic, Lavrov left home at twelve to study at a special boarding school for musically gifted children. \u201cSince twelve, I am without parents,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was difficult. My family was very poor. The 1990s in my country were very bad \u2014 two wars with Chechnya, no chance to get real job. My parents were fired from their positions. Tough time. But I learned what it means to really be part of this life. Everybody is a teacher. I started to live this, believe this.\u201d\nAt Russia\u2019s Republican Art College, he first studied to be a choir director. \u201cI was a tenor then and sang a lot in the choir, and it hurt my voice.\u201d He had developed a false idea of his sound \u2014 all covered and velvety \u2014 but a new voice teacher helped unlock his potential. \u201cHe told me, \u2018Be crazy. Go with your feelings. Don\u2019t block yourself.\u2019 And step by step, I found my voice.\u201d\nWhen Lavrov arrived in the U.S., he spoke no English at all. \u201cI hesitated to have a conversation with anybody,\u201d he recalls, launching into a hilarious imitation of an impatient New York City MTA employee: \u201c\u2018WHAT? YOU WANT WHAT?\u2019\u201d At the Lindemann program, Lavrov\u2019s talents were honed by the likes of Craig Rutenberg, John Fisher and Ken Noda. (Lavrov now studies privately with voice teacher Mark Oswald.) He particularly remembers Stephen Wadsworth\u2019s acting class. \u201cHe asked me, \u2018Can you tell me, please, what you felt when your parents broke up? Because you\u2019re going to live with this family for at least two years, and we should understand if you can be flexible with every kind of circumstances.\u2019 I was open for everything there. Stephen helped me to be myself, not to exaggerate my movements.\u201d\nAs he made the rounds of auditions, Lavrov learned a thing or two about keeping things in scale. \u201cI thought in the beginning you had to learn the biggest. I learned \u2018Si pu\u00f2?\u2019 and \u2018Il balen.\u2019 After a while, I thought, \u2018I\u2019m going to kill myself!\u2019 But Maestro Levine told me that I don\u2019t have to sing the most difficult arias ever. He said I was born to sing Belcore, Malatesta, Don Giovanni, and so on. 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Used with permission.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 14944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcworld.com/article/2021324/bioshock-infinite-somethings-amiss-in-columbia.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KRU7F5NBELUHJYCAASXBF35WL54A3OUZ", "length": 5745, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.pcworld.com", "title": "Bioshock Infinite: Something's amiss in Columbia | PCWorld", "raw_content": "Bioshock Infinite: Something's amiss in Columbia\nBy Alex Rubens\nReview: Bioshock Infinite delivers high-flying adventure\nFour hours in colonial America: Assassin's Creed 3 hands-on\nHands-On with Halo 4\nNot much has been said about Bioshock Infinite since its original unveiling at E3 2011. In fact, we haven\u2019t really heard or seen anything beyond continued delays. That trend was finally broken last week in Los Angeles as I got hands-on time with the first three hours of the game. Thankfully, it didn\u2019t disappoint.\nAs I sat down at my high-end PC and started the game, one thing was immediately clear: Bioshock Infinite is beautiful. Not in a \u201cthere\u2019s bright colors everywhere\u201d way, but rather that the team at Irrational pushed the hardware to its limits. The story opens with Booker DeWitt getting rowed to a lighthouse on a small boat by a chatty couple. He\u2019s given a box that starts to give us our first indication of who he really is, but it\u2019s not until later in the opening chapters that we really find out just who Booker is in the world and what his purpose is.\nSoon after he exits the boat, he enters the lighthouse and sits in a chair that turns into a rocketship and shoots him into the sky and eventually, right into Columbia, a floating city in the sky. It\u2019s a magical place, that somehow manages to operate just as efficiently as the rest of us do on solid ground, despite taking place on floating platforms.\nThis all takes place around 1912, but the Bioshock universe still runs on its own alternate timelines, so you just have to deal with the fact that they\u2019re hyper-advanced in some areas, yet right where they should be in others. Everything still looks just as you\u2019d expect a city to at that time, so there\u2019s kids selling newspapers and cobblestone roads everywhere. There\u2019s still horses pulling everything around, but they\u2019re robo-horses, rather than real horses.\nUnfortunately for Booker, everything isn\u2019t as magical as it seems, as he quickly finds out that there\u2019s something far more devious going on behind the curtain. Everyone in the city zealously praises Comstock (the founder of Columbia), claiming that he\u2019s one of the greatest men to ever live; yet all the while, he has locked his daughter Elizabeth in a room for her entire life, so that he could \"preserve\" her. Not only that, but he watches and records her through one-way mirrors. As if that wasn\u2019t creepy enough, he created a mechanical creature, called the Songbird, to protect her and make sure that she never once leaves her captivity.\nThere\u2019s a pivotal moment about twenty minutes in that gives you a hint at the tone that the rest of the game will take, as we find out that Comstock and the residents of Columbia are completely racist. They don\u2019t just disapprove of interracial marriages, but they hold raffles to see who gets to throw the first baseball at the heads of the people who are caught in interracial marriages. It was a big moment for me that sent the message loud and clear: Bioshock Infinite takes you to some uncomfortable places.\nIt's also really great to see such a priority placed on Elizabeth. While you're technically protecting her in this sequence we played, it never felt like an escort mission. In fact, she was usually the one leading me around, not the other way around. She even helps by throwing Booker ammo or weapons every once in a while, which is a great and unobtrusive way to involve her in combat, despite her not having a weapon.\nThe first three hours are a mix of non-combat and combat sequences (there\u2019s a really strong balance between the two) but as soon as things shift to combat, everything cranks up a notch very quickly. It goes from a slow pace, where you can\u2019t help but take in the vast world around you, to one where you might have to blow through some areas in order to keep the flow of combat moving, but it manages to do all this without it feeling like a forced push to move on.\nYou have your guns and iron sights, just like any other modern shooter, but there isn\u2019t as much of a reliance as there is in most games. Sure, they\u2019re still a necessity, but it\u2019s all about using Vigors (a sort of psychokinetic power found throughout the world) in combination with objects in the environment to solve combat puzzles. During my playthrough it quickly became second nature to chain together a vigor like Murder of Crows (which, well, calls in a murder of crows to peck at and slowly peel the skin off of your foes) with gunfire to easily take down a larger group of enemies that I would normally have been able to.\nThis kind of environmental manipulation is aided and abetted by the great implementation of the Skyhook, which allows Booker and Elizabeth to ride the cargo rails found throughout the floating city. It drastically quickens the pace of combat scenarios and makes for a handy secondary weapon to boot.\nDespite the great pacing, combat can feel somewhat shallow at times, whether that\u2019s due to the scarcity of ammo that leads to constant weapon swaps or just the typical AI behavior that\u2019s incredibly easy to read and abuse, I can\u2019t say for certain, but for a world as deep and thought-out as Columbia, it\u2019s somewhat concerning at times.\nThere\u2019s so much more to Bioshock Infinite than what we were shown and for the first time in a long time, I\u2019m genuinely intrigued and mystified by its story at every turn. Setting aside the combat and presentation, I\u2019m absolutely fascinated by what Bioshock Infinite is doing in terms of storytelling and can\u2019t wait to see more. This small segment of gameplay confirmed my feelings about Bioshock Infinite as my most anticipated game of 2013.\nAlex is a freelance videogame writer who writers for PCWorld's GameOn. He likes Star Wars a lot, maybe a bit much.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 8538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.perwyn.com/team/andrew-wynn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2EWZ5SZZLGTCHK43IIRKJRHJJM26PYPC", "length": 477, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.perwyn.com", "title": "Andrew Wynn - Perwyn", "raw_content": "Email: andrew@perwyn.com\nAndrew is the founder and Managing Partner at Perwyn, where he is responsible for all Private Equity and PIF investments. He started his investment banking career at Lazard, and prior to Perwyn worked at CCMP Capital (formerly JPMorgan Partners), where he worked on mid-market Private Equity deals.\nIn his spare time Andrew enjoys outdoor sports, particularly cycling, running and skiing, as well as spending time with his young family.\nHeinz Holsten \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 222.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.petinsurancereview.com/reviews/140396", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:50Z", "digest": "sha1:TDR65DY4LUUHFJTAFCQ4BIB5METTVINO", "length": 74, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.petinsurancereview.com", "title": "So happy to be able to talk to a real person even though it was a weekend! | Pet Insurance Review", "raw_content": "So happy to be able to talk to a real person even though it was a weekend!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 3511, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 127.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/162505.html?mulR=102416868%7C14", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DDK46DQTU7VJKVGADXREQDWBUSTX2M24", "length": 364, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.philamuseum.org", "title": "\ufeff Philadelphia Museum of Art - Collections Object : Saber with Scabbard and Case", "raw_content": "Saber with Scabbard and Case\nEusebio Zuloaga, Spanish, 1808 - 1898\nPartially silvered and gilded chiseled steel damascened in gold (saber and scabbard); leather and textiles (case)\nSaber: 5 7/16 \u00d7 37 3/16 inches (13.8 \u00d7 94.5 cm) Scabbard: 3 3/8 \u00d7 32 3/8 inches (8.5 \u00d7 82.3 cm)\n1800's [x] european [x] gilded [x] saber [x] scabbard [x] spain [x] steel [x] sword [x]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 2461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/sexting-bad-idea-when-recipients-13-prescott-valley-man-arrested-for-sending-naked-pictures-to-minor-who-sent-him-naked-pics-too-6631083", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MKNGGGFBQYVKWW2C7EWLUWKYHJKLJQZZ", "length": 1476, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.phoenixnewtimes.com", "title": "Sexting: Bad Idea When Recipient's 13; Prescott Valley Man Arrested for Sending Naked Pictures to Minor (Who Sent Him Naked Pics, Too) | Phoenix New Times", "raw_content": "Sexting: Bad Idea When Recipient's 13; Prescott Valley Man Arrested for Sending Naked Pictures to Minor (Who Sent Him Naked Pics, Too)\nJames King | July 19, 2010 | 1:23pm\nPolice in Prescott Valley arrested 27-year-old Mathew James Noble yesterday after some naked pictures of him found their way onto the cell phone of a 13-year-old-girl.\nPolice got a call from the girl's mother about 1 a.m. Sunday; she said she found nude photos of a grown man on her daughter's cell phone.\nPolice identified the naked man in the photos as Noble, who lives in the same apartment complex as the victim and her mother.\nCops soon tracked down Noble who admitted to sending the nude photos to the girl.\nNoble told police he had no idea who the girl was or how old she happened to be.\nHis reasoning for sending naked pictures of himself to a 13-year-old girl: he may have overheard a conversation where someone mentioned her number.\nIf that's the case, we wonder what Noble's plan was if that phone number he randomly overheard in conversation turned out to belong to a 300-pound ex-con and not a 13-year-old girl who just so happens to live in his apartment complex.\nNoble's story also seems quite a stretch considering the 13-year-old returned the favor.\nPolice say the victim sent Noble naked pictures of her, as well.\nNoble was arrested on two counts of aggravated luring of a minor for sexual exploitation and indecent exposure. He was booked into the Yavapai County Jail on a $15,000 bond.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/restaurants/mesa-feastival-forest-weekly-food-truck-event-launches-in-east-valley-7845645", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:23Z", "digest": "sha1:A6BGIVLP2TFZ7DUIVN3RPMAKGQU6J53G", "length": 1470, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.phoenixnewtimes.com", "title": "Mesa Feastival Forest: Weekly Food Truck Event Launches in East Valley | Phoenix New Times", "raw_content": "Mesa Feastival Forest: Weekly Food Truck Event Launches in East Valley\nMesa Feastival Forest / Facebook\nEast Valley residents will have yet another place to get their food truck fix starting Friday, November 27, when the new Mesa Feastival Forest hosts it grand opening event. During the holiday season, the street food court will be open from 5:30 to 9 p.m. six days a week, and after the new year, the event will scale back to once a week.\nThe Mesa Feastival Forest is located at the southwest corner of Pioneer Park at 526 East Main Street in Mesa and comes from AZ Feastivals, the folks who also put on other food truck events in the East Valley, including the Gilbert Food Truck Food Court, Gilbert Town Square Feastival, and Queen Creek Feastival. As at the other food truck roundups, Mesa Feastival Forest will include between 10 and 20 food trucks, as well as vendors, at each event.\n5 Weekly Food Truck Events in Metro Phoenix\nSaturday Food Trucks at Kiwanis Park in Tempe Launches February 13\nThis Friday will be the event's official grand opening, kicking off the Featival's six-day-per-week opening run. Friday through Thursday, December 31, the Mesa Feastival Forest will be open Monday through Saturday from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Starting January 1, the event will be held every Saturday from 5:30 to 9 p.m. year round.\nThe event will not take place on Christmas Day.\nFor more information about the Mesa Feastival Forest, check the Mesa Feastival Forest Facebook.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/ashes-to-ashes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:07Z", "digest": "sha1:I6I4ZCDCLGOWU4PMWFKWIJIHRYQSBQO6", "length": 1360, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.phrases.org.uk", "title": "'Ashes to ashes' - the meaning and origin of this phrase", "raw_content": "Home | Search | Phrase Dictionary | Ashes to ashes\nThe meaning and origin of the expression: Ashes to ashes\nWhat's the meaning of the phrase 'Ashes to ashes dust to dust'?\n'Ashes to ashes' reflects the notion that we come from dust and we return to dust.\nWhat's the origin of the phrase 'Ashes to ashes dust to dust'?\n'Ashes to ashes' derives from the English Burial Service. The text of that service is adapted from the Biblical text, Genesis 3:19 (King James Version):\nThe 1662 version of the Book of Common Prayer indicated the manner and text of the burial service:\nThen, while the earth shall be cast upon the Body by some standing by, the Priest shall say,\nForasmuch as it hath pleased Almighty God of his great mercy to take unto himself the soul of our dear brother here departed, we therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ; who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto his glorious body, according to the mighty working, whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself.\nThe term has been used frequently in literature and song lyrics. Ashes to Ashes is the title of a 2009 BBC television series. It was also used as a song title by David Bowie in 1980, which included one of his best-known lyrics:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.planetsport.tv/bryan-habana/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:56Z", "digest": "sha1:4GX5HMYXYP7X4FXZKZGKRK7UH5NPEH5Z", "length": 5108, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.planetsport.tv", "title": "Bryan Habana \u2014 Planet Sport", "raw_content": "-Photo Credit- Gareth Morgan\nHis decision to retire from pro Rugby and the process behind it . . .\n\"I think many of us would love to continue playing this game forever but unfortunately at times it's mentally not possible or physically not possible. For me, it was a decision that I had been thinking about for the last two or so years in terms of when to go out, can the time come for me to go out on my own terms? Unfortunately I wasn't able to do that which was a little disappointing, but that doesn't take away from the last sixteen years. I think it's really difficult to fully prepare for that decision and for what is to come after that. There are so many things that one has to put into perspective and so I think having a good support system around you, people that you can lean on for advice, is important.\"\nWhere racing a Cheetah and a jet plane rank in his career memories . . .\nLe nouvelle saison de Top 14 es la!! Bonne chance pour toute les \u00e9quipes leurs saison. Grands voeux \u00e0 @mathieubastareaud et mes fr\u00e8res de @rctofficiel \ud83d\udd34\u26ab\ufe0f\ud83d\udd34 pic.twitter.com/Hyyi9w3TsH\n\u2014 Bryan Habana (@BryanHabana) August 25, 2018\n\"Wow, there were some totally radical things that, when I started out my career, would never have imagined doing in my wildest dreams. Both were very different, the race against the Cheetah in 2007 was purely to create awareness on the plight of the Cheetah as it's leaning towards becoming an extinct animal. Then the race against the Airbus A380 was literally just to promote the new route from London to Johannesburg so they were two very different things but that's the joy of professional sport, it does provide you with those things.\"\nBeing remembered for his pace and what the secret is . . .\n\"I'm pretty fortunate that it was part of my natural makeup and yes I worked on it but I don't have the scientific knowledge from an education point of view to be able to pass that on. If you look at someone like a Wayde Van Niekerk or Usain Bolt who are pure athletes that constantly do sprint training, there might be some some knowledge that can be imparted. If there is an opportunity then I'd love to give advice but I'll be open to the person that I'm giving it to and say that it might not work for them, what worked for me possibly didn't work for a player like Chris Ashton.\"\nThe significance of this Springboks team moving forward under Captain Siya Kolisi . . .\n\"First and foremost, I definitely don't think that it's a political appointment. I really do believe that Siya is deserving of it and I think it's been an absolutely inspirational moment that has been achieved. So to say how important it is at this present time is difficult, because I only think we will release when we reflect back on how important this moment was for South African rugby and for our country. He's a good friend and chatting to him, I know how much this means.\"\nWhy alongside his Rugby, his faith in Jesus holds such importance in his life . . .\n#MotivationalMondays #RiseAbove #BeBetter pic.twitter.com/3szQrTeO7v\n\u2014 Bryan Habana (@BryanHabana) September 3, 2018\n\"For me, growing up in South Africa, Christianity is a more common factor. Within the Rugby team you will see guys praying before games or praying after, so it's instilled in our culture. From a young age I believed that I've been given this opportunity and been blessed with talent to do something that I really love. To be able to use that to first of all, stay humble, in where you are as a person and be able to ground yourself in something. One of the sayings of 'stand for something or fall for anything' is something that I've been able to reflect on over my Rugby career and I know that when I am centred I can outwardly make a difference and be a light in the world. As great as it is to be able to play Rugby, there is much more to life. My faith gives me something to fall back on, in the good times and the bad.\"\nThe challenge of following Jesus in the Rugby environment . . .\n\"It has been testing because of the culture, do you go with the flow? I'm not going to stand here and say that I've been a worthy candidate, I've also fallen short at times and needed to be brought back on the straight and narrow. I think along your Christian walk that is something that allows you to understand that there is a greater meaning to life and yes It's great to be playing Rugby but there's more to life. If you fall down or even have your head above the clouds, for me it's about having that foundation that you can come back to.\"\nWhat ' there's more to life than Rugby' looks like now for him . . .\n\"To be brutally honest I think initially I'm definitely going to be taking some time off and spending it with the family, have some time to reflect on what has been in the last fifteen years and just put some wise decisions into place. There's a bit of nervousness as there always is when you are going into a new chapter but in saying that there is also quite a bit of excitement which I'm looking forward to.\"\nListen to \"#1 Bryan Habana talks retirement and captain Kolisi, plus Leinster's Tomane on Justin Bieber\" on Spreaker.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.playusalotteries.com/en/lottery-news/article/11838/stunned-queensland-oz-powerball-player-is-60m-richer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YDFI7DCZWFJ4EUAVCY2CODHM4EFLTC34", "length": 2636, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.playusalotteries.com", "title": "Stunned Queensland Oz Powerball Player Is $60m richer", "raw_content": "Stunned Queensland Oz Powerball Player Is $60m richer\n\u201cIs this a joke? You\u2019ve got to be kidding me surely.\" These were the words from a retired gentlemen after winning the Oz Powerball jackpot worth a whopping $60 million.\u201d\nThe lucky Queensland man says he is \u201cstaggered\u201d after winning $60 million as the only winner of the division one Powerball draw.\nThe Burleigh Heads man won the second-largest division one prize ever won by a single entry in Australian lottery history.\n\u201cThat\u2019s unbelievable. I\u2019m a bit stunned. I don\u2019t know what to say. I\u2019m staggered. I can\u2019t get my head around it.\u201d\n\u201cWe sold a division one winning entry worth $1.3 million in Saturday Gold Lotto in March this year so we are thrilled to have sold another one.\n\u201cWe will be celebrating the amazing year that has been in a few weeks at our Christmas party and this is another big thing for us to celebrate.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s a bit surreal really. To be honest, I\u2019ve never thought about what I would do if I won $60 million.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a dream. You enter it and you don\u2019t expect to win it.\n\u201cI\u2019m over the moon. It\u2019s just life-changing. I\u2019m shaking.\n\u201cI don\u2019t expect to get much sleep tonight.\u201d\nSpeaking to lottery officials the lucky Powerball winner went on to say that he\u2019s been playing Powerball on and off since the game started. Up until winning the jackpot he had never won anything more than $600, and admitted that he bought his winning ticket on a whim.\nIt\u2019s a good thing he took the chance as he\u2019s now added a few more zeros to the end of that figure.\nThe Gold Coast Powerball player opted to remain anonymous and said that he plans to share his good fortune with his family and go on a \u201creal holiday\u201d.\n\u201cI\u2019m retired, but I\u2019m young enough that I will still have plenty of time to enjoy it,\u201d he said.\nHis win marks the second largest division one prize won by a single entry in Australian lottery history \u2014 surpassed by a $70 million Powerball prize won by Hervey Bay grandparents in 2016.\nThe winning numbers in Powerball draw on Thursday, November 8 were 29, 35, 12, 30, 17, 23 and 15, while the Powerball number was 10.\nSo far in 2018, there have been 15 division one winning Powerball entries across Australia that have collectively taken home $364 million in division one prize money.\nLast night\u2019s draw saw more than $1.5 million other prizes won across divisions two to nine, worth a combined $27.54 million.\nTwo division two winners each snared a prize of $381,369.65.\nBiggest Australian Lottery Winners\nLast Minute Decision Pays Off As Powerball Lottery Player Wins $50,000\nThe $246M Powerball Jackpot Winners Come Forward\nDream Come True For $2 million Lottery Winner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 9360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plc-io.com/en/home/i-o-modules/ex04aio-modbus-module-with-4-analog-inputs-outputs.2.5.2.gp.224.uw", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:48Z", "digest": "sha1:T6RE4FUP6HCG5ZIL6RQMSC4PRFKDGWAX", "length": 505, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.plc-io.com", "title": "OVERDIGIT - 099-8104 - EX04AIO Modbus module with 4 analog inputs/outputs - OVERDIGIT", "raw_content": "Interface module with 4 analog input/output channels configurable for 10V and 20mA. Each channel can simultaneously measure and generate both 10V voltages that 20mA currents. The measurement of the voltage or current of a channel can be used as control of analog output but also as an independent analog input. The analog output can be used as power source for the analog sensor connected to the input.\nBoth input and output of the channels have a resolution of 12bits and particularly low response times.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plowmancraven.co.uk/news/2013/06/supporters-of-gb-row-2013-the-toughest-rowing-race-in-the-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPBSGQWIS7ZERK7RERMBN5LMK4RY7LCE", "length": 615, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.plowmancraven.co.uk", "title": "Supporters of GB ROW 2013 The Toughest Rowing Race in | Plowman Craven", "raw_content": "GB Row 2013 is acknowledged to be the toughest rowing race in the world. Leaving from Tower Bridge on 1 June 2013, competing crews will race 2013 miles around the coast of Britain, navigating some of the most dangerous tides on the planet, crossing the world\u2019s busiest shipping lanes and battling against the most unpredictable summer weather and fast turning tides. Plowman Craven is a proud supporter of the event and wishes each crew the best of luck as they row for various charities including Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research and Walking With The Wounded.\nGet the latest crew news and up to date race information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 9956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/04/bernie-sanders-new-york-win-221454", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:14Z", "digest": "sha1:D763TZE3MCM6WQFF4KYEUIN7D3AY6PME", "length": 1310, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.politico.com", "title": "Sanders: 'We are going to win New York' - POLITICO", "raw_content": "Sanders: 'We are going to win New York'\nA little more than two weeks ahead of the primary in his home state of New York, Bernie Sanders said Friday that his campaign would win the state, which is also the adopted home of Hillary Clinton.\n\u201cWe are going to win New York,\" the Vermont senator told \"CBS This Morning\" in a segment teasing his longer sit-down interview with the hosts and his wife, Jane Sanders.\nSanders noted the 18,000 people who attended his rally in the South Bronx on Thursday evening, calling it a \"good start.\"\n\"We\u2019re going to do rallies all over the state, and I think we have a good shot at this,\" he said.\nLater in the interview segment, Sanders expressed confidence in his campaign's momentum, referring to victories in six of the last seven caucus states. Clinton has fared better in primary states, though Sanders was quick to point out that \"a lot of the earlier states that were contested were in the Deep South, and that is, as you know, the most conservative part of America.\"\n\"We did not do well. We\u2019re now moving elsewhere, we\u2019re moving to the West, we\u2019re moving to New York. We think we have a real shot to win,\" he reiterated.\nA Quinnipiac University poll of likely Democratic voters released Thursday showed Clinton with a 12-point lead over Sanders, 54 percent to 42 percent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 189.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.porscheroadandrace.com/hobbo-motor-racer-motor-mouth-the-autobiography-of-david-hobbs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:20Z", "digest": "sha1:U75AMLTEGCPLKBIUIHZULWC62YJE5VAU", "length": 4148, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.porscheroadandrace.com", "title": "Hobbo \u2013 Motor Racer, Motor Mouth, The Autobiography of David Hobbs | Porsche Road & Race", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Book Reviews / Hobbo \u2013 Motor Racer, Motor Mouth, The Autobiography of David Hobbs\nHobbo \u2013 Motor Racer, Motor Mouth, The Autobiography of David Hobbs\nHobbo \u2013 Motor Racer, Motor Mouth, The Autobiography of David Hobbs \u00a9 EVRO Publishing\nMost people will enjoy a 30-40 year working life, and then go on to retirement. Others take a different route, and add a second string to their bow, extending their working life and adding a lot of colour and excitement to their careers in the process. This second option is often followed by sportsmen and women who, after an active sporting life, switch to writing or broadcasting about their chosen sport. This is what David Hobbs, or \u2018Hobbo\u2019 as he is known to his friends, did.\nIn short, David Hobbs raced competitively, at the highest level, from 1959 to 1990, driving everything from a Lotus Elite to Formula Junior, sports cars, Formula 2, endurance racing including Lola, Ferrari, Ford GT40, McLaren (Tasman Series), Formula 5000, Formula 1, IMSA, Trans-Am, Group C, and so the list goes on. Hobbs had his fair share of incidents and crashes, but who wouldn\u2019t after 30-odd years behind the wheel of some of the fastest racing cars on the planet.\nRunning concurrently as from 1976, Hobbs doubled as a TV commentator and here he excelled just as much as he had done on the track. Working for NBC, CBS, ESPN and Speedvision, Hobbs plied his trade up and down the length and breadth of the USA bringing his expertise to the viewers and listeners. In 2009, David Hobbs was inducted into the American Motorsports Hall of Fame, a truly deserving accolade.\nThat is the history lesson in two short paragraphs, but the book: Hobbo \u2013 Motor Racer, Motor Mouth, The Autobiography of David Hobbs \u2013 is so much more. It contains all the pain, success and embarrassments that go with a career spanning 58 years, and all in the public eye. The book is written in an easy-going, matter-of-fact way, and will keep you smiling throughout, as Hobbo lays it on the line for all to enjoy. Hobbs has been assisted in the task of writing by fellow commentator, Andrew Marriott, who is himself not short of a word or two, and who was at those very early races with Hobbs when he was pedalling the Lotus Elite around the circuits of the UK and Europe showing great potential.\nSeveral top racing drivers have published biographies or autobiographies of late, and this one is presented in a similar, light-hearted but factual style. Photographs from personal and family albums show Hobbs from a young age, right up until his retirement, and illustrate both his successes and disappointments on track and in the recording studios. Hobbs has driven with some of the best racing drivers, and here he includes Mark Donohue, Mario Andretti, Brian Redman, John Surtees, John Fitzpatrick and numerous others.\nAs this is an autobiography, David Hobbs has included a touching couple of chapters at the end of the book about his family, his business interests, and his wife Mags, who has been a lifelong support throughout his career. Not one to sit idly by, Mags was in the pit lane throughout the early years, but once the family grew it became a time of sitting by the phone to wait for those calls to hear how her husband had done.\nThis is an entertaining read, and it will offer the reader insights into the world of motorsport from behind the wheel, as well as from behind the microphone. The book has a feeling of quality to it, the body text and captions are clear and easy to read, not like some publishers who feel that light grey print offers an interesting (but unreadable) colour contrast.\nIf you are a motorsport enthusiast, you will want this one on your bookshelf, because it will transport you into the tough world of motorsport, but also show you the lighter side of broadcasting. I\u2019m glad I\u2019ve got my copy!!\nTitle Hobbo \u2013 Motor Racer, Motor Mouth, The Autobiography of David Hobbs\nAuthor David Hobbs with Andrew Marriott\nPublisher EVRO Publishing\nFormat 280 x 235mm, hardback\nImages More than 300 photographs, including colour\nCategories: Book Reviews, Featured Tags: David Hobbs, family, media, Motorsport", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 8581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.portofturku.fi/en/ports-operations/projects/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MMHUKHKBWKPDPIUI75MWDOIGRDB42Z55", "length": 4279, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.portofturku.fi", "title": "Port\u2019s development projects \u2013 Port of Turku \u2013 Port of Turku", "raw_content": "Front pagePort\u00b4s operationsProjects\nThe Port has representatives, for example, in the European Sea Ports Organisation ESPO\u2019s Intermodal, Logistics & Industry Committee, and the traffic corridor working group set by the EU Commission. The Port of Turku is an active party in many projects aimed at the development of maritime traffic. Presentations on the key projects can be viewed here.\nHAZARD project (2016\u20132019)\nThe ability of the players in the Baltic Sea region to prepare for accidents is aimed to be im-proved by standardising the safety practices of the emergency services and ports in the area. Managed by the University of Turku, the project received funding from the EU\u2019s Baltic Sea programme for the years 2016\u20132019.\nThe project involves 15 partners from six Baltic Sea countries.\nThe key goals of the project:\nDevelop the safety practices of the ports and facilitate working with the continuously changing and amended safety regulations and requirements\nImprove the awareness of the players in the Baltic Sea region about each other\u2019s practices and increase the contacts between the players in the area\nPromote the use of risk management methods and speed up the introduction of new technologies.\nPort of Turku\u2019s role in the project:\nParticipating in the emergency rehearsals to be arranged within the project\nExpanding the access control system to the Pansio area currently under construction.\nNextGen Link project (7 February 2017 \u2013 31 December 2020)\nThe project will update the existing sea connection between the ports of Turku, Mariehamn and Stockholm. The updating of the sea route includes a new passenger and car ferry (ro-pax), additional environmental investments and port investments to meet the needs of a new larger vessel and the growing cargo and passenger volume.\nThe project partners are the Port of Turku, City of Turku, Viking Line and the Port of Mariehamn from Finland, and the Port of Stockholm from Sweden. The project has received CEF funding from EU.\nImprove the sustainability and environmental soundness of maritime traffic\nEnhance the movement of passengers and cargo between Finland and Sweden\nPromote the demand for alternative fuels in the Baltic Sea region.\nAct as the co-ordinator of the project\nDevelop the port area logistics regarding traffic arrangements and vehicle measurement system\nAutomate the mooring and unmooring of the ship.\nProject which aims at renewing the business opportunities of ports through digitalisation and open data and finding new ways for ports to utilise the digital transition in their business operations. The project acts as a pioneer for the digitalisation of ports and at the same time aims at long-term development co-operation with universities. The aim of the project is to bring by an example of port authorities understanding of digitality and to attract interest and commitment to the digital business opportunities of other logistics players.\nWith digitalisation, ports are becoming more and more active in the European core network corridor, affecting bottlenecks in transport hubs, improving cross-border connections and promoting the interoperability of freight transport integration.\nThe project analyzes the current state of the systems in use and identifies the most critical operational processes in which the identified challenges can be resolved by digitizing.\nThe aim is to develop port know-how, capability, specialization and outward orientation to meet the need for future competitiveness and renewal.\nMember of the steering group\nCo-financier\nProject NEPTUNES aims to mitigate the noise pollution from seagoing vessels at berth by developing a universal measurement protocol, guidelines for noise labelling of vessels and a best practice guide for noise hindrance reduction measures. The project involves ports from Europe, Canada and Australia. There is no external funding (such as the EU) for the implementation of the project, but ports will entirely finance the project itself.\na better understanding of the noise problems caused by vessels\nthe bearing of different types of vessels and noise sources for noise\na better understanding of noise measurement and evaluation\ndealing with problems related to legislation and regulations\nmeans for noise reduction (best practices)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.powells.com/book/song-of-solomon-9780394497846", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CWU77SLCBRJLK42RVMRDPYZ6WP6CDRLC", "length": 7632, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.powells.com", "title": "Song Of Solomon: Toni Morrison: Hardcover: 9780394497846: Powell's Books", "raw_content": "Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman), son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; the day on which the lonely insurance man, Robert Smith, poised in blue silk wings, attempts to fly from a steeple of the hospital, a black Icarus looking homeward...\nWe see Milkman growing up in his father's money-haunted, death-haunted house with his silent sisters and strangely passive mother, beginning to move outward \u2014 through his profound love and combat with his friend Guitar...through Guitar's mad and loving commitment to the secret avengers called the Seven Days...through Milkman's exotic, imprisoning affair with his love-blind cousin, Hagar...and through his unconscious apprenticeship to his mystical Aunt Pilate, who saved his life before he was born.\nAnd we follow him as he strikes out alone; moving first toward adventure and then \u2014 as the unspoken truth about his family and his own buried heritage announces itself \u2014 toward an adventurous and crucial embrace of life.\nThis is a novel that expresses, with passion, tenderness, and a magnificence of language, the mysterious primal essence of family bond and conflict, the feelings and experience of all people wanting, and striving, to be alive.\n\"Morrison is a terrific storyteller. . . . Her writing evokes the joyful richness of life.\" Newsday\n\"Toni Morrison is an extraordinarily good writer. Two pages into anything she writes one feels the power of her language and the emotional authority behind that language. . . . One closes the book warmed through by the richness of its sympathy, and by its breathtaking feel for the nature of sexual sorrow.\" The Village Voice\n\"A fine novel exuberantly constructed. . . . So rich in its use of common speech, so sophisticated in its use of literary traditions and language from the Bible to Faulkner . . . it is also extremely funny.\" The Hudson Review\n\"If Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man went underground, Toni Morrison's Milkman flies.\" The New York Times Book Review\n\"It places Toni Morrison in the front rank of contemporary American writers. She has written a novel that will endure.\" The Washington Post\n\"Toni Morrison has created a fanciful world here. . . . She has an impeccable sense of emotional detail. She's the most sensible lyrical writer around today.\" The Philadelphia Inquirer\n\"A marvelous novel, the most moving I have read in ten years of reviewing.\" Cleveland Plain Dealer\n\"Morrison moves easily in and out of the lives and thoughts of her characters, luxuriating in the diversity of circumstances and personality, and reveling in the sound of their voices and of her own, which echoes and elaborates theirs.\" The New Yorker\n\"Lovely. . . . A delight, full of lyrical variety and allusiveness. . . . [An] exceptionally diverse novel.\" The Atlantic Monthly\n\"Morrison dazzles. . . . She creates a black community strangely unto itself yet never out of touch with the white world. . . . With an ear as sharp as glass she has listened to the music of black talk and uses it as a palette knife to create black lives and to provide some of the best fictional dialogue around today.\" The Nation\nOne of the most celebrated writers of our time, Toni Morrison has become a distinctive literary voice in the 20th Century, and her works have become essential reading in the body of contemporary American fiction.\nToni Morrison was appointed Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University in the Spring of 1989.\nMs. Morrison has degrees from Howard and Cornell Universities. Among the universities where she has held teaching posts are Yale, Bard College and Rutgers. The New York State Board of Regents appointed her to the Albert Schweitzer Chair in the Humanities at the State University of New York at Albany in 1984, a post she held until 1989. In 1988 she was the Obert C. Tanner Lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University. In 1990 she delivered the Clark lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, and the Massey Lectures at Harvard University.\nHer six major novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, and Jazz, have received extensive critical acclaim. She received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for Song of Solomon and the 1988 Pulitzer prize for Beloved. Both novels were chosen as the main selections for the Book-of-the-Month Club, in 1977 and 1987 respectively. Her books of essays include Playing in the Dark, and her edited collection Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality. Forthcoming from Pantheon Books in early 1997 is another edited collection, Birth of a Nation'hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case, edited with Claudia Brodsky Lacour.\nHer first play, Dreaming Emmett, was commissioned by the New York State Writers Institute of the State University of New York (1985). Meeting with favorable reviews, it drew audiences throughout New York and the entire Tri-State area.\nHoney and Rue, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Kathleen Battle, with lyrics by Toni Morrison and music by Andre Previn, premiered in January 1992.\nMs. Morrison has received honorary degrees from Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Sarah Lawrence, Oberlin, Dartmouth, Yale, Georgetown, Columbia, Brown, the University of Michigan, and Universite Paris 7-Denis Diderot. She was also the first recipient of the Washington College Literary Award in 1987 and was New York State Governor's Arts Awardee in 1986.\nOther prestigious awards include: the Modern Language Association of America Commonwealth Award in Literature, 1989; Sara Lee Corporation Front Runner Award in Arts, 1989; Anisfield Wolf Book Award in Race Relations, 1988; the Cleveland Arts Prize in Literature in 1978; and the Distinguished Writer Award of 1978 from the American Academy of Art and Letters.\nShe was a senior editor at Random House for twenty years.\nToni Morrison is a founding member of the Academie Universelle Des Cultures (at the Louvre, Paris), a Trustee of the New York Public Library, a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a member of the Author's Guild where she served on the Guild Council and as Foundation Treasurer. She served on the National Council of The Arts for six years and is a member of the Africa Watch and Helsinki Watch Committees on Human Rights.\nIn 1993 Ms. Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.\nHugeMorrsionFan , December 01, 2010 (view all comments by HugeMorrsionFan)\nOut of all of Morsison's fiction, this is her best, most in depth book. Although she won the Pulitzer for Beloved, this is one book I have re-read many times and find a new layer after each read. It's fabulous.\nHijabiMamaBabyPajama , March 02, 2009 (view all comments by HijabiMamaBabyPajama)\nThis is a tale about a man living in an assigned identity, breaking free of that, and then at last finding the truth of who he is by finding his family roots and connecting to his forefathers. It is also the tale of a young black man of some privilege learning who he is in relation to the black society around him and the white society beyond that. I couldn't put this book down until I had finished the whole thing.\nFamily -- Michigan -- Fiction.\nAmerican fiction (fictional works by one author)\nMichigan Fiction.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 11416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.powermag.com/category/distributed-generation/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZFOQVTI5II5FKPPSFBZRE2AO64A7OWX", "length": 3096, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.powermag.com", "title": "Distributed Energy Archives - Page 3 of 24", "raw_content": "NRG Renews Emphasis on Retail with PPA-Free Renewables Service\nNRG Energy, which recently shed a substantial portion of its competitive generation portfolio and has shifted efforts to stimulate growth of its retail business, unveiled a simplified renewables procurement process that does not require a power purchase agreement (PPA). The company on October 18 launched \u201cRenewable Select,\u201d a plan that it says transforms the \u201clengthy [\u2026]\nDistributed Energy Is Disrupting the Power Industry: Is the Sky Falling?\nUtilities are faced with many disruptive changes in the power market. Customers are demanding cleaner energy and turning to distributed generation as a solution. One expert suggested power companies must react and evolve their business models to change with the times. During a keynote presentation at the Distributed Energy Conference in Golden, Colorado, on October [\u2026]\nThe California Independent System Operator\u2019s Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) is a real-time energy market, the first of its kind in the western U.S. EIM\u2019s advanced market systems automatically find low-cost\nThough experts say biomass should continue to play a key role in the U.S. renewable power portfolio for its baseload properties, contributions to forest management, and other reasons, a swathe of uneconomic\nHow Power Companies Can Influence Customer Behavior [PODCAST]\nIt is safe to say that all electricity customers want reliable and resilient power service. One way that some end-users are ensuring they get it is by investing in distributed energy resources and building microgrids. But rather than simply using these systems as emergency backups, more and more owners are finding ways to capture economic [\u2026]\nLet the Sun Shine In: Where Is Solar Power Headed?\n09/01/2018 | Jim Romeo\nThe Solar Energy Industries Association, the national trade association for the U.S. solar industry, reports that solar power has grown in the U.S. at a compounded annual rate of 59% since the solar investment\nAustralia Braces for Power System Transformation, Disruptions\nThe inaugural integrated system plan (ISP) released by Australia\u2019s Energy Market Operator (AEMO) in mid-July warns that the country is in the midst of a \u201ctransformative and unprecedented\u201d rate of change\nA Reimagined Power Future Enabled by Digital Technologies\n09/01/2018 | Scott Strazik\nThe power industry is changing and leading companies are turning to digital technologies to revolutionize their operations. Monitoring and diagnostics centers are leveraging vast amounts of data from around\nTesla Virtual Power Plant Takes Shape in Australia\nTesla in July released more details of its virtual power plant (VPP) project in South Australia (SA), outlining the initiative as well as its resources and the benefits it will bring to the region. The company\nPower Industry Should Wholeheartedly Support Electric Vehicles\n09/01/2018 | Fredrick Ongeche\nElectric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to realign the transportation sector and present an opportunity for the power industry to transform and reinvent itself in fundamental ways. But whether this", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 281, "original_length": 11827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prairiewellnessretreat.com/india.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:22Z", "digest": "sha1:3VF2JJLVAIKO6LBQ6RBIFGR7NJJNV2DH", "length": 1926, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.prairiewellnessretreat.com", "title": "World Retreats - PRAIRIE WELLNESS RETREATS", "raw_content": "Sometimes a few local prairie girls get together and create something magical! This is what Purnima Chaudhari from AyuRevive and Carole Tetreault from Calder House have done.\nIt all starts with a dream, a strong desire, a passion. This is where seeds are planted in our deep longings and desires. Purnima and Carole have a strong desire to share their passions, knowledge, deep wisdom on Ayurveda, Yoga, and spirituality. Creating opportunities for you to explore this inner deep space in places in the world that inspire and bring wonderment. Eventually bringing you an experience of a universe that resides within each of us and outside of us. So the beginning takes us to India.\nWe are so filled with joy when we talk about this retreat. It is what dreams are made of! Have you ever wanted to explore India and at the same time go deep into the knowledge of the roots of Ayurveda and Yoga? We have, so we've created it!\nJanuary is the best time to travel to India for us \"westerners\". That is because it is winter in India. I say that lightly as winter is relative to where you come from. But when you come from the \"heart\" of Canada, winter is -35. India's winter is +20. So you can see that there is a slight difference!\nYou can not travel all the way across the world to see it in a blink of an eye. You need to spend a minimum of 3 weeks to explore and discover.\nWe are doing just that, 3.5 weeks of a journey. Our journey starts with 16 days of the \"touristy\" travel, exploring the north and the south of India. Yes you heard it North and South. Then we will land somewhere in the middle to retreat for a whole 6 nights, discovering the knowledge of the sages in a paradise meant for only a few. Are you coming?\nAre you a prairie dweller and you're taking a group somewhere magical in this universe? Why not join us on this website and lets scream out and share the wonderful adventures you are sharing with the world!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.preachit.org/image_packs/imagepack/1079", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IEHNAMJEG4WTZROLCF3VJFRBXKRRO6UI", "length": 202, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.preachit.org", "title": "Service Background for Church Services: Faking The Grain", "raw_content": "When I discovered this practice among makers of hand-crafted furniture artisans, I immediately thought about what happens to a man whose life comes under the hands of the Master Craftsman, Jesus Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 453, "original_length": 10114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 164.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prg.com/ja/ja/english/management-japan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:OTCGXBZ4OQ7OHGRFMEMYVGA5TS22LK6Z", "length": 1445, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.prg.com", "title": "PRG\u682a\u5f0f\u4f1a\u793e\uff5cManagement Japan", "raw_content": "\u30c8\u30c3\u30d7\u30da\u30fc\u30b8 Management Japan\nJohn R. Swain\nChief Executive Officer, APAC\nProduction Resource Group L.L.C. President and Representative Director\nAs C.E.O. Asia Pacific and Australia, John Swain is responsible for PRG\u2019s activities in Asia-Pacific, throughout the region including key locations in Japan, Shanghai and Australia.\nJohn began his career in 1984 as a founding partner in a successful design & fabrication studio serving the film and television industry. He also worked in a variety of roles in regional and North American touring theater productions. In the 1990\u2019s, John worked for NBC\u2019s Studio 8H as an electrics stagehand for Saturday Night Live and managed shop operations for a New York-based visual merchandising studio focused on retail, corporate event and themed environments.\nJohn joined PRG\u2019s Scenic Technologies division in 1998 where he was responsible for a number of major projects including the construction of the Kyoto, Umi and Jiyuu theaters in Japan; The Rose Theater and The Allen Room for Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York; and Korea\u2019s first-ever musical theater, the Charlotte Theater in Seoul. John also led teams responsible for scenic and motion control elements for a number of live productions internationally, including Aladdin and Steps in Time for Disney and The Phantom of the Opera and Cats for Shiki Theatre Company in Japan, as well as projects in Barcelona, Seoul, Berlin and many other cities worldwide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 169.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prisonplanet.com/alex-jones-sues-paypal-for-infowars-ban-over-hate-intolerance.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:09Z", "digest": "sha1:FM5CHSMJGULESGXEVE2KJ6Z67O72ZTPI", "length": 9761, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.prisonplanet.com", "title": "Prison Planet.com \u00bb Alex Jones Sues Paypal For Infowars Ban Over \u201cHate, Intolerance\u201d", "raw_content": "Alex Jones Sues Paypal For Infowars Ban Over \u201cHate, Intolerance\u201d\nAlex Jones\u2019s company, Free Speech Systems, LLC, has sued PayPal for the its ban of Infowars because the controversial website \u201cpromoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions.\u201d\nIn the complaint filed by Jones\u2019s lawyers, Marc Randazza Legal group, they accuse PayPal of banning Infowars \u201cfor no other reason than a disagreement with the message plaintiff conveys\u201d and call ban \u201cunconscionable\u201d because PayPal has never advised users that \u201cit might ban users for off-platform activity.\u201d\n\u201cIt is at this point well known that large tech companies, located primarily in Silicon Valley, are discriminating against politically conservative entities and individuals, including banning them from social media platforms such as Twitter, based solely on their political and ideological viewpoints,\u201d Jones\u2019 lawyers claim in the 15-page complaint.\nJones claims PayPal\u2019s decision was based purely on \u201cviewpoint discrimination.\u201d He also says the decision was made based on conduct that \u201chad nothing to do with\u201d the PayPal platform, which purportedly violates Infowars\u2019 contract with the payment-processing giant.\nIf PayPal\u2019s decision were allowed to stand, it would set \u201ca dangerous precedent for any person or entity with controversial views,\u201d the lawsuit alleges.\nHere\u2019s what happened in Jones\u2019 own words:\nOn September 21, 2018, after 18 years of service, and without any prior warning, Defendant PayPal notified Plaintiff in a phone call that, in 10 business days, it would issue a \u201cpermanent limitation\u201d on Plaintiff\u2019s PayPal accounts. This limitation will be permanent, and cannot be appealed.\nThe limitation will prevent Plaintiff from withdrawing, sending, or receiving money through PayPal, effectively preventing it from using the PayPal accounts at all. The loss of the PayPal accounts and future ability to use PayPal will significantly reduce Plaintiff\u2019s income in an amount that is not susceptible to calculation, but more importantly PayPal deciding to kick Plaintiff off its platform has harmed the legitimacy of Plaintiff as a news organization in the eyes of the general public and has already led to a loss of good will.\nThe purported basis for the permanent limitation PayPal provided is that content on the News Sites violated PayPal\u2019s so-called Acceptable Use (\u201cAU\u201d) Policy. Specifically, a PayPal representative stated that, after extensively looking at the News Sites, PayPal determined instances that \u201cpromoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions.\u201d\nThe AU Policy provides four categories of \u201cProhibited Activities.\u201d Notably, the prohibited activities only provide that a user \u201cmay not use the PayPal service for activities that\u201d fall into one or more of the categories. Sub-paragraph 2 of the Prohibited Activities section provides that a user may not use PayPal for activities that \u201crelate to transactions involving . . . (f) the promotion of hate, violence, racial or other forms of intolerance that is discriminatory or the financial exploitation of a crime . . . .\nThese terms are purposely vague, and could conceivably (and unconscionably) be applied to any speech at all, given the opaque manner in which PayPal has applied them. The AU Policy mentions nothing about valuating a user\u2019s off-platform activities as the basis for a finding that the user has violated the policy\nFor those asking, this is how Infowars describes Infowars in the lawsuit:\nThe News Sites contain content that expresses negative views against politically liberal people, communists, socialists, and religious fanatics. Contributors to the News Sites, including Mr. Jones, have often criticized specific members of political parties, including former President George W. Bush and former candidate Hillary R. Clinton.\nOn information and belief, it is this highly political content that PayPal claims constitutes a violation of its AU Policy.\nJones accuses \u201clarge tech companies\u201d located in Silicon Valley, of \u201cdiscriminating against politically conservative entities and individuals, including banning them from social media platforms such as Twitter, based solely on their political and ideological viewpoints.\u201d\nPlaintiff has been the victim of this recently, as it has been banned from various online platforms based solely on the viewpoints expressed on Plaintiff\u2019s programming.\nJones also alleges that Paypal banned him from its payment-processing platform \u201cfor no reason other than disagreement with the messages Plaintiff conveys. PayPal engaged in this viewpoint-based censorship despite stating that, in determining whether a user violated its acceptable use policy, it would only consider conduct actually involving the use of PayPal. PayPal\u2019s decision to kick Plaintiff off its platform had nothing to do with such activities.\u201d\nWhile one can claim that PayPal, as a private company, has every right to ban whomever it wants, even if it results in outright discrimination, Jones disagrees and to plead his case invokes the California Unruh Civil Rights Act:\nPayPal discriminated against Plaintiff based on its political viewpoints and politically conservative affiliation, thus violating the California Unruh Civil Rights Act. PayPal is engaged in unfair business practices by enforcing its contractual terms in an unconscionable manner, namely arbitrarily banning Plaintiff from its platform for off-platform speech despite never claiming it might ban users for off-platform activity. In doing so, it also violated the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing with Plaintiff.\nWhat is Unruh?\nThe Unruh Civil Rights Act (\u201cUnruh\u201d) guarantees that \u201call persons\u201d are \u201centitled to full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.\u201d\nAlthough the Unruh Act specifically forbids business establishments from discriminating based on \u201csex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status\u201d, this statutorily enumerated list is illustrative, and not exhaustive, of the characteristics on which business establishments may not discriminate.\nDiscrimination based on political affiliation or ideology is forbidden under Unruh, as it is a personal characteristic.\nSo as Jones finds his business impaired as a result of the ban\u2026\nPayPal is restraining Plaintiff\u2019s commerce because it is politically conservative and sells to a conservative audience. PayPal\u2019s actions amount to discrimination based on political viewpoint and affiliation, which is forbidden under Unruh.\n\u2026 a ban which is not justified based on the acceptable use policy:\nThe UA provides several examples of situations where PayPal might issue a limitation, including \u201c[i]f we reasonably believe you have violated the Acceptable Use Policy.\u201d None of these examples allow PayPal to issue a limitation based on off-platform activity, and all the examples are geared towards activity that involves risky, fraudulent, or illegal financial transactions.\n\u2026 Jones also throws in allegations of PayPal being a monopoly (which is not too far off) and thus once banned, he is effectively precluded from online commerce.\nThere is no adequate payment alternative to PayPal for Plaintiff\u2019s business model, as PayPal has eliminated competitors and has taken a dominant market position in online payment processing. Having effectively cornered the market, it is now using that market power to restrain conservative trade and commerce.\nDefendant\u2019s method of enforcing the AU Policy and UA is an unfair business practice under the UCL. It is fundamentally oppressive, unethical, and injurious to customers because it allows PayPal to lie to parties who use its services by claiming that terminations and restrictions due to violations of the AU Policy will be limited to activities that actually use the PayPal service, while in fact looking at the user\u2019s off-platform activity.\nAs a result, \u201cPayPal\u2019s actions go far beyond any reasonable interpretation of the language of its policies, and it is apparent that PayPal is using its policies as a pretext to engage in political discrimination without actually saying so. \u201d\nJones seeks damages and an injunction to stop PayPal from permanently restricting his account.\nFor its part, PayPay explained its rationale for banning Infowars in a statement on its website Sept. 21: \u201cWe undertook an extensive review of the Infowars sites, and found instances that promoted hate and discriminatory intolerance against certain communities and religions that run counter to our core value of inclusion.\u201d\nPayPal spokesman Justin Higgins said the company rejects the allegations in Jones\u2019 complaint: \u201cPayPal is aware of the filing and believes the claims in the complaint are without merit,\u201d Higgins said in an email. \u201cPayPal looks forward to vigorously defending itself.\u201d\nWill Jones be successful in getting PayPal to \u201cunban\u201d him? Probably not, but whatever the outcome the case will likely be closely watched by other members of the media, and especially other conservatives, to see if they have any legal claims in similar situations, because for all his other faults, Jones is correct in accusing Silicon Valley of cracking down on the \u201cright\u201d as both Twitter and Google have admitted on various occasions in recent weeks. And since it is the tech companies that are the true mass media of our times, what, if any, legal remedies the general public \u2013 or targeted entities \u2013 has against them is increasingly becoming a critical question.\nThe full complaint, California Northern District, Case 18-cv-06013, is below", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 12355, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prisonplanet.com/i-guess-thats-why-she-lost-trump-zings-hillary-over-kavanaugh-criticism.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:58Z", "digest": "sha1:CTRXSJYNNCY7RWKNBDGHW4G5XW6ZYNTE", "length": 2345, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.prisonplanet.com", "title": "Prison Planet.com \u00bb \u201cI Guess That\u2019s Why She Lost\u201d: Trump Zings Hillary Over Kavanaugh Criticism", "raw_content": "\u201cI Guess That\u2019s Why She Lost\u201d: Trump Zings Hillary Over Kavanaugh Criticism\n\u201cShe doesn\u2019t get it, she never did\u201d\nPresident Trump zinged Hillary Clinton in comments to the press Tuesday after the failed Democratic nominee called Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s swearing in ceremony a \u201cpolitical rally\u201d.\n\u201cWhat was done last night in the White House was a political rally. It further undermined the image and integrity of the court,\u201d Clinton said, adding \u201cand that troubles me greatly. It saddens me because our judicial system has been viewed as one of the main pillars of our constitutional government.\u201d\nWhen asked to respond to the comments, Trump said \u201cI guess that\u2019s why she lost,\u201d adding \u201cShe doesn\u2019t get it; she never did.\u201d\n\u201cI knew that a long time ago. Hillary never got it. That\u2019s why she lost.\u201d Trump urged.\nDuring the ceremony, Trump made sure to apologize to Kavanaugh and his family on behalf of the American people for the Democrats dragging his reputation through the mud.\nIn a further interview with CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour, Hillary declared that there can be no \u2018civility\u2019 in America while Democrats are out of power.\n\u201cYou cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,\u201d Clinton said.\n\u201cThat\u2019s why I believe, if we are fortunate enough to win back the House and/or the Senate, that\u2019s when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength.\u201d Hillary whined.\nHillary is sort of correct, given that the breakdown in civility is being spearheaded by the unhinged leftist mobs who refuse to accept anything Trump or Republicans do or say, and respond with threats and actual violence.\nWhen CNN\u2019s Amanpour compared the accusations of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh to those against Bill Clinton, Hillary declared that there is a \u2018very significant difference\u2019.\n\u201cAnd that is the intense, long lasting partisan investigation that was conducted in the 90s,\u201d Clinton responded, nodding her head at Amanpour weirdly.\n\u201cIf, you know, the Republicans, starting with President Trump on down want a comparison, they should welcome such an investigation themselves,\u201d Clinton added.\nOne might also argue that another very significant difference is that Bill Clinton did actually engage in sexual misconduct, and repeatedly lied about it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.proformative.com/questions/are-there-different-accounting-treatments-hsas-hras", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:23Z", "digest": "sha1:VDCEG7UKMQ5M2V73B6R2I5MX3GD26KXA", "length": 1024, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.proformative.com", "title": "Are there different accounting treatments for HSA's and HRA's?", "raw_content": "Are there different accounting treatments for HSA's and HRA's?\n(Accounting Manager) | Dec 5, 2011\n(Treasurer, OGS) | Dec 23, 2011\nYes, HSA's and HRA's must be handled differently.\nHRA\u2019s are employer-funded plans, and as such, are considered general assets of the company. These plans reimburse employees for incurred medical expenses that are not covered by the standard insurance plan. All distributions made from the plan are considered tax deductible to the employer, and are generally tax free to the employee.\nHSA's are employee-funded plans, though they can also be funded by employers or third parties. HSA\u2019s are either trust or custodial accounts. Employee\u2019s contributions to their account are tax deductible, as are any contributions employer\u2019s make to an employee\u2019s account. Any distributions from the plan for qualified expenses are tax free, but any other distributions are taxed as income with a 10% penalty (with a few exceptions). HAS\u2019s tend to be more complicated, especially when funded by multiple sources.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.progressivesoutherntheologians.com/news/2018/10/16/nothing-less-than-all-weve-got", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:55Z", "digest": "sha1:JNZFF663TBNWDQHG6CZELMFOT2L3EDS2", "length": 20212, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.progressivesoutherntheologians.com", "title": "Nothing Less... \u2014 Progressive Southern Theologians", "raw_content": "The following sermon, \u201cNothing Less Than All We\u2019ve Got,\u201d is shared by Jess Cook. Jess is the Programs and Communication Director for More Light Presbyterians, an organization which enables congregations and individuals across the nation to lead in LGBTQIA+ service and advocacy. You can find the audio version of the sermon here. Jess\u2019 full bio is below.\nNothing Less Than All We\u2019ve Got\nA Sermon on Mark 10:17-31\nAs [Jesus] was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, \u2018Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?\u2019 Jesus said to him, \u2018Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: \u201cYou shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honour your father and mother.\u201d \u2019 He said to him, \u2018Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.\u2019 Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, \u2018You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.\u2019 When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions.\nIt\u2019s a hard time to be a human.\nWe are nearing the end of an election cycle that\u2019s been full of of contention. No matter which side of the ever-widening political divide you stand on, more and more seems to be on the line - our very lives, or the lives of our children are at stake. We\u2019ve spent two weeks listening to a Supreme Court confirmation hearing that brought up traumatic memories of sexual assault many people had either worked through or repressed. In Georgia, voter registrations have been put on hold, potentially blocking 53,000 voters from participating in the upcoming elections - a number that is staggering in itself, but even more so when it\u2019s learned that, while Georgia is only about 1/3 African American, 70% of those 53,000 voter applications held are from Black Georgians. On October 3rd, Ciara Minaj Carter Frazier was the 22nd known trans person to have been murdered in 2018.\nThis week, the Trump Administration announced they are halting visas to non-married partners of diplomats to the U.S., creating potential for serious hazards at home for diplomats from countries where same-sex marriage is still illegal. Trade wars have made the shaky ground under farmers and manufacturing workers even more unstable. In a desire to find alternatives to industries such as coal or oil, people\u2019s livelihoods have been overlooked, leaving many to feel left behind all together. Children continue to be separated from their parents at the border, many fleeing a life in their home countries that is so untenable that even the risk of losing their life or their children isn\u2019t a strong enough deterrent to keep them from making the trek.\nIt is a hard time to be a human.\nJust this week, we saw the second major hurricane to hit the eastern part of the country, bringing historic flooding and wind speeds, tearing down buildings and ripping through homes. In my hometown of Richmond, we braced for Hurricane Florence, sighed briefly with relief as it shifted south, not realizing we would be close to the impact point of another storm system which, upon colliding with the remnants of the hurricane, brought 10 tornadoes hurling across the greater Richmond area in one afternoon.\nThis feels like the closest metaphor for life I can articulate right now - we hunker down bracing for a hurricane, then exhale when it\u2019s a near-miss, only to be hit by 10 tornadoes in its wake.\nExcept there are some of us who live directly in the path of the storm and are hit by that hurricane the first time, or who have to shelter in place because they don\u2019t have the means to get out of town, or anywhere to go if they were to leave.\nIt is a hard time to be a human. Surely this is not what Columbus envisioned when he landed on this hemisphere way back in October of 1492. Surely this is not the America my ancestors imagined when they climbed off the Mayflower, or when they later penned the Declaration of Independence asserting the self-evident truths \u201cthat all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.\u201d This is not the future they envisioned.\nStanding before you as I am - a queer, non-binary person, assigned female at birth - in a pulpit - I think it\u2019s safe to say there are a lot of things about this particular situation they didn\u2019t envision.\nThe thing is, when I look around today, I realize this is exactly the America they envisioned. My ancestors, determined as they may have been, were shortsighted. They were arrogant and misguided in their understanding of what it meant to follow God, corrupted by the power they felt they were entitled to have and the land they saw as divinely ordained to be theirs. Armed with the word of God and an assuredness of their chosen status, they held lofty ideas about what America would be, but failed to understand that if they weren\u2019t set on making a better life for everyone, they weren\u2019t making a better life for anyone. And they were using the very texts I hold as sacred as their justification for doing so.\nIt\u2019s in times like this that we need to hear some Good News. And it\u2019s in times like this when it\u2019s helpful to remember that, though the Bible may be usurped by those in power to maintain a death-dealing status-quo, scripture is, on the whole, written by and for people from the underside: people who know what it is to suffer under the weight of an oppressive religious and social order. Scripture isn\u2019t written by people in power - it\u2019s exploited by them for sure, but if any of us who feel burdened with the very weight of existence these days can take comfort in anything, it\u2019s knowing that we are on the side of the prophets and the Gospel writers. Gospels are written in times like this.\nIcon of Jesus and the Rich Young Ruler\nThe Gospel of Mark in particular was written in a time and for a people in the midst of conflict and uncertainty - people who faced maldistribution of economic resources and war, tension all sides. The contradiction between the way the world was and the way it was supposed to be seemed far too great. Those on the margins of society were pushed even further out by the social and religious elite who saw them impure or unclean, irrevocably broken. The very institutions which were intended to protect the most vulnerable in society instead exposed them to greater danger. Mark\u2019s primary audience is a community composed of common people, who suffered from the daily realities of disease, poverty, and disenfranchisement. Experiencing unparalleled tribulation, their lives and livelihoods were in the hands of leaders who seemed to be getting away with injustice after injustice. They felt powerless.\nIt was a hard time to be a human.\nIt is into this context that we find today\u2019s Gospel lesson. The rich man comes before Jesus kneeling, calling him \u201cGood Teacher.\u201d The man is a wealthy landowner in a time when wealthy landowners had a great deal of control over the livelihoods of the people like much of Mark\u2019s audience. Apparently having earned a great deal of power and money in this life, this man wants to know what he can do to ensure he\u2019s covered for the next life as well.\nJesus\u2019s response to the man seems curious at first. He doesn\u2019t launch into a story, but he simply quotes scripture. The use of scripture throughout Mark is intended to remind those who are being beaten down by their circumstances that God is constant; and, ultimately, God\u2019s will triumph. In previous chapters, Jesus has shown that he understands what the Commandments look like when they are more than empty practices or upheld traditions, but are lived into being.\nJesus recites the second tablet of Ten Commandments, those dealing with our relations to other people. Rather than \u201cdo not covet,\u201d however, Jesus says \u201cdo not defraud.\u201d The Greek word used in this passage for defraud is \u201coften used to describe social oppression, especially keeping back wages for work (Marcus, Anchor Bible Commentary, 721). This shows us that though he may be pious, the rich man has not been just. His wealth has come on the backs of those who\u2019ve suffered. In changing up the commandment, Jesus makes a passive indictment of the rich man\u2019s behavior - a zinger that would\u2019ve been heard on the ears of Mark\u2019s audience of mostly peasants suffering under the thumb of the wealthy. Perhaps in his desire to prove the depth of his piety, the rich man didn\u2019t even catch Jesus\u2019 verbal slight of hand. Like a child so eager to win an argument that they don\u2019t listen, and they certainly don\u2019t hear - the rich man seems to be waiting for Jesus to finish talking so he can assert his point. The man replies as if to say, yep, yep, I get it - and I\u2019ve done all of these things since I was young. You may say that no one is good but God alone - not even you, but I feel pretty confident that I\u2019m good.\nJesus follows up with a familiar pattern he uses elsewhere in Mark, though it\u2019s unique in its combination. In healing stories, Jesus often tells the person who\u2019s been afflicted to get up as a sign of their healing. In the stories when he calls the disciples, he calls them from the security provided by their vocation to follow him. Our lesson today is part healing story, part call story.\nOnly, the rich man doesn\u2019t get up or follow Jesus. He goes away, grieving.\nIn other biblical references, it is considered a sign of great piety for a wealthy man to give away half of his goods; Jesus is not only asking the man in our story to give away ALL of his things to the poor - to redistribute his material wealth among the very people he\u2019s been exploiting, but also to follow him. Jesus isn\u2019t looking for piety; he is looking for discipleship - this is the only way to participate in the kindom.\nThe disciples\u2019 incredulous response to Jesus speaks to the common idea at the time that spiritual piety and wealth were signs of favor from God. Yet in revealing the exploitative practices of the rich man and showing his inability to put down those things in order to follow Jesus, we are shown that the sickness of finding false security in empty practices and material possessions is one that even Jesus cannot heal.\nThis man represents the very people who\u2019d been creating many of the hardships faced by Mark\u2019s audience. I confess that when reading this story set in the context of the world today, I can get kind of smug about the man walking away. I struggle with those who tout their privilege or who are overly vocal about their piety. I know his type and I don\u2019t trust him. And yet, Jesus looks at this man and he loves him.\nIt\u2019s hard for me to love him, and I confess that I don\u2019t always want to.\nLast year for Christmas, my mom gave my 4-year-old-son a book by the Christian author Max Lucado. It\u2019s the story of a village of wooden people called Wemmicks, who live together in a village beneath the home of Eli, the wood carver who made them. The Wemmick\u2019s entire existence is spent going around town giving each other stickers. Each Wemmick has a box of star stickers and a box of dot stickers - stars are given to those who do things well, or who are attractive. Dots are given to the Wemmicks whose paint is chipped or peeling, or who can\u2019t dance or sing all that well. There\u2019s one wemmick, Punchinello, who is only given dots - not a star on him. The story goes that Punchinello isolates himself more and more, frustrated by the way things are and feeling incapable of doing anything to change it. Until he meets a wemmick who has no stars or dots - they just don\u2019t stick to her. When he asks about why this is, she says that it\u2019s simple - she goes and sees Eli, the wood carver, every day. So, in children\u2019s book fashion, Punchinello goes to see Eli and speaks to him. Punchinello learns from Eli that the stars and dots only mean something if you let them - that what really matters isn\u2019t what the other Wemmicks think but what Eli thinks. As Punchinello leaves his first meeting with Eli, the wood carver tells him that he sees him and he loves him, just as he is. Punchinello doesn\u2019t reply, but acknowledges to himself that he believes Eli is telling the truth. And - plink - we see the first dot fall from Punchinello\u2019s scratched and imperfect surface as Punchinello begins to believe that he is loved for who he is.\nMy son has been really into this book lately, so I\u2019ve gotten very familiar with the story. And every time we finish it, I related to Punchinello so deeply - I\u2019ve been given my share of dots for sure, and for a long time I believed I was worthy of those dots and started giving them to myself, convinced that there wasn\u2019t much I could do that was worth much at all.\nAnd I honestly feel like the sense of worthlessness I had for so long was the greatest gift I could\u2019ve ever been given. Because in the years I\u2019ve been working to unlearn that narrative, I have found a sense of love for myself that I never thought would\u2019ve been possible.\nAt the same time, I also feel such a deep sadness for the Wemmicks covered in stars, because they likely won\u2019t ever see the need to visit Eli.\nChrist and the Rich Young Ruler - Heinrich Hoffmann (1889)\nRead in this light, I find I am much more able to understand and to love the rich man in today\u2019s story. He was under the idea that his wealth and his piety would give him security. The man doesn\u2019t understand that the very things he\u2019s built around himself as a way of asserting his salvation are the very things keeping him from it. The kindom isn\u2019t a thing we experience after we die - it is a new way to live. The rich man has convinced himself that his belongings are his substance. When Jesus asks him to follow him, he is asking him to let go of the false idea that his piety is his substance and to claim who he is as God\u2019s beloved. Claiming that for ourselves is tough because it requires vulnerability - it calls us to peel back the layers we have created, often to protect ourselves by fitting into the expectations set by systems that do not have our health or wholeness in mind. It also calls us to care for one another - financially and spiritually, and to let ourselves be seen - and I\u2019m not talking about those on the margins, but those with the most privilege.\nJesus was offering him a better way, and Jesus wasn\u2019t naive. He knew that he was asking the man to give up material comforts and to live into the fullness of the kindom. He knew that following the way would bring suffering, but it also brought life.. He was asking the man to give away all of the things that hindered his relationship with his community and with God because only in doing so would he be able to experience the feeling of truly knowing what it is to be God\u2019s beloved.\nWe are called to offer nothing less than all we\u2019ve got. And in doing so, we are able to feel and live and love fully into who we are and who we have been created to be.\nThis last week, on October 11, many of us in the LGBTQIA community celebrated National Coming Out Day. On October 11, 1987, half a million people marched on Washington for LGBTQIA+ rights. In the midst of a climate where being LGBTQIA+ made someone a target of discriminatory legislation and rejection from their family and place of worship, people\u2019s willingness to march publicly was a way of claiming their identities. National Coming Out Day was started in 1988, on the first anniversary of the march on Washington for LGBTQIA+ rights. It was started in the midst of a climate where being LGBTQIA+ made someone a target of discriminatory legislation and rejection from their families and places of worship. Coming out is an act of claiming one\u2019s identity as beautiful and beloved, and making visible that which had been previously unseen.\nThough there have been significant gains in the thirty years since that first National Coming Out Day, the world is in many ways still unsafe for LGBTQIA+ people, and too many people still risk losing their families, jobs, homes, or their lives if they come out. For many, not just those in the LGBTQIA+ community, but for all of us, there is a feeling that things are getting worse, that the optimism we allowed ourselves to feel in the gains of the last decades was futile and misplaced.\nThe world is not getting worse; we have simply avoided our systemic wounds for too long. We are now charged with the painful and liberating task of continuing to uncover that which has been hidden, to reveal the parts of ourselves we have avoided and, in doing so, to work together to heal.\nIt\u2019s a hard time to be a human and we are in the midst of a reckoning of sorts in this country - where things are being uncovered and revealed - stories being told - and it is like opening a wound. And I believe the balm for that wound begins with being honest with ourselves and one another about the things we have allowed to give us a false sense of security in favor of the depth of real connection.\nComing out is a call for people to share a part of themselves that has previously been unseen - a pulling back of the veil to reveal that which was hidden. And we all have those - whether or not we 9 identify as LGBTQ+. It is an act of creating community and solidarity, particularly with those who, for so many reasons, are not able to come out themselves. Coming out is a life-giving act of claiming of one\u2019s self in the midst of a world where the prevailing narrative is death-dealing; it is a bold proclamation that we are here and that our stories matter, a refusal to be invisible. It is an invitation to bring people along the journey with us, to invite them into our individual stories as part of our collective story. I believe sharing who we are with others is an invitation to mutual vulnerability and collective healing.\nThe kind of hope Mark presents calls us to recognize God\u2019s presence in the world on the face of the outcast, the marginalized, the poor, the hungry, the hopeless; because hope is best understood by those who have something worth hoping for . . . something to hope beyond.\nChrist and the Rich Young Ruler - Beijing (1879)\nThe Gospel is intended to instill in us a sense of hope beyond our current circumstances, and to fuel our actions to step into that hope. It encourages and empowers us to press on and to remember that the actions of Jesus did not end on the cross. We and challenged them to continue working to bring about the kindom of which he spoke. Jesus isn\u2019t naive about what the people are facing, and we shouldn\u2019t be, either. The Gospel of Mark says to those who are disenfranchised, hopeless, struggling: I see you, and this isn\u2019t the way the world should be. I can show you a better way. The good news- is ours to carry out into the world, to resurrect a message of hope in the face of a world that is often deaf and blind to it. We can look around and have every reason to give up, but we are called instead to cling to the message proclaimed by Jesus - a vision of the world where those who have lived too long on the edge of despair are no longer suffering, but are thriving. Where the body of Christ isn\u2019t an empty metaphor but a living, breathing community of believers struggling together and bearing with one another, sharing meals, opening their homes, and becoming co-creators of the kindom here on earth.\nWe are held in tension between the reality of what is, and the expectation of what should be - and hope stems from this contradiction. The hope presented in Mark\u2019s Gospel and made manifest in the person of Jesus is held in the tension between the reality of what is and the expectation of what should be. Mark\u2019s Gospel calls us to look honestly at ourselves and at the death-dealing structures we have held up so that we might change our ways, leave behind the things which have given us a false sense of security and instead see and experience together a kindom where the last are first, the hungry are fed, where we are all seen and held and can live fully as the beloved children of God that we are.\nAnd that is good news indeed.\nNewer PostThe People We Don't Care About\nOlder PostWho is it For?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 23483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-profiles/exercise-physiologist", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:56Z", "digest": "sha1:P5NU3TFDV7KM6YHJHH3MRBN24COJZXS4", "length": 9669, "nlines": 69, "source_domain": "www.prospects.ac.uk", "title": "Exercise physiologist job profile | Prospects.ac.uk", "raw_content": "View all healthcare vacancies\nIf you're interested in the way the body responds to exercise and training, then a career as an exercise physiologist could be for you\nAs an exercise physiologist you'll investigate how people respond and adapt to muscular activity and will use your skills and knowledge to improve their performance and fitness levels or to help prevent or treat illness.\nYou'll typically provide scientific support to athletes and teams within one or several sports. This may involve monitoring training through the measurement and assessment of physical functions such as respiration, metabolism and the nervous, pulmonary and cardiovascular systems. You might also be involved in developing fitness training programmes to adequately prepare athletes for competition.\nIf working as a clinical exercise physiologist in a hospital setting, you'll provide expert advice on exercise for people with a range of chronic diseases, including coronary heart disease, diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.\nAs an exercise physiologist, you'll typically need to:\nfitness test athletes to build accurate physiological profiles\ndevelop tailored fitness training programmes\nmonitor and reassess training plans on a regular basis\nliaise with coaching staff to maximise the effects of training\neducate and advise athletes and coaches on areas such as heart rate monitoring, recovery techniques, hydration strategies, overtraining and acclimatisation\nprovide benchmark physiological information to enable long-term athletic development\nwork in collaboration with other sport and exercise professionals such as physiotherapists, dietitians, strength and conditioning coaches, and sport psychologists\nuse specialist resources and equipment such as aqua pacers, osmometers and electronic timing systems\nproduce reports and longitudinal studies\nkeep up to date with ongoing research\nraise awareness of health and fitness issues and promote the benefits of sport and exercise\nteach on academic courses.\nIf you're working as a clinical exercise physiologist, you'll generally need to:\nperform a range of investigations, including exercise tolerance tests, to assess patient risk\nwork directly with patients on how to make changes to their lifestyle\nrefer patients where necessary to other specialists\nwork as part of a multidisciplinary team including clinicians and allied health professionals\nteach and present to allied related medical staff\nwork with community groups, volunteers and local councils to raise awareness of the benefits of exercise.\nExercise physiologists employed in the sports sector may earn between \u00a318,000 and \u00a335,000. If you work in high-profile sport science, your salary can exceed \u00a360,000 and may reach up to \u00a3100,000.\nClinical exercise physiologists working in the NHS are usually covered by the Agenda for Change (AfC) pay rates. You'll typically start at the lower end of Band 5 (\u00a323,023 to \u00a329,608), and will need to undertake a considerable amount of continuing professional development (CPD) to progress up the pay scale.\nSalaries for qualified exercise physiology lecturers in higher education typically range from \u00a324,000 to \u00a337,000. Details of the pay scale for lecturers can be found at the University and College Union (UCU).\nSalaries can vary greatly depending on your employer and the type of work you're involved in.\nWorking hours typically include evenings and weekends to cover appointments with clients. When on tour or at training camps with athletes or teams, your working hours may be long. If you're working in a hospital, your working hours are more likely to be Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.\nPart-time work and self-employment are possible. Consultancy work is also available for experienced and accredited physiologists.\nExercise physiologists working within sport typically work either in a laboratory or in the field. If you're working as a clinical exercise physiologist, you'll usually be based in hospitals, medical centres and private healthcare organisations.\nAlthough more career opportunities are becoming available, competition for jobs is fierce.\nOpportunities exist throughout the UK and abroad.\nYou may need to spend time away from home to attend training camps, competitions, fixtures and events.\nIf you work with children and young people, you'll need to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service check.\nGet an innovative and employability-focused experience at LJMU\u2019s top ranked department\nYou'll usually need a degree in sports science or a closely-related subject. Relevant undergraduate sport and exercise science degrees are based around physiology, biomechanics and psychology, and you'll be expected to have a broad knowledge base covering all three subjects and interdisciplinary approaches.\nSome degree courses are endorsed by The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES), which means that the curriculum, resources and opportunities that the courses offer are appropriate for a career in sport science. See the BASES Course Finder.\nAs competition for jobs is strong, it can be useful to have a postgraduate qualification specialising in sport and exercise physiology or a relevant PhD. Search postgraduate courses in sport and exercise physiology.\nkey technical skills and knowledge\ncommunication skills to work effectively with athletes, coaches, healthcare and other associated professionals\nthe ability to prioritise, balance conflicting demands and meet deadlines\npresentation and report-writing skills\na willingness to learn and the determination to succeed.\nAlthough job opportunities in sport and exercise science are increasing, the number of sport and exercise science graduates is also growing, making competition for jobs intense. Relevant work experience in a sports or fitness setting, through work shadowing or volunteering, is vital and will help you to find out what the work is really like. Decide if you want to work in a particular sport and, if so, get experience, for example as a coach or fitness trainer, in this area.\nAs an exercise physiologist, it's possible to work in a sport or health setting or follow a career in teaching or research. Depending on your career path, you'll typically be employed by:\nsports organisations and UK institutes of sport\nnational sport governing bodies\nfootball clubs and other sports teams\ncommercial sports companies\nuniversities and research centres\nhospitals, medical centres and private healthcare organisations - for clinical exercise physiologists.\nWith experience it's possible to work on a self-employed or consultancy basis.\nBASES Vacancies\nJobs.ac.uk - for academic vacancies and PhD studentships\nNHS Recruitment Scotland\nUK Sport - Jobs in Sport\nYour academic department and university careers services may also have details of vacancies.\nYou will usually receive on-the-job training, working alongside a more experienced colleague, supplemented by relevant courses and workshops.\nMany exercise physiologists work towards accreditation with BASES as a sport and exercise scientist. The usual way to do this is by successfully completing the BASES Supervised Experience (SE) process. This involves either taking a postgraduate degree or showing that you have a similar level of knowledge.\nYou'll also need to have 500 hours of logged supervised practice and must attend a number of BASES workshops to show that you've attained the required level of competency in the BASES proficiency standards. Once you've registered for SE you can use the name 'probationary sport and exercise scientist', until you're accredited or for a maximum period of six years.\nThose who already have significant experience working within the profession may be in a position to apply directly for accreditation without supervised experience. Once accredited, you can use the title 'BASES Accredited Sport and Exercise Scientist'. Once you've become an accredited member of BASES, you're eligible to become a chartered scientist (CSci), which recognises high levels of professionalism and competence in science.\nIt's also common for exercise physiologists to study for further academic qualifications, such as a relevant Masters or PhD, or to gain professional qualifications. You'll need to carry out CPD throughout your career in order to keep your skills and knowledge up to date. This can be done through taking courses in your chosen area of specialism and by attending BASES conferences and events.\nThere isn't a set career structure within exercise physiology and you'll have to be proactive in your approach to moving your career forward. You're likely to spend the first few years working towards BASES accreditation in your chosen area of exercise physiology, e.g. working in a sporting, health or academic setting.\nWithin your area of work it's possible to specialise further. For example, clinical exercise physiologists might specialise in cardiac rehabilitation or respiratory physiology. If you're working in a sport setting, you may choose to specialise in strength and conditioning. Specialisation may require undertaking further training and qualifications.\nOnce you've got experience, you can open your own practice or start working on a consultancy basis. You may move into related areas such as sports development.\nIn addition to research and applied/clinical support work, there are also opportunities to teach academic courses in exercise physiology, applied human physiology, environmental physiology, exercise biochemistry and nutrition to students of sport and exercise science, physical education, medicine, nursing and other related fields.\nHealthcare scientist, histocompatibility and immunogenetics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 13801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/05/prweb11863436.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QVEIWX6YCXUNOUAOS7X5PZ72IRG5QDXD", "length": 3875, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.prweb.com", "title": "How To Fix The VA Health Care Scandals - A Practical And Effective Solution Offered By MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com", "raw_content": "How To Fix The VA Health Care Scandals - A Practical And Effective Solution Offered By MedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com\nMedicalMapracticeLawyers.com offers a real-world, win-win suggestion on how to effectively repair the ongoing scandals involving the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care system.\nNo one knows and appreciates the needs and experiences of our veterans more than the veterans themselves\nBaltimore, MD (PRWEB) May 20, 2014\nMedicalMalpracticeLawyers.com, the premier free website connecting medical malpractice victims in the United States with medical malpractice lawyers in their state and which has published a daily blog regarding medical malpractice and related issues for over three years, is \"outraged and disgusted\" by recent allegations that the VA Health Care system has been surreptitiously falsifying the statistics regarding the time it takes for our veterans to obtain medical appointments and to receive necessary medical care at VA medical facilities in the United States.\nThe expression of concern was stated earlier today by Jeff E. 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From scuba diving to snorkeling tours to restaurant hopping to eating out, West Palm Beach, fills every minute of the day with something new to do.\nIf land experiences are what you crave, explore CityPlace, which encompasses 600,000 square feet of entertainment including a 20-screen theater, ten restaurants and an open plaza (complete with a fountain) and 570 private residences. If art is more your thing, visit the cultural arts theater and immense yourself.\nIf the sea is calling your name, though, it\u2019s time to take advantage of the many sea activities West Palm Beach offers. Any fishing enthusiast will find their boats filling with fish as the warm waters of the Atlantic\u2019s Gulf Stream us home to many sailfish. In addition, residents and visitors can enjoy either snorkeling tours or scuba diving.\nIf you go snorkeling, it\u2019s time to sit back and enjoy the Ocean Reef Snorkeling Tour off the coast of Palm Beach where you may see dolphins, flying fish and turtles on your way to the reef. For more experienced divers, enjoy a round of scuba diving and experience over 400 species of fish, sponges, invertebrates, etc. on or around the coral reef formations.\nReverse Mortgages in Jupiter\nThe City of Jupiter, which has guided many ships to safety throughout many centuries, continues to be an incomparable destination for both sailors and visitors alike. 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Standing a whooping 105 ft on top of 46-foot hill, the Jupiter Lighthouse remains one of Jupiter\u2019s more historical landmarks in addition to the Lighthouse Park, which was once part of Fort Jupiter.\nWhether you are already a resident or are considering relocating to Jupiter, one of Florida\u2019s oldest cities has plenty to offer. Visit the Burt Reynolds & Friends Museum, which boasts a collection of artifacts and memorabilia collected, and contributed to the museum, by Burt Reynolds.\nIn addition, visit the DuBois Pioneer Home, which sits on an ancient Indian burial mound, and take a look at how families in Jupiter lived centuries ago. The DuBois\u2019 were one of the first families in Jupiter. While you\u2019re at it, take a dip in the beach that neighbors the property and relax your body and mind.\nFor any history buff, Jupiter has plenty to offer, especially if you\u2019re looking for a comfortable retirement that won\u2019t shut your brain off. 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Air conditioning units are complex, so there\u2019s a lot that can go wrong with them. When you need AC repairs, it is imperative that you contact a professional who is ready and willing to come out and fix it at any time; day or night. Our experienced AC repairmen are familiar with even the most complex systems. They are always standing by, ready to help you in your time of need regardless of the brand or who initially installed it.\nOwning a high quality air conditioning and heating system can make all the difference in efficiency and reliability. Although many issues can be repaired, you may find yourself in need of a replacement air conditioner if it consistently gives you problems or stops working entirely. In many occasions, an old or worn out unit can actually end up costing you more money than simply replacing it with a new one. 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Bill was born in Tisdale, SK January 13, 1929 and spent his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153growing up years\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the farm near Ridgedale, SK. After moving to Alberta in 1948, Bill pursued a varied career in trucking, retail, bulk oil, farming, trailer manufacturing, and upholstery. He lived in Edmonton, Hay River, Peace River, Wetaskiwin, and Red Deer during this time. Due to poor health, Bill retired from Wright\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Upholstery at 55 and struggled with his health until his passing. A committed Christian, devoted husband, proud father and grandfather, Bill was a true friend who spent his life keeping in touch with those he cared about; in some cases these friendships spanned more than 50 years. Bill is survived by his wife, Alfreda and his well-loved family: Jim and Peggy Wright, Red Deer; Audrey and Jerry Rose, Saskatoon; Marie and Alan McNaughton, Calgary; Margaret and Tim Goode, Lacombe; Faye and Andy Hamilton, Edmonton. He will be missed by his grandchildren: Joy (Tyler), Paul, Dan, David, Stephen, Carol, Michael, Nathan, Adam, Philip, Charlotte, and Jonathan; three brothers, Hugh (Edna), Bruce, Jim (Mary) and two sisters, Mary and Mabel (Jack); plus many extended family and friends. A memorial service will be held at CrossRoads Church, 38105 Range Road 275, Red Deer County (on 32nd Street, west of Hwy. #2) on Monday, May 9, 2005 at 2:00 p.m. with Pastors Dan Cochrane and Stu Krogman officiating. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the CrossRoads Church Building Fund, 38105 Range Road 275, Red Deer County, AB T4S 2N4 or a charity of your choice. 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The parish measures 4 miles east-to-west, from the outskirts of Longridge to the outskirts of Broughton, but only 1 mile north-to-south. Wikipedia\nSummary: I have been praticing reiki since 2011, my training is in Shiva Healing Reiki of which I have been a master since 2012. At the [...]\nFulwood Row", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1059, "original_length": 37893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reinbeast.com/2016/09/the-last-ship-john-pyper-ferguson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:55Z", "digest": "sha1:7J5DEFZYSJQFM3W3OP2SX7NV3QBWQPF3", "length": 10016, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.reinbeast.com", "title": "Reinbeast.com: The Last Ship: John Pyper-Ferguson (function ($, window) { $('.grid').masonry({ // options... itemSelector: '.grid-item', columnWidth: 200 }); })(jQuery, window); -->", "raw_content": "The Last Ship: John Pyper-Ferguson\nImage copyright TNT\nIf you haven't seen \"Don't Look Back\" yet, then I can't be responsible if you continue reading.\nI never expected to be writing about The Last Ship. That's not to say that it's not worth writing about, just that I have little room to add another thing to my To Do list. I liked The Last Ship from the beginning; it's solid entertainment with great characters and an intriguing story. And the second episode ever of the series really gave me something to come back for: Ken \"Tex\" Nolan, a guard that the crew of the Nathan James met at Guantanamo Bay. I was immediately taken with his spirit and affability, so different from the buttoned up, by-the-book naval officer.\nSo, I kept coming back to the fledgling series after their perfect casting choice in John Pyper-Ferguson for Tex. It wasn't only for him, but he was a big part of it. He brought a ton of personality. Tex was the most relatable and warm character, and I started really looking forward to The Last Ship because of him. It's hard to imagine he's gone now, because I never imagined it before. Tex was charming and sincere, bold but never foolhardy, easy-going and reliable. He also had a great warmth.\nI love the whole crew, but Tex is the kind of guy I gravitate towards. But when you're not the lead that means nothing is guaranteed, and sometimes the people I most look forward to seeing get killed off when I least expect. Unfortunately, this was one of those times that the biggest heart was the biggest target. On the inside I was shocked, because Tex was a valuable member of the team and the best character, and I thought he would stick around. On the outside I had a steely calm and simply said something like, \"Well, of course.\"\nIn the first two seasons, Tex had been indispensable, and he proved it again in the end when he helped rescue Tom Chandler's children and then saved Chandler single-handledly. I was cheering him on. The kind of character Tex was, it didn't surprise me that he didn't think of himself, that he acted on instinct to save a friend. It did surprise me that he didn't survive the encouter.\nDeath always seems to come to the characters I love the most. The way the story played out, it looked like the bad guys were down and the good guys had for once come away unscathed, besides Chandler's father, who had been murdered off-screen. Then Tex collapsed, a wound in his chest where a bullet had found its mark. It caught me off guard. I assumed that he would die in the very last episode ever, to get so close to the end and be the hero one last time, just to make it hurt that much more. The way they did it, now, it turns out that hurt plenty.\nIt was a heroic end and a good way to go out. But he had just found his daughter after three years! Personally, I would have given him a quiet life somewhere where people aren't constantly trying to kill him. They've got to be going somewhere good with this, emotionally and by possibly opening a new storyline for Chandler to stumble across during his self-imposed exile that the crew of the Nathan James, patrolling the waters, would not have. I hope the writers don't squander the opportunity they created, whatever it may be, and that they write Chandler next season with the pain of this loss, rather than glossing over it or having let a lot of time lapse so that the wound is just a distant memory. Eric Dane did a beautiful job with the shock of it in the moment it happened. It would be fantastic to see more of that and for the loss to inform his development of Tom in the future.\nThe series showed this season that it can stay afloat without Tex, especially considering the caliber of Eric Dane and Adam Baldwin, who have both had their moments in the series. And there were many well-paced, tense episodes where I feared for everyone. That shouldn't change. I still love the series for many reasons, but it would have been nice if the end had turned out differently; Tex will leave an enormous hole.\nIt was such an affecting exit for a character, I think it could have been drawn out for a few more minutes at least to show the true impact of Tex's passing and to pay respects to John Pyper-Ferguson for his contribution to The Last Ship as a fan favorite. It surely impacted me as a viewer and I couldn't stop thinking about how much I had enjoyed him. A couple nights after the finale, I found myself starting to type a simple tweet-long sentence about my appreciation for @Johnny_Pypes and his brilliant portrayal. Then something happened...\n** I'm so sorry. This was a complete accident. The tweet took on a life of its own...\nFor some reason you always reminded me of Captain Weaver (Will Patton) on Falling Skies. Must be the grizzled veteran look. But Weaver I expected to die in just about every episode. I was always on the edge of my seat with him. I was so relieved when he made it to the end. I don't think I took a breath for five seasons; I was really attached to him. At some point, he even developed heart problems (so that the audience would have palpitations, I guess), but the writers had him survive through it all. So many times I thought it was his end; even when nothing was happening, I just expected something horrific. Yet somehow he made it. Surprisingly, I also made it through all those spikes of adrenaline. The tension was ridiculous with that character.\nBut Tex I knew would be alright and didn't need my concern, only my adoration and laughter. And then he *bleeping* got shot in the chest! I really love when shows don't spoil everything in the commercial and can surprise me like that. I don't appreciate the deaths of my favorite characters, but I do appreciate how they can move a story or character in a different direction.\nWhen it came to Tex, I somehow thought he would live forever...at least until the end. I assume all of my favorites will be heroically killed off in the end. (I'm even wary about it happening in comedies now.) That's not to say it's something that should be avoided. It might be unwelcome, as death tends to be, but when a show does it right, it can strengthen my relationship with a series; I then realize how much it made me love someone who was just words on a page, brought to vivid life by a superb actor, but still not real. I think The Last Ship did it right, because what's been lost will have and has had quite an impact already. I find myself sad about what happened, but not with the kind of anger that makes me wish I never watched in the first place. Far from that.\nI would have loved more time with Tex - a guy with such heart and loyalty and determination, as that tweet from @TheLastShipTNT mentioned - but going out unexpectedly while saving a friend was a great way go. I hope you're okay with it and they gave you a lot of time to process the reality that you would be leaving far sooner than anyone would have imagined.\nSometimes character deaths can break a show for me (Chicago Hope), feeling unnecessary and pointless, like they could have just gotten another job or moved instead. Sometimes it's done in a way that can hurt like hell yet make it so much more (Serenity), knowing no one is safe, making it feel more real, like you lost a friend. I think The Last Ship belongs in the second category here. I didn't throw the remote at the TV in disgust, though if I aged backward to my younger self then I might have. ;) I'll still be watching; the actors are great and the story intriguing. And the intensity, while not quite as high as, say, The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones (and I wouldn't expect anything to be), is definitely there and certainly has its moments.\nI'll miss you and Tex, as I've said already in quite an embarrassing way, as I tend to do in writing (only in writing). Praise bears repeating, though. You gave him a strong yet tender heart, and your absence will be hard for many. I hope that doesn't upset the balance or lose too many viewers. I'm sure the series will continue on and find new waters to explore, as it always does, and I will continue on with fond memories of those who didn't make it, especially Tex...but never Allison.\nYeah, so I actually didn't mean to write all this, but my fingers wouldn't shut up even though my eyes were getting all heavy. This darn thing started as a simple tweet and now it's 1:45 am! I have work in the morning. See what you made me do?\n** Kind of silly the way I started the Twitlonger tweet, I know. I wanted to first apologize for the length in case John might read it, and I also wanted it to grab his attention. Because I said some things that made me blush, I got nervous and didn't want him to read it at the same time, and I didn't know how to introduce the whole thing. But look at this! He did see and read it...or maybe just skipped to the end. ;-) \"Johnny Pypes\" seems nice and personable. It's hard to play a good guy if you're not one, because it comes off hollow, and the heart he showed in The Last Ship was full and genuine. There I go again, embarrassing. I haven't said that to him yet and I don't see that happening.\n@Reinbeast I didn't make you do anything! But Thank you.\n\u2014 John Pyper-Ferguson (@Johnny_Pypes) September 14, 2016\n@Johnny_Pypes You're welcome. You didn't do it on purpose, but I'm blaming you for being so darn likable that I lost sleep. \ud83d\ude24\ud83d\ude01\ud83d\ude18\nThe screenshot I used is from my favorite Tex scene. At the end of last season, the cure had been found and Tex took off to find his daughter, spreading the cure, by touch, along the way. I put a pic in the post summary that wasn't spoilery, but I had to acknowledge his importance in a simple way and have done that in the image below. I originally wanted a heroic pose or action shot from this season, but a gentle, sad one is perfectly fine with me and probably better. I couldn't get a good screenshot from one of the last two episodes of this season, because the downloads wouldn't complete.\nImage copyright TNT. 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This challenge becomes greater when the existing structures are listed or of non-standard construction.\nAt Renovation Underwriting we have a number of strategies to deal with your more interesting cases but it\u2019s important to make sure that we get decent information on a few things:\n1. A survey of the existing structure or insurer appraisal is helpful.\n2. An idea of the deductible or franchise that your client may be prepared to accept.\n3. Details on any markets you have already approached.\n4. Any information you have on the contractor that lends credibility and gives comfort.\nThe last thing we need is not quite as easy because you are not always in control of it and that\u2019s time. Cases which are awkward and arrive late with tight deadlines are usually the worst to place at competitive terms. If you have the luxury of time please try us first so that we can give you a good indication of our likely rates and prospects of acceptance.\nSo far we have been able to offer terms on cases with existing structures in excess of \u00a380m and combined works and structures in excess of \u00a3100m. So remember please don\u2019t assume that because the competition has run out of steam its not worth talking to us, we believe that there is always a premium for the risk and a way to get it written given the time and information to do so. Just because it\u2019s not a vanilla risk doesn\u2019t mean we won\u2019t write it on the same great basis as we do for simpler risks. If you see an opportunity give us a try!\nWe assess each enquiry on its own merit, and if we believe that the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/32118", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RL5I6YGNLGPJB465VUQP7L5DEXR4KAAT", "length": 204, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.research-collection.ethz.ch", "title": "Inverse spectral problem for normal matrices and the Gauss-Lucas theorem - Research Collection", "raw_content": "Inverse spectral problem for normal matrices and the Gauss-Lucas theorem\nMalamud, S.M.\nhttps://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-04-03649-9\nReceived by the editors 06 July 2003, In revised form 07 November 2003.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 157.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/downtown-las-vegas-unions-show-force-as-contract-talks-continue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:15Z", "digest": "sha1:5C6GU5VYE5LZD4IHXHSIDREEJWCMJ7FB", "length": 8410, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.reviewjournal.com", "title": "Downtown Las Vegas unions show force as contract talks continue | Las Vegas Review-Journal", "raw_content": "Downtown Las Vegas unions show force as contract talks continue\nIn the past few weeks, the Culinary and Bartenders unions have authorized a strike, signed up thousands of workers for strike benefits and spent hours picketing in front of 10 downtown Las Vegas casinos.\nBy DAVID FERRARA LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL\nCulinary and Bartenders Union supporters picket at the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas on April 12, 2014. The unions, which aren't officially on strike, staged the \"informational picket\" at several downtown casinos after a year-and-a-half of stalled negotiations on a new contract. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)\nCulinary and Bartenders Union supporters picket outside of the Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas on April 12, 2014. The unions, which aren't officially on strike, staged the \"informational picket\" at several downtown casinos after a year-and-a-half of stalled negotiations on a new contract. (Bill Hughes/Las Vegas Review-Journal)\nIn the past few weeks, the Culinary and Bartenders unions have authorized a strike, signed up thousands of workers for strike benefits and even spent hours picketing in front of 10 downtown Las Vegas casinos.\nThe show of force is a strong bargaining chip for the unions as they negotiate new contracts, labor experts say, particularly because it comes from the largest organized group of workers in Sin City.\n\u201cThat\u2019s kind of like lining up your troops on the border,\u201d said Bill Werner, an associate professor of labor relations and employment law at UNLV. \u201cIt\u2019s not an act of war, but it\u2019s an act of preparation for war.\u201d\nAll of this has taken place between shifts for some of Fremont Street\u2019s most integral workers.\nOn Wednesday, the tactics resulted in a five-year contract deal with the Golden Nugget, which employs 1,200 union workers, but thousands more casino employees are working under expired contracts.\nAt the crux of the more than year-and-a-half-long negotiations is the Culinary union\u2019s health and welfare plan. While they have co-pays and deductibles, workers don\u2019t pay health insurance premiums, arguably the union\u2019s biggest selling point.\nCompanies contribute to a health fund for every hour employees work, similar to a pension.\nCulinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 represent about 55,000 Las Vegas cooks, waitresses, housekeepers, bellhops, porters and other back-of-the-house workers, more than any other union in Southern Nevada. Bartenders and bar backs typically join forces with the Culinary union in contract negotiations.\nMANY DOWNTOWN UNSETTLED\nAbout 3,000 work at these downtown casino properties with still unsettled contracts: Binion\u2019s, El Cortez, Four Queens, Fremont, Golden Gate, Las Vegas Club, the Plaza, Main Street Station, and The D.\nThe group in contract disputes includes another 1,000 workers from Brady Linen Service, the largest laundry service in Las Vegas, which cleans the sheets at roughly 60,000 hotel rooms. Every day, the company cleans about 800,000 pounds of laundry, including 25,000 uniforms, according to president Eric Brady.\nHe declined to comment on contract negotiations.\nCasino officials, too, have stayed quiet about the deliberations.\nWerner believes the least likely outcome is a strike at all remaining casinos, and others may follow the Golden Nugget contract agreement.\n\u201cPredicting a labor strike is very difficult,\u201d Werner said. \u201cYou can read publicly about what the dispute is about, but the hard negotiations are held behind closed doors and in complete confidence. There\u2019s no way for someone on the outside to really calculate the likelihood of a strike without knowing how far apart they are.\u201d\nEarlier this year, the unions agreed to five-year contracts with Strip casinos, keeping the health benefits intact.\nContract negotiations with the Culinary and Bartenders unions in Las Vegas follow standard procedure, Werner said. The groups first try to reach agreements with Strip casinos, then they seek similar deals with downtown casinos.\nAnd so, a possible settlement is stalled.\n\u201cDowntown properties \u2014 most of them \u2014 can\u2019t afford to sign the same contracts as the Strip properties,\u201d Werner said. \u201cBut there\u2019s no reason why some of the hotels wouldn\u2019t jump ship and sign and others wouldn\u2019t stand their ground.\u201d\nPROTESTS PART OF HISTORY\nCulinary Local 226 has a long history of protests. The first citywide strike went on for 16 days in 1976, as legitimate corporations began to squash mob influence on casinos.\nIn 1984, 17,000 Culinary Union workers protested 32 resorts for 75 days. Nearly 900 strikers were arrested for harassing tourists and disrupting traffic on the Strip.\nA strike at Binion\u2019s Horseshoe in 1990 went on for more than nine months. Culinary Union workers launched another strike against the Frontier in 1991, and a resolution took more than six years.\nThe last time the union struck downtown was to protest the Golden Gate in 2002. That strike lasted only 10 days.\nJeff Waddoups, a UNLV labor economics professor, said strikes have steadily slowed across the country as labor union density declined, particularly in private sector jobs.\nThe union membership rate of private sector workers dipped to 6.7 percent in 2013, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.\nNo one expects the downtown dispute to reach the bitter levels of the 1984 protests. Waddoups said that strike was \u201ctoo disruptive, too economically damaging\u201d to the casinos and the workers.\n\u201cThat was 30 years ago, so maybe people have forgotten,\u201d he said. \u201cBut people who haven\u2019t forgotten probably don\u2019t want to go through that again.\u201d\nMANY FAVORED STRIKE AUTHORIZATION\nLast month, when the unions voted to authorize a strike downtown, 99 percent of the workers favored the action, according to union spokeswoman Bethany Khan.\nBut replacement workers, or \u201cscabs\u201d as labor groups call them, are easier to find in struggling economies. Nevada\u2019s unemployment rate, while declining, still sits at 8.5 percent, the third highest in the country, according to the Department of Labor. That could hamper the effects of a strike.\nPickets, even those like an informational protest that stretched the length of Fremont Street on Saturday, are mostly a powerful bargaining tactic.\n\u201cWhat the casinos sell is experience, fun and happiness, getting away from ugly stuff, getting away from everyday life,\u201d Waddoups said. \u201cAnd a strike just flies in the face of all that. So it might kind of damage the reputation of the casinos.\u201d\nIn the downtown negotiations, Werner believes both sides have equal leverage, which could increase the probability of a strike.\n\u201cThere\u2019s not really an imbalance of power at the bargaining table,\u201d Werner said. \u201cThe breaking point comes when the two parties have offered everything they\u2019re going to offer, and it\u2019s still not enough.\u201d\nThousands of workers have signed up to receive strike benefits, which are pulled from a fund and spent through a debit card that would be activated if a strike is launched, according to Khan.\nBut that won\u2019t come before further negotiations scheduled for this week, and the two sides could continue to talk for weeks to come. A strike could be months away, as discussions with each casino company are done separately.\n\u201cWe\u2019re leaving the door open to negotiate with companies,\u201d Khan said. \u201cNo one wants to go on strike, and it\u2019s really the last resort.\u201d\nRonald Gladstone has worked at The D since 1989, and he\u2019s been a member of the Culinary union since 1982, when he got a job as a bus boy for the Las Vegas Hilton. He has relatives who have been union members since its early days in the 1950s.\nThe 48-year-old kitchen steward is married with four grown children, including a 28-year-old daughter with Spina Bifida who lives with him.\nGladstone suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea, so health insurance is vital to his family.\nHe\u2019s ready to strike if he must.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not just about me, it\u2019s about the people I work with,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m trying to keep a level playing field for these generations coming up behind us. I feel like I\u2019m fighting for everybody \u2014 my friends, my neighbors, my grandkids. But we\u2019re all in this together. I just hate when they separate us. We\u2019re all here for one common goal: to make this ship float and keep it floating.\u201d\nContact reporter David Ferrara at dferrara@reviewjournal.com or 702-387-5290. 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Our on-site presence allows us to closely monitor cost, scheduling and quality, as well as to produce a very wide breadth of custom products.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 195.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reyns-advocaten.be/eng-sophie-roels", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:48Z", "digest": "sha1:QRM4DSKEBEGZKXINJIIVEBSCF63PIBNT", "length": 62, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.reyns-advocaten.be", "title": "Reyns Advocaten \u2014 ENG Reyns Sophie Roels", "raw_content": "Awarded a diploma in commercial and financial studies in 1993.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 97.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rockahulahawaii.com/rockin-band/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:11Z", "digest": "sha1:UQ3FIO6Q376GRVNGVNDHVQTOOLBLXL5P", "length": 302, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rockahulahawaii.com", "title": "Rockin\u2019 Live Band | legends in concert Waikiki | Rock-A-Hula", "raw_content": "The award-winning musicians in our live band earn rave reviews from everyone who sees the show. With roots in the local music scene, they bring authenticity to the hula and Tahitian songs. And because they\u2019ve toured with top recording artists, they bring a world-class edge to the tribute performances.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rodstiretown.com/auto-repairs/climate-control-systems/heating-system-diagnostic.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:41Z", "digest": "sha1:BSW4OOPSPU2QAQIL72W64HCFF2YGCF7K", "length": 444, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.rodstiretown.com", "title": "Heating System Diagnostic | Rod's Tire Town", "raw_content": "Rod's Tire Town provides Heating System Diagnostic services to Zanesville, OH, McConnelsville, OH, Coshocton, OH, and other surrounding areas.\nThe Basics Behind Heating System Diagnostic Services at Rod's Tire Town\nWhy Should You Have Heating System Diagnostic Services Performed at Rod's Tire Town?\nWe proudly service the Heating System Diagnostic needs of customers in Zanesville, OH, McConnelsville, OH, Coshocton, OH, and surrounding areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.romania-insider.com/hungarian-party-in-romania-proposes-ritli-ladislau-to-lead-health-minister/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:WKZZFSWGMTFMTBNXB6OU5KM57C72IGRR", "length": 1140, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.romania-insider.com", "title": "Hungarian Party in Romania proposes Ritli Ladislau to lead Health Ministry | Romania Insider", "raw_content": "Hungarian Party in Romania proposes Ritli Ladislau to lead Health Ministry\nThe Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) has proposed Ritli Ladislau for the position of Health Minister in Romania, according to the Hungarian Party, quoted by Agerpres newswire. Also, after consultations with the Liberal Democratic Party, the coalition members reached a consensus, namely, the National Health Insurance House (CNAS) to be coordinated by the Ministry of Health, according to UDMR.\nRitli Ladislau is a doctor based in Oradea. He was born in Oradea in 1948, and graduated Medicine in Timisoara in 1973 as head of the class. Since 2010 he is medical director of the \"Dr. Gavril Curteanu\" Municipal Hospital in Oradea.\nRomania\u2019s Health Minister Cseke Atilla resigned earlier this year after the ministry he has been leading did not receive the needed funds to cover all its investment requirements, following the country\u2019s budget revision. Cseke Atilla, a member of the Democratic Union of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR), said he had not been consulted before the budget revision, which was one of the main reasons behind his resignation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 8032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 158.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rootinc.com/blog/6-ways-to-deliver-a-better-customer-experience/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:01Z", "digest": "sha1:DGUJAJH2JEACZLFJ2KSBTRM4OO4OWVYH", "length": 855, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rootinc.com", "title": "6 Ways to Deliver a Better Customer Experience | Root Inc", "raw_content": "6 Ways to Deliver a Better Customer Experience\n\u201cWhat are your guiding principles when it comes to customer service?\u201d\nGary Magenta from Root Inc asks this very pressing question. It may feel big and daunting, like pondering the meaning of life. But it\u2019s kind of like that \u2013 at least it\u2019s forcing you to ponder the meaning of the life of your company.\nA positive customer experience must be understood throughout your organization\u2026 not just on the front lines. Gary discusses \u201c6 Ways To Deliver A Better Customer Experience\u201d in a recent Watercooler Newsletter article. He gives us a cheat sheet of sorts with three Do\u2019s and three Don\u2019ts to get you started. Remember Cliff\u2019s Notes? It\u2019s like that, but better. Cheat sheets are fun. Your customers will thank you. Check it out here.\nWhat\u2019s your number one strategy for delivering a better customer experience?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.routledge.com/The-Demise-of-the-Soviet-Communist-Party/Ogushi/p/book/9780415542685", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VXQGKBTLM72SPK6OW4UCCUDZWHFGTJWK", "length": 2614, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.routledge.com", "title": "The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party: 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge", "raw_content": "The Demise of the Soviet Communist Party\nBy Atsushi Ogushi\nThis book, based on extensive original research in previously unexplored sources, including the party archives, provides a great deal of new information on the disintegration of the Soviet communist party, in 1991 and the preceding years. It argues that, contrary to prevailing views, the party was reformable in late Soviet times, but that attempts to reform it failed: reforms succeeded in preventing the party interfering in the state body, and thereby abolished the party's traditional administrative functions, but without creating an alternative power centre, and without transforming the party from a vanguard party into a parliamentary party. It demonstrates that the party, having ceased to offer career paths for aspiring party members, thereby lost its reason for existence, that an exodus of party members then followed, which in turn caused a financial crisis; and that this financial crisis, and the resulting engagement in commercial activity, fragmented and dispersed party property. It shows how the failed coup of 1991 was led by the military rather than the party, and how having lost its reason for existence and its property, the party had no choice but to accept the reality that it was de facto dead.\n'the most important reason for regarding this as a study of the first importance is the novelty of its argument, based on a close and careful examination of the primary sources' - Slavonica, November 2008\n'The great strength of this work is the research. Ogushi has accumulated a vast array of material, some of it original, to support his analysis. Much of this material will be of great use to subsequent scholars who analyse the intricate details of the Soviet collapse' - Seth Unmack, Australian Slavonic and East European Studies\n1. Understanding the Soviet Collapse 2. The Phase of Crisis: The General Problem in the USSR 3. Streamlining the Party Apparat: Party-State Relations 4. 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The Moral Molecule brings together Zak's work on oxytocin, in particular the role it plays in human experiences and behaviours. The reader is taken through his research, his insights on experimental design and the people who help him investigate the true nature of oxytocin.\nThe Moral Molecule has been subject to some debate from other science writers and neuroscientists, particularly with regard to other roles oxytocin might play which could conflict with the 'moral' role.\nIrrespective of this, the book is well written and a great example of communicating science in an inviting and engaging way, regardless of the scientific ability of the reader. The book appeals to a variety of audiences, as Zak himself did not come to biology through a traditional route, having originally studied economics and mathematics. Above all the book conveys the passion of one individual, illustrating how scientific curiosity and experimental design should be considered.\nNatasha Neill MSB", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 572, "original_length": 12104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rt.com/news/pussy-riot-commemoration-cathedral-203/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:17Z", "digest": "sha1:BHL5DNRJXGGBG4XWVBTTRZE763I365IV", "length": 2395, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.rt.com", "title": "Pussy Riot anniversary: Masked activists detained at Moscow cathedral \u2014 RT World News", "raw_content": "Pussy Riot anniversary: Masked activists detained at Moscow cathedral\nMembers of the female punk band Pussy Riot. (Reuters) \u00a9 Reuters\nTwo women wearing iconic Pussy Riot masks have been detained at Moscow\u2019s Christ the Savior Cathedral, police reported. The all-woman band performed their controversial \u2018punk prayer\u2019 there exactly a year ago.\nThe two detainees were taken to a nearby police station and released soon after, following a crime-preventation counseling session, police said.\nThe activists are identified as Irina Karatsuba and Elena Volkova, both academics and long-time supporters of Pussy Riot. They say they were detained after laying flowers at the cathedral\u2019s soleas, the part of an elevated extension in an Orthodox Christian church that is part of an altar area, but is separated from the restricted altar sanctuary by the iconostasis.\nThe site was used as a stage for Pussy Riot\u2019s infamous performance on February 21, 2012.\n\u201cWe went to the Christ the Savior cathedral to pray. To pray to Mary. We put on masks, laid down flowers. They unmasked us at once and grabbed us. My colleague almost had her nose torn off. That\u2019s the story,\u201d historian Karatsuba told the Russian News Service radio via telephone.\nPussy Riot\u2019s so-called punk prayer last year was filmed by members of the band and later used to produce a music video. The footage \u2013 along with some other video shot at an earlier action in another church \u2013 was voiced over with an anti-clerical politically-loaded song.\nAfter the video attracted public attention, a police investigation was launched. Out of the five members of the band who performed, three were identified and arrested. They were found guilty of \u201chooliganism inciting religious hatred\u201d.\nA court sentenced all of them to two years in prison in August 2012 amid much criticism, both in Russia and from other countries, as many people believed the women to be victims of political persecution. There were also many people who believed Pussy Riot to be provocateurs and supported the prosecution as deterrence against similar actions in the future.\nA court later reduced the punishment for one of them, who didn\u2019t personally step to the soleas, to two years suspended.\nThe controversial video has scored more than 2.5 million views on YouTube.\nRussian court bans Pussy Riot internet videos\nRussian court denies suspension of jail term for Pussy Riot member", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rugbytoday.com/rugby-news-around-america/johnson-training-all-blacks-waratahs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:33Z", "digest": "sha1:MBLADT7QAWNQCUBOGBJKKAWCT5K5BJUU", "length": 6035, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.rugbytoday.com", "title": "Johnson Training With All Blacks, Waratahs | Rugby Today", "raw_content": "Johnson Training With All Blacks, Waratahs\nThe Eagles assemble next week to prep for their tests with Canada and Japan, and they\u2019ve all been training heavily already. Some have done so on their own, and a bevy of them have come together in Denver to create a camp-like environment. One Eagle who\u2019s gone a different route altogether is prop Will Johnson.\nDuring the Churchill Cup, Johnson realized he most likely wouldn\u2019t be resigning with the London Irish, with whom he\u2019d spent the previous season, so he sought advice from some of the contacts he\u2019s made while playing abroad.\n\u201cAnton Oliver (former All Black hooker) is a friend of mine from Oxford, and I had had a chat with him about it, about what his opinion was about how best to prepare for World Cup, and I wrote him an email saying, 'Look I have this idea about maybe going to the southern hemisphere and doing a bit of training down there,'\u201d Johnson told RUGBYMag.com.\n\u201cA friend had put me on to Al Baxter, the Waratahs and Wallabies tighthead who had offered to do a bit of work, and that was appealing to go down and also train at Sydney University, but really, if I was going to make the trek, talking with Anton, it seemed an opportunity to work with Mike Cron (All Black scrum coach and universally-anointed scrum guru) was the best opportunity in the world in terms of developing as a tighthead in preparation for the World Cup.\n\u201cI also wanted to be in a place where they were playing a bit of rugby just to keep my match fitness up and train, keep playing rugby rather than go home and smash the gym on my own or stay in London.\u201d\nCron wouldn\u2019t be available the entire time frame in which Johnson was working, but he volunteered the services of his son, Daniel Cron, scrum coach for the Wellington Hurricanes and Lions, as well as for Tonga.\n\u201cSo Dan Cron and I started corresponding through email. It was a bit daunting because I didn\u2019t know anyone in Wellington and didn\u2019t necessarily want to impose on a friend of a friend to say, \u2018Hey can you put me up for a month while I come and live your life and eat your food and follow you around?\u2019, said Johnson.\"\n\u201cAlso, at first I wasn\u2019t quite sure how it was going to unfold, but Dan was incredibly gracious and encouraging, so the plan unfolded that I would go spend a week in Sydney and train at Sydney (University) and with the Waratahs and Al Baxter, but obviously their Super Rugby season was up, so the Waratahs was a bit quiet.\n\u201cSydney University was a great home for a week, and they have great facilities, but then I booked a ticket to spend the majority of the month here in Wellington, and it\u2019s been great. Everyday I\u2019ve been working one-on-one with Dan Cron, and he sends the video nightly to his father Mike, who has up until this week, offered feedback by proxy, and then this week with the All Blacks in town I\u2019ve actually had the opportunity to work with Mike individually each day of the week and then with the All Black front row since Tuesday, which has been awesome.\u201d\nJohnson was initially invited to observe the All Black training sessions, but then an opposing lineout needed an extra forward, as did the scout scrum, and Johnson was giddily willing to step in. That led to Johnson sitting on the bench for the Wellington Lions during their game against Canterbury Wednesday and standing on the All Blacks sideline during their Tri Nations clash with South Africa Saturday.\n\u201cMike (Cron) asked if I\u2019d be willing and interested to dress up in Adidas kit and stand on the sideline and warm up the replacement (All Black) tighthead,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cThat was an easy yes.\u201d\nSunday, after taking in the Tri Nations experience, the Harvard and Oxford grad hops on a plane bound for Denver and the Eagles assembly. There he\u2019ll be one of five props vying for a World Cup roster spot. In each of Eddie O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s previous two World Cup teams (both with Ireland) he\u2019s only included four props. If he follows suit with his first American World Cup team, all but one prop still in the running will make the trip to New Zealand. What would it mean to Johnson to be one of them?\n\u201cTo make the team would be a tremendous honor. I\u2019m honored already to be in the 36, and I came down here in an effort to put my best foot forward to make the final 30 to represent the USA in the World Cup,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThat\u2019s been my goal since I signed with the London Irish -- spend a year in the most professional environment I could, training as best I could to become as quickly as possible the best scrummaging and loose tighthead I could, so making the World Cup squad would be the culmination of all that work and would mean literally everything that I\u2019ve worked towards has been successful.\u201d\nJohnson is also hopeful that in the month he\u2019s spent in Australia and New Zealand he\u2019s made in-roads that will land him a home after the World Cup.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been talking to a couple of sides down here, have been well received in the sides that I\u2019ve trained with and parted ways today with the coaching staff with the Lions on favorable terms and been invited to consider maybe doing an ITM Cup season next year,\" he said.\n\u201cI\u2019ve taken a look around, and part of the benefit of training in the Waratahs' facilities was just to see what a Super Rugby facility looks like and to imagine playing in Australia, and I\u2019m hopeful, having gotten in front of a few people and done the gym workouts and trained with people, I\u2019ve shown that I have the tools to be a top-level tight head prop, because they\u2019re at a premium.\n\u201cI also have representation who\u2019s representing my interests in England and in France. I think it\u2019s important to get out and play well in the World Cup and to answer any questions people may have, so that in the back end of it I can find the right club and the right environment that\u2019ll help me continue to develop.\u201d\nTo get the chance to play well in the World Cup, Johnson needs to perform well in his opportunities against Canada and/or Japan over the coming weeks.\nTMO in International 7s?\nCupboard's Always Full at Belmont Shore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 7264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rustenburg.biz/news/whats-trick-or-treat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:EGCBG233THCGFMZQVBAHAZGK63Q2JZYF", "length": 2633, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.rustenburg.biz", "title": "Rustenburg Article: What\u2019s Trick or Treat?", "raw_content": "What\u2019s Trick or Treat?\nWe often see and hear about traditions in other countries, one being Halloween. This holiday is vastly celebrated in countries such as America and Ireland. The tradition however does not affect South-Africa in such a big scale. Most people in South Africa barely even know anything about Halloween.\nHalloween\u2019s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night before the new year, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead became blurred. On the night of October 31 they celebrated Samhain, when it was believed that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth. In addition to causing trouble and damaging crops, Celts thought that the presence of the otherworldly spirits made it easier for the Druids or Celtic priests, to make predictions about the future.\nOn Halloween people thought that they would encounter ghosts if they left their homes. To avoid being recognized by these ghosts, people would wear masks when they left their homes after dark so that the ghosts would mistake them for fellow spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would place bowls of food outside their homes to appease the ghosts and prevent them from attempting to enter.\nIn the second half of the nineteenth century, America was flooded with new immigrants. These new immigrants, especially the millions of Irish fleeing Ireland\u2019s potato famine of 1846, helped to popularize the celebration of Halloween. Taking from Irish and English traditions, Americans began to dress up in costumes and go house to house asking for food or money, a practice that eventually became today\u2019s \u201ctrick-or-treat\u201d tradition.\nHalloween has been heavily commercialised and even countries that does not share the tradition take some part in the fun by dressing up. We rarely see traces of Halloween in South Africa mainly because our culture is not familiar with this tradition and it is not applicable to us as our winter has already passed.\nInformation was been sourced from http://www.history.com.\nKeywords: A short history of Halloween, Halloween, Halloween Article, Halloween history, Halloween info, Halloween traditions, Rustenburg Halloween history, Rustenburg Halloween info, Rustenburg Halloween traditions, The story of Halloween", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 6403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rustonleader.com/archive/archive/2008/5/9", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:42Z", "digest": "sha1:TYD3BTZOYP33HMVW3HYRSHDTKDT4V7EC", "length": 1840, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.rustonleader.com", "title": "Archive - May 9, 2008 - Archive | Ruston Daily Leader", "raw_content": "Archive - May 9, 2008 - Archive\nLady Bearcats\u2019 duo in All-Star game\nAlong with that tandem being chosen for the prestigious postseason honor will be recognition for two other players on the Lady Bearcats\u2019 squad that posted an overall record of 23-10 and won a District 2-5A championship with an 8-1 mark.\nKatie Clark and Maggie Johnson will join Albritton as a recipient of the 2008 Louisiana High School Athletic Association\u2019s All-Academic composite team, comprised of student-athletes from all classifications.\nThe dark side of America\nLet us turn to our presidential candidates. John McCain, a decorated prisoner of war, may be able to turn things around. Will he recognize 275 million of his own constituents who are prisoners of the trade federation in the oil industry who now must choose whether to drive to work or feed their families? Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are so concerned about beating each other and winning the Democratic Party nomination, that the platform of \u201cchange\u201d that was once a resounding battle cry has deafened in a silence of nationalistic fear.\nBored? See what\u2019s on tap downtown\nBe sure to mark your calendars for the Mississippi Street Art Block on May 17. Lots of local artists will set up booths along Mississippi Street starting at 10 a.m. for what is sure to be a showcase of some of Ruston\u2019s greatest talents.\nProceeds from sales benefit the artists, which will allow them to thrive here and let other artists know that Ruston is a place where the arts are supported and valued.\nArt Block builds up local works\n\u201cJackie and I were visiting one day trying to think of ideas and (we) said let\u2019s make this happen,\u201d said Hudson, owner of Visual Designs.\nAmong the one-of-a-kind items that will be for sale are mixed media paintings, sculpture, photography, reinvented vintage jewelry and painted gourds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 4186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rutlandherald.com/news/business_vermont/business_vt_columns/ryp-making-a-life-in-vermont-and-in-rutland-county/article_147d998d-f5d8-514b-b147-476ae4a95a20.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:10Z", "digest": "sha1:CHUZPNJH2MSTH3MJ6KUKKDS4LR6765YX", "length": 5375, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.rutlandherald.com", "title": "RYP: Making a life in Vermont and in Rutland County | Business Vt Columns | rutlandherald.com", "raw_content": "Rutland Young Professionals\nRYP: Making a life in Vermont and in Rutland County\nWith more than 150 diverse members of the Rutland Young Professionals, a few things are clear. Although we\u2019re often asked who RYP is for and whether one is young enough or professional enough to get involved, there is no one person who embodies RYP. We have some guidelines specifying membership in our bylaws, sure, but we\u2019re all different people. We\u2019re all at different stages in our lives and careers and we have varying interests and passions in life. And that\u2019s exactly what we hope for as an organization.\nWhen you get to know our members you learn that although they\u2019re all unique, what they have in common is that they\u2019re making a life in Rutland County. They\u2019re curious. They\u2019re committed. They\u2019re looking to develop themselves and perhaps our community along the way. They\u2019re looking to the future, not the past.\nThat\u2019s why this month we wanted you to get to know a couple of RYP members who are creating lives in the area and who both also happen to volunteer with us. Because at the end of the day, RYP is only as successful and relevant as our members.\nAs someone who was born and raised in these Green Mountains and has lived in Rutland County my entire life, I can\u2019t imagine calling anywhere else home. Around this time two years ago, I began to think that while I was in this community, I didn\u2019t really feel like I was part of the community. Having lived, worked and attended school here, I knew of a lot of people, but I didn\u2019t really know a lot of people.\nI made it a personal goal to become more active in our local and statewide community, becoming a reading mentor for Everybody Wins! Vermont and joining the executive board of the Vermont Women in Higher Education organization.\nI have been going to Rutland Young Professionals mixes since 2013, but too sporadically to really get much out of them. Looking for another way to get involved in our community and meet new people, I joined the Rutland Young Professionals events committee in September 2017. Our monthly mixes are, in my opinion, one of the best things that we offer for young professionals. Every mix, I learn something new about our community and the people who make this place so special. I am looking forward to taking on the role of events committee chair this January, building on the amazing work most recently done by Kim Rupe and Leslie Doenges.\nAs a member of Rutland Young Professionals, I have been truly impressed with the benefits of membership. In addition to the professional development grant, which provides financial assistance to those participating in career-focused education and certificate programs, members receive discounts from local businesses, early bird access to fun meet-ups, and discounted tickets to our annual Gala.\nPerhaps the greatest benefit of Rutland Young Professionals is the built-in social network. Most of my college friends went back to their own communities after graduating and my high school friends had, for the most part, taken root in different states. Thanks to RYP, I now know those people that I knew of two years ago. We\u2019ve meditated at Pyramid Wellness and learned more about wellbeing at Live Love Yoga. We\u2019ve noshed on delicious maple creemees from Vermont Truffle Company and enjoyed lively conversation over dinner at Hop\u2019n Moose. We\u2019ve watched fashion shows and danced at Galas, and so much more. I see them at community events where we talk about work, family, and what\u2019s going on in Rutland. All of this because of one small, but mighty, community organization.\nElicia resides in Wallingford and works as Communications Coordinator for her alma mater, Castleton University.\nTravis Beauchamp\nMy name is Travis Beauchamp. I live in Rutland and work at Beauchamp & O\u2019Rourke Pharmacy. I am very fortunate to have an opportunity to be a part of the family business. I enjoy going into the store everyday to work hard and solve problems. I have lived in Rutland most of my life and have been able to participate in many fun activities like soccer and hockey. I also ski and snowboard at Killington and Pico in the winter. I hope to mountain bike at those world class resorts soon.\nI love what I do, but about a year ago I realized that I could (and should) do more for my community and myself. I needed to meet new people and find ways to grow the family business. To do that, I joined the board of the Rutland Young Professionals (RYP), a volunteer organization that creates social and professional networking opportunities (among many other things). By the way, RYP is for ANYONE who WANTS MORE for themselves and Rutland. You don\u2019t have to be a doctor or a \u201cyoung person.\u201d\nI now volunteer within the RYP marketing and membership committees. I attend the monthly marketing committee meetings where I post info about the mixers and other events in local newspapers and magazines to help get the word out about the organization. I also work with the membership committee by helping current members stay involved and finding ways to grow our membership. My time with RYP has made me new friends and new business. I\u2019m proud to work at my family\u2019s pharmacy, and since joining RYP I am more committed than ever to supporting Rutland.\nTravis is a board member and volunteer with RYP. He is a pharmacy technician and assistant manager at Beauchamp & O\u2019Rourke.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 345, "original_length": 11604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sacramentoinjuryattorneysblog.com/chronic-nerve-pain-from-facial-fractures/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:58Z", "digest": "sha1:RWE3O4HSKCSAI2FIXBOEUXJWXIXUHRQE", "length": 4160, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.sacramentoinjuryattorneysblog.com", "title": "Chronic Nerve Pain from Facial Fractures: Pain Treatment", "raw_content": "Chronic Nerve Pain from Facial Fractures\nI\u2019m Ed Smith, a Car Accident Lawyer in Sacramento. Nerve injuries are some of the most challenging medical problems to deal with because of the potential for the damage to become chronic. There are numerous ways that someone might sustain a facial fracture and, because of the many nerves that run through the face, the chance of damaging even one of them is high. When someone develops chronic nerve pain as a result of facial fractures, there are several issues that must be considered.\nHow do Facial Fractures Happen?\nThere are several different ways that someone might sustain a facial fracture. For example:\nSlip and Fall: One of the most common mechanisms of facial fractures is a slip and fall injury. Those who are at risk for bone fractures from a fall injury include toddlers, who are just learning how to walk, and the elderly, who develop balance problems as they get older.\nCar Crashes: Auto accidents can lead to numerous serious injuries. If someone collides with an object in front of them, their face can strike the inside of the car, leading multiple facial fractures.\nWhile there are several different ways that someone might sustain a facial fracture, it is the associated injuries that often cause the greatest quality of life problems. Damage to the face can lead to associated injuries:\nNasal bridge\nWhile these can be stressful, one of the chronic problems that could stem from a facial fracture is the nerve pain. How does this happen?\nHow does Chronic Nerve Pain from Facial Fractures Develop?\nWhen someone sustains facial fractures in a traumatic event, it is possible that someone could sustain chronic nerve pain as a result. According to the National Institute of Health:\nChronic pain is the most common reason behind long-term disability claims.\nOne in every four Americans has had some form of pain that has lasted longer than 24 hours.\nPain can lead to serious mental health conditions, such as depression.\nChronic pain is more common than heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.\nIf the bones of the face become fragmented and shoot throughout the rest of the face, these small fragments act like pieces of shrapnel that can damage nearby structures. This includes blood vessels such as arteries and veins as well as nerves. Any damage to these nerves can lead to chronic pain as a result. This can manifest itself in any number of different ways, including:\nFeeling like certain areas of your face go numb from time to time.\nExperiencing a stabbing sensation intermittently.\nFeeling the pain as an electric, shock-like sensation that could be more debilitating than anything you have ever felt before.\nThese can be major problems that demand the attention of medical professionals.\nTreatment Choices for Nerve Pain\nSomeone who describes the pain above has several different treatment options at his or her disposal. The mantra regarding pain medication is to start low and go slow. This is because of the addictive nature of many of the stronger pain medications. Most people start with Tylenol and Ibuprofen before working their way up to stronger pain medications. If this doesn\u2019t work, stronger medications, such as Gabapentin, could be used. Depending on the type of pain that someone is experiencing, surgery could be used to relieve the nerve pain. Sometimes, the pain results from nerve compression that can be relieved with surgery. If this pain is resulting from a traumatic accident, it could be a good idea to sit down and speak with an experienced lawyer. There are many options that families may want to consider regarding their accident before making a decision.\nTrigeminal Neuralgia and Trauma\nLeg Nerve Injuries\nExperienced Car Accident Lawyer in Sacramento\nI\u2019m Ed Smith, a Car Accident Lawyer in Sacramento. If you or a family member has been dealing with chronic pain from nerve damage caused in a car accident, call me at (916) 921-6400 or (800) 404-5400 for free, friendly advice.\nI am honored to be a lawyer of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.\nPlease see my verdicts and settlements.\nYou can read my client reviews on Google, Avvo or Yelp.\nImage Citation: Unsplash", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 6299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sanon.org/Store/review/product/list/id/39/category/47/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:34Z", "digest": "sha1:DCEWBE46OQHTRT3G3AO4MIOAFRNIPDLC", "length": 64, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sanon.org", "title": "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of S-Anon - A Brief Summary - For Newcomers - Interest Categories", "raw_content": "Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of S-Anon - A Brief Summary /", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 200.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sanu.ac.rs/en/exhibition-dedicated-to-academician-mihailo-gavrilovic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3F3TTMG53RAYEOD7BRBVAHDF5U7GPANS", "length": 2057, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sanu.ac.rs", "title": "Exhibition dedicated to Academician Mihailo Gavrilovi\u0107", "raw_content": "Exhibition dedicated to Academician Mihailo Gavrilovi\u0107\nThe exhibition Academician Mihailo Gavrilovi\u0107 \u2013 Historian, Archivist, Diplomat opens at the SASA Gallery of Science and Technology on Friday, Feb. 13, at 6 p.m. The organizers of the exhibition are the SASA Gallery of Science and Technology, the SASA Branch in NI\u0161, the National Museum, Ni\u0161, and the Historical Archives, Ni\u0161. The exhibition is scheduled to last until Feb. 28.\nMihailo Gavrilovi\u0107 (Aleksinac, 1868 \u2013 London, 1924) was a renowned historian, the first Serbian archivist and the first director of the State Archives of Serbia (founded in 1900). he earned his PhD at the Sorbonne and worked as professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade. He served as a diplomat in Cetinje, London and the Vatican and was held in high esteem in international diplomatic circles.\nThe goal of the exhibition is to shed light on and present to the general public the life and work of this giant of the national history, who, by an unfortunate concurrence of events, is virtually unknown today, particularly to young generations. Visitors will be able to see original archival documents, photographs, letters, and relevant scholarly and specialist publications.\nThe exhibition will be opened by Academician Ninoslav Stojadinovi\u0107, President of the SASA Branch in Ni\u0161, and the other speakers at the opening ceremony will be Academician Zoran Petrovi\u0107, SASA Corresponding Member Mira Radojevi\u0107 and Miljana \u0110or\u0111evi\u0107, exhibition curator. Texts selected for the occasion will be read by Aleksandar Mihailovi\u0107, leading actor of the National Theater, Ni\u0161.\nThe exhibition has been prepared by associates of the SASA Branch in Ni\u0161, the National Museum, Ni\u0161, and the Historical Archives, Ni\u0161, as a token of gratitude to and respect for the person and work of Academician Gavrilovi\u0107, a man with a lifelong attachment to southern and eastern Serbia \u2013 by his birth, education, first jobs and subsequent activities. The exhibition was on display in Ni\u0161, at the Sinagoga Gallery, from Oct. 16 to 31 last year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 180.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.savanceenterprise.com/case-studies/nelson-electric-supply-company", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:40Z", "digest": "sha1:USHPJOAJNOCJSNHDGJF2UULSXOV2EZNK", "length": 4902, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.savanceenterprise.com", "title": "Nelson Electric Supply Company | Savance Case Study", "raw_content": "Case Studies | Nelson Electric Supply Company\nLocation: Racine and Menomonee Falls, WI\nProducts & Services: Industrial Automation Equipment and Services\nRevenue: US $35 million\nSteve Shuman\nVice President, Nelson Electric Supply\nImplementing Savance has given us a best-in-class solution for both our warehouse and for our web store.\nSavance has helped ensure that Nelson Electric can build on our history of success \u2013 and remain future ready for a long time to come.\nBest-in-class solution with guaranteed quality assurance.\nEnterprise-wide increased visibility, accountability, and transparency.\nAbility to rollout further solutions on an as-needed basis.\nOverall better customer satisfaction.\nA Giant Step Forward for Nelson Electric\nWe needed a solution that was modern and flexible, and would continue to work smoothly with our existing, highly customized system.\nNelson Electric is a premier supplier of industrial automation equipment and services headquartered in Racine, Wisconsin. In operation since 1949, the company prides itself on its longevity and long history of providing its customers with the best in services and capabilities. Since its inception, Nelson Electric has grown to being a company of over 50 people, and now features two separate distribution centers in addition to its headquarters and training facility.\nPrior to going on the hunt that would ultimately lead the company to Savance, Nelson Electric had started to feel that its aging Array software was no longer meeting their needs. Originally implemented in 1981, the system had been continually added to and customized over the years. And while many applications continued to serve the company well, the manual warehouse management processes were in particular need of updating. Nelson also recognized the need to serve a new generation of customers interested in shopping online from a browser or a smartphone.\nIn order not to disrupt day-to-day operations, any new functionality would have to be implemented incrementally. \"We needed a solution that was modern and flexible, and would continue to work smoothly with our existing, highly customized system,\" explains Nelson Electric's Vice President, Steve Shuman. The company found precisely what it was looking for in Savance's warehouse management and Web store functionality.\nBoth solutions integrated seamlessly with our existing ERP system, and we began to see benefits almost immediately.\"\nSavance worked hand-in-hand with Nelson Electric to implement the new software quickly and painlessly. \"Both solutions integrated seamlessly with our existing ERP system,\" states Shuman. \"We began to see benefits almost immediately.\"\nThe new functionality automated numerous paper-based activities, streamlined processes, and helped reduce errors \u2013 providing expected, as well as unexpected, benefits. \"Savance improved our order tracking; produced clearer, more professional labeling; and simplified our bar coding processes,\" Shuman continues. \"Moreover, the web store functionality provided our customers with a much needed, comprehensive overview of our products \u2013 all with just a few mouse clicks.\"\nNot only did the Savance software enhance the online experience for Nelson Electric's customers \u2013 with many touting its ease of use and quick, effective search function \u2013 it also improved transparency internally by enhancing employees' understanding of the company's full range of products and services.\n\"Implementing Savance has given us a best-in-class solution for both our warehouse and for our web store,\" states Shuman. \"As a result, Nelson Electric has taken a giant step forward toward our goal of always providing the ultimate in service and capabilities to our customers.\"\nWith Savance Software, there is a place for everything, and everything in its place.\"\nAfter implementing many of the Savance Enterprise modules, Nelson Electric could see significant improvements in overall operations. As a result of these welcomed improvements, as well as Nelson Electric\u2019s strong connection with Savance and its technology, the company decided to commit to a complete migration of its Array ERP system to Savance Enterprise.\nSavance continues to work closely with Nelson Electric to ensure that this transition is carried out as smoothly and successfully as possible. \"With Savance software,\" Shuman says, \"there is a place for everything, and everything in its place.\" Moreover, the improvements in organization have paved the way for the rollout of further functionality. \"Not only are the Savance solutions excellent stand-alone applications in their own right,\" Shuman concludes. \"They also allow us to update in stages, on an as-needed basis, until eventually we are ready to carry out the complete migration. Implementing Savance has helped ensure that Nelson Electric can build on our history of success \u2013 and remain future ready for a long time to come.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 6378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.savonpavers.com/san-diego/paver-vs-concrete-cost-comparison-guide/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:31Z", "digest": "sha1:67N6CT5CHWW7OCQCXUXIBOJKYHPWYRDL", "length": 5193, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.savonpavers.com", "title": "Paver vs. Concrete Cost Comparison Guide | Savon Pavers San Diego", "raw_content": "Savon Pavers / Pavers / Paver vs. Concrete Cost Comparison Guide\nPavers vs Concrete\nAre you planning to give your home a makeover? Have you been thinking about using pavers or concrete? Even though the interior of your house will carry a lot of importance in determining the reaction of your guests, it is the exterior that will give off the first impression. We recommend that you revamp the driveway or patio of your house to give your house the WOW factor. Too many times, homeowners enter a vicious cycle of remodeling the interior of their home without giving any attention to the outside. When in reality, it is this portion of your house that if addressed properly, can significantly bring down your house maintenance costs and increase the overall value of your property.\nIt is natural for a homeowner to feel overwhelmed when presented with numerous material options for the ideal driveway or patio. However, to make the right decision, you need to go through a detailed comparison guide (like this one). The two most commonly used materials for the driveway or patio are paving stones and concrete slabs. Before we get into the famous pavers vs. concrete discussion, here are some important points for comparison.\nOne of the main reasons why people choose concrete over pavers is the price. The cost of installing concrete slabs is significantly less than paving stones. In fact, pavers can prove 15% more expensive than concrete. However, what many homeowners ignore when making a decision is the cost of repairs and maintenance of concrete over pavers. Therefore, it is safe to say that the long-term cost of concrete is higher than that of getting paver patios or choosing pavers for the driveway.\nAt first, the concrete slab is seen to be an easier option when it comes to installation. However, you will have to wait a long time before you can start using your patio or driveway if you take the concrete route, you will have to go through the different steps of installation including:\n\u2022 Preparing the Foundation\n\u2022 Pouring\nMoreover, if the installation of concrete does not take place properly, there are chances of greater water retention, discoloration, and appearance of stains.\nPavers also require a similar process for installation. However, there is no curing required, and you can start using the driveway or patio almost immediately. The steps involved in the installation of pavers are:\n4. Geo-fiber Installation\n5. Preparation of Base\n6. Compaction of Base 7. Preparation of Sand\n8. Pavers Layout\n9. Border Cutting & Preparing the Bond\n10. Stone Compacting\n11. Sealing\nWhen it comes to maintenance, pavers are the obvious winners. That\u2019s because pavers do not require significant maintenance whereas concrete with age has the tendency to get covered in cracks and stains. There is a lot that can be done to cover up these stains and crack, however, these solutions are only temporary.\nYour concrete driveway or patio can also suffer from serious problems such as the growth of weeds. On the other hand, pavestones require power washing now and then and close attention to the sealing of the pavestone joints. If there is weed growth in between the joints of pavers, you can easily apply a weed killer which will get rid of the problem at hand cheaply and effectively.\nThe life of concrete depends greatly on the changes in temperature. Pavers are considered to be stronger in this regard as they are designed in such a way that they remain unaffected by the changes in the surroundings.\nThere are many techniques that you can use to change the appeal of concrete in the exterior of your house such as staining, scoring, or embedding with stones. However, because of the availability of numerous paver patterns, you can enhance the aesthetic appeal of your driveway or patio by using pavers instead of concrete.\n6. Security & Overall Worth\nPavers are thought to be safe from causing a lot of skids or slips and are therefore considered to be safer than concrete. Also, the value of your house rises if you use pavers for the driveway or having paver patios installed. This can be attributed to the high durability and flexibility of pavers as compared to concrete.\nAs mentioned earlier, the appearance of cracks and stains is not an unusual occurrence for concrete based driveways and patios. However, the repair process is not an easy one either. To address issues within the concrete, you will probably have to replace the entire concrete slab which is not only costly but also extremely time-consuming. If you choose to patch as a solution, you might end up with a discolored base. Pavers, on the other hand, give you the option of repairing or replacing the particular pavestone that underwent damage. This job is cheap and takes considerably less time.\nRather than trying to save initial costs and deciding to go with concrete, choose pavers for the exterior of your house. By choosing pavers you might be incurring greater costs associated with the installation or buying, but the long-term benefits far outweigh the costs associated with the use of concrete. With concrete, you face a continuous maintenance battle which will end up costing more than you expect.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.saweddings.co.za/bride-of-the-year/2015/4/shireen-february-0a2ee879-65d7-4433-b0aa-007cc593f027", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:21Z", "digest": "sha1:KSYNNGCPU6QIXTTII4VIWHVR6FES33CV", "length": 215, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.saweddings.co.za", "title": "Shireen February (36271) | 2015 Bride of the Year Competition", "raw_content": "Shireen February\nMarried on Apr 4, 2015\nEstablished as a restaurant from the 1960\u2019s, the Black Marlin, located in Simon\u2019s Town, has earned a reputation for its stunning seafood, attentive service and incredible v...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 3027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sbhyundai.com/blog/2018/march/26/hyundai-tucson-unique-crossover-for-your-adventures.htm?locale=en_US", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:25Z", "digest": "sha1:NGCP32A4KDFIBUAEQG77ZBP6KCR6MQ33", "length": 850, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sbhyundai.com", "title": "Hyundai Tucson: Unique Crossover for Your Adventures | South Bay Hyundai", "raw_content": "Hyundai Tucson: Unique Crossover for Your Adventures\nYou do not want to be just like everyone else in Torrance, you would like to stand out. You want a vehicle that will help you stand out, and the new Hyundai Tuscon is the perfect choice for you.\nThe Hyundai Tucson has a look that is different from other SUVs that are out there, and it has been designed in a way that will help you feel proud to drive it. The new Tucson features LED lights that help it to not only light up the road in front of you, but also look good when you are driving it.\nAs you shop for a new SUV, know that South Bay Hyundai is here to help you out. We will set you up with something that you will love. The Hyundai Tucson has many great features for you, and you can stop by to check it out for yourself.\nTags: Hyundai SUV, New Hyundai Models, New Hyundai, Hyundai Tucson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 8754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.schoolswork.co.uk/resourcetoolkit/entry/can-through-the-hole", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:51Z", "digest": "sha1:P2DZR6BQXMPAYAFKSZSLRK3JMR624TFG", "length": 877, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.schoolswork.co.uk", "title": "schoolsworkUk | schoolsworkUk", "raw_content": "So now you have a sheet of card/wood with a hole in, and a can. You're ready! The challenge you'll give students is to get the can through the hole. Sounds simple right? And it's certainly possible - you can show everyone that by passing the can through. But the snag is the student has to put their hand through the hole and then take hold of the can. Their other hand can be used to steady the sheet, but can't do anything else to help. The challenge is to get their hand back out through the hole without letting go of the can. Sounds easy? It isn't. If they do it, they get the can (but they won't).\nOn it's own this is just a bot of fun, but there are links to some obvious themes, like persistence or greed. The more adventurous of you can put a \u00c2\u00a35 note folded under the ring pull as part of the prize. It'll make them try harder, but it's still pretty impossible to do!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/who-global-caesarean-rates-double-15-years", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:13Z", "digest": "sha1:RA4PDT2XAP7J4QL3AMHKUO4SLGACIWNH", "length": 2268, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.sciencealert.com", "title": "The World Health Organisation Has Called For a Reduction in C-Sections", "raw_content": "(Unsplash/Alex Hockett)\nAnalysing global trends of birth, the research reveals that the rate of c-sections has nearly doubled since the turn of the century, rising from 12 percent of all births in 2000 to 21 percent in 2015.\n\"Pregnancy and labour are normal processes, which occur safely in most cases,\" explains lead author of the series Marleen Temmerman, a gynaecologist and professor at Aga Khan University, Kenya and Ghent University, Belgium.\n\"The large increases in C-section use - mostly in richer settings for non-medical purposes - are concerning because of the associated risks for women and children.\"\n\"C-section is a type of major surgery, which carries risks that require careful consideration,\" says Jane Sandall, an expert on maternal health at King's College London.\n\"The growing use of c-sections for non-medical purposes could be introducing avoidable complications, and we advocate that c-section should only be used when it is medically required.\"\nIn other words, the surgery should be used sparingly. It's estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO) that 10 to 15 percent of all births medically require a c-section.\n\"In cases where complications do occur, c-sections save lives, and we must increase accessibility in poorer regions, making c-sections universally available,\" says Temmerman, \"but we should not overuse them.\"\n\"Although there is almost universal consensus that c-section use has increased beyond the reasonable level of need in many countries, effective interventions to optimise use have proven elusive,\" explains Ana Pilar Betran, a key contributor to the series and an expert in public health and obstetrics at the WHO.\nBut even those guidelines are likely to stir controversy, especially if they interfere with a woman's right to choose what happens to her own body.\n\"What is left unresolved are the tensions generated when women's agency in choosing a caesarean section go against medical directives to intervene against them,\" says a Lancet editorial published along with the series.\n\"Although The Lancet Series says that women's demand is not a substantial driver of the current problem of overuse, efforts to reduce caesareans must, nevertheless, strongly respect women's rights to choose the circumstances of birth.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/videos/454-the-containment-facility", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:21Z", "digest": "sha1:O47TUG2DL4ZBAGDXDQWEMN5H2AMG5GYQ", "length": 2172, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.sciencelearn.org.nz", "title": "The containment facility \u2014 Science Learning Hub", "raw_content": "The containment facility\nPublished 16 March 2010, Updated 13 March 2018 Referencing Hub media\nTim Hale discusses running the farm at Ruakura and the regulations that must be met.\nWhy do transgenic cows need to be contained?\nWhat legislation stipulates the regulations that Tim needs to adhere to?\n2018 update: Tim is required to produce an annual report for the Environmental Protection Authority. Annual audits are carried out by the Ministry for Primary Industries (formerly MAF). Audits from 2011-2017 confirm and verify compliance.\nOne of the things I was asked to do when I was first employed by AgResearch was to try and operate the facility as near as possible as if it was a conventional farm, given the limitations of the research activities. In terms of the daily operation, cows are out on pasture, they normally get a daily break of feed and then they spend their time out in the paddocks enjoying the sunshine or the rain, whichever nature happens to be providing on the day.\nThe reason transgenic or genetically modified organisms in New Zealand need to be contained is because they are classed as a new organism, so they are foreign to New Zealand. And we have to have a facility that meets a MAF standard, which is the containment standard for the field testing of animals \u2013 and that enables you to do outside farm work \u2013 and for cows, we have to have double 2-metre high fences. The fences need to be electronically alarmed on the interior to tell us if the animals are trying to escape. It\u2019s one step down from a quarantine facility, so people can come and go from the facility, given the restrictions, as visitors, but they don't need to change their clothes or their shoes or their boots, because its focused on keeping the animals or the new organism in.\nNew Zealand\u2019s probably one of the stricter regulatory environments worldwide for this type of work. The facility we've got here is the only one of its kind in New Zealand.\nRegulating transgenic cow research\nScientists at AgResearch must apply for approval to work with transgenic animals. If their application is approved, they follow strict guidelines for care and containment of the animals ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scoreatthetop.com/blog/aice-vs-ap-ib-the-california-conundrum-and-new-yorks-too", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IJAOBMQRXFZBUVVJWRLD2XWC45CIWIBV", "length": 6479, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.scoreatthetop.com", "title": "AICE vs AP & IB: The California Conundrum (and New York\u2019s, too)", "raw_content": "AICE vs AP & IB:\nThe California Conundrum (and New York\u2019s, too)\nWhen your GPA is NOT your GPA\nYou know that number on the 4.0 scale (or 100-point scale, or any scale, for that matter) that appears on your transcript \u2013 the one you call your GPA or HPA? Well, that\u2019s not necessarily the GPA that colleges use to evaluate your academic record! So your school\u2019s GPA on your transcript is not necessarily your application GPA\u2026. Yes, it\u2019s true that admission officers consider the totality of your academic record, evaluating it holistically by looking at your course choices, with an eye toward challenge \u2014 course difficulty, number of courses each semester \u2014 combined with grade trend over the years. You\u2019ll even get an admissions \u201cbump\u201d for an upward trajectory in terms of course difficulty and grades. Here\u2019s where the \u201capplication GPA\u201d comes into play. For comparison with other applicants, a recalculated GPA or Index puts all candidates on a level playing field. That\u2019s why so many colleges recalculate a core GPA \u2014 grades only in English, math, science, social science, and world language \u2014 and either weight that GPA to reflect more challenging courses (e.g., AP, IB, AICE, Dual Enrollment, Honors) or calculate a completely separate rigor factor to reflect the number of advanced courses. That\u2019s the number(s) used to guide admission decisions \u2014 plus, of course, test scores, extracurricular commitment, essays, recommendations, and a host of other factors. In the end, that college-recalculated GPA tends to be the #1 factor in college admission.\nThe AICE Program\nAdvanced International Cambridge Examinations (AICE) Program is, as its name implies, offered internationally \u2013 at over 10,000 Cambridge schools in more than 160 countries, worldwide. Here in Florida, it\u2019s one of 16 programs of study available to K-12 students as part of Florida School Choice Options. AICE is modeled on the British equivalent of our \u201ccollege prep\u201d curriculum and provides some distinct advantages for Florida students (more on that below).\nAICE & College Admissions\nWhen we visited UCLA earlier this month, we learned that unlike Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) courses, AICE courses do not contribute to a student\u2019s weighted GPA as calculated for admission by the nine University of California system schools.\nWhen UC system schools calculate a weighted GPA as part of their admissions process, students who take AICE courses will be at a competitive disadvantage compared to students who take AP and IB courses \u2013 assuming comparable levels of performance. (Although AICE courses don\u2019t qualify for additional weight, they will be taken into consideration in terms of a holistic review of an applicant\u2019s academic record.) It might be that UC system schools don\u2019t give extra weight to AICE courses in calculating weighted GPA because there are over 300 schools throughout the USA that offer Cambridge programs, while there are none in California. In fact, no additional weight is given to Honors courses taken anywhere other than in California. And the recalculated GPA that\u2019s used for admission includes only sophomore and junior grades.\nWe also visited the University of Southern California earlier this month and asked their Senior Assistant Director of Admissions about the role of AICE courses in both admission and college credit. Her response: \u201cWhat\u2019s AICE?\u201d The fact is, USC has no policy whatsoever for awarding college credit for top AICE scores, in stark contrast to its policy of awarding college credit for AP scores of 4 or 5 and IB scores of 5, 6, or 7. We had a similar response to this question when we visited the University of Rochester last month \u2013 AICE is not on par with AP, and Rochester doesn\u2019t give any college credit for top AICE scores, but does for AP scores of 4 or 5. Interestingly, Syracuse University, just 90 miles from Rochester, treats AP and AICE the same, but gives more weight to IB. Nearby Cornell University has no policy in place for AICE.\nWe can\u2019t say with certainty whether or not other out-of-state colleges give extra weight to AICE courses in the admissions process or award college credit for high AICE scores. So, before making the AICE-or-not-to-AICE decision, students who have an interest in specific schools would be well served to find out early if they\u2019ll be at a competitive disadvantage.\nFlorida? No such problems. All twelve public universities treat AICE, AP, IB, and core dual enrollment courses equally in calculating weighted GPA. Additionally, there are other advantages that AICE courses offer:\nFlorida\u2019s public colleges and universities provide college credit for successfully passed AICE exams, and students enrolled in Florida\u2019s public secondary schools\u2019 AICE courses don\u2019t have to pay to take the exam\nAICE provides students with the opportunity to earn an international diploma, and students can earn up to 30 hours of college credit taking the whole AICE curriculum.\nAICE might better prepare students for college: According to palmbeachschools.org,\nA study done by the Director of Admissions at the University of Florida found that AICE program graduates attending UF had an average end of the year GPA of 3.46 whereas students coming from other acceleration mechanisms such as Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) had an average GPA of 3.12 and 3.10 respectively. A similar study conducted at University of Virginia found the same results.\nCompleting the AICE curriculum is advantageous for Bright Futures Scholarship candidates according to palmbeachschools.org,\nStudents who earn the AICE Diploma and complete 75 service hours during their high school careers automatically earn the Florida Bright Futures 100% tuition scholarship regardless of grade point average or college entrance examination scores. Students completing the AICE curriculum can still earn the 100% tuition scholarship provided that a composite score of 1270 SAT or 28 ACT and 75 hours of community service is achieved otherwise, they will still receive the 75% tuition scholarship.\nThere are some other very distinct differences between AP, IB, and AICE in curriculum and class structure, all of which should be considered before deciding which path is best for accomplishing a student\u2019s objectives, and we\u2019ll be focusing on them in future blogs, so stay tuned to this channel.\nTopics: AP Exams College Admission AICE IB\nQuick \"Need to Knows\" On Coalition App - Score At The Top - South Florida", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20180412/are-you-ready-to-start-your-own-business", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OPHNFV5NLI2CWGOQU3BRNNSBHNOMU3HX", "length": 603, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.seacoastonline.com", "title": "Are you ready to start your own business? - News - seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH", "raw_content": "Are you ready to start your own business?\nPORTSMOUTH \ufffd SCORE, volunteer counselors to small businesses and resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration, will host the Are You Ready to Start Your Own Business? workshop Monday, April 16 from 6 to 9 p.m. at 215 Commerce Way, Suite 420. The workshop will present tools to help you address the crucial issues of starting a business.\nThe workshop is free, but reservations required. SCORE offers free individualized business counseling and attendees can schedule follow-up sessions. To reserve a seat, call 433-0575 or visit seacoast.score.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 3034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-syndicated-content-press-releases-seo/241315/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:32Z", "digest": "sha1:H76W7Z7FK7WUAMQGLFR5MC43Q2UDIIAY", "length": 4654, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.searchenginejournal.com", "title": "Should You Let Google Index Syndicated Content & Press Releases?", "raw_content": "Should You Let Google Index Syndicated Content & Press Releases?\nJenny Halasz March 13, 2018\nEditor\u2019s note: \u201cAsk an SEO\u201d is a weekly column by technical SEO expert Jenny Halasz. Come up with your hardest SEO question and fill out our form. You might see your answer in the next #AskanSEO post!\nToday\u2019s Ask an SEO question is from Steven G. in Dortmund, Germany. He asks:\nI read your article about press releases and if they\u2019re still good for SEO. I\u2019ve been wondering if press releases are good for SEO, too. But this question doesn\u2019t answer what I mean. I\u2019ve been thinking about posting complete press releases on my WordPress website which includes news, reviews, product reviews etc. It\u2019s a blog, I can\u2019t write news about everything, so I was thinking to create an extra news category (sub-cat of news (=main cat)) for press releases. So I can offer 1) more topics in entertainment but 2) can also include news about science, politics, economy, nature etc.\nSo this will make my website more open, but with Google always checking websites for duplicate content, I don\u2019t know if this idea is real good or bad. Or if it is bad (because of duplicate content), can I turn it into something good by not indexing this category (press releases) but instead have those articles only appear in plugins like \u201cYou may interested in:\u201d and only there something like press releases appear. And then: Is it really turned into something good? I mean, is it too much work for a way too small effect (because I am not indexing anything I post and visitors only find those press releases by luck). Hope you can help me out with this.\nI\u2019m going to expand your question because it touches on a bigger one: Syndication.\nSyndicated content, such as press releases, can be a great way to round out your content or to provide visitors with curated lists of valuable information.\nLots of sites offer this service, whether they provide a curated list of political news, fashion news, entertainment news, or something else. There are even sites that offer curated press releases for video games.\nUltimately, if it adds value to your visitors, there\u2019s no good reason not to do it.\nThe tricky part is how Google will view it, which honestly is not even as tricky as it sounds. If the way that you curate the content is just to stick it in a category and not add anything to it, it\u2019s just pure syndicated content.\nIt adds value to the visitor, but it doesn\u2019t add any value for Google to list your site as a resource for it the same way that they list the original source for it. So they either won\u2019t index it or they will ignore it.\nIf you add some commentary or interpretation of the content that adds some value beyond just the syndication, it\u2019s possible that would be considered of greater value, especially for a query that contains a word like \u201creview\u201d.\nIf the query isn\u2019t something that your specific commentary or interpretation refers to, don\u2019t expect to outrank the original source of the content.\nNow on to the thorny issue of whether you allow Google to index it or not\u2026 If there\u2019s additional commentary, I say there\u2019s no problem with allowing Google to index it. This is assuming of course that you properly credit the source of the syndicated portion of the content and don\u2019t try to pass it off as your own.\nHowever, if your site is nothing but a syndicated content site, there\u2019s probably not enough value in it for Google to consider your site when it comes time to rank sites.\nSo I strongly advise against using syndication as the primary content on your site, even if you do provide some insightful commentary.\nOfficially, Google says they don\u2019t use ratios to analyze sites, but in my opinion, it\u2019s all about the ratio of value.\nIf you have a site that offers no value outside of the occasional commentary on syndicated content, you aren\u2019t going to rank for anything except long-tail terms, and you won\u2019t be seen as an authority on those topics.\nIf however, you provide a lot of original content and value and the syndicated content and/or commentary is in addition to this other value, it\u2019s fine to let Google index it in its entirety.\nGoogle\u2019s official position on properly attributed syndicated content is that they would like to be able to crawl it and decide for themselves if they want to use it.\nIn my opinion, it\u2019s best to leave syndicated content and press releases open. Let Google decide what has value and what does not.\nHave a question about SEO for Jenny? Fill out this form or use #AskAnSEO on social media.\nCategoryAsk an SEO\nAre You Ready for Google\u2019s Mobile-First Index? 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When injured working aboard the ship, in almost all cases, the crewman is entitled to maintenance and cure benefits, and potential compensation under the Jones Act. In all serious injury cases the owner of the vessel must file a Coast Guard Injury Report on Form 2692.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seemecoming.com/listing/237317532/lets-get-this-party-started-adult-apron", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:03Z", "digest": "sha1:LUZNMXVZ4IP4RH7ELVCFSWVU54PIDSJL", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.seemecoming.com", "title": "Let's get this Party Started! (Adult Apron)", "raw_content": "Let's get this Party Started! (Adult Apron)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 186.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seetickets.com/event/mark-morriss-the-bluetones-/bedford-esquires/977604", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OH7CEGNZJKWLPOCBSVXM5OGR6KDUZ22F", "length": 189, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.seetickets.com", "title": "Mark Morriss (The Bluetones) | We're sorry, but there are no tickets available for Mark Morriss (The Bluetones)", "raw_content": "We're sorry, but there are no tickets available for Mark Morriss (The Bluetones) at Bedford Esquires on Saturday, 25 Jun 2016 at 8:00 PM.\nFind more Mark Morriss (The Bluetones) performances", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 255.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.senate.mn/orders/intros/intro_display.php?id=846", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MDEHXW4BL5PTNATQ3T7YZSZ3X2L4JGA3", "length": 2890, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.senate.mn", "title": "pecnv.out", "raw_content": "S.F. No. 2881: A bill for an act relating to health; creating the Legislative Health Care Workforce Commission; requiring report.\nS.F. No. 2882: A bill for an act relating to education; modifying certain school liability provisions; creating a civil cause of action; amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 617.291, subdivision 2; 617.295; 617.296, by adding a subdivision.\nS.F. No. 2883: A bill for an act relating to constitutional amendments; codifying the authority for the legislature to provide a title for a constitutional amendment; amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 204D.15, subdivision 1.\nSenators Clausen, Tomassoni and Dahle introduced--\nS.F. No. 2884: A bill for an act relating to taxation; sales and use; making a sales tax exemption on school tickets and admissions permanent; amending Laws 2006, chapter 257, section 2, as amended.\nS.F. No. 2885: A bill for an act relating to human services; modifying requirements for positive support strategies and emergency manual restraint; modifying rulemaking authority; amending Minnesota Statutes 2013 Supplement, section 245.8251; repealing Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 245.825, subdivisions 1, 1b; Minnesota Statutes 2013 Supplement, sections 245D.02, subdivisions 2b, 2c, 3b, 5a, 8a, 15a, 15b, 23b, 28, 29, 34a; 245D.06, subdivisions 5, 6, 7, 8; 245D.061, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; Minnesota Rules, parts 9525.2700; 9525.2810.\nS.F. No. 2886: A bill for an act relating to retirement; authorizing purchase of service credit from the public employees retirement association for omitted service.\nS.F. No. 2887: A bill for an act relating to transportation; motor vehicles; eliminating barriers to the purchase of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles by state agencies; amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, sections 16C.138, subdivision 2; 160.02, by adding a subdivision.\nS.F. No. 2888: A bill for an act relating to human services; modifying participation requirements in certain public health care programs for dental service providers; amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 256B.0644.\nS.F. No. 2889: A bill for an act relating to disaster relief; authorizing state grants to eligible utility cooperatives to match federal disaster assistance; amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 12A.15, subdivision 1.\nS.F. No. 2890: A bill for an act relating to economic development; providing an ICF/DD rate increase to cover expenses related to a minimum wage increase; amending Minnesota Statutes 2012, section 256B.5012, by adding a subdivision.\nS.F. No. 2891: A bill for an act relating to natural resources; appropriating money for a report on cattail control.\nS.F. No. 2892: A bill for an act relating to human services; implementing the autism spectrum disorder statewide strategic plan; repealing Laws 2011, First Special Session chapter 9, article 6, section 95, subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 4034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/U-S-homeless-numbers-decline-ON-THE-STREET-2497196.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:37Z", "digest": "sha1:5XWRPU2PTWBK667DKYR4HYP7JZFA5QRC", "length": 3481, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.sfgate.com", "title": "U.S. homeless numbers decline / ON THE STREET: Some homeless haven't yet felt effect of Denver's ambitious plan - SFGate", "raw_content": "https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/U-S-homeless-numbers-decline-ON-THE-STREET-2497196.php\nU.S. homeless numbers decline / ON THE STREET: Some homeless haven't yet felt effect of Denver's ambitious plan\n2006-05-14 04:00:00 PDT Denver -- David Cash has been sleeping in the streets and shelters of this mountainous city for 14 years, and if Denver is truly doing all the wonderful things it says it is for the homeless, he hasn't seen it yet.\nNot that he's asked for help. Or even looked for it.\n\"I just stick to my sleeping mat at night, and mind my own business in the day,\" the bushy-bearded 56-year-old man said Thursday evening as he leaned against his brimming shopping cart near downtown. \"If they're doing all these great things, they'll have to come and find me to give it to me.\"\nThat's just what the creators of Denver's 10-year plan to end homelessness have in mind.\nThe plan, dubbed Denver's Road Home, was put into action nine months ago, and in that time the city has created 400 units of counseling-enriched supportive housing, job programs that found work for 200 people and -- significantly for people like Cash -- added 17 street outreach counselors.\nThe goal of the outreach workers is to find the David Cashes and connect them with services and housing to take them off the streets for good, said Denver's Road Home Project Manager Jamie Van Leeuwen. And although all of the homeless haven't yet seen what Denver has in mind for them, they will soon, he vowed.\n\"We've set a $46 million fundraising goal for the first four years of our plan, to pay for starting up our supportive housing and services, and in less than a year into the plan, we've raised 70 percent of that,\" Van Leeuwen said. \"The remarkable thing is that only 50 percent of that money is governmental -- 25 percent is from foundations, and the other 25 percent is from corporate and private donors.\n\"Everyone sees they can benefit from creating supportive housing -- businesses, tourists, the homeless -- everyone,\" he said.\nStill, even in a 556,000-population city like Denver, where the 4,474 homeless people are fairly easy to find on the edges of a downtown relatively free of blight, the undertaking will be long and slow -- at least 10 years, according to the city's plan. Homelessness is a deeply entrenched crisis, and the street people themselves are wary of the city's sincerity, having been rankled by strictly enforced loitering and panhandling laws that leave the central tourist area virtually free of panhandlers.\n\"We've been doing our work here since the early 1960s, so we're used to handling our own problems, so we sure welcome the help,\" said Michael Garzo, manager of the Denver Rescue Mission, located on an industrial strip about six blocks from downtown. \"We have 200 shelter beds and 120 substance-abuse rehab beds, but we could easily double that and still have more to do.\"\nCash, who was waiting with about 25 others for the mission and the nearby Samaritan House shelter to open up, said he's heard the figure released over the past year by city officials that Denver spends about $40,000 on each homeless person in services and housing -- and it makes him smile. The city hopes to cut the figure by more than half by streamlining its system and housing the most chronic homeless cases.\nUntil that happens, the per-case spending figure gives a good punch line on the street.\n\"Hell, give me that $40,000 and you'll never see me again,\" Cash said as his pals guffawed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 10936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shaledirectories.com/blog/oil-and-gas-leases-yield-record-breaking-revenue-from-less-blm-land/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:28Z", "digest": "sha1:T2LIOJMAEREQEG2V52I3NZCED3JTHVIZ", "length": 3325, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.shaledirectories.com", "title": "Oil and Gas Leases Yield Record-Breaking Revenue from Less BLM Land - Shale Directories", "raw_content": "The previous record was set in 2008, when BLM leased more than 2.6 million acres for oil and gas production and grossed approximately $408 million in revenue. Last year BLM leased fewer than 1.5 million acres.\nContrary to Activist Narratives\nDespite activist attempts to paint BLM leasing under the Trump administration as a wild west free-for-all, the number of new acres leased has fallen off since 2012.\nIn other words, BLM\u2019s revenue is skyrocketing without the government parceling off \u201call\u201d our federal acreage. In fact, BLM tripled its revenue from 2008, while decreasing the number of acres leased by more than 40 percent.\nIn addition, the United States continues to decrease the total acreage leased for oil and gas development. From 2008-2017, aggregate leased land decreased by more than 45 percent from 47,242,495 to 25,742,991 acres. EID research shows less than 10 percent of lands in the Mountain States region are actually leased for oil and gas development.\nBrian Steed, BLM\u2019s Deputy Director for Policy and Programs, attributed the accomplishments to technology and innovation, saying:\n\u201cThis was a historic year for oil and gas, and clearly illustrates what is possible when public lands are put to work using innovation, best science, and best practices. Our sound energy policy continues to ensure reliable, safe, abundant, and affordable energy for all Americans, without putting unnecessary burdens on industry.\u201d\nNew Mexico Leads the Way\nBLM\u2019s New Mexico office contributed the most to last year\u2019s record, generating approximately $972 million in revenue during one lease sale alone, more than doubling BLM\u2019s total revenue from oil and gas lease sales in 2017. The September sale also broke the record for the highest-priced single parcel of land. These staggering results reflect industry\u2019s optimism for the immense potential in the Permian Basin.\nIn December, the U.S. Geological Survey revealed the \u201clargest continuous oil and gas resource ever assessed\u201d lies in the Permian Basin, with an estimated potential for extracting more than 46 billion barrels of oil, 281 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 20 billion barrels of natural gas liquids.\nThe leases have broad implications for state economies. BLM estimates $500 million of the revenue will go directly back to states, helping to fund key community benefits like hospitals and public schools. In New Mexico, the oil and gas industry provides more than 90 percent of school capital investment.\nBLM\u2019s estimates don\u2019t even account for the tax royalties from oil and natural gas produced on the lease, which fill state coffers and fund necessary institutions and infrastructure.\nBLM\u2019s record shattering year is indicative of a thriving oil and gas industry contributing to our economy, energy security, and American jobs. In 2017, a year that generated a fraction of 2018\u2019s revenue, oil and gas development supported 84,000 jobs and contributed $59.6 billion to the U.S. economy.\nActing Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said it best:\n\u201cResponsible production of domestic energy keeps energy prices low for American families and businesses, reduces our dependence on foreign oil, creates American jobs, and generates billions of dollars in revenue to the Federal Treasury.\u201d\nTags: BLM, Blog, federal leasing, Mountain States, National, New Mexico", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 238.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shatteredhaven.com/2012/02/1050365-picture-and-picture.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:08Z", "digest": "sha1:5K7XPYJYSXKGCOYKIU5COLMBBICSDTFK", "length": 187, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.shatteredhaven.com", "title": "Jennifer's 365 Project: 1050/365 - Picture and Picture", "raw_content": "Sometimes when we're watching the previous night's Daily Show on the DVR, we discover it's an extended interview. When that happens we boot up an ipad and watch the full thing on the web.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 299, "original_length": 6666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shootinguk.co.uk/news/new-defra-secretary-of-state-announced-12150", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:11Z", "digest": "sha1:VOIVI3ENQWSJEJYZBP5BDDPUOSFDWFHW", "length": 1376, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.shootinguk.co.uk", "title": "New DEFRA Secretary of State announced - Shooting UK", "raw_content": "New DEFRA Secretary of State announced\nMember of Parliament for Meriden since 1997, Spelman has a strong connection with agriculture and the countryside having spent 15 years working in the agriculture industry.\nShe has international experience, including as deputy director of the International Confederation of European Beet Growers and as a research fellow for the Centre for European Agricultural Studies.\n\u201cI am delighted to have been appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs,\u201d she said.\n\u201cThe department is responsible for many of the things that are vital to our quality of life \u2013 the food we eat, the air we breathe, and how we manage the land we live on and the seas that surround our shores.\n\u201cI will work across government and beyond to respond to the challenges of increasing food production, adapting to climate change, protecting our natural environment and ensuring we live sustainably.\u201d\nCommenting on her appointment, Rob Grey, director of campaigns for the Countryside Alliance, said: \u201cCaroline Spelman has a long connection to agricultural issues and could not be better qualified to take on this demanding role.\n\u201cShe represents a constituency with a strong rural interest and has been consistently supportive on a wide range of countryside issues.\n\u201cWe wish her the best in her new role and look forward to working closely with her.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 158.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shop.relativepitchrecords.com/termsandconditions.sc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:43Z", "digest": "sha1:LY556RTMZHFY3DWKWTFL76LV46SC7ZKY", "length": 1517, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.shop.relativepitchrecords.com", "title": "Relative Pitch Records", "raw_content": "Copyright \u00a9 2011-2019 Relative Pitch Records. 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Relative Pitch Records is not responsible for any direct, indirect, punitive, or consequential damages that arise from improper international shipping practices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shopify.co.za/retail/7-reasons-ecommerce-brands-should-consider-in-person-sales", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:51Z", "digest": "sha1:CXVGZ6GYV7BFLAFTWDCIRS7DHTTXMBI7", "length": 7509, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.shopify.co.za", "title": "7 Reasons Ecommerce Brands Should Consider In-Person Selling", "raw_content": "7 Reasons Ecommerce Brands Should Consider In-Person Selling\nBrick-and-mortar stores versus ecommerce \u2014 it\u2019s no longer a choice between one or the other. Multichannel sales are here to stay as savvy shoppers engage with brands through multiple touch points, whether it\u2019s in-store, online, through social media, or elsewhere.\nWhile ecommerce stores and sales are growing exponentially, 94% of total retail sales are still generated in physical stores. So, for those merchants waiting to take the leap into in-person sales, there\u2019s no better time than the present.\nAre you hesitant to take the next step from selling your products behind a screen to venturing into in-person sales? It can feel overwhelming to make the jump from exclusively selling online to adding face-to-face customer interactions, but there are definite benefits to your business that come with this growth.\nWhile the ecommerce industry currently has $294 billion in sales (projected to be $414 billion by 2018), retail sales make up $3.9 trillion in sales across the 1.1 million retail establishments in the U.S. alone \u2014 according to the Retail TouchPoints article Retail Vs. E-Commerce Trends: A Match Made In Heaven.\nOf course, selling online involves less risk than opening a brick-and-mortar store, staffing the store, and getting the inventory in the store to open it \u2014 but let\u2019s take a look at how you can do it with less fuss while enjoying just as many of the rewards.\nTemporary retail, also known as pop-up shops, is a great way to test the waters of in-person sales for your ecommerce business. Set up a shop for a weekend, a full week, or even a month in the neighborhood of your choosing \u2014 and get to know your audience, see if that location is the right place for you, and see how much product you can actually sell at a retail location.\nIf you aren\u2019t interested (or ready) to open a full-time brick-and-mortar location, pop-up shops are also the perfect way to move excess product, host large door-crasher sales, and hold short-term promotions from time to time. This way, you get all the benefits of selling for certain periods of time without having to open a year-round retail location.\nMore reading on running your own pop-up shop:\n8 Reasons Why You Need To Do A Pop-Up Shop [Infographic]\nOne of the most difficult aspects of ecommerce sales can be visibility. Making your target customers aware of what you\u2019re selling and how you\u2019re different from competitors is a major challenge for brands.\nBut bringing your products and your brand to a retail location offers the opportunity for more people to become familiar with your brand and its offerings.\nAs the article Online vs Offline Retail: Pros, Cons & an Omni-Channel Future explains: \u201cHaving an offline store also gives you instant access to passing trade, without having to invest in a marketing budget. Having a great store location can make you easily visible to your target market and can build your brand locally.\u201d\nWhile it\u2019s helpful to have a physical presence for passersby to get to know your brand, retail locations also allow you to move product around, test displays, and invite your customers to interact with your brand in a different way than they do online.\n\u201cWith a traditional bricks-and-mortar store, you can craft a unique experience for your customers and express your brand in a creative way,\u201d says Statement Agency about multichannel retail.\nWhen it comes to providing your customers with an immersive brand experience, online stores just can\u2019t touch physical retail. Not only can merchants set up their products and displays in a way that reflects their brand identity, but storefronts allow your customers to interact with your products in a new way.\nIn the RetailDive article Why most shoppers still choose brick-and-mortar stores over e-commerce, they found that \u201cthe ability to see, touch and feel products as well as take items home immediately rank highest among the reasons consumers choose to shop in stores versus online.\u201d\nOffering your customers the opportunity to see, touch, and feel your products is especially beneficial if you have a complex product that would otherwise require a lot of explanation and marketing resources to explain in a digital medium. It\u2019s easier to provide product demos in person, as well as offer tailored product solutions to fit their specific needs.\nNot sure how to tackle an immersive retail experience? Take a look at a few examples, or read up on some immersive retail design strategies.\nUpselling Potential\nShoppers often travel into stores for the instant gratification that comes with buying an item and bringing it home immediately. RetailDive found that \u201cshoppers also want it now and want it fast. 49% of consumers say they choose stores over the web because they want \u201cto take items home immediately.\u201d\nThis suggests that next-day \u2014 let alone two-day \u2014 shipping cannot fully replicate the immediate gratification of buying products in store and taking them home.\nThese shoppers who make quick purchases are perfect candidates to pick up additional items on impulse while they\u2019re in the store. Not sure how to nail the upsell? Read up on some strategies in our article The Art of the Upsell: Get Your Customers to Buy More By Pressuring Them Less.\nThere are many ways to gather intel about your customers online through ecommerce analytics, but there\u2019s something special about meeting your customers face-to-face and having a real conversation with them. In-person sales, whether in a stationary retail location or pop-up shop, are a great opportunity to see how your customers interact with your products.\nYou can send out surveys to your ecommerce customers and hope that they respond, but when you\u2019re in store, there\u2019s a chance to naturally spark up a conversation with them about what they liked or didn\u2019t like about the merchandise. This information is invaluable in improving your product offerings, developments, and brand.\nIn the article Retail Vs. E-Commerce Trends: A Match Made In Heaven, Retail TouchPoints states that while foot traffic is on the decline, certain demographics tend to prefer the brick-and-mortar shopping experience over the ecommerce one \u2014 specifically seniors and teens.\nBy offering your merchandise in a physical retail setting, you could reach new customers that otherwise wouldn\u2019t find your brand online, since that\u2019s not where they\u2019re spending their money. And even if these potential customers are aware of your online store, they might not be willing to spend their money there because \u201c72% of young customers research their options online before actually making it to the store\u201d and 75% of those who find online info helpful are more likely to make the trek and visit a store.\nMinimal Shipping Costs\nIn addition to all the aforementioned reasons, creating in-person sales opportunities can help your customers (and your business) save on costs. That\u2019s because in-person sales don\u2019t necessarily require shipping and handling costs for you or your customers.\nWhile this may seem like a small drop in the bucket (and for some businesses, it is), if you sell any oversized, irregular items, or specialty items that cost extra packaging and shipping then in-store sales could save you some serious coin in the long term.\nMoving Forward With In-Person Sales\nAre you an ecommerce brand that dabbles in face-to-face sales from time to time or do you operate a full-time brick-and-mortar location? 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Why is not clear at first, because, as all Spain knows on this cool, sparkling November day, the 22-year-old Argentine soccer god should be ecstatic. Last night his club team, Barcelona, beat archrival Real Madrid before a home crowd of 90,000, and tomorrow looks to be even better: Word has leaked that Messi will be awarded the Golden Ball as 2009 European Footballer of the Year. His annual income, including endorsements, is $46 million. His team is dominating La Liga, the Spanish first division. His game is rounding into breathtaking form.\nStill, look at him: hunched in a chair like a kid hauled into the principal's office, pausing after each question to glance at his manager-brother, Rodrigo, as if to say, Can you get me out of here? Now? The clock is ticking: This is shaping up to be the worst Q and A in history.\nAdidas had offered up its soccer show pony for a 30-minute chat, but once it became clear that the discussion would touch on the Argentine national team and its tempestuous coach, Diego Maradona, a coolness set in. The 30 minutes were abruptly slashed to 15, and Messi spent the first 5\u00bd giving clipped and preemptively bland replies. Now Maradona's name pops up, tucked into the idea that it must be both tiresome and flattering to be compared with perhaps the greatest player in history. Messi's face hardens: Here's the ball he's been waiting to boot out-of-bounds.\n\"What's tiresome,\" he says in Spanish, \"is always being asked the same question.\"\nYoung Aussie Jason Day got his first Tour win, but Dallas teen Jordan Spieth stole the show at the Nelson\nThe legend's wife reveals what it was like to live with Byron Nelson\nSilent Types\nBy Brandel Chamblee\nMoving Men?\nTwo months before the trade deadline, there are several new names on the list of players likely to be dealt\nBy Jon Heyman\nWith Kurt Warner gone, Matt Leinart has one more opportunity\u2014maybe\u2014to prove to Arizona that he's a starter\nOver the past six months the U.S. has gone to the ends of the earth to bone up on its World Cup opponents\nARMSTRONG AND LANDIS\nLance Armstrong vigorously denied allegations by disgraced ex-teammate Floyd Landis that they doped together before past Tours de France. But unlike earlier accusations against Armstrong, these have drawn the interest of a tenacious federal investigator\nBeware Boston's Big 4\nThe weak link on the Celtics' last title winner, point guard Rajon Rondo is now carrying the team toward the Finals\nThe Education Of Gordon Hayward\nIt's been a wild ride for the darling of the NCAA tournament, who went from mid-major star to major NBA prospect\nA man of few words, Flyers captain Mike Richards has turned his team around by dishing out big hits\nHanley Being Hanley\nSpikes On the Ground\nTurning Off Tobacco Road\nCan He Be Serious?\nJohn McEnroe says his new academy will invigorate U.S. tennis. First serve: skepticism\nThe Pop Culture Grid\nSixer Fixer?\nIn need of a major jolt, Philadelphia looks to a familiar turnaround artist\nTouching 'Em All\nMapping the blasts from Jamie Moyer's past\nFrom Bubba to Brett?\nDennis Quaid's sports dream role? A Viking saga\nBy Connell Barrett\nAfter 20 L's, a Nats fan is a witness to wins\nPETER KING'S Things I Think I Think\nSI's fearless NFL expert opines on all the latest news, buzz and inside information. This is just a taste of what you'll get online.\nThe words hang in the air a few seconds; then Messi is asked how it has been to play for the man. \"I'm sorry,\" the Adidas marketing man says, \"we have to leave the Maradona questions aside. He's trying to change to another topic.\"\nSo Messi doesn't want to talk about Maradona\u2014his father's idol, the playing genius he eerily resembles, the combustible force who controls Messi's hope of winning the 2010 World Cup\u2014at all? \"No,\" the sneaker man says. \"Try to understand that he now is answering all these questions about Maradona, Maradona, Maradona. He's tired of replying always about Maradona.\"\nSuch news hardly comes as a shock. Their marriage has felt strained since September 2008, a month before Maradona took over, when he clucked, \"Sometimes Messi plays for himself; he feels so superior that he forgets his teammates.\" The Albiceleste's campaign to qualify for the World Cup was a dispiriting slog marked by ever-changing lineups, bewildered stars and debacles like a 6--1 loss in Bolivia. Messi, who scored four goals in 67 minutes against Arsenal on April 6, mustered only one in 10 qualifiers under Maradona. Last October, after Argentina squeaked by Uruguay to make the field, Maradona held a press conference and told his critics to \"suck it and keep sucking,\" for which he received a two-month ban by FIFA. Relief, elation, dread? By day's end, lovers of Argentine football had no idea what to feel.\nNo one looked more drained than Messi. Too often during qualifying he had appeared listless and had flown back to Barcelona in a funk. \"Very down\u2014you could see it,\" says one Bar\u00e7a staffer. \"[Argentina] was playing defensively, and he was alone up front. You had to wonder, Is Maradona sabotaging him?\"\nBut Maradona wasn't the only one being ripped. Messi too was blamed for Argentina's woeful play, and he found himself living a paradox: Even as people around the world likened his work in Barcelona to that of magicians such as Pel\u00e9 and Johan Cruyff, back home Messi heard only a chorus of skepticism. Fans and the media questioned not only his ability to produce under the ultimate spotlight but also his allegiance, his very Argentineness. As good as Diego? Win a World Cup like he did in 1986\u2014then we'll compare.\n\"More than 100 players were called up for the national team, and only one was to blame?\" says Messi's father, Jorge. \"It's unfair. Leo has never gotten used to the situation here in Argentina. It's really tough for him to be in Barcelona, where he's really loved, and then come here and hear all that criticism.\"\nIn theory, of course, Maradona figured to be a vital resource for Messi. Who, after all, is better positioned to give advice\u2014superstar to superstar\u2014on the Argentine press and on the burden and joy of being the best player alive? Who better to warn Messi how hangers-on and yes-men (like the comically sycophantic band of \"S\u00ed, Diegos\" who surround Maradona) can siphon off his money and speed the erosion of his gift? But when Messi is asked whether Maradona has ever taken him aside to offer a word on handling fame or fortune or any of the other pitfalls of his position, he doesn't bristle. This question he keeps in play.\n\"In truth,\" Messi says, \"no.\"\nEven when the topic shifts, Messi gives little away. He says he \"dreams of winning all the titles,\" admits that he cried upon leaving home at 13 to play in Barcelona and declares, \"I never get nervous before I play,\" but all of it is delivered in a curt monotone, with nothing resembling Pel\u00e9's playfulness or Cruyff's imagination. This is nothing new; reporters have been banging their heads against Messi's reticence for years. He is not so much hostile to the press as uninterested in the subject of himself; he barely lit up earlier today for the Adidas film crew, in town for an in-house interview, and the company is paying him $4 million a year.\nShyness can be underrated, however, especially at a time when every emerging jock is dancing and tweeting in a desperate grab to \"become a personality\" and \"expand his brand.\" The fact is, with a talent as otherworldly as Messi's, charm would be a distraction. Miles Davis played a diabolic trumpet with his back to the audience, and that was more than enough; any hint of charisma would have blown the roof off the place. Maradona's career, meanwhile, played out like a war between a glorious body and a corrupted mind; when, in 1994, his days as an international player ended in disgrace after he failed a World Cup drug test, the personality seemed to have consumed the player whole.\nDiamond earrings flashing, waistline ballooning, marriage falling apart, Maradona soon became a cartoon figure. He had an image of Fidel Castro tattooed on his left thigh and one of Che Guevara on his right arm, got his stomach stapled, wore a swastika-emblazoned T-shirt that condemned George W. Bush. His life became Argentina's favorite telenovela; his quotes entered the lexicon. \"Keep sucking!\" is a popular ringtone; it's no shock to hear Maradona barking, \"Sigan chupando!\" in a Buenos Aires bar and see men reach for their phones.\nSo it's refreshing to find Messi's off-field act to be conspicuously anti-Diego: mall haircut, hangdog slouch, no jewelry or body art. Throw in the nickname La Pulga\u2014the Flea\u2014and Messi comes off like the guy who rotates your tires. \"Maradona swaggers,\" says Carles Rexach, a former Barcelona player and coach. \"Messi doesn't want to be noticed.\"\nYet on the field no one else resembles Maradona more. It's not just that at 5'7\", Messi is the same diminutive whirlwind, \"able to dribble past people like they are not there,\" as Bar\u00e7a striker Thierry Henry puts it. There's also the uncanny coincidence that against the Spanish club Getafe in 2007, Messi unleashed a wonder score identical to Maradona's so-called Goal of the Century against England in that '86 World Cup: a 60-meter sprint past the same number of opponents (six), involving the same number of touches (13) and lasting the same number of seconds (13). Then, seven weeks later, Messi replicated Maradona's notorious Hand of God goal by punching in a score against Espanyol. \"I make an effort not to compare them,\" says Jorge Valdano, director general of Bar\u00e7a's archrival, Real Madrid, \"but the kid doesn't help at all.\"\nMessi has claimed to have read only one book, Maradona's autobiography, Yo soy el Diego de la Gente (I Am the People's Diego), but said he didn't finish it. Clearly, he's stuck in Maradona's glory years. In 2009 he won his second Champions League, second La Liga and first Copa del Rey titles with Bar\u00e7a and became Argentina's first FIFA World Player of the Year. This season he was unstoppable, with 53 goals in 47 matches as Bar\u00e7a won La Liga again. During one 11-game stretch he scored 17 times, including back-to-back La Liga hat tricks and the absurdly easy four goals against Arsenal. The Madrid newspaper El Pa\u00eds dubbed him Infinity. Maradona declared that Messi was playing \"kick-about with Jesus,\" but some soccer minds dared rate him even higher. \"Tonight I saw Diego Maradona\u2014but at more revs per minute,\" said Zaragoza coach Jos\u00e9 Aurelio Gay in March after a Messi hat trick. \"He's interplanetary.\"\nRexach believes Messi has the tools to surpass Maradona. And while Rexach acknowledges that Bar\u00e7a's brilliant playmakers Xavi and Andr\u00e9s Iniesta help make Messi so prolific, he insists that Messi could thrive without them. \"You put Messi on the worst team in the world, maybe for 10 minutes he won't touch the ball,\" Rexach says, \"but in the 11th minute he'll dribble three times and score. Messi doesn't need anybody.\"\nBursting through seams no one else can see, staying on his feet despite being slashed by two or three defenders at once, Messi has indeed shifted Maradona's gambeta, his capering dribble, into a higher gear. Henry, 32, the lanky alltime leading goal scorer for France and one of the great players of his generation, can't find words to describe how Messi zips through and around opponents like a VW bug in a cluster of 18-wheelers. Finally he resorts to tapping out a staccato rhythm on a table. \"He just goes\u2014like that,\" Henry says, drumming.\n\"People talk about basketball players, how they run full speed but they're in control of the ball with their hands, but that's way easier,\" Henry continues. \"Running with the ball at your feet at full speed and being able to see, [being] aware of what is happening around you, [while] people are trying to make you fall? Leo is always kind of falling, but he doesn't go down. I would love to have his first step, and his double dribbles, but it's him being small [and] quick: He touches the ball every step of his run. It's impossible to do what he does. I go one-two-three, push the ball, one-two-three, push the ball. If I want to touch it every time, I [have to] slow down. But he can go full speed: Tack-tack-tack-tack, tack-tack-tack-tack.\" Henry throws up his hands. \"I wish I was small,\" he says.\nThe easy conclusion, of course, is that the country is mad. Yes, anyplace can seem bizarre to a stranger, but let's agree that Argentina's lunacy is more obvious than, say, Denmark's. Argentina is, after all, the nation with the most psychoanalysts per capita; the country whose still-feverish devotion to a long-dead First Lady resulted in a town, Ciudad Evita, built in the shape of her head; the land where citizens fearlessly consume beef for breakfast or with afternoon coffee and erupt in street protests for any reason at all. On an April afternoon, for example, picketers halted rush-hour traffic on the highway into Buenos Aires, expressing outrage over the damage caused by a recent hailstorm. \"Protesting the hail,\" said a lifelong resident with a shrug. \"Of course.\"\nStill, it's another thing for a country to indulge its own lunacy where its most prized possession is concerned. When in October 2008 longtime Argentina Football Association (AFA) president Julio Grondona named Maradona the national team coach, he made a choice that few could imagine his counterparts in England or Brazil or Germany making. It smacked of desperation and arrogance. It was confounding, exhilarating and, for a constituency accustomed to political and economic tumult, wholly appropriate.\n\"Argentina is used to living from crisis to crisis to crisis, and life always goes on,\" says Ezequiel Fern\u00e0ndez Moores, a columnist for the Buenos Aires newspaper La Naci\u00f3n. \"Maybe it's crazy to put [Maradona] in that position, but maybe not. Sometimes it seems we love the crisis. We can't live without the crisis. Maradona is an icon of that.\"\nConsider: One of international soccer's most storied programs, a two-time World Cup champion, was placed in the hands of a man with no international coaching experience and a paltry three wins in 23 matches during his sole stint as a club coach, with Argentina's Deportivo Mandiy\u00fa in 1994 and Racing Club in '95. Why? Speculation ranged widely: Maradona was owed the position for all he accomplished as a player; his popularity made it impossible for the AFA not to give him at least one shot; Grondona had feuded with or rejected other candidates and, when Alfio Basile resigned, Maradona was the only one Grondona could stomach.\nGrondona declined to talk to SI, but in a rare newspaper interview last August he mentioned Maradona's deep knowledge of international soccer and of the Argentine talent base. \"Though a standout player himself, he's never been selfish,\" Grondona said. \"He has a natural authority over those players who saw him on the pitch or read about him. Moreover, he has a freedom of spirit that is really strange for any other coach.\"\nStrange indeed. Maradona's curious stewardship has the nation peeking through its fingers. Grondona appointed Carlos Bilardo, who directed Maradona and Argentina to the country's last world championship, in 1986, as the team's general manager, but there were times when Bilardo and his coach barely spoke\u2014and the 49-year-old Maradona has since emerged firmly in charge. He won an early battle to choose his own assistants, though his former teammates Alejandro Mancuso and H\u00e9ctor Enrique hardly make up for their boss's inexperience on the international stage. (Enrique's standing stems mostly from passing Maradona the ball for his historic second goal against England in '86.) The sole evidence that Maradona's soccer eye remains sharp is his stubborn championing, amid much criticism, of surprisingly steady 23-year-old goalkeeper Sergio Romero.\nArgentina will open the World Cup, then, as the tournament's most perplexing team. Grouped with Nigeria, South Korea and Greece, the Albiceleste should make it to the knockout stage, but Maradona has yet to show he knows how to maximize Messi's performance. The coach has alienated midfielder Juan Rom\u00e0n Riquelme, the often self-involved Boca Juniors midfielder whose synergy with Messi led the Albiceleste to the 2007 Copa Am\u00e9rica final and the '08 Olympic gold medal. According to Hern\u00e0n Castillo, the onetime soccer writer for the Buenos Aires newspaper Clar\u00edn, who now covers the national team for Radio La Red, the players' respect for their coach dwindled when he played them out of position and showed a lack of knowledge about their opponents. Trailing 2--0 at the half of a humiliating loss to Brazil last September in Messi's hometown of Rosario, Maradona walked through the locker room saying, \"Let's go! For the country! We can do it!\" After he left, one of the team's veteran midfielders, knowing somebody had to make a tactical move, told Messi to play farther back and conferred with a few other teammates. Argentina attacked more effectively in the second half but still went down 3--1, for its first home defeat in a Cup qualifier in 16 years.\nWhether Maradona lacks the imagination to make a wholesale strategic shift on Messi's behalf isn't clear. \"If I had to change for his good, I'd change,\" Maradona said in March. \"But I think that with ... the players we have, all he needs to do is explode, and surely he will do that at the World Cup.\" The coach declined to elaborate for SI; a request for an interview through the AFA was answered by Fernando Molina, Maradona's personal flack and the boyfriend of his daughter Dalma, with an e-mailed demand for \"100,000 euros limpios\"\u2014$126,000, tax-free. (SI does not pay for interviews.)\n\"They have many wonderful players, but they're not a team; I don't know what's going on right now,\" says Francisco (Pancho) Ferraro, coach of the Argentine under-20 team that Messi led to a world title in 2005. \"We just have to hope God inspires Maradona ... and we have Messi. So we have reason to believe.\"\nMaradona has been the most important cultural figure in the country for 25 years because, in his combination of brilliance and self-destruction, he reflects part of the national character in a way that Messi never could. It's not just that Messi hasn't performed well for the national side. It's his life inside what observers call \"his football bubble.\" It's the widespread perception that because Messi, a product of Barcelona's streamlined youth academy, La Mas\u00eda, has lived for the past decade in Spain, he has almost no gut-level connection with the nation now depending on him.\n\"I'm always defending Messi. This controversy says more about the Argentine people than about him: We can't enjoy it when we have good things. We always see the dark side, the glass half empty, and we can't just enjoy the kid who is us. He's our boy. I know how Messi loves to wear the Argentine colors; I know his commitment.\"\nPancho Ferraro\u200b, coach of the 2005 Argentina U-20 national team\n\"He went to Europe at 13, and he went to the perfect team,\" says Fern\u00e0ndez Moores. \"In Argentina we have an expression: Lo atamo' con alambre\u2014'We hold it together with wire.' It refers to a temporary solution that somehow works, and it says a lot about the country and its football. Argentine players grow up with the precarious sensibility that they can adapt to any situation, but Messi doesn't pass the Argentine test of living on the edge. He didn't grow up thinking that way, and he doesn't like problems.\n\"When he came back to Argentina last year, the person waiting for him, controlling the press, was a barrabrava\u2014a hooligan, not an AFA official. That's the Argentine style. In that sense, Maradona is perfect as coach.\"\nAnd that's why, if Argentina bombs out of this World Cup, Maradona will not be blamed alone. Messi bears the expatriate's burden, and speculation about his woes in the national stripes centers less on strategy than on what goes on in his heart and mind.\n\"It's the question everyone is asking,\" says Sergio Almir\u00f3n, a member of the '86 World Cup team and, as former director of the football school of the Rosario club Newell's Old Boys, one of the men who let the young Messi slip away. \"When Maradona got challenged, he got bigger. Maybe Messi is too young and can't cope with that pressure.\" Almir\u00f3n pauses, decides to say what he really thinks and starts to laugh. \"He has a Spanish mind,\" Almir\u00f3n says at last. \"He thinks he's Spanish!\"\nA crisp April morning in Rosario: Jorge Messi sits on the terrace of his restaurant, VIP. Word is that about $500,000 was pumped into renovations, and the slick bistro is packed most nights; everyone knows it as the Messis' place. Yet there are no posters or signed jerseys on display, no breast-beating salutes to Leo. This might seem odd, considering that Leo is the era's latest offering, in any sport, of greatness in its prime. But Jorge isn't sure Leo's success was worth all the trouble.\n\"If you asked me if I'd do the same thing today, I'd say no,\" he says. \"I don't regret anything, but it was too hard to live [through] again.\"\nThe problem wasn't soccer; despite Leo's size, playing was never hard for him. Growing up in the scrappy working-class neighborhood known as La Bajada (the Descent), Leo never shied from playing with the pals of his older brothers, Mat\u00edas and Rodrigo, in the dusty streets. \"When they kicked him, he'd fall and just get back up; he wasn't scared,\" says neighbor Rub\u00e9n Manicabale. \"He always played barefoot, and he would pick fights with his brothers.\" When Leo was five, his dad coached him at the scrubby field by the Abanderado Grandoli housing project; the boy would score at will, often dribbling from goal to goal untouched. Lamps and tchotchkes in the Messi house were constantly being broken by flying balls.\nManicabale leads the way past Leo's elementary school to a nearby clutch of soccer fields. Mat\u00edas Messi, 28, misses an easy score as his neighbor walks up. Mat\u00edas's team loses, he gathers his gear and begins walking toward the postgame grill. \"He was the same then as he is now,\" Mat\u00edas says of Leo. \"He'd be happier playing football for free than doing something else for a hundred million euros.\"\nAt seven, Leo followed Rodrigo and joined the youth program of Newell's Old Boys. In one game that is still talked about, Leo dribbled upfield as, one by one, seven opponents tried to kick him. All missed. \"He was a machine,\" says Ernesto Vecchio, who coached Leo for three years at Newell's. \"Once he was sick, and I had him on the bench. We were losing 1--0, and I said, 'Leo, win me this match,' and he jumped up and scored two. Every year he'd score more than 100 goals in 30 matches.\" Leo would put on dribbling exhibitions during halftime at senior games. He was so good that spectators wondered if they were watching a circus dwarf.\nWhen Leo was 10, Jorge and his wife, Celia, noticed that he wasn't growing. A battery of tests revealed that he'd be lucky to reach five feet as an adult, and the Messis agreed to a regime of nightly growth-hormone injections in alternating thighs. Starting at 11, Leo would tote a small blue cooler with needles and doses to games, friends' houses, everywhere. He injected himself; he never complained. \"It was just another part of my routine,\" he says. He would do that for five years.\nThe medicine was expensive\u2014$1,000 for a 45-day regime\u2014and after two years Jorge's employer, a steel manufacturer, stopped its coverage. Jorge made no more than $1,700 over 45 days, and with Leo now 13 and attracting attention from other clubs, Jorge asked Newell's to pay for the treatment. After giving the Messis three payments totaling $500, Jorge says, Newell's cooled on the idea. \"We didn't want to beg,\" Jorge says, \"so we started looking at other options.\" Jorge flirted with Buenos Aires power River Plate, but eventually Barcelona stepped in and offered to cover the full cost. That's where the story usually pivots onto positive ground: Eventually Leo not only got the medicine needed to grow to 5'7\" but was also surrounded by the players and the coaches he needed to realize his potential. But the move nearly broke the Messi family.\nJorge moved Celia, their three sons and their five-year-old daughter, Mar\u00eda Sol, to Spain in September 2000, but within a year Celia took the other kids home to Argentina, leaving Jorge and Leo in Spain. The separation was excruciating. \"Leo needs his mother, and I needed to see my daughter,\" Jorge says. \"The first three years Leo saw his mother only every four months.\" Boarding the plane back to Barcelona after visits to Argentina, Leo would be an emotional wreck. He spent many nights in La Mas\u00eda alone, crying; the other kids would go home on weekends. \"It was very tough for me,\" Messi says. \"There were moments when I was really sad and homesick, but I never thought of leaving. I knew I wanted to stay and keep playing.\"\nIn discussing his five years in the Newell's youth program, Messi dwells on the bitter end: The club wouldn't pay for his treatment, he says, and Barcelona did. The result is that Newell's is now known, worldwide, for making one of the biggest mistakes in soccer history. But in a dispute that has only further separated Messi from his roots, both Almir\u00f3n and Carlos Morales, who coached Leo from age eight to 11, say that Newell's provided the Messis with more than $8,000\u2014$450 a month\u2014over an 18-month period that ended only when Leo left for Spain in 2000. Morales says that the Messis simply stood to gain more from Barcelona: \"There was a lot of money involved.\"\nAlmir\u00f3n, Newell's football school director then, corroborates the $8,000 figure and says he always made the payments in cash, to Celia. Sitting in a Rosario hotel lobby in April, he fans out nine receipts signed, he says, by Celia. But five of the fresh, unwrinkled receipts show payments of $200 or less. Only two sets of receipts are dated the same months, April and July 2000, and they total $305 and $240\u2014below what Almir\u00f3n says he gave the Messis, and well below what Jorge says the treatment cost.\nThe amounts involved, of course, are minuscule, and Almir\u00f3n and Morales are no longer with Newell's. The club's new president has taken pains to reach out to the Messis, and last year Jorge responded with a $29,000 donation for the Newell's training facility. But bitterness about Leo's departure simmers on both sides\u2014and it's not only at Newell's that people have mixed feelings about Rosario's most famous son.\nAcross town at Messi's boyhood field at Abanderado Grandoli, families still fill the small grandstand on Saturdays, and fathers still clutch at the hurricane fence while staring at their boys' games. Yes, Messi is a point of pride here, says Grandoli youth soccer club president David Treves, but Messi hasn't visited since he became a star, and he hasn't contributed balls or uniforms or money to upgrade the field. (Jorge says Leo's foundation plans to help the entire neighborhood, stressing education as well as sports.)\n\"He never came back here, not since he left for Barcelona,\" says Vecchio. \"I've never spoken to him again.\" After Brazil beat Argentina in Rosario last September, Vecchio stood outside the stadium for an hour, chatting up Jorge and Celia, waiting for Leo to emerge so he could get a word. When Messi hurried onto the team bus, Vecchio figured his chance had passed. Then Messi sat and saw him through the window. He recognized his old coach, and his eyes lit up, and he grinned and waved, looking small again behind the glass.\nPancho Ferraro is tired of hearing it\u2014from his brothers-in-law, from the journalists and the fans he bumps up against in bars, even from his own sister: What's wrong with Messi? Does he even care about playing for Argentina? \"It's painful to get this even from my own family,\" Ferraro says. \"I'm always defending Messi. This controversy says more about the Argentine people than about him: We can't enjoy it when we have good things. We always see the dark side, the glass half empty, and we can't just enjoy the kid who is us. He's our boy. I know how Messi loves to wear the Argentine colors; I know his commitment.\"\nDespite his gratitude to Barcelona, in 2004 Messi turned down an invitation to play for the Spanish national team. Ferraro has seen Messi twice lead Argentine teams to world championships. As coach of Argentina's 2005 U-20 World Cup team, in fact, Ferraro almost saw his own career end before it began; he left Messi on the bench in the first half of the first game and, sin of sins, lost to the U.S. \"I died,\" he says, \"and then I came back to life.\"\nMessi brought him back. Messi scored six goals in eight games, was named the tournament's MVP, turned 18 midway through the event but still stood up in the locker room before the semifinal against Brazil and said, \"This is Brazil. We cannot make a mistake, or we'll lose. But we're going to win.\" He scored in the sixth minute to lead the 2--1 victory, then scored twice more to beat Nigeria 2--1 in the final. Only once in the tournament did Messi cause a problem. After Argentina qualified for the second round, Ferraro removed him from a meaningless second half against Germany, and Messi stalked off the field, refusing to look at Ferraro. Afterward, at the hotel, Messi found his coach and apologized. \"I didn't mean to do that, but I always want to play,\" he said. \"I don't feel good sitting down.\"\n\"I've never seen him do that to another coach,\" Ferraro says. \"With Messi, you don't need to give him the captain's armband\u2014you need to give him the ball. It's his toy. He's a child. He relates to football like a child.\"\nThat is the underreported fact about one of the most scrutinized people in the world: his childlike joy. You could see it in Barcelona when he skidded on his ass and sat wide-eyed, legs splayed, like a kid in a mud puddle, after scoring his fourth goal against Arsenal. Maradona never had that joy; his was a bullying kind of artistry. All of Messi's furious work\u2014all that scampering, that teetering, that lashing with the left foot\u2014is just tracing on a map, the trail of a man in search of his bliss. \"And when he's happy,\" says Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, \"everything he does works.\"\nIt's late April, and Messi is happier now. He had a two-hour meeting with Maradona in March, which may well have put coach and star on the same page at last. But mostly he's happy because he's in Barcelona with a few La Liga games left and goals to score and no one doubting him. That will change soon, though, and Messi will go home to Rosario, to La Bajada, to the land where his father is feeling the heat.\n\"He's Argentinian,\" Jorge says of his son. \"He feels Argentinian. I feel he's been loved [in Europe] but not here. It's very common here to feel that if anyone succeeds overseas, you can't feel he's one of yours. So the press instills the idea that Messi is not Argentinian, that he lives like a Catalan, because he made it without playing here. Leo is really downhearted about it.\"\nIf Argentina wins the World Cup, of course, all that will disappear. Messi will have saved the Argentine hero, saved Maradona from himself, and the Diego legend will take its newest and craziest twist. But if Argentina loses? Then all those criticisms and all the cracks in Messi's relationship with the country will only grow; then his dealings with the media will be ever more frayed.\nHe's young. There will be other World Cups. But Maradona will be gone, probably in a cloud of fury and invective, and Messi will have no choice but to rebuild, Argentine-style: Grab some wire, duct tape, a bit of glue. Apply. Let dry. And hope\u2014no, insist\u2014to everyone that the damn thing will end up working just fine.\nMESSI'S OFF-FIELD ACT IS CONSPICUOUSLY ANTI-DIEGO: MALL HAIRCUT, HANGDOG SLOUCH, NO BODY ART.\nMESSI ZIPS THROUGH AND AROUND OPPONENTS LIKE A VW BUG IN A CLUSTER OF 18-WHEELERS.\n\"YOU NEED TO GIVE HIM THE BALL,\" FERRARO SAYS. \"IT'S HIS TOY. HE RELATES TO FOOTBALL LIKE A CHILD.\"\nTHREE PHOTOSPhotographs (from left) by MIS/IMAGO/ICON SMI; ADIDAS/GETTY IMAGES; PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/GETTY IMAGES. COMPOSITE BY SI\nIMAGINGPHOTOSTF/AFP/GETTY IMAGESFRAGILE BOND Though he's Maradona's heir, Messi doesn't feel close to the hero of Argentina's 1986 World Cup triumph (below).PHOTOPEDRO ARMESTRE/GETTY IMAGES[See caption above]PHOTOCARLO FUMAGALLI/AP[See caption above]PHOTOLeo MINOR Messi's soccer wizardry has been evident since he was a child, when fans in Rosario thought they might be watching a circus dwarf.PHOTOALEJANDRO PAGNI/GETTY IMAGESCLUB PLAYER For all his success with Barcelona, Messi has not found a way to shine with Argentina's senior national team.PHOTOLLUIS GENE/AFP/GETTY IMAGESEASY DOES IT Messi had no trouble scoring four times against Arsenal goalie Manuel Almunia in Barcelona on April 6.PHOTOALBERT GEA/REUTERSHAPPY WARRIOR In the romp against Arsenal that sent Bar\u221a\u00dfa to the Champions League semis, Messi showed the joy he gets from the game.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 350, "original_length": 45555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skininc.com/spabusiness/global/55077342.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:38Z", "digest": "sha1:BRTVYSORI23I6K3K65BVAVMN4HRDTKGL", "length": 12212, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.skininc.com", "title": "Luxury Steeped in History: The Spas of Prague", "raw_content": "Luxury Steeped in History: The Spas of Prague\nAugust 26, 2009 Contact Author\tBryan Durocher September 2009 issue of Skin Inc. magazine\nSpa at Mandarin Oriental Architecture\nPure Spa at the Le Palais Hotel\nCouple Treatment Experience\nReception Area at Pure Spa\nTreatment Room at Pure Spa\nLobby of the Spa at Mandarin Oriental\nTreatment Room at the Spa at Mandarin Oriental\nFor several years, my well-traveled friends have been exclaiming about the city of Prague. They rave about the architecture, the food, the fun. \u201cBest city in Europe!\u201d they often declared after visiting. So when I booked my recent trip to the Czech capital, with plans to experience Pure Spa at the Hotel Le Palais Prague and the Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Prague, I was unsure if the city could possibly live up to the hype. Turns out, it did\u2014and then some.\nPrague is a delight, in large part because it was spared the bombs and other ravages of World War II. As a result, it offers a stunning variety of architecture\u2014soaring Gothic spires, curved baroque domes, elegant Art Nouveau influences and modern Cubist fa\u00e7ades. And it\u2019s a city made for walking. Manageable in size, it\u2019s possible to stroll along the lanes of the Old Town and through the wooded parks while covering a majority of this medieval jewel on foot. The 14th century Charles Bridge spans the Vltava River and connects the Old Town and Mal\u00e1 Strana. Rimmed with oil lamps and adorned with more than 30 statues, by day this stone Gothic structure is a sunny social hub while at night it becomes almost mystical, shrouded in mist that seems to hide specters from bygone centuries.\nPrague\u2019s history is rich: It has been the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hapsburg Empire, the first Czechoslovak Republic, the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Communist Republic of Czechoslovakia, and the modern and democratic Czech Republic. And each left a mark on the city, including the spa heritage bestowed by the ancient Romans.\nToday, Prague is a hopeful, prosperous place. The city is surprisingly affordable\u2014prices are considerably lower than in other European capitals\u2014and the quality of the lodging, food, shopping and so on is equal to anything you would find in Paris, London or Rome. And it\u2019s fun. The cultural scene is quite lively\u2014Bohemians and Moravians are passionate about music, art and literature, and are proud to claim writer Franz Kafka and composer Antonin Dvorak, among others, as native sons. Additionally, the cuisine is varied and delicious. I experienced extraordinary food and wines everywhere I dined. There are elegant shopping malls and chic cocktail bars galore, along with opera, ballet, drama, smoky jazz cellars and dance clubs.\nAfter a few days exploring the city, I was eager to discover how the vast variety of cultural and historical influences of Prague would influence the spa experience.\nFive minutes from the Charles Bridge and hidden in the quiet cobblestone streets beneath Prague Castle, the Mandarin Oriental, Prague was once a Dominican monastery. It has been successfully converted into a high-end, modern hotel with first-class comforts and amenities, yet at the same time retains its historic heritage and charm. In fact, many guests enjoy an hour-long tour of the hotel with the staff pointing out artifacts and elements of the original historic building. The beautiful, gated, arched entry sets the Gothic tone, while the cheerful palette of the interior keeps the overall ambience light and bright. There are intimate meeting and dining areas, large windows that open to a beautiful courtyard, and rooms that are incredibly spacious by European standards.\nThe Spa at Mandarin Oriental, Prague was situated in the basement, and when I heard that, I worried it would carry all of the negatives of a subterranean setting. I was wrong. In fact, it was one of the most extraordinary facilities I have ever seen.\nThe private spa elevator deposits guests at the end of a long hallway, where each side is lined with Czech antiquities and artifacts providing a rich flavor of the city\u2019s culture and heritage. At the end of the hallway, inside the spa, all dank associations to basements are banished. The reception area is open, bright, high-ceilinged and spacious.\nAnd there is a most extraordinary feature. During the restoration of the hotel, ancient remnants of a Gothic church were discovered beneath the site\u2014the Church of St. Mary Magdalene. This church was built sometime in the early 1300s and was destroyed in the early 15th century during the Hussite wars. The findings were left intact and the spa was built around them. Today the spa\u2019s foyer features a glass floor that allows visitors an unobstructed view of the remains that were uncovered.\nWithin the spa\u2019s interior, one side is a peaceful relaxation area, blocked off by beautiful screens and designed for pre- and post-treatment lingering. The screen strategy preserves the basic structure of the space while utilizing valuable square footage, and guests waiting for services are encouraged to help themselves to a variety of waters and teas before retiring into private changing rooms for women and men.\nThe journey from changing room to treatment room takes visitors through another beautiful corridor featuring arched Gothic ceilings, which are also found in the spacious treatment chambers. The d\u00e9cor in my room featured cream-colored walls, light stone floors and a large soaking tub tiled in bright orange and yellow Italian tiles in the adjoining private bathroom. There also were large windows that let in plenty of natural light. As with the rest of the spa, the light, bright palette prevented the space from feeling dim or ponderous.\nFor my treatment, I elected to receive the Deep Tissue Massage, which is priced at $275 for 120 minutes, and the first thing I noticed was the large, modern, electrically heated treatment bed. It was more than adequate for my 6'5\" frame, and it helped to relax my tense muscles in no time, making the entire massage experience soothing and comfortable.\nMy male therapist was strong and clearly experienced. After I told him my body was stiff and sore from my 31-hour journey to Prague, he combined a number of manipulations for my treatment, and it was clear he had a highly sophisticated understanding of anatomy. He was also extremely businesslike\u2014after working on me for 90 minutes, he straightened up, announced, \u201cWe\u2019re done now,\u201d and left the room. Efficient and completely no nonsense.\nAs for the takeaways, without a doubt, the most impressive aspect of this spa was the skillful blending of the historical and cultural components of the city and hotel with a highly effective and luxurious modern spa experience. The thick walls and vaulting contributed to the coziness of the facility, while the soft colors and natural light prevented the sanctuary from feeling closed-in. Equally impressive was the clever use of space that provided the utmost privacy for each guest at all times. And of course, from the therapist to the support staff, the quality of my treatment and overall experience was unparalleled and consistent with the high standards I have come to expect from every spa in the Mandarin Oriental collection.\nThe Le Palais Hotel Prague is a charming boutique hotel with 72 individually designed guest rooms. It was built as a residential palace in 1897\u2014a relatively new structure by Prague standards. It\u2019s one of the city\u2019s finest examples of Belle Epoque architecture, which was marked by beautiful neoclassical and curvilinear Art Nouveau facades, and it\u2019s located in an exclusive residential area a short walk from the famous Wenceslas Square and the National Museum. Although it reopened as a hotel in 2002 after a complete refurbishment, it still retains all of the elegance and grace of the late 19th century.\nThe interior combines the heritage of the building with state-of-the-art style and attention to detail. For that reason, it enjoys a loyal clientele of sophisticated tourists and international business travelers, many of whom check in for extended stays.\nThe hotel\u2019s Pure Spa is popular not only with Le Palais guests, but is also visited regularly by residents of the area\u2014an ideal situation for a hotel spa. In fact, according to the spa director, it was guests and neighbors who pressed Le Palais to build the spa and adjoining health club with gym, sauna, steam bath, whirlpool and aroma showers. The hotel\u2019s management wisely incorporates spa treatments into many of its packages, and consumer review sites rave about the facility.\nLike the Spa at the Mandarin Oriental, Pure Spa is also located in the basement of the hotel, and its pale yellow walls and bright floral tiled mosaics make the facility cheery and bright. One of the most unusual features of Pure Spa is the fact that the treatments incorporate the customizable, aromatherapeutic Ligne St. Barth products into their treatments. Although at first I questioned the choice of this Caribbean-themed collection in a spa in a traditional European city, it soon became clear that these high-quality products added a delightful tropical flavor to this elegant place.\nPure Spa offers a variety of treatments for couples, so my friend Angelika and I decided to book the two-hour, Pure Spa Couple Treatment Experience. All of the couples treatments take place in a spacious treatment suite, a soothing, private room that easily accommodates two people and two therapists. The Pure Spa Couple Treatment, which costs $550, combines exfoliation, hydration and massage using pure St. Barth plant oils that guests customize with their own choice of aromatherapy additives. I chose a geranium-infused blend for its uplifting properties, and Angelika opted for a blend with strong rose notes to hydrate and relax.\nAs soft music played, the therapists began with a body-peeling massage employing fresh papaya, natural yogurt and a special sea-sand polish. The exfoliation was followed by the application of a luxurious, hydrating body mask, and ultimately, the therapists performed a relaxing massage that ensured a thorough penetration of the mask preparation, and left us utterly and completely relaxed. Every step of the treatment was performed in tandem, and the therapists finished at precisely the same moment\u2014a dramatic and delightful detail.\nAfter our treatment, we each showered in the en suite bathroom, and then sipped custom-blended teas in a private relaxation area. The treatment left us feeling completely refreshed and relaxed, and our skin looked and felt polished and supple. The spa director told us regular hotel guests are as loyal to the spa as they are to the hotel\u201430% of hotel guests use the spa, and though the usual conversion rate is just 6%, given this spa\u2019s rich offerings and practiced treatments, it was really no surprise whatsoever.\nThanks to its location and ability to strike the right balance between great service and an unpretentious neighborhood atmosphere, Pure Spa has achieved the best of both worlds for a hotel spa. It\u2019s a cozy, elegant destination spa for travelers and hotel guests, and at the same time, has become the neighborhood facility of choice for nearby residents. Certainly this is due, in part, to the high number of returning business travelers, but it must also be attributed to the high level of service and welcoming atmosphere there. Additionally, details such as the unique, Caribbean-themed Ligne St. Barth products and the perfectly synchronized couple\u2019s treatments lift Pure Spa out of the realm of the ordinary, providing an experience that is truly unique.\nAmericans are spending their money carefully nowadays, and for many, an extraordinary spa treatment might be substituting for a full-fleshed vacation this year. I believe this presents spas with an opportunity to emulate these Prague spas by stressing the unique\u2014whether it\u2019s emphasizing indigenous culture or introducing products and treatments that evoke faraway, exotic places. Along with consistent and excellent service in a welcoming environment, clients can find a delightful alternative to the travel plans that may be on hold in the current economy right in their friendly neighborhood spas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 16707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smithsbookshop.co.nz/bookshop/isbn090870819x.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKQLEYALPGHD6ZATEG6PVSMWLHFCUOL2", "length": 352, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.smithsbookshop.co.nz", "title": "NEW ZEALAND AND THE FRENCH Two Centuries of Contact", "raw_content": "NEW ZEALAND AND THE FRENCH Two Centuries of Contact\nEdited by John Dunmore\nA fascinating collection of essays on the impact of France on New Zealand, from the earliest sightings of a new and unknown land to the political and economic issues of more recent times.\nThe Heritage Press Ltd., Waikanae, 1990. Hardback with dust jacket. 213 pages. SECONDHAND", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2019/01/s-5-prevails-over-aceclamp-finding-of-infringement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:38Z", "digest": "sha1:W5JN2FB4L54A2MZB4CCMUIPFAF3K4E24", "length": 3960, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.solarpowerworldonline.com", "title": "S-5! prevails over AceClamp finding of infringement", "raw_content": "S-5! prevails over AceClamp finding of infringement\nIn mid-2016, RMH Tech LLC and Metal Roof Innovations Ltd., companies formed by Rob Haddock to manufacture and market S-5! products and systems in the United States and beyond, filed suit against PMC Industries Inc. of Plainfield, Connecticut, alleging patent infringement over the design of PMC\u2019s ColorSnap snow retention system. In December 2018, in United States District Court, District of Connecticut, the court issued a final ruling in that case. The following is a statement by S-5!, published in its entirety, as released to the trade press following the decision:\n\u201cFor almost three decades S-5! has designed, tested and ethically marketed innovative products and systems for the metal roofing industry that enable engineered attachment of solar modules, snow guards, service walkways and other ancillaries. During that time, S-5! and its related entities have been awarded more than 50 patents.\n\u201cAs the market leader and innovator in this field, S-5! products are often copied by others. However distasteful it may be, this practice is legal when patents have expired. Nevertheless, on occasion, some of our inventions are copied during the active term of our patents. When that occurs, S-5! formally protects its investments in research and innovation. Such a situation occurred when PMC Industries Inc. (doing business as AceClamp) introduced to the market the ColorSnap System in 2016. Once advised that the system infringed upon our active US Patent No. 6,470,629, PMC refused to voluntarily remove the system from the market. They also refused reasonable attempts at licensure from S-5! So, S-5! brought suit for infringement in Federal District Court in its home state of Colorado. The action was later transferred to PMC\u2019s home state of Connecticut for trial, which concluded in December 2018.\n\u201cWe were not interested in obtaining money damages from PMC for its infringement, but only an injunction to force it to respect our patent rights. The Honorable Judge Borland of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut granted that relief, finding that the ColorSnap System does, in fact, directly infringe the asserted S-5! patent and ordered permanent enjoinment of PMC and anyone working with PMC from making, using, offering for sale, selling, advertising for sale, or installing the infringing system(s) during the term of S-5\u2019s legal patent protection. The injunction against PMC further enjoins PMC from making or selling replacement parts to repair or replace previously sold ColorSnap systems for the remaining term of the patent.\n\u201cS-5! wishes to express empathy that this injunction may impact PMC\u2019s customers, but points out that S-5! and its related entities were seeking such an injunction for several years now. PMC has been fully aware of this, but nevertheless kept on selling the infringing systems. If you have purchased or installed the infringing system from Ace/PMC, they have placed you (and building owner) in jeopardy of patent infringement actions. We suggest that you proceed as you believe morally and legally correct.\n\u201cIf you are interested in the details, they can be learned through review of the publicly filed Court order, which can be accessed through the following link: https://www.s-5.com/wp-content/uploads/S-5-vs-AceClamp-2018-Court-Order.pdf\n\u201cIt saddens us that such actions remain necessary to compel competitors to act ethically, responsibly and within the laws afforded by U.S. patent protection. S-5! remains committed to reaching commercially reasonable resolutions to all business disputes when they arise. But, when a competitor does not respect our valid patent rights and acts in ways deemed commercially unreasonable, S-5! and its related entities have no choice but to defend their intellectual property by all appropriate legal means and will always do so. It\u2019s The Right Way.\u201d\nNews item from S-5!\nAwesome Kelly.\nRob Haddock", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 7434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.soompi.com/article/920471wpp/exo-completes-filming-music-video-upcoming-winter-comeback", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:36Z", "digest": "sha1:JAZ2FCRWRUIBYYQTNCX7GDNZFI3BZQ73", "length": 553, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.soompi.com", "title": "EXO Reveals Plans And Completes Filming MV For Special Winter Album | Soompi", "raw_content": "EXO Reveals Plans And Completes Filming MV For Special Winter Album\nBoy group EXO has revealed plans to make a return in the winter!\nOn November 30, a representative from SM Entertainment announced the news, saying, \u201cEXO is currently preparing for a special winter album with the goal of releasing it in December. They recently completed filming for a music video.\u201d\nThis will not be their first special winter album, as EXO previously released \u201cSing for You\u201d last year and \u201cMiracles in December\u201d in 2013.\nAre you excited for their upcoming winter album?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.southampton.ac.uk/oes/about/staff/glf1u08.page", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YND4DDFXJTLKEYZPWX6W73WWF4CZMX2O", "length": 24388, "nlines": 114, "source_domain": "www.southampton.ac.uk", "title": "Professor Gavin Foster | Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton | University of Southampton", "raw_content": "Gavin.Foster@noc.soton.ac.uk\nProfessor Gavin Foster BSc, PhD\nProfessor of Isotope Geochemistry\nProfessor Gavin Foster is Professor of Isotope Geochemistry within Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre Southampton at the University of Southampton.\nBSc Geology, University of Leicester (1996)\nPhD Isotope Geochemistry, Open University (2000)\nNERC PDRA, Department of Geology, University of Leicester (2000-2003)\nNERC PDRA, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (2003)\nNERC Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (2003-2006)\nNERC Advanced Research Fellow, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (2006-2009)\nNERC Advanced Research Fellow, School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton (2009-2011)\nLecturer Ocean and Earth Science (2011-2012)\nFlint Visiting Lecturer, Geology and Geophysics, Yale University (2013)\nSpecialism: Isotope Geochemistry and Palaeoceanography\nMy research is primarily concerned with using novel isotopic techniques to gain insights into how and why the Earth\u2019s climate has changed over geological time. Much of my research efforts are currently focused on using boron isotopes in the calcareous shells of foraminifera to reconstruct the state of the oceanic carbonate system in the geological past. In particular I am interested in the mechanisms responsible for the CO2 changes that accompanied the waxing and waning of the ice-sheets throughout the Pleistocene, and the role of CO2 in the gradual (and sometimes rapid) deterioration of climate through the Cenozoic.\nMy other research interests deal with oceanic records of radiogenic isotopes (Pb and Nd) that reflect the changing patterns of continental weathering intensity and ocean circluation. I am also interested in reconstructing ice sheet coverage in the past using novel detrital mineral provenancing techniques such as in situ Nd isotopes in apatite.\nwww.thefosterlab.org\nClean Labs\nSea-surface temperature anomaly\nIceberg (Source: E Storey)\nDiatoms and Grains\nHead of Recruitment for GSNOCS\nJohnston, S., Basford, P. J., Bulot, F., Apetroaie-Cristea, M., Easton, N. H. C., Davenport, C., ... Cox, S. (2019). City scale particulate matter monitoring using LoRaWAN based air quality IoT devices. Sensors. DOI: 10.3390/s19010209\nRohling, E. J., Marino, G., Foster, G. L., Goodwin, P. A., Von der Heydt, A. S., & K\u00f6hler, P. (2018). Comparing climate sensitivity, past and present. Annual Review of Marine Science, 10, 261-288 . DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-121916-063242\nSosdian, S. M., Greenop, R., Hain, M. P., Foster, G. L., Pearson, P. N., & Lear, C. H. (2018). Constraining the evolution of Neogene ocean carbonate chemistry using the boron isotope pH proxy. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 498, 362-376. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2018.06.017\nGray, W. R., Rae, J. W. B., Wills, R. C. J., Shevenell, A. E., Taylor, B., Burke, A., ... Lear, C. H. (2018). Deglacial upwelling, productivity and CO2 outgassing in the North Pacific Ocean. Nature Geoscience, 11(5), 340-344. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0108-6\nBurke, J. E., Renema, W., Henehan, M. J., Elder, L. E., Davis, C. V., Maas, A. E., ... Hull, P. M. (2018). Factors influencing test porosity in planktonic foraminifera. Biogeosciences, 15(21), 6607-6619. DOI: 10.5194/bg-15-6607-2018\nFowell, S., Foster, G. L., Ries, J., Castillo, K. D., De La Vega, E., Tyrrell, T., ... Chalk, T. B. (2018). Historical trends in pH and carbonate biogeochemistry on the Belize Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/2017GL076496\nMollica, N. R., Guo, W., Cohen, A. L., Huang, K., Foster, G. L., Donald, H. K., & Solow, A. R. (2018). Ocean acidification affects coral growth by reducing skeletal density. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(8), 1754-1759. [201712806]. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712806115\nGoodwin, P., Katavouta, A., Roussenov, V. M., Foster, G. L., Rohling, E. J., & Williams, R. G. (2018). Pathways to 1.5 and 2 \u00b0C warming based on observational and geological constraints. Nature Geoscience, 11, 102\u2013107. DOI: 10.1038/s41561-017-0054-8\nFoster, G. L., Hull, P., Lunt, D. J., & Zachos, J. C. (2018). Placing our current \u2018hyperthermal\u2019 in the context of rapid climate change in our geological past. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 376(2130), [20170086]. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0086\nHain, M. P., Foster, G. L., & Chalk, T. (2018). Robust constraints on past CO2 climate forcing from the boron isotope proxy. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, 33(10), 1099-1115. DOI: 10.1029/2018PA003362\nDonald, H. K., Ries, J. B., Stewart, J. A., Fowell, S. E., & Foster, G. L. (2017). Boron isotope sensitivity to seawater pH change in a species of Neogoniolithon coralline red alga. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 217, 240-253. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2017.08.021\nRohling, E. J., Hibbert, F. D., Williams, F. H., Grant, K. M., Marino, G., Foster, G. L., ... Yokoyama, Y. (2017). Differences between the last two glacial maxima and implications for ice-sheet, \u03b418O, and sea-level reconstructions. Quaternary Science Reviews, 176, 1-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.009\nFoster, G. L., Royer, D. L., & Lunt, D. J. (2017). Future climate forcing potentially without precedent in the last 420 million years. Nature Communications, 8, [14845]. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14845\nHenehan, M. J., Evans, D., Shankle, M., Burke, J. E., Foster, G. L., Anagnostou, E., ... Hull, P. M. (2017). Size-dependent response of foraminiferal calcification to seawater carbonate chemistry. Biogeosciences, 14(13), 3287-3308. DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-3287-2017\nLunt, D. J., Huber, M., Anagnostou, E., Baatsen, M. L. J., Caballero, R., Deconto, R., ... Zeebe, R. E. (2017). The DeepMIP contribution to PMIP4: experimental design for model simulations of the EECO, PETM, and pre-PETM (version 1.0). Geoscientific Model Development, 10(2), 889-901. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-10-889-2017\nGutjahr, M., Ridgwell, A., Sexton, P. F., Anagnostou, E., Pearson, P. N., P\u00e4like, H., ... Foster, G. L. (2017). Very large release of mostly volcanic carbon during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Nature, 548, 573-577. DOI: 10.1038/nature23646\nStewart, J. A., Anagnostou, E., & Foster, G. L. (2016). An improved boron isotope pH proxy calibration for the deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus through sub-sampling of fibrous aragonite. Chemical Geology, 447, 148-160. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2016.10.029\nAnagnostou, E., John, E. H., Edgar, K. M., Foster, G. L., Ridgwell, A., Inglis, G. N., ... Pearson, P. N. (2016). Changing atmospheric CO2 concentration was the primary driver of early Cenozoic climate. Nature, 533(7603), 380-384. DOI: 10.1038/nature17423\nDeCarlo, T. M., Gaetani, G. A., Cohen, A. L., Foster, G. L., Alpert, A. E., & Stewart, J. A. (2016). Coral Sr-U thermometry. Paleoceanography, 31(6), 626-638. DOI: 10.1002/2015PA002908\nMartin, P., Goodkin, N. F., Stewart, J. A., Foster, G. L., Sikes, E. L., White, H. K., ... Roberts, J. M. (2016). Deep-sea coral 13C: A tool to reconstruct the difference between seawater pH and?11B-derived calcifying fluid pH. Geophysical Research Letters, 43(1), 299-308. DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066494\nFowell, S. E., Sandford, K., Stewart, J. A., Castillo, K. D., Ries, J. B., & Foster, G. L. (2016). Intrareef variations in Li/Mg and Sr/Ca sea surface temperature proxies in the Caribbean reef-building coral Siderastrea siderea: Intrareef Variations in SST Proxies. Paleoceanography, 31(10), 1315-1329. DOI: 10.1002/palo.v31.10\nLunt, D. J., Farnsworth, A., Loptson, C., Foster, G. L., Markwick, P., O'Brien, C. L., ... Wrobel, N. (2016). Palaeogeographic controls on climate and proxy interpretation. Climate of the Past, 12(5), 1181-1198. DOI: 10.5194/cp-12-1181-2016\nFoster, G. L., & Rae, J. W. B. (2016). Reconstructing ocean pH with boron isotopes in foraminifera. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 44(1), 207-237. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-060115-012226\nWhite, L. F., Bailey, I., Foster, G. L., Allen, G., Kelley, S. P., Andrews, J. T., ... Storey, C. D. (2016). Tracking the provenance of Greenland-sourced, Holocene aged, individual sand-sized ice-rafted debris using the Pb-isotope compositions of feldspars and 40Ar/39Ar ages of hornblendes. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 433, 192-203. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2015.10.054\nMartinez-Boti, M. A., Foster, G. L., Chalk, T. B., Rohling, E. J., Sexton, P. F., Lunt, D. J., ... Schmidt, D. N. (2015). Addendum: Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records. Nature, 526(7573), 458. DOI: 10.1038/nature14954\nEdgar, K. M., Anagnostou, E., Pearson, P. N., & Foster, G. L. (2015). Assessing the impact of diagenesis on d11B, d13C, d18O, Sr/Ca and B/Ca values in fossil planktic foraminiferal calcite. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 166, 180-209. DOI: 10.1016/j.gca.2015.06.018\nStewart, J. A., Gutjahr, M., Pearce, F., Swart, P. K., & Foster, G. L. (2015). Boron during meteoric diagenesis and its potential implications for Marinoan snowball Earth 11B-pH excursions. Geology, 43(7), 627-630. DOI: 10.1130/G36652.1\nMart\u00ednez-Bot\u00ed, M. A., Marino, G., Foster, G. L., Ziveri, P., Henehan, M. J., Rae, J. W. B., ... Vance, D. (2015). Boron isotope evidence for oceanic carbon dioxide leakage during the last deglaciation. Nature, 518(7538), 219-222. DOI: 10.1038/nature14155\nInglis, G. N., Farnsworth, A., Lunt, D., Foster, G. L., Hollis, C. J., Pagani, M., ... Pancost, R. D. (2015). Descent toward the Icehouse: Eocene sea surface cooling inferred from GDGT distributions. Paleoceanography, 30(7), 1000-1020. DOI: 10.1002/2014PA002723\nMart\u00ednez-Bot\u00ed, M. A., Foster, G. L., Chalk, T. B., Rohling, E. J., Sexton, P. F., Lunt, D. J., ... Schmidt, D. N. (2015). Plio-Pleistocene climate sensitivity evaluated using high-resolution CO2 records. Nature, 518(7537), 49-54. DOI: 10.1038/nature14145\nO'Brien, C. L., Foster, G. L., Rae, J. W. B., & Pancost, R. D. (2015). Reply to 'Pliocene warmth and gradients'. Nature Geoscience, 8, p420. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2445\nNaik, S. S., Divakar Naidu, P., Foster, G. L., & Mart\u00ednez-Bot\u00ed, M. A. (2015). Tracing the strength of the southwest monsoon using boron isotopes in the eastern Arabian Sea. Geophysical Research Letters, 42(5), 1450-1458. DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063089\nRohling, E. J., Foster, G. L., Grant, K. M., Marino, G., Roberts, A. P., Tamisiea, M. E., & Williams, F. (2014). Corrigendum: Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years. Nature, 510(7505), p432. DOI: 10.1038/nature13488\nRae, J. W. B., Sarnthein, M., Foster, G. L., Ridgwell, A., Grootes, P. M., & Elliott, T. (2014). Deep water formation in the North Pacific and deglacial CO2 rise. Paleoceanography, 29(6), 645-667. DOI: 10.1002/2013PA002570\nFoster, G. L., & Sexton, P. F. (2014). Enhanced carbon dioxide outgassing from the eastern equatorial Atlantic during the last glacial. Geology, 42(11), 1003-1006. DOI: 10.1130/G35806.1\nAze, T., Pearson, P. N., Dickson, A. J., Badger, M. P. S., Bown, P. R., Pancost, R. D., ... Foster, G. L. (2014). Extreme warming of tropical waters during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Geology, 42(9), 739-742. DOI: 10.1130/G35637.1\nO\u2019Brien, C. L., Foster, G. L., Mart\u00ednez-Bot\u00ed, M. A., Abell, R., Rae, J. W. B., & Pancost, R. D. (2014). High sea surface temperatures in tropical warm pools during the Pliocene. Nature Geoscience, 7(8), 606-611. DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2194\nRohling, E. J., Foster, G. L., Grant, K. M., Marino, G., Roberts, A. P., Tamisiea, M. E., & Williams, F. (2014). Sea-level and deep-sea-temperature variability over the past 5.3 million years. Nature, 508(7497), 477-482. DOI: 10.1038/nature13230\nRohling, E. J., Haigh, I. D., Foster, G. L., Roberts, A. P., & Grant, K. M. (2013). A geological perspective on potential future sea-level rise. Scientific Reports, 3(3461), 1-7. DOI: 10.1038/srep03461\nBadger, M. P. S., Lear, C. H., Pancost, R. D., Foster, G. L., Bailey, T. R., Leng, M. J., & Abels, H. A. (2013). CO2drawdown following the middle Miocene expansion of the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Paleoceanography, 28(1), 42-53. DOI: 10.1002/palo.20015\nFoster, G. L., H\u00f6nisch, B., Paris, G., Dwyer, G. S., Rae, J. W. B., Elliott, T., ... Vengosh, A. (2013). Interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope analyses of boric acid, seawater and marine CaCO3 by MC-ICPMS and NTIMS. Chemical Geology, 358, 1-14. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.08.027\nFoster, G. L., & Rohling, E. J. (2013). Relationship between sea level and climate forcing by CO2 on geological timescales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 110(4), 1209-1214. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216073110\nGutjahr, M., Vance, D., Hoffmann, D. L., Hillenbrand, C-D., Foster, G. L., Rae, J. W. B., & Kuhn, G. (2013). Structural limitations in deriving accurate U-series ages from calcitic cold-water corals contrast with robust coral radiocarbon and Mg/Ca systematics. Chemical Geology, 355, 69-87. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.07.002\nLunt, D. J., Elderfield, H., Pancost, R., Ridgwell, A., Foster, G. L., Haywood, A., ... Valdes, P. (2013). Warm climates of the past - a lesson for the future? Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(2001), 1-12. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0146\nJohn, E. H., Pearson, P. N., Coxall, H. K., Birch, H., Wade, B. S., & Foster, G. L. (2013). Warm ocean processes and carbon cycling in the Eocene. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 371(2001), 20130099. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0099\nRohling, E. J., Sluijs, A., Dijkstra, H. A., K\u00f6hler, P., van de Wal, R. S. W., von der Heydt, A. S., ... Zeebe, R. E. (2012). Making sense of palaeoclimate sensitivity. Nature, 491(7426), 683-691. DOI: 10.1038/nature11574\nFoster, G. L., Lear, C. H., & Rae, J. W. B. (2012). The evolution of pCO2, ice volume and climate during the middle Miocene. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 341-344, 243-254. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.007\nHonisch, B., Ridgwell, A., Schmidt, D. N., Thomas, E., Gibbs, S. J., Sluijs, A., ... Williams, B. (2012). The Geological Record of Ocean Acidification. Science, 335(6072), 1058-1063. DOI: 10.1126/science.1208277\nHenderson, A. L., Najman, Y., Parrish, R., Mark, D. F., & Foster, G. L. (2011). Constraints to the timing of India\u2013Eurasia collision; a re-evaluation of evidence from the Indus Basin sedimentary rocks of the Indus\u2013Tsangpo Suture Zone, Ladakh, India. Earth-Science Reviews, 106(3-4), 265-292. DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2011.02.006\nCrocket, K. C., Vance, D., Gutjahr, M., Foster, G. L., & Richards, D. A. (2011). Persistent Nordic deep-water overflow to the glacial North Atlantic. Geology, 39(6), 515-518. DOI: 10.1130/G31677.1\nSeki, O., Foster, G. L., Schmidt, D. N., Mackensen, A., Kawamura, K., & Pancost, R. D. (2010). Alkenone and boron-based Pliocene pCO2 records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 292(1-2), 201-211. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.01.037\nYu, J., Foster, G. L., Elderfield, H., Broecker, W. S., & Clark, E. (2010). An evaluation of benthic foraminiferal B/Ca and ?11B for deep ocean carbonate ion and pH reconstructions. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 293(1-2), 114-120. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2010.02.029\nFoster, G. L., Pogge von Strandmann, P. A. E., & Rae, J. W. B. (2010). Boron and magnesium isotopic composition of seawater. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 11(8), Q08015. DOI: 10.1029/2010GC003201\nFoster, G. L., Lunt, D. J., & Parrish, R. R. (2010). Mountain uplift and the glaciation of North America \u2013 a sensitivity study. Climate of the Past, 6(5), 707-717. DOI: 10.5194/cp-6-707-2010\nNi, Y., Foster, G. L., & Elliott, T. (2010). The accuracy of ?11B measurements of foraminifers. Chemical Geology, 274(3-4), 187-195. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2010.04.008\nPearson, P. N., Foster, G. L., & Wade, B. S. (2009). Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene\u2013Oligocene climate transition. Nature, 461(7267), 1110-1113. DOI: 10.1038/nature08447\nKemp, A. I. S., Foster, G. L., Scherst\u00e9n, A., Whitehouse, M. J., Darling, J., & Storey, C. (2009). Concurrent Pb\u2013Hf isotope analysis of zircon by laser ablation multi-collector ICP-MS, with implications for the crustal evolution of Greenland and the Himalayas. Chemical Geology, 261(3-4), 244-260. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.06.019\nAggarwal, J., B\u00f6hm, F., Foster, G., Halas, S., H\u00f6nisch, B., Jiang, S-Y., ... Zuleger, E. (2009). How well do non-traditional stable isotope results compare between different laboratories: results from the interlaboratory comparison of boron isotope measurements. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 24(6), 825-831. DOI: 10.1039/b815240c\nKasemann, S. A., Schmidt, D. N., Bijma, J., & Foster, G. L. (2009). In situ boron isotope analysis in marine carbonates and its application for foraminifera and palaeo-pH. Chemical Geology, 260(1-2), 138-147. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2008.12.015\nLunt, D. J., Haywood, A. M., Foster, G. L., & Stone, E. J. (2009). The Arctic cryosphere in the Mid-Pliocene and the future. Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 367(1886), 49-67. DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0218\nVance, D., Teagle, D. A. H., & Foster, G. L. (2009). Variable Quaternary chemical weathering fluxes and imbalances in marine geochemical budgets. Nature, 458(7237), 493-496. DOI: 10.1038/nature07828\nLunt, D. J., Foster, G. L., Haywood, A. M., & Stone, E. J. (2008). Late Pliocene Greenland glaciation controlled by a decline in atmospheric CO2 levels. Nature, 454(7208), 1102-1105. DOI: 10.1038/nature07223\nFoster, G. L. (2008). Seawater pH, pCO2 and [CO2?3] variations in the Caribbean Sea over the last 130 kyr: A boron isotope and B/Ca study of planktic foraminifera. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 271(1-4), 254-266. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2008.04.015\nNi, Y., Foster, G. L., Bailey, T., Elliott, T., Schmidt, D. N., Pearson, P., ... Coath, C. (2007). A core top assessment of proxies for the ocean carbonate system in surface-dwelling foraminifers. Paleoceanography, 22(3), PA3212. DOI: 10.1029/2006PA001337\nFoster, G. L., & Carter, A. (2007). Insights into the patterns and locations of erosion in the Himalaya \u2014 A combined fission-track and in situ Sm\u2013Nd isotopic study of detrital apatite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 257(3-4), 407-418. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.02.044\nKemp, A. I. S., Hawkesworth, C. J., Foster, G. L., Paterson, B. A., Woodhead, J. D., Hergt, J. M., ... Whitehouse, M. J. (2007). Magmatic and Crustal Differentiation History of Granitic Rocks from Hf-O Isotopes in Zircon. Science, 315(5814), 980-983. DOI: 10.1126/Science.1136154\nFoster, G. L., Vance, D., & Prytulak, J. (2007). No change in the neodymium isotope composition of deep water exported from the North Atlantic on glacial-interglacial time scales. Geology, 35(1), 37-40. DOI: 10.1130/G23204A.1\nFoster, G. L., Ni, Y., Haley, B., & Elliott, T. (2006). Accurate and precise isotopic measurement of sub-nanogram sized samples of foraminiferal hosted boron by total evaporation NTIMS. Chemical Geology, 230(1-2), 161-174. DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2005.12.006\nKemp, A. I. S., Hawkesworth, C. J., Paterson, B. A., Foster, G. L., Kinny, P. D., Whitehouse, M. J., & Maas, R. (2006). Exploring the plutonic-volcanic link: a zircon U-Pb, Lu-Hf and O isotope study of paired volcanic and granitic units from southeastern Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 97(4), 337-355.\nFoster, G. L., & Vance, D. (2006). In situ Nd isotopic analysis of geological materials by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 21(3), 288-296. DOI: 10.1039/b513945g\nFoster, G. L., & Vance, D. (2006). Negligible glacial\u2013interglacial variation in continental chemical weathering rates. Nature, 444(7121), 918-921. DOI: 10.1038/nature05365\nGarzanti, E., Vezzoli, G., And\u00f2, S., France-Lanord, C., Singh, S. K., & Foster, G. (2004). Sand petrology and focused erosion in collision orogens: the Brahmaputra case. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 220(1-2), 157-174. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(04)00035-4\nFoster, G., Parrish, R. R., Horstwood, M. S. A., Chenery, S., Pyle, J., & Gibson, H. D. (2004). The generation of prograde P\u2013T\u2013t points and paths; a textural, compositional, and chronological study of metamorphic monazite. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 228(1-2), 125-142. DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.09.024\nSmith, S. R., Foster, G. L., Romer, R. L., Tindle, A. G., Kelley, S. P., Noble, S. R., ... Breaks, F. W. (2004). U-Pb columbite-tantalite chronology of rare-element pegmatites using TIMS and Laser Ablation-Multi Collector-ICP-MS. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 147(5), 549-564. DOI: 10.1007/s00410-003-0538-y\nHorstwood, M. S. A., Foster, G. L., Parrish, R. R., Noble, S. R., & Nowell, G. M. (2003). Common-Pb corrected in situ U-Pb accessory mineral geochronology by LA-MC-ICP-MS. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, 18(8), 837-846. DOI: 10.1039/b304365g\nArgles, T., Foster, G., Whittington, A., Harris, N., & George, M. (2003). Isotope studies reveal a complete Himalayan section in the Nanga Parbat syntaxis. Geology, 31(12), 1109-1112. DOI: 10.1130/G19937.1\nFoster, G., Gibson, H. D., Parrish, R., Horstwood, M., Fraser, J., & Tindle, A. (2002). Textural, chemical and isotopic insights into the nature and behaviour of metamorphic monazite. Chemical Geology, 191(1-3), 183-207. DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2541(02)00156-0\nFoster, G., Vance, D., Argles, T., & Harris, N. (2002). The Tertiary collision-related thermal history of the NW Himalaya. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 20(9), 827-843. DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1314.2002.00410.x\nFoster, G., Kinny, P., Vance, D., Prince, C., & Harris, N. (2000). The significance of monazite U\u2013Th\u2013Pb age data in metamorphic assemblages; a combined study of monazite and garnet chronometry. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 181(3), 327-340. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(00)00212-0\nWhittington, A., Foster, G., Harris, N., Vance, D., & Ayres, M. (1999). Lithostratigraphic correlations in the western Himalaya \u2014 An isotopic approach. Geology, 27(7), 585-588. DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0585:LCITWH>2.3.CO;2\nArgles, T. W., Prince, C. I., Foster, G. L., & Vance, D. (1999). New garnets for old? Cautionary tales from young mountain belts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 172(3-4), 301-309. DOI: 10.1016/S0012-821X(99)00209-5\nFoster, G. L., L\u00e9cuyer, C., & Marschall, H. R. (2018). Boron stable isotopes. In W. M. White (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geochemistry (pp. 162-166). (Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series). Cham: Springer Netherlands. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-39312-4_238\nAllen, R., Carter, A., Najman, Y., Bandopadhyay, P. C., Chapman, H. J., Bickle, M. J., ... Gerring, C. (2008). New constraints on the sedimentation and uplift history of the Andaman-Nicobar accretionary prism, South Andaman Island. In Special Paper 436: Formation and Applications of the Sedimentary Record in Arc Collision Zones (pp. 223-256). (Geological Society of America Special Paper; Vol. 436). Geological Society of America. DOI: 10.1130/2008.2436(11)\nFoster, G. L., & Parrish, R. R. (2003). Metamorphic monazite and the generation of P-T-t paths. In D. Vance, W. Muller, & I. M. Villa (Eds.), Geochronology: Linking the Isotopic Record with Petrology and Textures (pp. 25-47). (Geological Society Special Publication; No. 220). London, GB: Geological Society of London.\nWhittington, A., Harris, N. B. W., Ayres, M. W., & Foster, G. (2000). Tracing the origins of the western Himalaya: an isotopic comparison of the Nanga Parbat massif and Zanskar Himalaya. In M. A. Khan, P. J. Treloar, M. P. Searle, & M. Q. Jan (Eds.), Tectonics of the Nanga Parbat Syntaxis and the Western Himalaya (pp. 201-218). (Geological Society Special Publication; Vol. 170). London, GB: Geological Society of London. DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.2000.170.01.11\nEvans, D., Badger, M. P. S., Foster, G. L., Henehan, M. J., Lear, C. H., & Zachos, J. C. (2018). No substantial long-term bias in the Cenozoic benthic foraminifera oxygen-isotope record. Nature Communications, 9(1), 1-3. [2875]. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-05303-4\nSOES3025 \u2013 Independent Mapping Project leader to the Isle of Skye (UK)\nSOES 3006 - The evolving Earth\nSOES6047 - Global Climate Cycles\nResearch Horizons for Post Graduates\nProfessor Gavin Foster\nProfessor Gavin Foster's personal home page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 283, "original_length": 32427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 199.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.southderbyshire.gov.uk/news/2018/oct/first-spade-in-the-ground", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:35Z", "digest": "sha1:P3CAE3AVOGZ4DDZBAOJYOPXQIBHGYHJR", "length": 1808, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.southderbyshire.gov.uk", "title": "First spade in the ground at new Council housing site | South Derbyshire District Council", "raw_content": "First spade in the ground at new Council housing site\nA ground-breaking ceremony has been held to mark the beginning of work at a new Council housing development in South Derbyshire.\nSix two-bedroom properties, all designed to the highest standards, will be built on disused land in Lullington Road, Overseal.\nSouth Derbyshire District Council is working closely with developer G F Tomlinson to take the scheme from the drawing board to reality.\nElected Members, Council officers and other VIPs donned hard hats and Hi-Vis jackets to get the first spade in the ground on Thursday, October 18.\nCllr Jim Hewlett, Chairman of Housing and Community Services at South Derbyshire District Council, said:\n\u201cIt never fails to be an exciting moment when a project with so much potential starts on site.\n\"Thanks to the quality of the specification and design, these homes will provide an excellent living environment for residents and enhance the local landscape.\n\u201cThe Lullington Road development is another major milestone in our ongoing commitment to meet the housing needs of future generations in South Derbyshire.\u201d\nWork on the scheme, which is jointly funded by the Council and Homes England, is due to be completed in spring 2019.\nAndy Sewards, Managing Director of G F Tomlinson, said: \u201cWe\u2019re delighted to be working with South Derbyshire District Council on this housing site within the District.\n\u201cThese properties will be built to the highest standards, enabling them to perform efficiently and reduce tenants\u2019 energy bills to create warm, secure homes.\u201d\nCompletion of the project will take the Council\u2019s housing stock to 3,000 as it continues to reduce a waiting list which has more than 600 applicants.\nA total of 45 Council homes have been built in locations across South Derbyshire over the last two years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.southernspiritonline.org/disaster-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:NDYB2HDQ4XVKFXUDFL574HRM4XM6SMI3", "length": 264, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.southernspiritonline.org", "title": "disaster-family \u2013 Southern Spirit Online", "raw_content": "disaster-family\nhttps://www.southernspiritonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/southernspirit_logo-1.png 0 0 admin https://www.southernspiritonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/southernspirit_logo-1.png admin2016-10-10 10:06:392016-10-10 10:06:39disaster-family", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 3605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spa.gov.sa/viewfullstory.php?lang=en&newsid=1777639", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:05Z", "digest": "sha1:RH3YUQRVZXU7SME67B4IAIV7SIUVNLVY", "length": 472, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.spa.gov.sa", "title": "Yemeni Army Tightens Grip on Houthi Militia in Sa'ada The official Saudi Press Agency", "raw_content": "Yemeni Army Tightens Grip on Houthi Militia in Sa'ada\nAden, Shawwal 06, 1439, June 20, 2018, SPA -- Yemeni army, backed by Arab coalition, controlled today new sites in the Directorate of the Al-Zaher front, south of the province of Saada, the stronghold of the Houthi militia.\nAccording to the Information Center of the Armed Forces, the National Army liberated the mountains of Al-Kharashi and Al-Ruqi, while continuing to move towards the liberation of Jabal Al-Jarzah.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sparke.com.au/insights/media-releases/sparke-helmore-lawyers-partners-with-lloyds-for-a-week-of-learning-in-london/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:39Z", "digest": "sha1:X6VF37RYKEDBZ4VIUUIYFZXNDG4S3EGB", "length": 1894, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sparke.com.au", "title": "\ufeff Sparke Helmore Lawyers partners with Lloyd's for a week of learning in London :: Sparke Helmore", "raw_content": "Sparke Helmore Lawyers partners with Lloyd's for a week of learning in London\nSparke Helmore Lawyers sent six young insurance lawyers to London, as the first group to participate in an immersion program with underwriters, brokers and claims teams. The group also had the unique opportunity to present on impactful insurance topics affecting the market.\nThe firm partnered with Lloyd's Market Association (LMA) Under 35's Claims Group on this initiative.\n\"Our Insurance Group has strong ties with, and an ongoing commitment to, Lloyd's and the London market. We are privileged to have been able to offer this special learning experience to our firm's future leaders,\" said Chris Wood, Sparke Helmore's National Commercial Insurance Group Leader.\nPartner Wes Rose, Senior Associates Laura Rush, Mark Sainsbury, James Clohesy and Edward Osborne, and Lawyer Josie Dempster presented to more than 100 insurance professionals from around 40 insurers, as well as Lloyd's syndicates and broking houses in the historic Old Lloyd's Library. They also met with Lloyd's new Chairman Bruce Carnegie-Brown before the presentation.\n\"We work with brokers and claims professionals in the London market regularly, so it was incredibly enlightening to get a deeper insight into their operations, the issues affecting their business and the wider London market,\" said Wes.\nLaura Rush added, \"To be able to share our intelligence on developments in the Australian market and how these could potentially impact their businesses opened up such a rich dialogue. We discussed everything from cyber risks to developments in the building defects space, which is topical following the tragic Grenfell disaster.\"\n\"Thank you to the LMA, we're so proud to be the first Australian partner of this program,\" said Chris.\nAbove (left-right): Laura Rush, Wes Rose, James Clohesy, Edward Osborne, Josie Dempster and Mark Sainsbury.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 8453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.springboardyouth.com/tyler", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:14Z", "digest": "sha1:2EIFFTJICQXET57URD72DSOJVNXGT5N4", "length": 949, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.springboardyouth.com", "title": "Tyler Fox \u2014 Springboard Youth Academy", "raw_content": "Tyler is a refugee community services practitioner who has worked collaboratively and cross-culturally with various displaced communities in Canada, the UK and Germany. She spent five years working with London\u2019s refugee community as a welfare advocate, immigration adviser and head of youth services, overseeing projects for young people including housing, mentoring and employability, as well as training teachers, staff and volunteers on strategies for supporting young people who have recently arrived in the UK. She founded Springboard Youth Academy in response to the immense budget cuts to the education sector that have left many schools ill-equipped to provide the holistic support necessary for young refugees, asylum-seekers and unaccompanied minors to thrive. She is passionate about providing young people with the opportunities, skills and tools to push boundaries and make big contributions to their communities and the world at large.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 125.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stdavids.online/groups-clubs-2/2018/8/31/womens-bible-study", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:LLFIPH74GTMZHKH6CAIZ4BQPFOKVIB2W", "length": 473, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.stdavids.online", "title": "Women's Bible Study \u2014 St David\u2019s Moreton in Marsh", "raw_content": "The Women's Bible Study consists of three groups for women of all ages meeting for fellowship, Bible study and prayer. The groups meet at St. David's Centre every Monday morning during term time from 9am till 10:30. There is coffee at 9 o'clock, and the studies begins at 9:15. There is also a creche provided to look after pre-school children.\nThere are occasional guest speakers, and social events too.\nFor further information email Claire Mason on claire@stdavids.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 188.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.steinberglawfirm.com/blog/2016/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OWDBLESOGQOAK45YJ26BDPE6DMINQ47B", "length": 1440, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.steinberglawfirm.com", "title": "January, 2016 | Steinberg Law Firm", "raw_content": "Is My Car Accident Covered By Workers' Compensation?\nWe tend to think of car accidents and workers' compensation claims as two separate categories of personal injury law, but there can be a great deal of overlap between the...\nDo You Need a South Carolina Work Injury Attorney?\nMany South Carolina residents suffer an injury on the job without realizing they might need a work injury attorney to represent their interests. There are several different reasons you might...\nNursing Home Abuse | 01-27-2016\nNursing Home Abuse: What to Look For\nAccording to the National Center on Elder Abuse, up to 10% of all residents of nursing homes or assisted care facilities have been abused in some form in the last...\nSouth Carolina Publishes 2016 Workers' Comp Rates\nThe South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce has released its annual statistics concerning the average weekly wage for workers' compensation for 2016. From July 1, 2014, through June 30,...\nIs Your Auto Insurance Company Acting in Bad Faith?\nYour auto insurance company is supposed to be there to protect you after an accident. The contract you sign with them is an act of \u201cgood faith\u201d and a promise...\nCar Accident Fatalities in South Carolina Reach 8-Year High\nThe South Carolina Department of Transportation recently released its Traffic Fatality Report for 2015, detailing the deaths caused by auto accidents in the last year. The results were sobering: according...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.steinershow.org/podcasts/january-12-this-day-in-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RMYKYQUPOULEDU5KDMNCHENPG3BSRHRO", "length": 4069, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.steinershow.org", "title": "January 12: This Day In History \u2013 The Marc Steiner Show", "raw_content": "Marc talks about what happened on this day in history, including the day playwright and activist Lorraine Hansberry died, the day the 2010 earthquake in Haiti killed 316,000 Haitians, and the day the Supreme Court made it illegal for states to discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.\nA transcript of this day in history is included below.\nThis is Marc Steiner, and today is January the 12th.\n(Lorraine Hansberry being interviewed by Studs Terkel)\nThat was the voice of the great playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who we lost in 1965. Born in Chicago, Hansberry wrote \u2018A Raisin in the Sun\u2019 and was the first black playwright and the youngest American to win a New York Critics\u2019 Circle award. She was the granddaughter of a freed slave and an activist, deeply committed to Black equality and human rights. \u2018A Raisin in the Sun\u2019 was autobiographical: her own family had moved to a white neighborhood in the late 1930s and was violently attacked by neighbors. Still, they refused to move. Eventually, a court ordered that they must move, but the case made it to the Supreme Court where restrictive covenants were made illegal.\nIn 1915, the House of Representatives rejected the Women\u2019s Suffrage Bill that would have granted women the right to vote by a wide margin. 57 members of the House abstained from voting. President Woodrow Wilson would publicly declare his support for the bill two years later when the Democratic Party and general public seemed more friendly to the idea, but that attempt at a constitutional referendum also failed. In 1920, women\u2019s suffrage would be established nationwide.\nWe celebrate the birthdays of three important people on this day. First, Mordecai Wyatt Johnson, born in 1890 in Paris, Tennessee. He was an educator and the first Black president of Howard University. Johnson served as pastor of the First Baptist Church in West Virginia from 1917-1926. He was unanimously elected president of Howard University, a position he held until he retired. His legacy at Howard includes a greatly expanded campus, a new library and new structures for schools within the university. Under his tenure, enrollment at Howard went from 2,000 students to 10,000 students.\nIt is also the birthday of heavyweight boxing champion Joe Frazier, born in 1944 in Beaufort, South Carolina. Smokin\u2019 Joe was an Olympic gold medalist and an Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion. Of course famously lost that titel by Muhammed Ali. He had heart, forced to flee South Carolina when he was 14 for beating the overseer of the cotten fields who whipping his father He now sits in International Boxing Hall of Fame.\nAnd its the birthday of novelist Walter Ellis Mosley, born in Los Angeles, California in 1952. Known for his Easy Rawlins series about a black private investigator, he is a prolific writer who has penned more than 40 books. His mother was Jewish and his father was African American, and his can traverse culture as few others.\nAnd in 1967, Reverend Philip Berrigan and 5 others alleged plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger and blow up the tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, DC.\nTwo important Supreme Court cases were ruled in this day, one opening a door the other closing a door.. In 1948, the decision in Spiel v. University of Oklahoma made it illegal for states to discriminate against law-school applicants because of race.\nAnd in 2000, the decision in Illinois v. Wardlow gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.\nAnd today we remember the 316,000 Haitians who were tragically killed in the 2010 earthquake that hit Haiti and destroyed the city of Port-au-Prince.\nHere\u2019s a song and for us to think about as we go about our days on this January the 12th. It\u2019s by a musician born today in Rossville, Tennessee in 1904. They began playing guitar at the age of 14 and were known for playing guitar with a slide on their ring finger. Do you know what hill country and blues artist I\u2019m talking about? Mississippi Fred McDowell. And here\u2019s his performance of \u201cShake Em On Down\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 7760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 149.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stepuphomebuyers.com/blog/is-auctioning-your-house-a-good-idea-in-houston/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KO5TXVV6J6WQOUA7WBZ7BIYRZPYUOF3A", "length": 5732, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.stepuphomebuyers.com", "title": "Is Auctioning Your House A Good Idea in Houston? The do's and dont's - StepUp Home Buyers", "raw_content": "Selling your Houston house by auction can be a good option if you follow the steps in this article below\u2026\nSelling your home at auction in Houston is a growing practice throughout America, because it offers an opportunity to sell your house fast, without paying real estate agent fees, and often with a profit.\nHowever, as with all things, there can be downsides to auctioning your home rather than selling it through the traditional real estate sale process with an agent or to a real estate investment firm like StepUp Home Buyers.\nIn this article I\u2019ll dive into some of the do\u2019s and dont\u2019s of auctioning your house in Houston and surrounding areas and discuss the question of \u201cIs Auctioning Your House A Good Idea in Houston TX?\u201d\nIs Auctioning Your House A Good Idea in Houston?\nIf you\u2019re looking at auctioning off your Houston house, keep in mind that there are several preparations that you must make before the actual auction starts.\nIn order to actually get your house auctioned off, you must first find an auctioneer in Houston.There are many auctioneering companies out there today, so do your research before picking one to represent your house. One place you can start is your local phone book, a referral, or head over to the National Auctioneers Association website and do a quick search for auctioneers here in our area of TX.Look for those with plenty of experience, and even try attending an auction or two, just to get a feel for how they run things. Make sure to find out their fees that they charge for their services, as they can sometimes run quite high. In some instances they may take up to ten percent of the houses cost, greatly reducing the amount of profit that you will receive\u2026 sometimes much lower.Or heck, if you don\u2019t want to hire an auctioneer\u2026 you can do it yourself. A good auctioneer can really help drive the price of a house up with their skill\u2026 but you can run the auction yourself as long as you\u2019re clear about the rules of the auction with bidders, the starting bid price, whether they have to have cash and a deposit at the auction, etc.\nDecide which kind of auction you want to run \u2013 Absolute or Reserve?Once you feel that you\u2019ve selected the house auctioneering company in Houston that\u2019s best for you, establish which kind of auction you want it to be, absolute or reserve.In absolute auctions there is no minimum limit that your house must earn in order to be sold. This means that whatever the highest bid may be, is what you\u2019re going to get.Reserve auctions are those that have a minimum limit, and if it doesn\u2019t reach that limit, it doesn\u2019t get sold.\nAlthough it seems like a clear choice between the two, don\u2019t assume that reserve auctions are necessarily better. Sometimes if bidders aren\u2019t willing to reach the limit, it will never be sold and you\u2019ll be sitting on a house that you don\u2019t want. Also, auctions that are \u201cno reserve\u201d (or absolute) tend to attract more potential bidders to the auction looking for a great deal\u2026 and if one of them gets wrapped up in the bidding frenzie\u2026 that could mean the difference between selling the house that day and not selling it.\nThink carefully about making a decision, and try to decide what it is that you want more. If you want to sell your house as quickly as possible in Houston, then doing an absolute auction is the quicker option. If not, then perhaps a reserve auction would be more in your goals.\nDon\u2019t leave out any faults about the house from your auction descriptionA really important step in selling your house at auction here in Houston is to list all the problems that your property has. Don\u2019t leave out any faults about your house, because if you do the buyers have a right to come after you for any flaws that you didn\u2019t list out before the auction.\nDon\u2019t go into an auction with fantasies of a bidding war erupting, leaving you with an enormous profit.Place a realistic price that you hope to earn, and don\u2019t be too disappointed if your house sells for less than you think it\u2019s worth. You may have an emotional attachment to the house that the people bidding on the house don\u2019t have.Auctioning your house in Houston may bring in less money than a real estate sale, but it is relatively quick, and can spare you the heartache and stress of the more traditional approach.\nWhy Are You Thinking About Auctioning Your Houston House Anyway?\nYou landed on this article for a reason\u2026 auctioning off your house has crossed your mind.\nIt may help you sell your house more quickly\u2026 so why not give it a go right?\nBefore you choose to auction off your local house\u2026 try another option first.\nOur company, StepUp Home Buyers, buys Houston area houses. We\u2019re not looking to list your house\u2026 we\u2019re looking to actually buy it.\nWe buy Houston houses\u2026\nAny part of town and even other parts of TX\nugly houses, pretty houses, houses in great shape, houses that need lots of repairs\nhouses with lots of equity and even houses with little or no equity\nWe\u2019ll pay a fair price, we can close fast (in as little as 7 days), and you won\u2019t have to fix up the house at all.\nIf you\u2019d like to see what we can pay for your house BEFORE you decide to auction it off\u2026 reach out to us.\nYou can call us anytime at 832 413 1437 or just click the link below and fill out the form on the next page to start the process.\nSo, Is Auctioning Your House A Good Idea in Houston?\u2026 that\u2019s up to you to decide. But if you want to see if working with us makes more sense first before you jump into the \u201cauction\u201d world\u2026 submit your info below to get started today!\nGet A Cash Offer On Your Houston Area House Here >>\nHere\u2019s another great read that we found when writing this article on some more tips and questions you should ask yourself before you auction off your house.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 9634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stmarkarmenianchurch.org/organizations/avaks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:29Z", "digest": "sha1:EVIVGYDPT25CFSRPH3LF746EWQJPKIZB", "length": 346, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.stmarkarmenianchurch.org", "title": "Avaks | St. Mark Armenian Church", "raw_content": "New members are welcome at any time during the year.\nMeetings: 10:30 a.m. on the first Thursday of each month, March-December\nHarry Demirjian, Chair\nAroxy Meregian, Treasurer\nAlice Vooris, Secretary\nA seniors organization, age 60+, for men and women. 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Highlighting the program is Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 12, a specialty of Fleisher's. 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(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld)\nSix agonizing, frustrating years in the making, Christine Girard offered a golden message about drug-free sport after finally receiving her long overdue Olympic weightlifting gold medal.\n\u201cGood things take time,\u201d Girard said, wiping away tears after a lavish ceremony Monday at the National Arts Centre. \u201cIt\u2019s the long-term game and that\u2019s what we have to believe in. It was so long, but it was worth it.\u201d\nGirard originally won the bronze in the 63-kilogram class at the 2012 Games in London. After a re-testing of blood samples in 2016, however, the gold and silver medal winners \u2014 Maiya Maneza of Kazakhstan and Svetlana Tzarukaeva of Russia \u2014 were stripped of their medals, along with their dignity, for steroid use.\nGirard learned of her golden upgrade in April, but it was formalized Monday as she received the royal treatment in front of family and friends.\nGirard stood on a makeshift Olympic podium as a children\u2019s glee club from Montreal sang O Canada and a Maple Leaf flag was raised to the rafters.\nBack in 2016, Girard also learned that she had won a bronze from the 2008 Games in Beijing, bumped up from fourth place when original silver medallist Irina Mekrassova of Kazakhstan also tested positive for steroid use.\nIn the process, Girard became the first Canadian woman to win an Olympic weightlifting medal.\nAs part of the festivities honouring Girard, Mounties brought Girard\u2019s gold and bronze medals into the NAC.\n\u201cToday is a victory for our country, our values and it\u2019s a victory for clean sport,\u201d she said. \u201cIt goes way beyond my name. I have my name associated to such a great story, but everybody needs to believe in their dreams. There\u2019s a lot of hard work and patience. That\u2019s what my medals mean to me.\u201d\nUnder similar circumstances, many other athletes might have chosen to become bitter or turn inward about their misfortune.\nThey might also have chosen to bad mouth the athletes who took the clean out of the clean-and-jerk while stressing what was lost rather than what was gained.\nBy not being awarded for her medals amid the spotlight of the Olympic moments, Girard unquestionably lost out on significant endorsement and sponsorship possibilities. Trampoline star Rosie MacLennan was Canada\u2019s only other gold medallist in London.\nGirard originally received $10,000 from the Canadian Olympic Committee for winning the bronze in 2012, but says she has been promised the additional $10,000 that is awarded to gold medallists.\n\u201cI\u2019m convinced that I lost a lot,\u201d she said, candidly. \u201cI trained in a carport that was barely heated, but that\u2019s also where I built a gold medal from London. If I had those medals (at the) time, I would have had a different life. That\u2019s for sure. But now I have to chance to go out there and tell my story and say, \u2018Hey, it\u2019s worth it to believe. It\u2019s worth it to do it the right way\u2019.\u201d\nWhile she says she was never once encouraged by a Canadian coach, trainer or official to take steroids to increase her strength, she recognizes that\u2019s not necessarily the case for weightlifters elsewhere.\nHer message to the athletes from Russia and Kazakhstan who tested positive and to the others who might think about taking that path?\n\u201cTo believe that it\u2019s possible to do it right,\u201d she said. \u201cTo respect our bodies. That\u2019s what I would like them to learn.\u201d\nGirard, 33, is now a mother of three and her days of competing are behind her. At the same time, she has taken part in a number of committees aimed at cleaning up the sport around the world.\n\u201cI have been to a few symposiums and I can see how hard people are working to make those values spread,\u201d she said. \u201cI just hope Tokyo (Olympics in 2020) will be a cleaner Olympics and so will the next one. We\u2019re on a good path now.\u201d\nGirard has paid a price for competing clean, but she\u2019s earned endless respect along the way.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a lot of what ifs,\u201d said Jeane Lassen, who also competed in weightlifting for Canada at the 2008 Olympics and was Girard\u2019s longtime training partner. \u201cWhat if that day she won a gold medal? What if she got to see the flag go up? How different would her post Games have gone? But Christine is the most adaptable, resilient athlete there is. She has taken the unfortunate turn of events and is using this as a platform to spread the message of drug-free sport.\u201d\nGirard is looking ahead.\n\u201cThere are always two sides of the story,\u201d she said. \u201cThere\u2019s the side that it has been so long (since 2012) that it makes no sense any more \u2026 or you can make it have sense. And that\u2019s what I choose to do. I wanted to share it and make it so that Canadians can be proud of the moment.\u201d\nAnd then there\u2019s this, which never would have happened on the Olympic stage.\nThe long overdue celebration allowed a beaming Girard to pose on the podium Monday surrounded by her three children, four-year-old Philip, two-and-a-half-year-old Alianna and nine-month-old Samuel.\nThat was a picture of pride.\nChristiano Francois joins Ottawa Fury lineup\nFelhaber\u2019s hat trick leads 67\u2019s over Battalion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 7086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.studentjob.co.uk/blog/1176-student-activities-in-wales", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:01Z", "digest": "sha1:XK6A2RQU2MHLJMC5D3ZCRJ3I4ITSEUJB", "length": 3726, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.studentjob.co.uk", "title": "Student Activities in Wales | StudentJob UK", "raw_content": "Student Activities in Wales\nBy Samantha Williams on 29-07-2016\nWales at its best can be a very large place to explore with plenty of towns, activities, and festivities going on wherever you choose to go. There is the interesting concept of how the welsh accent changes every five miles to the point where it may be hard for some people to tell it is the same accent from one side of the country compared to the other, as well as the various carnivals and fates that go on around the country at different times of the year. However, in this article it is not Wales in general that is talked about but instead I will be focusing more on the town of Neath. I have chosen this town in particular as it holds a special place to me, being my home town, and it still holds fun memories for me.\nA great place for visiting students to relax and meet some of the Welsh folk around town is Victoria Gardens. This fairly large garden, which also doubles as a park and place for activities such as Zumba, was opened on 22nd June 1897 for the purpose of Queen Victoria\u2019s diamond jubilee. However, it wasn\u2019t officially opened as the garden\u2019s it is today until 30th June 1898.\nThere are some features in Victoria Gardens which are also interesting culture-wise. One of these features are the Gorsedd stones which are positioned near the centre of the gardens. These stones, 12 in a circle with a Logan stone as a platform in the middle, represent the 12 counties of Wales and are often used for ceremonial purposes such as the Eisteddfod which occurs once a year. Another feature, placed in the centre of the Gardens, is the bandstand which is a constant place for band groups and music artists to perform their talents. The bandstand shows the musical side of Welsh culture and is a good cultural example for students to see whether they are visitors to the town or not.\nAlso in Victoria Gardens there is the statue of Howell Gwyn who was born on June 24th 1806 and died on January 25th 1888. He was a British conservative politician who spent a lot of time with the people of Neath and often partook in the town\u2019s festivities. For this reason, the people in Neath made a bronze statue of him which is still a much liked feature in the garden\u2019s today.\nAnother place of cultural importance from a student\u2019s perspective would be Neath Abbey ruins. The ruins were originally from a Cistercian monastery, built in 1129, that eventually fell to ruin but once was the largest monastery of its time. It was also called the \u201cThe fairest Abbey in all of Wales\u201d by Tudor historian John Leland. There is still a fair bit of the monastery left behind as ruins that are still standing to this day and since becoming a spot for artists, tourists, and more it has become more of a cultural hotspot than ever for students.\nEven though they are certain parts of Neath which would no doubt be good places for students to see some of the culture in the town, I believe there is no better way to see the culture of Neath than to visit something people so often use, the town centre.\nAs you are walking in the town centre you may come across musicians playing their instruments in the streets, a sight that has now become commonplace amongst people. Usually when I\u2019m there it is familiar to see someone playing tunes on the accordion such as Ar lan a mor, meaning at the seaside. 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I have studied maths, chemistry, biology and ict in college and got A*ABB. i have been a tutor for three years, so I have enough experience. I am aware of the fact that everything is getting harder, so I am here to help.\nAlready do home tutoring. Work in two tuition centres. Eager to help young learners fulfill their full potential. I have taught over 500 hours and taught upto 100 different students. All my students achieved above B grade. Everything is getting harder so all students need a small push to achieve their goals.\nIt can depend on the travel and the age group of the student.\nMaths got you down? Feeling like you can\u2019t do it? I\u2019m here to help! I am currently an A level maths student with...\nDespite being a law student, throughout my secondary school career I have shown to be very adept at maths, achieving an A*...\nMind maps with creative images is what I use to study and it really helps, I will help the kid become creative with their...\nHi! 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There\u2019s a bit of Australiana to engage overseas audiences, and it\u2019s got a crazy element to it as well. Were the sheep offended by the bad language? Could they really understand English? It\u2019s all very tongue-in-cheek.\nNot surprisingly, there was plenty of fodder for the headline writers, who came up with these gems:\n\u201cAussie Sheep Station Under Fire For Cursing At Animals\u201d.\n\u201cHow dare ewe: shear rudeness against sheep\u201d.\n\u201cInequality on the rise as sheep abuse rears its ugly head\u201d.\nBut really, when you think about it, there must have been more to the story. The RSPCA, like so many other organisations, is strapped for cash and resources. Would it really have taken action for activity that some media organisations had portrayed as so trivial?\nProbably not. The truth is, it probably couldn\u2019t afford to. So what actually happened?\nABC\u2019s Media Watch, the unofficial watchdog and conscience of media publications in their various forms, shed some light.\nWhat had actually happened was that PETA had lodged a complaint with the RSPCA based on what had been recorded in the video footage. There were a number of acts of brutality against the sheep, including one incident in which a shearer was swearing at the sheep as he beat them. This is what ABC Rural picked up on and ran as the key element of its story.\nBefore the publication of the story, PETA had issued a statement to ABC Rural saying that the complaint:\ndetailed instances in which shearers working at Boorungie Station punched sheep in the face, punched a lamb in the torso, stomped and stood on sheep\u2019s heads and necks, struck them with a pipe and electric clippers until they bled, picked up one sheep by the hind legs and threw her head first through a gate, and crudely stitched up gaping wounds without any pain relief. And yes, one shearer was cursing at the animals as he beat them.\nIt is, in fact, a shocking account of animal abuse. With this detail, it is clear why the RSPCA took an interest in the complaint.\nMedia Watch made the point that ABC Rural was well aware of the real allegations because part of the same PETA statement was quoted in ABC Rural\u2019s report:\nIf foul language were the worst that sheep in Australian shearing sheds had to endure, then no complaint would have been filed.\nSo, as it turns out, what is shocking about this story is that there was an allegation of real and serious abuse that went largely unreported. It was preferable to get a bit of a laugh by raising the possibility that the delicate sensitivities of sheep may have been offended by the fruity language of a couple of larrikin shearers.\nCan animals understand language?\nIt is common ground that more intelligent animals, such as dogs, can understand that they are being verbally abused. But what they are picking up is body language and tone of voice, rather than actually being able to understand what is said to them.\nThey may respond to verbal abuse by becoming withdrawn, developing behavioural problems (for example, failing to respond to commands or defecating inside the home), or becoming aggressive.\nAlthough sheep are not as intelligent as dogs and do not generally share close bonds with their owners, it is possible that they may also negatively respond to being yelled at.\nBut the RSPCA\u2019s limited resources are never likely to be spent on prosecuting such cases, as other far more serious instances of animal cruelty are rife throughout the country.\nAnimal cruelty is a very serious issue and is covered in NSW by the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 and also section 530 of the Crimes Act, which prescribes a maximum penalty of 5 years imprisonment.\nNo doubt PETA and the RSPCA would have preferred its complaint of animal cruelty to have been taken seriously by the media.\nIt is hugely disappointing that the issue became so trivialised by the attraction of pun headlines and a mocking angle to the story. But it is clear that the world has not gone mad; just some sections of the media.\nNRL\u2019s Fifita Brothers in Hot Water\nPets of Domestic Violence to Receive Funding\nWhat is the Law on Offensive Language in NSW?\nTough New Laws Against Hate Speech\nBrexit Vote Leads to Surge in Hate Crimes\nprevious post: Wrongful Convictions in Australia\nnext post: Sexual Relationships With Prison Inmates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 424, "original_length": 16466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sydneyrunningfestival.com.au/node/967", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:07Z", "digest": "sha1:S6F5O6JNBJR7COGBY32M2NB3LLZ42BJK", "length": 486, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sydneyrunningfestival.com.au", "title": "Do I need to register a child under the age of 5 years old? | Sydney Running Festival", "raw_content": "You are here Home \u203a Do I need to register a child under the age of 5 years old?\nDo I need to register a child under the age of 5 years old?\nYes, all entrants regardless of age must be fully registered online to be allowed on course due to safety regulations and they will be provided with a chest bib to wear for identification. Please note that for your own safety, all children under 5 must enter the C group along with their guardian. Children under the age of 5 can register for $0.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 2411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2018/01/defrancisco_acknowledges_his_uphill_battle_for_governor_i_know_how_to_play_hardb.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BPQSADPL7LTR6Y32TVFWE3ZJ3HARUTWP", "length": 3228, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.syracuse.com", "title": "DeFrancisco prepares for uphill battle for governor: 'I know how to play hardball' | syracuse.com", "raw_content": "DeFrancisco prepares for uphill battle for governor: 'I know how to play hardball'\nSupporters for State Sen. John DeFrancisco cheer him into the room at the Holiday Inn in Liverpool where he formally announced his run for governor of New York as a Republican, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. ( N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com )\nSYRACUSE, N.Y. -- John DeFrancisco Tuesday acknowledged the odds are stacked against him as he mounts a bid to become governor. He's a Republican from upstate New York facing a downstate Democrat with $30 million in the bank.\nStill, he said, he's prepared for the fight.\n\"I know how to play hardball,\" DeFrancisco said, making reference to his days of playing college baseball at Syracuse University. \"If [Gov. Cuomo] wants to throw some pitches at my head, he better duck too.\"\nState Sen. John DeFrancisco announces his bid for governor at the Holiday Inn in Liverpool Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018. N. Scott Trimble | strimble@syracuse.com\nIn a long expected announcement at the Holiday Inn in Salina, the state senate deputy majority leader told about 200 supporters he will seek the Republican endorsement for governor.\nDeFrancisco spent most of the speech decrying the economic policies of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. He lambasted Cuomo for \"pay to play\" politics and accused the governor of using a nationwide tourism campaign as a vehicle to run for president in 2020.\nHe blamed Cuomo for New York's declining population and increased spending.\nHe brought with him a picture of a $90 million DeWitt factory built with state money for the LED company, Soraa. That company decided not to move to New York, leaving the state scrambling for a new tenant.\n\"The people of New York [are] paying a corruption tax to cover the cost of these failed economic deals,\" he said.\nHe spoke at length about former Cuomo aide Joseph Percoco, who is embroiled in a federal corruption trial right now.\nHe said Cuomo has tried to dodge blame for woes with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.\nDeFrancisco also talked briefly about education, saying he supports all schools, including charter schools.\nAs he wrapped his remarks, DeFrancisco acknowledged the difficult path ahead.\n\"I know the pundits and the pontificators, the press and the political class will say ...that a Republican from Upstate New York has no chance,\" he said. \"Everybody in politics knows that once in a blue moon we can bring about fundamental change. Well folks, tonight, there is actually a blue moon.\"\nDeFrancisco, 71, has held the 50th district New York State Senate seat for 25 years. If he ends up as the Republican Party's designated candidate for governor, he won't be able to keep that seat.\nHe wouldn't say Tuesday if he plans to run for the Senate again if he doesn't get the party's designation.\n\"I'll decide that if and when that situation occurs, but I don't think it's going to occur,\" he said. \"I think I'll get the nomination.\"\nDeFrancisco said he would not force a primary for governor if he's not the party's designated candidate. New York State GOP Chairman Ed Cox issued a statement praising DeFrancisco's fiscal knowledge and insisting the state needs \"anyone but Cuomo.\"\nDeFrancisco blames Cuomo for residents abandoning state", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 346, "original_length": 8866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tailorbrands.com/logo-maker/types-of-fonts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4PMOQCLNFHVKU3AEAVAK7YNW2O7RIYBH", "length": 6893, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.tailorbrands.com", "title": "Different Types of Fonts, and When to Use Them | Tailor Brands", "raw_content": "The Different Types of Fonts, and When to Use Them\nChoosing the right font for your brand is like picking the right color with which to paint your house.\nYou want to get it just right, because that new coat will refresh your home and tell your guests a lot about the people living inside. Peeling paint shows a home that\u2019s neglected; glossy, vibrant colors portrays a home that is well taken care of.\nAnd, like colors do for a house, fonts are used to elicit specific responses and create unique mental associations with a brand. Each type of font comes with its own pros, cons, and psychological meaning.\nThere are thousands of free fonts available today, but most can be broken down into five broad categories. Each of these styles offer unique characteristics, and how each is deployed and designed plays a significant role in their symbolic meaning.\nRead on to explore each type of font, and find out which style will have the right impact for your brand.\nThese are the oldest types of fonts, with the first examples appearing as early as the late 15th century. The word \u2018serif\u2019 refers to the small feet present at the tops and bottoms of each letter. These tiny flourishes stemmed from artists\u2019 brushes and would be added to the letters as decorative elements.\nSerif fonts can be broken down even further into several subcategories (Old Style, Classical, Neo-Classical, Transitional, Clarendon, etc.). Today, Serif fonts are among the most popular typefaces in use, with styles like \u2018Times New Roman\u2019 being ever-present in books, documents, and even some logos.\nThis style of font is characterized by a more conservative design and (some of the many subclasses notwithstanding) the presence of serifs at the tops and bottoms of most letters.\nBrands that use serifs: Zara, Tiffany & Co, Abercrombie & Fitch.\nPsychology of serif fonts: Serif fonts are popular with companies that are seeking to portray an elegant, sophisticated brand. Logos with these types display an air of tradition, respectability, and reliability.\nAdditionally, serifs help companies seem more established and are ideal for communicating an identity based around authority and grandeur. Organizations in academic, editorial, and financial fields favor serif fonts thanks to the conservative and respectable appearance they give off.\nSans serif fonts dispense with the flourishes of their predecessor for a cleaner, more modern approach, and this contrast makes them pair well with serif fonts. They date back to the 19th century and became immensely popular in the 1920\u2019s and 30\u2019s. During the mid-20th century, German designers further expanded the typeface with the creation of the popular Helvetica design.\nThese fonts are defined by their clean, straight lines. They feature no flourishes and emphasize readability and simplicity for a more scalable look. Sans serif fonts can also be broken down into several subcategories, including Grotesque, Square, Geometric, and Humanistic styles.\nBrands that use sans serifs: LinkedIn, Calvin Klein and The Guardian.\nPsychology of Sans Serif: These types of fonts offer a clean, no-nonsense look. They emphasize clarity, with a forward-thinking approach \u2013 but they can also be bold and used as attention-getters, thanks to their polished and efficient design. Companies that pick this font family prioritize a sense of sensibility and honesty that has no need for flourishes or flair.\nSlab serif is a variant of the traditional serif typography that emerged in the 19th century. These typefaces are bold and emphasize a departure from their classic counterparts. The feet that define serif fonts are larger and block-like (read: looking like \u201cslabs\u201d).\nThese types of fonts are characterized by their solid and bold approach and are more at home with modern brands than classical ones. These fonts can be either rounded or angular, with some closely resembling typewriter styles.\nBrands that use slab serif: Sony, Honda, and Volvo.\nPsychology of slab serif fonts: These fonts are all about the loud, bold image. They convey a sense of confidence, dependability, and creative thought thanks to their heavy lines and less delicate serifs. Brands attempting to make a big splash or indicate how innovative their ideas and products are choose slab serif types, as they can help communicate a sense of importance and need.\nCasual script styles rose to popularity in the 20th century and tone down significantly on the flourishes.\nThese types of fonts also dispense with the blocky print look in favor of a more natural-looking cursive style. Scripts come in two major sub-categories \u2013 formal or casual \u2013 and are designed to resemble handwritten calligraphy.\nFormal scripts are defined by their flourishes and curls, which are called \u2018swashes.\u2019 Generally, it\u2019s recommended to use these fonts sparingly, as they can affect readability and make word or letter marks hard to understand and scale. Casual script fonts are more low-key than formal ones and emphasize legibility.\nBrands that use script fonts: Coca-Cola, Instagram, and Cadillac.\nPsychology of script fonts: Generally, script fonts evoke ideas of elegance, creativity, freedom, and femininity. Their curved and flourished styles also communicate a more hands-on, personal approach to business. Companies that want to convey a particular emotion can use script fonts to great effect. Similarly, script fonts are perfect for those attempting to transmit a sense of unique and artful thought.\nDecorative, or display fonts forgo conventions in favor of a unique and appealing typeface. Most decorative types are useful for a variety of industries and needs, as they are generally tailored to specific companies.\nDecorative fonts are rarely used for long strings of text. Instead, they\u2019re ideal for letter- and word-marks that are more economical with the letter \u2018c\u2019.\nThese types can sometimes fall out of fashion if their design is too topical or niche. Even so, they\u2019re great to use in logos.\nBrands that use decorative fonts: Toys R\u2019 Us, Lego, and Fanta.\nPsychology of decorative fonts: In general, these fonts convey uniqueness and emphasize originality. Additionally, their flexibility lets companies decide which emotions to focus on through mixing and matching different font styles. Some of the most common emotions elicited include a sense of casual, fun, and creative thought. They can also evoke culture-specific memes, or characteristics or themes reminiscent of a certain time period.\nChoosing the appropriate font is a critical aspect of any brand identity. The right one can give your brand additional layers of symbolism, to help you better communicate your company\u2019s values and goals.\nMake sure to consider how each type and font style complements your brand image. By finding the right blend of types and design elements, your brand can communicate the story of your company the way it was meant to be told.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 7387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tapinto.net/towns/basking-ridge/columns/dad-in-the-box/articles/the-far-side-of-progress", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:49Z", "digest": "sha1:4O3JSXKGFUPBEK3PSAUQS56PTPOCAS3D", "length": 4719, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.tapinto.net", "title": "The Far Side of Progress | TAPinto", "raw_content": "The Far Side of Progress\nThere are lots of exotic places I would like to visit before I die. The far side of the moon is not one of them.\nBut I understand that traveling to distant lands is a calling unique to the individual. It explains why there are people in the world who seek to explore the Mariana Trench or the Greenland Ice Sheet or Des Moines, Iowa. So I guess China has its reasons for going there.\nDespite the distance, the far side of the moon is actually easy to get to. Even though it is not on Google Maps, or Google Earth for that matter, one simply steers a rocket to the moon and upon arrival goes around back to the service entrance. But it is best to travel at night. During the day it is hard to navigate.\nAnd there is a certain appeal exploring the far side of the moon. After all, the posterior of the moon is a mystery. Contrary to the front side, It is not visible from earth. Even with the most powerful telescopes we cannot see the far side of the moon because the front side is always in the way, the same way we can\u2019t see the back of our heads in the mirror.\nThat is another place I have no interest to visit. The back of my head.\nGiven that the moon spins like a slow top, it would seem that staring at the moon over eons would reveal every pore, wrinkle, pimple, and blemish. But it it\u2019s vanity, the moon only shows us one side. Presumably its good side, the side with green cheese.\nHere is how it works. The moon slowly spins about its axis in perfect lock step with its orbital path around the earth such that it always rotates to keep one side perpetually staring at the earth.\nIt makes me wonder what the moon is trying to hide.\nObviously China wonders the same thing, because several days ago they landed a probe, identified as Yetu 2, where we can\u2019t see it to explore that which we cannot see.\nChina states that the probe will measure soil composition as well as listen to the final episodes of the Big Bang Theory, apparently because cosmic reception is better on the lunar backside. They are also harboring a mini greenhouse to see how potatoes and silkworms cohabitate in limited gravity.\nGiven that no one is there to water or feed them, I don\u2019t hold out much hope they will do all that well.\nOf course since they have landed on an area we can\u2019t see, we have no way of verifying that any of this is real. Given the comprehensive use of Computer Generated Imagery today, the images we see of a Chinese R2D2 leaving tracks in the lunar dust as it patrols some vast lunar crater leave plenty of room for doubt.\nWe could just as easily be watching a trailer for Star Wars: The Dark Side. On the other hand, if China really does have a probe on the moon where we can\u2019t see it, who is to say they are not building a base in hopes of slowly converting the moon into a death star?\nIt is hard to know what to believe these days.\nThis Chinese lunar mission is called Chang\u2019e 4, meaning I guess that there have been a few Changes since the first one. And the Chang\u2019es missions are not apostrophic typos from a David Bowie song as has been reported. Nor are the missions piloted by Major Tom, nor are they trying to locate Spiders from Mars, nor do they have anything to do with Pink Floyd.\nAnd it is also not true that Bono is shooting a music video entitled You too can view U2 and Yutu 2 on YouTube.\nThese are just more silly conspiracy theories.\nNo, the Chang\u2019e mission is named after Chang\u2019e, the goddess of the moon from Chinese mythology. And the Yutu probe that we see stands for Jade Rabbit, because a pet rabbit was the goddess Chang\u2019e\u2019s only companion on the moon.\nAnd the Chang\u2019e 4 mission is just one of many preparing to send a Chinese manned spacecraft to the moon by 2030, with the ultimate aim of establishing an outpost on the South Pole of the moon.\nThis is pretty impressive. And pretty scary.\nBecause as someone who strives to see both sides, I can only put it in perspective this way:\nThe US put a man on the moon decades ago but has now shut down arguing over a 2,000 mile wall. China, on the other hand, built a 5,000 mile wall hundreds of years ago but has yet to put a man on the moon.\nIt makes me question the direction of progress.\nI am rarely inspired by television commercials. For example, as great as the ...\nDIY Dryer\nSurvival of the Trimmest\nSay what you will about Satan, he sports a well-groomed beard.\nThis month is No Shave November. It is the time of year in which men suspend their daily shaving ritual and let their beards and moustaches grow wild and free in support of men\u2019s health issues.\nWhich means that on Thanksgiving men all over the country with scraggly, three-week stubble will be applying their razor sharp ...\nThis month is No Shave ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 15010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.td.com/about-tdbfg/corporate-governance/disclosure-of-corporate-governance-practices/procedures.jsp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:23Z", "digest": "sha1:PEC72N3KZEULZHHFNI5PBWXC3VYOW4AL", "length": 97, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.td.com", "title": "TD Bank Financial Group - Corporate Governance - Corporate Governance Procedures", "raw_content": "Excerpt from Proxy Circular published February 28, 2018 for the Annual Meeting on March 29, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 102.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teachertube.com/user/channel/Gcartwright", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:DUDPIO5RQX5DNK32AQMECBGY4O7KWM7X", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.teachertube.com", "title": "Gcartwright", "raw_content": "Teacher https://www.teachertube.com/user/channel/Gcartwright", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 1321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teagasc.ie/news--events/news/2014/botanic-garden-investment.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:UAVN76AYMLLWVJINNBTHOH3D5YYP64DG", "length": 2867, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.teagasc.ie", "title": "2014 - \u20ac2.5 Million Investment in Teagasc College of Amenity Horticulture, Botanic Gardens - Teagasc | Agriculture and Food Development Authority", "raw_content": "\u20ac2.5 Million Investment in Teagasc College of Amenity Horticulture, Botanic Gardens\nA new teaching and learning facilities at the Teagasc College of Amenity Horticulture in the National Botanic Garden was officially opened today, Thursday 8 May by the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Tom Hayes, T.D.\nThe developments at the College of Amenity Horticulture cost \u20ac2.5m and involved construction of new teaching facilities as well as renovation of an old building dating back to the 1700\u2019s which now includes a dedicated landscape design teaching studio. At the opening, Minister Hayes praised the recent developments at the College which will see a doubling of its student capacity.\nChairman of Teagasc Dr Noel Cawley said; \u201cThe Teagasc College of Amenity Horticulture at the National Botanic Gardens, and Kinsealy Research Centre Malahide provide the perfect setting for a horticultural course where the vast resources of this great national garden are placed at the disposal of students. Expert staff, the plant collections, an extensive library, the research work and the benefits of a massive renewal programme over the past decade all contribute to making the National Botanic Gardens a unique place to study horticulture.\u201d\nTeagasc Director Professor Gerry Boyle said; \u201cThe courses that are offered in the college are geared at people who want to get involved in the business of horticulture. The college is currently offering level 5 ,6, 7 and 8 programmes in horticulture. Simply stated level 5 is a one year Certificate, level 6 is a two year Advanced Certificate, level 7 is a three year ordinary Degree and level 8 is four year honours Degree. By combining classwork with practical skills training in the Botanic Gardens and external practical learning placements, students receive a balanced approach to the work of amenity horticulture while on the courses.\u201d\nDr Matthew Jebb, Director of the National Botanic Gardens said; \"Science and Education have been at the heart of the National Botanic Gardens' mission from its very beginnings. It is wonderful to see this state of the art addition that puts us at the heart of Irish horticulture. We are proud of our connections with the horticultural college, not only for fostering the early careers of so many of our staff, but because it enables us to play our part in training future custodians of our national gardening heritage.\"\nHAYES WELCOMES TEAGASC HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENTS - DAFM Press Release\nChairman of Teagasc Dr Noel Cawley with Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Tom Hayes, T.D., Matthew Jebb, Director of the National Botanic Gardens, and Teagasc Director Professor Gerry Boyle, at the opening of the new teaching and learning facilities at the Teagasc College of Amenity Horticulture in the National Botanic Garden.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 5753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techlearning.com/ed-tech-ticker/6697", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:02Z", "digest": "sha1:D5GJFTESIDEXFVZIATIQLUKLD24YP6PQ", "length": 1064, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.techlearning.com", "title": "Google Code-in Launches | Tech & Learning", "raw_content": "Google Code-in Launches\nToday marks the start of Google Code-in, a global online contest for pre-university students (13-17 years old) interested in learning more about open source software. Participating students have an opportunity to work on real world software projects and earn prizes for their effort.\nFor the next seven weeks students from around the world will be able to choose from an list of tasks created by 10 open source projects. Some tasks require coding in a variety of programming languages, creating documentation, doing marketing outreach or working on user interfaces.\nParticipants earn points for each task they successfully complete to win T-shirts and certificates. At the end of the contest, 20 students will be selected as grand prize winners and flown to Google\u2019s Mountain View, California headquarters. Winners will receive a trip to San Francisco, a tour of the Googleplex and a chance to meet with Google engineers.\nTo learn more, visit www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2013\nsource: Stephanie Taylor, Open Source Programs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 236.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/09/emmanuel-macron-treats-saudi-crown-prince-private-dinner-louvre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MIGPMKB3TD4CJZANSMLC4RYSTP34IOEE", "length": 3864, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.telegraph.co.uk", "title": "Emmanuel Macron treats Saudi Crown Prince to private dinner at Louvre in latest symbolic gesture", "raw_content": "Emmanuel Macron treats Saudi Crown Prince to private dinner at Louvre in latest symbolic gesture\nSaudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was treated to private dinner Louvre by Emmanuel Macron Credit: Francois Mori/AP\nPresident Emmanuel Macron of France hosted a private dinner for Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the Louvre in his latest use of his country\u2019s cultural \u201ccrown jewels\u201d to wow foreign leaders.\nThe surprise t\u00eate-a-t\u00eate at the world\u2019s most famous museum on Sunday night was not on the official presidential agenda.\nIt was held shortly after the prince arrived in Paris on the latest leg of an international charm offensive taking the Saudi royal to the US, UK, Egypt and now France.\nIn this latest use of French cultural firepower, Elys\u00e9e officials noted that the meal in the Louvre coincided with the launch of the major exhibition of the 19th-century French painter Eug\u00e8ne Delacroix, best known for his work Liberty Leading the People.\nDelacroix\u2019s painting of Parisians being led over the barricades by a bare-breasted Liberty during the July Revolution of 1830 is one of the world's most iconic artworks.\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had a private dinner at the Louvre which is hosting a landmark exhibition of French painter Eugene Delacroix\nIt was unclear whether the message was double-edged given Saudi Arabia\u2019s reputation for curbing political, religious and social freedoms. The 32-year old Prince Mohammed, also known by his initials MBS, has been spearheading reform as he seeks to \u201cmodernise\u201d his country and wean it off its dependency on petrol, recently allowing women to drive, and opening cinemas.\n\u201cSaudi Arabia is still in pole position among countries who use the death penalty the most,\u201d said B\u00e9n\u00e9dicte Jeannerod, head of Human Rights Watch France.\n\u201cEuropean partners, and in this case France, should not shut their eyes to these grave abuses on the pretext that they wish to support a supposedly reformist friend,\u201d she told France Info.\nPrince Mohammed\u2019s official visit to France lasts until Tuesday and will conclude with another dinner with Mr Macron, this time at the Elys\u00e9e palace.\nEmmanuel Macron and Prince Mohammed dined at the Louvre, where the French president celebrated his electoral victory last year\nThe prince was expected to sign a \"strategic partnership\" with France.\nLe Monde said that the French were not expecting to seal any multi-billion deals with the kingdom, which has expressed annoyance at what it sees as France\u2019s moderate approach to regional rival Iran.\nHowever, there were cultural announcements. Saudi Arabia will for the first time take part in the Cannes Film Festival with a series of short films, while France will help the kingdom build its own opera and orchestra, the culture ministry announced.\nHe may be a novice on the international stage, but Mr Macron has shown himself to be a master in the art of wielding soft diplomacy and symbols to seduce world leaders.\nDonald Trump received the full Gallic charm when the US president was invited with his wife Melania to attend the Bastille Day military parade last year, prompting Mr Trump to call for a similar ceremony back home. The two couples later dined in a Michelin-starred restaurant on the Eiffel Tower.\nHe impressed Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin by inviting him to a lavish working visit to Versailles Palace to mark the 300th anniversary of Peter the Great\u2019s visit to France.\nThen came the \u201chorse diplomacy\u201d coup during his state visit to China, when he arrived with an eight-year old gelding as a gift to President Xi. Officials described the offer of V\u00e9suve de Brekka (Vesuvius of Brekka), as an \u201cunprecedented diplomatic gesture\u201d.\nThen the French president announced during a trip to Britain in January that he would be loaning the Bayeux tapestry to Britain for the first time since the 11th century.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 8016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2018/09/24/judge-says-nothing-wrong-boat-trips-he-takes-lawyers/1355442002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:36Z", "digest": "sha1:3GWIGV3PXBXJVFVZX2GRBTYW4PL7ZVK6", "length": 4018, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.tennessean.com", "title": "Judge says nothing wrong with boat trips he takes with lawyers", "raw_content": "Williamson County judge says there's nothing wrong with boat trips he takes with lawyers\nJudge Michael Binkley said in emails he would attend a three-day lake trip in 2016 with several lawyers, including one who had an active case before him.\nWilliamson County judge says there's nothing wrong with boat trips he takes with lawyers Judge Michael Binkley said in emails he would attend a three-day lake trip in 2016 with several lawyers, including one who had an active case before him. Check out this story on Tennessean.com: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2018/09/24/judge-says-nothing-wrong-boat-trips-he-takes-lawyers/1355442002/\nElaina Sauber, Nashville Tennessean Published 6:00 a.m. CT Sept. 24, 2018\nGavel and scales(Photo11: Getty Images / Creatas RF )\nA Williamson County judge said he isn't doing anything wrong when he takes boat trips with lawyers, and he denied an attorney's emergency motion for time to try to learn more about the trips.\nJudge Michael Binkley confirmed in emails obtained by the USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee that he would attend a three-day lake trip in 2016 with several attorneys, including one who had an active case before him at the time.\nMore: How close can judges be with lawyers? Emails including Williamson Co. judge raise questions\n\"If the public is as smart as everybody says they are, most people who have any common sense are going to say, 'What is wrong with judges and lawyers having fun together?' Nothing,\" Binkley said during an open court hearing on Aug. 30, the same day the USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee published a story about the Center Hill Lake trips.\nBinkley, who didn't respond to a request for comment before that story published, said at the hearing he looks forward to the boat trips each year.\nVirginia Story, the attorney who invited Binkley on the trip in 2016, had an active case before the judge in circuit court, which sparked questions about whether judges can remain fair and impartial when presiding over cases while simultaneously vacationing with attorneys in those cases.\nStory, who attended the hearing where Binkley discussed the trips, said they were \"benign.\"\nMike Binkley SUBMITTED (Photo11: Submitted)\n\"They are absolutely a blast,\" Binkley said. \"I am with my friends, who are lawyers. Some family members are there. We all, I think would agree 110 percent, have some of the best times we've ever had. It is so much fun.\n\"I pay for my own gas. I pay for my \u2014 whatever I pay for,\" Binkley said.\nBinkley addressed the trips after attorney Connie Reguli filed an emergency motion to suspend the proceedings in a case involving her client, Sam Clemmons, until they could complete an open records request into the emails to learn the extent of the trips.\nThe judge denied that motion.\nHe stressed that there's nothing wrong with lawyers and judges having a good time outside of work, \"as long as you're not doing anything improper.\"\n\"People can assume whatever they want to. That's their business. But we're not so stupid, irresponsible or violating rules and getting special treatment out on a lake house boat, where you're all sitting around having a good time,\" Binkley said.\nStory, who represents the defendants in Clemmons' case, said the trips at Center Hill Lake are only one day, despite emails that show the trips spanned three days, from Friday through Sunday.\n\"I don\u2019t know of any other profession that has to (argue against) each other every day in court and be adversaries, and fight for your clients zealously, but then we expect them to go out and go to bar functions and seminars, and sit across the aisle from each other and be friends,\" Story said.\n\"There's no way you can do that unless you have a mutual respect for each other. Respect for the way that you represent your client, and respect for the way that you carry on your family life.\"\nRead or Share this story: https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2018/09/24/judge-says-nothing-wrong-boat-trips-he-takes-lawyers/1355442002/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 7414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.texasoncology.com/who-we-are/media-center/news-releases/2016/texas-oncology-announces-the-addition-of-slavisa-g", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:15Z", "digest": "sha1:77NXM2OGU6EA3CDESX32G5CG4NT74QWV", "length": 1783, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.texasoncology.com", "title": "Texas Oncology Announces the Addition of Slavisa Gasic, M.D., Ph.D. as Full-Time Oncologist at Texas Oncology-Uvalde | Texas Oncology", "raw_content": "UVALDE, Texas, May 23, 2016 \u2013 Texas Oncology announces that Slavisa Gasic, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the practice as a full-time medical oncologist at Texas Oncology-Uvalde. Dr. Gasic specializes in medical oncology and hematology. He is seeing patients at the clinic at 1195 Garner Field Road, Building A, Suite 200.\nAt Texas Oncology, we are working to ensure that all patients with cancer\u2014no matter where they live\u2014receive the highest quality care,\u201d said Manuel A. Santiago, M.D., who has been leading the Texas Oncology-Uvalde team. \u201cToday we have more tools to help patients that ever before, and with the addition of Dr. Gasic as a full-time oncologist in Uvalde we will continue to improve access to care for residents, bringing them comprehensive treatment and compassionate cancer care close to the support of family and loved ones.\nAs a full-time medical oncologist seeing patients in Uvalde, I am eager to help fulfill the healthcare needs of the community,\u201d said Dr. Gasic. \u201cPatients here will have improved access to oncology and hematology services. As result our patients remain close to their support network of family and friends.\nDr. Gasic received his medical degree is from the University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia. He has a doctorate of philosophy in pharmacology from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He completed his fellowship in hematology and oncology at the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, and residency in internal medicine at the University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York. He also completed a research fellowship in endocrinology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. In addition, he is a member of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.\nTexas Oncology-Uvalde", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 12678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 111.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.textbookrush.com/browse/books/9780231144179", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ZOSL62ATXGNNB2VVZROBIQRWGZIDPUFA", "length": 1846, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.textbookrush.com", "title": "Mental Causation The Mind-Body Problem ISBN:9780231144179 - TextbookRush", "raw_content": "Mental Causation The Mind-Body Problem\nAuthors: Anthony Dardis\nTwo thousand years ago, Lucretius said that everything is atoms in the void; that it is physics all the way down. Contemporary physicalism agrees, but if that's so how can we-how can our thoughts, emotions, our values-make anything happen in the physical world? This conundrum is called the mental causation problem, and it is closely related to the free will problem, connecting to issues regarding consciousness and intentionality. Anthony Dardis lays out the conceptual history of the mental causation problem in clear and accessible terms and offers a way to fit mental causation into our physical world. His book begins with how the problem appears in the history of philosophy, specifically in\u2026\nthe work of Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and T. H. Huxley, and then develops a framework for building a theory of causation, laws of nature, and the causal relevance of properties. Dardis explains how macro, or higher level, properties can be causally relevant in the same way microphysical properties are causally relevant-by their relationship with the laws of nature. Whether it is the smell of an orange, the experience of a painting, or the desire for morality, mental properties can make things happen, alongside the physical \"motor of the world.\"\nAnthony Dardis is professor of philosophy at Hofstra University. He has previously taught at Pomona College and the University of Georgia, and his work has been published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis, Acta Analytica, Dialogue, and Consciousness and Cognition.\nWhy Mental Causation?\nImmortality and the Body\nDualism and Automatism\nGhosts and Machines\nCausation and Properties\nSunburn and Fragile Things\nSupervenience and Levels\nThe Causal Relevance of Mental Properties", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 5702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 240.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-philosophy.com/nietzsche-god-dead-explanation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:21Z", "digest": "sha1:RA5WGRQZGRJQKDRWVRKPONBEQFTSH42G", "length": 2954, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.the-philosophy.com", "title": "Nietzsche: God is dead (Explanation)", "raw_content": "Nietzsche : death of God\nGod is dead is often how Nietzsche\u2019s philosophy is summarized. Let\u2019s try a bit to see its origin and its consequences.\nThe projet of Nietzsche is to \u201coverturn the table of values,\u201d to think the man from himself, and not anymore from God.\nThis quote is from the work Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), who presents himself as an Antichrist, that is to say a anti-Bible. The book tells the story of Zarathustra, which has the mission to proclaim the coming of the Superman.\n\u201cWhen I came first among men, I made the folly of the lonely, the great folly: I put in the public square. And as I was talking to everyone I spoke to anyone. But in the evening dancers rope and corpses were my companions and I myself almost a corpse. But with the new morning, a new truth came to me while I learned to say: \u201cWhat matters in public and populace, the noise of the populace and the long ears of the populace! \u201chigher men, learn this of me: the public square nobody believes in the superior man. And if you want to talk about in public, at your leisure \u201cBut the mob blink of the eye:\u201d We are all equal. \u201chigher men, well-wink the populace, there is no higher men, we are all equal, one man is a man, before God we are all equal! \u201cBefore God!\u201d But now that God is dead. Before the populace, however, we do not want to be equal. Higher Men, stay away from the public square! [.. .] Higher Men! Now only the mountain of the human future will bring forth. God is dead: now we want the Superman-live \u201d\nWhy Nietzsche \u201ckill\u201d God?\nGod, according to Nietzsche, is incompatible with the dignity of man, with the affirmation of life.\nGod and his son Christ, are synonymous with suffering and death (the Dionysian pole). Now man is life-affirming (the Apollonian pole). The man can not ask that in opposing God. The death of God is the condition of human liberation:\n\u201cHigher men\u201d Now only the mountain of the human future will bring forth. God is dead: now we want the Superman-live\u201d\nIf God is dead , what becomes the man?\n\u201cBecome what you are\u201d may summarize the answer to the question.\nGod\u2019s death is not the end, God\u2019s death is the beginning of human transformation. The man is a bridge, a rope between subhuman and superman. This construction involves three steps:\n\u2013 Camel: the accumulation phase of knowledge, without reflection\n\u2013 The lion phase destruction of all knowledge, what we stood for real\n\u2013 The child renaissance ex nihilo, from nothing. A Phase of pure creation of new knowledge and a new morality.\nThe man, without God, no longer receiving any instructions. He posed for real what he believes to be real. It no longer receives moral judgments; to apply, he built entirely: it is good that I want.\nMonster of will and domination, being who can laugh, be nasty, man Nietzschean faces the mob to establish itself as a superior being, who does not hesitate to fight for domination.\nAlone and without guide, man becomes superman.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/09/the-protective-power-of-morning-sickness/501551/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ZR7KLA7HN7ZURTRS3P2SEYANVDNLSHEW", "length": 6703, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "Does Morning Sickness Really Prevent Miscarriage? - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "The Protective Power of Morning Sickness\nA new study of pregnant women finds nausea and vomiting are associated with a reduced risk of miscarriage.\nPregnant women attempt to set an attendance record for prenatal yoga in Beijing, in 2015.China Stringer Network / Reuters\nPeople are always saying the wrong thing to pregnant women.\nExpectant mothers hear everything from the obnoxious (\u201cYou\u2019re huge!\u201d) to the outright bizarre (\u201cIf you eat that Sriracha, your baby will come out bald\u201d).\nThen there are the well-meaning\u2014yet utterly unhelpful\u2014superstitions and platitudes: \u201cI can tell from how you\u2019re carrying that it\u2019s a girl.\u201d (No, you can\u2019t.) \u201cAt least the terrible sleep you\u2019re getting now is great preparation for all those sleepless nights you\u2019re going to have with baby!\u201d (Bone-splitting exhaustion is not something you need to practice ahead of time.) \u201cBut morning sickness means your baby is healthy!\u201d\nActually, there might be something to that last one.\nPregnant women have long been told that feeling miserable every single day for several months may indicate that a developing baby is doing well\u2014especially in the first trimester, when nausea and vomiting are most common. Now, there\u2019s more science to support the idea.\nA new study from researchers at the National Institutes of Health, and published today in JAMA Internal Medicine, finds morning sickness is associated with a lower risk of miscarriage in pregnant women who have experienced previous losses. The NIH calls the research, which builds on similar studies, \u201cthe strongest evidence to date\u201d that nausea and vomiting in pregnant women are associated with a lower risk of pregnancy loss.\nThe latest NIH study, which was a secondary analysis of data from a separate clinical trial, involved tracking symptoms logged daily by nearly 800 pregnant women. All of the women in the study had at least one previous pregnancy loss, with about one-third of the participants having experienced two losses.\nAbout 84 percent of the women reported nausea, with or without vomiting, by the time they were eight weeks pregnant. (Smaller percentages of women had morning sickness earlier in pregnancy\u2014with about 20 percent of them reporting illness at two weeks pregnant, and more than 50 percent of them reporting nausea or vomiting by five weeks.) Nearly one-quarter of the pregnancies resulted in miscarriage, many of which occurred before the eight-week mark.\nOverall, the women who reported nausea by itself or nausea with vomiting were between 50 percent and 75 percent less likely to miscarry than those who didn\u2019t feel sick.(Earlier research, including a 2014 meta-analysis of 10 separate studies conducted between 1992 and 2012, has also found that women who had morning sickness experienced fewer miscarriages and gave birth to larger, healthier babies with fewer birth defects.)\nBut even though earlier studies have found similar associations, few researchers have taken into account the other potential indicators for miscarriage among study participants\u2014like the number of previous pregnancy losses a woman has experienced, alcohol intake during pregnancy, and fetal characteristics such as chromosomal abnormalities. Such factors might increase the likelihood of miscarriage, even among women who experience morning sickness. The NIH researchers controlled for these and other circumstances in their assessment, giving them a clearer picture that the association between morning sickness and reduced pregnancy loss is strong\u2014without confounding factors getting in the way.\nThe NIH study was unusual, too, in that it began with women who were still trying to conceive\u2014rather than first enrolling participants who were already pregnant. \u201cThis is important because it allowed us to get detailed data from diaries that women were keeping about their symptoms in the earliest weeks of pregnancy\u2014even before most women knew they were pregnant,\u201d said Stefanie Hinkle, a staff scientist at the NIH, and the lead author of the study. \u201cWe found that in the week after conception, one in five women were already experiencing some nausea symptoms.\u201d\nThe protective benefit of morning sickness was stronger among women who were throwing up compared with those who just felt crummy\u2014up to a point, anyway. Researchers didn\u2019t include findings from women who experienced hyperemesis, a severe form of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy that can lead to hospitalization\u2014meaning the study\u2019s findings do not apply to women with the very worst symptoms. The study had some other limitations, too. The vast majority of participants were married, highly educated, white women\u2014so the extent to which the findings would apply to women in other demographics is unclear.\nResearchers still don\u2019t understand what mechanism is responsible for the protective association between feeling miserable and having a healthy pregnancy, though they have some ideas about what might cause the nausea in the first place. Scientists have suggested that pregnancy illness is a byproduct of rapid hormonal changes, especially the increase of human chorionic gonadotropin, or hCG. (The presence of hCG in a woman\u2019s urine is what makes a home pregnancy test positive.) \u201cAnother possibility is that nausea and vomiting are markers for viable placental tissue,\u201d Hinkle and her colleagues wrote in the NIH paper. \u201cThus, less nausea and vomiting may identify failing pregnancies.\u201d\nScientists are also unsure about whether there\u2019s an evolutionary reason for morning sickness to carry protective benefits. It\u2019s possible, many have theorized, that nausea is a way of keeping a pregnant woman from doing (or eating) things that might harm her fetus. \u201cFirst, symptoms may be part of an evolutionary advantage to change one\u2019s dietary intake, increase consumption of carbohydrate-rich foods, or avert intake of potentially teratogenic substances,\u201d the NIH researchers wrote, referring to drugs or other agents that can cause birth defects. But since their model accounted for smoking and drinking alcohol, it seems \u201cthe mechanism is likely not through avoidance of such substances.\u201d\nThe NIH findings should be reassuring to women enduring morning sickness (which, as any pregnant woman can tell you, also happens at night, and in the afternoon, and sometimes around the clock)\u2014but sickness isn\u2019t a guarantee of a viable pregnancy. Some women who experience nausea and vomiting will still go on to have miscarriages or stillbirths. Similarly, Hinkle told me, an absence of symptoms isn\u2019t automatically cause for concern.\n\u201cNot all pregnancies are the same and every individual is different,\u201d she said, \u201cSo just because they do not have symptoms does not mean that they will go on to have a loss.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 8350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thebedroom.us/ne-kids-in-montgomery-al.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OOJEXB5EZZSU2OYVHTVSMHUPYHES4D2M", "length": 708, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thebedroom.us", "title": "NE Kids in Montgomery, AL", "raw_content": "The Bed Room in Montgomery, AL is an authorized dealer of NE Kids Products. Established in January of 1979 NE Kids (originally known as New Energy Bedrooms Inc.) has truly stood the test of time. This family owned business, based in Christiansburg, Virginia, credits its success to delivering innovative products and supporting those products with exceptional customer service.\nSo if you are looking for NE Kids products in Montgomery, Prattville, Auburn, Wetumpka, Tallassee, Millbrook, Opelika, Tuskegee, Selma, Greenville and Troy, or if you have any questions about NE Kids products, please feel free to call us at 334-271-4500 or simply stop by The Bed Room at any time and we would be glad to help you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 9830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thebuffalogrand.com/double-room.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CBZFPH2C424IGJQ2FSYEIREO4QD6URYH", "length": 211, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thebuffalogrand.com", "title": "Double Double \u2013 Hotels Downtown Buffalo - Buffalo Grand Hotel", "raw_content": "Our newly appointed deluxe rooms offer two double bed with complimentary high-speed wireless internet in every room, a flat-screen LCD TV with cable channels and 24-hour room service. 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We have the right to take you to court in the country and/or state that you live in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 11041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 203.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thebusinessyear.com/colombia-2018/engineering/vox-populi", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:10Z", "digest": "sha1:EOGCLPDQIDFFA6XGQSJV4GKFJ4ORTMOZ", "length": 3423, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.thebusinessyear.com", "title": "Luiggi Pugliese Mercado, Juan Fernando Mej\u00eda, Luis Cabezon: Engineering - The Business Year", "raw_content": "Colombia 2018 | CONSTRUCTION & REAL ESTATE | VOX POPULI\nLUIGGI PUGLIESE MERCADO\nOver the last few years, we have seen exponential growth. The most important projects we have been developing are focused on 4G. We have also worked on projects for large educational institutions, aqueducts and sewer systems, and other infrastructure projects, as Barranquilla City has been developing its infrastructure. We are fortunate because Barranquilla has contracted the most number of projects during this time. We have tripled our staff in the last three years to serve the new projects. Our role is based on our civil engineering consulting services to support the state authorities on several civil engineering tasks such as designing, public works audits, and civil engineering construction. For example, in Barranquilla, we have developed several projects to channel small streams through pipes. The intervention of these streams is crucial for Barranquilla because the streets become flooded when it rains. We have channeled five streams to date and are currently working on La Felicidad, one of the more complex ones.\nJUAN FERNANDO MEJ\u00cdA\nVertice Ingenieria\nGrowth has been remarkable in recent years as we started to develop five or six projects per year, which put us in an excellent position in the upscale sector. We are in Envigado in Medell\u00edn and recently started to develop two projects in Sabaneta. A year and a half ago, we began to see other projects, this time in the middle and lower-middle range thanks to government policies that are encouraging the creation of housing. On top of this, at the end of 2017, we started to build three large projects of 250 housing units in strata five and six. The architectural design is the only aspect we do not take care of. Outside of that, we have the entire business. This is our value proposition. We do promotion, sales, and the structural design. We have a strategic business unit called Vertice Estructural that handles the structural designs for all our projects. We handle all the presales, sales, construction, deeds, and delivery procedures.\nLUIS CABEZON\nUnispan\nWe work with many of the best companies in Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Mexico. We like to be present in medium-sized companies because when you rent equipment to them they do not take all of it at once, as opposed to when you work on a large project. Our customers rent a variety of amounts, but we like to have that diversity. In Mexico, we have very few customers and rely a lot on these big customers, whereas in Colombia we have about 80 customers and are happy with that. We are a company with four services: design of the formwork, logistics, equipment, and supervision. Where there is concrete, there is a market for us. It is possible to be successful in a depressed market. We started a business when the market was on a downward curve. When the market grows, all the costs go up. We have a big advantage because we are active in the housing, infrastructure, and buildings markets.\nFocus: Construction 4G\nThe pledge to improve the country's roads and intercity infrastructure was one of the most important promises made during Santos' re-election campaign. Vice-President Germ\u00e1n Vargas Lleras has been a force of nature in moving forward with the contracts.\nReview: Real Estate\nThe Santos administration is continuing to stimulate the real estate market, especially for lower income participants.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 750, "original_length": 40815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk/the-best-castles/other-articles/pinkie-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:52Z", "digest": "sha1:U5U24A7A56C6EJZIVGR3DD22XE7QZ325", "length": 3285, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.thecastlesofscotland.co.uk", "title": "Pinkie House | Loretto School, Musselburgh | The Castles of Scotland, Coventry | Goblinshead", "raw_content": "Lothians: To east of Musselburgh, on minor road south of A199, south of Musselburgh race course, Pinkie House (Loretto School).\nPrivate NT 353727 OS: 66 EH21 7RE\nOPEN: School.\nTel: 0131 653 4444 Web: www.lorettoschool.com\nPinkie House (old postcard)\nPinkie House is an altered 16th-century L-plan tower house, of three storeys, to which has been added 17th-, 18th- and 19th-century extensions. The old part consists of a strong main block and square tower, and has steeply pitched roofs, and may date from the 14th century. The square tower rises to five storeys, and is topped by a flat roof with a crenellated parapet and bartizans.\nPinkie House (Billings)\nThe interior has been largely modernised, but the basement is vaulted, and a wide turnpike stair climbs as far as the second floor. A long gallery has a fine painted wood ceiling with decorations and inscriptions, and there are also many good plaster ceilings. Two other rooms were also found to have paintings during building work in 1953, and part of one is now on display in the Museum of Edinburgh (Huntly House).\nThere is a rectangular doocot [NT 351729] with 1087 nesting boxes and dating from early in the 17th century.\nPinkie House (Seton, 1885)\nPinkie is not marked on Blaeu\u2019s map of The Lothians, but is on Adair\u2019s map of Midlothian, when it is depicted in enclosed and wooded policies.\nPinkie was a property of the Abbey of Dunfermline, who are said to have had a hunting lodge here, but passed, after the Reformation, to the Setons. Alexander Seton, son of George Seton, 5th Lord Seton, was 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Lord Fyvie and Chancellor to James VI. He altered the house in 1613, and died here in 1622 and is buried at Dalgety.\nCharles Seton, Earl of Dunfermline, had a ratification of 1644 which mentions the manor place and fortalice of Pinkie. The Setons were forfeited in 1690 because of their support for James VII. Charles I had stayed here, as did Bonnie Prince Charlie following victory over Sir John Cope and his army at Prestonpans in 1745 during the Jacobite Rising, and the Long Gallery was used to treat wounded troops. The property was sold to the Hay Marquis of Tweeddale in 1694, then in 1788 to the Hopes of Craighall. The house was sold again in 1951 and is part of Loretto, a private school and is used as a boarding house.\nPinkie House (McCallum, 1912)\nThe house is said to be haunted by a \u2018Green Lady\u2019, a Green Jean. Some have identified the ghost as the bogle of Lilias Drummond, who died at Dalgety in 1601 and was the wife of Alexander Seton, but this seems unlikely (although she is associated with Fyvie Castle). The appearance of the ghost apparently bodes ill for the resident family, and is said to be sometimes be accompanied by a child. Another identification has been suggested as a Lady Jane or Jean Seton, possibly the daughter of George, 3rd Earl of Winton, who died un-wed in 1636 and is said to have murdered her child. A portrait in the house is said to show the lady, clad in a green frock, and with a child. There are, however, many \u2018Green Jeans\u2019 in Scotland\u2019s castles, \u2018Green Lady\u2019 ghosts called Jean, so the name may be misleading\u2026\nAnother tale is that an underground passage connected the house with Falside Castle, which would be a feat of subterranean engineering.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 826, "original_length": 15501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 182.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/we-need-to-talk-about-silicon-valleys-racism", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:00Z", "digest": "sha1:NDONXU6E7YOBXCH6TMWIGXURMYICKVNK", "length": 11240, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.thedailybeast.com", "title": "We Need to Talk About Silicon Valley's Racism", "raw_content": "We Need to Talk About Silicon Valley's Racism\nAmerica\u2019s fastest growing financial and political powerbase is totally dominated by white men. This is not progress.\nIn a culture that maintains its belief in the individualism of the American entrepreneurial spirit, we tend to turn Silicon Valley tech founders into heroes and public figures. When Steve Jobs passed away, shrines were built for him around the world, from Cupertino to Beijing. In 2010, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg received the star treatment in David Fincher\u2019s The Social Network. Even Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is entering the public eye, thanks to his recent march alongside protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting.\nBut if you don\u2019t work in the tech industry, you have probably never heard of people like Chris Sacca, the tech investor behind Lowercase Capital, which has, as his company website notes, \u201cquietly become one of the largest venture funds in the United States.\u201d Sacca has invested in dozens of tech start-ups including, most notably, Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter. You\u2019ll never see a Chris Sacca biopic but his behind-the-scenes influence in the tech sector is substantial.\nSacca belongs to an elite set of tech investors that Forbes labels \u201cThe Midas List,\u201d 100 venture capitalists with staggeringly profitable portfolios in the tech industry. And if you scroll down the complete Midas List, some visible trends begin to emerge. The featured photo for the list, first of all, is as white as a loaf of Wonder Bread and as male as a football locker room. There are only four women on the list, none of whom rank in the Top 20. And of the 96 men on the Midas List, the overwhelming majority appear to be white, including every single member of the Top 10. Chris Sacca comes in at number 12.\nThese wealthy Silicon Valley tech investors gain access to a level of influence that far outstrips their public visibility. Like celebrities, they have the ability to broadcast their opinions to millions of people because of their position in the tech industry but, unlike celebrities, they can remain out of the public eye, speaking loudly from hidden podiums. And given the rising financial and political power of the tech industry, the racial homogeneity of this elite group of investors is troubling, especially in light of their occasional public comments.\nSacca, for example, recently used his own podium to publish a blog post entitled \u201cA few thoughts on race, America, and our President\u201d on the official Lowercase Capital website. In reaction to President Obama\u2019s perceived discomfort with his role as president in the Ferguson situation, Sacca speaks out against racism, chides Obama for his lack of energy, and urges him to \u201cbe brave\u201d in his public comments on the Ferguson shooting. This blog post is marked by an overwhelming paternalism as Sacca, a wealthy white man, advises Obama on how best to navigate his precarious position as a black president. Even though Obama supposedly told Sacca last year in a private conversation that he needs to avoid the label of \u201cangry black man,\u201d Sacca nevertheless claims that \u201cwhat we need now is for our President to be angry,\u201d adding that \u201cthe fact that he is black is even better.\u201d Sacca puts himself in position to judge the political value of Obama\u2019s blackness with no acknowledgment of his own social position as a wealthy white man.\nAnd although he chides Obama for his \u201cmiddle-of-the-road stuff,\u201d decrying his \u201creasoned, parsed, calm rhetoric,\u201d Sacca himself fears being labeled as \u201cone-sided\u201d in his opinion on Ferguson. In a paragraph that has since earned the ire of Gawker\u2019s Valley Wag, Sacca writes:\nNow before you label me as one-sided on this issue, let me say from what I have seen, it appears Michael Brown was an asshole. If it is in fact him in the videotape from the convenience store, then he was acting like an asshole and likely would have deserved some form of criminal prosecution. The store owner deserved justice.\nSacca goes on to clarify that he does not believe that Darren Wilson was justified in shooting Brown but, for some reason, he still feels it necessary to weigh in on the issue of Brown\u2019s character based on the security footage. Sacca wants to push Obama to the left, it seems, because the middle of the road properly belongs to white men like himself.\nAnd Sacca\u2019s own road of unexamined racism has been paved by several tech investors and startup executives before him. Last year, Uber investor Jason Calacanis claimed that \u201cthere isn\u2019t a race wall in tech,\u201d publicly berating critics who were pointing out the obvious underrepresentation of non-white people in the tech industry and tech writing. In a wince-inducing blog post, Calacanis claimed that \u201cwe\u2019re on the precipice of a post-race world\u201d and that the tech industry \u201caccept[s] anyone based on their performance.\u201d Far from acknowledging his own privilege, Calacanis snarked: \u201cI\u2019m a white guy so I\u2019m not allowed to talk about race. At least that\u2019s what they tell me.\u201d\nBut if Sacca represents the unexamined racism of a \u201cwell-intentioned\u201d white man and Calacanis represents the conservative racism of a white man who believes there is a meritocracy despite all evidence to the contrary, then tech executives Peter Shih and Greg Gopman bring up the rear with a noxious brand of elitist racism that has survived the 19th century unscathed. Earlier this year, as Pando reports, Shih and Gopman wrote blog posts that expressed a visceral disdain for the visible, racialized dynamic of homelessness that characterizes downtown San Francisco. In his blog post, Gopman implied that in an ideal city, there should be \u201can area of town for degenerates and an area of town for the working class,\u201d unlike San Francisco, where homelessness is hypervisible in the wealthy downtown area. While both men later retracted their comments, their careers do not appear to have suffered for them. As Sfist reports, Shih just received a $2 million investment for a new company and Gopman runs a seminar that helps other tech start-ups \u201cdevelop stronger culture.\u201d Yes, a man who unironically uses the word \u201cdegenerates\u201d feels qualified to develop culture.\nIt is easy to dismiss white tech investors like Sacca as people who suddenly gain access to a wide audience despite the fact that their social views have not advanced alongside their fortune. As Sam Biddle writes at Valley Wag: \u201cThis is what happens when we turn professional check-writers into pundits: they fill the vacuum with noise. They are in over their heads, with an audience of millions.\u201d But writing them off with such a casual brush of the hand belies the enormous political influence that white tech investors are beginning to demonstrate in the United States. Blog posts from tech investors aren\u2019t just meaningless bloviating; rather, they reflect the social attitudes of a group of people who control the money behind one of the wealthiest and fastest-growing industries in the United States.\nAs Forbes reports, the technology sector is \u201cnow the second-most common way American billionaires made their fortune,\u201d right behind investment. And the political influence that inevitably accrues alongside these burgeoning tech fortunes is only now beginning to manifest itself. As The New York Times noted in 2012, the \u201ctechnology industry [is] more engaged than ever in the wheeling and dealing of Washington,\u201d as political candidates vie for the approval of Silicon Valley founders and executives like Facebook investor Marc Andreessen, who has historically supported Obama but gave over $100,000 to Mitt Romney\u2019s presidential campaign. Peter Thiel, too, who clocks in at No. 4 on the Midas List, donated nearly $5 million to right-wing efforts in 2012. The tech industry, it seems, is flexing its political muscle more than ever before.\nIn light of the increasing political clout of Silicon Valley, the fact that black entrepreneurs continue to face barriers to access is even more concerning. In 2011, CNN\u2019s series \u201cBlack in America\u201d drew attention to the underrepresentation of black people in the tech industry. At the time, CNN reported that less than 2 percent of entrepreneurs receiving venture capital were black. The documentary sparked a national conversation on race in the tech industry with entrepreneurs like Angela Benton and Vivek Wadhwa drawing attention to the racism implicit in tech investment\u2019s practice of \u201cpattern-matching,\u201d undisclosed techniques that investors use to determine whose projects to back. Pattern-matching supposedly favors inherently successful candidate traits but, in practice, as CNN notes, it tends to favor \u201cwhite computer-science graduates of Stanford University or a similar elite school.\u201d\nIn an email interview, Monique Woodard, a tech entrepreneur and co-founder of the Black Founders project, noted that tech investment is still failing black tech entrepreneurs:\nThe biggest obstacle for black founders is still access to capital. The numbers of venture-backed companies founded by black and Latino entrepreneurs is still embarrassingly low and we are a less innovative industry because of it. At early stage, black entrepreneurs have limited resources for \u2018friends and family\u2019 rounds. At later funding stages, black entrepreneurs often don\u2019t have access to the networks of investors where funding decisions are being made.\nIt was with this obstacle in mind that Woodard helped to create Black Founders in 2011 to make black entrepreneurs \u201cmore visible to investors, tech media, and the tech community at large.\u201d Woodard shies away from dismissing Silicon Valley as categorically \u201cracist\u201d but she does believe that its current lack of \u201cdiversity\u201d and \u201ccultural sensitivity\u201d have created an environment in which black entrepreneurs are not getting backed by venture capitalists and tech investors.\nWhat this means is that, while white tech investors like Chris Sacca are increasingly using their platforms to comment on race, they are also failing to invest in black entrepreneurs in the first place. As Model View Media founder and cultural critic Shanley observed, almost none of the startups that Sacca has invested in appear to have black founders. \u201cMaybe a good place to start\u201d in combating racism, she told him on Twitter after his blog post went live, \u201cwould be using your power and money to fund black founders instead of blogging.\u201d\nWhite male tech investors like Sacca are more than just a privileged class of people who have a follower count that surpasses their understanding of the social world. Because of their wealth, they gain access to political power and influence in a nation whose economy is beginning to orbit around Silicon Valley. They feel entitled to comment on race in the United States even as they fail to invest in black founders in their own industry, in effect, barring black entrepreneurs from gaining a foothold in the increasingly powerful tech industry. And because they are one step removed from the founding figures that tend to enjoy the public spotlight, white tech investors like Sacca will continue to fly under the radar, exerting a quiet social influence. Their blog posts might not be well-written but their money speaks volumes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 11989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/unexpected-fireworks-can-stress-veterans-with-ptsd", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3BJHGWKX6FCSIUYBAHEWB2JWTGXY2U4R", "length": 2446, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thedenverchannel.com", "title": "Unexpected fireworks can stress veterans with PTSD", "raw_content": "Unexpected fireworks can stress veterans with PTSD\nWhile fireworks can elicit joy and wonder for families, it can be a traumatizing surprise for a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.\nAs you travel around your community on the Fourth of July, you may notice a few signs in front yards asking neighbors to be courteous with firework use because a combat veteran lives in the home.\nThe Associated Press reported that anywhere from 11 to 20 percent of veterans of the post-9/11 Iraq and Afghanistan wars were diagnosed with PTSD, according to data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Not all veterans are triggered by the sound of fireworks, but Cindy Ramminger, coordinator of the PTSD clinical team at Robley Rex Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Louisville, said it has become a more common occurrence, according to the Associated Press.\n\"It can remind them of what might sound like an incoming rocket or mortars or gunfire, which can cause them to get on alert and it can cause them to be frightened,\" Ramminger said. \"It can push them into a flashback (and) can cause intrusive thoughts, so they'll start remembering a traumatic event like when they got blown up in an IED attack or lost a friend to some kind of explosion.\"\nShawn Gourley, the co-founder of Military with PTSD , said the signs have helped veterans start discussions with neighbors and can make a big difference if a community member tells the veteran when and where to expect fireworks. She said the goal isn't to encourage people to stop using fireworks on the holiday, but rather to give the veteran a heads up. Unexpected fireworks \u2014 and the accompanying loud bangs and bright lights \u2014 can cause stress, she said.\nThe National Center for PTSD reports that about 8 million adults have PTSD during a given year.\nFireworks are illegal in many communities across Colorado , including Denver, and can pose a serious fire threat. Firecrackers, rockets (including bottle rockets), roman candles, cherry bombs, mortars and similar items like M-80s are illegal in Colorado. Some communities allow fountain fireworks, ground spinners, illuminating torches, dipped sticks, sparklers, toy propellants, trick noise makers and tube devices, but municipalities may further restrict the types of fireworks that can be sold or used within their boundaries, so check with your city or town before using them. Click here for a list of public firework shows across the state.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thefunsizedlife.com/2017/12/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:49Z", "digest": "sha1:5FGJRSUIHAJHN56IG26ZI6U2MD5CMGLJ", "length": 716, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thefunsizedlife.com", "title": "December 12, 2017 - The Fun Sized Life", "raw_content": "Gluten Free Cinnamon Sugar Scones\nI am absolutely obsessed with scones! When I started working at an elementary school in the mornings, I would always buy breakfast when they were dishing out their cinnamon sugar scones. After experiencing the magic that is scones, I decided to figure out how to make my own. The day I made the perfect scone was probably one of the best days of my life. Of course, as luck would have it, a few years down the road I realized I had a gluten intolerance. However, I have since decided life is too precious to not indulge on these breaded favorites. Therefore, I took on the challenge of creating a perfect gluten free cinnamon sugar scone; and here it is.\nGluten Free Cinnamon Scones", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2006/08/st-louis-man-is-2006-navy-times-sailor-of-the-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RB3HIJ364RLDZQY7LTBR4EZWPKLVSWZH", "length": 1073, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thegatewaypundit.com", "title": "St. Louis Man is 2006 Navy Times Sailor of the Year", "raw_content": "St. Louis Man is 2006 Navy Times Sailor of the Year\nCongratulations to Commander Louis Tripoli from Wildwood, Missouri!\nCmdr. Louis Tripoli knew that civilians injured in the November 2004 battle of Fallujah, Iraq, would die if they didn\u2019t get medical care before the shooting stopped.\nSo as Marines and insurgents battled from street to street, he flew into the city to help reopen its main hospital. When he found that the hospital did not have enough medical supplies to treat the wounded, he arranged to have them shipped from abroad.\nWhen a supply convoy was one corpsman short, Tripoli volunteered to travel with it \u2013 a position that Navy doctors were not obligated to fill.\nAnd when he learned that an Iraqi infant would die if she did not receive medical treatment abroad, he created a system that saved the girl and dozens of other Iraqi children.\nFor these reasons, Tripoli is the Navy Times 2005 Sailor of the Year.\nThe Navy Times has more on Cmdr. Louis Tripoli.\nHat Tip Brandi Simmonds\nMeanwhile, Atlas is celebrating the heroism of the Israeli soldiers today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 424, "original_length": 8456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-elon-musk-shares-details-behind-his-fateful-tweet-amid-an/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QRO4YPXSDTMWOA5A4AFBCKOVO5MITUII", "length": 10917, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.theglobeandmail.com", "title": "Elon Musk shares details behind his fateful tweet amid an \u2018excruciating\u2019 year for the Tesla chief - The Globe and Mail", "raw_content": "Report on Business Elon Musk shares details behind his fateful tweet amid an \u2018excruciating\u2019 year for the Tesla chief\nElon Musk shares details behind his fateful tweet amid an \u2018excruciating\u2019 year for the Tesla chief\nDavid Gelles, James B. Stewart, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Kate Kelly\nTesla CEO Elon Musk pauses during a news conference in Tokyo in 2014.\nElon Musk was at home in Los Angeles, struggling to maintain his composure. \u201cThis past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was excruciating.\u201d\nAt multiple points in an hourlong interview with The New York Times, he choked up, noting that he nearly missed his brother\u2019s wedding this summer and spent his birthday holed up in Tesla\u2019s offices as the company raced to meet elusive production targets on a crucial new model.\nEric Reguly: Elon Musk is dreaming if he thinks Tesla is worth $420 a share\nAsked if the exhaustion was taking a toll on his physical health, Musk answered: \u201cIt\u2019s not been great, actually. I\u2019ve had friends come by who are really concerned.\u201d\nThe events set in motion by Musk\u2019s tweet have ignited a federal investigation and have angered some board members, according to people familiar with the matter. Efforts are underway to find a No. 2 executive to help take some of the pressure off Musk, people briefed on the search said. And some board members have expressed concern not only about Musk\u2019s workload but also about his use of Ambien, two people familiar with the board said.\nFor two decades, Musk has been one of Silicon Valley\u2019s most brash and ambitious entrepreneurs, helping to found several influential technology companies. He has often carried himself with bravado, dismissing critics and relishing the spotlight that has come with his success and fortune. But in the interview, he demonstrated an extraordinary level of self-reflection and vulnerability, acknowledging that his myriad executive responsibilities are taking a steep personal toll.\nIn the interview, Musk provided a detailed timeline of the events leading up to the Twitter postings on Aug. 7 in which he said he was considering taking the company private at $420 a share. He asserted that he had \u201cfunding secured\u201d for such a deal \u2013 a transaction likely to be worth well over $10-billion.\nThat morning, Musk woke up at home with his girlfriend, the musician known as Grimes, and had an early workout. Then he got in a Tesla Model S and drove himself to the airport. En route, Musk typed his fateful message.\nMusk has said he saw the tweet as an attempt at transparency. He acknowledged Thursday that no one had seen or reviewed it before he posted it.\nTesla\u2019s shares soared. Investors, analysts and journalists puzzled over the tweet \u2013 published in the middle of the day\u2019s official market trading, an unusual time to release major news \u2013 including the price Musk cited. He said in the interview that he wanted to offer a roughly 20 per cent premium over where the stock had been recently trading, which would have been about $419. He decided to round up to $420 \u2013 a number that has become code for marijuana in counterculture lore.\nIn an interview with the New York Times, Elon Musk says his health is deteriorating because of his pressures at work, and that this past year has been the most difficult and painful time of his career. Reuters\n\u201cIt seemed like better karma at $420 than at $419,\u201d he said in the interview. \u201cBut I was not on weed, to be clear. Weed is not helpful for productivity. There\u2019s a reason for the word \u2018stoned.\u2019 You just sit there like a stone on weed.\u201d\nMusk reached the airport and flew on a private plane to Nevada, where he spent the day visiting a Tesla battery plant known as the Gigafactory, including time meeting with managers and working on an assembly line. That evening, he flew to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he held Tesla meetings late into the night.\nWhat Musk meant by \u201cfunding secured\u201d has become an important question. Those two words helped propel Tesla\u2019s shares higher.\nBut that funding, it turned out, was far from secure.\nMusk has said he was referring to a potential investment by Saudi Arabia\u2019s government investment fund. Musk had extensive talks with representatives of the $250-billion fund about possibly financing a transaction to take Tesla private \u2013 maybe even in a manner that would have resulted in the Saudis\u2019 owning most of the company. One of those sessions took place July 31 at the Tesla factory in the Bay Area, according to a person familiar with the meeting. But the Saudi fund had not committed to provide any cash, two people briefed on the discussions said.\nAnother possibility under consideration is that SpaceX, Musk\u2019s rocket company, would help bankroll the Tesla privatization and would take an ownership stake in the car maker, according to people familiar with the matter.\nMusk\u2019s tweet kicked off a chain reaction.\nAn hour and 20 minutes after the tweet, with Tesla\u2019s shares up 7 per cent, the Nasdaq stock exchange halted trading, and Tesla published a letter to employees from Musk explaining the rationale for possibly taking the company private. When the shares resumed trading, they continued their climb, ending the day with an 11 per cent gain.\nThe next day, investigators in the San Francisco office of the Securities and Exchange Commission asked Tesla for explanations. Ordinarily, such material information about a public company\u2019s plans is laid out in detail after extensive internal preparation and issued through official channels. Board members, blindsided by the chief executive\u2019s market-moving statement, were angry that they had not been briefed, two people familiar with the matter said. They scrambled to cobble together a public statement trying to defuse a mounting uproar over the seemingly haphazard communication.\nMusk said in the interview that board members had not complained to him about his tweet. \u201cI don\u2019t recall getting any communications from the board at all,\u201d he said. \u201cI definitely did not get calls from irate directors.\u201d\nBut shortly after the Times published its interview with Musk, he added through a Tesla spokeswoman that Antonio Gracias, Tesla\u2019s lead independent director, had indeed contacted him to discuss the Aug. 7 Twitter post, and that he had agreed not to tweet again about the possible privatization deal unless he had discussed it with the board.\nMusk added that he did not regret his Twitter post \u2013 \u201cWhy would I?\u201d \u2013 and said he had no plans to stop using the social media platform. Some board members, however, have recently told Musk he should lay off Twitter and focus on making cars and launching rockets, according to people familiar with the matter.\nThe SEC investigation appears to be intensifying rapidly. Just days after the agency\u2019s request for information, Tesla\u2019s board and Musk received SEC subpoenas, according to a person familiar with the matter. Board members and Musk are preparing to meet with SEC officials as soon as next week, the person said.\nIn the interview Thursday, Musk alternated between laughter and tears.\nHe said he had been working up to 120 hours a week recently \u2013 echoing the reason he cited in a recent public apology to an analyst whom he had berated. In the interview, Musk said he had not had taken time off of more than a week since 2001, when he was bedridden with malaria.\nMusk stopped talking, seemingly overcome by emotion.\nHe turned 47 on June 28, and he said he spent the full 24 hours of his birthday at work. \u201cAll night \u2013 no friends, nothing,\u201d he said, struggling to get the words out.\nTwo days later, he was scheduled to be the best man at the wedding of his brother, Kimbal, in Catalonia, Spain. Musk said he flew directly there from the factory, arriving just two hours before the ceremony. Immediately afterward, he got back on the plane and returned straight to Tesla headquarters, where work on the mass-market Model 3 has been all consuming.\nMusk paused again.\n\u201cI thought the worst of it was over \u2013 I thought it was,\u201d he said. \u201cThe worst is over from a Tesla operational standpoint.\u201d He continued: \u201cBut from a personal pain standpoint, the worst is yet to come.\u201d\nHe blamed short-sellers \u2013 investors who bet that Tesla\u2019s shares will lose value \u2013 for much of his stress. He said he was bracing for \u201cat least a few months of extreme torture from the short-sellers, who are desperately pushing a narrative that will possibly result in Tesla\u2019s destruction.\u201d\nReferring to the short-sellers, he added: \u201cThey\u2019re not dumb guys, but they\u2019re not supersmart. They\u2019re OK. They\u2019re smartish.\u201d\nMusk\u2019s tweets on Aug. 7 were the most recent of several flare-ups that had drawn scrutiny. He wrangled with short-sellers and belittled analysts for asking \u201cboring, bonehead\u201d questions. And after sending a team of engineers from one of his companies to help rescue members of a stranded soccer team, he lashed out at a cave diver who was dismissive of the gesture, deriding him on Twitter as a \u201cpedo guy,\u201d or pedophile.\nTo help sleep when he is not working, Musk said he sometimes takes Ambien. \u201cIt is often a choice of no sleep or Ambien,\u201d he said.\nBut this has worried some board members, who have noted that sometimes the drug does not put Musk to sleep but instead contributes to late-night Twitter sessions, according to a person familiar with the board\u2019s thinking. Some board members are also aware that Musk has on occasion used recreational drugs, according to people familiar with the matter.\nTesla executives have been trying for years to recruit a chief operating officer or other No. 2 executive to assume some of Musk\u2019s day-to-day responsibilities, according to people familiar with the matter. A couple of years ago, Musk said, the company approached Sheryl Sandberg, who is Facebook\u2019s second-highest executive, about the job.\nMusk said that \u201cto the best of my knowledge,\u201d there is \u201cno active search right now.\u201d But people familiar with the matter said a search is underway, and one person said it had intensified in the wake of Musk\u2019s tweets.\nIn response to questions for this article, Tesla provided a statement that it attributed to its board, excluding Musk. \u201cThere have been many false and irresponsible rumors in the press about the discussions of the Tesla board,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWe would like to make clear that Elon\u2019s commitment and dedication to Tesla is obvious. Over the past 15 years, Elon\u2019s leadership of the Tesla team has caused Tesla to grow from a small startup to having hundreds of thousands of cars on the road that customers love, employing tens of thousands of people around the world, and creating significant shareholder value in the process.\u201d\nMusk said he had no plans to relinquish his dual roles as chairman and chief executive.\nBut, he added, \u201cif you have anyone who can do a better job, please let me know. They can have the job. Is there someone who can do the job better? They can have the reins right now.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 16873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/careers/business-education/article-equal-pay-eludes-female-professionals-even-after-education-upgrades/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:00Z", "digest": "sha1:PDAJIMBXQERBWPEGMBIRWPW7MZ3VEJAX", "length": 6313, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.theglobeandmail.com", "title": "An MBA can raise women\u2019s salaries, but make the pay gap worse - The Globe and Mail", "raw_content": "Business Education An MBA can raise women\u2019s salaries, but make the pay gap worse\nAn MBA can raise women\u2019s salaries, but make the pay gap worse\nSarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, says the gender pay gap and career issues raised in the U.S. Fort\u00e9 Foundation study is 'potentially worse' in Canada.\nU.S. women who acquire an MBA earn a 63-per-cent salary \u201cbump\u201d with their degree but fail to close the pay gap with men after graduation, according to new study.\nThese female master of business administration graduates also do not advance to the same level as men in the corporate world, are given fewer people to manage and report less job satisfaction, according to the study by Texas-based Fort\u00e9 Foundation, a business education advocacy organization for women, and based on research by Michelle Wieser, interim dean of the business school at St. Catherine University in Minnesota.\n\u201cAn MBA is a great step for so many women to take but it does not necessarily solve all the problems all the way to the C-suite,\u201d says Elissa Sangster, executive director of Fort\u00e9, urging corporate leaders to rethink promotion and family-leave policies.\nThe U.S. data, based on an online survey of 900 male and female MBA graduates between 2005 and 2017, resonate with Canadian researchers and MBA students.\n\u201cAt a minimum, Canada is the same as the U.S. or potentially worse when it comes to a lot of these gender and career issues,\u201d says Sarah Kaplan, director of the Institute for Gender and the Economy at the University of Toronto\u2019s Rotman School of Management.\nAmong TSX-listed companies, 3.3 per cent are led by women and 3.5 per cent of boards have a female board chair, according to a 2018 report by Osler law firm\u2019s corporate governance group. Last year, women held 9.44 per cent of the most senior corporate jobs at Canada\u2019s top-100 publicly traded companies, according to an annual survey by Rosenzweig and Co., a Toronto-based executive search company.\nCompared with the United States, Dr. Kaplan says, Canada provides longer maternity leaves (often up to one year) and displays more entrenched gender norms that assume women are largely responsible for care-giving. Even when companies offer paid paternity leaves, she adds, some middle managers try to discourage new fathers from taking time off for the baby.\n\u201cIt is okay to take family time,\u201d Dr. Kaplan says. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t actually indicate a lack of commitment to your job.\u201d\nThe Fort\u00e9 survey still confirms the MBA as a powerful tool for moving up the corporate ladder. Compared with their pre-MBA position, women in the survey said their salaries climbed 63 per cent after graduation, although men reported a 76-per-cent rise.\nHowever, the survey found that a predegree gender pay gap of 3 per cent, with women lagging men, widened to 10 per cent for the first post-MBA position and 28 per cent for current compensation, adjusted for years of experience.\nFort\u00e9\u2019s Ms. Sangster says companies need to ask \u201chard questions\u201d about promotion practices and other artificial barriers to recruiting top talent.\n\u201cIt is time for companies to really pay attention to this and make sure they have eradicated any unconscious bias and that they have been completely clear about what it takes to get to the top and are those realistic,\u201d she says. For example, some companies require those in a leadership pipeline to travel abroad for assignments. \u201cIs that necessary for someone to be a good leader in your organization?\u201d she asks.\nRotman\u2019s Dr. Kaplan argues that real change rests on making structural reforms to company hiring and promotion practices. At present, she says, employees who want to join the leadership track have to opt in and say, \"'I want to get promoted.'\u201d\nBut she says preliminary findings by Rotman researchers show gender pay differences close when a company includes all mid-level candidates in the leadership track, leaving it up to individuals to opt out if they choose.\n\u201cWomen tend not to opt in until they are 100-per-cent ready or because they know they are at risk of rejection,\u201d Dr. Kaplan says. \u201cIt\u2019s not because they are risk-averse but because they know the evidence is they are less likely to be promoted and don\u2019t want to go up [and seek a promotion] unless they know they can nail it.\u201d\nRotman MBA candidate Sarah Badun says men need to be part of the solution to the gender pay gap. 'We need the support of our male counterparts to recognize these issues, talk about them, support women and help drive the change,\u201d she says.\nBeyond reforms to corporate hiring practices, seen as essential, Dr. Kaplan and Ms. Sangster say business schools have a role in raising gender inequity issues.\nFort\u00e9 Foundation, which works with industry and business schools to provide scholarships, networking and coaching for women, encourages on-campus \u201cmen as allies\u201d clubs to support discussions on diversity and inclusion. Rotman\u2019s Women in Management Association, for example, includes a \u201cWimen\u201d network of male MBA candidates who participate in workshops and other diversity activities.\nStill, the Fort\u00e9 survey found that just one of three men (compared to two of three women) believe in the existence of a gender pay gap.\n\u201cThat statistic was shocking to read on paper,\u201d says Rotman MBA candidate Sarah Badun, a vice-president of the school\u2019s Women in Management Association and a Fort\u00e9 Fellow. \u201cThis is an issue both genders will need to get involved with to close the inequality and close the wage gap.\u201d\nThis week, with male MBA students, her association held a conference on tangible strategies for anyone to support gender equality in the workplace. \u201cWe need women to create a community to support one another and help drive change,\u201d says Ms. Badun, who graduates this spring. \u201cBut we need the support of our male counterparts to recognize these issues, talk about them, support women and help drive the change.\u201d\nFort\u00e9\u2019s Ms. Sangster says \u201copen, frank conversations\u201d between men and women at business school help lay the groundwork for rethinking corporate practices.\n\u201cBusiness school is such a safe place to talk about things and deepen your understanding of a whole variety of issues,\u201d she says.\nMBA programs welcoming more women, but gender parity remains distant", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 11683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/hockey-dad-pulls-no-punches-in-legal-fight/article18228150/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:07Z", "digest": "sha1:M5ZOTQW475ZGNXGB7ETA2RQU76AQHWMR", "length": 6505, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.theglobeandmail.com", "title": "Hockey dad pulls no punches in legal fight - The Globe and Mail", "raw_content": "Canada Hockey dad pulls no punches in legal fight\nHockey dad pulls no punches in legal fight\nMichel Croteau is an outraged hockey dad who just won't quit.\nFrom a small village best known for peat-moss bogs and crab fishing, the New Brunswicker is waging a protracted battle against minor hockey's highest powers all in the name of his teenaged son, Steven, who was denied a most-valuable-player award more than three years ago.\nSince then, the MVP snub has prompted a failed lawsuit, a rejected human-rights complaint and a Federal Court case that was rejected only two weeks ago -- but Mr. Croteau, 45, says he isn't done \"making noise.\"\n\"Some people may think I'm a crazy nonsensical parent and I'm overzealous, but I feel okay with what I'm doing,\" he said.\nAfter teaching himself how to use computers and the law, he has set up a website encouraging other hockey moms and dads to join his crusade. The idea is to get federal institutions to play a greater role in resolving disputes between hockey parents and hockey leagues.\nIt may seem a quixotic campaign, but in a country that is fanatical about the sport, Mr. Croteau has some followers. \"I will not let go,\" he vowed yesterday in a phone interview from his home on Lam\u00e8que Island in the Acadian Pennisula. \"It's based on values. It's not about a trophy.\"\nTypically, angry hockey parents make headlines only after attacking coaches or referees, but Mr. Croteau has channelled his abundant rage into legal battles. He alleges that Hockey Canada, the sole governing body for amateur hockey, robbed his son of not merely a plaque but of fundamental human rights.\nSeven years ago, Mr. Croteau said, he was disabled when a Dodge Ram pickup smashed into his office inside a fishing factory. Since then, he has devoted himself to being a father and to coaching hockey.\nAnd he had a prodigy on his hands. In 2002, 16-year-old Steven Croteau scored 45 goals and 42 assists in 27 games to lead his AAA league. Mr. Croteau said that entire arenas used to chant his son's name in admiration of the pintsized 5-foot-5 marvel. \"He was amazing. Everybody loved the boy, because of his intelligence of the game.\"\nSo when Steven won the best scorer award, but was passed over for MVP, it was a slap in the face to his father. \"It's like they've kicked all the values of hard work and sacrifice that the little boy did,\" Mr. Croteau said. \"It made no sense.\"\nHe responded by launching a $300,000 lawsuit. And that suit triggered an obscure Hockey Canada bylaw that was invoked to suspend Steven for the duration of legal proceedings.\nAt a pivotal time in his development, the teenager missed the next season and a chance to play on the provincial squad. While Steven was probably too small to have cracked the NHL, his father said he still likely missed out on some scholarships. Glory fades, and today Steven is a 19-year-old university law student who plays hockey in an adult league.\n\"For him it was extremely hard,\" Mr. Croteau said. \"As parents we also have decisions -- people think it's wrong what I did, but it was a very hard decision I had to take.\"\nMr. Croteau said yesterday that his son was not available to speak directly to the media. But he said Steven has always respected the decision to continue the lawsuit, even if it kept him out of hockey. \"He always tells me, 'Keep on going Dad,'\" he said.\nBesides, he argues, it was Hockey Canada that \"punished the kid. I went through all these procedures and they pushed me to go to court.\"\nIn the midst of the suspension, Mr. Croteau came to believe that Hockey Canada was wrongly punishing the son for the sins of the father. He put that complaint in writing and sent it to the Canadian Human Rights Commission, saying it amounted to illegal discrimination against his son.\nLast year, the commission tossed out the complaint for lack of jurisdiction. Mr. Croteau took the same complaint to the Federal Court of Canada.\nOn May 16, the court issued a written decision, also finding that Mr. Croteau was barking up the wrong tree. \"Hockey Canada isn't a federal office, and its decision can't be controlled by this court,\" the decision said.\nStill, avenues for redress remain. \"He has a right to appeal,\" Jean-Sebastien Gallant, the lawyer representing Hockey Canada, said in an interview. But he insisted that Hockey Canada has always been within its rights to invoke its bylaw powers.\nMr. Gallant is also representing former prime minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien at the Gomery commission, a fact that has not been missed by Mr. Croteau, who is representing himself. The disparity in legal representation has only enhanced his claim to be a hockey-dad-David battling a corporate Goliath.\nOn the same day the Federal Court rejected the Croteau complaint, it also rejected a similar one from a hockey mom in Guelph, Ont.\nIn an interview, D\u00e9sanges Duguay said Hockey Canada wouldn't let her son play after the family raised complaints against the organization. She said she is taking her complaint to human-rights commissions and civil courts. She is one of several people who make regular postings on Mr. Croteau's website.\nThe New Brunswicker says he formed http://www.hockeycroteau.com to \"denounce, inform and share about problems, injustice and discrimination behaviours done to minor age hockey players in Canada.\"\nA clearing house for complaints by parents who find themselves on the outs with Hockey Canada, it gets scores of regular visitors. The site includes postings from the Canadian Hockey Parent Association, a start-up group that says it is seeking to wrest some control of the minor leagues back from Hockey Canada.\n\"It's a shame that our game has come to this, but we are telling people to sue in order to seek relief,\" the group's advisory director said in a recent posting. \"The game certainly needs cleaning up and we plan to push forward with our own initiatives.\"\nWhile there are varying perspectives on the site, visitors generally feel they would like to see better avenues of appeal within Hockey Canada, which they accuse of often acting arbitrarily.\nMr. Croteau remains Hockey Canada's most strident critic, routinely writing lengthy screeds against the organization.\n\"'Hockey Canada' receives big money by our governments, and meanwhile 'Hockey Canada' is not under any normally attainable Canadian jurisdiction and this they know,\" he writes.\n\". . . I always said that this case will only be resolved at the Supreme Court. . . and that's where it will be, either they like it, or not!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 11522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2017/aug/01/underground-magma-triggered-earths-worst-mass-extinction-with-greenhouse-gases", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:09Z", "digest": "sha1:3UYEQU5UDZANBNLT2SJKL5QWHLKZW4T6", "length": 10061, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Underground magma triggered Earth\u2019s worst mass extinction with greenhouse gases\nThere are parallels between today\u2019s and past greenhouse gas-driven climate changes\nTue 1 Aug 2017 06.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 14 Feb 2018 11.59 EST\nItaly\u2019s Mount Etna, Europe\u2019s tallest and most active volcano, spews lava as it erupts on the southern island of Sicily, Italy February 28, 2017. Photograph: Antonio Parrinello/Reuters\nCoincidence doesn\u2019t prove causality, as they say, but when the same two things happen together over and over again through the vast span of geological time, there must be a causal link. Of some 18 major and minor mass extinctions since the dawn of complex life, most happened at the same time as a rare, epic volcanic phenomenon called a Large Igneous Province (LIP). Many of those extinctions were also accompanied by abrupt climate warming, expansion of ocean dead zones and acidification, like today.\nEarth\u2019s most severe mass extinction, the \u201cGreat Dying,\u201d began 251.94 million years ago at the end of the Permian period, with the loss of more than 90% of marine species. Precise rock dates published in 2014 and 2015 proved that the extinction coincided with the Siberian Traps LIP, an epic outpouring of lava and intrusions of underground magma covering an area of northern Asia the size of Europe.\nBut those rock dates presented science with a new puzzle: why was the mass extinction event much shorter than the eruptions? And why did the extinction happen some 300,000 years after the lava began to flow?\nNow in a new study published in Nature Communications, Seth Burgess of the US Geological Survey, along with James Muirhead of Syracuse University and Samuel Bowring of MIT, think they have the answer. As Burgess told me:\nIt\u2019s clearly not the entirety of the LIP that\u2019s guilty. There\u2019s a subinterval that\u2019s doing the work, and I set out to figure out which subinterval that was, and what makes it special.\nBurgess noticed that the beginning of the mass extinction, as well as a jolt to the carbon cycle and abrupt climate warming, coincided exactly with a switch in the style of volcanic activity in the Siberian Traps. During the initial 300,000 years of the eruptions, basalt lava poured over a vast area of Siberia building to several kilometers thick. In this time there was some stress to life in the Northern Hemisphere, but no mass extinction. Life only began to disappear across the globe at exactly the same time that lava stopped erupting above ground, and instead began to inject as sheets of magma underground.\nIn Siberia you have got the Tunguska Basin which is a thick package of sediments that contain carbon-bearing rocks like limestone and coal. When you start intruding magma, [it] cooks those sediments and liberates the volatiles. So the deadly interval of magma in the entire Large Igneous Province is the first material to intrude and pond into the shallow crust\nIn other words, it wasn\u2019t the lava, it was the underground magma that started the killing, by releasing greenhouse gases.\nNorwegian scientist Henrik Svensen had earlier identified hundreds of unusual volcanic vents called \u201cdiatreme pipes\u201d all over Siberia that connected underground intrusions of magma (\u201csills\u201d) to the atmosphere, showing signs of violent gas explosions. This new work emphasizes the importance of Svensen\u2019s 2009 conclusions:\nThe diatremes that have been mapped are the geologic representation of that gas escape on a catastrophic level. Our hypothesis is that the first sills to be intruded are the ones that really do the killing [by] large scale gas escape likely via these diatremes.\nSvensen, who was not involved in Burgess\u2019 study, commented:\nThe Burgess et al paper is a crucial step towards a new understanding of the role of volcanism in driving extinctions. It\u2019s not the spectacular volcanic eruptions that we should pay attention too - it\u2019s their quiet relative, the sub-volcanic network of intrusions, that did the job. The new study shows convincingly that we are on the right track.\nGreenhouse gas as a killer\nWhile other scientists have proposed that an array of killers may have been involved in the end-Permian mass extinction, from mercury poisoning to ultraviolet rays and ozone collapse to acid rain, Burgess argues that it was principally greenhouse gas emissions triggered by magma intrusions that caused the extinction through abrupt global warming and ocean acidification. I asked him to outline the evidence for that.\nThere are 3 primary lines of evidence that support that link. The first is: right before the onset of the mass extinction we have evidence for a massive input of isotopically light carbon into the marine system.\nHe went on to explain various lines of evidence that point to the source of that carbon being methane and carbon dioxide resulting from magma intruding and cooking organic-rich sediments. He continued:\nJust prior to extinction and persisting after the mass extinction the sea surface temperature is thought to have gone up about 10\u00b0C. You get that increase by pumping greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. So that\u2019s the second.\nAnd then the third line of evidence is a physiologic selectivity to the marine mass extinction. Organisms that make their shells out of calcium carbonate suffer much higher mortality than organisms that make their shells out of silica, for example, which suggests that the ocean was acidified, and you get that by pumping gases like CO2 into the atmosphere.\nThat\u2019s not to say that other factors had no role in ruining the environment:\nThere is a cacophony of kill mechanisms, and I think that this first pulse of sills is the trigger for quite a few of those, sitting at the top, and beneath it are a cascade of negative effects from ocean acidification to climate warming and on down the line.\nA series of associated events\nCoincidentally, Joshua Davies of the University of Geneva and colleagues have just narrowed down the trigger for the end-Triassic mass extinction, another of Earth\u2019s biggest mass extinctions, to the underground phase of its associated Large Igneous Province. The Central Atlantic Magmatic Province (CAMP) is another enormous igneous province which stretches from Maine to South America, and includes the Palisade Sill visible from Manhattan.\nThey too used high precision rock dates on a vast sill that intruded organic rich sediments in the Amazon Basin, and found that this underground magma intrusion also coincided with the extinction. Like Burgess, Davies also argues that greenhouse gas baked from sediments drove climate change, which drove the mass extinction in a smaller repeat of the end-Permian events, this time 201.5 million years ago.\n\u201cI think CAMP is very similar to the Siberian Traps and that\u2019s the reason why there\u2019s an extinction at that time. I\u2019m not surprised that they got similar results,\u201d said Burgess.\nDiatreme pipes from magma intrusions have also been identified as a likely cause for a more recent global warming and very minor extinction event \u2013 the Paleocene\u2013Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) 56 million years ago. Again, prodigious quantities of greenhouse gases erupted from oil-rich deposits, although in that case it\u2019s been hard to locate and date the \u201csmoking gun\u201d intrusions due to the fact that they are under the Atlantic Ocean.\nA predictive model\nBurgess\u2019 insight makes a testable prediction:\nOnly Large Igneous Provinces characterized by sills intruded into a volatile-fertile basin are going to be lethal on a global scale.\nThis may explain why some Large Igneous Provinces are tied to mass extinctions, and some are not. Burgess thinks that the Deccan LIP, which happened at the time when the dinosaurs disappeared at the end of the Cretaceous, would not have triggered a major mass extinction on its own:\nThe Deccan Traps doesn\u2019t satisfy those 2 criteria. It\u2019s predominantly flood basalt lavas erupted onto old granitic rock. Acting alone there would likely have been negative effects on the biosphere because of the gases and the particulate matter released by those lavas, which are not insignificant, but I would argue that acting alone it would have been minor relative to the observed mass extinction. But with the Chicxulub impactor sharing the causal burden together they caused the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous.\nParallels today?\nThe more science learns of these past greenhouse gas-driven events, the more uncomfortable the parallels to today become. I asked Burgess if it was ridiculous to make the comparison.\nNo, I don\u2019t think the comparison is ridiculous at all, and I think that the timescales over which the environment changes associated with mass extinctions are frighteningly similar to the timescales over which our current climate is changing. The cause might be different but the hallmarks are similar.\nGeologically fast build-up of greenhouse gas linked to warming, rising sea-levels, widespread oxygen-starved ocean dead zones and ocean acidification are fairly consistent across the mass extinction events, and those same symptoms are happening today as a result of human-driven climate change. Even though the duration of those past events was longer, and the volume of emissions was larger than we will produce, we are emitting greenhouse gases around 10 times faster than the most recent, mildest example \u2013 the PETM. The rapidity of today\u2019s emissions prompted scientists Richard Zeebe and James Zachos to observe in a 2013 paper:\nThe Anthropocene will more likely resemble the end-Permian and end-Cretaceous disasters, rather than the PETM.\nWhen the promises made for the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change are added up, they aim to limit peak warming this century to about 3.3\u00baC compared to about 4.2\u00baC for the business-as-usual scenario, and the 2\u00baC limit the world is aiming to stay under. It\u2019s sobering to compare those numbers to the majority of mass extinctions in the geological record which were characterized by abrupt warmings typically around 6-7\u00baC.\nHoward Lee is a geologist and science writer who focuses on past climate changes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 13312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/23/michael-ledwidge-save-public-services", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:28Z", "digest": "sha1:ERTUC323B3FOMH6WHA3JRG6SFDU5C4YX", "length": 7649, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Save our public services\nWhen Mike Ledwidge took out a full-page advert in the Guardian last month, the response was overwhelming\nMike Ledwidge sifts through responses to his angry open letter in the Society section about the state of the public sector. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian\nWho is Mike Ledwidge? The question has been asked by many Society Guardian readers since he took out a full-page advertisement in the section four weeks ago to vent his anger about the state of public services. In doing so, the 57-year-old from Dorking, Surrey, seemingly not so much touched a nerve as tapped into an enormous well of anguish and dismay.\n\"Your open letter brought tears to my eyes\", \"You deserve a medal\" and \"I love you!\" were among the sentiments expressed by more than 200 people who emailed Ledwidge after reading his advert. Some offered him donations; others urged him to go into politics. All but one, he says, were overwhelmingly supportive.\nThe response has left the unusual advertiser somewhat bemused. \"I care passionately about the public services and I feel it's important to try to do something to make sure they are still here for my children and grandchildren,\" he says. \"It's gratifying to know that so many other people feel the same.\"\nAlthough this was Ledwidge's most high-profile foray into the public arena, it was not his first. As a serving police officer \u2013 he left the Surrey force seven years ago, with the rank of inspector \u2013 he wrote a couple of articles for police and magistrates' magazines expressing his growing frustration with what he saw as the malign impact of crude performance measurement and targets \"persuading villains to admit offences they did not commit\" or making it difficult for people to report crimes.\nPredictably, Ledwidge's views \u2013 and, he admits, his propensity to express them forcefully \u2013 did not endear him to some of his superiors. He recalls one occasion on which he challenged his then chief constable in an open meeting to produce the evidence for proposed organisational changes. There was none. Nevertheless, Ledwidge says he did turn down the opportunity of promotion to chief inspector before deciding to leave, as it would have meant abandoning the work that had become his preoccupation.\nThat work, championing restorative justice and training others in the techniques of bringing together the offender and those they have offended against, still plays a central part in his thinking on what public service should be all about: not ticking boxes to hit output targets, but working imaginatively and constructively with people to prevent them needing to make further demands on the state.\nHis approach draws on social psychologists and systems theorists (he has a degree in systems analysis and statistics and an MBA), and his conversation is laced with references to the work of business management gurus such as Douglas McGregor, who conceived theory X and theory Y to describe contrasting ways of motivating workers, and Frederick Herzberg, who coined the terms \"job satisfiers and dissatisfiers\". There has, Ledwidge argues, been a growing and destructive emphasis on dissatisfiers.\nHis 2,000-word open letter, entitled \"Why it has all gone wrong within our public services\", began: \"Our public services have been devastated over the last 25 years and the reasons have been hidden in the complexity of the detail.\"\nSince the Thatcher years, it argued, public-services policy had been driven by three assumptions: that you could measure their complexity in the same way you measured relatively simple commercial businesses; that all public servants were lazy and motivated only by threat or reward; and that private business was inherently more efficient than public service. It then set out to demolish all three.\nFrom policing to school exclusions, healthcare to parking penalties, Ledwidge cited vivid anecdotes: his brother, who had \"walked away from a top job in social services \u2026 because the bullying inspection process was so stressful and disrespectful that the pension was just not worth waiting for\"; an American who had received expensive NHS hospital treatment and wanted to pay for it, but could not find anyone to take her money; police community support officers who had been appointed in place of constables despite having poor command of English and no training in powers of arrest.\n\"Just read your article in the Guardian and couldn't agree more,\" wrote one respondent, \"tired of feeling ashamed of saying I work in the civil service.\" \"I've worked as a consultant in local government and the NHS, and the culture now stinks,\" wrote another. \"I wish to congratulate you and thank you for saying what I have been thinking for years,\" wrote a third. \"I am a businessman, Lib Dem councillor and previously was a non-executive director of a primary care trust. The naive belief in the private sector is staggering, while the rubbishing of the public sector is often uncalled for.\"\nA few respondents appeared to have deduced, wrongly, that Ledwidge was simply bashing the coalition for spending cuts, but the great majority seemed to have grasped his wider point. \"As a head of department at a comprehensive school, I am sickened by our ideological defeat at the hands of rightwing governments \u2013 I include Labour,\" said one (the one who declared her love). \"Students aren't stupid and they know when they are being treated like factory products.\"\nOthers had approached the open letter with due caution, but been won over. \"Though initially dubious, and thinking you were probably a crackpot to take out a page in the centre of the Guardian, I read your article and was impressed with its argument,\" wrote one. \"It is shocking to be faced with an 'advertisement' without lies, misrepresentation, dodgy statistics or undeclared commercial interests,\" wrote another, tongue firmly in cheek.\nProbation officers, firefighters and even military personnel were among those responding and agreeing with the letter. The one dissident response came from a police officer who described it as \"the rant to end all rants\" and told Ledwidge that \"your time as a public service employee seems to have left you with a rather embittered view\".\nLedwidge freely admits to having had a good rant. But he says his past attempts to make his case more rational have got nowhere and, anyway, it is high time that politicians were made aware of just how angry public servants have become. It is not, he stresses, primarily a case of public services needing more money. \"I'm just saying we need to start treating them differently, measuring and managing them differently. That's the key.\"\nSo what now? How will he continue his campaign, as so many have urged him to do? He rules out entering politics, not least because he wants to maintain his work in restorative justice through the training consultancy he runs. But he is determined to build on the impact of his open letter, especially now he has more time to devote to the cause following the death last year of his wife, Lizzie, whom he had cared for through her terminal illness. She had been a nurse and a forensic scientist.\nThe open letter has already taken on a life of its own, being passed around social networks and reproduced on websites. Ledwidge has just set up his own website, which features the letter and related material and incorporates a forum for comment and debate.\n\"I want this to cause discussion at a level where we can start to make a difference,\" he says. \"If we can trigger that process, that's good, but how we keep it rolling is the thing. That's the critical thing for me.\"\ntargetsandbullying.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 11058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 270.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thehuronhistoricalsociety.org/photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:41Z", "digest": "sha1:FHO2PDJRZBU6RM3Z33YDUDKEFIXDLRGX", "length": 482, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thehuronhistoricalsociety.org", "title": "Huron Historical Society", "raw_content": "The Huron Historical Society, with the assistance of the Director of the Huron Public Library, received a grant from the Ohio History Connection to purchase a scanner to digitize Huron\u2019s Historical images. The images are accessible on the Ohio Memory Project\u2019s website. If you would like a copy of an image, please contact Kathy at 419-602-1464 or kathy.muehlhauser@gmail.com.\nIf you have historical images you would like to share through the Ohio Memory Project, please contact us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theindiapost.com/features/featured/wrong-policies-corruption-responsible-for-price-rise-bjp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QACWIR4AEGT62JKJNHATPFLSYYKE6ISG", "length": 4528, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.theindiapost.com", "title": "Wrong policies, corruption responsible for price rise: BJP \u2013 The India Post", "raw_content": "Wrong policies, corruption responsible for price rise: BJP\nThe BJP has blamed the UPA for its \u201cwrong\u201d economic policies and corruption, leading to steep price rise and said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has to answer for this.\n\u201cThe UPA has been voted to power twice. They have not only failed to fulfil the promises made but also indulged in corruption leading to price rise. There is anger in the hearts of the people,\u201d BJP president Nitin Gadkari told a party rally in Dibrugarh (Assam) on Tuesday.\nHe said the Supreme Court had directed the Congress government to disclose the names of those having accounts in foreign banks but it refrained, saying it was not in the national interest.\n\u201cWe fail to understand how revealing the names of those, who have cheated the poor of the country by avoiding to pay different taxes and have stashed the black money in foreign banks, is against the country\u2019s interest,\u201d he said.\nA Planning Commission report has pointed out that nearly 90 percent of the country\u2019s population earns less than Rs 20 a day while another section earns Rs two crore a day through corruption.\n\u201cLiving for the common people has become very difficult. Price rise has led to suicides, unemployment and this is not related to anybody\u2019s caste, religion or language. How will the poor survive in such a situation?\u201d Gadkari asked.\nHe said the country has witnessed a series of scams involving the Congress and its allies.\nThe Congress claims its mission is \u2018Garibi Hatao\u2019 (poverty eradication) but whose \u2018Garibi\u2019 has it succeeded in removing. Statistics prove that the rich have become richer and the poor poorer, he said.\nGadkari alleged that the poverty of common Hindu or Muslim, Adivasi or Vanvasi people has not been removed. It is rather the Congress leaders and workers who have become richer.\nHe said the Congress government at the Centre alone was not indulging in corrupt practices.\nThe Assam government headed by the party too was doing the same \u201cand there is a long list of scams to prove that it is following the same path as the Congress at the Centre\u201d.\nFormer Asom Gana Parishad MP Sarbananda Sonowal joined the party at the rally.\nWith Assembly elections in Assam barely a few months away, Gadkari said he could foresee poor voters being offered not only food and clothes but also costly items like mobile phones, besides hard cash in return for votes.\nDismissing the propaganda against BJP that it was against Muslims, he said, \u201cWe want development for all Indians irrespective of their caste, religion or language. Politics is the instrument of social and economic reforms. We want to change the future and fortune of the country. We are not against Muslims but against terrorism.\u201d\nTo substantiate his statement, the BJP president said if the party was against Muslims, \u201cthen how did we make A P J Abdul Kalam, the President of the country?\u201d\n\u201cWe are against Bangladeshi migrants who usurp land and source of income of locals. Can you enter Bangladesh and buy land or property there? The Congress has deliberately kept the borders free to allow Bangladeshis to enter and vote for them,\u201d he said.\nThe BJP president lauded the people of Assam for carrying out a movement for six years to free the state from Bangladeshi migrants.\n\u201cThere is no such struggle in the history of the country. We cannot forget history and salute the martyrs who made immense sacrifices. The Assam Accord was signed but not completely implemented due to vote bank politics of the Congress,\u201d he alleged.\nGadkari assured the people that BJP was committed to fully implementing the Assam Accord and provide equal opportunities for all.\n\u201cWe assure all that BJP is not indulging in any communal or Hindu-Muslim politics. Whatever your language or religion is, if you are an Indian, then all are same for us and we want your development and progress,\u201d he said.\nGadkari pointed out that people of Assam want a corruption-free government where development, employment, educational institutions, hospitals and tourism facilities are available.\n\u201cWe are not in politics to become MLAs, MPs or ministers but our mission is to eradicate poverty and ensure development along with good governance,\u201d he said, adding, this is only possible in a corruption-free government.\nWelcoming Sonowal in the party fold, Gadkari announced that the former students\u2019 union leader has been made a member of BJP\u2019s national working committee.\nReports of loss in S-band spectrum allocation baseless: PMO\nCentre favours declaring child marriage as void, SC told", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 24756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theiphonewiki.com/w/index.php?title=Apple_TV_(3rd_generation)&action=info", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:12Z", "digest": "sha1:RAECTBS7YD7PMBK5JDHP5MHB3QRWC47Q", "length": 204, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.theiphonewiki.com", "title": "Information for \"Apple TV (3rd generation)\" - The iPhone Wiki", "raw_content": "Information for \"Apple TV (3rd generation)\"\nDisplay title Apple TV (3rd generation)\nDefault sort key Apple TV (3rd generation)\nRetrieved from \"https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Apple_TV_(3rd_generation)\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theitem.com/stories/scarnecchias-3-tds-lead-gamecocks-to-37-35-win-vs-missouri,316021", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:XVBAZXRBUHYJ6J76YHEDSLO6QJ4DQE5K", "length": 6786, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.theitem.com", "title": "Scarnecchia's 3 TDs lead Gamecocks to 37-35 win vs. Missouri | The Sumter Item", "raw_content": "By EDDIE LITAKER\nCOLUMBIA - In a game that took 5 hours, 13 minutes, to complete and had more twists and turns than a Stephen King novel, the University of South Carolina needed the arm of senior backup quarterback Michael Scarnecchia and the leg of placekicker \u2026\nSouth Carolina linebacker Bryson Allen-Williams (4) and cornerback Jaycee Horn (7) celebrate an interception against Missouri during the Gamecocks; 37-35 victory on Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia.\nSouth Carolina quarterback Michael Scarnecchia (12) hands off to Ty'Son Williams (27) during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Missouri Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)\nCOLUMBIA - In a game that took 5 hours, 13 minutes, to complete and had more twists and turns than a Stephen King novel, the University of South Carolina needed the arm of senior backup quarterback Michael Scarnecchia and the leg of placekicker Parker White to pull out a weather-delayed 37-35 win over Missouri on Saturday at Williams-Brice Stadium.\nAfter waiting out a 1-hour, 16-minute lightning delay to play the final 2:41 of the game, USC's defense came up with a stop only to have Tiger placekicker Tucker McCann nail a 57-yard field goal that put the Tigers on top, 35-34, with 1:18 to go and Carolina holding on to two timeouts.\nThe Gamecocks (3-2 overall, 2-2 in the Southeastern Conference) took over after the ensuing kickoff at their 31-yard line, needing at least a field goal for the win. Scarnecchia completed four of seven passes for 54 yards, including a 27-yarder to tight end Kyle Markway, making his first start since 2015, that moved the ball to the Mizzou 27 and a 12-yard strike to Bryan Edwards that put it on the 16. From there, White put his third field goal, a 33-yard game-winner, through the uprights with two seconds on the clock.\n\"Feels good,\" White said of kicking the game-winning field goal. \"To be in that situation before against Louisiana Tech last year definitely kind of helped me through that and (I) just kind of realized that every kick is the same and it could be for the win and it could be in a blowout. No matter how far it is, every kick's the same. Just got to keep it consistent.\"\nThe Tigers (3-2, 0-2) had one last shot, taking the ball at their own 33, but quarterback Drew Lock's pass attempt to Jalen Knox fell incomplete, sealing an emotionally-draining Gamecock win.\nUSC head coach Will Muschamp was proud of his team for overcoming much adversity, including a headset malfunction that both coaching staffs had to work around.\n\"You're talking about a team that continued to fight regardless of circumstances going into the game, regardless of circumstances in the game,\" Muschamp said. \"Whether it was a rain delay, poor play, poor coaching, whatever you want to call it, guys continued to fight. Makes you proud to wear Garnet and Black, in my opinion. Really proud of our football team to hang in there and do what you have to do to win games. That's what we do.\n\"... Part of being a Gamecock is continuing to fight and never quit. That says a lot about this football team. I appreciate the fans that stayed throughout . It was certainly as loud as it could be there in the fourth quarter and we appreciate them staying through a couple of rain delays. Hell of a day to be a Gamecock!\"\nTrailing 23-14 at halftime, the Gamecocks literally stormed back in the third quarter to take a 31-23 lead in a driving rain with an 8-yard Scarnecchia touchdown pass to wide receiver Deebo Samuel, a 42-yard White field goal and a 12-yard Sherrod Greene interception return for another score. Mizzou answered with a long drive but stalled and came up short on a 25-yard field goal attempt as USC carried that 8-point lead into the final quarter.\nAs the rains began to let up in the final period, a blocked punt would lead to a quick Tiger score early, with the Tigers coming up short on their 2-point conversion attempt. A bad snap on a USC punt attempt would then lead to a field goal that put the Tigers back on top, 32-31, with 11:01 to go.\nUSC would retake the lead with a 42-yard White field goal at the 6:23 mark and Jamyest Williams would have an interception literally fall into his lap, but the Gamecocks would come up short on a fake field goal attempt, with holder Bailey Hart being tackled two yards short of a first down.\nFour plays later, a lightning strike within eight miles of the stadium would necessitate the lightning delay. The game was initially set to restart at 4:26, with a 42-minute delay, but another strike pushed the restart back to 5 p.m.\nWith a new quarterback starting under center for the first time in 25 games, it was believed that the Gamecocks would lean heavily on the run against the Tigers, but that never seemed to materialize as the run game would struggle to finish with 128 yards on 47 attempts.\nUSC closed the first half with 43 yards rushing on 17 attempts, with Crestwood High School alum Ty'Son Williams accounting for 39 of those yards on eight carries. The next highest Gamecock rusher was A.J. Turner with seven yards on four carries, and Rico Dowdle had minus-1 on three totes with Scarnecchia gaining four yards on his only rush of the half.\nThe numbers picked up slightly in the second half as Dowdle closed with 53 yards on 21 carries and Williams ended with 51 on 15 rushes, but USC couldn't keep pace with a Mizzou run game that closed with 286 yards on 46 attempts. Damar Crockett led the way with 154 yards, including a 1-yard touchdown run, on 20 carries while Larry Rountree added 90 yards and two scores, on runs of one and two yards, on 13 runs.\nScarnecchia, pressed into his first start after Jake Bentley suffered a leg injury late in last week's 24-10 loss at Kentucky, completed 20 of 35 passes for 249 yards and three scores while adding four yards on three rushes, with a long run of nine yards. The Fleming Island, Fla. native completed six of his first seven passes for 102 yards and two touchdowns, on passes of 5 and 17 yards to Edwards.\nEdwards hauled in seven passes for 73 yards while Samuel ended with 88 yards on four receptions and three yards on two rushes, with a long run of nine yards.\nThe three field goals for White were a career high while the two Edwards touchdown receptions tied a career high. Greene's pick-six was his first career interception and was USC's first defensive score of the season. Samuel passed Brandon Bennett for sole possession of 13th all-time in career receptions at USC and tied his career high with his third touchdown catch of the season.\nBoth teams ran 82 plays, with the Tigers outgaining the Gamecocks 490-377 in total yardage in a game that saw one tie and five second-half lead changes, including four in the final quarter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 10309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.themilcgroup.com/breastfeeding_calendar.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PGI3P6WVK47VDK45F6RM6OALOJA76FMT", "length": 180, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.themilcgroup.com", "title": "The MILC Group's Calendar - Lactation Consultations - Breastfeeding Classes - Breastfeeding Support - IBCLC - San Antonio and South Texas Google+", "raw_content": "The MILC Group offers a variety of options for breastfeeding support and education. Check our calendar below on a regular basis to find out what's new.\nBOOK A CLASS OR CONSULT HERE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenationalherald.com/227653/leftist-terrorism-abounds-in-greece-right-wing-more-dangerous/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:26Z", "digest": "sha1:SOXTYR7J7F7OILVWU6VRNSBTSZFLBY6A", "length": 6871, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.thenationalherald.com", "title": "Leftist Terrorism Abounds in Greece, Right-Wing More Dangerous - The National Herald", "raw_content": "Leftist Terrorism Abounds in Greece, Right-Wing More Dangerous\nFILE - Greek forensic experts search outside the private Greek television station Skai, after a powerful bomb explosion, in Faliro, Athens, on Monday, Dec, 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)\nATHENS \u2013 A crude bomb in a metal box that went off outside a church in a wealthy neighborhood in Greece\u2019s capital showed terror and anarchist groups are becoming more indiscriminate in their targets as the country continues to breed them.\nIn a feature look at the proliferation of the groups who are stepping up violence \u2013 with the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA condoning it, said critics \u2013 The New Republic wrote that while there\u2019s little to fear from jihadists or religious extremists that, said Europol, \u201cGreece is the only EU member state that faces an actual threat from left-wing terrorism.\u201d\nBut the piece said a much more immediate and tangible threat comes from right-wing violence as racist hate crimes tripled in 2017 and the ultra-extreme right Golden Dawn, accused of using neo-Nazi tactics, has all 15 of its lawmakers and dozens of members in the fourth year on charges of running a criminal gang, which they have denied.\nTied to romantic notions of rebels in a country where that spirit drove out invaders across the ages, from Venetians to Franks, Turks to the Nazis, and in recent years with fury against banks and international lenders who imposed harsh austerity measures in return for bailouts, leftist terrorists and anarchists have gone from splashing paint on government buildings and throwing flyers around to setting off bombs.\nThe targets have also included foreign embassies, courts where the government \u2013 after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras swore, \u201cnot one home in the hands of banks\u201d \u2013 allowed the foreclosure of homes, and even to SYRIZA offices.\nIt\u2019s part of a spate of growing lawlessness and violence that the major opposition New Democracy Conservatives blame says Tsipras is implicitly encouraging in a desperate bid to re-establish Leftist credentials with the same groups tossing Molotov Cocktails and planting bombs, such as a bigger package in December, before the church bombing, which destroyed part of the front of the building housing the offices of SKAI TV and Kathimerini newspaper.\nFILE \u2013 A molotov cocktail explodes next to Greek riot police during clashes after a rally in Athens, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2019. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)\nThe Europol figures showed that in 2017, of the 24 left-wing attacks that occurred across the EU, eight happened in Greece; of the 36 suspects arrested in connection to left-wing terrorism, 12 were charged in Greece.\n\u201cThis is a new kind of attack,\u201d Mary Bossis, an Associate Professor of International Relations at University of Piraeus and an expert on left-wing militancy, told the magazine\u2019s writer Sarah Souli, referring to the church bomb. \u201cWe never had attacks against churches before.\u201d\nA new anarchist group said it was behind putting a crude bomb outside the church in the Kolonaki neighborhood \u2013 which abuts the anarchist stronghold of Exarchia \u2013 that went off and wounded a police officer and church worker slightly.\nThe group, which calls itself the Iconoclastic Sect, made the claim on a Spanish web page, and said the attack outside the Saint Dionysios church in the heavily policed, upscale area, was just the start, media reports said.\n\u201cOur hands will not tremble when the time comes to spill blood, we won\u2019t show mercy or sensitivity towards our enemies,\u201d the group said on the website.\nThe Popular Fighters Group said it planted the bomb outside SKAI that caused extensive damage but no injuries as it went off around 3:30 a.m. when it was more likely there wouldn\u2019t be potential victims around.\nThe group said it went after the media outlets to protest what it called their support for austerity policies that punished workers, pensioners and the poor the last 8 \u00bd years, including under SYRIZA, which vowed to help those groups before Tsipras reneged on anti-austerity measures and bowed to the country\u2019s creditors.\nThe magazine wrote that the terror group, also known as The Group of People\u2019s Fighters (OLA) claimed the bomb was meant to \u201csocial-counter violence to the media\u2019s effort to reproduce a xenophobic, far-right and neo-liberal narrative.\u201d\nFILE \u2013 Greek forensic experts search at the scene after an explosion outside the Orthodox church of Agios Dionysios in the upscale Kolonaki area of Athens, Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)\n\u201d Brady Kiesling, former U.S. diplomat and author of Greek Urban Warriors told Souli that the act was \u201cviolence as performance art,\u201d meant to show off and gain attention for the cause.\nIn 2017, the Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire (SPF,) many of whose members have been jailed, said it sent a series of letter bombs sent to International Monetary Fund offices in Paris and to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble in Berlin, one of the creditors and a country which put up the bulk of 326 billion euros ($370.6 billion) in three bailouts.\n\u201cThe general public isn\u2019t afraid of (these groups,\u201d,) said Bossis. \u201cYou won\u2019t see the Greeks being altogether against them, they don\u2019t care.\u201d\nKiesling said major Greek terrorist groups arose from armed resistance to the military dictatorship of 1967-74, under ruling Colonels backed by the United States \u2013 which now has said little as one of the leaders of the biggest of those, November 17 mastermind Dimitris Koufodinas received five furloughs despite the murders of five Americans.\n\u201cThey had a hyper obsessed, diseased sense of morality,\u201d Kiesling said, \u201cand therefore acted in places where (they thought) society had failed.\u201d\nFollowing World War II, more than 100,000 people were killed during a civil war between the anti-communist government army backed by the U.S. and Britain, and the Communists. \u201cThe right won the war,\u201d said Ioannis Michaletos, a security analyst, \u201cbut the left won culturally \u2026 they have a martyr notion because they lost the war.\u201d\nIt doesn\u2019t much matter what the government is, he said, because none seem able or willing to stop the terrorists now.\n\u201cWhat is lacking is political will,\u201d he said. \u201cThe right accuses the left of inaction; the left accuses the right of political exploitation.\u201d And so it goes.\nNicholas Kalis, Master of International Affairs, Columbia SIPA says:\nThis editorial lacks both hard facts and sober reasoning. Rather it seems to be a grab bag of facts and very little analysis. No wonder no one person wanted his name attached to this article. Seems the leftist leaning proclivities of the authors won out. Greece\u2019s problems are too serious to merit such a poorly thought out article.\nGreek Journalist, Themos Anastasiadis, Dies at 61\nCuomo Appoints Greek-American Madeline Singas to Probe Schneiderman\nGREEK WOMEN ASSUME CLEANING HOUSES AND VARIOUS PLACES.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 9090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/Media-hub/Press-releases/TPR-to-prosecute-bus-company-and-boss-for-failing-to-give-staff-workplace-pensions-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2PLNR3VAD7MPXYWRAVI63RK675FHZK7F", "length": 2362, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk", "title": "TPR to prosecute bus company and boss for failing to give staff workplace pensions | The Pensions Regulator", "raw_content": "TPR to prosecute bus company and boss for failing to give staff workplace pensions\nIssued: Friday 8 September 2017\nThe Pensions Regulator (TPR) is to prosecute a Greater Manchester bus firm and its managing director for deliberately not putting staff into a workplace pension.\nStotts Tours (Oldham) Limited is accused of failing to comply with the law on automatic enrolment in respect of 36 members of staff. Managing director Alan Stott is accused of either consenting or conniving in the bus company\u2019s offence, or allowing the offence to be committed by neglect.\nStotts Tours (Oldham) and Mr Stott have been summonsed to appear at Brighton Magistrates\u2019 Court on 4 October 2017. They will face eight charges of wilfully failing to comply with the company\u2019s duties under section 3(2) of the Pensions Act 2008, contrary to section 45 of the Act in the case of Stotts Tours (Oldham) and contrary to section 46 of the Act in the case of Mr Stott.\nThis is the first time that TPR has launched prosecutions for these offences.\nUnder section 45 of the Pensions Act 2008, an offence is committed by an employer who wilfully fails to comply with the duty under section 3(2) (automatic enrolment) of the Act \u2013 \u201cThe employer must make prescribed arrangements by which the jobholder becomes an active member of an automatic enrolment scheme with effect from the automatic enrolment date.\"\nWhere an offence under section 45 is committed by a company with the consent or connivance of one of its directors, or is attributable to the director\u2019s neglect, the director is also guilty of the offence by virtue of section 46 of the same Act.\nThe offences can be tried in a crown court or in a magistrates\u2019 court. In a crown court the maximum sentence is two years\u2019 imprisonment. In a magistrates\u2019 court, the maximum sentence is an unlimited fine.\nTPR is the regulator of work-based pension schemes in the UK. Our statutory objectives are: to protect members\u2019 benefits; to reduce the risk of calls on the Pension Protection Fund (PPF); to promote, and to improve understanding of, the good administration of work-based pension schemes; to maximise employer compliance with automatic enrolment duties; and to minimise any adverse impact on the sustainable growth of an employer (in relation to the exercise of the regulator\u2019 s functions under Part 3 of the Pensions Act 2004 only).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 179.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thepiripirilexicon.com/2013/05/multilingualism-in-my-family-adams-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:52Z", "digest": "sha1:J3UIHH7TLOREOJI2KSRD5Z2AU46IDNC7", "length": 3698, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thepiripirilexicon.com", "title": "Multilingualism in my family: Adam's story : the piri-piri lexicon $('.post-body').find('a').each(function(l, link){ var link = $(link); link.css('margin-left',0); link.css('margin-right',0); link.css('float','none'); }); $('.item-action img').attr('width',18); $('.item-action img').attr('height',13); $('.item-control img').attr('width',18); $('.item-control img').attr('height',18); }); //]]>", "raw_content": "In our monthly instalment of Multilingualism in my family, we meet Adam and his family in Japan.\nAdam and his wife are raising their two children to be bilingual: Japanese and English. You may already be familiar with Adam's blog which is full of very helpful resources and tips for parents of multilingual children. Adam tells us how reading is at the heart of his family's language strategy. I admire his dedication (making videos of yourself speaking the minority language - woah!!!).\nTriligual road sign in Japan - via Flickr\nBilingual Monkeys: Ideas and inspiration for raising bilingual children\nWe live in Hiroshima, Japan\nI\u2019m American and my wife is Japanese. We have two children: a girl, 8, and a boy, 5.\nFrom the start, my wife and I have consistently followed the \u201cone person-one language\u201d approach: she communicates with the kids in Japanese and I communicate with them in English\u2014this has become our natural mode of language use, nearly 100% of the time. My wife and I generally use our own languages, too, when we interact with each other, though I will sometimes use Japanese when we\u2019re out of earshot of the children. Our kids use both languages when they interact, but not usually at the same time. In other words, depending on the situation, they sometimes use Japanese, sometimes English.\nOutside the house, the children use Japanese almost exclusively\u2014at school or playing with friends\u2014but occasionally they have an opportunity to use English with English-speaking friends.\nThe children are exposed to Japanese about 75% of their waking hours and English about 25%.\nAs the main source of English exposure in my children\u2019s lives, I\u2019ve taken it upon myself to provide them with as much effective exposure to the language as I\u2019m able. This includes creating an English-rich environment at home (we have a large library of children\u2019s books) and maintaining daily routines like read-aloud time and reading-writing homework.\nAs I\u2019m convinced that books and reading are at the heart of strong language acquisition, I put special emphasis on reading aloud to my kids (which I began from birth and will sustain for as long as possible) and getting them to read every day as well. (Chapter books that come in a series, and engage children with their familiar characters and conventions, form the core of this effort.)\nAs I work from home these days, I\u2019m very fortunate in that I can spend a substantial amount of time with my kids. This wasn\u2019t the case, however, for their first few years\u2014back then, I was working full-time and providing sufficient exposure in English was much tougher. (I resorted to ideas like making videos of myself reading books aloud, which my wife would play for them when I was at the office.)\nWhile my children are small, and language exposure is especially crucial, I\u2019ve prioritized time over money\u2014I\u2019d rather have more time for them, even if that means earning less income. For us, this has been a fruitful decision\u2014since the children\u2019s bilingual development is strong\u2014and yet we now face the challenge of increasing our financial security and flexibility. I probably should have built up a better savings before my children were born!\nWhen the main caregiver uses the majority language, and the child is schooled in the majority language, too\u2014like our situation\u2014this is a significant challenge for the minority-language parent. To realize sufficient exposure to the minority language in such circumstances, the bilingual goal must be made a huge priority and proactive efforts are needed on a daily basis.\nIf you would like to take part in this series, please contact me at thepiripirilexicon at gmail.com. 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There are efforts to address some of these issues with 3D design, but little is being done for EDA.\nSolderpad will provide an online platform for publishing electronic designs in a clear and consistent manner and that enables viewing projects without the need to install EDA software. Rather than attempting to implement new EDA tools in the browser, the project will support the import of existing popular file formats. Thus lowering the barrier to participation and ensuring compatibility with many existing open source projects.\nIn support of driving reuse and enabling building on the work of others, there will be search and tagging functionality and the licensing for a project will be clearly indicated. Simple in-browser collaboration features will enable users without access to EDA tools to contribute to projects via documentation and annotated feedback.\nThe principle measure of project impact will be adoption; success will be largely proportional to the number of active projects that Solderpad hosts. Other measures will include usage across hackspaces, higher education and industry.\nSubsequent to the initial site being developed and going live, funding will be sought to further research key concepts and to support the development of additional functionality. For example, an opportunity exists to develop an open data resource for electronic engineers that would serve to expedite the design process. This resource would involve the same community of users and would enjoy a symbiotic relationship with the main site.\nSolderpad will provide a service that is free of charge to open source projects, however, a possibility exists to simultaneously offer a paid-for service to companies that wish to collaborate in private on proprietary projects. Further developing the site to support a marketplace for open source hardware may also provide source of income, as may statistical analysis of interest to component manufacturers.\nVisit Solderpad's website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thespaceshow.com/show/06-may-2003/broadcast-116-special-edition", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:58Z", "digest": "sha1:R6Q72OQPAZ4CA7SVHS3HC24KK6BX4QTU", "length": 1264, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thespaceshow.com", "title": "Tue, 05/06/2003 - 10:00 | Robert Pearlman", "raw_content": "06 May 2003 Robert Pearlman\nSelect ratingGive Broadcast 116 (Special Edition) 1/5Give Broadcast 116 (Special Edition) 2/5Give Broadcast 116 (Special Edition) 3/5Give Broadcast 116 (Special Edition) 4/5Give Broadcast 116 (Special Edition) 5/5\nRobert Pearlman is the featured guest for this program. Robert Pearlman is the editor and founder of collectSPACE.com, the first and largest online community and resource site dedicated to space memorabilia collectors. During this program, Robert discusses the details of space memorabilia collecting, especially with regards to items from the Moon and the Apollo era. This is serious business, rapidly growing worldwide, and surprisingly, many items that have been in space from both Russia and the United States make it into the hands of collectors. Robert also discusses efforts to raise money for those studying space and science matters in school through their silent auction of specific space collectables and how items that are being colleted are certified and verified has having flown in space. This is a most interesting program, providing Space Show listeners with a look at a commercial space industry that is succeeding and growing right here on Earth!\nspace memorabilia collecting\nthe Moon and the Apollo era", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 5442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestore.com.hk/products/earth-circle-organic-organic-chia-seeds-12oz-340g", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ULAFBUEIXSBANIL6PQZZD4NTG6PVAFLG", "length": 330, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thestore.com.hk", "title": "Earth Circle Organic, Organic Chia Seeds, 12oz/340g", "raw_content": "Rich source of easily digestible fiber; Calcium, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Manganese, Vitamin A, B1, B2, B3, C, and E.\nHigh in antioxidants and proteins, as well as Omega 3 and 6\nMay aid in weight loss, absorbing 10 times its weight in water, making one feel fuller longer\nProlongs hydration, endurance and retention of electrolytes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 357, "original_length": 6307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theworkprint.com/supergirl-who-or-what-is-in-the-pod/123", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:01Z", "digest": "sha1:YETMZJ25UJMB3LJ2UH22XVPVRCQYYLTB", "length": 4692, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theworkprint.com", "title": "'Supergirl' Season 1 Finale: Who is in the Pod? \u2013 The Workprint", "raw_content": "Home / TV / \u2018Supergirl\u2019 Season 1 Finale: Who is in the Pod?\n\u2018Supergirl\u2019 Season 1 Finale: Who is in the Pod?\nJen Stayrook April 19, 2016 Leave a comment\nSpoilers for the season 1 finale of Supergirl, \u201cBetter Angels.\u201d\nSupergirl hasn\u2019t been renewed for a second season yet, but let\u2019s hope for the sake of our sanity CBS renews it soon so that we can appropriately assess who might be in the pod that crash-landed in the finale. Let\u2019s go over what we do know from the finale and from interviews with executive producer Andrew Kreisberg. At the end, J\u2019onn warns Kara to be careful near the pod, suggesting he sees or senses something dangerous in it. There\u2019s a faint blue glow around the pod which could be the being inside or it could just be from the pod entering the atmosphere. Finally, Kara\u2019s reaction to seeing who or what is inside is shock.\nKriesberg said in an interview with EW:\nObviously it\u2019s our big cliffhanger of the season, so I\u2019m not fully inclined to let everyone know who shot J.R. It\u2019s an important character, and they\u2019ll play an important role in season 2\u2026The fans are going to be excited. It\u2019s going to definitely shake things up for season 2.\nNow, let\u2019s get to the guesses.\nThis is the most obvious choice and for good reason. Supergirl has had to sidestep the Superman-sized elephant in the room all season. They even had to put him into a coma for the duration of the season finale just to escape his powers and ability to save Kara at a moment\u2019s notice. They can\u2019t show any more than a dark outline or boots because of what\u2019s going on in the DCEU right now with the movies, but they could show his smaller, less powerful clone, Superboy.\nSuperboy would be the perfect addition to the Supergirl universe because he\u2019s a clone created at Project Cadmus, that evil lair currently holding Jeremiah Danvers captive. If we judge him from Young Justice (which we should because that show is amazing), he\u2019s naive but also a loose cannon of frustration and anger. Superboy isn\u2019t and doesn\u2019t want to be a Superman clone. He wants to be his own person, which is the perfect struggle for a growing Supergirl.\nThis is more fantasy than the Superboy prediction because I\u2019m sure the effects needed to make J\u2019onn Jonzz look cool aren\u2019t cheap and Miss Martian would need a similar treatment. Granted, she could walk around in human attire like uncle J\u2019onn, and it would give him a deeper backstory, dealing with not being the last Martian. But really, I just want Miss Martian on the show. It\u2019s already littered with female superheroes, WHAT\u2019S ONE MORE, AMIRITE? Besides, if my thoughts on Superboy being a certainty for season 2 are correct, then we could get that adorable Young Justice Superboy/Miss Martian pairing and\u2026\nI just really miss Young Justice, ok?\nI imagine since the pod was so similar to Kara\u2019s, it was at some point taken by Project Cadmus and maybe used to clone Superman\u2019s DNA into Superboy. I know I am harping on the Superboy theory but it\u2019s too good to pass up. That being said, if Jeremiah escaped in the pod to warn the world about Superboy and the dangers of him being controlled by Cadmus, that would be quite the twist. We already have the precedent of a Danvers being able to fly the pod, so Papa Danvers could easily mimic his daughter\u2019s ingenuity and escape Cadmus\u2019s facility. Besides, it would add a funny/awkward, \u201cOh, we were just coming to save you\u201d scene. If Jeremiah is in the pod, he\u2019s likely a shell of his former self, tortured and pumped full of them nutritious Cadmus drugs.\nAlura (Kara\u2019s Mom)\nI don\u2019t actually think Kara\u2019s mother survived the destruction of Krypton. It wouldn\u2019t be the first time someone has come back from the dead in Kara\u2019s life, and in the comics much of her family does survive the explosion, but it would feel too much like a tease to have Alura come back to Kara\u2019s life. It\u2019s better having Kara deal with the hologram of her mother\u2019s former self and facing the issues with her Earth family for the time being, as much as it pains me to say because I loved having Laura Benanti on the show.\nI mean, look how cute he is. It\u2019s a long shot, but I needed at least five guesses for my list.\nAll in all, I think Superboy or Jeremiah are the most likely candidates, especially given the set up for Project Cadmus already. That being said, there could be other contenders. Or the pod could just be empty. Maybe it\u2019s simply a skeleton. What do you think? Who is in the pod in the season finale of Supergirl?\nTags CBS martian manhunter miss martian project cadmus Season 2 superboy Supergirl who is in the pod young justice\nPrevious It\u2019s a TRAVESTY if \u2018Supergirl\u2019 isn\u2019t Renewed for Season 2\nNext \u2018The Flash\u2019: Who is the Man in the Mask?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 7191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/joe-eszterhas-mel-gibson-don-t-call-me-liar-i-have-tape-exclusive-36987/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:54Z", "digest": "sha1:APZ2LEGTXL57AM2NXJ7NPCXBTDA5OHYF", "length": 6475, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.thewrap.com", "title": "Joe Eszterhas to Mel Gibson: \u2018Don\u2019t Call Me a Liar, I Have a Tape\u2019 (Exclusive)", "raw_content": "Joe Eszterhas to Mel Gibson: \u2018Don\u2019t Call Me a Liar, I Have a Tape\u2019 (Exclusive)\nJoe Eszterhas, in an exclusive interview with TheWrap, details Mel Gibson\u2019s anti-Semitic obsession, frequent rages and threats to Oksana Grigorieva\nHollywood screenwriter Joe Eszterhas warned Mel Gibson on Thursday that calling him a liar could be hazardous: he has a tape.\n\u201cHe should be very careful calling me a liar,\u201d Eszterhas said in an exclusive interview with TheWrap's Sharon Waxman. \u201cWe have a recording of his actions and statements that my son Nick made in Costa Rica,\u201d where Eszterhas, his wife, Naomi, and son spent time with Gibson in December at the actor's villa.\nGibson said on Wednesday that an explosive letter from Eszterhas was \u201cutter fabrication\u201d in its \u201cgreat majority.\u201d In the letter, the writer described the movie star in the grip of an anti-Semitic obsession, inflicting frequent rages on those around him and threatening to kill his ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva.\nAlso read: Joe Eszterhas' Letter to Mel Gibson\nThe following is the full interview:\nJoe Eszterhas: I\u2019d like to respond to Mel line by line. He says, \u201cThe great majority of the facts as well as the statements attributed to me are utter fabrication.\u201d He should be very careful calling me a liar. We have a recording of his actions and statements that my son Nick made in Costa Rica. There were at least four other people present when he exploded in that rage. Naomi also witnessed things he said about killing Oksana, and his constant anti-Semitic remarks. He should be very careful.\nSW: And he says that as man of a principle, if Mel was this person you describe, you should have withdrawn from the project.\nJE: I didn\u2019t withdraw from the project because I love the project. It\u2019s a great, heroic story. I felt trapped. It was a project initiated by Mel. I couldn\u2019t legally or morally take it from him and write it as a spec script. I was hoping the power of the story would overcome his anti-Semitism. I hoped to convert him through the power of the script. I wanted to write, and I did write, the Jewish Braveheart.\nAlso read: Warner Bros. Shelves Mel Gibson Maccabee Movie (Exclusive)\nSW: Some are saying that you only wrote this letter out of resentment, after Warner Bros. rejected the script?\nJE: In an interview I did with the New York Times on Feb 5, before the script delivered, I said I\u2019d seen him explode at people, and that Oksana was right when she said that he needed medication. I also said that if I saw anti-Semitism creep into the script, I\u2019d take my name off the project.\nSW: Did you ever confront him when he made anti-Semitic remarks?\nJE: We had a terrific argument over his notion that the Torah talked about the sacrifice of Christian babies. I told him he was confusing the Torah with the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He said, \"it\u2019s the Torah check it.\"\nSW: And when he used a term like \"oven-dodgers\"?\nJE: I would say, \"Dude, stop this shit.\" Or I\u2019d roll my eyes. But these things happened over a period of time. It\u2019s not like he would say these anti-Semitic things every hour, every day. I compressed the things he\u2019d said.\nSW: Gibson says in his response that he is passionate, intense?\nJE: I humbly submit those are wrong words. I\u2019d say he\u2019s unstable. He\u2019s out of control. He\u2019s often irrational. And he needs medication. He needs help. One of the reasons I wrote the letter is I\u2019m concerned that without getting serious help, someone is going to get hurt.\nAlso read: Oksana Grigorieva Attorneys Looking Into Mel Gibson Threats\nHe leads an extremely isolated existence. The TV is only on when he\u2019s watching movies, and they\u2019re often his own movies. The people around him aren\u2019t people who are going to raise those kinds of issues with him. Most of them have seen him go off into bellowing rages. It\u2019s scary. It frightens people. If you\u2019ve seen that once, it's very difficult to say, \"Dude you need help.\" People would rather avoid the consequences.\nSW: And why would he hate John Lennon?\nJE: The man is a hater. He hates Jews and God knows who else. But two of the people he definitively hates are John Lennon and Walter Cronkite. Why? You\u2019re dealing with an irrational human being.\nSW: What was the context for what he said about John Lennon? (Eszterhas says Gibson derided Lennon, saying \u201cHe deserved to be shot.\u201d)\nJE: It came up several times. One of the guests brought up John Lennon at the dinner table and again in the car driving into town. All of us were stunned. We tried to make light of it.\nSW: What is on the tape you have?\nJE: Nick has a digital recording: there\u2019s a lot on it, of the rage in Costa Rica. Nick taped a big sequence of it. We went up to the dining room. Mel throws a cell phone, goes running around the side of house, screaming all the way through. He goes to a lower room, destroys the totem pole in the billiard room. He screams again about Oksana. When we were up there, Nick had the iPod in his pocket, and he was frightened.\nSW: What are you going to do with it?\nJE: For the moment, I'm holding on to it. Mel needs to understand I don\u2019t like being called a liar. And I have evidence. This tape testifies to both actions and statements. The violence that he\u2019s doing and things he\u2019s screaming into the night.\nSW: What are you hoping to accomplish?\nJE: I hope, to begin with, he gets some help. Someone is going to get hurt. I feel that in my bones. I\u2019ve seen him rage, twice. I\u2019ve heard the horrible pornographic imagery that he told my 15-year-old. And I\u2019ve heard him talk and fantasize about killing Oksana. So he needs help.\nIn terms of Oksana, I think it\u2019s good for her and her safety \u2014 and I don\u2019t know her \u2014 to know the way he\u2019s thinking and way he\u2019s behaving.\nAnd in terms of the script, I\u2019m heartbroken. I put my heart and soul in it. It\u2019s in the hands of a person who I\u2019m convinced hates Jews. A tragic situation in my mind. I asked him to do the decent thing and give me the script back. Let me get it made.\nSW: What will happen from here?\nJE: I don\u2019t want to be at war with him. I live very quietly in Cleveland with a wonderful family. I hope the outcomes are all positive. I hope that no one gets hurt. But I don\u2019t have any idea where it\u2019s going to come out.\nTop Mel Gibson Rants From the Joe Eszterhas Letter\nJoe Eszterhas\u2019 Letter to Mel Gibson\nJoe Eszterhas Explodes at Mel Gibson: \u2018You Hate Jews\u2019 (Exclusive)\nWarner Bros. 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This collection of ten chemistry test questions deals with balancing chemical reactions.\nBalance the following equation:\n__ Na3PO4 + __ HCl \u2192 __ NaCl + __ H3PO4\n+ __ HCl\n+ __ HBr\n1. 1 SnO2 + 2 H2 \u2192 1 Sn + 2 H2O\n2. 3 KOH + 1 H3PO4 \u2192 1 K3PO4 + 3 H2O\n3. 2 KNO3 + 1 H2CO3 \u2192 1 K2CO3 + 2 HNO3\n4. 1 Na3PO4 + 3 HCl \u2192 3 NaCl + 1 H3PO4\n5. 1 TiCl4 + 2 H2O + 1 TiO2 + 4 HCl\n6. 1 C2H6O + 3 O2 \u2192 2 CO2 + 3 H2O\n7. 2 Fe + 6 HC2H3O2 \u2192 2 Fe(C2H3O2)3 + 3 H2\n8. 4 NH3 + 5 O2 \u2192 4 NO + 6 H2O\n9. 1 B2Br6 + 6 HNO3 \u2192 2 B(NO3)3 + 6 HBr\n10. 4 NH4OH + 1 Kal(SO4)2\u00b712H2O \u2192 1 Al(OH)3 + 2 (NH4)2SO4 + 1 KOH + 12 H2O\nWhen balancing equations, remember chemical reactions must satisfy conservation of mass. Check your work to make certain you have the same number and type of atoms on the reactants side as on the products side. A coefficient (number in front of a chemical) is multiplied by all the atoms in that chemical. A subscript (lower number) is only multiplied by the number of atoms it immediately follows. If there is no coefficient or subscript, that is the same as a number \"1\" (which is not written in chemical formulas).\nExamples of 10 Balanced Chemical Equations\nQuiz Yourself on Balancing Chemical Equations\nWhat Is a Balanced Equation in Chemistry?\nGet Printable Worksheets To Practice Balancing Equations\nSample Test Questions About Electronic Structure\n5 Steps for Balancing Chemical Equations\nReviewing How to Balance Redox Reactions in Basic Solutions\nHow to Balance Net Ionic Equations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 4405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 169.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thoughtco.com/the-hebrew-language-2076678", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SCRQZ57Z3N5WFRMYBIOZAQHATKOJB2HY", "length": 4777, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.thoughtco.com", "title": "Hebrew Language History and Origins", "raw_content": "Learn the history and origins of the Hebrew language\nGodong /robertharding/Getty Images\nHebrew is the official language of the State of Israel. It is a Semitic language spoken by the Jewish people and one of the world\u2019s oldest living languages. There are 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet and the language is read from right to left.\nOriginally the Hebrew language was not written with vowels to indicate how a word should be pronounced. However, around the 8th century as a system of dots and dashes was developed whereby marks were placed beneath the Hebrew letters in order to indicate the appropriate vowel. Today vowels are commonly used in Hebrew school and grammar books, but newspapers, magazines, and books are largely written without vowels. Readers must be familiar with the words in order to pronounce them correctly and understand the text.\nHebrew is an ancient Semitic language. The earliest Hebrew texts date from the second millennium B.C.E. and evidence suggests that the Israelite tribes who invaded Canaan spoke Hebrew. The language was likely a commonly spoken until the fall of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E.\nOnce Jews were exiled Hebrew began to disappear as a spoken language, though it was still preserved as a written language for Jewish prayers and holy texts. During the Second Temple Period, Hebrew was most likely used only for liturgical purposes. Parts of the Hebrew Bible are written in Hebrew as is the Mishnah, which is Judaism\u2019s written record of the Oral Torah.\nSince Hebrew was primarily used for sacred texts prior to its revival as a spoken language, it was often called \u201clashon ha-kodesh,\u201d which means \u201cthe holy language\u201d in Hebrew. Some believed that Hebrew was the language of the angels, while the ancient rabbis maintained that Hebrew was the language originally spoken by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Jewish folklore says that all of humanity spoke Hebrew until the Tower of Babel when God created all the languages of the world in response to humanity\u2019s attempt to build a tower that would reach the heavens.\nUp until a century ago, Hebrew was not a spoken language. Ashkenazi Jewish communities generally spoke Yiddish (a combination of Hebrew and German), while Sephardic Jews spoke Ladino (a combination of Hebrew and Spanish). Of course, Jewish communities also spoke the native language of whatever countries they were living in. Jews still used Hebrew (and Aramaic) during prayer services, but Hebrew was not used in everyday conversation.\nThat all changed when a man named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda made it his personal mission to revive Hebrew as a spoken language. He believed it was important for the Jewish people to have their own language if they were to have their own land. In 1880 he said: \u201cin order to have our own land and political life\u2026 we must have the Hebrew language in which we can conduct the business of life.\u201d\nBen-Yehuda had studied Hebrew while a Yeshiva student and was naturally talented with languages. When his family moved to Palestine they decided that only Hebrew would be spoken in their home \u2013 no small task, since Hebrew was an ancient language that lacked words for modern things like \u201ccoffee\u201d or \u201cnewspaper.\u201d Ben-Yehuda set about creating hundreds of new words using the roots of biblical Hebrew words as a starting point. Eventually, he published a modern dictionary of the Hebrew language that became the basis of the Hebrew language today. Ben-Yehuda is often referred to as the father of Modern Hebrew.\nToday Israel is the official spoken language of the State of Israel. It is also common for Jews living outside of Israel (in the Diaspora) to study Hebrew as part of their religious upbringing. Typically Jewish children will attend Hebrew School until they are old enough to have their Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah.\nHebrew Words in the English Language\nEnglish frequently absorbs vocabulary words from other languages. Hence it is no surprise that over time English has adopted some Hebrew words. These include: amen, hallelujah, Sabbath, rabbi, cherub, seraph, Satan and kosher, among others.\nReferences: \u201cJewish Literacy: The Most Important Things to Know About the Jewish Religions, its People and its History\u201d by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin. William Morrow: New York, 1991.\nThe Literary Forms of the Seder and the Haggadah\nAsher, Chavivi, Gilad, and More Popular Hebrew Boy Names\nJewish Sites for Teens\nWhat Are the Best Online English-Language Israeli Newspapers?\nMeet the Golem: Jewish Folklore Beast That Inspires Modern Literature\nSeven Fruits and Grains of Israel\nWhat is Satmar Hasidic Judaism?\nWhy Are Jewish Hand Washing Rituals Important?\nHow to Choose a Hebrew Name for Your Jewish Baby\nWho Was Miriam According to the Hebrew Bible?\nHow Jews Celebrate Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.threemilestone.cornwall.sch.uk/year-4-art/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:55Z", "digest": "sha1:O72RRRRMW6JWFZCQYH3FJMGVGF3WINDC", "length": 592, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.threemilestone.cornwall.sch.uk", "title": "Year 4 Art - Threemilestone Primary School", "raw_content": "7th February 2019 in Creative, Year 4\nYear 4 have been busy researching and learning about the Chinese Terracotta Army and Willow pattern plates as part of our art unit. If you are lucky enough to go to the Great Wall of China why don\u2019t you take a look at the wonderful Terracotta Army statues which are being well looked after since being discovered in 1974 by farmers digger a water well.\nEven though Willow Patterned plates were made in England, they were inspired by the Chinese. Do you have any willow patterned plates at home? See if the children can re tell the legend of the pictures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ticketfly.com/event/1611805-reina-del-cid-toronto/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5JW3W4RBFMDBX5IE4F4TAMLEG43WLHOE", "length": 3406, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ticketfly.com", "title": "Reina Del Cid \u2013 Tickets \u2013 The Baby G \u2013 Toronto, ON \u2013 February 25th, 2018 | Ticketfly", "raw_content": "Reina del Cid is an indie folk artist based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.\nBorn in Fargo, North Dakota, Reina moved to Minneapolis in 2006 to study at the University of Minnesota. Early the following year, she uploaded a video to YouTube of herself performing an acoustic cover version of Joan Osborne's 1995 hit single \"One of Us\" on guitar. Her second video was another cover version, this time of Suzanne Vega's 1987 classic \"Luka.\" The two videos quickly grew in popularity and people asked Reina to sing some self-written songs, which she did starting a few months later. The first original song she shared with the YouTube community was called \"Chance,\" which she uploaded on June 8, 2007. Many other original songs would follow in the months to come, among others \"New Girlfriend,\" \"Kindness (Cypress Tree),\" \"Emily,\" \"Teacher Crush,\" \"Wonder\" and \"Medium.\" One of her most popular songs is \"Come On Over,\" which she uploaded on September 27, 2008. The song was a featured video on the frontage of YouTube on October 14, 2008 and has managed to accumulate over one million views since then.\nOver the course of four years, Reina gained a loyal fanbase on YouTube singing self-penned songs as well as cover versions of popular songs such as OneRepublic's \"Apologize,\" Coldplay's \"Swallowed in the Sea\" and Freddy Fender's \"Before the Next Teardrop Falls.\" Reina's fans kept asking if they could purchase her original songs on CD, which finally led to Reina collaborating with YouTube guitarist James Wetzel on her debut EP entitled LET'S BEGIN, which was released on October 25, 2011. The EP included newly recorded versions of her YouTube classics \"Come Back Over,\" \"Mr. Pi\u00f1ata,\" \"The Sound of You,\" and \"New Girlfriend\" as well as the new song \"Let's Begin.\"\nShortly after recording her debut EP, Reina formed her current backing band The Cidizens. The original lineup consisted of Toni Lindgren on lead guitar, Chris Wiberg on bass, and Clay Whitney on drums. With Reina herself on vocals and rhythm guitar, they recorded their debut album BLUEPRINTS, PLANS at two recording studios in Minnesota, namely Humans Win! in Northeast Minneapolis and Essential Sessions in St. Paul. The 10-track album was released on September 15, 2012 and received positive reviews. It was rated in the top 12 Minnesota releases of 2012 by NPR\u2019s 89.3 The Current. Over the next years, Reina and her band played a few hundred shows to an ever growing number of fans. During that time, Zach Schmidt replaced Clay Whitney on drums.\nIn late 2014, Reina and her band again headed back into the studio to record their sophomore album. This time, they chose the legendary Pachyderm Studio based in Cannon Falls, Minnesota to record new material. The studio is famous for a number of high-profile bands recording there, among others, Nirvana, The Jayhawks, Son Volt, Babes in Toyland, Soul Asylum, and Alkaline Trio. Additional recording was done at Littlebig Studio, also located in Cannon Falls. Ten songs were recorded for the album, which was finished in the spring of 2015. It was named THE COOLING and was officially released on June 16, 2015 to positive reactions from fans and music critics alike. The album opener \"Sweet Annie\" was named song of the day on The Current on June 19, 2015.\nSinger/songwriter from Toronto.\nReina Del Cid with Charlotte Cornfield\nSunday, February 25 \u00b7 Doors 8:00 PM / Show 9:00 PM at The Baby G", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 107.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ticketluck.com/venues/Great-Scott/index.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:11Z", "digest": "sha1:UXTVK4KJ3Z3K64FIROOYDBNT5QRLORSP", "length": 3039, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.ticketluck.com", "title": "Great Scott Seating Chart", "raw_content": "Home Venues Tickets Great Scott Tickets\nBuy All Great Scott Tickets\nLatest Great Scott Tickets\nEvents at Great Scott\nDetails of Great Scott and the Ticket Luck value\nThe Great Scott is a famous bar in Boston, MA, which represents a perfect balance between local bar and music venue. The venue is currently home to a wide range of live acts with a focus on live indie/rock and DJ based dance nights.\nThe venue consists of a state-of-the-art sound system that produces an amazing sound. The venue has transformed itself into a consistent supplier of great local and national acts, thus it loved by many!\nSituated in Boston, Massachusetts, the Great Scott venue can hold up to 240 patrons. It hosts a wide range of live music and DJ events featuring creative artists, musicians, or hardworking promoters.\nIn the previous years, the Great Scott was known more for its Sunday Ska nights, and rock / cover bands, as well as the always classic \"Ladies 80s\". However, by the early 2004, the Great Scott gradually began to switch formats to host more indie, underground, and live rock shows for a wide range of artists.\nSoon, luck shuns upon the fate of the venue, and it boomed to become one of Boston\"s newest venues for great rock shows. Since then, the venue has been a non-stop favorite of music fans! Some of the famous national acts that occurred at the venue in the summer of 2004 include Wolfmother, Of Montreal, Lightningbolt, Hot Chip, Magnolia Electric Co., as well as local favorites Night Rally, Hooray For Earth, Clickers, and The Bon Savants.\nThe Great Scott is more a bar with a dance floor than a dance club with a bar, yet it is affordable. In fact, the main asset of the venue is their bar that offers a full selection of beers and alcohol, as well as, non alcoholic beverages like sodas; water; juice; etc. are available. It doesn't serve any food.\nWhereas, while ordering more than one drink, all recipients must be present to show their wristband to the bartender proving they are of legal age to consume alcoholic beverages.\nThe atmosphere of the venue is kept simple with a few TVs, some video games, a stage and a dance floor. The Landmark residencies include The Pill, on Fridays, which is a legendary long-running dance night for Anglophiles and The Plan, on Saturdays, which is Boston\"s only weekly indie rock showcase.\nThe Great Scott is the foundational rock club that universally welcomes all supporters of music, regardless of age, race, sexuality, or \"scene\"- club kids, hipsters, rockers, ravers and their grandmas.\nIt lays the platform for young and new local and national bands to perform there and gives them a chance to exhibit their talent. Indeed, it is one of Boston\"s most loved and adored venues for live music which is almost a winner every night!\nThe Great Scott will be hosting some very exciting acts in the coming months, so don\"t miss your chance to experience all the excitement and fun for yourself! Get the tickets to Great Scott events before they are all sold out!\nView All Great Scott Tickets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 5111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ticketweb.com/event/americanafest-lucie-silvas-lilly-hiatt-the-basement-east-tickets/8612485?pl=basement&REFID=clientsitewp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:30Z", "digest": "sha1:TMEXBZ7CXKWPUT422XJRHCR663MHZKRT", "length": 4407, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ticketweb.com", "title": "Tickets for AMERICANAFEST: Lucie Silvas, Lilly Hiatt, Angela Perley & The Howlin' Moons, Ruby Boots | TicketWeb - The Basement East in Nashville, US", "raw_content": "Watch Video - AMERICANAFEST: Lucie Silvas, Lilly Hiatt, Angela Perley & The Howlin' Moons, Ruby Boots\n$15 tickets at the door for non-badge holders, first come, first serve.\nAMA Badges are available: http://americanamusic.org/buy-your-pass\nAMERICANAFEST: Lucie Silvas, Lilly Hiatt, Angela Perley & The Howlin' Moons, Ruby Boots\nBorn in the UK and raised part of her life in New Zealand by her Kiwi dad and Scottish mother, Lucie Silvas grew up listening to her parents favourites from Ray Charles to Nat King Cole to James Taylor and Roberta Flack. She started playing the piano and writing songs at age 10 but wasn't exposed to the music industry until she was 17 when she went out on the road as a backing singer for British singer/songwriter Judie Tzuke.\nA few years later she released her debut album on Mercury Records, \"Breathe In,\" and toured extensively around Europe for the following years with both her debut and second album. She went on to sell well over a million albums in Europe, alone. Lucie worked and toured with many artists throughout Europe including the likes of Elton John, Jamie Cullum, Macy Gray, and Jamiroquai.\nAfter achieving massive success for both her own music as well as songs she had written for other artists, Lucie packed up and moved to Nashville, TN. where she has now written and performed with some of the biggest and the best in their fields. Still without having released a single recording yet in the U.S., she started sowing the seeds of this new chapter and hit the road with a vast array of artists ranging from Kasey Musgraves to Tom Jones (yes, Tom Jones) to Daughtry to James Bey and shared the stage at Bonnaroo with Skrillex and Ms. Lauryn Hill. She will also be direct support on the road this coming Fall for Little Big Town.\nLucie has just released her long-awaited and much anticipated album, \u201cLetters To Ghosts\u201d for Caroline Records. This was a fully self-financed endeavor and one that came from sheer passion, drive and a slew of generosity and favors from some of the greatest players in and out of the Nashville market who all saw the raw talent and amazing body of work in the making. The album features the first hit, \u201cLetters To Ghosts,\u201d which continues to rear its head at new radio stations each week all over the country. All the songs on the album were co-written and co-produced by Lucie with several tracks already having been licensed for major network television.\nAlong with the release of this album, Lucie wrote and produced the first two storyline videos \u2013 \u201cLetters To Ghosts\u201d and \u201cVillain\u201d \u2013 which will lead into a third video, \u201cSmoke,\u201d that will close the book on this much lauded trilogy.\nShe recently received massive accolades for her acclaimed performance on BBC Sessions \u201c60th Anniversary of Elvis Presley\u2019s Sun Sessions.\u201d Her live show continues to wow critics and fans alike and will propel her to stay out on the road through all of next year supporting this incredible first U.S. release.\nLilly Hiatt's third LP, Trinity Lane, is an intensely personal, autobiographical 12-song set produced by Michael Trent of Shovels & Rope, who is also featured as a musician throughout and joined by his wife and Shovels & Rope partner Cary Ann Hearst for backing vocals on album track \"Everything I Had.\" Citing the Pixies, Breeders, Dinosaur Jr., and her favorite, Pearl Jam as influences, Hiatt\u2019s love of the \u201890s alt-rock she was raised on shines through with distressed guitars and urgent backbeats \u2013 but there is also something distinctly Americana lurking in the songs.\nOf the album, Hiatt says, \"Love will take you to the darkest places but also the most honest places if you let it. Learning how to love myself is something I\u2019ve always been lousy with, and I spent some time on that. I thought about my sobriety, what that means to me, the struggles I\u2019d had throughout the years, since I was a 27-year-old and hung up my toxic drinking habit. I thought about my mother, who took her own life when I was a baby, not far from my age at 30 years old, and I related to her more than ever. As you can see, there was plenty of time spent on my own. I didn\u2019t talk to that many folks, albeit a few close friends, and leaned into my family. I stayed away from men, and danced alone in the evenings, looking out my window observing my humble and lively neighborhood. I found power in being by myself.\"\nAngela Perley & The Howlin' Moons", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 11685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 170.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ticketweb.com/event/never-shout-never-latenightsinmycar-subterranean-tickets/8491225?pl=subterranean&REFID=clientsitewp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:47Z", "digest": "sha1:M44U4WT5VV4BJS2SU5Q2HNH3RJKDD6CA", "length": 5664, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ticketweb.com", "title": "Tickets for Never Shout Never, latenightsinmycar. | TicketWeb - Subterranean in Chicago, US", "raw_content": "Never Shout Never, latenightsinmycar.\nYouth, as they say, is wasted on the young. Christofer Drew kindly refutes that conceit.\nAt the ripe age of 24, Drew and his band Never Shout Never are on the cusp of releasing their seventh full-length album and a pair of EP's. A songwriter to be reckoned with since he was 16, Drew's trajectory as a lyricist and tunesmith only rises, evolving steadily with each new release, as does his empire of fans. Tackling heavy subjects like truth, love, loss, and acceptance, he has developed a genuine talent for exploring the human condition from a place of positivity. And with the 10 crack cuts collected here on Black Cat, it's not a stretch to label Drew a master of his craft, despite the fact that he still can't legally rent a car.\nThe concept of the black cat is akin to that of the black sheep, a role Drew embodied as a creative youth with wild hair and tattoos coming of age both in tiny Joplin, Missouri, and then around the world with Never Shout Never. But here, the black cat learns to accept its differences and embrace its unique place in the universe, and thrives.\n\"Growing up I was always different from everybody else, I had a hard time fitting into one group of people and was always scattered around, always moving,\" says Drew. \"And growing up with this band, I've always felt like a total outsider, not knowing where exactly I fit into the scheme of the music scene. The positive spin I've learned on it all is being cool with that, and accepting it, and loving being different. That's what I want people to take away from this album, because that's where I'm at personally; accepting and loving myself and growing through that love.\"\nDrew began writing these songs in 2013, and brought an arsenal of tunes with him to the studio in 2014. Working over several months with producer Dennis Herring (Elvis Costello, Modest Mouse, The Hives, etc.) and the band in Los Angeles, two things happened that were Never Shout firsts: Drew welcomed both the band and Herring to write with him, and he embraced a preproduction process which helped them to shape and mold the songs before recording. Both practices proved inspirational and vital to the full, epic sound of Black Cat.\n\"This is our first fully realized album,\" says Drew. \"It felt like we had the training wheels on for a long time. I was a lot more open to ideas from other people than I ever have been, which I feel is me hitting a certain maturity level. I had this epiphany that great things come from a lot of great minds coming together, and I was more open this time. I think it's cool how it turned out; it's maybe more pop than we expected but I dig it.\"\nDrew also credits the diverse landscape and neighborhoods of Los Angeles in addition to its wealth of sunshine and healthy living as props to his positive mindset while recording. \"It was nice to jump around LA and get different vibes from each place and have that influence the writing,\" he says. \"I can eat so well out there, too; I'm vegetarian and sometimes vegan, so I can thrive with my diet and eat like a fucking champ out there. That plays a huge role in my well-being. The album turned out really happy, it's got a really bright sound to it that makes me excited. It's the sunshine, constant Vitamin D.\"\nThat attitude is apparent from the instant the standout opening track \"Hey! We Ok\" begins. A confident, upbeat and jangly number with a catchy \"we walk our own way\" refrain, it sets the tone for the rest of Black Cat to follow. \"Red Balloon\" is lyrically poignant, telling its tale of awakening and big picture realizations through the story of helium unleashed by a storm. \"Happy New Year,\" in Drew's words, is a sarcastic, introspective number but one that also carries with it a message of hope. \"It's about just getting away and being alone and seeing what comes with it,\" says Drew. \"It's not as much of a \"fuck you\" but more of a \"fuck it\" attitude. I connect to that feeling. That song represents a big portion of me figuring my shit out.\"\nTunes like \"WooHoo\" and \"Boom!\" show more of Drew's playful side, and other songs like \"Fone Tag\" and \"Post Surrealism\" continue the upbeat, ecstatic, full production vibes. In contrast to the wall of sound, tucked warmly into the middle of the record, is \"Peace Song,\" featuring just Drew's voice and whistling over ukulele. \"It's the oldest song on the record, I wrote it out when I was 17,\" says Drew. \"It was so long ago. It's been floating around and people have wanted me to record it for a long time, I just never thought of a genuine way to record it. I had worked it on the uke and Dennis thought I was onto something great, so we did it live, set up a couple mics and I just played it right there in the studio. It was nice to have that balance on the album, a live acoustic recording compared to all the layered production.\"\nFinding a balance has certainly been a key part to the journey of Christofer Drew, and it's Black Cat's final song, \"All Is Love,\" that fully manifests that path. A stadium-ready sing-along, it's a huge, bold, and earnest statement of compassion, but at its heart the message is simple and true. \"I wanted to make a theme song for love, with a George Harrison sort of vibe,\" says Drew. \"I think that love is the underlying energy of all that is good. Right now I'm on this whole 'finding yourself and accepting yourself' thing. I'm at a point now where I'm getting close with everybody after being pretty distant for a while. I have a lot of love in my life.\"\nThe black cat has learned to accept his differences and embrace his unique place in the universe. And he's thriving.\nlatenightsinmycar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 13950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tigerbridging.co.uk/2017/04/brexit-and-the-housing-market/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VGHWJG3Z26G6MWAUOPQPAE3QD2HD2PFM", "length": 3734, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.tigerbridging.co.uk", "title": "Brexit and it's impact on the UK Housing Market - Tiger Bridging", "raw_content": "Home / Bridge Funding News / Brexit and the Housing Market\nTheresa May triggered Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty last week, opening negotiations between Britain and the European Union with a view to Britain\u2019s leaving by March 2019. The issue is of course politically divisive, but is it already having an impact on the housing market?\nNationwide reported that the average price of a UK house decreased by 0.3% in March, the first fall in two years, and contrary to City expectations. This accords with findings from the Bank of England and the British Banking Association that mortgage approvals have dropped.\nCould this be linked to Brexit? The decision to leave the EU means, most importantly, two years of uncertainty about the future shape of Britain\u2019s relationship with our neighbours, and the impact on trade and migration has obvious effects on the housing market. Less immigration, or an outcome that saw British exporters face barriers to the single market, would reduce demand for housing: the former meaning there would be fewer potential home-buyers in the country; the latter that many Britons became poorer or less secure in their employment. These effects would hit the housing market over the long term, and only after Britain\u2019s departure. But it is possible that fear over the possibility of such an outcome to Article 50 negotiations is already making buyers \u2013 and banks \u2013 more cautious.\nAn effect of Brexit that has already occurred is the fall in the value of the pound. Two effects are important here. One, the resulting inflation is squeezing household finances, with negative demand effects for property. Two, the Bank of England\u2019s Monetary Policy Committee, with its mandate to protect the pound and keep inflation low, has little room for manoeuvre. There seems to be a trend towards hawkishness, as we reported not long ago, with a rate rise closer than we might have thought previously. A rise in the Bank rate would protect the pound and reduce inflation, but would also increase the cost of mortgages \u2013 further slowing the housing market. With rates historically low and the unprecedented policy of Quantitative Easing already tried, there is little the Bank could do to stimulate the housing market, even if it didn\u2019t have to care about inflation.\nHowever, predictions are still for house prices to pick up over the year. Brexit doesn\u2019t change the most fundamental fact about the UK housing market: supply is not keeping up with demand. In the words of Howard Archer, UK chief at IHS Markit, \u201cShortage of supply is likely to put a floor under prices.\u201d Paradoxically, Brexit has a part to play here as well: if uncertainty is making developers, financiers and government more cautious about backing housebuilding (as we reported, the government has dropped its target to have 200,000 new homes a year built), supply will be less than expected. Brexit or not, people will always need somewhere to live, putting a constraint on how far demand can fall. Supply, with its requirement of finance and capital outlay, may be a bigger and earlier casualty of Brexit uncertainty.\nIn summary, the effects of Brexit on the UK housing market are complex, with potential movement in both directions. A lot depends on which policies banks, the Bank of England, and the government pursue, and how far bad media stories affect consumer confidence. Given that interest rates remain historically low and can only go one way, now might be the time for the savvy investor to make a move on British property, whilst others remain cautious. With big banks some of the most affected by Brexit uncertainty, alternative financing methods, such as the bridging loans offered by Tiger, could help you to capitalise on the situation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 4806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.timeslifestyle.net/is-eating-pork-healthy-risk-and-benefits-of-pork/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:17Z", "digest": "sha1:JAH4MLZAW25EXY5IAC2KREKS2CKBTNKX", "length": 2353, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.timeslifestyle.net", "title": "Is eating Pork healthy? Risk and Benefits of Pork - Timeslifestyle", "raw_content": "Is eating Pork healthy? Risk and Benefits of Pork\nAw, Pork! there has never been a more controversial food than this one, while many called it the other white meat, others believe Pork is extremely damaging to our organism, so, with this level of division between supporters and detractors, the only right conclusion is the one you can make after reading all the pros and cons related to Pork. If it suits your diet or not, is up to you to decide.\nNot so long ago a controversy erupted on the web when several trusted and recognize food and nutrition sites added Pork to their lists of healthy energy boosting foods, and it didn\u2019t take long for critics and seriously concern people too poor in their two cents regarding that matter, and thus, the division began, with half of the people claiming Pork shouldn\u2019t be on that list as it wasn\u2019t safe to eat, while the other half claimed that Pork had a rightful place to be on the list, as it was, in fact, the kind of meat that provided the most energy.\nLet\u2019s get down to basics, actually, let\u2019s break Pork into pieces (no pun intended), the healthiest portions of pork, with the fewer amounts of fats and other risky components, are tenderloins, loin chops, and sirloin roast. Anything other than that is filled with artery-clogging fats, extremely oversaturated, like bacon, as they are detrimental to your cholesterol levels you shouldn\u2019t consume them on a daily basis, while the other cuts are very safe and healthy for you.\nRegarding the calories-fat ratio, right in the middle, you\u2019ll find baked ham and lunch meat. But if you want to get technical, just like any other kind of meat, Pork will be safe as long as you cook it at the right temperatures, which, for pork, its 160F.\nGetting more technical, those lean and healthy Pork cuts which are low in fats, have higher contains of proteins, and B-Vitamins like thiamin, niacin, B6, and B12) than any other kind of meat, and in case you don\u2019t know, those vitamins have a quintessential role in a wide variety of bodily functions like metabolism and energy production, and for that reason, you will always find it in lists regarding energy producing foods.\nIn addition, Pork is an excellent source of Zinc and Selenium which are necessary anti-oxidants that keep our bodies healthy.\nTags: Benefits / Diet / fitness / health / Pork / remedy / Risk pork", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tmcon.eu/en/imprint/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:26Z", "digest": "sha1:V42Q4J5TQWJHII7T424BW6S7CTWNFGOZ", "length": 2268, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tmcon.eu", "title": "Imprint - Travel Management Consulting GmbH Frankfurt, Germany", "raw_content": "Representative Managing Directors:\nDr. Timm Eifler, Michael M\u00fcller\nPhone: + 49 (0)69 23 807 98-20\nRegistered Court: Amtsgericht Frankfurt\nSales tax identification number according to \u00a727 a Value Added Tax Act:\nThe content of our website has been created with great care. However, we cannot offer any guarantee that any information is correct, complete or up to date. As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on this website in accordance with \u00a77 section 1 of the TMG. However, \u00a78 to \u00a710 of the TMG states that we, as a service provider, are not obliged to monitor external information that has been linked or saved, or to pursue evidence of legality. Obligations to remove or block the use of information in accordance with general law shall remain unaffected. However, related liability shall only apply from the moment at which we became aware of a concrete legal violation. If we become aware of any related legal violations, we shall remove this content immediately.\nOur website includes links to external third party websites, over the content of which we have no influence. Therefore, we are unable offer any guarantee for this external content. 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If we become aware of any rights infringement, we will remove the offending content immediately.\nTelefon: + 49 (0)69 23 807 98-20", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tnp.sg/news/he-gets-240000-followers-day", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:31Z", "digest": "sha1:GWJ6VYJWPVZ6LGX7LPBMYPEPCHAK3356", "length": 2596, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.tnp.sg", "title": "He gets 240,000 followers in a day, Latest Others News - The New Paper", "raw_content": "He gets 240,000 followers in a day\nTamil superstar Rajinikanth.PHOTO: AFP\nIndian film superstar Rajinikanth joins Twitter\nHe is one of the biggest names in Indian cinema. And Tamil superstar Rajinikanth has proven his legendary status yet again.\nThis time it is not in a movie blockbuster, but in social media.\nHis first tweet on Monday on the handle @superstarrajini said: \"Salutation to the Lord!! A big thank you to all my fans. Excited on this digital journey.\"\nIt created a sensation in India - he notched up 240,000 followers within a day.\nRajinikanth, 63, also thanked his fans for rolling out a virtual red carpet for him.\nIn two back-to-back tweets yesterday, he wrote in English and Tamil: \"Many thanks to everyone for such a warm welcome given to me in twitter.\"\nSome social media research firms said his follower base of over 200,000 in the first 24 hours was the fastest among all Indian celebrities and among the top 10 celebs in the world, Indian daily The Economic Times reported.\nMovie-Crow.com said: \"Within roughly 24 hours after the first tweet, Rajinikanth has amassed followers at a scorching pace.\n\"This has tumbled all prior Twitter records set by leading Indian celebrities, including Amitabh Bachchan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Sachin Tendulkar...\n\"At this pace, Rajinikanth is expected to cross a million followers within a week.\"\nAnd it wasn't just Twitter users who were going gaga over the grand entry.\nFacebook's top headlines on its homepage read: \"Rajinikanth joins Twitter\".\nRajinikanth now joins the many Indian movie superstars who have been using social media to interact with fans.\nHis entry into the micro-blogging space comes days before the release of his film Kochadaiiyaan (The King with Long Curly Mane), which at a budget of US$21 million (S$26 million) is reportedly the most expensive Indian film ever.\nThe 3D computer animated film, in which he plays three lead roles, is directed by his younger daughter Soundarya R. Ashwin.\nBollywood star Shah Rukh Khan, who joined Twitter in 2010, has over seven million followers and actor Amitabh Bachchan has more than eight million in four years.\nIn 2011, Hollywood actor Charlie Sheen reached a million followers in 25 hours, according to Guinness World Records.\nIron Man and The Avengers star Robert Downey Jr broke this record by getting more than a million followers in less than 24 hours.\nAmong celebrities on Twitter, Katy Perry leads with 52 million followers.\nSalutation to the Lord!! A big thank you to all my fans. Excited on this digital journey.\n- Tamil superstar Rajinikanth's first tweet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 4395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.todmordennews.co.uk/news/ackley-bridge-star-delves-into-past-and-finds-he-s-related-to-royalty-1-8672947", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLOPNJYVCRELF7Y4OUAOXXJWMCRXI7SR", "length": 4257, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.todmordennews.co.uk", "title": "Ackley Bridge star delves into past and finds he\u2019s related to royalty - Todmorden News", "raw_content": "Ackley Bridge star delves into past and finds he\u2019s related to royalty\nUndated BBC Handout Photo from Who Do You Think You Are? Pictured: Adil Ray. See PA Feature TV Quickfire Ray. Picture Credit should read: PA Photo/BBC/Wall to Wall Media/Mike Garner. WARNING: Use of this copyright image is subject to the terms of use of BBC Pictures' BBC Digital Picture Service. In particular, this image may only be published in print for editorial use during the publicity period (the weeks immediately leading up to and including the transmission week of the relevant programme or event and three review weeks following) for the purpose of publicising the programme, person or service pictured and provided the BBC and the copyright holder in the caption are credited. Any use of this image on the internet and other online communication services will require a separate prior agreement with BBC Pictures. For any other purpose whatsoever, including advertising and commercial prior written approval from the copyright holder will be required.\nCitizen Khan creator Adil Ray takes to Grace Hammond\nThe Huddersfield University graduate, who has recently starred in the Halifax-based school drama Ackley Bridge, is the latest celebrity to take part in the BBC genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are? where as viewers will have found out last night he discovered one side of his family descend from Ugandan chiefs.\n\u201cI knew that my grandfather had come from India and gone over to Kenya, like many Asians did at that time; and I knew that his first wife had died and he\u2019d married an African woman, but I wasn\u2019t sure beyond that,\u201d says Ray, who began his career as a radio host on a pirate station in Huddersfield while studying there at the university and in 1997 landed a slot with Galaxy 105, making him one of the first full-time British South Asian presenters to host a mainstream commercial radio show in the UK. He also spent time at radio Aire.\n\u201cI never thought there would be an opportunity to find out more; you just think if there was more, you\u2019d already know about it. My mother felt the same, so to find out all of this, to find out that not only is there more history but that the African lineage goes back to more family and more importantly there are members of my family still around in Uganda, was just beautiful.\u201d\nImmigration is an important part of Ray\u2019s life.\n\u201cMy mum is from East Africa and my dad is from rural Pakistan, so my father would have been expected to marry someone who was from Pakistan and probably from his own village; and my mother was probably expected to marry somebody from East Africa, from the same sort of community, but they didn\u2019t. And then I look back and my mum\u2019s mum, my grandmother, was married to an Indian trader and she is from a black African family and then her mother, again, was married to an Indian trader. Imagine doing that in the early 1900s and in the 1800s? It\u2019s quite something.\n\u201cI just feel really privileged and honoured to have that level of integration throughout my family.\u201d\nBut it was the connection to African royalty that surprised Ray most. \u201c[Now] it makes sense why the Queen gave me an OBE last year! But no, it makes me proud and I want to find out more about that [side of the] family.\n\u201cI\u2019m British first: I love being British, I am from Birmingham, I am a Brummie, and over the years I have called myself British-Asian, British Pakistani, but I think I probably need to start saying British-African-Asian or British-Asian-African.\n\u201cThat\u2019s what I am and I want people to know that. It makes me proud of it, so I think it is a permanent change.\n\u201cI appreciate that not everyone will get the chance to do what I have done and go on a journey, but I just hope that we all stop and think and realise that we have to all be from different backgrounds. That\u2019s how we\u2019ve evolved. What we see in each other\u2019s face\u2019s and people\u2019s social media profiles isn\u2019t the whole story \u2013 there\u2019s an entire back story which has made us who we are that we should all be utterly proud of and proud of ourselves and proud of each other. That kind of compassion and understanding is the very beginnings of humanity \u2013 that\u2019s what\u2019s lacking at the moment, and hopefully if we all did that, we might get to that point.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.todmordennews.co.uk/whats-on/billy-connolly-bringing-high-horse-tour-to-sheffield-arena-1-8003843", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:23Z", "digest": "sha1:Q75R2C7GNUKQXXXWW35KBYKZAAJATY35", "length": 3955, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.todmordennews.co.uk", "title": "Billy Connolly bringing High Horse Tour to Sheffield Arena - Todmorden News", "raw_content": "Billy Connolly bringing High Horse Tour to Sheffield Arena\nBilly Connolly brining his High Horse Tour to Sheffield Arena on Sunday, November 13.\nComedy king Billy Connolly today announced plans for a UK tour later this year which will include a Yorkshire date - his first ever show at Sheffield Arena.\nThe 73-year-old national treasure, named the greatest standup ever in TV polls, will bring his High Horse Tour to the venue on Sunday, November 13.\nTickets are expected to sell out fast when they go on sale next week, on Friday, July 15, at 9am - see www.sheffieldarena.co.uk.\nThe Scottish comedy legend, or the Big Yin as he is known, has already had rave reviews taking the tour around Scotland, Canada and the USA. He did an 11-night run at Hammersmith Apollo in January.\nThe consummate storyteller, regarded by many as the Godfather of observational comedy, looks back on his life including 50-year career and he doesn\u2019t shy from his health troubles \u2013 he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2013 just weeks before he had successful surgery for prostate cancer.\nHe has performed live to an estimated 10 million people over the decades but is also famed for his film and TV work.\nBilly Connolly bringing his High Horse Tour to Sheffield Arena\nPerhaps best known for his moving performance as the loyal servant John Brown in the highly acclaimed Mrs Brown, Connolly\u2019s other film credits include Gulliver's Travels, The X-Files and the Muppet movie version of Treasure Island. His distinctive voice is also featured on the animated films Pocahontas, Open Season and and the Disney Pixar animation Brave.\nMost recently, he has appeared in Quartet, directed by Dustin Hoffman, in the three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s The Hobbit, directed by Peter Jackson, and will be seen in the upcoming What We Did On Our Holiday, alongside David Tennant and Rosamund Pike\nOn television, he has acted in shows from Columbo to Third Rock From The Sun and hosted documentaries including Billy Connolly's World Tour Of Scotland and continued the theme around New Zealand, Australia, England, Ireland and Wales.\nMore recently he presented the two-part series Bill Connolly's Big Send Off, which looked at death.\nBut he's proving there's still lots of life left in him with this tour and other projects.\nAfter an apprenticeship as a welder in his hometown of Glasgow, he became a professional performer in 1962, forming The Humblebums band with Gerry Rafferty, before pursuing a solo career as a comedian.\nHe was awarded a CBE in 2003, was given the Freedom of the City of Glasgow in 2010, and was named Britain's most influential stand-up comic in 2012.\n* Tickets - priced \u00a338.50, \u00a346.75 and \u00a355, including booking fee - will be available in person at the Arena Box Office, by phone on 0114 256 5656 or online at www.sheffieldarena.co.uk.\nBilly Connolly High Horse UK Tour dates November 2016:\nWed 2 Nov Birmingham Barclaycard Arena 0844 33 88 222 www.barclaycardarena.co.uk\nSat 5 Nov Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 029 2022 4488 www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk\nSun 6 Nov Cardiff Motorpoint Arena 029 2022 4488 www.motorpointarenacardiff.co.uk\nTues 8 Nov Nottingham Motorpoint Arena 0843 373 3000 www.motorpointarenanottingham.com\nFri 11 Nov Manchester Arena 0844 847 8000 www.manchester-arena.com\nTues 15 Nov Newcastle City Hall 08448 11 21 21 www.theatreroyal.co.uk\nWed 16 Nov Newcastle City Hall 08448 11 21 21 www.theatreroyal.co.uk\nSun 13 Nov Sheffield Arena 0114 2 56 56 56 www.sheffieldarena.co.uk\nFri 25 Nov Peterborough Arena 0844 844 0444 www.peterborougharena.com\nSat 19 Nov Liverpool Echo Arena 0844 8000 400 www.echoarena.com\nTues 22 Nov Brighton Centre 01273290131 www.brightoncentre.co.uk\nWed 23 Nov Brighton Centre 01273290131 www.brightoncentre.co.uk\nMon 28 Nov Bournemouth BIC 0844 576 3000 www.bic.co.uk\nTues 29 Nov Bournemouth BIC 0844 576 3000 www.bic.co.uk\n* For more about Billy Connolly visit his official web site at www.BillyConnolly.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tonersupport.com/en/22/terms-of-use.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:55Z", "digest": "sha1:WYFRWM3SRIJB7PJQCIHHD6TDMU4IOB45", "length": 31229, "nlines": 141, "source_domain": "www.tonersupport.com", "title": "Terms of Use", "raw_content": "of website www.tonersupport.com\nToner Support Ltd. is the creator and the proprietor of the website www.tonersupport.com for online trade and distribution of consumables for printers, fax and copy machines.\nI. Terms and Definitions\n1. Terminological Notices for the Needs of these General Terms of Use:\n- Site \u2013 the website www.tonersupport.com;\n- User \u2013 every person, either physical or legal, applying the Site under personal registration (signing up);\n- Visitor \u2013 every person, either physical or legal, applying the Site under personal registration (signing up);\n- The Company \u2013 Toner Support Ltd., the company owner administrator of the Site;\n- Service \u2013 every service whatsoever, granted to the User through the Site;\n- Product \u2013 every product, either component or consumable, offered for sale through the Site;\n- Order \u2013 every statement of will posted by the User, for delivery of Product and/or Service whatsoever, confirmed through the Site\nor by any other means, accepted and confirmed by the Company;\n- General Terms \u2013 the rules and restrictions, that determine the relationships between the Company and a User with regard to using the Site\nfor collecting of information, a Service and/or a purchase of a Product which General Terms the User shall accept altogether and obey during all the term along,\nand each time he or she uses the Site.\n2.1. The Site is a website, composted for activities, as follows:\n- Buy-back of empty used toner cartridges from persons and companies;\n- Sale of components for remanufacturing (recycling) of toner cartridges;\n- Sale of consumables for toner cartridges;\n- Distribution of remanufactured by the Company compatible toner cartridges, under the Company own trademark \u2018BLACKBOARD\u2019.\n2.2. Subject to Services are the products, offered by the moment of posting an Order on behalf of a User. The products that are to be sold through the Site are enlisted by type and duly classified in categories by common or similar features.\n3. Registration (Sign Up)\n3.1. Through a free of charge access to the Site, the statute of a Visitor shall be defined and information was given for activities and competence of the Company.\n3.2. To receive Products and Services through the Site, a personal registration (sign up) shall be required. The registration is a necessary condition for the contractual relations to be stipulated between the User and the Company so that a trade or distribution to be possible which is the major goal of the Site.\n3.3. A registration (sign up) of a User shall be done by following the set assigned steps through a voluntary input of required details and following accession of these General Terms, by the User.\n3.4. Accepting to sign up to the Site, a User shall oblige himself/herself to give truthful, exact and valid required details, inserting them across the respectively labeled field, as follows: name, contact phone, full communication/delivery address, e-mail address.\n4. A User has the rights, as follows:\n- To review, \u043f\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0432\u0430 an individual Order through the Site, and to receive Products and Services under the rules and stipulations laid down herein;\n- To search for and require ancillary information for every Product or Service shown or details of it are available on the Site;\n- To get details about his/her Order;\n- To be delivered the ordered Products and/or Services to the address he/she has given as supply address after he/she has paid the price for them and the delivery\nprice if there is such, under the procedure laid down on the Site, herein.\n5. Rights and Obligation of the Company\n5.1. The Company shall provide the Products and Services duly ordered by the User, on time and in good commercial quality. The Company shall give via an e-mail, or through other media additional information, consultation, or support, to its Users. The Company shall obey the terms of delivery, warranties and customer service.\n5.2. The Company shall be entitled, however, not obliged to keep data recorded/stored on the server of the Site, under its Privacy and Confidentiality Policy (pts 24 & 25 of these General Terms), or granted to Third Parties by a User, and to submit them to Third Parties and/or to state authorities where it is needed necessary for protection of rights and legal interests, the property and security of the Company or Third Parties, in cases of claims in relation to breach of their rights connected to an information on the Site, and upon request by State authorities under applicable law.\n5.3. The Company may, at any time with no prior notification to the User, where the User operates through the Services in breach infringement of these General Terms, so as at its discretion, to cancel or change the Services.\nIII. General Terms of Sale and Distribution. Sale & Distribution Contract.\n6.1. The Company shall conclude sale and/or distribution contract with Users. The contracts are termless and constitute the terms for dealing of the Company with Users. The contractual terms shall be based upon the General Terms. In the event of any Customer wishing to contract with the Company otherwise than on the basis of such conditions special arrangements can be made and a revised price quoted by the Company.\n6.2. In the absence of any such special arrangements (which shall not bind the Company unless made in writing and Signed on the Company\u2019s behalf by a person duly authorised for that purpose) all quotations given and all contracts made by the Company and any additions or amendments thereto shall be subject to the General Terms which supersede and shall be taken to override any terms or conditions proposed or stipulated by the Customer.\n7. Validity of Quotations\n7.1. Quotations are open for acceptance within a term agreed by the Company and the User; after this period the Company's stated prices and conditions will require confirmation. The Company reserves the right to withdraw or amend a quotation until an order has been accepted. Acceptance of the Company\u2019s quotation includes acceptance of the General Terms herein and any other special conditions specifically referred to in the quotation.\n8.1. Prices are quoted ex-warehouse, from the Company warehouses.\n8.2. The Company reserves the right to change prices, to amend technical and other parameters of the Products without prior notice to Users. The Company will honour any received and accepted orders at a previously quoted price.\n8.3. Prices quoted on the Site shall be for qualities started from 1 pc and up to 20 pcs, including. Any quality higher than the abovementioned quality shall be subject to a particular negotiation. The rule herein shall remain valid for both buy-back of empty cartridges, and for a sale of Products by the Company if otherwise was not agreed.\n8.4. Prices are exclusive of VAT, other taxes and charges. Statutory taxes (such as Value Added Tax) shall be added to prices at the date of the invoice.\n9.1. Delivery of Products and/or Services posted through the Site shall be any and all actions altogether, necessary for passing of the Products ordered through the Site, by the Company to the User, posted the Order. A delivery comprises of, as follows: selection, packaging, expedition and transport. A delivery shall not include any installation, tests, diagnostics, inspections, or other actions whatsoever, requiring specific expertise.\n9.2. A delivery shall be fulfilled upon completion on behalf of the User, of the financial terms laid down herein, and confirmed by the Company and/or particularly agreed with the User, delivery terms and conditions.\n9.3. All shipping charges on delivery of orders shall be invoiced to the Customer unless otherwise agreed.\n9.4. At handing in of Products, the User or a third party shall sign the documents enclosed to the Product. A Third Party shall be every person who is not the person posted the Order but is present on the given by the User delivery address and takes the Products on behalf of the User, at delivery.\n9.5. If there is a refusal of Products by the User or a third party, with the exception of scenarios described under p.9.10 below, any such refusal shall be considered ungrounded and the User will pay the cost for both delivery and return of the Products.\n9.6. If the User cannot be contacted within the delivery term on the specified by him/her delivery address, or an access and conditions for due delivery are not allowed, for handing in the Products on time, then the Company shall be free from liability to deliver the ordered Products. The User may confirm a wish to be supplied the Products upon the delivery term when he/she has not been contacted on the delivery address, has been expired, however, he/she must pay all extra second delivery costs. A new delivery term shall be counted at such a scenario, started from the moment of confirmation of the new delivery call.\n9.7. The risk in all products delivered by the Company to the Customer or on an Order of him/her shall pass to the Customer on delivery.\n9.8. The Company will strive to deliver the Products and/or Services within a reasonable time, but in no circumstances will the Company be liable for loss or damage of any kind whatsoever caused directly or indirectly by any delay in the delivery of the Products and/or Services, nor will any such delay entitle the Customer to cancel or rescind the contract.\n9.9. The Company shall use its preferred carrier for delivery of orders unless specifically advised at the time of order that the Customer requires an alternative to being used. All charges over and above those subject to clause 9.3 shall be invoiced to the Customer.\n9.10. A User ordered a Product may deny from receiving it on delivery in any of the following scenarios:\n- The supplied Product does obviously not match to the one ordered by the User, and the fact thereof can be evidenced through a common glance at it, or\n- There is an unconformity of the ordered Pr\u043educt with the one supplied, which has not been possible to confirm at delivery.\n9.11. The User may demand the delivered Products are replaced by the ones according to his/her order, within two working days upon delivery date.\n9.12. The User may exercise his/her rights under Art.50 of the Consumers Protection Act (CPA) within 14 (fourteen) calendar days upon the delivery date provided that the Product was given back to the Company in the condition it has been received, with no use at all. The exclusions from that rule are explicitly specified in the CPA.\n10. Part Deliveries & Storage\n10.1. When an order includes a number of items, the Company reserves the right to deliver and invoice any part or parts of the order as completed. In such a case, unless otherwise agreed, every completed part delivery shall be invoiced and payment must effect against each invoice under the payment terms herein below.\n11.1. The User may pay the price for the ordered Products and Services either cash, or through a bank transfer to the bank account of the Company, or through cash on delivery.\n11.2. The User shall pay cash at the Company office for the Products received on site.\n11.3. The User shall pay through a bank transfer to the bank account of the Company within 5 (five) working days on the date of delivery of Ordered Products and receiving of the Delivery Invoice to his/her delivery address.\n11.4. The User shall pay through cash delivery at handing in of the Products on his/her address.\n11.5. Payment shall be made in the currency in which the sale was invoiced.\n11.6. Users who have concluded contracts with the Company may be granted payment credit.\n11.7. The Company shall reserve the right to countermand the preferential crediting terms if the credited User fails to pay off his/her duties properly in the due term.\n11.8. The Company does not offer a Prompt Payment Discount.\n11.9. Customers may not withhold payment of any invoice or another amount due to the Company by reason of any right of set-off or counterclaim to which the Customer may at any time be entitled.\n11.10.The Company reserves the right to charge interest on overdue accounts.\n12. Passing of Property\n12.1. The property in the Products shall not pass to the Customer until the purchase price (to include related freight charges) has been paid in full.\n12.2. The Customer agrees that it is in possession of all Products supplied solely as bailee for the Company until the Customer shall have paid the Company for the Products and any other Products supplied wherever by the Company.\n12.3. Where the Company is unable to determine whether any Products are those relating to a specific Contract, then the Customer shall be deemed to have converted, incorporated, mixed or sold all Products of the kind sold by the Company to the Customer in the order in which they were invoiced to the Customer and any new goods so created shall be deemed to have been delivered to the Customer\u2019s customers in the order in which they were created.\n12.4. Customer covenants that he/she shall maintain the Products in good condition until the date of payment to the Company.\n13. Products and Brands\n13.1. The Company distributes own produced compatible toner cartridges under the \u2018BLACKBOARD\u2019 brand which is a registered trademark within the possession of the Company.\n13.2. All Products sold by the Company are subject to use in remanufactured toner cartridges.\n14.1. If the Company is unable (whether temporarily or permanently) to procure any items necessary to enable it to supply the Products and/or Services or if the supply of the Products and/or Services is prevented or hindered by reason of Act of God, War, Act of Parliament or orders, regulations or bylaws made under any statutory authority, labour disputes including those involving the workforce of the Company, civil commotion, fire, flood or any causes of whatsoever kind and whenever occurring being a cause beyond the Company\u2019s control, the Company may cancel the Contract by notice in writing to the Customer so far as it relates to Products and/or Services not then supplied and such cancellation shall not give rise to any claims by the Customer. The Customer shall remain liable to pay for Products and Services delivered prior to the date of such cancellation.\n15. Warranty and Claims\n15.1. The Company warrants all products sold by the Company to be free from functional defects in materials and workmanship. Warranty claims must be made within 90 days from the date of the invoice issued by the Company for the goods subject to the warranty claim.\n15.2. The Company warrants that usage of any Products furnished hereunder is completely safe for the health of its user, so as for other persons inside the premise/ close area around the Product, should the Product is being stored, installed and used under the requirements of the manufacturers of the parts and components of both the Product and the machine the Product works on\n15.3. The Company warrants only Products produced by its own. The Company shall transmit to the User the warranty of the manufacturer for the parts and components purchased from it. The warranty shall initiate from the date of the invoice issued and shall be in place valid provided that the Products are stored, installed and exploit under the strict \u0441\u043f\u0430\u0437\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0435 of the warranty terms of the manufacturer of the parts or the ones of the original (imaging) machine manufacturer (OEM), respectively.\n15.4. The warranty shall void in case of a damage caused by any of the following: an inappropriate transport not granted by the Company, or either an inaccurate storage, installation or exploitation, or an effort of the User for self-fixing of the Product.\n15.5. The Company will be liable for possible defects of Products caused at delivery with the Company own transport. If an outsourced delivery courier is selected the Company shall be deemed liable for the quality and type of packaging in respect to the safety of the Products, and for the hand in the Products to the Courier representative, only.\n15.6. Warranty claims may be placed in writing at the Company office, via an e-mail, or by post, and as placement date shall be considered the sending date postmark. The Company will consider the circumstances of rising of the warranty claim and if the Company accepts the claim it will do whatever needed, to make the Product in compliance to the Order, within one month from the claim placement date.\n15.7. The Company shall have no liability to the purchaser or User by reason of any representation or any implied warranty, condition, or other term or any duty at common law or under the express terms of the warranty for any consequential loss or damage (whether for loss of profit or otherwise), costs, expenses or other claims for consequential compensation whatsoever which arise out of or in connection with the supply of goods or their use or resale by the purchaser or User.\n16.1. Every notice whatsoever related to granting of Services through the Site shall be in writing \u2013 by the User to the Company, on the Company contact address which is publically accessible on the Site, and by the Company to the User \u2013 on the User\u2019s correspondence address, either an e-mail, or a physical, entered through the User signing up. The submitted thereby notices shall be deemed due received until opposite proven.\n17.1. Any provision of these General Terms which is or may be void or unenforceable shall to the extent of such invalidity or unenforceability be deemed severable and shall not affect any other provision.\n18.1. These General Terms of Use shall be subject to and construed in accordance with Bulgarian Law and the User submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Bulgarian Courts.\n18.2. These General Terms constitute the entire agreement between the User and the Company with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes all previous written or oral agreements between the parties with respect to such subject matter.\nIV. Terms of Use the Site.\n19.1. The Site shall operate under the described herein rules, provisions and limitations which are in force for all Users of the Site. Every User shall accept the General Terms herein as a step of his/her personal registration onto the Site and shall agree to obey them from the very first moment of logging in with his/her personal ID and password until he/she has logged out from the Site.\n19.2. The General Terms shall be published prominently on the Site and accessible to every Visitor or User. If a User does not agree with one or more of the Site provisions herein, then he/she shall be free to restrain from applying it, otherwise a general accession to all the General Terms shall be deemed valid.\n19.3. In the case of any violation of the General Terms herein, the Company reserves the rights to seek all remedies available by law and in equity for such violations.\n19.4. A User identification for the purpose of reproducing his/her accession statement of the General Terms shall be done through the recorded log files on the Site server, through the IP address, or through any other piece of information received from the usage of the Site.\n19.5. These general Terms apply to all Users of the Site, both now and in the future.\n20.1. The Company reserves the right to change these General Terms in its sole discretion and resolution.\n20.2. The Company may change the General Terms at any time without an obligation to pose an advance notice thereto. The Company shall announce the date of last changes and the changes themselves. The User shall be deemed bound to the changes from the moment of their publishing, except declares that he/she does not accept.\n20.3. In case the User explicitly declares his/her disagreement with changes in the General Terms herein, then the Company reserves the right to cancel temporary, or break off the access of the User to the Products and services, altogether, and all the raised duties shall be subject to pay off.\nV. Accessibility.\n21. Terms of Access\n21.1. The access to the Site is free and with no charge. The us\u0435 of the Services requires a personal registration/signing up which is done by filling in a number of mandatory, marked respectively fields.\n21.2. The Company shall not guarantee a steady and continuous operation of the Site. The Company can restrain the access to it, either partially \u2013 to a particular article, or completely \u2013 to the Site altogether, for unlimited period of time, either planned, or incidentally, being not liable for any consecutive damages or losses, incurred by the User.\n22. Third Parties Websites\n22.1. The Site may contain links to third-party websites, which are not under the control of the Company. The Company makes no representation whatsoever about any other websites to which you may have access through the Site. When you access a non Site website, you do so at your own risk and the Company shall not be responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any information, data, opinions, advice or statements made on these sites. The Company provides these links merely as a convenience and the inclusion of such links does not imply that the Company endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or uses for such websites.\n22.2. The Company may shift the User to other websites, owned or controlled by the Company, or by its affiliated companies, or of wholly owned subsidiaries. In such a case the General Terms herein shall remain the governing.\nVI. Liability.\n23.1. Sending data files materials to the servers of the Site, either via an e-mail, or through the Site, including, but not only, shall the User state that:\n- The materials files and the information therein, does not contain anything in contradiction to the applicable law, or is not appropriate for publication;\n- He/she shall apply all appropriate means to detect and remove the viruses or any other potentially harmful or destroying items and programs, prior to send\nthe materials files and the information therein.\n23.2. The User shall owe remedies to both the Company and to third parties for all endured damage and lost profits, including administrative costs, paid attorney\u2019s fees, and other reasonable expenses, raised in consequence of declared claims and/or paid compensations to third parties in relation to websites, hyperlinks, files materials or information, whatsoever that the User has been used, placed uploaded on the server, sent, broadcasted, made known to third parties, or made accessible through the Site, in offense of law, the General Terms herein, good morality, and the Internet ethics.\n23.3. Although The Company has attempted to provide accurate information on this Website, The Company assumes no responsibility for the accuracy of the information. The Company may change the information or Products at any time without notice. Mention of non-the Company products or services is for information only and constitutes neither an endorsement, nor recommendation.\n23.4. The Company shall not be liable for a breach of a failure of its obligation of granting the Service under circumstances that the Company has not counted for and was not to count for, including accidental occurrences, problems in the Internet, and in administration of the Services beyond the control of the Company.\n23.5. The Company shall not be bound for any liability, whatsoever for implement the Order in case of either part, or wrong delivery address, a contact person, or phone, has been posted at the registration of the User, or at posting of an Order.\n23.6. The Company shall consider free from liability for possible typing mistakes, variances in coloured visualisation on the User\u2019s computer device, so as for any change in design of Products.\n23.7. The Company shall not be liable towards to the Users and third parties for any endured damages and lost profit, occurred in consequence of either termination, or cancellation, change, or limitation of the Services, deletion, modifications, loosing, untrustworthiness, inaccuracy or lack of completeness of data, notices, etc., transmitted, used, recorded, or became accessible through the Site.\n23.8. The Company shall not be liable for any damage, caused on software, hardware, or telecommunication facilities whatsoever, or for of data loss resulting from materials or resources searched, loaded, or used by any manner whatsoever, through the Services granted on the Site. No advises, consultations or support given by Company experts or employees in relation with receiving of Services by Users, shall not raise any liability, or duty, whatsoever, for the Company.\n23.9. All information provided by the Site is provided \u201cas is\u201d with all faults without warranty of any kind, either express or implied. The Company and its suppliers disclaim all warranties, expressed or implied, including, but not limited to those of merchantability, fitness-for-a-particular purpose and non-infringement arising from a course of delaying, usage or trade practice. The Company and its suppliers shall not be liable for any damages, including direct, indirect, special, consequential, or incidental damages of any kind including, without limitation, loss profit or revenues, cost of replacement goods, loss or damage to date or arising out of the use or inability to use the Site or any the Company product, or any such damages resulting from use of, or reliance upon any of the information presented, even if the Company or its suppliers have been advised of the possibility of such damages.\n24.1. Personally identifiable information is information that identifies you, or that can be used to identify you or to contact you, either physically or online. This information includes: your name, your email address, your address, your telephone number, your personal civil or social number and your credit card number. We only collect personally identifiable information with your consent. It is possible for you to visit our website without providing any personally identifiable information. However, some portions of our website may be accessible only to users who have previously registered with us and who provide personally identifiable information as part of the registration process or log in procedure.\n24.2. The Company is committed to honoring the privacy of our Users and of Visitors to our website. The Company provides this statement to inform you of our Privacy Policy, to tell you what information we collect and how we use it, as well as how you can access this information and request changes to it.\n24.3. The Privacy Policy is the systematic practice and procedures of ours thereto. It regulates all websites in possession of the Company, so as the ones of the affiliated with us partners and subsidiaries. We do, from time to time, review and revise these practices and procedures. Any material changes we make to the Privacy Policy will be posted in this section of the website and highlighted for thirty days. Any such change in the Privacy Policy will be accompanied on a notice on the Site, as well. Please review this Privacy Policy on a regular basis. This Privacy Policy governs all The Company owned and affiliated websites as well as those of our wholly owned subsidiaries.\n24.4. The Company shall take reasonable steps to protect the privacy and the safety, and to prevent from any malicious or accidental disclosure of personal data. Only entitled staff of the Company shall have the access to personal details and these employees shall be obliged to consider the data as confidential and in complete conformity with the PDPA (Personal Data Protection Act). Notwithstanding all safety measures the Company cannot guarantee complete protection of the personal data of the Users and the Visitors, and shall not be liable in case of a malicious break-in to the data.\n25. What Kind of Personal Data we Collect. How Do We Use the Information Which Identifies You Personally?\n25.1. The Company may use personal data from a registration to the Site, from requests for events, evaluations of vacancy applications, or for other purposes which a User may submit to the Company through the Site. We may keep your information and to use it to contact you when a new vacancy is open.\n25.2. Data may be received in addition to a direct posting by a User, by logs in to the Site, or through \u201ecookies\u201d. A \u201ecookie\u201d is a text file that websites send to a visitor\u2019s computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor\u2019s browser or to store information or settings in the browser.\nThe details we collect through \u201ecookies\u201d are used for statistical assessment purposes of the Users\u2019 behavior aimed to assess their interest to particular sections of the Site, and in no circumstance are not identify, personally profile or are being stored as personal details for a User.\n25.3. The Company will not sale, rent, speculate with, or deliberately disclose, or \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u0438 to third parties any personal details, whatsoever of Users, with the exception of any of the following scenarios:\n- If there is a preliminary consent by the User for doing so;\n- Within the \u043f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0430\u0432\u044f\u043d\u0435 \u043d\u0430 Services to the User, under p. 25.4;\n- If there is such a requirement by law related to a legal action, for the purpose of preventing an infringement.\n25.4. In order to support and enhance our customer relationship with you, we may use your personally identifiable information within our company and we may share it with other The Company affiliated companies and wholly owned subsidiaries. In addition, we may share your personally identifiable information with third party companies, such as suppliers and shippers, to the extent necessary to fill and process your order and to insure that you receive the very best customer service that is possible. On occasion, we may be required to reveal your personally identifiable information in connection with law enforcement investigations, fraud prevention or other legal action. Any other use of your personally identifiable information will only be made with your consent.\n26. Review and Change of Personal Data\n26.1. To review or change your personally identifiable information stored in your account, you must contact our customer financial services team at office@tonersupport.com. You may also request to see all of your personally identifiable information that we have stored in our files by submitting a written request to: 14A, Prof. Ivan Georgov St., 1220 Sofia.\nVIII. Limitations to Use. Trade Marks and Copyrights.\n27. Limitations to Use\n27.1. All contents of the Site are protected by copyright. Except as specifically permitted herein, no portion of the information on the Site may be reproduced in any form, or by any means, without prior written permission from the Company. Visitors or users are not permitted to modify, distribute, publish, transmit or create derivative works of any material found on this website for any public or commercial purpose.\n28.1. The trademarks, logos and service marks displayed on this Website are the property of The Company or other third parties. Users are not permitted to use these marks without the prior written consent of The Company or such third party which may own the mark.\n28.2. The trade marks \u201eToner Support\u201d and \u201eBLACKBOARD\u201d are in possession of the Company.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 32225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.torkinmanes.com/people/bio/wesley-isaacs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GTZBTJAYM24J6KHQXAQOHZ3NLYQUIDSD", "length": 1190, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.torkinmanes.com", "title": "Wesley Isaacs", "raw_content": "Tel: 416 360 4735 Fax: 1 844 842 9183 Email: wisaacs@torkinmanes.com\nA partner in our Tax Group, Wesley\u2019s practice focuses on tax and estate planning. He works primarily with owner-managers, private corporations, trusts and estates and high net worth individuals.\nWesley\u2019s experience includes corporate reorganizations and restructurings, purchases and sales of businesses, cross-border structures and transactions, and family succession planning. Wesley also advises clients in their dealings with the Canada Revenue Agency and the Ministry of Finance on income tax and commodity tax matters, including preparing voluntary disclosures and objections to tax assessments.\nWesley understands the importance of adapting solutions to clients\u2019 needs. A problem solver and strategic thinker, he takes both a practical and a comprehensive approach to practicing law. Keenly interested and truly passionate about the ever-evolving field of tax law, Wesley prides himself on his ability to stay abreast of developments and changes, so that he can continually navigate the arena on behalf of his clients.\nOntario Association of Food Banks, Board Member\nB.A., with distinction, McGill University, 2003", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tradingcarddb.com/UserComments.cfm/sid/118888/2016-Bowman---Bowman-Scouts'-Top-100-SuperFractor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3YCXOSGZDWYAPU74PCJ6QSMOK5CVQSYS", "length": 171, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tradingcarddb.com", "title": "Comments - 2016 Bowman Baseball | The Trading Card Database", "raw_content": "Apr. 26, 2016 - 8:43AM\nI like the line-up Topps fashioned together for the prospects series, especially considering that many of the top prospects were promoted last year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 2556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 158.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.transform-network.net/blog/article/early-parliamentary-elections-macedonia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:49Z", "digest": "sha1:XENGLPKBM2ZK2I4SGRLGSAMAPQK36DVV", "length": 8603, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.transform-network.net", "title": "Early Parliamentary elections Macedonia", "raw_content": "By Sonja Stojadinovic | 05 Jan 17 | Posted under: Central and Eastern Europe , North Macedonia\nSupporters of VMRO-DPMNE, the conservative ruling party of Macedonia,\nat a rally in Skopje. Credit: Boris Grdanoski/Associated Press\nIn the last two and a half years, Macedonia has been in a deep political crisis. Since 2006, when the coalition between the Christian democratic VMRO-DPMNE (the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization \u2013 Democratic Party for Macedonian National Unity) and the Albanian DUI (Democratic Union for Integration) came to power, we have witnessed a constant wholesale erosion of state institutions.\nBefore we begin listing statistics highlighting the level of decay within society and the political system, we must first acknowledge that Macedonia has not held a census since 2002. This fact has an enormous influence on the situation with regard to the electoral register because the absence of an up-to-date census means we do not have a clear idea of who has a right to vote and where. This situation has created an environment in which several incidents of electoral fraud have been committed by the ruling coalition. From 2006 to 2016, we had three early parliamentary elections (in 2008, 2011 and 2014). The most recent is now the fourth in a row.\nBy the end of 2014, high school students had started to protest against an imposed and utterly pointless external testing process justified as a means of gaining a clear picture of the quality of education in the country. This external testing includes students from fourth grade in elementary school to those in their last year of high school and is held at the end of the year. The results of this test have an impact not only on the pupils\u2019 official grades but on the grading of their teachers\u2019 performance. A marginal difference between grades awarded by the teachers and those achieved through testing can result in enormous financial penalties for teaching staff. It is publicly known that those teachers who are not members of the ruling party (DPMNE) and who display slight discrepancies in their grades are at greater risk of losing their jobs. The next protest in this growing movement to stand up against and raise awareness of the situation saw students occupy the buildings of a university in the capital Skopje in February 2015. By amending the law on university education, the government attempted to interfere directly in the autonomy of the universities and their budgets. The occupation of the faculties lasted for two weeks and erupted in mass protests in Skopje that involved more than 4,000 people. The protestors were not only students, but ordinary people who joined to express their support and solidarity. Fortunately, the government withdrew its intentions to amend the law. But this was only the beginning of a period of mass protest and rioting.\nFollowing the student occupations, the opposition party, the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM), started to publish wiretapped conversations between serving politicians which confirmed almost all existing rumors concerning electoral fraud, widespread partisanship within the state administration, and the involvement of the ruling party (the DPMNE) in measures to control and intimidate members of the judicial council and attempts made by the former Minister of the Interior to cover up the murder of a young man. The Social Democrats stated that approximately 20,000 people were wiretapped and that they chose to publish 25 of the most explosive stories that uncovered how the baroquisation of Skopje has been undertaken through a project called \u201cSkopje 2014\u201d. Through this project, 74 monuments were erected, several buildings were built in baroque style \u2013 and approximately \u20ac820 m was laundered. The center of Skopje underwent a complete face-lift; it is now full of baroque statues and buildings, all made with facades of plastic, gypsum and Styrofoam. What initially triggered the mass protest on May 5, 2015, was the publication of a wiretapped conversation between two former politicians, Gordana Jankulovska (once Minister of the Interior) and Zoran Stavrevski (previously Minister of Finance), in which the former openly talked about how she attempted to cover up the murder of a 20-year-old man in 2011 during events to celebrate another election victory. The man was beaten to death by a member of the special police force who was later sentenced to 14 years in prison. Continued protests have led to a heightened political crisis in which external actors, such as the EU and the USA, have been forced to intervene. Overseen by EU commissioner Johannes Hahn, political negotiations to resolve the crisis were held in Skopje during the summer of 2015. The resulting final agreement was called the \u201cPrzhino Agreement\u201d after the Skopje suburb where negotiations were held. This agreement was signed by four political parties: the SDSM, the VMRO-DPMNE, the DUI and a second large Albanian party, the DPA (Democratic Party of Albanians). This agreement stipulated the creation of a base to develop a Special Prosecutor\u2019s Office which will be responsible for the investigation and raising of charges for criminal wrongdoing uncovered by wiretapped conversations.\nAt the beginning of 2016, the ruling coalition between the VMRO-DPMNE and the DUI came under pressure from investigators alleging electoral fraud. The Special Prosecutor\u2019s Office submitted a request to the Constitutional Court to deliberate upon a law which included several articles banning any kind of pardon for criminals convicted for pedophilia, drug dealing and electoral fraud. Under pressure from the DPMNE, the court decided that those articles were in violation of the constitution. Less than a month later, in the middle of April, the president, Gorgi Ivanov, pardoned all politicians who were under investigation for electoral fraud. People reacted to the president\u2019s decision by staging mass protests which culminated in the burning down of the president\u2019s office in the center of Skopje. The protests continued, with activists daubing all the buildings newly erected as part of the \u201cSkopje 2014\u201d project in different colors; for the people, these structures stand as a symbol of the fraud and crimes committed by the government. This action became known as the \u201cColorful Revolution\u201d.\nDuring the years of protest, but mainly between 2006 and 2016, approximately 650 specialist doctors left Macedonia permanently. In the last 6 months of 2016 alone, 90 babies have died and the mortality rate of expectant mothers has increased. Statistics provided by the World Bank claim that in the last 15 years, 600,000 Macedonian citizens have emigrated. And yet Macedonia was the only state to close its borders to migrants from Syria under instruction from the European Union.\nAs a result of pressure caused by daily protests, the government has agreed, without an up-to-date electoral register, to organize early parliamentary elections. The campaign was so laden with accusations and scaremongering that if the SDSM were to win, Macedonia would be federalized and the Albanian language would become the second official language. For the first time since independence, one openly left political party ran in the elections: Levica. They ran in five electoral units (Macedonia is divided into seven electoral units: six within the state itself and one for diaspora). Polling day went smoothly and there was no violence or major irregularities in the voting process, yet the state election commission took more than 24 hours to announce the preliminary results. Close to midnight on December 11, leader of the opposition, Zoran Zaev, was the first to make an appearance in Skopje, announcing victory with only one parliamentary seat more than the VMRO-DPMNE. After one more seat was called, the spokesman of the DPMNE then announced that they had won the elections. On the electoral website on Tuesday morning, the full result was released as follows: 38% for DPMNE (51 MPs), 36% for SDSM (49 MPs), the DUI secured 7% and 10 MPs, and the major surprise was an Albanian movement called BESA, who won 4% of the vote. The difference between the SDSM and the DPMNE in terms of the number of votes was 16,000. Levica did not win a parliamentary seat, but it did reach the limit of a minimum of 1% of the vote needed to secure financial support from the state budget. The SDSM and BESA have submitted complaints to the state election commission regarding the election results but a decision from the commission regarding this complaint has yet to be made.\nSonja Stojadinovic", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 11241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 152.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.travelwithkevinandruth.com/2011/01/our-rving-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LZNOFKKTJOM3DE2EQJIPIL2VNM5RV2WD", "length": 6772, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.travelwithkevinandruth.com", "title": "Travel with Kevin and Ruth!: Our RV'ing story", "raw_content": "We have a lot of new readers, and not all of you know how we got into this Rv'ing thing. So for a change of pace we thought we'd tell you all the story.\nIt was July of 2007. We were living in a four bedroom house in the east end of Ottawa, Ontario, where we had brought up our children for the last 12 years or so.\nBut three of the bedrooms were empty. Our daughter was living with her boyfriend in Nova Scotia, and our son was going to college in the States. I was feeling like I needed a change...maybe sell the house and move into a condo downtown or something. Ruth wasn't working at the time, but I had a job that I loved...doing contract lease return inspections for GMAC.\nA few years before, we had signed up to a website called http://www.globalfreeloaders.com/ where travelers stay in other peoples houses for free. Since then, a similar but better website has come along http://www.couchsurfing.org/\nAnyhow, we received an email requesting accomodation. It was from a British couple who said that they were traveling North America in their small motorhome and they were looking to park in our driveway while they took the local bus to explore Ottawa. Glen and Steve stayed with us for four days, and by the end of their stay I was ready to sell the house and buy a motorhome.\nIt took a little while to talk Ruth into the idea because she was pretty happy with the house and had spent a lot of time on her garden. Also, her mother was entering the later stages of Alzheimers disease and she was hesitant about taking off during that period. But by the beginning of August 2007, we made the decision. Sell the house, and buy a motorhome!\nSo that's what we did. We spent the month of August 2007 getting the house ready for sale and started to sell most of our belongings. The day after labour day weekend in early September, we listed the house. We listed it privately because I don't like using real estate agents. Two weeks later, we had a firm offer, with a closing date of October 5, 2007.\nTowards the end of September we had a big ass garage sale, and sold just about everything we owned. Of course in the meantime, we shopped for and purchased Sherman. Bought him in New York State and did all the importation paperwork with the government. What a busy two months we had! From the time we made the commitment until the time we took off in the motorhome was almost exactly two months!\nThree years and three months later, sitting in Huatulco, Mexico, we have absolutely no regrets. It's funny to think that prior to October 2007, I had never been in a motorhome in my life. Now I live in one, and have driven it all over Mexico. I've also worked two summers at an RV dealership. Had you told me four years ago that I would be doing this I would have said you were crazy. But here we are!\nYou never know what the future holds, and we are proof of that. Take hold of your life and do the things that you want to do!\nWe have been living in our motor home for over 4 years. The hardest thing I ever did was to sell everything I collected or saved over the years. After unloading everything, it felt great!\nwell done and we hope to follow your footsteps soon...\nEasy for me, I can live out of a suitcase. Hopefully we will at least be on the road six months a year. Right now it's 3C and I would rather be in Huatulco. Congratulations!\nWere just biding time until Donna can retire and we will be out of here and on the road, Right now we try to get a few trips in a year just to keep the dream alive. Be safe out there. Sam & Donna...\nJohn and Ellen January 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM\nKevin and Ruth, your post was both excellent and very inspiring. I know many people who would love to do what you two did or are already working toward that goal.\nIt's nice to hear the history behind your RVing. I've heard a number of stories from fulltimers who saw someone else doing it, thought \"AWESOME!\" and then ended up in their own home on wheels. (Us too, I guess...)\nNice story. We have been full timing for four years and set our stuff adrift without ever looking back.\nGail...I found that as well. Once I made the decision and started going through everything and then selling it all, I felt liberated. What a great feeling.\nheyduke50...Thanks, good luck with your house. Your day is coming real soon!\nChris...I know you can. Your day will come soon. We wish you were here too. 3C in Mexico, that is crazy! Hope things warm up soon.\nSam and Donna...I think she should pack it in now. She works way too hard. Have you made plans for a late winter getaway yet?\nJohn and Ellen...Thanks! We know its not for everyone, but we are certainly enjoying life, just as you are even though you still have a home to go back too.\nourtakeonfreedom...Never knew this life existed until we met our friends Glen and Steve. Always thought RV's were for vacations. Glad you are enjoying the life too!\nChuck and Anneke...I don't think we will either. Keep on enjoying it!\nPretty sure I could live out of a motorhome, don't see it as any different than a small apartment on wheels!\nGood story, great to hear you are living your dream.\nWow, things really happened fast for you. Interesting story.\nWBY...I guess it depends on the size of the motorhome. I've seen some that were nicer than any apartment I ever lived in. Our is fairly small in comparison to many, but it suits us fine.\nYou will be living your dream one day soon too!\nKaren and Al...Yep, things went real fast. We were lucky that we had a good housing market at the time. Good luck with your place, maybe it won't be too much longer for you.\nHow neat that you guys evolved from couch surfing hosting to full time RVing!\nWe were both campers as kids, and when we met, Steveio was pleased that I too was a Happy Camper. Going full-time has been our dream once he can retire, and the dream only gets stronger and stronger with each passing year. We have the rig, just have to wail till April 22, 2013 to be set free!\nKaren and Steve...We still do the couchsurfing, but now we are on the other end.\nKevin and I have always loved camping. I did a lot when I was young with my family, but we always pictured ourselves tenting. We weren't much for all the conveniences that come with an RV until Glen and Steve told us about dry camping and boondocking, we were sold then.\nTwo years is such a long time to wait. Great that you go out a lot over the summer months.\nJanie and John January 15, 2011 at 8:03 PM\nFun to read your story. Like you we had not RVed before we decided to full time. We are almost a year in the RV and wouldn't go back.\nJanie and John...I somehow think that is the way it is with a lot of RV's when they start to fulltime. Afterward you look back and think why didn't we do this sooner. 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We\u2019ve been following the work of New York comedy standouts Nick Ross and Tim Curcio for a while now, even before their popular comedy series hit the web earlier this year. Ross had starred in 2008\u2019s Park Bench series, which stood out for its sharp witted simplicity\u2014\u201dtwo lusty yet oblivious dudes whiling away the summer on a Central Park bench,\u201d according to our reviewer.\nThe 7-episode first season of Old Friends, tells the story of Tim and Nick, two 28 year-olds who are reunited after not seeing each other since high school. There\u2019s a classic comedic tension setup, with a little love tangle going on. Tim is now married to his high school sweetheart, Andrea (Amy Flanagan), who happened to lose her virginity to Nick back in high school. And now Nick is, as luck would have it, dating Andrea\u2019s best friend, Katie (Natalie Knepp). You know, child\u2019s play.\nWe asked the pair about how much art imitates life, so to speak. \u201cWhile Tim is married in real life and Nick is single, neither one of us are quite like our characters. Nick has shorter hair now, and Tim is not a total whine-o,\u201d they said.\nDespite developing a solid following on YouTube and College Humor, the show has been taken down as part of the deal. Babelgum has licensed popular web series before, though not always getting exclusive rights to what amounts to second-run syndication of the debut season. The Guild\u2019s first season, for example, can be found on Babelgum, though it still remains up on YouTube and MSN. Other series like The Crew and Hurtling Through Space At An Alarming Rate were exclusive to the site.\nCrossroad Films produces Old Friends along with Ross and Curcio\u2019s Metropolitan Bait and Tackle production company that includes the show\u2019s director Matt Cady. 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Hunter, jointly owned by PacifiCorp, Deseret Generation and Transmission Co-operative and UAMPS, has commercially operated since June 1980. UAMPS owns an undivided 14.582 percent interest in Unit II, representing 65 megawatts of capacity and energy.\nUAMPS acquired its 7.028 percent undivided ownership interest in Unit 4 of the San Juan Station in 1994. The San Juan Station, located northwest of Farmington, New Mexico, provides 35 megawatts of capacity and energy through a coal-fired, steamelectric generating plant. Unit 4, in commercial operation since 1979, is jointly owned by the Public Service Company of New Mexico, the city of Farmington, New Mexico, M-S-R Public Power Agency, the county of Los Alamos, New Mexico, the city of Anaheim, California, and UAMPS.\nIntermountain Power Agency (IPA) is a political subdivision of the state of Utah organized in 1977 by 23 Utah municipalities. IPA\u2019s Intermountain Power Project includes a two-unit, coal-fired, steam-electric generating station, with a net capacity of 1,800 megawatts. The generating station is located in Delta, Utah. UAMPS acts as a scheduling agent for those members who have called-back capacity and energy from the project pursuant to the Excess Power Sales Agreement.\nThe Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) is federally owned and operated by the United States Bureau of Reclamation. One purpose of CRSP is the production of hydroelectric capacity and energy. The Western Area Power Administration (Western) markets and transmits CRSP power in 15 western and central states. Western has 10,000 megawatts of capacity in 56 power plants. UAMPS acts as a single purchasing agent for our members that have a firm allocation of CRSP capacity and energy that is purchased through the Integrated Contract for Electric Services.\nFirm Power Supply Project\nThe Firm Power Supply Project manages various power supplies for participating members. The project agreement provides flexible terms for the purchase and the sale of capacity and energy from multiple resources. This project includes the wind purchase from the Pleasant Valley Wind Energy Facility through Avangrid.\nCentral-St. George Project\nThe focus of the Central-St. George Project is to improve the quality and reliability of transmission service to the members in southwestern Utah. The project includes a 345 to 138 kV Central substation, 21 miles of double circuit 138 kV transmission line from the Central substation to the St. George substation, four miles of 138 kV transmission line from the St. George substation to the 138 to 69 kV River substation, 12 miles of transmission line connecting the River substation to Hurricane City and other system upgrades. The project also own jointly with PacifiCorp 21 miles of double circuit 345 kV transmission line from Red Butte substation to St. George substation\nCraig-Mona Project\nThe Craig-Mona Project involves the transmission capability of two interconnected 345 kV transmission lines. UAMPS owns a 15 percent interest in the first segment, running west from Craig, Colorado to the Bonanza Power Plant in northeast Utah. UAMPS holds an entitlement to 54 megawatts of capacity in the second segment from Bonanza to an interconnection at Mona, Utah.\nPayson Project\nThe Payson Project represents the Nebo Power Station, a 140 megawatt combined cycle gas-fired generating facility in Payson City, Utah. The facility began operating in June 2004. The facility includes a General Electric Frame 7EA gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator, a steam turbine, condensers and a cooling tower along with related 138 kV and 46 kV electric substations and transmission lines and gas pipelines.\nThe Pool Project provides an hourly resource clearinghouse where UAMPS acts as agent for the scheduling and dispatch of resources including the purchase of any resources and/or reserves required to meet each member\u2019s electric system load, the sale of any member\u2019s resources which are deemed surplus to meet its electric system load and the utilization of transmission rights to effect resource deliveries to, and sales by, each member.\nThrough the Resource Project, UAMPS conducts analyses and studies of new power supply and transmission projects. Additionally, through the project, UAMPS has developed its Smart Energy Efficiency Program, designed to lower energy demand and cut costs for both its members and the consumers they serve.\nMember Services Project\nThe Member Services Project addresses community needs. Through the project, a wider buying base is available for equipment purchases or special services that improve service for the members\u2019 customers. Services may include educational programs, material purchases and customer satisfaction surveys.\nGovernment And Public Affairs Project\nLobbying and the political considerations of the members who elect to participate in these actions fall under the Government and Public Affairs Project. Nationally and locally, UAMPS represents a strong political stance on issues related to electric utilities and the public power movement.\nHorse Butte Project\nUAMPS undertook the development, acquisition and construction of a 57.6 MW wind farm comprised of 32 Vestas V-100 1.8 MW wind turbines and related facilities and equipment. Upon commercial operation, UAMPS sold the facility to a private investor which it has entered into a Power Purchase Agreement for the entire output of the farm. This structure provides UAMPS the lowest possible cost. The facility is located approximately 16 miles east of the City of Idaho Falls and commenced commercial operation on August 15, 2012. The project provides UAMPS members with a long-term supply of renewable electric energy and associated environmental attributes.\nThe Carbon Free Power Project is in the first phase of investigating the feasibility of a small modular reactor project using NuScale technology. The CFPP could consist of up to twelve 50 MW reactors located at the Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho Falls. The feasibility analysis includes engineering and regulatory activities to complete a site selection analysis to allow the project participants the necessary information to make a decision whether to proceed with the Construction and Operating License Application.\nThe Project was formed in 2008 to acquire economical supplies of natural gas as fuel for electric generation. Natural gas purchases may include spot, daily, monthly or short-term and prepaid transactions.\nThe Veyo Heat Recovery Project uses waste heat to power a 7.8 MW energy recovery generation system. The Project is located adjacent to the existing Veyo Compressor Station which is owned and operated by the Kern River Gas Transmission Company. The Project began commercial operation in May 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 7559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.udf.org.au/udf-quarterly/china-syndrome-a-significant-challenge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GZ2WXKMKAFFIX3UP5GC3D5FW2YRMQ32J", "length": 1967, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.udf.org.au", "title": "China Syndrome - a significant challenge - Urban Design ForumUrban Design Forum", "raw_content": "China Syndrome \u2013 a significant challenge\nIn the last 4 years, the urban design division of Urbis JHD has been involved in a significant number of unique projects as a result of success in international design competitions.\nSome of the most significant projects such as Middle Reaches of Hai River in Tianjin, new urban development strategy for Nanning and Zizhu waterfront park (under construction) in Shanghai, offer a new perspective in relation to planning for urban development.\nHai River Corridor Plan\nThese projects appear to be symptomatic of a new paradigm \u2013 limitless urban sprawl without the usual green hinterland. As a result, the \u201cnature\u201d is designed and inserted into the city. The model of urbanisation emerging in many South East Asian countries, and in particular China, will eventually cover huge areas, resulting in overlapping conurbations.\nThis is a further challenge to the traditional concept of regional unsustainability, where cities rely on their hinterland for water, food, waste management, energy, and recreation.\nWith increasingly fine tuned, complete infrastructure systems, the natural ecology is being replaced with engineering solutions, elevating a risk of system malfunction.\nAustralia\u2019s total population is currently 20 million \u2013 China will have a further 200 million people urbanised in the next ten years\nThis situation suggests a serious need to analyse and understand the future sustainability of these emerging urban systems in order to develop an appropriate response. In my opinion this is the most significant challenge to all experts as it challenges the most significant foundations of our urban development practice to date.\nThis article is based on a recent lecture given by Andrew Olszewski at Melbourne University. Andrew is Director of Urbis JHD.\n\u2018Place\u2019 in the shrinking cultural space\nIn this \u2018Year of the Built Environment\u2019, it is time to reflect on the influences and production processes that have delivered...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uml.edu/News/stories/2011-12/AccountingForum.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:42Z", "digest": "sha1:WEAT4KQZQW5QPWWQIKPOKRVIA4AO4TTH", "length": 3270, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.uml.edu", "title": "Accounting Alums Give Students Career Tips | UMass Lowell", "raw_content": "Accounting Alums Give Students Career Tips\nFinancial Professionals Share Industry Trends at Forum\nSpeaking to more than 100 Manning School of Business students, Robert Busch, a partner at public accounting firm Moody, Famigletti & Andronico showed his business card to the crowd and asked if they noticed anything unusual.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no title on it,\u201d was the response.\nThe reason, Busch explained, is that his Tewksbury-based firm works as a team, unbound by the strictures of hierarchy.\n\u201cWe are a flat organization. That makes us unique,\u201d he said.\nThe structure, size and culture of an organization are some of the things students will have to consider as they enter the workforce. At small firms, for instance, new accountants get to work on all aspects of their clients\u2019 business, while those joining global accounting firms are more likely to have Fortune 500 clients but play a narrower role, Busch said.\nBusch, 1993 accounting graduate, was a guest speaker at the Accounting Forum, an event where students learn about career options from accounting professionals. It was sponsored by the Accounting Department.\n\u201cThe Accounting Forum's goal is to help students understand the opportunities in the field. It is also a chance to network with firms that represent both public accounting and industry,\u201d said Lisa Andrusaitis, an instructor in the Accounting Department.\nBusch answered students\u2019 questions about the amount of travel involved in his job, his expectations for new hires and whether it\u2019s best to take the CPA exam right after graduating or put it off while getting work experience.\n\u201cGet the monkey off your back and get the CPA exam done right away,\u201d Busch advised.\nBusch was joined by his colleague Brian Lesniak, a senior auditor at the firm who earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting from UMass Lowell in 2009 and an MBA in 2012.\nMatthew Finn, chief financial officer at Bradford Networks, urged students to track trends in industries in which they are interested. Finn earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting from UMass Lowell in 1997 and got a job with Ernst & Young working with numerous technology start-ups. He joined Bradford Networks in 2006 and now oversees such departments as marketing, sales and information technology for the venture-backed developer of network security technology.\nThe job market for accounting graduates is healthy. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment for accountants and auditors is expected to grow 16 percent from 2010 to 2020.\nBoth Busch and Finn said that a key growth area in the accounting profession is in revenue recognition, or determining the conditions under which income can be considered revenue. Demand for revenue recognition skills is especially strong in the software and cloud computing industries, they said.\n\u201cRevenue recognition is a hot topic right now. There are a lot of jobs in this area that you didn\u2019t see 10 years ago,\u201d said Finn, who is currently enrolled in the Manning School\u2019s online MBA program.\n\u201cRevenue recognition is a good career choice because not many people can do it,\u201d said Busch.\nBoth Finn and Busch told the students that UMass Lowell prepared them well for the job market.\n\u201cYou are in the right spot,\u201d said Finn. \u201cYou are building your foundation.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unep-aewa.org/en/node/1989", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:58Z", "digest": "sha1:BNO5VWLBS24UKMI3JBTK2KDRBM5CALK6", "length": 1636, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.unep-aewa.org", "title": "The Future of the African Initiative | AEWA", "raw_content": "Since its launch in 2009, the African Initiative has achieved significant progress in boosting the implementation of AEWA in Africa. It is now crucial to build on the foundations that have been laid in order to sustain and strengthen long-term effective conservation of migratory waterbird populations in the region. Implementing the activities set out in the Plan of Action for Africa requires substantial financial investment and commitment on the part of all stakeholders.\nThe generosity and dedication of partner organizations and donors plays an absolutely vital role for this Initiative. Their contributions are benefiting key activities which strengthen the conservation of migratory waterbirds in Africa. The UNEP/AEWA Secretariat would like to thank all partners and donors who have supported the African Initiative, and hopes that they can continue providing support.We would also like to encourage new donors to invest in the future of this important scheme.\nThe UNEP/AEWA Secretariat is grateful for the financial and in-kind contributions which the African Initiative has so far received from the Governments of Botswana, France, Germany, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, as well as from the European Commission, the UNEP Division of Environmental Law and Conventions (DELC), Wetlands International, BirdLife International, the African Crane Conservation Programme (ACCP), Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) - the BirdLife Partner in Germany, Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage (ONCFS) and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 166.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/idvusers/2013/msg00111.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RWLSUDBPNE4DI7Y54WGBQ7QXZOUHUANM", "length": 1545, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.unidata.ucar.edu", "title": "Re: [idvusers] Adding two different 4d grids", "raw_content": "Hi Paul-\nThe first method generates a \"visad.UnitException\". The second one (with\nnoUnit) generates \"java.lang.NullPointerException\". Any ideas as to what\ncan be done?\nI suggest running your second method and when the error occurs, use the submit button to submit this to Unidata support. That will provide them with the stack trace so they can track down the problem. In theory, it should work. ;-)\nI would expect the unit exception from the first method. Unlike most other programs which ignore units, IDV will try to do automatic unit conversion between variables. That way you can add temperatures in Celsius to temperatures in Kelvin and get a meaningful answer. In the real world, you can't physically add quantities with incompatible units and get a meaningful answer (e.g. you can't get a valid unit result out of adding a gallon to a meter). But here you just want to add some numbers together, so making the IDV ignore units with the noUnit method is the way to go.\nOn 28 August 2013 08:25, Paul Graham wrote:\nOn 27 August 2013 23:19, Don Murray (NOAA Affiliate) wrote:\n______________________________**_________________\nhttp://www.unidata.ucar.edu/**mailing_lists/\nhttp://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/**people/don.murray/\nFor list information, to unsubscribe, visit: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/\n**mailing_lists/ \n[idvusers] Best animation formats/approaches?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 6412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/82943/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HQIEY2RFAJ6IRPBQPXKLP6PMLBGYTZ4O", "length": 928, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.unitedstateszipcodes.org", "title": "ZIP Code 82943 Map, Demographics, More for Reliance, WY", "raw_content": "Reliance, WY (View All Cities)\nZIP code 82943 is located in southwest Wyoming and covers a slightly less than average land area compared to other ZIP codes in the United States. It also has a slightly less than average population density.\nThe people living in ZIP code 82943 are primarily white. The number of middle aged adults is extremely large while the number of people in their late 20s to early 40s is extremely large. There are also a large number of single parents and a slightly less than average number of families. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 82943 ZIP code is slightly less than average compared to other areas of the country.\nMale 12 7 10 12 9 6 13 9 12 14 17 12 10 7 4 4 0 0\nFemale 9 7 10 6 6 9 6 11 11 8 15 17 5 9 3 4 3 4\nThe majority of household are owned or have a mortgage. Homes in ZIP code 82943 were primarily built in 1939 or earlier.\nFor more information, see Reliance, WY incomes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 8688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 82.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.upi.com/GenDyn-contracted-for-parts-for-future-submarine-construction/8941529412778/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HPJT3W2J7HWI4MGZV6NIFGH3OHMJAENW", "length": 1791, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.upi.com", "title": "GenDyn contracted for parts for future submarine construction - UPI.com", "raw_content": "GenDyn contracted for parts for future submarine construction\nThe parts are for the next nine Virginia-class submarines, four of which have been ordered by the U.S. Navy.\nThe crew of USS Colorado mans their newly-commissioned submarine, March 17, 2018. Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Tristan B. Lotz/U.S. Navy.\nJune 19 (UPI) -- The Department of Defense has awarded a contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat for work on the next nine Virginia-class attack submarines.\nThe contract award from Naval Sea Systems Command, announced Monday, is worth $225 million under the terms of cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which is a modification to a previous Pentagon award, the Defense Department said.\nThe deal will see General Dynamics provide economic ordering quantity material -- parts ordered ahead of time -- for the next nine Virginia-class, nuclear-powered fast attack submarines, for work in fiscal 2019 through 2023.\nThe nine vessels are part of the Block V generation of the Virginia class. The first four have been ordered by the U.S. Navy already, with General Dynamics set to construct SSN-802 and SSN-803 and Huntington Ingalls Industries tapped for SSN-804 and SSN-805.\nWork on the contract will occur in various locations throughout the United States and is expected to be complete in January 2019.\nThe total cumulative value of the contract will be obligated to General Dynamics at time of award -- the obligated funds will be allocated from Navy fiscal 2018 shipbuilding and conversion accounts and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year, said the Pentagon press release.\nAustralian submarine sonar systems begin $407 million upgrade Electric Boat tapped for repair parts for Virginia-class subs Huntington Ingalls lays keel for future USS Montana", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 249.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usa-auswandererforum.com/threads/k3-verheiratetenvisum-forms-paperwork-procedure.22/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DFI3C6RQ7G4YK7ES2PEYQUMMV3FM24Z3", "length": 10437, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "www.usa-auswandererforum.com", "title": "K3 (Verheiratetenvisum) - Forms, Paperwork, Procedure | USA Auswandererforum", "raw_content": "Nonimmigrant visa for spouse (K-3) - It is important to note that application for the nonimmigrant visa for spouse (K-3) who married a U.S. citizen must be filed and the visa must be issued in the country where the marriage took place. After the visa process has been completed, and the visa is issued, the spouse can travel to the United States to wait for the processing of the immigrant visa case. Two petitions are required:\nPetition for Alien Relative, Form 1-130; and\nPetition for Alien Fianc\u00e9 (e), Form I-129F\nSpouses of U.S. citizens, and the spouse's children, can come to the United States on nonimmigrant visas (K-3 and K-4) and wait in the United States to complete the immigration process. Before a K-4 visa can be issued to a child, the parent must have a K-3 visa or be in K-3 status.\nWhat Is a \"Spouse\"?\nA spouse is a legally wedded husband or wife. Cohabiting partners do not qualify as spouses for immigration purposes. Common-law spouses may qualify as spouses for immigration purposes depending on the laws of the country where the common-law marriage occurs. In cases of polygamy only the first spouse qualifies as a spouse for immigration.U.S. law does not allow polygamy. If you were married before, you and your spouse must show that you ended (terminated) all previous marriages before your current marriage. The death and divorce documents that show termination of marriages must be legal and verifiable in the country that issued them. Divorces must be final. In cases of legal marriage to two or more spouses at the same time, or marriages overlapping for a period of time, you may file only for the first spouse.\nFiling - Two Petitions are Required\nYou must first file an immigrant Petition for Alien Relative, form I-130 for your spouse with the USCIS Office that serves the area where you live. The USCIS will send you a Notice of Action (Form I-797) receipt notice. This notice tells you that the USCIS has received the petition.\nYou next file Petition for Alien Fianc\u00e9(e), form I-129F for your spouse and children. Send the I-129F petition, supporting documents and a copy of the Form I-797 receipt notice to this Department of Homeland Security USCIS Address on their web site.\nNational Visa Center (NVC) Sends Petition To Post\nAfter the USCIS approves the I-129F, it sends it to the National Visa Center (NVC). The NVC sends the petition to the embassy or consulate in the country where the marriage took place. If your marriage took place in the United States, the NVC sends the petition to the embassy or consulate that issues visas in the country of your spouse's nationality.\nIf your marriage took place in a country that does not have an American embassy, or the embassy does not issue visas, the NVC sends the petition to the embassy or consulate that normally processes visas for citizens of that country. For example, if the marriage took place in Iran where the United States does not have an embassy, the petition would be sent to Turkey.\nA Spouse of a U.S. Citizen (K-3) Is Also an Immigrant\nThe spouse of an U.S. citizen applying for a nonimmigrant visa (K-3 applicant) must have an immigrant visa petition on his/her behalf by the U.S. citizen spouse. Therefore, the spouse of the U.S. citizen (the K-3 applicant) must meet some of the requirements of an immigrant visa.\nThe embassy or consulate where you, the spouse of an American citizen, will apply for a K-3 visa must be in the country where your marriage took place. Here are the procedures to apply. The embassy or consulate will let you know any additional things to do, such as where you need to go for the required medical examination. During the interview process, an ink-free, digital fingerprint scan will be taken. Some visa applications require further administrative processing, which takes additional time after the visa applicant\u2019s interview by a Consular Officer. The following is required:\n- Two copies of form DS-156, Nonimmigrant Visa Application\n- One DS-156K, Nonimmigrant Fianc\u00e9(e) Visa Application form\n- Police certificates from all places lived in since the age of 16\n- Birth certificates\n- Marriage certificate for spouse\n- Death and divorce certificates from any previous spouses\n- Medical examination (except vaccinations)\n- Two nonimmigrant visa photos, two inches/50 X 50 mm square, showing full face, against a light background)\n- Proof of financial support (Form I-134 Affidavit of Support may be requested.)\n- Payment of fees, as explained below\nThe consular officer may ask for additional information. It is a good idea to bring marriage photographs and other proof that the marriage is genuine.\nDocuments in foreign languages should be translated. Take clear, legible photocopies of civil documents, such as birth and marriage certificates, to the visa interview. Original documents can then be returned to you.\n- Filing an immigrant Petition for Alien Relative, Form I-130: $355.00\n- Applying for a nonimmigrant visa application processing fee, DS-156: $131.00\n- Medical examination: costs vary, around Euro 120.00\n- Fingerprinting fees, if required: $80.00\n- Filing Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status: $930 plus a biometrics fee of $80; the fee total is $1,010\n- Other costs may include translation and photocopying charges, fees for getting the documents required for the visa application (such as passport, police certificates, birth certificates, etc.), and travel expenses to the embassy or consulate for an interview. Costs vary from country to country and case to case.\nFor current fees for Department of State, government services see Fees.\nThe I-129F petition is valid for four months from the date of approval. A consular officer can extend the validity of the petition (revalidate the petition) if it expires before you finish processing the visa.\nChildren do not need separate Petition for Alien Relative, I-130 petitions, but you, the petitioner, must take care to name all your children on the Petition for Alien Fiance, I-129F petition. If you do not name the children on the petition, they may find it difficult to prove their identity as children of a K-3 applicant or person in K-3 status.\nYou must file separate I-130 immigrant visa petitions for your children before they qualify for permanent residence. When they adjust status in the United States, they must file Form I-485 Application to Register Permanent Residence or to Adjust Status with the USCIS Office that serves the area where you live. Remember that in immigration law children must be unmarried and under 21 years of age. See child.\nIf the child is not named on the I-129F petition, will that be a problem?\nThe K-4 visa will not be denied because the child's name is not listed on the I-129F petition. As long as it can be established that he/she is the minor, unmarried child of the applicant issued a K-3 visa.\nAs a K-3 visa holder, you can file form I-765, Application for Employment Authorization with the USCIS that serves the area where you live for an employment authorization document (work permit). You can get more information by clicking on How Do I Get a Work Permit (Employment Authorization Document)?\nThe length of time varies from case to case according to its circumstances. The time it takes each USCIS office and each consular office to process the case varies. Some cases are delayed because the applicants do not follow instructions carefully or supply incomplete information. (It is important to give us correct postal addresses and telephone numbers.) Some visa applications require further administrative processing, which takes additional time after the visa applicant's interview by a Consular Officer.\n- Drug trafficking\n- Having HIV/AIDS\n- Overstaying a previous visa\n- Practicing polygamy\n- Advocating the overthrow of the government\n- Submitting fraudulent documents\nThe consular officer will inform you, the visa applicant, if you are ineligible for a visa, whether there is a waiver of the ineligibility and what the waiver process is. You can see the complete list of ineligibilities by clicking on Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas.\nHow do I qualify for a child of a spouse (K-4) nonimmigrant visa status?\nTo qualify for K-4 issuance, an applicant must be the minor, unmarried child under 21 years of age of a qualified K-3 visa applicant. The U.S. citizen who files an I-129F petition for an alien spouse does not have to file a separate I-129F petition for a child of his/her spouse. These children should be listed on the I-129F petition for the spouse. While the U.S. citizen must also file an I-130 petition for the alien spouse, there is no requirement to file a Form I-130 immigrant visa petition on behalf of the alien's children seeking K-4 nonimmigrant status, since K-4 is a derivative nonimmigrant classification.\nHow does a K-4 child adjust status in the United States?\nThe K-4 child will not be able to file for adjustment of status in the United States until the U.S. citizen parent/step-parent files a I-130 on behalf of the child. If the U.S. citizen parent/step-parent never files the I-130 petition, the immigrating parent may do so once he/she has obtained legal permanent resident (LPR) status, but the child would have to wait for an available visa number. Finally, the immigrant parent, upon adjusting status will no longer be in K-3 status, therefore, the child will no longer be in lawful K-4 status, since this is merely a derivative classification, and that child would begin to accrue unlawful presence.\nCan those with K-3 and K-4 visas change to another non-immigrant visa category in the United States?\nK-3/K-4 visa holders cannot change status in the United States to another non-immigrant visa category.\nCan I travel and re-enter the U.S. on my K-3 or K-4 visa?\nAliens present in the United States in a K-3 or K-4 nonimmigrant visa status can travel outside of the United States and return using their K-3/K-4 visa. If they have filed for adjustment of status in the U.S. prior to departure from the U.S., USCIS will not presume that the departure constitutes abandonment of an adjustment application.\nFor Department of State regulations on the K-3 visa select Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM).\nBefore your spouse arrives in the United States, you can help her or him apply for a social security number card. To learn more about this process, visit the website for the Social Security Administration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 12497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usaprepaid.com/tracfone/minutes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:51Z", "digest": "sha1:OQSGUXZFCQJCHZPX7DPLLDWII2T4L3BN", "length": 3762, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.usaprepaid.com", "title": "Buy TracFone Minutes - Online Delivery | USA Prepaid", "raw_content": "After purchasing your TracFone minutes, the PIN will be delivered by e-mail. Please follow the instructions in the e-mail to use the PIN.\n*Minutes for talk, text & web\nWhy choose TracFone services?\nTracFone has paved the way towards building a great brand for themselves by enhancing smart connections and selling TracFone minutes cards. They empower customers by providing innovative, easy and affordable ways to connect and to use their services to always stay in touch. Furthermore they\u2019re always looking for talented individuals to support their efforts. TracFone is a company specifically designed with the purpose of helping individuals to purchase minutes by refilling their respective prepaid credit card so as to enhance easy communication. Over the past years, they have worked towards supporting and providing a reliable means of communication with their services. The sale of TracFone minutes cards which reach over 10 million users also helped the company become the largest prepaid provider in the United States and most successful Mobile Virtual Network Operator ( MVNO ) as well. TracFone has an extremely large number of customers today because their rates are so competitive compared to those of the contract carriers.\nTracFone offers a prepaid cellular phone service which enables their customers to purchase airtime and data when needed by using TracFone card. If you buy a TracFone minutes card from USA Prepaid, you will receive an online PIN which you can redeem in a variety of manners. TracFone offers a wide range of services to their customers. Customers can purchase and add TracFone minutes to their mobile devices just by using their phones and through the TracFone website. The wide range of options for purchasing and using airtime makes TracFone a convenient prepaid phone provider.\nWhich TracFone Minutes Cards do we offer?\nTracFone Pay As You Go plans are prepaid cell phone plans that include a fixed amount of voice minutes, text messages, and data for 90 days. TracFone Pay As You Go plans also allow calls to over 100 other countries including cell phones in Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and China for the same price as a regular domestic call. Customers can add airtime cards at any time which include extra voice minutes or additional days of service. Unused and additional minutes or days will be rolled over to the next month.\nBenefits of using a TracFone Minutes Card\nIt supports auto-refill\nProvides free activation\nNationwide coverage capability\nTracFone is a Mobile Virtual Network Operator ( MVNO ) that runs on the networks of AT&T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint, T-Mobile, and U.S. Cellular. It offers both CDMA and GSM service for essentially full service in the United States.\nBenefits of using a TracFone Wireless Network\nTracFone Wireless Network is the largest independent nationwide provider of prepaid wireless communication. TracFone is a pay-as-you-go wireless service and has the largest digital coverage area in the United States. There are no hidden charges or roaming surcharge. It's absolutely a flat rate with the addition of some awesome features such as caller ID, call waiting, 3-way calling, voicemail, text messaging, and inexpensive roaming (or free on GSM models). The unique thing about TracFone is their patented airtime balance display and billing system. So you always know right where you stand with regards to how many minutes you have and when you need to get more. TracFone Wireless can be known to be more expensive than other prepaid refill providers, but they do offer widely available promotional codes which usually make the service a lot cheaper.\nGet connected to the world with the use of the TracFone Wireless Network technology.\nMore information about TracFone Pay As You Go plans?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1714, "original_length": 39123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usc.edu.au/explore/usc-news-exchange/news-archive/2015/march/usc-appoints-leading-cancer-prevention-expert", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:46Z", "digest": "sha1:WIBS2RWHT3MGXG6SX7W4PJYFYY27IPKY", "length": 1863, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.usc.edu.au", "title": "USC appoints leading cancer prevention expert | University of the Sunshine Coast", "raw_content": "This month the University welcomed its Foundation Professor of Cancer Prevention Michael Kimlin as a joint appointment between USC and Cancer Council Queensland.\nThe former Director of Queensland University of Technology\u2019s Centre for Research in Sun and Health will continue his world-leading research into the environmental factors that lead to cancer, particularly skin cancers including melanoma.\n\u201cI think population health research in Queensland is very Brisbane-centric,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is very little work that occurs on the Sunshine Coast on risk factors, on control measures and early detection that\u2019s specifically relevant to this community.\n\u201cThe Cancer Council and I are keen to start this relationship with the Sunshine Coast community and engage them in our research projects and work on issues that are relevant to locals to reduce the burden of cancer here.\n\u201cI\u2019m excited to be joining USC because it\u2019s a young, dynamic, aspirational university,\u201d said Professor Kimlin.\n\u201cLook at the relationship underway with the Sunshine Coast University Hospital where USC plans to be embedded in education and embedded in improving the health of the community, both from the biological and applied clinical perspective.\n\u201cUSC is quick moving and not afraid to develop new approaches. That\u2019s me too, so it\u2019s a perfect match.\u201d\nProfessor Kimlin has moved his research programs to USC where plans are well underway to establish a UV research laboratory and a specialist research team.\nUSC\u2019s Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Roland De Marco said it was a coup for USC to attract a world-leading scientist of Professor Kimlin\u2019s calibre.\n\u201cWithin a relatively short career, Professor Kimlin\u2019s scientific achievements have been exceptional,\u201d said Professor De Marco. \u201cThe future is very bright for Michael and we feel privileged to have him as a colleague at USC.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 5658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usip.org/public-education/educators/peacebuilding-toolkit-educators", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:22Z", "digest": "sha1:BVJ5CTZ6U37F7D5JBO5WZRR7MEPTOYEI", "length": 3230, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.usip.org", "title": "Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators | United States Institute of Peace", "raw_content": "Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators\nA resource for middle school and high school classrooms\nUSIP\u2019s Peacebuilding Toolkit enables educators to bring important global issues into the classroom and strengthen students\u2019 conflict management skills. I highly recommend that other teachers utilize the resources provided by USIP.\u201d\n\u2014 AP World History teacher\nThis Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators is designed to support the work of educators as peacebuilders. It is a resource developed by and for educators, to enable you to help introduce peacebuilding themes and skills into the classroom. (Download the Toolkit Brochure - PDF, 2.84 MB)\nThe Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators can help develop students\u2019 understanding of, and interest in, global peacebuilding, and develop their skills and capacities to act as peacebuilders. It can help teachers develop their own understanding of key concepts and skills, and enhance their capacity to teach about global peacebuilding themes and issues.\nThere are two volumes of the toolkit\u2013\u2013one for middle school and one for high school. The content of the toolkit can stand alone, but is enhanced by reference to the range of other resources available on this website. The toolkit can be downloaded in its entirety, in sections or as individual lessons.\nThe Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators supports educational standards established by the Common Core: see how the Toolkit curriculum aligns with Common Core Standards.\nToolkit Themes\nThis toolkit is organized around basic themes within the field of international conflict management.\nTheme 1: Conflict is an inherent part of the human condition.\nConflict is natural and is a normal part of everyday life. What makes a democratic society successful is its ability to deal with conflict, to allow and manage disagreement and dissent among people.\nTheme 2: Violent conflict can be prevented.\nConflict becomes problematic when it escalates to violence. But violent conflict can be prevented. We can teach our students to assert their opinion while being respectful and open to the ideas others; to listen with care and attentiveness; to act responsibly when faced with conflict. Conflict need not cross the line to violence. Whether on a personal or an international level, peace is possible when parties in conflict with one another use peacebuilding tools to manage their disagreement.\nTheme 3: There are many ways to be a peacebuilder.\nPeacebuilding is based on knowledge, skills, and attitudes that can be learned. As such, everyone can be a peacebuilder. There are many roles involved and young people can make important contributions to building peace in today\u2019s world.\nGo to the Middle School Edition (English)\nGo to the High School Edition (English)\nSupport for the Toolkit\nThe United States Institute of Peace would like to thank the Verizon Foundation for their generous support.\nFunding has also been provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.\nAs we are always working to provide you with the highest quality resources, we welcome any feedback you have on this document. Please complete our Toolkit Feedback Form or email us at buildingpeace@usip.org.\nLearn more about USIP\u2019s resources for students and educators.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 6936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.uwhydrobiogeochem.com/principle-investigator", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:36Z", "digest": "sha1:YPQWDCLOIVD5D74P5VB6RNKBZT3KH3CU", "length": 1167, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.uwhydrobiogeochem.com", "title": "Principle Investigator \u2014 UW hydro-biogeochemistry", "raw_content": "Contact: email Phone: (206) 221-2298 Office: Wilcox 168 Lab: Wilcox 169\nBecca leads the hydro-biogeochemistry research group. She joined the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at University of Washington in 2011. Prior to 2011, Becca was a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University where she studied how plant roots and soil conditions modulate the amount of water moved through the landscape. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a thesis project focused on understanding one of the major human health problems in Bangladesh: arsenic contaminated groundwater. Prior to graduate school, Becca worked as an environmental engineering consultant for EG&G Technical Services, and received her B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and B.A. in Art and Art History from Rice University.\nOutside of work, Becca enjoys hiking, mountaineering and rock climbing with her husband and two kids.\nCEE 350 - Mass and Energy Balances in Environmental Engineering\nCEE 496/551 - Fate and Transport of Chemicals in the Environment\nCEE 475 - Groundwater Flow\nCEE 550 - Environmental Chemical Modeling", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 172.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vanalen.org/events/a-skateboarders-guide-to-fulton-mall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HD3T67EXQU4X4YX3VNGWAE2IVB44SYQN", "length": 667, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vanalen.org", "title": "A SKATEBOARDER'S GUIDE TO FULTON MALL - Van Alen InstituteVan Alen Institute", "raw_content": "Fulton Street & St. Felix Street\nOn June 11, we took to skateboards in an exploration of four-wheeled transportation and local architecture along one of Brooklyn\u2019s most iconic thoroughfares. Participants of all ages and skills were invited to join in this tour that aims to disrupt our conceptions of how we pass through a street. Following the tour, we collaborated on a map-making exercise considering how skateboarding can be a vehicle to reimagine the city. The program also featured insight from Damon Rich, designer, artist, urban planner, and co-author alongside Rosten Woo and Meredith TenHoor of Street Value: Shopping, Planning, and Politics at Fulton Mall.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vanetworking.com/forum/topic/16110-copyright-on-documents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:54Z", "digest": "sha1:BPYVD2SC2Y7JADEVOAJ7XTEIMZOIHPEX", "length": 1321, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.vanetworking.com", "title": "Copyright on Documents ? - Copywriting - Virtual Assistant Networking Forum #VAforum", "raw_content": "By rachel@proactiveadminservices.co, January 25, 2009 in Copywriting\nrachel@proactiveadminservices.co 0\nI am hope that someone might be able to assist me with a question...\nI am wondering how much of a document needs to be changed to manage the copyright of that document? I am after information on whether it is the full wording of a document, or if some parts can remain the same? This is to do with a style guide which was written specific to the writing of reports. My understanding is that the client has been given the okay to utilise the document and adapt it to his business. In a brief flip through the document I haven't located a copyright symbol anywhere in the document yet. Any information on this topic would be very helpful.\nI don't know if you are dealing with an Australian client or one in the United States, but here's the link to the U.S. Copyright Office's FAQ page: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/.\nIn the United States, a work is protected by copyright (with or without a copyright symbol or statement) from the moment it is created in a form that others can perceive (that means it's not copyrighted while it is only in your head--but once it is on paper or recorded in some other media). Although a verbal okay is quicker, it is best to get the okay to utilize someone else's work in writing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 5065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2018-01/sunday-gospel--reflections-.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4HXODN2FOA7ASWPKEOPOE2OMOFE2HUPQ", "length": 15230, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.vaticannews.va", "title": "Reflections for the IV Sunday in ordinary time - Vatican News", "raw_content": "Reflections for the IV Sunday in ordinary time\nFr. Antony Kadavil reflects and comments on the readings at Mass for the fourth Sunday in ordinary time. He says the main theme of the day\u2019s readings is Divine authority as exercised in this world by the prophets of the Old Testament in their messages, by the apostles (including St. Paul), in their writings and teaching in the New Testament, and by Jesus in his teaching and healing ministry.\nDt 18:15-20; I Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28\nHomily starter anecdote: # 1: God sends His prophets all the time: When Pope Leo XIII delivered his encyclical entitled On the Condition of the Working Man and called upon Christians to attend to unjust labor laws and practices, his was the voice of a prophet. Similarly, when Cardinal Leo-Josef Suenens of Belgium stood up at the end of the first session of Vatican II and urged the council to examine not only the mystery of the Church in itself but also the Church\u2019s relationship to and responsibility for the world at large, his was the voice of a prophet. When Abraham Lincoln, in 1863, proclaimed the freedom of all the slaves in the United States, his was the voice of a prophet. When Lincoln\u2019s contemporary, Susan B. Anthony pioneered the suffrage movement that eventually led to the passage of the 19th Amendment (1920) and gave women the right to vote, hers was the voice of a prophet. Rachel Carson\u2019s book entitled Silent Spring (1962) was prophetic in that it summoned the world to an awareness of the dangers of environmental pollution. When Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu drew the world\u2019s attention to the dangers and injustices of apartheid, his was the voice of a prophet as were so many others in this century alone, e.g., Dorothy Day, St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa), Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Teilhard de Chardin, Leonardo Boff, Jon Sobrino and the Latin American Bishops who raised their voices first at Medellin, Colombia (1968) and then at Puebla, Mexico (1979) to affirm the Church as \u201can instrument of liberation, an agent of social justice and a defender of the poor and the oppressed.\u201d These prophets tried to bring the reality of the sacred into every sphere of the human experience. In today\u2019s liturgical readings, we are called upon to allow the prophetic messages of Moses, Paul, and especially Jesus to penetrate our consciences and claim them for God. Moreover, we are challenged to continue to listen to the prophets among us, and to exercise the ministry of prophecy for our contemporaries in our words, works and manner of living. (Patricia Datchuck S\u00e1nchez).\nScripture lessons summarized: Today\u2019s first reading tells us that a true prophet speaks with authority because it is God Who speaks through him. After the Babylonian exile, the Jewish priests began to interpret the words of Moses given in the first reading, namely, \"a prophet like me,\" as referring to one individual, the expected Messiah. This passage is chosen for today\u2019s first reading because it refers to Jesus, the \"preacher with authority,\" mentioned in today's Gospel. In the second reading, St. Paul exercises his God-given authority as the Apostle to the Gentiles to teach people in Corinth that marriage is a holy state ordained by God and that it is a life-long partnership according to the teaching of the Lord. In today\u2019s Gospel, Mark describes one sample Sabbath day of Jesus\u2019 public life. Jesus joins in public worship in the synagogue as a practicing Jew, heals the sick, drives out evil spirits and prays privately. People immediately noticed that Jesus spoke with authority and healed with Divine power. Jesus explained the Scriptures with complete confidence, and when questioned by people, he answered with authority. Jesus used his real (authentic) Divine authority to teach, empower, liberate, and heal others. The evil spirit mentioned in today\u2019s Gospel recognized Jesus as the Messiah and acknowledged him as such. Jesus commanded the evil spirit harshly, using strong words and tones: \"Be quiet! Come out of him!\" This was another reason Jesus developed a reputation for speaking with authority.\nFirst reading: Deuteronomy 18:15-20, explained. Moses was about to die. The Chosen People were terrified because they were about to lose the person who had been successfully leading them through the wilderness toward the Promised Land. They were also going to lose a prophet who had been keeping them informed of Yahweh's will. When he died, how would they find out what God wanted of them? God answered the question by promising Moses that He would heed the people\u2019s request and \u201craise up for them a prophet like you from among their kin, and \u2026 put My words into his mouth; he shall tell them all that I command him.\u201d Jesus is the prophet foretold by Moses in today\u2019s First Reading (Acts 3:22). He has authority over Heaven and earth (Daniel 7:14, 27; Revelation 12:10). Moses had set up a theocratic society for the Israelites as he had been instructed to do by God. This society had various officers to regulate the civil and religious life of the people, e.g., judges, kings, priests and prophets. Today\u2019s reading tells us that a true prophet would speak with authority because it would be God Who spoke through him. The text was first seen as promising that there would be a line of prophets to interpret previous revelations by God and to add some new ones for each generation. After the return from the Babylonian exile (c. 538 B. C.), the Jewish priests began to interpret this text of Deuteronomy as referring to one individual, namely the Messiah who was to come. The New Testament followed this interpretation and saw these words of dying Moses, \"a prophet like me,\" verified in Christ (Acts 3:22; 7:37). These verses therefore, have been chosen for today's first reading because they refer to Jesus, the \"preacher with authority,\" mentioned in today's Gospel.\nSecond reading: 1 Corinthians 7:32-35, explained. St. Paul and most of the early Christians believed, or strongly hoped, that the end of this world and the second coming of Christ were imminent. For this reason, many Christians in Corinth thought they should not enter into marriage, lest marriage should interfere with their whole-hearted service of God in preparation for the second coming of Jesus. As a good Jew, Paul presumed a different set of circumstances always demanded a different prophet with a different word. Hence, St. Paul exercised his God-given authority as the Apostle to the Gentiles to teach people that marriage is a holy state ordained by God and that it is a life-long partnership according to the teaching of the Lord (see Mt. 5:32; 19:3-9). Further, Paul recommended a life of virginity to the non-married only if they felt they could live such a life. The advantage of celibacy, as Paul explained, was that celibates would have the freedom to serve God fully with the fewest earthly cares and worries.\nGospel Exegesis: Worship and teaching in the synagogues: In Jesus\u2019 time there were synagogues in Palestine in every city and town of any importance, and, outside Palestine, wherever the Jewish community was large enough. \u201cSynagogues were primarily houses of instruction; the synagogue service was comprised of three elements, prayer, the readings of Scripture and an exposition of it. Administered by the laity, and geared to the day-to-day catechesis of the people, the synagogues of ancient Judah may have been an even more influential factor in Jewish life than the Temple. By law, wherever there were ten Jewish families, there had to be a synagogue. Neighborhood gathering places, the synagogues were vital to the Faith life of the community. Therefore, if a person had a message to preach, the synagogue was an obvious choice of venue. There, Jesus gained a hearing; following his example, his disciples would do the same after his death and Resurrection.\u201d (Patricia Datchuck Sanchez files). The synagogue consisted mainly of a rectangular room built in such a way that those attending were facing Jerusalem when seated. There was a rostrum or pulpit from which Sacred Scripture was read and explained. It was here that Jesus showed his authority to teach (Navarre Bible Commentary).\nThe authority of Jesus: Today\u2019s Gospel passage begins and ends with comments about Jesus\u2019 authority as a teacher (1:21-22 and 1:27-28). He spoke like Moses, telling people directly what God had to say. In between is an exorcism (1:23-26), pointing out a connection between Jesus' teachings and his supernatural authority. Moreover, this is the first miracle in Jesus\u2019 ministry as Mark recounts it. The episode appears immediately following the call of the disciples. Jesus' authority is also the main theme in the collection of stories (2:1\u2013-3:6), which support the authority of Jesus when he teaches people about God's compassion in forgiving their sins. In his Gospel, Mark repeatedly returns to the theme that Jesus\u2019 teaching with authority brought him followers, and Jesus\u2019 healing with Divine power liberated people from illness and demonic possession. The Catholic and Apostolic Church derives her teaching authority from her founder Jesus.\nTeaching with authority: There was a local synagogue in every Jewish settlement of more than ten families. The synagogue was a place of instruction and Sabbath prayers. The synagogue service consisted of three parts \u2013 prayer, the reading of God's word, and the exposition of it made by anyone who wished to do so. In this chapter Mark tells us that in the local synagogue Jesus taught with authority. This means that Jesus explained the Scriptures with complete confidence, and when questioned by people he answered with authority. Jesus spoke relying on no one beyond himself; he cited no supporting human authorities or experts. Mark also records the impact Jesus had on those who heard him. We are told how amazed people were at the authority with which he preached. Jesus also showed his power and authority by curing the sick and granting forgiveness to people.\nExorcising with Divine authority: In the synagogue, there was a man who was troubled by an unclean spirit. Everyone in the ancient Biblical world feared evil spirits and believed in demonic possession. People believed that demons or \u201cunclean spirits\u201d living inside the people caused leprosy, lameness, paralysis, etc. Even in the twenty-first century, we still believe in the existence of unclean spirits. How else can we explain the sudden explosions of anger that occur, the suicidal impulses, the intense jealousies, wild sexual fantasies, or overwhelming feelings of depression? We, as human beings, are keenly aware of these unclean spirits. We often wonder where the \u201cunclean thoughts\u201d come from and why we can\u2019t rid ourselves of them. Victory over the unclean spirit, as the devil is usually described, is a clear sign that God's salvation has come: by overcoming the Evil One, Jesus shows that He is the Messiah, the Savior, more powerful than the demons. The demoniac cried out, \"What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? \u201cWhat does Jesus have to do with these unclean spirits that live in each one of us? The answer we find in the Gospel is equally true today: Jesus came to destroy the unclean spirits living inside of us. That is one of the reasons why Jesus came to earth in the first place and one of the reasons why he continues his presence in our lives. Jesus came to drive out those unclean spirits within us, to wash them away, to cleanse our lives of them. Let us put ourselves under his authority and he will liberate us. The evil spirit in today\u2019s Gospel recognized Jesus as the Messiah and acknowledged him as such. Jesus commanded the evil spirit harshly, using strong words and tones: \"Be quiet! Come out of him!\" This was one of the reasons why Jesus developed a reputation for speaking with authority. Today, we are challenged to believe that Jesus continues to exercise the power to rout evil in all of its ugly disguises and manifestations, viz., in poverty, sickness, greed, hatred, indifference, over-indulgence, etc., using us and our ministry.\nLife Messages: 1) Let us approach Jesus for liberation: Jesus did not use his authority and Divine power to rule and control people. He came to set people free. Hence, let us approach Jesus with trusting Faith so that he may free us from the evil spirits that keep us from praying and prevent us from loving and sharing our blessings with others, as well as from all the \u201cevil spirits\u201d of fear, compulsions, selfishness, anger, resentment and hostility. \"I have come that they may have life, life in abundance\" (Jn 10:10). So Jesus should be a source of liberation for us. May Jesus free us from all those spirits which make us deaf, dumb, blind, lame and paralyzed, physically and spiritually. Through Word and Sacrament, Jesus brings that power to us and says the same words to the demons in our life, \"Be gone!\" -- not just once but as often as we need to hear them, until finally, we are free from these demons entirely. Christ has power over any demon, so whether those demons be addictions, heartaches, secret sins --whatever our chains may be-- Christ can set us free and longs to do so.\n2) We need to use our God-given authority to build up lives. No doubt we can think back to people who have made a lasting impression on our lives \u2013 either for good or bad. Perhaps it was a grandparent, an uncle, or a parent, who loved us and cared for us. Perhaps it was a Sunday school teacher who encouraged us in our faith and exerted a positive impact on our lives. Perhaps we remember the kindness as well as the firm discipline that a schoolteacher gave us. On the other hand, there may be people in our past whom we remember with pain and discomfort. Are children learning something from us as parents that will stand them in good stead for the future? We want our children to grow into strong, wise, confident, capable, mature adults. But we want more than that. We want them to grow in their Faith, to accept Jesus as their Lord and personal Savior. We want children to see in us the love of Jesus and how our Christian Faith affects our lives. A good question for parents, teachers and all of us is: \"In what way am I helping the children I know grow in wonder at Jesus and his love for them?\u201d When God's Word and God's ways are taught and spoken about with authority \u2013 with conviction \u2013 our children (and others) will see with amazement God's love for them in His Son Jesus.\n3) We need teachers who know how to use their authority properly: Teachers are powerful because they change lives. They have within their grasp the power over young lives to hurt them terribly or heal them wonderfully. Most of us are deeply and forever indebted to some caring teacher in our past. Some people never get over the damage done to them by some cruel or uncaring teacher. 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Plus, all expansion packs allow each product to be used interchangeably throughout the game.\nIn the trailer above, its is demonstrated how every LEGO vehicle and gadget \u201ccan be physically built and then rebuilt twice\u201d for a total of three different objects. Once a building achievement is earned, players will receive in-game instructions showing how to use the same physical LEGO bricks to rebuild vehicles and gadgets for new abilities.\nLEGO Dimensions will launch on September 29 for PlayStation 3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vintagedrivingmachines.com/1971-Mercedes-Benz-280SL-For-Sale?ad_id=2146357531&action=viewlisting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:54Z", "digest": "sha1:BOODAJM7J73BTALHTC5VGKIOLO5O24DE", "length": 727, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vintagedrivingmachines.com", "title": "Buy 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SL, sell 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SL, 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SL classic cars - vintagedrivingmachines", "raw_content": "1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SL Pagoda with 2 TopsThis 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SL Pagoda with 2 tops is available in white with a black interior. It comes equipped with an automatic transmission, air conditioning, and matching numbers hood. A very presentable vehicle and last and most desirable year of the Pagoda. It is also mechanically sound. For $47,500\nThis 1971 Mercedes-Benz 280SL was listed for sale on 1-31-19 06:30:55. The vehicle color is White and VIN is not available\t. Kindly check ad for seller's location. Seller`s stock ID is bever10435. There are 98 other Mercedes-Benz cars currently listed for sale on our website. You may desire to see what other Mercedes-Benz cars are selling for by visiting our Sales Data page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.visitmo.com/places-to-stay/hampton-inn-st-robert-fort-leonard-wood", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:33Z", "digest": "sha1:54DTCOHQOICGRMLI4FE5Z5A44ITBQINO", "length": 1264, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.visitmo.com", "title": "Visit Missouri | Places To Stay | Hampton Inn St. Robert/Fort Leonard Wood", "raw_content": "Hampton Inn St. Robert/Fort Leonard Wood\nHampton is unique with their 100% Satisfaction Guarantee, no questions asked. You'll always have high-quality and consistent accommodations and amenities. Enjoy a clean and fresh Hampton bed\u00ae and free Wi-Fi. Wake up each morning to our free, hot breakfast with fresh baked waffles and hearty oatmeal with toppings or grab a Hampton On the Run\u00ae Breakfast Bag. We also offer an outdoor pool, 24-hour fitness center, meeting rooms and the Hilton HHonors Rewards program.\nThe Hampton Inn is a member of the Hilton family of brands offering numerous membership perks that create a loyal following. This 79-room hotel and conference facility features a modern professional decor. Hampton Inn in St. Robert, Missouri, is where you can always depend on a smile and exceptional Ozark hospitality. Whether you're traveling for business or pleasure, you can kick back and move at your own pace. We have everything you need whether you are in the area for business or pleasure. Looking for a hotel near Fort Leonard Wood, then look no farther than Hampton Inn. Our Hampton Inn hotel in St. Robert, Missouri is one of the more popular hotels for visiting military families due to the many amenities offered.\n103 Saint Robert Plaza Drive", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2007-07-13-voa23/406055.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:13Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6V6UMBRSNEOHJH2VNAGHOLCTL2TUCBB", "length": 4049, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.voanews.com", "title": "Terrorist Bomb Plot in Britain Poses Deep Questions", "raw_content": "Terrorist Bomb Plot in Britain Poses Deep Questions\nChelsea McNutt\nIn the aftermath of the attempted car bombings in England and Scotland two weeks ago, questions about the nature of religious terrorism and the proper response to such threats are being asked. Eight suspects, all Muslim medical professionals from the Middle East and India, have been questioned in connection with the plot, which involved two car bombs discovered in London and the crash of a burning Jeep into the Glasgow Airport terminal.\nThe attempted car bombings came a week after Gordon Brown became Britain\u2019s new Prime Minister. Gerard Baker, U.S. editor of The Times of London, speaking with host Judith Latham of VOA News Now\u2019s International Press Club, says that there is a noticeable difference in the new government\u2019s response to terrorist threats. He notes that Tony Blair tended to take a much more \u201cstrategic view\u201d of the challenge posed by Islamist terrorism and talk about it in \u201cfairly global terms,\u201d which, he adds, is similar to the President Bush\u2019s approach.\nMr. Baker says that Gordon Brown, in contrast, has emphasized the criminal aspect of the threat. Gordon Baker says many Britons are alarmed that \u201cMuslim extremists\u201d have once again targeted innocent people, while the Muslim community is concerned about a \u201cpossible backlash.\u201d Nonetheless, Mr. Baker notes that there is a \u201cdisaffected minority,\u201d which is both extremist and \u201cIslamist\u201d and which \u201cfrankly wants to establish Islamic rule\u201d in Britain.\nThe only person charged in connection with the car bomb plot is Iraqi doctor Bilal Abdullah, who was a passenger in the burning Jeep. The driver \u2013 Kafeel Ahmed, an aeronautical engineer from Bangalore, India \u2013 has been hospitalized with severe injuries and has not yet been questioned. Chidanand Rajghatta, Washington bureau chief of The Times of India and also from Bangalore, says there is profound \u201cdisappointment\u201d that this plot could have originated in southern India. Mr. Rajghatta says that there has been very little \u201cradicalization\u201d of Muslims of India, who are part of India\u2019s \u201csecular fabric.\u201d Also troubling is the professional status of the suspects. In Mr. Rajghatta\u2019s words, \u201cThere goes the whole theory about Western education as the solution to combating radicalization.\u201d\nGerard Baker believes that immigration procedures for foreign professionals are likely to be tightened. He notes that two of the doctors who are allegedly involved in the terrorist plot in Britain had sought admission to the United States, but may have been put off because the procedures were so tough. He thinks this suggests that Britain may have to \u201clearn a lesson from some of the things the United States has done.\u201d\nBeyond immigration issues, Kevin Schofield, political correspondent for The Herald in Edinburgh, says the Scots were shocked that Scotland was a terrorist target. Unlike England and Wales, Scotland has a relatively small Muslim community and has never before been bombed. Fortunately, he says, the Muslim community realizes that the \u201cvast majority of Scots don\u2019t hold them responsible for this attack.\u201d\nThis week a British court sentenced four men to life in prison for attempting to bomb London\u2019s public transport system in late July 2005. The plot came two weeks after an attack in which British-born Muslims killed 52 commuters in London. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he wants to increase the amount of time terrorist suspects can be held without charge and to boost the number of successful prosecutions.\nTo listen to all of the comments, click on the audio link above.\nJudith Latham and Chelsea McNutt 's Report 1.2 MB (Real)\nJudith Latham and Chelsea McNutt's Report 3.4 MB(MP3)\nAustralian Police Drop Request to Extend Detention of Indian Doctor\nReexamining the British Terror Plot\nUS Lawmakers Urge Action by Musharraf Against Extremists\nUN, West African Countries Focus on Counterterrorism\nInterpol Chief Calls on Nations to Share Passport Data\nMusharraf Addresses Nation in Wake of Pakistan Mosque Seige\nThe Herald, Edinburgh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 6133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-2011-menswear/steven-alan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:M7GUXVUB5HLG2TJRRZDIX3VEMDWMO3JU", "length": 1673, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.vogue.com", "title": "Steven Alan Spring 2011 Menswear Collection - Vogue", "raw_content": "Spring 2011 MenswearSteven Alan\nSteven Alan is in a voyaging mood. \"Mediterranean,\" he said, remembering a trip to Spain taken with his brother. \"Sort of getting out of New York, but having the New York sensibilities in a different place.\" Departing is apropos for a collection he calls a major departure for his ever-enlarging brand (not to mention that this is the label's first formal presentation, comprising mens and womens clothing, shoes, and accessories, after seasons of viewings by showroom appointment only). \"The stores that we sell to have been requesting more of a story,\" Alan went on. \"This feels a lot more like a collection.\"\nAlan made his name, and still makes a lot of his bottom line, on one piece of the wardrobe: the men's shirt\u2014that's the opposite of a collection. But he's shrewdly growing into much more than a supplier of standards. For both men's and women's, the offerings here felt breezily casual, more muted and more refined than in the past. Simplicity was a strength. Having mastered the shirt, he's moving on to perfecting the pant\u2014and the gusseted, cinched-waist mountain pant he's offering as an alternative to denim is a solid contender. For the ladies, it's a wide-leg \"beach trouser\" in cotton or linen. A pleated minidress in indigo cupro? Just toss it in your overnight bag and go. The feeling you took away from the whole was salt-aired and sun-bleached\u2014and that's a sensation that sounds pretty salable, even if you're not going any farther than the next subway stop.\nSteven Alan Fall 2017 Ready-to-Wear\nSteven Alan Spring 2017 Ready-to-Wear\nSteven Alan Fall 2016 Menswear\nSteven Alan Spring 2016 Menswear\nSteven Alan Resort 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 4765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.volunteerhq.org/ca/volunteer-in-china/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5HUFMCSDJZZC2IMRHYZVRXBLJJNVHIOC", "length": 5225, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.volunteerhq.org", "title": "Volunteer in China with IVHQ - #1 Rated Projects & Lowest Fees", "raw_content": "Volunteer in China with International Volunteer HQ and join a range of volunteer work in China, including Teaching English, Special Needs Care or a special Summer Outreach project. Volunteers are based in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province in central China. With low volunteer program fees and top rated volunteer projects, you will not find a more affordable and trustworthy volunteer travel organization in China.\nMost affordable fees - as the world leader in affordable volunteer travel, we\u2019re able to keep our fees low by partnering with a local organization in China to support meaningful community projects and local employment.\nVolunteers are required to fly into Xian Yang International Airport, which is a 10 to 13 hour flight from most major airports in Canada.\nAs you will be volunteering with the support of IVHQ\u2019s local team and placement staff, you do not need to be qualified or experienced in teaching English to participate. However, we encourage volunteers to come prepared by completing some relevant training, like a teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL) course. Visit our Online TEFL Course page to learn how to gain an internationally-recognized TEFL certification at a discounted rate.\nAs a Special Needs Care volunteer in China, you will work in a community center or care center alongside a small team of local staff, assisting children, teenagers and adults with a range of physical and mental disabilities. Volunteer assistance is desperately required as these centers are understaffed, underfunded and under resourced.\nMany parents in China cannot afford special education or focused care for their children with physical or mental disabilities, and the community and government centers offer programs for children with special needs, who are unable to receive an education through the mainstream school system.\nPlease note that the staff at these placements don\u2019t speak English and the local team will do their best to place at least two volunteers together, providing you with an additional level of support. The local team also encourage volunteers to use a translation mobile application to help communicate with the staff at the centers. If you speak Chinese, you may be placed at a placement independently.\nIf you are traveling in China prior to your volunteer program, our local team can arrange for you to be picked up on the Sunday before your program begins.\nOrientation is hosted by our China team at the volunteer house in Xi\u2019an. Orientation is held on the Sunday evening, and your volunteer program begins the following day. Orientation covers everything you need to know for your volunteer program in China \u2013 Introduction to China, Culture and Customs, Rules and Expectations, Safety, Travel Opportunities, Introduction to Project and Placement. The orientation will also give you a chance to meet other volunteers and swap contact details for weekend travel and socializing.\n12.00 PM \u2013 2.00 PM Lunch break. In China, all workplaces have a lunch break for about 2 hours in the afternoon. Some start earlier, some later. You are welcome to stay at your placement with the children in the care center or in the office. All placements will offer you food.\nBoth home stays and school apartments have been inspected thoroughly by local staff and chosen because of their safety and security. If you would prefer to not live in a dormitory situation with shared facilities, there is the option of upgrading to a 3-star hotel located nearby the volunteer house in Xi\u2019an. You will have a private room and bathroom with breakfast provided in the hotel restaurant and lunch and dinner is provided at your placement. The upgrade costs an extra US$25 (approximately CA$30) per person per day for a single room, or US$15 (approximately CA$18) per person, per day for a twin/double room (two of you traveling together).\nCuisine in Xi\u2019an blends traditional Chinese and Middle-Eastern style cooking with flat bread, pita bread and barbecued meat, often sold at street stalls. Noodles, soups, dumplings and steamed buns are some of the favorite dishes in Xi\u2019an and meat is a staple part of the Xi\u2019an diet however, there are plenty of vegetable options on offer. Unlike other areas in China, food is generally spicy in Xi\u2019an.\nYou will be provided with three meals per day for the duration of your stay (breakfast, lunch and dinner). Typically, volunteers eat breakfast at their accommodation, with lunch and dinner provided at their placement. It is important to note that during weekends you will be provided with brunch, rather than breakfast and lunch. Bottled water is readily available in China and you should budget approximately CA$6 per week for this (2 liters per day). Filtered water is also provided in some of the accommodations.\nDuring the weekends, volunteers have spare time to relax or take the opportunity to explore Xi\u2019an and wider China. Popular tourist activities and destinations include visiting the Terracotta Warriors and Xi\u2019an City Wall, traveling to Beijing or Shanghai, checking out Tiananmen Square and the Summer Palace, walking the Great Wall of China, cycling through rice fields of the Guangxi province, or viewing the incredible limestone peaks of Yangshuo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 22234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vwgouldagency.com/the-history-behind-our-building", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TOBLQZXPXKTCWMG5WLUTB3DD6Z2FNO7C", "length": 1273, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.vwgouldagency.com", "title": "The History Behind our Building | V. W. Gould Agency Inc. - Florida Insurance Store", "raw_content": "The History Behind our Building\nV. W. Gould Agency Inc. - Florida Insurance Store > The History Behind our Building\nV. W. Gould Agency, Inc. \u2013 West Volusia Historical Society\n\u201cIn 1883 two young boys, Samuel Jordan and Wylie Swift, built a circular skating rink in a tent on this corner. It was a popular entertainment site when DeLand was little more than a pioneer village. Around 1885 this brick building was erected to house a confectionery shop. In 1940 it became the V.W. Gould Agency, Inc. Its founder, V. Ward Gould, Sr., was a lad of 15 when he moved to DeLand in 1885 with his parents. An entreprenuer of the first rank, he began his first Real Estate Agency in 1907 on W. Indiana Ave. where he ushered clients around in a one cylinder, hand cranked cadillac. Gould also was a gifted writer who left behind a valuable record of Deland\u2019s history.\u201d \u2013 West Volusia Historical Society\nDeLand was originally founded in 1876 by Henry DeLand. As a historic city, DeLand is proud of its rich heritage and unique history.\nV.W. Gould Agency, Inc. has been located in downtown DeLand since 1907, originally located on Indiana Avenue. The agency moved to it\u2019s current location on the corner of Rich Ave. and Woodland Blvd. in 1940. DeLand is the county seat of Volusia County.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.waldorfmiddleschool.org/2018/10/10/sail-on-the-clearwater-sloop/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QDTES65HZ5DJASDT7MPWG5FDHOTMC3SY", "length": 878, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.waldorfmiddleschool.org", "title": "Sail on the Clearwater Sloop - Waldorf School of Garden City", "raw_content": "by Kevin Padilla on October 10, 2018\nSail on the Clearwater Sloop\nIn early October, the 6th and 7th grade classes sailed on the Clearwater sloop out of the Yonkers dock for a three-hour sail on the Hudson River. It was a balmy day with nice breezes and a sunny sky. The students were given some basic information about safety on board and then were divided into two groups to help raise the 3000-pound sail to the rhythm of a sea shanty. Working in smaller groups, the students learned about navigation, water quality, types of fish in the river and a little history of the river. It was very interesting to visit the living quarters of the crew and to learn how to steer the boat. The crew and education staff were excellent. In the middle of the sail, we stopped to sit in silence and to listen to the sounds of the river; we ended the silence with the words, \u201cWater is Life.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 173.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wealthmanagementcanada.com/wealth-management-insights/blog/on-a-mission-to-empower-and-offer-guidance-to-canadian-investors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:42Z", "digest": "sha1:4KGOFMKF4TG33B6Z74PUR743TDLQFFGU", "length": 2382, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.wealthmanagementcanada.com", "title": "On a Mission to Empower and Offer Guidance to Canadian Investors - Wealth Management Canada", "raw_content": "The wealth management industry has earned itself a reputation of being too complex. The financial jargon, acronyms, and other technical terms are enough to intimidate and confuse even the most sophisticated investor. And, while basic financial concepts are not that difficult, and can be understood with a little bit of guidance, many investors don\u2019t receive the support they need. Wealth Management Canada (WMC) is on a mission to change this. We are here to assist Canadians in navigating the wealth management industry. From providing general information about the industry, to answering questions you may have, to identifying the best wealth managers, WMC is here to help.\nAccess to information and the best portfolio managers is key to investment success.\nWMC is an open resource for investors to learn more about wealth management and to connect with suitable wealth management companies. We\u2019ve spent our careers working with wealthy families, guiding them as they invest and grow their wealth. One of the things we noticed is that these individuals aren\u2019t necessarily more investment savvy than other investors. What sets them apart is access to resources \u2013 working with the best investment consultants, portfolio managers, accountants, lawyers, and so on \u2013 professionals who provide unbiased information and put their clients\u2019 interests first. We know from experience that knowledge is power. Asking the right questions and being informed is essential to making good decisions.\nWe believe in a transparent, client-focused wealth management industry.\nThe wealth management industry exists to help individuals achieve their financial goals. It\u2019s here as a tool for investors. Unfortunately, in some cases it has strayed from this purpose and we\u2019ve all seen the headlines of advisors or firms charged with various violations. As a result, and understandably so, investors are losing confidence in the wealth management industry. However, we\u2019re here to tell you it\u2019s not as bad as the headlines make it out to be. We believe in a transparent, client-focused wealth management industry and so do many of the professionals and firms which operate within it. WMC works to identify the investment firms which put investors first, without conflicts of interest. Firms that are transparent in how they operate, including clearly defined investment philosophies and disclosure of fees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 209.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.weau.com/content/news/WATCH-LIVE-Pence-makes-stop-near-Eau-Claire-to-campaign-for-Walker-496692841.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:50Z", "digest": "sha1:OVLS23NUCLJ7K45JFTSKIBYOIWFKUK6J", "length": 3965, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.weau.com", "title": "Pence makes stop near Eau Claire to campaign for Walker", "raw_content": "Pence makes stop near Eau Claire to campaign for Walker\nPence Stumps for GOP Candidates (10/10/18)\nVP Pence Campaigns for Walker & Vukmir (10/10/18)\nVP Pence in Eau Claire (10/10/18)\nEAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) -- Wednesday offered a chance for area and state Republicans to come together and rally support for their common cause.\n\"This is an exciting time in the state of Wisconsin and sometimes I think we've done so well, we forget what things were like in the past,\" Gov. Scott Walker said, during his remarks to GOP donors at Precision Pipeline, LLC.\nThat excitement for Walker included having Vice President Mike Pence stump for his re-election campaign \u2013 one, which has him now in a statistical dead heat with Democrat Tony Evers.\n\"First and foremost, I said some people backstage 'You know, I'd be here if he was unopposed because I know this man,\" Pence quipped. \"You know, I heard once that there's two kinds of people in public life. There's people that are driven and there's people that are called ... and I thank God the governor Scott Walker called to public service and answered that call.\"\nThe address at Precision Pipeline ended a busy trek across the state for Pence, beginning in Green Bay on Wednesday, flying across to the Eau Claire, and back in Washington, D.C. late that same night.\nThe fundraiser\u2019s location was a pipeline contracting company, which provides pipeline construction services for the gas and oil industry. This offered a chance for Pence and the other collected Republicans, including U.S. Senate candidate Leah Vukmir and incumbent 7th District congressman Sean Duffy, a chance to boast about the current condition of the state and national economy.\n\"Reduce regulation. Reduce rules ... and what happens? The economy explodes!\" Duffy exalted in his enthusiastic remarks.\nWednesday's stop for the vice president came on the same day the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its third-worst point decline of all time, closing down more than 831 points \u2013 more than 3 percent of its value.\nWalker's recent moves, including bringing tech giant Foxconn into Wisconsin, gave a chance to offer the two-term GOP governor an economic salute from the nation\u2019s second-in-command.\n\"I mean, I don't know about the rest of you, but when you look at a record of results putting taxpayers first, putting our values first, fighting every day for working families and bringing jobs and moving Wisconsin forward, I think we need four more years of Governor Scott Walker,\" Pence said.\nThose were words, however, which were not met well with area Democrats, who gathered ahead of the vice president's visit to say why Evers was their choice.\n\"While it's true unemployment is down, it\u2019s equally true that wages are not rising. They are not rising,\u201d State Rep. Dana Wachs from Eau Claire said Wednesday. \u201cWe need to have meaningful employment in this state and that's something Tony is going to do.\"\nEAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) -- Gov. Scott Walker is looking to Vice President Mike Pence to give him a boost ahead of the November election.\nTo watch it live when it starts (around 4:50 p.m.), click here.\nIn a room mainly designed to contain heavy machinery, fine food and drinks awaited politicians and donors at Precision Pipeline, LLC on Wednesday.\nThe fundraiser north of Eau Claire was to generate financial and moral support for the state\u2019s main Republican Party races - governor and U.S. Senate.\nIt was also a chance for Mike Pence to stump in the Chippewa Valley for the first time since being elected the nation\u2019s Vice President. He was expected to be joined by Gov. Scott Walker and State Sen. Leah Vukmir.\nWednesday\u2019s event came on the same day the latest Marquette University Law School poll showed Walker moving into a 1-point lead over his Democrat rival Tony Evers. The poll also showed Vukmir still trailing incumbent Democrat Sen. Tammy Baldwin.\nWe\u2019ll have more on Wednesday\u2019s event throughout the night on WEAU 13 News online and on air.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 7539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.weekendnotes.co.uk/blue-stockings-shakespeares-globe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:41:10Z", "digest": "sha1:RDKFT73KC7ICTXBRRPAQPA7VSXIVMGJZ", "length": 2378, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.weekendnotes.co.uk", "title": "Blue Stockings @ Shakespeare's Globe - London", "raw_content": "Blue Stockings @ Shakespeare's Globe\nGirls Can Learn Too\n'Mental taxation in a woman can lead to atrophy, mania, or worse - leave her incapacitated as a mother. This is not an opinion. It is a fact of nature.' - Dr. Henry Maudsley\nAnd to Doctor Maudsley I say, 'You're a chauvinist pig. That is not an opinion. It is a fact.'\nUnfortunately, this was a fact that fitted most of the entire male population during the nineteenth century, as they all held women in the same regard. Up until the late nineteenth century, women were not allowed to attend university; it was not until Emily Davies founded Girton College in 1869 that women got to go onto higher education.\nThe college is a branch of the University of Cambridge, and when it opened on the 16th October, only five women were attending. Since then things have changed dramatically. As of 2004-2005, the ratio of men to women was 52%: 48%.\nInspired by the gret women who petitioned for equal rights, playwright Jessica Swale has written Blue Stockings a feminist play currently in production at Shakespeare's Globe. A 'bluestocking' is a derogative term used to describe women who were not considered fit to be married or have children because they were well educated.\nBased on a true story, Blue Stockings is set in 1896, and follows the story of Elizabeth Welsh, the headmistress of Girton College. The girls at the college are every bit as smart as the boys, and match them grade for grade, but by doing so, they have sullied their reputations. They are now blue stockings.\nWhile the boys go on to graduate, the girls are left with nothing. It is up to Welsh to fight their corner, and prove their right to graduate.\nThe play runs until the 11th October and will include an in-depth discussion on the 12th September and a post-show talk on the 21st September.\nThe only thing a woman can own is knowledge...we must build our Trojan horse and infiltrate from the inside.' - Elizabeth Welsh\nA far better quote, don't you agree?\nWhen: Until 11th October\nWebsite: www.shakespearesglobe.com\nWhere: Shakespeare's Globe\nWholemeal Bread Recipe\nStreet Art from the Mission District (San Francisco)\nSEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium (Sydney)\nThe Bridge Hotel (Melbourne)\nRaw Energy Cafe, Gold Coast (Gold Coast)\n13 Minutes - Film Review (Everywhere)\nMount Nebo Walks - Egernia Circuit, Thylogale Track & Rainforest Pitta Circuit (Brisbane)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 5198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.welderdestiny.com/The_WelderDestiny_Compass-twdc032.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:25Z", "digest": "sha1:MTS6X5HKXM5ZCOIXFBJTS7JLJVYRH5YQ", "length": 801, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.welderdestiny.com", "title": "The WelderDestiny Compass #032 - Staying Relevant", "raw_content": "The WelderDestiny Compass #032 - Staying Relevant\nWe previously took a brief look at leadership in issue 26 of The WelderDestiny Compass. Click to read issue 26... Over and above what was said in that e-zine, I want to add that we need to personally embrace continual learning and making people's jobs \"autonomous\". When people have the power to make their own decisions, then they tend to do the right thing. If they do not have the power to make decisions, then people tend to \"hide behind the rules\".\nP.S. Have you been involved in either a well or poorly managed personal or organisational change? Do you have an example of people or organisations losing relevance? Please share your stories, opinions and insights regarding today's topic, directly on the e-zine page on the WelderDestiny website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 7125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.welderdestiny.com/The_WelderDestiny_Compass-twdc076.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SF4IASY46VZAAQTR4CCYXPQZIFSNHGK5", "length": 1124, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.welderdestiny.com", "title": "The WelderDestiny Compass #076 - Welding Current", "raw_content": "The WelderDestiny Compass #076 - Welding Current\nIf you would like to add your ideas to this week\u2019s discussion, then please send me an e-mail with your ideas. Send your e-mails to: compass@welderdestiny.com.\nFor the GMAW process, the amperage is also an important parameter in obtaining different ways in which the weld metal is transferred across the arc. This is called the transfer mode. We will look at the transfer mode essential variable in another article, but it is important for our current discussion to remember that for GMAW, the amperage has an effect on the transfer mode. The effect of the voltage is greater, but the welding current is none- the-less also important in this regard.\nAnother concept to remember is that deposition rates are generally a function of the current density on the end of the consumable electrode. We can think of the current density in terms of the amps per square millimeter cross section of the consumable electrode. In other words, if the welding current is maintained at a constant value, but the diameter of the welding electrode is reduced, then the deposition rate increases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 11614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 316.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westmusic.com/music-books-resources/cd-dvd/folk-dances-of-terra-australis-vol-3-850416", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:00Z", "digest": "sha1:E6FRHEKDLEMHHLF5TKGCI7B4OYIXEHS2", "length": 977, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.westmusic.com", "title": "Folk Dances of Terra Australis, Vol. 3 | West Music", "raw_content": "Folk Dances of Terra Australis, Vol. 3\nThe Australian group Shenanigans is known for their playing of international instruments and enjoyable way of making folk dance accessible for all ages (preschool and up). The \u201cFolk Dances of Terra Australis\u201d CD includes a booklet with dance instructions. Contents: Kolo (Yugoslavia) Heavy &; Light\nThe Australian group Shenanigans is known for their playing of international instruments and enjoyable way of making folk dance accessible for all ages (preschool and up). 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We use it in our products to remove dirt and deposits by surrounding dirt particles to loosen them from the surface they are attached to, so they can be rinsed away. Sodium polyacrylate can also be used as a thickener. We use it to improve the texture of a product and help it maintain a gel-like texture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 195.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wheelercentre.com/news/working-with-words-neha-kale", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:33Z", "digest": "sha1:FHGCEC6FHHOWW6EN733HRNECU2EALYMZ", "length": 5193, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.wheelercentre.com", "title": "Working with Words: Neha Kale \u2014 The Wheeler Centre", "raw_content": "Guest post by Neha Kale\u00b7In Books, reading & writing\u00b7 Tuesday, 1st August 2017\nWorking with Words: Neha Kale\nNeha Kale is the editor of art and culture magazine VAULT. She's also a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, Vice, i-D, SBS Life and more. We spoke with Neha about collaboration, commitment and her conflicting thoughts on the 'write what you know' mantra.\nAside from a 'newspaper' I self-published and distributed to family members as a child, and some terrible poetry in my high-school yearbook? It was a feature on the underground art scene in Perth published in a local magazine called Relative.\nIn terms of freelance writing, there\u2019s nothing as exciting to me as wrestling with an idea and finding the right words to name it, or the physical sensation of knowing that you\u2019ve found a story, and doing the work to realise it on the page. It\u2019s also an enormous privilege to interview all kinds of people and for them to trust you enough to let you into their life.\nWhen it comes to editing VAULT, I really love the collaborative nature of making a print magazine. Writing is so solitary, but as an editor I work with so many talented writers, designers and artists to create the publication and it\u2019s really satisfying knowing that I\u2019m working towards something that\u2019s a lot bigger than just myself. Magazines were such a huge influence on my life growing up, so the notion that someone, somewhere could pick up the publication and read something in it that could challenge them or open up some sort of door in their head is pretty thrilling to me. I try to take that seriously.\nI\u2019m more interested in writing about what I want to know.\nAs a freelance writer, chasing invoices and non-stop admin is high on the list, but I\u2019ve got to say that riding the constant cycle of confidence and self-doubt that comes with writing professionally can be exhausting. In terms of editing, it\u2019s passing on ideas that are good but that I don\u2019t have the space to commission \u2013 or which don\u2019t fit into an issue for whatever reason.\nIt\u2019s hard to single out one, but when I was first starting out as a young freelance writer in Melbourne, being edited by Caroline Clements and Dan Rule at Broadsheet was really formative for me, and gave me the confidence to hone my voice. When I moved to Sydney to freelance full-time, it was probably seeing a feature in print in the Sydney Morning Herald and having pitches accepted by Candice Chung and Sarah Oakes at Daily Life. Writing as a career can be such a leap of faith and involves so much rejection. I think it\u2019s important to honour moments that remind you that you\u2019re on the right path.\nThe best is probably to read obsessively, until it becomes a second instinct; to question everything, and to be curious about the world.\nI\u2019m still divided about \u2018write what you know.\u2019 I think that being instructed to do this can sometimes be a trap. Female writers or writers from marginalised backgrounds often aren\u2019t trusted to be authorities on anything other than their own experience \u2013 which is ridiculous. I\u2019m more interested in writing about what I want to know.\nIt\u2019s surprising \u2013 in the best way possible \u2013 receiving an email from a reader who\u2019s connected with your work. Conversely, it\u2019s kind of unsettling to receive mansplaining messages about a piece, or to witness people twist your words to suit their own agenda.\nI used to love drawing and painting when I was young, but honestly have never wanted to do anything but writing. I\u2019m not big on Plan Bs.\nI think that you can develop an ear for good sentences and become a better writer, but not 100 per cent sure that storytelling instinct can be taught. At the same time, though, I\u2019m pretty wary of the idea that only certain people are entitled to be artists. You have to have some degree of talent, but most of it is about tenacity, commitment and hard work.\nIt\u2019s important to believe in yourself and your work but I think it\u2019s equally important to ... accept that you\u2019re always learning ...\nDevelop a thick skin, put the hours in and back yourself. It\u2019s important to believe in yourself and your work, but I think it\u2019s equally important to be kind to yourself and accept that you\u2019re always learning and that there are things that you don\u2019t know.\nAlso, unless you have a trust fund, work out how to generate a steady income stream on the side \u2013 writing-related or not.\nMostly independent bookshops, but every so often I cave and download something from iBooks.\nLila from the [Elena] Ferrante [Neapolitan] novels. I think she\u2019d be amazing company. Also, the writer and journalist Eve Babitz, who wrote these addictive essays and fictionalised memoirs set in 1970s Los Angeles.\nWhen I first read Zadie Smith\u2019s White Teeth at 21, it completely opened my world up. Before that, I\u2019d never read sentences with that kind of rhythm or cadence, or come across characters who looked like me or like people I knew and whose worldview I connected with. I\u2019m also forever revisiting her essay collection, Changing My Mind.\nNeha Kale will appear at Protest and Persist on 27 April 2017 at Melbourne Writers Festival.\nNeha Kale is a writer, editor, journalist and critic based in Sydney.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 12887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitewall.art/design/the-serpentine-summer-party-with-bjarke-ingels", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:46Z", "digest": "sha1:C7MKA6TQHUOPFXCIVTUFUCIL6AIN4ASK", "length": 3248, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.whitewall.art", "title": "The Serpentine Summer Party with Bjarke Ingels - Whitewall", "raw_content": "LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 06: Phoebe\nThe Serpentine Summer Party with Bjarke Ingels\nBy Maria-Theresia Pongracz\nLondon\u2019s equivalent of New York\u2019s glamorous Met Gala is the annual Serpentine Summer Party hosted by one of London\u2019s most beloved institutions, the Serpentine Gallery. Similar to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which borders New York City\u2019s Central Park, the Serpentine lays elegantly in the midst of Hyde Park. The two buildings, Serpentine and Serpentine Sackler, are only a short walk from each other situated on either side of the Serpentine lake. The galleries host a variety of art exhibitions overseen by mega-curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton-Jones. Currently on view are exhibitions by the American painter Alex Katz and the Lebanese-born essayist, poet, and painter Etel Adnan.\nThe Serpentine successfully bridges art and architecture, as well as fashion. The Serpentine Sackler features an extension built by the legendary Zaha Hadid, and since 2000 the gallery commissions a leading architect to design a new pavilion every summer. The Dane Bjarke Ingels built this year\u2019s impressive 14-meter-high structure which consists of a myriad of hollow fibreglass boxes that are stacked up, one atop the other. New this year are four additional and smaller pavilions or Summer Houses which were inspired by Queen Caroline\u2019s Temple, a classic building in the adjacent Kensington Gardens, and are meant to complement the main pavilion. Despite being physically accessible, the summer pavilions are considered as individual art works. Hauser & Wirth acquired the Serpentine\u2019s 2014 summer pavilion which was executed by the Chilean architect Smiljan Radi\u0107 and installed it on the ground\u2019s of their country space in Bruton, Somerset.\nEvery year, the Serpentine Summer Party is co-hosted by another fashion designer, as well as former NYC major Michael R. Bloomberg and a group of artists and supporters oft the arts. The 2016 edition was co-hosted by Tommy Hilfiger and numerous guests such as models Naomi Campbell, Georgia May Jagger, Cressida Bonas, and Toni Garrn were clad in the American designer\u2019s newest creations. The glamorous crowd was a melting pot of leading figures from the art, design, fashion, music, film, and business worlds. Despite Brexit turmoil, the energy was good, was supported by a few sunny days, after weeks of rain. Caribbean sounds by Calypso Rose, the grand dame of Calypso, whose latest album was produced by Manu Chao, was the soundtrack for the evening.\nArtists such as Anish Kapoor, Marc Quinn, Richard Wentworth, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Howard Hodgkin, and Ryan Gander mingled with designers Emilia Wickstead, Erdem, Julian McDonald, and Peter Pilotto. Film director Baz Luhrman, actress Sienna Miller, musicians Ellie Goulding, Rita Ora, as well as oldies but goldies Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey drank Laurent-Perrier champagne and nibbled mini rock shrimp burgers, teriyaki salmon and mini Cornettos until the crowd slowly dissolved around midnight. The dancing continued at the official after party which was held at London\u2019s old school nightclub Mahiki, somewhat retro, as well as posh members club 5 Hertford Street and Andr\u00e9 Balazs\u2019 Chiltern Firehouse.\nThe Serpentine Summer Party with...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.winflector.com/english/product/product-features/easy-integration.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RPE3ZJM7EBBM75RA4QEGKBKVLOPMDEUH", "length": 499, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.winflector.com", "title": "Winflector.com - Integration with infrastructure", "raw_content": "Easy integration with existing IT infrastructure\nWinflector is a versatile software which can be easily integrated into existing IT infrastructure. It does not require any changes of existing systems, tedious data migration nor any additional user training on new application versions. Each application used within a company can be shared using Winflector in a user friendly manner. Additionally, administration of each application becomes easier as only one single central installation is required.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 281.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-to-pivot-if-necessary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:53Z", "digest": "sha1:PEATQUFNHSQIMQGTMHQEXSJTWX3IQPPH", "length": 4989, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.wired.co.uk", "title": "Moonfruit's Wendy Tan White: How to pivot your startup if necessary | WIRED UK", "raw_content": "Moonfruit's Wendy Tan White: How to pivot your startup if necessary\nKlaus Nyengaard had witnessed the success of desktop applications for PCs and predicted that the same would happen with mobile phones. So in 2000, he created marketplace Mobli, secured funding and amassed the world's second-largest portfolio of mobile apps. Mobli predicted exactly how the 3G smartphone market would develop. Its mistake was expecting it to develop five years sooner than it did. \"If you read reports in 2000, people were talking about 3G being just around the corner. We'd have smartphones in two years,\" explains Nyengaard, who is now CEO of Just-Eat.com. It was another five years before there was enough 3G coverage to make it a viable business, and eight years before the launch of Apple's App Store. \"It's just as bad being too early as it is too late,\" he muses.\nMobli's prematurity, combined with the founders' bullish resistance to accepting funding that gave them a runway longer than six months, meant that their coffers ran dry and they had to close.\nToo much funding can be just as damaging as too little. Not only does funding have to be paid back, often at a multiple, but it also makes entrepreneurs lose focus, as Wendy Tan White (right) discovered with website builder Moonfruit. \"We went from seed to a few million in funding within six months,\" she says. \"That wasn't enough time to learn who our market was and what core features people were interested in. You end up spending money on the wrong stuff.\" White then shrank the company from 60 to two people: \"In the dark years we learned to generate our own income and adopted what's now called the lean startup model.\"\nThe delicate funding balance is made more precarious by the fact that everyone at the table -- the VCs, angel investors, the CEO with phantom stock -- is keen to make money out of you. School for Startups founder Doug Richard took other people's advice and sold his company Visual Software for shares instead of cash, which lost 99 per cent of their value within weeks. \"Everyone has a different set of incentives. Nobody has your interest, so stop whining and make your own decisions,\" he says.\nOne of the most terrifying decisions you need to make is to quit the day job. \"If you don't commit full-time, you won't have the impetus to go and find customers or raise capital,\" says Adil Abrar, director of Sidekick Studios. He built gaming platform Budge, which fizzled out because he ran another company. \"There was no real incentive to make it work because our mortgage didn't depend on it.\"\nAssertive decision-making is also critical when it comes to firing a misfit, as Simon Campbell took too long to discover with his web-applications company Conexia. Aged 23, he was dazzled by an experienced former Oracle salesman who had charisma and impressive contacts. The startup agreed to pay him more than everyone else in the hope that he'd make sales. After a month without signing anything, it became clear that he wasn't right for the job, but Campbell kept the faith that he'd come through. He never did, and tried to sue the company when it did ask him to leave three months later. Conexia didn't fail, but the incident zapped morale and set the business back by 12 months. \"Work out what's right for the business and what it can afford,\"\nCampbell explains. \"If sales people want a massive base, there have to be question marks about what they will deliver. If you realise you have made a mistake, get rid of them as soon as you can.\"\nJust as important as people is the place you start your business, as Luke Johnson, chairman of Risk Capital Partners, discovered when trying to launch mussels-and-frites restaurant chain Belgo in New York. \"We completely underestimated the cultural and economic differences between the UK and America,\" he explains. \"The restaurant business in New York is much more competitive than in the UK and with much lower expected returns.\" Two years and $5 million (\u00a33 million) later, Johnson and his partners retreated from the US.\nEven with the right timing, people, place and product, you're not immune from failure, as Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup, discovered when he started Catalyst Recruiting out of his Yale dormitory. He explains: \"We had a really beautiful business plan - with census data, market research, complicated models and strict customer-acquisition budgets. However, we just didn't know exactly who our customers were.\" Ries classifies his mistake as \"achieving failure\": being so focused on executing a plan that you don't ever pause to assess if it's good or not, thus wasting energy going in the wrong direction. The solution? To continually test the market and iterate.\nWendy Tan White is the founder and CEO of Moonfruit.\nMolbil\nWendy Tan White\nSchool For Startups\nWendy Tan White is moving from Entrepreneur First to BGF Ventures\nHow to hire the best tech talent for your startup\nHow to build the world\u2019s biggest VR website: pivot to hardcore porn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 6763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wisegeek.com/how-many-eiffel-towers-are-there.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:32Z", "digest": "sha1:MZ7JHSACQGINRWJJEG3SQFE3TNORWLYM", "length": 1159, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wisegeek.com", "title": "How Many Eiffel Towers Are There?", "raw_content": "How Many Eiffel Towers Are There?\nThe original Eiffel Tower is located in Paris, France, but there an estimated 30 replicas of various sizes all over the world. Some of the largest and most detailed replicas are found in China. A full-size version, known as Dragon Tower, is in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, and it is the tallest steel building in China at 1,102 feet (336 m). A neighborhood in Hangzhou, China, not only contains a version of the tower that is about one-third the size of the original, the area actually is a replica of a Paris city boulevard. Other large replicas of the Eiffel Tower include Japan\u2019s full-size Tokyo Tower and one at the Paris Las Vegas hotel in the US, which is about half the size of the original.\nMore about Eiffel Tower replicas:\nA wooden version of the tower was built in Bavaria, Germany, in 1932 and was used as a radio transmitting station.\nAn estimated 5,000 people live in the neighborhood replica of Paris in Hangzhou, China.\nA replica about one-sixth the size of the original Eiffel Tower is located in Paris, Texas, in the US, but it has one key difference: a cowboy hat on the top.\nMore Info: francetourism.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 109.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wiska.com/en/42/we-are-wiska/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:15Z", "digest": "sha1:O6IXAWVL6YFV3HVH3HLGXZNRYZPE6SWN", "length": 2109, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wiska.com", "title": "Company Information - WISKA - make power smile", "raw_content": "Founded in Hamburg in 1919, WISKA develops and produces innovative products for customers worldwide. Over 210 employees work at two locations in Kaltenkirchen, our company\u00b4s headquarters and 260 world wide.\nOur cable glands are used around the globe and characterised by flexible applications in diverse areas of industry as well as highest quality standards. For the maritime industry, we are a \"single source\" supplier of lighting and electrical installation equipment. Every day again, our products prove their efficiency, even under the most adverse conditions. Our VARITAIN range is one of the most innovative reefer container sockets worldwide. With our CCTV technology, WISKA sets worldwide standards in terms of camera surveillance.\nIn order to deliver highest quality, we control every process of the entire supply chain ourselves. Research and development, material selection and purchasing, construction and manufacturing, testing and test methods, consulting, sales, marketing, logistics, after-sales service \u2013 everything is in our hands and is controlled by strict quality management.\nBecause of increasing demand, we are constantly expanding our production capacity. Several new injection-moulding machines have recently been purchased, thereby increasing our machinery in Kaltenkirchen to well over 30 units. These are supplemented by additional assembly areas and storage capacities.\nProximity to customers and on-site support are very important to us. A global network of sales partners and subsidiaries in China, the UK, India, Paraguay and Spain are now part of the WISKA family.\nAt WISKA, not only are our products a priority but we also take our social responsibility seriously. We are committed to the ZVEI (German Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers\u2019 Association) Code of Conduct and thus to achieving a common understanding of ethical values in relation to working conditions, social and environmental sustainability, transparency, and trustful cooperation. These values form the basis of how we collaborate daily with all business partners.\nQuality and environmental certification", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.withlocals.com/locations/sri-lanka/holidays/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2RZ7S65ZHOQWXYOMNYUVO2W3BMV6DSP", "length": 1227, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.withlocals.com", "title": "Best Holidays in Sri Lanka - Holidays in Sri Lanka - Withlocals", "raw_content": "Sri Lanka is popularly known as a multicultural country with a rather diverse background. When it comes to public holidays, travelers need to take into account this matter, as they not only celebrate Buddhist holidays, but also other existing religions in the country. Next to that, national holidays plays an essential role in determining travelers to have the best time of their visit.\nThe Buddhist New Year is celebrated for 3 whole days starting on the first full moon of April.\nVesak, Buddha\u2019s birthday, takes place on the first full moon day of May.\nUposatha is a day dedicated to meditation and ethics, and takes place on the New Moon, the Full Moon and quarter moon days every month.\nMakha Bucha usually occurs in February, and celebrates the meeting of Arahants with Buddha, nine months after his enlightenment.\nAsalha Puja \u2018Dhamma Day\u2019 takes place around July, and is dedicated to Buddha\u2019s first teaching on the full moon day.\nKathina Ceremony takes place in October and November, where the locals offer new robes to the monks.\nSanghamitta Day is celebrated on the Full Moon day in December, and honors Sanghamitta for her journey to Sri Lanka, and spreading the ideas of Buddhism.\nHolidays in Kandy\nHolidays in Galle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 5164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wokinghamtaxi.co.uk/testimonial/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:22Z", "digest": "sha1:OALJRFLS4OOUT34AQH5LKV2PF4STIO5P", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wokinghamtaxi.co.uk", "title": "Customer Reviews and Testimonials For Web3r", "raw_content": "There are no reviews at the moment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 91.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womansday.com/food-recipes/food-drinks/a2109/10-larger-than-life-thanksgiving-staples-113290/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:37Z", "digest": "sha1:V4MFDS3YAPMKPC5PYKPAMG4GFHFVFAAF", "length": 5134, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.womansday.com", "title": "Thanksgiving Pictures - Thanksgiving Humor at WomansDay.com", "raw_content": "10 Larger-Than-Life Thanksgiving Staples\nHave a look at these record-breaking holiday items\nCourtesy of dylee2530 via flickr\nIf you think your family's annual Thanksgiving spread is big, think again! We've found 10 traditional turkey-day essentials that have got yours beat. Feast your eyes on these record-breakers, from a 10-foot apple pie to an 86-pound turkey, while you celebrate what you're thankful for this season.\nHeaviest Sweet Potato\nIn March 2004, Manuel P\u00e9rez P\u00e9rez of Lanzarote, Spain, set the world record for the heaviest sweet potato. The gigantic spud weighed 81 pounds, 9 ounces, which was three times heavier than the second-place 24.9-pound sweet potato grown by Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat (shown above) in 2008. Photo: AFP/Getty Images\nBiggest Inflatable Parade\nTo celebrate its 75th anniversary, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade displayed 30 of its signature balloons on November 22, 2001, earning the Guinness World Record for Largest Inflatable Parade. This Thanksgiving marks the 84th year of the parade\u2014and its record is still intact. To prep for the festivities, organizers inflate the enormous balloons outside the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan starting at 3 p.m. on Thanksgiving Eve. Photo: Matthew Peyton / Getting Images\nBiggest Thanksgiving Dinner\nIn November 2003, Olympic figure skating gold medalist Sarah Hughes launched the world's largest Thanksgiving dinner with the community- and school-based program America's All Stars, a fundraiser to benefit the homeless. The event was held in schools across the nation with the help of The Salvation Army, Campbell's Soup and Youth Service America. Photo: Spike Mafford/Thinkstock\nLargest Turkey (Statue)\nBig Tom may not be a \"real\" turkey, but the city of Frazee, Minnesota, doesn't seem to mind. The town's first 22-foot turkey statue, made with a metal frame, fiberglass, cardboard and other materials, was unveiled in 1986. Over 10 years later, it became apparent the statue needed some repairs, but in the process of removing the original structure, it caught fire. Luckily, a bigger and better Big Tom was installed in August 1998. Weighing over 5,000 pounds, he's 17 feet wide and has almost 4,000 fiberglass feathers. Photo: Courtesy of dylee2530 via flickr\nLargest Pecan Pie\nEvery June for 25 years, the town of Okmulgee, Oklahoma, held the Annual Pecan Festival, and its main attraction was the largest pecan pie. The 40-foot, 35,000-pound pie was cut and fed to festival attendees as a sweet treat for all to enjoy. The town also holds the records for the world's largest pecan cookie, largest pecan and ice cream party, and the largest pecan brownie. In 2009, Okmulgee announced the end of the Pecan Festival, replacing it with a new summer festival, celebrating Freedom, Family, Food, and Fun. Photo: Shutterstock\nLargest Apple Pie\nThe Casey County Apple Festival in Liberty, Kentucky, is known as the \"Home of the World's Largest Apple Pie.\" With 30,000 or more visitors each year, the celebration has music, pageants, food, carnival rides and, of course, the biggest apple pie in the world. The ingredients include 45 bushels of apples, 300 pounds of pastry flour, 150 pounds of sugar and 75 pounds of cornstarch. The 10-foot pie is prepared by volunteers beginning the Thursday before the big day, is baked for 12 hours and then served to festivalgoers. Photo: Courtesy of Casey County Apple Festival\nTallest Cornstalk\nBack in 1946, Iowa farmer Don \"Corn King\" Radda grew the tallest cornstalk to date, measuring over 31 feet tall. In July 2009, his daughter Julie Zieser dedicated a replica of her dad's cornstalk, created by sculptor Tom Evans, at the state fairgrounds in Washington, Iowa, which is known as the \"Tall Corn Capital of the World.\" Photo: David De Lossy /Thinkstock\nHeaviest Potato\nIn September 2010, Peter Glazebrook topped the earlier world record for the largest potato with a tater weighing in at 8 pounds, 4 ounces. It was displayed at the National Gardening Show in Shepton Mallet, England, and weighed during the event's Giant Vegetable Competition. Glazebrook had previously set the world records for the heaviest parsnip, longest carrot and longest beetroot. Photo: Medioimages/Photodisc\nEarlier this year, Chris Stevens of New Richmond, Wisconsin, broke the record for the heaviest pumpkin in the world. With a circumference of over 15 feet, it weighed an amazing 1,810.5 pounds, beating the previous record holder by almost 86 pounds! After displaying it at the Stillwater Harvest Fest in Minnesota, Stevens credited a combination of sunshine, rain, cow manure, fish emulsion and seaweed for the oversize gourd. Photo: AFP/Getty Images\nAs of 2007, the record for the heaviest turkey in the world belonged to Philip Cook of Leacroft Turkeys Ltd. in the UK. In the annual Heaviest Turkey Competition of London back in 1989, he won for his 86-pound stag (male turkey) named Tyson, which was then auctioned off for charity, earning a record $6,692. Photo: AFP/Getty Images\nThanksgiving Placecard\nHow to Gather Your Family \u2019s Medical History\nCreepy Halloween Treat Ideas from the Supermarket", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 8191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldexpatlondon.co.uk/austria-main", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:44Z", "digest": "sha1:CECQA4T3ZEJQO3XVURTJKJZ2FKGQUJ3L", "length": 1038, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.worldexpatlondon.co.uk", "title": "WORLD EXPAT LONDON", "raw_content": "Austria in London\nAustria, Community\nApproximately 20,000 Austrian-born people call the United Kingdom home. Most of them are gathered in London, one of the most important cities in the world.\nThe 21st Austria CEE focuses its efforts on the expansion of Central and Eastern Europe for the upcoming years as a marketplace.\nAustria, Arts & Collectables\nEver heard of a small jewellery brand called Swarovski? The Austrian company behind some of the most dazzling rocks out there has been around since 1895.\nAustria, Architecture & Design\nIn this year\u2019s London Design Biennale, many countries are tackling important societal and community issues that need to be addressed in order to get rid of the idea of a utopia. Such is the case with Austria\u2019s representation in the Biennale, where the utopian ideal is challenged by the everyday reality of life.\nAustria in London Archives\nAustria, Family & Kids\nAustria, Health & Wellness\nAustria, Arts & Collectables, Health & Wellness\nAustria, Sport\nAustria, Fashion & Beauty\nAustria, Food & Spirits", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 4226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 163.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldfinance.com/markets/top-5-most-interesting-mergers-and-acquisitions-of-the-past-year", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:48Z", "digest": "sha1:EI77BD7NYCDF7JHK6CMMHSTEXKCCHCCN", "length": 5044, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.worldfinance.com", "title": "Top 5 most interesting mergers and acquisitions of the past year | World Finance", "raw_content": "Top 5 most interesting mergers and acquisitions of the past year\nIn an explosive and headline-grabbing year for M&As, a few deals are particularly eye-catching for their effect on industries\nA multitude of significant M&A deals have been made in the past year, with over $3.5trn worth of deals completed worldwide\nThe past 12 months have produced a seemingly endless string of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Over $3.5trn worth of deals were made worldwide, marking the fourth consecutive year the $3trn benchmark has been passed.\nAs competition across multiple sectors heats up and is disrupted by new entrants and technology, companies are taking dramatic steps to cement their positions and secure their industry futures. M&As, whether horizontal (buying the competition) or vertical (buying up and down the supply chain), can drastically improve a company\u2019s strategic standing in its market.\nHere, World Finance lists the five most noteworthy M&As of the past year. They may not necessarily be the biggest, but they have already made waves that are well worth following in the years to come.\nCompanies are taking dramatic steps to cement their positions and secure their industry futures\n1 \u2013 Amazon/Whole Foods Market \u2013 $13.7bn\nIn perhaps the most visible deal of the past year, the e-commerce behemoth Amazon stepped out into the real world last August with a major acquisition of the brick-and-mortar food retail company Whole Foods Market. On paper, Amazon and Whole Foods don\u2019t seem like a natural match: Amazon is known for its absurdly quick turnover of inventory and its logistical mastery. Whole Foods, on the other hand, gives off the vibe of a local artisanal food shop where time and effort goes into everything. The effects on the food retailer have been quick, with lower prices and Amazon lockers in stores within the first few months. The changes are likely to attract a new customer base that has avoided Whole Foods because of its niche reputation and relatively high prices.\n2 \u2013 Disney/21st Century Fox \u2013 $52.4bn\nIn a real shake-up of the entertainment business, Disney announced it would purchase the entertainment assets of Rupert Murdoch\u2019s 21st Century Fox in December, for a mammoth $52.4bn. The deal brings together two of the biggest entertainment companies in the world, and future-proofs Disney\u2019s vast empire. For avid movie fans, this deal means the possibility of seeing lucrative franchise crossovers. X-Men, The Fantastic Four and Deadpool may finally team up with their Marvel brethren in Disney\u2019s Marvel Cinematic Universe. Through this acquisition, Disney is also doubling its stake in the streaming service Hulu, which solidifies its position in the streaming market, especially given its planned direct-to-consumer streaming service, which is set to launch in 2019.\n3 \u2013 CVS/Aetna \u2013 $69bn\nIn what is sure to rock the US healthcare market, CVS \u2013 the biggest pharmacy chain in the country \u2013 announced the purchase of the fifth-largest health insurer for $69bn in December. So significant is the deal, in fact, that the American Antitrust Institute has lobbied the US Government to block the deal, arguing that it would leave other players in the market with little or no incentive to compete. The deal comes as industry titans are feeling threatened by major players like Amazon, which is also poised to enter the market. CVS\u2019 merger also put pressure on other significant players in the market to make bold moves; health insurer Cigna bought prescription benefit management company Express Scripts in a $67bn deal.\n4 \u2013 Intel/Mobileye \u2013 $15.3bn\nIntel \u2013 which was recently overtaken by Samsung as the world\u2019s largest chipmaker \u2013 has made a major move into the autonomous driving space with its acquisition of Israeli visual sensor company Mobileye in August. Through the merger, Intel is looking to position itself as a leader in what is undoubtedly one of the hottest fields in tech right now. The companies are already in partnership with German automaker BMW on a fleet of 40 self-driving vehicles, which will hit the road in the second half of 2018. Mobileye\u2019s technology is already used by a number of players in the market, most notably Tesla, which has perhaps the best-recognised automated driving programme in the car industry.\n5 \u2013 Verizon/Yahoo \u2013 $4.48bn\nAnyone old enough to remember the internet in the late 1990s will remember Yahoo\u2019s digital dominance. It was the most popular starting point on the web in 1998, before the burst of the dotcom bubble \u2013 and, more importantly, Google \u2013 violently wrenched it from its perch. Verizon, the American telecommunications conglomerate, finally ended Yahoo\u2019s tenure as an independent company last June with a $4.48bn purchase. Yahoo\u2019s glory days may be long over, but its recent history has not been underwhelming: in 2016, Yahoo was the world\u2019s sixth most visited site. The company now operates under Oath, Verizon\u2019s digital content subsidiary, which also controls AOL and Huffington Post.\n2018 proved to be a bumper year for dealmaking around the globe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 8285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldpress.org/article.cfm/is-tax-avoidance-destroying-america", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:09Z", "digest": "sha1:XTJ5KELDAA3K5SHPCGXXXE4GM5HKQ5OT", "length": 8722, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.worldpress.org", "title": "Viewpoints: Is Tax Avoidance Destroying America? - Worldpress.org", "raw_content": "Viewpoints: Is Tax Avoidance Destroying America?\nWhen Donald Trump was recently asked what his tax rate is, he irately responded, \u201cIt\u2019s none of your business.\u201d And Trump has repeatedly stated that \u201cI fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible.\u201d\nWarren Buffett famously admitted that he pays a smaller share of his income in tax than his secretary.\nAnd Mitt Romney paid a lower effective tax rate in 2011 than a waitress earning $2.13 an hour.\nTax \u201cfairness\u201d is a key issue leading into the 2016 elections and has many Americans asking the question:\nWhy don\u2019t the rich pay their fair share in taxes?\nWorldpress.org has compiled a variety of sources and viewpoints from around the world.\nUnited States \u2013 Boy Genius Report (BGR), 10/8/15: How much money does Apple save by not bringing its cash hoard to the U.S.? It turns out that it\u2019s a lot: $59.2 billion is the latest number, based on $181.1 billion in cash that Apple holds in offshore accounts. The number comes from advocacy group Citizens for Tax Justice\u2026 looking at how much money corporations including Apple, Google and Microsoft save by parking their money in tax heavens. \u2026 Plenty of other major American tech companies including Cisco, HP, Oracle, Qualcomm, Netflix and others employ similar tax tricks to avoid paying lots of taxes. \u2026Google increased the amount of offshore cash from $7.7 billion to $47.4 billion in past years. Similarly, Microsoft increased its cash pile abroad from $7.5 billion in 2007 to $108.3 billion in 2014 \u2013 the company would owe $34.5 billion in U.S. taxes.\nUnited Kingdom \u2013 The Guardian, 4/7/16: The world\u2019s rich, well-connected elite play by a different set of rules from everyone else. \u2026The real scandal here is not the rules people broke, but rather how the richest segment of the world population legally maneuvers to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. They avoid tax liabilities through dodgy offshore accounts and shell companies set up in countries that sell themselves as tax havens. \u2026 Offshore accounts, shell companies, and inversions benefit the richest individuals and corporations while cheating hardworking families. Sadly, many politicians around the world, including Republicans in the United States Congress, have refused to take any meaningful action to close these loopholes. \u2026 Instead, they attempt to balance the budget on the backs of those who can afford it least \u2013 students, working families, and retirees.\nUnited States \u2013 Slate.com, 3/2/16: Critics are correct that being under audit does not bar Trump from releasing his returns. \u2026 In politics, if you\u2019re explaining, you\u2019re losing, and who wants to explain one\u2019s own complicated tax maneuvers to the voting public? \u2026 His return will reveal his average tax rate and total taxes paid. \u2026 Who knows? He may have offshore accounts, or he may have participated in tax shelters that the IRS is currently probing. \u2026 So what could be in there that Mr. Trump wants to keep hidden? \u2026 It\u2019s safe to say that Trump\u2019s campaign has not been built on detailed policy proposals. Rather, it is based in large part on the image he projects as a very wealthy and successful businessman. He\u2019s a winner, and if we elect him president, we\u2019ll be winners, too. But what if he\u2019s not the winner we think he is? \u2026 The bombshell could be the answer to the question Rubio has been asking lately: \u201cYou know what they say about men with small hands?\u201d Yeah, they have small incomes.\nUnited States \u2013 Market Watch, 4/7/16: America\u2019s super-rich are hiding their wealth from taxes quite legally here in the U.S., without having to send it to Panama, or the British Virgin Islands, or any other sunny place for shady people. \u2026 Here in the U.S., the oligarchs are hiding trillions of dollars in plain sight, and it can hardly be touched \u2014 thanks to the generous provisions of the U.S. tax code. \u2026Say what you like about our Congress, but it\u2019s the best legislature money can buy. \u2026 In a nutshell: Working stiffs are actually taxed, proportionately, much more heavily than the super-rich. Income is taxed, but wealth isn\u2019t. \u2026 A rich property tycoon like Donald Trump could pretty much avoid taxes altogether by taking non-cash \u201cdepreciation\u201d charges against his cash income each year. \u2026 According to the IRS, the average person in the top 400 taxpayers earned $264 million but paid just 22% in taxes.\nAustralia \u2013 The Age, 5/14/16: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has pushed back against renewed calls for him to release his tax returns before the election, saying the rate that he pays is \"none of your business.\" \u2026Mr. Trump, a billionaire real estate developer who has boasted of his wealth during the campaign, was asked why he had been willing in the past to release his taxes to Pennsylvania and New Jersey officials when seeking casino licenses, even though he was being audited by the IRS.\"At the time it didn't make any difference to me. Now it does,\" Mr. Trump said. \u2026\"There is only one logical explanation for Mr. Trump's refusal to release his returns: there is a bombshell in them,\" [former Massachusetts Governor Mitt] Romney said in a Facebook post on Wednesday.\nFrance \u2013 France 24, 4/26/16: The revelations included in the Panama Papers have focused global attention on the use of tax havens by the wealthy. \"More than beautiful beaches and attractive tax-free shopping \u2013 Panama and Delaware are both go-to destinations when shopping for secrecy,\" anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International said earlier this month. \"But Delaware actually dwarfs Panama when it comes to shady business \u2013 its home to thousands of secret companies and US laws make it so that the public can\u2019t know whose behind them. Drug dealers, terrorists, the corrupt \u2013 you name it.\" \u2026Both Clinton and Trump\u2026are owners of businesses registered at the offices of Corporation Trust Centre (CTC)\u2013 a nondescript two-story building in the city of Wilmington Delaware\u2026They are not the only ones. Some 285,000 companies including\u2026Apple, American Airlines, Coca-Cola and Walmart are also registered at the 1209 North Orange Street office building, in a state notorious for its financial loophole that has helped tens of thousands of businesses avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes.\nLebanon \u2013 Daily Star, 5/13/16: Trump has said only a \u201creally stupid person is paying a lot of taxes.\u201d \u2026Trump, with trademark modesty, told the AP that \u201cnobody knows more about taxes than I do \u2013 maybe in the history of the world.\u201d And he\u2019s been clear that he tries to pay \u201cas little as possible.\u201d Tax experts say he might even have owed no income taxes in one or more recent years by using real estate depreciation provisions and carrying forward business operating losses from previous years.\nUnited States \u2013 International Business Times, 5/14/16: Saying he didn\u2019t think voters have a right to see his returns before they vote, Trump denied having any foreign bank accounts. In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman said he suspects Trump\u2019s tax returns hide a \u201cdirty secret,\u201d possibly showing the real estate mogul isn\u2019t as rich as he says he is, a revelation Trump likely would find quite humiliating.\nUnited States \u2013 PBS, 2/26/16: Trump predicted what anyone reviewing his tax returns would find: \u201cnothing, nothing.\u201d But the odds of being randomly audited every year for a decade is vanishingly small \u2014 and Trump\u2019s statement that \u201cfour or five\u201d years of his tax returns are actively being audited raised even more questions. The IRS\u2019s normal statute of limitations for an audit is three years \u2014 though that time frame is extended in instances of substantial underreporting and there is no time limit on reviews in the event of fraud. \u2026 Tax experts say his explanation has them scratching their heads \u2014 emboldening Trump critics who argue that the celebrity businessman-turned-candidate\u2019s personal finances remain unexamined.\nUnited States \u2013 The Raw Story, 3/20/16: If you get audited year after year after year by the IRS it suggests that they\u2019re finding serious problems and that\u2019s why they keep coming back at you. \u2026 The tax system in this country is damaging the country, but the solution is not lower tax rates; that\u2019s just more giveaways for people at the top. The solution is we need an entirely new federal tax code. We have in America a great federal tax system\u2026for 1960. But we don\u2019t live in that world anymore. We live in a totally different economy where wealth and the flows of capital are very different than they were in the 1960s. We are now moving from an industrial society to a digital society. That requires a new tax system. History shows that if you don\u2019t modify your tax system to keep up with economic changes, you eventually destroy your society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 9973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wowhd.de/h-e-a-t-address-the-nation/4029759076728", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HPEUVRDXR2D6KM7J5EZ2JF2SIWS3JJB7", "length": 604, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.wowhd.de", "title": "H.E.A.T. 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Earmusic.\nK\u00fcnstler: H.E.A.T.\nTitel: Address the Nation [Import]\n1 Breaking the Silence\n2 Living on the Run\n4 The One and Only\n6 In and Out of Trouble\n9 It's All About Tonight", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 366, "original_length": 5670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wpttravel.com/news/article/WPT-makes-Brasil-debut", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSTXAF5OLWUVKLBDXUNRAGD5CTC4H36Z", "length": 2019, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.wpttravel.com", "title": "WPT off to Brasil for first time", "raw_content": "MainEventTravel is the tour\u2019s Official Travel Partner so check out our great hotel deals for WPT Brasil.\nThe event, presented by Brasil Poker Live \u2013 part of the Aconcagua Poker Network \u2013 will take place at the stunning Infinity Blue Resort & Spa Cambori\u00fa Brasil. The R$1,500 Main Event is scheduled for August 23-29 and features a R$2 million guarantee.\nThe R$1,500 Main Event features a re-entry format, with registration open until the sixth level of the event. Online satellites begin June 12 on Brasil Poker Live.\nWorld Poker Tour and Aconcagua Poker will be utilizing the services of Kings Series of Poker after a similar R$1.5 million guarantee event last year attracted 1,780 entries.\nWPT Brasil is the second event that the World Poker Tour is planning in South America this year. In May, WPT announced its first-ever televised event in the region as part of the WPTDeepStacks Uruguay festival running October 31 \u2013 November 5.\n\u201cWe are proud to partner with the World Poker Tour for the company\u2019s first event in Brasil,\u201d said Marcelo Toscanelli, Country Manager of Brasil Poker Live. \u201cWPT Brasil marks an important new chapter for poker in Brasil, and one we believe the players will enjoy being a part of. There are many great players here in Brasil and the surrounding regions of South America, and we look forward to seeing their talents on display in a prestigious World Poker Tour event.\u201d\n\u201cWPT Brasil is a natural fit for the World Poker Tour\u2019s international global expansion,\u201d said Angelica Hael, VP of Global Tour Management for the WPT. \u201cWith more than 207 million people, Brasil accounts for approximately half of the South American population and we are extremely excited about tapping into this new region for the WPT.\u201d\nKnown as home to some of the best beaches in the world, Cambori\u00fa is the perfect location for a poker getaway. Infinity Blue Resort & Spa is located right on the shore of \u201cPraia dos Amores\u201d and just a short five minutes from one of the hottest cities along the Santa Catarina coast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.writersandauthors.info/2013/02/the-dreaded-action-scene.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:F4CYEQLRX3NRU7A7EZD3BP65JGA6ETTK", "length": 2896, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.writersandauthors.info", "title": "The Dreaded Action Scene | Writers and Authors", "raw_content": "The Dreaded Action Scene\nWhen I first started writing fantasy I found myself procrastinating the action and battle scenes. I have to admit, they scared me. I wasn\u2019t sure how to get movement into my story that was both exciting and yet clear.\nBut I\u2019ve learned that there is a secret to executing action scenes well. It\u2019s a technique known as pacing.\nIn a battle scene, for instance, there needs to be enough detail so that the reader sees exactly what is happening and can follow along. But too much detail will weigh the event, and the reader will lose themselves in adjectives and adverbs and unnecessary telling.\nIf the environment needs to be drawn, it should be done before the action begins because once the events start, the author needs to imply quickness. The best way to do that is to make the sentences as short and quick as the scene that is taking place.\nEmotions are always an important element in every scene and I personally like to include them in high-tension battle scenes as well. But in real life how often, in the heat of the moment, are we aware of our emotions. It seems that we become too involved in the action to be feeling anything?\nFor instance, if you see a child about to step into a busy street you act on impulse. You race out to grab that child and bring her to safety. It isn\u2019t until after the fact that you feel your heart beating a mile a minute, or fear overwhelming you.\nThe same is true for characters in a story. Up to the moment before the first shot emotion can bring anticipation. But when that first blast of gun, or sweep of a sword happens, your characters will act on impulse. All emotions and thoughts will come afterwards.\nSo how do we show the action itself so that it\u2019s believable and clear?\nI\u2019ve found that short to the point sentences work the best.\nJane picked up a towel. Randy raced at her. Fist flying. Sweat beading down his face. The towel flew. Blinded by the impact, Randy fell. The door slammed. Jane was gone.\nNot the best writing probably, but you get the point. Quick and precise sentences will move the story at an exciting pace.\nDianne Gardner is both an author and illustrator living the Pacific Northwest, Olalla Washington. She\u2019s an active member of the Society of Children\u2019s Book Writers and Illustrators, and the National League of American Pen Women. She has written Young Adult Fantasy novels as well as articles for national maga\u00adzines and newspapers and she is an award-winning artist. Her book The Dragon Shield is out now http://www.amazon.com/The-Dragon-Shield-ebook/dp/B00B7OVUWK/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_7\nLabels: action scenes, advice for authors, advice for writers, Dianne Gardner, writers and authors, writing advice, writing tips\nSavannah Rose February 25, 2013 at 10:04 PM\nThank you for posting. Very informative.\nDianne L Gardner March 3, 2013 at 7:03 AM\nYou're welcome, and thank you Jo for having me on your blog!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.writingforums.org/threads/what-are-the-separate-items-and-what-does-the-first-sentence-actually-mean.138413/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6EZTG6XQ5Z7ZEWVC2ONZGMGYYNKCO6A2", "length": 24639, "nlines": 112, "source_domain": "www.writingforums.org", "title": "Grammar - What are the separate items and what does the first sentence actually mean? | Creative Writing Forums - Writing Help, Writing Workshops, & Writing Community", "raw_content": "ohmyrichard Active Member\nGrammar What are the separate items and what does the first sentence actually mean?\nDiscussion in 'Word Mechanics' started by ohmyrichard, Apr 4, 2015.\nYesterday, I read on a webpage the following paragraph:\n\"The underlying quality determinants\" suggest that there should be common, irrevocable criteria of quality which are vital for the consumer independently of category or class of the product, establishment, facility or service sophistication. They establish the minimum level of consumer protection under which quality, or total quality, is impossible to achieve, or when failing to meet any of such determinants will significantly reduce the quality of tourism experience.\nMy several questions are about the underlined part of the first sentence. The first and most difficult problem for me is, which are the parallel items(by parallel items I mean separate items of a list that run parallel to each other and at the same level in terms of meaning and structure) in this part of the sentence? So, which one of A and B correctly lists the parallel items? :\nA. the consumer independently of category or class of the product; establishment; facility; service sophistication\nB. the consumer independently of category or class of the product; establishment; facility or service sophistication\nC. Could it be that \"the consumer\" is not parallel to anything in this sentence and it is modified by what follows it in the sentence and that only in what follows \"the consumer\" there are the parallel items: category or class of the product; establishment; facility; service sophistication?\nD. Could it be that only toward the very end of the sentence there are parallel items and they are: the product;establishment; facility; service sophistication?\nThis paragraph is what I came across while browsing an Egyptian website which aims to promote Egyptian tourism. Do you native speakers of English agree with me that \"independently\" in this first sentence should be changed to \"independent\"? And if you native speakers of English express the whole idea conveyed by the first sentence, would you put it differently and how?\nI am totally confused about these these problems. Please help me out. Thanks a lot.\nohmyrichard, Apr 4, 2015\nI'm not sure of the independent/independently question. \"Independently\" would be the adverb form, I assume, and I'm not quite sure what verb the word would be modifying in the current structure... \"are\", I guess: 'irrevocable criteria of quality which independently are vital for...'. So maybe independently is right, but I think I would have used independent anyway.\nI would definitely exclude \"the consumer\" from being part of the parallel structures.\nPart of the problem with the rest is the Oxford Comma (serial comma) debate - if we would just DECIDE whether it's appropriate, we'd at least know whether it was used here or not. If I were asked to clarify this sentence, I'd probably use semi-colons, as you did.\nThat said, I'd start the parallelism later than you did...\n...the consumer, independently of category or class of the: product; establishment; facility; or service sophistication.\nBut that still doesn't make sense. I mean, I'm getting the general idea of this sentence, so it's fine that way, but if we were going to parse it down really closely, like if this was a legal document, I'd want it reworded. Because ideally in parallelism, you should be able to take any word out from the list, place it next to the introductory phrase, and have it make sense, and I can't really make that happen here.\nLike, if we start the parallelism where you did, before \"category\", we end up with 'independently of establishment\", which doesn't really make sense to me without the \"category or class\" part to make it \"independently of category or class of the establishment\". So that's why I'd want to start the parallelism earlier.\nBut then by the end, if we start the parallelism where I propose, we'd end up with \"category or class of the service sophistication, which makes no sense.\nOoh, maybe:\n...the consumer, independently of category or class of the product, establishment, or facility, and independently of service sophistication.\nI feel like that conveys a meaning, but I'm not sure if it's the intended one.\nohmyrichard likes this.\nI am a native speaker.\nI see the parallel items, if I were to unfold them, as\n- category of the product\n- class of the product\n- the establishment\n- facility sophistication\n- service sophistication\nAs I read it, the sentence is saying that a minimum quality is required, to be judged independently of the things in that list. That minimum quality is for the benefit of the consumer.\nI agree that \"independently\" should be \"independent\" though I can't state what rule of grammar tells me so.\nI would not put the idea this way in a website about tourism. I might put it that way in a much more formal document, but even then I think I'd break the idea up into two or three sentences. My first cut would be:\nSometimes we judge quality based on context. For example, the hamburger that you just ate might be seen as very good if sold for six dollars in a fast food establishment, but entirely disappointing if sold in a fine-dining restaurant for forty dollars. But there are certain elements of quality that are mandatory, no matter what the context. In the case of the hamburger, for example, it must be fresh and sanitary enough to be safe.\nThat leaves out the list. I'm not sure that the list is helpful.\nYou are correct. There is an elided (or understood) copular verb here: ...which are vital for the consumer, [being] independently of category or class of the product...\nWreybies, Apr 4, 2015\nThanks a lot for explaining your understanding in detail and I love your interesting rephrasing of the sentence.\nI have also noticed that you added \"the\" before \"establishment\". My Oxford dictionary may mean \"an organization, a large institution or a hotel\" and it seems in this situation \"establishment\" has this sense and then it is a countable noun. So, is this the reason you thought of adding \"the\" before it? Similarly, \"product\" is definitely a countable noun and before it there is already the article of \"the\" before it. In contrast, \"sophistication\" is uncountable, and so there is no need to have any article before it or at the very beginning of the noun phrase. Is my understanding correct?\nBesides, according to your explanation about what are parallel items, I would like to reword the first sentence of that paragraph as follows by adding the words in red. Do you think this rewording sounds good to your native ear?\n\"The underlying quality determinants\" suggest that there should be common, irrevocable criteria of quality which are vital for the consumer, independent of the category or class of the product, the establishment, facility sophistication, and/ or service sophistication.\nBy the way, in my Oxford dictionary there is an example sentence of \"independently\" listed going \"The two departments work independently of each other.\" I find it extremely hard to figure out whether \"independently of each other\" is a collocation. If not, then what is the relationship between \"work\" and \"of each other\"? In contrast, I have no difficulties in understanding the example sentences my Oxford dictionary gives like \"The police force should be independent of direct government control\", \"Students should aim to become more independent of their teachers\" and \"It was important to me to be financially independent of my parents\".\nLooking forward to your further help. Thank you!\nWould you please take a look at post #5? Thanks.\nohmyrichard said: \u2191\nBy the way, in my Oxford dictionary there is an example sentence of \"independently\" listed going \"The two departments work independently of each other.\" I find it extremely hard to figure out whether \"independently of each other\" is a collocation.\nI don't know if I would go so far as to call it a collocation, though there is a strong drive when using independently to speak about plural things or concepts to exclude a possible misunderstanding as to the scope of the adverb.\n1) Independently - the items within a set compared to one another. [(1),(2),(3)]\n2) Independently - a complete set of items compared to items or sets outside the initial set. [1,2,3] (5), (6), [7,8,9]\nIf we think of it as a collocation, it would be of the free combination sort, not a bound collocation, and certainly not a frozen idiom.\nIf not, then what is the relationship between \"work\" and \"of each other\"? In contrast, I have no difficulties in understanding the example sentences my Oxford dictionary gives like \"The police force should be independent of direct government control\", \"Students should aim to become more independent of their teachers\" and \"It was important to me to be financially independent of my parents\".\nThe two departments work independently of each other.\nEven if we don't think of it as a collocation, the prepositional phrase (of each other) serves only to modify the scope of the adverb, just as in the other examples where the verb is a copular verb, the propositional phrase serves only to define the scope of the adjective modifying the verb. It has no direct contact or relationship with the verb itself and serves only the adverb (or adjective, as the case may be).\nIt may be a collocation, though perhaps not in the strictest sense. There is a strong drive when using independently to speak about plural things or concepts to exclude a possible misunderstanding as to the scope of the adverb.\nGreat answer. Thanks.\nThis is what I also asked you about:\n\"The underlying quality determinants\" suggest that there should be common, irrevocable criteria of quality which are vital for the consumer, independent of the category or class of the product, the establishment, facility sophistication, and/or service sophistication.\nCould this revision be the best possible if I do not want to express the same idea in totally different words?:\n\"The underlying quality determinants\" suggest that there should be common, irrevocable criteria of quality which are vital for the consumer, independent of the category or class of the product, the establishment, and/or facility or service sophistication.\nFrom the two examples, I take it that sophistication is the key item shared by the final two components of facility and service, yes? If that is the case, my personal choice of phrasing would be:\n... , and/or sophistication of facility or service.\n(btw, it's always \"and/or\", never \"or/and\")\nIf that rewording is not an available option, then the second example you provide is not one I would choose because the meaning is altered and sophistication is no longer an understood component of facility, only of service. If sophistication is a component of both items/ideas, then I would stay with the first option even if it be a bit clumsy for wordiness.\nThanks a lot, Wreybies. I thought that in my second revision in post #8 \"facility or service sophistication\" is the last item of the list under discussion with \"sophistication\" as the head of the noun phrase and that both \"facility\" and \"service\" modifies or restricts the meaning of \"sophistication\". Certainly I was not and now am still not sure of this word arrangement. Your \"sophistication of facility or service\" is the best way to avoid any possible ambiguity.\nBy the way, in this situation, which conjunction is better, \"and sophistication of facility or service\" or \"or sophistication of facility or service\"? Or is it that in this situation either of them will do here and there is no difference?\nLastly, do you agree with me that it is right or there is a need to add \"the\" before \"establishment\" as shown below?:\n\"The underlying quality determinants\" suggest that there should be common, irrevocable criteria of quality which are vital for the consumer, independent of the category or class of the product, the establishment, and/or sophistication of facility or service.\nLooking forward to your reply. Thanks!!!\nI do not feel that the article the is needed, but it doesn't cause any detraction either. This is a case of either/or. Both are fine. As to the question concerning or vs. and in the other construction, they could both serve, but having seen your original offer of facility sophistication / service sophistication, I think or serves to keep the two ideas more separate, more sovereign, even though they are both subordinated beneath the idea of sophistication.\nThanks for your time and patience.\nBut if you agree that after \"independent of the category or class of\" the separate or parallel items are:1. the product; 2. establishment; 3. sophistication of facility or service, then why do we need to have \"the\" before \"product\", which is a countable noun, while having no need to also have a \"the\" before \"establishment\", which is also a countable noun just like \"product\" in this situation? Incidentally I think of this: Could it be that when we focus on a conception and want to merely mention that conception caring about nothing else, we can use the singular form of a countable noun without having \"the\" or \"a/an\" before it in order to emphasize this conception? I remember (my memory or my feel for English may be wrong, though) this is especially true when we define things. For example, we may ask someone in person or ask ourselves in our writing, \"What is teacher?\" or \"What is smartphone?\" That said, I still feel that now that in this sentence we have already said \"the product\" to refer to tourist products generically rather than a specific tourist product, then we need to be consistent by also saying \"the establishment\". Is my reasoning tenable or ludicrous?\nWhat's happening in this case, the reason the subsequent definite articles (the) can either be used or done without in the case of countable nouns, isn't related to conceptual vs concrete items; it is only an artifact of the list in which they are arranged. One could also use the articles throughout and it would be perfectly fine:\n... independent of the category or class of the product, the establishment, and/or the sophistication of the facility or the service.\nThere is no alteration of meaning in this new sentence, but idiomatic tendencies make this feel overly wordy. In such a list, the first article (in red) happily serves the subsequent items and is much more the common mode of expression.\nThank you very much, Wreybies. You have helped me to get to some depth of knowledge about the English language which cannot be found in books. I feel great to finally come to thoroughly understand this aspect of the issue under discussion when I hear you say \"In such a list, the first article (in red) happily serves the subsequent items and is much more the common mode of expression\". You are great at explaining things. Thank you!!!\nWhen I first read your post several days ago, I, as a nonnative speaker of English, felt it difficult to follow you. But yesterday evening I reread it carefully and found your explanation is great. I am not clear about the intended meaning of the original sentence either and this is why I came here for help. I think it is now certain that the writer of this sentence wrote in a careless way. That is, there's a lot of chaos and ambiguity in it. After reading your detailed explanation, I realize that \"the catorgory or class of service sophistication\" really makes no sense. However, to be frank, your last revision \"...the consumer, independently of category or class of the product, establishment, or facility, and independently of service sophistication\" seems to me to be a bit clumsy structurally. Based on your reasoning, I am now thinking about whether we can combine your two revisions of the sentence by saying the following:\n...the consumer, independently of (A) service sophistication, and (B) the category or class of the (B1)product, (B2)establishment, or (B3)facility.\nWhat do you think of this further revision? And should I change the added conjunction \"and\" in red to \"or\"? By giving these labels, I mean \" (A)service sophistication\" and \"(B) the category or class of the product, establishment, or facility\" are at the same level while \"product\", \"establishment\", and \"facility\" are at a lower level and are all part of (B) and they share the definite article \"the\". By the way, isn't \"facility\" usually used in its plural form?\nLastly, would you please tell me why you do not think \"independently of\" better be changed to \"independent of\" as all others in this thread do?\nI am so eagerly looking forward to your reply. Thank you.\nHi, Wreybies. Sorry to bother you again.\nI have just reviewed all the posts in this thread and found what BayView said in post #2 makes sense and ChickenFreak's catergorization of \"- category of the product- class of the product- the establishment- facility sophistication- service sophistication\" seems to be convincing. As Bayview said in post#2, \"category or class of the service sophistication... makes no sense. Taking anything I can get from this thread into full consideration, I would like to rephrase the sentence as follows:\n...the consumer, independent(ly) of (A) service sophistication, and (B) the category or class of the (B1)product, (B2)establishment, or (B3)facility.\nWhat do you think of this further revision? I am curious to notice that BayView in post # 2 did not change \"independently\" to \"independent\" as you and some others did. And should I change the added conjunction \"and\" in red to \"or\"? Is it again a case of \"either/or\"? By giving these labels, I mean \" (A)service sophistication\" and \"(B) the category or class of the product, establishment, or facility\" are at the same level while \"product\", \"establishment\", and \"facility\" are at a lower level and are all part of (B) and they share the definite article \"the\" as you said. By the way, isn't \"facility\" usually used in its plural form?\nSorry for giving you so much trouble! I am a lover of English, and I always want to know more about how to construct English sentences. Incidentally, I am a Chinese teacher of English writing for English major sophomores at a small university in eastern China.\nWhat do you think of this further revision? And should I change the added conjunction \"and\" in red to \"or\"? Is it again a case of \"either/or\"? By giving these labels, I mean \" (A)service sophistication\" and \"(B) the category or class of the product, establishment, or facility\" are at the same level while \"product\", \"establishment\", and \"facility\" are at a lower level and are all part of (B) and they share the definite article \"the\" as you said. By the way, isn't \"facility\" usually used in its plural form?\nHmmm.... I see the point being made by Bayview, but writing like this can be as much careless as burdened by \"jargon\". I once worked for a man who spoke only in jargon, in \"buzz-words\". He would say things like \"we need to ratchet up\", and \"this idea needs to be revisited\". He was a tedious man.\nThe last offering you give makes good sense. It should still be independent rather than independently if there is no change of a verb prior to this segment demanding an adverb. If there is none, then the understood copular verb is still driving the structure. Facility is fine in the singular and matches in number with the rest of the items listed since we are speaking \"one choice out of the possible choices of this item\".\nAnd I know who you are, Richard. You have a longstanding relationship with our forum. I appreciate the questions you ask because you look at things the same way I do as regards foreign languages. Most of my interpreter coworkers are happy to just know which word in Language X plugs in for the word in Language Y. That is never enough for me. I need to know what structures are associated with the word, what verbs can I expect to see, what prepositions. Does a change of preposition change the meaning, and if so, how and when? That's me!\nI once worked for a man who spoke only in jargon, in \"buzz-words\". He would say things like \"we need to ratchet up\", and \"this idea needs to be revisited\". He was a tedious man.\nThe last offering you give makes good sense. It should still be independent rather than independently if there is no change of a verb prior to this segment demanding an adverb.\nI love this forum very much because of a lot of guys like you who are very kindhearted and willing to help English learners like me with things some native speakers may dismiss as meaningless or even stupid at first glance and if they do not take into account difficulties nonnatives encounter in learning this language totally different from their mother tongue. By the way, as regards foreign language learning, we are of the same type.\nI love your example sentence of \"this idea needs to be revisited\" uttered by the man you worked for. It seems a lot of academics would write or speak the way that guy did. This afternoon I read part of a chapter of an academic book on ELT (English language teaching) research and when I was reading it, I felt uneasy because of its tendency to use too much of so-called cold scientific language.\nI hope the following one is my last question in this thread. The first sentence I quoted in my original post goes, \" 'The underlying quality determinants' suggest that there should be common, irrevocable criteria of quality which are vital for the consumer independently of category or class of the product, establishment, facility or service sophistication.\" I agree with you that \"independently\" should be changed to \"independent\". Then my question is, what is independent of service sophistication, and the category or class of the product, establishment, or facility? To my understanding, it is common, irrevocable criteria of quality (rather than the customer) that are independent of service sophistication, and the category or class of the product, establishment, or facility. Am I right in this understanding? I forgot to ask you about this earlier.\nI beg you to give me an answer to this last question in this thread. Thanks a million.\nMay I ask you to take a look at post #20? Is it that mine in that post is a silly question or something meaningless or something which does not need to be asked? If so, I will drop it.Thanks.\nMichael Pless Senior Member\nI used to work in quality assurance, and in response to the question posed as the topic, I'd boil down the first sentence to \"All goods and/or services must be fit for use, regardless of price.\" This is a common expression of the term \"quality\" in Australia. There are many ways of rewriting the sentence, and I expect they've all been covered by now.\nSomeone mentioned a hamburger: it is reasonable to expect that the $2 hamburger may not have the same ingredients, packaging, condiments, etc., as a $50 hamburger, but both must be edible, have at least meat, bun, and condiment. A $50 motel room must have the same basic services like bed, window, and so forth as the $500 motel room. There can be no \"You want a roof over the room? That's not something we provide,\" because there is some unwritten expectation that there be a degree of shelter from the elements.\nI had no trouble reading and understanding the first sentence but it seems to me that the writer has either targeted a specific audience or at least partially neglected the lay audience.\nMichael Pless, Apr 10, 2015\nMichael Pless said: \u2191\n... and in response to the question posed as the topic, I'd boil down the first sentence to \"All goods and/or services must be fit for use, regardless of price.\"\nSomeone mentioned a hamburger\nThanks a lot for your participation in this discussion, Mike.\nI also love ChickenFreak's hamburger example.\nNowI, as a nonnative speaker of English, have been a little bit confused about and wants a confirmation or negation of my understanding of this remaining question: If I reword the first sentence of the quoted paragraph in my original post as suggested by some in this thread as\n'The underlying quality determinants' suggest that there should be common, irrevocable criteria of quality which are vital for the consumer, independent of service sophistication, and the category or class of the product, establishment, or facility.\nThen to your understanding, what is independent of service sophistication, and the category or class of the product, establishment, or facility, \"common, irrevocable criteria of quality\" OR \"the consumer\"? 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Both of us will act in good faith at all times when dealing with each other.\nUnless otherwise agreed by World Wide Creative in writing, the Services shall be performed by World Wide Creative during its normal business hours from Mondays to Fridays, excluding public holidays. Unless otherwise agreed to by the parties, Services provided outside World Wide Creative\u2019s normal business hours shall be subject to rate increases according to those prescribed by the government and agreed to between the parties in writing.\nScope and Specification of Work\nBefore we proceed with any work for you, it is necessary that we jointly agree on the general scope and boundaries of work that we will be expected to undertake for you. Following an agreement regarding the overall scope of the work required, we will proceed to establish a specification and produce a proposal that details your existing situation and our suggested course of action. We cannot be responsible for mistakes that occur as a result of World Wide Creative not being provided with complete and timely information from you. We expect that you will supply information regarding anything that may affect the work we are doing as soon as it is available to you. Should the scope of work to be performed extend beyond the ones as indicated in the proposal; an adjusted Services cost will be negotiated with the Customer.\nAlterations to Existing Services\n(project development and retainer services)\nAt your request we will alter your existing project outline or future retainer agreements during the contracted term, at a rate quoted on that date, provided that doing so does not cause a loss of revenue to World Wide Creative. Where we are providing a service that involves another party providing a substantial part of that service we reserve the right to pass on any cancellation costs we may incur as a result of your choosing to alter the terms of your service with us, provided we have informed you of this cancellation charge a reasonable period in advance.\nDesign Iterations\nUnless stated otherwise in the proposal or project specification the Customer will have one design iteration with initial designs and one design iteration with final designs, although any change requests in the final design iteration can not be related to the initial look and feel signed off in the initial designs.\nFor full information regarding our browser and device compatibility, please refer to the browser and device compatibility document attached to your proposal.\nWorld Wide Creative warrants that the Services will be performed in accordance with generally accepted industry practices, will conform in all material respects to the agreed specification documentation and are free from willfully destructive code and errors. World Wide Creative will not be liable for a breach of any such warranty unless the breach is reported to World Wide Creative within 14 (fourteen) days after Completion of the Services or after the product has gone live (whichever is sooner) and, having been given reasonable opportunity by the Customer to rectify any such breach, World Wide Creative fails to do so within a reasonable time and without additional charges to the Customer. Any issues reported outside of 14 (fourteen) days after Completion of the Services will be\nrectified at the Customer\u2019s expense. This warranty excludes all other conditions or warranties, express or implied, statutory or otherwise\n(including but not limited to fitness for any particular purpose). World Wide Creative shall not be liable for any services, products, or items provided by any third party. Support contracts are available to cover any issues that may arise outside of the warranty above. World Wide Creative will not be liable for any breach resulting from changes, modifications, or enhancements made in the Customers environment, to any World Wide Creative product or project or the environment itself, by a non-World Wide Creative employee or representative.\nDelays may occur during a project of this nature and scale. When a stage of the project is running late, it is the duty of World Wide Creative to communicate the impact of the delay on the project live date. Feedback is expected at each of the project stages from the Customer. This is critical to the work running on time. Should the delay occur due to lack of communication from Customers side or a third party nominated by the Customer, the knock-on effect on the schedule must be factored into the timeline of the entire project. Should the project be delayed due to proven negligence from World Wide Creative, the Customer retains the right to cancel the project. Should this occur, World Wide Creative must hand over all work to date, with the proviso that payment in full should be made for work done to date.\nWhere we have agreed to provide you with ongoing services, we may not issue a formal quote for each activity that you request us to perform. In this case you will be billed on a time and materials basis at a rate we have both previously agreed or otherwise at the prevailing rate according to our published Price List. We may ask you to confirm each of your requirements in writing until we are satisfied that we have an understanding of your ongoing needs and how your organisation operates. Once we have been dealing with you for some time we will generally take instructions from you by any of the following methods:\nIf you do not wish us to accept instructions by any of these methods, or would prefer a different method of issuing instructions then please let us know. We may ask you to confirm complex or costly requirements in writing for our joint protection.\nDealing with problems that may arise\nWe classify problems into three demarcated levels:\na) Extreme \u2013 Problems which are crippling your website. In the main this relates to hosting and downtime of your website. Response time will be immediate and we promise to use all reasonable endeavours to resolve the problem. This includes resolution during non-working days.\nb) Medium Status \u2013 Problems which substantially degrade the performance or functionality of the website. This includes e-commerce payment facilities. Response time will be within 24 hours on working days and we promise to use all reasonable endeavours to resolve the problem within 48 hours within working days. If we estimate the resolution to the problem to take longer than 48 hours we will inform you within 24 hours and agree a schedule to fix the problem.\nc) Low Status \u2013 Minor problems. This includes cosmetic problems relating the \u201clook and feel\u201d of the site or copy changes. Initial response time will be within 24 hours on working days in which to liaise with you and schedule an agreed time within which to fix the problem.\nAll fix times stated in these terms and conditions are from the time you, the Customer, provide accurate notification of the problem. To ensure resolution you are obliged to assist us in the diagnosis of the problem and implementation of a solution, within reason, if requested by us.\nBecause your site availability is vital, our Hosting SLA is designed to protect Customers against unscheduled outages. We use Hetzner as our preferred partner and as such our service levels and liability mirror their guarantee. This is available to view on hetzner.co.za. Should Hetzner change their guarantee, we will be bound by their new agreement.\nWe reserve the right to carry out emergency repair or maintenance work, which can be defined as work required to ensure the continued uptime of the server and website, at any time without triggering any service credits or breach of these terms and conditions. We commit to providing you with as much notice as is reasonably possible.\nWe will both keep details of our business confidential, with the following exceptions:\na. Either of us may refer to the existence of our commercial relationship with others unless we have both previously agreed not to in writing. This referral is limited to statements of the existence of this commercial relationship and may include the use of any generally available logos and trademarks (with acknowledgements) and links to Internet web sites.\nb. Where appropriate, we may agree to the terms of an additional Confidentiality Agreement (also known as a Non-Disclosure Agreement). These Terms and Conditions will take precedence over any additional agreement with regard to the specific prior terms in this section.\nYou retain all rights with regard to the ownership of copyrights, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights as a result of any work that we carry out for you unless otherwise previously agreed in writing. For work that involves extending or enhancing existing intellectual property that we do not own, you will retain intellectual property rights to our extensions and enhancements. Any work we carry out for you is on a non-exclusive basis unless otherwise previously agreed in writing. We may choose to re-use or publish anything we have developed for you, but we will not include any indicators that would link this re-used or published work with you, unless you give us written permission to do so.\nOur liability for failing to meet the conditions laid out in this document are limited to any amount that we have invoiced you for the service within the contract period. We will not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss that you may suffer as a result of a failure to deliver a service except as provided for within this agreement or agreed in writing by a director of World Wide Creative.\nWe must receive your request to cancel a service at least one month prior to the end of the existing term for that service. Your service will be cancelled not later than one month and one week after receipt of your notice. If you choose to cancel a service before the end of the term for that service you may incur a cancellation charge. We reserve the right to waive any cancellation charges solely at our discretion. The possible waiver of any charges does not imply any commitment by us to do so at any other time. The cancellation charges for the early termination of a service will be proportional to the length of the remaining term. These charges will be calculated based on the loss of revenue for us, but will never exceed the outstanding charges for that term.\nWorld Wide Creative reserves the right to make a charge for any work done by World Wide Creative at the agreed or contracted rates where the work is attributable to the Customer\u2019s failure to observe the Customer\u2019s obligations or which is not covered by World Wide Creative\u2019s warranty. If the provision of the Services is delayed other than through the fault of World Wide Creative, World Wide\nCreative will be entitled to charge the Customer at the agreed or contracted rates for any idle time as a result of any delay and/or wasted time incurred due to the default by the Customer or by the provision by the Customer of incorrect or insufficient in formation. For purposes of this clause \u201cidle time\u201d shall mean time during working hours when World Wide Creative\u2019s personnel are unable to perform the Services for the Customer, as a result of Customer\u2019s actions or omissions or Customer\u2019s failure to provide correct and accurate information, and such World Wide Creative personnel cannot reasonably be deployed elsewhere.\nSolicitation of Personnel\nUnless otherwise agreed to in writing, during the Services engagement period and for a period of one (1) year thereafter, neither World Wide Creative nor the Customer shall employ or solicit for employment any personnel or contractor of the other, or its subsidiaries, directly and substantively working under this agreement. Solution Source Code (including our proprietary Webcan platform) On the Customer\u2019s written request, World Wide Creative will deliver a copy of source code relevant to the\nServices, under the following terms and conditions:\nThe source code may only be used by the Customer for making modifications and updates and may not be used commercially for re-sale. Any modifications made to the source code will void the warranty on the solution during the warranty period. World Wide Creative reserves the right to re-use portions of the code for the delivery of other Services to other Customers.\nBy having the source code the Customer will obtain and will have access to the Webcan platform, the trade secrets, and confidential information relating to Webcan. The Client acknowledges that by gaining access, either through it\u2019s own team or a third party, to the Webcan code, that the company can not be held liable for any problems that may arise within that code thereafter. World Wide Creative still retains all rights with regard to the ownership of copyrights, trademarks and all other intellectual property rights for the Webcan system. The Client, therefore, acknowledges that to copy the Webcan platform or parts of the Webcan platform for use by anyone other than the client or to create a new website is a breach of the companies copyright and will be subject to a cost of R250,000 per usage, payable by the client to the company with immediate effect.\nThe Services do not include hardware and other hardware-related expenses except where explicitly stated. Travel and sustenance costs are not included unless explicitly stated and will be charged for when required and with the Customer\u2019s prior written approval. Venue hire costs are excluded unless otherwise stated.\nUnless otherwise stated, proposals for Services are valid for 30 days. All items remain the property of World Wide Creative until paid for in full. Or in the case of delays until payment has been made for work carried out up until that point. The project Sitestorm meeting will be scheduled to start within 14 days of receiving a signed proposal, or copy of purchase order from the Customer, as well as the deposit amount for the project. We reserve the right to cease provision of a standard service, with (1) months written notice, if you fail to\nmeet your obligations under these Terms and Conditions. The Customer may cancel or substitute attendees on a scheduled training event, subject to the following training cancellation charges:\n\u2022 More than 30 days before the start of the training: No charge.\n\u2022 14 to 29 days before the course start date: 50% of the training cost for the scheduled event.\n\u2022 Within 14 days of the course start date: 100% of the training cost for the scheduled event\nThe terms and conditions contained within these terms and conditions are subject to the laws of South Africa and both parties agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the South African courts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 19793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.xbox.com/en-in/games/xbox-one?xr=shellnav", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:XKZCRIYFSXM5BKNGOAUTLINWLXBM2KXZ", "length": 105, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.xbox.com", "title": "Xbox One Games | Xbox", "raw_content": "Enjoy unlimited access to over one hundred great Xbox One and Xbox 360 titles for only Rs. 699 per month.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 2134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 137.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/germany/mecklenburg-vorpommern/wittenburg-707300", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VHUWBGOTR7GNKP3FAW6GJWPD6D22W4XP", "length": 180, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.yahoo.com", "title": "Wittenburg, Germany - Weather Forecasts | Maps | News - Yahoo Weather", "raw_content": "0%56\u00b029\u00b0Night - Clear. Winds S at 7 mph (11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 39 \u00b0F (3.9 \u00b0C).Sunny with a high of 52 \u00b0F (11.1 \u00b0C). Winds variable at 7 to 10 mph (11.3 to 16.1 kph).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 108.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yegam.it/why-invest-on-your-hotels-breakfast/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SY3SPWBBEY3SOVVW56UTMKLWYIZHMG7Y", "length": 3186, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.yegam.it", "title": "Why invest on your hotel\u2019s breakfast? \u2013 Yegam", "raw_content": "The breakfast time represents more than 50% of the guest\u2019s stay at the accommodation facilities.\nA guest who is satisfied with the breakfast consumed during the stay is, in most cases, a totally satisfied guest.\nThe morning energy\nEverybody knows that breakfast is the most important meal of the day but, most of the time, the morning is a very hectic moment, during which there is not enough time to take a seat at the table and consuming a rich and healthy meal. You often opt for a croissant and a coffee at your bar to quickly reach the workplace.\nThe daily rhythms vary greatly on holyday: the alarm clock, if activated, is postponed by at least one or two hours compared to the usual routine, breakfast is eaten more calmly and with different foods and the various activities planned are experienced more peacefully, without continuously checking the time.\nThe rest, in particular, is one of the aspects of the holidays that is most appreciated and, consequently, also a good awakening and a healthy breakfast acquire considerable value.\nWhen you have the opportunity to stay at the hotel, breakfast becomes an awaited moment of great gratification. Finding various types of food to choose from, both sweet and savory, from coffee to juices, makes the experience even more special. All this would be quite unworkable during everyday life, but on holyday it is very pleasant and special.\nBreakfast: a fair investment\nWelcoming guests with an excellent culinary proposal is the first step to give them a great start and to make sure that they finally will associate the hotel with a particularly positive experience.\n\u2022 90% of the hotel\u2019s guests use the breakfast service with high expectations, so it is good to invest your resources and your strength on an appealing proposal that can meet the guest\u2019s expectations.\n\u2022 Breakfast time represents more than 50% of the guest\u2019s stay at the accommodation facilities.\n\u2022 More than one million on Tripadvisor reviews are addressed to the topic of breakfast: every day, therefore, all the products offered to your guests during this first meal will be immortalized, shared, commented and reviewed.\n\u2022 In addition to the cleanness factor, the level of breakfast can be decisive in choosing the place where you decide to stay, to receive the best treatment.\nSometimes it is not enough to offer a quality breakfast, it is necessary to communicate and share it, as the guests also would do. Highlighting online the added value of your hotel is essential to increase your web reputation and meet new potential customers online.\nIn addition, today, our guests are aware and attentive to the ingredients of the products to choose, that\u2019s why showing the provenance rather than the brand of selected food and drink can be particularly appreciated. The search for local foods and \u201cKm 0\u201d is a topic perceived by the traveler who is more sensitive to environmental issues and attentive to their health. This guest researches and appreciates products of local biological origin such as seasonal fruit produced in the surrounding lands and organic products.\nCapturing these needs means meeting your guests\u2019 wishes, making them satisfied of the experience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.york.ac.uk/music/about/ensembles/uyso/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:05Z", "digest": "sha1:PXCUJMKSXBPB2JAKWPS3RDA5UEAQQ64G", "length": 1164, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.york.ac.uk", "title": "University of York Symphony Orchestra - Music, The University of York", "raw_content": "\u00bb University of York Symphony Orchestra\nMusic presses\nUniversity of York Symphony Orchestra\nThe University of York Symphony Orchestra (UYSO) is the Department of Music's largest instrumental ensemble. The repertoire includes works by Classical master composers as well as modern compositions. Membership is by audition only at the beginning of the autumn term. Rehearsals are held weekly.\nThe UYSO performs three main concerts each academic year, most often at Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, but also in Central Hall and York Minster where it accompanies the University Choir's concert each June. Past performances included music by Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Brahms, and Ravel, as well as the European premiere of John Williams\u2019 Trumpet Concerto conducted by Elgar Howarth. In addition to tours to Greece and venues within the UK, the orchestra has also taken part in conducting masterclasses with conductors of international standing such as Jacek Kapszyk, Elgar Howarth and Peter Donohoe.\nTuesday evenings (6.30-9.30pm)\nUYSO page on Facebook\nAuditions for the UYSO are open to all members of the University and are held each year in the first week of the Autumn term.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yorkshirelife.co.uk/out-about/places/world-champion-trials-champion-dougie-lampkin-loves-silsden-1-1636507", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:31Z", "digest": "sha1:YSBMBDS2NUTKOLFKQO3JRQWW6MTWBM2V", "length": 7314, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.yorkshirelife.co.uk", "title": "World champion trials champion Dougie Lampkin loves Silsden | Places of interest & things to do in Yorkshire | Yorkshire Life", "raw_content": "World champion trials champion Dougie Lampkin loves Silsden\nRosemary Kitsell with Grace and Jenny Bleakley\nThe Aire Valley town of Silsden is not short of high achievers, as Emma Mayoh discovers.\nMemorial Gardens and Silsden Library\nListen very carefully and you might just hear it. The low trembling of Dougie Lampkins motorbike is a sound Silsden locals are likely to recognise. Its not because he screams his Beta Evo bike around the streets of his hometown in the Aire Valley, West Yorkshire. The countryside that surrounds it is the perfect place for him to practice.\nThe 33-year-old world champion motorcycle trials rider loves nothing more than heading out onto the rugged terrain around the farm he grew up on. It is a training ground that has served him well. As well as winning five consecutive World Indoor Championships, he has also won seven consecutive World Outdoor Championships, six British Adult Championships, two Spanish Adult Championships and is a three time winner of the famous Scott Trial, one of the most challenging in the UK.\nI just love it around here, enthused Dougie.\nIts my home and always will be. I travel all around the world to rallies but I always look forward to coming back to Silsden. The countryside around here is the best place in the country for motorcycle trials. Theres no place like it.\nThe weir in the centre of town\nDougie, who was awarded an MBE for his services to sport, is the latest of several generations of his family to have success as professional motorcyclists. His uncle, Arthur Lampkin, was a regular winner on the British motorcycling circuit in the 1960s and was described as Britains most famous sportsman on two wheels. Dougies father, Martin, was the first trials world champion back in 1975 and was the reason his son decided to take up the high-octane sport.\nDougie said: It was all because of my father and I started when I was young. I loved nothing more than going out onto the moors with my family and spending a day out there. Im really proud to be part of a family of champion motorcyclists and I cant imagine doing anything else.\nI had this opportunity to do something I loved as my job so I took it. Pretty much every member of the family rides, has ridden or has an interest in bikes but Im the only one who does it professionally. We just seem to keep churning out riders, I think there must be something in the water in Silsden.\nThis month Dougie, a member of the Bradford and District Motorcycle Club, will be taking part in the gruelling Hells Gate competition in Italy. He will have to ride non-stop for nine hours a day on his bike. And Dougie, who has two sons Alfie and Frasier, loves every minute of it.\nAndrew and Noel Aspinall at Smithies Family Butchers\nThere are few people in Silsden who do not recognise the family name now and they have become local celebrities. Throughout the years the local community have supported the family through their successes. There is a trial held every Boxing Day that is particularly important to Dougie.\nHe explained: I dont get many chances to ride in the UK because of all the travelling I do. Boxing Day is fantastic. Riders from around the area go out on the land around Silsden.\nLots of people head up onto the moors to watch and theres always a fantastic crowd. The community in Silsden have been really good to us and theyve always been really supportive.\nAnd Paula Baker-Parkin is hoping to attract some of that trademark Silsden support. Just over a year ago she opened Projeto Gallery in Kirkgate, the main road through the town.\nPaula Baker-Parkin at the Projeto Art Gallery\nFor the 28-year-old, who also runs a web design company from the same premises, setting up Projeto, which means design in Portuguese, was finally a chance for her to embrace her artistic, creative side.\nShe explained: Ive always loved art and I studied it at university but then I went into web design. All of the web work is virtual but with the digital art we have, it is all tangible. You can touch it, see it and feel it. I love it.\nPaula comes from an arty family, including an uncle who works for the art department at Dreamworks and has worked on the latest Alice in Wonderland film starring Johnny Depp. During her short time in Silsden, she has tapped into a wealth of local talent. Some local artists work has formed part of exhibitions she has held over the past 12 months.\nPaula, who used to offer private tuition for schoolchildren, is now hoping the gallery will become a place for the community to share and enjoy.\nI want people to feel like this is a place they can come and spend time and gather to appreciate art. I dont want it to be a place where people feel scared to walk over the threshold and find out whats going on in here.\nPauline Shackleton at Simply Cakes with her Sweetie Madness Cake\nWe held an open exhibition here where locals could bring in examples of their own art work and there were some fantastic pieces.\nThere is a lot of talent in Silsden, with a lot of creative people, and I wanted to try and support that and encourage more people to discover the talent they have. Im hoping that Silsden Art Club will bring their meetings here too. Were a bit different in the type of art work we do and show so I want the gallery to work in a different way too. Its important that were a part of the community. I love Silsden, its a lovely place and hopefully we will play a part in that.\nTake a walk along the Leeds Liverpool Canal and youll find Silsden Boats. The company, which has been running for about 30 years, was set up by boat and canal enthusiasts and now offers narrow boats and wide beam boats for hire for holidays and short trips.\nJohn Smithies, Alex Osborn, Steve Worsencroft and David Naylor at Silsden Boats\nSilsden is bursting with local community groups and organisations that make the community the bustling place it is. One of these is the all ladies group The Cobbydale singers. They were formed more than 15 years ago to entertain a disabled group in the town. Since then, they have gone from strength to strength and now regularly perform around the area.\nSilsden.net, a community website, was founded by Peter Ford in 2002 as a way to get people in the area more aware of local issues. The site, which includes useful information about the area as well as local history and services, is dedicated to Peters friend, Edwin, who wrote poems, including some in local dialect.\nAccording to the Guinness Book of World Records, the biggest ever onion was grown in Silsden. It weighted 10 lbs 14oz.\nSilsden can be traced back to the Domesday Book when the settlement, then called Siglesdene, was named as the most important village in the Craven area.\nNarrow boats moored along the Leeds Liverpool Canal in Silsden\nShare your memories of Silsden and your stories from the town in comments below\nSilsden is located off the A629 between Skipton and Keighley. Type BD20 0DE in your satnav to get there.\nThere is plenty to do in Silsden. Take the family to feed the ducks at the weir that runs through the village, enjoy a walk along the Leeds Liverpool canal or browse the surprising number of shops and boutiques.\nTrials rider Dougie Lamkin in action\nThere is a public car park near Silsden Library in Wesley place. 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A number of arrests have been made.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 3419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourerc.com/blog/post/3-strategies-for-managing-your-healthcare-costs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:29Z", "digest": "sha1:2AWFY5SZS52PBE2R7WLACW2A55DIOV44", "length": 3111, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.yourerc.com", "title": "3 Strategies for Managing Your Healthcare Costs", "raw_content": "E-Cigarettes: Implications for the Workplace The Importance of Vaccinations\n3 Strategies for Managing Your Healthcare Costs\nRising healthcare costs are consistently cited in ERC\u2019s research as a top concern among employers in Northeast Ohio. Interestingly, data from sources ranging from local (ERC) to national (Kaiser Family Foundation) have shown more moderate percent increases in health insurance premiums in 2013. The reasons for these increases, no matter how large or small, are multi-faceted and difficult to measure, but for a glimpse at how many area organizations managing these increases, we turn to the 2013 ERC Wellness Practices Survey.\n1) Empowering employees\nMuch like in 2011, when the Wellness Survey was last conducted, the 2013 results suggest that organizations are still largely focusing on methods of cost control that empower employees to make better decisions related to their overall health. In particular, the top two methods of cost control, \u201ceducating employees to be better health consumers\u201d and \u201ccreating wellness programs\u201d (both used by about two-thirds of employers) rely heavily on employees to make well informed choices. It is also worth noting that while both of these options rely heavily on employees, they also give employers the opportunity to influence and structure the various programs that fall under these categories in order to fit the organization\u2019s workforce demographics and culture to maximize the effectiveness of the programs.\n2) Change your plan\nFairly straightforward, this option was popular among nearly half of employers, who simply took a good hard look at how their health insurance plans were structured and made changes to the plan design itself to curb costs. In some cases, this ultimately meant switching to self funded health insurance or changing insurance vendors altogether.\nWhile the strategies employed by organizations that fall under this category are not always recommended, some, like placing limits on spousal or charging tobacco users slightly more in premiums are less controversial than others. For example, according to the Wellness Practices Survey, 37% of employers manage their healthcare costs by increasing costs such as copays and deductibles. While having to tell employees they will have to pay more money to see a specialist or fill a prescription is not an enviable position, these incremental changes are far less challenging for an organization overall than \u201creducing hours to less than 30 hours per week\u201d- a method used by only 5% of the overall sample.\nSee Figure 1 below for a complete listing of the strategies used by employers to control health insurance costs or for additional information, download the 2013 ERC Wellness Practices Survey.\nMore on these topics: Cost Savings, health care, Health Care, Wellness & Work/Life\n3 Health Care Cost Benchmarks\nWith some organizations and individuals encountering significant changes to their health insurance ...\nWhat Are Employers Doing to Manage Health Care Costs?\nAccording to the 2015 ERC Wellness Practices Survey both the average percent premium increase and ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1201, "original_length": 22890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQo9fWKV6_k", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3CVKFTRLDJYVD4DI4Q375KVY4RJM7VM4", "length": 83, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.youtube.com", "title": "D'Anna interv. Astronomusic for ClickersClub Part 2 of 3 - YouTube", "raw_content": "Did you know you could scan backwards in a YouTube video to see what just happened?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 4260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/beating-patent-trolls-at-their-own-game/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:32Z", "digest": "sha1:R2DJIXMW6IHHVBXWB2WLV2SHRTUWM3LX", "length": 2445, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.zdnet.com", "title": "Beating patent trolls at their own game | ZDNet", "raw_content": "Beating patent trolls at their own game\nSaul Hansell's piece in the Times is called Trolling for Patents to Fight Patent Trolls. Kinda like a war for peace.\nBy Richard Koman for ZDNet Government | March 30, 2009 -- 17:31 GMT (10:31 PDT) | Topic: Legal\nAt a recent patent auction in San Francisco, which in general didn't go that well for the auctioneers, one company that was snapping patents up was RPX Corp., backed by Kleiner Perkins and Charles River. It spent $300,000 on a patent on viewing media on removable media. RPX doesn't make anything, doesn't market anything. Typical patent troll, right?\nNot so typical.\n\u201cWe are not buying patents to monetize them,\u201d said John Amster, the co-chief executive of RPX. \u201cWhat we are doing is \u2018defensive patent aggregation,\u2019 and no one else is doing that as a business in itself.\u201d\nRather than suing the Deep Pockets, RPX invites them to be members of the company at a cost of $300,000 to $5 million. Then the company snaps up strategic patents to defend its members against trollish claims. It plans to spend $100 million this year, which is not enough to \"buy everything.\"\n\u201cWe don\u2019t expect we are going to be able to buy everything,\u201d Mr. Amster said. \u201cThere are times when we have to tell people, \u2018We\u2019re sorry we can\u2019t do that deal. We\u2019ve already spent enough on you and we have to spend our money on other areas.\u2019 \u201d He argues that this won\u2019t deter members.\n\u201cWe only need to buy one or two things a year, that are true threats to people in order to justify our fees,\u201d he said. If companies don\u2019t like the way RPX is running its portfolio, they can choose not to renew their membership, and they will still be able to keep the licenses to the patents bought while they were members.\nMembers so far: IBM, Cisco, Panasonic, Philips, LG Electronics, Samsung, and TiVo.\nSo should inventors sell to a good troll like RPX or a bad troll like Acacia Research. It's just a risk-reward analysis, says Paul Ryan, Acacia's CEO.\n\u201cIf they want to get quick cash, and the price is right, they have the right to sell,\u201d to a company like RPX, he said. \u201cTo get a larger amount, but to take some risk and time, usually it makes sense to partner and get more value for their intellectual property.\u201d\nThe two companies recently inked a patent-licensing deal.\n[Acacia] unit Light Valve Solutions LLC, has entered into a license agreement with RPX Corporation covering a patent portfolio that relates to light valve systems.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 7255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zdnet.com/article/less-than-10-of-tv-sets-sold-in-2004-are-lcd-tvs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6VXVVQF4JKEDH4F4D3U5E4UNNFF2KT5F", "length": 306, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.zdnet.com", "title": "Less than 10% of TV sets sold in 2004 are LCD TVs | ZDNet", "raw_content": "Less than 10% of TV sets sold in 2004 are LCD TVs\nFlat-panel TVs represent less than 10% of the 29 mln TV sets to be sold to dealers in 2004. Of the flat-panel sales, 73% are LCD TV sets and 27% are plasma models.\nBy ZDNet Editors for IT Facts | November 29, 2004 -- 10:49 GMT (02:49 PST) | Topic: Hardware", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 4728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 324.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zinzin.com/observations/author/martin/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ZE62ZL6SCEQLKQ532PTH52Z4FGRNZCIC", "length": 10122, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.zinzin.com", "title": "Martin | Page 3 | Zinzin", "raw_content": "Kids Today: Pivot, A New Channel For Millennials\nHere is an excerpt from Emily Nussbaum\u2019s review of the Pivot launch. You can read the entire article at The New Yorker.\nWho are the Millennials? Narcissists, that\u2019s who. Entitled types who actually expect to be paid for the work they do. A generation foolish enough to have graduated into a recession\u2014\u201dliking\u201d rather than loving, stealing Wi-Fi, twerking molly (or whatever it is you do with molly). Takers of selfies!\nThis unfortunate demographic, which has become an easy target for anti-technology pundits, a peg for prurient essays on hookup culture, and a marvellous resource for op-ed columnists in a rush, is now in possession of its very own cable channel: Pivot, which d\u00e9buted, very quietly, last month. Launched by the producer Evan Shapiro, whose r\u00e9sum\u00e9 includes executive roles at Sundance and IFC, two of the more innovative small cable networks, the network has a sly slogan: \u201cIt\u2019s Your Turn.\u201d And so far, at least, you\u2019d never recognize that mythical Millennial in Pivot\u2019s schedule, which has an appealingly humble aura\u2014it\u2019s diverse, it\u2019s global, it\u2019s progressive, with a touch of early MTV (right down to its premi\u00e8re broadcast, a montage of bands covering \u201cVideo Killed the Radio Star\u201d). As long as you avert your eyes from the talk show hosted by Meghan McCain, Pivot suggests legitimate creative possibilities. The highlight is the sweetly melancholic half-hour comedy \u201cPlease Like Me,\u201d a small charmer that is a bit like \u201cLouie\u201d or \u201cGirls\u201d\u2014that is, if Louis CK were Australian or Lena Dunham gay.\nPivot is barely a network yet\u2014it\u2019s more of a soft launch\u2014but, at its best, it feels like a thoughtful attempt to reach young viewers without relying on pre-chewed assumptions about who they are. Traditionally, cable networks don\u2019t find their identities until they create a hit: \u201cThe Sopranos\u201d for HBO, \u201cBuffy\u201d for the WB, \u201cMad Men\u201d for AMC. Yet there\u2019s something to be said for watching an institution before it becomes a stable brand, when there\u2019s still oddness and experimentation, and room for interesting mistakes. MTV was like that at first: although the v.j.s barely knew how to handle their microphones, if you were the right age you couldn\u2019t stop watching. Pivot isn\u2019t anywhere near that exciting yet, but it\u2019s been around only a month. Give the kid a chance.\nFiled Under: Naming Tagged With: Emily Nussbaum, Pivot, television, The New Yorker\nBrion Gysin\u2019s Cut-Ups: A Project for Disastrous Success\n\u201cLanguage is an abominable misunderstanding which makes up a part of matter. The painters and the physicists have treated matter pretty well. The poets have hardly touched it. In March 1958, when I was living at the Beat Hotel, I proposed to Burroughs to at least make available to literature the means that painters have been using for fifty years. Cut words into pieces and scramble them. You\u2019ll hear someone draw a bow-string. Who runs may read, To read better, practice your running. Speed is entirely up to us, since machines have delivered us from the horse. Henceforth the question is to deliver us from that other so-called superior animal, man. It\u2019s not worth it to chase out the merchants: their temple is dedicated to the unsuitable lie of the value of the Unique. The crime of separation gave birth to the idea of the Unique which would not be separate. In painting, matter has seen everything: from sand to stuffed goats. Disfigured more and more, the image has been geometrically multiplied to a dizzying degree. A snow of advertising could fall from the sky, and only collector babies and the chimpanzees who make abstract paintings would bother to pick one up.\u201d\n~Brion Gysin, \u201cCut-Ups: A Project for Disastrous Success.\u201d\nHere is a link to a short film from 1966 titled The Cut-Ups by Antony Balch which is archived on the Gysin website. The screenplay was written by William S. Burroughs and the film features both Burroughs and Gysin.\nFiled Under: Art, Language, Poetry Tagged With: Antony Balch, Brion Gysin, William S. Burroughs\nAugust 21, 2013 By Martin\nElmore Leonard, the Dickens of Detroit: 10 Rules for Being A Good Writer\nNPR had a nice feature remembering the life of Elmore Leonard, \u201cThe Dickens Of Detroit\u201d, who died in 2013 at 87. They ended the piece with a quote from his 10 Rules for Being A Good Writer, Rule 10: \u201cTry to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.\u201d Here is the complete list of Leonard\u2019s rules, culled from his New York Times essay, WRITERS ON WRITING; Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle, from July 16, 2001:\nElmore Leonard\u2019s 10 Rules for Being A Good Writer\n1. Never open a book with weather.\nIf it\u2019s only to create atmosphere, and not a character\u2019s reaction to the weather, you don\u2019t want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.\n2. Avoid prologues.\nThey can be annoying, especially a prologue following an introduction that comes after a foreword. But these are ordinarily found in nonfiction. A prologue in a novel is backstory, and you can drop it in anywhere you want. There is a prologue in John Steinbeck\u2019s \u201cSweet Thursday,\u201d but it\u2019s O.K. because a character in the book makes the point of what my rules are all about. He says: \u201cI like a lot of talk in a book and I don\u2019t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that\u2019s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks. . . . figure out what the guy\u2019s thinking from what he says. I like some description but not too much of that. . . . Sometimes I want a book to break loose with a bunch of hooptedoodle. . . . Spin up some pretty words maybe or sing a little song with language. That\u2019s nice. But I wish it was set aside so I don\u2019t have to read it. I don\u2019t want hooptedoodle to get mixed up with the story.\u201d\n3. Never use a verb other than \u201csaid\u201d to carry dialogue.\nThe line of dialogue belongs to the character; the verb is the writer sticking his nose in. But said is far less intrusive than grumbled, gasped, cautioned, lied. I once noticed Mary McCarthy ending a line of dialogue with \u201cshe asseverated,\u201d and had to stop reading to get the dictionary.\n4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb \u201csaid\u201d . . .\n. . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange. I have a character in one of my books tell how she used to write historical romances \u201cfull of rape and adverbs.\u201d\n5. Keep your exclamation points under control.\nYou are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. If you have the knack of playing with exclaimers the way Tom Wolfe does, you can throw them in by the handful.\n6. Never use the words \u201csuddenly\u201d or \u201call hell broke loose.\u201d\nThis rule doesn\u2019t require an explanation. I have noticed that writers who use \u201csuddenly\u201d tend to exercise less control in the application of exclamation points.\n7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.\nOnce you start spelling words in dialogue phonetically and loading the page with apostrophes, you won\u2019t be able to stop. Notice the way Annie Proulx captures the flavor of Wyoming voices in her book of short stories \u201cClose Range.\u201d\n8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.\nWhich Steinbeck covered. In Ernest Hemingway\u2019s \u201cHills Like White Elephants\u201d what do the \u201cAmerican and the girl with him\u201d look like? \u201cShe had taken off her hat and put it on the table.\u201d That\u2019s the only reference to a physical description in the story, and yet we see the couple and know them by their tones of voice, with not one adverb in sight.\n9. Don\u2019t go into great detail describing places and things.\nUnless you\u2019re Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language or write landscapes in the style of Jim Harrison. But even if you\u2019re good at it, you don\u2019t want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.\n10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.\nA rule that came to mind in 1983. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. What the writer is doing, he\u2019s writing, perpetrating hooptedoodle, perhaps taking another shot at the weather, or has gone into the character\u2019s head, and the reader either knows what the guy\u2019s thinking or doesn\u2019t care. I\u2019ll bet you don\u2019t skip dialogue.\nMy most important rule is one that sums up the 10.\nOr, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can\u2019t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative. It\u2019s my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing. (Joseph Conrad said something about words getting in the way of what you want to say.)\nIn his intro to the Rules, Leonard says, \u201cThese are rules I\u2019ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I\u2019m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what\u2019s taking place in the story\u201d (emphasis ours). This is our philosophy at Zinzin as well, which you can read all about in our Naming and Branding Manifesto, specifically, No. 10: Show Me, Don\u2019t Tell Me.\nFiled Under: Literature, Narrative Tagged With: Detroit, Elmore Leonard, Lists, Rules\nJuly 26, 2013 By Martin\nThe Ancients Stole All Our Great Ideas (Part 2)\nEd Ruscha, Blue Collar Trade School, 1989, Acrylic on canvas, 54 H x 120 W (inches)\nFiled Under: Art Tagged With: Ed Ruscha\nEd Ruscha, 150 Miles, 1989. Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 40 inches (61 x 101.6 cm)\n\u201cThe Ancients Stole All Our Great Ideas\u201d is a line from Mark Twain\u2019s autobiography and the title of an exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna that Ed Ruscha curated last year. In response to Clavin Tomkins\u2019 wonderful July 1st New Yorker profile of Ruscha, titled \u201cAn artist in the right place,\u201d I have pulled together 10 of my favorite works by the artist. 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There is always only one correct answer.\n1) The break in Carrie\u2019s career was caused by her marriage and her _______ .\nA) back surgery\nB) husband\u2019s operation\nC) husband\u2019s hockey activities\nD) writing of a book\n2) Carrie plans to start a sporting activity because ________ .\nA) she has changed her dietary and nutrition habits\nB) she has started a new slimming programme\nC) she is preparing for demanding performances\nD) she wants to train for running with her husband\n3) One thing that annoys Carrie is her inability to ________ .\nA) sing whistle tones\nB) create lyrics\nC) write songs alone\nD) play an instrument\n4) Carrie and her husband came from ________ .\nA) the same town\nB) large towns\nC) similar social backgrounds\nD) different social backgrounds\n5) Carrie is delighted that currently she doesn\u2019t have to take care of ________ .\nA) laundry and shopping\nB) shopping and finances\nC) cooking and shopping\nD) grass and finances\n6) When Carrie was offered use of a private company aeroplane, she ________ .\nA) accepted the offer\nB) refused the offer\nC) paid for it\nD) used it once\n7) Carrie thinks she and her husband ________ .\nA) are worried about each other\nB) are dependent on each other\nC) are not in the public eye so often\nD) are not under each other\u2019s control\nPart 2: A Famous Industrialist (6 points)\nYou will hear a radio programme discussing some facts from the life of Henry Ford. 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It\u2019s you! If you don\u2019t think much of yourself, you probably have low self-esteem or self-confidence. As we go through life, there are lots of different scenarios that occur, and if things don\u2019t work as we want,...\nWhat\u2019s in Your Handbook on Life?\nby Peter and Beth Bostwick | Oct 8, 2017 | From the YCC book, Peter's Voice\nOne of the most fundamental concepts is the power of our beliefs. Beliefs influence everything in our lives, from how we interpret people and events to our ability to manipulate the world. Beliefs are like rules. They are agreements we\u2019ve made with ourselves to...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://youngadultcatholics-blog.com/2008/06/10/whats-the-big-deal-about-gender-inclusive-language/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:35Z", "digest": "sha1:3XLUKPGK3E5TRSW3F6YC6AT6TMWP3ORF", "length": 20881, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "youngadultcatholics-blog.com", "title": "What\u2019s the big deal about gender-inclusive language? | Young Adult Catholics", "raw_content": "What\u2019s the big deal about gender-inclusive language?\nIn the most recent issue of my diocesan newspaper, a question referring to God\u2019s gender caught my eye. Father Mike, a local priest, answered the question, \u201cWhy do you refer to God as \u201che\u201d? Are you implying that God is male? Doesn\u2019t this support a patriarchal worldview?\u201d\nFather Mike\u2019s response got off to an OK start \u2014 he affirmed the Catechism\u2019s teaching that \u2018God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes,\u2019 and went on to say that the Church considers using identification with a male God to oppress women as a grave evil. Then, he insisted that because God is a \u201cwho\u201d instead of an \u201cit,\u201d we must use pronouns that affirm God\u2019s personhood. And we use the pronoun \u201che\u201d because Jesus told us to think of God as \u201cour father.\u201d Father Mike\u2019s final say? \u201cApparently, he wants to be called \u2018father.'\u201d\nThe easy dismissal of the complexities of the issue pained me. Where is the discussion about the fact that subtleties in meaning can easily be lost in translation? For example, the English language \u2014 and many other languages \u2014 are incredibly limited in that there is no pronoun to describe a person who is neither female nor male, or both female and male, and yet these people exist in the physical and not just the spiritual realm. Where is the suggestion that, even though most translations of the Bible use \u201che\u201d as the default pronoun, a translation of God as \u201cshe\u201d would be equally accuratein light of what\u2019s been lain out in the Catechism? At the very least, I would have appreciated an affirmation that referring to God as She in conversation outside of strict Biblical reading is perfectly acceptable for Catholics.\nInstead, Father Mike never took that step of aligning God with the word \u201cShe.\u201d Instead, he shrugged the question off \u2014 perhaps because of the prevailing belief in our culture that the use of \u201che\u201d as the default pronoun doesn\u2019t really \u201cmatter\u201d because \u201ceveryone knows male pronouns can be used to refer to all humans.\u201d In actuality, this means that it \u201cdoesn\u2019t really matter\u201d to most of the culture when women are invisible. And we can become so used to our invisibility that we can begin to believe in it ourselves, despite the fact that this goes against what we believe as Catholics about the dignity and worthiness of every human being.\nWhen I was a child, I marked up all my CCD books with inclusive language. As an adult, I replace \u201che\u201d with \u201cGod\u201d in most of the congregational responses throughout the Mass, and I drop \u201cmen\u201d out of \u201cfor us men and for our salvation\u201d when I say the Creed. As an editor for a feminist organization, I know the power that words have to shape reality, and I try to be careful to choose my words accordingly to create a more just reality.\nBut it wasn\u2019t until I attended Reverend Regina Nicolosi\u2019s Mass three years ago that I experienced truly inclusive language \u2014 not just dropping the \u2018he,\u2019 but hearing the \u2018she.\u2019 And this time I couldn\u2019t say the Creed or sing the hymns because I was crying. Despite my quiet resistance to the default male pronoun, I never realized how I\u2019d numbed myself to the pain of being invisible until, for one hour, that feeling was gone, for one hour I felt both fully woman and fully Catholic, and that both parts of me were sacred.\nAlthough I haven\u2019t had the opportunity to attend another Mass said by a woman priest, I have occasionally had the fortune of attending other Masses with gender inclusive language. And every time I encounter it, I can\u2019t keep from crying tears of joy. And isn\u2019t that what encountering God is all about? Being overwhelmed with the Joy of being part of the Creator\u2019s family, perfect in God\u2019s image, just the way S/He intended you to be? That\u2019s a realization that\u2019s worth fighting for.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged feminism, God, language by Lacey Louwagie. Bookmark the permalink.\n14 thoughts on \u201cWhat\u2019s the big deal about gender-inclusive language?\u201d\nLauren Ivory on June 10, 2008 at 12:19 pm said:\nWhat an amazing experience, one that I\u2019m not surprised to hear was delivered by Regina who is a really wonderful woman, so loving. How interesting to think of, after fighting for many years for inclusive language, you were so touched by an all female representation. I think we need a balance, alternate between he and she.\nI wonder if it has ever been so significant to males to hear God referred to as a He. Do males ever feel this sense of connection to one\u2019s sacredness when they hear God referred to as He?\nOf course I can\u2019t remember the name of the Jesuit I heard talking about this, but he said he saw inclusive language as simply being a matter of accuracy. And why wouldnt we want to be most accurate? sort of reasoning.\nJosh McDonald on June 10, 2008 at 1:34 pm said:\nI\u2019ll admit that, as a lover of language in general, I struggle with the question of inclusive language. I do as a rule drop the \u201cmen\u201d from the recitation of the Creed; it\u2019s unnecessary in my opinion. And I usually use \u201cGod\u201d instead of any personal pronouns, even though sometimes it feels a little clumsy on the tongue. Especially in singing old hymns, where substituting that long O sound for the quick, clipped \u201chis\u201d seems to throw off the rhythm. But these are minor annoyances and don\u2019t, in the end, have any real effect on my faith.\nNow, I can\u2019t say that using masculine pronouns in reference to God has ever given me the kind of overwhelming spiritual experience described here. But I have to admit, I feel uncomfortable whenever I hear the feminine pronoun used. I think it\u2019s because I\u2019m so used to the masculine pronoun being the \u201cdefault\u201d, which we (okay, I) understand as being genderless when applied to God, and I feel like the feminine pronouns impose a specific gender.\nWhich is, I imagine, how some women feel when they hear the masculine pronoun used. I\u2019ll admit, I\u2019ve never thought of it as an issue of balance. Something to think about.\nThanks for the wonderful post! I offered the following story awhile back (the first week of the blog), and it fits your post as well, so I\u2019ll retell it. Having worked with survivors of domestic/interpersonal violence, sexual abuse, and prostitutes who have been horribly abused by men, many of them by their fathers, I have a huge problem with the Church\u2019s confinement of God to Father and Son. When I once explained to a group of women who had been sexually abused the history of the image \u201cRuah\u201d and Spirit Sophia from Genesis to Acts, one woman, in tears, announced to the group that I had given God back to her because she could not relate to a father god no matter how loving he was because that was a metaphor she could not move past.\nLanguage is SO important. Not just gender inclusive, but removing discrimination (often racial or ethnic) as well. Though we don\u2019t hear this in the formal words of liturgy (at least I don\u2019t think\u2026I simply haven\u2019t memorized the lectionary and sacramentary), our society, homilies and other Church/parish related endeavors often use language that subtly demeans other groups:\n\u201cI don\u2019t want to gyp you\u201d refers to the stereotype of gypsies/Roma as thieves\n\u201cthe issue is/isn\u2019t black and white\u201d\u2013that is bad or good\n\u201cThey\u2019ve black listed her\u201d or \u201chis name is now blackened\u201d both assumes that \u2018black\u2019 is bad\n\u201cHe got picked up by the paddy wagon\u201d refers to the stereotype that the Irish were drunkereds\nAnd not to forget the horrible use of \u201cgay\u201d and \u201cretarded\u201d as synonymous with stupid, slow, perverted, or dumb.\nAs a church and as a society, we really need to take seriously what we say. If even one person is demeaned by the language we use, or made to not feel wholly human made in the image of God, it is not appropriate for us to communally use it when we pray or live out the Gospel.\nSide note-I MUST get to a WomenPriest liturgy one of these days. So many of the posters have talked about the moving experiences they\u2019ve had, and I need to support the WomenPriests as well. I\u2019ve been blessed the past 6 years to be in places where gender inclusive language was the norm (save for the reference of the Spirit as He in the creed), but when I move to St. Louis in August, perhaps that is where I can start looking for a new parish.\nLacey Louwagie on June 10, 2008 at 2:37 pm said:\nThanks so much for the good discussion. I realize I might have been unclear in my original post about Reverand Regina\u2019s inclusive speech; the Mass did in fact use both female and male pronouns to refer to God, as well as female, male, and gender neutral metaphors (Mother/Father/Creator/Protector). I agree with you, Lauren, that balance, not just reversal, is what\u2019s needed, as both feminine and masculine qualities are divine.\nJosh, I agree with you that the \u201cmen\u201d in the creed is unnecessary and that\u2019s one of the reasons I drop it as well; I don\u2019t usually change the lyrics in the hymns so I admire that you do even though it doesn\u2019t feel like a big issue to you. I think that one of the reasons that the male pronoun in reference to God doesn\u2019t result in such a moving experience is because it\u2019s so easy to take for granted; and because most of us are used to hearing God as He, it can feel awkward, uncomfortable, or cumbersome to change the pronoun. I often use He when talking about God in conversation, sometimes because I don\u2019t want to weigh the conversation down with a debate about why I used She, but mostly just because my language has been trained so well. However, I find that when I\u2019m engaging in more personal communication with God \u2014 writing, or praying \u2014 it\u2019s usually a female presence that I feel, and I often use the feminine pronoun when writing about God. Sometimes though, the masculine pronoun just feels \u201cright\u201d and I\u2019ll use that, too. There\u2019s no doubt in my mind that God is in fact female and male and more.\nBecky \u2014 I read your original comment about the woman who couldn\u2019t relate to the father metaphor for God, and it really stuck with me. I also think it was worth repeating here. I agree with you about how pervasive harmful language is \u2014 so much so that we often don\u2019t think twice about it, as in the example of black and white. I noticed today that while my boss was giving a presentation, she said that a situation wouldn\u2019t be all \u201chellish\u201d or \u201cheavenly\u201d but that we\u2019d have to find some middle ground in between \u2014 the word choice seemed strange for a work setting, but your comments make me realize that she was probably trying to avoid the \u201cblack and white\u201d dichotomy. Along with \u201cgay\u201d and \u201cretarded,\u201d I\u2019ve also trained myself not to use \u201clame\u201d as a synonym for boring, stupid, etc., after realizing it\u2019s essentially a slur against people with disabilities. Unfortunately, I think slurs are so common in our language that I probably still use a lot of them without realizing it \u2014 but that\u2019s why conversations like this are so important.\nLacey; actually, most of the hymnals we use now do use \u201cGod\u201d where the original hymn used \u201cHe\u201d or \u201cHis\u201d. So I usually just sing what\u2019s on the page!\nA side note, only marginally related to the topic at hand: I attended a college that was affiliated with the Episcopal Church (it had been an Episcopal seminary before it went secular) and I noticed in one of their hymnals an odd example of a change from inclusive original Catholic lyric to non-inclusive lyric, for no good reason so far as I could tell.\nIn the old \u201cPrayer of St. Francis\u201d hymn \u2026 the one that begins, \u201cMake me a channel of your peace\u2026\u201d the original version goes \u201cIt is \u2026 in giving of ourselves that we recieve\u201d. This altered version said, \u201c\u2026 in giving to all men that we recieve\u201d. Why? Aside from less inclusive and it doesn\u2019t have the musical flow of the original, and it makes for questionable theology (so if we give to ALL men, we recieve \u2026 but if we miss one, we get nothing?)\nBecky, I\u2019m right with you on the importance of language! And it\u2019s even trickier when we\u2019re talking about God, who is so far beyond anything our language could ever express. We have to use metaphor and figurative language \u2014 as Jesus did! \u2014 and risk giving the wrong impression of who God is. (I have to say, I do like the bit about God being a \u201cWho\u201d, not an \u201cIt\u201d.)\nWe need better pronouns.\nBecky, thank you for the examples you gave. I had never thought of the word \u2018gyp\u2019 and its origins, probably because I wouldnt have spelled it that way if I were trying to write it. But that makes total sense, and I appreciate the info very much. I have not gotten very good at this but I know someone with a mental illness who gets a little annoyed when people use the term \u2018crazy\u2019.\nNow, I know many people are probably thinking, yuck, political correctness crap. But I think its worth every effort. You may not mean any harm by it, but how would the person you\u2019re referring to know that? They\u2019re so used to being marginalized that its not hard to think it was happening again.\nI agree that language gets especially tricky when dealing with God, and yes, we do need better pronouns! I thought I remembered reading once that the pronoun for God in the Greek was actually a gender neutral pronoun that included personhood, but I couldn\u2019t find the exact information before writing this post and didn\u2019t want to spread false information. Does anyone know anything more about this? There IS a movement to create a gender neutral word in the English language \u2014 I\u2019ve heard Hu and Hir as gender neutral pronouns and thought about bringing that into this post, but they haven\u2019t really caught on and I think a lot of people just aren\u2019t ready to make that leap with the language. But language is always evolving, and maybe someday we will be able to get closer to speaking the truth.\nLauren, I\u2019d never thought of \u201ccrazy\u201d as being a slur toward mental illness. That\u2019s another one I\u2019ll try to decrease instances of in my vocabulary.\nBecky Schwantes on June 10, 2008 at 10:19 pm said:\nI haven\u2019t heard about the Greek pronoun for God (so when you find it, do share!), but I have a transgender, male to female, pre-op friend who has asked us to use the German pronoun Sie (the \u201cS\u201d is pronounces as a \u201cZ,\u201d so it sounds like Zee) when referring to or about Sie. In German, Sie, when capitalized, is a gender neutral pronoun used in the formal. I don\u2019t know how widespread the Sie use is in the transgender/transexual community, but it seems applicable in our English since we don\u2019t have or no longer use (old or middle English may have) an equivalent word. I suppose we could also use the Spanish Usted (my Spanish is pretty rusty, so perhaps this doesn\u2019t work like it does in German. Please correct me if I\u2019m wrong!).\nNow that you have me thinking about other languages (at least the two besides English I\u2019m more acquainted with), it strikes me as somewhat liberating that in English we do predominately use the formal \u201cGod.\u201d In German, certainly the word \u201cGott\u201d is used, but more often when I was living, praying, and studying in Austria, people referred to God as \u201cdas Herr\u201d or \u201cHerr Gott.\u201d Herr basically means \u201cMister,\u201d but is used more as a full noun in German than just as a prefix i.e. people often say \u201cHerr Doktor.\u201d In Spanish, I remember hearing God often referred to simply as \u201cSenior,\u201d which is of course masculine. I really don\u2019t know if I have a point with these pondering other than I\u2019m very glad that language can and does evolve.\nNow, if we don\u2019t draw fire for proposing to model a pronoun for God after the preferred neutral use within the transgender/transexual community, we\u2019re not being monitored by our \u201corthodox\u201d friends very well!\nWow! I don\u2019t know where to begin.\nShould we deny that Jesus was a man for the sake of an emotional reaction. Maybe we can imagine that too. Or maybe we can infer that Jesus was a homosexual or asexual and therefore people with homosexual or transgender tendencies can feel better about themselves.\nWhy would we deny how God Himself references Himself? If we can speculate away from God\u2019s Holy Word than why stick with the virgin birth? Why believe that Jesus was and is God? Why believe in what Paul, Peter, John, Matthew, Mark and Luke wrote at all if we\u2019re going to speculate every jot and tittle until it means nothing; which is exactly what continues to happen. Most of you say that language is so important. Than how about taking it for what it says. It\u2019s not like the Bible hasn\u2019t been the most scrutinized book in the world or anything. The theologians over the last 2000 years who have translated the Bible were just a bunch of bumbling idiots who didn\u2019t really understand language the way the group here apparently does.\nAre Catholic children today staying in the church with this kind of confusion or are they leaving the church for something else; maybe something else a little more solid? Can you imagine; The Body of Christ not being solid? Not possible.\nIf what you\u2019re saying is making the Body of Christ more solid than you are probably on the right track. If what you\u2019re saying is making the Body of Christ confused, you are certainly not on the right track.\ncfxdrummer on June 12, 2008 at 4:37 pm said:\nI have to agree with mrissman \u2014 God has both referenced Himself and been referenced using masculine pronouns. Moreover, we don\u2019t cross ourselves saying \u201cIn the name of the parent\u201d, but rather \u201cin the name of the Father,\u201d referencing the identity of God as our Father. Of course, as a theology student, I am aware that God contains within Himself the fullness of both genders \u2014 male and female, as we are, are two genders created to, in union with one another, express the fullness of God\u2019s nature.\nAs for removing the word \u201cmen\u201d from the Creed, the priest at my home parish has an unfortunate habit of doing that, as well. We do not have the authority to, for whatever reason, alter the words of the Church\u2019s creed \u2014 she has used the Nicene creed for generations, after the careful guidance of the Council of Nicaea.\nWhich brings me to another aspect of the referencing of God with male pronouns. The Church, conversely, is typically referred to with female pronouns \u2014 the Church herself is the great bride, and Christ Himself is the bridegroom. This nuptial imagery is used very consistently in scripture, especially in Old Testament literature in which God describes Israel as His lover.\nWhat I\u2019m stabbing at here, in all of these somewhat disjointed points, is that to stress over \u201cinclusive language\u201d is to focus on something miniscule compared to the greater truths of God\u2019s nature. Yes, it\u2019s important to include people \u2014 but this is not achieved by shuffling around the language of our faith until it appeases everyone.\nTheodora Ranelli on June 12, 2008 at 6:28 pm said:\nI know a woman at St. Kate\u2019s who refers to God using ze and hir. :) I grew up in a congregation that used \u201cGod\u201d always rather than any gendered pronouns, and I have tried, in my own writing, to duplicate that. After all, I don\u2019t think God is a He or a She, and defies all gender categories entirely. (Although I would love to hear a Mass where the priest uses \u2018she\u2019.)\nInclusion is not about appeasing. It\u2019s about the body of Christ being whole.\nDo we worship God or do we worship the Church? Is it one in the same? I don\u2019t think so, not that I don\u2019t think the Church is of God or anything, but what\u2019s the deal here?\ncfxdrummer: If you consider religious language to be something \u201cminiscule,\u201d I\u2019m not sure why you\u2019re so offended by the discussion. Comparatively speaking, yes, words are miniscule compared to the vastness that is God. But as humans, words are some of the only tools we have \u2014 to communicate with one another, and to communicate with God. The reason God uses metaphor is only to help us better understand His nature; the metaphor will never encompass His nature. But some of us have experiences that make the metaphor traumatic, such as in Becky\u2019s story about the woman who couldn\u2019t connect to God because she had an abusive father and couldn\u2019t get past the metaphor. The point is, metaphors only work if the experience someone has with that metaphor is akin to the True nature of God. If your understanding of a Father is someone who abuses, neglects, or otherwise mistreats you, how does that represent God? But if what the Father metaphor really encompasses is God\u2019s unconditional love and authority, I think greater good is done in using a metaphor that reflects the nature of God, vs. the specific word used in the Bible. (And there ARE places in the Bible when God uses a mother metaphor when referring to Himself: As one whom his mother comforts, so I (God) will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.\nIsaiah 66:13)\nAs for the Church as female argument, I\u2019m afraid that one doesn\u2019t hold much sway over me. Male writers have consistently referred to continents, countries, ships, cars, what-have-you, using female pronouns. 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They were playing a video game that had been collecting dust since the fifth grade. I\u2019ve also heard reports of other teens who enjoy watching re-runs of \u201cHannah Montana\u201d or \u201cThat\u2019s So Raven.\u201d\nMy Son Is Graduating: Looking Back at a Happy Childhood\nWhat\u2019s going on with this behavior? Should parents be concerned when they find their teen curled up on the couch watching \u201cThe Lion King\u201d for the 20th time? Or reading Captain Underpants?\nLisa Damour, psychologist and best-selling author of Untangled and Under Pressure, has a reassuring explanation for why teens reach back for these touchstones from their early childhood.\n\u201cThey\u2019re putting themselves in a time machine to when things felt less stressful and they had more mastery in life. It\u2019s actually a brilliant way for teens to restore themselves.\u201d\nOne of the major draws, says Damour, \u201cis the total predictability. 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They offer the complete solution for Combined Heat and Power Generation to Commercial business and Public sector with the latest technologies and offering operational and maintenance support.The Role Our client is looking for a commercially focused individual to develop and identify opportunities to assist in the growth of CHP Services across the UK.As Business Development Manager you will lead both the technical and commercial details of the proposals to assist the directors in negotiation and bid and tendering process. You will have the strategy to develop how to grow the Combined Heat and Power Generation business. The successful Business Development Manager will be expected to maintain a high level of knowledge of the company's products and solutions and those of competitors.To be successful in this role you will require previous experience and knowledge within the industry such as Design, Installation and Operation of Combined Heat and Power (CHP). If you are a driven and ambitious hard working individual, already working in a Business Development or relevant role, and looking for your next move, then this is an exciting and rewarding opportunity for you.To ApplyThis is an excellent opportunity in a challenging, fast paced and dynamic business. Interested parties should apply accordingly or contact Sophie Wood in the first instance for a confidential conversation. Contact details can be found via the Newman Stewart website. About UsNewman Stewart is a leading executive search firm, delivering high performing candidates to high profile and difficult to fulfil assignments. With a vast proven track record of success both nationally and internationally, we are the recruitment partner of choice to many blue chip, medium and small organisations.\nWe have more business development manager jobs in North", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00121.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1049maxcountry.com/regional-news/judge-rejects-challenge-by-death-row-inmate-john-lotter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:52Z", "digest": "sha1:NKDXWTOK3ZHXS4FE4CSJSDSYIT2LTCXT", "length": 1023, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "1049maxcountry.com", "title": "Judge rejects challenge by death row inmate John Lotter | York's Max Country 104.9 / 1370 KAWL", "raw_content": "Judge rejects challenge by death row inmate John Lotter\nFalls City, Neb. \u2014 A judge has rejected the latest challenge by a Nebraska death row inmate whose case inspired the 1999 movie \u201cBoys Don\u2019t Cry.\u201d\nJohn Lotter\u2019s attorneys had argued it would be unconstitutional to execute him because he functions intellectually as a child. The Lincoln Journal Star reports that Richardson County District Judge Vicky Johnson said Thursday that Lotter\u2019s claim was raised too late.\nLotter was sentenced to death for his role in the 1993 killings of Brandon Teena, a 21-year-old transgender man, and two witnesses, Lisa Lambert and Philip DeVine, at a farmhouse in Humboldt, about 75 miles south of Omaha.\nLotter\u2019s motion said IQ testing shows the 47-year-old inmate has an IQ of 67. Nebraska law says an IQ of 70 or below is presumptive evidence of an intellectual disability.\nBut the judge said the state\u2019s post-conviction act is limited to constitutional, not statutory, claims that could void a sentence.\nLotter is expected to appeal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 4445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://13rhythms.com/about-me/4593828833", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CCNGS734Z44OKSMD7MFYDFM3GMXFSSGO", "length": 1089, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "13rhythms.com", "title": "ABOUT ME - 13rhythms1", "raw_content": "13 Rhythms was founded on Friday 13th September 2014. I wanted to use the number 13 in my business, because it\u2019s mainly associated with negative thoughts and beliefs and often we don\u2019t know why. For me that date was fabulous! It was the date I chose to make a difference. I realised that the negative perception of the number 13 needed to be turned on its head \u2013 just like a lot of the negative beliefs many of us hold about our abilities and skills, and we don't know where those thoughts have originated from or what we can do to eradicate them and stop them affecting our performance.\nNatalie, Founder, 13 Rhythms\nI have worked with clients of all ages and backgrounds and love the process of supporting them transistion into careers and businesses. I'm proud to have been twice nominated for a Student Led Teaching Award, to have been named as a Social Enterprise Champion by UnLtd and to have spoken at a number of national conferences and international events sharing my expertise.\nProfessional Motivations\nColleagues say I am...!\nSpeak to Natalie!\nWhat Clients Say about 13 Rhythms!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://147break.com/players/judd-trump/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:01Z", "digest": "sha1:PM7BDQNX7LLHVE3SLMEUNIXMYRG7YBGX", "length": 1273, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "147break.com", "title": "Judd Trump - 147 BREAK", "raw_content": "Judd Trump \u2013 The Ace in the Pack\nNicknames: Mr Haircut 100, The Ace in the Pack, The Real Donald Trump, Danny the Boy, Juddernaut\nJudd Trump is a professional snooker player from Bristol, UK and former world number one. He enjoyed considerable success in youth tournaments before turning professional in 2005.\nOn 3 April 2011, Trump won his first ranking title, beating Mark Selby 10\u20138 in the final of the China Open. Following this success in China, he reached the final of the 2011 World Snooker Championship where he was defeated by John Higgins. He then went on to win the 2011 UK Championship where he defeated Mark Allen 10\u20138 in the final.\nIn November 2012, Trump won the inaugural International Championship and in doing so became world number one, a position he held for five weeks. On 18 February 2013, he reclaimed the top spot. In July 2014, Trump won his 4th ranking title at the Australian Goldfields Open after defeating Neil Robertson 9\u20135.\nTrump practices alongside Jack Lisowski and Liang Wenbo at the Grove Snooker Academy in Romford, Essex. As a prolific break-builder, Trump has compiled more than 300 century breaks during his career.\nMore about Judd Trump \u2013 Wikipedia\nFollow @judd147t\nJudd Trump Official Website\nBe the first to comment on \"Judd Trump\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 167.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://50statesinalphabeticalorder.com/quiz%20pages/Quiz%20New%20Hampshire%20Granite%20State.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:50Z", "digest": "sha1:K76AYXQJ3QJIUUAKEBHN7SVDHHXSJPIA", "length": 2937, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "50statesinalphabeticalorder.com", "title": "What east coast State is known as The Granite State?", "raw_content": "What east coast State is known as The Granite State?\nNew Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. New Hampshire is the 5th smallest, and the 9th least populous of the 50 United States.\nIt became the first of the British North American colonies to break away from Great Britain in January 1776, and six months later was one of the original 13 states that founded the United States of America. In June 1788, it became the ninth state to ratify the United States Constitution, bringing that document into effect. New Hampshire was the first U.S. state to have its own state constitution.\nIt is known internationally for the New Hampshire primary, the first primary in the U.S. presidential election cycle. Concord is the state capital, while Manchester is the largest city in the state. It has no general sales tax, nor is personal income (other than interest and dividends) taxed at either the state or local level.\nIts license plates carry the state motto: \"Live Free or Die\". The state's nickname, \"The Granite State\", refers to its extensive granite formations and quarries.\nAmong prominent individuals from New Hampshire are founding father Nicholas Gilman, Senator Daniel Webster, Revolutionary War hero John Stark, editor Horace Greeley, founder of the Christian Science religion Mary Baker Eddy, poet Robert Frost, astronaut Alan Shepard, and author Dan Brown. Additionally, actor Adam Sandler grew up, but was not born in, the state. New Hampshire has produced one president: Franklin Pierce.\nWith some of the largest ski mountains on the East Coast, New Hampshire's major recreational attractions include skiing, snowmobiling, and other winter sports, hiking and mountaineering, observing the fall foliage, summer cottages along many lakes and the seacoast, motor sports at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Motorcycle Week, a popular motorcycle rally held in Weirs Beach near Laconia in June. The White Mountain National Forest links the Vermont and Maine portions of the Appalachian Trail, and boasts the Mount Washington Auto Road, where visitors may drive to the top of 6,288-foot (1,917 m) Mount Washington.\nNew Hampshire is internationally famous for the New Hampshire primary, the first primary in the quadrennial American presidential election cycle. State law requires that the Secretary of State schedule this election at least one week before any \"similar event.\" However, the Iowa caucus has preceded the New Hampshire primary. This primary, as the nation's first contest that uses the same procedure as the general election, draws more attention than those in other states, and has often been decisive in shaping the national contest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 3228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 107.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://6tocelebrate.org/site/staten-island-cemetery-trinity-cemetery-trinity-cemetery-van-street-cemetery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:26Z", "digest": "sha1:XXMYKNUYTME2HGOCN6LRJI2VL34W2LKP", "length": 4657, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "6tocelebrate.org", "title": "Staten Island Cemetery, Trinity Cemetery, Trinity Cemetery, Van Street Cemetery | Historic Districts Council's Six to Celebrate", "raw_content": "(entrance adjacent to 1652 Richmond Terrace, West New Brighton)\nThis seven-acre site is home to four cemeteries, all established in the 19th century. Currently, Staten Island, Fountain and Van Street Cemeteries are owned by the Staten Island Cemetery Association. Trinity Cemetery was abandoned in 1954 to the New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) and taken over by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation in 2003. FACSI, which maintains all four of the cemeteries, has marked them as Staten Island / Trinity Cemetery and Fountain / Van Street Cemetery. The entire site is believed to have originally been a Native American burial ground, but the first recorded burial was in Trinity Cemetery in 1802. This site has historical ties to the Revolutionary War. On the grounds of what would become Fountain Cemetery, a skirmish took place between the New Jersey Colonial Army and the British, who established a fort on the grounds of what would become Trinity Cemetery. The British Army docked their ships at a nearby ferry terminal.\nStaten Island Cemetery was the first non-sectarian cemetery on the North Shore of Staten Island and was, therefore, named after its location rather than after a religious institution or family. The cemetery was established in 1847, when the state began to encourage the creation of small, non-sectarian cemeteries to accommodate the influx of immigrants of various faiths. Prior to 1847, the land was owned and farmed by Joseph Ryerrs, who was born into slavery on Staten Island. When he was freed in 1825, he purchased this property and established a family cemetery that would later become a plot in Staten Island Cemetery. Within the combined Staten Island and Fountain Cemeteries, there are hundreds of Civil War veterans and approximately three dozen War of 1812 veterans. The largest standing monument in Staten Island Cemetery is that of James Horner, a \u201cHawkins Zouave\u201d soldier in the Civil War. A Zouave was a title for light regiments originating in France in 1831 and adopted in America during the Civil War. The Zouaves were characterized by their double-time march, the way they loaded their rifles (lying down, rather than standing), and their North African style uniform, which included baggy pants, short open-front jackets and sashes.Trinity Cemetery was associated with Trinity Chapel, constructed in 1800-02 as an adjunct to the Church of St. Andrew with the aid of Trinity Church in Manhattan. The chapel was destroyed by fire in 1952, but the cemetery had fallen into disrepair long before, around 1914, with only one subsequent burial in 1963. Members of some of Staten Island\u2019s early families are buried here.\nThe other side of the site is occupied by Fountain and Van Street Cemeteries, both non-sectarian. Fountain Cemetery was established in 1863, the same year that its namesake, Henry Fountain, passed away. Fountain had been a Captain in the War of 1812 and owned the popular Fountain House Hotel, which abutted the land that became Fountain Cemetery. The hotel hosted illustrious guest speakers, such as abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass and opera star Jenny Lind. At the time, the surrounding neighborhood was prosperous. Waterfront and maritime industry flourished, and there was a public ferry dock across the street. The cemetery was instantly successful due to its proximity to Manhattan, whose prohibition of new burial sites drove many to purchase plots at Fountain, which featured large family plots to cater to wealthy clients. Some of these are surrounded by fences and identified by stone markers. After the Civil War, Fountain became a popular cemetery for veterans. In fact, the Grand Army of the Republic paraded here yearly from Manhattan. By the 1930s, it was mostly filled, but during the Great Depression, families stopped paying assessment charges. The cemetery was officially abandoned to the City in 1954. In 1981, a group of descendants reconstituted the old cemetery association, rejoining the property with the New York State Division of Cemeteries. In 2003, FACSI began restoring the cemetery, which is in remarkable condition. In addition to the hundreds of obelisks, monuments, grave stones and plot posts still standing, the cemetery has retained most of the original piping around the family plots, a feature largely removed from other cemeteries in the 1950s to allow easier access for maintenance. The Van Street Cemetery section of Fountain Cemetery was purchased for $1 in the 1880s, and is laid out with single rows of graves. At roughly one acre, the cemetery was full within 30 years.\nStaten Island-Trinity Cemetery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 7630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 143.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://983thesnake.com/i-84-blocked-by-crash-near-eden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:59Z", "digest": "sha1:6T5JIKU4UKHGNH4ORSJYTAMA3RG7YAID", "length": 1300, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "983thesnake.com", "title": "UPDATE: Lanes Reopen After Deadly Crash Blocks Traffic Near Eden", "raw_content": "UPDATE: Lanes Reopen After Deadly Crash Blocks Traffic Near Eden\nPhoto courtesy Andy Brennan\nUPDATE: 4:45 p.m.: Police say all lanes of traffic have reopened on Interstate 84 after a deadly crash Tuesday morning near Eden blocked traffic for about six hours.\nUPDATE, 3:40 p.m.: One person has died in a head-on collision Tuesday morning on Interstate 84 near Eden.\nIdaho State Police are still investigating the crash, but say two semis crashed a little after 10:30 a.m. near milepost 187.\nDavid Wetmore, 57, of Irrigon, Ore., was traveling westbound Interstate 84 in a commercial vehicle. Corey McCaslin, 39, of Port Washington, Ohio, was traveling eastbound Interstate 84 in a Peterbilt commercial vehicle. Wetmore crossed over the center line in the construction zone and struck McCaslin's vehicle.\nWetmore was taken by air ambulance to Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello,. McCaslin died at the scene of the crash.\nPolice said around 3:30 p.m. that the westbound and eastbound lanes of the interstate were still blocked. The crash is still under investigation.\nFrom State Police:\nIdaho State Police is on scene of a crash eastbound Interstate 84 at milepost 187, near Eden. The eastbound and westbound lanes of Interstate 84 are blocked at this time.\nFiled Under: crash, eden, idaho state police", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://acurasuggestions.com/category/acura-nsx/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:57Z", "digest": "sha1:RNE7UT4LB44BGPRTMNE3FI4X3XCLFTI2", "length": 57, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "acurasuggestions.com", "title": "Acura NSX | Acura Suggestions", "raw_content": "Acura NSX\u00b7 September 5, 2018\nAcura NSX\u00b7 February 25, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 5063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 209.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://admin.db.profileareas.rwth-aachen.de/Jara/institutes/300", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGHQQVBXSSFHMT6AAQTUKZ6523QOECUF", "length": 627, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "admin.db.profileareas.rwth-aachen.de", "title": "Energylandscape", "raw_content": "Chair for Corrosion and Corrosion Protection\nUniv.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Brita Daniela Zander\nAt the Chair of Corrosion and Corrosion Protection the main focus is to engineer materials and surfaces optimization, including optimization in terms of corrosion properties both with and without mechanical load. The chair of Corrosion and Corrosion Protection is dedicated to innovative, wide-ranging high grade research and the successful transfer of research results into practical application in Germany industry.\nIntzestr. 5\nd.zander@gi.rwth-aachen.de\nhttp://www.gi.rwth-aachen.de/en/chair-for-corrosion-and-corrosion-protection", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 502, "original_length": 10707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://adventures4pets.com/tracker?page=317", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:42:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WEJLL4XJC5WMOWIIREPYWZB527JB4EJJ", "length": 1331, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "adventures4pets.com", "title": "Recent posts | Adventures for Pets", "raw_content": "Hotel DoubleTree Hotel admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Hotel Allegro admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Tom's Cove Campground admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Quality Inn admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Durango Riverside Resort & RV Park admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Residence Inn admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel W Chicago admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Grove Isle Hotel & Spa admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel The Peninsula Chicago admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Steamboat Lake State Park admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel KOA admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel The Hotel Monaco admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Lazy Dog Inn admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Fairfield Inn & Suites admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel InterContinental Chicago admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel The Paw House Inn admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Valley River Inn admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel The Sutton Place Hotel admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Timberland Campground admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel TownePlace Suites admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Omni Chicago Hotel admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel The Mountain Top Inn & Resort admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Glass Beach Inn admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34\nHotel Cunningham Falls State Park admin Tue, 11/08/2011 - 15:34", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aftersleep.com/forum/abs/forum_8.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:16Z", "digest": "sha1:DSEMIVXO67V47WWBMZ3N5AILOV5HDKOO", "length": 396, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "aftersleep.com", "title": "Abandoned Forum \u2022 View forum - Book Club", "raw_content": "1, 2by Pimienta on Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:16 pm\n1, 2by Pimienta on Fri Jul 11, 2008 11:44 pm\n1, 2by Cherokee_girl on Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:55 pm\n1, 2, 3, 4by Cherokee_girl on Wed Nov 15, 2006 1:57 pm\n1, 2, 3, 4, 5by nil on Mon Apr 25, 2005 6:17 am\n1 ... 5, 6, 7by nowhere man on Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:44 pm\n1, 2by Insanity test on Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:15 pm\n1, 2by Insanity test on Fri Jul 01, 2005 1:39 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 250.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://agt-holding.com/news/archive/10103/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:15Z", "digest": "sha1:XWAVZA6ICBNIQMS3T2EZQXAEIO2BTLSM", "length": 2099, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "agt-holding.com", "title": "3M and AGT conquered metal", "raw_content": "The largest Russian exhibition of world machine-tool construction and modern technologies of metalworking \"Metalworking-2017\" was completed In Moscow. Within the framework of the exhibition, the international production company 3M and AGT agency organized a conference \"Modern metal working: problems and prospects of the industry development\". The embodiment of modern technologies for metalworking was the statue \"The Conqueror of Metal\", which met participants and guests of the exhibition.\n2.5-meters-height statue of alloy steel was produced by creative tandem 2MS from Izhevsk - Maxim Surnin and Maria Solovatova. For 7 years sculptors 2MS create works of art from metal using the technology of Racial-Art, i.e. Eco-friendly recycling through art. The relatively new direction is gaining momentum due to close attention to the environment around the world.\nIn the manufacture of the statue, scrap metal was partly used - parts from water heating tanks, air receivers, carbon dioxide fire extinguishers, car mufflers and even store-weight Soviet scales. The Conqueror of Metal concept was selected from more than 20 sketches. As a result, we came to the most concise, rigorous and brutal, the theme of the exhibition.\nAGT acted as a co-author of the Conqueror of Metal concept and the co-organizer of the conference, carried out a full range of works on presenting the company at the exhibition, developing a business program concept and preparing information materials, announcing the conference in the media and implementing activities within the project.\n\"AGT pays special attention to projects of ecology, energy efficiency and non-standard technological solutions. The marketing move with the installation of metal sculpture allowed not only to get a wide coverage of the audience of the exhibition visitors, but also contributed to the formation of loyalty to the company 3M and the recognition of the brand Cubitron. Near the art-object were constantly wishing to make a photo and selfie with \"The Conqueror of Metal\", - said Vladislav Shulaev, Director for Marketing Communications AGT.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aimcomics.blogspot.com/2017/08/time-to-close-book-on-journals.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:38Z", "digest": "sha1:IJR32XGOECR6ZBN2IGGUDHNJZNKBIV6Z", "length": 1398, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "aimcomics.blogspot.com", "title": "AIM Comics: Time to Close the Book on the Journals", "raw_content": "Time to Close the Book on the Journals\nDue to an overwhelming lack of interest...not least of all on the part of the creator...the series \"The Journals of Simon Pariah\" is cancelled at AIM Comics.\nI've been flogging this dead horse for over two decades now, and it's time to admit that it's just not working. At this point, all I'm doing...when I'm doing anything at all...is rehashing old material, and I haven't got the fire in me to create any new stories. There's still a lot that could be done with the series, but I don't see myself doing it, and even if I did nobody's reading it. I've run it up the flagpole and no one's saluting.\nThat's not to say that I've got no creative ideas left at all...I've got more ideas than I have time to get to (that's a problem for another day). So, it's time to close the door on this project and see if I can't free up some brain space for something that I actually feel inspired to finish.\nThe existing books will remain on sale for now; they're pretty good in their own way so they might be worth a look. Other than that, the only project at AIM Comics for the next little while will be my reprints of Ian McDonald's \"Bruno the Bandit\" series. At least until I get something else interesting up and running.\nThat's all. Move on to something more interesting. I think I saw some cat gifs around here somewhere.\nLabels: aim comics, journals of simon pariah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 176.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ajmorris.me.uk/blog/?post_id=17&title=finished-at-last", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3FPZ2F6QWU7G4WL765WHR7NAPQ6UN56D", "length": 535, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ajmorris.me.uk", "title": "AJ Morris - My wee blog Finished at Last!", "raw_content": "This time I found I had to tread the difficult pathway of trying to make the book stand alone and also making it accessible to the readers of THE LAWS OF GARTSHERRIE who had already engaged with the core characters.\nIn April I hope to give a little presentation about the new book in Coatbridge or Airdrie, I\u2019ll also explain how a perfectly sensible wee woman took up writing in her 60\u2019s instead of going to rock concerts and drinking Prosecco. Not that there is anything wrong with a glass of Prosecco and I still have my Queen DVD\u2019s.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/Jilson/id/615", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:S3EM46TNTIWITND4L5FS3JPP766HACVL", "length": 604, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "album.atlantahistorycenter.com", "title": "Anderson, Bill :: Floyd Jillson Photographs", "raw_content": "Home Floyd Jillson Photographs Anderson, Bill\nTitle Anderson, Bill\nDescription View of country music performer Bill Anderson posing on a bridge crossing the North East Expressway (now Freedom Parkway with the Atlanta skyline as background.\nPersonal Name Anderson, Bill, 1937-\nType 4 x 5 in. color transparency\nNotes Bill Anderson is a country music song writer and performer. Raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Anderson attended the University of Georgia and wrote his first song at age 19. He was inducted in the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1985.\nAdd tags for Anderson, Bill\nPost a Comment for Anderson, Bill", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 6156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alisonxamon.org.au/public-and-health-sector-legislation-amendment-right-return-bill-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:23Z", "digest": "sha1:LA46XOTAJQMUBDINCIUUT2WCHMAI4WQV", "length": 18177, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "alisonxamon.org.au", "title": "PUBLIC AND HEALTH SECTOR LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (RIGHT OF RETURN) BILL 2018 | Hon Alison Xamon MLC", "raw_content": "PUBLIC AND HEALTH SECTOR LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (RIGHT OF RETURN) BILL 2018\nHON ALISON XAMON (North Metropolitan) [3.53 pm]: I rise as the lead speaker of the Greens on the Public and Health Sector Legislation Amendment (Right of Return) Bill 2018. This bill will make a number of changes to the employment of our public servants in the senior executive service, the SES. Their right of return will be changed in three ways. Firstly, they will be able to elect to include a right of return only in their first employment contract. They will no longer be able to elect to include it in subsequent employment contracts. Secondly, they will return to the department or the organisation that they are from, except for CEOs, who will go to the Public Sector Commission. I understand the second change is a fairly minor one that will not prevent them from transferring to another department or organisation, but simply ensures that someone has ultimate statutory responsibility for their employment rather than that person being left in limbo. Thirdly, the right of return will expire on the earliest day after the first contract of employment is terminated; or, if the term of appointment exceeds two years, two years after the person was first appointed; or, if the term of appointment does not exceed two years, the day after the end of the contract. For those who do not return, if they are entitled to compensation, this bill will reduce their compensation from being determined with reference to their entire remuneration to being determined with reference only to their salary component. The government has said that it estimates that this will save about 15 per cent per compensation payment.\nThe transitional provisions will apply to people who are currently on an SES contract and if people on their first contract elect the right of return, if the term does not exceed two years, their right of return will be preserved for that contract, and if the term exceeds two years but they have served less than two years, their right of return will expire after the later of six months or two years after their appointment started, unless the contract is terminated or expires earlier. If the term exceeds two years and they have already served two years or longer, their right of return will expire after six months, unless the contract is terminated or expires earlier. If elected, the right of return for people on a subsequent contract will expire after six months\u2014again, unless the contract is terminated or expires earlier\u2014and the bill\u2019s new provisions will apply unchanged to where they return to, and how any compensation entitlement is calculated. The bill\u2019s new provisions will also apply unchanged to calculate any existing compensation entitlement that has not yet been determined.\nFrom the outset, I want to make it very clear that the Greens do not support employers unilaterally changing workers\u2019 existing employment arrangements to those workers\u2019 detriment. Insofar as this bill does exactly that, we vigorously oppose it. It is not okay, whether the employer is a fast-food place, non-government organisation, mining company, charity, local government, state government or a small business. It is not okay, whether that employee is a pink-collar worker, a blue-collar worker, a white-collar worker, a senior executive or even a teenage child who happens to be in their first job. The principle is the same. This is not a precedent that the Greens are prepared to agree to. The Greens are strongly of the view that employment contracts need to be honoured and that it is unacceptable to unilaterally deviate from contracts that have been entered into in good faith. To try to push this through Parliament is a particularly grubby way to do it. Our objection, of course, does not apply to future employment contracts that a potential SES officer is free to accept or reject as they wish. They will at least have some idea of what they are signing up to. In that regard, the Greens do not necessarily have a concern. By all means, put in future contracts that employees have to turn up wearing clown shoes, if they like, as long as a future employee has had the opportunity to make that assessment and weigh up the pros and cons, depending on the opportunities that may be available to them. They can then make an informed choice about whether that suits the circumstances of their lives with their families and, indeed, their desired career prospects at that point.\nFor future employment contracts, the Greens still hold a different concern, and that is whether what is going to be on offer for future SES officers will be good enough to attract and retain accomplished, professional and committed people of integrity. That is exactly what we should be doing with our public service. I stress the importance of ensuring that we retain senior executive service officers. I remind members that the government of the day is not permanent, and ministers of the day tend to be even less so. The public sector therefore becomes an extremely important repository of corporate knowledge for a new minister to tap into and rely on.\nThe \u201cSpecial Inquiry into Government Programs and Projects, Final Report, Volume 1 \u2014 February 2018\u201d, which is an instrument of this government, put it this way on page 77 \u2014\nThe achievements of ministers so often depend upon the support of a team of public servants who time and again turn ministerial vision into reality, who prepare the plans and budget documents in line with strategic intent, and who are behind virtually every briefing which equips each minister to navigate his or her portfolio in a highly competent manner.\nWhen we talk about the importance of senior public servants, we need to ensure that they are able to give frank and fearless advice. We recognise that that is an extremely important part of their role. I emphasise that in addition to that, they need to give fully informed advice, and for that to happen, quite simply, they cannot all be newbies. We need to start respecting particularly those senior public servants who have been around for a very long time and who have learnt the system extraordinarily well. Ministers and government cannot do sound, evidence-based work if that evidence has been forgotten or lost, not without wasting time and taxpayer money doing the same work and, indeed, making the same mistakes over and again.\nThe \u201c2017 State of the sectors, Sustaining public trust through change\u201d report refers to the role of senior executives in the public service. I will quote the following, which can be found on page 35 \u2014\nOnly senior leaders can rise above the details of the business, recognise emerging patterns, make connections, and identify points of maximum leverage for action.\nPage 39 of the same report reads \u2014\nLeadership \u2018bench strength\u2019 has never been more important in light of the structural and policy changes around SES officers currently being experienced in the public sector.\nStriking the right balance between competing priorities is critical. Leaders also need to remain vigilant about the subtleties of workplace culture, employee engagement and accountability during these times to ensure the overall \u2018good health\u2019 of the workforce during change.\nPerforming those functions necessitates detailed corporate knowledge and an understanding of corporate history. Again going back to the Langoulant report on the importance of the role of directors general and chief executives, it reads \u2014\nThe Directors General and Chief Executives have a relatively greater coherence in approach to issues and reasonable levels of mutual respect. This group is vitally important to the successful development and implementation of the government\u2019s agenda and efforts to build the group as a high performing body must be given priority.\nWe must attract and, just as importantly, retain capable and committed people as SES officers or, quite simply, the Western Australian public will suffer.\nGoing back to the \u201c2017 State of the sectors\u201d report, it reads \u2014\nAs leadership is aspirational for many public officers, leadership roles must be valued and be seen as valuable in developing strong sectors and communities.\nThe Greens remain very concerned that even without the Public and Health Sector Legislation Amendment (Right of Return) Bill 2018, which, I think, will make matters even worse, SES officers are not being attracted, managed and retained in the way that they should be if they perform well. The Langoulant report included a quite telling quote from one particular director general, who was named in the report. I will not name that DG in Parliament today. Members can look at page 78 of the report. The director general said \u2014\n... If I was to say to my younger self, If you\u2019re interested in public policy, I wouldn\u2019t stay in government. I\u2019d go somewhere else and advise back into government ...\nThat is deeply concerning and something of which all members should be mindful.\nThe final report of the Service Priority Review, which is called \u201cWorking Together, One Public Sector Delivering For WA\u201d, considered the issue of SES officers. Chapter 5.1.2 made a number of very important points and noted that SES officers \u2014\n... are generally considered to be highly professional and hardworking \u2014\nI know quite a number of SES officers who work incredibly long hours, a bit like me \u2014\nand tend to possess strong technical expertise within specific agency or policy areas.\nIt noted that nevertheless they are not being used as envisaged under the Public Sector Management Act 1994, which envisaged SES officers being deployed within and between agencies to promote efficiency in the sector generally, as well as in individual agencies. It noted that the reasons they are not being used as they should be included that SES officers are so valued that agency heads do not want to let them go; that career progression is considered more likely if the officer stays at the same agency; and that the establishment of SES officer positions are based on technical and specialist skills rather than generic and transferable skills. The report also noted the disparate classification levels between agencies for similar roles and said that it is not clear whether current arrangements are delivering the best outcomes for attracting, retaining, managing and removing SES officers. The report further noted the significant differences between Australian jurisdictions as to the nature of their employment and what is offered to them, including issues with their terms and ongoing employment. There are also differences with the right of return.\nThe Service Priority Review report also said that it is not clear\u2014this is a particularly pertinent point\u2014what effect reducing the number of SES officers, removing their right of return and reducing their termination payment would have on the structure, composition and culture in the long term. Some of that work should have been done before contemplating the sorts of measures that are in front of us today. It also said that being an SES officer should be an aspirational career goal, providing rewarding and varied careers for high-performing public sector leaders. It states that the Public Sector Commissioner is in a position to lead a revision of arrangements to support agency heads in attracting, retaining and developing the best SES leaders, ensure that the SES is truly mobile and set clear SES performance expectations and assessments. The report noted that Western Australia should, as a matter of urgency, overhaul our SES arrangements to become a stable, mobile and high-performing leadership group. Recommendation 13 contains three suggested actions, the third of which is to \u2014\nRevise arrangements for the senior executive service to retain and develop a mobile and high performing leadership group.\nIt would appear that this piece of legislation is indulgent\u2014I agree with the previous speaker\u2014and it seems to fly in the face of all that considered thinking.\nThe recently tabled independent review of the Public Sector Commission made some further points. It confirmed the need for an efficient, mobile, high-performing state executive service. It identified that for this to happen, conditions and arrangements for the SES needed harmonising. It also identified that CEOs do not feel well enough supported in their employment or performance development. That should be of concern to everybody. The review strongly supported the intent of the service priority review to create one public sector working together to achieve big, bold initiatives. I reiterate that one public sector working together can hardly be achieved in the absence of corporate knowledge.\nTraditionally, the public sector attracts and retains people who could otherwise earn more in the private sector by offering them non-monetary benefits, particularly job security and workplace flexibility, yet, the government is taking away one of those very attractions for some of our best and brightest. Currently, SES officers are offered contracts of up to five years, with the option of returning to a non-SES role afterwards. If after that first contract they get a further contract, they can again elect the option of returning to a non-SES role afterwards. I note that most SES officers elect to have a right of return. When I was briefed on this bill in early October, the figures I was given indicated that 281 out of the 405 current SES officers, so 69 per cent, had made that election. I note that precise figures of how many SES officers take up that option in the end apparently have only been kept for a very short time, Ibelieve since March 2017. Iunderstand from the briefing that the voluntary scheme in September 2017 was targeted at 49 SES officers who had a right of return and 21 of them, so 43 per cent, chose to exercise that right and return. The 28 officers, or 57 per cent, who chose to accept severance did so with the act providing for compensation to be calculated taking all remuneration into account. I note that perhaps fewer of them would have accepted severance if this bill had amended the act, because it would have made the severance pay based on only the salary component of their remuneration and therefore about 15 per cent less.\nThis bill is a big double whammy for SES officers. The Greens are not persuaded on the information provided to us that the bill leaves enough incentive to attract and especially to retain SES officers of the high quality that Western Australians deserve. We cannot see why anyone would want to stay in the SES longer than the right of return lasts\u2014that is, two years at the most. I cannot see how this is a good outcome for a strong public service. In fact, the outcome strikes us as being strongly counterproductive to WA having a properly functioning SES. There are very good policy reasons for having a properly functioning SES and for having a cohort of very senior, capable and nimble public servants who move between departments and agencies and who have the potential to break down those silos and improve efficiencies. Page 17 of the 2017 \u201cState of the sectors\u201d report, which I have already referred to, states \u2014\nWith fewer people in the SES and other senior leadership positions across the sector, the medium-to-long term strategy will be around redefining and flattening organisational structures.\nFlat structures are typically intended to break down barriers and improve \u2018lateral\u2019 communication and networking across different parts and elements of the organisation ... Over the longer term, public sector agencies will be required to consider how to break down organisational silos in an effort to streamline processes, reduce duplication, more effectively share information and data and ultimately deliver better services to the community. It is anticipated this will take some time to fully achieve.\nPage 24 of that same report refers to Ernst and Young\u2019s 2016 assessment of the public sector\u2019s recruitment performance, and that identified six key themes, one of which was dealing with the silo effect. The report states \u2014\n... the sector would benefit from better knowledge sharing to avoid duplication and promote better sector-wide outcomes.\nThe Langoulant report also identified a need for effort to be put into breaking down silos and for central agencies to work together to ensure that directors general and CEOs are able to provide frank and fearless advice to their ministers. The Greens believe that this bill is completely inconsistent with those aims.\nI would also like to draw members\u2019 attention to the relationship between this bill and the subject matter of the non-government business motion moved last week, on 1 November. I foreshadowed this point on that day. That day One Nation moved a motion about reforms needed in the interests of good, transparent and democratic government, and as part of that motion it called for a two-year blackout period for public servants joining private operations that stand to benefit from insider knowledge. I remind members that the Green supported that. As I said then, it is gravely concerning when senior public servants are able to benefit commercially from the knowledge and trust placed in them as public servants and use it for their own personal benefit once they leave. If this bill passes, SES officers of two years or more stand to lose their permanency, and as a result they are going to have to look for work elsewhere, most notably in the private sector. Again, as I said during that debate, if we are going to be serious, as we should be, about maintaining the integrity of our public service and limiting public servants\u2019 ability to go to the private sector and benefit there, we are going to have to protect their permanency and this bill does not do that. I note that the Community and Public Sector Union\u2013Civil Service Association of WA opposes this bill on the basis that the removal of job security leaves public sector leaders vulnerable to losing both the right of return and adequate compensation if they have to supply inconvenient advice. For that reason, and many others, the Greens will oppose this legislation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 18936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aliteraryodyssey.blogspot.com/2011/06/book-85-mary-barton-finished.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OSDA2HPXZJJAJZWLCZW25UHUVRTCSB4V", "length": 3757, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "aliteraryodyssey.blogspot.com", "title": "A Literary Odyssey: Book 85: Mary Barton Finished.", "raw_content": "Regular readers know the format to my posts, but anyone who is newer to my blog should continue reading this first little paragraph (you can skip down if you know the spiel). I am never up-to-date with what I am currently reading, since I usually stop at random points to jot down thoughts. I make multiple posts per book and that usually means that I fall way, way behind. This is really no exception.\nI read Mary Barton back at the beginning of April. Usually this is not a problem when it comes time to writing posts since I am usually finalizing them a couple weeks after, but somehow Gaskell's work kept getting pushed to the side as other commitments kept popping up everywhere. I feel bad about this. Especially when I sat down to hammer out my posts on Gaskell's work to find that my notes are especially sparse. Whoops. But then I remembered that I read the bulk of this in my pneumonia stupor and during Dewey's readathon, when I was overtired and coughing every 3.4567 seconds.\nBut, I need to have something here, right? So this is my attempt at a short and sweet post to wrap this baby up and get on to the next books on my list (don't be surprised when it jumps to number 90. All the books in the middle were readalong books-they already HAVE posts).\nThis is the second work by Gaskell I've read. I read North and South ages ago and truly loved it. I even own the BBC adaptation and watch it regularly. The second Gaskell I read was Cranford, which I ran as one of the first readalongs last summer (in June I believe!). I really enjoyed that one as well, so I had really high hopes for this one.\nWhat my notes tell me, and what I can clearly remember, is that I was slightly disappointed by this one. It WAS Gaskell's first novel, and I think that it clearly shows she was still honing in her craft. The story meandered a bit, and lacked some of the spunk and fire that I loved in the other two titles I've read. The main character of Mary Barton seemed to flesh out about halfway through. The first half, while enjoyable, left me wanting something.\nThere was also too much...silly romance going on that distracted me in the first half. It seemed almost too simple for Gaskell and not what I expected.\nHowever, the novel changed about midway and from that point forward, I did enjoy its simplicity. Mary was fleshed out further and I came to understand Gaskell's goal. She was trying to capture the struggle between the classes in a new way for her time period. She does a much better job of this in North and South, but I understood where she was trying to go. I also came to love some of the other characters, including Mary's neighbors and friends. A look inside their homelife gave the novel a lift and optimism.\nI also loved the scandal surrounding the \"major event\" and the events that took place after. I think Gaskell did a great job finding a solution to the issues she raised.\nI just think she improved with age. :)\nAnyone else read this one? How do you think it compared to her other work?\nLabels: Elizabeth Gaskell, Finished, Mary Barton\nRebecca Reid June 7, 2011 at 11:33 AM\nCompletely agree with everything here. Disappoing compared to other Gaskell, but definitely shows her potential.\nShe wrote it as she was struggling to deal with the death of her son. I liked knowing the reasons behind WHY she decided to sit down and write for the first time.\nI have this on my shelf, but I haven't read it yet. Every time I pick it up, I make the mistake of reading the back cover, which I think may give away some of the important plot points, and that's kind of turned me off reading it. I loved North and South though, so I'd really like to read some more Gaskell. I'll just know not to expect quite the same level in this earlier book!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 6777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allenergies.net/about-gasification/104-all-energies-site/biofuels/gasification", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:05Z", "digest": "sha1:EYJIL7ARJ4PTHDNW6KNA5BRCCMKD47VZ", "length": 3965, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "allenergies.net", "title": "About Gasification", "raw_content": "Casey's Woodgas Truck\nOver one year ago, I began my first woodgas project, the Mazda truck that ran on gasified wood chunks. I spent thousands of hours on this project and learned a lot about wood gas and different types of gasifiers. We built two separate experimental cooling systems for the gasifier and drove over 90 miles on wood gas.\nI'm actually planning another experimental vehicle as a future project. Now that I am a little wiser on the subject, I am looking for a vehicle that has easily adjustable ignition timing and I will design a simpified gasifier that can be easily modified. Along with it, I would like to implement a more basic, lighter weight, and convection-style cooler /condenser.\nThe engine itself runs on the gasses produced in a greatly choked fire. The flammable gasses are Hydrogen, Methane and Carbon Monoxide. To get a suitable amount of these gasses requires specific conditions in the combustion chamber.\nThe basic premise of using woodgas in automobiles is well known and was most popular during World War II, when petroleum fuel shortage was always a concern. There are many different designs for gasification systems, however, and if you are considering modifying your own vehicle, you will possibly have to pay someone for his or her plans.\nMy design is a modification of other plans I had found, and almost the entire system is made from recycled or salvaged materials. The only byproducts of woodgas are water, soot, and creosote, which are the same as using a woodstove in your home. Also, the carbon released in the burning process is the same amount the wood would naturally release as it decomposed, meaning woodgas fuel is nearly carbon neutral as far as atmospheric pollution is concerned. And let's not forget, you can always grow more trees, whereas oil takes millions of years and conditions that are just right.\nCategory: Biofuels / Gasification\nBiofueled Electric Generator\nThere are many people out there who live off the national electric grid. They typically use wind, solar, hydro, and/or a petroleum fueled IC (internal combustion) generator. More often than you would expect, the petroleum fueled generator is used as a backup or -- even worse -- the sole power source. This in most cases causes a greater carbon footprint than if they were just connected to the grid.\nSo our EVs, cabins, and homes\nRead more: Biofueled Electric Generator\nA well designed and fueled gasifier will have efficiencies ranging from 40-80%, which is a good value, but this percentage only factors \"energy-in versus energy-out\" of the gasifier itself. The device which combusts the syngas for its end use has its own efficiency, and combining this efficiency with that of the gasifier results in a lower overall efficiency number. Evaluating the energy-in versus energy-out of your total system is very important, especially when searching for areas in need of improvement. A common technique to improve efficiency is cogeneration (CHP, or \"combined heat and power\"). Cogeneration is the reclamation of what would otherwise be wasted heat, taking the excess heat from one or more of the following components: the gasifier itself, cooling components, the internal combustion engine, the gas turbine, or the electric generator. This reclaimed thermal energy can then be used to dry the fuel, for space heating, or even for cooling and refrigeration.\nThere are four main types of Gasifiers:\n-Downdraft or Imbert\n-Updraft\n-Fluidized bed\n-Cross Draft\nThere have been many variations on these designs, some with very surprising results. The main reason for these gasifier modifications is the need for optimal results with a particular fuel or gas requirement.\nFor internal combustion use, the Imbert gasifier is ideal, as it produces the least amount of tar and particulates. The operation of the Imbert will be described in detail here, although other gasifier types work on similar principles.\nRead more: Gasifier Types\nAbout Wood Gas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 5130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alyvea.com/anatomy/chemical-bonds.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:07Z", "digest": "sha1:4O2LCTVITLV6HOFNTNSVR2LMHINVP6SU", "length": 15509, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "alyvea.com", "title": "Chemical Bonds- Online Textbook Chapter - Alyvea.com", "raw_content": "Explain the relationship between molecules and compounds\nDistinguish between ions, cations, and anions\nIdentify the key difference between ionic and covalent bonds\nDistinguish between nonpolar and polar covalent bonds\nExplain how water molecules link via hydrogen bonds\nAtoms separated by a great distance cannot link; rather, they must come close enough for the electrons in their valence shells to interact. But do atoms ever actually touch one another? Most physicists would say no, because the negatively charged electrons in their valence shells repel one another. No force within the human body\u2014or anywhere in the natural world\u2014is strong enough to overcome this electrical repulsion. So when you read about atoms linking together or colliding, bear in mind that the atoms are not merging in a physical sense.\nInstead, atoms link by forming a chemical bond. A bond is a weak or strong electrical attraction that holds atoms in the same vicinity. The new grouping is typically more stable\u2014less likely to react again\u2014than its component atoms were when they were separate. A more or less stable grouping of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds is called a molecule. The bonded atoms may be of the same element, as in the case of H2, which is called molecular hydrogen or hydrogen gas. When a molecule is made up of two or more atoms of different elements, it is called a chemical compound. Thus, a unit of water, or H2O, is a compound, as is a single molecule of the gas methane, or CH4.\nThree types of chemical bonds are important in human physiology, because they hold together substances that are used by the body for critical aspects of homeostasis, signaling, and energy production, to name just a few important processes. These are ionic bonds, covalent bonds, and hydrogen bonds.\nIons and Ionic Bonds\nRecall that an atom typically has the same number of positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons. As long as this situation remains, the atom is electrically neutral. But when an atom participates in a chemical reaction that results in the donation or acceptance of one or more electrons, the atom will then become positively or negatively charged. This happens frequently for most atoms in order to have a full valence shell, as described previously. This can happen either by gaining electrons to fill a shell that is more than half-full, or by giving away electrons to empty a shell than is less than half-full, thereby leaving the next smaller electron shell as the new, full, valence shell. An atom that has an electrical charge\u2014whether positive or negative\u2014is an ion.\nVisit this website to learn about electrical energy and the attraction/repulsion of charges. What happens to the charged electroscope when a conductor is moved between its plastic sheets, and why?\nPotassium (K), for instance, is an important element in all body cells. Its atomic number is 19. It has just one electron in its valence shell. This characteristic makes potassium highly likely to participate in chemical reactions in which it donates one electron. (It is easier for potassium to donate one electron than to gain seven electrons.) The loss will cause the positive charge of potassium\u2019s protons to be more influential than the negative charge of potassium\u2019s electrons. In other words, the resulting potassium ion will be slightly positive. A potassium ion is written K+, indicating that it has lost a single electron. A positively charged ion is known as a cation.\nNow consider fluorine (F), a component of bones and teeth. Its atomic number is nine, and it has seven electrons in its valence shell. Thus, it is highly likely to bond with other atoms in such a way that fluorine accepts one electron (it is easier for fluorine to gain one electron than to donate seven electrons). When it does, its electrons will outnumber its protons by one, and it will have an overall negative charge. The ionized form of fluorine is called fluoride, and is written as F\u2013. A negatively charged ion is known as an anion.\nAtoms that have more than one electron to donate or accept will end up with stronger positive or negative charges. A cation that has donated two electrons has a net charge of +2. Using magnesium (Mg) as an example, this can be written Mg++ or Mg2+. An anion that has accepted two electrons has a net charge of \u20132. The ionic form of selenium (Se), for example, is typically written Se2\u2013.\nThe opposite charges of cations and anions exert a moderately strong mutual attraction that keeps the atoms in close proximity forming an ionic bond. An ionic bond is an ongoing, close association between ions of opposite charge. The table salt you sprinkle on your food owes its existence to ionic bonding. As shown in [link], sodium commonly donates an electron to chlorine, becoming the cation Na+. When chlorine accepts the electron, it becomes the chloride anion, Cl\u2013. With their opposing charges, these two ions strongly attract each other.\n(a) Sodium readily donates the solitary electron in its valence shell to chlorine, which needs only one electron to have a full valence shell. (b) The opposite electrical charges of the resulting sodium cation and chloride anion result in the formation of a bond of attraction called an ionic bond. (c) The attraction of many sodium and chloride ions results in the formation of large groupings called crystals.\nWater is an essential component of life because it is able to break the ionic bonds in salts to free the ions. In fact, in biological fluids, most individual atoms exist as ions. These dissolved ions produce electrical charges within the body. The behavior of these ions produces the tracings of heart and brain function observed as waves on an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) or an electroencephalogram (EEG). The electrical activity that derives from the interactions of the charged ions is why they are also called electrolytes.\nUnlike ionic bonds formed by the attraction between a cation\u2019s positive charge and an anion\u2019s negative charge, molecules formed by a covalent bond share electrons in a mutually stabilizing relationship. Like next-door neighbors whose kids hang out first at one home and then at the other, the atoms do not lose or gain electrons permanently. Instead, the electrons move back and forth between the elements. Because of the close sharing of pairs of electrons (one electron from each of two atoms), covalent bonds are stronger than ionic bonds.\n[link] shows several common types of covalent bonds. Notice that the two covalently bonded atoms typically share just one or two electron pairs, though larger sharings are possible. The important concept to take from this is that in covalent bonds, electrons in the outermost valence shell are shared to fill the valence shells of both atoms, ultimately stabilizing both of the atoms involved. In a single covalent bond, a single electron is shared between two atoms, while in a double covalent bond, two pairs of electrons are shared between two atoms. There even are triple covalent bonds, where three atoms are shared.\nYou can see that the covalent bonds shown in [link] are balanced. The sharing of the negative electrons is relatively equal, as is the electrical pull of the positive protons in the nucleus of the atoms involved. This is why covalently bonded molecules that are electrically balanced in this way are described as nonpolar; that is, no region of the molecule is either more positive or more negative than any other.\nGroups of legislators with completely opposite views on a particular issue are often described as \u201cpolarized\u201d by news writers. In chemistry, a polar molecule is a molecule that contains regions that have opposite electrical charges. Polar molecules occur when atoms share electrons unequally, in polar covalent bonds.\nThe most familiar example of a polar molecule is water ([link]). The molecule has three parts: one atom of oxygen, the nucleus of which contains eight protons, and two hydrogen atoms, whose nuclei each contain only one proton. Because every proton exerts an identical positive charge, a nucleus that contains eight protons exerts a charge eight times greater than a nucleus that contains one proton. This means that the negatively charged electrons present in the water molecule are more strongly attracted to the oxygen nucleus than to the hydrogen nuclei. Each hydrogen atom\u2019s single negative electron therefore migrates toward the oxygen atom, making the oxygen end of their bond slightly more negative than the hydrogen end of their bond.\nPolar Covalent Bonds in a Water Molecule\nWhat is true for the bonds is true for the water molecule as a whole; that is, the oxygen region has a slightly negative charge and the regions of the hydrogen atoms have a slightly positive charge. These charges are often referred to as \u201cpartial charges\u201d because the strength of the charge is less than one full electron, as would occur in an ionic bond. As shown in [link], regions of weak polarity are indicated with the Greek letter delta (\u2202) and a plus (+) or minus (\u2013) sign.\nEven though a single water molecule is unimaginably tiny, it has mass, and the opposing electrical charges on the molecule pull that mass in such a way that it creates a shape somewhat like a triangular tent (see [link]b). This dipole, with the positive charges at one end formed by the hydrogen atoms at the \u201cbottom\u201d of the tent and the negative charge at the opposite end (the oxygen atom at the \u201ctop\u201d of the tent) makes the charged regions highly likely to interact with charged regions of other polar molecules. For human physiology, the resulting bond is one of the most important formed by water\u2014the hydrogen bond.\nA hydrogen bond is formed when a weakly positive hydrogen atom already bonded to one electronegative atom (for example, the oxygen in the water molecule) is attracted to another electronegative atom from another molecule. In other words, hydrogen bonds always include hydrogen that is already part of a polar molecule.\nThe most common example of hydrogen bonding in the natural world occurs between molecules of water. It happens before your eyes whenever two raindrops merge into a larger bead, or a creek spills into a river. Hydrogen bonding occurs because the weakly negative oxygen atom in one water molecule is attracted to the weakly positive hydrogen atoms of two other water molecules ([link]).\nHydrogen Bonds between Water Molecules\nNotice that the bonds occur between the weakly positive charge on the hydrogen atoms and the weakly negative charge on the oxygen atoms. Hydrogen bonds are relatively weak, and therefore are indicated with a dotted (rather than a solid) line.\nWater molecules also strongly attract other types of charged molecules as well as ions. This explains why \u201ctable salt,\u201d for example, actually is a molecule called a \u201csalt\u201d in chemistry, which consists of equal numbers of positively-charged sodium (Na+) and negatively-charged chloride (Cl\u2013), dissolves so readily in water, in this case forming dipole-ion bonds between the water and the electrically-charged ions (electrolytes). Water molecules also repel molecules with nonpolar covalent bonds, like fats, lipids, and oils. You can demonstrate this with a simple kitchen experiment: pour a teaspoon of vegetable oil, a compound formed by nonpolar covalent bonds, into a glass of water. Instead of instantly dissolving in the water, the oil forms a distinct bead because the polar water molecules repel the nonpolar oil.\nEach moment of life, atoms of oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and the other elements of the human body are making and breaking chemical bonds. Ions are charged atoms that form when an atom donates or accepts one or more negatively charged electrons. Cations (ions with a positive charge) are attracted to anions (ions with a negative charge). This attraction is called an ionic bond. In covalent bonds, the participating atoms do not lose or gain electrons, but rather share them. Molecules with nonpolar covalent bonds are electrically balanced, and have a linear three-dimensional shape. Molecules with polar covalent bonds have \u201cpoles\u201d\u2014regions of weakly positive and negative charge\u2014and have a triangular three-dimensional shape. An atom of oxygen and two atoms of hydrogen form water molecules by means of polar covalent bonds. Hydrogen bonds link hydrogen atoms already participating in polar covalent bonds to anions or electronegative regions of other polar molecules. Hydrogen bonds link water molecules, resulting in the properties of water that are important to living things.\nThe plastic sheets jump to the nail (the conductor), because the conductor takes on electrons from the electroscope, reducing the repellant force of the two sheets.\nWhich of the following is a molecule, but not a compound?\nA molecule of ammonia contains one atom of nitrogen and three atoms of hydrogen. These are linked with ________.\nWhen an atom donates an electron to another atom, it becomes\nan anion\nA substance formed of crystals of equal numbers of cations and anions held together by ionic bonds is called a(n) ________.\nWhich of the following statements about chemical bonds is true?\nCovalent bonds are stronger than ionic bonds.\nHydrogen bonds occur between two atoms of hydrogen.\nBonding readily occurs between nonpolar and polar molecules.\nA molecule of water is unlikely to bond with an ion.\nExplain why CH4 is one of the most common molecules found in nature. Are the bonds between the atoms ionic or covalent?\nA carbon atom has four electrons in its valence shell. According to the octet rule, it will readily participate in chemical reactions that result in its valence shell having eight electrons. Hydrogen, with one electron, will complete its valence shell with two. Electron sharing between an atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen meets the requirements of all atoms. The bonds are covalent because the electrons are shared: although hydrogen often participates in ionic bonds, carbon does not because it is highly unlikely to donate or accept four electrons.\nIn a hurry one day, you merely rinse your lunch dishes with water. As you are drying your salad bowl, you notice that it still has an oily film. Why was the water alone not effective in cleaning the bowl?\nWater is a polar molecule. It has a region of weakly positive charge and a region of weakly negative charge. These regions are attracted to ions as well as to other polar molecules. Oils are nonpolar, and are repelled by water.\nCould two atoms of oxygen engage in ionic bonding? Why or why not?\nIdentical atoms have identical electronegativity and cannot form ionic bonds. Oxygen, for example, has six electrons in its valence shell. Neither donating nor accepting the valence shell electrons of the other will result in the oxygen atoms completing their valence shells. Two atoms of the same element always form covalent bonds.\natom with a negative charge\nelectrical force linking atoms\natom with a positive charge\nchemical bond in which two atoms share electrons, thereby completing their valence shells\ndipole-dipole bond in which a hydrogen atom covalently bonded to an electronegative atom is weakly attracted to a second electronegative atom\natom with an overall positive or negative charge\nattraction between an anion and a cation\ntwo or more atoms covalently bonded together\nmolecule with regions that have opposite charges resulting from uneven numbers of electrons in the nuclei of the atoms participating in the covalent bond", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 17666, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ammarpopularff.com/3527/without-border/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:56Z", "digest": "sha1:DPI6YBB2XGXCNCG5TTBJJMHAXNXTEDWN", "length": 1047, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ammarpopularff.com", "title": "Without Border", "raw_content": "Hamid Abdollahzadeh\nSenior Iranian general who helped to rebuild Lebanon\n\u201cWithout Borders\u201d is a documentary which its narrative highlights the personal characteristics of a senior Iranian general who has been tasked with helping rebuild Lebanon after Israel's 33-day war on the Arab country back in the summer of 2006. The storyline of the documentary shows how Hassan Shateri dedicated his entire life to fight against the Zionist regime of Israel and rebuild Lebanon. He was in charge of Tehran's reconstruction assistance in Lebanon, at the Iranian Embassy in Beirut. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander was later martyred by Israeli-backed terrorists in Syria in 2013. The story is narrated by the Lebanese people talking about Martyr Shateri\u2019s works and services across the country, particularly Dahieh neighborhood on the southern suburbs of Beirut. The documentary, in some parts, focuses on Martyr Shateri\u2019s ethical attitudes. An interview with Dahieh\u2019s mayor about the martyr\u2019s works and services is also included in the short film.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 221.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://anneelisabethstengl.blogspot.com/2017/01/doings-at-drakenheath-looking-to-2017.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QFSAWVTNKG53CBT4PXUMNW66RLV2EXXH", "length": 13127, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "anneelisabethstengl.blogspot.com", "title": "Tales of Goldstone Wood: Doings at Drakenheath - Looking to 2017", "raw_content": "Is Rooglewood Press publishing your new series?\nWe'll all miss Goldstone Wood terribly but I'm excited for you that you are tackling what sounds like a very different sort of project. I hope it goes very well for your little family!\n(Also, are you and your mum still writing a book together? That sounded intriguing.)\nWell I lover darker and more adult, so I hope you find you under your pen name. I like authors who are edgy, so I'm sure the new series will be good.\nLooking forward to your new series. I hope I can find you. If you ever choose to reveal your new pen name, please let me know!! :)\nI'm excited about the upcoming contest -- and VERY much looking forward to it. I am sad that it will be the last one for a while, but I understand. Just as your blog and series have to shift for real life, so do other things. Last year was like that for me. May God guide your steps!\nI'm sad to see Goldstone wood come to an end, but I understand the financial struggle.\nI dont suppose you would let your hard core fans read some of what you have already written for the next book in the Tales of Goldstone Wood?\nBut please please please are you going to publish Poison Crown, since it's already written? We could last years off of that, I promise!\nI will (selfishly) admit that I'm disappointed about the pen name... I'll have to go hunting if I want to find more content from one of my favorite authors ever. Though I understand that you're kind of making a fresh start for yourself.\nYour faithful imps will always be awaiting your return!\nI'm sad to hear that Goldstone Wood is ending for now. It's one of my favorite series, and will continue to be so whether you keep writing the series or not. However, I do understand why you feel you have to put them on hold. And, honestly, it's not like you're leaving us on a cliffhanger or anything. Most of the significant plot threads have been resolved; those few that remain we can content ourselves with headcanons on until you're able to return to the series (and certain ones, I'm not sure if they would've been resolved at all anyway).\nI'm very much looking forward to the one last fairy tale retellings contest! (I also know what story I'm predicting/hoping for . . .)\nBest of fortune in your new series. I don't know if I'll try to track it down or not, just to see what this series is. But I hope it goes well.\nI am so sorry to hear about the end of Goldstone Wood for now. I understand your reasons and am glad that you are thinking of your precious family. Goldstone Wood has deepened me as a person and a writer and I look up to you as a writer who has put her heart, mind, and soul into writing. Thank you for all your dedication and work. We cannot express our thanks in words to you. I pray the best for you in your new endeavors and will seek out your new series under your pen name. May Lume' shine on your path Anne. Wishing you well. We will always be your faithful imps. :) <3\nVarvare said...\nthough I'm very sad( I literally teared up) family should always come first! But please put out poison crown! Having those books will probably help me pull through until you begin writing goldstone again :)\nIs the secret project in the same genre? Or are we not even allowed to know that? I do really want to know what it is! But I understand how you want to keep your names separated. This is sad but thank you for all the books you have written, they are amazing!\nThank you for all you have given to us through your writing. I know you poured your heart into the TALES OF GOLDSTONE WOOD. Truly they were some of the deepest, most encouraging, even healing, books that I have read. I know of many who love the Wood. You showed us so beautifully over and over again that when we find ourselves in darkness to listen for our Prince's call and follow Him to the light. Thank you again, Anne Elisabeth. We will dearly miss you. May God bless and keep your family and may His face shine upon you all, and of course, your new endeavor.\nVery disappointed too, but I understand. I hope you succeed in your new books! I also hope I can find them too.I'll miss the Tales of Goldstone Wood and hope you reboot it again some day!\nI am literally almost in tears . . .\nI am really going to miss this series and the characters (Especially Eanrin who never fails to make me laugh and brighten my day), but I can see why you have to move on and may you be blessed in your new writing endeavors!\nI hope I figure out which books you wrote under the new name because I will be eager to try them out!\nIt's three days later and I still don't know what to think or say. I've only been in this fandom for a year and already it's one of my favorites. I can only say I understand why you have to do this (money is important, after all), though I'm very sorry it's going on pause for a while. I just hope that you'll be able to come back to it as soon as possible!\nI just read this, and I'm in a bit of a shock right now. I'm so sad about Goldstone Wood ending for now (let's call it a hiatus, it seems less scary), but the reason is understandable. Your family needs you! :) I'm also interested to know if there's any way that we could track down The Ridiculously Huge Project once it's published...I'm interested in anything that you write, no matter what! You've become one of my favorite authors (if not my favorite) since I started to read these books way-back-when. I've been excited for it since you've mentioned it!\nLike a few other people, I'm also really curious about the book you mentioned with your mother, since I'm also a huge fan of Diana Wynne Jones' style of writing, which you mentioned it was similar to. Also, is a release of Poison Crown and/or just a few excerpts in the cards? Or possibly short stories, like Fallen Star?\nI hope that everything goes well for you in all your projects! You're a truly talented author! :)\n(And until this hiatus is over, I'll just keep re-reading and daydreaming about Imraldera and Eanrin...)\nSad to hear about this, but good luck to your family!\nI am very sad to hear that you won't be able to work on Goldstone Wood for the forseeable future, and tears have been shed, but I completely understand. Actually, I saw it coming, especially once you introduced us to Una. I may not have kids of my own, but I know that they and other necessary life stuff can be expensive, and money makes the world go 'round, as the saying goes. I thank you so much for the stories that you were able to give us. They've me laugh, cry, and smile, they've inspired me, and made me strive to be a better writer. And who knows? Life can change so fast that maybe you'll be able to get back to your literary babies sooner than you think. :) Until then, for us fans, there's always rereads. :)\nAs for your new series, well, I admit I'm not always into darker stories, but then, it can depend on the reason for the \"darkness\". Even if I personally don't like your new stuff, I'm sure you'll find your audience, and I wish you all the best with it. :)\nThe Rooglewood Press contest: Silly as it sounds, the fact that it's the last one makes me really nervous. I was so very disappointed in myself last time for not even being able to finish my story to send it in. Lots of tears happened. But then, I hadn't read any retellings before, so looking back I can see how I wasn't ready to write something like that at that point in time. Maybe now that I'm more familiar with that sort of thing, I'll be able to do better. Even if I don't win, it will be a major accomplishment for me to finish and submit something, so I (nervously) look forward to trying.\nAs always, I pray for you and your family often and will continue to do so. I wish God's blessings on your every endeavor. May He guide your Path wherever it leads. <3\nGREG AND MONICA said...\nJust terrified my family with my cries of dismay.\nI totally understand, but I was expecting to have Poison Crown to finish it off. :(\nHope your precious Una is doing well! I look forward to your new series. I can't wait to read it!\nI haven't been able to comment anything because I've been recovering from this disappointing news. I just want to thank you for taking the time these past few years to give us the stories that we do have. This series changed my life while I was in my darkest times. It has changed the way I view the world. Thank you, and may God bless you and your family\nWill we be getting Poison Crown??\nThank you so, so much for all the wonderful Tales of Goldstone Wood books you've written! This series was one of the first that I really, truly fell in love with, and both you and them have had a huge impact on me. Your announcement only makes me cherish the books even more!\nPlease don't feel bad for making writing decisions based on money. People like to talk about \"doing art for art's sake\" and whatever, but financial need is a very real issue. If these books aren't selling and bringing in needed money (which...makes me kinda angry, to be honest, because these books are incredible and should be bigger sellers), then it's only sensible to put them on hold and focus on things that might do better. I admire you immensely for thinking about what will best for your family.\nThis announcement really does break my heart, but I can completely understand. And I am hoping right along with you that someday we'll get more Tales of Goldstone Wood. It could be twenty years, thirty years, fifty years, but I'll still be a devoted Imp at heart. <3\nAnd about the Ridiculously Huge Project...I've honestly always loved when already established authors publish things surreptitiously under different names, and I feel like that would be a lot of fun for you. I shall be keeping a careful eye on all upcoming releases....\nGhost Ryter said pretty much everything I was going to say. :) I have loved and will continue to love your books, Anne Elisabeth, and I pray your future endeavours are even more successful. Goldstone Wood will always have a special place in my heart. I'm so grateful for all the novels I have to reread (and all the novellas I have yet to read). I can't imagine how difficult this decision was for you, but I'm confident that God has gifted you, and He will keep using that gift to bless your readers! I hope to sniff out your new books under the pen name (since I rather enjoy darker books)!\nPraying blessings over you and your family!\nP.S. Both Tales of Goldstone Wood and participating in all the fairy tale contests up to this point have been instrumental in my writing journey, and I can't thank you enough. You have no idea of the positive impact you've been making on people. :)\nMama Quinn said...\nPlease please please consider releasing Poison Crown. We are so looking forward to it. It will help tide us over, as so many others said.\nPraying for blessings on your new ventures in writing. God's got this.\nSo sad to see this, but thank you for the beautiful books so far, and best wishes for you in your new journeys of life and writing. :)\nI'm sad to see this end for now, but I'm so excited for your life and whatever plans god has for you! Thank you for being an inspiration, and for showing me how freeing and exciting writing Christian fiction can be. You've helped me grow a lot. (I, foolishly, didn't even realize that was a genre, at least not with my fantastical interests and influence.)\nThis is literally my favourite series, right next to the Chronicles of Narnia. (I'm a total geek. xD)\nGood luck in your future pursuits!\n~Angelique C.\nKatie Bond said...\nI've just discovered your books and you are brilliant! I wish I understood enough about writing so I could explain why. It's like you have this story already woven together in your head that's a thousand books long and everything is related. No one is irredeemable, everyone needs redeeming. I've rarely seen such a talented author weave such a beautiful message into such amazing stories. I feel like if more people knew about them, they would fly off the shelves! I guess it's difficult to be that book that says READ ME before you even open it when it's on the shelf with millions of other books trying to do the same thing, but I wished I tried these a long time ago. If they were audiobooks, I definitely would have. I am telling my friends and family about them and will pressure them to read if I have to buy them all a copy!\nLifestory said...\nA Branch of Silver, A Branch of Gold was probably one of the best stories I have read. I would say don't give up on Goldstone, even if it's just something you work on in your spare time ( What's that, right?). Every writer needs a pleasure project to release and be herself, even if it's just short stories that you post here. If you don't give yourself a creative space, you'll suffocate. Thanks for writing great books.\nI was wondering if anyone could tell me what Anne Elisabeth Stengls pen name is , I have been searching for it but can not seem to find it I would appreciate it, thanks.\nTom Williams said...\nNice post.Looking forward to your new series.It's make me almost crying.I was expecting to have Poison Crown to finish it off. :( Good luck.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 20318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://anthropology.virginia.edu/search404?destination=node/387", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ELHUOMI4FYWEKTW6SDZFO6IZ3NM2SB4U", "length": 680, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "anthropology.virginia.edu", "title": "Page not found | Department of Anthropology", "raw_content": "Course Descriptions- Summer 2008\nLinguistics 228, 264 259, 252, 262 381, 387 240 Major Requirements Non-Western perspectives for the majors ... 387-introduces students to contemporary archaeological fieldwork through participation in research on a Late ... their own history. 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New York: Oxford University Press. 2004- Drumming, Divination, ...\ndetection numbers in group cohomology, Advances in Math. 216 (2007), 387-442. 434-924-7123 ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://appellatelaw-nj.com/category/administrative-matters/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUFQCUIZ6ERF7MC3VPFA5YEPRZ7N6P6K", "length": 1512, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "appellatelaw-nj.com", "title": "Administrative matters - 2/50 - Appellate Law NJ Blog", "raw_content": "The Supreme Court Solicits Amicus Briefs on Additur and Remittitur\nPosted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Nov 8, 2018 in Administrative matters, Supreme Court of New Jersey | 0 comments\nThe Supreme Court announced the unusual step of soliciting amicus curiae briefs from anyone who might wish to file one in the case of Orientale v. Jennings, an auto accident matter summarized here. The Court heard oral argument in that case on October 9, 2018 and yesterday published an Order dated November 1, 2018. In that Order, the Court requested supplemental briefing from the parties and from amicus New Jersey Association for Justice, to be submitted simultaneously on December 10, 2018, on the following issues: 1) Should both parties have the right to object to a trial court\u2019s...\nAppellate Division Statistics for the 2017-18 Term\nPosted by Bruce D. Greenberg on Oct 26, 2018 in Administrative matters, Appellate Division | 0 comments\nThe annual summary of Appellate Division statistics is out. They cover the 2017-18 Term, which ended on August 31, 2018. Once again, the figures have stayed remarkably consistent from year to year. In civil cases decided by two-judge panels, 75% resulted in affirmances. The affirmance rate for three-judge civil cases was slightly lower, at 69%. There were 1,087 two-judge civil opinions and 518 three-judge civil rulings hat produced affirmances. On the criminal side, there were 1,126 two-judge opinions and 129 three-judge decisions where lower court rulings were affirmed. 88% of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.southreporter.com/scoreboard.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:07Z", "digest": "sha1:IBUAI2WJ6WTAGK4I3764YVA7ARAS3OYB", "length": 2288, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "archive.southreporter.com", "title": "Behind The Scoreboard - Claude Vinson", "raw_content": "Behind The Scoreboard\nCowboys draw lots of local support\nA couple or so \u201cScoreboards\u201d back, it was alluded that the \u201ccoaching carousel\u201d had already begun its annual grind. You all know that those stories are usually reserved to the end of the NFL season, after the Super Bowl has been played out as a result of the championships in the American and National conferences.\nNow, week number eight has just concluded (save Monday night\u2019s challenge between Washington and Dallas), and I still am being hit with questions every week on \u201cJust how far are the Cowboys going this season?\u201d I would more than love to say that I have your answer, but I don\u2019t (imagine that!). We all know that in this corner of Mississippi (at least) we are deep in \u201cCowboy Country.\u201d And their fan base has had good reason to revive itself with their recent play.\nHeading up this week, the members of America\u2019s team were leading the National Conference from the East (division), with a 6-1 mark. Just a short while ago, Dallas made the cadre of armchair quarterbacks really grab their arms a little tighter when the \u2019Boys defeated the defending champs Seahawks on October 12 at Seattle, no less. The Cowboys\u2019 30-23 win gave the Seahawks only their second defeat in their last 24 games. Cowboy kicker Dan Dailey became the most accurate kicker in the history of the NFL when he tied the game 10-10 in the second quarter.\nWe have pointed out before that the Redskins are having major problems and are limping along at 2-5 this season. I can\u2019t see redemption in Monday night\u2019s contest (October 27).\nI am not going to give away any future \u201cScoreboard\u201d story lines, but as of this offering there is easily a half dozen head coaches who will be feeling the squeeze. Perhaps, the most tragic of these is Mike Smith of the Atlanta Falcons. Smith had led the Falcons to a remarkable turnaround, but the team had a poor showing in London (England) on Sunday against Detroit. Mind you, the Lions are not pikers at 6-2 (now), but the Falcons had them down 21-0 at halftime. They came back to win 22-21. The loss couldn\u2019t be blamed on the weather.\nWe are not going to run a litany on \u201chot seat\u201d coaches, but it suffices to say that a 2-5 record isn\u2019t the worst. After all, there were a couple of 1-6s going into week number eight.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 3236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://artkabinett.com/ak-file/koons-creates-manhattan-mega-mansion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2MGZR2VHKGITBYWDWADPSKLE54UVMGA2", "length": 2185, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "artkabinett.com", "title": "Koons Creates Manhattan Mega-Mansion | ArtKabinett", "raw_content": "Art star Jeff Koons triumphantly opened a massive retrospective at the Whitney this week, the museum\u2019s last before it moves downtown.\nBut less than 10 blocks away, he\u2019s undertaking \u00adanother huge project that\u2019s been years in the making: combining two Upper East Side mansions into one of the city\u2019s biggest homes.\nArt collectors of Art Kabinett social media network are always impressed with the commercial wizardry of Koons.\nThe artist bought the houses at 11 and 13 E. 67th St., across from Bob Guccione\u2019s former mansion now owned by Philip Falcone, in separate deals back in 2009.\nHe was in contract on one of the houses for two years before that, and unsuccessfully attempted to purchase 9 E. 67th St. from Janna Bullock before getting No. 13 from the estate of Barbara Rockefeller.\nBut his 2010 application with the Department of Buildings to gut the houses and create a mega-mansion with a pool, gym and maids quarters was rejected.\nA revised plan was approved last year, records show, and a permit for the full renovation was issued on April 9, Page Six has found. The job is estimated to cost $4.85 million.\nHowever, not everyone\u2019s thrilled now that construction has begun. \u201cThey\u2019re always blocking the street with no regard for the neighbors.\nIt\u2019s reckless,\u201d huffed a denizen of the block. \u201cAt first we all rolled our eyes. Now we\u2019re practically ready to organize neighborhood protests.\u201d\nA \u00adlocal renter added, \u201cIt must be nice to not only be an artist but to be your own Medici.\u201d Koons\u2019 \u00adoffice didn\u2019t respond to a request for comment.\nThe homes currently total 21,726 of interior square footage, records show, and Koons\u2019 approved plan will bring that down to 19,325 square feet. Peter Pennoyer is listed as architect.\nHe fittingly once worked on Keith Haring\u2019s Soho Pop Shop and the Warhol Factory.\nThe architect on the 2010 plan was reportedly listed as Richard Olcott of Ennead Architects, who worked on the Yale University Art Gallery and Carnegie Hall.\nKoons holds the record for getting the highest price for a work by any living artist: His \u201cBalloon Dog (Orange)\u201d went for $58.4 million last year.\nHis prices are expected to spike further with his popular Whitney show.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1440, "original_length": 48820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://artprotx.com/?page=board", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GNLQO4JIWD5YOFW3U6ISXDW3GHW3ZI3R", "length": 3741, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "artprotx.com", "title": "APT: Art Professionals of Texas - Board", "raw_content": "--George Woodcock\nOrganizational Support Team\nLet us know if you have an interest in volunteering to help support the arts!\nvm 469.506.2224 | cassandra@artprotx.com\nCassandra brings six years experience as Board of Director of art organizations to APT; as one of the founding members of APT in 2011, and prior to that as vice president and board member of a major sculpture association in Texas. Over the past two decades, she has curated multi-media art and gallery exhibits, including A Night at the Muzeion, Microcosm, Collaborage, (both Project and Exhibit Director); Breaking the Sound Barrier sculpture exhibit; the annual Garden Gallery Art Show exhibits; and the Fin de Siecle exhibition, among others. Cassandra founded the company Alamiah in 1998, which has acquired a loyal following over the years. She was formerly APT Newsletter Editor for four years, served as Exhibition Chair, and produced marketing videos for APT.\n972.566.6782 | terry@lightandbytesphoto.com\nTerry Cockerham is a professional photographer with over 30 years of experience. While working as a professional photojournalist, he extended the scope of his work to include corporate, web and fine art projects. In 1996, he started his own freelance photographic business, Light & Bytes, Inc., located in Dallas, Texas, and continues to provide photographic and graphic arts services to clients in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Terry's experience in the graphic art business has been extremely helpful to this society of artists.\nrldesigns2@gmail.com\nRene' Lowery majored in finance with a Bachelors degree in Real Estate/Business Finance from University of Austin. She followed the corporate road to get her Masters in Marketing and Business Communications, and then took a turn from the corporate business world in favor of art and design. She began her work in metal as sole proprietor of Soleil Ironworks fifteen years ago, turning metal into art pieces that are functional, appealing, and often interactive, integrating business with artistic design and function. Rene' now teaches beginning to advanced welding at the Creative Art Center in Dallas, where she shares her love of metal sculpture.\nwww.pamelarabin.com\nPamela Rabin received her Bachelors of Arts in Fine Art, from the San Francisco Art Institute. After graduating with honors in photography she pursued her passion in the arts through a freelance photography career in Dallas, Texas with Pulse Magazine. Her work has been featured in D Magazine and The San Francisco Chronicle, and been shown and collected nationally, as well as internationally. Keeping her finger on the pulse of the Dallas art scene and art events in north Texas, Pamela has contributed her energy and vivaciousness in public relations to this group of artists.\nlottie@minickassociates.com\nLottie Minick has worked diligently as an advocate for Texas artists. She has experience as a neighbor artist contributor for the Dallas Morning News' Neighbors Go, and White Rock Lake Weekly. Lottie has organized and curated the Friends of Lottie Sculpture Show at the State Fair of Texas, the largest fair in the U.S., for the last six years. She was on the board of Directors for the Texas Sculpture Association for four years, and has curated Artscape At the Arboretum art festival for the Dallas Arboretum since it's inception.\nDolores Hastings\nhastings3d@yahoo.com\nDolores Hastings completed her Business Management Degree in 1996 from Northwood University in Texas, and has helped numerous small businesses increase their profit over the last seven years. She was accountant and bookkeeper for the Robert Lynn Company reporting directly to the CFO, and currently serves on the board of the North Texas Cardiac Ultrasound Society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ashleyjacksonharp.com/essays/throwbacktunes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TUDAOMPW5ZWLXVYBY3EGIRBCHI4NR7QI", "length": 6321, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "ashleyjacksonharp.com", "title": "Ashley Jackson \u2014 Throwback Tunes: DJ Play My Favorite Song", "raw_content": "Thursday Nights at Toads\u2026\nOn November 15, 2007, I attended a show from the \u201cHip-Hop Live\u201d tour, featuring an older generation of rappers including Brother Ali, Ghostface Killah, Rakim, as well as the hip-hop band, the Rhythm Roots All-Stars. From one song to the next, the audience held onto every word as the rapper\u2019s flow wove in and out of the rhythm of the band\u2019s groove. The virtuosity of the rappers, particularly their ability to respond to the changing groove, revealed how the excitement of this music thrives on rhythmic tension the groove, a metric temporal phenomenon featuring multiple layers interlocked with varying syncopated rhythmic ostinatos, and the flow, or the rhythmic delivery of the rapper\u2019s lyrics. Given the dynamic relationship between the groove and flow, any hip-hop analyses must address the question of how these two phenomena are rhythmically related. Throwback Tunes: DJ Play My Favorite Song will begin with an overview of hip-hop, tracing the rise of the DJ and the subsequent rise of the rapper. I will then dive into an analysis of Jay-Z\u2019s \u201cMoney, Cash, Hoes,\u201d featuring DMX.\nThe history of hip-hop begins during the disco era, when DJs began to transform popular dance tracks by manipulating recording equipment. DJs focused on the \u201cbreak,\u201d or that moment during a song when the rhythm section engaged dancers through an extended solo section, soon developing the following techniques to add rhythmic variety from one track to the next:\n(1) Cutting: switching in the middle of one track to another one\n(2) Mixing: overlaying sounds from one record with/onto another\n(3) Scratching: physically moving the record needle back and forth during a musical phrase, producing an additional percussive sound independent of the current track\nIn the early days of hip-hop, the DJ was the central figure, judged by fans for how well s/he experimented with popular dance tracks. New technologies made possible for the spread of hip-hop out of the New York City area, and by 1979, the release and popularity of such singles as \u201cRapper\u2019s Delight\u201d and \u201cKing Tim III\u201d signaled a shift towards the rapper as the main interpreter of hip-hop\u2019s authentic sound. While standard DJ techniques account for the disjunctive, fragmented rhythms which continue to remain a hallmark feature of the hip-hop aesthetic, the rhythmic delivery and intonation of the rapper\u2019s style have since become a defining characteristic of rhythm in hip-hop. The degree to which the rapper creates rhythmic tension with the groove has become a key factor in differentiating the styles of today\u2019s rappers. One illustrative example comes from Jay-Z\u2019s \u201cMoney, Cash, Hoes,\u201d the third single released from his album Vol. 2, Hard Knock Life. On this track, Jay-Z raps for the first of three verses, and DMX takes over on the third.\nMoney, Cash, Hoes: Groove\nLooking at the hi-hat layer of the groove, the smallest division of the beat occurs at the sixteenth-note level. The absence of a beat at the quarter-note level in the four-measure bass ostinato gives room for unequal sixteenth-note groupings. In the bass, the first attack after the downbeat occurs on the fourth sixteenth-note, thus grouping the first three sixteenth-notes together. The following three sixteenth-notes are grouped together, when the synthesizer (high) sounds on the seventh sixteenth-note. Given the bass eighth-notes in the first and third measures, the remainder of the sixteenth-note beats resumes a duple grouping. While the initial triple grouping of the sixteenth-notes and the off-beat attacks in the synthesizer (high) layers suggest that the off-beats may be interpreted as metrically strong, the quarter-notes in the second measure of the bass layer force a hearing of the attacks in the synthesizer (high) layer as off-beats.\nA comparison between Jay-Z and DMX illustrates how these two rappers interpret the meter of the groove in this track. The first four lines of Jay-Z\u2019s opening verse demonstrates how Jay-Z\u2019s approach to flow is flexible yet consistent with meter of the background groove:\nJ-A-Y, I flow sick\nFuck all y\u2019all haters blow dick\nI spits the games for those that throw bricks\nMoney, cash, hoes, money cash chicks what\nJay-Z spells out the first three letters of his name in such a way that confirms the opening 3+3 metric grouping of the sixteenth-note pulse. Repeating this rhythm in the second measure, \u201call\u201d and \u201cy\u2019all\u201d similarly land on the fourth and seventh sixteenth-notes of the measure. In the third measure, however, the 3+3 grouping shifts by a sixteenth-note. The concrete words in this phrase, \u201cspits,\u201d \u201cgames,\u201d \u201cthose,\u201d \u201cthrow,\u201d and \u201cbricks,\u201d are each sustained for an eighth-note, thus conferring accentual weight. At the beginning of the fourth measure, the first beat appears identical to that of the previous measure. However, given the accent on the word \u201ccash\u201d Jay-Z returns to the 3+3+2 sixteenth-note grouping that dominated the beginnings of the first two measures.\nD-M-X and my dogs bite\nJigga my nigga rhyme all night\nThugs for life one night with this rap shit\nLet em go and I bet they know what\u2019ll happen\nWhen we clap shit\nIn the first measure, DMX spells out his name rhythmically identical to Jay-Z\u2019s opening verse. However, in the second, his intonation forces a regrouping of a pulse that conflicts with the groove. DMX maintains the same volume level throughout these first four measures, thus overriding the flow of the syntax, and forcing the listener to interpret every attack as metrically strong. For example, in measure two, the first two quarter-note beats suggest a 3+2+3 sixteenth-note grouping, whereas the comparable beats in the following measure suggest a 2+3+3.\nRhythmic analysis of hip-hop must address the rhythmic interplay between the groove and the flow. The groove, a highly repetitive, syncopated framework that engages with irregular phrase groupings, creates a rich, rhythmic palate for the vocal delivery. The brief glance at \u201cMoney, Cash, Hoes\u201d illustrates how syntax and rhyme dictate Jay-Z\u2019s approach to beat-pulse groupings, whereas DMX relies more heavily on intonation to challenge the logic of the syntax, thus creating another layer of rhythmic tension against the meter of the groove.\n\u2190 In Review: An Artist's Social ResponsibilityIn Review: Crossing Boundaries \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 7043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://asiancemagazine.com/2013/07/27/Cal-State-Fullerton-launches-Vietnamese-teaching-program/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:18Z", "digest": "sha1:N7P6XB2NHYKSIG6DG652TVCHCHW5UNXN", "length": 1292, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "asiancemagazine.com", "title": "Cal State Fullerton launches Vietnamese teaching program | Asiance Magazine", "raw_content": "Home News Cal State Fullerton launches Vietnamese teaching program\nThere\u2019s a huge interest among Vietnamese Americans in Southern California to keep the language and culture alive among their American born children and grandchildren. But doing that isn\u2019t so easy.\nCalifornia State University Fullerton will soon be launching a program designed to help.\nStarting next year, the university will offer classes for a bachelor\u2019s degree in Vietnamese language and culture, as well as training teachers in Vietnamese as a foreign language.\nCal State Fullerton education professor Natalie Tran said most of the teachers teaching Vietnamese as a second language now aren\u2019t credentialed \u2013 because it doesn\u2019t exist.\nGarden Grove Schools Superintendent Gabriela Mafi said her district now offers Vietnamese at five of her seven high schools \u2013 and demand is growing.\nAccording to the last census 183,766 Vietnamese live in Orange County, many around Garden Grove and Westminster. That\u2019s more than a third of California\u2019s 500,000 Vietnamese.\nThe population was established nearly 40 years ago, by thousands of refugees escaping the 1975 communist victory in the Vietnam War. Second and third generation immigrants have struggled to keep up with spoken and written Vietnamese despite their parents\u2019 efforts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 3992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://assistyoutoday.com/2017/03/28/get-more-social-media-resources/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LEA4HZVH3B2N57PRCRHVCPEPLWOGLSWM", "length": 7379, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "assistyoutoday.com", "title": "Get more social media resources \u2013 Assist You Today Consulting", "raw_content": "Early in my career, my boss called me into his office first thing on Monday morning. As anyone who has worked in a corporate role before knows, that\u2019s not a good sign. As soon as I sat down, he blurted out \u201cI looked at the numbers, and you\u2019re messing up the online advertising campaigns, you need to fix it.\u201d\nI knew I had optimized the heck out of the display advertising campaigns, and every month, performance was increasing, so I asked to see which report he was viewing.\nHe showed me a report that tracked campaign results for two similar products (we\u2019ll call them Product A and Product B).\nThe report tracked results down to the lead level. He said, \u201cThe Product A campaign received a lot more clicks and leads, but you are giving 5x the impressions to the Product B campaign. We need to shut the Product B campaign down, and move all our impressions to the Product A campaign immediately.\u201d\nSo, I told him I\u2019d be right back. I went to my desk to get the report that tracked results all the way down to profitability.\nThat report showed that at the end of the customer journey, even though the Product A campaign received far more clicks and leads, the company closed about the same number of sales from both the Product A and Product B campaigns. Furthermore, the company\u2019s profit margin on Product B was 5x higher than Product A.\nMy boss looked at the report, thought for a second, and proclaimed \u201cWE NEED TO SHUT DOWN THE PRODUCT A CAMPAIGN, AND ONLY RUN THE PRODUCT B CAMPAIGN!!\u201d\nI smiled and said, \u201cjust let me handle it.\u201d And to his credit, he did.\nSo, how could this hour-long, semi-tense back and forth on a Monday morning have been prevented? To solve the problem, you have to diagnose the problem.\nThere were 2 problems here:\nMy boss wasn\u2019t looking at the full data picture. I\u2019ve always told clients that I can get you a high click-through rate, for example, if that\u2019s all you care about. I can get my team to design a \u201cfunny cat video\u201d meets \u201cshoot the zombie ad\u201d that will get boat loads of clicks. But are those clicks going to convert to leads and ultimately to sales? Absolutely not.\nWhich is why having that end-to-end data picture was so incredibly important.\nNow, let\u2019s apply this thinking to social media. How do you measure the success of your social media efforts?\nIf you answered awareness or engagement, that\u2019s not necessarily bad (it\u2019s better than nothing!). However, at some point, senior management is going to ask \u201cwhat is the value of our social media efforts?\u201d If you only track to the awareness or engagement level, then how do you effectively answer that question? How do you know if social media is somewhere your marketing and sales teams should spend their time?\nWell, let\u2019s look at your non-social media sales and marketing efforts. How do you measure the success of those efforts? Leads? Revenue? Net income? WHICHEVER OF THOSE METRICS YOU USE ARE THE SAME METRICS YOU NEED TO USE TO TRACK YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA EFFORTS!\nAnd the closer you get to the end of the journey, the better idea you\u2019ll have as to the true success of your efforts (and the value to the organization).\nNow, I know what some of you are thinking \u2013 that\u2019s great for advertising and email, but it\u2019s much harder to do for social, and besides we SHOULDN\u2019T do that right? Social is different. It\u2019s not a sales and marketing channel.\nMost of us treat social like this magical purple pegasus that flies around spreading candy and rainbows everywhere \u2013 it doesn\u2019t live by the rules of our other marketing and sales channels.\nBut we need to change that. We need to treat social like any other channel because:\nSenior management measures social media success the same way as any other sales and marketing channel\nSenior management wants to know how many sales our LinkedIn efforts are generating, or how many leads our Facebook campaign creates. That\u2019s their job. They are running a business. A business needs to smartly spend money on things that generate profitable business.\nThus, you HAVE to measure your social media efforts in the same way you measure your other sales and marketing efforts.\nThis apples-to-apples measurement approach will help the two biggest problems that most social media teams face:\nApples-to-apples measurement solves these problems because it levels the playing field.\nIf you can compare display advertising campaigns to Twitter campaigns using the same metrics, you can show which is providing more value to the organization. If you can compare LinkedIn messaging to cold calls using the same metrics, you\u2019ll know exactly with which of the two your sales team should spend their time (hint: it\u2019s LinkedIn).\nIf you can prove social media is providing more value using the same metrics, then suddenly, the skies part, the sun comes out, cherubs start singing, and you will get the budget and resources you need. It may not be super-easy to track social like other channels, but it\u2019s 100% worth it!\nMy boss didn\u2019t know the end-to-end results that we had. That was my fault. I wasn\u2019t doing a good enough job socializing the data. Sure, I sent a report out every week via email, and you could argue that he should have been reading it, but VPs/SVPs are very busy people.\nSometimes, that extra step to open the document is too daunting of a task. It\u2019s easy to say \u201cI\u2019ll look at it later,\u201d and close the email.\nSo, proactive communication is key. If you have great numbers \u2013 tell EVERYONE, and ESPECIALLY your boss. In your 1/1s, talk about the numbers, how they are increasing, and what a great job the team is doing. How else will he/she know?\nWhen you send out reports, include an executive summary (2-3 bulletpoints maximum) at the top of the email, so if they don\u2019t have time to look at your incredibly detailed report, they get the high-level story. Senior leadership has zero time in the day. Make it easy for them.\nThis is also an effective way to influence change at an organization (it\u2019s hard to argue with numbers). If you go to your sales managers, and say they need to spend as much time on LinkedIn as they do on the phone, you will be kindly escorted out of their office. If you show that you get 5x the meeting rate, for example, using social selling as compared to cold calling, NOW you\u2019ve got those sales managers\u2019 ears.\nEnd-to-end measurement and apples-to-apples comparisons take the guesswork out of your social media efforts. They will tell you EXACTLY which channels, campaigns and content are most valuable to the business and the client alike, and it is imperative that you measure your social media efforts as close to the end of the purchase journey as possible to determine the bottom-line value.\nRobert Knop is Founder and CEO of Assist You Today, helping companies GAIN + RETAIN clients using digital strategy and social media. He\u2019s a proud member of the Wave3 network of consultants, and always happy to talk strategy, digital and social selling. To learn more about how to evolve your marketing and sales approaches for the digital age, reach out to Robert.\nPhoto: Kirinohana\nThis entry was posted in Advertising, Analytics, Approach, digital trends, Social Media, Strategy and tagged advertising, analytics, content marketing, data, digital marketing, marketing, sales, social media. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 Advanced search is not gone in the new LinkedIn interface!\nThe quick and easy guide to writing a LinkedIn article \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 8697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atkinsireland.ie/news/the-data-is-talking-but-is-anyone-listening/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:43Z", "digest": "sha1:V7QEGZO5YCUUTQGT7UBPKBZWTOXOOXI7", "length": 7607, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "atkinsireland.ie", "title": "The data is talking, but is anyone listening? | Atkins Ireland", "raw_content": "The data is talking, but is anyone listening?\nIn this article, David Kelly from Atkins looks at how non-tech organisations are overcoming technical challenges to make the most of their data.\nEveryone is talking about \u2018big data\u2019 and how tech behemoths like Google are going to use it to change the world. But what does it mean for the rest of us \u2013 companies and organisations who do not have ninja-coders sitting on beanbags developing artificial intelligence apps during their company-subsidised gourmet lunch breaks?\nIn May of this year, The Economist declared that the world\u2019s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. And with some saying that 90% of the world\u2019s data was created in the past few years alone but that less than 1% of it is actually being used or analysed, it would appear that people are only just beginning to appreciate its worth.\nFor most organisations, the efficient management of data has the potential to reduce costs, control risks and improve whole life performance. However, in many cases the challenge is in identifying what data to collect and how to collect it.\nAlmost all organisations have data which can be exploited to deliver valuable information to aid decision-making. However, the decision about what data to collect is often made without any reference to the strategic needs of the organisation. Many organisations tend to collect data which is easy to capture rather than that which is valuable to have.\nIn parallel with improvements in connectivity, the cost of storing data has dropped dramatically leading to a step change in attitudes to data storage. The traditional approach where only the most critical of data was stored for the minimum time necessary has been almost universally supplanted. Now data storage is more a matter of storing everything almost indefinitely just in case it might be needed it at some point in the future.\nHere in Atkins, we\u2019re combining our engineering knowledge of infrastructure and asset management with leading technologies in different domains to help clients make sense of the data that their assets produce through an approach that we call Digital Asset Management (DAM).\nOne such project is with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII), where Atkins is providing technical and contract administration services to support the operation of 14 various PPP and road maintenance contracts on the Irish motorway network.\nThe scale and complexity of this commission is such that we must process an enormous amount of information which is received in a variety of forms and formats. All projects like this require extensive resources and even then, it is always possible to overlook an important detail and retrieval of specific information can be difficult. Moreover, anything but the most rudimentary of analysis is very time consuming.\n\u201cWe recognised early in the commission that a data focused approach would ensure improved information flow and in turn better performance management\u201d says Sean McDonnell, Associate Director, Atkins.\nIn collaboration with TII, we set about building a system for the management of data related to one aspect of the commission on a trial basis \u2013 incident response. This is the service provided by each of the contractors to attend to unplanned events which cause traffic disruption such as collisions, breakdowns and debris on the national road network.\nWe examined every stage in the data process \u2013 defining what data was needed, how we would collect it, ways to validate its accuracy, and how to analyse and distribute the data in order that end-users within the client organisation could interpret it easily.\nIn this instance, we opted to provide an interactive reporting dashboard which allows end-users to answer the majority of queries for themselves without any need for bespoke analysis. This approach reduces workload, improves accuracy and satisfies the information needs of a wider audience.\nSince implementing this solution, we have expanded our work in this area to include data analytics of traffic flow and journey time data, and we\u2019re currently looking at other areas where a structured approach to managing data will bring benefits.\nAt present, we are reviewing the requirements for three motorway maintenance contracts which fall under our commission and for which the contract period is coming to an end. This is a very broad review of a wide variety of contract requirements and we are delighted that TII have requested that we include comprehensive provisions for data management under these future contracts.\nThe aim is that lengthy reports submitted by email will be replaced by data files to a prescribed format uploaded to a central cloud-based data repository. These will be validated automatically to uncover any inconsistencies and to highlight areas which merit closer attention.\nThese files will then comprise a data repository which will serve as a \u2018single source of truth\u2019. They will be the origin from which we will automatically update dashboards, reports and other tools which will be used to deliver consistent and accurate information to the right people as soon as it is available.\nFollowing our success with TII in this area, we are speaking to a variety other clients who also recognise the benefit of actively managing this valuable asset. And the types of organisations that can benefit from this approach really is very diverse. For example, we have just completed a project with F\u00e1ilte Ireland; we have recently secured a commission via our Denver Office with the Colorado Department of Transportation; and we are currently preparing a proposal for one of the UK water companies.\nOur experience has been that changing the way we think about data can bring big benefits to many of the projects that we do. We still don\u2019t have any beanbags in the canteen like some of our new competitors in this space do, but someday\u2026maybe\u2026\nBig data is a loosely defined term which refers to the rapid growth in the collection, storage and use of data. The word \u2018big\u2019 refers not just to the volume but also to the level of complexity and the potential value of information that is produced by everything from mobile phones, computers and wearable technology, to smart connected devices like security and energy management systems, buildings and even cars. Almost anything that is powered by electricity has the potential to be connected to form an enormous data collection and exchange network which is called the Internet of Things.\nHow big is \u2018Big\u2019?\nSome estimates are that by 2020, there will be 50 billion smart connected devices in the world and that about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created by every person every second. And about a third of all that data will pass through the cloud making more data available to more people.\nAnd is bigger better?\nIn some cases, the sheer amount of data available is part of the problem. Finding the needle in the haystack of irrelevant data is often really challenging, but this is changing with improved analytics. Better tools which can transform complex data into useful information are more widely available and these allow users to interrogate their data interactively. This results in a positive feedback loop of improved accessibility, driving demand for more data.\nDavid Kelly is a Senior Project Manager with Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin group, and is currently working on the Motorway Contacts Audit and Administration Commission for their client Transport Infrastructure Ireland.\nTo find out more about their data management work with TII and others, contact david.kelly@atkinsglobal.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 8103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/miquel-eduardo-n/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FKCRGSO6VLASGW6XLPJ65XQMN64I2DLB", "length": 811, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "atlantipedia.ie", "title": "Miquel, Eduardo (L) | Miquel, Eduardo (L) \u2013 Atlantipedia", "raw_content": "Miquel, Eduardo (L)\nEduardo Miquel (1968-) is an independent researcher born in Valencia, Spain. He has dedicated 20 years to the study of Atlantis. In 2010 he published the first volume(a) of Legados de la Atlantida[0860](The Legacy of Atlantis), in which he supported the idea of Atlantis being an island continent situated in the Atlantic, with its remnants now the Azores archipelago.He claims that it was destroyed over time by three catastrophic events.\nIn volume 2[0861], published in 2011(b), he suggested that the ancient Egyptian civilisation had its origins in Atlantis. Both of these books, in Spanish, can be downloaded as free pdf.files.\n(a) http://www.bubok.es/libros/176243/LEGADOS-DE-LA-ATLANTIDA-11\n(b) http://www.bubok.es/libros/197369/LEGADOS-DE-LA-ATLANTIDA-12\nTagged Azores, Eduardo Miquel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 191.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://augustafreepress.com/goodlatte-staff-fire-work-trump-immigration-executive-order/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SH5GZQMBSK3XSEBU7TJ357MBETB6M2TY", "length": 4730, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "augustafreepress.com", "title": "Goodlatte, staff under fire for work on Trump immigration executive order : Augusta Free Press", "raw_content": "Goodlatte, staff under fire for work on Trump immigration executive order\nFront Page \u00bb Events \u00bb Goodlatte, staff under fire for work on Trump immigration executive order\nRemember when Bob Goodlatte was concerned about executive overreach and the separation of powers? That was so Obama era.\n\u201cWhile President Obama may have forgotten, the American people know that it is Congress who writes our laws, not the White House.\u201d\nThis was Goodlatte, the Sixth District Republican, in a column published in Augusta Free Press last May.\n\u201cThe people\u2019s duly elected representatives in Congress cannot sit silent as the Executive Branch continues to overstep its constitutional authority.\u201d\nThis was Goodlatte, also the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, in another column published in AFP in March 2016.\nMore from that one, which concerned a lawsuit filed in Texas to challenge then-President Obama\u2019s executive orders on immigration:\n\u201cCongress writes the laws, and the President enforces them. Our own constitutionally-required oath to support the Constitution of the United States requires no less. By voicing our support for the states\u2019 lawsuit against the President\u2019s power grabs, the House is acting to protect Congress\u2019 constitutional powers and defend freedoms for future generations. The stakes of inaction are high. We must protect the people\u2019s rights, we must protect the people\u2019s House, and we must protect the Constitution of the United States.\u201d\nNow Goodlatte is embroiled in controversy for what he knew and what he didn\u2019t know about the role his staffers played in collaborating with the Trump administration on the wording of the executive order signed by Trump temporarily banning refugees and travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries.\nA senior administration official told reporters on Sunday that that \u201cRepublicans on Capitol Hill wrote\u201d the order and \u201cthe top drafters of this were the top immigration experts on Capitol Hill.\u201d\nGoodlatte told congressional Republicans incensed to learn that his staff had helped craft the order without their knowledge at a private GOP conference meeting on Monday that he had given the staff permission to advise the transition team, but to his knowledge the staffers only offered policy advice and did not know anything about the timing of the executive order or its final contents.\nThe congressman expanded on those points in a public statement on Tuesday.\n\u201cMy staff on the House Judiciary Committee are some of the best on Capitol Hill. They are experts in their respective fields and I proudly allowed them to provide their expertise to the Trump transition team on immigration law. To be clear, while they gave advice to the new Administration, they did not have decision making authority on the policy. The final decision was made at the highest levels of the Trump Administration, and I support the President\u2019s executive order. My staff had no control of the language contained in the President\u2019s executive order, the timing of the announcement, the rollout and subsequent implementation, and the coordination with Congress. I am proud of my staff\u2014they are an asset to me, Congress, and the American people.\u201d\nAlso on Tuesday, the Campaign for Accountability, a nonprofit ethics watchdog, asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to immediately open an investigation into whether the staffers broke any federal laws or House rules by helping the administration draft the executive order.\n\u201cEmployees of the United States House of Representatives are duty-bound to serve Members of Congress and the Americans who elected them. It appears that these House staffers surreptitiously worked on issues for the President-elect, and perhaps later the White House, without even telling the members for whom they worked. The OCE should open an investigation immediately and determine whether these staffers broke any federal laws or House rules,\u201d said Daniel E. Stevens, the acting director of the Campaign for Accountability.\nStevens noted that House rules specifically state that lawyers are prohibited from consulting and advising clients beyond the House of Representatives to avoid conflicts of interest, and given that many staffers of the House Judiciary Committee are lawyers, the staffers that worked on this order may have run afoul of several laws and House rules.\n\u201cThe House Judiciary Committee is supposed to exercise oversight of executive branch immigration policy,\u201d Stevens said. \u201cAs inconvenient as it may be to the Trump administration, there are still three branches of government. Unfortunately, these staffers seemed intent on merging two of them. OCE should investigate and expose the details of this relationship, which undermines the independence of Congress.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 7479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ausm.info/bhph/4-questions-ncm-associates%E2%80%99-brent-carmichael", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RU66MPY5V4HS4PARR4EQTNXAZG45OZS4", "length": 5217, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "ausm.info", "title": "4 questions with NCM Associates\u2019 Brent Carmichael | AuSM- ausm.info", "raw_content": "4 questions with NCM Associates\u2019 Brent Carmichael\nFriday, Jan. 20, 2017, 03:22 PM\nIn the latest installment of the annual Best of BHPH issue of BHPH Report, we go behind the scenes with some of the leading companies in the used-car space and their top executives with a few Q&A features.\nNext up in this series is Brent Carmichael, executive conference moderator of 20 Groups at NCM Associates.\nBHPH Report: What\u2019s your assessment of what it\u2019s been like for the typical BHPH dealer in 2016?\nBrent Carmichael: It\u2019s been a lot tougher. Subprime is still the main competitor for us. They\u2019re still really aggressive even though we\u2019re starting to hear that it\u2019s starting to taper off in some areas. But most of them are still pretty aggressive.\nThe regulatory side of the business obviously has a lot of dealers concerned. The general feel is that lot traffic is down, so there\u2019s not as many people in the market overall. There are just fewer customers to sell to at this point.\nFrom a collections standpoint, there is a little heightened level of frustration with getting customers to pay and pay on time. There seems to be more of a lackadaisical attitude with the customer base as far as making their payments. I think a lot of that\u2019s driven by they have more options now than they ever have before. If they don\u2019t like the car or are having issues with the car or don\u2019t like the way they\u2019re being treated from a collections standpoint, they\u2019ll just give up and go somewhere else to buy a car. It\u2019s been tougher this year than it has the past couple of years, that\u2019s for sure.\nBHPH Report: How much more receptive to new ideas have dealers been in your 20 Group meetings this year?\nBrent Carmichael: They\u2019re much more receptive. They\u2019re still looking for that silver bullet. Some of them who were kind of closed-minded in the past about changing their business model are starting to look at different business models.\nAs an example, some used to say that they would never take on a subprime retail environment and now they\u2019re looking at doing that. Some are looking at a higher (actual cash value) car. They are probably more open-minded to change now than they\u2019ve ever been because they realize the subprime thing is not going to go away. The competitive market is going to be there. In the past, we\u2019ve been able to sit back and ride it out for 18 months or maybe two years at the most. But we\u2019re going on year three, and it doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s going anywhere. Now they\u2019re looking at anything they can do differently. They might even look at something completely different.\nSome are even looking to get out of the business at this point, that now might be a good time to exit the business with the current environment and what the future might hold.\nBHPH Report: How difficult has it been for operators to work with their customers to keep them current on their contracts?\nBrent Carmichael: That\u2019s something we\u2019ve always had the ability to do. We can set our policies and procedures so we can let them be as delinquent as we want to and work with them as much as we can, obviously unless there\u2019s some sort of bank covenant or line of credit covenant that might restrict some of that.\nAgain, we\u2019ve had dealers in the past who were pretty strict on their collections guidelines who now have opened up and are willing to adjust accounts or accept deferred payments if it\u2019s necessary to keep the customers. They\u2019ve become more open-minded and understanding the value of a customer is probably higher now than it\u2019s ever been. They\u2019re trying to help everyone who is at least trying to make their payments. Some of the customer base hasn\u2019t taken as much pride in ownership as they have in the past, so dealers are more open to working with the ones who are really trying.\nBack when I used to be a dealer, we expected the payment to be made on or before the due date. Now we understand that life issues happen and work with customers more than we have in the past.\nBHPH Report: What industry trends are you watching as we go into 2017?\nBrent Carmichael: With the new ruling against the CFPB and how it\u2019s structured, how that\u2019s going to shake out, I don\u2019t know when we\u2019ll see any benefits of that in the near future. But that\u2019s something that obviously could impact the landscape moving forward.\nI think the main focus for most dealers believe it or not is just back to basics more than anything else. They might not be looking to buy the next latest, greatest thing, rather looking internally and making sure they\u2019re doing everything from a blocking-and-tackling standpoint.\nInventory used to be a big issue but it\u2019s not so much anymore. I\u2019m hearing from dealers currently in the group that auction prices are down, so that\u2019s starting to look up for us. There is starting to be some inventory freed up, so that should be a positive going into 2017.\nStill the regulatory environment, exactly what rules are we supposed to follow and how we\u2019re supposed to play by them, that\u2019s probably the biggest concern moving forward.\nAdditional pieces from this series can be found below:\n4 questions with Ace Christian of the Arizona Independent Automotive Dealers Association\n4 questions with Bill Caan, national sales manager at CalAmp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://autismcoach.com/bitter-orange-glycerine-extract-4-oz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:NULTJPPNIXLKKWHWZRI4LVKVINGG2THF", "length": 4717, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "autismcoach.com", "title": "Bitter Orange Glycerine Extract - 4 oz - Autism Coach Your SEO optimized title", "raw_content": "Click the button below to add the Bitter Orange Glycerine Extract - 4 oz to your wish list.\nBitter orange (citrus aurantium) is used widely to make commercial marmalade. It has been also been used for thousands of years in Chinese medicine and by natives of the Amazon. The peel (which is used in the tincture) has anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and anti-fungal properties. It also contains neurotransmitters p-synephrine alkaloids, octopamine, and tetrahydrobiopterin. The immature form of the fruit has higher levels of BH4, a key component of metabolic cycles frequently compromised in individuals with polymorphisms on the MTHFR gene and genes related to methylation, detoxification, and sulfation. It appears to support mitochondrial function by increasing energy production in the body and also appears to improve insulin resistance. It is also reported to be calming to the digestive tract and can help to promote sleep.* Our Bitter Orange is a high quality product made in small batches.\nWhen individuals on the autism spectrum have intestinal dysbiosis, pathogenic microbes, yeasts and other pathogens living in the intestinal tract frequently overgrow and produce large amounts of ammonia. BH4 detoxifies ammonia - and if most of the Bh$ is depleted detoxifying, then it is not available for other processes in the body such as creating neurotransmitters and methyl donors that switch genes on and off, and reduces the production of important antioxidants such as glutathione and super oxide dismutase. Bitter orange may be a valuable addition to consider enhancing a methylation support protocol.\nIn studies, Bitter Orange has been shown to increase levels of reduced glutathione, the catalase enzyme and has been shown to contribute to weight loss in numerous studies. Note that this form of synephrine binds to specific beta 3 Andrenergic sites but does not bind to the beta 1 and 2 adrenergic sites (which can increase risk of heart attack and stroke). It contains the same form of p-synephrine found in mandarin oranges and clementines - so consuming a glass of orange juice provides about 25 mg of p-synephrine.\nBH4 is a rate limiting molecule that is critical in metabolic processes involving the conversion of amino acids into other forms needed by the body. (3) In humans, if BH4 is not present, phenylalanine can build up resulting in phenylketonuria, which can result in neurological damage. BH4 is used as part of treatment for phenylketonuria. But it is not just phenylalanine that is dependent upon BH4 for conversation. BH4 is required in several enzymes (aromatic amino acid hydroxylases (AAAH)) that convert aromatic amino acids into forms required by the body:\nIf there isn't enough BH4, critical amino acids and neurotransmitters are not produced in sufficient levels, and toxic levels of unconverted amino acids and neurotransmitters can build up. BH4 deficiency can result in excessive levels of phenylalanine and insufficient levels of tyrosine, L-DOPA, dopamine, octopamine, and other neurotransmitters.\nBitter Orange also contains the neurotransmitter, Octopamine, which is deficient in individuals within the autism spectrum. Octopamine is a neurotransmitter found in humans in the central and sympathetic nervous systems. Reduced levels of Octopamine cause social deprivation, the inability to communicate, a compromised flight or fight response, and learning disabilities in animals on which experiments have been conducted. In one preliminary study, parents of autistic children trialed using Bitter Orange and observed improved social awareness, better socialization, and better receptive language. (4)\nBitter orange is frequently combined with weight reducing supplements that include large amounts of caffeine. In all studies with bitter orange used exclusively with no other additives, it appears to be completely safe. However, because it contains neurotransmitters it should not be taken in combination with any prescription drugs designed to modify brain chemistry.\n4 oz bottle. Recommended dose for an adult is a half a dropper full in a room temperature or cool drink or taken straight.\n1. Hypoglycermic and hypolipidemic effects of neoheperidin derived from citrus aurantisum. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25620042\n2. 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These activities will include workshops, panel discussions, and roundtables. For more information about the program of the day, please visit our WISE@Paris page.\nOn February 21, participants will reconvene for a one-day forum at Palais de Tokyo to engage in a variety of interactive formats and further explore key topics, as well as\nto discover innovative models to meet the educational challenges facing France and the world today, such as:\nRethinking K-12 education: how can new findings in learning science help us design successful interventions in education?\nEmpowering teachers and education leaders: In light of advances in technology, how to effectively accompany teachers so they can thrive in their role and positively impact our children?\nDecrypting the future of work: What role education will play in preparing individuals to adapt and thrive along new technologies?\nCultivating global citizenship: What are the models to follow to foster civic engagement?\nH.E. Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Education, Ministry of Education of the Republic of Ghana\nDr. Fran\u00e7ois Taddei, Co-founder and Director, the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI)\nMs. Clara Gaymard, Co-founder, RAISE\nMs. Alaina Percival, CEO, Women Who Code\nMr. Martin Hirsch, President, Institut de l\u2019Engagement\nDr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE, Space Scientist and co-presenter of \u201cSky At Night\u201d (BBC)\nMr. Andreas Schleicher, Director for the Directorate of Education and Skills, OECD\nMr. Nicolas Sadirac, Founder, 42\nMs. Svenia Busson, Founder & CEO, LearnSpace\nMs. Vivian Onano, Youth Advisor for Global Education Monitoring Report, UNESCO\nPrevious WISE@ events have been held in Accra, Beijing, Madrid, Tunis, and, most recently, New York during the UN Global Goals Week. These regional events are grounded in partnership with stakeholders to drive transformation in education with major change-makers and influencers, with the aim of generating tangible global educational impact.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://axcppf.biz/17043-final-destination-2-2003-mhd-bluray-dd5.1-x264.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AKZYJ4OWHIA6RQYGWVAD3F2ZMCT555R7", "length": 423, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "axcppf.biz", "title": "Final Destination 2 (2003) mHD BluRay DD5.1 x264-EPiK Download from axcppf.biz", "raw_content": "Clear Rivers has been living life in a mental hospital after the bizarre events that lead to the deaths of her friends. One day, she is approached by a girl named Kimberly who believes she had a premonition similar to her friend Alex who died . Clear has to either risk her life helping others, or stay inside the hospital the rest of her life waiting for her death to come. What will she do?\nFinal Destination 2 [2003].avi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2587, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://balkon3.com/en/historic-places-in-istanbul-samatya/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:07Z", "digest": "sha1:S3QJTBZWY627CNJQNSK4UUN5DHTGO7K5", "length": 4110, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "balkon3.com", "title": "Historic places in Istanbul \u2013 Samatya | Balkon 3", "raw_content": "I have lived in Istanbul for almost 40 years now, and I feel a duty to tell about the city. My first reportage will be accompanied by a cup of Turkish coffee with just a little sugar. I recommend you do the same. When you go out for a walk among the scents of anise and fish you deserve to have a cup of coffee.\nI know the introduction sounds a bit romantic, but I can\u2019t emphasize more that this part of Istanbul is important because Greeks, Armenians and Turks have lived in peace here for hundreds of years, and have thus become heroes of the romantic stories of Samatya.\nThere is only one square in Samatya that has witnessed great loves, quarrels, feuds and friendships in the past\u2026 You can smell the sea there, and maybe all those negative feelings were swept away by the sea breeze that refreshed their stories and gave them hope\u2026\nAs for the name Samatya, I would like to utter a few words also. The origin of the name is Psomatia, a greek word that means beach or sand..Most probably at the time of Byzantion, the sea was bringing heavy sand to the shores of Samatya.. And naturally the name also gradually changed in time. In the western part of Samatya stands Yedikule and in the east it is Yenikapi. The wind brings in the smell of sea into the market and the craftsmen are always in a good mood here.\nBesides the historic buildings and churches, the hundreds-of-years-old taverns are one more reason to visit this place.\nDuring the season when there is too much fish the anchovies and palometa are replaced with blue fish. Visit the stalls of the fishermen Sadetin and Thomas to have a look at the fish. If you need a rest visit Safa, a hundred years old tavern. If you crave shellfish (if you don\u2019t than you should) visit Midyeci Arap, a restaurant specialized in preparing shellfish pan and stuffed mussels (midye dolma).\nSafa was built in 1895 and a Greek man ran the restaurant. In this beautiful, historic place with a high ceiling you must try Albanian liver.\nAfter we have filled the stomach, it is time to get to know the place. On Marmara avenue you will find Surp Kevork church (water church), which is one of the most important and prestigious Byzantine churches of that era. The garden has a beautiful well that has given the church its popular name. It is believed that this water can heal eye diseases. In 1461 the monastery was given to the Armenian community and it was the seat of the Armenian Patriarchate. In 1866 years a huge fire burnt it to the ground but then it was rebuilt.\n\u201cMati\u201d means eye in Greek, so if you have time visit Mati caf\u00e8 located under an old Greek house, featuring an interesting, authentic interior. Make sure to visit Yedikule where their famous breakfast is accompanied by fresh salads seasoned with dill and basil. Unfortunately, the orchards and gardens where people grew vegetables have been lost under the wheels of capitalism.\nSt. Mina is another old church. It is said to be originating from the 4th or 5th century AD. The graves of two saints, Karpos and Papilos, are there. Next in line is Aga Hamam built by Mimar Sinan. The bath was built in 1542 but then it was left to its fate. In 2008 it was restored, but since it was rented to a private entity it is no longer in use. I would really like to introduce you to the many bars in this place, especially to a very popular kebab restaurant, but I will not get into those things. We started off with fish we will end the day with fish. There is a Fish Museum in this area that I haven\u2019t visited yet. I think that is the only museum in the country dedicated to fish. It is located in a fish shelter in Kocamustafapasa. Mr. Haydar Deniz is founder of the museum so we can assume that he admires fish. 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My mum had already packed our bags and we were getting ready to go. We brushed our teeth and we ate breakfast and we put our clothes on and finally we were ready to go. We got out of the house and everyone go in the car. We only had half an hour to get there. My dad drove as fast as he could or we would miss the flight. Finally we go there we were rushing to the plane. But we couldn\u2019t find it. We told a man that worked there, he looked around for the plane and they found it. We were too early to leave. The man had told us the wrong time to leave. They still had 3 hours to go. And we had left a suitcase behind but we were scared to go back and get, because we thought we would miss the flight. So we went back to get the suitcase. We go in the car. But then I was feeling hungry. My dad checked the time, we still had lots of time left. So we had some snack and then we got out of the house and back in the car. My dad drove us to the airport again. Then when we arrived the plan was getting ready to go. We on the plane and went off. The food wasn\u2019t that nice! Finally we arrived. We had a lovely time. I saw all my cousins. I played a new game called ludo. 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I am excited to embark on this journey at BARE. I have been in the beauty and wellness industry for over 8 years. I am a mom of two, a student and now business owner. I am passionate about my life and my work. I started off at massage school at Twin Lakes College of Healing Arts here in Santa Cruz. I actually started massage as a self healing journey. After realizing the effect massage can have on health, and state of mind, I knew that I had to share this with others. Massage provided relief for me on so many different levels. I was hooked and started work as a practitioner.\nYears later I became pregnant with my first of two boys and stopped practicing. I suddenly became sensitive to most skin care products and had extreme hormonal breakouts. It was reminiscent of my teen years of battling acne (very frustrating). I started making my own products at home with all natural ingredients. I then decided to go to school for esthetics. I attended Paul Mitchell Skin Academy in Costa Mesa, CA. I received a scholarship to the International Dermal Institute for advanced education from there and continued to take classes. I then set out to find work. I ended up working at Orange County\u2019s premier waxing salon. I waxed at the Beehive for three years and our specialty was BRAZILIAN waxing and Brow waxing. To be productive I had to become fast and efficient (The speed waxing class came in handy!)\nI moved back to Santa Cruz a few years ago and decided to combine my waxing, skin care, and massage skills and work in a day spa. I worked at Serene Skin and Body for a year. I then moved to Scotts Valley Spa and Boutique which has been my home for the last three years. During this time I have been furthering my studies in skin care. I also have been doing the Accounting/Business Degree at Cabrillo College. I love to study as you can see. I love nutrition, skin care, business, and the holistic health care industry as well. Through all my education I have seen how integral all the parts of my studies are to my happiness. I decided to take all the parts and combine them into my own business and share them with you! BARE was born. 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It provided a great learning opportunity for prospective students, their families and friends to come and experience the most innovative learning activities at Beaconhouse. A number of activities were planned which included model classes, storytelling sessions, ICT activities, art & craft, aerobics, taekwondo, a gaming and ELE Zone, a math session, food court and much more.\nThese activities were designed to encourage parents to take part in a wide range of interesting and interactive activities together with their children. 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It has been such a pleasure to work here and I look forward to coming back in future seasons! I look to the horizon now and to my next creative endeavors, which include \"Victor/Victoria\" at Stages St. Louis, and an exciting return to Shakespeare and the great theatre town of Washington, D.C. in a play that started my journey as a classical actor.\nThe year was 1978, and my Dad was working in the theatre department at Boston University. The graduating class was going to perform Shakespeare's \"King John\" and the director, who was also the head of the acting program, wanted a young boy to play the pivotal role of Prince Arthur. I was already a pretty precocious little actor, and I auditioned along with a few other faculty brats and won the part. To this day, I can remember everything about the process of rehearsing and performing that play. It was a dream come true to a 12 year old who had already decided he would be the next Laurence Olivier. Arthur is the best of Shakespeare's roles for a child actor and he plays several very dramatic scenes, one in which he manages to talk his jailer, Hubert, out of putting his eyes out with hot irons at the behest of the King; and there is a gripping death scene, in which Arthur leaps from a tall wall and perishes in his attempt. I can say without hesitation that playing Arthur on the Boston University Theatre stage was the catalyst for a passion for fine acting and for Shakespeare that has carried me through the last 30-plus years in my work as an actor.\nThis summer, I will return to \"King John\" as Arthur's would-be assassin, Hubert de Burgh, in the next of Taffety Punk Theatre Company's Bootleg Shakespeare productions to be performed at DC's Folger Theatre. I have written before about the great work my friends Marcus Kyd and Lise Bruneau have been doing with their company, and I related the story of the Bootleg series, but for those who don't know... Bootleg Shakespeare is a one day theatrical event. Weeks in advance, director Lise Bruneau assigns roles in the selected play to both company members and actors in the extended Taffety Punk family; the actors do their text work and memorize their lines, and then show up the morning of the scheduled performance for a day of rehearsal, which really is comprised of rudimentary staging and the sorting out of entrances, exits, a few props and bits of business, including any fight sequences or dances. Then the play is presented free of charge to a packed audience. It is a spontaneous and thrilling experience for everyone and a true test of the actor's ability to jump right in and make it work! I have done two of these and am delighted to be asked back to do another.\nHubert is a great character. 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Chan", "raw_content": "Jessica is a civil and criminal practitioner with a keen interest in administrative law. With particular experience in High Court applications for leave to apply for Judicial Review, she is interested in the statutory interpretation and definition of the role/power of statutory bodies. She has appeared before the Chief Judge for admission of overseas counsel. She has also appeared as junior counsel in criminal appeals to the High Court.\nJessica has appeared in hearings for Injunction relief, and in winding-up actions and claims involving contractual disputes in the High Court and District Court. She also advises in Personal Injury actions both for the Plaintiff and the Defendant, in Probate and Administration actions, in Disciplinary Proceedings, and claims of negligence and nuisance.\nJessica is experienced in conducting Chinese and English trials for the Prosecution and Defence in the Magistrates\u2019 court, and also attends legal visits and conducts bail applications and mitigation regularly.\nInterested in issues of social concerns, Jessica has written publications concerning exploitation of elders by financial institutions and the recent advancement in the rule of law in relation to foreign investment in China.\nP.C. LL., University of Hong Kong (2007)\n\u201cThe IBA 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Forum Conference Scholarship\u201d, International Bar Association, October 2010\nHonorary Legal Advisor, Association for the Welfare of the Shek Tong Tsui and Belcher\u2019s District\nMember, Professional Committee of the HK Federation of Fujian Associations\nChan J. W. Y. \u201cExploitation of the Elderly by Financial Institutions: A Call for Legislation against Elder Abuse in Hong Kong\u201d. (2007) 1 Hong Kong Journal of Legal Studies 147.\nChan J. W. Y. \u201cHow recent improvements in the Rule of Law in developing markets of China benefitted foreign investors in that market?\u201d (Awarded the IBA 2nd Asia Pacific Regional Forum Conference Scholarship by the International Bar Association, October 2010).\n\u9673\u9834\u8ce2. \u201c\u4e00\u570b\u4e8c\u5236\u7684\u5be6\u969b\u6210\u6548\u8207\u6311\u6230\u201d. 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In granting the application, Master Leong held that, once nominated, an expert has a duty to act and assist in court proceedings all the way to the conclusion of the case.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bestmangareview.blogspot.com/2007/10/story-characters-in-short-story-as.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:57Z", "digest": "sha1:I3JVHWIE6JNPOKLCG3TW3DCA5WKK32FP", "length": 5671, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "bestmangareview.blogspot.com", "title": "Best Manga Review: Death Note", "raw_content": "Story by Ooba Tsugumi\nArt by Obata Takeshi (The mangaka of Hikaru no Go)\nIn short, the story, as already said, is mainly about a notebook which is a tool of the gods of death to, as the name of the notebook already says, causes death in people. This book falls into the hands of a high school student, who has his own idea of an ideal world. However in his journey of achieving it, he faces powerful adversaries who try to stop him from reaching his ideals, or tries to take the note. I shall stop here in case i provide too many spoilers.\nThe story is very deep, with well-created characters with unique personalities. The thing i like about this book is that the characters are all very human like (apart from their unbelievably strong analytical thinking) and each of them have a unique personality.\nLight, the main character, for example, is illustrated to give a very clear image of a high-school genius who has surpassed most of his peers' academic abilities, and is bored with his routine life, and yearning for something new. He also gives us an image of a person who will go the distance to get to his ideals (why not, since he has the ability to kill).\neven Ryukuu and Remu, the gods of death in the story, are given well-described personalities, and the gods of death are different themselves. Indeed it is a great addition to the already deep human characters.\nThe story by itself, is also full of twists and turns. Frankly, i myself have not completed the manga, but the story is such that one will never expect what will happen, except that he/she will expect that whatever that happens will be unexpected. The prospect that anyone will suddenly die also will lead a reader to be very much interested in the book, and will yearn for the next book after the current one. The twists in this story is so unexpected that, somewhere in the story, the reader faces an almost complete change of characters and roles. Indeed, the plot-thinking skills of Tsugumi Ooba cannot be under-estimated. The only bad thing is that, somewhere the changes are so sudden that i myself have no idea how the writer is going to end his story.\nGreat plot indeed. i give it a 10.\nThe characters are rather lifelike as compared to other artists like clamp, where everyone looks almost the same. Not that i do not like stuff by clamp, but the art of deathnote is indeed very well drawn.\nCharacters also have faces which match their personality and backgrounds. The image of Light for example, being of a respectful, middle-class, background, gives the air of a gentleman. Misa, being a young and innocent girl is also depicted very well, with her blonde hair(or white in the manga) and large eyes, is exactly what you expect to see while viewing a teen idol.\nThe gods of death are also drawn very well. They are in no way pretty nor handsome, but pretty much the opposite. They are scary looking, with tentacles as hair, sharp teeth and sometimes rotting parts of bodies. However it really gives one the image of a 'god-of-death'. The realism in the art shows us that indeed, there is ugliness in the world, and this realism really fits in well with the dark story.\nExpressions are also very well depicted. Expressions of shock, hopelessness, and agony are common in this story, and all of them are very well drawn, and kind of makes the readers feel exactly what they are feeling too.\nSettings in the story are well drawn too. say, in a certain room, much attention is given to the details, such as the stuff on a table, being well arranged or messy. Indeed takeshi obatataks much pride in his work, and gives absolutely no nonsense. There are not much action scenes however, so theres actually not much chance for the artist to show off his skills in drawing such scenes.\nhaha there is obviously no sound, as already said this is a manga review. I shall just review on the dialogues.\nThe dialogue takes up pretty much of the manga, as this is mainly a story about a person's mind and his ways to achieve what he wants. This can be a good thing as it makes each book worth its money(since the reader takes so much time to read the dialogue). However the dialogue may be a bit too much for some people and they may deem it boring. I myself slept while reading book 1 halfway, not because it is boring, but rather i got tired from reading the large amount of words in the book.\nThe thing i like best about the dialogue is that, there are NO STUPiD CaTch phrases. Characters in the book talk and think like normal people, which is a very very good thing...\nOverall a very nice presentation, totally worth it.\nThe only bad thing was jus that there are too many words in the book. Not that it is anyone's fault, as the words are necessary to tell the story well. This happens in the chinese version of the comic, at least.\nThe presentation of the comic itself is clear cut, and different situations, for example flashbacks are well represented by a black border.\nDesperate situations, scenes of suspense, etc are also very well presented, and in such a way that the reader may realise his heart is beating quickly and his hands are starting to swear(at least in my case).\nThough this is mainly a serious story, there are few times of humour, not too few such that the book will be boring and droning, but also not too much as to make this story a complete joke. The use of humour in places are certainly appropriate, as it does lift up the readers' spirits in the process of reading such a suspense-filled story.\nIn conclusion, it is a very good mangas that teenagers and certain adults will enjoy. It is indeed a good read.\n8.83 (very good)\nLabels: Death Note, Ooba Tsugumi, Takeshi Obata", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 7522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beta.mobo.com/news/rapper-21-savage-releases-statement-confirming-he-was-born-united-kingdom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:AZ7JW3FEHJ6CL5YPKTPELWFI4PVP5F3M", "length": 3206, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "beta.mobo.com", "title": "Rapper 21 Savage releases statement confirming he was born in the United Kingdom | MOBO Organisation", "raw_content": "UPDATE (06/02/2019 11:05AM): 21 Savage has released a statement and confirmed that he was in fact born in Britain but disputes ICE's version of events.\nThe 26-year-old Hip Hop star, who is curently being detained by ICE for allegedly living in the United States illegally, released a new statement via his lawyer confirming that he was born in the U.K. in 1992, but says ICE\u2019s claims about his immigration history are inaccurate.\nIn their initial arrest, ICE alleged that Savage (n\u00e9 She\u2019yaa bin Abraham-Joseph) came to the U.S. from Britain in 2005 when he was 12 on a one-year visa that was never renewed. Savage now states that he immigrated to the U.S. when he was 7 years old on an H-4 visa, which would\u2019ve been around 1999. He says he then visited the U.K. for a month in 2005 and returned with a still-valid visa. By 2006, he says he lost his legal status \u201cthrough no fault of his own,\u201d and applied for a new visa in 2017 when he discovered he\u2019d been in the U.S. illegally.\nSavage\u2019s entire family \u2014 including his sisters, mother and children \u2014 are legally in the United States and some are citizens. His reps stress that he\u2019s not a flight risk because his loved ones are in the country. They are pleading for the rapper to be released from custody so that he may put together a defense and provide for his family.\nSavage\u2019s legal team has been trying to clear the immigration issue up for months. Regardless of his efforts, ICE has placed the star into removal proceedings and he is currently waiting for his case to be heard in the federal immigration courts.\nAtlanta-based rapper 21 Savage has been arrested in a \u201ctargeted operation\u201d by US immigration officials and is facing deportation because they say he is from the UK.\nNews of his arrest broke yesterday (February 3) and, according to US immigration spokesman Bryan Cox, the Grammy-nominated musician, whose real name is Shayaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, came to the US in July 2005 aged 12 and failed to leave when his visa expired a year later. The musician, 26, is currently being held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers and is in federal immigration custody in Georgia.\nThe news sent shockwaves on social media, as many considered the rapper to be an Atlanta local, born and raised in DeKalb County, which covers the eastern suburbs of the city. However, British records show he was born on October 22, 1992 in the East London borough of Newham.\nThe US agency told the local Atlanta Journal-Constitution outlet that while 21 Savage had been arrested and later convicted for felony drug charges in 2014 - at the time, the US Department of Homeland Security was unaware that he was in fact British.\n\"His whole public persona is false. He actually came to the US from the UK as a teen and overstayed his visa,\" a CNN reporter quoted an ICE spokesman as saying.\nThe rapper has been placed in deportation proceedings in federal immigration court. The rapper's lawyers are now using all their resources to free their client.\n\"We are working diligently to get Mr Abraham-Joseph out of detention while we work with authorities to clear up any misunderstanding,\" his attorney Dina LaPolt told TMZ.\nIMAGE CREDIT: Prince Williams/WireImage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 7618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 192.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=37307.140", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DKYT6TVFY5QQEHLE2FMLCSVADW5IB2UU", "length": 527, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bettermost.net", "title": "Happy Birthday Paul (Southendmd)!", "raw_content": "Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [15] 16 17 18 19 20 21 Go Down\nThank you, Kelda.\nHere's your present!\n\u00ab Last Edit: August 31, 2014, 07:19:20 am by Sason \u00bb\nWow, thanks, Sonja! Best elpha-bet ever! And, I of course, appreciate a well-strung guy!\nHappy, happy, bud!\nChuck, as you know, our cowgirl sign is gone...\nHey Chrissi, what a time we had!\nPriestess! I almost remember that night! (those drinks were killer good)\nbut it forever exists on our pic!\nPages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [15] 16 17 18 19 20 21 Go Up", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 4391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bhaskarfoundation.org/company.php?id=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:09Z", "digest": "sha1:GG2N2OUESGCUZGRMFRQHXBNWGOMS4IZY", "length": 420, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bhaskarfoundation.org", "title": "Bhaskar Foundation || Overview", "raw_content": "Various corporate social responsibility activities and projects are being implemented in states including Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Bihar, Odisha, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir etc.\nBhaskar Foundation have been trained more than 1,30,000 beneficiaries in various fields and today most of them are earning their livelihood through self or wage employment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 12267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 126.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bhubble.com/classifieds/node/105568", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:59Z", "digest": "sha1:NSUC3EVRFOXQN2QTFDKF6LN3XIQZURMO", "length": 537, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bhubble.com", "title": "Looking for an electric piano | Bhubble", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Classifieds \u00bb For Sale \u00bb Wanted \u00bb Looking for an electric piano\nLooking for an electric piano\nSubmitted by G. Johnson on Tue, 04/09/2018 - 8:45pm\nWith the full 88 keys\ncall of text Gwen 250-521-0252\nSubmitted by Jason on Tue, 04/09/2018 - 10:34pm.\nWe have a suzuki digital piano for sale with weighted keys if you are interested.\nA matching piano bench is also included.\nSubmitted by G. Johnson on Sat, 08/09/2018 - 2:28pm.\nSubmitted by G. Johnson on Mon, 10/09/2018 - 12:16pm.\nSubmitted by G. Johnson on Wed, 10/10/2018 - 6:03am.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 262.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bicrecruiting.com/blog-post/exxonmobils-corpus-christi-project-epitomizes-petrochem-growth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EO6TJ4RUPVPYTSZCMRSZART72IR6QFXM", "length": 3622, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "bicrecruiting.com", "title": "ExxonMobil\u2019s Corpus Christi project epitomizes petrochem growth | BIC Recruiting", "raw_content": "ExxonMobil\u2019s Corpus Christi project epitomizes petrochem growth\n\u201cIt is a real exciting time for our company,\u201d according to ExxonMobil Corpus Christi Operations Manager John Mabry.\nNow under construction, ExxonMobil\u2019s current project, a plastics manufacturing facility located in the burgeoning Corpus Christi, Texas, vicinity of the Gulf Coast, is already stacking up some very attractive numbers for the petrochemical industry.\nExxonMobil\u2019s Corpus Christi project is just one of those 11 facilities that comprise the ambitious, \u201c$20-some-odd billion,\u201d 10-year Grow the Gulf campaign currently underway across Texas and Louisiana, Mabry explained.\nThe Corpus Christi project is not just an ethylene plant. It is a $10 billion project that, upon completion, will be the largest in the world.\n\u201cIt\u2019s 1.8 million tons per annum \u2014 30-percent larger than the one we just built in Baytown on the North American Growth Project,\u201d Mabry said, speaking on a panel at the Gulf Coast Industry Forum held recently in Pasadena, Texas.\n\u201cIt is more than an ethylene plant,\u201d Mabry continued. \u201cIt\u2019s an ethylene plant and three derivative units: two polyethylene lines and a monoethlyene glycol line, and all the infrastructure and logistics that go along with that.\u201d\nThough the project is a 50/50 financial joint venture with SABIC, ExxonMobil is the operator of the facility, and \u201call the employees are going to be employed by ExxonMobil,\u201d Mabry clarified.\nMost of the plant\u2019s polyethylene product will be exported into developing regions, \u201cwhere people are literally coming out of the rural areas into the more developed cities, and they need goods \u2014 packaged goods \u2014 to improve their quality of life,\u201d Mabry said. \u201cThat\u2019s what our marketing research is telling us: where the plays are.\u201d\nMabry described that play as part of the region\u2019s natural gas shale revolution.\n\u201cIt\u2019s an ethane cracker, so we will be getting our feedstock \u2026 from Eagle Ford shale and the Permian Basin,\u201d Mabry said. \u201cWe\u2019re building pipelines to get that material to our plant.\u201d\nThough commonly referred to as the Corpus Christi project, the facility\u2019s precise location is north of Corpus Christi, on the other side of the bay, in the Gregory and Portland communities. The plot covers approximately 1,300 acres.\n\u201cThat\u2019s a big plot of land,\u201d Mabry said. \u201cThe actual operating facility is only on about 300 acres of that, so we have a big greenfield area to work with.\u201d\nMabry estimates the plant will bring 600 permanent positions to the area, accompanied by a workforce of about 6,000 during the peak construction period.\n\u201cWe estimate another 3,500 indirect or induced jobs will come out of this venture,\u201d Mabry said. \u201cThat\u2019s all the suppliers and support services that we need to run a venture of this magnitude. And we expect about $50 billion in economic stimulus over the first six years of the life of this project.\u201d While the venture is still in its early days, Mabry said contracts have already been awarded to engineering, procurement and construction entities, \u201cand they are busily working on those details.\u201d\nMeanwhile, the air permitting process is in the works.\n\u201cWe expect to get that in early to mid- 2019,\u201d Mabry said. \u201cWhile that is in progress, we are preparing the site for the construction activity that\u2019s to come. And we are already starting to hire people to train them and putting them into our existing facilities to get them ready to operate the Corpus plant.\u201d\nMabry anticipates start-up at the end of 2021.\n\u201cAgain, it\u2019s just a real exciting time for this particular project,\u201d Mabry concluded. For ongoing industry updates, visit BICMagazine.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 240.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bisbeefitness.com/why-calorie-counting-doesnt-help/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:30Z", "digest": "sha1:FVZL3C26JCM4X6L2MORYLFJMPEX4T4AZ", "length": 2477, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bisbeefitness.com", "title": "Why Calorie Counting Doesn\u2019t Help | Bisbee Fitness", "raw_content": "The old way to lose weight would be to count your calories and make sure you are burning more calories then what you are taking in. But it\u2019s not so simple; a calorie isn\u2019t a calorie. What you see on the package doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it has that exact number of calories. Everybody is different, and we all digest food differently, and another thing that you have to take into consideration is the people who find out how much calories are in a particular food, to do that they balm the food in the lab where everything is controlled. There is a 25% error rate on the calorie content on food packages. That\u2019s a pretty significant error rate especially when it comes to your fitness goals, but it\u2019s not surprising considering the food companies may use any of five different methods to count calories. Balming is one of them.\nAnother reason why calorie counting doesn\u2019t work is probably the most important. It\u2019s not practical. For the average person who doesn\u2019t live in the gym because they have kids, a job, chores to do around the house they don\u2019t have time to sit there and count calories. Sure they will probably do it for a week or a month top, but they will fall off the bandwagon. As fitness professionals, it\u2019s our job to keep them on the bandwagon. We don\u2019t need anything more that will cause our client\u2019s stress levels to rise because let\u2019s face it, the average person\u2019s stress level is high enough as it is and once they get to the gym to train, it\u2019s their time to decompress especially if they live busy lives. It could be the only hour of their day where they are alone.\nCalorie Counting doesn\u2019t work for 95% of the population. The rest of the population, they are the elite so UFC fighters, Olympic athletes where every calorie counts. I am a Precision Nutrition Level One coach and what I like about the program is everybody starts off pretty basic because they have found after coaching 100,000 people that people that know how to eat well, usually don\u2019t and the people that don\u2019t know how to eat well just don\u2019t either. Once you start complying with the bi-weekly nutrition habits and your goals start to change then we can look at calorie counting. But at this point, 95% of you would already have reached your goals.\nIf you want to lose weight guaranteed and get into the best shape of your life, email me at bisbeesfitnessexperience@gmail.com and find out how you can exercise from the comfort of your home by being a member in our online coaching program!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bitchmag.reviews/reviews/hostilefucking/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PAMOTXU3SYWE342GTBG4PMPNUA6WPZPY", "length": 3812, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bitchmag.reviews", "title": "Hostile Fucking Review", "raw_content": "Hostile Fucking is all about grudge fucking, which means rough sex - slapping, gagging, aggressive pussy and mouth fucking. This isn't precisely an extreme site, although it has a lot of the trimmings. Yes, there's slapping, face squeezing and hair pulling, but this site is primarily about people having sex to get even or as a power play. The tour doesn't make a lot of claims - non, really - so I'm heading off to the member area to get a better look at Hostile Fucking!\nHostile Fucking is a member of the Pornstar Network. As a result, members get access to one of the largest networks of content around, but this also means that they must go through a network pass-through page to enter Hostile Fucking. Luckily the site is listed at the top of the page when you log in, so you just click the site and there ya go.\nThe member home page is pretty easy to use. At the extreme top of the page is a nav bar full of network links. We'll get to them in a moment. Next are 4 links running across the page, and underneath on the left are the 4 most recent videos. On the right is a link to the Pornstar Network blog, which was actually fun to read, and there's an ad. The only content link on the links up top is the Videos link. Home is a link on every page that takes you back to the member home page, there's a link to Videos, then to Friends (which is mostly ads) and last to Support.\nThe videos here are offered in 5 sizes and 2 formats. The best is the 700 kbps vids. These are WMVs shown at 480x360 with a bitrate of just over 700k. They look pretty good, good enough to enlarge to 200% with no real issues. The sound is good and this site uses no DRM. There is also a 650 kbps MPG version of each clip which is almost as good as the 700k WMVs but not quite. Hostile Fucking even offers dialup versions of their videos for those on slow connections\nThe bonus and network content is all accessed at the very top of each page. Just click Back to Home on the left and you are taken to the network page. From here members can access over 40 sites, some with exclusive content. Or if you'd prefer DVD content, there's a large DVD library featuring 407 DVDs, which adds up to over 2000 videos. If you love having plenty of smut to browse and watch, this network delivers. I couldn't find an extreme niche in the videos or bonus sites, though, so if you're only here for rough sex, you may not be able to find much of it.\nHere are some things I liked about Hostile Fucking. The videos here are downloadable, and they come in several sizes and 2 formats. Each vid comes with a set of vidcaps, and these can be browsed in galleries or downloaded in zip files. Navigation is pretty easy here, as well.\nAnd here are some of the things I didn't like. First off, I would have preferred bigger, higher quality videos and full movie downloads rather than just clips - although the movies here aren't bad. Some of the sites in this network offer 2 Mbps full scene downloads, but this is not one of them. And I wish there were just plain more videos - 16 movies doesn't leave much room for browsing. Having dates on the updates would also be a big plus as there is no way to know when or if updates are added here.\nHostile Fucking has an interesting concept - grudge fucking - but some of these vids are more about dominance sex. I don't mean domination like whips and chains, but more power plays within sex. Watch out - some of these women talk back! The 16 videos are good quality and can be downloaded in several sizes of clips, but no full scenes are offered. Each vid comes with a set of vidcaps, and there is a huge collection of bonus content for full members. There's no way to know when or if this site updates, though. If this sounds interesting to you, why not head over to Hostile Fucking and take a closer look!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/2004/06/this-is-gonna-be-bigun-because-in-my.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:43Z", "digest": "sha1:4FKHBWTVX2NL3M6OMBHGV7OUDYDKKFJW", "length": 42904, "nlines": 107, "source_domain": "blog.animalswithinanimals.com", "title": "stAllio!'s way", "raw_content": "this is gonna be a big'un, because in my rebuttal to the hitchens piece, i've opted to reprint the original in its entirety, interspersed with my comments. this doesn't mean i won't be derisive when i think hitchens is being a jackass, but it should at least show that i'm including those passages i cannot rebut.\nUnfairenheit 9/11\nThe lies of Michael Moore.\nPosted Monday, June 21, 2004, at 12:26 PM PT\nMoore: Trying to have it three ways\nOne of the many problems with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. How many times, in my old days at The Nation magazine, did I hear wistful and semienvious ruminations? Where was the radical Firing Line show? Who will be our Rush Limbaugh? I used privately to hope that the emphasis, if the comrades ever got around to it, would be on the first of those and not the second. But the meetings themselves were so mind-numbing and lugubrious that I thought the danger of success on either front was infinitely slight.\nNonetheless, it seems that an answer to this long-felt need is finally beginning to emerge. I exempt Al Franken's unintentionally funny Air America network, to which I gave a couple of interviews in its early days. There, one could hear the reassuring noise of collapsing scenery and tripped-over wires and be reminded once again that correct politics and smooth media presentation are not even distant cousins. With Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, however, an entirely new note has been struck. Here we glimpse a possible fusion between the turgid routines of MoveOn.org and the filmic standards, if not exactly the filmic skills, of Sergei Eisenstein or Leni Riefenstahl.\ntalk about starting off with a bang... first he compares moore to limbaugh (which i don't think is entirely fair, though an actual discussion of why moore is not as bad as the limbaughs, coulters, & savages of the world would itself probably be a long piece; let's just say it's a question of degrees), but then compares moore to stalin's filmmaker eisenstein and top nazi director riefenstahl? there's an adage that roughly says that when you compare your opponent to nazis, you have lost the argument. so i could stop right now (especially since hitchens is just aping o'reilly & the like, who have been comparing moore to riefenstahl for weeks [yet flip out if anyone on their side is compared to a nazi]... not exactly an \"original\" argument, but i'll get to that).\nblah blah blah. from what i can tell, this is hitchens' way of saying that \"the war on iraq was the right thing to do, & anyone who disagrees with me is morally bankrupt.\" this is not new for hitchens:\nphil shannon at greenleft.org writes:\nHitchens joined the pro-war refrain that the millions who marched in February 2003 against an attack on Iraq were \u201cmarching for Saddam\u201d. He caricatured all anti-war opposition as \u201canti-Americanism\u201d, the marchers as \u201cthe silly led by the sinister\u201d. Abuse was his sole resort \u2014 Tariq Ali was a \u201cmoral idiot\u201d and Robert Fisk a \u201creactionary simpleton\u201d, Susan Sontag poured forth \u201cinfantile self-righteous drivel\u201d and Nelson Mandela \u201cspouted garbage\u201d, whilst the Dixie Chicks were \u201cfucking fat slags\u201d.\nokay, so delusions of grandeur and moral superiority... infantile comparisons to nazis... and childish name-calling dressed up in the \"grown up\" language of erudition. and not a single concrete complaint about the movie in the first three paragraphs. so far, not so good.\nIn late 2002, almost a year after the al-Qaida assault on American society, I had an onstage debate with Michael Moore at the Telluride Film Festival. In the course of this exchange, he stated his view that Osama Bin Laden should be considered innocent until proven guilty. This was, he said, the American way. The intervention in Afghanistan, he maintained, had been at least to that extent unjustified. Something\u2014I cannot guess what, since we knew as much then as we do now\u2014has since apparently persuaded Moore that Osama Bin Laden is as guilty as hell. Indeed, Osama is suddenly so guilty and so all-powerful that any other discussion of any other topic is a dangerous \"distraction\" from the fight against him. I believe that I understand the convenience of this late conversion.\nso moore is not allowed to change his mind, two years later? this has nothing to do with the film; it's just an excuse to dredge up old laundry for personal attacks on moore. if i wanted to get personal & accuse hitchens of hypocrisy for changing his mind, i could easily do so (but others already have; see the greenleft article posted above for one example).\nRecruiters in Michigan\nFahrenheit 9/11 makes the following points about Bin Laden and about Afghanistan, and makes them in this order:\n1) The Bin Laden family (if not exactly Osama himself) had a close if convoluted business relationship with the Bush family, through the Carlyle Group.\ndon't forget 1.5) while osama is portrayed as the \"black sheep\" of the family, his ties to the rest of the family are not as estranged as some might like you to think.\n2) Saudi capital in general is a very large element of foreign investment in the United States.\n3) The Unocal company in Texas had been willing to discuss a gas pipeline across Afghanistan with the Taliban, as had other vested interests.\nthis is all basically right, although \"willing to discuss\" is such an extreme euphemism i had to interrupt. unocal wanted that pipeline pretty badly, & they still do. that is well established fact.\n4) The Bush administration sent far too few ground troops to Afghanistan and thus allowed far too many Taliban and al-Qaida members to escape.\n5) The Afghan government, in supporting the coalition in Iraq, was purely risible in that its non-army was purely American.\nin case your head is collapsing trying to make sense of #5, he means that afghanistan was part of the \"coalition of the killing\" that invaded iraq. moore points out that this is a complete joke, because at that time afghanistan was little more than a puppet for the US & had no real military of its own.\n6) The American lives lost in Afghanistan have been wasted. (This I divine from the fact that this supposedly \"antiwar\" film is dedicated ruefully to all those killed there, as well as in Iraq.)\nmichael moore never states or even implies that those lives were \"wasted\".\nIt must be evident to anyone, despite the rapid-fire way in which Moore's direction eases the audience hastily past the contradictions, that these discrepant scatter shots do not cohere at any point. Either the Saudis run U.S. policy (through family ties or overwhelming economic interest), or they do not. As allies and patrons of the Taliban regime, they either opposed Bush's removal of it, or they did not. (They opposed the removal, all right: They wouldn't even let Tony Blair land his own plane on their soil at the time of the operation.)\nfinally, a decent point! yes, moore paints some fairly broad strokes in f9/11. he doesn't pretend to have all the answers; it's more about asking the right questions (hitchens doesn't have the answer to many of moore's questions either, but that doesn't seem to bother him so much). everything doesn't tie together perfectly into one tight \"conspiracy\" (if it did, i suspect moore would be criticized as a conspiracy nut for it). moore does use a \"buckshot\" approach, hitting lots of different points instead of focusing & possibly hitting a deadlier shot.\nand yes, obviously saudi arabia does not \"run U.S. policy\" or else we probably wouldn't have invaded arghanistan or iraq. but moore never says they run policy; only that their close ties to the bush clan and heavy investments get them undue influence or \"special treatment\", which he demonstrates pretty well.\nEither we sent too many troops, or were wrong to send any at all\u2014the latter was Moore's view as late as 2002\u2014or we sent too few. If we were going to make sure no Taliban or al-Qaida forces survived or escaped, we would have had to be more ruthless than I suspect that Mr. Moore is really recommending.\ni for one don't see a conflict between saying \"we shouldn't be there at all, but since we did go in, we should have sent more in order to do the job properly\" (indeed, that is exactly what i would say about the iraq invasion). as for moore ever saying we \"sent too many\", i'm not sure he ever did (there's no documentation; just hearsay from a debate two years ago), except maybe \"any is too many\", which is still not necessarily inconsistent with that line of reasoning. BUT\nAnd these are simply observations on what is \"in\" the film.\nno it's not, hitch! just two sentences ago you brought up something from two years ago!!! that has absolute zero to do with what's in the film. all hitch is saying here is that michael moore seemingly changed his mind about bin laden in the past two years. fine, maybe he did (i don't know; it's really hearsay, but let's just accept that moore did say something like that), but even if so it is not an inconsistency \"in\" the film.\nIf we turn to the facts that are deliberately left out, we discover that there is an emerging Afghan army, that the country is now a joint NATO responsibility and thus under the protection of the broadest military alliance in history, that it has a new constitution and is preparing against hellish odds to hold a general election, and that at least a million and a half of its former refugees have opted to return. I don't think a pipeline is being constructed yet, not that Afghanistan couldn't do with a pipeline. But a highway from Kabul to Kandahar\u2014an insurance against warlordism and a condition of nation-building\u2014is nearing completion with infinite labor and risk. We also discover that the parties of the Afghan secular left\u2014like the parties of the Iraqi secular left\u2014are strongly in favor of the regime change. But this is not the sort of irony in which Moore chooses to deal.\nyes, michael was selective in what he included in the movie. he has been very clear that f9/11 promotes his point of view; he's never claimed it was objective. it should be no surprise that moore doesn't include the hawks' talking points in the film, because they do detract from the sharpness of his point. so things aren't going quite as terribly in afghanistan as moore would suggest. likewise, hitchens does not acknowledge any of the good points moore makes in the movie, or the things that have gone terribly wrong in afghanistan since the US invaded. never mind that moore never says in the movie that we should not have invaded afghanistan; only that we handled the invasion poorly.\nthis is really the crux of the debate; i have seen few good arguments anywhere about f9/11 that didn't revolve around this: he uses selective editing. he's \"manipulative\" or \"sensational\" and \"takes cheap shots\" where documentaries are supposed to be \"objective\". i'm quite sick of hearing people say f9/11 is \"not a documentary\"... those who say it never give a better suggestion for the kind of film he makes (other than \"propaganda\", which would never fly on oscar night). i'm more apt to go with roger ebert's definition of a documentary than christopher hitchens', thank you very much.\nthis is essentially a style debate about the \"old guard\" school of documentaries, where they believe in a \"journalistic\" objectivity (though the trend toward so-called objectivity in journalism is dying), versus moore's new-school razamataz, in-your-face, beat-you-over-the-head-with-the-message style. it's true that moore can be sensational and manipulative, but at least he is up front about it. he doesn't try to pass himself off as an objective journalist like, say, bill o'reilly. i'm inclined to think that's where we get into trouble: when a demagogue like rush limbaugh can get on the news & pass for a real journalist, that's dishonest. but this is all shades of gray & maybe i'm wrong.\nHe prefers leaden sarcasm to irony and, indeed, may not appreciate the distinction. In a long and paranoid (and tedious) section at the opening of the film, he makes heavy innuendoes about the flights that took members of the Bin Laden family out of the country after Sept. 11. I banged on about this myself at the time and wrote a Nation column drawing attention to the groveling Larry King interview with the insufferable Prince Bandar, which Moore excerpts. However, recent developments have not been kind to our Mike. In the interval between Moore's triumph at Cannes and the release of the film in the United States, the 9/11 commission has found nothing to complain of in the timing or arrangement of the flights. And Richard Clarke, Bush's former chief of counterterrorism, has come forward to say that he, and he alone, took the responsibility for authorizing those Saudi departures. This might not matter so much to the ethos of Fahrenheit 9/11, except that\u2014as you might expect\u2014Clarke is presented throughout as the brow-furrowed ethical hero of the entire post-9/11 moment. And it does not seem very likely that, in his open admission about the Bin Laden family evacuation, Clarke is taking a fall, or a spear in the chest, for the Bush administration. So, that's another bust for this windy and bloated cinematic \"key to all mythologies.\"\nmoore himself explains this somewhat in his 9/11 facts page. the point he's trying to make is that the saudis got special treatment because of their ties to bush & friends; not that they needed to be investigated more thoroughly, but that they would've been investigated more if they'd been anyone else. it is inconvenient that clarke doesn't make as big a deal of it as moore does, but it doesn't answer moore's question of what was the rush in getting these individuals out of the country?\nfurthermore, the link hitch gives as some irrefutable argument against moore is itself a little ambiguous... it starts off with clarke taking full responsibility for clearing the flights, but later on it gets iffy:\nthe hillnews article hitch linked to says:\nThis new account of the events seemed to contradict Clarke\u2019s sworn testimony before the Sept. 11 commission at the end of March about who approved the flights.\n\u201cThe request came to me, and I refused to approve it,\u201d Clarke testified. \u201cI suggested that it be routed to the FBI and that the FBI look at the names of the individuals who were going to be on the passenger manifest and that they approve it or not. I spoke with the \u2014 at the time \u2014 No. 2 person in the FBI, Dale Watson, and asked him to deal with this issue. The FBI then approved \u2026 the flight.\u201d\n\u201cThat\u2019s a little different than saying, \u2018I claim sole responsibility for it now,\u2019\u201d Roemer said yesterday.\nHowever, the FBI has denied approving the flight.\nFBI spokeswoman Donna Spiser said, \u201cWe haven\u2019t had anything to do with arranging and clearing the flights.\u201d\n\u201cWe did know who was on the flights and interviewed anyone we thought we needed to,\u201d she said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t interview 100 percent of the [passengers on the] flight. We didn\u2019t think anyone on the flight was of investigative interest.\u201d\nhmm... so did clarke approve it or did he co-approve it with the fbi? it gets juicier:\nInstead of putting the issue to rest, Clarke\u2019s testimony fueled speculation among Democrats that someone higher up in the administration, perhaps White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, approved the flights.\n\u201cIt couldn\u2019t have come from Clarke. It should have come from someone further up the chain,\u201d said a Democratic Senate aide who watched Clarke\u2019s testimony.\nClarke\u2019s testimony did not settle the issue for Roemer, either.\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t seem that Richard Clarke had enough information to clear it,\u201d Roemer said Monday.\n\u201cI just don\u2019t think that the questions are resolved, and we need to dig deeper,\u201d Roemer added. \u201cClarke sure didn\u2019t seem to say that he was the final decisionmaker. I believe we need to continue to look for some more answers.\u201d\nRoemer said there are important policy issues to address, such as the need to develop a flight-departure control system.\nSeveral Democrats on and off the Hill say that bin Laden\u2019s family should have been detained as material witnesses to the attacks. They note that after the attacks, the Bush administration lowered the threshold for detaining potential witnesses. The Department of Justice is estimated to have detained more than 50 material witnesses since Sept. 11.\nit's true that the 9/11 commission released a statement saying the flights were \"handled properly\". but clearly not everyone on the commission is convinced.\nA film that bases itself on a big lie and a big misrepresentation can only sustain itself by a dizzying succession of smaller falsehoods, beefed up by wilder and (if possible) yet more-contradictory claims. President Bush is accused of taking too many lazy vacations. (What is that about, by the way? Isn't he supposed to be an unceasing planner for future aggressive wars?) But the shot of him \"relaxing at Camp David\" shows him side by side with Tony Blair. I say \"shows,\" even though this photograph is on-screen so briefly that if you sneeze or blink, you won't recognize the other figure. A meeting with the prime minister of the United Kingdom, or at least with this prime minister, is not a goof-off.\ni don't see why it couldn't be a goof-off... cheney & scalia get together to go hunting, & they claim they don't discuss work when they do it. but even acknowledging that some of those vacations were \"working vacation\", the criticism that bush is on vacation more than anyone else in the country stands.\nThe president is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, on a golf course, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the president on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm. More interesting is the moment where Bush is shown frozen on his chair at the infant school in Florida, looking stunned and useless for seven whole minutes after the news of the second plane on 9/11. Many are those who say that he should have leaped from his stool, adopted a Russell Crowe stance, and gone to work. I could even wish that myself. But if he had done any such thing then (as he did with his \"Let's roll\" and \"dead or alive\" remarks a month later), half the Michael Moore community would now be calling him a man who went to war on a hectic, crazed impulse. The other half would be saying what they already say\u2014that he knew the attack was coming, was using it to cement himself in power, and couldn't wait to get on with his coup. This is the line taken by Gore Vidal and by a scandalous recent book that also revives the charge of FDR's collusion over Pearl Harbor. At least Moore's film should put the shameful purveyors of that last theory back in their paranoid box.\nthe golf clip is a cheap shot perhaps (though whether there's anything wrong with cheap shots is debatable), but is hitchens even giving bush a pass for sitting there in that classroom for 7 minutes like a deer in headlights? not even hitch's fellow slate writer will let him get away with that:\ndavid edelstein in slate wrote:\nBut what can even Bush partisans make of those seven minutes in the elementary school classroom after he received the news that a second plane had hit the World Trade Center and the nation was under attack? In one of the few lapses in an otherwise virtuoso rant, Christopher Hitchens argues that Moore would have made sport of a martial, Russell Crowe-like response. Nice try, but that blow wouldn't have landed, and this one does, spectacularly. It is downright spooky to watch the nominal commander in chief and \"leader of the free world\" behave, in a moment of crisis, like a superfluous man.\nokay, back to hitchens:\nBut it won't because it encourages their half-baked fantasies in so many other ways. We are introduced to Iraq, \"a sovereign nation.\" (In fact, Iraq's \"sovereignty\" was heavily qualified by international sanctions, however questionable, which reflected its noncompliance with important U.N. resolutions.) In this peaceable kingdom, according to Moore's flabbergasting choice of film shots, children are flying little kites, shoppers are smiling in the sunshine, and the gentle rhythms of life are undisturbed. Then\u2014wham! From the night sky come the terror weapons of American imperialism. Watching the clips Moore uses, and recalling them well, I can recognize various Saddam palaces and military and police centers getting the treatment. But these sites are not identified as such. In fact, I don't think Al Jazeera would, on a bad day, have transmitted anything so utterly propagandistic. You would also be led to think that the term \"civilian casualty\" had not even been in the Iraqi vocabulary until March 2003. I remember asking Moore at Telluride if he was or was not a pacifist. He would not give a straight answer then, and he doesn't now, either. I'll just say that the \"insurgent\" side is presented in this film as justifiably outraged, whereas the 30-year record of Baathist war crimes and repression and aggression is not mentioned once. (Actually, that's not quite right. It is briefly mentioned but only, and smarmily, because of the bad period when Washington preferred Saddam to the likewise unmentioned Ayatollah Khomeini.)\ni've seen others make a similar complaint: that because moore doesn't show any of saddam's violence, he's trying to imply that saddam was not a monster. that's flat-out ridiculous; we have had the fact that saddam is \"evil\" pounded into our brains repeatedly since operation desert storm. moore doesn't need to depict saddam's brutal reign because we all know all about it already. i took that scene as showing that, as sucky as it might have been, life did go on \"normally\" in iraq until we invaded & transformed it into a total war zone.\nThat this\u2014his pro-American moment\u2014was the worst Moore could possibly say of Saddam's depravity is further suggested by some astonishing falsifications. Moore asserts that Iraq under Saddam had never attacked or killed or even threatened (his words) any American. I never quite know whether Moore is as ignorant as he looks, or even if that would be humanly possible. Baghdad was for years the official, undisguised home address of Abu Nidal, then the most-wanted gangster in the world, who had been sentenced to death even by the PLO and had blown up airports in Vienna* and Rome. Baghdad was the safe house for the man whose \"operation\" murdered Leon Klinghoffer. Saddam boasted publicly of his financial sponsorship of suicide bombers in Israel. (Quite a few Americans of all denominations walk the streets of Jerusalem.)\nthreats against israel are not de facto threats against the USA simply because the US & israel are allies. sorry hitch, but i'm not buying that one.\nIn 1991, a large number of Western hostages were taken by the hideous Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and held in terrible conditions for a long time. After that same invasion was repelled\u2014Saddam having killed quite a few Americans and Egyptians and Syrians and Brits in the meantime and having threatened to kill many more\u2014the Iraqi secret police were caught trying to murder former President Bush during his visit to Kuwait. Never mind whether his son should take that personally. (Though why should he not?) Should you and I not resent any foreign dictatorship that attempts to kill one of our retired chief executives? (President Clinton certainly took it that way: He ordered the destruction by cruise missiles of the Baathist \"security\" headquarters.) Iraqi forces fired, every day, for 10 years, on the aircraft that patrolled the no-fly zones and staved off further genocide in the north and south of the country. In 1993, a certain Mr. Yasin helped mix the chemicals for the bomb at the World Trade Center and then skipped to Iraq, where he remained a guest of the state until the overthrow of Saddam. In 2001, Saddam's regime was the only one in the region that openly celebrated the attacks on New York and Washington and described them as just the beginning of a larger revenge. Its official media regularly spewed out a stream of anti-Semitic incitement. I think one might describe that as \"threatening,\" even if one was narrow enough to think that anti-Semitism only menaces Jews. And it was after, and not before, the 9/11 attacks that Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi moved from Afghanistan to Baghdad and began to plan his now very open and lethal design for a holy and ethnic civil war. On Dec. 1, 2003, the New York Times reported\u2014and the David Kay report had established\u2014that Saddam had been secretly negotiating with the \"Dear Leader\" Kim Jong-il in a series of secret meetings in Syria, as late as the spring of 2003, to buy a North Korean missile system, and missile-production system, right off the shelf. (This attempt was not uncovered until after the fall of Baghdad, the coalition's presence having meanwhile put an end to the negotiations.)\ni will admit that i don't know enough to comment about all the things hitch mentions, nor do i have time to research them (i still have a long way to go on this entry!), but brandon at antiwar.com has a good head start at refuting some of this stuff.\nThus, in spite of the film's loaded bias against the work of the mind, you can grasp even while watching it that Michael Moore has just said, in so many words, the one thing that no reflective or informed person can possibly believe: that Saddam Hussein was no problem. No problem at all. Now look again at the facts I have cited above. If these things had been allowed to happen under any other administration, you can be sure that Moore and others would now glibly be accusing the president of ignoring, or of having ignored, some fairly unmistakable \"warnings.\"\nmoore never says that saddam was \"no problem at all\". what he says is that the war on iraq was based on false justifications (virtually irrefutable), that bushco wanted to invade iraq from day one despite no real connection to al qaeda (also irrefutable), & that the war in iraq distracted from the \"real\" war on terror.\nThe same \"let's have it both ways\" opportunism infects his treatment of another very serious subject, namely domestic counterterrorist policy. From being accused of overlooking too many warnings\u2014not exactly an original point\u2014\nooh, now he's accusing moore of not being \"original\" (after hitchens apes almost every single conservative \"anti-moore talking point\")? give me a break. i've seen others argue that f9/11 has \"no new information\", but that is only true if you're a news junky, the type who checks the international news (not just US news) on a daily or frequent basis... hell, i haven't even read craig unger's book, for example. for the majority out there who are not political addicts, there is tons of new info in the film.\nthe administration is now lavishly taunted for issuing too many. (Would there not have been \"fear\" if the harbingers of 9/11 had been taken seriously?) We are shown some American civilians who have had absurd encounters with idiotic \"security\" staff. (Have you ever met anyone who can't tell such a story?) Then we are immediately shown underfunded police departments that don't have the means or the manpower to do any stop-and-search: a power suddenly demanded by Moore on their behalf that we know by definition would at least lead to some ridiculous interrogations. Finally, Moore complains that there isn't enough intrusion and confiscation at airports and says that it is appalling that every air traveler is not forcibly relieved of all matches and lighters. (Cue mood music for sinister influence of Big Tobacco.) So\u2014he wants even more pocket-rummaging by airport officials? Uh, no, not exactly. But by this stage, who's counting? Moore is having it three ways and asserting everything and nothing. Again\u2014simply not serious.\nfair enough: privacy vs security is a very complicated debate that moore does not treat in-depth or claim to have the answer to. i can see how his criticisms here might contradict each other. but there is still a big difference between \"tight security\", which moore wants, and \"fear-mongering\", which is what he accuses the bush administration of (and i would agree that, at least, bush used fear tactics to overhype the threat caused by saddam).\nCircling back to where we began, why did Moore's evil Saudis not join \"the Coalition of the Willing\"? Why instead did they force the United States to switch its regional military headquarters to Qatar? If the Bush family and the al-Saud dynasty live in each other's pockets, as is alleged in a sort of vulgar sub-Brechtian scene with Arab headdresses replacing top hats, then how come the most reactionary regime in the region has been powerless to stop Bush from demolishing its clone in Kabul and its buffer regime in Baghdad? The Saudis hate, as they did in 1991, the idea that Iraq's recuperated oil industry might challenge their near-monopoly. They fear the liberation of the Shiite Muslims they so despise. To make these elementary points is to collapse the whole pathetic edifice of the film's \"theory.\" Perhaps Moore prefers the pro-Saudi Kissinger/Scowcroft plan for the Middle East, where stability trumps every other consideration and where one dare not upset the local house of cards, or killing-field of Kurds? This would be a strange position for a purported radical. Then again, perhaps he does not take this conservative line because his real pitch is not to any audience member with a serious interest in foreign policy. It is to the provincial isolationist.\nsure, this is all grey area & moore avoids these questions because they muddy the issue. besides, like i said above, it's not that the saudis \"run U.S. policy\", but that they have undue influence. i could just as easily answer this passage with my own question: \"why didn't we invade saudi arabia, like many suggested?\" moore has stated that if 15 of the 19 attackers on 9/11 had been from libya, the headlines would've read \"libya attacks US\". these are indeed difficult questions and moore sometimes glosses over them, but his view isn't as simplistic as hitchens suggests, either.\nI have already said that Moore's film has the staunch courage to mock Bush for his verbal infelicity. Yet it's much, much braver than that. From Fahrenheit 9/11 you can glean even more astounding and hidden disclosures, such as the capitalist nature of American society, the existence of Eisenhower's \"military-industrial complex,\" and the use of \"spin\" in the presentation of our politicians. It's high time someone had the nerve to point this out. There's more. Poor people often volunteer to join the army, and some of them are duskier than others. Betcha didn't know that.\nsee above, re: being \"original\". this may be old news, but these are still issues that 99.99% of the media does not address.\nBack in Flint, Mich., Moore feels on safe ground. There are no martyred rabbits this time. Instead, it's the poor and black who shoulder the packs and rifles and march away. I won't dwell on the fact that black Americans have fought for almost a century and a half, from insisting on their right to join the U.S. Army and fight in the Civil War to the right to have a desegregated Army that set the pace for post-1945 civil rights. I'll merely ask this: In the film, Moore says loudly and repeatedly that not enough troops were sent to garrison Afghanistan and Iraq. (This is now a favorite cleverness of those who were, in the first place, against sending any soldiers at all.) Well, where does he think those needful heroes and heroines would have come from? Does he favor a draft\u2014the most statist and oppressive solution? Does he think that only hapless and gullible proles sign up for the Marines? Does he think\u2014as he seems to suggest\u2014that parents can \"send\" their children, as he stupidly asks elected members of Congress to do? Would he have abandoned Gettysburg because the Union allowed civilians to pay proxies to serve in their place? Would he have supported the antidraft (and very antiblack) riots against Lincoln in New York? After a point, one realizes that it's a waste of time asking him questions of this sort. It would be too much like taking him seriously. He'll just try anything once and see if it floats or flies or gets a cheer.\ni already said that i don't see any real inconsistency in saying we shouldn't have gone there at all, but since we did we should've sent more troops. by this point, hitchens seems so blinded by his own smugness that he doesn't grasp the obvious counter-argument. hitchens asks \"where should the troops have come from?\" as if it were inevitable that the troops would be sent in. the simple answer is that we shouldn't have even sent them in without enough troops to get the job done right. how is that so hard to grasp? moore says in the movie that \"the only thing our soldiers ask is that we never send them into harm's way unless absolutely necessary\". the iraq war was obviously not \"necessary\". the afghan war was debatable, & even if that one was necessary, our military was not overstretched yet, plus we had true international support.\nTrying to talk congressmen into sending their sons to war\nIndeed, Moore's affected and ostentatious concern for black America is one of the most suspect ingredients of his pitch package. In a recent interview, he yelled that if the hijacked civilians of 9/11 had been black, they would have fought back, unlike the stupid and presumably cowardly white men and women (and children). Never mind for now how many black passengers were on those planes\u2014we happen to know what Moore does not care to mention: that Todd Beamer and a few of his co-passengers, shouting \"Let's roll,\" rammed the hijackers with a trolley, fought them tooth and nail, and helped bring down a United Airlines plane, in Pennsylvania, that was speeding toward either the White House or the Capitol. There are no words for real, impromptu bravery like that, which helped save our republic from worse than actually befell. The Pennsylvania drama also reminds one of the self-evident fact that this war is not fought only \"overseas\" or in uniform, but is being brought to our cities. Yet Moore is a silly and shady man who does not recognize courage of any sort even when he sees it because he cannot summon it in himself. To him, easy applause, in front of credulous audiences, is everything.\nby this point, hitchens has exhaused all of the alleged inconsistencies in the movie & is once again stretching for anything moore has ever said in order to take more cheap shots. this has absolutely nothing to do with the film. i guess it's okay for hitchens to be overbroad & take cheap shots at his target, but it's not okay for moore.\nMoore has announced that he won't even appear on TV shows where he might face hostile questioning.\nwhere the fuck did moore say this? i have read dozens and dozens and dozens of articles about f9/11 & i have never seen this claim anywhere but from hitch. if anyone can actually back it up, please let me know. in fact, moore has a funny anecdote on his site about why he's not going on o'reilly, & it sure ain't because the questions are too hard:\nmichael's message says:\nI'd go on O'Reilly but, like a coward, he walked out on a screening we invited him to (with Al Franken just a few rows away!). I personally caught him sneaking out. Embarrassed, he tried to change the subject. He said, \"When are you coming on my show?\" and I said, \"Turn around and watch the rest of the movie and I will come on your show.\" He walked out. Fair and balanced.\nso really, i don't know where hitchens' assertion came from but i think it's totally false.\nI notice from the New York Times of June 20 that he has pompously established a rapid response team, and a fact-checking staff, and some tough lawyers, to bulwark himself against attack. He'll sue, Moore says, if anyone insults him or his pet. Some right-wing hack groups, I gather, are planning to bring pressure on their local movie theaters to drop the film. How dumb or thuggish do you have to be in order to counter one form of stupidity and cowardice with another? By all means go and see this terrible film, and take your friends, and if the fools in the audience strike up one cry, in favor of surrender or defeat, feel free to join in the conversation.\nHowever, I think we can agree that the film is so flat-out phony that \"fact-checking\" is beside the point. And as for the scary lawyers\u2014get a life, or maybe see me in court. But I offer this, to Moore and to his rapid response rabble. Any time, Michael my boy. Let's redo Telluride. Any show. Any place. Any platform. Let's see what you're made of.\nno, i can't agree with that. & essentially, hitchens just violently disagrees with moore's opinion. even with the bravado of the big challenge to moore, hitchens really only points out a couple true factual erros in the film. he argues with the presentation, sure, as many do, but he cannot argue with the vast majority of the facts in the film, so he makes up some hooey about it being \"beside the point\".\nSome people soothingly say that one should relax about all this. It's only a movie. No biggie. It's no worse than the tomfoolery of Oliver Stone. It's kick-ass entertainment. It might even help get out \"the youth vote.\" Yeah, well, I have myself written and presented about a dozen low-budget made-for-TV documentaries, on subjects as various as Mother Teresa and Bill Clinton and the Cyprus crisis, and I also helped produce a slightly more polished one on Henry Kissinger that was shown in movie theaters. So I know, thanks, before you tell me, that a documentary must have a \"POV\" or point of view and that it must also impose a narrative line. But if you leave out absolutely everything that might give your \"narrative\" a problem and throw in any old rubbish that might support it, and you don't even care that one bit of that rubbish flatly contradicts the next bit, and you give no chance to those who might differ, then you have betrayed your craft.\nbrandon at antiwar.com points out that this last sentence applies equally well to hitchen' own piece. 'nuff said.\nIf you flatter and fawn upon your potential audience, I might add, you are patronizing them and insulting them. By the same token, if I write an article and I quote somebody and for space reasons put in an ellipsis like this (\u2026), I swear on my children that I am not leaving out anything that, if quoted in full, would alter the original meaning or its significance. Those who violate this pact with readers or viewers are to be despised. At no point does Michael Moore make the smallest effort to be objective. At no moment does he pass up the chance of a cheap sneer or a jeer. He pitilessly focuses his camera, for minutes after he should have turned it off, on a distraught and bereaved mother whose grief we have already shared. (But then, this is the guy who thought it so clever and amusing to catch Charlton Heston, in Bowling for Columbine, at the onset of his senile dementia.) Such courage.\nthat's right; moore doesn't try to be objective. he takes a lot of cheap shots. he doesn't claim to be objective, either. he's honest about having a point of view.\nas far as moore being sensational, or patronizing, or whatever, i like what mtv had to say: \"...speaking from the halls of MTV (or just about any other major media outlet these days), to brand Moore as sensationalistic smacks a bit of the pot calling the kettle black.\" (pot: \"you're not objective! you take cheap shots whenever possible!\" kettle: \"oh, hi chris, what's up?\")\nPerhaps vaguely aware that his movie so completely lacks gravitas, Moore concludes with a sonorous reading of some words from George Orwell. The words are taken from 1984 and consist of a third-person analysis of a hypothetical, endless, and contrived war between three superpowers. The clear intention, as clumsily excerpted like this (...) is to suggest that there is no moral distinction between the United States, the Taliban, and the Baath Party and that the war against jihad is about nothing. If Moore had studied a bit more, or at all, he could have read Orwell really saying, and in his own voice, the following:\nThe majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not to follow their thoughts beyond that point. But there is a minority of intellectual pacifists, whose real though unacknowledged motive appears to be hatred of western democracy and admiration for totalitarianism. Pacifist propaganda usually boils down to saying that one side is as bad as the other, but if one looks closely at the writing of the younger intellectual pacifists, one finds that they do not by any means express impartial disapproval but are directed almost entirely against Britain and the United States \u2026\nAnd that's just from Orwell's Notes on Nationalism in May 1945. A short word of advice: In general, it's highly unwise to quote Orwell if you are already way out of your depth on the question of moral equivalence. It's also incautious to remind people of Orwell if you are engaged in a sophomoric celluloid rewriting of recent history.\noh sweet jesus... now hitchens is implying that moore is anti-american? talk about unoriginal arguments. socialists aren't supposed to get all their talking points from fox news.\nIf Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture. Rock the vote, indeed.\nCorrection, June 22, 2004: This piece originally referred to terrorist attacks by Abu Nidal's group on the Munich and Rome airports. The 1985 attacks occurred at the Rome and Vienna airports. (Return to the corrected sentence.)\nblah blah blah. this paragraph might as well have come from the new york post or newsmax.com... liberals hate america, blah blah blah. i've spent hours on this rebuttal; i'm not going to waste my time arguing with this kind of claptrap.\nHere's another (long) response...\nHitchens v Moore\nwww.overcast.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/f911/hitch-moore.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 329, "original_length": 48349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.animalswithinanimals.com/2005/03/striking-out-at-bowling-alley.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:23Z", "digest": "sha1:3LK45IRSAT5TTG5IGMWAT5GXLXEWV467", "length": 3044, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blog.animalswithinanimals.com", "title": "stAllio!'s way: striking out at the bowling alley", "raw_content": "i was way out of practice when bowling yesterday. my first game i bowled a 67. sometimes i could knock down 8 or 9 pins, but then i'd get 2-3 gutterballs in a row. and i would keep getting gutterballs on the first throw in a frame, and then get a bunch of pins when trying to pick up the \"spare\". i was 2/3 of the way into my second game before i got the hang of sending the ball down the middle of the lane and actually knocking pins down. finally, in my third game i was on a roll (or maybe i need a certain amount of alcohol in me to bowl well), managed to pick up a few spares, and even got a couple strikes. so i got 135 on my third game, literally double the score of my first game.\nthe academy awards shorts were pretty good, though some were more interesting than others. in a couple of them, not much seemed to happen at all (such as in birthday boy, a 3d-animated short about a little korean boy who puts a bolt on some train tracks so that the passing train will flatten & magnetize the bolt... then proceeds to wander around and play with his toys for another 5 minutes. the animation was lovely, but it came off more like an animation exercise than any sort of actual story). then others were really far out, like ryan:\nRyan, directed by Chris Landreth, is based on the life of Canadian animator Ryan Larkin. Thirty years ago, at the National Film Board of Canada, Ryan produced some of the most influential animated films of his time. Today, Ryan lives on welfare and panhandles for spare change in downtown Montreal. How could such an artistic genius follow this path?\nIn Ryan we hear the voice of Ryan Larkin and people who have known him, but these voices speak through strange, twisted, broken and disembodied 3D generated characters... people whose appearances are bizarre, humorous or disturbing. Although incredibly realistic and detailed, Ryan was created and animated without the use of live action footage, rotoscoping or motion capture...but instead from an original, personal, hand animated three-dimensional world which Chris calls 'psychological realism'.\nthat \"psychological realism\" is wild: heads and bodies are deformed, warping and collapsing as their moods shift. it's surprisingly surreal and yet very linear at the same time.\nand perhaps most oddly of all, two of the shorts involved parents who go out to a bar and leave their kids waiting in the parking lot... when i was watching the first one (two cars, one night) i was thinking \"what kind of parent leaves their kids in the car while they go get drunk?\" then later, wasp came on and the parental behavior there is much worse... is this some kind of weird coincidence, or do a lot of parents behave that way?\noverall i would definitely recommend seeing this if it comes to your town. i'm glad i went.\nnow we just have to wait until the animation show comes to town next month... that will be awesome. and while i'm thinking of it, i really need to pick up the dvd from last year's animation show as well... i totally loved those don hertzfeldt cartoons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 7201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.applause-tickets.com/2013/11/emmy-winner-bryan-cranston-to-open-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:07Z", "digest": "sha1:FAGDVAQBQ4VD5Z5TLSAPDQZGNRWBR432", "length": 2317, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.applause-tickets.com", "title": "Broadway Ticket News: Emmy Winner Bryan Cranston To Open On Broadway This Winter In All The Way", "raw_content": "Emmy Winner Bryan Cranston To Open On Broadway This Winter In All The Way\nWait a minute. Walter White on Broadway? It's true. Now relax Breaking Bad fans. They are not turning your favorite show into a big splashy Broadway musical. I just wanted to get your attention. What is happening of course is that three-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston is coming to Broadway in a new play. All The Way,written by Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Schenkkan is set to begin previews at the Neil Simon Theatre on February 10, 2014 with opening night scheduled for March 6, 2014. Interesting fact. This will be the first play at the Neil Simon Theatre since A View From the Bridge played there in 1998.\nNow I'll be honest I have never seen an episode of Breaking Bad. The truth is the only thing that I have seen him Mr. Cranston in is Seinfeld and How I Met Your Mother. But let's face it. A man doesn't win an Emmy three years in a row if he isn't good. Plus based on his stellar reviews from the shows most recent run at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge we might just see a Tony nomination and possible win in his future. But enough about it's star. You probably want to know what the shows about before you see it don't you? So here you go. Enjoy!\n\"1963. An assassin\u2019s bullet catapults Lyndon Baines Johnson into the presidency. A Shakespearean figure of towering ambition and appetite, the charismatic, conflicted Texan hurls himself into Civil Rights legislation, throwing the country into turmoil. Alternately bullying and beguiling, he enacts major social programs, faces down opponents and wins the 1964 election in a landslide. But in faraway Vietnam, a troublesome conflict looms. In the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning playwright\u2019s vivid dramatization of LBJ\u2019s first year in office, means versus ends plays out on a broad stage canvas as politicians and civil rights leaders plot strategy and wage war.\"\nNow I don't know about you but it sure sounds like a winner to me. What do you think? Tickets for the highly anticipated show are scheduled to go on sale on December 14 so mark that day down on your calendars or you might miss out on what is sure to be the theatrical event of the Winter. Get your tickets to see Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson at the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway. Until next time theatre fans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 6085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.brokenfunction.com/?p=123", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:WYWBIQSGIQKVBO6P46A5NPODZ3CXUW4S", "length": 1819, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.brokenfunction.com", "title": "BrokenBlog \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb I'm playing the Halo 3 Beta", "raw_content": "I'm playing the Halo 3 Beta\nI\u2019ve been playing the Halo 3 Beta for a few hours. It\u2019s pretty slick. All the comments about it being ugly are silly. For one thing there\u2019s a lot more stuff going on than in say, Gears of War, so it\u2019s expected that things aren\u2019t quite as loaded full of polygons, plus the areas are huge. It still looks very good in HD, and besides, the gameplay is what it\u2019s about, right? Any whining about the delay is just that. Whining. Like everybody who wants to get ahold of the beta isn\u2019t going to play it and eventually buy Halo 3 anyway.\nThere\u2019s tons of new weapons, and most of the standard ones have been changed. The so called \u201cnoob combo\u201d has been taken away from the hoards of people who like cheap shots, since the plasma gun doesn\u2019t track like it used to. The Spartan Laser is going to be big. The sheer amount of strategy embedded in weapons and other items is astonishing. For example, the plasma gun will temporarily disable a vehicle when a charged shot is fired at one. Imagine dropping a grav lift before an obstacle, then an ally in a Mongoose drives over it, sending them over it and into enemy territory. Halo 2 had incredible balance between weapons and vehicles, and Halo 3 seems to take it further.\nOne level I played, Valhalla, a level reminicent of the very first campaign chapter in Halo 1, is wonderfully designed. For such a large area there\u2019s tons of places to hide and paths to take. High Ground was very good too, while Snowbound was mostly boring.\nI don\u2019t have much to say that hasn\u2019t already been said, but I will say this, it\u2019s perfectly fine. No apparent screwups, just a sequel to a game. An incremental improvement on a working formula. There\u2019s enough new weapons and ideas to keep everybody on their toes, but plenty of skills transfer over, what else do you need?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.naturecity.com/too-much-or-too-little-sleep-may-lead-to-metabolic-syndrome/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:18Z", "digest": "sha1:36T4FTARFWV4NDSEWSGDADJVWRLXCXEF", "length": 2305, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blog.naturecity.com", "title": "Nature City BlogToo Much or Too Little Sleep May Lead to Metabolic Syndrome - Nature City Blog", "raw_content": "Too Much or Too Little Sleep May Lead to Metabolic Syndrome\nThe amount of sleep you get could be affecting your health. A recent study suggests that fewer than six hours and more than 10 hours of sleep per day may be associated with metabolic syndrome, as well as the individual symptoms of metabolic syndrome.\nMetabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors that raise the risk of heart disease, diabetes, stroke and other diseases. These risk factors include central obesity, hypertension, and disturbed glucose and insulin metabolism.\nParticipants in the study included 133,608 Korean men and women between the ages of 40 and 69 years old. They all took part in the HEXA study, which was a large-scale community-based study that took place in Korea between 2004 and 2013. The study included information on socio-demographic characteristics, medical history, medication use, family history, lifestyle factors, diet, physical activity, and reproductive factors for women. The researchers also collected samples of plasma, serum, buffy coat, blood cells, genomic DNA, and urine. They also conducted physical exams of all the participants. Sleep duration was assessed via the question: \u201cIn the past year, on average, how many hours/minutes of sleep (including daytime naps) did you take per day?\u201d\nAfter examining the data, the researchers found that approximately 11% of men and 13% of women slept less than six hours and 1.5% of men and 1.7% of women slept more than 10 hours. Men who slept fewer than six hours per day were more likely to have metabolic syndrome and higher waist circumference than those who slept six to seven hours per day. Women who slept fewer than six hours were more likely to have higher waist circumference, when compared with those who slept six to seven hours per day.\nOn the other side, sleeping more than 10 hours per day was associated with metabolic syndrome and increased levels of triglycerides in men. In women, it was associated with metabolic syndrome, higher waist circumference, higher levels of triglycerides and blood sugar, as well as low levels of HDL (or \u201cgood\u201d) cholesterol.\nResearchers from Seoul University conducted the study. It was published on June 13, 2018, in BMC Public Health.\nComments Off on Too Much or Too Little Sleep May Lead to Metabolic Syndrome", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 8167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 147.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.skyu.tv/liberate-the-children", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FYENESJCUMXWOFJDUOJAP2RMG63RXD6L", "length": 5543, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "blog.skyu.tv", "title": "Liberate the Children \u00ab SKY U Blog", "raw_content": "September 13th, 2010 by elliedylan\nIt wasn\u2019t until many years later when a teacher showed me the link between school and my life, that both my grades and my aspirations soared.\nYears passed and I grew up. Then one day, when I was very involved in a career in the media, something strange happened. A loud, compelling voice within me said insistently and unrelentingly: \u201cLiberate the children\u201d. At the time, I remember thinking: \u201cWhat ON EARTH could that possibly mean?\u201d I didn\u2019t have any children and my work at the time didn\u2019t involve kids so I had absolutely no idea what those words could\u2019ve possibly meant\u2026to me or to anyone.\nThe voice was persuasive enough \u2013 and I was curious enough \u2013 to go on a quest to find out what it meant. Little did I realize that it would be a journey involving many years through many different worlds.\nToday, several decades after having left my career in the media to follow that inner directive, I very much understand the message that prescient voice was compelling me to discover.\nNot much has changed in today\u2019s schools. The educational system in the U.S. has been geared for decades to propagate mass learning\u2026modeled after mass production in factories. Individualization of learning has simply not been part of the equation.\nWith the ubiquitous growth of technology, however, every member of our society now has tremendous access not only to greater knowledge than ever before, but also to the unfettered ability to contribute to that knowledge-base.\nAnd yet, our current educational system \u2013 still mired in the factory-like mentality of days gone by \u2013 has continued to propagate mass learning in our nation\u2019s schools. And, today, just as when I was in school, it is STILL not working.\nOur children have grown up as \u2018media babies\u2019 in a very information-oriented society. Technology is so natural to them and such a part of their daily lives that they can\u2019t imagine their world without it.\nThey are immersed in it\u2026texting, chatting, surfing, listening, watching, experiencing, dreaming \u2013 often all at the same time. It allows them choices, channels of self-expression, and freedom to dream of infinite possibilities.\nHowever, when they get to school, it all comes to a grinding, screeching halt. There, children are drilled, marshaled, told what to do \u2013 with no choices, no self-expression, no dreams. So, they disengage from the learning experience.\nIs it any wonder that there\u2019s a crisis in education when the way we are attempting to school our young people simulates factory assembly lines of mass, force-fed learning?\n\u201cLiberate the children\u201d \u2013 that compelling command that resonated deep within me many years ago \u2013 was never as clear to me as it is now.\n\u201cLiberate the children\u201d doesn\u2019t mean to turn our children loose to run wild according to their own whims. It does mean to \u201cfree them\u201d from the confines of mass, factory-style learning and conformity.\nIt means to \u201cfree them\u201d to be the individuals they yearn to be. Give them the tools to discover and express who they are, dream about their futures, and find the individual purpose they are each on Earth to accomplish.\nThe vast world in which we live cannot grow and thrive without our children\u2019s contributions. We must let our children know that they are valued. We must impart knowledge to them that liberates them to live as valued, responsible, accountable citizens. THIS is the purpose of education.\nWhen children understand that their education is essential to accomplishing their dreams for the future, it reframes the way they look at school. They become motivated from within to want to learn. They want to come to school. They want to learn reading, math, and science. They become partners with their teachers in the learning experience.\nThe educational crisis of today with its declining test scores, soaring drop-out rates, and violence can be solved. But not with more of the same. Not with more drills and passive learning.\nYes, rigorously high standards are necessary. But these must be instilled \u2013 not mandated.\nThe educational crisis of today will only be solved with the individualization of learning. By making \u2018education\u2019 an engaging, personal experience using 21st century learning tools COUPLED WITH each child\u2019s own goals and dreams for the future, school as we know it now \u2013 and the problems that go with it \u2013 will be a thing of the past.\nEducation without dreams is dead and lifeless. Technology without dreams is just more mind-numbing clutter. Paradigm-shifting transformation is needed.\nSchools must no longer be academic prisons where the \u2018inmates\u2019 have no freedom or self-expression. Schools must instead be \u201cDream Academies\u201d where individual freedom and self-expression thrive and are fueled by the knowledge and curiosity gleaned from core academic subjects and the transformational experience learning can be.\n\u201cLiberate the children\u201d means freeing our children to dream of what their futures can hold. It means supporting them to discover their contributions to the world by giving them the tools they need to get there.\nThe answer to making a better world lies within the children. The children are the solution. Nurture them. Support them. LIBERATE THEM. The possibilities within them and for them are infinite.\nTheir dreams are their rocket ships. School is their fuel. But they are the pilots.\nShow them how to steer their rocket ships to reach their dreams. Give them the tools to get there and the sky\u2019s the limit for our children, our society, and our world.\nPosted in Problems in Education, SKY U Updates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.lowellsun.com/itsyourbusiness/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:45Z", "digest": "sha1:L6BM2DOUZ5XIGO3RM6RGE35BMTCHTZAF", "length": 26705, "nlines": 138, "source_domain": "blogs.lowellsun.com", "title": "It's Your Business", "raw_content": "Workers Credit Union has done away with its traditional green-and-gold look in favor of blue and orange.\nWorkers Credit Union reports that step one of its rebranding effort is now complete.\nAll 16 branch offices, spanning from Orange to Acton, are sporting a bold new look after two months of updating.\n\u201cWe completed phase one of our rebranding and remodeling initiative,\u201d said President and CEO Doug Petersen, in a statement. \u201cWe want to thank our members and employees for bearing with the dust and disruption during the process.\u201d\nAccording to Petersen, in addition to the new look, credit-union members have access to updated online functionality and new marketing materials. This includes new video displays that provide informational content, news and weather updates.\n\u201cWe have received positive feedback; our members really like the new look,\u201d Petersen said.\nWorkers executives announced the rebranding effort in May. At that time, they changed Workers\u2019 longtime green-and-gold emblem on its website to a sleek new orange-and-blue combination. Petersen said that change would also be incorporated at branch offices, with both exterior signage and interior decor being repainted and refurbished to the new look.\nThe Fitchburg-based credit union plans to roll out phase two of its rebranding effort over the next few months, replacing flooring, window treatments and furniture.\nWorkers Credit Union boasts 91,000 members and assets of more than $1.4 billion.\nGiant grocery merger unlikely to hit Greater Lowell\nThe corporate parents of Stop & Shop, above, and Hannaford are divesting 86 stores throughout the northeastern United States to satisfy regulators ahead of the companies\u2019 plans to merge. AP FILE PHOTO\nA merger between two international retail conglomerates is creating ripple effects among grocery chains in Massachusetts, although the action is unlikely to extend to Greater Lowell.\nThe deal is between Dutch-based Royal Ahold N.V., which owns the Quincy-based Stop & Shop; and Belgium-based Delhaize, which owns Scarborough, Maine-based Hannaford.\nIn addition to Stop & Shop and Hannaford, the 86 stores to be divested as part of the deal involve include Food Lion, Giant Food, and Martin\u2019s. They\u2019re located in Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and West Virginia, and include both unionized and non-unionized locations.\nLate last week, officials announced two deals that involve nine stores in Massachusetts.\nFirst, Williamsville, N.Y.-based Tops Friendly Markets is buying four Stop & Shops supermarkets, three in New York and one in Gardner, Mass. It will also acquire two Hannaford stores, both in New York.\nThe Gardner store will be Tops\u2019 first in Massachusetts. Its other stores are in upstate New York, northwestern Pennsylvania and Vermont.\nSeparately, Springfield-based Big Y Foods Inc. said it has entered into an agreement to acquire the operating assets of eight Hannaford stores in eastern Massachusets. Stores are in Kingston; Quincy; Norwell; Milford; Norwood; Peabody; Saugus; and Easton.\nBig Y, which said it says it intends to retain as many Hannaford employees as possible, has 68 stores, mostly in western Massachusetts and Connecticut.\nAlso related to the merger is the decision to close a Hannaford store in Hudson, Mass., in May 2017. That store sits just a quarter-mile away from a Stop & Shop, which will remain open.\nIn Greater Lowell, the only community containing both a Hannaford and a Stop & Shop is Chelmsford. But with Stop & Shop on Chelmsford Street, near the Lowell line, and Hannaford in the Drum Hill section, it is unlikely officials will see a need to close either one of them. I mean, if we can have three Market Baskets in Billerica (and Lowell, for that matter), why not two of this combined entity in Chelmsford? It\u2019s worth noting, however, that the Chelmsford Stop & Shop building, which is only five years old, was sold last month (see story here: http://bit.ly/29thuPl).\nLast year, Hannaford closed a store in Ayer, but that move was unrelated to the pending merger.\nAlso worth watching is how the union situation is resolved. Stop & Shop has unions, and Hannaford does not.\nThe Royal Ahold-Delhaize agreement is subject to federal approval and formal completion of the Delhaize Group and Ahold merger. The transaction is expected to be completed by early September. When it\u2019s done, the Ahold-Delhaize single brand will employ 375,000 associates and serve 50 million customers.\n19 Alpha Road, one of two Chelmsford properties acquired by Hudson-based Calare Properties, is currently vacant.\nSUN / DAN O\u2019BRIEN\nThe past year-and-half or so hasn\u2019t been easy for Chelmsford in terms of commercial real-estate news. But perhaps a savior of sorts has arrived.\nLast fall, Datawatch Corp., a provider of business-intelligence software, packed up from Quorum Office Park off Mill Road and moved its headquarters to The Xchange on Crosby Drive in Bedford.\nEarly this year, Mercury Systems Inc. announced it was leaving its longtime base on Riverneck Road and into new digs on Minuteman Road in Andover by May 2017. The company, which employs at least a couple hundred people in town, makes computer systems that process large amounts of data and are used by the military and defense contractors.\nFinally, and perhaps most crushing, the town\u2019s largest private employer, labor-management software maker Kronos Inc., announced in March that it was moving its 1,200 local employees less than two miles north into Lowell\u2019s Cross Point towers. That will also take place next year.\nFor sure, Chelmsford has had some good business news, too. The Chelmsford Town Center complex, formerly a Marshalls and a Stop & Shop, has been modernized, anchored by Italian restaurant Andiamo Restaurant + Bar. And Manchester, N.H.-based AutoFair Automotive Group announced that it was moving its Tewksbury-based Nissan dealership (and about 75 jobs) to Chelmsford\u2019s Drum Hill neighborhood.\nBut the losses \u2014 particularly Kronos, given its sheer size (it will empty three buildings comprising more than 320,000 square feet on Route 129 when it moves) \u2014 seemed to have outweighed the wins.\nThat\u2019s why last week\u2019s report that Calare Properties had acquired a pair of buildings on Chelmsford\u2019s Alpha Road has to be seen as encouraging. Calare, based about 20 miles south on I-495 in Hudson, has executed successful turnarounds on two hulking nearby properties, the kind of properties that others would give up on.\nMost recently, Calare acquired 19 Alpha Road, a 63,220-square-foot structure that is currently vacant, for $2.73 million; and 21 Alpha Road, a 64,250-square-foot building that is fully leased to six tenants, for $6.17 million.\nGiven that one building is already full, there is only so much impact Calare can have. But perhaps they\u2019ll keep their eyes peeled on the Kronos buildings (which are not for sale, at present) when they become empty.\nWhy? Well, look at what Calare has done with large spaces that become empty and demoralize a community.\nIn a joint venture with Fir Tree Partners in 2011, Calare acquired the former Tucker Manufacturing plant at 25 Tucker Drive in Leominster for $11.65 million. The mammoth (588,000 square feet, over 22 acres) property had sat empty for about five years, after Holiday Housewares shut down in 2006.\nBut with the help of a special tax assessment from the City of Leominster, Calare renovated the building to fit the needs of furniture manufacturer Affordable Interior Systems, LLC, which moved from Hudson, and bringing about 400 jobs with it.\nEarlier this year, Calare sold the Leominster property for a whopping $31.5 million.\nLeominster Mayor Dean Mazzarella said Calare\u2019s investment was \u201creally big for us.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ve never seen so much happen so fast,\u201d Mazzarella told our sister paper, the Sentinel & Enterprise of Fitchburg. \u201cA number of people were looking at that property for warehousing. Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with that, but it doesn\u2019t have much of a multiplier.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s happening there now is that business is getting done with local people.\u201d\nIn 2012, Calare teamed with Hackman Capital Partners to buy the vacant Evergreen Solar building at 112 Barnum Road in Devens. Solar-panel maker Evergreen abruptly closed the 448,000-square-foot plant in 2008, putting an estimated 800 people out of work.\nCalare later secured leases for Saint-Gobain (which has since left), a French-based building-materials company, and Nypro Inc., a Clinton-based plastics-molding and packaging firm.\nCalare even took a look at the former Prince spaghetti plant in Lowell, but decided that its odd configuration (350,000 square feet, with virtually no windows) was beyond even Calare\u2019s Midas touch. The building was sold for $3.85 million to the Markley Group, which plans to turn the building into a data center.\nEven so, the Leominster and Devens properties total more than 1 million square feet that Calare was able to make economically viable, and in short order.\nRegarding the Chelmsford purchases, Andrew Iglowski, director of acquisitions at Calare, said in a statement that the company \u201ccontinues to identify select acquisition opportunities that meet our risk-adjusted returns.\u201d\nGetting somebody to fill a 63,220-square-foot space in Chelmsford should be a piece of cake.\nAnd Chelmsford officials can hope that it\u2019s only the beginning.\nFlags fly outside Europe House, the European Parliament\u2019s British offices, in central London, with European flag, right, and Britain\u2019s Union flag. AP PHOTO\nThink the not-so United Kingdom\u2019s vote on Thursday to withdraw from the European Union doesn\u2019t affect you? Think again.\nThe State House News Service reported Friday that a spokesman for the Pensions Reserves Investment Management (PRIM) Board \u2014 the state\u2019s pension fund \u2014 disclosed that the move will likely dent the $60 billion fund\u2019s returns by 1.5 percent to 2 percent. However, under a \u201cworst-case scenario,\u201d losses could increase to as high as 9 percent.\nThe Dow Jones industrial average, the nation\u2019s most renowned stock index, sustained about a 3.1 percent loss on Friday. Other world markets have tumbled in a similar manner.\n\u201cPRIM staff will be in touch with the fund\u2019s active managers over the coming days, and will continue to monitor the situation carefully and report to the PRIM Board as the situation unfolds,\u201d PRIM spokesman Eric Convey said in an email to the News Service.\nThe news comes on top of the state government already facing tax revenue shortfalls in the hundreds of millions for fiscal 2016, which ends next week, and the upcoming fiscal 2017 budget year.\nPRIM invests retirement dollars for public employees, but State House News reported it remains \u201cyears from being able to sustain retirement payments solely through its investment returns.\u201d State lawmakers regularly devote billions in state budget dollars toward retirement payments, including $2.2 billion earlier this year.\nThe state aims for the pension fund to achieve full funding by 2036.\nConvey also told State House News that fund managers have sought to \u201creduce exposure to global volatility,\u201d by decreasing the fund\u2019s allocation to global equities from 49 percent to 40 percent and instead making allocations to long-term U.S. Treasury bonds and securities.\nAmerican Science and Engineering\u2019s Z Portal is used to screen vehicles entering Al Najaf International Airport in Iraq. COURTESY PHOTO / AMERICAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING\nAmerican Science and Engineering Inc. has come up with the solution for its previously-announced \u201cstrategic review process\u201d: It\u2019s cashing out.\nThe Billerica company, which makes a variety sophisticated screening products used in high-security areas, announced this week that it has agreed to be sold to Hawthorne, Calif.-based OSI Systems for $37 per share in cash, or about $269 million.\nThe transaction and merger agreement were unanimously approved by AS&E\u2019s board of directors. Shareholders must still approve (and there are plenty of legal types urging them not to do so\u2026)\nThe price represents about a 25 percent premium on AS&E\u2019s average closing stock price in the 90 days ended June 20.\nIn a statement, AS&E Chuck Dougherty said the deal offers shareholders a \u201ccompelling cash value\u201d after the company\u2019s \u201cthorough review of strategic alternatives.\u201d AS&E officials said the transaction marks the culmination of a review process by the company and its financial and legal advisers.\n\u201cAfter a careful assessment of conditions in our markets worldwide, the board determined that entering into this transaction was in the best interest of our shareholders,\u201d Dougherty said.\nSuch a careful assessment would have likely included the fact that AS&E has seen its annual revenues slump since fiscal 2011, when it posted record sales of $278.6 million. Since then, annual revenues have slid in four of the past five years, with this year\u2019s total being just under $103 million, or 63 percent lower than the peak.\nThe company runs its fiscal year from April 1 to March 31.\nOSI posted sales of $958.2 million in its most recent fiscal year, which ended last June. It has a market cap of just over $1 billion. The company has other U.S. offices in New Jersey, Virginia and Washington, and foreign offices in Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.\nAmong its holdings is Rapiscan Systems, which offers a broad range of security solutions for baggage and parcel inspection, cargo and vehicle inspection and people screening.\nAS&E also sells a variety of screening devices. Its Z Backscatter Van, a commercial delivery van in which AS&E\u2019s technology is installed, is its most successful product \u2014 the company has sold several hundred of them in the past decade, and they run for about $1 million a pop.\nSo as far as the sales slump goes, it wasn\u2019t for lack of trying.\nTwo years ago, AS&E unveiled a new handheld screening device, the MINI Z, that it hoped would become popular with law enforcement.\nAnd just over one year ago, AS&E announced that it was \u201crealigning\u201d its company structure into two business units, a move that it said would generate $6 million in annual savings through \u201ca combination of workforce and other cost reductions.\u201d Two high-ranking executive were among those to be let go.\nBut sales kept declining, and an exit strategy apparently became necessary.\nOSI Systems CEO Deepak Chopra complimented AS&E on its backscatter X-ray technology, which he called \u201clong a leader within the security industry.\u201d\n\u201cIts cutting-edge products, extensive service network and premier customer base are highly complementary to our current operations,\u201d he said in a statement.\nPerhaps most importantly to local workers, Chopra indicated that OSI expects \u201cto maintain AS&E\u2019s current operations in Billerica, as an essential part of an expanded security scanning business unit.\u201d\nTime will tell. And for the sake of the 300 or so employees at 829 Middlesex Turnpike, let\u2019s hope so.\nSalem native Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO at General Electric, ranks 38th on AffluenceIQ\u2019s list of 50 wealthiest Massachusetts residents.\nDid you know that George Behrakis, the local Greek-American philanthropist, has more money than former General Electric CEO Jack Welch? Or that Red Sox owner John Henry has less than half the assets of Patriots owner Robert Kraft?\nBoth are true (and by comfortable margins), provided you believe a report out this week by AffluenceIQ of the 50 wealthiest people in Massachusetts.\nThe full list, available at http://www.affluenceIQ.com/50richest, offers several other revelations that may qualify as at least mild surprises. For example, contrary to common belief, neither Abigail Johnson nor Ned Johnson, of financial-services powerhouse Fidelity Investments, tops the list. That honor instead goes to casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, of Newton, whose estimated net worth is a whopping $26.4 billion \u2014 more than $11 billion more than Abigail Johnson, the runner-up.\nNed Johnson is third, at $8.5 billion, followed by Cohasset investor John Graken ($6.3 billion), Kraft ($4.8 billion) and New Balance Chairman Jim Davis ($4.7 billion).\nBehrakis, a Tewksbury resident who founded and sold two life-science companies, ranks 31st with a net worth of $930 million. Other notables include auto magnates Herb Chambers (13th, $1.8 billion) and Ernie Boch Jr. (26th, $1.1 billion), Boston Beer founder Jim Koch (35th, $840 million), Welch (38th, $720 million) and the rival Demoulas cousins. Arthur T., current chief executive at the Market Basket chain, ranks 42nd with $675 million, while Arthur S. (whose side sold its stake in the grocery chain to his cousin) placed 50th at $575 million.\nThere are 30 billionaires in the Bay State, according to AffluenceIQ, which is a database profiling the highest net-worth families in Massachusetts. It sells subscriptions to wealth managers, fundraisers and purveyors of luxury goods and services, giving them access to more than 2,000 individuals with a net worth of $10 million or more.\n\u201cWe\u2019re all personally fascinated by the super-wealthy,\u201d said AffluenceIQ founder and CEO, Michael Stern, in a statement. He added that a database like AffluenceIQ can \u201cimpart useful and important information,\u201d such as what causes certain donors respond to, and which colleges and universities have more alumni achieving success.\nRibbons will be clipped, and handshakes abundant, at separate events Friday marking two of the area\u2019s largest real-estate deals in the past year.\nOnly an hour apart, Friday morning will mark ribbon-cuttings for two of the larger real-estate deals made in the area during the past year.\nAt 9 a.m., Potpourri Group Inc. christens its new warehouse at 3 Distribution Circle in Littleton. The mail-order and internet retailer, which is based in Billerica, moved the warehouse operation from Whitinsville, saying it retained 227 full-time jobs and plans to add 130 full-time and 200 seasonal positions.\nIt was just about a year ago that a groundbreaking ceremony was held for construction what has become a 450,000-square-foot building that cost an estimated $49 million.\nAmong those speaking will be U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, state Sen. Jamie Eldridge and state Rep. James Arciero.\nPotpourri Group\u2019s products include home decor, apparel, jewelry, gifts, toys and pet accessories.\nAt 10 a.m., Kronos Inc. will hold what it\u2019s calling a \u201cgolden sledgehammer\u201d groundbreaking ceremony marking its move from Chelmsford to Lowell\u2019s Cross Point towers, announced earlier this year. The new company headquarters, which will occupy one of the towers (to be called the \u201cKronos Tower\u201d) in its entirety, as well as additional floors in a second building, is a $40 million project that will house 1,200 Kronos employees over 435,000 square feet.\nHundreds of more jobs are planned. The move is expected to be finalized next summer.\nExpected guests include Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Jay Ash, state Rep. David Nangle and City Manager Kevin Murphy.\nOriginally a manufacturer of workplacetime clocks, Kronos makes labor-management software for such applications as time and attendance, scheduling, absence management, human resources and payroll, hiring and labor analytics. The company boasts annual sales of more than $1.1 billion.\nFive weeks after 39,000 union workers went on strike, Verizon officials confirmed that it will have a negative effect on second-quarter results.\nAfter a little more than a month, it appears the walkout of 39,000 Verizon workers is having more than just a tiny bit of an effect on the company\u2019s finances.\nVerizon officials had said in April that it did not expect the strike to have a material impact on its financial results for the second quarter. Now it\u2019s saying otherwise.\nVerizon reported Thursday that the strike involving telephone, cable TV and Internet service installers has led to a \u201csignificant decline in new customers this quarter.\u201d\nFortune magazine reported that Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo confirmed the news while speaking at an investor conference in New York. As a result, the magazine reported Shammo saying, the company could see a net loss of cable TV or broadband customers in the quarter after showing net gains in both businesses a year ago.\nThe strike, which has been highly visible to motorists passing Verizon facilities, including Lowell\u2019s Cross Point towers, has grown increasingly heated, both near and far. Twice in Massachusetts this month, a non-strike worker driving a truck struck a protester. And in the Philippines, an armed confrontation occurred between Verizon security guards and striking U.S. workers.\nOn Sunday, the Obama administration pressured both sides to return to the bargaining table with a federal mediator. Negotiations began Tuesday, with both sides agreeing not to comment about their progress.\nAccording to Fortune, Verizon said it offered a 7.5 percent wage hike over \u201cthe next few years.\u201d But the company said it also needed greater flexibility to use non-union employees to lower costs.\nThe unions, for their part, have said they cannot accept proposals to allow additional outsourcing of call-center workers to the Philippines and Mexico, or greater use of non-union contract installers.\nFor 2015, Verizon posted net income of $17.9 billion on revenues of $131.8 billion.\nShares were trading at about $49.50 at midday Thursday. They\u2019ve declined about 3.5 percent since the strike began.\nIn its earnings report this week, J.C. Penney said it would gradually de-emphasize clothing and move more toward service-oriented offerings as a way to combat slumping sales.\nIf I\u2019m building a strip mall anytime soon (and I\u2019m not, but for those who are\u2026), I\u2019m going to be pretty damn careful about who I take as a tenant.\nTo paraphrase the inimitable Bob Dylan, the times are a changin\u2019 for the retail industry.\nWow, what a tough week.\nWhile the government\u2019s monthly report on retail sales on Friday indicated a modestly healthy 1.3 percent gain, the devil is in the details. And those details indicate that traditional brick-and-mortar retail sites are getting smacked in the mouth by online competitors and, to a somewhat lesser extent, discounters.\nAs The Associated Press reported on Friday: \u201cSpending at these non-store retailers shot up 10.7 percent from a year ago, the government said in a week when earnings reports showed disturbing drop-offs at Macy\u2019s, Kohl\u2019s, Nordstrom and J.C. Penney.\u201d\nOh, and how about the merger that wasn\u2019t between office-supply giants Staples and Office Depot? The government fought it tooth and nail, seemingly oblivious to the fact that both companies are not only getting pummeled by the internet, but that many of the very items they sell \u2014 such as things you write with, assuming you still need to bother with them in the Digital Age \u2014 are becoming increasingly less in demand.\n\u201cThe Amazon effect is gaining momentum,\u201d noted Ken Perkins, of Swampscott-based Retail Metrics, in the AP story.\nIndeed, it\u2019s not pretty.\nIt\u2019s also not simply a case of consumers not wanting to schlep out to the mall. They might, if the price is right. And therein lies another problem. Online shopping has led to customers hunting for the best deals, which invariably shrinks profit margins at stores.\nSo if I\u2019m the hypothetical strip-mall developer, what am I looking for?\nWell, restaurants are doing well. So are auto dealers (although that\u2019s not going to work in a strip mall). Maybe auto parts? They seem to be growing like weeds.\nThen there\u2019s J.C. Penney, which noted this week that it would gradually reduce its dependency on clothing, and move more toward service-oriented offerings like beauty salons and a return to selling appliances (somebody\u2019s not afraid of Sears anymore\u2026.)\nA restaurant, a hair salon, a sweets shop (ice cream or candy, take your pick) maybe an auto-parts store for my strip mall.\nBut isn\u2019t that what everybody else is doing? Sure seems like it.\nHonestly, I wouldn\u2019t want to try and guess what would work today in a new retail development.\nIn 2010, Charles River Laboratories International Inc. said it would suspend operations at its facility in Shrewsbury, citing a weakened market for the preclinical services it offered there for pharmaceutical companies.\nThe move resulted in the loss of 300 jobs.\nBut in the past five years, things have changed for the better.\nIn November, Wilmington-based Charles River announced that it was reopening the plant, using a mix of new and existing employees to focus on so-called non-GLP (good laboratory practices) services and bio-analysis. CEO James Foster hinted at the possibility early in 2015, telling attendees at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco (http://bit.ly/1TRzuUE) that he had heard there was \u201cramped-up demand for the site from other biotechs in the Boston area because of how close it is to the booming industry there.\u201d\nLast month, the company received another shot in the arm when it learned that the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center chose Charles River as one of 28 life-science companies in the state to be awarded a total of $20 million in tax incentives for job creation.\nCharles River received $1.2 million, committing to add 80 jobs.\nIn a statement, Foster said the award will support the redevelopment of the Shrewsbury plant, and \u201crecognizes our commitment to increasing our workforce in Massachusetts.\u201d\n\u201cThis facility provides the opportunity for us to partner with large biopharma and emerging biotech companies, as well as academic research institutions, to support their early-stage drug research, which is essential to developing new therapies,\u201d he said.\nFounded in 1947, Charles River Labs is an early-stage contract research company that provides drug-discovery and pre-clinical development services. It employs 8,600 people worldwide, and posted 2015 sales of more than $1.3 billion.\nThe company\u2019s headquarters are at 251 Ballardvale St. in Wilmington.\nThe Mass. Life Sciences\u2019 tax-incentive program was established in 2008. It authorizes tax incentives each year for growing companies engaged in life-science research and development, commercialization and manufacturing.\nEarlier this year, Mass. Life Sciences announced that it would make a greater effort to recognize and reward companies outside the immediate Boston area. Charles River, and specifically its Shrewsbury operations, were big beneficiaries of this added suburban emphasis. It\u2019s a nice boost for Central Massachusetts.\nOther Greater Lowell companies rewarded last month include:\n\u2022 Masy BioServices, a Pepperell-based provider of validation, calibration and biorepository storage, $150,000 to create 10 jobs.\n\u2022 Pharmalucence, a Billerica-based maker of human-injectable pharmaceuticals, $150,000 to create 10 jobs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 29976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.windriver.com/engblom/2011/05/twenty-thirty-and-sixty-years-ago.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:43Z", "digest": "sha1:NOOCJ5OJXPA7C4KFLBIQLIRPDXAKKDLR", "length": 3747, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blogs.windriver.com", "title": "Twenty, Thirty, and Sixty Years Ago | Jakob Engblom", "raw_content": "Twenty, Thirty, and Sixty Years Ago\nIn 2011, we mark several anniversaries here at Wind River and in the world of virtual platforms. First of all, it is 30 years since Wind River was founded, in 1981. Ten years later, in 1991, the first code of what would become Simics was written by Peter S Magnusson at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Thus, Simics turns 20! 2011 also marks the 60th anniversary of the instruction-set simulator and virtual platform-based debug.\nIn 1951, Stanley Gill from the Mathematical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge published a paper called \"The Diagnosis of Programmes on the EDSAC\" in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. In it, he describes how he created a single-stepping debugger\nfor the EDSAC computer. As an aside, the EDSAC was the first programmable general-purpose computer in the world, and the team around it built early versions of many of today's standard software tools such as the first bootloader and the first symbolic assembler, which was very visionary and an amazing feat of programming.\nIn order to make it possible to step through running programs and investigate their state and behavior, Gill resorted to building a simulator of the EDSAC. He recognized that step-by-step elaboration of a program run was invaluable to help a human mind understand where the instructions to the machine went bad. It was clear to him that not all errors could be prevented in the programming stage:\nIt is natural to first dismiss mistakes in programming as an inevitable but temporary evil, due to lack of experience, and to assume that if reasonable care is taken to prevent such mistakes occurring no other remedy is necessary. However, experience with the EDSAC has shown that although a high proportion of mistakes can be removed by preliminary checking, there frequently remains mistakes which could only have been detected in the early stages by prolonged and laborious study. Some attention has, therefore, been given to the problem of dealing with mistakes after the programme has been tried and found to fail.\nI sounds like a 60 years later echo of this in a blog post from 2010 - bugs will happen, and you will need a debugger of some kind to understand them. The bugs that they saw 60 years ago are still familiar to us today: bad computation results, arithmetic overflow, execution stop from executing an invalid instruction (after jumping to some bad place), infinite looping, and garbled output.\nThe core of what Gill created to diagnose bugs was known as Library Sub-Routine C11, which was a step-by-step interpreter of programs that printed a trace of all instructions executed (already then, trace was considered a powerful debug tool). This was achieved using a grand total of 31 machine instructions \u2013 it exploited that fact that it was an EDSAC simulating an EDSAC to handle instruction interpretation and IO. Still, it was in essence a full-system simulator or virtual machine, and it presents us with the first example of using\nvirtualization or simulation to debug software.\nWhen it comes down to it, bugs have been with us for as long as we have had computers \u2013 and simulation as a tool to get rid of them has been used for almost as long.\nThe first Simics slogan was \"Resistance is futile. You will be simulated\".\nThat is still true. And you will enjoy it.\n[1] Stanley Gill, The diagnosis of mistakes in programmes on the EDSAC, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series A, Vol. 206, 1951, pp. 538-554.\n[2] Martin Campbell-Kelly: Programming the EDSAC: Early Programming Activity at the University of Cambridge, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Vol 20, Issue 4, 1998.\nPreviousTeaching Operating Systems with Simics: An Interview with Massimo Violante", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bluegrassbios.com/spruce-pine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:35Z", "digest": "sha1:TERLV5H77KAUVO5FB3JJ5TLQRVYWYP5K", "length": 431, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bluegrassbios.com", "title": "Spruce Pine | BluegrassBios.com", "raw_content": "From The Netherlands (Holland).\nFormed in 1977 by Dennis Schut, who played guitar with Charlie Moore on several European tours in the 1970\u2019s. He also toured with Jim Eanes.\nSpruce Pine is a town in North Carolina.\nOriginal band name: The Loser Mountain Boys.\n1989, released Won\u2019t You Sometimes Think of Me album (no label).\n2007, released album \u201c30 Years.\u201d\n2007, Schut toured the U.S. with the Czech Republic band Country Cocktail.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1357, "original_length": 22880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blueroadrunner.com/lookback.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:33Z", "digest": "sha1:OKJWPYDGT6XWOPLRD2UWPKKTZMQFKTLP", "length": 2759, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blueroadrunner.com", "title": "Looking Back at San Felipe, Baja, Mexico.", "raw_content": "San Felipe, Baja, Mexico has a multifaceted past. Due to the richness of its resources, the early abundance of the sea and the unparalleled beauty of the surrounding scenery, a good many politicians and businessmen have bent an ambitious eye toward its offerings. Over the years of its evolution great plans have been made to shape San Felipe into a land developer's dream, a sports fisherman's mecca, an off-road racer's ultimate challenge, a gambler's dream and a tourist's first choice for a vacation resort. None of these goals have met with complete success and there is no obvious reason why they have not.\nThe first wholesale encounter between San Felipe and the industrialized world was with a group of German seamen. The Chinese living in the Guaymas area had fished out the totuava, a large bass-like fish prized for its bladder by the people of China. The Germans, seeking a more available supply, discovered a rich source off the San Felipe coast. They removed the bladders and disgarded the rest of the fish, up to 200 lbs. of wasted meat. Rumors of the operation spread and a few enterprising Americans made the difficult journey to San Felipe where they purchased the fish remains for the remarkable price of twenty pounds for an American penny. They started a business by driving ice-trucks to San Felipe, loading them with totuava and taking them back to the US where they were sold as \"sea-bass\".\nAbout this time, Coronel Esteban Cant\u00fa Jim\u00e9nez, who was governor of the District of Northern Baja from 1915 to 1920, made a number of expeditions south from Mexicali in an effort to locate sources of gold and silver.\nYesteryear Slideshow\nMemoir of Casey Hellin\nIt was Coronel Cant\u00fa's engineers who designed the first road to San Felipe. Cant\u00fa immediately recognized San Felipe's potential and made several attempts to develop the area. But limited finances always seemed to keep his goals short of realization.\nA Col. Ernesto Cant\u00fa expedition to San Felipe cerca 1918\nOnce a graded road existed, it was inevitable San Felipe's rich secrets would eventually be discovered by the rest of the world. In 1947, former Mexican president Abelardo L. Rodr\u00edguez contacted the American sports fisherman Ray Cannon and asked him to test-fish the waters of the northern gulf. Rodr\u00edguez by that time had extensive real estate holdings in San Felipe and, like Cant\u00fa before him, was interested in developing the area. Within three years of Ray Cannon's report, a paved road existed between Mexicali and San Felipe. Of course, a steady stream of anglers and tourists immediately followed and San Felipe took its first step toward becoming a tourist town.\nAfro-Mexicans have played an important role in the history of California. Read this for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 3032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bollywoodjalwa.com/celebrity/show/1060", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:56Z", "digest": "sha1:B3SXYMPFBI4W5CKR4OYJQ6QFJFXZCUBU", "length": 1490, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bollywoodjalwa.com", "title": "Mallika Sherawat Biography, Filmography, Photos, quotes and more - BollywoodJALWA", "raw_content": "Real Name: Mallika Sherawat\nBirthcity: Moth, Hisar district, Haryana, India\nSpouse: Vijay Singh\nFirst film: Jeena Sirf Merre Liye\nSherawat was born Reema Lamba in Moth,a small village in Hisar district of Haryana to a Jat family.Mallika was born to Mukesh Kumar Lamba in the family of Seth Chhaju Ram, a leading Jat philanthropist. She was born on 24 October 1976. She adopted the screen name of \"Mallika\", meaning \"empress\", to avoid confusion with other actresses named Reema. \"Sherawat\" is her mother's maiden name She has stated that she uses her mother's maiden name because of the support that her mother has provided her. Although relations with her family were strained when she entered the film industry, now Sherawat's family have accepted her career choice and reconciled their relations.\nSherawat went to school at Delhi Public School, Mathura Road. She has obtained a degree in philosophy from Miranda House, Delhi University. During the initial days of her career, she claimed to have come from a very conservative small town family, and that she faced many hurdles from her family in pursuing her career.However, Mallika's family has refuted this as a story created by her to give her an aura of a small town rustic girl who made it big in Bollywood.\nMallika Sherawat filmography:\nKismet Love Paisa Dilli (2012) Lovina\nThank You (2011) Special Appearence\nF.A.L.T.U (2011) Cameo\nUgly Aur Pagli (2008) Kuhu\nWelcome (2007) Isha-Ishika\nPyaar Ke Side Effects (2006) Trisha Mallick", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bompani.it/en/cookies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:58Z", "digest": "sha1:4FRFPZA6CCS6ST2AF2YMFXUFDQXHUOFO", "length": 2958, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "bompani.it", "title": "Cookies Bompani - BOMPANI", "raw_content": "Cookies are small text files that the sites visited by users send to their terminals, where they are stored before being transmitted back to the same sites on their next visit. 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In this case, once again, they are third-party cookies collected and managed anonymously to monitor and improve the performance of the host site (performance cookies).\nRead further information on Analytics cookies and privacy.\nDisable/Enable third-party cookies: Enable Disable", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 7036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bonethefish.com/viewuser.php?1372", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GNRLTM5JMLSIUMALEPYZKZQKX747ETP6", "length": 6663, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "bonethefish.com", "title": "Bone The Fish - View User: Pete", "raw_content": "View User: Pete\nMcMillan & Wife - TV Shows\nThe only reason to watch this show was to see Mrs. McMillian in the bedroom wearing one of Mac's shirts knowing that there was nothing on underneath. Man was she hot! -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 15, 2013, 4:34 am\nJohn Denver - Celebrities\nHe did represent the 70's and a bit of the 60's; groovy; groovy; groovy. Too bad his career ran out of gas. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 15, 2013, 4:30 am\nBarack Obama II - Celebrities\nI can't understand why \"our President\" doesn't use his experience which earned him the Nobel Peace Prize to resolve the Syria problem. And by the way \"Mr. President\"; you and Congress work for us and Congress is supposed to vote as their constituents want them to vote; not as you want them to vote. And one other thing \"Mr. President\"; our government is not a democracy; it's a republic. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 7, 2013, 6:39 pm\nDenzel Washington - Celebrities\nI agree with the comments; I would watch any movie that he is in. And Denzel is a class act; something that is rare in Hollywood these days. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 7, 2013, 6:28 pm\nCharles Manson - Celebrities\nIf ever someone deserved to die it is this whacko. I say execute him the way his followers executed their victims. Oh, I'm sorry; that would be cruel and inhumane. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 7, 2013, 6:26 pm\nMutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom - TV Shows\nBrewMaster; you hit the nail on the head. Even at 8 years old I thought that Jim was getting the short end of the stick. But overall it was a decent show. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 7, 2013, 6:21 pm\nFamily Affair (1966) - TV Shows\nI watched a few of these shows a couple of months ago and noticed how the editing was \"not consistent\" with the \"flow\" of things. Kind of like on My Three Sons where they show Steve having a conversation with \"anyone\" and the flow is not smooth. Of course this is due to the fact the Fred M. only filmed a few days, (if that), per week. Back to this show. The whole premise is a bit far fetched; even for TV. One would think that Bill would help \"payroll\" the raising of the kids back in their hometown with the other relatives. Especially since he was gone half of the time due to work. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 7, 2013, 6:05 pm\nFalcon Crest - TV Shows\nAnother show that started out good but evolved into a total soap opera where once again there was way too much air time given to the supporting characters; especially the last few seasons. It was interesting that both Chase and Maggie both drowned. Although Chase jumping into the water and not resurfacing was kind of lame. Maggie; well I won't comment on her. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 7, 2013, 6:00 pm\nRizzoli and Isles - TV Shows\nThis show started out pretty good but, (like Bones), the writers felt the need to put into the show the \"funny moments\" which aren't needed. Then you have the ex-con brother; mother; and probably 4 more \"sub characters\" getting way too much air time. I can't comment on the last couple of years because I just can't bring myself to watch it anymore, (just like Bones). -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 7, 2013, 5:43 pm\nElisabeth Rohm - Celebrities\nI think that Elizabeth is a good actress. She deserves a lot more praise and respect then she gets. As far as the ADAs on Law and Order I think that she was the best; both in looks and ability. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 1, 2013, 3:12 pm\nJennifer Lopez - Celebrities\nLike Julia Roberts; way over rated. This unfortunately is true of probably 75% of the \"actors/actresses\" out of Hollywood. And I'm referring to the \"A List\"; not the B List; C List; D List; E List; etc.... -- Submitted By: (Pete) on September 1, 2013, 3:08 pm\nHave Gun, Will Travel - TV Shows\nThis show was to say the least \"fantastic\". The hero actually showed \"manners\" and \"moral beliefs\". He would only use violence when absolutely necessary. You would never get away with that nowadays. I hope that this is available in DVDs; I'm sure it is and I will ask for that for Christmas. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 27, 2013, 6:49 pm\nTom Cruise - Celebrities\nI actually liked his earlier films; in fact I'm watching The Firm right now. The thing that I have always disliked about his acting is that the guy cannot shut his mouth when there are no words coming out of it. Just watch him; he stands there \"gaping\". Didn't his parents teach him to shut his mouth when not talking? -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 18, 2013, 1:41 pm\nI can still remember the Wal-Mart ads that proclaimed \"we sell only American made goods\". I agree with the previous Post about Sam spinning in his grave. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 18, 2013, 1:13 pm\nSuperman - Random Topics\nSuperman turned his back on America? Not surprising when you think of how many times Obama has apologized to others for the way \"America has acted over the years\". I'm still waiting for him to apologize to Germany and Japan for the way we beat them in World War II. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 18, 2013, 1:03 pm\nNobel Peace Prize - Random Topics\nI couldn't agree more some of the comments here about Obama winning; what a joke. Of course he admitted surprise and a little embarrassment at having won it. However you didn't see him say no the money he got with the prize; now did you? -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 18, 2013, 12:56 pm\nNFL Pro Bowl - Random Topics\nNFL Pro Bowl - aka The Fluff Bowl. I've seen more contact in a ping pong game. The \"game\" is a joke; especially now that it is \"played\" the week before the Super Bowl. Obviously this \"game\" is sponsored by the Hawaii Promotional Board. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 18, 2013, 12:48 pm\nKrispy Kreme Doughnuts - Random Topics\nLike Julia Roberts; way overrated! -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 18, 2013, 12:33 pm\nThere are actually at least three Titanic movies; not just the latest one. The other two were better than the Jack/Rose version. The best part of watching the Jack/Rose version at the movie theatre was when Jack started to \"sink below the water\" and a good portion of the audience started cheering; I just broke out laughing at that reaction. Of course my wife nor any other women in the audience thought that it was funny. But I sure did. -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 18, 2013, 12:20 pm\nThree Men and a Baby - Movie Series\nSorry but the sequel was a joke. And who couldn't tell that Ted was the minister at the wedding? Even my wife found it to be a waste of time, (and that's saying something since Selleck was starring in it). -- Submitted By: (Pete) on August 18, 2013, 12:07 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bookmarks.pearlofcivilization.net/category/uncategorized/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJGFIOA47YVALGLM7P43ST5F2MW7A4NU", "length": 2083, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "bookmarks.pearlofcivilization.net", "title": "Uncategorized \u2013 Bookmarks", "raw_content": "https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/well/family/valentines-day-children-crushes-parenting.html#click=https://t.co/sr2Rw2P0WM\nAuthor sarahPosted on 14 Feb 2019 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on The Value of Childhood Crushes \u2013 The New York Times\nhttp://m.nautil.us/blog/new-evidence-for-the-geometry-of-thought\nAuthor sarahPosted on 10 Feb 2019 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on New Evidence for the Strange Geometry of Thought \u2013 Facts So Romantic \u2013 Nautilus\nhttps://www.vicnews.com/news/school-district-gets-number-for-indigenous-immersion-in-campbell-river/\nAuthor sarahPosted on 6 Feb 2019 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on School district gets number for Indigenous immersion in Campbell River \u2013 Victoria News\nhttp://m.nautil.us/issue/68/context/the-real-secret-of-youth-is-complexity-rp\nEditorial: Provincial party politics and the invasion of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en: The BC NDP\u2019s special role in the settler colonial state \u2013 The Volcano\nhttp://thevolcano.org/2019/01/30/provincial-party-politics-and-the-invasion-of-wetsuweten-the-bc-ndps-special-role-in-the-settler-colonial-state/\nOverall, since the 1990s, the government of British Columbia has used a unified left-right strategy of snatching land wealth with the hand of the NDP in the name of jobs and workers, and then concentrating that wealth in the upper tiers of capitalist society with the hand of the BC Liberals.\nTeach Your Kids \u2018Sexual Competence\u2019\nhttps://offspring.lifehacker.com/teach-your-kids-sexual-competence-1832016565\nLeashes, licences for cats promoted as way to protect birds | Times Colonist\nhttps://www.timescolonist.com/news/local/leashes-licences-for-cats-promoted-as-way-to-protect-birds-1.23605957\nThe big diet this year could be no diet at all \u2013 The Globe and Mail\nhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/life/food-and-wine/article-the-big-diet-this-year-could-be-no-diet-at-all/\nAuthor sarahPosted on 8 Jan 2019 Categories Uncategorized\nSlow-Roasted Salmon with French Herb Salsa \u2013 Once Upon a Chef\nhttps://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/slow-roasted-salmon-with-french-herb-salsa.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 5706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boysofoldflorida.blogspot.com/2010/11/bcs-title-game-odds-model.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2DWY2QMI2CADHFYAVO7MGPCIJEQC2PL4", "length": 2658, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "boysofoldflorida.blogspot.com", "title": "Boys of Old Florida: BCS Title Game Odds Model", "raw_content": "In which Auburn\u2019s chances increase greatly, and I rule out a couple of teams\nThe math behind what I\u2019m doing with this is pretty simple \u2013 try to estimate the chances a team wins out, and thus the chances it plays for the \u201cnational\u201d title. The hard part is deciding which teams fall where.\nOregon and Auburn are easy. The two teams are a strong 1-2 in the BCS, and if they win out they will play each other. It\u2019s deciding who\u2019s next in line if one of them should lose that\u2019s tricky.\nFor this week\u2019s model, I\u2019ve come to a new conclusion that sharply increases Auburn\u2019s chances of playing for the BCS title \u2013 I believe that if Auburn loses \u201crespectably\u201d to Alabama, and wins the SEC title, they will still play for the BCS title ahead of any other team. Here\u2019s why \u2013\n-Auburn is a close second in the human polls, and a lock number 1 in the computers.\n- Auburn, after playing Alabama, will have the nation\u2019s toughest schedule. This is before playing for the SEC title game.\nThe hard part was including one loss Auburn in the spreadsheet I\u2019ve created. My solution was to \u201ccreate\u201d a second team I called \u201cAuburn II\u201d. Auburn II is a team that loses a respectable game to Alabama then wins the SECC. (More on this in a moment)\nAlso, I did not model a title game between TCU and Boise State. In my opinion, the human voters simply won\u2019t let it happen.\nNext, I\u2019ve virtually eliminated the Big 10 teams from any contention. Wisconsin, OSU and Michigan State are 7th, 9th and 12th in the BCS, and their computer rankings are even worse (12th, 13th and 10th, respectively). There\u2019s simply not enough games left to be played for them to jump up.\nLastly, I still think some Big 12 team has a shot. Nebraska is 8th overall (and 8th in the computers), and Oklahoma State, though 10th overall, is 6th in the computers, tied with Boise State. I think the Cowboys are a long shot, but if they win out the humans should come around, and with a couple of key losses they could make it.\nWith Auburn & Auburn II combined, here are the estimated chances of a team playing for the BCS title -\n\u201cOther\u201d in this case is mostly 6th ranked Stanford, who would need 2 Oregon losses, so I didn\u2019t model them specifically.\nAnd here are the individual matchup choices. AUII is a 1-loss Auburn team \u2013\nNEB-TCU\nNEB-BSU\nNEB-AU II\nNEB-LSU\nAs for Oklahoma State \u2013 LSU, \u201cSo you\u2019re saying there\u2019s a chance?\u201d\n'As for Oklahoma State \u2013 LSU, \u201cSo you\u2019re saying there\u2019s a chance?\u201d '\nDoes your spreadsheet account for the \"Les Miles Effect\", by which LSU's probablity of victory increases exponentially in proportion to the number of dumbass decisions he makes?\nBeware mocking the powers of the hat, my friend.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brassringfitness.com/chris-pumroy-warrior-athlete/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PIGBZ3KXHRIZRVI2EZK2ZCBW7CE2GKAX", "length": 5084, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "brassringfitness.com", "title": "Chris Pumroy \u2013 Warrior Athlete \u2013 Brass Ring Fitness", "raw_content": "Home/All Entries, Warrior Athlete/Chris Pumroy \u2013 Warrior Athlete\nChris Pumroy is a former Marine with combat experience.\nMore than most, he understands what it is to be a warrior.\nNow as president and CEO of Tolero Endurance, Chris continues fighting for those in need. On October 2nd, Chris is going to start the Furnace Creek 508 ultramarathon bicycle race \u2013 what is called the \u201ctoughest 48 hours in sport\u201d. 508 miles with 35,000 feet of elevation gain in 48 hours or less in Death Valley.\nTolero Endurance derives its name from the Latin word Tolero, which when literally translated means \u201cto endure or to suffer\u201d. While those stricken with illness courageously endure and suffer, Chris does the same in his own capacity, in a pursuit to raise money to help them.\n\u201cYou are not alone, we\u2019re fighting for you and we will never quit. Our integrity is above reproach, our resolve to fight this fight is unshakeable, and our stamina cannot be outmatched.\u201d\nHere\u2019s what Chris has to say about the upcoming event:\nI will be racing in the Furnace Creek 508 ultra-marathon cycling race in Death Valley, California in October (2-4). This world premier race is ranked by National Geographic as one of the top-ten toughest endurance events on the planet-508 miles in 48 hours nonstop with temperatures exceeding 115F while crossing 10 mountain ranges, and a total elevation gain of 37,000 feet. This event is invitational only and limited to 200 racers.\nThe reason I am doing this race is to raise money for children with cancer at the Kadlec Regional Medical Center. My organization, Tolero Endurance has partnered with Kadlec to make a difference in the lives of sick children. My reasons for wishing to do this can be found on our website, the appropriate link is listed below.\nSeptember 3, 2010, we went public as an organization, after 13 months of hard work. Because of the short timeframe before the race, together with Kadlec we set a common and conservative goal of $10,000 between now and October 4, the end of the big race. To my astonishment at the press conference on September 3, Steve Anderson, the Chief Operating Officer and VP of HAPO Community Credit Union presented us with a $10,000 check on behalf of our efforts, and for Kadlec.\nWe made our initial goal of 10k in the first 10 minutes of going public! We reevaluated our fundraising goals, as HAPO set a new benchmark for us. Our new target goal is $75,000.\nThis effort is not just me. This is a grassroots community effort that takes everyone. There are a lot of moving parts, and without everyone making an effort, our goal will not be met. Before the press conference, I visited with children at Kadlec that are dying now. They are in desperate need of treatment, and $75,000 has the potential by virtue of size to literally save a life. I encourage everyone to donate. Those who wish to donate may do so however they want\u2014you can sponsor me by the mile, or make one-time donation. There is no donation too small\u2014the old clich\u00e9 \u201cevery penny counts\u201d is certainly true here.\nI hope that my efforts will encourage folks to donate. I have observed three intrinsic characteristics that are true of cancer. First, it is very painful. Second, it takes a tremendous amount of intestinal fortitude to see through treatment, and lastly, despite how hard one try\u2019s, and despite the best medical treatment, sometimes things just don\u2019t work out how we would like. These are precisely the reasons I chose to \u201crace for cancer\u201d. More traditional methods of fundraising such as golf tournaments, and car-washes do not draw close enough parallels to cancer. Endurance events in contrast do. They are painful, and it takes a tremendous amount of commitment. And despite how hard I try in the Furnace Creek 508, things may not work out in my favor. I will however make one promise to those that will support my efforts by donating-I promise I will suffer a tremendous amount of physical, emotional, and mental pain despite what happens-whether I make it or not, this is going to hurt. This is active fundraising. I will suffer on behalf of others. I will suffer so others don\u2019t have to, because no matter how bad it hurts, my struggle is over in 48 hours, theirs is not!\nDonating is simple, and safe. Please donate! It\u2019s easy to forget about these types of things, I have done it many times myself. It\u2019s easy to spend $5 on lunch, rather than donate. It\u2019s easy until it\u2019s your child, or until you see a child that is dying, right here in our community. We can make a difference, but it will take everyone using compounding efforts. A little donation goes a long way when it is multiplied many, many times. I hope everyone will choose to do the right thing.\nDonating takes just seconds, it is absolutely secure, and the Kadlec Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (tax deductible donations/charitable contributions).\nDoing nothing is making a choice and doing something is remarkable-\nDonate to Race Against Children's Cancer\nKaldec Foundation\nChad Cilli September 28, 2010 at 9:20 pm\nThis is great! Good luck Chris! God Bless!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://breakinterview.com/government-jobs/daily-current-affairs/2018-01-14", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5KICRUDU7YHOZSMJP5IHWBYNF77XHIJE", "length": 2871, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "breakinterview.com", "title": "Daily Current Affairs: 14-Jan-2018 | BreakInterview", "raw_content": "Indu Malhotra becomes 1st woman lawyer directly appointed for SC judgeship\nThe Supreme Court collegium has recommended the name of senior advocate \u2018Indu Malhotra\u2019 as the first woman lawyer to be directly appointed as a judge of the apex court.\nShe will be the seventh woman judge since independence to make it to the Supreme Court.\nIn 1989, the first woman to be appointed as a judge of the apex court was Justice M Fathima Beevi.\nAs per the National survey, Bihar is the poorest state in India, Delhi richest\nFourth round of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) on around 6 lakh households in 2015-16 has revealed that Bihar is India's poorest state, while Delhi is the richest.\nNitin Gadkari proposes creating world\u2019s largest garden in Mumbai\nAt the foundation stone-laying ceremony of an international cruise terminal in Mumbai, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari announced that the Mumbai Port Trust will create the \"world's largest garden\" by reclaiming 350 hectares of land.\nSaudi Arabia opens its first women only car showroom in Jeddah\nA Saudi Arabia private company opened the first car showroom in Le Mall, Jeddah for women only just five months before a decision allowing females to drive takes effect\nSri Lanka lifts ban on women buying, selling alcohol\nSri Lanka has revoked a 38-year ban on selling alcohol to women and employing them in places where the brews are produced and sold.\nThe notification revoking the ban to restore gender equality and promote tourism.\nIndia, Bhutan jointly unveil 'Special logo'\nThe External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bhutan Damcho Dorji, jointly unveiled the \u2018Special logo\u2019 for the Golden Jubilee Celebrations in New Delhi and Thimphu through video-conference.\nSarjubala Devi claims gold in National Women's Boxing Championship\nFormer world silver medallist Sarjubala Devi has won the gold in 48 kg category in the National Women's Boxing Championships in Rohtak.\nShe was also given the best boxer trophy.\nISRO's Successful Launch 42nd PSLV\nThe Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched its 42nd Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh. The PSLV-C40 is to place 31 satellites, originating from seven countries, across two orbits\nRocket scientist Sivan K was recently appointed as the 9th chairman of ISRO.\nISRO was established in 1969.\nFounder and 1st Chairman of ISRO- Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai, Headquarters in- Bengaluru, Karnataka\nTRAI cuts ISD incoming call termination rate to 30 paise\nThe Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has slashed international incoming call termination rate to 30 paise from 53 paise.\nThe new rate will be effective from 1st of February.\nTRAI has reduced the termination charges payable by an International long Distance Operator to the access provider.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brillonline.nl/browse/encyclopedia-of-china/alpha/s", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:52Z", "digest": "sha1:4KMALWB4V62HXELE3DKNCCLXZTMBKOE7", "length": 4503, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "brillonline.nl", "title": "Brill\u2019s Encyclopedia of China - Brill Reference", "raw_content": "Author(s): Kl\u00f6psch, Volker\nAlthough there does not seem to be an immediate equivalent of satire in Chinese literature, it is a well-known stylistic means in China and has been employed frequently. In a society with high political and moral aspirations, from which reality differs all too often, satire has presented itself as a particularly suitable form of artistic expression, in which the cool and distanced position of the observer uncovers the chasm between \"reality as imperfection\" and the \"the ideal as the highest idea\u2026\nAuthor(s): Th\u00f8gersen, Stig | Henze, J\u00fcrgen\n1. The School System before 1949 In late imperial China, before the first modernizing reforms, basic education was provided by local society rather than by the state. Boys started their training at home under a private tutor, or in a school. Sponsored by their family, lineage, or local community. 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As the product of strenuous physical work, it was regarded by the culture-bearing scholar-officials as handicraft. Consequently, only a few sculptors are known by name or became famous. Still, the history of sculpture in China dates back to the Neolithic period and fascinating works survive from as early as the Shang period (16th century BCE to ca. 1045 BCE), e.g. the heads, gigantic masks, and life-size bronze \u2026\nAuthor(s): Haar, Barend ter\nIn contemporary Chinese context, \"secret societies\" (modern: mimi shehui, traditionally: huidang; Japanese: himitsu shakai) refers above all to the Triads ( sandian hui, sanhe hui)-also known as the Heaven and Earth Society ( tiandi hui) and hongmen and the Society of Brothers and Elders ( gelao hui). It is much less common to use this designation for new religious groups (sects), such as the White Lotus ( bailian jiao). Research into secret societies has always struggled to distinguish between truth and fiction. What is nowadays known to be fiction exerted almo\u2026\nAuthor(s): Bastid-Brugui\u00e8re, Marianne\nZiqiang (self-strengthening) was a maxim under which the Qing government subsumed a number of measures between 1861 and 1894 (i. e. between the Second Opium War and the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95). These measures aimed at countering the foreign predominance in China. One strategy of this policy was to adopt from foreign countries those methods and techniques which had the potential of remedying China's weakness. This led to a Western-type modernization of the country. At the time, anything that concerned the relations with foreign countries was referred to as yiwu (\"barbarian matt\u2026\nAuthor(s): Sch\u00fcller, Margot\nIn general, the term \"services\" refers to intangibles that cannot be transferred, stored, or transported. Typical services are trade, transport, bank and insurance services, hotel and catering services, cleaning, services rendered by hair dressers and other professionals, by cultural institutions and the mass media, work in research, as well as services rendered in public security, education, and health. During economic growth, the proportion of people employed in the service sector increases in\u2026\nAuthor(s): Dik\u00f6tter, Frank\nWhat, if anything, can historians tell us of sexual life in China? The few sources which might provide us with insights into sexual life in either the imperial period or the 20th century (sex handbooks, guides to night life, manuals of marital advice, and medical treatises) are by their very nature prescriptive rather than descriptive: they do not so much reflect sexual practices as they expatiate on how sexual practices ought to be. 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According to Elias, this is the second-longest streak against solely first-place teams by any club in baseball history, trailing only the Cincinnati Reds, who won 10 games in this fashion from June 21 to July 1, 1999.\nContinue reading After Beating The Best (8 In A Row), Yankees Now MLB\u2019s Best \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brooklynfans.com/red-bulls-sign-venezuelan-midfielder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:35Z", "digest": "sha1:YVIEUGIBMP3BZ7EPFN73QAI75V6WSJLR", "length": 2279, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "brooklynfans.com", "title": "Red Bulls Sign Venezuelan Midfielder | Brooklyn Fans", "raw_content": "Red Bulls Sign Venezuelan Midfielder\n(Cristian Casseres, Jr. \u2013 @NewYorkRedBulls)\nThe Red Bulls have signed Venezuelan midfielder Cristian C\u00e1sseres, Jr., to an MLS contract pending receipt of his P-1 Visa and ITC.\nC\u00e1sseres, Jr., is a Discovery Signing, and will occupy an international spot on the Red Bulls roster. He is currently with the team in Oldsmar, Florida for preseason camp.\n\u201cCristian is an exciting young player that we are happy to welcome to our club,\u201d said Red Bulls Sporting Director Denis Hamlett. \u201cHe was identified through our scouting network as a player that has the qualities we look for, and we were glad to get him here in time for the start of preseason camp. We look forward to getting him integrated and seeing how he can help our club.\u201d\nC\u00e1sseres Jr. has featured in Venezuela\u2019s first division and has represented Venezuela on the U-17 and U-20 national teams. He recently turned 18, has risen quickly through the ranks for club and country in his native Venezuela. At the age of 16, the midfielder made his professional debut for Deportivo La Guaira in the Venezuelan First Division. C\u00e1sseres, Jr., made 15 total appearances for the senior team and scored once.\n\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen from Cristian has been promising,\u201d said Red Bulls Head Coach Jesse Marsch. \u201cHe fits into our style of play and we think he can contribute at the MLS level. I look forward to him establishing himself within the group and competing every day.\u201d\nFor country, C\u00e1sseres, Jr., was a fixture for the Venezuelan U-17 squad before being called into camp for the U-20 side that finished as runners up at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup. He was also on the roster for the 2017 CONMEBOL Under-17 Football Championship, starting seven of the nine matches and scoring one goal.\n\u201cI am very happy to have signed with the New York Red Bulls,\u201d said Casseres Jr., \u201cI believe this is one of the best clubs in MLS and I am excited to get started with my career here.\u201d\nC\u00e1sseres Jr., is following in the footsteps of his father, Cristian C\u00e1sseres Sr., who played for the Venezuelan national team. C\u00e1sseres Sr. played for Atletico Venezuela\u2019s first team while C\u00e1sseres Jr., was on the U-14 team.\nPrevious PostRzatkowski Moves To NY Red Bulls From RB SalzburgNext PostManchester City In NYC This Summer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/66377", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LH6RFGBTPHLPTU6M4ENDLHPLH3DPYQ2S", "length": 2594, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "brooklynheightsblog.com", "title": "At LICH Forum, Strabone Says \u201cPeople Will Die\u201d If No Full Service Hospital | Brooklyn Heights Blog", "raw_content": "At LICH Forum, Strabone Says \u201cPeople Will Die\u201d If No Full Service Hospital\nBy Claude Scales on March 26, 2014 11:54 am in Cobble Hill, Health, News\nNY1 reports that, at yesterday\u2019s forum on proposals for Long Island College Hospital, not surprisingly, \u201cthe consensus\u201d of the community representatives attending was that LICH should remain a full service hospital. Jeff Strabone (photo), of the Cobble Hill Association, is quoted as saying, \u201cIf we lose this hospital, people will die.\u201d The NY1 story also quotes Jim Walden, the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorney representing community groups in the LICH struggle:\nSo if you have a stroke, if you have a heart attack, if you are in the middle of a miscarriage, you can\u2019t go to a free standing emergency department and get care, you can only go there to get triaged, and then you\u2019re going to get transferred to a hospital.\nNY1 also quotes Jo Anne Simon, Democratic District Leader for the 52nd Assembly District, as saying \u201cshe left the meeting with many questions unanswered.\u201d This may in large part have been because, as a reader noted in a comment to our previous post, SUNY refused to allow bidders for LICH to participate in the forum.\nVideos via Brooklyn Daily Eagle:\n11201, Cobble Hill Association, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, jeff strabone, Jim Walden, Jo Anne Simon, lich, ny1, SUNY\nReport: Undercover Cops Nab Thug Robbing Homes In North Brooklyn Heights\nBrooklyn Heights Appears on \u2018The Following\u2019, Reducing Its Bacon Number to One\nSame argument the left trtotted out to use against Republicans\u2019 push back on the ACA.\nThat is an accurate statement.\nBoth for the need for a hospital where LICH now stands, and for the ACA.\nIn the case of the ACA, regardless of whether one is in favor of it or not, people who previously didn\u2019t have health insurance are now getting healthcare.\nMany, many people.\nSome of those people had little or no access to healthcare, and would have died without the ACA.\nThis is one of the few simple facts in the otherwise complicated world of healthcare and health insurance.\nDIBS\u2026.what on earth are you talking about? People will indeed die if its not a full service hospital and you need to be transferred to Manhattan or park slope.\nIf you have a heart attack minutes matter. And by the way, a failing heart doesn\u2019t care what your political affiliation is.\nPlease no \u2018Bleeding heart\u2019 puns needed.\nPeople are said to have died due to transportation delays to other hospitals. I don\u2019t have the names of those people, and I don\u2019t have the number of those early deaths. 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With high-speed Internets access, no copyright laws and vip accounts to The Pirate Bay, press officer of ACFI says.\nRegister and let us write history together.\nPlan B: If we do not get enough money required to buy the micronation of Sealand, we will try to buy another small island somwhere and claim it as our own country (prices start from USD 50 000).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bwys.org/forums/index.php?board=6.0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JHBSS765LV2NPJ2GXMBSPH2NGKA26NXH", "length": 319, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bwys.org", "title": "Studio", "raw_content": "Looking for a tutorial... icarusbride 1 7927 July 09, 2010, 06:45:36 AM\nOtakon 2008 \u00ab 1 2 \u00bb Chara 21 132067 October 18, 2009, 09:12:40 PM\nThe New Trials of Card Captor Sakura, Syaoran, and Friends by Wish-chan (fanfic) Chara 4 6585 October 18, 2009, 05:28:05 AM\nCrack Fanfiction Chara 0 4060 March 12, 2009, 10:31:04 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cairde.ie/category/balbriggan/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:41Z", "digest": "sha1:4EN7F43343IACOH2245JUBHLEYCQLOG2", "length": 3622, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "cairde.ie", "title": "What\u2019s happening in Balbriggan Centre : Cairde \u2013 Challenging ethnic minority health inequalities", "raw_content": "Health and wellbeing subgroup of Balbriggan Integration Forum (BIF) in conjunction with World Health Day invites all Balbrigganers young and old to come and be inspired to live a healthy lifestyle and learn to stay healthy. Activities for the day include health information, mindfulness, yoga and zumba and lots more. Come get informed and have [\u2026]\nTo celebrate International Women\u2019s Day, Health and Wellbeing subgroup of Balbriggan Integration Forum BIF) organizes a free event for all women in the Balbriggan area. Balbriggan Women\u2019s Health and Wellbeing Expo 2014 Let\u2019s celebrate women\u2019s lifestyles and stay healthy. Come and be inspired, get information and have fun. Friday 7th of March 2014 @ 10.00am \u2013 3.00pm in Flemington Community [\u2026]\nVoter Education/Active Citizenship start March 4th, and it will continue for 8 weeks, Tuesdays, from 12.15 till 2.15 It explores the following topics: a. Our Voices \u2013 Our Vote \u2013 Looks at why people vote and how to register and vote in Elections. b. Local Government Elections \u2013Looks at the role of local government, its [\u2026]\nAll welcome to participate in the next Balbriggan Integration Forum Meeting (BIF) Thursday, 27th of February, 10.30am Cairde Balbriggan office Draft Agenda: Planning development of the BIF in 2014 Information exchange \u2013 BIF members \u2013 Presentations: Balbriggan Community Council and Sonas Updates from the subcommittees \u2013 BIF subcommittees\u2019 contact persons Developing BIF Logo\nThe Launch of Balbriggan Integration Forum (BIF) took place in Balbriggan Town Hall on Friday, 6th of December, 2013. The event was opened by Cathaoirleach of Balbriggan Cllr Peader O\u2019Kelly and the Forum was officially launched by the Mayor of Fingal Cllr Kieran Dennison. Tonya Myles, General Manager of Cairde introduced Cairde followed by Emilia [\u2026]\nWe would like to cordially invite all BIF associates, community groups, representatives of statutory and non-statutory agencies, elected representatives and All \u201cBalbrigganers\u201d interested in integration to attend the launch of the Balbriggan Integration Forum (BIF) and to celebrate the first year of working together in the spirit of integration. Cllr. Peadar O\u2019Kelly, Cathaoirleach of Balbriggan [\u2026]\nChildren attending Balbriggan schools are invited to take part in the process of developing a logo for the Balbriggan Integration Forum (BIF). Children are invited to submit drawings that will represent the idea of an integrated Balbriggan. Their work will be used as an inspiration for developing the logo for the Forum which will be [\u2026]\nCairde Balbriggan received Fingal Managing Volunteers Award. This Award Scheme is intended to acknowledge groups who, through their commitment to voluntary and community activities, have played a significant role in enhancing the quality of life of their communities across Fingal. Thank you Fingal County Council and Fingal Volunteering Centre for recognition.\nBalbriggan Integration Forum is the Overall Winner of Fingal County Council\u2019s Community Division Community Group of the Year Award 2013! BIF also won the 1st price in the \u2018Representative Organisation\u2019 Category! This Awards aims to acknowledge and promote the work of community groups working in the administrative area of Fingal County Council. There were almost [\u2026]\nCairde centre in Balbriggan received the Balbriggan Town Council Annual Award in recognition of helping all communities in Blabriggan in integrate. Also Failte Isteach who runs English language classes for migrants in collaboration with Cairde Blabriggan, received an Award as well. We are delighted that out work in the town is recognized and that we [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 6888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://calendar.washington.edu/119586750/WeightWatchers-HealthSciences", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:40Z", "digest": "sha1:INBB3R4YHBBXEHOCB3REKTGXXLXMH2E6", "length": 144, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "calendar.washington.edu", "title": "UW Seattle Campus Events - Weight Watchers - Health Sciences - South Campus Center (SOCC) - May 30, 2018, 11:45am \u2013 12:30pm PDT", "raw_content": "Weight Watchers - Health Sciences\nWednesday, May 30, 2018, 11:45 a.m. \u2013 12:30 p.m.\nSouth Campus Center (SOCC)\nE-214 (across from the Court Cafe)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 107.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/2006/12/right-side-up.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:59Z", "digest": "sha1:QEVBUHSBOFHC5WNDNM5Z2DREQFFZAU2W", "length": 4881, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "calgarygrit.blogspot.com", "title": "CalgaryGrit: Right Side Up", "raw_content": "Paul Wells first book, Right Side Up (can't really link to Chapters now that Heather Reisman isn't a Liberal...), has been called everything from \"a masterpiece\" to \"sheer brilliance\"; and those are just the comments from Wells himself. I picked up the book back in November at the Calgary launch and quickly read through it. Unfortunately, between the Liberal convention and the real world, I didn't have the time to do a proper review and I forget many of the what were no doubt brilliant and insightful comments about the book I thought up as I read it the first time. So instead, I offer up a condensed review and the recommendation that the book is certainly worth picking up at the mall tonight if you're last second shopping for that political geek near and dear to you.\nFor those who don't already know the gist of Right Side Up, it's a summary of Canadian federal politics from 2003 to present day, framed as the clash between Stephen Harper and Paul Martin Jr. The book jumps back and forth between the two men and while I don't believe there were any direct interviews with either of the protagonists, we see a lot of analysis from the strategists close to them. Which is a good thing since this is a book on political strategy and maneuvering rather than an academic analysis of elections you'd see in something like Big Red Machine. And there certainly is a lot of talk about maneuvering, from internal Liberal feuding to Tory market analysis and election strategy.\nI think the main lesson to be taken from the book is that the Scouts have been on to something with their \"Be Prepared\" motto. After reading the book, you get the sense is that the Tories lost in 2004 because they just weren't ready to fight a campaign. In 2006, it was the Liberals who weren't prepared for an early election whereas the CPC had a tightly choreographed campaign down to the hour...until the last two weeks when Harper ran out of messaging and things went sour, likely costing him a majority. Liberals eager for a spring non-confidence vote would be wise to remember what happens to parties who are rushed into elections.\nAs for the writhing itself, if you like Inkless Wells, you'll like this book. It's written in the same style you see on the blog and reads like a collection of lengthy posts slapped together. Of course, if you don't like Wells' writing style then this probably isn't the book for you and I imagine the Bob Rae books are going to be really marked down for obvious reasons so maybe that's the one you should pick up.\nThe one knock I would give the book is that it goes on too long. Not in terms on length - I could have read another hundred pages easily. What I mean is that the book should have ended after Harper's win on January 23rd and been left with a quick epilogue. Instead we see lengthy analysis of Harper's first months and the Liberals return to the wilderness. It's not that this isn't interesting material, it's just that it's too soon to get any meaningful interpretation of what it all means. The two things which really stick out is the talk of Harper's environmental strategy and the Liberal leadership race - Wells' analysis is already out of date by the time the books hit the store shelves and not just because it took so long for the books to hit the store shelves in many cities. The book was about Harper's rise and Martin's fall and I think the post-election chapters should have been saved for the sequel (The Rise of Stephane Dion and the Fall of Stephen Harper?).\nAs for the writhing itself\nif you don't like Wells' writhing style\nI assume that's supposed to be \"writing.\"\nYou might want to reread the last paragraph of the book.\nI wouldn't underestimate Harper and overestimate the Liberals. They've proven to be arrogant as hell and power hungry. The next election will be interesting and I predict nothing b/c things can change so fast.\nBy Emil Vargas, at 2:46 a.m.\nThat book was good. I liked Full Circle also. It was more detailed. The ultimate Stephen Harper fan book is \"Stephen Harper\" by William Johnson with the updated material. Great read\nThanks for the review, Dan. I bought the book for my dad for Christmas.\nBy Hatrock, at 2:05 p.m.\nThanks, Bart. (Are we still calling you Bart?) I disagree about the utility of the back third of the book, but then I would, wouldn't I. I'm just happy you got a copy of the damned thing before the supply chain collapsed entirely.\nAnd writhing is the best term for what I do that I've read anywhere.\nBy Paul, at 10:00 a.m.\nMany thanks, Bart. (Tend to be all of us nevertheless phoning a person Bart? )#) We don't agree concerning the power from the back again 3rd from the guide, however I'd, would not We. I am simply pleased you have the duplicate from the darned point prior to the provide string hit bottom completely.\nBy fifa 14 xbox 360 coins, at 4:00 a.m.\nBy Temple Run, at 5:53 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 10047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 245.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://camgordon.org/news/council-passes-cams-intentional-community-ordinance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EWPBWD4TGVVU2AZUHXHBQ2S2ZII5NIPN", "length": 825, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "camgordon.org", "title": "Council Passes Cam's Intentional Community Ordinance | Cam Gordon Campaign for Minneapolis City Council Ward 2", "raw_content": "Council Passes Cam's Intentional Community Ordinance\nThe City Council passed Cam's Intentional Communities ordinance. This is a major win for people who want to share housing in Minneapolis, including coops and other forms of community.\nNow a group of people will be able to approach the City, fill out an easy registration form, have their house inspected (to establish the maximum *safe* occupancy of the house) and register. This will allow many of the existing intentional communities we hear are out there to \"come into the light,\" and will allow the formation of many more, including more housing cooperatives. This will allow our existing, historic housing stock to be used more effectively, help reduce housing costs, build community, and in many cases help build wealth for people who form coops rather than renting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://camgordon.org/news/seiu-endorses-cam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:11Z", "digest": "sha1:O7MN4NQ44VSZWKWTUHYGZNWTGORLDUMV", "length": 624, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "camgordon.org", "title": "SEIU Endorses Cam | Cam Gordon Campaign for Minneapolis City Council Ward 2", "raw_content": "SEIU Endorses Cam\nThe SEIU Minnesota State Council has endorsed Cam for reelection as Ward 2 City Council Member. Here's what Carol Nieters, Executive Director of SEIU Local 284, had to say about Cam: \u201cCam Gordon is a powerful voice for organized labor. For years, he has contributed to his community in Ward 2 as an educator, community organizer and performer. His record of bringing people together is exactly the type of coalition builder we need on the City Council to encourage innovation and cooperation.\u201d Cam is one of only five Minneapolis City Council Members running for reelection to receive the SEIU endorsement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://campaignfinanceboard.com/law/advisory-opinions/2003-2-matter-fratta-2001/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DSNI3MVZGAAH7TL3VEOOE2PMVKAIDDML", "length": 32495, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "campaignfinanceboard.com", "title": "2003-2: In the Matter of Fratta 2001 | New York City Campaign Finance Board", "raw_content": "$1,827 for failing to respond in a timely manner to the draft audit report directed to the Committee, care of Rachel Mann. See New York City Administrative Code \u00a7\u00a7 3-703(1)(d), (g), 3-710(1). This amount represents 2% of the public funds received by the Committee.\n$1,250 for filing the Committee's Disclosure Statement 10 (570) days late. See New York City Charter \u00a71052(a)(8), New York City Administrative Code \u00a73-703(6), and Board Rule 3-02.\nfiling the Committee's Disclosure Statements 11 and 12 (10) days late. See New York City Charter \u00a71052(a)(8), New York City Administrative Code \u00a73-703(6), and Board Rule 3-02. The Board found the Advance Group, Inc. to be in violation but did not assess a monetary penalty.\n$80 for filing the Committee's Statement 15 (2) days late. See New York City Charter \u00a71052(a)(8), New York City Administrative Code \u00a73-703(6), and Board Rule 3-02(c).\nOn May 1, 2003, the Board considered penalties against John Fratta, Fratta 2001 (the \"Committee\"), and the Committee's treasurer for the following violations of the Campaign Finance Act (the \"Act\"): (1) failure to respond in a timely manner to the draft audit report; (2) accepting an in-kind contribution from an unregistered political committee; (3) prohibited post-election expenditures; and (4) the late filing of four disclosure statements.1 Ms. Mann, partner of the Advance Group, and Mr. Fratta appeared before the Board. Ms. Mann testified at some length. The Board assessed $3,157 in penalties against the Advance Group, as the \"agent\" of the Committee, for the late submission of the response to the draft audit and disclosure statements 10, 11, 12, and 15, and $300 in penalties against the Committee.2 The Board also found the Committee to be in violation of the Act, but assessed no penalties, for these same violations, and assessed penalties against the Committee for other violations of the Act. 3 Statement 10 was submitted 570 days late, Statements 11 and 12 were ten days late, Statement 15 was two days late, and the response to the draft audit was submitted 39 days late, and then only after the Committee and the Advance Group received a notice of recommended penalties from the Board's Legal Unit.\nOn May 27, 2003, the Board informed the Advance Group that it had decided to reopen the matter to give the Advance Group an additional opportunity to appear at its meeting on June 4, 2003.4 Scott Levenson, the Advance Group's president, appeared before the Board at that meeting. The Board then deferred any decision on the matter to a later date in order to provide the Advance Group with an opportunity to comment on written material to be supplied by Board staff. On June 26, 2003, the Advance Group was provided with a memorandum from Board staff, and on July 17, 2003, the Advance Group submitted its response to the June 26 memorandum.\nThe Advance Group Was an Agent of the Committee\nIn filings submitted to the Board, the Committee reported paying the Advance Group $158,653 between April 2000 and December 2001 for, among other things, \"preparation of filings,\" \"campaign consulting,\" \"campaign mailings,\" \"campaign literature,\" and \"campaign workers.\"5 The amount of these expenditures to the Advance Group, which represent more than 90% of the total expenditures of $174,931 made by the Committee, indicates the close identity between the Advance Group and the Committee, and that virtually every dollar of campaign expenditures passed through the Advance Group. In Ms. Mann's testimony before the Board on May 1, 2003, she described the Advance Group as providing \"general consulting services to the candidate using our compliance services.\"6 After a number of requests,7 the Advance Group provided a copy of an unsigned, undated agreement between Mr. Fratta and the Advance Group, which covers a variety of campaign services, including compliance.8\nMr. Fratta's Filer Identification Form and Certification listed Ms. Mann in the box for \"Campaign Liaisons Other Than Treasurer,\" and the candidate checked the box on those forms designating that Ms. Mann \"should be contacted by the New York City Campaign Finance Board instead of the Treasurer.\" Thus, Ms. Mann was the primary contact person on behalf of the Fratta campaign. Further, the Candidate Certification gives the Advance Group's address, 481 8th Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10001, as the mailing address of the Committee, rather than either a separate campaign address or the treasurer's address. (The treasurer's address was also disclosed to the Board.)\nThroughout the 2001 election cycle, the Board's Candidate Services Unit and Audit Unit had numerous telephone conversations with Ms. Mann, who indicated that she represented the Committee, regarding compliance on behalf of the Committee. These conversations dealt with such issues as the entering of data on disclosure statements using C-SMART, disclosing intermediaries, claiming exempt expenditures, reporting advances, running amendments to disclosure statements, documenting in-kind contributions, registering political committees, planning fundraising events, reaching threshold, public funds payments, and responding to the post-election audit. (It appeared at a minimum that the Advance Group was entering data into C-SMART on behalf of the Committee and otherwise performing the main functions needed to complete the disclosure statement filings.) The Committee's disclosure statements generally were hand-delivered by a representative of the Advance Group. Contacts with Ms. Mann far outnumbered those with other representatives of the Committee. For example, the Committee's Candidate Services contact at the Board, Patrick Wehle, does not recall speaking with the Committee's treasurer, Ms. Zullo, except once to remind her to file a disclosure statement at the beginning of the election cycle. Contacts with Ms. Mann continued after the elections. For example, after the staff sent the Notice of Recommended Penalties to the Committee, Ms. Mann contacted the Legal Unit to ask for guidance in preparing a response and requested that further correspondence regarding penalties be sent directly to her. 9\nUnder the Act, candidates who join the Campaign Finance Program (the \"Program\"), their campaign treasurers, and their agents are subject to civil penalties.10 When the term \"agent\" is used in a statute, its meaning is to be determined from the context and subject matter of the statute. See Lumiere v. Mae Edna Wilder, 261 U.S. 174, 178 (1923). The Act explicitly includes \"agents\" among those who can be subject to penalties, thus confirming that individuals and entities that have undertaken the responsibility for campaign compliance cannot avoid liability. Otherwise, there would be reduced incentive for these individuals and entities to carry out their undertaking to comply with the law on behalf of campaigns.\nSimilarly, New York State Labor Law \u00a7240 imposes liability on \"[a]ll contractors and owners and their agents\" to erect safety devices for the use of employees. While the courts have decided several issues with respect to the liability of a particular agent under this section, the courts appear never to have questioned whether an agent can be held liable under the statute, since \u00a7240, like Administrative Code \u00a73-711, provides for statutory liability. Thus, under \u00a7 240, the court's ability to impose liability on an agent is beyond question. See, e.g., Conti v. Pettibone, 445 N.Y.S. 2d 943 (Sup. Ct., Trial Term, N.Y. Co. 1981).\nUnder common law, the defining elements of an agency relationship are: (1) mutual manifestation of consent, (2) the agent's undertaking to act on behalf of the principal, and (3) the principal's right to control the agent.11 An agent is distinguishable from a mere \"messenger\" who merely passes information back and forth and who does not exercise any independent judgment,12 and from an \"independent contractor\" who is not subject to the employer's control.13\nIt should be noted that much of agency case law involves a scenario in which a plaintiff seeks to hold a principal liable for the acts of his or her agent.14 The Advance Group, however, cites a number of cases that stand for the proposition that an agent who executes a contract on behalf of a principal does not generally assume liability for that contract if the contracting party was aware that the agent was acting on behalf of a principal.15 In a suit for breach of contract, \"an agent will not be held personally liable for breach of contract unless there is clear and explicit evidence of the agent's intention to be personally bound.\"16 The Advance Group argues that these cases support its contention that \"liability cannot be attached to the Advance Group outside of a specific manifestation to be bound by The Campaign Finance Board's findings.\"17 However, the case law cited by the Advance Group is entirely irrelevant to the present matter. Simply put, the Board has not sued the Advance Group for breach of contract. Rather, the Board's authority to assess penalties against the Advance Group as agent of the Committee is grounded in the fact that Administrative Code \u00a73-711 provides for agent liability.18\nBased on the actions and statements of both the Advance Group and the Committee, the Advance Group was acting as the agent of Fratta 2001 when it prepared and submitted the Committee's response to the draft audit report and prepared and submitted disclosure statements 10, 11, 12, and 15.19 Mutual consent between the parties to have the Advance Group carry out these tasks is evidenced by the fact that Ms. Mann and her associates were paid by the Committee to prepare and submit the Committee's response to the draft audit report and to prepare and submit disclosure statements. On May 1, 2003, Ms. Mann testified that the late submission of the response to the draft audit report was due to \"disorganization on my part\" and stated that \"our computer had a virus that wiped out C-SMART where all our records were held for John Fratta.\" (Italics added.)20 She stated that \"the candidate and the treasurer were not part of the reason that this filing was submitted late\" and that \"John Fratta and the treasurer were not at fault in my mind for the penalties.\"21 The candidate, Mr. Fratta, stated at that meeting that his contract with the Advance Group was \"based on fulfilling campaign finance responsibilities.\"22 In his June 4 testimony before the Board, Mr. Levenson stated that the Advance Group was \"not authorized to act independently.. [w]e provided services to the campaign at their direction..\", \"[w]e could not act on behalf of [the Committee] - by definition any of the filings required their signatures, so we could not act on behalf by definition\" and \"[i]n fact, all filings required the signature of the candidate and the treasurer.\"23 These elements of control negate any argument that the Advance Group could be considered an \"independent contractor\" rather than an \"agent.\"24 Given the large number of compliance duties performed by the Advance Group, the existence of a contract between the Committee and the Advance Group, the testimony by Ms. Mann and Mr. Levenson, the business purposes of the Advance Group, and the fact that the work performed by the Advance Group certainly required the use of some degree of independent judgment, the Advance Group cannot be considered a mere \"messenger.\"\nAt the June 4, 2003 Board meeting, Mr. Levenson also stated that:\nthe Campaign Board gave us an official designation that was a campaign liaison. A liaison is a qualitatively and substantively different position than an agent. The Board had the ability.to have a line in any of the filings that said designated agent to the committee. They have not done that and they certainly are, could do that in the future should they want to proceed with holding agents of the committee responsible.25\nMr. Levenson is incorrect when he concludes that the Advance Group cannot be characterized as an \"agent\" of the Committee because the Advance Group was designated by the Committee as its \"campaign liaison.\"26 Without accepting Mr. Levenson's argument that the use of the word \"liaison\" could define the relationship between the Advance Group and the Committee as narrowly as Mr. Levenson would suggest,27 the actions of the Advance Group, with the consent of the Committee, trump any characterization of the relationship, and clearly demonstrate that the Advance Group was acting as an agent of the campaign. Thus, even assuming that the Advance Group and the campaign characterized their relationship otherwise, an agency relationship existed, notwithstanding the terms the parties used to describe their relationship or the intent of the parties to create it.28 In addition, accepting Mr. Levenson's argument that liability under the Act should be limited to agents who are designated as such in forms filed with the Board would undermine the purpose of \u00a73-711 -- to encourage compliance -- because it would allow individuals and entities representing participating candidates before the Board -- particularly those who are in business to do so -- to avoid liability for violations of the Act and Rules of the Board unless they chose to accept such liability by the formality of being designated by candidates as \"agents.\"\nFurther, as noted above, to permit individuals and entities that have undertaken the responsibility for campaign compliance to avoid liability would weaken the incentive of these individuals and entities to carry out their undertaking to comply with the law on behalf of campaigns. Recognizing this concern, and as stated above, the Act explicitly includes \"agents\" among those who can be subject to civil penalties. In this proceeding, the Advance Group, working on behalf of a campaign to submit the response to the draft audit report and certain disclosure statements, failed to submit those items timely29 and took full responsibility for failing to do so.30 To conclude that the Advance Group was anything other than an agent in these circumstances, where the Advance Group argues on behalf of the candidate that the campaign should not suffer penalties as a result of the Advance Group's own admitted failures, would permit paid consultants to avoid responsibility for violations of the Act and Rules, and would confront the Board with the unacceptable result that no one should be held accountable for a campaign's failures of compliance with the Act. The\nGlaser/Levenson memorandum dated July 17, 2003\nThe Advance Group's July 17, 2003 memorandum does not dispute any of the facts or procedural history stated above. Indeed, the Advance Group confirms in the memorandum that \"assistance in the compilation and filing of disclosure statements was only one of numerous services provided by The Advance Group to the Fratta Campaign.\"31 Since the Advance Group admittedly assisted in the filing of the Committee's disclosure statements, and does not dispute the Board's description of its performance of other compliance duties on behalf of the Committee,32 it is reasonable to assess penalties against the Advance Group as the agent for the Committee for the late filing of disclosure statements and the late response to the draft audit of the Committee.\nIn its memorandum, the Advance Group makes a number of arguments that are not persuasive. First, the Advance Group argues that the Board does not have jurisdiction over the Advance Group, because the Campaign Finance Program is a voluntary program that candidates, not their agents, choose to join, and because the Advance Group was not \"notified of any responsibilities owed the CFB.\" 33 But the Advance Group ignores the plain language of Administrative Code \u00a73-711, which subjects \"agents\" of candidates who join the Program to civil penalty. Contrary to the Advance Group's arguments, the \"lack of [a] contractual relationship between The Advance Group and the CFB\" 34 or the assertion that \"Ms. Mann did not consent to be considered an agent, or sign any document identifying her as an agent of the committee\"35 are irrelevant to the Board's determination, as the assessment of penalties against the Advance Group is based on the plain language of Administrative Code \u00a73-711, not on a contract. The Board had no obligation to notify the Advance Group of the provisions of the Act, as the Advance Group mistakenly asserts, since, especially as a campaign compliance consultant, it was on notice of its potential liability as an agent of the Committee.\nFurther, the Advance Group states that it is \"unfathomable\" to assign the Advance Group \"sole responsibility for the rules constructed to govern a principal.\"36 In fact, on May 1, 2003, the Board found the Committee in violation of several rules, holding Mr. Fratta, the candidate, and Ms. Zullo, the treasurer, legally responsible for the violations and penalties assessed.37In addition, the Advance Group states that the Board's assessment of penalties against the Advance Group \"is equivalent to the Internal Revenue Service imposing penalties for late filing of taxes on tax lawyers or accountants rather than on taxpayers themselves.\"38 In fact, however, a federal statute imposes a civil penalty on any person assisting others with the fraudulent underpayment of taxes.39 This federal statute serves as a corollary to existing criminal penalties for submitting false and fraudulent tax documents and other statutes imposing civil penalties that are specifically directed at tax return preparers. Contrary to the Advance Group's reasoning, the federal statute imposing liability on those assisting others with the fraudulent underpayment of taxes does not even require the taxpayer to have knowledge of the tax preparer's misdeeds.40\nThe Advance Group further contends that the Board violated the consultant's due process rights: that the Board could not correct a possible procedural defect by re-opening the penalty hearing to allow the Advance Group the opportunity to appear again at the June 4 Board meeting. First, the Board did not commit a procedural defect by sending the Notice of Penalties dated April 10, 2003 to the Committee, Mr. Fratta, and Marie Zullo, and not to the Advance Group. Any possible procedural shortcomings arose out of the unusual circumstances of this matter: at the May 1 hearing to consider penalties against the Committee, a representative of the Advance Group appeared and surprisingly took full responsibility for the violations. The Board could not have expected such a presentation and thus could not have anticipated the possible need to give the Advance Group specific notice that it might impose penalties against it. Even without such notice, though, Administrative Code \u00a73-711provided ample legal notice of the possibility that the Advance Group could be subject to liability.\nIn any event, the Board determined to re-open the penalty hearing and provided the Advance Group written notice of possible penalties, and an opportunity to appear at its June 4 meeting. It is not a violation of a party's due process rights for an agency to re-open a proceeding on its own motion as long as the party has notice.41 None of the cases cited by the Advance Group suggest that an administrative agency cannot cure a possible procedural defect; instead, the cases suggest only that notice of possible penalties is required. Further, a Board hearing is not a criminal adjudication: the testimony of Ms. Mann given on May 1 was given freely and appeared to be truthful; when the Advance Group, per Mr. Levenson, was given another opportunity to address the Board on June 4, he did not contradict Ms. Mann's testimony, nor does the Advance Group's written submission.42\nIn making its determination, the Board considered, among other things, the May 1 appearances before the Board of Ms. Mann, partner of the Advance Group, and Mr. Fratta; the June 4 appearance before the Board of Mr. Levenson, president of the Advance Group; a staff memorandum from Ms. Dodell to Mr. Levenson dated June 26, 2003; a memorandum from Mr. Levenson and Mr. Glaser, Legal Counsel to the Advance Group, dated July 17, 2003; and the unsigned agreement between Mr. Fratta and the Advance Group.\nThe Board emphasizes that the ultimate responsibility for campaign compliance is always with the candidate.43 The Board does not intend by the issuance of this determination to suggest that it will routinely inquire into - or entertain argument concerning - who within a campaign may have been responsible for campaign committee violations. In this matter, however, the Advance Group, as agent for the candidate and his committee, is in fact responsible for the violations and has admitted its responsibility. If the terms of the Act placing potential liability for violations of the Act on agents (among others) are to have any meaning at all, they certainly apply in this case.\nThe Advance Group must pay to the Board the full $3,157 owed no later than September 23, 2003. Checks should be made payable to the \"New York City Election Campaign Finance Fund,\" and may be mailed to the attention of Chris Oldenburg, Associate Counsel, New York City Campaign Finance Board, 40 Rector Street, 7th Floor, New York, New York 10006 or delivered to the offices of the Board. If the Board is not in receipt of the full $3,157 by September 23, 2003, the respondent's name and the amount of the unpaid penalties will be posted on the Board's Website and the Board may initiate a civil action to compel payment.\n1 See Notice of Alleged Violations, Proposed Penalties, and Opportunity to Respond dated March 10, 2003; and letter from Chris Oldenburg to Ms. Mann dated April 22, 2003.\n2 See Final Board Determination dated May 1, 2003.\n3 Id. The Committee includes the candidate and the treasurer. See also note 37 infra.\n4 See letter to Scott Levenson from Sue Ellen Dodell dated May 27, 2003 and Notice of Alleged Violations, Proposed Penalties, and Opportunity to Respond dated May 27, 2003.\n5 See Committee's Disclosure Statements Nos. 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15 (on file with the Board).\n6 Transcript of testimony of Ms. Mann on behalf of the Fratta campaign, before the Board on May 1, 2003 (hereinafter, \"Mann testimony\"), p.1 (on file with the Board).\n7 The Advance Group was requested by Chairman Schwarz on June 4, by telephone call from Ms. Dodell on June 5, by fax from Mr. Oldenburg on June 5, and by fax from Ms. Dodell on July 23, to provide a copy of its contract with the Committee. In his June 4 testimony before the Board, Mr. Levenson claimed that a copy of the contract was provided to the Board, and in a memorandum to the Board, Mr. Levenson stated that \"[a] copy of the contract was forwarded to the CFB shortly after the parties entered into this agreement.\" Transcript of testimony by Scott Levenson before the Board on June 4, 2003 (hereinafter \"Levenson testimony\"), pp. 1-2 (on file with the Board); Memorandum from Scott Levenson and Ezra Glaser to the Campaign Finance Board, June 17, 2003, p. 3 (hereinafter \"Levenson/Glaser memorandum\"). The Board notes that the Levenson/Glaser memorandum, id., refers to a contract which \"was signed in March, 2000 and expired completely in September 2001,\" indicating that the Advance Group was in possession of a contract but for some reason chose not to share it with the Board. Despite the claims of Mr. Levenson, the Board had not received a copy of the contract and until the instant matter arose, there would have been no particular reason for the Board staff to have requested it. On June 5, 2003, after Ms. Dodell told Mr. Levenson that the Board wanted a copy of the contract by June 6, he told Ms. Dodell that \"if I can find it, the Board will get it.\" On June 23, 2003, Mr. Levenson informed Ms. Dodell that he was not in possession of a copy of the contract, and that he would attempt to obtain a copy from the Fratta campaign. On June 24, 2003, a Board staff member spoke to Mr. Fratta and Marie Zullo, treasurer of the Committee, who said that they did not have a copy of the contract. Ms. Zullo said \"the Advance Group kept everything.\" Mr. Fratta confirmed that there was a contract, and said that he had given a copy of it, along with all other Committee documents and files, to the Advance Group in order for the firm to prepare for the Board audit. On June 26, 2003, Mr. Levenson informed Ms. Dodell that he would continue to look for a copy of the contract. On July 28, 2003, the Board received by mail an unsigned copy of an agreement between the Advance Group and Mr. Fratta, with a cover letter dated July 24, 2003 from Mr. Glaser, Legal Counsel, the Advance Group, that stated that \"[t]he signed copy, as had been previously stated, is not currently available.\"\n8 The section entitled \"Compliance\" states:\nThe Advance Group will advise and counsel your campaign on Campaign Finance Board regulations and how to maximize available matching funds. We will also provide the complete range of compliance services. The Advance Group has developed systems designed to keep your campaign in compliance with Campaign Finance Board regulations and work to maximize your available matching funds. Included in this service, are the completion of all filings with the CFB, presence at all audits by the CFB, and explanation and monitoring of all rules and regulations to the candidate, campaign staff, and campaign contributors. (Emphasis added.)\n9 In contrast, at the June 4 Board hearing, Mr. Levenson stated that \"our contract in fact terminated with the primary.\" Levenson testimony, p. 1. We note that the undated contract states that it terminated in November 2001.\n10 \"Any participating candidate whose principal committee fails to file in a timely manner a statement or record required to be filed by this chapter or the rules of the board in implementation thereof or who violates any other provision of this chapter or rule promulgated thereunder, and any principal committee treasurer or any other agent of a participating candidate who commits such a violation or infraction, shall be subject to a civil penalty in an amount not in excess of ten thousand dollars.\" New York City Administrative Code \u00a7 3-711(1). (Emphasis added.)\n11 See Deborah DeMott, The Lawyer as Agent, 67 FORDHAM L. REV. 301, 302-03 (1998), construing Restatement (Second) of Agency \u00a7 1 (1958).\n12 \"The messenger merely repeats what the sender of the message has communicated. An agent, on the other hand, acts on independent judgment, though of course within the limits of the principal's instructions. The instructions may be minute and precise, leaving little to the exercise of the agent's judgment, but unless they do away with the necessity of independent judgment altogether, the agent is distinguishable from a mere messenger.\" 2A NY Jur 2D AGENCY AND INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS \u00a7 13 (1998) (citing Brilliant v. Raidy, 70 N.Y.S.2d 126 (Mun. Ct. 1947)).\n13 See id. \u00a7 12 (1998) (citing Travalja v. Maieliano Tours, 213 A.D.2d 155, 622 N.Y.S.2d 961 (1st Dep't 1995)).\n14 \"A principal is liable for the tortious acts of its agent committed within the scope of employment. Accordingly, a principal must answer to an innocent party for the misconduct of its agent acting within the scope of its actual or apparent authority.\" (Citations omitted.) 2A NY Jur 2D, AGENCY AND INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS \u00a7285.\n15 Levenson/Glaser memorandum, p. 8, citing Goldstar Smoked Fish, Inc. v. Greenfield Partners, 614 N.Y.S. 2d 559 (2d Dept. 1994); Pekham Road Corp. v. Town of Putnam Valley, 631 N.Y.S.2d 172 (2d Dept. 1995); Spain v. Howard Holmes, Inc., 108 A.D.2d 741 (2d Dept. 1985); and Marcraft Recreation Corp. v. Frances Devlin Co., Inc., 459 F. Supp. 195 (S.D.N.Y. 1978).\n16 Goldstar Smoked Fish, Inc. v. Greenfield Partners, 614 N.Y.S.2d 559 (2d Dept. 1994).\n17 Levenson/Glaser memorandum, p. 8.\n18 See supra, note 10.\n19 The Board notes that the Advance Group, like any other entity, can be an agent for some purposes, and not for others. The Board finds for the purposes of this Determination that the Advance Group was an agent for Fratta and his committee for, at the very least, the Committee's filings of disclosure statements and the submission of the Committee's response to the draft audit report, for which Ms. Mann took full responsibility.\n20 Mann testimony, p. 1. Throughout her testimony, Ms. Mann used the terms \"I\" and \"we\" to refer to the campaign when answering questions from the Board, further indicia that she (and thus, the Advance Group) was acting as an agent of the campaign. For example, Ms. Mann stated that \"I'm sure now it seems reasonable that I could have [asked for an extension of time to respond to the draft audit report].\" Mann testimony, p. 1. At the June 4, 2003 Board hearing, Mr. Levenson confirmed that he did not contest that Ms. Mann was telling the truth at the May 1, 2003 Board hearing. Levenson testimony, p. 4.\n21 Mann testimony, p. 1.\n22 Transcript of testimony of John Fratta on behalf of the Fratta 2001 campaign, before the Board on May 1, 2003, p.4 (on file with the Board).\n23 Levenson testimony, pp. 1, 3.\n24 In his testimony on June 4, 2003, Mr. Levenson stated that his firm was \"a vendor, not an agent.\" Levenson testimony, p. 1. This is not, however, a distinction of legal consequence. In addition, even an independent contractor can be considered an \"agent\" under \u00a7 3-711.\n25 Levenson testimony, p. 3.\n26 Further, as noted above on page 2, the candidate, not the Board, designated the Advance Group as his \"campaign liaison\" in his Filer Identification Form and Certification, and the candidate checked the box stating that the Advance Group \"should be contacted by the New York City Campaign Finance Board instead of the Treasurer.\" (Italics added.)\n27 The definition of the word \"liaison\" includes \"a close bond or connection\" (Merriam Webster on-line Dictionary) and a \"close relationship, connection, or link\" (Webster's New Riverside University Dictionary, 1994).\n28 Restatement (Second) of Agency \u00a7 1, cmt. b (1958).\n29 One of the key elements of the Campaign Finance Program is to provide timely disclosure to the public of a campaign's finances through a campaign's filing of periodic disclosure statements with the Board. Statement 10 was a particularly important disclosure statement because it was the final statement before the primary election, and was due on August 31, 2001, but not submitted until March 24, 2003, 570 days late. The Advance Group, per Ms. Mann, stated that \"I did submit Statement 10 late. I did not submit it 570 days late.. I unfortunately do not have a copy of Statement 10 as submitted to the Campaign Finance Board, but I do have a copy of the Statement 10 I submitted to the Board of Elections on November 15 - which was late for that filing, but not 570 days late.\" Mann testimony, p. 2. The Board has no record of having received Statement 10 until March 24, 2003. Even under Ms. Mann's scenario, if she had submitted Statement 10 on November 15, 2001, it would have been 76 days late. But in any event, the public (including opposing candidates) were deprived of this important information for a substantial amount of time.\n30 Ms. Mann's testimony was that the candidate and the treasurer were not personally at fault for these matters; Mr. Levenson's testimony was that nonetheless the Advance Group should not be subject to penalties under the Act.\n32 See discussion supra p. 3.\n33 Levenson/Glaser memorandum, p.2.\n37 The Board has routinely brought its actions against treasurers, as well as candidates, when they have refused to pay penalties assessed by the Board. These actions have ended in judgments against both candidates and treasurers, as well as candidates' committees.\n40 26 U.S.C. \u00a7 6701(d).\n41 Charles H. Koch, Jr., 2 Administrative Law and Practice \u00a7 5.71[5] (citing Charlesworth v. INS, 966 F.2d 1323, 1326 (9th Cir. 1992)).\n42 The Advance Group also argues that \"prejudice\" played a role in this matter. Levenson/Glaser memorandum, p. 13. The Board unequivocally states that it did not; the Board's consideration is solely on the merits.\n43 In this matter, the Board found the Committee to be in violation of the Act, but assessed no penalties for the Committee, as distinct from the Advance Group, for the violations of failure to respond in a timely manner to the draft audit report and the late filing of four disclosure statements, for which the Advance Group voluntarily took full responsibility.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 36952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 216.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cantando-con-dios.com/mychurch/catholic-charities-ordered-to-vacate-migrant-respite-center-by-texas-city/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QT3W3QGTFWBNCPZTKTXS7KERZTRWAFPP", "length": 3335, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cantando-con-dios.com", "title": "Catholic Charities ordered to vacate migrant respite center by Texas city \u2013 My Church", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb World \u00bb Catholic Charities ordered to vacate migrant respite center by Texas city\nBrownsville, Texas, Feb 13, 2019 / 03:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- City commissioners in McAllen, Texas have ordered Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley (CCRGV) to vacate their migrant respite center within 90 days, after complaints from neighbors.\n\u201cI am disappointed with today\u2019s decision but thankful for the continued support of the City of McAllen, the wonderful community, and Mayor Jim Darling,\u201d said Sister Norma Pimentel, CCRGV director, in a Feb. 13 statement.\n\u201cWe greatly appreciate the opportunity provided by the City to have time to move forward and find a new location. We will continue to work in partnership with the City of McAllen in efforts to treat immigrant families in a just and humane way and ensure they are in compliance with existing immigration laws.\u201d\nThe 16,000-square-foot center, currently housed in a former nursing home, has been accommodating hundreds of migrants a day coming from across the U.S.-Mexico border since December 2018, when CCRGV relocated to the space from a smaller downtown building. The respite center, which is staffed by volunteers and mainly offers food, showers, and basic necessities, has changed locations several times since 2014.\nThe mayor and two city commissioners voted Feb. 11 to remove Catholic Charities from the current site; two commissioners voted against the proposal, and two commissioners were not present at the meeting, according to The Monitor.\nDespite voting to move the center, Mayor Jim Darling the next day publicly committed to helping CCRGV find a new location for migrant respite operations in McAllen. A spokeswoman for the Diocese of Brownsville told CNA that CCRGV does not yet have concrete plans for a new location.\nThe Respite Center in McAllen in its various locations has helped close to 150,000 migrants since 2014, sometimes up to 300 a day, Pimentel has said. Most of the people the center helps are women and children who have been released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement with a court date to consider their request for asylum.\nCity commissioners had reportedly received complaints from several residents living near the respite center, who described \u201ctheir peaceful neighborhood being upended by constant traffic and strangers wandering the streets, likely coming from the respite center,\u201d according to The Monitor.\nThe residents reportedly claimed to support the center\u2019s mission to help migrants, but not in a residential area.\nSister Pimentel was invited to a roundtable discussion with President Donald Trump Jan. 10, during the president\u2019s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen. At the time, Trump was visiting Texas in an effort to drum up support for $5.7 billion in funding for a wall along the border with Mexico, amid a government shutdown that began over funding for the wall.\nPimentel later said she was disappointed that she didn\u2019t get to speak to the president during the discussion.\nA delegation of bishops, including Bishop Robert Brennan, auxiliary bishop of Rockville Centre, visited the border in July 2018 and toured the Humanitarian Respite Center in McAllen.\n\u00ab McCarrick labeled \u2018permanently removed from ministry\u2019 in list of accused clergy\nInvestigation finds Covington students did not instigate confrontation \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com/2008/01/should-us-bomb-israels-top-secret.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:11Z", "digest": "sha1:N5MREASF5MTM3RX3BSEKTS3KRG3GON7Z", "length": 1590, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "careandwashingofthebrain.blogspot.com", "title": "Goon Squad: Should the U.S. Bomb Israel's top-secret Chemical and Biological weapons at Nes Ziona?", "raw_content": "Should the U.S. Bomb Israel's top-secret Chemical and Biological weapons at Nes Ziona?\nMention the name of the secretive Israeli nuclear weapons lab at Dimona, and some will recognize this is the place Israel enriches plutonium for military use so they can build thermonuclear, fission and neutron bombs.\nBut who knows about the top-secret Israeli biological and chemical weapons complex located in the Tel Aviv suburb of Nes Ziona, called the Israel Institute of Biological Research (IIBR)?\nIsrael has shown the world it has no concern for the safety of others, like in the October 1992 crash of El Al Boeing 747 flight LY1862 that slammed into an apartment building in Amsterdam.\nDamn straight. This we know from the brave and courageous Sibel Edmonds, who is risking her freedom, if not her life, to expose this gang of thieves.\nExtrajudicial executions, carried out by Israel in Occupied Palestine, are too well known for the constantly under siege Gazans.\nChutzpah beyond belief.\nSince it is Israel that is the main threat to not only peace in the ME, but world-wide, shouldn't the B-2 bombers and cruise missiles be heading to Tel Aviv to smite those \"evil-doers\" off the face of the earth?\nThe question should not be \"Should the U.S. bomb Israel's secret chemical and biological weapons complex, IIBR, at Nes Ziona?\"\nThe question should be \"Why hasn't the U.S. already bombed Israel's secret chemical and biological weapons complex, IIBR, at Nes Ziona?\"\ngreg Bacon February 4, 2008 at 12:06 AM\nSorry, but i'm also headed to the airport and won't have the time to check out your link.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 13293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://carsindoha.com/vehicular-pollution/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:46Z", "digest": "sha1:JB4W7KOVE7YVG34ZCDO2U44RJQRQ7HM7", "length": 1860, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "carsindoha.com", "title": "Carsindoha Vehicular Pollution - Carsindoha", "raw_content": "VEHICULAR POLLUTION: CAUSE AND EFFECT\nTransportation contributes majorly to the carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons emitted into air. Primary pollution results from the emissions that are released directly into the atmosphere, whereas secondary pollution results from chemical reactions between pollutants after they have been released into the air. Both these sources pose significant health risks and pollutes the environment in the form of global warming.\nThe health risks are extremely serious. Air pollution causes various respiratory ailments such as asthma and bronchitis, increases the risk of life threatening diseases such as cancer, and burdens us with substantial medical costs. Particulate matter, specifically, is responsible for up to 30,000 premature deaths per year.\nFrom the past century, there has been a dramatic increase in the atmospheric concentration of heat-trapping gases, due to human activity. Scientists project that if this trend continues, the earth\u2019s average surface temperature will increase between 2.5\u00b0F and 10.4\u00b0F by the year 2100.\n1Use of cleaner fuels that produce fewer emissions will reduce air pollution.\n2Timely maintenance of vehicles not only limits harmful emissions, but also can improve fuel efficiency and vehicle performance extending the life of the vehicle.\n3Buying vehicles only as per the latest emission norm mentioned by the Government will helpin curbing pollution.\n4Use of fuel-efficient vehicles (which consume less or no fuel) will lead to improved air quality.\n5Government initiatives of implementing stringent emission norm standards as per the latest technology in the world will help in the long run.\n6Government initiatives, such as The Rail Project in Doha and promoting public transport, also help in reducing the number of vehicles on road.\nStay Safe On The Road & Drive forward!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cashforcarsireland.blogspot.com/2016/12/bmw-teams-with-ibms-watson-on-driver.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:59Z", "digest": "sha1:EEIVVVDVWJMIXVPDDXUUE6RICITDWPHO", "length": 3390, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "cashforcarsireland.blogspot.com", "title": "Cash For Cars Ireland: BMW teams with IBM\u2019s Watson on driver-assist technology", "raw_content": "BMW teams with IBM\u2019s Watson on driver-assist technology\nIBM\u2019s Watson artificial intelligence system is perhaps best known for helping doctors identify cancer treatments and for beating previous champions at \u201cJeopardy!\u201d\nNow, it might soon become known in the auto industry for helping to make vehicles safer and more personalized.\nIBM said today that it has partnered with BMW Group to research how Watson can help with driver-assist functions. A team of BMW engineers will work with IBM researchers and developers at the technology company\u2019s new Watson Internet of Things headquarters in Munich.\nFour BMW i8 hybrid sports cars will be connected to IBM\u2019s Bluemix cloud platform \u201cto demonstrate how Watson can enable new conversational interfaces between cars and drivers,\u201d IBM said in a statement today.\n\u201cWith this agreement, our companies will work together to lay the foundations so that BMW\u2019s drivers can benefit from Watson\u2019s conversational and machine learning capabilities,\u201d Harriet Green, IBM global head of the Watson Internet of Things business, said in the statement.\n\u201cOur insight shows that while the car will remain a fixture in personal transportation, the driving experience will change more over the next decade than at any other time of the automobile\u2019s existence,\u201d Green said.\nBMW\u2019s agreement with IBM is the latest move by an automaker to get a leg up in the race to develop fully connected vehicles. Automakers and suppliers have invested billions of dollars in recent years to develop technology related to connected and autonomous vehicles.\nThe i8\u2019s owner manual will be uploaded into Watson, which will allow drivers to ask questions about the vehicle in their \u201cnatural\u201d language and receive answers while safely driving, said Niklaus Waser, IBM head of Watson Internet of Things in Europe, in an interview.\nWatson will also be able to incorporate traffic updates and weather information to make up-to-the-minute route suggestions, and it will be able to monitor driver behavior to personalize the car to enhance safety, performance and comfort, Waser said.\n\u201cWe will work together so that BMW drivers can benefit from Watson\u2019s machine learning capabilities,\u201d he said.\nIBM this year said it would invest $200 million into the Munich Watson Internet of Things headquarters, where it plans to collaborate with companies in industries including automotive, health care and electronics.\nBMW is the first automaker to partner with IBM\u2019s Watson team in Munich. Waser said IBM hopes to collaborate with other automakers in the future, as well.\n\u201cThere is no reason why we should do this only with BMW, and BMW has not asked for exclusivity,\u201d Waser said.\nHe did not disclose how many engineers and researchers were assigned to the BMW project.\nWhile BMW is the first automaker to collaborate with IBM with Watson in Munich, it is not the first time IBM has teamed with an automaker on connectivity. 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Within three years the curriculum expanded to 13 subjects with a teaching staff of three catering for both day and night classes. A new school opened for classes on the present site in 1966. By 1979 all days students were progressing to Leaving Certificate level with a further expansion of the curriculum.\nA 12 room extension was opened in 1987 and in 1992 parents voted to rename the school St. Mogue\u2019s College. In 2006 a student competition produced the design for a new school crest and uniform. The moto Spr\u00e9ach Eolais, Borradh Feabhais \u2013 the spark of knowledge, the surge of development was adopted to match the expansion of the curriculum into Information Technology which the school had now embraced.\nIn 2011 new buildings were added to accommodate a new foyer, language laboratory, sacred space, canteen and general class rooms. St. Mogue\u2019s College thus established itself firmly as a school of the 21st century. Since the foundation of the College there has been one constant \u2013 the quality of teaching and learning \u2013 St. Mogue\u2019s College is justifiably proud of its reputation for excellence in education. In keeping with the ethos of the Education Act 1998, St. Mogue\u2019s College is committed to the intellectual, physical, social, personal, spiritual, moral and aesthetic development of all its students.\nLife within the school community reflects its mission statement \u2013 To achieve a safe, respectful learning and working environment so that all participants can achieve their full potential.\nEmail: info@stmoguescollege.ie\nAnne Conaghan Principal info@stmoguescollege.ie\nCormac Flynn Deputy Principal info@stmoguescollege.ie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://centerforschoolchange.org/2012/02/requiring-cpr-instruction-can-save-lives/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UOCGPAC4ZCB7LDF7VR5ACWH5OI2ZUXIW", "length": 3958, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "centerforschoolchange.org", "title": "Requiring CPR instruction can save lives \u2013 Center for School Change", "raw_content": "Jamie LaLonde recently explained how CPR saved her life, and urged legislators to require students to learn CPR.\nWhy are Jamie LaLonde, Natasha Fleischman, Jamie LaLonde and Dale Wakasugi supporting a bill that would require Minnesota\u2019s public schools to teach cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)? For the best possible reasons: It saved their lives.\nBoth Minnesota House and Senate are considering bills that would require all Minnesota Public Schools to teach CPR to students grades 7-12. Chief authors Senator Dan Hall and Representative Mary Holberg have bi-partisan support. In recent testimony, a Minnesota School Boards Association representative expressed reasonable concerns about adding a new mandate when budgets are challenged.\nHowever, what\u2019s a higher priority, than teaching young people how to save lives? Testimony suggested that about half of Minnesota\u2019s school districts do, and half don\u2019t teach CPR. So I hope the bill passes.\nStillwater School Board member Natasha Fleischman recently testified about the bill. She wrote, \u201cCPR saved my life. I was a 33-year-old mother of two in 2002 when my heart stopped for the first time (with no known heart condition). I was working at the St. Paul Public Schools. I was on first floor and the director of safety and security, Will Waterkamp ran down from the 4th floor to perform CPR on me. After the St. Paul Fire Department defibrillated me 5 times, I was taken to Regions Hospital, diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy and received an implantable defibrillator (ICD).\u201d\nShe continued, \u201cI have worked with the AHA and the Go Red campaign, as well as WomenHeart: the National Coalition of Women with Heart Disease and the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association to build knowledge and skills that save lives\u2026When someone suffers sudden cardiac arrest, which is often the case when a high school athlete collapses on the field, every minute counts. This legislation is meant to have every high school student learn CPR before graduating and have the ability to save the lives of family members or friends.\u201d\nFleischman explained, \u201cIn Stillwater, we already teach CPR in our required health classes. When I conducted a study for the AHA using the CPR anytime kit, we wanted to compare two schools, one that taught traditional CPR and one that only had a 30-minute course with the anytime kit. We taught kids to do CPR in 30 minutes. And the preliminary data showed that their compressions were more consistently effective than those of students in a 4-hour traditional CPR class. Pretty impressive what can be accomplished!\u201d\nTwenty-year-old Jamie LaLonde testified that she was working at the Mall of America when \u201c I had a sudden cardiac arrest\u2026I was 18 years old. I\u2019m helping the American Heart Association with this bill because the only reason I\u2019m alive today is because someone that was trained in CPR made it to the scene within 5 minutes.\u201d\n\u201cAlthough I\u2019m very lucky I still can\u2019t help but think that none of the 16-20 year olds around me that were working with me knew to start CPR. Sudden Cardiac Arrest can happen to anyone, even young people, and I think it\u2019s important we prepare people as best we can so that if they ever do get the chance to save \u2018 life they can.\u2019\u201d Ms. LaLonde is \u201cgoing to school at Inver Hills Community College to become a Paramedic.\u201d\nFinally, Dale Wakasugi explained \u201c Since my first arrest in Dec. 2007, I have made a commitment to myself to help others by \u2018paying it forward\u2019. To help place as many AEDs in as many public places as possible and to help raise awareness of the importance of knowing CPR and how to use an AED\u2026 I want to help high school students learn CPR and how to use an AED, since my key rescuer was a high school student who just learned CPR and how to use an AED in health class three weeks prior to my event.\u201d\n\u00ab Minnesota educators create & use on-line resources to promote learning\t\u00bb New national survey values views of students, parents, educators", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 28198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://charmsofindochina.com/travel-news/direct-flight-connects-da-nang-bangkok/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SG5PRMGYA6PH5HL6V5LHINFZD2PC32YZ", "length": 1591, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "charmsofindochina.com", "title": "Direct flight connects Da Nang, Bangkok", "raw_content": "Bangkok Airways will launch its new route between the central city of Da Nang and Bangkok from May 25, the Bangkok Airways Public Company Limited told Bizhub.vn in an email on March 8.\nIt said the first flight will take off from Bangkok at 11am on May 25 and land at Da Nang International Airport around 12.35pm.\nThe return flight will leave from Da Nang at 13.35pm and arrive in Bangkok at 15.15pm.\nAs scheduled, the flight will be operated on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday with 144 Economy class seats on an Airbus 319.\nThe direct flight route operation from Bangkok to Da Nang was a result of the co-operation and investment in tourism and trade between the city and Thai General Consul in HCM City from 2012.\nIn February, travel firm Viettravel also offered direct charter flights between the city and Bangkok on Thai Vietjet in order to boost tourism between the central region of Viet Nam and Thai destinations.\nAccording to the city, import-export turnover between Thailand and Da Nang reached 30.2 million USD, of which 28.5 million USD were exports from Thailand.\nThailand has only had one investment project in Da Nang so far with total value of 10,000 USD.\nThe central city attracts around 700 tourists from Thailand annually.\nDa Nang has hosted the annual East \u2013 West Corridor Trade Fair since 2007, which attracted businesses from Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Viet Nam.\nDa Nang, which is situated at the end of the East \u2013 West Economic Corridor \u2013 linking Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Viet Nam, is connected by 19 international routes with over 4 million tourists in 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chasingdogtales.com/leptospirosis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HLLTPRK7Z2UKQCWLFTG7B77ULMXEXY26", "length": 5612, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "chasingdogtales.com", "title": "What Is Leptospirosis? - Chasing Dog Tales", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re like me, you may have heard of Leptospirosis and the vaccination for the disease, but don\u2019t fully understand what it is and how it can affect your dog. After learning that the disease is increasing in the United States and Canada, I wanted to know more about it. I didn\u2019t realize how serious the disease is and how vital it is to get early treatment if your dog becomes infected. It\u2019s important to know how it\u2019s transmitted and what symptoms you should look for to protect yourself and your dog. So, what is Leptospirosis?\nLeptospirosis (aka Lepto or field fever) is a serious infectious disease caused by the Leptospira bacteria that can affect animals as well as people. The disease is spread by the urine of infected animals (most often rats, pigs, raccoons, skunks, opossums and cattle). It\u2019s most common in areas with warm, moist climates such as marshy regions or areas with stagnant water and abundant wildlife. Infections occur most often in the fall when the ground is wet. If untreated, the disease can cause liver and kidney failure in dogs.\nHow can my dog get it?\nThe bacteria is found in soil and water. When infected animals urinate on soil or near water sources, your dog could contract the disease by drinking from the water source or through a cut or scrape on the skin when walking on infected soil. It can also be passed to your dog from a bite from an infected animal.\nIs my dog at high-risk of getting the disease?\nIf your dog spends a lot of time in water or drinks from puddles or stagnant water sources, she could be at increased risk for the disease. Hunting dogs, farm dogs and dogs that live near wooded areas can also be at increased risk. There is also a risk for dogs that spend time in kennels that haven\u2019t been properly sanitized. Even if your dog never leaves your yard, she still could be at risk if an infected animal urinates in the yard since the bacteria can survive up to six months in some soils.\nHow would I know if my dog has the disease?\nSome infected animals don\u2019t display any signs of the disease and recover without antibiotics, but others can develop life threatening symptoms which require immediate treatment. The disease takes 4-12 days to reveal itself and usually the first sign owners notice is their dog has general malaise or is lethargic. Other symptoms include fever, shivering, loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, yellow jaundiced eyes, reluctance to move, increased thirst, changes in urination, dehydration, runny nose, dark red speckled gums, coughing or difficulty breathing.\nWhat should I do if I notice any symptoms?\nSee your veterinarian immediately. It\u2019s imperative that the disease be treated early in order for your dog to have the best chance of recovery. Your vet will perform blood and urine tests along with clinical observations to determine if your dog has Lepto and prescribe the best course of treatment.\nIf Lepto is caught early, it responds well to antibiotics. It\u2019s important to note that even after treatment, your dog can become a carrier and shed bacteria in their urine for several months.\nHow can I prevent my dog from getting it?\nReduce your dog\u2019s exposure to possible sources of contaminated water, eliminate any rodent problems and don\u2019t feed or otherwise attract wild animals to your property. Consult with your veterinarian about the availability and benefit of an annual vaccination, especially if you have a dog that is at increased risk for the disease.\nCan I catch it from my dog?\nAlthough people usually contract Lepto from recreational water activities, it is zoonotic and can be transmitted to you from your dog. People as well as animals can suffer serious medical issues from Lepto, such as liver and kidney damage. Even though the risk is low that you may catch Lepto from your dog, always wear gloves if you come in contact with your dog\u2019s urine and wash your hands after handling an infected pet. Make sure your dog doesn\u2019t urinate in areas with standing water or where other people or animals could contract the disease.\nI\u2019m glad to now know more about this disease and what symptoms to look for. I\u2019m also going to be more careful when I\u2019m out hiking with Haley and we come across a stream or pool of water. She\u2019s never had a Lepto vaccine, but it\u2019s certainly worth discussing it with the vet during her next appointment.\nHave you had any experience with this disease or the vaccination?\nTags:Diseases, Fever, Vaccinations\n6 Comments on \u201cWhat Is Leptospirosis?\u201d\nInteresting. I knew they got vaccinated for this, but had no idea what it was. Thanks for the education!\nMy vet has never mentioned the Lepto vaccine before, but it\u2019s something I\u2019m planning on asking about during Haley\u2019s next visit.\nThanks for the detailed explanation! We do not treat for it just because I don\u2019t really vaccinate for much other than rabies, parvo/distemper & kennel cough. However, I could definitely see a risk for getting lepto in MN! Sharing \ud83d\ude42\nThanks for stopping by and sharing the post, Sarah! I enjoyed checking out your blog, Lola and Rio are just gorgeous! \ud83d\ude42\nI\u2019ve had Honey vaccinated for lepto once, on my vet\u2019s recommendation. After we got rid of the car, I decided (with my vet\u2019s advice) not to get her vaccinated again because she was less likely to find herself in areas with stagnant water.\nBut your detail got me thinking. We\u2019re currently trying to deal with a rat in the house. And I\u2019m wondering if I need to call the vet to take extra measures to protect Honey until we can get the little rat bastard out of the house.\nYes, make sure that rat bastard doesn\u2019t decide to join you on the sailboat! Lol! \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 8283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cheaplifeinsuranceonline.net/illinois/elizabeth-il-life-insurance-quotes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:17Z", "digest": "sha1:4WRED4YYKTOEGZJTWC7WI2KKZ6DFYKEQ", "length": 1638, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cheaplifeinsuranceonline.net", "title": "Elizabeth IL Life Insurance Quotes", "raw_content": "Elizabeth IL Life Insurance Quotes\nFinding the best life insurance in Elizabeth, IL is a simple and quick affair if you use our website. All you need to do is enter your Zip Code at the top of the page and the search engine will locate the best life insurance providers in your area. Comparing quotes from these insurers will help you locate cheap online life insurance. The process is quick and easy and can definitely get your lower premiums in most cases.\nThe first step is to take some time and search online for the top companies that can provide you with the services that you are looking for. Simply searching for life insurance in Elizabeth, IL will surely give you a host of the top companies that provide this service in the country. It is important to decide what company you feel is worthy of your business. Each company is different in the kind of service they provide as well as how much effort they take to inform their clients.\nFirst you must get quotes from the various companies that are available in Elizabeth, IL. When you get these quotes you must think about the fact that the price is not the only thing to consider. While a great deal is regulated by law, every company has the choice to decide to some degree what they are willing to offer.\nIf you want to find the best in Elizabeth life insurance quote possible you must do the research necessary. Take the time to understand what the investment you make means to you as well as those around you. In essence, we are all so very lucky to live this life. Without this gift of life who knows what the life could be like on the great planet known as Earth to us all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://childrensdyslexiacenters.org/Resources.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:20Z", "digest": "sha1:R7OQ6ASXHMYIX3XFASRXE26TIFO6N7WR", "length": 11616, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "childrensdyslexiacenters.org", "title": "Resources", "raw_content": "Table of Resources\nASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS\nThe Academic Language Therapy Association\u00ae (ALTA) is a non-profit national professional organization incorporated in 1986 for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, and promoting standards of education, practice and professional conduct for Certified Academic Language Therapists. Academic Language Therapy is an educational, structured, comprehensive, phonetic, multisensory approach for the remediation of dyslexia and/or written-language disorders.\nALTA publishes a national registry of Certified Academic Language Therapists, a newsletter to keep members informed about the profession, and a scholarly journal to provide a forum for professional discussion and to disseminate timely information regarding the treatment of written-language disorders and the practice of academic language therapy. The Association maintains online help for information and therapist referrals and has developed achievement-motivating events for children with written-language disorders such as \"Words of Winners\", a phonetic-based spelling bee. ALTA has established a Code of Ethics for therapists and publishes public information brochures regarding academic language therapy, the Association, and practices and protocols for therapists.\nThe International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council (IMSLEC)\nThe mission of IMSLEC is to accredit quality training courses for the professional preparation of multisensory structured language education specialists.\nThe Purpose of IMSLEC is:\nTo advocate for high standards in the professional preparation of multisensory structured language education specialists \u2014 clinicians and teachers\nTo establish standards and criteria of excellence\nTo evaluate and accredit:\nComprehensive MSLE training courses offered by existing independent agencies and centers; and\nMSLE courses offered by other already accredited institutions.\nIDA is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping dyslexic individuals and the families who support them. Their website contains information on dyslexia, an online bookstore, and much more.\nNational Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) team envisions a society in which every individual possesses the academic, social and emotional skills needed to succeed in school, at work and in life.\nNCLD connects parents and others with essential resources, provides educators with evidence-based tools and engages advocates in public policy initiatives\nASHA's website is for professionals (i.e. speech-language pathologists, audiologists) and students who are members of ASHA. It contains information about different language disabilities and a directory for you to find a professional within your state.\nAcademy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators\nThe Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators is unique in being the only organization established and authorized expressly to set and maintain professional and ethical standards for the practice of the Orton-Gillingham Approach and to certify teachers and to accredit instructional programs that meet these standards. The Academy is incorporated and operates under the New York State Education Law, its corporate status being authorized in 1995 by action of the Board of Regents of The University of the State of New York on behalf of the Education Department of the State of New York. It is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization.\nLearning Ally \u2013 Together It\u2019s Possible\nDyslexia Defined provides a comprehensive definition of what Dyslexia is as well as resources for parents and teachers.\nBegin your search in the Advocacy Libraries and Law Libraries. You will find thousands of articles, cases, and resources about dozens of topics.\nU.S. National Library of Medicine Dyslexia Definition\nU.S. Government publication defining Dyslexia, its causes, symptoms, identification, treatment, and potential outcomes\nWith so many common misconceptions floating around about dyslexia, it\u2019s important for people to understand what dyslexia really is, how to recognize it, and what it can mean for a person\u2019s life. At The Power of Dyslexia, we are dedicated to focusing not just on the negative qualities that dyslexia can include \u2014 but also on the positive effects it can have on a person\u2019s life. Though many children are not treated properly for dyslexia in schools, there are still all kinds of dyslexic individuals who have gone on to have successful careers in all fields ranging from business to the arts. The Power of Dyslexia will provide resources for dyslexic kids, dyslexic adults, and parents of children with dyslexia\nThe Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) is a multidisciplinary research center at Florida State University. FCRR explores all aspects of reading research\u2014basic research into literacy-related skills for typically developing readers and those who struggle, studies of effective prevention and intervention, and psychometric work on formative assessment.\nThe Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity strives to illuminate the strengths of those with dyslexia and disseminate information, practical advice, and the latest research to transform the lives of people with dyslexia. Their website is a great resource.\nThe University Center for the Development of Language and Literacy\nThe University Center for the Development of Language and Literacy has offered intensive language and literacy intervention, evaluations, and consultations to clients of all ages and from all parts of the country.\nLearning disabilities affect how a person reads, writes, speaks, and calculates. They are caused by differences in a person\u2019s brain and include several disorders that affect the ability to learn. The NICHD is one of many NIH institutes and other federal agencies investigating the causes of these disabilities (including those that might be genetic and neurological), studying methods for evaluating children who may have the disabilities, and developing strategies to address these issues.\nEveryone Reading \u2013 Formerly NY Branch of IDA\nReading is a critical link to success. Everyone Reading advances the lives of children and adults with dyslexia and related learning disabilities by providing the resources they need to learn to become successful readers, writers and spellers.\nEveryone Reading, Inc., formerly the New York Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, was first created 40 years ago by a group of concerned parents and educators; Since then the organization has expanded its programming and administrative capacity, becoming recognized both as a provider of high-quality professional development services and as the go-to resource for parents, adults and professionals seeking guidance and support in the area of dyslexia and related learning disabilities.\nEveryone Reading strives to lessen, and eventually eliminate, the stigma associated with dyslexia and LD. We also work to demonstrate to the community that dyslexia and LD can affect anyone\u2013including people with average and above-average intelligence\nEveryone Reading Illinois \u2013 Formerly IL Branch of IDA\nThank you for your interest in our organization. Everyone Reading Illinois is a not-for-profit organization committed to the advancement of research on and treatment of dyslexia and related language learning disabilities.\nWe serve the entire state of Illinois and we were founded in 1978. We strive everyday to bring together parents, teachers, and other professionals to learn, network and discover the latest research, methods and tools for working with individuals with dyslexia.\nDyslexia Society of Connecticut \u2013 Formerly CT Branch of IDA\nWe are dedicated to achieving reading proficiency for all Connecticut residents through evidence based training for teachers in order to provide appropriate explicit, systematic instruction for students with dyslexia and related reading disabilities.\nWelcome to the Dyslexia Society of Connecticut. While our organization has been transformed, we have retained our highly qualified, energetic board of directors. Since 2003, we have been a Connecticut nonprofit corporation and have operated as part of a multinational organization. Now we continue as an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit and will focus on dyslexia, particularly reading proficiency, in Connecticut. We will work diligently to encourage diagnosis, improve reading skills, and all components of dyslexia, which impact academic, social, and economic issues for dyslexics and all who struggle with reading proficiency.\nFun Brain \u2013 Educational Games for Students\nThis is a fun website for kids. Books online, grammar games, math, and fun things too.\nBooks to print and many other educational resources and activities\nSoftware and Assistive Technology\nToday's technological age has brought forth a number of very good computer programs and tools to help individuals with:\n\u2022 Listening & speaking\n\u2022 Reading & spelling\n\u2022 Writing & organization\nThis page contains an extensive and meticulously organized list of apps that may be helpful to individuals with dyslexia, parents of dyslexics, or the professionals who work with dyslexics (teachers, tutors, reading specialists, etc.). We carefully consider each app before we add it, ensuring that it claims to help dyslexics in ways that are in line with the evidence on how to help dyslexics. In other words, we add apps that aid with the cognitive processes used in speaking, reading, spelling, and writing, but we do not add apps that are visual aids for reading, because evidence shows that dyslexia is not a visual disability.\nInternational Dyslexia Association (IDA) iPad Apps for Literacy Instruction\nUsing iPads for literacy instruction opens up many stimulating opportunities. These tablet computers are portable, easy to use, and there are countless \u201ceducational\u201d iPad applications, or apps, available. Finding high-quality apps, though, poses a daunting challenge not recommended for the faint-hearted. This search can take hundreds of hours and waste more than a few dollars.\nIt can be challenging to locate worthwhile apps that reinforce literacy instruction in phonological awareness, phonics (reading and spelling), vocabulary, morphology, text comprehension, and written expression. This article will help locate apps for teachers, parents, and students\u2014apps that are fun, easy to use, and (don\u2019t tell the kids!) educationally sound\nGinger Software Tools for Writing and Grammar\nGinger\u2019s mission is to remove language barriers between people by enabling everyone to communicate in native-level English.\nGinger\u2019s products reduce the stress associated with writing by ensuring grammatically perfect, typo-free text bursting with expression and meaning - exactly what you need to help you get your intended message across!\nMarianne Sunderland Best Dyslexia Apps \u2013 Middle School, High School, and Beyond\nHaving home schooled dyslexic kids for the past 20 years, I have a unique appreciation for the plethora of handy new technology that is available today to help my kids who learn differently. I long thought of technology as a crutch, but now think of it as the way of the future and we are enjoying many of its benefits. There are many great apps for teaching reading readiness, phonemic awareness and multi-sensory phonics instruction for younger, budding readers. I am still gathering a list of our favorites and will post that when I have finished. Today I am focusing on the older kids. The kids who need these tools to help them be organized and efficient as they head into the \u2018real\u2019 world and away from textbooks, class assignments and the like.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 13031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://choosequran.com/book/1257/professional-search-engine-optimization-php-pdf", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7QNIARKCDFQING53XSEDCPMH6DC7XVYC", "length": 1097, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "choosequran.com", "title": "Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP Pdf Download - SmteBooks", "raw_content": "Cristian Darie,\nProfessional Search Engine Optimization with PHP A Developer's Guide to SEO\nMaybe you\u2019re a great programmer or IT professional, but marketing isn\u2019t your thing. Or perhaps you\u2019re a tech-savvy search engine marketer who wants a peek under the hood of a search engine optimized web site. Search engine marketing is a field where technology and marketing are both critical and interdependent, because small changes in the implementation of a web site can make you or break you in search engine rankings. Furthermore, the fusion of technology and marketing know-how can create web site features that attract more visitors. The mission of this book is to help web developers create web sites that rank well with the major search engines, and to teach search engine marketers how to use technology to their advantage. We assert that neither marketing nor IT can exist in a vacuum, and it is essential that they not see themselves as opposing forces in an organization. They must work together. This book aims to educate both sides in that regard.\nHow To Make A Website And An eBook Income", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 4112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 261.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ciclops.org/view/7721/Rev198", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:BRLMLH5GJZB2UALAM2T6EX2S2F7VTEI2", "length": 7269, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ciclops.org", "title": "Rev198 (Preview of Cassini Spacecraft Activities Around Saturn)", "raw_content": "Rev198: Sep 27 - Nov 7 '13\nCassini continues its exploration of the Saturn system with the 42-day Rev 198, which begins on September 27 at its farthest distance from the planet. This is also called the orbit's apoapse. At this point, Cassini is 2.62 million kilometers (1.62 million miles) from Saturn's cloud tops. Rev 198 occurs during the first inclined phase, which lasts until March 2015, of the Cassini Solstice Mission. The inclined phase will allow for polar views of Saturn and Titan as well as better vistas of Saturn's rings than those Cassini had while in the earlier, equatorial phase of the Solstice Mission. Forty-one ISS observations are planned for Rev 198 with the majority focused on Saturn's atmosphere and rings and on Titan during the T95 flyby.\nOn October 5, one week after apoapse, ISS will start off Rev 198 by acquiring a cloud and haze monitoring observation of Titan. Observations like this one are designed to track changes in the distribution of clouds across Titan as well as to monitor changes to its haze layers. The October 5 observation will be taken from a distance of 1.72 million kilometers (1.07 million miles). A similar observation will be taken on October 7 from a distance of 1.30 million kilometers (0.81 million miles). Both observations will cover Titan's north polar region, though the October 7 observation will have a better phase angle for observing the surface. On October 8, ISS will acquire an astrometric observation of Saturn's small, inner moons. Astrometric observations are used to improve our understanding of the orbits of these small satellites, which can be influenced by Saturn's larger icy moons. Three more astrometric observations will be acquired on October 10, 11, and 19.\nImmediately afterwards, on October 8, ISS will acquire a quick observation of Saturn using the WAC. This observation is part of a series of \"Storm Watch\" observation sequences designed to take advantage of short, two-minute segments when the spacecraft turns the optical remote sensing (ORS) instruments back to Saturn as a waypoint between other experiments' observations. These sequences include blue, clear, two methane band, and one full-frame, continuum band filter images. Two more sequences will be taken later on October 8. Seven more storm watch observations will be taken during this orbit with five on October 10 and two on October 11. Also on October 8, ISS will ride along with the Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) as it observes an occultation of the red giant star L2 Puppis by the ring system. ISS images will be centered around the time the star passes behind the F ring. On October 10 and 11, ISS will image the outer A ring, where it will be looking at propellers previously imaged by Cassini. Propellers are small voids in Saturn's rings created by the gravitational interaction between large ring particles and the surrounding ring. Later that day, ISS will acquire a nine-frame, wide-angle-camera mosaic of the Saturn and its ring system using the red, green, and blue filters. This mosaic will be taken as part of the Scientist For A Day program.\nCassini encounters Titan on October 14 at 04:56 UTC for the 96th time. This is the seventh and penultimate Titan flyby planned for 2013, with the last encounter scheduled for December 1. T95 has a close-approach altitude of 961 kilometers (597 miles). This flyby will allow for imaging of the north polar region inbound to the encounter and the southern anti-Saturn hemisphere of Titan on the outbound leg. Before the encounter on October 12, ISS will acquire three cloud monitoring observations. Early on October 13, ISS will ride-along with the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) as it stares at Titan in order to acquire mid-infrared spectral and temperature information about Titan's atmosphere. During this CIRS observation, on October 13 at 13:40 UTC, Cassini will reach periapse for Rev 198 at an altitude of 1.14 million kilometers (0.71 million miles) from Saturn's cloud tops. Cassini will be 294,150 kilometers (182,780 miles) from Titan at the time. Afterward, ISS will acquire a six-frame mosaic of the north polar and northern leading hemisphere regions of Titan. This mosaic will provide more information of the distribution of lakes in the north polar region, fill-in the largest gap in ISS's map of Titan, and provide details on the shapes of some of the lakes not yet covered by RADAR SAR data. An additional frame will be taken centered on the north pole. Afterward, ISS will ride along with a CIRS far-infrared nadir-staring observation. This will be followed by a CIRS limb mapping observation. Both observations are designed to measure the distribution of temperature and minor gas abundances within Titan's atmosphere.\nThe Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) will be the prime instrument at closest approach with RADAR riding along. RADAR will control pointing for most of the 12 hours surrounding closest approach. RADAR will acquire radiometry and scatterometry scans of Titan, which provide a variety of information about the properties of its surface including roughness and temperature. Inbound, RADAR will acquire a high-altitude SAR imaging swath across the northern trailing hemisphere, covering an area southwest of Ligeia Mare. At closest approach, INMS will directly measure the composition of Titan's upper atmosphere as Cassini makes its pass over Titan's equator. This encounter will provide information on the interaction between the solar wind and Titan's atmosphere as it will likely be outside Saturn's magnetic field at the time. A RADAR SAR imaging swath will be taken at the same time, running from Titan's north polar region south to eastern Adiri. After closest approach, RADAR will acquire a high-altitude RADAR SAR swath across the southern anti-Saturn hemisphere to almost the southern pole. This low-resolution swath will include Ontario Lacus.\nAfter RADAR is finished with its observations, CIRS will acquire several observations of the southern hemisphere of Titan. These are designed to study changes in its atmosphere as the region approaches winter. On October 15 and 16, ISS will acquire six cloud monitoring observations of the region.\nOn October 16, ISS will ride along with a VIMS observation of an occultation of the star R Lyrae by Saturn's F ring. On October 18, ISS will acquire a movie of the F ring, observing its various channels and streamers created by the interaction between the ring material and the nearby moon, Prometheus. On October 19 and 21, ISS will take a movie of Saturn's B ring, looking for dust spokes. A similar ring movie will also be taken of the D ring on October 21. On October 20, ISS will look at a crescent Titan from a distance of 1.71 million kilometers (1.06 million miles). Finally on November 3, ISS will again image a crescent Titan, this time from a distance of 3.89 million kilometers (2.42 million miles).\nOn November 7, Cassini will reach apoapse, bringing Rev 198 to a close and starting up the next orbit, Rev 199, which will include another targeted flyby of Titan. Between November 4 and 8, Cassini will be in solar conjunction. 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(Michigan Central Station, page 10)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 189.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clanimal.com/2014/07/17/socialization-in-the-puppy-part-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:13Z", "digest": "sha1:TRB5CBYCTCUPVAU4E3SCXEYXG5WMCK7I", "length": 2122, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "clanimal.com", "title": "\ufeffSocialization in the puppy (part 1) | Clanimal", "raw_content": "Socialization in the puppy (part 1)\nHome / Dogs / Behavior / Psychology / Socialization in the puppy (part 1)\nDo you know that the most critical period for a puppy is between the age of 0 and 4 month? It\u2019s during that stage that all it has learned, good or bad, will be \u201crecorded\u201d in such way that they will shape the character and the behaviour of the dog.\nAll the experiences the puppy has lived and the way it reacts to these experiences are important because it is during that age that connections between its neurons take place. At the age of 5 weeks, the puppy is able to learn and 80% of its neural connections are made during the first weeks of his life.\nThe brain is at a stage of development: it records and memorizes everything. It is at that moment that the puppy will make associations with its environment and use those all its life. It is therefore crucial that the experiences it is living be positive in order to avoid lifelong trauma.\nThe place the puppy used to live at before your home already started shaping its behaviour. If the puppy has always been in a completely isolated cage, it would not have learned much and might develop a fearful attitude since everything is new to the puppy. If the puppy had been interacting with other dogs, through playing, noises and odors, it would have already practiced many behaviours and would have dealt with anything new.\nKeep in mind that when you welcomed your puppy 7-9 week-old puppy in your home, it came with a significant baggage of experience and you must continue with the process of socialization in order to maximize its learning before it reaches 4 months.\nThe purpose of the puppy\u2019s socialization is to enable it to go through different new experiences and to learn to make good associations.\nA good socialization allows to repair bad associations the puppy can make due and following a negative event; it also helps to avoid a lifelong trauma.\nThe dog can associate newness to something positive instead of something that is scary. The most common traumas occur when the dog is in a situation of immersion and does not have the chance to escape.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://classicconcreteforming.com/mission-statement.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:24Z", "digest": "sha1:JL62ITDMHF54WQAHSEFYPVNI3UQRQ222", "length": 1417, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "classicconcreteforming.com", "title": "Classic Concrete Forming: Mission Statement", "raw_content": "CCF is a team committed to listening to its clients, to understanding their needs, to providing professional performance and to safely delivering the highest quality project at an economical cost. We value the importance of our relationships and will continue to remain fair and true in our dealings with all employees, customers, vendors and partners. Our customers count on our dependability, our drive and our integrity. We take great pride in our accomplishments and build on them every day.\nThe CCF team is committed to:\nSafety: Complying with all OSHA regulations, training our employees, and inspecting our jobsites on a regular basis to ensure that we maintain the safest possible jobsites in the industry.\nEmployees: Employing knowledgeable and experienced construction professionals who are committed to the company and the projects.\nCustomers: Building and developing long term relationships with customers and being dedicated to customer satisfaction.\nService: Providing the best service possible through scheduling, a fast inventory, skilled workers, and our customers being able to deal directly with the owners of the company.\nIntegrity: Putting \u201cdoing the right thing\u201d above the short term profitability.\nValue: Meeting or exceeding our clients\u2019 expectations and producing a product that is of the highest quality possible.\nTeamwork: Being part of a team that communicates efficiently and effectively.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://claviscryptica.com/2012/10/29/magfest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:50Z", "digest": "sha1:JPE5DMDUKIBPCXWFW7QG24XJWSY4NON2", "length": 5731, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "claviscryptica.com", "title": "MAGFest \u2013 Clavis Cryptica", "raw_content": "Having a hard time coming up with something to talk about today (and wanting to just cozy up and relax with the storm outside), so why not a brief post about MAGFest?\nWe don\u2019t have a lot of really cool events out here on the East coast, but we do have MAGFest. Short for Music and Gaming Festival, MAGFest is a 4-day festival that takes place every January in DC. In addition to panels and special events, MAGFest has a number of featured areas that are open 24 hours a day during the entire event, including LAN gaming, tabletop gaming, a marketplace, a jam space for musicians, and (probably the biggest draw) a MASSIVE game room that is half free-to-play arcade cabinets, half console games set up with TVs. Guests include musicians, directors, voice actors, artists, and other members of the video game industry as well as internet personalities. Music is of course a big part of this festival, and lots of chiptune and video game-themed bands perform throughout the event.\nWe have a ton of friends from college who go to MAGFest every year, but last year was our first time going. A friend of mine described it as sort of a college reunion atmosphere for people like us who are all from the area and were part of the gaming/nerd communities in college. We ended up running into a lot of people we hadn\u2019t seen since graduation! We had a great time hanging out with friends and exploring the game room. Some of the games we enjoyed were Dance Central (run on a huge projector), DDR, Pokemon Puzzle League, and the X-Men arcade game (which has spawned its own a festival meme). We didn\u2019t play any tabletop games, but we did hang around and chat with some of the people who were playing, and they were all eager to tell us more about their games. We didn\u2019t make it to very many panels, but we did attend Ellen McLain\u2019s (the voice of GLaDOS) panel, and she was so lovely! We also briefly dropped by one of the music rooms and enjoyed a set by a band called Autoscroll.\nOf course, the biggest draw last year was the special guest of honor, none other than Nobuo Uematsu! He is probably the biggest name in video game music and is best known for his work on the Final Fantasy series. He gave a performance Saturday night with his rock band, The Earthbound Papas. We decided we really couldn\u2019t pass up an opportunity to see such a legend and that was the deciding factor for us attending last year. I grew up watching my brother play the Final Fantasy games and loving that music. I think a lot of us sort of felt like we were seeing the man behind the music of our childhoods. The funny part was that his band was WILD. It was hands-down THE loudest concert I have ever been to, and my ears were still ringing well into the next day. They played super heavy metal arrangements of different game songs and maybe a few original pieces as well. Nobuo would say a few words in between sometimes and he was completely adorable.\nAs of right now, we\u2019re still a bit on the fence about going this year since money is a little tight (and there aren\u2019t really any guests we\u2019re adamant about seeing, except maybe the Extra Credits folks), but I did have a lot of fun last time and would really like to go back. If we do go, I\u2019d love to be able to stay Friday night and go for two full days, spend a little more time in the game room, see more panels, actually play some board games, see some more bands (I liked the one band we saw more than I was expecting!), and maaaybe figure out a way to get some Artemis set up in the LAN area!\nOne more thing to note: I had only been to anime conventions before going to MAGFest last year, and I really, really appreciated the more adult atmosphere of this festival. I had started to lose my patience at the last anime convention I attended, and felt like they really weren\u2019t for me anymore. MAGFest feels much more comfortable. It really does just feel like a big party, and while there are still some obnoxious fans running around, I think the average age of the attendees has got to be at least 10-15 years older than an anime convention.\nIn short, if you\u2019re anywhere near DC and you like games, MAGFest is a good time! This year, it starts on Thursday, January 3rd and runs through Sunday the 4th. The festival will be returning to the Gaylord National at National Harbor, MD (just outside DC) which is a spectacular venue in a nice area. Wednesday is the last day to pre-register for the 4-day pass for $40, then it will start going up. (You can also save $10/ticket if you buy in a group of 8 or more). Drop me a line if you\u2019ll be there! Hopefully we will be, too =)\n2 comments on MAGFest\nI\u2019ll be there!!!! X)\nSpeaking of the guests, having Uematsu last year and Hiroki Kikuta (Secret of Mana) the year prior, I was interested in whether they could keep up such a high level of quality (I was REALLY hoping that Mitsuda would be next and the Big Three of Squaresoft would be back-to-back-to-back). The good thing about this year is that I have to do a little research! The Castlevania composer is coming and doing a solo piano concert, and while I know people go crazy over her music, I haven\u2019t checked it out much myself.\nI\u2019m tempted to set a countdown timer\u2013I\u2019m really glad that you and Nick are able to come again and spend the whole weekend!!!\nThe piano concert sounds lovely! And I saw that Video Game Orchestra is going to be there as well which should be nice. I don\u2019t really care much about \u201cbig\u201d guests, but Uematsu was kind of a dealbreaker I guess. Maybe Jonathan Blow is the only other guest I can think of that I would be that interested in seeing.\nWe\u2019re not sure how many days we\u2019ll be able to go this year.. 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But everybody knows there's only one good reason to snap out of that glorious food hangover Thanksgiving weekend is to scope out the best Cyber Monday deals on Amazon in advance, so when the sales go live, you can be ahead of the curve. One in five online U.S. adult shoppers (19 percent) plans to use voice-activated smart speakers such as an Amazon Echo or Google Home to shop online during November.\nHow to get the best Black Friday deals from Amazon?\nPrime members making their first Amazon Restaurants order will get $10 off their order plus FREE delivery when they make a qualified purchase on Amazon.com or Prime Now between November 24 and November 27. In-store, doorbuster discounts will be available starting at 6 p.m. The company is offering a price matching initiative in which it will match the price of select deals from several major retailers.\nAmazon will have new \"Deals of the Day\" every day throughout the period, ranging from Amazon devices, electronics and pet supplies to kitchen and home & garden items.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cmcsheriff.net/explorer_post.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:20Z", "digest": "sha1:I5CA6RLG6AB6DH5Y4QRPZMTBF3WNZU2I", "length": 1363, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "cmcsheriff.net", "title": "Cape May County Sheriff's Office - Explorer Post 1692", "raw_content": "Law Enforcement Exploring is a worksite-based program for young men and women ages 14 to 19 years old. Law Enforcement Explorer Posts help youths gain insight into a variety of programs that offer hands-on career activities.\nFor young men and women who are interested in careers in the field of Law Enforcement, Exploring offers experimental learning with lots of fun-filled, hands-on activities that promote the growth and development of adolescent youths. For more detailed information about the program click on the patch below.\nApplications and more detailed information can be obtained by speaking with one of our Explorer Post Advisors. You may call 609-465-6831 or 609-425-2645 between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. and ask for Corporal Teasenfitz. You may also e-mail us Explorer Post 1692.\nMeetings are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. at the Superior Court House (Back Entrance). You may call to confirm the next meeting date if you have not attended before. Meetings are usually 1-1/2 to 2 hours.\nIf you wish to participate in the Ride-Along program, you must fill out and submit the Indemnity and Hold Harmless Agreement.\nLaw Enforcement Exploring is only one facet of the Boy Scouts of America. Click the link to the right to see more about Exploring and other types of programs offered by the BSA in Southern New Jersey.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 141.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://co-seed.eu/en/press/albania-round-table-for-eiasea-checklists/400", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPFOTA5UDLE2YMJK5PNJWSAVH3RGSX3O", "length": 3551, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "co-seed.eu", "title": "Albania : Round table for EIA&SEA checklists - Civil society acts for environmentally sound socio-economic development", "raw_content": "Albania : Round table for EIA&SEA checklists\nTirana, 19.04.2018 - Environmental Impact Assessment is the process of identifying the future consequences of proposed actions in order to ensure that environmental consequences are properly taken into account in the decision-making process. Through the proactive identification of the consequences, the environmental impact assessment facilitates informed decision-making based on the social acceptance of the environmental risks of economic development. Meanwhile, the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is the process of identifying the future implications of future policies, plans and programs in order to ensure that the environmental consequences are integrated with social and economic assessments in strategic decision-making. The goal is to avoid the environmental changes that would end in the damage network of local residents and their environment. When done properly, these assessments ensure transparency and inclusion, disseminate democratic values, and enhance community participation in the development of society.\nRaising their awareness and knowledge of public transparency and public participation in consultations of various projects is the focus of the CO-SEED project. In order to increase the activation of participants in the public consultations of EIA and SEA studies, a round table with the key stakeholder of the process of the preparation of EIA and SEA was organized to present two important documents that the project has prepared. A number of guidance documents are now available, aimed at better preparation and evaluation of SEA studies. Most of them are prepared from field specialists and decision-makers, and only a few of them aim to ensure that participants, who are not specialists of the process, give the best possible thoughts. To help filling this gap, this document aims to provide guidance on engagement in decision-making for strategic environmental assessments for people who are not specialists. This document will be used by non-profit organizations and members of local communities to assess whether all relevant aspects of environmental impact assessment are taken into account in an EIA /SEA study.\nThese checklists focus only on the scientific and technical suitability of the environmental study of EIA and SEA. They are not scoring instruments that would result in setting 'grades' for the quality of the evaluation. Rather, they provide guidance to the interested community to give them the opportunity to offer their high quality feedback versus EIA and SEA studies. Answering a number of questions, readers should be able to conclude which parts of an EIA / SEA study, if any, do not achieve good practice standards and which information is missing or not sufficiently assessed. In this way, evaluators can form constructive and reliable reactions to be shared during public consultations.\nAt this roundtable representatives of NEA, CSOs and independent environmental experts participated who attended the half-day meeting where the organizers explained what the checklist documents are for the EIA and SEA, what they contain and how they can be used. The Project Coordinator explained in detail why these documents have been drafted and what their purpose is to use.\nAll participants expressed their interest in the documents and made a productive discussion of the content of the documents and their way of using them. They provided fruitful proposals on how to increase participants' interest in using them during EIA and SEA processes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 182.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://coffeeopolis.com/2014/01/06/best-time-of-day-to-drink-coffee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:OR2GBGRAXN3OZSV3CUK6M6DE4GHOUYF3", "length": 344, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "coffeeopolis.com", "title": "Best time of day to drink coffee? \u2013 Coffeeopolis", "raw_content": "In the mornings, your body is already doing its thing to wake you up\u2026and because of that, the caffeine in coffee isn\u2019t really needed then. It\u2019s best to wait until your body hits its natural lows, which are in the late morning and early afternoon, as this infographic shows. You can read more about the logic behind this idea over at Forbes.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 191.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://columban.org/article/lucky-owl-who-fell-sky", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:41Z", "digest": "sha1:U7E2V4475KKEOO34TXGV5YKVD7AINRMV", "length": 3051, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "columban.org", "title": "The Lucky Owl Who Fell from the Sky | Columban Fathers US", "raw_content": "The Lucky Owl Who Fell from the Sky\nThis spring a pair of great horned owls took over a large nest in a tree not too far from the Narragansett Bay shoreline. As one would expect before too long little owls could be seen safely peeking from the nest high in a tall evergreen. Of course owls are not meant to spend their lives in a nest; they are, as the saying goes, \u201cborn to fly.\u201d Even so, flying is an acquired skill and takes some practice. The young of our own species are sometimes imprudent, and it seems that the same is true of young male great horned owls.\nA few weeks ago, one of the young owls flew out over the bay and encountered some trouble in the form of several sea gulls who decided this intruder from the forest needed to be taught a lesson. In fact, they apparently thought he was such a threat to their empire that he should be eliminated.\nBut for some passing boaters, the dramatic set-to between the offended gulls and the hapless young owl might have ended badly for the owl since he fell into the bay and his feathers became waterlogged. Being good citizens, the concerned boaters plucked the owl from the bay and took him to the Coast Guard Station in Bristol, Rhode Island. Someone at the Coast Guard had the presence of mind to contact the Audubon Society who knew just whom to call: the Born to Be Wild Nature Center over in the Westerly area.\nJohn and Vivian Maxson, the compassionate couple behind the rescue center, drove over to Bristol to take charge of the thoroughly shaken owl who had already had one near-death experience in his young life.\nThe Maxsons provided the owl with a safe place and a steady supply of mice to tickle his palate - (do owls have palates?) Anyway several hundred mice later, the owl had grown and regained both his strength and his spirit of adventure and was ready for release.\nStarting with the account of the boaters about where the owl was found in the water, between Hog Island and the Bristol shoreline, John and Vivian began looking at maps of the area in search of likely great horned owl habitat and came to the conclusion that the young bird had probably come from the grounds of a group called \u201cthe Columban Fathers.\u201d\nUsing the internet, they were able to locate a contact e-mail address for these Columban Fathers. What they did not realize was that this particular e-mail address is hardly used at all. But this being one very lucky owl, someone in the Columbans' office noticed the message and was able to make contact between the Born to be Wild Nature Center and the Columbans. Permission for the release was obtained and the Maxsons set up an evening release.\nThe young owl who had fallen into the drink was apparently only too happy to once again be free and able to fly around the territory his parents had staked out as a good place for owls to do what owls do. Now there is another hungry owl patrolling our grounds for baby skunks, mice and other snack foods.\nColumban Fr. John E. Burger, St. Columbans, Bristol, Rhode Island.\nHome \u00bb The Lucky Owl Who Fell from the Sky", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://community.worldheritage.org/articles/eng/NGC_147", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:42Z", "digest": "sha1:L3DCNFN4UVCZA36RF75NR2UHPX3XT7IZ", "length": 4801, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "community.worldheritage.org", "title": "Read eBooks online | World Heritage Encyclopedia | NGC 147", "raw_content": "-193 \u00b1 3 km/s[1]\n2.53 \u00b1 0.11 Mly (780 \u00b1 30 kpc)[2][3][4][a]\ndSph/dE5[1]\nsatellite galaxy of M31\nPGC 2004,[1] UGC 326,[1] DDO 3,[1] LEDA 2004, Caldwell 17\nNGC 147 (also known as DDO3 or Caldwell 17) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.58 Mly away in the constellation Cassiopeia. NGC 147 is a member of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It forms a physical pair with the nearby galaxy NGC 185,[5] another remote satellite of M31. It was discovered by John Herschel in September 1829. Visually it is both fainter and slightly larger than NGC 185 (and therefore has a considerably lower surface brightness). This means that NGC 147 is more difficult to see than NGC 185, which is visible in small telescopes. In the Webb Society Deep-Sky Observer's Handbook,[6] the visual appearance of NGC 147 is described as follows:\nLarge, quite faint, irregularly round; it brightens in the middle to a stellar nucleus.\nThe membership of NGC 147 in the Local Group was confirmed by Walter Baade in 1944 when he was able to resolve the galaxy into individual stars with the 100-inch (2.5 m) telescope at Mount Wilson near Los Angeles.\nDistance measurements 2\nA survey of the brightest asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the area of radius 2\u2032 from the center of NGC 147 shows that the last significant star-forming activity in NGC 147 occurred around 3 Gyr ago.[7] NGC 147 contains a large population of older stars which show a spread in metallicity and age. The metallicity spread suggests that NGC 147 has had chemical enrichment. However, H I has not been seen and the interstellar medium (ISM) mass upper limit is much lower than expected had the material which is emitted from evolving stars been kept in the galaxy. This implies depletion of the ISM.[7]\nAt least two techniques have been used to measure distances to NGC 147. The surface brightness fluctuations distance measurement technique estimates distances to spiral galaxies based on the graininess of the appearance of their bulges. The distance measured to NGC 147 using this technique is 2.67 \u00b1 0.18 Mly (870 \u00b1 60 kpc).[2] However, NGC 147 is close enough that the tip of the red giant branch (TRGB) method may be used to estimate its distance. The estimated distance to NGC 147 using this technique is 2.21 \u00b1 0.09 Mly (680 \u00b1 30 kpc).[3] Averaged together, these distance measurements give a distance estimate of 2.53 \u00b1 0.11 Mly (780 \u00b1 30 kpc).[a]\nAndromeda's satellite galaxies\n^ average(870 \u00b1 60, 680 \u00b1 30) = ((870 + 680) / 2) \u00b1 ((602 + 302)0.5 / 2) = 780 \u00b1 30\n^ a b c d e f g h i \"NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database\". Results for NGC 147. Retrieved 2006-12-07.\n^ a b J. L. Tonry, A. Dressler, J. P. Blakeslee, E. A. Ajhar, A. B. Fletcher, G. A. Luppino, M. R. Metzger, C. B. Moore (2001). \"The SBF Survey of Galaxy Distances. IV. SBF Magnitudes, Colors, and Distances\". Astrophysical Journal 546 (2): 681\u2013693.\n^ a b McConnachie, A. W.; Irwin, M. J.; Ferguson, A. M. N.; Ibata, R. A.; Lewis, G. F.; Tanvir, N. (2005). \"Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies\".\n^ Karachentsev, I. D.; Kashibadze, O. G. (2006). \"Masses of the local group and of the M81 group estimated from distortions in the local velocity field\". Astrophysics 49 (1): 3\u201318.\n^ \"SIMBAD Astronomical Database\". Results for NGC 147. Retrieved 2006-12-07.\n^ a b Davidge, T. J. (2005). \"The Evolved Stellar Content of NGC 147, NGC 185, and NGC 205\". The Astronomical Journal 130 (5): 2087\u20132103.\nSEDS \u2013 NGC 147\nNGC 147 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen \u03b1, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images\nAndromeda Galaxy\u2192Andromeda subgroup \u2192 Local Group \u2192 Virgo Supercluster \u2192 Laniakea Supercluster \u2192 Observable universe \u2192 Universe\nEach \u2192 may be read as \"within\" or \"part of\".\nAndromeda IV*\nAndromeda XIII\nAndromeda XIV\nAndromeda XV\nAndromeda XVI\nAndromeda XVII\nAndromeda XVIII\nAndromeda XIX\nAndromeda XX\nAndromeda XXII\nAndromeda XXIII\nAndromeda XXIV\nAndromeda XXV\nAndromeda XXVI\nAndromeda XXVII\nAndromeda XXVIII\nAndromeda XXIX\nTriangulum Galaxy*\n*It is uncertain whether the Triangulum Galaxy is a companion galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy\nAndromeda\u2013Milky Way collision\nAE Andromedae\nList of NGC objects\nDwarf spheroidal galaxies\nAndromeda Subgroup\nUGC objects\nLEDA objects\nAndromeda (constellation), Cepheus (constellation), Perseus (constellation), Andromeda Galaxy, Ptolemy\nDensity functional theory, University of Minnesota, Electronic structure, Solids, Molecules\nAndromeda Galaxy, Caldwell catalogue, Local Group, Cassiopeia (constellation), Parsec\nLocal Group, Topological group\nDavid Dunlap Observatory Catalogue\nLeo (constellation), Constellation, Principal Galaxies Catalogue, Uppsala General Catalogue, Milky Way\nCaldwell catalogue, New General Catalogue, Astronomy, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 787, "original_length": 10866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 183.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://complexitylabs.io/blockchain-economy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:36Z", "digest": "sha1:GDQ4KKPDWZDZ3KIG23CZFJ5OPUBYWWOJ", "length": 10351, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "complexitylabs.io", "title": "Blockchain & Economy \u2013 Complexity Labs", "raw_content": "Blockchain & Economy\nBlockchain technology has relevance for virtually all domains but because of its nature as a secure value exchange protocol the most readily identifiable ones are within finance, business, and economy. As with other areas the blockchain has the capacity to decentralize economic organization creating distributed peer-to-peer networks for exchange, in so doing greatly expand the scope and extent of economic markets and finance. With the ongoing developments of economic globalization, we are in the process of a massive scaling up of the global economy of exchange. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall over a hundred countries have come into the global economy and the global middle class is growing rapidly. Already, about 140 million are joining the middle class annually and by 2030, it will more than double in size, from just over 2 billion today to almost 5 billion according to Reuters. Although we are becoming connected through urbanization and telecommunications many remain excluded from the formal global economy. The distributed web offers us the capacity to link individuals and small organizations directly into the global economy greatly expanding their opportunities for economic development. The blockchain has many applications for enabling the global economy of exchange including its capacity to establish property rights where there were none, in enabling supply chain provenance, in business collaboration across industries and in enabling peer-to-peer platforms for commerce and trade.\nThe first component in enabling economic exchange and development is the capacity to define and enforce property rights. In this respect, Hernando de Soto has been a prominent economist in highlighting the importance of ownership in development. The main message of de Soto\u2019s work is that no nation can have a strong market economy without adequate participation in an information framework that records ownership of property and other economic assets. Unrecorded economic activity results in many small entrepreneurs who lack legal ownership of their property, making it difficult for them to obtain credit, sell the business, or expand. They cannot seek legal remedies to business conflicts in court since they do not have legal ownership. Lack of information on income prevents governments from collecting taxes and acting for the public welfare. As he writes. The existence of such massive exclusion generates two parallel economies, legal and extralegal. An elite minority enjoys the economic benefits of the law and globalization, while 5/6 of humanity are stuck in poverty without property rights and access to formal agreements to enable exchange.\nTraditional top-down attempts have been both costly to implement on a large scale and have been unsuccessful at increasing global property enfranchisement. A bottom-up approach instead follows a process wherein claims are made by individuals, verified by those affected, aggregated by the community, and then brought to the legal authority. The blockchain user monitored digital registry is the kind of tool that allows communities to serve themselves in the face of unresponsive governments. As one example of this we can take Honduras, a country with nearly sixty percent of its land undocumented and an antiquated artisanal land registry that has allowed bureaucrats to oversee land seizures for their personal use with a total lack of accountability. Under foreign pressure, a digital registry for the country using blockchain technology is being built in the coming years which will enable the people of Honduras to switch over to a system with the self-verification features of the blockchain.\nSupply chains are one of the primary areas that the blockchain has found application in largely due to the fact that they involve many different organizations. Here it works to improve collaboration by creating a single database and source of true, it can reduce fraud and corruption, automate manual processes, and control for issues of authentication and trust, making obscure supply chains transparent and visible to end users. With the blockchain, we can get a much more granular view of the complete supply chain. We could record things like all the manufacturing data for an aircraft assembly, where the elements are or the subsystem has been in its journey from the original manufacturer all the way through to integration into the final aircraft. The hashing and timestamping capacity of the blockchain mean we can record exactly who\u2019s done what to the asset over its lifecycle and with all parties being able to have access to and trust this data.\nCurrently, supply chains for many organizations are very complex and opaque given the fact that they have many tiers to them. When something goes wrong, like a supermarket discovering food contamination, it can take weeks for them to dig through the complicated layers to find where exactly that issue came from, with the blockchain registry you could know this information almost immediately. A London-based company called Everledger has put more than 1.6 million diamonds on a blockchain. Entries on the digital record include dozens of attributes for each diamond, including the color, carat, and certificate number, which can be inscribed by laser on the crown or girdle of the stone. They do this to make sure that there\u2019s no false diamonds, synthetic diamonds or blood diamonds getting into the supply chain, so effectively the retailer can be sure of the complete audit trail or provenance of the diamond that they\u2019re buying and hence increasing the net value of that diamond through the improvement of trust.\nThere are many more examples of supply chain use cases across product based industries as the advantages for business are clear. The trust between parties goes up because everyone knows who\u2019s done what to each asset as it goes through its lifecycle. Everyone including the end user can know who\u2019s owned each asset where it\u2019s been geographically and hence the whole supply chain becomes much more efficient and transparent. Likewise, many regulatory activities along the value chain that are currently time-consuming and costly can be automated. For example, in order to move containers through a shipping port you need a paper document called a letter of credit. The processing of this document, from issuing to approval, usually takes between seven and 10 days, a shipment from Africa to Europe can require a small pile of paper documents. The shipping company Maersk has been participating in a proof of concept, with the University of Copenhagen, to digitize the bill of lading, enabling the transaction time to be reduced to less than four hours.\nAt the end of the supply chain process, in commerce, blockchain can enable frictionless exchanges of value peer-to-peer. Blockchain commerce platforms like OpenBazaar connects people directly via a peer to peer network, it does not require middlemen, which means no platform fees and payments are cleared via bitcoin. Data is distributed across the network instead of storing it in a central database. Each user contributes to the network equally and is in control of their own store and private data. Setting up an OpenBazaar store is simple you just download the program, run the installer, and you can have your items listed in minutes. Likewise, the network has a fraud protection system via a distributed escrow system a Multi-signature escrow. where buyers and sellers agree to a mutually trusted third party to hold the funds.\nThe applications of blockchain technology to finance are many, here we will just touch on the subject of payments clearance. The incumbent banks have spent centuries building a physical structure of distribution of finance in paper form that\u2019s focused on buildings and humans and then they apply technology on top of this, the back end remains hugely over complicated. Clearing a simple credit card transaction or the purchase of a security requires bouncing it around through half a dozen intermediaries, takes days and is costly. To achieve a very simple activity of paying someone a whole pile of complicated things have to happen often at different points on the planet. Global credit card payments account for 7.7 trillion dollars with users paying hundreds of billions of dollars in fees, at the same time many remain locked outside of the formal financial system.\nFor the first time in human history, two or more parties, be they businesses or individuals who may not even know each other, can forge agreements, make transactions and build value without relying on intermediaries. In a world where payments can happen peer-to-peer as simply as sending an email, with the trust and transactions being handled automatically, transferring money is as simple as updating two records in the blockchain. As payments go digital in the coming decades no one pays for anything anymore, it is just around them as digital debits and credits on distributed ledgers. The applications of blockchain to finance a numerous, in providing a framework for supporting capital markets, to a new model of venture capital in the form of Initial coin offerings, to prediction markets, but going into this would be the subject of another whole course.\nJust as the Web leveled the playing field for information exchange and communications so that now the same band width of connectivity enters the financial center in london as the East coast of Africa, the president of America has the same iphone as the migrant worker in south China, so too by adding a layer of automated trust and building market platforms, blockchain technology offers the real possibility like never before to really reach out to what has previously been the edges of the global economy and directly connect them into the same platforms of exchange as everyone else. Just as using the blockchain to expand the accounting systems of our global economy to incorporate natural capital is critical to enabling environmental sustainability, using the blockchain as an infrastructure to expand the opportunities of the global market economy to all is critical to enabling social sustainability through inclusion. Online blockchain enabled platforms could provide the tool to take us from a world of trickle-down economics to a world of trickle up economics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 11910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://connect-bridgeport.com/connect.cfm?func=view§ion=Sports&item=Griers-Heisman-Hopes-End-as-Not-Among-Players-on-List-Invited-to-New-York-to-Announce-Winner33232", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:26Z", "digest": "sha1:57MY6GFDDMIX2URQDVOGIJFL3FLSFUCO", "length": 922, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "connect-bridgeport.com", "title": "Connect Bridgeport Sports: Grier's Heisman Hopes End as Not Among Players on List Invited to New York to Announce Winner", "raw_content": "Grier's Heisman Hopes End as Not Among Players on List Invited to New York to Announce Winner\nAccording to MetroNews, quarterback Will Grier put together one of the finest individual seasons in West Virginia football history, but ultimately it was not enough to earn a trip to New York City as one of the finalists for the Heisman Trophy.\nAlabama quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, Oklahoma quarterback Kyler Murray and Ohio State Dwayne Haskins earned the three invitations to the award ceremony, which will take place in Manhattan on Saturday night. The three finalists were announced on Monday evening.\nTagovailoa and Murray have long been considered the front-runners for this year\u2019s award. As indicated by his inclusion with those two players as a Maxwell Award finalist, Grier was a candidate to finish in the top three for the Heisman as well, but an impressive late surge by Haskins appears to have swayed the electorate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 202.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://connect-bridgeport.com/connect.cfm?func=view§ion=Sports&item=Legendary-Kansas-State-Coach-Bill-Snyder-to-Retire-33210", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NQQSQPRVOSY7E3CZTPOP2ITKB4UXHBL6", "length": 780, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "connect-bridgeport.com", "title": "Connect Bridgeport Sports: Legendary Kansas State Coach Bill Snyder to Retire", "raw_content": "Legendary Kansas State Coach Bill Snyder to Retire\nMultiple media sources, including this story by ESPN, says that Bill Snyder, the Hall of Fame Kansas State coach who orchestrated one of the most improbable program turnarounds in college football history, is expected to announce his retirement Sunday afternoon, multiple sources told ESPN.\nA team meeting was called for 3 p.m. ET, according to a source. The Manhattan Mercury first reported the news.\nSnyder, 79, went 215-117-1 over 27 seasons at Kansas State, including a 128-89-1 record in the Big 12, with two conference titles. The Wildcats, however, went just 5-7 this year and missed out on a bowl for just the fourth time since 1992 under Snyder.\nClick HERE for the rest of the story and updates as they become available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://constructioncitizen.com/print/2422", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:04Z", "digest": "sha1:LRPXLDC77OTISVF7ZQV5O45QUOVWZVG2", "length": 4670, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "constructioncitizen.com", "title": "Industry Groups Say President Trump\u2019s Infrastructure Talk Must Translate Into Action", "raw_content": "Home > Industry Groups Say President Trump\u2019s Infrastructure Talk Must Translate Into Action\nIndustry Groups Say President Trump\u2019s Infrastructure Talk Must Translate Into Action [1]\nIn his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump called for a massive $1.5 trillion initiative to \u201crebuild our crumbling infrastructure.\u201d\n\u201cAmerica is a nation of builders,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe built the Empire State Building in just one year. Is it not a disgrace that it can now take 10 years just to get a permit approved for a simple road?\u201d \u201cI am asking both parties to come together to give us the safe, fast, reliable, and modern infrastructure our economy needs and our people deserve,\u201d Mr. Trump said, adding that he was \u201ccalling on the Congress to produce a bill that generates at least $1.5 trillion for the new infrastructure investment we need.\u201d\n\u201cTogether, we can reclaim our building heritage,\" Trump said. \"We will build gleaming new roads, bridges, highways, railways, and waterways across our land. And we will do it with American heart, American hands, and American grit.\"\nAs the president mentioned, not all of that $1.5 trillion would be federal dollars.\nPer Business Insider, \"Despite the headline investment number, the infrastructure package will include only $200 billion in direct federal investment. Trump expects the other $1.3 trillion to come from a combination of local, state, and private investment, incentivized by the federal seed money.\"\nSome industry groups praised the president\u2019s words but also said \u201cthe time is long overdue for words to become action.\u201d\nBrian P. McGuire, president and CEO of Associated Equipment Distributors, said \u201cevery day there are numerous examples of structurally deficient bridges, dams and levees and inadequate roads, airports and pipes. Time is wasted in traffic or sitting on an overcrowded runway. Clean water is squandered as water mains break.\u201d\n\u201cLives are put at risk\u201d as those problems go unaddressed, McGuire said. \u201cOur infrastructure is the lifeblood of our economy,\u201d he said. \u201cIt impacts our quality of life, the competitiveness of our businesses and the safety and security of our country. Our leaders in Washington can no longer forsake their responsibility to invest in the nation\u2019s infrastructure in a long-term, sustainable manner.\u201d \"America's infrastructure is in dire straits right now,\" said Casey Dinges with the American Society of Civil Engineers. Last year, the group gave U.S. infrastructure a D+ grade. They estimate $2 trillion over the next 10 years needs to be invested to keep American infrastructure from falling apart.\nKristina Swallow, President of the ASCE said Mr. Trump\u2019s attitude toward infrastructure investment is a positive first step. \u201cCongress should seize this opportunity to provide better infrastructure to the American people in a bipartisan fashion by closing the infrastructure deficit, as President Trump proposed,\u201d Swallow said. \u201cInfrastructure investment is one area where both Democrats and Republicans agree. I urge Congress to develop legislation that increases federal investment in infrastructure, including fixing the Highway Trust Fund,\u201d Swallow said. \u201cThis bill should make investments that provide substantial, long-term benefits to the economy, consider the cost of a project over its lifespan, and be built sustainably and resiliently to maximize investment.\u201d\nSwallow is correct that infrastructure investment enjoys bipartisan support. The politics of passing a major spending bill could prove difficult, however, for at least two reasons. First, many of Trump\u2019s fellow Republicans may balk at adding significantly to the national debt. But if anyone can convince them it is the right thing to do it would be President Trump, who still enjoys high approval ratings among Republican primary voters.\nSecond, Congressional Democrats may be hesitant to hand the president a win on a major issue during an election year in which control of Congress could be up for grabs. In the video of the president\u2019s speech above, you'll notice most Democrats are not standing and applauding with the Republicans when he talked about infrastructure.\nThe GOP has the sheer numbers right now to muscle a bill through the House of Representatives. But because of the Senate\u2019s rules, at least nine Democratic senators would need to support this major legislation for it to make its way to Trump\u2019s desk for his signature.\nSource URL: http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/industry-groups-say-president-trumps-infrastructure-talk-must-translate-action/1802051\n[1] http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/industry-groups-say-president-trumps-infrastructure-talk-must-translate-action/1802051", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 5679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://constructioncitizen.com/print/2620", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:33Z", "digest": "sha1:E2EHMDG3EVYZVNZXMX4ENKCG3RUJICY4", "length": 2526, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "constructioncitizen.com", "title": "October is Careers in Construction Month", "raw_content": "Home > October is Careers in Construction Month\nOctober is Careers in Construction Month [1]\nby Lauren Harrell [2] | October 01, 2018\nFor recent high school graduates, people interested in changing professions and those seeking a second chance at the American Dream, there is no better time to join the construction industry.\nA career as a construction craft professional doesn\u2019t require a four-year college degree; workers are educated through earn-while-you-learn, continuing education or apprenticeship programs, which can be completed without incurring any student loan debt. And with recent college graduates shouldering an average of $37,000 in student loans, this education model is especially appealing to young people joining the workforce.\n[9]The construction field not only allows for professional development but a high earning potential. Through on-the-job and classroom components, the construction industry emphasizes lifelong learning and challenges workers to constantly hone their trade, learn new techniques and advance professionally. Construction workers can also earn portable and stackable credentials through programs like NCCER, a national education and certification program, which are recognized at jobsites across the country.\nEven so, there are currently an estimated 500,000 open construction positions in the United States. And with a significant part of the construction workforce nearing retirement, Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Houston is committed to recruiting and fostering the next generation of workers to close the skills gap. Through ABC Greater Houston\u2019s educational affiliate, Construction and Maintenance Education Foundation, industry and craft professionals in the Houston area receive formal training.\nABC/CMEF\u2019s goal is to recruit new entrants and retain existing workers through a variety of programs focused on assessment, training, and continuing education. To learn more about construction career opportunities, visit www.ABCHouston.org [10].\nHarrell, Lauren. Reprinted from BuildHoustonOnline.com [11], September 27, 2018, a publication of Associated Builders and Contractors of Greater Houston. Copyright 2018. 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If you have a noisy belt that\u2019s driving you crazy, let us take care of it for you...it\u2019s a quick and easy job, and it\u2019ll save you the stress of listening to it every time you start your engine. For the best auto service shop in Clarksville, TN, call or stop by Tony Kennedy's Crain's Automotive today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cravencoaching.com/category/medical-services/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:56Z", "digest": "sha1:E4F75JYT7GYSPOEGEAFXTGQ3X3UA7ANZ", "length": 336, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cravencoaching.com", "title": "Medical Services | Craven Coaching", "raw_content": "Management And Advice Needed For Achievement Of Success\nPeople want to achieve a lot in life. In order to achieve anything one needs to have planning. The plan has to be proper so the person can follow it. The steps taken are to be small so that the person can adjust to the change. In order to make a career one needs to \u2026 [Read more\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://crowelaw.org/boating-and-watercraft-accidents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:47Z", "digest": "sha1:J752EKPI6WTW3CZKX2NOPWR3PDZMJ4RT", "length": 1436, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "crowelaw.org", "title": "Boat Wreck Attorneys | Boat Accidents Lawyers in Georgia | Personal Injury Lawyer: Crowe Law", "raw_content": "We understand the hardship and loss that is suffered after a boating accident involving serious injury or death. Unfortunately, serious boating and personal watercraft accidents are a common occurrence on Georgia\u2019s lakes and rivers \u2014 most likely because without stop lights, intersections or speed limit signs to restrict them, people lose their inhibitions and become willing to take foolish chances on the water that they would never think of taking on the road.\nBoat accidents are usually caused by one of three factors: an inexperienced boater, intoxicated operator or a boat malfunction. More than a third of both fatal and non-fatal boat accidents are alcohol related. It is estimated that boat operators with a blood alcohol content of .10 or higher are 10 times more likely to be injured or killed in a boating accident than sober operators.\nBoating accidents can result in wrongful death or serious injuries such as catastrophic burns, broken bones, amputation, traumatic brain injury, neck, back, and spinal cord injuries.\nDrawing from more than 22 years of experience in personal injury litigation, our firm prepares each case as if a trial is inevitable. In our view, this is the best way to accomplish the goal of achieving maximum compensation for any given client. Many accidents are caused by negligence, so it is imperative that anyone involved in an accident contact an experienced injury attorney.\nBoating Accidents \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://csuw3.csuohio.edu/news/releases/2011/09/14939.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MXVTRWMQFGFYMFVCOD5KQ5PXKSM6MDEW", "length": 8382, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "csuw3.csuohio.edu", "title": "Cleveland State University - News & Announcements", "raw_content": "September 26, 2011 | News Release #14939 | Contact: Joe Mosbrook, 216.523.7279, j.mosbrook@csuohio.edu\nDistinguished Alumni Awards Celebrates 21 Years Nine Cleveland State Graduates To Be Honored\nCleveland State University\u2019s 21st annual Distinguished Alumni Awards will salute nine outstanding graduates for their service, leadership and career achievements. This year\u2019s honorees are: Richard P. Stovsky (George B. Davis Award), Linda M. Kane (Monte Ahuja College of Business), Dr. Aaron T. Ellington (College of Education and Human Services), Joseph A. Williams (Fenn College of Engineering), Ian N. Friedman (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law), Maria Keckan (College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences), Dr. Beth Sersig (College of Sciences and Health Professions), Madeline A. Cain (Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs) and Dr. Nancy M. Felice Albert (School of Nursing).\nThe awards ceremony will be held Friday, Oct. 21 at the InterContinental Hotel and Conference Center, 9801 Carnegie Ave. Tickets are $75 each; sponsorships and tables are available. The evening includes a reception and wine pull at 6 p.m., followed by dinner and the awards program at 7 p.m. Proceeds benefit scholarships at CSU and alumni programs.\nFor reservations, call 216-687-2078 by October 14.\nPhotos of the honorees are available from Cleveland State\u2019s Department of University Marketing at 216-687-2290.\nGEORGE B. DAVIS AWARD FOR SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY -- Recognizes a graduate\u2019s generous dedication to the growth and advancement of Cleveland State University. Alumnus Davis, for whom the award is named, received a BBA in 1941 and an MBA in 1981.\nRichard P. Stovsky, JD \u201983, is the U.S. private company services leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. He has more than 27 years of experience as a tax and business advisor.\nStovsky has provided exceptional service to the Cleveland-Marshall College -\u2013 as a member of both the National Advisory Council and Development Council, former member of the Visiting Committee, five-time co-chair of the annual fund, and a generous donor.\nHe co-chaired the 2010/11 United Way of Greater Cleveland campaign and serves on the boards of directors for United Way, Cleveland Central Catholic High School, Business Volunteers Unlimited, and Cleveland Bluecoats. He lives in Chagrin Falls.\nCOLLEGE AWARD CATEGORY\nLinda M. Kane, BBA \u201979, is the senior vice president, chief accounting and administrative officer of Forest City Enterprises, Inc. She has been with the firm since 1990. A certified public accountant, she has more than 30 years of experience in the real estate industry.\nA member of the Visiting Committee of the Monte Ahuja College of Business, she recently established the Linda M. Kane Endowed Scholarship for business students. She is a member of the 2009 inaugural class of inductees into the College of Business Hall of Fame.\nKane is a trustee of St. Joseph Academy, her alma mater, and a former trustee of the YWCA of Greater Cleveland, from which she received the Women of Achievement Award. She lives in Bay Village.\nDr. Aaron T. Ellington, BA \u201994 and Ph.D. \u201908, practices clinical psychology at Behavioral Health Services of Greater Cleveland. He also is director of the Dual Diagnosis Adolescent Treatment Program at University Hospitals and an adjunct faculty member at CSU.\nDr. Ellington helped design CSU\u2019s chemical dependency certificate program, the first in Ohio to receive master\u2019s-level accreditation from the Ohio Chemical Dependency Professionals Board. He is the principal instructor for the program. In addition, he has made University Hospitals a site for CSU\u2019s Counseling Psychology Doctoral Practicum.\nHe has been recognized for his work in chemical dependency, mood disorders, trauma and grief issues, anger management, and personality disorders. He lives in Akron.\nJoseph A. Williams, BSME \u201970, worked at URS Corporation while a student as part of CSU\u2019s co-operative education program. He has been with firm for nearly his entire career and today is vice president and director of engineering. His projects include CSU\u2019s Wolstein Center, Browns Stadium, Quicken Loans Arena and master plans for the Cleveland Clinic and Harvard University.\nAn avid Viking basketball fan, generous donor and passionate ambassador for his College, Williams served as a Visiting Committee member for seven years, and has participated in the Alumni Speaker Series. He lives in Solon.\nIan N. Friedman, JD \u201997, is the founding partner of Ian N. Friedman & Associates LLC., a firm comprised entirely of Cleveland-Marshall graduates.\nFriedman successfully spearheaded the movement for open discovery in criminal cases. The new rules are transforming the way criminal law is practiced in Ohio. For his efforts, he received awards from the Supreme Court of Ohio, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.\nAn adjunct faculty member in the College of Law, he also is president-elect of the Cleveland-Marshall Law Alumni Association, a volunteer in its Mentor Program, and a frequent author and lecturer on matters pertaining to the criminal justice system. He is a past president of the Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and a Fellow of the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. Presently, he is serving on the board of directors and executive committee of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. He lives in Orange.\nMaria Keckan, BA \u201979, is president of Cinecraft Productions, Inc., a company she co-owns with her husband. Cinecraft is the oldest video production house between New York and Los Angeles, offering video, film, multimedia, graphics and e-learning for corporate communications. Its customer base includes many Fortune 1000 companies.\nKeckan has participated in the CSU Executive Forum series and is currently establishing a student internship program between Cinecraft and the Film and Digital Media Department in the School of Communication.\nHer professional and personal honors include 18 national and international awards for writing, producing and directing, the Volunteer of the Year Award from Esperanza, and the YWCA Woman of Professional Excellence Award. She lives in Cleveland.\nDr. Beth Sersig, BS \u201979 and MS \u201980, went on to receive a medical degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1984. She is a physician in CWRU\u2019s University Health Service and an adjunct clinical instructor in CWRU\u2019s Department of Family Medicine.\nAt CSU, Dr. Sersig was the first winner of the biology department\u2019s Doretta Thielker Award as top graduating senior. She and her husband, Dr. Christopher Brandt, have a long history of civic engagement and philanthropy benefiting educational institutions, their church and the health field. They recently established the Sersig/Brandt Family Endowed Scholarship for students studying a health-related field. Dr. Sersig lives in Cleveland Heights.\nMadeline A. Cain, MPA \u201985, is putting her experience in the public and private sectors to good use as a public policy and government affairs consultant, assisting nonprofit health and human services organizations develop legislative advocacy strategies.\nThe first woman mayor of Lakewood, Ohio, Cain also has served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, legislative affairs consultant for Adoption Network Cleveland, and instructor for both graduate and undergraduate courses at CSU\u2019s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs.\nHer community involvement includes serving as member and immediate past chair of Adoption Network Cleveland and board member of Domestic Violence Shelter. Cain lives in Lakewood.\nDr. Nancy M. Albert, BSN \u201985, went on to earn a master\u2019s degree, Ph.D. and three national certifications in nursing. Employed by the Cleveland Clinic since 1990, she currently holds two positions -- director of nursing research and innovation in the Nursing Institute and clinical nurse specialist in the George M. and Linda H. Kaufman Center for Heart Failure.\nDr. Albert is deeply involved in research related to her expertise, heart failure. She has published extensively and has received many honors for her contributions to health care.\nActive in many professional organizations, she recently participated in the School of Nursing\u2019s induction ceremony for Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Honor Society, Nu Delta chapter. 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You can watch the promo, in which love is in the air, right here.\nHere\u2019s the promo video, which reminds us of some of the show\u2019s most weirdly romantic moments before dropping a \u2018MAY 2019\u2019 tag at the end\u2026\nIt\u2019s #ValentinesDay? Copy that, hot lips. \uf618 #AgentsofSHIELD pic.twitter.com/xCscCiGB0o\n\u2014 Agents of SHIELD (@AgentsofSHIELD) February 14, 2019\nOur previous best bet for the show\u2019s return was July 2019, thanks to an exchange that Henstridge had with a fan on Twitter (which Spoiler TV reported). But it\u2019s nice to know that the show will actually return in May \u2013 a little bit earlier than we expected, but still a long way off the show\u2019s original September premiere date.\nIndeed, this marks the second year in a row that Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been pushed to an irregular slot. The first four seasons premiered, like clockwork, in the last week of September. But season 5 was pushed back to December to accommodate the launch of Marvel\u2019s Inhumans, and now season 6 is coming in May.\nThis season of Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. will consist of 13 episodes, instead of the usual 22. The season premiere will be directed by Clark Gregg (the actor who usually portrays Agent Coulson), who will also play a mysterious new character, from a script by co-showrunners Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen. The season 6 premiere is entitled Missing Pieces.\nWe\u2019ll keep you posted as we hear more. Season 7 of the show has also been ordered, so there should be plenty more SHIELD news to share in the coming months.\nTags: Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.\nAgents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. producer teases Coulson\u2019s fate\nAgents Of SHIELD: if season 5 is the end, the writers are \u2018ready\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 155.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cultbox.co.uk/reviews/events/brian-tyler-live-film-music-for-stars-cars-superheroes-concert-review", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UYTAKKWHI6C3FVIKAQ3WAIO3WBY3UDCJ", "length": 2362, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cultbox.co.uk", "title": "'Brian Tyler Live: Film Music For Stars, Cars & Superheroes' concert review", "raw_content": "\u2018Brian Tyler Live: Film Music For Stars, Cars & Superheroes\u2019 concert review\nPosted May 8, 2016 by William Martin & filed under Events.\nHollywood composer/conductor Brian Tyler made his concert debut in London this weekend in front of a packed audience of movie fans (including none other than Tom Cruise!).\nThe 43-year-old American is probably best known for his work with Marvel Studios, composing scores for the likes of Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World and last year\u2019s Avengers: Age of Ultron. He\u2019s also the man behind the iconic Marvel theme tune which plays at the start of their movies over the logo and presented a typically bombastic extended suite of this theme as part of last night\u2019s concert.\nOutside of his Marvel collaborations, he\u2019s scored the music for over 70 films, many of them amongst the world\u2019s biggest box office successes of all time, including the Fast & Furious franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Expendables and Now You See Me. Alongside those themes, Tyler also gave us the first listen to his work on this summer\u2019s Now You See Me sequel, NYSM2.\nThe many highlights included Tori Letzler\u2019s stunning vocals on the beautiful \u2018Funeral of the Queen\u2019 from Thor: The Dark World and a haunting track from the Far Cry video game, although it\u2019ll be the epic sound of drums and horns that the audience will most likely take home with them.\nThe set also featured a couple of TV favourites, such as the Star Trek: Enterprise theme (Tyler endearingly reveals himself as a massive Trek fan boy who was happy just to visit the show\u2019s set rather than get paid \u2013 until his agent stepped in!) and a crowd-pleasing rendition of the Hawaii Five-0 theme.\nIt was a special tribute to John Williams that really blew everyone away, however, with a spot-on performance of the Superman theme giving us goosebumps.\nTyler\u2019s excitement and positive energy was infectious throughout the night (adorably giving a shout-out to his parents in the audience, thanking them for putting up with his drumming!).\nWe very much hope that this is the first of many live concerts for Brian Tyler.\nPerformed on Saturday 7 May 2016 at Royal Festival Hall in London.\nFind out what\u2019s coming up at the Southbank Centre.\nDid you go to the concert? Let us know below\u2026\nTags: Brian Tyler, Fast And Furious, London, Marvel, music\nSummer 2019 preview: 5 must-see gigs in Brighton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2007/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MUXMVVMY64MAO2O4KYERFCLFWZD7OXHY", "length": 86535, "nlines": 504, "source_domain": "culturecampaign.blogspot.com", "title": "CULTURE NEWS: February 2007", "raw_content": "CA Family Group Says Spanking Ban Proposal Not Dropped\nFrom Group Says Spanking Ban Proposal Not Dropped, by Ed Thomas, posted Feb. 26, 2007, by OneNewsNow.com\nFamily advocates in California are warning that the rewritten version of a controversial bill introduced by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber in the state legislature last week, just ahead of a submission deadline, is just as much a ban on spanking as previously alleged in media reports -- despite claims to the contrary by Lieber and liberal media outlets.\nRandy Thomasson, president of California's Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), says Lieber is trying to pass off AB 755, the bill she submitted to the state legislature last week, as something other than a spanking bill -- the controversy over which caused her to delay its introduction. But California residents shouldn't be fooled, says Thomasson.\nIntroduction of the measure was delayed by nearly a month, according to information from CCF, because of the controversy that erupted when the intent of the proposal was leaked by Lieber to the press. But Thomasson says the results of the rewording of the bill's language still criminalize spanking, and interfere with private discipline in the home.\n\"So now it's been re-formed and disguised as a -- quote -- 'anti-abuse' bill,\" explains the CCF leader, \"but those 'anti-abuse' provisions are redundant with most of existing law.\"\nLabels: CA, parental rights, spanking\nJohn Quincy Adams and Winston Churchill's Thoughts on Islam\nFundamentalist Muslims have been waging war on civilization for a long time...\nFrom John Quincy Adams and Winston Churchill on radical Islam, by Vik Rubenfeld, posted Jan. 20th, 2006, at The Big Picture blog\nJohn Quincy Adams (excerpted):\n\"While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men.\nWinston Churchill had this to say (excerpted):\nNo stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.\n-- Sir Winston Spencer Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).\nThere is more. Read it at The Big Picture\nLabels: Adams, Churchill, islam\nCrisis in India: Millions of Missing Girls Aborted\nFrom There Really is a Crisis Situation\" -- India's Millions of Missing Girls Abortion, posted Feb. 22, 2007, by Albert Mohler, for www.AlbertMohler.com\nThe Associated Press is out with a rather amazing news report. It seems that India is now ready to raise unwanted baby girls in special orphanages throughout the nation. The practice of female infanticide is so widespread in India that a gender imbalance threatens the future vitality of Indian society.\nThe Indian government plans to set up a series of orphanages to raise unwanted baby girls in a bid to halt the widespread practice of aborting female fetuses, according to a senior government official.\nDubbed the \"cradle scheme,\" the plan is an attempt to slow the practice that international groups say has killed more than 10 million female fetuses in the last two decades, leading to an alarming imbalance in the ratio between males and females in India, Renuka Chowdhury, the minister of state for women and child development, told the Press Trust of India news agency in an interview published Sunday.\n\"What we are saying to the people is have your children, don't kill them. And if you don't want a girl child, leave her to us,\" Chowdhury told the agency, adding that the government planned to set up a center in each regional district.\n\"We will bring up the children. But don't kill them because there really is a crisis situation,\" she said.\nDo American abortion rights advocates base that sense of elevated morality only on the reason given for an abortion? Are they against sex-selection abortions only? One must wonder how they can make that argument with a straight face, since the movement insists that a woman should have unrestricted acccess to abortion for whatever reason she chooses -- or no stated reason whatsoever.\nLabels: abortion, India, sex-selection\nCourt Says NYC Must Pay for Sex Change\nFrom Court says NYC must pay for sex change, by United Press International\nNEW YORK, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- A New York judge is ordering city taxpayers to pay for a 21-year-old man's sex-change operation, the New York Post reports.\n\"I don't think it's hit me yet. The consequences are so far reaching,\" Mariah Lopez told newspaper after her victory in Manhattan Family Court.\nJudge Sheldon Rand said the city's Administration for Children's Services must pay for all \"necessary\" care for children in its care. Lopez was in ACS care when her legal battle began.\nShe suffers from a diagnosed gender-identity disorder and that surgery is the recognized treatment, the judge's ruling, which will be released Thursday, read, The Post reported.\n\"This court has recognized that gender-identity disorder is a real condition and there is a real solution to it and people don't have to suffer from it,\" Rand wrote.\nLopez told the court the surgery would cost between $15,000 and $20,000.\nThe city plans to appeal, a lawyer told the newspaper.\nLabels: homosexuality, transgender\nVermont May Be the Next State to Legalize Assisted Suicide\nFrom Vermont May Be the Next State to Legalize Assisted Suicide, by Gudrun Schultz, published Feb. 23rd, 2007, by LifeSite.net\nBURLINGTON, Vermont, February 23, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Vermont legislature is set to begin a week of debate on assisted suicide, following the introduction of a House bill that would see Vermont follow Oregon in authorizing doctors to prescribe lethal medication.\nA bill mimicking Oregon\u2019s physician-assisted suicide law was presented in the House early in the 2007-2008 legislative session. Entitled \u201cPatient Choice and Control at End of Life,\u201d House Bill 44 was signed by five sponsors including two Democrats, a Republican, a Progressive and an independent.\nDebate on the volatile issue will open Friday with presentations from leaders on both sides of the argument before a House committee, the Associated Press reported earlier today, as well as a public hearing to gain a sense of public opinion on the issue.\nAdvocates for the disabled have been among the strongest objectors, led by the Vermont Coalition for Disability Rights.\nLabels: assisted suicide, euthanasia, Vermont\nIslamists Protest at UC Irvine (First hand account)\nFrom Islamist protest against freedom of speech at UC Irvine, by Vik Rubenfeld, published on The Big Picture Blog\nLast night the United American Committee, and the College Republicans of University of California Irvine, held a panel discussion regarding the Danish Cartoons, including an unveiling of the cartoons themselves.\nMy friend Laura Wallick and I went in order to support free speech in America, and to support our friend, UAC founder Jesse Petrilla.\nIt turned out the event was so packed (capacity of the UC Irvine auditorium was 450) that we couldn't get in, which left us free to document the very interesting behavior of the crowd of Islamists protesting the event outside. One police officer we spoke to estimated the Islamist protesters as numbering about 1,000.\nThey had evidently decided that their PR approach was to accuse the College Republicans of \"hate speech.\"\nA very clever ploy. But how dare they, when all over the world, Islamists are cutting off people's heads, killing women and children, taking people hostage and murdering them, threatening genocide against Jews and carrying out genocide against Muslims in Darfur, and regularly broadcasting hate speech on TV in various Arabic countries? These protesters could easily have condemned those actions; then their pretense that they were in favor of peace, and against hate speech, might mean something.\nNot one of the Islamist speakers I heard, said a single word against any of the actions I have just itemized. What was particularly shocking was that not one speaker I heard condemned the burning of embassies or the killing of people which took place during the cartoon riots.\nRead the rest of this first hand account...\nLabels: freedom of speech, Irvine, islam, protests\nNaperville District 203: Controversial Textbook Approved\nSupporters say they trust teachers.\nFrom Controversial science book approved, by Melissa Jenco, published Feb. 21, 2007, by The Daily Herald\nThe Naperville Unit District 203 school board gave its approval to a controversial science textbook Tuesday after more than 20 impassioned speeches from residents both for and against the book.\nThe board voted 5-2 to purchase \u201cEssentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology\u201d by Elaine Marieb for advanced high school science classes despite reservations from several board members on the way contraception is handled by the author. The book was among several dozen approved at the meeting, but it was the only one being challenged.\nBoard member Jim Caulfield led the charge against the book and said it is unbalanced and inaccurate regarding contraception.\nBut Superintendent Alan Leis said the advanced class that uses the book focuses on systems of the body, and the issue of contraception is not part of the curriculum for the class, which reassured several board members who said they also do not like the way the subject is handled but approve of the rest of the book.\nThose supporting the choice of books donned stickers and pins that read \u201cSound Science\u201d and \u201cVote Yes for the Science Book.\u201d They said they trust teachers who chose the book and find it to be an accurate and valuable resource for students.\nLabels: books, Naperville, school, textbook\nGay Activists Pressure Psychiatrists to Stop Helping People Overcome Homosexuality\nFrom Gay Pressure Threatens Counseling, by Wendy Cloyd, Published Feb. 23, 2007, by CitizenLink.org\nUnder pressure from homosexual activists, the American Psychological Association (APA) plans to re-examine its policy on therapy for gay men and women seeking change.\nAt least two homosexual groups--the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute (NGLTF) and PFLAG (Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbian and Gays)\u2014want the APA to get tough on anyone who tries to help gays change.\nDr. Warren Throckmorton, associate professor of psychology and fellow for psychology and public policy at Grove City College, said the APA is responding to pressure, not science.\n\"What we're talking about is the right of clients who are unhappy with their feeling (of same-sex attraction),\" he said. \"Those people have the right to seek therapy to help them live the way they want to live -- the way they value.\"\nLabels: APA, homosexuality, psychiatrist, therapy\nIllinois Senate Passes Embryonic Stem Cell and Cloning Bill\nFrom Illinois Senate Passes Embryonic Stem Cell and Cloning Bill, published Feb. 23, 2007, by The Illinois Family Institute.\nSenators in Springfield vote 35 to 23 to use tax dollars to fund human embryonic stem cell research and cloning. Thirty votes were needed to pass this this bill. It now moves on to the House for further debate.\nTo see how your senator voted, click here.\nPrivate funding has dried up for embryonic stem cell research because over the last two decades of research NO viable treatments have been developed. It is both immoral and a waste of money.\nPlease contact your state representative and urge them to vote no.\nLabels: cloning, IL, stem cell research\nGay Rep. Introduces Counterfeit Marriage Bill, HB 1615, in Illinois\nFrom Gay Rep. Introduces Counterfeit Marriage Bill, HB 1615, by Peter LaBarbera, published Feb. 24, 2007, by Americans for Truth\nThe state\u2019s only \u201copenly gay\u201d representative, Greg Harris (D-Chicago), has submitted a bill to legalize \u201csame-sex marriage\u201d in the Land of Lincoln. Harris sneakily calls his bill the \u201cReligious Freedom and Marriage Fairness Act\u201d \u2013\u2013 despite evidence from Massachusetts that legal \u201cgay marriage\u201d leads to stepped-up discrimination against religious institutions opposed to homosexuality.\nThis bill changes marriage from between one man and one woman to \"two people.\" It also provides that if there is a child which has one of the two parents as a natural parent, the child will be considered the child of both parents.\nTAKE ACTION: If you are an Illinois resident, call your state representative and state senator and politely urge them to:\nOPPOSE HB 1615, the radical redefinition of marriage proposed by new homosexual State Rep. Greg Harris (D-Chicago); click HERE to find your legislators (the page works best if you know your 9-digit zip), and click HERE to view the bill, which would strip out the common-sense prohibition in Illinois law against marriages \u201cbetween two individuals of the same sex.\u201d You can call the Illinois Capitol Switchboard at 217-782-2000.\nSUPPORT HJRCA 1, the pro-traditional-marriage constitutional amendment offered by State Rep. Dave Reis (R) \u2013\u2013 which has languished in the IL General Assembly for years due to the Democrats\u2019 subservience to the state\u2019s powerful \u201cgay\u201d lobby. (In Illinois, a constitutional amendment requires a three-fifths vote by the legislature, followed by a three-fifths popular vote.)\nLabels: Greg Harris, homosexuality, IL, same-sex marriage\nChristian Groups Told They Must Purchase 2.5 Acres of Land to Hold Bible Study\nFrom Miami-Dade County officials: Buy 2.5 acres, or cancel Bible study, press release from the Alliance Defense Fund\nMIAMI \u2014 Attorneys with the Alliance Defense Fund filed suit Friday on behalf of two groups of Christians told they must purchase 2.5 acres of land before meeting for prayer and Bible study. Miami-Dade County officials slapped International Outreach Center and Worldwide Agape Ministries with orders to cease and desist meeting unless members can procure the acreage required, even if only two or three people are in attendance.\n\u201cPeople can gather each week at someone\u2019s home to watch football, but they can\u2019t gather to read the Bible and pray without being forced to buy 2.5 acres of land. I think that would strike most people as ridiculous,\u201d said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster. \u201cIt is unconstitutional for the county to bully these ministries when there is no minimum acreage requirement for other assembly-use businesses, such as pool halls, theaters, convention centers, and private clubs.\u201d\nLabels: freedom of religion, land use, zoning\nPrayer Oil on Students' Desks Raises Ire\nPrincipal, staff sought God's blessing before state testing\nFrom Prayer oil on students' desks raises ire, published Feb. 23, 2007, by WorldNetDaily.com\nEven praying after hours in a Florida classroom is not without hazards and controversy.\nIn Florida, Christian staff members of a public school did just that \u2013 prayed for students facing assessment tests. But leaving behind a residue of anointing oil on desks has caused an uproar.\n\"We thought it was vandalism. It was greasy. It was oily,\" Chris Becker, a fourth-grade teacher who was resigning his position at Brooksville, Fla., Elementary to take another position, told the St. Petersburg Times.\n\"One of my colleagues said she was told by one of the secretaries it was prayer oil,\" he told the newspaper. \"I was very offended by that because I'm not a Christian.\nThe principal, Mary LeDoux, reported it had been a difficult day with high levels of misbehavior, and the state's standardized assessment test was scheduled to be administered the following week.\nShe told the newspaper she found nothing wrong with what she and \"four or five\" colleagues did: they went from classroom to classroom, praying and blessing the students' desks with oil.\nIt happened late in the evening on Friday, Feb. 2, after the school was closed for the weekend.\nNow, I understand people being upset about oil left on their desks. It should have been cleaned up. However, consider the ACLU\u2019s response:\nAn American Civil Liberties Union spokeswoman said the actions crossed the line, because Christians were imposing their beliefs on others by leaving prayer oil on the desks for others to see.\nHere\u2019s my question: How long will it be before praying or even carrying a Bible in public where \u2018others can see\u2019 will be seen as \u2018imposing one\u2019s beliefs on others?'\nRead the rest at WorldNetDaily.com\nLabels: desk, freedom of religion, school\nWitch and Devil Costumes OK. Jesus Not Allowed.\nFrom \"Lawsuit Claims School Prevented Boy From Wearing Jesus Costume for Halloween\" by The Associated Press 2/22/07\nPhiladelphia -- A Christian legal group has sued a school district on behalf of a 10-year-old-boy who claims his rights to religion and free speech were violated when he was not allowed to wear a Jesus costume during Halloween activities.\nThe complaint, filed in federal court Tuesday by the Alliance Defense Fund, says officials at Willow Hill Elementary School in suburban Glenside told the boy Oct. 31 that he could not wear his faux crown of thorns or tell others he was dressed as Jesus.\nThe principal, Patricia Whitmire, told the boy's mother that the costume violated a policy prohibiting the promotion of religion, according to the lawsuit. Whitmire suggested that the fourth-grader, whose costume included a robe, identify himself as a Roman emperor, the suit states.\nUPDATE 11/1/08: From \"Eighth-Grade Boy Sent Home From School for Jesus Christ Halloween Costume\" by The Associated Press\nAlex Woinski, an eighth-grader at West Brook Middle School in Paramus [New Jersey], was sent home from school on Friday because of his costume.\nAlex, who has shoulder-length brown hair, wore a white robe, a red sash, sandals, a fake beard and a crown of thorns.\nAlex's mother is Catholic, and his father is Jewish.\nLabels: ADF, anti-Christian, discrimination, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, halloween, PA, public schools\nHow Gay Bias Has Changed News Coverage for the Worse (commentary)\nFrom Dump the Gay Beat, by Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com\nI don't know about you, but I've had enough of \"gay journalism.\"\nNo matter where you turn today in the so-called \"mainstream\" media (you know, the part of the press losing all the readers and viewers), practically all you see is coverage of people with aberrant sexual practices.\nI'm sure this is happening because social activists, including many who just want to feel good about their own aberrant sexual practices, have thoroughly dominated America's newsrooms.\nAs a newsman of more than 30 years, I actually witnessed this takeover of newspapers, wire services and the broadcast outlets. It started slowly, innocently. Before we knew it, the journalism business had gone as fey as Broadway.\nI deal with this subject at considerable length in my upcoming book, \"Stop the Presses.\" But I want you to understand that I witnessed this sea change in my business up close and personal.\nI also saw how it changed news coverage for the worst.\nToday, no story that reflects negatively on homosexuality can or will be published, disseminated or broadcast because of this internal pressure lobby inside the \"gay media complex.\"\nWorse yet, as I pointed out earlier this week, stories that have nothing to do with buggery now must be injected with the topic. The Associated Press story on the American Sociological Review paper on adoption is a great illustration of the problem.\nLabels: homosexuality, journalism, NYT\nBritish Study Links Miscarriages to Abortion\nFrom British study links miscarriages to abortion, by OneNewsNow.com, published Feb. 24, 2007\nOut-of-wedlock pregnancies, abortion, and artificial procreation appear to be linked to increased rates of miscarriages according to a new study to be published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology.\nThe results are from research, conducted by Noreen Maconochie and a team from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, in which over 12,000 women ages 18-55 were surveyed.\nThe study found that women who had had an abortion were 60 percent more likely to be at risk of miscarriage. An increased risk of miscarriage was also found to be associated with women who are unmarried and change sexual partners. However, the study revealed that vitamin supplementation and eating fresh fruits and vegetables daily reduce the risk.\nWhile the authors view the association of miscarriage and abortion as \"noteworthy,\" they recommend further research to confirm the finding.\nLabels: abortion, miscarriage, pregnancy, study\nJudge: Schools Can Teach Homosexuality Without Parental Consent\nParents lose more rights as a result of the gay 'rights' movement...\nFrom Judge: Schools can promote homosexual 'marriage' without parental consent, by Jim Brown, published Feb. 24, 2007, for OneNewsNow.com\nWASHINGTON - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by two Massachusetts families who want to remove their elementary school children from their public school classroom during discussions on homosexual \"marriage.\"\nU.S. District Judge Mark Wolf has rejected a lawsuit brought by the Parker and Wirthlin families against the Lexington, Ky., school system. The families argued that their constitutional rights were violated when school officials refused to notify them before their children were exposed to pro-homosexual content in the classroom.\nIn his ruling, Wolf said that, \u201cunder the Constitution, public schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy.\u201d\nOne of the plaintiffs, David Parker, says the ruling should be troubling to parents across the country.\n\"It ignores, really, what we're asking for,\" he explained. \"We're asking for parental notification.\n\"We're asking for the school not to restrict the flow of information that's critical to enable parents to guide their children,\" he continued. \"And, really, it sets up the situation to usurp a fundamental part of the parental role.\"\nParker says even parents who support homosexual \"marriage\" should be concerned about Wolf's decision.\n\"Taking the position that teachers - behind the backs of parents, to a captive audience of very young children - can indoctrinate any social perspective that they deem right,\" he argued, \"and not even notify the parents, is absolutely unacceptable for all parents on all sides of the issues for all political persuasions.\nFrom Judge dismisses David Parker's federal lawsuit, published by Mass Resistance\nAccording to the 38 page ruling from Judge Wolf:\n\"An exodus from class when issues of homosexuality or same-sex marriage are to be discussed could send the message that gays, lesbians, and the children of same-sex parents are inferior and, therefore, have a damaging effect on those students,\" he opined.\nTeaching all students that homosexuality is normal is not an appropriate solution to damaging effects on students being raised by homosexuals. Homosexual people are not inferior, but homosexual relationships and behavior ARE. This judge appears to be incapable of making distinctions between people and behavior.\nThe judge goes on to say:\n\"Under the Constitution public schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy,\" the judge wrote. \"Diversity is a hallmark of our nation. It is increasingly evident that our diversity includes differences in sexual orientation.\"\nAre we to value all sexual orientation differences? According to the American Psychiatric Associaton there are 23 distinctive sexual 'orientations.' If discrimination against sexual 'orientation' is wrong, then how can we draw an arbitrary line against some 'orientations' and not others? What about bestiality, fetishism and urophilia? Is it OK to discriminate against exhibitionists and sadists or do we teach our children these things are normal too?\nOn what basis do we 'draw the line?' Of course, the answer to that is, we DON'T. Homosexual activists want to see legal recognition for everything from polyamorous groups to 'queer couples who decide to create and raise a child with another queer person or couple in two households.'\nIsn't diversity grand?\nSpecial Event! The Gay Agenda? No Child Left Behind...\nSunday, Mar. 11, 7:15 PM, College Church, Wheaton, IL\nLabels: homosexuality, judge, New York Magazine, parental rights, Parker, school\nDeerfield High School: Required Class for Freshmen Advocates Liberal and Pro-Gay Propaganda\nAs Culture Campaign reported last week, a letter to the editor in the Thursday, Feb. 15 issue of Deerfield Review has prompted some scrutiny of the curriculum being used in a freshman class called Freshman Advisory in District 113 (Deerfield and Highland Park High Schools).\nAccording to Lora Sue Hauser, School Issues Advisor from Illinois Family Institute and parent in the Deerfield High School District, Freshman Advisory is a required class for freshmen in which a vast amount of time is devoted to exposing students to pro-homosexual propaganda:\n\u201cThis is a whole class designed for the gay agenda during the second semester as well as other liberal causes. In addition to the gay panel, last year\u2019s curricula included movies, (Common Threads, Bloodlines, Philadelphia), displaying the AIDS quilt, promoting Day of Silence, etc.\nAnd even worse, this year parents cannot get even this much information. We have no idea what is actually being taught about sexual orientation. The teachers are not required to give full disclosure as to the content in their lesson plans.\nHow does this happen? It\u2019s a simple formula; gay activist teachers = liberal curricula. In Deerfield, and other schools around the country, gay activists are in a position to choose curricula and they have no intention of staying neutral on these highly debated topics. They do not present alternative viewpoints even though they claim to welcome diverse views. We have repeatedly asked for a panel to speak on the subject of homosexuality from a moral and medical view but have been denied.\nWe are trying to get a copy of the 2007 Freshman Advisory Diversity curriculum, with specifics as to what is being taught but we're hitting a brick wall. Last year, there was a whole Diversity Packet including a Heterosexism Unit that was ghastly. It included playing a card game with all the sexually deviant terms (Genderqueer, Intersexual, MSM, Transgender, Transsexual, Sex Reassignment Surgery, Transphobia, Down-Low, Cross Dressers, etc.) and students had to match the definitions.\nIt was followed by discussions asking such questions as \"What questions or confusion do you have around language describing lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender people?\" or \"In your experience, has LGBT terminology been understood and used properly at Deerfield High School.\" Of course, all this material comes from GLSEN.\u201d\nThe curriculum also included a Social Justice Education Unit teaching \u201cPower Over & Power Under \u201d ideologies with Whites, Males, Heterosexuals, Christians/Gentiles, and the Rich being those with \u201cPower Over.\u201d During the lesson plan, they change the wording to be \u201cNon-target\u201d and \u201cTarget\u201d stating that the \u201cPower Over\u201d group target people for mistreatment. This kind of teaching sets the ideological stage for anyone who tries to question the curriculum. We are the ones who \u201cTarget.\u201d This is nothing short of propaganda to the youngest students in a high school.\"\nAccording to the North Shore Student Advocacy Group (NSSA):\n1. District 113 Superintendent, George Fornero, and school board members have been unwilling to meet with parents and concerned taxpayers. Dr. Fornero, new to District 113, was acting superintendent in Ann Arbor, MI where his school district, Ann Arbor Public Schools, was sued for not allowing a student to present an alternate viewpoint on a panel of those supporting homosexual behavior. The district lost the suit.\n2. Last year, adult gay author Alex Sanchez was brought in by the Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) to speak to students after school. He promoted his sexually graphic books and website, (which links to forty-five gay bars, fetish groups and even a \u2018leather\u2019 group (sado-masochism).\nIt is a violation of state law and school policy for teachers to promote sexual behavior. It is also a violation of the Equal Access Act for SAGA advisors to be in anything other than a custodial role for non-curriculum extracurricular groups.\nDeerfield High School has some explaining to do\u2026\nIf you would like to get more information on the effort to protect kids in District 113 (Deerfield and Highland Park High Schools), please send us an email at feedback@culturecampaign.com.\nLabels: curriculum, deerfield, freshman advisory, homosexuality, Lora Sue\nHate Crimes Legislation: Dems Set to Punish People for What They Believe\nHouse Judiciary Committee ready to vote on HR254 establishing \u2018hate\u2019 crimes legislation.\nAccording to Liberty Counsel founder, Matt Staver:\n\"Christians and pro-family activists ought to be concerned about this hate crimes legislation because, if it is passed, it will certainly restrict free speech,\" he contends\u2026I think we need to understand that this doesn't apply to just violent crimes. It applies to what would be considered intimidation or threats of intimidation, and oftentimes that is in the eye of the beholder.\"\nMembers of the House Judiciary Committee need to hear from concerned Americans this week. A party-line committee vote is anticipated, with Democrats voting for the hate-crimes legislation and Republicans voting against.\nIf your representative is on the judiciary committee, please contact them and urge them to vote against HR 254 today. For the list of Judiciary Committee members and contact information click HERE.\nLabels: freedom of speech, hate crimes, Liberty Counsel\nColorado Teens May Soon Need Parental Permission to Get a Tan, But Not an Abortion\nFrom CitizenLink.org\nBart Hanks, a Colorado tanning-salon owner, said he goes to great lengths to make sure customers are educated before climbing into a tanning bed.\n\"For the most part, the parent has to be present,\" he told Family News in Focus. \"And they have to sign for them if they are under 18.\"\nThat's good store policy, and the legislative proposal would require such permission.\nJim Pfaff, president of Colorado Family Action, said there's a greater hazard the Legislature ought to be dealing with first.\n\"A child must obtain parental consent to get a tattoo, to get an ear piercing and now we want to consider doing that for tanning,\" he said. \"But in Colorado we have no consent requirement when a child decides they want to have an abortion.\"\nPfaff said abortion is a life-altering medical procedure that affects girls for a lifetime.\n\"Innocent human life needs to be protected,\" he said. \"Parents should be required to sign off on that if their daughter is deciding to have an abortion, and yet we're quibbling about tanning.\"\nLabels: abortion, parental consent, teen\nBritish Columbia: Parents protest gay-friendly classes\nVANCOUVER -- Thousands of British Columbians have signed petitions and sent letters to the Education Ministry insisting that parents be allowed to pull their children from public school lessons to avoid gay-friendly messages that conflict with religious or family values.\nBut Education Minister Shirley Bond said she doesn't intend to change a policy that says parents may remove their students only from specific health lessons in three courses: Health and Career Education for K-7, Health and Career Education 8-9 and Planning 10.\nThat promise was part of a contract the government signed last spring with gay activists Murray and Peter Corren to end a protracted human-rights case. As part of that deal, the government said it would enforce a policy that limits the ability of families to opt out of classes they find objectionable.\nRead the rest at The Times Colonist online\nOnly 6 school boards out of 60 had the guts to say they would not compel students to attend classes over the objections of their parents. Ours is not an age of courage...\nGov't Agrees to Mandatory Homosexual Curriculum with No Opt-Out for Students or Parents\nEvangelical schools ordered to teach Darwinism\nhttp://culturecampaign.blogspot.com/2006/10/evangelical-schools-ordered-to-teach.html\nLabels: British Columbia, homosexuality, school\nAmerican Psychological Association: Remove All Sexualized Images of Women in Media\nA report of the American Psychological Association (APA) released today found evidence that the proliferation of sexualized images of girls and young women in advertising, merchandising, and media is harmful to girls' self-image and healthy development.\nSexualization was defined by the task force as occurring when a person's value comes only from her/his sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characteristics, and when a person is sexually objectified, e.g., made into a thing for another's sexual use.\n\"The consequences of the sexualization of girls in media today are very real and are likely to be a negative influence on girls' healthy development,\" says Eileen L. Zurbriggen, PhD, chair of the APA Task Force and associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. \"We have ample evidence to conclude that sexualization has negative effects in a variety of domains, including cognitive functioning, physical and mental health, and healthy sexual development.\"\nAccording to the task force report, parents can play a major role in contributing to the sexualization of their daughters or can play a protective and educative role. The APA report calls on parents, school officials, and all health professionals to be alert for the potential impact of sexualization on girls and young women.\nSee the APA's full report online here\nhttp://www.apa.org/pi/wpo/sexualizationrep.pdf\nRead the entire article at LifeSite.net\nThis should be a wake-up call to our schools who are intent on sexualizing both girls and boys under the banner of 'excellence in education\"...\nLabels: girls, media, sexualization\nChildren condemned to death and adults detained for years without charge\nThousands of prisoners in jail without charge, children sentenced to death and oppression of women. In a report issued on 17 February, a commission from Human Rights Watch (HRW) detailed serious violations of human rights in Saudi trials and prisons.\nDuring a four-week mission in December, the team observed trials and visited jails, even if under 24-hour \u201csurveillance\u201d and with several limitations. It was able to ascertain that the secret police held thousands of detainees without trial for political reasons, without bringing them before a court, although Article 114 of the Criminal Procedure Code requires that detention without charge cannot exceed six months. The accused often do not have a lawyer and even if they do, it is difficult for the defence to have access to their charge sheet. Trials are usually held behind closed doors although Article 155 of the Code stipulates they should be public. The court of Jiddah did not allow the commission to observe trials. HRW said many sentences were based on minimal evidence and judges often did not write the verdict down, as happened in the political trials of those charged with revolting in Najran in 2000.\nChildren are jailed for minor offences, even for violating \"morals\". In prison they are beaten and kept in solitary confinement. Thirteen-year-old children have been sentenced to death because they were considered to be \u201cmature\u201d. But HRW was unable to discover what they had done. Worse still was the situation of women, often subject to constant male guardianship.\nRead the entire article at AsiaNews.it\nLabels: execution, minor, prison, Saudi Arabia\nItaly: Judge and Parents Force Girl to Undergo Abortion\nTURIN, Italy, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - An Italian judge ordered a 13 year-old girl to undergo an abortion, despite the girl's pleas to let her keep her child reports the Italian news agency, La Stampa.\nThe girl, Valentina, had become pregnant by her 15 year-old boyfriend, however rather than let her choose to keep her child, her parents demanded she have an abortion on the grounds that she was ruining her life by becoming a mother.\n\"You cannot hold this child ... you must abort, and father will never have to know,\u201d Valentina's mother told her, saying that she did not have the money to support the child.\nDespite Valentina's repeated attempts to make her parents understand she wanted to choose to keep her baby, the case went to the Court of Minors. Judge Giuseppe Cocilovo then issued the ruling to abort Valentina's child.\nUnder Italian law, a minor may not decide whether to keep or abort her child, and may be forced by her guardians or parents to undergo an abortion.\nHowever, the abortion has meant nothing less than disaster for Valentina, who was confined to the psychiatric unit of Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin after the abortion for wanting to commit suicide.\n\u201cYou have made me kill, and now I kill myself, I kill myself\u201d, cried Valentina. \"I do not want here to be,\" Valentina repeated. \"I am not crazy, I am only evil like a dog for what my parents and the judges have obliged to make to me.\"\nThe case of Valentina is an egregious case of forced abortion in Italy, where one would expect that a woman\u2018s \u201cright to choose\u201d would mean the possibility of choosing life. However, the silence of purportedly \"pro-choice\" feminist groups has been deafening thus far over 13 year-old Valentina's forced abortion, despite her very own choice that her body should carry life.\nTo respectfully protest the Italian authorities:\nItalian Embassy in U.S.\nItalian Embassy in Ottawa\nLabels: abortion, girls, italy, judge, minor\nUK: Councillor Accused of \u201cHeterosexism\u201d for Suggesting Family-Sized Homes\nCAMBRIDGE, February 19, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) \u2013 A former mayor of Cambridge, England, John Hipkin, is demanding an apology and a retraction after being accused publicly of \u201cheterosexism\u201d for suggesting that more homes need to be built to accommodate families.\nHipkin wondered aloud at a planning meeting last fall whether the preference of housing developers for one and two bedroom homes was not \u201cputting huge pressure of a contraceptive nature on this city.\u201d\nHipkin said at the time, \u201cPeople presumably start off single or young marrieds and have children, don't they? Where are they going to go?\u201d\nThe Daily Telegraph reports that a complaint was lodged by a homosexual activist group who said that his remarks betrayed heterosexism, defined as \u201cunintentional discrimination towards or against non-heterosexuals due to cultural bias.\u201d\nHipkin, a Liberal Democrat councillor for the university town reacted with outrage and said his comments in no way were not \u201ca plan to deny gays a home.\u201d\nCalling the complaint a \u201cslur on his character,\u201d Hipkin said, \u201cSuch an allegation runs contrary to all the things I think I am. I have spent my life opposing homophobia, sexism, racism - all forms of discrimination.\u201d\nI guess what goes around eventually comes around...\nLabels: freedom of speech, heterosexism, homosexuality, UK\nUK: Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches Back Plan to Reunite Under the Pope?\nThese are strange days indeed. From the Times:\nRadical proposals to reunite Anglicans with the Roman Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope are to be published this year, The Times has learnt.\nThe proposals have been agreed by senior bishops of both churches.\nIn a 42-page statement prepared by an international commission of both churches, Anglicans and Roman Catholics are urged to explore how they might reunite under the Pope.\nThe statement, leaked to The Times, is being considered by the Vatican, where Catholic bishops are preparing a formal response.\nIt comes as the archbishops who lead the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion meet in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in an attempt to avoid schism over gay ordination and other liberal doctrines that have taken hold in parts of the Western Church.\nThe 36 primates at the gathering will be aware that the Pope, while still a cardinal, sent a message of support to the orthodox wing of the Episcopal Church of the US as it struggled to cope with the fallout after the ordination of the gay bishop Gene Robinson.\nAlbert Mohler had this to say in his blog yesterday:\nIf the report had been published in a paper less respected than The Times, we might have reason to doubt it. Gledhill reports that \"senior bishops\" of the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church are ready to support a proposal for union under the Pope.\nThe Church of England's doctrinal differences with the Roman Catholic Church are historic and theologically significant -- at least as represented by its own confessional statement. Some of the most significant theological contributions of the Reformation came from the pens and ministries of those associated with the Church of England. Do the names Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer -- all martyred for the faith of the Reformation -- not suffice to make this point? Add to these the names of the Puritans and others who continued that Reformation tradition.\nThis report is but another indication of the theological confusion that now vexes and threatens the Anglican Communion. Would the current Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, suggest that Anglican bishops could have a close communion with Rome -- even unified under the papacy -- when they cannot share communion with each other in Dar es Salaam?\nPray for this church, and stay tuned. The news out of Dar es Salaam is likely to be very important this coming week.\nRead the rest at Albert Mohler's blog\nLabels: anglican, catholic, church\nThe Self-Esteem Movement Backfires -- When Praise is Dangerous\nThe self-esteem movement has transformed much of America, but this is perhaps nowhere more evident than in the schools. A brilliant article in New York Magazine provides a fascinating glimpse into why the movement is crashing and burning.\nAs writer Po Bronson explains:\nSince the 1969 publication of The Psychology of Self-Esteem, in which Nathaniel Branden opined that self-esteem was the single most important facet of a person, the belief that one must do whatever he can to achieve positive self-esteem has become a movement with broad societal effects. Anything potentially damaging to kids' self-esteem was axed. Competitions were frowned upon. Soccer coaches stopped counting goals and handed out trophies to everyone. Teachers threw out their red pencils. Criticism was replaced with ubiquitous, even undeserved, praise.\nAuthor Melanie Phillips offered a devastating critique of the movement in her book All Must Have Prizes. As she revealed, achievement in all areas was being replaced with exercises intended to boost self-esteem. Every player on the team has to receive a prize and all prizes have to be equal. She put it this way in 2003:\nSurely, in the immortal words of John McEnroe, they cannot be serious? Alas, the latest pronouncement from those in charge of our exam system is truly beyond satire.\nTheir new idea for boosting examination success is to abolish the very idea of failure, along with the difference between the right and the wrong answer to a question.\nThe article indicates that older children and teenagers learn to become cynical about the undeserved praise they receive from parents, teachers, and others. They actually perform better if they receive serious and skilled criticism, rather than empty praise.\nPraising effort and achievement yields positive results. Praising for the sake of praising hurts far more than it helps. It is a recipe for individual and social disaster.\nRead the whole article at AlbertMohler.com\nLabels: children, mohler, New York Magazine, self-esteem\nDefunding the War: How Bad Could it Get?\nAlmost 37 years ago, long before Congress thought to pass non-binding resolutions as a first step to cut off funding in Iraq, the Senate passed an amendment sponsored by Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R.-Ky.) and Sen. Frank Church (D.-Idaho) to restrict funding for operations in Cambodia.\nSenators Chuck Schumer (D.-N.Y) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) have said again and again that passage of a non-binding resolution against President Bush\u2019s troop surge would be the first step to withdrawing American forces from Iraq.\nHow badly could this turn out?\nThe actions of their predecessors, who de-funded the Vietnam War, give us a big clue.\nOn June 30, 1970 58 senators voted in favor of Cooper-Church to handcuff President Nixon from sending more troops to Vietnam. The amendment limited the President\u2019s war powers through the budgetary process with a trio of stipulations. First, it ended funding for U.S. troops and advisers in Cambodia and Laos after June 30. Secondly, it banned combat operations over Cambodian airspace to support Cambodian forces without prior congressional approval. Lastly, it cut funding to support Southern Vietnamese forces stationed outside of Vietnam.\nToday, liberals have drawn many comparisons between Vietnam and the War in Iraq, but reliably omit the tragic killing fields of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam that were produced after American forces were forced by Congress to exit the region.\nFrom a July 11, 1970 article\nThe Cooper-Church proposal does a number of things that can only cause exaltation and hand-clapping in Hanoi and Communist capitals elsewhere\u2026.The amendment also tells our Asian allies that they can go hang, for the U.S. Senate, at any rate, has no intention of helping out Asian victims of Red aggression.\u201d\nThere is nothing really good that can be said of Cooper-Church, for it is aimed at crippling the power of the President at the very time he is successfully extricating us from Viet Nam precisely because he has not had a Cooper-Church amendment to contend with.\n*Note: A few senators who voted for Church-Cooper are still in the Senate today. Those voting for it were: Daniel Inoye (D.-Hawaii), Kennedy (D.-Mass.) and Ted Stevens (R.-Ala.).\nRead both articles at HumanEvents.com\nOur ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. -- Gustave Flaubert\nLabels: Iraq, Kennedy, Vietnam, war\nWilliam and Mary Hides Cross, Welcomes Sex Workers\n(Hat tip: The Pearcey Report) A recent \"sex workers\" art show at the College of William & Mary is prompting more questions about President Gene R. Nichol's leadership of the 314-year-old public university.\nMr. Nichol allowed the \"Sex Workers' Art Show\" to stop at William & Mary last week as part of its national tour. The event included male and female strippers, escorts and prostitutes in various states of undress expressing their feelings on subjects ranging from their jobs to global politics.\nThe criticism against Mr. Nichol began in October when he removed a cross from the school's Wren Chapel to make it more open to people of all faiths.\nMr. Nichol said he removed the cross because potential students and their families viewing the chapel on campus tours immediately departed and because a Jewish student required to participate in a program in the chapel vowed never to return.\nThough Mr. Nichol has received support from the Faculty Assembly, the Student Senate and the college's governing Board of Visitors, his decisions to remove the cross and to allow the art show has resulted in strong opposition.\nA graduate of the college's law school has filed a federal lawsuit to force the school to return the cross, and at least 25 alumni have vowed to withhold donations until the policy is reversed.\nRead the rest at Washington Times\nLabels: cross, sex workers, William and Mary\nA campus psychiatrist at UCLA is drawing attention to the only study she has found on young men's responses to abortion. Those men, she asserts, are part of a group of abortion victims who have been essentially \"invisible\" to those in her profession. Mental health professionals, she says, need to stop ignoring the reality that abortion leaves emotional scars.\nThe study on men's responses to abortion was not conducted by a mental health professional, but rather a sociologist and academic by the name of Dr. Arthur Shostak. Shostak surveyed 1,000 men sitting in the waiting rooms of abortion facilities across the U.S. and found that 80 percent of those men indicated that that had been the longest and darkest day of their life.\nDr. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist at UCLA's student health service, says Shostak then followed those men for months, and even some for years.\n\"The numbers went up [over that time],\" she observes. \"The number of men who reported that day feeling some guilt and some ambivalence about what they were doing; the number of men who were asked 'Do you think that in the future you might have some troubling thoughts about this?' -- the percentages went up.\" Adds Grossman: \"So a few years afterwards, they were reporting that it was worse than they had anticipated.\"\nRead the rest of this report at OneNewsNow.com\nLabels: abortion, men, UCLA\nSen. McCain Seeks to Further Stifle Free Speech\nA coalition of 18 advocacy groups is opposing Arizona Senator John McCain's plans to introduce legislation to ban so-called \"527\" groups. McCain is preparing legislation that coalition leaders believe would stifle the political speech of groups that, ironically, were started as a result of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill passed by Congress in 2002.\nGroups that fall under the 527 category include left-wing organizations such as MoveOn.org as well as right-wing groups like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which played a large role in Senator John Kerry's defeat in the 2004 Presidential election.\nAnd what that means in layman's terms, Lee says, \"is having taxpayers fund politicians who are running for president.\" And now that McCain is seen as leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, the senator appears to be willing to abandon his commitment to abide by the public financing system, the Center spokesman asserts.\nRead the rest at OneNewsNow.com\nLabels: campaign, election, McCain\nDeerfield High School: Parent Barred From Observing Pro-Homosexual Classroom Lesson\nParent had become concerned about content of class after daughter mocked, called 'anti-semitic' and 'homophobic.'\nA recent letter to the editor [.PDF] in the Thursday, Feb. 15 issue of Deerfield Review reveals a troubling agenda at Deerfield High School. A parent was denied permission for a one-time visit to observe a class called Freshman Advisory. She had become concerned about the content of the class after her daughter was mocked, called 'anti-semitic' and 'homophobic' for openly disagreeing with the pro-homosexual message presented. Student members of the Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) drew pictures of her with devil horns on her head...\nHere is the letter in its entirety:\nParent Denied Class Visit\nI have seven children who have either attended or are currently attending Deerfield High School. As a parent, I have the right to know what they are teaching my kids, how they are teaching my kids, and why they are teaching my kids certain information. I recently asked for the first time to visit a class to hear what they are teaching in Freshman Advisory.\nI was surprised to receive a letter informing me that I would not be allowed to visit. They told me that they would send me a taped copy of the class.\nFirst, how would I know if the tape had been edited? Second, I am an adult, I pay taxes for my kids to attend this school, and I should be able to sit in on one class to see what they are teaching my fourteen-year-old.\nI have instilled morals and values in my kids, and I believe that some at DHS are trying to change my child's beliefs to conform to theirs.\nTolerance is one of the values that I have instilled in my kids, but it is clear that tolerance is not a value shared by the Straight and Gay Alliance (SAGA) at DHS. I was shocked to learn that when one of my children openly disagreed with SAGA's position on homosexuality, she was called anti-Semitic and homophobic. In addition, certain individuals in SAGA drew pictures of my daughter with devil horns on her head.\nShockingly, none of this was solved, and no one was punished for these intolerant and distasteful acts. I feel certain that if the tables were turned, my daughter would have been punished. Intolerance is clearly an issue at DHS. Unfortunately it is those with a non-traditional agenda who are the intolerant ones. Some students and certain staff members make it uncomfortable for more conservative students to disagree with the belief that homosexual behavior is moral.\nI will do whatever I can to ensure that my children and their beliefs are tolerated. Furthermore, I do not want my children taught anything at school that should be taught only at home. Teachers should teach English, math social studies, science, and foreign languages.\nThe class I asked to observe is a Freshman Advisory class in which gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender DHS students discuss their sexual orientation with all freshmen. If they are allowed to share this information with freshmen, parents should be allowed to hear their presentation also.\nIf they are uncomfortable with a parent sitting quietly in the back of the class, then perhaps the presentation is not appropriate for the public school.\nI do not want teachers having some students announce their sexual orientation to my children as part of a classroom presentation, and I do not want teachers even suggesting that my children accept the view that homosexual behavior is right behavior. This is not what I send my kids to school to learn. Something needs to change.\nEllen Waltz\nDeerfield High School has some explaining to do...\nIf you would like to help support Ellen in her effort to protect kids at Deerfield High School, please send us an email at feedback@culturecampaign.com.\nLabels: advisory, deerfield, homosexuality, school, student\nNaperville District 203: SCIENCE Textbook Presents Information on \u2018Morning After\u2019 Pill\nLone school board member concerned about \u2018politically driven inaccuracies.\u2019 Others accuse him of \u2018censorship.\u2019\nA science textbook is once again creating a stir in Naperville Unit\nSchool board member Jim Caulfield says he objects to a book awaiting board approval because it contains \u201cpolitically driven inaccuracies\u201d in the way it addresses contraception and abortion.\n\u201cIt\u2019s got nothing to do with censorship. It\u2019s got everything to do with what\u2019s a world-class education and this \u2026 is on its face misinformation\non politically controversially topics,\u201d Caulfield said.\nStaff members have recommended the book, \u201cEssentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology,\u201d by Elaine Marieb, for advanced high school science classes. They want to purchase 140 copies for $10,425.\nThe school board is scheduled to vote on the book along with several dozen others on Tuesday.\nCaulfield said it\u2019s the board\u2019s responsibility to carefully review textbooks before voting.\n\u201cTo me, that\u2019s more than getting a list from the administration and approving them. \u2026 It\u2019s more than judging a book by its cover \u2026 (or) judging by its title.\u201d\nIn particular, he\u2019s troubled by the way the science textbook combines discussion of RU-486 abortion pills with contraception and he doesn\u2019t agree with the book\u2019s assertion that the pills have few side effects.\n\u201cIf death is not a side effect, then that may be right, but the New York Times, which is an abortion rights-supporting newspaper, reported that six women died after taking it,\u201d Caulfield said.\nHe also said the book\u2019s discussion of the morning-after pill credits abortion provider Planned Parenthood and dehumanizes the life involved by referring to it as a fertilized egg.\nTextbooks are put on display at area libraries for 30 days for public review before the board votes on them. Residents traditionally provide very little feedback.\nThe school board will discuss the latest round of textbooks when it meets at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the district\u2019s administrative center, 203 W. Hillside\nRead the entire article at dailyherald.com\nLabels: books, Planned Parenthood, school\n214 School Board President on Upcoming Election: Challengers are \"Far Right Wing\" and \"Narrow Minded\"\nYou may remember the controversy over required reading in District 214 last spring when lone school board member, Leslie Pinney, objected to the presence of certain books (containing pornographic passages) on a required reading list for District 214 high school students. Ms. Pinney was viciously berated and belittled at a public school board meeting for her concern -- before being outvoted by her fellow school board members.\nWell it's nearly election time, and three men have been inspired by that debacle to challenge incumbent School Board President Bill Dussling, Vice President Alva Kreutzer and fellow board member Bob Zimmanck for their seats. An article in the Pioneer Press says:\nChallenging the incumbents are Prospect High School parent and businessman Dennis Konczyk, former educator Ken Frizane and recently retired District 214 night school administrator Jim Harbaugh.\nBut Dussling (incumbent school board president), among others, contend some of these candidates would like to limit District 214's curriculum and impose a \"far right\" agenda on the district.\nWow. What a thought. \"Limiting\" the reading material for teenagers to the non-pornographic variety. Certainly it will stunt their intellect...\nDussling went on to say:\n\"There are people out there with a narrow mindset and the way I see it, the excellence of District 214 is being challenged,\" he said.\nApparently it takes a \"narrow mindset\" to believe that academic excellence does not require exposing children to literary depictions of anal intercourse, oral sex, sex with cows, sex with dogs, and even sex with hotdogs...\nOddly enough, the article focused on the amount of money being spent on the campaign. Not surprising I suppose, since I'm certain neither the Pioneer Press nor Bill Dussling care to dwell on the real problem in District 214 which is the sexualization of kids.\nNeed more proof there is a problem? Just two weeks ago, the\nWheeling High School student newspaper printed an article descriptively titled: \"Oral Sex, the New Romantic Norm.\"\nHmmm. If parents and taxpayers start connecting the dots, they will realize this election is about a lot more than just money.\nLabels: 214, books, Pinney, school, school board\nRanks of Renowned Scientists Doubting Darwin's Theory on the Rise - 700 Now on Public List\nAnother 100 scientists have joined the ranks of scientists from around the world publicly stating their doubts about the adequacy of Darwin's theory of evolution.\n\"Darwinism is a trivial idea that has been elevated to the status of the scientific theory that governs modern biology,\" says dissent list signer Dr. Michael Egnor. Egnor is a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook and an award-winning brain surgeon named one of New York's best doctors by New York Magazine.\nDiscovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture announced last week that over 700 scientists from around the world have now signed a statement expressing their skepticism about the contemporary theory of Darwinian evolution. The statement, located online at http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org , reads: \"We are skeptical of claims for the ability of random mutation and natural selection to account for the complexity of life. Careful examination of the evidence for Darwinian theory should be encouraged.\"\n\"We know intuitively that Darwinism can accomplish some things, but not others,\" added Egnor. \"The question is what is that boundary? Does the information content in living things exceed that boundary? Darwinists have never faced those questions. They've never asked scientifically if random mutation and natural selection can generate the information content in living things.\"\nRead the rest at Lifesite.net\nLabels: Darwin, dissent, evolution, scientist\nUse of the Words 'Natural Family' Ruled Hate Speech\n...a critical First Amendment case is being argued before the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case deals squarely with the issue of whether Christians have a right to use neutral language in the workplace to talk about same-sex marriage and other issues at the forefront of national debate. Attorneys Scott Lively and Richard D. Ackerman will be arguing the case before the Ninth Circuit on behalf of an African- American Christian woman who was threatened with termination at her job with the City of Oakland. The City of Oakland claims that references to the \"natural family, marriage and family values\" constitute hate speech which is scary to city workers.\nAccording to the lawsuit, gay and lesbian city workers had already been using the city's e-mail, bulletin board, and written communications systems for promoting their views to other workers, including the plaintiffs.\nPlaintiffs, Regina Rederford and Robin Christy posted the flier in response to an e-mail to city employees announcing formation of a gay and lesbian employee association. The two responded with a promotion of their own -- the start of an informal group that respects \"the natural family, marriage and family values.\"\nBut supervisors Robert Bobb, then city manager, and Joyce Hicks, then deputy director of the Community and Economic Development Agency, ordered removal of the flier, stating it contained \"statements of a homophobic nature\" and promoted \"sexual- orientation-based harassment,\" even though it made no absolutely no mention of homosexuality.\nA July 2003 lawsuit by Rederford and Christy claimed the city's anti-discrimination policy \"promotes homosexuality\" and \"openly denounces Christian values.\"\nMessrs. Lively and Ackerman said the case is significant, because a decision against the employees could silence debate about homosexuality and related issues in the entire Western United States since the Ninth Circuit controls a large region of the United States...\nLabels: hate speech, homosexuality\nTax dollars support sickness masquerading as art at Sundance Film Festival\nAFA reports that tax dollars were used to support the Sundance Film Festival which recently featured a \"tasteful film about men fornicating with horses.\"\nThe National Endowment for the Arts gave between $100,000 and $249,000 to help underwrite the festival, and the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) gave between $50,000 and $99,999.\nThe National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) gets millions of dollars to support \"art.\" A few years ago the NEA helped fund a crucifix submerged in urine and named \"Pis- Christ.\" NEA has sponsored similar \"art\" projects with tax dollars.\nPBS gets tax funding from The Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Every other non-profit broadcasting station must raise their own funds, but CPB and PBS are funded with hundreds of millions of tax dollars. PBS is probably the most liberal network in America. Hollywood has hundreds of millions of dollars to underwrite the cost of the Sundance Film Festival, but they would rather use your tax dollars than their own money. Together, these two organizations provided upwards of $350,000 of tax money to the film festival.\nRead the rest at americanfamilyassociation.com\nLabels: horses, NEA, sundance, tax\nScottish Nurses Encouraged Not to Use -- \"Mum\" or \"Dad\": Too \"Discriminatory\"\nThe following is excerpted from Good LGBT Practice in the NHS, a joint publication from the homosexual activist organization Stonewall Scotland and Scotland\u2019s National Health Service:\nPage 7 \u2014 \u201cIn order to avoid this confusion\u2026\u201d\nPartners and \u201cnext of kin\u201d\nUsing the terms \u201chusband\u201d, \u201cwife\u201d and \u201cmarriage\u201d assumes opposite sex relationships only and will automatically exclude all LGB people. Using the term \u201cpartner\u201d and \u201cthey/them\u201d to refer to the partner will avoid this problem. This is also inclusive of all heterosexual couples, regardless of their marital status. Many people hold a mistaken belief that \u201cnext of kin\u201d must be a married partner or blood relation. In order to avoid this confusion it may be advisable to use \u201cpartner, close friend or close relative\u201d. This allows the patient to identify and choose who is important to them. For example, the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 200310 defines the most important nearest relative (after spouse or civil partner) as a\ncohabiting same-sex or opposite-sex partner.\nThe booklet advocates \u201ca zero-tolerance policy to discriminatory language\u201d for health care workers in Scotland.\nRead the entire article at americansfortruth.com\nUS Supreme Court Asked to Decide Legal Battle Between States Over Same-Sex Unions\nThe question of whether one state can be forced to recognize the same-sex civil unions of another state -- even when the first state's citizens have voted overwhelmingly against civil unions and homosexual \"marriage\" -- will come before the U.S. Supreme Court\nThe Christian public-interest law firm Liberty Counsel is asking the high court to take two cases known as Miller v.Jenkins. They pit Virginia law, which does not recognize same-sex unions, against Vermont law, which does.\nThe cases involve Lisa Miller, her biological child, and Janet Jenkins, Miller's former homosexual partner. Miller and Jenkins traveled to Vermont to obtain a civil union while living together in Virginia. Miller gave birth to a child through artificial insemination.\nThe relationship ended when Miller became a Christian and left the homosexual lifestyle, after which Jenkins allegedly became abusive. Miller now lives with her daughter in Virginia.\nVermont courts declared that Jenkins had parental rights over the child equal to those of Miller and ordered visitation. In what she described as an effort to protect her daughter from the immoral influence of her former lesbian partner, Miller defied the order. She is relying on Virginia law, which does not recognize any rights Jenkins claims, because the former couple's Vermont civil union is invalid in Virginia, and because Jenkins made no effort to adopt the child.\nLiberty Counsel founder Mat Staver says the case is unique.\n\"These cases involving the same individuals with two different state laws really represent the tip of the iceberg in what's coming down the pipe,\" Staver said.\nStaver points out that the Federal Defense of Marriage Act allows each state to define its own marriage policy.\nBy Allie Martin and Jeff Johnson for OneNewsNow.com\nNew Study Claiming Adoptive Parents Better Than Biological Parents Neglected to Study the Kids...\nAuthors' conclusions are not supported by their own research.\nCitizenLink.org -- A new study contends adoptive couples, specifically homosexual partners, invest more time and money in their kids than biological parents -- but there's little data to support the claim.\nThe research from Indiana University and the University of Connecticut seeks to dispute the age-old notion that kids are better off being raised by their natural parents. Far from being just a pat on the back for adoptive parents, the study all but turns into a soapbox for the gay-activist agenda. Instead of staying focused on adoptive parents, the researchers willingly expand the argument to gay couples.\nBrad Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, analyzed the data.\n\"This study is yet another academic effort to kind of prepare the way intellectually for the normalization of same-sex families,\" he told Family News in Focus.\nNotably, the study did not look at how well adopted children fared in school or socially. It only measured how parents, adoptive or biological, contributed to the relationship.\nThe study authors note recent court cases against same-sex marriage that have hinged on what they termed an outdated body of research upholding traditional marriage. But Peter Sprigg, vice president for policy at the Family Research Council, said the study lacks solid evidence to back the claim.\nOne example of an apparent contradiction: The study indicates stepparents don't invest as much in their kids as do biological moms and dads -- and most gay couples are involved in raising stepchildren.\n\"Most so-called homosexual parents are actually raising children who are their biological children conceived in a previous heterosexual relationship,\" Sprigg noted. \"Conclusions are offered by researchers which are not supported by their own data. When that happens, you have to assume that the conclusions are driven by an ideological predisposition rather than the research itself.\"\nInteresting note: Although the authors of the study concluded, \"Based on both the available research and growing experience...adoption by gays and lesbians holds promise as an avenue for achieving permanency for many of the waiting children in foster care.\" the study focused on male/female adoptive couples...\nVirginia Episcopal Bishop Sues Exiting Churches to Confiscate Property\nA split within the Episcopal Church has begun and is on its way to court -- something akin to \"divorce court,\" it seems.\nMore than 100 Episcopal parishes -- and some dioceses -- have either left the denomination or requested alternative oversight within the worldwide Anglican Communion. One of them is St. Stephen's Church in Heathsville, Va.\n\"We left the Episcopal Church because we could no longer be under the leadership of people who have the attitude that they did about the authority of Scripture,\" said the Rev. Jeffrey Cerar, rector of St. Stephen's. \"Starting several years ago, the Episcopal Church elected and put in place a homosexual bishop and did so in disregard of the Scriptures. It was just a symptom of a much larger problem, which is that the leadership of the Episcopal Church does not regard Scripture as authoritative in the same sense that Christians always have before.\"\nHe added: \"One of the symptoms of the church now is that the new presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, (Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schorri) is saying that Christ is not the only way to salvation -- just a way.\"\nCerar's church is one of 11 that recently left the Virginia diocese. Bishop Peter Lee, in return, filed suit against each of the 11, seeking to confiscate the church properties -- and has taken steps to defrock 27 clergy associated with those churches.\nRead the rest of the story at CitizenLink.org\nBy Mark Early for Breakpoint.org\nIf you ever want a truly Herculean task, I can\u2019t think of a harder one than diving into the sex education debate in this country and sorting through all the views and claims of both sides. But that\u2019s exactly what sociologist Kristin Luker has done with her new book, When Sex Goes to School: Warring Views on Sex\u2014and Sex Education\u2014Since the Sixties.\nLuker deserves full credit for tackling this tough subject and for doing her research so thoroughly that the book took two decades to complete. And she deserves extra credit for coming as close to an objective view of the issue as anyone I\u2019ve ever seen. Although Luker is no conservative on sexual issues, she\u2019s light years away from the pundits and researchers who consider the Christian viewpoint beneath contempt. Instead, she takes both sides seriously and is even willing to acknowledge many of the truths inherent in traditional views of sexuality.\nIn doing so, Luker gets to the very heart of the sex education debate in a way that few other social scientists have, because she discovers that the debate is not just about sex. What it\u2019s really about is worldview.\n\u201cSexual conservatives,\u201d Luker explains, \u201c . . . believe that humans are fundamentally capable of the worst, and that it is only the combined power of an internal morality and external constraints that keeps most of us on the straight-and-narrow most of the time.\u201d And this, she shows, is why we argue for \u201cfirm structures\u201d and the teaching of moral boundaries. On the other hand, she says, \u201csexual liberals see a world in which the only way a diverse and heterogeneous group of people can be trusted to make good moral decisions is to ensure that all of them have the maximum amount of information possible.\u201d So sexual liberals fight to give children as much sexual information as possible as early as possible, thinking \u201cthat if their children are given education and information, they will grow up to be morally good adults.\u201d\nRead the rest of this commentary\n\"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge...\" Proverbs 1:7\nLutherans Propose Ordination of Practicing Homosexual Pastors\nCHICAGO, April 13, 2005 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has put forth a resolution recommending the ordination of actively homosexual ministers - provided they live in committed same-sex relationships. Up until now, homosexuals could be ordained for active ministry as long as they were celibate.\nThe resolution was put forward at an ELCA council assembly meeting Monday. The proposal would require ratification through a vote at a Church wide assembly planned for August.\nRead the rest of the article at LifeSiteNews.com\nAdoption, When 'Discriminating' Makes Perfect Sense and Gender is Relevant\nThe United Kingdom is about to repeat the ill-treatment of the Catholic Church pioneered in Boston. The government of the UK may effectively shut down the nation-wide Catholic adoption services rather than grant a religious exemption to the new law requiring equal treatment on the basis of sexual orientation. The Archbishop of Canterbury along with the Muslim Council of Britain have both stated their support of the Roman Catholic Church.\nThe churches are correct: non-discrimination in adoption is an adult-centred policy, despite its supporters\u2019 best efforts to depict it as child-centred. The demand that every adoption agency in the UK take no notice of sexual orientation is irrational and incoherent.\nThe best pro-child argument that proponents have is the claim that children are better off with gay couples than \u201clanguishing in foster care\u201d. Notice the tacit admission that gay couples are not the first choice: the first choice is heterosexual, stable, married couples, who are simply too few in number to meet the needs of all the children.\nBut this claim, even if true, does not justify the new British policy. British law does not permit adoption agencies to line up prospective adoptive parents in order of desirability, and then work its way down the list until all the adoptable children have been allocated. No. Non-discrimination law insists that neither marital status, nor sexual orientation, can even be considered as a factor in placing children with adoptive parents. Besides, Catholic adoption agencies handle about a third of all adoptions of children considered difficult to place.\nThere are circumstances in which same sex adoption should not be prohibited, including private adoptions and some second party adoptions. Adoption by same sex couples related to the child, when no other suitable relative is available may be the best situation for a particular child.\nBut these limited circumstances are quite different from the generalised \u201cright\u201d that the state should not discriminate against same sex couples in placing its wards for foster care or adoption. The state absolutely should discriminate in favour of opposite sex, married couples. It is utterly irrational for the state to pretend that there are no differences between opposite sex married couples and cohabiting couples or single individuals or same sex couples. To ban such discrimination by otherwise responsible and reputable private adoption agencies is more than irrational. It is an indefensible violation of the freedom of those private agencies.\nThe homosexual activists and their allies in the British government evidently hold that gender is an irrelevant category for parenting. They apparently believe that there is no unique contribution of either gender to anything that matters to the well-being of children. But if men and women were really perfect substitutes, the very idea of sexual orientation would make no sense.\nRead the rest at mercatornet.com\nYou can't have it both ways. Either gender makes a difference or it doesn't -- and if it makes a difference to adults, it also makes a difference to kids...\nLabels: adoption, discrimination, homosexuality\nGood News! Network Decisions Influenced by Threat of Higher Indecency Fines\nAn increase in maximum fines for broadcast indecency seems to be getting the attention of network television executives.\nSince Congress raised the maximum fine from $32,500 to $325,000 last year, Pat Trueman with the Alliance Defense Fund said he has noticed more care being taken by networks.\n\"What you've got is appropriate screening of the material they put out to the public, and that's appropriate,\" he said. \"That's what indecency law was supposed to accomplish.\"\nBut some broadcast executives are complaining, saying the higher fines chill freedom of speech. Leslie Moonves, president and CEO of CBS, called them \"unfair.\" He said his network turned away millions of dollars in Super Bowl ads that were deemed unfit for broadcast.\nBut Trueman pointed out that not all speech is protected.\n\"It will chill some material,\" he said, \"but not every speech, not every word, not every comment is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.\"\nCitizenlink.com\nLabels: FCC, fines, network\nThey Will Never Know What Hit Them...\nThe software mogul Tim Gill has a mission: Stop the Rick Santorums of tomorrow before they get started. How a network of gay political donors is stealthily fighting sexual discrimination and reshaping American politics\n-- From \"They Won\u2019t Know What Hit Them\" by Joshua Green, The Atlantic - March 2007\nA tough loss can be hard to swallow, and plenty of defeated politicians have been known to grumble about sinister conspiracies. When they are rising stars like Danny Carroll, the Republican speaker pro tempore of Iowa\u2019s House of Representatives, and the loss is unexpected, the urge to blame unseen forces can be even stronger\u2014and in Carroll\u2019s case, it would have the additional distinction of being justified. Carroll was among the dozens of targets of a group of rich gay philanthropists who quietly joined forces last year, under the leadership of a reclusive Colorado technology mogul, to counter the tide of antigay politics in America that has generated, among other things, a succession of state ballot initiatives banning gay marriage. Carroll had sponsored such a bill in Iowa and guided it to passage in the state House of Representatives, the first step toward getting it on the ballot.\nLike many other state legislatures last year, Iowa\u2019s was narrowly divided. So all it would take to break the momentum toward a constitutional marriage ban was to tip a few close races. If Democrats took control of the House and Senate, however narrowly, the initiative would die, and with it the likelihood of further legislation limiting civil rights for gays and lesbians. And, fortuitously, Carroll\u2019s own reelection race looked to be one of the closest. He represented the liberal college town of Grinnell and had won the last time around by just a handful of votes.\nOver the summer, Carroll\u2019s opponent started receiving checks from across the country\u2014significant sums for a statehouse race, though none so large as to arouse suspicion (the gifts topped out at $1,000). Because they came from individuals and not from organizations, nothing identified the money as being \u201cgay,\u201d or even coordinated. Only a very astute political operative would have spotted the unusual number of out-of-state donors and pondered their interest in an obscure midwestern race. And only someone truly versed in the world of gay causes would have noticed a $1,000 contribution from Denver, Colorado, and been aware that its source, Tim Gill, is the country\u2019s biggest gay donor, and the nexus of an aggressive new force in national politics.\nRead the rest at the Atlantic.com\nLabels: campaign, donors, election, gay agenda, homosexuality, politicians, Tim Gill, vote\nIs it Necessary to Win the Culture War at Home in Order to Win the War on Terror?\nAccording to a new book by Dinesh D'Souza the answer is yes. Some food for thought...\nThe culture wars and the war on terror are intimately connected. If we want to win the war on terror we have to win the culture war at home. That is the central argument of Dinesh D'Sousa's new book, The Enemy at Home, and it's a point worth pondering.\nWhy were we attacked on 9/11? Why do they hate us? D'Sousa rounds up and dismisses the usual answers to these questions \u2014 \"they hate us for our freedom,\" \"they're angry about Colonialism,\" etc. \u2014 and proposes the same answer that the terrorists themselves give: they hate us for our decadence. And they fear that we mean to export our debased values to their traditional societies \u2014 not just Britney and Madonna and rap music, but also illegitimacy, easy divorce, abortion, and gay marriage. According to D'Sousa, Muslims feel threatened less by our military, and more by our seductions. They refer to us as the \"Great Satan,\" he observes, because Satan is primarily understood as a tempter, not a conqueror.\nThere are some problems with this analysis. It doesn't quite explain why radical Muslims attack other traditional people in India or Indonesia, or why traditional Sunni Muslims blow up mosques in traditional Shia neighborhoods. Nor is it useful in explaining why Muslims swept out of Arabia in the seventh century, and subjugated most of the Middle-East, all of North Africa, and most of Spain. Whatever the reason for these conquests it had nothing to do with outrage over images of scantily clad temptresses beamed over satellite TV from stations along the North African coast. D'Sousa slides too quickly over the aggressive, expansionistic side of Islam, and gives too much credit to the notion that the current jihad is motivated solely by fear of cultural subversion. Most Islamic religious authorities hold that jihad is a duty commanded by Allah in good times and bad.\nNevertheless, D'Sousa's argument deserves serious consideration. His thesis may not explain all of Muslim aggressiveness, but it does help to clarify the current situation...\nA culture which concentrates on self-gratification is bound to drain life of meaning because meaning is usually found in something outside the self. People will fight and die for God and for family, and for values that are perceived as noble, but not many are willing to sacrifice themselves so that strangers can gratify themselves in strange ways. How many want to die in order that polyamory might live? Or that Britney might expose herself with impunity? Or that Robert Redford might indulge himself by screening films about zoophiles? The cultural left seeks an expansion of rights for the self-expression lobby, and a restriction of rights for those who look beyond the self for moral standards. If they win that fight we all lose, left and right alike.\nIf you think the culture wars don't matter, take a look across the Atlantic. They never had a culture war in Europe because when the war was declared, only one side showed up. Now they have another kind of fight on their hands for which they are totally unprepared. 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You can put your trust in our experienced team.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://darrenyoungauthor.com/lets-talk-writing-1-tony-riches-part-ii/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:08Z", "digest": "sha1:EHRHQ5POEGLPU5IZU6TCSSSKXCLICRP7", "length": 4539, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "darrenyoungauthor.com", "title": "Let\u2019s Talk Writing #1 \u2013 Tony Riches (Part II) | Darren Young", "raw_content": "by Darren Young | Aug 4, 2017 | Blog, Let's Talk Writing | 0 comments\nPart 2 \u2013 Tackling A Trilogy\nIn part 1, Tony explained that he\u2019d completed not only his Tudor Trilogy, but also several other books. In the last five years or so! He could easily have added the title \u2018Making Time For Writing For Busy People\u2019 \u2013 he\u2019s probably thought about it.\nIn addition to his first book, a business one, Tony also published another business title, Personal Productivity for Busy Managers and two non-fiction titles. The first, Terra Nova: Antarctic Voyager tells the near 60 year story of the titular ship from build to its sinking off the coast of Greenland and focuses on its 1910 journey to the coldest place on earth. The second, just to demonstrate his diversity, is one I\u2019m ordering as it covers the story of the last mission of the space shuttle, Atlantis after 30 years of space flights. This is of particular interest to me as I was lucky enough to see the shuttle in all its glory at Kennedy Space Centre a couple of years ago and would love to know more about it.\nSo the big question I had was \u2018how did Tony find the time to write all these books?\u2019\nFrom experience, I\u2019d struggled to write just one but Tony thinks it\u2019s a \u2018Catch 22\u2019 situation because unless you are writing full time, your day job has to take priority and therefore its unlikely you\u2019ll have enough time and make a living from writing. Tony found that his children leaving home \u2013 allowing him to downsize to a place by the sea \u2013 allowed him to focus on his books and work whenever and wherever he chose. My kids better take note; although they aren\u2019t teenagers yet there is a clear warning there somewhere.\nSo with one book being an achievement for most writers (and I\u2019m putting myself in that bracket), Tony set upon the idea of tackling a trilogy next. He was reading Conn Iggulden\u2019s War of the Roses trilogy and it occurred to him that it was what he wanted to do next.\nBy this time, Tony also knew what worked for him when it came to writing. He says \u2018I don\u2019t know if any writer ever feels they\u2019ve mastered the \u2018craft\u2019 of writing\u2019 but those first three novels had helped him understand how to develop his characters through dialogue and he also began to realise the value of building his author platform and raising awareness; spending as much time doing that as actually writing.\nBut still. A trilogy? Tony says there are real benefits and thinks it\u2019s something every novelist should consider \u2013 I\u2019m going to take some convincing, mind. Tony ranks the main benefit as synergy; in that the power of the group is greater than each working on its own.\nThe scope is another big plus. A trilogy, he says, offers a liberating sense of space and freedom because ideas you hint at on the first book can be developed further in the second and third books. Complex relationships can develop over time and of course, there is the ever changing context in which the story is set that offers readers as Tony puts it, a more immersive experience.\nBut Tony is also a business expert, remember? So there\u2019s a practical advantage too because rather than having one launch and one opportunity to sell a book, you get multiple chances to do so and can be promoting one book while writing the next one. It worked. The Tudor Trilogy became a best seller in the UK, US and Australia.\nHe uses his writing blog, Twitter \u2013 @tonyriches \u2013 and Facebook to raise awareness of his work, utilising Blogger to automatically share posts to Goodreads and Google+. He has landing pages for each of his books and last year, launched his own author website (www.tonyriches.com) which has served him well. Generally, he has been disappointed with the results of most paid for promotion, although he rates Circle of books as a notable exception.\nHis own interaction with readers has made a significant difference. It was another benefit of writing a trilogy that he began having contact with people who wanted to know when the next book would be available and this helped Tony to develop an international reader base.\nHe now sells books via Amazon in thirteen countries and has built a great readership in Australia through engaging with people via social media. Having his Amazon Germany author page translated helped grow German sales and his biggest fan base is in the United States, so that\u2019s where he focusses his energy.\nAnd as you can see from the size of the reading pile in the image (those are the books Tony used when writing his trilogy) that\u2019s a lot of energy.\nNext time: Part 3 \u2013 A Gap In History?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://datalog.co.uk/browse/detail.php/CompanyNumber/SC297951/CompanyName/WELL-TO-DO+%28UK%29+LIMITED", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6OKPNP6TXFZF7KTKVEX5G3CIRHIX263H", "length": 2584, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "datalog.co.uk", "title": "WELL-TO-DO (UK) LIMITED - company is dissolved. This is historic information.", "raw_content": "Home > Scotland > WELL-TO-DO (UK) LIMITED\nWELL-TO-DO (UK) LIMITED\nAbout Well-to-do (uk) Ltd\nWELL-TO-DO (UK) LIMITED was founded on 2006-03-01 and had its registered office in Aberdeen. The company was dissolved on the 2017-08-15 and is no longer trading or active.\nThere are multiple companies registered at this address, the registered address may be the accountant's offices for WELL-TO-DO (UK) LIMITED\nCompany Officers of WELL-TO-DO (UK) LIMITED\nJEANETTE DE VANNA Director 2006-03-02\nSIMON HENRY DYER COWIE Nominated Director 2006-03-01 2006-03-02\n2015-03-02 CH01 DIRECTOR'S CHANGE OF PARTICULARS / JEANETTE DE VANNA / 02/02/2015\n2012-05-24 CH01 DIRECTOR'S CHANGE OF PARTICULARS / JEANETTE BRACERAS / 16/04/2012\n2009-03-02 288c DIRECTOR'S CHANGE OF PARTICULARS / JEANETTE DE VANNA / 19/02/2009\nWe could not find any licences issued to WELL-TO-DO (UK) LIMITED or authorisation from an industry specific regulator to operate. 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He was (I'm guessing) in his twenties, somewhat overweight, wearing shorts, a T-shirt, a scruffy beard, engaged in animated conversation with two younger companions. Animated conversation aside, none of that describes me. My instinctive reaction reflected the fact that he fit the pattern of people in environments where I am comfortable. He was probably an sf fan, probably a board game or computer game player, possibly a World of Warcraft player, possibly an SCA member.\nLike most moderns, I am a member of more than one tribe. Some years back, when we were visiting colleges that one or the other of our children was considering, I took advantage of that fact to find sources of information not funneled through the admissions department. Part was locating members of the local SCA group, if there was one, and talking with them about the school. Part was wandering around the economics department getting into conversations. Economists are more willing to talk freely to a fellow economist than to a random parent, a trait I took advantage of.\nFor one final and stranger example, I offer my response to seeing someone else driving the same model and color of car I drive. I know nothing else about the driver, but my instinctive reaction is to categorize him as a sort of distant kin.\nAt 9:06 PM, January 06, 2014, Russ Nelson said...\nMy wife laughs. \"Just because they drive a Subaru like you doesn't make them a good driver in the snow.\"\nSCA = Scottish Canoe Association?\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCA\n(I could've picked worse ones :-P)\nAt 11:02 PM, January 06, 2014, Norm said...\nI miss the tribal custom of waving at those who drive a car similar to yours. This was quite common when I learnt to drive.\nAt 11:20 PM, January 06, 2014, Mark Horning said...\nI drive a Mustang Convertible. Others who do so always wave or give the \"thumbs up\" when the top is down.\nthis is a path to racism\nI sometimes ride a motorcycle - a cross country one. Everytime you meet a \"fellow\" biker on the road (or a terrain track), you wave at them and they wave at you. Less often if I meet other types of bikes (chopppers or road bikes in general).\nDiversity and Community in the 21st Century\nA vast, five-year study proved that Diversity destroys community trust, undertaken by professor Robert D. Putnam, who actually set out to prove that diversity was a good thing and even spent years trying to find another explanation for his findings.\nThe first time Carol and I went to a Worldcon\u2014it was Con Francisco\u2014we arrived in the city a day early and walked over to the convention center to pick up our badges. A couple of blocks away we saw a particular set of passersby on the street who had a certain familiar look, and speculated that they might be there for the con, which turned out to be right. That gave me the sense of \"fandom as ethnicity,\" which has been with me ever since.\nI\u2019ve spent so much time focusing on the negative aspects of tribalism that I often overlook the positive. From religious groups to bikers, I\u2019ve seen the perils of over-identifying with a certain group and taking on us-vs-them attitudes that leads to marginalizing those that are not one of your tribe. I ride a motorcycle and it is amazing to me that other riders will make sweeping judgments about you based solely on what type of bike you ride.\nI think tribalism has evolved into our natures and hard to get away from, but more and more I\u2019ve come to see it as justification for prejudices and shallow thinking for a lot of people. I live in the Midwest and come from a very fundamentalist religious family. I see a lot of bias and jingoism in my own backyard that has, perhaps, poisoned my perception of things.\nThat being said, the examples you provide show some positive aspects of tribalism. As I\u2019ve grown older I\u2019ve come to realize that my aversion to joining groups has caused me to miss out on a lot of social experiences and opportunities. Forming strong bonds with a group has all kinds of benefits and can be a good thing as long as you don\u2019t come to believe your group is inherently superior to everyone else.\nMy wife and I used to work for the same company in San Diego and had a very long commute. We developed a game where we'd spot a car in front of us and, based on the make/model/color of the vehicle and any other information available (window decals, aftermarket parts, etc.) make a set of predictions about who was driving it. Then we'd accelerate so we could see the driver and test our prediction.\nWe stopped playing the game because it became too easy.\nSCA = Society for Creative Anachronism, a group that does medieval and renaissance stuff for fun which I've been part of for forty some years.\nOn a more serious note, I think the concept at play here is interesting and ever-relevant (everelevant?).\nYes, David, most people these days are members of more than one tribe. But to which tribes does your loyalty really impact you in a profound way? How many of your tribes really matter to you in the end? In a more life-or-death situation than shopping at the supermarket or driving around town, what tribal identity tends to pop out?\nLook at prisons. Tribes emerge there very visibly, mainly along gang lines first, and racial lines second. (And with gang tattoos so prevalent, it's clear that gangs are attempting to make themselves into a kind of race anyway.)\nSociety is broken down similarly but less concretely. David, while you may be the only SCA member or even the only economist on the block, I'm guessing your neighborhood is mostly filled with people who are also white, college educated, married, and middle-aged. I'll guess that your wife also has a similar level of education (at least a bachelor's degree) and is also white and close in age to you. No coincidences likely.\nI once attended a conference in Ohio on lake maintenance. I noticed that the other attendees (all of whom lived on or near lakes or had some other interest in maintaining lakes) were mostly white, middle aged or older, clad in jeans and polo shirts, and--this is the interesting part--unusually tall. The average height there must have been 5'11 or 6'0. (Average height for the general American population is closer to 5'9.) Again, coincidence is improbable.\nHe was probably an sf fan, probably a board game or computer game player, possibly a World of Warcraft player, possibly an SCA member.\nYou may be right, or you may be wrong -- a judging a book by its cover mistake.\nWho knows, he might very well love the flowery prose of Tony Morrison, couldn't print \"Hello World\" to stdout if he tried, doesn't group well and instead prefers long walks in the rain.\nPower Child: I think the choice of an educated spouse is not a manifestation of tribalism. Would you say someone who's only attended elementary school would not want a university educated person because that is a different \"tribe\"? I think that essentially, you want someone of an equal or higher status than you are...but the funny part is that status is a very subjective matter.\nAnd of course then it is about personal chemistry and such things which are likely even more important, but hard to measure or even describe sometimes, so you cannot make assumptions and statistics and such based on that.\nI guess it is true that your tribe(s) can have an influence over what you consider high status...or just nudge you a bit into certain choices sometimes (mostly true about the family I guess). And conversely - you choose the tribe(s) you belong to based on your opinions and interests...both probably influence each other and part of the initial values and interests are influenced highly by the one tribe you don't choose - your family.\nAlso, it reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/165/ :)\n\"My God,\" she said, \"are you a Hoosier?\"\nI admitted I was.\n\"I'm a Hoosier, too,\" she crowed. \"Nobody has to be ashamed of being a Hoosier.\"\n\"I'm not,\" I said. \"I never knew anybody who was.\"\n\"Hoosiers do all right. Lowe and I've been around the world twice, and everywhere we went we found Hoosiers in charge of everything.\"\n- Cat's Cradle\nThe point about the wife is relevant because you are more likely to meet someone with similar interests if you hang around people similar to you in other \"tribal\" areas like race, education level, income, family background, etc.\nYou choose certain tribes, but the ones that matter most in life-or-death situations tend to be ones you don't choose:\nSpeaking very hypothetically of course, if Thomas Sowell goes to prison, he may object to hanging out with the thugs in the black gang because he has little in common with them in terms of interests and hobbies, but when the white gang comes to shank him it will be the black gang that rises up to protect him.\nOn the other hand, Jesse Jackson crosses the street when he sees a young black guy coming towards him. 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While walking on the red carpet, their photographs are flashed on the screen with a caption of their years in service and the schools where they served as teachers.\nIn the opening remarks delivered by Dr. Melody P. Cruz, OIC-Assistant Schools Division Superintendent, she recognized the presence of the retirees as well as the efforts of the people who made the activity possible.\n\u201cRetirement is a beautiful word for those who have reached their age, those who retired with good health and those who were able to survive the challenges and pressures brought about by the tedious work in the organization.\u201d Dr. Evangeline P. Ladines, the Schools Division Superintendent said in her inspirational message. Apart from varied definitions of retirement, she emphasized the mixed emotions of sadness and happiness as well as the facts of life that the retirees will face after their retirement. She acknowledged their contributions, their passion and their commitment in teaching the learners and their rich experiences for long years in public service. She concluded with the statement saying, \u201cI wish you well in your endeavors and I ask you to stay connected with your school heads, co-teachers and friends for in doing so you will feel your presence in the organization.\u201d\nThe words to ponder were delivered by Mrs. Aurora Delminguez, retired OIC-Head Teacher of Pasay City East High School and Mrs. Marlyn Canizares a retired Master Teacher II of Marcela Marcelo Elementary School. In their messages they reminisced the challenges they encountered and the learnings they gained from their superiors, co-teachers as well as their learners. They expressed appreciation for the rare opportunity and the good memories given to all retirees by the Division through the tribute.\nAdding spice and excitement to the program are the serenade of the SDOP officials, the heartfelt intermission numbers and the video presentation which captures the moments of the teacher-retirees\nThe program commenced with a salute to the teacher-retirees for their greatness as stated by Mr. Libardo F. Torres, Chief Education Program Supervisors in his closing remarks.\nThe tribute to the retirees is one of the activities in observance to the celebration of the Division World Teachers\u2019 Day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 4913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://designglass.co.uk/?q=about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BAKVYALYQ77EBJ3CFZGFQYYAK2LEK5GP", "length": 1204, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "designglass.co.uk", "title": "About Us | Stained Glass and Leaded Lights | Design Glass", "raw_content": "James has worked for the last four years at Design Glass, when he is not cutting glass, and building leaded lights James is listening to music or going to gigs.\nChris is an avid supporter of Leeds football team and takes his son on a regular basis to watch the match. One of the longest serving and experienced member of the team Chris enjoys making our glass ceilings and domes.\nLiz is the Business Development Director and enjoys art and photography, along with the odd glass of red wine.\nAlex is involved in some of the restoration work we do. An accomplished glass painter he restores damaged etched and painted panels .When he isn\u2019t painting Alex can be found at the gym or gigs.\nDave is a Harley Davison fanatic when he\u2019s not out and about on his bike and listening to loud music he\u2019s the boss.\nSarah is our Commercial Director and loves good wine, good food and good company.\nAndy has been with us for at least twelve years, he enjoys fishing, cycling and listening to music when he\u2019s not running about delivering orders, picking up glass, measuring up and leading glass.\nJulia has worked for us for the last 14yrs as Workshop Manager Julia loves holidays in the sun an walking in the countryside.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://didthetribewinlastnight.com/blog/category/lynchburg-hillcats/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IDQIAKCUKR6A2WCEST5QIUY4O635CXHU", "length": 3150, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "didthetribewinlastnight.com", "title": "Lynchburg Hillcats | Did The Tribe Win Last Night? - Part 2", "raw_content": "Lynchburg Hillcats Limped into All-Star Break\nBusch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, is only a few hours east of Lynchburg. It features the Loch Ness Monster, a roller coaster built in 1978 and still the only coaster featuring two interlocking loops over water and a helix tunnel between the two loops. The loops and helix tunnel make for an exhilarating ride, much like the ride dedicated fans of the High-A Lynchburg Hillcats experienced in the season\u2019s first half.\nEarly season games were marked by temperatures around freezing, while rainouts contributed to the team having four scheduled doubleheaders between June 6 and June 13 \u2013 three of them on the road, including back-to-back nights in Frederick. Even with a seven-inning limit imposed by Minor League Baseball rules, that is a lot of innings. Of the eight games in these doubleheaders, the Hillcats lost six. They dropped both games on June 6 in Wilmington, and four games in two days at Frederick. The only victory was a home game against Potomac, where starter Zach Plesac earned his fifth victory on the season, his fourth in a Lynchburg uniform. That night\u2019s second game was washed out by rain.\n\u201cYeah, we haven\u2019t been able to work like we would like to, but there is nothing we can do, it\u2019s just Mother Nature,\u201d said Hillcats manager Rougie Odor about the team\u2019s weather misfortunes. \u201cWhen it\u2019s raining we go inside to the cage and do the best to prepare to go out and play the game.\u201d Read More\nHillcats\u2019 Stars Shine in Carolina League All-Star Game Loss\nThey may have come away on the losing side of the final score, but the three members of the Lynchburg Hillcats selected to participate in the Carolina League\u2019s All-Star Game on Tuesday chipped in with solid individual performances.\nOutfielder Conner Capel, starting pitcher Sam Hentges, and reliever Dalbert Siri made the three-hour trek south to Five County Stadium in Zebulon, North Carolina, for this week\u2019s battle between the Northern and Southern Divisions of the Carolina League. Read More\nMinnesota Native Sam Hentges is Building Experience on the Mound\nThe 6\u20196\u201d lefty is a towering figure on the mound at City Stadium in Lynchburg. A thin beard frames the face of Cleveland\u2019s fourth round selection of the 2014 draft. With eight starts under his belt, including his first career Opening Day nod, Sam Hentges is beginning to show the potential that he exhibited before going under the knife for Tommy John surgery.\nAfter suffering the injury midway into the 2016 season (he had 14 starts for the Low-A Lake County Captains), his progress through the Indians farm system was delayed. Now, almost two years since his surgery, he is returning to form as he demonstrates what he can do on the mound.\n\u201cI take things from the weight room and the training room and bring them to bullpens and every day throwing,\u201d said Hentges about his recovery from surgery. Read More\n\u201cGrowing up everyone always said you are going to have a job (in baseball) if you are left-handed,\u201d said Krauth. \u201cIt seems to be true, but pitching is still the same. You have to throw the ball over the plate, challenge the guy in the batter\u2019s box.\u201d Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 11616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://digital.liby.waikato.ac.nz/pubcol?e=d-01000-00---off-0iln--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-about---00-3-1-00---4--0--0-0-11-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&cl=CL2.1&d=HASH01e5fa0e9f5824010c4c7a95", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4X2AT7HFV7OAPGYBQXCTPJJEUSYZ6XA4", "length": 3057, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "digital.liby.waikato.ac.nz", "title": "Illustrated London News volume 004 IV: 2", "raw_content": "NEW ZEALAND. We have received a file of New Zealand papers to the 25th of July inclusive, from which we make the following interesting extracts:\u2014 \u2022(From the New Zealand Colonist.) JULY 7.\u2014On Tuesday evening, Mr. Spain returned to this town from the mission to Otaki. We understand that, on his arrival at Waikanae, he met with Rauparaha, who was endeavouring to persuade the natives of that place to make common cause with him against the settlers. The chief, however, continued firm to his first purpose, stating that he had always received from the settlers just treatment, and would not engage against them in a quarrel which noways concerned himself or his people. This friendly sentiment was confirmed by the statements of Mr. Spain, who took great pains to impress upon the whole body of natives that principle of English law, which forbids that the innocent should be punished with or for the guilty. On the Saturday Mr. Spain proceeded to Ottaki, where he met Watanui and the other chiefs of the Ngati Raukawa tribe. From them he received positive assurances that they would in no case be concerned in acts of aggression upon the settlers, but they unanimously stated their determination to protect Rauparaha at all hazards. We have just heard a report of the death of Rangihaiata, which we are informed occurred at Otaki on Monday last, in consequence of the wound in his foot. From the inquiries we have been able to make, we feel convinced of its truth. This event has certainly removed one main obstacle to the settlement of this part of the country. Rangihaiata might be considered as the type of the New Zealander before the race were brought under the civilizing influences which have for some years past been at work among them \u2014 violent, reckless, and uncalculating. Happily, the present number of such men among the natives is small, and as they die off they leave no successors. We have been informed that a man named Hanham, who was supposed to have been killed in the late melancholy affair at Wairau, has reached Nelson, but two are still missing, named Burton and Stokes. JULY 25.\u2014The Government brig arrived here yesterday morning, from Auckland, bringing Major Richmond, the chief police magistrate; Colonel Godfrey, Commissioner of Land Claims, who is about to proceed to Akaroa; Mr. Edward Shortland; Captain Bennet, of the Engineers; and fifty-three soldiers of the 96th. We have as yet heard but little of the intelligence brought. The arrival of a body of soldiers will tend to restore confidence, and we believe that ample inquiries will be made into all the circumstances connected with the affair at Wairau. We understand that Major Richmond will proceed in the course of a day or two in the brig to Cloudy Bay, and then to Nelson, and return to this place as speedily as possible. A fight had taken place among the aborigines, between the Maitland tribe on the one side, and the Port Stephen and Paterson tribes on the other. Several, were killed, and a great number wounded on both sides. The Maitland tribe had fire-arms.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 3207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dilanconsulting.com/conflict-management-is-self-management-registration/fvx0sbiewq348vlpd3ohxd3wm0bcoa", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:19Z", "digest": "sha1:YIAQROLRZYCRLS7KSJ24SFLQYJPNV24O", "length": 48, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dilanconsulting.com", "title": "Conflict Management is Self-Management Workshop \u2014 Dilan Consulting Group", "raw_content": "\u2190 Back to Conflict Management is Self-Management", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://discovermagazine.com/2004/jul/pouch-or-no-pouch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:51Z", "digest": "sha1:75TYUNN2A2ZKF6EAY4DA6FRAFDZU5G6Z", "length": 17221, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "discovermagazine.com", "title": "Pouch or no Pouch | DiscoverMagazine.com", "raw_content": "Pouch or no Pouch\nWhether 'tis wiser to nourish a fetus in an external flap or grow it in a womb has shaped a new mystery of evolution\nBy Douglas S. Fox, Martin Mischkulnig|Sunday, July 25, 2004\nA joey, or infant kangaroo, takes a breather in its mother\u2019s pouch. Joeys nurse in their mother\u2019s external pouch until they are about a year old.\nBetween my thumb and forefinger I hold a cork. Driven into that cork is a tiny pin. And glued delicately to the tip of that pin is a jawbone the size of a fingernail clipping\u2014all that remains of a small mammal that scurried beneath ferns and fallen logs 115 million years ago in what is now Australia.\nI am sitting with paleontologist Tom Rich in a laboratory at Monash University in Melbourne. Lining the walls are row upon row of wooden drawers filled with the petrified remains of turtle shells, fish bones, dinosaur toes, and the like. But this jaw\u2014and the teeth lining it\u2014is the star attraction. Rich is explaining the teeth\u2019s intricate facets, referring to areas on an enlarged dental diagram.\n\u201cHere you have the slicing trigonid,\u201d he says, pointing to the spiky front half of a lower molar. \u201cThere in the back, you have the basin where the upper tooth lands and grinds the food.\u201d The closely interlocking arrangement is a distinctively mammalian innovation and a crucial advance in evolution. Each pair of upper and lower teeth can simultaneously slice food and grind it like a mortar and pestle. Animals equipped with these teeth can choose from a wide variety of foods\u2014woody seeds, fruit, leaves, insects, or small animals.\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s 115 million years old,\u201d says Rich. \u201cIt really looks like a mammal that you wouldn\u2019t expect to see until 50 million years ago.\u201d\nIt especially doesn\u2019t look like an animal that would have lived in Australia, because the jaw and teeth show features of animals that nourish their young inside the mother\u2019s uterus. Australia is the land of weird mammals like kangaroos and koalas that nourish their young in external pouches after a brief gestation. Biologists call the first group placental mammals and the second group marsupial mammals. They have assumed that marsupials could prosper only on a backwater continent like Australia, where they were insulated from competition with placental mammals. But if Rich is correct, and his jawbone means what it appears to mean, placental mammals not only lived in Australia eons earlier than ever imagined but could also have competed with marsupials and lost. That scenario upends a long-standing theory about where some of the earliest mammals originated and how they colonized the world.\nAbout 115 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled. The only mammal-like critters were usually smaller than rats, and they scuttled through the underbrush chasing insects. There were only two giant continents. Geologists call the northern one Laurasia and the southern one Gondwanaland. Both landmasses were breaking apart. Laurasia would become North America, Europe, and parts of Asia. Gondwanaland became South America, Africa, Australia, Antarctica, Madagascar, and the southern parts of Asia.\nMost paleontologists say fossils show that both placental and marsupial mammals originated in the northern continent more than 110 million years ago. About 80 million years ago, when the two landmasses touched, both groups supposedly spread into the southern continent. The dinosaurs also died out around this time, allowing mammals to expand and diversify. Placental mammals came to dominate in most places; marsupials thrived only in Australia and parts of South America.\nBut if Rich\u2019s suspicions are correct, the first and second acts of this evolutionary drama are radically different: Not only did placental mammals live in Australia eons ago, they originated on the southern part of the vast first continent and spread to the northern landmasses more than 100 million years ago, during Gondwanaland\u2019s breakup. Rich and his colleagues call this new theory the Garden of Eden hypothesis.\nLesley Kool, a member of Rich\u2019s team, sits with me in a car overlooking the cliffs that line Flat Rocks, a coastal site in southeastern Australia. Rain falls and waves crash on the beach below. Some 115 million years ago, she tells me, this shoreline was a flat-bottomed valley where Australia and Antarctica touched. Broad, pebbly rivers meandered through that valley, and their ancient sediments can still be found in these cliffs.\nWe zip on our parkas and head down a stairway to the bottom of the cliff. After a few yards, Kool kneels and points to blotches of stone that seem to drip like a bad paint job into the cliff\u2019s thin horizontal layers of stone. She says the drips hint at what the ancient climate and terrain were like. Some 115 million years ago, when it was much colder here than it is today, mud pushed down into the permafrost layers of soil below, forming these blotches.\nGeologists say this valley may once have been as far south as 75 degrees south latitude\u2014only 15 degrees from the South Pole. The average annual temperature would have been about freezing\u2014possibly rising as high as 70 degrees Fahrenheit in summer and plummeting to less than \u201310\u00b0F in the winter.\nDespite cold, snow, and three months of darkness every winter, life thrived here, as it does today in parts of Alaska with a similar climate. Forests of tree ferns, conifers, cycads, and ginkgos with trunks three feet across covered the valley floor. Hundreds of bones found here reveal that wallaby-size hypsilophodontid dinosaurs nibbled on undergrowth, as did club-tailed ankylosaurs, which reached the size of small cars. Large, two-legged meat eaters stalked through snow looking for small prey, or they hibernated. Egg-laying monotreme mammals related to modern-day platypuses scurried through the bushes. Pterosaurs and primitive birds glided above, and rivers teemed with turtles, fish, and fish-eating plesiosaurs.\nTom Rich and his colleagues believe the half-inch-long jawbone belonged to a 115-million-year-old placental mammal that lived in what is now Australia. Teeth are crucial for fossil identification because they are both durable and closely regulated by genes. Reptilian teeth, for example, are simple pointed cones; mammalian teeth are distinctive for the basins and cusps that form complex interlocking upper and lower molars. The inset at right shows 15 features on the jawbone\u2019s molars. One reason Rich believes the jawbone belonged to a placental mammal is that it has three molars and one smaller, somewhat similar tooth called a premolar. Marsupial mammals have four molars.\nKool stops to point out black-flecked sandstone at the base of the cliff. The flecks are bits of carbonized wood that accumulated in a riverbed. \u201cIt looks like some annual flooding event,\u201d she says, noting five layers in the speckled rock. \u201cEach layer is deposited directly above the previous one. It\u2019s quite possible they were laid down in five consecutive years.\u201d\nThe layers slope downward into the waves. Farther into the waves lies a spot where hundreds of bones settled, perhaps because a sandbar slowed the ancient river\u2019s current. Since the first jawbone was found here in 1997, Rich\u2019s team has chipped at least 28 more from the rock. Many of the jaws come from two creatures Rich has deemed placental mammals\u2014Ausktribosphenos nyktos and Bishops whitmorei.\nNo other type of bone from a mammal has turned up here. Rich says his hunch is that \u201cwe have a Samson effect. Samson slew a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of an ass. It\u2019s the toughest bone in the body.\u201d For mammals, jawbones are the remains most likely to last millennia.\nRich\u2019s trove of jawbones are not the only clues that placental mammals could have originated in Gondwanaland. In 1999 a team from the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and the University of California at Santa Barbara found a 170-million-year-old jaw in Madagascar that looked as if it belonged to a predecessor of both placental and marsupial mammals. And in 2001, a team from the Museo Paleontol\u00f3gico Egidio Feruglio in Argentina unearthed an intriguing jaw from 160-million-year-old rocks in Chubut, Argentina. Although the Argentine team suspects that the bone came from an egg-laying mammal, other paleontologists believe it shows traits of a placental mammal. These fossils are every bit as assumption-shattering as Rich\u2019s. They turned up at sites on landmasses that once belonged to Gondwanaland\u2014sites where they should not be if placental mammals arose in the northern landmass of Laurasia.\nMolecular studies also turn up results that don\u2019t fit with a Laurasian origin for placental mammals. When geneticists compare DNA sequences of the world\u2019s placental mammals, the results cluster into a family tree with four major groups. By studying variations within the DNA of each group, researchers approximate how long it took the groups to diverge and develop as distinct entities. Their calculations suggest that the oldest two groups emerged around 100 million years ago, predating the other two groups by 10 million years. Surprisingly, these two older groups are made up of mammals that are found in South America and Africa. They include animals such as elephants and sloths.\nNo clear-cut fossil evidence of these older South American and African groups has been found in Laurasia. And even if these older groups once had predecessors on Laurasia that have not yet been found, it would have been impossible for the creatures to migrate to the southern landmasses that long ago because the continents of Gondwanaland and Laurasia made contact only about 80 million years ago.\nThese inconsistencies can be resolved by the simple hypothesis that placental mammals originated in Gondwanaland, not Laurasia, says mammalogist Tim Flannery, director of the South Australia Museum in Adelaide.\n\u201cThe earliest branches are in the Southern Hemisphere,\u201d he says, \u201cso that\u2019s where you\u2019d start looking for the origin of placentals. And just coincidentally, here we have these fossils in the south that look like placental mammals.\u201d\nGondwanaland was the largest landmass of its day\u201440 percent larger than Eurasia is now\u2014and it spawned other major animal groups, including songbirds and the forebears of pythons and boa constrictors. Why not placental mammals? If the earliest placental mammals originated in Gondwanaland, they could have been heading north throughout the entire period from about 150 million years ago to 50 million years ago. The theory is plausible because of documented geologic changes. During much of Gondwanaland\u2019s existence, a hot current was rising from deep in Earth\u2019s mantle, repeatedly fracturing Gondwanaland\u2019s continental plate and causing fragments of land to drift north. The largest fragments included what were destined to become India, Myanmar (Burma), and other parts of modern-day Southeast Asia. Placental mammals could have been carried north on the fragments or on Africa when it broke off from Gondwanaland and eventually docked with Europe and Asia.\nYOUR CHANGING PLANET\nThe fossil record was supposed to show that placental mammals evolved in the Northern Hemisphere more than 110 million years ago and began migrating into the southern landmasses 80 million years ago. A controversial theory that draws on geologic events and fossil evidence proposes that placental mammals may have originated in the southern landmasses and spread throughout the world as the first two continents\u2014Laurasia and Gondwanaland\u2014were breaking apart more than 100 million years ago.\n(Graphic by Don Foley)\nThe world 240 million years ago\nIn the traditional theory, placental mammals began spreading south\nonly 80 million years ago.\nIn the Garden of Eden theory, placental mammals migrated from the south as the continents\nwere breaking up.\nGondwanaland continued to break up, with Australia and South America splitting off from Antarctica between 30 and 60 million years ago. Antarctica\u2019s isolation allowed a mighty ocean current to flow around it, unimpeded by any landmass. That forever changed the climate worldwide. The current locked Antarctica into perpetual frost and plunged Australia into colder and drier weather. \u201cIt was an event of global proportions,\u201d says Liz Truswell, a paleontologist at the Australian National University in Canberra who specializes in pollen studies. \u201cI think Australia would have been a challenging place once you started to break up the vegetation covers, break up the rain forests.\u201d\nToday Australia brims with plants and animals seldom found elsewhere on Earth. The most well known examples are marsupials. When European biologists first encountered them during the 18th century, they viewed them as ridiculous-looking, oddball, and hopelessly antiquated. The squishy pink marsupial offspring looked barely alive when they were born. Such underdeveloped young seemed a sure sign that the marsupial uterus was too primitive to grow the sort of developed fetus that a placental mammal can deliver. They seemed to lie halfway between hot-blooded, live-bearing placental mammals and cold-blooded, egg-laying reptiles.\nThe story of marsupial evolution, however, proves to be much more complex. Paleontologists now know that marsupials did not evolve in Australia. Fossil finds show that they originated in Laurasia. North America holds the most traces, but some recent discoveries also point to Asia. Marsupials radiated into South America, possibly through the chain of islands in the Caribbean Sea, and then migrated across South America and Antarctica into Australia. Biologists have surmised that marsupials abound in Australia simply because their main competitors elsewhere, the placentals, had not migrated to the Australian continent.\nRich\u2019s finds suggest an entirely different pattern of colonization. If early mammals thrived in the southern landmasses\u2014and Rich believes the jawbone came from an early placental mammal (see caption, page 70, on the jawbone\u2019s dental features)\u2014the marsupial hegemony in Australia is no accident of geographic isolation.\nMarilyn Renfree, a biologist at the University of Melbourne and a specialist in marsupial reproduction, contends that marsupials are well adapted to surviving challenging conditions. \u201cMarsupials aren\u2019t physiologically inferior in any way,\u201d she says.\nMarsupials have tailored the basic mammalian trait of breast-feeding to suit a specific set of survival skills. Nourishing offspring outside the womb permits more flexibility for mothers facing a fickle environment, says Renfree. If drought decimates the food supply, a red kangaroo can simply halt milk production and let her baby die\u2014another will soon be on the way. Fertile female kangaroos keep one or two embryos queued up in suspended animation, and once a baby dies, another embryo begins development and will be born four weeks later. By contrast, a pregnant moose, say, must nourish the fetus for eight months until birth, regardless of how conditions change. Under harsh conditions, extra energy demands can endanger the mother.\nMarsupial metabolism holds other surprises. Biologists used to think the marsupial metabolic rate, which is 30 percent lower at rest than the placental rate, represented a primitive form of mammalian metabolism. \u201cBut the marsupial\u2019s capacity to increase metabolic activity during exercise or to keep warm is superior to placentals\u2019,\u201d says Terence Dawson, a comparative physiologist at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. \u201cYour average marsupial has got more horsepower in its metabolic machine.\u201d This greater range of metabolic rates is powered by a marsupial heart that\u2019s 25 percent larger than the placental heart, and as with elite athletes, that heart beats more slowly during rest.\nSlowing metabolism while resting \u201cis tremendously efficient,\u201d says Hugh Tyndale-Biscoe, a comparative physiologist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra. \u201cWhen conditions are bad, you just shut your metabolism down and you don\u2019t have to eat so much, but when conditions are good, you can wind it up to six times the rate. There\u2019s no placental mammal that can do that.\u201d\nThe kangaroo, quoll, wombat, and cuscus are marsupials that inhabit ecological niches in Australia equivalent to those of the deer, rat, marmot, and flying squirrel of North America. Nursing young in a pouch reduces the need for extensive maternal investment\u2014a good strategy in an uncertain environment. One disadvantage: Marsupials grow more slowly and thus have smaller brains than placental mammals. Marsupials do not show the spectacular diversity of placental mammals. Australia has around 140 species of marsupials, many extinct or endangered. The only placental mammals native to Australia are rats and bats. South America has three types of marsupials, including 72 species of opossum. North America has only one marsupial species: the Virginia opossum.\n'Organ On A Chip' Re-creates the Female Menstrual Cycle\nWhy Don't We Have an AIDS Vaccine?\nUnder Review: A Male Contraceptive Topical Gel\nDung Beetles Transmit Worms During Sex \u2014 And It's A Good Thing\nAfter Mosquitos, Moths Are the Next Target For Genetic Engineering\nLab Divides Human Egg Cells", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 21826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://discovermagazine.com/2016/dec/let-there-be-dark", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:25Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5FZCUC64HOVOE2AY55P3V6JDNBOQKNU", "length": 10974, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "discovermagazine.com", "title": "For Our Own Good, Let There Be Dark | DiscoverMagazine.com", "raw_content": "For Our Own Good, Let There Be Dark\nWhat happens when lights at night mess with our circadian rhythms \u2014 and health.\nBy Dan Hurley|Friday, November 04, 2016\nRELATED TAGS: PERSONAL HEALTH, BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION\nDarren Pryce/Getty Images\nAt 4:31 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, residents of Los Angeles were jolted awake by a 6.7-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 60 people, crumpled buildings and freeways, swallowed automobiles, ignited fires and caused a blackout. That last effect, plunging the city into darkness, prompted dozens of residents to call the city\u2019s Griffith Observatory because of something weird they saw in the night sky: the Milky Way.\n\u201cThe lights of Los Angeles were out,\u201d recalls E.C. Krupp, the longtime director of the observatory, \u201cso the night sky was dark for a change. People were puzzled and wondered if there was a connection between the earthquake and the strange sky. We figured out they just weren\u2019t used to seeing so many stars.\u201d\nA global atlas of the night sky, published in June, found that 80 percent of humanity now lives under light-polluted skies. That even takes into account inky-dark countries like Chad, the Central African Republic and Madagascar. Fully one-third of us cannot see the Milky Way. In the United States, unless you are among the 19.3 percent of residents who live in a rural area, you probably know how those folks in Los Angeles felt.\nBut light at night \u2014 whether the orange glow of streetlights, the yellow glow of home lighting or the blue glare of television sets or smartphones \u2014 is more than a problem of aesthetics and stargazing. According to a large and growing volume of published studies, the artificial lighting at night that\u2019s synonymous with modern civilization carries with it a dark side: increased risks of obesity, Type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, prostate cancer, depression and, perhaps most obviously, sleep loss.\nThat\u2019s the working hypothesis of researchers studying the purported effects of what they call Artificial Light at Night, or ALAN. It\u2019s not the what of light that promotes diseases, they say, but the when. Exposing the retina to light at night messes with your body\u2019s circadian rhythm, the beat of life estimated to have evolved 2.5 billion years ago in response to Earth\u2019s 24-hour rotation.\nThe reduced melatonin expression researchers had already associated with aging, and the accompanying loss of circadian rhythms, may underlie the increased risk of virtually all diseases in older adults.\nAlgae, bacteria, fungi, plants and all other living things have clock genes designed to be kept in sync by exposure to light. In vertebrates, a master clock is located in the awesome-sounding suprachiasmatic nucleus, a tiny region of brain cells in the hypothalamus. Not by accident, that spot is directly above and linked to the optic chiasm, the X where nerve cells from the left and right eyes cross. Light signals from the eyes keep the internal circadian rhythm generated by clock genes coordinated with the environment. In mammals, the result is a finely tuned daily rhythm of not only sleep but of body temperature, the release of hormones, immune function and even digestion.\nUnless, that is, you discombobulate it with one of your newfangled lighting contraptions.\n\u201cAt my home, we have heavy drapes to block the light at night,\u201d says Steven Hill, chairman of breast cancer research at Tulane University and widely regarded as a pioneer in the field. \u201cAnd I typically sleep with a mask on. Even with your eyelids closed, a little light coming from behind your curtains will reach your retina.\u201d\nHill co-authored one of the most startling studies in the field in July 2014, when he reported in the journal Cancer Research that the drug tamoxifen is rendered completely ineffective against human breast cancer in mice when they are exposed to dim light at night. He published another study in August 2015, showing that resistance to the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin is likewise increased by ALAN. Dozens of other studies have found that animals exposed to light at night develop tumors more readily than do those kept in the dark.\nIn humans, the most dramatic evidence comes from a September 2014 study in the journal Epidemiology, in which researchers examining data from the California Teachers Study found that women living in areas of California with the highest quintile of outdoor lighting, as measured by satellite imaging, have a significantly increased risk of developing breast cancer. The association was replicated earlier this year in a Korean study, using highly accurate U.S. military satellite observations of nighttime lighting.\nSimilar links between outdoor lighting and the rate of breast cancer diagnosis have been observed in the state of Georgia, and indeed around the world. An association in cancer rates \u2014 in this case, prostate cancer \u2014 was reported this March by researchers in Israel.\nMichael Bishop/Getty Images\nWhy would hormone-sensitive cancers like those of the breast and prostate be affected by light at night, but not lung or colon cancers? It can be explained by the primary mechanism believed to mediate the relationship between ALAN and adverse health defects. Melatonin, the hormone whose name is derived from the Greek word melas (black, dark), is secreted from the brain in all animals in anticipation of nightfall, to entrain circadian rhythms \u2014 unless, that is, the retina is exposed to light, which results in the shutdown whistle getting blown at the old melatonin factory.\nDavid Blask, a colleague of Hill\u2019s at Tulane who runs the Laboratory of Chrono-Neuroendocrine Oncology there, has been studying the effects of melatonin on cancer for almost 40 years. One of his latest studies, published in 2015, found that exposure to bright blue-white light during the day has the opposite effect of light exposure at night: It greatly enhances the release of melatonin and inhibits the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in an animal model.\n\u201cWe evolved to see bright blue, full-spectrum light during the day and to have complete blackness at night,\u201d Blask says. \u201cBoth are really healthy for your circadian system. It\u2019s all about this oscillatory balance under natural conditions between light and dark.\u201d\nIn a 2005 study, he described what happened when he took melatonin-depleted blood from premenopausal women who had been exposed to light at night and infused it through human breast cancer xenografts in nude rats. The cancer, he found, grew faster.\nBut cancer is far from the only adverse effect thought to be associated with exposure to light at night. Randy Nelson, professor and chairman of neuroscience at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, has published more than two dozen studies done in mice and hamsters showing that light at night increases body weight and anxiety-like behaviors. Satellite studies of outdoor lighting have also found an increased risk of obesity in humans who live in highly lit areas. Hill has co-authored a paper suggesting that the reduced melatonin expression researchers had already associated with aging, and the accompanying loss of circadian rhythms, may underlie the increased risk of virtually all diseases in older adults.\nDose Matters\nTired of hearing what light at night may or may not do, younger scientists are clamoring for greater precision \u2014 beyond the laboratory setting \u2014 in measuring light exposure, melatonin levels and their relationship to disease states.\nPerhaps for no other reason than that we\u2019re up and about, eating and drinking, at a time when we should be sleeping.\n\u201cYou\u2019ve got to know what your quantities are,\u201d says Mariana Figueiro, a professor at the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. Speaking in March at a conference on circadian disruption by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Figueiro called on the field to step up its game. \u201cUntil you know the amount of light you\u2019re talking about, the dose, you can\u2019t really say much about the effects. Some researchers will say, \u2018Oh my God, if you open up the refrigerator at night you\u2019re going to die from that light.\u2019 \u201d\nBased on her dozens of studies in the field of chronobiology, Figueiro says she finds it implausible that dim light coming through a window shade, or from under a bedroom door, could possibly be bright enough to suppress melatonin \u2014 particularly when a person\u2019s eyes are closed during sleep.\n\u201cIf you\u2019re living in an area with more street light, you\u2019re likely to have more of a night life,\u201d she says. \u201cYou probably stay up later, eat later, drink later. That doesn\u2019t mean that the streetlight itself is causing cancer.\u201d\nIn response to the studies that link levels of outdoor light at night to cancer risk, she published a study measuring light levels at bedroom windows, inside bedrooms and at the corneas of female schoolteachers, finding no consistent link to the satellite-measured levels of outdoor light.\nAnother researcher seeking to bring increased rigor to the field is Eva Schernhammer, associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. Despite having published three dozen studies on the hormone, she says, \u201cwe still do not know enough about melatonin. We have imperfect measures for doing research on its effects. If you take a morning urinary measure of melatonin, for instance, that gives you only the average level during the entire night.\u201d\nAlthough Italian researcher Paolo Lissoni has published studies suggesting that melatonin supplementation appears to improve cancer survival, Schernhammer says, \u201cthe problem with his papers is they haven\u2019t really randomized people properly. They leave you with a bit of a question mark.\u201d\nTo find out if avoiding light at night truly reduces disease risk, or if an evening dose of melatonin has the same benefit, large and properly randomized trials are necessary. But to convince funding agencies that such trials are warranted, Schernhammer says, existing data from smaller studies first need to be pooled and analyzed.\n\u201cWe submitted a proposal to pool worldwide data on melatonin and breast cancer risk,\u201d she says. \u201cA pooled analysis would allow us to either put the melatonin story to rest or to have the data necessary to support a large randomized trial. But the National Cancer Institute wasn\u2019t interested.\u201d\nFor now, about all that researchers are certain of is that artificial light at night distorts our circadian rhythms and is associated with all sorts of bad health outcomes, perhaps for no other reason than that we\u2019re up and about, eating and drinking, at a time when we should be sleeping.\nWhether a lifestyle in remote Madagascar, enjoying bright light by day and deep darkness by night, will directly result in reduced risk of cancer, obesity, depression and more remains unproven.\nBut it sure will make for a suprachiasmatic view of the Milky Way.\n[This article originally appeared in print as \"Let There Be Dark.\"]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 328, "original_length": 15932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dldxedu.com/remember-vocabulary-word-fast-meaning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XWQMHZY2RC27V3D2KYDLYZBHPDGKLW34", "length": 3696, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "dldxedu.com", "title": "How to remember vocabulary word fast with meaning", "raw_content": "February 14, 2019 iwona Education Tips 0\nKnowing how to memorize vocabulary in another language quickly and effectively is key when we are learning a new language and want to exchange languages or take an official exam in English. In this article, we want to present how to remember vocabulary word fast.\nHow to remember vocabulary word fast?\nSome people claim to have a bad memory to remember the names of people, dates, telephone numbers, names of places, etc. I include myself in this group. However, sometimes we forget that our brain works like a muscle, it needs to be constantly exercised to develop its capabilities to the fullest. Otherwise, our brain discards the information that we have difficulty remembering. To improve your memory, we recommend that you read these tips to improve and increase your vocabulary in English for children.\nBy exercising our brain, we have greater ease in learning a language, since we remember without problem the vocabulary we learn daily. However, some words are difficult to memorize or remember. it helps you in the process of memorizing vocabulary. Since it schedules your revisions during a certain time, transferring it from your short-term memory to your long-term memory.\nGenerally, the most difficult words to memorize are those with which we have no common point. On the contrary, are related to words from our native language, but do not have the same meaning (false friends).\nThere are hundreds of programs and books that have been written about memorization techniques. If we have a bad memory, we have to remember that our brain does not function as a computer. We do not have access to it immediately, most times, our memory works for an association of ideas, making connections between neurons to help us remember a word we learn with another we already know.\nFun methods to memorize vocabulary\nTo find the information that is lost in the labyrinth of our brain, we can try to associate what we learn with something fun. In other words, we can associate words with an emotional image or the context in which we learn.\nIn my job as a teacher, the first week of class I must memorize about 80 names of my students and believe me. It is not easy to remember all the names. In my case, the technique of association with images works very well. For example, to retain Angela\u2019s name, I draw a large \u201cA\u201d in front of her and then I draw imaginary wings. So I do not forget his name.\nTo remember, the image must have emotional and fun aspects that help to relate the word with the translation. It does not matter if it is the dumbest word you can think of, on the contrary, this will help you remember the information faster.\nThese are just some examples that illustrate the idea of the relationship between words to memorize them better . Surely, you have a lot of creativity to invent funny stories and remember the words that you have difficulty memorizing.\nDecompose a word to memorize it better\nAnother interesting and effective method is to \u201cbreak down\u201d the structure of a word or phrase to memorize them better. It allows that if you study one of these languages you find the facility to realize the exercise of decomposition.\nFor example, in French, words, like sleeping, serving, feeling, are written the same, but there are words that we can deconstruct at their root.\nGames like Scrabble, Word for Word, Intelect are used to build words from their roots; they are great to perform these types of exercises.\nI hope these tips help you memorize vocabulary in another language. If you have advice on this topic, do not hesitate to write your comments at the end. Thus we can share among all, our tips to memorize vocabulary effectively.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 7024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://doverdlc.blogspot.com/2014/04/visible-learning-computers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:06Z", "digest": "sha1:5HIVVQ5M3S7P7W5EOF6ENGTZVASPECC4", "length": 8438, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "doverdlc.blogspot.com", "title": "Visible Learning & Computers - Digital Literacy Dover", "raw_content": "Home CPD professional learning visible learning Visible Learning & Computers\nVisible Learning & Computers\nSe\u00e1n McHugh Monday, April 21, 2014 CPD, professional learning, visible learning,\nI've just finished reading this mega meta-analysis, and condensed/extracted Hattie's thoughts as they relate specifically to what he describes as 'computer assisted instruction'.\nFor those of you who may be oblivious of this phenomenal study, Hattie's premise is that he's examined over 800 studies, and his book is an analysis of the analysis\u2014a meta-analysis. John Hattie developed a way of ranking various influences in different meta-analyses according to their effect sizes. In \u201cVisible Learning\u201d he ranked those influences which are related to learning outcomes from very positive effects to very negative effects on student achievement. This resulted in a total of about 138 influences from positive to pointless to positively poisonous. This site provides a fantastic way to digest the lot in one graphic.\nFor various reasons, he likes an effect size of > d = 0.40, so that gives you a handy frame of reference.\nIn terms of his findings relating to computer assisted instruction, it has to be said (and I think he concedes this point in his book) that his references are not exactly recent, it was published in 2009, and based on his descriptions, I suspect many of the studies were predicated on extremely dubious TELEs (Technology Enhanced Learning Environments).\nI've included his positive comments about calculators (most were critical) as I think they are equally applicable, if not more so, to spreadsheets. Oh, how I love a good spreadsheet.\nP 146 Calculators\n\"Ellington found that the effects were much higher when calculators were involved in the teaching process; for example, when used for composition problem solving, the effects were d = 0.72: \"When compared with students who did not use calculators, students in treatment groups were able to solve more problems and make better decisions with regard to selecting methods for generating solutions\"(Beddington, 2003, p 169).\"\n\"Hembree and Dessart (1986) found that the pedagogical use of calculators improved students basic skills both in completing exercises and problem solving. Across all grades (and particularly above grade 5, when calculators become more prevalent) and across all ability levels, students using calculators lead to greater effects in students' basic skills in operations and particularly in problem-solving. The effect on problem-solving seem to relate to improved computation and lower cognitive workload demands. They also found that there was a better attitude towards mathematics and an especially higher self-concept of mathematics for those using calculators compare to those not using calculators. The suggestion was that this enhancement in attitude was probably because the use of calculators helped relieve students traditional dislike of problems expressed in words (by reducing the cognitive load of having to compute as well as problem solve).\"\n\"Using manipulative materials and calculators helps to reduce students cognitive load and allows them to devote their attention to problem solving.\"\n\"An analysis of the meta analyses of computers in schools indicates that computers are used effectively (a) when there is a diversity of teaching strategies; (b) when there is a pre-training in the use of computers as a teaching and learning tools; (c) when there are multiple opportunities for learning (e.g. deliberative practice, increasing time on task); (d) when a student, not teacher, is in \"control\" of learning; (e) when peer learning is optimised; and (f) when feedback is optimised.\"\nP 222 Supplement don't substitute\n\"Over the many meta-analyses, there was an advantage for computer work to be a supplement rather than a substitute or replacement for teaching instruction.\"\n\"One of the fascinating findings is that teachers are frequent use of computers\u2014but more for their personal and administrative use; they find it more difficult to see how computers can be related to their particular conceptions of teaching (Cuban, 2001). When many of today's teachers with students in schools, computers were not as common, and many were taught in teachers' colleges by lecturers who were even more distanced from the use of computers in their teaching and learning. For too many teachers, teaching using computer resources is not part of their \"grammar of schooling\". Abrami et al (2006) noted that many teachers \"are still on the threshold of understanding how to design courses to maximise the potential of technology\" (p 32). Hence, there needs to be some pre-training in the use of computers and the teaching and learning tool but that used to be effective. [Pedagogical technologists essential, only I'd argue training teachers to design effectively would require pre, present, and post training!]\nP 224 Skill drill\n\"Of particular interest is the effect of drill and practice \u2013 and despite the moans by many adults, students need much drill and practice. However, it does not need to be dull and boring, but can be, and indeed should be, engaging and informative. Drill is a euphemism for practice: repeated learning of the material until it is mastered \u2013 this is the key ingredient in mastery learning, many of the more effective methods outlined in this book, and of deliberative practice. It does not have to be deadly, and a key skill for many teachers is to make deliberative practice engaging and worthwhile. Luik (2007) classified 145 attributes of drills using computers into six categories: motivating the learner, learner control, presentation of information, characteristics of questions, characteristics of replying, and feedback. The key attributes that led to the highest effect included learner control, not losing sight of the learning goal, and the immediate announcement of correctness or otherwise of the answer to the drill.\nMany computer games are basically invested with high levels of drill and practice and many students can be thrilled and motivated to engage in these often repetitive tasks to attain higher levels of skill and thus make more progress through the game. Computer games include much engaging drill and practice with increasing levels of challenge that usually is mastered by overlearning or undertaking high degrees of drill and practice. So often, the evidence has shown positive effects from using computers to engage in deliberative practice, particularly for those students struggling to first learn the concept. Meta-analyses have also frequently demonstrated that drill and practice routines by computer are more effective than traditional teaching (Burns and Bozeman, 1981). Perhaps teachers should pause and wonder why their traditional teaching is less effective than many computer drill and practice programs.\"\nP 225 Word processing & writing\n\"A good example of the student being in control of his or her learning relates to the use of word processors. When using these packages, students tend to write much more than when asked to write on paper, and the quality of writing is enhanced, especially for the weak writers (Bangert\u2013Drowns, 1993). This \"more\" is not more of low quality, as quality of writing and length was highly positively related. Students are more likely to make revisions, write more, and make fewer errors (Goldberg, Russell, & Cook, 2003; Schramm, 1991). Torgeson and Elbourne (2002) completed a meta analysis of studies conducted between 1992 and 2002 on computers and student writing, and found that, on average, students who use computers when learning to write were not only more engaged and motivated in the writing but produced work that was of greater length and higher quality than students learning to write on paper (d = equals 0.40).\"\nP 236 Value ... added\n\"The use of resources, such as adjunct aids and computers, can add value to learning. They add a diversity of teaching strategies, provide alternative opportunities to practice and learn, and increased the nature and amount of feedback to the learners and teachers. They do, however, require learning how to optimise their uses. It is also clear that, yet again, it is the differences in the teachers that make the difference in student learning.\"\nTags # CPD # professional learning # visible learning\nPosted by Se\u00e1n McHugh at Monday, April 21, 2014\nLabels: CPD, professional learning, visible learning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 13310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dspace.bracu.ac.bd/handle/10361/13/browse?value=Azim%2C+Firdous&type=author", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:52Z", "digest": "sha1:R5LLMX6DNZJZDELDM3EENSBQUG5LG7EA", "length": 5610, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "dspace.bracu.ac.bd", "title": "Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English and Humanities) by Author \"Azim, Firdous\"", "raw_content": "Browsing Thesis, B.A. (English and Humanities) by Author \"Azim, Firdous\"\nThe 20th century zeitgeist in Doris Lessing's fiction: a reading of the children of violence series \ufeff\nThis paper attempts to explore the forces that defined the twentieth century through a reading of Doris Lessing's Children of Violence series and the Golden Notebook. 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Three phases of female life are explored here- adolescence, youth and middle-age ...\nMagic realism: Mingling of fantasy and reality, tragedy and comedy in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's one hundred years of solitude and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children \ufeff\nSultana, Salma (BRAC University, 2009-08)\nStories are always fascinating to every walk of life, but stories with magical or fantastical elements with of fairies or ghosts always amuse people. However, being a student of literature, I got an opportunity to look ...\nMemoirs or the recounting of the growth of the artists mind \ufeff\nHabib, Mushira (BRAC University, 2009-04)\nThe genre of autobiography or memoir has always been very popular among readers because of the instinctive interest of human beings to feel connected to the lives of others. The memoirs of great people have always inspired ...\nMarriage has been considered as one of the most ancient and important social institutions in human history. The benefits that marriage provides are undeniable, yet in most of the cases, it imposes restrictions and bindings ...\nMyth and meaning in Ulysses: Homer, Tennyson and Joyce \ufeff\nShoily, Kazi Farzana (BRAC University, 2013-08)\nThis is an attempt to decode the change in meanings in adaptations of Ulysses over the ages. The basis is set on the theory of myth provided by Roland Barthes. There are additional concepts that aid the argumentation as ...\nThe notion of hybridity in V.S. Naipaul\u2019s novels: a reading of The Mystic Masseur, A House for Mr. Biswas & The Mimic Men \ufeff\nSaha, Sitesh Kumer (BRAC University, 2014-08)\nV.S. Naipaul\u2019s writings encompass themes that deal with little things in narrow and small settings and perspectives to issues which are much more significant and hold greater gravity. His best works and portrayals depict ...\nA portrayal of violence, obstacles and agency of Muslim female characters in the novels, Woman at Point Zero and My Feudal Lord \ufeff\nMeem, Tabinda (BARC University, 2017-08)\nThis thesis is based on the feminist theory of patriarchy. My theoretical base is Deniz Kandiyoti\u2019s theory, \u201cPatriarchal Bargain\u201d. I will also relate the theories of Western feminism, post-colonial feminism, Muslim ...\nRepresentation of Africa in post-colonial Anglophone writings: V. S. Naipaul, Chinua Achebe and J. M. Coetzee \ufeff\nChowdhury, Md. Shafiul Alam Khan (BRAC University, 2014-04)\nPost-colonialism and post-modernism are literary movements that can be viewed together. In this context post-colonial Anglo-phone literature about Africa is written from different points of view by post-colonial writers ...\nResistance and reconstruction of the image of \u2018Self\u2019 and \u2018Other\u2019: a passage to India and Things Fall Apart \ufeff\nAlam, Musrat (BRAC University, 2018-08)\nThis dissertation analyses the process of resistance and reconstruction of colonial relations and identities under imperial rule. I will look at the continuous efforts of the West to bring the East within its cultural and ...\nThe role of androgyny and performativity in the novels of Virginia Woolf: Orlando & Mrs. Dalloway \ufeff\nAdhikary, Nandita (BRAC University, 2016-08)\nThe social roles of male and female are constituted through gender. The body always creates the values and meanings by the performance of social acts. Thus gender is not a fixed phenomenon. It is constantly changing, ...\nTaslima Nasreen: looking at Nasreen\u2019s exploration of female sexuality, Nasreen as a feminist in the context of Bangladeshi women\u2019s movement and Nasreen as a woman poet \ufeff\nNitol, Afsana Aziz (BRAC University, 2018-08)\nTheme of otherness and writing back: a cotrapuntal analysis of colonial and postcolonial novels \ufeff\nOrchi, Ridwana Kabir (BRAC University, 2009-12)\nThe British Empire spanned the Indian subcontinent, Australia, almost half of Africa, parts of North America and the Caribbean Islands during the colonial era and subjugated the people of these lands both physically and ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 8599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dspace.bracu.ac.bd/xmlui/handle/10361/7753", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:36Z", "digest": "sha1:HV3I5UBFPT2LKMMQ3GIHCFGGDMPLE4PG", "length": 1523, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "dspace.bracu.ac.bd", "title": "General banking activities of Janata Bank Limited", "raw_content": "General banking activities of Janata Bank Limited\nMoyeen, Md. Rafat\nDoing Internship in financial institutions always gives best chance to finance students to apply their knowledge on practical field. Financial institutions have very wide range of activities in the economy of a country. Banks are the most important one in the financial sector as they play a very crucial role for the economy. Banking business mainly maintains flow of funds from depositors to investors. In doing so, banks need to collect deposit from the depositors and then distribute those as loan to the investors. Besides, banks provide assistance in international trade, money transfer, collection and payment of utility and other bills, etc. all of which are fully customer oriented. Therefore, commercial banks are treated as service organizations and their business is largely dependent on the quality of services they provide. Hence, the efficiency and success of commercial banks depend entirely upon the satisfaction of their clients. So the key factor of any commercial bank is the customer service provided by them. This report \u201cGeneral Banking Activities of Janata Bank Ltd\u201d is the picture of quality services provided by one of the well-known state owned public commercial bank of Bangladesh \u201eJanata Bank Limited\u201f. 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A nascent Disney, CTW (Children's Television Workshop), or MTV, e1t1 will emerge as a creative leader among media companies through its innovative use of quality content and new technology to draw out data and draw in users.\nThe mission of the company is to use the power of technology, through music, video, computers and the internet, to promote a greater sense of humanity, especially among young people, and to create a powerful online brand. e1t1's interactive content is designed to motivate young people to become a more well-informed electorate today, empowering them to create a better world tomorrow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2, "original_length": 779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 137.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://earthshareca.org/our_orgs/org.php?id=67", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WMLZWB7IDWEDZFT6QCXOTZRBUM3AVA4K", "length": 169, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "earthshareca.org", "title": "EarthShare California | Our Organizations | Organization Details", "raw_content": "www.slideranch.org\nConnects the Bay Area with farm-based environmental education that focuses on the principles of sustainable agriculture and environmental stewardship.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 159.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ehomeer.com/the-alarms-that-will-provide-protection-for-your-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:XSDFHHWW3PFRM3WMECFCEQYOS5PTRKNC", "length": 2860, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "ehomeer.com", "title": "The Alarms That Will Provide Protection For Your Home \u2013 e homeer", "raw_content": "he alarm is probably the most important element of your home security. You will be able to sleep peacefully once this alarm has been installed.\nYou might not be aware of the different choices that you have when it comes to home alarms. The choices are going to be explained by a specialist firm.\nWhat are the different alarms which can make your property more secure than it already is?\nSilent alarms \u2013 these can be linked to the police force.\nLoud alarms \u2013 these can be linked to the police force.\nMotion sensor alarms \u2013 these can be linked to the police force.\nAlarms attached to powerful lights \u2013 these can be linked to the police force.\nAlarms attached to outbuildings such as sheds and garages\nSilent Alarms Which Are Linked To The Police Force\nYou might want silent alarms to be installed in the house as part of house security systems in Leicester so that criminals are unaware of what is happening. These silent alarms can be linked to the local police station and they will be able to respond without the criminal knowing what is going on.\nThese alarms are extremely popular with homeowners.\nLoud Alarms Which Are Linked To The Police Force\nYou might want burglars to be startled if they try and break into your house. When you have a loud alarm installed, this is going to cause you to wake up and the thief will be perturbed. The police force is going to be able to respond as quickly as possible to the incident.\nMotion Sensor Alarms Which Detect People Before They Break In\nPeople should be detected before they attempt to break in, which will be possible if you have some motion sensors attached to the windows. These sensors cannot be detected by the criminals at all.\nAlarms Which Trigger Powerful Lights\nThere are alarms which can be linked to powerful lights. When the alarm is triggered, the blinding lights are going to turn on and will catch people in the act. This is going to disturb the burglar and they will attempt to leave your property.\nAlarms Attached To Outbuildings\nOutbuildings such as garages and garden sheds can be protected by alarms.\nSetting The Alarms\nMake sure that you always set these alarms without fail. You will want to set the alarms when you go to bed at night. You will also want to set the alarms when you go out to work in the morning, or if you are going on holiday.\nServicing The Alarms\nIt is important that the alarms are inspected so that you know that they are still working properly. These tests are not going to take a large amount of time, but it is very important that they are carried out.\nYou have a wide range of choice about the alarms that can be installed in your home. These alarms can be very effective at deterring people from trying to enter your home.\nPrevious Previous post: A Guide to Effective Home Security\nNext Next post: Order Ready To Assemble Custom Kitchen Cabinets To Save Up Space", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eikaa.org/infrastructure-successful-leader/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:45Z", "digest": "sha1:24YP6EIKRPDYBM4S7MYAMJ7DJ6CFETG4", "length": 4361, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "eikaa.org", "title": "\ufeff Infrastructure of a Successful Leader | Eikaa", "raw_content": "Infrastructure of a Successful Leader\nRole Modelling in Life and Organizations\nHighly successful individuals who I refer to as Leaders, are not born, they are made \u2013 through hard work, persistence, discipline, growth and learning. Most people are unable to see what I call the \u201cinvisible side of success\u201d \u2013 all the qualities that are present in a leader, some naturally and some honed over the years. The differentiating factor between successful individuals/ leaders and the rest of the pack is the level of AWARENESS.\nThis awareness manifests itself in the form of leadership qualities such as \u2013 a vision, goals, an ability to take risks, seeing opportunity in setbacks, heightened intuition, persistence and a drive for continuous growth and achievement.\nWhile much research and investment has gone towards the development of leaders, there is not that much focus on what is required to ensure that leaders stay on the path of success. Research has indicated that up to 40% of C Suite leaders go through depression at some point, and many successful young individuals burn out before they are able to fulfill their potential. This usually occurs because the individual did not/ or has not managed to create the right support structure to sustain the constant demands that work / pressure of success, throws at them.\nLeaders having support in the work environment is not enough, they need more and the most successful individuals have understood this. They don\u2019t try to do it alone. They surround themselves with requisite support \u2013a community, in the three most important dimensions of their life.\n1. FAMILY \u2013 It is said \u201cbehind every successful man there is a woman\u201d, and so is also true when the situation is reversed. Most successful men and women I have met, have a supportive spouse, and a family infrastructure they can rely on. If you want it all, then you can\u2019t and ought not do it all \u2013 alone. In their personal community, the successful leader can both give and receive LOVE. LOVE, is the fundamental need of all human beings and is the most powerful and nurturing energy that we all must turn to, for rest and respite.\n2. WORK \u2013 A successful leader, knows they can\u2019t be successful on their own, and they are smarter, faster, productive when they have a Mastermind working with them. They invest in and surround themselves with experts and qualified people to support their VISION. Successful individuals and leaders, usually have mentors at their work place. Here, the leader displays RESPONSIBILITY for all outcomes related to their work. By taking full responsibility for results the leader instills the same quality in their team. While taking full responsibility is a requirement for the effective leader, it requires much courage, and being courageous all the time, sometimes takes a toll on the leader\u2019s stress levels.\n3. SELF \u2013 The most important (but often ignored) dimension of the individual leader is Self. The successful leader knows this and recognizes their need for personal growth, nurturance and learning. They appreciate the need to constantly expand themselves and to do that, they are willing to invest time, money and energy in themselves. They get assistance by finding Coaches or facilitators that can enable and support their personal growth and journey. 95% of highly successful individuals have a personal Coach.\nSome of the benefits of having a Coach are\nCreating a neutral an unbiased space where the leader can explore and grow.\nFacilitating self-reflection and expansion of awareness.\nA platform for the leader to explore and express their vulnerability, without fear of judgement. Expressing vulnerability though difficult for high achievers, is imperative for long term well-being and success of the leader.\nAn opportunity for the leader to Reset and Realign before moving on, on their path of constant evolution.\nCoaching ensures that the leader provides full ACCOUNTABILITY for themselves, their actions and their growth to themselves.\nWhether you are already a leader/ highly successful individual or you are looking for that next step in your career and life, then have a coffee and chat with us and explore how we can be of service to you.\nPlease click here to find out more about the revolutionary Thinking Into Results Program. Please click here to have a chat with us to explore what else we can do for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://empire.carsoncityschools.com/cms/One.aspx?portalId=801611&pageId=13322377", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:20Z", "digest": "sha1:LY3UXFLDTPSCQD25TVHBKDCSDL3REOIM", "length": 900, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "empire.carsoncityschools.com", "title": "Abel Carter Signing Ceremony - Carson City School District", "raw_content": "Carson City School District \u00bb News \u00bb Archived News Releases \u00bb 2017 \u00bb Abel Carter Signing Ceremony\nCarter Signs with Washington State\nCarson High School Senor Abel Carter will sign with Washington State University for a Division I scholarship for baseball Thursday, Dec. 7, 11:15 a.m., in the gym at Carson High. Family and friends are invited to join for the ceremony.\nThroughout his high school career, Carter has competed in four different varsity sports: football, wrestling, basketball and baseball. Coming off an impressive 2017 Senator football season, Carter set a school record with 1,903 rushing yards. He also batted .404 as a junior with 14 extra base hits, which lead to a first round birth in the 2016-17 NIAA 4A Northern Baseball Playoffs.\nCarter will join former Carson Senator Bryce Moyle at WSU, who played the role of the starting pitcher and first baseman for the team last season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 807, "original_length": 18332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.firenze-online.com/visit/informations-florence.php?id=123", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2BHAN74ZJ7ZVDVSTOALIQZYRPDAETEO", "length": 1556, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "en.firenze-online.com", "title": "Antella Palace Florence", "raw_content": "Antella Palace Florence\nJust in Piazza Santa Croce on the right side of the church of Santa Croce the palace of Antella is situated at numbers 20, 22 and it is the most impressive among those who are on this side.\nThe first expansion dates from about the middle of the sixteenth century: the building, owned by the family Del Barbigia is raised by one floor and the wooden doors were replaced with stone ones still visible today.\nThe facade is the work of Giulio Parigi and is the result of the union of two previously existing homes; very special for its beautiful frescoes whit theme virtues and deities wanted by Niccol\u00f2 dell'Antella, dating back to the years 1619 and 1620.\nAmong the artists who have worked on this decoration remind Domenico Passignano, Ottavio Vannini, Fabrizio Boschi, Cinganelli Michelangelo and others, all under the supervision of Giovanni da San Giovanni.\nOn the front, at the number 21, we find the family crest edited by Giovanni da San Giovanni, and a bust of Cosimo II de' Medici; under the third window instead find a round made of marble in 1565 that together with the other located on the other side of the square, at number 7, marking the half-way line for the famous Calcio Storico Fiorentino.\nThe interior rooms of the Antella palace are characterized by frescoes, some dating even the seventeenth century.\nThe building has windows positioned at distances progressively further away from the Basilica Santa Croce; this is to give a perspective effect that gives illusion of greater depth and thus makes a wider square.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 4965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://enderbynest.blogspot.com/2014/06/plans.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:25Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZHKWKQZNF3QKXDUO7CL6L4JJA34R6IQ", "length": 991, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "enderbynest.blogspot.com", "title": "Nest: Plans", "raw_content": "I am heading west on Sunday morning for a week of HGTV Handmade shoots and VidCon. It will be a jam-packed work trip with a bit of favorite friends and fun peppered in here and there. I can not wait to be reunited with my Handmade homies and my Brooklyn friends who I've lost to California. Immediately upon my red-eye return flight home, we are heading to the beach for a week long family vacation. I've never needed one more and am longing for long lazy days on the beach with my pup in a bag beside me and the collection of books I've gathered for the occasion in my lap. I may check in here and share with you form time to time, but I am focused on being UNPLUGGED as much as possible.\nWhile I'm away, Handmade videos will continue to roll out, I'll be sharing my adventures with you on Instagram, and there are so many lovely blogs to read in the meantime. But rather than reading blogs (which I lerve/luff/love), let's put down the laptops, pick up the paperbacks, and relax. AmIright?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eng.tatysite.net/about/diaries/view.php?id=1482_0_11_0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:54Z", "digest": "sha1:33XBVZI6EWT2SHJK6ERE3EBY2LZBWC4W", "length": 1008, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "eng.tatysite.net", "title": "TATU - About TATU - Diaries - Lena Katina: Going back to America tomorrow", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb About TATU \u00bb Diaries \u00bb Lena Katina: Going back to America tomorrow\nLena Katina: Going back to America tomorrow\nHi! Going back to America tomorrow... On the one hand, I wanna go, but on the other - I absolutely do not want to go, \u2018cause I will miss my mommy, my friends... it\u2019s not fair, everybody\u2019s staying and I am leaving... Maybe they will join me there, if things work out... Gonna miss Yulya for two-three days. I am flying alone, have no idea what to do on the plane...\nMoscow was fun! Well, not counting some incidents that happened to me. Incidents are - surgery and how I almost fell into... Long story short, my right leg fell through the grate of a sewer. I had a huge bruise, it was so funny... and a bit painfull, of course. The policeman didn\u2019t believe me, he must have thought that I was drunk. And we\u2019ve been hanging out with my friends and found a cool Moroccan cafe with a very nice atmosphere. Yesterday we were there and played a new game similar to \u201cMafia\u201d. We were all assassins!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 1247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://english.arpp.ru/21740-eckart-bollmann-takes-on-management-of-burdainternational.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:43Z", "digest": "sha1:GJEIUFMCFFDB35FYKZR2EUCXSUMHVFFB", "length": 1044, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "english.arpp.ru", "title": "Eckart Bollmann takes on management of BurdaInternational", "raw_content": "Eckart Bollmann takes on management of BurdaInternational\nEckart Bollmann will be managing the international publishing business of Hubert Burda Media with immediate effect. He succeeds Fabrizio D\u2019Angelo, who, as managing director, has been responsible for Burda\u2019s foreign publishing activities since 2008, and leaves the company at his own request.\nFrom 2007 to 2015, Eckart Bollmann was a member of the Bauer Media Group\u2019s executive board, where he was responsible for international activities, printing and the IT and commercial departments.\n\u201cEckart Bollmann has a great deal of experience in the global media markets, which makes him the right person to continue driving Burda\u2019s international publishing activities. Our thanks go to Fabrizio D\u2019Angelo for providing plenty of inspiration and for his development work, particularly in Asia and the new subsidiaries he created in Spain, Portugal, Brazil and India. We are delighted that he will continue to support and advise our company\u201d, says Paul-Bernhard Kallen, CEO at Hubert Burda Media.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 197.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://english.chitec.cn/web/static/articles/catalog_2c94bb442fe7b1a8012fe7cfe23d0003/article_ff80808153bb95f50154993b32300ccf/ff80808153bb95f50154993b32300ccf.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5MZNYTSUJVNO6RPLPX2JHGXNEGCMPWM", "length": 2494, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "english.chitec.cn", "title": "Press Release for the 19th CHITEC Held in Beijing - Press Releases - News - 2016 CHITEC, May 19 - 22", "raw_content": "Press Release for the 19th CHITEC Held in Beijing\nThe press release for the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) was held this afternoon at Beijing News and Publishing Building.The press release for the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo (CHITEC) was held this afternoon at Beijing News and Publishing Building.\nYu Haibo (deputy director of the CHITEC Organizing Committee Office & vice president of CCPIT Beijing Sub-council, the organizer) introduced the general arrangements and preparations of this year's event to more than 60 journalists present, on behalf of the CHITEC Organizing Committee.\nAttending the press release were Lin Shunjie (director of Investment Promotion Department of CCPIT) and Zhang Gang (deputy director of the CHITEC Organizing Committee Office & vice president of CCPIT Beijing Sub-council). The press release was moderated by Xu Jianhe, deputy director of News Office of the Beijing Municipal Government.\nThe 19th China Beijing International High-tech Expo (CHITEC), which is jointly hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology, State Intellectual Property Office, China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), and Beijing Municipal Government, and is organized by CCPIT Beijing Sub-council, will be held in Beijing during May 18\u201322, 2016. As yet, full preparations have been made for all activities in the Expo.\nThe 19th CHITEC includes the main activities as follows: a) Keynote Speeches at CPPCC Auditorium on the morning of May 18; b) \"Walk into CHITEC and Experience Beijing\" activities during May 3\u201322; c) CHITEC Exhibition at China International Exhibition Center (old center) including 12 thematic exhibition areas during May 19\u201322; and d) 6 thematic forums and 12 biztalks.\nAlso present in the press release were over 60 reporters from China Central Television, China National Radio, China Radio International, Beijing Television, Radio Beijing, People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, and other well-known media outlets.\nMeanwhile, @Beijing Release, Qianlong.com, and Beijing.gov.cn provided live broadcast of the press release textually and graphically.\nDuring the media Q&A session, Lin Shunjie and Zhang Gang answered such media concerns as the achievements and effects of the CHITEC and its influence on the exhibition industry of China, as well as how CHITEC 2016 will integrate the resources of Beijing into a whole and play an exemplary and guiding role as a national sci-tech innovation center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://englishandtech.com/tag/digital/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VIJVQMAI4YZ4J5WE5NI53EA3JBRWKEXB", "length": 1676, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "englishandtech.com", "title": "Digital | english and tech Kat Robb", "raw_content": "An app a day! Day 18 \u2013 Anki \u2013 Digital flashcards\nAnki is a flashcard app for iOS (iPhone + iPad), Mac OSX, Windows, Windows Phone, Android & Kindle. Personalised multimedia flashcards with sound, text and images can be created, or the ready-made flashcards can be used to test and learn vocabulary. Once the flashcards are uploaded, you can practice your vocabulary and monitor your progress. Anki is particularly effective for visual learners and makes remembering things fun and easy while on the move or at home.\nPosted in An app a day! and tagged Digital, Flashcards, Visual on 18/03/2015 by admin.\tLeave a comment\nThis idea is adapted from the http://aclil2climb.blogspot.com.es/ blog post about Memrise.\nWe can encourage students to create personalised digital flashcards of new lexis for them to review on their own devices.\nGet students to find a picture on Google images that is relevant for them to remember the lexis. The image can then be saved on the desktop, copied onto a Word doc and labelled. The same process can be carried out on an iOS or Android platform by taking a screen shot and labelling the picture with an App like Photo Label Free for example (iOS).\nThis may seem like a time consuming process compared to using a notebook to record lexis, but how many lists of words are recorded by students never to be looked at again? This method encourages students to input and store the lexis because it is fun and visual, meaning there is a greater chance they will take the time to review the word on their phones or other devices, and be able to retrieve it.\nPosted in Teaching ideas and tagged Digital, Flashcards on 19/01/2015 by admin.\tLeave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://envismadrasuniv.org/background.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JLSALT2ENRKDDUP455HRKM6IO5W3GWHQ", "length": 2206, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "envismadrasuniv.org", "title": "Microorganisms - ENVIS Centre", "raw_content": "India is a leading economy power in the Asian region giving due importance to both industrialization and environment management. The Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Government of India is formulating environmental management policies and decision-making process aiming at environmental protection and sustaining good quality of life for the living beings. Realizing the need of appropriate environmental information, the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Government of India has set up an Environmental Information System (ENVIS) in 1982 as a plan programme with the aim of providing national and international environmental information to varying users, which include decision-makers, policy planners, researchers, academicians, researcher scientist and the general public throughout the country to promote research as well as encourage the public for socially and environmentally sustainable development. Under the common objectives of collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination of environment, the Ministry has established 76 ENVIS Centres in different parts of the country with different thematic area.\nThe ENVIS Centre set up in the Department of Zoology, University of Madras by the Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change, Government of India is assigned a responsibility for the collection, collation and dissemination of information on the subject area of 'Microorganisms and Environment Management'.\nENVIS is a decentralized system with a network of assigned subject oriented Centres ensuring integration of national efforts in environmental information extending it services in the form of collection, collation, storage, retrieval and dissemination to all concerned. Presently the ENVIS network has its Focal Point at the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change which links all ENVIS Centres set-up in different organizations/establishments in the country in selected disciplines of environment. These Centres have been set up in the disciplines of pollution control, toxic chemicals, central and offshore ecology, environmentally sound and appropriate technology, bio-degradation of wastes and environment management etc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 3161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 168.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eowater.com/228/Economic-Development", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:43Z", "digest": "sha1:K5GHBQAVSIB7RRI5L2CRSXTX77PZTNMS", "length": 1397, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "eowater.com", "title": "Economic Development | East Orange, NJ", "raw_content": "The goal of the Economic Development Division in the Department of Policy, Planning and Development is to foster the growth and retention of business activity and, through a healthy local economy, provide employment opportunities and a strong tax base.\nOur programs generally focus on specific objectives, including:\nNurturing small and start-up businesses\nRetaining existing business and industry\nSupport for the redevelopment and/or adaptive reuse of underutilized or vacant properties\nLiaison to Business & Community Organizations\nThe Economic Development Division serves as the liaison to business and community organizations. The Division coordinates programs and projects aimed at the retention of existing businesses as well as the attraction of new or expanded business opportunities within the City.\nCommunity Development Block Grant-Economic Revitalization Program\nEast Orange Urban Enterprise Zone Program\nThe East Orange Urban Enterprise Program established in the City in 1996 is a NJ State Authority certified program that supports job creation and helps finance the sorely needed physical improvements within the City's business districts. The program also provides support services to the business districts, such as improved community policing, creation of a Business Improvement District, Individual Fa\u00e7ade Improvement Program for merchants and sidewalk streetscape improvements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://epharmaday.org/index_ing_2009.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OP6BRUVVSHV7HKFJLLVKNRFZHZT6DI5V", "length": 542, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "epharmaday.org", "title": "E-Pharma", "raw_content": "SALA GRAN CANARIA\nE-clinical trials are becoming more and more a reality as the technologies, processes and standards continue to evolve. e-Clinical trials will be more and more essential to enable drugs to get earlier access to market.\nThis event will explore the critical challenges from integrating different technologies and transferring data from one to another, to implementing industry standards and evolving SOPs.\nThe event will also focus on how the investigators themselves are adapting to the new technologies.\nVERSIONE ITALIANA >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 291.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://esolangs.org/wiki/Noit_o%27_mnain_gelb", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:12Z", "digest": "sha1:WJHISWZV2X7MAHB6ENTAWBK5OMUBJABV", "length": 2650, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "esolangs.org", "title": "Noit o' mnain gelb - Esolang", "raw_content": "noit o' mnain gelb is a two-dimensional probabilistic cellular automaton based on Brownian motion. It is heavily inspired by noit o' mnain worb, and it is named after that automaton and the German word for \"yellow\".\nAt any given time, the gelb universe consists of a two-dimensional grid. Every square of the grid has exactly one of six materials: rubber (#), metal (space), arsenic (,), boron (.), copper (+), or zinc (-). In addition, every square may or may not contain one object. The two types of objects are holes (^) and electrons (*).\nEach tick, a random object is selected, and a random one of the eight adjacent squares is selected. Assuming the object is a hole, what happens is as follows:\nIf the adjacent square is occupied:\nby a hole, nothing happens.\nby an electron, both the hole and the electron vanish.\nIf the adjacent square is unoccupied, and made of:\nrubber or zinc, then nothing happens.\nmetal, arsenic, or copper, then the hole moves into the square.\nboron, then the hole moves into the square if this would result in it being adjacent to an electron.\nIn any case, if the hole left an unoccupied copper square behind, and that copper square is adjacent to at least one unoccupied zinc square, then a new hole is created on the copper square, and a new electron is created on a random unoccupied zinc square adjacent to the copper square.\nThe behavior of an electron is the same as that of a hole, except with \"arsenic\" swapped with \"boron\", \"copper\" with \"zinc\", and (of course) \"hole\" with \"electron\".\nThe following ought to act like a diode, allowing electrons to pass from left to right (and holes from right to left) but not vice versa:\n+- .....,,,,, +-\n.....,,,,,\nNormally, the only way for charge to move from one half of the diode to the other is for an electron on the left side to cancel out a hole on the right side. It's possible for an electron to migrate into the arsenic, or a hole into the boron, but ideally, they won't get very far before being canceled.\nThis one should act like an NPN transistor:\n+- .....,..... -+\n#########,#########\nIf there are no holes entering the transistor at the bottom, then it is unlikely that any holes will be able to enter the arsenic in the center. Since there are no holes in the arsenic, it won't pass electrons, so current will not be able to flow from left to right or vice versa. If holes do enter the bottom, however, electrons will be able to pass across the arsenic. Of course, some holes will be consumed in the process; this transistor's gain may be so small that it is useless.\nRetrieved from \"https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?title=Noit_o%27_mnain_gelb&oldid=27090\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 218.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://europe.nxtbook.com/nxteu/lesommet/inbroadcast_201707/index.php?startid=Intro", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:36Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7BKCEYR7PYM5TLNMVFRX5INPMQJYHQU", "length": 169, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "europe.nxtbook.com", "title": "In Broadcast - July 2017", "raw_content": "http://www.signiant.com/?utm_medium=301&utm_source=learnmore http://signiant.com/learnmore Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of In Broadcast - July 2017 Contents", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 9033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://experiencehistory.co.uk/blog/view/51/unlocking-ideas-the-peoples-history-museum", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:34Z", "digest": "sha1:NKJ2XG5W5Z2UGF7GRVLQW43DKSJN43HC", "length": 3177, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "experiencehistory.co.uk", "title": "Unlocking Ideas, The People's History Museum - Blog - Experience History", "raw_content": "Unlocking Ideas, The People's History Museum\nExperience History caught up with Chris Burgess of The People's History Museum, who tells us about the museum's 'Unlocking Ideas' project\nIt is largely accident that the two most significant institutions for studying British working-class politics are only 15 minutes walk from each other.\nSalford\u2019s Working Class Movement Library is made up of manuscripts and books that chart working class struggles over the course of 200 years. Users do not have to be members, and there is no charge. It exists simply for anyone who wants to learn more about working people\u2019s struggles and triumphs.\nThe People\u2019s History Museum is a national museum telling the story of the history of democracy. Visitors to its galleries travel from the massacre at Peterloo in 1819 to the present day. Their journey is one that charts the gradual expansion of the franchise and the fight for employment and equal rights. In the People\u2019s History Museum archive, visitors can explore the papers of the Labour Party and Communist Party of Great Britain.\nSuch is the vast combined scope of material available at the two organisations, anyone interested in the political life of the people of Britainwould do well to visit both.\nLinks between the two organisations have always been cordial, but never completely collaborative. A successful bid to the Museums Association administered, Esme\u00e9 Fairbairn funded Collections Fund has however, revolutionised the joint working practices of the organisations. The Unlocking Ideas project explores new ways of working, finds those hidden stories lurking in the stores, and uses the collections to draw in new audiences.\nThe Unlocking Ideas output is partly digital. A blog highlights new research currently ongoing as part of the project. It provides the opportunity to highlight objects and collections that might not otherwise have been seen, and it also means that these political collections can be used to help provide context for current politics.\nWhen the horse meat scandal broke, for example, research at the Working Class Movement Library revealed that there had been an occurrence of horse adulteration in the Newton Heath area of Manchester in the 19th century. It was an instance when past and present were reconciled, and a chance to show the public how historical objects can provide more understanding of the present. The blog also provides the opportunity for volunteers at the library and museum to write about their own work at the two organisations.\nAside from interpreting the collections digitally the project also seeks to bring people into contact with the collections physically. Much of this work is an attempt to engage people with politics through objects of past politics. To this end we\u2019ve had 7 year olds reading letters from Margaret Thatcher in the archive, and 16 year olds reading speeches by the suffragette Annie Kenney in the galleries.\nThe connections between the collections of the Working Class Movement Library and the People\u2019s History Museum, and the physically proximity of the two organisations, means the Unlocking Ideas project is able to explore new ground in collaboration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 184.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://famousamericans.net/catharineganneaktena/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IPRE7UIDTJMVFISZONS23ZU7XQGGZAPT", "length": 1806, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "famousamericans.net", "title": "Catharine Ganneaktena", "raw_content": "You are in: Museum of History >> Hall of North and South Americans >> Catharine Ganneaktena\nCatharine Ganneaktena\nGANNEAKTENA, Catharine, Indian convert, born in northern New York; died in La Prairie, Canada, in 1673. She was by birth an Erie Indian, but had been adopted into the Oneida tribe. Her husband was a Christian Huron, and she showed a desire to embrace Christianity when Father Bruyas preached the gospel to the Oneidas in 1668. Catharine had long been esteemed for her modesty and gentleness, and was of great assistance to the missionary in learning the language of the tribe. She was ill treated by her relatives because of her inclination to Christianity, and to escape persecution she set out for Montreal in company with her husband, and afterward went to Quebec, where she was baptized by the name of Catharine, and confirmed by Bishop Laval. During her stay at Montreal she received instruction from Father Raffeix, who requested her to found a village in which Indians from the Five Nations that were afraid to acknowledge their conversion to Christianity might settle. At the close of 1669 she was joined by several members of her family, who had become converts, and founded the colony of La Prairie. The village received constant accessions from the missions in the Iroquois cantons, and in 1670 had become so important that a regular government was organized. A system of laws was promulgated, according to which no one was allowed to reside in the village except he renounced three things--belief in dreams, polygamy, and drunkenness. Any Indian violating these rules was expelled. 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After two years, she was already fluent in German. That store no longer sells cosmetics. I'm sure we can do better. The precise time of their arrival is not known.\nMicky was orphaned when he was three. I will have finished my homework by Tuesday. This book is ready to go to press. We looked at our old yearbook pictures. He drank orange juice out of a bottle. I wish you'd stop complaining. I didn't show it to anyone. No sooner had I come into contact with him than I determined to get to know him well.\nAllow me to contradict you. Mike said that he was very careless. They would like to stay at home. Circadian cycles can be easily appreciated in plants. I need some paper.\nCharles called me in. I understand you're a personal friend of Geoffrey. I received this electric knife as a gift. The atmosphere in a large city is polluted.\nShe loves flowers and plants. He asked me some questions about the math test. Lynnette had his socks on inside out. Say hello to your sister for me. Sitting down all day is bad for you. Governments cannot be expected to solve this problem.\nThere were figures there from those of an age best called girls and boys to those who looked to be old enough to be about to live out their life span. Why do you go to school on foot? In ancient times people believed that the earth was flat. In the Bermuda Triangle there is a parallel universe. Vassos sliced the banana with a knife. I just found out that he's sick, so I'll visit him later. It's no use crying over spilt milk. What gave you that idea?\nI thought we were going out to dinner. Did you see what she was wearing? Simon took Sandip to a fancy restaurant on their anniversary. I think that as long as I don't overeat, I will certainly lose weight. What brought a cockroach to a meeting room? That really was a tough break. All Dan's belongings are gone. They often quarreled with their brothers and husbands over the matter.\nI've never done this kind of thing before. 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Where are you calling from? I'm afraid it's not a good idea.\nThe sea can be heard from here. It is certain that he missed the train. Those books are always in great demand.\nI wrote down the address for you. I, too, like candy. It's your turn to do the washing up. I did it yesterday. He didn't give me much advice.\nThirteen people died in the train wreck. Micheal won't permit Teri to go to the party with John. She invited him in. We had a fight. Charlie isn't someone you should trust. I wish it were fine today. You believed Manavendra, didn't you? Turkeer has requested help. The weapons were concealed in the bottom of his baggage. He acquitted himself well.\nObviously, I was a little shocked.\nPlease simmer the beans for a while over a low heat. I need my prescriptions. Meet me in the hot tub. Culture is like a parachute: if you don't have it, you flop down. She hid this from her husband. He lost the whole of his money. This time it does not fail. Jane looks very pale. That gentleman usually wears a hat. She asked me to wake her up at six.\nI made him cry. He studies hardest of all the students. How would you describe me? Irwin likes extreme sports. I never dance sober. Why do I have to fight?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fibrowarriorslivinglife.com/category/fibromyalgia-symptoms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EZ2KOS5YIJ7M5MJFNWGSSAKTWVZLOF6T", "length": 779, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "fibrowarriorslivinglife.com", "title": "Fibromyalgia symptoms \u2013 Fibro Warriors ~ Living Life", "raw_content": "Category: Fibromyalgia symptoms\nThat was Then\u2026This is Now Life with Fibromyalgia\nPosted on November 13, 2017 November 15, 2017 by WordPress.com Support\nAlarm rings at 5 a.m. I jump out of bed to start making fresh blueberry muffins and the evening\u2019s crock-pot dinner. Out the door by 6 a.m. for a full day (up to 10 hours) of work followed by whatever after school activity my kiddo had for the night. The night ends making sure our [\u2026]\nPosted on April 1, 2017 by WordPress.com Support\nWhat have you done due to fatigue? I was posting things I have done because of fatigue/\u201dfibro fog\u201d. After sharing my stories others began to share theirs. I saw myself in everyone of their stories. I know it makes me feel better to know that I am not alone. MY CONFESSIONS I stood in front [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://file770.com/tag/rivers-solomon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:56Z", "digest": "sha1:FF7WIQCFOVM25MS5O7U62TUQROSARPZ7", "length": 16053, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "file770.com", "title": "Rivers Solomon | File 770", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Rivers Solomon\nPixel Scroll 8/12/18 Let My Pixels Go\n(1) NINE WORLDS. London\u2019s Nine Worlds wrapped today, and the leadership has announced plans to move on:\nNine Worlds is beginning a process of reconstitution. This means that the current ownership will be dissolved, and the assets, liabilities and necessary data transferred to a new entity. The purpose of this is to a) ensure that its continued existence is sustainable and rewarding for those involved in it, and b) allow me (Dan) and the other shareholders to step away from the company and our responsibilities to it\u2026.\nWhy is this happening, and why now?\nThe current organising model is not sustainable for those on the organising side of it. A lot of people gain a lot from the event, but certain roles reliably cause harm to the people performing them or exploit them, and there\u2019s a treadmill effect that leads to organisers carrying on until they burn out and / or do something that can\u2019t be reconciled with continued involvement. I include myself in that: I\u2019ve been working without choice and without pay for over two years now.\nAdditionally, the mix of cultures and people involved has embedded tensions that may benefit from a more concretely agreed purpose and identity. This has been causing issues from the event\u2019s beginning, and while the intent to create a big platform that still kept high expectations of behaviour and support was positive, I\u2019m not sure that the event will be able to meet a standard that\u2019s acceptable to all those who attend and take part in organising, without being clearer who it\u2019s for, what it stands for, and what people should expect, and letting people choose whether to engage in that knowledge.\nAnd finally, I\u2019ve invested a huge amount of time, money and my heart in Nine Worlds, but I\u2019ve done so as a job, often working all the time for months at a time. My \u2019employer\u2019 hasn\u2019t paid me in years and imposes working conditions that would be illegal in any volunteering or employment context, and I\u2019ve been wanting to move on for some time.\nThe reason I\u2019m doing it right now is that I couldn\u2019t do it two years ago, as an attempt to change the organisation in a different way three years ago failed hard, and necessitated an intervening two years of steady steering.\n2016 put Nine Worlds Ltd far enough in debt that I couldn\u2019t guarantee the end result of any process to reconstitute. We were reliant on future sales to cover the running cost of the current convention, and failure to transition (or attempting to close down) would result in the business failing and being unable to repay the future event sales to ticket holders.\nI now have enough money to cover the shortfall without opening future ticket sales, and the event\u2019s financial position has also improved, so I can start this process without trying to sell tickets for an undetermined event with unknown leadership to cover the gap.\n(2) SPIDER TRACKS. Worldcon 76 is running a travel blog about one of the guests of honor \u2014 \u201cThe Worldcon 76 \u2013 Bound Peregrinations of Spider Robinson.\u201d But the first entry sounds pretty disturbing.\nDay 1: Victoria to Port Angeles\nThe trip began with a 4 AM call.\n\u201cSteph. I don\u2019t think I\u2019m gonna make it\u201d\nThe Worldcon 76 Guest of Honour was white as a sheet and barely able to stand. It was my job to get him from Canada to San Jose in one piece and it was looking like the trip was going to be over before it began.\nAfter six hours in the emergency room, we got the all clear and Spider finally got some needed sleep. Luckily so did I.\nThe spirit of Fandom and SF must have been watching over us, because when he woke up he was his old self and willing to try to make the trip after all. (I on the other hand was about ready to pass out from stress and worry).\n(3) MCMOVIE. Ethan Alter, in the Yahoo! Entertainment story, \u201c\u2018Mac and Me\u2019 at 30: \u2018Ronald McDonald\u2019 remembers his infamous 1988 movie\u201d notes that this is the 30th anniversary of Mac and Me, a cheesy ripoff of E.T. in which Ronald MacDonald teams up with alien \u201cMAC\u201d (or \u201cMysterious Alien Creature\u201d.) Squire Fridell, who played Ronald MacDonald at the time, tells stories about the production and wishes that the Razzies had mailed him his award for Worst New Actor. Paul Rudd has a long-running gag on Conan where he promises an \u201cexclusive new clip\u201d from whatever movie he is promoting and then shows something from Mac and Me.\nThe trailer turned out to be a bit of a bait-and-switch, and not just because it made the movie look halfway entertaining. While Ronald presents himself as an equal co-star with the titular bug-eyed alien, his actual role in the Stewart Raffill-directed movie is little more than a glorified cameo.\n(4) ASK THE PRIMATES. BBC profiles \u201cPrimate speech: How some species are \u2018wired\u2019 for talk\u201d \u2014 since we don\u2019t have soft tissues from our own ancestors, looking at evolution of speech by studying vocalization in existing species.\nA new study has compared different primate species\u2019 brains.\nIt revealed that primates with wider \u201cvocal repertoires\u201d had more of their brain dedicated to controlling their vocal apparatus.\nThat suggests that our own speaking skills may have evolved as our brains gradually rewired to control that apparatus, rather than purely because we\u2019re smarter than non-human apes.\nHumans and other primates have very similar vocal anatomy \u2013 in terms of their tongues and larynx. That\u2019s the physical machinery in the throat which allows us to turn air into sound.\nSo, as lead researcher Dr Jacob Dunn from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge explained, it remains a mystery that only human primates can actually talk.\n(5) SOMEHOW STILL HERE. In \u201cCoral reefs \u2018weathered dinosaur extinction'\u201d, new studies say that corals go back 160Myrs, not just 60.\n(6) TALK TO THE ANIMALS. How hot was it, Johnny? \u201cCows allowed to visit Swedish nudist beaches in heatwave\u201d.\nThe government in southern Sweden have granted permission for cows to visit nudist beaches during the prolonged summer heatwave, despite complaints from locals, it\u2019s reported.\nAccording to The Local news website, nudists have been complaining to officials in provincial Smaland about livestock visiting their beaches, saying that their presence is \u201cunhygienic and could pose a health risk\u201d.\nIt says the roasting summer heat affecting much of continental Europe has led to drought throughout the country, and has meant that farmers have been struggling to feed their animals.\nAugust 12, 1939 \u2014 The Wizard of Oz receives its world premiere in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, on this day.\nAugust 12, 1941 \u2013 Premiering this day, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde with Spencer Tracy.\nAugust 12, 1943 \u2013 Universal\u2019s Phantom of the Opera debuts. At one point in pre-production it was planned for Bud Abbott and Lou Costello to star.\nBorn August 12, 1881. Cecil B. DeMille. Yes he did some genre work as Producer: When Worlds Collide, The Ghost Breaker (a silent horror film now lost) and the 1953 War Of The Worlds which he\u2019s not credited for as Executive Producer.\nBorn August 12 \u2014 William Goldman, 87. Writer and / or screenwriter of The Princess Bride, The Stepford Wives, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Dreamcatcher (horror film) and a short video based on The Princess Bride with apparently none of the original cast.\nBorn August 12 \u2014 Sam J. Jones, 64. Flash Gordon in the 1980 film of that name, Krebb in the later Flash Gordon series.\nBorn August 12 \u2014 Bruce Greenwood, 62. Lead in the Nowhere Man series, the Sleepwalkers series, I, Robot, voice work in animated Class of the Titans series, Christopher Pike in Star Trek and voices Batman in Batman: Gotham by Gaslight and Young Justice. Not the same Batman mind you\nBorn August 12 \u2014 Claudia Christian, 53. Babylon 5 of course, and genre roles also in the possibly forthcoming Space Diner Tales in which the year is 2075 and an alien race is set on conquering Earth, the Upworld detective series complete with a talking gnome, Space Rangers, Relic Hunter and Starhyke, a truly awful sounding series.\n(9) THE ICING ON THE CAKE.\nLooks kinda like an @escapepodcast escape pod in space. Only edible. #Worldcon76 pic.twitter.com/jeNUCM8xpd\n\u2014 Effie Seiberg (@effies) August 11, 2018\n(10) NOTCONJOSE II. George R.R. Martin will be there: \u201cWorldcon Time!\u201d\nI have cut way down on the number of cons I attend, due to the press of work, but there\u2019s no way I\u2019d miss a worldcon, by any name. I\u2019ve only missed one in the last thirty years. Dragoncon and San Diego Comicon and GenCon and many other cons are now much bigger, but worldcon remains the original, and the best, the heart of the fannish community. Worldcon is like a family reunion. And yes, like any large family, we have our share of drunken uncles, loony cousins, and snot-nosed kids\u2026 but still, family is family. I\u2019ll be there for the whole con. I hope to see many of you in SanJose. Worldcon is great time for getting together with old friends and making new ones.\n(11) JUST ONE THING MISSING. Andrea discusses \u201cNexhuman by Francesco Verso\u201d at Little Red Reviewer.\n#sorrynotsorry, I\u2019m going to give you a spoiler right out of the gate:\nNexhuman will offer you enough ideas and discussion topics and thought experiments to keep you busy for the next ten years. In fact, an entire Convention programming track could be built just around the questions and ideas in this book.\nWhat Nexhuman does not offer is concrete answers to any of the questions that are brought up.\n(12) FRESH OFF THE 1963 NEWSSTANDS. Galactic Journey\u2019s John Boston finds a little gold-dust among the grit in the new issue of Amazing: \u201c[August 12, 1963] WET BLANKET (the September 1963 Amazing)\u201d.\nBut the issue opens with Poul Anderson\u2019s Homo Aquaticus, illustrated on the cover by a swimmer with a menacing look and a more menacing trident, next to a nicely-rendered fish, in one of artist Lloyd Birmingham\u2019s better moments. This is one of Anderson\u2019s atmospheric stories, its mood dominated by Anglo-Saxon monosyllables. No, not those\u2014I mean fate, guilt, doom, that sort of thing. The story\u2019s tone is set in the first paragraph, in which the protagonist \u201cthought he heard the distant blowing of a horn. It would begin low, with a pulse that quickened as the notes waxed, until the snarl broke in a brazen scream and sank sobbing away.\u201d\nThis is rationalized as the wind in the cliffs, but we know better. The good (space)ship Golden Flyer and its crew have been sentenced to roam the galactic hinterlands after some of their number betrayed other ships of the Kith, a starfaring culture separated from planetary cultures by relativistic time dilation. Right now they\u2019re looking at what used to be a colony planet, but all they see is ruins, until their encounter with the colony\u2019s descendants, as given away by the title. In the end, doom and fate are tempered with rationality and mercy. Three stars, but towards the top of Anderson\u2019s middling range.\n(13) LECKIE LIKES THESE. Ann Leckie recommends three books in \u201cSome things I\u2019ve read recently\u201d beginning with \u2014\nLook, you should just read this. Rivers is nominated for the Campbell (Not a Hugo) this year on the strength of this book. It would have been an entirely worthy Best Novel finalist, quite frankly. I was late to it partly because I have lots of things to read and very little time to do it in, and also because I was aware that it would be a difficult read\u2013as in, full of violence and death and heartbreak. That\u2019s all true. This is a fabulous book.\n(14) A CONVERT. Ethan Mills of Examined Worlds says he now understands what the Stephenson hype was about: \u201cPhiloso-monks Save Some Worlds: Anathem by Neal Stephenson\u201d.\nA few times while reading this book, I tried to explain the basic premise to friends. The best I could do is something like this: weird monks on an alien planet or maybe another dimension talk about philosophy, science, and math. This does not in any way do it justice, of course, but it\u2019s really hard to explain this novel.\nOf course, for hard core Stephenson fans, the name on the cover is enough. And for philosophers such as myself, those weird alien philosophical monks are irresistible (which is why this novel made a lot of the lists of philosophers\u2019 picks for best philosophical SF compiled by Eric Schwitzgebel). I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if there are some other lovers of this book who sometimes dream about a life as a monastic entirely dedicated to intellectual pursuits, or who maybe just liked Umberto Eco\u2019s The Name of the Rose. Others who might love this: people who love immersive world building and massive tomes that come with with a glossary (no maps here, but there are a few calcas \u2013 explanatory appendices for those who need even more nerdish detail). As I am at least an occasional member of all of the above groups, my love for this book is present in all nearby possible worlds.\n(15) SAVED. Much truth in this.\nWhen your spouse notices you're about to respond to a provocation on social media. pic.twitter.com/slfDTGF2Yk\n\u2014 Joe Carter (@joecarter) August 10, 2018\n(16) BATWOMAN LEAVES TWITTER. Yahoo! Lifestyle reports \u201cRuby Rose Apparently Left Twitter Following Harassment over Her \u201cBatwoman\u201d Role\u201d.\nRuby Rose has apparently removed her Twitter account after continued social media harassment that centered on her upcoming role as Batwoman.\nAs noted by SyFy, the Orange is the New Black star\u2019s absence from Twitter was spotted by fans on August 11. Ruby also appeared to allude to a potential leave of the platform on Friday, August 10, tweeting: \u201cWhere on earth did \u2018Ruby is not a lesbian therefore she can\u2019t be Batwoman\u2019 come from \u2014 has to be the funniest most ridiculous thing I\u2019ve ever read. I came out at 12? And have for the past 5 years had to deal with \u2018she\u2019s too gay\u2019 how do y\u2019all flip it like that? I didn\u2019t change.\u201d Her account appears to have been removed soon after the tweet was made.\nRuby\u2019s Instagram remains active, but SyFy reports that she seems to have limited what comments appear. Her last Instagram post was shared on August 10.\n(17) DIOP TURNS OFF COMMENTING. Another actress facing toxic social media: \u201c\u2018Titans\u2019 Star Anna Diop Disables Instagram Comments\u201d \u2013 ComicBook.com has the story.\nThe first trailer for Titans brought its cast into the spotlight this week, and it looks like that has had some major effects.\nAnna Diop, who is set to play Koriand\u2019r/Starfire on the DC Universe series, recently disabled comments on the vast majority of her Instagram posts. Her Instagram, which you can check out here, features only six photos that have been posted since May 11th. The latest post, where Diop announces that she has a role in Jordan Peele\u2019s Us, is the only one that currently allows comments.\nWhile it\u2019s unknown exactly why Diop essentially cleaned house on her Instagram, some have speculated that it is due to the negative backlash from the first Titans trailer. The trailer, which debuted on Thursday, features several brief glimpses of Starfire using her powers, which have appeared to only continue the racist and sexist remarks surrounding Diop\u2019s casting.\nEarlier this year, a series of leaked set photos provided the first look at Diop and her co-stars in costume, which earned backlash for not being \u201ccomic accurate\u201d. At the time, Diop actually used Instagram to fire back at the negativity, posting a passionate response to her followers.\n(18) VIDEO OF THE DAY. In The New York Public Library\u2019s Collections of Weird Objects on Vimeo, The New Yorker shows viewers some weird things that have ended up in the library\u2019s collections, including a paw from one of Charles Dickens\u2019s cats!\n[Thanks to Chip Hitchcock, Karl-Johan Nor\u00e9n, John King Tarpinian, Cat Eldridge, JJ, Carl Slaughter, Martin Morse Wooster, Mike Kennedy, and Andrew Porter for some of these stories. Title credit goes to File 770 contributing editor of the day Rob Thornton.]\nPosted in Pixel Scroll\t| Tagged Ann Leckie, Charles Dickens, Escape Artists, Escape Pod, Ethan Mills, Galactic Journey, George R. R. 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She was previously married to Keith Reddin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://filmdream.tv/actor/philippe-spall/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UFKFJE7XKB2GWTJKUGV2LWFCDC42YYSS", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "filmdream.tv", "title": "Philippe Spall Archives - FilmDream", "raw_content": "Philippe Spall was born in France. He is an actor, known for \u0421\u044a\u044e\u0437\u0435\u043d\u0438 (2016), \u0412\u044a\u043b\u0446\u0438 (2015) and Final Portrait (2017).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2106, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 127.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://finearts.cedwvu.org/news/story?headline=wvu-school-of-nursing-dean-re-elected-president-of-state-board-of-nursing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:MUVQZHU2ELQQRUXFWYJW4GEWOGKZNBNP", "length": 1209, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "finearts.cedwvu.org", "title": "WVU School of Nursing dean re-elected president of state board of nursing | Health Sciences Center | West Virginia University", "raw_content": "WVU School of Nursing dean re-elected president of state board of nursing\nTara Hulsey, dean of the West Virginia University School of Nursing and vice president of Health Promotion and Wellness for WVU, was unanimously re-elected to serve as the president of the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses.\nThe seven-member Board provides oversight of more than 39,000 registered nurses, advance practice registered nurses and dialysis technicians. The group is responsible for establishing professional standards and guidance for nursing practice; licensing; reviewing and approving nursing education programs related to initial licensure; investigating complaints; and supporting a monitoring and recovery program for registered nurses.\n\u201cIt is more important than ever to ensure the safety of our public and that nurses in our state have the necessary support and oversight to assure safe and high quality care of the citizens of West Virginia,\u201d said Dean Hulsey. \u201cI am honored to have the confidence of our Board and look forward to continuing our work together.\u201d\nIn addition, Teresa Ritchie of the WVU School of Nursing Charleston campus, was re-elected as secretary of the board.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 181.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://focusonmarshfield.com/learn-about-medicare-at-security-health-plan-seminars-in-central-wisconsin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OQ66JTCP6ID234MQEGJ6HE7GK3KZ6ASA", "length": 3204, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "focusonmarshfield.com", "title": "Learn about Medicare at Security Health Plan Seminars in Central Wisconsin | OnFocus", "raw_content": "Home Local News Learn about Medicare at Security Health Plan Seminars in Central Wisconsin\nIndividuals who will soon be eligible for Medicare are invited to learn how Medicare plans offered by Security Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., can help them afford and receive the best quality health care and services.\nFree Medicare seminars are being held in July and August in central Wisconsin. These seminars provide important information for individuals who will soon turn 65 years of age or have become eligible for Medicare for other reasons.\nAt the seminars, Security Health Plan representatives will discuss the advantages of each plan type and explain when people are allowed to enroll, what is and is not covered, plan premiums and out-of-pocket costs. Area seminars are scheduled as follows.\nCity Date Times Location\nMarshfield July 23 10 a.m., 1 p.m. & 5 p.m. Hotel Marshfield, 2700 S. Central Avenue\nWausau July 23 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Marshfield Clinic Wausau Center, 2727 Plaza Drive\nStevens Point July 25 10 a.m., 1 p.m. & 5 p.m. SentryWorld Community Room, 601 N. Michigan Avenue\nWisconsin Rapids July 27 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Marshfield Clinic Wisconsin Rapids Center, 220 24th Street South\nMarshfield August 3 10 a.m. & 1 p.m. Marshfield Clinic Marshfield Center, East Wing, 1001 N. Oak Avenue\nRothschild August 6 10 a.m., 1 p.m. & 5 p.m. Holiday Inn & Suites, 1000 Imperial Avenue\nShawano August 13 10 a.m., 1 p.m. & 5 p.m. Boarders Inn and Suites, 7393 River Bend Road\nWisconsin Rapids August 14 10 a.m., 1 p.m. & 5 p.m. Hotel Mead, 451 E. Grand Avenue\nRegister for a seminar online at www.securityhealth.org/seminar. Security Health Plan also offers appointments for personal consultations at its Answer Centers located within the Marshfield Clinics in Marshfield, Stevens Point, Wausau and Wisconsin Rapids. If you are unable to attend a seminar, you can find more information about 2018 Medicare plans online at www.securityhealth.org/medicare18.\nYou can also call Security Health Plan seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. to register for a seminar, request an appointment or get more information about Medicare plans at 1-844-637-7707. Outside of these hours and on weekends from April 1-Sept. 30, please leave a voicemail and we will return your call the next business day. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please call TTY 711.\nSecurity Health Plan of Wisconsin, Inc., complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or health status. ATTENTION: If you speak a language other than English, language assistance services, free of charge, are available to you. Call 1-877-998-0998 (TTY: 711). ATENCI\u00d3N: Si habla espa\u00f1ol, tiene a su disposici\u00f3n servicios gratuitos de asistencia ling\u00fc\u00edstica. Llame al 1-877-998-0998 (TTY: 711). LUS CEEV: Yog tias koj hais lus Hmoob, cov kev pab txog lus, muaj kev pab dawb rau koj. Hu rau 1-877-998-0998 (TTY: 711).\nPrevious articleRichfield Fire Department Responds to Two Fires in 24 Hours\nNext articleRoad Notice: Closure of Adler Road Street at Columbus Avenue\nAmelia\u2019s Bumpy Ride: 8 Year-Old Suffers Rare Bone Disorder", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 7308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 275.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortmaxdiet4u.com/health-goals-for-weight-loss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:15Z", "digest": "sha1:6A3ITC5Q6TSJWFYF5MG4RMNN6GFGNMKH", "length": 2454, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "fortmaxdiet4u.com", "title": "Health Goals For Weight Loss - Fort Max Diet Plans", "raw_content": "The obese people find it really difficult to manage with the daily chores and even if they get it done themselves, it makes them quite tired quickly. A recent study has it that the obese people are likely to die early as compared to the lean ones. It is also said that the former group of people are vulnerable to diseases than the latter set. Before it gets too late, it is better to get back into shape by following a weight loss plan after which one will feel and healthier than before. Here are a few tips that can be included for your health goals for weight loss.\nIt is first important to determine yourself to follow the suggestions in the plan regularly without a break.\nA weight loss plan consists of both regular exercise and a proper healthy diet. When both are followed proportionately there is no doubt you can lose weight in a healthy manner.\nIt is a must that you perform atleast an hour of physical activity everyday. This makes you more active than ever and helps you burn the extra fat that is accumulated as a result of excessive cholesterol in the body.\nIt is not necessary that you work out in the gym. You can do that when you have time else perform some aerobic simple exercises at home.\nWalking and jogging can also work out well for bringing about weight loss. The right time for jogging or walking is either in the morning or the evening.\nWhen you perform daily exercises, you not only reduce the weight, but also the risk of premature death caused due to heart related problems, risk of diabetes, depression, blood pressure and content of cholesterol in the body. On the whole you can feel yourself healthy and active all the time.\nThe diet is what you need to concentrate next. There are various diets like the high protein diet that can help in the weight loss.\nMake sure you eliminate the habit of eating junk food as they are the root cause of weight gain and the impairment of the health.\nStick to fresh fruits and vegetables so that there is less probability of causing harm to the health. Reduce the calorie intake; make the meals smaller and increase the number of meals you intake. If you wish to follow a protein diet plan to lose weight, you can consult the dietician and then move ahead.\nDrink lots of water to ensure the metabolism process takes place effectively. Atleast six to eight glasses of water is necessary for the body per day.\nGoal SettingHealth GoalsWeight Loss\nPrevious PostWeight Loss Motivation Tips", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortune.com/2014/02/13/10-questions-kathrin-winkler-chief-sustainability-officer-emc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZF3CQO6RYPKUHP27P5NKM7Z4BERXNXQL", "length": 5574, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "fortune.com", "title": "10 Questions: Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer, EMC | Fortune", "raw_content": "10 Questions: Kathrin Winkler, Chief Sustainability Officer, EMC\nFORTUNE \u2014 Kathrin Winkler grew up with an interest in social and environmental issues. She regularly explored the woods and mountains close to her New Jersey home and was an avid reader who had an early interest in the works of conservationist Rachel Carson. As an adult, she explored the world of computing and technology, but retained a love of environmentalism in her personal life. In the mid-1990s, she started scuba diving, where she was able to watch natural systems in action. She was committed to learning more.\nWhen she arrived at EMC (EMC), it was to manage products, not sustainability. But when the opportunity came to integrate \u201cgreen\u201d concerns into the way the company planned and developed products, Winkler jumped at the chance to do some good. Her mission was to figure out what where she could make an impact. During her time as chief sustainability officer, Winkler has focused on e-waste reduction, maximizing the recovery of recycle-able materials, better reporting on EMC\u2019s carbon and water footprints, and engaging with employees and the community.\nWinkler, 58, is a former attendee of the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference. She spoke with us.\nSolar. It sounds very obvious, and yet the sun is everywhere around us and is there for the taking. Frankly, the solar industry has been on a very sharp learning curve, so I have expectations that that learning curve will continue and that it will, over time, be able to contribute a much higher percentage of energy.\nI have huge admiration for people who really started the conversation \u2014 people like Paul Hawken and Ray Anderson. As far as companies go, at the moment I happen to be particularly impressed with Patagonia. Everywhere I go, I see people in their cool, super-lightweight, super-warm jackets in bright colors. [Patagonia] made [sustainability] cool, and not because it\u2019s \u201cgreen.\u201d And yet they\u2019ve made the clothes out of recycled materials, and they\u2019re really building a brand around their product and a business around sustainability.\nTesla (TSLA), because it\u2019s disruptive. And I have a lot of admiration for IBM (IBM). As a large company, it has shown it\u2019s possible for a big company to transform. It has remade itself a couple of times, and I believe that for a sustainable economy, most companies are going to have to remake themselves. I\u2019ll also add Virgin Galactic and Virgin Oceanic because I love that there\u2019s a company out there that\u2019s both reaching for the stars and reaching for the bottom of the ocean.\nMy dad told me many times, starting when I was very young, that if someone wants to borrow money, you should only lend it to them if, in your head, you\u2019re actually willing to give it to them. He practiced that, and so did I, so money has never gotten in the way of any relationships.\n5. What would you do if you weren\u2019t working at your current job?\nI think I really would have loved to be a marine biologist. I did some research for the Sierra Club on lobster [catching] gear that could help reduce the likelihood of ensnaring North Atlantic right whales. I\u2019m really interested in the deep ocean. I think one of the most amazing things that happened in the second half of the 20th century was the discovery of ecosystems at the hydrothermal vents in the mid-Atlantic ridge and the discovery that there are whole ecosystems not based on photosynthesis. When I was a kid in school, I learned that all life on Earth started with photosynthesis, and that\u2019s not true. It\u2019s a big deal to see such a fundamental belief disrupted from new knowledge, and there\u2019s so much more to learn there.\n6. What has been your biggest failure?\nEarly on in my career, I took a job that seemed like a good opportunity. There had been no women in the job before, and it moved me up organizationally. But I hated it. I passionately hated it, and I ended up going back to an old job. I don\u2019t like to think of it as a failure in the sense that I learned a lot about myself, but it was a traditional failure. I was there less than a year.\nThe willingness to listen to new, unexpected, or contrary ideas. No matter where they come from.\n8. What is one goal that you would like to accomplish during your lifetime?\nI want to swim with a whale shark in the wild, out in the Atlantic. They\u2019re amazing. They\u2019re huge and called a \u201cgentle giant.\u201d They\u2019re ecosystems in and of themselves. They appeal to me because they are so contrary to the stereotype of what a shark is.\nIn my daily life, we\u2019re very adamant about reusing, composting, and repurposing. I drive a hybrid, and I try to live the ethos of sustainability. More importantly though is speaking up. It can be hard sometimes to stand up to power. You have to find gentle ways to let people know that they can do things differently, and I\u2019ve promised myself that I would do that. But sometimes it\u2019s hard.\n10. What was your biggest missed opportunity?\nI was offered a job in management very early in my career. I turned it down because I thought I didn\u2019t want to be a manager. I felt that it was something I would not like, and I didn\u2019t see it as part of my career. And it was a mistake because once I finally did let myself get pushed into it, I learned so much more about myself. I learned even more about working with people and about letting certain things go. And of course it helped my career, so it was a big missed opportunity way back when.\nPeter Weijmarshausen, CEO and co-founder, Shapeways\nMika Salmi, CEO, creativeLIVE\nEthan Brown, CEO, Beyond Meat\nShafqat Islam, CEO, NewsCred", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 8795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://francisbuckley.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:08Z", "digest": "sha1:DZ7BCMTIRD53UVL3JC2T7SEUBZQ73IMK", "length": 4541, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "francisbuckley.com", "title": "Francis Buckley", "raw_content": "Francis Buckley\nSetting up a home studio isn't that difficult and now it just got a lot easier\nLevel 5 Entertainment and Francis Buckley present a Front Row Seat Spotlight on Designing Your Home Studio\nNow Available \"Designing Your Home Studio\" with Francis Buckley\nWith a background in music from childhood and recording experience extending back to the early 1970\u2019s, Grammy Award winning Engineer/Producer Francis Buckley has been making records for over 20 years. His experience ranges from the groundbreaking punk act Black Flag\u2019s first album \u201cDamaged\u201d in 1980, to winning the Engineering Grammy Award in 1996 for \u201cQ\u2019s Jook Joint\u201d with Quincy Jones. Francis\u2019contributions as engineer and mixer to such multi-platinum recordings as The Pointer Sisters\u2019 \u201cBreakout\u201d, Paula Abdul\u2019s \u201cForever Your Girl\u201d, Wilson Phillips\u2019 \u201cWilson Phillips\u201d, Alanis Morisette\u2019s \u201cJagged Little Pill, Quincy Jones\u2019 \u201cQ\u2019s Jook Joint,\u201d and many others, have helped to sell over 100 million-plus records worldwide.\nFrancis began producing while acting as chief engineer at W.E. Studios in Redondo Beach in 1979. In 1980 he became chief engineer for Unicorn Records and worked with many different acts including Black Flag. In 1981 he moved to MCA Music Publishing, beginning a 10 year stand as Director of Recording Services. It was at MCA that he met producer Glen Ballard, with whom he shared a 14 year partnership.\nNow, aside from doing session work, Francis has been concentrating on the lost art of artist-development. Francis is working with singer/songwriters Noel, Tod McLeod and Michael Buckley, Lap-Pop Artist \"Lo-Fi Sugar\", Soul/Rock group \u201cThe Underground Railroad\u201d and the funkiest thing to ever come out of Mexico \"Pilaseca\" as well as many Film, TV and Commercial spots.\nCurrently working on establishing a new force in the entertainment industry\n\"Level 5 Entertainment\"\nE-mail: francis@francisbuckley.com\n\u201cQ\u2019s Jook Joint\u201d Eng/Single Remixer\n1996 Grammy winner \"Best Engineered Album\"\n\"Q-The Musical Biography ofQuincy Jones\"\nEng/Mixer\n\"From Q With Love\"\n1995 Grammy Winner \"Album of the Year\"\n\u201cWilsonPhillips\u201d\n\u201cMen\u2019ll Be Boys\u201d\nEng/Drum Prog\n\u201cHot Together \u201d\nProducer/Eng /Remixer\nA Tribute to Elton John and Bernie Taupin\nA Very Special Christmas II\n\u201cSongs from an Aging Sex Bomb\u201d\n\u201cKing Prawn and The Imperial Puppets\u201d\nProducer/Eng/Mixer\nPaul Voudouris\nGary Shubert\n\u201cWhen A Man Loves A TV\u201d\n\"Universo Fortis\"\n\"Upon My Wicked Son\"\n\"Angelica\"\nBounce The Ocean\n\"Bounce The Ocean \"\n\"Brendan Lynch\"\n\"His Gift\"\n\"Naked and Sacred\"\n\"Unborn\"\n\"Emilia's Notebook\"\n\"Blue Heart\"\n\"My Cherie\"\n\"Stacy Earl\"\n\"Archives\"\n\"Wood and Steel\"\nPilseca\n\"Afrodisiaco\"\n\"Trey Lorenz\"\nGallo Negro \u201cTiempo\nDe Leberar\u201d\n\"Trademark\u201d\nyou can find other listings at www.yahooshopping.com\n\u201cThings You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her\", \u201cCity Of Angels\u201d, \u201cThe Wedding Singer\u201d, \u201cSpawn\u201d, \u201cStar Kid\u201d, \u201cPokemon 2000\u201d, \u201cPinocchio\u201d, \u201cJungle Book\u201d, \u201cTommy Boy\u201d, \u201cAndre\u201d, \u201cLean On Me\u201d, \u201cThe Sluggers Wife\u201d, \u201cFlashdance\u201d. 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You do not need to purchase credits in advance. Simply start a show choosing the option and your payment account is charged at the end of the show. You can find out more information about Play & Pay here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fremont.library.link/resource/5nnaGGhbH8M", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JLCEMYYYSGCKG4INUGTDYCFMCK7QM2WS", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fremont.library.link", "title": "Fremont Area District Library - Resource not available...", "raw_content": "Searching for God in America, Hugh Hewitt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fwn06.housing.rug.nl/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJG6WABJMBNHQ4CYE4FY33SE73DPQZNY", "length": 400, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "fwn06.housing.rug.nl", "title": "Linux info for DTPA", "raw_content": "A number of our technical systems use a Linux version called LWP, and are normally accessed using ssh. It is an adapted version of Ubuntu that is integrated into the university infrastructure.\nIt will take some getting used to for people with a Windows of Mac background.\nTo get access to these machines from outside the RuG domain you can also use a CIT service using a machine called \"the bastion\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gaddeswarup.blogspot.com/2017/12/addendum-to-colony-of-cooks-2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:10Z", "digest": "sha1:RQHG6NN42GXU72E5JQA4ZFV2FXNBDZRJ", "length": 1994, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gaddeswarup.blogspot.com", "title": "Gaddeswarup's blog: Addendum to The Colony of cooks-2", "raw_content": "I would like to point out some special problems faced by women in these agitations. In this particular struggle, we had to meet politicians and officials. They were generally courteous but even during this brief period, there were a couple of disconcerting instances.\nOnce we had to meet a politician known for his fondness for the other sex, and I met him with a couple of cooks. After a meeting, the politician asked me to meet him alone in the evening. We were a bit vary of the prospect. The other two ladies were reluctant to let me go alone. They said that they would come along with me, wait outside and if I did not come out in five minutes they would burst in to the office. They also said that they were prepared to give up their allotment but would not leave me to the whims of a known womaniser. Possibly apart from the desire to finish the process that I started, the loyalty of such friends kept me going. Once inside, I reminded the politician that I was friends with his son and he addressed me \u2018akka\u2019. I also told him how good looking his granddaughter was. Anyway after five minutes, the other ladies came in and the meeting ended without much problems and there was no further trouble with the politician.\nThe second time, there was a municipal council meeting about the sanction of the land to us and we met and requested the councillors not to object to our request. The resolution supporting us almost passed but there was one dissenter. Since it was the last council meeting before the next elections, the matter was sent to an officer to either uphold or squandered the dissent. The official also knew me from other agitations in which I was participating at that time. He wanted to discuss the matter privately with me. But I went with my colleagues when I met him next and the official upheld the dissent and that was how the matter was sent to the court in the first place but the judge upheld the status quo. But as they say correlation is not the same as causation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 5485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gadgetmania.com/2011/05/ipad-app-flipboard-compromised-in-china/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:11Z", "digest": "sha1:KRUFVTGJMZJUUNMYIZU3LHFDUO7G7WV5", "length": 1552, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "gadgetmania.com", "title": "iPad App Flipboard Compromised in China - Gadgetmania", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbGadget News\u00bbiPad App Flipboard Compromised in China\niPad App Flipboard Compromised in China\nIt has been announced today that various aspects of the Flipboard iPad App has been blocked for users in China. Some of these aspects include access to FaceBook and Twitter. Access to Twitter and FaceBook has been blocked by Chinese authorities, but users were in a position to access these services via the Flipboard application. The Flipboard application communicated with its own servers in the United States, which allowed for the access to these services via the app.\nAccording to developers of the Flipboard applications, they unwittingly poked a hole in the \u2018wall\u2019, which has now been closed by Chinese authorities. It is still unknown how many websites are affected to users of the app. The application, however, is still available in the App Store to Chinese users.\nThe company also said that Chinese users remained a small percentage in terms of all users making use of the Flipboard app. Flipboard recently raised $50 million based on a $200 million valuation.\nAccording to Flipboard, there are a number of clones, such as ICare, MagSina and Netease Reader, which still remain very popular amongst Chine users. The company said that these apps are complete replicas and offer super slow performance to users.\nThe question asked is: \u201cDo the Chinese Government sensor US services to protect their regime or to protect their market?\u201d.\nThe company did not provide any more information in terms of actions planned.\nimage source techcrunch", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://genealogy.clanmoffat.org/getperson.php?personID=I15460&tree=UKEire", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:45Z", "digest": "sha1:APAEDPETJF2GI2E3E3ZKSPD4Y4JE63VO", "length": 839, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "genealogy.clanmoffat.org", "title": "Matilda Louisa HAWKINS b. 11 October 1882 Manchester Road, London, England d. 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March 1910, Poplar, London, England", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://geraldgardner.com/archive/ern/index.php?template=easyread", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:53Z", "digest": "sha1:7NU72SQXIMOMUWOC4FGQZGWAZH2OGLQH", "length": 1727, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "geraldgardner.com", "title": "geraldgardner.com - Letters to Earth Religion News", "raw_content": "Earth Religion News\nThis is a transcribed copy of a series of letters first published in the 1976 Volume 1, Numbers 1, 2, and 3 issues of Earth Religion News, which was an early periodical that focused on neopaganism and vegetarianism edited by Herman Slater. The first portion of text is one of the letters written by \"Lugh\" that was later published in a collection called The Pickingill Papers. Lugh was the penname of W. E. Liddell, and this is an example of the many letters he sent to periodicals like The Wiccan and The Cauldron between the mid 1970s and early '90s. Leo Louis Martello responds to it and addresses the author as Doreen Valiente, but this is misleading. These letters are valuable for information about the arguments that were going on in the Wiccan community in the mid 1970s. They are not, however, entirely accurate in their description of Wicca's history. I have not heavily studied stories of George Pickingill, so I cannot really vouch for their truth or falsity. However, many of the claims surrounding Gardner's relationship to Crowley are not supported by other evidance, as Israel Regardie points out in his response. Most of the history relating to Gardner in these correspondences is up for debate, but the personalities and the controversies that took place in the 1970s are important historically on their own.\nI am indebted to Tuan Cu Mhara of Coven Hensiarad for this material, and to Sabazius for the helpful correction to my original introduction. 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We also offer three other AODA compliance workshops.\nMinimizing & Mitigating Risk-Considerations for HR Professionals\nMismanagement of key areas within the Human Resources realm ultimately leads to organizational losses and/or lawsuits. In this workshop, participants learn how to develop a plan to detect, prevent and manage risk.\nWe offer workshops on a wide range of employment related topics. Each workshop in the series deals with a particular topic. The workshops are informative and they provide resources and tools that can be easily utilized.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 277.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gomasa.org/2018/02/15/masa-statement-school-shooting-parkland-florida/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MR4XOHC3LMWOLN7BEKEU2BGX4KUMQYCS", "length": 4519, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "gomasa.org", "title": "MASA Statement on School Shooting in Parkland, Florida | Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators", "raw_content": "MASA Statement on School Shooting in Parkland, Florida\nHome > Featured News > MASA Statement on School Shooting in Parkland, Florida\nStatement from MASA on the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14, 2018:\nThe school shooting that happened in Florida is every superintendent\u2019s, every educator\u2019s and every parent\u2019s worst nightmare. Perhaps even more so, it is a nightmare for our students, who have seen and heard the events that occurred in Parkland over and over again on the news in graphic detail from live video captured on the scene by students.\nOur thoughts and prayers are with the families, friends and colleagues of those who lost their lives yesterday, as well as with our young students who are struggling to make sense of this violent and heinous act.\nAs we all fully know, there is no place for violence of any kind in our schools. Michigan\u2019s superintendents and their staff members are committed to continuing to create safe and secure learning environments for our students, but in spite of our absolute best efforts we are also painfully aware that the worst can happen in any given town, in any given school, on any given day. I am confident that we will all keep working together to take whatever steps we can and must to decrease the likelihood of a horrific attack.\nMASA fully supports the letter from the 13 superintendents of the Muskegon Area ISD that was put together in a collaborative manner, and we echo the call for schools to continue to be prepared through proper training and for communities to remain vigilant. Working together, we can and will continue to keep our students as safe as humanly possible from harm.\nLetter from Muskegon Area Public Schools Superintendents Association\nDear Students, Parents, Staff and Community Members:\nAs news of the latest school shooting floods the media, we again see the faces of children, parents, and school staff shocked by another school tragedy. This time we see terrified children and hear gun shots as teens capture the event live on social media. We cannot accept these tragedies as a normal part of life in America.\nAs Superintendents of the public schools in the Muskegon Area, we believe it is important for you to know we are diligently working to prevent school shootings and other types of violence in our schools. Over the past few years, our schools have participated in multiple trainings and built strong and supportive relationships with law enforcement and other first responders. They have advised us on how to better secure our schools in a variety of ways using countywide technology and security millage funding. For example, across the county we have limited access to buildings to single, secured entries; added security cameras; and modified windows and exterior doors to be impact resistant. We know that students learn best in safe and secure environments.\nWe cannot keep our schools safe without the help and support of our entire community. We urge you to learn about the warning signs connected with school shooters in the United States. They include violent fantasies, anger problems, fascination with weapons, being a loner, suicidal or homicidal ideation, stalking, interest in previous shootings, paranoia, violence and cruelty, acting out, police contact, mental health issues, use of alcohol and drugs, and unusual interest in police, military, and terrorist activities. Experts say a single warning sign by itself might not be significant, but a cluster of warning signs is much more serious.\nPlease make sure your child knows they must tell a trusted adult immediately if they feel their school is threatened in any way. This includes sharing information about weapons or threatening acts of violence in person or online.\nFinally, we need your support in helping our children cope with the painful feelings that may be triggered by yesterday\u2019s tragedy in Florida. The National Association of School Psychologists has provided tips for parents. Help your child express their feelings by making the time to ask them questions, listen, and then help them process by pointing out safeguards and what to do during an emergency.\nAcross Muskegon County, please know that we stand united as a community against all acts of violence.\nWe are stronger and safer when we work together as students, parents, staff, and community members.\nMuskegon Area Public Schools Superintendents Association\nFebruary 15, 2018 at 4:30 pm Cathy Bacile Cunningham Featured News Share via:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 6222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gonefishingfish.com/2018/08/15/search-for-survivors-after-italian-motorway-collapse-kills/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AU4V43BVF7O534KIIIJFUJDVULZ3WIZ6", "length": 5299, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "gonefishingfish.com", "title": "Search for survivors after Italian motorway collapse kills 26", "raw_content": "Aretha Franklin is in hospice care Franklin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the highest award for an American civilian - by then-president George W. He reportedly told concertgoers to \"make some noise for Aretha Franklin \" and offered his thoughts and prayers.\nDozens killed as weapons depot explodes in Syria On Friday, 12 civilians, three of them children, were killed in regime bombardment of the towns of Khan Sheikhoun and al-Tah. Most of the residents in the building had been displaced from Syria's Homs province, the organization said.\nRupee breaches the 70 mark: How it's bad, and how it's good Investors are turning to the dollar as a safe haven with Turkey's currency lira crisis continuing since the last week. Meanwhile, the benchmark BSE Sensex recovered 184.93 points, or 0.49 per cent, to 37,829.83 points in early trade.\nGoldman, Silver Lake Advice Tesla On Going Private Plan Tesla said the committee consists only of independent directors: Brad Buss, Robyn Denholm and Linda Johnson Rice. The committee has the authority to evaluate and negotiate a potential deal, or any alternatives proposed by Mr.\nDonald Trump boosted anti-Obama \u2018birther\u2019 movement because he\u2019s black: Omarosa The re-emerged in recent days, amid the release of her tell-all book, \" Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the White House\". The reason why Omarosa is facing a wrath of contradiction is because she can't keep her lies straight\", said Pierson.\nHamlin starts 1st, Busch takes lead at Consumers Energy 400 Harvick has only finished outside of the top-10 four times all year and three of those were DNFs after being part of an incident. Truex was running with the leaders during the second stage before running out of gas and going into the pits, which were closed.\nGreek teen Stefanos Tsitsipas reaches Rogers Cup final He improved to 4-0 in Rogers Cup final appearances. \"This trophy means a lot after playing my first Masters 1000 final\". However, Tsitsipas found world number one Nadal an obstacle too far as the Spaniard ran out 6-2 7-6 ( 7/4) victor .\nTurkey takes action in bid to curb currency crisis\nA former Italian footballer had a miraculous escape when his vehicle wedged in rubble after plunging off a collapsed bridge in Genoa.\nFar-right leader Salvini, who is also co-deputy prime minister, said he was in \"absolute agreement\" with Toninelli.\nAt least 35 people were killed when a bridge collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa, police said on Wednesday after firemen worked through the night looking for any survivors buried under the rubble. \"We're not giving up hope, we've already saved a dozen people from under the rubble\", a fire official, Emanuele Giffi, told AFP. Twelve people are said to be missing.\nThe family was heading to lunch with grandparents when the bridge, which spans a broad valley of apartment blocks, warehouses and railway lines, collapsed.\nNormally, a bridge is created to last for at least 100 years.\nBut the risks presented by the Morandi bridge, built between 1963 and 1967, had always been clear.\n\"There was no reason to consider the bridge unsafe\".\n\"People living in Genoa use this bridge twice a day, we can't live with infrastructures built in the 1950s and 1960s\", Deputy Transport Minister Edoardo Rixi said on SkyNews24, speaking from Genoa.\nHe added that a safety audit will be carried out on ageing bridges and tunnels across the country.\n\"Suddenly the bridge came down with everything it was carrying\".\nSiemian, who began his career with the Broncos, came on to hit on 11 of 17 passes with one interception. It's a performance league, and everything we do, it's graded and it's counted. \"Chad's played well.\nSome experts have suggested that the ongoing maintenance work may have been a factor in the collapse.\n\"Maintenance work is often about dealing with and preventing degradation, and the strengthening work the bridge had recently received may have been to deal with degradation\".\nA 50m high section of the Morandi bridge, including a tower that anchored several stays, crashed down with as many as 35 vehicles driving on it on Tuesday.\nThose problems were later corrected, he said.\nTwo employees of a waste management company, who were working in the valley beneath the bridge when it collapsed, were also killed.\nIt was designed by Riccardo Morandi and completed in 1967, but restructuring work was done in 2016.\n\"He was an engineer with great insight, but lacking in practical calculations\".\nHowever, locals say that the bridge has had problems for years, and that it was often attended to by repair crews, but the fixes were never long-lasting, and many in Genoa had petitioned the authorities to replace it.\nStefano Marigliani, the Autostrade official responsible for the Genoa area, told Reuters: \"The collapse was unexpected and unpredictable\". The motorway it carries is a major artery from northern Italy's industrial centres to the Italian Riviera and to France's southern coast.\nThe \"queues of cars and the volume of traffic provoke intense degradation of the bridge structure on a daily basis in rush hour, as it is subject to major demands\", the report, quoted by Italian news agency Ansa, said.\nBridge Collapses Near Italian City Of Genoa\nIvanka Says What Her Dad Couldn\u2019t Manage On Charlottesville, One Year On", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 10420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gov-record.org/north-carolina-police-records/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:06Z", "digest": "sha1:26NKE7ONT3SOK53YDXOFU2RZXNSST7YW", "length": 2173, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "gov-record.org", "title": "North Carolina Police Records- Enter Name & Search North Carolina Police Records", "raw_content": "Legal citizens who are applying for North Carolina Police Records should secure and complete the appropriate form to get started. Additionally, the requesting party must be fingerprinted and pay an amount of $14.00 per copy. The State Bureau of Investigation holds Criminal History Record Information where the central database on such reports is located. Those who have definite right to access the said records are only those who would want to review their own police documents.\nOn the other hand, third parties are only allowed through the law enforcement agencies that would process the request. The North Carolina Department of Corrections has the responsibility of archiving files for the state\u2019s prisons, work release centers and parole and probation offices. According to statistics, over 150, 000 are tallied to be law offenders which include those who are incarcerated at present along with those who are on trial or parole.\nPolice Records North Carolina\nApart from doing the search manually, the state has also developed an online system in order to have a faster turn-around processing time. The Department of Corrections came up with an offender search system where prisoners can be searched through their respective ID number or by the use of name combination, race and gender just to trace-out the updated legitimate reports on the subject in question. What the public can only know about someone with police records include the physical descriptions like gender, age and race, and a picture.\nNorth Carolina Police Reports Public Record\nPolice documents can be obtained so long as procedures and standards set by the officiating government agency are adhered to. However, the lengthy searching result becomes a real problem in many situations. In times of urgency, looking up of such files through the law enforcement offices is a real test due to some factors. Thus, online record providers came out to introduce a more convenient and systematic way of retrieving the North Carolina Police Records. The turn-around time is unbelievably quicker than ever. A 100% guaranteed online provider has the solution to bring-out valuable data that one is looking for.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gpwomenshealth.com/Maternity/Late-Pregnancy/Cord-Blood-Banking", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HGP6SVTO6JRSBXFVAPSBF5RIWE7MA5BZ", "length": 214, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gpwomenshealth.com", "title": "Cord Blood", "raw_content": "There are no public cord blood banks in our region. All cord blood banking is through private banks and only available to immediate family members. Arrangements are made between the patient and the cord blood bank.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 191.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grad.uic.edu/ior/results-lightframe/162198", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QFSNUF4EK6EWRB7Y2CXCPNXWE2ETIST5", "length": 1361, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "grad.uic.edu", "title": "Honorable Mention", "raw_content": "Midnight at the End of the World\nSubmitted by: Dimitri Acosta\nProgram: Earth and Environmental Sciences, MS\nDuring the austral summer, Antarctica receives 4 months of continuous sunlight, comparable to radiation levels in the tropics. In Taylor Valley, Antarctica, microbes in ice covered lakes convert this energy to photosynthesize beneath 3-6 m (10-20 ft) of ice. Their activity is of great interest for the search of life on other planets. To measure gross primary productivity, holes are drilled through the ice cover, a process that is energetically expensive, time consuming and disruptive to the ecosystem.\nMy research examines the distribution of surface Photosynthetic Active Radiation (s-PAR). High resolution 3D models of the valley created using LiDAR, combined with solar geometry and meteorological point measurements, allow mapping of s-PAR, improving the accuracy of primary production estimates. The panorama shows a 360\u00b0 view of the Lake Fryxell basin around 3 am. The low solar angle casts shadows over most of the valley, except for the highest south facing slopes. The image captures the 3 sources of illumination for any surface: incident, diffuse and reflected. 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I attended the BT London Live concert, which was the \u201cofficial Opening Ceremonies concert\u201d in London. In the middle of the concert, they paused to show the Opening Ceremonies live. The amount of excitement that enveloped the crowd during the Opening Ceremony was remarkable. As a tourist standing amongst them, I felt a little bit out of place; it was almost as if I was impeding on a moment of nationalism for the Londoners witnessing the event together. Although I loved that the Opening Ceremonies played so much into Great Britain\u2019s personal history, I also thought it was interesting that London decided to go with a show that was so specific to the nation itself. When hosting an international event, I would have expected them to be a little more international in scope. The route they chose wasn\u2019t distasteful by any means, but I just would have never thought to take it in such a local direction. It was very cleverly crafted, because while I laughed along with the jokes and was equally in awe at the ceremony itself, the \u201clocals\u201d seemed even more enthralled. There were definitely some elements that I just didn\u2019t get, but they did. This was most true when it came to the music. Most of the people at the concert could sing along with all the songs played during the Opening Ceremony, while I had never even heard of a lot of them.\nThe whole time I was watching the ceremonies, I was pretty surprised at how much media played a role in the overarching theme of the Opening Ceremony. The whole show was basically a showcase of some of the UK\u2019s biggest icons and \u201cclaims to fame\u201d of all time. They had fun with elements of their own culture, like the royal family for example, as well as with UK pop culture icons such as David Beckham. Witnessing the reactions from the crowd was unbeatable. There was this one guy standing right behind me who had the best reactions! The most hilarious moment was when the Queen showed up in the ceremony. All he could say was \u201cNo way, no way! Ah that\u2019s so cool!\u201d over and over again.\nThis is what made me think of the media\u2019s role in cultivating that deep sense of nationalism that was clear in the reactions of all the locals surrounding me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 177.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grandchampionscup.2017.men.fivb.com/en/competition/formula", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:3JFVGYSDQZPW3M6OHQCWTJGBZORQDBWD", "length": 970, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "grandchampionscup.2017.men.fivb.com", "title": "Formula - Men's Grand Champions Cup 2017", "raw_content": "The seventh edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men\u2019s World Grand Champions Cup will be held from September 12 to 17 in the cities of Nagoya and Osaka in Japan.\nThe FIVB Volleyball World Grand Champions Cup features a total of six teams per gender with the host nation, Japan, and four continental champions from Asia, Europe, NORCECA and South America, and one wild card entry granted by the FIVB.\nThe Round Robin system is used for the FIVB Volleyball Men\u2019s World Grand Champions Cup.\nWorld No. 1 Brazil, which are the defending champions for both events of the World Grand Champions Cup, have participated in every edition of the FIVB Volleyball Men\u2019s World Grand Champions Cup since its inception in 1993, when they finished second to Italy, and are the most successful nation going on to win the quadrennial tournament in 1997, 2005, 2009 and 2013, with another silver medal to their name in 2001. Italy and Cuba (2001) are the only other two countries to win the event.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 40.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://greatcanadiantravel.com/trip/baffin-island-jewel-of-the-high-arctic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:38Z", "digest": "sha1:YBJLRRE5HPY6PQRP5EDRR4FA4JJFNYHU", "length": 5925, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "greatcanadiantravel.com", "title": "Baffin Island \u2013 Jewel of the High Arctic \u2013 The Great Canadian Travel Co.", "raw_content": "Explore the east coast of Baffin Island and discover majestic mountains, great glaciers and fjords far below. Immerse yourself in the traditions and cultures of Northern Canada as you encounter a variety of birdlife, marine wildlife, and maybe spot a polar bear or walrus or two along the way.\nExplore islands and fjords and bays while keeping an eye out for polar bears, walruses, and bowhead whales\nGaze up at immense mountains and glaciers as you cruise through the dark waters\nVisit communities and learn about the culture and history of the people of the North\nWatch as migratory birds soar above you in one of the most significant bird sanctuaries in the entire Arctic ecosystem\nPay your respects to the explorers before you as you visit the grave markers from Sir John Franklin\u2019s expedition on a remote windswept beach\nUS$695 \u2013 Kayaking Addition\nUS$1,995 \u2013 charter flight Ottawa to Iqaluit and Resolute to Edmonton (taxes included)\nDay 1, July 22: Depart Ottawa\nDeparting Ottawa, you will board your flight to Iqaluit, Baffin Island. When you arrive, you will take part in a walking tour of the town and then board your expedition ship, the Akademik Ioffe, in the afternoon. Enjoy a welcome cocktail as you start your adventure through one of the most remote places on earth, Baffin Island.\nDay 2, July 23: Monumental Island\nToday, you will explore the shoreline of Monumental Island, a well-known location for walrus. Keep an eye out for polar bears as well, as they are also known to be seen here.\nDay 3, July 24: Pangnirtung\nThe village of Pangniqtuuq (Pangnirtung) is situated between the mountains and the sea and is the western gateway to Auyuittuq National Park. Immerse yourself in the tradition and culture in this small community as it is well-known for its contemporary arts and crafts. You will be able to visit the Angmarlik Visitory Centre which has an informative interpretive display telling the stories of the Thule and the modern Inuit.\nDay 4, July 25: Sunshine Fjord\nThis fjord straddles the Arctic Circle and, depending on the weather, you will cross it either on the ship, by zodiac boat, or maybe even on foot. Whatever way you take it is always a moment never to be forgotten. The Sunshine Fjord has great hiking trails, from long routes that offer fantastic views of the surrounding areas to shorter, less strenuous options along the shoreline. If you would like to try your hand at kayaking, there may also be an opportunity to take to the sheltered waters of the fjord in a sea kayak.\nDay 5, July 26: Auyuittuq National Park\nIn a land dominated by steep and rugged mountains, great glacial systems and roaring rivers, this national park is one of Canada\u2019s most spectacular. For this part of your adventure, you will be joined by a skilled local guide who is able to interpret the cultural and natural history of the area as you walk; You will learn about the flora and fauna, the geological and glacial systems. After a stimulating day exploring, you will continue north along the coastline, travelling deeper in to the Arctic wilderness.\nDay 6, July 27: Niginganiq (Isabella Bay)\nThis bay is an important summer habitat and feeding area for the endangered bowhead whale. These extraordinary creatures are able to break the sea ice with the crown of their head. You may also spot polar bears, ringed seals, Canada Geese, Snow Geese and narwhal in this area.\nDay 7, July 28: Gibbs Fjord\nThe expedition ship will look small this morning as you make your way into Gibbs Fjord. All around you will be towering peaks and icy glaciers as you cruise through the water.\nDay 8, July 29: Mittimatalik (Pond Inlet)\nAlmost at the far northern region of Baffin Island, a broad channel occurs in which the remote Inuit community of Pond Inlet sits. You will be able to wander through the Natinnak Centre, where cultural exhibits show the daily life, culture and history of the people of the North. You will see Inuit carvings, jewellery and other traditional crafts on display. This community is also the main access point to Sirmilik National Park, featuring mountains, ice fields, glaciers and large seabird colonies.\nDay 9, July 30: Devon Island\nToday you will cross Lancaster Sound, the wildlife \u2018super highway\u2019 of the Arctic. The water from the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, and the northern archipelago of islands meet at this point creating a rich source of nutrients and food for an abundance of Arctic wildlife. A plan to visit the old Royal Canadian Mountain Police outpost in Dundas Harbour on Devon Island and then venture into Crocker Bay will take the rest of the day.\nDay 10, July 31: Prince Leopold Island\nWith a population of several hundred thousand birds, it makes this island one of the most significant bird sanctuaries in the entire Arctic ecosystem. Keep your eyes open for belugas, narwhals and bowhead whales as these species are also often spotted here.\nDay 11, August 01: Beechey Island\nThe final shore landing is on Beechey Island, the location where Sir John Franklin\u2019s doomed expedition spent its last winter in 1845 before it disappeared into the unknown. In 2014, a joint Parks Canada and Royal Canadian Geographic Society expedition found the HMS Erebus in the Victoria Strait. On the shores of Beechey Island, you will find grave markers on a remote windswept beach, paying homage to the lives that were lost on board the HMS Erebus.\nIn the evening, you will enjoy a special Captain\u2019s dinner while you reflect on the many memories you created in the last 11 days.\nDay 12, August 02: Edmonton\nAs you arrive into Resolute, your cruise adventure comes to an end. A flight to Edmonton is provided and a transfer from the airport into a central downtown location, if needed. Or, you may choose to stay at an airport hotel, especially if you have an early flight home tomorrow morning.\nVoyage aboard the Akademik Ioffe, as outlined in itinerary\nAirfare to Ottawa and from Edmonton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 8832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://groceryuniquedepot.com/blog/vitamin-news/tanning-may-limit-skins-ability-to-produce-vitamin-d-study-upi-com-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:05Z", "digest": "sha1:JB4L32VPKKGIJPO3HNGINFZNXFFVEE6P", "length": 2622, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "groceryuniquedepot.com", "title": "Tanning may limit skin\u2019s ability to produce vitamin D: Study \u2013 UPI.com | Grocery unique depot", "raw_content": "Grocery unique depot > Blog > Vitamin News > Tanning may limit skin\u2019s ability to produce vitamin D: Study \u2013 UPI.com\nTanning may limit skin\u2019s ability to produce vitamin D: Study \u2013 UPI.com\nMONDAY, April 4, 2016 \u2014 While the sun helps the body make vitamin D, a new study says that too much exposure might actually lower the levels of the essential vitamin.\nTan skin may provide some protection against the sun\u2019s harmful UV rays, but this increase in pigment blocks vitamin D synthesis and limits the skin\u2019s ability to produce vitamin D, according researchers in Brazil.\n\u201cOur findings suggest that skin tanning, which is a natural protection against the harmful effects of UV irradiation, limits the progressive rise in serum vitamin D towards optimal concentrations,\u201d said study author Dr. Francisco Bandeira, of the University of Pernambuco Medical School in Recife, Brazil.\nFor the study, researchers examined nearly 1,000 males and females from Recife who were between 13 and 82 years old. All had significant daily sun exposure and none routinely used sunscreen or took vitamin D supplements.\nUsing the Fitzpatrick skin phototype scale, which is a numerical measure of skin color and type used by dermatologists, the researchers assessed the response of different skin types to UV light. Generally, higher scores indicate darker skin tones and the tendency to tan, not burn.\nThe participants\u2019 sun index was also calculated by multiplying the number of hours of sun exposure they got on a weekly basis by the fraction of exposed skin.\nThe researchers compared the participants\u2019 sun index scores and skin type with their blood level of vitamin D. Most of the participants with very high daily exposure to the sun had lower-than-normal serum vitamin D levels.\nOverall, 72 percent of the participants were deficient in vitamin D. Those lacking this nutrient tended to be older and have lower sun index values, the study found.\n\u201cOur research showed that, in a large sample of individuals living in a tropical region located 8 degrees south of the equator with very high rates of sun exposure and extremely high UV irradiation, most people had serum vitamin D below 30 ng/ml [nanograms per milliliter], the cutoff for normal,\u201d Bandeira said in a news release from the Endocrine Society.\nThe findings were presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, in Boston. Studies presented at meetings are usually considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.\nThe U.S. Office of Dietary Supplements, part of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, provides more information on vitamin D.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grolek.de/hp/rechentechnik.php?i=101", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEL4E5M5VBCUSTZO3XWTREF3QV4CFK3W", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "grolek.de", "title": "Geschichte der Rechentechnik", "raw_content": "IBM 1401 Computer History Museum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 2476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 203.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grotondisccenter.com/terms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:32Z", "digest": "sha1:H6KJQPCZ5EKKBTDAOWSFEIRIQT6KGOCX", "length": 29435, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "grotondisccenter.com", "title": "Terms - Groton, CT - Groton Disc Center", "raw_content": "This web site (\u201cSite\u201d) and the content herein is made available to you conditioned upon your acceptance, without modification, of the terms and conditions contained herein (\u201cTerms of Use\u201d). 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You may access the notice by visiting our website at: www.DiscCentersofAmerica.com\nComplaints, Questions, and Requests\nYou may direct your questions about this Notice or\nDisc Centers of America, LLC\u2019s\nprivacy practices, requests regarding your information, or other\nprivacy or confidentiality concerns to:\ninfo@DiscCentersofAmerica.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 33279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://grubstreet.ca/articles/index/295/the-2007-juno-awards-an-after-word", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:59Z", "digest": "sha1:UAG63WWHBUO2GTXKSWDCUYYV4QJMALVH", "length": 6075, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "grubstreet.ca", "title": "Grubstreet.ca | The 2007 Juno Awards", "raw_content": "An After Word\nDr. Denise S. McConney\nGoing to the Junos Awards marked a number of important firsts for me. It was the first time I had been back to a music event or concert for many, many years. It was the first show for the most important reason I haven't been out to much of anything lately.\nMy 13-year-old daughter, whose report is also here, was attending too. So, returning to an event that is a gala for what I sometimes fondly refer as 'my misspent youth in the music business' was loaded with potential for noting changes in the past few or rather more years.\nOne of the first things I noticed came when Farley Flex (below) came out to give 'us,\" the audience, our instructions. Of course h e also gave the erroneous announcement about the couple that had allegedly won a car. All they had really won, as it turned out, was the right to lose the good seats they had paid for while they had to watch the show from the obstructed view in the vehicle. Although I wasn't surprised by anything he said, I realized I hadn't actually heard them, in person, before. I guess I was also at my first live broadcast show.\nShortly after that, the about to be triple crowned goddess of Canadian music, Nelly Furtado, appeared about midway up the stands. All that most of us could see were the feathers at the back of her head. Elaborate hair do or fancy frock? Neither of course as it turned, just a bird costume with which to spoof, or was it to mock her first big hit - and all of those who loved her music at that point and helped propel her career to where she is today? Unfortunately this was just the first of many attempts to present Nelly Furtado, comedienne. Don't give your day job Nelly, and those of you watching from home can rest assured that neither the videos nor the other humorous moments were any funnier live than they looked on screen.\nI realize it must have been difficult to come up with 3 live acceptance speeches and be the host. It was a little embarrassing to notice that her ability to speak spontaneously was clearly running out with the second award and she used a cheat sheet for the third. Billy Talent's acknowledgment of their tour mates, Alexis on fire, with his first award seemed far more gracious. Their performance though was gangbusters, a great arena rock act that blasted the house, although I was taken aback to be informed later that they're considered to be a heavy metal band, which is another category that must have changed since the old days. Other than that I would say that the rock performances all demonstrated that Neil, of the Young variety. was right and rock is still a dynamic force. Three Days Grace, too, almost blew off the roof . In reality, it's the fault of the prairie winds, guys, not yours, we have to build them extra strong out here. There's was a power house show accompanied by one of, if not the best, stage and light show.\nAlthough I loved being part of the excitement there, I would like to send one note to the Juno Organizing Committee: your selections and work to attract the under 30s likely seemed a pretty good long-term business strategy. I'm sure you were conscious that you were sacrificing the over 30s, like yourselves (sic), who were disappointed, upset or outraged with the narrow range of your performance choices. Were you aware though of how much you missed in the range of vigorous styles and approaches in popular music today? I teach at universities and there were many under 30s there who identified and were disappointed with the lack of representations. Come on guys, even iPods can read a wider range of options. I know the Juno categories reflect those possibilities but this was the big show and the selection, Gregory Charles not withstanding, was just too constricted.\nI do understand including Bob Rock (left) as the tribute choice. I was pleased to see him looking and playing well. His work, if not his name, should certainly be familiar to your target audience. Still, you were hosted by Saskatchewan -- remember, \"sorry about the weather\" is the provincial motto -- and maybe you could have somehow made space to at least include the territorial First Nations hero, Tom Jackson (right) for his Humanitarian Award. You must have driven past his reserve, the One Arrow Willow Cree First Nation, on the way to the hockey game in Prince Albert.\nNope, sorry, make that two notes. What hasn't changed since the days when I was around is how much the biz is still so clearly and obviously gendered male. Yes, Nelly Furtado hosted and performed but whether we're counting the winners from the show or the performers she was almost the only woman in sight. Yes, some of the presenters were women but that's not nearly enough in the 21st century. And that's just a sad comment on the talent that got ignored.\nI would also apologize to the performers who are likely used to a much more active bunch crowding the front of the stage. It was really really cold outside while we were waiting to come in and we hadn't all thawed out from the winter yet. We like you a lot more than it might have seemed. Part of what I was looking for while I watched the rebroadcast was to see how often they cut away from the front of stage portion of the crowd. Lots of dancing in the seats though, even if the cameras weren't on us much.\nOne evolution in contemporary concert going that I did notice was that rather than the good old fashioned custom of waving matches or lighters, when the band comes on, now it's a sea of camera-ready cell phones. Hmm, perhaps that's not quite as warm and glowing a welcome. I do admit it was an exciting show; the bands who were chosen gave stellar performances and my compliments to the stage people. Great quick work between sets and the changes in the presentations for each band were impressive. So, in conclusion, when it's your city's turn to host the Junos, turn out for the great Canadian Rock Road Show. Even after, hmm, I'll just say, a very long time, it was fun to back at the biz again.\nMore by Dr. Denise S. McConney:\nEven more by Dr. Denise S. McConney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 7285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 321.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://halo.gen.nz/rgs/proposal.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:18Z", "digest": "sha1:PEV2FQ2RCIIAEQTKOSEF66D7HYGOTWRT", "length": 16709, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "halo.gen.nz", "title": "Random Geographical Survey - film proposal", "raw_content": "Random Geographical Survey.\n(application to the arts council july 1997)\nI need not ramble about the problems with everyday scenic films [1]. The important fact is that I have discovered a solution. It is necessary, in order to avoid the customary excesses of scenic film, to remove as much as possible the element of (thoroughly indoctrinated) human judgement from the process of selecting and collecting images. As I will demonstrate, this is only partially possible or desirable, but nevertheless of great importance even in this limited form.\nThe NZMS 260 series consists of 339[2] non-overlapping maps that completely cover New Zealand (with no overlaps) at a scale of 1 : 50 000. The series has an ingenious grid system that allows one to specify any point in the country to within 100 metres (refer attached sheet: To Give A Grid Reference On This Map). Every location corresponds to a single grid number, and every valid grid number to a unique location. These characteristics of NZMS 260 will be exploited to create a statistically representative picture of New Zealand's geography. By picking map and grid numbers at random, I will be able to randomly select locations from which to film. No bias towards great mountains or pretty lakes will be possible, nor will the exclusion of dead cows, state houses, gorse covered hills and muddy paddocks.\nIt may turn out that none or all of these things are included, but it is certain that this film will offer a truer representation of the country than anyone's personal selection of images - whether selected to shock or sooth - which are doubly affected by the maker's ideological make-up and their utter ignorance of the majority of places. Those people's films make you feel sick, but viewers of this film are more likely to feel as if veils are being stripped from their eyes, a fog is leaving their minds, and the true nature of the country is revealing itself for the first time.\nThe film will be shot at 12 randomly selected locations on or very close to the landmass of New Zealand (not including distant uninhabited islands or Pacific Island dependancies). At each place the salient points of natural and human geography will be noted and recorded on film. The sound of the place will also be recorded. Approximately 5 - 10 minutes will be filmed in each place, of which about 100 seconds will be included in the final picture[3]. This will make the entire film about 16 minutes long.\nRandom Selection of Sites.\nA computer will be used to generate random numbers. The Arts Council is welcome to nominate a representative to supervise the process and examine the computer hardware and code, to ensure that no doubt can be cast on the true randomness of the selected sights. The machine is expected to be an Intel 386 based Epson PC AX3s and the program written with TurboPascal 6.0 using the random number generator supplied as part of TurboPascal.\nThe 339 maps will all be assigned numbers from 1 - 339, starting with the most northerly map in the westmost column (ie A44) of the index map[4], then moving down the column and then across to the top of the next column.\nEach map is 300 grid lines high and 400 across.\nThe computer will pick a number between 1 and 339, and the corresponding map will be identified.\nThe computer will then pick two 3 digit numbers, from 0-399 and 0-299 respectively. These numbers will be added to the co-ordinates of the lower left hand corner to create a valid grid reference[5].\nThe computer will generate a number between 1 and 8. This will correspond to the compass direction (1= N, 2=NE, 3=E, etc) in which the filmmakers are obliged to look at the beginning of their site investigation[6]. See figure 1.\nThe required maps will be purchased, unless it is absolutely clear from an examination of the index map that the selected place is nowhere near any land (such as the location 052 east and 212 north of the southwest corner of map A44).\nSteps 1 - 4 will be repeated until twelve sites have been selected. It may turn out later on (once the maps are purchased) that one of the selected sites is in fact more than 1 km from the shore, in which case another site (on a new map) will be selected as a replacement[7].\nPlanning of the travel will commence.\nFigure 1 looks like this:\n7 w-*-e 3\nTravel to and between the various sites will be by car as far as the roads go, and then by foot or as suitable. Remote places will be accessed by whatever methods seem appropriately safe and cheap. The budget includes contingency funds for the either the hire of specialist equipment or helpers (boats, guides, planes, mountaineering equipment) or a boat ride to Stewart Island, Fiordland or the Chathams. The order in which the sites are filmed is not considered import, and will be based on convenience only. Obviously it is likely that a North to South or South to North route will work best.\nThe selected sites will be viewed as places to film from rather than as places to film at. Upon arrival we will examine the site closely, ensuring we are correctly placed and are reasonably aware of the boundaries of our grid placement [8]. If there is sufficient daylight, the filming will commence immediately. We will look first in the direction indicated by the computer, but from there all shots will be dictated by human judgement. The aim will not be to capture every detail of the place, but to focus on the most interesting [9] and defining aspects. If human being are there, they will be filmed and their sounds recorded. If they are interacting with the filmmakers they will still be filmed (if willing). This may include people who are there on account of the filmmakers, but not the filmmakers themselves, who will remain safely hidden at all times.\nDifficult Sites.\nIt is likely that many of the sites will be on private land. I imagine that we will easily gain access to most of this land, once the owners understand the importance of our mission. We will use bribery if necessary. As the location is only specified to within 100 metres, there ought to be sufficient room for flexibility in urban areas or extremely difficult terrain. It could also happen that the selected site is on secret defence or commercial land or somewhere very sacred, and we are unable to gain any access. If everything else fails the site will be viewed from a distance through an extreme telephoto lens. Only in this case will it be used as a place to film, rather than a place to film from. Another possibility would be the hire of a plane (which ought to be quite cheap really). Under no circumstances can a difficult site be left out in favour of an easier one.\nIf I were a purist and disliked editing, I would simply string footage from each of the 12 sites in a row, 100 seconds of each, so as to maintain the impartial nature of this project. Perhaps, I would even have subtitled labels at the start of each block. If I was a great fan of indeterminacy, I would splice each block into little pieces and reassemble them according to yet another random formula. But in real life I love editing. I will edit the footage into an interpretation of New Zealand geography, based on what I see at each of the 12 sample points. This may be seen as contrary to the spirit of project, even as undermining of its scientific value -perhaps as a sneaky way of turning it back into a scenic film. But if I were to edit according to random formula, I ought to select my shots by a random formula too (as shooting is the beginning of editing) and, doing that, I would have to select the focus and aperture settings randomly too (since they affect the picture as much as the direction the camera is pointing) and then I'd have to randomly select from all this footage that hasn't come out properly and the resulting film, all fuzzy and black, while looking very pretty, would do nothing but obscure the original point: A true look at a country's geographic features. Thus human judgement is required in editing and shooting, and since judgement always involves interpretation it is better to be honest about this and make the film an interpreted version of a random sample [10]. The difference between this and the standard scenic method is clear: I am going to go to twelve places I don't know and base my film on what I see, hear, shoot, record and think at those places. Scenic films are made by clutching preconceived ideas of beauty and landscape, and combining a sequence of well known natural scenes that meet these standards. Scenic films depend on recognition and resist novelty, because if people did not recognise the shots they wouldn't know they were seeing acknowledged standards of natural beauty and would quickly become bored [11].\nAnyway, I won't name or label the various places [12], nor keep them in any kind of order. No attempt will be made to show their relative positions in the country, rather I will present them as if adjacent. Hints of narrative may be spun out of cleverly presented coincidences. The sounds will similarly be mixed up, but not added to by sounds from other places, nor will speaking people be rudely devoiced.\nmaps (14 @ 12.50 + 1 @ 9.00) $ 186\nfilm stock 3600 feet kodak 7248 & some 7293 $ 1260\nprocessing 3600 feet to neg + workprint $ 2268\ndup workprints (est. 400') $ 240\ndat hire (2 months) $ 600\ntapes $ 150\nmixing studio (8 hours at 90 + gst) $ 810\nsound transfers (incl stock) $ 380\noptical sound neg $ 518\ncredits $ 300\ntrial print $ 848\ngood print $ 607\nvideo transfer and copy (inc tape) $ 350\nediting (steenbeck, tapes etc) $ 640\ncar @ 20c per K; 10,000km [14] $ 2000\nchathams/fiordland/mountains contingency[15] $ 800\nspecial equipment hire (ice axe, boat)/guide $ 600\nfreight $ 250\naccommodation [16] $ 500\nphones/communication $ 100\nemployment of helpers $ 300\nTOTAL (including GST) $ 13707\n1. I am thinking here of nationalistic boosterism, reactionary counterlandscapism, lazy roadside panoramas, pauashell/ buzzy bee infantilism, happy face multiculturalism, wild elementalism, doubtfulsoundism, pancakerockism, rangitotoism, and all the other familiar and miserable expressions of the scenic fetish.\n2. Not all of the maps are printed on separate sheets. Also includes 2 maps for the Chatham Islands which are slightly larger in size. In effect this means the Chatham Islands will be mildly under represented in this survey -- but they are used to that kind of thing. And, by the way, since the NZMS has changed it's name to Terralink, the series name may have changed or be about to change - but they assure me it will remain in print.\n3. Note that it is important to use the same amount of footage from each of the 12 places -- otherwise, in selecting more time from one place than another, altering the actual revealed appearance of the country, I am becoming another \"scenic\" filmmaker. [ADDITIONAL NOTE (after recieving grant): There is an error in these calculations. 12 x 100 seconds = 20 minutes, not 16. In order to make a 16 minute film I'd need to use 80 seconds from each place. In the end I used 60]\n4. The small map that you see is only a minature version of the real index map, which is known as NZMS 319A .\n5. Refer to the sheet called TO GIVE A GRID REFERENCE ON THIS MAP.\n6. This is to be a guide only. The filmmakers will begin their investigations while facing in this direction, looking as always for points of interest in the land. They may at any time become disillusioned or distracted from this direction and orientate themselves elsewhere. This is one area where some human discretion is desirable.\n7.This is for reasons of fairness, safety and focus. Not all coastal maps contain the same amount of water - some (like H47 Hinahina) have the merest slivers of land in one corner, while others have only a tiny spot of water. Thus the ocean 20km off the coast of Hinahina would be eligible for selection in the survey, while the water 20km off Oamaru would not be. This is unscientific and unfair. And unsafe, and costly for the poor filmmaker who would have to sail out into the deep and stormy southern ocean in order to film a particular piece of water much like many of the other pieces of waters sailed across. Finally, there is already in production a popular and informative documentary series that focuses on the sea, and there is no need for anyone to duplicate it, least of all me. The 1 km of coastal water is included because water close to land is so affected by the land, and because it is impossible to be exactly sure where the land ends and water begins (especially in estuaries and similar places) so that an arbitrary decision is need at some point. In any case it is unlikely that any of the selected sites will end up being in coastal water.\n8. Obviously, this will be done by consulting the map.\n9. I tend to concentrate on movements, composition, and colours, less on form & \"content\".\n10. At this point it would be wise to aknowledge that trying to tell the truth about nature and land can never be freed from ideology and interpretation. Even my scheme of filming at random locations is charged with a hundred assumptions. It takes for granted that \"New Zealand\" is an important unit to be examined, that the defining quality of New Zealand is the land, that all the land is equally important and equally a part of this New Zealand (as if the large areas in Fiordland where no-one has been for many centuries are no less important to this thing than Central Auckland or the airports or Parliament, notwithstanding that the whole idea is a social construct and needs people to exist, etc), that the essential aspect of land is area (not surface area, which changes with the landscape, but surveyors' and mapmakers' area, with it's imaginary flatness). A respectful attitude is taken towards the dubious idea of a valid random sample. It is common enough nowadays to ask these kinds of questions of art, and in some way I am repeating the same with this film. But there is more; because this film ignores the existence or non-existence of humanity in it's selection of locations, it becomes a very interesting question as to whether we will find people or their signs in each place. It is, more than anything, an investigation into the extent of our infestation of these islands. If I were to focus my films on human geography, selecting each place in proportion to it's population rather than it's area -- quite apart from the inherent problems (you'd need an accurate register) -- I would be guaranteed of not finding anything that wasn't already humanly known. It would look at the human world, but in no way could it measure the human world, as this film can. It would look at humanity only as variations, different types of the same, and show the difference as an effect of enviroment (including, of course, social enviroment). The highlight would be on enviroments, whose various effects would be plainly there to see. This film, by staring hard at enviroments and encountering humans, shows not the effects of enviroment, but the effects of humans. This is altogether rarer and hence more revealing and more valuable.\n11. Nevertheless this the film will be a statistically truer picture of New Zealand than has ever been made.\n12.hey will be listed in the credits, etc.\n13.You will notice that the budget has been carefully and frugally worked out.\n14. The road length of the country is about 2500km. I will have to go this distance twice (in order to get back home again), and at least as far again to zigzag back and forth between the various sites. thus 10,000 km is a conservative estimate.\n15. The chances of a geographical film involving a helicopter flight over Mt Cook are [ 12 chances /(339 maps x 300 x 400) =] 3,390,000 to 1. No contingency funds have been set aside for this possibility. and in this unlikely event footage will have to be purchased from a scenic film maker. [LATER ADDITIONAL NOTE: the odds are in fact lower than this, owing to the maps consisting largely of water which were discussed above. I now believe the chances against a flight over Mount Cook to be in the region of 2,500,000 to one].\n16. 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Hence, to avoid leakage of important information it has become essential for businesses to install the key logger software in their system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 6377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://havingtime.com/four-effective-ways-to-stop-bullying-in-a-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:04Z", "digest": "sha1:X6XUPXFKERIQKEGETA6EWPBRCSDT2LEC", "length": 6603, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "havingtime.com", "title": "Four Effective Ways to Stop Bullying in a Family \u2014 HavingTime", "raw_content": "Four Effective Ways to Stop Bullying in a Family\nKatherine Mayfield 24/06/2016 306 views\n\u201cWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.\u201d \u2015 Viktor E. Frankl\nBy Katherine Mayfield\nThe memory still hurts as much as when it happened. Visiting my father the year after my mother passed away, I knocked on the door after a three-hour plane ride and an hour in the rental car, and was greeted with a sarcastic, \u201cWell, you look casual!\u201d. I was wearing a nice tank top and light slacks to stay cool in the intense summer heat. In our family, \u201ccasual\u201d was code for \u201csloppy\u201d: the disguised put-down. Somehow, the fact that he needed to disguise the criticism made it feel even more shameful.\nI knew I looked fine, but my father\u2019s offhand comment chopped my hard-won self-image down to the ground. I grew up with a constant criticism from both of my parents. It left me with a self-worth level of just about zilch as an adult. So even after two decades of consistent work to raise my self-esteem, my father\u2019s words still had the power to make me feel like I was a five-year-old again, wanting to sink into the ground with shame.\nI wish I\u2019d been able to stand up to my father and say, \u201cI\u2019m sorry you think so, but I\u2019m comfortable with what I\u2019m wearing.\u201d Or, \u201cExcuse me? Is that any way to greet your only daughter?\u201d Or even to be able to tell me, There he goes again. No big deal.\nFamily bullying is more common than most people think it is. Whether it\u2019s a backhanded slight such as, \u201cYou should\u2019ve known better,\u201d or a full-blown put-down like \u201cToo bad your kids have such bad parents,\u201d the intention to hurt is still there.\nUnfortunately, in some families, bullying is an accepted behavior\u2014this usually occurs because parents don\u2019t know any other way. And so they continue parenting their kids the same way they were brought up. But that doesn\u2019t make it right.\nWhen bullying is \u201cnormal\u201d in a family, anyone who calls it bullying is exposing a family secret. It causes so much distress that most family members keep that secret pretending the bullying never happens. And so when it\u2019s part of the family norm, the person who\u2019s bullied has no choice but to accept the criticism or put-down as \u201ctruth\u201d\u2014which it rarely is.\nMost bullies tend to find a tiny issue and blow it up into a generalization. For example, taking a single moment where a parent has difficulty controlling a child and turning it into a comment about the person\u2019s parenting skills in general. So the first question to ask yourself when someone cuts you down is, \u201cIs this always true? Or are they generalizing?\u201d\nSometimes bullies enjoy the feeling of power a bit too much. And then they just make things up, often preceded by the words \u201cYou always\u2026\u201d or \u201cYou never\u201d\u2014as in \u201cYou never could cook lasagna well.\u201d What\u2019s most important to remember is that their comment only reflects one person\u2019s opinion. That person may be important to you, but it\u2019s still only their opinion. Other people might love your lasagna. In fact, lots of other people might love your lasagna!\nWhen the bully needs to feel more powerful, he has to find something or someone to cut down. And so he fills in the blank with \u201cyour lasagna\u201d. When a bully needs to dump shame on someone to get rid of uncomfortable feelings, he or she will find an opportunity, even if the comment is false.\n1. Realize This\u2026\nRealize that you\u2019re being bullied\u2014not \u201ctaught\u201d or \u201cencouraged\u201d\u2014and decide not to let it bother you. Don\u2019t take it personally. Pretend there\u2019s a mirror in front of you, deflecting the bad energy away. This takes a bit of practice. It\u2019s called \u201cletting it roll off your back.\u201d\nRemember that the bully is feeling a bit vulnerable (even though they don\u2019t look or sound that way), and is trying to make him \u2013 or herself feel bigger by making you feel smaller. What often happens when we stop reacting is that the bully discovers after a few missed shots that it\u2019s no fun to bully you anymore, and stops.\n2. Total Recall of All the Good Things\u2026\nRemind yourself of all the things you do well. Whether it\u2019s cooking, parenting, the work you do, a hobby, being a good listener, taking good care of your pets \u2014 anything! You need to prompt yourself to get back into a frame of mind where you feel competent.\nIf you wish, stand up to the bully by saying something like, \u201cExcuse me?\u201d Or, \u201cThat\u2019s not a nice thing to say,\u201d or \u201cI\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t agree.\u201d Even though it may feel like the world will blow apart if you stand your ground, it won\u2019t. And you\u2019ll raise your self-esteem over time as you begin to take care of yourself in this way.\n4. When You Leave the Situation\u2026\nWhen you leave the situation, don\u2019t allow the comment to roll around in your mind, creating more shame and guilt. Think through the situation: what was the response of others who were there? Most likely, they were as embarrassed as you were because they knew what was going on. Was there tension in the situation that the bully was trying to defuse? Did you get angry (even if you couldn\u2019t show it)? Anger is a clear sign that we\u2019re mistreated\u2014it\u2019s a normal and healthy response to being put down.\nIt\u2019s never okay for one person to bully another. Remember that the basis of a family\u2019s connection should be love\u2014or at least concern for family members\u2014not criticism. If you assure yourself that the bully was wrong to bully you, it won\u2019t hurt so much.\nThe more you vent your feelings, by rolling up the car windows when you\u2019re alone yelling, letting yourself cry if tears come; or however you want to express your emotions, the better you\u2019ll feel\u2014and if it happens again, the better your defenses will be.\nBullying is always wrong, and when it happens in families, it\u2019s even more distressing. Don\u2019t allow it to ruin your self-esteem\u2014or the rest of your life.\nKatherine Mayfield is the award-winning author of ten books, including Stand Your Ground: How to Cope with a Dysfunctional Family and Recover from Trauma; a guide to recovery from bullying, Bullied; and a memoir about recovering from emotional abuse and bullying in her family, The Box of Daughter. She blogs on dysfunctional families on her website, www.TheBoxofDaughter.com. 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New patients will be accepted seven days per week between the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 8 p.m.\n\"We see low patient volumes at Misericordia Urgent Care Centre in the overnight hours. Those volumes drop throughout the night to an average of one patient per hour between midnight and 6 a.m.,\" said Dr. Brock Wright, WRHA vice president of clinical services and chief medical officer.\n\"The Misericordia Urgent Care Centre sees very few acute patients overnight per year, a volume that can be readily absorbed by Health Sciences Centre or St. Boniface Hospital,\" said Wright. \"The public is encouraged to understand their options for care and the indicators of what is urgent versus what is an emergency when they decide where to go.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 2730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 237.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthweblognews.info/tag/granulocytes-and-subset-of-peripheral-blood-lymphocytes-of-non-human-primates-the-reactivity-on-leukocyte-populations-is-similar-to-that-obs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HX54QCIJOXNYUPTQIPNNE7EB6IXMF4UP", "length": 154, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "healthweblognews.info", "title": "granulocytes and subset of peripheral blood lymphocytes of non-human primates.The reactivity on leukocyte populations is similar to that Obs | healthweblognews.info", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Granulocytes And Subset Of Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Of Non-human Primates.the Reactivity On Leukocyte Populations Is Similar To That Obs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 9087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://helenafrithpowell.com/the-national/marilyn-beyond-the-myth", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:59Z", "digest": "sha1:EBOGKNA4Y2O2ZENMUGZSECXLZFQEUT25", "length": 2389, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "helenafrithpowell.com", "title": "Marilyn: beyond the myth", "raw_content": "Marilyn: beyond the myth\nAs a new feature film about Marilyn Monroe\u2019s 1956 London sojourn premieres at the Dubai International Film Festival this week, Helena Frith Powell examines her legacy\nWhen I was 10, The Sunday Times magazine serialised Norman Mailer\u2019s biography of Marilyn Monroe. I don\u2019t know how or why I had heard of her but I collected all the articles and stuck them in a scrapbook, on the cover of which I wrote Marilyn. Unfortunately, my stepfather thought it was unsuitable reading for a little girl and confiscated it.\nThe point of the story is not how strict my stepfather was, but rather how Marilyn grabbed the attention of a child, and how she still captures the imagination of millions, almost 50 years after her death.\nI can gaze happily at photographs of Marilyn for hours on end. There is something so captivating about her beauty, and also something intangible that draws you back again and again. She seems so much more special than countless other actresses.\nAlthough Marilyn cultivated the \u201cdumb blonde\u201d image, it was inaccurate. Jane Russell, her co-star in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called her \u201cvery shy and very sweet and far more intelligent than people gave her credit for\u201d.\nFor her acting, there can be no higher accolade than that of Lee Strasberg from the legendary Actors Studio: \u201cI have worked with hundreds and hundreds of actors and actresses,\u201d he said, \u201cand there are only two that stand out way above the rest. Number one is Marlon Brando, and the second is Marilyn Monroe.\u201d\nAnd let\u2019s not forget she could sing and dance as well. Has anyone ever heard a more seductive interpretation of Happy Birthday than the one she sang for JFK in 1962?\nBut if we\u2019re honest, we don\u2019t remember Marilyn because of her films or even her songs. Rather, there is something about Marilyn the woman that is endlessly fascinating. Her self-doubt, her disastrous relationships, her humour (famously late for everything, she once quipped: \u201cI\u2019ve been on a calendar, but I\u2019ve never been on time\u201d) and of course, that endearing vulnerability.\nMarilyn didn\u2019t take her sex symbol status lightly. \u201cBeing a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry,\u201d she once said. \u201cEspecially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.\u201d\nMy Week With Marilyn will receive its UAE premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival on Tuesday. The film goes on general release in the UAE on December 22.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 6805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://helensburgh-heritage.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1493:airship-aces-story-told&catid=101:headlines&Itemid=539", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:48Z", "digest": "sha1:LSJMRQCR5HJVHJ3DCZVAOWJORGTXSWYH", "length": 1395, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "helensburgh-heritage.co.uk", "title": "Airship ace's story told", "raw_content": "Airship ace's story told\nAN EXHIBITION featuring Airships in World War One is on display in Helensburgh Library in West King Street until October 27.\nEntitled 'Air Ace of Argyll', it tells the story of airship captain Major James Gardner Struthers, of Ardmaddy Estate near Oban, and opened today.\nOrganiser Eleanor McKay, Bibliographic and Local Studies Librarian for LiveArgyll, said: \"In the centenary year of the forming of the RAF, we take a look at the First World War as seen from the skies, through the earlier work of the Royal Naval Air Service.\n\"Airships played a vital role in reconnaissance, protecting naval forces and submarine hunting (and attacking).\n\"In particular, this exhibition focusses on the merits and bravery of a local hero, Major James Gardner Struthers, who is credited with completing more flying hours than any other airship pilot and was awarded the DSC with two bars.\"\nThe exhibition includes photographs, papers and documents as well as original artefacts belonging to Major Struthers, kindly loaned by his son, Charles Struthers, who spoke at the opening ceremony about his late father's life and work in peacetime and during both World Wars \u2014 latterly as Commandant of the Royal Observer Corps.\nThe picture shows Rhu man Andrew Nisbet, chair of LiveArgyll, with Charles Struthers in front of one of the display cases in the Library, which is run by LiveArgyll.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://heraldofbusiness.com/chemicals-and-materials/global-polyvinyl-alcohol-pva-market-2018-celanese-dupont-solutia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:47Z", "digest": "sha1:QAKL7QAB5FPCMTDZKFFA5QVD4O6BNZLS", "length": 3313, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "heraldofbusiness.com", "title": "Global Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Market 2018- Celanese, Dupont, Solutia - Herald Of Business", "raw_content": "The report titled \u201cGlobal Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Market 2018 Research Report, 2015 \u2013 2025\u201d from Eon Market Research delivers complete analysis of Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) industry on global, regional and country level. 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In a word, the Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) market report provides major statistics on the state of the industry and is a valuable source of direction and control for companies and individuals interested in the market.\nBrowse Complete Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Market Report Details and ToC Here- https://www.eonmarketresearch.com/global-polyvinyl-alcohol-pva-market-research-report-2018-26200\nGlobal Wastewater Treatment Separators Market 2018- Enviro Voraxial Technology Inc, Ecologix Environmental Systems, Monroe Environmental", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hiddenpoet.com/music/s/theres_a_path", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:33Z", "digest": "sha1:UMOPSPFCR7HH3TYPC4YQHNZANTKYJV4K", "length": 14, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hiddenpoet.com", "title": "Steven Gellman | Singer/Songwriter in Washington, D.C. | Music : There's A Path", "raw_content": "There's A Path", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 116.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://highlandcattleofsaarela.blogspot.com/2018/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:36Z", "digest": "sha1:T4J3CPPBSOCABT2S4HDP7GDLMUFWW2GF", "length": 1723, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "highlandcattleofsaarela.blogspot.com", "title": "Highland Cattle of Saarela: April 2018", "raw_content": "https://www.instagram.com/p/BiHefsIjKce/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BiCGcfiDCK1/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bh6ldzgj8_D/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bh1YMDTjD9I/\nScottish Highland Cattle In Finland: Cow cleaning her calf\nHighland Cattle cow cleaning her calf. Highland Cattle are a Scottish cattle breed. They are adapted to the cold weather and stay outside throughout the year. We have been raising these fluffy cows since 2007 on our farm in Finland. On this YouTube channel we share lots of videos of our cows, bulls and cute calves. Please subscribe to stay updated with new Highland Cattle videos!\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bhtm0AhDOH5/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bhq--CwjHYF/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bhof9W3j7pK/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bhl3nS8jAWI/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BhjQGRsDGXC/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/Bhgsrkhjvk4/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BheEr5rjmiX/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BhbpCCjjwST/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BhZRoD1j3uD/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BhWc7ZIDibq/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BhT9eOQDxAx/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BhO1HQWDXAu/\nScottish Highland Cattle In Finland: Four days old tiny calf testing how running works\nOur first calf of 2018 is already four days old in this video. 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Please subscribe to stay updated with new Highland Cattle videos!\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BhEd85jDi7r/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BhBj2hbDcJR/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 12795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 147.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hillbillyhaven.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KKGXTKBEQXLWAGKTPCAA34GAKVM5XF2G", "length": 1159, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "hillbillyhaven.net", "title": "Tubing The Brazos", "raw_content": "Luckys Landing MX\nTubing -> $17 per person, includes tube you ride on and free day pass. A tube for your ice chest for every 4 people. With parking, shuttle, and the rope to tie together. 10am-3pm. No new people on the river after 3pm. Open 7 days a week. April through October. Reservations not necessary for tubing.\nThe river changes so always call the day before you come for current conditions.\nWe are a camping and RV resort just minutes from the metroplex great for weekend getaways and long holidays. We offer pleasant riverfront RV and tent camping area as well as tubing and canoeing down the rural and scenic Brazos River. Families, Friends, Clubs, and Event Hosting make this a fun getaway.\nTubing .............$17.00\nHas free Day Pass\nCanoes.............$35.00\nRv hookups......$25.00\n(first 2 people)..$15.00\n(additional)each.$5.00\n(Adults)...............$5.00\n(Kids)..................$3.00\n(Kids under 5)....FREE\nFishing..............$5.00\nCall for RV reservations to get waterfront and shaded sites. Not necessary to call for tent camp or tubing.\nTubing 7 days a week no reservation needed\nTwo Bridges Resort\nCopy-right \u00a9 2011 Two Bridges Resort", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hillsborowv.com/history/civil-war?guest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NO7HWSTJ3OQ6LCVO3QDPYN6GJDCATZVN", "length": 4650, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "hillsborowv.com", "title": "Civil War", "raw_content": "Pocahontas County in The Civil War\nThe excerpts below were taken from Hardesty's Biographical Atlas 1882, Volume 3.\nIn 1861 the clouds of war hung over America, and their deepest density rested over Virginia. Civil commotion shook the grand old Commonwealth, and the countenances of her sons but told the impending struggle, fierce and wild. Everywhere they enlisted in defense of their native State, and from the tide-washed shores, from the midland counties, and from the rock-ribbed Alleghanies, long lines of brave soldiers marched forth to battle and die upon a hundred crimsoned fields. Among them were many of the descendants of the first pioneers of Pocahontas - they who, a century before, had struggled with the fierce and relentless barbarian, and had at last driven him from the country in which they had founded their homes where the soldiers of a later day were born and reared.\nNo sooner had the tocsin of war sounded throughout their native mountains than volunteering began. Captain Andrew G. McNeel repaired to the Little Levels and organized the first company. This was early in the spring of 1861. A requisition was made for arms, and they were shipped from Richmond, were never received, and the company disbanded in the fall of the same year. Captain D. A. Stofer mustered a company at Huntersville, went south, and with it was attached to the 31st Virginia Infantry. John M. Lightner was first lieutenant in this company. The third company formed was that of Captain Arbogast, at Greenbank. It, too, was attached to the 31st Infantry. The captain was afterward promoted to major of the regiment. Lieutenant H. M. Poague, of this county, but serving in a Bath county company, was killed in action at Warrenton, Virginia, October 12, 1863. Lieutenant James McGlothlin, of Captain Stofer's company, from Huntersville, was wounded at Shepherdstown, and died at Winchester Virginia.\nEngagements in Pocahontas\nThe first engagement which occurred in Pocahontas county, was at Camp Barteau, on what is known as the Peter Yeager farm, or the Traveler's Repose. Late in the summer of 1861, a Confederate force was collected at this point. It consisted of the 1st Georgia Infantry, Colonel Ramsey, commanding; the 12th Georgia, Colonel Edward Johnson in command; the 31st Virginia Infantry, Colonel William L. Jackson; Colonel Hansbro's Battalion; the Churchville Cavalry, from Churchville, Augusta county, Captain James Sterrett in command, and the Rockbridge Cavalry, commanded by the Captain, J. C. McNutt; the entire force under command of General Henry L. Jackson.\nOn the 14th of September, 1861, this force was attacked by the Federals under command of Generals Reynolds and Rosecrans. The firing began early in the morning and continued until nightfall, when the Federals withdrew and fell back to Cheat Mountain summit, in Randolph county. The Confederate loss was thirty-six killed; that of the Federals was unknown.\nA few days later the confederates fell back to Camp Alleghany, and after being re-enforced by two regiments, one of which was the 52nd Virginia Infantry, under Colonel John Baldwin, they fortified a strong natural position. Here, in December, they were again attacked by the Federals, and the engagement continued throughout the day, but terminated as had the first, in the repulse of the Federals. The loss was considerable on Both sides. Among that of the Confederates was that of Captain Anderson, of the Lynchburg Artillery, and Captain J. C. Whitmer, of the Pocahontas Rifles.\nThe Battle Of Droop Mountain\nWas fought on the 6th day of November, 1863. The Confederate force consisted of the 22nd Virginia Infantry, Colonel George Patton (of Kanawha county, afterward killed at Winchester), commanding; the 19th Virginia, Colonel W. P. Thompson; the 20th Virginia, Colonel W. W. Arnott; the 14th Virginia Cavalry, Colonel James Cochran; Jackson's and Chapman's Batteries, and Edgar's and Derrick's Battalions; the entire force under command of General John Echols. This force, on the first of the month, was lying at Meadow Bluffs, in Greenbrier county.\nThe Federal force was composed of the 14th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 23d and 28th Ohio Infantry, the 5th, 6th and 10th West Virginia Infantry, and one battery of Artillery. This force had been stationed at Beverly in Randolph county.\nBoth forces advanced and met on the northern extremity of Droop mountain, and the battle began at 10 A.M., and waged until 4 P.M., when the Confederates, finding their positions flanked, right and left, were forced to retreat; they fell back beyond Lewisburg, and were pursued several miles. The loss on both sides was heavy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 4867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 203.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hillspet.sbmpetnutrition.com/productdetail/hill-s-prescription-diet-c-d-multicare-feline-bladder-health-with-chicken", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:17Z", "digest": "sha1:YTXUAK2STUAITOVBKZFXU5GAAYXLWJX3", "length": 834, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "hillspet.sbmpetnutrition.com", "title": "Sbm Pet Nutrition", "raw_content": "Prescription Diet formulas are available in a wide variety of dry foods and treats for your cat's unique needs, and canned foods with delicious flavors your cat will love.\nPork By-Products, Water, Pork Liver, Chicken, Rice, Corn Starch, Oat Fiber, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols and citric acid), Fish Meal, Corn Gluten Meal, Chicken Liver Flavor, Calcium Sulfate, Guar Gum, Fish Oil, Brewers Dried Yeast, Glucose, DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Taurine, Cysteine, Calcium Carbonate, Dried Egg Yolk, Glycine, Vitamin E Supplement, Iodized Salt, Potassium Citrate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Zinc Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate, Niacin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Beta-Carotene, Manganous Oxide, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin, Biotin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid, Calcium Iodate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://historica.ca/lewisporte.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:31Z", "digest": "sha1:RRMMCKKLFA745BA5GGDP2Z5VCFH2VGPB", "length": 10179, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "historica.ca", "title": "Lewisporte - \"Gateway to the North\"", "raw_content": "Lewisporte, with a population of 3,312 in 2001, is located in Notre Dame Bay on Newfoundland's Northeast Coast. It was incorporated in 1946 with Albert Anstey as its first Mayor. In the days when most Newfoundland communities were linked only by sea Lewisporte was home to the \"bay boat\" S.S. Clyde. Found near the head of Burnt Bay in the Bay of Exploits (part of Notre Dame Bay), Lewisporte fills the role of distribution centre for the Northeast Coast, central Newfoundland, and Labrador north to Nain. Its modern role as a shipping entrep\u00f4t has earned Lewisporte the moniker \"The Gateway to the North.\" Its harbour is home to a boating marina complex where visitors can avail of boat tours and sailing charters.\nFirst known as Big Burnt Bay, Lewisporte was used by European settlers before the arrival of permanent residents. People often travelled there seasonally from Notre Dame Bay's older communities in search of wood for building and fuel. The first record of settlement was in 1857, when a census noted twenty-eight residents; eleven were fishers, and six were involved with lumbering. Robert Woolfrey from Moreton's Harbour was probably the first permanent settler, arriving in 1876. Woolfrey was accompanied by his wife Elizabeth, a former school superintendent at Moreton's Harbour, along with their six sons and two daughters. The family constructed a home on today's Main Street which also served as a Methodist church, with son John acting as lay-reader. Robert's grandson Willis was the first baby born at Lewisporte.\nIn 1877 the Hann, Russell and Pelley families settled, while in 1881 the Martins became the first settlers on the harbour's South Side, where most people lived in the community's early days. One prominent South Side settler was Solomon Northcott, who was operating two schooners in the Labrador fishery. By the late 1920s Stephen Jeans was considered the South Side's most important citizen, operating a school and post office. He also acted as a lay-reader and Sunday school superintendent. In the 1880s twenty-one vessels were fishing out of the area. The 1884 census showed 150 permanent residents at Big Burnt Bay, with twenty-two acres of cultivated land; by 1911 a local farming industry was well-established.\nAnother attraction for the community's early settlers was its thick stands of white pine trees. In a colony of fishers the white pine was especially prized for its use in boat building, but was just as adaptable to woodworking and general construction. In the nineteenth century the pines were so thick at Lewisporte that one of Robert Woolfrey's sons got lost in them. Besides the pines, which eventually fell victim to over harvesting and disease, Lewisporte's timber resources included both birch and spruce.\nThe area's early settlers descended from Notre Dame Bay's earliest European immigrants, who mainly hailed from England's West Country. The early population was almost entirely Protestant. The 1884 census reveals that 143 of 150 residents that year were Methodists. The first resident Minister, Reverend C. Abner Whitemarsh, arrived in 1901. The community's first Methodist church was built sometime between 1901 and 1903. A second Methodist church opened in 1916 under Reverend W. J. Wilson, while the current church held its first services in 1964. The Methodist Church - United since the 1920s - remains Lewisporte's predominant religion, but there are Anglicans, Roman Catholics, Pentecostals and Salvation Army adherents as well.\nThe early settlers were concerned with education as well as spiritual matters. The first local schooling was done at the Woolfrey dwelling, with Robert and Elizabeth's daughter as teacher. A second school is said to have opened in 1891, while another member of the Woolfrey clan is credited with starting a school at her home in 1895. The South Side had a own school building of its own.\nBig Burnt Bay was renamed Marshallville in 1891 to honour missionary William Marshall, and by 1901 logging and sawmilling were the community's main economic activities (The industry was dealt a major, though temporary, setback in 1905 when a forest fire burned its way through the region). Around the year 1900 the Reid Newfoundland Company chose Marshallville as the site for a railway terminal. The line later took coal to Gander and Bishop's Falls, with thousands of tons of the fuel shipped into the community by collier. In 1937-8 Shell and Imperial Oil began operations at Lewisporte (as it by then named), constructing large fuel storage tanks. This allowed for the rail shipment of millions of gallons of gasoline and aircraft fuel to a new airport at Gander. Passenger traffic was also important to the railway, with two runs out daily.\nThe coming of the railway led Robert William Manuel to open the Manuel Hotel in 1900. As the rail line ended at Lewisporte, travellers often waited for coastal boats to Notre Dame Bay and St. Anthony at the Manuel establishment. Well-known guests of the hotel included Dr. Wilfred Grenfell and Twillingate soprano Georgina Stirling. Manuel opened a second hotel in 1915, which operated - under the Pelley family after World War II - until it burnt down in the 1960s.\nIn the early 1900s a Scottish lumberman named Lewis Miller began using Marshallville's port as a shipping yard for his sawmills at Millertown and Glenwood; the community was later renamed \"Lewisporte\" in Miller's honour. He also operated a sawmill in the town under the name Timber Estates Limited. By 1911 forty-five Lewisporte residents were involved in lumbering, compared with twenty-four fishers. The Woolfrey family began a new sawmilling enterprise in the 1920s, and had three competitors by 1941. By this date World War II had spurred further development in Lewisporte.\nAn airport at nearby Gander was used as a base by the Canadian forces. Aviation fuel for Gander was transshipped via Lewisporte. With its deep, well-protected harbour open year-round, Lewisporte was considered an ideal place to establish a military base. By 1941 Three installations were located at Lewisporte; one in the east end by Hann's Point, a second at Bowater's Point, and a third in the town centre. An American station was located on the site of today's Shell Oil building. As of 1942 the Royal Canadian Artillery's 107th Coastal Battery was stationed at Lewisporte. The armed observation post at Hann's Point allowed observers to watch the harbour for enemy activity. Until 25 June 1942 this was a tranquil posting, but on that day the accidental discharge of a rifle into dynamite boxes created an explosion that killed five men. Today, few remember the incident, and little trace of the once-extensive military presence remains at Lewisporte.\nThe end of the war saw new economic progress in the town. Lewisporte Wholesalers started operations at Lewisporte in 1947. The company had a fleet of vessels transporting foodstuffs to the communities of northern Newfoundland, but as the road network expanded the vessels were all replaced by trucks. By the 1980s Lewisporte Wholesalers, along with competitors Steers and Blue Bouy Foods, were the town's major employers. Many secondary businesses were launched at Lewisporte from the 1940s on. The Bank of Nova Scotia opened a Lewisporte branch in 1942, while a shipyard was established in 1964.\nAlong with such businesses came institutions for the benefit of residents. By 1944 the town had its own theatre, with a library founded in 1946. A regional newspaper called The Lewisporte Pilot was founded in 1961, with a local vocational school opening its doors the following year. In 1973 a new arena was officially opened by hockey personality Howie Meeker.\nLewisporte is home to a number of community organizations. A Loyal Orange Lodge was started in 1904. Masonic Lodge #6670 was founded in 1948, with a Lewisporte branch of the Shrine Club (Shriners) started in 1970. These men's organizations were accompanied by a number for women and children. Between 1951 and 1955 Lewisporte became home to Cubs, Boy Scouts, Brownies and Air Cadets. The 617 Squadron, Air Cadets are one of Lewisporte's most accomplished youth organizations, being named the most proficient of Newfoundland's sixteen squadrons for 1967-8. They have also received the Naval Award and the Gordon Morris Shield. Lewisporte also has a Women's Institute branch, formed in 1976.\nBy the mid-1980s the growth that encouraged such organizations was slowing down, the worst setback being Canadian National's (CN) curtailing of operations at the port, which began with the cessation of CN's coastal boat service, apart from certain Labrador routes. This was followed by a government decision to eliminate the railway service across Newfoundland, and the fishery crisis shortly afterwards.\nStill, the community remains the base for a variety of commercial activities. The Labrador ferry service was given a boost in 1997 when Marine Atlantic's coastal shipping infrastructure in Lewisporte (and Goose Bay) was transferred to the provincial government. Part of the assets included the 10,433-ton car and passenger ferry Robert Bond, acquired for the Lewisporte-Labrador run after its predecessor, the William Carson, sank after striking ice off Labrador in 1977. Another important element of the Lewisporte service to Labrador was the 2,561-ton passenger freighter, MV Northern Ranger. In 2003 the coastal service was moved entirely to Labrador bases by the provincial government, although the move was later rescinded by a new administration. Despite such uncertainties, however, Lewisporte remains a hub of Notre Dame Bay.\n\"Community of the Month. Lewisporte,\" The Downhomer, Vol. XI, No. 7 (December 1998), 75-78.\nMcDonald, Louise. \"Few Remember Explosion of 1942.\" Lewisporte Pilot (28 July 1993), 1 and 8.\nOsmond, Sherman, Hart, Jennifer, Rowe, Stephen and Shannon Freake, Lewisporte: the War Years. Lewisporte, 1999.\nSmallwood, Joseph R. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vol. III. St. John's, NL: 1991.\nTown of Lewisporte. 50th Anniversary, 1946-1996. Full publishing information not given, 1996.\nLewisporte. Official Town Website, www.lewisportecanada.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 10881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 198.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hizbut-tahrir.org/index.php/EN/nshow/3935", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UEAIDG25XB5RD7SKWL2LIP4R44SY4FN4", "length": 4089, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hizbut-tahrir.org", "title": "Hizb ut Tahrir", "raw_content": "Betraying the Security of the Country, Squandering its Resources and Displacing the People\nOn 27/12/2019, the Government signed a concession contract with a Philippine company for the operation of the southern port of Port Sudan, for a period of 20 years, for 530 million euros. The company pays in advance an amount of 410 million Euros on 03/01/2019, and after ten days it receives the port. Against this background, a severe crisis arose between the government and the workers to be displaced, who mobilized to prevent the company from receiving the port, and the workers closed the gates of the port by placing the containers against them.\nWe in Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah of Sudan want to clarify the same facts about the privatization of the southern port, breach of trust and the displacement of workers, that we mentioned in our leaflet on 10/08/2017 when the privatization tender for the port was presented.\nFirst, the southern port is a profitable institution that generates huge funds for the state treasury. The southern port generates most of the port revenues estimated at 2 trillion pounds annually. Experts estimate the 530 million euros paid by this company in 20 years is only equivalent to 40% of the expected port revenue, which means it is betrayal of public funds, and wasting it, in favor of the capitalist companies, as did the government in the telecommunications sector!\nSecond, this Philippine company has been managing the port for 5 years and has not done any work to develop or modernize it, as claimed by political mercenaries and the employed capitalists of the company. This company, through its management of the port, knows its profitability, so it craved for the control of the port, and was helped by corrupt politicians who think only of their own interests, and of the foreign-currency crisis created by the government itself, when it obstructed production, and its full obedience to the IMF, and its cursed instructions! So the company thought and deliberated, to take over the port with a new concession contract, and for a longer period (20 years)!\nThird, the direct effect of this false contract is to undermine the security of the country by handing over the country\u2019s gateway to these transnational companies, whose aim is to make profits only. Then, the displacement of the port\u2019s 1800 workers is another crime, added to the crimes of this failed government. The statement of the port\u2019s director that the company agreed to accommodate a thousand workers, it is not serious, because the company is bound by the terms of the contract, and this is not one of them!! The absorption of a number of workers, and the displacement of others, is a malicious way to divide the workers and weaken their position. So the demand must be the abolition of the contract, and the state must carry out its duty to look after the affairs of the people on the basis of Islam\nFourth: The southern port, as the only container port in the Sudan, is considered in Islam to be one of the community\u2019s facilities, which is indispensable. With this description, the port is considered to be a public property. Therefore, the state is prohibited from owning it, as well as individuals and companies. The port must remain a public property, its proceeds must benefit all citizens of the State and it must be administered by the state in the interest of the community.\nO our people in Sudan: The government does not have any weight for the Shariah rules, it destroyed the country, and divided it, displaced the people, caused misery, hardship and harsh living conditions.\nAs soon as it commits a crime, this government moves on to the next. This injustice and squandering will not stop except by the law of Islam, implemented by the Khilafah Rashida state, (guided Caliphate) on the method of Prophethood, so join the work for its establishment.\n((\u064a\u064e\u0627 \u0623\u064e\u064a\u0651\u064f\u0647\u064e\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0630\u0650\u064a\u0646\u064e \u0622\u0645\u064e\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0627\u0633\u0652\u062a\u064e\u062c\u0650\u064a\u0628\u064f\u0648\u0627 \u0644\u0650\u0644\u0651\u064e\u0647\u0650 \u0648\u064e\u0644\u0650\u0644\u0631\u0651\u064e\u0633\u064f\u0648\u0644\u0650 \u0625\u0650\u0630\u064e\u0627 \u062f\u064e\u0639\u064e\u0627\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652 \u0644\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0627 \u064a\u064f\u062d\u0652\u064a\u0650\u064a\u0643\u064f\u0645\u0652))\n\u201cO you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life\u201d [Al-Anfal: 24]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 217.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hockey.scsuhuskiessportcamps.com/facilities-and-directions.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NG32BI3FDDIDPDETIPME3QA6AM54HJQH", "length": 5581, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "hockey.scsuhuskiessportcamps.com", "title": "St. Cloud State Hockey Camps", "raw_content": "The Herb Brooks National Hockey Center\nThe Herb Brooks National Hockey Center (HBNHC), which is located HBNHC is a multi-purpose facility featuring two Olympic size sheets of ice under one roof. Overall the facility measures more than 140,000 square feet with each sheet of ice measuring 200x100.\nThe facility was renamed in honor of the legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks in April 2013. The facility will now be called the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center. Brooks coached at SCSU for one season in 1986-87 and he played a pivotal role in the Huskies' move to the NCAA Division I level and helped secure funding for the construction of the facility in the 1980s.\nThe facility has undergone a major expansion project that opened with the 2013-14 season.\nThe expanded Herb Brooks National Hockey Center brings a new experience for St. Cloud State University hockey fans and athletes. This project will added several amenities like gathering areas and executive suites filled with Husky tradition. It modernizes the facilities, improving everything from locker rooms to a spectacular front atrium and ticket lobby.\nAs fans enter the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center, they are greeted by a new entrance on the south side of the building, which includes a spectacular atrium ticket lobby filled with Husky colors and tradition. New elevators and stairways lead fans to an improved concourse level that includes new restroom facilities, concession areas, trophy showcases and the classy Husky Den club room. A new team store, located at the site of the old west side ticket office, features a wide selection of Husky souvenirs for fans on game day.\nFor the SCSU student-athletes, the renovation provides new and improved training facilities and locker room areas. Both the SCSU men\u2019s and women\u2019s locker facilities have been completely revamped and feature a variety of new amenities including hydro-therapy pools, changing areas and team rooms with custom build locker stalls. The end result is a first class training and game-day environment for our student-athletes.\nThe project has also provided room for a new weight training facility, loading dock, staff offices, audio-visual updates, and equipment storage areas along with a new entrance and ticket window for the Herb Brooks National Hockey Center\u2019s practice rink.\nThe main ice arena, which has been named in honor of former SCSU president Brendan J. McDonald (an advocate for the Huskies' move to Division I in 1987-88), seats 5,159 spectators. The lower level seating features seatbacks, while additional seatback were added in some of the upper level seating areas in 2000 and 2006. The remainder of the upper level seating is bench style. Two scoreboards with video replay monitors are featured on the east and west ends of the main arena.\nMedia providing coverage for HBNHC events are able to work in a spacious press box along the upper level of the building's north side. The press box was remodeled in 2000, and it offers in-game statistic monitors and ample seating for print, broadcast and television media. Press work rooms and interview areas are located on the lower level of the HBNHC. An elevator provides complete access to the press facility.\nThe second sheet of ice is adjacent to the main arena, and it can accomodate several hundred spectators. The renovation project has provided for a new entrance to the practice arena.Two Zambonis maintain and groom the ice sheets on both rinks (which is widely recognized as one of the best ice surfaces in the conference).\nOn the lower level, one can find 11 locker rooms, two officials rooms, a fully equipped training room, a weight lifting/fitness center, player lounges, a classroom, a facility manager's office, HBNHC pro shop, equipment rooms and office space for the St. Cloud State University coaches.\nThe Huskies' locker rooms are just steps from the main arena. These areas provided players with an outstanding location to prepare for games and practice. The main area of the locker rooms features spacious wood lockers for each player, and the areas are connected to the players' lounges, training room and equipment room.\nThe players' lounges provide a comfortable retreat for the SCSU players before and after practices and games. The lounges feature a wide screen television, plush seating arrangements and relaxtion for the SCSU student-athletes.\nThe facility has been a long-time host for the USA Hockey Player Development camps, and many Minnesota State High School League playoff games.\nDirections To St. Cloud State University\nTake Exit 171 into St. Cloud.\nFollow Stearns County Road 75 for 3.5 miles.\nTurn right at the intersection of County Road 75 and Cooper Avenue. This roadway becomes University Drive. Drive east on University Drive for about 15 blocks.\nTake the first exit on the round-about and drive south on Ninth Avenue South.\nU.S. Highway 10:\nExit west from U.S. Highway 10 to Highway 23.\nCross the Mississippi River on the Granite City Crossing Bridge.\nTurn south on Fifth Avenue South and proceed through the round-about.\nFrom the West - Minnesota Highway 23:\nTake Minnesota Highway 23 into St. Cloud.\nAt the Highway 23 / Minnesota Highway 15 intersection drive straight ahead on 2nd Street South.\nDrive about 1.4 miles east as 2nd Street South becomes Roosevelt Road/Stearns County Road 75.\nAt the intersection with Cooper Avenue South, turn left.\nCooper Avenue quickly empties into University Drive. Drive about 15 blocks east on University Drive.\nFrom the East - Minnesota Highway 23:\nFollow Minnesota Highway 23 into St. Cloud.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 6122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://homeoayur.com/treatment-skinandhair.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NMLMFUDDZF4HZOWS5XVTRKIDTIHE5CUG", "length": 2480, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "homeoayur.com", "title": "Homeoayur", "raw_content": "Skin and Hair Problems\nSkin and Hair Problems Treatment\nThe skin is the body\u2019s largest organ; an average person\u2019s skin weighs 4kgs (9lbs) and covers an area of 2 square metres (22 sq feet). The skin has two main parts: the superficial epidermis whose thickness ranges from 0.1mm on the eyelids to 1mm on the soles of the feet. The epidermis contains no blood vessels, its most superficial layer is the dead, dry horny layer which is constantly shed, contributing to the dust in our homes. The dermis lies beneath the epidermis supporting and nourishing it and providing immunity and other functions.\nFrom the point of view of prescribing homeopathic treatment, eczema and psoriasis can be considered together. They nicely illustrate some of the principles of homeopathy: one of three homeopathic medicines will help in many cases, but the treatment must be individualised if it is to succeed. The three medicines are: Arsenicum album, Graphites and Sulphur. Homeopathy is holistic: to treat a skin problem, one has to look at the whole person, not just at their skin.\nSkin is the biggest organ of the human body. Skin, according to Ayurveda, has seven layers. It is located not merely peripherally but extends itself to the deeper levels of the body. For this reason skin diseases have deep rooted causes; therefore its remedies also have to be penetrative. That is, most skin diseases are, rooted deeply into various dhatus or tissues like fat, muscles, blood etc. Modern skin treatments depend on external applications of creams or oils. They may help symptoms disappear temporarily as they never reach the deeper layers of the skin. Whereas, Ayurvedic treatments are not mere \u2018skin deep\u2019, it goes to the roots of the problem. Ayurveda always tries to root out the disease by treating it specifically according to the causes of each disease. Ayurvedic skin treatments may take a few weeks to show up signs of cure, but you can be sure about its permanent solutions.\nHomeopathic and natural remedies for hair restoration do not simply tackle the symptoms of hair loss, but they treat the deficiencies that are at the root of the issue, providing the body with the tools required for the immune system to restore and heal itself, creating a long-term solution without the undesirable side effects that can result from allopathic medicine. One of the best advantages of homeopathic treatment is the prevention of further loss generally within 4-6 months of beginning the treatment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 240.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hook2book.com/sikhism-books-onlline/jail-chithiya_0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:12Z", "digest": "sha1:SET7QIBEFGRMFUZWIHMI4SIBXLQA5AF6", "length": 51, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "hook2book.com", "title": "Jail Chithiya", "raw_content": "Bhai Harjinder SINgh Jinda\nBhai Sukhdev Singh Sukha", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 4120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 214.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iancleary.com/debbie-a-christians-perspective-on-the-lightning-process/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:RQHS3OYPS2DCZLLCBINRU4LEM452TSUV", "length": 10384, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "iancleary.com", "title": "Debbie - A Christian's Perspective on the Lightning Process - Ian Cleary", "raw_content": "Debbie \u2013 A Christian\u2019s Perspective on the Lightning Process\nNearly a year ago I started hearing that a friend of mine (Richard, whose story is also on this website), who had been really sick with ME/CFS for 15 years, had been helped by the Lightning Process. The first time I heard about it I didn\u2019t actually know it was Richard they were talking about and when I had a look at the Lightning Process on the internet I just dismissed it because I thought it sounded too weird. Being a Christian I thought it sounded a bit new age and it mentioned something called self-hypnosis which definitely sounded strange! Then I heard about it from another friend who had been at Bible College with both Richard and I back in 1992. She told me Richard was out of bed and doing well. I got in touch with him and asked him about the LP. He was saying he didn\u2019t have ME any more! He was able to keep going for 12 hours straight and still be feeling fine. This is someone who was so sick he was stuck in bed and unable to read or talk on the phone! So I asked him some questions about it, particularly the \u201chypnosis\u201d. He explained to me that he didn\u2019t know why they call it that because it is definitely not hypnotism and you are fully conscious and totally in control the whole time. He said it was more about being relaxed and confident. And after learning to do the LP myself, I would say it\u2019s more about remembering how you felt when you were healthy and reminding yourself of that!\nAnother thing that Richard told me was that the LP seminar costs $1500 Australian dollars. I knew that it would take me a few months to save up that kind of money. I thought this would be a good thing because it meant I would have to wait a while. I wanted to have time to pray about it and to make sure it was something God wanted me to be doing and I also wanted to wait to see how Richard was doing a few months down the track! Having now learned the LP for myself I can see that once you start using it you are well and it would only be if you stopped using it that you could go back to being sick again. There wasn\u2019t much chance of that with Richard. He was very determined not to go back!\nBy the time I put in my application in August I was sure it was what God was leading me to do. He had given me some very clear scripture verses about healing. The most prominent one was from Malachi 4:2 which says \u201cBut for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings. And you will go out and leap like calves released from the stall.\u201d And Richard was going from strength to strength and making huge progress.\nIan phoned me for my phone interview and accepted me straight away. This meant I had a bit of a wait until the dates for the seminar were finally confirmed for February. But he did phone me again closer to the time and it was encouraging to have that contact with him while I was waiting.\nSo in February I travelled up to Auckland, using a wheelchair to save my energy at the airports, to attend the seminar. I flew up on the Tuesday and the seminar began at 9am the next day. It was one of the hottest days on record for Auckland and it was a long day. We didn\u2019t finish until after 5pm. There were 5 of us ladies at the seminar, all with similar conditions. On the first day we were taught an abridged version of the process and sent home with a goal to achieve something that we wouldn\u2019t normally do. My goal was to go for a 10 minute walk along the street and back. The most walking I usually did was around the supermarket! The house where I was staying had a short, but very steep driveway and stairs in it and the seminar was also up a flight of stairs. After the seminar finished I stood at the bus stop for over half an hour in the sun and heat waiting for the bus to arrive to take me home. It was a huge day for me! I got home about 6pm and by the time we had dinner it was 7pm. I headed down to my bedroom to memorise the steps of the process and then put on my new walking shoes and went for my walk. When I got back I did my \u201chomework\u201d like a good girl \u2013 hehe \u2013 and sent an email to all the people who were praying for me. I still hadn\u2019t noticed any change from using the process and was a bit disappointed because I had read success stories of people having success with the LP on the first day! Anyway, I headed to bed and was feeling quite anxious. The anxiety had kicked in the minute I left home because I was away from my comfort zone. So I tried doing the process again, this time saying I wanted to be calm. The only thing I can say is Wow! There I was just lying in bed, just doing what we had been taught to do which was basically just talking to myself (something I do all the time anyway! hehe) and I realised my whole body was feeling relaxed. I started getting excited and was thinking \u201cI think it\u2019s working!\u201d\nI woke up in the middle of the night with some abdominal pain that had been a problem for years and my whole body was screaming at me because of all I\u2019d been doing over the last few days, especially the first day of the seminar! I did the LP and the pain all disappeared and the abdominal pain hasn\u2019t come back since! I went back to sleep and woke up feeling ok the next day. I waited until I was on the bus and texted some of my family saying \u201cI think it\u2019s working!\u201d\nOn the second day of the seminar we were taught the full version of the process. Ian took us through it one by one and after I had had my turn and was sitting down while the next lady was being taken through it, I noticed that my hands were really relaxed. I was sitting there playing with them because it felt so funny! That day we finished at 4pm and one of the ladies gave me a ride home to where I was staying. That evening I went for a walk with the lady I was staying with along to the shops to get ice-creams. It was about a 15-20 minute walk. That night when I sent out my email it was a very excited one to say that the LP was working!\nOn the third day we were asked to get up one by one and talk about the successes we had had with the LP in the last 24 hours (we had done this on the second day too). While I was talking I got really excited when I realised how much I had been doing and how good I was feeling. When I had finished Ian said \u201cWho is this imposter? What have you done with Debbie? You\u2019re all bubbly and excited!\u201d I just told him that that was me! It was the same for all 5 of us at the seminar. We all had huge success with the LP and we could see it on each other\u2019s faces. I have had someone say to me that the LP has changed my whole personality! But those who knew me before I became ill 15.5 years ago know that that is the real me. The LP has just given me my life back!\nAfter the seminar finished on the Friday at 3pm, I walked down the road to Newmarket and met up with a friend who I hadn\u2019t seen for 20 years. Then the next day another friend came and took me out for brunch down at Mission Bay. It was a lovely day and I felt like we could have talked for hours! That afternoon I met up with another friend at the airport before flying back to Christchurch (without the wheelchair this time!). That was Saturday evening. On the Sunday afternoon I went for a walk around the block in the hot sun with my sister and her dog and then went to church with her that night. I have been staying seated during the worship times at my own church on the few occasions that I could get there and I was standing and singing and clapping and moving to the music for the first time in I don\u2019t know how long!\nThe next day I woke up feeling fantastic and headed into Christchurch to pick up some card-making supplies and to go clothes shopping. I figured that I needed more clothes if I\u2019m going to be going out more! Clothes shopping has been something I have kept to a minimum over the last 15 years because of how tiring it was trying clothes on. I tried on heaps of things and it was easy! And I got some very good bargains. I headed back to my sister\u2019s place for a quick lunch before driving home that afternoon.\nThe next morning I woke up feeling good again and walked (10 minutes each way) around to my Mum\u2019s place. She has had ME for 26 years and was really pleased that it had worked for me. I think we were both surprised by how major and sudden the change was. I am suddenly well and the huge thing for me is that I can now do anything I want to, without paying for it later.\nI visited my Dad the next day and he is really pleased for me too, saying it\u2019s like having the old Debbie back again! Since coming home I have been walking or exercising most days and I can go out at any time I like. I have seen my doctor who was just really excited for me and who gave me a prescription so that I can start coming off some of the medication I\u2019m on. I went into the church one day and sat down with my pastor and explained the LP to him and answered all his questions. He wants to be ready for questions from people at church! I immediately increased the hours that I\u2019m working when I got home and am now working twice as many hours. I have cancelled my \u201chome help\u201d lady and am now doing all my housework myself.\nI have been to church the last 2 Sundays at my own church, standing for the whole of the worship time (about 30 minutes) and the only thing hurting was my feet! They will just have to get used to it! A couple of weeks ago I stayed for a lunch after church and was wandering around socialising with people and standing talking to people too!\nAnd it is only 3 weeks since the seminar!\nFor those of you who are Christians and who are considering the Lightning Process I want to say that there is nothing \u201cspiritual\u201d about it. It is purely a mind-body technique. I was totally comfortable with everything we were taught at the seminar and everything we were asked to do. There was never a time when I felt uncomfortable.\nI also want to say that Ian was nothing but totally professional, supportive and encouraging and committed to us getting the success we wanted and still is! He is only an email away if I have any questions. And he was really easy to listen to at the seminar. I am amazed that I was able to concentrate for 3 days straight!\nI am so grateful to God that He has given Phil Parker and others the understanding of how the Lightning Process works and that He is using it to heal people and give them back their lives.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 12294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://icqts.ir/Portal/home/?news/255068/255265/283312/%D8%AA%DA%A9%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%DA%98%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%85%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%AA%D8%AE%DB%8C%D9%84%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D8%A7-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%82%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D8%A8%D8%A7-%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AF-%D8%A2%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%85-(%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AF%DA%A9%D8%B3%D8%AA-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B4%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87-%D8%B4%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A7%DA%AF%D9%88)", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WY2ZTTUEDGKYRGKAE777SXKSFK7P6QUE", "length": 97, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "icqts.ir", "title": "\u067e\u0648\u0631\u062a\u0627\u0644-\u067e\u0648\u0631\u062a\u0627\u0644 \u0645\u0631\u06a9\u0632 \u0641\u0646\u0627\u0648\u0631\u06cc \u0647\u0627\u06cc \u06a9\u0648\u0627\u0646\u062a\u0648\u0645\u06cc-\u0645\u0631\u06a9\u0632 \u0641\u0646\u0627\u0648\u0631\u06cc \u0647\u0627\u06cc \u06a9\u0648\u0627\u0646\u062a\u0648\u0645\u06cc/\u062a\u06a9\u0646\u0648\u0644\u0648\u0698\u06cc \u06a9\u0648\u0627\u0646\u062a\u0648\u0645: \u0627\u0632 \u0639\u0644\u0645\u06cc\u200c\u062a\u062e\u06cc\u0644\u06cc \u062a\u0627 \u0648\u0627\u0642\u0639\u06cc\u062a \u0628\u0627 \u062f\u06cc\u0648\u06cc\u062f \u0622\u0634\u0627\u0644\u0648\u0645 (\u067e\u0627\u062f\u06a9\u0633\u062a \u062f\u0627\u0646\u0634\u06af\u0627\u0647 \u0634\u06cc\u06a9\u0627\u06af\u0648)", "raw_content": "\u0644\u06cc\u0646\u06a9 \u067e\u0627\u062f\u06a9\u0633\u062a:\nhttps://news.uchicago.edu/podcasts/big-brains/quantum-technology-goes-sci-fi-reality", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 287.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iglesiadescalza.blogspot.com/2011/06/joy-of-being-nun-feminist-and-woman.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LVMLWX6IUUAJ3WK3G7GFTZFAY5KUGP4V", "length": 685, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "iglesiadescalza.blogspot.com", "title": "Iglesia Descalza: The joy of being a nun, a feminist and a woman: An interview with Sr. Teresa Forcades", "raw_content": "The joy of being a nun, a feminist and a woman: An interview with Sr. Teresa Forcades\nYesterday (6/23/2011), Benedictine nun and feminist theologian Sr. Teresa Forcades y Vila appeared on a radio program \"Mujeres Tomando Te\", interviewed by Flor Dessir\u00e9 Le\u00f3n Hern\u00e1ndez. Mujeres Tomando Te is a project of CIDHAL: Comunicaci\u00f3n, Intercambio y Desarrollo Humano en Am\u00e9rica Latina, A.C., a Mexican NGO which works to \"contribute towards gender equity as the axis for improving quality of life through health, education, communication and information services, stimulating citizen participation and respect for human rights.\" The program was conducted in Spanish and is in 4 audio segments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 479, "original_length": 11056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 221.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iiw.windley.com/archives/2002/07/us_house_of_rep.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CZB2LEO5ON52BYGJMXGHJTYQ5B3PXT47", "length": 443, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "iiw.windley.com", "title": "US House of Representatives and XML", "raw_content": "US House of Representatives and XML\nThe US House of Representatives has made a significant effort in developing DTDs for describing bills. My authority as Utah CIO doesn't extend to the Utah Legislature (you can tell from their URL), but I'd still love to see them adopt something like the House standards. They might be able to just use the House DTDs directly. A recent article in Government Computer News writes about the House XML efforts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 4357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://improvehomelife.com/The_Project_For_a_New_American_Century!-37195.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OGDKSYYYFP5HRCU5TPHVSZTSN4RVSUCT", "length": 6078, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "improvehomelife.com", "title": "Politics: The Project For a New American Century!", "raw_content": "The Project For a New American Century!\nWritten by Frank Reilly\nIn recent months we have engaged in many conversations with Christians and non Christians alike, on matters concerning American Government, and its activities in world today. On a universal level, those of faith AND those who do not share our faith agree on one thing, and that is that none of what we have been saying here at 11th Hour for last 14 months is actual fact, and that it is all \"OUR opinion and OUR misinterpretation of George W's policies and intentions\", purely speculation and our conjecture: no supportable facts\". The following article will summarily place that statement in wastebasket... where it belongs. The document outlined in this article was inspired by foreign policy outline drawn up by Dick Cheney and his colleagues in 1992, when he was secretary of defense for Senior Bush's administration. It is a documented fact that these men had sent letters to Bill Clinton and raved about these mandates that they felt were essential to America's future. The Project for a New American Century, (so called), is an initiative of \"The New Citizenship Project\", which is made up of a startling group of names, which will be mentioned here. It is absolutely sobering and even chilling when you read process of world domination laid out in this document, when you consider fact that Men who wrote and endorse this document, are very men who are in control of White House, Pentagon, and Defense Dept! Let's take a look at their motives and their intentions, how they have played out recently, and what we can expect from our government going forward...\nThe PNAC's Statement of Principles is written by, and bears names of following people: Elliott Abrams, Gary Bauer, William J. Bennett, Jeb Bush, Eliot A. Cohen, Dick Cheney, Midge Decter, Paula Dobriansky, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Dan Quayle, Peter W. Rodman, Stephen P. Rosen, Henry S. Rowen, Donald Rumsfeld, Vin Weber, George Weigel, Paul Wolfowitz. You can also add to this list Richard Perle and Condoleezza Rice, who met with core group about how to promote principles of War\nWritten by Terry Mitchell\nI'm starting to feel squeezed by all political correctness being imposed on us by both Left and Right. Both sides are constantly trying to infringe on our freedoms by telling us what we can and cannot say or do. I'm getting sick and tired of it. Below are just a few examples of what they are trying to impose on us.\nThe Left tells us: (1) Being simply tolerant of all kinds if sexual variants like homosexuals, bisexuals, transvestites, and trans-gendered is not good enough. We must accept their lifestyles as natural and normal. We must never, of course, say anything negative about practitioners of those lifestyles. Ideally, we should worship ground they walk on like Hollywood crowd does. My take: I'm all for tolerance and I'm basically a live-and-let-live kind of guy, but this is over top. Tolerance, yes; forced acceptance, no. (2) Women are equal to men in every way (except those ways in which women are better or do not choose to be equal). They must be given every opportunity men are given, but must not be held to same physical or emotional standards. In addition, women are considered minorities (even though there are more of them than there are men), so they must be given special preferences and opportunities that are not afforded to men. Violence to women is always unacceptable but men often deserve it. Any depiction of violence to women is no laughing matter and must be abolished, but depictions of violence to men are usually quite funny. Anything that can be perceived as degrading to women is horrible but most men deserve a little degradation at times. My take: Any woman should be given opportunity to prove that she can do any given job as well as a man could do. If she can, then she should be given equal access to that job and paid whatever a man would be paid. However, if she can\u2019t, then she shouldn\u2019t complain about lack of access to job or unequal pay. It is every woman's right to determine whether or not she wants to be treated differently because of her gender. However, no woman has a right to have it both ways. Either she wants to be treated differently from a man or she doesn't. Also, violence to either sex, except to defend oneself or someone from imminent physical harm, is totally unacceptable. (3) All races and ethnic groups are equal, but those who are considered to be minorities must be given special preferences in order to succeed. More specifically, African-Americans must be given preferential treatment to offset way white males treated them during 18th and 19th centuries. All of problems that exist in African-American community can be traced back either to direct actions or indifference of white males. My take: I totally agree with premise that all races and ethnic groups are equal. I've always endorsed \"color blind society\" school of thought, with no special preferences for anyone. I think we would all do well to quit identifying ourselves and one another by racial and ethnic categories. (4) Trees, land, and animals are all more important than making life better for humans. You cannot develop life-saving or life-enhancing drugs if some small animal will be hurt in process. You cannot build what you want nor can you do what you want on your own land if it requires cutting down some trees or forcing some animals to go elsewhere. You cannot cut down trees to develop land and/or build new homes. You cannot drill for oil if it will ruin pristine nature of any piece of land or interfere with any animal's habitat. Besides, you're supposed to drive small, cramped economy cars to conserve oil supply. You're also supposed to carpool and/or use public transportation, even if it's not convenient. My take: Any person or organization should have a right to do what they want with their own property, as long as no human being is directly harmed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 6237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://incometaxact.ca/fannon-v-revenue-canada-agency-2012-fc-876/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RDDM3WKLLF3UTI6M5CRFQEEUOC7LUXPL", "length": 5750, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "incometaxact.ca", "title": "Fannon v Revenue Canada Agency, 2012 FC 876 | Canadian Tax Decisions & Tax Law", "raw_content": "063(3), Child Care Expenses, Fariness Provision, Federal Court, Tax Administration, Tax Deduction\nFannon v Revenue Canada Agency, 2012 FC 876\nReasonableness of the Minister\u2019s Denial of Child Care Expense Deductions Pursuant to Subsection 63(3) in the Interest of Fairness AND Constitutionality of the Definition of Child Care Expenses in that Subsection\nThere were two issues before the Court here:\nthe reasonableness of the minister\u2019s discretionary decision under the fairness provision.\nwhether the definition of child care expenses in subsection 63(3) violates section 15(1) of the Charter. [I use the term section and not subsection in reference to 15(1) as this is the term the court uses].\nThe Father of a child (\u201ctaxpayer\u201d) wanted to deduct daycare expenses he was ordered to pay for a child who did not reside with him. The taxpayer requested to be allowed to deduct child care expenses pursuant to subsection 63(3) of the ITA in the interest of fairness. The CRA did not allow the deduction on the basis that the child did not live with the taxpayer in the years in question, and that they could not be accepted under the taxpayer relief provisions. The taxpayer applied for judicial review to the Federal Court.\nThe Court held that that the Minister\u2019s denial of the deduction for a child who did not reside with him was an acceptable [and reasonable] outcome, and that the definition of \u201cchild care expenses\u201d in subsection 63(3) did not violate section 15(1) of the Charter. Something more than merely the denial of financial benefit is required to make out a section 15(1) violation.\nThe Court identified the standard of review for discretionary decisions of the Minister under the ITA as reasonableness.\nThe court reviewed the definition of child care expenses in subsection 63(3), which clearly relates to the supporting person who resided with the child at the time the expense was incurred. Based on this, the court found that the Minister\u2019s denial of the deduction for a child who did not reside with him was an acceptable outcome.\nThe Court then addressed the question of subsection 63(3) discriminating against non-custodial parents by disallowing the deduction of daycare expenses. The taxpayer argued that he was denied equal benefit of the law, since as a non-custodial parent he remained liable to pay a portion of the daycare costs, but is denied the benefit of the tax deduction.\nAfter identifying the two-part test for section 15(1) as identified by the Supreme Court of Canada in R v Kapp, 2008 SCC 41, the court expressed doubt as to the taxpayer\u2019s ability to satisfy the test on two grounds:\nThere was no evidence or proper factual foundation to address the question of whether subsection 63(3) creates a disadvantage by perpetuating prejudice of stereotyping; and\nIt was unclear whether non-custodial parents were an analogous group to those enumerated in section 15(1).\nThe FC saw no reason to depart from Justice Webb\u2019s decision in Fannon v Canada, 2011 TCC 503, where the Charter argument was addressed, and quoted:\n[B]ased on the provisions of the Act which the Appellant is challenging and the groups as proposed by the Appellant, the Appellant\u2019s group would be parents who pay for daycare expenses as a result of a Court Order (or an agreement) but with whom a child does not reside and the appropriate comparator group must be parents who pay child care expenses (as a result of an agreement with the daycare facility) and with whom the child does reside. The relevant distinction created by the Act is based on whether the child resides with the person or not. Clearly this is not one of the enumerated grounds in subsection 15(1) of the Charter.\nWhether a child is residing with one person or another is not a characteristic that is immutable or changeable only at an unacceptable cost to personal identity. A child who is residing with one parent could start to reside with the other parent. If a child should commence to reside with the other parent, this would not be at an unacceptable cost to personal identity of either the first parent or the second parent. As a result it seems to me that it is not an analogous ground and the provisions of subsection 15(1) of the Charter are not applicable to the provisions of the definition of child care expenses in subsection 63(3) of the Act.\nThe Court also noted that the taxpayer was unable to demonstrate that the distinction is discriminatory because the relevant factors of pre-existing disadvantage, correspondence with actual characteristics and the nature of the interest affected were not present. \u201d There is no pre-existing disadvantage for those non-custodial parents paying child care expenses [, and T]hey are not \u201cdisadvantaged\u201d in the sense of being vulnerable, prejudiced or facing a negative social characterization\u201d.\nFinally, the court considered whether there is a correspondence between the distinction made in the provision and the characteristics or circumstances of the individual. The Court accepted the Crown\u2019s position that the taxpayer\u2019s circumstances did not match the purpose of the provision. The purpose of subsection 63(3) of the ITA is to allow a tax deduction those incurring child care expenses to carry on employment, business, research, or educational pursuits. The taxpayer did not directly incur child care expenses to engage in these activities because the child was not residing with him. Justice Near also referred to the SCC decision in Granovsky v Canada (Minister of Employment), 2000 SCC 28, where it was said that something more than a deprivation of a financial benefit is required to establish a violation of section 15(1) of the Charter.\nPrevious PostAvrams v The QueenNext PostSRI Homes Inc v Canada, 2012 FCA 208", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 13972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 177.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ind13.com/sunless-skies-launch-trailer-release/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:23Z", "digest": "sha1:XFFST4SH2P7URPXWYK6UYDIBJ5DTSA3E", "length": 1931, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ind13.com", "title": "Sunless Skies gets a launch trailer ahead of 31 January release", "raw_content": "Sunless Skies will be out this Thursday, and it now has a launch trailer that involves a clockwork sun, an enormous beehive, and other godforsaken oddities.\nGet aboard the train, we\u2019re leaving for the High Wilderness! Sunless Skies is chugging along to launch very soon, and Failbetter Games has put together a launch trailer for those of you still clueless about this space locomotive simulator. Adjust your monocle, and then witness:\nSunless Skies is Failbetter Games\u2019 follow-up to Sunless Sea, in which you controlled a steamship and explored the gothic speculative universe of Fallen London. Well, London\u2019s not fallen anymore. In Sunless Skies, London has made it to the skies and expanded its reach across vast astral plains. And best of all, everyone\u2019s going about in flying steam locomotives!\nThe game plays a lot like Sunless Sea, which means you spend most of your time exploring the world and interacting with the many stories that you\u2019ll encounter (all written with a particular literary quality). It\u2019s a bit of interactive fiction, a good bit of role-playing, and a structure of your classic space simulation games (such as trading and combat).\nSunless Skies is currently available in Early Access form, where it has been toiling away tirelessly since August 2017. It was originally scheduled for release last year, but got pushed to avoid conflicting with higher-profile releases. On release, the game will be available on PC, Mac, and Linux.\nFor more information on Sunless Skies, check out the official website here. If you\u2019d like to get straight to the purchasing, here\u2019s the game on GOG.com and here it is on Steam.\nFor more story-backed travelling games, have a look at the upcoming Road to Guangdong. If you\u2019d prefer to stick to something with a distinctly British character, have a look at the real-time journalistic thriller The Occupation.\nFailbetter GamesIndependent DevelopmentIndie GamesIndiesSunless Skies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indie-rpgs.com/archive/index.php?topic=14933.msg158244", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DJGP65HLLMTUK7JR3RWII2UMNYKDKGFH", "length": 22437, "nlines": 89, "source_domain": "indie-rpgs.com", "title": "Tony's Standard Rant #1: Roleplay/Game Duality", "raw_content": "Tony's Standard Rant #1: Roleplay/Game Duality\nAuthor Topic: Tony's Standard Rant #1: Roleplay/Game Duality (Read 29959 times)\nThis rant brought to you courtesy of discussion in this thread.\nThere is a misconception that's become a pet peeve of mine, and that I want to debunk: The idea that \"playing a role\" and \"playing a game\" are ever separate parts of playing a roleplaying game. They aren't. They are two different ways of viewing the same underlying activity. And now, let's talk about physics.\nBy the turn of the 20th century, the evidence was spectacularly strong that light was a wave. Light does all manner of things that you can't explain by treating it as a particle (interference patterns, for a start). Then somebody conducted an experiment and demonstrated the photoelectric effect. The thing is, you can't explain the photoelectric effect by discussing light as a wave. But it makes perfect sense if you imagine that light is a particle.\nSo what does that mean? To a layman it means \"Light is sometimes a wave and sometimes a particle, and you explain some things with one tool and some with another, but never with both.\" To a physicist it means \"Light is neither a wave nor a particle. It is something else we don't (yet) have words for. But it is something that 99.999% of the time exhibits properties that can be adequately understood using either a wave model or a particle model. Both models are flawed, but for the huge majority of cases either one is good enough, so we're not throwing them away until we have something equally simple that works 100%.\"\nMy take on RPGs mimics this closely: \"Roleplaying games are neither roleplaying nor games. They are something else that we don't (yet) have words for. But it is something that most of the time can be adequately understood using either a roleplaying model or a game model. Both models are flawed, but for the huge majority of cases either one is good enough, so we're not throwing them away until we have something equally simple that works 100%.\"\nHence the title of this rant: Roleplay/Game Duality. You're doing something you have no good words for... so you put the best model you can manage to slap together onto it, and then you perceive it through that lens. But your lens is not privileged. You are not doing anything that someone using another lens cannot or will not do, if they are pursuing the same agenda. You are playing an RPG. Roleplaying and Gaming, separately, are just mental tools to help you get your head around that.\nAnd yes, by \"roleplaying\" I mean \"telling a story\" here too. I'm talking about everything where you contribute your choices and your aesthetic to the SIS. Call it make-believe, creative fiction, whatever. For the purpose of this rant, I'm calling it roleplay, because that's the way that I've heard it brought up as a concern most frequently.\n\"You,\" a man will say, with a sneer in his voice, \"are not roleplaying. You are simply going through the motions of real roleplaying, in order to abuse the game system. You are, dare I say it, a... rollplayer!\" Cue scandalized gasps from the onlookers. Ladies swoon. Smelling-salts are deployed. A slap with an empty glove, a call for satisfaction, pistols at dawn.\nFeh. They're both doing exactly the same thing. They're just looking at it so differently that they can't recognize the similarities. Let's parse some examples:\n\"I could kill this dragon right now, with an arrow of dragon-slaying. But I can probably catch it later if I try with the sword and fail, and I'll get a +20% XP bonus for tracking it down. Sword it is!\"\n\"I could patch up things with Megumi, if I said the right thing right now. But I can probably fix the romance later, even if I say this wonderfully unfortunate thing right now, and it's a much more dramatic story that way. Stupid faux-pas it is!\"\nThose are exactly the same thought processes. \"I can do A for reward X in keeping with my agenda. Or I can do B for reward X+N. B it is!\" Saying that one is gaming, and one is roleplaying... well that's true. Because they're both gaming, and they're both roleplaying. Let's do some more charged examples:\n\"I could kill this dragon right now, with the arrow of dragon-slaying. But I can also let it go, because I have doubts about whether slaying it is the right thing to do, and that makes for a much more dramatic story. Pangs of conscience it is!\"\n\"I could show respect for the King's guard. But I can also attack them, and get a pile of XP, and maybe a pair of their nice shiny Boots of Swift Response will be in my size. Sociopathic attack it is!\"\nThere is no difference between any of these examples. They are all doing exactly the same thing. Yes, the munchkin who attacks the King's guard for XP is doing the same thing as the real-roleplayer who lets the dragon get away because his conscience commands him. They're choosing a path among options given them by the rules of their game (including the unwritten ones) to accomplish their agenda.\n\"But I have perceived this difference!\" I hear you cry. Of course you have! There isn't a theoretical difference, but there is a huge practical difference in many games. That difference is maintained and increased by many roleplaying systems. Each new game system, each new gaming group, bring subtly different mental tools to the table. If you want to look at the Real Stuff of RPG through the lens of Gaming then your view is informed by what game-mechanics are on hand, and what social dynamics you can manipulate. If you want to look at the Real Stuff through the lens of Roleplaying then your view is informed by what game-setting and genre are on hand, and what aesthetic sensibilities you can manipulate.\nSometimes the mental tools so thoroughly distort the actual underlying RPG experience that they create two incompatible sets of options. If you look at an RPG situation through the Roleplaying lens you see options A, B and C. Options D and E aren't viable within that mental toolset. Then if you look at the same situation through the Gaming lens you see options C, D and E. Options A and B aren't viable within that mental toolset. If you're lucky and good, you can consistently choose Option C, and please both models. This gives rise to the mistaken impression that \"The system doesn't matter, because a good GM can make any system work.\" Yeah, and a good potter can throw a vase from clay filled with shards of glass, but that doesn't make it a smart way to work. More often, when your mental tools are in conflict you'll end up bopping between options A and E, B and D, pleasing every model part of the time and no model all of the time.\nThis is what reinforces the RPG equivalent to the physics-layman's view of duality: \"Roleplaying games are sometimes games and sometimes roleplaying. You do some parts of the activity by playing a role, and some parts by playing a game but you never do both at once.\" Now let's say you subscribe to this... ahem... misconception. You will strive to pigeonhole your experience into categories. So playing rival factions against each other, while cleverly pushing your own diplomatic agenda... that can't be playing a game, because it's so clearly playing a role. Likewise, rolling the dice and formulating strategy in the climactic battle between your hero and his archnemesis... that can't be playing a role, because it's so clearly playing a game.\nMost of all, if you believe that roleplaying and gaming are opposites, you will never accept that game-mechanics can help you roleplay, and roleplaying can help you work the game mechanics. Happily, many Forge-inspired games take a much more productive tack. In layman's terms, they present game-mechanics that are meant to facilitate roleplay and roleplaying situations that support a particular type of mechanical tactic. When you say that to somebody trapped in the \"either/or\" delusion above, they get a strange look. \"I know all those words,\" they seem to be thinking, \"but I cannot parse a sentence that uses them in that way.\"\nBut even that layman's description is flawed. From the viewpoint of Roleplay/Game Duality, what these systems do is to help bring the two dual viewpoints more closely into harmony. They make clearer lenses. When you use a Roleplaying model you will see viable choices A, B and C. And when you use a Gaming model you will see viable choices A, B and C. If the Gaming model also provokes you to think about choice D then when you look at choice D through the Roleplaying model you will discover that it is viable there too. If the Roleplaying model provokes you to think about choice E then choice E will make sense in the Gaming model as well.\nUltimately, these systems let you put the models aside moment by moment. When you can flip seamlessly from one viewpoint to another, without having to change anything about what you're doing in the game, it makes it clearer and clearer how they're actually just representations of the same thing. You stop thinking about what you see through the distorting lens of Roleplay-only, or Game-only, and perceive more clearly the actual Real Stuff that's happening.\nNice rant, Tony. The light analogy is especially useful, and I'll definitely be using it on some friends (who I've been having this, ahem, discussion with for many years).\nI'm not sure about Forge (or similar) games functioning as a clearer lens though. That implies that other games are blurrier lenses, because they don't merge the two kinds of thinking (and the choices that come with that)...but we've also concluded that there is no real dichotomy, which would seem to suggest that there aren't really two separate ways of acting -- just ways to justify/conceive that act. Am I missing some part of the argument?\nPeople do things in roleplaying games that are not handled by mechanics. People do things in roleplaying games that are penalized by mechanics.\nPlayer: \"I draw my sword and attack the palace guard!\"\nDM: \"This isn't 2e anymore, Joe, you won't get any XP for picking fights at random.\"\nPlayer: \"I don't care, he looked at me funny. I'm fourteenth level, what are they going to do?\"\nDM: ::sigh:: \"Okay, well, you've got surprise... roll initiative...\"\nThe DM thinks, \"Why is he doing this? It's neither in keeping with his agenda... he's a PALADIN for Pete's sake... nor is he getting a reward... what the foul?\"\nRoleplaying games are an exercise that is, at its heart, nearly completely imaginary. We use paper to keep records because our memories aren't good enough to do it on our own, and we use dice because we like the unexpected, but there are games that can be played with no physical representation whatsoever that are still roleplaying games.\nWhen I as a gamemaster, say, \"Joe takes fifteen points of damage\" I fail to understand what the roleplaying aspect of that is. What is there, besides raw mechanics?\nWhen I as gamemaster say, \"The bartender says, 'What'll you have?' He glares at you balefully with his one eye, as if to dare you to order anything weaker than Dwarven distilled spirits.\" there's NO mechanical context present. Where is the 'game' in color?\nNow before you start trying to tell me that it IS there... stop. That's not what I'm asking for, that's not what I'm talking about.\nRoleplaying is a thought-based activity, correct? Memory, imagination, communication... hold onto that for a moment.\nAnything that I am not aware of in my conscious mind DOES NOT EXIST in my conscious mind. You can tell me that I am having a particular thought, if you like, and your thought-model for what is going on in my mind may require that I be having it... but if I'm not having it, I'm not having it, no matter what your model says.\nAt its core, your rant seems to devolve into semantics, redefining what \"game\" and \"roleplaying\" mean in the context of a roleplaying game. Putting peanut butter on one slice, and jelly on the other, does in fact, make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but it doesn't make the peanut butter into jelly.\nJasper: No, you've got it exactly. Two different ways of justifying and conceiving of actions. If the models are so divergent that it is hard to conceive of actions in one that can be justified in another then you get into a state where you can only use either of them by assuring that everyone is in agreement on which is being used. So, for example: \"We'll roll dice for combat, but just roleplay for conversations.\"\nFred: Uh... if you don't want an answer to the question, why did you ask it? In fact, if you don't want to hear anything back from me, why bother posting at all?\nMy post isn't asking a question, it's a response to your rant.\n\"I disagree, and here's why.\"\nI enjoined you from telling me that I don't, in fact, disagree, not that you shouldn't respond at all.\nEdit: One of the problems I have with Capes, is that the roleplaying can be entirely driven out of it. You could remove all of the power descriptions, narration, etc. and be left with a game that was entirely playable. It's easy... TOO easy, to get caught up in the mechanics, and lose sight of the fact that stuff needs to be justified and narrated. If the narration part and the mechanics is all equal, then that shouldn't matter... but it does. This is what leads me to understand that there IS a real difference, a real dichotomy.\nOkay, you disagree. That's nice.\nI like your point about games with no props and no dice, however, because it brings up an issue that I didn't raise.\nFreeform games, where there is no rules system, no mechanics, nothing but people socially interacting, are still roleplaying games. The Gaming-only model is perfectly serviceable in such cases: the rules of the game are the social interactions of the people involved.\nHonestly, once you view such things as a game, and take some serious time to figure out what the rules are, it becomes almost criminally easy to do anything you want. People are so easy to beat when they don't realize what game they're playing.\nOkay, Tony, good to know. And maybe you won't mind me jumping in here either:\nQuote from: Vaxalon\nYou seem to be forgetting the lumpley principle. Crunchy mechanics, and method-acting-based ideas of what \"feels right\" (for instance) are both just part of system.\nThe rule saying \"Joe take 15 damage\" gets turned into a part of the system, and then goes on to change the SIS. Lacking that written rule, Joe's player could stagger around acting hurt, pretending to be Joe, and it could change the SIS in exactly the same way. Where's the difference? Surely the fact that one version comes from a written source, and is more mathematically quantified, shouldn't matter.\nQuote from: Tony\nI suppose that fits in with the \"Games People Play\" school of interpersonal relationships. Sometimes, interactions ARE described in terms of \"games\"... but I don't think those are games in the same sense of the word. There are games one is conscious of playing, and ones you are not conscious of. \"Game\" in that sense is used as a metaphor.\nI don't count freeform roleplaying as a roleplaying game.\nWhen I talk about games that can be played without the use of paper, dice, etc. I'm not talking about freeform roleplaying. In college we played something called \"Fateroller\" that was so rules-light that we could play it without referring to paper character sheets, and used a simple diceless resource mechanic to determine contributions. We played it in little five-minute dribs and drabs whenever we encountered each other in passing. Come to think of it, it was GMless, too... I should see if I can reconstruct the rules for that.\nIt seems to me that by your definition, Tony, ANY game is a roleplaying game, and I don't think that's the case. It may even be that the Lumpley principle implies that all games are roleplaying games, or even that all human interaction is a roleplaying game. I'm not willing to stretch the definition that far. There has to be something that separates Capes from Chess from the Boardroom.\n\"Game\" in that sense is used as a metaphor.\nYes. That's exactly what I'm talking about. \"Game\" in the sense you're talking about it (as referring to RPGs) is also used as a metaphor. That's what I've been saying. Are we clear now?\nNo, the word \"game\" in the context of roleplaying games is NOT used as a metaphor. It's used in the same sense as, say, a gambling game, or a \"train\" game, or a strategy game. Poker is as much like chess as Capes is like chess. They all have an essential 'gameness' to them that interpersonal interactions do not, even though interpersonal interactions can be analyzed with a game metaphor.\nThey all have an essential 'gameness' to them that interpersonal interactions do not, even though interpersonal interactions can be analyzed with a game metaphor.\nI think, for this discussion to continue productively, you have to define what you feel is \"gameness\" in a clear and rigorous manner; it seems obvious to me that you and Tony are talking past each other because of differing conceptins of terms, and simply asserting, \"You're wrong,\" \"No, you are!\" isn't really going to move the thread forward.\nSo, if I'm reading this right (always a dangerous assumption!) then:\nRoleplaying games are about roleplaying (group contributions to a Shared Imagined Space) and gaming (which means that there are rules and strategies involved). If you take either of these elements out, you no longer have a roleplaying game.\nGood roleplaying games make sure that each element supports the other (which can mean removing as much as possible of one element, while still retaining functionality as a roleplaying game*)\nNow this seems a bit, well... obvious to me. Which means that either this rant isn't aimed at me, or I have willfully misinterpreted you...again. Which one is it this time?\n* I think this is where a lot of Fred's disagreement is coming from - it's possible to make a roleplaying game so rules-light, or roleplay-light for that matter, that it's hard to see where borders are. This is usually the point where we start diagreeing about definitions, though.\nPS I don't think I'm going to be able to get anything into this thread without crossposting someone, so apologies, I'm just going to jump right in!\nDoug: Exactly!\nIn order for it to be a roleplaying GAME, rather than just roleplaying, there have to be FORMAL rules that the players are adhering to. If there aren't any, then it's freeform roleplaying, and not a game. Social rules are not formal rules. The existence of a social contract is not enough to qualify roleplaying as a roleplaying game. There's a social contract in poker, for example. \"We don't deal from the bottom of the deck. We don't try to look at each other's hands. We don't play with marked cards.\" If a social contract and interaction were all that was required to make a roleplaying game, then poker would be a roleplaying game, and it clearly isn't.\nIn order for it to be a ROLEPLAYING game, then there has to be an element of narration, even if it's not the focus of the game, or else it becomes some other kind of game. Go watch some folks playing the DnD miniatures game. It uses a combat ruleset that is basically cut-down DND rules; you could easily use them for a roleplaying game just as easily as for the strategy game. The difference is that there's no aspect of narration to it.\nIn order to be a roleplaying game, three things must be true:\n1> There must be a formal ruleset. It does not need to be lengthy, and it doesn't need to be written, but it must be formal and it must be agreed to by the participants.\n2> There must be an element of narration that is a recognized PART of the game. For those of you who ascribe to it, this would be the \"shared imagined space\".\n3> The two elements of the game must mutually interact with each other. If you're playing DnD miniatures, and as your Aasimar Paladin moves forward, you say, \"Telgar the Pure marches forward, sword in hand!\" that's not a roleplaying game. Your declaration is not part of the game, it's ancillary, and as such is just a play-by-play tacked onto the miniatures game; the fact that you moved your miniature forward twelve inches is part of the game; the narration is not.\nBy the way: This is where I feel Capes is weak.\nDoug: Roleplaying games are not about roleplaying. Roleplaying games are not about games.\nRoleplaying games are neither roleplaying nor games. They are something else that we don't (yet) have words for. But it is something that most of the time can be adequately understood using either a roleplaying model or a game model. Both models are flawed, but for the huge majority of cases either one is good enough, so we're not throwing them away until we have something equally simple that works 100%\nYou clearly weren't wilfull in your misinterpretation, but yes I think you misinterpreted. Your phrasing seems to imply that you think that roleplaying and gaming are two great tastes that taste great together. Is that what you were saying?\nWhat I'm saying is that it's like the 'difference' between the flying target watched by a duck-hunter and the research datum watched by an ornithologist... which is to say no difference at all. Same duck. The only difference is where you come at it from mentally.\nYour phrasing seems to imply that you think that roleplaying and gaming are two great tastes that taste great together. Is that what you were saying?\nTry 'binary weapon' instead. You know, two harmless chemicals, put them together and BOOM!\nAs Fred says, I think it is possible for \"roleplaying\" and \"games\" to exist separately from \"roleplaying games\".\nBut that doesn't mean that a \"roleplaying\" game is just a game with roleplaying chucked in (or the other way around.)\nIt is definitely about both of these things, but it's not the same as these things.\nSo, yeah, it's the same duck alright. But neither the duck-hunter nor the ornithologist fully understand the duck, do they?\nWith this in mind, is there really any difference between what the three of us are saying?\n(Apart from the bit about where Capes is weak in this area. Fred, I think that Capes is strong in exactly this area! the rules tell you exactly what you can and cannot do to drive the story forwards; driving the story forwards in interesting ways also gives you a mechanical reward*)\n* The fact that I can still talk in this way after reading Tony's rant is probably a more significant difference in opinion than any of the above!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 28448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indywesthog.com/2017/03/update-for-dianna-spivey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:00Z", "digest": "sha1:IQOXNBKKBOFJAL6JK32Q7VNYRY3ATSYT", "length": 952, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "indywesthog.com", "title": "Update for dianna Spivey | IndyWest HOG Chapter #0023", "raw_content": "\u2190 Sid\nRolling Thunder info \u2192\nAs promised, here is the updated information on services for Dianna Spivey:\nDianna M. Spivey, 65, of Plainfield, passed away March 18, 2017. She was born September 27, 1951 to the late Herman and Rose Marie (Doninger) Vaught in Evansville, IN. She married Michael G. Spivey on December 20, 1969. She was a librarian assistant for the Plainfield Middle School for 15 years. Dianna is survived by her husband, Michael; two sons, Ryan and Joe (Lindsey) Spivey; four brothers, Herman Jr. (Jerri), Max, Darrell (Norma) and Ben (Priscilla) Vaught; two sisters, Linda (Noel) Johnson and Sandra (Ronald) Sensmeier; 4 grandchildren, Dylan and Tyler Spivey and Henry and Sloan Spivey. Visitation will be from 4:00 to 8:00 pm on Thursday, March 23, 2017 in the Hampton-Gentry Funeral Home, Plainfield. Funeral services will be at 10:30 am on Friday, March 24 in the funeral home. Burial will follow in Maple Hill Cemetery, Plainfield.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 2832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 212.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inflationomics.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:48Z", "digest": "sha1:JEUU4X5JU5KO4HKZ4N5WEPSQNDNL45I6", "length": 6051, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "inflationomics.com", "title": "\ufeff Inflationomics.com | Inflation, Economics, Gold Standard", "raw_content": "The Free Market is Failing Us?\nSaturday, the 2nd of February 2019\nYou\u2019ve got to be kidding! We...\nWhy I'm So Down on Government\nMonday, the 11th of June 2018\nSome people ask me, \u201cWhy are you so down on government?\u201d The answer is...\nThe World's Greatest Economic Experiment? 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Alas, that\u2019s not what we argue about\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 585, "original_length": 18820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/hansard/sitting/national_assembly/2015-04-29-09-30-00", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:7OOMCHMDYQVYWV5UPKA65AIFXBO34BCN", "length": 147818, "nlines": 290, "source_domain": "info.mzalendo.com", "title": "National Assembly 2015-04-29: 09:30 to 13:00 :: Mzalendo", "raw_content": "Page 1 of Hansard Report - Wednesday 29th April, 2015 Morning\nCan you ring that bell again; the same one?\nOrder Members! We now quorate and we can begin.\nWe have Papers to be laid. The Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, proceed.\nHon. Speaker, I have a letter here from the National Treasury with respect to a matter that is a property of the House, and that has to do with the retirement benefits of the former Prime Minister and the former Vice-President, as he was called at the time. We received communication from the Treasury in terms of advice as required by Article 114(2) of the Constitution. I wish to table that communication.\nHon Mutava Musyimi, maybe you could summarise it for the benefit of the Members. This is an important matter. It is not just procedural. There is a lot of substance in it.\nMy understanding of the Communication, in summary, is that the amendments that were proposed by hon. John Mbadi and the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. A.B. Duale, have been considered by the National Treasury, upon recommendation. Basically, what the National Treasury is saying is that they have no problem with funds being made available to the former Prime Minister and former Vice-President, so long as those benefits are considered via a transitional provision in the law for the simple reason that those positions currently do not exist in the Constitution. We do not have the positions of Prime Minister or Vice-President in the current Constitution. With respect to other additions that have come, the National The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nTreasury has problems. They are saying that they do not have the capacity to pay the other officers in respect of whom payments have been proposed. Hon. Speaker, in a nutshell, that is the Communication of the National Treasury, in my understanding.\nHon. Speaker, the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee has tabled a letter from the National Treasury and his Communication to you in as far as Article 114 is concerned. On its implications on the amendments that hon. Mbadi and I have brought. I have no objection. Maybe, I will have time to look at it today and then come back to you. I have no objection. It is as far as Article 114 is concerned. So, I will read the document that has been tabled.\nYes, Hon. Mbadi!\nHon. Speaker, I have the privilege of being a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. So, at least, I got to know about this Communication earlier. I am largely agreeable to the recommendations of the National Treasury. Looking at the body of the Bill, the two offices of Prime Minister and Vice-President are actually captured as offices that are in transition. We are not likely to have offices of Prime Minister and Vice-President in the foreseeable future. So, I generally agree with the transition. I just want to point out that this Bill is slotted for consideration by a Committee of the whole House this morning. We should conclude it. It has been unfairly treated. It is the most unfairly treated Bill in the history of this Parliament. The Bill was initiated in 2013 and we are now in 2015. I do not know whether there is any other Bill that has ever pended for that long. So, my only request is that we conclude it this morning, in line with the recommendation from the National Treasury. I can see the Leader of the Majority Party looking at me. It is only the two of us and the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee who have had an interest in this Bill. It is my plea that we conclude it this morning.\nThere is a small issue which needs to be clarified. The Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has tabled a letter from the National Treasury. I am sure that the Committee has had some interactions with that letter and, perhaps, even with the relevant officials at the National Treasury. Perhaps, hon. Mutava Musyimi, your Committee, having looked at the letter, might have considered it and made some comments or recommendations. If that is so, might you have some summary of any recommendations by your Committee to the House? That is because, having seen the letter yourselves, most likely, you have recommended something to the House, which, as a Committee, you ought to do.\nThank you, hon. Speaker. I stand guided. Allow me to just read from the document that I tabled \u2013 which was actually addressed to you, but which you now want communicated to the House. The Budget and Appropriations Committee, during its sitting of 28th April, 2015, considered the following legislative proposals referred to it, pursuant to Article 114 (2) of the Constitution: The amendments to the Retirement Benefits (Deputy President and Designated State Officers) Bill, 2013, as proposed by hon. A.B. Duale The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nand hon. John Mbadi. The Committee deliberated on the amendments in a number of their sittings and held discussions with Hon. Mbadi and heard submissions from Hon. A.B. Duale. All these amendments sought to vary Clause 3 of the Bill. The Committee also received comments on the proposed amendments from the Cabinet Secretary responsible for the National Treasury, and noted that the National Treasury does not concur with any of the amendments by both proposers. In a memorandum, the National Treasury indicated that Clause 3, as proposed in the Bill, was meant to control our expenditure. The National Treasury also indicated that the use of the definition of \u201cDesignated State Officers\u201d may open room for other officers to claim benefit under this law. Further, the National Treasury indicated that the offices of the Prime Minister and the Vice-President do not exist in the current Constitution. After long deliberations, the Committee recommended that the amendments be rejected. The Committee proposed further amendments to the Bill, in line with the National Treasury\u2019s advice, as follows:- (i) That the Bill be amended by deleting the definition of \u201cDesignated State Officers\u201d and all related provisions, including the Offices of the Speakers of the Senate and National Assembly in the Bill. (ii) That, the Bill be further amended by deleting the offices of the Prime Minister and Vice-President is Section 3 of the Bill and inserting a transitional clause to provide for the benefits of the Prime Minister and Vice-President.\u201d Hon. Speaker, while still on my feet, in all fairness, it is right for me to say that this matter has taken time. I take responsibility for that. However, it is also fair to observe that it has been a fairly sensitive subject. I do not think it is the kind of matter that one can just rush into and deliberate over one or two months. It is a highly delicate matter. Hon. Speaker, I also want to observe that, at the end of the day, the Committee has done all the consultations it could do. If we did not do more consultations, then we will do them. I am personally very happy with the recommendation that the Committee has brought to the House, through the memorandum that I have read out. Thank you, hon. Speaker.\nHon. Members, having listened to the statement read out by the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, it is fair to restate the provisions of Article 114 (2) of the Constitution, for avoidance of doubt. It reads as follows:\n\u201cIf, in the opinion of the Speaker of the National Assembly, a Bill makes provision for a matter listed in the definition of \u201ca money Bill\u201d, the National Assembly may proceed only in accordance with the recommendations of the relevant Committee of the Assembly, after taking into account the views of the Cabinet Secretary responsible for finance.\u201d Hon. Members, the Committee referred to here is the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We can only proceed with the recommendation of that Committee, which is what hon. Mutava Musyimi has just read out. Hon. Members, it, therefore, follows that the hands of the Speaker, and even those of the House, are tied to the recommendations of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, in respect of this Bill. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nIn view of this, therefore, I will give the following directions, as we proceed to the next Order:- (i) The proposed amendments by hon. Aden Duale and hon. John Mbadi, in respect to Clause 3, will not be considered in the Committee of the whole House. (ii) I will defer the consideration of this Bill to allow for the communication of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to be drafted into amendments to be considered by the Committee of the whole House tomorrow, when the House sits. Thank you, hon. Members.\nThe Hon. Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives.\n(Hon. Nooru consulted with the Clerks-at-the-Table)\nThe Vice-Chairman, Sorry, hon. Members.\nWhen I see the Chairman consulting with the Clerks, I am wondering whether he is trying to abdicate responsibility. However, the business is in the able hands of the Vice-Chairman.\nThank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, the Senate Amendments to the Fertilizers and Animal Foodstuff (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 36 of 2013) be now considered with some amendments.\nYou need to be seconded. Do you not? Hon. Benjamin Jomo Washiali.\nHon. Members---\n(Hon. Tong\u2019i walked in while the Speaker was on his feet)\nHon. Tong\u2019i, this is Parliament. You do not just walk in. You must first of all look ahead!\nThank you, hon. Speaker. I want to thank members of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives. Before that, just like Hon. Mbadi had said, I want to say that this Bill has taken so much time. What we are only supposed to do is to look at these amendments which came from the Senate. However, some of the proposed amendments that I am getting from the Committee do not touch on the amendments that were done by the Senate. The Senate did not touch on their purported amendments. I want your direction on this. Is it in order that we debate on something that was not amended by the Senate? That is because at this juncture, we are aware that even a full-stop or a comma amended from the Senate will have to go through the Mediation Committee. What the Committee is purporting to amend is not in the amended version of the Senate. In the first place, are they in order in as far as procedure is concerned? That is because theirs is not part of the amendments that the Senate did. Thank you.\n(Hon. A.B. Duale spoke off the record)\nBut, Hon. Chris Wamalwa, the first proposed amendment by the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives which is (a) says:- \u201cBy deleting the proposed paragraph (fa) and substituting thereof the following new paragraph:- (fa) the Attorney General or his representative.\u201d That is an amendment to the Senate\u2019s amendment.\nI know this is a technical area. It requires a lot of consideration. This is because the Senate was suggesting something different. They were talking about a Director of Veterinary Services. So, the Committee is suggesting an amendment to now provide for the Attorney-General or his representative. That is a substantive amendment. I also need to point out that Paragraph (b) of the proposed amendments by the Committee is not really a matter for the House to express itself on. This is a matter that can be done by the staff. That is because numbering and renumbering are very mundane matters. They can be dealt with when you are cleaning up the Bill before presentation for assent. That is not very crucial. However, (a) is a crucial one. Hon. Members, it is important that we are also alive to Standing Order No. 149 about the import of amending Senate\u2019s proposals. If you successfully amend the Senate\u2019s amendment, the net effect is to refer the matter to mediation. I hope the Committee and the House is alive to that fact. What we can do for the time being is to allow Hon. Wamalwa, because I cut him short, to finish his contribution relating to the amendment and then we can address the other issues. Hon. Wamalwa, proceed.\nThank you, hon. Speaker. I looked at the Senate amendments and why the issue of Director of Veterinary Services came in. When you look at the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nparent Bill, we initially focused on fertilizer only. In the wisdom of the Senate, they decided we should include the animal foodstuffs. That is what they added. In the spirit of the animal foodstuffs, it falls under livestock and the technical person on issues of livestock is the Director of Veterinary Services. So, that is the essence of how they brought in the issue of the Director of Veterinary Services. Initially, that was the thinking. I am not objecting to the issue of the Attorney General. When you look at the cost-benefit analysis, any amendments, a comma or whatever, has to go to the Mediation Committee. So, when you look at the import, actually the Director of Veterinary Services is very critical because the issue of animal foodstuffs has come in and that is why the Senate did that amendment. It was to enrich this law. From there, I had no issues with the Senate amendments. For the Committee to now come and say that we remove the Director of Veterinary Services, it will be unfair to the element of animal foodstuffs. To remove that technical person is where I was having some issues. As earlier said, it is upon this House to decide how to go because we make laws for posterity and not for individuals. Members can decide whatever way and so be it. However, it is important for Hon. Members to know that any amendment has to go to mediation, no matter how slight it is. Thank you, Hon. Speaker.\nVery well. Hon. Duale.\nHon. Speaker, I beg to support the position of the Committee. I want to just pick from the ruling you have read where my amendments and Hon. Mbadi\u2019s amendments became victims of Article 114 of the Constitution. Whether we take the route of the Mediation Committee or not, we must agree with the position of the Committee. If you look at the Senate\u2019s amendments on Clause 2, the Committee agreed with the amendments of the Senate. There was an amendment of the Senate on Clause 3(i) where they proposed a new Sub-section 2(a) and they deleted the Fertilizer Board of Kenya (FBK) and substituted thereof with the words, \u201cFertilizer and Animal Foodstuffs Board of Kenya (FAFBK).\u201d The Committee agreed with this because of the consistency. So, the Committee has not disagreed with the Senate. The second amendment they have agreed with is on Clause 3. If you go to Clause 2 (b), the Committee has agreed. The bone of contention is in Clause 10 where it reads \u201cand the Senate proposed\u201d. I think they were deleting \u201cone month\u201d appearing immediately after the words \u201cnot exceeding\u201d and substituting thereof with the words \u201cone year\u201d. The Bill had one month but the Senate has increased it to one year. The justification for the Senate proposal was to enhance the sentence to Kshs500, 000. However, the Committee found that it is not in synergy with the sentence hence an amendment to a non-custodial sentence. Hon. Speaker, I think we should not run away from mediation because it is provided for in the Constitution. That is the route between the two Houses. We are already in mediation on the Division of Revenue Bill and the constitutional Bill on Environment. I want to ask hon. Wamalwa that let us not be scared of mediation. It is provided for and, therefore, it is not an illegality. We should respect our committees. Committees are also the link between the Executive and Parliament in terms of law- making. I will be very happy if Hon. Wamalwa would agree with the Committee, just as The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nI have with Hon. Mbadi on the position of Article 114 in as far as that Bill on Retirement Benefits is concerned. If hon. Wamalwa and other Hon. Members read the reasons why the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives has given in replacing the A-G with somebody from the Council of Governors, it makes sense. Those two positions are not at par. The A-G sits in certain boards to give legal advice on behalf of the whole country. In most boards, the A-G or his representative have substantive positions. I also see the sense that you cannot just remove the A-G and replace with an entity or a person from the Council of Governors. Of course, this matter is also devolved. A position for the county government is already there, but the expertise of the A-G in any substantive representation cannot be replaced by anybody like that. I read and I agree. Let us not be scared but rather, let us support the amendment of the Committee and form a mediation team. I will be very happy from the Jubilee side to nominate Hon. Wamalwa to be number one in the mediation team since he is the owner of the Bill and he can argue his case. I beg to support the Committee and oppose the Senate amendments particularly on Clause 10.\nHon. Members, I hope we appreciate that this is like the Second Reading of a Bill because we are debating the proposal from the Committee. It is just a question of understanding because it is not very complicated. Hon. Makali Mulu.\nThank you, hon. Speaker. Some of us are having a challenge in understanding because the Committee has not taken time to explain to us the import of this amendment, where they are bringing in the Attorney-General. The other important thing is this and I am wondering: Why are we having a national board for functions that are devolved to the counties? I would want to be informed because to me, it really does not make a lot of sense to have a national board for functions that should be purely county functions. Thank you, Hon. Speaker.\nMaybe, we should hear from the Chair of the Committee, Aden Nooru.\nThank you, hon. Speaker. On the last part of Hon. Makali\u2019s question, the issue of having the national board is because the function of the policy has not been devolved. The counties need to be coordinated and, as a nation, we must make a policy at the national level and, therefore, the counties remain implementing bodies where necessary. The function of the policy is not devolved to the counties, but it still remains with the national Government and thus the need to have a national board to coordinate the 47 counties of the nation, so that we are not living in isolation but rather, live with other parts of the world. There is no way that each county is able to deal with this situation. We have to deal with other countries of the world and other regions. So, there is need for a national coordination body at the national level to deal with policy matters. Hon. Speaker, on the other issue which Hon. Wamalwa has raised on the removal of the Director of Veterinary Services, there is a Principal Secretary (PS) for Livestock who is a member of the board. He has discretion to put an alternative if he wishes to, so that we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\ncan have a technical person to appear in that board if there is any relevancy on that particular date. If the PS is there and the Director of Veterinary Services is there, it makes no sense. That will be at the expense of the AG who is the legal advisor of the board. That is two persons from the same ministry - the Director of Veterinary Services and the Principal Secretary. They are supposed to sit in the same board. Therefore, we found that there was no relevancy about it and that is why he has been replaced. Thank you, Hon. Speaker.\nHon. Wakhungu, do I see that you have a point of order?\nHon. Speaker, it was initially on a point of order to give some information to the Leader of the Majority Party because he was saying that we are replacing the Council of Governors. But the issue was not the Council of Governors but rather, the Director of Veterinary Services. Following on what the Chair of the Committee has said, it makes a lot of sense because we have the PS here. It is the discretion of the PS to nominate a technical person and in this case, it is the Director of Veterinary Services. It is purely in order and I do agree. As we go to mediation, it is my humble request that our Senators can also see the sense. That is because once the PS is there, he can exercise discretion and nominate the technical person who is the Director of Veterinary Services for purposes of foodstuffs. Thank you. I support.\nHon. Mbadi, now the Mover is agreeable.\nThank you, Hon. Speaker. I just had two things I wanted to say. I was about to agree that the reasons we have the two Houses and the mediation is to improve our legislation. We can refer Bills from one House to the other as many times as possible, just to have a perfect or near-perfect legislation. To that extent, I have no problem. However, I just wanted to caution us, as a legislative Assembly for progress in this country, that we read - and in line with what hon. Makali said - the functions that are county functions, I think there is no need to have so many boards in this country. It is wasting resources. We are keeping parastatals that are not for the benefit of this country. We are duplicating responsibilities. If it is a matter of policy decisions, the policy issues should be made by ministries because that is what is provided in law. The reason why we have these ministries - for example the Ministry of Agriculture - is for pure policy decisions. If we are again going to create boards for each and every sector of the Ministry and counties are also managing the same activities and creating the county corporations or county entities, I think that is why this country is facing the problem of running---\nHon. John Mbadi, why do you not just stick to this one because I know you may wish to address that issue in a public rally somewhere. If you stuck to this, what is your view on this?\nHon. Speaker, you know at times I agree with you, but let me just conclude. I am informed that human brain receives a 100 per cent of information and only stores 7 per cent. So, 93 per cent is usually lost. So, the moment I have remembered it for record, because HANSARD is going to remain intact, let me just say it so that I can refer to the HANSARD later to make it a policy. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nHon. Members, let me just put the Question. The Committee\u2019s proposal is agreeable to the Mover of the Bill. Therefore, we just put the Question.\nThat is the right thing to do, hon. Members. It means therefore, you will go to the next stage of the Bill which would be the Committee of the whole House to consider those amendments. This was merely comments. After this, you will go to the next level.\nHon. Mutava Musyimi, what is your point of order?\nI am on a point of order, hon. Speaker. Would I be in order to request you to consider granting my Committee the discretion to meet today so that we would have the opportunity to consider the amendments that you have directed that must be considered by the House tomorrow? Would I also be in order to also request you to allow us to meet as the Mediation Committee having been appointed by this House with respect to the Division of the Revenue Bill knowing that the House is likely to go on recess tomorrow? When that matter was being discussed, the Senate was on recess. They came back yesterday. They have now constituted a Committee. We have taken the liberty to agree to meet today at 12 p.m., but that is without your permission. I am now asking you to allow us to meet today so that we can see whether we can find some kind of resolution because if we delay this matter, it has huge consequences with respect to the county governments doing their own budgets.\nIt is absolutely important. The Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Director of Committees are accordingly to be informed. The Committee is permitted to meet to consider those amendments. The Mediation Committee can proceed to hold their meetings in the course of today at whatever the time you want to meet.\nHon. Members, before we go to the next Order, it therefore means that business appearing as (iii) The Retirement Benefits (Deputy President and Designated State Officers) Bill, 2013 is deferred upon request by the Mover, Hon. Kimani Ichung\u2019wah, the Member for Kikuyu Constituency. He has just sent an emergency note in the office that there is something happening in his constituency. Therefore, he is not available to prosecute his Bill. Maybe, he will come and explain to the House what kind of emergencies he has found in his constituency. The information I have which I have just received now is that it is something to do with fire. Hon. Members are birth attendants, fire extinguishers, mobile money transfers and all manner of things. So, it is only fair that--- I do not know whether Hon. Kimani Ichung\u2019wah is now rushing with some extinguishers on the road.\n(Hon. Angwenyi spoke off record)\nThe role of a Member of Parliament is valid especially in Kenya. There is something unique about Kenya, including being morticians. So, in fairness, I have acceded to the request that even that business appearing as (ii) The Alcoholic Drinks Control (Amendment) Bill, 2014, be also deferred to tomorrow. So businesses (ii) and (iii) are deferred to tomorrow. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nPage 10 of Hansard Report - Wednesday 29th April, 2015 Morning\n(The Temporary Deputy Chairlady (Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh) took the Chair)\nCONSIDERATION OF THE SENATE AMENDMENTS TO THE FERTILIZERS AND ANIMAL FOODSTUFFS (AMENDMENT) BILL\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Members, we are now in the Committee of the whole House to consider the Senate Amendments to the Fertilizers and Animal Foodstuffs (Amendment) Bill, 2013. Hon. Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives, do you have an amendment?\nThat, Clause 2 of the Bill be amended in Sub clause (b) in the definition of the word \u201cBoard\u201d by deleting the words \u201cFertilizer Board of Kenya\u201d and substituting therefor the words \u201cFertilizer and Animal Foodstuffs Board of Kenya\u201d.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, we have no problem with Clause 2. We agreed with the Senate as it is.\n(Clause 2 of Senate Amendment agreed to)\nThat Clause 3 of the Bill be amended- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\n(a) In Sub-clause (1) of the proposed new section 2A by deleting the words \u201cFertilizer Board of Kenya\u201d and substituting therefor the words \u201cFertilizer and Animal Foodstuffs Board of Kenya\u201d. (b) by deleting the proposed new section 2B and substituting therefor \u201cthe following proposed new section-\nFunctions of the Board 2B.The functions of the Board shall be to-\n(a) regulate the fertilizers and animal foodstuffs industry in Kenya, including the production, manufacture, packaging, importation and marketing of fertilizers and animal foodstuffs; (b) regulate the importation of raw materials for the manufacture of animal foodstuffs; (c) promote the manufacture of fertilizers and animal foodstuffs in Kenya; (d) advise the national and county governments on- (i) the procurement, importation and efficient and timely distribution of subsidized fertilizers and animal foodstuffs; (ii) establishment of retail outlets of fertilizers and animal foodstuffs in the counties; (iii) development of policies related to the manufacture and distribution of fertilizers and animal foodstuffs; (e) inspect and test fertilizers and animal foodstuffs to ensure their quality and safety; (f) license manufacturers, distributors and retailers of fertilizers and animal foodstuffs on the recommendation of the Director of Agriculture and the Director of Veterinary Services; (g) promote, in collaboration with stakeholders in the agriculture industry, research on fertilizers and animal foodstuffs; and, (h) ensure that fertilizers and animal foodstuffs imported, manufactured or distributed in Kenya meet the standards of quality and safety as prescribed by law. (c) in the proposed new paragraph 2C-\n(i) in subclause (1) by- (a) inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (b) - (ba) the Principal Secretary in the Ministry for the time being responsible for livestock or a designated alternate not being below the level of Deputy Secretary;\n(b) deleting paragraph (e) (c) deleting paragraph (f) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph-\n(f) one person nominated by the Council of Governors;\n(d) inserting the following new paragraphs after paragraph (f) -\n(fa) the Director of Veterinary Services; The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\n(fb) one person representing research institutions in the agriculture sector competitively sourced and appointed by the Cabinet Secretary; (ii) by inserting the following new sub clauses immediately after sub clause (2)- 2A) The Cabinet Secretary shall ensure that not more than one-third of the persons appointed under subsection (1) are of the same gender. (2B) A person appointed under subsection (1) shall hold office for a period of three years and may be re-appointed for a further non- renewable term of three years. (d) by inserting the following new clause immediately after Clause 2M- Annual Report 2MA. (1) The Chief Executive Officer shall cause to be prepared an annual report setting out the activities of the Board. (2) The Chief Executive Officer shall submit the report referred to in subsection (1) to the Cabinet Secretary not later than two months after the end of each financial year. 3) The Cabinet Secretary shall transmit copies of the report to the Senate and the National Assembly within three months after receipt of the Report. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, it is the same. There is no problem. We had agreed on it.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): You are not very audible Hon. Chairman. I did not get---\nWe agree with the Senate amendment as it is.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Do you have an amendment?\nHon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, these people have mixed up the whole thing in Clause 3(2) (c)\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): I do not know whether you have a copy. I can give a copy.\nI do not have a proper document.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Do you have it?\nHon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT we delete the proposed expression \u201cDirector of Veterinary Services\u201d under the proposed paragraph 2C(d)(fa) and substitute therefor the following new expression: \u201cthe Attorney-General or his representative\u201d. The rest should remain as it is. I have explained this before.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, indeed, I agree with the proposed amendment by the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives because as early explained, we do not need this Director of Veterinary Services. That is because the Principal Secretary sits on that Board and he The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\ncan exercise discretion and designate the Director of Veterinary Services to be there. So, I agree with the amendments as proposed. I second that.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I also want to support the amendment. Under Clause 3, especially on the functions of the board, there is an issue of manufacturing. In future, in our manufacturing industries, we need to consider bringing in the issue of the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). What we saw on Kenya Television Network (KTN) to do with metal manufacturing in Mombasa was very disgusting. In the manufacturing of fertilizers, we need to bring in the issue of NEMA going forward. I support the amendment.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): I can see people who want to speak to this amendment. Hon. Daniel Maanzo, do you want to speak to this? Keep it brief, please.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives. We had noted that a few things needed to be improved in the Senate amendments. When it comes to local manufacturing and the addition of animal foodstuffs, it complicates the matter because it needs new raw materials and a lot of due care. Animals are close to people and that is manufacturing and treatment thereof. We considered it. I support the amendment.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I also want to support this amendment. I am happy with the mention of policies that relate to manufacturing, importation and distribution. At the moment, I have noticed that in the distribution of fertilizers, particularly the subsidised fertilizers, there is no clear criterion on how it is distributed to the farmers on the ground in terms of numbers and timing. Recently, we had a problem in my constituency. We got a few bags and within a short time, everything had been cleared. Some farmers had already paid into the account expecting to get the subsidised fertilizer, but they did not get it. There is a lot of demand for this. If we are talking about food security, this is an area that we should support and look into very carefully. I support the amendment.\n(Clause 3 as amended agreed to) Clause 10Senate Amendment\nTHAT, Clause 10 of the Bill be deleted and substituted therefor by the following new clause- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\n10. Section 16 of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words \u201cone thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month and for a second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding three thousand shillings\u201d and substituting therefor the words \u201cfive hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month, and for a second or subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding one million shillings\u201d. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, in Clause 10, the only thing that we are amending in the original Bill in the Senate amendment is to put the fine at Kshs500,000 and limiting the sentence to one month.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Are you saying that you have an amendment?\nNo! It is the same. We have proposed an amendment from one month to two years in Clause 10.\nOn a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. The Senate improved the punishment from Kshs1,000 to Kshs500,000, if you commit an offence in the manufacturing or making fertilizers or if you sell fertilizers which do not exist or is poisonous. It is a very serious matter because if the fertilizer is poisonous, it is going to poison crops. If the foodstuffs that are manufactured are poisonous, the sentence in the original Act was Kshs1,000 and the imprisonment term was one month. Owing to the seriousness of the matter, which the Senate seems to have forgotten, we proposed to improve the fine from Kshs1,000. This was done in 1962 and so, we brought it to Kshs500,000. With regard to the imprisonment term, we moved from one month to two years or both, if somebody has committed an offence. That is the import of the amendment and that is why we made improvements on what the Senate seemed to have forgotten.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Yes, Hon. Gladys Wanga.\nWe do not seem to have further amendments on the Order Paper. What we have on the Order Paper is the Senate Amendment which is a fine of Kshs500,000 and an imprisonment term of one month.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Members, that is true. At the Table, we are also struggling to get a copy of the amendment if there is one. I do not think it has been reflected on the Order Paper. Is it that it is not reflected on the Order Paper or there was no amendment? Hon. Chair, was there an amendment on this clause?\nYes, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. It is there in the Report. The Senate deleted that clause and came up with a new proposal. Within that proposal, the issue that Hon. Maanzo has explained of the fine of Kshs1,000 was upgraded to Kshs500,000. They left the one month sentence as it is. So, we improved it to two years.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): I am not arguing about the gist of what you are saying. But I am just saying that the amendment approval for circulation that we have here, on which your signature is appended, only shows an amendment to Clause 3. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nThe amendment is here in the Report.\nTemporary Deputy Chairlady\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): The Report is not what you take to the Speaker.\nWe tabled the Report yesterday.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Yes, but you take the amendments for approval to the Speaker. Could you look at those, please? Do you see Clause 10 anywhere?\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Give us a minute.\nThat is just a typographical error. It was in the Report.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): I will take a few points of order. Hon. Rasso.\nOn a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. As a matter of procedure, we cannot discuss what is not on the Order Paper. That does not tell us what the substantive amendment to the Bill is.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): That is true. I hope these are points of order. Hon. Murungi, proceed.\nOn a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. As a matter of procedure, if the Committee does not agree with the Senate amendment, they should say so and have their own proposals. This is what should then go for mediation with the other clauses that they do not agree with.\nOn a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Much has been said, but I do not think it is procedural for us to continue considering amendments which are not reflected on the Order Paper. We need your ruling on this.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Chair of the Committee, we do not seem to have this amendment even if it is in your Report. The Members are right. We cannot ventilate on something that has not been brought to the Floor of the House.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, it is the discretion of the House to agree or disagree. The fact of the matter is that there is some discrepancy in the whole issue. The Committee has found that it is necessary to make that amendment. If it is a technical error that the amendment never appeared on the Order Paper and it is not procedural and the House rejects it, I have no power over the House. The necessity of this issue is that it is very critical. Sentencing a man who has poisoned Kenyans for one month is ridiculous. That is why we have proposed that amendment and have put it in our Report. If it does not appear in the Order Paper, I have no discretion of putting it on the Order Paper.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to agree with what the Chairman and Hon. Nyasuna have said. It is not procedural because that amendment is not on the Order Paper. The fact that they had expressed themselves on it in the Report and it is not here, we call upon you, in line with Standing Order No. 1, to make a decision. What the Chairman has said adds a lot of value. We have many unscrupulous business people who are conning farmers. They might come with something and sell in the form of fertilizer and yet, it is not fertilizer. So, my humble request is that you exercise your discretion and allow him to draft the amendment. As The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nhe has explained, that amendment will add a lot of value. Yes, it might be in the Report but we do not have it on the Order Paper. So, exercise your discretion, if it allows. If it does not allow, then we can proceed. However, what he said is very critical. We have unscrupulous business people selling chalk as fertilizer, which does not add any value. So, the punishment must be heavy to discourage those people from conning poor Kenyans as we strive towards food security in this country. I thank you.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): I agree with what you are saying. However, at the end of the day, procedure must be followed. You have heard a lot about the procedure. We cannot go against the procedure.\n(Clause 10 of Senate Amendment agreed to)\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): The Mover, we are now through with the amendments.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I beg to move that the Committee of the whole House doth agree with the amendments of the Senate---\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): I have passed you a note. Maybe, you can do it again, please.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move that the Committee doth report to the House its consideration of the Senate Amendments to the Fertilizers and Animal Foodstuffs (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 36 of 2013) and its approval thereof with amendments.\nOrder, Members! Let us have the Chairperson. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to report that a Committee of the whole House has considered the Senate Amendments to the Fertilizers and Animal Foodstuffs (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 36 of 2013) and approved the same with amendments.\nVery well. The Mover of the Bill, move the Motion for the agreement with the Report.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee of the whole House in the said Report. I also request the Vice-Chairman to second the Motion for agreement with the Report of the Committee of the whole House.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I second.\n(Hon. Wangwe on 22.4.2015)\nOn this Bill, the Member for Emurua Dikirr had four minutes. Is there an indication that he is in the House? He is not. So, we will proceed with the requests as they have come in. We will start with the Member for Likuyani.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me thank the Mover of this Bill for having come up with this Bill on the examination fees. As I understand it, this is an amendment that is giving effect to what the Government has been saying all along, that examination fees for Standard Eight and Form Four candidates is going to be abolished. It is a move to assist the very poor. As we talk about examination fees, it is very important that we critically start examining Article 43 of the Constitution. As much as we would like to have a few waivers here and there, subsidies and bursaries in the country, time has come for us to actualise Article 43 of the Constitution. The biggest problem with education in this country is that there are very many parents and households that cannot afford to educate their children. Over a period of time, a number of interventions have come up, notably The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nbursaries. We now have bursaries all over the place. We have bursaries from the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), county governments, ward funds, the President and some Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in this country.\nEven the proposed Affirmative Action Bill from our lady colleagues also has some element of bursary in it. What is happening in this country is that with all this multiplicity of bursaries, there are no clear guidelines as to who gets and who does not get. There are no clear guidelines that one family should not benefit much more than the other families because the guidelines come from different entities. The elephant in the room is this: We should be able to very quickly reach a stage where we say we have universal basic education. That is the direction we should be going so that we abolish all those bursaries. This is because, as much as many of them assist, quite a number of them do not quite reach the stage where parents feel adequately assisted to educate their children comfortably.\nIn my constituency, quite a number of kids have been picked to join national schools but because of the aspect of school fees, they opt to join nearby day school secondary schools. Therefore, we are losing some of our best brains in this country. As much as I support this Motion wholeheartedly, as a country and House, we need to move further and make primary and secondary education absolutely free, and leave further development to the abilities of every child. If a child qualifies to join Alliance High School or Mang\u2019u High School, such child should be educated for free. If a child qualifies to join a county school, they should be educated for free. If a child qualifies to join a day secondary school, they should be educated for free. That is the only way of ensuring that there is equality in this country.\nI do not know from where the Bible got the verse that says: \u201cThose who have, more will be added and those who do not have, even the little that they have will be taken away from them.\u201d One day we shall ask the people who are more learned in this field to tell us what exactly the Bible meant by this verse. What we want to do is make sure that it is only the ability of the child that is going to determine what that child learns - not money. Most of us would not have gone to schools if money was the determinant factor. If I may use my experience as an example, I went to Mang\u2019u High School from a Western Kenya rural school. From Mang\u2019u High School, I went to Strathmore College. I would not do so presently, with the prevailing poverty and circumstances. I want to congratulate my colleague, hon. Wangwe, for coming up with this Motion and urge that we take the bold step of making primary and secondary education free. When we talk about free primary and secondary education, it should be absolutely free. Even though we currently have the free primary education programme, there are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\ntoo many levies that come along the way. Therefore, we should emphasise that free education should be absolutely free. Finally, as much as we have many children attending schools, there is an acute shortage of teachers. It is incumbent upon the Government to come up with a policy of employing enough teachers. When you look at the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) for the coming financial year, the aspect of teacher employment is not captured anywhere. This is something we are sweeping under the carpet but it really affects the quality of education in this country. With those remarks, I support.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh: Let us hear the Member for Igembe North.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Bill. It should be noted that in Kenya, we do not have private candidates. All examination candidates are Kenyans. Therefore, the Government should support even candidates in private schools. Some private schools, especially those being run by some churches, are not really private. It is only that they are registered as private schools. Many of the children who go to those schools are supported by well-wishers. If the Government can support free primary and secondary education, it should also take care of such children. At the end of the day, no child should fail to get registered for examinations because they did not pay examination fees. At the same time, it is important for us to look at the whole aspect of assessment. How do we asses our children? I support this Bill so that the opportunity can be granted to all. There is also the aspect of equity and equality for all children. Even if we depend on choice of schools by children, be they public or private, the Government should pay examination fees for all candidates, so that all children can have an opportunity to be examined without the hindrance of fees. There are those schools which are based in informal settlement areas. Even if they are not registered as public schools, there is the possibility of well-wishers supporting them. With those remarks, I support.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also stand to support the Bill as I congratulate the Mover, hon. Emanuel Wangwe. In many parts of rural Kenya, examination fees are very hard to come by for some parents. We know very well that education is the equalizer of all Kenyans. If I had not gotten the opportunity to acquire proper education at Starehe Boys Center, I would not be in this House today. Today, we have free primary education. The Government, in the recent past, has stated that it will be paying fees balances for secondary school graduates who have not been able to clear their fees for one reason or the other, so that they can access their certificates. Even to date, if a former student in primary or secondary school has pending payments, they are not given their certificates and, therefore, they are unable to proceed with their lives. They cannot get employed or process necessary documentation or join university and other institutions of higher education. Therefore, it is important that the Government pays examination fees for primary and secondary education examinations candidates to KNEC. Students in private institutions may be able to afford the examination fees, but students going to public institutions should be taken care of, so that we can equalise all Kenyans through education. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nThank you very much, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Bill. This Bill is important even though what it seeks to achieve is just a tip of the iceberg of the constitutionally envisaged free basic education that should be accessed by our young people. Even after paying the examination fees, the majority of our youngsters in primary schools are not able to transit to secondary schools. It is a pity that we can only help at the tip-end of one\u2019s primary education.\nAs Nelson Mandela said, education is the single equaliser of any society. Our Government must begin to look at both primary and secondary education as basic education. It needs to think beyond the FPE.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of bursary is very significant when we talk of basic education, particularly in secondary schools. As the Hon. Member who spoke before me said, we need to begin seeing why a bursary is important. Can the bursary be offered from one source? This is because today the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) offers bursaries. The county governments and the Ministry of Education Science and Technology offer bursaries too. I am aware of all this because my constituents have been beneficiaries of the bursaries. Instead of penny-packetting all these efforts, it is important for us to co-ordinate, so that it is known what amount of resources is directed at each constituency. We also need to consider the population within each constituency.\nI want to thank Equity Bank for their \u201cWings to Fly\u201d initiative. I know there are big banks that have been here for almost five generations. It will be important for other major players like Safaricom to come out and, in a transparent way, with such initiatives. As leaders representing the people, we need to be fully aware of the efforts made by corporates towards improving education.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, examinations must be transparent. Examinations must be done on a level playing field. A student sitting for examinations should be confident that no other student has undue advantage over him or her during the examinations. In this country, we are always closing our ears and eyes to cases of examination leakage. Some schools have undue advantage in examinations because they access examinations questions way before the examinations are on. Unless we address this challenge, the equity that we are looking for in education will remain elusive. Finally, on the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), there are youngsters who lose their certificates through fires in their houses, or road accidents. It takes ages for those certificates to be replaced by KNEC, even when the necessary documents have been provided. KNEC must be alive to the fact that without a certificate, a young person can hardly access anything in life. Therefore, they must exercise prudence and provide certificates within the shortest time possible, provided all the necessary requirements have been met. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Rachel Ameso.\nAhsante sana, mhe. Naibu Spika wa Muda. Nataka kuchangia Mswada huu ambao nauunga mkono. Ni jambo zuri sana kuwaona watoto The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nwetu wote wakifaulu katika shule za msingi na shule za upili. Ukisoma bila kufanya mtihani wa kitaifa, hakuna mahali popote ambapo utaelekea. Kwa hivyo, ni jambo nzuri sana tunapoona kuwa zile senti za kulipia mitihani ya kitaifa zitatolewa kabisa katika shule zetu. Utapata watoto wengi sana wamemaliza shule lakini hawawezi kupata vyeti vyao ili waweze kujiendeleza kimaisha. Waheshimiwa wenzangu, mtakubaliana nami kuwa kuna watoto wengi sana, ambao wemekaa nyumbani kwa sababu hawakuweza kulipa pesa za mtihani wa kitaifa walipokuwa shuleni. Kwa hivyo, tukiondoa pesa hizi za kulipia mtihani wa kitaifa, tutakuwa tumesaidia nyumba nyingi sana katika nchi yetu ya Kenya. Pia tutakuwa tunawasaidia watoto wengi ambao hawangekuwa viongozi kama sisi hii leo, kwa sababu ya kukosa senti za kulipia mtihani wa kitaifa, na hivyo basi kukosa kufaulu kimaisha. Kwa hivyo, naunga mkono jambo hili. Naomba tutoe kabisa zile pesa zinazolipwa za kufanya mtihani wa kitaifa iwe ni darasa la nane ama kidato cha nne. Katika sekta ya elimu ni kuwa tulielezwa vizuri sana kwamba walimu wakuu wangepeane vyeti. Lakini mpaka wa sasa watoto wakienda shuleni wanaelezwa ni lazima walipe pesa kabla ya kupewa vyeti vyao. Ningeomba kwamba tuwe na sheria, ili walimu wakuu wapeane vyeti vya wanafunzi waliomaliza kusoma ili wajiendeleze katika maisha yao. Sheria inapopitishwa Bungeni, ni lazima ifuatwe. Kuna sheria nyingi ambazo tumepitisha hapa Bungeni lakini bado hazijaanza kufuatwa. Ninaomba walimu wakuu popote pale walipo wawapatie watoto vyeti vyao ili waweze kujiendeleza kimaisha, na wajiunge na vituo mbali mbali. Hivi majuzi mliona polisi wakisajiliwa. Ingawa hivyo, watoto wengi hawakuweza kujiwasilisha kwa usajili huo kwa sababu hawakuwa na vyeti vya kudhibitisha kuwa wamehitimu katika kidato cha nne. Naunga mkono Mswada huu. Naomba walimu watilie mkazo kuona kwamba watoto wetu wanapata vyeti ili wajiendeleze kimaisha. Ahsante sana mhesh. Naibu Spika wa Muda.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this amendment Bill. Let me also thank my brother, mhe Wangwe, for bringing it to Parliament. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support that the examination fees be waived for all the students who are doing examinations (exams) not necessarily for those who are in public schools, but even for those in private schools. Even if people take their children to private schools because they are able to, when it comes to exams, children in both public and private schools sit the same exams. So, I support the idea that all exam fees be waived. I also propose that as the Government provides the FPE, let us put it in law that once a child goes to school, from nursery to Form Four, then his or her education will be for free. This will help parents and the Government to invest in higher education. The Government could set up a fund, so that those who qualify to go to universities and colleges can get money. This could be done through the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) or bursaries. That way, it will be cheap and easy to educate all the children who have excelled. I say this because sometimes we use a lot of money, especially on basic education in Form One to Form Four. We normally get the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nbest pupils to join the higher levels, but because we have spent a lot of money even on those who dropped from school, we end up not getting enough money to educate the best brains. A lot of brains are thus wasted on the way. Therefore, I strongly support that we get free basic education from Form One to Form Four, and thereafter parents and the Government can invest in specialized education in higher learning institutions.\nI want to raise an issue about the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). We are getting a raw deal from them because they even call upon us to give out a share of the CDF kitty, so that they can extend loans to our children. I do not know how the programme was visualized, but I believe they have their allocation from the Budget, which they should give to needy children. The mistake they are making is that they are not getting the right children who need to get this money. They are giving the money to everybody across the board. So, their vetting is wanting and it is high time it was done in a procedural manner, so that the neediest children get bursaries.\nThe Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC), also has its weaknesses. A case in point is where a child misplaces his or her certificates and then he is told that he can only get a replacement after six months, yet the child is supposed to be reporting somewhere the following day. Is it that they do not have a system that can reproduce certificates? Why do they take that long? The organization there is quite analogue. They still have a lot of paperwork. They should try to update their systems in order to assist people as fast as possible. This is because when you are told to wait for six months to get a certificate, yet there is a job in the offing in the next one month, it becomes very disappointing.\nFinally, let me finish by saying that the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) should also look at the shortage and distribution of teachers in this country. You find that most urban schools have got excess staff, because people tend to post their friends, relatives and people they know to where there are good roads, houses and electricity. The marginalized schools with the neediest children in this country do not have teachers, because not many teachers are willing to go to teach in areas where there are no good roads and guaranteed security; this is the current situation in north eastern region. Therefore, it is very important that the TSC harmonizes the distribution of teachers to schools. It should enhance the hardship allowances. There should be an extra coin for the teachers who are posted to those areas. If we leave the current situation to persist, we will have those who are more endowed schooling and those who are less endowed remaining at home, and getting poorer and poorer.\nI now give the Floor to hon. Chris Wamalwa.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset I want to congratulate my friend hon. Emmanuel Wangwe, MP for Navakholo, for coming up with such a wonderful Bill. This Bill has been long overdue. I have known hon. Wangwe from the time I was a ranking Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. He came and presented this Bill before us. As a requirement for any money Bill, it had to go to the Treasury. However, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) did not give us a positive feedback and that is why this has taken long. Recently we heard of an executive order that fees The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nshould be scrapped, and this is an idea that hon. Wangwe has been having since we entered this Parliament. So thank you hon. Wangwe; I know that in a short while we are going to have this Bill implemented. We thank his Excellency for the executive order, but unfortunately, in case we get a rogue President, that executive order cannot be sustained. Therefore, it is, indeed, important that we have a law in place, so that whoever comes in is obligated not charge exam fees. When you look at the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), particularly Goal No.2, which talks of access to universal primary education--- Last time I had an opportunity to go to London to attend a conference on the MDGs titled \u201cThe Role of Parliamentarians\u201d. One of the critical issues that came up, and has been a handicap, was that many governments have in place the Free Primary Education (FPE) like Kenya; unfortunately, the exam fee becomes an obstacle. Therefore, if this Bill goes through, I have no doubt that the rating of Kenya as far as access to basic primary education is concerned is going to be high. We know that some headmasters and principals squander fees. Poor children pay fees, but they are unable to sit examinations. So once this Bill is in place, the Government is going to budget for it and those poor children, who cannot afford exam fees, are going to be assured of education. Free education cannot be achieved if at the end of going to school you do not have a certificate, and you can only have a certificate if you have sat for the exam. Therefore, this Bill is going to add a lot of value as far as improving people\u2019s welfare is concerned. When you look at MDG No.1, which talks about eradication of total poverty, you will realize that if people go to school, we are going to eradicate poverty, because their chances of getting employment are going to be enhanced. Once this fees is abolished, Prof. Kaimenyi will not need to tell head teachers that they must report to the Ministry for purposes of enforcing Government directive on school fees. It was because actually that was a critical issue. Therefore, once we finalize this, we will not want the TSC mandate to be interfered with, and the head teachers and principals should report to the TSC and not to the CS. The legacy that the former President, Mwai Kibaki, left was that of Free Primary Education. We have been wondering what legacy the Jubilee Government will leave behind. We were thinking of the laptops, but they have not yet come. However, if the Jubilee Government actualizes the issue of exam fees, at least, that could be a legacy. The President has already given that executive order, and it is already in place. We now want to give it legal backing, so that it can be implemented. We want this to be in line with Article 43 of the Constitution, which talks of access to education. It is so that this issue of exam fees is abolished. However, the worry is: Are we abolishing it for everyone, including those in the private schools that can afford? This is something that we should think about. I would like to direct this to the Mover, hon. Wangwe. In this Bill, if we abolish exam fees, are we abolishing it even in private schools or is it only in the public schools? When we go to the Committee of the whole House, we need to bring some amendments, so that we are able to know this. If somebody has gone to a private school and they can afford it, so be it. So, my interest here is critically on the public schools. This is because even when it comes to healthcare when you offer free medical services they can only be accessed in public hospitals. When you go to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nprivate hospitals it is totally different. Some of these private schools are, therefore, profit making. If the parents can afford--- We should be focusing on public schools and not private schools. I was sharing something with one of my colleagues in the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology. It is good they are supporting this matter. You know there are committees which look for ways of frustrating nice Bills. I am happy and thankful to learn that the Committee of Education, Research and Technology is fully supporting this issue. Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am requesting other hon. Members to support this Bill, so that poor children can access education. I want to thank the Committee and I was sharing this with a Member of the Committee on Education, Research and Technology. It is good they are supporting the Bill. When a good Bill is brought to the House, some Committees look for a way of frustrating it. I am happy to learn that the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology is fully supporting this Bill. I thank the Committee. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I request other Members to support this Bill, so that poor children can access education.\nMs.) Shebesh): Hon. Wesley Korir.\nThank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I take this opportunity to thank the Mover for thinking about a very special thing that has been neglected for a long time.\nWhen we talk about education in this country, we are not talking about privilege, but a right. This is a right that is envisioned in the Constitution that every child should access education. However, in the recent past, education has become a privilege of a few individuals who can afford to pay and take their children to school. This is a very serious issue. As a country, if we do not take care of this issue, it will take us to a point where we will have two classes of people in this country. We will have the class of the rich, who can go to school and become better citizens and the class of the poor, who cannot take their children to school. Those children will continue being poor for the rest of their lives.\nThis is a small part of the big puzzle of the big problem that needs to be solved. In this country, we have the problem of increasing school fees. Right now, we are taking care of a small piece, namely the examination fees part of it. What about the rest? What about the Kshs30,000, Kshs40,000, Kshs50,000 or the Kshs100,000 that parents have to part with every time they take their children to school? As we move forward, we need to seriously look at the issue of education in this country.\nI would like to differ with hon. Wakhungu that we need to look at this from a private and a public perspective. If you are talking about the Kenya National Examinations Council, it should be equal for everybody. We are talking about examinations. There are no examinations for private schools and public schools. We are talking about national examinations for all schools. So, let us make education affordable for every child in Kenya. There is no special child. There are no children of the rich and children of the poor. We are all children of Kenya. We belong to Kenya. So, let us have a Bill that covers everybody, but not one class of people. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nAnother issue that I want this House to look deeply into is the system of our education. We have a system that is failing us. It is failing us because we have an exam-oriented system of education. We need to move from an exam oriented system of education to a practical system of education. When our children sit for the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) or the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education Examination (KCSE) and do not pass, they are looked at as failures. However, there are people who are not book smart, but if you give them a tractor or a car to fix, they will do it very well. Because our system does not give them an opportunity from a young age to discover the talents that God has given to them, they will look at what they have done in KCPE or KCSE and feel like failures, because they did not pass these examinations. Let us go back to the system where we had art and craft, music, agriculture and engineering, so that children can learn at a young age who they are and what talents God has given them.\nI support this Bill, but we need to look deep into the issue of our education system and school fees and make sure that every child in this country gets a chance to get what is their right and not a privilege.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Jessica Mbalu.\nThank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to the voices of the Members of the National Assembly who have contributed to this Bill. I wish to congratulate Hon. Wangwe for the good work he has done. I pray that he is going to be re-elected because he has touched the nerves of the people in the constituencies. He is doing the right thing.\nThe objective of the short Bill is to ensure that examination fees for the KCPE and the KCSE are abolished. This will go a long way in promoting education in this country. Education cannot be replaced. It cannot be left behind. It is the driver of development in this country. We are what we are because of education. I have been a university lecturer before and I know what it feels to be educated. An educated person is an empowered person.\nAs I support this Bill, I request the Government to look into the welfare of schools. Members of the National Assembly are doing very well through the CDF in terms of infrastructure and bursaries. We touch the hearts of mothers and fathers when we give bursaries. Just two weeks ago, I was giving bursaries to my constituents and you could see how parents were happy.\nWe have students and pupils who cannot collect their certificates because of outstanding fees balances that they cannot afford to clear. In terms of promoting education, this Bill will go a long way. Some of the amendments that we will be making--- This is an achievement of the Eleventh Parliament through the Member.\nWith regard to parents who cannot afford to pay school fees, the students will be assured of their certificates. There is nothing as bad as going to school and you cannot afford examination fees. This Bill will go a long way in promoting education. However, as much as we promote students, we should not overlook teachers. Teachers should be paid good salaries. A teacher is like a pastor - I pray for them. They want their students to perform well. When we pay examination fees and we do not give teachers good salaries, we fail. We The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\ncould pay examination fees but teachers are not motivated. I want to cry with the teachers as we say \u201cKaimenyi must go\u201d. He must go and he must pay the teachers well.\nMembers of Parliament do their duty by giving bursaries. In first term we get a lot of requests, because parents want to pay examination fees. I represent a constituency where parents\u2019 purchasing power is very low. We are poor and this will go a long way in helping my constituents. I will be the first one to bring an amendment to ensure that examination fees for Standard Eight and Form Four are paid by the Government. The standard of living for people will improve when examinations fees for these students are paid by the Government. We will be assured that every pupil and student will have access to education.\nI am happy with the Member of the National Assembly in terms of trying to implement the provisions of Article 43(1) of the Constitution. This will actualise full attainment of free and compulsory basic education as provided for in Part IV of the Basic Education Act, 2013. This is a small Bill that is seeking to amend Section 48, but it is as big as a 100-pages Bill because of what it provides. The amendment to Section 48 also talks about the conduct of examinations, and the nature and extent of examination irregularities. Everything, in terms of exams, will be taken care of. I know Members of Parliament want to contribute to this small but weighty Bill, which is going to help parents and students when we abolish the payment of examination fees for KCSE and KCPE. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Cecilly Mbarire!\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this important Bill. Let me also congratulate the Mover of this Bill for seeing it fit to go beyond the policy statement of the Jubilee Government on waiver of all examination fees for KSCE and KCPE. I congratulate the Mover for seeing it fit to make it law, so that it is not at the whims of individuals either waive or not to waive exam fees. Education is a basic need. Basic needs are human rights. Therefore, it is important that we work towards ensuring that all the children of this nation acquire the necessary education they need to realise their potential. Every Member of Parliament knows that this is not as easy as it is made to sound. We have had many children who have not been able to do their examinations, because their parents could not afford examination fees. I thank the Government for finding it fit to actually waive this fee, so that every child can access education. Every Member of Parliament knows that once it gets to February, we get our offices full of parents in need of Kshs4,500 to pay examination fee for their children. We are happy that this is now gone. However, it is good to anchor it in law, so that every child can be assured of doing their examinations. We need to go beyond just facilitating, or enabling, every child to do their examinations and think about access to their certificates after the examinations. Many children today are not in a position to get---\n(Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo consulted loudly)\nHon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am completely unable to continue because the Chair of Public Accounts Committee, who is still very excited about his election yesterday---\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Gumbo! I am trying to get your attention. Your consultations are too loud. Hon. Mbarire cannot go on.\nHon. Gumbo, I know you are still very excited. I wish you well in that Committee. Just make sure that you do not get caught up in the mess that we were caught up in. Be alert to people who go about making crazy records out there in your name. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am saying that we need to go beyond just providing free examinations and come up with a way of ensuring that certificates of students who have passed examinations are made available to them. We heard former President Kibaki, and later President Uhuru Kenyatta, say that all certificates that have been withheld in secondary schools should be made available to students. I have had cases of students who have come to me and told me that principals had said that they could not release the certificates. The Government needs to look into this matter, so that we can ensure that the purpose of education, which is to take a student to the next level, or enable to get a job, is made possible. It is important for this Parliament to stay true to basic needs which are well enshrined in the Constitution. These include education, food, health and shelter. I hope that after the passage of this Bill, as Parliament, we will look into the issue of healthcare. Without digressing, Members of this Parliament need to seriously relook at the new rates of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). Kenyans cannot afford Kshs500 every month to be members of NHIF. If, indeed, we want to have universal education and healthcare for all Kenyans, we must revise those rates. They are way above the ability of Kenyans. In my own constituency, people have told me to come to this House and tell the Cabinet Secretary for Health and the President that they cannot afford Kshs500. I hope that after the education sector, we will also go and look into the health sector and ensure that Kenyans are made to pay what is affordable. Anything above Kshs200 would be hard for Kenyans to afford, especially farmers and people in the Jua Kali sector, who depend on less than a dollar a day. It is absolutely unfair for us, as Members of Parliament, to sit here and not mention that issue, which is a big concern to Kenyans. With those few remarks, I support.\nTemporary Deputy Speaker\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): There is a point of order from hon. Patrick Makau.\nOn a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am just concerned. This debate is creating a lot of interest. It has created anxiety amongst hon. Members. Would I be in order to request that we are given three minutes to contribute to the debate?\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Is three minutes agreeable to everybody? Is that the mood of the House?\nAn. hon. Member\nNo! The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Each Member speaking will take three minutes. Let us hear hon. Geoffrey Odanga!\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to support the Motion, and thank the Mover, hon. Emmanuel Wangwe of Navakholo Constituency. First of all, the objective of this amendment is to amend the Kenya National Examinations Council Act of 2012, so as to abolish examination fees paid by primary and secondary school candidates. This goes a long way towards implementation of the right to education. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, education is very important service to Kenyans and, indeed, to all people of the world. Article 43 (1) (f) of our Constitution, as read together with Article 53 (1) (b), says that every child in Kenya has a right to free and compulsory education. Therefore, the fact that examination fees have been waived is a very important aspect of this achievement. Education is supposed to make an individual function better in society. Any education without a certificate at the end of the cycle will come to naught. Therefore, the fact that we are trying to anchor the waiver of exam fees in law, as already announced by the Head of State, is a very good step in the right direction. We also need to address ourselves to the fact that secondary school bursaries given out by the Ministry or Education, Science and Technology have been stopped, starting the current financial year. We have never received that money. This has caused a lot of concern to our children in secondary schools. We would like to urge the Budget and Appropriations Committee to ensure that these funds are brought back in the next financial year, so that they assist the very needy children we have in our midst. Also, I would like to know how the issue of repeaters is going to be addressed as we talk about waiving of examination fees. For many years, we have always had children who, after completing one cycle of education, either primary or secondary school, would like to do it again so as to achieve better grades. Will they still be considered for the waiver or will they have to pay now that they will be repeating? Finally, the issue of certificates is very important. We must address it, so that when children are done with exams, they get certificates. I support.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Your time is up. Hon. Onesmus Njuki.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. We pay for an examination that is supposed to be the culmination of four or eight years of education, and that is supposed to show what the children achieved. If, in this particular case, we had a scenario like the one we have in the United States (US) and Britain, where it does not matter which level of education you achieve, because you will still have your certificate, it will have be easier to avoid situations The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nwhere we have children who have nothing to show if they fail to sit for exams because of lack of fees. Children have repeated classes in this country because of lack of fees. I hail the Jubilee Manifesto that has promised provision of free primary and secondary education. It will not be in order and doing any good if we pay for the tuition fees and other things that are required in providing education and then we fail to pay examination fees. The effect of withholding certificates that has been discussed here is not only making young people unable to get jobs but is also spoiling careers for students who end up in professions they did not want to take, because they have no certificates, which are illegally withheld by head teachers. This is going to be a thing of the past if we are able to pass this Bill because principals will no longer be able to hold certificates, if they have allowed the students to do exams. My concern is on the contribution to education by the county governments. Currently, we know that it is the Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) only which is devolved. If you look at the amount of money that we actually give the counties and the contribution they make to this very important sector, we should get a way to get a legal provision to only devolve the contribution to education, or the funds, and not give the role of supervising the policy implementation to counties. With those few remarks, I would like to support the Bill. Thank you.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Peter Kaluma.\nThank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is very difficult to debate such a big matter in three minutes. I will say three things. This Bill is a big indictment of our Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, which is in charge of education within Parliament. I hope that Committee is concerned that an ordinary Member of the House has thought through this. We are in a country where the President and the Executive says that certificates ought to be released to all students, yet nothing happens and it does not bother anybody. We are in a country where the Constitution says there is a right to basic education, but nothing happens and it means nothing. I thank the Hon. Member for bringing this Bill but I want to say that we must be taking steps, as the leadership of this country, to ensure that basic education is not only free but also qualitative. The idea that you require fees for education, or whatever, is making education still a preserve of the rich. Let me just mention one thing due to paucity of time. You know students are being admitted to national schools on a daily basis. However, students from poor families cannot take those chances. All leaders of this country in this House are aware that those opportunities are later given to people who are able to pay the fees. We are aware of corruption. Some of these opportunities are even bought. I urge the Member to permit that as we pass this important Bill, we go beyond what it is prescribing and ensure that basic education is free. Let me end by thanking the people of Kenya who elected Hon. Wangwe to Parliament. I cannot say much. I was certain in my mind that up to 95 per cent of us would not return to this Parliament, because we have been underperforming. I am sure the number is now up to 90 per cent. Hon. Wangwe will come back with the additional five per cent, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nbecause he is dealing with an issue of concern to the country. May we have more Members doing this, so that we can move our country forward. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. We will be proposing further amendments, so that we can streamline the education sector.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Abass Mohamed.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will also want to support the amendments to the Bill. As you are aware, this country has free primary education and there are so many students going to secondary schools. As a result of many parents taking their children to school, most of them cannot even afford to pay the examination fees at the time of examination. It is the right time mhe. Wangwe has brought a Bill for a waiver. One other thing is that there are enough resources in this country. We have bursaries both in the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) and at the county level. This country can afford free primary and secondary education. I commend the Jubilee Government for the initiative they have taken offer free primary education and plan for free secondary education. Having said that, examination is not the end of everything. Out of the total number of students who sit for exams every year, 75 per cent of them do not make it to secondary schools. Most of them do not make it to universities. There is a big gap that this country needs to address. This has been brought about by the disparity in learning facilities for teaching and the unavailability of teachers. In my constituency, you will see a school with up to Class Eight with only two teachers. By the end of the day, most of the students do not make it to secondary schools. The issue is not examinations but the availability of teachers and facilities for learning. There is a big disparity in the education sector and schools. Having free national examinations is not the end of everything. The Government needs to address this disparity. I also want to thank the Government for creating a national school in every county. However, these same schools do not even have facilities and teachers. That needs to be addressed. I want to tell the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and Kenya Union of Post-Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET) that leaders like Sossion who are always spitting fire condemning the Government for actions of the Cabinet Secretary and those kinds of things that they need to challenge the teachers to perform. It is the right time Mr. Sossion and his like took responsibility for the education of this country and stop defending teachers only. Teachers have all the reasons and need to be protected, but they must also be reprimanded when they fail to deliver. What happens is that these guys take all the time fighting the Cabinet Secretaries and telling the Government to do \u201ca\u201d, \u201cb\u201d, \u201cc\u201d, \u201cd\u201d but they do not take responsibility.\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. Gladys Wanga.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this very important Bill, and to thank the Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe, Member for Navakholo, for bringing this Bill that touches not only the people of Navakholo but also on the people of this country, the length and breadth of this country. The poor people of this country will be appreciative of this initiative, which The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nessentially facilitates the right to education as guaranteed in Article 43(1)(f) of the Constitution. It also enables the full attainment of compulsory basic education as outlined in Part 4 of the Basic Education Act, 2013. This will also go a long way in helping this country meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Goal Two, which speaks to universal access to education. It does not make sense to learn for eight or four years only to be stopped at the end of those years because you do not have the necessary examination fees. This is a big problem and you find many parents approaching Members of this House to assist them in paying the examination fees. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker because the time is very short, I would like to say that what breaks the poverty circle in families is education. Apart from examination, another major factor that stops, particularly, the girl child from going forward is lack of sanitary towels. We know that the Ministry of Education has allocations every year for sanitary towels, but we never see these sanitary towels in our schools. I do not know where the money goes, where the sanitary towels go or whether they end up at the Office of the District Commissioner (DC) or the District Officer (DO). We want to see that our girls--- Just as examination fees will stop you from doing exams, so will a girl who is in her periods, and does not have sanitary towels--- That girl will not go to school, will not concentrate and will not pass exams. I want to challenge the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to enhance the sanitary towel programme; we want to see sanitary towels in our schools and in the furthest ends of villages of this country. The Education sector cannot be regulated, or manned, through finger pointing. So, the Cabinet Secretary (CS), Prof. Kaimenyi, must now come down; he is leading the education sector; he needs to sit down with stakeholders, negotiate and come to consensus on the issues affecting the education sector. Thank you, hon. Speaker.\n(Hon.) (Ms.) Shebesh: Hon. Aisha Katana.\nAsante sana mhe. Naibu Spika wa Muda. Ningependa kuchukua nafasi hii kumpongeza sana mhe Wangwe kwa kuleta Mswada huu. Tunajua sisi wote kwamba elimu ni mwangaza na ni muhimu sana kwa watoto wetu katika taifa hili. Mhe Wangwe amefikiria si eneo Bunge lake tu, lakini watoto wote katika taifa letu la Kenya.\nMhe. Naibu Spika wa Muda, nataka kusema kwamba nimesimama kuunga mkono kabisa Mswada huu ambao utakuwa muhimu kwa sababu tumeona Rais wa Jamhuri ya Kenya akitoa amri kwamba malipo ya mitihani yetu ya kitaifa ya Darasa la Nane na Kidato cha Nne yote yaondolewe. Serikali imejitolea kabisa tukipitisha Mswada huu itakuwa ni sheria, na itakuwa ikifanyika bila pingamizi. Hii ni kwa sababu Rais akiongea, ama wakuu wetu wakiongea, ni kwamba bado kuna waalimu ambao ni wakuu wa shule wanaosembea. Kwa mfano, mwaka jana tulimwona Rais wetu pamoja na makamu wetu wakiongea kuhusu vyeti vya watoto wa Kidato cha Nne, kwamba vyote vipeanwe. Tuna ushahidi kama viongozi wa kule chini nyanjani kwamba waalimu wakuu wengi wamekataa kupeana stakabadhi zile muhimu kwa watoto wetu wa Kidato cha Nne. Kwa hivyo, nataka kusema kwamba ni Mswada muhimu sana, na utasaidia The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nsana watoto wetu kuhakikisha kwamba wamefanya mitihani bila matatizo na wanapata vyeti bila shida.\nWabunge wetu wanafanya bidii sana kutumia Hazina za Maeneo Bunge kujenga shule na kupeana bursary . Lakini haya hayana msingi iwapo vyeti havitapeanwa kutoka katika shule mbalimbali katika Jamhuri yetu ya Kenya.\nNataka kuunga mkono na niseme kwamba ni jukumu letu sisi wote tuhakikishe kwamba Wabunge wenzangu Mswada huu umepita, upite na tuweze kuwa na sheria mwafaka ambayo itatusaidia sisi kama wazazi, na pia kama viongozi kutoka mashinani.\nAsante sana, mhe Naibu Spika wa Muda.\n(Hon. (Ms.) (Hon.) Shebesh): Hon. Zipporah Kering.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I also want to take this opportunity to thank hon. Wangwe for bringing here a Bill that is so important. We know that education is a right of every child in this country, and we have had several cases of many children of this country missing examinations simply because they could not afford to pay for the examinations. Those children went through school, that is from Class one to Class Eight and from Form One to Form Four, and missed examinations; it meant that their learning was irrelevant. I want to thank His Excellency the President; when he gave his Statement here, he had actually seen the needs of children. That is why we thank Hon. Wangwe for bringing this matter to this House; now the matter will be law. I want to say that the children of this country can only depend on education if the Government supports them. Despite the fact that we know education is free, though we do not know to what extent it is free--- When you go to primary schools, children are asked to buy exercise books. They buy pencils and you will see that a child misses class, because he or she does not have a pen or book.\nHon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, just as Hon. Wanga has put across, this Bill is going to set free our children to sit for examinations and move to the next level. Even the sanitary towels we are talking about--- It will not be of any use to abolish examination fees and leave school girls without some of the basic needs. I am also telling the county governments that the national Government is going to abolish examination fees, and they should also look into ways of giving sanitary towels to our girls. We are going to abolish this fee, but teachers who man examinations will be put at risk. Whenever there is an issue In an examination, these are the people who suffer. As we abolish the examination fees, we appeal to Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) to give something reasonable to the teachers who man examinations. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as Kaimenyi and we---\n(Hon. (Ms.) Shebesh): Hon. (Ms.) Kering, your time is up. Hon. Johnson Sakaja.\nThank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to congratulate hon. Wangwe for coming up with this legislation. I think beyond this, we need to look at our education in a very holistic manner. In as much as we are abolishing school fees being charged o our students in Form Four and in Class Eight, there is a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\ncardinal issue that must be addressed in this country, if you want to provide a sustainable future for our children. Every year, hundreds and thousands of young people fall by the wayside in our education system. Two years ago, I remember we were saying that 600,000 students were doing the KCPE, and they were going to join Form One; before that, in 2005, 1.5 million students joined Class One. From the 1.5 million students who joined Class One, only 600,000 students made it to Class Eight. Of the 600,000 students who made it to class eight, only 400,000 students were able to get places to go to Form One. That is a tragedy in itself as we look at it; where do these children go to? Even as we abolish the fees, we must address radically the issue of transition, and I dare say, as put in the Jubilee Manifesto, we must ask the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology what their plans are to ensure that we have a 100 per cent transition rate from Class One to Form Four. The biggest threat to our security is actually those young people who are left on the wayside, without hope, disillusioned, without jobs, without a means to earn a living and without enough know-how to enable them come up with something to do.\nHon. Deputy Speaker, world over, a child at the age of 14 must go on with education. I am seeing the light that the light is on, but just allow me to finish my point. The reason why we subject our children to exams in Class Eight before they go to Form One and tell them you are too stupid to go to Form One is not because of intelligence or lack of it; it is because of our structural inadequacies and we have refused to provide places for them in Form One.\nEvery primary school in the village has enough space to build, say, a Form One Classroom. So, I ask, as I finish, that the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology, at least, start providing for this 100 per cent transition rate. Otherwise, even this will not have much effect. I thank you for this because it is a good step. We thank the President and the Deputy President because they are the ones who launched it.\nHon. Deputy Speaker, allow me to start by thanking Hon. Wangwe for this very innovative amendment Bill. This is a Bill that is touching on weighty issues affecting this nation. As a pointer to the gravity of this matter, allow me to refer this House to an article that appears in today\u2019s Daily Nation, and is attributed to the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Prof. Kaimenyi, where he states that over two million Kenyan children are not attending school. If this is from Jubilee Government, then I am sure the figure is even higher. We could be talking about five million children in Kenya who are not attending school today. That is the entire population of Nairobi. So, this indicates the gravity of the problem that we are facing. The Bill is timely in the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nsense that it addresses issues to do with inefficiency and wastage in our education system.\nAn examination is the tangible output of an education process and so it is critical. That is why we are saying that examinations should be made free. If we are going to talk about quality education, then we have to address the entire education value chain. Quality must start from Early Childhood Education (ECD), primary up to secondary school, if we are going to talk about basic education. Quality should be at a price that you can afford. You cannot talk about quality of food in Intercontinental Hotel if you cannot afford to taste it. So, it is quality at a price that you can afford. There is need to ensure that the entire system meets the quality standards, if this nation is really keen on going anywhere.\nWe need to address ourselves to the issues of retention and transition. I agree with my good colleague, Hon. Sakaja. We need to look at the transition rate. There is a very high dropout rate at Class Eight. Those who do not proceed to Form One in this country are so many. The percentage is very high. Unless the Government takes this seriously, so that we align the education sector to the Constitution, 2010 and Vision 2030, we may not get anywhere. Education is an equaliser, and it is the only strategy that you can use to narrow the gap between the poor and the rich.\nWith those many remarks, my time is up and I---\nHon. Janet Wanyama. She is not here!\nYes, hon. Justice Kemei.\nHon. Deputy Speaker, I rise in support of this Bill. Secondly, let me congratulate our colleague, Hon. Wangwe, for bringing this Bill to Parliament. When we talk of Free Primary and Secondary Education in this country, it should be free in every sense. We should not be getting our children sent home for textbooks, extra curriculum activities charges and stuff like that. Examinations should also be free, so that at the end of the day, those children who have gone through every stage of education in our country are able to produce a certificate to say that they have completed this level of education. Apart from making secondary school education free, we should also have free education in our vocational training institutions, so that those who are not able to go to secondary schools and institutions of higher learning also get education in areas in which they are gifted. This directive by the Government that examination results should be released to our children after they finish secondary school education is not being adhered to. I want to ask the Government to apply sanctions, so that principals who fail to honour this directive are punished. This will enable our children, who are not able to pay school fees, to get their certificates and move on with life. It is tragic that when you go to various primary and secondary schools you will find that those with ten classes have five teachers and those with 14 classes have five teachers. Although, we know that there is a shortage of teachers in this country, the Government must increase its ability to make sure that teachers are posted in all primary and secondary schools. Finally, we can use education to make society equitable in terms of economic, social and political sense. I support. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nAhsante sana Naibu Spika kwa kunipatia nafasi hii kuunga mkono Mswada huu. Kwanza napenda kumpa kongole mhe Wangwe kwa sababu ya kuleta Mswada huu. Katika nchi yetu tunaelewa kwamba jambo lolote likifanywa kisheria, linaweza kutekelezwa, na hivyo basi kuona limetendeka kwa njia inayofaa. Ni haki ya kimsingi kwa kila mtoto wa Kenya kupata elimu yenye manufaa. Jambo hili limesisitizwa katika Kifungu 42 cha Katiba yetu. Elimu yenye manufaa ni elimu ambayo mwanafunzi amesoma na baada ya kusoma ameweza kutahiniwa na baadaye kuweza kuendelea katika daraja ya pili ya kielimu. Kwa mfano, watoto wetu wengi sana hapa Kenya huweza kusoma katika shule ya msingi na wanapofika Darasa la Nane wanashindwa kulipa pesa za mtihani. Hivyo basi wanashindwa kuendelea katika masomo ya shule ya upili. Hii ndiyo sababu tunaona watoto wengi sana wanafika Darasa la Nane, lakini wanakosa kwenda katika shule ya upili. Kuhusu kuondoa umaskini, elimu ndio jambo ambalo litaweza kutuondolea umaskini katika nchi yetu ya Kenya. Ili kuondoa umaskini, lazima tuweze kupata elimu yenye manufaa na kuendelea. Mwanafunzi hawezi kuendelea kufika hata chuo kikuu ama kuenda katika shule ya kitaaluma ikiwa hajapata vyeti katika Darasa la Nane, na Kidato cha Nne. Hivyo basi tunapoteza watoto wengi wenye talanta kwa sababu wamekosa vyeti. Leo hii unapokwenda kuajiriwa katika vikosi vyetu vya ulinzi kama Jeshi la Navy ama jeshi la nchi kavu, utaulizwa cheti cha Kidato cha Nne. Iwapo hukuweza kutahiniwa na kupata cheti hicho, basi wewe huwezi kupata kazi kama hiyo. Hili ni wazo nzuri sana kwa sababu wakati tunasema elimu ni bure yatupasa tujiulize, je, kutahiniwa ikiwa hakutakuwa bila malipo tutawezaje kusema kwamba elimu imetufaidi? Rais wetu amezungumzia sana suala hili na ametangaza kwamba elimu iwe bure ili tuweze kubadilisha nchi yetu. Hii ni kwa sababu nchi nyingi zilizoendelea katika ulimwengu ni kwa sababu elimu ya upili na msingi imefanywa kuwa bila malipo. Aidha wanafunzi hawatozwi pesa za kutahiniwa. Wizara ya Elimu na ile ya Fedha, zikishirikiana na Kamati yetu ya Bajeti na Kamati ya Elimu, zihakikishe kwamba ikiwa sheria hii imepita tumeweka pesa za kutosha ambazo zitafidia pesa zile ambazo wazazi sasa watakuwa hawalipi.\nYour time is up Hon. Mishi. The hon. Member who is the Mover of the Motion, you have ten minutes. If you are generous, you can donate a minute. If you want to get my guidance on who was on the list, I can tell you it is Hon. Florence Mutua, Hon. David Wafula, Hon. Boniface Gatobu, and Hon. Charles Gimose. If you can give a minute to each one of them or if you want to use friendship and other relationships, that is up to you. That is the list as it appears on my screen. Do you want to give each one of them a minute?\nThank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. There are Members who had approached me earlier on with a view to enriching my Bill. It is my humble request that we give priority to the Members who had already approached me over the issue.\nThen you go ahead\nHon. Deputy Speaker, we will have Hon. Makau, the Member for Mavoko; Hon. Kiuna, Member for Njoro; Hon. Nyaga, the Member for Tharaka Nithi and lastly, Hon. Wafula, the Member for Saboti, because they had all spoken to me. I will only allow them to use one-and-a-half or two minutes, so that I can conclude. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nOkay, but you will agree on which ones. Have you written them down? Let us start with Hon. Makau. Is he in the House?\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I have always respected the power of knowledge of Hon. Wangwe. This law is wanted by Kenyans like yesterday. As much as we are asking ourselves why we have many Standard Eight dropouts, as a nation, we must ask ourselves where the rain started beating us. We cannot have free primary education yet we are not addressing the issue of examination fees for Standard Eight and Form Four. We must enact laws that govern children\u2019s rights including strengthening the law that prohibits child labour. Most children who drop out after Standard Eight end up being employed. We must enact those laws, so that all our pupils who complete Standard Eight can join Form One and proceed to Form Four. That is a concern of Hon. Sakaja and the nation.\nYour time is up. It was just a minute. The next one was Hon. Kiuna.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this important Bill by Hon. Wangwe. It is pathetic to put a pupil in class for eight years and at the end of the day, they have no certificate. A student is in class for four years and at the end, there is no certificate. When these children go for any appointment or want to apply for any job, they have to produce their certificates. The other issue is the girl-child. When you do not give the girl-child enough sanitary pads, what are we talking about? We need to give them sanitary pads, so that they can stay in class and enhance their lives. We should be giving them sanitary pads at the beginning of every term. There is also another category which has been forgotten- --\nUnfortunately a minute is a minute. Hon. David Wafula.\nAsante sana, Mhe. Naibu Spika kwa kunipatia fursa hii. Ningependa kuitumia nafasi hii kumpa mheshimiwa mwenzangu heko kwa kuuleta Mswada huu. Sisi sote tunajua umuhimu wa masomo na kufanya mtihani. Ni heri sisi kama Bunge tuuhalalishe Mswada huu ili wazazi na wanafunzi wetu wajue kwamba mitihani ni ya bure. Ingekuwa muhimu pia kama wanafunzi wote wangehusishwa. Sisi sote tunaujua umuhimu wa shule za binafsi. Shule za binafsi zimechangia pakubwa sana kwa masomo hapa nchini. Tunajua kwamba shule za Serikali haziko kila mahali katika Kenya. Kuna sehemu ambazo utakuta kuna shule nne tu za sekondari za Serikali.\nThat was the last one. Those were the four that you donated time to. Hon. Wangwe, you have five minutes. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. Given that we still have some more five minutes, you could extend it to Hon. Gatobu, who was next and finally, Hon. Tong\u2019i. I will then sum up within the last two minutes.\nThank you very much, hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to sincerely thank Hon. Wangwe for moving such an excellent Bill. Further, I wish to thank this House because it will go down in history as the House that has done the most in helping the education system in Kenya. 2013, we passed a Motion that increased the contribution of the Executive to the Free Primary Education Programme by 30 per cent. We are now passing a Bill by Hon. Wangwe that will make examinations free. This is the House that will go down in history as having done the most in making education free. This is the right step in empowering the people of Kenya. I strongly support this Bill. This House should make more steps towards making education fully free especially in primary, secondary and even university level. I beg to support.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. I want to appreciate Emmanuel, my schoolmate, for the job well done. From the outset, I support the Bill. I want to propose that we include the repeaters. As it is, people who are repeating Standard Eight or Form Four are required to pay examination fees even in public schools. We recommend that, that be included so that repeaters also get the same opportunity and the benefits that pass on from the Government. We all know that education makes us equal. Education is the function which has created leaders and the structures that we have in the Government today. Most of us are here today because of the function of education. Success of it cannot be a reserve of the people who have money. Education must be made available not just in terms of going to school, but also in terms of getting certificates. It is the only measure that can tell the world that you went to school. Without a certificate, you cannot demonstrate that you have gone to school.\nYou are going to lack time for yourself, Hon. Wangwe.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. From the outset, I want to appreciate my colleagues for the overwhelming support from both sides of the House. I wish to request that they accept my appreciation. I wish to acknowledge and welcome any amendments from my colleagues as proposed by various speakers on this Bill. As soon as we move into the Committee of the whole House, any Member with amendments is welcome to contribute and enrich my Bill. I also wish to let the Members know that this Bill is aligned with the Constitution. As they make the various amendments, I urge my colleagues to take cognisance of Articles 27(1) and (4), 43(f) and 53(b) while making their various proposals during the Committee of the whole House. I most sincerely thank all my colleagues. I beg to move.\nHon. Members, is Hon. Keynan in the House?\nNo, he is not in the House.\nOkay. Can we then move to the next Order?\nTHE HIGHER EDUCATION LOANS BOARD (AMENDMENT) BILL\n(Hon. Tongi spoke off the record)\nHon. Tong\u2019i, you cannot move a Bill which has not been recorded as your Bill. Hon. Members, again we do not see the Member who owns that Bill. Remember this is Members\u2019 day. This is the day that you move your Bills, Members. A lot of times you complain that you do not get enough time. Now there are two Bills that we cannot debate because the Movers are not here. Next Order!\nREVIEW OF PROCEDURE AND COST OF MARRIAGE REGISTRATION AND DECENTRALISATION OF THE OFFICES OF THE REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES\nThe Hon. Malulu Injendi\nHon. Members, I hope the Members had been informed by the Clerk\u2019s Office that their Bills and Motions were coming up for debate.\nWhat is your point of order, Hon. Kipyegon?\nHon. Deputy Speaker, thanks for the opportunity. I was just wondering because you have been calling names and nobody is there. I am rising on a point of order on a matter that is very serious and happening now in Narok. There was a flood in Narok yesterday evening. Several people have been carried away and several people are still missing. More than 11 people have been found dead. I would wish you allow us as a House, especially Members from that county, to pass our condolences to those families who have been bereaved. I urge our Government to up the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nprocess of trying to find the lost souls and the people who are still missing in that river. I wish to condole with the families and the people of Narok County at large. I also urge our county government and the Government to ensure that we have good drainage system so that whenever there is a flood--- This is because it has been coming repeatedly every year.\nHon. Johana Kipyegon, I hear you and I sympathise with you for what has happened. Unfortunately, I am sure you know we have procedures in this House. If you can follow the proper procedure, we have this afternoon if you want the House to adjourn so that we can talk about it. You can use that procedure. It would not be in order for us to stop in the middle of something else that is going on for us to do that.\nWhat is your point of order, Hon. Sakaja?\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. On the issue we are dealing with right now, it cannot go without saying that Wednesday mornings are reserved days for Members to bring Private Motions and Bills. Very many Members have played their role and have many Bills that are pending. We need a Communication from the Chair to reprimand Members who, despite their matters being listed on the Order Paper, do not find time to appear on the Floor of the House to pursue their issues. Even Hon. John Waluke, the sponsor of the Motion at Order No. 13, is not in the House and yet the Order Paper is done. Many of us have Bills and Motions that are yet to be slotted in whereas those whose Bills and Motions are on the Order Paper are not appearing. We need direction from the Chair and probably a Communication about this issue to Members so that even us in the House Business Committee (HBC) know whether to change how we slot in the Private Members\u2019 Bills. We need to know whether the Member is committed or whether the Member will be there. If the Member is not in the House without permission, they are wasting not just the time of this House but the time of millions of taxpayers and Kenyans.\nThat is a very valid observation. I will give a few Members to make comments on the same. Let us start with Hon. Rachel Shebesh.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I also want to join in the comments made by Hon. Sakaja. It is very unfortunate because most of the time Members come to the House on Wednesday morning, some very dedicatedly as you will attest because you also sit on that Chair. They are so dedicated and they come to participate in the consideration of these Bills or Motions that we have in front of us. It is very unfortunate that when the House wants to do its work, it is curtailed by a few Members who may have not taken their work seriously. I do not want to cast aspersions on anybody. However, I would also want to add my voice that the Members who have Motions or Bills in front of us that were supposed to have been discussed be reprimanded. They should also give this House a good explanation as to why their Bills should go forward.\nI do not know whether there is a method through which we can take over the Private Bills that Members bring. For example, the one we have just discussed of education is very important. Even the other ones I am reading are quite important to this country. So, I join Hon. Sakaja in his comments. Thank you very much.\nHon. Deputy Speaker, I am a very disappointed person. You know I am a very dedicated attendant of this House. I am always here. For four people not to be present, as raised by Hon. Sakaja, it cannot go unnoticed. Secondly, the leadership of the House is also in doubt because there is none in both my side and the majority side. We have to take the business of the House seriously. I had prepared to take part in two or three of these businesses and yet there is nobody to move them. We should raise this as a concern, particularly for us Members who are very dedicated in this House. The leadership of this House must also be questioned because none of them is present on either side.\n(Hon. Wandayi spoke off the record)\nNo. You are not the Leader of the Opposition. I take great exception to this.\nHon. Deputy Speaker, it goes without saying that the issues raised by Hon. Sakaja are of great importance. It is not just abdication of responsibility. It demonstrates carelessness and lack of regard to those who voted us in.\nIf you have a Motion lined up for debate in the House, how can you fail to come to the House? More importantly, the leaders of these coalitions, just like Hon. Wanyonyi has indicated, need to take their work more seriously. They know what is lined up for debate and most of them sit in the HBC. They need to whip their Members to come to the House to prosecute their Motions. However, a bigger paradox is that as others take lightly their Motions which are lined up for debate, some of us are waiting for eternity for our Motions to come up for debate. I have a case in point: The Motion on education which I introduced some time last year was approved by the HBC but come this Session, it was referred back to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Up to date that Motion has not been brought to the House and yet it was adopted by the Minority Party as a Party Motion. You need to make a ruling on that as well. More importantly, these Members who have decided to make a disappearance act when their Motions and Bills are lined up for debate need to be cautioned and reprimanded in the strongest terms possible. In fact, I would suggest that their Motions, if ever they will be debated again, should be taken back to be the last in the queue so that they do not have the luxury of coming here again to prosecute Motions which they seem not to have interest in prosecuting. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nThank you. Hon. Kabando wa Kabando, is it on the same?\nThank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to make a different observation on the same. Number one, we should not be condemning any Member in his or her absence irrespective of whether the matter is listed or not. That would be condemning somebody and yet there is no substantive Motion on that. This is an administrative matter and it falls on two platforms: Number one is the House administration. The House has qualified administration bureaucrats who should ensure that, when matters are listed, they prompt Members that their matters are appearing on the Order Paper. Sometimes it happens that a matter that is slotted for deliberation in the House the following morning is not on Parliaments website. I have experienced this before. Therefore, if you have another stressing matter on your constituency, or even a national matter, and you are in a Committee, you may not know exactly what matters are coming before the House. That could happen. Secondly, on the question of parliamentary staff, we are spending a lot of public resources to empower parliamentary offices. That means all Members of Parliament, elected or nominated, in both Houses, have staff assigned to them. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beseech you out of honour and humility to ask for an audit of the money that is given to Members of Parliament, amounting to about Kshs0.3million, for payment of their staff every month; with a view to establishing whether it is being utilised for the purpose for which the personnel have been recruited. It could be the case that the people and office assigned to hon. Members at Continental House, Harambee Plaza and Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) are being used for businesses that have no relationship with parliamentary work. The purpose of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) establishment is to ensure enhancement of the performance of Members of Parliament. The said resources, personnel, equipment and materials should be assigned to specific work for which the Commission has been established, and from which Members are benefitting. This needs parliamentary audit. We also need to find out whether the staff assigned to us are qualified to do the work that they have been employed to do, or we have just lumped into offices people who do not understand how Parliament works, and who cannot even track parliamentary business. At those two levels, we need some audit. Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker.\nHon. Nyikal, is it on the same?\nHon. Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me the opportunity. I also feel that this should not be happening. Hon. Members should not be sitting here, expecting to discuss a matter only to find that nothing is happening. Is there a way through which the Office of the Clerk and the House Business Committee can communicate with hon. Members, so that one can know in advance, for instance, that his Motion is slated for debate tomorrow? If it is known that the Member will not be available tomorrow, his time will be allocated to somebody at the House Business Committee meeting stage. Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker.\nLet us hear the Member for Emurua Dikirr. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I wish to voice my concern, especially on the issue of Motions. Sometimes we deal with Bills and amendments which are very important. The amendments to the Kenya National Examination Council (Amendment) Bill are very important. Most of us would have wanted to make serious contributions but we were being given two or three minutes because there are other Motions that have been lined up for debate. I am one of the Members who have never brought a Motion to this House, the only reason being where Motions end up. They end up in the archives. They have never become anything meaningful. Sometimes we need to take things seriously. Even if we are going to give Motions one hour or 30 minutes, let us give Bills \u2013 which go a long way to change people\u2019s lives \u2013 between three and five hours. We should not dedicate a lot of time to Motions which end up in the archives, where they are forgotten forever. This House has been debating and passing Motions since its inception, but those Motions have not become anything meaningful to society. I do not know whether we need to amend the Standing Orders, so that whatever issue comes up for debate in this House can be in the form of either a Bill or amendment to a Bill. The issue of discussing Motions every now and then, and remaining with only few minutes to discuss matters of great importance to this nation, should be done away with. I wish we could do a serious analysis of what we do in this House. Secondly, I would like to comment on the issue of absence of movers of Bills or Motions. As Members of Parliament, our main responsibility is to legislate, in addition to oversight and other roles. We have been elected by Kenyans to sit in this House and legislate, especially when your matter is slated for debate. It is important that we take the business of this House very seriously. Hon. Members should not be coming to sit here in vain. Some of us come to sit here, waiting to discuss Bills, which are very important to this nation. We are disappointed when movers of Bills do not turn up to do their work. The most annoying thing is when we are given two minutes to speak on a Bill. Even if it means locking out some of us from contributing to a particular Bill or Motion, we should desist from the idea of voting every now and then to reduce the speaking time to three minutes. What is the importance of many people speaking shallowly? If each Member speaking on any Bill or Motion is allocated five minutes, we should leave it that way. We would rather have 10 Members substantially contributing to debate on a Bill rather than give each Member in the House one minute to contribute to the same Bill. What can I say in one minute? I cannot say anything in one minute. I will just stand here and sit. We need to change the way we deal with matters in this House. Let us give ourselves enough time. In the Senate, each Senator is allowed to speak for 20 minutes but in this House, we are given two minutes. We need to change the way we deal with matters in this House. Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker.\nHon. Kipyegon, your point was very clear but you are now bordering on casting aspersions on what happens in this House. I do not want to say that debate in this House is less mature than in the Senate or vice-versa. As you talked about the difference in terms of the time allocated to Members in the two Houses of Parliament, bear in mind the difference in the numbers in the two House. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nSecondly, all Bills have a certain amount of time. They do not have unlimited time. The reason as to why towards the end of debate you are given a minute or two to speak is that we are coming to the end of the three hours allocated to the Bill.\nHow about Motions?\nMotions, too, have a timeline. Hon. Yusuf Chanzu, is it on the same?\nHon. Members, you ventilated on this matter quite a lot. Let us come to a decision.\nHon. Deputy Speaker, with due respect, the Member who is saying that we should keep time is the same one who was asking for a minute to be able to contribute.\nWhen we had pigeon holes in this Chamber, it was easier for Members to pass through the lawns and access information posted in the pigeon holes. I do not know whether Parliament can consider reinstating them. I would strongly suggest that they consider reinstating the pigeon holes. As we automate and go digital, we should automate parliamentary communication through use of email or short text message services. We have employed a lot of clerks and other staff. So, we should be able to deal with automation and sending of messages to hon. Members who have matters coming up for discussion in Parliament. There are a lot of things that happen. Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I am surprised that we, hon. Members, are making excuses by pointing fingers at the administration and staff members. All of us have personal assistants in our offices. Our personal assistants can get in touch with the relevant parliamentary offices, concerning our duties in the National Assembly. I am surprised because most of the Members of Parliament whose Motions are listed here were here. Hon. Dawood was here and so was Hon. Walukhe. In fact, he was here by the time we were concluding debate on Hon. Wangwe\u2019s Bill. We should not take excuse and point fingers at the staff of the National Assembly.\nHon. Members, I can see the expression and disappointment by most of us who have been mentioned or who have come here to debate and have not had the opportunity. We will give Communication on this matter because there are a lot of Members who really have Bills that are waiting and have been waiting for a long time to debate them. However, these particular ones have been put on the Order Paper. Since we do not want, as you have said, to waste taxpayers\u2019 money--- You also know that we have some serious Committee meetings that have been going on with regard to matters that need to be concluded by tomorrow. I will use Standing Order No. 1, that is, my discretion, to allow hon. Kang\u2019ata to move his Bill.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. May I move---\nOrder! Let us allow the Order to be read. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nHon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Higher Education Loans Board (Amendment) Bill be now read a Second Time. I am proposing that we amend the law to include two students\u2019 representatives in the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). One will be from a public university and the other one will be from a private university. Secondly, I am proposing that the Members who have then been included from the students body to be elected by the student leaders on a rotational basis and from the respective public and private universities and they shall not serve for a period exceeding two years. The rationale of this amendment is that one, in Tanzania, students are part of the higher education loans board. Two, we need to hear the voice of students inside the board. Students are the clients of the HELB and their voice has continuously been excluded from the management of HELB. It will be democratic where we give them an opportunity to be elected and serve in the HELB. They will bring the perspective of students into the management of the loans. Thirdly, I wish to propose that a student who is a minor and wishes to be considered for a grant of a higher education loan should be entitled to make an application through a parent or a guardian. Fourthly, I am also proposing that where a student who is a minor has been granted a loan, the loan shall be transferred to the student\u2019s name upon attaining the age of the majority of that student. The rationale is that presently as we speak, there are so many young people who are yet to reach 18 years and are now joining universities. This has to do with several reasons. So many children are starting Standard One when they are yet to attain five years or six years of age. As a result, those students if they excel in education and they do not repeat \u2013 it is the Government\u2019s policy that students should not be made to repeat - they complete Form Four when they are about 16 years or 17 years. Since the time the Deputy President of this county was the Cabinet Secretary for Education, he brought very good reforms in HELB. He did away with the requirement of students waiting for two years before joining the university. As a result, students are coming out of Form Four and directly transiting into the universities. We do have so many students who are 17 years old joining campus. Ideally when you look at the present law, there is no reason why HELB should not be giving those students loan. The current law talks about an applicant, but when I made inquiries with HELB as to why they are refusing to do that, they reverted to contract law. The contract law, of course, states that you can only contract between adults unless you make arrangements for guardianship. For us to navigate that legal landmine, I am proposing these amendments so that those many young children who are joining universities---The earlier you get educated, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nthe better. We have to expressly provide for that in these amendments so that those young children do not miss out on those loans. The other amendment I am proposing to the HELB is that if you apply a loan and that loan is rejected, you need to be given a reason by the Board on why your loan has been rejected. Presently, they do not notify students. You only make inquiries and at times they are vague inquiries. So, when you have a statutory obligation as HELB to notify students when their loans have been rejected, that is very important because you will be in a position to make alternative arrangement to finance your education. Secondly, you can also now commence the process of appealing. However, without that information, you can neither appeal nor know the way forward. Therefore, we need to have a specific amendment clearly giving the duty upon HELB to notify students why their loans have been rejected. Therefore, as you can see from my proposed amendment number four, I am stating that a student may appeal against a decision of the Board to reject his or her application for grant of HELB in writing to the Secretary of the Board. Hon. Deputy Speaker, my final amendment, which is No.7 has to do with penalty. When you complete university you are supposed to repay that loan and that is very good. We all know that the rate of unemployment in this country is quite high. So, we have so many students who may be unable to pay that loan. The problem currently is that there are now very grave consequences for non-payment of the loan. You may be listed with the Credit Reference Bureau (CRB) which means you may be unable to acquire loans with commercial banks. Presently, we have other entities apart from commercial banks which are taking people to the CRB. A person who is unemployed, therefore, suffers two forms of prejudices: You cannot get a loan from a bank and already you have a liability with HELB. To cure that problem, this amendment proposes that if you are unemployed and you do a letter, maybe, an affidavit--- In my original drafting I had proposed an affidavit because one can always recant a letter. If you recant an affidavit you can easily be taken to court. So, you do an affidavit and tell HELB that you do not have a source of income. Once you do that, you are then not going to be levied a penalty. We do have so many unemployed students who have huge liabilities with HELB and they have never got employed. It is in public knowledge that there are several courses presently which do not have good employability. It is a sad reality that those students who tend to do these courses come from poor families; this is because if you are rich then you are able to pay for your child to do a more prestigious course like medicine or engineering. However, if you are poor you are forced to take up any course that the Joint Admissions Board (JAB) or its successor gives you. Therefore, we end up having a situation whereby students from poor backgrounds are the ones who are doing courses which are not employable. When they come out, again, they get a double jeopardy of being told to pay the loan from HELB with so much accumulated penalties. Again, they are also listed with CRB and so they cannot even keep a business. Therefore, this amendment is going to cure all that. If you can prove that you do not have employment, penalty shall not accrue to you. Of course, once you get employed it is morally and also legally important for you to repay the loan from HELB so that other poor students can benefit. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nI was thinking along the idea that we introduce in the Third Reading an amendment to the effect that we increase the money that goes to HELB. I feel that we have been underfunding HELB. Particularly this year I foresee a problem. There are so many students who have passed and will be joining the universities. That increment of about 20 per cent needs to be addressed by us here in Parliament by apportioning more money to HELB to ensure that our students go through their university education.\nAs opposed to those days when many honourable Members here went to university as regular students and they were guaranteed things like accommodation, these days universities do not guarantee accommodation. Many students living outside campuses are forced to pay rent at the prevailing market rates. Therefore, they have so many financial burdens, of course taking into account inflation. The way we used to buy things during our era is not the same way the present students are buying them; things have gone up. So, we need as Parliament, to sit down and think about the issue of giving more money to HELB. I made a proposal, though it was presented somehow informally to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I was somehow disappointed, because I saw some form of resistance on the part of that Committee to think about those young children. Those young children are our future. We need them to inspire other generations which love education. Without us coming up with a very strong thing to enable those young students go through education, I think our country will not go far. Without university education, attainment of Vision 2030 will be a mirage. One way of addressing the problems of public education at the university level is for us Members to support these amendments and to think about that idea of increasing funding to HELB.\nWith those many remarks, I am grateful that you have agreed that we move these amendments. They are very important, particularly at this time when we are headed for a crisis at our public universities. We need to pass these amendments as soon as possible, because as a former professor, you know how we depend on our public universities to give us the best brains and to wheel the cog in our education. I rest my case there and ask Members to support these amendments. I take this opportunity to invite Mheshimiwa Ngeno, to second these proposals.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to actually make a serious contribution to this particular Bill. I wish to second the Bill and thank hon. Kang\u2019ata for thinking about it. Education is very fundamental. If your population is not educated, what you have are potential criminals who will look for other avenues of survival. They will always look at the criminal element of making ends meet.\nThe reason why most of our students cannot access education is basically because of fees. We say that we have free primary education and free secondary education, but the truth is that they are not free. So many students are dropping out of school in primary and secondary and even university for lack of school fees. The country is in a poor state. Our citizens are not rich. They cannot afford education or send their children to the best universities in this country or the best universities abroad because of lack of that basic need which is school fees. When Hon. Kang\u2019ata brought this amendment, I was very enthusiastic. I had the same sentiments and I had made a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nproposal, but when we found out that we were sailing on the same boat, we came together to amend this Bill.\nOne important amendment to this Bill is the representation by the students. For a long time, the decision to award the students the loans has sorely been on the Board, which has never had membership from the students. Our Constitution has anchored the issue of inclusivity in everything. I wish to support hon. Kang\u2019ata on the inclusion of students in determining how the loans are awarded, more so the question of students in public universities. We have always thought of students who are in regular programmes in public universities. We should also think of the students who are studying in private universities. These are citizens and residents of this country. They deserve to have equal opportunities in accessing education. There is no other way that we can allow them to access education other than giving them the opportunity to acquire loans. Loans are to be repaid. Everybody knows that. If you were to vie for any position or to be interviewed for any position in this country, you must show a certificate to prove that you have cleared the loans you acquired when you were studying in this country. This money is going to be paid back. Therefore, it should not be a hard issue for the Government to allow students to access these loans knowing very well that when they are employed, they will refund. I support the idea of including student representatives in the Board where they will be discussing who should access these loans. The second issue is the question of age limit. For a long time, we have been told that students who get admitted to universities before acquiring the age of 18 years cannot access these loans. There are so many bright students out there. There are pupils who will move from Class One, Class Two to Class Three without necessarily complete those years based on the fact that they are very bright. Worse is when the Cabinet Secretary for Education, Science and Technology gives an order; a presumed regulation that no student should sit for examination when he or she is below 18 years. We are going backwards in this country. There are students in this country who can sit for exams when they are 16 years old. Should we deny them that opportunity? Should it be based on the fact that people should proceed to a level at a certain age?\nI did my Bachelors Degree when I was a little bit old. Unfortunately, I sat with students who were even 16 years old in the university. Nobody questioned their legitimacy in that class. This country should allow bright students to move to the levels that they want to move without hindrance from anybody. Based on the contract law, whoever is supposed to acquire a loan must be an adult. These are students who have parents and guardians. In our law, we should have a situation where a student who is below 18 years can sign a contract and be allowed to access loans through the parents or the guardians. A student who is below 18 years cannot be denied to acquire a loan just because he is below 18 years. We should have a situation where students can access loans regardless of their age. In this Bill we need to allow the parent or the guardian to enter into a contract with the Higher Education Loans Board, on behalf of the student. This will allow the student to access loans. After attaining 18 years, there should be a clause that allows the loan to revert back to the student. We should not disallow our students to access loans based on age. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nWe also have another issue on transition. By enacting this particular amendment, we will assure several students who want to have an express transition from secondary school to universities. In most countries, especially developed countries, there is no student who has sat Form Four examinations and failed to access university education. It is only in Africa where a total of 400,000 students sit for KCSE examination and only 100,000 acquire university education. The 300,000 are lost in the society and they become criminals. There should be a situation where we allow express transition from secondary school to university education. We should not claim that if we produce many graduates, it will affect the quality of education. Even a graduate who is a plumber or electrician by profession, will do quality work compared to one who has not gone to school. We should not be scared or afraid of allowing our students to access university education. The idea of allowing students below 18 years to acquire loans will help most of our students to access university education.\nThere is also the question of equal opportunities. When you look at the way loans are disbursed, most of the students who are studying in private universities or who are on parallel programmes are not allowed to access loans. We should allow students who are on regular and parallel programmes to access loan equally. No one is more equal than the other. We should allow students to access loans based on the fact that they are in university.\nIn the process, we are also looking at an amendment where even students who go to international universities and who attend universities in England, the United States of America, India and even Tanzania will be able to access these loans because they are Kenyans. These are people who went to study there and they will come back and help build this country. We should not deny them the opportunity of acquiring loans because they are studying in other universities which are not in this country. We are yet to bring that particular amendment so that we can allow students who are studying in international universities to access these particular loans.\nMy third point is on the question of recovery of these loans. The Mover of this particular Bill stated clearly that several penalties are actually meted out to the students before they even get employed. The reason as to why we actually give these students loans is to enable them complete education. However, we also believe that they will refund the money when they get employed. We cannot start trying to force these students to repay the loans before they get employed. We need to allow them to get employed.\nThank you very much, hon. Deputy Speaker for this chance to contribute on the Bill. I support the amendment Bill by Hon. Kang\u2019ata. At the outset, I appreciate what the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) has done in ensuring that university students in this country who are mainly from poor backgrounds are able to go through university. I am one such example who used HELB loan to pay for the required school fees at the university. I know HELB is critical in ensuring that university students in Kenya are able to complete their studies. Otherwise, it would be a different story if HELB was not there. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.\nI also appreciate the fact that not all students who go through university or graduate are employed. In most cases, you start getting fined when you do not start paying the HELB loan. It is important that HELB develops a mechanism where they will be able to decide and know who has gotten into employment so that they do not start fining students who are not in employment. On the other hand, it is also important that students who get employment are also declared to HELB because we know that most students who are employed after university do not declare until the law catches up with them. Some of us had to clear these fines even before we came to this august House because we had accumulated them. The fines keep on accumulating when someone is not working. Sometimes they hinder some of these students from taking up appointments especially in the public sector. I support the amendment by Hon. Kang\u2019ata. Thank you.\nThank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to support this Bill. This is a very great Bill and I thank the Mover for initiating it. It has come at the right time especially because of the issues it is trying to address, the issue of representation of the students in the HELB and the issues dealing with awarding loans to the minors. These are critical issues which need to be addressed. First of all and as a House, we need to address the issue of the funding of HELB. Currently, the funds that we give to HELB are quite inadequate. We need to adjust in order to address the levels of poverty in this country. Our students are currently unable to meet the cost of education in the university. Therefore, the funding to HELB needs to be addressed so that we have adequate funds for our students in the universities. The issue of interest on HELB loans needs to be addressed. Currently, I understand that it starts at a rate of four per cent which is quite unfair to the students because the issue of providing education is in the Constitution and it is the role of the Government. The Government must provide education to all. The issue of putting the interest at a rate of four per cent is unwelcome bearing in mind that most of the public servants and State officers are getting mortgage from this Government at a rate of three per cent in terms of interest but when it comes to students, the interest is at four per cent rate.\nOrder, Hon. Tonui! You will have a balance of eight minutes when this business next comes on the Order Paper. It is now time to adjourn the business of the House. The business stands adjourned until this afternoon at 2.30 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 814, "original_length": 162110, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://interactivemediainstitute.com/wordpress/publications/academic-publications/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:30Z", "digest": "sha1:NIB75Q5QH4Q44ZUSS2LCZTP2DQVJDGXE", "length": 5168, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "interactivemediainstitute.com", "title": "Academic Publications \u2013 Interactive Media Institute", "raw_content": "A wide range of Academic Publications\nIMI-E and its partner organizations offer a wide range of academic publications that outline the advantages of using cybertherapy for cognitive-behavioral, neuropsychological, and physical assessment and intervention applications. Please contact us or visit www.vrphobia.com to order.\nVolume 1, 2002 \u2013 Volume 5, 2007\nProf. Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, Prof. Stephane Bouchard, Ph.D., and, Prof. Giuseppe Riva, PhD\nThe Annual Review of CyberTherapy and Telemedicine (ARCTT) is a peer-reviewed journal covering a wide variety of topics of interest to the mental health, neuroscience, and rehabilitation communities. The mission of ARCTT is to provide systematic, periodic examinations of scholarly advances in the field of cybertherapy and telemedicine through novel, experimental clinical studies or critical authoritative reviews. It is directed to healthcare providers and researchers who are interested in the applications of advanced media for improving the delivery and efficacy of mental healthcare and rehabilitative services. The first volume of ARCTT offers the reader a collection of 15 of the best manuscripts from the 2003 CyberTherapy Conference. It offers critical reviews, evaluation studies, original research, and clinical observations as well as all abstracts from the 2003 conference. The second volume of ARCTToffers an even more extensive selection of manuscripts than the previous years. The editors-in-chiefhave included 17 critical reviews, evaluation studies, original research, and critical observations, as well as all of the abstracts from the 2004 CyberTherapy Conference. The third volume of ARCTT offers the reader a collection of 28 of the best manuscripts from the 2005 CyberTherapy Conference. It offers critical reviews, evaluation studies, original research, and clinical observations as well as all abstracts from the 2005 conference. ARCTT\u2019s 2006 and 2007 volumes continue in this tradition, providing a variety of scientifically rigorous papers from around the world.\nCyberTherapy Conference Archives 1996-2005\nAdvances in Evaluation and Treatment\nAnxiety disorders are the most common mental health disorder diagnosed by primary care physicians. In vivo exposure and de-sensitization to the anxiety-provoking scenarios are often used to effectively treat these disorders, but may present a number of practical difficulties for both therapist and patient.\nVirtual Reality Therapy for Anxiety Disorders explores how the latest virtual reality interventions can be used to treat patients with anxiety disorders. Virtual reality therapy enables the patient to experience a realistic, yet carefully controlled exposure to an anxiety-provoking scenario, in the therapist\u2019s own office. While virtual reality environments were initially quite costly and demanded powerful computers, their price has decreased of late, making this form of treatment an intriguing option for therapists.\nThe authors, who are themselves experienced VR therapists, provide detailed guidelines on how to conduct VR treatment with patients suffering from various anxiety disorders. They provide not only an overview of the equipment used and the basic principles of treatment, but also a discussion of virtual reality therapy for specific disorders including panic disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, fear of flying or driving, claustrophobia, arachnophobia, and fear of medical procedures.\nTips and caveats are provided, making this book important reading for therapists interested in exploring an exciting new therapy modality\nVirtual Reality Resources\nBy Prof. Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCIA\nWe at the Interactive Media Institute realized early on that it was relatively difficult for professionals wanting to break into the virtual reality (VR) field to locate relevant information. While the material was out there, there was no clear organizational structure or database to link it. To solve this problem, we have put together Virtual Reality Resources, a relevant compilation for researchers and clinicians alike.\nVirtual Reality Resources offers a clear overview of the advantages of using VR for cognitive-behavioral, neuropsychological, and physical assessment and intervention applications. Further, it includes pertinent logistical information on such diverse topics as basic cost/benefit questions, CRISP (Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects) grantees, necessary technology, and significant websites. Finally, the selected bibliography is an excellent guide for anyone looking for a deeper understanding of what scientific manuscripts have been published and what work still needs to be done.\nWe are confident that this collection will not only advance your personal knowledge, but through its clear organization and accessibility will aid in promoting the VR field as a whole.\nVirtual Reality Therapy for Anxiety Disorders\nBy Prof. Dr. Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCIA and Prof. Mark D. Wiederhold, MD, PhD\nTips and caveats are provided, making this book important reading for therapists interested in exploring an exciting new therapy modality.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 7778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 251.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://interpret-dreams-free.com/dream-dictionary/i/incubator.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6EI4A4EQVOSTIPC7I6IWJNGLOWTUW326", "length": 94, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "interpret-dreams-free.com", "title": "Analyze Dreams on Interpret Dreams Free - Dream Interpretation Starting with I [incubator]", "raw_content": "To see an incubator in your dream, suggests that you need stability and calmness in your life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://interpret-dreams-free.com/dream-dictionary/t/ticks.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MVXEZWKHXQB7PQE5OEI7VEOKO7XC7TL4", "length": 240, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "interpret-dreams-free.com", "title": "Analyze Dreams on Interpret Dreams Free - Dream Interpretation Starting with T [ticks]", "raw_content": "To see ticks in your dream, suggests that someone or something is extremely slowly draining the energy and strength out of you. Alternatively, the dream denotes that you will be annoyed by your enemies. Ticks are also indication of illness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 155.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://invisibleinkblog.blogspot.com/2005/10/ritual-pain-part-2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:17Z", "digest": "sha1:O4CRMIDVSTCNQXY33UOFGH5UWUA5ZH5Z", "length": 495, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "invisibleinkblog.blogspot.com", "title": "The Invisible Ink Blog: RITUAL PAIN part 2", "raw_content": "Also in The Apartment, Shirley Maclaine plays a woman who is having an affair with one of the aforementioned executives. This idea of selling out, or prostituting oneself, hits hard when the executive, not having time to buy a Christmas present for his mistress, hands Shirley a hundred dollar bill as a gift. It is through the ritual pain of being made to feel cheap that Shirley learns to respect herself enough to be with a man who will commit to her fully.\nAh, i see the end of the post now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 7737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iracerstuff.com/2016/04/07/screenshots-autodromo-enzo-e-dino-ferrari-aka-imola/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:17Z", "digest": "sha1:3MFC626NFV5GWBTJ5VPBM2WFEDQWISO5", "length": 610, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "iracerstuff.com", "title": "Screenshots: Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari\u2026 aka Imola \u2013 iRacerstuff.com", "raw_content": "Home / Road Tracks / Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari (IMOLA) / Screenshots: Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari\u2026 aka Imola\niRacing has been hard at work on this amazing track for the last several months. It\u2019s such a unique location with a lot of significant history. It\u2019s also very scenic, situated at the edge of the town of Imola on one side and with rolling rural hills on the other side. The track is not quite finished, but are close enough to share some preview screenshots with you all. More to come\u2026\nPrevious iRacing to Build Eldora Speedway\nNext iRacing to Build Virtual Williams Grove Speedway", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 4483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ironmaskminiatures.blogspot.com/2013/07/to-build-ogre.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HN45OSGHYLFQ3QW4A2QS2W4MTYYAK6JB", "length": 3000, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "ironmaskminiatures.blogspot.com", "title": "Iron Mask Miniatures: To Build an Ogre", "raw_content": "[This posting's slide show illustrates the birth of an ogre -- sculptor John Pickford working his magic.]\nThe Kickstarter campaign has been submitted for review. Hopefully, it can launch this week.\nMeanwhile, the Iron Mask project carries on as the greens for the Cardinal\u2019s Guard Ogres make their debut. When I conceived this phase of the project, I faced the same dilemma I faced with the dwarves: there really wasn\u2019t anything like them on the market. Ogres from modern manufacturers are larger and more exaggerated than what I wanted, tending toward the grotesque if not outright silly or gross.\nI knew that I wanted the ogres to pay homage to the classic figures of the \u201880s, so the height and overall heft of the figures was a given. But even the best of the best ogres, the old Citadel and especially the Marauder ogres, were posed in ways that were too static for ogre duelists. The solution, of course, was to use the same separate hand and head system that I used for the dwarves. This has advantages for casting (fewer undercuts) as well as more variety and versatility for the modeler.\nFor the concept art, I turned to Colin Upton, an extremely talented artist and illustrator whose drawings have frequently brought him into contact with the world of wargaming. Colin works quickly and efficiently, but most importantly to me he was quick to grasp what I wanted and more than accommodating when it came to making changes and fine-tuning a concept. While he was adept at interpreting the briefs, guidelines, and image references I gave him as my ideas developed, some of the things you will see in the coming months sprang from his imagination as much as mine.\nHere are the concept drawings for the Cardinal\u2019s Guard Ogres:\nThe third piece shows the ogre sentry, a relatively static pose, I admit, but separate hands would allow considerable depth and versatility. I love this face, especially with the moustache wrapped around his fang.\nFor the final pose, I wanted a hulking figure bending low to engage a (possibly?) shorter opponent. No concept art for this one, alas.\nEventually, I decided to drop the beards. Ogres have more-than-prominent chins -- in the cosmic scheme of things, I think more chin makes up for less neck. As John rendered the concept art into real, 3-D portraits, it occurred to me that the beards forced the weight of the heads too far forward, so he resculpted the chins.\nThe above is holding a dragon, a short-form blunderbuss pistol.\n...and to give you an idea of the size, compared to the dwarves:\nNow these are definitely old-school.\nThe completed kit, which does not show the daggers still to be converted from the rapiers, looks like this:\nThe greens are in the hands of Steve Phillips, who does my casting. Hopefully, by the beginning of next week I\u2019ll have actual samples in hand and can show you some assembled samples.\nThis looks like a fun project.\nI hope that you succeed with the Kickstarter.\nIron Mask July 15, 2013 at 6:52 PM\nThanks. So far, so good.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://islamicvoice.com/our-childhood-hobbies-can-mould-how-we-turn-out-to-be/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3HBA2Q66IWQW4WBQVXXX2AUYPRQIHB53", "length": 3774, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "islamicvoice.com", "title": "Our Childhood Hobbies Can Mould How We Turn Out To Be! : Islamic Voice", "raw_content": "There\u2019s good news, though. Even at my age perhaps I can still develop the hobbies that I think I missed out on in my younger days\u2014if I really want to. It really isn\u2019t too late!\nBy Mesha Oh!\nI don\u2019t know how it is with children these days, but when I was a child (which was several decades ago!), we were encouraged to have a \u2018hobby\u2019, an activity that we were meant to love doing.\nOver the years, I developed several hobbies, including reading storybooks, listening to the radio and collecting things\u2014postage stamps, coins, matchbox labels, toy animals, picture postcards, publicity brochures for different brands of car, and so on.\nWhen I reflect on the nature of my hobbies I realise that one common feature was that they entailed little or no interaction with others.\nI was a very lonely child and was frightened of boys physically stronger than myself. I had almost no friends. I preferred to be by myself, spending time doing things alone, such as being busy with my various hobbies.\nLimited Interaction with Others\nWhen I look back from the vantage point of many years I can discern that my childhood personality shaped my hobbies, and that my hobbies, in turn, shaped my personality. Unable to face tough boys, I withdrew into myself, drawn to hobbies that involved limited interaction with others. This might have been an innocent refuge from a challenging predicament, but it also meant that my social skills, including my ability to handle difficult situations, remained undeveloped. This was something that I had to contend with through many years, even deep into adulthood. My hobbies enabled me to learn to be happy with my own company and to enjoy my solitude\u2014which I regard as a great blessing\u2014but at the same time, being largely solitary activities that entailed little interaction with others, they had the potential of making me self-centred and limited in being able to confidently relate socially.\nMany of my hobbies entailed accumulating objects\u2014and this may have led me towards a tendency to be more comfortable in handling things than in dealing with relationships. While I took good care of my stamps and coins, for instance, I didn\u2019t always do the same with people and had poor interpersonal skills.\nA childhood hobby that is about collecting things\u2014like stamps and coins\u2014can lead a child to think that value and purpose in life lies in hoarding material objects: today it is stamps and coins; tomorrow it could be stocks and shares. Such hobbies can become, inadvertently or otherwise, a means for children to imbibe the commercial logic, based on hoarding and maximizing personal material gain, at a young age. Luckily for me though, I lost my collection of stamps and coins when my parents shifted to another city. This was all for the good, because it helped me loosen my attachment to them.\nAnother thing about most of my hobbies was that they entailed limited creativity on my part. To a large extent, I was a passive accumulator of objects (stamps, coins etc.) and a passive consumer of other people\u2019s words (written words, from storybooks, and spoken words, from the radio stations that I loved listening to).\nNow with the benefit of age and experience when I am able to recognise the crucial impact that a child\u2019s hobbies has on its character, if I had children (which I don\u2019t), I think I might have helped them develop a very different set of hobbies from some that I had\u2014hobbies that would have enabled them to become more spiritual and creative. I would have loved to see them passionate about doing things like story-writing, cooking, knitting, gardening, painting, serving others (animals, birds, plants, and fellow humans in need, and of course the natural environment), devotional music and chatting with God.\nWonders of God\u2019s Earth \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 9624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://islandreporter.com/page/category.displayall/nav/5060.html?startIndex=21", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:47Z", "digest": "sha1:K3YGKXAKDV5DBIAWAYFQXACXT7WW6CA6", "length": 440, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "islandreporter.com", "title": "Arts & Entertainment - CaptivaSanibel.com | Island Reporter, Captiva Current, Sanibel-Captiva Islander", "raw_content": "February 11, 2019 The Captiva Civic Association will host an opening reception this week for its newest exhibition, \u201cPaints Seascapes and Florals\u201d \u2014 a solo exhibit that will feature paintings by Douglas David. more \u00bb\u00bb\nFebruary 8, 2019 Award-winning author and wildlife photographer Paul Bannick will present a program featuring video, sound, stories from the field, and dozens of new images from his new book, \u201cOwl: A Year in the... more \u00bb\u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://italic.org/mediaWatch/family.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:05Z", "digest": "sha1:CK4ZOVZSRVMTH35WDZVUR2D4VOCEWZTL", "length": 1038, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "italic.org", "title": "Nothing new in prejudicial mob film \"The Family\", September 2013, Italic Institute of America", "raw_content": "Nothing new in prejudicial mob film \"The Family\"\nRichard Roeper needs a thesaurus. In his review of Robert De Niro in \"The Family,\" Roeper describes the film as \"different.\"\nDe Niro plays the same type of mob character he played in \"Analyze This\" and \"Analyze That.\" Michelle Pfeiffer plays the same mob wife she played in \"Married to the Mob\" in 1988. Vincent Pastore and Dominic Chianese play the same dumb thugs they played in \"The Sopranos.\" The fact that Hollywood released this film right now is particularly offensive, for two reasons: 1) A month ago, Boston mob boss James \"Whitey\" Bulger was convicted of crimes against humanity; he was not Italian; and 2) Bill De Blasio just won the Democratic primary in New York and is poised to become New York's next mayor. De Blasio's original surname is Wilhelm; he changed it to DeBlasio to honor the Italian mother and Italian grandparents who raised him. \"The Family\" is prejudice masquerading as entertainment. 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I read this book, initially, in the author's native bulgarian language...and it was even worse!\nJust wait until you see what book THAT is.\nPosted by Joe on Thursday, January 31, 2008 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...0 comments\nThe Nominees for the Minnesota Book Awards have been announced, and I don\u2019t know if this is final nominee list, the Long List, or the Super Long List, but there are quite a few nominees in each category.\nAlison McGhee picked up a nomination for Young Adult Literature for her novel Falling Boy. McGhee has won four previous Minnesota Book Awards (1 for Children\u2019s Book, 1 for Young Adult, 2 for Novel), with an additional two nominations.\nIn my literary greed, I\u2019d like to see fewer picture books and more adult novels (or at least young adult, because All Rivers Flow to the Sea is as good as anything out there). But that\u2019s just me.\nPosted by Joe on Monday, January 28, 2008 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...0 comments\nLabels: Alison McGhee, Minnesota Book Awards\nThe March 2008 issue of Asimov\u2019s arrived yesterday afternoon. March? Really. I know this isn\u2019t new to long time subscribers, but I don\u2019t know what I think about issues being mailed out quite so far in advance of the month in which it is supposed be for.\nI should really start reading my Asimov\u2019s, but now I\u2019m even farther behind. But! I may crack open this one first because there is a story by Elizabeth Bear: \u201cShoggoths in Bloom\u201d.\nAlso in the issue is Cat Rambo\u2019s first sale to Asimov\u2019s.\nAnd why won't they update the website to get the current issue up? They're two behind now. *grumble*\nLabels: Asimov's, Cat Rambo, Elizabeth Bear\nOr Else My Lady Keeps the Key\nTaking a step away from the Company, Kage Baker takes a crack at a pirate novel and gives us her spin on piracy and a quest for buried treasure. Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key is a short novel rife with adventure, mystery, the supernatural, piracy, a damsel who may or may not be in distress, and the search for hidden treasure. The only thing missing is a treasure map with a big X on it.\nJohn James is ready to leave a life of piracy behind. After risking his life and seeing friends killed he returns home with only 50 pounds. He wants to set up a blacksmith\u2019s shop and the 50 pounds will be just enough, but he first must give a lady a letter from her now dead beau, his now dead friend. Rather than being the end of John\u2019s adventures, this is the beginning to the next for the letter contains instructions on how to find a great deal of money he had buried. Mrs. Waverly offers to split the money with John if he will only help her.\nWhat follows is a lean, fast paced story where each chapter brings the reader something new. Baker deftly advances the story while giving us greater details about the characters, a bit of romance and mystery, a bit of the supernatural, a bit of piracy and high adventure on the seas, and a bit of everything I might wish from a slim pirate novel.\nOr Else My Lady Keeps the Key shows off Kage Baker\u2019s range. She isn\u2019t all about The Company (as great as that series is), and that while this novel is a bit of a period piece (set pre-Civil War), it moves as deftly as any modern tale of adventure. The simple path from A to B is not taken and Baker throws new perils and detours into the path of John James and the lady. I hesitate to use the word \u201crollicking\u201d, but at times Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key does, indeed, rollick.\nOr Else My Lady Keeps the Key will be published in April 2008\nReading Copy provided courtesy of Subterranean Press\nPosted by Joe on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...0 comments\nLabels: Kage Baker, Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key\nJohn Klima, editor / publisher of Electric Velocipede and of William Shunn\u2019s chapbook has posted the Nebula nominated story \u201cNot of this Fold\u201d. (Note - PDF, *grumble*)\nAgain, may I state my appreciation for publishers who allow stories nominated for major awards to be freely available? I can\u2019t think of better publicity for the magazines / zines / authors than getting the chance to read the major award nominated stories.\nThis also reminds me that I want to place an order for this chapbook in the near future.\nLabels: Electric Velocipede, John Klima, Not of This Fold, William Shunn\nEveryone reading Shadow Unit? Until the official \"episodes\" start in mid-February we have been given 5 teasers so far and three easter eggs (that I'm aware of). Think of Shadow Unit as the new tv show that won't be strike shortened, the one with a secret FBI Unit investigating \"anomalous\" crimes.\nI rather like the Paine Lake teaser.\nTeaser 1 (Intro)\nTeaser 2 (Paine Lake)\nTeaser 3 (Hafidha)\nTeaser 4 (Madeline Frost)\nTeaser 5 is currently on the front page of Shadow Unit and will be until this Thursday night (new updates on Thursday and Sunday PM)\nHidden on the pages are Easter Eggs, like DVD bonus content. I've found three so far.\nThe creators of Shadow Unit (Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Emma Bull, Will Shetterly) have also created livejournals for various characters. I'm aware of three right now. There is no fourth wall, the LJ's are written from the perspective of the characters and, in general, they are like your average person's LJ with the occasional tidbit thrown in that I let people at the Message Board dissect.\nDaphne Worth\nCharles Villette\nHafidha Gates\nThe kicker of the LJ's is that they'll link to real people and non-Shadow Unit LJ's. Like I said, no fourth wall. The characters aren't characters here, they're people too.\nShadow Unit can be, potentially, a fully immerse environment and I'm very excited about it. I am most looking forward to the actual episodes (first one written by Emma Bull, second by Elizabeth Bear) when we get deeper into the stories and content and not just the interesting, but short and incomplete teasers.\nLabels: Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Shadow Unit\nSo, I would like to go to one of the two Twin Cities SFF conventions which I am aware of: CONvergence or Minicon. I\u2019ve never been to a con before and I\u2019m curious what the scene is all about and how it all works. I think the one in the summer would be better, rather than the Easter-Con.\nI knew the big\u2019uns like WorldCon, and Comic-con (or whatever the hell it\u2019s called) were expensive, but I didn\u2019t realize that our little Minnesota conventions were so damn pricy. $65 at the door? Must be out of your mind!\nMaybe in 2009 or 2010 if I\u2019m still interested in going. That\u2019s a lot of money to spend on something I have no idea if I would possibly enjoy or find worthwhile. I don\u2019t quite have that in the budget, I\u2019d rather go to the Penumbra or to a couple of movies with my wife than to buy a solo pass for $65, at least this year.\nMaybe if Elizabeth Bear, John Scalzi, Charles Stross, David Anthony Durham or a handful of other authors I would really love to listen to speak were announced for either con I might be more willing to spring for it.\nPosted by Joe on Saturday, January 19, 2008 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...3 comments\nLabels: Convergence, Minicon\nFrom December 2006 through January 2008 I have read 17 books written by Stephen King. I think I need a break. I am reading (and will finish) Firestarter and I haven\u2019t quite figured out if I am simply burnt out on King or if Firestarter just isn\u2019t any good. I am leaning towards Firestarter not being very good, but these little King tics of aside comments in parenthesis and King hitting dialect of how people talk complete with stupid little phrasing \u2013 the tics are pulling me out of the story.\nI originally planned to reserve Danse Macabre and Cujo as soon as I finished Firestarter so that I\u2019ll have finished all of King\u2019s work published before The Gunslinger. I want to read each volume of The Dark Tower having read everything that came before so I can better appreciate how King works his worlds into Dark Tower.\nI just need a break. The novels are style is starting to run together. Hopefully this is just because some of the more recent reads of mine like Firestarter, Blaze, and The Colorado Kid just aren\u2019t that good and not that I really am wearing out on King. We\u2019ll see.\nPosted by Joe on Friday, January 18, 2008 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...3 comments\nLabels: Firestarter, stephen king\nOne thing I appreciate about the SFF magazines is that for the major awards (Hugo and Nebula, not so much World Fantasy), the nominated stories will be posted for free online so everyone has a chance to see what the best of the best are. Even the print zines do this. Fantasy and Science Fiction already has their nominees for the Nebula up and today I found that Asimov\u2019s has posted theirs. And this is only the preliminary ballot.\nFountain of Age, by Nancy Kress\nSafeguard, by Nancy Kress\nA Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange, by Beth Bernobich\nAlistair Baffle\u2019s Emporium of Wonders, by Mike Resnick\nAlways, by Karen Joy Fowler\nI am surprised that Analog has not posted their story, considering it would be only one story they would be giving away to the public. Same goes to Realms of Fantasy.\nLabels: Asimov's, Beth Bernobich, Fountain of Age, Karen Joy Fowler, mike resnick, Nancy Kress, Safeguard\nQuick Takes: Elizabeth Bear, Kage Baker, George R. R. Martin\nNew Amsterdam, by Elizabeth Bear: New Amsterdam is something of a mosaic novel. Bear links several stories together so that each story builds where the previous one left off and enriches the overall experience, but each story is complete itself. Together, the stories of New Amsterdam feel more like chapters than separate entities. New Amsterdam opens in the late 1800\u2019s with a story of a man making his way via dirigible from the old world of Europe to the new world of America, only this is an America which is still an English colony, where New York is still New Amsterdam, and magic and vampires are real. The choicest detail I found was that magic was as much a science as anything else and a character is a noted ThD (Doctor of Thaumoturgy). There is a formality to the language, or the storytelling, as if Bear was placing the novel in a tradition of a late 1800\u2019s story. This is difficult for me to explain, but a feeling I had. Meanwhile we are introduced to the vampire and private detective Sebastian, and to the Crown Investigator Irene Garrett. Together they make a fascinating pair as they investigate various supernatural crimes with ties to the local government of New Amsterdam (initially). New Amsterdam required a bit more work to read than the average Elizabeth Bear novel (not that Bear\u2019s novels are even remotely average), but this is due to the formality of the prose rather than the content of the stories. Interesting distinction, and while I would like to read more about Sebastian and Irene Garret, I think I would rather read about them on a per story basis, rather than a book.\nBlack Projects, White Knights, by Kage Baker: As much as I loved the four Company novels I have read from Kage Baker, and as high as my expectations were going into this collection of Company short stories, I was disappointed. Familiar faces flitted in and out of the stories, from Joseph and Lewis, to Kalugin, to Mendoza. Perhaps because these stories were tied to the Company milieu I expected Baker\u2019s Company short fiction to expand our understanding of the characters, their situations, and the overall landscape. Outside of the Alec Checkerfield stories, I do not believe the stories did so (though the story of Lewis excavating a tomb was superb). I suspect that what I brought to the stories is what hampered my enjoyment of them. I was unable to read the stories as discrete piece of fiction, and because of the inherent tie to The Company, most disappointed. I am quite sure that some feel Baker\u2019s Company short fiction is superior to her novels, but based on this first collection I cannot agree.\nWild Cards: Jokers Wild, by George R. R. Martin (editor): This third entry of the Wild Cards series brings the final showdown of Fortunado, Dr. Tachyon, and The Astromoner. Like the previous two volumes Jokers Wild is a mosaic novel. Unlike the previous two volumes Jokers Wild is a straight out novel rather than a series of interlocking short stories. Jokers Wild is still written by a team of writers and edited by George R. R. Martin, but there is a greater flow to the story here because there is one main storyline running through the entire novel rather than having various short stories jump around. This has made Jokers Wild a stronger work than the first two and a far smoother reading experience. Here we get to follow particular characters over the course of the novel and while it is difficult to remember who some characters who were only referenced earlier are, the characters who take center stage here really get to shine. In particular, that woman (Jennifer) who can phase through solid matter, and Spector (the one who can bring death by looking in your eyes) especially stand out. The main selling point of the Wild Cards series (besides the talent involved) is that this is a superhero story where the heroes are real people with real problems and the same varying shades of morality that the rest of humanity has. It is also interesting seeing the changes wrought after the Wild Cards virus was loosed.\nLabels: Black Projects White Knights, Elizabeth Bear, george r. r. martin, Kage Baker, new amsterdam, Wild Cards\nWhat is in a name? A title? Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse suggests that the anthology will cover stories directly dealing with various versions of the apocalypse, the end of the world. That is not quite what this Wastelands anthology is about, though. The original title Wastelands: Stories of Life After Apocalypse was a bit more apt in describing the content of this anthology. The stories collected here by editor John Joseph Adams are not about the apocalypse, but rather about life after apocalypse. The wastelands made of our world is not the primary point of any individual story, but rather the survival of the species told in small human stories. In that sense the majority of the stories here are filled with beauty and not just the desolation of the landscape.\nWhat is most remarkable about Wastelands is just how varied stories about living after the destruction of civilization is. Take Octavia E. Butler's Hugo Award winning \"Speech Sounds\", a story where humanity has lost the power of speech and must find other ways to communicate and society has broken down. Telling the story from the perspective of a woman named Rye, Octavia Butler is able to really give the reader a sense of the terror a woman may feel in such a situation and the emptiness of that life, of the snap anger and body language required to get by, and the barest hint of hope. \"Speech Sounds\" has been anthologized before, but is a truly outstanding story.\nThe range of stories collected in Wastelands runs the gamut from \"Bread and Bombs\" by M. Rickert, a post 9/11 story with kids feeling the fear of their parents, to the future history of \"Dark, Dark Are the Tunnels\" by George R. R. Martin, a post nuclear holocaust story with the remants of humanity living deep under ground, or Paolo Bacigalupi's \"The People of Sand and Slag\" where humanity is barely recognizable and a dog reminds the survivors of what life must have been like before, and filled with sadness of the setting and situation. Bacigalupi's story is especially surprising to me because of how negatively I reacted to his story \"Yellow Card Man\", but \"The People of Sand and Slag\" is a heartbreaking, beautiful, and painful story.\nOther standout stories in Wastelands include Cory Doctorow's \"When Sysadmins Ruled the World\", \"Artie's Angels\" by Catherine Wells, and most surprisingly, the anti-Rapture and anti-religion \"Judgment Passed\" by Jerry Oltion. A spacecrew who were away from Earth return to find that Christ had returned and the Rapture occurred. I had expected that Oltion's anti-Rapture theme would overwhelm the story, but Oltion was very thoughtful and the way he had the characters respond seemed reasonable and plausible.\nThere are stories in the Wastelands anthology which did not quite work. Gene Wolfe's \"Mute\" is about as inscrutable as one would expect and despite Neil Gaiman's insistence on Wolfe improving with re-reading, \"Mute\" fails to connect. \"Still Life With Apocalypse\" and \"Episode Seven\" both did not seem to tell a coherent story.\n\"Episode Seven\" is notable because John Langan was inspired to write the story in response, partly, by Dave Bailey's \"The End of the World As We Know It\", a very different story of \"post-apocalyptic\" fiction. In this story the survivor has a passive response to the end of the world, drowning it in alcohol rather than fighting actively for survival. Outstanding story, one of the best in the anthology.\nAlso notable are Elizabeth Bear's driven \"And the Deep Blue Sea\" and Neal Barrett Jr's \"Ginny Sweethips' Flying Circus\".\nThe bottom line is that collectively the stories John Joseph Adams has put together here in Wastelands shows off the range of the post-apocalyptic sub-genre of fiction. Wastelands is an excellent anthology of short fiction and one that would easily fit on any collector's shelves. There are far more standout stories than there are misses, and even that is subjective.\nPost-Apocalyptic fiction is a favorite sub-genre of mine, and getting the chance to see just how wide ranging the genre can be is a treat. As a bonus, Adams includes a bibliography at the end of the anthology of other prominent post-apocalyptic novels and short stories.\nLabels: John Joseph Adams, Night Shade Books, Wastelands\n2008 Titles!\nNano Comes to Clifford Falls and Other Stories by Nancy Kress (May 2008)\nThe Wreck of the Godspeed and Other Stories by James Patrick Kelly (August 2008)\nHarvest of Changelings by Warren Rochelle (September 2008), softcover reprint\nBudayeen Nights by George Alec Effinger (September 2008), softcover reprint\nJeffrey Ford \u2014 The Well-Built City Trilogy\nBook 1: The Physiognomy\nBook 2: Memoranda\nBook 3: The Beyond\n(October/November 2008), softcover reprints\nFrom the Golden Gryphon Press website.\nAlso, I see in their \u201cFuture History\u201d section a new title from M. Rickert: Holiday. Publication date TBD. Hmm.\nLabels: Golden Gryphon Press\nTurns out I have read something by Robert A. Heinlein. Didn\u2019t think I had. Job. I found this back in high school, thought the concept was interesting, read it, enjoyed it mostly, and never gave it or the author a second thought.\nWhen I was in the bookstore last week and picked up the 2 Bear novels and 1 Jo Walton, I was browsing the Heinlein and saw that very same book I read back in high school. Now I\u2019m at the point where I wished I had read more Heinlein and am starting with Starship Troopers (the movie is delightful shlocky violent fun), but I wished I knew of Heinlein at the time and was able to pick up at least his juveniles. I wonder how that would have affected my future reading.\nLabels: Job, Robert A Heinlein, Starship Troopers\nPreliminary Nebula Ballot: F&SF stories available online\nJohn Joseph Adams provides a link to the 7 stories from Fantasy and Science Fiction nominated for the Nebula. Adams mentions they will only be up a limited time, so it's time to check them out!\nWe've got fiction from Gene Wolfe, Ted Chiang, and Lucius Shepard, among others.\nI'll have to check these out. I've read Ted Chiang's story previously, and Geoff Ryman's story, but the other five are new to me.\nLabels: Gene Wolfe, John Joseph Adams, Lucius Shepard, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Ted Chiang\nI check my library system\u2019s website almost daily to see about updates on forthcoming books being entered into the system. I want to get that early reserve on the new (insert author\u2019s name here) book. The 1/10 update has Jo Walton\u2019s Ha\u2019Penny listed as General Fiction rather than SFF.\nLet\u2019s see, I picked up Farthing in the SFF section of my bookstore, Walton has been published by TOR, she has won the Campbell for Best New Writer (2002), and Ha\u2019Penny is a follow up to Farthing.\nMy guess is that because Ha\u2019Penny is listed as being published by St. Martin\u2019s Press, it automatically got shelved in General Fiction. But then it isn\u2019t like Philip Roth\u2019s The Plot Against America was shelved in SFF either. Or George Orwell, or Huxley, or...\nLabels: Farthing, Ha'Penny, Jo Walton\nThanks to Mary Robinette Kowal for this link.\nAccording to Mary, the writers in the SFWA will select the top 5 in each category and that will be the final ballot for the Nebulas.\nI have left the scripts and the \u201cNorton\u201d award off this list.\nRagamuffin, by Tobias Buckell (Tor, June 2007)\nThe Yiddish Policemen's Union, by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins, May 2007)\nSpecies Imperative #3: Regeneration, by Julie E. Czerneda (DAW, May 2006)\nVellum: The Book of All Hours, by Hal Duncan (Del Rey, April 2006)\nThe Accidental Time Machine, by Joe Haldeman (Ace, August 2007)\nThe New Moon's Arms, by Nalo Hopkinson (Warner Books, February 2007)\nMainspring, by Jay Lake (Tor, June 2007)\nOdyssey, by Jack McDevitt (Ace, November 2006)\nThe Outback Stars, by Sandra McDonald (Tor, May 2007)\nStrange Robby, by Selina Rosen (Meisha Merlin Publishing, July 2006)\nHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic Press, July 2007)\nRollback, by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor book, April 2007)\nBlindsight, by Peter Watts (Tor, October 2006)\n\"The Helper and His Hero,\" by Matt Hughes (F&SF, Mar07 (Feb07 & Mar07))\n\"Fountain of Age,\" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's, Jul07)\n\"Stars Seen Through Stone,\" by Lucius Shepard (F&SF, Jul07)\n\"Kiosk,\" by Bruce Sterling (F&SF, Jan07)\n\"Memorare,\" by Gene Wolfe (F&SF, Apr07)\nNovelettes (13)\n\"The Children's Crusade,\" by Robin Wayne Bailey\n(Heroes in Training, Martin H. Greenberg and Jim C. Hines, Ed., DAW, Sep07)\n\"A Flight of Numbers Fantastique Strange,\" by Beth Bernobich (Asimov's, Jun06)\n\"Things That Aren't,\" by Michael A. Burstein and Robert Greenberger (Analog, Apr07)\n\"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate,\" by Ted Chiang (F&SF, Sep07)\n\"Sister of the Hedge,\" by Jim C. Hines (Realms of Fantasy, Jun06)\n\"The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs Of North Park After the Change,\" by Kij\n(Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)\n\"The Sun God at Dawn, Rising from a Lotus Blossom,\" by Andrea Kail (Writers of the Future Volume 23, Algis Budrys, Ed., Galaxy Press, Sep07)\n\"Safeguard,\" by Nancy Kress (Asimov's, Jan07)\n\"Alastair Baffle's Emporium of Wonders,\" by Mike Resnick (Asimov's, Jan08)\n\"Tonino and the Incubus,\" by Peg Robinson (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct06 (Fall06 issue -- #2))\n\"Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter,\" by Geoff Ryman (F&SF, Nov06)\n\"The Fiddler of Bayou Teche,\" by Delia Sherman (Coyote Road, Trickster Tales, Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Ed., Viking Juvenile, Jul07)\n\"Not of this Fold,\" by William Shunn (An Alternate History of the 21st Century, Spilt Milk Press, Sep07)\n\"Unique Chicken Goes In Reverse,\" by Andy Duncan (Eclipse 1: New Science Fiction And Fantasy, Jonathan Strahan, Ed., Night Shade Books, Oct07)\n\"The Padre, the Rabbi, and the Devil His Own Self,\" by Melanie Fletcher (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct06 (Fall06 issue -- #2))\n\"Always,\" by Karen Joy Fowler (Asimov's, May07 (apr/may07 issue))\n\"For Solo Cello, op. 12,\" by Mary Robinette Kowal (Cosmos, Mar07 (Feb/Mar07))\n\"Titanium Mike Saves the Day,\" by David D. Levine (F&SF, Apr07)\n\"The Story of Love,\" by Vera Nazarian (Salt of the Air, Prime Books, Sep06)\n\"Captive Girl,\" by Jennifer Pelland (Helix: A Speculative Fiction Quarterly, WS & LWE, Ed., Oct06 (Fall06 issue -- #2))\nWhen the final ballot of 5's are announced I'll post that, try to provide links (when available), and discuss the nominees I have read.\nPatrick Rothfuss, author of The Name of the Wind, may not be eligible for the John W Campbell award for Best Writer. (info cribbed from Joe Abercrombie and David Louis Edelman)\nThis is news because I had expected this year's Campbell Award to be between Patrick Rothfuss and Scott Lynch, with some Joe Abercrombie and perhaps David Louis Edelman thrown in.\nFrom Abercrombie's post:\nIt would appear that, regrettably, Patrick Rothfuss isn't elligible because of some short fiction published way back when (Yes! Yes! Fist Pump!)\nNow, I found an interview where Rothfuss reveals that he hasn't published short fiction before, but his webpage does reveal that he won the Writers of the Future contest in 2002 with a short story that was really an excerpt from the book which would be come The Name of the Wind.\nConfused? Me, too.\nHere's where it gets easy. Edelman linked this page about the Campbell. Follow over to the eligibility rules here.\nTo qualify for the award a writer must have published in the last two years in a qualifying market. Publishing includes short fiction (so, should I sell to Strange Horizons I'm eligible) and in 2002, that winning story which constitutes the entirety of Rothfuss's short fiction output? It was published in the Writers of the Future Anthology: Volume 18.\nWhich means that Rothfuss was eligible for the Campbell in 2003 and 2004. Before anyone else had heard of him or The Name of the Wind.\nWhat does this mean? That Lynch / Rothfuss scrap fight for the award? It ain't happening.\nMy Lineup (based on name recognition and actually reading some of the work:\nLynch doesn't need the bump, so I'll give it to Kowal over Bledsoe. Haven't read Abercrombie or Edelman (makes things unfair, huh?)\nLabels: Campbell, Hugo Awards, Mary Robinette Kowal, Patrick Rothfuss\nI have written about the first two thirds of Dreamsongs: Volume 1 with the posts linked in this sentence, then things got busy and even though I continued to read the collection I did not have the opportunity to write about it.\nBy this time the story of \u201cThe Stone City\u201d has pretty well escaped my memory, so I don\u2019t believe it could be something I would recommend. \u201cBitterblooms\u201d was an odd ice story on some far away planet which ends up mixing a little bit of Arthurian legend into it. Martin was not very successful in engaging my interest with \u201cBitterblooms\u201d, but one thing I have come to appreciate reading these 700 pages is that his imagination is second to none. Martin is able to create these alien worlds and cultures, and human cultures set in the stars, and make them believable, comprehensible, but utterly alien to what we know. Tis a gift. This leads into \u201cThe Way of Cross and Dragon\u201d, an imaginative wondering of what our Earth religions would be like if stretched out thousands of years and to the stars. \u201cThe Way of Cross and Dragon\u201d is about heresy, lies, truth, expectation, dogma, and features one of three \u201ctrue\u201d Catholic churches attempting to stamp out a heresy. Fascinating story.\nSection Four: Swords of Turtle Castle. Here Martin brings us back into fantasy settings, though on a smaller scale than his epic A Song of Ice and Fire. Strangely, and sadly, perhaps, this was a somewhat underwhelming section. Martin does large scale fantasy extremely well, and \u201cThe Ice Dragon\u201d was a solid and sad story which featured a dragon actually made of ice, breathing ice, harmed by heat (video games following this story thank you, Mr. Martin), but neither \u201cThe Lonely Songs of Laren Dorr\u201d nor \u201cIn the Lost Lands\u201d really stood out. Like \u201cThe Stone City\u201d, I really could not say what \u201cIn the Lost Lands\u201d was about.\nSection Five: Hybrids and Horrors. This is where Martin truly shines, with the blend of fantasy and horror, or science fiction and horror. Pretty much whenever Martin is blending genres to tell the best story possible, that\u2019s when he\u2019s really hitting something special. We open with \u201cMeathouse Man\u201d, a story which in the intro Martin mentions that he had a difficult time placing. No surprise. It\u2019s a tough story to take, but it\u2019s a damn good one, too. One of the best in the collection (if not for \u201cSandkings\u201d, I might call it the single best story here). Definitely not a family friendly story. The story features sex, depravity, and a bleak future where animated corpses are used for work and pleasure. \u201cRemembering Melody\u201d is yet another heartbreaker of a story (is there another kind in this collection?), something of a ghost story, and while not quite as good as the other stories in this section, it will stand up against the earlier work in the collection.\n\u201cSandkings.\u201d Forget the two hour episode from The Outer Limits. It got the gist of the story, but not the heart. The story is set on some far away planet (aren\u2019t they all?), I think, but that doesn\u2019t matter. What matter is we have a rich, eccentric man who likes exotic pets. At a store he had never seen before (isn\u2019t it always?) the man is offered these insect like, but highly intelligent (they War on each other!) creatures called Sandkings. They build castles and can come to worship the owner like a god, engraving his or her face on their castles while they war. Because the man doesn\u2019t just let the sandkings do their own thing in a smaller container, soon they grow and things get out of hand. This is a wonderful, amazing story that easily has to rank among Martin\u2019s best (or anybody else\u2019s for that matter). Martin\u2019s descriptions of how everything spirals out control is a pure pleasure to read, as is the description of the sandkings and how they change over the course of the story. About that 2 hour episode \u2013 I watched it after I read \u201cSandkings\u201d and I was very disappointed. Seemed like too much was added as fluff / chaff to the story. I know the screenplay was written by Melinda Snodgrass and she has collaborated with Martin in the Wild Cards shared universe (and still does), so I can\u2019t imagine he was mad about the result, but the story is so far superior to not even be funny.\n\u201cNightflyers\u201d is another award winner set almost entirely on a starship. The passengers can\u2019t see the pilot, he spies on them, and there is a good deal of tension and intrigue, but no matter how lauded the story has been I thought this was one of the weaker (in terms of what I enjoy) of the set. Maybe it is the fact that \u201cNightflyers\u201d came immediately after \u201cSandkings\u201d and in comparison did not hold up.\n\u201cThe Monkey Treatment\u201d and \u201cThe Pear-Shaped Man\u201d are two stories which feel like Stephen King stories. \u201cThe Monkey Treatment\u201d has shades of \u201cQuitters, Inc\u201d, only rather than smoking cessation Martin deals with weight loss. Creepy story, especially when you really think about what it entails. The desperation of the protagonist really comes across. \u201cThe Pear-Shaped Man\u201d deals with that creepy guy who lives nearby. He is shaped like a pear, eats too many cheetos, and has a certain odor about him. What if he scares you, but nobody else understands and you can\u2019t explain? What if there might actually be something to be scared about?\nDreamsongs: Volume 1 is an outstanding collection of short fiction and one that should be on the shelf of any fan of the fiction of George R. R. Martin. It shows the man\u2019s range and his early work and even the earliest stuff is pretty good. And then there is \u201cSandkings.\u201d\nVolume 2 will pick up with Section Six, as Dreamsongs was originally published in 2003 by Subterranean Press as the one volume GRRM: A RRetrospective.\nLabels: Dreamsongs, george r. r. martin, GRRM: A RRetrospective\nJoe Abercrombie cracks my shit up. His railing against anything short of perfection in reviews of his work have been damn near classic (uh oh!) and this latest mini tirade is even better.\nAs I have not had the chance to read The Blade Itself, I have not yet felt the ire of Abercrombie. However, I have called his railings only damn near classic, so one can hope.\nIf he writes fiction anything like he blogs, I am sure to LOVE it.\nInteresting note: Patrick Rothfuss was thought to be the big name on the ballot for the Campbell award at this year\u2019s Worldcon. Abercrombie spills the beans that Rothfuss\u2019s earlier short fiction publication has made him ineligible for Best New Writer. Innnnteresting.\nLabels: Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss, The Blade Itself\nFrom the collective minds of Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, Emma Bull, and Will Shetterly comes an online collaborative work called Shadow Unit.\nFrom Bear\u2019s posting:\nThe brainchild of the amazing coffeeem (Emma Bull), Shadow Unit is, more or less, the website for a serial drama in internet form. Or possibly it's a fan site for a TV show that doesn't exist.\nOver the next couple of months, the site will be updated on a weekly or biweekly basis with new information, vignettes, character sketches, character bios, a community message board, and other exciting things.\nAnd starting in mid-February, there will be a series of novellas and novellettes, and one complete novel. Approximately one story every two weeks for sixteen weeks (though we are still tweaking the schedule), comprising the first season (of hopefully many) of a television show that doesn't exist.\nSome of the content will be free. Some will be by subscription. (Subscriptions will be extremely reasonable.) There will be DVD extras, deleted scenes, background information, character-based digressions, and I dunno what all else.\n(I hope it is okay I copied this much from Bear's livejournal)\nI had to chance to read the opening posting on Shadow Unit and I'm very intrigued. Considering the collective talent involved, I am very excited for this. Not sure how much the very reasonable subscription fee will be for the extra content, but right now I'm on board.\nI\u2019ve been aware of this project for a while now, but Shadow Unit\u2019s homepage was pretty well blank for a while and I wasn\u2019t sure what this all meant other than Bear calling it \u201csecrit project\u201d and seeing it linked from time to time.\nLabels: Elizabeth Bear, Emma Bull, Sarah Monettte, Shadow Unit, Will Shetterly\nWith two $10 gift cards to Barnes and Nobles in hand I ventured out into to the store with wild shelves of untamed, unowned books and chose three likely novels.\nUndertow, by Elizabeth Bear\nThis is my Elizabeth Bear excitement alarm going off. I was all set to get three Bear novels, the third being Carnival, when I decided that maaaaaybe I should support another author too. I've heard good things about Farthing so picked it up instead. Sorry, eBear.\nI almost picked up a Heinlein, too, but didn't.\nAnd, in conclusion, if anyone who reads this blog has not picked up anything by Elizabeth Bear...I can do no more to convince you (pssst! Go read Blood and Iron!)\nPosted by Joe on Sunday, January 06, 2008 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...3 comments\nLabels: Blood and Iron, Carnival, Dust, Elizabeth Bear, Farthing, Jo Walton, Undertow\nSure, it's a week or so late, but I got some great books for Christmas this year and would like to share.\nRun - Ann Patchett: I've loved her earlier work (A Patron Saint of Liars and Bel Canto especially) and this was a great opportunity to read her newest novel.\nBowerman and the Men of Oregon - Kenny Moore: A biography of Bill Bowerman, legendary Oregon track and cross country coach. He coached Steve Prefontaine, among others. Oh, yeah, and he helped design the shoes that would eventually form the foundation of a little company called Nike.\nSchulz and Peanuts - David Michaelis: I'm still enamored with the Peanuts comics after all these years, and I read a Schulz bio when I was in high school. Supposedly this is a much more in depth bio and paints Schulz is a partly unfavorable light (read: human light, warts and all).\nFledgling - Octavia Butler: Butler is one of my favorite authors and I am starting to collect her work. This vampire novel is her final novel.\nParable of the Sower - Octavia Butler: This first of a two book post-apocalyptic series. Apparently writer's block kept her from writing a third. I would love a collection of Butler's notes, if they were detailed and available (or if they existed), but I don't think it would sell well enough to be published.\nNot too shabby, huh? And I have $20 in Barnes and Nobles gift cards, which might allow me to pick up a small stack of Elizabeth Bear mass market pb's, if they are all in stock at the same time.\nLabels: Bowerman and the Men of Oregon, Fledgling, Parable of the Sower, Run, Schulz and Peanuts\nOver on his Livejournal, Nick Mamatas has announced a sale of his novel Move Underground. $5 covers the book, shipping, and even a signature somewhere in the book. I'm sure copies are limited, but what a deal!\nThe complete text of Move Underground is available online at the book's website (linked above), but there is just something about holding the book in your hand, but check out a chapter or two and if it's good, why not order a book for $5?\nI've only read his short story \"Who Put the Bomp?\", but I have heard nothing but good things about Mamatas' novel length fiction. For $5, it's worth a try. I ordered one.\nLabels: Livejournal, Move Underground, Nick Mamatas, Who Put the Bomp\nHere is my final reading list for 2007, linked up with the reviews written for these books.\n1. Destiny's Way - Walter Jon Williams\n2. Scarlet Sister Mary - Julia Peterkin\n3. The Graveyard Game - Kage Baker\n4. Naked Economics - Charles Wheelan\n5. Sung in Blood - Glen Cook\n6. The Sandman: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman\n7. The Bonehunters - Steven Erikson\n8. The Natural Ordermage - L. E. Modesitt, Jr\n9. Death Star - Michael Reaves and Steve Perry\n10. She is the Darkness - Glen Cook\n11. Republic Commando: True Colors - Karen Traviss\n12. The Sword-edged Blonde - Alex Bledsoe\n13. Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Long Way Home - Joss Whedon\nThe Long Way Home is Book Number 226 for the year. I have a difficult time imagining I will ever read this many books in a single year again. Doesn't even make sense.\nIt appears I missed reviewing Republic Commando: True Colors. Here's a quicky: It's really damn good. Traviss gives us a very tight perspective on elite clone troopers during the Clone Wars and it is a bleak vision, but Traviss is one hell of a storyteller and I have never been disappointed with one of her novels.\nBook of the Month: The Sword-edged Blonde \u2013 Even non fantasy readers should enjoy this one.\nWorst Book of the Month: Death Star \u2013 I may not have expected greatness, but Reaves and Perry have individually written good Star Wars, and together they wrote the Medstar duology, but this was baaaaaad.\nPleasant Surprise of the Month: The Long Way Home \u2013 Not that I expected this first trade paper of Buffy Season Eight to suck, per se, but I did not expect it would feel just like the show. Certain aspects may be a bit more graphic than would be aired on television, and the television budget would have to be higher to cover this detail, but The Long Way home is a great continuation of the show. This counts as my mini-review.\nDisappointment of the Month: Sung in Blood \u2013 The best thing about the book is Glen Cook\u2019s name on the cover. I had hoped for so much more.\nThe Rest of the Year in Reading and Reviews\nJohn Scalzi, Fun-to-Read-SF-Auteur-Something-or-Another, has posted a list of what he has coming out in 2008 as well as what he is working on in 2008. The highlights:\nZoe\u2019s Tale: August 2008\nThe Rough Guide to the Universe, Second Edition: Springish.\nOld Man\u2019s War Short Story: Somewhen\nTwo novels (including the sequel to The Android\u2019s Dream), and two novellas\nBusy man. Can\u2019t wait to read all this. I am especially interested in the novellas, just because they would be something entirely new (one would even be a fantasy story). My hope is that they would be actual stories with a narrative arc and not pieces like \"Alien Animal Encounters\" which as fun as it was, does not do much with characters or narrative.\nLabels: John Scalzi, The Android's Dream\nPrivate Investigator Eddie LaCrosse takes a case: Find the missing princess. Her father, the king, will pay good gold to ensure that her honor is preserved, no matter that she may well have run off with the hoodlums herself. The case is simple, but the case is only the beginning. Eddie LaCrosse finds himself pulled from the easy gold and into a case which stretches into his own past, a past which Eddie has avoided for nearly twenty years.\nThe Sword-edged Blonde is a cross-genre novel, mixing high fantasy with the hardboiled detective novel. Eddie LaCrosse would find himself very comfortable in the worlds of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade, except for the fact that Eddie swings a Fireblade Warrior three foot sword rather than carrying a gun. The world-weary attitude, wise-cracking, extreme confidence, and deeply personal moral code, Eddie LaCrosse has it all.\nThis is what makes The Sword-edged Blonde such a blast to read. Alex Bledsoe gives the reader something not commonly found in fantasy (Glen Cook's Garret PI notwithstanding): that blend of fantasy and mystery. The Sword-edged Blonde just happens to be set in a low technology, medieval setting. It does not have to be. The setting gives an air of freshness to the story, though, and combined with Bledsoe's sure hand at creating the character and the mystery The Sword-edged Blonde is a winner! If a book can be feisty, this one is.\nAlex Bledsoe is able to draw the reader in with that gruff \"hardboiled\" dialog and characterization of Eddie LaCrosse, but he keeps the reader gripped with the mix of the investigation and LaCrosse's backstory. The backstory is absolutely essential to the mystery.\nBottom line, The Sword-edged Blonde works and earned a place on my Best of 2007 list. No kidding, it's the real deal.\nOn his website, Alex Bledsoe mentions that there is another Eddie LaCrosse novel tentatively scheduled for 2008. If Bledsoe can hold the quality from The Sword-edged Blonde he should have a series which will well deserve popularity and sales.\nAlex Bledsoe's website has an Eddie LaCrosse short story, \"Things That Flit\". I have not read this story, but it is worth pointing out because the novel is just that damn good that I need to read more Eddie LaCrosse.\nLabels: Alex Bledsoe, Night Shade Books, The Sword-Edged Blonde, Things That Flit\nI have a small variety of 2007 lists, from the Best Books Published, my Best Reads, the Worst Books, and the nine Author Discoveries of the year. But, I am just a small corner of the world and I have read a variety of other opinions.\nHere are some links to those other opinions.\nA Variety of Words\nJay Tomio: The Bodhisattva\nSFF World's Annual Review\nLink help from The Gravel Pit, Stainless Steel Droppings, and SF Signal.\nPosted by Joe on Tuesday, January 01, 2008 | Links to this post | Leave a comment...1 comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 675, "original_length": 54490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://joycesaltzgiver.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:42Z", "digest": "sha1:V4CGF4TQFH5XCP5WQVFXIFUV4RSSEGTC", "length": 5126, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "joycesaltzgiver.com", "title": "Joyce Saltzgiver - Memories of a Beautiful Life", "raw_content": "Joyce Louise Saltzgiver, 77, of Mission Viejo, California, our familya\u2019s most treasured and beloved wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, passed away on July 6, 2013. Joyce was born May 17, 1936 in Aurora, Illinois to Lee Edward and Margaret Hope (Douglas) Phillips.\nJoyce enjoyed singing and the performing arts in her youth. She graduated from West Aurora High School in 1954 and worked as an office and sales clerk. She married Ronald Walton Saltzgiver on December 29, 1956 because he was easy going and nice (her words, precisely). They were happily married for 57 years.\nWhile raising two sons, Jeff and Dan, Joyce was PTA President, a cub scout den mother and she sang in the church choir. She opened The Etc. Shop, a yarn store, where she also taught knitting classes. Joyce and Ron managed Phillipa\u2019s Auto Parts, the family business. Ron and Joyce moved to Santa Monica, CA in 1981, where their son, Dan, attended GIA. Joyce worked in retail and then opened Shana Shoes in Rancho Palos, Verdes. Ron and Joyce moved to Mission Viejo, CA in 1988 to be closer to their grandchildren. Joyce managed an inventory service company and then a hospice care facility and thrift shop. Joyce was diagnosed with cancer in 1990, which she beat and remained cancer-free the past 20 years!\nOnline casinos quickly adapt to the challenge of becoming truly international, with players from many countries of the world coming to play. As a result, it\u2019s not uncommon to find online casinos localized to a number of languages and offering a selection of currencies. There is a good chance you will find a casino that not only allows to play in your local currency but also accepts deposits and allows making withdrawals in that currency, making it incredibly convenient for you. Playing your own online free pokies currency means avoiding conversion rates and not having to make any conversions in your head just to understand the size of a bonus or minimum bet. Few years ago bitcoin casinos have opened new era for payments in online gambling.\nRon and Joyce moved to Casta del Sol in Mission Viejo in 1995, where Joyce actively and honorably served on the Casta Board of Directors for the past 10 years as President, Director, Treasurer, and Secretary, consecutively. She served on the Facilities, Architecture and Greenbelt Committees, and co-chaired the Social Committee for 2 years and became known as the candy lady at Board meetings.\nJoyce chaired an Ad Hoc Needs Assessments Committee and the Casta Anniversary parties as well as the Newcomers parties. She was chair of the Save Casta del Sol Golf Course Committee. She also moderated the City of Mission Viejo Candidates Night, held in Casta. The past few years she also served as liaison to the City of Mission Viejo. Joyce, wholeheartedly, attended as many committee meetings as time allowed. Her goal was to keep the Casta del Sol community looking like the garden spot that it is. Her key interest was to get more volunteers for the committees to keep them growing.\nJoyce was also a positive force behind the City of Mission Viejo. She was first appointed to the Community Services Commission on January 3, 2011 for the City Council City of Mission Viejo where she served her two-year term and was then reappointed on January 7, 2013. Her most recent project involved walking the trails of Mission Viejo, thus providing a Walking Trails Map for the community. She actively participated with the Mission Viejo Elks Ladies Club.\nJoyce attended the Presbyterian Church of the Master in Mission Viejo. She loved to host and entertain in her home within the Casta community and with her family. She was a member of the Italian-American Club and held several Bunco and Hand & Foot game nights. She is well-known for her signature Christmas stockings. Since 1959 she had lovingly hand-knitted 365 stockings for family members and close friends. Joyce dedicated her life to her family. Nothing was more important in her busy schedule than preparing special dinners and hand-made gifts, attending her children and grandchildren\u2019s sporting events, music and performing arts, rock concerts, birthdays and graduations, including her college grandsons fraternity pub crawl! Nothing surpasses her dedication in baking and mailing several dozen cookies every single week for 6 years to her grandson, while he was away at college. She truly leaves behind a legacy for all college grandmothers to follow.\nShe was momentously admired and respected by her family, friends and the community. Despite her limitations in times of illness, her never ever give up attitude and perseverance was an inspiration to countless people who had the privilege and honor of knowing her. She was loved and honored by many whose lives she personally touched.\nJoyce is survived by her husband, Ron; sons, Jeff and his wife Tracey; Dan and his wife Jean; grandsons, Shane and Aaron; Chase and his fiance Rebekah, and great-grandson, Skyler. Until we are with you again, in heaven, we will cherish beautiful memories of you in our hearts and souls.\nJoyce, Mom, Grandma, Great-Grandma ~ We Love You Forever", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 5775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jpgmag.com/photos/3898289", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:40Z", "digest": "sha1:BESOEIPFLAYUQSTWV4Q3THI2XZFMM64G", "length": 212, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jpgmag.com", "title": "Bus and Tram by a Museum - JPG Photos", "raw_content": "Submitted to Parallel Lines\nExposure 3.2 sec at f/14\nUrban, Transportation\nLong Exposure photograph of a bus and a green line train going through a busy intersection in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://justintadlock.com/archives/2006/12/29/my-christmas-gifts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TUDV3LK6ZEL2C5E5CDLV2J63IVGVBEAT", "length": 1182, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "justintadlock.com", "title": "My Christmas Gifts \u2014 Justin Tadlock", "raw_content": "Okay, so I\u2019m a few days late on blogging. I was supposed to be back on here Tuesday listing out all the wonderful Christmas gifts that I got. But, I\u2019m simply lazy. I\u2019ve spent the last three days playing with my gifts as opposed to telling the world about them.\nI will say that going home was fun, and I did get lots of neat stuff. And since I\u2019m not going to tell about every detail of every thing that I got, I will list the books and movies. Especially since these are the things that will shape my life.\nThe World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century - Thomas L. Friedman\nIf You Want to Write: A Book About Art, Independence, and Spirit - Brenda Ueland\nBefore Writing: Rethinking the Paths to Literacy - Gunther Kress\nAll the King\u2019s Men - Robert Penn Warren\nRelentless - Robin Parrish\nNobody\u2019s Fool - Richard Russo\nThe American Dream and the Public Schools - Jennifer Hochschild, Nathan Scovronick\nOn Writing: A Memoir of the Craft - Stephen King\nOff Magazine Street - Ronald Everett Capps\nRadical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies\u2014and What It Means to be Human - Joel Garreau\nThe Complete Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://k3hamilton.com/ED/denver.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2HPECITBQOY54COH6NL5OGNNYFN42PPU", "length": 535, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "k3hamilton.com", "title": "Denver School of Science and Technology", "raw_content": "The Denver School of Science and Technology believes that everyone should have an equal opportunity in the community. Their buildings and classrooms are built to support new learning. The school has two campuses and a high school wait list of 500 students and a middle school 200 wait list. In September 2010 Oprah Winfrey's Angel Network gave the school a $1 million grant to help the school in its goal to expand to include 5 campuses and serve 4300 students by 2020. (Meyer, Sept 20, 2010, Denver Post)\nNext up, see Open High School", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 172.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://k945.com/downtown-shreveport-mystery-pruner-strikes-again/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:22Z", "digest": "sha1:KIXOKC4JLNU5LZ3XGPXOYCVGJS6XI7UB", "length": 970, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "k945.com", "title": "Downtown Shreveport Mystery Pruner Strikes Again!", "raw_content": "Downtown Shreveport Mystery Pruner Strikes Again!\nIf you have noticed a few strangely manicured trees in Downtown Shreveport, you're not alone. A serial tree pruner is on the loose, and has made a bit of a mess of the foliage that lines the downtown streets. According to KSLA, city officials are at a loss. No one can figure out who would go out of their way to prune the downtown trees without getting paid to do so.\nThe real downside is that the mystery tree pruner isn't doing a very good job. The limbs have been left too long, and the trimmings have been left strewn about the sidewalks and streets. The pruning is so bad, in fact, the city has been forced to send out a crew to re-trim the trees and pick up the debris.\nIf you know who this good-natured, badly trained, amateur arborist is - let them know that the city would love to speak with them about their technique.\nFiled Under: Arborist, city, cutting, downtown, limbs, Mystery, Pruning, Shreveport, Trees", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kanab.utah.gov/2196/Volunteer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OEMZP5U3SU3NVOBTCAFFF2PVNV74ETB5", "length": 122, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kanab.utah.gov", "title": "Volunteer | Kanab, UT", "raw_content": "There is a Volunteer Center in Kanab. It is located at 76 North Main. You can also call 435-644-3696 for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 1170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 77.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kates-scribbles.blogspot.com/2012/02/favouritism.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:47Z", "digest": "sha1:FGVNEJTFB7FXPBDTXHETNNBYO25AMPZM", "length": 2735, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kates-scribbles.blogspot.com", "title": "Trees Are Not Lollipops: Favouritism", "raw_content": "As a teacher, I was aware that I mustn\u2019t have \u2018favourite\u2019 students. Each one was special in their own way. As a mum, I wouldn\u2019t dream of loving one of my children more than another. I love all three of them to bits. As a writer though, I have to admit to having a favourite amongst my books. It was my first born, but that\u2019s not why I love it the most. I can\u2019t even claim it\u2019s the best written \u2013 only my readers can judge that. However, there\u2019s a special place for it in my heart, because that\u2019s where it came from \u2013 my heart.\nThat\u2019s not to say my other books have been written in a half-hearted manner. I put my whole effort into them and I think they\u2019re good stories. That\u2019s what they are, though \u2013 stories. Treespeaker, on the other hand, was written from a different place than the others. I didn\u2019t write it because I wanted to tell a story, I wrote it because I wanted to tell that story. I had to tell it. It was my way of sorting things out in my head. Sometimes I surprised myself by coming up with answers that I didn\u2019t know I had in me.\nSometimes I have felt sad that Treespeaker has sold the least of all my books (apart from the short story, which understandably hasn\u2019t sold many copies in the short time it has been out). In fact, before this past couple of months, I was beginning to wonder if there was any point in trying to sell it at all. With the birth of KDP Select however, I\u2019ve found that it has been selling along with the others, even though it isn\u2019t enrolled in the programme. (I object to the exclusivity clause, so won\u2019t take it off Smashwords, B & N, Apple etc.) In fact, on one lovely day this month, I sold a whole 12 copies all at once. I\u2019ve no idea why and it certainly hasn\u2019t kept up, but it was a buzz while it lasted.\nThe truth is, though, that some books have a different sort of readership. There have been people who have reviewed Treespeaker who have obviously found whatever it is that makes the story different, and appreciated it. Check the comments after one of the reviews on Amazon US and there is a lovely word used to describe these reviews. So rather than ruing the fact that it\u2019s not selling millions, I\u2019m grateful for the thoughtful readers I have had.\nI wish I could come up with another story like Treespeaker. Yes, I\u2019m still working on that promised sequel, but I don\u2019t know if it has the depth of Treespeaker. It has taken me far too long to write to have come from the same place. But I think it will be a good story nonetheless. Time and readers will tell. Meanwhile, I\u2019ll cherish every sale of all my books because each one is proof that it can happen and there was a day, not very long ago, when I thought it never would.\nLabels: e-books, Katie W. Stewart, Treespeaker, writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 6020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 182.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kevinclark.ca/articles/sketch-as-a-web-design-tool", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6HGJGHMKQM3LOYJN2XMCEUMLGUSHHGBI", "length": 2719, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "kevinclark.ca", "title": "Sketch as a web design tool? \u2014 Kevin Clark", "raw_content": "How could you not like an app with an icon this gorgeous?\nFor a long time, we\u2019ve been waiting for the ultimate web design app. Although we may never find the perfect solution, I\u2019m always on the lookout for a better suited tool to help me bring my designs to life.\nSketch is interesting in a few ways. It\u2019s fast, lightweight and really well designed. It\u2019s main focus is vector editing and UI, but gave it has many interesting features that we can leverage for web projects.\nMultiple pages, artboards & layers\nI don\u2019t know about you, but I usually have around 10 to 20 Photoshop files for all the pages of the website. Sketch allows you to bring all of those in one file by having multiple pages, like you\u2019d find in Fireworks. Handy.\nSketch also de-emphasizes the need to always have to select a layer before moving it around. It\u2019s really simple, you just click on it. Boom. There are also guides and onscreen helpers to allow you to center or align your elements without having to think about it.\nThis one is a mix of good and bad. Sketch\u2019s rendering engine is very similar to the one found in webkit, so what you see is really what you will get in the browser. On the flipside, the app currently really misses a lot of the finer type controls that you get in Photoshop for things like indents, all-caps, baseline height and others. It\u2019s also a bit unintuitive to have two different color options and have to jump back and forth between two different levels to adjust your text options. Hopefully, we\u2019ll see changes on that front in future updates.\nI want this in Photoshop. Create your rectancle, select the corner radius as you want and resize it however you\u2019d like and the radius stays perfect. You can also add background images to your shapes and easily add multiple borders to any shape. This alone makes me want to ditch Photoshop.\nThis is how grids should be done. They\u2019re a document level setting and you can select the number of columns, the width and gutter size and it applies the grid to your document which you can turn on or off with a simple keyboard shortcut.\nThe fact that by default canvasses are infinite threw me off for a while, but you get used to it. When you group layers together, it takes several precise clicks to be able to edit a text layer and becomes rapidly annoying.\nOverall, I think it\u2019s a step in the right direction and I\u2019m sure the guys at Bohemian Coding will continue to push the boundaries of design software. I don\u2019t think it can entirely replace Photoshop for now, but does it has to? I think it can be a great addition to my process.\nI\u2019ve only scratched the surface of what Sketch can do and I might have missed something. I\u2019d love to hear how Sketch fits in to your workflow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keyj.com/crown-royal-400-at-richmond-photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:08Z", "digest": "sha1:2LU3GEPEMLNSLEUTJ47XWJVC4SGUMAU7", "length": 594, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "keyj.com", "title": "Crown Royal 400 At Richmond [PHOTOS]", "raw_content": "Crown Royal 400 At Richmond [PHOTOS]\nThe Nascar Sprint Cup series raced Saturday night under the lights at Richmond International Raceway. Kyle Busch out dueled his teammate, Denny Hamlin to pick up the checked flag. Here is a look back at this race in pictures.Honestly, I totally forgot about this race being on a Saturday night, and it wasn't until I was looking for the race on my TV on Sunday that I realized that. From what I understand, it was, yet, another great race.\nFiled Under: crown royal 400, nascar sprint cup series, richmond international raceway, sprint cup series at richmond", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 2211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kfox95.com/2014-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-heralds-start-of-sochi-games-photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:15Z", "digest": "sha1:HC5UU33PN2LHIV6LZ3Z6TLRM4JCGXULW", "length": 2698, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "kfox95.com", "title": "2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Kicks Off Sochi Games", "raw_content": "2014 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony Heralds Start of Sochi Games [PHOTOS]\nAn elaborate opening ceremony lasting more than three hours marked the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia on Friday. A reported 40,000 fans and athletes who packed the Fisht Olympic Stadium saw a visual spectacle of pomp and pageantry, including nods to the host nation's arts, culture and history.\nDespite numerous reports of unfinished construction, rampant disorganization and subpar conditions at the 22nd Winter Olympic Games this week, Friday's events went off largely error-free. At the start of the ceremony, one of five large, glowing snowflakes meant to transform into lighted Olympic rings malfunctioned and stayed closed until well into the festivities.\nThousands of athletes representing the 85 countries competing at the games paraded into the massive outdoor stadium. The 230 members of the United States delegation received warm applause from the crowd, as they were led to their seats by six-time Olympic skier Todd Lodwick. Russia's Olympic team predictably received the longest and loudest ovation of the night.\nOversize depictions of the Sochi Games' mascots - the polar bear, a hare and a leopard - glided into the stadium to greet the masses. One of the ceremony's several dance performances then preceded a colorful trip through Russian history illustrated with floats and symbols noting Leo Tolstoy's \"War and Peace,\" the Russian Revolution, the Iron Curtain and more.\nSpeeches from Sochi Olympic head Dmitry Chernyshenko and International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach then preceded Russian President Vladimir Putin's official declaration of the start of the games.\nAfter ceremonies welcomed the Olympic flag and administered the Olympic oath, a string of Russian athletes passed the Olympic torch toward the cauldron at the center of the stadium.\nTennis champion Maria Sharapova, pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, wrestler Aleksandr Karelin, gymnast Alina Kabaeva, figure skater Irina Rodnina and hockey goalie Vladislav Tretiak all carried the torch, but Rodnina and Tretiak ultimately lit the wick. A spectacular fireworks show subsequently brought the ceremony to a close.\nNBC will broadcast a recorded version of the ceremonies at 7 p.m. (ET) on Friday night.\nPrior to the event, a plane was reportedly forced to land at an Istanbul airport on Friday after a passenger indicated there was a \"bomb on board\" and requested the aircraft land in Sochi. Officials were searching the plane and investigating the threat. No security threats were reported from Sochi.\nThe first full day of Olympic competition is set for Saturday with gold medals to be awarded in five events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://khio.no/en/about/news/the-master-of-the-pas-de-deux", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:35Z", "digest": "sha1:MGSBATJKI5TOWLX5NI5SRL4USYS2EBBZ", "length": 7198, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "khio.no", "title": "The master of the pas de deux - Oslo National Academy of the Arts", "raw_content": "The master of the pas de deux\nIn 1983 he crossed the Iron Curtain from Hungary to dance with Norway\u2019s most prestigious ballet company. Today, pas-de-deux teacher and trainer in classical dance, Lecturer Zoltan Szolnoki coaches aspiring ballet stars at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.\nTrudging down an Oslo street on a cold autumn day, the pavement wet with rain and slippery with fallen leaves, you might just pass Zoltan Szolnoki, who, with his glasses and greying beard, could easily be taken for a thoroughly ordinary man. At first glance you\u2019re unlikely to notice anything that betrays his twenty-two years of background as a dancer of classical ballet at the highest level, or the fact that his route to Oslo\u2019s most prestigious dance stage at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet took him through the Iron Curtain.T\n\u201cThere were several ways to get to the West from Hungary. You could defect, but then you could never go back. I chose to sign a contract that entitled the authorities in Hungary to ten percent of everything I earned. It was an option that allowed me to work in the West without killing the hope of seeing my family again,\u201d he says.\nNew and challenging tasks\nAfter twelve years dancing with the Hungarian National Ballet, he thus escaped the communist regime in Hungary, together with his wife and children, and ended up in Oslo. That was in 1983. For six years he had to send part of his income to the authorities in Hungary, before he was liberated by the fall of the Iron Curtain. And on stage in Oslo, he could devote himself to new challenges.\n\u201cThere were many dancers at the Hungarian National Ballet and competition for parts was fierce. Coming to Oslo meant I could dance more exciting parts,\u201d he says.\nHe danced for Norway\u2019s top ballet company for ten years. Simultaneously, he assisted former ballet director Dinna Bj\u00f8rn as a r\u00e9p\u00e9titeur and led classes for the company. For five years he worked as both a dancer and a ballet teacher. From 1991 to 1993, he returned to Hungary to study dance teaching at the Hungarian Dance Academy.\nIn 1994 he began as a part-time teacher at what was then the National College of Ballet and Dance. He also taught on the GDT programme (free daily classes for dance professionals, since assimilated into PRODA), and at other dance schools, before devoting himself full-time to the training of tomorrow\u2019s top dancers at Norway\u2019s foremost school for ballet, the Academy of Dance. The work at PRODA was a huge challenge that taught him a lot about teaching.\nWhen girls jump like fish\n\u201cAre you going to be a star?\u201d the pianist shouts across the room to Zoltan, on realising that someone is going to write about the 62-year-old.\n\u201cI am a star, but a falling one,\u201d Zoltan answers with a laugh, but without any trace of arrogance.\nThe ballet stars of tomorrow laugh as well, while preparing on the floor in front of the mirror.\n\u201cDon\u2019t let your arms turn to rain,\u201d Szolnoki reminds his students. It might be grey outside, but in the studio the second-year students have smiles on their bodies as well as their faces.\nTheir dedicated teacher was trained in the Russian Vaganova method, a system that has produced some of the world\u2019s most celebrated ballet dancers. Developed in St. Petersburg in the 1930s, the method aims in particular for harmony between arm and leg movements, and a more integrated functioning of the body as a whole.\n\u201cThe number of boys in our classes at the Academy has been growing steadily. That\u2019s good for everyone! It changes the dynamic within the class. The dancers motivate each other to reach higher when the gender mix is more equal.\u201d\nThe Vaganova method finds its consummation in the pas de deux. In this dance between one man and one woman, all the premises of ballet come into play, and within the Vaganova system the final exam often consists of a pas de deux. Teaching the pas de deux is Zoltan\u2019s area of responsibility.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a fun challenge, choosing pairs for the pas de deux; it\u2019s pure psychology. There has to be a certain chemistry between the two who dance together. Obviously, height differences can be an obstacle, but anything\u2019s possible. The most common mistake the girls make is to jump out of the hands of the boys, like a fish slipping from your grasp. They\u2019re impatient and don\u2019t wait for the boy. They don\u2019t quite believe he\u2019ll give them the support they need. The most common mistake among the boys, particularly those with a lot of strength, is to hold the girl at an angle on the floor. Of course, it shows off their strength, but there\u2019s a danger of the girl injuring her toes,\u201d says Zoltan Szolnoki.\nHis smile never fades for long when instructing the second-year class, which consists of three boys and four girls. The mood is bright in Studio 3 on the seventh floor of the former sail-making factory.\n\u201cRemember to breathe! You need air! Try not to squeeze your lungs too much. Without oxygen in your muscles, you\u2019ll quickly get cramp,\u201d he says, as the girls do complex jumps across the floor.\nIt is difficult to maintain lightness when the muscles are short of oxygen. The result should look effortless and expressive.\nThe youngest students at the Academy of Dance are just 15 years old.\n\u201cWe can\u2019t ignore the fact that to some extent we teachers become parent figures, or role models for them. I have two children of my own who are now in their forties, and I\u2019m glad to be working with youngsters. I want them to feel safe, which is a precondition for the effort needed to push ahead and become better as dancers. I must guide my students to find their own forms of disciplined working,\u201d says Szolnoki.\nPas de deux assistant at the Opera\nZoltan Szolnoki was pas de deux assistant to former ballet director Dinna Bj\u00f8rn, and helped to professionalise training for young dancers in Norway; suddenly they started winning competitions and securing international engagements.\n\u201cI enjoy teaching, and it\u2019s especially challenging when I have mixed-level classes. Here at the Academy, the jazz and modern dancers also have a classical ballet component. My teaching method is that no matter what happens in the ballet studio, it\u2019s something the students can learn from. The mistakes students make should be treated objectively and used as material for reflection and further development. Learning to dance involves both physical and intellectual work. That means you have to work physically and think at the same time. For that to happen, the relationship between teacher and student has to be one of cooperation,\u201d he explains.\nHe describes an environment that is open and constructive.\n\u201cIt\u2019s by no means common to find conditions like the ones we have here, where bringing out the best in students is a shared endeavour. In many ballet schools, teachers tend to talk about \u2018their students\u2019 and they compete among themselves rather than help each other. I\u2019m proud that we can show the world the way we develop good students here, by providing constructive criticism and a positive, open environment, and the way students progress under the motto \u2018freedom with responsibility\u2019. We want students to graduate from the Academy with a good feeling,\u201d he says.\nShare \u00abThe master of the pas de deux\u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 8618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 198.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kirbyslane.blogspot.com/2014/06/from-office-of-future-of-reading_24.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:04Z", "digest": "sha1:O3QEQOBRHDL5SVO4RZ6LBUTGJ6D2ZVXN", "length": 3686, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kirbyslane.blogspot.com", "title": "Kirby's Lane: A Place for Readers and Writers: From the Office of the Future of Reading", "raw_content": "Please join me in welcoming today's guest blogger, Erica Shipow. Erica is a 5th grade writing teacher and librarian at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Boston, MA. When she was four, she threw a book down the stairs and was instantly reprimanded by her mother, who told her that \u201cbooks are our friends.\u201d She is happy to have made friends with so many books since then. You can find her on Twitter.\nErica Shipow\nI did not expect to be inspired on the last Monday of the school year. Honestly, my thoughts this year were focused less on learning and more on keeping my classroom from self-imploding as we counted down to summer. Not quite knowing what to do, I turned to one of my old standbys \u2013 picture books. This time around, I chose Shaun Tan\u2019s Rules of Summer.\nRules of Summer came out just over a month ago, and it is already generating lots of buzz (including snagging a Boston Globe-Horn Book Picture Book Honor last month!). It is a story of two brothers and their summer \u201crules,\u201d and in true Shaun Tan fashion it shows so much more than it tells. The text in the book is comprised of a series of simple statements: Never leave the back door open overnight, never forget the password, etc. Where the depth of the story develops is in the illustrations, which use abstract images to convey the true spirit behind each \u201crule\u201d and to develop the relationship between the older and younger brother.\nWhen I first saw the book, I figured I would just read it quickly to my 5th grade writing students and then have them create their own \u201crules\u201d as a fun end-of-year activity. I knew that there was a lot happening in the illustrations, and I told my students that they would have to \u201clook deeper\u201d to figure out what was really going on, but I wasn\u2019t sure that they would really understand or care about the story or the abstract images. I was so, so wrong.\nMy students went NUTS for this book. By page two, they were already leaping up, hands in the air, shouting \u201cI know! I know! I get it!\u201d By page three, they had started to create a storyline. By page four, they were asking me to turn back to previous pages because they had noticed recurring images. And on each page, they pointed out things that I never would have noticed on my own. It\u2019s been a while since I\u2019ve seen my students so excited, so curious, so fearless \u2013 they freely admitted when they didn\u2019t understand certain pictures, and they took risks in interpreting what they saw and challenging each other\u2019s interpretations. It was inspiring, it was authentic, and it was AWESOME.\nGenerating this sort of enthusiasm is not always easy. There is a lot we have to do day-to-day in our classrooms, and sometimes we worry so much about making the most out of the time we have that we overplan and overscript and overassess. If we really want to see our kids as readers, though, and in turn have them see themselves as readers, we have to hand the reins over to them. We have to let them experience the sheer power of finding something new and cool and weird and making some sense out of it. Whether it\u2019s with picture books or novels or nonfiction texts or graphic novels or whatever, we have to give students ownership in figuring things out. That\u2019s what the true joy of books is all about \u2013 not necessarily finding the meaning, not completely understanding the meaning so that you can spit it out in an essay or on an exam, but actively creating that meaning \u2013 and the more we can connect our kids with books that let them do that, the more joyful they will be.\nI felt as if I was in your classroom, Erica, soaking up your students' enthusiasm. Thanks for this great remember to let kids take the lead in their own learning!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kordis.gallery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CTXMW3U6KS6T7MLUJFU44XJOKHQ32X5N", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kordis.gallery", "title": "George Kordis - Byzantine art today", "raw_content": "Byzantine Art in a Postmodern World", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kreweofpericles.com/privacy_policy.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LC7UGC6YNDQNLAFXRSPADB57JHTCWL7D", "length": 427, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kreweofpericles.com", "title": "Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "Thank you for visiting kreweofpericles.com (the \"Web Site\") and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us, and our policy is simple: we will collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit the Web Site unless you choose to provide that information. This Privacy Policy does not describe information collection practices on other sites, including those linked to or from the Web Site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 2624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 331.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ktar.com/story/1711699/former-arizona-ag-says-trump-pardon-undermine-faith-judiciary/?show=comments", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:47Z", "digest": "sha1:YT7KE6ERHC5IISN7PKXXR5EUBO5VBSHI", "length": 1606, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ktar.com", "title": "Former Arizona AG says Arpaio pardon could undermine faith in judiciary", "raw_content": "Former Arizona AG says Arpaio pardon could undermine faith in judiciary\nFormer Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, second from right, leaves U.S. District Court on the first day of his contempt-of-court trial with attorney Mark Goldman, left, Monday, June 26, 2017, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)\nPHOENIX \u2014 A former Arizona attorney general said Wednesday that President Donald Trump\u2019s pardon of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio could undermine the public\u2019s faith in the court system.\n\u201cIt has the potential to undermine the public\u2019s faith in the judiciary,\u201d Grant Woods told KTAR News 92.3 FM\u2019s Bruce St. James and Pamela Hughes, adding that the decision could have negative consequences.\n\u201cIt\u2019s dangerous to have people actively undermining [the judiciary].\u201d\nWoods, a Republican, said the pardon was unusual because one was not typically granted unless the person had exhausted the appeals process and showed remorse.\n\u201cIt was totally out of the norm for pardons,\u201d he said, adding that a commuted sentence seemed a more appropriate measure.\nArpaio\u2019s sentencing hearing was scheduled for Oct. 5. Woods also said Arpaio had yet to show remorse.\n\u201cThe former sheriff was convicted of [flouting] the rule of law,\u201d he said. \u201cHe [flouted] it, really, over and over. He was ordered to stop doing what he was doing and he said, \u2018I\u2019m going to do it anyway.'\u201d\nWoods took part in a bipartisan gathering of lawyers this week outside the federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix to denounce the pardon.\n\u201cWe have to stand up for the rule of law here and lawyers are uniquely situation to do that,\u201d he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 7098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kulxp.blogspot.com/2008/12/most-beautiful.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OAJ6BZ2VZUPFH3CANNEBEB4YHAI77SGF", "length": 596, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "kulxp.blogspot.com", "title": "esperienza: The Most Beautiful...", "raw_content": "The most beautiful eyes in the world\nHeld in France and her name is Fatima from Morrocco\nHeld in Australia and he is from Pakistan and he is 1 year & 9 months old.\nsituated in Barcelona, Spain.\nThe most beautiful plant in the world\nIt is shaped like a water bubble\nThe most beautiful horse in the world\nThe most beautiful bridge in the world\nThe most beautiful waterfall in the world\nNiagra Falls in U.S. & Canada\nPemburu said...\nThe house is not situated in Barcelona, Spain. It's a rental estate on Hawaiaan Island of Maui.. Please refer to http://www.fabulous-homes.com/villa.aspx?villa=107565", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 4230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ladbrokeassociation.info/CLARENDONROAD.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:19Z", "digest": "sha1:R3NVDHYFIHJ6MPURJKDOOWNHEKBT2TYK", "length": 74468, "nlines": 248, "source_domain": "ladbrokeassociation.info", "title": "CLARENDON ROAD", "raw_content": "LABROKE ASSOCIATION\nPanorama of 16-26 Clarendon Road (photo \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006)\nOld street names and house numbers\nArchitecture and houses (listings, designations and recommendations to planners and householders are at the end of each section)\nSouthern end: Nos. 1-11 odds and 2-10 evens\nWest side between Ladbroke Road and Lansdowne Rise: Nos. 13-39 odds\nWest side between Lansdowne Walk and Clarendon Cross: Nos. 41-71 odds\nWest side from Clarendon Cross to No 99: Nos. 73-99 odds\nEast side between Ladbroke Road and St John's Gardens: Nos. 12-42 evens\nEast side between St John\u2019s Gardens and Lansdowne Rise: Nos. 44-58 evens\nEast side between Lansdowne Rise and Elgin Crescent: Nos. 60-110 evens\nEast side between Elgin and Blenheim Crescents: Nos. 80-110\nClarendon Road forms the western boundary of the Ladbroke Conservation Area and is one of the area\u2019s longest streets. It runs from Holland Park Avenue in the south to Dulford Street in the north (originally it went on as far as Lancaster Road). Two parts of it are excluded from the conservation area: Nos. 1-11 at the south-west end (where the original mid-19th century houses have been replaced by modern dwellings built in the 1960s), and the northern end of the street, north of No. 99 on the western side and north of Blenheim Crescent on the eastern side (where in both cases the original 19th century buildings have also largely been replaced).\nThe area was largely open country when Clarendon Road was created during the second great wave of development on the Ladbroke estate in the 1840s. The estate was still owned at that time by the Ladbroke family in the person of James Weller Ladbroke. It was a time when the population of London was growing rapidly and developers saw rich profits to be made in providing the expanding population with housing.\nJames Weller Ladbroke had detailed plans drawn up for the western part of the Ladbroke estate, including Clarendon Road, in 1843 and 1846 (see plate 55 of the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London). James Weller Ladbroke did not undertake the development himself; instead he signed agreements or building leases with builders or speculators under which they undertook to build a certain number of houses on the plot of land covered by the agreement. Once the houses were built, Ladbroke would then give either the builder or a person nominated by him (usually the person who had provided finance for the construction) 99-year leases of the houses. Ladbroke thus derived his profit from the ground rents (typically about \u00a310 per annum); the developers would derive theirs from letting the houses (which commanded annual rents of \u00a350-60).\nMany of those involved in developing Clarendon Road came to financial grief. In the years following the construction of these now desirable villas, the long leaseholds (and sometimes also the freeholds) of individual houses were often bought and sold and mortgaged to secure loans. As a result, the leaseholds quite often ended up in the hands of wealthy spinsters and others living far from the area, for whom they represented reliable investment assets paying a regular return in the form of the rental. Presumably the tenants who actually occupied the properties remained relatively unaffected by all these changes, so long as they went on paying their rents.\nDevelopment started from the south, and almost all the houses on the street between Holland Park Avenue and Clarendon Cross were completed during a period of frenzied activity between 1840 and 1846, under the direct auspices of James Weller Ladbroke. The houses were good quality villas, often detached or semi-detached with a good space between them \u2013 although most of the gaps between the houses have now been filed by extensions built in the last 50 years. These properties along the southern end of the street are now some of the most desirable houses in the area.\nMost of the houses were put up as speculative ventures, often with finance borrowed from wealthy property speculators. Sometimes Weller Ladbroke himself lent the builders the money to finance the construction. There was a bewildering number of speculators, financiers, architects and builders involved, including many of the Ladbroke area\u2019s best known players such as Thomas Allason (the surveyor to the Ladbroke Estate and one of the area\u2019s most distinguished architects); William John Drew, a builder/architect (the distinction was not always clear in those days); Richard Roy (a speculating solicitor); the Rev. Dr Samuel Walker (a wealthy speculating clergyman); and William Reynolds (a builder who became a developer and also tried his hand at being a publican, and who was largely responsible for the introduction of the pairs of semi-detached villas that are such a characteristic of Clarendon Road).\nThe Survey of London has made a brave attempt to clarify the relationships between these various players, but for many of the houses the detail of which parties were responsible for the finance, design and construction remains obscure. Generally, however, in the case of Roy and Reynolds, who were partners on many of the Clarendon Road houses, it was Reynolds who organised the building of the roads, sewers and houses; and Roy who raised the necessary capital.\nAs the road formed the western boundary of the Ladbroke family\u2019s estate, it has few connecting links with the parallel Portland Road to the west, on the Norland estate. Several roads run from the east into Clarendon Road from other parts of the Ladbroke estate, most deliberately designed to form vistas, so the road\u2019s relationship with the rest of the Ladbroke estate is clearly demonstrated. But the houses on the western side form almost a wall separating the estate from the Norland area and there are no carefully designed vistas through to the west, creating, in the words of the Borough\u2019s Conservation Area Proposal Statement for the Ladbroke estate, an effect \u2018of subtle enclosure; the eye is unaware of adjacent contrasting areas \u201coutside\u201d\u2019.\nThe road seems in the 19th century to have been rather more of a through route than it is today. In 1892, Cardinal Manning\u2019s funeral cort\u00e8ge processed along Clarendon Road on its way to Kensal Green cemetery [The Times]. As well as the Castle on the corner of Holland Park Avenue, there were three other pubs or inns to take advantage of passing traffic, the Clarendon Hotel at No. 85; the Britannia at No. 123a; and the Talbot Arms on the other side of the road beyond Cornwall Crescent. Horse-drawn buses used to run up Clarendon Road and the following is an extract from a report in the Times of 1886 about an altercation between two bus drivers, James Creswick and Robert Kershaw, driving buses for rival bus companies:\nCreswick was on November the 19th the driver of his omnibus going between Shepherd\u2019s Bush and the Bank. [He] pulled up in the Uxbridge Road (now Holland Park Avenue) so as to obstruct the entrance to Kershaw\u2019s omnibus just as Kershaw was about to hand a lady into his conveyance. A quarrel began as to which omnibus the lady had really hailed, and Kershaw had his hat knocked off by Creswick. A police constable interfered and prevented any further squabble at that point, but on the omnibuses, which were running in the same direction, reaching the Clarendon Tavern in Clarendon Road (the Clarendon Hotel at No. 85), Creswick got off his step, challenged Kershaw to a fight, knocked him down and blackened his eye.\nIn the 20th century, like most of the rest of the area, Clarendon Road went downhill and many of the houses were turned into flats and lodgings, only to become smart again in the last third of the century. The street was also badly knocked about in the Blitz. Several houses were damaged by bombs and were later demolished and replaced, or else repaired on the cheap, with few or none of the original decorative features being replaced. Now, as many of the houses are returning to single occupancy, and the new owners are restoring lost cornices, window surrounds and porches.\nWhat sort of people lived in Clarendon Road?\nThe building of the southern part of Clarendon Road seems to have been one of the more successful ventures on the Ladbroke estate, as by the time of the 1851 census almost all the houses built by then were occupied by solidly middle-class families. They included barristers and solicitors, bank clerks and stockbrokers, merchants and traders, manufacturers, and retired service personnel. There was also a sprinkling of artists and schoolteachers, a bohemian element that subsisted into the second half of the 20th century. The most numerous category, however, were people \u2013 mostly widows \u2013 living on their own income, and describing themselves variously as \u2018annuitant\u2019, \u2018lady of landed property\u2019, \u2018fundholder\u2019, or, in the case of two strong-minded elderly ladies, simply \u2018old maid\u2019. Almost all the houses were in single occupancy, and most families had one or two servants. One striking thing is how transient the tenants of these houses were \u2013 very few of the names from 1851 reappear in the 1861 census, or the 1861 names in 1871. By the end of the century, however, many of the houses were already being turned into lodgings and an increasing number of those living in Clarendon Road were small tradesmen and, particularly at the northern end, working people. Also at the northern end, shopfronts began to be built on the forecourts of the houses and a strong commercial element was formed.\nOld street names and house numbering systems\nOriginally, each terrace of houses had its own name and numbering system, and just to complicate matters the first part of street (up to Lansdowne Walk) was called Park Street; the next part (up to Elgin Crescent) Clarendon Road and the last part Clarendon Road North. It was not until 1866 that the whole street acquired its current name and numbers.\nCurrent numbers (odds)\nOld numbers\n1-25 odds\n1-13 Park Road\n13 and 15 were also known as 1 and 2 Park Villas\n27-39 odds\nClarendon Lodge (in 1845 the part of the new road in front of the house was to be called Clarendon Terrace)\n1-16 Clarendon Road (also confusing known at various times as Clarendon Villas or Clarendon Villas South)\n87-123 odds\n11-41 Clarendon Road North\nVentnor Villa (39 Clarendon Road North)\nPortsdown Lodge (41 Clarendon Road North)\n125-181 odds\n1-28 St James Terrace\n5-1 Catherine Terrace\n1-7 Elizabeth Terrace (numbered from Walmer Place)\nCurrent numbers (evens)\n2-10 evens\n11-15 Grove Terrace\n1 and 2 Cambridge Villas\n16-26 evens\n1-6 Clarendon Terrace\nHanover Villa\nPossibly 8-32 Clarendon Road Villas (numbered in the opposite direction)\n1-5 Gloucester Place\n90-108 evens\n1-10 Gloucester Terrace\n112-120 evens\n1-5 Marlborough Terrace\nTalbot Villa\n2-7 Talbot Villas\nTalbot Public House\n9-15 Talbot Terrace\n10-1 Sydenham Terrace\nArchitecture and houses\nToday, Clarendon Road is architecturally one of the most interesting streets in the area and also one of the most varied in character, both architecturally and socially. Although many of the houses in the southern half have been returned to single occupancy, multi-occupancy is still the norm in the northern part, and of the 450-odd dwellings in the street, almost three-quarters are flats. The northern end in particular remains dominated by big blocks of pre- and post-war housing. The street is 98% residential, but with small groups of shops both at the Holland Park Avenue end and on the stretch just north-west of Clarendon Cross.\nSOUTHERN END (Nos. 1-11 and 2-10).\nConstruction began, predictably enough, at the Holland Park Avenue end of the road, on farmland called \u201cAcademy Fields\u201d. On the western side, where Nos. 1-11 now stand, a terrace of six houses (1-6 Park Road) was built by William John Drew. They were completed in 1840 and 1841 (when James Weller Ladbroke, by arrangement with Drew, granted leases to William Liddard, gent). The Survey of London describes them as \u201csmall, two-storey houses in the Grecian manner\u201d, similar in style to 11-19 Ladbroke Grove, also designed and built by Drew. Sadly, these houses were demolished, and replaced in the 1960s by the present terrace of modern dwellings (put on sale in 1966 as \u201carchitect-designed residences\u201d, according to a press cutting in the Local Studies Centre), which are outside the Ladbroke Conservation Area. When first built, they were in dark red-brown brick, quite out of keeping with anything in the area. In 2014, the whole row was covered in stucco, a great improvement.\nNos. 1-6 Park Road at the southern end of Clarendon Road, built in 1840 and now demolished. Photo courtesy of RBKC.\nOn the eastern side, James Weller Ladbroke agreed first in 1938 to give Drew a building lease of the plot on the corner with Holland Park Avenue (also described as part of Academy Fields). Nos. 2-10 (evens) Clarendon Road were not completed, however, until around 1845, when Ladbroke, by arrangement with Drew, gave leases of the new houses to William Liddard of Notting Hill, gentleman, who had probably financed their construction. The ground lease was also reassigned to Liddard [Deed No. 20101 in the RBKC Local studies Centre]. These five little three-storey houses were originally called 11-15 Grove Terrace (1-10 Grove Terrace being the much grander houses round the corner in Holland Park Avenue which were built at the same time). They were probably designed from the beginning to be shops or tradesmen\u2019s houses, which would explain their small size and lack of gardens. Certainly by the time of the 1851 census they were all occupied by tradesmen \u2013 a dyer and scourer; a fruiterer; a draper; a fishmonger; and a dairyman, and the ground floors are still occupied by shops or businesses, including the area\u2019s well-known local greengrocer, run by the Michanicou brothers since 1982 (and previously a greengrocer dating back to before the Second World War).\nThe upper floors have plain stucco fa\u00e7ades with a string-course or cornice at the top. Those on Nos. 2-8 are more or less complete; that on No. 10 has been replaced by a very basic version. It would be good to see this replaced by a more authentic version one day. No. 10 had a long history as a coffee-house. These low-rise houses have been classified in the 1976 Ladbroke Area Proposals Statement as having Category 1 rooflines.\nThe 1976 Conservation Area Proposals Statement (CAPS) gives the roofline of Nos. 2-10 a Category 1 classification, the highest degree of protection. The buildings are also subject to an Article 4 direction (1996) removing permitted development rights in respect of alterations to front doors and windows and the provision of hard standing in front.\nThis range is well-kept and shows how attractive these simple three storey buildings can be. It would be good to see the traditional shopfronts retained, and we hope that the upper floors will continue to be painted in pastel colours only and the wrought iron balconies in black.\nNos. 6 and 10 would benefit from having cornices that match the rest of the terrace.\nWEST SIDE BETWEEN LADBROKE ROAD AND LANSDOWNE WALK (Nos. 13-39)\nThis section was also developed by James Weller Ladbroke. Nos. 13 and 15 were the earliest, completed in 1840, again on part of Academy Fields. They seem to have been through various changes of name and number. At the beginning, they were Nos. 7 and 8 Park Road. But the early census indicates that they were also known as 1 and 2 Park Villas.\nThe two houses form a handsome detached mansion in an almost Palladian style and were probably designed by Thomas Allason, according to the Survey of London.. They are stucco-covered and have a lot of decoration, including giant pilasters with rosettes on their capitals (a decorative form picked up on the otherwise quite different houses in the next block). The English Heritage description refers to the houses as having two stories plus basements; in fact there is also an attic floor. The roof is surmounted by urns, possibly a later addition. The entrances are to the side, giving a particularly clean line to the front of the house. Interestingly, the mouldings on the ground floor cornices are almost identical to those in 11-19 Ladbroke Grove, built around the same time, also by Drew. The whole building was given a Grade II listing in 1984.\nThe houses are well set back from the road. The 1860s Ordnance Survey map of the area shows that by then the two houses shared a carriage drive, the two entrances of which are still apparent. At that time the garden of No. 13 extended right down to Portland Road, and that of No. 15 was only curtailed by a building at the Portland Road end that was probably a coach house and stables.\nIn 1865, the sculptor, novelist and poet George Halse (1826-1895) moved into No. 15 and shortly afterwards constructed the two-storey building in the garden as a studio \u2013 the bottom floor being used as a mason\u2019s storage depot (see Giles Walkley\u2019s book Artists\u2019 Houses in London 1764-1914 and Elizabeth Farningham\u2019s George Halse Sculptor). Emmeline Halse (1853-1930), his daughter, was also a sculptor and made the figures in the reredos behind the altar of St John's church in Ladbroke Grove.\nThere are two old deeds relating to No. 15 in the RBKC Local Studies Centre. The first is a lease dated 13 November 1841 whereby J.W. Ladbroke gave, with the agreement of William John Drew (the builder), a 97-year lease beginning on 25 December 1840 to William Liddard, gentleman, \u201cin consideration\u201d of the moneys that they had expended erecting the house (Liddard had presumably lent money to Drew to finance the building), and for an annual rent of \u00a312. This indicates that the original building lease to Drew was granted in 1838. The 1840 lease required Liddard to contribute to the costs of making and cleansing the roads and sewers serving the property; and reserved for Ladbroke and neighbouring houses a right of passage across the forecourt \u201ceither with or without horses, cattle, carts and carriages\u201d \u2013 in these early days, when the roads of the estate were mostly no more than delineations on the map, these right of way clauses were common in leases [Deed No 20103]. There was almost certainly a similar lease for No. 13. The second deed relating to No. 15 is a lease dated 25 September 1866 whereby William Warren of Piccadilly (who had presumably acquired either Ladbroke\u2019s or Liddard\u2019s interest) gave a 14-year lease at \u00a384 per annum to Thomas Lomax, barrister-at-law [Deed No. 415].\nIn 1919, when No. 13 was the home of Sir Malcolm Seton, a senior official in the India Office, it was the scene of a dramatic murder. Sir Malcolm Seton had his cousin staying with him, Major Miles Seton of the Australian Army Medical Corps. At 10.20 on the evening of 13 January, an Army officer called at the house and asked to see Major Seton. The housemaid showed him into the dining-room and summoned Major Seton. Nobody knows what exactly passed between them, but it ended with the officer shooting Major Miles Seton. Sir Malcolm Seton, who was upstairs in his \u201csmoking-room\u201d with his wife, came running down when he heard shots and found his cousin dead or dying and \u2018a strange officer\u2019 standing there, as he said at the inquest, \u2018in a curiously calm state, as if his whole mind had been concentrated on something that was over, and did not care what happened after that\u2026. I called out \u201cDid you do this?\u201d and he answered \u201cyes\u201d very quietly.\u2019 Sir Malcolm told the inquest that he left his wife tending to his cousin while he went to fetch a doctor from a neighbouring house and a police officer from the Police Station in Ladbroke Grove. During his absence, Lady Seton seems to have behaved with considerable aplomb, relieving the officer (who turned out to be a Major Norman Rutherford) of his revolver. The affair was a crime passionnel \u2013 it transpired that Major Seton had been having an affair with Rutherford\u2019s wife. The inquest and subsequent trial are described in detail in contemporary issues of The Times.\n13-15 Clarendon Road, completed in 1840 and designed by Thomas Allason. Grade II listed.\n\u00a9 Thomas Erskine 2006.\nThe rest of this block consists of a terrace of houses all completed around 1845, but in three distinct sections. Nos 17, 19 and 21, possibly designed by Drew, but perhaps with a contribution from Allason, are stuccoed, simple and flat-fronted with two string courses; elegant cornices above the doorways (with the same rosettes as Nos. 13-15); and pilasters separating the houses. As in the case of Nos. 2-10, leases of these houses (originally 9, 10 and 11 Park Road) were granted by J. W. Ladbroke to William Liddard in 1845, by arrangement with Drew [Survey of London]. They were listed Grade II in 1984 chiefly for their group value. The listing has the virtue of protecting them from the addition of extra floors, and they maintain their original flat roofline. They are small houses compared to others in the road and do not seem to have been that popular with Victorian and Edwardian families. By the early 1900s, both Nos. 19 and 21 were being run as rented apartments or boarding houses in 1902 and No. 23 was a Servants Registry Office (an employment exchange for domestic servants) rather than a family house.\nNo 21 has a cornice above the ground floor window, matching that on the porch, and also decoration around the first floor windows, neither of which is repeated on the other houses of the terrace. It is not clear whether the others have lost these features or whether an enthusiastic owner of No. 21 added the detail on that house.\n17, 19 and 21 Clarendon Road, completed in 1845 and Grade II listed. The unusual bow-fronted houses at Nos. 31-39 (odds) can be seen beyond. \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006.\nThe four houses at Nos. 23-29 (odds) are quite different. Their fronts are again fully stuccoed, but are far from flat, with projecting bows extending up the full height of the front, unlike anything else in the Ladbroke area at that period. J. W. Ladbroke granted leases of these houses (originally 12-15 Park Road) to Thomas Allason by arrangement with Drew in 1845, and it seems likely that they were designed by Allason. There is a story in the family that they were originally intended for Allason\u2019s four children. The Survey of London points out that they are similar to the manner then fashionable at seaside resorts such as Brighton. Again they were given a Grade II listing in 1984. Unfortunately, discordant extra storeys were added to No. 23 in the 1970s; and to No. 29 in the 1960s. Allason seems to have run into difficulties while erecting these houses, as in 1847 Nos. 23 and 25 were still \u201ccarcases\u201d, and Allason sold the leaseholds on to one Isaac Wilkinson, with a condition that the houses should be finished to match their neighbours at Nos. 27 and 29, which were presumably built first [Deed No 20104 in the RBKC Local Studies Centre]. Some of the houses still have their 19th century bells on either side of the door, one marked \u201cServants\u201d and the other \u201cVisitors\u201d. These houses remained in the hands of the Allason family well into the 20th century and one is still occupied by one of his descendants.\nThere is a 1971 photograph of this terrace in the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London (plate 62c).\nNos. 31-39 (odds) are different yet again, with coursed stucco at the ground floor but brick above. There are projecting porches and the upper windows have stuccoed architraves and a crowning cornice, also of stucco. The first floor windows on the two end houses protrude slightly to give a symmetrical \u201cbook-end\u201d effect to the terrace. There are also first floor balconies with ironwork worth preserving. Relatively unobtrusive dormer floors have been added to several of the houses. No. 31 has a handsome ironwork pillar by its front steps. This may not be original, but seems well worth preserving.\nAccording to the Survey of London, James Weller Ladbroke granted a lease for the land for this terrace to Roy and Reynolds in 1844 and the houses were probably designed by James Thomson, who was also a designer of some of the Nash terraces in Regent\u2019s Park. At the north end of the terrace, a triumphal arch motif on the end wall of the corner house has been used to link the slightly projecting chimney stacks, and recalls \u2013 in the view of the Survey of London \u2013 something of the scenic display of the Regent\u2019s Park terraces. The houses in this range originally possessed crowning cornices that were no doubt lost during the mid-20th century period of decrepitude.\nSome of these houses seem already to have come down in the world by the end of the 19th century. There is a heart-rending account in The Times of 4 February 1892 of an inquest into the death from neglect of Christopher Judd, a 15-month old child, the son of a gasfitter, who lived at No. 33 Clarendon Road. The family (there were several children) probably lived in a lodging, possibly one floor of the house. The child was cared for by his mother, who was almost always drunk and did not feed him properly. When a doctor was finally summoned, he found the child filthy, emaciated, covered with sores and with almost no clothes. The couple\u2019s other children were either naked or semi-naked and the stench in the room was \u201chorrible\u201d. Christopher was rescued by an Inspector from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and taken to the Society\u2019s headquarters, but unfortunately too late to be saved. The inquest delivered a verdict of manslaughter against the mother. Check roomin. Census electoral\n37 and 39 Clarendon Road, showing the triumphal arch motive on the side of the end house. The stucco on the top two floors of No. 37 has now been removed, restoring the unity of the terrace. (Photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006.) There is a 1971 photograph of the north end of the terrace in the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London (plate 60b).\nNos. 13-29 (odds) were listed Grade II in 1984.\nNos. 31-39 are subject to an Article 4 Direction (1996) in respect of\nalterations of front doors and windows; and\nprovision or extension of hard standing in front of the house.\nNos. 31-39 should be subject to an Article 4 direction in respect of their fa\u00e7ades as a whole to ensure protection of brickwork and cornices.\nAn Article 4 direction should be made in respect of the side of No. 39.\nRecommendations for householders and planners\nWe hope that the wooden fence in front of No. 13 is one day replaced by railings.\nNos. 17 and 19 might be improved by the addition of mouldings round the front windows to match those on No. 21.\nThe pipework on No. 29 would benefit from being painted white rather than black.\nWe recommend that front railings and other ironworks are painted black and that piers are painted white. Stucco should preferably be painted white, and if not white than a pale pastel colour. Brickwork should not be painted.\nWEST SIDE BETWEEN LANSDOWNE WALK AND CLARENDON ROAD (Nos. 41-71 odds)\nOn the western side, Nos. 41-71 constitute a row of detached or semi-detached villas built to a variety of designs in the mid-1840s on a meadow called Six Acre Field. Each building is slightly different, although all are brick with stucco embellishments; different orders of windows on each floor; and entrances with handsome pillared porches in offset side blocks.\nNo 41 is a bit of a one-off. It was originally a three-bay detached house with an entrance block on the northern side, giving it a somewhat unbalanced look (it may be that there was an earlier plan for paired semi-detached villas that was aborted for some reason). A good quality matching block on the southern side was added in the early 2000s, providing a symmetry that the building previously lacked. Deeds in the possession of the owner indicate that the house was another Richard Roy/William Reynolds collaboration (Roy raising the finance and Reynolds undertaking the building). It was probably completed in 1844, as in 1945 Roy granted Reynolds a 99-year lease of the house for an annual rent of \u00a312.10s to start in September 1844.\nThe deeds show that Roy mortgaged the leasehold shortly thereafter and defaulted. His interest in the leasehold passed into the hands of various mortgagees. In 1884 the mortgagees assigned the remainder of the leasehold for \u00a3920 to one Albert Masey. He died in 1910 and his heirs sold the remainder of the lease for \u00a31,000 to Martin William McKellar, barrister, who seems already to have been renting the property. He lived there until his death in 1919 and his widow finally sold the remaining leasehold for \u00a3850 to another barrister, George Ernest Timins, in 1930. It is not clear who held the freehold during this time or in whom ownership became vested on expiry of the lease in 1939. But at some point it must have been acquired by Eva Ducat (see below).\nThe house was originally called Clarendon Lodge, although it appears to have lost that name in the early 20th century and the name was later appropriated by the block of flats at No. 56. It is among the most highly decorated houses in the street. The windows on its fa\u00e7ade at ground and first floor level are surmounted by moulded arches (the arched windows reappear as a decorative feature on one floor only of several houses further up this part of the street). Elaborate corbels support the mouldings over the first and second floor windows. The bay window on the ground floor could be a later addition, as such a feature would have been rare in the 1840s. It was, however, already in place by the time of the 1860s Ordnance Survey map of the area. There are floral embellishments on the bay window and porch that are Gothic in style and may well also have been added later. The pillars on the porch have unusual capitals. The ground floor has uncoursed stucco, which could have been added at the same time as the bay window as the other houses in this group do not have half-stucco. The house has a heavy cornice to which a recent owner has added floral embellishments similar in style to those on the porch. They are modelled on some broken remains of mouldings that the owner found while excavating in the grounds.\nNo. 41 Clarendon Road (in 2013)\nFrom about 1936 until her death in her late nineties in 1975, No 41 was the home of Miss Eva Ducat, a lady of character who was a friend of the poet W.B. Yeats and his wife (he described her in one of his letters as a 'harmless, well-bred woman who acted as a kind of musical agent for me and other literary figures of the first half of the 20th century\u2019 ). She was part of the persistent bohemian element of the road. She used to give musical evenings and one of the neighbours remembers the hired gold-painted ball-room chairs for these events being taken in and out of the house. Eva Ducat was born in 1878 and was the niece of the botanist Charles Baron Clarke, sometime director of Kew. She wrote an autobiography, Another Way with Music, published in 1928 by Chapman and Hall. After her death, squatters took over the house, according to Council planning documents. It was by this time in a pretty fair state of disrepair and was bought by a builder who renovated it and sold it on. The next occupants were Derek Childs (1933-1991), the founding father of the \u201cgreen\u201d investment movement. He and his family were there for over 30 years. His daughter, the historian Jessie Childs, researched and wrote her book on the Earl of Surrey, Henry VIII\u2019s last victim (published 2008), in the house.\nAll but one of Nos. 43-71 are pairs of villas, originally very well spaced, with large gardens to the sides and back. Again, they were the result of a collaboration between the solicitor and financier Richard Roy and the builder William Reynolds. Originally, Clarendon Road began only at Lansdowne Walk and No. 43 was No. 1 Clarendon Road. The rest of this side of the street was numbered sequentially (so the present No. 71 was No.15 Clarendon Road), and just to complicate matters this part of the road was also sometimes known as Clarendon Villas or Clarendon Road Villas.\nAlmost all the houses are of considerable architectural interest. Although garages and side extensions of various types now fill the wide gaps between the buildings, the fa\u00e7ades are much as they were. The most impressive villas are probably the semi-detached Nos. 43 and 45 with their grand classical fa\u00e7ade. They have been given a Grade II listing (English Heritage reference 203700) and are described by English Heritage as \u201cforming a symmetrical 4-bay composition with the centre two bays projecting and framed by Corinthian giant pilasters (a pair on the party division) carrying an entablature with modillion cornice and pediment; the flanking entrance bays with cornice and blocking\u201d. Again, Richard Roy and William Reynolds seem to have been responsible for them and they were completed around 1844-45. There is an unfortunately overbearing octagonal extension to number 43, built in the 1970s before the house was listed. No. 43 has also recently had its railings and piers painted an unfortunate shade of beige instead of the black with white for the piers which is the norm.\nIn the 1930s, No . 45 was the home of the distinguished Scottish sculptor Ottilie Wallace (1875-1947), daughter of Lord McLaren, Scottish judge and MP. As a young woman she had worked with Auguste Rodin in Paris. She exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and sculpted a number of war memorials. She was married to William Wallace, eye specialist turned composer. Their correspondence is preserved in the National Library of Scotland.\nNos. 43 and 45 Clarendon Road. (Photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006). There is also a 1970 photograph of these houses in the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London.\nThe previously wide gap between No. 45 and the handsome pair of villas at Nos. 47 (once called Yverdon Lodge, perhaps because of some Swiss connection) and No. 49 has been filled by a really dreadful infill. It consists of two contrasting structures. No. 45a is a modern white stucco house, harmless in itself, replacing an earlier 1970s structure widely regarded as an eyesore. It adjoins a hideous brick extension to No. 47 put up just before the Second World War, obliterating the original porch of No. 47 and ruining the line of the building. No. 49 has lost some of its decorative detail on the ground floor windows (missing decorative corbels under the arches) and on the cornice (which no longer has its brackets) \u2013 things which a conservation-minded owner might one day want to replace.\nThe new house at No. 45a Clarendon Road on the left and the unfortunate 1930s extension to No. 47 on the right.\nNos. 51 and 53 are unusual in having triple arched mullioned windows at first floor level. They also have particularly handsome brackets holding up the window-sills at ground floor level. The porch of No. 53 has been rather oddly rebuilt. The house also has an obtrusive bike store in its rather small front garden.\nNo. 55, like No.41, is a detached house that looks as though it ought to be part of a block of two semi-detached properties. It appears however always to have been a single house \u2013 again it may be that plans changed during the construction. The handsome block at Nos. 57-59 completes the vista down St John\u2019s Gardens. All three of these houses have particularly handsome columned porches on their sides with ionic capitals.\nNos. 57 and 59 Clarendon Road, typical of the semi-detached villas of this part of the road. Note the arched windows and the elegant portico with ionic capitals. A well-designed extension has been added to number 59. (Photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006)\nThe pairs at Nos. 61 and 63; 65 and 67; and 69 and 71 complete this row of handsome and now much sought after villas. A whole new dwelling, No. 67B, has been built in the gap between No. 67 and the No. 69. Unfortunately, the original porch of No. 67 disappeared long ago, and it is to be hoped that one day the current flat and ugly structure will be replaced with an ionic pillared one that matches that on No. 65. Similarly, the porch of No. 69 has lost the brackets still to b e seen on its pair at No. 71.\nNo. 45 (which used to be 12 Clarendon Road), was the residence of Hyde Parker Lawrence Esq., retired Captain from the services of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He died there in 1852 and was given an obituary in The Times.\nNos. 43 and 45 are listed Grade II.\nNos. 41 and 47-71 are subject to Article 4 Directions in respect of:\nalterations to front doors and windows (1996);\nthe provision or extension of hard standing in front of the house (1996);\nthe erection, alteration or demolition of gates, fences or walls facing the highway (also applies to No. 45A) (1998).\nNos. 49-57 and 61-65, 67B and 69 are also subject to an Article 4 Direction in respect of alterations to the side of the house (1998).\nNos. 43-71 have rooflines classified as Category 1 in the 1976 Conservation Area Proposals Statement, the highest level of protection.\nThe gaps between Nos. 49 and 51; 53 and 55; 55 and 57; 59 and 61; and 67 and 69 are classified as important gaps in the 1976 Conservation Area Proposals Statement.\nUnfortunately, despite the classification of the gaps between the blocks of houses in this section of Clarendon Road as \"important\", all have aquired side extensions of some sort, albeit mainly restricted to one floor and matching the houses in pattern and material. We strongly recommend that further infilling of these gaps is resisted. There is a particularly unfortunate lead-clad second storey at No. 67B.\nThe pattern for the houses along this street is for the boundary fronting the highway to be marked with railings rarther than walls. One wall has been allowed, on No. 63, to the detriment of the street. We strongly recommend that further walls are resisted and would welcome it if some day the wall at No. 63 were replaced by railings.\nThe brick bike stand in the front garden of No. 57 is regrettable, and should not be allowed to be a precedent for any further such structures. The gardens in this part of the street are small and their character is harmed by such encumbrances.\nWe strongly recommend that the railings and piers of No. 43 are repainted black to match those in the rest of the street.\nThe octagonal extension to No. 43 is now part of the listed building. Nevertheless, as Nos. 43 and 45 form a particularly imopressive symmetrical pair, if a futire owner were to wuish to demolish the octagon, we do not think that this should be opposed.\nNo. 47 has a strange stucco band above its first floor windows. We hope that this can one day be removed.\nNo. 49 is missing the decorative buttresses under its cornice. It would improve the look of this pair if the cornice could be restored to match No. 47.\nNos. 55, 57 and 59 probably had decorative buttressing under the side cornices, matching that on front and on neighbouring houses. It would improve the look of this group of houses if the cornice buttresses on the side could be reinstated.\nNo. 67 would benefit from having the decoration on its porch restored to match No. 71.\nFrom Clarendon Cross to No 99 on the west side (Nos. 73-99)\nThis was the less popular end of Clarendon Road, too near the piggeries and potteries and the smells and noise associated with them. Development was mainly later and the houses were less elegant and less well-built. They have also suffered greatly from the Blitz, general decay and unsympathetic remodelling over the years.\nNos. 73-83 (between Clarendon Cross and the Clarendon Hotel) consisted of three sets of semi-detached villas, of which not a lot of the original can now be seen. Nos. 73 and 75 (originally 16 and 17 Clarendon Road) were again a result of the Roy-Reynolds partnership; Ladbroke gave them leases of these two simple houses in 1845. They have been much altered and the ground floor of No. 75 has acquired a shopfront, probably a long time ago. Roy and Reynolds built another pair of villas the following year at Nos. 77 and 79 (originally Nos. 18 and 19 Clarendon Road or Villas). They were destroyed in the blitz in September 1940 and replaced by the present brick block of flats providing sheltered accommodation. The semi-detached villas at Nos. 81 and 83 seem to have disappeared in the first quarter of the 20th century, as this site was occupied by St John\u2019s Church of England School from the 1920s to the 1950s (the site accommodated a church hall and a Vicarage as well the school). But when Holland Park Comprehensive School was opened in 1958, St John\u2019s school became redundant. The buildings were demolished and replaced by the present modern block of sheltered accommodation (part of the Quest Social Centre) in the early 1970s.\nNo. 85, the old Clarendon Hotel, on the corner of Portland Road, is one of the most attractive buildings on the street with magnificent Corinthian pilasters and has been given a Grade II listing (English Heritage reference 203701). It was completed around 1846 and the builder was probably William Reynolds. Reynolds established himself in the building as a licensed victualler. He took out various mortgages on the building before going bankrupt in 1848, and a mortgage that he took out in 1847 includes an extremely detailed and fascinating list of the fixtures and fittings in the establishment (see Survey of London for a good summary). The building remained a public house and hotel, under a succession of different publicans, until 1919. In the 1920s it became the Quest Social Centre, which it remains to this day, providing day care for the elderly. It was nearly demolished in the 1970s to build modern housing, but was saved by being given its Grade II listing in 1976.\nThe former Clarendon Hotel at No. 85 Clarendon Road (photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006). It is also illustrated in the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London (Plate 75c).\nNos. 87-97 (odds) are pairs of semi-detached villas, their facades fully stuccoed (they were originally Nos. 11-21 Clarendon Road North). The first pair (Nos. 87-89) is the best; the houses have pilasters, pediment and even the remains of balustrading on No 89 \u2013 perhaps one day it will be replaced on No. 87. The other pairs are simpler and all are built on much smaller plots than their neighbours to the south. Roy had obtained a building lease from Ladbroke of a 10-acre plot north of Lansdowne Rise some years previously and disposed of it to a new developer, a City merchant called Stephen Phillips. The latter employed Reynolds and granted him leases of Nos. 87, 95 and 97 in 1849. There had been a financial crisis in 1847, and that probably explains why less grand houses were erected at this end of the street. The proximity of the piggeries and potteries no doubt also deterred developers from anything too expensive. The fa\u00e7ade of No. 95 has been altered beyond recognition.There is a 1958 photograph of these villas in the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London (plate 63a).\nNos. 99 and 101 originally formed a further pair of villas, as did Nos. 103 and 105 (Nos. 23-26 Clarendon Road North). They were financed by Phillips, and Nos. 99-101 were probably built by a plumber called Joseph Heller to who Phillips granted leases in 1852. By the 1960s they were in an extremely poor state of repair, and all except No. 99 (now looking rather strange as a detached house) were demolished and replaced by a new row of undistinguished terraced houses. No. 99 is the last house on this side within the Ladbroke Conservation Area.\nThe pair of villas at Nos. 87-89. Note the remains of balustrading on the right roof.\n(Photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006)\nThe former Clarendon Hotel at No. 85 was listed Grade II in 1976.\nNos. 71-83 and 87-99 are subject to an Article 4 direction in respect of:\nalterations to front doors and windows(1996);\nprovision or extension of hard standing in front of the house(1996);\nthe erection, demolition or alteration of gates, fences and walls facing the highway (1998).\nNos. 89-99 are subject to an Article 4 Direction in respect of alterations to the side of the house.\nRecommendations to householders\nWe recommend that these houses be painted in white or pastel colours, and the ironwork in black. It would be best if in pairs of villas both houses were painted the same colour.\nThe gaps between the pairs of semi-detached villas on this stretch are important for the character of the area and any infilling should be resisted.\nWe hope that one day a bottle balustrade will be restored on the roof of No. 87, to match that on No. 89.\nWe also hope that the ground floor window surrounds and roof cornices of No. 93 will one day be restored to match those on No. 91.\nBETWEEN LADBROKE ROAD AND ST JOHN'S GARDENS: EAST SIDE (Nos. 12-42 evens)\nPlans of these houses (including some internal details of Nos. 14 and 20) are illustrated in the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London (Figures 48, 49 and 50). Nos. 12 and 14 on the eastern side form part of a group of three pairs of substantial houses with Nos. 80-86 (evens) Ladbroke Road, all similar in style, with paired stucco pilasters rising up from the ground floor to support an entablature surmounted by a panelled parapet. They have slightly bowed fronts and two-storey entrance blocks at the sides (a third storey has been added to that of No. 12).. Thomas Allason was Drew\u2019s nominee as the lessee for all these houses in 1845, and Allason was very probably the architect (he still owned the freehold of the houses at his death in 1852). They were given a Grade II listing in 1984 (English Heritage reference 203695). According to Florence Gladstone (Notting Hill in bygone days, page 119), in 1866 an artist called Hugh Parker (1837-1903) bought No. 12 from Henry Drew, who had purchased it as bankrupt property. Hugh Carter was quite successful \u2013 a painter of portraits rather in the style of Rembrandt (one of which is in the National Portrait Gallery), genre scenes and landscapes. He lived there until his death.\nThe old numbering of these houses is not entirely easy to ascertain. They were in the part of the road called Park Road. But there is some indication from the 1851 census that they were known as 1 and 2 Cambridge Villas.\nNos. 12 and 14 Clarendon Road (the two-storey side blocks with the front doors cannot be seen in this photo). (Photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006.) There is also a 1970 photograph of these houses in the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London. The side of No. 16 with its triumphal arch motif can be seen on the left.\nThe next terrace of houses on this side, Nos. 16-26 (evens), is also listed Grade II (English Heritage reference 203696). They have three storeys plus basements and were probably designed by James Thomson. They are indeed similar in style to Nos. 31-39 (odds), although fully stuccoed (coursed on the ground floor level), rather square and unadorned projecting porches approached by steps; little balconies and french windows at the first floor level and a cill band to the second floor. Again, the two end houses have a triumphal arch motive (see the photo above). The handsome backs are half stucco with channelling and stucco dressings around the upper windows; the central house has extra decoration. J. W. Ladbroke granted leases of these houses in 1844; they were developed by Richard Roy and William Reynolds (although there is an indication in an 1845 plan attached to a deed that Thomas Allason was the lessee of the whole of the section between Ladbroke Road and Lansdowne Rise). Reynolds used No. 16 for a time as his office. This whole terrace was originally called Clarendon Terrace, numbered 1-6 south to north.\nNos. 28 to 42 (evens), between Lansdowne Walk and St John\u2019s Gardens, consist of three pairs of very similar and pleasant semi-detached villas with a detached villa at either end. No. 28, the detached villa at the southern end, has its front door round the side in Lansdowne Walk and retains much of a handsome bottle balustrade along the boundary with the street. It used to be called Hanover Villa (now Hanover House), after Hanover Terrace, the old name of Lansdowne Walk. No. 42, with its entrance round the corner in Lansdowne Rise is called Priory Lodge. Check There was a determined attempt in the 1930s to replace Priory Lodge by a six-storey block of flats, but fortunately the planning authorities resisted on grounds of over-development and height, agreeing merely that the existing building should be converted into a maisonette and two flats.\nThe front doors of No. 28 Clarendon Road in Lansdowne Walk; and No. 42 (Priory Lodge) in\nSt John\u2019s Gardens (Photographs \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006). Since these photos were taken, additional\nwindows have been inserted in the entrance wall of No. 28.\nAgain the developers were Richard Roy and William Reynolds, and the houses were completed in 1946. Florence Gladstone in Notting Hill in bygone days suggests that these houses were begun by the Rev. Dr Walker and left in an unfinished state, but does not say what led her to this conclusion.\nThe villas are half stucco with a decorative band at the top of the stucco and stucco dressings around the windows. Nos. 38-40 also have dentelle work immediately under the cornice and there are sections of similar dentelle on No. 42, so probably all originally had this decorative feature. There were probably also brackets supporting the cornices. The porches are on the side and a variety of extensions have been built over them. Unfortunately, brick or stucco walls have been built along the boundaries with the highway of Nos. 30-40 (some obviously quite old; others very recent), out of character with the rest of the street, where the standard is for railings through which the architecture and greeenery can be glimpsed.\nThese villas do not have the large gardens of the houses opposite, but the whole row backs onto a communal garden shared with the inhabitants of the corresponding block in Lansdowne Road.\nDistinguished residents of these houses included the Scottish composer William Wallace (1860-1940) (who has an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography) and his wife the sculptor Ottilie Wallace (born in 1875) who lived at No. 32 during the 1930s. She studied under Rodin and rather specialised in war memorials. The German mathematician Olaus Henrici, FRS (1840-1918) lived at No. 34. He was professor of mathematics at University College London and president of the London Mathematical Society. No. 36 was the home of Baron Rowland de Steiger, who described his occupation in the 1881 census as \u2018Baron, Nobility of Switzerland.\u2019\nNos. 38 and 40 Clarendon Road, typical of the pairs of villas between Lansdowne Walk and St John\u2019s Gardens. (Photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006)\nNos. 12-26 (evens) were listed Grade II in 1984.\nNos.28-42 (evens) are subject to Article 4 Directions in respect of:\nprovision and extension of hard standing in front of the house;\nalterations to the side of the house;\nerection, demolition or alteration of gates fences and walls facing the highway;\nalteration to gates, walls and fences facing the communal gardens.\nNos. 12-26 and 28-42 (evens) have Category 1 rooflines, the highest level of protection.\nThe gaps between Nos. 28 and 30; 32 and 34; 36 and 38; and 40 and 42 are classified as important gaps in the 1976 Conservation Area Proposals Statement.\nPaintwork: the stucco on the houses in this section are all painted white of off-white, both back and front. This brings about a pleasant uniformity and we hope owners will keep to the present colour. Ironwork should be painted black and window frames white or black.\nNo.12 has a rather ugly solid parapet in front of its ground floor window which we hope will one day be replaced by an elegant ironwork balcony to match that on No. 14 (see photo above).\nNos. 16-26 make up a handsome terrace which would benefit from a uniform paint colour, preferably white or magnolia. We hope that this can be encouraged.\nNo. 34 has acquired a rather undistinguished brick extension above its porch; this would be improved by some stucco cornicing and window decoration. It also has wooden gates painted light brown, which does not fit in with the rest of the street. We hope that these can one day be replaced by wrought iron gates painted black.\nNo. 40 has lost its original porch completely, and it has been replaced by a three storey undecorated brick extension (see photo above). This looks as though it was added some considerable time ago and therefore has a historic value. But we doubt whather this is so great as to rule out the reinstatement of a porch if a future owner wished to do so.\nNo. 42 has decoration along its north side cornice (see below) which must once have extended all the way around the house. We hope that one day the other cornices will be restored to match.\nThe side of No. 42 around the corner in St John's Gardens. \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006.\nBETWEEN ST JOHN'S GARDENS AND LANSDOWNE RISE: EAST SIDE (Nos. 44-58 evens)\nNos. 44-58 (evens), between St John\u2019s Gardens and Lansdowne Rise, were apparently built by the same developers at around the same time, and were very similar in design, but fully stuccoed. The plot on which they were built was part of a field called Twelve Acres. They originally all had fine cornices supported by brackets, but a number of them have lost them (see photo below). It is to be hoped that future owners will replace these features. The porches are on the side, and again various infills have been built. The roofline fortunately remains untouched.\n48 and 50 Clarendon Road, typical of the paired villas in this block. Unfortunately, No. 50 has lost its fine cornice. It was the home of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and her daughter Dame Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), campaigners for Women\u2019s suffrage, and a blue plaque has been put up since this photograph was taken. No. 48 also had a distinguished resident in the person of Miss Margery Fry, prison reformer and sister of the artist Roger Fry(Photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006)\nThese semi-detached villas again back onto a communal garden shared with Lansdowne Road, with their own private gardens separated from the communal garden by railings. Between Nos. 50 and 52 there is a rare gap unencumbered by infilling, affording a glimpse through to the garden. The villas are stuccoed on the back and (apart from the heavily restored Nos. 54 and 56) the backs have survived relatively intact, with a minimum of protruding extensions. The backs of the three first pairs of villas are as handsome as the fronts, with decoration round the upper windows reflecting that on the front; and interesting long windows going up two floors on the sides nearest the porches, presumably to light the stairwells. The fine corbelled cornices (where they still exist) also extend around the back. Some houses have acquired handsome bay windows at ground floor level, surmounted by balustrades. The generous private gardens are separated from the communal garden by railings.\nRoy gave a 99-year lease of No. 44 (St John\u2019s Lodge) to Thomas Woodfield in 1946 for \u00a312. 10s per annum, plus \u00a33. 3s for use of the \u201cpleasure gardens\u201d, but appears to have purchased the freehold (still subject to the lease) in 1868 for \u00a3438. [Deed 4721 in the Local Studies Centre]. It is a corner house, with its entrance around the corner in St John\u2019s Gardens. After the Second World War, whereas many houses in the area became sleazy flats and bedsits, some were bought at what would now seem ridiculously low prices by middle class families or single women. One such was a lady with the wonderful name of Lily Rose, who remained at No 44 for some 50 years. By the time she moved out in the 1990s as a very old lady, the house had fallen into considerable disrepair. When it was renovated in 2000, the developer discovered traces of tiny decorative lion\u2019s heads above the brackets supporting the cornice, and he has replaced them \u2013 although they are barely visible from the street. It may be that many other houses had similar unnoticeable tiny decoration that has simply disappeared.\nNos. 48 and 50 both had distinguished residents in the past. No. 48 was the home of Margery Fry (1874-1958), a well-known prison reformer of the mid-20th century, one of the first women to become a magistrate, and Principal of Somerville College Oxford from 1926-30. According to the Dictionary of National Biography, \u201csoon after her retirement in 1931 she established a new base in London, at 48 Clarendon Road, Notting Hill, \u2018absolutely on the borderline of slum and respectability\u2019, and filled it with paintings and objects of beauty collected over the years. For the remainder of her life this was her home, and a home for the homeless and wanderers of many countries, as well as a meeting place for radicals and reformers with different interests and shades of opinion.\nNo 50 was the home of Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) and her daughter Dame Christabel Pankhurst (1880-1958), who were among the best-known campaigners for women\u2019s suffrage. A blue plaque has been put up to mark their residence there. Check dates\nNo. 52 has acquired a Tudor revival side porch and mullioned window on its southern flank, probably added in the late 19th century. Nos. 54 (now called Clare Court) was enlarged and converted into flats in 1937 and is now barely recognisable as the handsome building it must once have been, and a similar fate has befallen No. 56 (Clarendon Lodge) which had been damaged by a bomb in its back garden in 1940 \u2013 although quite a lot of the original back seems to have survived. In the rebuilding, the previous gap between Nos. 54 and 56 has disappeared completely with infills going to roof level. No. 58 survives more nearly in its original form, with its entrance on the side in Lansdowne Rise. It must once have had cornices similar to those that survive on the three southern pairs.\nNos. 44-52 have article 4 directions requiring planning permission for alterations of front windows or doors (1996); the provision or extension of hard standing in front (1996); alterations to the rear of the house (1998); and the erection, alteration or demolition of gates, fences and walls facing the highway (1998).\nNos. 44-58 have Article 4 directions requiring planning permission for alterations to walls, gates and fences facing the communal gardens (1998).\nNos. 46-52 have Article 4 directions requiring planning permission for alterations to the side of the house (1998).\nNos. 44-52 have Category 1 rooflines.\nAny further infilling of the gaps between these villas should be resisted.\nThe traditional pattern is for there to be railings along the boundary with the highway, allowing glimpses of the architecture and garden. Unfortunately, at least one wall has been erected. This is out of character and the erection of further walls should be resisted.\nAll the houses are currently (2014) painted white or cream, back and front. This uniformity is welcome and we hope that owners will continue to keep to this.\nNos. 46 and 50 have lost their corbelled cornices; a pity, as both are part of pairs of which the other half still has its fine cornice (see photo above). We hope that matching cornices can be restored one day.\nNo. 46 is the only house on this stretch to have replaced its railings by a wall. Any further walls should be resisted.\nThe rear elevation of the infill between Nos. 54 and 56 is plain stock brick and the only non-stucco part of the rear elevations. It would be greatly improved if it could be stuccoed.\nFurther extensions at the back of these houses should be resisted. The rear elevations are generally attractive and should not be spoilt by add-ons, even if part hidden by vegetations - which may not always be there..\nBetween Lansdowne Rise and Elgin Crescent: east side (Nos. 60-78)\nNos. 60-66 (evens) were completed around 1846 (Roy gave leases of these houses in that year, by arrangement with Reynolds, to H. P. Bruyeres of the Junior United Service Club, who had probably put up some of the finance for their construction). They were originally two pairs of semi-detached villas. Neither the blitz nor the developers have been kind to this block, which suffered severe bomb damage in 1940 and has been almost entirely rebuilt, not very sympathetically.\nNos. 60 and 62 were damaged by a bomb during the blitz on 26 September 1940. After the War, in 1946, four prefab houses werre put up on the site and remained there for 10 years, before being replaced by the present brick-built block of flats, which sadly makes no attempt to blend in with its surroundings. No. 62 was the home of Sir Richard Cayley (1833-1908), a former Chief Justice of Ceylon.\nNos. 64 and 66 (now Garden Court) have also been rebuilt as flats in featureless stucco. The windows on No. 66 are particularly ugly.We have no real idea what the original houses looked like. Behind No. 64 a block of garages was refurbished in the 1960s by the Czech Refugee Trust Fund to become dwellings for Czechs displaced by Hitler\u2019s invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Second World War, a large number of whom had come to Britain. This now forms a rather ugly block adjoining the Montpelier communal garden.\nNos. 68-78 (evens) were on land acquired by Charles Blake and were built a few years later, in 1851, when Blake granted leases to the builders Thomas Holmes (Nos. 68-76) and Thomas Smith (No. 78), who had probably been involved in their construction. The Survey of London suggests that they were perhaps designed by an architect or surveyor called William Sim, who was responsible for many of the houses in Elgin Crescent. These houses are much simpler in style than those further south, perhaps indicative of harder times for the developers. Nos. 68-76 form a neat terrace of three-storey houses, albeit with slightly clumsy square porches. They are full stucco with minimal decoration round the upper windows but with a cill band to the first floor windows. No. 68 was was badly bomb-damaged and most unsympathetically restored in the 1950s with metal-framed windows of the wrong size and none of the original decoration. Happily, the house has recently had all its original features restored and the terrace is once again uniform. No. 76 has acquired a high dormer floor that detracts from the look of the terrace. All the houses have hardstanding in front. No. 70 has its original stone front steps.\nThe rears are plain brick with private gardens giving onto the Montpelier communal garden. The original fenestration has survived from the ground floors up, although various alterations have been made to the lower ground floors, mostly in the form of full width extensions at lower ground floor with balconies above. In some cases, the lightwells have been enlarged and the gardens stepped down. As the private gardens are exceptionally long, these alterations do not obtrude too much. The norm is for railings and ironwork gates separating the private gardens from the communal one. Solid brick walls have been erected between some of the gardens.\nNo. 78 near the corner of Elgin Crescent is in a quite different style, crammed into a tiny gap and matching the adjoining house in Elgin Crescent with its arched windows.. It appears originally to have been part of 153 Elgin Crescent and is now again.\n68-74 Clarendon Road, built around 1851. The middle house of the terrace was unsypathetically restored after bomb damage in 1940, but has now had its former stucco features restored. No 76 is the red-painted house on the left. Photo 2013.\nDesignations and Article 4 Directions\nNos. 60-78 have Article 4 Directions requiring planning permission for alterations of front windows or doors (1996); the provision or extension of hard standing in front (1996); and the erection, alteration or demolition of gates, fences and walls facing the highway (1998);\nNos. 68-78 have Article 4 Directions requiring planning permission for alterations to the rear of the house (1998);\nThe rear elevations of Nos. 68-78 are classified as important in the 1976 Conservation Area Proposals Statement.\nPaintwork: we recommend that these houses be painted white or pastel colours. Nos. 68-76 are in particular part of a uniform terrace and dark colours interrupt this elegant uniformity. Ironwork should be painted black, and window frames white or black.\nFurther dormers should be resisted on Nos. 68-76, which, apart from No. 76, retain a good uniform roofline.\nSome of the ironwork on the front could be improved.\nNo. 68 has rather droopy asphalt steps and out-of-character tubular railings. We hope that one day the steps will be paved and the railings redone.\nWe think that any further rear extensions should not be allowed to protrude beyond the existing ones. To preserve the character of this terrace, new rear lower ground floor windows should have traditional wooden glazing bars, and railings on rear balconies should be ironwork. We recommend that all railings on the rear are painted black.\nBetween Elgin and Blenheim Crescents: Nos. 80-110\nIn 1846, James Weller Ladbroke gave Richard Roy a 93-year lease at a peppercorn rent of three fields called (rather unimaginatively) Fifteen Acres; Eighteen Acres; and Middle Hill. They formed a four-sided plot between four \u201cintended roads\u201d that had already been mapped out: Sussex Road East (now Blenheim Crescent) to the north; Arundel Road East (now Elgin Crescent) to the south; Ladbroke Road (now Ladbroke Grove) to the east; and \u201cClarendon Road North\u201d to the west. The lease [document 4579 in the local Studies Library] was to allow Roy to build houses on the plot and contained detailed instructions. It specified that no more than 40 houses should be built on the plot and that all should of at least \u00a3400 by value, with at least half of a value of \u00a31,000. Ladbroke was clearly determined to ensure that good quality, high value buildings should be erected on this land. The lease also contains specifications as the materials to be used, thickness of the walls and a host of other details. The lessee also had to undertake to ensure that the wood and metal work on the completed buildings was regularly repainted \u2013 once every seven years for the outside and every three years for the inside. The lessee also had to complete the roads and pavements.\nOn the Clarendon Road side of this plot, nothing was done for some five or six years, by which time the land seems to have passed to another of the Ladbroke Estate\u2019s developer/speculators, Dr Samuel Walker. Then, the current Nos. 90-108 were built. This little terrace was called Gloucester Terrace (No. 90 was No 1. Gloucester Terrace) and Walker granted 99-year leases of the completed buildings in 1853 to William C. Gazeley, a builder of Camden Town, who had presumably been responsible for erecting the terrace. Nos. 90-108 form a symmetrical block. They are full stucco and have highly raised ground floors with steep steps up to their front doors. The two end houses have their entrances on the side (with infill above) and are set back slightly to create a book-ending effect, and the four central houses are also set back. There are triangular pediments over the first floor windows, and rather curiously (and not entirely happily) over blind windows between the houses (except for the two end houses). Nos. 106-108 have somewhat clumsy offset winding stairs up to their front doors, possibly put in to create a space for a central door at lower ground floor level to a garden flat.. The backs of the terrace give onto the Blenheim-Elgin Garden and are also handsomely stuccoed, with similar pediments and book-ending to the fronts. Mercifully, they are remarkably free of unsuitable extensions, although the view of Nos. 102-110 is marred by extensions belonging to No. 137 Blenheim Crescent. There are small private gardens.\nThe terrace appears to have been much knocked about. No. 90, for instance, suffered bomb damage on two separate occasions in World War II, but has been immaculately restored. Other parts of the terrace have fared less well. Nos. 96 and 98 were also bomb-damaged and then shoddily rebuilt as a block of eight privately-owned flats, with only one front door, at lower ground floor level. No. 94 has recently had its stucco decoration nicely restored, but Nos. 100 and 102 have lost their triangular pediments and No. 102 also lacks a cornice. No. 106 has lost the detail round its upper windows.\n102-108 (evens) Clarendon Road (photo \u00a9 Thomas Erskine 2006)\nDuring a period in the 1850s and 1860s, No. 100 (8 Gloucester Terrace) was the home of the painter and stained glass designer N.H.J. Westlake (1833-1831), a leading member of the Gothic revival movement who was responsible for most of the paintings in the Roman Catholic church of St Francis of Assisi in Pottery Lane [Survey of London and 1861 census].\nThe handsome stuccoed backs of these houses, showing the triangular pediments.\nNo. 110, the corner house, is something of a one-off, set back slightly and detached on three sides. Its 19th century name was Marlborough House. Its entrance is in Blenheim Crescent. Unlike its neighbours, it is (coursed) half stucco. It seems originally to have had bow-windows (shown on the 1863 map), and may have been substantially rebuilt at some stage. It was subsequently joined with No. 108 and acquired a shop-front. The bottom two floors were between the wars a printing works, along with 137 Blenheim Crescent. Both buildings continued in light industrial and office use into the 1980s. In the 1980s, however, the shop-front was removed and the ground floor reconstructed to blend in with the upper floors, resulting in the present handsome and somewhat idiosyncratic building.\nNo. 110 Clarendon Road, originally Marlborough House, with its entrance\nin Blenheim Crescent. (Photograph \u00a9Thomas Erskine 2006)\nThe plot where Nos. 80-88 now stand was still a vacant lot at the time of the 1863 Ordnance Survey map of the area. A little terrace of five houses was built shortly after and called 1-5 Gloucester Place, to be renumbered 80-88 Clarendon Road in 1866. Money was obviously short, as they are much simpler and more cheaply built than their neighbours. They have plain half stucco. No. 88 is the best-looking, with good window dressings. The others have few virtues and No. 86 has been marred by painting on its brickwork. Nos. 82-88 have plain brick backs and have access via a passageway to the Blenheim-Elgin Garden. At some point No. 80 disappeared (possibly bombed during the Second World War) and the current small building erected \u2013 it grew out of two garages that were put up on the vacant plot in the 1950s, to which were added first a basement (used as a club and then a flat) and then an extra floor on top \u2013 a typical piece of creeping development.\nNos. 80-110 are all subject to Article 4 directions which remove permitted development rights in respect of:\nthe provision or extension of hard standing in front;\nand the erection, alteration or demolition of gates, fences and walls facing the highway.\nPaintwork: we recommend that both front and rear elevations of these houses be painted white or pastel colours so as not to interfere unduly with the unity of this interesting terrace. Drainpipes should be painted to match the stucco (some on the backs are black). Ironwork should be painted black.\nWe hope that the relatively untouched rear extensions will remain unadulterated by inappropriate extensions.\nThe lower ground floor windows of Nos. 96-98 are particularly ugly with their metal frames and we hope that they will be replaced one day with timber-framed ones more in tune with the terrace.\nNos. 100 and 102 would benefit from having the stucco decoration on their fa\u00e7ades restored so as to enhance the symmetry of the terrace.\nNo. 106 would benefit from having the detailing around its top floor windows reinstated.\nThe northern end\nThe northern end was developed only in the 1850s and very few of the houses remain. They were terrace houses, probably a lot more cheaply and jerry-built than the earlier villas. This part of the street is outside the conservation area.\nImmediately north of Blenheim Crescent, on the east side, there was originally a terrace of five houses called Marlborough Place (Nos. 112-120). The once uniform terrace is now a motley collection of styles. The first two houses, Nos. 112 and 114, was converted \u2013 rather badly - into a block of flats (now No. 112) in the late 1940s. They are the only ones to give a hint of what the terrace originally looked like. No. 116 was bomb-damaged and for many years after the war it was a derelict vacant lot, used as a lorry park. Developers obtained permission to build a five-story block of flats on the site in the late 1960s, and got as far as building a concrete framework. But they could not complete the works and it was not until the early 1980s that the present grey and white rendered structure was finished. Nos. 118-120 had been rebuilt many years before as a good-quality-looking block of flats in attractive weathered red brick.\nOn the other side of Cornwall Crescent, there was a villa in a large triangular garden on the corner plot and then a pair of large semi-detached villas. Finally there were terraces called Talbot Terrace (which included a pub, the Talbot Arms) and Sydenham Terrace, all now engulfed by the tangle of social housing blocks at this end of the road.\nOn the west side, the City merchant Stephen Phillips financed the building of houses all along the road, mostly during the 1850s. Almost all have now disappeared, replaced by two huge blocks of social housing, Nottingwood House and Allom House, and by a series of mostly undistinguished modern structures.\nNottingwood House at the northern end of Clarendon Road.\nThe main exception is the former Britannia public house at No. 123a Clarendon Road, on the corner of Portland road (or rather the northern arm of Portland Road to give onto Clarendon Road. It is unfortunately marred by the shopfront that has been added to it (which is now a restaurant), but the high late Victorian pub architecture can be seen clearly on the upper floors. The house next door at No. 121 used to be the Clarendon Mission Hall in the early 1900s.\nThe former Britannia public house (No. 123 Clarendon Road) in 2011. There is an old photograph of the pub in the North Kensington volume of the Survey of London (plate 75e ).\nPage last updated 19.11.2014. Back to home page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 76913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lasvegasartscouncil.org/mothers-day-concert-may-8-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DP43QXO2T2GJSF7V7CHKG7TVR2N5RX7X", "length": 1958, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "lasvegasartscouncil.org", "title": "Mothers Day Concert May 8, 2016 | Las Vegas Arts Council & Gallery 140", "raw_content": "Tenor Marco Vigil performed the second in a series of \u201cWords and Music\u201d concerts here in Las Vegas on Sunday, May 8.\nMarcos is a singer and musician that grew up in Las Vegas, went to school here, studied music at Highlands University, then left for New York City to launch a career as a successful tenor. (More information on Marcos below).\nHe will be returning to Las Vegas occasionally to perform in and produce a variety of musical events for the people of his home town. He has been drawn back by the exciting news of many good things happening here and wants to contribute to the creative spirit that is reenergizing the town.\nMarcos is a model for the kind of talented individuals who are creating the future of Las Vegas. Like others, he is originally from here, but has made a conscious decision to return to (or stay in) Las Vegas and produce important work here.\nBe prepared to be astounded.\nJoin Marcos Vigil as he is accompanied by pianist Linda King for an afternoon of beautiful Words and Music. Meet Marcos after the concert at a reception in the Atrium.\nChamp Tyrone Music Building\n1052 11th St. Las Vegas, NM\nAdults, $15; Students; $10\nIf you reserved your seats online, we will have a VIP list at the event!\nWe look forward to celebrating Mothers Day with you!\nTenor Marcos Vigil has performed the role of Prunier in Puccini\u2019s La rondine with Prelude to Performance, as well as the role of Beppe in Donizetti\u2019s Rita, where Opera News hailed his performance as \u201ca comedic and vocal tour-de-force\u201d. He has performed as Don Eusebio in Little Opera Theater of New York\u2019s production of Rossini\u2019s Opportunity Makes the Thief. Other roles include Don Ramiro in La cenerentola with Capital Heights Lyric Opera of New York, and Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Company of Brooklyn. Future engagements include King Nebuchadnezzar in Benjamin Britten\u2019s The Burning Fiery Furnace with Opera Brittenica in Boston.\n\u2013with Roy Montibon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lawrencehumane.org/press-release-lawrence-humane-society-launches-campaign-to-build-a-new-shelter-april-12-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QYCB6NM7YOHXF75EJTRFF6XF2STNLR2F", "length": 2090, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "lawrencehumane.org", "title": "Press Release: Lawrence Humane Society launches campaign to build a new shelter (April 12, 2017) \u2013 Lawrence Humane Society", "raw_content": "Press Release: Lawrence Humane Society launches campaign to build a new shelter (April 12, 2017)\n663Press Release: Lawrence Humane Society launches campaign to build a new shelter (April 12, 2017)\n123 Press Release: Lawrence Humane Society launches campaign to build a new shelter (April 12, 2017)\nAnimal shelter needs community\u2019s help to raise remaining ~$2 million of $7.5 million campaign goal.\nCLICK TO TWEET: .@lawrencehumane announces plans to build a new shelter. Learn more about #ForThem and how you can help: http://bit.ly/2nJcEbo\nLAWRENCE, KAN. \u2014 April 12, 2017 \u2014 The Lawrence Humane Society has raised ~$5.5 million, more than 73% of its $7.5 million capital campaign goal, to build a new animal shelter for Lawrence and Douglas County. The Lawrence Humane Society announced the public phase of the campaign during a celebration event Friday night at Bon Bon in East Lawrence.\nThe For Them Capital Campaign\u2019s purpose to build a state-of-the-art animal shelter that will help the organization provide the highest-quality care to pets in need while saving more lives.\n\u201cWe are incredibly grateful for the support and generosity of the members of our community who joined us in pledging during the quiet phase of the campaign, and for the support of the City of Lawrence, which has provided a $2.5 million commitment to help with this crucial project,\u201d said Kate Meghji, executive director for the Lawrence Humane Society.\nThe current LHS shelter, built in 1995 with an expansion in 2007, was not built to animal shelter standards and does not meet standards for proper care and disease management of animals housed in the shelter. Challenges include:\nThe Lawrence Humane Society is now asking for the community\u2019s support to raise the remaining $2 million by November 2017. Meeting this deadline will allow construction to begin in December. Those interested in donating to the campaign can do so with one-time or recurring gifts (made over a 5-year pledge period).\nVisit www.lawrencehumane.org/campaign for more information about the For Them Campaign and how you can get involved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lcit.com.au/moorebank-intermodals/sydney-freight-strategy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VFCC6HB6GT3S6VMFAG5VBL7NQOCTE6ZH", "length": 15519, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "lcit.com.au", "title": "Sydney Freight Strategy | Liverpool Community Independents Team", "raw_content": "\u201cIt no longer makes any sense to use precious Sydney rail capacity to carry freight.\u201d\nSydney people need more public transport. Rail services can be increased by using all network capacity for passenger trains and removing freight trains.\nDeloitte Access Economics estimates that \u201din Sydney, if rail absorbed 30% of the forecast increase in urban travel then congestion, safety and carbon emission costs could be reduced by around $1 billion a year by 2025\u201d.\nA freight rail by-pass through outer western Sydney is New South Wales government policy.\nCommencing at Glenfield in Sydney\u2019s southwest, the line would pass through Badgery\u2019s Creek, Eastern Creek and west of the Central Coast to Hexham, 15 km west of Newcastle. There would be a link from Hexham to the Port of Newcastle.\nConstruction would take 10 \u2013 15 years but the NSW government has no plan to start work because there are no funds.\nSydney will have sufficient freight rail capacity until 2028, as a result of an upgrade of the Main North line, costing $1.1 billion. However, the NSW government has no funds for increasing freight capacity after 2028, which is estimated to cost $4.4 billion, in present value terms.\nTherefore, the NSW government is unable to fund either of its two options for increasing freight rail capacity by 2028, even though the lead time is 10 \u2013 15 years.\nThe solution is to build a container terminal at the Port of Newcastle and rail containers directly to an intermodal terminal at Eastern Creek using the freight rail by-pass.\nPrivate enterprise would fund and build the three projects because they are all commercially viable. Paying for the projects would be possible by replacing trucks with trains for transporting containers for the Sydney market, and using rail for all interstate freight entering Sydney.\nPort Botany container terminal would continue to operate until the Newcastle-Glenfield freight rail line was completed. Last year, containers moving through Port Botany terminal numbered 2 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent unit). But by 2030, the number of container movements is estimated by the NSW government to be 7 million TEU.\nTo cope with the growth in container movements, the NSW government intends to build an intermodal terminal at Eastern Creek. Such a terminal would be able to handle all of Sydney\u2019s container requirements with unlimited scope for expansion, to meet demand well into the next century.\nThe NSW government recently leased Port Botany container terminal for 99 years, to raise capital for state infrastructure projects. A transfer of container terminal operations to Newcastle would be possible by including the Newcastle container terminal site in the lease deal, for nothing.\nThe site\u2019s former owner, BHP, paid the NSW government $100 million in 2001 to assume ownership of the site. Therefore, leasing the site comes at no cost to the state but enormous economic benefit to the NSW economy, especially northern NSW.\nUntil the freight rail by-pass line was built, all containers would be railed between Port Botany and the Eastern Creek intermodal terminal.\nWith completion of the South Sydney Freight Line this year, there is now a dedicated freight rail line between Port Botany and Glenfield. Building the section of the freight rail line between Glenfield and Eastern Creek would occur concurrently with building the Eastern Creek intermodal terminal.\nEastern Creek would be the closest intermodal terminal to the main demand areas for containerised goods in Sydney.\nFactories and warehouses currently occupy 5,500 hectares of land in inner western Sydney. At present, these factories and warehouses are mainly served by truck from Port Botany. In 2012, the number of containers moved by truck was 1.7 million TEU but only 0.3 million TEU were moved by rail.\nThere would be great incentive for owners to relocate their inner western factories and warehouses to outer western Sydney, to take full advantage of an Eastern Creek intermodal terminal. Use of the land for residential development would pay for building new facilities with much cash to spare.\nContainers would be railed between Newcastle and Eastern Creek faster than they would be shipped past Newcastle to Port Botany and then railed to Eastern Creek. The cost difference, if there was one, would be trivial.\nA future use of the Port Botany container terminal site is for airport purposes.\nA key restriction on passenger movements at Sydney Airport is the length of the parallel runway. At 2438 metres, it is 1524 metres shorter than the main runway. The runway imbalance limits the scope for continued increases in the use of very large aircraft as a key element in the strategy to handle growing traffic within the constraints of the site.\nAdditionally, ships using Port Botany container terminal constrain aircraft movements. Therefore, it seems that multiple constraints could be overcome by relocating the container terminal to Newcastle.\nAt Newcastle, the container terminal would be rail-based. Initially, the terminal would serve customers in northern NSW, and would be commercially viable immediately.\nAn intermodal terminal would be built west of Newcastle to handle northern NSW requirements and a series of intermodal terminals would be built at major centres in northern NSW.\nRemoving freight from the Newcastle-Lake Macquarie rail corridor would enable urban revitalisation. Medium density residential development using degraded land along the existing heavy rail corridor would fund a light rail system, with extensions to the south, west and north using existing rail easements that were originally used last century for transporting coal by light rail to the port.\nIndustry would be encouraged to relocate from Sydney to northern NSW, to take advantage of rail access to the Newcastle container terminal.\nContainers are how the world trades. Container terminals drive new markets, supply chains and infrastructure. Any region without adequate access to a container terminal is at a competitive disadvantage in world trade.\nNSW government policy requires the people of northern NSW to use Port Botany container terminal. There are many disadvantages, including\u2013\nrequiring imported goods to be trucked from Sydney\nrequiring export goods to be trucked to Sydney\ndiscouraging exports from northern NSW because of inadequate access to a container terminal\ndiscouraging jobs in northern NSW because of inadequate access to a container terminal\ndiscouraging firms relocating from Sydney to northern NSW because of inadequate access to a container terminal\nIt is difficult to imagine a more beneficial economic initiative for northern NSW than a container terminal at the Port of Newcastle.\nThe NSW government opposes a container terminal at the Port of Newcastle and is unable to provide a reason. There isn\u2019t one.\nMoorebank intermodal terminals are surplus to requirements\nTwo small intermodal terminals competing with each other are planned for Moorebank in Sydney\u2019s southwest.\nThe privately-owned SIMTA consortium proposes a terminal with 1 million TEU capacity. Next door, the Australian government proposes a terminal with 1.2 million TEU capacity for import/export and 0.5 million TEU for interstate transfers.\nSIMTA released its draft Environmental Impact Statement on 3 June 2013 but the Australian government is yet to release its EIS.\nAt combined maximum capacity of 2.2 million TEU, the number of containers moved by truck in and out of Moorebank will be 0.5 million TEU more than containers moved by truck through Port Botany in 2012.\nAt issue is the capacity of roads at Moorebank to handle this extraordinary increase in truck movements.\nRail would be used to transport containers between Port Botany and the two new intermodal terminals at Moorebank.\nBy 2020, an estimated 3.2 million TEU will move through Port Botany. Of these, 2.2 million TEU would be railed to Moorebank; 0.3 million TEU would be railed to intermodal terminals at Enfield and Cooks Hill; and, 0.7 million TEU would be trucked.\nIf either of the two Moorebank intermodal terminals did not proceed, the containers would be moved by truck.\nIf the two Moorebank intermodals terminals are built, there will still be a shortage of intermodal terminal capacity before 2020. Unless the Eastern Creek intermodal terminal is built, the capacity shortage will increase to around 4.5 million TEU in 2030.\nIn the time it takes to build one or two intermodal terminals at Moorebank, the intermodal terminal can be built at Eastern Creek. (An alternative location is Badgery\u2019s Creek using buffer zone land already owned by the Australian government for a future second Sydney airport.)\nBuilding a freight rail line between Glenfield and Badgery\u2019s Creek/Eastern Creek would take about the same time as building the intermodal terminal.\nWhen freight is removed from the metropolitan rail system, Moorebank would enjoy an excellent passenger rail service. However, there would be no freight rail service.\nThe Liverpool City Council has long advocated that the best use for the two Moorebank intermodal terminal sites is for employment-generating business parks.\nNSFC stages 2 and 3 and Western Freight line are not required\n\u201dNorthern Sydney Freight Corridor\u201d (NSFC) is the name given to the 3-stage project of upgrading the Main North line between Strathfield and Newcastle to carry more freight.\nNSFC is not a separate freight line but is, instead, a series of augmentations to the existing shared network which would allow passenger and freight trains to interoperate more freely and would therefore create additional freight train paths. NSFC would transition towards a dedicated freight line at completion of stage 3. (Deloitte Access Economics, June 2011)\nAt a cost of $1.1 billion, NSFC stage 1 is the only stage that has been funded. The Australian government is contributing $840 million and the NSW government the rest. Stage 1 comprises:\nNorth Strathfield Rail Underpass;\nEpping to Pennant Hills Third Track;\nGosford Passing Loops; and\nHexham Passing Loop.\nStage 2 of NSFC is forecast to cost around $3.4 billion and stage three $3.2 billion. This expenditure would be spread over 12 years and so, in present value terms, the capital cost for stages 1, 2 and 3 is around $5.2 billion. Given that stage 1 is fully funded, the unfunded capital cost for stages 2 and 3 is around $4.4 billion in present value terms. (Deloitte) The NSW government is asking the Australian government to fund stages 2 and 3.\nAs a result of NSFC stage 1, the proportion of freight entering Sydney by rail from Queensland is expected to increase from around 11% in 2005 to over 40% in 2025. (Deloitte, December 2011) The NSW government is satisfied that Stage 1 will provide enough additional capacity to accommodate demand up to about 2028. (Transport for NSW, February 2012)\nThe NSW government is also proposing to build the \u201dWestern Freight Line\u201d, between Villawood and Eastern Creek. This line would provide direct access to Eastern Creek for freight carried on NSFC. The Western Freight line would also connect Port Botany by rail with Eastern Creek. The NSW government is planning for an intermodal terminal to be built at Eastern Creek, which would also receive freight from Victoria. Seventy-five per cent of interstate freight entering Sydney has Sydney as its end destination.\nIf the outer western Sydney freight rail by-pass was built, between Glenfield and Newcastle, it is feasible that all freight entering Sydney would be railed. Stages 2 and 3 of NSFC would not be built \u2013 a cost saving of $4.4 billion in present value terms. The Western Freight Line would also not be built \u2013 a further cost saving.\nThe commercial appeal is that rail freight is cheaper than road freight. Consequently the Australian economy would benefit from the increased efficiency.\nAirport or Container terminal: which is the best land use for the Port Botany site?\nSydney Airport suffers physical constraints. Would it benefit New South Wales for Sydney Airport to have use of the land occupied by Port Botany container terminal and relocating these operations to Newcastle?\nIn March 2012, the physical constraints of the airport site were discussed in the \u201dReport of the Steering Committee overseeing the Joint Study on aviation capacity for the Sydney region\u201d, prepared by the NSW and Australian governments. This is what they said\u2013\n\u201dThe capacity for Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport to continue to grow to meet demand is affected by a number of factors.\nThe site measures some 907 hectares, small by comparison to other major airports in Australia and overseas. The site has operated as Sydney\u2019s main airport since 1920 and, has been developed and expanded over time, including by extending runways to the south into Botany Bay. Any further extension of the site is limited by urban development and by Botany Bay to the south, the Cooks River to the west and Port Botany to the south-east.\nThe particular configuration of the runways, taxiways, terminals and aprons arises from the staged development of the site over time and the constraints of the site. It does not reflect the optimal layout for terminals and runways at a major airport.\nThere are currently three runways: the main runway 16R/34L at 3,962 metres long, the parallel north-south runway 16L/34R at 2,438 metres and the single east-west cross runway 25/07 at 2,530 metres.\nIf weather prevents the use of the dual parallel runway system, the capacity is limited to a maximum of around 55 movements per hour \u2013 well below the current demand during substantial periods of the day. The length of the cross runway means that it is not suitable for use by all large aircraft operations.\nThere is a variety of limitations on runway 16L/34R due to its shorter length. For example, the taxiway fillet design does not cater for long wheel base aircraft such as the B777-300.\nStandard operating procedures also generally preclude aircraft greater than B767 from using that runway. This creates an imbalance between the two parallel runways and reduces the capacity to operate the parallel runway system efficiently.\nIn the long term, the runway imbalance will limit the scope for continued increases in the use of very large aircraft as a key element in the strategy to handle growing traffic within the constraints of the site.\nThe constraints of the small airport site also rule out any significant realignment of runways or rationalisation of the taxiway and apron systems. At current demand levels, the existing stands and apron areas are already heavily utilised at each terminal during peak times. Growth in aircraft movements, particularly in peak times, will require additional gate capacity in the near to medium-term.\nThere is already a requirement to tow aircraft off to remote stands, particularly from the international terminal, to free up gate availability. This has flow-on effects to the runways and taxiways.\u201d\nWould these problems be lessened or indeed overcome by using the Port Botany container terminal site?\nLinks to articles on Alternatives.\nLloyds List DCN 11 July 2013 p4\nhttp://www.containerterminalpolicyinnsw.com.au/\n*Greg Cameron is an independent consultant in the field of public policy regarding transport infrastructure and urban water supply. He has previously worked in public affairs in the mining and steel industries. At BHP Newcastle steelworks, from 1994 to 2000, his focus was on participative economic development in collaboration with the University of Newcastle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 20341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lectionarycentral.com/easter3/Curry.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NWEOKG3SUY4UKEORSTEO3L6FT5NPQFNI", "length": 5040, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "lectionarycentral.com", "title": "Fr. David Curry", "raw_content": "Christ Church, Windsor, NS\n\u201cBecause I go to the Father\u201d\nThere is a lyrical and, indeed, a mystical quality to these last three Sundays of Eastertide. It is captured in a recurring refrain: \u201cBecause I go to the Father\u201d. The understanding of the Resurrection is concentrated in the simple eloquence of this line. Even more, the understanding of God himself in his self-revelation is concentrated for us in such a line. \u201cBecause I go to the Father\u201d.\nIt is the recurring refrain in what is known as the farewell discourse of Jesus to the disciples in John\u2019s Gospel. It portends the events of the crucifixion but as seen in the greater light of the Resurrection and Ascension; that is to say, the crucifixion as belonging to the glorification of Christ. The phrase suggests, in short, something of the fundamental identity of Jesus Christ and something of his purpose for us. \u201cBecause I go to the Father\u201d underscores with even greater intensity that the Word which was in the beginning with God is ever \u03c0\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2 \u03c4\u03bf\u03bd \u03b8\u03b5\u03bf\u03bd, that is to say, ever in motion towards God who is now known as the Father, even as Jesus is the Son.\nIt expresses the dynamic relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit to which everything else is related. In other words, everything is to be understood in terms of the primacy of this spiritual relationship. And it is the condition of our spiritual freedom and spiritual identity that we enter into this understanding. \u201cBecause I go to the Father\u201d, the Holy Spirit will come and teach you and lead you into all truth and, perhaps, most importantly, \u201cwill bring to your remembrance all the words which I have spoken to you\u201d. It is the condition of his being with us through his going from us. \u201cA little while and you shall see me no longer\u201d.\nAnd what does it mean for us? It means transformation and joy. We enter into the process of our transformation: to become what we behold in Christ Jesus. There is at once the renewing of our minds in the holy things of God and the increasing attainment of a whole new outlook.\nPerhaps, the simple point of this transformation is best illustrated from one of the lessons of the Resurrection itself: the story of Mary Magdalene. She comes early and weeping to the tomb, looking for the dead body of her Lord. She has come for the anointing. Her deep attachment to Christ is focused on the body, on the tangible form of Christ. What is not expected is not looked for and so is not immediately recognised; it is at first simply communicated and then comes the slow dawning of her understanding of what is revealed in the Risen Christ who calls her by name. Her understanding means the transformation of her relationship with Christ. It will no longer be tangible, immediate and sensual, as it were (by which I do not mean sexual!). It will be primarily and profoundly spiritual.\nNoli me tangere! Jesus tells her. Do not touch me. Do not hold onto me in the sense of do not be clinging to me physically, sensually, as in \u201cthrough the senses\u201d. Why? Because of the profounder meaning of his identity as the Son of the Father which he has come to draw us into as well. \u201cFor I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God\u201d. See - his Father is now our Father. Such is the primary orientation of his whole being. The Son is ever towards the Father. And such is the condition of our spiritual fellowship with him and with one another. Notice how Mary is sprung out of the early morning loneliness of her grief and set into motion towards the community of faith. She is the original apostolic bearer of the good news of the Resurrection to the brethren, apostle apostolorum.\nBut does this mean the repudiation of the sensual, of the body? By no means. It is rather part and parcel of its redemption. Through the sensuality of the body, Christ has made a way for us to the intimacy of the Father, my father and your father. \u201cBecause I go to the Father\u201d signals the intimacy of spiritual fellowship.\nIt is a matter of maturity - of Mary Magdalene\u2019s maturing and ours. It is not a matter of the rejection of the body and the flesh, or even of the forms of sensual knowing - of what is known through the senses. It is rather the process of transformation into a deeper and profounder understanding where what is known is known as known and not just experienced, not just felt.\nSo much is this not a repudiation of the reality of the body is signified in the Resurrection appearances which go together with Jesus\u2019 appearing to Mary, namely, his appearance to Thomas. You see, to the one who clings to the flesh, he says, \u201ctouch me not\u201d; to the one who doubts the flesh, he says, \u201ctouch me and see\u201d. He accommodates himself to each to effect in each a transformation of their understanding. Such is the power of the resurrection in us.\nIt is all for the sake of the greater intimacy: the intimacy of our spiritual identity in Christ. 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That isn't all there is to know, however. So find out what you don't know in the article below. When doing a DIY home improvement project, put safety first. Make sure you wear protective equipment such as a hard hat and goggles when needed.You may expect to spend a given amount of money, however there are times where costs will exceed your expectations. Flexibility is your friend in the home improvement process. A good tip for those of you looking for home improvement tips is to make sure you do not underestimate your project. Before you begin, you should make a list of everything you are going to need and the steps you need to take.You want a flourishing lawn and plants in your yard. One of the best ways to attain this is to fertilize them in the fall, before the first frost. This will give them a boost when they start to grow again in the spring. This extra feeding will bring rewards all of the next summer. There are a few ways to deal with screws that are too tight or too loose in your home. Use clear nail polish to tighten screws that are too loose.Everyone should do their part to help conserve energy. As stated before, people try home improvement every day. While some succeed, other give up or au\u00dfenwandleuchte led fail. The right information can make any home improvement job possible. If you remember the information from the article above, you will be more successful in your au\u00dfenwandleuchte led home improvement endeavors and less likely to fail or give up. Don't Leave Your Home In The Past, Read Tips Here Improving your home can be quite exciting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 5560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2007/06/sibel-edmonds-bandar-bush-and-bae.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QNBKBLIOD23ELO4OQNXYY6VQV5MKEWGP", "length": 10618, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com", "title": "Let Sibel Edmonds Speak: Sibel Edmonds, Bandar Bush and BAe - similar but different.", "raw_content": "Sibel Edmonds, Bandar Bush and BAe - similar but different.\nIt's been nearly impossible to get any attention to the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. We can't even get Waxman to even comment on whether he'll hold hearings on the case as he has promised.\nSo, whenever I can, I try to piggy-back on other relevant stories that are getting attention - in this case, the bribery scandal involving Bandar Bush, the UK government, the Saudis and defense contractor BAe.\nIn this post, I'll highlight the similarities and the differences between the two cases (hint: Sibel's case is much worse).\nAs I mentioned upstairs, it's been very difficult to bring any attention to Sibel's story, so I try to find a new angle where I can. I've tried emailing Dan Froomkin (who I really like) a few times to no avail. He was LiveOnline at WaPo so I asked him the following:\nAustralia: Hi Dan. Thanks for the column. Given the latest revelations about the payments to Bandar Bush in the BAE scandal, do you think Henry Waxman might hold hearings to see whether these payments may have influenced the foreign policy of Bush's White House?\nDan Froomkin: A good question. There's been remarkably little in the coverage of this story about just how close and influential Bandar was with the Bushes for a long time.\nMy question was a little loaded.\nWaxman refuses to hold hearings into Sibel's case, a case that is similar in some respects, and worse in others.\nBoth cases are about arms sales to our 'friends.' The BAe case involved fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Sibel's case is about all sorts of arms trafficking - hardware, software, nuclear 'secrets' - involving a bunch of countries, Israel, Turkey, Pakistan and others.\nPolicy or freelancing?\nThe most important difference between the two cases is that the UK government knew all about the deal from inception. The deal was officially sanctioned at the highest levels of government, and although it was hidden, was presumably valid, or at least, justifiable. (We may find out otherwise at some later date.)\nIn Sibel's case, the perpetrators are freelancing. They are profiting, personally, from their activities. They aren't selling arms to 'quasi allies' as part of official policy. They're arming the highest bidder, regardless of official policy.\nWe know that Bandar Bush received $2 billion in bribes to facilitate the deal. So far as we know, so far, that $2 billion was a pure cash transfer, with no strings attached regarding subsequent disbursements etc.\nIn Sibel's case, we have the bribes flowing into the US, the selling country, presumably because the US taxpayer, literally and otherwise, pays the bills. These bribes flow through to congress people, in envelopes, suitcases and campaign contributions, and the inevitable blackmail.\nThe BAe investigation has uncovered secret payments of $25million to a former Defense advisor. (As far as I know, these payments are separate to the Bandar Bush deals)\nIn Sibel's case, (at least some of) the 'lobbyists' are publicly known, and (at least some of) the payments are public. We know who is, or has been, on the Turkish payroll. Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, fmr Dem Senator Stephen Solarz, fmr Defense Secretary William Cohen, fmr Dem House Minority Speaker Dick Gephardt, fmr Speaker Bob Livingston.\nThere's only one problem, we know where some of the money is going, but we don't know where it is coming from. As Phil Giraldi notes:\nThe money involved does not appear to come from the Turkish government, and FBI investigators are trying to determine its source and how it is distributed. Some of it may come from criminal activity, possibly drug trafficking, but much more might come from arms dealing. Contracts in the hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars provide considerable fat for those well placed to benefit.\nAs Laura Rozen says:\nWhat's stunning about these reports that Bandar was funnelled $2 billion in bribes from an $80 billion UK-Saudi arms deal is that no one - not Tony Blair, who shut down the UK Serious Fraud Office investigation, not Bandar, not BAE -- is really denying it... No effort to deny that the truth is really ugly, and shows the British government at the highest levels going back to Thatcher authorizing open bribery.\nSimilarly, Sibel says:\n\"So you have this case which for the past five years has been confirmed by Congressional sources, and people familiar with my case, and the Department of Justice\u2019s Inspector General\u2019s Office, and has never been contradicted or denied by the Justice Department or the FBI, and still nothing has been done.\"\nThe Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has been hamstrung in its attempt to investigate the BAe deal for years, with Tony Blair completely shutting down the investigation last year.\nIn Sibel's case, which goes back to 1996, investigations were continually impeded. When FBI counter-intelligence agents found evidence of wrong-doing by guys like Perle, Feith, Hastert and Grossman, they were blocked from transferring the investigations to an 'actionable' unit, like counter-terrorism, or counter-narcotics.\nIn the BAe case, \"the attorney general's office... said the SFO inquiry had been halted because of the \"real and serious threat to national security\".\"\nIn Sibel's case, the attorney general, John Ashcroft, cited \"Protecting Certain Foreign and Diplomatic Relations for National Security\" and illegally gagged Congress by retroactively classifying information that had been all over the web for two years!\nHollow Justifications\nIn both cases, the invocation of 'national security' is bunk. In Sibel's case, they cite 'national security' in order to shut Sibel up because, otherwise, she could could send them to prison for criminal activity. The only thing that Sibel's case has to do with 'national security' is that the activities that she can/has exposed are detrimental to national security.\nIn the BAe case,\nThe Liberal Democrat deputy leader, Vince Cable, called for an urgent inquiry into the new disclosures last night.\n\"It increasingly looks as if the motives behind the decision to pull the SFO inquiry were less to do with UK national interests but more to do with the personal interests of one of two powerful Saudi ministers ... Tony Blair's claims that the government has been motivated by national security considerations look increasingly hollow.\"\nAs noted, both cases go back a decade or more, surviving multiple parties. In the UK case, as noted, at least the deal appears to have been officially sanctioned. In Sibel's case, successive governments have failed to act on this information. Bill Clinton tried to act on one small part of the story - the suitcases of cash delivered to Hastert - but was railroaded by the impeachment proceedings. Now the current Democratic Congress is blocking the hearings. The reason, apparently, is that our new Dem Congress is too scared to 'out' their own. While the UK situation includes coverups by both parties, the US situation includes participation by people in both parties.\nWe can't afford corruption from either party. We were forceful in denouncing 'cold cash' William Jefferson and the decision to allow him to keep his comittee positions. Why not in Sibel's case?\n'Ongoing Investigations'\nIn the BAe case, there appears to be a bunch of activity in the UK despite the fact that the SFO officially closed down the investigation last year. It's front page news every day with new revelations, and new leak investigations, and now the Attorney General is beings summoned to talk the 'constitutional affairs committee'.\nAnd the BAe case is even getting some investigative attention in the US, as Spencer Ackerman reports:\n\"Josh Meyer at the Los Angeles Times makes it official: the Department of Justice has opened an investigation into whether BAE Systems, the British defense corporation accused of bribing ex-Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, has violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The Act is meant to prevent companies engaged in bribery from doing business in the United States. \"\nSheesh. The US DoJ was happy to shut down a similar case, Sibel's case, to protect war-profiteers under the guise of 'national security' but now that BAe is encroaching on the market share of the US 'defense' contractors, the DoJ is interested all of a sudden. Funny how that works.\nCompare and contrast. Sibel's case gets an eery silence from the media, and an eery silence in congress. Imagine what might happen if we were getting escalating attention into Sibel's case, like the BAe case, with new revelations every day.\nIn the real world, however, investigations have been shut down repeatedly, for years, and none of it sees the light of day.\nI've put together a YouTube, 9 mins, called \"Sibel Edmonds. Investigations Thwarted\" which highlights some of the investigations that were blocked in her case.\nMy final point regarding 'Ongoing Investigations' is that the investigations into Sibel's case concluded long ago. And they all said that Sibel was \"100% correct.\" Waxman could hold a hearing in a day or two simply by calling for the documents and a few witnesses. We know which documents we need, and we have agents willing to testify, under oath. And Waxman already knows the detail. His staff have been briefed repeatedly. He himself was 'outraged' and 'stunned.' So while the BAe case is very much an 'ongoing investigation', Sibel's case was closed, confirmed, years ago. Now we want accountability and justice.\nAs an aside, I put together another YouTube, 5 mins, \"Sibel Edmonds. Everybody Knows.\" which (hopefully) highlights most of the people who know about Sibel's case and have done nothing about it.\nAnd yes, the same was true in the UK. 'Everybody' in the UK knew what was going on, for years, but now the public knows. Imagine what it will be like if Sibel's case is front-page news, and the hearings imminent.\n(let me know if you want to be alerted whenever I post a new 'sibel edmonds' diary)\nIt's politics-as-usual in DC, Lukery.\nWas it by accident or deliberately that the tentacles of the illegal activities intertwined both parties? Get in illegal bed with one party, the other will out you for the scandal points. 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Leading on from my previous list, 10 Beatles Songs and the Origins, this sequel reveals the stories behind several popular cartoon characters. This publication was created over a period of six months, using videos, interviews, books and many other sources. The list is not only unique to Listverse but also unique in the whole world, as no book, web page or website has yet provided an all-in-one exclusive source of this information before \u2013 that is until now. Thanks very much for reading.\nProduced: August 9, 1930 \u2013 7 July, 1939.\nInspiration: Helen Kane (Singer)\nHelen Kane became \u201cThe Boop Boop a Doop Girl\u201d in 1928 when she sang the scat lyrics \u201cboop-boop-a-doop\u201d in the song \u201cThat\u2019s My Weakness Now.\u201d The song was an overnight success, promoting a steady career in music. The following year she made it into the movies, appearing with Ned Sparks and Richard Dix in the now public domain 1929 comedy farce Nothing But the Truth \u2013 where audiences had their first glimpse of the shy spoken, squeaky-voiced starlet, complete with hair bow and almost childlike singing voice. \u201cDo Something\u201d was her second number (subsequently cut and now lost) from the movie and it went on to become a nationwide hit. Kane fitted the \u2018flapper Girl\u2019 image of the period, the fashion of sporting a Louise Brooks style bob cut and cloche hat with a short skirt and high heels. Flappers were very much the Liberated Women of their time and had a reputation for being bold, determined and unafraid to speak their minds.\nIn August 1929, a long time animator was also just about to break into the movie business. Max Fleischer had already had a small success with Ko-Ko the clown, and also made educational films before the 1929 creation of Fleischer Studios. He used his own invention, the rotoscope machine, to create the Talkartoon Series of 42 animated cartoons, starting with Noah\u2019s Lark in October 1929. Hot Dog, the third in the series, featured more comedy in the form of the foolhardy and accident prone Bimbo the dog. The success of this character meant the animators were soon designing potential girlfriends. According to the animators, the initial sketch for Betty was a rather plus-sized anthropomorphic French poodle, with long floppy ears and a hair bow. The ears steadily transformed into hoop earrings, and the face became more human-like, until the final design revealed a completely human form (and yet she remained Bimbo the dog\u2019s girlfriend).\nThe first Betty Boop appeared in the sixth installment of Fleischer\u2019s Talkartoon series, on August 9, 1930, in a cartoon called Dizzy Dishes. Betty was presented as a showgirl and singer, with long legs, rather square face, and characteristically, a slow child-like squeaky voice. The two characters quickly became a notable hit, and it wasn\u2019t long before the flamboyant and outspoken Betty began to outshine Bimbo and star in cartoons of her own. She starred in 111 cartoons between 1930 and 1939, including Minnie the Moocher (1932) featuring songs by Cab Calloway, and Poor Cinderella \u2013 her only appearance in color \u2013 released August 3rd 1934. She became a self-proclaimed Star and is still very popular today, over 80 years later. Yet from the very beginning it was clear that Betty was not only modeled on Helen Kane (the mannerisms, the songs, the voice), but was a direct one-to-one copy. Mae Questel, who was the first to voice Betty and would go on to voice her in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), was chosen by cartoon producer Max Fleischer because he wanted \u201ca Helen Kane sound-alike for Betty Boop.\u201d Indeed, the name Betty \u2018Boop\u2019 might immediately imply a connection between herself and the \u201cBoop Boop a Doop Girl\u201d from just a few years before.\nSo much so that in May 1932 Helen Kane tried to sue Fleischer Studios and Paramount Pictures for $250,000 for trying to impersonate her. When the case finally got underway during April 1934, Fleischer convinced all six girls that had by now voiced Betty to deny that Betty\u2019s voice was ever an attempt to imitate Helen Kane\u2019s voice. Another testimony said that \u201cBoop Boop a Doop\u201d was not synonymous, and in fact the \u201cBoop Oop a Doop\u201d phrase came long before Helen Kane\u2019s popularity. Paramount Pictures even produced a clip of another singer, Baby Esther, who they said used the same phrase in a song in 1928. Other witnesses were called to say the character was in fact drawn from many influences, most notably Clara Bow \u2013 a huge star in Hollywood having recently retired in 1933 after her final movie, Hoop-la. Indeed, in the full color Poor Cinderella released just four months later (after Betty Boop\u2019s Rise to Fame and Betty Boop\u2019s Trial tried to sell a different version of Betty\u2019s story), we see Betty with Clara Bows signature flame red hair rather than plain black \u2013 as though the producers were trying to distance themselves from Helen Kane. In the end Kane was unsuccessful in her case to attain money from the Betty Boop character \u2013 a character that would go on to last longer then Helen Kane\u2019s career, a character that was obviously based on her, and yet she died without ever receiving a penny from it. What at first started as a light-hearted joke, flattering to Kane ultimately ended up upstaging and replacing her. As for Fleischer, in 1933 he acquired the rights to produce Popeye the Sailor cartoons; a figure who would take over Paramount\u2019s release schedule for the next 25 years.\nProduced: March 9, 1935 \u2013 March 10, 1956.\nInspiration: Joe Cobb (Actor) as Joe in the \u201cOur Gang\u201d TV Series (1922-1929)\nOur Gang (later renamed The Little Rascals) started out as a series of silent comedies made at the Hal Roach studio in Culver City from the early 1920s right up to 1944. The show featured a number of child actors who would regularly get themselves into all kinds of scrapes and then try to get themselves out of them again. The show featured many cast members during its long run, most notably perhaps the character \u201cAlfalfa\u201d as played by Carl Switzer. Joe Cobb first appeared in the group as \u201cJoe\u201d in the short film The Champeen released January 28 1923, and went on to star in 86 episodes in the series; most notably The Big Show (1923), Saturday\u2019s Lesson (the series\u2019 last silent film), and the first talking short Small Talk (released 1929). Joe played the ever smiling yet hapless stereotypical \u2018fat kid\u2019, who often sets up gags and missions for the others. Joe\u2019s final appearance came in Lazy Days, released August 15 1929, before he was replaced by his own on-screen brother \u201cChubby\u201d (played by Normal Chaney) whom Joe himself had introduced to the gang in only the previous episode, Railroadin\u2019 (1929).\nDuring the early 1930s, Leon Schlesinger \u2013 who had founded his production company Pacific Title and Art in 1919, had secured a contract to produce the Looney Tunes series for Warner Bros. and was steadily turning out early Looney Tunes episodes featuring \u201cBosko, a young Negro boy\u201d from their Sunset Boulevard lot at the corner of Van Ness and Fernwood. After 30 episodes in the series it was time for a change, and certainly the cartoon version of a young black boy with his thick Southern Negro dialect had gone out of fashion with theater audiences, who wanted a character less politically eschewed. In 1933, Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising left the studio and took their creation Bosko with them, leaving the Depression-hit studio with only the rather bland \u201cBuddy\u201d (whom animator Bob Clampett described as \u201cBosko in whiteface\u201d) to keep them afloat. Schlesinger asked animator Robert \u2018Bob\u2019 Clampett and studio director Friz Freleng to design a new series of characters to fill the gap, and suggested they do a cartoon version of the Our Gang films. In the resulting short, I Haven\u2019t Got a Hat (released March 2, 1935), the cast included: Beans the cat, Oliver Owl, a motherly cow named Mrs. Cud, and a completely unknown Porky Pig in the \u2018Joe\u2019 role \u2013 whose cameo appearance shone out so much that he instantly replaced Buddy as the studios main star. Tex Avery was quick to capitalize on Porky\u2019s rising success when he was brought in as series producer in 1936, and hastily reused much of the cast from I Haven\u2019t Got a Hat in Gold Diggers of \u201949.\nPorky\u2019s name came from Friz Freleng, who was reminded of two childhood friends and brothers nicknamed \u201cPorky\u201d and \u201cPiggy\u201d and decided to put the two names together. His trademark stutter actually comes from Joe Dougherty, the first voice actor the studio drafted in to voice Porky. Joe had a very pronounced stutter and forced director Freleng to go through take after take of uncontrollable stuttering. Eventually the studio realized the high production cost of the many hours of wasted material, and replaced Dougherty with Mel Blanc in 1937. By this time the stutter had become so associated with the character that Blanc was asked to use it to create a more precise comedic effect rather than a general overtone. Porky is known to often trip over small words until the character can find a more easily pronounceable substitute, even if that word is much longer and more complicated than the original. Porky\u2019s personality also matured from a rather brainless main character to a quick witted and thoughtful \u2018everyman\u2019 sidekick as seen later teamed with Bugs Bunny and then Daffy Duck, before becoming rather more serious and angry towards Sylvester during the 1950s.\nPorky\u2019s legacy also continues with his signature line \u201cTh-th-that\u2019s all folks!\u201d heard at the end of the Looney Tunes episodes. This line was originally spoken by a court jester since the early \u201930s, and was also spoken by both Bosko and Buddy and even Beans the cat before Porky came along and made it his own. Interestingly, it was the stuttering which seemed to make the line more memorable. Even the Warner Bros. sister series Merrie Melodies (which had always used \u201cSo Long, Folks!\u201d to close its short films) changed to the more catchy Porky line in 1936 after opinion polls found most people better associated with it. 1936 was also the year Porky first appeared in color thanks to the brand new three-strip Technicolor process, and the introduction of the now legendary bulls-eye opening and closing title sequences.\nProduced: August 30, 1938 \u2013 June 16, 1964.\nInspiration: Clark Gable (actor) in It Happened One Night (1934)\nNow enjoying a growing financial success with Porky pig, Leon Schlesinger was interested in introducing new characters to their Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series, starting with Daffy Duck and Elmer \u201cEgg Head\u201d Fudd in 1937. Around this time, Friz Freleng left to join MGM (although he would return two years later) and his replacement as director fell to the inexperienced Cal Dalton. Cals\u2019 original sketch for Happy Wabbit (later Bugs) shows a much less defined character with a longer protruding nose and a fluffy cotton ball tail, and very different from the figure we see today. Happy\u2019s first appearance in Porky\u2019s Hare Hunt, released April 30 1938, saw the now well-established Porky meet a screwball-crazy rabbit in an almost identical plot to Tex Avery\u2019s 1937 cartoon Porky\u2019s Duck Hunt, in which Daffy Duck was introduced. The film was co-directed by Ben \u2018Bugs\u2019 Hardaway, who would develop the character with Bob Clampett and Tex Avery over the next few years to perfect the characters look and personality. His high voice and jackhammer laugh was saved for the studios next character Woody Woodpecker, who appeared in 1940, giving the producers a blank slate on which to work with. Avery favored a move away from the hyper manic Daffy persona towards a more relaxed and thoughtful character, with an air of style and able to take everything in his stride \u2013 like Clark Gable in It Happened One Night.\nA Wild Hare, directed by Tex Avery and released on July 27, 1940, was the result of all the hard work \u2013 introducing an almost completely redesigned Bob Clampett character, the newly renamed Bugs Bunny; along with a fully redesigned and fully formed Elmer Fudd. The cartoon was also the first in which Mel Blanc uses what would become Bugs\u2019 standard voice, as well as the first time Bugs uses his catchphrase \u201cWhat\u2019s up, Doc?\u201d which was a line written by director Tex Avery for this, his first Bugs Bunny short. Avery said he picked up the phrase during his youth in Texas where the term had become incredibly common. According to Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett, Bugs Bunny\u2019s nonchalant carrot-chewing standing position originated in a scene in It Happened One Night as Clark Gable leans on a fence while chewing raw carrots rapidly and talking with his mouth full. Bugs\u2019 fast talking wise-cracking, \u201cknow it all\u201d personality also comes from the same movie in which Gable attempts to fast talk his way into Claudette Colbert\u2019s heart. The name \u2018Bugs\u2019 was chosen as a reference to the rabbits crazy and obsessive nature. His voice \u201cis an equal mix of Bronx accent and Brooklyn accent\u201d according to Mel Blanc, who developed the voice in line with Gable\u2019s character (who was born in New York), and bugs\u2019 birth place is noted as: Brooklyn, New York in a warren under Ebbets Field, home of the Brooklyn Dodgers \u2013 born July 27, 1940.\nTex Avery and Chuck Jones would go on to develop the character over many years, and Bugs would gain and lose weight, height, and definition as the years rolled on. His personality \u2013 once also modeled on Groucho Marx (Bugs is known to use the line \u201cOf course you realize, this means war!\u201d from the Marx Bros. movie, Duck Soup (1933), and is often seen imitating Groucho), was later toned down to become less \u201cpesky rabbit\u201d and more of an ideas driven character, sending other characters \u201ccrazy\u201d rather than the rabbit himself. He starred in 167 theatrical animated shorts for the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series until June 1964 when the character was retired, only to appear again in the 1980s and \u201990s in several one-off specials, a cameo in Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and opposite Michael Jordan in Space Jam (1996).\nFirst Produced: February 10, 1940 \u2013 August 1, 1958.\nInspiration: World War I / World War II\nWilliam Hanna and Joseph Barbera were part of Rudolf Ising\u2019s film production unit at the MGM cartoon studios in the late 1930s. MGM hoped to become rivals to the established Leon Schlesinger Productions (under Warner Brothers) and Max Fleischer Studios (with Paramount Pictures) and capitalize on the newly rediscovered interest in animated shorts films. Despite having acquired Friz Freleng from Schlesinger Productions, their first project entitled The Captain and the Kids did very poorly and the studio was forced to streamline the department to save costs. Joseph Barbera, a storywriter and character designer, was paired with William Hanna, a production director, in the hope that working so closely together would prove more cost effective. In their first production meeting, Barbera suggested they try a cat and mouse scenario, and they sketched out the characters they would need to produce Puss Gets The Boot, released February 10, 1940.\nIn interviews, Joe Barbera later said, \u201cWe knew we needed two characters. We thought we needed conflict, and chase and action. And a cat after a mouse seemed like a good, basic thought.\u201d The original story revolved around a blue and white domestic shorthair tabby cat named Jasper in his attempts to catch a house mouse named Jinx, whilst avoiding the African American housemaid Mammy (who would later become Tom\u2019s owner). At this, savage Jasper was seen as a quadruped and had normal cat-like intelligence, contrasting with Jinx who was bipedal and had more human-like intelligence. Between them they would smash things and damage household furniture until the cat was literally throw out, leaving Jerry free to go on as he liked. Yet this seemingly light-hearted match had a dark side in that it was also supposed to boost civilian moral during the Second World War. February 10, 1940 also happened to coincide with the beginning of the Battle of Britain, when German fighters attacked a convoy off the coast of Dover. America wasn\u2019t officially in the war at this stage, although support for the British \u201cTommys\u201d was strong among Americans. Somehow the cat and mouse story had struck a cord.\nHanna and Barbera, oblivious to this, carried on making new short films such as Gallopin\u2019 Gals (1940) and Officer Pooch (1941) and almost forgot about their cat and mouse characters. That was until Puss Gets The Boot narrowly lost an Academy Award to The Milky Way (1940) \u2013 another Rudolph Ising production \u2013 for the Best Short Subject: Cartoons of 1941. Skeptics at MGM were immediately silenced, and Fred Quimby, the production manager at the MGM animation studio, quickly pulled the pair off their current projects and commissioned the cat and mouse back into production. The first things to be changed were the characters names. In the book \u201cTom & Jerry: The Definitive Guide to their Animated Adventures,\u201d Patrick Brion recalls an in-studio competition to name the pair by pulling suggestions from a hat. Animator John Carr won $50 for his suggestion to name them Tom and Jerry. Carr\u2019s suggestion came from two ideas: firstly that a cat should be named Tom because of the association with the tomcat as a breed of cat. Secondly because the war-like antics between the two characters reminded him of the Tommies and Jerries fighting in the First World War \u2013 a situation which had recently somehow repeated itself.\nThe Midnight Snack appeared as their next short on July 19 1941, the same date Winston Churchill launched his \u201cV for Victory\u201d campaign. The characters would go on to appear in four or five short films a year \u2013 totaling 114 films by the time the MGM cartoon studio was shut down in 1957, with the last cartoons released in 1958. This resulted in Hanna and Barbera starting their own animation studio (now primarily aimed at low budget television shorts) called Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc. in 1957, although it would be some time before the studio made any money. MGM retained the Tom and Jerry license, and in a controversial twist decided to revive the series in the early 1960s using the Prague-based studio Rembrandt Films, with animator Gene Deitch and produced by company owner William L. Snyder. Czechoslovakia was a highly controversial choice given the fact it lay hidden behind the Iron Curtain, the Cold War was at it\u2019s height, and the Cuban Missile Crisis happened during production. Both Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer were Eastern Europeans, from Warsaw and Minsk respectively.\nInspiration: Kenny Delmar (Actor) as Senator Beauregard Claghorn\nKenny Delmar first appeared as Senator Beauregard Claghorn on the \u201cAllen\u2019s Alley\u201d segment of NBC Radio\u2019s The Fred Allen Show on October 5, 1945, where he portrayed a blustery and outrageous Southern businessman from Charleston, South Carolina. Claghorn had an obsession with all things \u2018South\u2019 and would often joke that the South was better than the North for a variety of different reasons. His catchphrases soon became famous, such as \u201cThat\u2019s a joke, son!\u201d and \u201cPay attention now, boy!\u201d and the Senator would often insert \u201cAh say\u201d and \u201cThat is\u2026\u201d in the middle and at the end of sentences. Claghorn was soon parodied on other shows, including becoming a regular feature on the Jack Benny TV show, and after the Fred Allen Show closed down in 1945 Delmar continued the Claghorn persona appearing in commercials, on two hit records, a movie entitled It\u2019s a Joke, Son! (1947) co-starring Una Merkel as Mrs. Claghorn, and finally in an episode of the Four Star Revue show in 1953. Kenny Delmar faded slowly into obscurity after his Senator Claghorn period and his 1947 movie is now in the Public Domain.\nIn 1944, Leon Schlesinger sold his studio to Warner Bros. Robert McKimson, who become the head animator in the later \u201930s (a role he found quite overwhelming), had initially refused a directorial position by Schlesinger in 1937 considering the position would be far too challenging. The job went to Chuck Jones instead. He changed his mind in 1945 after Frank Tashlin (Director) and Bob Clampett (Animator) departed Warner Bros., forcing the remaining team to merge and struggle on. By this time the studio had largely moved on from Porky, Daffy and Bugs, and a new character \u2018Tweety\u2019 was basically all they had. While they continued to develop a cat named Willoughby \u2013 who later became Sylvester \u2013 the villain for Tweety, they also needed a brand new set of characters to take up the slack. Robert McKimson produced a few sketches for his first directorial project, which revolved around an upstart loudmouth farmyard rooster. The initial character design was refined by Cal Dalton, and the ever popular Mel Blanc came in to do the voice.\nAccording to McKimson, the blabbermouth rooster\u2019s voice originated from two sources: from a hard-of-hearing sheriff character on a radio show called Blue Monday Jamboree from the 1930s, and mainly from Delmar\u2019s\u2019 Claghorn character from the Fred Allen Show \u2013 complete with the same puffed-up chest, his walk and his catchphrases. The characters name also comes in two parts, firstly Claghorn was changed to Foghorn to accentuate the fact that the character spoke very directly and very loudly (like Claghorn), and secondly he added \u201cLeghorn\u201d which is a breed of chicken.\nWalky Talky Hawky appeared on August 31, 1946 \u2013 the first of 28 cartoons to feature the Foghorn Leghorn character until Leghorns retirement with Banty Raids marking his final appearance on June 29, 1963. By this time the designers had created Yosemite Sam, Speedy, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, and these characters were also coming to the end of their production runs, with a brand new Marvin the Martian making his first appearance just four months later. The studio struggled on for three more years until the animation division of Warner Bros. was shut down in late 1966, forcing McKimson to jump ship to join his old associate Friz Freleng and David H. DePatie (who had been a producer at the Warners studio) at the newly launched DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. McKimson returned briefly to Warners when the animation studio was reopened under the \u2018Seven Arts\u2019 banner in 1967, until the studio closed down for good on September 20 1969, with Injun Trouble (directed by Robert McKimson) becoming the last Merrie Melodies/Looney Toons cartoon. McKimson chose to return to DePatie-Freleng, where he went on to direct The Pink Panther Show, amongst many other shows, before dying of a heart attack in 1977.\nProduced: September 30, 1960 \u2013 April 1, 1966.\nInspiration: The Honeymooners TV Show (1955-56)\nThe Honeymooners was a mid-1950s American sitcom about four oddball characters within a Brooklyn apartment building. The husband Ralph (played by Jackie Gleason) was a bus driver whose madcap schemes to get rich quick often dismayed his wife Alice Kramden (Audrey Meadows), who was always quick to put him down and point out the futility of Ralph\u2019s plans. In an adjacent apartment there lived Ralph\u2019s best fiend Ed, a New York City sewer worker, and his wife Trixie, Alice\u2019s best friend. When Ralph becomes angry and ignores Alice\u2019s advice, he would often say: \u201cOne of these days\u2026 POW!!! Right in the kisser!\u201d which became a national catchphrase, and the show went on to become a huge success.\nMeanwhile, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera were still trying to pay the bills at Hanna-Barbera Productions Inc after the split from MGM in 1957. Now deprived of their $600,000 a year ($35,000 per seven minute cartoon) MGM budget, they had taken their art to television \u2013 first with The Ruff and Ready Show, and then with The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw Show, with a much less sophisticated line of limited animation and a budget of just $3,000 per five minute cartoon. Despite some quality control issues the studio was increasingly becoming known as the King of Saturday Morning Cartoons, and yet still lacked a mega hit to rival their Tom and Jerry heyday. Joseph Barbera went to work on a number of new character designs, nearly all of which were rejected. Finally he came up with the idea to base a sitcom on two entangled lovers (and their Son, Fred Jnr.) in the same style as The Honeymooners. During an interview Barbera noted: \u201cAt that time, The Honeymooners was the most popular show on television. The characters were terrific. That influenced greatly what we did with The Flintstones.\u201d Fred\u2019s personality was to be a combination of Ralph Kramden from The Honeymooners and Chester A. Riley from The Life of Riley (also originally played by Jackie Gleason) as the headstrong father figure of the family. Wilma Flintstone was also a direct imitation of Alice Kramdem \u2013 complete with patronizing put-downs and a flair for spending Fred\u2019s money. Barney and Betty Rubble were added later and retained much of the \u2018best friends\u2019 chemistry from The Honeymooners, and were the foils to the Flintstones. Mel Blanc was chosen to do the voice of Barney.\nThe show would go through a large number of design changes before the final concept was achieved. Initially the characters were modeled as Hillbillies, Ancient Romans, Pilgrims, and then Native American Indians before they settled on the Stone Age family. Part of the reason for this was because they felt that modern gadgets and gizmos could be easily transferred to the ancient civilization format (e.g. bird\u2019s beaks for cloths pegs, aardvarks as vacuum cleaners) and they could therefore set up a large number of visual gags in this way. The name of the show was originally entitled \u2018The Flagstones\u2019 but this was changed to \u2018The Gladstones\u2019 due to copyright, and then finally to The Flintstones. Late in pre-production it was also decided to drop Fred Jnr. from the cast to concentrate more on the lead characters, even though several comic strips featuring Fred Jnr. had already been produced.\nJoe Barbera story-boarded a pilot show for the Flintstones and headed off to New York for a grueling eight weeks of living in and out of suitcases and going over the same audio/visual routine every day. As he would play-act the scenes and take on all the characters voices, Barbera was often asked to present the show as a cheap form of light entertainment for the potential backers \u2013 even though none of whom wanted to buy the show. After pitching for seven weeks and six days, sometimes with as many as five pitches per day, Barbera was on the verge of exhaustion and was ready to give up and head back to California to dump the whole idea. His last pitch happened at 9am on a gray morning in his hotel room, where Leonard Goldenson and Oliver Treyz from the ABC Television Network bought the show in just 15mins. Joe Barbera later said he would wake up in cold sweats even many years later knowing this was the day that saved Hanna-Barbera.\nThe first episode of The Flintstones aired at 8pm on Friday September 30th, 1960. The next day, Variety called it \u201cA Pen and Ink Disaster\u201d and critics were quick to condemn the concept. Nevertheless, the Flintstones broke new ground in every way and this eventually forced the critics to relent. Six years later the \u2018disaster\u2019 was still going. The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston \u2013 practically the only cartoon characters ever to smoke and promote smoking on screen. The Flintstones was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex sleeping together in one bed, the first animated show to last longer than two seasons, and the first to show a pregnancy when Wilma became pregnant in the episode \u201cThe Surprise\u201d (Jan 25, 1963) and a birth (Peddles Flintstone) in \u201cDress Rehearsal\u201d (Feb 22, 1963). The producers later revived the Fred Jnr. concept and came up with Barney and Betty\u2019s adopted child Bamm-Bamm with \u201cLittle Bamm-Bamm\u201d (aired October 3rd, 1963) \u2013 which was also episode #100.\nProduced: September 14, 1968 \u2013 January 4, 1969.\nInspiration: The Great Race (1965).\nThe Great Race was a slapstick comedy film starring a screwball Jack Lemmon, a dry Tony Curtis, and a plucky Natalie Wood, and directed by Blake Edwards, who had already scored highly with Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s (1961), and just recently The Pink Panther (1963) and A Shot in the Dark (1964). The story tells of a race from New York to Paris \u2013 the long way \u2013 and features the crazy antics of Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon) and his sidekick Maximilian \u2018Max\u2019 Meen (Peter Falk) in their customized black convertible \u2018The Hannibal Twin-8,\u2019 as they attempt to overtake The Great Leslie (Tony Curtis) in the \u2018Leslie Special\u2019 using every means necessary. It isn\u2019t long before the other drivers find themselves sabotaged out of the race, leaving the bumbling heroes going at it head-to-head (even shoulder to shoulder), until a crazy Russian decides to spoil all their fun.\nAfter The Flintstones, Hanna and Barbera went back to the drawing board to find new inspiration. They found their muse with the successful adaptations of The Impossibles (1966), The Herculoids (1967), and Marvel Comics\u2019 heroes The Fantastic Four (1967) before reaching back into the archives to pull up their notes on The Great Race. Many conceptual designs had been made of a possible \u2018Wacky Races\u2019 project, and by 1968 these plans were almost complete. The main characters remained unchanged from the movie \u2013 the villain Dick Dastardly and his sidekick Muttley were carbon copies of Fate and Meen, with Dastardly wearing the same long blue duster overcoat with top hat and driving goggles, a handlebar mustache, and driving an almost identical black \u2018rocket nosed\u2019 car now called \u2018The Mean Machine 00\u2019 (The Double Zero) \u2013 which featured similar gadgetry. Muttley also sported the same hat and goggles as Peter Falk in the original. Dastardly retained many of Lemmon\u2019s catchphrases as Prof. Fate, such as \u201cDrat, drat, and double drat!,\u201d \u201cCurses, foiled again!\u201d and his usual cry of desperation: \u201cMuttley, do something!\u201d Peter Perfect took over the Curtis role in \u2018The Turbo Terrific.\u2019 Penelope Pitstop replaced Natalie Wood in the \u2018Compact Pussycat\u2019 \u2013 a pink car very reminiscent of the White \u2018Leslie Special\u2019 \u2013 along with The Slag Brothers in \u2018The Bouldermobile,\u2019 Rufus Ruffcut and Sawtooth in \u2018The Buzzwagon\u2019 and Sergeant Blast and Private Meekly in \u2018The Army Surplus Special\u2019 to replace similar characters from the movie. Daws Butler and Don Messick were brought in to do the male voices, with Paul Winchell as Dastardly and Janet Waldo as Penelope Pitstop.\nThe show aired in September of 1968 on the CBS Network to a small fanfare, and ran for one season of 17 shows. Penelope Pitstop and the Ant Hill Mob were spun off into their own cartoon series in 1969 titled The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, and in the same year Dastardly and Muttley got their own show called Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines (sometimes mistakenly known as \u2018Stop The Pigeon\u2019 after the series working title was changed after the theme music was completed). Both shows ran for two seasons. Then in 1976 The Mumbly Cartoon Show appeared, based identically on Muttley from Wacky Races (and still voiced by Don Messick) but this time seen as a detective and wearing a long trench coat. The following year Dread Baron appeared on the Laff-A-Lympics cartoon, still voiced by Paul Winchell and again looking almost identically to Dick Dastardly except for a few cosmetic changes. Dread Baron and Mumbly would continue to appear over the following years until Dastardly and Muttley briefly returned in the 1985 series Yogi\u2019s Treasure Hunt, only to be strangely replaced again by Dread Baron and Mumbly for the next season. The Slag Brothers from Wacky Races were also updated in 1977 and transformed into Captain Caveman for the Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels series.\nIt is worth noting that Peter Falk, who appeared as the original inspiration for Muttley/Mumbly would go on to use these same characters to inspire his own creation: Frank Columbo in the hit series \u2018Columbo\u2019 (1968-2003). In Columbo, Falk would wear a similar trench coat to Mumbly, walk with the same stoop, drive broken-down old cars, and generally had the same dry satirical style and speech patterns as Mumbly, often muttering words under his breath and talking to himself. In addition, Mumbly and Columbo were both Police Lieutenant Detectives and both had wheezy laughs \u2013 in Columbo\u2019s case due to smoking cigars.\nProduced: September 13, 1969 \u2013 Present.\nInspiration: The Archies TV Series (1968-69)\nIn 1967, parent-run organizations such as Action for Children\u2019s Television (ACT) began to protest against what they saw as a rising trend towards violence in Saturday morning cartoons. They particularly cited Hanna-Barbera cartoons such as Jonny Quest, Space Ghost and The Herculoids as the main offenders, and put pressure on the studios to replace them. As a result, Hanna-Barbera began 1969 with most of their shows having been canceled, with members of some of these pressure groups having been installed to monitor all subsequent production. Fred Silvermann, the man in charge of children\u2019s programming on CBS, saw a need to revitalize Saturday morning cartoons and commissioned The Archie Show, based on Bob Montana\u2019s teenage humor comic book \u201cArchie,\u201d and was primarily a sitcom about a pop band and their attempts to get recognition in a similar way to The Monkeys\u2019 TV show \u2013 which had ceased production only the previous year. The show was a success, and spawned many hit singles such as \u201cSugar, Sugar\u201d which was the most successful Billboard number-one hit of 1969. The Archies ran from September 14, 1968 to August 30, 1969 and directly lead to: Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1971-1974) and The Groovie Goolies (1971-1972). The series was created by Filmation, a company which had already achieved a level of success with the Superman cartoons of 1966, and would go on to greater success in the 1980s.\nAfter The Archie Show, Fred Silverman approached William Hanna and Joseph Barbera with the idea of creating a \u2018mystery show\u2019 featuring five crazy kids in a teenage rock group and their efforts to solve mysteries and foil crimes. The job of designing the show was handed to story writers Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and artist Iwao Takamoto, who\u2019s initial designs were rejected by Silverman who felt the plot was becoming \u201ctoo scary,\u201d and feared a backlash from the various action groups of the time. To make the concept less scary, Joe Barbera came up with the idea of including a dog as a main character and as a foil for the show \u2013 in the same way as Muttley had been used in Wacky Races. The second concept design saw the working title changed to \u2018Mysteries Five,\u2019 and featured: Geoff, Mike, Kelly, Linda, Linda\u2019s brother \u201cW.W.\u201d and their dog, a Great Dane named \u201cToo Much\u201d \u2013 who were all members of a rock band called Mysteries Five. Still the project was rejected by Silverman, who influenced even more control over the third draft of the concept. Now called Who\u2019s S-S-Scared, and without much of the rock band element, Geoff and Mike were merged into one character named Ronnie, who was later renamed again to Fred Jones at the request of Silverman, who portrayed the dim boyfriend in the show. Kelly was renamed to Daphne Blake, the attractive girlfriend of Fred. Linda was now called Velma Dinkley, the brains of the outfit who would put together the clues. \u201cW.W\u201d was renamed Norville \u201cShaggy\u201d Rogers and was no longer Velma\u2019s brother, but was now a more hippie-like character to fit the free-thinking feelings of the late 1960s.\nBy 1969 the concept of the show had moved on to revision #4, and now the designs were almost complete it was time to implement the personalities and attributes of the characters. An inspiration for this came from an earlier CBS show called The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959-1963), where Fred was based on Dobie, Velma on Zelda, Daphne on Thalia, and Shaggy on Maynard, as well as various elements from Enid Blyton\u2019s Famous Five books. Shaggy and Too Much were developed as cowardly types, with the same capacity to \u201ceat anything, any time\u201d shared by Muttley on Wacky Races. Don Messick was asked to voice Too Much, with legendary radio DJ and entertainer Casey Kasem as the voice of Shaggy, and with Nicole Jaffe providing the voice of Velma Dinkley. Late into final production, and after hearing Frank Sinatra\u2019s \u201cStrangers In The Night\u201d (1966) on the studio radio, Fred Silverman fell in love with the \u201cdoo-be-doo-be-doo\u201d scat at the end of the song and changed the dogs name to \u201cScooby-Doo,\u201d and the show\u2019s title to Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! The final product was first aired September 13, 1969 and lasted two seasons on CBS before switching channels for a further nine seasons on ABC, with spin-off shows airing in the 1980s and a revival attempt in the 2000s.\nProduced: September 5, 1983 \u2013 December 15, 1984.\nInspiration: Conan and Barbarian (Character) (1932-present)\nConan the Barbarian had been a popular fantasy series first written by Robert E. Howard in 1932 and published in Weird Tales magazine. Conan was famous for his large frame and notable muscles, reminiscent of the \u2018Superman\u2019 superhero who first appeared in DC comics that same year. Moving on to the late 1970s, Mattel (who had recently turned down an offer from George Lucas to produce action figures for the Star Wars series) wanted a new line of characters to save them from financial ruin. The task fell to Roger Sweet, a lead designer working in Mattel\u2019s Preliminary Design Department, who glued a torso of one of Mattel\u2019s Big Jim figures into an \u2018action\u2019 pose and added lots of clay to pad him out. He then had plaster casts made and created three prototypes ready for approval in early 1980. In interviews Sweet later remarked \u201cThis was a powerful figure that could be taken anywhere and dropped into any context because he had a generic name: He-Man!\u201d The prototype models depicting He-Man as a soldier, a spaceman and a barbarian, and out of the three concepts the barbarian version was the one chosen. The stage one prototype figure was significantly different from the final result, featuring He-Man with Black hair, a deeply tanned skin and wearing a helmet. Around the same time in 1980, CPI (who owned the license for Conan the Barbarian) began talks to allow Mattel to produce officially licensed Conan The Barbarian figures. The talks would go on for many months, leaving Conan in limbo while He-Man continued to be developed.\nIn 1981, Tom Kalinske, a manager and designer at Mattel, refined the idea so that He-Man now sported a helmet-less head with blond hair (which was seen to be more friendly than black) and had a much lighter skin. Mattel then hired comic-book writers and artists such as Donald F. Glut and Earl Norem to create the extra characters and the back-story they needed to flesh out the series, and to produce posters, package inlays, box art and mini-comics for distribution with the action figures. In July 1981 CPI granted Mattel the rights to reproduce plastic figures of Conan The Barbarian, but just six months later in January 1982 Mattel requested that the License Agreement be terminated. He-Man appeared in February of 1982 to great success, allowing the \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d series to become a universally recognized brand. In May 1982 Conan the Barbarian (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) was released to cinemas, at which point CPI attempted to sue Mattel over He-Mans \u2018uncanny likeness\u2019 to Conan, a matter not helped by brown-haired prototype versions of He-Man (bearing a strong resemblance to the Conan character) being released by mistake. CPI ultimately lost the case and Mattel retained the rights to He-man.\nIt was at this point that Filmation Studios were commissioned to produce the He-Man and the Masters of the Universe television series, and were given the basis of a story from which to work. By now He-Man was known as \u2018a barbarian from an Eternian tribe,\u2019 who must protect Castle Grayskull from the evil Lord Skeletor who wielded one half of a Magic Power Sword with He-Man owning the other half. When these swords were place together they would form one \u2018super\u2019 weapon and he who controlled both weapons would be the master of the Universe. The Filmation designers added several more concepts to the story. He-Man was now \u2018Prince Adam\u2019 (son of King Randor and Queen Marlena) and his pet was a cowardly green tiger named Cringer who would turn into an armored steed named Battle Cat by use of magic. Teela was added and was the daughter of the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull and Man-At-Arms (Duncan) was included for a better balance of good and bad characters. Both Mattel and Filmation separately took the final product and pitched the idea to the ABC network, who turned it down, only agreeing to market the product if the producers agreed to give the series away for free in exchange for advertising revenue during syndication (known as barter syndication), allowing the first show to air on September 5, 1983. By 1984 He-Man was being seen on 120 American television stations and in more than 30 countries worldwide. The origin of the franchise still remains a secret, although considering the Conan character was created 50 years before, is a visual replica of He-Man, and that Mattel were working to secure the Conan franchise all along, it is hard to imagine how Conan could not have been the initial seed idea for He-Man. Filmation went on to create She-Ra: Princess of Power (1985-1987), The Original Ghostbusters (1986-1988) and Bravestarr (1987-1988), before the studio closed down in 1988.\nProduced: December 17, 1989 \u2013 present.\nInspirations: Homer Simpson (Character) in \u201cThe Day of the Locust\u201d Book (1939)\nand Ken Osmond (Actor) as Eddie Haskell in \u201cLeave it to Beaver\u201d TV Series (1957- 1963)\nLife in Hell started in 1977 as a self-published comic book written and produced by Matt Groening and was a story about life in Los Angeles and the things which Groening encountered at school, at work in a succession of seedy jobs, and in his personal love relationships. The series reached the attention of James L. Brooks who commissioned Groening to create \u2018bumpers\u2019 (short bridging features) as skits for the Tracey Ullman Show. While waiting in Brooks\u2019 office reception for the interview, Groening sketched out a number of basic designs which would go on to become the basis for The Simpsons. He walked in to the office, presented his 10 minute-old drawings and got the commission.\nHe named the characters after members of his own family, his father Homer, mother Marge and sister Lisa, and substituted Bart for himself. The inspiration behind Homers mannerisms was much less to do with his Father (who by all accounts was quite an intelligent man) and instead based on (according to Matt Groening himself) the 1939 Nathanael West novel \u201cThe Day of the Locust,\u201d which featured a hopelessly clumsy and disaffected \u201ceveryman\u201d character named Homer Simpson. Homers middle name \u2018J\u2019 is simply the letter J, and is a homage to the \u2018J\u2019 in Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and its creator Jay Ward. Bart Simpson was named as an anagram of \u201cbrat,\u201d and Groening\u2019s older brother Mark produced much of the early inspiration for Bart\u2019s attitude. The character was supposed to follow the typical misbehaving child stereotype with some traits of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn thrown in. In interviews, Matt also states one of the initial ideas for Bart came as he considered: \u201cWhat would happen if Eddie Haskell [from Leave it to Beaver] got his own show?\u201d\nThe entire Simpson family was designed so that they would be drawn very quickly, allowing the often tight budget to reach further, and be recognizable in silhouette to that the features were easily recognizable. When designing Homers hair he initially just sketched his initials, \u2018M\u2019 for the hairline and \u2018G\u2019 for Homers ear \u2013 completely expecting the production team to tidy up the hair for the final artwork. They didn\u2019t, and simply traced over Groening\u2019s outlines, so that the Matt Groening initials still remain on the final character to this day. Marge\u2019s hair was based on the iconic Elsa Lanchester hairdo as worn in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), and on a similar style worn by Margaret Groening during the 1960s. Lisa\u2019s hair was initially a cluster of hand drawn hairlines, but this was changed to the simpler \u2018hexagon hair\u2019 design before the pilot episode. The final character traits came about as a result of the voices and ideas of the voice-over crew, most notably Nancy Cartwright as the voice of Bart and Dan Castellaneta as the voice of Homer.\nOn April 19, 1987 the first Simpsons short appeared on the Tracey Ullman show, followed by three more seasons, with the first full half-hour series of episodes appearing on December 17, 1989. So far the show is still on the air after 508 episodes and is regarded as the longest running (and debatably the most popular) animation series of all time. In a final twist, in 1992 Tracey Ullman filed a lawsuit against Fox claiming that her show was the source of the series\u2019 massive success. The claim for a portion of the shows profits was rejected and thrown out by the courts.\nTop 10 Incredible Early Film Firsts\n15 Great Science Fiction Movies Of The 1970s", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 49490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://littlepageturners.blogspot.com/2011/02/books-for-grief.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:MGIL5T5HB4W5CAT4ZCFIHG4DPA7A7A4B", "length": 3545, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "littlepageturners.blogspot.com", "title": "Little Page Turners: Books for Grief", "raw_content": "Books for Grief\nWe're exactly one week away from the anniversary of my father's death. My sister's sons recently drew pictures of themselves with Grandpa, and my sister posted that she's always amazed at the heart's ability to remember important dates. I'm grateful that this year of \"first's without\" is almost over.\nTo make things more poignant, my husband's grandmother passed away last week, and we'll be attending her funeral tomorrow. With all of this on my heart, I thought I would share a few books about death and grief.\nby Laurie Krasny Brown\nMy (elementary school counselor) sister recommended this book to me after my father passed. I was surprised at how honest and forthright it speaks about death and grief. It talks about what happens to the body, what the grieving process might look like, how friends and family might act toward someone who is grieving, and what different religions believe about life after death. I highly recommend reading the book ahead of time and picking and choosing the pages you feel will most help your child. It covers a wide range of subjects, including suicide, which may not be appropriate to your situation.\nby Randy Alcorn, Linda Washington\nI love Randy Alcorn. He's one of the leading experts on Heaven, and his insights are always encouraging. This book is geared toward older children, but it's question and answer format is perfect for YOU when trying to answer your young child's questions about Heaven. I was amazed at the insightful questions E asked after my father's death, and this book really helped me give her concrete, Biblical answers about what Heaven is like.\nThis picture book was too long for my preschooler, but school-aged children would benefit from the story of a boy and his grandfather visiting for the first time since his grandmother's death. Throughout their visit, the grandfather teaches the boy about heaven and helps his grandson accept the grandmother's death. Even if your kids aren't interested in the story, you'll both be inspired by Ron DiCianni's gorgeous artwork throughout the book.\nFor more books, visit this post from Playing by the Book. Zoe put together a beautiful list of picture books that are as artistic as they are insightful about grieving for those we love.\nSince I'll be tied up the next few days with out-of-town family, I've asked some of my best friends to guest post! Woo-hoo! I am surrounded by incredible, talented women, and I can't wait to introduce them to you.\nThat's a hard thing for all of you to be going through.\nSee if you can find a copy of \"Tear Soup,\" it's a picture book that really helped me through the death of my father about 10 years ago.\nMy heart goes out to you. I'm sorry you're going through this time. These look like wonderful books to help children navigate death and the grieving process.\nGinny Marie February 21, 2011 at 8:56 PM\nI'm so sorry for your losses. Last year was extremely difficult for us, too, since my mom passed away and shortly after that my grandmother passed away. My two little girls are still having trouble with the concept of death. I read some books to them at hospice where my mom was, but these books look wonderful. I think I'll look for them!\nOhhh...sending hugs!! Books are such a good way to help kids (and grown ups) get through these tough times. Hang in there!\nI like that you posted this, C. I know it's been a hard year for all of you. I'm sure E has been full of questions this year, probably even more so in the coming years.\nLots and lots of Hugs and prayers from INDIANA!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 267.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livingroom-uk.com/corporate-film", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CVKVVJSMQA6ZHU5S7GA4DEV4W7U32V4S", "length": 375, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "livingroom-uk.com", "title": "Video / Content Marketing | The Living Room", "raw_content": "We\u2019ve produced some great branded content for some great clients, such as Carlsberg, Newsquest, St John Ambulance, Transport for London, Renault, BBC Good Food Show, to name just a few.\nSee some examples of our work below.\nWe\u2019d love the opportunity to discuss how The Living Room could bring your content marketing to life. Call us today on 020 7060 1891 for an initial chat.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livingwaterag.com/2012/10/sermon-get-back-in-the-battle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EJA3AXUTVQ6Z6EYVYNETMPCKU44VDOKH", "length": 5605, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "livingwaterag.com", "title": "Sermon - Get Back in the Battle - Living Water Assembly of God", "raw_content": "Sermon \u2013 Get Back in the Battle\nOctober 28, 2012 \u2013 Pastor Tim \u2013 \u201cGet Back in the Battle\u201d \u2013 Click to download\nhttp://www.livingwaterag.com/audio/sermons/20121028-PastorTim-Get_Back_in_the_Battle.mp3\nIf you\u2019ve given up, get back in the battle, it\u2019s not too late to win your fight. You and God together make a majority.\nPhilippians 4:13, \u201cI can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.\u201d\nAll of us like to win first place. But you don\u2019t just lose because you don\u2019t come in first. We lose when we quit.\nA lot of Christians have given up the battle to receive their healing, on living upright lives, some are struggling to stay faithful to their spouses and families, and to follow God\u2019s plan, and to obtain financial stability. According to Luke 2:52, Jesus grew mentally, physically, spiritually, and socially. \u201cAnd Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.\u201d Favor has a lot to do with growth. If you\u2019re not growing, you\u2019re going to notice the absence of favor.\nGrowth is where favor begins. Growth is the atmosphere for God\u2019s favor. As we grow in God\u2026so will His favor grow in and around us.\nHow do we stay in the battle to do things God\u2019s way?\nIf we\u2019ve already quit, how do we get back in the fight? Well, I\u2019m glad you asked!\n1 Timothy 6:11-12 says, \u201cBut you, O man of God, flee these things and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses.\u201d Notice three words: flee, pursue, and fight. The success of our Christian lives depends upon our learning these three things.\n1. FLEE from the things of the devil. James 4:7, \u201cTherefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.\u201d That includes the love of money. 1 Timothy 6:10, \u201cFor the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some have strayed from the faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.\u201d Money isn\u2019t evil; the love of money is. If we\u2019ll follow God\u2019s Word, prosperity will come. When we put too great a value on money, the things in life which hold the greatest value can be lost.\nWe can\u2019t play around with the things of the devil and not get caught up in things of sin. I thank God there\u2019s help and restoration when we fall. But we\u2019ve got to choose to stay away from certain things. Keep in mind, the devil wants to trap you and me. And we avoid the devil\u2019s traps by fleeing and by\u2026pursuing.\n2. PURSUE the things of God. Pursue suggests a continuing effort to overtake, reach or attain. We choose to pursue God or not pursue Him. He\u2019s not going to make us pursue Him\u2014or go after Him and His way of life. We must choose the pursuit of love and forgiveness\u2014the pursuit of godliness, patience, and gentleness. We must make sure that God\u2019s plans and promises have a prominent place in our lives. Make sure that God\u2019s Word is priority. James 1:21b tells us to \u2018\u2026and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.\u201d The Word has the ability to heal, restore, deliver, save our soul, change our personality, and change our life! But for the Word to work, it must be engrafted\u2014it must become a part of us. For it to be engrafted, we must meditate on the Word and delight ourselves in it\u2014we must soak it in and allow it to penetrate us spirit, mind and body.\nOnce the promise\u2014the Word\u2014gets engrafted into us, the devil doesn\u2019t have a chance! Once the Word is engrafted, or in other words has become one with us, then the devil can\u2019t defeat us any more than he can defeat the Word of God. All the devil can try to do is hinder the engrafting process, because once the Word is engrafted, Psalm 119:89, \u201cForever, O Lord, Your word is settled in heaven.\u201d\nAnd in Jeremiah 1:12b God says, \u201cfor I am ready to perform My word.\u201d When we make God\u2019s Word a priority He will make it a priority to take care of us\u2014to perform His word in our lives.\n3. FIGHT the good fight of faith. The only fight we are called to fight is the good fight of faith. Faith does not make things easy\u2014it makes them possible. Ephesians 6:10, \u201cFinally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.\u201d\nHow do we do that? We believe in our heart and say with our mouth what the Word of God says in Romans 10:10, \u201cFor with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.\u201d That\u2019s the way we get everything God has provided for us.\nWe\u2019ve got the Word of God and the Name of Jesus. Fight to declare God\u2019s Word over your circumstances and your situation will turn around. If you\u2019ve given up, \u201cget back in the battle.\u201d It is not too late to win your fight. You and God together make a majority.\n1 Corinthians 15:58, \u201cTherefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.\nThe secret to success is staying right where God has placed you\u2014even when circumstances, people, and situations are coming against you. When you are in the center of God\u2019s will His provision, protections and deliverance will always be there for you.\nIt\u2019s our choice. We can flee, we can pursue, and we can fight. These three things will make us or break us. These three things are not up to God or a preacher. It is up to us. It is up to you.\nFlee the devil\u2019s works\nPursue the ways of God\nFight the fight of faith\nPosted in: Sermons\tTagged: Back in the Battle, Battle, Devil, faith, Fight, Flee, God, Pastor Tim Oates, Pursue, Resist, Sermon, ways of God", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 6689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lnx.dehon.it/en/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&task=category&id=90:report&Itemid=169", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UCBRR3YVHFK6ULOVUES7VQFMTERMZNJU", "length": 5306, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "lnx.dehon.it", "title": "Report", "raw_content": "You are here:Documents\u00bbXXIII General Chapter\u00bbReport\n1AG - June 5: a day of celebration and closure\nIn many ways, Friday, June 5, was a day of celebration at the General Chapter. It began with Eucharist at which Fr. John van den Hengel was the main celebrant. It was his 50th anniversary of priesthood. Then it was on to a visit with Pope Francis who set aside a prepared text to freely speak with the SCJs, noting his familiarity with the congregation, its work and its charism. He mentioned Bishop Virginio Bressanelli, the former\u2026\n1AG - A historic moment: June 4\nMuch of the chapter\u2019s work on Thursday was in small groups. In the meeting hall there were only a few business items: information about the next day\u2019s visit with Pope Francis, approval of a statement from the chapter on the persecution of Christians, a presentation on the use of DehonDocs, and a look at the tenth anniversary website produced by \u201cDein Reich Komme,\u201d a publication of the German Province. However, during one of the presentations participants were reminded\u2026\n1AG - June 3: motions, reports and even a show!\nThe first item of business at the General Chapter on Wednesday was the four motions. The first called for a public statement of solidarity to be made by the congregation on behalf of persecuted Christians. \u201cIt is estimated that 50 million Christians are persecuted each year, yet this issue rarely gets the attention of the media,\u201d said Fr. Pedro Fernandes Coutinho In presenting the motion. Capitulars agreed that the concern is significant but that instead of directing attention solely\u2026\n1AG - To be with the poor, to be in mission (June 2)\nEach day's session begins in prayer. The \u201cPreferential Option for the Poor\u201d and \u201cMission\u201d were the final themes to be fleshed out in the small groups at the General Chapter. As noted previously, the work of developing these themes is vital for the new general administration as it sets priorities for its work and the needs of the congregation in the future. Each theme continued to receive a three-fold review: what gives inspiration to the theme, what commitments does the\u2026\n1AG - Continued work on themes and priorities for the congregation\nMoving into its the third and final week, the chapter continued to develop themes and priorities for the congregation. This work is vital in giving the new administration direction as it sets the course for the congregation\u2019s future. The first small group discussions were on the topic of \u201cFraternal Life in Community.\u201d As with their discussions on Friday, the capitulars were asked to identify sources of inspiration for the theme but also to list practical steps that\u2026\n1AG - Identifying priorities, remembering the deceased\nParticipants at the General Chapter picked up on Friday where they left off on Thursday: identifying priorities, and thus themes of focus for the congregation in the years ahead. The capitulars returned to their small groups. Joining them in their discussions were several invited guests of the chapter, including Silvia Bertozzi and Grace Escobia who serve on the Dehonian Family organizing committee. In their first session chapter participants prioritized the themes identified yesterday: formation, spirituality and identity, organization of the general government,\u2026\n1AG - Moving to the next phase of the chapter\nAfter a day of celebration that included a Mass of Thanksgiving, followed by a trip to Frascati and a musical performance at Cristo Re in Rome, the capitulars moved to the next phase of their task: work on the theme of the General Chapter (Merciful, in Community, with the Poor). They began by grounding themselves in prayer; much of Thursday morning was devoted to extended Adoration. Then it was on to small group discussions where the\u2026\n1AG - Superior general and first councilor elected\nWhile much of the first week of the chapter was spent reviewing the past six years, the focus of the second week is on the congregation\u2019s future and the new general administration that will guide it. The first order of business on May 25 was the election of the superior general. The day began with a straw vote, adoration, and then the first canonical ballot. In just one round of voting Fr. Heiner Wilmer, provincial superior of the\u2026\n1AG - The election process begins (May 22)\nOne of the primary tasks of the General Chapter is to elect the congregation\u2019s general administration for the next six years. Fr. Jos\u00e9 Ornelas Carvalho completes his second six-year term during this chapter. \u201cWe must enter into this process with a free and open heart,\u201d said Fr. Ornelas. \u201cThis is a democratic process, but God is also a part of that process. We must listen to the Spirit. Jesus told us that we must\u2026\n1AG - May 21: approval of treasurer's report, reflecting on Instrumentum Laboris\nJust as with Fr. General\u2019s report, capitulars broke into multilingual, multi-cultural groups to discuss the general treasurer\u2019s report. This was presented by Fr. Aquilino Mielgo Dom\u00ednguez on Wednesday, as was the report of the financial experts. Reporting back in the meeting hall, small groups echoed much of what Fr. Aquilino had said. Sharing between the entities must continue and grow stronger. However, solidarity also calls for transparency. The concept of a \u201ccommon purse\u201d is vital to Dehonian religious life. Yet,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 7404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://localhmuseum.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/media/joerumors-Jim-DeRogatis.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FGVYBOG4KC7B5JYXE7LM7HP363NQZCBS", "length": 1518, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "localhmuseum.tripod.com", "title": "Local H News", "raw_content": "In Jim DeRogatis' \"Live\" section of today's Chicago Sun Times, there is a blurb explaining more about Joe Daniels' departure from the band. Read on:\nCatching up a little late with my Dec. 10 column on Local H, the band's former drummer Joe Daniels called to offer his side of the story on his split from the two-man group, one of the most successful bands this area produced in the '90s.\nGuitarist-vocalist Scott Lucas attributed his bandmate's departure to rock 'n' roll burnout -- which is true to a point, Daniels says. But it isn't the music he tired of so much as the music business. \"Basically the whole way things operated at Island Records wore me down, and I'm not gonna be a slave to that record company anymore,\" Daniels says. \"Now that I'm away from them I can actually say that they [stink]. It's got to be the worst record label out there; they go through these firings and restructurings twice a year. They fired everyone we knew, and I just felt like I didn't need it anymore.\"\nDaniels has enrolled in pre-med and bought a 20-unit apartment building as an investment to pay for his schooling. (Obviously, rock 'n' roll was not without its benefits.) He hasn't played the drums since his last show with Local H. \"I miss moving the kids and feeding them that energy,\" he says. \"But I definitely don't miss the music business.\"\nOn the other hand, Daniels is keeping one foot in the scene by managing a local rap group, the Icy Rock Posse. And he thanks his fans for all of their support through the years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 1531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 171.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://losslit.com/contributor/di-slaney/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PJQZ52FAWH2KNER2QZWLF3OJOQILGYER", "length": 499, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "losslit.com", "title": "Di Slaney - LossLit", "raw_content": "Di Slaney\nDi Slaney is a smallholder, marketing consultant and publisher from Nottinghamshire. She co-owns Candlestick Press, and her poems have been widely published and commended. She won first prize in the 2014 Brittle Star and 2015 Four Corners poetry competitions. Her pamphlet Dad\u2019s Slideshow is available from Stonewood Press, and her first poetry collection Reward for Winter is published by Valley Press.\nEvery dawn she looks up, sucks on doing words to break her fast, breathes in the day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lovetheludwigs.com/2017/01/22/why-i-march.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WBVX3XXP5KWF2KMQBQGKOT4GJQFJ3XSE", "length": 2113, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "lovetheludwigs.com", "title": "Why I March", "raw_content": "I was privileged to be a part of history in the making on Saturday. I don\u2019t know that I have the words to adequately explain my motivation for attending the Women\u2019s March or the overwhelming emotion of the day, but I am going to try. When my children ask about this election and where I stood, I want to point to pictures and posts and say I stood for what I believe in. I stood for equality and respect and love and kindness. I stood against misogyny and sexism and racism and hate.\nI stand with Hillary: a strong, smart, competent woman who lost against a man who is none of those things. I stand with Ruth, who fights for equality and dreams of nine women on the Supreme Court. I stand with Maya and Eleanor who believe in changing that which you cannot accept. I stand with Susan and Elizabeth and Malala who urge women to use their voices and men to listen. I stand with Beyonce and Michelle who will tell you it is girls who run the world.\nI marched for my daughter. I marched so she will always have the right to make decisions for her own body. I marched so that someday she can run for office or stay at home with her children and that both will be valid choices. I marched so that she will always have access to education and healthcare.\nI marched for my son. I marched so he will grow up in a world that values all people. I marched so that he remembers and becomes the strong man I know he can be. I marched so that someday HE can run for office or stay at home with his children and that both will be valid choices. I marched so that he sees and learns and does not grow up thinking \u201clocker room talk\u201d is normal and acceptable.\nI marched for me. I marched as a part of something bigger than myself. I marched to amplify my voice and to stand with women AND men for what we believe is right. I marched because it is not just our right but our responsibility to take action and protest injustice.\nI marched on Saturday and will keep marching as long as is needed for our voices to be heard. We will not be stopped. We are the change.\nRoar-Brave (Acoustic Mashup)\nExcursion Revisited\nWe\u2019re still here. \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lute.cepelak.cz/introe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:43Z", "digest": "sha1:GUQLPE5RLWZWMQLLDRCT3WIHZGDOQBR5", "length": 1246, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "lute.cepelak.cz", "title": "\ufeff Jiri Cepelak - Lutemaker", "raw_content": "Included in the following is a carefully selected range of instruments which I am currently offering. This selection is the result of many years' experience in lute and guitar making, as well as the requests made by players of varying ability from beginners to professionals. All my instruments are historically accurate, although some alteration to detail may be made in order to accommodate contemporary lute or guitar-playing techniques. I shall be extending my range of instruments in the near future to include new models, historic guitars, etc.\nProspective customers should bear in mind that it is essential in every case to discuss certain details at a personal level in order to achieve the most satisfactory results, e. g. string length, pitch, tuning, type of strings, string spacing and so on. Original lutes were \"made to measure\" far more than any other type of instrument. If you are not quite sure which instrument to order, I can offer you advice on choosing the instrument most suited to the type of music and the style in which you will be playing.\nOriginal string lengths and numbers of courses are given in the descriptions of the instruments, but it is possible to vary these within certain limits if so desired.\nJiri Cepelak", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://manipuronline.com/tag/tipaimukh-dam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZJVCOZ4TJUGL4QCF5DWWM27TIY4BUZB", "length": 1380, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "manipuronline.com", "title": "ManipurOnline\u2026 Dealing With The Issues \u00bb Tipaimukh Dam", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Posts tagged with \"Tipaimukh Dam\"\nIndian Water Policy: British Period To Post Independence\nAs far as access to water by the majority is concerned, the water policy in India appears to benefit the powerful and the rich. At present in Manipur Loktak Project Khuga Dam & Tipaimukh Dam are planted by water policy. During the British rule, this was in favor of the imperial powers. Later, after...\nTags: Agriculture, Indian water policy, Irrigation, Tipaimukh Dam, Water Resources, Water right\nReview Of The MoU On Tipaimukh Dam\nA protest against the Tipaimukh Dam in the Northeast state of Manipur. Image Credit: International Rivers. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) made on the April 23, 2010 amongst the government of Manipur (GoM), the Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) Limited and the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation...\nTags: JVC, Manipur, Memorandum of understanding, National Hydroelectric Power Corporation, Tipaimukh Dam\nOpen Debate On Tipaimukh Dam\nEditor // Aug 27, 2006 11:27 pm\nIn a democratic state like ours, everyone has the liberty of expressing his or her views on any issue concerning the State and its people. However, no one has the liberty to mislead and confuse the public by spreading wrong information, feeding unverified facts and figures. We appreciate the concern...\nTags: Barak River, Cachar District, Manipur, Tamenglong, Tipaimukh Dam", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 7977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://map.edu.in/principal.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:58Z", "digest": "sha1:CZCUHSQK35GB2CA4OUB2TNRORSPFLQ56", "length": 630, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "map.edu.in", "title": "Meenakshi Ammal Polytechnic College | Principal", "raw_content": "He has expertise in the establishment of R & D unit,new laboratories, technical groups in academic environment in addition to teaching.He has over 20 research publications in Journals and Conference Proceedings , delivered over 40 invited talks in international conferences and workshops. His area of research is bioinformatics, Datamining and Theory of Computation.\nThe Institute firmly believes that its graduate is an emissary to the engineering industry. We have an excellent blend of industry professionals and academicians as our faculty, who provide a holistic view of the nuances of engineering operations to our students.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 181.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marigoldmile.com/index.php/our-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:50Z", "digest": "sha1:UKCJPEL2CXIAQHMXIF6KHNRJSJUB6JDT", "length": 1223, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "marigoldmile.com", "title": "History \u2013 The Marigold Mile", "raw_content": "The History of the Marigold Mile\nThe Planting of Marigolds was first started by Pam Sturm, the wife of one of the co-owners of Fox Valley Nursery in 1988 in front of their place of business. She planted 50 feet of marigolds. In the years to follow, an alternating pattern of orange and yellow Inca marigolds were planted. This variety was chosen for their overall size and hardiness. Incas can grow a foot wide and 18 inches tall.\nBusinesses and residents of South Oneida street admired the flowers so much that they asked the Nursery if these flowers could also be planted in front of their properties. Fox Valley Nursery complied and gathered volunteers to perform the work and maintenance. In return the volunteers were able to receive Community Service hours if needed for their work.\nFox Valley Nursery hosted the project from the beginning, with planting Marigolds on South Oneida Street. In 2007 the project was converted into a non-profit organization called The Marigold Mile Inc. 2008 was the first year that over 8000 marigolds were planted on all available boulevards on South Oneida street which is one half mile on each side of the street from Calumet Street to the Skyline Bridge and a few properties beyond.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://market-news.ecovadis.com/p/4103512985/2018/11/22/tesco-and-wwf-bid-to-halve-environmental-impact-of-uk-groceries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:22Z", "digest": "sha1:CT56UWFHUI4PORWBLJ7T424WO42BVHIH", "length": 907, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "market-news.ecovadis.com", "title": "Tesco and WWF bid to 'halve environmental impac...", "raw_content": "Tesco and WWF bid to 'halve environmental impact' of UK groceries\nTesco and WWF have announced they are to collaborate on a long-running sustainable food effort, pledging to establish a measure to halve the environmental impact of the average UK shopping basket within 12 months. The four-year partnership between the UK\u2019s largest retailer and one of the world\u2019s leading environmental organisations is believed to be the first of its kind. They hope its scale will help drive the industry to eliminate food waste and packaging waste and encourage customers to eat more sustainably.\nFood waste is a big issue in the world today however companies have begun to engage in sustainable food production. These businesses produce healthy food while engaging in sustainable business measures, as well as community and environmental programs.Reducing food waste is a meaningful way to stabilize and increase revenue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 485, "original_length": 26210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marketplaceadvisorsinc.com/WP/2017/11/25/re-chicagos-renaissance-a-real-solution-to-chicagos-violent-crime-problem-if-you-have-the-will/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZOFKI7NVF5HOYSYNOF64NFSFNPZARV6", "length": 2702, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "marketplaceadvisorsinc.com", "title": "RE: Chicago\u2019s Renaissance \u2013 A real solution to Chicago\u2019s Violent Crime Problem, if you have the will! \u2013 Marketplace Advisors Blog", "raw_content": "Open Letter to the Honorable Mayor Rahm Emanuel\nDear Honorable Mayor Rahm Emanuel,\nHere are some ideas on how to solve your violent crime problems. Bring back community!\nOver the last few years, I have been studying biological systems to understand how to build better community. Urban planners do not talk much about biology. But, biology sees community as a living system. Cells are the building blocks of organisms, and groups of organisms make up a community, and communities of organisms make up ecosystems. By studying basic concepts of biology, we can build healthier communities for our families that fit appropriately into our environment, better equipping us to address our growing health, social and environmental issues.\nMayor, first of all, Chicago is not a city, it is a region! With almost 2.8-million people, covering an area of 237-square miles (151,700-acres) it is out of scale to provide community and meaning for its citizens. A healthy urban community should be 5,000 to 10,000-acres in scale, a very walkable comprehensible scale. A circle with a 2-mile radius contains approximately 8,000-acres. Two-miles is the distance of a 9-hole golf course, very walkable.\nChicago needs cell division. It should be divided up into 10 to 20-communities or districts. Each of these communities with a population of 100,000 to 200,000-people, a very manageable city scale. These communities would be in a much better position to care for its citizens as a healthy living system. Each of these communities should be further divided into villages or pods of 10,000-20,000 people each (small town scale).\nThese new communities should be as compact in shape as possible, not like the existing gerrymandered wards. Each community should have its own town center and community services. These town centers will function as the center of the community\u2019s neural network, connecting and teaching the members of what is important and how to live a good life. Also, the citizens should feel safe in their own community, they should be able to control what flows in and out of them, as all healthy living systems do!\nThis could be Chicago\u2019s renaissance, creating sustainable communities for Chicagoans to raise healthy families that could serve as a model for building sustainable communities across the country.\nTo let these violent crimes to continue as a disease in your communal body is a disgrace to humanity! It comes down to the question of do we care enough to solve this environmental inhumanity to man? I think we do and must. The alternative is to continue to put our neighbors through this meat grinder for the foreseeable future! Mayor, we can fix this!\nPresident, Marketplace Advisors, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://massageatmonroe.abmp.com/become-a-certified-kinesio-taping-practitioner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PPM27CYCWP33GGGRBQCHCMX36OMNMDMX", "length": 4547, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "massageatmonroe.abmp.com", "title": "Continuing Education", "raw_content": "Massage At Monroe\nPain & Stress Management & Rehabilitation Services\nHot and Cold Stones and Hot Bamboo\nBecome a Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner.\nTreating Plantar Fasciitis - 8CE\n101 THINGS TO DO ON THE CHAIR\nMassage TOOLS for Healthy Returns.\nSpinal Raindrop Therapy\nEffective Strategies for the Neck & Shoulder - 14 CE\nAssessment Tools for the Massage Therapist.\nEthics Depth of Incite\nMuscle Testing for the Massage Professional\nClinical Aromatherapy I & II 12 CE\nKT1 Fundamental Concepts, Screening/Muscle Test, & Muscle Applications (To be taken in conjunction with KT2)\nThe KT1 course is designed to introduce practitioners to the Kinesio Taping\u00c2\u00ae Method. Over the course of this 8 hour class, the instructor will discuss the fundamental concepts of the Kinesio\u00c2\u00ae Taping Method and the unique properties and use of Kinesio\u00c2\u00ae Tex Tape. During lab sessions, attendees will have ample time to practice screening and muscle testing created for the enhancement of your KT skills and muscle applications for both the upper and lower body. Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to discuss and apply the Kinesio\u00c2\u00ae Taping Method to relax overuse syndromes, stimulate weak muscles, and decrease pain and swelling. In addition to instruction provided by a Certified Kinesio Taping Instructor (CKTI), the attendee will receive 2 full-color Kinesio Taping\u00c2\u00ae Workbooks (KT1 Workbook 1) to augment their training. Each attendee also receives 60 day membership to the Kinesio Taping\u00c2\u00ae Association which includes access to a reference data base.\nKT2 Advanced Concepts & Corrective Techniques (Pre-requisite, completion of KTA approved KT1 course)\nThe KT2 course builds on material learned in KT1. During this 8 hour class, the instructor will introduce the six Correc-tive Techniques (Mechanical, Functional, Space, Fascia, Ligament/Tendon, and Lymphatic) and discuss their applica-tion in a variety of clinical conditions. During lab sessions, attendees will have ample time to practice applying these techniques to a variety of upper and lower body conditions. Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to discuss and apply the KT Method to orthopedic & neurological conditions. Attendees will receive Workbook 2 (KT Cor-rectional Techniques and Clinical Applications) to augment their training.\nKT3 Clinical Concepts. (Pre-requisite, completion of KTA approved KT1 and KT2 courses)\nThe KT3 course combines KT1 & KT2 coursework with extra lab time for attendees to practice their skills on a variety of clinical applications. KT3 can be designed to allow the CKTI to cater towards specific practitioner protocols, clinical applications, and practitioner population and address specific professions (pediatrics, hand therapy, sports medicine, chiropractic, etc.) or clinical conditions (stroke, scoliosis, lymphedema, etc.). KT3 can also be set up as a general orthopedic course and may incorporate any or all of the following: unusual tapings, variations on standard tapings, problem solving, and \u201clive patients\u201d. Upon completion of this course and prerequisite KT1 & KT2 seminar, attendees will be eligible to request and take the exam to become a Certified Kinesio Taping Practitioner (CKTP). Note: Students can request to take the exam but will not be eligible to receive a CKTP certificate until they graduate.\nKinesio Taping Registration Form 2017.\nMassage At Monroe, 2325 Hanover Dr. Monroe, NC 28110 704 221 5872\nName: ______________________________________Title: ___________ License # ______________\nStreet: ______________________________________City: __________________________________\nState: _______________Zip: __________________ Email: __________________________________\nPhones: (W) ___________________________________(C)__________________________________\n(Early registration 3 weeks prior to class)\nApril 28,29 KT 1 & 2 16 hours $549 _______\nJune 10 KT3 8 hours $249 _______\nSeptember 2,3 KT 1 & 2 16 hours $549 _______\nOctober 14 KT3 8 hours $249 _______\nRegister for KT 1,2 and 3 and Save even more. 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All rights reserved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mattoid.com/data/Arts/wuornos_aka_theron.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:44Z", "digest": "sha1:JPRD5DTUEBBO67B2DVQDQV3Y6IE7OG7D", "length": 22699, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "mattoid.com", "title": "Aileen Wuornos aka Charlize Theron", "raw_content": "Aileen Wuornos aka Charlize Theron\n'I thought I was really watching her'\nNick Broomfield spent years with Aileen Wuornos for his documentary on the serial killer. How would 'Monster' compare with the woman he knew? (More about Monster)\nInterview by Steve Rose\nMonster isn't the first film to have been made about Aileen Wuornos. In 1992, Peter Levin made a TV movie called Overkill, starring Jean Smart, which I felt had nothing to do with who Wuornos really was or the complexity of her character. So I initially helped Charlize Theron in her preparation for playing Wuornos in Monster because I thought it was important for the best possible representation of Wuornos to come out. I had met Theron before: she had seen my film The Leader, the Driver and the Driver's Wife, and we had a shared interest in South Africa, where she grew up. When she was offered the role, she called up and asked for any footage I might have. I sent her a copy of The Selling of a Serial Killer, my first film about Wuornos, as well as a rough cut of the later film Life and Death of a Serial Killer. These formed the basis of her performance.\nI was reluctant to watch Monster, fearing that Theron's portrayal of Aileen might be a pale imitation of someone I had known for more than 10 years, but in fact she fully understood Wuornos, her mood swings, her facial gestures, the way she talked, moved, her inner emotional complexity. At times I actually thought I was watching Wuornos. So far so good. My disappointment, though, is that there has been so little discussion of Wuornos's life. She was barely mentioned by the media at the time of the Oscars [Theron won best actress], although ironically it was Wuornos's birthday that day - even more remarkably, it was February 29 and this is a leap year. The main media interest centered around the idea of the beautiful Theron transforming herself into the overweight, boozy, psychotic Wuornos.\nMonster deals with a fairly short period of Wuornos's life, when she was committing the murders, and was romantically involved with Tyria Moore (who is called Selby in the film). It concentrates very much on her need to be loved and her need for a family, for all those things in life that she didn't have, and I think within that context, Monster does very well.\nWhat the film doesn't do is examine Wuornos's background. It doesn't go into her childhood, or deal with the family she grew up in or the neighbourhood she grew up in. We don't get a clearer understanding of what might have led to her killing seven men. She was badly abused by all the men in her life - there were rumours that her grandfather was actually her father, and that he in turn abused her as a child. Her father was a sex offender who committed suicide in prison when Wuornos was 13 - her parents' marriage had ended when she was in the womb. She had an incestuous relationship with her brother, and was forced to live in the woods like a wild animal from the age of 13, before turning to prostitution. This clearly raises questions about the shortcomings of the social welfare system in and around Troy, where Aileen grew up. How come this was all unreported and no action was ever taken?\nMonster doesn't concern itself with Wuornos's death either, or the inappropriateness of her execution. The point of making Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer was to get the debate on the death penalty going. This is particularly relevant in an election year, when you have a president who established a world record execution rate when he was governor of Texas, and when, just a year ago, the president' s own brother, Jeb Bush, the governor of Florida, signed the execution papers for this woman.\nWuornos's case is about the rule of law being disregarded, right from her first trial. At the time of her execution, Wuornos was definitely psychotic. She was convinced her mind was controlled by radio waves and believed she was going to be taken off in a space ship to join Jesus Christ. She never showed any remorse; she firmly believed she was ridding the streets of evil men. When a priest came to take her confession just before the execution she sent him packing and knelt down and prayed for her victims, believing they were evil and that God should accept them into heaven.\nWhen Jeb Bush cynically produced three psychiatrists to assess Wuornos's mental state and then pronounced her mentally competent, there was a complete disrespect for what the law really intends, which is that people of unsound mind should not be executed.\nThat same disregard for the rule of law is evident in the Bush administration. I have travelled widely outside the US in the past 18 months, in Africa, Asia and South America. It doesn't matter where you go, people despise the president. They don't believe in him as a leader, as an honest and fair man who will ever do them right. When you have that disregard, and a breakdown in belief in the justice system, you get anarchy. I think that is the important debate. It's not just Jeb Bush fudging Wuornos's sanity, it's the belief that it's OK to fudge it.\nI am talking about these things from the point of view of a documentary film-maker, but I think that is what art is about, too. Art is exciting because of the extent to which it reflects society in a meaningful way and gets a debate going. I hope Monster will raise some of these issues in the consciousness of people who might not have been thinking about them otherwise.\nThe reason that Charlize Theron's role in Monster is so great is because there was enough of Aileen Wuornos for her to base her performance on. Wuornos was the person who gave her that. And in return, we should talk about Wuornos's life.\nCharlize Theron offers a huge performance in an otherwise middling movie, starring in this true-life crime drama about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002 for murdering seven men she picked up as a prostitute. Theron's portrait of Wuornos, beyond the huge physical transformation, is eerie in its exploration of vulnerability and rage. Christina Ricci co-stars as Wuornos's lover, as writer-director Patty Jenkins tries, not entirely successfully, to turn Wuornos's story into another doomed romance.\nBecome a serial killer \u2013 and win an Oscar\n(Filed: 07/02/2004) Telegraph\nShe's blonde, skinny and sexy \u2013 but actress Charlize Theron has transformed herself for the role of her career. Her performance as murderer Aileen Wuornos has brought her acclaim, a Golden Globe, and a best actress Oscar nomination. She talks to John Hiscock.\nWhen a trailer for Monster was shown for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival last year, the audience waited perplexedly for the appearance on screen of its star, Charlize Theron. Only when the trailer was almost over did they realise that the lumbering figure of lesbian-prostitute-serial killer Aileen Wuornos was indeed Theron.\nThe actress, who had become pigeonholed in roles calling for a sexy blonde, had chopped and darkened her hair, made her blue eyes brown, gained 30lb and learned to speak with an unflattering dental prosthetic-induced overbite.\nThe amazing transformation has won the South African-born Theron wildly enthusiastic reviews, a Golden Globe, and a nomination for the best actress Oscar, which she is favoured to win. It has also established her as an A-list actress who can now expect to get first look at scripts that in the past had reached her only after being turned down by the likes of Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett.\nAs I sit opposite her in Los Angeles, it is difficult to grasp that this lithe, leggy, 28-year-old blonde, who was last seen on screen as the ice-cool safecracker in The Italian Job, had managed to become the squat, waddling, homicidal Aileen Wuornos. \"It's what I've been dying to do with my career,\" she says. \"The work I've been doing the last couple of years is not really what I wanted. If you're not careful, you get typecast. I was getting stuck. This is by far the most challenging work I have ever done.\"\nShe has had plenty of disappointments during her 20-film career and had become used to being passed over for roles because producers thought she was \"too pretty\". She had secured the part of Roxie Hart in Chicago when Nicholas Hytner was attached to direct, but when he left and Rob Marshall took over, she had to audition again and this time the role went to Ren\u00e9e Zellweger. Theron also had the lead in Sweet Home Alabama but was bumped in favour of Reese Witherspoon, who had proved herself a comedy star with Legally Blonde.\nThen when newcomer Patty Jenkins brought Theron a script about Wuornos which she had written and wanted to direct, Theron gambled her future by agreeing to produce and star in it. At first it seemed unprepossessing material, focusing as it did on Wuornos, a homeless prostitute who was abused as a child, murdered seven men and was executed by lethal injection in a Florida prison in 2001. Then there was the fact that although she had had her own production company for four years, Theron had never produced a film from start to finish. But she and Jenkins proved a formidable team. They persuaded a friend of Wuornos, Dawn Watkins, to let them visit her and read letters written to her by Wuornos over a 12-year period.\n\"I went there naively thinking all the questions about Aileen would be answered, but the opposite happened,\" recalls Theron. \"Reading some of the letters was extremely hard because you never just felt one way about her; she's a conflicted woman and her emotions really came through in all the letters. This woman had an extremely complicated life and Patty and I would drive in our little rental car back to our Best Western Hotel just crying and thinking and talking.\"\nAlthough some critics think differently, Theron insists that Monster, which opens here in April, does not portray Wuornos in a sympathetic light. It does, however, make the point that if she had not undergone such abuse as a child and been so terribly assaulted by the man who became her first victim, she probably would not have ended up on death row. \"She was abused and had this really terrible life so it would have been easy to make an overly sympathetic, sugar-coated story about how she suffered,\" says Theron. \"I believed all those things but I also believe she did some really terrible things in her life, which makes for a great, dramatic story.\nMonster, which also stars Christina Ricci as Wuornos's girlfriend, was filmed on Florida locations in 28 days on a shoestring budget. The make-up woman, who had worked on Pirates of the Caribbean, did not charge for her services, and the designer of the false teeth \u2013 at \u00a31,500 a set, the most expensive single item in the budget \u2013 provided them with a spare set for nothing.\nBritish filmmaker Nick Broomfield had already produced an acclaimed documentary about Wuornos, and Theron used it and other film of the killer to establish her characteristics. For five months she devoted herself to becoming Wuornos,\n\"From the moment I started gaining weight I lived a very isolated life,\" she recalls. \"My boyfriend [Irish actor Stuart Townsend] was really the only one there watching the whole thing happen. I lived in sweatpants for five months because they were the only things I could fit into. \"I was lucky enough to have a lot of footage of Aileen and I just watched it constantly. I watched her behaviour; I would spend a lot of time in front of the mirror, mimicking her, just trying to pick up maybe five things she kept doing constantly and trying to get comfortable with them.\n\"She was very different from me and once I realised the differences, it was a little bit easier. She was only 5ft 3in and she kind of blew herself up like a blowfish to look bigger. Probably because of being homeless and living on the streets all those years she didn't want to look vulnerable so she was constantly throwing her head back and trying to look bigger. \"She had a waddle, so that was kind of easy, and when she got intense her eyes would get really big, just the opposite of some people. And she carried all her tension in her mouth whereas I carry mine in my forehead.\" Theron pauses and laughs with a self-deprecating shrug. \"These are all boring things. Well, they're interesting things when you break them down like that.\"\nAlthough some of her roles have been forgettable, Charlize Theron is anything but. Her personal history would make a film in itself. She grew up on her family's farm in the rural town of Benoni with 10 dogs and her \"best friend\", a goat named Bok.\nShe began studying ballet aged six, danced professionally in Johannesburg, and, when she was 16, won an Italian modelling agency contract. She moved to Milan and spent the next year travelling around Europe before moving to New York where she studied with the Joffrey Ballet until a knee injury ended her dancing career. She moved to Los Angles, worked as a film extra and, in a story to rival Lana Turner's legendary discovery at Schwab's Drugstore, was spotted by talent manger John Crosby as she threw a tantrum at a bank clerk who was refusing to cash her cheque.\nIn 1996 she made a memorable film debut as a scantily-clad, gun-toting hit-woman in 2 Days in the Valley. Her image was plastered across billboards and she became the instant new \"It\" girl but refused to cash in on her image. Fighting against stereotyping, she appeared in Tom Hanks's directing debut That Thing You Do! and then impressed critics as Keanu Reeves's tortured wife in The Devil's Advocate. Roles followed quickly in Celebrity, Mighty Joe Young, The Cider House Rules and The Legend of Bagger Vance among others, but fully-fledged stardom has eluded her until now.\nJenkins knew that Theron was right for the Wuornos role after seeing her in The Devil's Advocate one night while she was up late writing the Monster script. \"When I sat down with Patty, the first thing out of my mouth was, 'Why me?'\" says Theron. \"These interesting parts never come my way, especially given the way Aileen Wuornos looked.\" It was not until after Jenkins approached Theron that she learned that the actress bore the scars of family tragedy. For years Theron had maintained that her father, Charles Theron, who ran his own road construction company, died in a 1991 car accident.\nBut three years ago the real circumstances of her father's death were reported by several publications, including Time magazine, forcing her to address long-standing rumours. Twelve years ago Charles Theron, an abusive alcoholic, was shot and killed by his wife Gerda Theron after he attacked her in a drunken rage in their farmhouse while the then 15-year-old Charlize watched. Authorities ruled it a justifiable homicide and the case never went to trial. Her mother took over the family business, remarried but separated from her second husband after the death of her stepson Denver in a car accident. \"I really feel it's nobody's business,\" Theron says of her family history. \"I don't need to share that information with the world.\"\nShe is also reluctant to share details of her private life, although she says when we talk that she has just returned from one of many visits she has made to Dublin with Townsend. \"I love Dublin,\" she says. \"I love the pubs. There's one called O'Shea's which is a hardware store and a pub. Nothing like drinking a pint and looking at hammers and shovels.\" She and Townsend appeared together in 2002's Trapped and have just finished filming the romantic drama Head in the Clouds in Montreal, for which she hurriedly had to lose the weight she had gained for Monster. But no, she says firmly, despite reports in the Irish newspapers, she is not getting married. \"I don't know how to stop this rumour,\" she says, with mild exasperation. \"The more I say we are not getting married, the more people say we are, so I feel I am just fuelling the fire. But no, we're very happy and we're not getting married. I'm not opposed to marriage but my life has been the kind of journey in which whatever happens, happens. I realised very early on in my life that you can't plan anything\nWatching Charlize Theron as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in writer-director Patty Jenkins's drama, Monster, one finds oneself asking: how the hell did they make such a beautiful young woman so ugly?\nOne has to remind oneself that the woman before us, with her weatherbeaten face and Skid Row pallor, will next be seen in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers playing a young Britt Ekland. The extinguishing of Theron's beauty to produce a remarkable facsimile of a beaten-down freeway hooker must have kept squadrons of makeup artists busy and required some lengthy sessions in the Ugly Chair. This approach works, though: Theron vanishes before our eyes to become a woman beaten down to nothing by a life of rape, incest, teenage pregnancy and decades of homelessness and prostitution.\nFor all Monster's flaws, Theron's performance can't be faulted. It is richly detailed and upsetting, and manages to retain the audience's sympathy despite the gruesome killings: Wuornos killed seven men who picked her up along a stretch of Florida's I-95 freeway. Perhaps an extra layer of conviction and horror is added by the knowledge that Theron's mother killed her drunken and abusive father in self-defence when the actress was only 15, a killing for which she was rightly not prosecuted.\nMonster covers a relatively short period in Wuornos's life, from the day she meets the young gay woman who would later betray her to the FBI (fictionalised here as \"Selby\" and played by Christina Ricci) until the day she is sentenced to die by lethal injection. Wuornos was at the time nearing the end of a lifelong downward spiral that dated back to being abandoned by her mother, her father's incarceration for raping a young boy (he later killed himself in prison), her rape by her grandfather and a career in prostitution that started when she was nine and traded blowjobs for cigarettes. In the years since, she had drifted across America, finally settling in south Florida, where she frequented the bleakest waystations of the white southern underclass: freeways, sleazy biker bars, roach motels, jailhouses and the wooded backroads where she serviced - and later murdered - the suburban dads and roving truckers who were her clients.\nMuch of this background information isn't covered by Monster, which, for purposes of narrative sleekness, confines itself to a few short flashbacks to childhood and rather simplistically presents Wuornos as a cornered beast striking out in wild-eyed yet understandable vengeance at a world - and especially its men - that had long scorned and violated her. I gleaned most of the background from another movie, Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill's second documentary about Wuornos, Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, a follow-up to their 1992 expose, Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer.\nThe Selling of a Serial Killer was a remarkable movie in the now-celebrated Broomfield-Churchill style: loosely constructed in narrative terms, but tight in its polemics, featuring the languidly handsome and posh-voiced Broomfield extracting stunning admissions and awkward contradictions from his subjects and bamboozling them with his amiably dazed and boyish manner. The gallery of grotesques was remarkable even for Broomfield and Churchill. It included Wuornos's attorney Steve Glazer, or \"Dr Legal\", described by Broomfield in the new movie as \"an old hippie out of his depth\", who seemed more concerned with promoting his own music and securing hefty interview fees than with defending his client (word of advice: if Broomfield gives you money to talk, make sure his camera's off when you greedily count it). Indeed, Glazer counselled Wuornos to plead guilty after Churchill filmed him smoking no fewer than SEVEN joints en route to the sentencing hearing.\nAlso on show were the crazed, born-again woman who adopted Wuornos then sold her out and various equally weird and marginal figures in Wuornos's already weird and marginal life. The movie concluded with the arrest of several police officers, who had stained their reputations by negotiating with movie companies for the rights to aspects of Wuornos's story. Watching Monster, one wonders if any of those movie companies are still in the picture.\nThis isn't the first time Broomfield and Churchill have returned to a subject. An extremely powerful and upsetting early film, Juvenile Liaison, which tracked child-services officers and their brutalised young charges in the mid-1970s, was suppressed by the BBC, though parts of it were shown 15 years later when the film-makers followed up what had happened to the kids.\nAileen: Life and Death arose from a more intimate involvement with their subject. Broomfield was called as a witness in Wuornos's final appeal against the death penalty and decided to film the process. During the hearings, all the witnesses - including Dr Legal, who greets Broomfield with a weary yet friendly \"fuck you, man\" - were housed in the same motel in Ocala, Florida. It is evident that Governor Jeb Bush, then seeking re-election, was eager to see Wuornos despatched into the hereafter with as little fuss and as much publicity as possible. The injection was scheduled for October 2002, just in time for the polls a month later. Wuornos was eager, as she put it, \"to die in Christ\", and had admitted that she had killed \"in cold blood\".\nShe also withdrew a claim that her first victim had beaten and bound her, raped her with a tyre iron and poured alcohol into her wounds and private parts before she shot him dead. Wuornos was enraged and wildly contradictory, so it is hard to tell if her detailed account of this incident, or its withdrawal, are true. However, it is highly disturbing and quite damaging to Monster's legitimacy to see it re-enacted as she originally described it.\nIn the end, Broomfield and Churchill's search for truth inevitably trumps Jenkins's fictionalisation. Even Theron's remarkable acting - a performance that lacks a frame worthy of holding it - is superseded by Broomfield's interview with Wuornos on the eve of her execution. She had been pronounced sane by psychiatrists who examined her for just 15 minutes. But the woman who appears before Broomfield's camera is deranged, paranoid and possibly schizophrenic, raging at the 10 or more guards around her, at the criminal justice system, at her mother, grandfather, Jeb Bush and, finally, at Broomfield himself.\nWith her pupils dilated to blackness, and spitting vituperation in all directions, the very last thing she seems is sane. 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It's not something most people really want to think about but dying will happen to everyone eventually. And, while you might think it's overly morbid to plan for that day, it's actually a sensible and highly practical thing to do.\nFor one thing, it gives you the peace of mind that you'll get the send-off you really want, with every aspect just as you chose it. More importantly, it takes the pressure off your loved ones, giving them one less stressful thing to deal with during a difficult, grief-filled time.\nPlanning your funeral doesn't need to take a long time, and when you've done it, you can concentrate on enjoying life. Here's how to put a plan together.\nDecide on the essentials\nOne of the most important aspects of your funeral, and one that many people have strong feelings about, is whether you want to be buried or cremated. You might have a faith that makes the choice clear but it's best to have it on record to make sure your wishes are carried out.\nYou'll probably need more than one location, actually. Some people prefer just a simple graveside gathering but chances are you'll want a service in a place of worship followed by a shorter burial or cremation service. Decide on where you'd like to be buried or where you'd like your cremation carried out. Think of a place for any longer service you'd like and for people to gather afterwards for food and drink.\nIf you have a particular person in mind to carry out the service, make sure they're notified and included in the plan. Also, think about pallbearers and anyone you'd like to read at your funeral.\nThe content of the service\nPassages from holy texts, poems, extracts from literature, personal recollections: all of these make great readings for funerals. 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It is important for a student to eat healthy and raw food and avoid sugar, fatty acids, carbonated drinks, and alcohol. The consumption of fast food and sugary snacks can decrease your ability to memorize things and you will put on some weight. Most of the students also get a lot of calories from tea, coffee, soda, energy drinks and so on and they are not aware of that. They study all night and do not get much sleep which influences negatively on their health. Students avoid going grocery shopping and planning their meals, so their choice for lunch or dinner are usually some fast food options such as hamburgers, pizza, fried food, or processed foods. Most of the students complain a lot that they do not have time enough for maintaining a healthy lifestyle because of the lectures, homework, exams and social life. This is not true. There is a time for everything; you just need to learn how to manage your time wisely. Here are some tips how to be a good student and at the same time to have a healthy lifestyle. These tips will help you stay fit, maintain a good health and have good marks in your exams.\nTip number one \u2013 Plan your meals in advance and make sure you consume the right ingredients! It is a good idea to plan your meals in advance, because in all the studying and going to lectures, you might not have enough time for preparing your food. Make a list of options for breakfast, lunch and dinner and also include 2 snacks. Five small meals a day all you need. Make sure you avoid sugar and sugary snacks as well as chips and soda and some other sugary drinks. When you make your list, make sure you have included some protein, vitamins, minerals and fiber. Prepare your meals the night before and store them in a fridge. The next day, you just need to pick up your meal and enjoy its taste. The healthy and balanced diet will improve your memory and you will not feel tired all the time.\nTip number two \u2013 Water is the only liquid you really need! All your body needs is some water in order to stay hydrated. Hydration is really important for proper body function. Take a bottle of water with you wherever you go. Most of the students replace water with coffee or soda. This is really wrong. When you are thirsty, you only need some water. Soda and coffee make you thirstier. Avoid alcohol consumption. Alcohol does nothing but damage to your body.\nTip number three \u2013 Eat on a schedule \u2013 Do not start your day without breakfast! Breakfast is really important because it provides you with the energy for your day, so that you can complete all of your tasks during the day. Make sure your breakfast is full with proteins, fiber, vitamins and minerals. Despite breakfast, you should have lunch and dinner and 2 small snacks between the main meals. Stick to an eating schedule and try to eat every day at the same time. This way you will boost your metabolism and you will have more energy. Do not forget to consume fresh fruit and raw vegetables during your day!\nTip number four \u2013 A quality sleep is mandatory! Most of the students study during the nights, stay up all night watching a film, or just want to party all night long. The nights are meant for a good rest and a good sleep. Sleep deprivation can lead to anxiety, depression, memory loss or inability to memorize and also leads to weight gain.\nTip number five \u2013 Exercise at least two times a week. There is no better cure for everyday anxieties such as taking a walk or exercising for 20 to 30 minutes. Try to stay active and maintain a healthy weight. A moderate exercise of 20 to 30 minutes two or three times a week will be enough. Exercising will clear up your mind; it will make you happy and will let you go of all the negativity and stress.\nIt is not an easy thing to be a student, but you need to make a plan and a schedule and find the right balance between your studies and your health. Our health is really important, so make sure you keep a healthy lifestyle during your studies. or-Bio\n8 Super Tips to Balance Healthy Eating and a Busy\u2026\nThe Beginner\u2019s Keto Diet Meal Plan\nTags: food for studying, health tips, nutrition", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mitutoyodigitalmicrometer.com/fowler_by_mitutoyo_digit_counter_outside_micrometer_200_225mm_0_001mm.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6TWGSBFIICRTX7ZZ5WGASPQ3XZAIJJSO", "length": 1680, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mitutoyodigitalmicrometer.com", "title": "Fowler by Mitutoyo Digit Counter Outside Micrometer 200-225mm / 0.001mm", "raw_content": "Fowler by Mitutoyo Digit Counter Outside Micrometer 200-225mm / 0.001mm\nFowler by Mitutoyo Digit Counter Outside Micrometer 200-225mm / 0.001mm. This micrometer was made in Japan by Mitutoyo and marketed by Fowler in the United States. It is identical to a Mitutoyo micrometer except is has the name Fowler written on it. The micrometer has Made in Japan written on it which confirms that it was made by Mitutoyo. It is identical to the corresponding Mitutoyo branded model.\n0.001mm Resolution on thimble. 0.01mm Resolution on digit counter. _gsrx_vers_625 GS 6.9.7 (625). _gsrx_vers_795 GS 7.0.7 (795). The item \"Fowler by Mitutoyo Digit Counter Outside Micrometer 200-225mm / 0.001mm\" is in sale since Tuesday, August 15, 2017.\nThis item is in the category \"Business & Industrial\\CNC, Metalworking & Manufacturing\\Metalworking Tools\\Metalworking Inspection & Measurement\\Micrometers\". The seller is \"jonathancmu\" and is located in Allen Park, Michigan. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Viet nam, Uruguay.\nBrand: Fowler by Mitutoyo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 205.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mjoshi.blogspot.com/2018/05/indias-seychelles-military-base.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:SC5PDVMAOOXO4QA7UO2KEUPL7RV2D7U7", "length": 6923, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "mjoshi.blogspot.com", "title": "Manoj Joshi's blog: India\u2019s Seychelles Military Base Roadblock Has a China Subtext", "raw_content": "India\u2019s Seychelles Military Base Roadblock Has a China Subtext\nAn agreement between India and the Indian Ocean island of Seychelles to build a military base has run into rough weather. Signed during Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s visit to the island in March 2015, the agreement remained unratified by the country\u2019s National Assembly. Then, it was revised this January and was to have been tabled for ratification this month, but the process has been postponed till April.\nOn the eve of the National Assembly taking it up on 6 March, the text of the revised agreement was leaked online. As it is, it had been facing vociferous opposition from a group of activists led by the former tourism minister. The government of President Danny Faure is in a minority in the National Assembly, but the Opposition leader Wavel Ramkalawn had agreed to support the revised agreement which was drafted after the 2015 agreement was shared with him. Subsequently, on 5 March, the country\u2019s ombudsman was also given a copy of the agreement.\nNot a Tourist Brochure Paradise for India\nGiven Seychelles\u2019 size and location, it has faced some external threats. In 1981, a group of white mercenaries led by British-Irish ex-paratrooper Mad Mike Hoare attempted to overthrow the government. Sensitised by this experience, the country reached out to India and twice in 1986, New Delhi helped prevent a coup against the Seychelles government. The two countries signed an MOU on defence cooperation 2003 and as part of this, in 2009, Indian naval ships were sent to patrol the country\u2019s EEZ against Somali pirates.\nSince then, New Delhi has donated helicopters, patrol boats and a Dornier maritime surveillance aircraft to build the Seychelles\u2019 capacity for surveillance and policing of its own EEZ. As part of the 2015 agreements, India has built a network of 6 coastal radar stations which are manned by Seychelles Coast Guard personnel.\nIndo-Pacific Bonhomie\nIt was during Prime Minister Modi\u2019s visit to Seychelles in March 2015 that the two sides signed the first agreement for the development of Assumption Island. The agreement sought to build facilities to enhance the maritime surveillance and search and rescue capabilities of Seychelles. Under this agreement, India was to renovate an airstrip in the island, upgrade its jetty and construct housing facilities for the Seychelles Coast Guard.\nIt gave both India and Seychelles the right to use the facilities and noted that third parties could use it, provided they were not inimical to the \u201cnational interest of either party.\u201d The Opposition had at the time criticised the government for hiding things from them, charging that the island was being sold or leased to India. The agreement, however, went into a limbo in 2016 as the government went into a minority in the National Assembly where it needed to be ratified.\nPM Narendra Modi unveiling plaque and operationalisation of radar for the CSRS India-Seychelles Cooperation project in Mahe, Seychelles.\n(Photo Courtesy: Twitter.com/PIB_India)\nWhen the Waters Got Choppier\nBy this time, significant opposition had developed, led by activists who had organised weekly protests from the beginning of the year. Among those leading the protests was a former minister in the government who charged that a world heritage site could be affected through the implementation of the agreement.\nAt a public hearing on the deal, there were charges that the agreement was about establishing an Indian military base and that New Delhi was using Seychelles\u2019 facilities to carry on its war against China.\nThe leak through a YouTube video provides links three URLs to Google Drive folders containing the entire text of the 2018 agreement, the 2015 version, and a letter detailing the conditions under which Indian military personnel could operate in the island. The video has deliberately sought to give a dramatic gloss to the fairly routine agreement which focuses more on logistics and building up of capacity of the Seychelles.\nThe Secrecy Storm\nA comparison reveals little substantive change in the agreements on 2015 and 2018. The tweaks are more by way of satisfying Seychellois opinion and the issue could have been avoided if the agreement had been made public at the outset.\nIt said that the purpose of the agreement was to develop and manage aviation, maritime and communications facilities on part of Assumption Island. It explicitly noted that Seychelles would own the facilities while their management would be joint, with India taking the burden of developing the infrastructure, providing the equipment and its maintenance. There were no changes in the provision relating to the functioning of Indian military personnel, though they were made subject to Seychelles law.\nFurther, India could not bring nuclear weapons into the facilities nor use them \u201cfor the purposes of war.\u201d Likewise, there was no change on a crucial provision which said that there would be no restriction on the use of the facilities by even military vessels of third parties, \u201cprovided they are not inimical to the interest of either party.\u201d\nNo Fair Winds for India?\nThe big question in everyone\u2019s mind is whether after the recent Maldives problem, the Seychelles event represents a setback for India.\nThis it does, though the two cases are different. In the Maldives, there is a domestic context, whereas the Seychelles\u2019 public protests are somewhat suspicious since the Opposition leader is ready to support the agreement.\nChina is the subtext of India\u2019s troubles in both the Maldives and the Seychelles, though its hand in the Maldives is clearer. But this is par for the course. Small countries like Seychelles, Mauritius, Maldives and even Sri Lanka are prone to external meddling. But, they also find it useful to play off two larger countries in their own interests, and you cannot begrudge them that.\nChina is a new entrant into the Indian Ocean, and there is a lot of concern over its development of ports and infrastructure and links with various countries. We should not overstate their significance. As a major trading nation, China will develop and manage ports, and seek secure sea lanes.\nBut as of now and probably for the next 15 years and more, China will not have significant military capability in the Indian Ocean, at least nothing compared to what India and the United States possess.\nIllustration used for representational purposes.\nIndia\u2019s current focus in its ties with the Indian Ocean island states is to push forward its its maritime domain awareness project. This involves working together with the island states to help police their EEZs by tracking the movement of various vessels through a chain of coastal radars that India has funded and established. The goal is to assist capacity-building of the facilities, something New Delhi has been involved with well before China came into the picture, rather than any sinister military purpose.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 9472, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mjsimpson-films.blogspot.com/2014/08/liberty-bleeds.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:29Z", "digest": "sha1:3TDXIVEA34IMJCC6J5XVHQCQPL4IPQAK", "length": 8829, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "mjsimpson-films.blogspot.com", "title": "Cult films and the people who make them: Liberty Bleeds", "raw_content": "Director: Stuart Wood\nWriter: Stuart Wood\nProducer: Stuart Wood\nCast: Stuart Wood, Tara Jennings, Peter Scivier\nI watch this stuff so that you don\u2019t have to. And I don\u2019t mean that in a nasty way.\nLiberty Bleeds describes itself on YouTube as an \u2018amateur horror film\u2019 and that is completely accurate. It\u2019s horribly shot, has no discernible story, drags on way too long and is of no interest to anyone except those who made it and British horror completists. In the spirit of fairness, I\u2019ll give the film-makers props for honesty and for not trying to pretend their picture is something it\u2019s not, but it\u2019s still unwatchable crap.\nStorywise, this is a thoroughly generic slasher with assorted young people stalked at home or in Southampton town centre by a killer wearing a rubber Statue of Liberty mask (hence the title, which is easily the best thing about it). Early on there are some Scream-inspired phone calls from the killer to his potential victims but that angle is swiftly forgotten.\nWriter/director/producer Stuart Wood and Tara Jennings star as teenage siblings Camron (sic) and Julie Carter whose parents are away. Who the rest of the characters are is not clear, although one of them is played by Peter Scivier who with Jennings shares \u2018co-director\u2019 credit. There is a small boy who gets hanged by the killer while Julie is supposed to be babysitting him. And there\u2019s a ridiculously young-looking and abusive cop who interrogates the siblings on suspicion of the boy\u2019s murder. More than that I could not tell you.\nEventually, Camron collects together all those who have been attacked by the killer but survived \u2013 his sister and three others \u2013 and they all go to a large isolated house in the countryside where, predictably, the killer turns up and starts attacking them. Julie thinks it\u2019s Camron but it\u2019s not. I don\u2019t know who it actually is, despite an unmasking and numerous subsequent scenes, including a long, dull sequence of the siblings holidaying in Tenerife. Two characters in the end credits are identified parenthetically as \u2018(Killer 1)\u2019 and \u2018(Killer 2)\u2019 so presumably they share the rubber mask, but I don\u2019t know who they are, and certainly don\u2019t care. It almost goes without saying that no-one in the cast can act and none of them have made any other films, so far as I can tell.\nSpeaking of the end credits, I feel obliged to reproduce the minimalist crew credits which are as follows:\nPre Production Scriptwriter \u2013 Stuart Wood\nEditer (sic) \u2013 Stuart Wood\nCamera Operators \u2013 Everyone\nStunt Co- ordesigner (sic!) \u2013 Peter Scivier, Sam Saunders\nI suspect that \u2018Pre Production Scriptwriter\u2019 may be a unique credit in the history of cinema, although not as unique as that bizarre chimera of stunt co-ordinator and production designer! Even more bizarrely, the exact same credits, with the same errors, are then repeated - except for the third line which is replaced with \u2018Special Effects Editor - Jacob Drewett\u2019. After general thanks, the credits round up with a detailed list of all the copyrighted music used without permission in the film, including tracks by Black Eyed Peas, Dizzee Rascal, Rihanna, Chase and Status, Kula Shaker and Moby.\nMusic aside, one aspect of the soundtrack does stand out and that\u2019s a news report on a murder, heard in two separate scenes. Now, one thing that always bothers me with no/low-budget productions is that directors cast poor actors as news reporters. I always think: if you need somebody reading a news report, why not cast a presenter from your local radio station? They\u2019ll probably think it\u2019s fun and may even be keen to add a film credit, however minor, to their CV. They\u2019ll almost certainly give you some free publicity on their show. And they\u2019ll sound professional. Win win win. So when I heard what sounded like a real news report from a real reporter, I was initially impressed that somebody had had the right idea.\n\u2026Until I realised that it was a real news report. Specifically, it was a report on the murder of Sophie Lancaster, a 20-year-old who was attacked and killed by a gang in Lancashire in 2007. Lancaster\u2019s death was a high profile case because she and her boyfriend (who was badly injured) were attacked for being goths, thus the incident contributed to a broadening of the concept of \u2018hate crime\u2019 as something which could apply to any subculture or group. Lancaster\u2019s mother established the Sophie Lancaster Foundation in her memory.\nI must say that \u2013 irrespective of the amateur nature of the film or the non-existent budget \u2013 using a recording of a report on a real life, brutal, unprovoked murder as background in a horror movie is utterly tasteless and insensitive.\nThe above notwithstanding, Liberty Bleeds is basically a bunch of mates larking about and shouldn\u2019t be considered as a \u2018real\u2019 feature film aimed at an external audience. On the other hand, Wood and co went to the trouble of uploading the whole thing to YouTube in 11 ten-minute chunks. (The last is only two minutes but nevertheless 102 minutes is clearly way too long for something like this, even if the last ten minutes are credits/out-takes. The film could easily lose half an hour and still be feature-length, although it would be no more comprehensible, entertaining or interesting.) There is naturally a pejorative view of \u2018releasing\u2019 a feature film onto YouTube as the lowest cinematic rung of all (at least Vimeo has a certain class) but on the other hand it is a valid distribution model and there are plenty of good, well-budgeted professional movies which have been made legitimately available on YouTube. Freakdog and Fired spring to mind as a couple of examples.\nSo the fact that this is on YouTube should not necessarily count against it, although the ten-minute chunks thing does to some extent. On the other hand, it\u2019s so unwatchable for anyone not directly involved \u2013 featuring as it does a mixture of unlit, shaky handheld footage and camera mic-recorded dialogue frequently drowned out by background noise \u2013 that it\u2019s very difficult to stomach more than ten minutes at a go. Only 175 viewers have made it all the way through so far.\nAnd there, really, is the dichotomy of modern amateur film-making (I touched on this in Urban Terrors): the sort of crappy home movies that people used to make on 8mm and show to their mates are now available for the world to view. By virtue of being posted online in March 2010, Liberty Bleeds has to be counted as a \u2018released\u2019 film and hence a title in the British Horror Revival. Shot between August 2009 and February 2010, it was actually the second film from \u2018Liquid Productions\u2019 following an earlier \u2018teen slasher\u2019 called Screamer, shot in the first half of 2007.\nWood and Jennings subsequently became \u2018South Lunar Productions\u2019 and began work on a third feature in February 2011, entitled Purgatory: \u201cA Movie about the paranormal and a group of friends who find themselves lost in the woods and seek for help in an abandoned psyciatric hospital to find out things we'rent what they seem.\u201d Production was halted after one week and seems to have never restarted, although a two-minute clip of one scene was posted in May of that year to a Facebook page which went completely silent six months later.\nNow this may be a coincidence, but at exactly the same time that shooting on Purgatory fell apart, Jennings was in court, being fined for assaulting a journalist from the local paper. When Jennings\u2019 mother was convicted in October 2010 of falsely claiming more than \u00a350,000 in benefits, a hack from the Southern Daily Echo took a picture from across the street of her leaving court with her daughter, who took exception to being snapped, grabbed the journo and screamed, \u201cI\u2019m going to kill you!\u201d Charged with a public order offence, Jennings failed to turn up for her hearing in February 2011 (possibly because she was busy making a crappy horror film\u2026) so a warrant was issued and she was arrested. Jennings was fined \u00a3350 with \u00a3250 in other charges, which was probably considerably more than she and Stuart Wood had ever spent on any of their films.\nAnd that\u2019s pretty much all there is to say about Liberty Bleeds: woeful technical quality, no discernible characters or plot, pirated music, of passing interest as an example of how anyone at all can make a feature-length film and distribute it online, and notable for being followed by an unfinished project which was apparently abandoned because one of the film-makers was nicked for assaulting a journalist covering the story of her benefit-fraudster mother. Which is different at least.\nI would have notched this up to a D for the title, which I still think is pretty cool, but I have to knock it back again for using the Sophie Lancaster news report.\nLike I say, I watch these things so you don\u2019t have to.\nLabels: 2010, British Horror Revival, psychos, slashers, UK", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 13020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mma-paradise.com/barnatt-challenges-silva-he-accepts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:16Z", "digest": "sha1:S5IXAJZV25DPVTWIGB6T2RY3II2FL6ZP", "length": 1450, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mma-paradise.com", "title": "Barnatt Challenges Silva & He Accepts", "raw_content": "Barnatt Challenges Silva & He Accepts\nDuring a recent interview, UFC middleweight fighter Luke Barnatt spoke about his desire to beat Wanderlei Silva into retirement.\n\u2018The Axe Murderer\u2019 responded, heres what he had to say:\n\u201cThe name that I\u2019m looking at is from mister Wanderlei Silva. He is about 40 years old and I\u2019m a young man, so it\u2019s a good fight for me. He\u2019s a legend of the sport but I can knock him out in the first round. I think that would be devastating for him. A redemption for bad guys. Chael Sonnen was my coach, we are very close of each other. He\u2019s passing by difficult times now and fighting Wanderlei was his main goal. I can beat Wandy for Sonnen, it would be great for me and I want it. Wanderlei is dead, people want to see new fighters like me. I\u2019m the new. That is why guys like Wanderlei still fights. He\u2019s there to loose for younger men. Sonnen and Belfort are the opponents that I want to face and these fights have to happen. When Sonnen is good to fight, it can happen. There are other guys, like that one who lost to Belfort, Luke Rockhold. I wasn\u2019t even thinking about him but I was asked if I could face him and I said it could be. I just know who he is because he lost to Belfort. This other skinny one (Barnatt) smells like easy money. I don\u2019t know who he is. I looked his picture and said: \u2018I can\u2019t believe it, this skinny guy?\u2019. To beat fools like him is easy money. I would accept giving him a beating, for sure.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 6547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mobile.lakeplacidnews.com/page/wap.detail/id/528368/Elect-Martha-Pritchard-Spear-to-school-board.html?nav=5003", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:41Z", "digest": "sha1:6BO7HJOJMXL7NWL2VP6BGTFJSQF2YJNW", "length": 1132, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mobile.lakeplacidnews.com", "title": "Letters - LakePlacidNews.com | News and information on the Lake Placid and Essex County region of New York - Lake Placid News", "raw_content": "Elect Martha Pritchard Spear to school board\nPlease accept this letter endorsing Martha Pritchard Spear as a candidate for Lake Placid school board. I have known Martha since she moved to the Adirondacks in 2003. Her husband is an old college friend of Chris's. The Spears have lived in Lake Placid for six years. They have a 10-year-old son.\nEleven of Martha's 30 years of professional experience have been in schools, and service is in her blood. She was a board member of Wells Memorial Library in Upper Jay as well as the Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library System. Other organizations' boards she has served on include the Upper Jay Art Center/Recovery Lounge and Adirondack Architectural Heritage. She is the current president of the Lake Placid Rotary Club.\nMartha is a devoted mother, an upstanding citizen, an incredibly hard worker, a natural leader and fun to be around.\nThank you for your consideration. And definitely get out to vote for your school board, Tuesday, May 15 from 2 to 9 p.m. at the elementary school. (Correction: The date of the election was incorrect in an earlier version of this letter.)\nCatherine Ericson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moconed.com/district/MonroeCityRI/district.php?pol=322", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OHFAZWV6VTUUYI7AE63RPZZG3NJ2VXJZ", "length": 1072, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "moconed.com", "title": "Monroe City R-I | P 2870 Administering Medicines to Students", "raw_content": "P 2870 Administering Medicines to Students\nIt shall be the policy of the Board of Education that the giving of medicine to students during school hours be discouraged and restricted to medication that cannot be given on an alternative schedule. The Board of Education recognizes that some students may require medication for chronic or short-term illness/injury during the school day to enable them to remain in school and participate in their education. Employees providing routine first aid according to District procedures will be immune from liability or disciplinary action. Similarly, trained employees will be immune from civil liability for administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation and other lifesaving methods in good faith and according to standard medical practices. The Board of Education also recognizes that the administration of medication may be required under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and/or the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to provide a free appropriate public education for identified as disabled under those laws.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 171.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://modernwriters.org/focus/editorial/8357-tunisia-and-egypt.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:04Z", "digest": "sha1:I5VWXZJ3KE6K5FO63L2ULU3JPXAJDXAY", "length": 7935, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "modernwriters.org", "title": "Tunisia and Egypt: Why Now?", "raw_content": "Focus Editorial Tunisia and Egypt: Why Now?\nTunisia and Egypt: Why Now?\nIf the recent events in Tunisia and Egypt tell us anything it is that predicting the beginning of mass unrest is very difficult. Indeed, it is probably easier to predict the stock market. What one can do, however, is describe conditions that are likely to create a context conducive to such unrest. What might those be?\n1. First and foremost are poor economic conditions that are believed unnecessary by a suffering population. In our day and age this condition is easy to meet. There are many areas of the world where economies are stagnant, held hostage by international organizations like the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, unable to feed usually growing populations, and most importantly, unable to employ a growing percentage of their adult population, including highly educated middle class individuals. And, in age of worldwide instant communication, no one really believes that such conditions are the way things have to be. Muhammad Bouazizi, the young man who, through an act of self-immolation, sparked the revolt that brought down Tunisia\u2019s dictator, was responding to years of economic frustration.\n2. Police and/or military repression is the second condition that increases the probability, at least in the long run, of resistance and revolt. In a country where unemployment is high, the army and the police become primary employers. But, those so employed are separated out from the rest of the population as an arm of a government that is unpopular. They often act with impunity. That is they are above the law and not its servants. If their salaries are sub-standard or they are not well supervised the police may well turn criminal. And their usual crime is extortion. Muhammad Bouazizi committed suicide after police took away his only source of living. They confiscated his street stall in part because he could not afford to pay off those in authority.\n3. Thus, rampant corruption is a third ingredient often found in societies that are vulnerable to popular revolution. When questioned about employment possibilities, a young man from Bouazizi\u2019s town, Sidi Bouzid, responded, \"Why don\u2019t I have a job? Because I would have to pay people connected to the president\u2019s family to receive one. They take everything from us, and give us nothing.\"\nEgypt too reflects this mix, though in different ways than does Tunisia. In Egypt unemployment is very high, particularly among the young and college graduates. Having a highly educated labor force that is chronically unemployed or under employed is always a dangerous mix. Repression is also high in what amounts to a police state with rigged elections and torture chambers in the basements of local jails. Corruption is pervasive in Egypt. Everyone knows that those close to the dictator control the economy. You want something done, you have to cut them in.\nWhile the three conditions listed above might be necessary to the eventual outbreak of mass unrest, at least in the non-Western world, they are not sufficient. Zine Ben Ali was Tunisia\u2019s dictator for 23 years. Hosni Mubarak has \"led\" Egypt for 30 years. Conditions in both countries have been ripe for a popular uprising for much of that time. So what is the missing ingredient? It is probably not one thing, but rather a chain of things. Here is the surmise put forth by my wife, the anthropologist Janet Amighi:\nA. The default positions among the population of these dictatorships are fear and passivity.\nB. Then something particularly outrageous (Bouaziz\u2019s public suicide) or inspiring (successful revolt in Tunisia) occurs.\nC. This event is enough to overcome the fear and passivity of a small number of people who publicly protest.\nD. For whatever reason they are not immediately suppressed and this encourages others to take the chance of coming into the streets.\nE. At this point the authorities have a choice. You either come down very hard on the protesters, which usually includes shooting many of them down, or you positively respond to their demands. Or sometimes the authorities are so stunned and uncertain they just do nothing. In 1989 in China the government choose to shoot the people in Tianamen Square. In Tunisia and also in Iran of the Shah, and now in Egypt too, the government hesitated or, as seems likely in the case of Tunisia, the army refused to shoot down the citizenry.\nF. Whatever the reason, hesitation on the part of the government that goes on long enough changes the default norms. Passivity and fear ebb and all the discontent and hatred that has built up over the decades comes pouring out. At that point the days of most dictatorial regimes are numbered.\nFor a very long time now the U.S. has put its money on the dictators. Washington has bought both them and their armies so as to have the leverage to economically exploit their countries and dictate their foreign policies. We officially call this arrangement \"stability.\" It works most of the time because most people are in fact passive and fearful. Yet, at the same time the U.S. government has presented itself as the champion of democracy. This is mostly for domestic American consumption, but it does make it difficult for Washington to turn around and advocate the slaughter of protesters in those rare moments when such a choice presents itself.\nHowever, that does not mean there are not those among us who have not and would not again do just that or worse. Henry Kissinger and his Chilean friend Augusto Pinochet come to mind.. More recently there are the neo-conservatives. As far as I am concerned, Jimmy Carter did the right thing by advising the Shah of Iran not to slaughter those he had so long oppressed. And, just so, Barack Obama has (at least so far) done the right thing by advising Hosni Mubarak and his generals not to slaughter the people of Egypt. However, there is little doubt that Mubarak would have gotten a very different message from George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the entire gang that ran the U.S.A. only a few years ago.\nThe future outcomes of these popular revolts are also difficult to predict. Unless the protesting elements have strong organization and a clear notion of how they want their future to look, these things can peter out as quickly as they erupt. Then the names of the dictators may change, but the repressive game stays approximately the same. That is also something Washington calls \"stability\"or, in the present case of Egypt, an \"orderly transition.\" Then again, once there is turmoil all manner of possible outcomes are possible. In Tunisia the dictator is gone and, right now, the country is calm as a new government is formed. In Egypt things are much more uncertain. It seems to me that the U.S. is presently backing Omar Suleiman, Mubarak\u2019s newly named vice president. Suleiman was the head of the Egyptian Intelligence Services and is identified with policies of cooperation with Israel, particular when it comes to Gaza. He can be relied upon to be Washington\u2019s man in Cairo. Yet the likelihood of the Egyptian people swapping Mubarak for Suleiman is highly unlikely. There is also the fact that the Muslim Brothers, who have kept a low profile so far, can put half a million additional protesting Egyptians in the streets within hours with little regard to the fact that this would certainly upset Secretary of State Clinton. They have expressed their willingness to cooperate with Mohammed El Baradei, someone much more acceptable to the general population than Suleiman.\nSo you see, once the genie is out of the bottle so to speak, unless you, the government and its foreign supporters, are willing to kill a lot of people, you really can\u2019t control the outcome. As in Tunisia, the Egyptian army has so far decided not to murder its own people. Therefore, we don\u2019t really know how this is all going to play out in the land of the Nile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 10669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://monagglo.com/2018/09/27/why-you-should-sell-burgers-at-your-bar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:49Z", "digest": "sha1:LB436C5RAXFPIZI2NIM5JKNK35MNB3TM", "length": 2243, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "monagglo.com", "title": "Why You Should Sell Burgers At Your Bar - Understanding Restaurant Challenges", "raw_content": "Right now, you might not sell any food at all in your bar. If you do, you might have a rather simple menu. If you don't sell burgers, this could be a good way to improve your bar. It's a great choice for serving at your bar for these key reasons.\nThey're Relatively Affordable to Make\nYou might want to save most of your business budget for buying more alcohol and mixers, improving the aesthetic of your bar, and putting in a better sound system. You may like the idea of serving food, but you might not want to spend too much on it. The good news is that burgers are relatively affordable to make. You just need a simple grill for cooking them, and you'll only need to buy basic ingredients like ground beef (or even pre-made patties) and hamburger buns. It's a relatively affordable investment to make for your bar, but it might turn out to be a good one.\nThey Pair Well with Beer\nIf you choose to sell food at your bar, choosing food that pairs well with the drinks that you serve is a good idea. If you sell a lot of beer in your bar, then serving burgers seems like a natural choice. After all, it's a classic pairing, and it might even help you sell more beer.\nThey're a Popular Choice\nEven though some restaurants do really well with selling unique foods, you might want to stick with the more popular items. A lot of people love burgers. Selling them at your bar is a good way to make sure that you're serving foods that people actually enjoy and will actually order. You shouldn't have to worry about people not ordering them after you've invested in the equipment and ingredients to make them.\nThey Can Help You Bring in More Customers\nOnce your bar starts becoming well-known for selling burgers, you might find that more people will walk through your doors than usual. After all, then your bar won't just be known as a place where people can get a drink, but it will also be known as a place where people can go if they are looking for something good to eat. It's a great way to bring in more business.\nSelling burgers at your bar is a smart investment. It will require you to invest in some cooking equipment and ingredients, but you'll probably be glad you did once you see how selling bar burgers can help you improve your bar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 3066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mteam7.com/macos_setup_ass/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:58Z", "digest": "sha1:YVE2HCQIP5PG5A2IGSPKBBN43Y3PCPR2", "length": 4497, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "mteam7.com", "title": "Reset Setup Assistant - MTeam7", "raw_content": "Reset the OS X Setup Assistant\nWhen you first start using a brand-new Mac or performed a clean install of OS X, you are presented with Setup Assistant, allowing you to create the first user account and specify some initial information, such as keyboard layout and locale.\nUnder certain circumstances, it can be advantageous to re-run the Setup Assistant. Using some command-line trickery, we can do just this without having to erase and reinstall OS X.\nWhat Setup Assistant Does\nSetup Assistant is designed to run on the first boot of a fresh install of OS X, which is why you'll only see it when booting up a a brand-new Mac or one that has been erased and had OS X reinstalled.\nSetup Assistant is launched when OS X is first booted\nBesides options for keyboard layout, time zone and asking if you'd like to register, Setup Assistant also lets you create a new user account. As Setup Assistant assumes the account it is creating to be the first, it is always given administrator privileges.\nThere may come a time when you need to set up a second user account on a Mac while attempting to resolve a user account issue. If a Mac has only one user account and it seems to be unable to log in correctly (getting stuck at the login window, for example), having a second account will allow you to access OS X and continue troubleshooting.\nBy re-running Setup Assistant, we can use the process to create a user account that will automatically have administrator privileges, without having to do so via System Preferences, which we might not be able to access.\nThere are other reasons why re-running it can be advantageous, though in my experience, the above has always been the most common reason to do so. Sure, you can create user accounts using a number of commands, but Setup Assistant is just far easier.\n.AppleSetupDone\nEvery time OS X boots, it checks for the existence of a file known as .AppleSetupDone. This empty file is created after the completion of Setup Assistant. It doesn't exist on a brand-new, out-of-the-box Mac, nor on one that has had a clean installation of OS X.\nBy removing this file, OS X will assume that Setup Assistant has never been run and will launch it as soon as OS X boots.\nSetup Assistant is also run with root privileges, which is why it can create a new user account with administrator privileges without the need for any authorization.\nRemoving .AppleSetupDone\nTo remove this file, we need to boot the Mac into Single-User Mode. This provides a method of interacting with OS X via the command-line, with full root privileges.\nStart up the Mac whilst holding down COMMAND-S. After a few moments, you'll see the Mac boot to the command line.\nSingle-User Mode provides a command-line only interface for OS X\nBefore continuing, the filesystem must be checked and mounted, so files are't immediately accessible to interact with. To do this, enter the two commands that are displayed within the prompt, one at a time.\nThe following command will check the filesystem to ensure there are no problems. Type:\nThe next command will then mount the filesystem for it to be accessible:\nWith the filesystem mounted and accessible, it's time to remove the file so OS X will re-run Setup Assistant:\nYou can easily restart the Mac by entering the 'reboot' command.\nSimply enter reboot and press ENTER and your Mac will restart and boot normally. Only this time, Setup Assistant will launch\nBy now, you're probably wondering why should this be even possible, since someone may use this to gain access to a Mac. Indeed, re-running Setup Assistant would certainly allow for an unauthorized person to create a new account with administrative privileges and gain access to the Mac along with your data.\nIn terms of security, physical access trumps almost every method of preventing unauthorized access not involving encryption. While a little more complicated with the SSD technology Apple uses in their product lines, access to your data can easily be done simply by removing the Mac's storage device and connecting it to another.\nThis is where encryption methods such as Firmware Password and FileVault 2 are useful. With a Firmware Password set, it must be entered if the Mac is being booted either into Single-User Mode or to another boot volume. FileVault 2 takes this one step further by performing full disk encryption, preventing any form of access to your data unless authorized by entering your user account password - even if the drive is removed and attached to another Mac.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 6759, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mumbles.co.uk/middle-paleolithic-tools.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BHAJH3EJ3A2VZ6SYPZCN2362DK2H6LYS", "length": 5977, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mumbles.co.uk", "title": "Middle paleolithic tools. Middle Paleolithic Tool Technologies. 2018-12-31", "raw_content": "Middle paleolithic tools. Evolution of Modern Humans: Early Modern Human Culture 2018-12-31\nMiddle paleolithic tools Rating: 7,2/10 1443 reviews\nAnthropology 101 Final Flashcards\nYour hunters have to bring back more than what they can eat because they have to provide for the guys who make the stone tools, which the hunters need. Journal of Archaeological Theory 2. A large number of bone points characterize this level. A middle Stone Age residence in this area would suggest that humans reached the Arabian Peninsula not from the more-northern Nile Valley 119,000 to 81,000 years ago or from the Mediterranean Sea's shores 65,000 to 40,000 years ago\u2014as previous evidence has suggested\u2014but rather directly from the Horn of Africa, and much earlier. Middle Levalloisian: This phase is characterized by smaller, thinner and better retouched flakes than those of the Lower Levalloisian flakes.\nThe Mousterian Middle Paleolithic Tool Industry\nSince the transition period is marked by a change in behavior rather than a single event, the Mesolithic began at different times around the world. Homo erectus means upright man because they had a fully upright posture that was much less ape-like than its ancestors. These early humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers, relying completely on the natural availability of resources and continually moving around. A few Cro-Magnon bone artifacts dating to as early as 25,000 years ago have what appear to be carefully incised lineal sequences of circular to crescent-shaped ticks. Moreover, a discovery in West Turkana, Kenya of stone tools dated to 3,3 million years seems to further bolster the idea that humans might not have been the first tool users.\nIt lasts up to roughly 250,000 years ago, until the onset of the Middle Palaeolithic. Magdalenian-I: The flint tools of this level are found as the burins, end-scrapers, star-shaped borers. Mousterian bone tools are mostly made with the broken long bones of animals. A particular example of the evolution of Middle Paleolithic lithic culture comes in the form of the Aterian - a spear point technology derived from or a part of the Mousterian. As an example, the baton-de-commandment was first introduced by the Aurignacians; probably it was used as a mending tool for straightening arrow-shaft or spear-shaft.\nIt also was in this late period after 15,000 years ago that fishing spears, hooks, and nets became increasingly more common. Objects with less carbon-14 lived longer ago. That is, who were the? These innovations apparently were unknown to Neandertals and other archaic human populations. . They have been found from Western Europe all of the way to Siberia.\nMiddle Paleolithic sites, tools, hominids\nIt began about 17,000 years ago and lasted until the end of the last ice age around 10,000 years ago. Most were small enough in size to be easily hand held. Several other plausible and older examples have since been proposed; see for example Braun et al. Aurignacian Culture: This culture is named after the type-site, a rock-shelter known as Aurignac in South West of Toulouse Haute Garonne of Southern France. Hominins are the group that consist of modern humans, extinct human species, and our immediate ancestors \u2014 species that are more closely related to modern humans than to anything else. The geological age of these culture points the lower Pleistocene period which originated during the early part of Mindel glacial phase or second glaciation and continued up to the Mindel-Riss inter-glacial or second inter-glacial period. Middle Palaeolithic The Middle Palaeolithic c.\nThe Paleolithic Age: Tools & Characteristics\nHumans did not live in small villages yet and did not build permanent structures. In Blattspitzen, these are done by separate flakes and hence a large number of tiny step flaking are required in the control of the flaking. For the first time, a crude bone-tool industry appeared in the Mousterian stage. The microlith helped the weapon penetrate its target because the force is concentrated into a single point. Some tools were fishhooks, sewing needles, or carving tools to make beads. Pear-shaped, tongue-shaped, and oval-shaped hand- axes are common types in Abbevillian culture, which is slightly evolved form of the Pre-Chellean culture. With cave art, we see the first large scale, concrete symbols of human thoughts, feelings, and perhaps even beliefs about the supernatural.\nThe Mesolithic Age: Tools, Inventions & Archaeology\nThey were converted into paint by mixing with some fatty medium. There have also been found geometric patterns in some of the caves that have been interpreted as female genitalia. Seen in this regard these types appear both comfortable and also uncomfortable for perception. Stone is simply pretty good at standing the test of time, but it would not have been the only thing these people used in their daily lives. Some flakes with Levalloisian influence have been observed in Upper Acheulean culture level. For the first time, alternate flakings are marked in association with flake tools.\nMiddle Paleolithic Tool and Subsistence Patterns\nAre stone tools the first signs of creative behaviour? The cross-section is usually either triangular or trapezoidal. The Micoquian type of hand-axes is the developed form of bifacial core-tools and has been characterized by very straight and finely chipped edges. The striking platforms of most of these flakes exhibit a series of small, roughly parallel, vertical flake scars as the facets. The '90s were that time when society was preparing to make a great shift into a new way of communicating. This technique allows greater control over the size and shape of the flake products, but it also indicates a great leap from the cognitive requirements of previous technologies. Some of these were magnificently decorated with carvings, or were even carved into the actual shapes of animals; the Magdalenian culture of western Europe provides some stunning examples of this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 6130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myanmargazette.net/39356", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VRQEA2LAFB4HXM2FCDNLR6GS3LFMK3SU", "length": 750, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "myanmargazette.net", "title": "State of the Union 2011: President Obama\u2019s Full Speech | Myanmar Gazette News Media Forum Network", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Politics, Issues \u00bb State of the Union 2011: President Obama\u2019s Full Speech\nState of the Union 2011: President Obama\u2019s Full Speech\nPosted by kai on Jan 26, 2011 in Politics, Issues, Press Announcements | 0 comments\nObama's Full Speech\nPresident Obama\u2019s State of the Union Address \u2013 remarks as prepared for delivery. The State of the Union takes place at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 25, 2011 at 9:00 p.m. ET.\nver the years, a parade of lobbyists has rigged the tax code to benefit particular companies and industries. Those with accountants or lawyers to work the system can end up paying no taxes at all. But all the rest are hit with one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world. It makes no sense, and it has to change.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 425, "original_length": 46960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 146.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://myphilippinedreams.com/relationships-giving-money-to-the-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:12Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2H6Z2CJX2NUMKR3OL7CAZYEDTRGMX3W", "length": 19053, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "myphilippinedreams.com", "title": "Relationships: Giving Money to the Family - My Philippine Dreams", "raw_content": "Blog Relationships: Giving Money to the Family\nThis is a pretty sensitive subject, and I am sure the video that we put up will be getting its fair share of \u201cthumbs down,\u201d and this time for something more than a gecko video or our usual poor production values.\nWhen entering into any serious long term relationship in the Philippines, the discussion of money in relation to the extended family will eventually come up. It\u2019s pretty much a given, and it\u2019s something that you have to be prepared for. Now, I am sure that there are some viewers who are of the \u201cI ain\u2019t giving them nothing!\u201d camp, and some of them have been in LTR\u2019s and done just that. Typically, though, that is the exception and not the rule, because if you are going to be a part of the family, you\u2019re going to be part of the family.\nThe family unit in the Philippines is tighter and more interdependent than those encountered in the west. This is the way it has been for many generations, and things aren\u2019t likely to change anytime soon. Beyond just food, shelter, and love, there is \u2013 as in the West \u2013 a financial aspect of this, with parents working hard to care for their children so that that same care can be reciprocated can be returned when the parents are much older and in need of care themselves. There is no real nursing home system here, and I would assume that many Filipinos would be somewhat shocked to actually take a tour of one in the West. And although there is a Social Security system in place in the Philippines, it is not nearly as extensive (or lavish, if you will) as the systems encountered in the West. So, when their parents are old and their health is failing, they are brought into their children\u2019s homes to live out their last years among the ones they love. This is a pretty cool system, but it takes sacrifices on both ends \u2013 initially by the parents and , later, by their children. So, then is the burden of care fulfilled on all ends.\nPeople marrying into Filipino families usually become a part of this eternal cycle to a lesser or greater extent, much of this depending on the financial well being of the parents, the individual\u2019s spouse (or long-term significant other), and his or her brothers and sisters. In the video we noted that the foreigner is not usually being specifically targeted. If, however, he or she has more monetary assets than the rest of the family (and it is always assumed that they do; we are, after all, walking ATM\u2019s), they might find themselves bearing the brunt of these inquiries. Usually, the inquiries for money will come in the form of \u201cloans,\u201d but make no mistake about it, it\u2019s probably not going to be paid back. Money requests usually come in the form of tuition assistance, medical needs, or basic living expenses (food, shelter, or whatnot) and they will usually be communicated to the foreigner through his or her significant other. From what I have heard, the pressure placed on the foreigner\u2019s spouse can be quite severe, especially if the Filipina is the eldest daughter in the family. (But we\u2019ll get more into that aspect of it later.)\nThe problem with all of this is when a foreigner enters the equation. As noted, most folks consider foreigners automatically \u201crich\u201d (not realizing that a good number of us are actually \u201ceconomic refugees\u201d), so there might soon be expectations that some of that foreigners inexhaustible money supply can be reimbursed to meet the needs of the extended family. If not adequately prepared for and addressed, the foreigner can soon find himself being asked time and time again for monies for just about any reason under the sun. So, then, does a foreigner entering into a marriage or long-term commited relationship need to fully understand this cultural dynamic, communicate it to his significant other and have boundaries in place prior to any and all requests coming in.\nIn the next (and final) blog entry that I will do on this, we will look at a real-world example of how economic dependence within a family (Michell\u2019s) actually plays out. I think that will put things into perspective a bit more adequately address the \u201cforeigner victimization\u201d aspect of the relationship.\nI love your youtube videos they are very helpful I plan on moving to the Philippines in 10 years so I look forward to a lot more videos thanks again\nIf a relationship is to end its most likely the foreigner that will end it due to the fact the family can not abide by the boundaries set by him in the first place. Pressure will always come its up to him how high his tolerance level for it will be.\nI have seen that happen \u2013 and worse \u2013 with a number of other expats. Thankfully, I don\u2019t have to deal with it with Michell\u2019s family.\nNow I gotta start having kids so that I have someone to take care of me when I am really old and doddering.\nWell written Ned, looking forward to the next segment, thank you sincerely for this intimate look at your private financial reality, it is a good template for my return to the Philippines.\nLove the videos \u2026just wished they were longer \u2026. Planed be there in December \u2026.Love to see the both of you ! Dinner is on me \u2026\nOh, I could babble on and on if ya want them longer. \ud83d\ude42 Thanks for the feedback, Phillip. And \u2013 as you know \u2013 we are always down for a free dinner!!!\nKeep up the good work, I am learning a lot, and as I also plan to move to the Philippines permanently in early December, it all helps. Im from the UK. Are there many Brits out there.?\nYes, there are a good number of Brits here. Americans, Aussies, Brits, Germans, Swiss\u2026.. it\u2019s like the United Nations on Jungle Island.\nYou guys seems like a great couple. BTW\u2026what is your age difference. My wonderful Filipina and I are 19 years apart\u2026she 36 and me a youthful (LOL\u2013good Italian genes they say) 55.\nI just love that I found your site\u2026! When was its inception?\nYes I was REALLY worried about the Filipina scam/money thing when reading about the Philippines. I really had my antennas up (WAY UP) when getting to know my wife.\nI have to say that I am really really lucky\u2026yes there is that darn jealousy issue\u2026but she has a wonderful heart and she is NOT the stereotypical Filipina looking for a rich westerner. I am blessed\nI loved the \u201cwalking ATM\u201d phrase\u2026made me LOL\u2026so true in how they think America is the land of milk and honey..!\nI have to admit that I was kind of anti sending money over to the family in the beginning (before marriage). You hear a lot of stories\u2026.and I hate and will not be \u201cUSED\u201d that way. And I told my wife in gentle ways what I thought. She voiced agreement. I was afraid they would work her over and put pressure on her.\nWell\u2026.after we were married last Oct here is the US\u2026..I sent $800 for her mom\u2019s cataract operation(maybe in Jan. 2014)\u2026.THIS was an obvious thing that required no thinking on my part. I knew from being there about her moms eyes.\nAfter the typhoon\u2026.I decided to help do some rebuilding of the house there. And as I see and hear how her mom is so happy, I have done more to bring the house to a much better standard. It makes me happy. Process is still ongoing\nSince that started though\u2026..one brother asked for help due to job issues\u2026.then another said he had put his tricycle as collateral for a loan and he too needed help.\nI sent something to the first brother but held off on the second. Not sure how I feel\u2026.helping mom out seemed to open a can of worms so I am re-evaluating\nMy wife feels a bit of shame when they use her to get to me. I appreciate that from her. She does not have a job for now\u2026\u2026..and here is an additional problem\u2026\u2026.when and if she DOES have a job\u2026.it seems she will be pressured to use \u201cher\u201d money when they ask. She \u201ctalks\u201d a good line to me that she won\u2019t be pressured\u2026.but I DON\u2019T think it will be that easy at all.\nFor now she tells them\u2026\u201dI don\u2019t have a job\u201d\nWell\u2026.when she HAS a job\u2026.what will she say THEN? (this is the dilemma I explained to her)\nSo, what she SHOULD be saying is\u2026\u2026we have our own expenses and we are not rich\u2026etc\nThe money thing and families can be a very sticky situation\nSome allow their wives to work and send back as much $$ as they want.\nIf you are very well off\u2026that may work fine for you.\nBut if you are middle class like me\u2014almost finished pay child support..!!\u2026.I want my wife and I to work for OUR long term goals (putting $ away for us)\u2026while at the same time helping family to varying degrees along the way\nKeep up the great work here\nWhoa, that\u2019s a whole lot of questions. First of, having other family members jump onto the money bandwagon isn\u2019t uncommon. What some folks would do is lend the first brother money and not give anymore until the first brother pays it back. That will put pressure on him from other family members and take some of the heat off of you. Daughters \u2013 especially elder daughters \u2013 have the most pressure put on them to help out the family. Michell works and sends some money to her brother to help him with living expenses at school. Bottom line is you probably won\u2019t see any of that money returned. Talk to your lady about your budget and expenses and remind her that you are saving for both of your futures. Hope that helps.\nHello there, kumusta po kayo doon..\nWell I am a German expat and the theme money it\u00b4s seriously all about .\nI already have give up to try explaining that also the \u201crich\u201d countries abroad are not that rich how pinoys believe. Even ang mga OFW , Balikbayan made the same experiences with their relatives. Many of them have worked hard for example in Dubai and after returning they ends up with nothing because the relatives spent all money away.\nThe way of living seems to be \u201cbahala na bukas\u201d, talaga.\nI myself got lost much money while believing in such relationships even marunong-mgtagalog ako, I studied Philippine History and Tagalog, now Waray Waray because my place was Tacloban until Yolanda happened.\nFor me a relationship is not interesting anymore because of the money questions except if BOTH Partners in that relationship would bring in money into the family.\nI don\u00b4t know any expats which can afford to support the whole big family while they are doing nothing anymore than inumin ng alcohol. In the moment I started to pay the house the motorcycle and so on they stopped immediately working . Tamad ang lahat ng pamilya dahil magbabayad ako lahat ng buhay.\nHalos lahat ang mga foreigner dito sa Pilipinas made such experiences.\nThe main reason so far I know, why foreigner want stay here in the Philippines, is to escape from the materialism and consumerism abroad. The most foreigner really longing for a simple and very affordable life. But this is the opposite from, what a pinay is dreaming of. So the core of all : Wealth don\u00b4t equal happiness.\nMaraming salamat at ingat ka.\nYou brought up great points that I have seen and heard before: OFW\u2019s losing the money they send home, the effect of bahala na on finances, family stopping work once money starts coming in, the myth of money trees in the west, and the conflict created by Western/Filipino expectations. It doesn\u2019t happen in every case (let\u2019s not generalize) but it does happen often enough to keep such things in mind. Thanks for that, Ralph!!\nnanette s laxamana\nLove your videos and you two look so cute together. Hope to see more\u2026\u2026\nThanks, Nanette. We will be putting up regular posts and videos as time goes on (and we find the time to do them). \ud83d\ude42\nMy Filippina wife and her family are not materialistic, preferring a simple lifestyle. Of course they need money to survive. Most of them have work, but that may only be just enough for barest essentials. Her parents are elderly and do require assistance, which they obtain occasionally and received enough from OS relatives to pay rent in an old unfinished house with no windows or doors. I spent all my money in obtaining my wife, with all the expense of visas and plane fares etc. But I helped her parents a little as I could before my money ran out, because I know the situation and the children are obligated to them. They were never demanding in the least and unfortunately for all, I was out of work for the most part. I was pretty stingey when there, as I knew also how many there target foreigners for money in any way they can get it, by overcharging, even begging. Even their gov warns to not give them money as there is ample work for all. I\u2019ve since come to realise what a bastard I was though, and many of them really are in desperate need. I only wish I had more to give, but next time we return I plan to be far more generous even with strangers. I remember a little girl selling something for about 5p, which I didn\u2019t want, but I gave her 20p which is all the change I had, and indicated ayaw. Well she was so stunned she didn\u2019t know what to do. How can you not love \u2019em? A friend of mine was robbed at the ATM, but that\u2019s all part of the adventure. Even the airport guards are crooked, but I love them all in spite of everything. Even the \u201cfixers\u201d and other airport \u201cassistants\u201d who want to con you out of a little cash, well they all have their job to do. Overall, a blustering, sweaty place. But I love it, even the public transport. Fascinating.\n\u201cBlustering, sweaty place,\u201d indeed! Thanks for taking the time to hare all that, Randy. I used to not give beggars money until I saw Michell giving coins to the beggar kids, and since then, I toss em around and just write it off a part of our monthly budget. I do the \u201cbuy something you don\u2019t need\u201d thing as well. Thanks again, Randy.\nLorne Rowe\nI\u2019m in a relationship with a filipina she lives in Cebu , I have known her for 10 years and I have been supporting her off and on , sending what I could , 200-300 a month wasn\u2019t unusual, I visited and we met for the first time 2 years ago , it was amazing to travel with her to see her family , they are very poor , but traveling with her was awesome , she never asked for anything and I really enjoyed her company , we travelled alot of different islands and had a great time , it was very sad to leave her , but I had to come back to Canada , ever since I have been back , she has been asking for more and more , the 300 a month grew to 4 then 5 , now its 800 and it still doesn\u2019t seem to be enough , we argue over money every month , I\u2019m trying to set boundaries but its difficult , I feel a little manipulated and used , my heart is always in the right place and I know she loves me , we are planning on getting g married on my return trip so I can bring her to Canada , but I\u2019m really concerned about the money situation , I\u2019m not sure if marriage is the best for us right now , even tho she has high hopes of getting married in Feb or March , I don\u2019t want to spend the rest of my life arguing over money , not sure what to do , I don\u2019t want to hurt her , I do love her , any advice ? Thanks\nThanks for taking the time to share all of that, Lorne. I am no expert in matters of the heart (or anything else for that matter), but I have seen this play out quite a few times here in our sunny archipeligo. In my humble opinion based on what you wrote, I would say that she is definitely taking advantage of the situation. Now whether that is coming from her own greed or (more likely) intense pressure from her family is pretty much an unknown at this point. 800 a month can support a number of Filipino families, so that itself right there is a huge red flag. Some Filipinos have been known to exploit their own family members (OFWs or those married to wealthier Filipinos or Kanos) and this is what is probably happening here. As to what to do, I could only suggest laying down very strict boundaries and taking some time to look back as objectively as you can to make sure that this is the right person for you, cuz as you know, you just don\u2019t marry a Filipina here, you sometimes marry their whole family. Good luck and thanks again!\nYour advice is greatly appreciated in advance. My mom was the oldest of nine children and was the only one of her siblings to leave the Philippines, move to the U.S., and marry an American, my father. My sister and I have only gone to the Philippines once when we were 4 and 5 years old. Now, we are both in our late 40s and our parents are both deceased. About two years ago, we were contacted on Facebook by some of our filipino cousins who we have never met. We accepted their Facebook friendship and joined the family Facebook page. Out of my mom\u2019s eight brothers and sisters, seven of them had children \u2013 and it seems on average more than four children per sibling. Multiplied with their children, there are a lot of cousins. I shall reiterate that we have never met any of these cousins ever. My sister and I were raised with some filipino cultural upbringing, but for the most part, we are American and that is how we live. We\u2019ve never been exposed to this collective family \u201csharing\u201d nor expectations of borrowing money constantly. My sister and I are constantly receiving Facebook private messages in broken English from cousins asking for money, sponsorship to be U.S. citizens, and now used tech equipment such as laptops. I fear that even sending a used laptop will be the \u201copen door\u201d for them and that they\u2019ll think they can keep asking for anything they want. I\u2019ve told my cousins no and have supplied website links to aide them, yet they do nothing to help themselves. My sister is in a better monetary position than myself, but I still do not feel that she should be obligated to provide for our cousins and their families. My sister has gotten to the point that she just doesn\u2019t respond to any of their Facebook messages, even if it is a simply \u201chi\u201d since a response from her seems to be the open door for them asking for assistance. We are perplexed that cousins that we\u2019ve never met assume we\u2019re going to provide for them. Is it because we\u2019re the children of the oldest female filipina or that we\u2019re simply American? I have personally written each cousin that has asked me for money that we were not raised traditional filipino and that we are not obligated to provide unending amounts of money, help with U.S. immigration-U.S. residence or send used tech gadgets to them, but I fear that the requests won\u2019t stop and that I will have to delete all of my filipino cousins from my Facebook in order to have some peace. My sister and I feel that the only reason we were found on Facebook is to be the \u201cbank\u201d for all of our cousins and their families. What would be your suggestion to stop all of my cousins from repeatedly asking for monetary/immigration/gifts assistance from us?\nHonestly, if it was me in your position, I would just once again reiterate what you said and if they still continue to pressure you, simply delete them off of your Facebook. As for sponsorship, there is now over a 25 year wait to bring family members over to the US. Good luck and thank you for giving an example of how family will often have expectations on Fil-Am kin or daughters/sons married or with foreigners.\n$800 per month in the Philippines is filthy rich! Stop sending money it\u2019s a huge mistake it became a mobster for my wife and I.\nMobster?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 24555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://naturalbeddings.com/services/samples/2-1-education-assignment.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:26Z", "digest": "sha1:P6LLKFMEPCIM7KKBB6AVCKAR2K7L4CH4", "length": 13756, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "naturalbeddings.com", "title": "\ufeff Sample Undergraduate 2:1 Education Assignment", "raw_content": "Why is inclusion a difficult concept for schools to deliver?\nInclusion is a difficult concept to deliver as a result of the fact that there are many different definitions for it (Hodkinson and Vickerman, 2016; Armstrong et al., 2010) and that it covers a huge range of issues including providing for those who have Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), protecting those who are vulnerable to exclusion, providing a learning environment for every member of the school community and promoting an ethical and visionary approach towards education and society as a whole (Ainscow et al., 2006 cited in Devarakonda, 2013, p. 6). This essay will outline the history and the current position, inclusive of the issues which surround the concept of inclusion and inclusive education.\nMany of the issues that surround this particular concept revolve around the fact that it is most associated with the area of SEND, as a result of historic theories and practices within education. Until the latter part of the last century, any form of disability or learning issue was regarded as something which was in need of cure (medical model - Dowd et al., 2007), leading to the use of different categories and/or labels which reinforced this notion and led to those with issues being treated as a homogenous mass as opposed to individuals (Topping and Maloney, 2005; Burke and Cigno, 2000). This medical or diagnostic model was eventually challenged by the findings of the Warnock Report (HMSO, 1978) which readjusted the focus from conditions and difficulties to individuals, in order to afford them the opportunity to become accepted members of the community through societal change (social model - Carson, 2009; Thomas, 2007). This report highlighted the fact that as many as one in five children would need some form of educational support, thus making it necessary to make provision for those with SEND within mainstream education (Warnock, 1978). This publication also formed the basis of the Education Act of 1981 (HMSO) and subsequent Education Acts which placed the onus on local authorities to make provision for individuals with difficulties within mainstream education unless this was not the wish of their parents or it was felt not to be in their best interests.\nGlobally, the United Nations also produced documentation which reinforced the rights of children (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF, 1989; Salamanca Statement, UNESCO, 1994) which influenced government legislation and approaches towards the notion of inclusion. In addition to this, the notion of inclusion has been promoted from a number of different directions, including that of providing equality of access to education for all children (Armstrong et al, 2011), the necessity for attitudinal changes in society (Armstrong et al, 2011) and the impact of labelling children (Armstrong et al, 2010). The new millennium saw the government of the United Kingdom bring in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Her Majesty\u2019s Government [HM Government], 2001) and the SEN Code of Practice (Department of Education and Skills [DfES], 2001), both of which reinforced the fact that the needs of each individual were paramount in terms of their education, even if this meant readjustments being made to either the curriculum or the fabric of buildings to facilitate equality of opportunity. This was further reinforced by successive legislation such as the Childcare Act (HM Government, 2006) and the Equality Act (HM Government, 2010) which specifically target equality of opportunity for children and their families.\nCurrent legislation concerning this issue includes that of the Children and Families Act (HM Government, 2014) and the revised Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice (Department for Education [DfE]/Department of Health [DoH], 2015). The Children and Families Act (HM Government, 2014) has been designed in order to affect a more comprehensive and more easily administered care package which combines education and healthcare within an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC) which supersede Statements of SEN. This document not only includes definitions of disability but provides families with opportunities to have a greater influence on care packages in order to support their hopes and ambitions which should help to improve overall outcomes for young people (Irwin Mitchell, 2014). The revised Code of Practice (DfE/DoH, 2015) dovetails with this document, giving providers specific guidance and statements of expectation in respect of those who are diagnosed as having SEND, as well as drawing providers attention to related guidance and legislation including the Equality Act (2010), Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013) and Supporting Pupils at School with Medical Conditions (2014). It also enshrines the right of children and their parents to make a contribution towards all decisions which surround their support and care and the contents of an EHC.\nAs we can see, the emphasis is still very much on meeting the needs of children who have specific issues and/or disabilities. Much has been written both by academics and legislators in respect of providing inclusive education for children. However, whilst there is an emphasis on those who have issues, it is all too easy to lose sight of the overall picture and providing for all children within the education system. It is important to recognise that the plethora of definitions and/or ideas which surround inclusion as a concept only serve to confuse the issue, making it difficult to deliver in practice, particularly when the emphasis moves away from SEND. For example, Darlington (2003, p. 2) states that inclusion is a process and that it is not a simple notion which is predicated upon placement; it involves important principles which include \u201c\u2026 valuing diversity, entitlement, dignity, individual needs, planning, collective responsibility, professional development, and equal opportunities.\u201d Similarly, Aspis (2004, p. 29) states that \u201cinclusive education should create opportunities for all learners to work together. This requires a recognition that learning is enhanced when individuals of different abilities, skills and aspirations can work together in a joint enterprise.\u201d This echoes the thoughts of Booth and Ainscow (2011, cited in the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, 2018, para 2) who emphasised the need to develop values and school communities which allow increased participation in every aspect of school life for all children, irrespective of their background and their ability/disability.\nIt is important to recognise that there are difficulties that arise when societies seek to provide a genuinely inclusive educational experience for children. The first is that of teacher training - Devarakonda (2013; echoed by Khoaeane, 2012) raises the issue as to whether practitioners are prepared adequately for addressing the needs of those with SEND whilst simultaneously catering for the needs of everyone in their classroom (echoed by Black-Hawkins et al, 2007). In addition, educational providers have conflicting pressures which exert an influence on their approach and attitudes towards the delivery of their educational provision. On the one hand they have the task of maintaining and indeed raising the attainment levels of all pupils in their care whilst on the other they must adhere to their responsibilities surrounding the issue of equality of opportunity for all pupils (Goepel et al., 2015). These pressures are exacerbated by the publication of league tables and the resultant setting of targets which make educators wary of fully embracing the notion of a child centred, inclusive educational package (Glazzard et al., 2010). It is encouraging to note that these pressures on practitioners are not increased, generally, by the attitude of parents towards the inclusion of those with SEND. de Boer and Munde (2014) report in their study that parents show a positive attitude towards inclusion overall, with their only hesitation being about the inclusion of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities.\nAs we can see, the notion of inclusion and inclusive education is difficult to grasp. The majority of literature focuses upon providing for the needs of those who have any form of learning issue and/or disability - these can either be specific physical issues, those that are rooted in medical conditions that impact upon cognitive function or those that are related to emotional problems. However, a broader view of inclusion (that of embracing diversity and difference, supporting all to facilitate their participation in community activities, the reduction of exclusion, discrimination and barriers to learning and the recognition that an inclusive education is the foundation of inclusive practice in society) necessitates educators adopting a more flexible, child-centred approach which is sometimes at odds with the pressures that are brought to bear upon them in respect of standards and targets. Clearly, it is important that settings and individual practitioners look to mould their approaches to the needs of the children in their care, but this can only happen if there is adequate training both in terms of catering for the needs of those who have specific conditions and in how to deliver an inclusive provision in the classroom. Not only is this task and unenviable one, but it is one which bears further investigation in terms of teacher training and the overall aims and objectives of education - it is important to acknowledge the role of qualifications for future careers and usefulness of each individual within society, but not at the cost of ensuring that each child feels valued and has equality of opportunity in their formative years.\nArmstrong, A., Armstrong, D., Spandagou, I. (2011) \u2018Inclusion: by choice or by chance?\u2019 International Journal of Inclusive Education Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 29 \u2013 39\nArmstrong, A., Armstrong, D., Spandagou, I. (2010) Inclusive Education: International Policy and Practice. London: Sage Publications Ltd\nBlack-Hawkins, K., Florian, L., Rouse, M. (2007) Achievement and Inclusion in Schools. Abingdon: Routledge\nBurke, P., Cigno, K. (2000) Learning Disabilities in Children. London: Blackwell\nCarson, G. (2009) The Social Model of Disability. Norwich: The Stationary Office\nCentre for Studies on Inclusive Education (2018) \u2018What is Inclusion?\u2019 Retrieved 26th June 2018 from http://www.csie.org.uk/inclusion/what.shtml\nde Boer, A. A., Munde, V. S. (2014) \u2018Parental attitudes toward the inclusion of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities in general primary education in the Netherlands.\u2019 The Journal of Special Education pp. 1 \u2013 9 Retrieved 26th June 2018 from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.830.2998&rep=rep1&type=pdf\nDepartment for Education/Department of Health [DfE/DoH] (2015) Special educational needs and disability code of practice: 0 to 25 years. Statutory guidance for organisations which work with and support children and young people who have special educational needs and disabilities. London: Department for Education/Department of Health\nDevarakonda, C. (2013) Diversity and Inclusion in Early Childhood. London: Sage Publications Ltd\nDowd, T. G., Sewell, A., Truesdell, K. L. (2007) \u2018Disability Studies.\u2019 in Bursztyn, A. M. (Ed) The Praeger Handbook of Special Education Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers p. 20\nGlazzard, J., Hughes, A., Netherwood, A., Neve, L., Stokoe, J. (2010) Achieving QPS Teaching Primary Special Educational Needs. London: Sage Publications Ltd\nGoepel, J., Childerhouse, H., Sharpe, S. (2014) Inclusive Primary Teaching. A Critical Approach to Equality and Special Educational Needs and Disability. (2nd Ed) Northwich: Critical Publishing\nHodkinson, A., Vickerman, P. (2016) \u2018Inclusion: defining definitions.\u2019 in Brown, Z. (Ed) Inclusive Education. Perspectives on pedagogy, policy and practice Abingdon: Routledge pp. 7 \u2013 13\nHer Majesty\u2019s Government (2014) Children and Families Act. London: HM Government\nHer Majesty\u2019s Government (2010) Equality Act. London: HM Government\nHer Majesty\u2019s Government (2006) Childcare Act. London: HM Government\nHer Majesty\u2019s Government (2001) Special Educational Needs and Disability Act. London: HM Government\nHMSO (1981) Education Act. London: HMSO\nIrwin Mitchell (2014) \u2018An Introduction to Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014.\u2019 Retrieved 26th June 2018 from file:///C:/Users/Stephen/Downloads/Early%20Years/IM-Children-and-Families-Act-2014.pdf\nKhoaeane, T. J. (2012) \u2018Challenges facing teachers with regard to the implementation of inclusive education in the Maseru district of Lesotho.\u2019 Submitted in accordance with the requirements for the Degree of Magister Education in the School of Teacher Education, Faculty of Humanities at the Central University of Technology, Free State. Retrieved 26th June 2018 from http://ir.cut.ac.za/bitstream/handle/11462/171/Khoaeane%2C%20Tseliso%20J.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y\nThomas, C. (2007) Sociologies of Disability and Illness. Contested Ideas in Disability Studies and Medical Sociology. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan\nTopping, K., Maloney, S. (2005) The Routledge Reader in Inclusive Education. London: Routledge\nUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) (1994) The Salamanca Statement and Framework for Action on Special Needs Education. Spain: Ministry of Education and Science\nUNICEF United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. (1989) London: UNICEF\nWarnock Report (1978) Special Educational Needs: Report to the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Handicapped Children and Young People London: HMSO", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 18289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 206.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://neareastpolicy.com/publications/documents/60-articles/337-iran-announces-execution-of-dissident-for-enmity-against-god", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DQHB7NCJBCXT4MIGSBF6CPODCBQL5NU6", "length": 2693, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "neareastpolicy.com", "title": "Iran announces execution of dissident for 'enmity against God'", "raw_content": "By Eric Shawn, Adam Shaw, & Associated Press\nAn Iranian dissident has been executed by hanging for \"enmity against God\" despite protests by human rights groups who claimed that the man received an unfair trial.\nThe execution of Gholamreza Khosravi Savajani was announced Sunday on the website of Tehran's Revolutionary Prosecutor's office. Khosravi had been sentenced to death in 2010 after it was alleged that he donated money to the People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI), a group that seeks to overthrow the Islamic Republic, according to Amnesty International.\nA report from Iran's official news agency claimed that Khosravi was also accused of providing photos of the country's military facilities to the MEK, as well as helping to recruit for the group. The report also said that Khosravi had been previously detained from 1981 to 1986.\nKhosravi was reportedly held for over 40 months in solitary confinement in various detention centers since he was arrested in 2008 for his links to the group also known as Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Both his detention and sentence were strongly condemned by human rights groups.\n\u201cYet again Iranian authorities are about to execute a man who did not even receive a fair trial in total disregard of both international law and the Iranian law,\u201d Hassiba Hadj Saharoui, Amnesty International\u2019s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa said in a statement Saturday.\n\u201cThe cowardly execution of the innocent and defenseless Khosravi for sympathizing with the MEK demonstrates the mullahs\u2019 infinite paranoia about the popular base and appeal of the Iranian Resistance within Iran,\" Ali Safavi, a spokesman for the National Council of Resistance of Iran -- an Iranian opposition movement -- told FoxNews.com Saturday evening.\n\u201cMy son had no weapons, nor a safe house,\" Khosravi\u2019s mother said, according to Safavi. \"They should execute me too. As an 80-year-old mother, how can I stay alive without him?\u201d\n\"It is time for the international community in general and the Obama administration in particular to break their disgraceful silence over the barbaric killing spree we have witnessed in Iran, especially after the so-called moderate Hassan Rouhani took office, and hold Tehran officials to account,\" Safavi said.\nIran claims that its judicial system is fair and accuses the West of using accusations of human rights abuses as a way to undermine it.\nKhosravi\u2019s death comes as Iranian media reported last week the hanging of the first of four men sentenced to death for a financial scam that tainted the government of former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.\nFox News\u2019 Eric Shawn, Adam Shaw and The Associated Press contributed to this report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 213.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://new.ahsaa.com/School-Parent-Resources/AHSAA/Information/Bryant-Jordan-Award", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:17Z", "digest": "sha1:EUYH2SL4QJKKLOOIBH73ZR6ZBRBZQGM2", "length": 2496, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "new.ahsaa.com", "title": "Bryant-Jordan Award", "raw_content": "School/Parent Resources / AHSAA / Information / Bryant-Jordan Award\nBryant-Jordan Student-Athlete Program\nTop 2018 Winners Announced\n2018 Region Honorees\nThe Banquet and Awards Ceremony is held each year in April. This school year the 33nd banquet is scheduled Monday, April 9, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Birmingham Hotel Ballroom.\nAll 104 regional winners will be recognized and honored and the 14 class winners and the two state winners will be announced.\nThe Bryant-Jordan Student-Athlete Program was created in 1986 by the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in conjunction with the Alabama High School Athletic Association. It is supervised by the Board of Directors\nof the Bryant-Jordan Foundation.\n1. To recognize and honor Alabama students\nwho have by ability and effort achieved a level of excellence in the areas of academics and athletics that is commensurate with their potential.\n2. To make aware to not only athletes but all segments of the student population that it is both important and rewarding for them to strive to be the best that they can be. The program motivates and encourages students to achieve this goal.\n3. To encourage and promote the involvement and commitment of Alabama corporations and individuals in helping improve the academic levels of all students.\nThe initial scholarship offered by the Bryant-Jordan Program was the scholar athlete scholarship. In 1989 the Achievement Award was created. This award is designed to reward the student-athlete who achieves beyond his/her ability both academically and athletically or who may have overcome some obstacle or hardship\nto achieve success.\nNinety-six scholarships are awarded annually to deserving high school seniors from schools that are members of the Alabama High School Athletic Association. The program has grown from an $8,000 award program to the present over $800,000.\n2018 Winners Hamp Sisson (Mountain Brook), Cody Argo (Reeltown)\n2019 Time Line\nArea, Region Chairpersons (Click Here)\nJan. 9 (Wednesday): Principals must have their school nominations submitted to the area chairpersons.\nJan. 16 (Wedneday): Area committees must make their selections and submit them immediately to the region chairpersons.\nJan. 23 (Wednesday): Region committees select the region winners and submit the information to the Bryant-Jordan office immediately, but no later than Jan. 29 (Monday).\nMarch TBA: State Selection Committee will meet.\n(Nomination Forms are available only in the C2C Documents and Filing Section)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 409, "original_length": 10588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newburghgazette.com/2017/11/14/i-5-in-del-mar-reopens-after-deadly-crash/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DPO4DQUQ3UZKJO6X5WO6OZVPGYC7B35S", "length": 1851, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "newburghgazette.com", "title": "I-5 in Del Mar reopens after deadly crash", "raw_content": "California Highway Patrol hopes witnesses will come forward after one person was injured in a shooting on Interstate 80 in Fairfield Saturday morning.\nThe crash just after 8 a.m. appears to have involved six cars and happened in the westbound direction at the Loveridge Road exit, the CHP said.\nShortly after 1 a.m., CHP dispatchers received reports of the fatal crash, but it wasn't clear why the unidentified pedestrian was walking along the freeway when the person was struck by a Toyota Prius, officials said. The exact circumstances of the initial crash were not immediately clear, but authorities believe the person killed was a man who got out of his auto following an earlier crash and was struck by a vehicle.\nMoments later, a black Mercedes hit the Toyota, which was still in traffic lanes.\nHe died at the crash site.\nAbout half a mile south of that collision, a pickup truck crashed into several vehicles about 4:45 a.m.\nNo other injuries were reported in the incident. Although a SigAlert estimated the lane would be closed for one to two hours, it didn't reopen until shortly after 11 p.m., after the vehicle was towed away.\nVolker and Surkov earlier held talks on October 7 in Belgrade and on August 21 in the Belarusian capital, Minsk. Meanwhile, a top USA diplomat was set to visit Ukraine this week at the end of a 10-day trip to Europe.\nThe Folger Nolan Fleming Douglas Capital Management Inc holds 188,747 shares with $15.24M value, down from 243,908 last quarter. Walter & Keenan Financial Consulting Company decreased Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM) stake by 4.25% reported in 2017Q2 SEC filing.\nBy Tuesday, it had over a million likes on Instagram, but Andersson didn't seem entirely positive about a possible return. Playing in front of 70,000 fans, Italy were the dominant side, but they could not overturn Sweden's first-leg advantage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newfirm.info/aventure/telecharger-a-dogs-purpose-gratuit.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:40Z", "digest": "sha1:G7G2KJ6L3VPS6FTGRVWSYCYW27JVJC6M", "length": 659, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "newfirm.info", "title": "Telecharger A Dogs Purpose Gratuit - Torrent a telecharger sur Cpasbien", "raw_content": "Telecharger A Dogs Purpose Gratuit\nA Dog\u2019s Purpose is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallstr\u00f6m and written by W. Bruce Cameron, Cathryn Michon, Audrey Wells, Maya Forbes and Wally Wolodarsky, based on the 2010 novel of the same name by Cameron. The film stars Britt Robertson, KJ Apa, Juliet Rylance, John Ortiz, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Peggy Lipton, Dennis Quaid and Josh Gad.\nThe film is co-production between Amblin Entertainment, Reliance Entertainment, Walden Media, and Pariah Entertainment Group.[4][5] It was released by Universal Pictures on January 27, 2017 and grossed $185 million worldwide.\nTelecharger Apocalypto 2006 Gratuit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 3993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 124.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newmoonrecord.com/Episodes/Details/1009ccc3.html?episodeEventID=42", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WR4LUVI4FAO6IIOLNDUZVMM5QMZMN6DO", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "newmoonrecord.com", "title": "Details for Northernlion and Friends - London 2012 - NLSS Olympic Tracker", "raw_content": "Results of the 400 Meters (Women):", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 154.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.belmont.edu/wolfgram-wins-final-ascap-writers-night/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:01Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6BW3BR64IUFAFHFWWZTMSE7URSXTU4Y", "length": 852, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "news.belmont.edu", "title": "Wolfgram Wins Final ASCAP Writers' Night - Belmont University News & Media", "raw_content": "Home Achievers Wolfgram Wins Final ASCAP Writers\u2019 Night\nWolfgram Wins Final ASCAP Writers\u2019 Night\nOn Tues., March 24, the Curb College held its final ASCAP Writers\u2019 Night of the academic year. Student writers Lindley Wolfgram, Tyler Hubbard, and Elizabeth Olmstead (pictured left to right) performed alongside guest writer and event host Michael Farren. Farren, lead singer in the Dove Award-nominated band Pocket Full Of Rocks, has been a songwriter for more than 15 years and has been an artist/writer with Word Records for the last four years. His songs have been performed by Michael W. Smith, Wynonna Judd, Phillips Craig & Dean and Big Daddy Weave, among others. 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The U.S. has been transformed from one of the world\u2019s leading oil importers into the world\u2019s largest producer of oil and gas. Fracking in the Permian basin has created bottlenecks as the existing infrastructure cannot cope with rising production. Producers are not able to get all the oil and gas to customers, creating a price differential with the WTI benchmark. On average, shale oil producers in the Permian basin receive $10 to $13 dollars less for each barrel compared to WTI levels. It is not only energy companies that are benefitting from rising production, pipeline manufacturers are also reaping the rewards. Globally, the U.S. ranks no. 1 in pipelines planned and under construction. 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GC Wharton and Nannie Radford Wharton\"\nThe milestone will be celebrated with a day of historical and cultural activities, food, the debut of the \"1890s Dinner Party\" history exhibit and a new art gallery show. Highlighting the event will be three presentations that help place the history of the Glencoe Mansion and of the Radford area into the sweeping story of the Civil War and the post-war period. Among the presenters will be Robert C. 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Since the building was restored in 1998, the museum has grown to include displays of area historic and cultural importance. \"This 20th Anniversary Celebration is intended to re-connect the community with the museum, and to put our local history into a broader context,\" Gardner said.\nPart of this broader context has been provided by a remarkable collection of Wharton family documents, saved for posterity by Frits and Sally Wharton van Solkema. Their daughter Sue Bell has brought these documents to light, uncovering new details about the history of the mansion, the Radford area and the Civil War.\nAs part of the day\u2019s activities, historian William C. Davis will highlight information from this collection, telling the story of the Civil War courtship of Gen. Gabriel C. Wharton and his wife Nannie.\nAdditionally, the Wharton Quilt returns to Glencoe! 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It describes the history of the health center program and highlights key policy issues influencing health centers, such as Medicaid payment policies and medically underserved area designations. The paper also examines the recent presidential initiative to expand health centers, including a review of the process used to identify new grantees, an assessment of remaining gaps in capacity, an exploration of continuing challenges, and a discussion of unresolved policy questions.\nSee also the entry for the related Forum Session (September 30, 2004).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 197.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nicocanon.com/blog/thebeautyofheartbreak/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:08Z", "digest": "sha1:C6LDWHS5MAHQRS3BGVDOJN4WGBEAA4BI", "length": 4526, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "nicocanon.com", "title": "The Beauty of Heartbreak", "raw_content": "The Beauty of Heartbreak\nWalking on the streets of the old town in Warsaw, I remember my first time here. Exactly one year ago.\nI was invited to speak at a conference for men about love, romance, seduction and beauty.\nI was supposed to open the last day, and I had written down a lot of ideas and thoughts I wanted to share: On masculinity. On owning our desires. On my perspective of what being a man was. And so on. I had put together a beautiful, toast-masters-worthy speech.\nHowever, the night before things got out of control (thanks tequila!) and I ended up getting lost, without battery on my phone in the middle of a city I didn\u2019t know.\nLuckily, after hours of walking around aimlessly at 5am and trying to ask for directions to people who clearly didn\u2019t speak any English, I was able to find a group of guys who had been on a student exchange in Canada. They put me on a cab and made sure I made it safe and sound to my Airbnb.\nFunny how the universe works, and how we are always taken care of no matter what.\nI got home and passed out right away. Waking up a little too late to a message of my friend asking where the hell I was! (the conference had just started and they were all waiting for me)\nI rushed getting ready and looked through my notes trying to ignore the hangover and hoping to recite and decide what I would speak about as I walked to the venue. But the more I looked at them, the worse it felt. So I decided to rip every piece of paper apart in frustration.\nWhat I had prepared was beautiful, but it was not alive. It was great \u201ccontent\u201d per se, but not relevant to where I was in that specific moment. I had just broken up with my girlfriend, whom I loved deeply, and felt a mix of sadness, grief and pain.\nThose feelings were VERY alive within me, so instead of giving a carefully scripted speech put together by my mind. I decided to go ALL IN. From my heart.\nThis was a very vulnerable experience.\nI decided to speak about the beauty of heartbreak. The opportunity of pain. The grace of loss. The lessons I learned along the years. And every word I said, carried the emotional weight and the depth of feeling I had within me. Every word landed, touched and inspired a lot of the men present.\nIf I could sum it all up, it came down to two things:\nGratitude, for all the experiences, memories and lessons I shared with her.\nHumility, for all the mistakes, wrong decisions, hurt and pain that I felt and inflicted.\nLove and relationships have been one of my biggest obsessions since I was young, and after several years of diving deep into exploring the different dynamics between the masculine and the feminine, I had come to the conclusion that I did not know anything!\nAfter this relationship, I had A LOT more questions than I had started with!\nAs a good friend once put it: women are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed and explored.\nRelationships are a thin line we walk on where there\u2019s three elements at play: Me. Her and Us. It is an art to be able to keep the other in our hearts, without sacrificing our truth. To honour our partner\u2019s desires, fears, insecurities without losing ourselves in the process. To take care of her in the way she needs to. Of myself in the way I feel is right. And of us, in a way that will make us grow and move forward.\nAs I write this I can feel my chest tense up and my breath shorten. I can still feel the pain of not having known any better, and the gratitude to have had this experience, for it shed light on all of it.\nAfter all, awareness is deeply curative.\nBut also, to be fully awake, to be fully open, is to be vulnerable in a way that is beyond fragility. It is to be willing to be overwhelmed and torn apart.\nTo be acquainted with love, to be acquainted with gratitude is to be acquainted with sadness and loss. And this is a beautiful thing!\nAs Jason Silva would say, this is the conundrum of the human conditions: finite beings dreaming of immortality. Imperfect humans on a quest for perfection. Inexperienced lovers holding on tight to the possibility of a perfect romance.\nIt was a sad day, to remember what I forgot:\nSurrender. Death and rebirth cascading.\nYet a beautiful one, for I\u2019m grateful for my ability to live fully with an open heart, instead of going numb through the motions. Unaffected by it all.\nToday I\u2019m reminded of what matters.\nTo live, love and lust fully.\nNo lukewarm embraces.\nIf you enjoyed reading this and it resonates with you, or you feel someone you know could use the reminder, please share! \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://njdwihq.com/dui-pills-penalties/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:26Z", "digest": "sha1:WLMYIE3DDLLYEBPI6GR5UTKWD3KED6UR", "length": 4165, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "njdwihq.com", "title": "NJ DUI And Prescription Pills Penalties", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Penalties / NJ DUI And Prescription Pills Penalties\nIn New Jersey, if a driver is arrested and convicted of driving under the influence, it generally involves alcohol or recreational drugs. What many are unaware of, however, is that driving under the influence of prescription pills can lead to the same charges as for alcohol and illicit drug use.\nMuch like a driver who is caught driving drunk will be confronted with the possible loss of driving privileges, fines, surcharges and jail time, being caught under the influence of prescription pills is viewed in the same category. Looking at prescription pills similarly to alcohol, both are legal. That doesn\u2019t mean that drivers are allowed to operate their vehicles under their influence. Examples of prescription drugs that will hinder a person\u2019s ability to drive are Xanax, Vicodin and Oxycontin. It\u2019s legal to have with a prescription, but it can result in being charged with DUI.\nProcedures For A DUI Traffic Stop\nThe reason a law enforcement officer will make a traffic stop to investigate a DUI are all-encompassing whether the driver has been using alcohol or drugs. If the vehicle violates traffic laws, performs reckless actions or is swerving in and out of traffic, the officer will be compelled to stop it and investigate. When speaking to the driver, certain signs will be looked for to see if there is the possibility that the driver is under the influence. These can include slurred words, bloodshot or glassy eyes and possibly an open container of alcohol or pills.\nThe driver will then be given field sobriety tests such as the Walk-and-Turn test and the One-Leg Stand test. After that, the officer might want to give a breathalyzer test. With alcohol the breathalyzer test is designed to determine what the blood alcohol content of the driver is. With pills, however, the breathalyzer test is not applicable. It will be necessary for there to be a toxicology test via urine or blood to see what is in the driver\u2019s system.\nA driver cannot be convicted simply because there is a prescription drug in his or her system. This is when the prosecution will use what is known as a Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) to come to a determination on whether or not the individual has been using drugs. The DRE will be called to the police precinct to examine the suspect.\nWhat A DRE Will Do When Examining A Suspect\nThere are numerous categories of drugs that the DRE is trained to recognize. In order to come to a determination as to whether the suspect has been using drugs, the DRE will use the breathalyzer test to eliminate alcohol as a possible reason for intoxication. The arresting officer will be conferred with. The suspect will be questioned to accrue information. An eye examination will be undertaken looking for nystagmus and studying the pupils. Divided attention tests like the aforementioned field sobriety tests will be given. The vital signs will be taken. There will be a dark room examination, a look at the suspect\u2019s muscle tone and scanning for injection sites. Samples of the blood and/or urine will be taken.\nPenalties For Prescription Drug DUI\nA person who is convicted of driving under the influence of prescription drugs will face the same penalties that a DWI driver would face if the BAC is 0.10% or higher. There will be a driver\u2019s license suspension of seven months to one year. There can be up to 30 days in jail. The driver will pay an annual fee of $1,000 per year for three years. There will be a fine of $300 to $500. $100 will be paid to the drunk driving fund as well as the Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Fund (AERF). $230 will be paid to the Intoxicated Driver Resource Center (IDRC). $75 will go to the Neighborhood Services Fund.\nIn order to avoid these penalties, drivers need to be aware that although they might have a prescription for their drugs, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that they make it safe to operate a motor vehicle after using them. The prescription is no more of an excuse to drive under the influence of prescription drugs than a receipt from the liquor store and proof that the driver is over 21 is for drinking and driving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 5621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 185.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nordjewelers.thejewelerblog.com/archive/2014/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:14Z", "digest": "sha1:L56U4IYMRWGX5BYNZRC3UNXHELJV2CGR", "length": 44164, "nlines": 258, "source_domain": "nordjewelers.thejewelerblog.com", "title": "Entries from August 2014 | Nord Jewelers Blog", "raw_content": "Music Friday: Christina Perri Looks for a Ticket to a Higher Place in Her New Single, \u2018Burning Gold\u2019\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you great new songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, we feature \u201cBurning Gold,\u201d the second single off of Christina Perri\u2019s latest album, Head or Heart.\nIn this song about pursuing one\u2019s dreams and looking for a ticket to a higher place, Perri \u201csets fire\u201d to the remnants of her past until what remains is \u201cburning gold.\u201d\nThe song, which she co-wrote with Kid Harpoon, was inspired by Perri\u2019s decision as a 20-year-old to move from her home in Philly to pursue a musical career in Los Angeles.\nIn an interview with Radio.com, Perri said, \"A lot of times our dreams aren't where we grew up. We have to go find them\u2026 I would not stop until my life was burning gold, which I think it is now.\"\nPerri revealed to Billboard magazine that \u201cBurning Gold\u201d almost didn\u2019t happen. She was at \u201cgnarly point\u201d in her career when she wasn\u2019t enjoying music anymore. Perry was finishing up a tour of the U.K. when her manager insisted that she meet with songwriter Harpoon. Reluctantly, she agreed, and the collaboration \u2014 which took place at four in the morning \u2014 netted \u201cBurning Gold.\u201d She said the song was \u201cbirthed\u201d in 20 minutes and represents a \u201cwhole new sound\u201d for her.\nIf \u201cBurning Gold\u201d sounds familiar it could be because the 27-year-old songstress performed the song live this past Monday on NBC\u2019s TODAY Show, which was seen by four million viewers. A clip of that performance is included at the end of this post. The lyrics are below if you\u2019d like to sing along\u2026\nWritten by Christina Perri and Thomas Hull (Kid Harpoon). Performed by Christina Perri.\nLooking for an exit in this world of fear\nI can see the path that leads away,\nMomma never left and Daddy needs me here,\nI wish the wind would carry a change.\nI'm setting fire to where I gotta go,\nLet's start a fire everywhere that we go,\nWe started fires,\nWe started fires 'til our lives were burning gold,\n'Til our lives were burning gold.\nI've had enough,\nI'm standing up,\nI need, I need a change.\nI'm chasing life,\nLooking for my ticket to a higher place\nI can see my chance begin to fade,\nOne step forward into back again,\nI need, I need to change.\nLooking back I see, I had flame in me,\nI'm the wind that's carrying the change.\nChad Kroeger Rocks Avril Lavigne\u2019s World With a 17-Carat Diamond Ring for Their First Wedding Anniversary\nNickelback frontman Chad Kroeger clearly forgot to consult the Hallmark list of traditional and modern anniversary gifts when he surprised his wife of one year, Avril Lavigne, with a 17-carat emerald-cut diamond set in platinum.\nWhile Hallmark recommends a first anniversary gift of paper (traditional) or a clock (modern), Kroeger decided on a diamond ring that was even larger than the dazzling 10-carat pear-shaped engagement ring he presented to the \u201cComplicated\u201d singer in 2012.\nThis past Thursday, Lavigne revealed the ring on Twitter with a captioned photo of her and Kroeger. On Lavigne\u2019s left hand is a diamond that covers much of her petite ring finger. In the tweet, she breathlessly wrote, \u201cI still can\u2019t believe my 1 year anniversary gift. 17 carat emerald cut. Wow. I love my hubby.\u201d Lavigne has 16.3 million followers on Twitter.\nThe ring\u2019s value could range from several hundred thousand dollars to several million dollars, depending on the color, cut and clarity of the diamond.\nThe Twitter post was later taken down, presumable because the pop-punk singer was caught out of character when she gushed over her new jewelry.\nIn August of 2012, Kroeger proposed to Lavigne with a vintage-style platinum engagement ring featuring a 10-carat pear-shaped center stone accented on each side with specially cut half-moon-shaped diamonds totaling an additional 4 carats. The ring\u2019s estimated cost was $350,000. The couple married in the South of France in July 2013.\nThe 29-year-old diva said that her relationship with Kroeger, 39, started as a simple song-writing collaboration, but quickly turned into something much bigger.\nThe couple had been dating for only a month when Kroeger popped the question at a recording studio. According Lavigne, she had been making a scrapbook filled with cute stickers and Polaroid photos recounting her time in the studio. On one special day, she walked into the facility and caught Kroeger adding a photo to the book.\nWe can\u2019t wait to see how Kroeger tops himself for the couple\u2019s second anniversary.\nPhoto top: Twitter/Avril Lavigne\nSergio Garcia\u2019s Errant Tee Shot Yields a \u2018Diamond in the Rough,\u2019 Literally, After Ball Blasts Spectator\u2019s Engagement Ring\nSpaniard Sergio Garcia\u2019s errant tee shot on the third hole of Sunday\u2019s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational was nearly the most costly golf shot ever as it knocked a solitaire diamond right out of the setting of a spectator\u2019s engagement ring \u2014 and out of sight.\nClever commentators on CBS were quickly calling the incident a \u201cdiamond in the rough,\u201d which is literally where the lost gemstone ended up.\nGarcia, who had been leading the tournament at the time, arrived on the spot to find a woman in a grey top showing the CBS cameras the empty four-prong setting of her engagement ring.\nSeemingly shaken by the mishap, Garcia signed a golf ball and handed it to the surprisingly cheerful woman. He also apologized to her and asked tournament officials to get the woman\u2019s contact information so he could make good on her loss.\nAfter a few minutes of searching through the gnarly rough at the Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, a young patron finally spotted the diamond and returned it to its owner.\nWhen asked by golfchannel.com how he felt about the incident, Garcia said, \u201cObviously, it didn\u2019t feel very good. You never like to hit anybody, but if you hit someone and make her lose her diamond, it feels even worse.\u201d\nGarcia also revealed that he was prepared to buy the woman a new diamond if the original couldn\u2019t be found. \u201cI don\u2019t know how [my fianc\u00e9e] Kathy would have felt about that, but other than that, it was okay,\u201d he said.\nGarcia, who currently stands at #3 in the Official World Golf Ranking, had tied the course record with a 61 on Friday and mounted a six-shot lead. But, after plunking the spectator, Garcia\u2019s fortunes turned south. He went on to bogey the third hole and eventually placed second in the tournament to a surging Rory McIlroy, who won by two strokes.\nCheck out the two-minute video of Garcia\u2019s notorious tee shot and its crazy aftermath. It\u2019s been viewed more than 223,000 times on YouTube.\n\u2018Ring Cam\u2019 Gets Big Break With Featured Segment on \u2018Good Morning America\u2019\nBack in February, we introduced you to the \u201cRing Cam,\u201d an engagement ring box that could candidly capture in HD video the emotional and life-changing moment when she says, \u201cYes.\u201d\nAt the time, the product was essentially a prototype, and the inventors \u2014 four grads from Hope College in Holland, Mich. \u2014 were working hard to transform a neat idea for their senior engineering project into a viable business venture.\nNow, a little more than five months later, the Ring Cam team has gotten its big break with a featured segment on Good Morning America. The reporter said the Ring Cam was \u201cgiving viral proposal videos a whole new perspective.\u201d\nOther high-profile media outlets, such as the Huffington Post, InStyle magazine and the Detroit Free Press, followed suit with a flood of positive coverage.\nThe Ring Cam team also was encouraged by a second-round audition callback for the popular TV show, Shark Tank, where wealthy investors help entrepreneurs make it big \u2014 for a price.\nThe Ring Cam provides couples with a video record of one of the most momentous events of their lives \u2014 a precious snippet that can be shared with family and friends and generations to come.\nThe ring boxes may be rented for $100 or purchased for $200. They have a USB connector that allows for video captures to be easily transferred to a computer for editing.\nThe inventors believe that jewelry stores will be a perfect place to rent or buy a Ring Cam. For now, the team is distributing its product through its website, www.getringcam.com.\nIn describing the original concept for the product, founding team member Sam Tzou told the Holland Sentinel, \u201cWe\u2019ve had a lot of friends get engaged... In listening to their stories, [we learned] how excited they were and all the things they did getting ready to propose. We thought, \u2018How awesome would it be to capture that moment on video?\u2019\u201d\nThe Ring Cam was conceived as a Hope College senior project and then migrated to the school\u2019s 10-week summer incubator program, where it was refined. The early development was financed with a $5,000 infusion from Start Garden, a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based program that \u201cseeds\u201d would-be entrepreneurs\u2019 innovative ideas.\nNow, it looks like the Ring Cam is ready to take off.\nProlific Let\u0161eng Mine Bears Another Massive Diamond; 198-Carat \u2018Exceptional\u2019 Rough Gem Could Fetch $15 Million\nThe prolific Let\u0161eng mine in the tiny African Kingdom of Lesotho just yielded another massive rough diamond \u2014 a 198-carat shimmering stunner the size of a large strawberry. Experts expect it to sell for as much as $15 million.\nOfficials for Gem Diamonds Limited, which owns a 70 percent stake in the mine, described the stone as an \u201cexceptional white, high-quality diamond [that] displays no florescence.\u201d It has a Type IIa rating, which means it is chemically pure and has an exceptional optical transparency.\n\"The recovery of this large, high-quality white diamond continues to support the Let\u0161eng mine's reputation as the most important source of exceptional quality, large diamonds,\" Gem Diamonds CEO Clifford Elphick said in a statement.\nIn fact, five of the 20 largest gem-quality white diamonds ever recorded were unearthed at the Let\u0161eng mine \u2014 a mine in the kingdom's northern Maluti mountains that consistently yields the highest per-carat value of any kimberlite diamond mine in the world.\nIn 2001, Gem Diamonds pulled a 553-carat rough white diamond from Let\u0161eng, and a just over a year ago the company extracted a gem-quality rough white diamond weighing in at 164 carats. That stone was eventually sold for $9 million.\nLondon-based mining analyst Martin Potts told National Jeweler that he expects the recently discovered 198-carat stone to fetch between $12 million and $15 million.\nGem Diamonds has owned a controlling stake in Let\u0161eng since 2006. The Kingdom of Lesotho owns 30 percent. The diamond mine is one of the highest in the world, sitting at an altitude of 10,000 feet.\nDiamond photo via Gem Diamonds; Mine photo via et-global.com/uncredited\nMusic Friday: Eric Clapton\u2019s \u2018Golden Ring\u2019 Chronicles Complicated Love Triangle With Model Pattie Boyd and Beatles\u2019 George Harrison\nWhen 17-time Grammy winner Eric Clapton was asked by VH1 in 1999 to name his favorite song from his own catalog, he surprisingly picked \u201cGolden Ring,\u201d the ninth track on his 1978 Backless album.\nHe said the simple song was his all-time favorite because \u201cit's obscure, people don't know it and it's about marriage.\u201d\nIt was later revealed that Clapton wrote the song to chronicle his complicated love triangle with model Pattie Boyd and the Beatles\u2019 George Harrison. Harrison and Clapton became close friends in the late 1960s, but despite their friendship, Clapton fell in love with Boyd, who Harrison had married in 1966.\nIn 1970, Clapton reportedly proclaimed his love for Boyd with his hit song, \"Layla.\" When Boyd rebuffed his advances, Clapton went into a self-imposed musical exile that would last more than three years.\nBoyd and Harrison eventually separated in 1974 and divorced in 1977. Clapton now had his chance to rekindle the relationship.\nClapton penned \u201cGolden Ring\u201d in the emotional transition year between Boyd\u2019s official divorce from Harrison and his own marriage to Boyd in 1979. It was also the year Harrison tied the knot with author Olivia Trinidad Arias.\nClapton explained in his 2007 autobiography, \"[Golden Ring] was written about the situation between me, [Pattie] and George. It referred in part to her response to the news that George was getting married again. She took it quite hard, and I, in my arrogance, found that hard to understand. So I wrote this song about the peculiarity of our triangle, which finishes with the words, \u2018If I gave to you a golden ring / Would I make you happy, would I make you sing?'\"\nClapton, who is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream), is considered one of the most influential guitarists of all time, ranking second on Rolling Stone magazine\u2019s all-time list.\nWe hope you enjoy the video of Clapton\u2019s rendition of \u201cGolden Ring.\u201d The lyrics are below if you\u2019d like to sing along.\nPhoto of Eric Clapton/Wikimedia Commons/Chris Hakkens; photo of Clapton and Pattie Boyd (uncredited).\nWritten and performed by Eric Clapton.\nHe gave to you a golden ring;\nIt made you happy, it made you sing.\nAnd I played for you on my guitar;\nIt didn't last long, we didn't go far.\nAnd though the times have changed,\nWe're rearranged.\nWill the ties that bind remain the same?\nYou came around after a while;\nEveryone said that I made you smile.\nIt all went well, and suddenly then\nYou heard that he would marry again.\nWell I know that I have been here before;\nI've trod on your wings, I've opened the door.\nIf I gave to you a golden ring\nWould I make you happy, would I make you sing?\nFinders Keepers! Treasure Hunters Scramble to Find \u2018Diamond in the Sky\u2019 \u2013 A $20,000 Bauble Shot Into Space\nEager treasure hunters are hot on the trail of a 1.14-carat modified cushion diamond valued at $20,000 that was recently launched into space via helium balloon from a field in Derbyshire, UK. When the balloon hit a critical altitude, it burst, sending the bauble parachuting back to earth. The lucky person who finds the precious gem will get to keep it.\nThe UK Aviation Authority (CAA) and online retailer 77 Diamonds teamed to launch the gem into space. According to the retailer, the diamond was fitted with a tracking device and rose to an altitude of 100,000 feet until atmospheric pressure at the edge of space burst the balloon after an amazing 60-mile, 150-minute journey.\nThe diamond was then released toward earth, safely nestled inside a red foil box attached to a bright orange parachute. The anticipated landing area was estimated to encompass more than 60 miles around Lincolnshire, but the diamond is reportedly within a five-mile radius of Lea near Gainsborough, about 150 miles north of London.\nJewelry retailer 77 Diamonds created the unique PR stunt to raise awareness of its \"interactive universe,\" Diamonds in the Sky. This technology allows users to fill a virtual night sky with thousands of stars, each one unique and named after someone or something special.\nThe firm has been tweeting clues using #diamondinthesky for gem seekers who wish to join in the search. More than 6,500 people have joined the conversation and more than 8,400 are following it. Kate Dixon, a spokesperson for 77 Diamonds, tweeted today that \"as it stands, the diamond is still up for grabs.\u201d\nModified cushion brilliants like the one used for this stunt are a popular variation on the cushion brilliant shape. This cut boasts an extra row of facets just below the girdle, resembling a flower shape and a \u201csparkling water\u201d or \u201ccrushed ice\u201d appearance. This alluring cut caught the eye of Hollywood A-Listers Kim Kardashian and Jessica Biel, who both chose it for their engagement rings.\nPhotos: Courtesy 77 Diamonds/Stian Alexander\nSadness Turns to Gladness for Fla. Couple Whose Engagement Ring Was Accidentally Donated to Goodwill\nThe young Florida couple that made national headlines last month when their $6,000 engagement ring was accidentally donated to Goodwill was back in the news on Friday when a local jeweler came to the rescue with a replacement ring.\nEarly last month, Corey Todd's marriage proposal plans earned national attention \u2014 including a segment on the TODAY show \u2014 because the engagement ring he had hidden in the pocket of an old pair of dress pants cluttering a guest room closet was accidentally donated to charity.\nTodd had hidden the ring for nearly a month and was planning a July 7 proposal. But, on July 2, girlfriend Jacelyn Penton gave the dress pants and other old clothes to Goodwill.\nA day later, Todd noticed the missing clothes and realized the ring was gone with them. \u201cI was at a loss for words,\u201d Todd told the News Herald. \u201cMy stomach dropped.\u201d\nThe couple made an attempt to recover the ring from Goodwill, but it couldn't be located and no one turned it in.\nThe story of Corey and Jacelyn tugged the heartstrings of people from all over the country. TODAY show hosts Willie Geist and Tamron Hall went to bat for the couple by dedicating a large part of their July 8 opening segment to the couple's plight. Todd had saved up for three years to buy the engagement ring.\nSaid Hall, \"Let's try to help him out. Someone's got the pants. We're rooting for you, Corey.\"\n\u201cI feel for [him],\u201d said Geist. \u201cThat\u2019s painful.\u201d\nDespite the media attention, the ring was never found and Todd was forced to postpone his proposal to Penton, the love of his life since the first day he met her in middle school 20 years earlier.\nThis past week, the couple's sadness turned to gladness when Panama City's Maharaja's gifted the couple with a brand new engagement ring.\nOn Friday, Todd and a news crew from a local NBC-TV affiliate surprised Penton at her workplace, HealthSouth Emerald Coast Rehabilitation Hospital. The nervous suitor finally got to propose \u2014 with the cameras rolling. \"The hard part is getting down on one knee, and not passing out,\" Todd told WJHG.\nDuring the heart-wrenching previous month, Penton admitted she was saddened by the real possibility that she may never experience the moment of an actual proposal. \"I always knew we wanted to marry each other,\" she said. \"It just really hurt me that I probably [would] never feel that way. And I did, today!\"\nThe couple is planning a September 2015 wedding.\nFour Ultra-Rare Fancy Red Diamonds to Highlight Argyle Sale; Each Should Fetch $1 Million to $2 Million Per Carat\nFancy red diamonds are so rare that over the 30-year history of the iconic Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender only 13 have come to market. The 2014 edition of the tender will feature a record four such diamonds, including the spectacular Argyle Cardinal\u2122, a 1.21-carat radiant-cut fancy red.\nSTARS OF THE SHOW: Four fancy red diamonds, including the 1.21-carat Argyle Cardinal (second from left). Photo supplied by Rio Tinto.\nRio Tinto, which owns the Argyle Mine in Western Australia, recently showcased the four red diamonds \u2014 along with 51 top-quality pink and purplish-red diamonds \u2014 to a select group of 150 customers and the press. The annual tender represents the pinnacle of the mining company\u2019s production.\nThe Sydney event marked the beginning of a two-month promotional tour that will offer tender viewings in New York, Hong Kong and Perth. Bidding on the stones will close on October 8.\nRed and pink diamonds demand a high price \u2014 typically 50 times greater than similar white diamonds, according to Rio Tinto. The four red diamonds in the tender are expected to fetch from $1 million to $2 million per carat. Just last year, the 1.56-carat Argyle Phoenix\u2122 sold for more than $2 million to a Singapore-based jeweler.\n\u201cDecades ago, no one would have believed that Australia held the secret of diamonds, let alone virtually the world\u2019s entire source of rare pink and red diamonds,\u201d said Rio Tinto\u2019s managing director Jean-Marc Lieberherr. The company boasts that Argyle produces more than 90 percent of the world\u2019s pink diamonds.\nMusic Friday: Anita Baker Bets Everything on Her Wedding Ring in 1989\u2019s Top R&B Song, \u2018Giving You the Best That I Got\u2019\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you fabulous songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, we present the soulful Anita Baker singing her biggest hit and 1989\u2019s top R&B song, \"Giving You the Best That I Got.\"\nIn this entrancing love song co-written by Baker, Randy Holland and Skip Scarborough, the eight-time Grammy Award winner makes a solemn vow: \u201cI bet everything on my wedding ring / I'm giving you the best that I got.\u201d\nReleased in September 1988, the song was both a commercial and critical success, as it resonated with R&B fans as well as a broad crossover audience. The song peaked at #1 on the Billboard R&B chart, #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and at an impressive #3 on the broad-based Billboard Hot 100 chart.\n\"Giving You the Best That I Got,\" which appears on Baker\u2019s 3x platinum album of the same name, yielded five Grammy nominations and three Grammy Awards \u2014 two in the exact same category in back-to-back years (We\u2019ll explain).\nIn 1989, she won Grammys for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Song, and earned nominations that year for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. In 1990, she won another Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Because the single was released in September 1988 (just before the cutoff for 1989 Grammy eligibility) and the album was released in October 1988 (just after the 1989 award cutoff), Baker was able to take home the Vocal Performance Grammy twice for the same song.\nBorn in Toledo, Ohio, and abandoned at the age of two, Baker was raised by a foster family in Detroit until she was 12. Sadly, both her foster parents died and Baker went through her adolescence in the custody of her foster sister.\nIn 1974, at the age of 16, Baker began singing at Detroit nightclubs. Soon after, she was discovered by bandleader David Washington, who helped launch her stellar career. By the age of 17, she was touring professionally with the funk band, Chapter 8.\nWe know you will enjoy the official video of Anita Baker\u2019s \u201cGiving You the Best That I Got.\u201d The lyrics are below if you\u2019d like to sing along.\nWritten by Anita Baker, Randy Holland and Skip Scarborough\nYes, I tell you now, that I made a vow\nAnd I think I wanna sing it forever\nI'm giving you the best that I got\nGivin' it to you baby\nIsraeli Student Creates Stylish, But Invasive, Jewelry That Transforms the Body Into a Renewable Energy Source (Ouch!)\nImagine being able to power your electronic devices with the energy harnessed from your eyes blinking, the blood flowing through your veins, or the electric pulses coursing down your spine.\nWell, Israeli industrial design student Naomi Kizhner has developed a line of fashionable, yet invasive, jewelry called \u201cEnergy Addicts\u201d that transforms the body into a renewable energy source.\nFabricated in karat gold and 3D-printed biopolymer, the jewelry designs are intended to be worn on three different parts of the body.\nThe least invasive of the three is called the Blinker, which sits on the bridge of the nose and across the eyelids. The device transforms the energy generated with every blink of the eye into electricity.\nNot for the faint-hearted, the Blood Bridge requires two needles to be placed into a vein in the lower arm. The jewelry redirects blood flow past a wheel within the casing. As the wheel turns, the device converts the kinetic energy into electricity.\nAnother seemingly painful device is called the E-pulse Conductor. Inserted into the upper spine, the jewelry collects the electric pulses generated by the wearer\u2019s neurological system.\nSo far, the Energy Addicts jewelry is not commercially viable. Kizhner designed the products for a senior project at Hadassah College in Jerusalem. Her project addresses what she believes is an impending worldwide energy crisis.\n\"I wanted to explore the post-humanistic approach that sees the human body as a resource,\" she told Dezeen.com. \"It interested me to imagine what would the world be like once it has experienced a steep decline in energy resources and how we will feed our energy addiction.\"\nKizhner believes her concepts are not far fetched. \"Technologically, we are not too far away from these ideas becoming a reality,\" she said. \"But practically speaking, will we be willing to sacrifice our bodies in order to produce more energy? My intention is to provoke a discussion.\"\n(Photos: Naomi Kizhner/Shahar Tamir)\nFlawless 8.41-Carat Purple-Pink Diamond Could Set a Price-Per-Carat Record at Sotheby\u2019s Magnificent Jewels Sale in October\nAn extraordinarily rare internally flawless purple-pink diamond could set a record when it hits the auction block at Sotheby\u2019s Magnificent Jewels and Jadeite Autumn Sale on October 7.\nThe auction house tagged the 8.41-carat pear-shaped diamond with a pre-sale estimate between $12.8 million and $15.4 million, or approximately $1.83 million per carat.\nA Sotheby's official claimed the fancy vivid purple-pink diamond displays the most beautiful and concentrated shades of pink that he has ever seen. The Gemological Institute of America supported that assessment by bestowing the stone with its highest color rating.\n\"Together with its exceptional clarity, it is not surprising that it would command the highest per-carat pre-sale estimate for any pink diamond to date,\" said Quek Chin Yeow, the chairman of Sotheby\u2019s international jewelry business in Asia. He added that the sale's top lot is arguably \u201cthe most desirable pink diamond to appear at auction in recent years.\u201d\nThe 8.41-carat purple-pink sparkler was expertly cut in New York City from a De Beers-mined rough diamond weighing 19.54 carats. It is not unusual for a world-class diamond such as this one to lose half of its weight or more during the cutting process.\nThe Sotheby\u2019s October headliner is expected to come within striking distance of the highest price ever paid per carat for a fancy vivid pink diamond. That record is held by a 5-carat stone that sold at Christie\u2019s Hong Kong in January 2009 for $10.8 million ($2.16 million per carat).\nThe 8.41-carat purple-pink diamond will be touring Singapore, Taipei, New York, London, Geneva and Hong Kong prior to what promises to be an exciting auction on October 7.\n(Photo: Sotheby's)\nHeadpiece Encrusted With Color-Change Swarovski Spinel Is a Contemporary Take on the 1970's Mood Ring\nA leather headpiece mounted with 4,000 lab-grown Swarovski spinel stones has the ability to change color in response to brain activity, delivering a high-tech and grown-up version of one of the memorable fads of all time \u2014 the mood ring.\nChildren of the 1970s like to reminisce about their mood rings, the inexpensive baubles featuring a \u201cgem\u201d that changed color in response to the body\u2019s temperature. The inventors cleverly bonded what was essentially a thin liquid crystal thermometer to the back of a clear quartz stone, enabling the surprising color-change effect to be seen through the faux gem.\nNow, nearly 40 years later, Lauren Bowker of the London-based fashion house The Unseen has created a gem-emblazoned head covering that absorbs the energy loss from the head. The stones start as black spinel, but have the ability to change from black to orange to red to green to blue to purple based on the part of the brain in use. The headpiece actually covers the wearer\u2019s forehead, temples, ear tops and back of the neck.\n\u201cWhen worn, the headpiece becomes a reflection of the inner human thought,\u201d Bowker told Cnet.com.\nThe Swarovski black spinel stones are coated in Bowker\u2019s signature color-changing ink, which is sensitive to temperature changes. The stones serve as heat conductors.\nBowker claims that excitement, nervousness and fear all produce different colors. Shifting emotions result in a brilliant, colorful display.\nThe designer explained to Dezeen.com that mornings generally produce orange color patterns at the front of the brain, while evening patterns tend to be bluer and in the back right of the brain.\nAttendees of London Fashion Week in September will be able to get a first-hand look at Bowker\u2019s gem headpiece at The Unseen\u2019s emporium in Somerset House.\n(Headpiece photos: The Unseen)\nTulsa Doctor Is on a Mission to Find Rightful Owner of Diamond Engagement Ring Found in Airport Parking Lot\nFor the past six weeks, Dr. Kristen Rice has been on a mission to find the rightful owner of a diamond engagement ring she and her husband, Kevin, found in the short-term parking lot of Tulsa International Airport.\nFeaturing a sizable round center diamond, pav\u00e9 setting, delicate heart-motif gallery, one bent prong, a slightly flattened side and a custom engraving, the white metal ring has been splashed all over Facebook and Craigslist, and on Tuesday was the subject of a news report by NBC\u2019s Tulsa television affiliate, KJRH.\nDespite the huge amount of traditional and social media exposure (Rice\u2019s Facebook post about the ring has been shared 641 times, and the TV station\u2019s post was shared 51 times), nobody has come forward to claim the keepsake.\nRice used a strip of grey duct tape to conceal a custom engraving on the inside of the band. Whoever claims the ring must correctly identify what it says.\nSince July 4, the Tulsa-based dermatologist has been scouring the Internet for claims of a lost ring, placed an ad on Craigslist, posted photos of the ring on Facebook, regularly contacted the Tulsa airport\u2019s lost and found, and scored an interview with the NBC affiliate.\nRice has received an outpouring of praise and encouragement from the Facebook users following her story.\n\u201cBless her for trying to locate the owner!\u201d commented Linda Tiffany Cardwell. \u201cI lost a sapphire-and-diamond ring in the ladies\u2019 room at the San Antonio airport 20 years ago... great sentimental value. My heart is still broken over the loss. Wish the person who found it had the same character as this lady!\u201d\nAdded Facebook user Jo Lynn: \u201cEven rings that aren't expensive can be treasures to someone. Kudos to the finder for being a superb human being.\u201d\n\u201cThe person who found this ring is the kind of person who walks with God,\u201d wrote Damiris Kennedy.\n\u201cIt's surprising to me so many people are shocked at me trying to find the rightful owner,\u201d she told KJRH. \u201cIt's just the right thing to do. I wouldn't have done it any other way.\u201d\nRice, who graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, is impressed by the power of social media. She reported that several people contacted her saying \u201cdon\u2019t give up\u201d and that \u201c25 years ago this happened to me; it took six months or a year, but I finally found the owner through the classifieds.\u201d\n\u201cNow with social media it can take 24 to 48 hours,\u201d she said.\nRice hopes there will be a sweet, romantic outcome, although she speculated on circumstances behind the ring ending up slightly flattened in an airport parking lot.\n\u201cMaybe she threw it out the window. Maybe she didn't want the ring anymore,\u201d she told KJRH. \u201cI hope that's not the case. Hopefully it's [a couple] who truly lost their ring and they are looking for it, because if they are to find it, it might be a symbol of renewed love.\u201d\nMusic Friday: Love Is As \u2018Warm As the Ruby\u2019 and As \u2018Pure As the Pearl\u2019 in Nat King Cole\u2019s 1952 Ballad\nWelcome to Music Friday when we often unearth wonderful, but sadly forgotten, treasures with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, we present the immortal Nat King Cole singing \u201cThe Ruby and the Pearl,\u201d the theme song to the 1952 film, Thunder in the East.\nIn this ballad written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Cole uses gemstones and precious metals to describe his love and devotion. He sings, \u201cCan love be as warm as the ruby? / Can love be as pure as the pearl? / Just look in the heart of my love for you. / You'll find the ruby and the pearl.\u201d\nIn a later verse, he sings, \u201cMy love will endure as the diamond / And shine with the shimmer of gold. / It glows like a bright star above for you / A thing of beauty to behold.\u201d\nReleased on Capitol Records only one year after his iconic hit, \u201cUnforgettable,\u201d \u201cThe Ruby and the Pearl\u201d peaked at #23 on the U.S. Billboard chart. One online movie reviewer noted that Cole\u2019s beautiful performance of \u201cThe Ruby and the Pearl\u201d was the best thing to come out of Thunder in the East, which he called a routine action film.\nIn 1954, \u201cThe Ruby and the Pearl\u201d was included in a 10-inch LP Nat King Cole compilation album called Eight Top Pops.\nBorn in 1919 to a Baptist minister and a church organist, Nathanian Adam Coles learned to play the piano at the age of four. He first came to prominence as a jazz pianist, but is most famous for his silky smooth baritone voice. In 1956, he hosted The Nat King Cole Show on NBC, the first variety program to be hosted by an African American.\nDuring his abbreviated career (he died of lung cancer in 1965 at the age of 45), Cole released 29 albums and scored 79 Top 40 singles.\nIn 1990, he was posthumously awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2000 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 1994, his likeness adorned an official U.S. postage stamp.\nWe invite you to hear Cole\u2019s beautifully articulated performance of \u201cThe Ruby and the Pearl.\u201d The video is below and the lyrics are included if you\u2019d like to sing along.\nMusic written by Jay Livingston. Lyrics written by Ray Evans. Performed by Nat King Cole.\nCan love be as warm as the ruby?\nCan love be as pure as the pearl?\nJust look in the heart of my love for you.\nYou'll find the ruby and the pearl.\nMy love will endure as the diamond;\nAnd shine with the shimmer of gold.\nIt glows like a bright star above for you,\nA thing of beauty to behold.\nCome close and cling to my kiss;\nCome close and share the passion of this.\nYes, love is as warm as the ruby\nAnd love is as pure as the pearl.\nTop image: WikiCommons\nALS Ice Bucket Challenge Turns Into Heart-Warming Marriage Proposal for Kansas Couple\nIt was only a matter a time before a romantic young man figured out a clever way to incorporate the wildly popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge into a heart-warming marriage proposal.\nLast Tuesday, Shelby Muha, a teacher from Manhattan, Kan., believed she was simply shooting a video of an Ice Bucket Challenge with boyfriend, Justin Davidson.\nMuha introduces herself and nominates three friends to take the challenge. Then she tenses up as she expects Davidson \u2014 also a teacher \u2014 to dump the freezing water on her head.\nBut, when it doesn\u2019t happen, she spins around to see him on bended knee with an engagement ring in hand. The startled girlfriends says, \u201cWhat?\u201d And then she giggles as Davidson asks for her hand in marriage.\nShe accepts his proposal, but fumbles the ring. As she scoops it off the sidewalk, Davidson blasts her with the bucket of ice water.\nThe fun-loving Muha takes it all in stride and maintains a smile through her part of the challenge. It was now Davidson\u2019s turn. He steps forward and nominates a few friends. Then, Muha seals the deal by dumping a cooler of ice water on her new fianc\u00e9.\nThe drenched couple embraces, concluding what we believe to be the world's first-ever ALS Ice Bucket Challenge marriage proposal.\nMuha told MailOnline that she had no clue the proposal was coming. \u201cJustin is a really quiet guy, and he's not into big, showy things at all,\u201d she said. \u201cHe's not a limelight lover, and so even being on video freaks him out.\u201d\nThe ALS Ice Bucket Challenge works like this. A person who has already taken the challenge gets to nominate three of his or her own friends or family members to accept the next challenge. Those who have been newly nominated have 24 hours to film themselves dumping ice water on their heads or they must send a $100 donation to support the non-profit ALS Association. If they successfully complete the mission, they send $10 to the charity. The drenching must be recorded and posted to social media.\nThe ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has become a national phenomenon. Celebrities, such as Derek Jeter and Lady Gaga, as well as dignitaries, such as former President George W. Bush, have all accepted and succumbed to the Ice Bucket Challenge.\nThe challenge has been enormously successful in generating awareness and funds for the foundation that aims to find a cure to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is commonly known as Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease. The neurodegenerative disease affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.\nMore than 3.3 million people have used the hashtag \u201c#icebucketchallenge,\u201d with the number spiking to more than 600,000 last Tuesday, according to the social media analytic web site Topsy.com.\nThe ALS Foundation reports having received $13 million in donations between July 29 and August 17. That compares to $1.7 in donations during the same period a year ago.\nCheck out the video of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge marriage proposal. It has been seen by more than 100,000 YouTube viewers.\nCora Unveils 12-Carat \u2018Blue Moon\u2019 Diamond; Internally Flawless Gem Goes on Display in LA on Sept. 13\nBack in February, we reported on luxury jeweler Cora International\u2019s $25.6 million purchase of an \u201cexceptional\u201d acorn-sized 29.6-carat vivid blue rough diamond. Now, six months later, the company\u2019s expert cutters have completed the transformation of that rough diamond into a 12-carat internally flawless cushion-cut masterpiece named \u201cBlue Moon.\u201d\n(The name might be a subtle reference to how often these extraordinary diamonds come along, as in \u201conce in a blue moon.\u201d)\nPhoto: Cora International/Tino Hammid\nThe diamond, which the Gemological Institute of America rated \"fancy vivid blue\" and \"internally flawless,\" is so special and so rare that it will headline a 16-week exhibition, starting September 13, at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. This is the first \u2014 and possibly the last \u2014 time the diamond will be on public display.\nAmong the amazing characteristics of the gem is its unusual color. \u201cYou can\u2019t describe that blue,\u201d Cora CEO Suzette Gomes told bloomberg.com. \u201cYou just drown in it.\u201d\nForbes contributor Anthony DeMarco, who got a chance to see the Blue Moon up close, described the color as aqua blue, with the facets appearing as if they are \u201cwavelets on the water.\u201d He was struck by the transparency of the stone. \u201cYou can see clear through the diamond,\u201d he wrote.\nUnearthed in January by Petra Diamonds Ltd. at its legendary Cullinan mine in South Africa, the 29.6-carat rough was heralded at the time as \u201cone of the most important blue diamonds ever recovered\u201d by Petra chief executive Johan Dippenaar.\nWhen Cora purchased the stone, it was assumed that more than half of its weight would be sacrificed during the cutting process. In fact, nearly 60% of the stone's weight was lost. Although Cora has not put a price on the stone, other diamonds of this pedigree have sold for about $1.8 million per carat.\nBlue diamonds get their color from trace amounts of boron impurities in their chemical makeup.\nCora reveals how its cutters transformed a 29.6-carat rough diamond into the 12-carat internally flawless Blue Moon in the video at this link.\nVideo captures via CoraInternational.com\nCustom Coke Bottles Spell Out Sweet Marriage Proposal; Scotsman Spends $20, Gets the Girl and Earns One Million \u2018Likes\u2019\nWith six personalized bottles purchased from Coca-Cola\u2019s \u201cShare a Coke\u201d online shop, Scotsman Donnie McGilvray spelled out a sweet marriage proposal for his girlfriend, Eloise. The romantic young man lined up the bottles shoulder to shoulder across the top shelf of his immaculate refrigerator. They read: \u201cBeautiful\u201d \u201cEloise\u201d \u201cWill\u201d \u201cYou\u201d \u201cMarry\u201d \u201cMe.\u201d\nOn the middle shelf he placed a bouquet of roses and a Coke glass containing the engagement ring (Who needs a ring box?).\nMcGilvray posted a photo of his presentation along with this explanation of how the surprise marriage proposal went down on Coca-Cola's Facebook page: \u201cI asked my girlfriend, Eloise, to put the milk away in the fridge and this is what she saw. The \u2018ice\u2019 was in the glass. Thanks Coca-Cola for all the help\u2026 she said yes!!!\u201d\nMcGilvray\u2019s post was a viral sensation. His creativity earned him more than one million \u201cLikes\u201d in the first 48 hours and sparked worldwide media coverage. The post currently has more than 53,000 \u201cShares.\u201d\nIt also quickly caught the attention of Coca-Cola\u2019s social media specialists, who customized two additional \u201cShare a Coke\u201d bottles \u2014 with the names Eloise and Donnie \u2014 and posted a congratulatory message featuring two bottles that are clearly in love.\nCoca-Cola told BuzzFeed: \u201cAll of us at Coca-Cola would like to extend our huge congratulations to Donnie and Eloise on their engagement. We were thrilled to see that Donnie used our personalized iconic glass bottles in such a special and romantic way. That is exactly what Share a Coke is all about: Creating moments of happiness with the people closest to you. We hope they share a very happy life together and will be sending them some special congratulatory bottles to celebrate.\u201d\nMcGilvray, who is a native of Tain in the Highland area of Scotland, used Coca-Cola\u2019s label customization tool to pick the proposal phrase from 1,000-plus popular names and words in the Coke database. Check it out at this link\u2026\nThe cost for each 200ml bottle was about $3.30, so the total expenditure for the six-bottle message was a scant $19.80 (plus tax). Shipping was free on orders of six or more bottles.\nSadly for romantics on this side of the pond, the customized Coke bottles are currently available only in the U.K. The U.S. audience has to settle for the \u201cvirtual\u201d version of the program, where users can customize two-dimensional Coke bottles for their friends and loved ones, and then \u201cshare\u201d them on Facebook or Twitter. See link here\u2026\nSoft drink lovers around the world currently consume more than 1.8 billion servings of Coca-Cola brand beverages each day. The Coca-Cola Facebook page has been \u201cLiked\u201d by more than 87 million fans.\nMusic Friday Flashback: High-Society Girl Has Got Her Diamonds and Pretty Clothes in The Rolling Stone\u2019s \u2018Play With Fire\u2019\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you super songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, we feature Mick Jagger and The Rolling Stones performing their 1965 release, \u201cPlay With Fire.\u201d\nA song that takes a critical look at the lifestyle of Jagger\u2019s high-society girlfriend, \u201cPlay With Fire\u201d starts off with the line, \u201cWell, you've got your diamonds and you've got your pretty clothes / And the chauffeur drives your car / You let everybody know / But don't play with me, 'cause you're playing with fire.\u201d\nAlthough the song is credited to Nanker Phelge, the pseudonym used when the whole band collaborated on a track, SongFacts.com reports that lead singer Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards were the only band members awake when the song was recorded very late one night at RCA Studios in January of 1965.\nIt was reported that record producer Phil Spector stepped in on bass guitar, his assistant Jack Nitzsche played harpsichord and a night janitor helped out with backup vocals. (Who knew?)\nIn a 1995 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Jagger said the song still sounds \u201camazing.\u201d\n\u201cI mean, it's a very in-your-face kind of sound and very clearly done,\u201d Jagger said. \u201cYou can hear all the vocal stuff on it. And I'm playing the tambourines, the vocal line. You know, it's very pretty.\"\nBuried on the B-side of their single, \u201cThe Last Time,\u201d \u201cPlay With Fire\u201d met with only marginal commercial success. It topped out at #96 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.\nThe Stones seemed to have a fondness for the song, however, as it was performed in concert during the tours of 1965 and 1966, and then revived more than 20 years later when the band toured in 1989 and 1990.\nThe Rolling Stones, which celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2012, are credited with more than 250 million album sales. They are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and were ranked fourth on Rolling Stone magazine\u2019s list of the \u201c100 Greatest Artists of All Time.\u201d\nWe hope you enjoy the video of The Rolling Stones performing \u201cPlay With Fire.\u201d The lyrics are below if you\u2019d like to sing along.\nWritten by Nanker Phelge (The Rolling Stones). 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The five-stamp series included one dedicated to Claude Jutra\u2019s landmark 1971 film Mon Oncle Antoine, widely regarded as one of the most important films ever to be made in Canada and, up until this year, the film most likely to make it to the top of critics\u2019 rankings of the best Canadian films ever made. It all seemed a bit paranoid: could Canada Post actually cancel a stamp? Would they?\nThe postage panic might not seem all that crazy when one considers what took place in February of 2016, when new allegations emerged that the late filmmaker Claude Jutra had sexually assaulted boys. Film critic and author Yves Lever had released his new book (\u00c9ditions du Bor\u00e9al) about Jutra, who died in 1986, at the age of fifty-six, after taking his own life rather than face worsening early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s. Lever confirmed what many who knew Jutra had long known: he had an active sexual interest in teenage boys.\nIn his initial interview with Radio-Canada, Lever went on to call Jutra an \u201cinspiration to everyone\u201d in the international cinema milieu, adding, \u201cI am not writing a book about pedophilia.\u201d\nBut it was too late. That televised interview set off a media firestorm, one that led to further investigation, including a La Presse interview with an unnamed man who claimed Jutra had repeatedly sexually assaulted him when he was only six years old. The accusations had now escalated, suggesting Jutra had crossed the puberty line and actually raped young boys. The charge was no longer that Jutra simply had an interest in teenage boys \u2013 the age of consent at that time was fourteen \u2013 but that he was a pedophile. And that set off a devaluation of Jutra\u2019s name that was astonishing both for its scope and its sheer velocity. Consider that the entire media circus that ensued, from the first interview to its widespread fallout and conclusion of guilt, lasted approximately seventy-two hours.\nGraffitied statue (now removed) at former Parc Claude Jutra, since renamed for Montreal violinist Ethel Stark.\nMontreal Mayor Denis Coderre described the charges against Jutra as \u201cindefensible,\u201d \u2013 this, despite the fact that Jutra had been dead for thirty years and had no way of defending himself \u2013 and began the call for stripping the Jutra name off of various landmarks throughout Quebec: Croissant Claude-Jutra and Claude-Jutra Park, in Montreal; Place Claude-Jutra, in Repentigny; Claude-Jutra Street in Quebec City; Claude-Jutra Street in Levis; Claude Jutra Street in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville; Claude-Jutra Street in Blainville; Jutra Street in Candiac; the Jutra Film Awards, given out annually every year since they were established in 1999; the award given for best first feature at the Canadian Screen Awards (formerly the Genies); the main cinema in Montreal\u2019s Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que quebecoise; and the removal of a statue dedicated to Jutra in Montreal (which was left up just long enough to be defaced with anti-Jutra graffiti).\nRather than embark on a complex and difficult discussion about youth, sexuality, and pedophilia, Quebec politicians, artists, and community leaders felt it best to scrub the Jutra name off of everything it apparently maligned, thereby erasing the memory of his existence \u2013 a cruelly ironic act, given that Jutra was losing his memory when he took his own life in 1986. Jutra had gone from iconic cultural father figure to pariah in less than three days.\nWhile some in the film milieu were furious about the attempt to wipe Jutra from public memory, others argued the film community had little or no choice, citing a respect for the victims of Jutra\u2019s alleged crimes. \u201cIt\u2019s not simple,\u201d Oscar-nominated filmmaker Philippe Falardeau told me in an email in the weeks following the scandal. \u201cI really think Quebec cinema made the right decision for this year\u2019s gala [the Jutra name was taken off all of the awards just weeks prior to the awards presentation]. They had no choice considering the turn of events. We had to show clear and unconditional support for the victims \u2026 at the end of the day, a heavy feeling of sadness is left.\u201d\nMon Oncle Antoine, 1971\nThat heavy feeling of sadness is to be expected when one considers the epic place Jutra occupies \u2013 or occupied \u2013 in the dual canons of Quebec and Canadian cinema. Jutra\u2019s many documentaries and fiction films garnered awards and accolades at film festivals as well as invitations to collaborate with the likes of Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut. His oeuvre has clear, overriding sexual overtones. His 1963 film \u00c0 tout prendre is considered a breakthrough for its frank depiction of a character dealing with his emerging gay sexuality. But it\u2019s his most famous film, Mon Oncle Antoine (1971), that left the most enduring mark on Quebec cinema. A nostalgic, wistful, at times painful account of a boy growing up in rural Quebec, the film set the standard for what is arguably Quebec cinema\u2019s most enduring sub-genre: the depiction of a rapidly evolving Quebec as seen through the eyes of an innocent child. It\u2019s a template we still see, from Lea Pool\u2019s Maman est chez le coiffeur (2008, set in 1966), Falardeau\u2019s C\u2019est pas mois, je le jure! (2008, set in 1968) and perhaps most notably in one of Quebec\u2019s biggest box-office successes, Jean-Marc Vallee\u2019s C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005, set from the sixties to the nineties), in which a boy\u2019s emerging (queer) sexuality reflects Quebec\u2019s own coming of age: the Quiet Revolution. It is not overstatement to suggest that, with this one film, Jutra changed the entire course of Quebec film storytelling.\nThat Jutra was a gay man was no secret, though he had been far more muted in discussing it publicly than, say, Michel Tremblay, Quebec\u2019s internationally renowned playwright. In 1981, Concordia film-studies professor Thomas Waugh called Jutra the \u201cE.M. Forster of Quebec cinema,\u201d a reference to the British author who only came out posthumously (with the publication of his gay novel Maurice), an obvious swipe at Jutra. But if he didn\u2019t want to discuss it, it was there in his work, especially in one of his later English-language films, By Design (1981), a comedy in which Patty Duke starred as one half of a lesbian couple trying to get pregnant. (The dramedy drew mixed reviews. The New Yorker\u2019s legendary critic Pauline Kael called it a \u201cLubitsch sex comedy stripped of the glamour but not the fun,\u201d while a critic for the Toronto-based magazine The Body Politic described it as \u201cLaverne and Shirley have a baby.\u201d)\nThat Jutra was yet another prominent gay figure in a place that was becoming renowned for its acceptance of queer people can\u2019t be overlooked. In 1979, the PQ government brought in legislation that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, becoming the first place in Canada to do so. Polls and surveys have shown a significant difference between Quebec and the rest of Canada in regards to LGBT rights. When I met up with an American reporter from The Advocate who was visiting Montreal in the late nineties, he marvelled at what appeared to be the widespread acceptance of same-sex marriage in the province. He was especially tickled to note that there was no French translation for the term \u201cfamily values,\u201d which had been excessively bandied about in the US and Canada since the eighties as thinly veiled code for anti-gay, anti-choice politics.\nGiven this context, the charge of pedophilia seemed that much more complex. Homophobic activists had long argued that homosexuality was inextricably linked to an attraction to children, both for the means of sexual satisfaction as well as recruitment. In the radical sixties and seventies, some argued pedophiles should have rights and were in fact a persecuted minority themselves, arguing, among other things, for the abolition of all age-of-consent laws. LGBT activists sought to distance themselves from this stance in the eighties, when rights movements went international and the term \u201cconsenting adults\u201d became the universal proclamation of LGBT activists.\nPedophiles, or \u201cboy lovers,\u201d had a political lobby group, the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), and demanded the right to have floats in pride parades throughout the US (with varying degrees of success). Arguably the most controversial article in the group\u2019s history came in 1977, when The Body Politic published Gerald Hannon\u2019s \u201cMen Loving Boys Loving Men.\u201d In it, the journalist interviewed a number of men and boys who were in inter-generational relationships, with the boys indicating they saw nothing wrong with the relationships and that they were consenting. Hannon was charged with obscenity (but later acquitted), and the furor galvanized many in the LGBT community who saw, for ethical, legal and moral reasons, the identities of homosexuality and pedophilia as two entirely separate things. Many in the NAMBLA camp still maintain they were abandoned by a larger community desperate to be embraced by the mainstream.\nBut Jutra wasn\u2019t merely gay, he had an obvious and intense interest in children, and the adoring representation of boys and young men in his films is unmistakable. I was actually quite surprised by the pronouncements of some of my peers upon the Jutra scandal. It\u2019s all pretty obvious, from his 1966 NFB skateboarding documentary The Devil\u2019s Toy (\u201cdedicated to all the victims of intolerance,\u201d) to Mon Oncle Antoine to Dreamspeaker (1975), about a relationship between a pubescent boy and an adult man. Waugh analyzed these images in detail in his 2006 book The Romance of Transgression in Canada, his opus on the history of LGBT screen images in Canada, where he refers to a recurring \u201cintergenerational eros\u201d in Jutra\u2019s work. That\u2019s basically a film academic\u2019s way of describing a pedophilic gaze.\nWhen the rush to rip the Jutra name off of every award, road, and park in Canada was in full swing, the obvious question about his legacy came up. I was invited on a local CBC radio show, along with McGill communications professor Will Straw, to discuss our views. Will and I looked at each other, incredulously, as the questions were posed. Would we still screen Jutra\u2019s films in our classrooms? The answer from both of us was clear: you don\u2019t throw out the art, even if the artist\u2019s reputation, as a person, has been called into question. The obvious examples were brought up, from Wagner\u2019s operas to Roman Polanski\u2019s films to instances where the artist didn\u2019t have a messy personal life but the film had a terrible impact (most notably D.W. Griffith\u2019s 1915 feature film, Birth of a Nation, which helped to breathe new life into a then-dormant organization known as the Ku Klux Klan). The idea that people teaching the history of cinema could erase the influence of Jutra as easily as city officials had changed the names of streets and parks is nonsensical, and we said as much that day.\n\u2026 the Jutra scandal was intensely sad. It was depressing for the shock and horror many felt about Jutra\u2019s actions of decades ago. But I found it distressing for what it didn\u2019t lead to: any kind of discussion of pedophilia.\nThe Jutra case is a strange one in that he died decades ago, so it does leave one with the queasy feeling that he\u2019s been convicted without any opportunity to defend himself. When I approached one colleague for comment for this article, he responded bluntly, \u201cNo thanks \u2013 I\u2019m not interested in being part of a posthumous lynching.\u201d But for the people who have stated unequivocally that they were sexually assaulted by Jutra, this is a living memory. And it would be very hypocritical for progressives to argue we should believe women who speak of being sexually assaulted or harassed while dismissing the claims of men who say they were molested as children. We either commit to hearing victims out, or we don\u2019t.\nAs Falardeau says, the Jutra scandal was intensely sad. It was depressing for the shock and horror many felt about Jutra\u2019s actions of decades ago. But I found it distressing for what it didn\u2019t lead to: any kind of discussion of pedophilia. Instead of grappling with a profound issue, politicians and artists felt they could somehow rid themselves of the indefensible by erasing the Jutra name. Out of sight, out of mind never really made much sense as a means of addressing something complicated and wildly problematic, and it didn\u2019t here either. Not only did it not do Jutra\u2019s memory any good, I can\u2019t imagine it helped those who say they were victimized by him either. Rather than having a discussion of what intergenerational relationships are, how attitudes towards them have changed over history, and what the images Jutra created actually mean, we just swept all of that under one giant rug.\nAnd, as we\u2019ve seen time and again, when we do that as a culture it serves no one very well at all, and solves nothing.\nGraffitied statue of Edward Cornwallis, Halifax.\nIf we\u2019re truly committed to removing the names of historical figures who have done things that are \u201cindefensible,\u201d it\u2019s time to start compiling the list. This will require a good deal of work. Before anyone gets defensive, consider that it\u2019s not the plot of a sci-fi novel or anything remotely ridiculous. In September, Georgetown University announced it would be attempting to make up for the slave trade it profited from centuries earlier by bestowing preferential status in the admissions process for descendants of slaves and by renaming two campus buildings (the new names will be those of slaves the university \u201cowned\u201d). Meanwhile, Halifax is still debating whether a statue of city founder Edward Cornwallis should come down, Cornwallis having once offered a bounty for killing Indigenous people. And in Montreal, some are suggesting the name Queen Isabella be removed from public places, given that she was a key player in the Spanish Inquisition. [ED NOTE: The firestorm regarding the place of Confederate statues in the US that led President Trump to refer to neo-Nazis as \u201cfine people,\u201d erupted in the summer following the original print publication of this piece.]\nBy that logic, Lionel-Groulx\u2019s name should be removed from its namesake Metro station, given his virulent anti-Semitism. McGill University is named in part for James McGill, an entrepreneur who profited from, among other dubious things, the slave trade. McGill also has a prominent statue of Queen Victoria, a monarch who ruled over a significant stretch of British colonialism marked by slave trading, pillaging, and the deaths of thousands. Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717-1797), who proposed infecting Indigenous people with small pox as a means of wiping them out, has a Montreal street named after him*. And while her place in helping to secure women\u2019s rights is undeniable, Emily Murphy (1868-1933) also believed strongly in eugenics, and advocated for the Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta, which led to thousands of men and women being sterilized without their consent or knowledge.\nThe name game requires time, energy, and money, but it may well force us to reckon with significant aspects of our history.\n*[The street was renamed in September 2017: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/jeffery-amherst-montreal-denis-coderre-1.4287673]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 18401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 222.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://notesandqueries.ca/kate-sherren/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:02Z", "digest": "sha1:B26UE6SIIPUM7LVXNNDFSSRDXAJ4QKII", "length": 100, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "notesandqueries.ca", "title": "Kate Sherren - CNQ", "raw_content": "Kate Sherren\nKate Sherren is an associate professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 71.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://npp-usa.org/308-vehicles-to-police-service-17418-officers-promoted-in-22-months-president-akufo-addo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:TM2FAKWKVK77VZUHSBQM6HHENQIAMSOC", "length": 4055, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "npp-usa.org", "title": "308 Vehicles to Police Service; 17,418 Officers Promoted In 22 Months \u2013 President Akufo-Addo \u2013 NPP USA Inc.", "raw_content": "Home Nation 308 Vehicles to Police Service; 17,418 Officers Promoted In 22 Months \u2013 President Akufo-Addo\nThe President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has stated that Government, in spite of the many challenges it inherited, has begun the process of retooling and equipping the Ghana Police Service.\nAccording to President Akufo-Addo, this is in fulfilment of the New Patriotic Party\u2019s 2016 Manifesto pledge of resourcing the Police Service sufficiently, so the men and women of the Service can continue to maintain law and order, and protect lives and property.\n\u201cGovernment, in December 2017, acquired some one hundred and eight (108) vehicles for the Service, and in support of Operation Calm Life; and I followed this up, three weeks ago, when I handed over two hundred (200) Toyota vehicles for use by the Police,\u201d the President said.\nHe continued, \u201cThe construction of three hundred and twenty (320) housing units to ease the problems of accommodation is ongoing, and the numerical strength of the Service is being boosted by the recruitment of four thousand (4,000) men and women this year alone.\u201d\nPresident Akufo-Addo was speaking at the Graduation Parade of the 48th Officer Cadet Course of the Ghana Police Academy, at the Tesano Police Depot, on Friday, 16th November, 2018.\nThe President also indicated that a considerable backlog of promotions of personnel have been cleared in my time.\n\u201cBetween January 2017 and now, some twenty-two (22) months, a total of seven hundred and ninety-five (795) promotions of senior police officers, and sixteen thousand, six hundred and twenty-three (16,623) promotions of junior ranks, have been effected,\u201d he added.\nPresident Akufo-Addo assured that Government will continue to ensure that the police personnel are properly trained, properly equipped and provided with incentives to enable them discharge professionally their duties and obligations without interference from any quarters.\n\u201cWe are also developing a comprehensive policy to enhance the professional competence and capacity of the police to assist them in dealing with cyber-crimes and cyber security related issues. Additionally, the Marine Unit of the Service will be resourced to work in tandem with the Ghana Navy to deal effectively with threats to our maritime boundaries and resources,\u201d he indicated.\nWhilst acknowledging that there are still some issues to be addressed, the President reiterated the commitment of Government to ensuring that \u201caccommodation and equipment needs of the Ghana Police Service\u201d are systematically resolved to enhance efficiency and morale.\nEnhance image of Police Service\nWith the Police Service currently suffering low public image than it should have, as per the 2017 Afrobarometer Report where 92% of respondents believe that \u201csome, most or all\u201d police officers are involved in corruption, the President stressed that this can no longer be the status quo.\n\u201cThe citizenry can only have confidence in the Police Service when they are seen to be honest, and prepared to enforce the law without fear or favour. I am comforted by the fact that the current leadership of the Police Service is determined to buck this trend, and you, our newly graduating class, should assist in this endeavor,\u201d he added.\nThe President further admonished the Police Service to retain their neutrality and professionalism guaranteed under the Constitution.\nWith Governments having term limits, the President noted that the Police Service should not tie its well-being or otherwise to the fortunes of the ruling party of the day.\n\u201cAs President, and together with you, men and women of the Police Service, we must ensure that the Police Service is left to focus on its core mandate. I envisage a Police Service that goes about its duty of protecting ordinary citizens confident that there will be no interference from the powers that be\u201d, he added.\nPrevious article\tNPP-USA Patriotic Ladies Club gives back to the community at a nursing home in the US Next article\tNPP-USA Mourns Honorable Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 6068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 209.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nysbiz.blogspot.com/2017/12/christmas-advent-calendar.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3LLSOGKYTSL6HF3TABPEBTMI66DOZNWO", "length": 58, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "nysbiz.blogspot.com", "title": "NysBiz: Christmas Advent Calendar", "raw_content": "love it Ngaere\nNgaere Bennetts January 16, 2018 at 2:54 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://old.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=31051", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:28Z", "digest": "sha1:QTCQIHOU24CP3BRRZ3RBIQIXWCAHYX7P", "length": 1097, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "old.civil.ge", "title": "Civil.Ge | State Dept\ufffds Europe Affairs Point Man to Visit Tbilisi", "raw_content": "Wess Mitchell, the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, will visit Georgia \u201cto reinforce U.S. support for Georgia\u2019s aspirations to integrate into Euro-Atlantic institutions,\u201d the State Department said yesterday.\nIn Tbilisi, the Assistant Secretary will meet with senior government officials, as well as with other political leaders and civil society representatives. He will also address the NATO-Georgia Public Diplomacy Forum on Monday.\nThe Assistant Secretary\u2019s visit to Georgia is part of his diplomatic tour in Europe. Today, Mitchell joined the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, in Brussels for NATO ministerial. From Georgia, he will travel to Ukraine.\nMitchell, who was appointed to the post by President Donald Trump in October 2017, served previously as the President of the Center for European Policy Analysis, a Washington D.C.-based think tank.\nIn his capacity as the Assistant Secretary, Wess Mitchell is responsible for diplomatic relations with 50 countries in Europe and Eurasia, including Georgia, as well as with NATO, OSCE and the European Union.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 106.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://old.fai.org/cima-news/43254-wojciech-bogdal-wins-gold-in-paramotoring", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:26Z", "digest": "sha1:5SJTO6FRNEQGOPSUKZ66GGON7GA7CFUY", "length": 1365, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "old.fai.org", "title": "Wojciech Bogdal wins Gold in Paramotoring", "raw_content": "The first Paramotoring session of the last day of competition started early, before 8am, to ensure a quick turnaround of pilots. Organisers were keen to stay ahead of stormy weather which was forecast to arrive later.\nLast to fly on that task, all Bogdal had to do to finish in first position overall was get round the slalom flying course safely, which he did. He finished fifth in the task - enough to keep him ahead of the pack.\nLater, after the medals ceremony in front of a home crowd at the Air Sports airfield in Wroclaw, he said it had been emotional winning in his home country.\n\u201cStanding on the podium I felt the same as at the opening ceremony four days ago. I had tears in my eyes.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cI like to fly in front of my home crowd. People were waving, and one even had a flag with my name on it, that was great.\u201d\nBogdal, 23, who lives three hours\u2019 drive from Wroclaw, said the competition had been \u201cvery hard, but we had a lot of tasks and we flew in all our slots. We had more than 12 take-offs, which made it hard.\u201d\nBogdal started to fly solo 10 years ago when he was 13 years old. \u201cWhen I was three years old my father started to fly, so I am from a paramotoring family.\u201d\nHe was joined on the podium by teammate Marcin Bernat (POL), the only two Polish pilots in the Paramotor competition. \u201cWe like to fly together and we train together,\u201d he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 3982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://on.churchdirectory.ca/browse/?p=ON&a=&c=Clarington", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:34Z", "digest": "sha1:MMZ2H4H4QH262U6377HG5KX3CKSYTNEV", "length": 178, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "on.churchdirectory.ca", "title": "Find all churches in Clarington, ON - Ontario Church Directory", "raw_content": "Okay, you asked me to show you all churches in Clarington, ON. Let\u2019s see what I found.\nChurches in Clarington, ON\nEdit Crossroads Christian Assembly Crossroads Christian Assembly", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1206, "original_length": 17956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://online-casinos-uncovered.com/category/online-casino/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:01Z", "digest": "sha1:VP3IOE6SAIJO2IAY4HS7DAPOSHCKDUO5", "length": 2204, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "online-casinos-uncovered.com", "title": "Online Casino | Online Casinos Uncovered", "raw_content": "Discipline is the all-important prerequisite to become successful in every part of the life. The world of online poker and Judi online are no exceptions. Since players are their own bosses, it takes a fair amount of discipline to do what you set out to do. To succeed with Judi Online, you must first establish certain standards and limits. There must be clear-cut conditions for when you would move up or down in the ranks. Moreover, you should have a\nOnline games are fast are now trending in the gaming scenario. With more and more people logging in to play, the games are fun and entertaining. They aren\u2019t expensive, and you need not need a big bankroll to play these online casino games. There are so many types of games available that you could play; a version of every game every day still, a new one would be there for you to try out. The games can be played at\nSome people treat gambling as just a past time while see it as a mean of fortune to make some extra money. Online gambling sites like dadu online have made it easy for people to gamble sitting at the comfort of their houses. They hardly need to venture out of their houses for the sake of gambling. There are numerous sites and games and amongst them some of the common ones are online poker games, casino, bingo and many more.\nToday we are living in advanced digital world. You can play your favorite game to get real time benefit in many ways. This is very time consuming process to visit physical location to play your favorite game that is not perfect match in this busy schedule life. You can take maximum positive benefits by using online gambling game to play and earn in easy and effective way. This is the best in class platform where you can earn maximum pocket\nThere are number of benefits, which online casinos have provided to their enthusiasts. Online casinos offer huge jackpots and the convenience of playing from their homes. They can even play these games on the go n mobile phones. With mobile casinos there are number of games which you can play on different devices. If you thought it was helpful to play blackjack online day in and day out at home, simply hold up till you attempt versatile betting. The portable", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oren-english.ru/happy-new-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXGIOPXPSEODCNLVH67KC27UKKZHLVSX", "length": 1071, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "oren-english.ru", "title": "Happy New Year! - oren-english.ru", "raw_content": "Today I shall go to bed at half past twelve in the morning, not at nine o\u2019clock in the evening as I usually do. Isn\u2019t it nice?\nMy mother didn\u2019t go to her office in the morning. Now she is busy in the kitchen. She is cooking a lot of tasty things.\nYesterday Dad brought home a big green Christmas tree. We put it in the sitting-room. The Christmas tree is beautiful. There are a lot of toys and lights of all colours: blue, red, yellow, green, and white. There is a big red star and a lot of little flags on the tree. There are some sweets and fruit on the tree, too.\nAt half past eleven we shall sit down at a holiday table. There will be a lot of tasty things on the table.\nMy Mummy and Dad will give presents and say, \u201cHappy New Year, dear! This is a New Year\u2019s present for you\u201d. I shall give them pictures which I drew for them last week.\nI think Father Frost will come to me and bring something in his big bag. It\u2019s nice to find a surprise under the Christmas tree in the morning.\n\u041f\u0440\u0435\u0434\u044b\u0434\u0443\u0449\u0430\u044f \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u044cHalloween is a day of fun and excitement\u0421\u043b\u0435\u0434\u0443\u044e\u0449\u0430\u044f \u0437\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0441\u044cHoliday Trips", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 8619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://otakuviet.com/2018/09/15/if-you-think-you-understand-alcohol-then-this-might-change-your-mind/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:V3UCLYT2NZ43GA4J43556TJXMRPMQDLG", "length": 2424, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "otakuviet.com", "title": "If You Think You Understand Alcohol, Then This Might Change Your Mind \u2013 Mineral and Vitamin", "raw_content": "If You Think You Understand Alcohol, Then This Might Change Your Mind\nAlcohol is one of the products many governments like to impose heavy taxes on. Nevertheless, people continue to taking he beverages. Many people will pass by the bar after work while those who were at home will also do them to get a break for their day. Nothing matters that much when it comes to ordering alcohol be it the time or something else. You will be considered a party pooper if you are inviting people for the party and there are no drinks. Actually, you will not be frowned upon if you ask people to bring their own drinks. Nonetheless, you need to be well informed about what you should do in buying the alcoholic spirits. Some people think that anything which has alcohol in it is a spirit but there are serious differences in matters to do with the classification. Alcoholic spirits\nAre made through fermentation and then they are distilled and you will notice that most of them are clear. Anything that can be fermented can be used in making spirits but the manufacturers usually have preferences. The level of alcohol in the resulting spirit can be between 20-90%. Nonetheless, to concentrated alcoholic spirits are dangerous which is why you will find the concentration being closer to 20.\nIn buying the spirits, you have to consider the occasion because it is not everywhere you serve the drinks. There are situations which call for wine while others will be great for spirits. In addition, the kind of people attending the party can help you in making your decision. Young people tend to get wasted a lot and they love spirits. In addition, young bodies handle alcohol pretty well and at that age, you can spring back to life quickly after a night of binge drinking.\nYour alcohol budget will also dictate the kind of alcoholic spirits that you can buy. Thanks to the high concentrations of spirits, people who are taking them without adding soft drinks will be drunk in record time. Thus, if you do not want to spend a lot of money on drinks you should go for the concentrated ones. If you want the alcohol to keep flowing, you can dilute the drinks and they will still be strong. People will not mind that much when they get intoxicated. Nevertheless, you should follow the law when buying alcoholic spirits and you can learn more about that here.\nSeptember 15, 2018 partner niqefarizFoods & Culinary\nThe Best Advice on Appliances...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://owengreaves.com/category/nano-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UHSQLZLLSPYU3TWNJDNYV567YAWDOIYD", "length": 5751, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "owengreaves.com", "title": "Nano-technology \u2013 Owengreaves.com", "raw_content": "The Future Of Business \u2013 Plumbers To Nano-Plumbers\nThe Future Of Business \u2013 Plumbers To Nano-Plumbers. Hard to believe I\u2019m mentioning plumbers in a blog post, but I have a story to share. On Friday my wife noticed a wet spot in the ceiling down in our wet room area, you know, where we hang our coats and change our boots and such. It didn\u2019t seem that bad but it was now showing itself, so I called a friend who recommended someone, I called them and they didn\u2019t answer their phone. I tried a cell number and left a message. I felt better because I was dealing with the problem in a calm rational manner.\nOn Saturday we didn\u2019t do much, a little gardening, house cleaning and I watched the Blue Jays Baseball Game, nice relaxing day in my books. My wife was fussing about this leak downstairs, so I went and look at it, it seemed to have stopped leaking as the ceiling was drying out. I called the number for the plumber again but no answer again, I left another message. We carried on with our day, we had a friend over for BBQ and sat back sipping some wine before calling it an evening. We didn\u2019t even mention the plumbing problem to our company because we didn\u2019t feel it was urgent I guess, we should of asked for a referral. It was a very nice evening, we merely took it easy and went to bed as if the world was all is we would have it.\nHee it is Monday morning, I slept in, I guess I was tired. I got up, had a shower, went to the kitchen, had a banana and went downstairs to my office. I have to walk right by the where the leak is so I took a quick peak. I ran for the phone and called my plumber friend again, only this time more frantically, NO ANSWER!!! So I grabbed the phone book and called the first one I saw. I have to say this, the girl on the phone could tell I was a little stressed, I mean it looks like the ceiling is going to crash to the floor because of the weight of the water. She talked to me as if I was calling 911, in a nice calm voice she asked me to describe the situation and then got the plumber on the phone. It turns out he is close by my home and said he would be there in 15 minutes, he arrived in ten minutes.\nHe walks in, assess the damage, and was able to find the problem I couldn\u2019t find, that\u2019s because it was well hidden and I really didn\u2019t know what I was looking for (other than water) and where I should be looking for it. He knew where to go, and found the problem. It was actually two pipes that were leaking, and the water build up on the ceiling, he said it has been leaking probably for 6 months because the water was turning yellow.\nHe fixed the problem, now I have some drywalling and painting to do, but the problem has been solved. That\u2019s what we pay people to do right, solve problems. But my point isn\u2019t the leak being fixed, it has more to do with the plumber.\nI talk about, you talk about it all the time. We talk about the future of business changing and how it will be done, but how will plumbing be different? How could this plumber fix my problem with his smart phone? How could he fix it remotely? He couldn\u2019t, and I don\u2019t expect that to change in my lifetime.\nSome businesses will change very little, someone still has to be the plumber. I\u2019m sure many types of businesses will be able to automate production lines and so on, but how would the plumber take his or business to that automated state? Today, they can\u2019t.\nDo you run a business like this? How will your business adopt the future of business? I suspect you will either use smart phones and the Internet on some level, but your work is very hands on.\nI would recommend building a network of people, your current and old customers, get them to refer regularly, build a tribe online that is like-minded in the plumbing niche, and share your trade secrets on a blog, teach people how to fix simple plumbing problems. Steal the audience the TV audience by offering better information, even service. You will become the leader of your industry if you stick with it long enough, patience and persistence always prevail.\nI\u2019m grateful for traditional industrial age workers like plumbers, but how will that industry change in the new economy? The Future Of Business \u2013 Plumbers, how will they survive?\nNANO-PLUMBERS\nLet\u2019s look ahead to the future where the plumber repair man may be extinct! Imagine this, you are building a house or an office building, it doesn\u2019t matter. You have found a source for pipes or lines that have nanomaterial, so they are self-repairing. As soon as a weakness or the potential for a pin-hole leak to start, the nanotechnology instantly senses it, and repairs it. Or it sends a message to the installer for tracking purposes, that would be a fail safe for followup. The followup would be done remotely, because nanobots are wireless devices, they can be reprogrammed and or data can be downloaded from them.\nNanotechnology could serve in this way, it would revolutionize the plumbing industry, but who will adopt it? Today this type of product and service would be expensive, but in the next decade, it could be reasonably priced and accessible to everyone. Even older homes could be retro-fitted with the newer technology. From Nanosilver Coatings to Nanobots, there are many different types being worked on today, it\u2019s a matter of time before this technology is in the hands of developers. The cost savings over time will out weight the high cost up front. 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During one practice session, I forgot to bring my sneakers. Not thinking much of it, I just played anyway.\nDuring the practice, I stepped forward to protect the player on the front line and when he jumped, he came down on my right foot. The consequence was he smashed my big toe.\nThat little incident put me out of the volleyball team for the rest of the season. I had to go to the doctor and have him fix my toe. I had to go several times for him to fix it. Consequently, my toenail on my right foot grew in crooked. It has been a painful thing ever since.\nFor years, I took care of it, but not too long ago I was doing more damage than help and I did not know what to do about it.\nThe Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage suggested that I go have a pedicure.\nLooking at her, I said rather sarcastically, \u201cA pedicure is for girls.\u201d\n\u201cWell,\u201d she said rather slowly, \u201cif you go to the doctor it will be about $300. A pedicure is around $25. Now,\u201d she continued, \u201cyou do the math.\u201d\nI must say it took me a long time to do the math on that one. I knew I had to have some kind of professional help with that toe. I was doing so much damage that it hurt just to walk. And, I\u2019m not old enough to hobble around.\nAfter a long evaluation I thought that I did not have anything to lose except, $275.\nNot far from us was some kind of a Nail Salon. I went to it at least five times before I finally went in. It was a very humiliating experience for me. After all, I\u2019m not a \u201cgirl.\u201d\nWhen I went in, finally, I noticed they were not speaking English. It turned out to be some Vietnamese family running this nail salon. When I walked in nobody was smiling, but as soon as the door shut behind me, everybody looked at me and started smiling. What\u2019s that all about?\nSomebody started speaking in Vietnamese and then everybody looked at me and started to laugh. I too laughed.\nI had a moment of hesitation and I was about to turn around and go outside as fast as I could. It must have been the owner or manager of the nail salon who come up to me, greeted me very graciously and took me back to a chair where I was to have my pedicure.\nA very nice young lady came and said something to me that I could not understand. Then she pointed to my shoes and said something else I could not understand. I believe she wanted me to take off my shoes and socks.\nI did so and while I was doing it, she got the hot water in the pan in front of the chair I was to sit in. As soon as I took off my shoes and socks, she pointed to my feet and said something and everybody looked at me and started laughing.\nShe said something in English that sounded like, \u201cToo long.\u201d Then everybody in the salon began to chuckle.\nI honestly did not know what she meant. I did not know if my toenails were too long or if I waited too long to come and get a pedicure.\nThen she started the process of a pedicure. I started feeling like a \u201cgirl.\u201d\nShe was rather gracious, and knew exactly what she was doing and did a wonderful job with the pedicure. She cut my toenails like they have never been cut before. And, there was no blood!\nI never had a pedicure before and really was not sure what to expect. Not only did she cut my toenails, but also she massaged my foot and my toes and they never felt better.\nEvery once in a while, she would say something in Vietnamese and everybody in the salon would look at me and then laugh. At first, I was laughing along with them. I do not know what I was laughing at. I do suspicion that I was laughing at myself.\nIt began slowly to dawn on me that perhaps she was making fun of my foot. Could it be she\u2019s never seen a \u201cnon-girl foot?\u201d\nI was feeling a little strange and thought to myself that this will be the last time I ever come here. Then when they were laughing at one point, I thought of the money involved. By coming here to this nail salon, I was saving $275. It was then that I began to laugh, and laugh very loud.\nWhen I went to the check out to pay for the pedicure the manager said to me, \u201cCome back soon?\u201d I just nodded my head thinking of the $275 I was saving. Going out the door, I found myself still laughing.\nHow to Live With a Veggie-Holic\nIn our house, not many conflicts expose themselves. For the most part, it is a very quiet and serene home occupied by two lovebirds.\nI am not saying we are perfect. For we are not. The imperfect side of this marvelous relationship is Yours Truly. I was born imperfect and I have honored my birthright ever since.\nI do not care what some may say about crazy people, I have enjoyed my craziness all my life. When you are perfect, you have to be careful that you do not make any mistake or act crazy.\nWhen, however, you are imperfect and tilt towards the crazy side of life, your life is a joy. If you make a mistake, well, that is part of life. But on the positive side, when you do something right, you become the amazement of people around you.\nSo, our relationship in the Parsonage has been a very wonderful relationship. At least, from my side of the room. What the other resident says may be quite different.\nWe do make a great team, though. I can break anything and she can fix anything. How much better do you need to be?\nWhen I make a mistake, she can correct me even in front of people. Now that is what I like. I would hate people to think I am stupid, crazy is one thing but stupid is something altogether different. And it is the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage that consistently rescues me from being stupid.\nBeing a non-perfectionist, I can enjoy every day of my life, no matter what happens or what doesn\u2019t happen.\nI cannot imagine what life is like for that person who is a perfectionist, like my wife.\nShe sees something that needs fixing, and she is busy trying to fix it.\nIf something is out of place, she is the first one to put it in its place. She has put me in my place for many years.\nFew things we disagree on but there is one thing on top of that list. They can be boiled down into one word, Vegetables.\nMy wife loves vegetables almost as much as I love apple fritters. I do not think since the day she was born a day has passed without her consuming some kind of vegetable. She knows vegetables like I know apple fritters. There is not a vegetable known to mankind that she has not consumed.\nEven for breakfast, she likes to sneak in some kind of vegetable. With my oatmeal, for example, she likes to sneak in a carrot. What in the world do carrots have to do with breakfast?\nHer response to this is simply, \u201cVegetables are good for you and it\u2019s good to start the day off with a vegetable.\u201d\nFor her sake, I will grudgingly put up with some vegetables. Some vegetables, however, I will not put up with, I have made my stand strong through the years and I have not moved. Leading the list would be Broccoli.\nYes, I know all of the benefits of eating broccoli. My wife has told me this over and over throughout the years and I can repeat it verbatim.\nMy problem is, I do not believe what anybody says about broccoli. First, broccoli looks like a miniature tree that has not grown up yet. Who likes to eat trees?\nThere is no way to prepare broccoli that my wife does not already know. For years, she tried to entice me and con me into eating broccoli. I will fall for just about anything, except broccoli.\nEvery once in a while my wife will say, \u201cWhat would you like for supper tonight?\u201d\nI do not pause, but immediately say, \u201cAnything but broccoli.\u201d\nI have the same apprehension for broccoli as she does for apple fritters.\nI believe that an Apple fritter is basically \u201ca fruit.\u201d\nOnce when I was trying to explain to her that an Apple fritter was a fruit she replied in disgust, \u201cAnybody that believes that is just fruity.\u201d\nWhat she does not realize is, I do not mind being fruity. I would rather be fruity than eat any broccoli.\nThe question here is how do you live with someone who is such a veggie-Holic?\nThere could not be any bigger span of separation than between a veggie-holic and an Apple fritter fan.\nRecently we have come to an amicable agreement, which simply is, she does not talk about broccoli and I do not talk about apple fritters. She does not believe what I say about apple fritters anyway. And, I do not believe what she says about broccoli.\nSo, we have learned to respect each other\u2019s differences. That is what makes a relationship good. The only question I have is, and I don\u2019t bring it up very often, does an Apple fritter smell as bad as broccoli cooking on the stove?\nLooking back over our relationship very few things we disagree on and the things we disagree on are not that important that it should affect our relationship.\nI love what that wise old prophet in the Old Testament said, \u201cCan two walk together, except they be agreed?\u201d (Amos 3:3).\nWhere\u2019s Sherlock Holmes When You Need Him?\nI, like so many people, love a good mystery. I have read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories, the Father Brown stories and other good mystery novels. I just like trying to solve a good mystery.\nA good mystery does not reveal the mystery until the very end. All the way through the story, importance evidence points to that person and the other person and so forth. However, you must read the end of the story to find out the answer to the mystery.\nMysteries do not just exist in novels for short stories. In my case, mysteries are all through my life. I cannot manage one day without some kind of a mystery.\nIt is not because I am getting older either. As I remember my younger days, it too was filled with mysteries.\nI remember that one Christmas Eve when I was going to solve the mystery of Santa Claus. I heard about this mysterious person, but I had never seen him and this Christmas, I promised myself, I am going to see who this Santa Claus really is.\nThat night my parents sent me and my brother and sister to bed early because it was Christmas Eve. We had our little party around the Christmas tree and admired where all the Christmas gifts should be come morning.\nThen at the strike of 10 o\u2019clock, we were sent to our bedrooms to await the coming of Santa Claus and the Christmas gifts. I decided to stay up and just see how Mr. Santa Claus worked his mystery on Christmas Eve.\nHiding in the shadows, I could see my mother and father around the Christmas tree drinking some Christmas punch, talking and laughing. They seemed to be having a good time. I was a little irritated because they were having a good time at my expense.\nThen I heard my mother say, \u201cDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s about time?\u201d\nMy mother and father looked at each other and giggled one of those hilarious giggles. My father said, \u201cIt sure is. Let\u2019s go and get them.\u201d\nAt the time, I really did not understand what he was talking about. What were they supposed to go and get? Why won\u2019t they get out of the way so Santa Claus can come and do his \u201cthing?\u201d\nThey soon disappeared and I got excited because I figured the next person coming into the living room would be Santa Claus himself.\nI faintly heard from the hall, \u201cShhhhhh, we don\u2019t want to wake up the kids.\u201d\nThen I saw something I never anticipated my whole life. My mother and father came into the living room carrying Christmas gifts and carefully placed them under the Christmas tree. They made several trips and it was not long before the Christmas tree was loaded with all kinds of Christmas gifts.\nI just could not believe my eyes. For years, my parents told us the tale of Santa Claus along with Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. They told it in such a way that I believed every word. Now, before me was evidence that what they were telling me all these years presented as a mystery, was not a mystery at all.\nI just solved the biggest mystery in my life up to that point. My parents were Santa Claus. It was hard for me to swallow that information. It was not the mystery I wanted to solve.\nNow I had another mystery on my hands. Do I tell my brother and sister that I had solved the biggest mystery we had in our home?\nTo reveal the mystery to them would give me great satisfaction.\nOn the other hand, to reveal the mystery to them would greatly disappoint them.\nNow that I have solved that mystery, what do I do? Do I go for my satisfaction or do I protect my siblings from being disappointed?\nIt was then that I had solved the biggest mystery in life. That being, every mystery you solve presents a bigger mystery you cannot solve. That seems to be the way of life.\nI am glad I learned that when I was young because it has been beneficial to me down through the years. I have learned to live with mysteries with no desire to uncover those mysteries.\nWhen I say, \u201cno desire,\u201d I do not mean that literally. Yes, there have been many mysteries I have wanted to solve. But my biggest discipline is to let a mystery be a mystery.\nThis is so helpful to me, especially since I became a husband.\nEvery husband knows that his wife, as wonderful as she is, is a basket full of mysteries.\nWhen I first got married, I thought my job was to solve every one of those mysteries. I learned very quickly that solving a marital mystery, particularly on the feminine side, is rather a dangerous venture with no good marks behind it.\nSome things are better left in the mystery basket of life.\nFinancial Tip Of The Week: Pay Attention\nEnjoying a casual evening at home, reclining in my favorite easy chair reading, while the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage was chatting on the telephone. I seldom pay attention to phone conversations. After all, I only get one side of the conversation, which may be misleading at the very best. I\u2019ve been caught in that trap before with some pretty dire consequences. I am not going to get caught again, if I can help it.\nThen an odd phrase caught my attention: \u201cplastic surgery.\u201d My ears perked up and I heard my wife say, \u201cI certainly agree with that article and I\u2019m going to do some plastic surgery myself.\u201d\nWell, you can imagine what thoughts were racing through my head. When she hung up the telephone, I queried her about it.\nIn my book, plastic surgery is a big step.\n\u201cYou do support me in this plastic surgery plan, don\u2019t you?\u201d\nThere are times to disagree with your spouse, but as a husband for over 45 years, I have never discovered that time. Forcing a smile, I nodded in the affirmative and told her she had my full support in whatever she decided.\nI had to admit that the \u201ctime\u201d had finally come to our humble abode. Who am I to fight it? I go by this motto, \u201cHe who smiles and agrees with his spouse lives to smile another day.\u201d\nI plan to smile until the day I die.\nI never really thought about plastic surgery, but perhaps my wife was right. Perhaps she could use a little face-lift. For me to get a face-lift, the surgeon would need a huge construction crane. Then comes the awkward part, what do they do with my face after it was lifted?\nWomen, more than men, are a little sensitive about their appearance. For a man, \u201cappearance\u201d means he showed up. A woman has an altogether different approach to the term \u201cappearance.\u201d\nSome women look in the mirror and see where some improvements could be made. For example, they see bags under their eyes that could not get through the airport carry-on luggage size requirement.\nThen there is the problem with their nose, which could stand a little tweaking. For all practical purposes, one of those double chins has to go. Moreover, what woman couldn\u2019t use a tummy tuck and other snippings of the flesh?\nBelieve me; I never would have brought it up, but if that makes my wife happy, then whatever it costs, we can put it on a credit card. The only problem with putting something like this on a credit card is that by the time you pay it off you need another procedure.\nBut, she is worth it in my checkbook. I have no compunction whatsoever of writing out that check.\nEach day I checked the appointment calendar hanging on our refrigerator to find out when she would be going in for the surgery. Day after day, I looked, but could never find any appointment.\nI supposed she was a little sensitive about the whole thing and did not want it staring at her day after day on the appointment calendar. Whatever the reason, she had my silent support, for all it was worth. I am sure she would do the same for me. That is what marriage is all about. Supporting one another in the developments of life, whatever that development might be.\nI decided to tuck this little bit in the back of my mind and, however it developed would be all right with me.\nOne day this week, I went to the Slurp N\u2019 Burp Caf\u00e9 for a quiet lunch. The issue was far from my mind as I enjoyed a delicious lunch. As I finished my last cup of coffee, the waitress brought my bill and I pulled my wallet out to pay for it.\nIn searching my wallet for a credit card I discovered, much to my chagrin, that there were no credit cards to be found. Somehow, I had lost my credit cards. Perhaps, in the morning when I was getting dressed they dropped out of my wallet as I was placing it in my trousers.\nThe problem with that theory was that all the other cards in my wallet were intact.\nFortunately, I had my cell phone and called my wife.\n\u201cHoney, I\u2019ve lost all my credit cards. I\u2019m here at the restaurant and I can\u2019t find any credit cards in my wallet. Do you have any idea what I did with my credit cards?\u201d\n\u201cI cut them all up.\u201d\n\u201cYou said you supported my plastic surgery plan, didn\u2019t you?\u201d\n\u201cBut, I thought\u2026 \u201d\n\u201cYou, thought what?\u201d\nDear reader: please disregard the first part of this column. If you happen to read my obituary in next week\u2019s newspaper, you will know that my lovely, vivacious, eternally youthful wife did not disregard the first part and I\u2019m currently Resting In Pieces.\nI must confess that my hearing is good; it is my understanding that falls so far short. The only exercise I\u2019m really good at is \u201cjumping-to-conclusions.\u201d\n10 Ways to Save on Renters Insurance\nWhen renting a new place there are so many things to think about and arrange, so often times renters insurance does not make the list. In fact, only 41% of renters obtain renters insurance.\nSometimes it is the amount of things already on the agenda that distract from the importance of renters insurance, but sometimes it is due to the lack of understanding. So, what exactly is renters insurance? Renters insurance is insurance to cover stolen or damaged belongings, since you are not covered under your landlord\u2019s building insurance for these things. It also covers temporary living expenses and liability/medical bills.\nChoosing a policy can also be confusing, so experts suggest that you take inventory of your valuable personal belongings and estimate their worth. It is also recommended that you round to the nearest 10,000, if possible to have a little cushion of coverage.\nThis may sound overwhelming, especially the price which is another reason why some renters may stray away from purchasing renters insurance. Here are some tips to ensure that you are getting the most affordable renters insurance.\nInstall a Fire Extinguisher, Smoke Detectors, Etc.\nAdding these to your place reduces the likelihood of fire damage or at least extensive fire damage, so insurance companies are more likely to lower your premium when you have these features.\nMaking additions to your residence that prevent break-ins lowers your premium. It also maintains your peace of mind as if a break-in occurs it violates your sense of safety.\nUse One Insurance Provider\nOften times when you stick to one insurer for all your insurance needs, they offer lower premiums.\nMost insurance companies offer some sort of savings if you set up automatic payments or electronic billing.\nStay Claim Free\nYou may think this defeats the purpose of insurance since you are paying to be protected in the event of a mishap, but most companies offer a significant reduction in premiums for those who have not filed a claim in years.\nSmoking is a fire, health, and budget hazard. Quitting smoking, although it may not be easy can save on renters insurance premiums, life insurance premiums, and your overall budget since cigarettes are extremely expensive.\nA lot of the crowd that is renting right now is the elderly, especially those who desire moving closer to family. If you are due to retire, doing so may help you save. The way insurance companies see this is that you will be home more often to intervene with potential disasters, thus lowering your premium.\nShop around for insurance to get the best rate, most say that seeking out at least three quotes and selecting the best price for your needs is beneficial. However, some companies offer discounts for sticking with them each year.\nPay for the Year in Advance\nBy selecting this payment option you can avoid the monthly bill processing fees of companies. If you need to cancel a policy do not fret about refunds, in most cases they refund the amount for the months left of the current year. But, be sure to check this ahead of time.\nIncrease Deductible\nBy increasing your deductible, it usually decreases your premium. But, be careful because you have to be prepared to pay this cost.\nRenters insurance can be intimidating, but necessary when renting a home or apartment. Keep these tips in mind when selecting insurance to ensure the best price possible.\nNot Everything in Life Is Automatic\nTwo days in the year I don\u2019t like. Somebody is thinking it is my wife\u2019s birthday and our wedding anniversary.\nI worked that out a long time ago. My birthday is two days before the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage and our anniversary is three weeks after our birthday. No way can I forget that.\nWhen my wife gives me a birthday card with some gift it reminds me that I have two days to reciprocate. And reciprocate, I do very well. I love it when a plan comes together.\nI remember my wife\u2019s birthday and I remember our wedding anniversary, but more often than not, I cannot remember the years. I do not know how old my wife is. At least, that\u2019s my story. And, I am not sure how long we\u2019ve been married.\nI know we have been married long enough to work out many things.\nThe two days I\u2019m not very happy with are the days when we turn the clock forward an hour and then turn the clock backward an hour. I still do not know why in the world we do that. We gain an hour in the spring, but then we lose an hour in the fall. What\u2019s the sense in all that?\nI finally figured out what the sense of all that is. It is to confuse me, in particular. It is not that I am easily confused, but rather, I confuse easily. If that makes sense, I have a bridge I want to sell you.\nWhy would you want to gain something and then give it back a couple months later?\nI grew up in the non-technical age. I had to wind my watch every day to make sure it had the right time. It was not like it is today worth the time is set automatically.\nI look at my cell phone and the time is updated automatically. I look at our TV set and see that the time is updated automatically. I like that.\nMy problem is that I like it too much. I have become accustomed to things being adjusted automatically.\nNow they have cars that part automatically and you can be sure I\u2019m not going to buy one. I am satisfied with the automatic setting of my clock and TV.\nWhen I was in high school, I worked part-time for a woman. I mowed the grass and cleaned inside the house. One big thing she had in the house was about 25 clocks. I\u2019m serious. Twenty-five clocks that all had to be set manually.\nThe first time I did it, I did not realize that each clock was set differently. You go upstairs and the clocks were 15 minutes faster than the clocks on the first floor so she would not be late for an appointment.\nBeing my employer, it would have been nice for her to explain that to me. But, as most employers do, they do not explain everything to their employees.\nI was the kind of employee that liked to impress my employer with how good I was.\nIt was in the fall and we were to set the clocks back one hour. I thought she would appreciate the fact that I went around and reset all 25 of her clocks. After all, I was doing something on my own that needed done.\nThe thing I did not know of course, the clocks were all set different on different levels of the house. I went around and set all 25 clocks to the same time. I was so happy.\nI did not tell her because I wanted her to be surprised.\nI was anxious to hear her commend me for a \u201cjob well done.\u201d I was not prepared for what she was going to do.\nWhen I arrived on her property, she comes out yelling and screaming at me at the top of her lungs. Trust me, she had lungs. At first, I could not understand what she was so upset about.\n\u201cDid you,\u201d she said hysterically, \u201creset all the clocks in my house?\u201d\nI smiled back at her and said quite cheerfully, \u201cYes, ma\u2019am, I did.\u201d\nCourtesy keeps me from quoting her right here. It was more than French she was yelling back at me.\nI have never been yelled at so much in my life and I did not really understand why.\nI stayed away from her for a couple of days and then I was working for her husband at his store. When I walked in, he looked at me and laughed hysterically.\nI was not sure what he was laughing at that he motioned me to come over. So, I did.\n\u201cMy wife,\u201d he said between laughs, \u201ctold me what you did the other day.\u201d Then he broke into some more hysterical laughter.\nWhy he was so cheerful about the incident was beyond me at the time.\nThen he sat me down and explained the whole situation to me. I must confess when he finished telling me the whole story, I joined him in some hysterical laughter. We kept this to ourselves for as long as I worked there.\nIt Was An Apple Fritter Kind Of Week\nHave you ever had a week where everything went exactly as planned? Neither have I. Every week I start out believing this week is going to be different from all the other weeks of my life. If this has ever occurred, I cannot recall it.\nTake last week, please! I start every week about the same. I meticulously prepare my weekly to-do-list. This is not to be confused with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage\u2019s honey-do-list. Her list, and I learned this by experience, takes precedence over every other list in the world.\nMy weekly to-do-list is a very important part of my week. I chronicle everything needing accomplished during the week along with appointments with people that I need to see. With the religious ferocity of the Pharisee, I follow this list throughout the week and dutifully check off each item as it is completed. Then, Saturday evening I can look back with a great deal of satisfaction and see what I have accomplished.\nUnfortunately, I can also look back on my list and see what I have not accomplished this week. With a deep sigh, I carry these items over to next week\u2019s to-do-list. Just between you and me, some items I have carried over for 36 consecutive weeks. By this time, I usually drop the whole notion and get on with my life.\nMy philosophy is, if you aim at nothing; you will hit it every time. I\u2019m not exactly sure what that means, but what I take away from it is simply that if I do not aim to do something I probably never will do it.\nI live day by day by this weekly to-do-list. If it were not for this marvelous tool, I would never get anything done during the week. It is my great joy late Saturday night to work out the following week\u2019s to-do-list.\nSometimes my wife will look at me, sigh and say, \u201cYou\u2019re not working on your to-do-list, are you?\u201d Then she says something that actually irritates me. Not everything she says irritates me, but this one does. \u201cYou know, if you would spend as much time actually doing those things as you spend planning to do them you might actually get something done during the week.\u201d\nI developed this to-do-list so I would not have to keep trying to remember what I was supposed to do during the week. They keep me free to think more creatively about things that need that kind of attention. All I had to do was consult my to-do-list and find out what needed to be done. After all, I don\u2019t want to tax my brain too much. Who do you think I am? The government?\nThen last week it happened. Something I had feared for many a year.\nTuesday morning I looked around for my to-do-list and the more I looked, the more elusive it was. I took a deep breath, trying to keep panic at bay because I knew that would not help me. Verging on frantic, I began searching the house.\n\u201cWhat are you looking for?\u201d my wife asked. \u201cMaybe I can help you find it.\u201d\nNow, I faced a very deep quandary. Do I confess to my wife that I lost my to-do-list? Or, do I forge ahead on my own hoping I will find it myself. Life is full of these deep, dark quandaries.\nFinally, I confessed I had lost my to-do-list. Then she said, \u201cWhere did you have it last?\u201d\nIf I knew that, I thought to myself, it would not be lost. I mumbled something along the line that I could not remember. At my age, not being able to remember comes with the territory.\n\u201cYou didn\u2019t have it in your shirt pocket, by any chance?\u201d\nOf course, I always have it in my shirt pocket. I never go out of the house without my to-do-list in my shirt pocket where it is readily accessible to me.\n\u201cYou didn\u2019t have it in the shirt pocket of the shirt you put in the laundry yesterday, did you?\u201d\nWith that, she went to the washing machine, which had just finished its cycle and pulled out some of my shirts. She found a shirt with something in the pocket.\n\u201cOh, here it is, in your shirt I just washed.\u201d She pulled it out and began unfolding it and with a tone a little more sarcastic than I appreciate, she said, \u201cMy, your to-do-list is nice and clean.\u201d Then she handed it to me.\nWith my to-do-list expunged, I had no idea what I needed to do for the rest of the week. It was then that I came up with a solution. If I do not know what I need to do this week, I will do the one thing I have been putting off a little too long.\nI went to the Publix bakery and ordered myself, not one, but two Apple fritters. One for myself and one for my guilty conscience. That should teach someone a lesson.\nJust when you think everything is going your way, something happens to prove otherwise. A verse in the Bible says this, \u201cWherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall\u201d (1 Corinthians 10:12).\nSince 1997, Rev. James L. Snyder has written a weekly religion/humor column, \u201cOut To Pastor,\u201d syndicated to over 300 newspapers and many websites. The Rev. Snyder is an award winning author whose writings have appeared in more than eighty periodicals including GUIDEPOSTS. In Pursuit of God: The Life of A. W. Tozer, Snyder\u2019s first book, won the Reader\u2019s Choice Award in 1992 by Christianity Today. Snyder has authored and edited 30 books altogether.\nJames L. Snyder was given an honorary doctorate degree (Doctor of Letters) by Trinity College in Florida. His weekly humor column, \u201cOut To Pastor,\u201d is syndicated to more than 325 weekly newspapers.\nI Thought But Then I Unthought\nLooking back over my life I honestly can say, giving it a great deal of thought, the biggest problem I have is when I actually think. Thinking can get me into more trouble than anything else I do.\nThis was no more evident than recently we got a phone call from the bank. I hate it when the bank calls because they never call to wish me happy birthday or wonder how in the world I am doing today. They always have an agenda. Usually, that agenda has to do with my money.\nWhen I answered the phone all I could say was, \u201cHere we go again.\u201d\nMuch to my relief it was not about my account, but rather it was the bank account of the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. I cannot tell you the smile that slapped itself all over my face when I heard this.\nImmediately I called my wife to the phone and said, \u201cIt\u2019s your bank calling you about your account.\u201d Smilingly I handed the phone to her.\nFor years, we have had separate accounts and it has worked out rather well. I remember when we first were married we had a joint account and it was always getting messed up. We had two checkbooks for the same account, which did not make any sense at all. Everything was messed up and checks bounced all over the place.\nTo solve this dilemma we decided to have our own checking account in separate banks. I am not quite sure about her account, but the checks keep bouncing in my account and I am not exactly sure why.\nThe bank was calling my wife because there had been a suspicious activity on her account. I thought about telling them that other activity on her bank account was also suspicious, but sometimes I know when not to speak.\nAccording to the bank, my wife bought a package of wine costing $600 and they were wondering if she was buying it for the church communion service. I heard my wife laugh and figured out there is something going on. We do not use wine in our communion service, we use grape juice. However, the bank did not know why my wife was buying wine.\nThe only wine in our house is me, who whines all the time and believe me, according to my wife, my whining is very intoxicating. At least to her it is.\nWe finally had to go down to the bank and try to sort this mess out. My wife tried to tell them that she did not make such a purchase.\nI would like to tell you how delighted I was to go to the bank with her and see her in a dilemma that I did not create. I know I create a lot of dilemma in our home. The fact that we been married as long as we have been married says a lot for her tolerance of whiny old people like me.\n\u201cWe did not think,\u201d the bank manager said to my wife, \u201cthat you were buying wine like this. We thought perhaps you might have been buying wine for the church communion service.\u201d\nAll three of us laughed a very hearty laugh because she knew we did not use wine in our communion service.\nHowever, the truth of the matter was, there was this activity on her account in the amount of $600. My surprise was that she had that much money in her account. I scratched my head a bit and thought, where did she get all that money? Immediately I had to unthought that and get back to the basics of our visit here in the bank.\nThe bank manager got out all of the paperwork with this transaction.\nThe first thing of note was that it took place in a liquor store in Southern California where my wife had never been.\nMy wife looked at me and said sarcastically, \u201cWhy are you smiling?\u201d\nI thought about telling her, but then I unthought that and got back to the details of the transaction.\nIn looking at that transaction, the bank manager happened to notice that it was on a particular Sunday when it took place. That Sunday my wife was in church. In fact, the time of the transaction was when my wife was playing the organ.\n\u201cCan you verify that she was playing the organ at that time?\u201d The bank manager asked me.\nA thought that came into my mind was to tell the bank manager that my wife was so talented that she could be in two places at the same time. After further thought on that, I unthought that idea.\nThe bank manager finally took care of that transaction and we were able to leave the bank knowing us, or rather she, was free from that transaction. I did not say anything on the way home, but I was smiling on the inside.\nThinking can be a very hazardous occupation, but I was reminded what Paul said. \u201cFinally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things\u201d (Philippians 4:8).\nSelect Month January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 Furniture Information - All rights reserved", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 46562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://paradigmpride.tripod.com/terms.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:12Z", "digest": "sha1:L6K7NCRXIP6ARNUDKSLJGFKJZWB6COMB", "length": 17993, "nlines": 138, "source_domain": "paradigmpride.tripod.com", "title": "Paradigm: Research: Terminology", "raw_content": "aid In trade relations, economic assistance by means of grants of credit for purchases generally from an industrialized nation to Third World countries. 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Nonmarket economies follow this practice exclusively.\nstocks Goods or money accumulated and held for further use.\nsubsidies code The subsidies code, elaborated in the Tokyo Round Agreements, prohibits the use of export subsides on nonprimary products. The use of export subsidies on primary products is not to displace other exports from the market or undercut their prices.\ntakeover Action by one company to obtain a majority of shares in another.\ntariff Tax imposed by a nation, generally ad valorem, on goods imported from other nations.\ntariff escalation A situation in which tariffs are high on manufactured goods, moderate on semimanufactured goods, and very low on raw materials. This situation normally discourages developing of manufacturing industries in Third World countries.\ntariff quotas Application of a higher tariff rate to imported goods after a certain quantity of items has entered the country at the usual tariff rate during a specified period.\nterms of trade Refers to the establishment of the volume and prices of the exports and imports of a nation.\ntransfer pricing Prices determined by a company for goods and services moved from one place to another, sometimes between nations.\ntrend Having a certain general direction of a period of time.\nunfair trade practices Unusual government support to firms, such as export subsidies, or certain anticompetitive practices by governments or companies, such as dumping, boycotts, or discriminary shipping arrangements, that benefit a company or nation.\nunilateral An action taken by a country independently of other countries.\nunit An individual item or quantity chosen as the minimum in production or trade for calculating price or quantity.\nvaluation The process of appraising the value of imported goods in which duties are assessed according to the tariff schedule of the country. The Tokyo Round Agreements established a custom valuation code based on transaction value.\nvalue added Addition made to the value of a product due to processing, refining, packaging, and so on.\nvalue-added tax Tax placed on the value added to a commodity as a result of reefing or manufacturing.\nvariable levy An import charge subject to change as world market prices change. The alterations are designed to assure that import price after payment of the charge will equal a predetermined domestic price.\nvoluntary restraint agreements Informal bilateral or multilateral agreements in which exporting countries voluntarily limit exports of certain products to a particular country in order to avoid the imposition of import restrictions.\nwholesale Sale and purchase of goods in large quantities to be retailed by others.\nworking party A committee made up of GATT countries that deals with special issues, normally other than dispute settlements. The GATT committee reports to the GATT Council and makes recommendations on the course of action.\nyield The return, usually expressed as money or as the return on investments in economic activity.\nzone An area specifically assigned to a particular purpose, such as trade or industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 18074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://parco.gov.ba/en/category/press-clipping/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:07Z", "digest": "sha1:2XHVYQG5TTKNER5E44EMZEWBO552BWKW", "length": 4073, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "parco.gov.ba", "title": "Press Clipping \u2013 Public Administration Reform Coordinator's Office", "raw_content": "Category: Press Clipping\nWigemark: Inefficient public administration causes losses\nThe head of the EU Delegation in BiH, Lars-Gunnar Wigemark, said that the public administration in BiH and the countries of the region was not sufficiently efficient and that the consequences were losses in economy. \u201cBecause of such administrations, it is very hard to implement the reforms. The politicinas commit themselves to certain issues, but [\u2026]\nWithout a proper public administration of BiH, it is not possible to make it competitive in the processes of the EI\nA scientific and expert conference \u201cPublic Administration Reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina \u2013 priorities and challenges\u201d was held today at the Faculty for Administration \u2013 associate member of the University in Sarajevo. The gathering was attended by eminent participants from the academic community, led by the rector, vice-rector and professors of the University in Sarajevo, [\u2026]\nThe Law on Public Private Partnership will be adopted at the level of the FBiH\nThe project of Public Private Partnership, which will be harmonised with the EU standards and the best European practices, is one of the most significant projects and is on the list of priorities of the Public Administration Reform Coordinator\u2019s Office in the area of public finance management. \u2013 We are half way through the implementation [\u2026]\n\u201cPublic Administration reform: meritocracy instead of partytocracy\u201d\n\u201cPublic Administration reform: meritocracy instead of partytocracy\u201d was a title of the conference organised by the Centres of Civil Initiative (CCI) within a campaign To Capable \u2013 not party members, whose objective was depolitisastion and departysation of appointments and employment in the public sector in BiH. We deem that politisation of the managing positions in [\u2026]\nInterview of the PAR Coordinator Dragan \u0106uzulan on TV 1\nLast evening, the public administration reform coordinator was a guest of the TV 1 Journal. The coordinator was speaking about signing of the contract for implementation of two projects from the field of public administration reform: \u201cBuilding of Capacities for Combat Against Corruption in the Structures of Civil Service in BiH\u201d and \u201cEstablishment and/or Strengthening [\u2026]\nRegarding the public administration reform, BiH is the worst in the region\nThe public administration reform coordinator in BiH, Dragan \u0106uzulan, evaluated the public administration reform in BiH as bad, stressing that the country urgently needs the reformed and efficient public administration. \u201cThe public administration reform in BiH is bad, and the outputs were not positive so far. What we currently do is an effort to correct [\u2026]\nEU project contributes to strengthening environmental institutions in BiH\nThe closing event of the EU funded project \u201cStrengthening of Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s Environmental Institutions and Preparation for Pre-accession Funds\u201d (\u201cEnvIS\u201d) took place today at the EU Delegation to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), in Sarajevo. The project is part of the extensive EU support to the environment sector in BiH, including environmental infrastructure projects, in [\u2026]\n\u0160ego: Institutions of BiH do not have strategic plan of development or combat against corruption\nKlix.ba: While addressing the members of the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH the main auditor of the Audit Office of the Institutions of BiH, Milenko \u0160ego has said that the systematic assistance of government institutions, especially the Council of Ministers of BiH, is required for implementation of government bodies\u2019 recommendations in [\u2026]\nFrom the report of the European Commission: Public administration reform process does not have required political support\nIt\u2019s been said for BiH that it has reached a very limited progress, while Montenegro continues reaching political criterions sufficiently. Application of verdict in the \"Sejdi\u0107-Finci\" case remains the key for entering into force of the Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) BiH \u2013 European Union, has been concluded by the European Commission. In the [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 365, "original_length": 9246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://partners.goodwood.com/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/london/54-boutique.aspx?eucookie=true", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:55Z", "digest": "sha1:I44B7MA475APBZUPRJLRVNHSLMKGXIOO", "length": 1144, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "partners.goodwood.com", "title": "54 Boutique, London - Goodwood Travel", "raw_content": "Destinations > Europe > United Kingdom > London > 54 Boutique\nWelcome to 54 Boutique\nFifty-Four Boutique Hotel is a traditional London town house with its own special qualities. Our guests find a quiet sanctuary from the bustle of London where they can relax in comfort. The hotel lies between Knightsbridge and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.The rooms and suites of Fifty-Four Boutique Hotel reflect the best of contemporary style. All rooms have air-conditioning, a modern ensuite bathroom and a flat-screen television. The hotel has recently been completely refurbished.Continental breakfast is served in the lounge from 07:00 to 10:30. The lounge is perfect for meeting friends for a drink before dining in one of the many fine restaurants in this part of London. The nearest Tube stations are Gloucester Road and South Kensington, five minutes` walk away. Several of London`s main museums - the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum - can be reached on foot in a few minutes. Hyde Park, the Royal Albert Hall, Harrods, Harvey Nicholls and Earl`s Court are all in the immediate vicinity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 485, "original_length": 12961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pattersonbrothersfunerals.com.au/mrs-marie-jean-berry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:11Z", "digest": "sha1:CKWY6V3YOL3LQZE4QLBM7I5HK6FV4JCB", "length": 642, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pattersonbrothersfunerals.com.au", "title": "Mrs Marie Jean Berry - Patterson Brothers Funerals", "raw_content": "Passed away peacefully at Mercy Place Mount St Joseph\u2019s Young on Friday 6th April 2018, surrounded by her loving family. Much loved wife of Ray. Cherished mother of Michelle and Christine. Adored Nan to her grand and great grandchildren. Formerly of Thornhill Street, Young.\nA Prayer service to celebrate Marie\u2019s life will be held on Wednesday 11th April 2018 in St Mary\u2019s Catholic Church Young, commencing at 3.00pm.\nFollowing the Church service, Marie will be taken for private cremation.\nBy request, in lieu of flowers donations may be made at the Church in memory of Marie to Mercy Place Mount St Joseph\u2019s Young and Parkinson\u2019s Australia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pensacolavoice.com/city-council-votes-5-3-not-to-add-confederate-flag-ordinance-to-citys-july-16th-agenda/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:53Z", "digest": "sha1:DJZTFUEZWJOY3UABKEOYZU2M64CXOMDK", "length": 1745, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "pensacolavoice.com", "title": "City Council Votes 5-3 Not to Add Confederate Flag Ordinance to City\u2019s July 16th Agenda | The Gulf Coast Voice", "raw_content": "The Pensacola City Council during a Committee of the Whole meeting on Monday July 13th voted in a 5-3 decision not to add the adoption of an ordinance to restrict the flying of the Confederate Flag. City Councilwoman Sherry Myers brought the item up as an agenda add-on which needed six votes to pass. City Councilman Larry Johnson made a statement that he would definitely oppose the addition of the ordinance to the Pensacola City Council agenda.\nThe yes votes to add the ordinance to the agenda came from Myers, Wingate, and Wynn. The votes not to add the ordinance to the July 14th agenda were made by Johnson, Bare, Wu, Spencer, and Tehar. In a similar action, the Milton City Council voted Tuesday to delay dialogue concerning changes to their six flags display, which includes the well-known Stars and Bars flag. African-American Milton City Councilwoman, Mary Johnson voted with the majority on the decision to delay the conversation.\nWith the sentiment moving across the nation to remove the Confederate Flag from government sites, Pensacola Mayor Ashton Hayward, on June 24th, directed city staff to remove the Confederate flag that flies with the city\u2019s Five Flags presentation with the flag of the State of Florida. In an official statement Mayor Hayward stated, \u201cWhile the Confederate Flag undeniably represents a part of Pensacola\u2019s history, for too many it is a painful symbol of racial hatred and intolerance. I proudly celebrate our great city\u2019s rich history, but I do not believe that we are defined by our history alone. We will always be the City of Five Flags \u2014 but now is the time for us to turn our focus to our city\u2019s bright future.\u201d\nAfrican American Chamber Leadership in Question for now\nIt\u2019s Taxpayer Independence Day!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://petersmithartist.blogspot.com/2015/11/free-gift-knob-twiddler-weakly.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YRNWQ4GGDPRZKDZACP2R5XP7LGGWSPRE", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "petersmithartist.blogspot.com", "title": "Peter Smith - Blogging The ImPossiMaL: FREE GIFT! 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Against the Tiospaye Topa Thunder Hawks on Saturday, February 18th, McKinstry shot 14 for 26 for 54% from long distance, breaking not only the school record for 3's in a single game, but possibly the state record as well.\nEarlier in the season, McKinstry had tied the school record with eight 3's. He shared that record with Darren Jackson set in 1988, and Shawn Hulm set in 1993. In a scenario that couldn't have been scripted any better, Josh broke two school records and perhaps a state record in his last home game as a Bison Cardinal.\nMcKinstry came out in the zone sinking his first five 3 pointers, and ended up breaking the school record before halftime, dropping in nine 3's. He left the locker room after the break and picked up where he left off. The school record for most points scored in a single game was within reach, and that record fell early in the final quarter. The previous game scoring record was held by Kelly Baker and had stood since 1983. Josh is now on the school record board twice for a single game total of 51 points and fourteen 3 pointers in a game. In addition, he added 10 rebounds to his 51 points for a double/double.\nAt the state level, our research shows that the previous record was twelve 3 pointers in a game, set in 1998 by Troy Humpal of Wakonda. With fourteen 3's, Josh now joins the ranks of some of the most recognized shooters in the history of the state. (We are still waiting for verification of the state record.)\nJosh has always had a passion for the game. As soon as he could walk, he began handling a basketball and was shooting at a mini-basketball goal. One memory that his dad, Donnie McKinstry, shared was when Josh was around 11 years of age, there was a good old fashioned South Dakota blizzard raging. He looked out the window, and found Josh shooting hoops on the goal at the garage, in the middle of the snow storm, with a yard light illuminating the basket.\nMcKinstry began his varsity career as a freshman, and became a starter as a sophomore. He has had to overcome some hardships. As a junior, five games into the season, he suffered a broken bone in his shooting hand. This would force a disappointing end to his junior year of basketball. Going into his senior year, there were high expectations for Josh. However, before the season even began, he broke a bone in his non-shooting hand at an open gym session. What are the ODDS!!! But Josh was determined to begin the season on time, and recuperated quickly enough to start at the opening game of his senior year. These serious injuries to both hands have caused Josh to become ambidextrous, giving him the ability to shoot with either hand. 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The empty seat will stand in honor and recognition of all prisoners of war and those missing in action. The seat will be moved around, game by game and the announcer will also share a short sentiment on the chair following the national anthem at each game.\nYou will observe a note on the seat of the chair that reads, \u201cThis chair is reserved for our 82,000 American servicemen who are still missing. This chair will serve as a reminder of all the sacrifices made for our country by these American servicemen, who have for too long been forgotten by all but their families and friends.\u201d\nSeymour shared that this idea has been close to his heart especially after reading Patrick J. 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Next to it was a sign that said, \u2018This empty chair is reserved for out 82,000 American servicemen who are still missing, This chair will serve as a reminder of all the sacrifices made for our country by these American servicemen who have for too long been forgotten by all but their families and friends.\u2019\nJoe wanted all Massachusetts sports arenas to have a chair of honor - and invited me to the July 4, 2013 chair installation ceremony at Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox.\nSince then, I\u2019ve been involved with the placement of more than 65 POW*MIA Chairs of Honor in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area including the professional sports stadiums and city hall.\u2008Where can you put one in your town?\u201d\nSeymour and Freier took that question to heart and didn\u2019t waste a second of time. The chair of honor made it\u2019s debut in Jones\u2008County at the Murdo\u2008Ranch Rodeo in July 2018. 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He previously served as a Committee Member for the Missouri State Investigators Association. He was also Investigator for the Legal Counsel for the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Investigative Consultant with the Johnson City Police Department in Texas.\nJim is a Certified Instructor the International Association of Professional Protection Agents.\nMatt Hunter is a 25 year veteran of the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office and was the Division Commander of the Field Operations Division. He oversaw Road Patrol, Criminal Investigations, Narcotic Investigations, and Tactical Operations (S.T.A.R. Team).\nCaptain Hunter started his career in the Detention Division and was soon transferred to the Narcotics Unit. During this time he conducted several hundred narcotic investigation to include covert purchasing of narcotics, search warrants, and reverse sales. 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I\u2019ve known the brother and sister duo of Cole and Logan Layman for several years and have had the pleasure of seeing them live on several occasions as well as listening to their early EPs, and even had them live on Time For The Blues.\nWhen I heard that they were going to put TANGLED, I was excited for them, and when I heard that they were going to raise the necessary capital via crowdsourcing methods, I was equally impressed by their efforts.\nIf you haven\u2019t got them live at either a club or a festival, these young guns of the blues are about 18 and 15 years old and they play like they\u2019ve been in the business 40 years or more. Cole is a guitar wizard of the first order who drives the music and his younger sister Logan has great chops on the bass. But it\u2019s her voice \u2013 oh my God that voice - that sounds like it\u2019s connected to all the great blues singers of the past and you just can\u2019t believe that this incredible voice is coming out of a barely five feet tall teenager.\nAs good as this album is, and it\u2019s very good, it\u2019s almost a disservice to the pair as you can\u2019t see them. They are not just good musicians with a voice that comes along maybe once in a generation, no, they are entertainers who will put on a great show while they have fun playing.\nThere are nine songs on the CD; five were written by the duo under the band\u2019s name, two are written by songwriter Holly Montgomery, and one each by Howlin\u2019 Wolf and Janis Joplin. Cole and Logan carried the bulk of the music on guitars and bass along with Logan\u2019s vocals, but they were helped out by producer Ron Lowder Jr on drums and various other instruments; Brian Kloppenburg on keys and organ; Ron Lowder Sr on tenor sax; Rick Thomasson and Mike Wholley on trumpet; Russ Robertson on trombone; and Jack Campbell on harmonica.\nThe band opens with the title track, Tangled, and producer Lowder has added a solid horn section. I\u2019ve heard this song stripped down, but never with the fatter Chicago sound. It handles the translation, but I might have saved it until later in the album. Still it\u2019s a driving song and one that would definitely get an audience moving.\nYou get a feel for the power in Logan\u2019s voice with the ballad Fake It \u2018Til I Make It. This is late night smoky nightclub territory with just the singer holding onto the microphone and spilling her heart to the audience. Cole takes a hot break and gives the song a real edge. It\u2019s a good number.\nThe next song is the swinging Don\u2019t Even Try, and you can hear Logan double tracking her voice to give the feel of background singers. It\u2019s a solid driving song that gets to the audience and keeps them moving around the dance floor. Nice organ break \u2013 something that I\u2019ve never heard at any Layman\u2019s show. It\u2019s a good touch.\nCole\u2019s guitar opens up Heartbroken with a real Texas feel to it. This is a very good honkytonk song that would get just about any group worked up. Logan\u2019s vocals bring it home and it sounds like she\u2019s just toying with her audience while letting them know she\u2019s in charge. At least until the guitar break.\nThings slow down on I\u2019m Not Ready, but the band keeps the intensity high. This is another one of Logan\u2019s best vocal interpretations. She really seems to be mature beyond her years and she\u2019s in total command of the lyrics. A very good song.\nSo many artists have covered Howling Wolf\u2019s classic Smokestack Lightning, and the Layman\u2019s have managed to tap into something primal with their interpretation. I\u2019ve seen them perform this live on a number of occasions, including once on Time For The Blues. I\u2019ve always enjoyed their playful nature with the song. Logan gets a chance to amp up her bass for this number and it adds a sense of urgency to the song. Virginia Beach harmonica guru Jack Campbell adds a lot of flavor to the song.\nThe next couple of songs are Layman originals, starting off with the swinging Won\u2019t Let It. Logan shows off some jazzy approaches on this song and Cole has some fun on it as well. The next song, Karma, is a kick ass driving number that really shows what the team is capable of doing. Cole wails on a cigar box guitar and Logan\u2019s vocals are in top form. Great song, and will probably be one of their signature numbers for a long while.\nThey end the album with Janis Joplin\u2019s Move Over. As you might suspect, it rocks and is a great follow up to the previous song. Logan is once again in total control of the vocals and Lowder Jr\u2019s drums give the song a driving backbeat. Cole\u2019s break is the sound of a top musician at the end of the night showing the audience he\u2019s still got a lot more in the tank.\nThis self-released album is a lot of fun and delivers in a big way while promising that much more is waiting from the Laymans. They are still experimenting, still growing, and I fully expect that they will become a driving force for the blues.\nCheck out this first album, and find out all sorts of information from their web site http://www.3inlaymanterms.com/. I was fortunate enough to get an early copy of the album for review purposes, and it will be available shortly if it\u2019s not out already. While you\u2019re checking out the website, check their appearances as with Cole about to start college, school year gigs might be difficult to find, but you know they will be in many of the major festivals during the summer months.\nLabels: Brian Kloppenburg, Cole Layman, Holly Montgomery, In Layman Terms, Jack Campbell, Logan Layman, Mike Wholley, Ron Lowder Jr, Ron Lowder Sr. Rick Thomasson, Russ Roberstson, Tangled, Time For The Blues", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2703, "original_length": 45116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://professorjohnnyp.blogspot.com/2016/11/tune-in-for-some-hot-leftovers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WR52DXI3L5YC65TIJQN7F3N73QK3WM3I", "length": 4062, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "professorjohnnyp.blogspot.com", "title": "Professor Johnny P's Juke Joint: Tune In For Some Hot Leftovers", "raw_content": "Ah, you got to love those Thanksgiving Traditions. I\u2019m sure your family has its share, and we certainly have ours around the Time For The Blues World Headquarters. For one thing, there\u2019s great food and scintillating conversation. At least that\u2019s what I\u2019m told. Henry and I tend to be glued to separate television screens \u2013 his is blaring football, and mine is tuned in to the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 Turkey Day Marathon.\nWhen it\u2019s finally time for enjoying the great feast, for some reason there\u2019s never enough room at the adults table, so Henry and I are exiled to the children\u2019s table (an old beat up card table) where we are seated on wobbly chairs. At least we don\u2019t have to talk politics,\nAfterwards, when the tryptophan is kicking in we look up and realize we have to put together a show for Saturday night. After all, it\u2019s our traditional HOT LEFTOVERS show, our major tradition created exclusively for Time For The Blues.\nThis is Henry\u2019s baby, and I\u2019m only saying that because he doesn\u2019t get enough credit sometime for having really good ideas. Plus, if I give him praise in public, he won\u2019t ask for a raise this year\u2026.\nBut seriously, we\u2019ve been doing this show for a little over 10 years now (shameless plug) and this has been the one show we\u2019ve done every single year. Think about it, after Thanksgiving, we practically live off of leftovers for the better part of a week. And I for one, love it!\nSo what better excuse is there for us revisiting some of our favorite performers from the past year and playing a song from their album that, for whatever reason, did not make it onto one of our shows? Henry spends the better part of the month of October going through all of our shows, checking playlists, and combing through albums to see what we missed.\nThen he puts them all together, and finds those little nuggets that we might have missed and before you know it, he has assembled one giant smorgasbord of a great blues show.\nNow I\u2019m getting hungry. So without further ado, you should get ready because on Saturday Night at 11 we are pulling out all the stops (not to mention our belts that are suddenly very tight) and playing some great music you should have heard earlier, but didn\u2019t.\nHere\u2019s the menu for tonight: we have helpings of Lisa Mann, our friend from Portland who\u2019s been winning just about every award the past couple of years with songs from her 2016 release Hard Times, Bad Decisions. For our Cajun inclined family and friends, we have a nice selection of Alligator. Alligator Records, that is. We have music from Luther Allison, Curtis Salgado, and Toronzo Cannon.\nHow about a little music from the ladies? We have Fiona Boyes and Janiva Magness, two of our favorite women who play the blues.\nThen we\u2019ve got a few little odds and ends. What can I say? Some people like their sweet potatoes with little marshmallows and some don\u2019t. We\u2019ve got Junior Wells, Guy Davis, and Jimi Hendrix. The Hendrix is cheating a little bit, because we just got the record in and couldn\u2019t wait to play it.\nAnother of our specialties is our Unusual Suspects Show where we feature people who are not normally associated with the genre play the blues. Henry has not told me what\u2019s going to be in this set, but he swears we\u2019re going to enjoy it.\n(Henry here, John hasn\u2019t seen this part. I\u2019ve got what may be the ONLY Beach Boys blues song, one from early James Taylor, and a Dave Edmunds song we\u2019ve never played before. I think you\u2019re really going to like them. Don\u2019t tell John though, I like to fool him.)\nSo shake off that too much food feeling and get a little funky. Take that nap if you have to, but be ready to stay up late and shake off a few calories because we know you\u2019ll want to move around.\nTime For The Blue, Saturday night at 11 eastern on 88.9 WCVE-FM and online at ideastations.org. We\u2019ll save the drumstick for you, or at least some Tofurkey\u2026\nLabels: Alligator Records, Beach Boys, Curtis Salgado, Dave Edmunds, Fiona Boyes, Guy Davis, James Taylor, Janiva Magness, Jimi Hendrix, Junior Wells, Lisa Mann, Luther Allison, Toronzo Cannon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2687, "original_length": 42951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://project61398.tilda.ws/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WXCOTI7XETJBNXEBQGTHG2OCD2GRVZVH", "length": 11023, "nlines": 82, "source_domain": "project61398.tilda.ws", "title": "THE PAIN OF FAMILIAL SEPARATION", "raw_content": "FAMILIAL SEPARATION\nFIVE SYRIAN STORIES\nAleksandra Elfacheva & Nikita Mandhani & Nina Halbig\nAs soon as the sun sets each night, more than one million Syrian refugees in Germany drink the first few sips of water after hours of fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. Living closely with other practicing Muslims in tents, temporary housing, reception centers, refugee camps or rented homes, they get together sometimes for the evening meal of iftar. They smile wistfully remembering other iftars from the past, when they were part of a tightly knit family unit.\nThe Syrian revolution has displaced about 5 million Syrians from their homes since 2011, according to the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR). But many Syrians feel that the refugee crisis not only separated them from their countries, but also from their families.\nIn a family reunification directive issued by the UNHCR, it is agreed that \"family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.\" Forced displacement and separation due to persecution and war \"can have devastating consequences on peoples' wellbeing and their ability to rebuild their lives.\"\nAs most refugees struggle with integration in foreign countries, being away from their parents, wives, children and siblings often makes it difficult for them to feel at home. In a UNHCR survey conducted in January 2016, 41 percent of the Syrians interviewed stated family reunification as the reason of their choice for a destination country. About 20 percent of these households were headed by women, demonstrating \"the desperate need for robust family reunification procedures.\"\nIn Germany itself, 21,376 Syrians arrived through family reunification visas between 2014 and 2015, as per the Global Government Forum, based on data provided by the German Federal Foreign Office.\n\"If you get asylum you only have a timeslot of three months to apply for family reunion,\" said Joachim Tr\u00f6stler, founder of Herberge f\u00fcr Menschen auf der Flucht, a Hamburg-based non-profit organization that helps Syrian refugees. \"Even if you qualify for that program, it takes normally more than one and a half years to get your family taken here.\"\n4 steps to family reunification\nRefugee receives asylum in Germany\nHe/she fills in a \"timely notification\" form within three months\nRefugee's family applies for a visa interview\nFamily arrives if visa is approved\nSource: Federal Government of Germany\nThese five individual stories of Syrians in Germany follow their struggles of living in a different country, far away from the people they love\nDijwar Hasan\n\"You cannot find a complete family together in Syria\"\nPointing toward a rectangular area in a park near the initial refugee reception camp Grellkamp in Hamburg, Dijwar Hasan's eyes lighten up as he says, \"There we play football.\"\nHasan, who was an English teacher in Syria, arrived in Germany seven months ago after staying in Kurdistan, Iraq, for about two and a half years. He left Kurdistan, Syria with his parents and siblings after the revolution started. This year is Hasan's first Ramadan away from his family.\nVideo: Dijwar Hasan talks about his family and life in Syria\n\"I remember a moment when family were all of them together and they break fast during Ramadan,\" said Hasan. \"It was an amazing feeling; I will not forget it.\"\nWhile Hasan is grateful that his family members are in good health, he says that he sometimes feels alone because \"everyone of us in another country.\"\nHasan is attempting to bring his fianc\u00e9 from Syria to Hamburg with the help of the family reunification process for Syrian refugees, which obliges the German government to unite refugees with their spouses, minor children and fianc\u00e9s, according to the German Foreign Office.\nHashem Deliosman\n\"All of my family used to live in one place, in one house. Now we are separated by four countries\"\nAfter 10 months in Germany - eight of which he spent in a tent at a refugee camp in Hamburg \u2013 41-year-old Hashem Deliosman, finally received asylum and is now trying to reunite with his wife and two sons who are currently in Ukraine.\nDeliosman's wife is Ukrainian but she moved with him to Syria in 2000. The revolution destroyed their house and a pharmacy in Aleppo. That was when they decided to leave their country.\n\"I waited for three years, hoping that it would end today or tomorrow,\" Deliosman said in Russian. \"Time went past and we didn't know if we would have any future. When I look back, I can't understand how we could live like that.\"\nNot willing to risk the lives of his wife and children on a dangerous journey to Europe, Deliosman sent them to Ukraine. His wife holds a Ukrainian passport but his sons are Syrian citizens.\nAfter receiving legal asylum in Germany, Deliosman contacted the Red Cross Tracing Service and has been trying to bring his family to Hamburg.\n\"He probably has no chance,\" said Joachim Tr\u00f6stler, because \"there is no such program\" through which Deliosman's wife will be considered a Syrian refugee. \"It's only for Syrian passport holders.\"\nAt present, his family is spread across the world. His parents and one of his brothers stayed in Syria while three of his brothers have moved to Turkey.\n\"I'm in paradise,\" he said, noting that Germany has been his dream country since adolescence. But Syria remains close to his heart. \"Every day, I feel I lack something here. But Germany is safe - other things don't matter that much.\"\nHashem Deliosman spent the winter in the Refugee Tent Camp \"Ohlstedter Park\"\nMuhammed Alothman\n\"I want, I hope, I wish [...] to bring them here\"\nMuhammed Alothman fled from Kurdistan, Syria in 2015 to try and rebuild his life in a another country. Like several other Syrians, he wanted to go to Germany and set things up before his wife and two sons could join him.\nAlothman walked through the forests of Bulgaria. When he attempted to cross the Serbian border, he was arrested and imprisoned in a Bulgarian jail for four months. He arrived in Germany in December 2015 and is still waiting for the assignment of a legal status by German authorities.\nVideo: Muhammed Alothman talks about his wife and sons in Syria\nAlothman hasn't seen his family for more than a year. Flipping through pictures of his sons on his cell-phone, he said, \"It's a difficult feeling because I am far from them.\"\nIn February 2016, Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany's international broadcaster, reported that \"about 370,000 people in Germany are waiting for decisions on their asylum applications, according to an estimate by Frank-J\u00fcrgen Weise, the director of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).\"\nMustafa Hasan\n\"This lake reminds me of death\"\nAs Mustafa Hasan sat on the grass next to a small lake near his refugee camp in Hamburg, he stared at the water and said, \"This lake reminds me of death.\"\nLike several other Syrians, Hasan traveled to Greece by boat and witnessed hundreds of deaths before he finally arrived in Germany. His wife and a 2-year-old son are still in Kurdistan in Syria.\n\"When you will be far from your family it is bad feeling,\" he said in Kurdish. \"I miss them.\"\nHasan is waiting for his interview and hopes that the German authorities grant him asylum status so that he can live in Germany for three years and file for family reunification as soon as possible. He is worried because some of his other acquaintances received the \"subsidiary protection\" status, which does not allow refugees to reunite with their families.\nLegal status granted to refugees\nPeople who were given subsidiary protection in Germany in 2015: 1,702\nPeople who were given subsidiary protection in Germany from Jan-May 2016: 11,045\nSource: Federal Office for MIgration and Refugees \"Asylgesch\u00e4ftsstatistik\"\nAccording to the German Federal Government, people who are granted subsidiary protection can reside in Germany for one year for humanitarian reasons. But in March 2016, the government introduced Asylum Package II to accelerate the asylum application process, which suspended family reunification for refugees with subsidiary protection for a period of two years.\n\"The situation in Syria is so bad and there is so many bad things happening there like killings,\" said Hasan. \"We want from [the] German government to give us three years residence to bring our family here in a fast way.\"\nMustafa Hasan in a park near his refugee camp\nHasan flips through pictures of his family on his cellphone\nHasan posing for a picture with his son Aland back in 2014\nKhaled Edris\n\"Maybe next day we will collect together\"\nKhaled Edris smiled widely just like his sister Fatima Edris did at the mention of their family home back in Syria. While Fatima Edris sat down on her comfortable couch in a two-bedroom apartment in Chicago, Khaled Edris settled on a stiff metal bed in a tiny room that he shares with his brother in a refugee camp in Hamburg.\n\"Fatima had a good chance because UN transfer her from Lebanon to America,\" said Khaled Edris. \"And in America, situation very good.\"\nWhen their family left Syria, they moved together to Lebanon after which Fatima Edris flew to Chicago with her husband and two sons while her brothers, sister and mother had to cross several countries by boat, bus, train or foot to finally arrive in Germany.\nKhaled's & Fatima's journey from Homs, Syria to a new home\nClick here to see an interactive map\n\"All my family [was] in Homs,\" said Fatima Edris. \"Every day, we must see each other. But now over one year, we don't see anyone.\"\nTheir family consistently tries to stay in touch through Whatsapp, Facebook and other messaging systems but at the same time, they are scared of separating emotionally due to the large physical distances.\n\"Just I miss my family,\" said Khaled Edris, \"but I don't know what I do for that because everyone in another country.\"\nAudio: Khaled Edris talks about his family\nFatima Edris' 3-year-old son doesn't recognize Khaled Edris or other members of her family.\n\"When I call with my sister he talk with me,\" Khaled Edris said of Osama, \"He don't know who is me. Just hello Osama, hello uncle.\"\nBut after witnessing the destruction in their hometown, the death of one of their brothers and father and the imprisonment of another brother, both Khaled and Fatima Edris feel blessed that the rest of their family is alive. Even though they no longer live in the same house, they are happy because they are safe.\nLooking forward to a better life in Germany, Khaled Edris said he wants to study German, find a good job, then someday he will travel to visit his sister. \"Maybe next day we will collect together.\"\nFatima Edris with her husband and older son\n\u00a9 Colleen Cassingham\nKhaled Edris and his brother Safwan Edris in their room at the \"Parkplatz Gr\u00fcn\" refugee camp\n\u00a9 Nina Halbig\nFatima Edris' son Osama in their apartment in Chicago\n\u00a9 Nikita Mandhani\nKhaled Edris posing for a picture with his brother (left) and nephew (middle)\n\u00a9 Aleksandra Elfacheva\nIMC - International Media Center\n\u00a9 2016 IMC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 11262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicartonline.org.uk/resources/practicaladvice/policiesguidance/policies/DublinCityCouncil.php.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:16Z", "digest": "sha1:DONLUM4GQKW4Z2IOTAGZEO2LVGPC2FNS", "length": 1651, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "publicartonline.org.uk", "title": "Dublin City Council", "raw_content": "Policies and Strategies for Managing Public Art\nDublin City Council, Public Art Advisory Group, 2009\nThis Paper sets out proposals for the strategic management and programming of public art for Dublin City Council. It is intended to provide a clear framework which will formalise systems and structures for public art while giving scope for public art programming and commissions which will give established and emerging artists exciting and challenging opportunities to work while having an impact on the City and its public(s).\nPublic art has long been dominated by an emphasis on the visual and tangible, mostly because of the origins of the Per Cent for Art scheme in Ireland and because of a desire to commission \u2018artistic features\u2019 and permanent public sculpture to adorn buildings and infrastructural schemes. Since 1997 under direction from the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government and in particular since the publication of the National Guidelines for the Per Cent for Art Scheme in 2004, the understanding of public art has broadened to include all artforms and artistic disciplines. The development of interdisciplinary practices, working across artforms as well as with other fields of knowledge, including, science, planning, philosophy, geography, sociology, archaeology, etc, has given artists greater scope to draw on their enquiries and research, broadening the potential for public art to impact on the city.\nDownload the full Policies and Strategies Report as a Word document: 167KB\nDublin City Council Decommissioning Public Art Policy 2009\nOfficial policy passed December 2009. Download here as a pdf document.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicdomainblog.com/2009/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IUNBIRJWOYRQ6Y6FJ2R6AVEY5ORB6OWH", "length": 1629, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "publicdomainblog.com", "title": "2009 September", "raw_content": "The other day, I was depressed and distressed\u2026 and feeling a bit overwhelmed. I was thinking about stuff that hadn\u2019t worked out as I had planned\u2026worrying about \u201cnot having enough\u201d and questioning my choices and future. It got pretty bad. So in the state I decided to do what I always do when that happens\u2026I went for a walk. I walked to Starbucks.\nDuring that walk, I realized that, once again, I had fallen into an old pattern of focusing on what I DIDN\u2019T have and what WASN\u2019T working rather than being grateful for what I DID have and what DID work. I thought about my mortgage and cable bill, my car payment and insurance bill wondering, \u201cHow can I be grateful for those.\u201d Just as quick, the thought came back to me\u2026\u201dBe grateful that you had another month of protection and safety for your daughter at the house. Be grateful that you had another month of internet access so you could continue your business. Be grateful that you have a car to drive!\u201d\nI have to tell you, as I began to \u201csee\u201d that perspective, something shifted in me\u2026something changed\u2026once again. My posture changed and a smile appeared. And by the time I got to Starbucks, the doom and gloom was gone. I spent the rest of the morning giving thanks for everything I could think of\u2026including YOU! It was that experience that led me to record a video for you\u2026it\u2019s the one I told you about the other day. Have you seen it? If not, check it out\u2026and remember that, regardless of what is going on right now or how things appear, gratitude can turn things around in a moment\u2019s time. Here is the link to the video:\nTags: business, give thanks, gratitude | No Comments \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 13702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://publicworks.knet.ca/?q=node/7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:36Z", "digest": "sha1:WD5S3NVO4G2T4EQSACJMELDFHII3JWNW", "length": 463, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "publicworks.knet.ca", "title": "Freshwater for the Future | KO Public Works", "raw_content": "This issue of Horizons explores the issue of freshwater, which can no longer be taken for granted in Canada. With articles on topics ranging from bulk water export to citizen-based watershed stewardship, and from First Nations and Aboriginal water rights to economic instruments and public-private partnerships for municipal water supply, this issue examines some of the more controversial aspects of water policy in Canada.\nhttp://policyresearch.gc.ca/v9n1_e.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 174.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pwrmoves.hiphop/2018/05/video-4-0-run-it-up.html/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:31Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3AISFHZKS52GH2CQEMOKM3JJBG4T77G", "length": 272, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "pwrmoves.hiphop", "title": "Video 4.0 - Run It Up - Pwr Moves - Hip Hop Lives Here", "raw_content": "May 10, 2018 pwrmoves Artist Spotlight 0\nMiami\u2019s Video 4.0 just dropped his latest single \u201cRun It Up\u201d. The anthem track which is set to take the region by storm, is now available on Spotify.\nFB \u2013 https://www.facebook.com/video4.0/\nINSTAGRAM \u2013 @Video4.0\nTwitter \u2013 @video4_0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://q1077.com/jesselacey-brand-new-sexual-misconduct/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5MRGNT547SKBWDBKROVNFIIFVCYCRJKA", "length": 2663, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "q1077.com", "title": "Brand New\u2019s Jesse Lacey Responds to Sexual Misconduct Claims", "raw_content": "Brand New\u2019s Jesse Lacey Responds to Sexual Misconduct Claims\nBrand New frontman Jesse Lacey has responded to accusations of sexual misconduct by saying he\u2019s \u201cabsolutely sorry\u201d for the \u201cpain and harm\u201d he\u2019s caused in the past.\nHe was the subject of claims by Nicole Elizabeth Garey, who wrote on Facebook about Lacey having \u201csolicited nudes from me starting when I was 15 and he was 24.\u201d She further alleged that he had \u201cmanipulated\u201d her and made her \u201cwatch him masturbate on Skype.\u201d Support band Martha, who were set to appear with Brand New on Nov. 18 and 19 in the U.K., canceled their appearances after Garey\u2019s allegations were made.\nLacey responded with a statement via Brand New\u2019s Facebook page, in which he didn\u2019t respond directly to Garey\u2019s post. \u201cThe actions of my past have caused pain and harm to a number of people, and I want to say that I am absolutely sorry,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI do not stand in defense of myself nor do I forgive myself. I was selfish, narcissistic, and insensitive in my past, and there are a number of people who have had to shoulder the burden of my failures. I apologize for the hurt I have caused, and hope to be able to take the correct actions to earn forgiveness and trust.\u201d\nSaying that he\u2019d \u201cdeveloped a dependent and addictive relationship with sex\u201d early in his life, he added: \u201cLust, sex, love and arousal were coping tools for me\u201d and that he had \u201cdetached my own feelings and emotions from most of my sexual interactions. I hid, or lied about my behavior to escape reproach. I was a habitual cheater. I have been unfaithful in many, if not most of my relationships, including the relationship with my wife, who has with all of her might, patience, and grace, tried to hold our marriage together, despite having to endure the pain of the revelations of my past. It is heart wrenching that the most important changes in my life have come at the expense of others.\n\u201cI am sorry for how I have hurt people, mistreated them, lied, and cheated. I am sorry for ignoring the way in which my position, status, and power as a member of a band affected the way people viewed me or their approach to their interactions with me. And I am sorry for how often I have not afforded women the respect, support, or honesty that they deserved, and which is their right. I believe in the equality and autonomy of all, but in my life I have been more of a detriment to these ideals than an advocate.\u201d\nLacey said he was working to address his \u201cnarcissism\u201d and \u201cself-obsession\u201d and that he needed to \u201cearn\u201d forgiveness. \u201cI am not above reproach, and no one should be,\u201d he finished.\nSource: Brand New\u2019s Jesse Lacey Responds to Sexual Misconduct Claims", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://radiocentreville.com/wp/en/information/information-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OBSWGDXDI7HDTPQCPFIQ6BL3W2VUDGZA", "length": 1317, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "radiocentreville.com", "title": "News policy - Radio Centre-Ville", "raw_content": "The Radio Centre-Ville news policy is based on four principles:\nCompliance with the Radio Centre-Ville Declaration of Principles.\nCoverage of local news is prioritized at Radio Centre-Ville. From this perspective, local news must enable our local neighbourhood residents to gain a clearer understanding of issues related to their living conditions, the problems they experience and the expansion of their own cultural awareness.\nCoverage of national and international news at Radio Centre-Ville must take place in accordance with the interests and needs of the residents of our local neighbourhoods.\nThe content of the news that is broadcast on Radio Centre-Ville must take into consideration the fact that our programming is oriented towards promoting the interests of low-income neighbourhood residents. The news broadcast over our airwaves must take a critical, non-sectarian approach in order to offer a global vision of the various structures and mechanisms that govern society as a whole. The content of the news broadcast on our station must offer our local neighbourhood residents the opportunity to orient themselves towards collective action in order to effect social, political and cultural change. It goes without saying that the concepts of neutrality and objectivity have no place at Radio Centre-Ville.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 178.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rcunninghamlaw.com/legal-services/business-entity-formation-attorney/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XVODUSAEZIYZAGR4MUAKIUZK6N7RE7Q4", "length": 1027, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rcunninghamlaw.com", "title": "Business Entity Formation Attorney", "raw_content": "Selecting the type of entity you would like to form is an important decision when it comes to taxation among other things. There are many factors when making this choice, but two of them rise to the top as being most important. Whether the entity will be taxed, and the extent to which the entity will shield its owners from liability.\nOther factors include the number of owners for the organization, and whether they want to avoid liability for personal errors. Sometimes businesses seek the assistance of a business entity formation attorney to make a change if a partner is brought into an already formed company, and to create agreements.\nThe choices for entity formation are:\nLimited Liability Company (LLC) \u2013 Professional Entities (for Licensed Professionals)\nRegardless of the type of entity you select, protecting your business from liability is one of the most important aspects of business ownership. Make sure you have sound legal counsel, like that from Richard Cunningham, to ensure that you are protected legally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://realty.richardlacompte.com/mistakes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:07Z", "digest": "sha1:O6BH66KKFTDUTTNHZ4TNPGJCX524XGEZ", "length": 4340, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "realty.richardlacompte.com", "title": "Richard La Compte - Licensed Real Estate Agent", "raw_content": "\"Buyers are far more discriminating, and a large percentage of the homes listed for sale don\u2019t sell the first time. It\u2019s more critical than ever to learn what you need to know to avoid costly seller mistakes in order to sell your home fast and for the most amount of money.\u201d\nWell, as you probably know, times have changed. As good as the market is right now, home prices are still below what they were at their peak. Buyers are far more discriminating, and a large percentage of the homes listed for sale never sell. It\u2019s more critical than ever to learn what you need to know to avoid costly seller mistakes in order to sell your home fast and for the most amount of money.\nNot preparing their home for the buyer\u2019s eye.\nThe reasons behind your decision to sell affect everything from setting a price to deciding how much time and money to invest in getting your home ready for sale. What\u2019s more important to you: the money you walk away with, or the length of time your property is on the market? Different goals will dictate different strategies.\nSettling on an offering price shouldn\u2019t be done lightly. Once you\u2019ve set your price, you\u2019ve told buyers the absolute maximum they have to pay for your home, but pricing too high is as dangerous as pricing too low. Remember that the average buyer is looking at 15-20 homes at the same time they are considering yours. This means that they have a basis of comparison, and if your home doesn\u2019t compare favorably with others in the price range you\u2019ve set, you won\u2019t be taken seriously by prospects or agents. As a result, your home will sit on the market for a long time and, knowing this, new buyers on the market will think there must be something wrong with your home.\n(In fact, your agent should do this for you). Find out what homes in your own and similar neighborhoods have sold for in the past 6-12 months, and research what current homes are listed for. That\u2019s certainly how prospective buyers will assess the worth of your home.\nNearly three-quarters of homeowners claim that they wouldn\u2019t use the same realtor who sold their last home. Dissatisfaction boils down to poor communication which results in not enough feedback, lower pricing and strained relations. Another FREE report entitled, \"10 Questions to Ask Before You Hire an Agent\u201d gives you the straight, to-the-point questions you should be asking when you interview agents who want to list your home. You can obtain a FREE copy of this report from my website.\nYou may not be able to change your home\u2019s location or floor plan, but you can do a lot to improve its appearance. The look and feel of your home generates a greater emotional response than any other factor. Clean like you\u2019ve never cleaned before. Pick up, straighten, unclutter, scrub, scour and dust. Fix everything, no matter how insignificant it may appear. Present your home to get a \"wow\" response from prospective buyers.\nAllow the buyers to imagine themselves living in your home. The decision to buy a home is based on emotion, not logic. Prospective buyers want to try on your home just like they would a new suit of clothes. If you follow them around pointing out improvements or if your decor is so different that it\u2019s difficult for a buyer to strip it away in his or her mind, you make it difficult for them to feel comfortable enough to imagine themselves an owner.\nYou may be surprised to know that some marketing tools that most agents use to sell homes (e.g. traditional open houses) are actually not very effective. In fact only 1% of homes are sold at an open house.\nFurthermore, the prospects calling for information on your home probably value their time as much as you do. The last thing they want to be subjected to is either a game of telephone tag with an agent, or an unwanted sales pitch. Make sure the ads your agent places for your home are attached to a 24 hour prerecorded hotline with a specific ID# for your home which gives buyers access to detailed information about your property day or night 7 days a week without having to talk to anyone. It\u2019s been proven that 3 times as many buyers call for information on your home under this system. And remember, the more buyers you have competing for your home the better, because it sets up an auction-like atmosphere that puts you in the driver\u2019s seat.\n9. Don\u2019t move out before you sell.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 8188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://redoctobermalta.com/product-category/cafe-creme", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:35Z", "digest": "sha1:F7J2MRDQQGQHZ7Q6SI2QDEM4FQTZQZNR", "length": 303, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "redoctobermalta.com", "title": "\ufeff Cafe Creme Archives - Red October", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Tobacco, cigars and accessories \u203a Cafe Creme\nCaf\u00e9 Cr\u00e8me is STG\u2019s most international brand. It is a small cigar which is sold in 115 countries and is the most well-known and best selling brand in the category in the world. Caf\u00e9 Cr\u00e8me is also a market leader in countries such as France and the UK.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 4203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://redwoodandfeller.co.uk/blog/2018-01-15-rfs-annual-10-off-sale", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MVILA3ZHRMMSJHFO3ZC4OY257ZPA3RFZ", "length": 305, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "redwoodandfeller.co.uk", "title": "R&F\u2019s annual 10% off sale - Blog - Redwood and Feller - Bespoke Tailors - London", "raw_content": "R&F\u2019s annual 10% off sale\nPosted on 15 January 2018 by Elliot Rowland\nRedwood and Feller would like to wish all of their clients a very Happy 2018.\nWhat better way to kick of the New Year than with R&F\u2019s annual 10% off sale.\nIt\u2019s the perfect opportunity to have a brand new suit made for a brand new year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://reinhardhauff.de/exhibitions_detail.php?exh_id=152&task=press", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:K3ADRAAXGR3QWBFXKQVWFVQ5NERBZOPN", "length": 3754, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "reinhardhauff.de", "title": "GALERIE REINHARD HAUFF -", "raw_content": "Galerie Reinhard Hauff is delighted to announce The resonant interval, the second solo show with the Paris artist Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore (*1983). This monumental video installation was first shown in 2016 at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris, and earlier this year at Manif d'art 8, the Quebec Biennial. In Germany, The resonant interval can be seen exclusively at the Galerie Reinhard Hauff from July 21st to September 15th.\nIt is said that man first got into painting from observing the shadows that were cast at the light of burning fires on the walls of prehistoric caves. From the beginning of time, making images meant communicating with spirits. This continues to be the case today, despite the flooding and overload of images, which the revolution of technology has brought about. The colourful veils of pulsating polar lights on the dark horizons of the North Pole (lat. aurora borealis) are mystical phenomena, which, since the dawn of mankind, have spellbound people and inspired and animated the fables and legends of the peoples from the Northern Regions of our planet. From a scientific point of view these mysterious phenomena are caused when electrically charged particles ejected by the sun and the shield of the magnetosphere collide with the oxygen and nitrogen in the upper layers oft he Earth\u2019s atmosphere and ionize them. In The resonant interval, Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore attempts to merge two interwoven tales to explore the interval between scientific research into these luminous events, and the legends surrounding them.\nAn aurora borealis is often associated with a whistling noise \u2013 sounds, which in the legends and superstitions of the Inuit and Saamis are interpreted as the voice of the dead speaking to the living. According to research carried out at the University of Aalto in Finland, the sounds produced by an aurora borealis are inaudible at less than 70 meters from the ground. The fact that some people can hear them from the surface of the earth currently remains unexplained. At the beginning of 2014, the Yellowknife Aurora Borealis Observatory, in the Northwest Territories of Canada, picked up some slight red luminous formations. After remaining scientifically inexplicable for a long time, they seem to come in fact from the launching of explosives, like a modern extension of the Taatsotine tribe\u2019s \"celebration of the dance of the dead\".\nIt is just this space between the rational and the irrational, the visible and the invisible, that Cl\u00e9ment Cogitore is staging in this superimposition of images and tales. As stated by media theorist Marshall McLuhan \"a border is not a connection, but an interval of resonance\". In this case, the interval of resonance is just as much the stratospheric frontier between the sky and the earth, as the disturbing zone between different registers he uses: scientific interviews, historical reconstructions, fictional or mystic texts, such as an extract from the book of the Prophet Ezekiel (6th century BC), which remains the first known reference to a vision of an aurora borealis. The form of the installation extends this loss of markers: what we grasp is he video image, just as much as its reflexion.\n(Text: Daria de Beauvais, Curator, Palais de Tokyo, Paris)\nCl\u00e9ment Cogitore (*1983) lives and works in Strasbourg and Paris. His first feature-length film Ni le ciel Ni la terre (2015) was shown during La Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes and was nominated at the C\u00e9sars. The film was shown at the Galerie Reinhard Hauff in 2016.\nYou are cordially invited to the exhibition opening on Friday, July 21st, 2017 from 7 to 10 pm. We are celebrating with Gin & Tonic, generously sponsored by Edelbrand Stauffenberg Dry Gin.\nThe gallery is closed from 29.07. until 04.09.2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 3846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rememberingbiafra.com/timeline/biafran-children-appear-on-the-cover-of-life-magazine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:55Z", "digest": "sha1:75PINXX5SI6EOADIVM2G2T4MKFNMARRJ", "length": 1621, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "rememberingbiafra.com", "title": "Biafran children appear on the cover of Life Magazine with headline \u201cStarving Children of Biafra War\u201d - Remembering Biafra Biafran children appear on the cover of Life Magazine with headline \u201cStarving Children of Biafra War\u201d \u2013 Remembering Biafra", "raw_content": "Biafran children appear on the cover of Life Magazine with headline \u201cStarving Children of Biafra War\u201d\nUS and European media do not begin extensively covering Biafra until the spring and summer of 1968, when Biafra had lost significant territory and the terms of the Nigerian blockade were making it increasingly hard to get food and supplies into the enclave. Children and others were beginning to show increasing signs of starvation, including kwashiorkor, the protein deficiency that turns hair red and causes distended abdomens.\nLife\u2019s ten-page spread was organized a Cold War framing that described Biafrans as underdogs against a powerful foe; the article mentioned that the Nigerians used Soviet jets and Egyptian pilots, but not that Nigeria was also backed by the British and US governments. The story described the suffering caused by hunger and lack of medicines, and showed remarkable images in both color and black-and-white. It was about this time that Lloyd Garrison also began to write extensively about hunger and suffering in Biafra in the New York Times.\nLife magazine cover from July 12, 1968. with headline \u201cStarving Children of Biafra War.\u201d\nHerta, Laura. \u201cSuffering Civilians in Africa: Between the Justifications for Humanitarian War and the Ethics of Humanitarian Assistance \u2013 ICRC and MSF Perspectives.\u201d Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai 58: 2 (June 2013): 39-73.\nKorieh, Chima. The Nigeria-Biafra War: Genocide and the Politics of Memory. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2012.\nThompson, Joseph E. American Policy and African Famine: The Nigeria-Biafra War, 1966-1970. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://robertozaugg.ch/About.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:54Z", "digest": "sha1:SLUYFFJXH2HGAS72LMBFFAIA3G22SEXG", "length": 2068, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "robertozaugg.ch", "title": "Roberto Zaugg | About me", "raw_content": "About Roberto Zaugg\nDetailed CV >>\nSNSF-Professor at the University of Bern\nI am a historian of the 16th - 19th centuries. After studying at the University of Florence and gaining a PhD at the University of Naples \"Federico II\", I have worked at the University of Basel, at Sciences Po (Paris) and at the University of Lausanne, where I have taught Early Modern History and African History. I have also been the coordinator of the Basel Graduate School of History, a vistiting scholar at the University of Ghana (Accra) and the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), as well as Gabriel Monod fellow of the Institut fran\u00e7ais d'histoire en Allemagne (Frankfurt). In 2018 I have joined the University of Bern.\nIn my PhD thesis I have examined the condition of foreigners in eighteenth-century Naples. This has led me to engage with the history of judicial institutions, Mediterranean merchant diasporas, diplomatic relations, as well as the history of citizenship rights and migrations. More recently I have extended the focus of my research to autobiographical writings, the slave trade, the cultural history of colonialism and - from a geographical point of view - to the German-speaking territories, the Atlantic world and West Africa.\nI am currently completing a research project dealing with the manuscript journal of barber-surgeon Johann Peter Oettinger (1682-1696), which relates the author's extended journeyman migration through the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic as well as his two trans-Atlantic voyages aboard Dutch and Brandenburg slave ships. Together with Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois) I am moreover preparing an English edition of Oettinger's journal.\nIn 2018 the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) has awarded me a four-year professorship and research grant to build up a team of scholars exploring past entanglements between the Italian states and the Atlantic world. In this frame, my individual research focusses on cultural meanings of red coral and trade networks connecting the Mediterranean with sub-Saharan Africa.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 136.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://robinsonlibrary.com/america/unitedstates/1783/biography/jay.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KDNCDUZ43Y6JODRSZLQKKZNZPAZIQVWU", "length": 2923, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "robinsonlibrary.com", "title": "John Jay", "raw_content": "The Robinson Library >> American History >> United States: General History and Description >> Revolution to Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 >> Individual Biography, A-Z\nfirst Chief Justice of the United States\nJohn Jay was born in New York City, on December 12, 1745. He attended an exclusive boarding school in New Rochelle at age eight, and graduated from King's College (now Columbia University) at the age of 19. Admitted to the bar of New York in 1768, he practiced there until 1776.\nAlthough active early in the patriot cause, Jay did not initially favor separation from Great Britain. In September 1774 he became the second youngest member of the Continental Congress, where he wrote the \"Address to the People of Great Britain,\" an attempt to turn the sentiments of British citizens towards the side of the Americans. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress, but refused to sign the Declaration of Independence because he still believed that reconciliation was possible.\nAfter leaving the Continental Congress, Jay became actively involved in the development of a new state government for New York. In 1777 he attended the New York Constitutional Convention, and was selected to draft that Constitution. He then served as the first Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court.\nIn 1779, Jay was sent to Spain to request aid for the Revolution, but he was unsuccessful in obtaining assistance. In 1782 Jay, along with John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, negotiated the Treaty of Paris, which officially ended the Revolutionary War. Upon his return to the United States, in 1784, Jay found that he had been appointed Secretary of Foreign Affairs by the Congress of the Confederation.\nA proponent of a stronger central government, Jay joined James Madison and Alexander Hamilton in writing The Federalist Papers, which urged the adoption of the Constitution (1787-1788).\nPresident George Washington first wanted Jay to be his Secretary of State, but Jay declined the offer. In 1789, Washington named Jay as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In 1794 he was sent to England to negotiate Anglo-American disputes. The resulting agreement, known as Jay's Treaty, aroused a storm of protest from rival Democratic-Republicans and the French, both of whom claimed that Jay had conceded too much to England.\nUpon Jay's return to the United States, in 1797, he found that he had been elected Governor of New York and resigned his position on the Supreme Court. During his four years in office (1797-1801), Jay fought for judicial reform, penal reform, and the abolition of slavery, and he undertook extensive road and canal projects to improve the economy of his state.\nJay retired from the governorship in 1801 and returned to his farm in Winchester County. President John Adams appointed him to the Supreme Court that same year, but Jay declined the nomination due to poor health. He died on May 17, 1829.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 76.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rohit.sarathy.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMQDDZQTBBTDX7GNA6FD6WW65DRGZQJA", "length": 26793, "nlines": 84, "source_domain": "rohit.sarathy.org", "title": "Rohit Sarathy | Personal Journal of a Mathlete", "raw_content": "I started working at Google two weeks ago, amidst a charged atmosphere following the dissemination of the internal manifesto. In light of the divide that has developed, I reflected on my professional goals that I had laid out during my last years at university. Here is a piece that I wrote for one of my classes that I feel still accurately describes my goals professionally.\nAs a child, I was told that I was very skilled at math. I loved solving problems, and I advanced this passion throughout middle school, high school, and even at the university level. I was very lucky to be the son of two engineers, because it meant that I always got the full support to study and pursue what I liked. In my later years of high school, my parents got me my own laptop so that I could work my own projects and ideas in my free time. After reading an NPR Article, which noted that personal computers were mostly \u201cmarketed towards men and boys\u201d, I recognize this as a hefty, if not even an unfair privilege that nudged me in the direction of computer science.\nHowever, growing up in Silicon Valley, I never felt that what I was studying was special in any way. My high school produced many other individuals like me, so striving to be a unique individual was much harder. I felt that this environment, while conducive for producing many engineering students, was not so forgiving for students wishing to study different things. Making the change to university was a sudden culture shock, because there were actually other students studying non-engineering subjects!\nAt UIUC, I feel that I am very lucky because there are others studying computer science like me, which means that I\u2019m never alone. I don\u2019t feel embarrassed or ashamed of my social identity either, because by virtue of the large student population, there\u2019s always someone who shares my personality and values. However, as part of the majority demographic of my major, I worry that the face of computer science and engineering is becoming too homogenous. Whether we feel that the field is gradually becoming too \u201cAsian\u201d or too masculine, it\u2019s not a good sign for budding minority students looking to study computer science.\nWhile I hold the privilege of being a male in my field, I acknowledge the struggles that women face in the computer science and technology field. My mother has worked in the technology sector for more than 20 years, and from what I can glean of her experiences, life for females has not gotten easier. There is still a pervasive sense of chauvinism and sexism present in the workspace that deters other bright females from continuing in the field. Every day, my mother would work late hours as a software developer, complaining about the constant discrimination in her workplace and the lack of other female colleagues. An intern from USA Today was quoted saying \u201cwhat\u2019s the point of trying to recruit people from underrepresented backgrounds if they\u2019re forced to assimilate into an unwelcoming culture?\u201d which I thought accurately summarized my mother\u2019s situation. This was reflected in the class resume activity, as we did not field any prospective female applicants.\nThe discrimination that my mother faced in the technology sector reeks of a deeper problem that needs attention. Tim Cook once remarked, \u201cWe pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick.\u201d As I move closer to graduating and entering the professional world, I want to hold myself to the highest standards, and to make a conscious effort to dismantle the crass \u201cbrogrammer\u201d mentioned in a CNN article. I think that it\u2019s important for all of us to not only be obsessed with what we do, but also to be ambassadors for our field. We should all strive to extend our hand to help fresher, newer minds to overcome the barriers that exist, and to enter the computer science field. I feel strongly that as a privileged individual entering the field, others should be afforded the same liberties that I\u2019ve had growing up. My brick will be to encourage aspiring students of minorities to pursue the same passion that I\u2019ve been chasing since I was a child, and as a rising professional, I hope to stay true to this mission.\nPosted on September 28, 2015 by rohit\nA couple of weekends ago, I travelled to Cambridge, Massachusetts for my first hackathon ever. I went to MIT with three other team members to participate in HackMIT 2015. I was very excited to have had the chance to be part of such a well-organized hackathon.\nAfter a short day of Friday classes, I rushed to shove all the necessary hacking gear into my backpack. I quickly printed out my bus tickets and jumped aboard for the ride to Chicago. On the bus, I met with my teammates, and we discussed our plans, or rather the lack of, for the hackathon. What were we going to make? Cloud-sourced data mining? Some kind of web application? A delivery service? We couldn\u2019t come to a consensus, so we simply agreed to table the discussion for the airport, and to catch a little bit of rest before our flight.\nA heavy front of weather assaulted O\u2019Hare airport when we arrived, pouring down sheets of rain. The inbound flight was delayed, which gave us more time to decide what we wanted to build. We eventually agreed to use a few of the available APIs at the event to write a web application for a delivery service.\nOur flight touched down at Logan around 2 in the morning. We took a taxi to the Kresge Oval on MIT campus. My teammates and I immediately saw the HackMIT sign and approached the check-in tent. The check-in staff handed us an airbed and a dual pump for the night. We would be staying the night with assigned student hosts, and I was very excited to meet mine. We waited until our student hosts came to greet us and walk us over to their places.\nI walked down Vassar Street with my host, getting to know him better. He was a mechanical engineering major, or a Course 2. True to his major, he analyzed the dual pump that we would use to inflate my airbed within seconds, pointing out its various mechanisms and valves that it used, and how the overall design could be improved. My host briefly showed me around his room, and we both promptly went to sleep.\nAfter a few hours of rest, I made my way back towards Kresge Oval. The opening ceremony began, and each of the companies present made a small pitch about some of the prizes that they were offering. Following the pitches, we ultimately decided to use Postmates delivery API and the Google Maps API to write a web application that would deliver surplus restaurant food to food pantries and homeless shelters.\nThe hacking began right after the opening ceremony. We found an empty available table, and dove right into the coding. I began writing some simple starter HTML homepage templates for our application, while my teammates hacked away with the API in javascript and python.\nHackMIT 2015. The hackathon was held inside MIT\u2019s ice-skating rink.\nThe hours ticked away very rapidly, and we soon found ourselves with less than 6 hours left of hacking. However, the build was far from complete. The frontend still looked very clunky, and we were having issues integrating the Postmates API with the frontend. We quickly resolved to use Flask for facilitating the integration of the APIs in python, and set out to complete the backend. For the next couple of hours, we immersed and gave ourselves a very brief crash course in Flask.\nWhile I felt that we were moving in the correct direction, two hours of Flask was not enough to relieve our build of a menacing 500 server error. Despite the help and assistance of the corporate mentors present, we were still unable to release a stable, working build of our web application. The hacking promptly concluded after a false fire alarm that forced all of us out of the building.\nAfter the hacking ended, we pitched our delivery web application to multiple corporate sponsors and individual judges. The whole pitching process harkened back to high school science fair days, as I felt the routine was quite similar. Despite making a somewhat incomplete web application, I still found it very rewarding and exciting to explain our idea to other people.\nMIT\u2019s central library, taken from Killian Court.\nMy teammates and I left the award ceremony thoroughly exhausted. We trekked nearly 3 miles across Cambridge to check into a hotel to get some rest before our flight. All of us were asleep within a matter of seconds. Soon enough, however, it was time to catch our flight back to Chicago. We wearily boarded our flight back to O\u2019Hare, and then caught our bus back to campus. Immediately after we arrived, we all hurried over to the Digital Computer Laboratory for our morning Computer Architecture lecture. It would still take us the rest of our Monday to drop down from our hackathon high.\nFlying back into Chicago on an early Monday morning.\nOverall, HackMIT was a very humbling experience for me. It was enlightening to leave the Champaign-Urbana bubble and see the great ideas that other people were building. I personally enjoyed investing the time to build our idea from scratch. Although the hackathon left me mentally and physically exhausted beyond measure, I will be coming back for more. Our hackathon project left me thinking about avenues for improvement and new ideas, all of which I would like to see through in the future.\nToday it\u2019s your birthday. Do you remember? We\u2019d come over to your house, maybe jump into your pool (provided that Rahul didn\u2019t throw up chicken in the hot tub), have water gun fights, and play Halo together while eating Chandra uncle\u2019s legendary barbecue.\nNot a day goes by where I don\u2019t think about you and your definitive fighting spirit. You always exemplified the absolute best behavior when you battled brain cancer, and not once did you ever complain or lament \u201cwhy me?\u201d. Although you\u2019re gone, you\u2019ve left me much to think about. Every day, I try to espouse the amazing fighting attitude, tenacity, and perseverance that were all characteristic of your brilliant personality.\nI know that you\u2019re in a better place now, safe from Babai\u2019s diatribes or Chandra uncle\u2019s handshakes. Some say that a person dies twice \u2013 when their body ceases to function, and sometime in the future, when their name is spoken for the last time. I doubt the latter will ever happen, because I\u2019m sure that I speak for everyone when I say that you continue to live on in all of our hearts every day.\nHappy 17th Birthday Milan. We all miss you very much.\nPosted on February 6, 2015 by rohit\nAs every computer science major knows, data structures is a very integral class in their curriculum. As a result, data structures can be considered the first major test if one wants to label themselves as a proficient programmer or computer scientist.\nThis semester, we would be working in C++, which was a considerable step up from Java. In preparation for the programming portions of the class, I took to Project Euler, a programming problem solving site that allowed me to hone my Java and object oriented programming skills.\nDespite my prep, however, the first machine problem proved to be a patch of tricky footing for everyone. We were all faced with the novel task of writing our own Makefile and slogging through the syntax of C++ on our lonesome. Anticipating a long assignment, my friends and I convened together in an attempt to make some headway on learning our new second language. Within half an hour, we all found ourself walking into a brick wall editing our own Makefile.\nWe reached a crossroads of sorts, deciding that it would be unproductive to simply throw more time at the problem at hand. I voted to continue working on our machine problem at Siebel Center, where we could rely on the help of our course staff. My friends decided to stay back in hopes of slogging through and making some purchase on this tricky problem.\nRiding the bus into the receding Urbana sun, I got off and ascended the few steps into the computer science building. I sat down at one of the basement\u2019s resident EWS machines and began to work. Next to me was one of my classmates who was working on the same problem. We sat together and refined our individual Makefiles in hopes of allowing our program to fully compile. When I thought I was absolutely stuck, I reached out to the current TA, who walked me through the idea of Makefiles and also scanned my code for bugs. After a quick review, I compiled my code again: ./mp1 . The console showed no warnings, and using the terminal diff commands confirmed that my code was correct.\nJust to be sure, I ran my final source code against the staff\u2019s test suite, Monad. Five green \u201cpassed\u201d markers greeted me, and I heaved a great sigh of relief. After nearly three hours of frustrating debugging and refining, I had solved my first true Machine Problem. I silently reminded myself that the programming problems would only get harder from here on out, but resolved to reviewing my current code for any other errors.\nMy programming neighbor wasn\u2019t having the same luck, however. As he tried to understand the concept of flipping the PNG 180 degrees, the TA would constantly shoot him down, berating him with a sharp \u201c\u4e3a\u4ec0\u4e48\u4f60\u4e0d\u61c2\u8fd9\u4e2a? \u8fd9\u662f\u5f88\u5bb9\u6613\u3002\u201d (Why don\u2019t you understand this? It\u2019s really easy.) After the TA moved on to help another student in the office hours queue, I slid my chair over and began to walk my classmate through the steps that I had taken not so long ago.\n\u201cSo I see that you\u2019ve placed the target files on your desktop. Here, let\u2019s put them into a new directory. Type in \u2018mkdir cs225\u2019 into the terminal, right over here, and press Enter\u2026\u201d\nPosted on November 25, 2014 by rohit\nPrior to my first semester of school, many of my close friends and family said that university would be some of the best years of my life, full of substance, variance, and enjoyment.\nTwo weeks into school, I wasn\u2019t so sure about that adage. I hadn\u2019t done so much as to set a foot outside my dormitory unless necessary, holing myself in my room with coursework.\nI would say it was by chance that I found my social niche. Simply sitting next to different people in classes introduced me to a new study group, and a new crew of weekend explorers. I began to spend more time outside my dormitory, and sure enough, I found that more often than not that I would be outside my room.\nHowever, going to school in Urbana-Champaign has, to an extent, pigeonholed me in a vacuous bubble. Despite finding my group of friends, I feel that something is still missing. When a few friends brought up the notion of roadtripping to Chicago and Michigan over the weekend, I really couldn\u2019t refuse. After all, maybe I would finally chance upon something that I could hold on to and develop into a fully-fledged idea. It was certainly refreshing to leave Urbana-Champaign for the first time in two and half months. I was able to finally get a taste of Chicago life, and was also able to visit Indiana and Michigan as well.\nPerhaps something that really remained with me from our adventures up North was our visit with Jonathan, my friend\u2019s brother. I was very excited to meet Jonathan after reading (sorry, viewing) his laundry list of completed projects. Jonathan was a personable and motivated individual and was very excited about his work.\nThough 1900 miles away from San Jose, Jonathan made me and my friends feel at home. He invested his time to get to know us better, asking us about how we felt about our classes and social life at school. He implicitly emphasized the importance of passion and motivation, showing us the multitude of documentaries that he had tirelessly filmed and edited, as well as his brainchild and budding social project \u201cFoodCircles\u201d. As he flitted excitedly around his laptop and recording gear, he detailed the development cycle and conception of each individual project. The point of passion really began hit home for me. \u201cRohit, is computer science what you really want to do?\u201d he asked.\nI don\u2019t know. I guess it\u2019s too early to tell, but regardless, I went with my instinct and responded resoundingly with a \u201cYes, Jonathan. I really think so.\u201d I\u2019ve definitely made decisions and uttered outlandish comments out of impulse, but I know that my answer was correct, because I can\u2019t imagine pursuing anything else for the remainder of my life.\nPosted on November 1, 2014 by rohit\nFirst off, it\u2019s been a while. I\u2019ll try to write more often from now on.\nIt\u2019s been two months since I set foot into my first college classes. I was, and still am, very excited to learn more about the vast field of computer science. To be honest, however, I couldn\u2019t help feeling a few chills down my spine when my instructors repeatedly drove home that machine problems would constitute a sizable portion of the introductory course, calling them the meat and cheese of the class. I wasn\u2019t very good at programming, and although I certainly wanted to become a better programmer, I secretly hoped that computer science couldn\u2019t merely be trivialized to solving machine problems day in and day out.\nWhen I scrolled through the major\u2019s curriculum, It made me happy that computer science was so much more than programming. It warmed me inside that I chose a major that would transform me into a well-rounded, versatile engineer. I came to UIUC to gain a deeper and more profound understanding of how we manage data and allocate computing resources in an efficient manner. I left a cozy home 1,872 miles away to study computer science, not programming. And although I\u2019m spending most of my first year grinding out machine problems with classmates, I look forward to some of the theoretical classes that I\u2019ll take in the future. Writing code is fun and enjoyable, but learning why the aforementioned code works the way it does enhances the experience tenfold. I feel that the best of computer science is still yet to come.\nTSA Conference Reflection, and How to Teach Engineering\nEngineering excites me. After hours and days being forced to evaluate theoretical expressions that only held up in precise utopian states, it felt nice to finally be faced with problems that had practical applications and real results.\nWhen I earned the presidency of my school\u2019s Junior Engineering Technical Society, I couldn\u2019t have been more elated. It was my goal to promote engineering schoolwide. Following our TSA\u2019s TEAMS regionals runner-up finish, we were invited to attend the national Technology Student Association conference in Washington DC. As I read the results of the regional, I couldn\u2019t help but think that this would be the pinnacle of achievement for our club. We were going to represent our school on a national stage.\nOur team prepared well into summer nights to ensure a quality performance at our debut conference. We threw ideas onto powerpoints and documents, proofread and revised, argued and discussed. After hours of careful preparation, we were ready.\nI for one felt greatly privileged to be on the 6am flight to Washington DC. After all the paperwork and cooperation necessitated with Lynbrook, we were all very lucky to have the opportunity to partake in the conference.\nThe conference center was a bustling hub of activity, with more than 7,000 participants in attendance. Many of them wore numerous ribbons on their name, such as \u201cfirst time competitor\u201d, \u201cchapter president\u201d, and \u201cfuture engineer\u201d providing a distinct sense of flair for each individual. Later in the night, the welcome ceremony fireworks made us all feel even more special and important. It seemed as if the conference would host a welcome mecca of enthusiastic engineers.\nThe conference\u2019s opening ceremonial fireworks.\nHowever, my glorified image of this engineering conference would take a drastic turn the very next day. Our team grouped up together, anticipating our first engineering challenge. The proctor summoned all the team captains and explained the challenge to us.\nAs he explained the task, I didn\u2019t seem to be getting more optimistic. At the very least, the challenge seemed to be a joke after all the trouble we had been through just to partake in the conference and its festivities.\nI say this with unwavering sincerity \u2013 we were supposed to balance a full 2-liter water bottle using a piece of paper, essentially engineering a load-bearing structure with a simple sheet of A4 paper. I was aghast. We had traveled nearly 2800 miles, completed a veritable mound of paper work, and spent a whole thousand dollars just to manipulate a simple sheet of paper?! I concealed my heavy disdain and carefully relayed the instructions to my teammates.\nUnfortunately, as the challenge advanced, our team struggled with the task, and failed to create a piece of paper that would bear the weight of the full bottle. If it was any consolation, I could safely attest that our professional-grade writeup was top notch.\nThe oral competition wasn\u2019t much better. Few of my teammates felt the need to understand the material we had prepared for the presentation on alleviating congestion, and it showed. The judges assaulted us with questions which we answered in shaky voices. Needless to say, I was disappointed.\nDuring the awards ceremony, I wasn\u2019t expecting anything. To my surprise, though, we were called up for our good performance on the writing section. We jovially jogged up to the stage and awaited the announcement of the awards. While we lined up, each team member received small \u201cconsolation\u201d pins. As it turned out, we had placed 6th in the country for our collaborative research paper that we wrote on tracking.\nThe interior of the Gaylord Convention Center, the venue of the 2014 TSA National Conference.\nAside from the small recognition our team earned, I couldn\u2019t take much away from the conference. Or maybe it was just that we had been promoting engineering incorrectly. I began to think harder, and came to the conclusion that we weren\u2019t using the correct approach to bring engineering to fellow students. Quite aptly, a quote from the popular comedy show \u201cThe Office\u201d came to my mind. In the episode \u201cSafety Training\u201d, Regional Manager Michael Scott remarks, \u201cYou don\u2019t go to the museum and get handed a pamphlet on electricity. You put your hands on metal ball, your hair sticks up\u2026 and you learn science.\u201d\nAttending to the conference and participating in a trivial challenge felt like being handed the metaphorical pamphlet on engineering. It was no different from an FBLA or DECA business conference, neither of which successfully further true business concepts. The TSA national conference failed to seed profound engineering interests in fresh new minds. In the future, I believe that prospective engineering students should be placed in active environments containing tangible problems and challenges for them to solve. Put engineers next to an incomplete freeway interchange, and have them create actual design specifications for the onramps and exit lanes. Take students to a new server farm, and have them study the different file transfer protocols and infrastructure that allows a company to store its data. Plan a field trip to the local university laboratory, and allow participants to manage the manufacturing process \u2013 the machines, instruments, and materials \u2013 of a new medical device. Through these hands-on, close-up brushes with various scenarios, people will immerse themselves in the thrill of creation and the euphoria of success that comes with engineering.\nA passive approach falls short to enlighten and ensnare new minds into the world of engineering. Using active scenarios, we can make a difference and fill the growing demand for new, hungry engineers.\n2014 Track, and a Fresh Start\nI got up fairly early this morning, around 6:30. There were birds chirping outside, the sun was rising, and I didn\u2019t feel tired when I got out of bed. I felt like I was 8 again \u2013 all I needed was to grab a bowl of cereal and sit in front of the TV to watch some Saturday morning cartoons.\nI didn\u2019t do any of that, though. Instead, I started on some of the last schoolwork I\u2019d do in high school. As I started browsing the web for some material for my literature project, a reminder with an alarm clock icon popped up on the right hand corner of my screen. \u201cCCS Semifinals in 10 minutes\u201d it said. My heart lurched as I soaked in the text.\nAt the start of the season, I was pretty confident that I would be at San Jose City College, running in one of the last races of my high school career.\nInstead, I was at home, mashing F5 and anticipating the live results of the competition. In retrospect, I only had myself to blame. Simply put, I slacked on my diet and training, and I paid the price.\nIn the future, I won\u2019t be a spectator. I will be an active participant, and I will do my best to win. I still remember the time when I won my first and only invitational, and the indescribable euphoria that accompanied the victory.\nI have to chase that feeling. This year, I will be chasing the finish line of the 2014 Chicago Marathon, searching for that euphoria, because I know I will find it.\nPosted in Cross Country, Track & Field\t| Leave a comment\nPosted on March 18, 2014 by rohit\nSo I recently came across a very ridiculous proof on Quora that I thought was very cool. This proof uses the infamous Fermat\u2019s Last Theorem to create a very slick proof of a typical problem. I would have never fathomed that such a behemoth of a theorem could be used to solve a very simple-looking problem. Here it is below:\nProve that the cube root of 2 is irrational.\nSo let\u2019s suppose by proof of contradiction that the cube root of 2 is in fact rational.\nTherefore 2^(1/3) = p/q, where both p and q are rational numbers.\nBy cubing both sides, we get that 2 = p^3 / q^3, or p^3 = 2q^3.\nWe can modify the equation so that it becomes p^3 = q^3 + q^3. We know that this equation is false because of Fermat\u2019s Last Theorem, in which a specific case of the theorem states that a^3 + b^3 \u2260 c^3. Therefore, the cube root of 2 must be irrational!\nTo generalize, this proof also works for any nth root of 2, where n is an integer greater than or equal to 3.\nLike I said, I really enjoyed reading this proof because it used something so esoteric to solve a very simple problem. I guess this goes to show that everything has a purpose.\n2013 AIME I #12\nSo I\u2019m trying something new this time around. I\u2019ve decided to start a series of problem solving videos where I\u2019m going to present solutions to some of the problems that I solve in my own way. I\u2019m eager to continue making these type of videos, and I would like to know what you think! Here is the first video I created. I chose this problem because I solved it on my own, using some very simple techniques in geometry to solve a tough AIME problem. Without further ado, I present to you 2013 AIME I, Number 12.\nPosted in Math\t| 2 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 28594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rosstrust.org.au/about/roy-everard-ross/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:39Z", "digest": "sha1:QQMRRTJJ2CAKQPGRGDYKRBH66U54QIUO", "length": 3758, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "rosstrust.org.au", "title": "Roy Everard Ross | The RE Ross Trust", "raw_content": "Home > About > Roy Everard Ross\nRoy Everard Ross was born in July 1899 in Mansfield, Victoria and died in Melbourne in November 1970. Mr Ross was the sixth of eight children \u2013 Ada, James, Alfred, Olive, Sylvia, Roy, Fred and Hazel \u2013 all born to Hugh and Bessie Ross at the family property Brooklyn in Mansfield Victoria. He trained as a land surveyor and engineer and went on to become a very successful local government engineer, property owner, businessman and investor. He served as a Captain in the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force in New Guinea following World War One.\nIn 1959, Mr Ross founded Bayview Quarries and became Chairman of Directors. After its takeover by Boral Ltd. in 1968, he formed Hillview Quarries Pty. Ltd. to operate an existing quarry at Dromana. Hillview Quarries continues to be owned and operated by the Trust and generates income for distribution by the Trust as charitable grants.\nMr Ross was a keen bushman, had an extensive knowledge of native plants and trees, and made a study of the habits of birds and their calls.\nThe R E Ross Trust was established in Victoria in 1970 by the will of Roy Ross. The will provides for five Trustees to manage the assets of the Trust and to distribute the Trust\u2019s income.\nWhen it came to making grants, the first Trustees decided to concentrate the Trust\u2019s activities in three fields and to \u201cgive priority to particular projects rather than merely making donations to established agencies and institutions\u201d. The three fields were: \u201cSocial welfare, with particular regard to assistance to the disadvantaged in breaking the circles in which they are caught and which result in poverty\u2026\u201d; \u201cNature conservation, with particular regard to the purchase of land for the protection and preservation of flora and fauna\u201d; and \u201cEducation of foreign students, with particular regard to students from Melanesia.\u201d\nOver the years the Trust has continued a policy of combining smaller grants for many organisations with larger grants, often multi-year and in partnership with other donors, for a smaller number of particular projects. In the area of social welfare, the focus has always been on those who are most disadvantaged.\nSince its establishment, the Trust has made many grants for the purchase of land and the support of other conservation projects throughout Victoria. The crowning achievement of the Trust in 2002 was to enable Trust for Nature to purchase Ned\u2019s Corner Station in Northwest Victoria. Believed to be the largest Victorian property in private ownership and comprising 25,000 hectares including 14 kilometres of Murray River frontage, the purchase is of immense significance to conservation in Victoria. Since this time, other significant grants have been made in this impact area. For more information on these grants refer to the Preservation of Flora and Fauna impact area.\nIn the area of Education of foreign students, the Trustees undertook research before making their first grant in 1973, in partnership with a number of others, to Monash University. The R E Ross Trust Fellowship Program, previously known as the Trade Education Project, provided for specialised, short-term enhancement of trade skills and instruction techniques of adults from small South Pacific Island countries. In latter years the focus turned to the education and training of medical practitioners in the pacific islands. Due to the tightening of Australian law and regulations for foreign medical practitioners to practice in Australia, the program was revised to support the travel of Australian medical practitioners to the Pacific Islands to carry out the training in country. 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As has been established, I like this stuff for its uniformity and anonymity, and this latest dispatch is the best one yet - or at least, just as good as all the others, which as far as I'm concerned is the same thing.\nIT'S ALWAYS ALL \"ME, ME, ME\" WITH SOME PEOPLE\n\u201cI don\u2019t know if [Condoleeza Rice] visits those kids at the hospitals, but I do. I hang out with the boys who are half my age with their faces gone, triple amputees with their balls gone and their guts gone. They have those little porta-toilets, and you stand next to a soldier and you both pretend you\u2019re not smelling his shit in that bucket as you talk to him.\u201d - Henry Rollins, from an interview I conducted last week for the Cleveland Scene. He's on tour with the Rollins Band (not the Mother Superior version, the real one with Chris Haskett and Melvin Gibbs and Sim Cain). They're opening for X, who have had Billy Zoom back on guitar for a number of years now. What I'm saying is, you have no excuse for being anywhere else if/when they hit Yourtown.\nBETCHA CAN'T HAVE JUST ONE\nMy review of Keiji Haino's newish 2CD set, Animamima, on which he's backed by 20 sitar players, is in the Baltimore City Paper this week. So all you Balto-based Haino freaks, hit your local record store and demand this beauty.\nI BET YOU MEET SO MANY INTERESTING PEOPLE BEING A MONSTER...\nI have done a lot of interviews in the past week or so - Francisco Lopez, Henry Rollins, two guys from Trivium, and today Ornette Coleman. And with the single exception of the vocalist/guitarist from Trivium, who was nice enough but kinda bored 'n' dull, they have all been really positive experiences. Lopez is urbane, smart as a motherfucker, and extremely nice; Rollins, who I've interviewed twice before in person, is also extremely nice, and a talker, and a giant music geek (the first time I talked to him, we spent 45 minutes doing standard interview talk, and then, when I turned off the tape recorder, we spent an additional hour talking about jazz - this time, he wound up our conversation by asking me Miles Davis sessionography trivia for his radio show); the drummer from Trivium, Travis Smith, is an enthusiastic kid with brains and a good sense of humor about his music, his job, and everything else (that shouldn't be taken to imply that I dislike Trivium - their first album is good, if a little too metalcore-y in parts with the clean choruses and all, and the new one absolutely smokes); and Ornette Coleman is, well, Ornette motherfucking Coleman. I've seen him play live twice, as mentioned below, have played the Beauty Is A Rare Thing box about 1000 times since buying it the week it was released, and his new album is just as brilliant and beautiful as you're hoping it will be. It's live from last year, with the two-bass band he's been traveling with since '03, and...well...it's hard to describe just how fucking awesome it is. It's called Sound Grammar, it comes out on 9/12, and if you don't buy it, there's no excuse you can offer - I just don't want to be your friend anymore.\nAnyway, the interview went better than I even hoped it would - he's soft-spoken, thoughtful, laughs out loud at his own insights and his interviewer's responses, and rambles from topic to topic exactly the way his saxophone picks up a melody and goes tearassing across the universe, eventually coming back to where he started as though nothing out of the ordinary happened in between. So yeah, I'm pretty much floating about a foot off the ground as I type this. I don't even care that my iPod died yesterday, and ordinarily a thing like that would have pretty much crippled me for the rest of the week.\nSOMETIMES A TURD IS JUST A TURD\nI recently listened to a whole fuckin' lot of Venom. Resulting outburst here.\nOH, THOSE WACKY FRENCH CHICKS\nThis piece leaves me kinda relieved, and kinda disappointed, that I only got to interview Arielle Dombasle by e-mail. I don't know if I have the temperament for such a stereotyped meet-the-starlet-for-breakfast encounter, and frankly I suspect I don't. We would have bonded over our opinions of Broadway tourists, though, that's for sure.\n\"Dogwood Rust\" opens this album in mid-groove, a jazzy but amped-up strut reminiscent of John McLaughlin's Devotion, or Blue Cheer covering \"Third Stone From The Sun.\" Comets on Fire make no secret of their stoner leanings; there are riffs on this disc Nebula or even Kyuss would kill to claim. The album's indisputable peak, \"Sour Teeth,\" starts with a thunderous, Zeppelin-like groove, driven by bass and electric piano but utterly dependent on Utrillo Kushner's throbbing, tribal drums. Stinging guitar riffs fill out the soundscape, bolstering meditative choral vocals. Just after the six-minute mark, the band drifts into a piano-driven interlude, before amping up and taking the song out, heavy again. But there are plenty of quiet moments, too; \"Lucifer's Memory\" and the album closer, \"Hatched Upon The Age,\" are keyboard-based and reminiscent of Mountain's softer moments. More early '70s than late '60s, this album is a proudly retro-rock monsterpiece.\nTHIS IS NOT A CRITICISM\nYou know how, when punk first emerged, a lot of people heard it and said, \"Shit, I could do that\"? That's exactly what I think when I listen to Thom Yorke's The Eraser. That being said, I like it a lot better than Hail To The Thief, or, in the category of \"Things I Definitely Couldn't Do Myself,\" the Phish Live In Brooklyn triple-CD I tried to get through yesterday. (For the record, I made it all the way through Disc 1 and about 10 minutes into Disc 2 before bailing for good - they're not bad exactly, just totally unmemorable. By Track Five of Disc 1, I couldn't remember one thing I'd heard in Tracks 1-4.)\n\"THE CRYING ON THE INSIDE KIND, I GUESS.\"\nThe greatest movie never made is in line to be remade. Now, I have never been a Jerry Lewis fan. Not even The Nutty Professor (the flick everybody busts out when they wanna say \"No, really, he's a genius\") does jack for me. But I am a fiercely loyal Paul Schrader fan. I even like Light Sleeper and his Exorcist movie. (Even the presence of nekkid Gretchen Mol won't get me to stick up for Forever Mine, though.) So I will wind up seeing this thing, certainly on DVD and maybe even in a theater.\nJOHN SEBASTIAN, ROCK GOD\nThis week in the Cleveland Scene: Why are there no prog-rock bands in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?\nMARIACHI FOR ME, SEE?\nNewly arrived in today's mail: Vicente Fernandez, The Living Legend. A 3CD boxed set by the biggest male mariachi singer possibly ever. He's got a discography nearly 80 albums deep, and all their covers are reproduced inside the lavish booklet, as are the posters to the majority of his movies (one of them's probably playing on Telemundo as I type this). I also got a CD/DVD combo live package by his son, Alejandro, the other day, but frankly, Dad stomps all over his kid, who seems content to slick his hair back and play to the ladies in the front row rather than bellowing for the rafters like the old man. There's something about mariachi music that really gets me just right, whether sung by men or women - I think it's a damn shame that some shitty indie-rock band hijacked the name Lucero. (She played triplets in Lazos De Amor!)\nGO WHITE BOY, GO WHITE BOY, GO!\nMy review of the 4CD Rockin' Bones: 1950s Punk & Rockabilly box, in this week's Village Voice.\nTHE GIANT RUSSIAN ROBOTS ARE COMING! THE GIANT RUSSIAN ROBOTS ARE COMING!\nRemember how US pundits kept harping on how humiliating it was for Bill Clinton to have answered the \"boxers or briefs\" question on MTV? At least he wasn't asked to weigh in on Cthulhu.\nGLITCHES AND DICHOTOMIES\nMorning shuffle:\nRadiohead, \"Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box\"\nDeath, \"Flattening Of Emotions\"\n[It was at this point that my iPod crashed and had to be rebooted.]\nFollowing reboot:\nDeath, \"Vacant Planet\"\nChe, \"Adelante\"\nFred Wesley & the JBs, \"Dirty Harry\"\nGang Of Four, \"Outside The Trains Don't Run On Time (EP Version)\"\nUnsane, \"Sick\"\nJimi Hendrix, \"Mannish Boy\"\nYes, \"The Ancient (Giants Under The Sun)\"\nThe Stooges, \"I Wanna Be Your Dog\"\nDJ Krush, \"Still Island\"\nAnthrax, \"In My World\"\nYa gotta love that Yes/Stooges transition. I know I sure did.\nNEGATIVITY RULES OK\nI bought the reissues of Eyehategod's In The Name Of Suffering, Take As Needed For Pain and Dopesick this week. The first comes with four demo tracks appended, all of which were previously available on the (still in print) 10 Years Of Abuse And Still Broke disc, which is otherwise made up of live stuff. The second and third divide up (six tracks on Take..., three on Dopesick) all the stuff that used to be on the Southern Discomfort compilation. So, absolutely nothing new here for the serious EHG fan. The remastering job done on the albums themselves is nice, though.\n(Funny thing: even though all three discs have liner notes by EHG singer Mike Williams, I get the feeling the rest of the band bears their former label some ill will: the six Southern Discomfort tracks on Take... all come from 7\"s EHG put out between albums on various tiny indie labels, and the versions here are quite audibly mastered from vinyl. They never gave the original tapes to Century Media for use on Southern Discomfort or on these reissues.)\nWhat Eyehategod accomplished was pretty unique and important, to my ear anyway. They were to Black Sabbath what Pussy Galore were to the Stones, in a way. These first three discs, Take... in particular (though Dopesick is my personal favorite), sound like a combination of the first Black Sabbath album, Black Flag's My War (both sides - they do play fast from time to time) and Swans' Filth. Feedback all through every song, vocals that are totally indecipherable (and can't be matched up to the enclosed lyrics, ever), pounding semi-tribal drums, and riffs like a chainsaw spinning in mud. I saw them live twice. The second time, in 1999 or maybe 2000, at CBGBs with Buzz*Oven and some other bands I don't remember, they had a roadie singing, because Mike Williams was in jail or detox or something, but the rest of them needed the money, so down the road they went. The first time, with Neurosis and Unsane at Irving Plaza, in 1997 (they must have been touring behind Dopesick), Williams looked like he was gonna fall right on his face if he ever let go of the mic stand, and the rest of the band looked like they wouldn't bother picking him up if he did. I don't use phrases like \"bad vibes\" very often, but the negativity coming off that stage was like a physical force in the room. Truly disturbing, and a surprising amount of that comes through in the studio recordings. I recommend all three of these albums (and the rest of their catalog, for that matter, even the newish Preaching The End-Time Message comp, which is sort of Southern Discomfort Vol. 2 and which I haven't heard yet) unreservedly.\nYES, I WOULD LIKE SOME PILLS, THANK YOU FOR ASKING\nDirect quote from a Viagra spam e-mail I just received about a dozen copies of:\n\"And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?\"\nI saw GWAR in 1989 at City Gardens in Trenton, a few days before Halloween. There was a pre-show costume contest, and the winner was dressed as Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman. GWAR's opening bands were Mudhoney, the Fluid and Steelpole Bathtub. It's still one of my fondest live musical memories. 20 years later, they're still at it.\nSOUNDTRACK TO A TORRENTIAL MOTHERFUCKING DOWNPOUR\nor, Monday Morning Shuffle...\nKataklysm, \"The Road To Devastation\"\nJulieta Venegas, \"Limon y Sal\"\nEarth, Wind & Fire, \"Fantasy\"\nThe Sword, \"March Of The Lor\"\nMotorhead, \"Broken\"\nYakuza, \"Chicago Typewriter\"\nTad, \"Hibernation\"\nLamb Of God, \"The Faded Line\"\nSao Paulo Underground, \"Numa Grana\"\nT.Raumshmiere, \"Ost-Strom\"\nThe Obsessed, \"Brother Blue Steel\"\nThe Sword, \"Iron Swan\"\nLed Zeppelin, \"Stairway To Heaven\"\nWUUUHHHRRRKKK???\nCDs I will be bringing to the office tomorrow, to help me face returning to duty after five days off:\nAlbert Ayler, Holy Ghost, Discs 1 and 2\nMiles Davis, The Cellar Door Sessions, Disc 4\nHawkwind, In Search Of Space\nRandy Holden, Population II\nKing Crimson, The Great Deceiver (Live 1973-1974), Discs 1 and 2\nPentagram, Day Of Reckoning\nDJ Shadow, Endtroducing.....\nUA, Sun\nI've never been a big one for musical nationalism. True Norwegian Black Metal seems as nonsensical to me as Lee Greenwood, conceptually speaking (from a purely aesthetic perspective, I like the former a hell of a lot more). So the choice of what to play on the 4th of July is a somewhat tricky one. I love early-70s American hard rock (Aerosmith, Grand Funk Railroad, Cactus, Mountain, ZZ Top, Montrose, Lynyrd Skynyrd, et al.), but that's not gonna fly in my reggaeton-slathered neighborhood. Plus, a lot of that music has been \"co-opted\" by knuckle-draggers whose politics I don't exactly share. (I particularly don't wanna talk about Ted Nugent - I love all the records he made between 1975 and 1980, but damn, he needs to shut up 'n' play his guitar.)\nI've also been disappointed by recent \"political\" rock records. Neil Young's new one is, like every other Neil Young record, half-baked shit. Sometimes he stumbles onto a diamond, but the guy's more erratic than any major recording artist save maybe Lou Reed (and whether critics my dad's age [if he was still alive] wanna admit it or not, Neil Young is way more major than Lou Reed will ever be). Bruce Springsteen's album sounded fun heard with half an ear on the office sound system, but I haven't exactly been driven to go out and buy one for repeated home listening.\nSo it is with great pleasure that I announce the return of one of America's truly great bands, just in time (in my house anyway) for the 4th of July weekend. I got a watermarked advance of Slayer's Christ Illusion in yesterday's mail, and it fucking smokes.\nAs all devoted Slayer fans know, drummer Dave Lombardo has returned, invigorated by his tenure with Fantomas, guest appearances with Testament and John Zorn, and his sometime band Grip Inc., and he is slamming the kit with better technique, more control and yes, greater power than he did even on the band's classic 1986-1990 trilogy (Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven and Seasons In The Abyss, for those not fully up on their Slayerology). Christ Illusion is a fast, enraged album. The disc I have is 43 minutes long, but includes two takes on opening cut \"Flesh Storm,\" with imperceptible differences in the lead vocal performance (and Tom Araya is in fine voice indeed, sounding like he's on the brink of an aneurysm). Some of the noisy/artsy guitar sounds the band explored on the albums they did with Paul Bostaph are still there, but the way they lock in around Lombardo makes this a full return to form. And the lyrics are pure venom, with a more political edge than I recall in some time. Yeah, there's a lot of Jesus-bashing, but it's better thought-out (more aimed at the Church, and the followers) than, say, Deicide's equally musically excellent but lyrically boneheaded new one, The Stench Of Redemption.\nStreet date for Christ Illusion is August 8, but I'm gonna be blaring it (and the Slayer back catalog) on the 4th, because if you've ever seen them live, you'll understand why Slayer makes me proud to be an American.\nI BET YOU MEET SO MANY INTERESTING PEOPLE BEING A ...\nTHE GIANT RUSSIAN ROBOTS ARE COMING! THE GIANT RUS...\nYES, I WOULD LIKE SOME PILLS, THANK YOU FOR ASKING...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 19859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sacredgeometryportal.com/a-bridge-portal-aka-the-vesica-pisces/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:56Z", "digest": "sha1:X5K623H6W3PCIFGMQDSDGE5FOBPSUFW4", "length": 4103, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "sacredgeometryportal.com", "title": "A Bridge Portal - the Vesica Pisces | Sacred Geometry Portal", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb CREATION \u00bb A Bridge Portal \u2013 the Vesica Pisces\nIn the study of Sacred Geometry, there is a form that is said to give birth to all form. It is the shape of two coming together in perfect balance, with one \u201cthread\u201d connecting the heart of one to the other. It is also the symbol of Twin Flames of many traditions such as Pythagoreans and Sufis, the one that split into opposite polarities to take up two different bodies, but are always connected in the soul. It is at least a modern day symbol of the Beloved\u2026 our relationship to the Divine/Source Creator/God through our own third eye or the eyes of one we love. It is most commonly known in sacred geometry as the Vesica Pisces. I would loosely translate it as the vessel of the fish, or fish-shaped vessel, although in Latin it means \u201cbladder of the fish\u201d. After studying the meaning and math of this form, I have commonly referred to it as the \u201cBirth Portal\u201d to describe it\u2019s purpose and energy as the basis of creation in this universe. However, when I contemplate the true nature of never-ending life, there is a cycle of destruction and creation, \u201cdescension\u201d and ascension, contraction and expansion. This has led me to name this form the \u201cBridge Portal\u201d, as it is a doorway that acts as a bridge between spirit and form, matter and anti-matter, the infinite void and all matter.\nThere are plenty of historical references and symbology associated with this elegant shape. History has seen it prominently in art and architecture from the Pythagoreans to Christianity. It\u2019s mathematical equations are readily available on such math websites as MathWorld. My interest and focus has mostly been to discover the depth of it\u2019s meaning relevant for today and how the present moment connects us to the future and our past. I offer this geometric information for you to contemplate. How does it show up in your life, waking, meditating or dreaming? Does it come synchronistic to other events?\nI mentioned something about this relationship of two, and a bridge. In Sacred Geometry and Numerology it is thought that there are numbers that bridge the world of matter with spirit, those being irrational numbers, whose decimal places go on into infinity without repeating a pattern. The square root of 2 is found as the diagonal of a square. The square root of 5 is found in the diagonal of a rectangle twice as long as its width, i.e. two squares edge to edge. These squares are implied in the construction of the Bridge Portal, as shown in the image to the left. You can construct Phi (the Golden Mean) in the two squares, but it does not align with any intersecting points in the form. A third irrational number, the square root of 3, is actually embedded directly in it\u2019s almond eye shape. We can see ourselves as the Unit 1 measurement in relationship to the infinite-all-that-is of the Square Root of 3 measurement, a number you could never write out all the way as it continues for eternity, yet in this geometry we can see into the eyes of the Beloved.\nJust to juice up the romantic nature of the Bridge Portal, I leave you with this poem from an unlikely movie, \u201cHarold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay\u201d\u2026\nI fear that I will always be\nA three is all that\u2019s good and right,\nBeneath a vicious square root sign,\nI know I\u2019ll never see the sun, as 1.7321\nSuch is my reality, a sad irrationality\nHas quietly come waltzing by,\nAnd with a wave of magic wands\nAnd love for me has been renewed.\nFrom the movie, \u201cHarold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay\u201d\nIntegrity is much appreciated when it comes to self-mastery and the use of this material. You are encouraged to share this post as long as author, copyright and URL http://sacredgeometryportal.com/a-bridge-portal-aka-the-vesica-pisces is included as the resource and shared on a non-commercial no charge basis. Copyright \u00a9 2014 Elizabeth Diane. All Rights Reserved. Fair Use Notice\nhttp://www.academia.edu/1881477/THE_MIGRATING_SYMBOL_VESICA_PISCIS_FROM_THE_PYTHAGOREANS_TO_THE_CHRISTIANITY\nhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/VesicaPiscis.html\nhttp://www.hazrat-inayat-khan.org/php/views.php?h1=38&h2=16", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://salient.org.nz/2011/08/vuwsa-promises-to-change-student-body-wary-have-been-hurt-before/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WZE7HSX5ZGO6RWEIOFPNYC2GF65CPDZY", "length": 2819, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "salient.org.nz", "title": "VUWSA promises to change; Student body wary, have been hurt before \u2014 Salient", "raw_content": "VUWSA promises to change; Student body wary, have been hurt before\nVUWSA President Seamus Brady has produced a set of constitutional amendments to be voted upon in August\u2019s Annual General Meeting.\nThe proposed changes would see a reshuffle of several Executive positions and the movement of voting on Student Represent Council (SRC) motions online.\nNotable amendments include a small reduction in the size of the Executive, with the merging of the Campaigns Officer and Activities Officer roles into a Vice-President (Engagement) position.\nBrady hopes this \u201cwill allow VUWSA to place greater emphasis on improving our level of engagement with students and with the wider community. It will also give the person in that role a clearer structure to work within.\u201d\nCurrently there is a constitutional requirement for at least two SRC meetings to be held during both trimesters one and two. This gives students the opportunity to debate pressing issues affecting them as well as wider society, and vote on motions which provide a (non-binding) direction to the Executive.\nHowever, VUWSA failed to hold any such meetings during trimester one, claiming no students came forward requesting to hold one.\n\u201cOf course it was disappointing not having any SCRs in the first trimester. But the constitution allows for substantial compliance and will be rectified by holding more in the second trimester,\u201d Brady said.\nShould Brady\u2019s amendments be adopted, this constitutional requirement would be reduced to a minimum of only one SRC per trimester.\n\u201cI am looking forward to the ones we have planned for this trimester and to their potential move online,\u201d said Brady. \u201cThis will make them more relevant and worthwhile, as more students will be able to participate in them.\u201d\nThe first meeting was held on 29 July, after this magazine went to print, and put forward the motion that VUWSA support the \u2018Right to Education\u2019 campaign in the West Bank, Palestine.\nIts outcome, and further detail of the proposed constitutional amendments, will be covered in next week\u2019s Salient.\nProposed constitutional amendments include:\n\u2022 Renaming of Vice-President (Education) position to Vice-President (Academic)\n\u2022 Removing Vice-President (Administration) and replacing it with a new position of Treasurer\n\u2022 Removing Activities Officer and Campaigns Officer Executive positions and replacing them with the new position of Vice-President (Engagement)\n\u2022 Allowing for the voting option of \u201cno confidence\u201d when there are fewer than two candidates standing in the positions of Publications Committee Representative and Student Representative on the University Council\n\u2022 Moving SRC motion voting online\nPhenomenal breadkwon of the topic, you should write for me too!\n\u2190 Peas and Queues \u2013 How To Figure Out What To Do With Your Life\nKarma Will Serve Them Right \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sanjeevabhyankar.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:44Z", "digest": "sha1:IT4HFSBG34Z7ZAYIEIHIZXOGTFU3NEVI", "length": 2083, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "sanjeevabhyankar.com", "title": "Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar", "raw_content": "Devotional Music Downloads\nClassical Music Downloads\nAbout Sanjeev\nRaag Chandrakauns-Araja Suno\nRaag Chandrakauns-Tarana\nMarathi Abhanga-Aata Kothe Dhaave\nHindi Bhajan-Mai To Giridhar Ke Ghar\nSanskrit Composition-Madhurashtak\nlisten to music while browsing!\nPandit Sanjeev Abhyankar, the maestro from the Mewati Gharana, is an artist of international acclaim in the field of Hindustani Classical and Devotional Music. An extremely popular artist, he is the inspiration for the young generation. With his magical singing, he has attracted the young generation towards the Indian Classical music. In a career spanning more than 25 years, he has assumed the mantle of a role model of dedication, hard work, patience and perseverance.\nSanjeev\u2019s sustained excellence in performance has earned him many prestigious awards like:\nThe Pandit Kumar Gandharva National Award 2008 by the Govt of Madhya Pradesh,\nThe prestigious F. I. E. Foundation National Award 1996,\nThe title 'Sur Ratna' in 1996,\nPandit Jasraj Gaurav Puraskar 1991 and\nThe President's award from the All India Radio in 1990.\nHe has proven his versatility and expertise in different genres of music and has won the coveted National Award 1998 as the best male playback singer for the Hindi film 'Godmother'\nSanjeev has performed in over 200 different cities in India and abroad - U.S.A., Canada, Australia, Europe and the Middle East several times.\nHe has several albums by reputed music companies like Times Music, E.M.I Music, Sony Music, Navaras Records U.K., Music Today, H.M.V, Neelam Audio Videos U.S.A., Sona Rupa U.K., Ninaad Music and Fountain Music which have been highly acclaimed all over the world.\nHis talent as a classical composer is obvious in the numerous classical and devotional compositions that he has set tune to. Many of them are available for free download on this website for music lovers to enjoy.\nHome | About | Child Prodigy | Reviews | Devotional Music Downloads | Classical Music Downloads | Gharana | Golden Moments | Contact | Press\nWeb Media Solution\nemail: montagewebmediasolutions@gmail.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/2183/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:17Z", "digest": "sha1:OZ2P7H4XZXMQ72KKJ3QBMLKGSEJ2VZZC", "length": 2604, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "scholarsmine.mst.edu", "title": "\"Investigation of length changes in prestressed concrete slabs with out\" by John Best", "raw_content": "Investigation of length changes in prestressed concrete slabs with outside exposures\nJohn Best, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow\n\"In general, pavements may be classed as being either rigid or flexible. The term \u201crigid pavement\u201d, as commonly used in the United States, is applied only to wearing surfaces constructed of portland-cement concrete. All other types of pavements are classed as \u201cflexible\u201d. A pavement constructed of portland-cement concrete is assumed to possess considerable flexural strength which will permit it to act as a beam and allow it to bridge any minor irregularities which may occur in the base on which it rests, hence the term \u201crigid\u201d\u2026.\nIn view of the experience and information gathered in over 50 years of road building, one might expect to find precise and standardized methods for the design of portland-cement concrete pavements. Instead, nearly every state has different design practices. Because of increased usage and heavier loadings, what was once considered good design practice is now to some extent inadequate. The results of the increased usage and loadings is evident in the fact that pavements that were designed for a life expectancy of 20 to 25 years are being completely destroyed in approximately half that time\u2026.\nIt is the purpose of this investigation to determine, by tests conducted on normal pavement concretes placed on prepared subgrades, the daily cycles of length changes with temperature variation, and also to determine the longtime changes in length of slabs on subgrades with moisture and evaporation variables approximating those of normal highway slabs. Each slab will be subjected to a known, relatively constant, average intensity of prestress.\nIn accord with the above purpose, the primary objective of this project is to determine overall length changes for daily and seasonal cyclic changes of temperature and moisture on short sections of prestressed concrete slabs. The slabs will be placed in outside exposure on prepared highway subbases.\nA secondary objective of this project is to investigate changes in one-directional warping measurements along the length of these slabs. This will be done under the different intensities of average known prestress for daily and seasonal changes in slab temperature and moisture\"--Introduction, pages 1, 2, 5.\n\u00a9 1957 John L. Best, All rights reserved.\nPavements, Prestressed concrete -- Creep\nPrestressed concrete -- Creep\nConcrete slabs -- Testing\nBest, John, \"Investigation of length changes in prestressed concrete slabs with outside exposures\" (1957). Masters Theses. 2183.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scottysanders.com/article/41-what-greatness-looks-like-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KSLRULZ2VM45LRJWZIJEKNXPCXNZNI3Y", "length": 2551, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "scottysanders.com", "title": "41: What Greatness Looks Like - Scotty Sanders", "raw_content": "Last week, President George Hubert Walker Bush \u201c41\u201d passed away. Hearing all the tributes to this man inspired me to write this article.\n41: What Greatness Looks Like:\nUNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR HIS FAMILY\n\u2022 He married his high school sweetheart and took care of her until she died 9 months ago. The couple could be seen watching TV reruns while holding hands. He was dedicated to his wife, Barbara.\n\u2022 When his son George W. became President, he did not offer him advice, but rather his unconditional love.\nHe was a committed son, husband, and father.\nUNQUESTIONABLE HUMILITY\nIt was said of 41:\n\u2022 He gave credit to others for successes and took the blame for failures.\n\u2022 He never came across as arrogant.\nHe was a true gentleman.\nUNCHANGED BY HIS POSITION\nA Story Of 41: on the night he was elected President. He and his wife Barbara were at a friend\u2019s home having dinner while watching the election returns. When it was announced he had won, it was time to head the convention center for the victory celebration Before leaving; the friends found George clearing the dishes from the table.\nHe was a true servant.\nThere were no scandals while he was in office. The people who worked closely with 41 quoted him saying, \u201cWe will do what is best for the country regardless of political fallout.\u201d He always tried to do the right thing in the right way.\nHis integrity was intact.\nUNMATCHED QUALIFICATIONS\nArguably no one was more qualified to be President of the United States:\n\u2022 He became the youngest Navy Pilot at the time; flew 58 combat missions\n\u2022 In World War II and was shot down in the Pacific Ocean\n\u2022 He graduated from Yale, was the Captain of the baseball team and played in the first two College World Series\n\u2022 Began an oil company which became very successful\n\u2022 He was a Congressman from Texas\n\u2022 He was an Ambassador of the United Nations\n\u2022 He was the Chairman of the Republican National Committee\n\u2022 He was the Chief Liaison of the US to China\n\u2022 He was the Director of the CIA\n\u2022 He was the Vice-President of the US\n\u2022 He was elected the 41st President of the US\nThere were many incredible accomplishments as President after he was in office.\nHe realized his potential.\nLESSONS I LEARNED FROM 41\n1. Nothing is more important than the love I show my family.\n2. No matter my success stay humble.\n3. My position of leadership is to serve more people.\n4. My integrity is more important than being successful or making people happy.\n5. Always learn and grow so that I am qualified for the opportunity that comes.\nWhat lessons can learn from the life of 41?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scuderiafans.com/f1-2017-driver-review-antonio-giovinazzi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:26Z", "digest": "sha1:S52H632UFX63VQ4TWP6LFBWZLUM5NTNY", "length": 2043, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "scuderiafans.com", "title": "F1 2017 driver review: Antonio Giovinazzi", "raw_content": "F1 2017 driver review: Antonio Giovinazzi. Giovinazzi was drafted in for a shock F1 debut.\nBest Finish: P12 (Australia)\nChampionship Position: 22nd\nAntonio Giovinazzi made his mark through 2016 by finishing as runner-up in the GP2 Series, leading to a reserve role with Ferrari and a place on its junior programme \u2013 but his Formula 1 debut still came about as a surprise. After deputizing for the injured Pascal Wehrlein at Sauber in the opening pre-season test, Giovinazzi was benched again upon the German\u2019s return for the second week of running in Barcelona, and only traveled to Australia to be on-hand as a precaution.\nBut when Wehrlein felt discomfort upon pushing the car at high speed in practice, Giovinazzi was drafted in for a shock F1 debut, entering qualifying with only an hour\u2019s worth of practice running under his belt in the Sauber C36 car.\nThe young Italian driver put in a stellar display, though, nearly reaching Q2 \u2013 he would have had it not been for a mistake at the final corner \u2013 and enjoyed a solid race to finish an excellent 12th.\nGiovinazzi was once again in action for the Chinese Grand Prix, but had a tougher weekend. A crash in qualifying was followed by a similar shunt in the race as he misjudged the damp conditions on the main straight, slamming his car into the wall. It was a come-down for the Italian after such a strong debut, and proved to be his final start of the season as Wehrlein returned for Bahrain.\nDespite Ferrari pushing for him to get a seat with Sauber for 2018, the team opted to keep Marcus Ericsson, leaving Giovinazzi to settle for a third driver role.\nHe may be waiting in the wings, but time is ticking for a chance to come along that would allow Giovinazzi to prove his quality.\nFerrari's 2018 challenger crash test resultsA look back to Ferrari's first world championship winning Formula 1 car\nNigel Mansell: \u201cFerrari has done an absolutely outstanding job\u201d\n1 year ago\tNews2017 Formula 1 season, Antonio Giovinazzi121\nhttp://scuderiafans.com/f1-2017-driver-review-antonio-giovinazzi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://senategop.org/News/3680/Executive-Order-Rauner-creates-commission-to-study-criminal-justice-system/news-detail/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YYMJDVXKCAOUXHU6TTKGTWTNZWGPORBE", "length": 1008, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "senategop.org", "title": "Executive Order: Rauner creates commission to study criminal justice system | Illinois Senate Republicans", "raw_content": "Executive Order: Rauner creates commission to study criminal justice system\nSaying Illinois is in \u201cdesperate need of criminal justice reform,\u201d on February 11 Governor Rauner issued an Executive Order creating a new commission charged with identifying ways to reform the criminal justice system and sentencing laws in the state.\nThe Illinois State Commission on Criminal Justice and Sentencing Reform will study a variety of issues, including incarceration time, early release, prison alternatives and community supervision. Rauner said the thorough examination of the current system will be used to develop strategies to improve public safety and reduce recidivism and prison overcrowding.\nIllinois has one of the most crowded prison systems in the country, and the state\u2019s recidivism rate is dangerously high. The Department of Corrections is operating at 150 percent of capacity, while 48 percent of adult inmates and 54 percent of juvenile inmates are returned to the system within three years of release.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 203.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sentry.mainelymediallc.com/news/2017-03-03/Front_Page/City_council_wants_to_open_doors_to_area_food_truc.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YCIXAPYFPZKRTA3LYFWIJ52QLLEJTXKL", "length": 4554, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "sentry.mainelymediallc.com", "title": "City council wants to open doors to area food trucks | sentry.mainelymediallc.com | South Portland Sentry", "raw_content": "City council wants to open doors to area food trucks\nSOUTH PORTLAND \u2014 With food trucks gaining mileage in surrounding towns, South Portland is looking to join the mobile meal parade.\nAt the city council\u2019s Feb. 27 workshop, Councilor Linda Cohen said she first became aware of the rise in food trucks, particularly as a starter business for young people, when, as then president of the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce she saw Mainely Burgers score a Enterverge award for young entrepreneurs from the Greater Portland Regional Chamber. Mainely Burgers was founded in 2012 by Ben Berman and Jack Barber, both graduates of the previous year of Cape Elizabeth High School. Since then, Berman and Barber have parleyed their success to a second truck, and to a traditional brick-and-mortar restaurant in Cambridge, Mass., where they attend college.\nSouth Portland allows food trucks, both stationary and mobile, on private and public property, but only when specially permitted for a so-called \u201cspecial event.\u201d\nWith the business model on her radar, Cohen began to pay attention when food trucks began taking up spots at the summer movie series put on by the parks and recreation department in Bug Light Park. Of note, she said, were evenings when the show got rained out.\n\u201cI was monitoring our Facebook page and the question that kept coming up was, \u2018Are the food trucks still there?\u2019\u201d Cohen recalled. \u201cThey didn\u2019t care so much about the movie, they just wanted to know of the food trucks were still there.\u201d\nWith that in mind, and with more and more food trucks appearing in Portland and surrounding communities, Cohen requested the workshop on rules that would allow food trucks to operate in South Portland as a matter of course, not just at a one-off event.\n\u201cWhy should Portland have all the fun?\u201d she said. \u201cWhy can\u2019t South Portland have some food trucks? Why can\u2019t our residents and people who are visiting South Portland be able to experience the same kind of variety as people in other communities surrounding us?\u201d\nCouncilor Maxine Beecher agreed.\n\u201cIf there\u2019s one thing people complain about at Wainwright Field, it\u2019s that there\u2019s no food, no drink, no nothing,\u201d she said, adding that, she too, sees food trucks as the new hip, hot thing.\n\u201cThe kids think these are just the end-all, cure-all,\u201d she said. \u201cI think we\u2019re really missing the boat if we don\u2019t bring these food truck places together.\u201d\nAssistant City Manager Josh Reny said zoning amendments offered at Monday\u2019s workshop are based on similar rules recently adopted in Portland, as is a council policy, which would allow it to amend certain operational rules for food trucks from time-to-time without conducting a full overhaul of the governing ordinance.\nAs proposed, the new rules would prevent food trucks, other than mobile units like ice cream trucks, from operating within 500 feet of a restaurant.\n\u201cI really don\u2019t see any downside to this,\u201d Councilor Claude Morgan said, although he offered that any restaurant irked by the competition could easily put its own meals on wheels.\n\u201cIt works both ways. It\u2019s not a one-way street,\u201d he said.\nAs drafted the new ordinance would apply only to food trucks that operate on public property, such as parks, streets and public parking lots. The council voiced broad support for the proposal. However, interim City Manager Don Gerrish said staff may need to tweak the ordinances definition of \u201cspecial events\u201d to better define how food trucks may continue to operate on private property, and for private functions in public areas.\n\u201cOn a separate but closely related matter, the parks and recreation department, city clerk\u2019s office, corporation counsel and the manager\u2019s office are currently looking at the broader policy relating to public use of city property and facilities for weddings, parties, festivals, etc. \u2014 events for which the city is not acting as the primary event sponsor,\u201d Gerrish wrote in a memo to the council. \u201cThe term \u2018special event\u2019 should be better defined, processes and procedures need to be updated, and we are also reviewing liability insurance requirements. Therefore, this specific issue relating to food trucks, should it progress, may become related to this broader issue.\u201d\nIf and when an a council vote comes and the road for food trucks is unblocked, Mayor Smith said city staff should develop a \u201cguidebook\u201d for running a food truck business, similar to the one handed out in Portland.\n\u201cWe should also issue invitations to all such business around, to come and do business in South Portland,\u201d she said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 5345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://serialteller.com/serials/anchors-1-problem-decisions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:29Z", "digest": "sha1:WE6EQXUAPQNRGUKHYQKDPFFWQ53Y2WVK", "length": 5646, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "serialteller.com", "title": "Anchors No More #1: The Problem With Decisions", "raw_content": "Holly looked at him with the same eager uncertainty, \u201cI don\u2019t know, what do you think?\u201d\nHe swallowed, his throat acidic, and he tinkered the switch lightly with a gloved fingertip. Gary hated decisions. They were always so defining. \u201cWe kind of have to,\u201d he said, \u201cIt\u2019s here. We did it.\u201d\nThey were in the basement, just a short flight of stairs away from their lab. The lights were dim, only enough to see what they were doing. If the others found out what they had been up to\u2026 probably not jail time, but heavy fines for sure, ostracism certainly. They tried not to think about it and just do their work, but sometimes late at night, after the facilities had closed and they were making their way home through the clean streets of the campus, they talked about it. Hushed conversations on mostly empty streets. They were getting close, they knew it, and they had to keep pushing forward.\nThe final breakthrough had come late last week after a month of theoretical stalemate. Gary and Holly simply went back to toiling around the lab during that time, focusing on their jobs, letting their minds wander while their hands labored. As the only optical engineers in the small laser product R&D organization, they enjoyed a certain amount of privacy in their work environment and a fairly free \u2018come and go\u2019 policy on the schedule they kept. Their job required inspiration and except for the hours between two and five in the morning they were free to work when and as they chose as long as the deadlines were met. They worked together well and had earned their lax schedule with creativity and punctual reliability.\nThe whole thing was Holly\u2019s idea initially. She had mentioned it in casual conversation and later brought it up again. \u201cWhy not?\u201d she asked when Gary dismissed the thought. \u201cBecause it\u2019s impossible,\u201d he said, \u201cthe theory is sound but the physics are messed up.\u201d\nShe argued, \u201cThe physics aren\u2019t messed up, they just need tweaking.\u201d She looked at him with hard certainty. \u201cWe can do it.\u201d\nGary wanted to believe in time travel but it was just too much to take at face value. His analytical nature proved superior to his rational curiosity. The well thought out scientific argument supporting time travel and the argument\u2019s defense were compelling, quite definitive he thought, but the material actualizations of those reasonings negated their conclusions in his eyes. He cited Hawking and Goldtrap and Timmons and Lu, telling her, \u201cIn the end it\u2019s just snake oil, a sophist\u2019s ruse for the physicists and poets.\u201d\nShe smiled and said, \u201cCome look at this.\u201d\nShe showed him her work, half a notebook full of calculations and quick sketches. Holly took him through the first five pages, explaining every step, showing him how a deep meta-deviation in the mechanics of the quantum set the whole structure off. \u201cBut if we do this,\u201d she said, flipping to page six, \u201cthen we have it.\u201d He looked at the page, studied it, eventually getting his own pad and recalculating her mathematics. She was right, it all worked out. Goddamn, he thought, we can really do it. Within weeks they had built their secret lab in the basement, covering for each other when they had to, working together when they could and it all went smooth and surprisingly prompt.\nThe hardware was constructed first, a small chamber with enough room for two if they carried almost nothing. Attached to the chamber by thick cables was a thin pedestal holding the control panel and dimensional-setting matrix. With the machinery finished, they began on the programming and it was there that they hit their snag and entered their thirty-day theoretical doldrums. Holly found their way out of it, casting her sail on the briefest breeze of an idea and managing to gather enough momentum to set off on course again. Ten days later there they were, kneeling in front of the chamber, their backpacks packed and sitting between them as they fumbled with their choice. Gary moved his gloved finger from the switch and gazed at Holly with a sudden confidence. \u201cIf we do it, no matter what \u2013 if it succeeds, if it fails, if whatever \u2013 something is going to happen. I\u2019m afraid that if we flip this switch, it\u2019s going to disrupt something.\u201d\n\u201cThat\u2019s the plan,\u201d said Holly, \u201cthat\u2019s why we built it.\u201d\nGary\u2019s expression stiffened, \u201cYou know what I mean.\u201d She didn\u2019t answer but he already knew she knew. He rubbed his chin, \u201cWhat do you think?\u201d\nHolly contemplated, her jaw and chin scrunching up in that way that Gary found adorable, her short blonde hair held down within the hood of the wetsuit she wore. While she pondered, Gary adjusted himself in his own wetsuit, fiddled with the laces on his tennis shoes. Finally Holly caught his eye and without a word, she reached out and flipped the switch on the control panel. Only one side of her mouth smiled as she gave him one last look and picked up her backpack. Gary said nothing, only gazing around the basement one last time as the machine whirred to life. After a half minute, which may have well been a lifetime, he grabbed his pack and joined her in the chamber. Setting his pack down, he closed the door while she entered the code and fine-tuned the mixture. Holly saw the question in his eyes, ignored it for a moment as she finished the preparations. Then she turned to him and said, \u201cIt\u2019s too late now.\u201d She gave him a long kiss on the cheek and with a deep breath and lingering look she pressed the glowing green button. The chamber grew brighter and brighter with a white light, Gary closed his eyes, felt the pressure rising, his heart thrashing in his chest. And then they were gone.\n\u00a9 David Edward Wagner 2014. All Rights Reserved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 8540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sgdexpress.net/news/6269-vivian-balakrishnan-debunks-fake-news-about-him-collapsing-at-the-united-nations.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UMTTIWPGYWPRIURMDN6RQKC765PPUKXK", "length": 1282, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sgdexpress.net", "title": "Vivian Balakrishnan debunks fake news about him collapsing at the United Nations \u00bb Top Trending Topics Singapore - SGD Express", "raw_content": "Permanent Court of Arbitration Secretary-General Hugo Hans Siblesz shakes hands with Singapore Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan in New York. (Photo: Vivian Balakrishnan's Facebook page)\nSINGAPORE: Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has debunked an online report which said he had \"collapsed\" at a United Nations meeting. Calling it fake news, Dr Balakrishnan set the record straight in a Facebook post on Saturday (Sep 23), saying: \"I am fine in New York and looking forward to delivering my speech at the UN later today. Thank you all for your concern.\"The report by GloNews360.com, which is spreading on WhatsApp, claimed that Dr Balakrishnan excused himself midway through a presentation and collapsed in the hallway outside. It also said he was in \"critical condition\" in hospital. This is not the first time that the website has reported fake news. In June, it claimed that US President Donald Trump had called off the Visa Waiver Program for Singapore passport holders. This was later debunked by the US Embassy in Singapore. Dr Balakrishnan is in New York for the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly. He also met with former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and Secretary-General of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Hugo Hans Siblesz.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sharakpur.com/Services.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IFRK2YMZSPLTIJVV6RYC2CFJFORRYPXC", "length": 3525, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "sharakpur.com", "title": "Sharakpur..", "raw_content": "Monitoring and Tracking; and Impact Evaluation\nSharakpur is currently advising several clients on public sector reforms and developing their indigenous monitoring and evaluation (M&E). The firm is also part of Technical Advisory Group of the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI).\nThe Approach to Advisory Services on M&E\n- Needs Assessment\n- Design and Implementation approved by the Client\n- Training approved by the Client\n- Assessments approved by the Client, followed by Actionable Recommendations\n(A) Core Competencies and Past Performance\nSharakpur\u2019s primary/core competency is monitoring and evaluation, and assessment (ex-ante and ex post) of the effectiveness of projects/policy/sectoral investments, including but not limited to the following areas of emphasis: accountability, transparency, and governance (especially, anti-corruption; harmonization of aid efforts among implementing partners/agencies/firms; and stakeholder-benefit analyses). The firm\u2019s principals, management, and affiliates have been advising multilateral/bilateral development agencies. See: the credentials of the key development practitioners of the firm.\nSelected examples of past and current assignments include:\n(I) The World Bank Group\n- Annual Reporting of Development Results\n- Preparation and Performance Reviews of Country Assistance Strategies\n- Organization and Delivery of Staff Learning Programs on Self-Evaluation Criteria and Methods\n- Implementation, Supervision, Progress, and Completion Reporting\n- Quality Assurance of the Ongoing Portfolio and Non-Lending Services (e.g., via Trust Funds)\n(II) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)\n- Designing evaluation methodology and ascertaining the efficacy of its decentralized reviews\n- Evaluation of UN\u2019s Economic Recovery Programs in Iraq and Kurdistan Region\n(III) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)\n- Review of the Organization\u2019s selective portfolio in target countries\n(IV) Government of Albania\n- Public expenditure reform\n(V) Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)\n- Study for innovative avenues for mobilizing private financing for leveraging official aid\n(VI) Inter-American Development Banck (IDB)\n- Evaluation of lending operations in Latin America\n(B) Other Related Areas of Expertise in Assessing Development Effectivenesss\n(a) Economic Growth, socio-economic-environment development, public sector management and reform (institutional capacity building): rule of law, access to justice, enabling environment (including security and stability issues) and governance (particularly, formulation of a Governance and Anti-Corruption (GAC) framework consisting of political economy analysis, fiduciary safeguards, and the demand side of governance). Additionally: the firm pays special attention to cross-cutting themes, exogenous factors, mitigation of risks in achieving the immediate outcomes, and sustainability of benefits.\n(b) Regional, cross-country, inter-ministerial/inter-agency agency coordination; and local administration of development assistance interventions for the recipient countries and institutions.\n(c) Impact evaluations (results on the ground)\u2014with due emphasis on analyzing the causal chain between outputs and outcomes.\n(d) Thorough assessment (through targeted diagnostic questionnaires) of the Internal Inputs and Processes of all major multilateral and bilateral development partners\u2014from the design stage to implementation/supervision to completion of the individual projects, and technical assistance activities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sheffieldhatters.com/blog/page/44/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:CTO4B6TN6JSAZFULGQJQ3TRIEOO4KZ6Z", "length": 2190, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "sheffieldhatters.com", "title": "Blog \u2013 Page 44 \u2013 City of Sheffield Hatters Basketball Club", "raw_content": "Headlines Under 16s Under 18s Yorkshire League\nThis Saturday 13th April 2013 our U16s and U18s take on the first round of their national play off games....\nFundraising Headlines Under 12s Under 14s Under 16s Under 18s WBBL Yorkshire League\nDue to the weather we had to reschedule our bag collection on the 23rd March. Please bring down any unwanted...\nDivision 1: Hatters Still Undefeated\nWestfield Health Hatters travelled down to Cardiff this past Saturday for their second regular season match up against Cardiff Archers....\nSabre April 1, 2013\nSabra Wrice's Tips for a Successful Season Overseas Agree to disagree... 1. Pack your favorite foods. I don't care if...\nDivision 1: Westfield Health Hatters Defeat UWIC Archers\nadmin March 26, 2013 1 Reply\nThe Westfield Health Hatters have finally matched up against last year\u2019s league title holders, UWIC Archers. The two teams have...\nThe draw for the first monthly 100 club prize took place at the Division 1 game against Cardiff Archers on...\nOn Saturday 16th of March, the U14s Hatters took on Manchester Mystics for their final game of the season. Undefeated...\nSaturday Right from the word go, The hatters took control with a 48-13 lead. In the second quarter Hatters dropped the...\nDivision 1 Game Against NASSA Postponed Due to Snow!\nSabre March 18, 2013\nI am sure you have all been wondering where I have been. Its been a while since I have actually...\nUnder 12s Basketball\nCome out and join the Hatters! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycklSdKjfd8\nOn the 23rd March we will be collecting second hand clothes, bags, shoes, bedding, towels etc. Last time we did this...\nDivision 1: Two for Two on the Weekend\nThe Westfield Health Hatters hit the road for a double header weekend. They matched up against Manchester Mystics on Saturday...\nCourses Headlines Under 12s Under 14s Under 16s Under 18s WBBL Yorkshire League\nSarah March 9, 2013 1 Reply\nWe are looking to run a L2 Table Officials Course at All Saints provisionally Sat 23 March 2013.......Cost \u00a315......9.30-1.30pm........tutored by...\nHatters Determined to Win the Treble\nCome out to support the Hatters after you check this out! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiMx1uphd5w", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 4942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shepherdoffshore.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:00Z", "digest": "sha1:E6U7HMQYUEGON4A3JBTU7TLXQQNLM6HT", "length": 2430, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "shepherdoffshore.com", "title": "Privacy Policy | Shepherd Offshore", "raw_content": "This policy explains how we will handle the personal information you provide to us and what we learn about you from your visit to our web site. 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Ltd. are kindly notified that 875,000 units of Right Shares and 352,720 units of Bonus Shares have been listed at Nepal Stock Exchange Ltd. on 2071/05/10.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 5345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 193.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sikkimtourism.gov.in/Webforms/General/EventandFestival/NamMahotsav.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ESRNZHNLTBDCQAZ7APKPQADHHO264QBB", "length": 363, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sikkimtourism.gov.in", "title": ":: Welcome to the Official Web Portal of Sikkim Tourism :: Festivals | Tourist Festivals | Namchi Mahotsav |", "raw_content": "Namchi, district headquarters of South Sikkim is the destination for thousands of tourists who come here in October each year for the annual Namchi Mahotsav, a unique festival showcasing the traditional culture of Sikkim. Stalls of ethnic handloom and handicrafts are put up along with traditional houses and traditional foods of the three indigenous communities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 4227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 192.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://silentgrapevine.com/2017/10/rit-creativity-and-innovation-alumni-spotlight-symposium-william-snyder.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:52Z", "digest": "sha1:4GC7DRBKJHAEOFJMYBQJ3WPARZKIHTDX", "length": 767, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "silentgrapevine.com", "title": "RIT Creativity and Innovation Alumni Spotlight Symposium - William Snyder - silent grapevine", "raw_content": "RIT Creativity and Innovation Alumni Spotlight Symposium \u2013 William Snyder\nWilliam Snyder \u201981 (photography), a four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and chair of the photojournalism program in RIT\u2019s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences. His Pulitzer Prizes included coverage of a 1985 plane crash, documenting desperate conditions of ill and orphaned children in Romania, the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and coverage of Hurricane Katrina in 2006. In addition to winning numerous photo industry awards, Snyder has served as the official photographer for the rock band The Who.\nPREVIOUS Previous post: RIT celebrates accomplishments of physics Nobel Prize winners\nNEXT Next post: RIT Creativity and Innovation Alumni Spotlight Symposium \u2013 Renato Libric", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://simplysinglemoms.com/5-rules-you-should-never-break/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:57Z", "digest": "sha1:VAJ4GTXN53QSO5MWT4MBL7ODOWL3EJV3", "length": 5939, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "simplysinglemoms.com", "title": "5 Rules You Should Never Break ::", "raw_content": "5 Rules You Should Never Break\n\u201cShe wants me to WHAT?\u201d My then-husband stood with the phone in his hand, helplessly watching me doubled over in pain. \u201cThe doctor said this is normal and you should just wait it out.\u201d\nNever mind that I practiced medicine for over 20 years, or that I had undergone abdominal surgery before . . . I knew in my gut, quite literally, that what I was going through was wrong.\n\u201cTake me to the emergency room,\u201d I groaned. \u201cI don\u2019t care what the doctor said.\u201d\nIn this world there are rules. Some of them make perfect sense and others are accepted as true without proof. You might have learned them from your parents or your teachers. They may be unwritten or they may have been splashed across your Facebook timeline in funny memes.\nBut, no matter where you learn them, there are five that should never be broken if you want great success in your life. It doesn\u2019t matter how you define success \u2013 whether it\u2019s health, financial, relational, or emotional, don\u2019t break these rules!\nListen to your gut, your intuition, your inner voice. As adults, we\u2019re often taught to follow the facts and figures as opposed to listening to our guts. I\u2019m talking about the part of your brain that gives you the answer more quickly than the reasoning part. In several research studies, participants were given two different choices. The researchers found the pores on the participants\u2019 hands opened when they were about to make the right choice and closed when the choice was not the best one for the situation. Scientists encourage you to develop the ability to recognize responses in your body to improve the results you get in the choices you make. For instance, in one study, people who spent a lot of time evaluating their car choice were satisfied with that choice only 25% of the time, while those who made a gut decision were satisfied 60% of the time.\nListening to my gut saved my life. The doctor thought I was dealing with gas pain when, in fact, my intestines had been sutured closed.\nBuild trust. People who trust themselves are more often trusted by others. In other words, when you trust yourself to follow through on your own promises, other people can also trust you. This can be a challenge! When you make a promise, do you show up every time or do you regret it and make an excuse? When you make a promise to yourself, do you follow through or do you write it off because no one is looking? Only you know the answer to that question, and that answer identifies a deeper issue. You recognize trustworthiness in people when you see it. It\u2019s memorable. Your goal is to be memorable in your own eyes first. You\u2019ll experience greater confidence in your abilities and better self-esteem, all of which can lead to added success in relationships, finances and business.\nTo continue my story, it was a holiday weekend and the surgeon probably wanted to focus on her family. Her first commitment should have been to her patient. That weekend she lost more than my trust. She lost the trust of the nursing staff at a rather large hospital, and the trust of the surgeon who had to repair the mistake. If she had addressed the issue immediately (instead of two days later) the staff and second surgeon could have trusted her to act responsibly in the future. Mistakes happen. What you do after they happen speaks volumes about your character.\nDo not act on your feelings. Feelings don\u2019t have a life of their own. In other words, you can control how you feel based on how you think. Here\u2019s the equation: Your thoughts produce feelings which drive your actions that determine your results. This means you control your feelings based on what you think, and consequently the success you experience. Don\u2019t act on feelings that may produce results you don\u2019t want. When success is the goal, you can\u2019t afford to carry around envy, jealousy, anger and bitterness. Toss them away like the garbage they are.\nDon\u2019t act on feelings that produce results you don\u2019t want. #SSMoms\nLike yourself and who you are. There is one person you\u2019ll never be able to get away from in your life, and that\u2019s you. If you don\u2019t like your own company it can get pretty crowded, pretty fast. And, if you don\u2019t like yourself, how can you expect others to enjoy being with you? Do you want a permanent relationship or maybe improve an existing one? It\u2019s time work on the relationship you have with yourself, before the relationships you have with others will ever improve. Do you want to be a better leader? A better parent? A better friend? It\u2019s time to be a better you.\nKISS it. Keep It Super Simple: Keeping your life simple will bring great results. Life is complex enough without creating challenges by complicating the situation. When you feel the world sitting on your shoulders, it\u2019s time to simplify. My oldest son is graduating from college in December and is suddenly downhearted. He started listing off all the things that were going wrong, and that list was long. However, it included everything from the time he was in high school until last week. It took a bit of work but he could finally isolate the reason for his discouragement to a declining bank account as he was paying off the last of his college bills. Simplifying the situation and finding the solution to the underlying problem helped him to feel better. We all feel better when what\u2019s going wrong can be identified, simplified and a solution developed.\nFive rules. Five simple rules, which when followed and incorporated into your life, will bring more success and happiness. Today, it\u2019s time to evaluate your own life and where you stand with each of them. Do you need to simplify your reaction to a situation? Should you focus on becoming a better version of yourself? Is it time to listen to your intuition and start that small business at home?\nHow will your life be different when you make five small changes?\nTags : Feelings, intuition, KISS, Like yourself, rules for success, trust", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 6893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sinbin.vegas/tag/david-perron/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:BQHPHHSN26Y5RWKLONM4ZYR7HHW4IZZS", "length": 19606, "nlines": 106, "source_domain": "sinbin.vegas", "title": "David Perron Archives - SinBin.vegas", "raw_content": "Tag: David Perron Page 1 of 4\nMost of us remember moments like this, McPhee remembers much more. (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nLast year the Golden Knights second line was Erik Haula, David Perron, and James Neal. They netted 70 goals and put up 165 points, excellent offensive production for a second line. However, they posted a -26 rating despite taking just 26.3% (including neutral zone draws) of their faceoffs in the defensive zone.\nWe did have to change the second line from what it was last year because as far as second lines go it wasn\u2019t good enough defensively. It produced, but the goals against per 60 minutes was not good enough. We were actually dead last for second lines in the league. -George McPhee on VGK Insider Show\nWe can\u2019t find the exact stat showing Haula, Perron, and Neal but if McPhee uses the phrase \u201cdead last\u201d he\u2019s got to be confident in the numbers. We could find this stat, however.\n71/81/19 722:34 24 1.99\n41/92/28 152:12 5 1.97\nThose numbers are calculated based on the total time when all three players were on the ice together at even strength. As you can see, the Haula, Perron, Neal line was horrendous defensively, especially when compared to the Golden Knights first and \u201cfourth\u201d lines.\nYou can either look the other way on that or you can try to address it, so we are trying to address it. -McPhee on VGK Insider Show\n5 teams, 6 years, yet has never signed a contract with anyone other than St. Louis. (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nWith the 26th overall pick in the 2007 NHL Draft, the St. Louis Blues selected David Perron. He quickly signed his entry-level contract with the Blues and began what has now become an 11 year NHL career. Perron has bounced around quite a bit over the past few years playing for a total of six different teams over the course of five seasons.\nHowever, when it comes time to sign a new contract, one fact always remains with David Perron, he only signs with the St. Louis Blues. Perron has signed a total of five NHL contracts, in 2007, 2010, 2012, 2016 and now 2018. During that period he\u2019s been a member of the Blues, Oilers, Penguins, Ducks, the Blues again, and the Golden Knights. Yet, he\u2019s never signed a contract with anyone but the Blues, and that\u2019s exactly what he did again this offseason.\nI love St. Louis. This is the biggest reason why I came back. I didn\u2019t even want to think about anywhere else. \u2013David Perron to St. Louis Post Dispatch\nBut this isn\u2019t to say Perron wanted to leave Vegas, because he absolutely didn\u2019t. Multiple times during the year Perron mentioned how much he enjoyed living in Las Vegas and after the year he sounded like he wanted to come to an agreement with George McPhee. Alas, that didn\u2019t happen and now his time in Vegas will always be seen as a \u201conce in a lifetime\u201d opportunity.\nWe had great chemistry. I mean, it\u2019s a once-in-a-lifetime experience to go to a city like Vegas. Live there. Play hockey. And I don\u2019t mean this in a bad way, but we were basically running the town at the end of the year. Everyone was on board. It was absolutely unbelievable. The crowds. I mean, again, it\u2019s not something that you can live twice. You go from an expansion team, to really, by Christmas we didn\u2019t feel like we were an expansion team anymore. We knew we had a good thing going and we were pushing every day to keep getting better. -Perron to St. Louis Post Dispatch\nThere were many reasons to keep Perron in Vegas, namely his career-high 66 points during the regular season, but in the end, the negatives outweighed the positives with the principal negative likely being his age.\nPerron also missed two separate periods of time during the playoffs including once with what he described as a back injury. It\u2019s possible the injury scared away the Golden Knights, but the Blues also seemed deadset on correcting their wrong.\nAll I know is how much I respect the team and \u2018Army\u2019 and Tom to basically in a way admit it was a mistake to expose me and trust that I\u2019m gonna come back and be a good player for the team. -Perron to St. Louis Dispatch referring to GM Doug Armstrong and team owner Tom Stillman.\nThe St. Louis Blues return to T-Mobile Arena on November 18th.\nHe earned his place among the Golden Knights who were running the town, and though we probably should have known he was always headed back to St. Louis, Perron was nothing but first-class the entire time he was in Las Vegas and deserves a very warm welcome.\nPothier: The Golden Knights Are Not Better Today Than They Were On June 7th\nAs much as we love Paul Stastny, and we do love Paul Stastny, creating a dynasty involves more than Paul Stastny. (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nIt\u2019s a simple question, are the Golden Knights a better team today than they were the day they came up three wins short of winning the Stanley Cup? The answer is also as simple, at least in my opinion, and it\u2019s no.\nWe want to be stronger next year than we were this year. I can\u2019t say we\u2019re going to win more games, or go further in the playoffs, but we want to be a better team next year\u2026That\u2019s the goal. George is working on it right now. \u2013The Creator on Vegas Hockey Hotline on 6/22/18\nThe Creator said he has daily discussions with George McPhee on how to improve the team. Since that conversation, some can make the argument the Golden Knights got worse.\nLet\u2019s start with what they lost.\nDavid Perron: 67 Points (16G, 50A), 0.94 Points Per Game, 0.71 Assists Per Game, 22 Goals Created, 17:49 ATOI, +1\nJames Neal: 44 Points (25G, 19A), 0.62 Points Per Game, 2.85 SOG Per Game, 17:11 ATOI, -11\nLuca Sbisa: 14 Points (2G, 12A), 54 Blocks, 30 Total Goals For, 30 Total Goals Against, 19:32 ATOI, +8\nNow let\u2019s look at the Golden Knights additions.\nPaul Stastny: 53 Points (16G, 37A), 0.68 Points Per Game, 0.47 Assists Per Game, 54.9 Faceoff Win %, 18:18 ATOI, +1\nDaniel Carr: 16 Points (6G, 10A), 0.42 Points Per Game, 1.37 SOG Per Game, 12:08 ATOI, +2\nNick Holden: 17 Points (4G, 13A), 83 Blocks, 64 Total Goals For, 73 Total Goals Against, 19:00 ATOI, -5\nIt\u2019s not fair to compare the loss of Neal and Perron, to Vegas\u2019 new offensive additions. Stastny\u2019s a fine player, but he\u2019s not an elite center that can make up the production of two lost wingers. There\u2019s only a few of those, and one of them passed for Toronto.\nWe have a lot of money to bring in some quality players. If we can get the players we\u2019re going to spend the money. -The Creator\nVGK Free Agency Tracker\n)(Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nRyan Reaves has re-signed with the Golden Knights on a two year $2.775 million AAV deal. (Source: @DarrenDreger)\nDavid Perron has signed with St. Louis on a four year $4 million AAV deal. (Source: @FriedgeHNIC)\nPaul Stastny has signed with the Golden Knights for three years at $6.5 million AAV. (Source: @TSNBobMcKenzie)\nNick Holden has signed with the Golden Knights for two years at $2.2 million AAV. (Source: @PierreVLeBrun)\nA trade for Erik Karlsson and Bobby Ryan still appears very much in play (Source: @TSNBobMcKenzie)\nJames Neal has signed with the Calgary Flames for five years at $5.75 million AAV. (Source: @TSNBobMcKenzie)\nBrandon Pirri has re-signed with the Golden Knights on a one year, two-way deal worth $650,000 NHL, $250,000 AHL. (Source: @renlavoietva)\nThe Golden Knights have re-signed Maxime Lagace on a two-way deal at $650,000. (Source: @renlavoietva)\nZach Fucale has signed a one year two-way deal worth $650,000. He\u2019s a waiver exempt goalie who has yet to make his NHL debut. Previously in Montreal\u2019s system. (Source: @renlavoietva)\nThe Golden Knights have signed Curtis McKenzie, a 27-year-old winger previously with the Dallas organization bouncing between NHL and AHL. Deal is two years worth $750,000 AAV. (Source: DhaliwalSports)\nDaniel Carr has signed with the Golden Knights. Scored 14 goals in 98 games with the Canadiens including six last season in 38 games. One year, $750,000. (Source: @BBarts, @PierreVLeBrun)\nGolden Knights announced the signings of Alex Gallant and Jimmy Oligny. Both career AHLers. (Source: VGK Press Release)\nLuca Sbisa will not be re-signing with the Golden Knights (Source: SinBin.vegas)\nGeorge McPhee will hold a press conference at 2PM to discuss today\u2019s transactions.\nGeorge McPhee press conference following 10 signings in free agency https://t.co/t5ABZiGpYa\nPaul Stastny says term length was not any sort of deal breaker. Said it was much more important to find the right fit. Also mentioned that the league is so unpredictable that longer term desls don't always work out for the player.\nReaves said he always wanted to come to back to Vegas and thought his play at the end of the year gave him a better chance to get an offer from Vegas. Said he didn't really know what to expect heading into the offseason. Got a 3 year deal but decided to \"bet on himself.\"\nMcPhee says they have not yet started negotiations with William Karlsson at this time. Wanted to get through the UFA process first and then focus on the RFAs like Karlsson, Theodore, Nosek and others.\nThe Free Agency Tracker is brought to you by Adam S. Kutner and Associates, the best Las Vegas personal injury attorney.\nSince George McPhee\u2019s \u201cnot everyone will be back\u201d quote there\u2019s been a growing fear that the Golden Knights roster won\u2019t be as strong in Year 2 as it was in the magical Year 1. McPhee noted there are always three or four changes which has the speculation on James Neal, David Perron, Luca Sbisa, and Ryan Reaves running wild.\nSportsnet reported earlier this season that James Neal was looking for a long-term deal commanding upwards of $7M per season.\nIt\u2019s mildly surprising that he hasn\u2019t re-signed in Las Vegas because he would like to stay there. He\u2019s one of the team leaders. It still could get done. \u2013USA Today\nRemember when this happened? (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nIt\u2019s hard to believe the organization would give a massive contract to a player over the age of 30, but would they on a player who\u2019s 29?\nPotential Replacement:\n2017-18 Stats: 36 Goals (11 PPG), 18 Assists, 14:54 ATOI\nCareer Stats: 201 Goals, 393 Points, 0.33 Goals Per Game, 0.65 Points Per Game\nContract Speculation: 7 Years, $6M+ AAV\nNeal has 62 more career goals and is one year and 243 days older than van Riemsdyk. Both wingers have comparable career statistics, and the age difference isn\u2019t wide. The Golden Knights know what they\u2019re getting with Neal; 20+ goals, second-line minutes, plays with edge. It\u2019s an unknown if van Riemsdyk can repeat his success in Vegas.\nI could see Neal being offered a high-cost, short-term contract, but the question remains if we would be willing to sign it. It\u2019s likely his last chance at a long-term deal. One thing is for sure, if the Golden Knights offer JVR a contract, it\u2019s a sign they\u2019re content moving on from Neal.\nVan Riemsdyk was integral to the Leafs\u2019 potent first power-play unit but was otherwise seeing third-line minutes. On another squad \u2014 Carolina? Vegas? New York? New Jersey? San Jose? \u2014 he\u2019d be a top-six fixture again. -Sportsnet\nHe\u2019s said all the right things about coming back, but it\u2019s going to take a discount to make it actually happen. (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nDavid Perron is a player many fans fell in love with. His silky hands, his beautiful passing, his pestering ways, how can you not love him? With Perron, the feeling is mutual. He loves it in Vegas, he loves his teammates, and he\u2019d love to stay here. Or at least so he says to Vegas media.\nReading between the lines, either Neal or Perron likely won\u2019t be back. (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nThe Golden Knights were close to the ultimate goal, but in the end, they fell three wins short. So, they now head to the offseason with a plan in mind, make the team three wins better than they were a year ago.\nThere are plenty of decisions to be made with the roster as currently constructed and oodles of cap space available to bring in outside help.\nThe reality is in a salary cap world you have to make some tough decisions, and with this team, not everyone will be back. We\u2019ve all learned lessons over the years, if you examine what happens in the salary cap world you have to be smart about what you do and the contracts you hand out or it hurts your team. We\u2019ll do our best to keep this group together but there are always three or four changes. -George McPhee\nThe Golden Knights have four major unrestricted free agents (UFA\u2019s) which are set to hit the open market on July 1st. They are James Neal, David Perron, Ryan Reaves, and Luca Sbisa. Also, Maxime Lagace, Jason Garrison, Brandon Pirri, Mikhail Grabovski, Clayton Stoner, Chris Casto, and Paul Thompson will become UFA\u2019s in 20 days.\nIt doesn\u2019t matter where in the lineup, you have to be smart about what you do. -McPhee\nThen there are the restricted free agents (RFA\u2019s) of which the Golden Knights have plenty. The most notable is William Karlsson. In short, Karlsson is not going anywhere. Unless something unprecedented happens, he\u2019ll absolutely remain the first line center for Vegas next season. However, the projections on his contract are all over the map.\nTechnically, the Golden Knights only have to extend a \u201cqualifying offer\u201d to Karlsson of $1 million. This will happen soon and then Karlsson and his agent will request arbitration. An arbitration date will be set sometime in late July to early August. That will basically be the deadline for the Golden Knights and Karlsson to reach a long-term extension.\nTomas Nosek, Colin Miller, Oscar Dansk, Teemu Pulkkinen, Stefan Matteau, and Philip Holm are also all arbitration eligible and would follow the same process.\nFinally, there are the two younger players who are RFA\u2019s in Shea Theodore and William Carrier. Due to their age, neither are arbitration eligible. Thus, the Golden Knights can simply extend them a qualifying offer (Theodore -$874,125, Carrier \u2013 $787,500) and the player will have to sign it and remain with the team through next season. However, especially with a player like Theodore, this offseason may be a good time to lock him up long-term before he gets arbitration rights and has more negotiating power. The two sides can come to an agreement on a long-term deal at any time.\nThat brings us to the magical world of unrestricted free agency which opens on July 1st. Names like John Tavares, James van Riemsdyk, and John Carlson will be thrown around with basically every team that has cap space. The Golden Knights have plenty of cap space so get used to seeing the big names linked to Vegas, but the Golden Knights also have a GM that\u2019s historically not a big spender in free agency.\nPerron confirmed there were contract talks, but nothing ever materialized during the season. (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nComing into this season, David Perron and Jonathan Marchessault were both unaware of their futures. The two friends, both with expiring contracts had been sick of the NHL nomad life. While both were hoping to sign extensions with Vegas, only one was able to agree to terms.\nIt\u2019s nothing you really think of. In the season you\u2019re just trying to think about hockey. When you start talking that doesn\u2019t mean it necessarily will happen. I was happy to get it over with this season. -Jonathan Marchessault\nAs the new year approached, many wondered if the Golden Knights would trade Marchessault if they couldn\u2019t sign him to a contract in season. The 27-year-old admitted that he was a little concerned as well.\nYeah it\u2019s always on your head a little bit. I told my agent at some point, if there\u2019s nothing we should think of then I don\u2019t necessarily want to talk about it. I just wanted to focus on my game and see what that brings us. -Marchessault\nOn January 3rd, the Golden Knights announced they had extended #81 on a six-year, $30M contract. The midseason agreement boosted Marchessault\u2019s confidence.\nI think so. You never know what happens, injuries, slumps. I think it definitely helped me. -Marchessault\nOn the flip side, Perron\u2019s agent and the Vegas brass couldn\u2019t come to an agreement during the regular season. If that remains the case on July 1st, Perron will be free to sign with any team.\nVegas\u2019 2nd Line Not Producing On Either End Of The Ice\nThere hasn\u2019t been enough of this lately. (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\nHeading into Game 3, Erik Haula, James Neal, and David Perron had been fairly flat in the Stanley Cup Final. Then Game 3 happened, and second line struggle has turned to second line disaster.\nWe have to put pucks in, you have a little bit of time, you think you can make a play, have some room to skate, and then it gets clogged up pretty quick. For us, we have to simplify. It\u2019s something we talked about. But I just think we\u2019re just not there. We\u2019re a second late on pucks. Or support. We\u2019ll fix it. -James Neal\nIn 180 minutes of hockey, the trio has a combined three points (1 goal, 2 assists), just 10 shots on goal, seven shots blocked, seven missed shots, and a whopping -9 rating. All three are under 45%, they\u2019ve allowed 12 high dangers chances while creating just three, and worst of all, they were on the ice for all three goals in Game 3.\nIt\u2019s big, obviously the matchups. We did a really good job getting lines out there when we needed to. -Jay Beagle, Washington forward\nIt was glaringly obvious that the second line was having trouble creating any real threat. Neal\u2019s laser of a goal in Game 2 is the line\u2019s only goal, and it took an incredible individual effort rather than team play to score it. Plus, even that lost its luster after Don Cherry pointed out Neal\u2019s shot was slightly deflected off Washington\u2019s Michal Kempny\u2019s stick.\nThey\u2019ve had their moments, and yeah, we know they\u2019re going to get chances. The more we can keep them off the scoreboard and frustrate them as much as possible. -John Carlson, Washington defenseman\nGolden Knights 2nd Line Needed To Win Game 2\nMust be more of this in Game 2. (Photo Credit: SinBin.vegas Photographer Brandon Andreasen)\n0 goals. -3 rating. 18:00+ minutes on ice.\nThat was the output of the Golden Knights 2nd line of Erik Haula, David Perron, and James Neal in Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals.\nTo make it even worse, between the three of them they did not record a single shot on goal.\nVegas\u2019 2nd line spent a majority of their time on the ice against the Winnipeg 2nd line of Patrik Laine, Paul Stastny, and Nikolaj Ehlers as well as their 2nd defensive pairing of Dustin Byfuglien and Toby Enstrom.\nThis matchup will continue to be one of the keys to the series. Not only because the Golden Knights need scoring out of that line but because they must avoid allowing those Jets to score. In Game 1, it was 1-0 Jets when those eight players were on the ice, but the shot attempts, shots on goal, and scoring chances were heavily in favor of the Jets as well.\nThe Jets 2nd line shut down the Predators 2nd line and it\u2019s a big reason why the Jets are here, while the Golden Knights 2nd line had success against the Sharks. Vegas is best when they are rolling multiple offensive lines, if their 2nd best scoring line disappears, their chances to win this series dimish drastically.\nDavid Perron did not skate this morning while Tomas Tatar skated in his place both in line rushes and on the power play. Whether it\u2019s Perron or Tatar, the Golden Knights need more from the 2nd line. Otherwise, they\u2019re going to be staring at a 2-0 deficit when they board the plane to come back to Las Vegas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 25818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sineadodonnell.com/images/caution/caution-exhibition-opening-night-golden-thread-gallery-belfast-23-august-2012", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:01Z", "digest": "sha1:22QS7YCNOO36SGOUAQBIU6Z5LGK63SEU", "length": 3648, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "sineadodonnell.com", "title": "CAUTION exhibition opening night @ Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, 23 August 2012. | Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Donnell ///", "raw_content": "Caution Project Opening @ Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.\n23rd of August - 6pm-8pm.\nCAUTION brought together six artists from around the world to work on a series of solo and collaborative performances, video works, still images and installations that reveal the borders of identity.\nLed by Belfast-based artist and curator Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Donnell, CAUTION artists Sylvette Babin, Mariel Carranza, Paul Couillard, Poshya Kakl and Shiro Masuyama interrogated what it means to have an \u2018invisible\u2019 disability.\nDuring 2011, Sin\u00e9ad visited each artist and worked with them to produce material that explored their national identity and personal politics. The process was cumulative and each artist built upon ideas generated by previous encounters and journeys with Sin\u00e9ad, connecting the artists and acting as a catalyst for the progress of the work.\nThe resulting artwork sought to uncover and expose the invisible layers of identity that are shaped by the cultural codes and eco-systems that we share. In each part of her journey, Sin\u00e9ad investigated the gaps between these layers and the places that they meet.\nIn Lima, Sin\u00e9ad and Mariel met a shaman and went on a journey to explore the relationship between art and spirituality. They travelled high into the mysterious stone monuments of Markawasi and made performances in response to the ancient landscape.\nIn Canada, Sin\u00e9ad turned to the corporeal as she and Paul walked topless through the streets of Toronto to investigate the naked body in social space. In Montreal, Sinead and Sylvette found that a simple piece of glass acted as a means of connecting but also defining the borders of two bodies; creating a social relationship that enabled them to navigate familiar and unknown terrain.\nIn Kurdistan-Iraq, Sin\u00e9ad and Poshya travelled to the borders, explaining what their life was like to each other and to the women they met on their journey.\nFinally, near Fukushima, Sin\u00e9ad and Shiro donned hazard suits to test the rocks for nuclear radiation. Over several weeks, the artists travelled across Japan in an extended action that responded to the devastation caused by last year\u2019s tsunami.\nThrough this series of meetings, actions and correspondences taking place across continents, CAUTION navigates between the national and international, the personal and political, the structured and the shattered, to give the artists space to explore their limits artistically, physically and geographically; working with and against the edges of their experience, expectations and abilities.\nCaution artists were in conversation in the exhibition about their working processes and methodologies with an integrated audio described Touch Tour of exhibition, which was led by Hugh O\u2019Donnell. Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Donnell appeared at various interviews and discussions, during the course of the exhibition.\nCAUTION was commissioned for Unlimited, a project celebrating disability, arts, culture and sport on an unprecedented scale as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.\nUnlimited encourages collaborations and partnerships between disability arts organisations, disabled and deaf artists, producers, and mainstream organisations to celebrate the inspiration of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and to create original and exciting works. Twenty-nine Unlimited Commissions have been awarded.\nUnlimited is principally funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor and is delivered in partnership between London 2012, Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Arts Council of Wales, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the British Council.\nPhotographic credit - Jean Claude C\u014ft\u00e8.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://skatelogforum.com/forums/showpost.php?s=4fdbe4c97802732ab076de1405638db8&p=730350&postcount=11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:48Z", "digest": "sha1:FNKOOEOCI5MJ6CRLBP3LP5Q72OTKHBAL", "length": 894, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "skatelogforum.com", "title": "SkateLog Forum - View Single Post - Roll Line Dance Plate on a size 11 Riedell 297 boot - Can it be done?", "raw_content": "Sure. I skate a 180 on a size 13. 180 on an 11 is a walk in the park.\nOf course, I don't know what kind of skating you intend to do. That changes the answer.\n\"The chart\" as it relates to the high end art plates like Snyder, Atlas, Roll Line, etc, is intended as a guide on sizing for traditional art disciplines. If that's what you're doing, chances are that's the neighborhood you should be in. Your coach should be able to steer you.\nIf you're skating for fun, all bets are off. Plate sizing and position is a very individual thing. I skate short forward, arguably shorter than most. It works for me and I like it. 180mm is actually the upper limit. Anything longer and the skate feels like a cinder block.\nBut to your original question, no, you likely should not be changing sizes between plate types without some compelling reason to do so.\nThanks for the feedback, very useful information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smooth-jazz.de/McNally/InterviewJames.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TJX7BPAVTXPSG67NWQVOUVV4BQBNVNVW", "length": 16282, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "smooth-jazz.de", "title": "Interviews - Bob James", "raw_content": "Pianist, composer, arranger, producer Bob James is a musician of enormous talent whose credits include Ron Carter, Hank Crawford, Eric Gale, Johnny Hammond, Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws, Stanley Turrentine, Grover Washington, Jr., Earl Klugh and Fourplay. He has recorded over 15 albums of his own and 4 with \u2018Fourplay\u2019 (also comprising Larry Carlton, Nathan East and Harvey Mason).\nNotable awards include the 1996 Soul Train Awards \"Jazz Album Of The Year\", \u2018Cashbox\u2019 \u201cJazz Artist Of The Year\u201d and \u201cJazz Producer of the Decade\u201d, Jazziz magazine's \u201c#1 Best Acoustic Pianist\u201d, \u201c#1 Best Jazz Composer\u201d, \u201c#2 Best Jazz Producer\u201d, \u201c#2 Best Electronic Keyboardist\u201d and \u201c#3 Best Overall Jazz Musician\u201d. Sam McNally managed to interview Bob during his first Australian tour in November 2001.\nSM: A great pleasure and an honour to meet you, it\u2019s wonderful to see you here in Sydney.. and we met briefly in Tokyo in January!\nI mentioned to you there that you were one of only a handful of powerful, formative influences on my piano playing style in the 70\u2019s. Funny story: on January 21, I was crossing an intersection in Shinjuku, Tokyo and I noticed a guy who looked \u201cquite like Bob James\u201d. I so nearly said \u201cyou wouldn\u2019t be Bob James would you?\u201d but I backed off thinking \u201cdon\u2019t be stupid, Bob James ain\u2019t gonna be walking around Shinjuku\u201d. Next day I spotted the same guy in the foyer of the Hilton, I enquired, it was you, we had a nice chat.\nA very long and rich career, Bob. Just for the record, when did you begin and doing what?\nBJ: I started piano lessons at the ripe old age of 4 !\nSM: You are a Pianist/keyboard-player who has appeared on more albums than you'd be able to remember. What are some of the more special recordings that come to mind?\nBJ: Always a hard question to answer! A musician friend once commented that \"all my recordings are my little babies and I love them all equally\". I guess I have a similar feeling. I'd feel bad if I excluded any....however, so as not to cop out, I'll mention \"Flesh & Blood\", the album with my daughter. Definitely a highlight for me! And, since it's the freshest in my mind, \"Dancing on the Water\" fulfilled a long desire to strip away the production and just concentrate on playing the piano.\nSM: Did you begin to write, to compose, early on in your career? At any point did composing become more important than playing with other artists, for you?\nBJ: I started experimenting with composing a little while in high school, but didn't really take it up in earnest until majoring in Composition at the music school of the University of Michigan. I've always tried to keep a balance between writing and performing. One seems to feed off the other.\nSM: How about the writing process for you? Is there a 'typical' way in which you might begin to write something, a usual way you may develop and arrange a new piece of music?\nBJ: The usual circumstance which gets me over the dilemma of staring at the blank page is a deadline for delivering something to a project. Even though I was encouraged during my student years to compose away from the piano, I still find it helpful to improvise at the piano to generate ideas.\nSM: It's understood that 'getting known', getting one's work noticed in the market-place, is not easy. Any simple comment apart from \"persistence times three\" - that might inspire new artists to pursue their dream?\nBJ: I've always felt it was most important to \"enjoy the process\". If your passion for what you do is independent of whether or not you 'get known', then you are free from many of the disappointments that can grow out of commercial failures, which are an inevitable part of the business side. If you love what you do, and pursue it with all of your energy, there's the best chance that it will find a natural level of success.\nSM: Apart from your own albums and shows, and 'Fourplay'- the \"supergroup\" you head up with Larry Carlton, Nathan East and Harvey Mason - what work has predominantly filled out the last couple of years for you?\nBJ: I had a wonderful experience early this year when Keiko Matsui and I toured as a four-hand piano team, performing our own compositions with only the concert grand piano on the stage. It was a big challenge to merge our styles into one instrument and to strip away the orchestrations that are so much a part of our separate repertoires.\nThe unique discipline of giving up half of the piano to the partner necessitated some interesting compromises for both of us technically, but led to the creation of music that was very different from anything either of us had ever done. We hope to continue this on-going project next year, hopefully by completing a CD devoted exclusively to these four-hand duets.\nSM: What musical direction are your recent albums taking you in, compared to your early work and the many albums you've done since the 70's? Any specific 'sound' or new influences?\nBJ: Although I always try to start each project with openness to new directions, habits inevitably creep in; so I guess the end result is a combination of trying to keep the best of the past while still exploring new and uncharted territory.\nSM: What is the principal responsibility of a studio musician when\ncontributing to a recording session, do you think?\nBJ: As a sideman, it's vital to enter into the spirit of what the leader and producer are trying to accomplish, even if it means shifting away from what you'd instinctively do on your own. Some musicians have a difficult time with that, but I've always enjoyed that challenge. In many ways I still like being an accompanist better than always being \"out front\". Also, the musicians I admire the most, don't hold back....in other words they put 100% energy into every project. Even if you don't feel you can do that, you probably shouldn't have taken the gig!\nAs a leader, I try to make sure I communicate what I'm trying to achieve, and to give plenty of opportunity for the other musicians to express their individual strengths.\nSM: The digital recording 'culture', whereby one can cut and paste, fix errors, shift keys and tuning, etc etc. (in both MIDI and Pro-Tools etc.), may influence a reduction in musician quality. For example, in stead of \"going for the killer take\", the 'magic' performance, it's acceptable, and possible now, to compile multiple takes 'ad hoc' and let the engineer sort out the best stuff. The arbitration of 'best performance' is moving...it's a different experience in the studio now. Your thoughts?\nBJ: To me, the key word in that complicated question is 'tools'. To me, it's never been about the tools, but what one does with them! Technology is constantly changing and the newest innovations are more of a threat to those who believe that there is one 'pure' way to make music. I would use as an example the great classical pianist Glenn Gould, who loved the recording process, and was more than capable of playing the 'perfect take' time after time, but was challenged and excited to go many steps further and take advantage of every bit of technology available to him in order to end up with a complete artistic statement.\nI believe it would be inaccurate to describe the sophisticated tools we have available to us only as means to make our work 'easier', but more that they provide the opportunity to take the art to another level.\nSM: The Fender Rhodes Piano. Your phrasing on the Rhodes was incredibly articulate and \"lyrical\". How do you feel about the instrument now? Do you still play the Rhodes? Do you own one?\nBJ: I owe a lot to the unique sound of the Fender Rhodes, and it played a big part in the change of sound in the contemporary jazz of the 70's when keyboard players were influenced by what was happening in the pop & rock fields. It's fascinating to see young producers seek out this instrument to achieve a 'retro' sound, and I often get called to play on sessions where this is the instrument of choice. I don't currently own one, and no longer get much satisfaction from playing one because of the 'clunky' action. But it was that same clunkiness which automatically put a funky aspect in my phrasing that intrigued back in that era.\nMany pianists were frustrated because you couldn't really play that instrument with the same technique that you'd use on a Grand. Using too much dynamic range resulted in a kind of 'over-blowing' distortion that I didn't like, particularly in the upper register. Consequently I always tried to play it with a light touch and let the clunk provide the guts.\nSM: I met Chick Corea in Oz in January 2000 and he was almost disparaging about electric instruments, which I found a bit odd for a guy who developed such a musical personality on the Rhodes and lead synths for such a long time. Your feelings?\nBJ: I'm sure he's feeling the same frustration all of us do....the electric instruments intrigued us because of the fresh different sound, but if you trained as a conventional pianist, inevitably you realize when you return to it, how much more dynamic range there is, along with all the other subleties...the wood, the strings, etc etc. I had a similar conversation with Joe Sample, who expressed the same sentiment.\nFor me, there's no need to choose one or the other. I still like having the option of switching from one sound to another for an 'orchestration' change. I also often use the Yamaha Disklavier or MidiGrand in combination with synths, which gives me the feel, touch and sound of the conventional piano, but also the luxury of adding other tonal colors.\nSM: I said to Harvey Mason when I met him, also in Tokyo, \"what's the difference between having Lee Ritenour and Larry Carlton in your band? Is it 'apples and oranges'?\" He said \"yep that's it, exactly!\". What can you comment about the difference between these two guitar giants, what it's like having one or the other in a band?\nBJ: We regretted that Lee chose to leave the group, but the 'ill wind' blew me the good fortune of collaborating for the first time with Larry who I'd only known from his recordings. Lee & I had many similarities in production techniques and it was great to put a new tune together with him, because we would trade off the responsibilities of orchestral colors, and the resulting sound was something larger than a quartet. For those who were aware that multi-layering, and overdubbing was so much a part of studio technique, it came as a big surprise that most of our recordings were done \"live\" as a quartet, with minimum overdubbing.\nLarry's blues style provided a unique and different challenge, and we've encouraged him to just be himself, even though there was a history and a sound associated with the group before he joined. I think our audiences have enjoyed watching the new sound of the group develop as Larry has made his imprint.\nSM: Getting 'Fourplay' together must be some exercise, with the schedules you four heavyweights would have; how does that work, how do you ensure time is available for the group? And, what sort of dynamic exists creatively where you have four major artists, all leaders, in a group situation? Is the \"surrender\" to the group easy?\nBJ: Scheduling is our most difficult problem. Last year we were on hiatus because Nathan had committed to a world tour with Eric Clapton. We've just signed a new contract with BMG and will go into the studio in Feb. 2002 for our first album with the new company. From the beginning our goal was to have this group be totally democratic, with no leader. Speaking for myself I relish the opportunity to only have the responsibility for the piano chair. Of course it's a major luxury to have those three incredibly talented guys taking 75% of the reins. We usually nominate whichever composer whose tune we're working on to be the designated leader during that rehearsal or recording. Since we're all evenly represented as writers it spreads the control around and keeps things from getting chaotic.\nSM: The 70's saw the \"Jazz Fusion\" explosion, with your work, Weather Report, Chick Corea, Herbie, Dave Grusin and so many other great artists. Were those the \"golden days\" of Jazz Fusion, Jazz generally? Is the music every bit as dynamic now?\nHow about the influence of business, e.g., major label decision-making on the music, now compared to in the 70's?\nBJ: The 70's era certainly was a very exciting creative time for me. As this new genre has distilled into what has become known (regrettably) as \"Smooth Jazz\", I think the music has become more predictable. When this happens, there is the likelihood that a new direction will develop, and I'm sure the younger generation will take care of that. One thing is certain, the artists need to control the creative decision-making if any genre is to remain healthy. Once business takes over then the inevitable pressure forces compromises on the music. Never a good situation!\nSM: Did you enjoy working with Joe Sample recently? Joe is also one of my very favorite players since the 70's. There must be such a feeling of mutual respect when artists like you two, hook up to do something.\nBJ: It was great performing alongside Joe and a big challenge to come up with a couple of pieces that would highlight his style, but also challenge him to go to a little bit different place. He's definitely one of my favorites, both as a pianist and composer. It's unusual for two pianists to work together, so I jumped at the opportunity to invite both Joe & Keiko to duet with me on my \"Dancing on the Water\" project.\nSM: You were based in New York were you not? Do you still live in NY? In what way was the \"NY scene\" different to what was going on in LA back then?\nBJ: I've just moved from my long-time residence in Westchester County, just outside New York City, and now have a primary residence in Traverse City, Michigan.....a long way from the big city!!\nI think the differences between NYC & LA are much less now than they were when I first chose the east coast to try to carve out a career. L.A. seemed to be defined by the movie industry, and NY was more diverse. Today there's so much travel between the two coasts and most musicians have the opportunity to collaborate in both directions, so I really don't think there's as much of a stylistic difference in the approaches.\nSM: I know you play Japan regularly. Do you find the level of appreciation there is very high? What sort of differences do you notice from American audiences for instance? Is the Japanese appreciation at all an 'academic' sort of response? (their 'emotional processing' being quite different to Westerners/Anglo-Saxons!)\nBJ: I feel very fortunate to have cultivated many close friendships in Japan and it\u2019s always a highlight to go there on tour. Yes, there is a big difference in our cultures, but that's the best part about it to me. The exchange of ideas. Seeing how different aspects of the music are appreciated. I don't think it's an 'academic' thing at all, although there are the inevitable 'serioso' listeners in both cultures. Certainly the Japanese fans are very thorough in their appreciation for detail. It keeps us on our toes! I hope I never become complacent about how lucky I am to have the opportunity to communicate through the universal language music in all parts of the world....Australia being my newest adventure!\nSM: Were you pleased with the responses from your Australian audiences? The (Contemporary) Jazz audience base here is very small, but people come out of the wood-work when something special is on! Dave Weckl, for instance, called his band's Aussie audiences their favorite!\nBJ: I was very happily surprised to learn that I had so many fans. None of us were sure when we scheduled these performances what the outcome would be. Not only were the fans very responsive, but they seemed to be familiar with a lot of my recordings. Couldn't ask for anything more! I was given great support by the fantastic Aussie rhythm section of Philip Scorgie & Gordon Rytmeister. This seemed a risk when we first considered the idea, but those guys put my anxieties to rest immediately at the first rehearsal. They can really play!!\nAnd they lit a fire under me every night. I hope to have the opportunity to work with them again and to learn more about the jazz scene in OZ.\nSM:Thanks kindly, Bob.\n\u00a9 Sam McNally", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 16367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smooth-jazz.de/Woodrow/Dukich/DownInBrazil.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KH43PMAGB24ZPNJS3EFJJMUXVTKUZK57", "length": 1863, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "smooth-jazz.de", "title": "John Dukich - Down In Brazil", "raw_content": "It\u2019s unthinkable that a person could experience Brazil and not get caught up in the wonder and variety of the South American nation\u2019s culture, particularly its music. John Dukich, like many before him, got caught up \u2013 so much so that he\u2019s created Down in Brazil (2012), co-produced with keyboardist Bob Baldwin and Brazilian percussionist Caf\u00e9 De Silva.\nDukich made that musical venture 10 years after a weeklong vacation visit to his wife\u2019s native land turned into a four-month stay. Dukich decided to share his love of the country\u2019s people, culture and natural beauty.\nThe title song, penned by Michael Franks, sets the mood. Tranquil and engaging, it features Dukich\u2019s down-home vocal and some George Duke-like keyboard work by Nick Rolfe. Dave Stryker adds acoustic guitar.\nDukich sings some songs in English but several in Brazilian Portuguese. For Antonio Carlos Jobim\u2019s \u201cAgua De Beber,\u201d he begins the first verse in English, but switches to Portuguese for the chorus. Daughter Lilly Dukich is among the background vocalists. Famed Brazilian guitarist Romero Lumabo is part of the ensemble. Trumpeter Claudio Roditi and tenor saxophonist Don Braden also contribute.\nDukich counts among his inspirations such popular acts as Chicago, the Eagles, George Benson, Tower of Power, Peter White, Lee Ritenour, Gerald Albright and Chuck Mangione. His relations in Brazil turned him on to the styles of samba, bossa nova, pagoda, serteneja, axe and forro. Dukich sings all tracks, but he also plays trombone and flugelhorn on selected pieces.\nMany North American pop, rock, blues and jazz artists have embraced Brazilian music over the years, whether including a Brazilian-styled song among everything else they\u2019re doing, or dedicating an entire project to the culture. Dukich joins a list that includes Duke, the Manhattan Transfer, Herbie Mann and many, many more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 1916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://socialistworker.org/2018/07/23/independence-and-the-democratic-party", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:CQCJQWIIQWLFYPTOFVZMGGLRB34TBXSZ", "length": 9766, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "socialistworker.org", "title": "Independence and the Democratic Party | SocialistWorker.org", "raw_content": "Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s stunning upset in a congressional primary election against one of the most powerful Democrats in the U.S. House has inspired discussion and debate about how this campaign fits into the project of advancing the socialist left. SocialistWorker.org is hosting a dialogue in our Readers\u2019 Views column. This installment has a contribution from Hadas Thier.\nNew Conditions Give Rise to New Opportunities\nHadas Thier | Thank you to Socialist Worker, the Socialism 2018 conference, Jacobin and other outlets which have helped to facilitate a very important debate about the relationship between socialists, elections and the Democratic Party. It\u2019s critical that we learn from each other in order to deepen our theoretical and practical understanding.\nFrankly, the stakes are high on both ends of the debate. On the one hand, we face the dangers of taking any action that could potentially undermine the political independence of a developing working class movement; on the other hand, the cost of missing opportunities that we have not had in decades could leave us a small organization, isolated from a growing left.\nI believe we are in a new political moment that challenges us to think freshly about how we operate on many fronts, including the electoral one. When a socialist candidate garners millions of votes; when powerful party leaders are unseated; when the likes of CNN has to report on \u201ca mass, multiracial, working-class movement\u201d whose aim is \u201ctotally transforming the system\u201d; we have a new political terrain on which to contend.\nI will attempt to raise three questions here: 1) What is the historical context out of which we\u2019ve come? 2) Do our old arguments regarding the Democratic Party still apply in the present? and 3) What is a matter of principle and what is a matter of strategy and tactics?\nThe last two years have witnessed a level of political volatility and whiplash unseen in decades. This has led to a growth, internationally, of both the far right and the socialist left.\nIn the U.S., we\u2019ve seen the teachers\u2019 strike wave alongside the reactionary Janus ruling against public-sector labor, and successful electoral campaigns of open socialists alongside Trump\u2019s unhinged right-wing ascendancy to the White House.\nPolitics is more polarized than ever, and both political parties have in some significant ways lost their grips over their bases. We live in scary times, but we also have more opportunities than we have during the lifetime of this organization to build the revolutionary left, engage in activity and relate to class struggle. Millions of people are looking for an alternative to the rotten status quo.\nBut the political terrain that we have inherited is one of a historically weak left and decades of low levels of class struggle. In the ISO, we have long bemoaned the gap between left-moving consciousness and concrete organization and action on the ground. Powerful struggles have flared over the years, but have still remained episodic. Movement ups and downs have largely not translated into enough organization and connectivity between struggles to make a qualitative breakthrough.\nOne key element in all of this is the confidence of our side. The wider the gap between what people believe and how they see their ideas reflected in society (whether that be in struggles or in formal politics), the more confidence is undermined.\nAt the same time, third-party challenges to the status quo have remained relegated to symbolic runs and, certainly since Ralph Nader\u2019s 2000 presidential campaign, outside of a few exceptional pockets, have not gained traction.\nThis isn\u2019t the fault of the hard-working, principled candidates who have run for office, but a result of the objective barriers to third-party runs, set up by the two parties themselves and their corporate backers. The calculation of our comrades in the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) that the ground is not yet ready for a third party is, I believe, correct.\nFor both of these reasons \u2014 the need to build up the confidence of our side and the inability of third party runs to do so \u2014 I think we need to reassess our past arguments. One after another, they will leave us ill-equipped to address the current situation:\nFirst, we have rightly argued against the politics of lesser evilism: the idea that we must vote for Democrats, no matter how rightward their politics have turned, so that we don\u2019t get the \u201cgreater evil\u201d of the Republicans. We\u2019ve been absolutely correct to say that this approach lets the Democrats get away with (literally) murder and has a narrowing effect on political consciousness.\nAs the great socialist Eugene Debs put it: \u201cI\u2019d rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don\u2019t want, and get it.\u201d\nBut we have to be clear that the new generations of radicals, activists and young people who are voting for Bernie Sanders, and much more so Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, are very much voting for what they want! Sanders, Orcasio-Cortez, Julia Salazar and others, even where their politics are unsatisfactory, are not a lesser evil.\nRelatedly, we\u2019ve always argued that elections have a narrowing, depoliticizing effect, lowering people\u2019s expectations of what\u2019s possible. I think we have to recognize now that in some cases, this is true \u2014 and in some cases, the opposite is true!\nThere is no other way to understand Bernie\u2019s primary successes other than having raised people\u2019s confidence and expectations. Striking teachers told us exactly this at the Socialism conference. And where I organize, at Brooklyn College, literally every student that has come around the ISO this past year was politicized and activated by Bernie\u2019s campaign.\nLastly, we\u2019ve said that the Democrats are the \u201cgraveyard of social movements,\u201d both because electoral campaigns take people away from activism, and because the party actively co-opts movements. We are absolutely right that this is what the Democratic Party intends to do. But that does not mean that they can always succeed, or that every person who runs on their line has that intention.\nThe DSA, by running candidates and simultaneously building its own organization on the ground shows that the opposite can be true. It is providing an organizational vehicle for newly politicized people. In the words of DSA National Director Maria Svart, it is \u201corganizing people and building concrete power with a politically aware grassroots base that understands who the enemy is and is willing to hold politicians accountable.\u201d\nWhat then can we say of the principles at stake, and what room do we have in terms of plotting out a strategic position?\nI think Owen Hill and Paul LeBlanc\u2019s excellent contributions have already framed this discussion well. Rather than a blanket refusal to ever support a candidate who runs on the Democratic Party line, the key principle at stake is maintaining the independent organization of the working class.\nRunning open socialists who are funded by and accountable to socialist organization is allowing the DSA, as LeBlanc puts it, to bring \u201csocialist ideas and perspectives into the political mainstream, giving focus to the radicalization that is deepening in our country. One senses their goal is not to coexist within the Democratic Party \u2014 it is socialism.\u201d\nHere\u2019s my stab at a list of the principles we need to adhere to:\n1. The Democrats are a capitalist party, in ideology, in material backing and in their actions historically.\n2. The working class needs independent political organization, ideas and eventually our own party.\n3. We must distinguish, as we always have, the difference between the Democratic Party, which is rotten to the core, and its electoral base.\n4. Revolution (along with reforms that effectively build our side) must be the result of the self-activity of the working class. Ultimately, as Marx argued, we will not be able to simply \u201clay hold of the ready-made state machinery, and wield it for [our] own purposes\u201d\nGiven this framework, I think we should assess each electoral opportunity on the basis of the opportunities it affords us to reach a broader audience, deepen the confidence of our side and strengthen the fighting capacity of the working class and the ability of our movement to exert accountability on the candidates running.\nWriting in the 19th century, Engels advised U.S. socialists to build an independent political party through the campaign of the \u201cmuddle-headed and extremely inadequate\u201d candidate of Henry George, because he saw an opportunity there:\nThe masses must have time and opportunity to evolve; and they will not get that opportunity unless they have a movement of their own \u2014 no matter what its form, providing it is their own movement \u2014 in which they are impelled onwards by their own mistakes and learn by bitter experience.\nEngels was likely correct at the time to see a possibility to build an independent party in the still early years of the American political system. I believe that particular path is not in the cards at this point. But his overall approach of looking for opportunities for the working class to build its own movement and to learn from its own experiences is a good guide for us today.\nThe current period is full of contradictions, and no position protects us from them. Endorsing a candidate who we know cannot, through their election, change the Democratic Party, let alone the system, may be a contradictory position. But so, too, is to argue that we think the election of a candidate represents a step forward for our side, but not one which we will support.\nRather than seeking to shield our members or collaborators from contradictions, we should work alongside them, and attempt to explain and to learn along the way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 334, "original_length": 19162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://southwestansweringservice.com/call-center-service-area/ca/torrance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OEZ2MB6X54XKCGF5X7LTY2FRR3OJHIHT", "length": 1191, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "southwestansweringservice.com", "title": "Call Center Service Area Torrance, California", "raw_content": "Answering Service Call Center Service Area California Torrance\nOur Torrance call center services operate within 90501, 90502, 90503, 90504, 90505, 90506, 90507, 90508, 90509 and 90510 zip code(s).\nOur dedicated Torrance call center services team has been trained to manage calls for insurance companies, medical practices, hospital systems, inbound orders, outsourced customer service, help lines, and many other niches. 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Read More...\nGo to page << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 8209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 146.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sphvalue.com/news-resources/articles-publications/qualifying-an-expert-witness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:28Z", "digest": "sha1:RKSJHZEAX4CZXUUFLESWOJAUKETFRCW4", "length": 6255, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "sphvalue.com", "title": "Qualifying An Expert Witness | Articles & Publications | Sanli Pastore & Hill", "raw_content": "Articles & Publications \u2234 Qualifying An Expert Witness\nby: William Weinberger\nUnless an attorney pays careful attention (1) to the necessary steps to qualify an expert witness and his/her testimony for presentation to the jury and (2) to extracting the expert testimony in the most persuasive manner, the testimony of an expert can be rendered useless. Not only must an expert be qualified in the area in which he/she may be testifying; the methods and analysis used by the expert in coming to his/her conclusion must also pass a standard of acceptability and the opinion must be shown to be relevant to the matters at issue in the proceeding. Moreover, the entire manner in which the expert testifies could mean the difference between jurors either fixing their eyes on the expert in rapt attention or merely rolling their eyes.\nIn California state courts, a person may be qualified as an expert if he/she \"has special knowledge, skill, experience training or education sufficient to qualify him/her as an expert on the subject to which his/her testimony relates.\" A proposed expert witness may testify concerning his/her own qualifications, and this is the manner in which an expert\u2019s qualifications are usually introduced.\nOnce an expert has been qualified, he/she will be permitted to offer his/her opinion, within his/her area of expertise, \"related to a subject that is sufficiently beyond common experience that such opinion would assist\" the jury (in jury trials) or the court (in non-jury trials). The expert\u2019s opinion may be based upon matters that he/she personally knows or has perceived, or upon facts related to him/her by someone else, provided those are the kind of facts and matters experts in his/her field reasonably rely upon in forming an opinion of the type the expert is going to offer. The expert may also rely upon his/her own special knowledge, skill, experience, training and education in rendering his/her opinion.\nThe foundation for qualifying an expert witness in federal court is similar to that in the California courts, but before expert testimony may be presented to the jury, the judge must make a preliminary determination of whether the testimony meets the requirements under the applicable evidence rule for expert testimony. Thus, the trial judge must assess (1) whether the expert testimony is based upon sufficient facts and data, (2) whether the expert testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods, and (3) whether the expert witness has applied the principles and methods reliably to the facts of the case.\nThe determination of the first issue, whether the expert testimony is based upon sufficient facts and data, involves an evaluation by the trial judge of whether the facts made known to the expert are of a type reasonably relied upon by experts in the particular field in forming opinions or inferences on the subject. In determining the second issue, the judge must assess the principles and methodologies used by the expert against one or more of the following criteria: whether they are accepted in the field in which the expert works, have been tested by practitioners in that field, have been subjected to peer review, have an acceptable error rate or are conducted with proper standards and controls. The third factor is based upon a determination of how the witness has applied his/her principles and methods to the case.\nEffective trial testimony by an expert requires careful preparation. Not only must the expert\u2019s conclusions and analysis be clear; his/her presentation must be persuasive to the jury. The most erudite and leading expert in a particular field could be a disaster at trial if the jury does not believe him/her.\nThus it is important to humanize the expert to the jury. The initial testimony by the expert usually is about his/her background and expertise. The testimony can also be used to help the jury relate to the expert; questions can elicit information about the expert that will show the jury that he/she is a person worthy of their trust. For example, while asking an expert about his/her educational and professional background, questions can also elicit information about why the expert went into a particular field and why he/she finds the field interesting or rewarding.\nWhen presenting his/her opinions and the facts on which they were based, the expert needs to educate the jury. The attorney and the expert must strategize not just about what are the strongest opinions the expert can state, but also about what form of presentation of the opinion will be most persuasive to the jury.\nThe expert must also be prepared for cross-examination by the opposing counsel. Other opinions rendered by the expert must be gathered and reviewed, and, to the extent any appear not to support the conclusions of the expert in the case, the expert must be prepared about how he/she can honestly distinguish those opinions or explain why they do not contradict his/her opinions in this case. The expert and attorney must also prepare for any other matters in the expert\u2019s background that might be used to attack his/her credibility. These may include professional disciplinary proceedings, license suspensions or revocations, or even any advertisements by the expert or his/her company that might be used to taint the expert\u2019s opinion.\nConducting a trial is, in essence, telling a compelling story with an ending that the jury can be persuaded to reach. Expert testimony is one chapter \u2013 a very important chapter \u2013 in that story, and must be made as moving and stirring as the rest of the chapters. Assuring that the expert\u2019s testimony will be admitted is just as important as making sure that his/her testimony is compelling. Careful attention to both these important aspects of the witnesses\u2019 testimony is critical.\nWilliam Weinberger, a partner at Christa \" Jackson, specializes in complex business, real estateand land use litigation. He has litigated and successfully resolved numerous eminent domain matters and other business cases involving valuation issues. Mr. Weinberger was recently appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the California Law Revision Commission. He may be reached at 310.282.8040 phone, 310.282.8421 facsimile, or wweinberger@christalaw.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 6795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://spoilertv.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=112&t=23062&p=627042", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:34Z", "digest": "sha1:BBZEUKKWTJ7C5CCDIRRE4Z2Y7UC535XE", "length": 8594, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "spoilertv.co.uk", "title": "View topic - The world\u2019s best vampire-spotting locations - SpoilerTV", "raw_content": "The world\u2019s best vampire-spotting locations\nby Miss Ford on Fri Aug 12, 2011 2:42 pm\nI hope this thread is not too crazy or too of topic... but anyway...\nI found this interesting article on Lonely Planet site about the world\u2019s best vampire-spotting locations, and thought it would be fun to share... since we have an international group of posters maybe we have someone who lives or have been in one of those places...\nI hope you like this I thought it was extremly interesting!\nFangtastic! The world\u2019s best vampire-spotting locations.\nVampires and their stories seem to be enjoying an eternal renaissance in contemporary fiction and film. Anne Rice\u2019s Interview with the Vampire kicked off the modern raft of tales, and the popularity of more recent book and movie offerings like Twilight and True Blood shows that folks are, well, batty for vampire tales. So where can you go to learn more about these creatures of the night? Discover the top destinations with this excerpt from Lonely Planet\u2019s Best in Travel.\nThere\u2019s nothing better than going to the source, and in the case of vampire lore that\u2019s Vlad \u0162epe\u015f, legendary ruler of Wallachia, now part of Romania. \u0162epe\u015f became the scourge of the Ottoman empire and was fond of impaling entire Turkish forces sent against him. His bloodthirsty reputation inspired Irish author Bram Stoker to use him as the model for Dracula, and thus a legend was born. Bran Castle, one of his strongholds, now houses a museum dedicated to Queen Marie of Romania. It has an impressive clifftop profile, looking like the quintessential location for a vampire movie.\nVampire Bats, Costa Rica\nThe vampire bat has become inseparable from the legend of the vampire. Apparently inspired by a newspaper article about these inhabitants of South and Central America, Bram Stoker wove their blood-sucking habits into his novel and the rest is history (or at least, folklore). These small bats do feed on animals\u2019 blood but rarely suck on humans, though there have been reported attacks in recent years in Brazil and Venezuela. One of the best places to see them in the wild is Costa Rica, especially within Santa Rosa National Park and Corcovado National Park.\nMus\u00e9e Des Vampires, France\nHidden away in the Les Lilas district of Paris is an enigmatic museum devoted to the vampire. Visits can only be made by appointment, but once through the forbidding red door, the visitor is treated to an eclectic collection of books, photographs, weapons, masks, models, costumes and other curios referencing the vampire legend. There\u2019s also a creepy Gothic garden out the back. The Mus\u00e9e des Vampires.\nForks, USA\nWhen author Stephenie Meyer set her vampire novel Twilight in the small town of Forks, Washington, she had little idea of the wave of vampire tourism she was setting in motion. When Twilight went ballistic on the bookshelves, ardent fans headed for Forks, neatly arresting the slow economic decline caused by its traditional mainstay, the timber industry, losing momentum. Now vampire fans can buy undead memorabilia, go on tours to locations that resemble Edward and Bella\u2019s literary hangouts, and celebrate Bella\u2019s birthday on 13 September. Dazzled by Twilight offers three Twilight-themed tours of Forks and La Push.\nVampire Tour of San Francisco, USA\nAnyone who\u2019s read Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula will remember Mina Harker, whom Dracula attacked with the intent of transforming her into a vampire. Given that this curse was apparently lifted once he was destroyed, you might be surprised to find Mina Harker wafting about in 21st-century San Francisco, and sporting an American accent. But every weekend you can join Mina for a vampire tour of the city\u2019s historic Nob Hill. It covers documented San Francisco history as well as speculative supernatural events, and attendees are encouraged to dress spookily. The Vampire Tour of San Francisco commences at 8pm each Friday and Saturday.\nDracula Tour of London, UK\nGiven the British capital\u2019s starring role in the original Dracula novel, it makes sense that there should be a vampire tour of its darker nooks and crannies. This supernatural outing takes in a house in Highgate where the vampiric one apparently lived during his London sojourn. It also takes in the ghosts of Highgate Cemetery, the satanists of Highgate Woods, and other dark denizens. Curiously, the whole thing is then followed with a medieval banquet. Blood, presumably, is not on the menu. The Dracula Tour of London, run by Transylvania Live, takes place nightly except Mondays.\nVampiric creatures aren\u2019t just a Western obsession. Malaysia and Indonesia share the legend of the pontianak, supposedly the undead manifestation of a woman who has died during childbirth. This supernatural being is said to take the form of a beautiful woman, attracting men to their deaths by disembowelling them with her razor-sharp fingernails. You wouldn\u2019t really want to encounter one of these hellhounds, but if feeling brave you might visit the city of Pontianak, said to be named after the undead creature which once terrorised its men. Pontianak is the capital of the Indonesia province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo.\nDracula\u2019s Haunts, Whitby, UK\nBefore Dracula reached London in the pages of Bram Stoker\u2019s novel, he came ashore at Whitby. The North Yorkshire seaport is famous for being the home base of 18th-century explorer Captain James Cook. However, no amount of historic circumstance can top Stoker\u2019s evocative description of the Russian schooner Demeter blown across Whitby\u2019s harbour with its dead captain lashed to the helm, crashing beneath the East Cliff before disgorging the vampire in the guise of a huge dog. As a result, Whitby has become a popular destination for vampire-fanciers. The Whitby Gothic Weekend is held twice-yearly, in April and October, and features concerts, markets and comedy nights.\nBuffy locations, USA\nBuffy the Vampire Slayer gained vampires a big new TV audience in the 1990s. If you loved seeing Sarah Michelle Gellar stake scowly-faced evil vampires while finding time to fall in love with a reformed one then you might like to visit the locations in and around Los Angeles where the series was filmed. The series\u2019 exterior scenes at Sunnydale High School were in fact filmed at Torrance High School. Shots of the fictional University of California at Sunnydale were taken at the UCLA campus in Westwood, and at California State University in Northridge. And the vampire mansion once lived in by Angel, Spike and Drusilla is the Frank Lloyd Wright\u2013designed Ennis House near Griffith Park. You can find a comprehensive list of Buffy locations within the IMDb entry for Buffy the Vampire Slayer.\nTrue Blood locations, USA\nBon Temps, Louisiana, is the fictional town in True Blood, the rightful heir to the vampire-mania stoked by Buffy. As with Buffy, the main character of the show is female, Sookie Stackhouse, who, like Buffy, falls in love with vampires. Unlike Buffy, vampires no longer hide from mainstream society \u2014 they have \u2019come out of the coffin\u2019 to drink a synthetic human blood (Tru Blood). But vampires aren\u2019t the only supernatural citizens of Bon Temps. Werewolves, werepanthers, faeries, shapeshifters and maenads also roam its streets. While all the human characters in the series pass through Merlotte\u2019s Bar & Grill, the vampires of the show frequent Fangtasia, a bar owned by the thousand-year-old vampire Eric Northman in Shreveport, Louisiana. The actual bar used for some of the filming is located in Long Beach, California, so if you want to be a fang banger then head to Alex\u2019s Bar. Other True Blood film locations are scattered over Southern USA and California. Seeing Stars has a site dedicated to finding these sights.\nI would love to go to Romania, I actually have a friend from there and some of other my friends think Im too morbid and crazy that I would love to do this type of tourism but I would love to go visit \"Draculas castle\". Actually, I like to visit strange and unique places ....\nI was in New Orleans this year but for my disappointment there wasnt much to see related to TB there since they film everything in California! but at least I got to see a little bit of the South NorthAmerican culture and food, and to hear the accent was amazing, (I'm from Brazil!)...\nand the I was also surprised that there is a real Fangtasia bar!! I loooove to go there!!\nhave you guys been to any of these places or places that they filmed anything or had legends involved?\nRe: The world\u2019s best vampire-spotting locations\nby DarkUFO on Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:24 pm\nHa, thanks for sharing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 11079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://staffordwaltonphoenix.org.uk/donna-louise-charity-coffee-morning-october-19th-2018/thumb_p1080372_1024/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RAJZEDWZ7PDYW6UQFWZ2NA7SWIZ6LXTD", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "staffordwaltonphoenix.org.uk", "title": "thumb_P1080372_1024 | Stafford Walton Phoenix Activities Club", "raw_content": "Published on 4th November 2018 in Donna Louise Charity Coffee Morning, October 19th. 2018Full resolution (427 \u00d7 640)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stargroupconsulting.com/what-makes-a-company-great-hint-the-soft-stuff-matters/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:36Z", "digest": "sha1:XLK5OTROAVL3GXHZ43WRGAVLROFP5V6D", "length": 877, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "stargroupconsulting.com", "title": "What Makes a Company Great (Culture Matters) - STAR Group Consulting", "raw_content": "There is a SlideShare blog post that provides 3 significant examples of how a company\u2019s culture leads to much more than a good feeling. 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It is a \u201cCivil Cooperative,\u201d in line with the Greek cooperative legislation and the cooperative statute. This means that it is a civil partnership because of its advantages in relation to a \u201cSocial Partnership\u201d (as termed by Greek legislation) or in relation to any other incorporated company type of the private sector. It cannot be acquired like any other company, but it can be deployed and operated as any other company type. It is not limited by the laws governing a \u201cSocial Partnership\u201d which allows it to distribute profits to its members under certain conditions. The members decide how to manage profits.\nFormed in 2014, the time between project conception and incorporation was 2 years. Business planning and development support was provided by REScoop 20-20-20, an initiative launched by the federation of groups and cooperatives of citizens for renewable energy in Europe with the support of the Intelligent Energy Europe Program (European Commission). It is providing technical and legal assistance as well as funding consultancy to the Sifnos island cooperative.\nAccess to skills is currently very limited. The cooperative finds skilled persons (consultancy, management) from urban areas in Greece and from other EU countries. Legal barriers include national bureaucracy and RES-related legislation for non-grid-connected areas and islands in Greece. A solution was to exempt Sifnos island from the general RES legislation, by designating this effort as a pilot project. With this designation, the goal is for the Sifnos island to become energy self-sufficient through renewable energy sources. This will provide an opportunity for Sifnos island to become a leading example, through the use of proven currently available RES technologies, for other non-grid-connected areas and islands in Greece.\nThes Gala\nWebsite: thesgala.gr\n\u0398\u03b5\u03c2 \u0393\u03ac\u03bb\u03b1 cattle farmers\u2019 cooperative began its partnership in 2011 by integrating the force of 55 farms and 100 producers in Thessaly and Macedonia. Each day they produce approximately 120 tons of cow\u2019s milk, which is sold mainly in the domestic dairy market while a part of it is sold through automatic milk sellers in Larissa and Thessaloniki. The milk production of the cooperative corresponds approximately to about 10% of the domestically produced fresh cow\u2019s milk, serving mainly families and children.\nIt also cooperates in the field of raw materials, a acquiring supplies and products for members at very competitive prices, with an emphasis on safety and quality. This has led to the establishment of \u201cContractive Agriculture\u201d, a network of synergies with local farmers for the production and supply of raw materials, working to reduce the cost of production for members while providing a stable income for farmers.\nThe legally incorporated cooperative promotes the idea of cooperation between the member-producers, ensuring the sustainability of their units through Contractive Agriculture and other economies of scale into the purchase of raw materials and supplies, and also through cooperation in the full range of primary sector and local markets. The biggest problem that \u201cThes Gala\u201d faced was the negative environment that the institutional framework has caused and state decisions bureaucracy. Also, in the beginning of their operation there was distrust against the model of cooperation because of a poor impression caused by previously failed cooperatives.\nFormed in 2010, the cooperative was incorporated within 2 years. The cooperative established a strict business plan with five years\u2019 horizon development, both the cooperative data, and for the innovation of vending machines. The plan was provided with financing from own resources by retaining part of the profits of cooperative members for the development of infrastructure and to create a reserve. After securing a guaranteed price for milk for members, a small capital fund for cooperative development was created. In this way, extraordinary bank debt was avoided, even for working capital.\nIt is a combination of commercial and social business, meaning that the cooperative works with purely private economic criteria, but aims to be a big part of society, offering an everyday commodity at an extraordinary low price. At the same time, it runs a number of corporate social responsibility programmes giving direct support to vulnerable groups.\nOne of the barriers experienced was the bad financial environment and exclusion from the bank loans on favourable terms, which was combatted with equity utilization. There was also lack of institutional framework for provision of milk vending machines. A new institutional arrangement was created through the cooperative\u2019s intervention in the functioning of milk vending machines.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/Statement/2019/1/30/disaster-assistance-for-floodaffected-communities-in-far-north-queensland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6OPXR53444ENMSTJYZ5GQAYQSVKA6X3M", "length": 2033, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au", "title": "DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR FLOOD-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND - The Queensland Cabinet and Ministerial Directory", "raw_content": "DISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR FLOOD-AFFECTED COMMUNITIES IN FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND\nDisaster assistance has been made available for communities in Far North Queensland following record-breaking floods brought on by a monsoon trough over the Australia Day long weekend.\nQueensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk said more than half a metre of rain was dumped on the region in a 24-hour period.\n\u201cThis record rain comes on top of Cyclone Penny, which had already inundated the Daintree catchment, meaning all that monsoonal rain overflowed river banks more quickly and spread out across low lying areas,\u201d Ms Palaszczuk said.\n\u201cAs well as breaking records for a region no stranger to wet seasons, the floodwaters have cut roads and power, damaged infrastructure such as water and sewerage lines, and isolated vulnerable communities.\n\u201cWhile the wet season isn\u2019t over yet, and more rain is forecast for the Far North in the coming days, we are getting on the front foot to ensure those most affected by the current floods get the assistance they need.\n\u201cWe are constantly monitoring the situation in Far North Queensland as monsoon season continues and will work closely with the Commonwealth to support other communities as required.\u201d\nAssistant Minister for Home Affairs Senator the Hon. Linda Reynolds, who has responsibility for Commonwealth disaster assistance, said the Commonwealth and Queensland governments are working together to support recovery efforts as the flooding continues.\n\u201cThis monsoon has caused major flooding in the region, with records that have stood for more than a century tumbling under the depth of the floodwaters,\u201d Assistant Minister Reynolds said.\n\u201cThrough the DRFA, we are able to offer assistance to Cook Shire Council, Douglas Shire Council and Wujal Wujal Aboriginal Shire Council to help their regions recover.\n\u201cThe assistance will help cover costs associated with counter disaster operations and restoring damaged public assets, as well as providing personal hardship assistance to the communities of Wujal Wujal.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://staticlibra.booklikes.com/post/1259454/guts-by-chuck-palahniuk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:KBBJ4XCGRCZUY5I5KZVGMEZMOYT3FVFC", "length": 263, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "staticlibra.booklikes.com", "title": "Guts by Chuck Palahniuk - Static's All About Books", "raw_content": "I don't know why I read this, but it's brilliant. The author managed to keep me reading, and in some cases, did a good job of 'showing' and not 'telling'.\nGood luck if you decide to read it, and if you do, don't read it in public. :) Don't make my mistake please.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 160.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://steadystrength.com/glossary/paleo-diet/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:53Z", "digest": "sha1:C5HGCADVNT2CMICKBUHXKXDTC2CLFRGN", "length": 908, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "steadystrength.com", "title": "what is the paleo diet?", "raw_content": "What is: Paleo Diet\nThe Paleolithic era lasted for about 2.5 million years and ended about 10,000 years ago. The food in this modern version of an ancient lifestyle includes things that were presumably what humans ate in that time period.\nThe Paleo diet consists mainly of fish, grass-fed pasture raised meats, eggs, vegetables, fruit, fungi, roots, and nuts, and excludes grains, legumes, dairy products, potatoes, refined salt, refined sugar, and processed oils.\nWhat ended the paleolithic era was the development of agriculture as civilization became more modern. This was when grains were introduced into our diets. The controversial idea of the Paleolithic diet was introduced in the 1970\u2019s. The reasoning behind it is that we are genetically programmed to eat what our ancient ancestors ate. The theory is that if we eat similar foods to the humans of that period we will have significant health gains.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stg.classicalfm.ca/station-blog/2018/03/02/march-2-birthday-bedrich-smetana/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:36Z", "digest": "sha1:G3DC373UBCHIKVNM32DCICQNFQXVPLU7", "length": 2493, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "stg.classicalfm.ca", "title": "March 2: birthday of Bedrich Smetana - The New Classical FM", "raw_content": "March 2: birthday of Bedrich Smetana\nTraditional costumes in a scene from Kenish Opera\u2019s production of The Bartered Bride\nCzech nationalist Bedrich Smetana was a leader in developing and promoting a distinctly Czech musical style, a movement picked up by Dvorak a few decades later. He was active as a pianist, music teacher, and composer, and the work he is best known for is his comic opera The Bartered Bride.\nLike many Czech composers, Smetana wanted to promote the wealth of musical talent of his homeland, and The Bartered Bride is considered a major contribution towards this manifesto. Instead of featuring kings, queens, or mythical figures, the story focusses on everyday people in a country village and tells the tale of true love winning out over the machinations of ambitious parents and a devious marriage broker. Smetana incorporated traditional Bohemian dances like polkas (which are upbeat and good at parties) and the furiant (which is more rapid and fiery, but can be equally festive).\nThe premiere of The Bartered Bride, May 30, 1866 at the Prague Provisional Theatre didn\u2019t go well. It was programmed on a national holiday (this is an issue to this day \u2013 avoid programming your concerts over a long weekend!). It was stiflingly hot, and air conditioning wasn\u2019t invented yet. To top it off, war between Prussia and Austria was an issue, and folks weren\u2019t up for light opera comedy. Soon after the initial run, Smetana tinkered with the format of this work, swapped one dance for another, created a proper third act, and by September 1870 the Bride had a makeover, so to speak, and is the version we know today. In recent decades, The Bartered Bride has been performed in Europe, making its way to the States and is now very much a part of the standard repertoire in opera companies around the world.\nSoprano Adelaide Boedecker singing Marenka\u2019s aria from Act III: \u201cOh, what despair!\u201d sung in English, in more contemporary-era dress than the usual peasant-inspired traditional costumes. This appears to be an open dress rehearsal, where the cast and crew run through everything, including costumes and lighting, with invited friends in the audience. Open dress rehearsals is the best opportunity for marketing staff and invited media to get their photos without disrupting a paying audience. You can hear a few camera clicks at the start, and supportive applause at the conclusion.\nBedrich Smetana was born March 2, 1824 in Prague, Bohemia, and died May 12, 1884, in Prague.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 182.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stgeorgechicago.net/about-us/patron_saint", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:11Z", "digest": "sha1:TJNVNCPDINQALYKFZVSSH2MPR3THNQGT", "length": 19966, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "stgeorgechicago.net", "title": "Patron Saint | St. George Greek Orthodox Church", "raw_content": "Welcome \u00bb About Us \u00bb Patron Saint\nSaint George the Great Martyr\nGreat-Martyr GEORGE (April 23)\nThis great miracle worker and martyr lived in the latter part of the third century A.D., during Diocletian's rule of the Roman Empire. He originally came from the area of Cappadocia and was raised by very pious parents.\nWhen Diocletian started his persecutions against the Christians, Saint George declared himself to be a Christian and thus denied the false idols. He suffered many tortures because of his belief, but never considered renouncing it.\nThe life of Saint George is a prime example of the life that each Christian should follow to obtain salvation.\nSaint George, the Great Martyr, was raised in the Christian religion. His father, himself, martyred for his faith. After his father's death, George's mother took him to Palestine where she had some farm land. At a young age, he served in the Roman army under the Emperor Diocletian and was commended many times for his excellent service to the Empire. From the rule of the Emperor Decian, until 284 A.D., when Diocletian became Emperor, the Christian Church went through a period of peace and prosperity. During that time, the Christians obtained important positions in the government, built many churches and schools, and organized the authoritative structure of the Church. Diocletian gave many of his loyal officers political positions so that he could have the military strength of his Empire on his side.\nAfter Diocletian had suppressed the barbarian tribes which were attacking the Empire and after he had secured its borders, he began to concentrate on the Empire's internal affairs. Diocletian believed that a state religion could keep an Empire united. Since paganism was the state religion, Diocletian focused his efforts toward the suppression of Christianity.\nDuring the year 303 A.D., Diocletian summoned his aides to meet in Caesarea, a city of the Eastern Roman Empire. He held three general meetings with his aides, instructing them to persecute the Christians. Saint George, since he had shown his excellence while serving in the army, was among these aides. Diocletian asked them to pledge their allegiance to this cause by making pagan sacrifices as proof of their loyalty. All of the aides pledged their loyalty, except for the Saint. He stood in front of Diocletian and admitted his belief in Christianity, telling the monarch of the Christian teachings and the Godliness of the Crucified Nazarene. The Emperor ordered this Christian taken to prison and that a boulder be placed on his chest as a form of torture. The next morning Diocletian ordered that the prisoner be brought before him for questioning. George stood steadfast and told Diocletian of his belief in the riches of the Kingdom of Heaven.\nThe Emperor then summoned the executioners to take the Saint and have him bound to the rim of a wheel set with sharp spikes. Diocletian admired the courage of the Saint and asked him to sacrifice to the gods to save himself. He refused Diocletion's request and welcomed the chance to martyr for Christ, as his father had done. After praying to God, he heard a voice from heaven say, \"Do not fear, George, I am with you.\" With the help of Christ, the spiked wheel had no effect upon Saint George. When the Saint appeared before Diocletian not only was he unharmed, but an angelic aura had settled about him. Suddenly, two officers of the Roman army, Anatolios and Protoleon, appeared before Diocletian with two thousand soldiers. They admitted their belief in Christ and Diocletian had them all executed.\nHe then ordered his soldiers to dig a pit and fill it with lime. The Saint was then drenched with water and thrown into the pit. The water and lime would slowly destroy the Saint's body. After three days, Diocletian instructed the soldiers to clear the pit. To the surprise of the soldiers and the Emperor, Saint George sat at the bottom of the pit unharmed. Diocletian demanded to know what type of magic George had used to escape his fate. George answered that he had not used any magic, but that he had been saved by the power of God.\nThe Emperor then ordered that iron sandals be tied to the feet of the Saint and that he be made to run. As he ran, he was beaten. One of Diocletian's advisors, Magnentios, ordered George to perform a miracle. They happened to pass by a tomb of a man who had been dead for many years. Magnentios ordered George to resurrect this man to show the power of his God. After praying for a long time, he rolled the rock away from the tomb and resurrected the dead man. The by-standers praised the strength of Christ. Diocletian asked the resurrected man who he was and when he had died. He told Diocletian that he had lived before Christ had come on the Earth, and because he was an idolater, he had burned in the fires of Hell during all those years. Many idolaters were converted to Christianity because of this great miracle.\nAmong the people who glorified God and Saint George at the tomb was a farmer named Glecerios. Previously Saint George had resurrected this farmer's oxen, his livelihood. Because the farmer was so outspoken, the soldiers murdered him and thus he received the crown of martyrdom.\nThe next day, Diocletian met with his noblemen to determine Saint George's fate. They decided to beat the Saint mercilessly. The Saint nevertheless remained unharmed and retained his angelic appearance. Diocletian was convinced that all of George's miracles were done by magic. He, therefore, called upon Athanasius the Magician to break this magic. Athanasius held two vials in his hands. If the Saint drank the first one, he would go insane, if he drank the second one he would die. The Saint took the first vial and prayed . He drank its contents and there was no effect. Diocletian still believed that George was a magician; however, Athanasius realized the strength of God and confessed his belief in the Christian God. Athanasius was immediately executed by Diocletian's order. After seeing the miracles of Saint George, Diocletian's wife, the Empress Alexandra, also confessed her belief in Christ. Diocletian imprisoned her. Saint George was returned to prison and dreamt that Christ told him that he would receive the crown of martyrdom and life eternal.\nOnce again George appeared before Diocletian who ordered that Saint George accompany him to the temple and sacrifice to the gods. When they arrived at the temple, Saint George made the sign of the cross and the idols were again destroyed. The people and the priests were furious and demanded that Diocletian have the Saint executed. Saint George was taken out of the city and as he turned his head toward the executioner, he was beheaded.\nIn the history of our Church, we find a myth related to a dragon and Saint George. This dragon threatened the idolaters in the area of Atalia. The people were forced to live inside the walls of their city. This prevented them from tending their fields and grazing their sheep. Every year, they would sacrifice a young girl to the dragon. When Saint George arrived in this area, the King's daughter was about to be sacrificed. After subduing the dragon, Saint George placed a rope around its neck. He then gave the rope to the princess so that she could lead the beast back to the city. Thence, he slaughtered the terror and subsequently baptized thousands of the city's inhabitants.\nIt is from the icon of Saint George that this myth came about. The icon depicts the Saint as an equestrian slaying the dragon with the princess in the background. The first iconographers of Saint George were probably trying to depict Satan as the dragon and Saint George conquering evil. Another explanation of this icon is that the artists were trying to depict Diocletian as the dragon and Saint George conquering him. The princess in the background could have been the Empress Alexandra who watched Saint George as he triumphed. She could also symbolize Christianity, or the Church itself. When the Crusaders journeyed through the Byzantine Empire, they saw this icon and from its depiction they interpreted the legend which they spread throughout western Europe.\nSome Miracles of Saint George\n1. A woman had bought a pillar for a church being dedicated to Saint George in Rome. However, she had no means of transporting the pillar. One night she dreamt of Saint George. He helped her to lift the pillar and then throw it into the sea. Soon afterwards, the pillar was found in Rome with instructions to place it on the right side of the church as the woman had wished.\n2. In the city of Paflagonia in Pontus, many churches had been dedicated to Saint George. Many families named their children George or Georgia in honor of this great martyr. The following, miracle concerns one particularly pious couple who had named their son George. The boy had been raised with great faith. As was the law, when he became twenty years old, he served in the army. During a battle with a barbaric tribe, many Christian soldiers were either murdered, imprisoned, or enslaved. George became a personal slave to one of the barbarian officers. His parents, giving him up for dead, had mourned him for a year. They went to one of the churches dedicated to Saint George and asked that he tell them what had happened to their son. The Feast Day of Saint George was being celebrated on the anniversary of the boy's disappearance. The parents invited their relatives to dinner since they hoped that Saint George would give them a sign concerning their son. That same evening, the barbarian master was preparing for a dinner and ordered George to draw some water with which to wash his master's feet. As he drew the water he cried and prayed to Saint George to reunite him with his family. As he prepared to return to his master, a horseman appeared before him on a white horse. It was Saint George. The Saint put him on the horse and the boy found himself in the house of his parents while they were eating. One may imagine the happiness that filled that house. It is from this miracle that another icon of Saint George is based. It depicts a boy on the back of the horse with Saint George. This icon was first made in early Byzantium.\n3. In the same city of Paflagonia, some children were playing in the courtyard of the Church of Saint George. One of the boys was being teased by the others. He went to the icon of Saint George to ask for help. In return, the boy promised to make the Saint a food called sfouggato a type of onion omelet. The boy returned to the courtyard and won a wrestling match with several boys. He went home and made the sfouggato and took it to the Saint's icon. Shortly afterwards, three young men entered the church and saw the food. In jest, they said that the Saint would not eat the food, so they decided to sit on the steps of the altar and eat it themselves. When they tried to get up, they found themselves stuck to the marble steps. Only after offering the Saint three gold pieces, were they able to leave.\nSome Icons of Saint George\nThe icon of Saint George is rarely missing from the first row of icons of the iconostasis. A town with several Greek Orthodox Churches normally has one church named after this great martyr. His great honor is derived not only from the miracles which have been attributed to him, but also because many of his icons have performed miracles.\n1. The Icon of Saint George in the Holy Monastery of Zographos on Mount Athos: In the year 919, three brothers-Moses, Aaron, and Vasilios-went to Mount Athos to become monks. They built three tents in a large valley near the river. They also built a small church near there, but were skeptical about what saint to name the church after. They prepared the board on which the icon of the patron saint of the church was to be painted, however, they did not paint the icon because they could not decide to which saint the church should be dedicated. When the monks went to the church the next morning, they found that an icon of Saint George had been painted on the board. The icon was painted in an ancient style. This miracle showed the brothers that God wanted their church dedicated to Saint George.\nThe institution which the brothers had established was named the Monastery of Zographos, or the Monastery of the Painter because of the icon's miraculous appearance.\nThe following is considered to be the history of this icon before its appearance in the Monastery of Zographos: This icon was originally in the Monastery of Phenol, located in Liana. From the time that Evstratios was the abbot of this monastery, the icon had performed many miracles. One day in the presence of the monks, the icon came off of the piece of wood on which it had been painted and disappeared from their sight. The monks were extremely saddened by this event and felt that God had forsaken them. Then, the Abbot Evstratios saw Saint George before him and the Saint told him not to weep for him for he was on Mount Athos. The abbot told the other brothers of his vision. Evstratios left the monastery, and after going to Jerusalem, he embarked on his journey to Mount Athos. After searching in many of the monasteries for the icon, he finally came upon the Monastery of Zographos. When he entered the church, he saw the icon hanging without anything supporting it. Evstratios remained at that monastery until his other brothers came to see the miracle.\nThat icon performed the following miracle: The Bishop Vothenon visited the monastery and began to question the events without faith. Pointing to the icon, he laughed and said, \"Is this the miraculous icon?\" He placed his finger on the icon and there it stuck. To this day, visitors to the monastery can still see the finger hanging on the icon.\n2. The Miraculous Icon of Saint George Which Came by Sea From Arabia: This icon was found in the harbor of the Monastery of Vatopedi. Later it was discovered that the icon had originally come from Arabia. The abbots of the different monasteries began to argue about whom the icon belonged. They decided to place the icon on the back of a donkey. The onager was left on the cross roads between Mount Athos and Salonika. It was agreed that whichever monastery the donkey went to could rightfully claim the icon. The donkey proceeded to the Monastery of Zographos. After the donkey arrived there, it died. The icon was placed on the left pillar of the church, opposite the other miraculous icon of Saint George.\n3. The Third Icon of Saint George in the Monastery of Zographos: On the third pillar of the Church of Saint George of the Monastery of Zographos hangs a third icon of the Saint. This icon had belonged to the ruler of Moldavia (Romania), Stephen. When ever he went into battle, Stephen would carry this icon with him. After capturing Constantinople, the Turks came to the land ruled by Stephen. He decided to fight the Turks inside the walls of the city. He saw a vision of Saint George which told him that the Saint would help him to be victorious. After the battle, Stephen took the icon to the Monastery of Zographos and gave a great deal of money for the purpose of beautifying this holy place.\n4. The Miraculous Icon of Saint George in the Monastery of Xenophontos on Mount Athos: During the Iconoclast Period, several soldiers had taken an icon of Saint George and thrown it into a fire with other icons. When the fire had died, some bystanders saw that it had not consumed the icon of Saint George, but had damaged only a small portion of it. One soldier ran his sword into the face of the Saint. Blood emerged from this spot. The soldiers were so frightened that they ran. Some Iconodules who witnessed this miracle, took the icon to protect it from the soldiers in case they returned. They took it to the shore and placed it into the water. Then they prayed to the Saint to guide his icon to a place where it would continue to perform miracles. The icon landed at the Monastery of Xenophone on Mount Athos. The blood stains and the burnt clothing of the Saint can still be seen on the icon.\nIt should be noted here that there is a theory that Saint George and Saint Phanourios (August 27) are one and the same. This is so because Saint George's birth was said to have occurred in the city of Phanouel and because the tortures which the two Saints underwent were so similar. This theory has not been completely proven.\nThe fame of Saint George spread all over the East, and the Crusaders brought their devotion for the warrior Saint back to Europe. Through the Crusaders, Saint George became the patron Saint of England. He is also the patron Saint of Syria and Lebanon. The Emperor Constantine dedicated a church to him not long after his martyrdom, and in later times, he became an object of devotion for Christians and Muslims alike.\nSaint George is the protector of Christians, and the patron of all who fight for righteousness. His cheerful fortitude and unswerving loyalty have inspired generations of Christians the world over.\nAdapted from A History of Eastern Orthodox Saints (pp. 127-143) by Michael James Fochios, edited by Aristides Isidoros Cederaki\nConsecration of the Church of the holy and Great-martyr GEORGE at Lydda where his holy body was translated. (November 3)\nAfter his beheading, his servant collected his precious relics and testament and went to Palestine, where he and the Christians interred that sacred body with reverence and honor. The servant also fulfilled all the requests bequeathed by the saint.\nNow much time had passed before the great and ever-memorable Constantine held the scepter as emperor (306-337) and shone forth in piety as an equal to the apostles. It was during his reign that the friends and admirers of Saint George, under the direction of the emperor's mother, Saint Helen, built an elegant and beautiful church in Lydda (Diospolis, Lod), at a distance of nine miles east of Joppa and thirty miles from Jerusalem. The Christians translated the relics of Saint George to the newly built church. Simultaneously with the deposition of the relics, the church was consecrated and dedicated on the 3rd of November. The Christian community expanded in Lydda, so that in 325 its bishop attended the first Ecumenical Council.\nIn the fifth century, the majestic basilica attracted many pilgrims. After the Arab conquest in the seventh century, the Crusaders rebuilt the church into a fortified cathedral. In 1260, the cathedral was destroyed by the Mamelukes. On account of the fame of the saint's miracles, in 1268, the Moslems built a large mosque on part of the Crusader cathedral's ruins, which had incorporated stonework from earlier churches, including columns and other architectural remains from the Byzantine church that had stood on the site. Parts of the fifth-century basilica are even now incorporated in the mosque called Djamaa-al-Kabir, which has persevered on one of the pillars the following Greek inscription: \"Those administering the city of old adorned this splendid edifice sacred to the glory of Christ.\" It was in 1870 that the Orthodox received permission to erect a church on the remaining portion of the ruins that lie adjacent to the mosque. The present day Church of Saint George was built over the ruins of the Crusader cathedral in 1893. Remnants of the Byzantine church can be viewed in the courtyard.\nThe tomb of the Great-martyr is now in the crypt of this church. Since the saint has wrought many miracles for the demonized, a set of chains in which the demonized were restrained has been attached to a column at the right of the iconstasision. For those who hasten with faith to the saint, an everflowing stream of miracles gushes forth from the saint's relics; for God knows to glorify those who glorify Him. Hence the holy Church commemorates this feast yearly, that is , the translation of the relics of Saint George, to the glory and praise of Christ, our true God, and His Great-martyr George.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 20973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stjohnsmlb.org/2018/04/good-or-true/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3G4APPPVA3UPFVA4EJYTYW5YUZ7ILV4O", "length": 1765, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "stjohnsmlb.org", "title": "Good or True? \u2013 St. John's Episcopal Church", "raw_content": "Good or True?\nApr 12, 2018 | Posted by\tericturner | Uncategorized\t| 0 comments |\nAre you a Christian because it is helps people and society be better, or because you believe it is true? C.S. Lewis often struggled to help folks keep clear that one is a Christian not because Christian faith is good, or helpful, but because it is true. He put it this way: \u201cChristianity is a statement which, if false, is of no importance, and, if true, is of infinite importance. The one thing it cannot be is moderately important.\u201d *\nAt no time in the church year is this more clear than at Easter. Easter proclaims an historical event \u2014 the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Biblical accounts go to great lengths to make it clear that Jesus\u2019 resurrection is an actual event in history, at a particular time and place. The tomb was, and is, empty! It is true.\nBut, of course, the purpose does not end with a fact, but with the Christian life of discipleship and our life with Jesus for eternity. This Sunday, we read from Luke of Jesus\u2019 resurrection. (Click here to read the passage.) This passage is actually the final reminder of the historical resurrection we will read for the season of Easter and it begins the transition to the implications of the resurrection.\nOur first task as the community of the resurrection is that we are witnesses. Being a witness does not mean standing on the street corners shouting about the resurrection, but living as a resurrection people \u2014 living as people who are citizens of the Kingdom of God, not as people enslaved to the wants, priorities and values of this Kingdom.\nWhat Kingdom do you serve?\n* C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock.\nThis column appeared in the April 15, 2018 issue of St. John\u2019s weekly eNews. Click here for the complete issue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 5765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://store.fldevcorp.com/details.cfm?id=824", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:46Z", "digest": "sha1:KNICI6T7F7ICCS5UU2J3HUECEBM6YXZP", "length": 197, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "store.fldevcorp.com", "title": "FLDC Store: Chopin, Dinu Lipatti - Sonata N. 3 In B Minor, Op. 58 / Barcarolle In F-Sharp Major, Op. 60 / Nocturne No. 8 In D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 / Mazurka No. 32 In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 50, No. 3 (LP, Mono) [VINYL, VG $10.00]", "raw_content": "Chopin, Dinu Lipatti\nSonata N. 3 In B Minor, Op. 58 / Barcarolle In F-Sharp Major, Op. 60 / Nocturne No. 8 In D-Flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2 / Mazurka No. 32 In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 50, No. 3 (LP, Mono)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 42.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://studyfriend.net/why-products-arent-as-bad-as-you-think.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:28Z", "digest": "sha1:URXQUMAYYYZDCPLT5SX32BLB6EYU5VYS", "length": 2701, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "studyfriend.net", "title": "Why Products Aren't As Bad As You Think | STUDY FRIEND", "raw_content": "Top Reasons As To Why Security Cameras Are Beneficial\nThrough constant discovery and innovation, technology has made the daily lives of people more convenient and easy, securing their properties and wellbeing, this is made possible through the help of security products, specifically security camera. Security cameras give numerous of benefits to wherever place or establishment it is installed, it functions 24/7 for monitoring and surveillance purposes. Stuck between wanting to have one and worrying about the cost of the whole installation process and its maintenance? Take a look a the list of as to why installing security cameras is beneficial to most people?\nIt offers nonstop surveillance every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week and because of this whether there is anyone around or not, your home or any other establishment is secured.\nSecurity cameras are built with two reasons in mind security and safety, as security cameras keep an eye on the activities going on inside a premises, people who stay guard are on alert on whether or not there is potential harm.\nIt covers the area of where it is placed and it records whatever is happening within that area.\nMost establishments have these installed, for the reason that it is convenient in keeping track of the business activity whenever the owners are away, to make sure that employees are doing their jobs right.\nSince it is connected to a computer, all the recordings will be stored on a hard drive that can be easily accessed.\nIn events of a crime or an accident, the recordings of the security camera can be used as evidence to make out that series of events that took place leading up to the problem. By doing so, tracking down thieves and criminals can be an easy task ensuring that these kinds of people are jailed for good in order to prevent any more crimes from happening.\nSecurity cameras are installed by business owners to ensure that employees are doing their jobs eliminating the risks of potential crimes committed on the job.\nThrough the lenses of security cameras it provides a layout map of the establishment so that furniture, equipment, and machinery are placed in locations that are accessible and will look appealing.\nSecurity cameras do not come in cheap price tags, however, they are security investment that spans for years, saving up cost in the long run. In capsulized form, security cameras are must for every home and business there is, due to the fact that it monitors and keeps the vicinity under surveillance for the safety of the people.\nThese reasons provide grounds and foundations as to why everyone should consider getting at least one set of security cameras for their homes or their business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 5786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sunpets.org/faqs.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QENUIP3DJ24CK5ELUQCKSPSAQOBOTXBP", "length": 2674, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "sunpets.org", "title": "SUN P.E.T.S. - FAQs !DOCTYPE html>", "raw_content": "Below are some frequently asked questions regarding our organization, spaying & neutering, and Pennsylvania law.\n1. What is SUN P.E.T.S.?\nWe are an all-volunteer 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to reducing pet overpopulation in Snyder, Union, and Northumberland counties through our spay and neuter program for low-income families and individuals.\nBy raising funds through our events, donations, and grants, we can assist those who cannot afford to spay or neuter their animals, which in turn reduces the number of unwanted animals in our communities. Since 1984, we have helped to spay or neuter over 22,000 animals through our program.\n2. Is there an overpopulation problem in our area?\nAs much as we would like every dog or cat to have a home, the truth is that there is a pet overpopulation problem in our area. Ask any local shelter or rescue group and they will tell you of their unending efforts to find loving homes for all the animals in their care.\n3. What can be done to reduce the number of unwanted animals?\nThe answer to this question lies with every person who cares. Here are a few things you can do.\nEducate others about spaying and neutering.\nSupport legislation aimed at reducing pet overpopulation.\nBy working together we can all make a difference.\n4. Why should I spay or neuter my pet?\nIn the United States, approximately 2,500 dogs and cats are born every hour. This number far exceeds the number of good homes available. Here are a few reasons why you should spay or neuter your pet.\nSpayed or neutered animals are generally healthier and happier. The risk of some cancers is greatly reduced by sterilizing your pet.\nSterilized animals are less likely to roam and fight.\nIt costs less to license a sterilized animal.\nMunicipal resources going towards dealing with the problem will be decreased.\nIn seven years, one female cat and her offspring could produce up to 420,000 cats.\nIn six years, one female dog and her offspring could produce up to 67,000 dogs.\nAnd of course the most important of all is that your animal will not be contributing to the current overpopulation problem in our area.\n5. What is the Pennsylvania regarding animal cruelty?\nPet owners have not only a moral obligation but a legal obligation to properly care for their animals.\n6. How can I be a responsible pet owner?\nDon\u2019t buy a puppy from a puppy mill or a pet shop. Mass overbreeding is a major cause of pet overpopulation.\nInstead, help save lives. Visit your local animal shelter and adopt a friend.\nEducate yourself on responsible pet care.\nMake sure your pet receives an annual vet checkup.\nGive your pet lots of love and patience. Make them part of your family!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sunshirt.info/how-i-became-an-expert-on-companies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TSIORJZSQ3CFKO7FUWOEXNKZ55U6ZTXC", "length": 2831, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "sunshirt.info", "title": "How I Became An Expert on Companies | Sun Shirt", "raw_content": "A Guide in Picking the Best Appliance Repair Service.\nDealing with the wrong repair service can make the condition of your appliances worse. The number of companies that offer appliances repair services in the market have increased over the years. However, all appliance repair services are not the same. In this article, we will look at qualities to look out for when choosing an appliance repair service.\nWhen choosing an appliance repair service, it is advisable you choose one that is based in your area. An appliance repair service based in another area will end up charging you more to cater for their transportation cost. To know where the appliance repair service you are prospecting is located, check on their website.\nWhat are the working hours of the appliance repair service? If you want the repairs to be done after work or during the weekend, choose an appliance repair that will be open then. If you are not sure about the working hours of the appliance repair, call them and ask.\nWhen choosing an appliance repair service, it is important you check how long the company has been operating. It is advisable you choose an appliance repair service that has been operating for years. The company has over the years perfected and mastered its skills when it comes to appliance repair services. To know how long the appliance repair has been operating, check on their website.\nDoes the appliance repair service have a good reputation in the market? It is important you read the customer reviews done on the appliance repair service. Reading the reviews is a great way of getting unbiased opinion about the appliance repair service. A reputable appliance repair service will always have many positive reviews.\nAsk the appliance repair service to give you the contact details of its past clients. If the appliance repair service has been operating for years they don\u2019t have references, that is a red flag and its best you look for another alternative. When you call the appliance repair service, ask them if the company repaired the appliances well and the cost. Depending on the feedback you will get decide if you want to deal with the appliance repair service or look for another alternative.\nAlso, check if the appliance repair service has a license to operate? If the appliance repair service is operating without a license, it best you look for another alternative.\nApart from the appliance repair service been licensed, it should be insured. This will cover you from any risks that may occur during the appliance repair.\nHow much will the appliance repair service charge you for their services? There are appliance repair service that will charge you more for their services compared to others.\nAlso, it is important you ask about the skills and experience of the technicians working at the appliance repair service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://surfme.org/hayden-panettiere-open-minded-about-amanda-knox", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:52Z", "digest": "sha1:XVPOJMWDKFCJIMJQPTGNQM2RWDKL5UXL", "length": 475, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "surfme.org", "title": "Hayden Panettiere Open-Minded About Amanda Knox : Surfme", "raw_content": "\u201cIt was like, \u2018She\u2019s innocent. She\u2019s guilty. She\u2019s innocent. She\u2019s guilty. She\u2019s innocent.\u2019 I can\u2019t say that I have an opinion. I don\u2019t know that we\u2019ll ever really know.\n\u201cBut, regardless of innocence or guilt, I believe she has a spirit. She\u2019s a real person. She was a young girl who had dreams and aspirations.\n\u201cShe went to Italy to go to school and broaden her horizons, and have experiences and meet new people. I don\u2019t think that guilt or innocence takes away from that.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 114.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://surfme.org/justin-bieber-going-to-a-business-meeting-photos-under", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:21Z", "digest": "sha1:PGUQV3QCJAND6N4A4KKI3VKSIPAWCQKD", "length": 270, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "surfme.org", "title": "Justin Bieber going to a business meeting (photos under) : Surfme", "raw_content": "Justin Bieber going to a business meeting (photos under)\n\u2013 The talented singer, Justin Bieber, was spotted going to a business meeting in LA on the 3rd of July. He really likes to have his pants hanging down, doesn\u2019t he? Check out some pictures of the boy below the cut.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://szekely.blogspot.com/2010/10/emerging-from-hell.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:11Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4ODJWOVLTDX5AQJPYTYYJHEYFG5XMQI", "length": 354, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "szekely.blogspot.com", "title": "Cs\u00edkszereda musings: Emerging from hell", "raw_content": "I completely agree with you. God bless America? Which meaning of the word 'bless' do people who use that phrase wish to convey? When they think about it, does it sound as silly to them as it does to me? Probably not.\nDude, everyone else is weird.\nAlso, I don't get why they're thanking their imaginary friend if it's people that got them out of the hole.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 358, "original_length": 11845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://taichi-au.blogspot.com/2012/10/asv-access.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:22Z", "digest": "sha1:RFNEVCVRRE6JR7R3UJT3GACFF3LM3KNW", "length": 315, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "taichi-au.blogspot.com", "title": "Aberdeen Uni Tai Chi Chuan: ASV Access", "raw_content": "ASV Access\nHere is the link to sign up for access to Aberdeen Sports Village:\nhttp://services.aberdeensportsvillage.com/OnlineMemberships/Introduction.aspx\nMake sure you also pay your club and sports union membership. Otherwise, you will be removed from the access list:\nhttp://www.ausa.org.uk/sports/AUTaiChiChuan/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://takingthekidsout.co.uk/attractions-in/region/southWestAndWestCountry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:7DDF32TJR6XK43PI7YQKGISJ6TJ3I6UC", "length": 1145, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "takingthekidsout.co.uk", "title": "South West And West Country |Find things to do in South West And West Country | Days out in South West And West Country | Places to visit in South West And West Country | Taking The Kids Out", "raw_content": "Taking the kids out for the day to South West And West Country\nIn cold winters, as many as 18,000 birds have been seen here, because this most south westerly estuary in the UK never freezes. During spring and autumn, it is an ideal place to see migrant wading birds, gulls and terns. In summer, if you are lucky, you may catch sight of an osprey. The reserve is good for walking, with pushchair-friendly paths.Opening...\nCornwall - Truro\nEnjoy Cornwall's most beautiful boat trips & sail along the banks of the Fal River between Truro & Falmouth.Enterprise Boats run from Truro, Falmouth and St Mawes linking this stunning stretch of water including the beautiful Trelissick Gardens and Malpas.With your Fal Mussel Card, you can enjoy unlimited hop-on hop-off hassle free travel along...\nThe Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle, Cornwall, houses the world's largest collection of witchcraft related artefacts and regalia. The museum has been located in Boscastle for fifty years and is amongst Cornwall's most popular museums.The museum houses a library of over 3000 books that relate to witchcraft or the occult.The Richel Collection is one of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 7656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tamut.edu/Academics/Colleges-and-Departments/CBET/Quality-in-the-CBET/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OWUOVOSFKDTHCAHKUA5KC255TOAHM5UJ", "length": 1282, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "tamut.edu", "title": "Quality in the CBET | www.tamut.edu", "raw_content": "CBET Mission Statement\nPast Honors and Awards\nBusiness Faculty Classifications\nBusiness Faculty Journal Publications\nThe Texas A&M University-Texarkana College of Business, Engineering and Technology is committed to delivering a quality education to its students. The process that is in place for meeting and exceeding the expectations of stakeholders (including students, faculty, administration, and industry partners) for high quality depends on faculty oversight and engagement. To make this process easily understood, the faculty has aligned their assurance of quality process to AACSB assurance of learning (AOL) standards. The process is built on three pillars of faculty oversight represented in three faculty oversight committees. Every tenured or tenure track faculty member in the College serves on one of these three committees. The three committees are as follows: the Strategic Planning Committee, the Assurance of Learning Committee, and the Curriculum Committee. Since all of the faculty are engaged in one of these committees, this exhibits 100% engagement of the faculty in the oversight of the quality process.\nStrategic Plan Summary (PDF) (Updated October 2018)\nOrganizational Chart for the College of Business, Engineering, and Technology (Updated October 2018)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 4457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tamut.edu/Academics/Colleges-and-Departments/Graduate-Studies/Dean.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EI4ZBIDNX43UG2E6O62MIH4Y5G257YYB", "length": 1386, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "tamut.edu", "title": "Dean's Message | www.tamut.edu", "raw_content": "Your educational future begins here!\nI am pleased to share with you information about our university, Office of Graduate Studies, and the individual graduate programs we offer. Before you get to the informational part of this document, I wanted to take a minute to let you know that we understand the effort, cost, time, and commitment it takes to be a graduate student.\nUpon receiving your graduate degree, you will become a member of a very select group of people...less than 1% of all people have a master's degree or higher. This is no small feat.\nWe work hard to help our graduate students be successful not only in their courses, but also after they graduate and enter, re-enter or continue in the world of work. One of the greatest assets we have at our institution and in our graduate programs is an exceptionally high rate of full-time professors teaching the courses. They have a strong vested interest in your success.\nThe following pages have been developed to help you make the most informed and best choice regarding your educational future. I encourage you to contact the Office of Graduate Studies at graduate.studies@tamut.edu for more information, help in deciding which degree is right for you, or any other questions you may have along the way.\nOn behalf of the entire Texas A&M University-Texarkana family, we encourage you to consider us for your graduate studies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 4772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tapehustlers.com/hiphop/8069-curren-y-x-harry-fraud-just-dropped-the-marina-ep-currensy-spitta-harryfraud", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:23Z", "digest": "sha1:YZITWIQJX4BFIAC6CFQR6ABHMXZXVTTW", "length": 251, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tapehustlers.com", "title": "Curren$y x Harry Fraud just dropped The Marina EP @CurrenSy_Spitta @HarryFraud", "raw_content": "Curren$y x Harry Fraud just dropped The Marina EP. They first collaborated in 2012 with their EP, Cigarette Boats, which XXL named the \"2012 EP of the Year.\" Spitta & Fraud are joined by Wiz Khalifa, Action Bronson, Smoke DZA, French Montana and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 183.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tapmag.com/2013/09/01/sacoa-announces-installations-for-2013-and-beyond/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:52Z", "digest": "sha1:OIBK7ESOI5XJIGSI3TWSCZEI62DKW6ZK", "length": 1292, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tapmag.com", "title": "Sacoa Announces Installations for 2013 and Beyond \u00ab TAPMAG.com", "raw_content": "Sacoa Announces Installations for 2013 and Beyond\nDeveloper of the Playcard system, Sacoa has had a productive first half of the year, with several installations taking place in the United States, among them the Xtreme World Fun Center at the Boing Jump Center, in Tampa, Fla. The center offers about 50 games equipped with Sacoa\u2019s wireless Colorshot readers, and using the company\u2019s Redemption, Customer Registration and Online Party Booking modules.\nAlso, at two Frank Theatres locations, Delray and Saucon Valley, a switch from another debit card system supplier to Sacoa was made at the beginning of the year. And, at the Sky Deck Lanes and Grill in the Mall of America in Minneapolis, the switch was made from a competitor\u2019s system to Sacoa. The MGM Grand at Foxwoods Resort & Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., also decided on the company\u2019s system, as did two new locations operated by Primetime Amusements, Shades of Green in Orlando, Fla., and Shake Shoppe in New Jersey, N.J.\nScheduled installations to be opening soon in the United States include the Wind Creek Casino from Creek Indian Enterprises in Atmore, Ala., and Hershey\u2019s Shake Shoppe Arcade in Orlando, Fla.\nAdditionally, the company has been installing its Playcard System worldwide in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Turkey and India.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://taxfind.ie/document/Seminars_18_ac1-top_doc-4139109408?query=&filter=category%3A%22Seminar+Papers%22", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:QC64DD3BO5DOQSZIB3MSFHH7T3KJJ3BI", "length": 191, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "taxfind.ie", "title": "Irish Tax Institute - TaxFind: Family Business at the Crossroads", "raw_content": "Annual Conference 2018 Family Business at the Crossroads John Heffernan, Tax Partner, Head of Private Client Services EY 20 April 2018 1. Introduction In the lifecycle of a family business...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tbrnewsmedia.com/tag/michael-colangelo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:26Z", "digest": "sha1:AGNQNBP2V2FGY2R5TWAHS7NHA47IXZHP", "length": 4624, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "tbrnewsmedia.com", "title": "Michael Colangelo Archives - TBR News Media", "raw_content": "Home Tags Posts tagged with \"Michael Colangelo\"\nMichael Colangelo\nFuneral held for Hauppauge NYPD cop killed in crash\nby Sara-Megan Walsh - May 25, 2018\nA funeral for Hauppauge NYPD officer John Martinez was held May 25 at St. Patrick R.C. Church in Smithtown. Photo by Sara-Megan Walsh\nHundreds of mourners gathered in Smithtown May 25 to say goodbye to one of New York\u2019s bravest who was taken too soon.\nA funeral was held Friday for New York City Police officer John Martinez, of Hauppauge, who was killed in an upstate car crash earlier this week. One lane of East Main Street was closed as a full police motorcade escorted Martinez\u2019s body from Saint James Funeral Home to the funeral Mass celebrated at St. Patrick R.C. Church.\nMartinez was killed in a single-car crash with fellow NYPD officer and Huntington Station resident Michael Colangelo, 31, a single-car crash May 20 in Shandaken. New York State police said Martinez was driving a 2018 Maserati southbound on Oliveria Road at approximately 11:23 p.m. when he lost control of the vehicle, striking a large tree and flipping the car. The vehicle came to a stop on its roof.\nColangelo and Martinez were pronounced dead at the scene. A third passenger was transported to Albany Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, according to state police spokesman Trooper Steven Nevel.\nColangelo was a member of the NYPD\u2019s canine unit who had married his sweetheart, Katherine Berger, earlier that day at the Full Moon Resort in the Hudson Valley. Martinez worked for the NYPD\u2019s 84th Precinct\u2019s detective squad.\nThe men had departed from Full Moon Resort, but their planned destination was not known, according to Nevel. He said the stretch of Oliveria Road is very rural, curves and has no street lighting. State police said based on skid marks left on the roadway that the vehicle was traveling well in excess of the posted 40 mph speed limit at the time of the accident.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t know the exact speed they were going at this time,\u201d Nevel said. \u201cWe are looking to get that information from the black box of the Maserati.\u201d\nState police said they did not know if drugs or alcohol may have played a role in the deadly crash, but an investigation remains ongoing. An autopsy of the driver was scheduled for 5:30 p.m. May 21, but the\nresults would not be immediately available.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve interviewed several people at the wedding reception, and everyone was very distraught,\u201d Nevel said.\nColangelo and his wife had planned to travel to Costa Rica for their honeymoon, according to their www.honeyfund.com site, which read, \u201cWe\u2019ve lived together quite a while with all our pots and pans, and as we don\u2019t need very many home goods we\u2019ve got another plan. We know it\u2019s not traditional, but it would be a lot of fun, to have some items on our wedding list that will help us catch some sun.\u201d\nAnyone who may have witnessed the accident or has information on the events of May 20 is encouraged to contact the state police\u2019s Catskill barracks Bureau of Criminal Investigation at 518-622-8600.\nTwo NYPD officers from LI killed in upstate crash\nHuntington Station resident Michael Colangelo in uniform. Photo from Facebook\nTwo off-duty New York City police officers from Long Island were killed in an upstate car crash Sunday.\nNew York City Police Department said in a press statement Huntington Station resident Michael Colangelo, 31, and Hauppauge resident John Martinez, 39, were killed in a single-car crash May 20. Colangelo was assigned to the NYPD\u2019s canine unit while Martinez worked in the 84th Precinct\u2019s detective squad.\nNew York state police responded to reports of a fatal motor vehicle accident on Oliveria Road in Shandaken, New York at approximately 11:23 p.m. May 20. Police determined that Martinez was driving a 2018 Maserati when the vehicle left the roadway and struck a large tree, before flipping and coming to a stop on it\u2019s roof. Both Colangelo, a passenger, and Martinez, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. A third passenger was transported to Albany Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.\nWatch TBR News Media for more to come on this breaking news story.\nCorrection: Updated 2:38 p.m. May 21: The NYPD officer killed is John Martinez, not James as first reported.\nRita J. 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But what happens when technologies such as deep learning software and self-executing code are in the driving seat of legal decisions?\nHow can we be sure next-gen \u2018legal tech\u2019 systems are not unfairly biased against certain groups or individuals? And what skills will lawyers need to develop to be able to properly assess the quality of the justice flowing from data-driven decisions?\nWhile entrepreneurs have been eyeing traditional legal processes for some years now, with a cost-cutting gleam in their eye and the word \u2018streamline\u2018 on their lips, this early phase of legal innovation pales in significance beside the transformative potential of AI technologies that are already pushing their algorithmic fingers into legal processes \u2014 and perhaps shifting the line of the law itself in the process.\nBut how can legal protections be safeguarded if decisions are automated by algorithmic models trained on discrete data-sets \u2014 or flowing from policies administered by being embedded on a blockchain?\nThese are the sorts of questions that lawyer and philosopher Mireille Hildebrandt, a professor at the research group for Law, Science, Technology and Society at Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Belgium, will be engaging with during a five-year project to investigate the implications of what she terms \u2018computational law\u2019.\nLast month the European Research Council awarded Hildebrandt a grant of \u20ac2.5 million to conduct foundational research with a dual technology focus: Artificial legal intelligence and legal applications of blockchain.\nDiscussing her research plan with TechCrunch, she describes the project as both very abstract and very practical, with a staff that will include both lawyers and computer scientists. She says her intention is to come up with a new legal hermeneutics \u2014 so, basically, a framework for lawyers to approach computational law architectures intelligently; to understand limitations and implications, and be able to ask the right questions to assess technologies that are increasingly being put to work assessing us.\n\u201cThe idea is that the lawyers get together with the computer scientists to understand what they\u2019re up against,\u201d she explains. \u201cI want to have that conversation\u2026 I want lawyers who are preferably analytically very sharp and philosophically interested to get together with the computer scientists and to really understand each other\u2019s language.\n\u201cWe\u2019re not going to develop a common language. That\u2019s not going to work, I\u2019m convinced. But they must be able to understand what the meaning of a term is in the other discipline, and to learn to play around, and to say okay, to see the complexity in both fields, to shy away from trying to make it all very simple.\n\u201cAnd after seeing the complexity to then be able to explain it in a way that the people that really matter \u2014 that is us citizens \u2014 can make decisions both at a political level and in everyday life.\u201d\nHildebrandt says she included both AI and blockchain technologies in the project\u2019s remit as the two offer \u201ctwo very different types of computational law\u201d.\nThere is also of course the chance that the two will be applied in combination \u2014 creating \u201can entirely new set of risks and opportunities\u201d in a legal tech setting.\nBlockchain \u201cfreezes the future\u201d, argues Hildebrandt, admitting of the two it\u2019s the technology she\u2019s more skeptical of in this context. \u201cOnce you\u2019ve put it on a blockchain it\u2019s very difficult to change your mind, and if these rules become self-reinforcing it would be a very costly affair both in terms of money but also in terms of effort, time, confusion and uncertainty if you would like to change that.\n\u201cYou can do a fork but not, I think, when governments are involved. They can\u2019t just fork.\u201d\nThat said, she posits that blockchain could at some point in the future be deemed an attractive alternative mechanism for states and companies to settle on a less complex system to determine obligations under global tax law, for example. (Assuming any such accord could indeed be reached.)\nGiven how complex legal compliance can already be for Internet platforms operating across borders and intersecting with different jurisdictions and political expectations there may come a point when a new system for applying rules is deemed necessary \u2014 and putting policies on a blockchain could be one way to respond to all the chaotic overlap.\nThough Hildebrandt is cautious about the idea of blockchain-based systems for legal compliance.\nIt\u2019s the other area of focus for the project \u2014 AI legal intelligence \u2014 where she clearly sees major potential, though also of course risks too. \u201cAI legal intelligence means you use machine learning to do argumentation mining \u2014 so you do natural language processing on a lot of legal texts and you try to detect lines of argumentation,\u201d she explains, citing the example of needing to judge whether a specific person is a contractor or an employee.\n\u201cThat has huge consequences in the US and in Canada, both for the employer\u2026 and for the employee and if they get it wrong the tax office may just walk in and give them an enormous fine plus claw back a lot of money which they may not have.\u201d\nAs a consequence of confused case law in the area, academics at the University of Toronto developed an AI to try to help \u2014 by mining lots of related legal texts to generate a set of features within a specific situation that could be used to check whether a person is an employee or not.\n\u201cThey\u2019re basically looking for a mathematical function that connected input data \u2014 so lots of legal texts \u2014 with output data, in this case whether you are either an employee or a contractor. And if that mathematical function gets it right in your data set all the time or nearly all the time you call it high accuracy and then we test on new data or data that has been kept apart and you see whether it continues to be very accurate.\u201d\nGiven AI\u2019s reliance on data-sets to derive algorithmic models that are used to make automated judgement calls, lawyers are going to need to understand how to approach and interrogate these technology structures to determine whether an AI is legally sound or not.\nHigh accuracy that\u2019s not generated off of a biased data-set cannot just be a \u2018nice to have\u2019 if your AI is involved in making legal judgment calls on people.\n\u201cThe technologies that are going to be used, or the legal tech that is now being invested in, will require lawyers to interpret the end results \u2014 so instead of saying \u2018oh wow this has 98% accuracy and it outperforms the best lawyers!\u2019 they should say \u2018ah, ok, can you please show me the set of performance metrics that you tested on. Ah thank you, so why did you put these four into the drawer because they have low accuracy?\u2026 Can you show me your data-set? What happened in the hypothesis space? Why did you filter those arguments out?\u2019\n\u201cThis is a conversation that really requires lawyers to become interested, and to have a bit of fun. It\u2019s a very serious business because legal decisions have a lot of impact on people\u2019s lives but the idea is that lawyers should start having fun in interpreting the outcomes of artificial intelligence in law. And they should be able to have a serious conversation about the limitations of self-executing code \u2014 so the other part of the project [i.e. legal applications of blockchain tech].\n\u201cIf somebody says \u2018immutability\u2019 they should be able to say that means that if after you have put everything in the blockchain you suddenly discover a mistake that mistake is automated and it will cost you an incredible amount of money and effort to get it repaired\u2026 Or \u2018trustless\u2019 \u2014 so you\u2019re saying we should not trust the institutions but we should trust software that we don\u2019t understand, we should trust all sorts of middlemen, i.e. the miners in permissionless, or the other types of middlemen who are in other types of distributed ledgers\u2026 \u201d\n\u201cI want lawyers to have ammunition there, to have solid arguments\u2026 to actually understand what bias means in machine learning,\u201d she continues, pointing by way of an example to research that\u2019s being done by the AI Now Institute in New York to investigate disparate impacts and treatments related to AI systems.\n\u201cThat\u2019s one specific problem but I think there are many more problems,\u201d she adds of algorithmic discrimination. \u201cSo the purpose of this project is to really get together, to get to understand this.\n\u201cI think it\u2019s extremely important for lawyers, not to become computer scientists or statisticians but to really get their finger behind what\u2019s happening and then to be able to share that, to really contribute to legal method \u2014 which is text oriented. I\u2019m all for text but we have to, sort of, make up our minds when we can afford to use non-text regulation. I would actually say that that\u2019s not law.\n\u201cSo how should be the balance between something that we can really understand, that is text, and these other methods that lawyers are not trained to understand\u2026 And also citizens do not understand.\u201d\nHildebrandt does see opportunities for AI legal intelligence argument mining to be \u201cused for the good\u201d \u2014 saying, for example, AI could be applied to assess the calibre of the decisions made by a particular court.\nThough she also cautions that huge thought would need to go into the design of any such systems.\n\u201cThe stupid thing would be to just give the algorithm a lot of data and then train it and then say \u2018hey yes that\u2019s not fair, wow that\u2019s not allowed\u2019. But you could also really think deeply what sort of vectors you have to look at, how you have to label them. And then you may find out that \u2014 for instance \u2014 the court sentences much more strictly because the police is not bringing the simple cases to court but it\u2019s a very good police and they talk with people, so if people have not done something really terrible they try to solve that problem in another way, not by using the law. And then this particular court gets only very heavy cases and therefore gives far more heavy sentences than other courts that get from their police or public prosecutor all life cases.\n\u201cTo see that you should not only look at legal texts of course. You have to look also at data from the police. And if you don\u2019t do that then you can have very high accuracy and a total nonsensical outcome that doesn\u2019t tell you anything you didn\u2019t already know. And if you do it another way you can sort of confront people with their own prejudices and make it interesting \u2014 challenge certain things. But in a way that doesn\u2019t take too much for granted. And my idea would be that the only way this is going to work is to get a lot of different people together at the design stage of the system \u2014 so when you are deciding which data you\u2019re going to train on, when you are developing what machine learners call your \u2018hypothesis space\u2019, so the type of modeling you\u2019re going to try and do. And then of course you should test five, six, seven performance metrics.\n\u201cAnd this is also something that people should talk about \u2014 not just the data scientists but, for instance, lawyers but also the citizens who are going to be affected by what we do in law. And I\u2019m absolutely convinced that if you do that in a smart way that you get much more robust applications. But then the incentive structure to do it that way is maybe not obvious. Because I think legal tech is going to be used to reduce costs.\u201d\nShe says one of the key concepts of the research project is legal protection by design \u2014 opening up other interesting (and not a little alarming) questions such as what happens to the presumption of innocence in a world of AI-fueled \u2018pre-crime\u2019 detectors?\n\u201cHow can you design these systems in such a way that they offer legal protection from the first minute they come to the market \u2014 and not as an add-on or a plug in. And that\u2019s not just about data protection but also about non-discrimination of course and certain consumer rights,\u201d she says.\n\u201cI always think that the presumption of innocence has to be connected with legal protection by design. So this is more on the side of the police and the intelligence services \u2014 how can you help the intelligence services and the police to buy or develop ICT that has certain constrains which makes it compliant with the presumption of innocence which is not easy at all because we probably have to reconfigure what is the presumption of innocence.\u201d\nAnd while the research is part abstract and solidly foundational, Hildebrandt points out that the technologies being examined \u2014 AI and blockchain \u2014 are already being applied in legal contexts, albeit in \u201ca state of experimentation\u201d.\nAnd, well, this is one tech-fueled future that really must not be unevenly distributed. The risks are stark.\n\u201cBoth the EU and national governments have taken a liking to experimentation\u2026 and where experimentation stops and systems are really already implemented and impacting decisions about your and my life is not always so easy to see,\u201d she adds.\nHer other hope is that the interpretation methodology developed through the project will help lawyers and law firms to navigate the legal tech that\u2019s coming at them as a sales pitch.\n\u201cThere\u2019s going to be, obviously, a lot of crap on the market,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s inevitable, this is going to be a competitive market for legal tech and there\u2019s going to be good stuff, bad stuff, and it will not be easy to decide what\u2019s good stuff and bad stuff \u2014 so I do believe that by taking this foundational perspective it will be more easy to know where you have to look if you want to make that judgement\u2026 It\u2019s about a mindset and about an informed mindset on how these things matter.\n\u201cI\u2019m all in favor of agile and lean computing. Don\u2019t do things that make no sense\u2026 So I hope this will contribute to a competitive advantage for those who can skip methodologies that are basically nonsensical.\u201d\nAmazon Fire TV Launched and We hit 100 Subscribers! | Tech News Today\nGemalto: NSA Hack Didn\u2019t Include Mass SIM Key Theft: Tech News Today 1203\nNokia\u2019s Android Phone is Real: Tech News Today 942\nRevolut introduces a metal card", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 17346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/browse?type=author&value=Almeida%2C+Maria+Aparecida+de+Andrade&value_lang=pt_BR", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YSKBMLTGT4TDZ44JBPWTIUXPMNLV5GDM", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tede.metodista.br", "title": "TEDE2 da UNIVERSIDADE METODISTA DE SAO PAULO: Browsing DSpace", "raw_content": "Browsing by Author Almeida, Maria Aparecida de Andrade", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1645, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 294.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theaestheticsproject.com/speakers/shobita-punja.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:SSWKLYEB6HYZOKKX4XV4TSAYXSCXCQ2R", "length": 1713, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theaestheticsproject.com", "title": "Shobita Punja : Speakers -The Aesthetics Project", "raw_content": "Shobita Punja\nArt Historian, Independent Scholar, New Delhi\nShobita Punja holds a Bachelor degree in Art History, a Master's degree in Ancient History from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and another Master's degree in Art Education from Stanford University, California and was awarded a doctoral degree for her contribution to the field of Art Education in 1982. She has been invited to lecture on Indian Art at various institutions and universities in India and abroad.\nShe is author of over 15 books including Museums of India, (Hong Kong, 1990). Divine Ecstasy - The Story of Khajuraho (Viking Penguin, India, 1992). Daughters the Ocean - Discovering the Goddess Within. (Viking Penguin, India in 1996). Dr. Punja began her professional life working at the Centre for Cultural Resources and Training, and then at INTACH as the Chief Consultant, on the multi\u2013disciplinary project for the conservation and development of Khajuraho. She worked as Chief Programme Officer and set up the Heritage Education and Communication Service for INTACH, Delhi. Her last appointment was as CEO of the National Culture Fund, Ministry of Culture, and Government of India from 2011-13.\nShe has also worked on a professional team for the restoration and up-gradation of several museums Chowmahalla Palace and Museum, Hyderabad, Jai Vilas Palace Museum, Gwalior, Reis Magos Fort, Goa and others historical sites.\nDr Punja served on the Governing Council and Executive Committee of INTACH. She is a member of the Governing Council of the Centre for Environment Education, Ahmedabad, and a Trustee of the Helen Hamlyn Trust, UK and Sanskriti Foundation, New Delhi, and also a Trustee of the Mehrangarh Museum Trust, Jodhpur.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 113.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theaidenadventure.blogspot.com/2014/10/ta-baby.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:06Z", "digest": "sha1:JKFQU2A6LWJHHWUMX5OGLPAATFGN4TF2", "length": 2399, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "theaidenadventure.blogspot.com", "title": "The Sturgeon Story: TA Baby!", "raw_content": "The last couple of days have been anxiety-ridden to say the least. Yesterday was rough, but today was excruciating. While my students quizzed, I obsessively stalked emails and other available sources to see who, if anybody, was getting TAs. I wish the following statement was a gross exaggeration, but I'm afraid it's not. I had a hard time tearing my eyes from my computer screen for more than a minute or two. Seriously. I bet I refreshed my email 20 times an hour. Between refreshes, I asked about 50 questions of various people and lamented my lack of travel approval to anybody (online) who was unfortunate enough to be in the same virtual space as I was. My stress level was at an all-time high for this adoption. (This can be confirmed with my students....poor kids.) I was at school, but I wasn't really there. I, quite literally, was starting to feel ill.\nAs it happened, I was scouring old blog posts around 2:00 to see on which day of the week we had received TAs for Aiden and Ethan and at what time of the day we had been informed about those TAs. Turns out, both had come on a Friday and both were later in the day. I resigned myself to another day's wait at least. I turned away for a second, turned back, and there was an email from Steve, our \"Travel Guy,\" with the subject line of YES. There was nothing in the body of the email. My heart began to race and my hands to shake. I replied, \"What?!?!?!\" He immediately responded with, \"TA.\" Nothing more. Steve's a funny guy. I shot another email to him. \"Are.....You....Kidding....ME?!?!?!\" He replied, \"I never kid about things like that. Too dangerous.\" Valid point, Steve. Valid point!\nShortly thereafter we got the official email. Sure enough. China has officially agreed to allow us to come to get our son. We still have half a step left. We need to get an appointment with our consulate in China so Carter can get his American visa. Now, there is a chance that the appointment times for our dates are full, but we're praying that's not the case and that we will travel in November. If that is the case, we will be in Shanghai three weeks from now -- and while exciting beyond words, I am also sick at heart.\nI already miss these little monkeys just thinking about being gone!!! Hopefully, though, that we will all be united -- our family of five -- under the same roof, in our home, before Thanksgiving!\nCA update to follow.....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theamateursguide.com/a-dying-mother-wrote-her-children-letters-leaving-a-gift-of-love-for-years/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKNB7NBEK3OTFN2DRFANRURWSFTL4VK5", "length": 6834, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "theamateursguide.com", "title": "A dying mother wrote her children letters, leaving a gift of love for years \u2013 The Amateur's Guide To Death & Dying", "raw_content": "A dying mother wrote her children letters, leaving a gift of love for years\nBefore dying of brain cancer at age 56, Jacqueline Zinn wrote letters to each of her children, including daughter Mary Kathryn.\nMy friend Jacqueline Zinn was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a brain cancer, in 2013; she died 18 months later, at age 56, leaving behind a husband and four kids. Jacquie was a triathlete who knew a thing or two about endurance, and she managed her treatment \u2014 surgery, radiation and chemotherapy \u2014 with the same skill and organization she had brought to her work as a project manager for a drug company. Once she realized that she had only weeks to live, Jacquie began planning for the next chapter: her death and its aftermath.\nAnd so \u201cevery night for weeks she wrote letters to our children,\u201d her husband Doug recalled. Jacquie wrote multiple letters to each child, to be opened at different life milestones. Jacquie wanted to be \u201cpresent with her kids,\u201d he said, at each of those important moments\nfor what I jokingly call \u201cThe End\u201d is not for faint hearts. War hero John McCain is said to have been disciplined and firm as he planned his funeral over the past year, including the singing of the Irish ballad \u201cDanny Boy.\u201d But few of us have that strength. Recently divorced, I needed to rewrite my will and my medical power of attorney as well as a host of other financial and medical documents. At almost every turn, I found myself crashing head-on into the wall of denial. Just last week, my attorney begged me to acknowledge that I was at least receiving her emails, even if I couldn\u2019t respond to them. \u201cYes,\u201d I replied, tersely. All this resistance, and I\u2019m not suffering from any terminal condition.\nThat\u2019s why Jacquie Zinn\u2019s letters to her children seem heroic to me. After all, she did have a terminal diagnosis when she sat down to write what ended up being more than a dozen letters to her children, ranging in age from 11 to 21, and she knew her time was short. I first heard about the letters at her memorial service in 2013. This past spring, working on a book about death and dying, I reached out to her second-born son, Jerry, who was writing about the loss of his mother, to ask if he\u2019d be willing to share his letters from her. He\u2019d already gotten two \u2014 one soon after her death and one when he graduated from college \u2014 and after some hesitation, he said okay. Now 24, Jerry will get the final letter when he marries.\n\u201cThe letters my mother left me are among the most precious gifts I possess,\u201d he told me. \u201cShe diligently took the time, the very limited time, as her life was coming to an end to sit down and think about her children\u2019s futures.\u201d\nSo one day, in perfect cursive penmanship and blue ink after her oncologist told her she had only weeks left, Jacquie wrote her first letter to Jerry, then age 19, to be opened after she died. Here is a portion of it:\n\u201cDear Jerry, my budding film-maker,\n\u201cI know you have a lot of emotions running through you, as I did when my father died, but I was much older than you at the time, so I really can\u2019t begin to truly comprehend what you are feeling. I am so incredibly sorry that I had to die while you are so young and I assume it sucks for you. Perhaps you can use some of these emotions and feelings in your upcoming work(s), assuming you continue to pursue film.\n\u201cLet me assure you that I did absolutely everything I could to stay alive for as long as possible. I know you realize that having been with me at many of my treatments or tests. Plus the acupuncture, tons of praying I also did. But for some reason I just didn\u2019t make it as one of the chosen ones to be cured. But because of what I did I\u2019m sure I lived much longer than if I hadn\u2019t been in good shape to begin with.\n\u201cI am incredibly proud of you for everything you have done in your relatively short life. I will be watching over you every day to see what new and exciting things you will accomplish \u2014 regardless of what occupations(s) you pursue over your lifetime.\n\u201cDo your best to support Dad and your siblings, especially during this first year as it will be the hardest for everyone. I remember that from when my father died. Time will certainly help, but it takes a long time to focus on the happy memories while the sad thoughts are more immediate and closer at hand.\n\u201cI had many fantastic years on earth, more than a lot of people, hence, I have no complaints. I survived a melanoma, car accident in the mountains of West Virginia with Uncle Jerry, car accident in Durham. So I have already lived many lives and I was extremely grateful for each and every moment. Try and live your life that way and you will be a happy and fulfilled human being.\n\u201cI love more than you will ever know, my dearest Jerry.\nOn the day Jerry graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016, Doug handed over letter No. 2, written with the same pen, on the same type of note paper.\n\u201cMy sweet dear Jerry,\n\u201cWell \u2014 this is it \u2014 a big milestone in your life \u2014 college graduation! Congratulations. I am so incredibly proud of you no matter what your major or minors. I know you made it worthwhile and got just exactly what you wanted to out of the experience. I know you learned an incredible amount about subjects and probably an even greater amount about people.\u201d\nJerry said that at various times during college he had considered dropping out, but \u201cknowing that I would never receive that letter if I did not graduate was a very strong influence in keeping me in school. The letter was a motivation for which I will be forever grateful.\u201d Knowing Jacquie as I did, I\u2019m certain that was part of her master plan.\nIn the second letter, Jacquie signs off with these words: \u201cI am watching over you all the time, or at least I hope I can do that! Congratulations, again. Enjoy this fabulous day and all the celebrations around. Big Hugs and Kisses! Much Love, Mom.\u201d\nWhat a gift, an eternal gift, I thought as I read and reread the two letters. More than anything, I silently bowed in amazement, understanding how Jacquie had faced her own version of \u201cThe End.\u201d Doug reminded me that she\u2019d written her letters while in a wheelchair, paralyzed on one side.\nWith Jacquie\u2019s example in mind, I finally sat down and read the pile of documents my lawyer had sent to me, realizing that my denial served no purpose. To my surprise, I found comfort in taking care of that necessary business \u2014 once done. I\u2019d like to think that was something Jacquie felt, too, as she sent her missives into the future.\nCategoriesBucket List, Children and Death, Death Curiosities, Death Meditation, Grief, Saying Goodbye TagsConscious Dying, Conscious Living, Death And Dying, Death Meditation, Death Talk, Final Farewell, Grief and Grieving\nPrevious PostPrevious Walk with me to the end\nNext PostNext I run a hospice for animals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 10640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thechicagobuyer.com/how-to-purchase-a-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:49Z", "digest": "sha1:WQ7CJOQBOTPKEN4DP4F65RN634WCCYCA", "length": 1954, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thechicagobuyer.com", "title": "Planning To Purchase a Secondary Residence? Here\u2019s What You Need To Know Before You Decide To Buy Another Property. Hint: It\u2019s More Work Than You Thought \u0096 We Buy Houses In Chicago Illinois", "raw_content": "If you are looking at buying a second home, whether its for an investment property, a getaway, or a place to eventually retire, there are some things you should consider. You will want your second house purchase to be a smart financial move. Yet many second-home owners complain that the house ended up costing more than they\u2019d ever imagined. You\u2019ll want to tally up your likely expenses, factoring in any extra costs based on the fact that you won\u2019t be there every day; such as hiring a property manager.\nSecond-home owners need to worry about both property taxes; and, income tax if r enting out the place. Though taxes are inevitably a burden, a little advance planning during the house-hunting process can save you thousands of dollars a year. For example, sometimes buying a home just over a town\u2019s border can significantly trim your annual property tax bill. And if you\u2019re renting out a vacation property, the amount of days you yourself spend there can make a difference in how much you\u2019ll owe in income tax.\nPrevious: Ready For a Permanent Vacation? Here\u2019s Everything You Need To Know About Buying A Getaway House!\nNext: With Housing Being So Expensive, Does It Make Sense To Bite The Bullet And Purchase a House In The Area You Vacation To Frequently? Or Should You Keep Renting When You Go? Find Out Here\nLike the article mentioned, I would do some serious thinking before becoming a landlord. The headaches I had to deal with\u2026tenants moving out without notice, damages to the apartment when they left, broken appliances. It was awful.\nHi Katie. Yes, being a landlord can definitely have its downsides. It can be stressful, or rewarding. Usually, both. If you are a landlord, you\u2019ll never have a time throughout the life of renting the property where you are stress free. You\u2019ll have to spend money when you don\u2019t want to, or can\u2019t. You\u2019ll have to deal with some annoying people, but you also may get some great renters. It\u2019s kind of a toss up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theconversation.com/ca/topics/cornell-university-11644", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KI24ZQKOSEB6QB3S2FSO55KMOJ275BT3", "length": 716, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Cornell University \u2013 News, Research and Analysis \u2013 The Conversation \u2013 page 1", "raw_content": "Articles on Cornell University\nLong after people with dementia have forgotten the names of their loved ones, they can still recall songs they learned in their teenage years.\nPenn State University, Cornell University\nIncreases in memory and logic speed in computers of up to 10 times is possible by combining a standard magnetic material\u2026\nAssociate Professor of Immunology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University\nProfessor of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University\nAssociate Professor of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University\nMarjolein C H van der Meulen\nProfessor of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University\nProfessor of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University\nKim Weeden", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 182.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theconversation.com/oscars-2019-roma-yalitza-aparicio-and-the-fascinating-history-of-non-professional-actors-111005", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6BERVCQ7ARNGP6O563YIWUIS356IT73V", "length": 6367, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "theconversation.com", "title": "Oscars 2019: Roma, Yalitza Aparicio and the fascinating history of non-professional actors", "raw_content": "Oscars 2019: Roma, Yalitza Aparicio and the fascinating history of non-professional actors\nCatherine O'Rawe, University of Bristol\nCatherine O'Rawe\nProfessor of Italian Film and Culture, University of Bristol\nCatherine O'Rawe received funding from the British Academy for a research project on non-professional actors in Italian cinema.\nAmateur hour: a stunning performance by high-school teacher Yalitza Aparicio has earned her a Best Actress nomination at the 2019 Academy Awards. EPA-EFE/Mario Guzman\nThe surprise nomination of non-professional indigenous woman Yalitza Aparicio for this year\u2019s best actress Oscar for her role as a domestic servant in Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s critically acclaimed Roma has been greeted as a \u201cfairytale\u201d.\nAparicio was training to be a teacher when she reluctantly went to an audition where Cuar\u00f3n was immediately struck by her. Her presence and her similarity to his own childhood maid \u2013 on whom the film is based \u2013 secured her the role.\nPropelled into the spotlight by her role, she has become the first indigenous woman to grace the cover of Mexican Vogue. She also endeared herself to her growing social media following by uploading to Twitter a video of her sobbing reaction to news of her nomination.\nIf Aparicio wins, she will be the first indigenous Latina Oscar winner and will join the small number of non-professional actors to win an Oscar in recent times. This number includes Anna Paquin for her role in The Piano (1993) and Haing S Ngor, a former doctor from Cambodia, who won the 1985 best supporting actor Oscar for his role in Roland Joffe\u2019s The Killing Fields, in which his own traumatic experiences informed his outstanding performance as a local journalist.\nIn the same year as acclaimed indie hits such as Chlo\u00e9 Zhao\u2019s The Rider, in which Brady Jandreau played a version of himself as an injured rodeo rider, and Crystal Moselle\u2019s Skate Kitchen, featured an all-girl skate collective from New York, it seems that authenticity in casting and performance is all the rage.\nBut Aparicio also stands out as being typical of the non-professional\u2019s experience throughout cinema history. Her \u201cjourney\u201d from na\u00efve provincial girl to the red carpet hits many familiar notes. Interviews emphasise how little she understood of cinema, and how she had never heard of Cuar\u00f3n and feared the job offer might be a trafficking scam.\nAparicio\u2019s unpolished and untrained authenticity is sharply juxtaposed with the glamorous world in which she now finds herself. Part of the non-professional\u2019s effect is to throw into relief the extraordinariness of stars, as well as their proficiency, understood as a product of years of training and dedication to their craft. Aparicio\u2019s novelty, spontaneity, and natural appearance are all singled out as antithetical to the professionalism of her co-star, experienced stage actress Marina De Tavira, who has also been nominated for an Oscar.\nHer story mirrors the \u201cdiscovery\u201d of Barkhad Abdi, the untrained Somali-American who played a memorable co-lead to Tom Hanks in Captain Phillips. It also recalls the children recruited by Danny Boyle from the Mumbai slums for global hit Slumdog Millionaire.\nIn the latter case, ethical concerns around the effects of sudden fame on vulnerable children were recognised by Boyle. He set up a trust fund for them, though this didn\u2019t prevent allegations that the father of one of the girls tried to sell her to capitalise on her fame.\nThe non-professional child actor came to prominence in post-WWII Italian neorealism, which specialised in taking performers from the streets. Vittorio De Sica\u2019s Oscar-winning 1948 classic Bicycle Thieves was particularly celebrated for its non-actors, chosen for their faces and bodies rather than any acting talent.\nLamberto Maggiorani, who played the tragic father, lost his factory job after the film and struggled to find work as an actor; he repeatedly begged De Sica to help him out. Meanwhile, nine-year-old Enzo Staiola made several further films and retired at the age of 15. However, accounts of his treatment on set , which included De Sica publicly humiliating him to make him cry, match other testimonies of neorealist directors extracting performances from non-professionals by insulting and even beating them.\nThis power differential, always implicit in the actor-director relationship, is obviously exacerbated when the actor is inexperienced and has no manager to guide them through the film industry. While Aparicio and Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s on-set relationship seems to have been affectionate, one anecdote about the film\u2019s shooting is somewhat disturbing. In a central, traumatic scene for her character Cleo, Cuar\u00f3n admitted that he deliberately withheld from Aparicio what would happen. Her anguished reaction is genuine \u2013 and presumably she could not be trusted to generate that response otherwise.\nAparicio has declared that she would like to continue to act, though she admits that Roma may be a one-off. French film critic Andr\u00e9 Bazin wrote of neorealist actors that the non-professional can be used only once because their effect can never be replicated. But non-professionals have gone on to career success \u2013 Paquin, obviously, as well as Sasha Lane, discovered by Andrea Arnold for her film American Honey, is continuing to work. So is Abdi, though in low-profile parts. Others, like the kids of Slumdog Millionaire, have returned to their old lives.\nIn all the press talk and interviews with Cuar\u00f3n and Aparicio, one thing is never mentioned: pay. While one presumes that she received a fair salary for the part, non-professionals generally come cheap because it\u2019s often assumed that part of the reward is the experience itself, the fairytale story. But when the magic finishes and the closing credits roll, they all too often find themselves alone.\nAlphonso Cuaron\nEPA-EFE/Ettore Ferrari\nAlfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s Venice Golden Lion triumph for Roma highlights innovative new Netflix approach\nEPA-EFE/Paul Buck\nOscars 2018: another Mexican triumph as awards move towards diversity\nRoma: nominated for ten Oscars in 2019. Curzon Artificial Eye\nRoma: Mexican film industry blooms with Oscar nominations a century after its origins in the Chihuahua desert\nCritics and audiences of the Oscar-nominated film Roma may be missing important Mexican historical and cultural facts.\nThe Oscars: what you may have missed in \u2018Roma\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 9436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefutureofourgeneration.blogspot.com/2010/08/food-shortage-in-usa.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:24Z", "digest": "sha1:PJZKEGQAAZTD7XC5ELBODBT2QA4BULIJ", "length": 28, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thefutureofourgeneration.blogspot.com", "title": "The Future of our Generation: Food Shortage in the USA !!!", "raw_content": "Food Shortage in the USA !!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 285.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thenationonlineng.net/first-ever-hat-trick-delights-moshood-kasali-in-sudan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:05Z", "digest": "sha1:RDN6JLIDNP4BRR3BYYNYTXT4LEON4B4W", "length": 1332, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "thenationonlineng.net", "title": "First-ever hat-trick delights Moshood Kasali in Sudan - The Nation Nigeria", "raw_content": "First-ever hat-trick delights Moshood Kasali in Sudan\nFormer JUTH FC and Enyimba striker Moshood Kasali has told AfricanFootball.com that he is delighted to have scored the first-ever hat-trick since he turned professional.\nThe Jos-born forward scored three goals as Al Ahli club of Sudan beat Shemali 3-1 in the Sudanese league game. He is the leading scorer in the second division league in Sudan with seven goals in nine matches for the table topping Al Ahli.\n\u201cI feel so happy and excited to score a hat-trick, that is the first time I will get three goals since I have being a professional player. I am so delighted with this and I look forward to more of such,\u201d Kasali told AfricanFootball.com.\nHe is also dreaming of taking his side to the top flight.\n\u201cWe are leading the table now and I am the top scorer in the league with seven goals. I thank God for his blessing. My dream is to help my team win promotion to the Premier league at the end of the season,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIt is a great way to end the first round, getting a hat-trick in the last game of the first round, my team leading and I am the top scorer.\u201d\nThe former Plateau United forward has a Nigerian teammate, Ali idris, a midfielder who previously played for Spotlight FC of Katsina.\nTags: hat-trick\n\u2018Aviation has huge potential\u2019\nFirm plans 1.5m kg of cargo overhaul", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 388, "original_length": 7128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theothersbynews.blogspot.com/2011/04/shout-out-to-oloughlin.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:47Z", "digest": "sha1:AV6NZD7FFDHEKEPM3E7DDKSWDH5ZNY4I", "length": 2316, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "theothersbynews.blogspot.com", "title": "The Other SBY News: SHOUT OUT TO O'LOUGHLIN!!!", "raw_content": "SHOUT OUT TO O'LOUGHLIN!!!\nThe Other Salisbury News would like to send a shout out to Dr. O'Loughlin, Professor of Political Science, for writing a kick ass Letter to the Editor in this weeks edition of The Flyer.\nIn his letter, O'Loughlin encourages student participation in government by addressing the concern that some students only live in Salisbury for nine months. Should they vote in Salisbury elections? O'Loughin says absolutely. He also discusses the impact that student votes would have on our small town. He writes, \"given the size of the student body at Salisbury University, students acting as a voting block could have significant influence over the composition of the Salisbury City Council and the Mayor of the city. Voter turnout in Salisbury elections is generally low. Therefore, greater student turnout raises the prospect of greater student influence on determining the winners and losers in these local elections.\" Amen to that.\nBut the most important aspect of O'Loughlin's letter, comes towards the end, \"Once Council Candidates begin to realize that students are voting in greater and greater numbers, they will then begin to pay closer attention to student issues. However, if students remain marginal to the electoral outcome, candidates will likely continue to ignore student concerns.\" There you have it gulls. You heard it from a professor- the Council DOES ignore students. Gulls, if you see Dr. O'Loughlin in class or around campus be sure to shake his hand. As for the Other Salisbury News, we say cheers to you Dr. O'Loughlin!! You're a good teacher and a great man- thank you.\n**you will notice that in the Letters to the Editor section of The Flyer, that are also 2 MORE LETTERS FROM TERRY COHEN AND TIM SPIES. The Other Salisbury News would have done another official Gullshit Alert about this except that we are currently too disgusted with The Flyer to want to give them any more attention. Flyer, just know that we are more disappointed in you than words can say. You let down the student body with your partisanship yet again and now, because of your refusal to get out of Terry and Tim's back pocket, we have lost an election. We don't know what kind of hold they have on you, or who the bug in charge is, but expect us to be figuring it out very soon...and publishing it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theshow.kjzz.org/content/708306/fewer-americans-working-gig-economy-previously-assumed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:05Z", "digest": "sha1:LHLXVFULBRMZCUWVDTV2IU4NUS2W6QU2", "length": 746, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theshow.kjzz.org", "title": "Fewer Working In Gig Economy Than Assumed | KJZZ's The Show", "raw_content": "Fewer Americans Working In Gig Economy Than Previously Assumed\nGIG ECONOMY-THESHOW-2018410.mp3\nThere are more Americans working in the gig economy now than five years ago.\nBut even with those gains, just 1.6 percent of workers nationally have taken part. And of those that do gig work, like driving and delivery or renting out their homes, most do so for just a few months a year.\nThose are among the findings of a new study from the JPMorgan Chase Institute, which also shows about 1.5 percent of Arizonans took part in the gig economy, which is among the highest rates in the country.\nTo talk about the results and other numbers, Eileen Appelbaum, co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., joined The Show.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetartan.org/2007/10/29/pillbox/advice", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:59Z", "digest": "sha1:4GE3LW7PD4MNCQAFLWTR62DR3GTBPYFJ", "length": 2165, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thetartan.org", "title": "Everything you need to know - The Tartan", "raw_content": "Hello Myrtle,\nHelp! I\u2019m so sick of on-campus food that I have to cancel my meal plan before going completely mad. Trouble is, I can\u2019t afford to eat out all the time, and my culinary skills only extend as far as mixing water and noodles, and sometimes I even mess that up. Any tips?\nHi INC,\nWell, this isn\u2019t \u201cAsk Rachael Ray,\u201d but I\u2019ll do my best. There are plenty of easy meals you can make that require minimal knowledge of cooking. Go to Goodwill or Target and buy yourself a saucepan, a small skillet, a big wooden spoon, and a spatula. Then, pick up a copy of Joy of Cooking or (gasp) call Mom for a few simple recipes. Scrambled eggs and bacon, grilled cheese, pita pizzas, and spaghetti are all good places to start. If you can master saut\u00e9ing (frying quickly in oil) vegetables, a few cut-up carrots, zucchini, onions, mushrooms, and your favorite meat or vegetable can quickly become a plethora of different meals. Break some eggs on top, and you\u2019ve got an omelet (or if you really want to impress your friends, call it a frittata). Dump some pasta in the skillet and you have pasta primavera. Put it on some rice and you have an Asian entr\u00e9e. See? You\u2019ll be making souffl\u00e9s in no time.\nI want to move in with my boyfriend next semester when my lease runs out, but some of my friends don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good idea. What do you think?\n\u2014Housemate Or Not?\nHey there HON,\nWe\u2019re lucky that we can even consider the option of cohabitation \u2014 a couple generations ago, it would have been unheard of. Still, just because coed housing is mostly accepted nowadays, it doesn\u2019t mean cohabitation is necessarily a good idea. Living with someone you love can be fabulous, but make sure you\u2019re doing it for the right reasons. Moving in with somebody to save money, to piss off your parents, to test him or her for marriage, while separately all important considerations, are not good reasons. And remember, it\u2019s difficult enough to break up with someone, but it\u2019s even worse when you have to pack up boxes and break leases on top of the heartache. But, hey, love is all about risks, right? Just make sure you\u2019ve thought about all the pros and cons before signing that lease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetartan.org/2008/4/7/sports/commentary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FMHFSS3SZQCCXP5V5VEOV3DJU4ORLYQS", "length": 3941, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thetartan.org", "title": "The Magic of March Madness - The Tartan", "raw_content": "The Magic of March Madness\nBy Shafique Rashid | Apr 7, 2008\nWith the NCAA men\u2019s basketball national championship set to be played between powerhouse universities Kansas and Memphis, it is easy to forget what makes March Madness so, well, mad. For the first time in the tournament\u2019s history, all four number-one seeds made it to the Final Four, with no Cinderella team left to root for. But to say that this result, which would have taken negligible sports acumen to predict, has made this year\u2019s tournament any less exciting would be overlooking most of what has occurred over the last month.\nAnybody who wonders why college basketball\u2019s final three weeks are so widespread in popularity needed only to witness the first two rounds of play this year. With an initial field of 64 teams in the tournament, it seemed like CBS was able to televise a brewing upset for every one of its time slots over the first four days, including Western Kentucky\u2019s improbable buzzer beater to shock Drake in overtime, Duke just squeaking by Belmont by one point, and San Diego coming out of nowhere and taking down Connecticut by one point in overtime. And that\u2019s just to name a few from the first round.\nWhat makes March Madness so great ultimately boils down to the volume of the playing field, unseen in any other sporting competition except maybe the Olympics. Aside from the frenzy of the first four days, during which 48 games cut the field to 16, there is also an unbelievable amount of diversity in competition. You see the unknown mid major pitted against the storied program, the southern country school up against one from the inner city, the confident team stacked with talent against the tenacious overachieving one. The subplots within the tournament are countless, making it very easy to find a team to identify with. And the laws of probability say you will get a few upsets to shock you along the way.\nBut when the upsets carry into the Sweet Sixteen and then the Elite Eight, it is no longer a result of simple probability. This year, Davidson, which has just 1674 total undergrads, put on the glass slipper and made an exhilarating run reminiscent of George Mason just two years ago. The relative unknown from North Carolina, a state already in over its head in basketball with established programs in UNC, N.C. State, and Wake Forest, upset number-seven seed Gonzaga, number-two seed Georgetown, and number-three seed Wisconsin consecutively to make it to the Elite Eight. All three of those teams have been annual staples for the NCAA tournament. Yet the motley crew of Davidson, seeded just 10th and led by the hot Stephen Curry, played as if it belonged in a major conference as well. There was nobody following the tournament who wasn\u2019t, unless for obvious monetary reasons, behind Davidson during its run. And when the team played number-one seed Kansas to the buzzer, missing a shot at the end of regulation that would have won the game, you could almost hear the collective moan of a sports nation hoping to see the Cinderella survive one more week to the Final Four. But our hearts were beating nevertheless.\n\u00e5Whether by way of disappointment or utmost glee, the NCAA tournament never fails to resonate with its spectators. The fact that the Final Four this year consisted solely of number-one seeds is a moot point. At this stage in the competition, seeding no longer has any relevance. The Final Four simply consists of those teams that were on the right side of all the shocks, all the late-game rallies and buzzer beaters. This year they were Kansas, Memphis, UCLA, and UNC \u2014 schools, not seeds. Kansas and Memphis were on the right side of things once again Saturday night. The NCAA tournament, much like the real world, is as much about surviving as it is excelling. Whichever team is left cutting down the nets Monday night can say that the players fought their way all the way to the top, with all of us as their witnesses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 4349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thewomensjournal.com/2017/01/chester-delaware-county-people-in-profile-first-quarter-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:05Z", "digest": "sha1:QFIWCPAUTHTE6NF6MVVPS4I27XPGE7M2", "length": 6556, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "thewomensjournal.com", "title": "Chester & Delaware County People in Profile First Quarter 2017 \u2013 The Women's Journal", "raw_content": "Chester & Delaware County People in Profile First Quarter 2017\nDr. Brian Shiple\nDr. Brian Shiple is a recognized leader in the fields of interventional and integrative orthopedic medicine, regenerative injection treatment (RIT), sports medicine, and diagnostic ultrasound. He has been in private practice since 2007 after completing thirteen years as the division Chief of Sports Medicine and was the founder and director of the Sports Medicine Fellowship program at Crozer-Keystone Health System in the Greater Philadelphia area. He is involved in clinical research and is an active member of various national sports medicine and orthopedic organizations. In the past fifteen years, he has spoken at over one hundred conferences and taught RIT to more than a thousand doctors from eighteen countries. He has also made eleven medical service trips to Honduras and Mexico where he taught physicians from around the globe to perform prolotherapy treatments to underserved people in that country.\nIn addition to helping thousands of patients through his own practice, Dr. Shiple served as team physician to several local school districts, was the founding medical director of the Philadelphia Triathlon at Fairmount Park, was the chief medical officer of the Pennsylvania State Games from 1994-2006 and was a volunteer team physician of the US Olympic Committee in Colorado Springs in 2003.\nIn 2013, Dr. Shiple published Regenerative Healing for Life, a comprehensive guide to understanding and treating injuries and pain without surgery. He has also written several articles and research projects. He has appeared on ESPN, been profiled in the American Milestones television series, and recognized as one of Philadelphia Magazine\u2019s \u201cTop Docs.\u201d\nDr. Heather Rooks\nDr. Heather Rooks is passionate, skilled and experienced at finding and addressing the root physiological, biochemical, hormonal and neurological imbalances causing the poor health status of people today. In the current health trends we see today, most patients that seek her help have been the traditional medical route with no positive result or have been managed chronically with prescription medications and one procedure after another, with no real change or return to health.\nDue to the overwhelming stress, poor food supply, and consumption and over use of pharmaceutical drugs, as a society we are extremely imbalanced and this has led to an overwhelming need for an integrative perspective view of health care. In this model of care, Dr. Rooks utilizes a Functional Medicine approach emphasizing bodily cleansing and detoxification, clinical nutrition with nutrition supplementation, lifestyle modification, nervous system and skeletal balancing through Chiropractic care and stress reduction techniques to help clients recover their health and truly heal. She utilizes breakthrough diagnostic testing and analysis that\u2019s rarely done in conventional setting, when needed, to uncover the hidden, underlying causes of health concerns. She takes great pride in delivering personalized healthcare programs for patients as well as providing an environment that supports and inspires patients to reverse their poor health, optimize their health and their quality of life.\nA graduate from the University of Delaware, with a BA in Biology and a Minor in Women\u2019s Studies. She attended Life University for her Doctor of Chiropractic degree, and has extensive Postgraduate education in Functional Endocrinology & Clinical Nutrition.\nOutside the office, Dr. Rooks enjoys time with her son, Rook Orion, and extended family and friends. She feels most ALIVE when exercising, on spiritual retreats, traveling and on humanitarian mission trips. She relaxes with meditation and bodywork and also loves Yoga and any kind of fitness.\nKelly Shiple\nKelly Shiple is a physician assistant at Chadds Ford Wellness specializing in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy and aesthetic medicine. She grew up in Wilmington, DE and is a graduate of Ursuline Academy. She then went on to become a Blue Hen as a fashion-merchandising student. Kelly later switched to pre-med to follow in the steps of her father after traveling on a medical mission trip with the Hackett Hemwall Foundation to help the less fortunate population of a third world country in Honduras. She graduated from the University of Delaware with a Bachelor\u2019s of science in exercise physiology. Kelly went to Nova Southeastern University in Orlando, FL for PA school and graduated in August 2014 with her Master\u2019s in physician assistant studies. She spent her last rotation in Sarasota, FL with Dr. Joseph Greco, a world-renowned physician assistant and doctor of education who developed a protocol using platelet rich plasma (PRP) for hair and skin restoration and rejuvenation and has participated in studies all over the world proving the efficacy of this procedure. She was trained by Dr. Greco to perform scalp and facial PRP injections. Kelly then returned to Pennsylvania to work with her father, Brian Shiple, DO, at the Center for Sports Medicine and Wellness. She spent a year training with him in nonoperative orthopedics and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT). During this time Kelly was also trained in microneedling with PRP by Blade Tiessen, a paramedical aesthetician from Ontario, Canada, who has been deemed a pioneer of collagen induction therapy. Kelly currently performs neurotoxin, dermal filler, and aesthetic PRP injections along with some ultrasound-guided sports medicine procedures and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy.\nThank You Dr. Brian Shiple for hosting our profile shoot at your office. Dr. Shiple\u2019s Mission at Chadds Ford Wellness is that they believe that the key to a happy and healthy life is balance. Their mission is to help you achieve the balance you have been searching for. They can do this by managing the aging process by replacing the hormones that you have lost over the years to help achieve levels equivalent to where they were when you were younger, and also by replenishing the collagen, hair, and/or sexual function that you have lost over time due to aging, stress, trauma, or surgery. By doing so, they can help restore your body and mind to not only improve the way you look, but also the way you feel and function. Chadds Ford Wellness is located at 1788 Wilmington Pike, Glen Mills, PA. Call to schedule an appointment 1-610-459-4200.\n\u2190 Previous Story Kent County People in Profile First Quarter 2017\nNext Story \u2192 New Castle County People in Profile First Quarter 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 12046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://threecircles.eu/blog/2015/02/11/missing-these-key-activities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:23Z", "digest": "sha1:VM7CFMCGB6MRRRUKVYIE2MOZR4U37ZYH", "length": 3947, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "threecircles.eu", "title": "It's just good business, right? | Three Circles Consulting Ltd", "raw_content": "qualitywhat's new\t| February 11 2015\t| 0\nTraceability from the initial requirements through to what has been validated and is (hopefully) about to be manufactured for the market. Often traceability is done late on in development and unsurprisingly, holes are found in the design and testing. Sometimes it\u2019s that critical or frequently used functions were overlooked in test design, other times that testing crept to include parameters or functions that weren\u2019t part of the device design.\nTest results during development that can be held up to scrutiny (i.e. the equipment was qualified and the method validated). Quick and dirty tests are often called for by design engineers, and certainly have a place in concept development. Saying its \u201cjust for development\u201d or the data is \u201cfor information only\u201d may seem fine at the time, but as soon as you try to use the data to support a decision\u2026 or, I hesitate to say it, transfer a test method from supplier to manufacturer, what then? This seems particularly prevalent where computers, software and spreadsheets are brought into the mix.\nThat the true purpose of Design Verification is to answer the question \u201cdid we design the device right\u201d, so designing the verification study to answer that \u201csimple\u201d question,\nDesign Validation confirming that \u201cwe designed the right device\u201d for its users and their needs. Nothing more, nothing less,\nWriting down why decisions were made and requirements defined as they were (i.e. rationales),\nTransfer of information and development activities between partners, even when they\u2019re part of the same organisation. This seems particularly tricky when design or development activities are transferred from, for example a supplier or design originator, to the eventual device manufacturer, or the industrialisation partner.\nAll these are slated for inclusion in the revised ISO 13485, so you can perhaps sense that they\u2019re important aspects of device development.\nI go further than that, to say they\u2019re integral aspects of good business; knowing who you\u2019re developing a product for; ensuring that your development works towards those goals; having sound, reliable data to make business decisions upon; knowing that what you\u2019ve developed is technically robust and is the right product for your market. Importantly, you will save significant sums of money by covering these aspects well, as you go along, rather than leaving things and then fixing the inevitable gaps later on.\nThe bad news (depending on how you look at it) is that EN ISO 9001,\nwhich has undergone significant changes, is scheduled to become effective at the end of 2015.\nMany commentators say that this will have a significant impact on medical device manufacturers who currently claim compliance with both standards. The new version of ISO 9001 will focus on risk management, with an emphasis on leadership, objectives, measurement and change.\nWhat does this have to do with ISO 13485?\nWell the revision has snuck in the requirement that all QMS built around ISO standards will have to comply with the new requirements and core content of ISO 9001. This impacts some areas that were not covered in the proposed updates to ISO 13485, probably meaning further delays for the new version.\nSo, the revised 13485 standard will need to cover;\nCorrective Action Preventative Action (CAPA)\nPost market activities\nAlignment with ISO 9001\nHappily, the headaches I mentioned earlier will still all be covered by these revisions. I look forward to my life being made a little easier, once organisations have transitioned from the current version.\nThe activities we\u2019ll see in the revised ISO 13485 make good business sense for healthcare organisations right now.\nIf, like me, you see the benefits, perhaps you will want to act sooner, rather than wait until the new standard comes into force. Adding the missing elements now will give you an advantage today, tomorrow; and help reduce the burden of change later on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://threecircles.eu/blog/2016/12/12/the-awesome-clients-we-get-to-work-with/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:03Z", "digest": "sha1:C5QL3EOBIR7DTHR4QHQR5NF5SZADF6E2", "length": 1539, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "threecircles.eu", "title": "The awesome clients we get to work with | Three Circles Consulting Ltd", "raw_content": "As we draw towards the close of 2016, and because we\u2019ve just reached our 10th anniversary, we\u2019ve taken a look back at the great products with which we\u2019ve been involved. Obviously, protecting client confidentiality is very important to us, so you will not see company names and products mentioned.\n43 clients have been helped with product development, by our team. They challenge us to unpick thorny problems, get inside the minds of users and guide them to create products that speak to those users, prepare products for new markets, all whilst ensuring they meet their legal obligations. There\u2019s never a quiet day for the team!\nOne thing all these companies have in common; a strong desire to improve and protect the quality of life for patients.\nCompanies in pharma that have chosen to work with us include:\n\u2013 3 of the top 5,\n\u2013 mid-tier manufacturers,\n\u2013 generic manufacturers,\n\u2013 start-ups.\nThey\u2019re typically based in either the EU or the US and look for answers to some tough questions.\nMedical device developers who value our help range from some of the largest global companies through to a smaller regional or national players.\nProduct designers ask us to get involved during the early stages of development, often to support work for their clients.\nOur team is proud of being involved in improving the lives of millions of people around the world.\nYou may be curious to see the types of product we\u2019ve helped all these organisations develop and launch. Come back to read our next article, which will be published in the next few days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.com/2011/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OGS4D4XBJ2INZ2G2QW3DUQ2D2KN2WXTC", "length": 9749, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.com", "title": "Three Score Years And Ten: May 2011", "raw_content": "60 years after the Easington Pit Disaster\nThe above photograph was taken at Easington Colliery yesterday at a Ceremony of Remembrance held at the graves of miners who were killed in a local pit disaster 60 years ago. I was at the ceremony and at an earlier and packed Memorial Service held in the Parish Church, where the names of all those killed was read out. 81 were killed due to an explosion in the Duckbill District of the Five Quarter Seam and this was followed by the deaths of two of the rescue workers.\nAnother 895 men were working in other parts of the pit at the time and the official report into the disaster pointed out that if stone dusting had not taken place earlier then \"the explosion might have acquired such violence that it would have spread beyond its actual confines and have caused one of the greatest disasters in mining history\". Yet as it was, the explosion rushed through nine miles of roadway.\nWe all have our own way into the past. I was a 14 year old school boy and my father was in the pit when the explosion struck at 4.35am on 29 May 1951. He survived because he was working in a different seam to the one in which the explosion took place. He later helped with what he described as being \"salvage work\". The official report by the Chief Inspector of Mines states that tribute \"must be paid to the large number of colliery workers who removed bodies, strengthened stoppings and cleared paths. Their work, though not so dangerous as that of the trained rescue teams, was arduous, unpleasant and not without strain, and I am glad to have the opportunity of recording sincere appreciation of their services\". It was an overall experience which reinforced my father's loyalties. So yesterday I wore his old Durham NUM tie.\nMy father moved to Easington with his parents and five siblings when he was a three year old in 1912 just after coal was first drawn from its pit. He worked at the colliery between the ages of 14 and 65 and died in 1996 just three years after the pit was closed. Few people could have been so closely bound to its life as a mining colliery. The experience of its pit disaster happening roughly half-way through his life.\nThe photo of the young girl above comes from the this source.\nAdded 24 June : Also see here, here, here, here and here.\nLabels: Easington, NUM.\nMore Trade Union Repression In Iraq\nA Clause 4 Moment?\nThe major problem with the Labour Party Consultative Document \"Refounding Labour\" is that it manages to put forward over a 100 questions on how the Labour Party should operate and function without ever raising the key question which should shape our approach to these bits and pieces : namely, what is the Labour Party supposed to be about? What is its purpose?\nYet there is a well known section of the Constitution of the Labour Party which deals with the paramount issue of what its very aims and values are - its famous Clause IV.\nI can appreciate why the Labour Leadership would wish to avoid a re-run of the past disputes over reforming Clause IV, which were initially unsuccessfully instigated by Hugh Gaitskell and then successfully by Tony Blair. For if they had even mentioned the words \"Clause 4\" in their Consultative Document, then that would have been enough to stimulate an argument as to whether we should return to the original wording that was adopted in 1918 namely - \"To secure for the workers by hand or by brain the full fruits of their industry and the most equitable distribution thereof that may be possible upon the basis of the common ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange, and the best obtainable system of popular administration and control of each industry or service.\" The publicity around the Labour Party itself re-opening this debate could have been used to damage Labour's standing. But perhaps our responses to the Consultative Document could be used to get the matter of aims and values back onto the agenda, yet we might be able to avoid any major damage from the media. Especially if we use the words of the original Clause IV as inspirational, rather than treating them as if they were the Holy Grail.\nThe current Clause IV appears below. What do you think of it as it stands?\nClause IV.\n1. The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party. It believes that by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone, so as to create for each of us the means to realise our true potential and for all of us a community in which power, wealth and opportunity are in the hands of the many not the few; where the rights we enjoy reflect the duties we owe and where we live together freely, in a spirit of solidarity, tolerance and respect.\n2. To these ends we work for:\nA. A DYNAMIC ECONOMY, serving the public interest, in which the enterprise of the market and the rigour of competition are joined with the forces of partnership and co-operation to produce the wealth the nation needs and the opportunity for all to work and prosper with a thriving private sector and high-quality public services where those undertakings essential to the common good are either owned by the public or accountable to them\nB. A JUST SOCIETY, which judges its strength by the condition of the weak as much as the strong, provides security against fear, and justice at work; which nurtures families, promotes equality of opportunity, and delivers people from the tyranny of poverty, prejudice and the abuse of power.\nC. AN OPEN DEMOCRACY, in which government is held to account by the people, decisions are taken as far as practicable by the communities they affect and where fundamental human rights are guaranteed.\nD. A HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT, which we protect, enhance and hold in trust for future generations.\n3. Labour is committed to the defence and security of the British people and to co-operating in European institutions, the United Nations, the Commonwealth and other international bodies to secure peace, freedom, democracy, economic security and environmental protection for all.\n4. Labour shall work in pursuit oft these aims with trade unions and co-operative societies and also with voluntary organisations, consumer groups and other representative bodies.\n5. On the basis of these principles, Labour seeks the trust of the people to govern.\nAs a democratic socialist, I can live with much of the above. Sub-clause 1 appears on the front of Labour Party Membership Cards and is what many members may believe is the full Clause. But there are four more sub-clauses given above. The first section presses for each person to be given the chance to reach their own potential, rather than seeing people as benefiting by sharing and helping each other. But the overall phraseology is ambiguous enough to be given a general form of democratic socialist interpretation. And the meaning given to the sub-clause depends to some extent what then follows.\nIt is sub-clause 2a which is the major drawback for me. It encapsulates the New Labour approach which came to fail us both morally and electorally by 2010. Here the concept of the \"Dynamic Economy\" attempts to marry together the opposing forces of a mainly unrestrained free enterprise approach with that of the public well-being. Below I offer an alternative form of words in favour of advancing the alternative concept of a \"Sustainable Economy\".\nIn sub-clause 2b, I am also concerned about the commitment to promoting \"equality of opportunity\", a concept which creates the image of us being lined up on the starting line to race against each other, rather than our working together to form an egalitarian, participatory and sharing society. The notion of \"social equality\" seems to me to point us in a better direction.\nMy two proposed amendments are given below. Limiting the changes in the overall wording, whilst trying to get to the heart of the matter, seems to me to be a practical yet principled approach.\nA. Replace sub-clause 2a on \u201cA Dynamic Economy\u201d with the following -\n\u201cA SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY, serving the public interest by operating through the principles of co-operation and participatory democracy, in which wealth and economic power are fairly shared.\u201d\nB. Amend sub-clause 2b on \u201cA Just Society\u201d as follows -\n\"Replace the words\"equality of opportunity\" with the words \"social equality\".\nHat Tip - Iraqi Letter.\nLabels: Communist Party, Iraq, Socialism\nLevel-headed Labour Lefties\nRefounding Labour : a summary of Labour's consultative document\nKeir Hardie is one of the primary founders of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and then of the Labour Party, of which the ILP was itself a part. Labour is now seeking to refound itself.\nIt is, therefore, appropriate that I should have recently returned from a week-end school run by the ILP (now Independent Labour Publications) where we discussed the \"refounding\" document which I summarise here.\nLabels: Discussion Meetings, Dronfield Blather, Labour Party, Peter Hain, Political Ideas, Socialism\nAct Now To Defend Iraqi Trade Unions.\nMore details from Brendan Barber.\nThe Benefits of Labour Party Membership\nHat Tip : The Poor Mouth\nMassive Swing from Lib Dems to Labour in Chesterfield\nLabour gained 23 seats from the Lib Dems in the Chesterfield Borough Council Elections, turning a 11-37 deficit into a 34-14 victory. The photo shows Councillor John Burrows the new leader of the council celebrating with his grandchildren Oliver and Jacob. On May Day he also made significant contributions to this meeting on Adult Education. Well done John and the Chesterfield Labour Party.\nLabels: Adult Education, Discussion Meetings, Dronfield Blather, Labour Party, NUM., Trade Unions\nRefounding Labour : a summary of Labour's consulta...\nMassive Swing from Lib Dems to Labour in Chesterfi...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 14413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tnea.info/bio_tech.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:36Z", "digest": "sha1:6T5IGQBRGMUHALTABQ4MSFRSUM2FENXB", "length": 2733, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "tnea.info", "title": "Bio Technology", "raw_content": "Biotechnology means any technological application that uses biological systems or living organisms to make or modify products or processes for specific use. It refers to the use of microorganisms such as bacteria, yeasts, or biological substances such as enzymes, to perform specific industrial or manufacturing processes. Applications include production of certain drugs, synthetic hormones, and bulk foodstuffs as well as bioconversion of organic waste. Bio- Technology is concerned with variety of subjects including Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Chemistry and Engineering. Biotechnology has wide areas of application in Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, development of Medicines and Vaccine, treatment of prolonged disease, pollution control and waste management and ecological conservation, energy production and conservation and many more.\nWhat does a Bio Tech Engineer do?\nBio-Tech Engineers involve in medical processes such as getting organisms to produce new drugs, or using stem cells to regenerate damaged human tissues and re-grow entire organs.\nBiotechnologist involves industrial processes such as the production of new chemicals or the development of new preservative that can be used for food storage.\nBio- Tech Engineers deal with medical devices, instruments used in hospitals & medical labs.\nBio Tech Engineers also deal with bioinformatics which involves the use applied mathematics, informatics, statistics, computer science, artificial intelligence, chemistry, and biochemistry\nBiotechnology experts develop a hybrid plants and involves such processes as the development of pest-resistant grains or the accelerated evolution of disease-resistant animals.\nWhat is the future for a Bio Technology graduate?\nBio Technologist can be employed in pharmaceutical companies, chemical, food processing, agriculture and allied industries. Bio-Tech Engineers can find the opportunities in any of the following category\nClinical Engineer in the hospitals, deal with the develop and maintain computer database of medical instruments and equipment record\nAs Orthopedic Bio-Engineer, responsible for the design and development of artificial joints\nGenetic Engineer, in the pharmaceutical & bio-medical companies\nResearch scientists or assistants in the Research laboratories working in the area of pharmaceutical, genetic engineering & food processing\nEnvironmental specialist in various government agencies and private institutions\nAfter graduation as a B.E / B.Tech in Bio Technology one can look for M.E / M.Tech / M.S in any of the following areas\nAdvanced Bio-Technology\nWho should opt for Bio Technology?\nBiology, Medicines, Medical equipments, Chemical, Agriculture, Life Sciences, Cloning and Genetic Engineering", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://today.az/news/politics/179080.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FLV6YXPPJI22QEQEP4FVZTRR3FKUOUVE", "length": 5087, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "today.az", "title": "Today.Az - People accused in big embezzlement case testify in Baku court", "raw_content": "The Baku Grave Crimes Court continued the preparatory trial proceedings on the criminal case of the former head of the International Bank of Azerbaijan Jahangir Hajiyev, his relative Ismayil Hidayetzade, ex-MP Dunyamin Khalilov, also Jamal Hasanov, Sarkhan Rasulov, Natig Imanov, Samir Hajiyev, Tabriz Abdulhamidov, Mahir Gafarov, Sadikh Murtuzayev, Tarlan Maharramov, Fakhraddin Heybatov, Ramin Ahmadov, Fariz Muradov, Salahaddin Gadirov, Erkhan Javad, Arif Ramazanov, Navai Shirinov, Svetlana Asadullayeva, Arif Madatov, Adil Mikailov and Ramiz Karimov, Trend reports.\nAt the trial, chaired by Judge Faig Ganiyev, the accused Natig Imanov testified. He said that in 2011 he worked at Soik Construction LLC owned by Dunyamin Khalilov.\n\u201cI previously worked in other companies as well,\u201d he said. \u201cIn this company, our job was to construct a building with four entrances in Baku. I resettled the residents who lived in this area. We entered into sales contracts with approximately 50 families. In 2015, when the criminal case started in connection with the International Bank of Azerbaijan (IBA), I was brought to the investigation. At that moment, Dunyamin Khalilov wasn\u2019t here. He came later.\u201d\nImanov noted that he is accused of embezzling more than 12 million manats.\n\u201cI had the company\u2019s seal,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the instruction of Dunyamin Khalilov, I went to the IBA. At the central branch of the bank, I was met by a man named Azer. I signed the documents prepared by him, and after that the money was transferred to the accounts of citizens from whom we bought houses. Every time I went to the bank to sign documents, 1.5 million manats were transferred. I didn\u2019t take money in cash. I only signed documents at the bank. In general, I signed documents on the transfer of 44 million manats.\u201d\nThe judge said the materials of the criminal case reflect that Imanov took a loan of 22.450 million manats from the IBA.\nThe accused said that during the period of work as a director in the company, he officially received a salary of 200 manats.\n\u201cBut unofficially I received from Dunyamin Khalilov a salary of 2,000 manats,\u201d he noted. \u201cI received money in cash at the IBA. I went to the bank, took my money and signed documents. I personally informed Dunyamin Khalilov. Twelve million manats remained in the bank. Then Dunyamin Khalilov sent a man and took the money. I didn\u2019t take cash from the bank.\u201d\nThen, Madatov, another accused, was heard. He noted that in 2001 he founded the Abide housing complex together with family members.\n\u201cIn order to take a loan for dismantling work, I appealed to Dunyamin Khalilov,\u201d he said. \u201cThen we agreed on 25 percent. During the work, Dunyamin Khalilov demanded me to sign the form #2 (a report on income and expenditure). Four times I objected it, because the amounts were too high. I didn\u2019t agree with him. After that, in order for the work to progress, I signed several forms #2, because the work was done by half and the people remained on the street.\u201d\nMadatov said that on this occasion he met twice with Jahangir Hajiyev.\n\u201cI was only fulfilling the orders of Dunyamin Khalilov,\u201d the accused said. \u201cThe money from the bank was transferred to the accounts of 100 families.\u201d\nAt the trial, it was announced that, according to the indictment, Madatov misappropriated 3.226 million manats of the IBA. Madatov confirmed this amount.\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say that I misappropriated,\u201d he noted. \u201cHowever, at that moment in the form #2, the amount was overestimated.\u201d\nIn his testimony, Murtuzayev, another accused, said that the IBA allocated a 14 million manat loan to the Alfaline company that he headed in 2006-2007.\n\u201cOur company financed engineering companies,\u201d he noted. \u201cPersonally, I didn\u2019t take part in financing. I just signed the documents. In 2010, I left the company. But it remained registered under my name.\u201d\nDuring the interrogation, Murtuzayev said that he received salary in the company that he led.\nA break was announced in the court.\nAccording to official information, during investigations there were reasonable suspicions that contracts for the purchase and sale of promissory notes in the amount of $3.4 billion and 987 million euros were concluded with some legal entities in various countries and illegal transactions were carried out by using promissory notes in 2001-2015 upon Hajiyev\u2019s instructions, who was the chairman of the Board of the International Bank of Azerbaijan.\nMoreover, there were reasonable suspicions that Khalilov, 20 more people, as well as other people, caused damage to the bank, misappropriating 4.7 billion manats. Moreover, Hajiyev declined to pay taxes to the budget in the amount of 1,752,000 manats from the profit of Aztorg LLC, jointly led by Hajiyev and Khalilov in 2011-2014.\nThe Baku Grave Crimes Court previously sentenced Hajiyev to 15 years in prison, Dunyamin Khalilov to 13 years, and Ismayil Hidayetzade to 7 years in prison.\nKhalilov\u2019s sentence was reduced from 13 to 12 years and 9 months by a decision of the Baku Court of Appeals; Hidayetzade\u2019s sentence was reduced to five years by the Supreme Court.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://top20z.com/top-10-weirdest-planets-in-the-universe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZG5BSOHEO5VMEMIMIUSCV3GETKDMNKW", "length": 2087, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "top20z.com", "title": "Top 10 Weirdest Planets in the Universe \u2013 Top20z", "raw_content": "Space research has been going for quite some-time now. No doubt, it has brought a revolution in space science. Many hidden things were able to be discovered due to these researches. Revelations about stars and planets are continuing and will continue till the end of times for sure. The universe we live in is vast and vast beyond our expectations. The science is not sure about the other universes but convinced that there are so many other universes present. But we are considering our universe in this article. The scientists working for so many years have developed a capacity now to discover planets and similar things. This is the reason why so many planets and stars are discovered recently.\nThere are some planets which may or may not happen to be utilized by us Earthlings but they are definitely in existent. These planets are the strangest in our universe due to their behavior. Each planet is different from the other one. Currently many researches are undergoing to find out facts and figures about those strange beasts in our universe. Here is a rundown of the main 10 record breaking shattering outsider planets, among all the others that have been found and found.\n10. Kepler 10c\nEver heard about a term called \u201crough planets\u201d? This is a live example of such planets. It is by far known to be the roughest planet in our cosmic system.\nBecause it is a planet of enormous size just like Saturn and Neptune planets which I am sure you people are familiar with. These planets pull a lot of helium and hydrogen. Our planet is nothing in size, speed and mass of this planet. Kepler 10c is about 2.3 time\u2019s circumstances the span of planet Earth. When it comes to mass, it is 17 times more dense and noteworthy then our very own planet Earth.\nWhen it comes to the creation of this planet, it has been found out that Kepler 10c has been developed of thick rocks and solids which are responsible for such a huge mass. So, it is quite clear where this planet get enormous size from.\nPrevious article Top 10 Smartphone Apps\nNext article Top 10 Most Powerful Politicians in the World", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://top40-charts.com/songs/media.php?sid=45092&cid=36&date=2018-02-03", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:41Z", "digest": "sha1:75BRDUGTZ52MS7PKXX4AYPCW6KTW6OHY", "length": 150, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "top40-charts.com", "title": "Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee - Despacito Video @ Top40-Charts.com - New Songs & Videos from 49 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 30 Countries", "raw_content": "Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee's Despacito is #56 on the 03/Feb/2018 Airplay World Official Top 100 chart! More from the same week:\nUtada Hikaru & Skrillex", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 4287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://touch.shio.gov.cn/shanghai-today/people/3639.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:50Z", "digest": "sha1:WHRTUVLOFHIYTOWOOQZPVJTJ7QZWS2KB", "length": 3613, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "touch.shio.gov.cn", "title": "\ufeff \u4e0a\u6d77\u6d77\u6d3e\u6f06\u5668\u827a\u672f\u9986\u9986\u957f\uff1a\u4e3a\u5386\u53f2\u521b\u9020\u8bb0\u5fc6 | \u611f\u77e5\u4e0a\u6d77", "raw_content": "\u4e0a\u6d77\u6d77\u6d3e\u6f06\u5668\u827a\u672f\u9986\u9986\u957f\uff1a\u4e3a\u5386\u53f2\u521b\u9020\u8bb0\u5fc6 - 2018\u5e7403\u670823\u65e5\nA man\u2019s crusade to protect vanishing art\nWANG Shijun, founder of Shanghai Haipai Lacquerware Museum in Minhang District, shows visitors around with a passion hard to hide.\n\u201cBefore being lacquered, the surface of the object is sometimes painted, inlaid with shell and other materials, or carved,\u201d he explains. \u201cThe lacquer can be dusted with gold or silver.\u201d\nOnce working as a civil servant, Wang resigned in 1994 to engage in trade.\nIn the late 1990s, he sponsored the students of a primary school in Yunnan Province. He says he wanted to pass on the kindness that he had received from others.\nAfter turning a tidy profit from his trade work, Wang started to collect artworks and decided to stick to only one kind of art. He set his heart on Chinese lacquerware.\nHowever, after inviting several masters in Shanghai to appraise his collection, he found that rather than collecting these works, he had a more urgent task to do: He should be a guardian of such art.\nHe learned that despite the long history and intricate techniques involved, lacquerware has got less attention from people than other art forms. And some masters are confronted with the predicament of nearly being out of work.\n\u201cI had to do something,\u201d Wang says in a solemn tone. \u201cI love lacquerware and I want more people to get to know it.\u201d\nSo in 2010, he started the preparation for a museum, which opened in 2013. It\u2019s a place where people can enjoy more than 1,000 pieces \u2014 from the traditional to the contemporary. There are also studios for eight masters to carry on preservation research.\nAfter applying for Shanghai\u2019s intangible cultural heritage, Wang and the eight masters went on to revive Shanghai lacquerware by combining tradition and innovation.\nThere was a time when as a collector, Wang took pleasure in collecting what he wanted. But now, as a curator, he says the happiest moment came when a piece of lacquerware \u2014 the fruit of their painstaking work \u2014 won the top award in an art and craft contest. \u201cBeing recognized and acknowledged satisfies me most.\u201d\nSpeaking of the unique characteristic of Shanghai lacquerware, Wang mentions the spirit of the city: \u201cThe sea refuses no river.\u201d In other words, embracing diversities. Such is the character of Shanghai and Shanghai lacquerware, whose creators are always open to new ideas.\nAccording to Wang, different regions in China are known for their own lacquer-processing techniques. Shanghai artisans are famous for selecting the refined and discarding the crude from these different styles, helping local lacquerware to keep on improving.\nAfter the maintenance of the museum, Wang plans to make a bit of a change. On the first floor, an area for DIY is set up for visitors \u2014 young and old \u2014 to try lacquerware-making themselves. On the fifth floor, an audio-visual classroom is prepared for lectures, training and group discussions.\n\u201cThe masters are getting older and older,\u201d Wang says. \u201cWhat is urgent for us now is to recruit young people who have talent, passion and persistence.\u201d\nWang says his lacquerware museum is cooperating with some colleges to attract more students, provide them the opportunity to get close to the art and foster the future masters.\nBut that\u2019s not going to be an easy task.\n\u201cTo pass on this cultural heritage,\u201d he explains with a sparkle in his eye, \u201cwe have to first attract people\u2019s attention and get them to understand it.\u201d\nShanghai Haipai Lacquerware Museum\nAddress: 1688 Jidi Rd\nHow to get there: Take Metro Line 2 to Songhong Road and transfer to bus No. 74 heading Huaxin Town. Get off at Jidi Road and Jimei Road.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tramz.com/ht/ppe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7FCUTQQOR6TQ33EXCN7LDQVFCVE7TGE4", "length": 8498, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "tramz.com", "title": "THE TRAMWAYS OF HAITI", "raw_content": "[ voir version fran\u00e7aise ]\nThe Republic of Haiti occupies the western third of Hispaniola, the Caribbean island which Christopher Columbus visited in 1492 and which was under French rule after 1664. Black slaves declared their independence in 1804 and established a republic in 1820 \u2013 the second in the Americas. The capital had two urban railway eras: a horsecar network between 1878 and 1888, and a second system which started with steam locomotives in 1897 and ended with internal combustion engines in 1932.\nThe first franchise for the construction of a street railway was awarded in 1876 to a group of New York financiers, who founded the Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de Port-au-Prince. The CCFPP ordered four 5-bench open cars from J. G. Brill Co. in Philadelphia on 13 October 1877 and inaugurated a tramway service on 17 January 1878. Later that year it ordered two more cars from Brill, these with 6 benches. The first line, which connected Croix des Bossales with the Champ de Mars [see map], was probably the first railway in the country.\nThe drawing below shows the tramway on Rue des Miracles near Port-au-Prince Bay [see map]. This is the only illustration that has been found of a horsedrawn tram in Haiti [col. AM]:\nThe tramway was a great success and in the following weeks CCFPP purchased four more cars from Brill and opened another line on the Grand-Rue [see map]. Unfortunately, construction of the line was mediocre, derailments were frequent, maintenance of the cars was nonexistent and omnibus competition began in 1880. The CCFPP went bankrupt in 1885 and the last tram of Port-au-Prince's first tramway ran in April 1888.\nThe second tramway was a more ambitious and complex affair, with investment from Haiti, the U.S., Belgium and Germany. In 1896 the Comit\u00e9 des N\u00e9gociants d'Ha\u00efti began the restoration of the former tramway system and the construction of two new rural lines \u2013 all to be powered by steam locomotives. The new Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Tramways de Port-au-Prince ordered an 8-ton locomotive from H. K. Porter Co. in Pittsburgh, U.S.A., five 12-ton locomotives from Lokomotivfabrik Krauss in M\u00fcnchen, Germany, and three locomotives (of unknown power) from Ateliers de Tubize near Brussels, Belgium. It also ordered ten open passenger cars from Jackson & Sharp Co. in Wilmington, U.S.A. \u2013 all with eight benches, larger than the Brill cars of 1878, which had disappeared. Here is an advertisement [Street Railway Journal, New York, 1/1898, p. 147]:\nThe following photograph shows a Jackson & Sharp car and the Porter locomotive in Port-au-Prince on 27 September 1896. The latter was baptized \"President Sam\" in honor of Haitian president Tir\u00e9sias Simon Sam \u2013 but note the U.S. flag on the left [Street Railway Review, Chicago, 15/3/1897, p. 178]:\nOn 18 April 1897 the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Tramways de Port-au-Prince inaugurated the first line of its steam tramway system, from Portail St-Joseph along Rue du Quai and Rue des Miracles to the tramway depot at Champ de Mars, and thence to Rue des Casernes [see map]. The second line on the Grand-Rue, from Portail St-Joseph to the Cimeti\u00e8re (Cemetery), entered service a week later. In this postcard view the cars are pulled by a Krauss locomotive [col. AM]:\nThe \"photo postcard\" view below shows a similar (maybe the same?) locomotive and pair of passenger cars. It was taken by a special camera that enabled the photographer to write on the negative [col. AM]:\nIn its first six months of operation the tramway carried 250,000 passengers. Track gauge was 762 mm (30 inches). Here is a train on the Grand-Rue [postcard, col. AM]:\nThe Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de la Plaine du Cul-de-Sac [Dead End Plain Railway] operated the new rural lines, from Port-au-Prince to L\u00e9og\u00e2ne, on the bay 36 km to the west, and from the capital to Manneville, 43 km to the east [see map]. Its track gauge, like that of the STPP lines, was 762 mm and the two companies shared their rolling stock. In 1901 the CCFPCS bought the STPP. Here is a mixed train, with Krauss locomotive, on Rue du Quai [pc, col. AM]:\nFor its rural lines, the CCFPCS imported 25-ton locomotives and large double-truck passenger cars. The interurban trains shared the streets with the urban vehicles [pc, col. AM]:\nThere is no way to know if the following train was doing local or rural service, but it seems that the locomotive was not a very good match for the little passenger cars. The view is south down the Grand-Rue [see map] [pc, col. AM]:\nFrequent visits by the U.S. Navy produced a number of photographic souvenirs of Haitian transport [pc, col. AM]:\nIn 1905 the new Compagnie Nationale or National Railroad built a steam line between Port-au-Prince and Saint-Marc, 100 km to the north [see map]. Its track gauge was 1067 mm (42 inches), wider than that of the CCFPCS.Between 1912 and 1918 the steam tramway company proposed electrification several times, at least of its urban lines, but made no progress in the plan. After the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915, the Haitian American Sugar Corporation (\"Hasco\") acquired the CCFPCS and renamed it Chemin de Fer Central or Central Railroad. Hasco attempted improvements, e.g., the enclosure of the locomotives [pc. col. AM]:\nThe postcard view below shows an enclosed locomotive with two trailers [col. AM]:\nThis train is on Rue des Casernes [see map] [pc, col. AM]:\nThe rails and rolling stock were aging and there was new bus competition. Between 1912 and 1922 the revenues of the Central Railway (ex-CCFPCS) dropped 64%, from $94,000 to $34,000. This view of Rue du Quai in the 1910s [see map] shows a train full of passengers [pc, col. AM]:\nBut the same view ten years later shows a tiny tram that is almost empty \u2013 and automobiles, which had been absent in all preceding illustrations [pc, col. AM]:\nAn American magazine described the new model [Popular Mechanics, Chicago, 5/1922]:\nThis postcard from the 1920s shows a four-axle tram with center door. Its origin is unknown [col. AM]:\nLest one think that all in Port-au-Prince was poverty and disorder, here is the Champ de Mars district in 1930 [see map]. The American flag marks the U.S. Embassy. The tram is headed for the tram depot, a large building that was later replaced by the Palais de l'Exposition. The spot is occupied today by the Mus\u00e9e d'Art Ha\u00eftien [pc, col. AM]:\nThe courageous tramway of Port-au-Prince disappeared completely in 1932. Some of its rolling stock was transferred to coffee and sugar plantations, where it ran for a while. But it is all gone today. Topographic maps of the 1950s suggest, but do not indicate clearly, that the Compagnie Nationale des Chemins de Fer d'Ha\u00efti may have taken over the rural lines of the CCFPCS.\n\"A Street Railway in Hayti\" in Street Railway Review (Chicago), 15/3/1897, pp. 178-179. Description and two illustrations of the Port-au-Prince project.\nL.[?] Gentil Tippenhauer. Plan de la Ville de Port-au-Prince. Port-au-Prince, 1904. Large city map at scale 1:6,000. Extraordinary detail of the tramway system.\nHa\u00efti. Direction g\u00e9n\u00e9rale des travaux publics. Documents relatifs au service des tramways de la capitale et du Chemin de Fer de la Plaine du Cul-de-Sac. Port-au-Prince, 1906. Compilation of tramway texts from 1897, 1898 and 1904. Nice descriptions of the rolling stock.\n\"Haiti: General Features of the Republic\" en Trade Promotion Series #5, pp. 283-284, du U.S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce. Washington, 1925. Good survey of the railways of Haiti.\nHa\u00efti. Direction G\u00e9n\u00e9rale des Travaux Publics. \"Port-au-Prince\", 1930. City map shows the tram routes. [Copy furnished by Stanley F. X. Worris]\nRobert Debs Heinl. Written in blood: the story of the Haitian people, 1492-1971. Boston, 1978. One of the few histories of Haiti that mentions its tramways, p. 337.\nGeorges Corvington. Port-au-Prince au cours des ans. Port-au-Prince, 1972-1993. Major illustrated work of six volumes with extraordinary passages about the city's tramways: v. 3, pp. 231-2, 283-5; v. 4, pp. 20-1, 71-4, 127-8, 184-5; v. 5, pp. 169-61; v. 6, pp. 164-5.\nDr. Georges Michel. Les chemins de fer de l'Ile d'Ha\u00efti. Port-au-Prince, 1989. Detailed description of all the railways on the island.\nIn addition, the author wishes to express his gratitude to Prof. Harold E. Cox of Wilkes University for the information that he provided about the construction of Haiti's first trams by the J. G. Brill Company.\nPlease send your comments,\ncorrections and suggestions to\nSee original French version\nVisit my other pages about", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 8780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 242.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://transitions.blogs.lesd.k12.or.us/who-do-we-serve/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2BS222TBJNPBID6VGIC27SUU2QM3JFAV", "length": 312, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "transitions.blogs.lesd.k12.or.us", "title": "Who Do We Serve | Lane ESD Transition Program", "raw_content": "Students aged 18 to 21 are served in our three \u201cTransition Classrooms\u201d located at our Westmoreland Campus. Our Transition Program provides adult age students with functional and age-appropriate instruction that prepares them for employment, post-secondary education or training, and independent/supported living.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://travel-uttarpradesh.com/excallahabad.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:24Z", "digest": "sha1:JK42DGYFBIEQKLUETAYE7GQHBBEBBZJX", "length": 863, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "travel-uttarpradesh.com", "title": "allahabad guide, allahabad travel guide, allahabad tourist guide,allahabad hotel near allahabad, allahabad hotel near allahabad, allahabad hotel near ganges .", "raw_content": "Allahabad Excursions\nExcursions in Allahabad :\nKausambi :\nThis ancient Buddhist centre, once known as Kosam, is 63km south-west of Allahabad on the way to Chitrakut. It was the capital of King Udya, a contemporary of the budha, and the Enlightened One is said to have preached several sermons here. There's a huge fortress near the village which contains the broken remains of an Ashoka pillar.\nGarwha :\nIt is located about 50km south-west of Allahabad. The major temple has 16 beautifully carved stone pillars, and inscriptions reveal that the temples date back to the Gupta period.\nBhita :\nAbout 18km south of Allahabad, have revealed the remains of an ancient fortified city. Layers of occupation dating from the Gupta period (320 to 510 AD) back to the Mauryan period (321 to 184 BC). There's a museum with stone and metal seals, coins and terracotta statues.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://travellerhints.com/place/africa/reunion-island/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RMSHARZSI6PAE62FXOIEVVVLF5JRM4XE", "length": 4065, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "travellerhints.com", "title": "Reunion Island travel tourism - best travel info - popular travel attractions", "raw_content": "Embodiment of the lost world and heaven at the same time. With beaches whiter than sugar, magical azure waters all around and pristine nature portraying epic landscapes, Reunion has truly reached the level of perfection.\nReunion Island is a small island located in the Indian Ocean, geographically belonging to the African continent. The island situated around 175 kilometres from Madagascar actually belongs to France, therefore the official language of the people living there is French (along the native language called Reunion Creole).\nReunion covers a total area of 2.5 thousand square kilometres and counts a population of about 845 thousand people.\nThe administrative capital of Reunion Island is the city of Saint-Denis (officially the Saint-Denis de la Reunion), as the island is a French overseas territory.\nBut considers as a department of France. The city is also the most populous urban area of the entire island. Officially, Reunion has a status of the French overseas region and is part of the Eurozone and technically also the special member of the European Union (outermost region). Tourism is one of the most significant branches and a strong source of income for the local economy.\nThe population of Reunion Island has its roots in France, Madagascar and Africa. The first discovery of the island happened in 1507 by Portuguese explorers officially. But Arabic people discovered who called it D\u00eena morgabin 10th century or even earlier! ( Local evidence proof )\nThe 17th century was followed by the French occupation and colonisation which (together with bringing African, Chinese and Indian workforce) resulted in the multi ethnicity and population diversity of Reunion which is known till today. The dark past stained with slavery ended in 1848. Eventually, Reunion gained the status of the French overseas department in 1946.\nReunion has simply everything a traveller can wish for and dream about. Everything from stunning waterfalls, gorgeous valleys, breathtaking mountain views, fascinating volcanic eruptions, superb beaches, precious wildlife or lovely culture. The nature in Reunion is truly magical and every corner of this island has as surprise.\nAlongside the highly photogenic landscape, Reunion also has a lively culture full of fascinating traditions, historical buildings and architectural jewels.\nOn the top of it all, this outdoor paradise is also a home to some of the most delicious cuisines with influences from all over the world (including Indian, French or Chinese), creating a glorious blend of flavours. The only problem with Reunion Island remains, that once you visit, you will probably never want to leave!\nPlaces in Reunion Island-Travel Destinations\nReunion climate-Clothing. Being a tropical island, La Reunion has a warm climate all year long. The island is located on the South hemisphere and therefore, seasons are the opposite of Europe. It is important to understand that because of the shape of the island, La R\u00e9union has a lot of microclimates. The West coast is dry, whereas the East coast \u2026\nReunion Island currency- tipping! La Reunion is a French oversea department and is part of the European Union. Therefore, Euro is the official currency. If you need to do some currency exchange, there are only three agencies on the island. One at the Roland Garros airport, one in Saint Denis (3 Rue de Nice ) and the last one, in \u2026\nReunion Island Transportation-Driving Even if the island is pretty small (2.500 square Km), due to its relief, you will need to find a way to go from point A to point B. Reunion Island Transportation-Driving:Car The car is the best option if you can afford it. Driving is on the right side. Four-wheels drive are not a necessity even if \u2026\nReunion Island Special advice for travellers! Visa information for La Reunion Island No visa is required for EU citizens. You just need a passport or Identity card just like anywhere in Europe. Chinese and Indian tourists are also exempted of visa for a stay of 15 days maximum and South African visitors for a stay of 90 days maximum. 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By insuring economical, superior service to our citizens, County Government will insure the promotion of orderly growth for the economic health and safety of its citizens.\" - Adopted July 27, 1995.\nLearn about the elected members of the County's government.\nFind information about county departments, their functions, and services they provide to county residents.\nLearn about the various boards and commissions that help run the County.\nFor your convenience, we provide links to other government sites. These sites are not maintained by Mahoning County.\nLearn about the different ways to make tax payments to the Treasurer's Department.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 169.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://truckandman.com/guernsey.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:475NQ6M6UP3E5J5AXB2WMWLV3WDYQBHP", "length": 5687, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "truckandman.com", "title": "\ufeffGuernsey removals TRUCK AND MAN van Channel Islands Europe moving service", "raw_content": "Truck and Man Guernsey Removals Europe\nGuernsey removals prices\nTRUCK AND MAN Guernsey removals Channel Islands man and van English moving company service Europe. Moving home apartment furniture art luggage transfer +300km long distance Channel Islands England Europe? I'm Nate, tall and hands-on experienced carrying, loading, and driving hundreds of Europe man with a van door to door relocations since 2008. Six new Mercedes trucks, better than Guernsey removals van hire rental, passenger and pet friendly, glad to help!\nEntreprise de d\u00e9m\u00e9nagement Guernsey man and van \u00celes Anglo-Normandes Europe livraisons\nTranseuropaeische man van Guernsey Umz\u00fcge Kanalinseln England Europa Umzugsservice\nfinal fee \u20ac total ALL-in +300km distant move man with a van Guernsey moving service relocation logistics, my help carrying, careful blanket loading, weekends, holidays, insurance, VAT, driving, removals van hire, diesel, and transport tolls. Six Guernsey moving van size rates.\nExample EUR prices man with van Guernsey removals 2,6/ 5,2/ 6,3/ 11/ 14/ 18m3\nPrix complet Guernsey d\u00e9m\u00e9nagement ou livraison 2,6/ 5,2/ 6,3/ 11/ 14/ 18m3\nCHANNEL ISLANDS (only +300km & further international man with van Europe removals)\nFRANCE Lyon 1820/2120/2240/2500/2770/3170\u20ac, Paris 1640/1900/2000/2200/2460/2800\u20ac, Reims 1630/1890/1990/2190/2460/2800\u20ac, Toulouse 1980/2320/2460/2750/3050/3510\u20ac\nGERMANY Aschaffenburg 1630/1905/2020/2220/2500/2870\u20ac, Bamberg 1640/1910/2020/2230/2510/2870\u20ac, Bayreuth 1640/1910/2020/2230/2510/2880\u20ac, Berlin 1520/1780/1890/2110/2330/2670\u20ac, F\u00fcrth 1660/1940/2050/2260/2550/2920\u20ac, Hamburg 1600/1870/1970/2170/2440/2800\u20ac, Kempten Allg\u00e4u 1710/2000/2110/2330/2625/3010\u20ac, Landshut 1690/1970/2085/2300/2590/2970\u20ac, Munich M\u00fcnchen 1670/1970/2080/2300/2590/2960\u20ac, Ramstein 1610/1870/1970/2175/2440/2790\u20ac, Rosenheim 1740/2030/2150/2370/2670/3060\u20ac\nNETHERLANDS HOLLAND Amsterdam 1615/1880/1980/2180/2450/2800\u20ac, Rotterdam 1610/1870/1970/2170/2440/2780\u20ac, 's-Hertogenbosch Den Bosch 1590/1850/1950/2150/2410/2750\u20ac, Zaanstad 1620/1890/1990/2200/2470/2820\u20ac, Zwolle 1610/1870/1970/2170/2430/2780\u20ac\nSPAIN Alicante Alacant 2510/2950/3130/3480/3930/4530\u20ac, Barcelona 2240/2630/2780/3080/3470/3990\u20ac, Ibiza Balearic Islands 3005/3440/3610/3945/4385/4960\u20ac\nUNITED KINGDOM UK BRITAIN Aberdeen 2170/2550/2700/3010/3350/3850\u20ac, Bath 1630/1900/2000/2220/2450/2800\u20ac, Belfast 2380/2740/2890/3200/3520/4000\u20ac, Birmingham 1690/1970/2080/2310/2560/2920\u20ac, Bolton 1800/2100/2220/2470/2740/3130\u20ac, Bradford 1800/2100/2220/2470/2740/3130\u20ac, Brighton and Hove 1600/1860/1970/2180/2410/2740\u20ac, Bristol 1640/1900/2010/2230/2460/2810\u20ac, Cambridge 1650/1920/2020/2250/2480/2830\u20ac, Cardiff 1710/2000/2110/2350/2600/2970\u20ac, Chelmsford 1620/1890/1990/2250/2450/2800\u20ac, Coventry 1660/1940/2050/2280/2520/2880\u20ac, Derby 1710/2000/2110/2350/2600/2970\u20ac, Dover 1590/1850/1950/2170/2390/2730\u20ac, Edinburgh 2030/2380/2520/2810/3120/3580\u20ac, Exeter 1670/1940/2050/2280/2520/2870\u20ac, Folkestone 1590/1840/1950/2160/2380/2720\u20ac, Fowey 1740/2030/2140/2390/2640/3020\u20ac, Glasgow 2020/2370/2500/2790/3100/3560\u20ac, Ipswich 1670/1950/2060/2290/2530/2890\u20ac, Kingston upon Hull 1800/2100/2220/2470/2740/3130\u20ac, Leeds 1780/2080/2200/2450/2710/3110\u20ac, Leicester 1680/1960/2070/2310/2550/2910\u20ac, Liverpool 1800/2100/2220/2470/2740/3130\u20ac, London 1600/1860/1960/2180/2410/2740\u20ac, Luton 1620/1890/1990/2210/2440/2790\u20ac, Maidstone 1590/1840/1940/2160/2380/2720\u20ac, Manchester 1770/2080/2190/2440/2710/3100\u20ac, Milton Keynes 1650/1920/2020/2250/2490/2840\u20ac, Newcastle upon Tyne 1860/2180/2310/2570/2850/3270\u20ac, Northampton 1650/1920/2030/2250/2490/2840\u20ac, Nottingham 1710/2000/2110/2350/2600/2970\u20ac, Oxford 1620/1880/1980/2200/2430/2770\u20ac, Plymouth 1710/1990/2100/2340/2590/2950\u20ac, Portsmouth 1590/1850/1950/2160/2390/2720\u20ac, Reading 1590/1850/1950/2160/2390/2720\u20ac, Sheffield 1750/2040/2160/2400/2660/3050\u20ac, Southampton 1590/1840/1940/2160/2380/2720\u20ac, Stoke-on-Trent 1720/2010/2130/2370/2620/3000\u20ac, Sunderland 1860/2180/2300/2570/2850/3260\u20ac, Swansea 1750/3040/2150/2400/2660/3040\u20ac, Swindon 1620/1880/1990/2210/2440/2790\u20ac, Wakefield 1770/2070/2190/2440/2700/3090\u20ac, Wolverhampton 1710/1990/2100/2340/2590/2960\u20ac\nCROATIA FINLAND GREECE LUXEMBOURG MONACO POLAND PORTUGAL SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SWEDEN\nTruck and Man Europe moving service man with a van Guernsey removals company reviews. Thanks!\nGuernsey Man and Van FAQ\nEstimate Volume in room corner, large furniture within, mark panel removal van cargo length width height: 2,6m3 Citan 5,2m3 Vito 6,3m3 Vito XL 11m3 Sprinter 14m3 Sprinter Long 18m3 Sprinter Box. For my evaluation, list stuff largest first. Save space packing clothes shoes bedding toys in luggage bags. Protect monitors TVs glass antiques with cardboard.\nMoving Day is best all prepared before my removals van arrival. Heaviest furniture moves out with me and strongest, then chain from home apartment removal to moving van, bicycles fragiles art pets last. Buckled jeans and sport shoes protect legs and toes. Parking double or on sidewalk is accepted for Guernsey man with a van home moving company apartment removals, personal note by space. Blankets and Tools offered with mover handtruck, trolley, piano skate and antique art courier foam. Passengers pets dogs cats welcome.\nPayment is thanked ~20% cash at load, remainder at secure Guernsey move delivery. Insurance included up to distant Guernsey removals cost; reduce what you find fair from total, simple and friendly.\nNate is your English speaking Europe Channel Islands England Guernsey man with a van English moving company international transport door-2-door removalist, moving van recommender, mover courier carrier driver Europe relocations logistics handler. Nate's EU man with a van experience map, photos, music videos.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 244.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://trusstbuildergroup.com/team/michael-keller/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:41Z", "digest": "sha1:LI4T46LHVIJJWEWAI7IHB5QEMD3YFF7S", "length": 1172, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "trusstbuildergroup.com", "title": "Michael Keller - Trusst Builder Group", "raw_content": "Construction Admin.\nAlthough some believe it\u2019s easier to ask forgiveness than seek permission, Michael Keller lives and works by a different philosophy. Michael is an expert at seeking permission, as he is responsible for securing all of the permits required for the construction of each Trusst Builder Group home.\nMichael works closely with city and county administrators as well as representatives of water, sewer and electric utilities to navigate the permitting process quickly and professionally. He also works with Homeowners Associations and Architectural Review Committees to ensure that each Trusst home is in compliance with all neighborhood covenants.\nMichael joined Trusst Builder Group in January 2010 after earning a certificate in Auto CAD from Cape Fear Community College. And although he grew up around the business as the son of company co-founder Keith Keller, Michael didn\u2019t anticipate going into the building industry. But he\u2019s glad he did, as he enjoys the work and particularly enjoys working with his father.\nMichael is a native of Wilmington and a student at Cape Fear Community College, where he is working on a degree in business administration.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://turkishlaborlaw.com/news/sector-news/245-living-in-istanbul", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IZDXP2F7CXMHFGGXQBYQP3H2THQ6F2G4", "length": 3477, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "turkishlaborlaw.com", "title": "Living in Istanbul - Turkish Labor Law", "raw_content": "This freedom is partly due to Istanbul\u2019s cosmopolitan and metropolitan character. It has always been a big city, experiencing a steady population growth since the 1940s. This demographic trend is partly due to many people from rural areas hoping to find a better life in Istanbul. In 2010, the city had over 12 million inhabitants: 17.8% of the Turkish population are now living in Istanbul.\nLiving in Istanbul: International Schools\nThere are different international schools for expat children living in Istanbul. Most of them offer an IB or country-specific curriculum. Although the language of instruction is usually English, these schools are prepared to welcome children from different countries. They offer courses to help students improve their English, if necessary. There are also some schools for specific nationalities living in Istanbul, such as the German school or the French lyc\u00e9e.\nContact the supervisors at your school of choice and schedule a visit. You can also visit the Forum of our local InterNations Community for foreigners living in Istanbul and find out which schools other expats suggest. We have chosen three local international schools as an example.\nLife in Istanbul: Istanbul International School\nThis school offers primary and secondary schooling to expat children living in Istanbul. The curriculum is set by the National Board of Education in England and focuses on three main areas of study:\nEnvironmental Studies (Science, History, Geography, Cultural Studies)\nLife Skills (English, Modern Foreign Languages, Maths, Personal Social Health Education, Information and Communication Technology)\nExpressive Arts (Visual Arts, Music & Movement, Physical Education)\nYounger children living in Istanbul can receive their pre-school education here. The school has two campuses, one in Camlica and one in Atasehir. In 2010/11, fees for expats living in Istanbul ranged from 12,000YTL to 19,800YTL, including tuition, tax and lunch.\nLiving in Istanbul: IICS\nThe Istanbul International Community School was founded in 1911, aimed at foreigners living in Istanbul. It is one of the oldest international schools in the world and provides an IB education for children of all age groups living in Istanbul. The original location of the school is where the smaller Hisar campus can be found, catering for kids from pre-school level to grade 3. However, most of the school\u2019s activities have been moved to the Marmara campus (PK-12), which is a 25-mile drive away for expats living in Istanbul\u2019s central areas.\nIstanbul International Community School offers independent and co-educational day-care for international students living in Istanbul. Here, children enjoy a full IB education in three different programs:\nIB Primary Years (PK-6)\nIB Middle Years (7-10)\nIB Diploma P (11-12)\nAnnual tuition fees range between 8,650$ and 19,450$.\nLife in Istanbul: MEF International School Istanbul\nMEF International School has campuses in Istanbul and Izmir. The Istanbul campus is located near Ulus Park, in Ortak\u00f6y. The language of instruction is English. However, other languages, including Turkish, are part of the curriculum, providing expat children with a truly international experience.\nAt this school, children of all ages enjoy an extensive IB education. There is an early childhood centre as well as a primary and secondary program for middle school and high school students respectively. The fees are between 9,720$ and 23,220$.\nhttp://www.internations.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tvfoodanddrink.com/tag/dancing-with-the-stars-recap/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:07Z", "digest": "sha1:GL5QIDAJXSGUC5Q7UWZSA6GCOTFKISCN", "length": 8292, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "tvfoodanddrink.com", "title": "Dancing With The Stars Recap | Tv Food and Drink - Page 2", "raw_content": "Dancing with the Stars recap\nDancing with the Stars Reality Television TV Now\nDancing with the Stars Recap: April 16, 2012\nApril 16, 2012 March 12, 2018 Tv Food and Drink 1 Comment #DWTS, Brooke Burke Charvet, Dancing with the stars ABC, Dancing with the Stars Brook Burke, Dancing with the Stars Bruno Tonioli, Dancing with the Stars Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancing with the Stars Len Goodman, Dancing with the Stars Maks, Dancing with the Stars recap, Dancing with the Stars Recap: March 26, Dancing with the Stars Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars Tristan, Derek Hough band robber mask, Derek Hough Chest, Derek Hough gay, Derek Hough Shirtless, Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd, Donald Driver chest, Donald Driver gay, Donald Driver shirtless, Gavin DeGraw and Karina Smirnoff, Gavin Degraw chest, Gavin Degraw gay, Gavin Degraw sexy, Gavin Degraw shirtless, Gladys Knight and Tristan MacManus, Jack Wagner and Anna Trebunskaya, Jaleel White and Kym Johnson, Jaleel White body, Jaleel White gay, Jaleel White psych, Jaleel White's chest, Jaleel White's shirtless, Maksim Chmerkovskiy gay, Maksim Chmerkovskiy shirtless, Maksim Chmerkovskiy's chest, Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, Mark Ballas chest, Mark Ballas gay, Mark Ballas Katherine Jenkins Latin Week, Mark Ballas katherine Jenkins tango, Mark Ballas shirtless, Martina Navratilova and Tony Dovolani, Melissa Gilbert and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower, Sherri Shepherd and Val Chmerkovskiy, William Levy chest, William Levy gay, William Levy naked, William Levy shirtless\nIt\u2019s Latin Week on Dancing with the Stars, and tonight\u2019s episode showcased all of the following: \u201cJaleel White\u2019s chest\u201d \u201cMaksim Chmerkovskiy\u2019s\nDancing with the Stars: April 16, 2012 \u2013 Mark Ballas and Katherine Jenkins\u2019 Argentine Tango Scores a\u2026. (VIDEO)\nApril 16, 2012 March 12, 2018 Tv Food and Drink 1 Comment #DWTS, Brooke Burke Charvet, Dancing with the stars ABC, Dancing with the Stars Brook Burke, Dancing with the Stars Bruno Tonioli, Dancing with the Stars Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancing with the Stars Len Goodman, Dancing with the Stars Maks, Dancing with the Stars recap, Dancing with the Stars Recap: March 26, Dancing with the Stars Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars Tristan, Derek Hough band robber mask, Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd, Gavin DeGraw and Karina Smirnoff, Gladys Knight and Tristan MacManus, Jack Wagner and Anna Trebunskaya, Jaleel White and Kym Johnson, Jaleel White psych, Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, Mark Ballas Katherine Jenkins Latin Week, Mark Ballas katherine Jenkins tango, Martina Navratilova and Tony Dovolani, Melissa Gilbert and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower, Sherri Shepherd and Val Chmerkovskiy\nLet\u2019s not forget that Mark Ballas is the man who took waffle-footed Bristol Palin to the finals. And with a partner who can actually hold up her end on the dance floor, it seems these two are quickly and quite handily breaking away from the pack. Check out the performance from the judges below:\nDancing with the Stars Recap: April 9, 2012\nApril 10, 2012 March 12, 2018 Tv Food and Drink 0 Comments #DWTS, Brooke Burke Charvet, Dancing with the stars ABC, Dancing with the Stars Brook Burke, Dancing with the Stars Bruno Tonioli, Dancing with the Stars Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancing with the Stars Len Goodman, Dancing with the Stars Maks, Dancing with the Stars recap, Dancing with the Stars Recap: March 26, Dancing with the Stars Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars Tristan, Derek Hough band robber mask, Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd, Gavin DeGraw and Karina Smirnoff, Gladys Knight and Tristan MacManus, Jack Wagner and Anna Trebunskaya, Jaleel White and Kym Johnson, Jaleel White psych, Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, Martina Navratilova and Tony Dovolani, Melissa Gilbert and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower, Sherri Shepherd and Val Chmerkovskiy, Val Chmerkovskiy Shirtless\nNot even the thrills and danger of \u201cRock Week\u201d on Dancing with the Stars is enough to overcome the head\nDancing with the Stars: April 9, 2012 \u2013 Mark Ballas and Katherine Jenkins Paso Doble (VIDEO and SPOILERS)\nApril 9, 2012 March 12, 2018 Tv Food and Drink 1 Comment #DWTS, Brooke Burke Charvet, Dancing with the stars ABC, Dancing with the Stars Brook Burke, Dancing with the Stars Bruno Tonioli, Dancing with the Stars Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancing with the Stars Len Goodman, Dancing with the Stars Maks, Dancing with the Stars recap, Dancing with the Stars Recap: March 26, Dancing with the Stars Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars Tristan, Derek Hough band robber mask, Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd, Gavin DeGraw and Karina Smirnoff, Gladys Knight and Tristan MacManus, Jack Wagner and Anna Trebunskaya, Jaleel White and Kym Johnson, Jaleel White psych, Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, Martina Navratilova and Tony Dovolani, Melissa Gilbert and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower, Sherri Shepherd and Val Chmerkovskiy\nIt was a celebration of all things leather and bad ass on Week Four of this season\u2019s Dancing with the\nApril 2, 2012 August 20, 2018 Tv Food and Drink 1 Comment #DWTS, Brooke Burke Charvet, Dancing with the stars ABC, Dancing with the Stars Brook Burke, Dancing with the Stars Bruno Tonioli, Dancing with the Stars Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancing with the Stars Len Goodman, Dancing with the Stars Maks, Dancing with the Stars recap, Dancing with the Stars Recap: March 26, Dancing with the Stars Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars Tristan, Derek Hough band robber mask, Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd, Gavin DeGraw and Karina Smirnoff, Gladys Knight and Tristan MacManus, Jack Wagner and Anna Trebunskaya, Jaleel White and Kym Johnson, Jaleel White psych, Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, Martina Navratilova and Tony Dovolani, Melissa Gilbert and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower, Sherri Shepherd and Val Chmerkovskiy\nDid you know that there are lyrics to the theme music for Dancing with the Stars? I wrote them myself.\nDancing with the Stars: April 2, 2012 \u2013 The Top Scores of the Night Go To\u2026 (VIDEO and SPOILERS)\nApril 2, 2012 March 12, 2018 Tv Food and Drink 0 Comments #DWTS, Brooke Burke Charvet, Dancing with the stars ABC, Dancing with the Stars Brook Burke, Dancing with the Stars Bruno Tonioli, Dancing with the Stars Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancing with the Stars Len Goodman, Dancing with the Stars Maks, Dancing with the Stars recap, Dancing with the Stars Recap: March 26, Dancing with the Stars Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars Tristan, Derek Hough band robber mask, Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd, Gavin DeGraw and Karina Smirnoff, Gladys Knight and Tristan MacManus, Jack Wagner and Anna Trebunskaya, Jaleel White and Kym Johnson, Jaleel White psych, Katherine Jenkins and Mark Ballas waltz, Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, Mark Ballas and Katherine Jenkins waltz, Martina Navratilova and Tony Dovolani, Melissa Gilbert and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower, Sherri Shepherd and Val Chmerkovskiy\nThis goes out to everyone in Reality TV Land, but most especially my local friend SHANNON H. who should DEFINITELY\nDancing with the Stars Recap: March 26, 2012\nMarch 26, 2012 March 12, 2018 Tv Food and Drink 1 Comment #DWTS, Brooke Burke Charvet, Dancing with the stars ABC, Dancing with the Stars Brook Burke, Dancing with the Stars Bruno Tonioli, Dancing with the Stars Carrie Ann Inaba, Dancing with the Stars Len Goodman, Dancing with the Stars Maks, Dancing with the Stars recap, Dancing with the Stars Recap: March 26, Dancing with the Stars Tom Bergeron, Dancing with the Stars Tristan, Derek Hough band robber mask, Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd, Gavin DeGraw and Karina Smirnoff, Gladys Knight and Tristan MacManus, Jack Wagner and Anna Trebunskaya, Jaleel White and Kym Johnson, Jaleel White psych, Maria Menounos and Derek Hough, Martina Navratilova and Tony Dovolani, Melissa Gilbert and Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Roshon Fegan and Chelsie Hightower, Sherri Shepherd and Val Chmerkovskiy\nWhen it comes to Dancing with the Stars, I\u2019m an old man. I don\u2019t like change (the pointless and lackluster tweets that now fill the lower third of the screen). I don\u2019t like rebellion (So many tattoos! Don\u2019t men woo women with a fiddle serenade anymore?).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 11965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ucmrft.biz/essays/the-count-of-monte-cristo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:37Z", "digest": "sha1:3K3YG2GHNZG3O72PJQ4OZTAA3EAOG3VV", "length": 3116, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ucmrft.biz", "title": "The Count of Monte Cristo Essay | AZ Writing | Sample Essays, Example Research Papers and Tips", "raw_content": "Like many other works written by Alexandre Dumas, the novel The Count of Monte Cristo has been written with a language unusually easy for understanding. In my opinion, this novel deservedly is considered a classic of world literature. Despite the fact that the book is quite large in volume, it can be read at one sitting, so fascinating is the story of this piece.\nThe storyline is thought out down to the last detail: the action is unpredictable; the reader is constantly on his toes, trying to understand or figure out how this fascinating story will end. The main character is certainly admirable: inner nobility, perseverance, courage, spirit, acute sense of justice, honesty, and integrity along with the courageous appearance, a picture of a noble man. All his actions found not just approval, but admiration, and the reading about the exploits of a brave and just man was for me, and I think to a million other girls, a pleasure.\nIn addition, it should be noted that Alexandre Dumas very skillfully and colorfully creates characters of his personages: in the novel you will not find a uniquely \u201cbad\u201d or \u201cgood\u201d people. Each character is extremely interesting, controversial, and unique, which is very important for any work. As interestingly and brightly, the author describes those places where events unfold. Moreover, he is so expertly conveys the mood, drew attention to the key things and details that make it very easy to imagine everything, which, all in all, creates a feeling of liveliness and complicity in events, independently whether a personage is thinking or is riding on a horse.\nAnd, of course, I have to mention the inimitable sparkling humor, which gives the novel a great deal of its lightness. Despite the fact that the story itself is far from being hilarious, actually, it is quite dramatic, some moments have brought a smile to my face, and occasionally some laugh.\nAnother undoubted advantage is the sense of a mystery, mysticism, which you feel when reading the Count of Monte Cristo. The feeling that the whole affair is holding occult within itself, the mystery that enveloped all the novel developments that dissipates only on the last pages. And, of course, the happy ending, when the good eventually prevails, all the villains are punished and true love overcomes all obstacles, all this with no doubt pleases the reader.\nIt seems to me that the novel by Dumas is rightly considered one of the masterpieces of world literature. Ingenious, unique story, easy, fascinating language, unusually vivid images of its personages, all this puts this literary work among the immortal masterpiece of the world classics.\nActually all free sample essays and examples available online are 100% plagiarized! If you need a high-quality customized essay on The Count of Monte Cristo topics written from scratch, you can easily hire professional academic writers online:\nYou will get a 100% non-plagiarized essay on The Count of Monte Cristo from SmartWritingService writing service!\nPrevious PostPrevious Term Paper on Advancement of Wave Energy\nNext PostNext Research Paper on Chinese Medicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/2015/07/elite-wants-to-escape-with-secret-space.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:C4XQDU42NJREMKPCGGNV2BWQXQIAR7TB", "length": 4203, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com", "title": "Elite wants to escape with Secret Space Fleet!", "raw_content": "Elite wants to escape with Secret Space Fleet!\nImage: artist's concept.\nRussian billionaire Yuri Milner and British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking have announced a US$100 million investment in the search for extraterrestrial life, which scientists at US-based research initiative, SETI, will spend over the next 10 years expanding the scope of their hunt for signs of intelligence deep in the cosmos while NASA astronomers hunting for another Earth have found what may be the closest match yet, a potentially rocky planet circling its star at the same distance as the Earth orbits the Sun. Known as Kepler 452b, the planet which is 1,400 light-years away was detected by the Kepler Space Telescope.\nIt\u2019s really outstanding work from the astronomers who have discovered the earth-like planet Kepler 452b and it\u2019s really amazing that Russian billionaire Yuri Milner invest $100 million in the hope that that they will find signs of extraterrestrial life beyond our solar system while the aliens are just walking around here on planet Earth.\nBesides, there has been already contact with extraterrestrials for many years in many different ways.\nNASA with all their deep space satellites hunting for other worlds like ours, they can find earth-like planets, but they cannot find or capture UFOs or other space anomalies which show any form of intelligence life, while massive alien spacecraft appear every other day on their satellite\u2019s photos, for example, captured by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).\nDoes NASA know about these craft?\nOf course they know it and of course they have thousands of photos of Unidentified Flying Objects captured by their deep space satellites but they keep it hidden for the public.\nThe whole story about the search for extraterrestrial life in other solar systems and NASA\u2019s existing space programs are nothing more than expensive propaganda tools to keep the people away from the reality of the existence of their secret space projects.\nThey have man-made UFOs, they have a secret space fleet and they have secret Moon- and Mars bases.\nFrom released documents from Wright Patterson we learn that they had already begun in 1956 with the placement of nuclear propulsion in dishes.\nIn a 1959 interview senior scientist at Lockheed, Boyd Bushman said that technical drawings show an operational flying saucer powered by a nuclear power plant.\nIn the same year, in 1959, they introduced the secret project Horizon to build bases on the Moon and Mars.\nAnd about 10 years ago the Englishman Gary McKinnon managed to hack into NASA's computers and discovered a code named \"Solar Warden\".\nThe secret code \u2018Solar Warden\u2019 stands for a secret space fleet which consisted in 2005 of eight large interstellar space ships as large as two football fields each and 43 smaller interstellar space ships to protect the mother ships.\nIt is said that the Bildeberger group is the owner of the space fleet and the bases on the Moon and Mars are used and maintained by this particular space fleet.\nSince 1964 there are bases on Mars and is the result of a Russian and American cooperation working closely with the Bilderberger group.\nIn addition, according to the testimony of Captain Kaye, there is a colony of human population on Mars and they are located inside a crater. This group serves as the headquarters for the Mars Colony Corporation.\nAccording to Captain Kaye, it is possible to simply breathe on Mars and the temperature is sometimes referred to as hot.\nOne of the tasks of the secret space fleet is to supply the existing multinational colony on Mars.\nThe elite is well aware of the fact that for various reasons the earth, perhaps temporarily, is a place where you better not linger. All forecasts point towards a turbulent time for the earth.\nFinancial / economic systems will collapse and the threat of a nuclear conflict. On top of that the effects of the coming passage of the planet Nibiru aka Planet X.\nWhile the elite have their secret space fleet, which they want to use to save themselves, people are led to believe the stories that they found earth-like planets and that they are searching for extraterrestrial life in a distant solar system. Thanks Niburu.co", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 12157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://unit4ip.de/en/attorneys/jan-weiser/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:06Z", "digest": "sha1:5SUMWAAX4ZRYITR4OMNWXKG26HSANTM7", "length": 711, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "unit4ip.de", "title": "Unit4IP - Jan Weiser", "raw_content": "Jan advises and represents companies primarily in national and international trademark law as well as in competition and design law. His field of expertise includes, in particular, litigating before the German and European courts. He handles proceedings before the German Trademark and Patent Office and the European Union Intellectual Property Office and advises companies on the building management and defense of intellectual property right portfolios. Jan has been active with various committees of the International Trademark Association (INTA) for many years, including the Famous & Well-Known Marks Committee, the Non-Traditional Marks Committee and the Bulletin Committee.\nStudies in Bremen and T\u00fcbingen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 160.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://unknews.unk.edu/2019/01/18/unk-student-sportscasters-jacobsen-jones-earn-national-recognition-for-work-on-klpr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:06Z", "digest": "sha1:QN6EACV6IPYN3EUV2A3BUVKRKNZJ4223", "length": 4633, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "unknews.unk.edu", "title": "UNK student sportscasters Jacobsen, Jones earn national recognition for work on KLPR", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Arts & Sciences / UNK student sportscasters Jacobsen, Jones earn national recognition for work on KLPR\nUNK student sportscasters Jacobsen, Jones earn national recognition for work on KLPR\nUNK students Austin Jacobsen, left, and Evan Jones are finalists in the best football play-by-play and best sports pregame/postgame show categories of the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System College Media Awards. Jacobsen and Jones broadcast Loper football games for KLPR 91.1 FM and host the \u201cUNK Gameday\u201d pregame show. (Photo by Corbey R. Dorsey, UNK Communications)\nKEARNEY \u2013 Clich\u00e9s are common in the sports world.\nTake it one game at a time.\nAustin Jacobsen and Evan Jones have likely heard them all \u2013 and uttered a few on the air \u2013 so it seems appropriate that they\u2019d use one to describe their roles as broadcasters with KLPR 91.1 FM, the University of Nebraska at Kearney\u2019s campus radio station.\n\u201cThere aren\u2019t a lot of people who can say they get to go to a game and get paid to watch sports,\u201d said Jacobsen, an exercise science and sports communication major from Sidney. \u201cI can\u2019t think of a better career for myself than that.\u201d\nHis broadcast partner and fellow pregame show host agrees.\n\u201cOur hobby is literally what we get paid to do. We talk about sports. And that\u2019s what I would do with my buddies when I\u2019m not on the clock. I would talk about sports,\u201d said Jones, a sports management and sports communication major from Cambridge.\n\u201cThat\u2019s the best part is it really doesn\u2019t feel like work,\u201d the UNK senior added.\nJones and Jacobsen have worked together the past two years at KLPR, calling Loper football games and hosting the \u201cUNK Gameday\u201d pregame show. They\u2019re also co-sports directors this year.\nJacobsen, a junior, handles the color commentary, bringing his bold personality and interesting tidbits to each broadcast, and Jones is the play-by-play man with a \u201ccalm energy.\u201d Together, they paint a picture that informs listeners and allows them to visualize the action in their minds.\n\u201cBefore I go out there and call a ballgame, I get chills. I get excited. I get amped up. Part of that is because the listener is relying on you to tell the story,\u201d said Jones, who joined KLPR as a freshman and broadcasts football and basketball games. He also works for Lexington radio station KRVN, covering high school sports, as well as the Lopers and Huskers.\nJacobsen has called UNK football, basketball, softball and baseball games over the past two years, but it\u2019s his chemistry with Jones that really stands out.\nhttp://unkweb3.unk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/UNK-Game-Day-Video_widescreen.mp4\nFor the second consecutive year, the duo is heading to New York City for the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System College Media Awards, which are presented March 2 at the historic Hotel Pennsylvania in Midtown Manhattan.\nJones and Jacobsen are finalists in the best football play-by-play and best sports pregame/postgame show categories for their broadcast of last year\u2019s home football game versus Lindenwood \u2013 a 41-14 victory for the Lopers \u2013 and the \u201cUNK Gameday\u201d show, which also featured students Cade Cox and Lucas Bolubasz. They were finalists last year in the play-by-play category.\nJones called the honor a culmination of the hard work that goes into each broadcast.\n\u201cThere are a lot of hours put into it, so it\u2019s nice to be recognized and have a great opportunity to go to New York,\u201d he said.\nTheir success also says a lot about UNK\u2019s Department of Communication.\n\u201cThe experience you can get here is something you can\u2019t get anywhere else, especially in this area,\u201d Jacobsen said.\nhttp://unkweb3.unk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/KLPR-FB-Clip-2.mp3\nStudents in the sports communication program gain experience in several different roles, from broadcasting and producing to writing and public relations, while developing the skills they need to succeed after graduation.\n\u201cWe get to learn about it in class, then we get to apply it as real-life skills right here at the radio station,\u201d Jacobsen said.\nJones said the access to coaches, student-athletes and other athletic department personnel and the leadership from KLPR general manager and senior lecturer Ford Clark also make UNK a great place to study sports communication.\n\u201cThe best part about this program is it\u2019s gotten more kids intrigued about calling ballgames,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThat speaks volumes about Ford more than anything.\u201d\nRELATED STORY: UNK students named finalists for broadcasting College Media Awards\nFiled Under: Arts & Sciences, News Tagged With: Austin Jacobsen, Broadcast Awards, Cade Cox, Evan Jones, KLPR, Lucas Bolubasz, Radio, UNK Gameday", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://us103.com/foreigner-orchestral-album-songs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CDRLK2LLLDPXV5N4FK3RIIGF4II4C25V", "length": 1968, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "us103.com", "title": "Listen to Clips From Foreigner\u2019s Orchestral Album", "raw_content": "Listen to Clips From Foreigner\u2019s Orchestral Album\nForeigner have released a 14-minute clip compilation from their new album Foreigner With the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, which will be released on DVD and CD tomorrow.\nThe recordings were made in Lucerne, Switzerland, last May as the band performed alongside the orchestra conducted by Ernst van Tiel. \u201cI could never have imagined when I set out to create Foreigner 40 years ago, that we'd still be touring around the world and performing the music we love all these years later,\u201d guitarist and band leader Mick Jones said. \u201cDave Eggar and Chuck Palmer's orchestral arrangements have shown us a new symphonic dimension of our music, which I hope our fans will enjoy.\"\nYou can listen to the song compilation below.\nThe DVD contains 17 tracks featuring the 58-piece orchestra and 60-piece choir, including Foreigner classics \u201cCold As Ice,\u201d \u201cFeels Like the First Time,\u201d \u201cJuke Box Hero\u201d and \u201cI Want to Know What Love Is.\u201d\nYou can see the DVD and CD track listings below.\nJones said last month that he and the band's former singer Lou Gramm had been working on songs based on \u201cold ideas\u201d and they were considering releasing them on a new EP.\n\u201cThere are several ideas in the works,\u201d he noted. \u201cWe've really just taken a sabbatical for the last few months, and we're getting back in the saddle, as it were, which we've been doing for the last few years. And we have a couple of tracks that we've had mulling around for a little while. And Lou and I have been listening to some old ideas that we had. There's a possibility or a chance of incorporating these in whatever format we decide to release it in. It might even be an EP. We're gathering material as we speak.\"\n'Foreigner With the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus' CD Track Listing\n'Foreigner With the 21st Century Symphony Orchestra & Chorus' DVD Track Listing\n08. \u201cThe Flame Still Burns\u201d\nSource: Listen to Clips From Foreigner\u2019s Orchestral Album", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 165.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vangeog.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-scary-practical-reason-us-navy-is.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:13Z", "digest": "sha1:5UZY7YREAKMDRVFALEQRSMNCHR5DPDMR", "length": 3919, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "vangeog.blogspot.com", "title": "vangeog - The Art of Geography: The scary, practical reason the US Navy is once again teaching celestial navigation", "raw_content": "The scary, practical reason the US Navy is once again teaching celestial navigation\nYou can't hack the sky.\nOriginal Post by: JOSH HRALA\nAs GPS technology steadily becomes better and better, so does our reliance on it. Need to go to the store? Google Maps. Need to go on a road trip to a distant city? Boot up the Garmin. You can even pinpoint why your Uber driver is taking so long to pick you up. At this point, if GPS suddenly vanished, we\u2019d all be a bit confused and upset.\nHowever, the stakes are significantly higher when your job requires you to fly a fighter jet or steer an aircraft carrier, which is why the US Naval Academy has decided to start once again teaching sailors how to navigate with the stars.\nThough we all get a little frustrated when our GPS takes us a bad route or loses connection for a few minutes, the Navy is more concerned with deliberate cyberattacks that could render these vital systems useless instead of the actual equipment failing on its own, reports The Washington Post. After all, these systems rely on computer networks, and hackers are only getting better at infiltrating them.\nIf there\u2019s already a way to remotely turn off a Jeep while someone is driving it, it stands to reason for the Navy to have a contingency plan in place if something befalls their GPS. It just so happens that their backup plan is a time-honoured naval tradition dating back hundreds of years.\nMotives aside, is celestial navigation accurate? When you consider that there\u2019s a huge margin for human error, especially given the fact that navigating the stars still requires the use of a sextant, watch, and map like some old-timey explorer, it seems a bit shaky, but it\u2019s totally legit.\nAccording to the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA), the largest aviation association in existence, a well-trained celestial navigator can quickly crunch celestial data to get his plane or ship nearly anywhere they need to go with about a 2-minute accuracy of arrival.\nIn a world full of precision computers, 2 minutes is a long time. However, it\u2019s important to note that the Navy isn\u2019t doing away with GPS. They\u2019re just making sure pilots and sailors have a backup skillset to complete their missions or get home if something should happen to them.\nWe all sort of forget that celestial navigation isn\u2019t actually some antiquated skill that hasn\u2019t been used for hundreds of years. GPS was only invented back in the late-1950s when researchers started tracking Sputnik using radio signals to monitor how they changed based on the satellite\u2019s location. You probably know this as the Doppler Effect, which explains how frequencies change based on where the source is from its observer. Up until that point, all navigation was done without the guidance of satellites.\nAccording to NASA, GPS as we know it today really got its start in the 1960s and '70s, when the US military launched a series of satellites to track the position of nuclear submarines. This system eventually grew to 24 satellites in 1993 and has only gotten better since then.\nIn 1996, the Navy decided to stop teaching celestial navigation at the Naval Academy. This decision was most likely due to the rise of GPS. Now, 20 years later, the Navy is realising that the old way of doing things had one thing going for it: security. It may not have the pinpoint accuracy or ease of use, but at least a hacker in some far off location couldn\u2019t change the sky on a pilot.\nLike any skill, celestial navigation is something that comes with loads of practice. Sailors at the Naval Academy will need to practice these skills on a regular basisif they intend on knowing how to use them in an emergency situation. In a way, celestial navigation is like performing math with pen and paper. Sure, we have calculators to do all that for us nowadays, but that doesn\u2019t mean that kicking it old-school is wrong. 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Retrieved from http://vcxavk.biz/importance-of-sports-essay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 6957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vdjlaw.com/law-blog/uncategorized/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZL64XWVAAIWWTBVZ3PG7KJZFPJZO7BV", "length": 2079, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "vdjlaw.com", "title": "Uncategorized \u2013 The Law Firm of Starzynski Van Der Jagt, P.C.", "raw_content": "The Law Firm of Starzynski Van Der Jagt, P.C.\nA Professional Corporation of Attorneys & Counselors at Law in Colorado and Wisconsin\nUnderstand Your Legal Issue\nDiscuss Your Legal Issue\nLegal Help & Resources\nThere oughta be a law\u2026April 21, 2018\nBy fr63fn94kgu\nComments Off on There oughta be a law\u2026April 21, 2018\n21 USC \u00a7333, 343(h) & 7 CFR \u00a758.736(b) make it a federal crime to sell pasteurized process cheese if it doesn\u2019t have a \u201cvelvety body.\u201d\n16 USC \u00a7668dd & 50 CFR \u00a727.32(b)(5) make it a crime to use a boat on a wildlife refuge if its toilet doesn\u2019t comply with federal regulations\n18 USC \u00a71865 & 36 CFR \u00a77.47(a)(3) make it a federal crime to go into a cave alone in Carlsbad Caverns.\nThere oughta be a law\u2026April ,18 2018\nComments Off on There oughta be a law\u2026April ,18 2018\n16 USC \u00a7703 & 50 CFR \u00a721.61 make it a federal crime to shoot Canada geese from a sailboat, even with a permit, unless the sails are furled.\n18 USC \u00a72272 makes it a federal crime for a co-owner of a boat to cast away the boat on the high seas in order to injure the other co-owner.\n15 USC \u00a76308(b)(1)(A) & 6309 make it a crime for a boxing promoter to have a financial interest in the management of a professional boxer.\n31 USC \u00a75111(d)(2), 31 CFR \u00a782.1(b) & 82.2(a)(2) make it a federal crime to leave the US with more than $25 worth of pennies in your pocket.\n40 U.S.C. \u00a78103(b)(4) makes it a federal crime to injure a government-owned sink.\n18 U.S.C. \u00a71703(b) makes it a federal crime for a postal worker to destroy your newspaper.\n21 USC \u00a7\u00a7601(n)(7), 610, 676 & 9 CFR \u00a7319.261 make it a federal crime to sell \u201cmeat loaf\u201d unless it\u2019s in loaf form.\nContact an attorney by calling (866) 463-2946 or by submitting this form.\nYou agree to inform us only about the general nature of your issue in this communication, and not to provide details of the case at this time. 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Wilcox St.,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 193.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ventanamonthly.com/article.php?id=1208&IssueNum=146", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OZNVHC5766KGB2MORK73VHKP5X5S7UIF", "length": 6465, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "ventanamonthly.com", "title": "Short List- Ventana Monthly", "raw_content": "CHRISTMAS AT THE RANCH WITH SANTA\nDec. 5, 12 and 19 | Camarillo\nDiscover what Christmas was like over 100 years ago as you step back in time to explore holiday traditions of the Camarillo family and the Victorian era during this unique Christmas experience at Camarillo\u2019s very own historical landmark, magically reimagined for the holiday season. The 1905 Red Barn is transformed into Santa\u2019s Workshop, where you can receive a souvenir photo. Festive treats and drinks will be available. Open 4:30-7:30 p.m, gates close at 7 p.m. $6. Camarillo Ranch, 201 Camarillo Ranch Road, Camarillo. For more information, visit www.camarilloranchfoundation.org/christmas-with-santa.\nHOLIDAYS AT THE PLAZA WINTERFEST\nDec. 7-Jan. 2. | Ventura\nHistoric Plaza Park in Downtown Ventura hosts a variety of holiday events that celebrate community and good cheer all season long. The park will become a \u201cCandy Cane Forest,\u201d twinkling with dozens of fresh-cut, decorated trees. An outdoor screening of How theGrinch Stole Christmas and The Polar Express takes place on Friday, Dec. 7. Unique handcrafted items will be available at the holiday boutique on Saturday, Dec. 8. Also in store: a silent disco, yoga with Santa and more. For a full schedule of events and more information, visit www.holidaysattheplaza.com.\nCHANNEL ISLANDS HARBOR PARADE OF LIGHTS\nDec. 8 | Oxnard\nPlay in the snow, meet Santa and partake in children\u2019s activities throughout the day, and stick around for the annual Parade of Lights featuring vessels decorated in holiday bling. Beginning at noon, families can play in real snow falling at the north end of Harbor View Park. Santa will be present and will take pictures with families free of charge. This year\u2019s parade theme is \u201cFairy Tales Afloat,\u201d so expect your favorite storybooks to come alive on the water beginning at 7 p.m., all culminating in a flyover by Santa Claus himself. Channel Islands Harbor, 3600 Harbor Blvd., Oxnard. For more information, visit www.channelislandsharbor.org.\nCHRISTMAS PARADE AND SANTA\u2019S VILLAGE\nHundreds of parade entries from bands, floats, cars and other vehicles, horses and more will all gather to watch Santa in his sleigh as he traverses through Old Town Camarillo at this annual holiday season kickoff. Following the parade, stick around and enjoy Santa\u2019s Village at the end of the route featuring holiday shopping, food vendors, live music, inflatable attractions and much more. This event is hosted by Pleasant Valley Recreation and Park District. Santa\u2019s Village will be located at Community Center Park, 1605 E. Burnley St., Camarillo. For more information, visit www.pvrpd.org.\nJoin The Collection at River Park and Chabad of Oxnard for a lighting of the menorah celebration in observance of Chanukah. The festive lighting will include a live band, entertainment and traditional treats, beginning at 2 p.m. and ending at 5 p.m. Collection Park, 2751 Park View Court, Oxnard. For more information, visit www.thecollectionrp.com.\nDec. 13-14 | Thousand Oaks\nFeaturing an award-winning cast of Irish dancers led by Caterina Coyne (Principal dancer, Riverdance), world champion dancer Tyler Schwartz and Connor Reider (Principal dancer, Celtic Fyre, St. Patrick\u2019s Day in Ireland, The Chieftains), as well as members of the Kerry Dance Troupe, The Kerry Voice Squad and the Kerry Traditional Orchestra, this performance promises a memorable night with traditional Irish dance, music and charm. $47-50. Scherr Forum Theater, Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. For more information, visit www.civicartsplaza.com.\nVENTURA HARBOR PARADE OF LIGHTS AND FIREWORKS\nDec. 14-15 | Ventura\nDecorated boats and holiday d\u00e9cor kick off this year\u2019s \u201cRocking on the DOCK side of the Moon\u201d themed parade, a tribute to all things \u201970s, from disco to prog-rock. Boat parade begins at 6:30 p.m., and on Saturday only, a \u201970s Dance Party will kick off at 5:15 p.m. A Winter Wonderland and Holiday Marketplace will be held from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 15, and will feature live reindeer and a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus themselves. Ventura Harbor Village, 1583 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura. For more information, visit www.VenturaHarborVillage.com.\nDec. 15-30 | Simi Valley\nThe heavenly boy group known as Forever Plaid brings this celebration to Simi Valley, just in time for the holidays. Frankie, Sparky, Jinx and Smudge return to weave the magic of the 1950s and 1960s with classic tunes and holiday gems. You\u2019ll not want to miss audience favorites like the riotous 3-minute and 11-second versions of The Ed Sullivan Show. $22-25. Showtime 8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, 3050 Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley, www.simi-arts.org.\nFROM THE ASHES: THOMAS FIRE PHOTOGRAPHY BY LUTHER GERLACH\nThrough Dec. 30 | Santa Paula\nInspired by the abstracted landscapes left in the wake of the Thomas Fire, Ventura photographer Luther Gerlach has produced an extraordinary collection of photographs that both document the destruction and explore the mysterious beauty it rendered. Using an 8x10 wooden view camera, Gerlach\u2019s enlarged prints create a unique, immersive experience of the spectacular aftermath, embued and enhanced with ash and sulfar-laden water collected from the scene of the fire itself. $3-4 admission. Santa Paula Art Museum, 117 North Tenth Street, Santa Paula, www.santapaulaartmuseum.org.\nA COLLECTION OF RARITIES\nThrough Feb 2019 | Thousand Oaks\nFeaturing the work of artist Kevin Sloan, and curated by California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks Senior Curator Lynn Farrand and Executive Director Tish Greenwood, this exhibit is dedicated to the Conejo Valley, inspired in part by Jungleland, the exotic animal park which operated from the late 1920s to 1969. Several poets will perform to emphasize Sloan\u2019s work at various times throughout the exhibit. CMATO, 350 West Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www.cmato.org.\nRED HOT MAMA: THE SOPHIE TUCKER SONGBOOK\nJan. 19-20 | Ventura\nTony nominee Sharon McNight stars in the remarkable story of the first lady of show business, whose career spanned 60 years encompassing the music and history of burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway and Las Vegas. This show will be performed as part of the Janet and Mark L. Goldenson Broadway Concert Series. $35-55. Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main Street, Ventura. For more information, visit www.rubicontheatre.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 7304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://viewtv.co.uk/creed-my-sacrifice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:14Z", "digest": "sha1:NXUXH35ZZ7V6RD4SAY6TIICWQYAE53ZM", "length": 450, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "viewtv.co.uk", "title": "Creed - My Sacrifice - Rathergood Radio 6", "raw_content": "\u201cMy Sacrifice\u201d is a song by American rock band Creed. It was released in October 2001 as the lead single from their third studio album, Weathered. 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The fresco is suspended 180 feet above the Rotunda floor and covers an area of 4,664 square feet.\nThe Apotheosis The Apotheosis depicts George Washington ascending into the heavens. In the center, Washington is flanked by allegorical figures representing Liberty/Authority and Victory/\u2026\nGeorge Washington Rising to the Heavens Brumidi depicted George Washington Rising to the heavens in glory, flanked by female figures representing Liberty and Victory/Fame. A rainbow arches at his feet, and thirteen\u2026\nWar Armored Freedom, sword raised and cape flying, with a helmet and shield reminiscent of those on the Statue of Freedom, tramples Tyranny and Kingly Power; she is assisted by a\u2026\nScience Minerva, goddess of wisdom and the arts of civilization, with helmet and spear, points to an electric generator creating power stored in batteries, next to a printing press,\u2026\nMarine Neptune, god of the sea, holding his trident and crowned with seaweed, rides in a shell chariot drawn by sea horses. Venus, goddess of love born from the sea, helps lay the\u2026\nCommerce Mercury, god of commerce, with his winged cap and sandals and caduceus, hands a bag of gold to Robert Morris, financier of the Revolutionary War. On the left, men move a box\u2026\nMechanics Vulcan, god of the forge, stands at his anvil with his foot on a cannon, near a pile of cannon balls and with a steam engine in the background. 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The public debate at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva [\u2026]\n17 dead, 14 million tres\u2026\nMilan: Heavy rain and gales devastating parts of Italy have claimed two more lives, taking the overall death toll to at least 17, and laid waste to vast swathes of forest. A German tourist died on Friday when hit by lightning on the island of Sardinia while another person struck by lightning several days ago [\u2026]\nNew Caledonia votes on i\u2026\nNEW CALEDONIA: The French Pacific islands of New Caledonia were voting Sunday on whether to become an independent nation, in a closely-watched test of support for France in one of its many territories scattered around the globe. Some 18,000 kilometres (11,000 miles) from the French mainland, New Caledonia is home to a quarter of the [\u2026]\nKabul officials: Taliban\u2026\nKABUL \u2014 An Afghan official says a Taliban assault in northern Jawzjan province has killed 12 members of the security forces and wounded another 10. Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, provincial police chief in Jawzjan, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the attack took place in Qush Typa district late on Monday. Jawzjani says the [\u2026]\nPakistan successfully co\u2026\nRAWALPINDI: Pakistan today successfully conducted Training Launch of Ghauri Missile System, ISPR reported. The launch was conducted by Army Strategic Forces Command and was aimed at testing the operational and technical readiness of Army Strategic Forces Command. Ghauri Ballistic Missile can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads up to a distance of 1300 kms. The [\u2026]\nFuture of US-Pakistan re\u2026\nISLAMABAD: The state of the recently contentious relationship between Pakistan and the Trump administration rests squarely on whether Washington\u2019s new war plan for Afghanistan can turn the tide of the 17-year conflict, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said. US commanders on the ground in Afghanistan, along with officials at the Pentagon and White House, have [\u2026]\nTime running out for sur\u2026\nWani: The death toll in Indonesia\u2019s twin quake-tsunami disaster rose to nearly 1,400 on Wednesday, with time running out to rescue survivors and the UN warning of \u201cvast\u201d unmet needs. Authorities set a tentative deadline of Friday to find anyone still trapped under rubble, at which point \u2014 a week after this devastating double disaster [\u2026]\nDisappointed at \u2018arrogan\u2026\nislamabad:-Pakistan\u2019s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday said he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d at India\u2019s decision to call off talks between the foreign ministers of the two countries, and called New Delhi\u2019s response \u201carrogant and negative.\u201d Taking to Twitter, Khan said: \u201cDisappointed at the arrogant and negative response by India to my call for resumption of the peace [\u2026]\nUN chief to visit India\u2026\nUnited Nations: UN chief Antonio Guterres will travel to India early next month, his first trip to the country as head of the world body that coincides with the commencement of events marking the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. The Secretary-General will arrive in New Delhi on October 1. His visit coincides with the [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/travels/1999/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_07111999_new-delhi_meeting-other-religions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:46Z", "digest": "sha1:G2HEP65WIZZLSZJM5J4FEOWIBGLAHR6E", "length": 6853, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "w2.vatican.va", "title": "Meeting with the representatives of other religions (Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, 7 November 1999) | John Paul II", "raw_content": "Meeting with representatives of other Religions and other Christian Confessions\nNew Delhi \u2014 Vigyan Bawan\nDistinguished Religious Leaders,\n1. It is a great joy for me to visit once again the beloved land of India and to have this opportunity in particular to greet you, the representatives of different religious traditions, which embody not only great achievements of the past but also the hope of a better future for the human family. I thank the Government and the people of India for the welcome I have received. I come among you as a pilgrim of peace and as a fellow-traveller on the road that leads to the complete fulfilment of the deepest human longings. On the occasion of Diwali, the festival of lights, which symbolizes the victory of life over death, good over evil, I express the hope that this meeting will speak to the world of the things which unite us all: our common human origin and destiny, our shared responsibility for people\u2019s well-being and progress, our need of the light and strength that we seek in our religious convictions. Down the ages and in so many ways, India has taught that truth which the great Christian teachers also propose, that men and women \u201cby inward instinct\u201d are deeply oriented towards God and seek him from the depths of their being (cf. Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, III, q. 60, art. 5, 3). On this basis, I am convinced that together we can successfully take the path of understanding and dialogue.\n2. My presence here among you is meant as a further sign that the Catholic Church wants to enter ever more deeply into dialogue with the religions of the world. She sees this dialogue as an act of love which has its roots in God himself. \u201cGod is love\u201d, proclaims the New Testament, \u201cand whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him. . . Let us love, then, because he has loved us first. . . no-one who fails to love the brother whom he sees can love God whom he has not seen\u201d (1 Jn 4:16, 19-20).\nIt is a sign of hope that the religions of the world are becoming more aware of their shared responsibility for the well-being of the human family. This is a crucial part of the globalization of solidarity which must come if the future of the world is to be secure. This sense of shared responsibility increases as we discover more of what we have in common as religious men and women.\nWhich of us does not grapple with the mystery of suffering and death? Which of us does not hold life, truth, peace, freedom and justice to be supremely important values? Which of us is not convinced that moral goodness is soundly rooted in the individual\u2019s and society\u2019s openness to the transcendent world of the Divinity? Which of us does not believe that the way to God requires prayer, silence, asceticism, sacrifice and humility? Which of us is not concerned that scientific and technical progress should be accompanied by spiritual and moral awareness? And which of us does not believe that the challenges now facing society can only be met by building a civilization of love founded on the universal values of peace, solidarity, justice and liberty? And how can we do this, except through encounter, mutual understanding and cooperation?\n3. The path before us is demanding, and there is always the temptation to choose instead the path of isolation and division, which leads to conflict. This in turn unleashes the forces which make religion an excuse for violence, as we see too often around the world. Recently I was happy to welcome to the Vatican representatives of the world religions who had gathered to build upon the achievements of the Assisi Meeting in 1986. I repeat here what I said to that distinguished Assembly: \u201cReligion is not, and must not become a pretext for conflict, particularly when religious, cultural and ethnic identity coincide. Religion and peace go together: to wage war in the name of religion is a blatant contradiction\u201d. Religious leaders in particular have the duty to do everything possible to ensure that religion is what God intends it to be \u2013 a source of goodness, respect, harmony and peace! This is the only way to honour God in truth and justice!\nOur encounter requires that we strive to discern and welcome whatever is good and holy in one another, so that together we can acknowledge, preserve and promote the spiritual and moral truths which alone guarantee the world\u2019s future (cf. Nostra Aetate, 2). In this sense dialogue is never an attempt to impose our own views upon others, since such dialogue would become a form of spiritual and cultural domination. This does not mean that we abandon our own convictions. What it means is that, holding firmly to what we believe, we listen respectfully to others, seeking to discern all that is good and holy, all that favours peace and cooperation.\n4. It is vital to recognize that there is a close and unbreakable bond between peace and freedom. Freedom is the most noble prerogative of the human person, and one of the principal demands of freedom is the free exercise of religion in society (cf. Dignitatis Humanae, 3). No State, no group has the right to control either directly or indirectly a person\u2019s religious convictions, nor can it justifiably claim the right to impose or impede the public profession and practice of religion, or the respectful appeal of a particular religion to people\u2019s free conscience. Recalling this year the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, I wrote that \u201creligious freedom constitutes the very heart of human rights. Its inviolability is such that individuals must be recognized as having the right even to change their religion, if their conscience so demands. People are obliged to follow their conscience in all circumstances and cannot be forced to act against it (cf. Article 18)\u201d (Message for the 1999 World Day of Peace, 5).\n5. In India the way of dialogue and tolerance was the path followed by the great Emperors Ashoka, Akbar and Chatrapati Shivaji; by wise men like Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda; and by luminous figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Gurudeva Tagore and Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, who understood profoundly that to serve peace and harmony is a holy task. These are people who, in India and beyond, have made a significant contribution to the increased awareness of our universal brotherhood, and they point us to a future where our deep longing to pass through the door of freedom will find its fulfilment because we will pass through that door together. To choose tolerance, dialogue and cooperation as the path into the future is to preserve what is most precious in the great religious heritage of mankind. It is also to ensure that in the centuries to come the world will not be without that hope which is the life-blood of the human heart. 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We hope that you enjoy your visit to our website. Do share with us your views, hopes and concerns. You will discover a vibrant parish that tries to respond to the needs of others and to be of service to the local community. We are by no means perfect, but we do try to live and proclaim the Gospel message of Jesus Christ who is the Way, the Truth and the Life.\nThe parish of Waltham Abbey is part of the benefice of Waltham Holy Cross (which is itself part of the Deanery of Epping Forest and Ongar Deanery of the Diocese of Chelmsford). 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I wanted to see how the 32 countries participating in the World Cup are represented on the list, so I created a simple bubble map visualization of the list using CartoDB. Click on, or hover over, the orange bubbles on the map below to view the complete breakdown. The bubbles have been scaled according to each country\u2019s number of players on the list. Direct URL for sharing the visualisation\nThe following are the important bits of info from the list:\nGermany and defending World Cup champions Spain are tied in top spot with each country having 8 players on the list.\nSouth American football giants Brazil and Argentina follow with 5 and 4 players on the list respectively.\nSixteen of the 32 countries participating in the Cup are represented on the list.\nAn amazing 33 of the 50 players \u2013 or 66% \u2013 on the list are from European nations.\nFive South American nations. Two African countries. 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And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.\nA bizarre and tragic love story involving swineherd, village fool, teacher and an agricultural pilot. The story unfolds in a remote village in the communist ruled Yugoslavia at the down of Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1968.\nBarren Lives (1963)\n'Vidas secas' tells in vivid images the almost documentary like story of a drover and his family in the northern interior states of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of a new hope and destiny.\nBased on Henry James's novel of the same name. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young prot\u00e9g\u00e9e of Olive's in the feminist movement. 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She too is impressed by Devutt's poems and invites him over to her house for a party, and again both are attracted to each other. Knowing fully well that he cannot marry three women in his country, a tortured and uncertain Devdutt must now make up his mind as who he wants as his life-partner.\nAn ex-Boer war guerrilla in New Zealand is sent out to bring back a Maori accused of killing a British soldier. Gradually they grow to know and respect one another but a posse, led by the British Commanding officer is close behind and his sole intention is to see the Maori hang. Written by Filmfinders 1903. A guerilla fighter from the South African Boer war called Arjan (Winstone) takes on a manhunt for Maori seaman Kereama (Morrison), who is accused of murdering a British soldier. What follows is a cat and mouse pursuit through the varied landscape of NZ with both hunter and huntee testing their bushcraft and wits against that of the other. 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It's well worth watching -- and not just because those who do will be able to link the following: an apple grove, William O'Connell, dead Sulpicians and a horde of cement trucks.\nRemember your history, church... and always remember with it that you couldn't make it up if you tried.\nOK Bishop: \"Suffering Faces\" of Immigrants = \"Suff...\nPope to Muslims: C'mon Down\nPapa Ratzi's Hometown Heir?\nThe Creator on His Creations\nIn Crookston, www.NewBishop.com -- Literally\nPharaoh and the Camel\nBack in Bayern, Pope's Cathedral Smoked Out\n\"Receive the Ring\" -- and Don't Lose It", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://whoniverse.net/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:22Z", "digest": "sha1:2FAG67ZROSRIH2AYQ23T32O5AFQSSKKE", "length": 1755, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "whoniverse.net", "title": "About Us | The Whoniverse", "raw_content": "The Whoniverse is a Doctor Who reference website written by fans for fans. 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It takes months and sometimes years to get established and actually start making money. We have done it before and we are doing it again.\nI am currently working a day job. It\u2019s a little less than full time, which is great because it gives me time to work on our business. I work on the business before my day job and later in the evening. Here is an idea of what my day might look like (not every day, but most days):\nWake up at 5 or 6 at the latest.\nFinish up the previous day\u2019s video and start exporting and uploading by 7.\nBy the time I\u2019ve finished showering and getting dressed, the video will be uploaded, so I can add the description, tags, thumbnail and annotations.\nI eat breakfast and pack my lunch in between checking emails and doing some administrative work.\nAfter work I go to the gym, then pick up Lynn from work.\nBefore making supper I get a bit of administrative work done.\nI try not to work between supper and bedtime. This is family time.\nAfter the kids are in bed, around 9, I start editing until 11 or so.\nSaturday is great because I can work all day on the business. Sunday is \u201cno-screen day\u201d for our family (as a general rule), and I am not doing any work until after the kids are in bed. It is an important part of our life as a family to practice a weekly Sabbath.\nThis routine will not be indefinite. It is harsh on me and my family. I will be done my day job at the end of June, at which time I plan to be working on the business full time. Hopefully by then we will have some paying projects through The Film Collective and start earning a small income on YouTube. In the mean time, it\u2019s hustle, hustle, hustle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://williamspioneer.com/article/78986", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:35Z", "digest": "sha1:DWJVFF3A3QFRTATQJMVWRVSU6EB2LNDW", "length": 4238, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "williamspioneer.com", "title": "Colusa\u2019s gone cray over Cajun-style mud-bugs | Colusa County News - (530) 458-4141", "raw_content": "Colusa\u2019s gone cray over Cajun-style mud-bugs\nLocated in the middle of rice country, Colusa reflects southern roots \u2014 from its historic courthouse to its heart rooted in agriculture and family values.\nWith family values come good eats as the Knights of Columbus hosted its 11th annual Crawdad Festival on Saturday.\n\u201cThis is a fantastic event \u2014 and good food too!\u201d bragged Joan Holybee who\u2019s been attending the event for at least 10 years. \u201cI look forward to this event every year.\u201d\nAs Joan and her husband Walter continued their feast with a plate of crawdads, many others did as well.\n\u201cWe had people from all around the state,\u201d said Tim Schoder of the Knights of Columbus. \u201cWe had a steady stream of people all day, there was almost no downtime. We estimated about 750 people attended this year\u2019s event.\u201d\nAccording to Schoder, it was the largest event to date.\nThose eager to sample the tasty mudbugs were treated to heaping plates of the steaming, spicy crawdads.\n\u201cAll the crawdads were locally grown, right out of our very own rice fields,\u201d said Schoder. \u201cThe Crawdads are collected from the rice fields around the area and processed at a facility located at Colusa Industrial Park.\u201d\nSchoder added that the processing facility donated the crawdads for the event.\nWhile Crawdads were the main dish, event goers also feasted on \u00e9touff\u00e9e, carnitas, gumbo, sausage, ribs, and much more.\nFor many this is an annual event; for others it was a first time experience.\n\u201cIt was a fun experience,\u201d said Maria Moreno who\u2019d never attended the festival. \u201cI loved the food.\u201d\nMoreno feasted on carnitas, a plate of crawdads, and \u00e9touff\u00e9e\n\u201cI have never tried crawdads or \u00e9touff\u00e9e before, and they were both surprisingly good,\u201d said Moreno, \u201cI am a picky person \u2014 if I like it, it\u2019s pretty good.\u201d\nMoreno commented she is already planning for next year.\n\u201cI am addicted now, and I plan on coming back. It was a fun day.\u201d\nCrawdad festival continued from page 1\nThe 2016 family-friendly event drew record crowds and was held at the Colusa County Fairgrounds.\n\u201cWe couldn\u2019t keep up the request for crawdads,\u201d said Schoder. \u201cFrom when it opened at 1 PM to about 4 PM, there was a consistent line of people waiting. Thankfully, everyone was very patient and waited for the Crawdads \u2014 we gave a nice, healthy serving.\u201d\n\u201cIt has been quite steady this afternoon,\u201d said Colusa resident Cynthia White, who was collecting tickets at the gate. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful day for this event.\u201d\nPeople, young and old alike, danced the night away to the Zydeco music, making people feel more like they were in bayou country than Colusa County.\n\u201cThere was plenty of great music, and I enjoyed the wonderful \u00e9touff\u00e9e,\u201d chatted Patti Arnold who\u2019s been attending the event for the last six years. \u201c\u00c9touff\u00e9e is a delicious Cajun dish of rice and a soup type mixture over the top with crawdads in it \u2014 my favorite.\u201d\nWhile the event was a first for some, for others it\u2019s a tradition in the making.\n\u201cIt is an annual tradition for me and my friend Gerry Hernandez to go,\u201d Arnold said. \u201cIt\u2019s also a great fundraiser for the Catholic Parish.\u201d\nThe event starts at 1 PM; however, most don\u2019t attend until later in the evening.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t get out of mass until about 6 PM,\u201d said Arnold. \u201cThat\u2019s generally the busiest time as everyone is there.\u201d\nThe Crawdad Festival is one of the feature fundraiser held by the Knights of Columbus, an event that helps raise funds for the local parish, the parish school and other organizations in the community.\n\u201cThis year we dedicated the event to Henry Royal who started the event,\u201d said Schoder. \u201cThe primary purpose of the event is to raise money for the parish and the Our Lady of Lourdes School.\u201d\nPeople, young and old alike, danced away to the rip-roaring, foot-stomping, smile-\u2019til-you-cry Cajun/Zydeco music making people feel more like they were in bayou country than Colusa County. Entrainment was provided by CZ and the Bon Vivants along with Mark St. Mary.\n\u201cThe music was different \u2014 I liked that,\u201d said Moreno. \u201cIt seemed to have put me in the mood for crawdads. 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It can also be used as a tool for participants to get to know each other better.\nThe participants are situated in two rows facing each other in pairs. Each couple greets each other and then starts discussing a specified issue or question. After approximately three minutes one of the rows moves down one seat, so everybody gets a new partner. Continue this process for three rounds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://worldofguns.info/2016/08/05/its-true-a-toilet-was-used-as-an-aerial-bomb-during-the-vietnam-war/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ADS7TRMXTU4WZI6ISX2JARNHES7FESUG", "length": 3538, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "worldofguns.info", "title": "It's True! A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War | WorldOfGuns", "raw_content": "It\u2019s True! A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War\nAs American involvement in the Vietnam War began, the A-1 Skyraider was still the medium attack aircraft in many carrier air wings, although it was planned to be replaced by the A-6A Intruder as part of the general switch to jet aircraft. Skyraiders from Constellation andTiconderoga participated in the first U.S. Navy strikes against North Vietnam on 5 August 1964 as part of Operation Pierce Arrow in response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, striking against fuel depots at Vinh, with one Skyraider from Ticonderoga damaged by anti-aircraft fire, and a second from Constellation shot down, killing its pilot.\nIn contrast to the Korean War, fought a decade earlier, the U.S. Air Force used the naval A-1 Skyraider for the first time in Vietnam. As the Vietnam War progressed, USAF A-1s were painted in camouflage, while USN A-1 Skyraiders were gray/white in color; again, in contrast to the Korean War, when A-1s were painted dark blue. In October 1965, to highlight the dropping of the six millionth pound of ordnance, Commander Clarence J. Stoddard of Attack Squadron 25 (VA-25), flying an A-1H, dropped a special, one-time-only object in addition to his other munitions \u2013 a toilet.\nOnce again history is stranger then fiction, and a lot funnier: USS Midway VA-25\u2019s Toilet Bomb\nIn October 1965, CDR Clarence J. Stoddard, Executive Officer of VA-25 \u201cFist of the Fleet\u201d, flying an A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 \u201cPaper Tiger II\u201d from Carrier Air Wing Two aboard USS Midway carried a special bomb to the North Vietnamese in commemoration of the 6-millionth pound of ordnance dropped.\nThe following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965.\nThe following is an account of this event, courtesy of Clint Johnson, Captain, USNR Ret. Captain Johnson was one of the two VA-25 A-1 Skyraider pilots credited with shooting down a MiG-17 on June 20, 1965\u201cI was a pilot in VA-25 on the 1965 Vietnam cruise. 572 was flown by CDR C. W. \u201cBill\u201d Stoddard. His wingman in 577 (which was my assigned airplane) was LCDR Robin Bacon, who had a wing station mounted movie camera (the only one remaining in the fleet from WWII).\nThe flight was a Dixie Station strike (South Vietnam) going to the Delta. When they arrived in the target area and CDR Stoddard was reading the ordnance list to the FAC, he ended with \u201cand one code name Sani-flush\u201d. The FAC couldn\u2019t believe it and joined up to see it. It was dropped in a dive with LCDR Bacon flying tight wing position to film the drop.\nWhen it came off, it turned hole to the wind and almost struck his airplane. It made a great ready room movie. The FAC said that it whistled all the way down. The toilet was a damaged toilet, which was going to be thrown overboard. One of our plane captains rescued it and the ordnance crew made a rack, tailfins and nose fuse for it. Our checkers maintained a position to block the view of the air boss and the Captain while the aircraft was taxiing forward.\nJust as it was being shot off we got a 1MC message from the bridge, \u201cWhat the hell was on 572\u2019s right wing?\u201d There were a lot of jokes with air intelligence about germ warfare. I wish that we had saved the movie film.\nCase Dismissed Against Kentucky \u201cDrone Slayer\u201d for Shooting Down Spying Drone Flying Over His Property\nSecuring the Border: The Hidalgo County Sheriff\u2019s Experience Using the TAVOR\u00ae/X95\u2122", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 4786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://worldofguns.info/2016/11/11/the-nra-is-already-aiming-at-californias-big-new-gun-proposition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UOZGNMRUVAH4NAK2SU2VVER3AZK265FD", "length": 4510, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "worldofguns.info", "title": "The NRA is Already Aiming at California's Big New Gun Proposition | WorldOfGuns", "raw_content": "California\u2019s gun ballot initiative, Proposition 63, passed last night with 63 percent of the vote. Although this fact was largely lost in the election noise, the most noteworthy and controversial aspects of the sweeping gun prop are already etched into law. In July, Gov. Jerry Brown signed off on legislation that, like Prop 63, outlawed the possession of magazines that carry more than 10 bullets, required background checks for buying ammunition, and banned the sale of certain types of semiautomatic assault rifles.\nWhile Prop 63 irks Second Amendment activists, its passage isn\u2019t exactly surprising. That may explain why, in the lead up to Election Day, the gun lobby\u2019s opposition to the ballot measure was somewhat muted. \u201cIt\u2019s been this way since Brown signed the bills. If there was anything groundbreaking, anything revolutionary here, that\u2019s when it happened. Prop 63, with the exception of a few things, is redundant,\u201d says Chuck Michel, the President of the California Rifle & Pistol Association, the National Rifle Association\u2019s official California affiliate.\nThere are some differences between the proposition and the existing law. Prop 63 requires owners to report lost or stolen guns. It also creates a system for confiscating guns from felons who are prohibited from owning them. It also elevates all gun thefts to felonies.\n\u201cGavin Newsom, I think, has created a monster.\u201d\n\u201cNone of that was worth spending $5 million to oppose, because that stuff is minor compared to the ammo background check and the ban on the possession of high capacity magazines, conceptually,\u201d says Michel. \u201cThere were a number of different players were ready to put money into this fight, but when those laws passed, nobody was going to spend that much money on this fight when we have a presidential race that\u2019s going to influence the Supreme Court.\u201d\nInstead, the NRA and its affiliates focused on trying to elect Donald Trump, who they believed would appoint Supreme Court justices friendly to their interpretation of gun rights. But that doesn\u2019t mean the fight over Proposition 63 and the laws passed in July is over. The California Rifle & Pistol Association, for its part, intends to take legal action. \u201cThere are different parts of it that are vulnerable on different theories. [Prop 63] is a collection of separate laws, and each one would be challenged separately, and on different grounds,\u201d says Michel. Asked when that might happen, he replies, \u201cSoon. We\u2019re not going to wait until they can go into effect.\u201d\nThe passage of Proposition 63 marks the end of a fight between Democrats Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and State Senate leader Kevin De Le\u00f3n that began in late 2015. Newsom, who backed Prop 63, has his eye on the governor\u2019s seat in 2018, and wants to be seen as an effective opponent of the gun lobby. And De Le\u00f3n, who was behind the gun legislation passed earlier this year, is said to be close to others aiming for the Governor\u2019s Mansion and doesn\u2019t want to see the ballot initiative help Newsom.\nThe spat over who gets the credit for tightening California\u2019s gun laws spawned a white-collar war of words earlier in the year. In a letter to Newsom, De Le\u00f3n complained that a ballot initiative is \u201ca blunt instrument\u201d that would \u201cdeny California the flexibility to implement a more thoughtful and cost-effective approach.\u201d Newsom, writing before De Le\u00f3n\u2019s bills were signed into law, shot back, \u201cYour suggestion that there is \u2018a good chance\u2019 of the Legislature approving some related proposals is far from a guarantee for the state\u2019s gun violence victims\u2026The Legislature has shown mixed results in passing legislation to address gun violence.\u201d\nPassing Prop 63 appears to be a slam dunk for supporters of tougher gun laws, but Michel believes that Newsom and De Le\u00f3n\u2019s competiting accomplishments may backfire. \u201cI want to thank Gavin Newsom and Kevin De Le\u00f3n, because what they have done is really stuck their finger in the eye of gun owners to the point where gun owners have now have now woken up and will engage to a degree that they haven\u2019t before,\u201d he says. \u201cThe PAC that we created to deal with Prop 63 will survive Prop 63. 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I enjoyed it quite a bit as a sensation novel, since the mystery is pretty obvious. Still, the opening chapter of the blind man in the strange house and the later encounter with the Italian revolutionary in Siberia are quite atmospheric.\nian holloway September 1, 2016 at 3:35 AM\nI picked up that Jekyll and Hyde edition in a local charity shop a couple of weeks ago. was fun to finally get around to reading the main story but i thought those two pastiches were an utter waste of paper.\nDouglas A. Anderson September 1, 2016 at 2:15 PM\nGlad to know, so I won't put this near the top of my Pile to Read!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 738, "original_length": 16628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.3peaks.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=459", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:10Z", "digest": "sha1:D4XXP3MV3LFZOM2SDTM3SO55N6XDUK7Q", "length": 632, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.3peaks.co.uk", "title": "May 2016 edition of 'The Guide' - www.3Peaks.co.uk", "raw_content": "May 2016 edition of 'The Guide'\nThe May 2016 edition of 'The Guide' simply reflects the changes to the summer rail timetable on the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle line and the disruption from the Carlisle end of the rail line north of Appleby due to ongoing engineering works.\nThere are no changes to the route guide.\n'The Guide' is currently not available as a direct download, it is only available by emailing a request to myself at mac.hawk@ntlworld.com.\nFor details of 'The Guide' please see the 'March 2016 version of 'The Guide' posting on this forum.\n'The Guide' is not (currently) endorsed, recommended or approved by '3Peaks.co.uk'.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.4x4wire.com/entry/suport-the-recreational-trails-program", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ODRAVXECJDMOOD7CAJM5AG2M5EJ5RLFU", "length": 1678, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.4x4wire.com", "title": "4x4Wire - Support the Recreational Trails Program", "raw_content": "Support the Recreational Trails Program\nThe bipartisan letter thanks the leadership for including the RTP in the Surface Transportation Authorization Act. The letter also makes three specific requests:\n1. For RTP funding levels in the legislation to be set at $690 million over six years - $90 million in 2010, $100 million in 2011, $110 million in 2012, $120 million in 2013, $130 million in 2014, and $140 million in 2015;\n2. For $2.5 million to be allocated to a DOT study of off-highway recreational fuel use, to ensure that the level of RTP funding reflects\nthe federal fuel taxes paid for off-highway fuel usage; and\n3. For funds allocated to the FHWA to administer the RTP each year to be adjusted from a set amount to one percent of actual available annual funding to ensure that sufficient administrative resources are available for the program.\nSince the deadline is this Friday, July 17, the fastest way to reach your Members of Congress is to call them. You can find contact information for your Representatives on AmericanMotorcyclist.com, click on \"Rights,\" then \"Issues & Legislation,\" and enter your zip code in the \"Find your Officials\" box. Additionally, a prewritten e-mail is available for you to send to your U.S. Representatives by following the \"Take Action\" option and entering your information.\nAll AMA members and anyone else who enjoys recreating on trails responsibly is urged to contact their Representatives and ask them to sign on to the Michaud/Petri letter addressed to the leadership of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in support of the RTP.\nNew Track Bar for 84-02 Jeep XJ\nRicoh Optimizes 500SE GPS-Enabled Digital Camera", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 8963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.702.co.za/podcasts/260/early-breakfast-with-abongile-nzelenzele/159174/why-everyone-is-talking-about-botswanas-new-trade-and-industry-minister", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:26Z", "digest": "sha1:5SUZZGGXU43VGZQDKOJE5KZVPNO4ORKZ", "length": 72, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.702.co.za", "title": "Why everyone is talking about Botswana\u2019s new Trade and Industry Minister", "raw_content": "Why everyone is talking about Botswana\u2019s new Trade and Industry Minister", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aavso.org/ejaavso401100", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NXEHQDSKGIUCQ2WJ3ARAIKZUUDSKRGGV", "length": 1188, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.aavso.org", "title": "ejaavso401100 | aavso.org", "raw_content": "The Development of Early Pulsation Theory, or, How Cepheids Are Like Steam Engines\nNew York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, 715 Broadway, New York, NY 10003\nPresented at the 100th Spring Meeting of the AAVSO, May 22, 2011; received December 23, 2011; revised January 17, 2012; accepted January 17, 2012\nThe pulsation theory of Cepheid variable stars was a major breakthrough of early twentieth-century astrophysics. At the beginning of that century, the basic physics of normal stars was very poorly understood, and variable stars were even more mysterious. Breaking with accepted explanations in terms of eclipsing binaries, Harlow Shapley and A. S. Eddington pioneered novel theories that considered Cepheids as pulsating spheres of gas. Surprisingly, the pulsation theory not only depended on novel developments in stellar physics, but the theory also drove many of those developments. In particular, models of stars in radiative balance and theories of stellar energy were heavily inspired and shaped by ideas about variable stars. 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For more information, please refer to our Privacy Policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.actionfigureinsider.com/announcing-the-visitor-how-and-why-he-stayed-one-of-the-strangest-mysteries-of-the-hellboy-world-to-be-published-in-february-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MZVYHHOSHYK5457YJ7NTRTXTIB4HMNOY", "length": 2544, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.actionfigureinsider.com", "title": "Action Figure Insider \u00bb Announcing THE VISITOR: HOW AND WHY HE STAYED, One of the Strangest Mysteries of the Hellboy World To Be Published in February 2017", "raw_content": "Announcing THE VISITOR: HOW AND WHY HE STAYED, One of the Strangest Mysteries of the Hellboy World To Be Published in February 2017\nMILWAUKIE, Ore. \u2013 Oct. 18, 2016 \u2013 In 2017, one of the strangest and most unexpected mysteries of the Hellboy world will be revealed in an all new comic book series from Dark Horse Comics.\nIn The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola, iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson and Jack Staff creator Paul Grist will spotlight mysterious aliens and probe into a pivotal moment in Hellboy\u2019s past for a surprising tale that harkens back to the character\u2019s first ever appearance. This 5 issue comic book series will be teased in a story in the forthcoming Hellboy: Winter Special 2017 on January 25th, before the first issue of The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed debuts on February 22, 2017\n\u201cIn Hellboy: Seed of Destruction, readers were given a brief glimpse of a crew of strange looking aliens monitoring the supernatural doings on Earth from way out in space. We later learned that one of those aliens had been sent to Earth to kill him in 1944, but chose to spare him at the last moment,\u201d said Chris Roberson. \u201cIn The Visitor, we explore who those aliens are, why that assassin was sent to kill Hellboy, and just what he was doing in all of the years in between.\u201d\nJoining co-writers Mignola and Roberson, and colorist Bill Crabtree, is cartoonist Paul Grist who will be making his Mignolaverse debut.\n\u201cI remember when I first read Hellboy: The Conqueror Worm,\u201d said Grist. \u201cHalfway through Mike Mignola throws in this character who has been tracking Hellboy ever since he arrived on Earth, who then promptly dies and is dismissed by Hellboy in a single sentence. And I thought NO! You can\u2019t do that! There has to be more to this guy\u2019s life than that! And it turns out there was. And I\u2019d like to thank Mike for asking me to help tell that story now.\u201d\n\u201cThe Visitor is the story of a stranger in a strange land,\u201d Roberson added. \u201cStranded on Earth for more than half a century, an alien assassin observes humanity\u2019s capacity both for compassion and for destruction. We see history unfold through his eyes, just as the experience of living among humans changes who he is.\u201d\nDark Horse Comics will publish the first issue of The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed, the most mysterious Hellboy spinoff yet, on February 22, 2017.\nView a teaser trailer for The Visitor: How and Why He Stayed here!\nTAGS: 2014< San Diego Comic Con InternationalDark Horse ComicsHellBoyThe Visitor: How and Why He Stayed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 8050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.adventuresofelis.com/2017/07/mountains-and-malls-guide-to-summer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:22Z", "digest": "sha1:CKPOBQNRYQDLGD7ZL3G56JALXXCZCUQL", "length": 5332, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.adventuresofelis.com", "title": "Adventures of Elis: A Guide to Summer Tourism in ANDORRA.", "raw_content": "A Guide to Summer Tourism in ANDORRA.\nEuropean microstates have always intrigued me. The mere existence of these tiny sovereign countries and their unrelenting will to survive is admirable. Andorra\u2019s remoteness and inaccessibility just compounded my fascination. I\u2019ll take any excuse for an adventure, so I eventually gave into temptation and decided to visit! I really enjoyed exploring, but found some aspects of the place quite odd. As such, I\u2019ll attempt to provide a balanced account of my trip along with some guidelines for budgeting.\nRoc del Quer\nTo give some context, Andorra is the world\u2019s 16th smallest country, perched high in the Pyrenees mountains between France and Spain. It\u2019s the world\u2019s only remaining co-principality, with the bishop of the Spanish city of La Seu d\u2019Urgell sharing power with the French Count of Foix (now the French president).\nMuch to the distaste of its neighbours, Andorra could be considered as somewhat of a tax haven. Low duty on most items draws flocks of people over the borders from Spain and France in search of cheap clothes, electricals, alcohol and just about anything else you could wish to buy. Asides from being morally questionable, this low-tax political strategy has led to the proliferation of unsightly shopping centres which seem to have popped up anywhere and everywhere.\nA lot of travel writers seem to give Andorra a tough time (some more so than others). The main complaint seems to be overdevelopment. Whilst this is sometimes a little overplayed, I do agree to an extent. The recent mass construction of modern high-rise apartment blocks, banks, offices and shopping centres has taken much of the character away from towns and villages. Much of the capital Andorra la Vella is glass, steel and concrete with only small remnants of history remaining. This is a real shame to say the city has existed since before the Middle Ages. As for newer towns such as Pas de la Casa, I\u2019d avoid these altogether unless you\u2019re after cheap electricals or booze.\nIn spite of its negatives, Andorra has a real trump card \u2013 the landscape. It\u2019s utterly amazing. The entire country is dominated by the jagged high peaks of the Pyrenees, which poke almost 3000 meters into the sky. There are excellent hiking and mountain biking trails almost everywhere. My absolute favourite place in all of Andorra is the Roc del Quer view point above the village of Canillo. This seemingly precarious metal platform juts out from a sheer rock face into mid-air. At nearly 2000 meters in altitude, it feels like you\u2019re flying like a bird above the valleys below. The viewpoint can be reached by road, so unfit people like myself needn\u2019t worry!\nAndorra's landscape took my breath away!\nI\u2019ve previously mentioned Andorra\u2019s lack of historical buildings, but the real exception to this is the abundance of beautiful Romanesque churches. Most of these are built in local stone and are decorated on the inside by the most incredible artwork. All churches in the country are worth seeing, but some notable examples are Sant Joan de Caselles, Santa Coloma and the Meritxell Sanctuary. The first two are historical Romanesque-style churches; the latter is modern but equally captivating.\nModern arches at the Meritxell Sanctuary\nThe historical centre of Andorra la Vella is small and for the most part anticlimactic. But the old Andorran Parliament \u2018Casa de la Vall\u2019 is a real gem. Dating back to 1580 AD, it\u2019s one of the oldest parliament buildings in the world. Tours cost EUR 5 and give a fascinating insight into the past and present of Andorran politics.\nCasa de la Vall - Old Parliament building\nThe country is tiny and I reckon it\u2019s possible to see the main sights in a couple of days. For those without a car, the best way to get the most from Andorra is through an organised tour as getting between the sights can be tricky. The Andorra Tourist Board offer a daily bus tour for EUR 15, which I really enjoyed.\nThe overall cost of travel in Andorra is moderate. Backpackers\u2019 hostels are difficult to come by and can be quite pricey as a result. Expect to pay between EUR 16-20 per night for a bed in a shared dorm. Interestingly, hotels are quite cheap here and a budget hotel in Andorra can actually offer better value for money than a hostel; expect to pay between EUR 20-30 per night for a twin room in a 3* hotel. Food costs are comparable to those in other western European countries; expect to pay EUR 10-14 for a main course in a mid-range restaurant. Alcohol is very cheap though, due to the low rates of taxation.\nGetting to Andorra can be tricky as there are no airports or train stations in the country \u2013 road is the only option. Daily buses run from Barcelona and Toulouse airports with a journey time of around 3 hours from each. Andorra is not part of the EU or Schengen area and border patrols are in place. Immigration is generally hassle-free, but customs checks can be thorough \u2013 particularly upon leaving the country.\nI\u2019ve given Andorra a \u2018backpackability\u2019 score of 3/5, meaning it\u2019s somewhat suitable for backpackers and budget travellers.\nConcrete jungle or natural paradise? I\u2019d say Andorra is an odd mix of the two. Love it or hate it, there\u2019s no denying this place is unique.\nHave you been to Andorra or thinking of going? 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He is responsible for the growth and profitability of the company\u2019s Merchant Gases business in the U.S. and Canada.\nSquires joined Air Products in 1989 as a sales engineer and subsequently held management positions within the Electronics group. From 2001-2003 Squires managed the alliances and acquisitions program for Electronics, helping to implement its aggressive growth plans. He became a general sales manager for North America Gases in 2003, responsible for all merchant gas and liquid bulk selling activities in the region, and most recently held the position of director, Investor Relations. Squires received a bachelor\u2019s degree from Wake Forest University in 1983 and served as an officer in the U.S. Army from 1983-1987.\nName Phone Air Products (NYSE:APD) has appointed Nelson Squires vice president, North America Merchant Gases. He is responsible for the growth and profitability of the company\u2019s Merchant Gases business in the U.S. and Canada.\nNelson Squires\nFormal Photo\nInformal Photo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 9715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 234.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allanbevere.com/2016/01/truth-is-stranger-than-fiction-be.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:23Z", "digest": "sha1:B7FX5KSQIU226S5ED35XLW2CE4ZPXLAL", "length": 873, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.allanbevere.com", "title": "Allan R. Bevere: Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Be Careful Before You Get that Pat Tat", "raw_content": "Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction: Be Careful Before You Get that Pat Tat\nPatriots fan gets tattoo declaring Super Bowl win\nBOSTON (AP) \u2014 A New England Patriots fan was a bit premature when he got a tattoo declaring the team champions of a game they never reached \u2014 yet he says he has no regrets.\nThirty-one-year-old Burke O'Connell says he strongly believed the Patriots would win the AFC Championship and advance to the Super Bowl.\nThe Massachusetts native had a friend ink the celebratory tattoo across his calf two days before the Patriots lost to the Denver Broncos.\nThe black-and-white tattoo depicts a Lombardi Trophy rising above the Patriots' logo, along with the number \"50\" and the word \"Champs.\"\nO'Connell, who now lives in Los Angeles, tells The Boston Globe he has no regrets. He says his chin tattoo of an ex-girlfriend's name \u2014 now covered up \u2014 was much worse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 744, "original_length": 28090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allcreaturesanimalcarecenter.com/Services/Boarding.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:17Z", "digest": "sha1:V52D6B55WOZW6GCVIHA3ISS3S4J3MJRV", "length": 433, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.allcreaturesanimalcarecenter.com", "title": "All Creatures Animal Care Center | Madison, Mississippi 39110 > Services > Boarding", "raw_content": "Unlike a typical kennel, our boarding facility is under supervision of veterinarians, technicians, and a dedicated staff. All Creatures Animal Care wants to make sure your pet's stay away from home is as pleasant and safe as possible. That's why we offer air-conditioned indoor housing and hand walk each pet a minimum of 2 times per day. We have an experienced and professional staff dedicated to keeping your pet healthy and happy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Calendar&file=showCalendarWeek&tapers=&year=2018&month=02&day=04", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:53Z", "digest": "sha1:U2JWWCNPFCUI4JE6EYKXRTVSQQ6SIUSG", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.allmanbrothersband.com", "title": "Hittin' The Web with The Allman Brothers Band :: Where Music Plus Friends Equals Family", "raw_content": "<< February 4 - February 10, 2018 >>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 2563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 199.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.americanitaliancancer.org/research-fellowships.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:25Z", "digest": "sha1:N2NDKZPU74EXZ4DU56NMFGTEA7JD2YIM", "length": 1804, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.americanitaliancancer.org", "title": "Research Fellowships - American-Italian Cancer Foundation", "raw_content": "International, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program\nAICF funds up to 20 post-doctoral research fellowships each year for promising young scientists who work and train in collaboration with mentors at major centers in the United States and Italy. Help fund a fellow today!\nSponsor a fellow!\n\u200bThe application process for the 2019-20 International Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program\nis now open. Download the application here.\n\u200bAICF is proud to sponsor the work of bright young scientists who perform groundbreaking research in the fields of cancer biology and treatment in competitive labs across the United States.\nTo date, AICF has effectively launched the careers of 318 young scientists who have been awarded 472 fellowships since the Program\u2019s inception in 1983.\nLearn more about our fellows!\nThe International Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship Program provides financial support for the post-doctoral research of bright young scientists who pursue research and advanced training in collaboration with mentors at major cancer centers in the United States.\nPost-doctoral research fellowships are a critical component in advancing cancer research, as they support talented young scientists with innovative project ideas at a time in their careers when funding from other sources is less certain. AICF\u2019s Program differs from most other U.S.-based research fellowship programs in that it focuses on providing opportunities for Italian researchers to train and conduct research at the major cancer centers in the United States.\nAn AICF research fellowship is awarded for a one-year period. A few selected fellowships may be considered for a second year of funding. All applications are reviewed by AICF\u2019s Scientific Advisory Board Executive Committee.\n\u200bClick here to download the program flyer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2462, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 164.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.americanradioworks.org/eleanor-roosevelt-ten-years-from-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BMWBFV6ESWZZHRJ4IEAEIYZ6T7OSW3GD", "length": 8226, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.americanradioworks.org", "title": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Ten Years From Now | American RadioWorks |", "raw_content": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Ten Years From Now\n\nIn this recording, ER discussed the role of women in family budgeting and investing. The radio program was sponsored by the United States Treasury Department. The pitch of ER\u2019s voice would shift lower over time, the result of voice lessons and experience. -Stephen Smith\nLadies and gentlemen we are speaking to you from the Marine Band in Washington D.C. The United States Marine Band, under the baton Captain Taylor Branson, in just a moment will play for you the Franklin D. Roosevelt March.\nThis selection will introduce a fifteen-minute program sponsored by the United States Treasury and presenting a talk on the family budget by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the president of the United States.\nMrs. Roosevelt\u2019s talk will be addressed to the women of the country with particular reference to the advantages of systematic savings through the regular purchase of United States savings bonds, the new national issue designed for the small investor.\nMrs. Roosevelt\u2019s presentation of this government plan to encourage individual savings will be the first of a series of similar addresses by nationally prominent women. And Mow the Franklin D. Roosevelt March by the United States Marine Band.\n[March plays and fades]\nLadies and gentlemen, it is now our pleasure to present Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the president of the United States, speaking to you from the White House.\nGood afternoon ladies and gentlemen. I saw, not long ago, in the newspapers a picture of a number of women who are going to take upon themselves the duty of advising their sisters as to how best to invest their money. And I read with interest, and some surprise, that women were amongst the largest investors in many fields at the present time.\nThis means that more women have money of their own and that instead of leaving it entirely in the hands of the gentlemen, they are now undertaking to handle that money themselves.\nMany women, like many men, during the days of great speculation formed a habit of watching the ticker and speculating in much the same way that they would go window shopping and finally decide to buy something which in all probability they did not really need.\nThat habit has, I think, died down. But unquestionably women are thrifty and women are investors. I think that many of them are going to be much interested in United States savings bonds and they are not going to be interested only for themselves.\nThey\u2019re going to be interested for the sake of their children and grandchildren and many a man who might not be tempted to buy these bonds is going to be urged to do so in order to provide an education or some special sum of money for a child or a relative in the future.\nFrom my point of view, these bonds have one great in advantage in that they are issued in small denominations and that when you bought them you put them away for a period of ten years without having to cut out coupons and collect your interest and then worry over the reinvestment of that interest. It simply accumulates and is reinvested for you and the United States government pays you the face value of the bond ten years from the date of issue.\nFor instance, if you pay $18.75 today, the bonds you buy will have written on it $25 and ten years from today the government will pay you $25. If you have need of this money any time during the ten-year period, after the first sixty days, the government will redeem your bond. For the first year you will not get anything more than you paid, but after that you will get a slight rate of interest on your money, though you will get the greatest return by keeping it the full ten years.\nAnother important point about these bonds is that they\u2019re registered in the name of the owner and the name is entered on the books of the United States Treasury Department and is written on the face of the bond.\nThe bonds, your bonds, will be payable only to the person named, except in case of death when it will be payable to their heirs. If you are unable, however, to go and collect it yourself it will be payable to a legally accredited agency.\nThe Treasury Department, division of loans and currency, will replace your bond incase it is lost, or stolen, or destroyed. So it is safe to feel that money thus invested is as secure as any earthy good can be.\nA further advantage is the fact that while you may buy these baby bonds, as they\u2019re called, direct from the United States Treasury you may also buy them at the post office. These bonds are exempt from present and future, federal, state, and local taxes except an estate or inheritance tax and federal surtax on income.\nYou may buy, for $18.75 a $25 bond, for $37.50 a $50 bond, for $75 a $100 bond, for $375 a $500 bond, and for $750 a $1,000 bond. Your bond increases in value exactly one third over the purchase price.\nThese bonds are designed for the investment of savings primarily so are for the small investor and therefore there is a limit to the number that you may buy in any one calendar year. In fact, no one may buy more $1,000 worth in one year.\nMany of us find it hard save systematically. Here\u2019s a chance to do it month by month. If you invest $18.75 every month for 120 months in United States savings bonds you will build an income of faith of $3,000 which will be guaranteed by the United States government and from which you can have at the end of ten years, $25 a month for 120 months.\nIn the same way, $375 set aside every month will build an estate of $60,000 payable at $500 a month for 120 months or available for reinvestment in any way that you may choose at the end of the ten year period.\nPeople can buy these bonds jointly and a husband and wife can safe together and in that way can add to a retirement pension if they\u2019re looking forward to living on a pension. Or they can safe for their children\u2019s education if they want to send them to college.\nRemember that these bonds bring you in the best return if you hold them for the full ten years. Therefore do not try to buy more than you can afford to save.\nThe secretary of the treasury may terminate this offer at any time he sees fit and the government is in no sense conducting a drive to sell these bonds. They are simply a method of providing people with an easy way to invest their savings and at the same time, since governments are run financially on the savings of their people, they afford a way to interest people in their government finances.\nWhen you are a stockholder you are always more interested in what your company may do. And it is a good thing for a democracy to have an interested group of stockholders.\nThe sale of these bonds has been going on at a very steady rate, with practically no promotion by the government and the only reason that I\u2019ve wanted to talk to you about them today is because I so frequently have brought to me the difficulties of older people who are left with little or no means in their declining years and then the difficulties of young people who want to continue their education or want to get enough money to specialize in some profession.\nA little systematic savings and investing would save many heartaches for the ages and give many a youth a better start in life. Thank you.\nWe hear now The Home on the Range, played now by the United States Marine Band, it\u2019s played as euphonium solo by musician Dawn Kimble. Home on The Range.\nThe playing of The Home on the Range, by the United States Marine Band under the direction of Captain Taylor Branson concludes the first of a series of programs presented over the Columbian Network on behalf of the United States Treasury.\nThe speaker on this afternoon\u2019s program was Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the president of the United States. She delivered her address from the White House and spoke particularly to the women of this country on the subject of the family budget.\nFrom time to time other talks will be heard on the same general subject by nationally prominent women. Your announcer, Larry Elliott, this is the Columbia Broadcasting System.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 10406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.amyhirshberglederman.com/stories/jem/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:26Z", "digest": "sha1:IQ4MSS3XBANEXNVXVXUSVHXYGURIU5NU", "length": 3997, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.amyhirshberglederman.com", "title": "Discovering a \u201cJEM\u201d in an Arizona Cave | Amy Hirshberg Lederman", "raw_content": "Discovering a \u201cJEM\u201d in an Arizona Cave\nI was ecstatic when our dear friends Barry and Bonnie called to tell us they were coming for a visit. Like most people, my husband and I rarely make time to do the wonderful \u201ctouristy\u201d things in Tucson that others travel thousands of miles to see. So I immediately rushed to the phone to reserve a spot for the four of us for a tour at the world-renown caves located in southern Arizona.\nIt was a glorious day and as we waited on the patio for the tour group to gather, our guide asked each of us where we were from.\n\u201cI live in San Diego now but I grew up in Oak Park, Michigan,\u201d Barry answered with a smile.\n\u201cIsn\u2019t that the place they call Jewtown? You know, the place where all the Jews live?\u201d our guide asked nonchalantly.\nI stood frozen in my disbelief, but without missing a beat, Barry answered him with the kind of clarity and calmness found only in an operating room.\n\u201cI\u2019m one of them and I am offended by your comment.\u201d\nOur guide was truly bewildered. \u201cBut why?\u201d he asked in earnest. \u201cI had lots of Jewish friends when I lived in Detroit and when we would drive past Oak Park, they told me that\u2019s what it\u2019s called.\u201d\n\u201cWell, they were very wrong to say that,\u201d Barry answered, and we walked towards the tram that would take us to the cave.\nDespite this unsettling beginning, the caves were magnificent and the tour guide did a good job describing the wonders within. At the end of the tour, Barry went to find the guide and thank him for the time he spent with us. I\u2019ll admit it; the word mensch did cross my mind.\nLike children on the playground, we huddled around Barry to find out what had happened.\n\u201cWhat did he say, what did he say?\u201d we all wanted to know.\n\u201cHe really felt badly about what he said, but had no idea that it was offensive. And he thanked me for telling him,\u201d Barry concluded as we entered the gift shop.\nWe saw amazing natural beauty that day, rooms with icicle-like stalactites 20 feet long and sheets of translucent rock formations that looked like giant shields. But the one JEM I didn\u2019t expect that afternoon was the one Barry me discover.\nWhat is a JEM?, you might be wondering. It\u2019s a term I use to describe a \u201cJewish Educational Moment.\u201d Like an epiphany, a JEM is a novel insight or awareness that emerges from everyday living. It most often appears when you are confronted with a dilemma or issue and have absolutely no idea how to react but suddenly, someone says or does something that gives you more wisdom than you would get from an hour of therapy.\nBarry did not know it but he taught all of us many things that day. He taught our guide that using references like Jewtown is de facto offensive; it is a racial slur regardless of whether it is spoken by a Jew or a non-Jew. He taught me how effective it is to respond calmly when you are the subject of a racial slur. The simple but incontrovertible statement: \u201cI am one of them and I am offended by that\u201d will forever be etched in my mind as a mantra to use when I find myself in a similar situation.\nAnd he showed us how important it is to be a mensch. That once we make it clear that words like Jewtown, Indian-giver and fag are inappropriate and hurtful, we can also be compassionate, forgiving and decent enough not to shame a person more than is necessary to make the point.\nI also realized something very important: That as Jews, we must be careful not to use derogatory comments about ourselves, even in jest. Words like Jewtown, when spoken by a Jew, give the appearance of legitimizing expressions that are disparaging and can lead to negative stereotyping and other hateful expressions and feelings.\nI know our guide felt badly about what he said but appreciated Barry for his candor and courtesy. The respect Barry gave him was also an indication of what it means to be a Jew. 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Tokheim\nVisitation: Visitation will be Friday, Oct. 31, from 2-8 p.m., family present 6-8 p.m., at Heritage Funeral Home.\nService: Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 1 at Heritage Funeral Home.\nRonald T. Tokheim, age 74, passed away Monday, October 20, 2014 at Sanford USD Medical Center. Funeral services will begin at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, November 1 at Heritage Funeral Home. Visitation will be Friday, Oct. 31, from 2-8 p.m., family \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nWilbur \u201cWillie\u201d Meelberg\nVisitation: Visitaion will begin at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, October 18 at Canton Lutheran Church\nService: Funeral services will begin at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October, 18 at Canton Lutheran Church, Canton, SD.\nWilbur \u201cWillie\u201d Meelberg, age 89, passed away Thursday, October 9, 2014 at Morningside Manor in Alcester, SD. Funeral services will begin at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, October, 18 at Canton Lutheran Church, Canton, SD. Visitation will be one hour prior \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nGrace Janet Leih\nService: Memorial services will begin at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 18 at Faith United Lutheran Church, 44874 303rd St, Volin, SD.\nCanton, SD- Grace Janet Leih, age 78, passed away Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Memorial services will begin at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, October 18 at Faith United Lutheran Church, 44874 303rd St, Volin, SD. Janet was born in Canton, SD \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nRev. Wesley H. Iverson\nVisitation: Visitation with the family present will be Tuesday from 4-8 p.m. at Bethany Reformed Church. A time of sharing will begin at 7:00 p.m.\nService: Funeral Services will begin at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8 at Bethany Reformed Church, Canton, SD with Pastor Bill Sites officiating.\nRev. Wesley Harold Iverson, 92, went home to be with his Lord on Friday, Oct. 3, 2014 at the Canton Good Samaritan Center. Services will begin at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8 at Bethany Reformed Church, Canton, SD with Pastor Bill \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nHeather Van Noort\nHeather Van Noort, 43, passed away unexpectedly, Friday, October 3, 2014 at the Canton-Inwood Hospital. Private family services will be held. Heather was born November 23, 1970 at Ogden, Utah, to Charles and Sandra (Foit) Weier. She graduated from \u2026 Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 4114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/athomedad/index.blog/1349846/dave-sez-to-athome-dad-be-a-man-and-go-back-to-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BYTDND2YBO2W4DPRJXZRVGA6WZPIFMUQ", "length": 6693, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.angelfire.com", "title": "At-Home Dad Newsletter", "raw_content": "Dave Sez to at-home dad.. be a man and go back to work\nSyndicated columnist Dave Ramsey may be a good financial advisor, but when it comes to family advice you may want to stay away.\nHere's the Q&A I came across today that should piss off 3 month old babies everywhere.\nQ, I bring home $2,800 a month, and my husband stays home with our two daughters \u2013 one 3, the other 3 months. He\u2019s healthy and able, but he won\u2019t work because he thinks he can\u2019t make enough money to cover the cost of daycare. Our rent is $1,000 a month, and our other bills add up to about $2,000 a month. What do you think about this, and when is it OK to avoid daycare expenses by not working?\nA. I\u2019m an old-school guy, a crusty old dinosaur about some things. I grew up in a generation where a guy who did this kind of thing was called a wuss, or worse; not because he\u2019s staying home with the kids, but because he\u2019s staying at home while you guys can\u2019t pay the bills!\nI\u2019m all about family togetherness, and with spending as much time with your children as possible, and I don\u2019t have a problem with guys being stay-at-home dads as long as the family is in agreement and can afford to do that kind of thing. But if you\u2019re just scraping by, or can\u2019t meet your financial obligations, which seems to be true with you guys, that\u2019s a different story.\nThis guy needs to get off his butt, fulfill his responsibilities as a man and a husband, and find a way to start taking care of his family! \u2014 Dave\nCome on Dave, you havent been checking your math. Daycare alone for two kids one being a 3 month old comes pretty close to a weeks salary. In fact at-home dad David Chapa of Downers Grove, ILL did all the dirty work on this topic and came up with these figures that I used in my book.\n\"Put together a simple spreadsheet. Daycare for two kids, nine hours a day at, what, $10 an hour? That\u2019s $450 a week, times, say 50 weeks in a work year. That amounted to $22,500. OK, now you need a more dependable car for work. $350 a month, plus additional insurance, plus the extra gas (not even getting into wear and tear depreciation). That ends up to be about $5k a year. Dress business clothes? Another $1,000 a year. Lunch at work? Even if you only spend $3 a day extra, that\u2019s $750 a year. According to my calculations, that\u2019s about $29,000. Not to mention additional medical expenses, sick days, and all of the other \"throw your kids in daycare\" costs. But wait, there\u2019s more! If you\u2019re spending $29,000, just to go to work, you need to make another $11k, just to pay the federal, state, and local taxes to bring home $29,000. ($40,000 per year, taxed at .28% = $28,800 take home). So, it costs around $40,000 in pre-tax dollars, just to break even, when sending two kids into childcare, just so you can \"go to work.\" As always, your mileage may vary. Then, add in the social expense of having your children raised by strangers.\nI feel sorry for this mom, I just hope she or her husband knows how to add before taking this advice. I'll send this post to him and see if he could pass on some more reasonable advice.\nAs a disclaimer David Ramsey Says on his website. Our mission statement isn\u2019t just lip service; it\u2019s our mantra: The Lampo Group, Inc. is providing Biblically based, common sense education and empowerment which gives HOPE to everyone from the financially secure to the financially distressed.\n[ref: Man Up!]\nUpdated: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 3:23 PM EST\nWednesday, 31 December 2008 - 1:15 PM EST\nName: \"Tracy\"\nHome Page: http://daddydomysocksmatch.com\nThere are so many more options for an at-home parent to add to the family income! Think creatively! Ebay, look for work from home opportunities, do odd jobs opposite the working parent's schedule. My family is living proof that the stay-at-home parent can add to the family income in creative ways when needed. It can be done - we did it.\nBlessings and Happy New Year\nThursday, 15 January 2009 - 10:42 AM EST\nName: \"Denguy\"\nHome Page: http://denguy.blogspot.com/\nSounds like Ransey still drives an Edsel.\nWednesday, 28 January 2009 - 12:12 PM EST\nName: \"Rico\"\nThe cost of daycare is why my wife and I have decided that one of us should stay home. For us, the cost of daycare for both our kids (11 months and 4 years) meant that over 1/2 of her paycheck was going to pay for car, gas, daycare, etc .....\nI want to break the stigma and societal taboo that men cannot (or should not) be good fathers, so I am choosing to stay home for my kids. Continued gender stereotyping by bozos like this is what keeps holding back more fathers from doing for their families.\nI know I'll face some ignorance along the way, but my kids are worth more to me than the opinions of a few closed minded neanderthals.\nWednesday, 4 March 2009 - 8:08 PM EST\nName: \"why do you care\"\nThe point is that Wifey can't pay the bills and she's asking Hubby for help. If Hubby can't afford daycare with one job, then he should think about two jobs. Dave Ramsey's the man.\nMonday, 25 January 2010 - 11:44 PM EST\nName: \"Working Parents\"\nI think that the spreadsheet scenario was off a little. Here's how I see it just for covering daycare.\n\"Put together a simple spreadsheet. Daycare for two kids, nine hours a day at, what, $10 $5 an hour(most cities in the US)? That\u2019s $450 $225 a week, times, say 50 weeks in a work year. That amounted to $22,500 $11,250. OK, now you need a more dependable car for work. $350 $150 (do as Dave says and get a low end dependable car) a month, plus additional insurance, plus the extra gas (not even getting into wear and tear depreciation). That ends up to be about $5k $3000 a year. Dress business clothes? Another $1,000 a year. Keep it to $300 a year (who needs a new wardrobe every year?) Lunch at work? Even if you only spend $3 a day extra, that\u2019s $750 a year. (Don't eat lunch at work, take what you would have eaten at home with the regular food budget) According to my calculations, that\u2019s about $29,000 $14,550 . Not to mention additional medical expenses, sick days, and all of the other \"throw your kids in daycare\" costs. But wait, there\u2019s more! If you\u2019re spending $29,000, just to go to work, you need to make another $11k, just to pay the federal, state, and local taxes to bring home $29,000. ($40,000 per year, taxed at .28% = $28,800 take home). So, it costs around $40,000 $20,208 in pre-tax dollars, just to break even, when sending two kids into childcare, just so you can \"go to work.\" As always, your mileage may vary. Then, add in the social expense of having your children raised by strangers. Now add another $500 a month to that (plus the tax) to work to get yourself out of debt and that is $28,541. Yes it is tight, but it can be done.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 8862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.angeliquevoisen.com/2015/06/book-spotlight-murder-and-mayhem-by.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:REFJRG2PCQQ3QYA2VVM37OHO72LR6TST", "length": 7303, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.angeliquevoisen.com", "title": "Angelique Voisen (Author): Book Spotlight: Murder and Mayhem by Jennifer Macaire", "raw_content": "Book Spotlight: Murder and Mayhem by Jennifer Macaire\nI'm happy to welcome Author Jennifer Macaire on my blog. Jennifer is here to share with us her latest release, Murder and Mayhem.\nThank you for hosting \u201cMurder and Mayhem\u201d! It's an urban fantasy with a dose of romance and a zest of humor. If you liked Buffy the Vampire slayer, you'll enjoy May, the vampire killer!\nMeet May, the vampire killer. She's quick, clever, and deadly, and she takes life very seriously having been killed once before by a mob of rogue vamps. Her father, a powerful necromancer, brought her back to life. She's M.U.C.I.'s (Mutant and Undead Criminal Investigation) best man, er, woman, well, zombie actually, for catching and killing rogue vampires, so when two kids show up with all the signs of having been killed by a rogue, May gets the case.\nClues lead straight to a certain Bartholomew Aelfrith, a vampire, whose sense of humor and tall blond good looks are enough to convince May he needs killing, even if he's not the killer. If he makes one more joke about her chop-sticks, she's going to stab him through the heart with one. The problem is, Bartholomew is probably the only person who can catch the real killer, so May has to put up with his insouciance and his wise-cracks, and his penchant for picking up strays of all kinds.\nBut if he says, \"I've got a plan\" one more time, she's going to scream.\nBuy the book at Evernight Publishing:\nhttp://www.evernightpublishing.com/murder-and-mayem-by-jennifer-macaire/\nMay stepped outside and opened her umbrella. The burst of hail had changed to sporadic, slushy rain. It was a glowering, bitterly cold evening. Clouds moved sullenly across the dark sky.\nFrom her street on the hill, she could see the river curving in its gentle S, the two bridges, Christmas Junction where the sky scrapers glittered, and downtown, where she could hopefully find a taxi. The clouds were so low that they hid the top half of the skyscrapers in Christmas Junction. A train, far in the distance, looked like a brightly lit caterpillar crossing the busy downtown area below.\nThe street she lived on was in a quiet residential neighborhood with old trees and a large park behind a tall, wrought-iron fence. The buildings, trees, and fence all leaned together, conspiring to keep the riffraff out. The sidewalk was clean and the cars lining the road gleamed. No riffraff here tonight \u2026 unless that shadow was up to no good.\nMay tilted her head to get a better look. In between two cars, on the opposite side of the street, huddled a shadow. The hair on the back of her neck prickled. Something was not quite right. The shadow was too small to be a human, but too large for a dog. It slid around to the far side of the car to hide as May drew even.\nWhat was it hiding from? And what was it? May was curious. She closed her umbrella and hooked it over the fence on her left, and then she darted across the street and peered behind the car. Crouching near the rear bumper was a small, skinny boy.\n\u201cHi there. Are you all right?\u201d May started toward him.\nHe bared his fangs and hissed as she drew near.\nMay\u2019s step faltered. A vampire child. An abomination! Who the hell had made him? The prickle of fear turned into a full blown shiver. Poor creature. Too young to fend for itself, but dangerous nonetheless. As soon as it realized its powers it would go on a killing spree, and nothing living could resist it. Slowly, she eased her hand into her purse to get her cellphone to call for backup.\n\u201cDon\u2019t hurt me,\u201d he whimpered, cowering against the car. His eyes were huge with panic. Blood on his neck and a wet, brown stain on his T-shirt showed he hadn\u2019t changed his clothes since it had happened, and that it had been recent. That was a blessing, at least. The more recently he had been killed, the weaker he would be. She might be able to handle this on her own.\nStaying well back, she examined him. He wore no jacket and one of his shoes, May noted, was missing. \u201cI won\u2019t hurt you. Where\u2019s your other shoe?\u201d It was best to stick to unimportant things. Or at least, things that seemed unimportant. At times like this, anything could be crucial. Anything could set him off. She had to be careful. A rogue vampire had made this creature, and its saliva was deadly for anything other than a full-blooded vampire.\n\u201cMy shoe?\u201d He glanced down at his foot and flinched. \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d He looked back up at her, his eyes pleading now. \u201cI don\u2019t know. I woke up nearby, I think, in a park. I woke up when the hail hit my face. I don\u2019t know where I am. I don\u2019t know who I am. Can you help me? I should be cold \u2026\u201d His voice trailed off. \u201cI\u2019m dreaming. Is that it? Is this a dream?\u201d\nMay nodded, forcing her lips into a smile. \u201cYes. It\u2019s a dream.\u201d\nPoor creature. He\u2019d been badly made, hastily made, and made against all the laws and rules that governed the vampire clan. Not that they had many rules, and not that they really cared. They followed the rules only because they feared the consequences of breaking them and not from any moral obligation. May moved very slowly, so as not to startle him into attacking her.\n\u201cI can help you,\u201d she said, crouching in front of him. \u201cIt\u2019s a strange dream, isn\u2019t it? I can help you.\u201d\n\u201cI just want to wake up.\u201d His voice was hoarse and his fangs, sharp as needles, glittered with bloody saliva.\n\u201cAll right.\u201d May eased her hand into her purse. \u201cI want you to stand up straight. That\u2019s right. Now, close your eyes and say, \u2018There\u2019s no place like home.\u2019 Say it three times, and you\u2019ll wake up.\u201d\n\u201cAll right.\u201d He nodded, pathetically glad to obey. He screwed his eyes shut. \u201cThere\u2019s no place like home. There\u2019s no place like home.\u201d\nMay took careful aim and drove the stake through his heart.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no place like \u2026 home.\u201d The creature opened its eyes, but they were empty and saw nothing now. He was so slight he fell like a ribbon to the sidewalk, landing without a sound. His bare foot pointed at the sky. It started to rain again, harder.\nJennifer Macaire lives in France with her husband, three children, & various dogs & horses. She loves cooking, eating French chocolate, growing herbs and flowering plants on her balcony, and playing golf. She grew up in upstate New York, Samoa, and the Virgin Islands. She graduated from St. Peter and Paul high school in St. Thomas and moved to NYC where she modeled for five years for Elite. She went to France and met her husband at the polo club. All that is true. But she mostly likes to make up stories.\nFind Jennifer on the Web:\nblog \u2013 Website \u2013 email\nMay's traditional zombie stir fry recipe:\nHoney Lemon Chicken and Asparagus\n1/4 cup chicken both \u2013 (May uses chicken bullion cubes)\n1 teaspoon chilli sauce or a pinch of cayennne pepper\n- Mix honey, lemon juice, soy sauce, broth, chill sauce, lemon zest, garlic, ginger and set aside in a bowl.\n- Heat the oil in a pan over medium-high heat, add the chicken and stir fry until cooked through and browned a bit.\n- Add the asparagus and stir fry until it turns a brighter green, about 2 minutes.\n- Add the honey, lemon juice mixture, stir\n- Whisk the water with the corn starch, stir in to coat and cook until the sauce thickens, about a minute.\nServe over rice. (May likes to drink ginger beer with this, and finish up with lychees and her father's smoky moon-shadow tea.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 8607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.antelopecreekwp.com/blog/archives/11-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:05Z", "digest": "sha1:TNWAHVPDAYAGSRXNDR3OH6OEFMUF3LVZ", "length": 1281, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.antelopecreekwp.com", "title": "Blog Archives - Antelope Creek Wildlife & Ponds", "raw_content": "Whether one owns or leases property for hunting and fishing, we all dream about how that property could be at some point while using or thinking about the property. We may think about what kind of projects we could do and how we may implement those projects. Which projects are more beneficial or higher priorities than others? To determine the right management projects you need to have a clear definition of what your overall goal for the property is.\nKnowing that exact end goal will make transforming and managing your property a whole lot easier. Set smaller goals that will help you achieve the end goal. If you are looking to hire a consultant to help with your property this is especially true.\nWhen it comes time for a consultant to write up a proposal on how to manage and develop a property, it makes their job a whole lot simpler if they know the desired end result of the property owner. If one does not have a clear goal in mind it becomes more difficult to write up a plan to manage that property.\nSo whether you plan to research how to achieve your dreams yourself or you plan to call a consultant and have a professional proposal or prescription written, make the whole process smoother with better results and make sure you yourself are clear on the goal in mind.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arcusproject.ru/introduction/news/2014/the-new-office-of-ab-development/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7LLSZHUIRBKXJVSL6OZSZIYGOZZ6IOVK", "length": 905, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.arcusproject.ru", "title": "News", "raw_content": "On July 21, 2014, AB Development company moved to the new, stylish and full of light office on the 11th floor of ARCUS III.\nIn the process of project development and fit out works the latest technologies, modern environmentally friendly materials were used to create comfortable working atmosphere.\nAbove all we would like to give respect to the most valuable thing that we have \u2013 our employees, who can be justifiably proud of their work environment now. Due to them our company is dominating in the commercial real estate market.\nWe were inspired by the idea of \u201cgreen\u201d office creation and achieved excellent results. The office is environmentally friendly in terms of implementation and very diversified in terms of impression. It is good to exist and work in it!\nThe project marketing team would like to pay compliments to colleagues and wishes them more professional triumphs in the new office space.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.areadevelopment.com/newsitems/12-30-2008/air-new-zealand-biofuel-airplane.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:49Z", "digest": "sha1:H7VVS75NYCK5BYXC26AQ6REAJLXU3KH6", "length": 942, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.areadevelopment.com", "title": "Airline Flies 747 Powered by Biofuel | biofuel, aerospace, New Zealand - Area Development", "raw_content": "Airline Flies 747 Powered by Biofuel\nAir New Zealand has successfully completed a two-hour flight of a passenger jet that gets some of its power from biofuel. The Associated Press (AP) reports that the airline tested a Boeing 747-400 airplane that ran with one engine fueled by a 50-50 blend of standard A1 jet fuel and a blend of oil made from jatropha plants. The jatropha plant, a Mexican plant that grows in warm climates, reportedly has a lower freezing point than jet fuel, making it practical for aviation, and is already being used to produce biodiesel. An Air New Zealand spokesperson, quoted by the AP, says that the fuel is not yet being produced on a commercial scale, so the airline cannot speculate on whether the biofuel will be less expensive than jet fuel, but says they expect the blend to be cost competitive. The airline says it hopes that by 2013, 10 percent of its flights will be at least partially powered by biofuels.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 8774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arnehansen.net/000613kommentar.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:43Z", "digest": "sha1:7DQOPHU6SCHDOQ4IRYOTG7FP6AC5BNAG", "length": 10219, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.arnehansen.net", "title": "13. juni 2000:", "raw_content": "Amnesty International Public document\nAI Index EUR 70/029/2000\nNews Service Nr. 116\nAmnesty International's initial comments on the review by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia of NATO's Operation Allied Force\nThe International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has published today the Final Report to the Prosecutor by the Committee Established to Review the NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The report examines general issues and five specific incidents and recommends to the ICTY Prosecutor not to commence a criminal investigation \"in relation to the NATO bombing campaign or incidents occurring during the campaign\" (para 91).\nMs Carla Del Ponte, ICTY's Prosecutor, informed the United Nations' Security Council on 2 June 2000 that she had decided to accept this recommendation. She specifies that although some mistakes were made by NATO, \"the Prosecutor is satisfied that there was no deliberate targeting of civilians or unlawful military targets by NATO during the campaign\".\nAmnesty International has received a copy of the 45-page ICTY report and is examining it carefully. All five incidents examined in the report by ICTY's review committee were included in the Amnesty International report, Collateral Damage or Unlawful Killings?, Violations of the Laws of War by NATO during Operation Allied Force, published last week (AI Index: EUR 70/18/00).\nAmnesty International welcomes the unusual publication by the ICTY of the reasoning behind the decision not to open an investigation related to NATO's bombing campaign. The organization believes that this step contributes greatly to the Tribunal's transparency, offering important perspectives on the interpretation of the laws of war.\nAmnesty International also respects the discretion enjoyed by the ICTY's Prosecutor in deciding whether or not to open criminal investigations. The organization understands that, as with other cases, the Prosecutor may still decide to open an investigation into the NATO bombing should additional relevant information become available.\nAmnesty International notes that the report of the ICTY assessment indicates that when NATO was requested \"to answer specific questions about specific incidents, the NATO reply was couched in general terms and failed to address the specific incidents.\" The report also points out that the \"committee has not spoken to those involved in directing or carrying out the bombing campaign\". These facts must have contributed to the information gaps that the committee itself acknowledges in its report. Amnesty International also notes the following overall conclusion of the review committee (para 90):\n\"NATO has admitted that mistakes did occur during the bombing campaign; errors of judgment may also have occurred. Selection of certain objectives for attack may be subject to legal debate. On the basis of the information reviewed, however, the committee is of the opinion that neither an in-depth investigation related to the bombing campaign as a whole nor investigations related to specific incidents are justified. In all cases, either the law is not sufficiently clear or investigations are unlikely to result in the acquisition of sufficient evidence to substantiate charges against high level accused or against lower accused for particularly heinous offences.\"\nThe report does not explain what difficulties are envisaged by the Office of the Prosecutor in gathering sufficient evidence against any NATO or NATO member state official.\nWith regard to the bombing of the headquarters and studios of Serbian state television and radio (Radio Televisija Srbije, RTS) in Belgrade on 23 April 1999, the report states (para 76):\n\"The committee finds that if the attack on the RTS was justified by reference to its propaganda purpose alone, its legality might well be questioned by some experts in the field of international humanitarian law. It appears, however, that NATO's targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental (albeit complementary) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milosevic in power.\"\nEarlier (para 55) the report made the following observation regarding the role of the media in general:\n\"The media as such is not a traditional target category. To the extent particular media components are part of the C3 (command, control and communications) network they are military objectives. If media components are not part of the C3 network then they may become military objectives depending upon their use. As a bottom line, civilians, civilian objects and civilian morale as such are not legitimate military objectives. The media does have an effect on civilian morale. If that effect is merely to foster support for the war effort, the media is not a legitimate military objective. If the media is used to incite crimes, as in Rwanda, it can become a legitimate military objective. If the media is the nerve system that keeps a war-monger in power and thus perpetuates the war effort, it may fall within the definition of a legitimate military objective.\"\nAmnesty International reiterates that the explanation it sought and received by NATO regarding the attack on the RTS headquarters was that the attack was carried out because the RTS was a propaganda organ. In a letter to Amnesty International dated 17 May 1999 and quoted in ICTY's report (para 73), NATO's then Secretary General Javier Solana said that NATO made \"every possible effort to avoid civilian casualties and collateral damage by exclusively and carefully targeting the military infrastructure of President Milocevic\", adding that the RTS facilities \"are being used as radio relay stations and transmitters to support the activities of the FRY military and special police forces, and therefore they represented legitimate military targets\". However, as also indicated in the Amnesty International report published last week, at a meeting with Amnesty International in Brussels on 14 February 2000 NATO officials clarified that this reference to relay stations and transmitters was to other attacks on RTS infrastructure and not this particular attack on the RTS headquarters. They insisted that the attack on the RTS headquarters was carried out because RTS was a propaganda organ and argued that propaganda is direct support for military action.\nThe point relating to propaganda has been made repeatedly, most recently by General Wesley Clark, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe at the time of Operation Allied Force. In an address at the Brookings Institution on 8 June 2000 he is quoted as saying:\n\"I noticed on the news today there is criticism of the attack on the Serb media. Well, of course, that was a controversial target. But the Serb media engine was feeding the war. It was a crucial instrument of Milosevic's control over the Serb population. And it exported fear, hatred and instability into neighbouring regions. And so it was a legitimate target of war, validated by lawyers in many countries and validated by the International Criminal Tribunal. But it sure eased our minds a lot to know that our elected political leaders took the responsibility for that strike.\"\nAs explained in its report last week, Amnesty International recognizes that disrupting government propaganda may help to undermine the morale of the population and the armed forces. However, the organization believes that justifying an attack on such grounds stretches the meaning of \"effective contribution to military action\" and \"definite military advantage\" -- essential requirements of the definition of a military objective -- beyond the acceptable bounds of interpretation. As such, Amnesty International takes the view that the attack on the RTS headquarters was directed at a civilian object and points out that \"[I]ntentionally directing attacks against civilian objects\" is a war crime under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.\nAmnesty International regrets the lack of full cooperation by NATO in resposnding to ICTY's inquiries. The organization stresses that the fact that the ICTY Prosecutor has decided not to open a criminal investigation against NATO should not lead NATO to ignore the detailed and nuanced contents of the ICTY report, or dismiss recommendations made by Amnesty International and other organizations.\nAmnesty International calls again on NATO and NATO member states to heed the recommendations it made in its report published last week, including the need for all NATO member states to ratify without reservations Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949; ensure a common interpretation of international humanitarian law in line with the highest international standards; reflect these standards in NATO's rules of engagement; and clarify NATO's chain of command, so as to ensure clear lines of responsibility.\nNATO and NATO member states should also conduct their own investigation into reported breaches of the rules of war during Operation Allied Force, whether or not they may amount to war crimes, so as to take appropriate measures against anyone found responsible, provide redress, including compensation, to victims of such violations, and learn lessons for the future. ...\nENDS.../ Amnesty International, International Secretariat, 1 Easton Street, WC1X 8DJ, London, United Kingdom\nYou may repost this message onto other sources provided the main text is not altered in any way and both the header crediting Amnesty International and this footer remain intact. 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Contact amnestyis@amnesty.org if you need to get in touch with the International Secretariat of Amnesty International.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 10235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.atlantatribune.com/2014/11/26/temper-temper/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:33Z", "digest": "sha1:LGBFK2NTDNLQXDYHS7EOLEDBCLR4UZQ2", "length": 1341, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.atlantatribune.com", "title": "Temper! Temper! | Atlanta Tribune: The Magazine", "raw_content": "Temper! Temper!\nHere\u2019s a quick one for you\u2026\nIt\u2019s first thing in the morning and you\u2019re running late. You need gas, but there\u2019s no time to stop. After aging a few years, you arrive at the office only to be scolded by your boss. By this point, your patience is non-existent. You have two choices: Lose your temper and your job or take a step back and breathe. If you chose the latter, I\u2019m sure you\u2019re still receiving your paycheck.\nThink about the outcome of situations when you took a step back to \u201cbreathe\u201d versus the times you let your emotions get the best of you. I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll see two distinct outcomes. One far more positive than the other if you\u2019re honest and dig deep enough. Most of us would agree taking a step back to breathe is a good idea in a tense situation. So, my question to you is, imagine how you would feel if you took more than a step back and committed five minutes of your day to sit and breathe? Don\u2018t forget, rest and recuperation is vital when it comes to fitness. Adding this to your workout routine will do wonders for stress if done regularly. I strongly challenge you to step out of your comfort zone by implementing five minutes a day into your routine. You should try it. Now.\nStatement by NNPA President, Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. on Grand Jury Decision in Ferguson, MO about the Killing of Michael Brown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.autoref.co.za/lasco-paint-great-quality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:53Z", "digest": "sha1:4HI3ETD62TFI3KOYGPHWNA7M6JTPHV2V", "length": 2129, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.autoref.co.za", "title": "LASCO PAINT \u2013 GREAT QUALITY | Automobile Magazine | Automotive Refinisher", "raw_content": "Home Whats Hot LASCO PAINT \u2013 GREAT QUALITY\nLASCO PAINT \u2013 GREAT QUALITY\nLasco Paint have always been committed to supplying top quality automotive paint, since they opened for business in 2004 as a paint and solvent wholesaler for clients in the automotive and industrial market in Durban. They understand how tough it is to find a supplier who understands one\u2019s coatings needs.\nThey don\u2019t believe in just offering a once-off service or transaction, but a partnership. That is why their employees are always ready to go out of their way to offer professional advice to assist clients to make the right decisions when it comes to car paint supplies.They stock and manufacture various automotive paints using top quality raw materials.\nLasco Paint take pride in the fact that they carry out the manufacturing process internally using raw materials that are locally sourced, and as such reinvesting into the local economy.\nThe business has grown to the extent that Nivash Singh, company director, was left with no choice but to start a car paint plant. In 2014 the new car paint plant was opened and it has been growing in leaps and bounds ever since.\nThe 1 000 square metre factory is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment such as mills, automated packaging equipment and high speed stirrers. This allows them to produce automotive paints and car spraying accessories of a world-class quality that addresses their client\u2019s needs timeously and accurately.\nThe product range includes an aerosol factory. This division of the business produces up to 600 cans of spray paint on a daily basis, operated by two people. This section of the business was started in 2014 and they are already looking into plans for expanding as the demands for these products is increasing.\nLasco Paint have a team of expertly trained and experienced staff who are always ready to offer the best service to clients. They have a telesales team who offer product support and advice on the automotive paint products and accessories that they manufacture and supply.\nPrevious articleMAROUNS VEREENIGING \u2013 TOP PERFORMING BRANCH\nNext articleKAROCLE BOOSTS SALES", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?op=cmt&cid=17741", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PA4N4RBTE2ICIP6RURF4ASC2SCI5ISOW", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.awakin.org", "title": "a on 'Reflections on Life from Death Row' | Awakin.org", "raw_content": "On Aug 11, 2016 a wrote:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 153.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.awardscircuit.com/2019/02/08/interview-ed-perkins-discusses-the-unexpected-making-of-black-sheep/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:44Z", "digest": "sha1:HGSHESRMFY5JVLBETQBTPE2QV65IL3CZ", "length": 6955, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.awardscircuit.com", "title": "Interview: Ed Perkins Discusses The Unexpected Making of 'Black Sheep' \u2022 AwardsCircuit.com by Clayton Davis", "raw_content": "Home Interviews Interview: Ed Perkins Discusses The Unexpected Making of \u2018Black Sheep\u2019\nRecently Oscar nominated for Best Documentary Short, \u201cBlack Sheep\u201d tells a powerful true story about racism and identity in the United Kingdom. Its subject is a young black man named Cornelius Walker, who recalls his traumatic childhood experiences with violent racism after moving from London to a predominantly white housing estate in Essex. Deftly mixing interviews and reenactment, \u201cBlack Sheep\u201d is one of the impressive contenders in its Oscar category. In speaking with director Ed Perkins, however, he revealed that the idea for the film arose unintentionally from a casual conversation. Read below for an edited version of our discussion.\nShane Slater: What was the genesis of this film?\nEd Perkins:I met Cornelius through a friend of a friend. Cornelius at the time was looking to get into the film industry and he wanted to talk to someone who was in the industry for a bit of advice. So I met him, had coffee and we chatted and talked a little bit about documentary filmmaking. And then I asked him a little bit about him and how he wanted to start getting into film. With all the charisma and bravery and courage you see in the film, he then started to tell me his story and I was just totally blown away by it. We were just sitting in the coffee shop and he poured his heart out about this extraordinary, complicated tale.\nWe stayed in contact and became friends and I asked him whether he would consider allowing us to try to work together to bring this story to the screen as a documentary film. And thankfully, he said yes. It\u2019s always a bit of a mystery as to where we as documentary filmmakers find our stories. They often come from the most unexpected places. I just feel very fortunate to have gotten the chance to meet Cornelius and build a relationship with him. He\u2019s an extraordinary young man and I just feel very indebted to him and very proud that we\u2019ve been able to help bring his story to the screen.\nSS: At what point did you decide on your mixed interview/reenactment approach?\nEP: Well, he\u2019s a very beautiful person and looks fantastic on camera. And he speaks so wonderfully. So it always felt to me, that shooting that master interview was going to be the foundation of the film. So we shot that interview over a period of two days in a little studio. It was just me, Cornelius and the director of photography. We shot it very close up and we set up the camera in a way that he\u2019s looking right down the barrel of the lens and engaging right with the audience. And he gave such extraordinary testimony.\nI then went away and edited that interview and just on its own, that interview felt incredibly powerful and it felt authentic and honest. The plan was then to find what else we could shoot to help bring this story to life in a way that wasn\u2019t getting in the way of the extraordinary testimony Cornelius has already given us. We could have animated his journey. There were a lot of different approaches we could have taken. But we decided to bring it to life through a slightly more ambiguous, complex drama.\nSo what we ended up doing was, Cornelius and I went back to the actual town where the events happened in his life all those years ago. And we found the exact places where those events happened and we decided to recreate certain moments from his life in the exact places where they really happened and then film Cornelius\u2019 response to those recreations. So the field where he gets into a fight is the exact field where it actually happened. We found the house he used to live in and painted the bedroom the same color it used to be. We tried to bring to life these very painful, haunting episodes from his past, with his permission.\nAnd it felt like doing that allowed us to access his story in an interesting, complicated way. None of the people you see on screen, other than a really wonderful young actor who plays young Cornelius, are professional actors. They\u2019re just young men and women who live in that town. We felt it was a really interesting way of bringing the story to life and I\u2019m hoping it allows the story to resonate in a way which just the interview on its own may not.\nSS: Did it take a while to come to the right tonal balance for the film? Cornelius doesn\u2019t immediately strike you as someone dealing with trauma.\nEP: It\u2019s always really difficult. We filmed the interview over two days and there was definitely a sense to which the most painful things he talks about were inevitably and understandably the hardest for him to access. A lot of those happened on day two of the shoot. So we took stuff after day one and sat down and there were a couple of weeks between the two days. We took stock of what we got and talked about what parts of the story we felt we still wanted to explore more. And Cornelius was willing to go there.\nAs a result, in the second half of the film the tone does change. What you see is a real willingness on Cornelius\u2019 part to be vulnerable. The things he\u2019s gone through are so harrowing and his story is complicated. And some of the decisions he makes in that story are complex. He didn\u2019t want to shy away from that. He wanted to try to explain his thought process each stage of the way and try to put the audience in his shoes, as complicated as it was for him. And I think what he\u2019s done and the bravery he\u2019s shown in talking about really complicated issues and decisions is really remarkable.\nThe tone is always difficult to find but I wanted it to feel very much like it\u2019s his story and his life that he\u2019s lived. A lot of the job for me and the filmmaking crew was to get out of the way and allow Cornelius to talk as directly as possible to the audience.\nSS: Was there ever any consideration given to making this a full-length narrative feature? Cornelius\u2019 parents are particularly fascinating characters to explore.\nEP: I think Cornelius is definitely interested in trying to find a way to bring it to life as a feature length film. For my part, my background is in documentary and I felt that for this film we wanted to focus on this specific part of his bigger life story. It felt like a short was the best format to do that in.\nThis is a complicated film. It\u2019s not a film that ties up all the loose ends. It purposefully leaves audiences with an unsettled feeling. We didn\u2019t want audiences to walk out of the cinema and feel like they\u2019ve been provided with all the answers to the story. This is a complex tale and we wanted it to linger and stay with audiences. And this format is very powerful for that. It\u2019s only 27 minutes long and our hope is that it stays much longer than 27 minutes in people\u2019s minds and hearts.\nBe sure to check out the Official Oscar Predictions Page to see where the \u201cBlack Sheep\u201d rank among the contenders!\nPrevious articleWATCH: Chucky Returns in Teaser Trailer for Remake of \u2018Child\u2019s Play\u2019\nNext articleGenre Geeks: Top 10 Genre Films of 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 15189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aysstaff.com/blog/2014/9/16/meetkaren", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:46Z", "digest": "sha1:FXX3LJEF2QM47MW4RNXVUPWIBGNKGZ55", "length": 2692, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.aysstaff.com", "title": "Meet the Manager: Karen Craig", "raw_content": "Meet the Manager: Karen Craig\n1. How long have you been working with At Your Service? I first started working with AYS in early 2011.\n2. Where did you grow up? I grew up in Dudley, MA - a fun town with one heck of a Strawberry Festival!\n3. What\u2019s your Alma Mater? I attended Assumption College in Worcester, MA - go hounds!\n4. If you had to work in any other industry, which would it be and why? If I could work in any other industry, it would be in television - whether it be hosting E! News, acting on a primetime show or starring in reality TV, I would happily take a second career as a celeb!\n5. What attracted you to the hospitality industry? What I love about the hospitality industry is that there is never a dull moment - and that no two days are the same! Working in this industry keeps you on your toes - I love the constant surprises it has to offer!\n6. What\u2019s your favorite part of working with At Your Service? My favorite part about working with AYS is the people - the people I work with in the office, the team that supports us in the field and the clients that we have the pleasure of sending our team out to. Plus, getting to check in staff at the most beautiful locations in the city is pretty amazing too!\n7. What do you do outside of work? Outside of work, I love to go for hikes, head out on a run and spend time with family and friends. With winter coming, ice fishing will be back on the weekend to do list as well - a new hobby of mine, but it's surprisingly a ton of fun!\n8. Which is your favorite AYS location to visit? I am lucky enough to get to visit all of our locations somewhat regularly, but I have to tip my hat to DC - there is nothing like doing a check in down the street from the White House or taking a client meeting near the Kennedy Center. Our nation's capital has so much to see, so every time I get there it is a new experience - and I love that!\n9. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be and why? Canada - I will always travel to Canada. I have family on both sides of the country, so any opportunity to get back to visit them I have to jump on. A close second would be a return trip to either Costa Rica or Nashville - both were such amazing trips (though very different, of course), that I would jump at the chance to go back to either spot for a second go round.\n10. What\u2019s your favorite way to unwind after a long day of work? After a long day of work, we find the best way to unwind is actually with each other - a quick chit chat about the highlights of our day always make for good energy as we head off on our way. And for those particularly long days, a nice seasonal craft beer (hello, pumpkin!) can go a long way!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 5675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bakerpools.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:24Z", "digest": "sha1:7N76WV6XA456GR4IPPECAEE2EIWJMWIK", "length": 2979, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bakerpools.net", "title": "Pool Supply and Repair Syndicate | Simply the best in pool repair and design", "raw_content": "Pool Supply and Repair Syndicate\nSimply the best in pool repair and design\nPool Cleaning Experts\nFor the warm summer months, swimming pools are simply the best investment a family can make. The joy that it brings to the family and friends is unlike any other, until it comes time to clean or refinish the swimming pool. Both of these tasks are quite difficult and without the right tools and experience, can create quite the headache for pool owners. Often requiring the latest in technology and knowledge, pool cleaning and resurfacing can be quite the burden unless you know who to call.\nWe are a collective of pool scientists, many from Pro Pool Repair Company: Coral Springs Company, and Perfect Pool Repair of Plantatoin & Davie, FL, that have more than 4 decades of combined knowledge on how and when to clean and repair pools. Whether it is commercial or residential, we can guarantee that nobody knows more about how to make a pool last and keep it safe for you and your family. In our years of operating at this level of business, we have learned that people often subscribe to an idea when it comes to pool cleaning, and that we have what it takes to make that idea come true.\nDepending on where a pool is built, the climate can create such a high level of wear and tear on a pool that it becomes necessary to give it the proper attention. Warm and cold weather alike can wreak havoc on a pool and its surface, which is why we dedicate so much of our time to researching how climates affect pools and why we are the largest company of our type in the area. In fact, so much of what we do revolves around keeping pools healthy, that we have begun to expand to other communities and give other people of other climates useful information on how to maintain their pools.\nA matter of research\nWhat makes us different from other companies is that what we do is based almost exclusively on scientific research. Not only do we have years of experience with conventional pool cleaning and resurfacing, but we also have a team of dedicated researchers that give us insight as to how pool cleaning and resurfacing is moving toward the future. in these terms, there is nobody more qualified to implement the latest in pool cleaning and resurfacing technology than us.\nWe are proud to service the area and hope that our techniques will begin to catch on in other areas. It is our dedication, more than that of our quality work, to move the industry forward and give people affordable options for all pool repair, cleaning, and resurfacing endeavors.\nWe hope that you will be the next to join our collective of like-minded intelligent pool supply professionals and customers who have helped build the amazing pool community that we share today. It is our pleasure to bring the pool cleaning industry into the future and show people that there is no substitute for knowledge and experience. Now is the time to have your pool cleaned and resurfaced by simply the best in the business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 3151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bakirtzisagency.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OCKJVIO4E4BP4WLMUZVC4D3QC3ITTA7Y", "length": 564, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bakirtzisagency.com", "title": "Bakirtzis Shipping Agency | www.bakirtzisagency.com", "raw_content": "The Bakirtzis Shipping Agency was founded in 1977, by Bakirtzis Charalampos, master of the Merchant Marine, in order to provide high quality services to the vessels calling Greek Ports.\nIn our agency works skilled and experienced staff, willing to offer their services all over Greece, offer solutions and satisfy any need that might occur.\nOur office is located in Piraeus, and from here we provide services to all types of vessels calling Greek ports for supplies, repairs, loading, discharging etc., either directly or through our reliable network of subagents.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.balaams-ass.com/journal/housechu/glory.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:58Z", "digest": "sha1:CW52KRBW4QE2AXAUYFWFXTXQEBFCQVFP", "length": 2212, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.balaams-ass.com", "title": "That Will Be Glory", "raw_content": "Words and music by Charles H. Gabriel, 1856-1932.\nFrom Forty Gospel Hymn Stories by George W. Sanville, 1943, p. 10-11.\n\"Heaven aflame in the face of a man\" is the description given of De Card, \"old Glory Face,\" superintendent of the Sunshine Rescue Mission, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Charles H. Gabriel says the Glory Song was inspired by the slogan which this man used during the Rescue Mission meetings. His one and only safety valve for the pent-up enthusiasm, generated in him during the service was his frequent utterance of \"Glory!\" He praised God, not with many words, but one word many times repeated.\nThough he used but this one word, he played with it as a virtuoso with one string on his violin. He sang his song of praise to God with a charm and earnestness that carried a conviction of holy reverence to all who heard...\n...In prayer he drew men nearer to the God he served. His prayer invariably ended with, \"And that will be glory for me.\"\n\"Old Glory Face\" now sings his song in the Glory Land. He lived here long enough to sing this Glory Song which he inspired. He came to know his life before men had been a good testimony of the saving grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.\nThe Glory Song literally burst into popularity. It has been sung around the world in many dialects and languages. millions of copies have been printed, and [69] years of use attest to the deserved popularity of this gospel song.\nThe author, Charles H. Gabriel, has been called the Prince of Gospel Song Writers. He has given the world a host of songs that will live. He has left us, but the touch of a vanished hand, and the sound of a voice that is still, lives on through his great ministry in song.\nWhen all my labors and trials are o'er,\nAnd I am safe on that beautiful shore,\nJust to be near the Lord I adore,\nWill thro' the ages be glory for me.\nO that will be glory for me,\nGlory for me, glory for me;\nWhen by His grace I shall look on His face,\nThat will be glory, be glory for me.\nWhen, by the gift of His infinite grace,\nI am accorded in heaven a place,\nJust to be there and to look on His face,\nFriends will be there I have loved long ago;\nJoy like a river around me will flow;\nYet, just a smile from my Saviour, I know,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bartastor.com/blog/archives/03-2014", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:23Z", "digest": "sha1:M6VEA6TQCXNCXHJYQQL6U4B5OVZ5XGQ2", "length": 7783, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.bartastor.com", "title": "Blog Archives - Bart Astor", "raw_content": "Stress Busters - for an Instant Hit of Relaxation\nWhen talking to friends who are active gym users and who also like to get some exercise in the outdoors on weekends, I\u2019m amazed at how many times they tell of their latest muscle strain or minor ailment. They usually admit either that they have not warmed up properly or have not taken the time for proper relaxation or recuperation between exercise sessions. Those two steps are critical in any kind of exercise routine, and are especially important for those who are 50+. As always, I issue this warning: if you haven\u2019t been active in a while, you should check with your medical team before jumping in.\nBut in addition to the standard methods of helping us get those muscles to unwind and give us a little reprieve from our aching bodies, there are some innovations in the products available that are extremely effective helping folks prepare for and recover from strenuous exercise.\nThe first product is a heated seat and back massager. This device effectively gives you the equivalent of a full back massage to the upper back and shoulders even reaching to the lower back and hips. Most of the devices have settings to choose from and the option of heat can give relief to the normal aches and pains associated with a little too much exercise or work related strains.\nThe motors on some of the massagers can create different waves of massaging pulses controlled by a hand-held remote so as a user you can choose what setting feels right for you.\nAnother great idea is to invest in a circulation booster. This gadget has electrode pads and allows you to sit back and enjoy a heat and muscle stimulation experience that gets the blood flowing, rejuvenating tired muscles and aiding a faster tissue recovery.\nCirculation boosters come in a range of models and at varying price points but they all do pretty much the same thing: they use \u201cTranscutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (T.E.N.S.) body pads that send pulses of gentle electrical stimulation to the muscles. By placing the pads at different parts of the body a wide range of areas can be targeted for relief.\nThe devices are controlled via a remote control device so you can adjust the level of intensity to your preferred setting. One thing to bear in mind with circulation boosters is they are not suitable for users with pace makers, pregnant or those with epilepsy.\nAnother great idea, just for some gentle exercising in-between your other activities is a pedal exerciser. Not to be confused with a normal exercise bike, the pedal exerciser gives a gentle workout and stretch to the arms or lower limbs. The pedal mechanism can be fitted to a table or can be used on the floor from a seated position. The benefits of using a pedal exerciser are that you are getting a passive exercise that can ease aches and minor knocks and injuries. Also, you can be doing this activity while watching TV or reading. Safe, low impact and able to be transported anywhere, a pedal exerciser is an inexpensive way of keeping your muscles active, even during recuperation, and can be used for an easy cool-down or warm-up.\nThese are just three particular products that can help you keep in top shape either in addition to your gym sessions, or just for general wellbeing. When searching the web for products such as these, you\u2019ll find that Googling mobility and healthcare products will take you to firms selling products geared for those with disabilities. Most of these companies also offer the kind of exercise equipment discussed here. By adding the word \u201cexercise\u201d to your search you\u2019ll find many more products used to help you keep fit.\nThis post was written by MobilitySmart director Andrew Atkinson. Mobility Smart is a UK based online retailer of mobility and healthcare products.\nThe Good Ole Days? Not so Good? Or Just Nostalgia\nRecently I\u2019ve gotten emails celebrating the \u201cgood old days\u201d and showing old pictures of toys we used to play with, gadgets that were new years ago and now gone, and screen shots of old TV shows. The headline is usually something like, \u201cDo You Remember These?\u201d And the last paragraph talks about how good the good old days were, when kids could ride their bikes without helmets, play on the street, didn\u2019t have to wear seat belts, and could choose from 3 or 4 black and white TV stations.\nReally? Were they the good old days? I don\u2019t think so. Yes, for many life was simpler. But how many of those kids without helmets fell or got hit by a car? How many of them would have escaped serious injury if they had worn a helmet. How many kids playing in the street were hit by cars? I know I had a few close calls. How many lives have been saved by seat belts? And what was so great about having only 3 or 4 TV stations or watching only in black and white?\nI hear the same nostalgia when I hear baby boomers reminisce about the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s. \u201cOh, wasn\u2019t it great? We were so free. We were so experimental.\u201d Sure, we were experimental. And if you\u2019ve read my blogs you know I\u2019m a huge advocate of baby boomers. But let\u2019s be real here. The 60\u2019s were awful. We had turmoil in the streets, we had world leaders assassinated, we had violent protests, and lots of other things that were far from wonderful. Too many of us OD\u2019d on drugs (but since those people are not around to reminisce, we don\u2019t hear their side of it). Many of us went to war 12,000 miles away. Most returned, many didn\u2019t. Those that returned were treated with disdain. Many of us were lonely, desperate, out of touch, or depressed. We clung to each other because we didn\u2019t know what else to do. We survived and moved on. And now we glorify those past years.\nTo me, there wasn\u2019t that much glory living through those turbulent times. In fact, when I think back and compare today with back then, with what some call the good old days, I\u2019m so happy those times are over and we\u2019re here now. I\u2019m not saying that there weren\u2019t also some great times. There were many for me personally. I\u2019m also not saying that the baby boomers didn\u2019t shake up the world and make it a better place. We did. But let\u2019s not forget about all those bad times we had or about the ones who didn\u2019t make it through whole.\nWhen I hear or read these nostalgic emails, I\u2019m reminded of a very long bike ride I took about 15 years ago. It was a fundraiser for AIDS research and treatment. For 4 days I cycled through the mountains of North Carolina and Virginia before riding onto Constitution Avenue in Washington DC. Just about every minute of the ride I hated. There was nothing good about how my butt felt or the fatigue gnawing at my legs. But when I rode onto the mall having accomplished the tremendous feat, I was exhilarated. I totally forgot about the 4 days of hell. All I knew was that I had done it and it was one of the best feelings I had ever had.\nI didn\u2019t like that bike ride. I loathed the ride. I loved the accomplishment. And as for the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s, I didn\u2019t much like them either. But boy, did we ever accomplish something. And for that I too can celebrate. I just don\u2019t want to say those times were better than now. We\u2019ve progressed so far. We have so much farther to go, and in particular, to make the progress we\u2019ve made available to everyone, not just the haves.\nSo my message is, \u201cSure, let\u2019s look back and remember. Let\u2019s laugh at the primitive technology we had then. Let\u2019s remember the innocence and feeling of safety most of us had. But let\u2019s not forget the fear we felt when we had to \u201cduck and cover\u201d under our desks during air raids. Let\u2019s not forget the black and white pictures of the Vietnam War being broadcast into our living rooms. Or seeing your friend freak out on a bummer trip. And let\u2019s put it in perspective, happy to have survived some awful times, but also sad that some didn\u2019t.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 8732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bayareaderm.com/appointments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:04Z", "digest": "sha1:PNA7LAOSK3BERNO6HHUJ65256FMHSZJ5", "length": 349, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.bayareaderm.com", "title": "Appointments | Bay Area Skin Cancer & Dermatology", "raw_content": "Your referring physician will fax us your pathology result and insurance information. As soon as we receive your referral paperwork, we will contact you to set up an appointment. Alternatively, you are welcome to call us to set up a time that works for you. We can be reached at (941) 748-4747 anytime Monday through Thursday, between 8:00 and 5:00.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.besalighting.com/news/lightfair-international-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FCGQBIF7LUHG2XFFOK6ZH77IIYRU5WEW", "length": 306, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.besalighting.com", "title": "Besa Lighting | Lightfair International 2016", "raw_content": "Besa Lighting is excited to announce that it will be an exhibitor at Lightfair International in San Diego, to showcase our newest and most innovative products to all of the lighting specifiers and buyers in attendance. We are looking forward to seeing you all in San Diego, be sure to swing by booth #3857.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 1719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.best-san-diego-photographer.com/lens_portfolio/amazing-high-heel-race-san-diego/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:30Z", "digest": "sha1:TNW4SUU62CE44UHPCNZXEPCCHOH3CEM2", "length": 305, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.best-san-diego-photographer.com", "title": "Amazing High Heel Race San Diego -", "raw_content": "The boys strap on their highest of high heels for this annual charity race that takes place in the heart of Hillcrest, San Diego. This year we wanted to feature some of the past winners and get some promo shots for Facebook and other social media.\nFavorite of the bunch \u2013 the old lady doing a double take.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bgvelikden.org/2017/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:44Z", "digest": "sha1:LZVYRSGNP6ARN6SHXDZ2CQ6PQGCP4UFW", "length": 4281, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bgvelikden.org", "title": "August 2017 \u2013 Bg velikden", "raw_content": "It is known that cereals are an essential part in diet, lifelong, primarily in children. Cereals comprise an excellent source of carbohydrates of carbons and proteins, usually with very low fat content, and provide fiber and other essential nutrients. Cereals are an excellent option to deal with the transition to the solid food, because they are very easy to digest and it usually shows no intolerance in children, except for those children with difficulties to accept either gluten. And even so, cereals free of gluten, such as corn or buckwheat can be consumed by those who have intolerance to gluten without problems. Therefore, it is not necessary to deprive yourself of the enormous benefits of cereals, which are increased if we opt to consume organic cereals.Cereals grown organically involve the use of harmful products for man or the environment in its production, especially phosphorus-containing pesticides, whose residual effect on Earth and in the welling of water then we consume are well known. Ecological food propose a form of production much more friendly to the environment, trying to leave minimum impact, preserving resources and with the premise that this little blue planet must be inhabited by future generations.\nThis way of conceiving the production means a change in the industrialized methodologies used in massive agricultural production, and, especially, the non-use of GM seeds, which are believed to be causes of harmful effects on human health. Per all of the above, organic cereals are the ideal food for babies and small children. In this way, we ensure zero harmful residues that could be transmitted in food. In a large number of occasions our small developed mysterious allergies, diarrhea, or several adverse effects, whose origin is unknown. Children fed with organic products strengthen your immune system in a natural way, not only by the absence of potential allergens, but because of the large amount of extra nutrients that organic products presented in comparison with traditional food. Studies have shown that organic crops are up to 40% more antioxidants than traditional products. Let us remember that antioxidants have a prominent role in preventing the aging of cells, the neutralization of harmful substances such as free radicals, and thus in the prevention of cancer. For this reason, organic cereals allow you to enjoy a better quality of life, while we enjoy more nutritious and tasty.\nFocus Partner\nThe 7 most important tips to recover your partner do so you\u2019re ready or ready to implement several of the most effective methods to retrieve your partner? Many people call these the 7 steps of Golden tips to retrieve your partner. Some of these steps are easier than others, but perform a combination of some of them can help you a lot. Some of these steps may seem strange or very simple, but real-life work. Many experts have proven this over the years as an effective solution to attract your ex back. So if you really want to put them into practice here are: step #1: ignores your first partner and most important you should do after a breakup is to forget and let go. It is very difficult to forget all memories that you spent with your partner but it is necessary to take this step. Ignore and not communicate with your partner is essential if you want to recover it or recover it.\nIt is human nature to want what we don\u2019t have. If you have read about Jeffrey Hayzlett already \u2013 you may have come to the same conclusion. This will automatically make your lover that you Miss and love you back. Step #2: Focus on it this process is to organize your life and your mind. Think of you first. If you have children you care for get it but don\u2019t forget it. Get all the things you wanted to do but which perhaps could you not when you were in the relationship with your ex. Get everything you wanted to do in your life.\nEnjoy a few new hobbies, spend time with your friends, salt and have fun. This will keep your mind and your heart completely busy and so you\u2019re going to reduce your suffering. To see your ex this behaviour of yours is going to think that you have a happier life without him or her. This induces a feeling of doubt in your mind and makes you think that perhaps the blame for the rupture was from him / her.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 10182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bharatbhasha.com/search-engine-optimization.php/487961", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:21Z", "digest": "sha1:OJT354VOGT6TZDCRFCLWEVLJRDWTVIKH", "length": 7253, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.bharatbhasha.com", "title": "Search Engine Optimization | Creating Websites to Fulfill their Objectives :: By Vikram kumar | bharatbhasha.com", "raw_content": "Free Articles >> SEOptimization >> Page 2 >>\nCreating Websites to Fulfill their Objectives\nA good website should not just appeal to the users. There are reasons why people get websites. When a site is up and running, seeing those reasons fulfilled is what makes for a successful website. For instance a company may get a website to improve the interaction with its users. To do this, a website must meet certain criteria. Putting contact information on the site is one of the ways that website do this. It makes it possible for users to have any concerns addressed. This way a company knows what it\ufffds doing wrong and what to do to correct it.\nSites made for specific objectives\nA website is also good for marketing. This is a very big aspect in any kind of business. A good website should be able to provide exposure for goods and services. When looking for website design Albuquerque, it helps to know what the objectives of the site are. If a site is primarily for marketing then there are certain elements that it must have. There are different strategies that can be used to provide advertising using a website. This will go into the web design. The type of marketing that is being carried out will also determine how the site is designed. A site that is advertising to other businesses for instance will have a different layout than one reaching out to an age group.\nThere are also some sites that are created purposely to educate. If this is the case, then the design should fit that purpose. This means that the layout will also be different. The company you hire for Albuquerque SEO services will provide the best options for an educational site. The content for one should be relevant to the objective. If the site is meant to be informational, then it must do that even in its design. The designer must be able to create a website that fulfills its intended functions. This requires corporation from all parties involved.\nAdapting sites through time\nWhen hiring an SEO company in Albuquerque, it is important to find one that provides for all kinds of needs. A website may change objectives over time. Maybe a site may have started out as a marketing one but over time changed into something else. A good web designer must be able to adapt a site to fit the changing needs. This is something that you can\ufffdt compromise on. A good designer will be able to keep up with the times. New things are always coming up in web services. A designer should be able to tell when its time to upgrade your website.\nWhen looking for a company to provide website design Albuquerque, the objective should be very clear. This is to ensure that a site is created to fit its purpose. A web designer will also know what to do when they have a clear picture. Hiring a web designer is the best option when thinking of creating a website. It is imperative to get someone that has the professional capabilities to come up with a successful project.\nWhen you have decided to get website, the objectives must be clearly laid out. This is how a web designer knows what to do. Getting a professional for website design Albuquerque would help create a functional site. There are numerous options available to choose from for Albuquerque SEO .\nArticle Url: http://www.bharatbhasha.com/search-engine-optimization.php/487961\nWebsite Design Services Offered By Website Design Albuquerque\nExperts provide an easy task, including website building and design, and key among them is consistency and professionalism on how the site is built. This allows it to be kept simple while displaying all the relevant features that need attention. Services offered by website designers Building of appealing websites is always the craving of most firms, commercial or non-commercial. This is extremely attributed to the fact that websites are a reflection of what the firm are, its values and...\nCreating an Effective Website with Professional Web Design Services\nWebsites have become a common part of everyday operations. There are websites for practically everything. 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There are some people who think that when one builds a website, it...\nThe Web Design Process the importance of interactivity\nThe web design process is a long and intricate one. There are a lot of things that are involved. Web design is not just about how the website looks; there is a lot more to it than that. Website designers in Albuquerque will explain to you gladly what is involved. For someone getting a first website, it helps to know what is what. Find out about the whole process and what each step means for the website. There are sometimes when some steps in the process may be circumnavigated. This will of...\nHiring Reputable Mobile Design Services for Successful Sites\nMobile website design is a field that has seen a lot of changes over the years. This is due to the ever changing mobile technology. Optimizing website for mobile use has become a very important part of web design. 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Plan a trip and then keep on...\nSEO in creating accessible websites\nOften people design websites in a way that should be search engine friendly so it helps the crawlers to crawl the websites very easily which as a result helps in getting online business\nGenerators Delhi to fulfill power requirement in Delhi and NCR region\nThe Websites has their own rules for Links\nUploading A Sitemap For No Websites\nSEO services drive traffic to websites\nSEO Services Improving Visibility Of Websites\nHow Optimized Websites provide you the best rankings\nDesigning Blog Websites for SEO Purposes\nSEOptimization >> Top 50 Articles on SEOptimization", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 12858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blackandwhiteindia.com/search/label/premium%20chess%20company", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:49Z", "digest": "sha1:IP7G4P4YGRR6CHO2GKSFCQY3CNN6KXVR", "length": 2892, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.blackandwhiteindia.com", "title": "Chess Magazine Black and White: premium chess company", "raw_content": "Showing posts with label premium chess company. Show all posts\nFIDE has just launched the online chess playing arena in its beta version. Here is the announcement by FIDE president:\nI am proud to announce today's launch of the limited test version of FIDE online arena, FIDE's official Internet playing platform developed in co-operation with CNC. In October 2013, after the Executive Board meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, the fully operational version of FIDE online arena will be in service and available all over the world.\nFIDE firmly believes that online chess offers enormous opportunities for millions of chess lovers who are unable to regularly participate in over-the-board events for a variety of reasons: professional and family commitments, problems reaching tournaments and other difficulties, etc.\nNow FIDE makes the virtual real with an online arena that allows players to compete in top class tournaments with official FIDE ratings. The attractiveness and ease of online chess will also draw millions of new players - in particular the young. FIDE online arena will be an important step in achieving my goal of '1 billion chess players' throughout the world.\nAs you know, there are many chess playing platforms. However, FIDE online arena has a unique feature that completely sets it apart: a highly sophisticated chess anti-cheating system, AceGuard. Until now, it has been impossible to award official ratings for online chess because of the difficulty in preventing cheating. Now AceGuard will be an invaluable tool in Fide's fight against cheaters and we would like to praise the PremiumChess company for developing this revolutionary technology and to congratulate CNC for bringing this service to FIDE.\nWhen the full version of FIDE online arena starts in October, every move of every game played by full arena members will be monitored and extensively analyzed by the anti-cheating system and a special team of experts, creating a fair playing venue for all. While it is not possible to prevent some players from cheating, this constant highly detailed monitoring guarantees that they can be successfully identified and appropriate action taken. Every member's playing history is evaluated with a Fairness Index rating, allowing you to see quickly if an opponent is reliable or not.\nIn addition, FIDE online arena offers a complete chess experience online: challenge games and tournaments, master challenge matches and simuls, free master lessons and lectures, full statistical analysis, broadcasts of major FIDE events, chat, game files, multi-lingual interface and much more - all from the comfort of your home or anywhere elsewhere you happen to be.\nSo now you can enjoy all the features that FIDE online arena has to offer and very soon play in official FIDE events night or day, seven days a week.\nEnjoy it! http://www.arena.myfide.net\nKirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 8039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blackburndavisfinancial.ca/2016/02/24/may-12-2015-recent-bcv-bnn-appearance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ICQL7PEVORYV4CUREWKR3NI3WPVBP7U6", "length": 972, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.blackburndavisfinancial.ca", "title": "MAY 12 2015 \u2013 Recent BCV BNN Appearance at Blackburn Davis Financial Inc", "raw_content": "\u00ab APR 22 2015 \u2013 Federal Budget Summary\nMAY 22 2015 \u2013 Our Team\u2019s Professional Development \u00bb\nPlease find a link below to a recent appearance by BCV\u2019s Tony Demarin on BNN\u2019s Business Day AM segment on Wednesday, May 6th.\nIn this appearance, he discussed Sun Life Financial Inc.\u2019s earnings announcement from earlier in the day and its long-awaited dividend increase. He also discussed their expectations for the large Canadian insurance companies and thoughts about the earnings announcements from Great-West Lifeco Inc. and Manulife Financial Corporation that were upcoming on Thursday May 7th.\nHe also briefly discussed two recent trades; the sale of Enbridge Inc. and Imperial Oil Ltd., noting these companies were sold based on short-term valuation, rather than on the long-term fundamentals of the companies. Finally, he concluded with some remarks about the near-term weakness in the price of Canadian bank stocks.\n0 Responses to \u201cMAY 12 2015 \u2013 Recent BCV BNN Appearance\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blueheron.org/concerts/concert-history/the-virgin-and-the-singer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:07Z", "digest": "sha1:CEVYUA55O3SBK5WUMWWQ23ZG725OUUU7", "length": 297, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.blueheron.org", "title": "The Virgin and the Singer | Blue Heron", "raw_content": "Motets for Mary and other rapturous sacred music by Johannes Ockeghem and other 15th-century composers working in French lands.\nFree pre-concert talk at 7:15 \u2014 sponsored by the Cambridge Society for Early Music\nn.b. This concert will be repeated on June 13 at the Connecticut Early Music Festival.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 185.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bombastarr.com/2006/01/art-of-holding-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:12Z", "digest": "sha1:HXYMTS4FGBVWFGW5XNG3XLYIGFBBBGL2", "length": 4490, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bombastarr.com", "title": "Bombastarr", "raw_content": "They say forget about the past and think about the future. Erase all your old messages, your old pictures and start life anew. It's bad to be stuck in the past because you won't be able to move on. Let go. Walk and never look back.\nI was looking at my pictures in my cellphone and I realize I can't click the delete button. It was too hard for me to delete something from the past just like that. A part of me wanted to stay in the past. I wanted to remember how I was then, I wanted to see how much I've changed. I can't afford to erase everything. Besides, that would be a shame losing all your memories just like that when you have 64MB worth of space!\nI find comfort in taking pictures of myself simply because I know there's one person who finds myself beautiful most of the time -- ME. I mean, who else can take staring at my face other than me?! My phone is proof of how vain I really am. I take pictures when I feel like it. I pose when I know I'm in the mood. And fortunately, almost all of them turn out to be good poses. Looking at my growing self-taken photograph collection I saw how my smile and eyes have changed in just a couple of years. Indeed, the braces have done a great miracle and my eyes seemed to have more sparkle. I used to look like a kiddie-girly-patweetums just before high school, and look at me now, a matured-slash-childlike little bitch. Haha. :) It surprises me that even though I haven't had any major makeovers (except maybe for rebonding, but I've always had my hair straightened before so that's not really new) I seem to have transformed into this woman. Relatives say I'm beginning to look like a young version of my mom. And yes, when I look at the mirror I too see the difference. I feel like my old self is lightyears away from who I am. Seeing the different Karla-istic smiles in my phone made me think of how far I've walked in this journey called life. It was only a year or so, and yet I have become this new person. I went through alot of confusion and troubles and yet I was still able to smile for that camera. Maybe it wasn't just the fact that I'm vain. Maybe because I wanted to be strong for myself. I wanted to make sure that despite all the craziness in life, I can still manage to pull my cheeks a little bit higher and turn my frown upside-down. Looking back, these pictures became symbols of how sad and fun life is. Sad because I don't have a perfect life and fun because I don't have a perfect life. Haha! They say I have grown-up already, being a teenager and all. They say I've bcome a critical thinker. And because of all this so-called maturity, people are telling me to move on, stop dreaming about being a princess and acting like a kid. But I can't, you know why? Because a part of me will always be that girl. I will always be the person I was, no matter how many times I change. And just the fact that I was able to overcome all my problems is enough reason for me to believe in myself that I can definitely overcome them in the future.\nSo am I really stuck in the past? By being too weak to delete all the precious memories of yester-years, does that make me someone who cannot move on? Maybe I just want to hold on simply because forgetting about everything that was behind me would make me empty. They made me become who I am now. I am me now because of the old me. And besides, it's not really wrong to look back every once in a while just to let yourself know how great you have become. So, I won't let go. I'll never let go. And no matter how many times you tell me to stop reminiscing, I will not. Because what has happened to me before is all part of who I am. And if I forget them, that would be rejecting half of my self.\nAnd besides, if so many people believe in \"Forget the past,\" then why the hell do we have to study History?!\nOkay so I sound so dramatic. Anyway, I went to Nica's house today for the fiesta. Yum, yum cassava cake! And I was able to buy The Ultraelectromagneticjam album! Yipee! Thank you, Papa. Also, I probably won't be able to blog for a long time since I'll be very very VERY busy with everything. But I'd appreciate all the comments and tags. MUCH LOVE TO EVERYONE. :*\n\"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,\nI love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving\nbut this, in which there is no I or you,\nso intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,\nso intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.\"\n-- Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 18257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookhookedblog.com/2015/09/mini-reviews-crimedomestic-suspense.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:51Z", "digest": "sha1:67RJMIZSZGPGVU7YAO2JP5SAC4AQD3IN", "length": 3887, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.bookhookedblog.com", "title": "Book Hooked Blog: Mini-Reviews: Crime/Domestic Suspense Three Ways", "raw_content": "Life has never been easy for the three Campbell sisters. Jess, Courtney, and Dani live on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they work hard and try to stay out of the way of their father\u2019s fists. One night, a fight gets out of hand and the sisters are forced to go on the run, only to get caught in an even worse nightmare when their truck breaks down in a small town. Events spiral out of control and a chance encounter with the wrong people leaves them in a horrific and desperate situation. They are left with no choice but to change their names and create new lives.\nEighteen years later, they are still trying to forget what happened that summer when one of the sisters goes missing and they are pulled back into their past.\nThis time there\u2019s nowhere left to run.\nPerfect Chevy Stevens fare. If you're in the mood for suspense that features heavy emphasis on relationships and family, always turn to Stevens. She's known for psychological/domestic suspense that has high stakes and moments of thrills, but is largely about the people and how they relate to each other. In this case, we get to know three sisters who experience a horrific childhood and traumatic events that will change how each of them see life. And of course, the stakes are revealed as the sister grow up and have to face their past. It's well-done and makes for great easy, if not necessarily light, reading. It's not going to take more than a few sittings to get through and I recommend it if you're a fan of the author or genre. There isn't anything particularly groundbreaking or original here, but it was a fun and diverting read. Fair warning: sexual violence plays a role in the book and is seen \"on screen\", not just alluded to.\nIt\u2019s a game more twisted than any Detective Helen Grace has ever seen. If she hadn\u2019t spoken with the shattered survivors herself, she almost wouldn\u2019t believe them.\nHelen is familiar with the dark sides of human nature, including her own, but this case\u2014with its seemingly random victims\u2014has her baffled. But as more people go missing, nothing will be more terrifying than when it all starts making sense...\nI'd say this is the literary equivalent of Criminal Minds or SVU. In my mind, this is a compliment. I absolutely devour long-running crime dramas with an episodic emphasis and maybe a few recurrent plot lines. It's what makes up my idea television programming. So the book equivalent is something I enjoy just as much. Both, of course, are for pleasure viewing and not really about edification of the mind. If tv crime isn't your thing, compare to a UK version of Karin Slaughter or Jo Nesbo. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be continuing the series as it's released. This is the one exception to my \"series must be complete before I begin\" rule - anything so episodic that I don't need to reread previous titles for important information. I think this will be a perfect series to add to my collection. Some violence, some sex, but no sexual violence that I can remember.\nIf you're looking for straight up domestic suspense without the crime angle, this is going to be a perfect fit. No crimes are committed, you're not going to be faced with gore, sex, or overt violence, but it's still a creepy, unsettling story. I love me some creepy kids, and Kirstie/Lydia is definitely a creepy kid. Angus and Sarah are also on the creepy spectrum and make for great unreliable narrators - you never really know whose version of events to trust. Add in a mysterious and secluded island and I'm hooked. I think I read this in two nights and probably could have done it in one sitting if I didn't have to work the next day. I enjoyed the ending, but it's somewhat ambiguous and those who need a concrete explanation for every little thing may be disappointed.\nThanks to a combination of NetGalley and my public library for providing me with access to all three of these titles!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 8149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.boomers-with-elderly-parents.com/do-magnifying-reading-glasses-really-help.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:40Z", "digest": "sha1:G25PBE67NRHIHCKALTVMZTM5XBPLNY4N", "length": 2323, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.boomers-with-elderly-parents.com", "title": "Do Magnifying Reading Glasses Really Help?", "raw_content": "Do Magnifying Reading Glasses Really Help?\nMy dad has always been a voracious reader, but in the last few months, I noticed that he wasn't reading nearly as many books as he used to. He usually has a stack of library books next to him, but I haven\u2019t seen them lately.\nI asked him about it a few times, and he just shrugged it off, telling me that he was tired of reading. I didn't believe it for a moment. I talked to my mom and she told me that dad was having trouble reading.\nVision gradually decreases as we age, and by the time many of us hit our mid-40s to early 50s, it's common for people to experience presbyopia, or difficulty in focusing on objects that are close to us, especially the printed word. My dad is quite stubborn and I knew I wouldn't get them to the eye doctor until he was ready.\nIn the meantime, I decided I would encourage him to try magnifying reading glasses. Unless he had an issue such as astigmatism, I felt the magnifying reading glasses would at least enable him to get back to the one thing he enjoyed most - reading.\nI did a search online and found online marketplaces such as Amazon as well as companies like Foster Grant and Bausch & Lomb that provided magnifying reading glasses. They came in dozens of different styles as well as magnification options.\nI went ahead and bought a pair for my dad, and then went to his house one day armed not only with the magnifying reading glasses, but a short stack of books. I convinced him to give the magnifying reading glasses a try. Needless to say, my dad is back to reading again.\nComments for Do Magnifying Reading Glasses Really Help?\nMagnifying reading glasses come in all kinds of shapes, sizes, and magnification power. I'm elderly myself, and love to read and do crafts. My pride doesn't come before my eyes.\nMy reading glasses not only help me continue to do the things that I love, but prevent additional strain and wear and tear on my eyes.\nI noticed the same difficulty in reading small print with my elderly mother. It got to the point where she couldn't even read the print on her prescription bottles, which alarmed me.\nWe bought a pair of reading glasses and they helped immensely. She really liked the fact that they were cheap. She had been putting off purchasing glasses because she thought it would cost hundreds of dollars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 248.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.brainchildevents.com/blog/2017/1/21/paul-gibson-takes-over-kansas-city-fashion-show-and-comes-back-to-gent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:35Z", "digest": "sha1:RYVTIMY4T6EMZCATHWFA4O53ACGZBTCE", "length": 1616, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.brainchildevents.com", "title": "Paulie Gibson took over Kansas City Fashion Show and comes back to Gent! \u2014 Brainchild Events", "raw_content": "Inspired from his seamstress nanny, Vera, Paul Gibson has been designing since he was 4 or 5 years old. But 5-year old Paul probably didn\u2019t know he\u2019d hit the Kansas City Fashion Show on the previous years, including this 2016.\n\u0093Actually, Teisha reached out to me and asked if I would join them again this season. And I jumped at the opportunity. KCFW is a very well-oiled machine. At one point, I came to Teisha and asked her if I was forgetting anything because I was so unusually calm. They\u2019re wonderful!\u0094\nGibson describes his clothing line in one word: Stimulation. He is inspired by people or goings on his life. As opposed to his usual vibrant, colorful style; this collection was almost all black.\n\u0093It\u2019s simple, yet interestingly complex all while maintaining my \u201csexy bro\u201d aesthetic.\u0094\nThe St. Louis native fashion designer enjoyed his experience on the KCFS: \u201cThe people who attend KCFW, are lovers of fashion and visual presentation. So I feel as though I'm reaching people who share in my passion. Often times, other regional fashion weeks it's a different experience, it's truly lovely on Kansas City\u201c.\nHowever, he also liked meeting with people involved in the production. \u201cThey're so pleasant and laid back. Also the models are great and add value to my presentation by being active participants in my styling process. OH! And the DJ they use...gorilla? That dude is f*cking sick! I love him. He gets me,\u201d Gibson mentioned.\n\u201cIt's been a pleasure presenting in kcfw and I'm humbled by how well received the clothes have been. 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It consisted of live performances, sculpture, painting, and video/sound installations. Two sound works were represented while there: a live performance of an ever-changing series of pieces using samples based on oil, coal, miners, and other energy related themes; and \u201cEnergy Wars,\u201d a sound/video installation. Activists, students, faculty, and artists were among the many people we met during our residency.\nThe live performance consisted of \u201cConversations with Coal Miners and with Death\u201d (an excerpt is below). It is a sound collage that explores the sadness, pride, and psychology that come with living near and working in coalmines. It attaches a human voice to a hidden component (and cost) of our energy consumption. In times where miners still face death as part of their daily work, the mines become a modern-day underworld that evoke the myth of Orpheus, his sad and mournful songs, and his unsuccessful descent below the earth\u2019s surface to bring back Eurydice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1707, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.britishafrocaribbean.com/index.php/music/3-blog-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SNY2LC65HPGLSMPDXAISZLKPATMQ4DZC", "length": 151, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.britishafrocaribbean.com", "title": "Frankie Knuckles, we salute you. - BritishAfroCaribbean.com", "raw_content": "Frankie Knuckles, we salute you.\nWith the passing of Frankie Knuckles. We wanted to salute the genius of your life and music. We will never forget you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 116.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.britishsecondlife.co.uk/5-compelling-reasons-to-relocate-to-the-costa-blanca-in-spain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:13Z", "digest": "sha1:III3G4EJ7SFP62BSI5SIZ6KKDV7M6KHW", "length": 3236, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.britishsecondlife.co.uk", "title": "5 Compelling Reasons To Relocate To The Costa Blanca In Spain | British Second Life", "raw_content": "There are many people who emigrate and live on the Costa Blanca, but the question is why do people move to this part of the world?\nHere are 5 Great Reasons to Move to The Costa Blanca:\n1) Recreation sports It is hard to think of any social or sporting activity that is not catered for whatever the nationality of residents. Every conceivable water sport from the world famous Admirals Cup sailing event to simple snorkeling via windsurfing, canoeing, you name it, you can do it here. There are numerous golf, tennis, football, rugby, bowls, and badminton, even cricket clubs open to all nationalities. Even skiing and winter sports are only a few hours\u2019 drive away. Amateur theatrical companies, some of whom boast well-known retired thespians keeping their hand in, bridge, computer clubs, the list goes on and on. Nobody need ever be bored or lonely on the Costa Blanca.\n2) Shopping Safely There are many supermarket chains operating in the region and never too far away will be one or more that stock your favorite home brands. Consequently, for the gourmets amongst the residents, there are an extraordinarily wide variety of culinary delights to be enjoyed without having to travel far. Apart from the many local Spanish and other restaurants featuring their national dishes, Chinese, Indian, Thai, Japanese and others are never far away.\n3) Nice working environment Work prospects and setting up a business on the Costa Blanca is a complicated subject. For foreign nationals. However, there are opportunities for casual work tending to the needs of holiday home owners and similar that can provide either some cash or be built up into a regular Spanish registered business. Despite the advent of the credit crisis and growing unemployment in Spain in common with the rest of the EU there is no apparent evidence yet of resentment by local Spanish employees of foreign workers with the exception of illegal immigrants.\n4) Good medical care One problem that takes time to accept is that in a hospital it is expected that general care of in-patients is either performed or paid for by relatives. However by UK standards private medical insurance is cheaper and, in the main, considerably less hassle to get the treatment required. For prospective residents with children, education is an important consideration. Reasonably priced private education to acceptable standards for British children is available in most areas on the Costa Blanca. Spanish state education is a different matter and is dependent on the age of the child.\n5) Good education Younger children can quickly pick up the language when they are in the school environment and most reports we have are that the teachers are patient and helpful in getting a foreign child settled in. Prospective residents will have to make further enquiries to the suitability of state schools for older children wherever they are proposing to live. Coming to live on the Costa Blanca has a tremendous amount to offer expats, whatever their age, which have had enough of, or want a change from the lifestyle and politics of their country of birth. Northern European countries, not excepting the North of France, can expect 7-8 months of cold, damp weather \u2013 not so in the Costa Blanca.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bssnews.net/?p=18109", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:15Z", "digest": "sha1:PPPKF42BODUDR74BQVZKOUHBUO4NXJSW", "length": 1637, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bssnews.net", "title": "ADB President departs Dhaka | Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)", "raw_content": "Home Business News ADB President departs Dhaka\nADB President departs Dhaka\nDHAKA, Mar 1, 2018 (BSS) \u2013 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao left here today after wrapping up his three-day official visit to Bangladesh.\nNakao left by a flight of Thai Airways around 1:30 pm, an ADB local resident mission official told BSS.\nBefore his departure, the ADB President visited a green garment factory in Gazipur named Viyellatex Group and see the operations of the factory.\nArriving on Monday night, Nakao spent a busy day on Tuesday inspecting various ADB-supported projects in Bhairab and Ashuganj.\nHe also met Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Tuesday.\nOn the following day on Wednesday, the ADB President met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Ganobhaban residence before meeting the press at around 1:00 pm at the ADB\u2019s resident mission.\nADB\u2019s Country Partnership Strategy for Bangladesh proposes total assistance of $8 billion, including for nonsovereign operations, during the period 2016-2020, 60 percent up from $5 billion in 2011-2015.\nIn 2016-2017 ADB approved $2.5 billion in sovereign and $600 million in nonsovereign assistance. To support government efforts, ADB will provide additional resources depending upon need, performance of ongoing projects, and readiness of new projects.\nBangladesh joined ADB in 1973, and in 1982 became the first ADB member to host a field office.\nTill date, more than $20 billion from ADB\u2019s loans, grants, and technical assistance have been approved for the country. 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Thus we get no accountability for materials within this portion and we are not affiliated with the publisher of this element.\u201d But if any facts, stories or photos/photographs or illustrations that seem on the web site are in violation of copyright law, please e-mail buzzeando.com ([email protected]) and we will remove the offending area as quickly as possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.byfield-pc.gov.uk/Article_MeetingsandMinutes_Minutesfrom10January2019.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MB2MZHGIBUAW3UIN7YMHMTJWXGI72QGQ", "length": 187, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.byfield-pc.gov.uk", "title": "Byfield Parish Council", "raw_content": "The draft minutes from the meeting held on 10 January 2019 are attached. These are in draft form until they are adopted by Council. This normally happens at the start of the next meeting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 102.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cacianalyst.org/publications/analytical-articles/item/13447-revere-or-reverse?-central-asia-between-cyrillic-and-latin-alphabets.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:07Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7GNLKTVBPB6YJMQKDZFSHDQRSDDSK7M", "length": 9727, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.cacianalyst.org", "title": "Revere or Reverse? Central Asia between Cyrillic and Latin Alphabets", "raw_content": "Revere or Reverse? Central Asia between Cyrillic and Latin Alphabets\nIn April this year, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbaev made it clear that Kazakhstan intends to change from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. Thereby, this country took a new step in the overall course of its post-Soviet development as an independent state. Kazakhstan became the third state in Central Asia after Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan that decided to undergo such a change. Kyrgyzstan will supposedly be the next country to move in the same direction. The change of alphabets was met with geopolitically saturated aversion in Russian political circles and media, in contrast to the relatively peaceful manner with which it is being introduced in the countries themselves.\nBACKGROUND: After gaining independence in 1991, the then newly independent states of Central Asia faced the unprecedented task of creating all attributes of statehood from scratch. Alongside such attributes as a national government, laws, a currency, an army, borders and many others, all states swiftly ascribed the titular languages of their nations the status of state languages. Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen and Uzbek were proclaimed the state languages in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan respectively. They thereby launched the so-called \u201clanguage policies\u201d as a natural attribute of their statehood.\nThe next step in this policy was to reform the alphabet. Uzbekistan was first in deciding to change from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. In 1993 Uzbekistan adopted the law \u201cOn the Introduction of the Uzbek Alphabet Based on Latin Script.\u201d As is common during fundamental reform processes, this change of the alphabet could not take place without corresponding costs \u2013 social, economic and political. Anticipating possible difficulties and frictions in the implementation of the law, Uzbekistan\u2019s Supreme Council (parliament) adopted an ordinance stipulating the introduction of the new alphabet on a step-by-step basis, envisioning the completion of this process by September 1, 2010.\nIn reality, however, the process took longer. Even today, Cyrillic script is widely used in public and political life. In the last 25 years of post-Soviet development, the state has not enforced its language and alphabet policy, giving priority to an evolutionary pace. Yet this policy has recently gained new impetus, given that the population has had enough time to understand texts written in Latin script.\nIn April this year, 25 years after independence, Kazakh authorities finally announced their intention to shift to the Latin script. Following the Kazakh example, demands for shifting from Cyrillic to Latin began to be voiced in Kyrgyzstan as well. These recent trends could not but have the effect of a red rag to a bull among Russia\u2019s media, elites and social networks and cause a highly adverse reaction on their part. Many in Russia immediately began to loudly discuss the problem of the rights of ethnic Russians living in the former Soviet republics. For them, the change of alphabets is synonymous with discrimination of ethnic Russians. Some even associated the question of alphabets with the squeezing of Russia\u2019s sphere of influence in the post-Soviet space, thereby adding a geopolitical dimension to these developments.\nIMPLICATIONS: Sooner or later the issue of changing the alphabet would have been raised among and by the public as a logical component of the state language policy because languages and their alphabets always go hand in hand. Consequently, what is taking place in the language and alphabet policies of the Central Asian states should not be surprising. However, some political hawks and biased pundits in Russia tend to see anti-Russian plots or at least irresponsible acts in whatever independent states do independently from Russia. Moreover, such irritation reveals, among other things, the persistence of imperialist tradition in the Russian political system and political process.\nIt has to be mentioned that the introduction of the Cyrillic alphabet was just a link in the chain of events which led to the establishment of firm Soviet rule in Turkestan \u2013 most of modern Central Asia \u2013 but this process was never smooth and uncontroversial. In 1929, the official alphabet was changed from Arabic to Latin which in turn, in 1940, was changed again to Cyrillic. In fact, Cyrillic has been the official alphabet in Central Asia for only about half a century. There are hardly any other people in the world that experienced four alphabets within one century (Arabic-Latin-Cyrillic-Latin).\nIt should also be noted that some republics in the former Soviet Union did not change their alphabets at all. Armenia and Georgia, as well as the Baltic States (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) never used Cyrillic during and despite the Soviet rule. Interestingly, even the Kazakh Soviet alphabet based on the Cyrillic script included a couple of letters borrowed from the Latin script. The coexistence (indeed, peaceful coexistence) of Cyrillic and Latin in the former Soviet Union was a matter of fact. Naturally, the post-Soviet reality will be more plural in this respect.\nTherefore, the return of the Latin alphabet is nothing but a function of independence. It is an act of national self-determination which should be dealt with as it is. Meanwhile, although the official alphabet is reversed, the Russian language and Cyrillic script are still revered in the countries concerned. In Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and other Central Asian countries there is no official discrimination of Russians as a purposeful state policy. In many life circumstances as well as in political life, the Russian language alongside the Cyrillic alphabet is widely utilized.\nThe latter fact has given a reason for some pundits, media and officials in Russia to argue that Central Asians cannot rid themselves of Cyrillic and that Latin is irrelevant. They often point out that the great bulk of historical and other literature and texts over the past century has been published in Cyrillic and people will face difficulties reading texts in Latin. However, they overlook two simple facts: 1) the great bulk of literature and published texts and manuscripts are kept in archives and other sources and are in Latin or even in Arabic, that is, from pre-Cyrillic times; 2) the literacy rate in these countries diminishes the problem of reading scripts other than Cyrillic. This point is crucial. Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries have achieved about 100 percent literacy rate. This is a good background for adapting to the Latin script without giving up Cyrillic.\nCONCLUSIONS: Whatever the \u201cpro et contra\u201d of de-Cyrillization and Latinization of the alphabets, this political trend can be regarded as an unavoidable stage in the sequential de-Sovietization process, protracted for 25 years, which should be completed sooner or later. Language and alphabet policies must finally dot the i\u2019s and cross the t\u2019s. And as long as it is, among other things, about the de-Sovietization process and an act and function of independence, it will in all likelihood, as one can see, be exposed to (geo-)politicization of the problem.\nHowever, opponents to Latinization, mostly in Russia, make a fuss about this issue and create problems where they do not exist. Indeed, the Latin script per se is neither an alien nor an unfamiliar script to all the former Soviet people who used to study world languages in primary and secondary schools. Therefore, this is not even a generational issue. It is rather an advantage for Central Asians in the 21st century to use both alphabets \u2013 Cyrillic and Latin, and speak both Russian and Western languages alongside their native languages. It is obvious that the Cyrillic alphabet and Russian language will not be forgotten for the same reason as learning English or other Western languages or Chinese are beneficial.\nBy and large, the criticism of the change of alphabets in Central Asian countries is baseless since it contrasts with the social and interethnic peace prevailing in these countries, no matter which alphabet is adopted as official. The experience of Uzbekistan is illustrative in this regard. Slowly but steadily, Latin is becoming used everywhere in the country: text-books in schools, names of the streets, screen captions on TV, passports, various paperwork in governmental bodies, advertisements, commodity tags in the shops, some journals and many fiction books are all issued in Latin script without causing complaints or resentment on the part of the country\u2019s Russian-speaking population.\nOf course, Latinization is not implemented without corresponding costs and collateral problems related mostly to people\u2019s adaptation to a new reality. But these problems cannot serve as the ultimate argument for assertions about the irrelevance of the ongoing implementation of language and alphabet policies in the states concerned. It remains of special importance that the opponents of these policies, especially in Russia, will overcome geopolitical suspicions when it comes to the independent choice of Central Asian countries.\nAUTHOR\u2019S BIO: Dr. Farkhod Tolipov holds a PhD in Political Science and is Director of the Non-Governmental Research Institution \u201cKnowledge Caravan\u201d in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.\nImage source: http://static.kremlin.ru, accessed on 05.06. 2017\nRead 10128 times\tLast modified on Monday, 17 July 2017\nCentral Asian modernization\nRussian foreign policy Central Asia\nCentral Asia history\nMore in this category: \u00ab Georgia\u2019s Constitutional Reform is Good for the Ruling Party, Bad for Georgian Democracy Parliamentary Elections in Armenia Ensure Continued RPA Rule \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 13218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.carecenterhospital.com/id-0381", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OSB5UFQDNCIUBXTCRM4BN7P2WIURNTNJ", "length": 156, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.carecenterhospital.com", "title": "Grooming - CARE CENTER HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS", "raw_content": "Our groomers include Danielle and Kaylee. 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Famed Canadian engineer, Jay Ruston has been called in to produce the album. Mick continues: \u201cWe chose Jay because we admire his work with The Winery Dogs, Stone Sour, Black Star Riders, Paul Gilbert, and Europe. Jay has either produced, mixed or both for these bands, and he brought a fresh approach to Heep. He has been marvellous to work with.\" The band is beyond excited with the material written for the new album, which will include some epic additions to the band\u2019s huge catalog of rock staples and looks forward to sharing it with their fans around the world. The album will be released in CD, deluxe edition including one bonus audio track and a DVD, LP and Limited Box Set Edition (including deluxe edition + T-shirt). Uriah Heep debuted in 1970 with the release of one of hard rock\u2019s milestones, Very 'eavy... Very 'umble, and have since sold in excess of 30 million albums worldwide. They constantly tour the world, playing up to 125 shows a year to 500,000+ fans. 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You need JavaScript enabled to view it.\n\u201cThe message around climate change is clear and powerfully delivered by such an impressive array of authors. The effects of flooding and drought are and will be worldwide; the chance for better, green solutions is now. Who cannot fail to take notice?\u201d\n- Sue Illman, PPLI, HonFSE, HonFellow (UoG) and CIC Champion for Flood Mitigation and Resilience\n\u201cScotland has always been an outward looking nation. The international breadth of the contributors and the topics covered testify to this little country\u2019s continuing role as a gathering place of knowledge, thought and inspiration.\u201d\n- Neil Baxter, Hon FRIAS, Secretary & Treasurer, The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland\n\u201cSustainable urbanism requires an integrated and holistic approach that embeds the landscape and the water system equally with all other considerations in the city.\u201d\n- John Thompson, Hon President the Academy of Urbanism and Founder Chairman of JTP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 306.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cfelectricalservice.com/portfolio/fire-control-panels/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:59Z", "digest": "sha1:RUND7QRO7QRGAKYZOXFG5JBIVUCBJNQB", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cfelectricalservice.com", "title": "Fire Control Panels - CF Electrical Service, LLC. | CF Electrical Service, LLC.", "raw_content": "We sell, service and install Fire Control Panels for commercial, restaurant, office, industrial and residential use.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chaostocosmos.co.uk/2011/04/laziness-versus-pacing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:38Z", "digest": "sha1:BWQTP7BVSLVMDV4NOONHEHIQMDUW6KNY", "length": 1418, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.chaostocosmos.co.uk", "title": "Chaos to Cosmos: Laziness versus Pacing", "raw_content": "Laziness versus Pacing\nIt suddenly struck me when I saw this LOLcat image that this is how others view us.\nPacing: stopping well short of what you might be able to do to avoid exhaustion and flares is extremely important to sufferers of fibromyalgia and ME/CFS.\nMy occupational therapist at the Pain Management Centre has spoken to me about it, saying I should aim to do half or two-thirds of what I think I can manage and gradually work up towards doing more.\nShe says I need to pace better when I mention the 1 mile walk that is too much for me, but for which there is no alternative as it\u2019s a mile to town, a mile to the bus stop, a mile to the train station, a mile to the doctors\u2019 surgery \u2026 This means I can only go out once in a while, for essential appointments, which send me hurtling into mega-flares, then rest for days / weeks, rinse repeat.\nAll of the rest of the time, at home, I\u2019m either too exhausted to do anything, or I\u2019m pacing well below my capabilities in order to save up some energy for the next outing; not fun ones, mostly just hospital and doctor\u2019s visits.\nThis latter is called \u201claying around\u201d to anyone else. They think it\u2019s laziness.\nThey should try to live a day with the amount of pain and fatigue we have: they wouldn\u2019t be pacing, they\u2019d be demanding the euthanasia pills!\nQuite! Friend of mine has a sore knee but is otherwise well. You wouldn't believe the fuss and whingeing about it!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 7165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chiangmai-mail.com/454/sports.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6WW5KSWMJTE3XOE6QRW3Q6UXE7KVIEF6", "length": 5538, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.chiangmai-mail.com", "title": "SPORTS", "raw_content": "Thai fans have been not only following the matches but betting on them as well, File photo of Brazil\u2019s win in the opening match of the 2014 World Cup. (Photo by copa2014.gov.br via Wikimedia Commons)\nThai police have so far arrested 1,558 suspects allegedly involved in betting on the 2014 World Cup taking place in Brazil, a senior police officer said Sunday.\nAs the World Cup entered its 10th day last Sunday, Pol Maj Gen Anand Srihiran, commander of the Royal Thai Police Office of Police Strategy responsible for suppressing gambling in the football competition, said in total, police have apprehended 1,584 betters nationwide.\nPolice have also seized Bt380,949 in cash and Bt498,709 bank account deposit books, he said. Most of the alleged betters and bookmakers were arrested in Bangkok, followed by those in the eastern and northeastern provinces, said General Anand.\nPolice also shut down 623 websites which allowed online betting for football, while they are preparing to close another 277 websites, he added. (MCOT online news)\nThe Thai National Sepak Takraw team hopes to win a gold medal in the upcoming Asian Games in Incheon from September 20, 2014. (File photo)\nAll dominant TV stations are cooperating to provide full coverage of 36 sports at the 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014 from 19th September to 4th October.This will allow Thai people to view television stations on the 8VSB standard, as the games can be watched in both standard and HD resolution.\nChannel 5 will broadcast the opening ceremony which will be seen on 19th September from 5 pm to 7 pm, while the closing ceremony will be aired on the NBT channel on the 4th July from 5pm to 7pm.\nDuring the period from 20th September to 3rd October, the games will be broadcast live on NBT from 8am to12 midday while the other four channels which are 3, 5,7 and modern nine TV, will rotate showing competitive events in the afternoon. The results of each day\u2019s games will be broadcast on the NBT channel from 11pm to midnight.\nThai athletes expect to gain more medals this year. Thailand hopes to rank 7th or higher on the medal table. While Sepak Takraw, Tae Kwondo, Badminton, Weightlifting and Sailing are Thai competitors\u2019 best prospects for gold medals. (NNT)\nMichelle Wie celebrates holing a birdie putt on the 17th green during the final round of the 2014 U.S. Women\u2019s Open, held at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club in North Carolina, Sunday, June 22. (Photo courtesy of Nike Golf)\nMichelle Wie powered her way to a two-shot victory at the U.S. Women\u2019s Open on Sunday, June 22, capturing the first major championship of her career at Pinehurst Resort and Country Club.\nThe 24-year-old notched her second LPGA Tour win of the year \u2013 and fourth of her career \u2014 with a final score of 2-under-par 278.\nWie celebrated her major milestone on the 18th green with her fellow LPGA athletes, who doused her in champagne.\n\u201cI had a lot of fun today, I woke up so excited. I am just so grateful for the opportunity,\u201d said Wie. \u201cI got a lot of goose bumps walking up to 18. I can\u2019t believe this is happening.\u201d\nThe win gives Wie eight top-ten finishes this season, moving her from 11th to a projected seventh in the World Rankings, and she now tops the LPGA Tour Official Money List. (Source: Nike Golf)\nStuvik steers his RP Motorsport F3 car to victory at the Jerez Circuit in Spain, Sunday, June 22.\nAspiring Thai racer Sandy Stuvik won both of the races at the third round of the EuroFormula Open Championship at Jerez Circuit in Spain last weekend. The young Thai driver clinched pole position for the first race, in front of Polish championship leader and teammate Artur Janosz, and during the race Stuvik would prove to be untouchable as he gradually pulled away from the pursuing Formula 3 cars. In the end he took the checkered flag well ahead of Janosz in second and Israel\u2019s Yarin Stern in third.\nSunday morning qualifying for the second race saw Janosz secure pole position after he put in a blistering lap. Spain\u2019s Alex Palou took second place and Stuvik had to settle for P3.\nAs the race started Janosz cut across the front of Palou in a move that would later earn him a drive through penalty. Stuvik in turn overtook the Spanish driver through turn 3 and 4 and after Janosz had served his drive through, the Thai driver would find himself with a solid lead. Stuvik controlled his pace to finish over 6 seconds clear of second placed Alex Palou. Again it was Israel\u2019s Yarin Stern who secured the third place on the podium.\nThailand\u2019s Sandy Stuvik (center) is flanked on the podium by teammate Artur Janosz (left) and Yarin Stern (right).\nStuvik commented after the race: \u201cThis was a tough race and weekend and I am excited to now take the lead of the championship back again. I have to thank Team RP Motorsport for giving me such a fantastic Formula 3 car and for being able to build the car so well around my driving style. I do realize that my competitors are coming ever closer and I will take my training to the next level to do my best to stay ahead as we go to Hungary in two week time.\u201d\nThe results leave Sandy Stuvik firmly in the lead of the championship with 124 points, to Janosz\u2019 93 points and Palou with 87 points as the series now moves to the Hungaroring Circuit in Hungary for the 4th round on 4-6 July.\nTigers in their first defeat of the season\nPolice arrest 1,584 suspects for betting on World Cup\n17th Incheon Asian Games 2014 to be aired on all channels\nMichelle Wie wins U.S. Women\u2019s Open\nStuvik retakes F3 lead after double victory in Spain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 5797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chinasprout.com/shop/BSU009", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:48Z", "digest": "sha1:3THZ6SD5VMEHXAH5TP5SREUKII5SGB7F", "length": 1045, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.chinasprout.com", "title": "Dr. Seuss: Hop on Pop | Chinese Books | Story Books | Western Books in Chinese | ISBN 9787500151838", "raw_content": "Dr. Seuss: Hop on Pop BSU009\nNow you can read this Dr. Seuss classic in Chinese or English! First published in 1963, Hop on Pop remains a perennial favorite when it comes to teaching kids to read. Here, as in most of his extensive body of work, Dr. Seuss creates uncomplicated, monosyllabic rhymes to foster learning and inspire children to read. But what was radical about this little book at the time of publication (and what makes it still compelling today) is Seuss's departure from the traditionally dull pictures and sentences used in reading primers. In contrast, the illustrations here are wild and wonderful, and the accompanying language, while simple, is delightfully silly. Hop on Pop does much more than teach children the basics of word construction, it also introduces them to the incomparable pleasure of reading a book. In traditional Chinese characters and Zhuyin or simplified Chinese character and English. 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They are basically saying \u201cBaseball isn\u2019t a priority, so we\u2019ll take our time.\u201d The initial launch date was May 9th, but the venues weren\u2019t reviewed or audited for official use. While there are no professional baseball being played, the players have been training with college teams to keep in shape. The team from Tianjin will head to Taiwan next month to participate in some friendly matches. Until then, let\u2019s hope there will finally be some good news in the near future!\nLabels: CBL, delayed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chiyaanvikramfans.in/2014/01/all-that-matters-is-hit-sethu-vikram.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ONEVIKZBY4E76X37PWJASNPIN5L4LC6S", "length": 12182, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "www.chiyaanvikramfans.in", "title": "'All that matters is a hit' Sethu Vikram - Movie Review & Interview - Chiyaan Vikram FANS | Official Fans Website | Dr.Vikram Kennedy | CVF", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Latest Buzz , Reviews \u00bb 'All that matters is a hit' Sethu Vikram - Movie Review & Interview\n'All that matters is a hit' Sethu Vikram - Movie Review & Interview\n'All that matters is a hit' Sethu Tamil Movie Review and Vikram Interview\n- Chiyaan Vikram 25 Years in Indian Cinema Special -\nIt has been a long wait -- of 10 years -- for Vikram for a film like Sethu to happen. But when it did happen, it was like a big bang!\nTrade pundits say that after Padayappa, Sethu is the biggest hit of recent times, a surprise hit, of course. A film which no distributor was willing to buy, a film which no big theatre owner was willing to show became one of the stunners in the Tamil industry.\nIt was first released in a suburban theatre and later it got a noon show slot in the city for a couple of weeks. After one week, the theatre management was forced to make it a regular show. Soon Sethu was running simultaneously at nine big theatres in the city. It was unprecedented, perhaps in the history of Indian cinema itself.\nWith Sethu, Vikram, who acted as Sethu, has catapulted into stardom, which he richly deserves. As the film nears 100 days in the city, Shobha Warrier met Vikram at his residence and talked to him about his role in Sethu.\nWas it a very long and difficult 10 years for you?\nYes, it was. Getting into movies itself was a major step and once you do that, you feel, ha! I have made it. But it is more difficult after you climb the first step.\nWhat made you choose films as your career?\nI didn't want to be anything but an actor. My father ran away from home to be an actor. So, I think it was a little infectious and I too got infected by the film bug ever since I was in the eighth standard. Till the eighth, I was first in studies and from the eighth, I was last in the class since I was obsessed with films.\nI studied in a boarding school in Yercaud and we had all the opportunities in the school to pursue extracurricular activities. So, I learnt karate, swimming, dancing and played all the games because I felt it might come useful when I became an actor! You won't believe but if I had to fetch a ball, I would jump the wall because I thought that would help me in films later!\nDid you continue with your studies? Or, were you obsessed only with films?\nVikram I was obsessed with films, but I continued my studies for my dad's sake. I went on to do my graduation in English literature from Loyola College, but let me tell you, in my mind, I had only one ambition -- I wanted to be an actor. I did some courses in computers and then as I was doing my MBA, I got an offer and suddenly left everything to be an actor.\nThat was in 1989. I did Meera with a lot of expectations, but I did not become a sensation. But I knew Ullasam (ABCL's first Tamil film with Ajith and Vikram) wouldn't do well. I didn't like the soft character that I was portraying in the film. I don't like soft roles.\nI always felt only action-oriented roles would make you a big star. Even in Malayalam cinema, look at Jayaram, so many of his movies are big hits, but he is not a superstar. He is just a star. Only Mammootty, Mohanlal and Suresh Gopi are superstars because they do action-oriented roles.\nIn Tamil films too, the situation is no different. The hero has to be a larger-than-life character. But after Ullasam, I got a lot of female fans because they like soft characters!\nYour latest film Sethu took two years to complete. Were you tense at any point of time?\nI was a little depressed as it took two years and, I had stopped acting in any Tamil film for the sake of Sethu. And in those two years, I didn't act in any Malayalam and Telugu films either. By the end of the second year, it was my mother who ran my house.\nWhen you first started shooting Sethu, did you feel that it would be a major film in your career? If so, how did you get the inkling?\nFrom the very first scene itself, I got a feeling that it would click. Bala is a new director. But I knew he was making a good film. He was so confident about himself that he didn't compromise at all. When he narrated the story, I knew this guy had something. Sethu, the character that I portrayed was larger than life, really large, and I felt the audience would identify with his ideals and whatever he stood for.\nIn the second half of the film, there was a lot of scope for performance. So, I knew it would click. I knew that it would give me an opportunity for acting. And it worked.\nSo, you gave all your energy to this film?\nVikram in Sethu Yes. I didn't think of anything but Sethu in those days. I lost weight. I shaved my head. I changed my appearance. I did all that expecting the film to be over in three months. But six months passed, another six moths passed and even after one-and-a-half years, we were not finished. I couldn't take up another film because of my appearance. I did some dubbing, that's all.\nIt must have been a big gamble...\nYes. But I believed in the movie and I used to tell everyone that this movie is going to do wonders for me. Finally after two years, it was ready. Those who saw the rushes said, wow! People clapped after the preview! But no one was buying the film. I started feeling jittery. I must say, hats off to the producer, because he released the film himself.\nIt started off as just a noon show film, didn't it?\nYes, that too in a suburban theatre. That was because we didn't get any good theatre. I was very disappointed. Nobody goes for a noon show except college students. I went to the theatre in the first few days. In a theatre, which had a capacity of 650, there were hardly 250 people on the first day! I thought all our hard work had gone waste.\nBut I found that even those who leisurely walked in half an hour after the film started sat through and started clapping by end. Suddenly, I felt hopeful. You can say the audience that comes to that particular theatre are like those in the smaller places like Trichi or Salem. And, the audience increased by the day and finally the shows started getting full.\nYou won't believe -- I was going there almost every day to keep track of my film. I was so desperate about Sethu. But after the first show itself, I was sure that it would click. I told the producer to wait for 10 days.\nThere was no publicity at all about the movie and I have heard that it became a success through word of mouth publicity. Is that true?\nYou are right. People went to see the film because somebody else told them it was a good movie... Later, the film moved to a big theatre in the city as noon show with just 25 people watching the first show. After a week, they called us and said that they were going to make it a regular show.\nIs it not for the first time that a movie which was first released in a suburban theatre as a noon show went on to become a success of this sort?\nIt was showing in nine theatres simultaneously in the city! Till it completed 75 days, it was there in all the nine theatres and now it has been removed from only two of those theatres. This is the first time in my life that I have gone to a theatre and seen my film so many times. My film! This is the first time in my life that I saw people clapping and whistling to a film of mine. They lifted me, kissed me and almost ripped my shirt off after a show here in Madras. Oh, what an experience it was! I just loved it.\nWhen did you finally relax?\nAfter the second or the third week, I knew it would be a hit. But again, I felt depressed after one month. I had been listening to stories from the day people realised that Sethu was a hit. I might have heard 150 stories in the first one month, but I couldn't find a single challenging script. I had decided that I wouldn't do a film unless the script was really good. Then, why did I wait so long?\nVikram I became very, very depressed, more depressed than I was before the release of Sethu. Sethu was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and even after that, if I could not find a challenging script, what would I do? Sixty-five days had passed after the release of Sethu and I had not accepted any film.\nPeople asked me, 'are you mad? You waited for 10 years for producers to flock to you. And, when they come with offers, you are not accepting any film. Why don't you accept all?' But the problem was I couldn't.\nWhat are you looking for now, good story, good producer or a good director?\nGood story, of course. I want good, strong characters. I then look for a director who is capable of making that story into a good film. Then I will see the production company. I do not want to do insipid roles even though the story is good. I am relieved now because in the last 10 days, I heard some really good subjects from good producers. I had two choices -- I either accept any movie or hope it runs. Or, wait a little more for a good script. I decided to wait and it has paid dividends finally.\nAfter Sethu, producers and directors are coming to sign you. Don't you feel they ignored your talent all these years and now only because you had a big hit that they are after you?\nThat's how it is, that was how it was and that is how it will be. See you don't have to be good looking, you don't have to act well, you don't have to fight well or dance well -- all that matters is a hit. If your movie does well, people will look up at you, but if your films flop, however much talented you are, they will ignore you. I always knew that I would be successful one day.\nHow could you remain so confident even though they sidelined you all these years?\nI think it is my blood type: I am B+ve. So, I have always been positive. Do you know I had a major accident when I was in college and I didn't walk for four years? Three years, I didn't walk at all and then for one year, I was on crutches. The doctors told me that I wouldn't be able to walk. But I was adamant that I would walk one day and I would be an actor. That confidence was what kept me going. If I could come out of such a serious setback, I could come out of anything.\nSo, the last 10 years was nothing. Yes, I felt a little low, that's all. I was not dismissed all these 10 years. But I had not given a hit like Ajith or Vijay, and both of them came after me.\nIt was not that I was not getting offers. Earlier also, I was getting offers, but not good roles. Now I am getting a lot more offers and good roles. It is not money that lured me into this profession, you know.\nSo, artistic satisfaction is more important to you than money?\nI want satisfaction. If you love what you do, what more can you hope for? I love acting. I love acting on stage. I love acting in films. I want to act. I want to do good characters, challenging characters. Yes, nobody does any work for free. I too need money, but I don't want money to take precedence over artistic satisfaction. I didn't compromise all these years. So, why should I compromise now? No, I will never.\nYou had acted in quite a few Malayalam films too...\nSethu See, I had been doing a lot of good small roles with Mammookka (Mammootty), Suresh Gopi and Jayaram all these years. For pocket money! And, in Sethu, if they describe my acting as good, it is only because of the experience I got from those Malayalam films. I had watched all these great actors act and the natural acting that I do now is not even five per cent of what they do in Malayalam films. And, I want to do good roles in Malayalam cinema too now because I love those films. I want to do the kind of strong roles that Mammookka and Mohanlal do there.\nDo you get into the characters or the characters get into you?\nI try getting into the characters but eventually, Sethu got into me. In the second half, after I shaved my head and became thin, I became the character.\nDid you carry the character with you especially after shaving your head and looking so different?\nYes, I did. My wife and father used to tell me, 'don't walk like that, don't look like that.' Sethu used to be so irritable and look in a particular way. Even after shooting, I used to be like him, I just couldn't get over him. Even now, I cannot forget Sethu. 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It includes various association documents and useful information and links.\nCarriage Homes on the Pond ~ Brookfield, Connecticut 06804-3920", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 512, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.christinaschiccorner.com/2017/10/bareminerals-barepro-foundation-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7X776TROHDW2JKYO2CZMIMSCDTBXDH6D", "length": 4675, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.christinaschiccorner.com", "title": "bareMinerals BarePro Foundation Review", "raw_content": "It\u2019s so surprising to me now how much I\u2019ve been wearing foundation lately. I used to wear it all the time when I was younger and first allowed to wear makeup, but then I stopped wearing foundation after high school and switched to spot concealing or a lightweight BB cream. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve continued to do for the past six years until recently. I tried the L\u2019oreal Infallible Pro-Matte foundation and fell in love with how perfect it made my skin, which triggered me to start wearing foundation more often. I just recently got the brand new bareMinerals BarePro foundation and since this was the first high-end foundation that I\u2019ve ever used, I had high expectations for how it would perform.\nThis foundation retails for $34 for 1 fl oz of product, which isn\u2019t too incredibly bad considering its high-end competitors. It does include SPF 20 and they\u2019re claiming that what sets this apart from other foundations is that it will leave a natural matte finish that lasts an entire 24 hours while also improving your skin. This is supposed to be a self-setting foundation that blurs your pores and imperfections and improves your skin\u2019s texture with its papaya enzymes.\nThe bareMinerals brand is known for making products that are supposed to be good for your skin. Keeping to that motto, this foundation is made without parabens, sulfates, and phthalates. It is also dermatologist tested, oil-free, non-comedogenic, and non-acnegenic. It\u2019s said to be full coverage and suitable for all skin types.\nThe packaging of this does feel very nice, as most high-end foundation bottles would. They do offer 30 different shades in this product, which I think is great considering most companies don\u2019t create such a wide variety. This did get sent to me through Influenster and the shade I have the shade Warm Light 07. Unfortunately it\u2019s much too light for my skintone. However, I would rather a foundation be too light than too dark because I can always add warmth later with some bronzer. I like that it has a pump, but would almost rather it be a little bigger because it doesn\u2019t provide much room to pump the product out and I\u2019ve made many huge messes with it.\nBecause of the color difference, it is a little difficult for me to see this providing full coverage on my skin. It covers the redness around my nose pretty well, but I can still see blemishes showing through. It can easily be built up and concealer layers over it nicely. I\u2019d say it\u2019s more of a medium coverage for me. Would I have gotten the right shade, that might be a different story. I have layered this over a few different primers with no problems and although I always set it with a powder, I\u2019ve never used a setting spray with it. I typically get through a full-day without this wearing down, but there was no way I\u2019d test it for 24 hours. Please, please don\u2019t wear your foundation for 24 hours y\u2019all.\nOverall, I do think this is a nice foundation and I would say that I recommend it. As far as the difference in my skin\u2019s texture that they claimed, I don\u2019t really see a difference so I think it\u2019s kinda silly that they included that in the description. However, it is comforting to know that this is better for my skin in some way compared to other foundations especially when I have such acne-prone skin. I look forward to testing this more in the winter and seeing how it matches with my skin when I don\u2019t have a tan.\nIf you found this review helpful, please feel free to share it using one of the buttons below. If you have any other questions, leave them for me in the comments. Have you tried this product before? What\u2019s your favorite high-end foundation?\nLabels: bareMinerals Foundation Review Skincare\nThanks for writing this up - I've been wanting to try this but don't want to spend the money and then realize I don't like the coverage as much as what I am currently using (Almay Truly Lasting Color Foundation). I was thinking about trying L\u2019oreal\u2019s Infallible - are you still sticking to that one or would you make the switch to the bareMinerals? Thanks for your insight!\nBefore you spend the money, you could always go to Sephora and have them give you a free sample first to see how you like it! L'oreal's Infallible foundation is really great too, I also have a full review on that one. I haven't tried the Pro-Glow version, but I do have the Pro-Matte and switch off between that and the barePro depending on whether I'm wearing self-tanner or not. If you're more concerned with skincare benefits or looking for a wide color selection, I'd go with the barePro. Otherwise you could save some money and get the L'oreal one instead. They're both great! :)\nChristina Leigh November 18, 2017 at 1:52 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 7236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.christstjohns.org/site/cpage.asp?cpage_id=180042001&sec_id=180000598", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GPXCH4DQHI3Q35IHR7P7KXW2UMPCDSXJ", "length": 1039, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.christstjohns.org", "title": "- PRE K", "raw_content": "CSJ for 3K & 4K\nChrist-St. John\u2019s Lutheran School\noffers a children\u2019s 3K & 4K program.\n3K classes meet on Tuesday & Thursday mornings from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM.\n4K classes meet on Monday, Wednesday & Friday from 8:00 AM to 11:30 AM.\n* Call us \u2013 786-1250 Ext. 100\n* Email \u2013 info@christstjohns.org\n* Stop by \u2013 500 Park Street\nMrs. Susan Riediger\nSusan was born and raised on the Harlan and Joan Goens\u2019 dairy farm near Clear Lake, SD. She has 4 sisters and 2 brothers. She married Galen Riediger on June 9, 1990. God blessed them with three children: Rebecca, Paul and Rachel.\nSusan received her Bachelor\u2019s degree in elementary education from Dr. Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN. She graduated in 1986 and was assigned to Siloah Ev. Lutheran School in Milwaukee, WI where she taught 2nd and 3rd grades. Since then she has served at Garden Homes Lutheran School, Milwaukee, WI (grades 1-2 and 5-6); Bethany Lutheran Preschool, Gibsonia, PA; Little Lambs Preschool, La Crescent, MN and St. John\u2019s Lutheran School, Nodine, MN (3 and 4 PreK).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.churchofthefoothills.org/speakers/rev-nancy-brink/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5HMNGESEIO2HAAIAGNH74XCZODJQHIAK", "length": 1937, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.churchofthefoothills.org", "title": "Church Of The Foothills \u00bb Speakers \u00bb Rev. Nancy Brink", "raw_content": "rev-nancy-brink\nMarch 26, 2017 Love Lessons from India Rev. Nancy Brink\nGuest, Rev. Nancy Brink\nPastoral Prayer Rev. Nancy Brink\nhttp://www.churchofthefoothills.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/170326-Pastoral-Prayer-Rev.-Nancy-Brink.mp3\nLove Lessons from India Rev. Nancy Brink\nhttp://www.churchofthefoothills.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/170326-Love-Lessons-from-India-Rev.-Nancy-Brink-Sermon.mp3\nAug. 14, 2016 Questions of Power Rev. Nancy Brink\nQuestions of Power Rev. Nancy Brink\nhttp://www.churchofthefoothills.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/160814-Questions-of-Power-Rev.-Nancy-Brink-Sermon.mp3\nJune 5,2016 ONA Sunday What\u2019s Next? Rev. Nancy Brink\nWhat\u2019s Next? Rev. Nancy Brink\nhttp://www.churchofthefoothills.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/160605-What\u2019s-Next-Rev.-Nancy-Brink.mp3\nWhat\u2019s Next? Rev. Nancy Brink- Edited Sound\nhttp://www.churchofthefoothills.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Brink-Sermon_June-5_small_edit.mp3\nAug 23, 2015 Beyond Distraction by Rev. 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Like a giant sparkling disco ball in the sky, it towers over the city and may well be the most photographed object in Berlin. It is an architecturally impressive achievement and over the years has become a symbol of reunification for the former divided Germany. It has a restaurant, a panoramic observation floor with a bar and an elevator that transports visitors to the top at a speed of around 6 metres per second. The views from the TV Tower are without question, the best in Berlin. At 368 metres, it is the tallest structure in Germany, so in fact, they are also the best views in the country.\nIt is more than just a very tall tourist attraction however, as historically it served an important purpose. Discussions in the GDR, about the need for a TV transmission tower to manage GDR TV station signals began in the early 1950\u2019s. Various locations were discussed, flight plans were considered and finally the location at Alexanderplatz was decided on. The TV Tower was designed by East German architect Hermann Henselmann. The giant silver sphere that is the tower\u2019s most distinctive feature was inspired by the Sputnik 1, the earth\u2019s first satellite, which had been launched into space just a few years before, by the Soviet Union. Henselmann\u2019s design also suggested the sphere would be illuminated in red as a symbol of Socialism.\nTV Tower construction Image \u00a9 Berliner Fernsehturm\nConstruction on the \u2018Berliner Fernsehturm\u2019 began in 1965 and lasted about 4 years, before the tower became operational in 1969. Construction came with considerable challenges due to the sheer height of the tower, as well as the size of the sphere to be placed on top. Do they build the sphere and then raise it by constructing the tower beneath it, or build the tower then add the sphere at the end? Finally it was decided the only solution was to begin with the internal frame, and then follow with the external sections, piece by piece. The shaft of the tower started with a diameter of 16 metres at the base and tapered up to 9 metres towards the top. The frame of the sphere was constructed at ground level in sections, then cranes lifted the sections to the top where they were attached to the platform of the sphere.\nThe red and white striped antenna at the top represents transmission facilities still in place today with over 60 radio and television programs broadcasted. The TV Tower is regularly illuminated for different festivals in the city or for significant historical events. In 2006 the sphere was decorated to look like a football to mark the final of the FIFA World Cup held in Germany that year and it is one of the highlights of Berlin\u2019s Festival of Lights, held every year in October. The TV Tower is a much beloved part of the Berlin skyline. Whether sprinkled with snow or sparkling brilliantly as the sun sets over the city, it is the city\u2019s most precious jewel and has a special place in the heart of many Berliners.\nTV Tower & Dome Image \u00a9 Berliner Fernsehturm\nThe TV Tower is just a short walk from Alexanderplatz (right behind it in fact. The TV Tower is open daily from 9am - midnight (March to October) and 10am to midnight (November to February). Tickets prices start at \u20ac8.50 for children aged 4 - 16 and \u20ac13 for adults. There are a variety of ticketing options, and you should check waiting times because one guarantee is that there will always be a long queue. For this reason we suggest buying the tickets online. 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His goal is to characterize and manipulate microbial communities to (1) protect and improve public and environmental health and (2) improve functional reliability and economic feasibility of water infrastructure.\nAmeet graduated in 2003 with his baccalaureate in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai. He received his Master of Sciences in Environmental Engineering from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2005 and graduated with this PhD from Virginia Tech in 2009. His doctoral work was in the area of wastewater engineering with particular focus on upset event detection and mitigation and the effect of perturbation on the microbial ecology of activated sludge systems. Ameet completed his post-doc at the University of Michigan and subsequently worked at the University of Glasgow as a Lecturer (2012-2015) and then Senior Lecturer (2015) before joining Northeastern University in January 2016.\n2009 PhD in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech\n2005 MS in Environmental Engineering at University of Alaska Fairbanks\nInternational Society of Microbial Ecology\nAssociation of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors\nI. Bradley, A.J. Pinto, J.S. Guest, Design and Evaluation of Illumina MiSeq Compatible 18S rRNA Primers for Improved Characterization of Mixed Phototrophic Communities, EApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 89(19), 2016, 5878-5891\nQ.M. Bautista, J. Schroeder, M.C.R. Sevillano, R. Sungthong, U. Ijaz, W.T. Sloan, A.J. Pinto, Emerging Investigator Series: Microbial communities in Full Scale Drinking Water Systems- A Meta-Analysis, Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, 2016, 631-644\nA.J. Pinto, D.N. Marcus, U.Z. Ijaz, Q.M. Bautista, G.J. Dick, L. Raskin, Metagenomic Evidence for the Presence of Comammox Nitrospira-like Bacteria in a Drinking Water System, mSphere Journal, 1, 2015\nJ. Schroeder, M. Lunn, A.J. Pinto, L. Raskin, W.T. Sloan, Probabilistic Models to Describe the Dynamics of Migrating Microbial Communities, PLoS One, 10, 2015, e0117221\nA.J. Pinto, J. Schroeder, M. Lunn, W.T. Sloan, L. Raskin, Spatial-Temporal Survey and Occupancy-Abundance Modeling to Predict Bacteria Community Dynamics in the Drinking Water Microbiome, mBio Journal, 5(3), 2014\nA.J. Pinto, C. Xi, L. Raskin, Bacterial Community Structure in the Drinking Water Microbiome is Governed by Filtration Processes, Environmental Science and Technology, 46, 2012, 8851-8859\nA.J. Pinto, L. Raskin, PCR Biases Distort Bacterial and Archaeal Community Structure in Pyrosequencing Datasets, PLoS One, 7(8), 2012\nCEE Assistant Professor Ameet Pinto was selected as a recipient of the 2018 ISME/IWA Bio Cluster Award in the Rising Star Category. This prestigious prize rewards interdisciplinary research of...\nHonoring Highest Achievements\nCongratulations to the COE faculty and students that were honored at the 2018 Academic Honors Convocation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 8791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.classictoysoldiers.com/cgi-bin/ctsc6/rtl/phd.cgi?Autoincrement=004810&tag_rf=25mm%20Toy%20Soldiers+Modern%20Military%20Figures%20(25mm)%20Manufacturers%2025mm+ORION&display_related=Yes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:28Z", "digest": "sha1:AJEVEB5NCACSS6WFWTHMMLYRZD2GMC3Y", "length": 115, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.classictoysoldiers.com", "title": "Modern Israeli Army set #1 (012) (25mm) , 25mm Toy Soldiers+Modern Military Figures (25mm) Manufacturers 25mm+ORION", "raw_content": "Modern Israeli Army set #1 (012) (25mm)\nORION Modern Israeli Army set #1 (72012) (1:72 scale) plastic toy soldiers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cleveland19.com/story/26559677/akron-pd-arrests-murder-suspect-in-fatal-car-shooting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:13Z", "digest": "sha1:BCP4FZR6G5H7UVPBBANNCDAF7LDS4UXH", "length": 668, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.cleveland19.com", "title": "AKRON: Murder suspect in deadly car shooting turns himself in", "raw_content": "AKRON: Murder suspect in deadly car shooting turns himself in\nBy Cleveland 19 Digital Team | September 17, 2014 at 7:41 PM EST - Updated July 11 at 3:15 AM\nAKRON, OH (WOIO) - Akron Police have been on the hunt for the gunman in the deadly September 11th shooting of Jerome Bable.\nBable was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the chest, inside his car parked in the 800 block of Jason Avenue.\nOn Tuesday, September 16, less than a week after the deadly incident, 20-year-old Dequante Darnell Moorer turned himself in.\nMoorer was booked into the Summit County Jail and is scheduled for an arraignment hearing on\nSeptember 18 at 8:30 a.m. in a Akron Municipal Courtroom.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 2621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.climb-europe.com/rockclimbingshop/Roca-Verde-Rock-Climbing-Guidebook.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:HIGYXAB6IN4WBFOI7IFGCSES34SBABLV", "length": 1654, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.climb-europe.com", "title": "\ufeff Roca Verde Rock Climbing Guidebook library. Currently supports \"jquery\" and \"velocity\". animations: 'jquery', // Called after SlickNav creation init: function () {}, // Called before menu or sub-menu opened beforeOpen: function () {}, // Called before menu or sub-menu closed beforeClose: function () {}, // Called after menu or sub-menu opened. afterOpen: function () {}, // Called after menu or sub-menu closed. afterClose: function () {} }); });", "raw_content": "This is a comprehensive guidebook describing the sport climbing found around the Cordillera Cantabrica mountain range in north-west Spain. The climbing is situated between the cities of Gijon on the north coast and Leon. This rugged, compact and incredibly green part of Spain is one of Europe\u2019s best-kept secret climbing areas. Included for the first time is an overview of some of the bouldering areas in this region.\nThe guidebook covers 53 selected crags in Asturias, Cantabria and Leon that are used by the regions climbers on a year-round basis, including the summer months. Some of the larger crags covered are Teverga and Quiros in the Valles del Trubia; Pelugano in the Valles de Nalon y Aller; plus Valdehuesa and Valverdin-Pedrosa near Leon. In total nearly over 3,400 routes are detailed across a wide range of grades.\nAt the start of each crag there is information regarding the type and style of climbing found plus the best time of the year to climb there. Also included is a location map and detailed approach information. All the routes are shown on colour photo topos along with their height.\nPublished in May 2016 this is the 2nd edition of this guidebook, and it is written in Spanish and English text throughout. Also included are a number of QR codes that are scattered throughout the guidebook. These QR codes link to a video of the particular area showing various routes and boulder problems to give you a strong flavour of the type of climbing to be found in the region.\nCordillera Cantabrica Sport Climbing Guidebook\nSouth Western Europe & Morocco Rock Climbing Atlas\nFree Climbing in Picu Urriellu (Naranjo de Bulnes) Guidebook", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 10039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coldwellbankerregan.com/real-estate/community/collin's-w-h", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:34Z", "digest": "sha1:6EJQYUV5WPQGAYGSI7YPDXG3R24OMHAC", "length": 378, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.coldwellbankerregan.com", "title": "Collin's W H Real Estate Listings", "raw_content": "Collin's W H Real Estate Listings\nThe Collin's W H Real Estate market currently has 2 homes for sale, with the majority of these homes priced between $0K - $100K. With the median list price for the Collin's W H area being $63,500 and the median price per square foot of $62 you will be able to find a home that meets your criteria.\n5221 Gladstone Bv\nfor Collin's W H Real Estate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.collecttoys.net/Games/barney-miller.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:37Z", "digest": "sha1:GC37TF4AEUJBAATHIX7CTL7642LANWRR", "length": 574, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.collecttoys.net", "title": "Barney Miller board game", "raw_content": "Barney Miller board game\nParker Brothers released the Barney Miller ('and the 12th Street Gang,' as it's sometimes called) in 1977.\nThe game is basically a card game with extra rules. The player uses Evidence Cards and Arrest Warrants to capture all four of the particular suspects shown on his Wanted poster.\nBarney Miller was a cop-themed comedy TV show that ran from 1975 to 1982 on ABC. Taking place in Greenwich Village in NYC, Barney was a police captain who presided over a group of wacky, multi-ethnic officers.\nThis game was designed by Paul J. 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When Brandon's \"friend\" Michael, who is a gangster rising in the ranks, frames Brandon for manslaughter and sends him to jail for eight years, he thinks he can get in good with May (by attempting to rape her while she's pregnant, a great plan). In an intriguing plot development, while Brandon is in jail, May forges a relationship with an older gentleman who just wants \"a companion\" and offers to take her to Brazil.\nMeanwhile, Brandon is rotting away, seething, in prison. He develops a friendship with an arms dealer named Hoi (Hoi Mang), nicknamed \"Four Eyes\" in the joint because he wears glasses. Even after Brandon gets out of a hard stretch in prison, Michael still makes Brandon's life a living hell.\nFinally, enough is enough, and after a whole movie of a nice guy being stepped on over and over again, Brandon reconnects with Hoi and his huge stash of weaponry, and they go together on a violence-packed, kick-ass revenge mission against Michael's gang. Will Brandon get justice? Will he reunite with May? Will he be able to have a relationship with his estranged son?\nInterestingly, the movie, at least in the English-speaking world, is called LEGACY of rage, obviously trying to link Brandon with his legendary father Bruce, as if that was really needed. Maybe it was just a marketing thing. But there IS plenty of rage! \"Legacy of Rage\" definitely delivers the goods. It has a good story, is well-filmed, has great action, brutal violence, a satisfying ending, and is all handled well, with energy, style and flair by director Ronny Yu.\nAccording to author Thomas Weisser from his great book Asian Cult Cinema (Boulevard, 1997): \"This is the only made-in-Hong Kong movie with Brandon Lee. Reportedly, Brandon was reluctant to make HK movies because he was afraid of critical comparison between himself and his superhero father Bruce Lee\" (pg.117). I would just add that I'm glad he did, especially in the great year for action movies, 1986. The timing couldn't have been better. I wish he did more Hong Kong action movies.\nI love movies where the good guy is really good (he even helps a little girl in need after her mommy gets on a bus without her!), the bad guys are really bad, and the good guy doesn't want to fight, but he has to because he's taken too much crap for too long. This D&B (not \"Dave and Busters\", Dickson Poon's -- no smirking -- Hong Kong production company) falls into that esteemed category!\nFan-favorite Bolo Yeung appears very briefly (one short scene) in the beginning of the film as a gangster looking for protection money from the restaurant where Brandon works. It was nice to see him, and if I have one complaint about the movie, it's that it could have used more Bolo.\nBut on the whole, I would heartily recommend Legacy of Rage.\nLabels: 1986, Brandon Lee, Dickson Poon, Hong Kong, Legacy of Rage, Revenge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 5048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cookapalooza.org/2012/01/perfect-scrambled-eggs-2-minute-cooking.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LZ5S4CW5AJGDZ33U44YCNK7IKN2QRNFM", "length": 670, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.cookapalooza.org", "title": "The Cook-a-Palooza Experience: Perfect Scrambled Eggs - 2 Minute Cooking Tip Video", "raw_content": "Perfect Scrambled Eggs - 2 Minute Cooking Tip Video\nScrambled eggs could be one of the easiest dishes to make but it has taken me years of trial and error to find a way to consistently get them moist and fluffy.\nI've posted these scrambled egg tips on this blog in the past and thought it was time to share them in a video format.\nIt's all part of my secret mission to rid this world of runny and dried out scrambled eggs FOREVER!!!\nNever miss a thing! Get notification of new posts by email. Click here to subscribe!\nLabels: \"breakfast\", \"cooking tip\" \"new cooks\" \"college cooking\" \"college\" \"scrambled eggs\", \"eggs\", \"how to make\" \"recipe\" \"cooking video\", \"scrambled\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.corkcitysports.ie/athlete-of-the-month-may-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:06Z", "digest": "sha1:4EQSNZBJT34RYY7OOYCICNAWYTXC33MD", "length": 653, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.corkcitysports.ie", "title": "Athlete Of The Month - April \u00ab Cork City Sports Cork City Sports", "raw_content": "Athlete Of The Month \u2013 April\nConor Morey, Leevale AC, is the Cork City Sports Athlete of the Month for April 2017. Conor is an up and coming sprinter coached by Derek Coffey. Competing at the Munster Junior T&F Championships in Waterford on April 22nd, Conor had a clean sweep winning the 100m in 11.18 seconds and 200m in 22.48 seconds.\nEarlier in the month on April 7th, Conor anchored the Leevale boys under 18 and boys under 19 4x200m relay teams to victory in the Athletics Ireland indoor relay championships.\nConor has also been selected as one of the 23 athletes to represent Ireland at the European U18 Championships in Gyor, Hungary (July 5-8).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.corneliuscorps.org/blog/2016/1/2/the-core-of-the-cornelius-corps", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:21Z", "digest": "sha1:7U6KGQAKQ4L5QMMP3RHNXIHPC7CP4PAY", "length": 2106, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.corneliuscorps.org", "title": "The Core of The Cornelius Corps \u2014 Cornelius Corps", "raw_content": "What\u2019s in a name? Admittedly, our ministry has a strange sounding name. Yet from the start of this ministry over thirteen years ago, our name is intended to summarize what is at the heart of our calling. The story of Cornelius and Peter in Acts 10 and 11 is an amazing account of God bringing people of very different backgrounds together resulting in mutual transformation through the power of the Holy Spirit. That\u2019s the \u201cCornelius\u201d part. Providing opportunities that combine mission and spiritual formation unite people across boundaries of race, economics, and culture. People who experience this kind of transforming unity in Christ deepen their relationships with both God and each other forming a new kind of community. That\u2019s the \u201cCorps\u201d part.\nIn this edition of our newsletter, two people share their own experiences of what it means to be part of The Cornelius Corps. Robin Devenish from Crossroads UMC in Ashburn, VA describes how providing Bible School for children in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, DC turned out to be far more than a summer \u201cservice project.\u201d Pay close attention as she describes a pilgrimage of growth and transformation. In the other featured article, Tom Nealley describes how his participation in our ministry led him to discern and follow God\u2019s call on his life using the structure of the mission group that combines intentional spiritual formation, in-depth small group community, and a call to mission. The Cornelius Corps is called not only to provide transforming mission opportunities but also to equip people to discern and follow God\u2019s call on their lives. I am grateful to Robin and Tom for their witness of what is at the core of The Cornelius Corps.\n*Jim Melson \u2014 Director *\nOur ministry continues through your faithful prayers and financial support. We are in special need of your support as we approach the end of the year. You can make your contribution in two ways: \u2022 You can write a check payable to \u201cThe Cornelius Corps\u201d \u2022 You can give online by clicking the \u201cDonations\u201d tab on our website: www.corneliuscorps.org and follow the instructions there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.courageperformance.com/courage-400/day-74", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:23Z", "digest": "sha1:WZVQKFXSULUDFWLSTSZKKTAGP4NWOMQR", "length": 59, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.courageperformance.com", "title": "Day 74 - Courage Performance", "raw_content": "Nothing to say about this day. Just another day of squats!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.creativebreaks.co.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WHL6L7AGSHRRKRJLJR27POM3DPX2DZ4M", "length": 590, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.creativebreaks.co.uk", "title": "Arts and Crafts holidays Herefordshire - Creative Breaks", "raw_content": "Make it yourself - take it home\nWe offer courses in a wide variety of traditional and contemporary arts and crafts. Our creative workshops take place in beautiful rural settings in Herefordshire, Gloucestershire and the Welsh Borders\u2026\nWhat is Creative Breaks?\nWe are a not-for-profit association of artists and crafts people.\nSet up in 2000, Creative Breaks aims to promote courses run by skilled craftspeople in and around Herefordshire.\nWe are always interested in hearing from expert practitioners who might be interested in applying to join the Association.\n\u00bb View all upcoming courses\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/branchlines08.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:26Z", "digest": "sha1:XHDYCAIMVY5YAAEW2HUP7KU7OGUBPASH", "length": 2852, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.crowsnest.bc.ca", "title": "Branch Lines and Other Railways in the Kootenays", "raw_content": "Great Northern's Crow's Nest Southern Railway\nThe Great Northern (GNR) was the major competitor for the Canadian Pacific in Southern British Columbia. The GNR was the completed across the northern plains and through the Northwest States to Seattle in 1893 under the guiding force of James J. Hill. Like the CPR it was in need of traffic to sustain its long transcontinental main line and looked to mining and agriculture as major sources of revenue. The GNR began acquiring and building branch lines that ran north into British Columbia's rich mining districts and came into keen competition with the Canadian Pacific. This competition drove both railways to build into several of the mining districts.\nIn the Crowsnest region, the Great Northern acquired the charter of the Crow's Nest Southern Railway in British Columbia and used this authority to build between the Crowsnest mining centres and the Montana border. To the south, the GNR used its subsidiary, the Montana and Great Northern, to build a line from its main line at Jennings, Montana, north to the border. The railway was an excellent one with few grades. Coal and coke were keys to industrial development and the GNR wanted the coal for use in its locomotives as well as to supply smelters and other industries in Montana, Idaho, Washington and British Columbia. The GNR branch line provided a direct outlet for coal from the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Company which, in the early 1900s, came under Great Northern control.\nIn 1904, the southern part of the railway was used for rerouting the main line of the GNR northwards through Rexford. By 1908, the GNR extended its tracks as far as Michel in the Crowsnest Pass. During the early mining boom years and through the First World War the Crow's Nest Southern was a very busy railway but traffic declined with closure of many mines and smelters. As well, the Great Northern began to convert its locomotives to burn coal for fuel and other sources of supply for coal were developed elsewhere along the Great Northern. In 1926, the GN abandoned its trackage between Elko and Michel and used Canadian Pacific trackage to reach Fernie. However, all service was abandoned in 1936 and the tracks were removed the next year. Highway No. 3\u0097The Crowsnest Highway\u0097now uses sections of the Great Northern right-of-way. In the railway's last years, passenger and express service was provided by gas-electric motor cars.\nProposals were developed in the 1960s to build a new railway over sections of the abandoned Great Northern between the GN main line in Montana and the Crowsnest Pass when new mining developments were being considered in the area. However, the idea was not politically acceptable in British Columbia and the coal was routed over the Canadian Pacific instead. The proposed railway was chartered as the Kootenay and Elk Railway in 1966.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 3296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 181.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cuba-sustainableenergyforum2017.eu/index.php/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:47Z", "digest": "sha1:J2HLZPZ3WUHLV52HGIKSZBHEEXMTYV46", "length": 2506, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.cuba-sustainableenergyforum2017.eu", "title": "About \u2013 Cuba Sustainable Energy Forum", "raw_content": "Cuba Sustainable Energy Forum \u203a About\nThe two-day forum will now take place on 30 and 31 January 2018 in Havana, Cuba at the PABEXPO Exhibition Centre. The forum will take place on the occasion of the Cuba International Renewable Energies Trade Fair to be held on 30 January \u2013 1 February 2018, organised by Grupo Empresarial PALCO and Fira Barcelona Internacional at the Pabexpo Exhibition Centre, Habana.\nPlease note that the forum was originally scheduled to take place on 19 and 20 September 2017 but was postponed due to the damage caused by Hurricane Irma.\nImportant background documents to the forum:\nINFORMATION NOTE: Overview of Sustainable Energy in Cuba (pdf)\nINVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES: Overview of foreign investment opportunities in renewable energy in Cuba (pdf)\nWHO\u2019S WHO: Institutional organization of the sustainable energy sector in Cuba (pdf)\nThe two-day event is structured as follows:\nHigh-level opening and state of play / transition to sustainable energy\nPresentation of the pipeline of renewable energy investment opportunities in Cuba\nPresentation of the energy efficiency investment opportunities in Cuba\nFinancing options for sustainable energy in Cuba\nSpecific investment opportunities in wind, solar and hydro & presentation of best practices / latest developments from industry associations\nSpecific investment opportunities in biomass / bioenergy \u2013 & presentation of best practices / latest developments from industry associations\nInnovative renewable energy technology solutions relevant for Cuba\nPanel discussion: accelerating renewable energy investments in Cuba\nB2B / Networking\nA key aspect of the forum is the \u201cB2B\u201d which includes support for the organisation of bilateral meetings between Cuban negotiators and foreign investors. See more information in the section \u201cnetworking\u201d.\nPolicymakers, energy companies (including manufacturers and technology providers, developers, investors), financiers, funds, EU Member States as well as International Organisations are expected to participate in this event.\nGo to the registration button and sign up!\nIf you are interested in exhibiting at the Fair, please see more information at http://www.firacuba.com/en/energias-renovables.\nPlease check under the Documents section of this website for more background materials, news and all documentation on the conference which is downloadable.\nMinistry of Energy and Mines of the Republic of Cuba\nEuropean Commission, Directorate General for International Cooperation and Development", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 6000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.customerservicenumbersblog.com/2011/04/how-to-stop-yelp.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:AMU6WL2L6XOTLPPE2ONJYDIOFYTK7Q5W", "length": 671, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.customerservicenumbersblog.com", "title": "How to Stop Yelp", "raw_content": "You're the greatest, Net Strand! I hope everyone who's discovered how corrupt Yelp is will use this info you've provided. I'm definitely going to print it out and distribute to all my friends who have small and medium-sized businesses. Thank you so much!\nTo have the attorney general investigate Yelp.com for deceptive, bullying, and shoddy practices. http://wh.gov/PUM7\nHelp get this petition against yelp seen by signing and getting more ppl to sign.Please sign and share!!!!\nhttp://wh.gov/PUM7\nKevin McGuire January 26, 2013 at 5:29 PM\nhttps://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/have-attorney-general-investigate-yelpcom-deceptive-bullying-and-shoddy-practices/0k65W7Y3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 7849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cutanews.org/openingbell/2013/12/18/california-agrees-to-give-both-common-core-tests", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:35Z", "digest": "sha1:LY4N5M6FLG342WIYTJQBSZSHJWXNQYXA", "length": 1821, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cutanews.org", "title": "California Agrees To Give Both Common Core Tests \u2014 CUTA", "raw_content": "California Agrees To Give Both Common Core Tests\nSouthern California Public Radio (11/21) reports that the California Department of Education says it is \u201cbacking down\u201d from plans to only require districts to give a single Common Core-aligned test this spring, and will now require both the math and English test. The article quotes Superintendent Tom Torlakson saying \u201cThese field tests simply make good sense, and expanding them to include both subjects for most students makes even better sense\u2014in contrast to \u2018double testing\u2019 students, which makes little sense at all.\u201d The article notes that Education Secretary Arne Duncan had objected to the one-test plan, and \u201cthreatened to withhold as much as $3.5 billion in classroom funds if the state didn\u2019t change.\u201d\nEdSource Today (11/22) reports the state \u201cheaded off a confrontation\u201d with ED over the issue, noting that the one-test plan was contrary to \u201clong-standing federal law\u201d requiring testing in several grades. The piece quotes Torlakson saying, \u201cThis move to up-to-date new assessments marks a major step forward in California\u2019s work to ensure that every student graduates equipped to succeed in college and careers.\u201d The piece adds, however, that it is not certain that this change will meet ED\u2019s requirements, noting that Duncan has said that states wishing to use the Common Core field tests for traditional annual tests would have to have a waiver.\nThe Merced (CA) Sun-Star (11/21) also covers this story, noting that last month, Assistant Secretary Deborah Delisle \u201cthreatened to withhold $15 million in Title I dollars and possibly $3.5 billion in other funds\u201d unless the state relented from its plan, codified in a bill passed over the summer, to abandon the former state test in favor of a single Common Core-aligned test.\ncommon core, california, funding", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cyclechaos.com/wiki/List_of_Cagiva_motorcycles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QPDMF6VPSRURTWP4YPGD257ND4W6DJQ2", "length": 160, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cyclechaos.com", "title": "List of Cagiva motorcycles - CycleChaos", "raw_content": "List of Cagiva motorcycles\nV Raptor 650\nRetrieved from \"http://www.cyclechaos.com/w/index.php?title=List_of_Cagiva_motorcycles&oldid=36583\"\nLists of motorcycles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.daddysblindambition.com/2014/05/the-results.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:49Z", "digest": "sha1:G6DCPDDXFMD6D6X7PNVME6IABCGGVTOJ", "length": 4145, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.daddysblindambition.com", "title": "Daddy's Blind Ambition: The Results!", "raw_content": "Wow, what a week! Or, I guess I should say, wow, what a great 23 minutes! There was some schedule reshuffling last week that worked out in Matt\u2019s favor. Instead of having the 1500 meter and the 5000 meter events in the same night, the 5000 was moved to Friday night. It was the opening event of the evening and Matt was the only runner. So of course he won, but the awesome part is he won with a fantastic time of 17:52. If you recall, this is more than 30 seconds faster than his last time trial before he left for Mesa (but shy of his 17:24 personal record). Matt said that everyone was cheering him on and that even though he was the only runner, everything happened just as though there was a full heat of runners--they cleared the track, used the flag system, and gave Matt all of the regular race commands. The last mile was rough, but he pulled through. Going into the two events, this was Matt\u2019s stronger event. He is a distance runner (in running terminology that is anything over 800 meters (half a mile)) and doesn\u2019t have the rapid leg turnover for the sprints. With the three hour time difference, I had to struggle to stay up for the results, but it was worth it. I could hear in his voice his enthusiasm, and I know he must have had a huge grin on his face.\nOn Saturday, Matt got to the track at about 5pm, but his event wasn\u2019t until 9pm. He got to watch all of the wheelchair and other ambulatory track events. Then, at 9pm, it was his turn to take the track again. All of the runners were introduced as either a member of their national team or another affiliation. Since Matt has no affiliation (yet!), he was introduced as \u201clast night\u2019s 5000 winner\u201d which sounded pretty cool to him (and me). For Saturday night\u2019s 1500 (a quarter lap shy of a mile for the non-metric) he had some competition. There were eight ambulatory athletes in his heat, including one other visually impaired runner. As far as times and placing goes, Matt\u2019s only competition was the other visually impaired runner, but that didn\u2019t stop Matt from wanting to run with all he had. During the first lap one of the runners took off and was almost instantly out of his vision. As lap times were being called, Matt realized that he was closing the gap. In the end, Matt was the first place visually impaired runner with a time of 4:45 and the second finisher in the heat. (The first place finisher was four seconds ahead of Matt.)\nMatt after the 1500 on Saturday night\nI will have pictures and more on his experiences tomorrow, but right now I\u2019d just like to tell you all how proud I am of Matt. I\u2019m not going to lie, it was a long week for me, but listening to him talk about all of the new friends he made and amazing athleticism on display that he was a part of made it all worth it. I know that this was only the first event for Matt and that he\u2019ll have to travel to many more over the next two years, but I think it was probably one of the most important ones in that he needed to get that first whiff of what it would be like to be on the U.S. Paralympic Track and Field Team and to meet other extraordinary people striving for excellence. If Matt had a bad race or didn\u2019t feel a part of the process and experience, I think it would be hard for Matt to justify continuing. But he did have two great races. He did meet extraordinary people (I heard a lot of great things about some of the Canadian team members he met). He did get sucked in to the experience. I\u2019m his wife so I get the award for biggest and loudest cheerleader, but I know that there are lots of other cheerleaders out there reading this that were rooting for him last week. Leave a message on the blog or forward to someone that you think might be inspired so that we know you\u2019re out there cheering him on. He might be doing this for himself a little bit, but he\u2019s also doing this for his family and for everyone out there that wants to be known for something other than what people think of first when they describe them.\nMatt D. May 13, 2014\nCongratulations Matt! Keep the posts coming Sarah.\nHeidi Filbert May 13, 2014\nWay to go, Matt! 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Smith finished the race with a time of 1:37.09.\nBy Wills Layton\nWhile the competitive side of the Longhorns\u2019 home meet concluded on Friday, the Texas men\u2019s and women\u2019s swimming and diving teams completed an unscored exhibition meet against Arizona on Saturday afternoon.\nTexas recognized its senior classes on Saturday morning at Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center.\nOn Friday, the Longhorns\u2019 No. 2 ranked men\u2019s and No. 1 ranked women\u2019s swim teams combined to win 29 out of 32 events. Both teams swam away from Arizona to run their respective winning streaks in 2017 up to three. Senior Clark Smith has remained ready despite a small schedule to start the season.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve stayed strong through the entire season even though we haven\u2019t had kind of a full lineup for the first two dual meets,\u201d Smith said. \u201cWe have kind of kept the fire going, and against Georgia we had our first meet where everyone was there that we\u2019re going to have at the NCAAs.\u201d\nSaturday\u2019s schedule stayed a bit unorthodox, too. None of the events were scored, such as the 2,000-yard freestyle. Women\u2019s head coach Carol Capitani said she still sees value in participating in such races.\n\u201cWe learned a lot of things today,\u201d Capitani said. \u201cI like that format \u2026 it lets kids just swim free and go out fast and see if they can hold on and I think we are going to be better at the end of the year because of it.\u201d\nWhile the atmosphere Saturday was fun and relaxed, the emotions of the teams could be felt and seen in the crowd on Saturday \u2014 a day in which the sole goal was to celebrate the seniors.\n\u201cIt was a special day for the seniors,\u201d Capitani said. \u201cI know we still have part of the season left, but just being the last home dual meet, being able to race in front of their parents, I was really impressed by the turnout of the parents and friends and everybody in the stands, and I\u2019m grateful because that\u2019s a hard thing to do for kind of a different sort of format that we had today.\u201d\nThe two teams complete regular season competition this Friday in Fort Worth against TCU.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 238.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.daisycutter.net/sara-at-large", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:03Z", "digest": "sha1:5PNTENB4QIAX56V4JAJDGONKQHCYE4GN", "length": 375, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.daisycutter.net", "title": "Sara as Guest Artist \u2014 Sara Milonovich and Daisycutter", "raw_content": "Sara on Tour as Guest Artist:\n(For Daisycutter Tour Dates, click HERE)\nSara on Broadway\nTuesday, February 5th, 2019 - 7:00 pm\nWednesday, February 6th, 2019 - 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm\nThursday, February 7th, 2019 - 7:00 pm\nFriday, February 8th, 2019 - 8:00 pm\nSaturday, February 9th, 2019 - 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm\nGerald Shoenfeld Theatre\n236 West 45th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenue)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 104.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dallascommercialappraisers.com/LoMac-appraisal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:49Z", "digest": "sha1:7K3HHCO3PYZZ7N2F2EDUN4P5OJGQELHT", "length": 1616, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.dallascommercialappraisers.com", "title": "Commercial Real Estate Appraisers in LoMac, TX", "raw_content": "We\u2019re the #1 commercial real estate appraisal firm in LoMac for individual property owners and their advisors\nProviding commercial real estate appraisal services in LoMac\nIf you're looking for an appraisal firm with the best commercial property appraisers in LoMac, you've come to the right place - we're the #1 appraisal company for privately procured commercial real estate appraisals in and around LoMac. 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The competition is aimed at encouraging growth in the Australian civil UAV industry and raising awareness of the potential civilian applications.\n\"This competition is significant because it introduces high school and university students to UAV technology and shows them how it can help solve real-world problems,\" said Ian Irving, Northrop Grumman's chief executive for Australia. \"Given our company's leadership in the field of unmanned aircraft systems, we are pleased to be supporting this important initiative, which will help create the next generation of aerospace professionals.\"\nThe UAV Challenge \u2013 Outback Rescue includes two flying categories: the Airborne Delivery Challenge and the Search and Rescue Challenge. Both competitions give students a hands-on opportunity to explore their interests, whether in project management, engineering, mathematics or technology.\nThis year's Airborne Delivery Challenge took place Sept. 24-25 at Gratton Field in Calvert, Queensland, with 11 teams of Australian high school students participating. Each team was given an emergency package to be delivered to the lost bushwalker, a mannequin called \"Outback Joe.\" Teams used UAVs they built to carry and drop the package as close to Outback Joe as possible. The delivery of the package was controlled by either a human operator or automatically by the systems on the aircraft. This year's Airborne Delivery Challenge was won by the Calamvale Raptors II team from Queensland.\n\"The competition experience increased the students' interest in science and technology and encourages them to think about pursuing careers in the aerospace industry,\" said Jonathan Roberts, co-chair of the UAV Challenge Steering Committee and head judge. \"UAVs are of growing importance to Australia given its size. This technology is critical, whether for search and rescue or monitoring bush fires or floods.\"\nAn optional Search Phase, in which teams used their aircraft to read symbols left by Outback Joe, was completed for additional points. Each team submitted a technical report on its UAV and gave an oral presentation.\nThe Search and Rescue Challenge will be held Sept. 22-26, 2014, in Kingaroy, Queensland. This competition, open to university students and amateurs worldwide, also includes developing a UAV that locates Outback Joe and delivers the emergency package to him. For this competition, the UAVs must meet specific size qualifications and teams must put together two technical reports, along with a flight demonstration video. The students submit an autonomous flight record that documents that their UAV has flown autonomously for at least five hours.\nThe UAV Challenge \u2013 Outback Rescue, which began in 2007, is a joint initiative between the Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation (a Queensland University of Technology research centre) and CSIRO (Australia's national science agency). It is supported by the Queensland Government, Aviation Development Australia Limited and the Australian Association of Unmanned Systems. 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Today, I wanted to take a look at a few of those artists who never really reached their potential. These are artists that may have tasted success, but couldn't sustain it, or they wasted their opportunities. With that being said, there are 9 artists that I think would be interesting to take a look at, and some names might surprise you. Others not so much. There are some artists here that have made it to an extent but just couldn't continue their run. Let's take a look at those artists.\n*Young Gunz\n-One of the most popular duos at the time, Young Gunz were a force in hip hop that seemed poised to break out. Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned in the hip hop world and as a result, we would watch as they only made it so far. Debuting on the two State Property projects gave them the streets and their support, but outside of that, the Young Gunz hadn't reached a high level yet. They hinted at what potential greatness they could have obtained with their performances on the State Property albums, but the truth is, they just didn't make it to that next level. Some of it could have been the label and their breakup, some of it could have been their situation on the label, but whatever the case, besides their album Tough Luv, there wasn't much success to speak of. They had a brief moment with the first single of their second album, but other than that, they really fell short of what I hoped for them. Young Chris maintained, but not nearly as much as he should have considering his talent level.\n*Pill\n-Whatever happened to Pill? I really think this is just a case of missed potential in the sense that he didn't want the shine. Maybe. It's hard to know for sure, but one thing that always stuck out to me about him was that he seemed different from the rest of the MMG crew in the early stages. It was Ross, Meek, Wale, and Pill. That was the crew. Pill had some potential and was my favorite out of the 4. Now, he wasn't a premier wordsmith or anything, he just seemed like the most relatable with his raps. That aside, it was obvious that he didn't fit into the MMG criteria of what they really wanted, and because of that, I guess that would be the reason he didn't seem to make it further than he could. Still, I think he had immense potential as a hip hop artist.\n*Stat Quo\n-When Shady Records signed this artist, I was pretty sure that he would end up becoming something special in hip hop. He was definitely a talent with enough skill to make the world pay attention, but somewhere along the line, he got lost in the shuffle. He was signed to Shady/Aftermath, which was great in many ways for him, as it opened up the floodgates for him to do what he needed to do as an artist, along with the great backing by the label. However, the truth of the matter is, Stat was not able to get a release date on a label that had Eminem, 50 Cent, and more. So, he was released and never heard from again.... well not exactly. He was heard from again essentially, but this time, it was independently. His anticipated album Statlanta dropped in 2010, but it was probably nothing like it was intended to be. As a result, the success was minimal and the album came and went. It feels like Stat could have been so much more, yet he would end up falling short of any expectation. Maybe it was the label, maybe it was more, but Stat Quo never reached his full potential.\n*Papoose\n-This was one of those instances where an artist gets promotion or at least attention, and then doesn't make good on that. With Kay Slay by his side helping him maintain, Papoose had the attention of the world and somehow.... he managed to mess it all up. Well, let me rephrase that, he didn't mess up, he simply just never got off the ground. Did Papoose have platinum potential? No, but he could have at least found his groove in that comfortable space of Styles or Jada and sold well independently and maintained a following. He doesn't even have that now. It's a weird situation, but he's known more as Mr. Remy Ma than as an artist. That is definitely wasted potential.\n*Canibus\n-Of course, this name always comes up. I think he's a prime example of someone who wasn't really ready for the big time, but he was definitely primed for big things at one point in time in hip hop. Of all the 90's rappers that had a buzz but didn't make it, Canibus is probably the most successful. How many artists can say they came into the game through beefing with a legend like LL Cool J and LYRICALLY won that battle? Not too many, if any. Canibus would utilize Mike Tyson for his epic LL diss and after LL struck back, Canibus was seemingly done for good. At least it felt that way. He would release his albums and even attempt to battle rap on King Of The Dot, but suffered an embarrassing loss to Dizaster and only made his entire career worse by design. Canibus was always lyrically gifted, but losing a beef to Eminem, being outsmarted by LL, and losing to Dizaster pretty much sums up the disappointment that he was in his career.\n*The D.O.C.\n-Accidents ruin lives. This much is known. Unfortunately, The D.O.C. was a victim of this, as an accident put his career on hold pretty much. He would eventually get back to making music but a brutal car crash changed everything for him. He was on his way to being a legend and in many ways, he is a legend, as he would be a huge writer for the N.W.A. crew, specifically for Dr. Dre and Eazy-E, but his own artist success suffered as a result of it. He would end up releasing a classic debut with the excellent No One Can Do It Better, and contribute to other seminal releases, but one has to wonder what would have happened if he never got into the accident. Would D.O.C. have been one of the better artists in the 90's, carrying that debut success into platinum albums for the rest of the coming decade? Would he have been a big piece in the Death Row scene as an artist? Could we have witnessed a Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, and D.O.C. album? The possibilities are endless and because of that, he is certainly one rapper that never fully realized his full potential, for reasons out of his control unfortunately.\n*Cory Gunz\n-If there was an artist that had a shot at making it, it was definitely Cory Gunz. He has the pedigree of a hip hop vet based on his father and he's actually talented. So, it is a bit disappointing that he never really made it to that next level. He is signed to (I think) Young Money Records still, and with that, he seems to be poised for a huge breakout.... right? Wrong. He has done virtually nothing since signing to Young Money, which isn't meant to be a huge knock on him personally, just that aside from his verse on \"6 Foot, 7 Foot\", he hasn't had any impact. Still, the truth is, Cory Gunz is talented and definitely one of the better MCs on Young Money, he just hasn't received the proper chance or an album for that matter. Will he? Doubtful.\n*B.O.B.\n-The flat earther probably seems crazier than usual when you consider a few things, but the truth of the matter is, he was definitely on his way to big success and somewhere along the line, things just changed. He had momentum of the highest form at one point, and being a part of Grand Hustle, I wondered if his success could really reach a certain level. Unfortunately, with B.O.B., he would have one huge album that spawned a number of hits.... and nothing else substantial. Sure, that one album was big, with tracks like \"Nothin' On You\", \"Don't Let Me Fall\", and \"Airplanes\" making some noise on the radio, but for the most part, he never regained that commercial performance. The other albums he released did decent, but it always felt as if this multi-talented artist had the chance to do much more than he did. For some reason, his success started high and crashed very low.\n-The \"legendary\" artist that has never released an actual album. If wasted potential was a person, it would be Jay Electronica. One of the best lyricists that I've ever witnessed, the story of Jay Elec is interesting. He was on the scene with all of the momentum and then.... nothing. After his first big single \"Exhibit C\", nothing came except random songs every now and then. It would be the biggest disappointment and his album that's allegedly been done since 2011 has not been released and won't be. Jay Electronica is the biggest joke and the biggest wasted potential in the entire hip hop game period. With an album or two, he might have become one of the best in the game, but instead he is the biggest \"what if\" in hip hop history to me. 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In addition, fashion industry internships and access to high-profile contests can help build an enviable fashion portfolio.\nDon\u2019t worry, it\u2019s not all like The Devil Wears Prada, but successful fashion designers in the making must master a number of artistic and practical skills, including sketching, pattern making, sewing and tailoring \u2014 all while understanding color schemes, textiles, accessories, surface texture, design and fashion trends within the industry.\nMost fashion designers start out with a degree in arts and design that specializes in fashion and work their first jobs as assistants or pattern makers. With experience and time, they can rise in the ranks or move on to create their own fashion labels. Even though fashion design can be a radically creative pursuit, to be a success in any venue other than haute couture, fashion designers must temper their creative vision with the practicality of their garments and to the desires of potential retail buyers.\nAs of May 2006, figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated the average annual income of fashion designers was about $62,610 with fashion design management positions up around $70,000 and jobs in cut and sew apparel manufacturing being close to the same.\nThough most new fashion designers start out on the low end of the pay scale, talented designers rise to the top and become stars. 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Because we\u2019ve got a great selection of unique, small-batch beers for you to try and we\u2019ll tell you all about what makes each one special. Are you new to the world of craft beer? That\u2019s fine too! We\u2019re sure you\u2019ll leave this tour with a better understanding of how different beers taste and are produced. Though we\u2019ll be sampling a selection of great beers on this tour, the goal is to enjoy the drink, culture, and company. The goal is not to get drunk and this is not a pub crawl. This tour is all about enjoying the tastes, smells, and stories of each different beer. Drinks will be accompanied by light snacks and good conversation. Over the course of three hours we\u2019ll visit three pubs and sample ten delicious craft beers. Don\u2019t miss out on this opportunity!\nIn front of Novotel Hotel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.digitallyobsessed.com/displaylegacy.php?ID=3561", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HWD67EKJXA6TDLF7FV5TGMFFRHSI2F6D", "length": 5407, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.digitallyobsessed.com", "title": "dOc DVD Review: Mission Kashmir (2000)", "raw_content": "\"I need a man who isn't afraid of death, who so despises his own existence that I can fire him like a missile to destroy the target and himself.\"\n- Hilal (Jackie Shroff)\nStars: Sanjay Dutt, Hrithik Roshan\nOther Stars: Preity Zinta, Puru Rajkumar, Sonali Kulkarni\nMPAA Rating: R for Violence\nA- B A- B+ D+\nIndia has a thriving and vital movie industry, lovingly dubbed \"Bollywood\", though most of the projects haven't hit any measurable paydirt with Western audiences. Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra is one of the bigger names in India's film community, and he has even crossed international boundaries by helming the first Indian film (An Encounter With Faces) to be nominated for an Oscar\ufffd in the short nonfiction film category. With his 2000 release Mission Kashmir now on DVD, Chopra stands his best chance of achieving a degree of notoriety in the States, with a film that more than holds its own next to anything I've seen recently. For all intents and purposes, this is a traditional action film, beautifully shot, with a compelling (if not somewhat melodramatic) storyline.\nMission Kashmir, except for few a decidedly distinct Indian touches (more on that in a bit), could easily have been churned out by the Hollywood hit machine; the story itself is a relatively satisfying mixture of melodrama and action. Set in the Kashmir region of India, Chopra tells the story of Inayat Khan (Sanjay Dutt), a local police officer who leads a raid on the suspected hideout of deadly terrorist Malik Ul Khan (Puru Rajkumar). The raid goes horribly awry, and the only survivor is ten-year-old Altaaf (Master Mohsin). Young Altaaf becomes practically catatonic after witnessing his family slaughtered at the hands of the ski-masked commandos, and he is filled with unimaginable rage. In a twist of almost soap-operatic proportions, Khan's ten-year-old son happens to die in a freak accident. Under pressure from his grieving wife Neelima (Sonali Kulkarni), Khan agrees to adopt the young boy. When Altaaf eventually discovers the man he calls \"father\" is the one responsible for the death of his family, he runs away from home.\nChopra then advances the story ten years, and we find Altaaf (the too-good-looking-to-be-a-terrorist Hrithik Roshan) willingly serving under a darkly over-the-top Muslim terrorist known as Hilal (Jackie Shroff), a man who literally has to hold his own head on. With his undying hatred for Khan, the story, in part, becomes a traditional vengeance play, with the two men occasionally squaring off as adversaries.\nWhat separates not only Chopra's film, but \"Bollywood\" projects in general, from mainstream Hollywood fare, is the completely unexpected and uncharacteristic musical segments that pepper the action. Main characters will break into song when you least expect it, and many of the sequences are as slickly produced as a music video; witness the incredibly hypnotic Bhumbro scene, lip-synched by the stunning Preity Zinta, which becomes a swirling tapestry of bright colors, beautiful people and a percussion-heavy dance beat. Imagine Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber breaking into a tune in Die Hard, and I think you'll get the idea. This technique is a little jarring at first, but by the third or fourth song the shock value wore off, and I could enjoy the songs and how they added some touching dramatic depth to some of the characters.\nThis is a world of Sikhs, Hindis, and Muslims all struggling, often vainly, to survive together. The obvious parallels to current events give this film a genuine surge of relevancy.\nBy the way, I can't get the song Bhumbro out of my head.\nImage Transfer Review: Mission Kashmir is presented in a sharp 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer. Image detail is excellent, with really not much to complain about at all. Colors are bright, though the overall film tends to rely on a steady undercurrent of a deep golden hue. The scene where Preity Zinta performs the Bhumbro song is a burst of contrasting bright colors that is reproduced perfectly. Black levels are solid, and shadow delineation is strong. There was some minor shimmer in spots, but not to distraction.\n5.1 Hindi, English yes\nAudio Transfer Review: The preferred choice here is the 5.1 Dolby Digital track in the film's original Hindi. Rear channel activity is minimal, but the fronts really come alive with some excellent directional imaging. Dialogue is well-mixed, and the musical numbers sound deep and full-bodied.\nA badly dubbed English 5.1 track is also provided, and the voices are incredibly stiff and do not match the actors at all.\n3 Other Trailer(s) featuring Lagaan, Ghandi, Lawrence Of Arabia\nExtras Review: Sadly, not much in the extras column other than a quartet of regionally-themed trailers (Mission Kashmir, Lagaan, Gandhi, Lawrence of Arabia). The 157-minute film is cut into 28 chapters, and features subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai.\nI think Columbia TriStar has done a great disservice to Western audiences by not providing more background info on Chopra and the Bollywood phenomenon.\nExpand your horizons tonight. I insist. Chopra's terrorist-themed action/love story film is at times familiar, and at others remarkably alien, at least to our Bruckheimer/Bay-sanitized eyes. The runtime is a tad unwieldy (clocking in at 157 minutes), but this was easily one of the most enjoyably memorable films I've seen in awhile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dirigible.io/news/2015/10/17/news_dirigible_workshop_codeweek_feedback.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:VF246ZQUYZ2EUPF2RCXXQNZW3545BHFA", "length": 750, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.dirigible.io", "title": "Eclipse Dirigible | Cloud Development Platform", "raw_content": "Dirigible Workshop CodeWeek - Feedback\nGreat event! We are looking forward for the next one\u2026\nThere were various group of participants - students, teachers, evangelists, junior and senior experts from commercial companies and geeks.\nFirst we gave an overview about the project - history, building blocks, concepts and architecture. Then step by step the participants have created their first Dirigible project.\nWe gathered tons of feedback about the future capabilities, which can be useful for cloud developers. It is collected in the forum\u2019s topic: https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1071310/\nThe mailing list dirigible-dev @ eclipse.org is always open to receive new ideas as well.\nThe presentation (in Bulgarian language) can be found here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.discussionsmagazine.com/2017/07/country-pride-exclusive-interview-with.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MXTV4WHGJKYABTPXO6BKMVK5Q5TD5NGF", "length": 6464, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.discussionsmagazine.com", "title": "Discussions Magazine Music Blog", "raw_content": "Country Pride:\nFor half a century, Charley Pride has been one of Country Music\u2019s hardest working and most beloved entertainers. Ever since his 1966 debut single on RCA, \u201cThe Snakes Crawl At Night,\u201d he has forged a path that has been consistent and rewarding to his fans and those that love traditional Country Music. With over 50 Top Ten Country singles to his credit \u2013 29 of those reaching #1 \u2013 Charley is one of the most successful Country vocalists of all time. Against all odds, he has outlasted nearly all his contemporaries from the \u201860s, \u201870s, \u201880s and \u201890s and he shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. MUSIC IN MY HEART, his first album in six years, is an album steeped in Country tradition yet still sounds fresh and invigorating. With this album, Charley has delivered one of the most consistently excellent albums of his career. Now, if only Country radio still celebrated the traditional sounds of artists like Charley Pride\u2026\nProduced by Billy Yates and featuring songs written by Merle Haggard (\u201cThe Way It Was In \u201851\u201d), Bill Anderson (\u201cYou Lied To Me\u201d) Ben Peters & Justin Peters (\u201cNatural Feeling For You\u201d) and many others, MUSIC IN MY HEART is an essential listen for those that love Charley\u2019s classic recordings as well as his more recent output on the Music City Records label. Tracks like \u201cIt Wasn\u2019t\u2019 That Funny,\u201d \u201cNew Patches,\u201d \u201cI Just Can\u2019t Stop Missing You\u201d and the previously mentioned titles will remind you of the days when Country Music was about life, love and loss and less about glamor and gloss. MUSIC IN MY HEART is an instantly lovable and timeless collection of songs that will no doubt be considered a classic in Charley\u2019s catalog.\nStephen SPAZ Schnee was able to catch up with Charley Pride and spend a few minutes chatting about the album and more.\nSTEPHEN SPAZ SCHNEE: MUSIC IN MY HEART has just been released. How are you feeling about the album and the reaction you\u2019ve had to it so far?\nCHARLEY PRIDE: With the quality of this album, if we were getting the airplay that we used to, it would be a great seller. And this is no brag. Like Walter Brennan used to say, \u201cNo brag, just fact!\u201d (laughs).\nSPAZ: The album is a continuation of that pure, classic Charley Pride sound\u2026\nCHARLEY: That\u2019s right. I\u2019m singing for three or four generations now. I\u2019ve got fans that are my age and their grandkids and great grandkids are listening, too.\nSPAZ: This is an album full of great material. I know that it has been six years since the last album. Have you spent that time going through new material and trying to pick songs for this project?\nCHARLEY: I was sent a lot of songs. I do the same thing I\u2019ve always done \u2013 I cut the list down to the final songs. I always ask myself, \u201cDo I like this song?\u201d I\u2019ll give you a quick example. (In 1965) I was given seven songs when I went to record with Cowboy Jack Clement. They said, \u201cGo back and work on these songs and send them back.\u201d I recorded them. I had a Gibson amplifier and Gibson guitar and I worked and worked on these songs. But I didn\u2019t send them back \u2013 I drove them back up to Nashville with Jack Johnson (first manager). Clement put the tape on and he looked up at Johnson and said, \u201cI think he\u2019s ready to record!\u201d And that\u2019s how \u201cThe Snakes Crawl At Night\u201d and \u201cAtlantic Coastline\u201d came about. But before that, I wanted to record \u201cJust Between You And Me\u201d. But Clement said, \u201cNo, I wrote that and I don\u2019t want people saying I\u2019m taking you and selling you my songs already!\u201d (Laughs.) But guess which song ended up being my first Top Ten hit? \u201cJust Between You And Me!\u201d So that is my gauge. Every song I listen to, I still ask myself, \u201cDo YOU like it, Charley?\u201d That\u2019s what I did with this album \u2013 that\u2019s how I picked the songs. There are some other great songs we didn\u2019t cut that I still might record later.\nSPAZ: \u201cNatural Feeling For You\u201d is quite a lovely song\u2026\nCHARLEY: Guess who wrote it? Ben Peters (starts singing his 1971 hit, \u201cKiss An Angel Good Mornin\u2019\u201d which was also written by Peters). There\u2019s another one of his that will be on the next album but I loved \u201cNatural Feeling For You\u201d more so I put it on this one. I\u2019ve recorded six or eight number ones by him (Peters) and at least 30 others. I don\u2019t write so I have to record other people\u2019s songs.\nSPAZ: The tracks on this album should be played on the radio. Does having hits matter to you these days?\nCHARLEY: A lot of these songs could be Top Ten. Like I said, if I was being played, then you could let the fans decide. I\u2019ll compete against whoever. I don\u2019t care who it is. I\u2019m a traditionalist. To me, traditionalists go from Bill Monroe and Ernest Tubb and I cut \u2018em off at George Strait. Then after that, you\u2019ve got Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks and everyone else. I got nothing against \u2018em. I\u2019m just trying to show a difference between traditional and what is going on now. My album \u2013 I\u2019ll put it up against any of these artists and let the people decide.\nSPAZ: For decades, you\u2019ve recorded songs that every listener can relate to at some point in their lives. Is that the heart of Charley Pride\u2019s music - to celebrate the commonalities in your audience?\nCHARLEY: That\u2019s the essence of all of it. With Country Music, you can find a song to fit any mood you are in. If you want a song to make you feel like you want to feel, you can find it. Especially with traditional Country Music - you can find it if you look for it. If something is happening with you and you want to try to feel better about it \u2013 you might even cry at what might have happened \u2013 the song will make you feel better after you\u2019ve had a few tears. That\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about.\nSPAZ: Do you feel that the UK and Europe are more interested in your extensive catalog than the U.S.? There are labels over there that have been reissuing your albums on CD but here in the U.S., most of the original albums remain out of print apart from your releases on the Music City label.\nCHARLEY: You might be right about that. I\u2019ve been going to the UK since 1966 and Ireland since 1976. When I tour over there, they sing along to every word to all my songs. In August, I\u2019m going to Ireland and I\u2019ll be a special guest to Miranda Lambert for two shows at a festival.\nThanks to Charley Pride\nSpecial thanks to Larry Germack, Kyle Watson, Greg Gosselin and Dave Rayburn\n(Music City Records)\nLabels: Charley Pride, country music. traditional, Icon, Legend, Music City Records, Stephen SPAZ Schnee, vocalist. exclusive interview", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 8595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dissertation.com/books?category=4000&sort=Title", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:51Z", "digest": "sha1:RKOXEHQMZX2GDY6B244W53KPAREDWZ6F", "length": 2244, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.dissertation.com", "title": "Dissertation.com - Library", "raw_content": "Alternative States of Consciousness in Shamanism, Imaginal Psychotherapies, Hypnotherapy, and Meditation Including a Shamanism and Meditation Inspired...\nAllen Holmquist, Ph.D., MFT\nAmerican Pacific University\nShamanism, hypnosis, imaginal psychotherapies, and meditation are based on the use of what we in the modern western world think of as non-ordinary human consciousness. 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What they found are bubbling lakes as greenhouse gases are released from the previously frozen ground, leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions and a warming positive feedback.\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2018/08/30/nasa-discovers-bubbling-lakes-in-the-remote-arctic-a-sign-of-global-warming/#37ee4eb461f5\nJumpin' Jack Flash - B@@M\nhttp://www.youtube.com/v/szOnAUnuMLk&fs=1\nRe: Jumpin' Jack Flash - It's a Gas, 70 gas lines ERUPT in Mass.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/v/cRDwzowlYLI&fs=1\nRe: Jumpin' Jack Flash - It's a Gas, D.C. tunnels ignite\nDeadly Fire Exposes Millionaire\u2019s Network of Secret Tunnels Under Washington D.C. 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When first responders arrived on the scene, they learned no one was injured in the incident and that employees were able to quickly put out the blaze\nJumping Jack Flash: It's A Gas Gas Gas!\nStarted by Guest \u00ab 1 2 3 4 \u00bb Geological & Cosmological Events\nActivists Have A New Strategy To Block Gas Pipelines: State\u2019s Rights\n\uf30d French police use tear gas, water cannon against Paris protesters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 13244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dunritehvac.net/blog/2014/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:56Z", "digest": "sha1:SMEBUENDBOP4VALYLE5CI3LMMVHSWLQB", "length": 449, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.dunritehvac.net", "title": "January | 2014 | Dunrite HVAC Blog", "raw_content": "DunRite Heating & Air Conditioning of San Jose, CA has earned the service industry\u2019s coveted Angie\u2019s List Super Service Award, reflecting an exemplary year of service provided to members of the consumer review service in 2013.\n\u201cOnly about 5 percent of the companies DunRite competes with in the San Jose, Bay Area are able to earn our Super Service Award,\u201d said Angie\u2019s List Founder Angie Hicks. \u201cIt\u2019s a mark of consistently great customer service.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.e-tingfood.com/2012/07/coffee-in-hong-kong-knockbox-hand-drip.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3FKPWQKVIZGHMFRKEPZC6MIGXXNZ2WAB", "length": 7041, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.e-tingfood.com", "title": "e_ting: Coffee in Hong Kong - Knockbox hand-drip class", "raw_content": "Last weekend, I went to Knockbox Coffee Company, one of the newer third-wave coffee shops in Hong Kong for their hand-drip (aka pour-over) workshop. You may remember that I went to another newish coffee shop, Rabbithole, to attend their coffee class not too long ago too. The Rabbithole class I attended was more of an overview of methods (they do a hand-drip class too), and I started to get curious about the different philosophies and theories baristas had about making coffee. (Plus, there was a lot of feedback and debate, on that blog post and off, about the different methods and the rationale behind them).\nCoffee is a huge, huge world of which I can't even say I've scratched the surface. I drink it, religiously, or even medically (I'm peversely proud of telling people I have a medically-confirmed addiciton to caffeine), and I have my preferences, thanks to the vast and generally exceptional range of coffees in Melbourne, but do I know much about it? Not really.\nI explained earlier that hand-drip has become one of my methods of choice at home, so I was keen to learn some proper technique, or at least, how the pros do it, so when I saw the workshop advertised on the Knockbox Facebook Page I leaped at the opportunity.\nForgive me if I get any of the details wrong, I've tried to retain as much of the knowledge as I can, but there was a lot of it. There to teach us that day was Jonathan, the full-time barista at Knockbox (previously the place was only open after hours), is the best kind of coffee nerd, imo - soft spoken, inconspicuous, but clearly open-minded and passionate, and like a walking, talking coffee encyclopaedia.\nWe started with a couple of us (there were only 4 in the class) making a cup of hand-drip. Just freestyle, however we liked. We tasted and noted the flavours.\nThen Jonathan showed us a very basic guide to tasting - that's the flavour, nuttiness, acidity and body graph in the photo above. For each of the axes, we were told to think about whether the quality was positive/favourable - say, did the acidity have a pleasant citric quality, or did it make you cringe like white vinegar? Was the nuttiness like burned peanuts, or toasted hazelnut? We also talked about a pretty curious quality - the \"makes you sick on the bus\" quality - that is, the coffee doesn't taste bad when you're drinking it, but once you leave the shop and get on the bus (or take a break, or go to the bathroom, you get the idea) you feel a little uncomfortable - a mild feeling of indigestion or just a little hard to breathe. I wonder if there's a technical term for that...!\nThen we got down to some details about the method Jonathan uses at Knockbox, namely dose, grind temperature and time. As you can see above, the dose is 15 grams of coffee for 180ml water, ground at a setting of \"3\" on their grinder (Fuji Royal? I forgot to check). The grinder size will never be the same on every machine, so I made sure I took a long hard look (and a photo, of course!) at the size (see below). The water temperature they use is at 83-86 degrees Celcius, and the brewing time (from the second the first drop of water touches the grounds) is around 90 seconds. The dose and time are very similar to what we were told at Rabbithole, from what I remember.\nBut, as we soon learn, these factors depend very much on the barista's own pouring skills. In a series of diagrams, we learned about the importance of fines (or rather, not having so many of them) - the smallest powdery bits from the grinding process; concentrating on pouring down the middle and to pour in a manner so as to have all the grounds wet at the same time (he did a cool experiment to show how the grinds move when you pour faster/more vigorously as opposed to a gentle pour); the way water \"channels\" through the easiest routes (yet we don't want it to do that as it means only the ground around that channel will come in contact with water), and so on. An important take-away for me was that the 90-second rule is, well, not a rule at all - use your eyes, says Jonathan, to see when the coffee is losing its colour as it drips out - common sense really, but hey, I never thought of it that way. Plus the baristas I've seen always have a stopwatch on the side! (Jonathan says he just does it for show, hahaha).\nGrounds that brew for too long become overextracted, and apart from being able to taste this (in-your-face burnt bitterness, for instance), baristas talk about the percentage of coffee that has been dissolved in the water. The ideal, according to the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) is 20%+/- 2%, ie. 18-22%. They also have a snazzy machine called Extractmojo which can measure the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) - basically how watery the coffee is. A TDS of 1.3 for example, means you have 98.7% water, and 1.3% coffee. However, as you can see from the diagram Jonathan drew on the tiled wall behind him, it could be that some grounds are at 13%, while others will have gone up to 25% because of different sizes and time that it's been in contact with water. The average will come out to be 19%, but you will still taste the parts that were 25%. Just because the numbers read right doesn't mean it'll taste good. The moral of that story is: trust your palate.\nWe also did a fun test with paper filters - debunking the myth that there is no taste to them. We blind tasted and compared water that was poured through an unwashed paper filter versus filter-free water. It was pretty obvious that paper does give off a funny taste.\nI really appreciated the fact that Jonathan stressed that coffee, like anything else, is a matter of personal taste. Of course through trial and error, humans - professionals - have come up with ideal ranges and methods, and there are industry standards, and qualities that professionals look for in a coffee, but the bottom line is, no-one can dictate what you, personally, like and don't like.\nKnockbox Coffee Company\nShop B, 14 Tai Ping Shan Street (tucked just off the street on the corner where Kouch cafe is, and yes, it is on the other side of the same building where Teakha is)\n8am-5pm Mon-Thu, 8am-10pm Fri, 1-6pm Sat-Sun\nTags: brewing coffee at home, cafe, coffee, coffee class, drinks, hong kong, Knockbox Coffee Company, making coffee at home, sheung wan\nWow, I've been brewing coffee for years, but I would like to take a class similar to the ones you've taken. There's always something new to learn and it's great to have someone who's passionate about what they're doing to lead the way. Yeah, I quit paper filters this past year. I know that they're convenient, but there's always that subtle taste that gets brewed in with the coffee.\nYep, everyone has their own methods and philosophies so it's fun to see how they do it and why!\nPS have you seen the Able coffee metal aeropress filters... almost thinking about getting one. But the paper ones are so much easier and you can just wash them first.\nSo many new toys to buyyyyy!! I definitely want to get a metal Aeropress filter for travel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 11931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eatdrinkjourney.com/glass-half-full-11022017.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:46G34F2OAARICHWOWECT7K3XUKB43DTQ", "length": 1395, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.eatdrinkjourney.com", "title": "Glass Half Full: 11/2/2017", "raw_content": "\u201cI was only trying to feed my pet crow.\u201d\nThieves steal 700 kilograms of Pinot Noir and Chasselas grapes from Swiss vineyard:\nhttps://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/10/thieves-steal-grapes-from-swiss-vineyard/\nThe dark side of the no-tipping policy:\nDanny Meyer\u2019s restaurants are losing key staff, and the ones that remain are unhappy.\nhttp://www.grubstreet.com/2017/10/danny-meyer-no-tips-staff-expectations.html\nSacre bleu: Will there be margarine in your croissant?\nFrench bakers are suddenly plagued by a severe butter shortage.\nhttp://www.grubstreet.com/2017/10/france-croissant-prices-rising.html\nApparently, it\u2019s not enough to ban drinking: you have to forbid people from even thinking about it.\nBy next year, alcohol ads will be forbidden on the New York City subway system.\nhttps://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/10/alcohol-adverts-banned-on-new-york-subway/\nThe next step: bury the winemaker for 18 months, and see if that improves the wine.\nThree barrels of Beaujolais are unearthed after 18 months underground, and the producers pronounce them to be \u201cmagnificent.\u201d\nhttps://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/10/magnificent-buried-beaujolais-tasted/\nI\u2019ll take that can of Spam directly to the right of the diamond necklace:\nTheft of Spam has become so commonplace in Hawaii that stores are locking up the product in glass cases:\nhttp://www.grubstreet.com/2017/10/hawaii-spam-robberies.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 204.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ebolagrandchallenge.net/news-2/2016/1/4/usaid-seeking-better-ebola-protective-gear", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:41Z", "digest": "sha1:3VYIBDXNFZAQSCC6ZMRZNBWTYLP37YSL", "length": 368, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ebolagrandchallenge.net", "title": "USAID seeking better Ebola protective gear \u2014 Fighting Ebola: A Grand Challenge for Development", "raw_content": "Health-care workers responding to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa share a common complaint: The suits, masks and gloves meant to shield them from the virus are sweltering, says Dr. Rajiv Shah, director of the U.S. Agency for International Development.\nSource: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/usaid-seeking-better-ebola-protective-gear/\nTagged: Seattle Times", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 222.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Item/Zensify-Lifestreaming-App-Out-of-Beta-in-iTunes-Store-55111.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:MT3GFTUNEQEYZQO3OXXXNFT4N6MINLAD", "length": 538, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.econtentmag.com", "title": "Zensify Lifestreaming App Out of Beta, in iTunes Store - EContent Magazine", "raw_content": "Zensify Lifestreaming App Out of Beta, in iTunes Store\nZensify Ltd. announced that its lifestreaming application for iPhone and iPod touch left beta status and is available at the Apple iTunes store. Zensify allows users to aggregate, update, search, and discover information across multiple social networks and Web services, all from within a single application. New features include an updated user interface, improved performance, the ability to generate tag clouds, and additional Facebook and Twitter functionality.\n(www.zensify.com)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 7653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.edwardsvilleymca.com/page/adapted-programming/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OVV2C3VSS5TMPGREGFPDWE24UUPE2KJX", "length": 2522, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.edwardsvilleymca.com", "title": "Adapted Programming | YMCA - Edwardsville", "raw_content": "Adapted Programming (Special Needs)\nWE ENCOURAGE PARTICIPATION\nRecognizing the need for quality adapted programming for individuals in the Edwardsville area, the Special Needs Adapted Programs help individuals gain confidence, promote independence and responsibility, socialize and work with others, as well as nurture a healthy and active lifestyle. All programs are lead by qualified, trained individuals who help promote a safe, friendly, and supportive environment.\nALL CHILDREN CAN EXPERIENCE SPORTS SUCCESSFULLY\nThe YMCA is offering an opportunity for every child to be able to participate in sports! ACCESS is an inclusion sports program designed so that all children can learn to play various sports together. This unique opportunity teaches the fundamental skills of a sport in a non-competitive environment. Children are assisted by personal mentors if needed. ACCESS teaches acceptance, teamwork, and socialization all in a fun environment. MEYER CENTER \u007f\nMONDAY | 6:00 - 7:00PM (RETURNS THIS FALL)\nINTERACTION: SOCIAL / RECREATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH & ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES\nThe YMCA is proud to sponsor this exciting program for youth and adults with disabilities. This program is designed to offer the opportunity to interact in a social and recreational environment for middle school youth to older adults. After each event, the group gathers together for late night refreshments and great conversation!\nThe program usually meets the first Friday of the month, from 7:00 - 9:00pm (RETURNS THIS FALL). All programs are held at the Niebur (Esic) Center unless otherwise noted. Some of the programs offered each year include: Swimming Night, Movie Night, Special Events, Arts-n-Crafts, Around the World Night, Cooking, Holiday Events and More!\nPlease contact the YMCA to receive more information, a specific schedule of events, or to be added to the program mailing list.\nSpecial Needs Swimming Classes\nSPECIAL NEEDS SWIMMING WITH CAREGIVER (AGES 3+)\nThis class is designed to create a safe environment for learning water safety, along with the basic swimming fundamentals for people with special needs. The caregiver needs to accompany the child in the water. NIEBUR (ESIC) CENTER\nAges 3 - 6: SATURDAY | 9:00 - 10:00AM |\u007fPOOL 2\nAges 7+: SATURDAY | 10:00 - 11:00AM |\u007fPOOL 1\nSpecial Needs Gymnastics\nThis class is designed for children that have special needs and would like a much smaller teacher/student ratio. Please call for more information. MEYER CENTER \u007f\nSUNDAY | 10:30 - 11:15AM \u007f| 11:30AM - 12:15PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 5771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 315.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.efeedlink.com/contents/12-30-2008/9f30a56e-0f7c-4c9b-889c-3f52cf1937f5-a001.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGUSRNY6EOFA2KYOACKAI2TINNNI7RKL", "length": 866, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.efeedlink.com", "title": "eFeedLink - Argentina to finance building of cattle feedlots", "raw_content": "Argentina to finance building of cattle feedlots\nThe government of Argentina is financing the building of five major feedlots, with the capacity of 40,000 head of cattle in each.\nThese yards are tailored for dairy bull calves to take them on for young steer beef.\nThe government is subsidising feedlot cattle to US$30 per head, which is a very big deal for farmers who rather receive a subsidy to raise beef cattle and also pay a 15 percent tax of the finished beef for export.\nFarmers have been utilising the feedlots to free up more land for the planting of soy in recent times.\nThere are an estimated 12 million head of cattle being fed in yards today, three times the amount from 5 years ago.\nArgentina consumes 70 kilogrammes of beef per capita yearly which is the highest rate in the world, therefore beef prices on the local market is a large political issue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 4446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eisenhowerlibrary.org/content/closed-thanksgiving-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:KYI4S75CZRFHX57ZVMLRM2EG2HD2FNQT", "length": 286, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.eisenhowerlibrary.org", "title": "Closed for Thanksgiving | Eisenhower Public Library District", "raw_content": "Submitted by Chris on November 23rd, 3:07pm\nEisenhower will be closing at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, November 25th to get a jump on Thanksgiving Dinner. Of course we're closed on the big day itself, Thursday, November 26th. Have a great time, eat a lot of turkey and we'll see you on Friday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 141.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.emotionally14.com/2009/10/video-game-reviews_08.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5BR25RKWVDVJUVTKWJ6TLJI32JSGH3HL", "length": 7252, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.emotionally14.com", "title": "EMOTIONALLY14: Video Game Reviews", "raw_content": "Xbox 360 (version tested), PS3, PSP, DS, Wii, PC, PS2\nEA Sports have a tough job, let's be honest. Every year the EA top brass go to them and say \"Good work on FIFA 09, now let's REALLY step it up for FIFA 10!\" This is a task made all the more difficult by the fact that FIFA 09 was a really strong game, with absolutely bucketloads of features for every type of player. From the Live Season mode, that updated players' real life progress to their in-game stats, all the way to the Be a Pro mode which allowed you to take any player (including a created one) from reserve level all the way to international superstar.\nHow then do EA Sports add more features to an already robust catalogue? Simple: they don't. Well, they do, but it's complicated.\nLet's get straight to the good stuff. This game retains all the things you liked about FIFA 09 in terms of graphics and all that jazz. Most of the features are in the game from the previous version, although some have been tweaked and refined. The Live Season for instance has been augmented to Live Season 2.0. Instead of the stats updating automatically with the real-life results, you're given a chance to have some more fun with the stats. In Live Season 2.0, the entire league's fixtures is downloaded every Wednesday, at which point you can play the same game and see if you can do it better (or worse, as I found to my cost - I'll happily admit I'm still a little crap at this game).\nThe Be a Pro mode has also been tweaked, allowing you to transfer the character across different game modes, a nice little feature that makes the character more valuable than ever before.\nHowever, the game is by no means perfect. The new controls have been added in to attempt to streamline the game, and for the most part these controls do feel quite good. Despite this, they seem to have left certain things as they were. Granted, the tackling has been improved to the point that you can actually WIN free kicks, something that was decidedly lacking from the previous version. On the other hand, the defenders have been shored up to the point where you're lucky to get into the penalty area at all sometimes. Despite this, I can't say for sure that I'm not just crap at the game, and it does encourage more tactical thinking in some ways.\nPresentation/Graphics : The same quality and polish you've come to expect from the FIFA series, with the focus now being on shifting the presentation as close to TV-quality as possible. To EA Sports' credit, they get closer every year.\nSound/Music : The usual commentary from Andy Gray and Martin Tyler. Adds somewhat to the atmosphere, and is progressively less annoying with each passing year. The music, the EA Trax playlist, is enjoyable enough and comes with a similar mix to previous years.\nGameplay : The same FIFA system we've come to know and love, with some minor tweaks to improve the gameplay. Some of them work (the new dribbling system), some don't (the tweaks to the AI and defenders).\nLasting Appeal : There's absolutely loads here to keep you busy. From the normal kickabout all the way to the new improved Live Season mode, the FIFA series always offers value for your money.\nSummary : A solid entry in the FIFA franchise, with enough new features to keep you interested until FIFA 11. 8/10\nXbox 360 (Version tested), PS3, PC, PSP\nWhen I worked for a major games retailer, there were certain home truths that were inherent in gaming. Stuff made for Playstation 3 at the time would have no more features than the Xbox 360 version, and Need for Speed was for chavs and the Vin Diesel admiring portion of the population.\nImagine my pleasant surprise, then, to play a Need for Speed game that actually turned out to be awesome. From the intro, I had a good feeling about this game, as it seemed to share a lot of similarities (stylistically at least) with Project Gotham Racing which I am a tremendous fan of. My interest generally in racing games is quite casual, so I tend to be into the odd one every year or so that grabs my attention. I think I've found 2009's racing game for me.\nNeed for Speed Shift allows you to race through a career mode initially, but other features unlock once you've done a few races. As you start the game, you're given a test lap to evaluate your driving game skill and earn some money to buy your first car. Thankfully, I was sufficiently versed in driving games to be able to finish high enough for a half-decent car (and when you consider that a \"half-decent\" car in this game is a Mazda RX-8, you can't really complain). From there, you compete in time trials and contests of various different skills (drifting, time trials etc) to earn stars to unlock the harder races, earning yourself money along the way for new cars and upgrades.\nLet's get to the good stuff. This game looks PHENOMENAL in motion. Even on an SD television, the polish is obvious. The cars look fantastically detailed, and the backdrops are superb. There's a decent amount of detail in the background, but it's nice to see that the framerate doesn't suffer from over-reaching on detail. A lot of effort has clearly gone into making this game run fast and smoothly, and it shows.\nThat's not to say that the game is completely flawless. I personally found the HUD to be quite congested at times on certain races, and although the developers seem to have made an effort to keep everything sufficiently separate, they don't seem to have taken into account the fact that you drive on both sides depending on what kind of car you're sitting in, as on a right hand drive car you find yourself trying to look in the mirror only to see the track map in the bottom left corner blocking your way.\nThat being said, doing laps round a Nascar track is AWESOME if your car is fast enough.\nGraphics : Absolutely gorgeous car models, as well as fast-moving technically excellent backgrounds. Slick presentation and menus and everything works really well. Driving games are somewhat underrated for their graphics, and doubtlessly this will be no exception. Astounding.\nSound/Music : The standard stuff you'd expect. Some rock songs for the menus, some noises of screeching tyres and engine revs. Nothing to write home about.\nGameplay : Really strong racing, with plenty of options to keep people happy in the vein of the standard driving game fare. Very enjoyable racing, and a sufficient challenge to keep you going (especially if, like me, you aren't so hot at the driving games).\nLasting Appeal : 4 Tiers of racing, with more bits and pieces unlocked as you go along. Plenty here to keep you busy.\nSummary : A really strong driving game with absolutely loads to do that's tons of fun. What more do you need? 9/10\n\"Did the games have an autosave?\"\n\"Yeah, both of them did. It's a fairly common feature.\"\n\"Not for me...I AM INFERNAL!\"\n\"Fucking right you are...\"\nHappy Hallowe\u2019en, everybody! We\u2019ve teamed up with...\nDickass DM - Hallowe'en Special - Part Two\nObese people can jog on\nDickass DM - Hallowe'en Special\nFun and Free: The Best Hallowe'en Gaming Night Dow...\nPointless- The show that lives up to its name\nThe Worst Games I Have Ever Played\nE14 Giveaways\nShitty Box Art Round-Up: Exploitation Movies\nCelebrity Twitters: Darth Vader\nMusic games can STILL cock off", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 11407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.endlesspath.com/styles/five-problems-of-being-a-single-parent.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GS4MSFGXDP54DMU2EM74HON6PK2CKGND", "length": 1729, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.endlesspath.com", "title": "Five Problems of Being a Single Parent", "raw_content": "No one wants to be a single parent, but there are instances that some individuals can\u2019t avoid. While the situation comes with its own share of fun, it also brings some problems. Whether it is due to separation, divorce, or death, here are five challenges of being a single parent.\nA single parent has to deal with losing a partner and at the same time raising children. There\u2019s no shoulder to lean on during rough times. Even though there were bad times, you will still have had some good moments with your former partner.\nThere are instances in which society is judgmental about single parents, especially those who are divorced or separated. Negative friends and family could make it difficult to cope with the situation that leads to low self-esteem and developing self-doubt.\nBoth parents often give their share to the monthly budget. Single parents do face financial burdens, specifically during the transition phase. Whether it is a divorce, separation, or death of a partner, a single partner will find it hard to balance the household budget during the first couple of months. In the case of a divorce, both parties might come to an agreement but it will be hard to manage finances because they are running two households with the same finances.\nSingle parents go on a guilt trip after a bitter divorce. They doubt their decisions and wonder if the children will judge them when they grow up. They will also think about the friends they lose after the divorce.\n5. Disciplining Children\nA single parent with custody of the children may find it hard to instill discipline. Some children will act up to get the attention of their parents. 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He hasn't driven in a run since May 14. The rest of the numbers for the month aren't Albert-like, either. He entered the Tuesday's loss hitting just .256 this month compared with .345 in April. The RBIs are down, and so too are the power numbers; Pujols has only one homer in 82 May at-bats, compared with seven in 87 April ABs. Before his three-hit game Tuesday, Pujols had gone 3-for-20 over his previous six games, with one extra-base hit (a double).\nAP Photo/Al Behrman Albert Pujols had three hits Tuesday. He needed it after what has been an ordinary and frustrating May for him so far.\nThe fact that this is even a discussion proves just how good Pujols is -- he's still batting over .300 and getting flak? That aside, there's a contingent of people who can look at the way he's hitting, particularly against left-handed pitchers, and find some cause for concern.\nThere are two possibilities that are pointless to entertain, so let's dismiss those:\n1. Pujols is in the final year of a seven-year, $100 million contract with St. Louis and feeling pressured.\n2. Pujols and manager Tony La Russa aren't getting along.\nThe Cardinals have a $16 million option for next season, and he's arguably the best player in the game. I don't think the contract is weighing on his mind. His reportedly terse exchange with La Russa was simply evidence of a player being frustrated with his performance and getting a bit testier than usual. What we see and scrutinize in the media is not even a big deal in clubhouses and locker rooms because it's happening every single day. You're with the same people all the time, and you have situations where you fight with each other. But ultimately, you fight to win games together.\nSo what could be going on? The first thing to consider is Pujols as a whole person and not just a baseball player: Is he physically and mentally healthy? Most athletes won't admit when an injury is bothering them, but even a minor tweak can make you subconsciously compensate for something in your swing. Good athletes also aren't going to make excuses if something is bothering them at home -- wife, kids, friends. Even if there is an underlying issue, they probably won't talk about it and they definitely won't attribute their performance to it. Albert Pujols is a phenomenal baseball player, so when he \"struggles,\" it makes you wonder what's brewing in the back of his mind from a more personal standpoint.\nAssuming everything is all right on that front, I have noticed that Pujols is not dominating lefties the way he has in the past. He's hitting .195 against lefties. He's owned righties, meanwhile, with his three hits Tuesday raising his average to .352 against them. There's a difference between seeing the ball as it's coming toward home plate and actually locking in on it and really recognizing the rotation. I think that's where Pujols is struggling. I'm seeing his front hip fly open too soon before the ball is there. He's opening up too early as if he's concerned about pulling the ball or getting beat inside.\nWhen he's committing to a pitch early like that, he may take a cut at a ball that's just outside the strike zone. He's always had such great plate discipline, but now guys are enjoying an expanded strike zone because of his inability to recognize pitches early. He must trust his hands and his mechanics without flying open so soon.\nI say this, however, realizing that Pujols is one of those players who really doesn't need a hitting coach. He's just at that elite superstar level where his struggles are so much greater than the average big leaguer's slump. He's looked at not just for hitting, but for carrying his team and doing some real damage in games. Everything is magnified that much more for him. So my former player-to-current player advice?\nGo out and play golf.\nA lot of players have a tendency to work too hard to figure things out when really all they need is a little relaxation. The expectation to be great night in and night out drains all your mental energy. If he plays a round of golf in St. Louis or on the road somewhere, he'll still be doing something active and competing, but it may totally refresh his mind. It's not the monotonous baseball-tee-netting grind that you're constantly thinking about when you have to perform. You're out there having fun, and that can do wonders to help a player get back on track.\nChris Singleton is an analyst for \"Baseball Tonight.\"\nBaseball Tonight Live\n\"Baseball Tonight\" analysts, ESPN.com writers and SweetSpot Network bloggers chatted and gave their in-game opinions throughout the day's games -- all in Baseball Tonight Live.\nBBTN Live\nWho went deep? Keep track of all the home runs hit each day on \"Baseball Tonight\" and the Baseball Tonight Clubhouse page. For more, check out the Home Run Tracker page.\nVladimir Guerrero, TEX 11 KC Top 1: 0-0, 2 Outs. 1 on. Meche\nRyan Braun, MIL 8 HOU Bot 1: 0-1, 1 Out. 1 on. Paulino\nJosh Hamilton, TEX 9 KC Top 4: 2-1, 1 Out. None on. Meche\nNelson Cruz, TEX 10 KC Top 4: 2-2, 1 Out. None on. Meche\nCameron Maybin, FLA 4 ATL Bot 3: 1-0, 0 Outs. None on. Kawakami\nThe complete list of Tuesday's homers\nWednesday's Best Matchups\nYankees at Twins, 7 p.m. ET, ESPN\nFrancisco Liriano has scuffled his past three starts, losing all three after starting the year 4-0. This will be his third consecutive start against two of the three upper-tier teams of the AL. Finally, he gets one at home after losing at the Yankees and at the Red Sox. Andy Pettitte (5-1) is coming off his first loss of the year.\nRed Sox at Rays, 7:10 p.m. ET\nThe Red Sox go for the road sweep, and it'll be John Lackey's charge to finish off the three-game set for Boston. Lackey's 5.07 ERA isn't impressive, and he is coming off a pair of losses. Granted, his offense didn't offer much help, scoring two total runs in defeats at Detroit and at Philadelphia. Matt Garza breezed through the Red Sox's lineup earlier this year, tossing eight shutout innings in a 5-1 win on April 12.\nNationals at Giants, 10:15 p.m. ET\nTim Lincecum was roughed up in his most recent start, though he snuck away with a no-decision to keep his perfect record (5-0) intact. Lincecum pitched a season-low five innings at Arizona. Control has been an issue; he's walked five in each of his past two starts.\nThe rest of Wednesday's schedule \u00bb\nBASEBALL TONIGHT ON THE AIR\n10 p.m. ET on ESPN\nHost: Karl Ravech\nAnalysts: Bobby Valentine, Doug Glanville, Chris Singleton, Buster Olney\n12 a.m. ET on ESPN2\nAnalysts: Chris Singleton\nPitchers play defense, too\nWEB GEMS LEADERBOARD\nThis season, \"Baseball Tonight\" will be tracking Web Gems. Points will be calculated by awarding five points for the night's top defensive play, four points for second, three for third, two for fourth and one for fifth. Scoring will be based on fan voting of the previous night's gems (from the last \"Baseball Tonight\" each night).\nDustin Pedroia, BOS 19\nBrandon Phillips, CIN 17\nTroy Tulowitzki, COL 16\nScott Rolen, CIN 13\nRyan Ludwick, STL 12\nBoston Red Sox 48\nTampa Bay Rays 44\nNew York Mets 39\nFlorida Marlins 34\nFull leaderboard \u00bb\nTUESDAY'S BEST AND WORST\nVladimir Guerrero, DH, Rangers\nVlad slashed a pair of homers and drove home five runs as part of a 3-for-4 day in the Rangers' win against the Royals. Guerrero has hits in each of his past eight games and has had five multihit games during that run. His outing against the Royals raised his season average to .349.\nBen Zobrist, 2B, Rays\nThe Rays mustered one measly hit against the Red Sox in a 2-0 loss. Zobrist went 0-for-4 with three of Tampa Bay's 12 strikeouts against Jon Lester and Boston relievers Manny Delcarmen, Daniel Bard and Jonathan Papelbon. On top of that, both manager Joe Maddon and Carl Crawford were ejected.\nDaily Leaders \u00bb\nOne can use a traditional method to make the point that the Tampa Bay Rays have the best starting rotation in the major leagues. The Rays' starters lead the majors in earned run average by a healthy margin, despite Wade Davis getting tagged for five runs in 3 2/3 innings by the Red Sox on Monday night. (James Shields pitched well in a loss against the Red Sox on Tuesday night.)\nAnother way to state the Rays' case is to look at SNLVAR (support neutral league value above replacement), a Baseball Prospectus metric that measures how many more wins a starting pitcher has provided over the course of the season than would a replacement-level player who could be claimed off waivers or purchased from a Triple-A roster.\nA total of 57 major league pitchers have accumulated at least a 1.2 SNLVAR with just a little more than a quarter of the season gone. A pitcher who finishes with a 5.0 mark or better is considered to have had a very good season. The Rays have the only rotation in which each member has at least a 1.2 SNLVAR.\nThe Rays are one of only two teams with three starters ranking in the top 25, along with the San Francisco Giants, who have Tim Lincecum (fifth), Jonathan Sanchez (17th) and Barry Zito (24th).\nMore TMI \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 13246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ethnicepicurenyc.com/culture-performances/2016/10/12/brazil-caetano-veloso", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:14Z", "digest": "sha1:WQBZH7QX7V7BQR3N6Q3EOWJO4ZE7FPIF", "length": 720, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ethnicepicurenyc.com", "title": "Brazil - Caetano Veloso \u2014 Ethnic Epicure", "raw_content": "Brazil - Caetano Veloso\nCaetano Veloso, dubbed \"one of the greatest songwriters of the century\" (New York Times), is among the most influential and beloved artists to emerge from Brazil. 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His music has evolved greatly over the years, incorporating elements of rock, reggae, fado, tango, sambo canao, baiao, and rap.\nThe Town Hall 123 West 43rd St. www.thetownhall.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 144.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eurel.info/spip.php?article2520", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4UHJDODIM7CEXPABC2FVTYTFOLIVA7EF", "length": 1239, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.eurel.info", "title": "2014 - eurel", "raw_content": "Two important legal developments regarding questions related directly with religious affairs in Greece have taken place from April 2014 until November 2014 :\nLaw 4301 concerning the \u2018Organization of the legal form of the religious communities and their unions in Greece\u2019. The Law establishes a new legal form, that of \u2018religious personality\u2019 under private law, for those religious communities, which do not enjoy legal personality under public law (i.e. the Orthodox Church, the Jewish and Muslim communities). The Law also stipulates the absolute freedom of internal administration for the communities under the legal status of \u2018religious personality\u2019, as well as the procedure for acquiring it from the judicial authorities ; it regulates the framework for their financial administration and for religious buildings and institutions as well. 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What is that one thing that puts one school above another? The short answer is that there is not just one thing that makes any school better than another. It is just like buying a vehicle, maybe you need a truck to haul stuff around or tow a boat, but perhaps someone else wants a hybrid because they have a long commute. Both vehicles are good, but they serve a unique purpose and will appeal to different people for different reasons.\nThere is one way to figure out if a school is right for you and your family and this goes equally for high school and college, community. Yes, community! Although it\u2019s a pretty vague word, it gets to the point across quickly. What does that community value? How will they go about not just educating you in the classroom, but also in those non-formal situations? What values and experiences do you want to have during school? It\u2019s great to earn all \u201cA\u201d grades, but when the real world comes knocking, are you ready to respond?\nFor some students, an ideal community is large with a wide variety of activities, classes, and personalities to engage. Other students prefer something a bit smaller where teachers know who you are and you have the chance to dip your toe into a wide variety of activities and interests. Whatever your preferences, make sure you take advantage of that community. Get to know people, not just classmates, but teachers, counselors, coaches, advisors, and anyone else on campus.\nThe benefit of a tight community, like Fairmont Prep, is that you can do a lot of different things and pursue a variety of interests. People choose to work and attend a school like Fairmont because they care and they want to be involved and engaged. This means that during the tough times that you don\u2019t need to go it alone. Heck, if you are sick for a week, we can work with you to ensure that you don\u2019t fall behind in your work. It means more people to turn to for a recommendation or advice. There is no denying the incredible benefit that the Fairmont family can provide, and we hope you will get a chance to see it firsthand soon.\nWhen seeking out high schools or even colleges, people often ask what they should be looking for that makes it special. What is that one thing that puts one school above another? The short answer is that there is not just one thing that makes any school better than another.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 6260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2014/12/shining-in-crimson-empire-of-blood-1-by.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:05Z", "digest": "sha1:VU2P36SBAFDI3WW3OE36DKASLF7OJ5M6", "length": 8409, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.fangsforthefantasy.com", "title": "Fangs For The Fantasy: Shining in Crimson (Empire of Blood #1) by Robert S. Wilson", "raw_content": "Shining in Crimson (Empire of Blood #1) by Robert S. Wilson\nIn Wilson's dystopian world, the United States is no more and its place the American Empire rules the people. It is a theocracy ruled over by an emperor. The people are forced to live under strict morality laws and those who refuse to conform are sent to Necropolis the former Las Vegas and now home to a population of vampires. Hank Evan is sent to Necropolis as punishment for procuring a prostitute and he is determined to survive somehow because he is all that his son Toby has yet. What Hank does not realise is that surviving this night will cost him so much more than he ever imagined.\nAs an introduction to a trilogy, Shining in Crimson was not bad. Wilson gave us a sense of the dystopian world and its divisions. I would have liked to know more about how the American Empire came to be and more specifically how the truce with the vampires came into existence. We start the novel learning that the war has now been over for 20 years and that the government uses religious propaganda to prop up its rules, along with a fear that the alternative is to become prey to the sinning vampires.\nThe POV constantly changes throughout the book and though I normally find this irritating, it helped to bring the different elements of the story together. I found it interesting to see vampires who based on their long lives understand better than the humans, exactly what the American Empire is all about. For safety, the humans have traded their liberty. Hank has vague memories of a time when the world was different and a father who fought and died for the United States. He is tormented by the horrible bargain he is forced to make. Then we have Simon a devout member of the Empire, to the point that he even thinks of his own mother as a whore, finally coming to grips with the fact that he has been sold a book of lies and finally, Ishan who is determined to hold his vampire council together and bring down the empire.\nThe majority of the characters in this book are male. The only three female characters of note are Simon's mother, who viscously slut shamed. When she is raped by Peter, Simon is horrified and yet when Peter says that you cannot rape the willing, Simon is quick to agree. It is because of her dress and the fact that she didn't physically fight back and instead begged for her son's safety that Simon refuses to see her as the victim that she is. It is only after gaining empathy from Ishan, that Peter begins to understand he may have potentially wronged his mother. The second female character is the human vampire Rachel. As with Simon's mother, she is also a rape victim. Each day she is subject to rape and beatings by her father and her brothers, which she endures until Peter kills them. In turn, after being judged worthy, Rachel becomes a vampire, only to rape Hank in a bid to help Peter become the leader of the vampires. There is also Grace, the dead wife of Hank. Years later he is still mourning her loss. Grace is really little more than a footnote in this story. Finally, we have the Queen of the Ancients, the only ancient vampire to be sentient. We don't really learn much about her beyond this.\nAs you can see, we have one female character who is promoted to obscurity and two others who largely exist as victims of sexual violence and Grace whose death provides angst for the male characters. These characters are never really developed beyond their victimhood. Turning Rachel from victim to predator given that Simon's first reaction to Rachel is to shame her for his sexual attraction to her does not develop her whatsoever and instead is more to position Simon's frame of reference. Shining in Crimson doesn't so much have female characters, as it does cardboard cut outs who are either fridged for male angst or victims for male judgment.\nThe third rape victim in this book is Frank, who is raped by Rachel. Male rape is something that is rarely portrayed in the media and when it does appear, the rape is either denied, or the victim is presented as being lucky to have been violated. Wilson took care to show the horror of what happened to Hank and in the wake of the assault, Hank continued to act like the victim of sexual assault that he is. This is a rare portrayal.\nHer hands pressed down onto his chest as she took him into herself. Immediately the phrase \"You can't rape the willing\" came to mind, reminding him of the typical stereotype that men could not be truly raped. But here he was... being raped. She began to rock up and down on him. It was exhilarating and horrifying all at once. She screamed his name in Diana's voice, sending chills down his spine and chilling his heart as well. She ripped at the flesh on his chest with her fingernails and began licking the blood from them. All the while, he got closer and closer. And then as his face tightened in ecstasy and revulsion as his body went into orgasm, she leaned forward, offering the now-dry blood on her chest to him. He licked it at once, while still in mid-climax. Suddenly all of his sensations were heightened and he found himself convulsing with euphoria and hatred. In that moment, he became mentally void. When it finally ended, his body relaxed and reality came back to him. (pg 133-134)\nWhile I think that what happened to Frank is rarely portrayed in the media, it would absolutely fair to say that Shining in Crimson was filled with gratuitous rape. The assaults really didn't add anything to the story and certainly did not really serve to develop the characters whatsoever.\nIn terms of GLBT characters, Shining in Crimson is erased. We are told of one GLBT character who was brutally murdered, the moment he told his best friend about his sexuality. \"Thompson would gladly be drained of every drop of blood by the most gruesome of beasts than have a faggot for a best friend.\" Instead of actual GLBT characters, Wilson had Toby experience homophobia. Toby was constantly being targeted by the other boys at the orphanage and routinely called \"f@ggot\"\n\"Aw, does the little boy not want to talk about his piece-of-shit, blaspheming father? What's the matter, Toby, Daddy not like you because you're a faggot? \" (pg 42-42)\nAt every turn Toby was threatened by the boys based on their determination of his sexuality.\n\"If we find out you're a faggot, Toby, I'll kill you myself. I hate them. My dad was one of them. But I turned him in and he got what he deserved!\" the boy said, looking proud of every word.\" (pg 42-43)\nThe problem of course is that all we ever see is Toby experience homophobia with no declaration or any act which would suggest what his actual sexuality. It is perfectly understandable to see homophobia in Christian theocracy but it is never really challenged within the story itself, nor are there any clear gay characters who actively resist.\nThere are several characters of colour in this book. The Indian human vampire Ishan by far is the most prominent. We are given the opportunity to briefly visit Ishan's storied history giving us not only a great sense of his age but of his culture and heritage. Ishan is a leader and willing to fight for what he believes is right. Unlike the other human vampires, Ishan has not lost touch with his former humanity and he is filled with empathy; however, said empathy thankfully never descends into bemoaning his vampire nature. Other characters included the brothers Kato and Isingoma, as well as Stanislov. These characters were really minor characters in the story; however, there is plenty of room for Isingoma to grow in significance as Ishan rebuilds the vampire council.\nThe premise of Shining in Crimson is really unique but Wilson failed to live up to it. At times it felt like there was far too much going on, making the book feel scattered. I wanted to know more about Ishan's plans and why Hank is so significant. I wanted to know how the council came into being and more about the war. In the rush to fill the story with action (read: sexual violence), there were huge holes in the plot leaving me as a reader with many unanswered questions. I will however say that my curiosity has been peaked and I hope that Wilson addresses these issues in the second book in this series.\nEditor's note: A copy of this book was received from the author for review.\nLabels: 2.5 Fangs, Empire of Blood, religion, Robert S. Wilson, urban fantasy, vampires", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 574, "original_length": 24182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fifthera.com/perspectives-blog/2018/5/4/microsofts-quarterly-revenue-rises-to-268-billion-driven-by-office-and-cloud-gains", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JNSDSWJH5ROE5BSNG5UWPHVMFJJKYPNK", "length": 529, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.fifthera.com", "title": "Microsoft\u2019s quarterly revenue rises to $26.8 billion, driven by Office and cloud gains \u2014 FIFTH ERA", "raw_content": "Microsoft\u2019s quarterly revenue rises to $26.8 billion, driven by Office and cloud gains\n\"Overall, the company reported revenue of $26.8 billion for the first three months of 2018, up 16 percent from $23.2 billion during the same period in 2017.\"\nSource: https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/26/microsofts-quarterly-revenue-rises-to-26-8-billion-driven-by-office-and-cloud-gains/\nNewer PostRichard Branson wants 'ridiculously exciting' hyperloop up and running within 3 years\nOlder PostPinterest Just Redesigned Its App For Blind People", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 244.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filmfeeder.co.uk/going-style-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ARYYLM6M6PCVGXQKLF6JHSBN5VVXVPDI", "length": 4972, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.filmfeeder.co.uk", "title": "Film Feeder Going In Style (Review) - Film Feeder", "raw_content": "Going In Style (Review)\nCAST: Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Alan Arkin, Joey King, Matt Dillon, Ann-Margret, Christopher Lloyd, Kenan Thompson, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, John Ortiz, Peter Serafinowicz\nBASICALLY\u2026: A trio of elderly men (Caine, Freeman and Arkin) decide to rob the bank that has screwed them out of their pension funds\u2026\nWhenever legendary actors appear in something nowadays that\u2019s considered beneath their talents or only because they\u2019re now older, like Robert De Niro in Dirty Grandpa or Al Pacino in Jack and Jill, it creates concern from fans about whether anyone in the film business nowadays knows exactly what to do with these talents.\nSo when something like Going in Style comes along, which features not one but three legendary actors working alongside each other, and the main joke of the film is that they\u2019re old, you\u2019d expect it to fall right in the ranks of those other lesser films. But luckily, Going in Style keeps its head above water for just long enough to be fairly entertaining fluff that\u2019s completely harmless to anyone that comes across it.\nA remake of the George Burns-starring film of the same name, the plot sees a trio of elderly gentlemen \u2013 Michael Caine\u2019s Joe, Morgan Freeman\u2019s Willie, and Alan Arkin\u2019s Albert \u2013 learning that not only are their pension funds being frozen as a result of their company\u2019s new merger, but that the bank which is threatening foreclosure on Joe\u2019s house is overseeing the transition, effectively using their pensions for utility bills. Angered by their treatment, they decide to rob the bank and take what is rightfully theirs, which may be trickier than they think because none of them have real experience with professional crime, and also they\u2019re rather old.\nIt is a heist movie in the traditional sense, one that feels like a throwback to the classics instead of a fully-modernised rendition complete with commentary about the broken financial system of today. Instead of all that, you have a film about a bunch of guys who get screwed around badly and decide to do something about it, but its heart is always in the right place and never allows the film to become too cruel or even that disingenuous. Caine, Freeman and Arkin have great screen presence together, whether they\u2019re learning the tricks of the trade or sitting around watching episodes of The Bachelor, and individually they\u2019re great at bringing the likability to their characters that make you really want to root for them throughout. They collectively carry the film on their shoulders, and provide enough heart and genuine warmth to the story to make you invested all the way through.\nThe ride is a fun, if mild, one with some decent laughs sprinkled throughout the film, even though not many of them are truly worthy of belly-laughs. A \u201cpractice run\u201d in a convenience store earns a good few chuckles, if only for the sight of Morgan Freeman riding in the basket of a mobility scooter alone, and of course the banter between the lead actors is always a delight to listen to, but don\u2019t go in expecting a fully laugh-out-loud comedy, as although you\u2019ll definitely get some good laughs every now and then it\u2019s more of an amusing time-waster than a laugh riot. The film is directed by Zach Braff, of all people, and thankfully he plays things more mainstream here without the urge to make it artsy every once in a while, but luckily he also knows how to entertain an audience (after all, why do you think Scrubs lasted as long as it did?) and has such respect for the actors he\u2019s working with that he gives them enough focus to get the best out of them, even for something as mild as this.\nThe film loses a little bit of steam after the central heist actually takes place, with characters making certain decisions that are a little questionable in the grander scheme of things, as well as a late reveal which doesn\u2019t feel entirely necessary to the plot as a whole. Actors like Matt Dillon as the FBI agent trying to find the culprits, Christopher Lloyd as a senile club leader, and Peter Serafinowicz as the deadbeat pot-dealing father of Caine\u2019s granddaughter, don\u2019t get that much to do next to the three leads, and even at just over 90 minutes there are parts that feel like just the slightest of padding. But even so, it all adds up to something fairly satisfying in the end, because you\u2019re with these main characters all the way through, and it has its heart in just the right place to make you feel warm inside when it reaches the ending that it has. It\u2019s a fine little treat for anyone who just wants to see the likes of Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman et al doing what they do best.\nGoing in Style is a mild but likeable and entertaining heist flick that rests firmly on the strong chemistry between Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman and Alan Arkin, and has its heart in the right place which makes you want to root for these characters all the way through and not let anything bad \u2013 or worse than the inciting incident \u2013 happen to them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 7632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filmfeeder.co.uk/paterson-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QBD4ANC3NHTEIAX2YQMMOEFJPSZHNFQQ", "length": 5998, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.filmfeeder.co.uk", "title": "Film Feeder Paterson (Review) - Film Feeder", "raw_content": "Paterson (Review)\nCAST: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, William Jackson Harper, Chasten Harmon, Barry Shabaka Henley, Rizwan Manji, Masatoshi Nagase, Kara Hayward, Jared Gilman, Method Man, Sterling Jerins\nBASICALLY\u2026: A bus driver (Driver) aspires to be a poet, while also living a quiet existence with his wife (Farahani) in their small town\u2026\nJim Jarmusch\u2019s Paterson is a strange beast to experience. It\u2019s the kind of film where you go through several emotions all at once, from curiosity to boredom to frustration to fascination in one fell swoop. Yet, none of these unexpected emotions really make it feel like you\u2019re watching something bad, or at the very least unbalanced; all throughout, you feel like you\u2019re watching something that is genuinely different from the set standard, and for that you are grateful for the fresh change of pace. It somehow goes against everything that a film should be, yet it sticks in your mind long after you see it, more than a good majority of the many other standard films you may have seen this year.\nHonestly, for that reason, it is hard to truly describe something like Paterson other than it is truly unlike any other film out there at the moment.\nThe story, or what story there is, is about a man named Paterson (Adam Driver), who works as a bus driver in his hometown of Paterson, New Jersey (and that\u2019s not a mistake on our part; the character also coincidentally shares the same name). We follow him through a normal, uneventful week in his life, which follows an eerily similar routine of waking up next to his wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani), walking to work, driving around the town while listening to the conversations of his passengers, walking his wife\u2019s pet English bulldog in the evening, and sitting down for a glass of beer in a local bar. In his spare time, he is constantly writing down new poems in a notebook, which he is anxious to share with his eager wife, who herself spends her time decorating the house, making various cupcakes for the Farmer\u2019s Market, and beginning to learn the guitar.\nAnd, seriously, that\u2019s all there is when it comes to a plot. Some other events happen here and there, but to say they are minor and mostly without incident is an understatement. For the most part, this is a film that has almost nothing in terms of a cohesive story, instead substituting several vignettes throughout this one week of Paterson interacting with the locals, and quietly going about his day. That\u2019s about it.\nAllow me to take you through the several stages of watching this film for the first time. First, I was intrigued by the slow-burn pace that this movie was adopting, and even though nothing out of the ordinary was happening (aside from a strange recurring motif of twins popping up every now and then, following a dream his wife has of having twin babies) I was still morbidly curious about where this was all leading to. Then, about one-third of the way through, it suddenly dawned on me that this was going to be the whole film, and that I was stuck watching something with no plot or any kind of structure to stick it together, leaving me without anything to say about it. Then, when it finally did end with nothing truly noteworthy happening as a denouement (outside of one or two minor developments, of course), I felt frustrated that I had just sat through what could have possibly been the most boring film I\u2019ve seen in ages, one where absolutely nothing happened. But finally, I reached the car to drive home and I suddenly couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it. In my mind, I was thinking about the life that Paterson and Laura were living, how it was a marriage that was fuelled fully by unconditional love and a mutual support of one another. I found myself thinking back to the several random people that Paterson came across during the film, from an overdramatic actor pining over a break-up to two students discussing capital punishment in Italy during the early 20th century (who were, in a lovely surprise reunion, played by Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward, the young lovers from Wes Anderson\u2019s adorable Moonrise Kingdom). I could not stop imagining where their story goes from there, even if nothing continues to happen as it did throughout that 113-minute running time.\nNo other film this year, for me anyway, has managed to make me feel all these conflicting emotions, yet afterwards feel so enamoured by how calm and uneventful it was. It really made me want to revisit this film almost instantly, just so I could spend a little more time following this simple, quiet man around the town, writing more poetry and interacting with several people who never felt like characters, but just pure people.\nAll of a sudden, a film that I really didn\u2019t know what to think of became a film that I absolutely loved. It challenges the audience to look at the simple life of an un-extraordinary man without confiding to a typical three-act structure with character arcs to be rounded up before the credits start to roll. Luckily, it\u2019s paced so swiftly by Jarmusch with sweet, steady camerawork that allows us to absorb the small-town qualities that Paterson, New Jersey has to offer, and a collected and non-showy lead performance by Driver who is quite astonishing in how much he holds back without delivering any big emotional outbursts, which perhaps a lesser film would have done.\nI wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s for everyone, because its slow-burn pace and lack of cohesive plot is bound to put off more people than intrigue them, but for whoever ends up going through the same patterns of emotional conflict as I did, in a film where next to nothing happens, Paterson will be an unexpected delight and, for me anyway, one of the best films of the year.\nPaterson may not have much in terms of a cohesive story, but you end up feeling enamoured by its quiet simplicity long after you finish watching it, enough to want to go back and revisit what has to be one of the most unique films of the year, and certainly one of the best.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 8628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 245.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firenze-tourism.com/en/florence-hotels/hotel-merlini.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:02Z", "digest": "sha1:5VW6I7YSO3D5O6U23AF375CUFIMPFCSK", "length": 541, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.firenze-tourism.com", "title": "Hotel Merlini Florence", "raw_content": "Hotel Merlini Florence\nFlorence \u203a 1 Star Hotels in Florence \u203a Hotel Merlini Florence\nThe Hotel Merlini is situated in the heart of the old city of Florence, just a few steps from from the Central Station Santa Maria Novella. It is also very close to Piazza del Duomo and the Palace of Congress. This favorable position will permit one to visit the old city on foot. If someone has a car it can be housed in a nearby garage. Everyone can be free to explore and discover the Architectural and artistic beauties of Florence.\nwww.hotelmerlini.it", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firstchoicetreecare.com/page/faq", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:00Z", "digest": "sha1:OIG332QJX3QRP23KNOG6QT4DEXO4KEZH", "length": 4218, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.firstchoicetreecare.com", "title": "FAQ", "raw_content": "First Choice Tree Care strives to foster greater awareness of the benefits of trees by assisting homeowners and grounds managers in obtaining the knowledge and services needed to help sustain trees in the urban, suburban, and rural environments. Below you will find a list of some common questions.\nWhat is the difference between an arborist and a Certified Arborist?\nArborists are trained professionals that are knowledgeable and equipped to provide proper tree care. They are specially trained to provide a variety to services to maintain trees. ISA Certified Arborists are individuals who have achieved a level of knowledge in the art and science of tree care through at least three years of experience and have passed a comprehensive examination. They are also required to continue their education in order to maintain their certification, ensuring their knowledge is updated on the latest arboriculture techniques. ISA Arborist Certification is a non-governmental voluntary process that operates without mandate of law. It is an internal self-regulating device administered by the International Society of Arboriculture. Certification provides a measurable assessment of an individual's knowledge and competence required to provide proper tree care.\nHow often does my tree need care?\nThe type and frequency of tree care depends on the species, age, location, climate, and other factors that affect the tree's growth. The first step is to educate yourself about your trees and understand their needs. It is imperative to understand that proper tree care is a life long process, and that planting and caring for a tree is a long-term commitment. A Certified Arborist can create a management plan to best suit the needs of each individual tree in your landscape.\nWhat is \"Topping\" a Tree?\nTopping is the indiscriminate cutting of tree branches to stubs or lateral branches that are not large enough to assume the terminal role. Other names for topping include \"heading,\" \"tipping,\" \"hat-racking,\" and \"rounding over.\" Topping is perhaps the most harmful tree pruning practice known. It is usually done to reduce the size of a tree. Often, homeowners top their trees because they feel that they have become too large for their property and are a hazard. However, topping will make a tree more hazardous in the long term and is very harmful to the health of a tree. No educated arborist would ever \"top\" a tree. \"Pollarding,\" often confused with topping, is an ornamental style of pruning popular in Europe, which involves annual trimming of the new shoots.\nWhat is Mulching?\nMulches are organic materials placed over the soil surface to maintain moisture. Mulching is extremely beneficial to trees. It can reduce water loss from soil, minimize weed competition, and improve soil structure. Properly applied, mulch gives landscapes a healthy dose of benefits for your trees.\nWhat should I do if I think my tree has insect and/or disease problems?\nAs soon as you notice any abnormality in your tree's appearance, you should begin a careful examination of the problem. Insects and diseases can threaten a tree's health. You should contact a Certified Arborist for assistance immediately. By identifying the specific symptoms of damage and understanding the causes, they will be able to diagnose the problem and recommend appropriate actions for treatment.\nCan trees be hazardous?\nTrees are essential to our world, offering a wide range of benefits to our environment. However, trees become hazardous liabilities if they fall and injure people or damage property. Proper, constant maintenance will help prevent and identify when a tree becomes dangerous. Evaluating the seriousness of a trees condition is best done by a professional ISA Certified Arborist.\nHow do I find more information about tree care?\nOne of the best websites for consumer tree care information is www.treesaregood.org. For personalized service and detailed information pertaining to your trees, it is best to contact an ISA Certified Arborist to schedule a consultation. For a nominal fee, a Certified Arborist can provide you with a wealth of information including tree identification, proper pruning, insect & disease problems, and soil nutrition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.forartsakegallery.com/victor-guschov.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:06Z", "digest": "sha1:SKHJKYEI23DRGXCFBYZZRD22DL5NO553", "length": 1551, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.forartsakegallery.com", "title": "Victor Guschov - For ArtSake Gallery", "raw_content": "Landscape And Seascape Artist\nVictor Guschov was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts in 1950. Victor began to paint seriously when he was fourteen years old, working in oils and watercolors. His early paintings reflected the influences of Winslow Homer and the Rockport school. Strongly attracted to the work of the Impressionists, he has since that time experimented with many different styles and mediums.\nVictor graduated from Worcester Academy in 1969 and went on to Montserrat School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League of New York. Impatient with academics and deciding that the best education would be to paint a thousand paintings and learn from his own experience and observation, he dropped out of school and began the life of a starving artist. Traveling around the country and living in cheap rooming houses, he refined his painting skills, selling pen-and-ink sketches and watercolors, while working part time at odd jobs to pay the rent and buy materials. \"It's hard to imagine trading my life for one with fewer twists and more security. The memories I have-of living in a two-dollar room on Bourbon Street: working at a fast-food dive on Sunset Strip and walking home in the dark to a seedy apartment; crouching under bridges next to wild rivers to stay dry while painting in the rain; watching snow pile up on my palette- all turned into paintings.\"\nIn 1977, Victor settled in Oregon, becoming established as a landscape and seascape artist. His recent works include copper wall-pieces, contemporary jewelry, as well as paintings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 150.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.forensicswiki.org/index.php?title=Steganography&oldid=5304", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:39:42Z", "digest": "sha1:AIXEIP4YXZSU5IR3BD67Y2QXGWQAAH77", "length": 536, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.forensicswiki.org", "title": "Steganography - ForensicsWiki", "raw_content": "Revision as of 05:39, 17 May 2006 by Shawn1024 (Talk | contribs)\nSteganography is a science that pertains to the art of concealing data in a communication in such a way that only the sender and receipt know of its exists and method of access. The platform used for transmission can be anything from a document to a digital file. Additionally, it is more common than not to encrypt the hidden data whenever possible such as with digital files or images.\nRetrieved from \"https://forensicswiki.org/index.php?title=Steganography&oldid=5304\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 199.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fr-paul.org/year-a-easter-ii.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:XPWVQED3BRXJVIEWOO7R3XQKIPLXZ5PD", "length": 3885, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.fr-paul.org", "title": "The Rev. Canon Paul Edwards-Year A Easter II", "raw_content": "Second Sunday in Easter\nClick here to go to the Bottom Line Meditations for the Second Sunday in Easter\nA little dab of grace will do you.\nWe need to put grace on the little things in life so they can grow into fruit ratherthan weeds.\n\u201cAlmighty God: Grant that all may show forth in our lives what we profess by our faith.\u201d\nJohn 20:19-31 \u201cThomas one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.\u201d\n\u201cThomas one of the Twelve\u201d. Did you get it? What was it? After all this is Easter. We do not have time to work with the details. Let\u2019s get it on with what we already know. Let\u2019s face it, this is called \u201cLow Sunday\u201d for several reasons. The real explanation is on Easter we celebrated with the \u201cHigh\u201d Mass. The next Sunday we go back to normal with the \u201cLow\u201d Sunday Mass. The actual explanation that it is low Sunday is the small attendance at Easter mass. There is plenty of room for more. All the color, pomp and circumstance of the Day are gone. Gone are the large choirs with special music. The flowers look a bit wilted and there is a dusty feeling about getting back to the normal congregation: same-o-same-o.\nIt is perhaps a minor point but Thomas is no longer \u201cone of the twelve\u201d. He is one of the eleven. Things have changed. Judas is no longer with them.\nThis may not mean very much as a fact. However it is a fact of life. Life is in the details. Life is what happened between our old and our new plans. It is an opportunity for a \u201cTime Out\u201d. How many of us need a time out. We perhaps could use a time out in our personal life. It seems to be headed down not up. There are time outs needed in our relationship at times. When was the last time we took a time out with our spouse, or with our children or with our parents?\nOur problem is we do not have time to take a time out. It is frivolous to think we can do it. Too many things to do, places to go, people to meet. And, yes, we are about to take on some more busy work. We believe the wise old warning that \u201cthe Devil is in the details.\u201d We just do not have time to check out the details.\nEaster is about checking into the details so we can check out of that which eats up our life. The only detail we need to remember is to take a spiritual time out. No way, we do not have time to take a time out.\nI remember one morning when I was in Seminary. I was about to take a trip from New York City to Los Angeles California. I would be driving out with a couple and another person. I was in a rush to beat the traffic to the toll way. The couple said, \u201cLet us take a moment to say a prayer in the chapel.\u201d My head said to my stomach, \u201cNo way! We don\u2019t have time for prayers. We have get going before it is too late.\u201d Something inside said, \u201cDo you know how stupid that is?\u201d You are a Seminarian, at a Seminary, with two Seminarians who want to have a short prayer and you are pushing to get out of here? Don\u2019t make a fool of yourself, just do it. And I did. It was a wonderful moment. The trip out the toll way was fine. Our relationship was sealed with the Spirit. We needed that kind of Spirit after we blew a tire, got to a gas station and replaced it. After an hour plus on the road we remembered we did not take the spare with us. Do we go back and lose three more hours or do we head on and hope we do not get another flat. We went back. We had plenty of time to do what was really needed to have done. It was a time out.\nI always remember that moment in the chapel. It has always made sense to me. It was a God grace given moment. Has God ever given you that kind of make sense moment you can use for the rest of your life? If not, here is the chance to take a time out. Wonder what difference being in His Peace Presence will make.\nHe is right with you, just waiting for your head to stop talking to your stomach so you can listen to your heart. Make it an Easter Moment.\nTags: Year A, Easter, grace, Thomas, time out", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 6891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.freelinkdirectory.co.uk/tv-words-of-wisdom-may-wound-your-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:10Z", "digest": "sha1:EKRB5W5TYSSEMBBGRZ4GMV4LOHROI5ZP", "length": 266, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.freelinkdirectory.co.uk", "title": "TV Words of Wisdom May Wound Your Health - Free Links Directory", "raw_content": "TV Words of Wisdom May Wound Your Health\nWe are constantly being confronted by the media in one form or another and are dealing with the effects of this overexposure, whether voluntary or not. A recurring topic being scrutinized and evaluated is health and medicine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.freemanbaker.co.uk/news-item/changes-annual-accounting-regulations-businesses", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PUUKMEKGHPF7SXTVXIHSH4AEB3DGBIT6", "length": 1426, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.freemanbaker.co.uk", "title": "Changes to annual accounting regulations for businesses | Freeman Baker Associates | St Albans", "raw_content": "Home \u203a News centre \u203a Changes to annual accounting regulations for businesses\nChanges to annual accounting regulations for businesses\nA number of important changes to the way that small and medium-sized companies prepare and file their accounts with Companies House have been introduced.\nThe Companies, Partnerships and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2015 came into force on 6 April 2015.\nSmall and medium-sized companies can no longer file abbreviated accounts to Companies House for accounting periods that begin on or after 1 January 2016. Smaller businesses can still prepare micro entity accounts, while others can prepare abridged accounts for members within the company.\nCompanies can choose to follow the new regulations for accounting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2015.\nstatements - companies that prepare abridged accounts must include a statemente which indicates that the members have agreed to the abridgement\nchanges to small company size threshold \u2013 for small companies the turnover limit rises from \u00a36.5m to \u00a310.2m and the balance sheet total limit rises from \u00a33.26m to \u00a35.1m\nchanges to medium-sized company threshold \u2013 turnover limit rises from \u00a325.9m to \u00a336m and the balance sheet total limit rises from \u00a312.9m to \u00a318m\nemployees \u2013 the total number of employees remains at 50 for small companies and 250 for medium-sized companies.\nContact us today to discuss your accounting obligations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fresnostate.edu/president/welty/biography.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WHECHLZQD4J5FNWI7BTRFM6AKHDUBPF6", "length": 5228, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.fresnostate.edu", "title": "About the President", "raw_content": "Since becoming president on July 29, 1991, Dr. John D. Welty has extended Fresno State\u2019s regional and global reach, cultivated unprecedented private financial support and promoted diversity, innovation, service, enterprise and engagement as foundations for the future.\nA native of Amboy, Illinois, Welty was the first in his family to go to college. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in social science from Western Illinois University in 1965; a master\u2019s in college student personnel services from Michigan State in 1967; and a doctorate in administration of higher education from Indiana University in 1974.\nHe was an admissions counselor at Michigan State and a student affairs administrator at Southwest State University in Minnesota, State University of New York, Albany, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he became president in 1984. Seven years later, Welty succeeded President Harold H. Haak at Fresno State.\nWelty\u2019s energy was contagious from the start as was his belief that the university should leverage its academic and research resources in service to the greater community. He made it clear to community leaders that Fresno State welcomed partnerships and financial support and was willing to make curriculum changes to serve regional needs of the region. Centers and institutes were established to focus on regional challenges: health care issues, socio-economic inequities, local real estate and land-use planning, innovation and entrepreneurship, water resources, regional economic development and effective political service.\nThe building pace picked up and since his arrival in 1991, buildings valued at hundreds of millions of dollars have been added to the campus. The privately financed Save Mart Center is a state-of-the-art regional sports and cultural venue. A new, $105 million Henry Madden Library is a stunning architectural statement and will serve campus and community needs deep into the 21st century. The Smittcamp Alumni House opened to campus visitors. A Student Recreation Center was built as were facilities for student-athletes to provide study space and new competition venues. Campus Pointe \u2013 a unique private housing-retail-hotel-theater development \u2013 was being constructed. New parking structures were topped with solar panels generating 20 percent of the campus\u2019 electricity demand.\nDuring Welty\u2019s tenure, Fresno State completed a major campus planning effort, launched initiatives to extend, modify and sustain academic offerings and undertook a major commitment to information technology. He encouraged service learning and volunteerism campuswide, improved and broadened services for students, streamlined administrative processes.\nMinority enrollment expanded, the Smittcamp Family Honors College was created, University High School became the first charter high school on a California State University campus and new graduate-degree programs were established, including an independent doctorate in educational leadership and a doctor of nursing practice degree. The campus initiated a joint doctorate of physical therapy with University of California, San Francisco, with plans for an independent doctorate.\nUnder his leadership, the university extended opportunities for women student-athletes and added intercollegiate sports, but also dropped others. Sanctions for violations of NCAA rules and a series of high-profile lawsuits were cleared up and the program was set on solid footing. Welty led the campus intercollegiate athletics programs first into the Western Athletic Conference (1992) and then the Mountain West Conference (2012).\nWelty has been actively involved in CSU system strategic planning, accountability, gender equity, emergency credentialing and alcohol programs. He has chaired three national conferences on substance abuse and prevention. He has served on advisory groups to the U.S. Departments of Education and Agriculture and chaired the Renaissance Group, a national organization of universities dedicated to improved teacher education programs. He served as commissioner and chair of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges senior accrediting commission and chair of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities board. He served on the board, committees and task forces of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.\nCloser to home, Welty led establishment of the Fresno Business Council, the Central Valley Business Incubator, the Central Valley Higher Education Consortium, the Collaborative Regional Initiative, the Regional Jobs Initiative and several other partnerships. He earned state and national educational leadership awards and the Fresno Business Council\u2019s Excellence in Public Service Award in 2003.\nWelty\u2019s fundraising legacy includes the Craig School of Business, Kremen School of Education and Human Development, Lyles College of Engineering and Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, the Smittcamp Family Honors College and the Jan and Bud Richter Center for Community Engagement and Service-Learning. He also encouraged the Campaign for Fresno State \u2013 the university\u2019s first comprehensive fundraising effort \u2013 seeking to help assure the university\u2019s excellence in its second century.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.friedegg.co/blog/jon-rahm-bio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:04Z", "digest": "sha1:5JXRLS7C6KLNKEUFW3EDWA7N52VJEHG5", "length": 5585, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.friedegg.co", "title": "Jon Rahm: PGA Tour Player Profile \u2014 The Fried Egg", "raw_content": "Birthplace: Barrika, ESP\nResides: Scottsdale, AZ\nProfessional Wins: 1 - 2017 Farmers Insurance Open\nAll-Around game - Jon Rahm didn\u2019t play enough rounds during the 2015-2016 season to qualify for statistical rankings on the PGA Tour, but if he had, here\u2019s where his stats would have ranked (it\u2019s ridiculously good):\nStrokes Gained: Off-The-Tee - 4th\nStrokes Gained: Approach-The-Green: 105th\nStrokes Gained: Around-The-Green: 16th\nStrokes Gained: Putting: 2nd\nStrokes Gained: Total: 2nd\nAs you can see from the stats above, the only area that is holding Rahm back from being the best all-around player was his approach shots to the green. When you dive deeper, Rahm\u2019s problem area is with his short-irons and full wedges. This is not surprising for a young player who is incredibly long off the tee. Here is where his proximity stats from the fairway would have ranked last year from inside 200 yards\nProximity 175 - 200 yards: 1st\nProximity 150 - 175 yards: 145th\nProximity 125 - 150 yards: 161st\nProximity 75 - 100 yards : 5th\nProximity 50 - 75 yards: 31st\nA look at Jon Rahm\u2019s Swing\nJon Rahm has a very simple swing with no wasted motion. He is able to create an unbelievable amount of lag through a tremendous down cock in his transition move. In my opinion, his physical makeup is a huge advantage. It helps him create a lot of speed with a swing that is considered 'short' by textbook standards.\nJon Rahm is currently on pace to have the best statistical start for any player since 2008 through 50 rounds, and it shouldn\u2019t come as a surprise given his stellar collegiate and amateur career. His game has superstar written all over him, and I expect him to become one of the world\u2019s best players this season.\nJon Rahm\u2019s path to the PGA Tour\nJon Rahm grew up in Spain where he was a force. Rahm regularly contended in the largest European Amateur events with his biggest wins coming at the 2010 Spanish Junior/Boys Championship and the 2011 Copa Baleares. His strong junior play was enough to garner a scholarship offer from Tim Mickelson\u2019s college powerhouse Arizona State University.\nThe college years (2012-2016)\nOnce on campus, Rahm became one of the best collegiate players in the country from the day he stepped foot in the states. As a freshman, every one of Jon Rahm\u2019s rounds counted towards Arizona State\u2019s team score, a remarkable feat for any player, let alone a freshman. The highlight of his season was when he won the Bill Cullum Invitational and his strong play netted him a place on the All-Freshman Team as well as an All-American Honorable mention.\nAs a sophomore, Jon Rahm continued his ascension into one of the world\u2019s best amateurs when he notched a scoring average of 70.84, the best mark of any Arizona State player since the 2006-2007 team. His season was highlighted by a win at the 2014 Thunderbird Invitational and another All-American Honorable Mention nod.\nThe summer of 2014 saw Rahm break out in the prestigious amateur events. Rahm won the Eisenhower Trophy in Japan and the Spanish Amateur as well as made a sweet 16 run in the U.S. Amateur.\nRahm\u2019s hot play from the summer carried over to his Junior season with him winning the Bill Cullum Invitational, the Duck Invitational, The Thunderbird Invitational and the NCAA Regional in San Diego. Rahm was the most consistent player in the country, registering 10 top 10 finishes in the 12 events he played, good for a scoring average of 69.15, the best in the country. The awards piled up as Rahm won the 2015 Ben Hogan Award (nation\u2019s best golfer), the McCormick Medal (#1 in world Amateur Rankings) and First Team All-American honors.\nRahm\u2019s name hit mainstream golf appeal when he competed in the PGA Tour\u2019s Waste Management Open in the spring of 2015, where the collegiate finished in a tie for 5th, 3-shots behind winner Brooks Koepka. It was the first top 5 for an amateur in a PGA Tour event since Chris Wood\u2019s in the 2008 Open Championship.\nRahm\u2019s stellar play continued in the summer of 2015 when he again won the Spanish Amateur, competed in the Palmer Cup, made the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur, made the cut at the 2015 Travelers Championship as well as a t10th at the OHL Classic.\nRahm spurned professional golf to return to Arizona State for his senior season and put forth another remarkable season winning the Tavistock Invitational, his 3rd straight Thunderbird Invitational, the Pac-12 Championships and won the NCAA Albuquerque Regional. His stellar season earned him his second Hogan Award (1st player ever to win two), the Jack Nicklaus Award and 1st team All-American honors. The statistic I found most impressive was that Jon Rahm finished in the top 10 of every single event of the season, 13 in total an incredible testament to his consistency.\nRahm wrapped up his amateur career competing in the 2016 U.S. Open where he was the low-amateur and finished t23rd at the difficult Oakmont setup.\nFollowing his standout performance at Oakmont, Rahm turned professional. His plan was to attempt to earn a PGA Tour card via Sponsor\u2019s Exemptions. He needed to earn enough FedEx Cup points to finish in the top 125 of the 2014-2015 season through the maximum eight sponsor\u2019s exemptions allowed.\nIt didn\u2019t take Rahm long to accomplish the rare feat as in Rahm\u2019s professional debut he nearly won the Quicken Loans National finishing t3rd. His top 5 earned Rahm a spot in the Open Championship where he made the cut before another near win at the RBC Canadian Open finishing t2nd. After a t25th at the Traveler\u2019s, his card was locked up for the 2016-2017 season.\nMore PGA Tour reads", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 8603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.frontrunnerz.net/detail/8526/demand-solutions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:28Z", "digest": "sha1:XLKM2VNJTV3TLYUFODY7BBRJCPSQRORL", "length": 167, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.frontrunnerz.net", "title": "Demand Solutions", "raw_content": "Description: Demand Solutions offers customers the ability to produce goods more efficiently through a comprehensive suite of supply chain planning software solutions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fruitnet.com/produceplus/article/174728/pfr-scoops-prime-ministers-science-prize", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3LU3237UQ4DWL5LVC2NP4OTNQNGRLUUP", "length": 3480, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.fruitnet.com", "title": "PFR scoops Prime Minister's Science Prize", "raw_content": "PFR scoops Prime Minister's Science Prize\nAccolade recognises research institute's role during a defining moment for the New Zealand kiwifruit industry\n1 NZ government backs kiwifruit innovation\n2 Kiwifruit to boost NZ GDP\n3 Subscribers onlyZespri working to get red right\n4 Zespri set for new head office\n6 Zespri commissions new study\n7 Plant & Food awarded grant for kiwifruit research\n8 Agrofresh in Plant & Food agreement\n9 Zespri puts innovation on show\n10 KVH welcomes findings from independent review\nPlant & Food Research\u2019s response to the outbreak of Psa in New Zealand has been recognised with this year\u2019s Prime Minister\u2019s Science Prize.\nWhen the kiwifruit vine-killing disease was first discovered in New Zealand in 2010, Plant & Food Research moved quickly to mobilise a team of more than 100 people, including plant pathologists, breeders and orchard management specialists.\nInitially, the Plant & Food Research team worked with the industry to contain the spread of the disease by developing new orchard management techniques. The science team also developed diagnostic tests to inform growers\u2019 management decisions and identified agrichemicals that could protect against the disease.\n\u201cPsa was potentially devastating for the New Zealand kiwifruit industry,\u201d said Dr Bruce Campbell, Plant & Food Research\u2019s chief operating officer. \u201cWhen the disease was discovered, we knew we had limited time to find the solutions the industry needed to manage the disease and remain viable.\n\u201cIt was an incredibly stressful time for our scientists, not only in terms of how fast the scientific process was having to deliver answers but also the emotional impact the disease was having on their friends and neighbours. I\u2019m incredibly proud of how the Plant & Food Research team responded, and this prize really demonstrates the importance of their work to New Zealand.\u201d\nLonger term, it was determined a new gold cultivar would be required to support the ongoing growth of the kiwifruit industry, after Hort16A, marketed globally as Zespri Gold, was found to be particularly susceptible to Psa.\nA new gold kiwifruit cultivar \u2018Zesy002\u2019, referred to by growers as Gold3 and sold around the world as Zespri SunGold, was already in the initial commercialisation phase. After an intensive screening programme of the hundreds of genetically-diverse varieties from the breeding programme, \u2018Zesy002\u2019 was discovered to be tolerant to the disease.\n\u201cIdentifying a new cultivar is complex, as it has to have the right characteristics to meet grower requirements as well as meet consumer demands for taste,\u201d said Campbell.\n\u201cHaving a cultivar that met these requirements and also had tolerance to Psa was an important step in the industry\u2019s recovery. We screened hundreds of plants to make sure Gold3 was the best option for the industry, we really didn\u2019t want to get that wrong.\u201d\nFast forward to the 2017 season and 48m trays of Zespri SunGold were sold, with an export value of NZ$686m, up 70 per cent on the previous year.\nThe Prime Minister\u2019s Science Prize includes a NZ$400,000 fund to be used to support the team\u2019s work. Plant & Food research said the money would be used to establish New Zealand as a hub for bioprotection technologies and further the development of new science technologies to protect plants against biosecurity threats.\n\u201cThis prize will help us to accelerate the strong positioning of New Zealand internationally as the leader in ensuring food security,\u201d Campbell added.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 396, "original_length": 13415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gacguinee.com/en/media-releases/2017/gac-is-recruiting-a-veteran-of-the-mining-industry-as-deputy-ceo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:32Z", "digest": "sha1:7LJMFZLRYBVOPDYBKSIH7PGKDEQ4QW6D", "length": 2090, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.gacguinee.com", "title": "GAC is recruiting a veteran of the mining industry as deputy CEO | GAC", "raw_content": "GAC is recruiting a veteran of the mining industry as deputy CEO\nGuinea Alumina Corporation SA (GAC), a major player in Guinea's mining sector, today announced the appointment of Mr. Paulo Castellari as Deputy Chief Executive Officer.\nMr. Castellari is a veteran of the mining industry with twenty years experience at the mining giant \u2018Anglo American\u2019. His appointment comes as construction of the GAC bauxite mine and export project intensifies following the award of major construction contracts.\nMr. Castellari is a former member of the Anglo American Group Executive Committee and more recently, he led the development of Minas Rio, one of Anglo American's four strategic growth projects and one of the largest mining projects in the world.\nHe was named CEO of Anglo American's Brazil Iron Ore Division in 2012 and CEO of Anglo American's Phosphate and Niobium Division from 2009 to 2011.\nThe current Deputy Managing Director of Guinea Alumina Corporation SA, William Morrell, will return to Mubadala, one of EGA's parent companies, after the transition period to develop other mining projects.\nMr. Castellari took office in the beginning of March alongside the Director-General, Mrs. Diallo Aissata Beavogui.\nMr. Abdulla Kalban, President of EGA said, \"The GAC project is an important engine of growth for both the Republic of Guinea and EGA. I am pleased that Mr. Castellari will bring his great experience by leading GAC during the construction and the operations phase. I would like to thank Mr. William Morrell for his leadership in taking GAC to this level of construction start-up.\"\nEGA invested US $1 billion in the GAC project, the largest investment ever made in Guinea in four decades. According to projections, the GAC project will contribute 10% of Guinea's GDP and create 4,000 direct and indirect jobs.\nThe production and export of the project's bauxite are planned for early 2018.\nBy recruiting this determined veteran of the mining industry, GAC reiterates its desire and ambition for development, as well as the project's impacts on the country's economic development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.galerielelong.com/exhibitions/angelo-filomeno/selected-works?view=slider", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WTUCZNQAXYSSCBF7UNAVGT63C72J7TIZ", "length": 3823, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.galerielelong.com", "title": "Angelo Filomeno - Exhibitions - Galerie Lelong", "raw_content": "The House of Magic Affection\nAmulet (Purple Akrep), 2013\nEmbroidery and crystals on silk shantung stretched over linen\nAcid Mirror, 2013\nEmbroidery and metal studs on silk shantung stretched over linen\nStill Life with Fishes in Blue, 2013\nEmbroidery, metal studs, and crystals on silk shantung stretched over linen\nAmulet (White Chandelier), 2013\nStill Life with Shell, 2013\nGesso Painting (Alligator), 2014\nGesso Painting (Skull Facing Right), 2014\nTropical Still Life in Yellow, 2014\nBlue Cathedral, 2014\nAmulet (Shaman Necklace), 2014\nCome Here, I Think You Are Beautiful, 2009\nStainless steel, wood, mirror\n34.5 x 21.5 x 19 inches (90.2 x 54.6 x 48.3 cm)\nStainless steel and quartz crystal\n7 x 12 x 14 inches (17.8 x 30.5 x 35.6 cm)\nGalerie Lelong is pleased to present The House of Magic Affection, an exhibition of intricately designed and embroidered paintings by Italian artist Angelo Filomeno. Over a dozen recent paintings will fill the main gallery, paired with a series of intimate works on linen in the gallery\u2019s project space. Highlighting Filomeno\u2019s technical and aesthetic skill in merging painting, embroidery, and craft, his unique visual language is presented through a variety of rich materials including silk, crystal, and metal. In a departure from his last exhibition, Filomeno introduces a serialism not seen in his previous bodies of work, an expanded use of color and materials, including muslin, and a variety of characters that have never before been incorporated into each of the hand-made canvases. The artist will be present for the opening on Thursday, December 18 from 6-8PM.\nPresenting immediately alluring, albeit complex, imagery has long been the foundation of Filomeno\u2019s work in his exploration of themes such as death, destruction, isolation, and obsession. Drawn from and aligned with the artist\u2019s personal history, Filomeno\u2019s work as a child apprentice to a clothes tailor still informs his intricate technique and production as both art and skilled craft. Often blending elements from his personal history with his fantastical imagery, the exhibition\u2019s title, The House of Magic Affection, references the artist\u2019s childhood home.\nIn this exhibition Filomeno maintains his careful attention to the interplay between texture, material, content, and presentation, attracting viewers to his constructed canvases with the\njuxtaposition of often unsettling content and aesthetic refinement. Filomeno\u2019s iconography, in contrast to the allure of his work, often incorporates and explores the allegorical and the macabre, including insects, fish, human body parts, skeletons, and reptiles. In addition to the paintings, two recent sculptures will be on view, further revealing Filomeno\u2019s world of ominous beauty and extraordinary workmanship.\nAngelo Filomeno was born in Ostuni, Italy in 1963 and has lived in New York since 1992. He has had solo museum exhibitions at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia; Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee; Italian Cultural Institute of New York, New York, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto, Canada. His work has been included in major international biennials including the 52nd Venice Biennale (2007) and ARS 06 at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland. Filomeno's work can be found in several public collections, including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; 21C Museum, Louisville; and Museum of Art & Design, New York. Work was recently on view at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York in the exhibition Re:Collection. In 2015 Filomeno\u2019s work will be included the exhibition Threaded at the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech opening on February 12. The House of Magic Affection is Filomeno\u2019s third exhibition with Galerie Lelong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 6142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 202.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.galleryseventytwo.com/morrie-wiener.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QHR7EHPQHIV3PW67YMKVUGNGXJISLQSU", "length": 807, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.galleryseventytwo.com", "title": "Michael Coleman", "raw_content": "MORRIE WIENER GRADUATED FROM the Philadelphia College of Art (now the University of the Arts) with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography. In addition, he holds Masters and Doctorate degrees and has taught in the New Jersey public school system and Temple University.\nHe was a commercial pilot flying as a captain of a B737 and B767 for United Airlines and is still flying smaller airplanes. He was an airline inspector and compliance and enforcement officer for the FAA and he was also a paid firefighter for the Cherry Hill, NJ Fire Department. Besides photography and photo restoration, Morrie\u2019s hobbies include golf, open wheel racing and travel in their small RV with his wife Diane (also a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art) and their newly adopted rescue dog, \"Louie.\"\n\u200bMORRIE WIENER", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 137.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gcps.qld.edu.au/your-catholic-education/information-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HYE7PWCEU2EO4TEWBGZALCR56JGXDCFN", "length": 1166, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.gcps.qld.edu.au", "title": "Information Technology | Good Counsel Primary School, Innisfail", "raw_content": "Home > Your Catholic Education > Information Technology\nGCP runs an up-to-date computer laboratory for Prep-6 which provides the opportunity for whole class lessons and the development of technical, research and creativity skills. The staff and students have access to a number of IT peripherals such as scanner, colour and black/white printers, digital and still cameras, digital video cameras, data projectors and electronic whiteboards to help enhance both teaching and learning. The whole school is networked, enabling the sharing of resources such as internet and documents, learning material and intranet to all the computers throughout the school.\nIn addition to the main computer lab, each class has the opportunity to borrow from storage laboratories situated throughout the school. Some 75 laptops and 40 iPads are available for classroom use.\nA teacher-librarian is available for particular class sessions throughout the year to assist students use the Online Library catalogue, search engines and digital information and research skills.\nThe school website www.gcps.qld.edu.au informs parents about upcoming events, school newsletters, policies and more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/xct.gd.e051201b.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:35Z", "digest": "sha1:PXR7H3WJRFKYJP535HWDI5Y5COMA44PK", "length": 3593, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.generationaldynamics.com", "title": "Slowing China economy may become deflationary due to overcapacity - 1-Dec-05 - Generational Dynamics - Web Log", "raw_content": "Slowing China economy may become deflationary due to overcapacity\nEconomic problems are growing against the backdrop of continually deteriorating relations with Japan\nChina's bubble economy, which has been growing at 9-10% a year for two decades, may finally be ready to deflate - both literally and figuratively.\nAccording Morgan Stanley economist Andy Xie, China is suffering overcapacity in cement, aluminum, textiles and other goods, and is also constructing too many factories, buildings and resorts.\nOvercapacity means an oversupply of goods to sell, which would mean a fall in prices, resulting in deflation. Deflation would \"cut economic growth, cut off foreign direct investment and would destabilize Asia,\" according to Columbina University economics professor Robert Mundell.\nGenerational Dynamics predicts that this is exactly the kind of result to be expected from China's bubble economy.\nAdding to China's woes is the rapid spread of bird flu in China, with reports of a new outbreak of bird flu around the country almost every day. China has recently mobilized its 2.3 million man army to fight bird flu.\nAll of this is occurring at the same time that China's relations with Japan continue to deteriorate rapidly.\nSouth Korea and China will cancel planned meetings of their leaders with Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Koizumi, Chinese President Hu Jintao, and South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun will all be attending a major summit of Asean nations in mid-December. Koizumi was to have met with each of the other two. Those meetings will be canceled, though a three-way meeting is still considered possible.\nJapan's relations with both countries have have been deteriorating sharply ever since Koizumi visited the Yasukuni shrine in October. The Tokyo shrine honors 2.3 million war dead, including some who have been declared World War II war criminals. These visits infuriate the Chinese and Japanese, who claim that the shrine ignores Japanese atrocities including mass murder and the use of Korean and Chinese women as \"comfort women\" for Japanese soldiers.\nThings have been boiling over all year, with anti-Japanese riots in China last Spring and a dispute over oil and gas rights in the East China sea.\nKoizumi says that he doesn't understand the criticism of his visits to the shrine. \"I visit the shrine as an individual who is against the occurrence of another war and to pay respect to the sacrifices of those who died in war,\" he says. \"So I do not understand why I am criticized for this.\"\nIt seems to me that he has a point. Why should South Korea and China stay so infuriated for months over what is essentially a religious service. This is something that China and South Korea could get past, if they wanted to. So I guess they don't want to.\nAs I wrote last January, China's society is unraveling and headed for civil war. With the country's overcapacity and deflation, there are now signs that the unraveling of China's economy and society is gathering steam.\nEvery country must have a recession sooner or later, but that would be especially harsh on China, with its 150 million migrant workers dependent on the bubble economy for survival. There are already tens of thousands of regional rebellions in the country every year, and a significant rise in unemployment could lead to rapid destabilization.\nI'm a suspicious kind of guy, and my thoughts keep getting drawn back to the mobilization of China's 2.3 million man army. It would surprise me if those 2.3 million soldiers weren't training to do more than kill chickens. 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The band started off at the cold and inhospitable Twickenham Studios, before retreating to Apple later in the month.\nProceedings climaxed with the famous roof-top concert at the Apple building, which also formed the conclusion of the Let It Be film.\nAs well as the Let It Be album, other songs filmed at these sessions were later revisited to become part of Abbey Road, which was released in September 1969, or on solo albums such as McCartney and George Harrison\u2019s classic All Things Must Pass.\nWhile most of the music recorded has circulated unofficially for many years, little of the video footage has been seen before, so fans are unsurprisingly thrilled at this rare extended opportunity to see the fab four at work in the studio.\nAlmost as exciting for fans, is the news that a restored version of the original Let It Be movie directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg will also be made available. This was released on video and laser disc formats in fairly poor quality in the early 1980\u2019s, but has been out of print for decades and has never made it to DVD.\nHere are \u201cnumber nine, number nine, number nine\u201d things that hardcore Beatles nuts will be hoping to see in the new film.\n9. Two of them joking around\nTwo Of Us was rehearsed extensively on day thirteen (by now at Apple), but the next day provides a host of interesting versions, which are relaxed and even playful. John Lennon and Paul McCartney sing in exaggerated German, Scottish, French and Jamaican accents, as well as adding odd sound effects, while Lennon also does a Bob Dylan impersonation.\n8. Getting back to their roots\nDespite some fractious moments in the studio, much of the time was spent good-naturedly rehearsing new material such as Let It Be, Get Back and The Long And Winding Road. They also rattled off covers of many favourites from their youths, originally recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley, Bo Diddley and Gene Vincent.\nMany of these were throwaways, but day four alone brought lively versions of Chuck Berry\u2019s Rock And Roll Music (already released on 1964\u2019s Beatles For Sale), Gone Gone Gone by Carl Perkins, Little Richard\u2019s Lucille and Ray Charles\u2019 What\u2019d I Say. A proper album of cover versions, played with the intention of being released, would have been a wonderful thing at this stage of their career.\n7. George blooming\nGeorge Harrison recorded a number of his new songs in the Get Back sessions which failed to gain the band\u2019s seal of approval, helping to build up the backlog that led to his brilliant triple (!) debut album proper All Things Must Pass. As well as I Threw It All Away, Isn\u2019t It A Pity and the album\u2019s title track, other numbers he brought to the party included Bob Dylan\u2019s Mama, You Been on My Mind (from 1964\u2019s Another Side Of Bob Dylan).\n6. Never heard of again songs\nPlenty of songs were tried and dropped, never to reappear anywhere. John\u2019s 12-bar blues-based Suzy\u2019s Parlour aka Suzy Parker and Penina by Paul both featured on day six. John\u2019s Madman, which sounds a little like a precursor to Mean Mr. Mustard, was rolled out on day nine, as was his Watching Rainbows which brings I Am The Walrus to mind slightly, but was yet another bluesy tune of his from this time.\n5. Just more!\nThe Beatles recorded over 400 different songs during these sessions, many in multiple takes as they tried to perfect them for release or inclusion in a live setting. However, many were done as quick one-offs. Apart from the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll covers already mentioned, they also revisited a number of their own early recordings such as each of their first three singles \u2013 Love Me Do, Please Please Me and From Me To You.\nOther songs to get an outing, which it would be fascinating to see being attempted, include early compositions that ended up in the hands and voices of others like Step Inside Love (Cilla Black), and songs that were held over for solo careers. John\u2019s Gimme Some Truth saw release on Imagine in 1971, with Child Of Nature reworked as Jealous Guy for the same album, while Paul\u2019s Hot As Sun and Junk both featured on 1970\u2019s McCartney. That\u2019s on top of George\u2019s outpouring.\n4. Political controversy\nIt seems highly unlikely we\u2019ll get to see the less-than-PC lyrics that Paul sung to Get Back on day six in an attempt to parody the right-wing likes of MP Enoch Powell (\u201cDon\u2019t dig no Pakistanis taking all the people\u2019s jobs\u201d). On the same day, McCartney again addressed racial concerns that were a hot topic of the time in Commonwealth, a 1950\u2019s-style rocker with Paul channelling his inner Elvis as he sings lyrics such as \u201cWilson said to the immigrants you\u2019d better get back to your commonwealth homes\u2026 If you don\u2019t want trouble, then you better go back to home\u201d.\nSomehow, I suspect these may get vetoed from the new film.\n3. Paul tinkering alone\nDay six of sessions started with only Paul present (possibly as he only lived a short stroll away from the studios in Abbey Road). On this day, he debuted Hey Majesty (later to appear on Abbey Road) and Another Day, a solo single in 1971. He also returned to The Palace Of The King Of The Birds, an instrumental he revisited in 1978 for an unreleased Rupert The Bear album, which he had trotted out in two previous sessions.\n2. Switching roles\nMacca \u2018s Get Back was yet another international smash hit song when released as a single in April 1969. However, while rehearsing the song on the morning of day seven, with the lyrics still a work in progress (although Tucson, Arizona was now the centre of the action at least), John Lennon takes the lead vocals instead of Paul McCartney.\nAnother treat might be to see Paul singing John\u2019s White Album number I\u2019m So Tired from day two, or Strawberry Fields Forever on day sixteen. However, we can probably live without seeing John singing Paul\u2019s Maxwell\u2019s Silver Hammer in a heavy German accent.\n1. Eric in, George out\nPossibly the most notorious moment in the Let It Be film is when George responds to perceived criticism from Paul about his guitar playing on Two Of Us on day three, saying:\n\u201cI\u2019ll play whatever you want me to play, or I won\u2019t play at all if you don\u2019t want me to play. Whatever it is that will please you, I\u2019ll do it.\u201d\nWe\u2019d love to see on screen the moment when John Lennon proposes Eric Clapton as a replacement for George in the immediate aftermath of him walking out on the group during the seventh day of filming:\n\u201cLet\u2019s get in Eric. He\u2019s just as good and not such a headache.\u201d\nSadly, it appears that the major fight which led to his walk-out happened in the canteen, so was not recorded. Rumours have it this was started by Yoko Ono helping herself to one George\u2019s biscuits, uninvited. Seriously. Seeing George\u2019s kiss-off line \u201csee you \u2019round the clubs\u201d would also be something. There\u2019s no need to see or hear much of the remaining trio\u2019s rather aimless meandering until the guitarist returned for day ten.\nHowever many of these nine eventually feature in the new film, it will hopefully be well worth the wait.\nPrevious ArticleAn ever-present glass ceiling: women film directors and ten remarkable films\nNext Article Orange Goblin, PIST, Video Nasties: O2 Academy, Liverpool\nFACT to host World Premiere of The Beatles: Eight Days A Week \u2013 The Touring Years Liverpool musicians to celebrate 50 years of The Beatles\u2019 Revolver at Leaf The Beatles: Eight Days A Week \u2013 The Touring Years review It Was Fifty Years Ago Today review- a revelatory film about the birth of Sgt Peppers The Beatles \u2013 why the biggest band in history had to come from Liverpool The Bootleg Beatles to celebrate Sgt Pepper\u2019s 50th backed by Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Lost Liverpool #21: The Cavern Mecca and the start of Beatles tourism The Beatles music made available to stream", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 13195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gibbonscreative.ca/blog/2016/12/21/project-do-stuf-a-christmas-video", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:03Z", "digest": "sha1:7Q25R4QSXMLOTC2HVKKWMENWBNYHVDAS", "length": 255, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.gibbonscreative.ca", "title": "Project Do Stuf-A Christmas Video \u2014 gibbons creative", "raw_content": "This project was a blast, I invited my former student Kreg over to play bass, and we put down the instruments for the song. The next day I got the kids in to sing their parts, they did an amazing job! No auto-tune was used in the production of this video!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalbx.com/a_Common-Tax-Breaks-For-Home-Businesses.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:39Z", "digest": "sha1:JP5R62G2N7L5NDAXAC76ZKKVOJJMMDSQ", "length": 3319, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.globalbx.com", "title": "Common Tax Breaks For Home Businesses | GlobalBX", "raw_content": "Common Tax Breaks For Home Businesses\nWhen you first start your home-based business, you are so caught up in getting that first client, that first check, and that first order that you don\u2019t really think much about taxes. In fact, most business owners fail to keep the receipts for business expenses properly filed away for future reference. Typically, everything is about making profit initially until tax time hits. Then, you realize that you did not prepare yourself for things like self-employment tax and other income tax.\nOn the other side of the coin, there are those who go overboard when they look for each tax break and tax benefit they can possibly find. In fact, they go so overboard that they exaggerate many claims and their business ends up getting audited. It is important that before you offer your products or services for sale that you know what you will be expecting down the road in terms of taxation. You need to know the details of each major tax benefit that a home business can deduct at tax time.\nEveryone knows about the deduction on taxes for home office expenses and immediately they become excited over it. Yet they fail to read the details of what it involves and they fail to heed the warning that a home office deduction is probably one of the biggest warnings or red flags to the Internal Revenue Service or IRS. In fact, sole proprietors who file Schedule C and claim the home office expense can trigger audits.\nWhy is this? It is simply because a sole proprietor who files Schedule C with Form 1040 for the yearly tax return has many opportunities to convert personal expenses into business expenses and deduct from the gross earnings, and taxpayers often abuse home office expense.\nIn order to legitimately claim a home office expense, the office should be a separate room in your home and used for nothing else but work. It should not be shared for entertainment activities. It should not be a living area where other family members come in to watch television. It should not be a place used for personal activities. It must be a place that you use daily to manage your business. It would be a place where you do work, do billing, write correspondence, and any other business-related activity. Many times, home business owners such as landscapers will work away from the home office but come back to do their books in that designated area within their home.\nOther tax benefits a home business can take are those related to the infrastructure of your home. In other words, you can deduct a portion of utilities, mortgage interest, property taxes, and other expenses related to the structure of your home. The way it works is by measuring the square footage of the designated home office and then calculating that as a percentage of the overall home square footage. You are allowed to deduct that percentage of the expenses.\nYou can deduct all business expenses on a Schedule C which include expenses for advertising, office supplies, fees related to business operations, and cell phones that are used exclusively for business. Just make sure that you keep receipts for everything and always check the appropriate IRS publications and consult an accountant if you are unsure if a business expense will give you a tax break.\nClick here to search to our Home Business For Sale Listings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 6305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.goodmansjourney.com/home/hollow-bricks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WPRZDWOCQOKR4B2MQ5HGNY2UC4RHPYXE", "length": 2508, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.goodmansjourney.com", "title": "Hollow Bricks ???? - Goodman's Journey", "raw_content": "Hollow Bricks ????\n24 November '04, Wednesday. This has been quite a day over all. We went out this morning for a long walk following the coastline. The weather was really very nice today, even though it was still a little windy. Nature is kind of like Seattle is during Spring, that is, the grasses are all green and starting to grow, and the flowers are coming into bloom again. We even came across a crew mowing and trimming a lawn. I know that the first time we were here, it was nice and green and there were flowers blooming, but this is more like the first part of Spring. There is a ton of new construction going on here building condo\u2019s and new hotels. The construction is much different from that at home and even much different than we saw in Mexico. Unlike Mexico, it is almost all concrete \u201cframing\u201d and then the walls are filled in with a brick like product. These bricks are fired clay, about 4x4x8\u201d, and are \u201choney coned\u201d in structure (otherwise they have about 8 to10 hollow spaces in each brick). Then each side of the brick and framing is covered with a coat of cement or tiles to finish it off. The final results is very becoming. There is no heating system and not too many air conditioners. The hot water system is most always solar. We have solar hot water here and in this weather it is cold in the morning and if the sun is bright enough in the afternoon, it will warm up enough to give you a warm shower till about 6 pm. I don\u2019t always get a shave in, so about every 3rd day I go in for a \u201cTurkish shave\u201d and massage for 4,mil lire ($2.20). Yesterday I was in the living room of our apartment and the light fixture fell out of the ceiling and hit me on the shoulder and then ricocheted onto the floor to break into a thousand pieces. My shoulder still smarts\u2026 Louise has just started sneezing and her head is all stuffed, so our guess is this is the start of the \u201ccold season\u201d for us as well. I marked my drinking bottle to try in avert the inevitable. Oh well, it\u2019s just a cold\u2026.Louise has dipped into the files we have in \u201cBumble Bee\u201d and came up with the journal from Bruce and Peg. Every time we re-read this journal we continue to find it very entertaining. I also want to introduce you to another journal (you might want to put this in your favorites) that we have found to be very good\u2026it is the one that Ralph and Susan write. If you remember, they are the couple from just outside Calgary and we met them in Kas. 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Calvin Klein graduated from New York City\u2019s Fashion Institute of Technology in 1962 at the age of 20 and started his own company in 1968. He began with coats, and by the next year had landed on the cover of Vogue. 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The Landmark building is the former home of Landmark Credit Union which merged with Greylock in 2017. After the merger the Landmark building was closed for renovations which were recently completed.\n\u201cThe newly renovated location at 131 Ashland St. offers members the convenience of one-stop shopping for all their banking and insurance needs,\u201d said Peter Mirante, Greylock SVP/Branch Administration. \u201cThe Landmark Building also offers plenty of parking and a drive-up. We look forward to providing our North Adams credit union members and insurance customers the same great service at the new location as they were accustomed to at the Main St. Branch.\u201d\nA Grand Opening is upcoming in February to celebrate the newly renovated branch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 4388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.grizzlyhomebuyers.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:12Z", "digest": "sha1:CX4D3NNG3JZAHQ77G5VSLWG5ATEWQ6VJ", "length": 1684, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.grizzlyhomebuyers.com", "title": "Sell My House Fast Denver - We buy houses Denver - Grizzly Home Buyers, LLC", "raw_content": "We buy houses in Denver and around CO. Let us make a fair all-cash offer on your house.\nNeed To Sell Your Denver House Fast?\nWe can buy your CO house. Contact us today!\nEven if an agent can\u2019t sell your house, we can help. (Sometimes selling a house through a real estate agent is not for everyone.) And as a bonus, you won\u2019t need to clean up and repair the property, finding an agent who you trust and who can deliver on their promise of selling your house quickly, you won\u2019t have to sign a contract that binds you to an agent for a certain term, you won\u2019t have to deal with the paperwork and the waiting and wondering (and hoping). We\u2019ll know very quickly if we can help you, and unlike selling through an agent, you don\u2019t have to wait to see if the buyer can get financing\u2026 we\u2019re ready to buy right now!\nWe work differently at Grizzly Home Buyers, LLC. When you contact us and submit the short property information form (below), we\u2019ll give you a fair all-cash offer on your house within 24 hours\u2026 and the best part is: we can close whenever YOU choose to close \u2013 it\u2019s entirely up to you. It doesn\u2019t matter what condition the house is in, or even if there are tenants in there that you can\u2019t get rid of\u2026 don\u2019t worry about it. We\u2019ll take care of it for you. And if you need the cash quickly, we can close in as little as 7 days because we buy houses with cash and don\u2019t have to rely on traditional bank financing. (Go here to learn about our process <<)\nWe buy houses in Denver, CO and all surrounding areas in CO. If you need to sell your house fast in CO, connect with us\u2026 we\u2019d love to make you a fair no-obligation no-hassle offer. Take it or leave it. You\u2019ve got nothing to lose \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gsr-andrade.com/portfolio/premier-er-i/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:55Z", "digest": "sha1:VIYKGRW66NB3ASOC2O65L5MIT6X7RSXR", "length": 727, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gsr-andrade.com", "title": "Premier ER I \u2013 GSR-Andrade", "raw_content": "Premier ER\nThe project consists of the design and development of a 14,390 gross square feet, one-story commercial plaza building with a 7,131 square feet freestanding emergency center called \u201cPremier ER Plus\u201d that will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.\nThe exterior envelope construction of the building consists of metal framed walls with simulated stone veneer, portland cement plaster, aluminum composite panels, and curtainwall system The FEC program included 2 treatment rooms, 5 exams rooms, laboratory, an imaging suite containing separate rooms for CT-Scan and X-Ray with a control room in the center, and all required support spaces. 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This mirror is the only one that dares to tell the truth to whoever looks into it. The Queen\u2019s own soul speaks through this magical object.\nA person incapable of developing lives a life as a prisoner of his own delusions and exists under the cloak of his own spiritual darkness while there\u2019s the other who is ready to rise through seeking the truth, the possibilities of character development and the keys to his happiness.\nIn childhood who wouldn\u2019t have wanted to look into a mirror that never lied? At the same time, as an adult, who has the courage to do this in terms of their soul\u2019s mirror? The mirror we had dreamt about in childhood manifested and became available as a new generation computer working as a singular device helping us to spiritual self-assessment. To those interested, the Matrix Drops Computer will reveal their positive traits, the essence of their fate and displays their false beliefs and the cause of their suffering.\nThere are people who cannot see even their own virtues and strengths. At the same time, others have beliefs about themselves and their environment that don\u2019t match up with reality. Many lose their self-esteem in early childhood which triggers a state of living without self-control and, as a compensating measure, overly large ego may appear.\nWhoever is running away from himself is only considering external factors. Unimaginable, boundless development would be possible for us from a mental, physical and spiritual sense, if our internal world would open up to us.\nWe hear that humans are deeply emotional beings, but only a few know that this accounts for 95% of the whole. This means we only see about 5% of our total existence. However, such small extent is insufficient for living life responsibly.\nThe biggest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is much worse if somebody is falsely convinced about something he knows. This undesirable condition is referred to as being \u201ehalf-educated\u201d. People living with conviction usually don\u2019t even believe their own eyes when they\u2019re faced with reality. Since they\u2019re \u201eexperts\u201d it\u2019s unfathomable they would accept good advice.\nMost people only listen to themselves, but this approach makes it rather difficult to expand one\u2019s horizon when it comes to worldviews. Therefore, as the creator of the Matrix Drops Computer (MDC), I help people connect and communicate with their super consciousness, with their own supreme being. To the questions posed through MDC, we receive answers from our highest being. Luckily, there are still people who believe and trust themselves.\nOur soul is similar to such a walkie-talkie that, through the all encompassing consciousness, is capable of communicating with all living beings in the universe independent of space and time. We have an intuitive being which supplies us with good advice and only the stage of conscious development can draw a line regarding what we are going to do with the information we receive.\nFor our development we must be able to recognize our virtues and our delusions. The Matrix Drops Computer reveals these spiritual characteristics for us and then the Matrix Drops products help us over the blocks at the soul level.\nThe questions posed have great significance in our lives. A question not asked equates to a locked door in our soul. Thanks to MDC with the millions of questions asked, we open doors to our own world.\nChange then always starts with a person who is willing to make a change. Questions kick off ideas and open up the possibility for a new perspective. The human mind will skip through which it couldn\u2019t accept before. Even though many say: \u201eI believe it when I see it\u201d, at higher consciousness levels, the exact opposite is true. We can only see things if we believe in their existence.\nJust as with many other important things, we have to experience the Matrix Drops Protocol, then try to comprehend it. With almost all things, following the process of experiencing something we can find information that contributes to understanding. This is how we are capable of understanding even the most difficult scientific explanations as well.\nRaising our consciousness level enables us to finish tasks which we may have looked at as impossible challenges before. Dormant abilities come to the surface when the level of consciousness rises. A person can only move towards a desirable direction when obstacles have been cleared in the mind.\nNew thoughts have revolutionary, fate altering capabilities, while the exact opposite is true as well. Bad thoughts, swearing and not having style deliver a significant relapse in mental levels. For them to stay alive, we must nourish nice thoughts just as we do this with our most sensitive flowers. To the contrary, bad thoughts, which are similar to weed, are capable of multiplying in our mind uncontrollably via a self-replicating process.\nThe human program is rooted in our beliefs. Only an individual is capable of forcing a change in his own belief system, which works deep inside. We can never forget that faith is a matter of experiencing and believing in that at the spirit and soul level and that it is not the same as conviction. For this, we must strive to rise to higher conscious levels and live a life that\u2019s progressively getting cleaner from a spiritual perspective.\nThe Matrix Drops Computer has become a personal spiritual guide through the past couple of years. The moment is approaching when the long awaited and desired, fairy tale device cannot be missing from any household. As answers to the questions posed by the MDC, our soul sends physiological responses. The appliance is capable of recognizing, evaluating all this and, through new analogy, presenting to us in written form.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 8150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hakijamii.com/index.php/litigation-land-housing-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:01Z", "digest": "sha1:F5V64QAO3OB6IBDIBQSY2LV663ODJIPK", "length": 4121, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.hakijamii.com", "title": "Litigation, Land & Housing | Hakijamii", "raw_content": "Hakijamii \u00bb Litigation, Land & Housing\nThe process of National Slum Upgrading and Prevention Policy formulation has been participatory and all-inclusive through Multi-Stakeholders\u2019 Steering Committee, thematic working groups, Regional Consultative Workshops, the field visits in selected counties and urban areas and a National Consultative Workshop. This Policy comes at a critical time when the devolved governments are expected to assume greater responsibilities in investment, development and consequently provide for increased urban populations.\nThis paper therefore seeks to explore the Soweto East Zone \u2018A\u2019 informal settlements upgrading program. Of particular interest is whether the tenets that guide good governance as missioned in the inaugural Kenya Slum Upgrading Program (KENSUP) document was mirrored in the allocation of the developed housing units. It will further interrogate whether the variables that were used to determine the legitimate primary actors took into account the concept of housing as a right or as a process bided to the highest person in the context of savings in the informal settlements. These questions should the lead to a more robust discussion on public housing allocation framework.\nBackground Information. In the context of land reform, recognition of community land was a radical step towards reversing the ills meted against individuals and communities rendering them vulnerable to marginalization and\nexploitation. The treatment of community land as native reserves or trust lands during the post \u2013 colonial period exposed communities to marginalization by limiting their ability to make decisions on how \u201ctheir\u201d land was disposed of or used.\nA step has been taken in drafting the Eviction and Resettlement Bill 2013 but it has not yet been legislated to date. Affected communities, their representative organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) alike use\na variety of strategies in complementary ways to try to prevent or halt forced evictions.\nIn that regard, this tool will assist communities come up with proper documentation of past or planned evictions to hold those that conduct inhumane evictions accountable.\nWhile women\u2019s rights to land and property are protected under the Constitution of Kenya (2010) and various national legislations, in practice, women remain disadvantaged. The main restriction is customary law and practices, which prohibit women from owning or inheriting land and other forms of property. These customary laws and practices are enhanced by stereotypical practices and socialization of women in believing they are not meant to own\nor inherit land or any other property. Customary practices in Kenya generally grant women secondary rights to land, namely through their relationships to a male relative, and women are rarely able to inherit land in their own right.\nAdequate housing includes more than just having four walls and a roof. It is essential for ensuring a life of dignity, security and privacy. A house is a focal point where personal and social relationships are fostered. It is for this reason, among others, that adequate housing is one of the internationally recognized human rights.\nThe main goal of this book is to disseminate the useful lessons learned from urban development and slum upgrading projects undertaken by the Kenyan government. These lessons underpin the recommendations for the design of public policies on the subject. It is hoped that they will also contribute to improving the efficiency of specific slum upgrading programmes. Urban neighborhoods in Kenya are plagued by inadequate housing and land titling irregularities: tenements, irregular land divisions, or even residential blocks that, although built by the government, are often in a deteriorated state. Whilst slum upgrading is often seen as one of the more effective ways of tackling urban poverty, the approaches taken by slum upgrading policies vary considerably, as do their degrees of success.\nPetition of 2013 Judgement NLC\nPetition on Land Bills Submited to Parliamentary Committee on 27th March 12\nHakiJamii \u2013 Ex Air Force Case", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 5991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2018/12/07/ed-pastor-arizona-st-hispanic-congressman-be-buried/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:16Z", "digest": "sha1:W6JYORNQLFBTTMLTHM3SBN36ZUEI44LY", "length": 82, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hawaiinewsnow.com", "title": "Pelosi recalls Arizona's former US Rep. 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William (c.1720-57), of Waresley Park, Hunts. | History of Parliament Online", "raw_content": "Home Research > Members > 1715-1754 > MONTAGU, Hon. William (c.1720-57)\nMONTAGU, Hon. William (c.1720-57), of Waresley Park, Hunts.\n9 Nov. 1745 - 1747\nb. c.1720, yr. s. of Edward Richard Montagu, Visct. Hinchingbrooke, and grandson of Edward, 3rd Earl of Sandwich. educ. ?Westminster Apr. 1728 aged 7. m. 13 Nov. 1749, Charlotte, da. of Francis Naylor, formerly Blundell, of Offord Darcy, Hunts., s.p.\nLt. R.N. 1740, capt. 1745.\nWilliam Montagu, a naval officer of some distinction, received his first command in the West Indies in May 1744 but was soon unjustly put under arrest for seven months by Commodore Charles Knowles, from whom he obtained damages in a civil suit in 1752. On his release he was made a post captain, 23 May, carrying home the news of the capture of Louisbourg, 27 June 1745, for which he received a grant of \u00a3500 in August.1 Three months later he was brought in by his brother, Lord Sandwich, at a by-election for Huntingdonshire, being classed as a \u2018New Ally\u2019 in 1746. On 3 May 1747 he took a prominent part in Anson\u2019s victory off Finisterre. Before the general election of July 1747, Sandwich \u2018upon some quarrel he has with his brother Capt. Montagu ... determined to drop him, though the gentlemen had agreed to choose him for the county\u2019.2 Consequently he could not stand again, though Sandwich later \u2018intended to propose [him] at Huntingdon in case of early vacancy\u2019 and asked his cousin Edward Wortley to bear him in mind for the forthcoming by-election at Bossiney in December 1747. Wortley, however, after offering Montagu the vacancy, thought \u2018it would not be proper for me to do as I had designed\u2019,3 but he did provide him with a stop-gap seat there four years later. Meanwhile by December 1751, Montagu had once more been nominated by Sandwich as candidate for the county at the next general election, but he eventually stood down in favour of Coulson Fellowes4 and did not stand again. He died 10 Feb. 1757.\n2. HMC 10th Rep. I, 296; Sandwich to Newcastle, 3 May 1747, Add. 32808, ff. 116-17.\n3. Sandwich to Pelham, 4 Nov. 1747, Newcastle (Clumber) mss; Wortley to Sandwich, 6 Nov. 1747, Wortley mss, R. Inst. Cornwall.\n4. Sandwich to Ld. Trentham and the Duke of Bedford, 15 Dec. 1751, circular letter from Fellowes, 18 Apr. 1753, Bedford mss.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3543, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hokulea.com/navigating-without-instruments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5KFJUXUZ5CNO7ESQE6OYG2IYN5T4X5VR", "length": 309, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hokulea.com", "title": "H\u014dk\u016ble\u02bba \u2014 Navigating Without Instruments - H\u014dk\u016ble\u02bba", "raw_content": "Navigating Without Instruments\nExplore this story to find out about the celestial sphere and the star compass. Discover how to navigate by stars, the Moon, the Sun, ocean swells and bird life. Read about waka hourua \u2013 the double-hulled canoes used for such voyages \u2013 and about the waka revival in New Zealand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.homegrown.org/profiles/blogs/my-first-garden-in-12-years", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:08Z", "digest": "sha1:4MDNLCX4XOLA2VLD77RIBQKWUCW2SXG2", "length": 2064, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.homegrown.org", "title": "My first garden in 12 years! - HOMEGROWN", "raw_content": "Posted by ConsciouslyFrugal on July 13, 2010 at 1:40pm\nAfter leaving the gorgeous green of Missouri 10 years ago for the grey sea of concrete that is Long Beach and Los Angeles, I finally have a spot in a community garden. I combined plots with a friend who spent a couple of her formative years in the Midwest and missed the green enough to sit on a community garden waiting list with me for more than 3 years. But our wait is finally over!\nWe started late and I didn't do enough research to figure out what I needed, but we stuck some plants in the ground and are hoping for the best. I spent most of my life gardening and my college years were full of green houses and landscaping jobs. Somehow, all that knowledge faded away, but it felt so good to get back into the dirt!\nPardon the craptastic camera phone shot, but it's all I had at the time. They say there's nothing but smog, botox and fake tits out in Southern California, but we're proving them wrong. Behold, our little corner of heaven!\nComment by ConsciouslyFrugal on July 13, 2010 at 2:12pm\nGracias! One day, Viggie, I'm going to have a lovely house and garden like yours! 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These vehicles carry passengers to and from their boarding gates at a charge.\nThis service is provided by Worldwide Flight Services. 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We meet customers at their front door and drop them off outside the main entrance of the hospital in plenty of time for their appointment. The personal nature of our service means we get to know our passengers and their needs, so we can make their journey with us as comfortable as possible.\u201d\nTo discover more about the service, Councillor David Round the Mayor of Haslemere and the Mayoress Councillor Melanie Odell recently met with hoppa\u2019s general manager and one of hoppa\u2019s regular drivers.\nSpeaking afterwards, Councillor David Round said: \u201cIt\u2019s clear that without hoppa, some of our residents would have no choice but to use more expensive and/or less convenient options to get to their medical appointment. At worst, some could even find themselves unable to attend and therefore miss important check-ups and treatment.\n\u201cHoppa is a superb service which enables some of our most vulnerable and sick residents to access care, so they have the best possible chance of maintaining their health and independence. We are fortunate to have such a convenient and practical service in Haslemere and are delighted to continue with our support.\u201d\nThe Hospital hoppa service can be used by passengers of all ages and is for anybody with a transport need. The fare costs \u00a310 each way and \u00a32.50 for a carer/companion. The buses can accommodate wheelchairs and pushchairs.\nRegistering to use hoppa is simple and free and can be done online at www.hoppa.org.uk/register. Once registered, customers can book their journey by calling the registration and booking line on 01428 681701 from Monday to Friday 8.30am to 12.30pm and 1pm to 4pm.\nCaption: (Left to right) Steve Forward, Councillor Melanie Odell, Councillor David Round and Andy Hayden with hoppa bus \u2018Griff\u2019, which was named after Melanie Odell\u2019s late Father and former hoppa trustee Mr Jenkyn Griffiths.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.houseoffaux.com/2016/06/holly-whiting.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LU6R2WUZ6KFNMY5Q6LSG7WDA7CTQEYVY", "length": 1862, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.houseoffaux.com", "title": "Holly Whiting", "raw_content": "Holly Whiting\nConnecticut artist Holly Whiting works in both traditional and unexpected media. Her work often incorporates not only acrylics, watercolors, and pastel, but plasters, mica, gold leaf, and oxidized iron. Among her favorite subjects are animals of all kinds, and particularly birds.\nHolly is the owner of Artistic Finishes, a decorative painting company specializing in murals, exotic faux finishes, decorative plaster, and relief sculpture. Her \u201cBrush with Art\u201d events take you through all the steps to create an original painting, all while enjoying wine with friends.\nHolly is a member of the international decorative artists\u2019 summit called Salon. The most recent Salon took place in Lecce, Italy, in May, 2015, where Holly exhibited and demonstrated alongside some of the world\u2019s most talented decorative artists.\nLocally, Holly has worked on many civic and community projects, including Yale University Art Gallery, Prospect House Women\u2019s Shelter, United Way, Hamden High School, and the Beecher Museum School, among others.\nAs owner of Artistic Finishes, Holly has been called on to personalize the Greenwich home of Judith (Judge Judy) Sheindlin, and to create custom finishes for the historic home of Maureen Walsh, owner of the Pyrianos Collection of fine restored Steinway pianos. She has contributed to stage sets, such as 2009\u2019s production of Ragtime at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and has provided expert restoration services, including gold leaf gilding, to churches and other institutions.\nMany of her paintings are available as prints, cards and other items on Fine Art America.\nJoin Holly at the ArtFusion Event in October 2016. Holly will be teaching a watercolor class. For more information go to click here.\nLabels: Art Event ArtFusion Event colorado art class Featured Artists Holly Whiting watercolor watercolor class", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 5625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.howlinhobbit.com/disposable-method-for-uke-mastery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:27Z", "digest": "sha1:BXC2GPD2HBYBFCS2MBCVS32CCYXNGJ2N", "length": 3934, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.howlinhobbit.com", "title": "Disposable Method for Uke Mastery \u2013 Howlin' Hobbit \u2013 Ukulele Ace", "raw_content": "Disposable Method for Uke Mastery\nThis was posted on a couple of the ukulele forums by my friend Uncle Rod Higuchi and he\u2019s given me permission to reprint it here in the Bi-Weekly Uke Tips. It\u2019s a great method for beginners to make some really rapid progress.\nThose of you who\u2019ve been following the uke tips may see some duplication here (like, #1 for instance) but it\u2019s a nice system so I felt ok with a few repeats.\nUncle Rod is one of the hardworking crew for SUPA (the Seattle Ukulele Players Association). This is a great bunch of folks and, if you\u2019re in the area on the first Sunday of the month, you should definitely go and check \u2019em out.\nA disposable method for gaining ukulele mastery for beginners\nBy Uncle Rod Higuchi\nGet around other uke players whenever possible. The uke-playing family is warm and welcoming, almost without exception.\nMake sure your uke is in tune before you play. I suggest using an electronic tuner set to A=440.\nInstead of trying to learn to play the uke and sing a song at the same time, try this. Write out the chord progression of your selected song on a separate sheet of paper. Use the \u201cphrasing\u201d of the chord progression as you find it on the original songsheet \u2013 that is, if the first line has only one chord, write only that chord name on the first line of your practice page. If there are any new or unfamiliar chords, draw the appropriate chord diagram ONLY at the FIRST appearance of the chord. In this way you\u2019ll be exercising your hand-eye coordination while developing your muscle memory and finger dexterity when you \u201cplay\u201d the practice page.\nPut away the actual songsheet with lyrics and work exclusively from your hand-written practice page which will have the chord progression of the song with a few chord diagrams for assistance. Strum each chord 4 times as you attempt to \u201cplay\u201d the practice page WITHOUT reference to the actual melody of the song. Your goal is to make comfortable and smooth chord changes at a regular tempo. Go slowly at first. When you are able to go through the entire practice page WITHOUT STOPPING to change the chords, you\u2019re ready for step 5.\nAt this point begin HUMMING the melody of the song while strumming through the practice page. You\u2019ll need to adjust your rhythm and tempo as you \u201cplay the page\u201d that is, it won\u2019t be 4 strums each. You\u2019ll also be experimenting with the location/placement of the chords in relation to the melody of the song.\nNow, put away your practice page and return to the original songsheet with chords and lyrics. At this point you\u2019ll have developed enough hand-eye coordination and muscle memory so that when you see the chord name, you\u2019ll automatically form the correct fingering on the fretboard! Practice learning the lyrics and singing your song, slowly at first, until you\u2019re comfortable playing and singing \u201cat speed\u201d. Also begin working on rhythm and strumming. Always work on strumming last.\nThis is a divide and conquer strategy vs an all out attack.\nI believe that any beginning ukulele player, who disciplines him/herself to learn their next 5-10 songs in this manner, will build a foundation of uke-playing skills that will enable them to master the uke in relatively short order. NOTE: try to learn songs written in different keys (C, F, G, A, & D) as this will greatly expand your chord knowledge/skill.\nI\u2019ve entitled this \u201cdisposable steps\u201d because once you\u2019ve gone through this system 5-10 times, you can stop and simply play songs the way most people try to learn to play the uke \u2013 that is trying to play and sing all at once.\nBy developing a foundation of both knowledge and skill, you\u2019ll be light years ahead of those who are continually frustrated by their slow progress.\nRemember, do this with 5-10 songs then stop!\nI hope this will enable you to begin to master the art of playing your uke.\nKeep on keeping-on!\n(Note: This was originally published on April 9, 2007 as part of my \u201cbi-weekly uke tips\u201d)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg449.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:03Z", "digest": "sha1:EHECRVOWLNFXYBHIDIWE7ZEBDTOLQEBB", "length": 982, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hse.gov.uk", "title": "Health and safety made simple - The basics for your business", "raw_content": "INDG449 (rev1)\nThis leaflet is for employers and those who want some basic information on what they must do to make sure their businesses comply with health and safety law. It will help people decide who's responsible for health and safety, write a health and safety policy, control the risks, consult employees, provide training and information, provide the right workplace facilities, make first-aid arrangements and report accidents, display the law poster and get insurance for their business.\nThe revised version has brought the advice up to date and clarified some of the key messages but the guidance on complying with the law has not been fundamentally changed.\nIf you are a small or medium-sized business, whether new to health and safety or an experienced or expanding business, when you see the H&S ABC logo you will know that these tools and pieces of guidance have been specifically designed with you in mind.\nThe health and safety toolbox: How to control risks at work", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.htlive.net/toni-bryant/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DMR6MGNCS6LRW7HPG7KPGBK4BLMRIMPU", "length": 1140, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.htlive.net", "title": "Toni Bryant \u00bb HypnoThoughts LIVE 2019", "raw_content": "Toni Bryant\nToni Bryant is a master NLP practitioner and hypnotherapist. She utilizes her love of art and performance along with her in-depth knowledge of hypnosis and NLP to help people of all ages and backgrounds from all over the world. She currently runs a private practice based in the Philadelphia area.\nA Different World- Working With Teen And Adolescent Clients\nIn today\u2019s world, teenagers deal with a number of different challenges. Juggling issues like personal, family, school, peer, and even social media can be overwhelming at times. Providing teens with an environment where they can freely express themselves and seek guidance with those issues can be invaluable. As change workers, having the opportunity to work with teenage and adolescent clients can be especially rewarding. In this one hour presentation, you\u2019ll learn why some of the regularly used methods don\u2019t always work, how to handle some of the common challenges and resistances that can arise, and also how to step out from the same old protocol routines. You\u2019ll also get to practice some cool tips and techniques to be able to use and have fun while doing them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hushlip.com/showmsg.php?id=932", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GPL66FRR4WA5PYEEU33W4GHT7SB7NC3C", "length": 152, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.hushlip.com", "title": "Boy, 27: im atracted to girls from the age of 15 and up....... - Hushlip Anonymous Messages", "raw_content": "im atracted to girls from the age of 15 and up.....\nI'm lesbian and I finally found my queen. \uf308...\nI just fucked my husband thinking about my dad wat...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iastro.com/2014/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2PXKNUVRTNAUSCS5E4TVAXDDMK7R42QE", "length": 323, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.iastro.com", "title": "iastroMay 2014 - iastro", "raw_content": "ROBIN ARMSTRONG\u2019S ZODIAC PREDICTIONS FOR JUNE 2014: ARIES: MAR. 21 to APR. 20: You will succeed in small matters but you will not be steady enough to take on big challenges. You will be a catalyst for change this month, but many people will think that you are simply a disturbance of the peace. Do what is necessary and [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 2777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 254.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iawj.org/us-member-prof-caroline-bettinger-lopez-writes-oped-for-the-hill/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:05Z", "digest": "sha1:3Z77WOQKNPORK36BF7IRUI2UUBO7MFO5", "length": 2261, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.iawj.org", "title": "US BMT Member, Prof. Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Writes OpEd for The Hill - International Association of Women Judges", "raw_content": "News > US BMT Member, Prof. Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Writes OpEd for The Hill\nUSA | A year after the #MeToo movement started, IAWJ\u2019s Board of Managerial Trustees Member, Prof. Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, along with Rebecca Hughes, published an OpEd for The Hill.com analyzing the International Labor Organization\u2019s (ILO) proposed \u201cConvention and Recommendations Concerning the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work\u201c.\nThrough the #Metoo movement women, and men, worldwide\n\u201chave called for the laws and policies that govern workplace behavior to be restructured to prevent the violence in the first place. They seek to hold the supervisors, executives and boards who condone perpetrators\u2019 behavior accountable for that sexual misconduct.\u201d\nThey also want to create a culture change in the workplace, state Bettinger-Lopez and Hughes. They are trying \u201cto foster an environment that rejects patriarchy and sexual violence and embraces gender equality (and that sees these goals as fundamentally interconnected).\u201d\nIn pursuit of these goals, the ILO is attempting to create the first legally binding international treaty on violence and harassment in the workplace. If ratified, it could potentially\n\u201ccodify some of the demands of #MeToo into international law.\u201d\nThe Convention and Recommendations Concerning the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work will be voted on this summer and the authors explain that it \u201cwould strengthen and advance the #MeToo movement in three important ways.\u201d First, it would address the normative gaps in law and policy that prevent accountability and encourage the behavior.\n\u201cCountries that ratify the treaty would be required to adopt legislation and policies that prevent and address these behaviors, establish and strengthen enforcement mechanisms and ensure access to remedies and support for victims.\u201d\nThe convention could also ensure that the #MeToo movement reaches all workers, average or low-wage, formal or informal. Finally, it \u201cacknowledges the economic costs of violence and harassment in the world of work.\u201d\n\u201cWhile the proposed ILO convention is groundbreaking, it falls short in one key respect. It does not define gender-based violence and harassment as human rights violations.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.icaltefl.com/how-many-tenses-are-there-in-english", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2VWMHF2MRSFIMKHRZNLEOOUHEYLJMZWR", "length": 3902, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.icaltefl.com", "title": "How Many Tenses Are There in English?", "raw_content": "photo credit: 20131107 (license)\nSome people look at tenses as referring to time. For them there are 3 tenses in English corresponding to the past, present, and future:\nI walked in the past.\nI walk in the present.\nI will walk in the future.\nThis seems fairly straightforward until you look at other languages and some varieties of English\u200f\u200e. Then you see that this is a fairly arbitrary chopping up of time. African American Vernacular English, for example differentiates between the recent past and the distant past. Thus relating tense directly to time can produce more than just 3 tenses for some people.\nTenses & Verb Forms\nOther people talk about tenses as verb forms\u200f\u200e. For them there are 12 basic tenses (but even this number varies):\nI walked in the past simple.\nI was walking in the past continuous.\nI had walked in the past perfect simple.\nI had been walking in the past perfect continuous.\nAnd this is followed by the simple, continuous, perfect simple & perfect continuous forms for the present and the future, totalling 12 tenses in all.\nBut it doesn\u2019t stop there. On to this list some people will also argue for conditionals\u200f\u200e and the subjunctive\u200f\u200e which take the number up. If you add to this the recent/distant past distinction in some varieties the number of tenses goes higher still.\nTenses & Verb Morphemes\nFinally, some people talk about there being just 2 tenses: the past and present. They say this is the case because in English there are \u2013 morphologically speaking \u2013 only 2 verb forms:\nThe future, they say, is taken care of by using the present tense plus a modal verb\u200f\u200e for example, such as might, will, could, etc. In other words, there is no specific future tense in English.\n(Some people take a philosophical approach to this and talk about us being unable to know the future therefore we can only talk about it in terms of possibility, therefore we must use aspect, modality and so on. However, in Latin, for example, there is a morpholigcally marked future tense which negates this argument.)\nNo one and everyone.\nThe answer depends on who you talk to. Some people are very vociferous in championing their own definition of tense and will claim that because such-and-such a grammarian says it then it must be true. But the truth is that there is no definitive answer.\nHere at ICAL TEFL we talk about there being 3 tenses (past, present & future) and a number of verb forms within each tense. Others disagree.\nSo why do we choose to use 3 tenses? Quite simply it\u2019s often convenient to talk about 3 tenses because it can be related directly to reality: past, present & future. Students tend to understand these concepts easily and in teaching English, that is the bottom line.\nPlease vote on this simple poll and tell us how many tenses you believe there are.\nHow many tenses are there?\nThe final word goes to Douglas Adams in his book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:\nThe major problem is quite simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr Dan Streetmentioner\u2019s Time Traveller\u2019s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you for instance how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be described differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is further complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations whilst you are actually travelling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own father or mother.\nMost readers get as far as the Future Semi-Conditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up: and in fact in later editions of the book all the pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 6225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.independent.org/news/article.asp?id=2910", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:54Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7AECIT7NPVFKL37YHN62HC74TWUTLUM", "length": 4544, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.independent.org", "title": "They Do Things Differently in America: News: The Independent Institute", "raw_content": "They Do Things Differently in America\nBy Alvaro Vargas Llosa | November 3, 2010Also published in Washington Post Writers Group\nWASHINGTON\u0097Foreign observers who have followed President Obama\u0092s sinking fortunes have a hard time understanding the depth of the voters\u0092 anger and the tea party.\nIn a recent conversation with French and Spanish journalists, I heard that it made no sense to perceive Obama as a trojan horse of European socialism when he has kept soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan; devoted part of his Nobel Peace Prize speech to justifying war; maintained the Guantanamo prison; signed a health care bill that does not include a single-payer system; prolonged fiscal stimulus policies that were initiated by his predecessor; and supported a monetary policy by the Federal Reserve that was highly encouraged by the Bush administration in 2008.\nLast week in Argentina, during a discussion about the Western Hemisphere with a group of center-right leaders, I heard it said that \u0093socialism\u0094 was in place well before Obama took office and no tea party objected to the Republican administration\u0092s doubling of the national debt. These were all Obama critics genuinely puzzled by the degree of anger at the president and the insurgence against an administration that in their view is simply taking the secular trend toward big government a couple of steps further.\nWhat is interesting about these comments is what they tell us about the differences between the United States and the rest of the world. With exceptions, whenever there was revulsion against big government in Europe and Latin America, it was the leaders who dragged, and eventually persuaded, the population to their view; in the United States, it is usually the other way around\u0097a libertarian sentiment at the grass roots is eventually seized upon by certain leaders. The mistake many foreign observers are making is to look at some of the leaders giving voice to the anti-Washington sentiment, many of whom can easily be accused of hypocrisy or duplicity, rather than at the genuine fear everyday American citizens are feeling\u0097and which has been a driver of the midterm elections.\nBarry Goldwater\u0092s emergence as a conservative/libertarian icon in the 1960s, Ronald Reagan\u0092s triumph in the 1980s and the rise of the tea party movement now are all cases of bottom-up rejection of big-government legacies\u0097the New Deal, the Big Society, the Bush/Obama response to the bursting of the housing bubble\u0097that found their leaders. By contrast, Britain\u0092s Margaret Thatcher was a case of top-down leadership cutting through a thicket of skepticism at all levels, including the base of her Conservative Party. Carlos Menem\u0092s privatizations in Argentina in the 1990s were the result of a betrayal of his Peronist mandate. Mart Laar\u0092s radical reforms in Estonia were the result of his seizing the anti-communist moment right after the fall of the Soviet empire. Manmohan Singh\u0092s partial dismantling of India\u0092s bureaucracy in 1991 did not come on the back of a popular insurgence against the socialist legacy of the Congress Party, which obtained the largest number of congressional seats that year; it was owed to the fact that Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who by chance was asked to lead a minority government, appointed Singh as finance minister at a time of financial trouble.\nNo people feel the connection between the growth of government and their pocketbooks the way Americans do. This is not to say they are consistently against big government. If they were, how would one explain the fact that government has grown so much under both Democrats and Republicans that if the budget were to be cut by 10 percent every year, the numbers in 2030 would look similar to those that were the target of the conservative revolution in 1981? Perhaps this just proves that in America it is usually the people who first rebel against too much state interference\u0097only to be disappointed by small-government leaders who don\u0092t deliver. Because in Europe and Latin America small government seldom starts at the base, reform is usually an unpopular surprise inflicted from the top. Nicolas Sarkozy\u0092s courageous (though timid) attempts to reform the pension system, which have triggered a ferocious popular response in France, are a case in point.\nEven if the United States will not see real budget cuts, the curtailment of entitlements and the slashing of the debt anytime soon, the bottom-up rejection of big government is the best hope of holding the big government beast in some kind of check.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 8870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=336262&seqNum=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:OVFSA5AISJWXB2POCYAY3QDWXB7DNT64", "length": 6236, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.informit.com", "title": "Introduction to Mobile Application Architectures | Client-Server | InformIT", "raw_content": "Introduction to Mobile Application Architectures\nBy Heather Schneider, Valentino Lee, Robbie Schell\nInteresting Architectural Patterns\nGood Architectural Design Tenets\nAs mobile devices become more common, it becomes imperative to understand how this environment poses unique application architecture challenges. This chapter will help you understand the issues involved in developing applications for mobile devices.\nMobile Applications: Architecture, Design, and Development: Architecture, Design, and Development\nIn this chapter, we discuss mobile application architectures. We start by describing some of the general concepts and terms behind client-server architectures and follow this by describing clients and servers and the connectivity between them. We then present several interesting architectural patterns and describe why they are useful as general mobile application architecture solutions. Finally, we discuss some of the tenets behind good architectural design and the considerations you need to be aware of when designing mobile applications.\n3.1 Client-Server\nApplication architectures are often modeled to highlight or illustrate the overall layout of the software (e.g., application code and platform) and hardware (e.g., client, server, and network devices). While there are many possible combinations of software and hardware, application architectures often fall into a series of recognizable patterns.\nApplication architectures are commonly modeled in terms of a client-server architecture wherein one or more client devices requests information from a server device. The server typically responds with the requested information (see Figure 3-1).\nFigure 3-1 Client-server architecture\nWe can further consider client-server architectures using layers and tiers and the communication between the layers and tiers. Each of these is described in greater detail in the following sections.\n3.1.1 Layers\nApplication code functionality is not necessarily uniform throughout an application. Certain sections of application code are better suited for handling the user interface, while other sections are developed to manage the business logic or communicate with the database or back-end systems.\nLayering describes the division of labor within the application code on a single machine. Layers are often no more than code modules placed in different folders or directories on the client or server.\nWith client-side code, there are generally zero to three layers of application code. With server-side code, there are generally one to three layers of application code. This is partly a matter of good software design that helps code re-usability, partly a matter of security, and partly a matter of convenience.\nA client with zero code layers essentially has no custom application code. This type of client is commonly referred to as a thin client and is possible in client-server architecture if the server holds all the custom application code. A client with one to three layers of application code is commonly referred to as a fat client.\nA server can also have one to three layers of custom application code. However, you cannot have zero code layers on a server by definition.\nThe code layer that interacts most closely with the user is often referred to as the Presentation Layer. The second layer is often referred to as the Business Layer, as it typically handles the business logic of the code. The third layer is often referred to as the Data Access Layer. It typically handles communication with the database or data source (see Figure 3-2).\nFigure 3-2 Layers\nIt is possible to have more than three layers on either the client or server but too many layers can become unwieldy and difficult to manage. As a result, this is not frequently encountered.\n3.1.2 Tiers\nWhile breaking up application code functionality into layers helps code re-usability, it does not automatically make the architecture scalable. In order to do so, it is important to distribute the code over multiple machines.\nTiers describes the division of labor of application code on multiple machines. Tiering generally involves placing code modules on different machines in a distributed server environment. If the application code is already in layers, this makes tiering a much simpler process.\nThe code that interacts most closely with the user is often placed in the Presentation Tier. A second tier, which holds the application business logic and data access logic, is often referred to as the Application Tier. The third tier often houses the database or data source itself and is often referred to as the Database Tier (see Figure 3-3). This is an example of a three-tiered architecture.\nFigure 3-3 Tiers\nThe servers that make up each tier may differ both in capability and number. For example, in a large-scale distributed web application environment, there may be a large number of inexpensive web servers in the Presentation Tier, a smaller number of application servers in the Application Tier, and two expensive clustered database servers in the Database Tier. The ability to add more servers is often referred to as horizontal scaling or scaling out. The ability to add more powerful servers is often referred to as vertical scaling or scaling up. Tiering the application code in such a fashion greatly facilitates the ability to scale applications.\nIn large-scale distributed web applications, tiers are often bounded by firewalls. For example, a firewall may be placed in front of the Presentation Tier while a second firewall may be placed in front of the Application Tier. The Presentation Tier is thus sandwiched between firewalls in what is termed the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), while the Application and Database Tier servers are shielded behind the second firewall in what is termed the Intranet Zone. Tiering therefore also facilitates security and allows large enterprises to shield precious internal systems from traffic originating from untrusted zones such as the Internet and DMZ. Without tiering, it becomes very difficult to secure internal systems.\nTiers generally describe server architectures, and we do not typically count client devices as a tier. While it is possible to do so, this is not a usual convention.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 8640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.insightmagazine.org/advice/showadvice.asp?adviceid=172", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HURRRU4ZP4OE4JI3E5NK5H3DSPOZFTFC", "length": 2792, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.insightmagazine.org", "title": "Insight Magazine Online", "raw_content": "Just Believe?, Part 2\nAll my life I\u2019ve heard, \"In order to be saved, the only thing you need to do is to believe.\" But it seems to me that there\u2019s more to it than that. Didn\u2019t Jesus say that he would judge us in the same way we judge others? So if I believe and then judge others, it seems as though I wouldn\u2019t be saved. I\u2019m kind of confused. I\u2019m not sure that if I \"just believe\" I\u2019ll really be saved.\nLast week I mentioned that Christians tend to embrace one of two extreme beliefs on the topic of salvation. One extreme is the one you\u0092ve talked about\u0096\"only believe, and everything will be just fine.\" The other is the idea that there\u0092s always something more that you need in order to be saved.\nSo which side is right? People on both sides use the Bible to support their position.\nWell, there\u0092s a natural human tendency to try to do something on our own or to somehow earn what we get. (Isn\u0092t that the responsible thing to do?) Yet Jesus said that whoever believes in Him has eternal life (see John 3:16). But then James wrote that even the devils believe and tremble (see James 2:19)!\nI\u0092d like to suggest a different perspective. Instead of believing something in your mind (salvation) and then you get it (when Jesus returns), think of it in relational terms. For example, instead of going shopping for a box of salvation and then going on your merry way, think of it as getting a boyfriend or girlfriend.\nA relationship isn\u0092t just a matter of believing that the two of you (including you and Jesus) are friends. You then celebrate and grow in your relationship.\nThat\u0092s why Jesus prayed for His disciples, \"This is the way to have eternal life\u0096to know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, the one you sent to earth\" (John 17:3, NLT).* And that\u0092s why in the parable of the five wise and five foolish bridesmaids, the bridegroom said, \"I don\u0092t know you\" (Matthew 25:12).\nSome people think that after Jesus gives you the gift of eternal life, then you have to live a good life or you\u0092ll lose that gift. That\u0092s a misunderstanding.\nJesus gives you two things. First, He gives you eternal life as a gift. But He doesn\u0092t stop there. He also gives you the Holy Spirit to live inside you so that you can then become all God wants you to be.\nThat\u0092s why those who say, \"I believe God gave me eternal life\" but then don\u0092t let the Holy Spirit direct their lives miss out on so much God has for them.\nHere\u0092s how Paul summed it up in Ephesians 2:8-10: \"God saved you by his special favor when you believed. And you can\u0092t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God\u0092s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago\" (NLT).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.internetatschools.com/Articles/Editorial/Features/Whats-a-Wiki-A-Powerful-Collaborative-Tool-for-Teaching-and-Learning.-Thats-What!-58616.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:43Z", "digest": "sha1:B4AY7UTZVNHBPAFB7BS2YBZZMEC4JKAV", "length": 2427, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.internetatschools.com", "title": "What's a Wiki? A Powerful Collaborative Tool for Teaching and Learning. That's What! - Internet@Schools Magazine", "raw_content": "By Will Richardson - Posted Nov 1, 2005\n-Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder\nEditor's Note: Will Richardson, supervisor of instructional technology at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Fleming, N.J., and now a well-known speaker on cutting-edge educational uses of the Web, has written a book to be published by Corwin Press in February 2006 entitled An Educator's Guide to Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and Other Cool New Tools That Are Transforming the Classroom. This article is adapted from a chapter of that book, with permission from the publisher.\nIf you want to find the most important site on the Web these days, look no further than Wikipedia.org. As its name suggests, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, one that really is attempting to store the \"sum of human knowledge.\" In September 2005, the English version of Wikipedia housed over 600,000 separate entries with information about everything from the Aaamazzarites (a fictional Star Trek universe) to Zzzax (a fictional supervillain from Marvel Comics.) Every day, new entries are being added about people, places, things, historical events, even today's news almost as it happens. It's truly an amazing resource.\nBut while most people get the \"pedia\" part of the name, only a few really understand the first part, the \"wiki.\" And believe it or not, that's the most important part, because without the wiki, this encyclopedia, this growing repository of all we know and do could not exist. The word \"wiki\" is a short form of the Hawaiian \"wiki-wiki,\" which means \"quick.\" The first wiki was created in 1995 by Ward Cunningham, who was looking to create an easy authoring tool that might spur people to publish. And the key word here is \"easy,\" because, plainly put, a wiki is a Web site where anyone can edit anything anytime they want.\nSo, do you have some knowledge about your favorite hobby that isn't on Wikipedia? Add it. Have you read something you think isn't correct? Fix it. Don't like the way one of the entries is written? Erase it. Did something big just happen in the news that is history-making? Start a new entry. You have the power, because every time you access Wikipedia or most any other wiki for that matter, you do so as Editor in Chief. And it's that freedom that has made Wikipedia the phenomenon it is as tens of thousands of Editors in Chief, people like you and me, take on the job of collecting the sum of human knowledge.\nBut Can You Trust It?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 218.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iproamh.com/2017/12/7th-pay-commission-latest-news-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:22Z", "digest": "sha1:TFP5HXPP22SYPQSLLN4GPVMZL5HHUKL3", "length": 4056, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.iproamh.com", "title": "7th Pay Commission: Latest News on Minimum Pay Hike And Fitment Factor; Check Out Here ~ India Posts' Retired Officers' Association", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb \u00bb 7th Pay Commission: Latest News on Minimum Pay Hike And Fitment Factor; Check Out Here\n7th Pay Commission: Latest News on Minimum Pay Hike And Fitment Factor; Check Out Here\nNew Delhi, December 19: Almost 18 months have been passed and the recommendations under the 7th Pay Commission of increasing the minimum monthly pay is still under process. Since last three-years, there is a huge confusion among the Central Government employees regarding the minimum pay hike.\nAlthough, since last two months the Union Government has been continuously promising the employees to raise the fitment factor and salaries as per the recommendations of the 7th Central Pay Commission (CPC). Several media reports have also suggested that there may not be any hike in the minimum basic pay of the Central Government employees.\nAccording to a report, a source within the Finance Ministry said to The Sen Times that there are little chances of the government revising the minimum basic pay of the Central Government employees.\nThe government staff unions have been eagerly demanding that their minimum pay must be hiked to Rs 26,000 from Rs 18,000. Justice AK Mathur led 7th Pay Commissionhad also demanded an increase in the minimum pay of Central Government employees from Rs 18,000 to Rs 21,000 per month. Meanwhile, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley had also promised to ensure its implementation by the beginning of next year.\nA month ago, The Sen Times reported that there is no scope for a change in minimum basic pay as recommended by the 7th Pay Commission and approved by the Union Cabinet.\nEarlier in November around 10 employee unions had staged a three-day protest outside the parliament against the delay in minimum wage hike.\nGratuity Ceiling Increased From Rs 10 Lakh To Rs 20 Lakh\nAfter implementation of 7th Pay Commission, the Union Government has increased the ceiling of gratuity amount for employees from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 20 lakh.\nMeanwhile, the government on Monday introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha that will allow it to notify the period of maternity leave and gratuity that can be availed by employees under a central law.\nThe Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill, 2017 was introduced by Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar in the House, amid continued sloganeering by opposition members and counter-slogans by those of the BJP.\nThe Payment of Gratuity Act 1972 was enacted to provide for gratuity payment to employees engaged in factories, mines, oilfields, plantations, ports, railway companies, shops or other establishments. It is applicable to employees who have completed at least five years of continuous service in an establishment that has ten or more persons.\nAccording to the Statement of Objects and Reasons of the bill, the amendment would allow the central government to notify the maternity leave period for \u201cfemale employees as deemed to be in continuous service in place of existing twelve weeks\u201d.\nThe proposal comes against the backdrop of the Maternity Benefit Act (Amendment) Act, 2017 enhancing the maximum maternity leave period to 26 weeks.\n\u201cIt is therefore proposed to empower the central government to enhance the period of existing twelve weeks to such period as may be notified by it,\u201d the Statement said.\nWith respect to gratuity, the amount is calculated on the basis of a formula which is 15 days of wages for each year of completed services, subject to the ceiling of Rs 10 lakh. This limit was fixed in 2010.\nGenerally, the ceiling under the Act follows that of the Central Pay Commission recommendations.\n\u201cTherefore, considering the inflation and wage increase even in case of employees engaged in private and public sector, the entitlement of gratuity is also required to be revised for employees who are covered under the Act.\n\u201cIt has also been proposed to empower the central government to notify the ceiling proposed, instead of amending the said Act, so that the limit can be revised from time to time keeping in view the increase in wage and inflation, and future Pay Commissions,\u201d the Statement said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 13832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iran-daily.com/News/207407.html?catid=11&title=For-the-first-time-since-1958--women-fronted-films-topped-three-highest-grossing-movies-of-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:41Z", "digest": "sha1:XFJ7WYGV4R2VGNYIQH4YCQEJH4Y3CPYF", "length": 1569, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.iran-daily.com", "title": "For the first time since 1958, women-fronted films topped three highest-grossing movies of 2017", "raw_content": "For the first time since 1958, women-fronted films topped three highest-grossing movies of 2017\nFor the first time since 1958, the top three highest-grossing releases in the US featured female leads. At its front, Daisy Ridley's Rey and 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi', which became the highest-grossing film of the year in the US with $517 million.\nIn second place came Disney's live-action remake of 'Beauty and the Beast', with Emma Watson as Belle, which landed $504 million, followed by Patty Jenkin's 'Wonder Woman', starring Gal Gadot, with its $412 million in US box office, independent.co.uk reported.\nAccording to data from Box Office Madness, which tracks charts before 1980, and Box Office Mojo, which tracks charts after 1980, the last time three films led by women occupied the top spots was 1958.\nThe highest-grossing film that year was 'South Pacific', with Mitzi Gaynor as a WWII nurse; in second place was 'Auntie Mame', with Rosalind Russell as a Manhattan socialite; occupying third place was 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof', which starred Elizabeth Taylor as Tennessee Williams' heroine Maggie 'The Cat' Pollitt.\nHopefully, that trend can continue into 2018 thanks to the likes of female-led projects 'Proud Mary', 'Ocean's 8', 'Tomb Raider', 'Mary Poppins Returns' and 'A Wrinkle in Time'.\nCinema ticket sales in North America were due to surpass $11 billion in 2017, according to comScore's projections \u2014 down 2.3 percentage points on last year's record-breaking figure of $11.4bn. But worldwide they set a new record of $39.92 billion.\nighest-grossing movies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 165.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.isradiology.org/2017/isr/cn255.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KUYPEQMMJD2NDIL4CAUUYW6S6ZY3O3WC", "length": 1525, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.isradiology.org", "title": "ISR : International Society of Radiology", "raw_content": "ISR is a Cooperating Organization\nISR is proud to be a cooperating organization for the International Conference on Radiation Protection in Medicine: Achieving Change in Practice 11-15 December 2017, Vienna, Austria http://www-pub.iaea.org/iaeameetings/50820/International-Conference-on-Radiation-Protection-in-Medicine-br-Achieving-Change-in-Practice\nISR has been invited to organise a lunch-time session on regional quality and safety campaigns under the umbrella of ISRQSA.\nThe main purpose of the conference is to take stock of the progress made following the Bonn Call for Action and thus assess impact. The coverage includes optimization and justification in medical exposure; safety in medical use of ionizing radiation; and also radiation protection of medical staff and public, when ionizing radiation is used for diagnosis, intervention, therapy or research. Input is expected from multiple health professions using or prescribing ionizing radiation, such as all relevant groups of physicians, medical physicists, radiographers, nurses, engineers, as well as from patients, regulatory authorities, health service managements, health authorities and policy-makers.\nIf you are interested in submitting an abstract or participating as part of the ISR delegation in the conference, please complete the registration and abstract submission forms and send the Word documents to mhierath@isradiology.org no later than June 12 and please additionally register via the online registration toll available on the IAEA website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.itkrew.com/2012/01/what-is-template_24.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FR2JTDOO4XVDXXFKFFHPRANCNZ7E67HP", "length": 701, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.itkrew.com", "title": "The IT Krew: What is a template", "raw_content": "A template is a document for enforcing a standard layout, templates give you a structure to work from, within the template, it would already have a basic layout for you to use e.g. header and footer and within the header it would have the name and address of your company and logo. You should certainly set up a template for any document that is likely to be used more than once.\nThis is a copy of a template that I have designed\nThis is the evidence to show that I designed my letter head and saved it as a template. I had to design a logo for a company called scene, then I put the companies address up the top left hand corner with the logo on the top right hand corner, this was put in the header.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jacco.com/news.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:09Z", "digest": "sha1:YZHVV2EVJIUUXHHUETHKQRSLP25QOGNU", "length": 762, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.jacco.com", "title": "NEWS", "raw_content": "The History of WaterFurnace\nThe History of WaterFurnace, which was founded in 1983 and has remained a leader\nin the HVAC industry for decades.\nEnergy Labs, Inc.\nJacco has been a proud supplier of Energy Labs Custom Air Handling Solutions since 2014.\nThe history of AAON, Inc.\nThe roots of AAON can be traced back to the John Zink Company (JZC), a manufacturer of oil and gas combustion equipment in Tulsa, Oklahoma.\nThis month, we want to tell you, our customers, clients and friends, about one of the leading and largest product lines we represent: Samsung.\nSupplying the home of the Cleveland Indians with 100% of its heating and cooling systems.\nIn 1994, the Cleveland Indians moved from the Municipal Stadium to the new Jacob's Field (now Progressive Field).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 7311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 204.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.janakrasmussenmdfacs.com/procedural-information/happy-new-year-have-you-tried-the-crab-walk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BX7FIJHVLSZHUWGQ5BUFLACAWJDUA7QK", "length": 2171, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.janakrasmussenmdfacs.com", "title": "Happy New Year! Have You Tried The Crab Walk?", "raw_content": "Happy New Year! Have You Tried The Crab Walk?\nHappy New Year! With the New Year comes our Resolutions to improve something about us, often a commitment to healthier eating habits (hate that word \u201cdiet\u201d) and an active lifestyle (hate that word \u201cexercise\u201d). For the women out there reading this, many of us want to improve the appearance of one of our most \u201cunaesthetic\u201d body areas\u2026our butts and thighs. But there may be help that is non-surgical! I have worked with an Image Consultant, Susan Bigsby (www.susanbigsby.com) who has helped many of my patients with improving their \u201cstyle\u201d, including hair, makeup, clothing and accessories. But for the New Year, she has made a recommendation for an exercise for the lower body that can help you look better in those stylish clothes! This recommendation is based on her personal experience which she has permitted me to share with you. In Susan\u2019s own words:\n\u201cI\u2019ve struggled with too much junk in my trunk and thighs that rub together my whole life. Last year, I was watching the \u201cToday Show\u201d and they featured an exercise that I now call \u201cThe Crab Walk.\u201d I\u2019ve exercised for 30 years and have had personal trainers. NOTHING has ever improved my lower body like this. I\u2019ve lost four (4) inches off my hips and now wear a size 2 pant or straight skirt! Never before in my life! I show it to all my clients, so now I\u2019d like all of you to benefit too! The video (in the You Tube link below)\u2026.was taken on my iPhone, so the audio is very low\u2026I hope you get it!\u201d If you can\u2019t hear the instructions well, written instructions are below.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wUQc7z_mmks\nInstructions how to do \u201cThe Crab Walk\u201d:\nDo a wide, low plie \u2013 as wide and as low as you can get. Next, take 8 steps forward and 8 steps back \u2013 low and slow. Do this 5 times \u2013 anywhere, anytime. Susan does this 4 to 5 times a week. And remember, consistency is the key to the success of any exercise program. I intend to start the \u201cCrab Walk\u201d today! How about you? And perhaps you will reshape your lower body and won\u2019t even need to contemplate liposuction as an alternative! Again, Have a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 6745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jennasattic.com/tag/marriage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:40Z", "digest": "sha1:MZRJXHL7ITEKK5BGCNNY3CQOVVRZLGJS", "length": 2067, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.jennasattic.com", "title": "Marriage |", "raw_content": "Tag Archive for Marriage\nMore about me and Mark\nI realize that I haven\u2019t given you any background on my marriage. Mark and I met when we were little kids. We were family friends until he moved away, and we reunited in college. We started dating when we were 19 and we\u2019ve been together ever since. He was my first, I wasn\u2019t his.\nOur sex life has been physically good for me but rule-bound. Mark has intermittent erection problems, and until a few months ago, we didn\u2019t talk about sex. At all. Why we didn\u2019t is a subject for another post.\nIf in my last post, I gave the impression that I am not fulfilled in my life, I\u2019m sorry. That\u2019s incorrect. Luckily, I am fulfilled in many ways. Most of those ways \u2014 as a mother, a friend, a wife \u2014 don\u2019t fit in with my sexy persona here. That doesn\u2019t mean that those other roles are not important and beneficial in and of their own rights. But what I\u2019m questioning here, what I\u2019m exploring, is my own sexuality, apart from any relationship. In that corner of my life, I am unfulfilled. I am still seeking something. I want to know myself as a sexual being.\nWhen I first started dating Mark, when we started having sex, I was nervous. I followed his lead. I suspect that he was nervous too, or picked up on my anxiety. Our sexual universe quickly shrunk and it stayed that way. Suddenly I find myself wanting to know what I like, what I don\u2019t, how certain things make me feel. Some of those things Mark has tried with me. Some of them, like sex with other people, he\u2019s not willing to try and not willing to let me try. He has a lot of good reasons. But like most things, not being able to have something makes me want it all the more.\nAs a thoughtful reader so kindly commented, I have a way with words. I enjoy writing, and I hope that my blogging leads me to a creative writing job. But for me, I want experience before I write. Writing is not a substitute for experience for me. If it were the other way around, my predicament would be so much simpler. But it isn\u2019t.\nCategory: Personal Essay / Tags: Marriage, Sexuality, Writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.joanearly.net/about-joan-early.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KEYZHUN4MZQOMPWZTI5UJNO7PDUMDZ6G", "length": 373, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.joanearly.net", "title": "About Joan Early", "raw_content": "\u200bSCENES FROM MY WORLD\nLAST GREAT TRIP/DAVE KOZ JAZZ CRUISE\nI learned the value of education very early in life, along with a great appreciation for books and storytelling. I count my upbringing for a strong sense of family and a deep appreciation for life. Though I love to travel, which is a constant source of inspiration, my heart is always home with family and friends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.joejoeinc.com/2012/05/i-like-this-quote.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:CAJYQY4RYU62FFKRMMFGKHTQSGY6GT23", "length": 162, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.joejoeinc.com", "title": "JoeJoeInc.com: I like this quote", "raw_content": "I found the following quote funny.\n\"With enough force, any peg will fit in any hole.\"\nSource: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/05/10/10303506.aspx", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 9878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jottings.in/2014/07/from-todays-papers-12-jul-2014.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:15Z", "digest": "sha1:MOTU422RTQMXTGS3OHR3SBECM4QH62TX", "length": 5143, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.jottings.in", "title": "Jottings: From Today's Papers - 12 Jul 2014", "raw_content": "Lt Gen Campose is Army Vice Chief\nLt Gen KJ Singh to be new chief of Western Command\nLieutenant General Philip Campose, the Western Army Commander, has been appointed as the Vice Chief of the Indian Army. He will take over on August 1 when Lt Gen Dalbir Singh Suhag, the present incumbent, takes over as the Chief of the Indian Army.\nLt Gen Campose will be replaced by Lt Gen KJ Singh as new Chief of the Chandimandir headquartered Western Command. The Ambala-based 2 Strike Corps, the Jallandhar-based 11 Corps and the Yol (Dharamsala)-based 9 Corps are under the command.\nLt Gen Campose was commissioned in the 9 Gorkha Rifles in 1974 but was seconded to the Mechanised Infantry in 1982. He has commanded an Independent Armoured Brigade and an Infantry Division along the Line of Control in J&K and a Corps in the Western Sector. He has headed a UN Peace Keeping mission in the former Yugoslavia and Northern Iraq.\nHis replacement at Chandimandir, Lt General KJ Singh, has just finished his tenure as GoC of the Sukna (Darjeeling)-based 33 Corps. He is from the Armoured Corps. Before being posted to Sukhna, he had commanded the Hisar-based 33 Armoured Division.\nHe has done tenures in the insurgency-hit areas with Assam Rifles and with the United Nations Peace Keeping Force in Angola. He has been an Instructor at the School of Armoured Warfare and Directing Staff at the Higher Command Wing of the Army War College.\nNavy to get indigenous anti-sub warship today\nKolkata, July 11\nReady to protect the waters, India's first indigenously-built anti-submarine warfare corvette INS Kamorta will be handed over to the Indian Navy here tomorrow, defence officials said.\nThe super-sophisticated front line warship will be formally handed over by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE) chairman and managing director Rear Admiral (Retd) A K Verma to the Navy at a ceremony in GRSE's Fitting Out Jetty, defence PRO TK Singha said.\nINS Kamorta, first in its class of four ASW corvettes being built by GRSE under Project-28 for the Navy, is the first warship ever built in the country with almost 90 per cent of indigenous content.\nIt is also the first warship manufactured in India with indigenously developed special grade high-tensile steel produced by state-owned Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL).\nArmed with stealth features, it is the first warship equipped with the new trainable chaff launcher - Kavach.\nThe hull of the ship encompassed the bulk of sensors and weapon systems that were also indigenously manufactured by various Indian Industries.\nThe foldable hangar door fitted for the first time with a rail-less helicopter traversing system is also a noteworthy first on any Indian naval ship, and would give helicopter operations from the corvette deck a significant edge over existing platforms of other warships. \u2014 PTI\nChina's defence spend more than India, Japan, S Korea combined\nDespite India increasing its defence spend, China continues to rule the roost in Asia and is second to only the US. China's defence spending at $131.57 billion is more than the combined defence budgets of India, Japan and South Korea - the three largest Asian economies after it. Despite a hike of 12.44 per cent and the defence budget pegged at $38.16 billion, India lags way behind China's defence budget allocation.\nOn March 5, Beijing announced a budget of $131.57 billion that is more than the collective spend of $117. 02 billion by India, Japan and South Korea. China has uneasy relations with the three countries. China's close military ally, Pakistan announced a budget of $7 billion for defence in June this year.\nJapan has an allocation of $45.86 billion for defence, while South Koreans have listed $33 billion for the same. China increased its defence budget by 12.2 per cent, a kind of warning signal to India, Japan and the ten-nation Association of South East Nations (ASEAN) - some of which are locked in disputes with Beijing in the hydrocarbon-rich South China Sea.\nIn an indication of rising budget spends, the IHS Jane's Annual Defence Budgets Review, in February 2014 assessed \"China, Japan and India were spending roughly 21 per cent of the total expenditure among the top 10 spenders.\"\nChinese Premier Li Keqiang, while addressing the Communist Party-controlled National People's Congress (NPC) on March 5 (at the budget announcement) said: \"We will resolutely safeguard China's sovereignty, security and development interests\u2026 place war preparations on a regular footing and build China into a maritime power\". China's stress is on high-technology weapons. And it is already nuclear armed and has tested anti-satellite weapon.\nDragon eyes maritime domination\nOn March 5, Beijing announced a budget of $131.57 bn \u2014 more than the collective spend of $117.02 billion by India ($38.16 bn), Japan ($45. 86 bn) and South Korea ($33 bn)\nChinese Premier Li Keqiang has said Beijing will resolutely safeguard its sovereignty, security and development interests and build itself into a maritime power\nLabels: appointment, army commanders, china, defence budget, gaza, hafiz saeed, INS Kamrota, israel, jamaat, vice chief", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 9940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jud6.org/LegalCommunity/LegalPractice/opinions/jeacopinions/ninet4/94-34.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:38Z", "digest": "sha1:6GIW2HGI6PPDHREW7MU7YYSJSOMCKKTL", "length": 12180, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.jud6.org", "title": "OPINION 94-34", "raw_content": "(Judicial Candidate\n(Questionnaire\nYour Inquiry dated July 26, 1994\nYou have requested our Committee to advise you concerning the appropriateness of responding to the Christian Coalition of Brevard County Candidate Questionnaire, a copy of which you have enclosed.\nAll of the members of the Committee that have responded agree that there is no ethical prohibition against responding to such a survey or questionnaire. The thornier issue is rather how and to what extent may a judge or judicial candidate ethically respond to specific questions.\nIn an effort to provide useful guidance in formulating replies to the various surveys and questionnaires that judicial candidates are more and more frequently requested to answer, and in order to gain better insight into the spirit and intent of the Canons, the Committee believes that a brief review of the history of this issue would be instructive.\nBefore 1990, relying on Opinions 78-5, 78-13, 78-15, 80-13, and 84-11, all interpreting Canons 7 B(1)(a) and (c) the Committee consistently maintained that judges and judicial candidates may not commit themselves in advance on disputed legal issues, campaign on views of solutions to disputed political issues, campaign on a platform of partially for specific persons or groups, participate in an endorsement or rating interview session, and, most pertinent to the present inquiry, respond to questionnaires covering such issues as gun control, abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment and other issues.\nIn 1990 the Federal District Court for the Northern District of Florida found the portion of Canon 7 B(1)(c) that proscribes discussion of \"disputed legal or political issues\" unconstitutional as a violation of the First Amendment. The preliminary injunction against enforcement of this code provision by the JQC was made permanent in 1991. American Civil Liberties Union, Inc, v. The Florida Bar. 774 F. Supp. 1094 (N.D. Fla. 1990). The Court noted:\nThere can be no question that the State of Florida has a compelling interest in protecting and preserving the integrity and objectivity of its judiciary. Campaign rhetoric which is untruthful or deceptive, or which contains promises with respect to pending cases, or which commits or appears to commit the candidate to a course of conduct on cases or issues likely to come before the courts, cannot be tolerated. Any such speech--whether or not it announces a candidate's views on disputed legal or political issues--would result in an evil the parameters of which are difficult to imagine.\nAdditionally, in American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Inc. and Larry Schack v. The Florida Bar, and The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission. TCA 90-40163-WS (March 22, 1994) the court held that Canon 7 B(1)(c) is unconstitutional both on its face and as applied to the speech contemplated under the facts of that case. Thus, it appears that while the Committee may still use Canon 7 B(1)(a) and (c) analysis in the opinions it provides to judges and judicial candidates regarding their campaign conduct, the JQC may not presently prosecute anyone who violates those provisions. Also, it should be noted that there is currently pending before the Supreme Court of Florida a proposed Amendment to Canon 7 B(1) (c) which attempts to address concerns of the District Court Judge.\nIn 1993 and 1994, the Committee has responded to a number of inquires concerning judicial conduct that are analogous to the questionnaire/campaign speech issues that is the subject of the current inquiry. In addition to consideration of Canon 7 provisions, other Canons also bear on the analysis. For example, Canon 2 A states that \"A judge should conduct himself at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.\" \"Canon 3 A(6) states, \"A judge should abstain from public comment about a pending or impending proceeding in any court...\" Canon 3 A(1) states that a judge \"...should be unswayed by partisan interests, public clamor, or fear of criticism\". Additionally, Canon 3 C(1) cautions: \" A judge should disqualify himself in a proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned...\"\nThus, despite the Federal District Court decisions concerning Canon 7 B(1)(a) and 7 B(1)(c), judges and judicial candidates should not engage in campaign conduct which violates any other provision of the Canon for which the candidate could be sanctioned.\nIn Opinion 93-64, the Committee suggested to an inquiring judge that it would violate the Canons for a judge to publicly advocate for handgun control. The Committee perceived gun control to be a political issue not related to the administration of justice. Although the Committee did not cite a particular Canon section, both Canons 3 and 7 bear on the analysis. As the Committee noted in Opinion 93-64, the contemplated conduct \"casts a judge in the role of a political advocate.\" Under a Canon 3 A(6) analysis, lawsuits involving handgun control legislation and criminal matters involving the use of or access to handguns arise frequently in state and federal courts. Therefore, a judge's impartiality could be compromised by his or her public statements about the subject matter.\nThe Committee has addressed public comment on disputed legal or political matters four times in 1994. In Opinion 94-1 an inquiring judge asked about the propriety or publicly advocating the signing or two petitions relating to criminal justice. The first petition proposed a one percent sales tax to be used for criminal justice matters. The second petition proposed that prisoners must serve 85 percent or proposed sentences. All but one committee member agreed that some public comment on these issues would be permissible. Quoting from In re: Inquiry Concerning a Judge, 417 So.2D 950 (Fla.1982), the Committee acknowledged that \"in an appropriate forum (a judge) may express his protest, dissent and criticism of the present state or the law as long as he does not appear to substitute his concept of what the law ought to be for what the law actually is, and as long as he expresses himself in a manner that promotes public confidence in his integrity and impartially as a judge.\"\nIn Inquiry Concerning a Judge, supra at 955, the court gave additional clarification to this issue as follows.\nThe record in this case does not establish that his letters and article caused any disrespect for the law or his judicial office, interfered with the performance of his official duties,, or resulted in a loss of public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judicial system. Judge Gridley made it clear that he was duty bound to follow the law and that he would do so although he did advocate law reform in the area of capital punishment.\nIn another opinion on public petitions related to change in the law, Opinion 94-5, the Committee answered an inquiry asking whether a judge as a private citizen can sign a petition calling for a proposed constitutional amendment banning gill netting in state waters. The majority found ethical problems with signing such a petition. The Committee noted that in the past it had found no problem in judges taking public positions on issues relating to the improvement of the legal system or the administration or justice, but the majority believed that a judge's signature on the petition could be misused. The opinion does not state involving gill nets in state waters might come before \"any court\", but the Committee's analysis is consistent with Canon 3 A(6) requiring judges to refrain from public comment about pending or impending proceedings in any court.\nMore recently, in Opinion 94-14, an inquiring judge asked whether the Canons proscribe expressing an opinion on certain pending legislation. The general topic of the legislation was perceived practical problems arising from the Florida Supreme Court's decision in Fabre v. Martin, a controversial decision discussing how fault is to be apportioned in civil negligence suits. The inquiring judge believed that the current status of the law would inhibit settlements and increase litigation.\nA majority or the Committee concluded that the Canons would not prohibit the judge from addressing the appropriate legislative committee on this matter since it concerned the administration of justice. Like the two earlier 1994 opinions, Opinion 94-14 centers more on an interpretation of Canon 3 than on Canon 7; the opinion does not refer to campaign or political conduct. It analysis addresses problems of perceived impartiality. In this opinion, systemic concerns for the orderly administration of justice outweigh concerns over the appearance of partiality. The inquiring judge's comment does not seem to suggest how the judge might rule in a negligence suit. It merely concerns procedural impediments to the orderly and efficient disposition of such cases.\nFinally, in Opinion 94-16, an April 1994 Committee opinion, the Committee directly addressed the North District's opinion in American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, Inc. and Larry Schack vs. The Florida Bar and the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, supra, to an inquiring judicial candidate who had posed 16 separate questions concerning campaign conduct. Among those questions was one regarding the ethical propriety of criticizing an opponent. The Committee found \"that in general it would be proper to criticize a political opponent when the criticism is truthful, pertinent, and material to judicial office. We find it would...be improper to criticize a judge on any open case as the candidate could conceivably have to rule on the same case, and, of course, the incumbent judge could not comment on a pending case,\" Thus, despite the federal court's holding that a particular portion of Canon 7 is facially unconstitutional, the Committee grounded at least part of impartiality, that is, the importance of not giving the public reason to believe that the judge's mind is already made up about how he or she might rule in a future matter.\nIn light of the foregoing considerations, all responding members agree that any response to a judicial candidate questionnaire must be carefully tailored to be consistent with the spirit and intent of the Canons. Additionally, a judicial candidate should consider the relationship between the subject matter of the questionnaire and any current \"hot\" issues in the judge's locale. One concurring member suggested that judicial candidates consider using either a preface or closing paragraph on any questionnaire to which they elect to respond making it clear that judges are required to follow the laws of the state regardless of their personal views. One concurring judge felt that in addition to the foregoing analysis, that the Committee should offer the following responses to each question:\nQuestion 1, 2, 3, and 13 are in clear violation of Canon 3.\nQuestion 4, 5, and 9 are governed by law and could be answered in that manner.\nQuestion 7 and 10 are legislative matters upon which a judge might express an opinion to a legislator or legislative committee.\nQuestion 6, 8, and 14 are irrelevant to judicial qualifications.\nQuestions 11 and 12 are proper.\nIn summary, a judicial candidate may respond to judicial candidate questionnaires, but many responses may not necessarily fit into the \"yes\" or \"no\" or \"undecided\" boxes on the questionnaire. Depending upon the subject matter of the question, some complex legal or political questions may not be able to be ethically answered at all. Other questions may need a thoughtfully drafted explanation or elaboration to appropriately satisfy ethical considerations. Despite the Federal District Court decisions which invalidated a portion of Canon 7 B(1)(c) and all of 7 B(1)(a), judges and judicial candidates must be aware that certain campaign related speech remains impermissible under the Canons; e.g., Canon 3 (A)(6) which provides that judges should abstain from public comment about pending or impending proceedings in \"any court\".\nParticipating Members:Judges Doughtie, Farina, Green, Kahn, Patterson, Rushing, Silverman, Tolton, and Edwards, Esq.\nCreated 7.13.97 by DAF", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 13176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.justcarloan.com/car-loan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BRS7FWPC7BOP5Z5R6CL2VM4LOCGEOR6I", "length": 45, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.justcarloan.com", "title": "Car Loan - Just Car Loan", "raw_content": "URL: http://www.www.justcarloan.com/car-loan/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 10567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 185.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kannadakoota.org/deepavali-raajyotsava-2013.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTFETXPX7OBXHJQ2U3KQEMUGUI2N2KR2", "length": 240, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.kannadakoota.org", "title": "Deepavali-Raajyotsava-2013", "raw_content": "Look at the Happyness in our faces. 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Over 6,000 subscribers and visitors enjoyed the summer season productions. \u201cMurder for Two,\u201d directed by James Barrett and featuring founding members from Toronto\u2019s Bad Hats Theatre, was chosen by art critic Sam Tweedle, as one of the top plays in the Kawarthas in 2018.\nPre-season, Sarah starred in \u201cSugar Road\u201d at the Theatre Orangeville and performed in her play \u201cSunshine Express\u201d at Theatre Collingwood. \u201cSunshine Express\u201d also played at the Port Stanley Festival Theatre in late summer. Joining the ranks of international theatre groups, Globus Theatre is recognized for its leadership in promoting female playwrights. Globus Theatre is a repeat winner of the \u201cApplause Award\u201d presented by the International Centre for Women Playwright.\nCast of \u201cStones in His Pocket\u201d, Colm Wilkinson, Sarah Quick and James Barrett (2015)\nNow in its 13th year, the popular family Christmas British Pantomime presented their original production of \u201cAli Baba and the Forty Thieves\u201d. Two casts of over 50 young people and sold out school shows attracted over 2,000 family members and fans. Not only did James and Sarah organize the auditions, coach the young cast, direct the professional actors, they also performed.\nAdding more accolades to their stellar year, a piano owned by Colm Wilkinson found its way to the Lakeview Arts Barn (LAB). Many know Colm Wilkinson, the Irish tenor and actor, in his role as Jean Valjean in Les Miserables. When he retired and returned to Ireland, he wanted the piano to go to a good, creative home, and the Lakeview Arts Barn was his choice. In 2015, Mr. Wilkinson attended the production of \u201cStones in His Pockets\u201d in Toronto, directed by James for the Irish Theatre. He loved it, promoted it on radio, and then came to Bobcaygeon to see the play at the LAB. This led to genuine encouragement and support for Globus Theatre, knowing his piano was in good hands. Sales of his CDs covered the cost of this exquisite instrument.\nAs playwrights, producers, actors and business entrepreneurs, this creative duo are champions of culture and well-loved community supporters. Sarah was born in Manchester, and James in Fenelon Falls. They created Globus Theatre in England and came to Ontario 16 years ago. After two seasons at the Academy Theatre, they looked for a permanent home. The Lakeview Arts Barn was originally a working cattle barn and then converted to a dance hall in 1967. Sarah and James purchased the barn in 2006, and after restoration and renovations, Globus Theatre had arrived at its new home.\nActual Guiness World Record (2016) for largest underpants (\u201cKnickers: A Brief Comedy\u201d written by Sarah Quick)\nTheir goal was to feature Canadian works or works new to Canada, and to broaden the scope of how patrons saw Ontario \u201csummer theatre.\u201d With her past experience in writing and touring with fringe theatre, Sarah introduced edgier theatre productions. To select the featured plays, over 40 plays are read and 12 \u2013 15 are short-listed. Based on cost, viability, relevance and \u201cexcitement\u201d factor, the final list goes to the Globus Theatre Board for approval. The 2019 Season will feature two world premieres \u2013 the opening play \u201cThat\u2019s Amore\u201d by Rose Napoli, and the final play \u201cKama Sutra\u201d by Sarah Quick.\nHeading into its 16th season, Globus Theatre is planning for long-term sustainability, with the hiring of Monique Renaud in a full-time position, supporting the visitor experience and community outreach. With a background as a performer, artist, and arts administrator, she brings her experience as Public Relations Manager at Playwrights Guild of Canada to Globus. Just announced, Globus has been chosen to participate in the Creative Spaces Mentoring Network administered by ArtsBuild Ontario, and will start working with their mentor in February.\nGlobus Theatre has been a member of Kawartha Lakes Arts Council for five years, and is a proud member of the Kawartha Lakes Arts & Heritage Trail.\n\u2190 Heritage HappeningsPenni Holdham, Artist, Designer, Muralist \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kerryfe.ie/index.php/about/kcfe-erasmus-programme/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:45Z", "digest": "sha1:2IJKNOBVWSBYDNK2JLV6G6A2UMH62FCR", "length": 2314, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.kerryfe.ie", "title": "About, Kerry College of Further Education, Tralee, Co. Kerry", "raw_content": "Home > About > KCFE Erasmus+ Programme\nWelcome to the KCFE Erasmus+ Programme\nKerry College of Further Education is delighted to announce its participation in the Erasmus+ programme. The Erasmus+ programme is a European Commission initiative that enables students to complete their work placement abroad, in conjunction with one of our partner universities in Europe. This activity is funded by the European Union\u2019s Erasmus + (KA1) program through the Irish national agency L\u00e9argas.\nThe Erasmus programme is hugely popular because of the academic, social, personal and professional benefits it brings. In addition to providing our students with an opportunity to work in an international environment in a company/organisation compatible with their course of study, it is a significant enhancement to any student\u2019s CV and furthermore allows students improve their communication, language and intercultural skills.\nErasmus and Employment\nThe Erasmus Experience will give you many new transferable skills for future employment and for future studies\u2026\nYou will gain different insights and outlooks on life \u2013 employers value awareness\nYou will learn new independence \u2013 employers value independent thinking\nLiving in another European country will give you life skills which cannot be taught and which may take others much longer to acquire - employers value maturity\nWorking in another European country encourages a flexible approach to learning and working - employers value adaptability\nTo apply, you must be a registered student of KCFE. An application form for the Erasmus+ programme can be downloaded using the link below. The application form must be submitted by e-mail to Erasmus@kerryfe.ie. A printed copy must also be signed and submitted to the College Office. The deadline for submission of applications is Friday 10th November 2017. Places on the programme are limited and will be awarded on the basis of applications received and an interview to determine the most suitable applicants. Interviews are expected to be held in November 2017.\nFinancial and Other Support\nIf your application is successful, you will qualify for a grant towards the cost of the programme including, travel, accommodation and living expenses. 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We have enough players to try and replace him. It won't be excuse if we don't win or achieve our aims because Harry is not in the team,\" Pochettino added.\nWhile the South Korean stole the show against the Lions, it was also a big evening for Vincent Janssen, who came on as a substitute to score his first goal from open play since joining from Feyenoord.\nThe Dutch striker has underwhelmed since coming over from the Eredivisie, but this could be his chance to carve out a place in the team in the absence of the striker.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kino.com.au/action/films~search/actor/3402/view/s/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KFISL56TKH6WSFPYS5JPSKBMJSUIELWT", "length": 310, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kino.com.au", "title": "Search | Rent DVDs online - Kino - arthouse, foreign and classic movies", "raw_content": "Amanda Langlet - 1 Titles Found\nPauline At The Beach (Pauline A La Plage)\nThe third film in director Eric Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' series in which Pauline has her fifteen-year-old eyes opened to the duplicity, hypocrisy and plain silliness of adult sexual politics. French language with subtitles. More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kino.com.au/action/films~search/actor/5943/view/s/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:41Z", "digest": "sha1:WDXF3GKDIZWTCST7FDY4T3SAFNOHSIVW", "length": 338, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kino.com.au", "title": "Search | Rent DVDs online - Kino - arthouse, foreign and classic movies", "raw_content": "Laura De Marchi - 1 Titles Found\nA haunting, enigmatic film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, his first made outside of the Soviet Union. It is a portrait of a misanthropic poet, Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky): an expatriate in Italy who is researching the life of an exiled Russian composer who committed suicide. Gorchakov finds himself... More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 101.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.laceywolfe.com/blog/archives/02-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RJRV3QHOIEGWUMN3Q3KPVVEYDZ3K6CNF", "length": 1071, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.laceywolfe.com", "title": "Blog Archives", "raw_content": "Cleaning Up Love is available now!\nMy sweet romance Cleaning Up Love is available now! I'm really excited to share this novella with you. I think it's a very sweet and sexy story. Yes, it's sexy even though it's a sweet one with closed door intimate scenes. That doesn't mean we don't know how much my hero and heroine desire the other one.\nPenny Watson has run away from her past, hoping to never return to it again. She spends her days being the housekeeper to celebrity Brock Foxx. Things change when photos are snapped by the paparazzi when he treats her to a friendly dinner.\nBrock Foxx has been acting for as long as he can remember, but with a nasty scandal in the headlines, he isn\u2019t sure what\u2019s left of his career. After one photo is taken of him and his gorgeous housekeeper Penny looking smitten with one another, a new web of lies starts. Only these lies he wants to become the truth.\nBefore long, Penny is swept up in the spotlight as Brock Foxx\u2019s latest fling. While she should be loving it, she\u2019s also worried that the men she\u2019s running from will find her.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.laceywolfe.com/blog/whats-going-on-in-my-book-world", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YF2KWI7NCGIDIJGOV2X4DFYVQ565TTYT", "length": 2060, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.laceywolfe.com", "title": "What's going on in my book world?", "raw_content": "What's going on in my book world?\nDidn't I promise to blog more in the new year? I've come to realize I'm not always good at keeping some promises. I do the best I can, and I've learned to just accept that about myself. Anyway, it's been awhile since I've had a release--at least in the eBook world. November was my last release and that was The Temp 3. I had a busy fall with all 3 Temps releasing, Second Chance Holiday, Counting Cowboys, and Ticket To Love. However, the press Ticket To Love was with closed down. :( However, it has found a new home and will be back on the market very soon.\nSo what's coming up in releases? Take A Chance, Cowboy is coming out March 16th, 2015. I can't wait for this one to release (\ufeffand it will be 99cents for the first 2 weeks\ufeff). I'm working hard on the next book in the series too--Virgin, Cowboy. That's an exciting title name, huh? And yes, my hero is a virgin! He's been a lot of fun to write.\nI have a short story that will be in a psychic anthology. It's titled Psychic Set-Up. By the time I finished writing the short story, I could finally spell psychic. LOL - you should've seen the red lines of misspelled words in that one before I turned it into my editor. I will keep you up to date when I know that one is releasing.\nWhat else is in store for 2015? I have NO IDEA. I don't have this year planned very well yet. I hope to have Virgin Cowboy in to my editor/publisher by March and hopefully I will get a summer release. I have been working on Unmistakable - book 2 in the Gentlemans Club. I put it aside AGAIN. I've been putting this book aside over and over for more than year. One of these days I will finish it. You, my dear reader, will meet the biggest asshole who will redeem himself, but it's a looooooooooog road.\nI have a story I want to write too that I will be trying to find an agent with. Something I thought I would never do with where publishing is, but I think it's time I step up my career.\nThat's about it. Just hanging in there, writing when I can, and taking this writing thing day by day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 3975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lavocedinewyork.com/en/2015/03/05/russians-in-the-mediterranean-sea-and-her-majestys-ambassador-at-the-north-pole/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:50Z", "digest": "sha1:DMGM2ISMH4K2JYCXDUHR56ES7VIJXFS3", "length": 3800, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.lavocedinewyork.com", "title": "Russians in the Mediterranean Sea and Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador at the North Pole \u2013 La Voce di New York", "raw_content": "Russians in the Mediterranean Sea and Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador at the North Pole\nIntroducing a column by James Hansen, former diplomat in the US Foreign Service, and later newspaper correspondent from Italy. Here, he reports about Moscow's soon to come true imperial dreams in the Mediterranean Sea, and the appointment of a British ambassador to the North Pole. (Leggi in italiano)\nThe Russian Mediterranean \u2014 The perennial Russian effort to obtain a direct outlet to a \u201cwarm sea\u201d\u2014that is, ice-free in winter\u2014is one of the best known cliches of geopolitics and the source of two centuries of armed grumbling with the other ex-Empire, that of Britain. Whether a Czar, a First Secretary of the Communist Party or Vladimir Putin governs the country, the imperative is always the same.\nThat imperial dream is now one step closer. Russia and Cyprus (the Greek half) have reached an agreement that calls for the establishment on the island of military bases to supply and maintain Russian war ships operating in the Mediterranean. It was a bargain: Russia will delay for five year the repayment of a \u20ac2.5 billion debt that the Greek Cypriot Government can\u2019t cover at the moment in any case.\nA state-sponsored Russian news organization, Sputnik News, has perhaps given the clearest interpretation of all this by titling \u201cRussia signs military agreement with EU member state\u201d\u2014because Cyprus is in fact a full member of the European Union. The official Voice of Russia took a more warlike tone: \u201cRussia pushes back against Nato in the Mediterranean.\u201d\nBrussels instead preferred to listen to the tamer version offered by the Cypriot Foreign Minister, Ioannis Kasoulides, who admitted that, well, yes, the agreement did call for supplying parts and the maintenance of weapons systems\u2014but that, rather than speak of \u201cbases\u201d, it would better to term these \u201ccenters of a humanitarian nature, intended to shelter eventual Russian refugees in the event of war.\u201d\nThe military effects are limited. The Navy is by far the weakest of the Russian armed forces. The move will though irritate the British, who have two bases of their own on the island within a handful of miles. Nor will the Turks be amused\u2014and half of Cyprus is Turkish. Historical enemies of Russia, they will not be pleased to find new and potentially hostile military installations just 40 miles off their southern coast.\nThe agreement will though allow the world\u2019s most embarrassing aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, to operate more comfortably in the calm waters of the Eastern Mediterranean. The ship\u2014launched in 1985 and the only Russian carrier\u2014has been deployed only four times in the last thirty years because of its unfortunate tendency to, well, break down. It never leaves port without the company to two tugs able to haul it home if the need arises. There are also interesting problems with the water distribution aboard\u2014to the point where the ship\u2019s 1,900 crew members must share just 25 restrooms \u2013 \u201cheads\u201d in sailor talk.\nAmbassador to the Eternal Ice \u2014 Diplomats who disappoint their superiors have always risked seeing their careers \u201cput in the freezer\u201d or assignment to particularly unpleasant destinations. Now they may have the possibility of undergoing both punishments simultaneously. Britain\u2019s House of Lords has invited the country\u2019s Foreign Office to create the new role of Her Majesty\u2019s Ambassador to the North Pole.\nThe Arctic has no government to which an embassy can be accredited and it is not clear where the new mission will be based. Britain\u2019s diplomats however are not the only ones keeping an eye on the polar ice cap, which it is widely believed may offer interesting possibilities for economic exploitation. France, Japan, Poland and Singapore have all already named their own ambassadors to the Eternal Ice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 7210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.law-culture.com/wedding-cake-law-religious-liberty-vs-lgbt-rights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VPE3NDUWZRY53UQLAXGZTTTK45LKX7H2", "length": 5335, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.law-culture.com", "title": "Wedding Cake Law \u2013 Religious Liberty vs LGBT Rights \u2013 Law & Culture Today", "raw_content": "Same-sex marriage is not as unusual today as it had been many years ago. However, despite more places and people accepting the union, there are still instances when other beliefs may clash with the idea. For example, in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a bakery denied Charlie Craig and David Mullins their wedding cake. The following post examines public accommodations regulations and the LGBT community.\nIn 2012, Charlie Craig and David Mullins were scouting for their wedding cake. They walked into Masterpiece Cakeshop to order one but the proprietor, Jack Phillips, declined to make them a wedding cake. According to Phillips, he could sell the couple some cookies or a birthday cake, but he could not provide \u201ccakes for same-sex weddings\u201d because of their policy. Phillips was described as a Christian who works to honor \u201cGod in all aspects of his life.\u201d More importantly, he also considers same-sex or gay marriage as \u201csacrilegious.\u201d That is why he doesn\u2019t want \u201cto express through his art an idea about marriage that conflicts with his religious beliefs.\u201d\nIn many parts of the United States, the situation may have just ended when the couple left the shop. However, for Colorado and several other states, they have public accommodations laws. These regulations ban businesses or proprietors from refusing service to individuals by identity markers like sexual orientation.\nWhen the couple raised a complaint to the state\u2019s civil rights agency, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop got an ultimatum. He had to make wedding cakes both for straight and gay couples alike or stop offering the cakes entirely. The owner hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit. According to Phillips, his First Amendment rights were violated because he declined to \u201cdesign custom cakes that celebrate any form of marriage other than between a husband and a wife.\u201d\nInitially, Phillips\u2019s claim on free-speech may have had the upper hand. In recent years, the Supreme Court has recognized the demands of people about violating their freedom of expression. Nonetheless, Phillips realized that his religious stance might be the weaker argument, so he devoted only three pages out of 26 pages of his claim to the issue.\nHowever, Douglas Laycock of the University of Virginia, one of the foremost legal scholars of religious liberty in the United States, filed a brief arguing for the right to take a religious position. The brief supported the claim of Phillips about religious freedom.\nAccording to Laycock\u2019s brief, religious liberty can be considered as a God-given right. However, it is difficult to enact laws protecting both religious people and gays and lesbians because of a polarized political environment. Laycock argues that no one should be left out because the country\u2019s constitution \u201cpromises liberty to all within its reach.\u201d\nWith that said, there is now the argument that what when Phillips refused to sell the wedding cake to Craig and Mullins, it shouldn\u2019t be considered as denying service to same-sex couples. Technically, the baker is still willing to sell his products to men. He also customizes cakes for many occasions. When he refused to sell the cake to the gay couple, he was only supposedly asserting his \u201cright to act on conscious in a religious context\u2014in connection with a wedding.\u201d The key is here that Phillips upholds weddings as religious.\nIf we examine Colorado\u2019s public accommodations law, it says that the person should assist in celebrating the wedding. However, the baker\u2019s belief about marriages should be weighed appropriately. It is accepted jurisprudence for the Supreme Court to trust plaintiffs when they claim their religious beliefs are threatened. More importantly, the justices have little interest over second-guessing the view of people.\nHowever, it\u2019s important to differentiate between a person claiming that his religious beliefs are threatened and another person defining the undertaking of another individual as \u201cinherently religious,\u201d especially if the third party claims that it is a different interpretation of that religious belief. The brief from Laycock enables any business owner in the United States to influence the endeavors of their customers according to specific religious filters. They can also refuse service to people if he or she finds their ways against their beliefs. This can create many problems since businesses and owners have different natures, cultural backgrounds, and religious standpoints. Anyone can refuse to offer their services or products to just about anyone if they find they don\u2019t adhere to their perspectives.\nThere is also a problem in Laylock\u2019s attempt to interpret Colorado\u2019s public accommodations law as \u201cnot applicable\u201d to everyone. While Laycock seeks to overturn views on religious grounds, a few things can affect this. The public accommodations law in Colorado tries to provide for those traditionally burdened segments of the market like lesbians and gays, and it means to protect those people against discrimination. The rules don\u2019t target religious believers. However, as religion and sexual orientation continue to be discussed, interpretations of laws about them can still be difficult to settle.\nPrevious Article Five Issues That Can Rock Law Enforcement in 2019\nNext Article 8 Challenges of Picking a Lawyer as a Career", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 6192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lbma.org.uk/the-london-bullion-market", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:57Z", "digest": "sha1:U2UF47S45CMHDAMKXTT2WHENBFXA63KW", "length": 4342, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.lbma.org.uk", "title": "LBMA - Bullion Market", "raw_content": "The global OTC market for precious metals is characterised by bilateral trades allowing for transactions that can precisely meet a client\u2019s requirements.\nLBMA is at the heart of the 24 hour a day global OTC precious metals market. Transactions are bespoke to meet a client\u2019s needs.\nJon Spall:\nInternationally, precious metals are traded on a 24-hour basis. Either for immediate delivery, known as spot, or for a date in the future. LBMA accredited refiners annually refine approximately 5,000 tonnes of gold and more than 30,000 tonnes of silver.\nGood Delivery Bars of gold and silver are traded globally in what is referred to as Over The Counter or OTC market. Approximately 25 billion dollars worth of gold is settled each day in the global OTC market, with London at its centre.\nThis means all transactions are conducted between two parties without the need for an exchange.\nAn OTC market offers flexibility, in that two parties can negotiate bespoke transactions that precisely meet the needs of the customer. For example, in terms of price, amounts to be bought or sold, and time to maturity.\nIt maintains confidentiality and means that all risks, including those of credit, exist only between the two counterparts.\nTypical market clients include miners, central banks, governments, fabricators, investors, hedge funds and refiners.\nLBMA plays a pivotal role in the 5 main elements that allow the smooth functioning of the global OTC market.\nThere are five main elements to the market.\nAll OTC bullion transactions are settled and cleared by London Precious Metals Clearing Limited.\nLBMA maintains the Good Delivery Lists for gold and silver. Only bars produced by refiners on these Lists can be traded in the OTC market, which means they have to measure up to the most stringent standards of quality and responsible sourcing.\nThere are a number of vaults in the London area operated by eight companies, including the Bank of England, which physically hold either gold or silver bars or both.\nThe vaults act as gatekeepers to the market; ensuring that the bars traded, stored and owned satisfy our Rules.\nLondon is home to one of the world\u2019s largest physical holdings of gold and silver.\nLBMA Market Making Members quote two-way prices for precious metal products throughout the trading day. Benchmark prices are established at set times during the day via an auction process. LBMA gold and silver price auctions are independently operated and administered by ICE Benchmark Administration. And those for platinum and palladium by the London Metal Exchange.\nThese auctions determine prices, which are internationally recognised as benchmark prices and are used around the world as the basis for settlement of a variety of precious metal transactions.\nMost OTC transactions settle via unallocated accounts. The customer does not own specific bars, but has a contractual claim against the clearer. With allocated accounts, the customer owns specific bars.\nGovernance of the OTC market is maintained through the Global Precious Metals Code, which covers market conduct, and the Good Delivery Lists.\nLBMA is at the very heart of this global market, providing standards, promoting transparency, instilling confidence, and thus maintaining integrity for all.\nThe world\u2019s trade in bullion is based in London with a global membership and client base. The first gold rush of 1697 brought gold from Brazil into London, with the subsequent setting up of a purpose built vault by the Bank of England. Further gold rushes followed in California, Australia and South Africa which added to the stocks of gold in London.\nRefineries were set up to process this gold and were typically located close to the Bank of England. In 1750 the Bank of England set up the London Good Delivery List for gold, which formally recognised those refineries who produced gold bars to the required standard. Today, the LBMA own and manage the Good Delivery Lists for both gold (and silver).\nLBMA Members must attest adherence to the Code by 1 June 2018.\nFive LBMA members offer clearing services across an electronic system.\nCustodian services in London offering quality assurance and confidentiality.\nInteractive photographic timeline of the London bullion market from inception onwards.\nIncluding definitions, standard documentation and value dates for the current year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leaderherald.com/wire/?category=5144&ID=74057", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FOOGEJP3KDDHX2XBKHLQXCIDQKAXHQ5W", "length": 5319, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.leaderherald.com", "title": "Family finds way forward after QB Tyler Hilinski's suicide | News, Sports, Jobs - Leader Herald", "raw_content": "Family finds way forward after QB Tyler Hilinski's suicide\nMark and Kym Hilinski pose for a picture at their home Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Irvine, Calif. The parents of Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski, who killed himself in Pullman, Wash., in January, have become advocates for greater awareness of mental health issues among student-athletes and are channeling their energy into Hilinski's Hope, a foundation created to bring resources to bear on the issues. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)\nPULLMAN, Wash. (AP) \u2014 Mark and Kym Hilinski keenly remember the swirl of activity.\nRushing to Pullman after learning their son, Tyler, had taken his life. Planning memorial services both on the Washington State campus and back home in Southern California. Dealing with authorities as they tried to determine why 21-year-old Tyler was gone.\nThe Hilinskis could have been overwhelmed by the grief and sadness. Then the letters and boxes began arriving at their home, sent by Cougars players, fans and others, saying how much they had been touched by Tyler\u2019s story.\n\u201cNo one let us fall in this hole and disappear,\u201d Mark Hilinski said. \u201cIt\u2019s not possible to overstate how great the Cougar family was at that time, and continues to be.\u201d\nTyler Hilinski was expected to be the Cougars\u2019 starting quarterback this year, and his Jan. 16 death will hang over the program throughout the upcoming season. No matter the wins or losses, the questions of \u201cwhat if\u201d and \u201cwhy\u201d will follow the team.\nThe Hilinskis are trying to move the conversation forward. They want it to be less about what happened \u2014 for which they are still seeking answers \u2014 and more about how such tragedies can be prevented in the future. They have become advocates for greater awareness of mental health issues among student-athletes and are channeling their energy into Hilinski\u2019s Hope, a foundation created to bring resources to bear on the issues. Since the foundation was announced, donations have poured in from around the country and overseas, Kym Hilinski said.\n\u201cWe wanted to focus on how we keep Tyler\u2019s name and memory alive and how to do good things in his name,\u201d she told The Associated Press in a phone interview. \u201cWe\u2019re going to raise awareness and erase the stigma with mental health and illness and suicide.\u201d\nThat doesn\u2019t mean the season won\u2019t be hard for the couple. This was the year their son was going to take over as the leader at Washington State. Tyler would have been a junior this season and was the expected successor to Luke Falk, now with the NFL\u2019s Tennessee Titans.\nHe had shown flashes of brilliance in backing up Falk, leading the Cougars to a come-from-behind victory over Boise State last year. The image of Hilinski being carried off the field after the overtime victory is etched in the memories of Washington State fans. The future seemed to hold more of the same.\nThen came Jan. 16. The quarterback was last seen alive that morning when he dropped a teammate off on campus for class. Pullman Police said Hilinski shot himself in the head with a .223-caliber rifle that he took from a teammate without the teammate\u2019s knowledge. Police did not release the suicide note found in Hilinski\u2019s apartment with his body, saying state law restricts its release only to family members.\n\u201cWe kept telling ourselves it was impossible,\u201d Kym said. \u201cTyler was perfect: funny, happy, sweet, kind. He had a wonderful life ahead of him.\u201d\nHis father said Tyler \u201cdidn\u2019t leave bread crumbs or a trail. It\u2019s impossible to stop something you don\u2019t know is happening.\u201d\nAn autopsy revealed Tyler Hilinski suffered from Stage 1 chronic traumatic encephalopathy, the earliest stage of the disease that has been linked to the repeated head trauma common in football and other contact sports. The disease, which can only be diagnosed in an autopsy, is known to cause violent moods, depression, dementia and other cognitive difficulties.\nThe Hilinskis said they don\u2019t know what part CTE might have played in Tyler\u2019s suicide.\n\u201cWe think it\u2019s a piece,\u201d Kym said.\nGoing forward, football will remain a part of the family\u2019s life. The Hilinskis\u2019 two other sons are also quarterbacks. Oldest son Kelly, 23, played for Weber State and has exhausted his eligibility. Younger son Ryan, 17, is a senior at Orange Lutheran High School who has committed to play at South Carolina next year.\n\u201cOur son (Ryan) wanted to continue to play,\u201d Mark said. \u201cYou don\u2019t rip that out on the chance he comes down with CTE.\u201d\nMark called it a \u201ccalculated family risk,\u201d adding that the threat of a head injury would exist if his son played other sports, like soccer, hockey or lacrosse.\nMark, Kym and their sons also plan to attend Washington State\u2019s home opener on Sept. 8 against San Jose State. The team will wear decals with Tyler\u2019s No. 3 on their helmets throughout the season. A Hilinski\u2019s Hope flag will also be displayed inside the stadium.\n\u201cSmiling in that place is how I remember him,\u201d Mark said. \u201cWe want to be there and do our best to show we support the Cougs and our son. This is a celebration.\u201d\nThe Hilinskis said they will continue to share the story of Tyler\u2019s suicide as a way to convince sports programs to commit more resources to mental health issues.\nTalking helps, Kym said.\n\u201cThere is a need out there,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople are drawn to our family. We share our pain.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 7090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leathercelebrities.com/photos/entry/nelly-furtado-live-stage-show-at-northern-alberta-jubilee-auditorium/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:56Z", "digest": "sha1:U6GVXNI4O2SJTSTQO5WYXED25ZGQX77K", "length": 404, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.leathercelebrities.com", "title": "Nelly Furtado live Stage Show at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium - Leather Celebrities", "raw_content": "Nelly Furtado live Stage Show at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium\nPosted on Jan 21, 2013. In this album: nelly furtado\nNelly Furtado live Stage Show at Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton on 15 January 2013. Canadian singer Nelly Furtado live in concert at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton.\nCheck out photos below or see all posts tagged with nelly furtado leather pants", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.leedsnorthdakota.com/library.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:49Z", "digest": "sha1:L5PF22UW7LMVIWLCRSP7WRRM6SHEJDL6", "length": 554, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.leedsnorthdakota.com", "title": "Library - Official Website for the City of Leeds, ND", "raw_content": "The Leeds City Library is located at 221 Main St W in city hall. The library features many volumes of books and video as well as two computers with internet access. Diane Hoffmann is the librarian and the hours are as follows:\nAccess to the library is also provided during regular city hall hours, which are currently\n8:30am-4:30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.\nCommunity organizations may check out a projector and screen from the city auditor anytime.\nThese items were received from the completion of the Horizons program and designated for community use.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 175.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lehighvalleythunderbirdclub.com/pioneering-a-new-concept/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PULLC2BFIBBOZKPTRZVUQTMATYWXUXFS", "length": 4053, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.lehighvalleythunderbirdclub.com", "title": "Pioneering a New Concept | Lehigh Valley Thunderbird Club", "raw_content": "In 1958, the new four-seat Thunderbird, introduced this year, pioneered a totally new concept \u2013 the personal luxury car. Although it would take a few years, it would be widely imitated. Seen in this light and in view of its remarkable success in an otherwise bad sales year, the Thunderbird\u2019s transformation from two-seater to four-seater seems perfectly logical. Of course, at the time, nobody was certain that the four-seat concept would \u201cplay in Peoria.\u201d\nThe most innovative aspect of the 1958 Thunderbird was its unit body \u2013 a fresh idea for Ford. Inspired by aircraft design practice, unit construction does away with a separate steel body attached to a frame with flexible mounts. Instead, it is a combined structure designed to be strong yet light, and able to absorb stresses evenly. Also known as the monocoque principle, it tends to result in a tight, rattle-free automobile that weighs less. Styling work actually began during 1955. A \u201cformal\u201d roofline with wide rear-quarter pillars was adopted for its distinctive appearance and to keep decklid height down for the ultra-low stance the sales department was demanding, a convertible body type in question until very late in the game. It wasn\u2019t actually approved until May 1957, and didn\u2019t appear in dealer showrooms until June 1958. As a result, only 2,134 convertibles were built for the 1958 model year. Once production hit its stride, however, softtops were turned out in decent numbers: 10,261 for 1959 and 11,860 for 1960. But this was only a small fraction of hardtop volume, which reached 57,195 units for 1959 and 76,447 for 1960. Also for 1960, a third model with a gold-colored padded vinyl top and special trim was offered at about $4,000 base, and scored another 2,536 in sales.\nThe convertible\u2019s top mechanism was a complicated affair. The driver first unlocked the rear-hinged decklid by means of a remote control button, then unhooked two windshield header clamps, manually raised the decklid and, lastly, pushed another button to activate the folding mechanism. Late in the \u201959 model run the device became fully automatic via a single dashboard pushbutton. The 1958 Thunderbird was such a success that Ford had to go into heavy overtime to keep up with the demand.\nThe 1959 Thunderbird was refined, with minor trim changes, a new engine option, and a redesigned rear suspension. The new engine was the big-block 430cid Lincoln V-8, rated at 350bhp. However, the T-Bird\u2019s standard engine continued to be the 300-bhp 652.\nSome minor mechanical modifications were a new auxiliary coolant tank and radiator fan, and a relocated windshield washer system. Externally, the 1959 Thunderbird could be distinguished by its thin horizontal bar theme on grille and taillight appliques (the \u201958 model had a honeycomb pattern), plus front fender ornaments, pointed chrome moldings on the door bullets instead of the previous hash marks, relocated name script, and revised wheel covers. As for the interior, white replaced black on the instrument dials and interior; and on the exterior, colors and combinations were shifted. Prices were up about $50 for both the hardtop and convertible models, and production moved up as well with a total model year output of close to 67,500, almost double that of 1958.\n1960 The four-seat Thunderbird was regarded as more of a luxury car than a performance car, but don\u2019t think that it wasn\u2019t quick. There were probably many other cars that would outperform the four-seater, but somehow the T-Bird has never been measured by these standards. It is a car apart and, like royalty, the Thunderbird is different and that is all it has ever had to be.\nThe popularity of the Thunderbird reached a new high, nearly 91,000 of the 1960 models finding homes. It was a record that would not be broken until 1964. A unique variation this year was a special high-trim model with a gold-colored vinyl top, of which about 2,500 were produced. Most T-Birds this year carried the standard 352-cid Ford V-8, with only about 3,900 equipped with the big block Lincoln mill.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lewistownsentinel.com/sports/penn-state/2013/12/championship-a-big-ten-battle-when-psu-wisconsin-challenge-for-title/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FZPE3RDXCVFN62J4QEAUHIOFK4HKFCAC", "length": 4116, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.lewistownsentinel.com", "title": "Championship a Big Ten battle when PSU, Wisconsin challenge for title | News, Sports, Jobs - The Sentinel", "raw_content": "Championship a Big Ten battle when PSU, Wisconsin challenge for title\nSEATTLE (AP) \u2013 Whatever the result in the final, it has already been a special postseason run for 12th-seeded Wisconsin.\nThe Badgers are the lowest seed to make the NCAA volleyball championship match after upsetting No. 1 defending national champion Texas in the semifinals. Wisconsin (28-9) is proving that even a team without overwhelming size up front can still have success in the NCAAs.\nBut the Badgers made it clear Friday they\u2019re not just satisfied with what they have accomplished heading into Saturday\u2019s final against No. 2 Penn State. They don\u2019t want to be remembered as the plucky team that got hot in the tournament only to fall short in the championship match.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re satisfied at all. I think a lot of people think they\u2019ve been satisfied for a while now and I think the depth of their hunger is surprising some people,\u201d Wisconsin coach Kelly Sheffield said. \u201cWe got in today and they seemed like the same group they\u2019ve been the past few weeks. They know the opportunity, we all know the opportunity that\u2019s in front of us. We\u2019re not shying away from that. We\u2019re not pretending that\u2019s not there but this is a group that\u2019s relaxed, that\u2019s confident, that\u2019s hungry. That can be a potent mixture.\u201d\nFor the Badgers to cap their run it means solving Penn State (33-2) and a long history of dominance the Nittany Lions have over their conference foes and on the NCAA stage. today will be the ninth time Penn State has played for a national title, winning five previous championships. The Nittany Lions have won 19 of their past 21 matches against Wisconsin, including a pair of 3-0 wins over the Badgers in Big Ten play this season.\n\u201cWisconsin always plays hard. They may be a little bit smaller than some other teams, but they sure play hard with a lot of heart,\u201d Penn State\u2019s Dominque Gonzalez said. \u201cYou could see it yesterday out on the floor. They didn\u2019t care they were undersized at all. They wanted to win and they fought for it. I think that\u2019s notable in our eyes, and we\u2019re going to have to go strong and compete tomorrow.\u201d\nThe Nittany Lions are coming off one of the most overwhelming performances of the season, never letting hometown Washington into the match in a 3-0 sweep in the semifinals. It was their 24th-straight victory, having not lost since Sept. 27 against Michigan State.\nGetting to this stage of the tournament is commonplace for the Nittany Lions under coach Russ Rose. This will be the fifth time Penn State has played for the national title since 2007, including a run of four straight championships from 2007-10. The Nittany Lions have one of the more dynamic front lines in the country, led by Deja McClendon and Ariel Scott and a multi-talented setter in Micha Hancock, who controlled the match against Washington with her curving, left-handed jump serves just as much as her passing at the net.\n\u201cWe had all the tools to be successful,\u201d Rose said. \u201cBut you never know how players are going to develop. You never know how just the wear and tear of a season can take kids down.\u201d\nWhat Wisconsin will have to overcome is its lack of height at the net compared to Penn State. The Badgers were able to fluster Texas in the semifinals because the back row defense continued to keep plays alive. Wisconsin had 73 digs in the match and that allowed the Badgers\u2019 undersized hitters extra chances to score.\nThe Badgers are familiar with the kind of defense they\u2019ll need to pose the same frustrating for the Nittany Lions. It\u2019s one of the benefits of facing a conference opponent.\n\u201cI think against any opponent we go into the mentality of being the best defensive team to step on the court,\u201d Wisconsin\u2019s Taylor Morey said. \u201cSo it\u2019s a special part of our game and the Badger team, along with not only just us two, but the whole team. We take pride in that part and we take pride in the fact we show every ball, trying to keep it off the floor, whether that\u2019s a dig, whether that\u2019s a pursuit ball, whether it\u2019s a cover ball. It\u2019s just important that we take pride in our court and the ball not hitting it.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 203.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.liebenfels.com/5-deadliest-military-operations-for-civilians-killed-by-us-and-nato-forces/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LUTSUQXEL6ZDMYDEK2ANXETVGHGNDICG", "length": 1127, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.liebenfels.com", "title": "5 deadliest military operations for civilians killed by US and NATO forces \u2013 Lanz von Liebenfels \u2013 Garden of thoughts", "raw_content": "5 deadliest military operations for civilians killed by US and NATO forces\nThis is the information the mainstream media chooses to either ignore or momentarily cover in-between talking about the Kardashians and some other irrelevant topic, making it seem meaningless.\nWhilst the numbers below show people killed in particular operations, please note that this is the very low end of the scale of confirmed deaths and the total deaths from the full length of these criminal wars is far greater, with millions more displaced and country\u2019s infrastructure completely and utterly destroyed.\nLooking at the numbers, clearly 9/11 was not the greatest terrorist attack (false flag) to take place in modern times, with many more innocent civilians losing their lives to the brute force of the US and NATO war machine, in wars that we now know were based on a combination of lies and false intelligence.\nThe people killed are humans like you or I, with names, with families, with history\u2026they are not \u2018collateral damage\u2019 to be written off on some ledger by a coward in Washington.\nLest we forget the real victims of war, innocent people.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.linde-engineering-png.com/tpi/about_linde_engineering/linde_engineering_locations/linde_engineering_south_africa/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:57Z", "digest": "sha1:JFK7KVSABWMQTLZA4LLOPDMIYUHDHLN3", "length": 1111, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.linde-engineering-png.com", "title": "Linde Engineering South Africa (Pty) Ltd. | Linde Engineering", "raw_content": "Linde Engineering South Africa (Pty) Ltd. Linde Engineering South Africa (Pty) Ltd. delivers a broad portfolio of process plants, plant components and tailored turnkey solutions to customers in the Sub-Saharan region.\nLinde Engineering South Africa (Pty) Ltd. was established in 1984 as a representation and sales office for the Linde Engineering Division.\nCombining world-class technologies with engineering and design excellence, we support the full project lifecycle from feasibility studies right up to delivery. Our wide range of services includes licensing, engineering, procurement, commissioning and start-up for projects of all sizes from single components to complete turnkey plants. Linde Engineering has a long history in Sub-Saharan Africa with more than 40 major reference projects successfully executed over the last 40 years.\nAlpha olefin plants\nRenewable and clean energy projects\nFurnaces, heaters and incinerators\nOur offices are based in Johannesburg, South Africa, and we fully support and comply with the country\u2019s BBBEE directives.\nLinde Engineering Division in South Africa(PDF 963.0 KB)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 6830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.loanjuice.com/most-accepted-payday-loans", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:24Z", "digest": "sha1:H7DNLT7OS6UUUHDSCS6YNG3SXY3JXB5T", "length": 5655, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.loanjuice.com", "title": "Most Accepted Payday Loans | Loans \u00a380 to \u00a31000 Same Day", "raw_content": "Most Accepted Payday Loans\nLoanJuice can help when looking for most accepted loans as you can apply online today to get a decision in minutes, we have a panel of lenders so you are more likely to get accepted than applying direct to just one lender. When reality strikes and it turns out that you just don\u2019t have enough funds to see you through the month, you could be feeling stressed and scared for the future. Instead of that reaction, you could be feeling hope and optimism if you look into most accepted payday loans!\nPayday loans are a short term lending solution designed to help you through a tricky financial time. They are high interest loans which are often borrowed and repaid before the time your next payday rolls around, meaning that you can enjoy the full benefits of a helping hand, without landing yourself in months or years of debt.\nHow to get most accepted payday loans\nThis could hardly be simpler! All you need is an internet connection and you\u2019re away. Just browse through the lists of lenders that will pop up when you type \u201cmost accepted payday loans\u201d into Google, and decide on which lender suits you the most. You should have a good read through their lending terms, and the general Terms and Conditions before you make your decision, to make sure that you have chosen the most suitable lender for your individual circumstances.\nBefore you run off into the sunset excitedly looking for most accepted payday loans, make sure you fit these essential criteria:\n-You must be over 18\n-You must have a UK bank account that can accept electronic transfers\n-You must be a UK resident\n-In many cases, you will have to prove a minimum monthly income, so you are able to afford the repayments\nThat\u2019s about it for the essentials! As long as you can tick all the boxes above, you are free to get yourself a loan from most accepted payday loans.\nReasons for using most accepted payday loans\nThese are as many and varied as there are people in the country. As we are all too aware, there are lots of uncomfortable reasons for needing a financial helping hand. It could be a bill that you have filed \u201cin a safe place\u201d and therefore forgotten about; it could be a sudden, unexpected bill such as a burst boiler or a broken down car; or it could be something as simple as needing a few extra coins to put food on the table. Whatever your reason for needing it, you won\u2019t be judged for your reasons for needing a loan. Unlike taking out a bank loan, you won\u2019t have to specify what you need the money for \u2013 any reason is good enough!\nBenefits of most accepted payday loans\nThere are a great many advantages to payday loans over the more traditional methods such as a bank loan or borrowing from family or friends. Firstly there is the convenience \u2013 it is just so easy to get a payday loan! With an internet connection and a bit of time, you can find the perfect solution to your problem \u2013 without even having to leave the house. You don\u2019t need to take time out to make an appointment with a bank; in fact you don\u2019t need to even talk to anyone!\nAnother great thing about them is the fact that you can get cash into your account very quickly. Once you have filled in the online form when you first apply, you will have a short wait while your credit is checked, then a decision will be returned and if successful, you can have money in your account within half an hour.\nMost accepted payday loans can help your credit rating. Even if you are someone with a poor credit score you can actually improve it by taking out a payday loan \u2013 although this sounds like nonsense, it really is true! By borrowing and repaying money you are proving your responsibility as a borrower and showing that you can repay an agreed sum of money within a certain timescale, making you a more attractive prospect for future lenders. Who would have thought that a payday loan could help you get a mortgage down the line?\nThe repayments are a simple process too. You don\u2019t even have to remember to pay; the agreed amount will be taken from your account on the agreed day, making this a very simple and easy way to borrow money.\nRepaying most accepted payday loans\nRepaying these loans on time and in full is vitally important. Because they are such short term lends, they carry high interest rates which can sting you if you are not aware of them. As with all loans, you will end up by repaying more than you borrowed \u2013 but you can make sure you don\u2019t pay back much more than you borrowed, by making ensuring you meet the repayments on the date you agreed when you set up the loan in the first place. If you miss a payment without informing your lender, you will be charged a late payment fee on top of what you already owe, which could see you in a spiral of debt that could take months or even years to get out of, and which can adversely affect your credit rating. If you know that you will not be able to afford a repayment, make sure you get in touch with your lender - they may be able to allow you to pay back less until you are more financially stable, giving you a bit of breathing space.\nMost accepted payday loans for you\nThese loans are available to just about anyone in need of a bit of help. There are so many lenders these days, as this becomes a more and more popular lending option, that you are certain of finding one that suits your needs. Each lender will have different lending terms and requirements, meaning that there will be the perfect lender out there for you, just waiting to give you a helping hand. But don\u2018t just take my word for it \u2013 hop online today and have a look through the lists of most accepted payday loans. You won\u2019t be disappointed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 8900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.louisebarbara.co/blog/reichstag", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:EVLHERKXFGRLY52BW5EBLNHNMS2IR27Z", "length": 497, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.louisebarbara.co", "title": "Reichstag - Louise Barbara", "raw_content": "This place, the heart of German politics, was pretty amazing. We visited it early our first morning, after applying for an invitation back in Amsterdam. In order to visit, you need to apply to the German government for permission. It is totally worth it though. The fog on the windows prevented us from seeing much of the view but the sun rising up behind the glass left that fact out of our minds. Fair warning: this post contains a LOT of photographs. How could I not capture this amazing place?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 2565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lovelandschools.org/protected/ArticleView.aspx?iid=5U30U0&dasi=3IU2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:46Z", "digest": "sha1:F6DUB3ONKUOHCD4JTWHPJ5ZH44FSOHOH", "length": 952, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.lovelandschools.org", "title": "Loveland Schools News Article", "raw_content": "LHS Senior Richard Mendoza honored by College Board and Scholarship America\nCongratulations to Loveland High School Senior Richard Mendoza, who has earned recognition by the National Hispanic Recognition Program (NHRP) for scoring among the top 2.5 percent of Hispanic and Latino PSAT/NMSQT test takers in our region of the country.\nThe NHRP, which is administered by College Board and Scholarship America\u00ae, annually recognizes about 5,000 of the more than 250,000 Hispanic and Latino students who take the PSAT/NMSQT during their junior year. Students who achieve the minimum required Selection Index Score on the test and earn a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or higher by the middle of their junior year are eligible for nomination to the program. Although the NHRP does not directly include any financial awards or scholarships, it identifies academically outstanding Hispanic/Latino students and colleges may offer their own awards based on student status.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lulu.com/shop/robert-holden/mormon-handbook/paperback/product-16541438.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JIAX5RGHNSIAIRCOGHUOWXTRF3FP52UA", "length": 494, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.lulu.com", "title": "Mormon Handbook by Robert Holden (Paperback) - Lulu", "raw_content": "Mormon Handbook\nA reference to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints\nBy arras\nThis has got to be the finest work yet. I could not put this down. I have been studying the church for over 50 years and I left 10 years ago. I thought I knew everything but i was wrong. Gerald\nGeneral Management LLC (Standard Copyright License)\nhttp://www.lulu.com/shop/robert-holden/mormon-handbook/paperback/product-16541438.html\nMormonsim\nMore From Robert Holden\nMormon Handbook By Robert Holden eBook:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 9322, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.madehow.com/Volume-2/Baseball-Bat.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:49Z", "digest": "sha1:A5ZSDEOYMBHMUWQKSQBM32WKKR6R64YC", "length": 9808, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.madehow.com", "title": "How baseball bat is made - material, manufacture, making, history, used, product, Raw Materials", "raw_content": "When the game of baseball was first played, sticks were used to hit the ball. By the time the game had been officially organized as a team sport, the players either whittled their own bats or bought them from a wood turner. League specifications set in 1863 were broad: any type of wood was permissible and the bats had to be round, not more than 2.5 inches (6.5 cm) in the thickest part. There were no length restrictions. Early bats ranged in weight from 48-50 ounces (1361-1417 g) with an average handle circumference of 4.5 inches (11.4 cm). The hefty weight meant home runs were rare. By the 1960s, however, players such as Hank Aaron were using shorter, lighter bats to smash balls into the centerfield seats. Aaron's bat measured 35 inches (89 cm) long and 33 ounces (979 g) in weight.\nModern baseball rules limit bat lengths to 42 inches (107 cm) and the diameter to 2.75 inches (7 cm). There are no weight restrictions. The bats must be made of wood with no metal, cork, or other type of reinforcement inserted into the bat's center. Over the years, several major league players have tried to use a reinforced bat. A particularly colorful controversy surrounded a bat used by Albert Belle of the Cleveland Indians. Belle's bat was confiscated during a game between the Indians and the Chicago White Sox in July of 1994. The bat was stored in the umpires' locker room at Comiskey Park until it could be tested the next day. How-ever, it disappeared overnight. It was returned anonymously the next day and found to have a corked center. In spite of protests, Belle received a temporary suspension. The mystery of the bat's disappearance and reappearance has yet to be revealed.\nHillerich & Sons, a Kentucky wood-turning shop, was the first company to devote a full-time operation to the manufacturing of baseball bats. According to company lore, in 1884, John \"Bud\" Hillerich, the son of the company's founder, was attending a Louisville Eclipse baseball game when a player named Pete \"Old Gladiator\" Browning broke his bat. Bud invited Browning back to the shop where Bud custom-made a new bat from a piece of white ash. During the next day's game, Browning pounded three hits in three at-bats using the new bat. And the rest, as they say, is history. The ensuing requests for custom-made bats from other players helped Bud convince his father to add bat manufacturing to the family business. The company named its new product the \"Louisville Slugg\"er.\" (The company became Hillerich & Bradsby in 1911 when Frank Bradsby, a sporting goods magnate, joined the firm.)\nBaseball players are notoriously particular about their bats, and have been so through-out the sport's history. Frank Frisch, who played in 50 World Series games for the New York Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals, cured his bats during the off-season by hanging them like sausages in a barn. Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams bathed his bats in alcohol to keep them cool during his many hitting streaks. Williams was also known to visit lumberyards looking for pieces of wood with narrow growth rings. The legendary Babe Ruth preferred his bats to have pin knots in the barrels.\nTraditionally, forty- to fifty-year-old ash trees are used to make baseball bats because of their strength, flexibility, and light weight.\nTraditionally, ash trees from Pennsylvania and upstate New York are used to make baseball bats. The ash is valued for its strength, flexibility, and light weight. The best trees are those that grow in dense clusters where they are protected from the wind and forced to grow straight up towards the sunlight. Forty to fifty years of growth is required to bring an ash tree to the preferred trunk diameter of 14-16 inches (36-41 cm). Each tree yields approximately 60 bats.\nWhen a tree has reached the proper height and width, a forester marks it with spray paint. A log cutter then uses a chain saw to bring down the tree. The top branches are removed and left in the forest. The tree trunks are sawed into 10-16-foot (3-5 m) lengths, loaded on a truck, and taken to the mill. At the mill, the logs are inspected for knots and uneven grains. Only half of what is cut in the forest is ultimately used to manufacture baseball bats. The logs that make the grade are rolled to a hydraulic wedge that cuts them into 40-inch (101 cm) splits.\nTurning the splits into billet\n1 A mill worker places each split onto an automatic lathe that shaves the rough edges off as it turns the wood. The billets, as they are now called, are inspected again for straightness of grain. The billets are stacked and strapped together into six-sided bundles. Workers paint the ends with a protective preservative to keep the wood from fraying or rotting. The bundled billets are then trucked to the lumberyard of the bat manufacturer.\nSeasoning the billets\n2 The billets that arrive at the lumberyard are considered \"green\" wood because they still contain sap and gum. In order to strengthen the wood, the sap and gum must be removed by an air-drying process called \"seasoning.\" To achieve the proper seasoning, the billets are simply stacked in the yard for a period of six months to two years.\nThe plant workers who create the final product are called bat turners. They are highly skilled artisans who have been specially trained for the intricate work. When an order is placed, the bat turner selects a billet from the storage bin and creates a replica of the desired model.\nShaping and sanding the billets\n3 When the billets have dried completely, they are weighed and inspected for quality. A worker places each billet on an automatic lathe and shapes it into a rough baseball bat shape with a narrowed neck. The bat forms are sanded, inspected once more, and then sorted according to weight.\nMatching the bat to the model\n4 The bat manufacturer keeps a model of each bat made, typically identified by the baseball player who initially ordered it. When a player or team places an order, the order may look like this: six Johnny Bench models, ten Hank Aarons, four Mickey Mantles.\nThe plant workers who create the final product are called bat turners. They are highly skilled artisans who have been specially trained for the intricate work. When an order is placed, the bat turner selects a billet from the storage bin that fits the called-for weight and length. The billet is placed on a lathe. The model bat is placed on a rack above and behind the lathe.\nThe bat turner revolves the billet slowly on the lathe, sanding and shaving it to an exact replica of the model. Using calipers, the bat turner measures the billet every 1-2 inches (2.54-5 cm) and weighs it repeatedly until it is perfect.\nBranding, staining, and varnishing the bats\n5 The bat is branded with the company trademark and the signature of the player associated with the model. The trademark is placed one-quarter of a turn from the sweet spot (the ideal spot where the ball should strike the bat). If the order calls for staining, the bat is dipped into a staining vat. All of the bats are then varnished, packed into cartons, and shipped to the player or team.\nThe structural integrity of the baseball bats are monitored through repetitive impact testing. Some factories have compressed-air cannons that shoot baseballs at precise points on the bat. High-speed cameras record the impact while accelerometers measure the velocity. In other plants, robotic arms whack the balls off over-sized golf tees. Inspectors collect data on the frequency of bending and how the balls travel off the bat.\nIn spite of manufacturers' assurances that the supply of ash trees is not decreasing, the development of composite and aluminum bats continues. The wood composite bat typically consists of a plastic foam core surrounded by woven layers of resin-impregnated synthetic fibers. One of the newest innovations is a bat made of \"lanxide,\" a ceramic-enforced material. Proponents of non-wood bats point to their resistance to breakage. These bats also greatly alter hitting power: a player's batting average increases markedly with an aluminum bat.\nAlthough the composite and aluminum bats are popular with amateur and college base-ball players, they are required to use all-wood bats if they advance to the major leagues. It is doubtful that Major League Baseball will ever allow anything but pure wood for bats. The sport is steeped in tradition, and the use of aluminum or composite materials would alter the record books dramatically.\nArnow, Jan. Louisville Slugger: The Making of a Baseball Bat. Pantheon Books, 1984.\nAshley, Steven. \"High Tech Up at Bat.\" Popular Science, May 1992, pp. 108-11, 122-24.\nCurreri, Joe. \"Romance of the Bat.\" Antiques and Collecting Hobbies, May 1992, p. 26.\nPesky, Greg. \"Expanded Coverage.\" Sporting News, June 1993, p.32.\n\"Lanxide Shows Mettle with New Material.\" Sporting Goods Business, July 1993, p. 36.\nI am getting ready to cut down and ash tree in Fallbrook California and was wondering if is good enough quality for baseball bats?\nHi. I'm looking for info. on baseball bats made in Cooperstown, pa. My husband's father ue to take him to the shop to watch them get made. I know the shop is gone , but would love to find one for him (bat). If you could help me great. My husband thought the mans name was Deeter. He made Penn Ash bats. My husband said that the bat had a circle in the upper part of the bat \"the sweet spot\", and Penn Ash was in that circle but is all he remember. Please let me know either way if you can help me. Thanks Katie\nIn turning the same identical model bats, I pick out 2 billets of the same weight, turn them, and come up with different finished weights. Any idea why and how to get the weights to be closer to identical? I turn both maple and birch wood bats. Thanks!\nBaseball Bat forum\nBarbed Wire Bathtub", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 10544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mannywaks.com/blog/convicted-paedophile-moshe-keller-in-melbourne", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:QU5U4KMXXVCUMQXAS3RSQTSLVZNP7MIT", "length": 5724, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.mannywaks.com", "title": "Convicted paedophile Moshe Keller in Melbourne - Manny Waks", "raw_content": "Convicted paedophile Moshe Keller in Melbourne\nMoshe Keller\nAn important message from the Yeshivah Centre:\nDear Parents of Yeshivah Beth Rivkah Colleges,\nIt was brought to our attention that an individual, from Brooklyn New York, who was previously charged with child related crimes, is visiting Melbourne and is staying in close proximity to the school campus.\nWe have been in contact with Victoria Police and consulted with the relevant authorities and the individual is completely excluded from any access to the Yeshivah Centre in its entirety, at all times. The individual has agreed to these conditions. We understand he is in Melbourne for a short visit only.\nFollowing our safety procedures and protocols we have alerted our security personnel and CSG to his identity and taken all precautionary measures.\nPlease rest assured that the College prioritises the safety and security of our children at all times.\nWishing you and your families well over the fast and a G\u2019Mar Chasimah Tovah.\nYeshivah \u2013 Beth Rivkah Colleges\nI view this as a positive development. It\u2019s great to see that the Yeshivah Centre seems to have appropriate policies and procedures in place, and the ability/willingness to address this issue.\nBy way of background, over Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) I became aware that, as fate would have it, a convicted paedophile was staying at my parents\u2019 home. Moshe Keller was convicted in New York in relation to one child and there were additional allegations by several other complainants (but no criminal action could be taken against him in those cases due to New York\u2019s statute of limitations laws). While I had heard of the Keller name, I\u2019m only now aware of some of the details.\nAfter years of trying unsuccessfully to sell the house, my parents finally managed to do so \u2013 unknowingly to the daughter of Keller and her large family. At the time of sale they were completely unaware of the link (the Keller daughter has adopted her husband\u2019s family name). The contract has already been finalised and the settlement is due in December. As the family needed a place to stay for a few months, my parents generously offered them to move into the house this week free of charge (over Rosh Hashanah only Moshe Keller and his wife stayed over).\nAt the first opportunity I notified the Yeshivah Interim Committee of Management that Keller was at my parents\u2019 home so that they could deal with the situation immediately after Rosh Hashanah (for those who may not be aware, Orthodox Jews have certain restrictions on the Sabbath such as not using the phone). I was delighted to learn that they were already aware of it. Apparently they were informed of this just before the start of Rosh Hashanah and had already taken appropriate action.\nAlmost simultaneously, my parents notified Keller\u2019s daughter that Keller could no longer remain there. Both he and his wife left the property that night. Subsequently my parents again offered the family their free hospitality \u2013 this time on the condition that Keller isn\u2019t present.\nIt\u2019s important to note that Keller continues to stay at his daughter\u2019s current house, which is among the Yeshivah community (apparently he intends to remain there for the High Holiday period before he returns to New York).\nI\u2019d like to emphasise that I view Keller\u2019s family as his secondary victims (to my knowledge, his family was not complicit in his crimes). They deserve our empathy and support. And of course, Keller\u2019s primary victims deserve at least as much.\nI have been communicating with Yeshivah regarding this matter and am confident in saying that they have taken appropriate action and I have full confidence in them. This is particularly pleasing.\nThere is no need to panic. The sad reality is that there would be many paedophiles within our community (just like within any other community). So we should all utilise this opportunity to educate ourselves and our children regarding child sexual abuse \u2013 both in terms of prevention and intervention. And institutions should take this opportunity to review their policies and procedures to ensure they take into consideration all possible scenarios so that they can adequately address these as they arise.\nThis episode also highlights the need for close global cooperation when addressing this issue. It is not uncommon for perpetrators to move between countries to avoid the consequences of their actions, to continue offending with impunity and/or for some other reason. Indeed, the Malka Leifer extradition process currently underway is just one example. As has already been noted elsewhere, I am currently endeavouring to address some of these issues as a part of my global initiative. Hopefully this will be achieved sooner rather than later.\nUPDATE: Apparently Moshe Keller is departing Australia on Saturday night (19 September 2015).\nLinda Himmelfarb\nDearest Manny, thank you so much for your ongoing care and vigilance. How strange are the workings of fate, as you say. I wish to also congratulate you on the wording of this notification, and your kindness to the family of the perpetrator. His daughter as you say is a secondary victim. The fall out of acts committed by any criminal is a wide circle of pain felt by all that their crime touches. Kindest regards to you and your loved ones, Manny, from our family.\nAppropriate action was not taken in my opinion if he was able to enter the shule over Rosh Hashannah. I would argue that they neglected to take appropriate action. I still understand your predicament and support your effort but I do not feel secure that the school has \"learnt\" much except for how to do better damange control (ie a letter to the parents saying that they are taking proper caution etc.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 7448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marinatheatre.co.uk/production/the-trick/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:21Z", "digest": "sha1:CSQVJHBHU32CPUYTFVGT4RS4DEWGONNC", "length": 731, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.marinatheatre.co.uk", "title": "HighTide and Loose Tongue present The Trick | Marina Theatre", "raw_content": "The Trick is a magic show about getting older.\nMira lost her husband seven months ago, but just because he\u2019s died doesn\u2019t mean either of them are ready to let him go.\nGhosts, comedy, mediums, and all kinds of tricks collide in this new play by Eve Leigh, directed by the award-winning Roy Alexander Weise (Nine Night, The Mountaintop).\nDelightful but moving, with magic tricks to charm audiences throughout, The Trick is a beautiful meditation on ageing and grief. The production will be of interest to older audiences who will have the chance to see complex characters of a similar age to themselves represented on stage, to new audiences for whom magic is a major draw, and to audiences with an interest in drama and new writing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/applied-dna-sciences-announces-third-party-service-signaturer-dna-authentication-marking-otcbb-apdn-1731708.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:38Z", "digest": "sha1:OLCA2NONIHQXWD3STRPOWZQYTL47LF6L", "length": 4413, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.marketwired.com", "title": "Applied DNA Sciences Announces Third-Party Service for SigNature(R) DNA Authentication Marking of Electronics", "raw_content": "Applied DNA Sciences Announces Third-Party Service for SigNature\u00ae DNA Authentication Marking of Electronics\nFast-Track Route to Market and Compliance With DLA Mandate\nSTONY BROOK, NY--(Marketwire - Nov 29, 2012) - Applied DNA Sciences, Inc. (OTCBB: APDN), (Twitter: @APDN), a provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology and product authentication solutions, announced today the availability of a third-party SigNature\u00ae DNA-marking service for electronics.\nThe service will provide a turn-key solution for ramping up SigNature DNA marking at the highest levels of quality and standards compliance. Electronics companies who opt to use the service benefit from a fast-track route to compliance with the requirement to use SigNature DNA marking issued by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), as well as for delivery to commercial buyers.\nSaid Dr. James A. Hayward, CEO and President of Applied DNA Sciences, \"We are listening to our customers and prospective customers, who realize that a shorter time to market for this service has great competitive benefits for them. We are aware that, in the military sphere, important deadlines are approaching.\"\nDLA, in a \"Frequently Asked Questions for DNA Marking,\" issued November 8, stated that it is \"firmly committed to a robust anti-counterfeiting program.\" In addition, DLA Vice-Admiral Mark Harnichek has stated that DNA marking is one of \"four big things\" that DLA is doing currently to mitigate counterfeit risk.\nThe new APDN service offers secure off-site implementation of SigNature DNA marking for companies who have met the qualification requirements for participation in the program. The third-party DNA marking service packages creation of a unique SigNature DNA mark with a quick-startup marking program at ADNAS facilities or at those of a licensee. SMT Corporation, based in Sandy Hook, CT is prepared to fulfill SigNature DNA marking orders immediately.\nThe DLA mandate for use of SigNature DNA was announced on August 7 in a clause in Defense Logistics Acquisition Directive (DLAD) 52.211-9074, and was expanded on November 7 with a provision at DLAD 52.211-9008. This mandate specifically requires SigNature DNA marking for procurements of items falling within Federal Supply Class 5962, Electronic Microcircuits.\nWhile the DLA mandate applies only to procurements made by DLA, APDN's third-party marking service is designed to accommodate all government and commercial enterprises that are interested in the legal, health and safety, and brand protection benefits of the authentication platform. The company pointed out that SigNature DNA has been used and tested on a wide variety of products.\nThis year, new laws and regulations have cast a new national spotlight on anti-counterfeiting technologies like SigNature DNA. A well-known example is in the anti-counterfeiting language in Section 818 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Section 818). A major deadline for Section 818, which imposes strict requirements for control of counterfeits, is due to be reached soon.\nAPDN is a provider of botanical-DNA based security and authentication solutions that can help protect products, brands and intellectual property of companies, governments and consumers from theft, counterfeiting, fraud and diversion. SigNature\u00ae DNA and smartDNA, our principal anti-counterfeiting and product authentication solutions that essentially cannot be copied, provide a forensic chain of evidence and can be used to prosecute perpetrators.\nThe statements made by APDN may be forward-looking in nature. Forward-looking statements describe APDN's future plans, projections, strategies and expectations, and are based on assumptions and involve a number of risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of APDN. Actual results could differ materially from those projected due to our short operating history, limited financial resources, limited market acceptance, market competition and various other factors detailed from time to time in APDN's SEC reports and filings, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed on December 8, 2011 and our subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. APDN undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date hereof to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.\nTwitter: @APDN, @APDNInvestor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 6747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/houston-orthopedic-surgeon-dr-mark-sanders-among-1259-initiated-from-around-world-into-1182465.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:39:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IUCZ56VBUCQTSDBX4AMTV4SHPTG2POJN", "length": 2107, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.marketwired.com", "title": "Houston Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Mark Sanders, Among 1,259 Initiated From Around the World Into American College of Surgeons", "raw_content": "SOURCE: Dr. Mark S. Sanders\nHouston Orthopedic Surgeon, Dr. Mark Sanders, Among 1,259 Initiated From Around the World Into American College of Surgeons\nHOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - January 4, 2010) - Dr. Mark S. Sanders was among 1,259 Initiates from around the world who became Fellows of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) during convocation ceremonies at the College's 95th annual Clinical Congress in Chicago last month.\nDr. Sanders received a medical doctorate degree in 1981 from Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York and is currently in private practice -- opening the Sanders Clinic for Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine in 2004, with offices at the River Oaks Medical Tower in Houston and the North Texas Medical Center in Gainesville.\nDr. Sanders is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, with a subspecialty certificate in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.\nAt the Sanders Clinic, Dr. Sanders treats sports injuries of extreme sports athletes from across the United States and offers the latest treatment for arthritis and other degenerative joint conditions.\nA published author with research reported in peer reviewed journals, Dr. Sanders is a member of the Harris County Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association (TMA), the Texas Orthopaedic Association (TOA), the Texas Society of Sports Medicine, the American Medical Association (AMA), the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the Mid American Orthopaedic Association, and the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery (Board of Councilors).\nBy meeting the College's stringent membership requirements, Fellows of the College have earned the distinguished right to use the designation of \"FACS\" (Fellow, American College of Surgeons).\nTo learn more about Dr. Sanders, log onto www.sandersclinic.net. Or call 713-622-3576 to schedule an appointment.\nMark S. Sanders, M.D.\nhttp://www.sandersclinic.net\nAbout this company Dr. Mark S. Sanders\nDr. Mark S. Sanders\nhttp://www.sandersclinic.net/mrksnders.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 164.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/lorus-therapeutics-announces-publication-on-drug-levels-clearance-rates-anticancer-drug-tsx-lor-897778.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FTXOTRY55NCY5KWMRA33MLABRFZ4JLO3", "length": 6735, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.marketwired.com", "title": "Lorus Therapeutics Announces Publication on Drug Levels and Clearance Rates for Anticancer Drug LOR-2040", "raw_content": "TSX : LOR\nAMEX : LRP\nLorus Therapeutics Announces Publication on Drug Levels and Clearance Rates for Anticancer Drug LOR-2040\nInvestigation by a Clinical Research Team at Ohio State University\nTORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Sept. 9, 2008) - Lorus Therapeutics Inc, (TSX:LOR)(AMEX:LRP) (\"Lorus\"), a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the research and development of pharmaceutical products and technologies for the management of cancer, today announced a scientific publication by a clinical research team at The Ohio State University (OSU) College of Pharmacy entitled \"Enzyme Kinetics of GTI-2040, a Phosphorothioate Oligonucleotide Targeting Ribonucleotide Reductase\" (Drug Metabolism and Disposition 2008, July 24 Epub ahead of print).\nThe primary author, Dr. Xiaohui Wei, presents results on the metabolism and clearance of GTI-2040, now known as LOR-2040. These findings are reported from a clinical research team involved in the clinical trial of LOR-2040 and high dose cytarabine for treatment of refractory and relapsed acute myeloid leukemia under the overall direction of Dr. Guido Marcucci as Principal Investigator and Dr. Kenneth Chan, Co-Director of the PharmacoAnalytic Core Laboratory at the OSU Comprehensive Cancer Center.\nThis investigation identified complex factors including activity of liver microsomes that together predicted the circulating steady state drug levels and clearance rates observed for LOR-2040 in the clinical trial. Previously reported data with LOR-2040 demonstrated significant uptake of drug in bone marrow blasts and downregulation of the R2 cellular target of LOR-2040 that correlated with clinical response.\nThese investigations at OSU were supported by a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant and National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP) sponsorship of the clinical program. Lorus is collaborating in this program with the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI on the development of LOR-2040.\nAbout LOR-2040\nLOR-2040 (formerly GTI-2040) is an RNA-targeted drug that specifically targets the R2 component of ribonucleotide reductase, which is required for DNA synthesis and cell proliferation. Through downregulation of R2, LOR-2040 has demonstrated strong antitumor and antimetastatic activity in a variety of tumor types in both in vivo and in vitro models and is under study in a multiple Phase I/II clinical program, including an advanced Phase II clinical trial with LOR-2040 and high dose Ara-C (HiDAC) in refractory and relapsed Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). The R2 target has been described as a malignant determinant that is elevated in a wide range of tumors, which can cooperate with a variety of cellular cancer causing genes known as oncogenes to enhance tumor growth and metastatic potential.\nAbout Lorus\nLorus is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of novel therapeutics in cancer. Lorus' goal is to capitalize on its research, preclinical, clinical and regulatory expertise by developing new drug candidates that can be used, either alone, or in combination with other drugs, to successfully manage cancer. Through its own discovery efforts and an acquisition and in-licensing program, Lorus is building a portfolio of promising anticancer drugs. Lorus Therapeutics Inc. is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol LOR, and on the American Stock Exchange under the symbol LRP.\nThis press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Canadian and U.S. securities laws. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements relating to: our research program plans, our plans to conduct clinical trials, the successful and timely completion of clinical studies and the regulatory approval process, our ability to fund future research, our plans to obtain partners to assist in the further development of our product candidates, the establishment of corporate alliances, the Company's plans, objectives, expectations and intentions and other statements including words such as \"continue\", \"believe\", \"plan\", \"expect\", \"intend\", \"will\", \"should\", \"may\", and other similar expressions. Such statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are subject to risks and uncertainties and are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by us are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties and contingencies. Many factors could cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements that may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including, among others: our ability to obtain the capital required for research and operations, the inherent risks in early stage drug development including demonstrating efficacy, development time/cost and the regulatory approval process; the progress of our clinical trials; our ability to find and enter into agreements with potential partners; our ability to attract and retain key personnel; changing market conditions; and other risks detailed from time-to-time in our ongoing quarterly filings, annual information forms, annual reports and annual filings with Canadian securities regulators and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.\nShould one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should the assumptions set out in the section entitled \"Risk Factors\" in our Annual Information Form underlying those forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and we do not intend, and do not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law. We cannot assure you that such statements will prove to be accurate as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Investors are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and accordingly investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein.\nLorus Therapeutics Inc.'s recent press releases are available through the Company's website at www.lorusthera.com. For Lorus' regulatory filings on SEDAR, please go to www.Sedar.com. For SEDAR filings prior to July 10, 2007 you will find these under the company profile for Global Summit Real Estate Inc. (Old Lorus).\nDr. Saeid Babaei\nEmail: ir@lorusthera.com\nWebsite: www.lorusthera.com\nAbout this company LORUS THERAPEUTICS INC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 8598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marriagewatch.org/changing-change-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:46Z", "digest": "sha1:I4FXRUU6A44F46BGKUTQNUZQYFPHOJCG", "length": 11463, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.marriagewatch.org", "title": "How Changing Your Looks Can Change Your Life | marriage watch", "raw_content": "While many people focus their goals on making money, gaining material items, and amassing wealth, we should all have one goal above all others: to live a happy, healthy life. After all, nobody knows what happens to us once we move on from this world. We were put on this planet to enjoy life and to live well, not to become rich!\nMany people focus on changing their appearance, aiming for the ultimate goal of perfection. While bettering yourself is perfectly healthy, aiming for perfection is not. Nothing on this planet is perfect, and nothing ever will be. If you strive for perfection, you will never achieve it, and you will lead an unhappy, unpleasant life. If you are happy with what you have, and work slowly towards bettering yourself, you will be happy and live well.\nUnfortunately, our modern society places a lot of importance on our physical appearance \u2013 often more so than on our actions. Since so much depends on physical appearance, changing your appearance for the better can have a huge effect on your whole life. While it probably shouldn\u2019t be that way, that\u2019s the way it is, and the only thing we can do about it is comply with society\u2019s demands, and live a good life. This article will go into detail concerning how changing your looks can change your life.\nResearch has found that certain countries place more value on people\u2019s appearances than others. First-world countries like the United States, Canada, and the UK place a very hefty value on physical appearances, while other countries do not value it as highly. Of course other factors such as personality and intelligence come into play all throughout the world, but certain countries seem to care more about looks than anything else.\nPerhaps the biggest gift that a better physical appearance can give you is better confidence. Confidence comes into play in almost every situation in life. When meeting new people, confidence helps break the ice and make friends. People are more willing to become friends with someone who is confident and outgoing than someone who is not confident and afraid of the world.\nIn relationships, confidence comes into play even more. Simply approaching a potential mate at a bar, party, or other social gathering can be nerve-wracking. If you have no confidence, you might not even build up the courage to approach someone. And, without good confidence, you definitely won\u2019t be able to hold an interesting conversation and get their phone number or a date. Online dating has made this aspect a little easier, but still, if you lack confidence, you will find many of aspects of relationships to be quite difficult.\nIn the workplace, confidence often translates into promotion potential. Your boss wants you to do a good job, and be confident and proud in your work. While looking better won\u2019t directly improve the way you do your work, it will improve your confidence and make it easier to accomplish tasks. Also, having confidence when speaking to your superiors is important. If you are called in for a conversation with your boss \u2013 or the person who has the ability to fire or promote you \u2013 and you display confidence, intelligence, and self-esteem, they will be much more likely to consider you for a promotion.\nMany studies have shown that confidence and good looks are directly tied to success in the workplace. After all, nobody wants to put someone in power over others who isn\u2019t even confident in their own actions! You want to prove to your superiors that you are ready for any task, and that you\u2019ll be able to meet any challenge with confidence and intelligence. Also, they will want you to be confident in your decisions, and not shy away from your responsibilities. While you can easily be confident without good looks, it helps a lot to dress well and look your best.\nOne study has shown, quite clearly, that it is easier for pretty people to land jobs. 57% of hiring managers told a NEWSWEEK researcher that unattractive candidates would have a harder time landing a job than their attractive counterparts, regardless of their qualifications. Studies have also shown that good-looking people make more money. One survey found that, on average, handsome men make 5% more than not-so-handsome men working similar jobs. Attractive women make, on average, 4% more than not-so-attractive women working similar jobs. This might seem very unfair to you, but it\u2019s the way things work. Economists have labeled it \u201cthe beauty factor\u201d and it affects most industries.\nSelf esteem and confidence often go hand in hand, but at their root they are different attributes. Self esteem is what allows you to go about your life with a happy, pleasant demeanor. Confidence is what allows you to interact with others while remaining stoic and, well, confident. Improving your looks often directly improves your self esteem, which can make many of life\u2019s activities much easier. Plus, when you have good self-esteem, it will be easier for you to change other things about yourself, continuing to improve your life.\nWhen you have good self esteem, you will wake up in the morning, ready to face the day. No matter what challenges lie ahead, you will face them head-on, with confidence. While many factors contribute to self esteem, the way you look is a huge component. You will find that, with confidence and high self esteem, almost every task you are faced with will be a little bit easier!\nA big part of looking good is being in shape. Being in shape can have a positive effect on almost every aspect of your life. When you are in shape, you will find that you have more energy, more confidence, and more love for life. You will be able to stay out longer, do more adventuresome activities, and build a happy, healthy life.\nYou will be amazed at how much easier life is when you are in shape. It will be easier to get up in the morning, even without coffee. It will be easier to do strenuous activities, and you will find that you are happier in general. If you are currently out of shape, you owe it to your happiness to work hard at improving your physical health. If you are in shape, but still have room for improvement, you should still continue to exercise and eat well.\nThe thing about exercise is that it must be done on a regular basis. You can\u2019t exercise hard for 2 weeks and then stop, and expect to see any long-term results. In order to stay in shape, you must continue to exercise daily. Of course you can take short breaks of a few days now and again, but if you want to see real results, you need to work hard at it. Don\u2019t cut corners, commit to daily exercise, and keep at it!\nCommitting to better health is one of the best choices you can make in life. When you are healthy, you are able to live life to the fullest and enjoy yourself no matter what you choose to do with your time. Plus, if you are healthy you will live longer, allowing you to accomplish more and spend more time with your loved ones.\nLastly, being in good physical shape can help save you money. If you follow a healthy diet, and cook for yourself, you can save a lot of money on food. Eating out at restaurants is great, but if you do it too often, you will find that you spend a lot of money on it. Plus, restaurant food is usually not too healthy. Also, when you stay in shape, you won\u2019t have to go to the doctor too often, so you will be able to save money on medical expenses. Insurance can also get cheaper when you are in better health, as you have less risk of developing a serious health issue.\nYou will discover fairly quickly that as your looks improve, it will become easier to make new friends. This is not directly tied to your looks, but instead, to your confidence, willingness to try new things, etc. It will be much easier to make new friends if you are confident enough to go to clubs regularly, have a good time and talk to people. The more outgoing you are, the more friends you will make, and it\u2019s much easier to be outgoing if you look and feel great.\nWhen you are in shape, you will be more willing to be adventurous and do more outdoor activities. Because of this, you will be introduced to a whole new variety of people, who are active, fun and outgoing. If you weren\u2019t in shape, chances are you would never even see these people, let alone become friends with them. You can make many friends by trying new activities, and who knows \u2013 you might meet that special someone in a place you\u2019d never have imagined in your wildest dreams!\nYou will discover quite quickly that when you look and feel good, your relationships will improve. If you already have a special someone, your relationship with them should get a boost by your new appearance. If you are currently single, you will find it MUCH easier to find dates if you are looking your best.\nWhen considering you for a date, the first thing that most people consider is your looks. While this is not fair, it\u2019s the way the dating scene works. If you are not looking your best, you might miss out on a date with a completely compatible individual, simply because he or she was not willing to overlook your physical appearance. Once the ice is broken and you\u2019re on the date, you\u2019ll be able to discuss and see if you are compatible with your date \u2013 an opportunity that may never have arisen if you didn\u2019t make the effort to improve your looks. While romantic relationships are the main focus of this section, you will find that your non-romantic relationships improve with your looks as well.\nSome studies have linked unattractiveness to depression. It comes as no surprise that people who are unattractive \u2013 or those who consider themselves to be unattractive \u2013 might be more prone to depression. Many people feel like they were given the short end of the stick, or that they were unlucky or cursed from birth. On the other hand, people that are attractive often go through life happy and healthy.\nLooking your best, regardless of how attractive you are without trying, can significantly improve your mood. We tend to get used to the way our bodies look, and though we might feel some shame, we move on and continue our lives. If you make some simple changes and do your best to look as good as you possibly can, you will find that your mood will improve.\nWhenever life has you down, make sure to think about your positive attributes. Everyone has something that they are great at, and certain attributes that they are proud of. If you know yourself to be good at something, be proud of it, whatever it may be. You will find that many attractive people simply don\u2019t have many skills. This is because, all throughout life, they have been handed things, and been shown the easy route around problems. People who are not so attractive have had to work harder, and hone specific skills to get ahead in the workplace. This is why we see so many attractive celebrities that are just plain stupid \u2013 they make millions of dollars, and chances are they\u2019ve been attractive their whole life. These people have never had to work very hard to find success.\nIf you are just a normal person who wasn\u2019t blessed with good looks, all you can do is do your best to get in shape, dress well, and look the best you can. And remember to be proud of your achievements and your skills, and be happy!\nLicense: Royalty Free or iStock source: http://morguefile.com/archive/display/778915\nClaire York is a former dental healthcare professional who now writes for The Invisible Orthodontist. Follow her on Twitter and Google+.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 12613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mass-creative.org/ctv_coalition_meets_with_mccormick", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:10Z", "digest": "sha1:LE6UN3X2USWL3VI6VIDUQHKJ6PZNODY7", "length": 2873, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mass-creative.org", "title": "Create the Vote Coalition Meets With Gubernatorial Candidate Jeff McCormick - MASSCreative", "raw_content": "Jeff McCormick |\nCreate the Vote Coalition Meets With Gubernatorial Candidate Jeff McCormick\nBOSTON, September 4, 2014\u2014Continuing its series of sit down meetings with candidates for governor of Massachusetts, members of the Create the Vote coalition met with gubernatorial candidate Jeff McCormick at MASSCreative in Boston to talk about McCormick\u2019s views on the arts and cultural community and the role it would play in his administration.\nThe Coalition\u2014a collaboration of Massachusetts arts, cultural, and creative institutions convened by MASSCreative\u2014met with McCormick June 25. Representatives from [Stage Source, Ballet Theatre of Boston, Boston University Arts Initiative, and Boston Gay Men\u2019s Chorus] met with McCormick to talk about his vision for the arts in the Commonwealth.\nMcCormick said that creativity, innovation, and creative thinking were valuable skills for business and finance. He said that the next governor needed to rally support for the arts and cultural sector by thinking of it as an investment.\nHe said that creating more jobs, making housing more affordable, and improving transportation were all inter-related and that arts was an important component of economic improvement. He added that he is a huge proponent of early childhood education and that the arts should be a part of that.\nHe said that much of the talk in education reform around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) should be reframed as STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). Students need to be creative and know how to solve problems, McCormick said, and the arts are critical to developing those skills.\nMcCormick said that state government needed to think long-term to get results. Noting that the return on investment in funds invested in the arts was close to five to one, McCormick said that the next governor needed to find a way to sustain its investment in arts and culture.\nHe said that he would implement a \u201ctop to bottom analysis\u201d of state government, including agencies related to arts and culture, and determine where improvements could be made.\nStageSource Executive Director Julie Hennrikus, who participated in the meeting with McCormick, said: \u201cThese conversations with candidates are vitally important to helping them understand how integral arts, culture, and creativity is to making the Commonwealth a desirable place to live, work, and play. Our next governor should be a champion for artists and arts and culture for the greater benefit of the entire state.\u201d\n\u201cWe have accomplished so much in Massachusetts with a relatively small investment in the arts,\u201d said Jose Mateo. \u201cWith better planning and public investment, we can expand access to the arts for everyone in the Commonwealth, and build stronger communities.\u201d\nMcCormick was the second candidate to meet with the Coalition, which previously interviewed Evan Falchuk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 6581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mass-creative.org/the_improper_bostonian_the_show_must_go_on", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZG47RWX2K7VV3HKIQEIWLH7LHB5FXYTS", "length": 1027, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mass-creative.org", "title": "The Improper Bostonian: The Show Must Go On - MASSCreative", "raw_content": "The Improper Bostonian: The Show Must Go On\nWith funding low, Boston theater looks for new ways to shine.\nPhoto Credit: Adam Detour\nLindsay Tucker of the Improper Bostonian writes about the current state of the theater scene in Boston and the need for political action in the art, culture, and creative community:\n\"Those involved in performing arts find it tough to make a living wage here, and theater companies and nonprofit performing arts organizations are constantly on the lookout for innovative ways to raise capital. What\u2019s more, it seems the ongoing mayoral race could really make or break the sustainability of a theater scene on the cusp of vitality.\"\nTucker interviews Boston theater industry veterans to learn that - despite the lack of funding - the theater community in Boston is growing thanks to both the pioneering virtue of the larger theaters and the blooming presence of small-fringe companies. 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Her 25 years of international development experience includes providing technical assistance to projects funded by USAID, the United Kingdom\u2019s Department for International Development, Australia\u2019s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the World Bank, and United Nations agencies in nearly 40 countries.\nHer wide range of technical expertise includes ME&L, governance, food security, nutrition, resilience, rural and urban livelihoods, gender, youth, early warning and response planning, business enabling environment reform, workforce development, conflict mitigation and stabilization, and countering violent extremism. Ms. Pearson has published more than 100 articles and conference presentations and conducted numerous assessments and performance evaluations in Africa, Asia, Central America, Middle East, Europe, and Eurasia. She is a passionate advocate for the equitable treatment of women, youth, and vulnerable populations because gender bias and ethnic, religious, and sexual discrimination are ultimately a threat to the peace and the security of an entire community or country.\nMs. Pearson holds masters\u2019 degrees in international economics and international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She completed post-graduate studies at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. She is fluent in Italian, proficient in French and Spanish, and conversational in Egyptian Arabic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 107.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.medicalgraphics.de/en/projects/making-ofs/virtual-reality-application.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:44Z", "digest": "sha1:V6HXPFWIVVYZXAR2VMOOXBHP4N2XAUF2", "length": 2938, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.medicalgraphics.de", "title": "Virtual reality application", "raw_content": "As the first phase of this production several technical implementation possibilities were discussed. The decision was made in favor of an Android based realization. As a development platform Unity3D was chosen, because it was the most suitable considering the project specifications and has an advanced Android export. As VR goggles, the Zeiss VR One was chosen because of it\u00b4s high quality in terms of workmanship, appearance and comfort.\nUnity 3D - VR app\nIn the second step of the project the content, wich was elaborated by the medical authors, was discussed with the customer. For this purpose, Medical Graphics created at the key scenes individual sketches to communicate the imagery as early as possible.\nStoryboard VR app\nSeveral operating concepts were discussed for this project. During various tests, however, more complex interaction presented more out as an obstacle, because the glasses should only be worn a short time and learning the interface should not be given too much space. In connection it was also decided to guide the viewer by a speaker throught the content. It was thus possible to dispense further interaction elements.\nTwo sequelae in Diabetes2 were discussed for content: diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macroangiopathy.\nScreenshot VR app\nIn the latter, a scene has been selected in a coronary artery (Ramus intraventricularis anterior), in which the viewer is positioned. On the vessel wall a developing stenosis was shown that eventually lead to a complete occlusion of the vessel. This was realized by morph targets of the vessel geometry and transitions of the diffuse and normal maps. It was important here to display the changing blood flow (erythrocytes, monocytes, platelets) due to the stenosis and the incorporation of LDL particles in the stenosis. The blood components were implemented as a particle system in Unity, as this allowed simpler adjustments later in the project and also considerably reduced the data size of the scene, since the particles were generated parametrically. To optimize the scene onto the mobile target platform, some reductions in the geometry of the particles were necessary and also an adaptation of the shader to cope with the possibilities of the Nexus6.\nScreenshot VR appp - damaged retina\nIn the second subject (diabetic retinopathy) the camera was placed in the interior of the eye, whereby a view on the retina was possible and also a view through the lens to the outside. The changes on the retina were visualized with multiple high-resolution textures (8192px * 8192px), which are caused by diabetic retinopathy (such as microvascular abnormalities, microaneurysms, cotton wool spots, hard exudates).\nDuring the congress 10 VR goggles were used at the booth of the client and attracted considerable interest.\nThe rights of use of illustrations and animations shown lie with the customer. Photo \"Zeiss VR One\" from Digital Content Network under CC-BY Lizenz.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.medwardpowell.com/2004/04/response-from-saddleback-member/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:13Z", "digest": "sha1:UT2STIBKOFVJ4VNXWC3SWTKWMXG5Q2BE", "length": 6297, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.medwardpowell.com", "title": "Response from A Saddleback member - Wheat and Chaff", "raw_content": "Response from A Saddleback member\nI got the following email recently, in response to this post:\nYou know \u2013 I\u2019m amazed at everyone\u2019s comments, including your review. I am a member at Saddleback Church and have been attending for about 15 years.\nI think you missed something. I was at the same service as you \u2013 and there were plenty of people with Bibles, as I was one of them and so were my neighbors\non either side of me. Also, there was a prayer right after the music worship, and Rick said a prayer right after his sermon. I don\u2019t know what part of the prayers\nyou didn\u2019t understand as being prayers: Do the words \u201cDear Heavenly Father\u2026.\u201d confuse you?\nIf you expect to walk into church and have a Bible and Hymn Book handed to you, this church is not for you. Mature Christians carry their Bibles with them to church service, and Saddleback Church recognizes this and doesn\u2019t feel the need to hand one to everyone that walks in, nor have them sitting there in front of them.\nRick teaches straight from the verses in the Bible, and it references the verse from which ever Bible it came from every single time. Maybe you missed that also?\nIt is not necessary to take the entire context of a scripture for teaching, only what is necessary and applies to that particular subject being taught. That is how we\nlearn to understand how God is speaking to us in the Bible \u2013 by breaking it down. I\u2019m not a teacher and even I know that. That is what Rick does, he breaks down\nthe verses to be able to apply it to what he\u2019s teaching. Hey \u2013 we live in the year 2004, not the year 204. He is taking God\u2019s word and applying for today\u2019s living.\nThere is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Not everyone will learn from this method, and that\u2019s ok, too.\nInstead of ripping apart the church, maybe you should have been out on the patio after the service talking to other attenders and asking them what they like about the church, checking out the patio tables & seeing what they have to offer, and speaking to Rick Warren himself. He makes himself available on the patio after each service. I happened to see him out there after the service that day.\nYes, it\u2019s a big church. I started attending the church when it was very small and attenders were going to a high school gymnasium. But they had some wonderful\nbuilding fund campaigns and saw the church family do amazing things to help raise money to build the church. BUT, not everyone will like the size of the church,\nit can be intimidating, and some prefer a smaller church. Saddleback DOES encourage finding a small group to have lessons weekly to learn more in each person\u2019s\nspiritual walk. BUT Saddleback DOES have a Mid-Week service in which they do teach from the Bible verses right out of the Bible\u2026.and it is very good.\nAnyhow\u2026..you missed the point of the church because you were too busy ripping it apart and criticizing. Rick has managed to reach thousands and thousands\nof people and they have accepted Christ. That is to be commended. Interesting that in Jesus\u2019 day he also reached thousands and thousands of people and he\nwas also criticized for it\u2026..\nGood luck with finding yourself and God Bless You\u2026.\nLeah LaRosa\nSaddleback Church Member\nps \u2013 I\u2019m sure you won\u2019t post this on your \u201creview website\u201d but would like to see you do so.\nMaybe I\u2019m just a sucker for manipulation. Naturally, since she didn\u2019t think I\u2019d post this, I am posting it. With a few comments, of course.\nThanks for taking the time to read my article and to write this email. Here\u2019s my response.\nBeing big doesn\u2019t insulate you from criticism. My church is tiny, and we get criticized. So why shouldn\u2019t you? Yes, Jesus had thousands of followers, but almost all of them abandoned him. False apostles and false messiahs in their day also had thousands of followers, but that didn\u2019t keep Paul and Peter and John and Jesus Himself from criticizing and even condemning them to hell. I\u2019m not going so far as to say Warren\u2019s a false apostle. But I do disagree with a lot of things he does. Size of itself doesn\u2019t mean anything. And neither do claims that \u2018people are growing\u2019. Besides being totally unverifiable, it\u2019s also something that is routinely claimed by all the cults and heresies out there. So let\u2019s just get that out of the way.\nI never said there were no Bibles. I just didn\u2019t see any. Pastor Warren\u2019s preaching is set up so that you don\u2019t need to use them. He does not encourage people to read the passages for themselves, at least not on that Sunday. And if they prayed, it was of such low importance in the service that I missed it despite the fact that I went there for the purpose of understanding how they did worship, how they prayed, etc. It\u2019s possible I missed the first prayer, though again I was looking for things like that. The prayer after the message was not an address to God. It was called a prayer, but it addressed us, not God. I remember this clearly because it was so different than what I normally associate with prayer.\nNo, you don\u2019t have to say everything about a passage that could possibly be said. My point was, Pastor Warren taught the opposite of what that passage actually teaches, and ignored verses that would have revealed his error. This is inexcusable for a man of Warren\u2019s knowledge.\nI was not interested in what they do on Wednesday nights or in their small groups. I wanted to see what their main worship service was like, what a \u2018seeker-sensitive\u2019 service looked like, and I did. That\u2019s what I reported on. I never implied that my knowledge of Saddleback was exhaustive. I just told people what I saw. I did go talk to the people at the book tables, I watched a baptism between services, and kind of generally stood around outside for about an hour before and after generally looking lost and alone to see if anyone would come talk to me so I could find out what they thought of Saddleback, but nobody did.\nI understand that you\u2019d be loyal to your church and your pastor. As a pastor, I am glad to see when people are loyal. But your first loyalty is always to the universal church, and to the truth of Scripture. So when a brother comes with some criticisms, I\u2019d encourage you to carefully think about them rather than simply attack that brother\u2019s knowledge and sincerity.\n\u2190 The Passion, and Images\nBook Review- Finding Common Ground \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 11009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.memoriesbybryant.com/blog/2016/1/25/sarah-duke-gardens-engagement-photos-asha-mark-eastern-nc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:53Z", "digest": "sha1:TU7MVFTZA6DNWHCL335RVNWMWLXGDELU", "length": 2410, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.memoriesbybryant.com", "title": "Duke Gardens Engagement Photos : Asha + Mark \u2014 Bryant Tyson Photography", "raw_content": "It was the Fall of 2009 and a new job for her that ultimately brought them together. Although she knew the shoe department at JCPenny wasn't her forever job, Asha had began a new chapter in her life. Little did she know the changes she was about to encounter were far bigger than she imagined.\nHe had been there for two years at this point, so he noticed her shortly after her first few days. Over the course of his time in that same department, he'd had many co-workers come and go, but there was something about her that stood out. Maybe it was her smile, or her eyes, or her down-to-earth personality but Mark instantly noticed a growing attraction for Asha.\nIt would be nice to say that it was love at first sight, however, they unfortunately did not hit it off right away. He liked her, she \u2014 on the other hand \u2014 thought he was a nice guy and that they'd make great friends. He found himself initiating conversation more and more, and occasionally rerouting his path to ensure he passed her line of sight a few times a day.\nAs time progressed and their friendship developed, she thought nothing of him asking for her phone number... that was, until he called for small talk. His intentions became crystal clear to her. He gathered the courage to ask her on a date, and she declined. He asked again, she said no. He asked again and after all of her friends told her to give him a chance, she finally said yes. It was after their first date in June of 2010 that Asha realized that it was the best decision she's ever made.\nWe met at the beautiful Sara P Duke Gardens on the campus of Duke University here in Durham, NC for their engagement session. Beautiful is an understatement when it comes to describing this location!\nOne of my absolute favorites from the entire shoot. Mark is giving GQ in the front as Asha is getting ready for her close-up in the back!\nIt was a perfect fall day in late November. Look at how amazing those colors are!\nDuke gardens has these amazing stone and quartz paths that made the perfect hideaways for a casual stroll.\nThe best thing about Mark is that he's able to make Asha laugh at a moment's notice. Many thanks to Tiwa Lawrence for the beautiful makeup and KK from The Hair Lounge for the amazing hairstyling.\nLook at that smile and laugh, he's the luckiest man on the planet. She is gorgeous.\nCongratulations Asha + Mark, I can't wait to photograph your big day in June!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mesart.com/artworkps.jsp.que.artwork.eq.31955.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:52Z", "digest": "sha1:DPUDWE3WXQZHQA5SUU76LPIRQHQJQLL2", "length": 225, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mesart.com", "title": "The Art of Anthony Toney's Sylvia (1961) (Oil)", "raw_content": "This small oil painting by Anthony Toney done in 1961 is a portrait of his sister, Sylvia. A resident of Gloversville, New York, it remained in her collection until she died in 1986 at the age of 62. Collection of Adele Toney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 94.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.metamorphosis-project.eu/case-studies/urban-agriculture-newark-new-jersey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HVU4MW2FXG75JWGDPMC77QJ22CWCUHWT", "length": 1951, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.metamorphosis-project.eu", "title": "Urban agriculture in Newark, New Jersey | METAMORPHOSIS", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Urban agriculture in Newark, New Jersey\nUrban agriculture in Newark, New Jersey\nThe expectation is that in 2050 more than 70 percent of Europe\u2019s population will live within cities. By growing a part of the vegetables for these people in their own neighborhood, lots of advantages can be accomplished.\nTransformational Measures and Activities\nA successful example of urban agriculture is Newark, New Jersey where 30 acres of waste land are transformed into 1.900 food gardens.\nOne of the advantages of urban agriculture is that there is no/less transportation needed to get the vegetables from the land on the plate of the hungry citizen. Next to that, waste in the form of compost can be used for the plants in the urban gardens. In Newark nearly 4.000 tons of leaves were recycled and used as compost in the gardens.\nAbout 6.500 residents grow vegetables in the urban gardens of Newark. Together they grow food with a worth over $915.000. Another advantage is that the gardens are crystallization points where people meet and interact. Almost one-third of the urban gardeners in Newark have developed new friendships in the gardens. Forty-four percent of the gardeners feel like the vegetables from the gardens have improved their diet. More than enough reasons to get started in your own neighborhood!\nUrban gardening and urban farming can take place in many cities. The challenge is to create a community of dedicated urban gardeners.\nhttps://www.theecologycenter.org/resources/10-ways-urban-farms-benefit-the-community/\nhttps://foodtank.com/news/2013/10/five-different-examples-of-urban-agriculture-from-around-the-world/ http://www.feastmagazine.com/dine/st_louis_dining/article_40554698-237b-11e6-929f-cf3df3370284.html https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254355836_Rutgers_Urban_Gardening_A_Case_Study_in_Urban_Agriculture https://www.usfca.edu/journal/international-affairs-review/spring-2015/urban-agriculture-redeveloping-detroit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mgdc.ru/board/showthread.php?s=eec0fc8fa60ca1e953e11c01992661ef&p=90773", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CPGGOZVQMAIRU4WFTQZTWLQR6ET4TIUG", "length": 93, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mgdc.ru", "title": "No Saints Row IV on Wii U - MGDC", "raw_content": "Deep Silver confirms upcoming open-world action game won't release on Nintendo's new console.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 149.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.michaelstrangefoundation.org/portfolio/bronze-star/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZCIAVCAFYAC3LEJEUMRCNKKJZCCNTWL", "length": 321, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.michaelstrangefoundation.org", "title": "BRONZE STAR | Voices For Silent Heroes \u2013 The Michael Strange Foundation", "raw_content": "Full Bronze Star Certificate (pdf)\nThis is to certify that the President of the United States of America has awarded the BRONZE STAR MEDAL (with COMBAT \u201cV\u201d) to Cryptologic Technician (Collection) First Class (Expeditionary Warfare) MICHAEL J. 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I pray it\u2019s gone uphill since then.\nAlmost 1,000 columns later, I see this writer/publisher marriage as one-sided \u2014 I get to do what I love: learn and write about interesting people, places and things, share my opinion with readers (some who don\u2019t, shall we say, embrace my beliefs!), and engage with them in all sorts of places like grocery stores and volleyball games.\nAnd in turn, MidWeek \u201cgets\u201d to pay me.\nDespite of all these columns, writing isn\u2019t natural. It\u2019s an often frustrating exercise in excavation \u2014 like an archeological dig. It\u2019s picking through the seemingly empty caverns of my brain hopeful of dislodging a small chunk of history, wisdom or witticism.\nIt\u2019s been said that the best writing comes from the writer\u2019s experience. If true, I\u2019d say the columns about life with my children; my military experience as daughter, wife, niece and mother of servicemen; my business experience; and years of learning about the HIV-AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa and the countless orphans left in its wake have been favorites.\nWriting of tragic personal experiences and the inherent lessons learned are by far the hardest.\nStories that poke fun at my own faults and foibles are the easiest.\nPolitics has been a longtime passion dating back to high school. My commenting on it and its players draws partisan ire, but that\u2019s good \u2014 so long as the ire is directed at the column content, not the writer. After all, it\u2019s the politicians who get the big bucks and affect our lives, not the lowly opinion writer.\nMidWeek is a phenomenon. In a national culture of dying newspapers, MidWeek grows. It\u2019s a winning formula that offers readers a varied mix of features that warm hearts and inform us of our surroundings and the world, and offers a vast audience to meet the needs of advertising customers.\nAnniversaries can sometimes be solemn reminders of time\u2019s passage and a face-to-face with our mortal selves.\nBut for MidWeek, as it celebrates an impressive 30 years in Hawaii, I predict at least 30 more.\nDuring my time at MidWeek I\u2019ve lost my parents, gotten married, acquired four step-children, five spouses-in-law, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Imagine what surprises the next 20 or 30 years will bring.\nCongratulations to the owners, publishers, staff, contributors and customers on a 30-year success story.\nIt\u2019s a marriage that lasts.\nPaliku Troupe Musical In Town\nIt Takes Faith To Write On Religion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.militaryandpolicesupply.net/military-supply-catalog/military-accessories-military-medals-ribbons-pins-and-patches-medals/military-medal-armed-forces-expeditionary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:00Z", "digest": "sha1:2CIO2HNZYY7C4HTCMB64NBFOW6JHYJJ2", "length": 181, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.militaryandpolicesupply.net", "title": "MilitaryAndPoliceSupply.Net - Military Medal: Armed Forces Expeditionary", "raw_content": "Military Medal: Armed Forces Expeditionary\nArmed Forces Expeditionary Medal. Made in the U.S. by Government Suppliers. Available in Full Size, Mini or Hat pin. Standard or Anodized.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.milngaviemusic.org/11_12/history.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PT6EYUL6TPRAT2SOX4A4PNYQS733DPSO", "length": 1427, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.milngaviemusic.org", "title": "Milngavie Music Club 2011", "raw_content": "Milngavie Music Club was founded by Alexander Duncan and Herbert Downes with the aim of holding local concerts, the first of which took place on 16 October 1942. Membership was small in the beginning, but with the introduction of season tickets in 1944, significantly increased, reaching a peak of 450 members in the early 1960s.\nAs membership grew, the Club was able to engage well known artists for their concerts; the first such was Frederick Lamond, the renowned pianist, who gave a concert in 1944. Other internationally famous artists followed, including Kathleen Ferrier, Peter Pears, and Benjamin Britten.\nFor the first twenty years, the concerts were held at Milngavie Parish Church Hall, but in 1962 the club moved to the Town Hall\nAs well as its concerts, the Club also ran nine music festivals between 1947 and 1975, each lasting three or four days. The highlight was the 1953 festival, with performances by Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten, including the Scottish premiere of Britten's 'Lyrics and Ballads by Thomas Hardy', (\"Winter Words\").\nThe Club continues to put on concerts today, and over the past thirty years has received funding from the Local Authority and the Scottish Arts Council to help it to continue to attract world class performers.\nFrom the 2010-2011 season, the Club moved most concerts to Cairns Church, Buchanan Street Milngavie.\nThe Club's Constitution \u00bb\nHerbert Downes: Guardian Obituary \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 136.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mischawilmers.org/2015/04/uk-election-greens-seek-to-capitalise.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:27Z", "digest": "sha1:KL6P3NC6CPVBYRPH3FKFV5DKJGKVBSHW", "length": 4634, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.mischawilmers.org", "title": "UK Election: Greens seek to capitalise on membership surge", "raw_content": "UK Election: Greens seek to capitalise on membership surge\nBrighton MP Caroline Lucas. Photo by Wikimedia Commons\nWith less than two months to go until the UK general elections on 7 May 2015, the Green Party is riding high on a wave of popular support.\nEarlier this year, three separate polls estimated that around 10 per cent of the electorate intended to vote for the party \u2013 its highest rating in years.\nMeanwhile, membership has increased from under 20,000 to nearly 60,000 in the space of a year, echoing the success of other progressive, anti-austerity parties in Europe like Podemos in Spain and Greece\u2019s ruling Syriza party.\n\u201cIf we can utilise all these members, and get young people out to vote, we could pull off some big surprises,\u201d Kieran Turner-Dave, the Green Party candidate for Manchester Central, told Equal Times.\n\u201cI think most people in Britain are disillusioned by the current political system. Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP all bark at each other like animals in the [House of] Commons \u2013 yet all four quietly agree that tax loopholes, austerity cuts and privatisation are good; whilst immigrants, welfare claimants and young people are bad.\u201d\nSince 2010, the ruling Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition has implemented a programme involving public spending cuts to the tune of \u00a335 billion (US$52 billion), with a further \u00a355 billion (US$82 billion) projected by 2019.\nWith Labour leader Ed Miliband promising his party will also cut public spending if it wins the elections in May, the Greens present themselves as the only progressive alternative.\nThe Greens are also the only national party who have pledged to renationalise the railways and scrap Trident, the UK\u2019s nuclear weapons system.\nIn terms of environmental policies, the party has called for a \u2018Green New Deal\u2019, which would involve spending billions of pounds on renewable energy projects and home insulation, instead of continuing to rely on fossil fuel and fracking.\nYet despite the huge membership surge, the party\u2019s performance in opinion polls appears less impressive, with the latest polls putting them at around 6 per cent, in fifth place.\nFurthermore the biggest challenge remains holding on to their only seat in Parliament, that of MP and former party leader Caroline Lucas.\nLast week campaign manager Adam McGibbon urged Green members to back the fight to retain Lucas\u2019s seat, calling it \u201cour biggest challenge yet.\u201d\n\u201cIf we win, we will open the door to many more Green seats. But if we lose, the Green Surge could be over,\u201d he wrote in an email to supporters.\nTurner-Dave says the Greens\u2019 chances will be hampered by the fact that the UK lacks a system of proportional representation for general elections.\n\u201cDue to the first-past-the-post system, we could potentially get 9 per cent of the vote and one to three seats, whilst the Scottish National Party (SNP) could get 4 per cent of the vote and 52 seats.\u201d\nHowever, this hasn\u2019t stopped thousands of voters on the left defecting from the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party.\nThe party is especially popular among students and young professionals with a YouGov poll in January 2015 showing that 22 per cent of young people support the Greens, making it the second most popular party for young people behind Labour, at 32 per cent.\n29-year-old Jessica De Ferry, who works for a publishing company in London, says she will be voting Green for the first time in May.\n\u201cI feel disillusioned by the main political parties, whose allegiance seems to lie firmly with banks and big business at the expense of the public\u2019s welfare.\u201d\n\u201cThe Green Party is the only party that I trust not to dismantle the NHS (National Health Service) with creeping privatisation. It is the only party that I think will try to tackle widespread tax evasion by high-worth individuals and companies and is the only party that will, without question, prevent fracking companies from damaging pockets of the British countryside for profit.\u201d\nAnother recent convert to the Green cause is Peter Pinkney, the President of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT), who made headlines last month when he announced that he would be standing as a candidate for the Green Party despite his union\u2019s strong historical ties to Labour.\n\u201cI joined because I believe in alliances of the left,\u201d Pinkney told Equal Times. \u201cI am a socialist and believe the Greens are moving further left. They have a radical agenda including building social housing, investing in NHS, renationalising railways and other utilities, repealing anti trade union laws, and demanding a higher tax for those who earn most.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 9571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.moldremovaltarzana.org/mold-q--a.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:5CV2ROUUKFEZTS6N2L34WMHOM52P5DK7", "length": 9561, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.moldremovaltarzana.org", "title": "Tarzana mold and mildew Q & A - TARZANA MOLD", "raw_content": "Mold Frequently Asked Questions\nHow do I know if I have mold in my home?\nYou might be able to see mold in your home, growing on walls, floors, carpet, ceilings or bathroom fixtures. However, mold often grows in places where it cannot be easily seen, like under carpets, inside walls and inside heating, ventilation and air conditioning ducts. You should suspect mold if your home has a musty smell. You should also know that mold is likely if you\u2019ve had flooding or a water leak in your home.\nTo find out for sure if there\u2019s mold in your home, you need to call in a certified mold tester. Most certified mold testers are engineers and they are trained to locate mold even in hard-to-see places. They can let you know if there is mold in your home and if so, what type of mold it is. Follow this link to find certified mold testers near you.\nIs mold in my home dangerous?\nIt can be dangerous. The degree of risk depends on numerous factors, including the type of mold (some strains are more hazardous to your health than others, although it\u2019s not good for you to be inhaling any type of mold spores), the amount of mold, whether or not you\u2019re allergic to mold, and the state of your health and the health of your family members. Health problems commonly associated with household mold include coughing, sneezing, sore throat, runny nose, headaches or migraines, sinus infections, pneumonia and asthma attacks. Infants, elderly people and those with respiratory disorders like asthma or emphysema are most susceptible to mold-related health problems, but even healthy young adults can be affected.\nIf you\u2019re experiencing health problems you think might be due to mold exposure, see your doctor as soon as possible and let your doctor know your symptoms may be mold-related. You can have a certified mold tester come to your home and test for mold to confirm whether or not you\u2019ve been exposed to household mold. He or she will be able to tell you what kind of mold is in your home, too, so you can let your doctor know exactly what you\u2019ve been exposed to. Follow this link to find certified mold testers in your area.\nWhat is the best way to test for mold?You can purchase test kits that allow you to test your home for mold, but we recommend calling in an expert instead. Certified mold testers are trained to locate all traces of mold in a home and they can also tell you what strains of mold are present. Do-it-yourself mold tests aren\u2019t always accurate and many require you to send samples to a lab to find out what strains of mold are present, at significant extra cost. Hiring a professional for the job simply provides better results.To find certified mold testers near you, just follow the link.\nWhat if I find black mold?\ufeffWhen people talk about black mold, they are usually referring to a strain of mold called Stachybotrys chartarum, but there are other strains of mold that also appear black in color. Stachybotrys chartarum is sometimes referred to as toxic mold, although the mold itself is not toxic. It produces toxic compounds, which have been linked to numerous health problems, including allergic reactions, hives, shortness of breath, coughing, sneezing, chronic sinus infections, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma attacks, the development of asthma-like symptoms in people not previously diagnosed with the condition, and even bleeding in the lungs. See a doctor if you\u2019re experiencing any symptoms you think might be related to exposure to black mold.\nIf you find black mold in your home, you need to have it removed as soon as possible. Infants, elderly people, people with pre-existing respiratory disorders or disorders of the immune system, and people experiencing mold-related health problems should not reside in the home until the mold has been removed. We recommend calling a mold removal professional, because a professional will have all the necessary safety gear and will know how to remove the mold safely. Follow this link for a list of experienced mold removal professionals near you.\nShould I leave my home if I have mold?There\u2019s not a simple, straightforward answer to this question. There are numerous factors to take into consideration when deciding if you can safely remain in your home or if you should leave until the mold can be removed. Things to consider include how much mold is in the home, where the mold is located in the home, the strain of mold (some strains are more hazardous to your health than others), whether you have any respiratory disorders or disorders of the immune system that may be adversely affected by exposure to mold, and whether you\u2019re having symptoms related to mold exposure, such as coughing, sneezing, sore throats or headaches. Talk to your doctor for advice if you\u2019re not sure whether you can safely remain in your home.\nHow do I get rid of mold?The best way to remove mold depends on where the mold is growing. Mold can be removed from non-porous surfaces like tile, metal and glass by simply scrubbing with an anti-microbial cleanser.\nIt\u2019s more difficult to remove mold from semi-porous substances, like wood. Sometimes mold cannot be adequately removed from wooden surfaces and instead the wood must be removed and replaced. Other times, wood can be sanded to remove mold or the mold can be encapsulated (covered with a sealant). We recommend only professionals sand moldy wood, since the process disperses hundreds of thousands of mold spores into the air, where they are easily inhaled, exposing you to serious health risks.\nIt\u2019s usually impossible to remove mold from porous substances like drywall and carpet, so those items must be removed and replaced. Care must be taken when removing moldy materials so that you don\u2019t inhale hazardous mold spores and so that you don\u2019t inadvertently spread mold spores to other areas of the home.\nRemoving mold from heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems is much more complicated and requires special equipment most homeowners don\u2019t have readily available. We recommend hiring a professional to remove mold from your HVAC system.\nWe recommend consulting with a mold remediation professional before attempting to remove mold from your home. Most offer free in-home consultations so even if you plan to handle the job yourself, you can get some free expert advice about the best way to proceed. Follow this link to find experienced mold remediation professionals offering free in-home consultations in your area.\nCan moldy items in my home like furniture be saved?It depends on the materials from which the furniture is made. Soft furnishings, like couches and mattresses, will need to be removed and discarded. It\u2019s just not possible to remove mold from fabric. It\u2019s easier to remove mold from hard, non-porous surfaces like metal and glass, so furnishings constructed from those materials can probably be saved.\nYou might be able to save wooden furniture, although it may need to be sanded in order to remove all traces of mold. Because sanding moldy wood disperses potentially hazardous mold spores into the air, we recommend only professionals tackle those tasks. In some cases, it may cost more to clean and repair moldy wooden furnishings that to simply replace them.\nWe recommend consulting with a mold remediation professional if you aren\u2019t sure if furnishings can be saved or if you need assistance removing mold from wooden furniture.\nCan I clean up mold myself?\nMaybe. The Environmental Protection Agency recommends hiring a mold remediation professional if you have mold covering an area larger than three square feet, if you have mold in your home\u2019s HVAC system, and if mold grows after flooding with water contaminated with sewage or other harmful substances. We also recommend against tackling the job yourself if you are experiencing mold-related health problems or have health problems like asthma or immune system disorders that can be made worse by increased exposure to mold. Talk to your doctor if you\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s safe for you to clean up mold.\nIf mold is making me sick, will I get better when it\u2019s removed?If mold is making you sick, you\u2019ll need to have the mold removed if you want to recover. You may also need medical treatment. For instance, if you develop bronchitis or pneumonia as a result of exposure to mold, you\u2019ll most likely need antibiotics in order to recover. You probably will not get better, though, even with medical treatment, if you continue to be exposed to mold. Removing all traces of mold from your home will be an important part of your treatment but that alone might not make you well.\nIf you\u2019re experiencing mold-related health problems, you definitely should not attempt to remove the mold from your home yourself. That will only expose you to more mold spores and will likely worsen your symptoms. You\u2019ll need to hire a mold removal professional to handle the job for you. For a list of experienced mold removal professionals in your area, just follow the link.\nHow do I prevent mold from returning?\nTo prevent mold from returning, you must identify and correct whatever problem led to the development of mold in the first place. For instance, if you had a leak under the bathroom sink and mold grew there, you have to fix the leak. If you clean up the mold but your sink continues to leak, you\u2019ll soon have mold again.\nIt\u2019s also important to make sure no traces of mold are left behind when you clean up mold, because mold grows rapidly and spreads easily from one part of a home to another. If you miss even a little bit, you\u2019ll soon be facing a full-blown mold problem again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 11479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mosaicco.com/sustainability/report/2011/content/food/mosaic-villages-project/africa.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MAZJT2WVHPZ2R4HGBX4J7FT3S7CP6VX3", "length": 2655, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mosaicco.com", "title": "Mosaic 2011 Sustainability Report", "raw_content": "With 55 percent of the world's remaining untapped arable land, agriculture is one of Africa's brightest hopes for economic development.\nThe Millennium Villages Project embodies the most complete and thoughtful approach to achieving positive outcomes by tackling many underlying socio-economic issues simultaneously. Each year, Mosaic donates 2,600 tonnes of fertilizer to Millennium Promise and the Millennium Villages, along with arranging the associated transportation, bagging and blending. This amounts to 105,600 bags of fertilizer, impacting the lives of more than 250,000 people. The average value of this donation is more than $2 million per year.\nAfrica is a net importer of food today and will experience the greatest population increase of any continent over the next four decades. Many of sub-Saharan Africa's soils are depleted of nutrients, and we saw an opportunity to use our expertise to identify the most effective, nutritionally-balanced blends to maximize crop yields in the region.\nOur crop nutrients are vital for farmers to reach their full potential. Across village clusters in Mali, Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia, maize yields have tripled on average, resulting in a 35 percent decrease in malnutrition for children under age two in those locations.\nFarmers pay between 40 and 60 percent of cost with the loan and subsidy programs, supported by the World Bank, provided at planting and repaid at harvest. Millennium Promise has also developed communal warehousing to reduce post-harvest losses and improve access to markets so that the farmers may realize a better return on investment.\nYields in some fields have increased by more than 10 times farmer practices. To understand the paradigm better and to determine why these smallholders have had such success, agronomists at Mosaic and the Earth Institute at Columbia University have executed test plots in three African climatic zones to pinpoint the most effective nutrient blends to maximize crop yields.\nTransporting a product as bulky and heavy as fertilizer to remote villages in Africa is one of the most challenging aspects of the partnership. The lack of established trade routes, a reliable local agri-dealer network or basic infrastructure, such as deep water ports, paved roads or rails, requires the close attention of Mosaic's commercial group through the entire shipping process.\nMosaic is committed to the continued success of the Projects, and we continually seek opportunities to deepen and expand our involvement. We believe the Millennium Villages will provide a blueprint for success to ensure food security for Africa's smallholders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 218.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mountdorabjjacademy.com/videos.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:46Z", "digest": "sha1:AZFIP6AXBEYM7NOPMBOROWGMGJZUN7EK", "length": 91, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mountdorabjjacademy.com", "title": "Videos", "raw_content": "Highlights of the Academy!\nMore videos found at: http://www.youtube.com/c/MountDoraJiuJitsu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 114.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtarthurreserve.org.au/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RU3FFISFUS67X6NFQJYLPMLI3DVOYISQ", "length": 2657, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mtarthurreserve.org.au", "title": "About - Mt Arthur Reserve", "raw_content": "Situated just outside the township of Wellington, the Mount Arthur Reserve is a Crown Reserve set aside for Public Recreation and Environmental Protection. Rising to 563 m above sea-level, this 2,123ha Reserve lies within the northern most section of the Catombal Range and takes in three main peaks - Mounts Arthur, Wellesley and Duke.\nThe Reserve is a special place, recognised on the Register of the National Estate for its natural values. A large portion of the Reserve has been protected in various forms since 1913 and is the oldest Crown Reserve of its type west of Mount Canobolas (Orange NSW).\nOver 400 native plant species have been recorded within the Reserve, including plants typical of the drier western plains mixed with tableland and western slopes species. In particular, the Reserve is known for its diversity of terrestrial orchids, with over 36 species recorded. The Reserve also provides important habitat for threatened flora and fauna species.\nintroduction_to_mt_arthur_reserve__2018_.pdf\nThe Reserve provides for picnicking, bushwalking, horse riding and bike riding, and is also popular with birdwatchers and botany enthusiasts.\nSeven marked walking trails, varying in length and difficulty, are available within the Reserve. There are many scenic vantage points with views over Wellington, the valley and the Bell and Macquarie rivers.\nHorse riding is permitted on the marked bridle trail and fire trails. Mountain bike riding is also permitted, but only on the designated mountain bike trails and fire trails.\nPicnic areas with tables, fireplaces and basic toilet facilities are available but camping within the Reserve is prohibited.\n\ufeff\ufeffPLEASE NOTE:\ufeff\ufeff The lighting of fires within the Mt Arthur Reserve is prohibited during the bushfire season (1 October to 31 March). This includes use of the permanent BBQ fireplaces. The reason for this is to minimise the chance of a fire starting within the Reserve. Thank you for your understanding and co-operation.\nLearn More about the Reserve\nThe Reserve is managed under the Crown Lands Act 1989 by the Mount Arthur Trust, a small group of dedicated volunteers from the local community. The Reserve has been managed by various Trusts since its gazettal in 1964 . The Trust is celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Reserve in 2014.\nThe Trust has little regular income and is largely dependent on volunteer labour and government grants when available. Over the last few years the Trust has obtained several grants for projects within the Reserve and has been active in upgrading signage and picnic facilities, road maintenance and safety upgrades, fencing, weed control and tree planting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3432, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtosmt.org/mto-jobs.php?id=809", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:41Z", "digest": "sha1:YUUZPKRIES3XCB23A2C5NC5V7RRJ6TLI", "length": 5435, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.mtosmt.org", "title": "MTO Job Listings", "raw_content": "Institution: Appalachian State University\nPosition: Lecturer of Composition and Theory, Non-Tenure Track\nThe Hayes School of Music at Appalachian State University invites applications for a nine-month, non-tenure-track faculty position to begin in August 2019.\nEvidence of accomplishment as a composer and college/university-level teacher required. Doctorate must be completed by August 2019. A minimum of two years of teaching experience in the undergraduate theory/aural skills core. The candidate is also required to demonstrate a strong commitment to undergraduate education and mentoring. The successful candidate will provide evidence of ongoing, intentional commitment to diversity and inclusion through professional interactions and service as well as teaching or scholarship and creative activity.\nResponsibilities will include individual and class instruction in composition at both the undergraduate and masters level and undergraduate classroom teaching within the theory/aural skills core. Other teaching responsibilities may include orchestration, electronic music, and special topics theory/composition courses. The successful candidate will participate in the responsibilities of faculty membership including curriculum development, student advisement, recruitment, and service activities.\nSalary Range: Salary commensurate with experience and educational preparation.\nA complete application will include PDFs of a letter of interest, a current vita, and a list of names and contact information for 3-5 references.\nSend applications via email to:\nHSoMsearchComposition@appstate.edu\nChair, Composition Search Committee\nPlease do not send other materials at this time. Additional materials such as video recordings of teaching and sample compositions may be requested later. Reviews of files will begin on January 7, 2019. Individuals with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should contact the committee chair at the address above.\nHAYES SCHOOL OF MUSIC: The Hayes School of Music consists of 480 music students and 50 full-time faculty and offers undergraduate degrees in music education, music performance, music therapy, music theory/composition, sacred music, and music industry studies, and graduate degrees in music performance, composition, and music therapy.\nThe Hayes School of Music prepares young musicians for professional lives as performers, composers, music educators, music therapists, conductors, scholars, and music industry professionals, ensuring the next generation of musical leadership for the state, region, and nation.\nHAYES SCHOOL OF MUSIC DIVERSITY STATEMENT: We recognize the importance of preparing our students to be music professionals in a diverse world and value diversity and inclusion in our curriculum, pedagogy, community, and interactions. We engage in reflection and intentional action that values, respects, supports, acknowledges, and advances the preparation of our students to be leaders who celebrate multiple approaches and points of view.\nThe Hayes School of Music is generously supported by the Hayes Endowment for Musical Excellence. Appalachian State University is an accredited member of the National Association of Schools of Music. Additional information is located at http://www.music.appstate.edu.\nAPPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY: Appalachian State University, in North Carolina\u2019s Blue Ridge Mountains, prepares students to lead purposeful lives as global citizens who understand and engage their responsibilities in creating a sustainable future for all. The transformational Appalachian experience promotes a spirit of inclusion that brings people together in inspiring ways to acquire and create knowledge, to grow holistically, to act with passion and determination, and embrace diversity and difference. As one of 17 campuses in the University of North Carolina system, Appalachian enrolls about 19,000 students, has a low student-to-faculty ratio and offers more than 150 undergraduate and graduate majors.\nAppalachian State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. The University does not discriminate in access to its educational programs and activities, or with respect to hiring or the terms and conditions of employment, on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information or sexual orientation. The University has a strong commitment to the principles of diversity and inclusion and to maintaining working and learning environments that are free from all forms of discrimination. Individuals with disabilities desiring accommodations in the application process should contact the committee chair at the address above.\nAppalachian State is committed to developing and allocating resources to the fundamental task of creating a diverse campus culture. We value diversity as the expression of human similarities and differences, as well as the importance of a living and learning environment conducive to knowledge, respect, acceptance, and understanding and global awareness. Learn more at http://diversity.appstate.edu\nAny offer of employment to a successful candidate will be conditioned upon the University\\'s receipt of a satisfactory criminal background report. Proper documentation of identity and eligibility for employment will be required before the hiring process can be completed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 5892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 198.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtv.com/news/1957237/every-time-theyve-said-carl-on-the-walking-dead-supercut/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:00Z", "digest": "sha1:S4RCFW3LKJGFZIDRVP7PWZCBHOS3FFVQ", "length": 919, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mtv.com", "title": "'The Walking Dead': See Every Time They've Said 'Carl' - MTV", "raw_content": "'The Walking Dead': See Every Time They've Said 'Carl'\nHe's not in the house, you guys.\nVideo by Avaryl Halley\nWe here at MTV News couldn't be more excited by the return of AMC's \"The Walking Dead.\" Having seen the season premiere (read our spoiler-free thoughts here), pretty much everyone gets an awesome, badass moment... Even the internet's favorite pudding-eating punching bag, Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs).\nAnd though Carl has gone through a major evolution over the course of five seasons, his dad Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and the rest of the post-apocalyptic zombie survivors still have a tendency to worry about his safety, wonder where Carl is, and generally say his name while wondering and worrying. A lot.\nSo naturally, we put together a supercut of every single time a character says \"Carl\" on the first four seasons of \"The Walking Dead.\" Guess who says his name only once? You'll have to watch to find out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mydirtywords.com/2014/01/a-misguided-notion-of-compassion.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PYL4DOPFZ7Y2ZAF4Z7EAI7KZDZD5UKAB", "length": 3611, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.mydirtywords.com", "title": "Dirty Words: A Misguided Notion of Compassion", "raw_content": "A Misguided Notion of Compassion\nToday on my way to work, I listened to an interview on NPR. That's the liberalist, hippy dippy, practically communist (or socialist, whichever you prefer, since in America the two entirely different things are synonymous) and \"sheeple\" creating radio station. I like it because I'm one of the sheeple. A liberal idiot. It's just who I am. Sorry about that, but I make no apologies.\nIshmael Beah was being interviewed and he's a dude from Sierra Leone, who was once a child soldier. And he wrote a memoir. Politics aside, one thing he said was this:\nDuring Sierra Leone's war, there was a lot of amputation going on where people were mutilated in different parts of their body. ... As you see in this character, this old man, he refused to look at his friend, and when he finally found the courage to lift his head, he was checking to make sure if she was intact. And if she wasn't intact, if he was ready to take this burden of what she may look like \u2014 what she may be missing \u2014 into his memory.\nAnd so I started thinking, which is not something sheeple usually do, but I did it anyway. I attempt compassion towards others all the time; every day. I'm not always successful because I'm a fundamentally flawed human being, like many other people are. I also try to be compassionate toward myself. That's even more difficult than showing compassion to others!\nBut then this idea floats past - what does it mean when compassion towards oneself means being \"less than\" fully compassionate towards another. Because the idea that seeing someone who is not intact and taking the burden of that knowledge into one's memory as being somehow too difficult to do, seems to fly in the face of what it means to be compassionate towards others. How can my own self-protection still be housed under the umbrella of \"compassionate living\" if my actions seem hostile to another?\nFor a while now I've been on this little path of change. I've written about it in other posts and the details for this particular conundrum are hardly important. But along this psychological hike of mine, I've had to let go of some people and habits which had come to feel like burdens versus positives. Every time something was released, it felt so awful. Each time felt like I was committing a terribly heinous act of extreme selfishness. Sometimes I've questioned whether I'm being narcissistic in my quest for a \"best self.\" After all, who in the holy hell am I to demand the room to be my best self? How VERY American of me....\nHowever, each release, each scuttled burden from my emotional or physical life, has left me freer to concentrate my best self energy on the things and people around me who enrich my life; who give to my life as much as I seek to give to them. All the fine inspirations and quotes on Pinterest and Facebook, which extol the virtues of being the friend who stays no matter what, fail to recognize that a truly enriching relationship is the result of give and give. Taking is secondary - for everyone involved.\nI have decided, thanks to Mr. Beah and his one little sound byte, that part of being true to myself means letting go of the absolute responsibility to never sever any tie; that allowing myself the freedom from toxicity, in any form, is totally and in all ways protected by the umbrella of compassionate living.\nBecause as the flight attendant reminds us before every single flight, you really DO have to secure your own survival before seeking to help the person beside you.\nLabels: Buddha, Chuck Berry, compassion, entitlement, happiness, identity crisis, metamorphosis, NPR", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mywonderstudio.com/level-1/2012/4/4/truly-this-was-the-son-of-god.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:30Z", "digest": "sha1:E3ZG3CXIXGCTSMHOO3DLF2VEF4XGG3TL", "length": 1070, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mywonderstudio.com", "title": "\u201cTruly This Was the Son of God\u201d - Level 1 - My Wonder Studio", "raw_content": "\u00ab Bible Space Trek: The Parable of the Lost Coin | Main | Coloring Page: \u201cTruly This Was the Son of God\u201d \u00bb\nAfter Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, He was arrested and taken to appear before Caiaphas, the high priest, as well as a council of the Scribes and elders.\nThe council did not believe that Jesus was the Son of God. They accused Him unjustly for claiming to be God\u2019s Son, and then condemned Him to be put to death.\nUnder Roman law, the Jewish council did not have the authority to put someone to death. So they took Jesus to the Romans to be tried and executed. The soldiers then took Jesus to a hill, known as \u201cGolgotha,\u201d where He was crucified on a cross.\nHowever, many people believed that Jesus was the Son of God. Even a Roman soldier who watched Jesus die on the cross said: \u201cTruly this was the Son of God!\u201d (Matthew 27:54 ESV)\nYou can read the full story in Matthew 26:57\u201366, and Matthew 27:1\u20132, 27\u201354.\nPDF: \u201cTruly This Was the Son of God\u201d (Japanese)\nDOC: \"Truly This Was the Son of God\" (Portuguese)\nDOC: \"Truly This Was the Son of God\" (Spanish)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 116.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nauticalbynatureblog.com/2015/05/french-kiss-premiere-in-marina-del-rey.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:04Z", "digest": "sha1:FRLPQTVQWBECMNCXQ4NVAGBM3ESWXWXV", "length": 826, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nauticalbynatureblog.com", "title": "Nautical by Nature: French Kiss premiere in Marina del Rey", "raw_content": "Tuesday night I went to the premiere of the short film, French Kiss, from Marriott Content Studio. The film is just 24 minutes long and you can watch in on the official site or youtube. The film is about an American businessman (played by the late John Ritter's son, Tyler Ritter) who meets a beautiful Parisian (Margot Luciarte) while he is in Paris. The film is very romantic and charming, with some amazing shots of Paris.\nPhotobooths are the best, especially when you have a friend to pose with (Leeann from Join the Gossip)\nThe premiere was held on the rooftop of the Marina del Rey Marriott. The panoramic views of the city and ocean are breath taking.\nAfter the film there were French themed appetizers and desserts\nSelfie time waiting for the film to start\nI feel like I would totally get distracted by that view! Wow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 11761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nazareneoutpostministries.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:06Z", "digest": "sha1:E3BTC6WXQCA6IVJIFEVXOBHPQY2V7PYD", "length": 1710, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nazareneoutpostministries.org", "title": "Nazarene Outpost Ministries - Home", "raw_content": "Nazarene Outpost Ministries exists to help the hurting people, of our community, city, nation and world, by serving as an outpost of hope in a wilderness of hopelessness. We aid through programs for children, youth, adults, and elderly persons. We seek to help through intergenerational programming in training and education to develop the talents for all to reach their full potential, or fulfillment of their Christian calling; to provide shelter for the homeless; food for the hungry; and care for the needy. whether physical, emotional, or spiritual; to provide opportunities for worship and fellowship, at home and abroad, within the broad purposes of charitable, educational or scientific meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.\nWant to know more about our ministry and the services we offer? Use our website to get detailed information about us and meet our dedicated staff members. We're looking forward to working with you.\nThe Nazarene Outpost Ministries is a non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt (Faith based) organization dedicated to feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, housing the homeless and elderly, caring for the spiritual, emotional and physical needs of families.\nThrough partnerships we will reach, throughout our world, the lost and the perishing, with the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.\n\u00b7 To aid the hurting people of our community, city, nation and world, by serving as an outpost of hope in a wilderness of hopelessness.\n\u00b7 To aid with children, youth, adults, and elderly people in realizing the abundant life that is ordained by God for all people.\n\u00b7 To develop through training and education the talents of all people that they might reach their full potential.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 174.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ncwetlands.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WDLEWHSPZ5CELSIJV46VVLBOQ7VHX2ZR", "length": 1769, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ncwetlands.org", "title": "Home : North Carolina Wetlands", "raw_content": "North Carolina's wetlands are\nfor amazing\nNorth Carolina's wetlands\ncome in all shapes and sizes.\na wetland near you\nNC Wetlands By the Numbers\n0 Seasons to Enjoy Wetlands\n0 Public Wetlands on our Map\n0 Wetland Photos in our Albums\nFun Facts about North Carolina\u2019s Wetlands\nWetlands act like sponges \u2013 absorbing water, cleaning it, and releasing it slowly.\nSome of the oldest trees in the world are in North Carolina! At least 2 bald cypress trees older than 2000 years old are located in the Three Sisters Swamp along the Black River in southeastern North Carolina.\nMore than 70% of North Carolina\u2019s protected species depend on wetlands to survive.\nLearn all about North Carolina\u2019s wetlands \u2013 the what/where/when/who of wetlands, their benefits to us, how they are studied, and how to help them. Includes factsheets, infographics, activities, lesson plans, curriculum connection, photos, and videos.\nDiscover what scientists are learning about North Carolina\u2019s wetlands. Connect to a database with results (e.g., plants, bugs, amphibians, water, soil) from wetland research projects, find summaries of major project findings, and download full project reports.\nHave wetlands on your property? It is important to know if North Carolina\u2019s rules and regulations require approval from the state before you make any changes to those wetlands. Explanations and links to the rules can be found here.\nWetlands are valuable to communities all across North Carolina. Many wetlands are undergoing negative changes, but there are ways people can get involved. Positive actions can be taken at home, locally, and internationally: find a way to get involved with wetlands.\nWetland Photos from North Carolina\nWetland Videos from North Carolina\nExplore your wetlands in North Carolina", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.neilwelch.com/blog/06072013-12-moons-solo-project-day-158", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:45Z", "digest": "sha1:44ALSFZ2E4G6NXEPDSZBMGQMJGJ2BOHF", "length": 1370, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.neilwelch.com", "title": "06/07/2013 (12 Moons Solo Project Day 158) \u2014 Neil Welch", "raw_content": "Location: A bathroom on the second floor at Benaroya Hall. Seattle, WA\nTonight I participated in a concert with saxophone great Roscoe Mitchell, performing several renditions of his seminal composition \u201cNonaah.\" Roscoe performed a solo set tonight which nearly brought me to tears with its beauty, power and commitment to the moment. I truly felt for the first time in my life that I was inside this man\u2019s instrument, breathing, exploring and pushing along with him. I even found that my breathing starting to coincide with his while he played, and I would become physically strained when it was clear to me that Roscoe was pushing himself to the point of discomfort. It was truly an inspirational night for me.\nI recorded this improvisation during the down time before out concert. I could not find a room on the second floor that was free from the sound of musicians sound checking or warming up. It was a welcome problem to have, and I eventually found my sonic respite in a bathroom on the second floor of the performance hall. There was no compositional model to this piece, though my mind was heavily invested in the thematic development of Roscoe\u2019s composition \"Nonaah,\u201d and this certainly influenced my train of through and artistic choices while sculpting this improvisation.\nThe image \u201cRed and Blue Composition\u201d accompanying today\u2019s post by Ad Reinhardt (1941)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.new-tzfat.com/index.php/about-zev", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:51Z", "digest": "sha1:N3U5FIB7KL2KU2DKCVASHECV3ZQWCXOI", "length": 3467, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.new-tzfat.com", "title": "Rebbe Zev", "raw_content": "Who Is Rebbe Zev?\nRabbi Zev-Hayyim Feyer received \u05e1\u05de\u05d9\u05db\u05d4 (Smichah, Ordination) in 1977. In keeping with the ancient Talmudic and early Hassidic traditions, he did not attend Yeshivah (Seminary); rather, in 1970, he attached himself as a student to Rabbi Joseph Gelberman\u05d6\u201d\u05dc of New York and studied for some seven years under the direction of Rabbi Gelberman and Rabbis Shlomo Carlebach\u05d6\u201d\u05dc and Zalman Schachter-Shalomi \u05d6\u201d\u05dc. Finally, in 1977, when his mentors determined that he was ready, they ordained him a rabbi.\nIn the early 1980s, Rabbi Feyer served for two years as the spiritual leader of Temple Bnai Israel, a Reform congregation in Anderson, South Carolina. He has also led less formal fellowship groups (havurot) in Washington, Atlanta, and Fort Lauderdale. From 1994 to 2002, he served as a hospital and hospice chaplain in Charleston SC, Kansas City, and San Diego, with specialties in Mental Health Chaplaincy and AIDS/HIV Chaplaincy. He holds the degree of Master of Arts in Religion from Claremont School of Theology, and he is enrolled in a PhD program in Hebrew Bible, also at Claremont School of Theology. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Jewish Peace Fellowship, the Council of Elders of the Shomer Shalom Institute for Jewish Non-Violence.\nRabbi Feyer has taught classes and led workshops (say, rather, \u201cplayshops\u201d) and seminars at churches, synagogues, mosques, and other spiritual centers throughout the United States and Canada. His subjects include Kabbalah (the Jewish metaphysical tradition and the foundation of all Western mysticism), Self-Esteem, Prosperity, Forgiveness, the Metaphysical Interpretation of Scripture, Spiritual Tales of Many Traditions, the Divine Commandment of Non-Violence, the Unity of Religious Traditions, and many related areas. His audiences have included synagogue groups, Islamic centers, Silva Mind Control Centers, and Episcopalian, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Catholic, Lutheran, Nazarene, Unity, Religious Science, Science of Mind, Divine Science, Unitarian-Universalist, and Metropolitan Community Church congregations in twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia, and three Canadian provinces.\nWhen asked about his approach to Kabbalah, Rabbi Feyer says that Kabbalah, while clearly and unmistakably the Jewish mystical tradition, is also much more than that. Unlike many other religious traditions, whose mystical elements are hidden or consigned to the status of an additional or peripheral aspect, Judaism finds its mysticism to be its heart and soul, its essence, its very life-force. Furthermore, Kabbalah, in addition to being the heart of Judaism, is also, as Rabbi Feyer puts it, \u201ca body of ancient universal mystical wisdom, preserved in a Jewish form but applicable to every faith tradition.\u201d\nIn describing his own theological orientation, Rabbi Feyer declares, \u201cI am a Jewish practitioner of generic religion. As a G*d-worshipper, I believe, I ought to be at home any place G*d is worshipped. At home, not just a visitor. I am also a radical monotheist; I do not believe in a \u2018your G*d\u2019 and a \u2018my G*d,\u2019 but simply in G*d, Who manifests in a vast variety of ways. Religion \u2013 all religion \u2013 is intended to be a force to bring people together \u2013 together with each other and together with G*d \u2013 and not to drive them apart. All our many Names for G*d do not divide G*d and should not be permitted to divide us. Separations and divisions are inherently irreligious acts.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 3660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newcolumbia.org/visitor-information/testimonials/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:24Z", "digest": "sha1:P5XS76SZYJADLC7HSELDGK6EJDPMWUGO", "length": 3339, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.newcolumbia.org", "title": "New Columbia \u2013 In North Portland's Portsmouth Neighborhood \u00bb Testimonials", "raw_content": "A group of local women who call themselves the Wednesday Women Walkers, visited New Columbia for a tour. With an interest in architecture, the group of 20 women laced up their sneakers and went for a walk to learn about everything from public art to the economic diversity of the community. Here is what they said:\n\u201cI like the way the community is mixed with young, old, renters and homeowners.\u201d\n\u201cGlad to have spent the morning with you and learning about New Columbia. I should have mentioned at the time that we hiker women were all around when the Women\u2019s Studies and Black Studies programs were beginning at the universities in the late 60\u2019s. A long road, believe me, led to those programs. It was fine to meet someone who had used that history and education to work for people.\u201d\u00c2\n\u201cI loved learning about NC because, as a west-sider who rarely ventures to your part of town, I was entirely unaware of the wonderful work that has been done to rejuvenate an area, create a lovely neighborhood and provide fine housing and an improved environment for the residents.\u00c2 The play equipment is so much fun, even for \u201cold\u201d people\u2026 If only we expended our national treasure to rebuild our communities and care for our people.\u00c2 What an improvement that would be for all of us.\u201d\nA group of 60 professionals traveled from England to New Columbia to learn about this unique community \u2013 stating that New Columbia is not just an interesting place to live, work or visit \u2013 but a model for combining housing and community.\u00c2 These professionals work in fields relating to sustainability, intergenerational\u00c2 programming & research, environmental conservation, urban planning and public policy.\u00c2 \u00c2 Here is what they shared:\n\u201cMy tour around New Columbia was a brilliant learning experience. I came to Portland on a study from Coventry, England and was extremely impressed with the physical re-development the community building that had taken place. The tour enabled me to see first-hand how New Columbia came to be what it is today, seeing the emphasis that is placed on green open spaces, and on the education and community facilities open to residents. I also found it extremely interesting to look around the exhibition documenting the individual stories of local residents, and feel that this focus on the past as well as the future must have added an important richness and context to the development of the new community.\u201d\n\u201cThis group was organized by the Urban Institute and the Institute of Community Cohesion to explore comparative approaches to housing based revitalization in the UK and US.\u00c2 Delegates were most impressed by New Columbia on three counts. First \u2013 the story of how the area was reborn through the dedicated work by the Housing Authority of Portland, local community organizations, and the residents. Second\u00c2 - the visionary leadership at a local level that has led to different types of housing and coming together of a community, in the true sense of the word. Third \u2013 the neighborhood vibrancy of community residents, teachers, and young people \u2013 all of whom loved being part of this community. It seemed to the UK delegates that New Columbia went back to the basics of community building pioneered by Cadbury and Rowntree in Birmingham and York. 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Several cases of drivers killing pedestrians have been reported in the recent past, as per the SDME 2016 annual report. Many studies have been compiled to identify the most dangerous intersections in San Diego.\nThe findings came up with close to two-hundred hotspots, including areas previously detected by pedestrian advocates.\nUniversity Avenue in San Diego has been notorious for its dangerous intersections that pose issues to people travelling by foot. The problem with this corridor is that pedestrians are not being given the right-of-way like before. Almost everyone is trying to cut ahead and there are people on their phones while walking or in their cars.\nStudies discovered that several perilous locations, leading to severe injuries and deaths, had wide streets and were close to major highways. For instance, the fourth most dangerous crossing on most lists was Chula Vista\u2019s 4th Avenue and C Street, located close to Interstate 5 and Route 54. The seventh most hazardous intersection was Camino Del Rio and Sports Arena Boulevard. These are two big traffic arteries feeding into Interstates 8 and 5 directly.\nThe popular pedestrian crossings along the roads, where you could see cars traveling at speeds more than thirty-five miles per hour, are leading to disaster. The relatively freeway-rich San Diego has made drivers very used to the notion of traveling faster.\nThe possibility of death goes up significantly as speed heightens the impact. The chances of death are twenty-five percent when a pedestrian is hit by a vehicle that\u2019s moving at a speed of close to twenty-three miles per hour\u2014at forty-two miles per hour, fatalities will occur half the time and ninety percent of the time when the speed is fifty-eight miles per hour.\nWith walking-friendly urban environments becoming popular, potential for car-pedestrian collisions are going up. In the densest areas, where people regularly traverse intersections in hordes, an etiquette of sorts has developed between motorists and pedestrians. The most hazardous areas are places where this informal etiquette involving negotiation and choreography has just started to evolve.\nIf you\u2019ve been involved in a road accident in San Diego, contact a car accident attorney in San Diego right away to procure compensation that you deserve for your property and personal losses.\nAuthor adminPosted on February 13, 2019 Categories Lawyer RecommendedLeave a comment on Most Dangerous Intersections in San Diego\nHow Does Negligence Work in Indiana Personal Injury Suits?\nMost injuries are sustained from accidents; nobody wants them to happen, but they come about anyway. Despite the lack of malicious intent, a closer look at the facts is likely to reveal some form of negligence by one or more parties. This carelessness may be used as basis to sue for compensation. So, how does negligence work in Indiana personal injury suits? Four elements must be present for negligence claims to be valid:\nFirst, the plaintiff will need to establish duty of care. The defendant should have a legal responsibility that should have benefited the plaintiff. For example, a doctor has the duty to care for his patients: he should provide them with competent medical advice and services. Motorists have the duty to follow traffic laws that should benefit fellow commuters and other road users. Employers have the duty to provide a reasonably safe environment for their workers. Owners of commercial establishments have the duty to care for their customers while they are on the premises.\nOnce the duty of care has been established, the next step is for the plaintiff to show that there was a breach of this duty. The defendant could have done this with or without full-knowledge. Failure to realize risk from actions or inactions is considered negligence, since a reasonable person in the same situation is expected to realize the fault. For example, a doctor may have failed to warn his patients about the risks involved in medical treatments before proceeding. Patients should be given pertinent information to help them make an intelligent, informed decision. An employer may have been negligent in giving workers proper training, safety gear, and well-maintained equipment.\nThe plaintiff must have sustained compensable losses. This could be in the form of a bodily injury which resulted in medical bills or perhaps property damage which will have to be remedied through repairs or replacement. These costly services can be a major financial burden to the plaintiff. It is reasonable to expect them to seek assistance in the form of monetary compensation from the person who has the legal liability. Other types of damages that can merit compensation include lost wages, reduced quality of life, and hardships that fall under the term \u201cpain and suffering.\u201d\nThe last step is to link the defendant\u2019s actions to the damages. Before compensation can be awarded, the plaintiff must prove to the court that the injuries suffered were truly caused by the defendant. If a motorist was following too closely and rear-ended the vehicle in front of it, then he or she will be liable for the damage to the car and any injuries to the occupants.\nNote that Indiana uses comparative fault in determining the award in a successful suit. If both parties are at-fault, then the final amount will be reduced in proportion to the blame. A plaintiff who is deemed have twenty percent of the fault will only be able to recover eighty percent of the damages. Learn more about this by consulting an Indianapolis injury attorney.\nAuthor adminPosted on February 4, 2019 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on How Does Negligence Work in Indiana Personal Injury Suits?\nFactors to Consider Before Choosing Surrogacy\nSurrogacy is the term that refers to the arrangement where a woman agrees to carry a baby, usually by legal agreement, on behalf of another person or persons. That person or couple will then become the parents of the baby or babies after she has given birth. People may consider surrogacy if pregnancy poses a risk to the life of the mother, when pregnancy is not possible due to medical reasons, or when a single man or a male couple wants to have a baby.\nThere are, however, several factors to consider before choosing surrogacy: the type of surrogacy you want, screening a surrogate, and the legal aspect.\nWhich Type of Surrogacy?\nThere are basically two types of surrogacy to choose from if you decide to use a surrogate:\nTraditional surrogacy\u2013 with this type of surrogacy, the surrogate is the genetic mother of the baby. Sperm from a donor, or the intended father, is used to fertilize the egg through artificial insemination and she would be the biological mother of the child.\nGeneral surrogacy \u2014 this is when sperm from a donor, or the intended father, is used to fertilize an egg from the intended mother in a lab and then the fertilized egg is transferred to the surrogate. In this case, the intended parents can be the biological parents.\nScreening a Surrogate\nFor parents planning surrogacy, there are a few important factors to consider before choosing a surrogate carrier (or becoming a surrogate). A lot of careful thought needs to go into making this choice, because it will affect not only the process, but also the health of the child.\nAccording to the experts the surrogate you choose should be older than twenty-one and should have already given birth in the past. This will increase the likelihood of fecundity and a successful birth.\nList all potential surrogates; make a short-list of the few that you feel comfortable with and do background checks on them. The background check of the surrogate should include not only her physical and medical conditions, but also the type of person she is. This is essential if you want the surrogate to remain an important part of your child\u2019s life and want to stay in touch with her.\nMedical screening should cover her medical history, including a genetic profile (if she is a traditional surrogate), obstetric history, and blood tests. A clean bill of health, certification that she is able to maintain a healthy pregnancy, negative results from infectious disease checks, and good levels to main pregnancy in blood tests are all signs to look for in a good surrogate. The type of person she is may be gauged by her overall lifestyle, including any history of alcohol and drug abuse.\nSurrogacy is a complicated procedure and you will need plenty of guidance along the way. Hire a surrogate agency, an attorney, and perhaps a counselor or therapist to help you and your surrogate to get through the complex process with as little emotional pain as possible for both parties.\nAuthor adminPosted on January 21, 2019 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Factors to Consider Before Choosing Surrogacy\nHow to Fight Back When You\u2019ve Received an Improper Ticket\nYou might have thought you were following all the rules of the road before you were pulled over. Sometimes, though, you might be pretty sure that you still were, even after being stopped. A police officer is still human, which means they can also make mistakes and serve improper tickets.\nUnfortunately, that means you might have received an unfair ticket. So, what can you do about it? Luckily, you\u2019ll have a chance to fight back when you\u2019re given a ticket, especially with lawyers like the Hersem Law traffic ticket attorneys. When you\u2019ve been ticketed unfairly, you may have a chance to get that ticket dropped.\nInstead of fighting it, though, you may be thinking about just accepting the costs and dealing with the ticket. Ill-advisedly, that could leave you struggling with the penalties of a ticket. The fees alone, for example, might be costly, and you may want to avoid those charges.\nDeplorably, the consequences don\u2019t stop at fees. Instead, you\u2019ll also have points on your license, which can affect you in the long-term. These points are added to your license for every ticket for which you\u2019re found guilty. If these points continue to add up, your license might be suspended, leaving you unable to drive and still paying for your tickets and your vehicle.\nGet Evidence\nOnce you\u2019ve decided to fight an unfair ticket, you\u2019ll first need to gather evidence that your ticket should be dismissed. After all, it\u2019s your word against the officer\u2019s, and that doesn\u2019t put you at an advantage. Instead, you\u2019ll need to fight back with evidence that you were not violating any traffic laws.\nFor example, you might have been pulled over in one area, but your ticket states that you were in a separate area with a lower speed limit. You\u2019ll need to document that, showing that you couldn\u2019t have been in that location at the time. Any evidence that you weren\u2019t breaking these laws should be gathered to help get your ticket dismissed.\nDispute Your Ticket\nThe next step is to dispute your ticket. To do so, you\u2019ll first need to plead not guilty to the traffic ticket. You\u2019ll simply go to the county clerk\u2019s office and notify them that you choose to plead not guilty.\nOnce you\u2019ve done that, you\u2019ll be given a date for your day in traffic court. During your date in court, you and your attorney will present your evidence, which may convince them that you\u2019ve received an improper ticket. If your evidence is strong enough, you may have the charges against you dismissed, avoiding the charges.\nGet the Right Attorney\nBefore you get started, though, make sure you have the right traffic ticket lawyer on your side for a successful case. Dealing with a case on your own can be difficult, and you may not have a complete understanding of the laws governing your case. That means a wrong move could leave you with high fees and long-term penalties for your ticket.\nOpportunely, you have the chance to fight back with the help of an attorney. They can give you the tools and resources you need to understand your ticket and how to fight back. A traffic ticket can be a serious expense, so when it\u2019s unnecessary, it may be best to fight back.\nAuthor adminPosted on January 11, 2019 Categories Lawyer RecommendedLeave a comment on How to Fight Back When You\u2019ve Received an Improper Ticket\nKeep Austin Roads Safe\nExperts estimate that most Austin residents spend about twenty-five minutes to get to work. This makes it imperative for the government as well as the people to take steps to keep Austin roads safe. Some of the common reasons for car accidents include drunk driving, reckless driving, distracted driving, and speeding. This essentially means that most auto accidents could have been avoided if the driver or had been more responsible or paid more attention to the road and traffic.\nHow Can Citizens Keep Austin Roads Safe?\nAccording to Austin police data sixty percent of fatal car accidents were attributed to driver impairment caused using drugs or alcohol. One third of car crashes involved either a driver without a license or one with a suspended license. Also, while more than half of the fatalities caused by the accidents were drivers and passengers, approximately thirty percent were pedestrians. Thus, when one considers the issue of how to keep Austin roads safe, a multipronged approach is recommended.\nDrivers are responsible for their behavior on the road and must understand how their driving affects passengers and other vehicles. Distracted driving is fast becoming a leading cause for motor accidents. Texting, as well as reading texts, takes the driver\u2019s attention off the road for an average of more than four seconds. This is akin to driving the length of a football field blind! Cell phone use during driving reduces brain functioning considerably. The Texan traffic law states that while it is illegal to text and drive, it is okay to answer calls. However, it is best to put off using your phone, even to answer calls, when you are driving.\nPersonal responsibility is an important factor when it comes to the steps people can take to keep Austin roads safe. It is vital that drivers do not get behind the wheel when they are impaired by alcohol or drugs. They also need to be calm and have their wits about them. So, if they are angry or upset about something, it is a good idea to take few minutes to calm down before they consider driving. Drivers and passengers must always wear their seat belts while the vehicle is in motion.\nLegality is also an important factor regarding accidents and personal injury. The at-fault party should take responsibility for their actions and compensate the injured and an Austin injury attorney can help with that process, from filing a lawsuit to negotiating for the best possible settlement. Keeping irresponsible and impaired drivers off the road is an important factor to keeping Austin roads safe.\nHow Can the Government Keep Austin Roads Safe?\nThe government is taking steps to address the growing automobile accidents at certain intersections in the city. This includes the creation of turn-only lanes and the use of plastic pylons that will help drivers avoid making sharp and dangerous turns. In 2014, the Vision Zero task force was created with the aim of reducing traffic deaths by focusing on infrastructure, law enforcement, and education.\nAuthor adminPosted on December 21, 2018 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Keep Austin Roads Safe\nCommon Mistakes People Make When Getting Divorced\nMaking the decision to end your marriage is never easy. Once you finally do, you may dread the upcoming divorce process, or feel relieved at the thought of moving forward with your life.\nHowever, getting divorced isn\u2019t as simple as you might think. In an effort to protect themselves from being taken advantage of by their soon-to-be ex, people are known to make serious mistakes that wind up hurting them. Below, we discuss what these most common errors are, and what you can do to prevent yourself from making the same mistakes.\nBeing Overly Aggressive\nIn an effort to \u201cone-up\u201d their spouse and/or protect themselves from being taken advantage of by their spouse, many people make the mistake of being overly aggressive during divorce proceedings.\nThere are many points of contention that must be addressed before your divorce will be finalized, including the distribution of your marital assets, alimony, and child custody or support where applicable.\nWhen one spouse demands that they retain the majority of the marital property, custody of the children, refuses to pay spousal support, and is otherwise unwilling to compromise, things can get even more difficult than they already are.\nRefusal to compromise will usually result in your case being sent to the judge, where he or she will then make these decisions on your behalf. The spouse who refused to negotiate will likely find themselves far worse off than they would have if they had worked with their spouse to resolve these issues amicably.\nFocusing Too Much on Being Fair\nOn the other side of the spectrum, spouses who are focused entirely too much on being fair will often find themselves being take advantage of by their ex. It is completely understandable that you would want to retain certain assets and may be willing to pay spousal support to your soon-to-be former spouse when they\u2019ve relied on you financially for a significant portion of your marriage.\nHowever, if your spouse knows that you are willing to give them whatever they ask for to simply get the divorce finalized, you could end up with far less than you are actually entitled to, and regret it later.\nIt\u2019s easy to end up in either of the aforementioned situations when you\u2019re ready to end your marriage, but you can protect yourself by getting help from a qualified attorney.\nYou can go over the details of your divorce with your attorney prior to discussing them with your spouse. In fact, it may be well-advised to allow your attorneys to handle your disputes so that you can remain as cordial as possible for the duration of your divorce.\nOnce you retain a lawyer, you\u2019ll have the opportunity to discuss assets that you are interested in keeping for yourself, whether you\u2019ll need to receive or pay alimony, and what child custody and support would be in the best interests of your children.\nFrom there, your lawyer can work with your spouse\u2019s attorney to come to an agreement that will work for everyone in the family, so that you aren\u2019t at each other\u2019s throats throughout your divorce proceedings.\nGet Help from a Rancho Cucamonga Divorce Lawyer\nWhen you want to make sure that you aren\u2019t making the same mistakes we\u2019ve described above but you aren\u2019t sure how to do so, reach out to an experienced divorce attorney in Rancho Cucamonga who can help ensure that you aren\u2019t taken advantage of.\nDivorce is difficult enough without adding these mistakes to the mix. You can be sure that your lawyer will always be looking out for your best interests, and that of any children you and your spouse share.\nAuthor adminPosted on December 12, 2018 Categories Lawyer RecommendedLeave a comment on Common Mistakes People Make When Getting Divorced\nGetting What You Need out of Your No-Fault Claim\nYou\u2019ve survived a car accident, but you\u2019re now dealing with accident-related injuries. You may even still be in the hospital recovering from the wreck. You know you should file a claim to receive a check from your no-fault insurance company to pay for all the accident-caused expenses you\u2019re dealing with.\nYou are being handed hospital bills, you are missing time from work, and you don\u2019t even want to think about how your vehicle looks after the crash. Maybe your car has even been totaled. What are you going to do? How are you going to get the most out of your no-fault insurance policy to see that you receive the money you\u2019re owed?\nUnderstanding No-Fault Insurance in New York\nFiling a no-fault insurance claim in New York is easy in theory, but it can be much more difficult than people imagine. Even your own insurance company doesn\u2019t always want to pay you what\u2019s fair for your accident and damages.\nYou may not have to prove that another party was at-fault because you live in a no-fault state, but that doesn\u2019t mean you wouldn\u2019t have to prove other things to your insurer. You will have to prove the extent of your injuries for one thing. You will also have to prove that the medical treatment you received was \u201creasonable and necessary.\u201d\nWhy are Insurance Companies So Difficult to Deal With?\nInsurers may try to deny part of your claim, suggesting that your injuries aren\u2019t as serious as you\u2019re claiming. They may refuse to pay you for some of your medical bills, by stating that the treatment wasn\u2019t necessary.\nThe fact of the matter is that insurance companies will do anything they can to lower your claim\u2019s value. They want to keep as much money as they can, so they will try to pay you less.\nHiring a Lawyer to Help With Your No-Fault Claim\nUnless you know a lot about no-fault insurance you may want to look into hiring a car accident attorney. Your attorney can assist you greatly in dealing with your insurance company. Your attorney can argue your case, communicate with the insurance company, and keep them from taking advantage of you.\nAssistance with Your Claim From an NYC Car Crash Attorney\nYou might not think it\u2019s necessary to have a lawyer help with a no-fault claim, but it\u2019s not a bad idea to have one. Your attorney will ensure that you are paid for your medical expenses, missed wages, and other benefits your insurance policy provides.\nAn NYC no-fault auto accident lawyer will also see that you file all paperwork accurately, that your losses are well documented, and that the insurance company treats you fairly.\nAuthor adminPosted on November 9, 2018 Categories Lawyer RecommendedLeave a comment on Getting What You Need out of Your No-Fault Claim\nDoes Sacramento Allow DUI Checkpoints?\nHave you been caught in a DUI checkpoint? It can be incredibly frustrating when you\u2019ve been ticketed for driving under the influence, but you weren\u2019t actually pulled over because your driving was poor; rather, you were \u201ccaught\u201d in a checkpoint.\nSacramento does allow DUI checkpoints, but there are some rules associated with them. If you know more about these rules, you may be able to avoid the checkpoints entirely, or you could fight against a DUI charge.\nFighting a charge may seem intimidating, but there\u2019s often a way to win. If the officers at the checkpoint didn\u2019t follow the law perfectly, you can prove that your rights were violated. Read on for more information on the rules in California pertaining to DUI checkpoints.\nThe DUI Checkpoint Rules in Sacramento\nThe following are some of the rules that California law requires those in charge of DUI checkpoints to follow.\nThe checkpoint must be in a reasonable and safe location.\nThe method of stopping drivers (e.g. every third car) must be random.\nThe supervising officers are the ones who can make operating decisions.\nReasonable safety precautions must be taken.\nThe time and location of the DUI checkpoint must be in good judgment.\nThe checkpoint must show that it\u2019s an official stopping place.\nRoadblocks must also be advertised in advance, publicly.\nIf the DUI checkpoint where you were stopped doesn\u2019t adhere to these rules, then you will have an excellent case if you\u2019re trying to fight against your DUI charge.\nIf you believe that something was amiss at the DUI checkpoint where you were stopped you could try fighting against your charge. There are ways to keep a drunk driving crime off your record, but you won\u2019t be able to do so if you plead guilty to the crime. Once the charge is on your record it\u2019s there to stay. You will be affected by your charge for life.\nNegative Consequences of a Sacramento DUI Conviction\nThere are many negative effects of receiving a DUI conviction. For starters, the DUI can make it very difficult for you to secure good employment, or you could even lose your job if convicted. Some employers won\u2019t even consider an applicant that has a DUI on their record, or that has any crime on their record.\nYour crime could also greatly impact your finances, if you can\u2019t get a job because of the crime on your record. It can also keep you from earning a better wage in the future.\nYou could also be forced to pay substantial DUI fines, and there are almost certainly license-related fees. Not to mention the cost of an ignition interlock device, which all those who are convicted of a DUI in Sacramento are forced to install in their vehicle, regardless of whether it was a first offense.\nOther negative effects of a DUI conviction include:\nFamily life will be affected\nEmbarrassment/humiliation\nCan impact future sentencing for other crimes\nNeed Some Help from a DUI Attorney in the Sacramento Area?\nHave you been charged with a DUI? Whether you were stopped at a checkpoint or an officer pulled you over, that conviction will change your life. Get help keeping a charge off your record by working with a DUI lawyer in Sacramento.\nAuthor adminPosted on October 30, 2018 Categories Lawyer RecommendedLeave a comment on Does Sacramento Allow DUI Checkpoints?\nStrange Laws in Illinois\nEvery state in the U.S. has laws. It is what keeps peace and harmony in the state. Laws also make people safe. Illinois, like all states, have laws and most of them make sense. There are certain laws in the State of Illinois; however, that just don\u2019t make sense. To learn more about strange laws in Illinois, read on.\nIn Normal, Illinois, it is Against the Law to Urinate on Street Signs\nThis law was written after what people call the \u201cbeer riot\u201d. It occurred in the early 80\u2019s. According to this law, residents are not allowed to urinate on street signs. There are a few things that make this law crazy. First, it is illegal to urinate on any public street. Second, to urinate on a street sign, it would take a lot of skill. In Champaign, Illinois, it is illegal to urinate in your neighbor\u2019s mouth. This law is beyond bizarre.\nIn Decatur, Don\u2019t Drive without a Steering Wheel\nIf you don\u2019t have a steering wheel in your car while driving, you could be arrested. In theory, this law makes sense. However, if you know anything about cars, you know that you couldn\u2019t possibly drive without a steering wheel. Since it would be impossible, this is a pretty strange law.\nIn Mount Pulaski, Snowball Fights are Sexist\nIn this town it is illegal for girls to throw snowballs but boys are allowed. This is a pretty sexist law which leads you to believe that it was written decades ago. On a snow day, boys can participate in a snowball fight but girls cannot. There is a good chance that the law isn\u2019t enforced because if a boy hits a girl with a snowball, she should be allowed to throw one back.\nIn Bloomington, You Cannot Feed the Birds if You Live within a Mile of Downtown Square\nThis law makes sense in theory. If you feed the birds within a mile of downtown, they will flock to your home looking for more food. This can result is noise and bird droppings being left on people in the square. Since the police aren\u2019t going to search residents\u2019 yards for bird feeders, it is a pretty strange law.\nIt is Illegal to Hang Anything from Your Rearview Mirror\nMost people buy air fresheners to hang from their rearview mirror to keep their cars smelling nice. Others hang their baby\u2019s shoes from the mirror, and some hang big fuzzy dice. If you live in Illinois, you might want to think twice about hanging anything from your mirror because it is illegal. This is an odd law since drivers all over the country hang things from their rearview mirror.\nIn Galesburg, You Cannot Own a Smelly Dog\nNobody likes a dog that smells. Officials in Galesburg, Illinois hate it so much that they wrote a law that makes it illegal. It is hard to see how this law can be enforced, however. The chances that the police go door to door smelling dogs are slim to none.\nYou Will be Fined if You Beat a Rat With a Baseball Bat in Galesburg\nMost people don\u2019t like rats. However, they wouldn\u2019t go as far as beating them with a baseball bat. If you are sick enough to do this and you live in Galesburg, you can be fined $1,000. It might be cheaper to hire an exterminator.\nYou Can be Fined for Mispronouncing Joliet\nThe Town Fathers in Joliet hated when people mispronounced the name of their town. Many people pronounced it, Jolly-Ette. They hated it so much that they made mispronouncing the town\u2019s name a misdemeanor which is punishable by a $5 fine. Talk about being strict. If you do break this law and somehow you are arrested, the lawyers Hipskind & McAninch, LLC can help.\nIn Kirkland, Bees are Not Allowed to Fly Over the Town or Over the Street\nThis is a pretty strange law considering it is the bee that would be prosecuted. If a bee does fly in no-fly zones, is it taken to jail? Will it sting the arresting officer first? Is this a crime? This is a really crazy law.\nIn Moline, it is Illegal to Ice Skate During July or August\nThis law is insane, because how can one go ice skating in Moline during July and August when these are the hottest months of the year?\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_feeding\nAuthor adminPosted on October 16, 2018 Categories UncategorizedLeave a comment on Strange Laws in Illinois\nNew Mexico Personal Injury Lawsuit Checklist\nPeople who are injured by someone else\u2019s negligence in New Mexico have the opportunity to bring a personal injury case in New Mexico civil courts. However, if you are hurt by a government employee or agency, the situation will need to adhere to different rules that dictate tort claims against government agencies, employees and entities in New Mexico. The following article will explain the key points or rules pertaining to a case of this nature.\nThe New Mexico tort claims act states that government employees and entities are granted immunity from liability for any tort. However, exceptions do exist and that leads to the next question.\nAccording to this tort claims act, it insinuates that government employees and entities cannot be held liable even if they cause harm to a private person or company. However there are several exceptions and it is possible to seek compensation from the government in New Mexico if you are injured as a result of a car accidents whereby the car was driven by a government employee who was carrying out his duties at the time. You may also qualify for compensation if your injuries resulted from dangerous or defective property such as a slip and fall incidents or even a physical attack caused by inefficient security or perhaps even a physical attack by a government employee.\nYou may also seek compensation for medical malpractice caused by a government employee who was working in the healthcare institution. Negligence claims pertaining to maintenance of public roads and streets or construction including pictures, sidewalks, alleys and parking lots are also allowed. Compensation may also be given for injuries arising from the way of government or any of its employees working at an airport.\nSince exceptions do exist for every possible scenario, meaning that there are exceptions to the exceptions, it is advisable that you read over New Mexico\u2019s statutes and also speak to a qualified attorney or personal injury lawyer before pursuing a personal injury claim against the government.\nIf you believe that you stand a good chance of receiving compensation for your injuries, then your claim must be filed within two years of the date of injury. However, if the injured person is younger than seven years, at the time of injury, that individual has until his or her ninth birthday to file a claim. The rule is that if the claim is not filed within the two-year period, it will not be heard in court.\nIn cases of damages under the new tort claims act, the government can be expected to pay approximately $200,000 for property damage, $300,000 for past and future medical expenses and $400,000 for damages not resulting from property damage or medical bills. Ultimately, under the new act, the government will not pay more than $750,000 to any individual for damages in any one claim. Injured parties are also not allowed to seek punitive damages in claims against the New Mexico government. In addition to bringing a lawsuit against the state government, victims of personal injury can also bring claims against the local and municipal government bodies in New Mexico.\nhttps://www.nmcourts.gov/\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_injury\nAuthor adminPosted on October 3, 2018 Categories Lawyer RecommendedLeave a comment on New Mexico Personal Injury Lawsuit Checklist\nLawyer Recommended\nNHMCCD.cc Proudly powered by WordPress", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 33739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.niit.tv/course/Science/moores-law", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:LNIW56SGTXVBOWN64ER2DNG2FEVY353O", "length": 279, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.niit.tv", "title": "MooreS Law", "raw_content": "Moores law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every 18 months. The law is named after Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation, who described the trend in his 1965 paper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 4243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 80.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.njeitimah-outlook.com/articles/article/2076046/145944.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:MLZHR3V2CKEYXVMMLVGKMSNXZ7WXSKK7", "length": 3974, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.njeitimah-outlook.com", "title": "Indian Impact on Cameroon Visible", "raw_content": "Articles on political and social issues in Cameroon, Africa and the world as seen by Njei Moses Timah > Indian Impact on Cameroon Visible\nStock taking on the Occasion of Indian Independence Day Celebration in Douala.\nIndians and some of their friends in Cameroon\u2019s economic capital Douala came together (Aug 15) at La Falaise Hotel Bonanjo to celebrate the 63rd anniversary of India\u2019s Independence. During the occasion, the Indian Honorary Consul in Cameroon J. Ravikumar, highlighted the achievements of India since independence and those of the Indo-Cameroonian cooperation that date back to five decades.\nHis speech apparently appeared as that of chest beating on the part of India but I preferred to view it as a lesson to Cameroon and other African countries. In the presence of the Littoral governor and the Government Delegate to Douala city council, the honorary consul was apparently and indirectly telling Cameroon that; \u201cLook, India was in a worse situation than Cameroon at Independence but see where she is today\u201d. It was more like encouraging Cameroon and other African countries to copy their example.\nHere are excerpts from his speech. \u201cIndia (pop 1.2 billion) is today the world\u2019s largest democracy\u201d and \u201cin the last few years [India\u2019s economy] has sustained a growth of 9% with poverty coming down from 46% in 1980 to a projected 16% in 2010\u201d. With 400 million people in 1947, India was then a recipient of food aid compared to today that India is not only feeding its 1.2 billion people but is able to export food. According to him, India is the world\u2019s 4th largest economy, the largest producer of milk and tea, the largest producer and exporter of generic medicines. He continued; \u201c390 Fortune 500 companies have outsourced software development to India, with 125 Fortune 500 companies having R&D bases there\u201d\nAlso highlighted was the well known Indian leadership in film production (about 1000 a year) and the contribution of Indians to the growth of the IT industry and other professions. The honorary consul said that there were currently \u201c30,000 Indian doctors in the USA, and Indian Americans constitute 33% of NASA workforce, and they are the highest income ethnic group in the U.S. A\u201d\nOn the relation between India and Cameroon, the Honorary consul mentioned the rising trade figures between India and Cameroon even though the latter is in deficit (USD 92 million Indian exports to Cameroon compared to USD 27 million exports to India from Cameroon).\nRecently India donated \u201cTelemedicine\u201d and \u201cTele-education\u201d worth USD 3million to Cameroon. Telemedicine equipment (located at CHU Yaounde) enables Cameroonian patients to be consulted online by Indian-based specialists and also enables them to carry out some diagnostic test online. Tele-education on the other hand is a virtual university whose equipment is currently at the University of Yaounde 1 and Ecole Polytechnic de Yaounde. It means that students can follow lectures from the linked Indian University from these bases in Yaounde. According to the Honorary Consul, 60 students are already taking advantage of tele-education to pursue their Master\u2019s in computer technology.\nThe brief ceremony included the singing of the national anthems of the two countries and raising the Indian flag. It ended with a cocktail party. According to information obtained from the Indian High Commission in Nigeria (that also covers Cameroon), there are about 500 Indians in Cameroon who are predominantly businessmen.\nYou can read my other India-related articles by clicking the links below\nVisit to India 2005\nIn Mumbai: http://www.njeitimah-outlook.com/articles/article/2076041/30622.htm\nIn Jaipur: http://www.njeitimah-outlook.com/articles/article/2076041/27282.htm\nIn Agra: http://www.njeitimah-outlook.com/articles/article/2076041/30685.htm\nIn Bhiwadi: http://www.njeitimah-outlook.com/articles/article/2076041/30689.htm\nIn Delhi : http://www.njeitimah-outlook.com/articles/article/2076041/30690.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 4264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.northshorelaw.com/author/admin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BY2MRAGWWMXRGCHQ2K6QSYDOZRYHPEGL", "length": 1297, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.northshorelaw.com", "title": "admin, Author at North Vancouver Injury & Family Law | North Shore Law Firm", "raw_content": "Yes, you can represent yourself in a criminal court, although it is recommended that you use a lawyer with experience in criminal law. This will reduce your personal stress and [...]\nCan I Represent Myself in a Criminal Court?admin2019-01-29T03:31:14+00:00\nOwners and occupiers have a legal obligation to ensure their property is reasonably safe. If this duty is not met and a visitor suffers injuries as a result, there may [...]\nOccupiers\u2019 Liability and Dangerous Premises Claimsadmin2019-01-08T18:56:17+00:00\nIn British Columbia, a Representation Agreement is a legal document that allows you to appoint another person or persons, to make important decisions on your behalf. The people you appoint [...]\nWhat is a Representation Agreement?admin2018-12-28T17:18:23+00:00\nCycling always carries risks, but during the winter months the dangers become even greater. The roads are wet and slippery, visibility is poor and other road users may not be [...]\nCycling Safety \u2013 Staying Safe on the Roads as a Cyclistadmin2018-12-05T16:38:50+00:00\nIf your employer accuses you of theft or fraud, you should speak to a criminal defence lawyer straightaway. Being convicted of such a crime can have a devastating impact on [...]\nWhat to do if Your Employer Accuses You of Theftadmin2018-11-29T02:57:06+00:00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 217.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ntdngdonetwork.org/members/carter-center", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:36Z", "digest": "sha1:INIQ63NM2FQDQPLX3OJGAI76VC6LIC5N", "length": 1807, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ntdngdonetwork.org", "title": "The Carter Center | Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network", "raw_content": "Members / The Carter Center\nThe Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and health worldwide. A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, The Carter Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 70 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; improving mental health care; and teaching farmers to increase crop production. As part of its neglected disease prevention work, the Center seeks to eliminate blinding trachoma. In partnership with Lions Clubs International Foundation, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Pfizer Inc, International Trachoma Initiative, and ministries of health, the Center helps implement the SAFE strategy\u2014surgery, antibiotics, face and hand washing, and environmental hygiene.\nThe Carter Center has supported approximately 30 percent of the total global output of trichiasis surgeries, which are performed in local communities by trained health workers. The Carter Center is the lead organization worldwide focusing on the environmental facet of trachoma control, having assisted the construction of approximately 2.1 million household latrines since 2002 to help control the breeding of eye-seeking flies, an important source of trachoma infection. More than 56 million doses of Zithromax\u00ae have been distributed in Carter Center-supported areas and through Carter Center support, over 10,000 villages are currently benefitting from ongoing health education. As part of its neglected disease prevention work, The Carter Center, in partnership with the national programs, seeks to eliminate blinding trachoma in six African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, and Sudan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 176.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nthzine.com/permanent-detention/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:02Z", "digest": "sha1:PT6PXXK2QH6FVQIYDQJ53D7ZT7JHAIIP", "length": 87571, "nlines": 536, "source_domain": "www.nthzine.com", "title": "Permanent Detention \u2013 Nth Degree", "raw_content": "by Allen Coyle\nI saw a woman recently. I mean a real woman; not a magazine clip-out or a poster. Honest to god, a real-life woman.\nIt\u2019d been more than twelve years since I\u2019d seen one.\nIt was Clancy who introduced us. He\u2019s the captain of the guards. Over the years he seems to have taken a liking to me. I\u2019m not sure why. I think maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019m soft-spoken and obedient, and not loud and rebellious like some of the others. I don\u2019t give him any problems.\nIt was after dinner when, unannounced, Clancy asked me to accompany him to the fifth floor. Much of the area is restricted, but I\u2019d been there before to clean\u2014under a guard\u2019s supervision, of course. They keep a sharp eye on you here.\nI figured maybe he\u2019d spilled some coffee and needed a trustee to clean it up. So I was surprised when he led me down the corridor and into a large, dark room filled with files. Along the far wall, nestled between two shelves, stood a tall, nondescript door. Clancy unlocked it and swung it open, revealing a room that was a mirror image of the one we were in.\nAnd there she stood, as if she were waiting. I gasped, and froze.\nShe, too, was accompanied by a guard\u2014an older woman. And like me, she wore the regulation uniform: white shirt, white pants, white sneakers, white socks. All white. She had a wide-eyed, deer-in-the-headlights look\u2014as I\u2019m sure I did\u2014and she stood with her knees slightly bent, as if she was prepared to scamper. She sort of reminded me of a young Scarlett Johansson, that actress from the old-time movies I liked to watch, before I came here. She had the deep, mature eyes; the red, parted lips. And her light, blonde hair flowed in waves well past her shoulders.\nClancy let out a laugh\u2014a loud, whooping, bottom-of-the-belly laugh, which made his large gut quiver.\n\u201cWell,\u201d he said, \u201cdon\u2019t just stand there staring at each other. Say something! Introduce yourselves!\u201d\nBut I couldn\u2019t say anything. I couldn\u2019t. And neither, it seemed, could she. We both just gazed, awestruck, as if trying to comprehend one another\u2019s existence.\n\u201cWe wanted you to have the opportunity to meet,\u201d Clancy said. \u201cYou\u2019re both nearly thirty, and we thought you deserved a nice birthday present.\u201d\nHe and the female guard shared a knowing smile. The girl and I remained speechless.\nClancy checked his watch. \u201cWe\u2019ll give you both a half hour. The corridors will be clear. Introduce yourselves; get to know one another. Make the most of your time, because we can\u2019t promise another opportunity like this. The risk is too great.\n\u201cAnd whatever you do,\u201d he continued, \u201cdon\u2019t talk too loudly. These rooms echo, and your voices might carry.\u201d\nHe took a step toward me then and clasped my shoulder, almost in a reassuring way, like a father encouraging his son before a big date. He said nothing more; he simply squeezed and let go. He had a large, brawny hand, and I felt small under his grip.\nClancy and the female guard looked at each other, then both retreated to their own wings, like duelers marching in opposite directions. Clancy left through the door behind me; the female guard, through the door behind the girl. The latches clicked into place loudly, making me jump. More than anything, I hate the sound of doors closing\u2014especially the barred door of my cell when it slams shut at night. Even after all these years, I\u2019ve never gotten used to it.\nWe looked at each other, the young woman and I. My mouth and throat were dry. She tried to smile, but her lips were shaking. Her whole body, in fact, was shaking. Mine was, too. And the fifth floor was warm, especially on this particular summer evening.\nI swallowed. \u201cHi,\u201d I said.\nShe let out a nervous laugh. \u201cHi.\u201d\n\u201cI, ah\u2026\u201d I let my voice trail off. \u201cDo you know what this is all about?\u201d\n\u201cNo.\u201d She shook her head. \u201cI really\u2026 I don\u2019t know.\u201d She raised her shoulders, her head tilted. She forced a smile. It was awkward, almost like a wince, but nonetheless endearing.\nI tried to smile back. I can only imagine how I looked. Grotesque, probably. \u201cI\u2019m Paul. I\u2019m\u2026 it\u2019s good to meet you.\u201d\nAnother nervous laugh. \u201cHi Paul.\u201d She smiled, though, and this time, it didn\u2019t seem quite as forced.\nI grinned. \u201cHi.\u201d\nAll this stuttering and stammering, you\u2019d have thought we were inexperienced teenagers.\nWhich made sense, in a way. The last time we\u2019d interacted with members of the opposite sex, we\u2019d both been in high school.\nI\u2019d always known there was a women\u2019s wing. All of us did. It was a place of legend: a mystical location we could only dream about, but never visit. I imagined it to be a mirror image of the men\u2019s wing, with cells and a cafeteria and a library and classrooms, except with women inmates instead of men.\nNot especially imaginative, but exciting nevertheless.\nOthers speculated it was a paradise filled with luxurious amenities, including a private deck for sunbathing, and a spa where the women could soak in mud. An oasis so close, and yet so far. Someone always would claim to have seen it\u2014to have snuck in once, undetected\u2014but when prodded for details, their elaborate story would sputter to snickers and a shaking of the head.\nIt was all bullshit, of course, but a way to pass the time. And when you\u2019re dragging a rake across the dirt exercise yard, grooming the sand, or wiping spots off of hot trays that the dishwasher missed, you need a way to fill the void\u2014the aching emptiness in your life. And if you\u2019ve got nothing else, bullshit works quite nicely.\nThe conversations about the women\u2019s wing made me feel young and immature, like a five-year-old and his buddies envisioning what it must be like in the girls\u2019 restroom. Deep down, you suspect it\u2019s nothing spectacular\u2014probably no different from the boys\u2019 restroom (except for the lack of urinals, of course)\u2014but it\u2019s nonetheless alluring because it\u2019s off-limits and forbidden.\nFor all of us hard up male inmates, legends of the women\u2019s wing became our grown-up version of the girls\u2019 restroom.\nI knew the main entrance to the women\u2019s wing was from the lobby, the same as the men\u2019s. I\u2019d been to the lobby plenty of times\u2014always with a guard escort, of course\u2014sometimes to visit the warden\u2019s office, but most often to mop the floors in the visitors\u2019 area. I\u2019d seen the entrance to the wing, but the double doors were always closed tight. I couldn\u2019t get so much as a glimpse inside.\nI\u2019d never have guessed that the men\u2019s and women\u2019s wings connected from within, especially from a nondescript door in a random filing room on the fifth floor. Of course, if I\u2019d have told any of the guys about the door, they\u2019d have laughed me off; said I was full of shit. Thing was, though, I had no desire to tell. It wasn\u2019t that I wanted to keep the secret to myself. It was that telling the guys would tarnish my memory of meeting the woman\u2014cheapen the experience somehow. Because there was more to that encounter than simply getting a glimpse into the proverbial women\u2019s wing.\nThat night, you see, for the first time in my life, I fell in love.\nThe woman\u2019s name was Pam. She was a couple of months younger than me\u2014we both were twenty-nine\u2014and she\u2019d been in Permanent Detention since she was sixteen. Sixteen. Like me, she\u2019d spent almost half of her life in this place.\nShe\u2019d never even had the chance to get her driver\u2019s license.\nIt took awhile for us to get over our nervousness, but once we got going, we talked and talked and talked. The conversation just flowed. I\u2019d never known I had so much to say. I never was much of a talker to begin with, and over the years I found I spoke less and less. It seemed the longer you spent in Permanent Detention, the more difficult small talk became.\nMainly, we chatted about our present lives and our living conditions. Like most inmates, we spent our days working in the laundry (separate facilities, of course; you can imagine the kick male inmates would get sniffing female garments). We also pulled kitchen duty from time to time, and both of us liked to spend Sundays reading in our cells.\nLike me, good behavior had helped elevate Pam to trustee status, which allowed her special library privileges and access to otherwise forbidden areas, such as the officers\u2019 lounge. (Not to hang out, of course, but to clean\u2014being the meek, obedient little servants we were.)\nWe didn\u2019t touch at all throughout our conversation\u2026 except at one point I did clasp her hand. I\u2019m not sure why; it felt right. She let me; she didn\u2019t recoil. Her hand felt very soft, and very warm, and it filled my whole body with a tingling sensation I hadn\u2019t felt for years, as if dead nerves were sparking to life.\nI\u2019d wanted to kiss her\u2014in fact, I ached to kiss her\u2014and it wasn\u2019t because of any sexual urge, but rather a desire to get close to her, to meld with her\u2014to become almost as a single living entity. I suddenly wanted to feel connected to someone\u2014attached. I wanted to feel her warm skin pressed against mine; her soft hands clasped inside mine. I wanted to feel her head on my shoulder, her hair in my face\u2026 and I wanted to hold her and protect her from the world; from the pale gray walls of the institution; from the bleakness of our reality\u2014from the harshness of our world.\nBut we didn\u2019t kiss. Our hands, instead, slackened\u2026 and our fingers slid apart. Not because we didn\u2019t want to hold hands, but rather, I sensed, from a tacit understanding that we were treading on forbidden territory\u2026 and that we only were setting ourselves up for a more painful goodbye.\nThat half hour flew faster than any time I\u2019ve ever known. And when the door behind me clicked open and Clancy returned, I wanted to cry. But I somehow contained myself as he led me from the filing room and downstairs to the main cell block, accompanying me to 4D, fourth cell from the left\u2014my home for the past dozen years. He called out to the operator, and the barred door slid shut behind me.\nIt was only when I was curled up in my bunk with my back to the corridor, facing the pale, gray wall, that I started crying. They were intense, guttural sobs, springing from a sadness buried so deep inside of me, I hadn\u2019t realized it existed. Or maybe I did know it existed, but I\u2019d grown so numb to it over the years that I no longer was aware of it, like the way you don\u2019t think about your heart beating.\nThankfully, nobody heard me crying. You can\u2019t let your emotions get the better of you in this place. The only way to live is to recede within yourself; to numb your soul and senses. It\u2019s no way to live, but in here, it\u2019s the only way to live.\nI turned my pillow to the dry side and tried to fall asleep, but sleep was a long time coming that night. It was only a couple of hours before dawn when I finally dozed off, and then my dreams were bright and colorful and lifelike\u2026 and all of them featured Pam.\nAnd then a loud buzzing was sounding, and my cell door was sliding open, and I was struggling out of my bunk, hurrying to get dressed before the morning count.\nI dream about women sometimes. Not as much as I used to, but occasionally.\nSometimes they\u2019re sexual dreams, and I awake feeling all perverted and gross\u2014and guilty somehow. More often, though, they\u2019re romantic dreams\u2014simple depictions of companionship\u2014such as walking hand-in-hand in a park, or cuddling and watching a sunset, or sharing a laugh over a candlelit dinner. I often awake from these dreams with a warmth that stays with me the whole day, as if the woman will be waiting for me when I return to my cell\u2014from a long, brutal day in the laundry\u2014to hold me after lights-out.\nI imagine it\u2019s how a close relationship must feel: a warm, comforting sensation that stays with you all day, even in those moments when you can\u2019t be with your partner.\nI never did have a girlfriend; not really. Probably the closest was eighth grade, when I kissed the neighbor girl. She was my age and lived next door. We didn\u2019t hang out often, and we weren\u2019t great friends. However, she came over one morning and asked me to walk with her. She led me down the street to a home under construction. We snuck inside\u2014there were no workers that afternoon\u2014and she cuddled with me in a crook formed by two walls.\nShe started kissing me: deep, wet, gooey kisses that, to me, seemed gross and invasive. We quit after a couple of minutes; it didn\u2019t feel right. She left me on my own, to wonder what had happened\u2014to ponder on what I\u2019d done wrong.\nA month later, she moved away. We never even said goodbye. And though I didn\u2019t realize it at the time, that experience was the closest I\u2019d ever get to feeling true love.\nA lot of the guys here had girlfriends in high school, and a few even got laid. That\u2019s what they call it; they say it as if it were an accomplishment, a trophy. The way they describe it isn\u2019t the way I imagine it. They talk in terms of thrusting, banging, fucking. I always envision it as more of a gentle thing, a sweet thing\u2014something where you\u2019re simply together, looking into each other\u2019s eyes, loving each other.\nSome of the romance books in the library depict it like that, but I wouldn\u2019t want anyone to catch me reading those; not when I finally have some seniority and the respect that comes with it. That perk could disappear in an instant, and I\u2019d be right back where I was when I first arrived: a timid seventeen-year-old condemned to a life behind bars, aching for death.\nThough I suppose I\u2019m not all that different now: I\u2019m no longer seventeen, but I\u2019m still timid and condemned to a life behind bars. And though I no longer ache for death, some days I don\u2019t think I\u2019d mind it that much.\nI was sentenced to Permanent Detention shortly after my seventeenth birthday. My crime? Possessing a book.\nNot just any book, of course\u2014an illegal book. And the sad part is, I didn\u2019t even read it.\nWell, I did read some of it; the first couple of chapters, anyway. It was a giant tome of a novel, and the print was microscopic. It had belonged to my father, and according to my mom, he\u2019d always wanted me to have it. He said it was an important book: a book of ideas.\nI remember it was called The Fountainhead and it had been written in my great, great grandfather\u2019s time, when printed books were still available. I vaguely remember it had something to do with architecture, and a student talking to his dean. But that\u2019s all. At the time, I thought it was boring and dense, and if it had any useful ideas, they were way over my head.\nBut that book was one of the few things I had to remember my father by. He\u2019d proudly printed his name on the inside front cover, in big, block letters. In fact, it was the only part of the book I enjoyed reading. I\u2019d often run my fingers along the penciled name, retracing each letter, as if trying to forge a connection to the dad I never really knew.\nHe was killed when I was seven, gunned down in a demonstration outside the capitol. It was an inevitable end, my mother said. He\u2019d served time once for publishing seditious content, and he spoke often at underground anti-government rallies, which usually were infiltrated by undercover informants. He was a marked man, according to my mother, and he had been living on borrowed time for ages. If he hadn\u2019t have been shot in that demonstration, then he probably would have been stabbed in a back alley somewhere, or taken to an underground detention center and never seen again.\nShe claimed agents watched our house and followed us wherever we went. I remember being a young child crouched in the backseat of the car, on the verge of hysteria as my parents tried to out-maneuver a van they claimed was following them.\nLooking back, it\u2019s no wonder I grew up to be so timid and anxious.\nAfter my father\u2019s death, agents raided our house, searching for seditious material. They confiscated my dad\u2019s computers, file servers, notebooks, pamphlets\u2014you name it. They also arrested my mother for conspiracy and put me in protective custody.\nShe claimed she didn\u2019t agree with my father\u2019s viewpoints (which wasn\u2019t true; she simply was less vocal). The state\u2019s case against her was weak. All of the confiscated materials belonged to my father, and none of the writings bore her name.\nShe\u2019d also never demonstrated her treachery in public. The state claimed she was a traitor by the simple virtue of remaining married to my father. She countered that she remained married only for my sake, because she lacked the income to raise me on her own.\nIn the end, the tribunal decided to show leniency. Not because they didn\u2019t have the proof (proof was only a convenience for these sorts of trials, not a necessity), but rather because it was an election year, and nobody wanted to look bad for imprisoning a young, widowed mother, even if she had been married to an enemy of the state.\nThe surveillance only got worse after my mother\u2019s release. They were ready to pounce at the slightest perceived misstep. Black cars followed us wherever we went. Figures hid in darkness across the street, like silent, watching shadows. My mother never again mentioned my father, except to curse his name\u2014convinced as she was that our home was riddled with bugs.\nAs the years passed, my memory of my father devolved to a shadow, then dissolved to a ghost.\nThe surveillance became less intrusive as time wore on, but whether seen or unseen, the government always was a constant presence\u2014the uninvited white elephant in the room. I learned to accept fear as a normal part of my life: the fear of my mother being arrested; the fear of me being taken away from her. The fear instilled in me a rigid compliance to government dictates, and it snuffed out any rage that otherwise might have consumed my soul.\nBy the time I entered high school, I\u2019d pretty much forgotten my father. So I was surprised when one evening, as I sat at the dining-room table doing algebra homework, my mother silently approached me, her index finger pressed against her lips. She handed me a handwritten note, as well as a tattered hardcover edition of The Fountainhead.\nShe tapped her lips with her finger, emphasizing the need for silence. Then, she pointed to the note, beckoning me to read it.\nI unfolded the paper. In my mother\u2019s tiny, neat script, she\u2019d written: \u201cThis belonged to your father. He always wanted you to have it. He said it helped define him as a person, as an individual. He loved you more than anything, even freedom. It\u2019s the only thing of his I have left, and I\u2019m giving it to you.\u201d\nThe note continued: \u201cAs a young man, you need to understand: this is a dangerous book. Not so much for the ideas it contains, but because so many people fear those ideas. The book\u2019s also number six on the top-ten banned list, meaning anyone caught with it could be imprisoned\u2014maybe for life. So whatever you do, keep it hidden. You\u2019re old enough now to be trusted with it.\u201d\nI read the note twice. When I was done, I looked at my mother. She held out her hand, to take back the note. She stepped into the kitchen, then held the paper over the gas burner, setting the page on fire. She let the flames creep silently toward her fingers, then tossed the paper into the sink.\nI looked down at the book, all worn and grubby and beat-up. Its pages were yellowed; its cover pockmarked. I opened it and immediately noticed my father\u2019s name on the inside cover, scrawled in his erratic, blocky script.\nIt was the first time in eight years I\u2019d seen his handwriting.\nThat book became my only link to my father. And for some reason I figured that if I could understand the book, I could come to understand him.\nUnfortunately, like I mentioned, the writing was so dense, and the printing so small, that I made it through only the first couple of chapters\u2014and even then, I understood none of it, which frustrated me. If the book had helped define my father, and I found it inaccessible, then what did that say about me? Was I even worthy of being called his son?\nI kept the book carefully hidden under my bed, and I never took it out of the house. I looked at it only at night, with the door and blinds tightly closed, and even then I felt watched\u2014haunted, almost. The fact that the book was banned\u2014and that I could be imprisoned for owning it\u2014filled me with a terror so intense, it made my stomach churn. In fact, it often felt more like a burden than a gift.\nIn the end, the book might have been too great a responsibility for a fifteen-year-old to bear. Even at the time, I wondered if my mother was naive to entrust me with it. I think on some level, she might have known I was too young. After all, I couldn\u2019t help but notice how tightly she\u2019d held her finger to her lips when she gave it to me, and also how quickly she\u2019d reclaimed her handwritten note, to hold it over the fire.\nI feel like a lovestruck schoolchild.\nWhether I\u2019m stacking sheets or mopping the cell block or pulling weeds near the perimeter, my mind keeps drifting back to the fifth-floor filing room\u2014to the wide, mature eyes taking me in; to the warm, soft hand clasped in mine.\nTo Pam.\nI can\u2019t get her out of my mind.\n\u201cEasy!\u201d snaps Bruno, the lead cook, when I drop an empty casserole dish near his feet.\n\u201cSorry,\u201d I say, mumbling.\n\u201cDammit, Paul.\u201d Bruno waves his spatula at me. \u201cYou\u2019ve had your head up your ass all day. You drop one more thing and I\u2019ll smash your face against the goddamn grill. I swear I will.\u201d\nI want to tell him that my head\u2019s not up my ass, but rather in the clouds\u2026 soaring high above this dreary compound, surveying the world. But he wouldn\u2019t understand. Like everyone else, he\u2019s tethered to the ground, mired in existence, with no thoughts or dreams to defy gravity\u2014to launch him into flight.\nI especially think about Pam after lights-out, as I lie awake, staring at the ceiling. I wonder if she thinks about me, too, during those long, drawn-out nights when you\u2019re teetering toward madness, with only your thoughts and your dreams to keep you sane.\nI start to think maybe Pam and I could be something\u2014maybe friends, maybe more\u2014if only we were a million miles away, with no bars to keep us confined; no walls to keep us contained. I imagine walking with her along a beach: the ice-cold waves splashing against our ankles\u2026 the blood-red sun sinking along the edge of the earth.\nI imagine making love to her, the ocean\u2019s roaring pulse resounding in the background, our breaths quick and hot against the chilly saltwater air.\nBut then I curse myself. It\u2019s dangerous to play the \u201cif only\u201d game. Tottering down that path can lead only to lunacy. Pam and I never can be anything: not acquaintances, not friends, and certainly not lovers.\nThe truth is, we\u2019ll probably never see each other again.\nIt\u2019s a bleak, heartbreaking realization, but it\u2019s a fact as cold and as hard and as impenetrable as the walls of my cell.\nWhat I feel for Pam can\u2019t be love. It can\u2019t be. Even I know that love isn\u2019t forged in an instant, but rather cultivated over time.\nWhich leads me to wonder: what if what I\u2019m feeling isn\u2019t really love, but rather lust in disguise?\nAfter all, I hadn\u2019t seen a woman for more than twelve years. What if it had been another female inmate that night, instead of Pam? Would I still have been swept away in the same lovestruck stupor?\nIt\u2019s a question that haunts me at night, well after lights-out. Because, if true, it would mean the only genuine feelings I\u2019ve felt in years aren\u2019t really genuine after all.\nIt would mean that what I\u2019m feeling for Pam, I could feel for any random woman.\nIt would mean that, in the end, I wasn\u2019t in love with a person, per se, but rather with an idea\u2014a fantasy.\nSo when I\u2019m lying awake late at night, crying silently in my cell, it\u2019s not because I know I\u2019ll never see Pam again. I can live with that, I think.\nWhat\u2019s slowly killing me inside is the fear that my love for her might not be real.\nAnd if that\u2019s true, then maybe that was Clancy\u2019s intention all along: a sort of psychological torture. If so, it would be the harshest, cruelest punishment I\u2019ve ever endured in this place.\nBefore we get into how I came here, a little about Permanent Detention:\nIt\u2019s a relatively recent program. They started it twenty or so years ago to prevent young undesirables from joining society.\nBy \u201cthey,\u201d I of course mean the government.\nAnd by \u201cyoung undesirables\u201d\u2026 well, I suppose you\u2019re looking at one.\nAccording to the powers that be, sedition is the number-one problem facing our country. They say it\u2019s a national-security issue. How can they effectively fight wars, they say, or protect the homeland, if their own citizens speak against them? For a nation to prosper, everyone must be beholden to the same philosophies\u2014devoted to the same ideals.\nAnd those who reject those philosophies and ideals need to be eradicated, like an organism rejecting a germ.\nAs I understand it, there was a time when you could disagree with the government openly, either in public, or in literature, or on the Internet. It\u2019s hard to imagine. In my grandfather\u2019s time the nation abided by what was known as the Constitution, which empowered individuals with certain rights. And though it was abolished long ago, its spirit still exists in the hearts and minds of many\u2014including my father, who publicly advocated its reinstitution.\nOf course, look how he ended up.\nHell, never mind that: look how I ended up. At least my father had a life before he died. I\u2019m not sure you could call what I\u2019ve got a life. I exist; that\u2019s about it.\nBut at least I\u2019m alive\u2026 so I suppose I should be grateful.\nPermanent Detention started as an experimental program, but it proved to be so successful\u2014and was looked upon so favorably by the population\u2014that it became a cornerstone of the national agenda. The basic premise was simple: Identify potential nonconformists\u2014those most likely to hold anti-government attitudes\u2014and sentence them to life imprisonment, effectively cleansing society of its undesirables; the organism rejecting the germ.\nAnd who better to target than high-school students?\nAfter all, said the government, your basic philosophical foundations are laid during your youth. If you display treasonous tendencies as a young adult, chances are you\u2019ll grow to become a rebel.\nAnd if you were a rebel, there was no place for you in their fist-pumping, anthem-chanting, single-minded society.\nHigh schools everywhere became a patriotic litmus test. If you obeyed, marched in line, said \u201cyes sir\u201d and \u201cyes ma\u2019am,\u201d you generally were safe. Potential nonconformists, on the other hand\u2014those who avoided sports and clubs, shunned cooperative learning, who ate alone and had few friends\u2014these folks were hauled before a military-style tribunal. An administrator\u2014most often a principal\u2014presented evidence against the defendant. The defendant\u2014most often a trembling, teary-eyed dweeb; you know, the quintessential menace to society\u2014was given a chance to rebut; to claim how passionately he loved his country.\nThe tribunal, then, would render its verdict. Those deemed a danger to society were condemned to life imprisonment\u2014to Permanent Detention. The gavel would slam down, and they\u2019d be led away sniffing and sobbing\u2026 their lives effectively snuffed out before they began\u2026 and their parents would be watching in horror, knowing a raid likely was on the way, as well as additional arrests. After all, no child became rebellious in a vacuum. They had to acquire their attitudes from somewhere.\nThe program was a resounding success, and the senator who proposed it later won the presidency. According to government statistics, crime plummeted, national unity surged, and once again we became a great and prosperous nation, united by a common thread\u2026 beholden to the same philosophies\u2026 devoted to the same ideals.\nA healthy, happy, germ-free organism.\nWhich, I suppose, was best for everyone.\nLooking back, I was probably on the fast-track to Permanent Detention all along. I had few friends; I didn\u2019t play sports; I belonged to no clubs. I was quiet and kept to myself, which alarmed several of my teachers.\nPlus, my father was a known radical.\nMy mother begged me to become more socially active. Begged me. Rather than to help me blend in, she said my meekness and timidity made me stand out.\n\u201cThey\u2019re going to peg you as a loner,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd once they do, you\u2019re as good as done. Nothing upsets the establishment like obstinate individualism.\u201d\nI tried, but I couldn\u2019t change my nature. Besides, I was weak and small, and if I wasn\u2019t cowering in a corner, I was being confronted by bullies. Withdrawing was easier than asserting my presence, which usually resulted in my ass getting kicked.\nBut in the end, it was the book that did it. The book\u2026 coupled, of course, with my own stupidity.\nI was sixteen then, and driving. I\u2019d spent the previous summer working as a laborer on a prevailing-wage job, which allowed me to put a down payment on a used car. It was a total piece of shit\u2014not exactly a chick magnet (not that I was, either)\u2014but it ran, and it was mine.\nThe construction company I\u2019d worked for had a yard-maintenance service, so for three hours after school I mowed lawns, pruned hedges, adjusted sprinklers. After work I\u2019d head home for dinner, and then I\u2019d do homework, which I always completed dutifully. Not that it scored me any points with my teachers, who all seemed to regard me with disdain.\nThat car gave me a freedom I\u2019d never known before (or since, I might add). On a moment\u2019s notice I could grab my keys and take off anywhere. My mother didn\u2019t care, as long as I ensured I wasn\u2019t followed.\nBy that time, though, my father had been gone for so long\u2014and my mother and I had behaved so well\u2014that the surveillance had trickled from constant to occasional. Only twice did I notice the familiar black SUVs in my rear-view mirror, trailing a few car lengths behind. Most often, they left me alone, to savor the solitude of the open road\u2026 to leave behind the burdens of school and society\u2026 to feel unconfined, unconstrained, unencumbered\u2026 free.\nI especially enjoyed driving at night. I felt more shielded, somehow; less conspicuous, less visible. It was just me and my headlights cutting through the darkness, finding the way. Often, around 9:30 or so, after my homework was done, I\u2019d grab my keys and dive into my car, to go cruising. Unlike most teenagers, though, I didn\u2019t head to the city. In fact, I went in the opposite direction: into the wilderness; as far away as I could get from civilization, from people\u2014from society.\nI crawled along bumpy mountain roads\u2014the ones I could navigate with a two-wheel drive, anyway. I explored some cool, seemingly untouched scenery. My favorite place was this dry, desert lakebed I discovered a couple miles off a windy stretch of utility-company right-of-way. I would park in the middle of it and lie on my warm hood\u2026 my fingers interlaced behind my head\u2026 and I\u2019d stare into the deep, expansive night sky, letting my mind wander, my thoughts drifting toward the heavens, my dreams searching out the stars.\nI\u2019d return home around midnight, long after my mom was asleep. And as I slunk into bed and shifted on my mattress, I\u2019d feel it\u2014the book I\u2019d hidden\u2014its bulk pushing into my back, reminding me of its presence.\nIt always left me with an ache when I awoke: a sharp reminder of reality; a pain that dissolved my dreams.\nI\u2019d always wanted to read the book, to understand the ideas it contained.\nAnd, perhaps, to understand my father, and why he cherished those ideas.\nI\u2019d tried to read it at home, but I felt too uncomfortable\u2014too compromised, somehow. I\u2019d grown up hearing our house was bugged, so I\u2019d spent my whole life feeling watched, spied upon. I never truly felt at ease in my own home. When I jerked off, I did it as quietly as I could, under the covers, and even then I felt like eyes were boring into my back, judging me. The only place where I felt any seclusion, any privacy, was at the dry, desert lakebed, surrounded only by the sky and the darkness.\nAnd it hit me: Why not read the book there?\nIt made sense, and the risk seemed small. I visited the lakebed about three nights each week\u2014including Saturdays\u2014and I figured if I read half a chapter a night, I could get through the book in no time.\nThe hardest part, for me, was smuggling it from the house to the car. I shoved it in my backpack one morning, took a deep breath, then dashed from the front door to the driveway, scurrying like a rodent evading a cat. I prayed no agents were watching from across the street\u2014ensconced in shadows, as I imagined them: smoking, squinty-eyed, suspicious.\nOnce I was safely away, I crammed the book under the front seat, along with the crumbs and loose change. It seemed a safe place\u2014I\u2019d never had my car searched at school, and I\u2019d never been caught speeding. I figured it\u2019d be fine there, at least for the month or two it\u2019d take me to read it.\nMy progress was slow-going. For one, as I mentioned, the print was microscopic, and I had to hold the book close to make out the words. For another, I had only my car\u2019s dim dome light to read by; it cast a sickening, piss-colored orange upon the pages.\nBut perhaps the biggest problem was that I simply wasn\u2019t used to reading off paper. Up till that point, most everything I\u2019d read had been on electronic tablets. The text I knew was fluid, adjustable. I was used to changing the text size and fiddling with the fonts.\nWords on paper, on the other hand, seemed static and dead, as if engraved in stone. They were like viewing an unchangeable past: unadjustable, unmovable\u2014mired in time.\nI\u2019d read while lying across the backseat, the windows down to let in the cool, evening air. The crickets chorused in time to my breathing, providing the perfect backdrop to the unfolding story.\nIt took me a few nights, but I reached the end of chapter two. I sat up, checked my watch, and saw it was after eleven. Not that I had to get home right away. As strict as life was, few communities enforced curfew ordinances. The fear of Permanent Detention kept most teenagers in line.\nI rumbled over the rocky dirt road, headed back to town\u2026 the book carefully concealed under the front seat. And that\u2019s when I saw it, about a mile up the road: several sets of headlights, barreling over the low brush\u2026 and the flashing red and blue lights, spinning like wild cyclones.\nI froze, slamming to a halt. It looked like a big cluster of cars, haphazardly spaced. They were racing toward the road I was on, following a perpendicular line.\nOn instinct, I flicked off the headlights and steered the car off the road. Brush scraped at my side; the metal undercarriage ground against rock. I shut off the engine, my breathing strained, my muscles tight.\nThere were about ten cars, and they were racing across the desert landscape, bouncing over rocks pockmarking the ground; slamming through narrow gullies carved by rainwater.\nAnd then a chopper appeared, casting a brilliant spotlight upon the scene.\nI could see, then, that it was a pursuit. Three lumbering SUVs struggled to outpace seven or so patrol cars. Their front grills were mashed; their paint and sidings torn. The rough terrain was tearing them up so badly, I was surprised their tires and suspensions had remained intact.\nAs the cars approached, I held my breath, wondering if they would cross my road\u2026 or take a sharp turn toward me. It seemed likely they might turn; compared to the outlying terrain, my road was smooth and unobstructed.\nAnd then, it happened: the frontmost SUV hit a hole\u2014or maybe one of its tires blew out; I couldn\u2019t tell\u2014and in an instant it was flying in the air, turning on its side\u2026 and then it landed, hard, twisting into a heap of shattered glass and mangled metal, pushing up a pile of sand as it slid to a stop.\nA handful of patrol cars screeched to a standstill, and officers emerged, guns drawn, screaming. I saw shadowy figures moving, running.\nThen, gunshots\u2026 more yelling\u2026 and pained, anguished screams.\nThe other two SUVs kept going, and the remaining patrol cars followed.\nAnd when they reached the dirt road, they took a sharp, right turn\u2026 and started soaring in the direction of the lakebed.\nRight toward me.\nI remember watching the headlights as they rumbled toward me, bright and unblinking. And I remember the dazzling glare as the chopper cast its searchlight over the road, illuminating my car as if it were the focal point of an onstage display.\nI remember hearing more gunshots\u2026 and a nearby zinging. And then I was cowering on the floor, hiding my head, the roar of the chopper deafening.\nI remember the blue and red lights flashing before me\u2026 surrounding me; engulfing me. And I remember strong hands wrenching me through the door, dragging me onto the ground. And then there was a boot on my throat, and bright lights all around\u2026 and then more of the yelling: deep, primitive, indecipherable.\nI remember gasping for air, my face pressed against the dirt, small puffs of sand billowing from my strained breaths. And I remember glimpsing an officer fishing through my car\u2014most likely searching for weapons\u2014as others leveled their rifles at my head, screaming at me.\nHe didn\u2019t find any weapons. Instead, he emerged from the car holding the book.\nI remember more of the yelling\u2026 and then a sharp, blinding flash of pain as someone slammed the butt of a rifle across my head, nearly knocking me out. After that, all I recall is a dreamy, spacey feeling, as if I were sinking underwater\u2026 and the warmth of the blood as it flowed down my face\u2026 pooling on the ground, staining the sand.\nLater on, I learned the men the police were chasing that night were members of an outlaw survivalist organization that took refuge in the desert, migrating from camp to camp. They were considered armed and dangerous\u2014known enemies of the state.\nThat night, four were killed and six were captured.\nWell, seven, I guess\u2026 if you included me. Which is what the headlines did. It was a simple case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time.\nThough I was never charged with being a member of the group, the news portrayed me as a teenage malcontent, armed with a copy of The Fountainhead\u2026 the son of a known radical, captured in hostile territory near an enemy camp.\nA camp, it turned out, with whom my father had associated once, eons ago.\nThat juicy fact emerged during the trial, a three-day public spectacle complete with reporters, cameras and jeering spectators. Most juvenile inquisitions were small, private affairs, but in my case, they wanted to make an example.\nTeachers testified against me, as did my principal. Said they knew all along I was a rebel; apparently, they\u2019d pegged me long ago as an antisocial malcontent.\nI remember when the inquisitor raised The Fountainhead for the audience to see\u2014all the murmurs and gasps that erupted from the crowd. That damning piece of evidence alone was enough to put me away for life\u2014never mind the alleged connection to the survivalist group.\nThey ripped out the pages right there during the inquisition and threw them in a metal receptacle. The inquisitor lit a match, then let it sizzle between his fingers for a long, dramatic moment. Then, looking at me and grinning, he tossed it into the bin, setting the pages aflame.\nThe fire was bright, its flames fierce\u2026 but within moments it had petered out to a smoldering, useless clump of ashes.\nThe verdict, of course, was inevitable: immediate, lifetime removal from society.\nPermanent Detention.\nMy mother didn\u2019t make the trial. I heard that after I was taken into custody, agents raided our house and arrested her for crimes against the state. I don\u2019t know what became of her; no one\u2019s ever told me. I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s in a detention center somewhere, like me\u2026 or if she\u2019s even still alive.\nIf she\u2019s alive, she\u2019ll be turning fifty this year.\nIf she\u2019s alive.\nPermanent Detention involves not only discipline, but re-education. Three days each week we take classes in national history, to learn the importance of patriotism and unity. We\u2019re told these lessons will help us function in the event we rejoin society.\nNot that anyone ever rejoins society\u2014at least not that I know. At age thirty, we\u2019re supposed to undergo an evaluation to determine whether we\u2019re fit for release. What I\u2019ve heard happens is that we stand in front of a board to plead our case. If you can convince them you\u2019re no longer a nonconformist threat (and good luck with that), then you\u2019re sent to a halfway house and placed in a low-end, menial job somewhere. Those who lack the charm to dazzle the board are transferred to a maximum-security prison, to finish their lives with society\u2019s other scourges\u2014including rapists, child-molesters, and murderers.\nYou know, real criminals.\nThat\u2019s what scares me more than anything, especially as my birthday approaches. Permanent Detention is horrible\u2014don\u2019t get me wrong\u2014but it\u2019s a different sort of place than an everyday prison. For one, all of us inmates are of a similar mindset. Each of us lost our freedom for the unpardonable crime of offending the government. And though we\u2019re all a little too individualistic to form groups or cliques, we\u2019re all very much brethren, bonded by our ideals.\nI wouldn\u2019t call anyone here a criminal; not really. In fact, I\u2019ve never encountered violence in Permanent Detention. There were initiations when I first arrived, but they were of the high-school variety, and they certainly didn\u2019t involve beatings or rape. And though there is a pecking order delineated by seniority, I\u2019d say for the most part, all of us treat each other respectfully.\nSo the idea of being integrated with real criminals terrifies me, because I know I won\u2019t survive. I\u2019m weak and timid\u2026 and any anger I\u2019m capable of feeling I direct inward (this is what I\u2019ve been told, anyway), so that when an external force oppresses me, my only defense is to self-destruct\u2026 which, essentially, is surrender.\nGenerations of inmates have matriculated since I joined Permanent Detention, and now I myself am inching toward the end. No one I know has ever been released. If they have, they\u2019ve never written to report on the outside (unless, of course, their letters were intercepted by the powers that be; none of us knows for sure).\nIf I\u2019m transferred from Permanent Detention, I\u2019ll die. One way or another, I\u2019ll die. I\u2019m not a survivor. As fucked-up and cruel as this place is, it insulates me from life\u2019s other horrors. And that\u2019s what\u2019s funny, if you think about it: the fact that my life depends on me remaining in an institution whose very purpose is to strip my life away from me, piece by excruciating piece.\nSo, in the end, I\u2019m faced with an impossible question of what\u2019s better: a quick, violent death\u2026 or a slow, agonizing one?\nNot much of a choice, really.\n\u201cYou\u2019re angry,\u201d my counselor says.\n\u201cHuh?\u201d I ask, looking up.\nHe smiles. \u201cYou\u2019re angry. You may not think so, but you are.\u201d\nI meet with a counselor for an hour each week. It\u2019s part of the re-education program. He\u2019s supposed to help me understand the depravity of my individualism. So far, he\u2019s been less than successful.\nI shake my head. \u201cI\u2019m angry? I don\u2019t think so.\u201d\n\u201cI know so.\u201d He leans forward. \u201cThe guards tell me you\u2019ve been moping for weeks. You don\u2019t eat much, and I can tell you\u2019re not sleeping. Something\u2019s making you angry.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m not angry,\u201d I say. \u201cTired, maybe.\u201d\n\u201cYeah. Tired.\u201d\nThe counselor smiles. \u201cPaul, when a patient exhibits symptoms of depression, it means deep down they\u2019re angry about something. Depression is merely anger turned inside-out. Did you know that?\u201d\n\u201cWell, it\u2019s true. Depression emerges when we\u2019re unable to direct our anger outwards. Which, in your case, makes sense. As a prisoner, you\u2019ve probably learned to bottle your emotions, for fear of punishment. So when you\u2019re angry, you clam up, directing all those feelings inward.\u201d\n\u201cAnd that means I\u2019m angry?\u201d\n\u201cIt means your anger is manifesting itself as depression\u2014yes.\u201d He leans back and steeples his fingertips. \u201cAnything happen to you lately that would arouse these emotions? A confrontation, perhaps, that I should be aware of?\u201d\nAn image of Pam flashes through my mind. \u201cNo.\u201d\nI shrug. \u201cI can\u2019t think of anything.\u201d\nThe counselor tilts his head. \u201cPerhaps you\u2019re nervous about your upcoming evaluation?\u201d\n\u201cMy evaluation?\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re turning thirty in about\u2026 what is it, a month?\u201d\n\u201cOh.\u201d I shrug again. \u201cMaybe.\u201d\n\u201cYour anger might be rooted in a feeling of helplessness.\u201d\n\u201cYou might be feeling you have no control over your future or your destiny.\u201d\n\u201cWell, I don\u2019t, do I?\u201d\nThe counselor frowns. \u201cYou make choices each day that affect your circumstances. That\u2019s why you ended up here.\u201d\n\u201cYou made a choice to flout rules. No one held a gun to your head. You alone made the choice to be disobedient\u2014to disobey.\u201d\n\u201cThey did hold a gun to my head,\u201d I say. \u201cLiterally. I\u2019ll never forget that.\u201d\n\u201cThey only held a gun to your head because you broke the law.\u201d\nA stupid law, I want to say. But I don\u2019t. I\u2019m sure the counselor wouldn\u2019t appreciate it, and I don\u2019t need a black mark on my file, especially not this close to my thirtieth birthday evaluation.\nThe counselor takes a deep breath. \u201cPaul, I think deep down, your feelings of helplessness anger you. You\u2019re nervous you\u2019ll fail your evaluation, and you\u2019re angry that you\u2019re being put in a situation where you have to defend yourself. But you\u2019re unable to direct your anger outward, so you\u2019re deflecting it inward, instead. Which is why you\u2019re exhibiting symptoms of depression.\u201d\n\u201cOh. OK.\u201d My mind wanders, and suddenly I\u2019m thinking of Pam. She\u2019s standing in the filing room doorway, her hair flowing past her shoulders, her eyes glinting like jewels in the dimness.\nI look up. \u201cYeah.\u201d\n\u201cTell me what you\u2019re thinking.\u201d\n\u201cWhat I\u2019m thinking?\u201d\n\u201cYes, what you\u2019re thinking\u2014right now, at this very instant.\u201d\nI smile. \u201cI\u2019m thinking a beautiful thought.\u201d\nThe ends of his lips twitch upward. \u201cA beautiful thought?\u201d\n\u201cCare to go into detail?\u201d\n\u201cNo.\u201d I shake my head, slowly. \u201cNo, not really.\u201d\nHe rests his pen on his clipboard. \u201cFor a second there, you seemed genuinely happy. That\u2019s why I asked. You actually had a smile on your face.\u201d\nHe nods, and a slight grin forms.\nI think of Pam again\u2014I see her smiling at me, holding my hand, telling me about herself, about her life\u2026 and suddenly it\u2019s as if someone\u2019s grabbed the back of my collar and is dragging me out of the room. Pam\u2019s still standing there, but she\u2019s growing farther away\u2014she\u2019s reaching out to me\u2026 and I\u2019m digging my heels into the floor, to slow myself, but I can\u2019t stop the force that\u2019s yanking me backward. And suddenly Pam\u2019s gone, and I\u2019m back in my cell, staring at the brick wall\u2026 and then the daydream\u2019s gone and I\u2019m back in reality: I\u2019m sitting in a hard, metal folding chair, my hands clasped in my lap\u2026 and I\u2019m facing the counselor, who\u2019s staring at me, a clipboard in front of him. There\u2019s a window a few feet above his head, and the morning sun is pouring through it, casting the room in a golden glow.\nOnly the window is cloudy, opaque\u2026 and at least a foot thick. And though it\u2019s letting the morning light through, I can\u2019t see through it to the outside world.\nI jolt awake in my cell. It\u2019s the middle of the night.\nI\u2019ve just had a dream; a terrible dream. Pam was in it. I\u2019ve had several dreams with Pam, but none like this.\nIt starts out as usual, with the two of us in the filing room. She\u2019s looking deep into my eyes, and she\u2019s smiling. I smile back. We clasp hands, standing there, together, savoring the moment\u2026 a moment we know won\u2019t last\u2014can\u2019t last\u2014because in time we know we\u2019ll be taken from each other, back to our individual wings\u2026 to our individual cells\u2026 to the lonely, tedious, individual grinds we call our lives.\nBut then the dream takes a different, unfamiliar turn. I\u2019m reaching out to touch her face; I run my fingertips along her cheek. Pam rests her head on my shoulder, pressing her body against mine.\nAnd then the scene accelerates. Suddenly, I\u2019m pulling off her shirt\u2014my heartbeat quickens\u2014and Pam\u2019s fumbling at my pants, trying to yank them off.\nAnd in the next instant she\u2019s naked, and she\u2019s crouched on her hands and knees, her back to me. And I position myself behind her\u2014I have to sort of squat\u2014and she\u2019s reaching between her legs, to guide me into her.\nI place my hot hands on her buttocks, tilting my head back\u2026 and then I start thrusting, banging, fucking\u2014I begin slowly and work up a rhythm. With each thrust Pam is moaning, grunting\u2026 and I\u2019m moaning, too. My eyes are closed, and my hands are caressing her smooth hips, which she arches backward, to press against me.\nMy heart and my body are moving to the same hammering rhythm\u2026 and then I\u2019m crying out, gasping, heaving\u2026 then my body\u2019s slowing to a standstill, my breaths growing deeper, less strained.\nI drape myself across Pam\u2019s back, exhausted\u2026 and I bury my nose in her hair, which smells like sweat and the lilacs we used to have in our front yard.\nPam\u2019s moaning, softly\u2026 and like mine, her breaths are deep and even. The two of us lie there, together, fingers intertwined, gazing into each other\u2019s eyes.\nThe filing room door flies open then, and though I can\u2019t see who\u2019s entered I can feel them: a dark, hovering presence, which surrounds us\u2014like a chilling mist\u2014to break us apart.\nAnd then Pam starts screaming, and screaming\u2014her high-pitched wails echo across the darkness.\nAnd I\u2019m screaming, too, because the mist has encircled me\u2026 it\u2019s cinched around my throat\u2026 and it\u2019s pulling me away\u2014out the door and down the hall\u2026 and Pam\u2019s screams are growing fainter, and fainter.\nThat\u2019s when I jolt awake. It takes me a moment to orient myself. The dream is still bright and vivid and alive; the last few moments replay themselves in an endless, terrifying loop.\nI sit there for a few minutes, breathing heavily, the nighttime darkness seeping into my soul. Then, hesitantly, I reach under the blankets, my arm creeping like a snake, as if afraid of what I might find. I wince when I finally feel it, what I know has to be there: the hot, sticky pool of semen, some of which clings to the sheets, with the bulk covering my stomach like syrup.\nAnd I start to cry, then\u2014my body trembles with the familiar guttural sobs that lately have become a late-night ritual. Only this time, they\u2019re much more intense\u2014and much more profound\u2014because I know I\u2019ve forever tarnished my wholesome, unblemished memory of Pam. What we did in the dream wasn\u2019t loving\u2014it was primitive, mindless, and violent\u2026 with no depth, no sensuality\u2014no meaning.\nI fucked her as if she were a whore\u2026 and I enjoyed it.\nI close my eyes, and I try desperately to revisit that night in the filing room, when Pam and I were holding hands and gazing into each other\u2019s eyes\u2014and nothing more.\nOnly the perverted dream keeps returning in graphic snippets: the thrusting, the sweating, the gasping, the fucking.\nAnd I start to cry harder\u2014not for me, or even for the precious memory I\u2019ve ruined\u2014but for Pam.\nI feel like I\u2019ve violated her.\nI spend the following morning in the laundry, as always, sweating buckets in the hot, steamy enclosure. I speak to no one. At lunch I eat alone, sitting at a small table in the very back of the cafeteria. The food seems even more bland than usual. I take a few bites, then push the tray away, sighing.\nAfter lunch, I sit on the dirt in the exercise yard, my back against the cafeteria wall. I fold my legs against my chest, resting my chin upon my knees.\nIt\u2019s a warm, mid-summer day; the air is hot and still. I sigh and gaze at the sagebrush-covered mountains in the distance, draped in shadows in the afternoon sun. They\u2019re so majestic, so imposing. I imagine myself lost in their wilderness, hiking up a narrow deer trail, pausing every so often to sip water from my canteen.\nI love to gaze at the mountains. They give me a horizon to focus on: a dream upon which to set my sights. And if I hold my palm in front of me, I can almost block the twelve-foot-high perimeter fence, topped with gleaming barbed wire\u2026 as well as the twin guard towers, which stand like sentries on either corner of the yard.\nMost people are milling around, loafing, waiting for the whistle to sound the beginning of the next shift. No one stops to talk. In the past weeks I\u2019ve severed myself from the rest of the population, spending as much time alone as I can, either in the library or in my cell.\nMy only companion is Pam\u2014she remains with me at every moment.\nAs I stare at the mountains, I glimpse Clancy walking toward me. He\u2019s huffing with his heavy-footed gait, the brim of his cap pulled low over his eyes. He approaches me and leans against the wall, sucking in deep breaths.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s up, Paul?\u201d he asks.\nI shrug, staring straight ahead. \u201cJust enjoying the day, Clancy.\u201d\n\u201cYeah?\u201d He pulls out a handkerchief and dabs his forehead. \u201cWord is you\u2019ve had your head up your ass the past couple of weeks.\u201d\nI swallow. I don\u2019t say anything.\n\u201cWell?\u201d Clancy says, glowering. \u201cWhat\u2019s the deal?\u201d\n\u201cNo deal,\u201d I say, shrugging again. \u201cJust tired, Clancy.\u201d\n\u201c\u2018Just tired\u2019\u2014that\u2019s bullshit. Something\u2019s up\u2026 and I think I know what it is. You\u2019re thinking of her, aren\u2019t you?\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t be a smart ass, Paul\u2014you know what I\u2019m talking about. You\u2019ve got to get that girl off your mind. You\u2019ll go crazy daydreaming about her.\u201d\nI swallow. \u201cTake me to see her again, Clancy. Please?\u201d My voice cracks on \u201cplease,\u201d and my face flushes with heat.\n\u201cOh, shit.\u201d He turns away and surveys the yard. \u201cI knew it. I knew it was a mistake. Goddammit.\u201d\n\u201cPlease,\u201d I say. \u201cEven if it\u2019s just for ten minutes. I won\u2019t cause any trouble. It\u2019s just\u2026 I think I\u2019m in love with her.\u201d\nClancy glares down at me, his lower lip protruding. \u201cIn love? Come on, Paul. That\u2019s stupid. You barely know her.\u201d\nI sigh, staring down at my shoes. \u201cIt\u2019s true.\u201d\n\u201cPaul, listen to me.\u201d Clancy hunkers down, his gut hanging over his knees. \u201cYou don\u2019t know what love is. You have no idea. It\u2019s not your fault; it\u2019s just you\u2019ve never learned. Love comes about through time; it don\u2019t just happen just like that.\u201d\nI take a deep breath. I don\u2019t say anything.\n\u201cI want to be clear on this,\u201d Clancy says. \u201cThat was a one-time thing. You understand? Even if I wanted to, I couldn\u2019t take you to see her again. I couldn\u2019t. The risk is too damn big. Hell, do you know what would happen to me if they found out? I\u2019d be right in here with you, spending my retirement staring through bars. No, actually, I take that back\u2014I\u2019d probably be executed for a stunt like that: for aiding and abetting a convicted enemy of the state. I only did it because the situation allowed for it\u2026 and because I wanted to do you a favor. I think you\u2019re an all-right guy\u2014I do. But I\u2019m not going to risk my job and my freedom playing matchmaker to a couple of convicted felons. I won\u2019t do it.\u201d\nI swallow again. My throat has gone dry, and my voice sounds raspy. \u201cPlease, Clancy.\u201d\n\u201cNope, no way. Not a chance.\u201d\nI turn away, blinking. Even though it\u2019s a warm summer afternoon, my body\u2019s trembling.\nClancy lays his hairy, brawny hand on my shoulder. \u201cCome on, Paul. Enough of this. You\u2019re a grown man, and you\u2019ve got to face reality. You and her, you\u2019re prisoners. That\u2019s just the way it is. There\u2019s some things in life you can\u2019t control.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019d be a good husband to her,\u201d I say. \u201cI know I would. I\u2019d be so kind, so attentive. I\u2019d hug her if she were sad. I\u2019d stroke her hair if she were scared. I\u2019d always be there for her. I would. I\u2019d be a good man; the kind of man she deserves.\u201d\n\u201cPaul,\u201d Clancy says, nudging me, \u201cthat\u2019s enough. Get up.\u201d\nI look at him. \u201cYou\u2019re married, right Clancy? What\u2019s it like? Having somebody, I mean?\u201d\n\u201cI said get up.\u201d\nI take a long, deep breath and let it go, staring straight ahead. I remain seated.\n\u201cPaul.\u201d Clancy squeezes my shoulder, digging his thumb into my flesh. \u201cDon\u2019t make me say it again.\u201d\nSlowly, I rise to my feet. Clancy does, too; his left knee pops like a gunshot.\n\u201cI\u2019m going to have you pull weeds the rest of the afternoon, instead of working in the laundry,\u201d he says. \u201cYou need the fresh air to get your mind out of the gutter. And I mean it:\nI want you to forget about her. You\u2019re never going to see her again\u2014ever. Do you understand me?\u201d\nI take another deep breath, letting it out slowly.\n\u201cPaul, do you understand me?\u201d\n\u201cYeah,\u201d I say, my throat dry. I give a small, imperceptible nod. \u201cYeah, I understand you.\u201d\nHe rests his hand on my shoulder. \u201cC\u2019mon, you\u2019re going to be all right. You\u2019ll get over this; you\u2019ll see. You\u2019ll forget about her eventually.\u201d\nClancy grins. \u201cYou want to know what I think? And I\u2019m only being honest here: I think you\u2019re just hard up.\u201d\nI look at him. \u201cHard up?\u201d\n\u201cYeah. I mean, think about it: You hadn\u2019t seen a woman for\u2026 well, how long have you been here? Ten years, right? So then you meet a woman, and all of a sudden you\u2019re in love. C\u2019mon. You know how pathetic that sounds? That\u2019s like a guy who fucks a prostitute, then thinks he\u2019s fallen in love.\u201d\nMy eyes widen. \u201cPam\u2019s not a prostitute!\u201d\n\u201cHey!\u201d Clancy holds up his finger. \u201cDon\u2019t raise your voice to me. What I\u2019m saying is that you\u2019re mistaking lust for love. You, my friend, need to get laid big time. And why you didn\u2019t seize the opportunity that night is beyond me. Hell, we gave you a half hour. I thought you would have been all over her. You missed your chance, bud. A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you completely blew it.\u201d\nI stare at the ground, blinking. My shoes start to blur.\nClancy grins. \u201cYou know what would solve your problems? One of those handheld rubber cunts they sell in sex shops. I\u2019ve seen them smuggled in from time to time. Maybe I\u2019ll get you one for your birthday. A few nights alone with that, and you won\u2019t have to daydream about that chick anymore.\u201d\nHe nudges me again. \u201cGet going to the tool shack. I\u2019ll have Bernard meet you there. Go on\u2014hoof it.\u201d\nI start walking, looking down at the hard, dry dirt. I can feel Clancy watching me as I walk, his eyes burning into me like branding irons.\nI look up and turn, facing the mountains. God, they\u2019re so beautiful: a picturesque image I only can reach for, ache for, but never touch, never feel.\nAnd as I look, I have to squint against the sun hanging lower in the sky. I wince as it glints off the barbed-wire strands intertwined along the top of the fence, connected together like links of chain.\nI remember the last time I saw my mother. It was the night I got arrested.\nShe looked so tired\u2014so worn-out and defeated. It was after dinner, and she was sitting in the living room recliner, the newsman prattling on in the background. She was looking at the screen, but I could tell her mind was somewhere else. She sat with her back slouched, her eyes unfocused and faraway.\n\u201cHmm?\u201d She glanced over; her eyes seemed to look right through me.\n\u201cIs it all right if I go out driving later?\u201d\nA small shrug, a slight nod. \u201cSure. Yeah. Just be careful, hon.\u201d\nShe turned back to the screen, letting out a small sigh.\nI remember thinking she must have had a long day, or maybe she hadn\u2019t slept well the previous night. It was only later, after I\u2019d been in Permanent Detention for a while, that I came to understand that flaccid posture, that defeated look\u2026 because I recognized them both in me, in those rare times when I studied my reflection, looking hard at myself.\nThey came not from overworking, or from lack of sleep.\nThey came, I learned, from being alone.\nFrom longing.\nDespite having only each other, my mom and I weren\u2019t that close. After my father died, she sort of receded within herself. I recognized it later as a defense mechanism\u2014the same one I adopted in Permanent Detention. As I said before, it\u2019s no way to live, but sometimes, it\u2019s the only way to live.\nWe spoke little. In the evenings we went our own ways\u2014Mom to the television and me to my homework. Later, she would go to bed and I would go driving.\nAnd that was our routine. We were virtual strangers living under the same roof.\nAt one time, my mother was as radical as my father. In fact, I think they met at a political rally. But while my father never lost his political fervor, over time my mother became less outspoken, less passionate. Not because she abandoned her beliefs, but rather, I think, because she grew up, faced reality\u2026 and recognized the futility of it all.\nPlus, of course, she had me\u2026 which I think triggered a protective, nurturing instinct\u2014an instinct that sought to preserve life, instead of endangering it by challenging authority.\nI have few memories of my mother, and even those are beginning to fade. One time I\u2019ll never forget, though, is when we took a week-long road trip to the California coast. It was summer, and I was out of school. I was about thirteen. The whole thing was Mom\u2019s idea; she\u2019d finally accumulated enough vacation to take off a whole week, and she wanted to go someplace special.\n\u201cI\u2019m tired of living in a goddamn desert,\u201d she\u2019d said. \u201cI want to see the ocean.\u201d\nAnd so we went to the ocean.\nIt was a gorgeous drive, filled with lush, green scenery. Giant, lumbering redwoods towered on either side of the road, grasping for the clouds. Mountainside springs coursed through brush and vines, pooling into slick, granite basins draped in moss. Claustrophobic forests gave way to sprawling green valleys patchworked by vineyards and fenced-off fields.\nWhen we arrived at the coast, I pressed my face to the glass, staring at the scenery. I\u2019d never seen the ocean before\u2026 so large and so sprawling\u2026 the white-tipped waves collapsing onto the shore, then grasping at the sand as gravity reeled them back.\nIt was late afternoon; the day was tapering to twilight. We parked along an empty beach to watch the blood-red sun melt into the turbulent water. Waves crashed and gasped\u2026 seagulls circled and squawked\u2026 and Mom and I cracked the windows to let in the cool, seawater air\u2014so heavy and humid; so mist-tinged and sharp.\nI glanced at her, and I saw her eyes\u2014as usual\u2014were unfocused and faraway. She stared at the ocean, her lips pursed.\nWe didn\u2019t speak; not then. Instead, we watched as the sun descended into the horizon, its light dissolving along the waves; its fingers straining for the sky. Then, with a flicker, it slipped away and disappeared, retreating into the sea\u2026 plunging the world into an ashen, murky dusk.\nSomeone knocked on Mom\u2019s window, then; she and I jumped. A cop stood outside, making a motion with his hands.\nShe rolled down the window. \u201cSomething wrong?\u201d\n\u201cYour documents, please.\u201d\nMom fished in her purse, handed him some papers. He snatched them and skimmed the information. \u201cThank you. Now your hand, please.\u201d\nMom extended her left hand, palm-up. The officer unholstered a laser scanner, focusing the beam on the center of Mom\u2019s palm\u2014on the electronic chip embedded beneath the skin.\nHe scanned her as if she were a barcode on a cereal box.\nI held my breath; my throat constricted. I couldn\u2019t help staring at the officer\u2019s gun dangling from his belt, along with a baton and a set of handcuffs.\nMom, I noticed, had retracted her hand and curled her fingers into a fist, which she clenched tightly alongside her lap.\n\u201cYou\u2019re from out of state,\u201d the cop said, reading his electronic tablet. \u201cYou got a traveling permit?\u201d\n\u201cRight here.\u201d Mom tapped on an orange card affixed to the dashboard.\n\u201cPick it up and hand it to me, please.\u201d\nMom obeyed.\nThe officer scanned it, then handed back all the documents in one big clump. \u201cYou aware there\u2019s a law against parking on this beach?\u201d\n\u201cCan I ask what you\u2019re doing here?\u201d\n\u201cMy son and I were watching the sunset\u2014that\u2019s all.\u201d Mom\u2019s voice sounded flat, tired\u2014defeated.\nThe officer typed onto his electronic tablet. \u201cSays here your husband was registered as a class B civil offender.\u201d\n\u201cMy husband\u2019s been dead for six years.\u201d\n\u201cMay I ask your purpose for visiting the state of California?\u201d\nMom sighed. \u201cI went through all this already at the border. They granted me the permit.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m not a border agent; I\u2019m a law-enforcement officer. And I asked you a question.\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re taking a vacation. That\u2019s all.\u201d\n\u201cIs that so?\u201d The officer hunkered down till his face was level with Mom\u2019s. He wore large, mirrored sunglasses that masked his eyes. I could see my mother\u2019s face reflected in them; her mouth was even, betraying no emotion. He glared at her, then looked at me. I swallowed.\n\u201cHow old\u2019s the boy?\u201d the officer asked.\nMom took a long, slow breath. \u201cWhat\u2019s he got to do with anything?\u201d\n\u201cYou saw his documents, didn\u2019t you? He\u2019s thirteen.\u201d\nThe officer turned to me; now it was my own face I saw reflected in his sunglasses: pale, timid\u2014cowering. \u201cWhat\u2019s your name, kid?\u201d\n\u201cWhat are you asking him that for?\u201d Mom asked, her voice raised. \u201cYou saw his documents.\u201d\n\u201cYou just let him answer, now.\u201d The officer\u2019s voice remained even.\nMy mouth and throat felt parched all of a sudden. I struggled to breathe.\n\u201cI asked you your name.\u201d The officer\u2019s large, mirrored eyes burned into me like branding irons.\n\u201cPaul,\u201d I finally managed to say, croaking. My heart seemed to hammer in my ears.\n\u201cPaul.\u201d The officer continued to look at me, as if trying to read my mind. I knew I was quivering, and it made me ashamed, because I knew I wasn\u2019t behaving like a man, but rather like a frightened schoolboy\u2026 leaving my mother to defend not only herself, but me, as well.\nAnd I hated myself for that: for how small the man made me feel. It\u2019s a memory I\u2019ve dwelled on often; a feeling that\u2019s haunted me my whole life.\n\u201cI wasn\u2019t aware of the law,\u201d Mom said. \u201cI swear. We were just leaving, anyway.\u201d\nThe cop stood. \u201cYou staying anywhere in particular?\u201d\nMom hesitated. \u201cWe don\u2019t know, yet. We were going to find a motel.\u201d\nThe cop took a card out of his pocket and handed it to her. \u201cLaw requires us to monitor any out-of-state citizen our system flags as a potential threat. Once you know where you\u2019re staying, you call that number and report your whereabouts. The same goes for any time you change motels, and also for when you head home.\u201d\nMom raked her teeth along her lower lip. \u201cI was tried once for sedition. They declared me innocent.\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t none of that matter: it\u2019s the law. Someone with your background\u2014and your husband\u2014it\u2019s automatic twenty-four-hour observation.\u201d\n\u201cFor god\u2019s sake,\u201d Mom said, her voice cracking. \u201cWe don\u2019t deserve this. My son and I are loyal citizens. We haven\u2019t done anything wrong.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s the law.\u201d The cop turned to leave. \u201cYou be sure to call that number, now. If you fail to check in by 10 p.m., we\u2019ll put an APB out on your vehicle. Failure to comply is a serious offense. Mandatory jail term is six months, I believe.\u201d He tipped his hat and started walking away. \u201cHave a nice day, now.\u201d\n\u201cYeah, right,\u201d Mom said, rolling up her window. She flung his card on the floor.\nWe watched him climb into his car and speed off, his rear tires spewing sand. Mom started the engine, then backed out slowly. She didn\u2019t say anything as we pulled onto the highway, merging with the heavy traffic.\nI swallowed again. My heart was beginning to slow down, now that I knew we weren\u2019t going to jail.\n\u201cClose call,\u201d I said, trying to laugh. It came out as more of a hiccup.\nMom stared straight ahead, her eyes narrowed. She clenched the wheel tightly.\nI took a deep breath. I wanted to say something to make Mom happy\u2014to bring back the laughing, carefree person she\u2019d become on the ride over; the person I suspected she\u2019d been when she was younger, when Dad was alive.\nThe person I rarely got to see, and who I really wanted to get to know.\n\u201cThat was a good idea, watching the sunset,\u201d I said. \u201cI thought it was awesome\u2014thank you.\u201d\nMom sucked in a deep, long breath, then expelled it slowly.\n\u201cThe last time I saw the sun set over the ocean, I was a little girl,\u201d she said, her voice soft. \u201cI remember it so clearly, like a picture pressed upon my mind. Seeing it again, after all these years\u2026 it takes me to a better time, a better place.\u201d\nShe huffed. \u201cI just wish he hadn\u2019t have showed up. He ruined it for me\u2014he really did. Now, whenever I look back, all I\u2019ll see is that smug, condescending face\u2026 and I\u2019ll be flushed with the same anger I\u2019m feeling now.\u201d She sighed. \u201cI hate the power they wield\u2014I really do. It makes me feel so helpless, so hopeless\u2026 like I\u2019m an inferior life form with no backbone who can be bent and twisted into any direction they choose. They have a way of doing that to you\u2014of making you feel so little; so insignificant and small.\u201d\nShe shook her head and gave me a sideways glance. \u201cI\u2019m sorry\u2014I\u2019m just a little shaken. I hate the way things are, sometimes.\u201d\nShame surged through me then, and my guts bunched into a hard, tight knot. According to Mom, the cop had made her feel small, just as he had me\u2026 and yet she\u2019d maintained her composure while I\u2019d frozen like a startled deer.\nLooking back, it probably shouldn\u2019t have bothered me (I was only a child, after all, while Mom was emboldened by adulthood), but at the time I felt so emasculated, so little\u2026 and I hated myself for my cowardice\u2014so much so that I wanted to die at that moment, in the most painful and violent way possible. I imagined the cop wrenching me from the car and slamming my face into the asphalt\u2026 then kicking me in the stomach, the chest, the face\u2014repeatedly\u2014till I was gasping for air and choking on blood. He\u2019d slip out his baton and bludgeon my skull, walloping and wailing till bones split apart and my brains slid out in a gooey, bloody pool. Then he\u2019d stand over me and piss on my corpse, as my mother screamed from the car, crying.\nAnd as those cruel, sickening images flashed through my mind, hot tears stung my eyes\u2026 and yet I smiled. I smiled, because\u2014strange though it might sound\u2014it felt good for me to envision my own demise, as if it were a means of retreating within myself\u2014of denying the cop the satisfaction of exposing my weakness, my cowardice.\nOnly later\u2014much later\u2014did I realize what I was feeling was inverted anger. I\u2019ve always directed my emotions inward. It\u2019s a reaction, I suppose, that comes from a lifetime of oppression; of withdrawing from the world. And when you lack the guts to stand up and fight, all you can do is envelop yourself in a snug blanket of self-destruction.\nIt feels good, I guess, because it\u2019s a feeling\u2026 and any sort of feeling is better than numbness\u2014than nothing. Pinpricks sting, but when they\u2019re all you feel, they feel downright orgasmic.\nMom glanced over at me. \u201cYou OK, hon?\u201d\nI blinked. \u201cHuh? Yeah. I\u2019m fine.\u201d\n\u201cYou sure?\u201d She was looking at me, hard\u2026 and frowning.\nI turned away to watch the scenery. I didn\u2019t answer.\nShe reached over and touched my knee. \u201cIt\u2019s OK, honey. It\u2019s over\u2014he\u2019s gone. Nothing\u2019s going to happen to us. We\u2019re going to be OK.\u201d\nA sharp pang of sadness shot through me. The way she\u2019d spoken\u2014the quiet, toneless inflection of her voice\u2014had such a forlorn, lonesome quality to it, like the notes of a harmonica drifting over the desert\u2026 and I realized then how alone we were, my mother and I; how fragile and delicate and helpless we were\u2026 especially in that moment, miles and miles away from home, with the gorgeous sunset now only a memory, and the impenetrable darkness closing in.\nAnd I wanted to make my mother feel better\u2014again, to make her the happy, carefree person I knew she could be\u2014so I swallowed and tried to strike an optimistic note: \u201cAt least we didn\u2019t get a ticket.\u201d\n\u201cYeah,\u201d she said, nodding. \u201cAt least we didn\u2019t get a ticket.\u201d\nShe laughed\u2014a dark, humorless laugh\u2014and she looked at me and said: \u201cYou\u2019re so young. Do me a favor, will you? When you look back on this day, try to think only of the sunset, and nothing else. I want you and I to share that one, unblemished moment. Life is bleak enough without the real world marring your memories.\u201d\nShe gazed at the road then, at the scenery unspooling before us. The engine hummed with the rhythm of the road. Only a few other drivers had flicked on their headlights, to cast their beams upon the impending darkness.\n\u201cYou know,\u201d my mother said, after a couple of moments, \u201cseeing that sunset reminded me: there\u2019s still some sanctuary in the world. They can take a lot from you: your freedom, your self-worth, your dignity, your pride. And they can prevent you from reading certain books, or from expressing certain views. But one thing they can\u2019t take\u2014no matter what the threat, no matter what the punishment\u2014is your ability to think beautiful thoughts. In the end, all we have is our mind, and if we use it to immerse ourselves in beauty, then we can always escape\u2026 no matter where we are.\u201d\nShe looked at me and smiled. I smiled back. And as we continued driving the hot, vivid flashes of euphoria I\u2019d felt envisioning my own destruction tapered away to a cool, calming peace, as my mind drifted back to the ocean, and to the sunset\u2026 and to the white, blinding beauty of the sun\u2019s rays as they grasped for the sky, reaching for the heavens\u2026 before being swallowed by the sea.\nIt\u2019s after dinner, and I\u2019m shuffling in a line with the other inmates to the cell block\u2014to 4D, fourth cell from the left.\nMy home for the past dozen years.\nAs we round a corner, I see Clancy standing there. He motions me over.\n\u201cPaul,\u201d he says, his voice quiet, \u201cyou\u2019re coming with me. Don\u2019t say nothing.\u201d\nMy eyes widen, and my lips part, but no words emerge.\nClancy nods, as if in response to the question I was trying to ask.\nThe line of prisoners keeps marching, but I follow Clancy in the other direction. I\u2019m thinking we\u2019re heading to the elevator\u2014to the fifth-floor filing room\u2014so I\u2019m surprised when we keep marching toward the exit.\nA guard buzzes us through, and we emerge into the glistening white lobby.\nThe door slams shut behind us. Only a few feet beside it lies another door, a mirror image of the first.\nThe door to the women\u2019s wing.\nIt remains tightly closed. I can\u2019t get so much as a glimpse inside.\nClancy walks behind me now, following procedure. He guides me to a guard post near the prison\u2019s entrance. Two guards immediately come out and frisk me. Then one cuffs my hands behind my back while the other secures chains around my ankles.\nClancy tells them he\u2019s checking me out for off-campus detail\u2014he gives them my name and number, then fills out a form.\n\u201cOpen your mouth,\u201d one of the guards says. He checks under my tongue and between my gums, prodding with a gloved finger.\nThen they lead me outside, into a spacious parking lot, where a minivan is waiting. The chain between my legs is short, so I have to walk with a shuffle. The guards usher me into the van\u2019s backseat, which has a cage separating it from the front. Steel mesh covers the windows.\nClancy climbs behind the wheel, huffing. He slams the door; the front windows are rolled down.\n\u201cSee ya, Clancy.\u201d One of the guards waves\u2014he\u2019s a young man, fresh-faced and eager, probably in his early twenties.\nI wonder suddenly if he has a wife, or a girlfriend\u2014if he\u2019s ever fallen in love.\nI glance, but I don\u2019t see a ring on his finger.\nClancy fires up the engine, and we\u2019re off. We drive toward the main gate, which lies at the end of a long, two-lane driveway. Tall fences stand on either side, affixed with bright, blinding lights.\nMy heart is beating fast. This will be my first time off the prison grounds in more than a decade. I remember my ride in here, along this very driveway, as I sat in the back of a rickety, stuffy bus. It seems like eons ago, when I didn\u2019t qualify as a man.\nI swallow, wondering if I even qualify now.\nWe approach the gate; Clancy slows to a stop. A trio of guards emerges from the shack to inspect the vehicle.\n\u201cKeep your yap shut,\u201d Clancy says over his shoulder, his voice gruff. But he doesn\u2019t have to worry about me\u2014I\u2019m too nervous and excited to say anything.\nThe guards shine flashlights in the vehicle, into my eyes. Clancy leans his head out the window, answers their questions. He\u2019s the captain of the guards, so they mostly nod in obedience. Then they retreat to the shack, and the tall, double gates swing open\u2026 and then we\u2019re driving along a narrow desert highway, in the middle of nowhere. The headlights sweep through the darkness as we drive around curves and bends.\nI remember this road. It\u2019s all coming back to me.\n\u201cYou\u2019re excited to see her again,\u201d Clancy says. \u201cI can tell.\u201d\nMy breathing has quickened. \u201cWhere are we going?\u201d\n\u201cUp the road a ways, into the desert. We figured it would be safer to do it away from the prison, where there\u2019s no chance of you guys getting caught. You\u2019ll be able to talk all you like, as loud as you like.\n\u201cAnd,\u201d he continued, stealing a quick glance at me over his shoulder, \u201cwho knows\u2014you might even get laid. Right?\u201d He laughs.\n\u201cIs she already there?\u201d I ask.\n\u201cYeah, she should be. They got a half-hour head start. The story is we\u2019re taking you to my mother-in-law\u2019s party, to wait tables and do dishes. It\u2019s not strictly procedure, but I\u2019m the captain, and I get my perks, which includes state-provided slave labor.\u201d\n\u201cThank you, Clancy,\u201d I say. \u201cI really\u2026 I mean\u2014\u201d\n\u201cYou don\u2019t know what to say? You\u2019re speechless?\u201d\nI smile. \u201cYeah. I don\u2019t know what to say.\u201d\nHe turns again, briefly. \u201cHappy birthday, kiddo. Next week, right?\u201d\n\u201cI guess,\u201d I say, shrugging.\n\u201cYou guess? You don\u2019t even know when your own birthday is?\u201d\n\u201c\u2018It doesn\u2019t matter,\u2019\u201d he mimics. \u201cFuck you; you\u2019re turning thirty. When you\u2019re an old codger like me, with one foot planted in the grave, then suddenly it\u2019s going to matter. You\u2019re going to look back and wonder where the hell your life disappeared to.\u201d\nI gaze out the window. I don\u2019t say anything.\nClancy glances back at me and smiles. \u201cThis will be a better birthday present than a fake rubber snatch. Am I right?\u201d\nI only nod, closing my eyes. I don\u2019t want to think in such sordid terms. All I want to think about is Pam\u2014her beauty, her voice\u2014and the way my stomach fluttered when she looked in my eyes. I don\u2019t want to think about the seedy sexual overtones of runaway lust. I only want to think about love, and light, and the vision of myself in the embrace of my soulmate.\nWe continue driving; it feels like we\u2019re going uphill. The van shifts down a gear, and the engine whines.\n\u201cShe\u2019s a good-looking girl,\u201d Clancy says. \u201cI picked her out for you myself. You and her, you seem alike. You\u2019re both the quietest inmates we\u2019ve got.\u201d\n\u201cWhy are you doing this for me?\u201d I ask. \u201cI mean, you\u2019re putting yourself at risk, right?\u201d\n\u201cYou\u2019re damn right I am,\u201d Clancy says, nodding. \u201cBut I\u2019ve always said, a man\u2019s got to lay his eyes on female flesh once in awhile. You really do. You got to get laid every so often to keep your mind working right\u2014to keep the cobwebs clear. You know what I mean?\u201d\nBefore I can answer, he laughs and shakes his head. \u201cNo, you wouldn\u2019t know what I mean; not really. Fuck that. What I\u2019m saying is\u2026 well, you deserved a nice birthday present. Let\u2019s just leave it at that.\u201d\nI stare out the window; the wide, desert flats stretch along on either side of the road like a dry, giant lakebed. The moon and stars gleam brightly in the cloudless sky.\nI stare at the heavens, mesmerized. I haven\u2019t seen the night sky like this since I was that lonely kid who went off driving at night. It seems so long ago. I\u2019m used to the prison\u2019s bright perimeter spotlights, which blot out the stars, as if to keep your thoughts and dreams from reaching too high.\nWe turn onto a rough, bumpy dirt road. We bounce over rocks, and I press myself against the door, to steady myself. My hands are cuffed behind me; I have them burrowed into my lower back, and by now my wrists and shoulders are burning with pain.\nWe continue driving. There are no trees out here; only rocks and sagebrush. The outlying terrain is rough and ripply, like a wavy, stormy sea. The air that drifts in through the open front windows is cool\u2014much cooler than seems normal for a summer evening like this.\nWe approach a second minivan, which is parked on a hump alongside the narrow dirt road. Clancy eases next to it and kills the engine, plunging the world into an awkward, sterile silence. There aren\u2019t even any crickets. All I can hear is my own breathing, along with Clancy\u2019s labored wheezes.\n\u201cWell,\u201d he says, finally, \u201cthis is it.\u201d\nHe climbs out of the van and slides open the back door. Taking my elbow, he helps me step outside.\n\u201cLet\u2019s get these off,\u201d he says, motioning to the chains. He extracts a small, metal key and unlocks the cuffs\u2014the ankles first, then the wrists.\nI rub my arms; the chains left bright red indentations.\n\u201cThis way,\u201d Clancy says, motioning me. \u201cYou lead.\u201d\nI start walking, and Clancy falls in step behind me. My heart is pounding, and it\u2019s hard for me to breathe. Even though the sky is bright, it\u2019s difficult to see. I step over rocks and brush, but my shoe catches on a small gopher hole, and I almost trip.\n\u201cEasy!\u201d Clancy says. \u201cI hope you\u2019re not this clumsy when you dance.\u201d\nI laugh. \u201cI\u2019ve never danced before.\u201d\n\u201cEver? Not even at a wedding?\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ve never been to a wedding.\u201d\n\u201cDamn,\u201d Clancy says. \u201cAin\u2019t done much in your life, have you?\u201d\nI don\u2019t know how to answer that\u2026 so I continue walking.\nThere are small hills scattered about, some as large as haystacks; others, the size of tanks.\n\u201cTo your left,\u201d Clancy says. \u201cThey\u2019re behind that hill, waiting. Don\u2019t piss your pants now. You feeling up to this?\u201d\n\u201cYeah,\u201d I say, my voice soft. I wring my hands.\n\u201cI\u2019m up to this\u2014yeah.\u201d\nClancy laughs. \u201cNervous?\u201d\nWe round the hill, and I think I see two figures standing against the rocky wall, but it\u2019s dark, and I can\u2019t quite make them out.\n\u201cKeep going,\u201d Clancy says. \u201cDon\u2019t stop.\u201d\n\u201cIs that them?\u201d I ask, meaning Pam and the female guard.\n\u201cIt\u2019s them. Keep moving.\u201d\nI continue walking, but it\u2019s difficult to see where I\u2019m going. Unexpectedly, one of the figures switches on a flashlight and shines it in my eyes. I trip on a large rock, which causes me to stumble and scrape my shin.\n\u201cHey!\u201d Clancy calls out. \u201cIt\u2019s us!\u201d\nI rub my shin; there\u2019s a dirty mark on my white pants, and my shoes are covered with dust.\n\u201cOver here!\u201d the figure calls, lowering the flashlight.\nI pause, abruptly. The hair on the back of my neck stands up, as if electrified.\nThe figure\u2019s voice was masculine.\nClancy pushes the end of his baton into my lower back. \u201cKeep moving, Paul.\u201d\n\u201cClancy,\u201d I say. \u201cWho\u2019s the \u2014\u201d\nBut I don\u2019t get a chance to finish: my voice is cut off when Clancy slams the baton into the back of my head. I pitch forward, falling onto a stickery brush. Branches scrape my stomach.\nI hear shuffling footsteps; then, a couple of strong arms are hauling me to my feet.\n\u201cThis the guy?\u201d someone asks.\n\u201cYeah,\u201d Clancy says. \u201cBe gentle with him; he\u2019s probably got a hard-on. He came out here thinking he was going to get laid.\u201d\nThe men laugh. My vision is wavy, but I can make them out: they\u2019re a couple of younger guards who work in the towers. I don\u2019t know their names.\n\u201cWhere is it?\u201d Clancy asks.\nOne of the guards points. \u201cOver there, by the hill.\u201d\n\u201cBring him, then. I want him to see.\u201d\nClancy starts walking, and the guards drag me toward him, toward the hill. My head is aching; I\u2019m almost sure it\u2019s bleeding.\nClancy stops and stands with his arms folded. \u201cLook, Paul.\u201d\nMy head is tipped backward; my skull is throbbing in time to my pulse.\n\u201cI said look!\u201d\nI struggle to focus my eyes. I follow Clancy\u2019s finger, which is pointing to the ground.\nThere\u2019s a large pile of fresh dirt; two shovels protrude from it.\nAnd beside the pile, carved from the earth, lies a long, deep hole.\nMy head pitches forward. I feel like I\u2019m going to vomit.\n\u201cIt\u2019s nothing personal,\u201d Clancy says. \u201cI really do think you\u2019re an all-right guy. That\u2019s why I introduced you to the girl. I\u2019ve never done that for no one else. But this is the way things are. This is the way things have to be.\u201d\nI take a deep breath. I try to say something, but it comes out as more of a moan.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s that?\u201d Clancy asks.\n\u201cPam.\u201d I swallow, feeling groggy.\n\u201cNot in this life, bud. I\u2019m sorry. She\u2019s already gone.\u201d\nI moan, softly.\n\u201cWell?\u201d asks the guard to my left.\n\u201cYeah,\u201d Clancy nods. \u201cGo ahead; take your time. I\u2019m going to head back; I don\u2019t need to be here.\u201d\nHe reaches out and clasps my shoulder, almost in a reassuring way, like a father comforting a son.\n\u201cSee you, Paul.\u201d\nAnd then he leaves. I hear his footsteps retreating into the darkness\u2014shuffling through sand, crunching through brush.\nThe guards let me go. One pushes me back, and I stumble, trying to keep my balance. They extract their batons, slowly, as if their thoughts are synchronized. They stand and stare, their eyes steely and cold, their weapons held ready.\nThey look like snakes poised to strike.\nThe one on my right swings at me first: he whips the baton in a long, sweeping arc that catches me smack in the jaw.\nI yelp and fall backward.\nThey\u2019re both on top of me, then, walloping and wailing\u2026 the batons smash me in the face, the head, the stomach, the groin, the knees. The pain is sharp, and blinding\u2014everything is white.\nI hear them hollering\u2014deep, primitive, indecipherable yells. One drives the toe of his boot deep into my stomach. I gasp, spitting out something\u2014maybe blood, maybe the contents of my guts.\nThe batons slam into my arms, my chest, my back, my lower legs. I try rolling, but I succeed only in exposing my stomach\u2014one guard strikes blows to my chest and belly; the other slams me alongside the cheek and in the mouth.\nMy eyes are squeezed shut\u2014one of my sockets is gushing blood\u2014and all I see is a hot, blinding whiteness, as if I\u2019m staring into the sun.\nAnd from the whiteness, a figure emerges, transparent and tinged with mist; it drifts toward me like a silent, sailing ship. I hold out my hand, as if to touch it, to greet it\u2026 but one of the guards grabs my fingers and bends them backward. The bones snap like twigs.\nThe figure is defined, now: it\u2019s a woman. She has deep, mature eyes and red, parted lips. Her light, blonde hair flows in waves well past her shoulders.\nIt\u2019s Pam.\nShe\u2019s smiling at me, and she\u2019s extending her hand, to hold mine.\nWe\u2019re back in the filing room, and we\u2019re looking into each other\u2019s eyes.\nAnd the guards are bashing my skull, my neck, my back. One gives me a smooth, swift kick in the ribs, and I\u2019m falling, falling\u2026 and I land hard on my stomach; my mouth takes in dirt.\nI cough, but my lips and tongue are coated with sand. I gag.\nAnd then I\u2019m back with Pam; her fingers are entwined with mine, and she\u2019s telling me about her life, how she likes to read in her cell on Sundays. And I\u2019m aching to kiss her, to hold her, but I don\u2019t. Instead, I give her hand a gentle squeeze, and I listen: I take in everything she says, her lilting voice swinging me like a melody\u2014like the soft, sweet notes of a long-forgotten song.\nAnd then there\u2019s a crushing, searing pain in my back: one the guards has dropped a rock on me. I gasp; the wind\u2019s knocked out of my lungs, and I can\u2019t breathe.\nI vaguely hear their warbled laughter\u2026 but then again, the night dissolves, and I\u2019m back in the filing room with Pam, and we\u2019re sitting on the floor together, leaning against a shelf, sharing stories. I\u2019m telling her how I once burned the brownies at lunch, and how Bruno, the head chef, threatened to smash my face against the grill\u2014how he\u2019s always threatening to smash my face against the grill, even for the slightest transgressions\u2014although he never does, because he doesn\u2019t have a violent bone in his body.\nAnd I\u2019m only faintly aware that the guards are tossing shovelfuls of dirt on me\u2026 but again, I\u2019m back in the filing room, back with Pam, and the pain devolves to pinpricks\u2026 then, it dissolves away to nothing.\nAnd I\u2019m no longer numb; I\u2019m feeling all there is to feel, but there\u2019s no pain. There\u2019s only beauty, and light, and love. And I\u2019m immersed in all of it.\nAnd I\u2019m looking into Pam\u2019s eyes\u2026 and she\u2019s looking into mine, and whispering\u2026 and I know now more than ever that my heart was right\u2014that all my tender, anguished yearning was not in vain\u2014because right now I\u2019m holding the girl of my dreams\u2026 the woman I want to be with, forever\u2026 because I love her so much. I love her so, so much.\nShe\u2019s so sweet, so perfect, so pure.\nAnd she\u2019s so beautiful.\nShe\u2019s so, so beautiful.\nTagged Adult Themes, Allen Coyle, Dystopian, Featured Story, Introspective, Permanent Detention.\n\u00ab Con Review: AWCon2018\nAn Element of Blank \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 679, "original_length": 92661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ny2016.org/Event.aspx?eventid=286", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:59Z", "digest": "sha1:P2WZ56X2B5XC5PWM3CLWPP5PR52JJSR4", "length": 240, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.ny2016.org", "title": "Event Information", "raw_content": "John Latter of\nPitcairn Islands Study Group Dinner\nDeath Ave Restaurant, 315 10th Avenue\n5/29/2016 From 6:30PM to\nLocation will be Death Ave Restaurant (www.deathave.com), located at 315 10th Avenue between 28th & 29th St. It will be Dutch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/wheeling-history/wheeling-hall-of-fame-johann-ludwig-stifel/4161", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:54GMPI7OJUBTMVLC764E3WLKTHVEYUIQ", "length": 3049, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ohiocountylibrary.org", "title": "Wheeling History > Wheeling Hall of Fame: Johann Ludwig Stifel | Ohio County Public Library", "raw_content": "In the spring of 1835, Johann Ludwig Stifel opened a small cleaning and dyeing establishment in a log cabin on North Main St. in Wheeling.\nFrom such tiny beginnings was developed the giant calico works which became the first plant in the nation to print yard-wide indigo blue calico, which was shipped to all parts of the world to be made into clothing.\nJohann Stifel, the founder of J.L. Stifel Co., was born in Neuffen, Wurttemberg, Germany, on March 13, 1807. He learned the trade of dyer and calico printer, traveled throughout Europe as a journeyman and later as a foreman in Kaiserlautern.\nAt the age 26, he emigrated to America. He landed in Baltimore in September of 1833, then moved to Philadelphia and on the Bethlehem, Pa., where he worked in the woolen mills.\nIn the summer of 1834, poor and alone, Johann Stifel walked from Bethlehem, Pa., to Wheeling. He traveled barefoot part of the time to save wear on his shoes. He became one of the first Germans to settle in Wheeling and in the winter of 1834-35 worked for his board on a local farm.\nHis North Main St. establishment had a short life because of his desire to return his trade of dyeing and printing of cloth. He purchased a bolt of unbleached cotton goods for $10, dyed and sold it, and purchased a new bolt. Thus he started to develop the capital for the factory which he opened at Ninth and Main Sts., where the Virginia Apartments now stand. Here he dyed and printed cloth by hand and peddled it from a wagon.\nOn June 18, 1835, he married Barbara Becht, a native German who was then residing in Steubenville. His life flourished and in 1859 his two sons, Louis C. and William F. Stifel, became partners in the growing firm. In 1896, the factory switched to mechanical methods of print.\nJ. L. Stifel retired in 1874 and died on December 1, 1881. He had developed a business that would prosper for many years. His plant had a daily capacity of many miles of cotton goods and employed several hundred.\nCarried on by his heirs, the business was moved to the 400 block on Main St. at the turn of the century.\nDuring both World Wars, the plant converted to war production. In 1943, J. L. Stifel & Sons became the first in the textile industry to win the joint Army-Navy \"E\" Production Award.\nA declining demand for cotton goods, development of synthetic fibers and foreign imports resulted in the plant being closed in 1957.\nJ. L. Stifel had not only become a success through a trade learned in his youth but was involved in numerous business and civic ventures. He was a stockholder and director of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge; served as director and president of the Commercial Bank; was organizer and director of the National Savings Bank of Wheeling; and vice-president and director of the Benwood Iron Works.\nHe was founder of the first German paper in Wheeling, was a strong supporter of the Union and a member of the convention whose action brought about the separation of West Virginia from Virginia. He was also a member of the first board of Ohio County Commissioners.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 4749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 132.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.one-eternal-day.com/2014/06/language-and-social-change.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LEHFSFQMFDKDJV6TVEJX3GAWKXZDGA6D", "length": 2630, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.one-eternal-day.com", "title": "One Eternal Day: Language and social change", "raw_content": "N.T. Wright is disinclined to think that facts can be changed simply by re-naming them:\n.... When anybody\u2014pressure groups, governments, civilizations\u2014suddenly change the meaning of key words, you really should watch out. If you go to a German dictionary and just open at random, you may well see several German words which have a little square bracket saying \u201cN.S.,\u201d meaning National Socialist or Nazi. The Nazis gave those words a certain meaning. In post-1917 Russia, there were whole categories of people who were called \u201cformer persons,\u201d because by the Communist diktat they had ceased to be relevant for the state, and once you call them former persons it was extremely easy to ship them off somewhere and have them killed.\nIn the same way, there was a letter in the Times Literary Supplement just a few weeks ago saying that when we\u2019re talking about assisted suicide, we shouldn\u2019t actually use words like \u201csuicide,\u201d \u201ckilling,\u201d and those sort of words because those imply that you shouldn\u2019t do it. Whereas now our civilization is saying that maybe there are reasons for that. I find that sort of stuff chilling, the attempt to change an ideology within a culture by changing the language.\nNow, the word \u201cmarriage,\u201d for thousands of years and cross-culturally has meant man and woman. Sometimes it\u2019s been one man and more than one woman. Occasionally it\u2019s been one woman and more than one man. There is polyandry as well as polygamy in some societies in some parts of history, but it\u2019s always been male plus female. Simply to say that you can have a woman-plus-woman marriage or a man-plus-man marriage is radically to change that because of the givenness of maleness and femaleness. I would say that without any particular Christian presuppositions at all, just cross-culturally, that\u2019s so. ....\nIt\u2019s like a government voting that black should be white. Sorry, you can vote that if you like, you can pass it by a total majority, but it isn\u2019t actually going to change the reality. .... [more]\n\u201cThere\u2019s glory for you!\u201d\nHumpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. \u201cOf course you don\u2019t\u2014till I tell you. I meant \u2018there\u2019s a nice knock-down argument for you!\u2019\u201d\n\u201cWhen I use a word,\u201d Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, \u201cit means just what I choose it to mean\u2014neither more nor less.\u201d\n\"Political language \u2014 and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists \u2014 is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.\" Orwell\nN.T. 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When traveling internationally on a budget, consider taking flights rather than trains to your destinations. While trains are perhaps the more traditional mode of transportation for backpackers, many airlines offer discount flights that are much cheaper than train tickets. This way, you can travel to more places without adding to your budget. When travelling out of the country, make sure someone back home has a detailed copy of your itinerary. Make sure they know where you\u2019ll be staying and have a way to contact you in case of an emergency. This is also good on the off case that something happens to you they can find you. Although you can buy most first aid tools on your various travels, it is still a good idea to have a first aid kit in your bag. You will be well-served to pack some essentials like bandages, soap, aspirin or other pain relievers, cold [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 616, "original_length": 9767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.openhealthnews.com/story/2018-09-18/national-biodefense-strategy-protecting-nation-against-all-biological-threats", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HY4WJBWA55GFUH3DTZXWGBE7DD2OIHPN", "length": 4142, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.openhealthnews.com", "title": "National Biodefense Strategy: Protecting the Nation Against all Biological Threats | Open Health News", "raw_content": "As a nation, public and private partners must work closely together to plan adaptively for current and emerging biothreats.\nRobert Kadlec, MDToday, the White House and four federal departments unveiled a comprehensive National Biodefense Strategy to make America safer against modern biological threats to the United States. In the 21st century, biological threats are increasingly complex and dangerous, and that demands that we act with urgency and singular effort to save lives and protect Americans.\nWhether a natural outbreak, an accidental release, or a deliberate attack, biological threats are among the most serious we face, with the potential for significant health, economic and national security impacts. Therefore, promoting our health security is a national security imperative.\nThe strategy released today not only establishes the U.S. government vision for biodefense, it prioritizes and coordinates federal biodefense activities and budgets. In meeting the aggressive demands of the National Biodefense Strategy - PDF as directed by President Trump's National Security Presidential Memorandum, we will improve the nation's readiness and response capabilities to combat 21st century biological threats to humans, animals, agriculture and the environment.\nCombating 21st century biothreats requires a whole-of-nation approach\nBiodefense entails a range of coordinated actions to counter biothreats, reduce risks, and prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents. As biothreats continue to evolve, so must our biodefense capabilities.\nCoordination of such complex actions requires a sound strategy, commitment, and governance structure. As an initial step in implementing the strategy, leaders from every federal department involved in biodefense formed a steering committee, led by Secretary Azar, that provides strategic guidance in preparing for, countering, and responding to biological threats. I am honored that Secretary Azar asked me to lead the day-to-day coordination team that supports this committee in improving biodefense readiness. As the assistant secretary for preparedness and response, my office routinely coordinates federal preparedness, response, and recovery efforts to address the healthcare and public health impacts of public health emergencies and other disasters, including bioincidents.\nThe National Biodefense Strategy's coordination team also will engage state, local, tribal and territorial governments, as well as private and international partners as appropriate, because while coordinating federal activities and budgets across the full spectrum of biodefense sectors and activities represents a monumental step forward; being truly successful will require a whole-of-nation approach with government agencies at all levels and non-government stakeholders playing important roles in providing support and guidance. As a nation, public and private partners must work closely together to plan adaptively for current and emerging biothreats, whether they stem from terrorist groups, pandemics, natural disasters, or even rogue nation states.\nSeventeen years ago today, our nation experienced a biological attack with anthrax mailed in letters, killing five people and injuring 17, and costing an estimated $6 billion in clean up and lost revenue. Those historic attacks, the more recent Ebola outbreaks and the emergence of potentially deadly influenza viruses demonstrate how severe biological threats continue to evolve, both man-made and from nature, can be. By meeting the call to action in the National Biodefense Strategy, we become better equipped to protect this nation against all biothreats.\nRobert P. Kadlec, MD, MTM&H, MS, is HHS Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. This article was originally posted on the HHS Blog. It is reprinted by Open Health News under public domain.\nCDC Official Protests Federal Medical Response Cuts\nThe Shutdown Will Harm the Health and Safety of Americans, even After it's Long Over\n21st century biological threats\nbiodefense capabilities\nbiodefense readiness\nbioincidents\nemerging biothreats\nNational Security Presidential Memorandum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 8075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paddilund.com/content/view.asp?name=Trumpet_CNEs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3ADJYT2LEZCQW4OQZ3K7GBOSESZNAK7X", "length": 878, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.paddilund.com", "title": "Share the story of Paddi and the CNe's", "raw_content": "Share the story of Paddi and the CNe's\nAfter Paddi's released his revolutionary first book, Building the Happiness-Centred Business, he began to turn his attention to how customers judge a business.\nIn Paddi's business the little things make all the difference. The actual quality of dentistry really doesn't have much impact \ufffd Paddi could do his dentistry a variety of ways and most people wouldn't really know what quality of care they've had.\nAnd yet Paddi's customers do have the perception that the quality of dentistry is high, extremely high. Why?\nBecause the tea is served impeccably,\nBecause their names and their photographs are actually on the door of their personal lounges.\nBecause they\ufffdre greeted by name by their own Care Nurse when they ring the doorbell.\nThese are Paddi's Absolutely Critical Non-Essentials: the little things really do make all the difference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pages.unibe.ch/products/multimedia/1764-pages-4th-osm-2013-plenary-presentation-martin-visbeck", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JWAME2FI46YZ3TBAZU4S6TA7M6CP5QX2", "length": 3120, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.pages.unibe.ch", "title": "PAGES - Past Global Changes - Videos - PAGES 4th OSM 2013 Plenary presentation: Martin Visbeck", "raw_content": "You are here: Home Products Other media Videos PAGES 4th OSM 2013 Plenary presentation: Martin Visbeck\nPAGES 4th OSM 2013 Plenary presentation: Martin Visbeck\nSelected topics on ocean dynamics in the wider context of climate variability and global sustainability\nPlenary presentation with slides from PAGES 4th Open Science Meeting held 13-16 February 2013 in Goa, India.\n> Access video\nProfessor Dr. Martin Visbeck\nChair in Physical Oceanography\nHelmholtz-Zentrum f\u00fcr Ozeanforschung Kiel (GEOMAR) and Kiel University, Germany\nProfessor Visbeck\u2019s current research is concerned with integrated marine sciences and in particular with ocean and climate variability and change with an emphasis on the circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic and Subtropical Oxygen Minimum Zones. For his research he makes use of research vessel based expeditions but is increasingly using modern robotic platforms including profiling floats and gliders, and the development of ocean observatories for long-term observations. He is the co-chair of the World Climate Research Programs Project CLIVAR (Climate Variability and Predictability), which facilitates global climate research in the atmosphere and ocean. He was the chair of the organizing committee of the World Meteorological Organization\u2019s Third World Climate Conference in 2009, which called for the development of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS). He was a member of the ICSU transition team that has developed the new global change research project: FUTURE EARTH Research for Global Sustainability.\nAbstract: Selected topics on ocean dynamics in the wider context of climate variability and global sustainability\nThe mean and time-variable ocean circulation plays an essential role in the regional redistribution of heat, freshwater, carbon, oxygen, and nutrients. On the largest scale, arguably, the global overturning circulations regulate many aspects of the global climate. New observations in the North Atlantic Subpolar Subtropical gyre demonstrate the inherent variability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the challenge toward fully observing and understanding its dynamics. In the Southern Hemisphere the cross-Antarctic Circumpolar Current flows are thought to play a substantial role in the ocean\u2019s uptake of heat and carbon. Recent observations and model studies suggest that local eddy dynamics need to be taken into account to estimate meridional fluxes. Finally wind driven circulation in the subtropical regions plays a fundamental role in observed changes in subpolar freshwater budgets and regional subtropical sea level trends.\nAll these cases demonstrate that the rich spectrum of ocean dynamics needs to be considered when estimating changes in regional ocean heat uptake, CO2 budgets, and possibly even more for estimates of future ocean acidification, freshwater budgets and associated changes in subpolar stratification. The complexity of the challenge demands large-scale coordination of ocean observations, research activities, and efforts to inform the public on sustainability issues in the marine realm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4147, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paminasopera.com/category/cd-reviews/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KLW26K5ON3ZSCWOSXR5SFLWKHQIFLF2Z", "length": 2854, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.paminasopera.com", "title": "Pamina's Opera House \u00bb CD Reviews", "raw_content": "This Carmen seems to be universally despised by critics, but personally, I think most reviews of it are too harsh. It\u2019s a flawed recording, but hardly a total train wreck\u2026 I may be biased, though, because it was the first Carmen I ever heard. Yes, Lorin Maazel\u2019s tempos are slightly erratic, sometimes switching in an Read the rest of this entry \u00bb\nOf the \u201cbig three\u201d most widely acclaimed Turandot recordings (the other two being Leinsdorf\u2019s and Mehta\u2019s), this one gives the most emphasis to the score\u2019s raw, visceral thrills. Francesco Molinari-Pradelli has been called a decent but not outstanding conductor, and Read the rest of this entry \u00bb\nIt surprises me that this first-rate Barbiere isn\u2019t better known. Every member of the star-studded cast gives his or her all, both musically and dramatically, and conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti shapes the score with expertise from beginning to end. His interpretation may not quite Read the rest of this entry \u00bb\nCD Review: Carmen (1964, Pr\u00eatre)\nFinally! It\u2019s taken me a long time to finish this review \u2013 it took me about three full listens to \u201cget into it.\u201d I think the problem was that I\u2019d read the negative review of this recording in the book Opera on Record too recently and it unfairly colored my first impression. One of these days I\u2019ll have to write a piece about that book and others like it!\n(Maria Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Robert Massard, Andrea Guiot; Choeurs Ren\u00e9 Duclos; Orchestre de Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de l\u2019Op\u00e9ra de Paris, cond. Georges Pr\u00eatre)\nIf this recording featured any Carmen other than La Divina, Maria Callas, I would consider it just a good, solid performance, less than remarkable but effective all the same, and refreshingly French for an Read the rest of this entry \u00bb\nThis popular Rigoletto is excellent in almost every way. Its main drawback doesn\u2019t involve any of the performances, but the sound engineering. Whoever thought it was a good idea for the dance music in Act I to be barely audible? Yes, it makes us feel as if we were in one room of the palace Read the rest of this entry \u00bb\nThis was the first Flute recording I ever heard and one of the first complete opera recordings I ever owned. Part of my attachment to it may be nostalgic, but still I think I can safely call it one of the best Flutes available. Sir Colin Davis offers an excellent, quintessentially modern reading of the score: slower and heavier than a period instrument performance, yet lighter and livelier than Read the rest of this entry \u00bb\nThis beloved recording has been credited with raising Turandot from the curiosity file to the standard repertoire, and to this day, many opera lovers label it the definitive Turandot. While it isn\u2019t my personal favorite, it definitely deserves the praise it gets. Erich Leisndorf\u2019s conducting may not always be perfectly elegant (some of the Read the rest of this entry \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 7450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.parrotfishdive.com/these-are-tips-for-buying-a-safe-water-filter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:47Z", "digest": "sha1:M74XRUTGC25JQI4XDYH62R3HPGXBCNAK", "length": 1908, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.parrotfishdive.com", "title": "These are Tips for Buying a Safe Water Filter \u2013 Parrotfishdive", "raw_content": "Everyone certainly knows that water quality will greatly affect their lives and health. Many people experience problems with their water quality and eventually choose to use the right water filter. For the installation of these tools, it would be better if you use services from experts. You must learn more about that here in order to find the water filter installation expert.\nFinding a safe water filter is also not an easy thing. There are a few tips on finding a water filter that is safe to use. Some of the tips in question are\n1. Know through the tube\nOne way you can do to recognize whether the item you see and will buy is genuine is to see the tube. In the tube, there will usually be a written brand. Customize the brand with the water filter brand you are buying.\n2. Visit the company\u2019s original website\nUsually, large water filters will have a large website as a means to always keep in touch with their customers. On this website, various types of information will usually be provided. Not only about products, but also about prices and how their original products can be known. This section is based on what you can get when you are still looking for information about the best water filters. That is when you choose the best product for your water filter needs at home.\n3. Warranty and order letters\nWhen you buy a water filter, don\u2019t forget to ask for the warranty card of the item. At the same time ask for an order letter. Usually, fraudsters will not give both of these items or give them but with incomplete data so that they cannot be claimed when something happens.\n4. quality of ingredients\nThe quality of ingredients from fake products will usually be different from the original. Fake products are usually easier or damaged compared to the original product.\nPrevious Previous post: Know the Two Types of Trade Unions\nNext Next post: Here are three tips for giving gifts to children", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pbaparchive.com/2010/01/artsbuzz-cleveland-orchestra-miami.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EP4QUKQOKHJTY4FLN2M6VTPZASA2WY77", "length": 7360, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.pbaparchive.com", "title": "Palm Beach ArtsPaper: ArtsBuzz: Cleveland Orchestra contract talks stall on eve of Miami stay; Palm Beach Opera comes to iPhone", "raw_content": "ArtsBuzz: Cleveland Orchestra contract talks stall on eve of Miami stay; Palm Beach Opera comes to iPhone\nViolinist Leila Josefowicz. (Photo by Deborah O'Grady)\nCleveland Orchestra could strike as early as Jan. 18\nEditor's note: This story has been updated to reflect new developments.\nThe Cleveland Orchestra, which is less than three weeks away from its Miami residency, could go on strike as early as Jan. 18, union officials said late Wednesday, according to the orchestra.\nThat would be four days before the start of its scheduled Miami residency, which is set to open Jan. 22 with violinist Leila Josefowicz playing a violin concerto by the contemporary British composer Thomas Ad\u00e8s.\nIn a release late Wednesday, the orchestra said talks between the orchestra and the Cleveland Federation of Musicians, Local 4, American Federation of Musicians, had stalled without an agreement and the union indicated it could strike as early as Jan. 18. The three-year contract between the musicians and the orchestra expired Aug. 30, and the musicians have been working on month-to-month extensions, the last of which ended Dec. 31.\nThursday afternoon, a spokeswoman said orchestra management was still making plans for the Miami residency.\n\u201cWe are going ahead with plans for the Miami residency,\" Ana Papakhian said. \u201cAlthough musicians have indicated that they could strike on January 18, we need to be fully prepared for our residency as scheduled. We certainly hope to be there.\u201d\nManagement is offering the union a three-year contract reducing base pay by 5 percent in the first year, a restoration in the second year, and a 2.5 percent increase in the third year, the orchestra said. The union is proposing an eight-month contract at current compensation and benefit levels.\nThe average annual pay for a Cleveland Orchestra member in 2009 was $152,000. Benefits include 10 weeks paid vacation and 26 weeks paid sick leave, orchestra officials said.\nUnion and orchestra representatives met previously in November and December.\n\u201cWe welcome the impetus to get back to the table,\u201d Cleveland Orchestra executive director Gary Hanson said in a statement late last month. \u201cAt this time we are not speaking publicly about the substance of our collective bargaining, but we are prepared to alert our patrons and the media should an imminent strike threaten upcoming performances.\u201d\nLike many orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra is challenged financially, with Northeast Ohio being one of the regions of the nation hardest-hit by the economic downturn. Ticket sales and other revenue fell by 5 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30. The orchestra has instituted across-the-board cost controls, and music director Franz Welser-M\u00f6st and Hanson volunteered pay cuts of 20 and 15 percent respectively.\nFor more information about the Cleveland Orchestra\u2019s Miami programs, call 305-949-6722 or visit the orchestra\u2019s Miami Website.\nTenor Carl Tanner.\nPalm Beach Opera: There\u2019s an app for that\nPalm Beach Opera has become the first Florida arts organization and the first opera company on the East Coast to launch an iPhone application.\nThe new technology reflects a younger audience accustomed to instant online communication.\n\u201cOur e-mail address list is more than 10,000 now,\u201d publicist Margie Yansura said today. \u201cIt is now larger than our regular mailing list. People tend to think of opera as having an older audience, but many of our patrons are younger and their number is growing.\n\u201cOf course, we will not abandon our traditional methods of communication,\u201d she said.\nFor those not versed in iPhone, the application \u2013 or \u201capp\u201d for short \u2013 allows users simply to tap the opera company\u2019s icon on the phone display to get the latest information about Palm Beach Opera.\nOnce registered, a user becomes a \u201cfan\u201d of Palm Beach Opera and receives weekly updates on events and performances, as well as important messages and offers. Officials promise the free service will be spam-free.\n\u201cWe are very proud to be the first arts group in Florida and the second opera company in North America to offer a free iPhone app,\u201d general manager Daniel Biaggi said in a statement. \u201cThe launch of Palm Beach Opera\u2019s iPhone app is just the latest development in our efforts to stay on the cutting edge of technology and the new media. It is critically important to keep an audience engaged.\u201d\nThe first staged production of the current 47th season is Giuseppe Verdi\u2019s Otello, starring the American tenor Carl Tanner as Otello and Slovenian soprano Sabina Cvilak as Desedemona. The opera runs from Jan. 22-25. For more information, call 561-833-7888, visit http://www.pbopera.org/, or download the new Palm Beach Opera app onto your iPhone or iPod Touch.\nThe German high command on trial at Nuremberg.\nLynn University to study, make art of original Nuremberg transcripts\nForty-two volumes of original Nuremberg Trials transcripts will be studied and utilized by three different departments this semester at Lynn University in Boca Raton.\nMore than 200 Nazi Germany leaders were tried after the end of World War II at war crimes tribunals held from Nov. 21, 1945, through April 1949 in Nuremberg, Germany. The accused were examined by the International Military Tribunal, which consisted of judges from the United States, Great Britain, France and the Soviet Union.\nThe original transcripts were donated to the Lynn University Library by LEAH (League of Education and Awareness of the Holocaust) in 1998.\nSindee Kerker, associate professor of criminal justice in Lynn\u2019s College of Liberal Education, will teach a Nuremberg Trials course with Rabbi Jessica Brockman at Temple Beth El in Boca Raton. Adam Simpson, assistant professor of drama at Lynn\u2019s College on International Communication, will use parts of the original Nuremberg transcripts to create the dramatic production Project Nuremberg, which will incorporate theater, dance, movement, music and reenacted documentary film work.\nCourtroom dialogue will come verbatim from the transcripts.\nThe third spring course utilizing the Nuremberg documents will feature Stanley Kramer\u2019s award-winning 1961 film, Judgment at Nuremberg, and will be taught by Nava Dushi, assistant professor of film at Lynn\u2019s College of International Communication. The play and screening of the film will be set sometime in April.\nThe transcripts will be on display in the Lynn University Library at a date to be announced later. They also will be digitized and made available online to the public, Lynn officials said.\nComposer Burt Bacharach.\nBurt Bacharach cancels at Kravis Center\nComposer, pianist and singer Burt Bacharach has canceled his Jan. 29 performance at the Kravis Center, venue officials said today.\nBacharach, 81, had back surgery Jan. 1 in Los Angeles and is still recovering.\nThree options are being offered to ticketholders who have seats for the canceled show:\nA refund may be requested in full, back to the original method of payment; ticketholders can receive house credit in the full ticket value for future Kravis performances, valet service or purchases in the Kravis gift shop; or tax-deductible contributions in the full value of the ticket may be made to the Kravis Center.\nCall the Kravis box office at 561-832-7469 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.\nLabels: ArtsBuzz, Cleveland Orchestra, Kravis Center, Palm Beach Opera", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1808, "original_length": 36294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pennstateshalelaw.com/2015/12/pa-attorney-general-lawsuit-against.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZT6U37RYNBG5JU6ILJNDERI6XSXFCAR", "length": 2800, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pennstateshalelaw.com", "title": "Penn State Shale Law Blog: PA Attorney General Lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy", "raw_content": "PA Attorney General Lawsuit against Chesapeake Energy\nOn December 9, 2015, the Pennsylvania Attorney General\u2019s office announced that it had filed suit in the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County against Chesapeake Energy Corporation and its affiliates. The lawsuit alleges that Chesapeake underpaid landowners\u2019 royalties for natural gas production. The action was commenced pursuant to the Unfair Trade Practices and Consume Protection Law.\nIn a press release Attorney General Kathleen Kane said that the alleged conduct amounts to a \u201cbait-and-switch.\u201d Chesapeake allegedly misled the landowners into believing that any post processing production costs incurred from transforming the gas into a marketable condition would not be deducted from the royalties. The complaint states that the bait and switch was carried out through the Market Enhancement Clause of the leases. The clause included language that said that there would not be any deductions taken for post-production costs.\nThe complaint further alleges that Chesapeake and its affiliates engaged in a number of business schemes. First they engaged in a self-dealing scheme that caused increased deductions to be passed on to the landowners. Second, Chesapeake allegedly failed to disclose that it was deducting costs paid to affiliated entities when the leases provided that deductions would be taken only for costs paid to non-affiliated third parties. Third, the complaint alleges that Chesapeake failed to disclose revenues received from its former midstream unit to the landowners.\nThe complaint requests that the court order Chesapeake and its affiliates to pay restitution to all who suffered losses as a result of the defendants\u2019 conduct, pay civil penalties of $1,000 for each violation of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law, and $3,000 for any violation that involved a person of age 60 years or older, and to enjoin the Chesapeake and its affiliates from engaging in any of the conduct described in the complaint that would violate the Uniform Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law. The lawsuit was filed by the Antitrust Section of the Attorney General\u2019s Office.\nThe Office of the Attorney General also filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania which urges the court to reject the proposed settlement of the Demchak No: 3:13-cv-02289-MEM class action and modify the agreement to provide a carve-out for the Attorney General\u2019s office from release language of the proposed settlement. The Demchak settlement deals with similar allegations of Chesapeake and its affiliates improperly deducting costs from royalties.\nLabels: Attorney General, Chesapeake Energy, Post-Production Costs, Royalties, Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 6319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 191.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.personalshopperbangkok.com/218/news/17/New-Law-to-avoid-Marriage-Fraud-cases", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PTS6GTTPAIHQ563C3EFSPPLGFGJPJMXY", "length": 1558, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.personalshopperbangkok.com", "title": "trang w88_w88vn_w88top mobile", "raw_content": "w88Vi\u1ec7t nam Provincial Nominee Program\nYou are here > HomeNews & EventsNew Law to avoid Marriage Fraud cases\ntrang w88_w88vn_w88top mobile\nOn October 26, 2012 \u2014 In an ongoing effort to deter people from using marriages of convenience to cheat their way into Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) introduced a new regulation that requires certain sponsored spouses live in a legitimate relationship with their sponsor for two years or they risk losing their permanent resident status.\nThe new regulations apply to spouses or partners in a relationship of two years or less and who have no children in common with their sponsor at the time they submit their sponsorship application. The spouse or partner must live in a legitimate relationship with their sponsor for two years from the day on which they receive their permanent resident status in Canada. The status of the sponsored spouse or partner may be revoked if they do not remain in the relationship.\nThe conditional measure is now in force, which means that it applies to permanent residents in relationships of two years or less, with no children in common, whose applications are received on or after October 25, 2012.\nConditional permanent residence does not differ from regular permanent residence other than the need to satisfy the two-year requirement.\nIn addition to conditional permanent residence, CIC introduced, in March of this past year, a measure that prohibits sponsored spouses from sponsoring a new spouse for five years following the date they become a permanent resident.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pfaw.org/press-releases/people-for-the-american-way-action-fund-endorses-jordan-cooper-for-delegate-in-md-16/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:52Z", "digest": "sha1:XIMBFGZS66Z6K3PCB5GU6G7ALD3QMJ22", "length": 1425, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pfaw.org", "title": "People For the American Way Action Fund Endorses Jordan Cooper for Delegate in MD-16 | People For the American Way", "raw_content": "Press ReleasesPeople For the American Way Action Fund Endorses Jordan Cooper for Delegate in MD-16\nPeople For the American Way Action Fund Endorses Jordan Cooper for Delegate in MD-16\nContact: Randy Borntrager at People For the American Way\nToday People For the American Way Action Fund announced its endorsement of Jordan Cooper for delegate in Maryland\u2019s 16th Legislative District. He is one of six primary candidates for the three delegate seats.\nCooper was born and raised in Maryland and understands the needs of the community. He has served in various capacities to better Montgomery County after returning to North Bethesda with a master\u2019s in Health Policy from Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Bloomberg School of Public Health. Cooper is a true progressive candidate, supporting comprehensive immigration reform, campaign spending limits, the right for women to make their own health decisions, and full equality for all Americans. Cooper\u2019s education and experience gives him unique insight into the need to lower health care costs and provide better access for working families, and his leadership will be crucial in the coming years.\n\u201cJordan Cooper is forward-thinking and dedicated to Maryland,\u201d said PFAW Political Director Randy Borntrager. \u201cHis commitment to equality and opportunity for all will make him an important part of the next generation of leaders.\u201d\nVisit Jordan Cooper\u2019s campaign website for more details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.philippinesgreening.com/justice-carpio-fish-sanctuary-could-ease-philippine-china-conflict/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HLYJW5UZWZ64P3AXNVV4JBSUYJI7CF4Z", "length": 4871, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.philippinesgreening.com", "title": "Justice Carpio: Fish Sanctuary Could Ease Philippine-China Conflict | The Greening of the Philippines", "raw_content": "Justice Antonio T. Carpio is urging China to join the Philippines in declaring the South China Sea a sanctuary for fish and part of the global commons. He recently aired this suggestion on Facebook after finding China guilty of \u201cgrand theft of the global commons.\u201d\nAccording to Inquisitr online news, the Philippine Supreme Court senior associate justice is not alone. He has the backing of the ten-member ASEAN (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). The 2015 ASEAN conference hosted by Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur between August 1 and 6, allowed member countries to voice their objections to China\u2019s reclamation projects across the South China Sea.\nASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh expressed members\u2019 concerns in a Yahoo! report. Minh urged China to adhere to a code of conduct.\n\u201cWe are calling for the termination of such activities, which are of concern to us, and eroding trust and confidence among the parties, and complicating the very process of negotiating. In the face of the situation, it is even more urgent for ASEAN and China to early conclude the COC.\u201d\nEchoing ASEAN\u2019s concerns, the Arbitral Tribunal of UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas) is studying the case filed by the Philippines against China for illegal occupation. The Philippines presented its side of the case to UNCLOS last July, while China refused to participate in the hearing. The Tribunal is looking into 1) the admissibility of the claims raised by the Philippines, and 2) China\u2019s objection saying that the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration has no jurisdiction over the case.\nThrough an ongoing lecture series that has taken him from the Philippines to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Belgium, Justice Carpio shares his viewpoint with the public. He illustrates China\u2019s \u201ccreeping invasion\u201d of the South China Sea, with cartographic evidence.\nImages reveal China's airstrips near completion https://t.co/BTKUvFQrIM pic.twitter.com/PWG8NMLEI3 #SouthChinaSea via @Feeney4Batman\n\u2014 South China Sea News (@SCS_news) January 27, 2016\nThe first takeover was of the Paracel Island chain in 1974 from the Vietnamese who lost over 70 troops trying to expel Chinese warships. Next seized was the Mischief Reef (part of the Spratlys) from the Philippines in 1994. The latest to fall into Chinese hands was the Scarborough Shoal (not part of the Spratlys) in 2012.\nTo validate its claims, China has been using a concept inherited from the old Kuomintang regime of a 9 dashed line boundary that includes certain islands beyond Hainan Island (China\u2019s southernmost point). A departure from the original concept occurs when the People\u2019s Republic claims not just the islands as the delineation intended, but also most of the South China Sea.\nThis would endanger world economy, according to Carpio, because over half of seaborne trade goes through this region. A Chinese takeover of the high seas where all countries are free to fish, would be especially disruptive if Chinese fishing bans were to be implemented.\nWhile Carpio says that the Philippines adheres to its 12 nautical miles of territorial sea and 200 nautical miles of EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) as defined by UNCLOS, China uses a different tack, backing its 9 dashed line inclusions with historical evidence. It cites records from the Yuan Dynasty identifying the reef now called the \u201cScarborough Shoal\u201d as an ancient possession.\nThrough the China State Shipbuilding Corporation, China has used its reclamations in the Spratly chain, to accommodate a 3 kilometer runway. This, Carpio points out, would position fighter bombers carrying cruise missiles within combat range of Australia and all its U.S. military installations.\nJapan and the United States, while not involved with ASEAN, have been compelled by a sense of justice to speak up on what is widely perceived as China bullying the Philippines. Japan\u2019s Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera made official his country\u2019s support of the Philippines\u2019 territorial sovereignty. Guided missile destroyer U.S.S. Fitzgerald demonstrated its readiness to stand by old U.S. ally Philippines, by staging naval maneuvers no more than 50 miles from a Filipino shoal position surrounded by Chinese naval ships.\nMeanwhile, according to the Xinhua news agency, the Chinese navy went through a \u201clive firing drill\u201d in the South China Sea, involving about a hundred naval ships with aircraft, missile launchers and battalions of troops.\nInstead of sabre rattling, the best option open to China is to follow Justice Carpio\u2019s suggestion: the South China Sea should be protected as a fish sanctuary and part of the global commons.\nTags Antonio T. Carpio, ASEAN, fish sanctuary, global commons, Scarborough Shoal, South China Sea, Spratly Islands, UNCLOS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 6527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 278.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.physics-astronomy.com/2017/02/earth-has-brand-new-continent-called.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:53Z", "digest": "sha1:H4LQKQYSWJSQDAZHV6SXKWKHATWMOUAE", "length": 4231, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.physics-astronomy.com", "title": "Earth Has A Brand-New Continent Called Zealandia | Physics-Astronomy", "raw_content": "Home Beginners Earth Info Infographics Planets Earth Has A Brand-New Continent Called Zealandia\nBeginners Earth Info Infographics Planets\nEarth Has A Brand-New Continent Called Zealandia\nThis news could be hard to believe, the number of continents that you have studied in school are not the only ones on earth. Geologists usually join Europe and Asia into a supercontinent \u2014 Eurasia \u2014 making for a total of six geologic continents. But that\u2019s not the news here. According to a new research, Geologists claim that there is another continent \u201cZelalandia\u201d, and we were not able to figure it out from ages. A research published in GSA Today, a journal of the Geological Society of America, by 11 researchers claim that New Zealand and New Caledonia aren't just island chains.\nThey're both part of a 4.9 million-square-kilometer portion of continental layer that's different from Australia. They said: \u201cThis is not a sudden discovery, but a gradual realization; as recently as 10 years ago we would not have had the accumulated data or confidence in interpretation to write this paper\".\nBruce Luyendyk, a geophysicist at the University of California at Santa Barbara told BusinessInsider:\n\"These people here are A-list earth scientists, I think they've put together a solid collection of evidence that's really thorough. I don't see that there's going to be a lot of pushback, except maybe around the edges.\"\nWhat is reason the reason of calling it a totally new continent?\nLuyendyk called it Zelalandia in 1995 but it wasn\u2019t considered as a continent that time. The name was just used to define New Zealand, New Caledonia, and a region of Gondwana, a 200 million-year-old supercontinent.\nZealandia, shown in gray to the east of Australia, is likely Earth's seventh geologic continent. N. Mortimer et al./GSA Today\nLuyendyk said:\n\"The reason I came up with this term is out of convenience. They're pieces of the same thing when you look at Gondwana. So I thought, why do you keep naming this collection of pieces as different things?\"\nThere are some reasons, which made geologists curious about this continent and they started researching, then called it a totally new continent.\nThey took decades' worth of newer evidence and examined it with four criteria that geologists use to deem a slab of rock a continent:\n1. Land that pokes up relatively high from the ocean floor.\n2. A diversity of three types of rocks: igneous (spewed by volcanoes), metamorphic (altered by heat/pressure), and sedimentary (made by erosion).\n3. A thicker, less dense section of crust compared with surrounding ocean floor.\n4. \"Well-defined limits around a large enough area to be considered a continent rather than a microcontinent or continental fragment.\"\nThe new study used recent and comprehensive satellite-based advancement and gravity maps of the unique seafloor to demonstrate that Zealandia is indeed part of a unified region. The data also suggests Zealandia sizes roughly the area of greater than India.\n\"If the elevation of Earth's solid surface had first been mapped in the same way as those of Mars and Venus we contend that Zealandia would, much earlier, have been investigated and identified as one of Earth's continents.\"\nZealandia is separated by 25 kilometers from the continent Australia.\nAustralian Plate and the Pacific Plate are the reason for Zealandia in its division into northern and southern segments by two tectonic plates. But researchers say that Arabia, India, and parts of Central America have likely partitions yet are still considered parts of larger continents.\n\"I'm from California, and it has a plate boundary going through it, in millions of years, the western part will be up near Alaska. Does that make it not part of North America? No. The economic implications are clear and come into play: What's part of New Zealand, and what's not part of New Zealand?\"\n\"The scientific value of classifying Zealandia as a continent is much more than just an extra name on a list,\" the scientists wrote. \"That a continent can be so submerged yet unfragmented makes it a useful and thought-provoking geodynamic end member in exploring the cohesion and breakup of continental crust.\"\nTags: Beginners Earth Info Infographics Planets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 7949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.plr.org/community/prayer-center/?tx_wecprayerboard%5Breport%5D=9076", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:40Z", "digest": "sha1:IEFL5SEETLFGVFMWTAL67UMIKGMMHXJ4", "length": 430, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.plr.org", "title": "Positive Life Radio: Prayer Center", "raw_content": "Still very much in need of a financial blessing.. I keep getting further and further behind.. I am searching for a job.. There is not much out there that fits me, cause I have social anxiety disorder.. That is why I had to quit my last job.. And I don't want that to happen again.. The other job I wanted fell threw.. They want somebody with experience.. Please pray the right job comes along.. Thank you\nJames | 6/14/2018 12:09AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.policytranslation.eu/out-of-place-a-memoir-by-edward-said-absolutely-fascinating/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:66LWE74AKZQG3PR4K25IFH63WJBBTJKF", "length": 6345, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.policytranslation.eu", "title": "\u201cOut of Place: A Memoir\u201d by Edward Said \u2014 Absolutely Fascinating \u2013 Policy Translation: Policy Ideas on the Move", "raw_content": "It is hard now for me to pinpoint the moment when I became aware of the work of Edward Said and when it entered my personal and intellectual radars so to speak. (If interested in other posts on Edward Said, please see the post on On Being an Academic and a Public Intellectual and on Edward Said: Last Public Intellectual). Certainly, my first exposure to him was during my year in Oxford when I was trying to figure out who the Said Business School was named after. It turned out that there was another Said, someone who has nothing to do with the Said Business School, but who is a much more interesting man than the benefactor. But then my knowledge of Edward Said was limited by the odd fact I read that he was throwing stones at Israeli tanks somewhere in the Middle East, and at the same time, was an unlikely professor of English Literature at Columbia University.\nIt was later that I started to actively watching his interviews on YouTube and to read his essays. I started reading \u201cThe Orientalism\u201d in 2014 in order to adapt it for my teaching at ADA University, but it was not a very smooth reading for some reason. My fascination with the figure of Said is as much personal as professional. On the personal level we share much in terms of uprootedness, the feeling of alienation and the general insecurity of existence and being. At the professional level, the whole field which Said started, the post-colonial studies, are an inspiration for my own work on trying to understand the power of narratives which go around the world in order to constitute imagined, fictional forms of governance which we collectively call \u201cglobal governance\u201d. The whole ideas of positionality, power, reflexivity, anthropology of policy, history and the literary aspects of policy are what fascinate me in policy at this moment and are easily if not inevitably traced to Edward Said\u2019s legacy as a scholar, a mentor, an intellectual hero.\nWith this prelude, it perhaps becomes more comprehensible why I have enjoyed Said\u2019s memoir \u201cOut of Place\u201d tremendously. He is a very good writer. His emotional honesty is truly formidable and urges one to become a better man. His moral stature is inspiring as an example of what is right or decent about humanity, and his background and struggles are all too familiar human ones. I think everyone will find something similar of reminiscent in the book to his or her own experiences of childhood, teenage or student years. And this particular ability to connect with the reader is perhaps what marks truly genial writers.\nThe book is about the first 25 or so years of Said\u2019s life spent across Jerusalem, Cairo, Lebanon, London, Paris, Main, Princeton, Harvard and finally New York. He moved between cities, countries, cultures and worlds. And he has been at home nowhere. Hence, the \u201cout of place\u201d title of the book. Many quotes in the book are amazingly beautiful, so I have a hard time to pick a few. And besides, there are so many reviews online which you could read. I just want to bring two quotes: one on teaching and another on being \u201cout of place\u201d.\nDuring the first weeks Baldwin assigned us an essay topic of a very unpromising sort: \u201cOn Lighting a Match.\u201d I dutifully went to the library and proceeded through encyclopedias, histories of industry, chemical manuals in search of what matches were; I then more or less systematically summarized and transcribed what I found and, rather proud of what I had compiled, turned it in. Baldwin almost immediately asked me to come and see him during his office hours, which was an entirely novel concept, since VC\u2019s teachers never had offices, let alone office hours. Baldwin\u2019s office was a cheery little place with postcard-covered walls, and as we sat next to each other on two easy chairs he complimented me on my research. \u201cBut is that the most interesting way to examine what happens when someone lights a match? What if he\u2019s trying to set fire to a forest, or light a candle in a cave, or, metaphorically, illuminate the obscurity of a mystery like gravity, the way Newton did?\u201d For literally the first time in my life a subject was opened up for me by a teacher in a way that I immediately and excitedly responded to. What had previously been repressed and stifled in academic study\u2014repressed in order that thorough and correct answers be given to satisfy a standardized syllabus and a routinized exam designed essentially to show off powers of retention, not critical or imaginative faculties\u2014was awakened, and the complicated process of intellectual discovery (and self-discovery) has never stopped since. The fact that I was never at home or at least at Mount Hermon, out of place in nearly every way, gave me the incentive to find my territory, not socially but intellectually.\nOn Being Out of Place\nSleeplessness for me is a cherished state to be desired at almost any cost; there is nothing for me as invigorating as immediately shedding the shadowy half-consciousness of a night\u2019s loss, than the early morning, reacquainting myself with or resuming what I might have lost completely a few hours earlier. I occasionally experience myself as a cluster of flowing currents. I prefer this to the idea of a solid self, the identity to which so many attach so much significance. These currents, like the themes of one\u2019s life, flow along during the waking hours, and at their best, they require no reconciling, no harmonizing. They are \u201coff\u201d and may be out of place, but at least they are always in motion, in time, in place, in the form of all kinds of strange combinations moving about, not necessarily forward, sometimes against each other, contrapuntally yet without one central theme. A form of freedom, I\u2019d like to think, even if I am far from being totally convinced that it is. That skepticism too is one of the themes I particularly want to hold on to. With so many dissonances in my life I have learned actually to prefer being not quite right and out of place.\nBook review, Education, Famous people, Methods and Frameworks, narratives\n2 thoughts on \u201c\u201cOut of Place: A Memoir\u201d by Edward Said \u2014 Absolutely Fascinating\u201d\nTerlan Axundova says:\nVery unique writing style! Keep the good work up!!!\nThanks, Terlan! I will try, if the time allows! Thanks for being a loyal reader of the blog and I hope your studies are going well!\nBack to homepage 2 comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 7178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.popflock.com/learn?s=Semitones", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:33Z", "digest": "sha1:65CTR2T2ZS55YOOTHUCIXR3DDARHXXVZ", "length": 10231, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "www.popflock.com", "title": "Semitones Resource | Learn About, Share and Discuss Semitones At Popflock.com", "raw_content": "Get Semitones essential facts below. View Videos or join the Semitones discussion. Add Semitones to your PopFlock.com topic list for future reference or share this resource on social media.\n16:15,[1] 17:16,[2] 27:25, 135:128[1], 25:24[1], 256:243\n112,[1] 105, 133, 92[1], 71[1], 90\nA semitone, also called a half step or a half tone,[3] is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music,[4] and it is considered the most dissonant[5] when sounded harmonically. It is defined as the interval between two adjacent notes in a 12-tone scale. For example, C is adjacent to C\u266f; the interval between them is a semitone.\nIn music theory, a distinction is made[6] between a diatonic semitone, or minor second (an interval encompassing two different staff positions, e.g. from C to D\u266d) and a chromatic semitone or augmented unison (an interval between two notes at the same staff position, e.g. from C to C\u266f). These are enharmonically equivalent when twelve-tone equal temperament is used, but are not the same thing in meantone temperament, where the diatonic semitone is distinguished from and larger than the chromatic semitone (augmented unison). See Interval (music)#Number for more details about this terminology.\nThe minor second occurs in the major scale, between the third and fourth degree, (mi (E) and fa (F) in C major), and between the seventh and eighth degree (ti (B) and do (C) in C major). It is also called the diatonic semitone because it occurs between steps in the diatonic scale. The minor second is abbreviated m2 (or \u22122). Its inversion is the major seventh (M7 or Ma7).\nA harmonic minor second in J.S. Bach's Prelude in C major from the WTC book 1, mm. 7-9. Play (help\u00b7info) The minor second may be viewed as a suspension of the B resolving into the following A minor seventh chord.\nIn unusual situations, the minor second can add a great deal of character to the music. For instance, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin's \u00c9tude Op. 25, No. 5 opens with a melody accompanied by a line that plays fleeting minor seconds. These are used to humorous and whimsical effect, which contrasts with its more lyrical middle section. This eccentric dissonance has earned the piece its nickname: the \"wrong note\" \u00e9tude. This kind of usage of the minor second appears in many other works of the Romantic period, such as Modest Mussorgsky's Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks. More recently, the music to the movie Jaws exemplifies the minor second.\nIn just intonation a 16:15 minor second arises in the C major scale between B & C and E & F, and is, \"the sharpest dissonance found in the [major] scale.\"[7] Play B & C (help\u00b7info)\nAugmented unisons often appear as a consequence of secondary dominants, such as those in the soprano voice of this sequence from Felix Mendelssohn's Song Without Words Op. 102 No. 3, mm. 47-49. Play (help\u00b7info)\nThe augmented unison, the interval produced by the augmentation, or widening by one-half step, of the perfect unison,[8] does not occur between diatonic scale steps, but instead between a scale step and a chromatic alteration of the same step. It is also called a chromatic semitone. The augmented unison is abbreviated A1, or aug 1. Its inversion is the diminished octave (d8, or dim 8). The augmented unison is also the inversion of the augmented octave, because the interval of the diminished unison does not exist.[9] This is because a unison is always made larger when one note of the interval is changed with an accidental.[10][11]\n\"As late as the 13th century the half step was experienced as a problematic interval not easily understood, as the irrational [sic] remainder between the perfect fourth and the ditone (43/(98)2=256243){\\displaystyle \\left({\\begin{matrix}{\\frac {4}{3}}\\end{matrix}}/{{\\begin{matrix}({\\frac {9}{8}})\\end{matrix}}^{2}}={\\begin{matrix}{\\frac {256}{243}}\\end{matrix}}\\right)} .\" In a melodic half step, no \"tendency was perceived of the lower tone toward the upper, or of the upper toward the lower. The second tone was not taken to be the 'goal' of the first. Instead, the half step was avoided in clausulae because it lacked clarity as an interval.\" [12]\nHowever, beginning in the 13th century cadences begin to require motion in one voice by half step and the other a whole step in contrary motion.[12] These cadences would become a fundamental part of the musical language, even to the point where the usual accidental accompanying the minor second in a cadence was often omitted from the written score (a practice known as musica ficta). By the 16th century, the semitone had become a more versatile interval, sometimes even appearing as an augmented unison in very chromatic passages. Semantically, in the 16th century the repeated melodic semitone became associated with weeping, see: passus duriusculus, lament bass, and pianto.\nThe Pythagorean chromatic semitone has a ratio of 2187/2048 ( play (help\u00b7info)). It is about 113.7 cents. It may also be called the Pythagorean apotome[13][14][15] or the Pythagorean major semitone. (See Pythagorean interval.)\nA minor second in just intonation typically corresponds to a pitch ratio of 16:15 ( play (help\u00b7info)) or 1.0666... (approximately 111.7 cents), called the just diatonic semitone.[16] This is a practical just semitone, since it is the difference between a perfect fourth and major third (43\u00f754=1615{\\displaystyle {\\tfrac {4}{3}}\\div {\\tfrac {5}{4}}={\\tfrac {16}{15}}} ).\nThe 16:15 just minor second arises in the C major scale between B & C and E & F, and is, \"the sharpest dissonance found in the scale.\"[7]\nAn augmented unison in just intonation is another semitone of 25:24 ( play (help\u00b7info)) or 1.0416... (approximately 70.7 cents). It is the difference between a 5:4 major third and a 6:5 minor third. Composer Ben Johnston uses a sharp an accidental to indicate a note is raised 70.7 cents, or a flat to indicate a note is lowered 70.7 cents.[17]\nLarger, or major, chromatic semitone, or larger limma, or major chroma,[18] e.g. between C and C\u266f:\nIn 17-limit just intonation, the major diatonic semitone is 15:14 or 119.4 cents ( Play (help\u00b7info)), and the minor diatonic semitone is 17:16 or 105.0 cents.[19]\nRegular temperament\n^ a b c d e f g Duffin, Ross W. (2008). How equal temperament ruined harmony : (and why you should care) (First published as a Norton paperback. ed.). New York: W. W. Norton. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-393-33420-3. Retrieved 2017.\n^ Haluska, Jan (2003). The Mathematical Theory of Tone Systems, p.xxiv. ISBN 0-8247-4714-3. Overtone semitone.\n^ Semitone, half step, half tone, halftone, and half-tone are all variously used in sources.[1][2][3][4][5][6]\nAaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and others use \"half tone\".[7] [8][9][10]\nOne source says that step is \"chiefly US\",[11] and that half-tone is \"chiefly N. Amer.\"[12]\n^ Miller, Michael. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, 2nd ed. [Indianapolis, IN]: Alpha, 2005. ISBN 1-59257-437-8. p. 19.\n^ Capstick, John Walton (1913). Sound: An Elementary Text-book for Schools and Colleges. Cambridge University Press.\n^ Wharram, Barbara (2010). Elementary Rudiments of Music (2nd ed.). Mississauga, ON: Frederick Harris Music. p. 17. ISBN 978-1-55440-283-0.\n^ a b Paul, Oscar (1885). A manual of harmony for use in music-schools and seminaries and for self-instruction, p.165. Theodore Baker, trans. G. Schirmer.\n^ Benward & Saker (2003). Music: In Theory and Practice, Vol. I, p.54. ISBN 978-0-07-294262-0. Specific example of an A1 not given but general example of perfect intervals described.\n^ Kostka and Payne (2003). Tonal Harmony, p.21. ISBN 0-07-285260-7. \"There is no such thing as a diminished unison.\"\n^ Day and Pilhofer (2007). Music Theory for Dummies, p.113. ISBN 0-7645-7838-3. \"There is no such thing as a diminished unison, because no matter how you change the unisons with accidentals, you are adding half steps to the total interval.\"\n^ Surmani, Andrew; Karen Farnum Surmani; Morton Manus (2009). Alfred's Essentials of Music Theory: A Complete Self-Study Course for All Musicians. p. 135: Alfred Music Publishing. p. 153. ISBN 0-7390-3635-1. \"Since lowering either note of a perfect unison would actually increase its size, the perfect unison cannot be diminished, only augmented.\".\n^ a b Dahlhaus, Carl, trans. Gjerdingen, Robert O. Studies in the Origin of Harmonic Tonality. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1990. ISBN 0-691-09135-8.\n^ Rashed, Roshdi (ed.) (1996). Encyclopedia of the History of Arabic Science, Volume 2, p.588 and 608. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-12411-5.\n^ Hermann von Helmholtz (1885). On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music, p.454.\n^ Benson, Dave (2006). Music: A Mathematical Offering, p.369. ISBN 0-521-85387-7.\n^ Royal Society (Great Britain) (1880, digitized Feb 26, 2008). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 30, p.531. Harvard University.\n^ John Fonville. \"Ben Johnston's Extended Just Intonation- A Guide for Interpreters\", p.109, Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1991), pp. 106-137. \"...the 25/24 ratio is the sharp (#) ratio...this raises a note approximately 70.6 cents.\"\n^ John Fonville. \"Ben Johnston's Extended Just Intonation- A Guide for Interpreters\", p.109, Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1991), pp. 106-137.\n^ Prout, Ebenezer (2004). Harmony, p.325. 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SUTRISNO SOEDJONO 5:17:03 Finished 1:07:49 0:03:32 2:25:30 0:04:58 1:35:13\n23 1368 NOBUYUKI ARASHIMA 5:32:51 Finished 1:13:39 0:09:03 2:44:40 0:02:27 1:23:00\n24 1311 MILUG TRISARJONO 6:02:31 Finished 1:13:24 0:10:02 3:04:10 0:04:53 1:30:01\n1307 ALASTAIR MACDONALD Enquiry Please Contact Us\n1313 PACK KAY MOCK Enquiry Please Contact Us 0:52:03 0:03:45 2:06:31 0:02:49 1:03:27\n1231 HARTANTO BAHARI Enquiry Please Contact Us", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 436, "original_length": 30193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 147.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ppshomecare.com/Newsletter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MBC3PNKU5W4YT3VGNFA2URA7LZAWMCOI", "length": 1890, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ppshomecare.com", "title": "Newsletter", "raw_content": "Part 1: An Overview\nPain in the lower back or low back pain is a common concern, affecting up to 90% of Americans at some point in their lifetime. Up to 50% will have more than one episode. Low back pain is not a specific disease; rather it is a symptom that may occur from a variety of different processes. In up to 85% of people with low back pain, despite a thorough medical examination, no specific cause of the pain can be identified. America spends approximately $50 billion a year on low back pain.\nBack pain can have many underlying reasons, but often no specific cause will be found and the pain will stop. Please be sure to discuss your individual symptoms as well as the suggested treatments with your health-care professional to determine the appropriate diagnostic and treatment plan for your circumstances.\nFor 90% of people, even those with nerve root irritation, their symptoms will improve within two months no matter what treatment is used, even if no treatment is given.\n(Disclaimer) This information does not replace the advice of a doctor. Healthwise disclaims any warranty or liability for your use of this information. Your use of this information means that you agree to the Terms of Use. How this information was developed to help you make better health decisions.\nTo learn more visit Healthwise.org\nPart 3: Symptoms and Seeking Care\nPart 4: Exams and Tests\nPart 5: Self-Care Treatment\nPart 6: Medical Treatment\nHome care is recommended for the initial treatment of low back pain. Bed rest remains of unproven value, and most experts recommend no more than two days of bed rest or decreased activity. Some people with sciatica may benefit from two to four days of rest. Application of local ice and heat provide relief for some people and should be tried. Acetaminophen and ibuprofen are useful for controlling pain.\nPart 7: Prevention\nPart 8: Alternative Therapies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 25939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pressreleasestoday.com/2019/01/18/global-power-distribution-unit-pdu-market-projected-to-touch-reach-usd-2-04-billion-by-2025/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:57Z", "digest": "sha1:AJF677LWZC4UYDHQCWTP6YZQRPSUKMRQ", "length": 5407, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.pressreleasestoday.com", "title": "Global Power Distribution Unit (PDU) Market Projected To Touch reach USD 2.04 billion by 2025 \u2013 Press Releases Today", "raw_content": "In order to study the various trends and patterns prevailing in the concerned market, Market Research Reports Search Engine (MRRSE) has included a new report titled \u201cGlobal Power Distribution Unit (PDU) Market\u201d to its wide online database. This research assessment offers a clear insight about the influential factors that are expected to transform the global market in the near future.\nFor In-depth Research Report Get Report Sample Copy @ https://www.mrrse.com/sample/1175\nThis report provides strategic analysis of the Global Power Distribution Unit (PDU) Market. The scope of the report includes competitive analysis of various market segments based on the types of PDU, power phases, applications of PDUs in various industry verticals and in-depth scrutiny of the PDU market across different geographic segments. The major objective of a PDU is to provide power to various network components of a server rack present in a data center. Modern PDUs has functionalities such as a display of power input and output, controlling of power usage through remote monitoring, alarm sensors for alerting any deviation from standard power consumption. PDU models having high amperage plugs can provide multiple low amperage outlets from high amperage outlets. Certain new PDUs such as standalone PDUs are being deployed by military forces, which account for a very niche market. Growing need of data centers to optimize power consumption and the increasing cost of power have led to the need for effective and monitored power distribution. This has led to the increase in the demand for PDUs.\nThe report also breaks down and reviews the various factors impacting the market growth, which can be appropriately described as market drivers, restraints, and opportunities. The market drivers are further segmented into supply side drivers, demand side drivers and economic drivers. These factors help to determine the various existing trends and their impact on the market growth. Overall, taking into consideration the various factors affecting the PDU market, the report includes a holistic analysis of the global PDU market, and provides an estimate of growth for the period 2016 to 2024.\nThe global PDU market is primarily driven by an increase in the amount of data generated globally. Growing population across the globe, in turn, is increasing the amount of data being generated across various sectors such as Telecom & IT and banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), healthcare, government, among others. Generation of data is triggered by multiple factors such as an increase in penetration of process automation in the power industry, rising volume of unstructured data from operations and increase in volume of machine sensor data among others. Increasing volume of data has automatically increased the demand for data centers across the globe. Furthermore, the overall economic growth, increase in the number of internet users and increasing preference for online shopping globally has increased the demand for data centers. Additionally, increased acceptance of cloud computing and virtualization across all industry verticals globally has also increased the demand for data centers. The increase in demand for data centers has positively impacted the PDU market.\nOutlook Complete Research Report with TOC @ https://www.mrrse.com/power-distribution-unit-market\nThe global power distribution unit (PDU) market, by power phase, has been divided into two types: single phase and three phase. The global power distribution unit (PDU) market, by types, has been divided into basic, metered, monitored, switched and others. The global Power Distribution Unit (PDU) market, by applications has been divided into telecommunication & information technology (Telecom & IT), banking, financial services & insurance (BFSI), healthcare, government, energy, and others. The global market has been segmented into five regions: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa and Latin America. The market revenue for PDU has been provided in terms of (USD Million), along with the CAGR for the forecast period from 2016 to 2024.\nThe report also includes competitive profiling of leading players in the industry and their market share to aid in strategic decision making. The market attractiveness analysis and company market share analysis included in the report provide insight into market dynamics, industry competition and strategies adopted by market leaders.\nSome of the leading players in the market are Cyber Power Systems (Taiwan), Eaton Corporation (Ireland), Emerson Electric Co. (US), Raritan Inc. (U.S.), Tripp Lite (US), Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc. (U.S.), Server Technology, Inc. (U.S.), Enlogic Systems LLC. (UK), Cisco Systems, Inc. (US), and Schneider Electric (France) among others.\nThe report segments the global PDU market as:\nPDU market, by Types\nPDU market, by Power phase\nPDU market, by Applications:\nPower Distribution Unit (PDU) market, by Geography: The market is segmented on the basis of geography into:\nMarket Research Reports Search Engine (MRRSE) is an industry-leading database of Electronics and Smart Devices Research Reports. MRRSE is driven by a stellar team of research experts and advisors trained to offer objective advice. Our sophisticated search algorithm returns results based on the report title, geographical region, publisher, or other keywords.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 7463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.preventgunviolenceflorida.org/former-rep-pafford-named-co-chair-of-florida-coalition-to-prevent-gun-violence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5JHKI3NFC4K5Z5DZMV3QEEXCFTQXJ7JA", "length": 2075, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.preventgunviolenceflorida.org", "title": "Former Rep. Pafford Named Co-Chair of Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence. | Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence", "raw_content": "News \u00bb Uncategorized \u00bb Former Rep. Pafford Named Co-Chair of Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence.\nHome \u00bb News \u00bb Uncategorized \u00bb Former Rep. Pafford Named Co-Chair of Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence.\nOrlando, Fla. \u2013 The Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence today announced that former House Minority Leader Mark Pafford will take on the role of organization co-chair.\nHe replaces Patricia Brigham, who was recently named president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, where she will devote her time and talents to a wide variety of issues. Brigham had served as co-chair since 2016, when the Coalition was created by the statewide League after the Pulse nightclub massacre. Co-Chair Andy Pelosi, executive director of The Campaign To Keep Guns Off Campus, will remain in his position.\nPafford said he is honored to take on the role. \u201cThe talented members of the Steering Committee will help us guide our state to common-sense solutions on firearms and deadly weapons in Florida. I am grateful to be on the team.\u201d\nPafford, 52, represented south Florida\u2019s District 88 (2008-2012) and District 86 (2012-2016) in the state House, where he was an ardent supporter of common-sense gun laws.\nHe served as Democratic Caucus Policy Chair, 2012-2014, and Minority Leader, 2014-2016. He has worked with the Alzheimer\u2019s Association, Lord\u2019s Place, ACLU of Florida, Arthur R. Marshall Foundation for the Everglades, and Florida Community Health Action Information Network. Mark also serves on the board of directors for the League of Women Voters of Florida.\n\u201cWith Mark\u2019s background as a state representative, he will bring a wealth of knowledge and experience when working with lawmakers to bring about responsible firearm legislation,\u201d said Brigham. \u201cOur Coalition will continue to grow and strengthen as a result.\u201d\nThe Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence has a membership of over 120 nonpartisan organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, Florida Education Association, the Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus, and the National Physicians Alliance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 179.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.principalinternational.co.uk/property/sheffield-student-accommodation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:48Z", "digest": "sha1:H6P5BQ7GQE6LK2ZQ6NWIJBSGMAFFKEDH", "length": 4574, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.principalinternational.co.uk", "title": "Sheffield Student Accommodation Investment - Operational with 8% NET Yields Guaranteed", "raw_content": "Home > UK > Student Properties > UK > Property > Student Accommodation\nOperational Student Property Investment & 8% Net Yield Assured for 2 Years\n2 Year Rental Guarantee.\nCompleted & Operational.\nImmediate Income.\nWithin 1 Mile of University of Sheffield & Sheffield Hallam University.\nFully Managed by Specialist Operator.\nStudent Accommodation\t\u2022 Sheffield\t\u2022 UK\nSheffield has two large universities; the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, with a total student population of 62,000 driving demand for private student accommodation.\nThe student accommodation is in a fantastic location overlooking a park and appeals to students from both universities, just 0.3 miles to the University of Sheffield and 0.8 miles from Sheffield Hallam University.\nUniversity of Sheffield - Ranked 3rd in the UK for Teaching Standards\nThe University of Sheffield is highly regarded for its teaching standards, ranked 3rd in the UK and the UK Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education places Sheffield in the highest category for quality.\nThe university was named as University of the Year in 2011 at the Times Higher Education (THE) Awards and was ranked 26th in the UK by the Complete University Guide and ranked 66th worldwide by QS World University Rankings.\nSheffield University features in the top 10 of highly regarded Russell Group universities and currently has 24,765 students, of which, 5,410 are international students.\nThe university has invested heavily in its teaching and leisure facilities, having just spent \u00a320m in the Faculty of Engineering, due to open in autumn 2013; a state-of-the-art \u00a312m research institute SITraN unveiled in November 2010; \u00a33.4m development of Western Bank Library opened in February 2010 and a new student union due to open in September 2013.\nSheffield Hallam University - 3rd Largest University in the UK\nSheffield Hallam University is the 3rd largest university in the UK with 37,066 students, 4,000 are from overseas and is the 5th most popular university for applications according to UCAS.\nThe university has an excellent reputation for graduate employment with 86% of graduates in work or further education within 6 months of graduation. It operates vocational courses to promote employability, with strong employer links via placements with course design aligned to employer requirements.\nSheffield Hallam is based on two sites in Sheffield, City Campus 0.8 miles from the development and Collegiate Crescent Campus 1.4 miles away.\nSheffield Hallam has invested \u00a3110m in its estate over the past 10 years with a further \u00a3100m investment programme running from 2012-15, including a \u00a327m teaching and learning complex in the Collegiate Campus and a \u00a330m flagship building with improved teaching facilities.\nWith just 69 units available, availability is strictly limited and as the project will provide an immediate income, units are expected to sell quickly; therefore investors are advised to act promptly to avoid disappointment.\nThese modern purpose built properties are well appointed; all student pods have en-suite shower rooms, are furnished and have access to satellite television and broadband. Student pods are set in cluster flats of just 69 pods with a communal kitchen/living area with a fitted kitchen with modern appliances, some with balconies and furnished with sofas, coffee tables, dining tables and chairs. There are just 69 units available.\nThe property is fully managed by a specialist local student property manager with 100% occupancy across their portfolio of student properties in Sheffield, who has fully booked the student pods for the 2013-14 academic year, providing investors with peace of mind and a passive armchair investment.\nCompletion: Completed & Operational\nThank you for your interest in Student Accommodation\nPrincipal International are delighted to announce the release of a completed and fully operational student property investment in a superb location. The city of Sheffield is home to two universities with a student population of over 62,000.\nOperational Student Property Investment with Immediate Income & Proven Track Record\nThese completed student properties will provide investors with an immediate income of 8% net, guaranteed for the first 2 years from acquisition. These excellent student properties will be particularly attractive to investors as they have a proven track record and are 100% let for the 2013/14 academic year, providing investors with peace of mind that they are purchasing a student property investment popular and proven in the student market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.programsforelderly.com/documentary-inspiring-seniors-curtain-call.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:17Z", "digest": "sha1:5J2UUKAV7X4SBZU2AV7Y4Z4MZ2FGRMWI", "length": 407, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.programsforelderly.com", "title": "Curtain Call | Inspirational Senior Actors | Aging Films | Documentaries", "raw_content": "\" 'Curtain Call' is the unforgettable story of eight remarkable residents of the Actor's Fund Home in Englewood N.J. No ordinary nursing home, these residents are still full of vitality as they recall tales of Broadway\u2019s golden age and what they have done with their lives. Dramatically told by award winning director Chuck Braverman, this film was nominated for an Academy Award.\"\nsource:curtaincalldvd.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 3081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.propertyvisaspain.com/property/3802.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HA6BUROIAB7IOTS6DN3FYAOOCXKGCA5T", "length": 519, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.propertyvisaspain.com", "title": "Investment Property in Barcelona", "raw_content": "Centrally located property on the famous main road Passeig de Gracia. This 2 bed, 2 bath modern apartment is set amongst some of Barcelona's most sought after designer shops and just above Mont Blanc. You couldn't ask for a better location with public transport links and amenities all within walking distance. The property is finished to a high quality with built-in wardrobes, parquet flooring, a fully fitted and equipped kitchen, electric shutters in the bedrooms and an air conditioning and central heating system.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 198.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.protishgroup.com/news/the-safe-is-getting-more-and-more-popular-6422850.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:15Z", "digest": "sha1:HCMUVJ2QPNRQ4DZ5M6VKQ6RD3T6CVCUR", "length": 3580, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.protishgroup.com", "title": "The Safe Is Getting More And More Popular - News - Yangzhou Super Industry Co,Ltd", "raw_content": "The Safe Is Getting More And More Popular\nThe safety box is defined as a cabinet that is equipped with mechanical and electronic locks (including password lock, IC card lock, etc.) under the specified conditions for a specified period of time. According to the safety level, it is divided into A1, A2, B1, B2 , B3, C total of 6 categories, Safe Deposit Box A1 security level minimum, should be able to prevent the use of ordinary hand tools, portable power tools and grinding head and these tools with each other in the net working hours within 15 minutes to open the door or cabinet, Body type 38 square centimeters through hole.C class of the highest level of safety should be able to prevent the use of ordinary hand tools, Safe Deposit Box portable power tools, grinding head and dedicated portable power tools, torch and explosives, the net working hours within 60 minutes to open the cabinet Door or in the cabinet door, the cabinet caused 13 square centimeters through the hole, its quality is not less than 450 kg.\n3. safe deposit box purchase:\nCurrently on the market most of the safe for the A1 class, there are a variety of shapes, styles of products, consumers can purchase according to need, Safe Deposit Box regardless of what kind of safe deposit box products, consumers should pay attention to the following aspects:\n\u2460 the safety of the cabinet surface film (or spray film) color should be uniform, can not have obvious cracks, gowns, spots and other defects.\n\u2461 cabinet height \u2264 600 mm safe, the door and the door frame on the right and left gap \u2264 1.5 mm, under the gap \u2264 2 mm, the gap over the General Assembly to reduce anti-theft performance.\n\u2462 Class A and Class B safety boxes should be fitted with fixing holes when equipped with less than 340 kg. They are equipped with fixed parts and instructions for fixed instructions. Safe Deposit Box Be careful and keep them in accordance with the instructions of the manual.\n\u2463 safe door general door thickness of 8-10 mm, cabinet thickness of 6 mm or more, so as to ensure the performance of anti-theft, the purchase should be asked to the store plate thickness.\nSafe more and more popular, must have its own advantages:\n1, family financial management: With the increase in income, and now many people will place a small amount of cash, people go out for a long time, in case of theft, but also heavy losses, Safe Deposit Box especially at home jewelry, calligraphy and painting, real estate license, the use of safe Will be added to the user's property security insurance.\n2, the safe size of the small, but full-featured: the general model of the two are safe, can be placed in about 50 yuan in face value of cash, you can also real estate license, bank cards, passbooks, notes and other important family Book items into. Open the safe, the general need to add a digital password, Safe Deposit Box and two different keys, different safe password is not the same, and some need to use the power of the numeric keypad, and some for the turntable, can be described as triple insurance different types of hidden locks Hole, insurance is powerful.\n3, can be secretly installed, built-in wall: the majority of Zhengzhou safe on the back of the installation hole can be embedded in the wall, with expansion screws fixed, hanging on the wall can be an ornament, outsiders difficult to see insurance Cabinet position, more difficult in a short time to remove it removed. There are some things fixed buckle can be fixed on the wall or corner.\nPrevious: Cash Safe Is Closely Related To Modern Life\nNext: Steel Safe Using Steps", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.proxymonitor.org/Forms/shareholder_proposals_sj.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5UJ5TXI4Q3B6WND5Y4VYKVX4YWXDTJT", "length": 5735, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.proxymonitor.org", "title": "Proxy Monitor", "raw_content": "By: Stephen Joyce\nThe percentage of shareholder proposals receiving majority support at large publicly traded U.S. companies increased to 11 percent in 2015, largely as a result of the New York City Comptroller's proxy access initiative.\nIn 2014, only 4 percent of the proposals were supported by a majority of shareholders, a report issued Sept. 29 by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research said.\nA material increase in support for proposals seeking proxy access was a key reason for the increase: 23 of 35 proxy access proposals won majority backing during the 2015 season. New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer's Boardroom Accountability Project, which was launched during the run-up to the 2015 season in November 2014, targeted 75 companies in a national campaign to press for changes in corporate board operations (12 CARE 1576, 11/21/14)(46 SRLR 2262, 11/24/14)(225 DER EE-10, 11/21/14)(225 Securities Law Daily, 11/21/14)(225 Securities Law Daily, 11/21/14).\nMost Successful Campaign.\n\u201cThis has been the most successful proxy access campaign of all time,\u201d Stringer told Bloomberg BNA at a Sept. 29 event in New York to unveil the report.\nStringer said he discussed his proxy access campaign with Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Jo White but did not elaborate on the substance of that conversation.\nThe U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2011 struck down an SEC proxy access rule, deciding the agency acted arbitrarily by failing to properly assess the regulation's economic impact (09 CARE 895, 7/29/11)(142 Securities Law Daily, 7/25/11)(142 Securities Law Daily, 7/25/11)(43 SRLR 1510, 7/25/11)(142 DER EE-6, 7/25/11).\nProposals Hit Five-Year High.\nThe Manhattan Institute report was the fifth annual survey analyzing the proxy activities of 250 of the largest publicly traded U.S. companies, a collection of companies similar to the Fortune 250 which excludes large companies not publicly traded. The report found 43 percent of shareholder proposals sponsored in 2015 involved corporate governance issues while 42 percent involved social or policy issues. The remaining 15 percent involved executive compensation, the report said.\nMore broadly, the average large publicly traded U.S. company faced 1.34 shareholder proposals in 2015, an increase from the 2014 level of 1.22 and the highest level of shareholder proposal activity since 2010, the report said. All told, more than 300 shareholder proposals were submitted at publicly traded companies during the 2015 proxy season, the report said.\nProxy access shareholder resolutions that garnered majority support in 2015 include those submitted to Apache Corp., Avon Products Inc. and eBay Inc. The proposals received by those companies were filed by Stringer.\nChevron Corp., Duke Energy Corp., Marathon Oil Corp. and Occidental Petroleum Corp. were four energy companies whose proxy access resolutions received majority support, the report's survey data said.\nEffect of New York Comptrollers.\nStringer and New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, fiduciaries for the state's city and state pension funds, respectively, each played a key role in sponsoring shareholder proposals, the report said.\n\u201cBy far, the public-employee pension funds that have been most active in sponsoring shareholder proposals have been those affiliated with New York City and State,\u201d the report said.\nThe state's Common Retirement Fund, for the first time since it began sponsoring shareholder proposals in 2010, received majority support in 2015 for an executive pay proposal submitted to Staples Inc.\nMeanwhile, Stringer's Boardroom Accountability Project aims to increase the number of independent and accountable directors at public companies using three criteria: climate change, diversity and executive pay.\n\u201cComptroller Stringer\u2019s campaign has been remarkably successful in terms of winning majority support from shareholders: among 22 Fortune 250 companies facing a NYC fund-sponsored proxy-access proposal in 2015, 18 received majority shareholder support,\u201d the report said.\nThree activist shareholders were responsible for about one-third of all shareholder proposals, the report said. Labor-affiliated pension funds, while accounting for about 28 percent of shareholder proposals, were less active in 2015 compared with 2014, the report said. About 30 percent of the proposals were initiated by religious-affiliated groups, social investors or groups advocating a public policy, and the remaining 10 percent were other individual and institutional investors, the report said.\n\u2018Lenient' SEC.\nThe report also said the increase in shareholder proposals was in part because the SEC has been \u201cmore lenient in allowing shareholder proposals on the ballot.\u201d\nUnder SEC Rule 14a-8, the agency allows a company to exclude shareholder resolutions from its proxy materials under certain conditions, including if there is a conflicting management proposal. White, the SEC chairman, in January directed her staff to review the rule after investors raised concerns that companies were using it to avoid shareholder access proposals with thresholds they considered too lax (13 CARE 179, 1/23/15)(47 SRLR 152, 1/26/15)(13 SLD, 1/21/15)(12 DER EE-12, 1/20/15). The result? The SEC issued fewer no-action letters allowing firms to exclude shareholder proposals in 2015, the report said.\nThe SEC issued 82 no-action responses in 2015, compared to 116 in 2014, the report said.\nThe agency denied 68 no-action petitions in 2015, compared to 50 denials in 2014, the report said.\nReproduced with permission from Daily Report for Executives, 189 DER (Sep. 30, 2015). Copyright 2015 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) http://www.bna.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 6252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-real/luna-lark-speaks-musings-of-a-fairy-punk27", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:TBZ3CWG4JICNCYLIKGQNXTAFK2M6J7A7", "length": 4924, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.quailbellmagazine.com", "title": "The Real - Quail Bell Magazine", "raw_content": "Luna Lark Speaks: Musings of a Fairy Punk\nI am the poster child for impromptu trips. I have bought bus tickets three hours before departure\u2014exactly ten minutes after deciding I want to get away and without having packed so much as a clean pair of socks. Oh, and did I mention still having to bike three miles uphill to get to the bus depot? While critics may call this a questionable life choice, I say it's helped me see and do things I wouldn't have experienced otherwise.\nOnce on a bus ride from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh, I met a man convinced he had found his true love. That true love was not me. The bus had just pulled into a dark lot in Baltimore when this fellow of red eyes, tattooed arms, and a maroon T-shirt boarded. The bus was already crowded with sketchy characters and I was sitting next to about the only free seat. I was okay as long as I had the window seat. And since this guy didn't yank me by the shoulders and put me in the aisle seat so he get a view of the freeway, I still did. So far, so good.\nThe man and I got to talking. I was so used to talking to strangers on buses by this point that I thought nothing of it. You can tell your bus buddy your deepest, darkest secrets, unless you happen to be a serial killer or big-time drug dealer. If I were you, I'd keep those confessions to myself. Otherwise, blab on, but, more importantly for storytellers, take time to listen.\nThis man clearly was not into listening, which was fine because he had me hooked. He had just gotten divorced and he was taking the bus to see a woman in Chicago, a woman he fell madly in love with one week into his engagement. A mutual friend had invited both of them to his house, where they stayed for hours, talking and watching television. It was a completely platonic get-together. My bus buddy had kept in touch with this woman through texts and instant messenger for the past seven years. She wasn't the reason for his divorce; he had never loved his wife, anyway, and their marriage dissolved on its own. Besides, his conversations with this woman were never of a romantic nature. He never expressed his feelings for her and she never expressed hers for him.\n\u201cBut I know she feels the same way,\u201d he said, shaking like a junkie as he clutched his backpack.\nHis plan was to surprise her at the candy store where she worked. He knew her hours. He had practiced his opening line a thousand times (though he refused to disclose it to me.) She was going to leave her shift early, take him back to her apartment, and make passionate love to him. Of this he was certain.\nSince we had time to kill, I played the devil's advocate. What if she wasn't at the candy store? I know she will be. She has the same schedule every week. What if she has a doctor's appointment? I'll come back the next day. What if she has a boyfriend? She's single, I know it. Where will you stay if she doesn't invite you back? She will invite me back. What if she doesn't love you? Of course she loves me. How long have you been planning this? I decided to go today, but this isn't the kind of thing that needs a lot of planning in advance.\nAnd on and on and on until he finally turned the game on me and interrogated me about my sweet, boring love life. I played until one or both of us fell asleep.\nI never knew what became of his love story, but sometimes I like to imagine the scene in the candy store and then afterwards. I have probably exhausted all possible scenarios in my mind.\nOn my way back from Pittsburgh, the bus employees threw my suitcase, slamming it onto the pavement. That's when I realized how stupid I had been. I rushed to unzip the suitcase and rifled through the pile of clothes to find my laptop. The screen had cracked. My precious computer, the computer upon which I've written so much, was gone\u2014or so I thought. It turned out that the computer still worked. I turned it on, welcomed by a blue glow that illuminated my face in the black Chinatown lot, and got past the few cracks in the screen. I am writing on that same laptop this very moment.\nThat stroke of luck reminds me of when a mentor went to Haiti for a spontaneous service trip. She had just graduated from college and knew little about international travel. Yet here she was going to a place that could not be further removed from her upper-middle class, white, Northern Virginian existence. She packed a carry-on and a check-in, but once that princessy checked bag rolled away on the conveyor belt, she never saw it again. She had to live on the contents of that carry-on luggage for an entire summer.\n\u201cBut the Lord provided,\u201d she said. \u201cI had exactly what I needed. I didn't need anything from the checked bag. It required a sudden change of plans, but I improvised.\u201d\nThe Lord provided for my laptop and I hope the Lord provided for that Baltimore man and his Chicago love, as the Lord shall provide for many more people in all their impromptu trips.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 5375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.quhasa.com/question/index/id/987c5746-502b-11e4-a7b6-782bcb18fa19", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:33Z", "digest": "sha1:6SR3VYZ6ZSHKOFLQ4IZKQPCNGMKAOA6T", "length": 241, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.quhasa.com", "title": "\ufeff With reference to the river luni, which one of the following statement is correct ?", "raw_content": "1) It flows into Gulf of Khambhat\n2) It flows into Gulf of Kutchchh\n3) It flows into Pakistan and merges with a territory of Indus\n4) It is lost in the marshy land of the Rann of Kutchchh\nIt is lost in the marshy land of the Rann of Kutchchh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 4809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 255.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.quotehd.com/quotes/author/bj-surhoff-quotes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:30Z", "digest": "sha1:UR7DLE7XJFQPEYZDEZOR5GYS2ZKZXODZ", "length": 570, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.quotehd.com", "title": "B.J. Surhoff Quotes | QuoteHD", "raw_content": "B.J. Surhoff Quotes\nIt was right on my backhand. I should have had it. It's a play I should have turned the double play on. The ball stayed down and I obviously stayed up. I misjudged the ball.\nMore B.J. Surhoff Quotes\nNobody knew what to do. After a little while, it was obvious he wasn't going to pick it up.\nI was just trying to comfort him any way I could. I didn't know what was wrong. It was more important to see if he was okay.\nNobody really knew what to do. Bernie didn't, Crosby didn't, I didn't. After a little while it was pretty obvious something was wrong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1092, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 185.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rahulgaitonde.org/2005/12/when-the-state-is-in-the-business-of-running-business/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:38Z", "digest": "sha1:DF5JKVNIZP5SJH4FFYN5IPG2F7LWSAQS", "length": 8740, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.rahulgaitonde.org", "title": "When the state is in the business of running business \u2013 Rahul Gaitonde", "raw_content": "Posted on December 11, 2005 July 20, 2017 by rahulgaitonde\nWhen the state is in the business of running business\nIndia\u2019s biggest problem today\u2026\n\u2026 is an interventionist State. Despite a brief start at reforms between 1991-93, the Government continues to be in the business of running businesses. Inevitably, when it is also the policy-maker, protectionist policies are bound to arise, and private players are bound to be put at a perennial disadvantage. Consider the Government\u2019s decision on the 30th of November to deny private operators use of BSNL\u2019s and MTNL\u2019s \u201clast mile\u201d copper wire infrastructure. From the Economic Times:\nOn unbundling of last mile access of BSNL and MTNL Mr. Maran said the government wants private operators to build their own networks.\n\u201cIf the state is not in the business of telecom, then their infrastructure can be shared and given to private players but in this case, the state is in the business and they are not in a social service segment,\u201d said Mr. Maran at the Indian Economic Summit.\nHe also said both MTNL and BSNL are doing very well and there is no necessity to unbundle. \u201cBSNL has done 2.5 lakh and MTNL one lakh in terms of broadband connections and from the peak price of Rs 5,000, today BSNL and MTNL\u2019s connections are available at Rs 250 and Rs 199 respectively,\u201d said Mr. Maran.\nReliance, Bharti and Tata Teleservices want DoT to allow them to use BSNL and MTNL\u2019s last mile network for providing broadband services. BSNL and MTNL account for more than 90% of India\u2019s fixed line subscriber base.\nMaran\u2019s quote says it all. If the state is not running telecom companies for \u201csocial service\u201d, or it put it more correctly, \u201csocial benefit\u201d, then what are they running it for? If profit is the only motive, then the company should be privatized, fully, and right away. Think about it: If there is no \u201clarger good\u201d for running BSNL and MTNL, their motives are just like any other private company. Why, then, should they be at such a huge advantage compared to a private player? First, they have access to tremendous funds (taxpayers\u2019 money) which are not the result of revenue earned by the company. That\u2019s what\u2019s enabled them to build up this vast copper wire \u201clast mile\u201d network in the first place. Second, the parent ministry frames policy for the sector. This is almost always designed to protect the state-owned enterprises in the sector, which is but natural. But is it fair?\nFor instance, consider the Access Deficit Charge. This is a levy that private telecom operators have to pay when their subscribers make long-distance calls either to fixed-line telephones or to other mobile phones \u2013 basically, for any traffic that makes use of fixed-line long-distance infrastructure \u2013 and 95% of these revenues go to BSNL**, since it has a near-monopoly on fixed-line infrastructure in the country. Private operators have often suspected that the Access Deficit Charge is used to subsidize BSNL\u2019s own cellular business. Or its International calls \u2013 just before TRAI ruled in late 2003 that all telecom operators would have to pay ADC (as opposed to only basic service providers earlier), BSNL cut its ILD (International Long Distance) call rates from Rs. 24 to Rs. 7.20 per minute***.\nThere is only one reason for the state to be present in any sector \u2013 for reasons of \u201cNational Security\u201d or \u201cStrategic Importance\u201d. Examples of this include education and defence. The other reason offered by the Indian Government frequently is for \u201csocial benefit\u201d. The implication here is that if the state was to exit that sector (from the business point of view), private enterprise would not run services in unprofitable (usually rural) areas, and that this would lead to unequal development.\nI do not buy this argument. There are ways for the Government to ensure equal development, or at least prevent creation of a yawning gap between urban and rural areas. One of those ways is for the Government to focus exclusively on running services in non-profitable areas. The funding for such ventures would be generated using, most ironically, the Access Deficit Charge! Of course, it would be called something else!\nHere\u2019s how it could work: First and foremost, the Government must privatize both BSNL and MTNL, so that all telecom operations in the country are privately-owned, and there is a level playing field. It must then set up a fresh, fully autonomous company to provide services only to clearly demarcated \u201cunviable areas\u201d. As long as private operators and the State do not encroach into each others\u2019 territories, there is no problem with levying a charge on private operators to fund the state\u2019s efforts to improve connectivity in such rural or unviable areas. This \u201cADC\u201d ought to be a fixed charge imposed upon every operator, regardless of their size or revenue. Since this ADC is now not based on the access of the fixed-line infrastructure owned by the state, by private operators, it would be unfair to charge the larger player more. (How the now-privatized BSNL charges other operators for use of its network is a completely different matter, and is out of the scope of this article). The only revenue for this company ought to be from the charges imposed on private operators, and 100% of the revenue from these operations must be pooled back into the company\u2019s operations. No profits. In addition, if a private operator wishes to provide operations in a particular \u201cunviable area\u201d, it is free to do so, provided it satisfies certain minimum criteria for connectivity in that area.\nHowever, there has to be a clear maximum time in which the Government must bring rural areas up to speed with urban areas in terms of communication infrastructure, hand over operations to the highest bidder among private operators. If, within this time, a private operator wishes to bid for the Government\u2019s operations in an unviable area, it is free to do so. The more \u201cunviable areas\u201d a private operator takes over, lower is the ADC it has to pay. This is in line with the outcome that the Government-owned company now has that much of a smaller area to run.\nAlternatively, and perhaps a more efficient scheme, would be for the autonomous Government enterprise to maintain each unviable area by forming a Joint Venture with a private operator. This would ensure that the Government enterprise yields results up to the mark, and prevents trade unionism from strangling performance. There would be a bidding process right at the start for selecting the private operator for forming a Joint Venture. As mentioned above, the Government must give up its equity after some prescribed maximum time frame to the private operator. In this Joint Venture, the role of the Government is to make sure that connectivity standards are met by the private operator, and that of the latter is to see that performance does not go down the drain.\nThe idea is for this Government enterprise to undertake upgrading rural telecom infrastructure in the maximum number of areas in the minimum amount of time, and then exit. At the end of that maximum time, regardless of whether or not the Government-owned company met its own targets, the ADC will be eliminated, and the whole country will be free for private players to start operations in. This will ensure performance.\nThis is a model that could be applied to every single sector \u2013 telecom, public transport \u2013 including railways, petroleum, electricity, and the like \u2013 where the Government is in the business ostensibly so that the poor can also avail those services. Summing up, any model for Government-private partnership in any sector has to be centered around the following tenets:\nThe Government has to get out of \u201cthe business of running businesses\u201d.\nThe Government must chalk out clear policies for the sector under consideration and appoint a fully autonomous body to oversee the enforcement of these policies.\nPrivate enterprises are free to offer services in whatever areas they deem fit to.\nPrivate enterprises must fund, for a fixed amount of time, a Government programme to develop infrastructure in presently unviable areas.\nAt the end of the day, no model is going to be fool-proof, and cannot guarantee complete success. However, the one outlined in this article (or any one that incorporates the tenets above) has the best chance of eliminating distortionary pricing, ensuring a level playing field, and bridging the gap between urban and rural India. And that, surely, is what even the State wants.\n** The Hindu Business Line, September 3, 2005.\n*** Businessworld India, December 15, 2003.\nCategoriesInsights, Off-Topic, Policy, telecom\nPrevious PostPrevious Evolution of a logo \u2013 How the Mozilla Sunbird logo was created\nNext PostNext Technology adoption in Estonia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 10143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.raincannon.com/hom/hom20151125.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BEBXEHTKHH57VQWBTEXLFV5EIA7JKDJQ", "length": 21, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.raincannon.com", "title": "Haus of Meat: Regine", "raw_content": "I don't keep a diary.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 663, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 31.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reagangirl.com/sitemap-pt-post-2012-10.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:47Z", "digest": "sha1:C7YA3UQAVCJMLCVRYAL4X2JJ3WTJWQAI", "length": 2354, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.reagangirl.com", "title": "XML Sitemap", "raw_content": "http://www.reagangirl.com/common-freaking-sense-on-legalizing-marijuana/ 20% Monthly 2014-01-14 02:28\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/ziggy-tammy-baldwin-is-a-dangerous-radical-leftist/ 20% Monthly 2012-11-01 22:36\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/pulling-our-sheep-out-of-the-pit/ 20% Monthly 2012-11-10 18:33\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/ziggy-obamas-terrible-defense-policies-will-hurt-ohio/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-29 16:20\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/how-will-legalized-pot-affect-our-military/ 20% Monthly 2012-11-03 19:49\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/cnns-flawed-romney-fact-check/ 20% Monthly 2012-11-01 18:09\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/should-smoking-pot-be-a-protected-right/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-29 17:33\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/the-evil-doctrine-of-the-giving-tree/ 20% Monthly 2014-10-25 04:32\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/the-side-of-human-dignity/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-29 18:03\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/ziggy-what-would-romney-do-differently/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-25 12:57\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/ziggy-the-utter-disaster-of-arms-control/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-26 01:05\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/romney-rumble-for-the-republic/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-25 01:15\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/ziggy-obamas-ridiculous-attack-on-romney/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-25 21:34\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/would-you-vote-for-a-pack-of-hyenas/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-29 04:05\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/ziggy-rebuts-rick-morans-attack-on-republicans/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-20 22:01\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/the-social-conservative-romney/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-26 19:28\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/biden-brain-damage-mad-lib-erals/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-23 00:38\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/true-stories-from-the-call-center/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-17 12:49\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/who-is-the-real-small-business-candidate/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-13 23:43\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/columbus-day-mormon-style/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-19 03:49\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/ziggy-obamas-foreign-policy-failures/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-13 16:23\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/the-implosion-of-a-hollow-man/ 20% Monthly 2013-08-25 00:45\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/ziggy-the-truth-about-romneys-defense-spending-plan/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-15 00:20\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/is-the-topic-of-war-appropriate-for-young-children/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-12 04:44\nhttp://www.reagangirl.com/bacon-the-thin-pink-line/ 20% Monthly 2012-10-10 16:04", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.redlandscameraclub.org/featured%20photog%20connie%20st%20jean.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:12Z", "digest": "sha1:OVKPW2MQQ2N4CRLQYZNNOMFN4YRU3E2W", "length": 1338, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.redlandscameraclub.org", "title": ":: Redlands Camera Club ::", "raw_content": "Connie St Jean Constance Mayfield St Jean started taking pictures in 1959 in Gopalpur, India as a cultural anthropology research assistant to Dr. Alan R. Beals. In 1967, she photographed every family in an Oaxaca village in Mexico and was paid in eggs and tortillas. This was in connection with an anthropological field study teaching project headed by Dr. Beals. She took up photography again in the 1980\u2019s, specializing in long lens candid pictures of wildlife, rodeo riders, children, flowers, abstract landscapes and musicians ( bluegrass, Dixieland, swing and modern jazz). Her travels took her all over Southern California, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Greece, Tuscany, Ireland and Turkey. Ms Mayfield has received ribbons and awards from the Southern California fair ( 1998 to 2007) and had two photographs accepted by the Los Angeles County Fair ( 2004 & 2005). Her photographs have been displayed in Riverside, Moreno Valley, Norco, Redlands and Corona since the early 1990\u2019s. Gallery showings have taken place in Pomona, Riverside City College, Riverside Community Art Association, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside County Library system and San Pedro. Currently, she is concentrating on candid photographs of adults and children at festivals, beaches, peace demonstrations and music venues as well as photo journalism and abstracts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 1624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.redriderleglamps.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=bb+gun", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FF3U2ILTRXG2KOY2LOV5OJ2SOMEFVTQM", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.redriderleglamps.com", "title": "Search results for: 'bb gun'", "raw_content": "Pennywise (2017) Head Knocker from Stephen King's \"It\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 142.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.redzeppelin.org/372/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:XH5F2HOFSW44XLKLP2DNQPT3X32VMHGV", "length": 967, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.redzeppelin.org", "title": "1024x768", "raw_content": "1024x768 | 10/04/04\nIs it finished? Not entirely. Is it tacky? Definitely. Do you need to view it in 1024x768+? Yes. Well anyway, this is the new general layout of my page. It's still missing a sitemap and a version without the spinning selector at the top and the big Urizone link from the sidebar menu, but for the most part, this is as good as it's going to get. I'd like to separate the entries (like at the bottom) but I'm too tired to do that now. I had a friend at work help me with the spinning top but I'm proud to say it's mostly mine. What I really wanted was a mouseover that made it spin, instead of those buttons but we gave up. I found out that, compared to my coworkers I make nothing. It was very sad but I tried to play it cool. Tonight Jamie made me some soup since I'm still coughing a lot. My house is still infested with flies but not nearly as many. Hopefully they'll all be dead by Saturday, so everyone can celebrate my birthday in fly-peace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rejectionline.com.au/find_sms.php?id=163289", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:2OCXQXIKWL7U4C5MNV5272HVK65X2BSZ", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rejectionline.com.au", "title": "The Rejection Line (Australia) - 0406650430 :: SMS ID 163289", "raw_content": "Wednesday 25/10/2017 09:22am (Sent from Melbourne, North East Sector, (general area) via Optus Networks Pty Limited)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rejectionline.com.au/find_sms.php?id=166952", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:54Z", "digest": "sha1:T7MEPQAHW2HHBPNDRQPIT5UTNUIGBQCN", "length": 62, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rejectionline.com.au", "title": "The Rejection Line (Australia) - 0406650430 :: SMS ID 166952", "raw_content": "Take it up with him I guess... tell him how ya feel about it..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1140, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reversegenie.com/ip_whois/74.125.29.26/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:42Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7FFIVKER4V5XX45QLZC2Y5S3EJDRYL5", "length": 2142, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.reversegenie.com", "title": "74.125.29.26 IP Address Search, Mountain View, CA \u2013 ReverseGenie.com", "raw_content": "Follow 74.125.29.26\nWhat can you tell us about 74.125.29.26 ?\nGet all the facts on 74.125.29.26\nMichael On October 05, 2015 Claimed to be from Ohio. Tried to get me to send her money. She/He needs to be taken off the internet.\nGary On May 29, 2014 I Post - Items For Sale - on Craigslist.............This..IP: 74.125.29.26........Is..VERY Busy........He / She / They.. ....ARE...Spammers...Phishing / Fishing......My PROOF I received ...The following ..Text..message - - - - - ''Is your list item on craigslist still available. Get back to me via my personal mail__(______________)___with your price respectively ''.............That ....LOOKS...Innocent....... UNTIL....you learn.... First - No Item is Named ? ....NEXT.....I Received that - EXACT - SAME - Text ...3 - TIMES.....From - 3 - Different Phone Numbers.......and - 3 - Different Email addresses... 5/24/14 - - 405-896-3527 - - aftermath1800@g 5/25/14 - - 424-336-9824 - - ananqp@gmail.co 5/29/14 - - 617-674-1167 - - Jeanine8ta1@gma ...........PLUS..............5/26/14.........I received another Text........''What's your final price for your advertised item on craigslist. Kindly get back to me on my private mailbox.''.....(Again - No Item Named)........From - - 443-341-4957 - - cash.starzbusiness@gmail.com..........Two Hours ago...I tried to Phone ...All 4 -....ALL-BUSY-Signal ...........PLUS.....Last Month...I Had ANOTHER One.... I am Only ONE person --- I Found --- 5-BOGUS.... ...ALL....From - The Same IP #................... Someone should - PULL their PLUG ! !\ncindy miles On May 28, 2014 N/A\njj On May 27, 2014 she told me her name Jane white mrsjanewhite0@gmail.com the lawyer of Martin Blakes frome FL Miami i believe they are scammers\nGary On April 09, 2014 I Post items - For Sale - on Craigs List - - - on April 8, 2014 - - 10:59 pm - - I received a Reply - - from - laurenlewis997@gmail.com - - requesting - my PHONE Number - - Considering the fact - - My PHONE Number - - Appears - THREE Times - in my Ad - - - I believe the only item actually wanted - is My EMAIL - - - I just posted - the full Details - here at - COMMENTS - about the - @gmail - noted above", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rickardsread.com/2012/12/no223-frida-kahlo-diego-rivera-at-ago.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:09Z", "digest": "sha1:A3DFSJCSJRHIFDT4FPRBNOFVWCMB2P62", "length": 5482, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.rickardsread.com", "title": "RickardsRead: (No.223) Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera at the AGO", "raw_content": "(No.224) \"Heads in Beds\": hotels & travel reality\n(No.223) Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera at the AGO\n(No.222) CISRO, the AMF & a new LLQP: cui bono?\nFrida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at the AGO:\na wonderful exhibition\nThe first time Pat and I saw an exhibition of paintings by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo they were a part of a three person show that ended its 2002 North American tour at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It was billed as \"Carr, O'Keeffe and Kahlo: Places of their own\". Kahlo shared the stage with the Canadian Emily Carr and the American Georgia O'Keeffe. The exhibition had come to Vancouver from Washington's National Museum of Women in the Arts.\nBy the 1990s 'Fridamania' had begun to elevate Kahlo to feminist heroine complete with the moustache and unibrow Kahlo had made sure to include in her many self-portraits. Indeed, of the 150 or so of her paintings that survived her death in 1954 (age 47) most are self-portraits of one sort or another.\nA major influence on Kahlo's life and her art was a near fatal bus accident when she was a young woman. It inflicted gruesome injuries on her, the effects of which were with her the rest of her life.\nWhile the focus on Kahlo's life in recent decades has tended to omit inconvenient facts that are at odds with her current image as a long-suffering artist and wife or to which her enthusiasts might today object, it has reinforced the elevation of Frida Kahlo the artist over her art.\nPat and I were sufficiently interested by Kahlo and her work to make a point of attending the new exhibition brought to Toronto by the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), one of the several organizing institutions, of \"Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting\". (It runs at the AGO through Jan. 20, 2013.)\nIt is a fascinating exhibition on several levels and for several reasons, not all of them relating to the quality of the works on display. It brings together brilliantly a significant display of some of Kahlo's work with a selection of those painted by Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist 20 years her senior, her husband (twice), philanderer and a self-described political revolutionary who shared with Kahlo a profound political naivete. They were both longtime Communists who came to admire Joseph Stalin and latterly dedicated themselves to him and his version of Communism and did so after the millions of deaths for which he was responsible had become more widely known.\nDuring their often stormy lives together Rivera (who died at age 70 three years after Kahlo) achieved a fame as an artist not only in Mexico but internationally that far exceeded Kahlo's. Today it is the opposite. The beginning of the reversal dates from the publication of a 1983 biography by Hayden Herrera: \"Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (2003).\nThis book helped prompt and was followed by the taking up of Kahlo's work by celebrities like Madonna as well as by various American feminists -- indeed Kahlo has been called \"Gender Studies' emblematic victim\". The growing public recognition culminated in the making of the 2002 Hollywoood movie \"Frida\" starring Spanish actress Salma Hayek as Kahlo (but minus the moustache and unibrow) with the marvellous English actor Alfred Molina playing Rivera.\nThe effectiveness of the AGO exhibition has been enhanced by a wonderful collection of photographs (and even one silent video) of Kahlo and Rivera, together and separately, up to and including Kahlo on her \"funeral bed\".\nWhen it came to his own life Rivera was not just a notorious womanizer (Kahlo had her share of extra-marital affairs) but an inventor of the narrative of his own life story. But he was certainly one of what were termed Mexico's leading \"revolutionary painters\". While he was perhaps most famous for the murals he painted in Mexico and also in the U.S., often depciting aspects of the Mexican revolution or of workers rallying for various causes, Rivera also was known within Mexican political circles for betraying allies and political causes.\nFor example: Rivera and Kahlo helped get asylum for the Russian exile Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1936. Trotsky and his wife stayed in Kahlo's family home where Kahlo seduced him as well as worshipped politically for a time at his feet.\nHowever it seems that both Rivera and Kahlo decided to turn against Trotsky. Rivera is even suspected of assisting in a minor way Stalin's NKVD assassin of Trotsky in 1940. After Trotsky's murder both Kahlo and Rivera came out publicly against Trotsky apparently because (typical of the political naives they were) they had become devout Stalinists.\nYou will not read such unflattering details in the notes and explanations accompanying the works in the exhibition at the AGO -- hardly surprising. But the art speaks for itself, even Frida's sometimes grotesque self-portraits like \"Self-portrait with brace\" (1941), \"Without Hope\" (1945) or the small paintings inspired by Mexican folk art like \"My nurse and I\" (1937).\nThe range of Rivera's talent can be measured by viewing not merely photographs of his murals but his paintings in this exhibiton such as \"Portrait of Natasha Gelman\"(1943) and \"The Hammock\" (1956).\nThe AGO exhibition puts on display the lives as well as the art of two people whose lives were not only joined and stormy but absorbed with each other and themselves in a way that was obsessive.\nFor information on the Art gallery of Ontario exhibition \"Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting\" visit the AGO website: www.ago.net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 8427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roadarch.com/eateries/aw4.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:07Z", "digest": "sha1:GQHTNQTPN7XHWNRCE6WAE4U6BXGLYAJ4", "length": 5764, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "www.roadarch.com", "title": "A&W Root Beer Stands | RoadsideArchitecture.com", "raw_content": "Tep's Drive-in\nTep's Drive-in appears to be a former A&W Drive-in. However, the pilgrim hat is considerably shorter than the ones I have seen. Perhaps this was an early design or maybe this drive-in building was just inspired by A&W. [map]\nformer A&W Drive-in [gone]\nAustin, TX A&W Drive-in [gone]\nThis A&W Drive-in in Austin housed Dan's Hamburgers when this photo was taken in 2011. By 2014, Dan's had a new building constructed.\nThis A&W Drive-in in Cedar Rapids opened in 1948. It has been closed since 2008 when it was completely submerged during a devastating flood. These photos are from 2010. The building was demolished in 2013. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2.\nformer A&W Drive-in\nThe former A&W Drive-in has housed Boomer's Drive-in since 1989. [map]\nPasco, WA former A&W Drive-in\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Pasco has housed Junior's Tacos since at least 2008. This photo is from 2015. [map]\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Vantage most recently housed Blustery's Burger Drive-in. The building was modified to increase the dining area. [map]\nAnacortes, WA A&W Drive-in\nThe former A&W Drive-in in Anacortes has housed the Fidalgo Drive-in since 2008. [map]\nThis A&W Drive-in pilgrim hat building in Visalia was painted green back in 2005. It has since been repainted the original orange. This photo is from 2013. [map]\nChester, CA former A&W Drive-in\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Chester now houses the Locker Room Sports Grill. [map]\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Susanville had housed the Chinese Kitchen Restaurant since at least 2007. This photo is from 2016. By 2018, the building was housing the Courthouse Cafe. [map]\nPortage, WI A&W Drive-in\nThis A&W Drive-in in Portage had a turquoise roof for awhile. By 2012 when this photo was taken, it was back to the original orange paint. The pylon sign and neon letters at the roofline are recent additions. The original plastic sign is mounted on the shed at the back of the lot. For more, see this website. [map]\nThis A&W Drive-in in Pine City has been updated a bit. Does anyone know when it opened? [map]\nA&W Drive-in (now Flushing A)\nThis A&W Drive-in was built in 1970. The \"pilgrim hat\" building has been modified. The original flat canopy was replaced with this zig-zag type at some point. In 2010, the restaurant went independent and is now known as the Flushing A. For more, see this website. [map]\nThis former A&W Drive-in last housed Becker's Drive-in. Becker's opened in 1949 at this location. The original building was demolished in the early 1960s and this one was erected then. I don't know when the relationship with A&W started or ceased. Becker's closed in 2016. In 2018, the building was still vacant. [map]\nBend, OR former A&W Drive-in\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Bend has housed the Pilot Butte Drive-in since 1983. [map]\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Coos Bay now houses the Stockpot Restaurant. [map]\nThis A&W Drive-in still offers car hop service. [map]\nThis A&W Drive-in also features car hop service. [map]\nSweet Home, OR former A&W Drive-in\nYet another still-operating, pilgrim hat style A&W Drive-ins. There seem to be more of these in Oregon than anywhere else in the country. [map]\nThis former A&W Drive-in has housed the Ting Sing Chinese restaurant since at least 2007. This photo is from 2016. [map]\nIndependence, OR former A&W Drive-in\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Independence has housed the Jade Terrace Chinese restaurant since at least 2008. This photo is from 2016. [map]\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Baker City has housed the Country Cottage Cafe since at least 2007. This photo is from 2016. [map]\nThis A&W Drive-in was built in 1973. For more, see these websites: 1 and 2. [map]\nCedar City, UT former A&W Drive-in [gone]\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Cedar City has housed Brad's Food Hut since at least 2004. For more, see this website. [map]\nThis former A&W Drive-in in Provo had housed the Malt Shoppe since at least the 1990s. This photo is from 2014. By 2017, the building had been demolished.\nAmarillo, TX A&W Drive-in\nThis former A&W in Amarillo housed Menchie's Restaurant when this photo was taken in 2011. By 2017, the building was housing Havana Cuban Cuisine. [map]\nThis A&W Drive-in sign in Sault Ste. Marie is located at a still-operating location. This sign featured the Canadian Burger Family which includes Grandpa Burger. Grandpa Burgers were not made or used in United States restaurants or advertising. That sign panel has been replaced. However, a Burger Family sign is still installed on the building. [map]\nA&W Drive-in [gone]\nThis A&W Drive-in featured an original Teen Burger. This location added an untraditional broaster chicken with energy efficient light bulb eyes. These photos are from 2009. By 2012, this A&W had closed and the statues were gone. I don't know what became of the chicken statue. The Teen Burger statue is now at the A&W in Emmetsburg, IA. Since 2014, the building has housed the El Guacamole Mexican restaurant. For more Teen Burgers and other A&W Burger Family statues, see this page. For more broaster chickens like this, see this page. [map]\nvintage A&W Drive-in photos\nThe Owen Sound A&W is a modern building. However, there was a display of vintage photo reproductions there in 2007. I believe all of the locations shown were in Canada. The first Canadian A&W opened in Winnipeg in 1956. For more, see this website.\nMore A&W Buildings and Signs:\nConcord, CA [gone]\nLodi, CA [sign gone]\nSacramento, CA [map]\nLansing, MI [vintage]\nParadise, MI [vintage; gone]\nStaten Island, NY [vintage; gone]\nWinnipeg, MB [vintage]\nOkinawa, Japan [vintage]\nA&W installed fiberglass Burger Family statues at many of their locations. See this page for examples.\nA&W also produced barrel-shaped buildings. 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The former notes the growth, dissects the plant, and carries with him a number of facts relative to this dis section, for-classification. The process is largely intel lectual. The artist studies the shapes and spaces with a view of discovering a harmony that is to be preserved in the mind or on paper for a lasting pleasure, chiefly emotional. But-the artist goes still further; his office is to perpetuate beauty, to create emotion out of shapes he sees in nature, and that emotion is to be expressed upon a flat surface, paper or canvas. This brings with it new conditions.\nIn Figs. 2 through 11, we were considering a bit of nature held in the hand and we discovered certain laws of beauty in it. When we try to reproduce this frag ment on a flat surface, we at once meet with the ques tion of proportion. It would be senseless to represent this blade of grass, Fig. 3, on the wall of a room. The space would not only be too large but there would be no apparent limit to it. 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Learn more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.saveearlscourt.com/press-releases.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:34Z", "digest": "sha1:UJENO6B7PQ6QGIYPN7HS4YSII5BAHQC7", "length": 7645, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.saveearlscourt.com", "title": "Press Releases - Save Earl's Court!", "raw_content": "P R E S S R E L E A S E \u2013 number two\nThe Earl\u2019s Court Area Action Group (ECAAG) (www.saveearlscourt.com)\nDarren Johnson, who sits as a green member on the GLA (Greater London Authority), joined the Earl\u2019s Court Area Action Group for a site visit this morning. The walkabout covered the 77-acre area of the proposed development, in southwest London that spans the boroughs of Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham. This was an opportunity for Johnson to visualize the scale of the 20-year building project and also to meet residents, small businesses and other interested parties who will be affected by this mammoth project. The most obvious loss if the developers proceed, will be the destruction of the world renowned Earls Court exhibition centre which comprises two exhibition halls, the main hall built in the 1930s and a smaller hall which opened in 1991. But the other loss will be human, that of the 500 plus residents of the West Kensington and Gibbs Green estates who will be forcibly removed from their homes as a result of their housing estates being demolished to make way for what the developers call \u2018four villages and a high street\u2019.\nDarren Johnson commented that he was shocked at the scale of the development and at the tragic loss of jobs and housing. A diverse range of residents will be affected by this vast development from those in housing association flats, sheltered housing to long-term homeowners who have raised their families in these neighbourhoods.\nSmall businesses such as hotels, restaurants, office suppliers to bars and pubs have already seen their revenues hit by the uncertainty over the future of Earls Court exhibition centre. Johnson met the manager of the Boka hotel in Eardley Crescent who said hotel booking are down by 30% for long-standing exhibitor clients as the number of exhibitions at \u2018Earls Court\u2019 are being cut back. It is rumoured that up to half the hoteliers in Penywern Road are considering selling their hotels in view of the reduced number of exhibitions and the resultant drop in hotel bookings. The effect of this building project will be 10-12 vehicle movements an hour during working hours (with some night work also) over a six-year period with probable building resonance to the surrounding existing 19th century buildings.\nJohnson also learned about two important local sources of employment: the Lillie Bridge depot and the Adel Rootstein factory. The Lillie Road depot employs over 500 workers who provide essential maintenance for the tube network by way of a factory/workshop that manufactures track components. The depot is unique in that it is the only workshop in the UK with engineers who can manufacture bespoke items (from sleepers, railway timbers to bridges) that are vital to the railways of the nation. Adel Rootstein Ltd is the world's leading mannequin design company and its factory, based in West Kensington since the 1960s, has been producing realistic fashion \u2018dummies\u2019 which can be seen in many a shop window around the world. These two important sources of employment are threatened by the Earl\u2019s Court building project.\nDarren Johnson commented after his visit that the people who will be affected by this immense development come from all different backgrounds and represent a cross section of society who function in a diverse local economy and residential community which appears to be working well and does not need to be \u2018bull-dozered\u2019 to create (according to the literature of developers and the local Councils) \u201cnew homes, a better environment and improved job opportunities\u201d.\nThe Earl\u2019s Court Area Action Group was set up in early December 2012 as a campaign group made up of residents with the aim requesting Eric Pickles, M.P., Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, to call-in the planning applications submitted by the developer. The website of the group \u2013 www.saveearlscourt.com has a petition which can be signed online.\nEmail: earlscourtareaactiongroup@gmail.com\nP R E S S R E L E A S E \u2013 number one\n3.1. 2013The campaign was set up to save Earl\u2019s Court from demolition and overdevelopment following the recent approval by both the Councils of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham for the various Planning Applications submitted by the developer, CapCo.\nThe group view this massive 77 acre, 20-year project to be out of all proportion with the immediate and surrounding area with potential devastating consequences for pollution, traffic levels, structural damage to existing neighbouring properties as well as harming the local economy of shops, businesses and service industries which operate in the Earl\u2019s Court area as well as the uprooting and forced removal of over 750 residents from their homes in Hammersmith & Fulham. The wisdom of granting planning permission for such a mammoth project, which covers an area likened to that of a small village, without any realistic thought being given to the likely effects on the infrastructure of the existing community of densely populated neighbouring streets, is being called into question.\nThe neighbourhood of Earl\u2019s Court is a mainly residential ward in the borough of Kensington & Chelsea \u2013 a borough of central London which is often quoted as being one of the most densely populated built up area in western Europe. There are approximately 10,000 Earl\u2019s Court residents. Earl\u2019s Court already has dangerous levels of traffic pollution from vehicle emissions and has repeatedly gone over EU levels imposed on capital cities of member states and fines may have to be issued.\nThe impact on air quality during and on completion of this building project will be severe. The group questions the validity of the Mayor, who is already facing fines by the EU over exceeding traffic emission limits, actively promoting a project which will reduce the impact on the air quality in London. As Mayor, Boris Johnson is responsible for maintaining safe air quality levels so ECAAG question his compromised position as a conflict of interest. Transport for London (TFL) own extensive tracts of land which form part of the territory of the project site thus this would be a second conflict of interest for the Mayor and his capacity to be able to determine these planning applications.\nECAAG have provided an online petition which will be presented to Eric Pickles, M.P., Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, asking the Minister to call-in the planning applications which entail not only the demolition of the Grade two listed 1930s Earls Court Exhibition buildings sited in Kensington & Chelsea but also the demolition of over 750 homes to residents of the West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates in the adjacent borough of Hammersmith & Fulham.\nThe impact of this project will also be felt by the UK Exhibitions Industry who consider the Earls Court Exhibition centre as a key venue for their trade \u2013 for its central location and modern facilities. Furthermore there will be negative impacts on the local and national economies as the exhibition centre provides much secondary trade for local hotels, businesses and bars and restaurants. The residential units of this project will have an average price of \u00a32.39 million per apartment. This house price will not be for the average Londoner but rather an overseas property investor. The development would overload the capacity of the tube and road system in this area of south-west London in what is already an area with very busy roads with all-day traffic and three tube stations which are heavily used by passengers who stand three deep on platforms as they commute to work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 8735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sciforums.com/threads/gas-prices-surge-to-over-2-60-a-gallon.145961/page-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NDYNGXFNO4D7GLYCN6GF7ET7PSV7WEUU", "length": 15318, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "www.sciforums.com", "title": "Gas prices surge to over 2.60 a gallon | Page 2 | Sciforums", "raw_content": "I guess you just don't get it and never will.\nI'll try just one more time. When Wall Street artificially boosts the price of oil that's one screw.\nThe next is when oil companies themselves boost prices when they really do not need to as in this scenario where prices only for oil have risen while all other products have not, another screw.\nAs I explained that 7 months ago the prices were at 1.80 per gal. and everyone in the oil business was happy then the prices jumped up again for no apparent reason other than screw number 3.\nI hope this allows you to understand better as to how the public is being screwed because if you look at other democratic nations like Russia it only charges about 1.75 at this time so how's that going on if they weren't making a profit?\nYou have evidently ignored the points I made to you earlier and chosen instead to repeat your silly remarks. This starts to look like the behaviour of a person with learning difficulties - or a fixed agenda.\nNevertheless, let me try again to explain, again, this time without assuming any knowledge or common sense on your part. Crude oil is a traded commodity, like gold, coffee, or indeed US government bonds. The price is not set by \"oil companies\" [boo, hiss], but by the market, in response to the balance between supply and demand. With markets, something you need to understand is that the seller tries to get the highest price he can and the buyer tries to get the lowest. Any farmer knows this. There is no concept of a \"fair\" price, or of \"screwing\" someone. Everyone does their best to get the outcome that suits them and the price ends up at the balance point between these conflicting interests. That is how all markets work and have done since the dawn of civilisation.\nBack to the crude market, crude producers sell in this market and refiners buy in it, to get crude to run their refineries. Producers are exploration and production organisations. These include state organisations, representing countries such as Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Iran or Russia and also those oil companies [boo, hiss] that do this. The buyers are refiners, i.e. those who make gasoline and other refined products from crude. Some oil companies [boo, hiss] do both, if they have businesses in both crude exploration and refining, but a lot of the participants in this market only do one or the other, and there are hundreds of them. The result of that is that it is quite hard to manipulate the crude price: the only thing that can do that is to alter the supply/demand balance. Only a ginormous player, like Saudi Arabia can do that by its own efforts in isolation. Generally it takes collective action by OPEC to do it.\nNow, the same happens to apply to widely traded refined products as well, including gasoline. In this case the sellers are the refiners and the buyers are the retailers of gasoline. Once again there is host of both. Some integrated oil companies [boo, hiss] do both and are thus both buyers and sellers, but there are many who do only one or the other. Once again, there are enough of those to make the market price very hard to manipulate. The price of gasoline is thus set also by the balance between supply and demand, not by oil companies [boo, hiss].\nOne other thing is very important to appreciate. People buy for future use. The price is determined by the amount of demand that people expect in the coming months, compared to the expected supply. Hence, when the US summer driving season approaches, the price tends to rise, as demand is expected to go up and this encourages refiners to produce more. Also, if the crude price is high, refiners will only be profitable if the gasoline price is also high, so they decline to supply until they can get a high enough price to make a profit. So a high crude price has a reducing effect on supply, which in turn leads to a higher gasoline price until again a balance is reached.\nIt is thus only an imbecile who would conclude that, just because the price of gasoline has gone up, oil companies [boo, hiss] must be manipulating it to increase profits.\nIn the present case it is clear that the increase in the crude price is largely responsible for the rise in the gasoline price. And why has crude gone up? Because supply has reduced, as a result of shale oil cutting back, in response to the previous price fall. This, most people will recall, though evidently it has somehow passed you by, in whatever hippie commune you live in, was triggered by Saudi Arabia increasing their supply\u2026\u2026.. in order to scare off the shale producers. So their plan is working. Of course it has taken time for shale oil producers to decide where and by how much to cut back, so there is a \"lag\" in response to the market price movement. This is one reason why market prices tend to oscillate around a bit. But the market is finding its balance point. If you are looking for a villain to accuse of manipulating the markets, it is Saudi Arabia you have to blame. But you'd be a fool to do that, since their intervention is what has led to the huge fall we have seen, only a small part of which has now been counteracted by the recent rise. So the Saudis are doing you a favour.\nLook at democratic Russia, it only is charging 1.75 per gallon, and it is making profits from that amount. Seems they try not to screw their own people as the American oil companies do and Wall Street.\nWell, no. If people had stopped buying oil it would have gone down. But with the economy recovering people were driving more, shipping more etc. So demand went up. When demand goes up and supply does not follow right away, what happens?\nNo one stopped buying oil, they are still buying it today as they were when prices were lower. There's been no change in the amount bought and the amount available in the past 7 months and there's been no other company that has increased their prices over 30%. So why the boost of oil prices? The public is screwed is what is happening.\nRussia only charges 1.75 for a gallon so why the boost to 2.60 in America.\nThat's not an explanation: why is that a screw? In other words, what is your definition of \"screw\", why, and how does this match it?\nPrices go up, prices go down. Someone or a group of someones always causes it. Are you saying that when a price rises, that's always a screw? Because why? It really makes no sense.\nWhen the price drops by half in a few months, are the oil companies getting screwed? Why or why not?\nAs I explained that 7 months ago the prices were at 1.80 per gal. and everyone in the oil business was happy...\nI hope this allows you to understand better as to how the public is being screwed because if you look at other democratic nations like Russia it...\n\"Other democratic nations like Russia\"? Are you joking?\nonly charges about 1.75 at this time...\nAccording to this, the current gas price in Russia is about $2.66/gal. Where did you get your information?\nhttp://www.numbeo.com/gas-prices/country_result.jsp?country=Russia\nThat isn't true. [/QUOT]\nOooops liters not gallons, my bad.\nNo one stopped buying oil\nYes, they did. Oil consumption declined from 2007-2011.\nthey are still buying it today as they were when prices were lower.\nYep. In fact they are buying even more of it (summer driving season, economic recovery.) Supply and demand.\nThere's been no change in the amount bought and the amount available in the past 7 months and there's been no other company that has increased their prices over 30%. So why the boost of oil prices?\nReduced supply, increased demand. Classic economics.\nThe public is screwed is what is happening.\nOK here's a question for you.\nYou buy a house for $250,000. You live in it for several years, and then you have to sell (say your job moves.) You get an appraisal and they say your home is worth $400,000. What price do you set for the sale?\nAnd 7.20 in the UK! Why is the UK screwing over everyone while the US oil companies are selling dirt-cheap gas?\nIf what you say is true, (which Russ's post calls into question), it will be by government-mandated subsidy of the retail business by the exploration business. Perfectly possible when you have a single monolithic state enterprise responsible for both. But in the rest of the world (not just the US), there are many companies and state organisations that only supply crude and do not make gasoline. They will - quite reasonably - sell at the highest price they can get. Similarly, there are many refiners who do not produce crude. So they will buy at the lowest price they can get. Which leads to a market in crude.\nIn the free world, there is no mechanism to force a crude producer to subsidise a refiner, or to force a refiner to subsidise a retailer. If there was, these businesses would go bust in a matter of weeks. But in former communist Russia - and inVenezuela - with a monolithic, integrated, state organisation doing both - this can be done, by government diktat. They are using the left trouser pocket to subsidise the right trouser pocket. But for all the suppliers in the world with only one trouser pocket, this is not an option, of course. Hence the market in crude.\n(These two economies are of course lauded as a huge success for their respective peoples\nIf the gas companies are screwing/f*cking/raping consumers by increasing prices, surely they are humble heroes by pricing gas this summer at the lowest price in a decade:\nhttp://powersource.post-gazette.com...d-price-energy-customers/stories/201505190005\nLowest gas prices in a decade projected for this summer\nMotorists filling up their tanks in the Pittsburgh area are paying on average 95 cents a gallon less than what they did one year ago.\nIn fact, gas prices around Memorial Day have been much higher than Tuesday\u2019s average of $2.90 a gallon for several years: $3.66 in 2013, $3.69 in 2012, $3.84 in 2011. That\u2019s according to a price-tracking website that surveys 731 gas stations in Allegheny and six surrounding counties.\nYet consumers nationwide are wary heading into the summer months this year because of a near-record percentage increase in prices this spring, according to a survey by the National Association of Convenience Stores, an Alexandria, Va.-based trade association representing retailers that sell 80 percent of the gasoline in the United States.\nThe group\u2019s most recent monthly survey found consumer optimism dropped to 48 percent, down from 57 percent in January. That is despite analysts projecting U.S. pump prices between Memorial Day and Labor Day could be the lowest since the summer of 2005.\nGas prices closely follow the notoriously unpredictable market for crude oil. The National Association of Convenience Stores estimates that prices move roughly 2.4 cents per gallon for every $1 change in the price of a barrel of crude oil.\nIn recent months \u2014 despite the usual volatility caused by plant malfunctions, political unrest and production swings \u2014 global oil prices have plummeted as shale producers in the U.S. have tapped into a wealth of previously untouched supply and have grabbed authority from the traditional price setters in the Middle East.\nMeanwhile, dominated by Saudi Arabia, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, has refused to cut production to stabilize global prices, preferring to weather the downturn and let American producers decide how to respond to the low prices. Crude oil lost about half its value from July to January.\nThe supply glut dramatically pushed down Pennsylvania average gasoline prices from $3.65 per gallon in July 2014 to a low of $2.27 per gallon in February. The convenience store group found consumer optimism peaked during that time.\nMore recently, crude oil prices have bounced back. U.S. stockpiles, which had skyrocketed since December, fell this month by about 6 million barrels, or roughly 1 percent of the nation\u2019s total storage inventories, according to government data.\nStill, crude oil only accounts for about two-thirds of the price of gasoline. Operations at refineries, which produce gas from oil, make up about 23 percent of pump prices.\nRoutine seasonal maintenance \u2014 which preps the plants to refine a different quality of gasoline to be burned during the summer and winter months \u2014 contributes to a regular rise in retail prices during the spring and fall because the plants temporarily shut down.\nTaxes play another significant role. As of April 1, federal and state taxes on wholesale gasoline in Pennsylvania totaled 70 cents per gallon, which is the highest in the country and more than double those in neighboring New Jersey, according to the American Petroleum Institute.\nHow low will crude oil price go down?\nThe short answer is no one knows. But, I wouldn't be surprised to see oil at 30 dollars a barrel. It depends on US oil production and how much and how fast Iran can ramp up production and the global economy.\njoepistole, Aug 27, 2015\nWhy Venezuela's petrol price can be 1 cent per liter?\nSaint, Mar 8, 2017\nIt's not. It's about 38 cents a gallon (around 10 cents a liter.) It can be that cheap because the government subsidizes (pays for) it.\nOur gas is also cheap, relative to most the rest of the world, for the same reason: gov't subsidies.\nAnd lower taxes.\nIn the UK, about 80% of the petrol (gasoline) pump price is made up of taxes and duties of various kinds. And quite right, too, as this incentivises people to drive less and manufacturers to make more efficient vehicles.\nBut Venezuela has deep recession and very high unemployment rate,\nhow could it subsidize petrol?\nThat's one reason it has these problems. It's a way of buying loyalty from the people - motivated by political short-term thinking. They continue to do a large number of things they cannot afford and this is one.\nThat is why they are heading for social meltdown and civil war. Endemic political incompetence.\n\"Deep recession\" and \"high unemployment rate\" are the reasons they are ending the subsidies. They just don't want to do it all at once, because that would make both recession and unemployment worse.\nYes it is. It can sell its oil to foreign buyers for the foreign currency it desperately needs or it could provide it to its citizens at or below production cost. It cannot have both.\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/world/americas/venezuela-oil-economy.html?_r=0\nOh I agree %100. Our gas is way too cheap which means there are no incentives for electric cars, smaller and more fuel efficient cars, and mass transportation. The big oil companies have a strangle hold on our politicians.\nI suspect it is more the voters that have the stranglehold: remember the howls of anguish you get in the US, any time the pump price breaches the $3 mark? There is this myth of the freedom of the motor car and the open road in the USA, which has no parallel anywhere else. It's part of the American psyche. Taxing motor fuel would be hugely unpopular.\nIn Europe the oil companies are pretty neutral about fuel taxes - after all the playing field is level, so it does not disadvantage anyone relative to competition.\nIn any case the big bucks are made upstream nowadays, and most oil multinationals are reducing their exposure to fuel retailing. A lot of it is sold at a slight loss, by supermarkets trying to draw people into the store.\nTaxing motor fuel would be hugely unpopular.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 302, "original_length": 21017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scottoverton.ca/blog/2016/8/9/are-aliens-building-megastructures", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:48Z", "digest": "sha1:5WIEYLJJJNO2DASR6ELMMZXAANLAR3I5", "length": 4214, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.scottoverton.ca", "title": "ARE ALIENS BUILDING MEGASTRUCTURES? \u2014 SCOTT OVERTON", "raw_content": "ARE ALIENS BUILDING MEGASTRUCTURES?\nAre there alien races so advanced that they can turn their whole solar system into a construction project?\nIf you follow astronomy news, you\u2019ll know that there\u2019s been a lot of interest since last year in a star designated KIC 8462852, also informally called Tabby\u2019s Star after astronomer Tabetha Boyajian at Yale, who\u2019s devoted a huge amount of her time to studying the star after it was first flagged by some amateur stargazers. According to data from the Kepler Space telescope, Tabby\u2019s Star has been getting dimmer over recent decades, but not consistently, and not because of any known kind of star behaviour. It undergoes strange \u201cdimming events\u201d that might see it lose 2% - 3% of its brightness over a period of time. New research shows that it\u2019s not just occasional flickering, but an overall steady decline in the star\u2019s output as well. Scientists have no solid explanation\u2014some have suggested a cloud of dust or other material getting in the way, or possible a swarm of comets, but none of these ideas explains every aspect of the data.\nSo could it be that Tabby\u2019s Star is home to an alien race so powerful it has built mammoth structures in space that are blocking or even capturing their star\u2019s light?\nNo one will commit to that scenario, but Boyajian herself plans to study the star for a full year, and others will explore a wide range of evidence to learn whether the star\u2019s fluctuation is natural or\u2026alien-made.\nMega-sized artificial space structures aren\u2019t a new idea to scientists, and especially not to science fiction writers. Writer Olaf Stapledon mentioned the possibility of a race harnessing the entire energy of its home star back in 1937 but it got widespread attention when physicist Freeman Dyson published a paper about the concept in 1960. It came to be known as a Dyson sphere or Dyson shell\u2014although Dyson himself proposed a large number of vast power stations orbiting a star, the popularized form of the concept became a shell of material, drawn from asteroids and moons, that would totally enclose a sun, capturing every bit of its output, and consequently making it disappear from view to any other solar system (except for heat and other energy radiating from the back of the shell, presumably). Writer Larry Niven invented the Ringworld, a wide band of solid stuff kept in orbit around its star, its inner surface providing a huge amount of living space and lots of energy for the race that engineered it. Dan Alderson came up with the idea for the Alderson disk, like a giant vinyl LP record perhaps extending to the orbit of Mars or even Jupiter with the sun as the spindle in the center. The disk could also be given an up-and-down motion that would make the sun \u2018bob\u2019 above and below it, making both surfaces habitable. Later, Larry Niven and fellow writer Gregory Benford invented the Bowl of Heaven\u2014basically half of a Dyson sphere for living space and energy capture, but with a hole in it through which to blast a stream of highly-energized particles forced out of the sun, like a rocket engine, making the whole star system into one stellar-scale movable spaceship. Now that\u2019s what I call big concept.\nCould Tabby\u2019s Star be dimming because beings there are constructing a ringworld, or a Dyson sphere, or some other mammoth object we can\u2019t even imagine?\nMaybe, but there have been lots of other times when hopeful scientists have suggested alien intervention as the explanation for phenomena that turned out to be natural, from the too-regular-to-be-natural radio emissions of pulsars, all the way back to the canals on Mars, \u2018discovered\u2019 by Percival Lowell (not to mention an embarrassing finding by a radio observatory in Australia that turned out to be caused by the scientists\u2019 microwave oven as they reheated their coffee!)\nStill, if we ever do discover other intelligent life \u201cout there\u201d, this is probably how it will be done. So I shouldn\u2019t discourage the wishful thinkers too much. And what effect will it have on us, if such a thing is ever proven? Will it send us into a panic, or inspire us to perform unimaginable feats ourselves?\nYou know which one I\u2019m hoping for.\nBIG NEWS IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD\nOUR FUTURE IN THE OCEANS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scowstats.com/2015/06/22/how-effective-are-fourth-amendment-arguments-in-the-wisconsin-supreme-court/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KUAFAYMWXPRHB7HM3ONZK47J7VQS7KNA", "length": 7916, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.scowstats.com", "title": "How Effective are Fourth-Amendment Arguments in the Wisconsin Supreme Court?", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Uncategorized / How Effective are Fourth-Amendment Arguments in the Wisconsin Supreme Court?\nHow Effective are Fourth-Amendment Arguments in the Wisconsin Supreme Court?\nIn Custodian of Records v. State (2004), the Wisconsin Supreme Court cautioned that the \u201cpower wielded by the government is considerable,\u201d creating \u201ca potential for infringing on Fourth Amendment and other constitutional rights.\u201d This was not a perfunctory observation buried in an analysis of other issues. It followed a six-page discussion under the heading \u201cFourth Amendment principles,\u201d crafted to support the decision\u2019s conclusion that the State\u2019s quest for evidence of criminal activity was \u201cunreasonable\u201d in the case at bar. Not only that, the majority opinion saw fit to marshal its Fourth-Amendment arguments despite the fact that neither of the contending parties even mentioned the amendment in their briefs.\nWere this not enough to encourage nascent criminal-defense lawyers to feature Fourth-Amendment arguments wherever possible, any remaining doubt might have crumbled upon learning the identity of the decision\u2019s author\u2014Justice Roggensack, one of the court\u2019s most conservative members. If even she saw fit to rely so heavily on the Fourth Amendment to shield citizens from an aggressive search by the state, surely the court would approve Fourth Amendment protections in other cases as well. And yet, a perusal of the court\u2019s decisions over the past nineteen terms (1995-96 through 2013-14)[1] suggests that few arguments have less chance of success than appeals invoking the Fourth Amendment.\nDuring this 19-term period, the court heard 81 cases in which the Fourth Amendment generated at least one of the issues presented, and in only 10% of these cases did the court rule favorably on the defendants\u2019 Fourth-Amendment arguments. In the most recent six terms (2008-9 through 2013-14), during which the court\u2019s current members have all served together, this figure dropped to 7% (2 \u201cfavorable\u201d rulings out of a total of 30 Fourth-Amendment cases). As one might expect, Fourth-Amendment appeals fared better during the four terms in which Justice Butler joined the court (2004-5 through 2007-8), but even here the \u201csuccess\u201d rate was only 17% (2 out of 12 cases)\u2014and over the preceding 9 terms (1995-96 through 2003-4) it was only 10% (4 out of 39 cases).\nTo appreciate how low these percentages are, consider the \u201csuccess\u201d rates in criminal cases of all types (Fourth-Amendment and all other criminal cases taken together). Over our 19-term period, the court heard 449 criminal cases, of which 25% (114 cases) resulted in decisions favorable to the defendants\u2014fully two and a half times the 10% \u201cfavorable\u201d rate for Fourth Amendment arguments alone. Of the 120 criminal cases heard during the six most recent terms, 13% (16 cases) yielded decisions that favored defendants\u2014nearly twice the 7% rate of \u201cfavorable\u201d outcomes for Fourth-Amendment appeals over the same period. This information appears in Table 1, along with comparable figures for the \u201cButler years\u201d and the preceding 9 terms, all of which suggest that cases relying on Fourth-Amendment arguments faced a considerably stiffer challenge than criminal cases generally.[2]\nTerms % of all criminal cases resulting in favorable rulings for defendants % of Fourth-Amendment cases resulting in favorable rulings\n2008-9 through 2013-14 13% (16/120) 7% (2/30)\n2004-5 through 2007-8 26% (20/77) 17% (2/12)\n1995-96 through 2003-4 30% (77/254) 10% (4/39)\nTotal for all 19 terms 25% (114/449) 10% (8/81)\nJust as dramatic is the difference in voting tendencies among individual justices. For instance, Table 2 indicates that Justices Abrahamson, Butler, and Bradley accepted Fourth-Amendment arguments in over 60% of their votes. The fact that only 17% of Fourth-Amendment decisions favored defendants during Justice Butler\u2019s tenure demonstrates how wide the gulf was between these three justices and the other members of the court on this issue.\nRegarding the current justices, it is interesting to note that Justice Prosser, often labeled a conservative, voted in favor of Fourth-Amendment arguments at two and a half times the rate of Justice Crooks, more commonly characterized as a \u201cswing vote\u201d than a conservative in the press. Finally, the gap between Justices Abrahamson and Bradley on the one hand (accepting 72% and 63% of Fourth-Amendment arguments, respectively) and Justices Ziegler (6%), Gableman (3%), and Roggensack (2%) is enormous. I do not recall any other issue in previous SCOWstats posts where the difference in voting rates between current \u201cliberal\u201d and \u201cconservative\u201d justices has been so stark.\nTable 2[3]\nJustices % of cases in which individual justices favored the Fourth Amendment arguments presented by defendants (1995-96 through 2013-14)\nBradley 63% (50/80)\nGiven a judicial climate so inhospitable to Fourth-Amendment arguments,[4] how should one explain the court\u2019s hearty endorsement of Fourth-Amendment protection in Custodian of Records v. State, where neither party addressed the amendment at all? This seems to have puzzled Justice Abrahamson, who wondered if \u201c[m]aybe something was in the air, or water \u2026\u201d[5]\nIn this instance, perhaps one could seek an answer in the nature of the people threatened by the State\u2019s demands. They were not accused of possessing heroin or child pornography. Instead they were unnamed Wisconsin State legislators, suspected by the Dane County District Attorney of illegal activity in connection with the political caucuses of that period. Hence the John Doe subpoena for a sweeping array of legislative communications, which the court found overly broad and thus an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment. (Justice Abrahamson, by the way, agreed that the subpoena was too broad but maintained that this conclusion could, and should, have been reached from the arguments briefed by the parties.)\nThere may well be additional explanations for such an ardent embrace of the Fourth Amendment by a majority of justices normally disinclined to apply it, and I would be grateful for any conjectures that readers can offer.\n[1] The decisions may be found on the Wisconsin Court System website.\n[2] The category \u201call criminal cases\u201d encompasses all cases whose numbers end with the CR suffix, except for those resulting in per curiam decisions or (in five instances) decisions that were difficult to regard as either favorable or unfavorable for the defendants. Also, it should be noted that four of the Fourth-Amendment cases do not have CR suffixes and thus would not be included in the \u201call criminal cases\u201d calculations. However, their number is so small that their absence from the \u201call criminal cases\u201d category has virtually no effect on the percentages in Table 1.\n[3] On rare occasions, a justice would accept a Fourth-Amendment argument but affirm a defendant\u2019s conviction for other reasons. In State v. Subdiaz-Osorio, for instance, Justice Bradley concluded that, in the context of the Fourth Amendment, the warrantless search conducted in the case should not have been regarded by the circuit court as justified. Thus I categorized her opinion as favoring a Fourth Amendment argument\u2014even though she concluded that the circuit court\u2019s error did not contribute to the defendant\u2019s conviction.\nCustodian of Records v. State is not included in these calculations, because neither of the parties argued or briefed the Fourth Amendment.\nJustice Day is not included in the table because the data cover only his last term (1995-96) on the bench.\n[4] It would be interesting to know if Fourth-Amendment arguments have fared differently in Wisconsin\u2019s lower courts, despite their chilly reception in the Supreme Court.\n[5] Custodian of Records for the Legislative Technology Services Bureau v. State (In re Doe), 2004 WI 149, \u00b65 (order denying reconsideration) (Abrahamson, C.J., dissenting).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 10121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sebraprints.com.au/bossiaea-linophylla-botanical-print-antique-engraving-maund-botanist-yellow.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MSF6EIVENMPKBFMTSACEZKIWLS3WWQYB", "length": 639, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sebraprints.com.au", "title": "Maund - Bossiaea linophylla (Flax-leaved Bossiaea)", "raw_content": "Maund - Bossiaea linophylla (Flax-leaved Bossiaea)\nNative of South West Coast of New Holland. From Benjamin Maund's 'The Botanist'. 1836-1842. Benjamin Maund (1790-1863) was a British pharmacist, botanist, printer, bookseller, fellow of the Linnean Society (1827) and publisher of the Botanic Garden and The Botanist. Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow collaborated in 1837 to produce The Botanist, a botanical journal the goal of which was to educate gardeners. Augusta Innes Withers was the most important botanical artist to contribute. The plates were engraved by S Watts, Nevitt & Smith. With original description.\nMills (artist)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 3631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 217.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.seekcams.com/webcam-sex-reviews/this-site-has-everything-i-need/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:04Z", "digest": "sha1:42NNZYVMKPHZV57G2NHKK6DOIZHBG3QX", "length": 4320, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.seekcams.com", "title": "LiveSex Awards - This site has everything I need", "raw_content": "Home Reviews This site has everything I need\nLiveSex Awards - This site has everything I need\nWritten by: Deran (Male, 22)\nI wasn\u2019t expecting much of this site when I opened it, but I ended up with much better site than I expected. Everything looked so well organized and it seemed like that there were all things that you can think off. The best thing at the beginning was the black background. I don\u2019t like white background and this site had the perfect one.\nYou know that there are lots of models on most sites, but there are sites with not so many models. This site luckily had around 400 models online and that is quite enough. I wouldn\u2019t want to see more of them because I couldn\u2019t choose which one to look at. You ever got in a situation when you saw two almost the same models and you couldn\u2019t decide which one to watch? That is what I hate about any site and I don\u2019t want to get in that situation ever.\nWhile I was holding my cursor on a show, a live preview started. I could see into a show even if I didn\u2019t open it. That really helped me out because I saw if there is some interesting thing in a show or not. Good things were that all models had free shows. You could try out anything you want and still not pay for it. If you find a model that you like, you can easily go to a private show.\nFinding a show that is good for you is the first important thing here. There were quite enough features here, but I only used one. I knew about the filter here so I didn\u2019t look at anything else. I could select around 10 tags at once and that narrowed the search down to fewer models.\nIf you ever got in a show, then you probably noticed guests in the chat room. Those people are ignored and you shouldn\u2019t be one of them. This site has free accounts and it takes like 1 minute to crate it. When you have an account, you have different name other than guest12354. You won\u2019t be ignored and you will get answers to your questions.\nAs you probably know, not all shows are the same and they have different prices. Some models will do more than others and that is the case on all sites. You just can\u2019t avoid that. If you have some spare time, you can see probably anything in some shows, but it will cost you. Not because shows are expensive, but because it takes to see all those things you want to see. There are different prices, but the average shows cost around per minute. You can find shows for even per minute, which is amazing, but some of those shows suck. They are not worth watching. I guess that that is a reason why the price is so low.\nThere were shows in which I got to see more than just a naked model. I don\u2019t know if you are aware, but some of them will include sex toys in their shows. That is certainly not what I expected to see. That is a pleasant surprise and every model and show should be like that. Is there something better than seeing a model how she rams a big dildo in her shaved pussy? I don\u2019t think that there is.\nYou are probably used to private shows, but there is more here. I saw some VibraToy shows. In those shows, a model has a vibrator in her pants and when you give her money, that vibrator starts to work. That is also pretty nice to look at. You maybe don\u2019t have to spend much money if there are more people in the show.\nThere are also VIP shows. Those are the last types of shows here. They can cost a bit more, but they can also bit worth it. A model asks for some money and everyone who contributes gets to watch her show. That is it.\nAll shows I looked at were in HD. there wasn\u2019t one single show that had bad quality or even medium quality. On top of that, they were all in fluid motion. I don\u2019t know what else I can ask from a show here.\nCredits are used as a payment method on this site. The store has 5 packages and you can find pretty good deals. The price of 1 credit is little over 1 EUR and that is a pretty good thing. You can calculate the price of shows much easier than on other sites. If you buy any package but the cheapest one, you will also get bonus credits.\nWell, there were lots of models online. I didn\u2019t have problem with finding a model that had good show. All shows I watched were in High Resolution. There were no lags in shows and they were fluid during the whole stay.\nGeez, I don\u2019t know. Maybe because the site looks like some other sites I visited.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 6877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/football/ci_32305613/patriots-look-stay-hot-when-vikings-come-town", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:05Z", "digest": "sha1:L6KSVOP5SN7645WCM6QZIRRKNVJG5N5R", "length": 963, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sentinelandenterprise.com", "title": "Patriots look to stay hot when Vikings come to town - Sentinel & Enterprise", "raw_content": "Patriots look to stay hot when Vikings come to town\nNew England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady in action against the New York Jets during a Nov. 25 game in East Rutherford, N.J. AP PHOTO\nFOXBORO -- The month of December has been a special time for the New England Patriots during the Bill Belichick and Tom Brady era.\nSince the pair arrived in 2000, the Patriots are 64-13 during the final month of the regular season. Brady has been the starter for all but six of those victories -- four during his rookie season in 2000 and two in 2008 when he suffered a season-ending knee injury in the opener.\n\"As coach says, 'Football season starts after Thanksgiving,\"' Slater said.\n\"We're going to get caught up in us playing good football, and that's what we've got to focus on,\" he said. \"Everybody can go into the whole thing of 'New England this.' We respect Tom, we respect the Patriots, we respect everything they've got going. But it's more about us at this point.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 6361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 152.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sguardian.com/2019/01/improving-maritime-security-in-the-asia-pacific/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:21Z", "digest": "sha1:AQOMGIHMAXE7OYMUF6XB53NCZ2UO2S2I", "length": 5451, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.sguardian.com", "title": "Improving maritime security in the Asia\u2013Pacific - Sea Guardian Ltd", "raw_content": "Maritime Security Articles Improving maritime security in the Asia\u2013Pacific\nThe evolving strategic challenge hasn\u2019t gone unnoticed in Australia, or in its Asia\u2013Pacific neighbours. While countries with the means have invested heavily in their navies, others have focused more on developing their coastguards. More recently, the dynamic operating context has been the catalyst for enhanced bi- and multilateral maritime cooperation.\nUnsurprisingly, the region\u2019s focus on civil\u2013military maritime security is increasing the demand for more comprehensive and coordinated maritime domain awareness (MDA)across the Asia\u2013Pacific.\nHowever, while many commentators have highlighted the need for greater regional cooperation on MDA, it has proved difficult to reach agreement on how to turn that idea into a fully-fledged multilateral arrangement.\nSome of our policy contacts around Canberra have suggested to us that the European Union\u2019s Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre \u2013 Narcotics (MAOC\u2013N) in Lisbon offers a viable model for improving regional cooperation.\nThe MAOC\u2013N was established in 2006 under the auspices of the EU by seven countries (Portugal, Spain, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, the Netherlands and Italy) as a multilateral forum for combating and countering drug trafficking from the Cape of Good Hope to the Norwegian Sea.\nThe centre is an important part of EU law enforcement efforts in coordinating maritime and aviation intelligence. The investment has paid dividends in disrupting piracy and illicit drug flows.\nThe MAOC\u2013N\u2019s success has been underpinned by the depth and breadth of European cooperation and the EU\u2019s well-developed organisational structure. Unfortunately, neither of those conditions exists in the Asia\u2013Pacific in general or in ASEAN more specifically.\nBecause of its complex geopolitical context, ASEAN\u2019s framework for inter- and intraregional and global sharing of law enforcement information and intelligence is convoluted and often difficult to navigate.\nASEAN operates a range of formal and informal networks that exchange tactical, operational and strategic information. In most cases, the frameworks that promote this work are supported by long-term interpersonal and interagency relationships of trust.\nThese frameworks collectively form a complex web of arrangements. The characteristics that make relationships of trust and sharing possible in ASEAN have also encouraged the development of multiple channels of communication. Although they don\u2019t necessarily generate results efficiently, these multiple channels are effective at providing operational agencies with opportunities to exchange information.\nThe diverse and often compartmentalised system that is law enforcement intelligence-sharing in ASEAN brings with it more than a few risks and challenges. The lack of a central repository imperils distributed access to knowledge, and the lack of a clear information architecture increases the risk of duplicative reporting and feedback loops.\nAt the 2010 ASEAN Regional Forum Inter-Sessional Meeting on Maritime Security, the US government sought to address these challenges by proposing the establishment of the ASEAN Regional Forum Transnational Threat Information-sharing Centre (ATTIC). Despite the potential benefits presented by ATTIC, a lack of ownership among ASEAN member states has seen the idea languish in a policy limbo.\nTwo existing mechanisms, the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia (ReCAAP) and the Information Fusion Centre to the ASEAN regional forum, offer opportunities for increased MDA cooperation.\nReCAAP is a regional government-to-government agreement to promote cooperation against piracy and armed robbery. It has 20 members, including North, South and Southeast Asian countries; Australia; the UK; and the United States.\nReCAAP\u2019s Information Sharing Centre in Singapore facilitates communication between regional authorities and the maritime community and enables timely and accurate classification and analysis of incidents. The centre\u2019s reporting and analysis assist coastal states to take law enforcement actions, and shipowners as well as ship masters to adopt risk-mitigation measures.\nThe Information Fusion Centre is a regional maritime security centre hosted by the Singaporean navy. The centre facilitates information sharing and collaboration between its partners and provides actionable information to regional and international navies, coastguards and other maritime agencies. It covers the full range of maritime security threats and incidents, including piracy, armed robbery at sea, weapons proliferation, maritime terrorism, and contraband and drug smuggling. It also hosts various multilateral information-sharing portals and platforms in support of regional and international frameworks.\nMany an Australian official might be tempted to promote the development of a new regional MDA mechanism or support ATTIC. However, the creation of an Asia\u2013Pacific MAOC-type arrangement is a risky proposition. Putting aside the language, technical, trust and geopolitical hurdles, an Asia\u2013Pacific MAOC may simply add further bureaucracy to the region\u2019s already complicated information-sharing arrangements. Australia and its partners may find more utility in making further investments in ReCAAP\u2019s Information Sharing Centre and the Information Fusion Centre given their successes to date.\nSource: aspistrategist", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 209.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sharratts-london.co.uk/news/10-community-infrastructure-levy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AHXAAOGGHU3SZXYP3UTJDQYLALTRXYSB", "length": 509, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sharratts-london.co.uk", "title": "Community Infrastructure Levy | Sharratts", "raw_content": "Although the Community Infrastructure Levy, a new planning charge, came into force on 6 April 2010, many local authorities have yet to adopt it. Local authorities may do so shortly and as such purchasers should be aware of this possibility. Consideration should be given to ensuring that any requirement to pay CIL is passed on to the Contractor (or an indemnity is given, as appropriate) and that, in contracts conditional upon planning, an obligation to pay CIL entitles a purchaser to rescind the contract.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 197.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.silkroadrealtyinc.com/p_19060-tax-information-for-buyers.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:20Z", "digest": "sha1:TSRDMVOPO3GJALSHMGFOT76OIED7QMCV", "length": 7779, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.silkroadrealtyinc.com", "title": "CONTACT US", "raw_content": "Below are the some of the tax advantages of purchasing either a principal residence or an investment property.\nWhat is Deductible?\nThe most common questions asked are: \"How much will I save on my personal taxes if I purchase a home?\" and \"What items are deductible?\".\nThe answer is that when you purchase a personal residence, whether a house, condo, townhouse, mobile home or a houseboat, the following items are tax deductible:\nMortgage Interest - The mortgage interest is tax deductible on the first $1,100,000 of mortgage debt.\nProperty Taxes - The property taxes are deductible. There is no limit on the amount or the number of properties. However, if you fall into what is called the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), then your property taxes may not be deductible at all.\nPurchase Mortgage Interest (PMI) - For a limited time the amount of PMI you pay for is also tax deductible.\nNow let\u2019s look at an example. Assume your monthly mortgage interest payment, property taxes and PMI are $4,000 per month. Assuming you are in a 35% federal and state personal marginal tax brackets, your combined monthly federal and state tax savings is $1,400 ($4000 x 35%). Another way to look at it is that your monthly housing expense is only $2,600 ($4,000 - $1,400).\nTherefore, you should always compare your monthly rent expense to your net monthly home expense (after tax savings) to determine how much more it will cost you owning a home. To use our calculator to compare renting versus owning, please click here.\nIf you are interested in purchasing a rental property and would like to calculate your rate of return and other investment ratios, please click here.\nTo download a brochure on this topic, please click here.\nYou can exclude the first $250,000, or $500,000 if you are married, of your gain from the sale of your principle residence if you have owned and used the property as your principal residence 2 out of the preceding 5 years that ends on the date of the sale or exchange.\nTherefore, you can purchase a new property every 2 years and qualify for the gain exclusion. Other items to note:\nMarried Individuals - If you are married, you qualify for the gain exclusion if either spouse meets the ownership test, both spouses meet the use test and neither spouse had sale that the gain was excluded in the past 2 years.\nUnforeseen Circumstances - Under certain unforeseen circumstances, you can still qualify a reduced exclusion. The following are examples of some situations that qualify: Involuntary conversion of the home, damage to the home by natural or man-made disasters, death, loss of employment, divorce, multiple births and others.\nExample - Assume you and your spouse purchase your principal residence nine years ago for $500,000. You have always lived in it. If you sell it this year for $900,000, the $400,000 gain is federal and state tax free. You will not pay a penny of tax on the $400,000 gain.\nFor a brochure on the different taxes and tax brackets, please click here.\nRenting Your Home for Less Than 14 Days a Year is Tax Free!\nIf you rent your personal residence for less than 14 days per year, the total amount of rent you receive is tax free! This is a great tax loop hole, especially in Los Angeles where all the studios are. You may be able to rent your place to them for less than 14 days per year and not have to pay taxes on the income.\nTwo expanded home energy credits are available to help homeowners lower both their winter heating bills as well as their tax bill, the IRS is reminding taxpayers. The nonbusiness energy property credit and the resident energy efficiency property credit can both be claimed by eligible homeowners when filing their federal income tax return. The credits are available when you itemize your deductions or take the standard deduction.\nThis credit equals 30% of what a homeowner spends on eligible energy-saving improvements, up to a maximum tax credit of $1,500 for two combined tax years. The cost of certain high-efficiency heating and air conditioning systems, water heaters and stoves that burn biomass all qualify, along with labor costs for installing these items. In addition, the cost of energy-efficient windows and skylights, energy-efficient doors, qualifying insulation and certain roofs also qualify for the credit, though the cost of installing these items does not count.\nBy spending as little as $5,000 before the end of the year on eligible energy-saving improvements, a homeowner can save as much as $1,500 on his or her 2009 federal income tax return. Due to limits based on tax liability, other credits claimed by a particular taxpayer and other factors, actual tax savings will vary.\nHomeowners going green should also check out a second tax credit designed to spur investment in alternative energy equipment. The residential energy-efficient property credit equals 30% of what a homeowner spends on qualifying property, such as solar electric systems, solar hot water heaters, geothermal heat pumps, wind turbines and fuel cell property. Generally, labor costs are included when calculating this credit. Also, no cap exists on the amount of credit available except in the case of fuel cell property.\nNot all energy-efficient improvements qualify for these tax credits. For that reason, homeowners should check the manufacturer\u2019s tax credit certification statement before purchasing or installing any of these improvements. The certification statement can usually be found on the manufacturer\u2019s website or with the product packaging. Normally, a homeowner can rely on this certification. The IRS cautions that the manufacturer\u2019s certification is different from the Department of Energy\u2019s Energy Star label, and not all Energy Star labeled products qualify for the tax credits.\nEligible homeowners can claim both of these credits when they file their 2010 federal income tax return. Because these are credits, not deductions, they increase a taxpayer\u2019s refund or reduce the tax he or she owes. An eligible taxpayer can claim these credits, regardless of whether he or she itemizes deductions.\nHome Modifications for Disabilities\nGenerally, home improvements are not deductible except to offset home gain when the home is sold. But a medical expense deduction may be claimed when it is a medically-necessary home modification. The modification expense is deductible as a medical expense to the extent it exceeds any resulting increase in the value of the property.\nThe full cost of certain improvements can be included as medical expenses, because they are considered not to increase the home's value. Examples of these types of modifications include constructing entrance or exit ramps for the home; widening entrance/exit doorways, hallways and interior doorways; installing railings and support bars; and lowering or modifying kitchen cabinets. Note, however, that medical expenses can be claimed only to the extent that they exceed 7.5% of the taxpayer's adjusted gross income (AGI) (10% if taxed by the AMT).\nNow lets look at an example. Assume you are an investor in rental partnership that reports a tax loss and you are an investor in an internet company that reports income and in both investments are passive activities to you. You would be able to offset the loss from the rental activity against the income from the internet activity. You would pay taxes on the net amount if positive. If the net amount was negative, the loss was more than the income, then the excess loss would be carried over to the following year and would be used to offset future incomes from the passive activities. Basically, you do not lose the loss. It gets carried over to future years until it is all used up or when the asset is sold.\nFor a brochure on estate taxes and tax brackets, please click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 22204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.simonadepascalis.com/webdesign/project/performare-un-viaggio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:16Z", "digest": "sha1:NONIWVNQU5GEHJ7VYM5NASL67YRMH6DB", "length": 232, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.simonadepascalis.com", "title": "perFORMARE un viaggio \u2013 Simona De Pascalis | web design", "raw_content": "A living project exploring modern creativity. Over 10 days, perFORMARE un viaggio will travel 168 km by train from Torino to Genova. An evolving group of artists, musicians, and performers took part in a series of unique happenings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sinisterblog.com/2008/09/andrew-rice-comes-out-against-bailout.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:24Z", "digest": "sha1:RY2AKRXEIEQDRHZQOU2ZYSSP7TJNOI4T", "length": 801, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sinisterblog.com", "title": "Andrew Rice comes out against bailout bill", "raw_content": "Andrew Rice comes out against bailout bill\nThis is what Rice had to say:\nRice said that, as U.S. Senator, he would only support a plan that includes: Meaningful oversight; a Stake for Taxpayers; and Hard Limits on Executive Compensation. Unfortunately, the final version of the bill that was released to the public Sunday does little to limit executive compensation for firms accepting a taxpayer bailout. In fact, the primary effect may be merely to decrease the amount such companies can deduct from their taxes for executive pay from $1 million to $500,000. Furthermore, the bill does nothing to fix the broken system that allowed abusive and reckless loans, an explosion of risky investments and poorly understood financial instruments, and other excesses.\n2008 Economy Election OK Senate Oklahoma", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 2911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sirjamesgoldsmith.com/environmentalist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3OXB6HRE6OJNFHPXU25LRRI6HJMZM4XE", "length": 6061, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.sirjamesgoldsmith.com", "title": "Environmentalist \u2013 Sir James Goldsmith", "raw_content": "\u201cWhy would it be less economically viable to invest in improving the environment rather than injuring it?\u201d\n\u2013 Statement on Business and Environmentalism to the World Economic Forum, 1991\nHome > Environmentalist\nIn 1990, Sir James announced the \u2018active business chapter\u2019 of his career was closed. He took on a new role as the chief executive of The Goldsmith Foundation in 1991, and directed his considerable energy towards furthering a debate on environmental and humanitarian issues.\nSir James\u2019s elder brother, Edward \u2018Teddy\u2019 Goldsmith, was undoubtedly a huge influence. As the founding editor of The Ecologist magazine, Teddy was a pioneer in the field and drew attention to climate change, damage to the rainforests, and the use of chemical pesticides long before many scientists took these issues seriously. Sir James also started early \u2013 quietly supporting a number of ecological causes in the early 1970s, and creating in 1971, at Teddy\u2019s request, the left-leaning Ecology Foundation.\n\u201cEverything is unimportant compared to the protection of our planet. We have destroyed our seas, our air, our forests \u2013 and we will ultimately destroy ourselves \u2026 I feel like someone who had been dealt a winning hand at poker when sailing on the Titanic.\u201d\n\u201cThe right should not abandon the overwhelming issues facing the world to the left\u201d\nDuring the last seven years of his life Sir James became increasingly involved in philanthropic work, and began to actively support more environmental causes with the encouragement of his brother Teddy. The Goldsmith Foundation, created for this purpose, had virtually no public profile, as Sir James was not motivated by outside acclaim. The Foundation mainly made grants to organisations in France and the United Kingdom (reflecting Sir James\u2019 dual nationality), with those campaigning against industrial agriculture, the nuclear industry, \u2018free\u2019 trade agreements, and deforestation amongst the main beneficiaries. Sir James\u2019 views on these issues are set out in The Trap and The Response, and the Foundation\u2019s grant-making policy reflected his concerns.\nThe impact of industrial agriculture: Sir James believed these included \u201crural depopulation, urban bloating, destruction of diversity in food production, unnatural farming practices with consequent contaminated foods, degradation of the soil and pollution of ground water.\u201d For more on his views, read here.\nClimate change, energy and energy policy: Sir James supported groups lobbying manufacturers of CFC gases to address damage to the ozone hole, and funded Friends of the Earth to highlight the dangers of nuclear power. He wrote extensively on the safety and economic dangers of nuclear energy, and on more suitable alternatives such as geothermal, wind, and solar here. Like many of his political and business beliefs, Sir James\u2019s warnings about nuclear energy were prescient, coming well before the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the Fukushima nuclear power plant meltdown in 2011.\nDeforestation and endangered fauna and flora: Sir James was able to put many of his theories into practice at Cuixmala, his 32,000-acre estate in Mexico where he created a private reserve to protect what remained of Mexico\u2019s dry tropical forest and the endangered species that survived there. He also donated land for the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve, a foundation set up with the National University of Mexico. The protected area is home to 1200 species of plants and trees as well as zebras, elands, and endangered jaguars. The project has been carried on by his daughter Alix and her husband Goffredo Marcaccini.\nHis home in Montjeu, France was also a centre for ecological innovations, including organic farms, a centre for crafts and skilled workers, and native forests.\n\u201cAll human beings need spiritual commitment. Otherwise they become counting machines and believe that every aspect of nature is no more than an instrument that can be operated, mended or replaced. That is why the seminal requirement for progress is that religions understand the relationship of man to nature and teach, not so much humility towards other men, but humility towards other life, not least the life of the biosphere itself.\u201d \u2013 Schumacher Memorial Lecture, Bristol, October 1992.\nIn 1998, after Sir James\u2019s death, members of the Goldsmith family decided to convert the Goldsmith Foundation into the JMG Foundation, with the use of Sir James\u2019 initials reflecting the fact the JMG Foundation would allow his philanthropic work to live on. Until 2004 the blend of environmental issues supported by the Foundation remained very similar to those identified by Sir James. From 2004 to 2008 grant-making in relation to climate change mitigation became a stronger element of the work (with a focus on the car industry). From 2008 onwards, a programme of grants aimed at tackling tropical deforestation was developed, and this remains a priority for the Foundation today, alongside work on industrial agriculture and corporate-led globalization.\nIn 2003, members of the Goldsmith family set up additional structures through which to make environmental grants, including The Ecology Trust, and Ecology Grants Limited. These entities have enabled the family to raise money through dinners, auctions and the like, and to support a blend of grass-roots campaigns, environmental advocacy initiatives, and hands-on educational projects.\nThe family also helped to set up the Environmental Funders Network (EFN) which was formed at a lunch in mid-2003. EFN brings together more than 150 foundations and individuals, mostly based in the UK, who support environmental and conservation initiatives. The network provides a mechanism through which funders can collaborate, and reports by the network, such as Where the Green Grants Went and Passionate Collaboration?, provide overviews of both the \u2018supply\u2019 and \u2018demand\u2019 side of the environmental grants market in the UK. By aggregating together data from many foundations and NGOs, EFN helps funders to target their valuable philanthropic resources more effectively.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 7146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sitecast.ca/news/4/51/Shawn-Hickey-Appointed-President", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:6CJCP3HLFATY2C64A2ZXQMNNGDL7AXCF", "length": 1161, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sitecast.ca", "title": "SiteCast - News", "raw_content": "Mr. Hickey has more than 22 years of experience in construction management and project management. He previously held the position of Vice President for SiteCast Construction, where he was responsible for the daily operations and staffing for the company.\nIn his new role as President, Mr. Hickey will continue to grow the company\u2019s project management and construction management services. His knowledge of the construction industry and his expertise in Tilt-Up construction will be instrumental in expanding into new markets internationally.\nMr. Hickey, an Algonquin College Architecture graduate, began his career in the field as a CCA Gold Seal Superintendent and OCGA Certified Superintendent. He is a Past President of the Tilt-Up Concrete Association (TCA) and a current member of the Board of Directors for the TCA.\nIn addition, Mr. Hickey is a member of two American Concrete Institute (ACI) committees relating to tilt-up construction and is the current chairman of the ConSteel Alliance Technical Advisory Forum. He is sought after for his expertise in Tilt-Up construction and frequently lectures on the topic throughout the United States and Canada.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 101.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skiistowest.com/the-blog/montana", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GTEVHRGEGPNOX3UZ66REZ46SC7I3CVMX", "length": 109, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.skiistowest.com", "title": "Montana - Ski East To West", "raw_content": "Are you going to hook up with my cousin Andy at Snowbowl? Hope you do.\nWhat fun. Bring home a big horn sheep.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.slowlyboiledfrog.com/2018/10/no-mr-brown-there-is-nothing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:55Z", "digest": "sha1:USHS22QQYIGL23V3QGDOIO5R6WIPEULF", "length": 2686, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.slowlyboiledfrog.com", "title": "The Slowly Boiled Frog: No Mr. Brown - There is nothing hypocritical about ridiculing a closeted anti-gay GOPer", "raw_content": "No Mr. Brown - There is nothing hypocritical about ridiculing a closeted anti-gay GOPer\nWhile auditioning for Jeff Sessions' job, Lindsey Graham has several dramatic hissy fits in support of Brett Kavanaugh\nImage source: CNN video\nI cannot determine the pretext du jour for Brian S. Brown's latest money-beg on behalf of the anti-LGBT National Organization for Marriage. Brown usually, and shamelessly, comes up with some nonsensical reason for people to send him some money which isn't even tax deductible.\nThe title of Tuesday's plea is: being anti-gay is now\u2026 okay? No homophobia is unacceptable in polite society which is why Brown is not acceptable in polite society. Religion does not excuse bigotry,\nAccording to Brown's dialing for dollars diatribe (and I am skipping past all of the Kavanaugh victimization BS):\nTo get even with Graham for his principled defense of Kavanaugh, the leftist \"comedy\" program Saturday Night Live lampooned Graham, calling him a \"queen,\" implying that the South Carolina bachelor Senator is gay.\nThey meant this as an insult, something designed to damage him in the court of public opinion. Now get this:\nThe nation's leading pro-gay group, the grossly-misnamed Human Rights Campaign (HRC), said\u2026nothing.\nSo being anti-gay is now OK, provided the attack comes from the left. If it were to come from a group on the right, there would be calls for national boycotts, investigations, protests and legal repercussions.\nThe rumor over Lindsey Graham's sexuality has been around for many years. Brown doesn't get that Graham's sexual orientation is not being ridiculed. What is being subjected to satire is a gay man (if in fact he is gay) participating in the Republican Party's vast array of anti-LGBT activities. As HRC notes: \u201cLindsey Graham has been a consistent opponent of everything from marriage equality to protecting LGBT workers from employment discrimination.\u201d\nThe difference between the right and the left is not as Brown depicts. The right (including Brian S. Brown) are wed to the notion that sexual orientation is a choice; one that can be \u201ccured\u201d with therapy and prayer. If not Brown would contend that gay people have a duty to be celibate.\nThus, when invective comes from people who are profoundly ignorant it is received differently than similar comments made by people who accept medical science and who believe that gay people deserve the same opportunities in life and the workplace as anyone else.\nNow get this: HRC is not required to comment on satire. Brown is just jealous that the Human Rights Campaign is a far more effective advocacy organization.\nLabels: Brian S. 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Top Section 1: 10-Q (10-Q) Section 2: EX-12 (EXHIBIT 12) Section 3: EX-31.1 (EXHIBIT 31.1) Section 4: EX-31.2 (EXHIBIT 31.2) Section 5: EX-32.1 (EXHIBIT 32.1) Section 6: EX-32.2 (EXHIBIT 32.2) Section 7: EX-95 (EXHIBIT 95)\nThree and Six Months Ended June 30, 2018 and 2017\nJune 30, 2018, December 31, 2017 and June 30, 2017\nThe unbundling of the natural gas service from the distribution component, which opens\nup the gas supply for competition allowing customers to choose from different natural\ngas suppliers. Black Hills Gas Distribution distributes the gas and Black Hills Energy\nServices is one of the Choice Gas suppliers.\nBlack Hills Colorado Electric, Inc., an indirect, wholly-owned subsidiary of Black Hills Utility Holdings (doing business as Black Hills Energy)\nCorporate headquarters building in Rapid City, South Dakota, which was completed in 2017.\nOffice of Consumer Advocate\nOur $750 million credit facility used to fund working capital needs, letters of credit and other corporate purposes, which was amended and restated on July 30, 2018 and now terminates on July 30, 2023.\nReclassification adjustments of benefit plan liability - prior service cost (net of tax (expense) benefit of $9 and $18 for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 and $19 and $35 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively)\nReclassification adjustments of benefit plan liability - net gain (loss) (net of tax (expense) benefit of $(135) and $(146) for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 and $(271) and $(300) for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively)\nReclassification of net realized (gains) losses on settled/amortized interest rate swaps (net of tax (expense) benefit of $(152) and $(249) for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 and $(304) and $(530) for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively)\nNet unrealized gains (losses) on commodity derivatives (net of tax (expense) benefit of $(18) and $(194) for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 and $51 and $(536) for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively)\nReclassification of net realized (gains) losses on settled commodity derivatives (net of tax (expense) benefit of $(45) and $143 for the three months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 and $(190) and $249 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively)\nNet cash provided by operating activities of discontinued operations\nOn November 1, 2017, the BHC board of directors approved a complete divestiture of our Oil and Gas segment. The Oil and Gas segment assets and liabilities are classified as held for sale and the results of operations are shown in income (loss) from discontinued operations, excluding certain general and administrative costs and interest expense which do not meet the criteria for income (loss) from discontinued operations. As of June 30, 2018, we have sold nearly all oil and gas assets. Transaction closing for the last few assets and final accounting are expected within the third quarter. The closing of the oil and gas office will occur in August. See Note 18 for more information on discontinued operations.\nThe information furnished in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements reflects certain estimates required and all adjustments, including accruals, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of the June 30, 2018, December 31, 2017, and June 30, 2017 financial information and are of a normal recurring nature. Certain industries in which we operate are highly seasonal, and revenue from, and certain expenses for, such operations may fluctuate significantly among quarterly periods. Demand for electricity and natural gas is sensitive to seasonal cooling, heating and industrial load requirements, as well as changes in market prices. In particular, the normal peak usage season for electric utilities is June through August while the normal peak usage season for gas utilities is November through March. Significant earnings variances can be expected between the Gas Utilities segment\u2019s peak and off-peak seasons. Due to this seasonal nature, our results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 and June 30, 2017, and our financial condition as of June 30, 2018, December 31, 2017, and June 30, 2017, are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations and financial condition to be expected as of or for any other period. All earnings per share amounts discussed refer to diluted earnings per share unless otherwise noted.\nIn February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842), which supersedes ASC 840, Leases. This ASU requires lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset and lease liability on the balance sheet for most leases, whereas today only financing-type lease liabilities (capital leases) are recognized on the balance sheet. In addition, the definition of a lease has been revised in regards to when an arrangement conveys the right to control the use of the identified asset under the arrangement which may result in changes to the classification of an arrangement as a lease. The ASU does not significantly change the lessees\u2019 recognition, measurement and presentation of expenses and cash flows from the previous accounting standard. Lessors\u2019 accounting under the ASU is largely unchanged from the previous accounting standard. The ASU expands the disclosure requirements of lease arrangements. Under the current guidance, lessees and lessors will use a modified retrospective transition approach, which requires application of the new guidance at the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the year of adoption. The guidance is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted. In January 2018, the FASB issued amendments to the new lease standard, ASU No. 2018-01, allowing an entity to elect not to assess whether certain land easements are, or contain, leases when transitioning to the new lease standard. The FASB also issued additional amendments to the new lease standard in July 2018, ASU No. 2018-11, allowing companies to adopt the new standard with a cumulative effect adjustment as of the beginning of the year of adoption with prior year comparative financial information and disclosures remaining as previously reported.\nWe expect to adopt this standard on January 1, 2019. For existing or expired land easements that were not previously accounted for as a lease, we anticipate electing the practical expedient which provides for no assessment of these easements. Further, we anticipate adopting the new standard with a cumulative effect adjustment with prior year comparative financial information remaining as previously reported when transitioning to the new standard. The standard also provides a transition practical expedient, commonly referred to as the \u201cpackage of three\u201d, that must be taken together and allows entities to (1) not reassess whether existing contracts contain leases, (2) carryforward the existing lease classification, and (3) not reassess initial direct costs associated with existing leases. We expect to elect the \u201cpackage of three\u201d practical expedient. We continue to evaluate the additional transition practical expedients available under the guidance and the impact of this new standard on our financial position, results of operations and cash flows. We are finalizing the process of identifying and categorizing our lease contracts and evaluating our current business processes relating to leases. We have selected and configured a new lease software solution that we are currently testing. We also continue to monitor utility industry lease implementation guidance that may change existing and future lease classification.\nDerivatives and Hedging: Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities, ASU 2017-12\nSimplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment, ASU 2017-04\nIn January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment (Topic 350) by eliminating step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. Under the new guidance, if the carrying amount of a reporting unit exceeds its fair value, an impairment loss will be recognized in an amount equal to that excess, limited to the amount of goodwill allocated to that reporting unit. The new standard is effective for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2019, applied on a prospective basis with early adoption permitted. We do not anticipate the adoption of this standard to have any impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.\nEffective January 1, 2018, we adopted ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606), and its related amendments (collectively known as ASC 606). Under this standard, revenue is recognized when a customer obtains control of promised goods or services in an amount that reflects the consideration the entity expects to receive in exchange for those goods or services. In addition, the standard requires disclosure of the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from contracts with customers. We applied the five-step method outlined in the ASU to all in-scope revenue\nstreams and elected the modified retrospective implementation method. Implementation of the standard did not have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows. Implementation of the standard did not have a significant impact on the measurement or recognition of revenue; therefore, no cumulative adoption adjustment to the opening balance of Retained earnings at the date of initial application was necessary. The additional disclosures required by the ASU are included in Note 2.\nEffective January 1, 2018, we adopted ASU 2017-07, Compensation \u2013 Retirement Benefits (Topic 715): Improving the Presentation of Net Periodic Pension Cost and Net Periodic Post-Retirement Benefit Cost. The standard requires employers to report the service cost component in the same line item(s) as other compensation costs, and require the other components of net periodic pension and post-retirement benefit costs to be separately presented in the income statement outside of income from operations. Additionally, only the service cost component may be eligible for capitalization, when applicable. However, all cost components remain eligible for capitalization under FERC regulations. The capitalization of only the service cost component of net periodic pension and post-retirement benefit costs in assets was applied on a prospective basis for the six months ended June 30, 2018. Retrospective impact was not material and therefore prior year presentation was not changed. For our rate-regulated entities, we capitalize the other components of net periodic benefit costs into regulatory assets or regulatory liabilities and maintain a FERC-to-GAAP reporting difference for these capitalized costs. The presentation changes required for net periodic pension and post-retirement costs resulted in offsetting changes to Operating income and Other income. Implementation of the standard did not have a material impact on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows.\nThe following tables depict the disaggregation of revenue, including intercompany revenue, from contracts with customers by customer type and timing of revenue recognition for each of the reporting segments, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018. Sales tax and other similar taxes are excluded from revenues.\nOther revenues included in the tables above include our revenue accounted for under separate accounting guidance, including lease revenue under ASC 840 and alternative revenue programs revenue under ASC 980. The majority of our lease revenue is related to a 20-year power sale agreement between Colorado IPP and affiliate Colorado Electric. This agreement is accounted for as a direct financing lease whereby Colorado IPP receives revenue for energy delivered and related capacity payments. This lease revenue is eliminated in our consolidated revenues.\nThe TCJA or \u201ctax reform\u201d signed into law on December 22, 2017, reduced the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. Black Hills has been collaborating with utility commissions in the states in which it provides utility service to deliver to customers the benefits of a lower corporate federal income tax rate beginning in 2018 with the passage of the TCJA. We estimated and recorded a reserve to revenue of approximately $8.0 million and $23 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2018, respectively. As of June 30, 2018, $3.3 million has been returned to customers and approximately $19 million remains in reserve.\nUnder our modified retrospective adoption of ASU 2014-09, revenues for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017 are not presented by contract type.\nExternal Operating\nNet income from continuing operations available for common stock for the six months ended June 30, 2018 included a $49 million tax benefit resulting from legal entity restructuring. See Note 19 Income Taxes of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for more information.\nNet income from continuing operations available for common stock for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 and June 30, 2017 reflects net income attributable to noncontrolling interests of $2.8 million and $6.5 million, and $3.1 million and $6.6 million, respectively.\nNet income (loss) from continuing operations available for common stock for the six months ended June 30, 2017 included a $1.4 million tax benefit recognized from carryback claims for specified liability losses involving prior tax years.\nDeferred energy and fuel cost adjustments (a)\nThe increase in the regulatory tax liability is primarily related to the revaluation of deferred income tax balances at the lower income tax rate. As of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, all of the liability was classified as non-current due to uncertainties around the timing and other regulatory decisions that will affect the amount of regulatory tax liability amortized and returned to customers through rate reductions of other revenue offsets in 2018.\nAs of June 30, 2018, the amortization periods are yet to be determined and subject to approval by our regulators.\nTCJA revenue reserve - The TCJA signed into law on December 22, 2017, reduced the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21%. Effective January 1, 2018, the key impact of tax reform on existing utility revenues/tariffs established prior to tax reform results primarily from the change in the federal tax rate from 35% to 21% (including the effects of tax gross-ups not yet approved) affecting current income tax expense embedded in those tariffs. Black Hills has been collaborating with utility commissions in the states in which it provides utility service to deliver to customers the benefits of a lower corporate federal income tax rate beginning in 2018 with the passage of the TCJA. We have now received state utility commission approvals to provide the benefits of federal tax reform to utility customers in four states. Discussions are underway with utility commissions in the remaining states and final approval is expected prior to year-end. We estimated and recorded a reserve to revenue of approximately $8.0 million and $23 million during the three and six months ended June 30, 2018, respectively. As of June 30, 2018, $3.3 million has been returned to customers.\nA list of states where benefits to customers of federal tax reform have been approved is summarized below.\nApproximate Annual Benefit for Customers\nStart Date for Customer Benefits\nIn support of returning benefits to customers, the three rate review requests filed in late 2017 for Arkansas Gas, Wyoming Gas (Northwest Wyoming) and Rocky Mountain Natural Gas (a pipeline system in Colorado) were adjusted to include the benefits to customers of federal tax reform as discussed below.\nRate Reviews - In Colorado, new rates for RMNG went into effect June 1, 2018 after an administrative law judge recommended approval of a settlement agreement and the CPUC took no further action. The settlement included $1.1 million in annual revenue increases and an extension of SSIR to recover costs from 2018 through December 31, 2021. The annual increase is based on a return on equity of 9.9% and a capital structure of 46.63% equity and 53.37% debt.\nOn July 16, 2018, the WPSC reached a bench decision approving our Wyoming Gas (Northwest Wyoming) settlement and stipulation with the OCA. We expect the final order in the third quarter of 2018. The settlement provides for $1.0 million of new revenue, a return on equity of 9.6%, and a capital structure of 54.0% equity and 46.0% debt. New rates, inclusive of customer benefits related to the TCJA, will be effective September 1, 2018.\nAn Arkansas rate review was filed in December 2017 with the APSC requesting $30 million of annual revenue to recover more than $160 million of new infrastructure investment. The revenue request was subsequently adjusted to $19 million primarily related to a lower corporate income tax rate of 21%. The APSC previously issued a procedural schedule for the rate review. To date, testimony has been filed by the intervenors and Arkansas Gas filed rebuttal testimony on June 26, 2018. The APSC issued an order on July 26 requiring investor owned utilities to provide within 30 days their plans to return tax reform benefits to customers. Arkansas Gas is reviewing the order and its impacts to customers and may amend its current rate review if necessary. A final order and new rates are expected to be effective in the fourth quarter of 2018.\nIn February 2018, we contributed $28 million of assets in exchange for equity securities in a privately held company. The carrying value of our investment in the equity securities was determined using the cost method. We review this investment on a periodic basis to determine whether a significant event or change in circumstances has occurred that may have an adverse effect on the value of the investment. We estimate that the fair value of this cost method investment approximated or exceeded its carrying value as of June 30, 2018.\nCash surrender value of life insurance contracts\n(9) NOTES PAYABLE, CURRENT MATURITIES AND DEBT\nOn July 30, 2018, we amended and restated our corporate Revolving Credit Facility, maintaining total commitments of $750 million and extending the term through July 30, 2023 with two one-year extension options (subject to consent from lenders). This facility is similar to the former revolving credit facility, which includes an accordion feature that allows us, with the consent of the administrative agent, the issuing agents and each bank increasing or providing a new commitment, to increase total commitments up to $1.0 billion. Borrowings continue to be available under a base rate or various Eurodollar rate options. The interest costs associated with the letters of credit or borrowings and the commitment fee under the Revolving Credit Facility are determined based upon our Corporate credit rating from S&P, Fitch, and Moody's for our senior unsecured long-term debt. Based on our credit ratings, the margins for base rate borrowings, Eurodollar borrowings, and letters of credit were 0.250%, 1.250%, and 1.250%, respectively, at June 30, 2018 and are unchanged under our amended and restated Revolving Credit Facility. Based on our credit ratings, a 0.200% commitment fee was charged on the unused amount at June 30, 2018. This commitment fee requirement is unchanged under our amended and restated Revolving Credit Facility.\nWe have a $750 million, unsecured CP Program that is backstopped by the Revolving Credit Facility. Amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility and the CP Program, either individually or in the aggregate, cannot exceed $750 million. The notes issued under the CP Program may have maturities not to exceed 397 days from the date of issuance and bear interest (or are sold at par less a discount representing an interest factor) based on, among other things, the size and maturity date of the note, the frequency of the issuance and our credit ratings. Under the CP Program, any borrowings rank equally with our unsecured debt. Notes under the CP Program are not registered and are offered and issued pursuant to a registration exemption. Our net payments under the CP Program during the six months ended June 30, 2018 were $90 million and our notes outstanding as of June 30, 2018 were $122 million. As of June 30, 2018, the weighted average interest rate on CP Program borrowings was 2.29%.\nUnder our Revolving Credit Facility and term loan agreement (before each was amended and restated), we were required to maintain a Consolidated Indebtedness to Capitalization Ratio not to exceed 0.65 to 1.00. At June 30, 2018, our Consolidated Indebtedness to Capitalization Ratio was calculated by dividing (i) Consolidated Indebtedness (which included letters of credit and certain guarantees issued but excluded the RSNs), by (ii) Capital, which is Consolidated Indebtedness plus Consolidated Net Worth (which excluded noncontrolling interests in subsidiaries and included the aggregate outstanding amount of the RSNs). Under our amended and restated revolving Credit Facility and amended and restated term loan agreement, we are also required to maintain a Consolidated Indebtedness to Capitalization Ratio not to exceed 0.65 to 1.00, but as of September 30, 2018 only, Consolidated Net Worth will include the amount receivable by the Company in connection with the common stock settlement under the purchase contracts which are part of the Equity Units, rather than the outstanding amount of the RSNs.\nAs of June 30, 2018, we were in compliance with this covenant.\nAs of June 30, 2018, our $250 million Senior unsecured notes due January 11, 2019 and $5.7 million of principal due in the next twelve months on our Corporate term loan due June 7, 2021 are classified as Current maturities of long-term debt on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.\nOn July 30, 2018, we amended and restated our unsecured term loan due August 2019. This amended and restated term loan, with $300 million outstanding at June 30, 2018, will now mature on July 30, 2020 and has substantially similar terms and covenants as the amended and restated Revolving Credit Facility. The interest cost associated with this term loan is determined based upon our corporate credit rating from S&P, Fitch, and Moody\u2019s for our Senior unsecured long-term debt. Based on our credit ratings, the margins for base rate borrowings and Eurodollar borrowings were 0.050% and 1.050%, respectively, at June 30, 2018, and are 0.000% and 0.750%, respectively, under our amended and restated Revolving Credit Facility.\nOn August 4, 2017, we renewed our ATM equity offering program which reset the size of the program to an aggregate value of up to $300 million. The renewed program, which allows us to sell shares of our common stock, is the same as the prior program other than the aggregate value increased from $200 million to $300 million. The shares may be offered from time to time pursuant to a sales agreement dated August 4, 2017. Shares of common stock are offered pursuant to our shelf registration statement filed with the SEC. We did not issue any common shares during the six months ended June 30, 2018 and June 30, 2017 under the ATM equity offering program.\nWe buy, sell and deliver natural gas at competitive prices by managing commodity price risk. As a result of these activities, this area of our business is exposed to risks associated with changes in the market price of natural gas. We manage our exposure to such risks using over-the-counter and exchange traded options and swaps with counterparties in anticipation of forecasted purchases and/or sales during time frames ranging from July 2018 through May 2020. A portion of our over-the-counter swaps have been designated as cash flow hedges to mitigate the commodity price risk associated with forward contracts to deliver gas to our Choice Gas Program customers. The effective portion of the gain or loss on these designated derivatives is reported in AOCI in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets and the ineffective portion, if any, is reported in Fuel, purchased power and cost of natural gas sold in the accompanying Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income. Effectiveness of our hedging position is evaluated at inception of the hedge, upon occurrence of a triggering event and as of the end of each quarter.\nAs of June 30, 2018, 2,452,000 MMBtus were designated as cash flow hedges for the natural gas over-the-counter swaps purchased.\nBased on June 30, 2018 prices, a $0.1 million loss would be realized, reported in pre-tax earnings and reclassified from AOCI\nduring the next 12 months. As market prices fluctuate, estimated and actual realized gains or losses will change during future periods.\nWe have certain derivative contracts which contain credit provisions. These credit provisions may require the Company to post collateral when credit exposure to the Company is in excess of a negotiated line of unsecured credit. At June 30, 2018, the Company posted $0.7 million related to such provisions, which is included in Other current assets on the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.\nAt June 30, 2018, we had no outstanding interest rate swap agreements. Our last interest rate swap agreement with a $50 million notional value, which was designated to borrowings on our Revolving Credit Facility, expired in January 2017.\nOur Oil and Gas segment was exposed to risks associated with changes in the market prices of oil and gas. Through December 2017, we used exchange traded futures, swaps and options to hedge portions of our crude oil and natural gas production to mitigate commodity price risk and preserve cash flows. Hedge accounting was elected on the swaps and futures contracts. These transactions were designated upon inception as cash flow hedges, documented under accounting standards for derivatives and hedging and initially met prospective effectiveness testing. As a result of divesting our Oil and Gas assets, these activities were discontinued and there were no outstanding derivative agreements as of June 30, 2018 or December 31, 2017. At June 30, 2017, we had outstanding crude oil futures and swap contracts with notional volumes of 72,000 Bbls, crude oil option contracts with notional volumes of 18,000 Bbls and natural gas futures and swap contracts with notional volumes of 1,080,000 MMBtus.\nThe impacts of cash flow hedges on our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income is presented below for the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 (in thousands). 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There are a couple reasons why folks purport to put these on their car. First, it can be a warning to other police officers that this vehicle belongs to a law enforcement professional or a family member of such a professional and that there may be firearms on board. Fair enough. Second, it can be a sign of comradery or honor for police officers. I can respect that. I suspect, however, that there is a third, nefarious reason that these stickers have become more prevalent. Based on the folks here in my condominium complex with these stickers on their cars, most of whom are students, I would guess that they put it on their cars in the hopes of avoiding tickets. Much in the way that Fraternal Order of Police stickers used to be commonplace, a thin blue line on one's car becomes a symbol of \"I gave at the office (so give me a pass).\" Instead of honoring those who place their lives in danger to protect and serve the rest of us, this kind of practice belittles those very folks.\nLabels: controversy, pet peeve, police", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.song-list.net/pinkfloyd/vera2011remaster133/tracks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:09Z", "digest": "sha1:RMUVZHUMN4HCRCFTVS3CNR2OB7WVEXN2", "length": 57, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.song-list.net", "title": "Vera (2011 - Remaster) 1:33 by Pink Floyd", "raw_content": "\"Vera (2011 - Remaster) 1:33\" is on the following albums:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 155.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.southasiaarchive.com/Content/sarf.100007/203210/034", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:21Z", "digest": "sha1:WHYMQSMCRBQSELSMGLSMSL2KVTLWFDSP", "length": 1016, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.southasiaarchive.com", "title": "Minutes of the Faculty of Law, for the Year 1862-63. 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It is also the 15th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake, which brought about devastating damages to Hyogo on 17 January 1995.\nThe Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction 2010 (ACDR 2010) to be held in January 2010 will provide a good opportunity to review the progress made and achievement of the implementation of the priority actions of HFA and clarify specific issues and challenges in achieving its goals in the remaining 5 years in Asia. 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The design came from something I haven\u2019t tried since my NSCAD (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design) days. The design came from something I saw one night as I switched off the TV\u2026 just that split second before the screen goes black, there was a shape that caught my eye (the shape that is now the negative space between the handle and the spout). As soon as I was back in the shop, I began to sketch that shape\u2014and lo and behold this is what came from it.\nOriginally I thought the design was going to be a bird\u2014but soon a wing became a flipper and I knew it was going to be a seal or walrus\u2014then the tusks came and I knew it had to be a walrus. I really wanted the teapot to have the feel of the walrus hide, so I had to think about the etch a lot. From the first drawings, the hind flipper had flipper nails, so the bone of the tusks was also used for these to balance the design. From the idea stage to now, the piece was to have all the qualities it has now when finished, so I am quite pleased.\nAs the teapot came together, after all the soldering was complete, I suddenly thought of my brother, Russell (Russ for short). Don\u2019t get me wrong\u2014my brother\u2019s teeth aren\u2019t that long\u2014but something in the position of the head and the curve of the tusks made me think of him. When we were kids, my brother always hated anyone calling him \u201cRusty\u201d. Being a younger brother, this was too tempting\u2014and it became \u201cRusty bolts and nails\u201d. This would always get a rise out of him\u2014and the lifted hind flipper and raised head in \u201cwalrusty\u201d are a reminder of this emotion. 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This initiation process also involves a parish community experiencing a renewal in faith as it prepares and welcomes new members into the Church.\nThe Rite speaks of conversion as a \u201cspiritual journey.\u201d Centered on fostering a deep relationship with Jesus and the Church, this journey takes place through distinct stages over a period of time suitable to bring about a thorough catechesis, signi\ufb01cant experience of the parish community, and commitment to the liturgical and moral life of the Catholic faithful.\nHow do I know if the RCIA is right for me?\nThe RCIA process is designed for adults who are unbaptized or those who were baptized as infants but had little experience with regular church attendance. Individuals baptized in another Christian tradition often find this process to be helpful in their discernment of becoming Roman Catholic.\nAdults (age 18 and older)\nAdults who are seeking initiation into the Catholic Church are prepared through a process called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA). The following adults are invited to be a part of the RCIA process:\nAny adult not yet baptized and who wishes to become Catholic\nAny adult baptized in another Christian Church who wishes to become Catholic\nAny adult baptized in the Catholic Church, but not raised in the faith and who seeks full initiation into the Church\nAdults are prepared for the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and First Eucharist.\nAnyone interested in exploring the possibility of joining the Roman Catholic community here at St. Anthony on the Lake is invited to contact Ben Brzeski, at 262-691-1173 x106 or brzeskib@stanthony.cc.\nChildren and Youth (ages 7-18)\nChildren are prepared for initiation through our regular Christian Formation process with additional formation with a catechist and sponsor family. Children are prepared for First Eucharist and Confirmation, where appropriate. Contact our Christian Formation Department at (262) 691-9170 or michaelsm@stanthony.cc for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 403, "original_length": 9174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.starstuddedproductions.com/our-services/photography/headshot-photographer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:42Z", "digest": "sha1:6M7EYAJKFXDELYQL64ICWEYE2XJTVDXC", "length": 1519, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.starstuddedproductions.com", "title": "Headshot Photographer - Orlando, FL / Detroit, MI / New York NYC", "raw_content": "Our main headshot photographer Tyler Mark has had a career lead from his interests in the arts, and his time spent as a performer, teacher, and choreographer. He has photographed people, events, and shows all over the country. His career as a performer, choreographer, and teacher has lead him to have an excellent eye and style for movement, ballroom, and dance photography. It has also given him great insight to capturing lines, emotion, and natural expression in his clients. When it comes to his dance photography his background gives him a great advantage to shooting dancers and shows, and allows him to capture the shots quickly as to not wear out the dancer. Allowing them to great a broad range of images. Tyler focuses on using techniques and direction to bring out natural expression in person to bring life to his images. As a performer he has performed in live shows, corporate events, commercials, television, and film. He was worked as a casting consultant, and has been an assistant choreographer or choreographer on many performances around the world for cruise ships, theme parks, corporate events, pageants, and live television. He also travels the country teaching master classes, choreographing, and judging at dance studios, as well as dance competitions and conventions. Tyler is also the owner of StarStudded Productions & Tyler Mark Photography.\nWe are also available to send out additional photographers if needed to handle larger group setups for companies and groups.\nTyler Mark Photography", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 3956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 209.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.startribune.com/john-lennon-s-killer-denied-parole-for-10th-time/491584471/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:51Z", "digest": "sha1:XYDAGN6S757PFUYY3BGVBOVCVCFVT7DZ", "length": 1998, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.startribune.com", "title": "John Lennon's killer denied parole for 10th time - StarTribune.com", "raw_content": "John Lennon's killer denied parole for 10th time\nALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 John Lennon's killer has been denied parole for a 10th time and will remain behind bars for at least two more years.\nMark David Chapman appeared before New York's parole board on Wednesday. In a denial decision obtained by The Associated Press Thursday, the board said it had determined Chapman's release \"would be incompatible with the welfare and safety of society and would so deprecate the serious nature of the crime as to undermine respect for the law.\"\nChapman, 63, shot and killed the former Beatle outside Lennon's Manhattan apartment on Dec. 8, 1980. He is serving 20-years-to-life in the Wende Correctional Facility in western New York.\n\"You admittedly carefully planned and executed the murder of a world-famous person for no reason other than to gain notoriety,\" the parole panel wrote in its denial decision. \"While no one person's life is any more valuable than another's life, the fact that you chose someone who was not only a world renown person and beloved by millions, regardless of the pain and suffering you would cause to his family, friends and so many others, you demonstrated a callous disregard for the sanctity of human life and the pain and suffering of others.\"\nIt said releasing Chapman would not only \"tend to mitigate the seriousness of your crime,\" but also would endanger public safety because someone might try to harm him out of anger or revenge or to gain similar notoriety.\nAs Chapman faced the parole panel Wednesday, politicians and fans called for his release to be denied during a rally at Strawberry Fields, Lennon's memorial in Central Park across from his former home.\nJonas Herbsman, the attorney for Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, declined to comment when contacted by The Associated Press.\nA transcript of the parole hearing wasn't immediately released. At previous hearings, Chapman has said he still gets letters about the pain he caused and was sorry for choosing the wrong path to fame.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 333, "original_length": 9482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sthenryschool.net/page/planned-giving", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:50Z", "digest": "sha1:O24RPSYSTXWHYVKM5KQ3GBFGOCQ3RBE7", "length": 1664, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sthenryschool.net", "title": "Planned Giving | St. Henry's Catholic School", "raw_content": "Planned Giving is a way of supporting St. Henry Catholic Church or School by arranging a gift in the present to be distributed at a future date. Although Planned Giving commonly involves financial or estate planning, it is not a practice reserved only for the wealthy. It is a means by which almost anyone can make considered choices about the ultimate disposition of their life\u2019s accumulated personal resources.\nPlanned Gifts can be designated for the Church and School\u2019s general fund or may be restricted for a specific use such as a particular ministry or for tuition assistance for school families with financial needs. Although not in existence presently, Endowment Funds could be established in the future and the annual returns from the invested funds would be used by the Church or School for the advancement of a specific purpose or to help meet annual operating needs.\nPlanned Gifts to St. Henry Church or School are usually made through a bequest in a will. Bequests can be a set dollar amount, a percentage of the value of the donor\u2019s estate, or specific assets such as real estate, publicly traded or closely held stock, retirement accounts, or even naming St. Henry Church or School as the beneficiary of a life insurance policy.\nEligible Individual Retirement Account owners who have reached age 70 \u00bd may be able to make an annual qualified charitable distribution to St. Henry Catholic Church or School without having to pay federal income taxes on the amount withdrawn and distributed.\nBefore undertaking any Planned Giving initiatives, please be sure to consult with an Attorney, Certified Public Accountant and /or a Certified Financial Planner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stitchedtogether.co.uk/2013/01/winter-pics.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:38Z", "digest": "sha1:LFBON2PIXQAVSKQIYYO4QB4B4EZ3QMY4", "length": 2100, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.stitchedtogether.co.uk", "title": "Stitched Together: Winter Pics", "raw_content": "I went outside and braved the cold yesterday. I took a few snaps but these are my favourites. I just thought I'd share them, as I haven't talked about, or done, much photography recently. I need to get back into the habit of it, because I really enjoy it.\nI tweaked this one on Photoshop and I can't remember what I did. I know I applied a couple of different effects, but that's it. I really must make a note of these things so I can recreate them!\nAs we are all set for a big fall of snow over the weekend, I hope to get more Winter Wonderland type photos. Hope I can improve on Winter 2010-11's winner.\nI used the above photo in my photo calendar last year. It was December's page. I got my calendar from Photobox and was really impressed with the quality. A couple of weeks ago, when I took down last year's calendar and put my new one up, I decided I would keep the beautifully printed photos and put them in a scrapbook someone gave me a while ago. It is perfect for these images.\nGetting the calendar is a reasonable way of getting good quality images of some of my favourite photos to enjoy during the year, and then to cut out and put into an album when it's no longer in use. The picture, above, of my cat is too big to go into the album, as it was on the calendar cover. It is one of my favourite photos and I think I will get it framed. I used a great framing place online for my Dad's Christmas present, and I think I might use it again.\nThis was my Dad's present, it was a print from a great artist, I found on Folksy called Eastwitching. She paints beautiful images of animals that really capture their spirit and individuality. I got this budgie because my Dad and his wife own a budgie that looks like this one! The frame is oak but there were loads of different styles and materials to choose from at Picture Frame Express, so I should get one that will match the style of the photo of my cat.\nI think that choosing this year's calendar photos and chopping up last year's has reminded me how much I love photography, and that I need to get snapping again.\nLabels: Photography, Shops", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 6990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sullivan-times.com/news/article/id/30731", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:PTBZ7IMANRIJDMW6OZ2UK2RG2FLS5T22", "length": 3438, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.sullivan-times.com", "title": "Sullivan courts dealing with shortage of public defenders | Sullivan Daily Times Online", "raw_content": "home \u00bb news \u00bb sullivan courts dealing with shortage of public defenders\nSullivan courts dealing with shortage of public defenders\nSuperior Court Judge H.R. Hunt informed the Sullivan County Council about his court dealing with a shortage of public defenders during their monthly meeting last week.\nBefore getting to that subject, Hunt told the council the public defender reimbursement from the state of Indiana was in a separate account, totaling $199,863.18.\n\u201cI think it should go back in the general fund,\u201d Hunt said. \u201cYou\u2019re sitting on $200,000 that goes back to 2010.\u201d\nCouncil member Tim Abrams suggested those funds could \u201chelp kickstart\u201d the county\u2019s efforts to start a public employee retirement fund.\nHunt explained those accumulated funds were derived due to the county courts being a part of the Indiana Public Defender Council.\n\u201cWe have to do certain things, follow certain rules, and in exchange for that, 60 percent of all felony public defender expenses are reimbursed to the county,\u201d he said. \u201cSo even though we pay on the front end, we\u2019re paid back 60 percent of that.\u201d\nThe judge said as long as attorneys are kept within certain limits, they\u2019re not given too many cases.\n\u201cAttorneys have to be approved to handle certain cases,\u201d Hunt said. \u201cIn exchange for that, we get reimbursed. That\u2019s a great thing for the county.\u201d\nBut, he stated the county is \u201crunning into a bit of an issue.\n\u201cThe stable of attorneys is starting to get a little bit thin as time goes on here,\u201d he said. \u201cDeb Shepler is now working in the prosecutor\u2019s office. She took a lot of public defender\u2019s cases.\u201d\nHunt said the court has been utilizing attorneys from other counties \u2014 Vigo, Greene and Knox \u2014 to handle some of the high-level felons.\n\u201cThere\u2019s some stuff going on within the (Indiana) Public Defender Council such that some of these folks are reluctant to accept cases outside of their home counties where they have a contract to be a public defender.\n\u201cRecently, I\u2019ve gotten word from public defenders out of Terre Haute that \u2018Hey, don\u2019t give me any more cases,\u2019\u201d he continued. \u201cWell, that puts me in a bind because I\u2019m wholly dependent upon them anyway. So I\u2019ve been scrambling, picking up the phone trying to find new attorneys to fill their places.\u201d\nHunt said local attorneys Josh Reshey and Doug Followell are currently \u201ca little out of compliance\u201d in a recent four-quarter period ending Dec. 31, due to the high number of cases they had been appointed.\n\u201cI\u2019ve kept in communication with the (Indiana) Public Defender Council and I\u2019ve told them: \u2018Here\u2019s what\u2019s going on. Here\u2019s the reason we\u2019re not in compliance.\u2019 We\u2019re addressing it, we know we have an issue and trying to find attorneys to take some of these cases. But it\u2019s a process.\u201d\nHunt said the compliance measurement is updated each quarter, so the earliest they would return to compliance is April.\n\u201cIf there\u2019s a drug bust and 10 or 15 people are charged with a Level 1 or 2 felony, good luck finding 10 or 15 attorneys to do that,\u201d Hunt stated. \u201cYou have to be certified as an attorney to handle a felony that high and a lot of attorneys are not. They\u2019re only able to qualify to handle misdemeanors or low-level felonies.\n\u201cIt gets to be a little hairy sometimes.\u201d\nSoon after, the council voted 6-1 to place the funds back into the general fund. Duane Wampler, Curt Bedwell, Larry Kinnett, Jerry Payne, Logan Pearison and Nick Cullison voting in favor, with Abrams voting against.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2017/07/23/news/management-displeased-compensation-offered", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:40:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HBO5SJUX4Z4NLIF5BBOSTOSPCLNDFKVH", "length": 871, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sundayobserver.lk", "title": "Management displeased with compensation offered | Sunday Observer", "raw_content": "Management displeased with compensation offered\nPart demolition of Colombo Swimming Club:\nThe management of the Colombo Swimming Club (CSC) expressed concern over the events that took place at its premises in Kolllupitiya on Friday afternoon when the Road Development Authority (RDA) demolished part of the property to acquire land for the next phase of the Colombo Plan Road (Marine Drive).\nThe President of the Colombo Swimming Club, Tony de Livera told the Sunday Observer that they were appalled by the manner in which the RDA officials acted on that particular day.\n\u201cWe were aware of this project and has been in the pipeline since the time of President J.R. Jayawardene. Never at any point did we say we are not willing to give out our land. However, we had asked for some time in order to iron out some issues that we had and come to an agreement,\u201d de Livera said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2018/06/24/news-features/walkers-return-determined-journey-must-go", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:40:10Z", "digest": "sha1:REEGDGPEWEGQJTH7WDQIEITHAPYAUXM4", "length": 7455, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.sundayobserver.lk", "title": "Walkers return determined that the journey must go on | Sunday Observer", "raw_content": "Walkers return determined that the journey must go on\n\u2018Footsteps to Freedom\u2019 mental health awareness walk\nThe \u2018Footsteps to Freedom II\u2019 trio of walkers led by counselling psychologist, Nivendra Uduman, returned to Colombo after a 73-day walk around the country raising awareness on suicide prevention and mental health and, jubilant that they may have helped to save lives along the way\nAfter completing a gruelling 73- day walk around Sri Lanka to create awareness on mental health and suicide prevention, Nivendra Uduman, Ranil Prasad Thilakaratne and Sara Inshira Nazoor are back in Colombo. Counselling psychologist, Nivendra Uduman spoke to the Sunday Observer about his journey and shared his experiences with us. He said that it is difficult to find words to describe such a surreal experience. \u201cI am still processing the journey that Ranil, Sara and I completed. There is so much that took place in those 73 days, so many lives that we touched and possibly changed and our own personal growth and development that happened. The journey was tough, with numerous challenges and struggles, and every day was a mixture of intense heat, miles of walking, aches and pains, laughter, supporting each other and of course talking to people about mental health and suicide prevention,\u201d he said.\nAccording to Nivendra, he feels that this journey was a start to something much larger and the journey must go on. \u201cThis work is not easy to do alone, therefore, community involvement is so very important,\u201d he says.\nWhen asked as to how far he thinks that the journey was a success, Nivendra said that he is confident that \u2018Footsteps to Freedom-II\u2019 was a success, not just because they completed 73 days of walking and 100+ awareness programs but because they might have managed to save lives.\n\u201cSimple acts like listening, expressing empathy, and hearing people\u2019s stories from a space of authenticity, with a non-judgmental attitude, helped people unburden themselves, on the road and at our awareness sessions. There were no fancy interventions, or textbook style methods. We just listened, listened deeply and held space for people, to speak about whatever they wanted to speak about,\u201d he said.\nNivendra explains how a quick pit stop for a drink of king coconut during their walk towards Buttala had given them an opportunity to counsel a stranger.\n\u201cRanil, Sara and I were walking to Buttala, which is near Moneragala and it was a terribly hot day. We were feeling quite dehydrated and drained, that we just had to stop for a thambili break. It was a small roadside \u2018kade\u2019 and we hung around for a while until the owner approached us and went on to give us thambili to drink. He was curious about what we were up to, and when we told him that we were walking to raise awareness on suicide prevention and mental health, he said \u2018Sir, I am having thoughts about suicide right now\u2019.\nNivendra said the man\u2019s words struck him, since he had blurted this out without any small talk as a prelude. The owner of the little shop was experiencing difficulties with his physical health which was preventing him from working on his farm and consequently, he was faced with economic difficulties. Chronic pain, and not being able to find solutions to his health problems were his reasons for wanting to take his life. \u201cRanil and I just listened, and we let him unburden. We provided basic emotional first aid, and were able to direct him towards help and care. He still calls us to tell us how he is doing,\u201d narrated Nivendra.\nHe said that he met a 16-year-old girl at a school close to Negombo, and she had lost a family member to suicide two months ago and was grieving. \u201cThe family did not have much support, and she was still processing what had happened. I did not try to take her pain away from her, but acknowledged that it is okay, to feel what she was feeling, as she had lost someone dear to her and suicide is most often difficult to comprehend and accept. She was given information on how she can access counselling services in her area,\u201d he added.\n\u201cWe met a teacher at a school close to Puttalam. He has been wheel-chair bound since his childhood, and was experiencing several health problems when we met him. He also had contemplated ending his life several times, due to different reasons, including not wanting to be a burden to others, especially his family. I listened to him for about two hours, just listened. He said that the fact that I did not express sympathy towards him or say \u2018aney pau\u2019 made him want to talk to me, and that he felt relieved after talking. This really did give me a great deal of perspective and was a stark reminder about how important it is to, just shut up and listen. There is so much to learn from the people you talk to,\u201d described Nivendra.\nWhile they were still walking, Nivendra says he heard that people were calling Helplines run by the CCCline1333, Sumithrayo and ShanthiMaargam, after receiving the cards they were giving out with the helpline numbers printed on them. It was heartening, the psychologist says, to note that people had a source of hope in the form of those cards, which many of them had put in their wallets for a rainy day.\n\u201cFootsteps to Freedom\u201d was not just about walking 1400+km, it was very much about helping people find hope. It was about letting people know that there is support available and that they are not alone,\u201d he explained.\nDuring their 73-day walk, the three walkers estimate they reached approximately 500,000 people, not only through awareness programs but also on the road itself. Focusing mostly on schools, the trio conducted over 100 sessions on topics like mental health awareness, suicide prevention, addiction, stress management, bullying prevention and motivation as they traversed the coastline. \u201cWe spoke to people at schools, police stations, mosques, district secretariat offices, community centres, military camps, hospitals and post offices, tea shops and thambili kades.\nWe also connected with the hearing-impaired community and people with disabilities. It was the first time in 20 years that the hearing-impaired community had someone to talk to about mental health. This was big thing for us,\u201d he added.\nComing back was also emotional for the three walkers, who received a very warm welcome from their families, friends and the public who had followed their progress around Sri Lanka\u2019s coast. \u201cIt was very moving to come back home, to see our families. We also had a great team that supported us right along the way and it was good to be reunited with them,\u201d Nivendra says.\nThe team\u2019s future plans include going back to some of the places they visited, to do more work in those communities. They would also focus on doing extensive work with the hearing impaired community, and advocate for more services to be available to them.\nAs for his fellow travellers, Nivendra acknowledges that Ranil and Sara have become a family to him during their 73 days on the road. \u201cRanil, Sara and are one family.\nWe lived together, walked together, ate together and slept together for 73 days. There were times when we annoyed each other, but that was all part of the journey. The passion, commitment and the love for Sri Lanka and its people that we share kept us going, even through the hardest of times. We took care of each other, gently pushed each other and completed the journey together. I believe that we will be friends for the rest of our lives,\u201d he says with a smile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 11891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2018/07/08/news-features/chamara-man-midas-touch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:17Z", "digest": "sha1:OK5VJSP4ENFHRRLPCMASULQKYKSSG5N4", "length": 6919, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.sundayobserver.lk", "title": "Chamara: A man with the Midas touch | Sunday Observer", "raw_content": "Chamara: A man with the Midas touch\nThe following is an excerpt of an eulogy at the funeral of Chamara Lakshan Kumara, Editor-in - Chief of Silumina and Resa, by ANCL Chairman Krishantha Prasad Cooray\nI have never spoken at a funeral ceremony before. My Sinhala is not at as nice as Chamara\u2019s beautiful language skills. In fact all these years, whenever I made a speech in Sinhala, it was Chamara who would write it for me. But he is not here to help me write this one. So this will be the first speech in Sinhala I have made, that is not written by Chamara Lakshan.\nSome things in life are expected. Others are unexpected. Some things we wish will never happen. Today, every eye here is filled with tears and we are all breathless from grief because we cannot bear this unimaginable loss.\nIn hindsight, 15 years was a long time in Chamara\u2019s life. This is how long we associated closely, as friends and colleagues. For me, it is unbearably painful that the comrade who had joined me on a journey we undertook together, had to get off halfway.\nIn my life, I have never met a journalist as extraordinarily talented as Chamara Lakshan. But he was also a friend and a brother close to my heart.\nHe stunned us with the talent and skill he displayed at only 39 years old. Billions of people are born into this world. Extraordinary people are born but rarely. He loved his parents immensely. His heart was full of love for his wife and little son. No matter where he was or what he was doing, his aim was always to get back home to them as soon as possible. His beloved parents can take immense pride in the fact that they bore such a son, who was truly an asset to this nation.\nHis loving wife was his greatest strength. His little son was Chamara\u2019s pride and joy. Today, the whole country is talking about Chamara Lakshan. He was the kind of person who would lead the way and serve as a guiding light to the nation. His parents, his wife and son can be so very proud of him.\nChamara had the Midas touch. Everything he touched he turned into a roaring success. Everyday of his life he accomplished new milestones. He made great personal sacrifices to reach his goals. And all of us reaped the results.\nEvery word he penned was anchored to his belief in democracy, compassion, justice and reconciliation. His type of courageous, humane journalism is a lesson to so many others. There is so much we can all learn from Chamara and the way he lived his life. He accepted all his accomplishments with humility. He greeted everyone with a smile, whether they wished him well, or not.\nFew people worry about how they can contribute to the country. They focus on negative things, who they can stab in the back, who can they get into trouble. Chamara taught us to help people all the time. No matter what the rest of the world said or did, you do your duty \u2013 that was his message to us.\nChamara never asked me for personal favours. Only one time did he make a personal request of me \u2013 when he asked me to help his old school. He never forgot his alma mater and worked to uplift the institution all his life.\nSome people win recognition all over the world, but they have no connections to their birthplace or their village. But everyone in his village loved Chamara.\nThose of you living in this village, lost a man who conquered the world of journalism. The country lost a journalist who was unparalleled because he was armed with knowledge and skill beyond his years. I lost a beloved brother and dear friend.\nEvery morning, Chamara would walk into my office with a big smile on his face. I will never forget his smile. He had thousands of things to talk about because he was tuned into everything. He knew something about everything.\nChamara always knew that swimming against the tide was a difficult task, but time and again he showed strength of character by choosing that path. He believed that a journey of a thousand miles began with a single step. He took that first step bravely, and with all the strength within him.\nMy friend Chamara had a gruff voice and a large stature. But underneath all that, was the purest and most sensitive heart. Great individuals take leave of this world quickly. That is true even in Sri Lanka.\nWhen such people fulfill their destiny and depart this world, they leave behind hearts full of pain caused by their absence. Chamara was one such rare human being who decided to leave us too early.\nHe lived only 39 years in this world, but he achieved what most people do not even when they live to be 100. It is unthinkable what he might have achieved if he had lived another 39 years.\nBut, while Chamara was on this earth, he gave every task entrusted to him everything he had. His family, this little village and the whole country can take pride in that.\nThey say that the only thing that is certain in life is its uncertainty. We are born and then we die. This is the great truth. So, what is important is how we live our lives in the time we have been granted. Chamara did things in his lifetime that will outlive him, and last a hundred years to come.\nWhen this shocking incident came to pass, I received a call from Chamara\u2019s mother. She had only one request. \u201cMy son loved the Resa newspaper dearly. He loved it like his own breath. The greatest tribute to my son would be to keep publishing Resa,\u201d she said.\nAt this moment, I want to tell her that Chamara\u2019s greatest hope is our dream too. Resa which Chamara built with so much love and dedication, has won the attention of a whole country. Everything the young newspaper has become is Chamara\u2019s own untiring effort.\nWe pledge to do everything in our power to keep the Resa banner flying high. We will work to ensure that the newspaper goes from strength to strength, carrying Chamara Lakshan\u2019s vision and legacy to every corner of this small island.\nChamara didn\u2019t have big dreams. He achieved the targets he set himself without hurting anyone else. His journey at the helm of Silumina, published by Lake House, stands testimony to that fact. Every time Chamara accepted a challenge, he succeeded. Resa showed everyone his vision and skill.\nAfter he took over Silumina, a struggling newspaper, he infused it with his energy and vision, and took the paper to incredible heights within a few short weeks. Chamara proved that revolutions without weapons were indeed possible.\nIt is true that life is all about arrivals and departures. But how can we bear a departure as sudden as this? Chamara it was your habit to always consult me before you made big decisions in life. But this one decision you have decided to make alone. I would have sacrificed everything to keep you.\nYet when you made your decision to go, you left no room for any of that. The great Bard William Shakespeare once said:\nChamara, my dearest brother, I have no doubt you will do everything right even in your new home in heaven.\nMay you attain the supreme bliss of Nibbana!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 11365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.suzanhughes.com/charity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KQCZ3DMBAENRCRAJMP7YFA3RLEJ65GAR", "length": 2933, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.suzanhughes.com", "title": "Charity/philanthropy \u2014 Suzan Hughes", "raw_content": "\"Suzan has been involved with countless charity organizations and has dedicated most of her life to help others; whether playing her trademark \"Sargent Sue\" at school auditoriums in front of hundreds of kids or raising funds for D.A.R.E, her voice is as important today as it was when she first started with the Herbalife Family Foundation\"\nSuzan Hughes has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors: She was given The Future of America Award from D.A.R.E., was recognized by Women in Film on receiving both the prestigious Wallis Annenberg Founders Award and the Woman of Achievement Award. Suzan was also given the Distinguished Heart award by the Friends of Sheba Medical Center. In 1994 Suzan Hughes completed a two-year parenting program from the Resources for Infant Educarers\u00ae (RIE), a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of infant care and education around the globe, teaching, supporting, and mentoring parents and professionals. This organization and course was the impetus for starting the Herbalife family Foundation.\nIn 2016 she founded S.H.E. - the Suzan Hughes Education Foundation, which will focus on education of parenting, giving them tools and information to provide gourmet parenting.\nIn 1994, Suzan Hughes co-founded the Herbalife Family Foundation (HFF). The HFF today is in over 60 countries helping hundreds of children daily. Since then she has brought millions of dollars in donations for: A Place Called Home, Alliance for Children Rights, Unicef, The Boys and Girls Club, School on Wheels, Fulfillment Fund, The Children's Place Agency and Para Los Linos. It's flagship Casa Herbalife Program provides volunteer assistance each year to organizations worldwide and it's Casa Herbalife Kitchen, which has state of the art appliances bringing nutritious meals to the people who need them.\nHaving co-founded the Herbalife Family Foundation, Suzan Hughes became a well-respected and recognized advocate for issues that affect children and women's welfare. Since 1997, Suzan Hughes has worked as a Community Circle Leader for the Maple Counseling Center in the Beverly Hills School District for seven years. She sat on the Board and taught weekly classes covering a broad range of subjects such as bullying, stranger danger and how to take on and resolve personal issues.\nLater 1999, Suzan Hughes joined Jim Starr, former LAPD Officer as \"Sergeant Sue\", teaching \"back-to-basics \" health and safety to children in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). As Sargent Sue, Suzan Hughes sang and acted out scenarios for large groups of children in the school auditoriums teaching over 20,000 students in the LAUSD. She enacted live demonstrations adding in music to demonstrate challenging subjects like stranger danger, self-respect, social responsibility, safety and nutrition.\nShe was also a chairperson of the board of Star*Gem Foundation.\nGood things are coming in 2016!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.takis.com/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ARKXUKRW3T3ZXE5Z5ND3BOPET4BZJY6C", "length": 5219, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.takis.com", "title": "About us", "raw_content": "Takis Charalambous & Co. Ltd\nis Cyprus preeminent designer, manufacturer, installer and importer of office furniture and other contract furnishings products.\nFounded in 1966 in the manufacturing domain of traditional home furniture. Through the skillful hands of the founder Mr. Takis Charalambous and his entire crew, the Company has in little time expanded and became quite popular leader in Cyprus for its first class products. In 1970, together with the erection of the Company\u2019s first full-line production plant at Yerolakkos Industrial Area, Mr. Takis Charalambous foresaw the necessity for manufacturing of contemporary business furniture to address real needs rather than to conform to accepted standards. Unfortunately, the impact of the 1974 Turkish invasion to Cyprus was really devastating as our Company lost all its assets. Today, proud to say, through our customers loyalty, trust and satisfaction, we are once again operating from our second private factory spaciously ambled with brand new fleet of state-of-the-art CNC machinery, fully-equipped warehouse facilities and all backed-up by a team of skillful employees.\nThe founder of the Company had always had very clearly defined business ethics and work standards. Today, still being a family business, we are proud to confirm the continuation of his ethics and standards in the same way as he always visualized them\nTop quality raw materials and craftsmanship\nPrompt response and absolute flexibility to any customer request\nSkillful employees in a teamwork environment\nReliable, consistent and punctual after-sales customer service\nPeople shall always be the most valuable asset \u2013 customers, employees and business associates\nProduct Portfolio & Services\nThe company's business range consists of designing, manufacturing, installation and most important, guarantee for absolute customer satisfaction on any furniture domain we are dealing with, all reinforced and confirmed by the prestigious ISO 9001 award. Care for the environment is guarded by our ISO14001. The product portfolio includes anything that has to do with the office environment: executive and operative office furniture, open space system solutions, banking furniture and furnishings, conference rooms, outfitted walls, home office furniture, training rooms, lecture halls and auditoriums, office accessories, filing and archive storage systems etc. In addition, we also cover supplementary areas of contract furnishings such as cinema and theatre halls, sports seating, demountable staging, hotel furnishings, school furniture etc. Dedicated to helping people work more effectively, Takis Charalambous & Co. provides also a range of complimentary services to help customers evaluate and utilize office work space for improved business results. Such services are the interior architecture, layout propositions and finish/fabric selection and matching.\nThe Company\u2019s sales policy had almost always been exclusively directed to Cyprus distributors and agents for reselling purposes as well as towards major private and government projects by working closely with architects and designers. Over the past few years, we have also thoroughly developed our Export Sales Dept. through which we cover various European Union countries such as UK, France, Greece and Belgium and various Arab Gulf and Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Yemen and Sultanate of Oman. In fact, today, we are proud to present numerous prestigious projects throughout the overseas areas of operation. As of 1st April 1999, our Company has also expanded its sales activities in the retail sector as well, by the establishment of its first showroom outlet in Nicosia. On 1st of August 2000, the Limassol Showroom commenced operation. Both showrooms are operating under the brand name \u201cStudio Office\u201d. Today, through the experienced human elements of our sales team, we are in the position to listen, study and present any office furniture solution in any office environment.\nWhile our strategies and tactics may change as the needs of our business change, our core values will not. Our commitment to integrity and service is more than just our latest idea. Our emphasis on providing solutions in the office workplace and making a meaningful contribution to our customers has enabled us to be where we are today. At Takis Charalambous & Co. Ltd we mean to demonstrate that a company can be both serious about business and serious about people.\nTakis Charalambous & Co. Ltd is committed to enhancing the quality of life through the design, manufacture, importing, distribution and installation of office and other contract furnishings.\nWe are further committed to the company\u2019s goals through:\ncontinuing to improve the quality of our products\nimproving our competitiveness and maintaining our position as the market leaders\ndedicating significant resources to the research and development of new products\noffering products which are safe and environmentally friendly\nlisten to the market and respond to the new challenges\nproviding a working environment that assures personal satisfaction for all employees\nexploring new marketing opportunities with our customers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 5745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.taymeetsworld.com/2017/05/day-at-eiffel-tower.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:26Z", "digest": "sha1:LKC7F2JC63ETIY35QPDRGWO5D6OBUKZT", "length": 1796, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.taymeetsworld.com", "title": "Day At The Eiffel Tower - Tay Meets World", "raw_content": "Bonjour! It's day three for us in Paris and I cannot tell you how much I am in love with this city. They say it's the city of love and oh how true that is. I have fallen in love with the culture, architecture, food, landscapes, and of course, the coffee. We started the week visiting the Eiffel Tower, a tourist must-see. We wandered around until we found the most stunning views and we just decided to take it all in. I'm sure it's like seeing the statue of Liberty for the first time (which I have yet to see) or Mount Rushmore. When you've only seen photos your entire life of monuments or far away places, once you are there, it's quite surreal.\nBanana Republic Scalloped Shirtdress // J.Crew Cap-Toe Flats // Old Navy Straw Hat (Only $9!)\nThere are so many places to view the Eiffel Tower in all its glory rather than the Champ de Mars. I'm putting together a compiled list of all the best and way less crowded areas to take photos and take in the scenery. We started the day early, around 7:00am, and there weren't crowds or lines anywhere. We've found that most people are too tired from the day before so they sleep in a bit:).\nAs far as my outfits, the first two days in Paris were HOT. 90 degrees and 80% humidity. I was so thankful that I brought lightweight dresses and skirts, including this scalloped one from Banana Republic. I love this dress. Not only is it incredibly comfortable but I stayed relatively cool and I fell in love with it even more against the Parisian backdrop. It's currently on sale for $60 - so worth the price!!\nIf you haven't yet, follow me on Instagram and Facebook for more behind-the-scenes looks, travel stories, tips, and food!\nTags: Eiffel Tower, Eiffel Tower Paris, Eiffel Tower Views, Paris, Paris Traveling, Tay Meets Paris, Tay Meets Travel, Travel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.techrecur.com/ls-telcom-joins-the-5g-alliance-for-connected-industries-and-automation-5g-acia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:34Z", "digest": "sha1:C2IMQLO6AAVOD4VCLOUFVVG2SZNJTXD6", "length": 3536, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.techrecur.com", "title": "LS telcom joins the 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) | TechRecur: Latest Telecom Media & Technology News, Trends, Analysis, Press Releases", "raw_content": "About LS telcom\nLS telcom is the global leader in spectrum efficiency. In an increasingly connected world, we assure that all spectrum users achieve their radio communication objectives in the most optimal and cost-efficient way. We deliver technologies and services to national and international regulatory bodies, to mobile and broadcast operators, to transport, critical infrastructure, defense, PPDR and vertical markets. We optimize spectrum management and spectrum use and enable new business models based on the internet of things (IoT) and 5G. Spectrum users in all markets rely on our experts and software for the planning and design of optimized radio networks. We plan networks of all technologies, including IoT.\nOn the regulatory side, we supply consulting and support services for spectrum policy development, pricing, auctions, trading, dynamic and licensed spectrum access considering technical, economic and social parameters.\nOur highly modern SPECTRA Enterprise IT system provides regulators with fully automated workflow-based e-government capabilities in spectrum management. Combined with our flexible radio monitoring system, it is one of the most advanced systems for spectrum inventory and data mining, enabling highest spectrum efficiency.\nTraining on network technologies, standards, and regulations as well as radio monitoring system integration and optimization, transmitter installations and measurements complete our offer. Founded in 1992, LS telcom draws upon nearly 30 years of experience in the radio communications market. Over that period LS telcom, an ISO 9001:2015 certified company, has become a member of many industry associations and organizations, and cooperates with leading technology universities. This is how we ensure to be up-to-date with technologies, standards and regulations. As a member of the UK\u2019s 5G Innovation Centre (at the University of Surrey), we are at the leading edge of 5G developments.\nLS telcom operates worldwide with subsidiaries and affiliates in Canada, China, France, South Africa, UAE, UK and USA as well as representations and support offices in Argentina, Hungary and Oman. With its headquarters in Lichtenau, Germany, LS telcom is listed on the German stock exchange under ISIN DE 0005754402 since 2001.www.LStelcom.com\nAbout 5G-ACIA\nThe 5G Alliance for Connected Industries and Automation (5G-ACIA) has been established to serve as the central and global forum for addressing, discussing, and evaluating relevant technical, regulatory, and business aspects with respect to 5G for the industrial domain. It reflects the entire ecosystem, encompassing all relevant stakeholder groups from the OT (operational technology) industry (such as industrial automation, machine builders or end users), the ICT (information and communication technology) industry (such as chip manufacturers, network infrastructure providers or network operators), academia (such as universities or research institutes) and other relevant groups (such as authorities or associations).\nFurther information: www.5g-acia.org\nclabitzke@lstelcom.com\n(Germany) +49 (0)7227 95 35 296\n(France) + 33 (0)1 84 79 41 95\n5G 5G Alliance ICT IOT Telecom\n\u2190 UNICEF and Telenor Group extend global partnership to reduce inequalities among children\nMetabolomics Market by Product (GC, HPLC, UPLC, NMR, Mass Spectrometry, Surface based mass analysis, Bioinformatics), Application (Biomarker & Drug Discovery, Nutrigenomics, Toxicology), Indication (Oncology, Cardiology, Inborn Errors) \u2013 Forecast to 2021 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 16280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.terri-grothe.com/2018/04/bring-your-kitchen-into-21st-century.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:39Z", "digest": "sha1:J2AT23WDEQKVHGOTCPL7BVNPAAGOMV2N", "length": 2910, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.terri-grothe.com", "title": "Bring your kitchen into the 21st century | Take A Walk In My Shoes", "raw_content": "Is your kitchen looking a little tired and worn around the edges? Is some of the tech getting out of date, and have you noticed that your friends and relatives aren't too keen on spending much time in there? Well, then your kitchen may need bridging into the 21st century, and all you need to do this is read the post below to find out how.\nBring your kitchen into the 21st century.\nGloss cabinets\nNothing says modern kitchen more than gloss cabinets. These are cabinet doors that are covered with a shiny gloss finish. Something that means they reflect light and look super neat and tidy as well as modern.\nUsually, folks opt for a clean, bright white color or even a red if they are going for a dramatic look. It is worth noting, however, that due to the popularity of the gloss finish you can now get it in all sorts of different colors including purple, yellow, and black too.\nRemember that to keep these beauties looking their best you have to understand how to clean and polish them properly. Something you can learn more about in the video below.\n\nNext, do not forget that for your kitchen to seem as up to date and as 21st century as possible you need a dishwasher like the ones that Whirlpool offer that is built in. These built-in styles are a much better fit for a modern kitchen because they do not break up the line of the room. Something that is particularly important if you are using the gloss finish cabinets, as it helps to keep the look consistent through the entire area.\nSuch dishwashers also help to maintain that neat, clutter-free look that is so popular in minimalist modern kitchens. This is because you can close the door to them and they blend straight in with the rest of the decor.\nBoiling tap\nAnother great 21st-century development that has a place in the modern kitchen in the boiler tap. This is an attachment that fits over your sink taps, which allows you to access not only to cold water for drinking and washing, but also water that is close to boiling point. Something that means you can make tea and coffee instantly and that you don't have to wait for the water to come up to temperature before you put things on to boil on the cooker.\nOf course, such taps have extensive safety features that stop any crossover of the two type of water. Something that makes them perfectly safe for families that want the latest modern kitchen gadgets in their home.\nFancy cooker hoods\nLastly, cooker hoods are often thought of as purely functional items, but in the kitchen of the future, they will fulfill a decorative function as well as a practical one. In fact, there are many types that are already on the market that include light and decoration in a classy way that could be used to great effect in a modern style kitchen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theabingtons.org.uk/news/2017/08/latest-news-on-granta-park-and-sluice-wood-fences-and-gates/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:32Z", "digest": "sha1:IKNQKQYTZI7DSF3W6YJNOG672M24FAUH", "length": 1765, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.theabingtons.org.uk", "title": "The Abingtons | Latest news on Granta Park and Sluice Wood fences and gates - and a request for calm!", "raw_content": "TWI has now put up the fences and gates on the pedestrian routes into Granta Park, as noted in a previous news item. In addition, Bancroft Farm has erected a fence with a gate on the 'coach road' at the other side of Sluice Wood.\nThese matters were discussed at a meeting in a rather full hall at the Abington Institute on Monday evening. This is reported in the Cambridge News today. The closure of the Bourn Bridge Road entrance, even to employees, was of particular concern, as it is a safer route than Newmarket Road for pedestrians and cyclists.\nThe news item shows that the Pampisford Road entrance is in fact closed at present, but it is understood that this is temporary while landscaping is in progress.\nA PLEA FOR CALM!\nWe would like to remind everyone that this is a very sensitive time! Any employees from Granta Park who are running through the village (village or land settlement alike) are doing so on public rights of way. The roads in the land settlement are not public highways but anyone has the right to walk on them and they are shown as public footpaths on the OS maps.\nPLEASE do not vent your frustration on employees from Granta Park - some of them live in the village too! Very few of them were personally involved in the decision. Verbal abuse is not acceptable and will only make things worse for our chances of regaining access to the permissive footpaths in Granta Park. As for the person who has chucked dog excrement over the fence into Granta Park, please remember that this is a criminal offence and will not be tolerated.\nPampisford Road entrance to Granta Park\nFenced-off Bourn Bridge Road entrance to Granta Park\nBourn Bridge Road entrance to Sluice work - on the old drive from Abington Hall to its North Lodge (at the 'Temple')", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebodypro.com/content/69412/hiv-journalview-october-2012.html?ic=4003", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:44Z", "digest": "sha1:YCR3WEP4DU5MKHJN6L7MMSLGJQZUF77I", "length": 7722, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.thebodypro.com", "title": "HIV JournalView: September 2012 - TheBodyPRO.com", "raw_content": "HIV JournalView: September 2012\nWe tell our patients that HIV has become like other chronic diseases -- and, largely, we believe it. These patients are aging along with us, and clinic visits have become more like routine checkups with continued praise for undetectable viral loads and admonishments to shed pounds. Even our scientific literature has become more mundane; it is less preoccupied with finding silver bullets than with developing strategies to help people live well with their virus into their golden years.\nThere are exceptions, of course. Developers of an HIV vaccine and developers of a cure are laboring on breakthroughs, and prevention research has yielded interesting, if not provocative, discoveries. But with a cornucopia of antiretrovirals, superb efforts to monitor care delivery, and a deep understanding of who is at risk for HIV infection, we know what we need to do until such dreams become realities.\nBelow are examples of recent reports that help us stay the course until we have a vaccine and cure. They include studies that take stock of our successes, flash caution about our medications, and point to lurking problems that challenge the prevention and treatment of HIV.\nNA-ACCORD Makes Us Feel Good\nPain Makes Our Patients Skip Appointments\nAtazanavir Stones: The Gallbladder\nAtazanavir Stones: The Kidney\nRole of Anal Sex in HIV Risk for Women in Chicago\nEchocardiography Misses Pulmonary Artery Hypertension in a Third of Cases\nKeri N. Althoff et al. Ann Intern Med 2012;157:325-335. Read the abstract.\nThe most compelling reason to include this article in our latest JournalView installment will be best appreciated by fans of A. A. Milne, Shel Silverstein and Mary GrandPr\u00e9. Each of these artists gave us a common visual reference for the story being told, whether it was about a paunchy bear with a honey addiction, a flatulent ogre with an attitude or a resilient young wizard with a flashy forehead scar. It is difficult to imagine these books without the drawings that intermittently grace their pages.\nSimilarly, this article -- the latest \"how are we doing?\" from the NA-ACCORD cohort of HIV-infected patients in care -- is pretty cool, but it is the pictures that make it special. There is the map, all in shades of blue (no red states!), showing the proportion of people with HIV infection who are engaged in medical care in different U.S. states. (You go, Washington, Louisiana and Tennessee!) Then, there are the bar graphs of changes in antiretroviral therapy use over time (I swoon for horizontal bar graphs, don't you?), not to mention a multilayered, 4-D graphic of temporal trends in viral suppression. Marvelous.\nWe could show these images here, but our lawyers won't let us. Happily, there are also some words in the study worth looking at. The short version goes something like this:\nThe proportion of cohort participants prescribed HAART increased from 74% in 2000 to 83% in 2008.\nDuring this time, the percentage of patients with a suppressed viral load increased from 54% to 81%.\nThe CD4+ cell count prior to death, among those who died, increased over this eight-year study period from 60 to 204 cells/mm3.\nLastly, to place this all in perspective, the characteristics of the 45,000 or so HIV-infected patients in the U.S. under the watchful eye of this cohort from 2000 to 2008 are very similar to those of the more than 650,000 included in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s 40-state HIV surveillance system (with the exception of fewer injection drug users in NA-ACCORD), suggesting that the results bear a similar representation to that of all people living with HIV in the U.S.\nThese data will hopefully be mined for more gems. For example, other studies have shown disparities in HIV care outcomes, such as in HAART prescriptions and viral suppression, by race in the U.S. Similarly, retention in care is a challenge and understanding who is at greatest risk of dropping out can lead to interventions (see below regarding the possible role of pain). These should be easy to examine in this cohort.\nMeanwhile, I can't help but feel great after reading an NA-ACCORD article. The cohort study is one of the best at showing how the epidemic is evolving and what we are collectively accomplishing. And there are the pretty pictures.\nJessica S. Merlin et al. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2012;61:164-170. Read the abstract.\nOnce we started asking our patients to point out which bald-headed face represented their level of discomfort -- choices ranged from the euphoric to the tear-shedding despondent -- we came to feel their pain. Now practically a vital sign, pain scales are supposed to help us discover and address suffering.\nOf course, the validity of such scales in those with HIV is not clear. We all have had patients who respond that they have 10 out of 10 pain (that is the worst pain imaginable), but are smiling and moving about without any outward display of distress.\nBut pain is complex, and it can be life-sapping. Patients living with HIV may be more likely to experience pain as a consequence of the virus and its therapies, as in the case of peripheral neuropathy, or due to comorbid conditions far removed from their infection.\nA study conducted at the University of Alabama-Birmingham examined the prevalence of pain and its impact on clinic visits (especially no-shows), adherence to HIV medications and viral suppression. The study cohort included 1,521 patients (mean age 44 years; most were non-white, male, uninsured or publically insured; and 64% had a CD4+ cell count >350 cells/mm3). A third of the patients reported pain (more than 70% recorded moderate or extreme pain at the initial point of data collection), a quarter had mood disorders and 10% reported substance abuse.\nIn multivariate modeling, the presence of pain increased the odds of a subsequent clinic no-show, but only in those without substance abuse (OR 1.5; 95% CI, 1.1-1.9). Pain actually reduced the odds of no-shows for those with substance abuse (OR 0.5; 95% CI, 0.2- 0.9, P for interaction = 0.0022). Similarly, substance abuse increased the odds of a no-show visit only in those without pain, while for patients with pain, substance abuse had no effect on the odds of a no-show visit.\nOther factors that were associated with a no-show were being a non-white female, a non-white male or a white female; a lack of private insurance; and a CD4+ count above 200 cells/mm3. Giving credence to the whole age-equals-wisdom thing, increasing age was inversely associated with not showing up for a visit. Pain was not correlated with antiretroviral adherence or with virologic outcomes.\nThese results are interesting, if not somewhat validating of clinical experience. Pain among those with substance abuse seemed to be a motivator for medical visit adherence. (OK, most of you are probably thinking, \"Duh,\" and perhaps this is explained by the fact that pain medications such as opioids are prescribed during clinic visits -- or at least the patients hope they will be.) For those without substance abuse, the link between pain and missing visits is not as intuitive. Perhaps these folks were too sick to come in or were frustrated that their pain was not being adequately addressed.\nGiven the importance of retention in care to maintaining the benefits of treatment (in terms of personal well-being and transmissibility), the finding that better pain management may keep people in care is significant. As the needs of our patients expand, we HIV providers have to be many things to many people. Adding \"pain specialist\" to that list can be tricky, but may help our patients in more ways than we expected.\nHIV JournalView: October/November 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 10212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/r-i-p-indianapolis-archbishop-emeritus-daniel-buechlein/48502", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2OETDTWT6XG7JXZIE7JCT3FO2CUUB3M6", "length": 6015, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.thecatholictelegraph.com", "title": "R.I.P.: Indianapolis Archbishop Emeritus Daniel Buechlein \u2013 Catholic Telegraph", "raw_content": "Home\u00bbHome Page\u00bbR.I.P.: Indianapolis Archbishop Emeritus Daniel Buechlein\nHome Page/National & World News\nArchbishop Emeritus Daniel M. Buechlein waves to the crowd at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis in 2012 at a press conference introducing his successor, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin (now the Archbishop of Newark). (Photo by Sean Gallagher/The Criterion)\nFrom the Archdiocese of Indianapolis:\nArchbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, OSB, 79, monk and priest of Saint Meinrad Archabbey and archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, died at 12:20 a.m. on January 25, 2018, in the monastery infirmary.\nArchbishop Buechlein served as the fifth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis from July 14, 1992 until his retirement on September 21, 2011.\nSurviving are his brother, Charles, of Jasper, IN; and nieces and nephews.\nHe was born in Jasper, IN, on April 20, 1938, to Carl and Rose (Blessinger) Buechlein and given the name Marcus George.\nHe joined the monastery on August 14, 1958, and professed his simple vows on August 15, 1959, taking the name Daniel. He made his solemn vows on August 15, 1962. He was ordained to the priesthood by the Most Rev. Paul Schulte on May 3, 1964, and celebrated his first Mass on May 24 at Holy Family Parish, Jasper.\nAfter his ordination, Fr. Daniel spent two years in Rome, where he obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Theology with a specialization in liturgy at the International Benedictine University of Sant\u2019 Anselmo.\nReturning to Saint Meinrad in 1966, he served as assistant dean of students and chairman of the Division of Religion at Saint Meinrad College. In 1971 he was director of the first national conference for seminary spiritual directors, and coordinated the founding of the Midwest Association of Seminary Spiritual Directors.\nThat same year, he began 16 years of service as president-rector of Saint Meinrad School of Theology, the last five of which he also served as president-rector of the college. In addition to serving many elected terms on the Archabbot\u2019s Council during this time, he taught courses on priestly ministry and spirituality.\nOn January 20, 1987, Pope St. John Paul II announced the appointment of Fr. Daniel as the third bishop of the Diocese of Memphis, TN. His ordination and installation took place on March 2, 1987.\nOn July 14, 1992, Pope St. John Paul announced that Bishop Daniel would succeed the Most Rev. Edward T. O\u2019Meara, who had died that January, as the 11th bishop and fifth archbishop of Indianapolis. On September 9, he was installed as archbishop in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul. He was invested with the pallium by the Holy Father at St. Peter\u2019s Basilica in Rome on June 29, 1993.\nDuring his 19 years as shepherd of Indianapolis, Archbishop Daniel worked to strengthen the archdiocese\u2019s pastoral, spiritual and financial health. He was especially interested in promoting Catholic education, young adult ministry, and vocations to priesthood and the religious life. Under his leadership, enrollment in the archdiocese\u2019s Catholic schools increased 30 percent to more than 25,000 students, reversing a 25-year decline. Innovative partnerships with Lilly Endowment Inc., campaigns to help fund new education initiatives, and the support of the business community led to improved student performance, which the U.S. Department of Education recognized by awarding 26 archdiocesan schools with Blue Ribbon awards for excellence. Archbishop Daniel garnered support to keep Catholic schools in the Indianapolis center-city open to serve students from low-income families and the growing immigrant population. He also led the effort to build two new grade schools in the center-city. Archbishop Daniel expanded the archdiocese\u2019s ministry to young adults by starting a Theology on Tap program, adding new college campus ministry programs, and creating new archdiocesan staff positions to provide outreach to young adults.\nIn 2003, Archbishop Daniel established the ministry of permanent diaconate in the archdiocese. The first class of 25 deacons was ordained in 2008, and the ministry continues to flourish.\nArchbishop Daniel founded the Bishop Simon Brut\u00e9 College Seminary in Indianapolis in 2004, to prepare college seminarians for major seminary. The seminary quickly attracted young men discerning a vocation to the priesthood and today has nearly 50 seminarians from 10 dioceses.\nArchbishop Daniel also expanded the services of Catholic Charities and social outreach ministries of the archdiocese. The archdiocese in 2009 opened a 30,000-square-foot shelter for homeless families, the Holy Family Shelter, located on the west side of Indianapolis. The financial health of the archdiocese also improved under Archbishop Daniel\u2019s management. During his tenure, the archdiocese raised $300 million through the annual stewardship appeal and separate capital campaigns to pay for building projects and ministry needs throughout the archdiocese. After a series of significant budget deficits, Archbishop Daniel guided the archdiocese back to firm financial footing and break-even budgets. He also oversaw the dramatic growth of the Catholic Community Foundation, which oversees the archdiocese\u2019s endowments. During his tenure, 337 endowment funds with a value of more than $100 million were established. He suffered a mild stroke on March 18, 2011, and was admitted to St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. On August 1 he sent a letter to the Holy Father asking, for reasons of health, to resign from his responsibilities as archbishop and to return to Saint Meinrad. Pope Benedict XVI granted his request, and the Archbishop took up residence in the monastery infirmary in October.\nHe continued his office of teaching as his health permitted, publishing in 2013 the book, Surprised by Grace: Memories and Reflections After 25 Years of Episcopal Ministry.\nFuneral arrangements will be announced soon.\nTags:buechleinindianapolis\nBrownback OK'd as ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 8229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 133.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thechipperclipper.com/2010/02/coupon-for-free-bottle-of-excedrin.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:24Z", "digest": "sha1:OA4BRTUJRCYCXLBGND4AWNOWTT63LOV5", "length": 295, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thechipperclipper.com", "title": "The Chipper Clipper: Coupon for Free Bottle of Excedrin", "raw_content": "Excedrin is offering a coupon for a free bottle of Excedrin via mail (up to $5.99). To get this freebie just visit the Excedrin website and answer their question. If you answer the right answer you will be eligible for this coupon. Don't pick Excedrin (if you do, you\u2019ll only get a $2.00 coupon)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 6123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 255.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecrownstore.com/26-zildjian-orchestral-gong/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QCQAZYWEFZRL2H74FAYY6GXHOJPI66QC", "length": 292, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thecrownstore.com", "title": "Zildjian Gong 26", "raw_content": "The first choice of the world's leading symphony orchestras, drum corps and rock stars alike. One-piece cast construction crafted in China in a Centuries-old tradition.\nA complex blend of highs and lows with beautiful warm overtones and plenty of attack when necessary. Predrilled and corded.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 3796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thejourneywithu.com/2011/07/health-care-law-fight.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:5KPIUTIAOQMABZG5ZV4A7LFZOWPEWTXQ", "length": 405, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thejourneywithu.com", "title": "The journey: Health care law fight", "raw_content": "I can't believe the latest battles over health care continue in the courts in United States. This has been going on what seems to be forever. First they brought up the multi state lawsuit challenging the constitution of the law, that was in the US circuit court of appeals and now it is headed to the supreme court. Can't our government just get together and move on.\n0 comments on \"Health care law fight\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 7951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 193.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thelearningpress.com/video---meet-australias-best-teacher.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:52Z", "digest": "sha1:AW2EYSZ3AWNID3SWIZBKC3OBWASRPILU", "length": 1922, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thelearningpress.com", "title": "Video - Meet Australia's best teacher - The Learning Press", "raw_content": "Video - \ufeffAustralian teacher judged one of the best in the world\nPope Francis announces winner\nRick Johnson missed out on a $1.3 million prize this morning - but the Perth science teacher should be grinning like he won the lottery.\nThe fact that he was one of just ten people selected globally for the most glittering prize in teaching is a major coup for Australian education.\nThe fact that he brings that level of quality to an unpretentious primary school in rural WA speaks volumes for his humility and for the level of excellence that can be found in the government school system.\nThe Global Teacher Prize is a US $1 million award presented annually to \u201can exceptional teacher who has made an outstanding contribution to their profession\u201d.\nIt acknowledges and celebrates the impact of the best teachers on the planet - not only on their students but on the communities around them.\nFollowing a week of rock star treatment for all ten finalists in Dubai, the ceremony featured presentations from Matthew McConaughey and Salma Hayek, video messages from Bill Clinton and Prince William and a winner\u2019s announcement by Pope Francis himself.\nIt\u2019s all a long way from Rostrata Primary School, south of Perth, where 60-year-old Rick set up Australia\u2019s first school science laboratory specifically for young children.\nSupported by crowdfunding, donations from local businesses and a $25,000 grant he received for winning the 2013 Prime Minister\u2019s Prize for Science Teaching, the lab allows his primary-age students to engage with augmented reality resources and work on project areas such as robotics.\nThe winner of the Global Teaching Prize 2016 was Palestine\u2019s Hanan Al Hroub, who teaches children affected by violence to embrace learning through play and encourages peaceful resolution of school conflicts in a region beset by violence.\nOther finalists hailed from the UK, Japan, Finland, Kenya, the US, India and Pakistan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/doj-caves-will-show-lawmakers-additional-documents-on-spygate-informant/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:28Z", "digest": "sha1:F77YWCUK3IEIJRUZ5HDMFQAMKQJEAZKU", "length": 6203, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.thelibertybeacon.com", "title": "DOJ Caves, Will Show Lawmakers Additional Documents On \"Spygate\" Informant | The Liberty Beacon", "raw_content": "HomeGOVERNMENTDOJ Caves, Will Show Lawmakers Additional Documents On \u201cSpygate\u201d Informant\nDOJ Caves, Will Show Lawmakers Additional Documents On \u201cSpygate\u201d Informant\nJune 7, 2018 This article was posted by TLB Staff GOVERNMENT, Tyranny 0\nThe Department of Justice is planning to show senior lawmakers several highly-classified documents in an additional briefing on the FBI\u2019s use of a spy as part of a counterintelligence operation on the Trump campaign,Politico reports.\nA senior DOJ official said that the so-called \u201cGang of Eight\u201d will have an opportunity next Monday or Tuesday to review the additional documents which were not furnished during a high-level classified briefing in May.\n\u201cThe Department and FBI are prepared to brief members on certain questions specifically raised by the Speaker and other members,\u201d the DOJ official said. \u201cThe Department will also provide the documents that were available for review but not inspected by the members at the previous briefing along with some additional material.\u201d \u2013Politico\nThe group includes Reps Devin Nunes (R-CA), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Richard Burr (R-NC), Mark Warner (D-VA), Paul Ryan (R-WI), Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY).\nPaul Ryan and Trey Gowdy have notably said that the FBI\u2019s use of Halper to spy was appropriate, while President Trump has labeled the affair \u201cspygate.\u201d\nRep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) hit back on Fox News Wednesday evening, saying \u201cThere is no defense today for Paul Ryan siding with the FBI and Department of Justice against those of us in the Congress fighting for transparency and accountability.\u201d \u201cWe need the speaker to be an institutionalist for the Congress, not to be a defender of the deep state,\u201d he added.\nHeavy Spin\nIt\u2019s worth noting that Politico and seemingly every other mainstream organization seems to be trying to discredit or minimize \u201cspygate\u201d by suggesting that somehow Trump\u2019s original claim that the FBI \u201cplanted a spy within his ranks\u201d is somehow less insidious than revelations that the spying was done through targeted espionage involving Trump campaign aides.\nTrump has railed against the FBI and accused it of planting a spy within his ranksfor political purpose, though he\u2019s presented no evidence to support the claim, which he\u2019s labeled \u201cspygate.\u201d -Politico\nExcept we\u2019re a little beyond that. The fact that Halper spied on the Trump campaign for the FBI is not in dispute \u2013 though a vicious argument over semantics has ensued. Halper\u2019s contacts with the campaign were revealed in March of this year in a much-overlooked report by the Daily Caller \u2013 which was corroborated by the New York Times and Washington Post in May.\nHalper\u2019s infiltration of the Trump campaign also corresponds with the two of the four targets of the FBI\u2019s Operation Crossfire Hurricane.\nHalper\u2019s involvement in spying on the Jimmy Carter campaign ahead of the 1980 US election has been well documented. (read more about Halper here)\nEvidence that Halper received over $1 million in academic contracts from the Obama Pentagon going back to 2012 is not in dispute \u2013 in fact it\u2019s easily verifiable public record; with $282,000 awarded in 2016 and $129,000 in 2017 ($411,000 combined).\nAwarding Agency\nHQ003416P0148 HALPER, STEFAN 9/26/2016 3/29/2018 $411,575 Department of Defense\nHQ003415C0100 HALPER, STEFAN 9/24/2015 9/27/2016 $244,960 Department of Defense\n(h/t ProHeat)\nAnd as the Washington Post noted on Monday:\nHalper, a longtime source of information for U.S. intelligence and law enforcement personnel, used his position at Cambridge to reach out to three Trump advisers in 2016, introducing himself as a scholar interested in discussing foreign policy, according to people familiar with the interactions.\nRecent revelations that the 73-year-old academic was a confidential source for the FBIhave fueled President Trump\u2019s attacks on the Justice Department and the FBI. \u201cSpygate,\u201d as the president put it in a tweet, is a \u201cscandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!\u201d\nIn other words \u2013 Trump doesn\u2019t need to offer evidence of anything; there are more than enough data-points to call this \u201cspygate\u201d no matter how many times the Intelligence Community tries to say that Halper was but a humble elderly FBI \u201cinformant\u201d trying to help Trump by rooting out dastardly Russians in his midst (without notifying Trump, of course).\nAs an aside \u2013 Politifact\u2019s \u201cdebunking\u201d of Halper\u2019s payments as \u201cFalse\u201d is sadly very misleading \u2013 as they \u201cdebunk\u201d an obscure website\u2019s hyperbolic article with an indicated 52 views that reads:\n\u201cBOMBSHELL!! Obama Paid FBI Informant Over $1 MILLION To Do It To Trump!\u201d\nPolitifact latched onto the false claim that all the money was used on the Trump campaign\u2026\nAbout 40 percent of the money was awarded before Trump even got into the race in June 2015. So even if there were a tie between the contracts and Halper\u2019s conversations with Trump campaign advisers \u2013 and there\u2019s zero indication of that \u2014 the amount would be less than $1 million. \u2013Politifact\nWe couldn\u2019t find any other publications claiming that the entire $1 million-plus went towards spying on Trump\u2019s team except for the website used in Politifact\u2019s \u201cdebunking\u201d \u2013 which was registered in January of 2018 and has no Alexa rank.\nThe entire point of \u201cspygate\u201d is that the Obama administration paid a known FBI and CIA asset \u2013 whose father-in-law was Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA \u2013 over $1 million in contracts through the Department of Defense. The FBI/DOJ then spied on the Trump campaign for the FBI in an unprecedented abuse of power, while also using an unverified dossier assembled by a former British spy which used high-level Kremlin sources to obtain a FISA warrant to surveil former Trump aide Carter Page.\nAnd while Trey Gowdy and Paul Ryan may think the Obama administration was justified in their actions, \u201cspygate\u201d has all the appearances of a ham-handed setup in an attempt to cripple Donald Trump and ensure that Hillary Clinton won the 2016 election.\n(TLB) published this article from ZeroHedge. Our appreciation to Tyler Durden for making it available.\n\"Gang of Eight\"\nAngry Trump Forces Mattis Out Early, Names Former Boeing Exec As Acting SecDef", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 11917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themagnoliamamas.com/2015/02/book-club-february.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:TXMCTX3EP5O54RUPSBLWRJOLYVR4MUSJ", "length": 2903, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.themagnoliamamas.com", "title": "Magnolia Mamas : Book Club: February", "raw_content": "For awhile now we have been tossing around the idea of having a book club. We both love to read, and with Carrie Beth's New Year's resolutions fresh in mind, this seemed like the perfect time to kick it off.\nOur plan is the first of each month we will announce the book club selection, then the following month on the first we will kick back with a glass of wine (because all good book clubs require wine drinking right?), give our reviews and discuss the book with you guys in our comments section, and then announce the following month's selection.\nFun and easy enough right?\nWe both have similar tastes in reading, but will try to make sure we select something from all genres. We are also open to any suggestions and would love to hear from you for possible ideas on future selections.\nAnd even if reading isn't your thing, feel free to still kick back and have a glass of wine with us! :)\nOur first selection is Melanie Shankle's The Antelope in the Living Room.\nWe both love reading Melanie's Big Mama blog, and really enjoyed her first book Sparkly Green Earrings. Her blog is hilarious, and her take on life is refreshing.\nHere is the synopsis from the back cover:\nMarriage . . . you gotta laugh.\nThey say that marriage is a lot like insanity, in that they both require commitment. I so get that.\nWhen you\u2019re in those first giddy stages of dating, you have no idea what life is going to throw your way. You\u2019re just two bright-eyed kids full of optimism, convinced you\u2019re going to be the happiest married couple ever.\nY\u2019all. Trust me. Saying, \u201cI do\u201d is easy. It\u2019s the next fifty years or so that can get a little tricky.\nThere are days you feel like you\u2019ve never loved each other more. But there are also days filled with disappointment and silence that never seem to end because you just can\u2019t seem to find the words to make it right.\nMarriage can be the biggest blessing and the most significant challenge two people ever take on. It\u2019s the joy of knowing there\u2019s someone to share in your sorrows and triumphs, and the challenge of living with someone who thinks it\u2019s a good idea to hang a giant antelope head on your living room wall.\nAnd yet we are in this thing together. For the rest of our lives. Not just for better or for worse, but for better AND for worse.\nThat\u2019s what this book is about. The times that brought us together and the times we were falling apart. The days we wouldn\u2019t trade for anything in the world, and that time he hung an antelope on my wall.\nMelanie (aka Big Mama)\nSee you on March 1st! Happy Reading Everyone!\nI wish I could join in, but I'm eyeball deep in the Outlander series. I'm on book 6 out of 8, so maybe I'll be able to join in at some point!\nMagnolia Mamas February 3, 2015 at 5:38 PM\nAndrea, too funny because I just took a break from that series! I paused at the end of book four. Have fun finishing it out and look forward to you popping in later! ~ Jen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themiamiplanet.org/2014/06/18/decompression-chamber-saves-lives/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HWOCG6AOCLP3SSASZ3PQP7HZVFOL5DYB", "length": 5846, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.themiamiplanet.org", "title": "Decompression chamber saves lives | The Miami Planet", "raw_content": "Photo by Mira Shah Dr. Gabriel Idrovo's medical center with decompression chamber\nHelps divers who stay down too long, come up too quickly\nBy Jane McKee\nUniversity of Miami, Music Business\nDr. Gabriel Idrovo, a middle-aged man with a round face and salt and pepper hair, was standing beside a massive, white machine in his medical center in the Galapagos Islands. The machine looked something like a small spaceship.\nThe immense, cylindrical contraption, with a couple of round windows and a red and blue stripe running horizontally along its sides, was a decompression or hyperbaric chamber, a medical device used to treat divers who stay down too long or ascend too quickly and suffer decompression sickness, sometimes referred to as the bends.\nDecompression sickness can cause damage to the brain, lungs and other parts of the body, and it can be fatal.\n\u201cThis chamber saved a lot of lives,\u201d Dr. Idrovo said in a conversation with me. .\nDr. Idrovo, 51, was born in Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecuador, and has been practicing medicine in Santa Cruz for years. He first came to the Galapagos, in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, when he was 25 years old to replace a friend for a month as a doctor on a cruise ship. The friend decided not to return and Dr. Idrovo stayed on for a year.\nHe worked as a Galapagos National Park guide and as a scuba instructor for a while. Then he went to Paris for further medical training and lived there for eight years.\nDr. Idrovo came back to the Galapagos in 2001 to take charge of a decompression chamber and later began his general medical practice. Now he operates a decompression chamber and sees a range of patients in his general practice.\nThe decompression chamber is in the same building as Dr. Idrovo\u2019s general practice. He treats local people and tourists daily. A visit to the clinic is $30 for people who live in the Galapagos and $50 for tourists.\nDr. Idrovo said he designed his sleek, modern office building himself. It sits on a quiet street in Puerto Ayora, the largest town on the island of Santa Cruz. The chamber is past the waiting room to the left, tucked away in the back of the building, separate from his office and his patient evaluation rooms.\nDiving is big business in the Galapagos. Dr. Idrovo began working with a decompression chamber in the Galapagos 13 years ago when scuba tourism was growing rapidly and many commercial fishermen were diving for sea cucumbers, slug-like sea creatures, which are prized in China and other Asian countries as a delicacy and as an aphrodisiac.\nStarting in the early 1990s and into the early 2000s, demand from Asia for sea cucumbers was booming. Hundreds of people in the Galapagos were diving for them. It was a dangerous business.\nDivers can remain underwater for a limited time. The deeper they dive the less time they can safely stay at the bottom.\nCommercial divers routinely worked for hours at depths reaching 165 feet. The standard for scuba divers is to spend no more than four minutes at 165 feet.\nWhen divers stay down too long or surface too fast, nitrogen builds up in their bodies, sometimes causing the bends.\nResearchers say sea cucumber fishermen stayed under water for long periods because they feared that if they left a spot where they had found a lot of sea cucumbers, another diver would come in a take over the harvest.\nSea cucumber fishermen used a long breathing hose connected to an air compressor on a boat at the surface. The hose approach is appropriately named the hookah method of diving.\nSometimes the compressor\u2019s motor ran out of gas and the, air supply was cut off. Divers then quickly surfaced without taking a safety stop. Safety stops are common practice in diving. They allow divers\u2019 bodies time to naturally recover underwater from high nitrogen levels. Unsafe diving procedures can lead to paralysis, coma, and seizures. All are symptoms of the bends.\nTreatment before the chamber arrived was insufficient. \u201cAll they could do was send them to a hospital with oxygen and wait until they died,\u201d Dr. Idrovo said. Six to 10 sea cucumber fishermen were dying every year. When the decompression chamber arrived, 30 fishermen a week were being treated.\nCommercial divers severely depleted the sea cucumber population in the Galapagos. The government has enacted regulations to control the diving areas and seasons for sea cucumber fishing and environmentalists say they hope that the restrictions will allow the population to replenish.\nDr. Idrovo treats half a dozen scuba divers each year. Lately, he said, he has not been seeing commercial fishermen as patients.\nHe also uses his decompression chamber to treat patients with burns and open wounds, some caused by infection. The concentrated oxygen in the chamber leads to a faster than usual regeneration of damaged cells.\nThe treatment is known as hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Dr. Idrovo said about 40 people a year receive this therapy at his clinic.\nDr. Idrovo treated one woman in the chamber with an infected mosquito bite. Her infected leg was covered in raw wounds with blackened and dangling skin that hung from her leg. He said that after treatment in the chamber, the woman\u2019s leg was almost completely restored to normal.\nClaudia Molina is a dive instructor at Scuba Iguana, one of many dive shops in Puerto Ayora. She said that at least five of her customers have been treated in Dr. Idrovo\u2019s decompression chamber.\nMolina has also been treated in the chamber. She felt dizzy after a long, deep dive and worried that she had decompression sickness. She is not sure how serious her case was but she said, \u201cI am thankful for the chamber. \u201c #\n2 responses to \u201cDecompression chamber saves lives\u201d\nNicely written article, Jane! Loved hearing about Idrovo and his decompression chamber. Wish I could go there again.\nbrackman says:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 9895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themonstercouponbook.com/blog/day-trip-charleston/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:N6LLLWCI34CGYLJXPBGZABQTSHOME7KF", "length": 1896, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.themonstercouponbook.com", "title": "Day Trip to Charleston | The Monster Coupon Book", "raw_content": "Charleston is a beautiful and historic location on the coast of South Carolina. It\u2019s known for its cobblestone streets, brightly colored buildings, and horse-drawn carriages. The rich history, excellent dining, vast shopping make it one of the most visited cities in the south. If you find your way down to Charleston, be sure to pick up your Monster Coupon Book to get all the best deals during your coastal adventure!\nIf you\u2019re looking at spending a day in Charleston, be sure to check out Charleston Adventures! The round trip departs from Myrtle Beach in an air-conditioned motor coach. Once you arrive, you will take a horse-drawn carriage tour around the historic district of downtown Charleston. One of Charleston\u2019s most popular attractions, the carriage rides give you an experience of the city like no other.\nOnce the tour ends, you will wander around and do some shopping if you please at the City Market downtown. Filled with new and historical products, there\u2019s no telling what you\u2019ll find. The sweetgrass baskets are a staple of Charleston and southern lifestyle and it will be hard not to take one home.\nYou\u2019ll be able to take a relaxing trip around the Charleston Harbor with a tour aboard the Carolina Belle. The harbor is one of the most significant historical landmarks for the city of Charleston. It is home to Fort Sumter and is one of the main reasons that Charleston grew to be the size it did.\nYou\u2019ll finish up your tour at the Boone Hall Planation, one of America\u2019s oldest working plantations. Founded in 1743, Boone Hall\u2019s spectacular southern landscaping will take you back several centuries.\nBefore you book that day trip to Charleston, don\u2019t forget to grab your Monster Coupon Book to take advantage of these great deals!\nFiled Under: Attractions Tagged With: Boone Hall Plantation, Charleston South Carolina, City Market Charleston, Day trip to Charleston, Sweetgrass", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 6262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thenews.pl/1/5/Artykul/386865,Football-Poland-lose-23-to-Portugal-in-Nations-League-clash", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WAES2N3QMDOPALQEDRCKEP34G4PXFYIP", "length": 2224, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thenews.pl", "title": "Football: Poland lose 2-3 to Portugal in Nations League - Radio Poland :: News from Poland", "raw_content": "Football: Poland lose 2-3 to Portugal in Nations League\nPoland on Thursday lost 2-3 to Portugal in their second match of the new UEFA Nations League, a sobering home defeat that exposed the side's frailties and left fans in low spirits.\nKrzysztof Pi\u0105tek (right) powers home a header for Poland against Portugal at the Silesian Stadium in Chorz\u00f3w on Thursday. Photo: PAP/Andrzej Grygiel\nGenoa striker Krzysztof Pi\u0105tek headed home a corner to put Poland 1-0 up in the 18th minute of the game in the southern Polish city of Chorz\u00f3w, but Andre Silva equalised for Portugal from close range in the 31st.\nAn own goal from defender Kamil Glik after an unsuccessful sliding tackle handed Portugal the lead in the 42nd minute.\nBernardo Silva sealed the victory for the visitors in the 52nd even though substitute Jakub B\u0142aszczykowski slammed in a second goal for Poland from a cross in the 77th minute.\nThe clash at Chorz\u00f3w\u2019s revamped Silesian Stadium marked the 100th international cap for Poland star striker Robert Lewandowski, who, however, failed to impress the crowd of around 55,000, Polish public broadcaster TVP said.\nPoland in early September drew 1-1 with Italy in their first match in the group stage of the UEFA Nations League. That game, at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara in Bologna, was a promising debut by Jerzy Brz\u0119czek as manager of the Polish national squad. He took over after Poland\u2019s early exit from the World Cup in Russia.\nPoland were in January drawn to play Italy and Portugal in the group stage of the UEFA Nations League, a new competitive football format designed to replace most international friendlies in Europe.\nEuropean nations were arranged into four Leagues, A, B, C and D, based on their UEFA ranking at the time.\nPoland play Italy and Portugal at home and away in Group 3 of the top League A.\nThe winner of the group will advance to the Nations League finals in June next year along with the winners of three other League A groups, while the loser will be relegated to League B.\nThe Nations League offers an alternative path for teams to qualify for the Euro 2020 championships.\nPoland will on Sunday take on Italy in their next Nations League encounter in Chorz\u00f3w.\nSource: TVP Sport, Polsat Sport, PAP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theowlsapprove.com/2017/05/whiskey-tango-foxtrot.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:00Z", "digest": "sha1:QPJQJRMAXULDAQ2HZQ2SOW27RXSIFGQF", "length": 3004, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.theowlsapprove.com", "title": "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot - The Owls Approve", "raw_content": "Yes, that's his show name. I've already ordered him a halter with that on the plate. My vet called me classy.\nIf you haven't seen my IG or Facebook today, it's official: Whiskey is mine.\nSomeone taught this horse to hug.\nHe had a pre-purchase this morning and passed with flying colors. Everything was fine, he's a perfectly normal, sound horse. In the future, he might need shoes if we're jumping a lot. He sticked at about 16.1\u00bd hands and looks somewhere around 12. At the beginning of the appointment, my vet commented on how he's always liked the look of Whiskey.\nI'm going to send off some samples to Texas A&M and we're going to play a little game - WTF is Whiskey? I'll let you know when that game starts.\nSo if you're wondering how we got here:\nstarted riding him after my miscarriage\nowner found new owners, and I happened to be at the barn when they were leaving\nI gave the new owners my number and asked them to give me a call if it didn't work out\nthe daughter called me the day before they were supposed to pick him up and said that he was too tall\nI immediately called his owner and said that I was interested. I scheduled a farrier visit and the pre-purchase exam\nThis carries on the tradition of pulling my horses unused from pastures, riding them a little bit, and buying them without looking at any other horses.\nCongratulations, Beka! I'm super happy for you. If I ever make it to GA, I'd love to meet him and you!\nCongrats! Great name\nEmily Rodgers May 12, 2017 at 5:33 PM\nHe's just SOOOOO cute!!!! I am so incredibly happy for you!!!\nHe's so cute, congrats!\noutofashes May 12, 2017 at 6:09 PM\nCongratulations!!! He is super cute, can't wait to see what TAMU tells you he is!\nneversummer May 12, 2017 at 6:40 PM\nWhy would you bother to look for horses!? The best ones are always the ones that just show up. So glad you ended up with him!\nCongrats! He's a cutie.\nPiccolopony May 13, 2017 at 12:34 AM\nCongratulations! I'm so happy for you and I love the name :)\nCarly May 13, 2017 at 5:44 AM\nSuch drama! Much suspense! So happy things all worked out in the end!!\nSaiph A May 13, 2017 at 7:57 AM\nHis show name is my favoritest ever!!! I'm so happy for you!\nYes I love this. I can not wait to raw more <3\nSprinklerBandit May 13, 2017 at 12:04 PM\nHooray!! He's a cool looking horse. :-)\nTBA May 13, 2017 at 6:47 PM\nYay, congrats! He's so cute, I love his name :)\nNicku Bruce May 14, 2017 at 11:43 AM\nSuch good news!! Congratulations!\nNicole Sharpe May 14, 2017 at 12:47 PM\nI'm so happy it worked out this way!!\nTracy Beavers May 14, 2017 at 6:43 PM\nTeresaA May 15, 2017 at 6:35 AM\nCarey May 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM\nCONGRATS!! I am so happy it worked out! He is a cutie and I'm looking forward to seeing his face on your blog more :)\nSo freaking happy for you guys!! Congrats!\nBritt Gillis May 17, 2017 at 11:30 AM\nThrilled for you. His sweet face makes me itch for my camera. I can't wait to see more of him in the future!\nrooth May 18, 2017 at 3:31 PM\nI LOVE the name\nYayyyyyy happy for you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 458, "original_length": 11952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.therapyzone1.co.uk/palliative-care.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:18Z", "digest": "sha1:2JTFECVFD6RSJ3MBZV5F6N6HMJMHMQID", "length": 1134, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.therapyzone1.co.uk", "title": "Therapy Zone1", "raw_content": "Claire worked at a local Hospice from 2008 till May 2015. She has a Diploma in Complementary Therapies in Palliative Care which covers therapies to work on patients with palliative and terminal illnesses. Claire has gained a vast amount of knowledge working on patients with various cancers, neurological disorders like MS, MND, PD, PSP as well as those with heart failure. Therapies are adapted to help patients achieve a sense of control and well-being during their illness.\nTherapy options are usually Clinical Aromatherapy and Clinical Reflexology and are shorter in duration. Very light pressure and altered techniques are used to suit each person.\nShe was a member of the Regional Cancer Care Network (NEYHCN), setting criteria for therapists working in the Palliative Care environment, as well as being a member of the National Association of Complementary Therapists in Palliative Care.\nClaire also provides training about complementary therapies in the Palliative Care setting to Doctors, Nurses and ancillary staff. If you work in a clinical environment and wish tuition for staff, please contact Claire for further details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theretreats.com/hairvgo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:27Z", "digest": "sha1:VJ2QPZV5YJ3ZABSYDEFQVTRQ5JTDIK27", "length": 956, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.theretreats.com", "title": "Hair V Go \u2013 The Retreat", "raw_content": "Hair V Go is a simple yet innovative alkaline solution to effectively treat, clear and reduce fine, downy vellus hair and has been specifically formulated to remove the so-called \u201cpeach-fuzz\u201d.\nDepending on the volume and density of vellus hair growth, you may need multiple treatments. The treatment is applied in 3-steps:\n1. Hair V Go is applied to treatable area to break down keratin (the protein structure of vellus hair) into small peptides. This dissolves the hair deep inside the hair follicle.\n2. Hair V Go is removed from the skin and a neutralizing product that restores the skin\u2019s acid mantle.\n3. A hair-growth retardation cream is applied to the treated area. This will slow down growth of any future hair growth. The Hair Growth Reduction Cream will be continued to be applied daily as part of a home treatment plan. The cream can also be used on other areas of the face and body regardless of the hair removal method (laser, shaving, waxing).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.therxforum.com/showthread.php?t=1111761&page=24&p=12603493", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:03Z", "digest": "sha1:IBIF3KKR4HWC27ZY5B2JJUXAN2R625EZ", "length": 26059, "nlines": 221, "source_domain": "www.therxforum.com", "title": "Cnotes 2018 wnba picks,trends,notes,news ! - Page 24", "raw_content": "Monday\u2019s six-pack\nInteresting pointspreads for next weekend\u2019s college football games:\n\u2014 Mississippi State (-7.5) @ Kansas State\n\u2014 Georgia (-9.5) @ South Carolina\n\u2014 Colorado @ Nebraska (-4.5)\n\u2014 Clemson (-11.5) vs Texas A&M\n\u2014 Penn State (-8) @ Pittsburgh\n\u2014 USC @ Stanford (-3.5)\n\u201cI like both guys, they both are really good players, quit trying to get me to say something negative about one of these guys\u201d\nNick Saban, talking about his top two QB\u2019s after Saturday night\u2019s rout of Louisville\nWho was the last team the Browns beat in a regular season game?\nRobert Griffin III was the Browns\u2019 QB last time they won a regular season game, in 2016.\nNorv Turner was the Chargers\u2019 coach last time they finished 1st (or tied for 1st) in AFC West.\nMonday\u2019s List of 13: Wrapping up a sports weekend\u2026\u2026.\n13) NFL happenings:\n\u2014 Giants waived backup QB Davis Webb, claimed an NFL-high six players off waivers, three of whom are defensive backs. Webb was a 3rd-round draft pick LY.\n\u2014 Denver Broncos dumped QB Paxton Lynch, their first round pick two years ago. Broncos also cut four of their eight draft picks from 2017.\n12) Football writer Gary Myers posted Sunday that new Giants coach Pat Shurmur was steamed that Webb never got to play in an NFL game LY, so he could see him play on tape, in real action.\nShurmur can thank his current starting QB for that development.\nOf the 53 players on the Giants\u2019 roster, 27 of them weren\u2019t Giants LY, 26 of them were.\n11) Saturday was the first college football Saturday with legalized wagering in Mississippi, and the GoldStrong MGM hotel in Tunica was sold out- the lines in the sportsbook were out into the lobby. They only have 4 or 5 windows for betting.\n10) PGA Tour was in Boston last week; golfer Patrick Reed got some free tickets to the Red Sox game at Fenway, then had the onions to complain about them, saying the tickets were \u201c..\u2026in the line drive section\u201d He\u2019s not the most likable guy.\n9) Astros have surprisingly lost Justin Verlander\u2019s last five home starts.\n8) Thru his first 177 major league at-bats, Padres rookie Franmil Reyes had 13 homers, but only 19 RBI. That is hard to do.\nHe is hitting .298 with the bases empty, .161 (9 for 56) with men on base.\n7) Now that Aaron Donald has a contract with $87M in guarantees, he\u2019s going to get his mother to quit her job driving a bus, which she\u2019s done for the last 20 years.\n6) Peter Alonso has 35 homers, 117 RBI in the minor leagues this season, splitting time between AA and AAA- he hit .314 in the Eastern League, is hitting .261 in the PCL.\nWhy won\u2019t the Mets bring him up? Shouldn\u2019t they promote productive players?\n5) Good luck to Sam the Bugler, who is retiring after 25 years of calling horses onto the track at New York racetracks. Sam Grossman is the guy\u2019s real name; he actually has a bobblehead that the NYRA gave out to fans a few years ago.\n4) Dodger bullpen hasn\u2019t helped Clayton Kershaw much this season; they\u2019re 11-10 in his starts this year, but they\u2019re 13-6-2 in the first five innings of those starts.\n3) New England Patriots obviously dominate the AFC East; they\u2019ve won that lame division 17 years in a row, but Patriots have lost four of their last five visits to Miami.\n2) If your kid is in college and wants to be a sports broadcaster, tell him to study hard- there is a young man at Syracuse doing SU football games\u2014 Ian Eagle\u2019s son, and he\u2019s going to get a job before your kid does. Very difficult to become a professional announcer\u2014 lot of times you need serious connections, just to get your foot in the door.\nIf you\u2019re lucky enough to get your foot in the door, you best be really good, to keep your job.\n1) Apparently Aretha Franklin didn\u2019t have a will, so the wrangling over her estate is going to be drawn out; she was worth millions, and has four sons. As usual, there will be lawyers.\nOver/under totals on number of TD passes thrown this season:\n33.5\u2014 Aaron Rodgers\n32.5\u2014 Tom Brady\n26.5\u2014 Brees, Rivers, Stafford, Watson\n25.5\u2014 Cousins, Prescott, Wilson\nArmadillo: Tuesday's List of 13: Things I learned while watching way too much TV\n13) Texas Tech\u2019s marching band was the first marching band to to travel to its school\u2019s road football games, way back in 1925.\n12) Actor Dennis Quaid is left-handed; he was a quarterback in Any Given Sunday, a relief pitcher in The Rookie.\n11) Since he became the starter ten years ago, Green Bay is 94-48 when Aaron Rodgers starts for them; they\u2019re 6-11-1 in games he\u2019s missed.\n10) Pittsburgh\u2019s Joe Musgrove began Thursday\u2019s game with 21 consecutive strikes, the most by any starting pitcher to begin a game since pitches were first tracked in 1988.\n9) There are 48 college football games this season where the visiting team is getting a guarantee of at least $1M. At the highest level, college sports is very big business.\n8) There is a movie called Owning Mahowny that is about a bank manager with:\n(a) a gambling problem and\n(b) access to a multimillion dollar bank account;\nThe movie is based on the true story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history. It stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Minnie Driver.\n7) Milwaukee\u2019s Christian Yelich is the first player with a cycle, a 5th hit and an outfield assist all in the same game since Andre Dawson on April 29, 1987. Yelich had his big night Wednesday in Cincinnati.\n6) Baltimore Ravens have won their last 14 preseason games; they\u2019re also 21-27 in the regular season the last three years, haven\u2019t made the playoffs since 2014.\n5) Now I feel old: Trent Green\u2019s son is the backup QB at Northwestern.\n4) Something is amiss with the Red Sox\u2019 front office; David Howard, who has been Boston\u2019s minor league field coordinator for nine years, has been fired- no word on why. Odd timing.\n3) The other night in Fenway Park, Red Sox scored 11 runs in an inning; Andrew Benitendi made the first out of the inning with a sacrifice bunt, then ended the inning by grounding into a double play. Research Doug Kern looked this up, and says that has never happened before in the big leagues.\n2) Friday night\u2019s Detroit-New York baseball game was first one this year where both managers were ejected. Ejections have to be way down since instant replay became a thing.\n1) There are 24 grad transfer QB\u2019s in college football this season, which means a kid got his degree at one school, wasn\u2019t happy with his playing situation and went elsewhere to finish his college career.\nPhoenix @ Seattle\nWashington is 2-4-1 ATS in its last 7 games when playing Atlanta\nThe total has gone UNDER in 4 of Washington's last 6 games when playing Atlanta\nWashington is 3-7-2 ATS in its last 12 games when playing on the road against Atlanta\nWashington is 6-13 SU in its last 19 games when playing on the road against Atlanta\nAtlanta is 17-3-1 ATS in its last 21 games\nThe total has gone UNDER in 12 of Atlanta's last 18 games\nAtlanta is 5-0-1 ATS in its last 6 games at home\nThe total has gone UNDER in 15 of Atlanta's last 20 games at home\nAtlanta is 4-7-2 ATS in its last 13 games when playing Washington\nThe total has gone UNDER in 4 of Atlanta's last 6 games when playing Washington\nAtlanta is 2-3-2 ATS in its last 7 games when playing at home against Washington\nAtlanta is 13-6 SU in its last 19 games when playing at home against Washington\nPhoenix is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games\nThe total has gone OVER in 6 of Phoenix's last 9 games\nPhoenix is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games on the road\nThe total has gone OVER in 6 of Phoenix's last 8 games on the road\nPhoenix is 16-7 ATS in its last 23 games when playing Seattle\nPhoenix is 16-7 SU in its last 23 games when playing Seattle\nPhoenix is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Seattle\nPhoenix is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Seattle\nPhoenix is 7-3 SU in its last 10 games when playing on the road against Seattle\nThe total has gone OVER in 6 of Phoenix's last 8 games when playing on the road against Seattle\nSeattle is 7-16 ATS in its last 23 games when playing Phoenix\nSeattle is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Phoenix\nSeattle is 7-16 SU in its last 23 games when playing Phoenix\nSeattle is 0-5 ATS in its last 5 games when playing at home against Phoenix\nSeattle is 3-7 SU in its last 10 games when playing at home against Phoenix\nThe total has gone OVER in 6 of Seattle's last 8 games when playing at home against Phoenix\nB]Mystics-Dream series comes down to decisive Game 5\nThe Associated Press[/B]\nThe WNBA best-of-five semifinal series between Washington and Atlanta has lived up to its potential, delivering a little of everything in four games played during the past week -- great defense, back-and-forth action, heroic performances, and an offensive eruption by the Mystics that pushed the teams into a win-or-go-home matchup.\nThat fifth game will be at McCamish Pavilion in Atlanta on Tuesday and the winner will advance to the league finals to face Seattle or Phoenix, who will also play a fifth and deciding game on Tuesday.\nThe Mystics forced a fifth game with a 97-76 rout of the Dream on Sunday afternoon in Washington. All-Star forward Elena Delle Donne, who missed Game 3 of the series with a left knee bone bruise, returned to pour in 15 points and grab 10 rebounds for Washington.\nKristi Toliver led Washington with 22 points and rookie Ariel Atkins added 19. Natasha Cloud scored 13 and LaToya Sanders had 10 points as the Mystics shot 50 percent from the field.\n\"Obviously, it's a nice present to see her in uniform ready to go,\" Washington coach Mike Thibault said of Delle Donne. \"She just gives everybody else around her confidence that we kind of got this, that we have the best player in the game on the court. And that helps a lot mentally.\"\nThe Mystics put away the Dream via a 22-7 run at the beginning of the fourth quarter after Atlanta had cut Washington's advantage to five points late in the third quarter.\nDelle Donne's participation in the series finale will be a game-time decision, the team said, but expect to see the Mystics' \"Superwoman\" on the court.\nTiffany Hayes, Renee Montgomery, Brittney Sykes and Jessica Breland each scored 12 points for the Dream in Game 4.\n\"Our mindset is to just to fix our mistakes that we made in this game, look back on it, how can we do better, how can we stick together and bounce back and have a completely different mindset going into the next game and to win,\" Dream forward Monique Billings said.\nAtlanta has home-court advantage for the decisive game, and in a series that has been so evenly played, that could be a huge difference-maker. The Dream, who closed the regular season winning 16 of their final 19 games, haven't lost two in a row since June 27-29.\nAtlanta has grabbed 158 rebounds in the four games against Washington, which is a franchise best for a playoff series.\n\"If you told me in February or May or June, even in early July that we would have one game with a chance to go to the Finals I'd be pretty excited,\" Atlanta coach Nicki Collen said after the Game 4 loss. \"I certainly told (the players) we have to learn from this game, but we also have to flush. We've built up too much momentum to hang our heads.\"\nThe teams split the first two games in Atlanta, with the Dream fighting back from a double-digit deficit to win Game 2. Delle Donne averaged 29.5 points and 13.5 rebounds in the first two games.\nMercury, Storm meet in Game 5 for trip to finals\nAs the Seattle Storm quickly learned, you can never count out Diana Taurasi and the Phoenix Mercury.\nBehind Taurasi, Brittney Griner and DeWanna Bonner, who combined for 72 points, the Mercury rallied from a 17-point deficit Sunday to defeat the top-seeded Storm 86-84, forcing a decisive Game 5 in their WNBA semifinal series Tuesday night in Seattle.\n\"We protected our house, that was our goal,\" Mercury coach Sandy Brondello said. \"We're just very excited that we get to play a fifth game. Obviously, it's on Seattle's home court, but we have played well away from home this year. We'll go in there and put on a good showing and may the best team win.\"\nThe Mercury became the first team in league history to force a Game 5 after dropping the first two games of a series. The Storm suffered back-to-back losses for the first time this season.\n\"It's been a very equal series, which you would expect because the teams are so familiar with each other,\" Storm coach Dan Hughes said. \"But we worked all year to get a chance to play Game 5 at home, so we'll value that.\"\nStorm point guard Sue Bird left Sunday's game with 4:23 left in the first half after suffering a broken nose, the result of an inadvertent elbow from teammate Breanna Stewart, the league's MVP. It was the fifth time Bird has broken her nose in her pro career.\n\"She's obviously the brain of that team and she kind of makes them go,\" Taurasi said of Bird, her former UConn teammate. \"It was a matter of just buckling down and knowing if we didn't play well, the season was going to be over. They brought their best effort; I think we did too. It comes down to making a couple of plays at the end of the game and we did that (Sunday).\"\nThe Mercury have done that all series. They've outscored the Storm 94-47 in the fourth quarter of the first four games.\nThe Storm had a 16-point lead in the opener and a 17-point lead in Game 2, both in Seattle, before holding on for 91-87 victories, the latter in overtime.\n\"These series, they are a grind because you're seeing the same people, the same plays, and it becomes a mind game. ... The momentum seems to be in their favor, and we're going to have to figure out how to switch that back to us,\" said Bird, who vowed to play in Game 5, albeit likely with a facemask.\nPHO at SEA\t10:00 PM\nMystics earn 1st trip to WNBA Finals, beating Dream 86-81\nBy By PAUL NEWBERRY\nATLANTA (AP) Elena Delle Donne had a rather quiet night by her high standards.\nThe Washington Mystics are headed to the WNBA Finals for the first time in franchise history .\nRookie Ariel Atkins, Kristi Toliver and Tianna Hawkins picked up the slack for the Mystics, who held off the Atlanta Dream 86-81 in the decisive fifth game of their semifinal series Tuesday night.\n''Wow,'' coach Mike Thibault said. ''We're here because we're persistent, we're resilient and we play together.''\nThe Dream led 71-69 with just under 7 minutes remaining but suddenly went cold at the worst time of a turnaround season. Washington seized the lead with a 9-0 run and survived a desperation 3-pointer by Tiffany Hayes, earning a spot in the Finals against Seattle.\nDelle Donne was held to 14 points, far below the 24.7 she was averaging in the series despite missing Game 3 with a knee injury. She did make a big jumper with 1:41 remaining, and sealed the victory with four straight free throws in the closing seconds.\nYet this was really about Atkins, playing with the poise of a veteran while scoring 20 points. And Toliver, who came up huge in the first half and finished with 19. And don't forget Hawkins, who chipped in with 17.\n''That's why I came to D.C. - to make history,'' Toliver said. ''It's very special to do it with this group of people. We just have a great, great locker room. It's an exciting time to be a D.C. fan and I'm glad I'm on the winning side of it right now.''\nAlex Bentley scored 16 points to lead five Atlanta players in double figures. But the Dream couldn't overcome the loss of star Angel McCoughtry late in the regular season to a knee injury.\n''I just got done bawling in the locker room,'' said red-eyed Nicki Collen, who earned coach of the year honors in her debut season for leading the Dream to a 23-11 record - an 11-win improvement over 2017. ''I'm incredibly proud of this team. We're further ahead than I thought we would be when I took this job.\n''Damn, a hell of a year.''\nThe first half was a back-and-forth offensive show, even though Delle Donne was limited to four points.\nToliver carried the load with 17 points - much of it from long range. She knocked down a 3-pointer from almost 30 feet and even tried one from just inside the midcourt stripe.\nThe Dream responded with a more balanced attack, led by Bentley with 11 points off the bench, and were up 50-49 at halftime.\nBoth teams clamped down defensively in the second half.\nIn the end, Washington got the stops that mattered. After Bentley hit a 3 and Washington failed to get the ball inbounds, Atlanta had a chance to tie. But Bentley couldn't get open, forcing Hayes to thrown up a wild shot that didn't hit anything.\n''We knew offense was not going to win this game,'' Toliver said. ''We knew it would come down to defense and rebounding.''\nWashington grabbed 17 offensive rebounds.\nHOLDING HER TONGUE\nCollen and her players were not happy with the way the game was called - especially in the fourth quarter.\nThe Dream was whistled for 21 fouls, compared to 10 for the Mystics. Renee Montgomery fouled out, depriving Atlanta of a much-needed 3-point threat in the closing seconds.\nWashington finished 16 of 19 from the foul line. Atlanta was 8 of 9.\n''There's a lot I really could say that I'm not supposed to say,'' Collen said. ''So I'm going to hold my tongue about what I'm not supposed to say.''\nDelle Donne did lead the Mystics with 11 rebounds. She also had four assists, two blocks and a steal. ... Montgomery and Brittney Sykes had 15 points each for the Dream. Hayes added 13 and Elizabeth Williams 10. Jessica Breland grabbed 12 rebounds. ... Breland hobbled to the bench after a wild scramble in the lane midway through the third quarter but was able to return about 2 1/2 minutes later.\nAfter watching the game from the bench, McCoughtry grabbed a microphone to thank the home crowd for their support.\n''We've got a great team,'' she said. ''We'll be back.''\nFRENZIED THIRD\nHawkins took over for Washington in the final 2 minutes of the third quarter, single-handedly ripping off an 8-0 run with a pair of 3-pointers and a fast-break layup that turned a 61-59 deficit into a 67-61 lead for the Mystics.\nBut the Dream finished the period on a high. After Delle Donne missed wide-open 3 from the top of the key, Montgomery raced to the other end of the court, curled behind a pick and hurled up a 3-pointer at the buzzer that cut the deficit to 67-64 heading to the final period.\nThe Dream missed out on the fourth trip to the Finals in franchise history. They were swept in each of their three previous appearances.\nThe Mystics were in the semifinals for the second year in a row. This time, they made it over the hump.\nBy TIM BOOTH SEATTLE (AP)\nSue Bird scored 14 of her 22 points in the fourth quarter, and the Seattle Storm advanced to the WNBA Finals for the third time in franchise history rallying for a 94-84 win over the Phoenix Mercury in Game 5 on Tuesday night.\nPlaying with a broken nose suffered in Game 4 and wearing a protective mask, Bird struggled with her shot for the first three quarters, but got hot in the closing minutes. She knocked down three straight jumpers midway through the fourth quarter, including a pair of 3-pointers.\nAfter a contentious jump ball that left Bird screaming at officials begging for a foul, Bird added another 3 and pushed Seattle's lead to 84-76 with 2:51 remaining. Bird handed her friend and Phoenix star Diana Taurasi her first career loss in a winner-take-all game. Taurasi had been 13-0 in her career in those situations, but couldn't overcome the longest tenured Storm player from going off in the fourth quarter. ''I don't know, law of averages? At some point it has to happen,'' Bird said of Taurasi's streak ending.\n''This game wasn't anything more than two teams battling it out and one coming out on top.'' League MVP Breanna Stewart led Seattle with 28 points and carried the scoring load through the first three quarters until Bird took over late. Alysha Clark added 13 points and Sami Whitcomb provided a spark with 11 off the bench. Seattle will face the Washington Mystics in the finals. Game 1 is Friday in Seattle.\n''It's been a great run. When the season started I wasn't sure what was going to happen and now we're in the Finals,'' Bird said. Taurasi finished with 17 points, but the Mercury were unable to overcome losing the first two games of the series in Seattle.\nBrittney Griner led Phoenix with 21 points but had just three in the fourth quarter. Yvonne Turner matched her career high with 19 points, but was scoreless in the fourth quarter. Seattle outscored Phoenix 35-21 in the fourth quarter. It looked good for Phoenix early, jumping to a 10-point lead in the opening minutes and leading by 11 points midway through the second quarter.\nBut Seattle chipped away, pulled even late in the third quarter and eventually taking its first lead on Jordin Canada's 3-pointer with 8:20 remaining to go ahead 66-63. That's when Stewart and Bird took over, combining to score the next 18 points for Seattle, 11 of those by Bird, as part of an 18-6 run to take control.\nWNBA Playoff Schedule\nGame 1 \u2014 Washington @ Seattle: Friday, 9 PM ET, ESPNews\nGame 2 \u2014 Washington @ Seattle: Sunday, 3:30 PM ET, ABC\nGame 3 \u2014 Seattle @ Washington: Wednesday, September 12, 8 PM ET, ESPN2\nGame 4* \u2014 Seattle @ Washington: Friday, September 14, 8 PM ET, ESPN2\nGame 5* \u2014 Washington @ Seattle: Sunday, September 16, 8 PM ET, ESPN2\nWNBA SEMI'S BEST BETS:\nTOTALS............6 - 2..........75.00%....+19.00\nWNBA Finals Cheat Sheet\nThe 2018 WNBA Finals will begin on Friday Sept. 7 as the Seattle Storm and Washington Mystics meet in a best-of-five series.\nOddsmakers opened the Storm as minus-265 favorites (Bet $100 to win $37) to win the series while the Mystics have a return of plus-210 (Bet $100 to win $210).\nGame 1 \u2013 Washington at Seattle (Friday, Sept. 7, 9:00 p.m. ET)\nGame 2 \u2013 Washington at Seattle (Sunday, Sept. 9, 3:30 p.m. ET)\nGame 3 \u2013 Seattle at Washington (Wednesday, Sept. 12, 8:00 p.m. ET)\nGame 4 \u2013 Seattle at Washington (Friday, Sept. 14, 8:00 p.m. ET)\nGame 5 \u2013 Washington at Seattle (Sunday, Sept. 16, 8:00 p.m. ET)\n(Straight Up \u2013 SU, Against the Spread \u2013 ATS, Over-Under \u2013 O/U)\n(1) Seattle vs. (3) Washington\nMay 29 \u2013 Seattle (-7) 81 vs. Washington 77 (Under 163)\nJuly 8 \u2013 Seattle (-6) 91 vs. Washington 91 (Over 171.5)\nAug. 9 \u2013 Washington (-1) 100 vs. Seattle 77 (Over 172)\nPlayoff Form\n-- Washington clobbered Los Angeles 96-64 in its second-round elimination game, easily cashing as a 4 \u00bd-point home favorite.\n-- In the semifinals, the Mystics defeated the Dream in five games. Washington went 1-1 at home and 2-1 on the road in the series. The \u2018over\u2019 went 2-1.\n-- Seattle avoided the first and second round and was the highest overall seed in this year\u2019s playoffs.\n-- The Storm defeated the Mercury in five games as well.\n-- Seattle lost both of its trips to Phoenix, a 20-point decision and a two-point setback.\n-- At home, the club went 3-0 but failed to cover the spread (-6.5, -5.5) in a pair of identical 91-87 outcomes in Game\u2019s 1 and 2.\n-- The \u2018under\u2019 went 3-2.\nATS Numbers\n-- Seattle owns a 23-15-1 ATS mark this season.\n-- At home, the Storm went 8-8-1 versus the number. Seattle was a very sound investment on the road, going 14-5 ATS.\n-- The Storm has gone 13-11 ATS versus teams above .500 this season.\n-- Seattle was only listed as an underdog nine times and it went 5-4 ATS.\n-- Including the playoffs, Washington has gone 22-16-1 ATS this season.\n-- The Mystics weren\u2019t as great at home versus the number (9-10) but they managed to turn a profit on the road with an 13-6-1 ATS mark.\n-- As an underdog, Washington went 8-5 ATS.\n-- Washington has gone 13-10 vs. clubs above .500 but they were better on the road (8-5) than at home (4-4) in those games.\n-- Game 2 will be played in the afternoon and possibly Game 4. The Mystics are 8-5-1 ATS in day time games while the Storm are 7-5-1 ATS.\nTotal Talk\n-- Washington watched the \u2018under\u2019 go 20-19 this season.\n-- The Mystics saw the \u2018under\u2019 go 10-9 at home while the results were a stalemate (10-10) on the road.\n-- Seattle has leaned slightly to the \u2018over\u2019 (20-18) in the regular season.\n-- The \u2018under\u2019 produced a slight 10-9 edge in the Emerald City while the \u2019over\u2019 posted an 11-8 mark on the road.\nStats to Watch\n-- Seattle led the league in field goal percentage (46.8%) and was second in offensive scoring at 87.6 PPG.\n-- Phoenix was ranked fourth in scoring offense (85.8 PPG).\n-- Seattle only surrendered 79.7 PPG and they were ranked second in free throw attempts allowed (15.9).\n-- The Storm (24) was ranked first in the WNBA in 3-point attempts per game and it also led the league in trey made per game with 9.\n-- Washington allowed 81.4 PPG on the season.\n-- The Mystics are shooting 85.8 percent from the free throw line, the best mark in the WNBA.\nWASHINGTON is 188-242 ATS (-78.2 Units) after a division game since 1997.\nSEATTLE is 16-8 ATS (+7.2 Units) after allowing 75 points or more this season.\nSEATTLE is 3-12 ATS (-10.2 Units) in home games after a win by 10 points or more over the last 3 seasons.\nWashington is 1-14 SU in its last 15 games when playing on the road against Seattle\nThe total has gone OVER in 13 of Washington's last 19 games when playing on the road against Seattle\nSeattle is 14-1 SU in its last 15 games when playing at home against Washington\nThe total has gone OVER in 13 of Seattle's last 19 games when playing at home against Washington\nWAS at SEA\t09:00 PM\nBy By TIM BOOTH\nSEATTLE (AP) Jewell Loyd made 9 of 12 shots and scored 23 points, league MVP Breanna Stewart added 20 points, and the Seattle Storm beat the Washington Mystics 89-76 in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals on Friday night.\nGame 1 \u2014 Seattle 89, Washington 76\nWNBA SEMI'S & FINALS BEST BETS:\n\u201cI placed my first bet in fifth grade \u2014 five bucks on the Super Bowl with my brother. I lost, but what transpired the entire day epitomizes my love for sports betting. The analysis before the bet. The anticipation of the start. The rush of the game. Yes, winning is the ideal result but the range of emotions is what the experience sells.\u201d\nDoug Kezirian, ESPN.com\nWhich city used to host the Poulan Weed Eater Bowl every New Year\u2019s Eve?\n\u2014 Coastal Carolina (+9.5) 47, UAB 24\n\u2014 Maine (I-AA team) 31, Western Kentucky 28", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1201, "original_length": 70032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/glastonburyfestivalnews/15214789.glastonbury-festival-2017-your-last-chance-to-get-tickets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VZR3ZDDHGAI6C4QJVAGLNTX67XQPFTML", "length": 2467, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk", "title": "GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL: Your last chance to get tickets | This is The West Country", "raw_content": "GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL 2017: Your last chance to get tickets\nGLASTONBURY FESTIVAL: Your last chance to get tickets\nTICKETS: The April resale is the last chance for hopefuls to get tickets to Glastonbury\nDETAILS of the final resale of Glastonbury Festival tickets - the last chance for fans to get their hands on them - have been revealed.\nOrganisers have announced that a limited number of tickets will be put on sale on April 20 and 23.\nA spokesman for the festival, which runs from June 21 to 25 at Worthy Farm, Pilton, said: \"Following the closure of the seven-day ticket balance payment window for those who paid a deposit for tickets in the Autumn, we\u2019re pleased to announce that a limited number of tickets for which the balance has not been settled will go into our ticket resale, which will be split over two separate days.\n\"As in October, we will be giving the first opportunity to book tickets to those who choose to travel to the festival by coach.\"\nThe resale for Ticket and Coach packages will take place at 6pm on Thursday, April 20.\nThat will be followed by a resale of General Admission tickets at 9am BST on Sunday, April 23.\nGeneral Admission tickets cost \u00a3238 plus a \u00a35 booking fee, with postage by Royal Mail Special Delivery charged at \u00a37.75 per order (coach package e-Ticket delivery is \u00a31.50 per order).\nTickets will be sold exclusively at glastonbury.seetickets.com.\n\"Please note that all tickets purchased in the resale must be paid for in full at the point of booking (there is no deposit scheme offered for resale),\" the spokesman added.\n\"These tickets will be refundable up until May 5 and cancellation protection is available at the point of purchase.\nREAD MORE: Five tips for getting a ticket in the Glastonbury Festival resale\n\"You will need to be registered in order to book tickets in the resale.\n\"If you are not already registered, please register here.\n\"Registration will close at 5pm on Tuesday, April 18. If you are not already registered, we strongly recommend that you register online by Thursday, April 13 to allow sufficient time to resubmit your registration if your photo is rejected.\n\"Please be aware that if you submit a registration after Thursday, April 13 and the photo is subsequently rejected, you may not have time to resubmit the photo.\n\"If you are already registered you do not need to re-register for the resale, but we would advise you to check your existing registration and edit any details which need updating.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 5824, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tm1031exchange.com/articles/1031-17.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:37Z", "digest": "sha1:AGGEELLU262HWUWACTGHAJNGMN3KJRAS", "length": 3335, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tm1031exchange.com", "title": "TM 1031 Exchange - Tenants in Common, Triple Net Lease Properties", "raw_content": "As with most transactions involving the IRS, there is more than one \u201choop\u201d an investor/taxpayer must jump through in order to insure a successful 1031 Exchange. These hoops include making sure that a property qualifies (like kind), the timing of the exchange, finding appropriate replacement property, and making sure all required governmental forms are filed.\nThe specific filing requirements that apply are listed below, along with some other taxing situations that might need to be addressed when transacting a 1031 exchange.\nLike Kind: An investor must be sure that the relinquished (property sold) and the replacement property (property purchased) qualify for a 1031 exchange. This means that both properties be considered \u201clike kind\u201d. According to the IRS, \u201clike kind\u201d is defined as \u201cheld as an investment or used in a trade or business.\u201d Personal residences are excluded from 1031 exchanges as are partnerships, stocks, bonds, business ownership or REITs.\nReporting The Exchange: The Taxpayer must report the exchange on their tax return in the year the \u201crelinquished\u201d property was sold. The IRS will require specific information about the transaction, including descriptions of the relinquished and replacement properties, the date the \u201creplacement\u201d property was identified and the date the taxpayer took possession of the replacement property.\nReporting the Capital Gain: The proceeds from the sale of the replacement property must be allocated between Capital Gain and Depreciation Recapture (Cost Recovery). Recapture is the taxes due on the depreciation deduction taken on the property during the time the taxpayer owned the property if a 1031 exchange is not used. Currently the tax on the recaptured amount is significantly higher than the tax owed on the actual gain in value on the property (capital gain).\nSeller Financing: If a seller chooses to carry a note they must pay capital gains taxes on the amount of the note (it is considered \u201cboot\u201d). An alternative to sell the note prior to the close of escrow and use the proceeds within the 1031 exchange (this can be tricky and taxpayers should consult their tax advisor before such a transaction is entered into). An installment sale can also be used. In an installment sale capital gains taxes (along with ordinary income taxes on interest earned) is owed on each installment payment.\nThe Tax Return: The rule is that an exchanger must identify their replacement property within 45 days of the close of escrow of the relinquished property and close on the sale of that property within 180 days OR on the date that their tax return for that year is due, whichever occurs first. If an investor sells their relinquished property between October 17th and December 31 and needs the full 180 days they will need to file an extension before April 15th.\nState Tax Withholding Rules: For non resident property owners some states require that a percentage of the sales price be \u201cwithheld\u201d at the time of the sale. The amount of the state tax varies significantly for each state and, generally but not always; there is an exemption for a 1031 Exchange.\nInvestors should consult their tax and legal advisors and their Qualified Intermediary (neutral party that holds the funds during the exchange) as to tax timing and filling issues both before and during the exchange process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tolkiengateway.net/w/index.php?title=28_November&oldid=119540", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:26Z", "digest": "sha1:4L3DUDPJN57SC7VDF7PE56TIS53ELZDG", "length": 561, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.tolkiengateway.net", "title": "28 November - Tolkien Gateway", "raw_content": "Revision as of 11:00, 10 August 2010 by Mithbot (Talk | contribs)\nEvents which occurred on 28 November.\n1914 - Robert Gilson is the first of the T.C.B.S. to join the War effort. He enlists with the Cambridgeshire Batallion as a second lieutenant.\n1930 - Father Christmas writes a letter to J.R.R. Tolkien's children.\n1964 - The eighth episode of the Princess-serialization of The Hobbit is published.\n1978 - Andr\u00e9 Morell, who portrayed Elrond in Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings, dies.\nIn Arda\nRetrieved from \"http://www.tolkiengateway.net/wiki/28_November\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 199.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tonynovak.com/asktony/questions/gastric-bypass-surgery-approval.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:MRF26UIIWKJ4SL44FN6APK5MFN2RAPL4", "length": 1318, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.tonynovak.com", "title": "Gastric bypass surgery approval", "raw_content": "Gastric bypass surgery approval\nQ: I need to know the requirements for this surgery. Usually you need a letter of medical necessity from the primary physician, a letter from a psychologist, and a letter from a nutritionist\nA: As far as we know, there is no generalized procedure for getting insurance pre-approval for gastric bypass surgery and so it is handled on a case-by-case basis. Some insurers are pretty liberal and others have taken an absolute stand that the procedure causes more medical problems than it creates. In any case, one thing is clear - you should let the professionals handle your pre-approval. This is not an area for do-it-yourselfers. The staff at doctors' offices and hospitals handle pre-approval procedures on a daily basis and so they are experts on it. Their financial survival depends on getting insurance approval for recommended procedures. In the event the procedure is not approved then your doctor may wish to discuss alternate treatment that is less invasive. As a more general comment, we notice a growing public perception that gastric bypass is an \"ordinary and necessary medical treatment\" and yet there does not seem to be the same perception among the medical community and, equally important, among health insurance companies.\nhealth care costs after gastric bypass surgery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/tornado/19610305.5.2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PPE7NZ34YWZ237FJRDF3GUJTFSVGXO6X", "length": 77, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tornadohistoryproject.com", "title": "Tornado History Project: 19610305.5.2", "raw_content": "1961-03-05 16:05:00 3 1 0 0 417 2.3 $5K-$50K - 34.78 / -91.7 34.82 / -91.7 40", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 6381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.totentanz.eu/en/pictures-en.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:51Z", "digest": "sha1:OVDZHN362Y2QQV4FJTRT5WIDAQQLOHO7", "length": 1307, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.totentanz.eu", "title": "Metnitzer Totentanz - Metnitzer Totentanz", "raw_content": "The extensive cycle, \u201cthe richest of its kind in the Alpine countries\u201d, starts in the north with a group depicting a Dominican preaching to the Pope, the Emperor and a Cardinal. This is followed by the 25 pairs of figures, arranged according to their social status, with the Pope first, who is being led by Death towards the mouth of Hell.\nThe representatives of the landed estates are identifiable by their attributes and characteristic clothing, the representatives of feudal power by their insignia (e.g. the papal tiara), and the lower class by their work tools.\nAt the end of the procession, in other words right at the bottom of the social hierarchy, appear the mother and child, with the farmer, cook and cripple in front of them. The round dance closes with the depiction of another preacher, a Franciscan, who is facing the simple people who sit at the foot of his pulpit and is called by Death to go with him.\nDeath appears as a half-rotten corpse, with a burst belly and in colours that change constantly. The representatives of the estates mainly follow him resisting stubbornly, but some of them also do so acquiescently. Death usually takes them by the hand. For some of the pairs he also blows the trumpet or beats the drum, or is draped in a shroud or chinstrap as if in a gruesome carnival.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tourblog.eu/greece/lykavittos-hill-in-athens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RJ2DVUAFDGGHS7PX5775ZY4DK6VCOSRN", "length": 526, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tourblog.eu", "title": "Lykavittos Hill in Athens | Tour Blog", "raw_content": "Posted under Athens, Greece by blogadmin on September 24th, 2011\nLykavittos Hill (sometimes referred to as Lycabettos or Lykabettos) is the highest point in Athens. Because of its height, it is visible from almost every part of the capital. Its name reflects a popular belief that the hill was inhabited by wolves. A small chapel of St. George (Agios Georgios) was erected in the 19th century on its top. The theatre on the hill is used for concerts and spectacles. To reach the top a the funicular from Kolonaki may be taken.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 106.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travel-pb.com/2012/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:04Z", "digest": "sha1:GAZ26LC3N3BMHP5XIIMYKW53NAJWKURU", "length": 6663, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.travel-pb.com", "title": "Travel Photo Blogging: April 2012", "raw_content": "For information about a Chocolate making class in Perugina, you can check out a related post on the link.\nLabels: Food and Drink, Italy, Photo, Travel, Umbria, Wordless Wednesday\nHill towns of Umbria and Marche\nWe have just returned from a short trip (4 days really is short) around Italian regions of Umbria and Marche. I am glad to say that despite the changing weather it was a great trip and definitely a place worth returning to.\nThese two regions are a little bit less known compared to the neighboring Tuscany. Fortunately this also means they tend to get a little less crowded.\nDuring this time of year we were able to find budget accommodations for 45 EUR per night (for a double room with breakfast). You can easily find a decent double room in a two star hotel for 60 EUR per night but if you are on a tighter budget, you should do some research before the start of your trip.\nLike Tuscany, Umbria is also a place where those green rolling hills seem to just go on forever in all directions. In my opinion charming little medieval towns sitting on tops of those hills are a highlight of the region.\nIt doesn't really matter if you are a history buff, outdoor enthusiast or you simply love good food and wine... you can definitely find all of those in these parts of Italy.\nDuring this recent trip we tried to taste a little bit of everything. We even took part in a hands-on chocolate making course.\nThese are Umbrian towns we had on our list and you should definitely try to fit them into your schedule when visiting the region: Assisi, Perugia, Montefalco, Spoleto, Todi, Gubbio and Narni.\nSince we suspected we were not going to make it to all of those, we only added Urbino and a small town on the Conero coast from the region of Marche. At the northern end of Marche region there is also a whole another country worth visiting - it is San Marino.\nSadly we did not make it to all of the charming hill towns on the above list. Since we did not want to jump between them in a hurry, we figured we would rather come back at some other time and devote each of them the attention they deserve.\nI suggest you do the same and try to relax and really feel the energy flowing through those narrow cobblestone streets.\nI will post some useful details from the places we actually got to visit in future posts. Stay tuned to Travel Photo Blogging!\nLabels: Italy, Marche, Photo, Travel, Umbria\nSponsored Video: See the world for free!\nHave you ever wanted to embark on a travel adventure around the world but never had enough money to actually do it? Is this dream still alive somewhere deep inside of you?\nNow is the time to get moving and win a trip that will take you to more than 14 countries, where you will have a chance to experience different cultures of all of them. If you are wondering what you have to do to qualify for this FREE trip to 4 continents just keep reading.\nSPAR (a renowned multinational supermarket chain) has recently started an exciting online competition titled See the world with SPAR. SPAR is offering one winner from each of the six participating countries the role of a SPAR Reporter. SPAR Reporters travel the world, discovering local experiences in over fourteen countries whilst sharing their adventures with us online.\nSo what do you have to do to qualify? It is quite simple...\nFirst you have to create an application video. This video can be anything you want it to be. Just make sure that your submission is something that others will want to share online and is fun to watch for all ages.\nOnce your application video is linked to your SEE THE WORLD WITH SPAR account, their system starts measuring how it performs on the internet. Each view, tweet, share, comment and like generated by your video is rewarded with a certain amount of social points. Besides scoring via the popular social networks. The more online interaction your video creates, the more social points you'll be rewarded. A complete list explaining ways to score social points can be found on the official page of the See the world with SPAR competition.\nYou have time until 18th of May 2012 to gather as many social points as possible. I suggest you don't waste another minute and start filming that application video.\nThis is a sponsored post but as always, all opinions and enthusiasm are my own.\nConnecting Slovenian Salt-pans\nJogging has been gaining on popularity in the recent years. As a consequence there are more and more running events held every year all over the globe. Slovenia is no exception. I have been writing about one such event before - it is called Night's 10 and it is held annually in Bled, Slovenia.\nSince Winter is not a very friendly season for sports like jogging in Slovenia everybody is in anticipation of Spring. This year temperatures have been quite high for a while now and quite a few running events were already held. These events can be a great motivation to get moving again and forget all about the cold winter.\nWe participated in one such event a few weeks ago. Connecting the salt-pans event (Pove\u017eimo soline) was held on the Slovenian coast on a beautiful, warm and sunny Sunday in March. It was amongst the first such events in 2012 in Slovenia and also a great beginning of running season for many participants.\nAs the name suggests the idea of the event is to connect two salt-pans on the Slovenian Adriatic coast by running from Se\u010dovlje salt pans to Strunjan salt pans. The finish line was 9.5 kilometers away from the starting point. The route was mostly set on level terrain and even went through a tunnel.\nThis time I was not participating. I only offered my driving services to the other part of the team. Even though I had to wait for our running enthusiasts for almost 2 hours I was not bored for a moment. Beautiful surroundings offered great photo opportunities I was more then glad to seize. Even the church tower of the charming city of Piran was visible in the distance. Amongst other interesting sights there was also a group representing salt pan workers. They prepared a bag of freshly harvested local salt for every participant.\nThe atmosphere was very relaxed and everyone seemed to be having a great time.\nIf you are looking for an excuse to visit Slovenia, you can easily participate in one of many running events held throughout the country. Here is a list of this year's upcoming running events in Slovenia. The site is in Slovenian, but since it is basically a list of names, places and dates I think you will be able to get all the info you need.\nThe only thing you should keep in mind is the usual requirement to register in a particular event months before it actually takes place.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 12031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travelnpleasure.com/category/travel-tips-ideas/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CLJF7FO4F6OTZOUII7B75DNJT3UO3ROH", "length": 1240, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.travelnpleasure.com", "title": "Travel Tips Archives - Page 2 of 6 - Travel & Pleasure", "raw_content": "To travel with your kids to some wonderful place should be a great experience. This is something that every parent cherishes. But without proper plan and preparation, it can all go wrong. That\u2019s why here\u2026\nHow to Travel the World on $50 a Day \u2013 Book Review\nHow to Travel the World on $50 a Day \u2013 Book Review Most people don\u2019t know how to travel the world on $50 a day. Work hard your entire life and hopefully save enough money\u2026\n8 Amazing Business Travel Tips When You Travel For Business\nOne of the worst things in the world is feeling like you\u2019re stuck inside a pinball machine. You do nothing but bounce around from hotel to hotel while you\u2019re on business trips. If you\u2019re lucky\u2026\nHey guys, Andy Here! For this post i unfortunately dont have a text version. The post is so much revolved around the video. You can really see how they pickpocket, their tecniques and stuff, really\u2026\nThere are a lot of tourist scams out there! And that\u2019s why i set together a list of the most common travel scams. I recommend watching the video. The text below is just the script for\u2026\nHey Guys its Andy here and today, we\u2019re gonna talk about THE BEST method to get the Cheapest Flights. I have 2 questions that i will answer in this video: What site do i use\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trendhunter.com.au/top-trends-in-sports-gear-the-evolution-of-the-sportswear-market/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:44Z", "digest": "sha1:ODGTOCRSSKG3DHHRZIZ2S6DMSNRDD26V", "length": 2581, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.trendhunter.com.au", "title": "Top Trends In Sports Gear - The Evolution Of The Sportswear Market - Trendhunter", "raw_content": "Health & Beauty, Sports\nIf you think you can achieve the best results with your training by wearing your old high school t-shirt and shorts, think again. Over the last few years, the market of sports gear and sports apparel has evolved in terms of variety of products, quality, and design as there is an increase in the number of people interested in all sports activities. Due to higher demand, the sportswear market has gone through various acquisitions and mergers and new trends, such as healthy life style, introduction of new sports, increased sports participation rates, etc.\nToday, high performance sports apparel and sports gear differs a lot from what was available o the market just a decade ago. Not everything is about choosing sports apparel to look perfectly fit or sports clothing with moisture wicking properties. Sportsmen and sportswomen can buy shorts that are able to collect information about their muscles to analyze their athletic performance. This emphasis on developing high-tech sports gear to increase the performance is widely accepted and is expected to contribute to the sportswear market increase and new trends.\nHere are the three top trends in sportswear that are expected to have a significant impact on the market.\nThe sportswear market is experiencing a huge upsurge in research and development investments, as retailers are competing in terms of development of new products for sportsmen and sportswomen. Recently, there has been a big interest in developing energy-related fabric products that enhance the blood circulation and muscle recovery. One popular type of fiber is the Celliant, a mineral-based technically engineered textile fiber that takes advantage of the natural energy of a human body to provide performance and health benefits.\nIncreased Demand For Activewear\nOver the recent years, the demand for activewear for women and men has been increasing at an incredible speed. Even some of the world\u2019s leading fashion brands have moved into the activewear business by launching activewear collections. This has not only greatly contributed to the expansion of the sportswear market, but it has also increased the competition.\nIncreased Demand For Women\u2019s Sports Apparel\nAccording to popular belief, men are believed to be more active. However, recent trend reports show that there has been an increase in the demand for women\u2019s sports apparel what defeats the popular belief that women are not as sports active as men. Some of the world\u2019s largest sports vendors are increasingly introducing sports gear and sports apparel for women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 185.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trevorives.com/dom-luis-i-bridge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:55Z", "digest": "sha1:IP7WFSG6WTRKAWCJEY6MDG2VFYP4YHQU", "length": 624, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.trevorives.com", "title": "Dom Lu\u00eds I Bridge | trevorives.com", "raw_content": "\u2190 Tankwa \u2013 murky mountains\nThe Dom Lu\u00eds I Bridge spans the River Douro in Porto between the southern margin of Vila Nova de Gaia, in the parish of Santa Marinha e S\u00e3o Pedro da Afurada. There\u2019s a lower level and a higher one. Both carry pedestrians, while the lower one carries cars, the upper one carries light rail.\nConstruction commenced in 1881, and the good man Gustave Eiffel was one of the instigators. The span of 172m was the longest for any bridge of its type at the time and I think it\u2019s still quite pretty.\nThis entry was posted in Travel and tagged bridge, photo, Porto, transport, water. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 161.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trialstribulationsofabrummiemummy.co.uk/2013/06/me-myself-i-new-me.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:14Z", "digest": "sha1:CKOE4HHTDRFVWY4HX32MITTSQRV2H6KU", "length": 242, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.trialstribulationsofabrummiemummy.co.uk", "title": "Trials & Tribulations Of A Brummie Mummy: Me, Myself & I - A New Me", "raw_content": "Sarahmumof3 4 June 2013 at 10:05\noh well done you! :)\nWell Done, it's so difficult when you are run down after having a baby the last thing on your mind is taking care of yourself and your own health. Good luck on your weight loss journey :-)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 3989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trithe.com/2016/02/muhyiddin-internal-political-crisis-can.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:42Z", "digest": "sha1:PMWYPLYCISSEAXNK6AAKSEHDXBMIL3RX", "length": 1592, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.trithe.com", "title": "Muhyiddin: Internal political crisis can lead to disunity | Trithe.com", "raw_content": "Muhyiddin: Internal political crisis can lead to disunity\nFormer deputy prime minister also says scandals involving the country\u2019s top leaders have caused foreign investors to shy away.\nPETALING JAYA: The country\u2019s prolonged internal political troubles will not only burden the people but lead to national disunity, former Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has said.\nThe \u201csuffocating\u201d political situation resulting from among others, corruption, had also contributed greatly to the national economic crisis whose victims were mainly those from the middle and lower income group, he added.\nThe situation had not escaped the attention of the international community either, said Muhyiddin, who is Umno deputy president, warning of threats to the country\u2019s reputation following allegations of wrongdoing involving its leaders.\n\u201cMalaysia is no longer viewed as a stable country in the eyes of the world.\nThis has affected the people,\u201d Sinar Harian quoted Muhyiddin as saying.\n\u201cWith the country becoming known for these issues, the people end up facing hardship, especially when the issues involve business and investments.\u201d\nMuhyiddin attributed this situation to the many allegations of corruption implicating Prime Minister Najib Razak in the administration of state-owned investment firm 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB).\nAlthough merely allegations at this stage, the scandals had affected investors\u2019 confidence in the country, said Muhyiddin, who added, \u201cWith the prevalence of corruption in the country, how can foreign investors trust us? Without investors, the economy will suffer.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 60825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.trump.net.in/blog/category/m-tech-in-structural-engineering/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MS3R443P3CEGFUKWJTDVL4QGIUFQPF3D", "length": 840, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.trump.net.in", "title": "M.Tech in Structural Engineering |", "raw_content": "Posted on April 16, 2015 April 16, 2015 by Ankit Mishra Leave a comment\nAbout: RNS Institute of Technology R.N. Shetty Institute of Technology (RNSIT) established in the year 2001 which is located in Bangalore, India. RNSIT is one of the best accredited engineering colleges in bangalore and top accredited engineering colleges in bangalore. The college is affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityWith a continuous desire to provide quality education [\u2026]\nAbout: MS Ramaiah Institute of Technology S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology was started in 1962 by the late Dr. M.S. Ramaiah. From Aug 2007, MSRIT has been academically autonomous for both Under Graduate and Post Graduate Programs. MSRIT offers undergraduate and graduate courses of study and research including Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Architecture, Master [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 8302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 119.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tsmplug.com/extra/59808/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:10Z", "digest": "sha1:2AF6MT7E5RWVPCW2LBK3WY4J7UAGJO3Z", "length": 1457, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.tsmplug.com", "title": "Deontay Wilder vows to retire if he loses to Bermane Stiverne - TSM PLUG", "raw_content": "Deontay Wilder vows to retire if he loses to Bermane Stiverne\nHis rematch with Bermane Stiverne is still a few days away, but Deontay Wilder has already made a statement.\nWilder (38-0-0, 37 KOs), who beat Stiverne (25-2-1, 21 KOs) on points to defend his WBC heavyweight title in January 2015, said that he would hang up his gloves in case he loses his belt come November 4.\n\u201cThe way I\u2019m feeling about boxing right now, if Bermane Stiverne beats me, I will retire,\u201d Wilder was quoted as saying by Boxing Insider.\n\u201cYou can put that down. I will be out of the way.\u201d\nShould Wilder get the better of Stiverne again, it will only make the pathway clear for a mega-fight with IBF, IBO, WBA champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) some time in 2018.\nAnd, he seconds that.\n\u201cThe ultimate goal is to get Joshua,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not just going to be sitting up here and doing this and doing that.\u201d\nJoshua, meanwhile, is scheduled to defend his belts against Carlos Takam on October 28.\nTags boxingWilder\n- Roger Federer recently announced he will be making a comeback at Roland Garros this year. The Swiss tennis ace decided not to play the premier...\n- Stefanos Tsitsipas doesn\u2019t mind opening up on his private life in public. In a recent media interaction, the jazzy tennis star revealed although he\u2019s not...\n- Anthony Joshua took to his official Twitter handle to confirm his next title defense, against Jarrell \u2018Big Baby\u2019 Miller, at the Madison Square Garden on...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tulsanaturalclinic.com/Genetic_Testing.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WVMZVI5OVP6WCH3HSNF72EOFAFD36MV6", "length": 3368, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.tulsanaturalclinic.com", "title": "Tulsa Natural Health Clinic", "raw_content": "Wellness LabTesting > Genetic Testing\nThe MTHFR gene instructs the body to make an enzyme necessary to convert vitamin B9 (folic acid) into a usable form. This enzyme is also important in the process of converting homocysteine into methionine \u2014 an amino acid the body needs for growth and metabolism. Methylation, a process involving a methyl group activating an enzyme, is also associated with the MTHFR gene. Proper methylation enables the body to detoxify toxic metals, toxins, and other wastes more efficiently.\nIn 2003, a genetic study called the Human Genome Project was completed. The study revealed that an important gene beneficial for your health and well-being, calledthe methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR), was defective in a large percentage of people!\nWhen it\u2019s functioning correctly, the MTHFR gene begins a multi-step chemical breakdown process, aka methylation, which in simplified terms, is like this:\n5-methyltetrahydrofolate helps convert the amino acid homocysteine down to another essential amino acid, methionine, which is used by your body to make proteins, utilize antioxidants, and to assist your liver to process fats. Methionine helps with depression and even inflammation. It also helps convert estradiol (E2) into estriol (E3)!\ni.e. a proper methylation pathway like the above is going to mean you will have a better chance in eliminating toxins and heavy metals, which can reduce your risk for cancer and other health issues, and put less stress on your adrenals.\nWhat a defective (mutated) MTHFR gene does to you\nIt produces a defective MTHFR enzyme of different varieties i.e. it functions less than optimally, such as performing at only 40% of its capacity, or 70% of its capacity. It can mean you won\u2019t break down toxins or heavy metals well i.e. you could find yourself with high iron, or high copper, or high lead, or high mercury\u2026.etc. High copper can also cause low ferritin, even though your iron levels look great!\nThe journal Molecular Psychiatry states that \u201cSchizophrenia-like syndromes, bipolar disorder, Parkinson\u2019s disease, Alzheimer\u2019s disease and vascular dementia have all been associated with one or more mutations of the MTHFR gene\u201d. (2006;11, 352\u2013360)\nConditions and symptoms caused by the MTHFR gene mutations.\nAddictions: smoking, drugs, alcohol\nDepression in Post-Menopausal Women\nColorectal Adenoma\nDeficits in childhood cognitive development\nPost-menopausal breast cancer\nPrimary Closed Angle Glaucoma\nDecreased telomere length\nDifferentiated Thyroid Carcinoma\nTight Anal Sphincters\nMidline Defects (many are listed above)\nIschemic Stroke in Children\nInfant depression via epigenetic processes caused by maternal depression\nIncreased bone fracture risk in post-menopausal women\nPotential drug toxicities: methotrexate, anti-epileptics\nAnecephaly\nIt is now possible to evaluate your genetic predispositions to virtually all of the most pervasive, disabling, and deadly degenerative diseases of our time, including heart disease, adult-onset diabetes, cancer, and senile dementia.\nTulsa Natural Health Clinic, we now offer genetic testing that will allow you to identify your genetic predispositions to various diseases simply using your mouth wash rinse or a blood sample, and then develop and implement a carefully targeted, customized intervention plan even before pre-disease imbalances are manifest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 8761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.turfandtrack.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:51Z", "digest": "sha1:54B7TXL5FCSQH5SLSDRJKBIL6YHU55Q4", "length": 132, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.turfandtrack.com", "title": "Contact | Baraka Sport LLC", "raw_content": "Please let us know how we can help. 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He is the father of Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi. He was born in Quetta, now Pakistan. and is a recipient of 1987 National Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 90.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tvthrong.co.uk/tag/inferno-999/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:A7WJQVHQUDFLXLIGF2L6PMQ2QXUXE5NX", "length": 22878, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.tvthrong.co.uk", "title": "Inferno 999 - Throng", "raw_content": "Inferno 999 - Monday October 8\ninferno 999 (6/6)\nInferno 999 goes to the heart of perilous firefighting situations as it follows the daily lives of Manchester\u2019s fire and rescue services. In the last of the series, a major industrial fire threatens to spread to a bus depot, a young man trashes a supercar, and an attempted suicide puts a crew in a difficult situation.\nResponding to their fourth shout since coming on duty, the firefighters from Broughton Amber Watch arrive on the scene of a major industrial fire just before 10pm. A big blaze at a dance school threatens to spread to the surrounding buildings, and the crewmen must act quickly. However, with temperatures reaching 1,200 degrees celcius and flames reaching as high as 40 feet, the firefighters cannot get close enough to fight the blaze.\nWatch commander Kirk Cornwall uses his 18 years of experience to assess the situation and ensure that his crew can minimise the danger to the neighbourhood. His main concern is that the fire could spread to a nearby bus depot containing a number of canisters of a highly volatile gas called acetylene. \u201cIf it\u2019s left to heat for too long,\u201d Kirk says of the gas, \u201cit could explode.\u201d There is no time to waste as Kirk and his team search for all of the canisters.\nIt takes 25 men over an hour to control the blaze, before the crew\u2019s aerial platform can take over. Once all the surrounding buildings are checked and declared empty, the platform rises high into the air and uses its two heavy-duty hoses to dump more than 3,500 litres a minute onto the flames.\nThe fire is eventually put out, but it has tied up four crews for over four hours, caused extensive traffic tailbacks, and put two firemen in hospital with heat exhaustion. The worst thing about this incident for Broughton Amber Watch is that the fire was started deliberately.\nElsewhere in Manchester, Moss Side Amber Watch is called to the scene of a road-traffic collision on a residential street. There are no flames as yet, but there is a surprise in store for the crew members: upon arrival, they find that the crash involves a Ferrari 360 Spider \u2013a supercar worth in excess of \u00a3150,000.\nIn Manchester, it is common for young men to rent fast cars for the weekend to impress the opposite sex, but the drivers are often not able to control such high-powered engines. In this case, the young driver has taken on a stationary family saloon and lost, before ploughing into a house. The car has a top speed of 190mph, but this one barely had the chance to leave first gear before coming to an abrupt stop.\nThe vehicle is currently not on fire, but a spark from the battery could cause an explosion at any moment. The firefighters work fast to disconnect the electrics, but none of them have ever dealt with a Ferrari before and finding the battery proves a challenge in itself. It takes five crewmen over five minutes to locate the battery, but the problem is eventually solved with a look under the glove compartment. \u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful car,\u201d says crewman Matt Joyce. \u201cIt still looks half decent from here, but on the other side it\u2019s kippered!\u201d\nDealing with vulnerable members of the public is just another part of a firefighter\u2019s job, so when Broughton Green Watch is called to attend an attempted suicide, it is business as usual. Just five minutes after the call was made, firefighters are on the scene, breaking down the front door of a quiet house. With a strong smell of gas in the vicinity, every second counts. Before long, the members of Green Watch are dragging a man into the street \u2013he is alive, but ten minutes of gas inhalation have taken their toll on his health.\nAfter some emergency treatment on the pavement, the casualty\u2019s condition has stabilised and he is taken to hospital. \u201cUsually when we come to things like this, they are already dead,\u201d reflects firefighter Michael Buckley. \u201cSo it\u2019s not a bad result, this one.\u201d\nInferno 999 goes to the heart of perilous firefighting situations as it follows the daily lives of Manchester\u2019s fire and rescue services. In tonight\u2019s instalment, fire crews tackle a major fire in a Victorian factory; a car fire with a difference; a bedroom blaze which sparks a desperate search for a missing child and a house fire caused by the homeowner\u2019s negligence.\nSix hours into a 15-hour shift, Broughton Blue Watch is called to a stretch of deserted heathland where two cars have been dumped and torched. The flames are quickly extinguished, but a spark from either car battery could reignite the combustible fumes at any moment, so the bonnets must be opened and the electrics disconnected.\nIn the Manchester area, cars are often set alight to conceal crimes, so the crews dealing with such incidents always check the vehicles for evidence. On this occasion, a search of the car boot unearths a crucial piece of criminal evidence \u2013a cash machine. The police are called to the scene and discover that the cars were involved in an earlier heist in which thieves made off with four cash machines containing some \u00a3500,000.\nElsewhere in Manchester, it is just past midnight when Broughton Green Watch arrives at the scene of a major industrial blaze in Rochdale. The fire is burning deep in the heart of a Victorian factory and the surrounding buildings are in danger. Firefighter Dave Wolstenholme dons breathing apparatus and leads his team into the bowels of the building.\nWading through three feet of water and running the risk of being trapped under thousands of tonnes of crumbling masonry, the firefighters soak the brickwork all around the factory to create what they call a \u2018fire-break\u2019 \u2013a barrier of water designed to prevent a blaze from spreading.After 20 minutes of high-pressure hosing, the fire-break has worked and the blaze is under control. \u201cIt\u2019s not very comfortable being wet through,\u201d says Dave Wolstenholme, \u201cbut you just get on with it.\u201d\nDuring England\u2019s opening game of the World Cup, Broughton Green Watch is called to a home in Prestwich where a family, enjoying the football from their garden, have noticed smoke pouring through a downstairs window. As the engines arrive on the scene, the crew must act quickly to prevent a huge explosion, since the fire is burning in the utility room which houses the gas meter and boiler.\nThe blaze is only small, but it has ruined a newly refurbished room in just five minutes. Once the gas supply is turned off and the flames extinguished, the crewmen can look for the cause of the incident. Before long, watch commander Paul Vester has found a pile of smoking rags and concludes that the fire was caused by a cigarette carelessly discarded by a member of the family. \u201cHad [the family] been asleep,\u201d Paul explains, \u201cthe consequences don\u2019t bear thinking about.\u201d\nWith a disaster narrowly averted, the mother of the household \u2013herself a smoker \u2013 feels a mixture of gratitude and embarrassment. \u201cWithout this fire brigade, we wouldn\u2019t have a home to live in,\u201d she says, before adding: \u201cI am totally ashamed.\u201d\nIn the Moss Side area, Red Watch rushes to the scene of a house fire where a single mother lives with her three young children. When the crew arrives, all residents are accounted for, and the firefighters are not overly concerned. \u201cIt\u2019s a bog standard bedroom fire at the moment,\u201d explains Crew Commander Alan Dook as he heads upstairs. However, things may be about to change when the incident commander informs Alan of some urgent news. Despite previous assurances, the mother now seems unsure as to the whereabouts of her one-year-old child.\nThe members of Red Watch embark on a frantic search of every inch of the house. Then, as quickly as the situation arose, the firefighters get the news they longed to hear: the baby is in the safe hands of a neighbour. However, with the fire caused by a two-year-old playing with a lighter, the situation could have been so much worse.\nInferno 999 - Monday September 24\nInferno 999 goes to the heart of perilous firefighting situations as it follows the daily lives of Manchester\u2019s fire crews. Tonight, crews tackle a chemical spill at a factory; an old lady becomes the victim of a house fire; and firefighters venture into a squalid drug den to check out a blaze.\nFor the busy crews of the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, each shift represents a new challenge \u2013 and it is not always a fire. In tonight\u2019s programme, Moss Side Red Watch is called to the scene of an unknown chemical leak at a factory, where one worker has already become a casualty. While paramedics treat the man\u2019s stinging eyes, police cordon off the surrounding streets and the fire service attempts to identify the chemical. A factory employee suspects the substance could be bromide \u2013 a highly dangerous compound that could contaminate the surrounding area.\nFirefighters in chemical protection suits take a sample from the box containing the substance and give it to the technical support team to analyse. The result is good news: the chemical is bromine, which is non-lethal. The scene is quickly returned to normal \u2013 but this false alarm has been an expensive operation: the incident has occupied four fire crews, six police officers and two ambulances, at a cost of \u00a340,000.\nElsewhere, Red Watch finds itself on the scene of a kitchen fire in the home of an 85-year-old lady. The room has been badly scorched by the fire, but the watch is more concerned with the fate of the lady, who, because of her age, is especially vulnerable to smoke inhalation. \u201cYou can tell by her face that she\u2019s taken a lot of smoke in,\u201d says crew commander Alan Dook. \u201cShe\u2019s also set fire to her slippers, so she\u2019s going to have burns on her feet. Due to her age, and the fragility of her, we could be looking at a fatal incident.\u201d\nA quick appraisal of the scene reveals that the lady made the fire worse by attempting to tackle it herself. \u201cIt\u2019s quite a simple cooker fire, and because the lady has put herself at great risk by trying to take the fire outside, she\u2019s burnt herself and the rest of the house by the back door,\u201d says watch commander Andy Dwane. \u201cWhereas, obviously, the advice we give everybody is: shut the door on the fire, get out of the house, call us and we\u2019ll sort it out.\u201d This time, however, the watch\u2019s worst fears are unfounded, as the old lady recovers in hospital.\nAn entirely different situation confronts the watch at the scene of a fire in a derelict property. The blaze is extinguished by the time they arrive, but Alan Dook and a colleague must still enter the premises to ensure the danger has passed. Inside, they are confronted with a dark, dirty interior that is clearly being used as a doss house by drug users. Among the drug-taking paraphernalia are used syringes, rubber bands and methadone. \u201cThe main danger for us are the spent needles,\u201d Alan explains. \u201cWe\u2019re walking about, there\u2019s no light in the building, it\u2019s quite possible we could have put our hands on any of their needles.\u201d\nWith the derelict building secured, firefighter Ted Brennan reflects on the job. \u201cI don\u2019t like going in places like that,\u201d he admits. \u201cI mean, it\u2019s more dangerous than going in a fire most of the time\u2026 You never know what you\u2019re going to get with a building like that.\u201d\nAlso in this episode, Broughton Blue Watch is called to a car fire on wasteland. The firefighters must drag their hoses through the undergrowth on a half-mile trek to reach the blaze. Meanwhile, Broughton Red Watch confront a conflagration at a scrapyard, where a number of cars and old tyres have turned into a giant bonfire.\nInferno 999 goes to the heart of perilous firefighting situations as it follows the daily lives of Manchester\u2019s fire crews. Tonight, fire teams tackle an arson attack on a vacant property; an old school building is at risk of a flash fire explosion; and Broughton Amber Watch fights a suspicious house blaze.\nPhilips Park White Watch is on the scene of a typical problem facing the Manchester fire service \u2013 an arson attack on a derelict house. This is the fifth call to the same housing estate in a fortnight, and the crews must work fast to douse the blaze in an end-of-terrace property before it can spread. \u201cWe\u2019ve had problems on this estate before,\u201d watch commander Neal Pickersgill says. \u201cBasically, kids have gone in and fired it.\u201d The firefighters enter the house with breathing apparatus and knock out the windows to release the steam created by their water. In minutes, the temperatures drop and the flames are extinguished.\nElsewhere, Broughton Green Watch is called to an old school building that is billowing with smoke. The building is now used as storeroom, and the watch faces the danger that the gases inside may overheat and explode. \u201cIf the unburned gases can\u2019t escape from a premises, the pressure builds up and then you get what we call a \u2018flash fire\u2019, where the whole place simultaneously ignites,\u201d explains Mike \u2018Dolly\u2019 Parton, crew commander.\nThe team must prevent an explosion by heading into the heart of the fire to cool the gases \u2013 but in soaring temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celcius, their water turns into scalding steam. Cameras venture into the flames with the firefighters as they attempt to douse the blaze from the inside. \u201cI\u2019m getting too hot,\u201d one fireman says. \u201cI\u2019m overheating, I\u2019m gonna have to get out.\u201d The firefighters withdraw and the crew brings in an aerial platform to tackle the inferno from above. From the platform, firefighters punch a hole in the roof to vent the gases and blast the fire with water. With the blaze under control, crew man Phil Heywood can reflect on the job. \u201cIt\u2019s excitement, adrenaline. You just never know what\u2019s gonna happen in there,\u201d says Phil, who was once a pupil at the former school.\nBroughton Amber Watch, meanwhile, is dispatched to a house fire of suspicious nature, where neighbours have reported odd activity around the property and a strange smell. The firefighters waste no time in entering the house, where roasting temperatures and thick smoke provide formidable obstacles. The crew breaks the windows to clear the smoke and extinguish the fire. Once the danger is passed, they are able to establish the source of the strange smell: it transpires that the property was a cannabis farm, with some 400 ultraviolet lights being used to grow illegal plants. A power surge from these lights is thought to be the cause of the fire, which rapidly consumed the entire harvest \u2013 with a street value of \u00a3300,000.\nHowever, the life of a Manchester fire crew is not all about plunging into burning buildings. Also this week, firefighters are called to a notorious Salford estate where bored kids have made it their pastime to set fire to cars. And Moss Side White Watch has to clean up the aftermath of a Saturday night when a small fire breaks out in a kebab shop. Crew commander Nigel \u2018Nige\u2019 Travis finds his different skills as a firefighter and a trauma tech put to use when he tackles a vat of boiling oil with some frozen chips, before treating the casualty of a street fight outside the shop.\nInferno 999 goes to the heart of perilous firefighting situations as it follows the daily lives of Manchester\u2019s fire crews. Tonight, firefighters tackle a burning building containing asbestos; a suspicious house fire is investigated; and people are reported trapped in a major house blaze.\nMoss Side Blue Watch are at the scene of an old building fire where asbestos is involved. This material represents one of the greatest hazards the brigade can face, as it releases toxic particles in the air when it burns. The fire teams don breathing apparatus to stop them from inhaling the fumes before proceeding to douse the blaze. In the event, they manage to save 70 per cent of the building, preventing more asbestos from contaminating the area.\nBroughton Blue Watch, meanwhile, are called to a house fire which soon proves to be dubious in nature. Firefighters extinguish the living room blaze in just two minutes, but their suspicions are alerted by the discovery of two separate piles of burning paper. These doubts are compounded by the revelation that all four gas hobs in the kitchen were turned on. \u201cWe\u2019ve got all the recipe for a fatal incident here,\u201d commander Ian Mackenzie reports. The fire crews realise that if they had arrived only minutes later, the combination of gas and flame would have sparked a massive inferno. \u201cHad that ignited, we would have been talking about an explosion which would have \u2013 at the very least \u2013 taken the windows out and the front and rear of the property,\u201d Ian says. The house becomes a crime scene and the case is handed over to the police.\nThe most dangerous type of house fire is at night while people are sleeping \u2013 exactly the situation faced by Moss Side Green Watch at three o\u2019clock in the morning. The crew are on full alert with the news of \u201cpersons reported\u201d. They are on their way to a kitchen fire at the home of four elderly brothers. It transpires that one brother discovered the blaze and raised the alarm \u2013 but the other three are still inside. The brigade arrives to discover a highly volatile situation, with flames engulfing the whole house.\nCameras travel inside the inferno as firefighters with breathing gear enter the building and begin a desperate search for the occupants. With visibility down to almost nothing, they have to grope their way through the rooms. Within minutes, one brother is rescued from the fire barely conscious. Before long, a second brother is found \u2013 tragically, it is clear that he is already dead, and the firefighters must leave him while there is still a chance that the third brother is alive. In the event, the last occupant is also found dead, while the man who was rescued dies later in hospital.\nIt has taken only seven minutes for the crew to locate all three brothers in the blaze, but it has not been quick enough to save them. Firefighters Pete and Mark are philosophical about the case: \u201cWe\u2019ve come in, we\u2019ve done the best we can \u2013 that\u2019s all you can do,\u201d Pete says. Rank crew commander Warren Dore agrees that the crews can be proud of their efforts: \u201cAt the end of the day, in this situation, there was very little we could do and I think you\u2019ve got to be realistic about that,\u201d he says. Yet it is a testament to the skills of the Manchester fire service that for Pete and Mark \u2013 with 12 years\u2019 experience between them \u2013 this is only their first fatal fire.\nInferno 999 - Monday September 3\nInferno 999 goes to the heart of perilous firefighting situations as it follows the daily lives of Manchester\u2019s fire crews. This eight-part series gains unique access to the work of these dedicated men and women with the help of pioneering camera technology.\nThe first edition sees the fire crews tackle a fire in a truck yard; an arson attack on two cars; and a blaze in a child\u2019s bedroom. The brigade also comes to the rescue of a mother and daughter trapped in a ferocious house fire.\nIn the middle of the night, Manchester\u2019s Amber Watch are called to a conflagration in a truck yard, where a vehicle containing gas cylinders is in danger of sparking a massive explosion. The team works quickly and decisively to extinguish the blaze. For watch commander Kirk \u2018The General\u2019 Cornwall, the incident represents the epitome of what firefighting is all about: \u201cThis is what you join for,\u201d he says. \u201cYou get stuck in, get dirty and put fires out. Love it!\u201d\nElsewhere, a team is despatched to the scene of a car fire. Fireman Dave \u2018Dodgy\u2019 Wolstenholme reflects on what might be awaiting them: \u201cYou never know what you\u2019re going to get,\u201d he says. \u201cCould be a genuine car fire, where a car just bursts into flames, but that\u2019s rare. They\u2019re usually arson attacks.\u201d Dave is proved correct when they arrive to find two cars owned by the same man ablaze. The watch extinguishes the fires but both cars are beyond repair. The commander suspects the cars\u2019 owner has been the target of a personal attack, so he hands the case over to the police.\nCar fires such as these are common in Manchester, with around 80 reported each week. But potentially more dangerous to the public and to firefighters are house fires. At nine o\u2019clock in the morning, crews must tackle a blaze at a family home where a three-year-old boy with ADHD has set fire to his bedroom. The family has escaped but it takes the brigade over two hours to stamp out the fire and determine the likely cause: mum Tanya\u2019s cigarette lighter.\nHowever, the most dramatic incident of the edition comes when Blue Watch are called to a house fire where people are thought to be trapped. Cases with \u2018persons reported\u2019 put the crews on their highest alert. In this case, fire engines arrive to find the downstairs of the house has been consumed by flames, with two women stuck upstairs. Firefighter Kevin Williams risks his life to carry one of the women down the ladder without breathing gear or a helmet to protect him. After some confusion, the crew establishes that all the people inside have been rescued, and two men enter the house to tackle the inferno, where temperatures reaching 1,000\u00b0C have vaporised furniture and possessions. \u201cIt\u2019s unbelievable\u2026 it\u2019s burning my face!\u201d one firefighter reports.\nThe house fire is one of the fiercest that the Manchester crews have ever tackled, and the Moss Side and Stretford Blue Watches are awarded commendations for bravery. There is also a personal commendation for Kevin Williams. It has been a typically hazardous mission for a service that constantly faces situations where a few seconds can make a difference between life and death.\nComing Soon - Inferno 999\nEvery hour of every day, the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service is on the front line \u2013 on call to deal with fires, emergencies and accidents. The largest fire service in the UK outside of London, the Manchester brigade responds to over 52,000 incidents a year. There is no such thing as an average day for its crews, with no incident or fire ever the same. Inferno 999 goes to the heart of perilous firefighting situations as it follows the daily lives of Manchester\u2019s fire crews.\nThis eight-part series gains unique access to the work of these dedicated men and women with the help of pioneering camera technology. Firefighters are rigged with cameras housed in heat-resistant casing to allow an unprecedented view of their death-defying exploits. With the help of these powerful images, the series reveals the hazardous conditions and extreme pressures fire officers face, recording the frightening reality of their working lives.\nThe first episode sees the fire crews come to the rescue of a mother and daughter trapped in a ferocious house fire \u2013 an operation that resulted in the Watch being awarded a commendation for bravery and individual recognition for two of the crew. 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I think I'm not a short story girl.\nEva / TXBookjunkie September 3, 2014 at 10:28 AM\nLuckily in these days of self publishing and e-books if one has the patience eventually the short story will be released as a standalone. 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Two years later, on the day he was released from prison having served time for his role in the failed coup, Ch\u00e1vez was asked by a journalist if he had a message for the people of Venezuela. \u201cYes,\u201d he replied: \u201cLet them listen to Al\u00ed Primera\u2019s songs!\u201d\nWithin five years, having formed a new political organisation and mounted a campaign rooted in these very songs, Hugo Ch\u00e1vez was elected president of Venezuela with 56% of the vote. On February 2 1999, he became the first head of state without links to the country\u2019s establishment parties in over 40 years. Ch\u00e1vez won three more general elections in what former US president Jimmy Carter has described as the best electoral process in the world, remaining president until his death in March 2013.\nIt was the music legacy of Al\u00ed Primera, a hugely popular Venezuelan singer/songwriter, that enabled Ch\u00e1vez to link his political movement with grassroots activism. Yet in spite of the surge in international attention that Chavismo attracted throughout this time, the government\u2019s profound links with Primera\u2019s music legacy have been almost entirely overlooked outside the country. Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s frequent quotation and singing of these songs in speeches and on television seems to have been regarded as merely an amusing or entertaining aside, quite separate from the main business of governing.\nBut my research shows that music is much more than a form of entertainment. In Latin America, where illiteracy remained relatively high well into the 20th century, and where the official media are widely perceived to represent the interests of wealthy elites, songs \u2013 so easily remembered and transmitted \u2013 play an important public role. Ch\u00e1vez used Primera\u2019s songs as cultural resources to construct a political persona that identified him profoundly with the masses of late 20th-century Venezuela \u2013 and they with him.\nA mural of Primera.\nlubrio/flickr, CC BY\nRaised in rural poverty in the shadow of Venezuela\u2019s largest oil refinery in the Paraguan\u00e1 Peninsula, Primera was Venezuela\u2019s best-known Nueva Canci\u00f3n singer/songwriter.\nThe Nueva Canci\u00f3n (New Song) cultural movement emerged in the 1960s. Inspired by the success of the Cuban Revolution, and seeking to counter the perceived cultural colonialism of the United States, Nueva Canci\u00f3n composers sought to transform their societies in favour of the marginalised masses. They revived local folk music forms which, having been widely suppressed during the colonial period, carried profound associations of resistance to elite rule. They wrote lyrics that highlighted the everyday lives and struggles of the rural and urban poor.\nProtest formed part of their activities, but as a movement, Nueva Canci\u00f3n was primarily interested in promoting national concerns, regional integration, and independence from US economic, political and cultural influence. As the Uruguayan Nueva Canci\u00f3n singer/songwriter Daniel Viglietti put it, the movement was not de protesta (about protesting) but de propuesta (about proposing alternatives).\nThroughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Primera wrote and performed songs that denounced the economic, cultural, political, racial and environmental impact of the oil industry on his country. With his independent label Cigarr\u00f3n, he recorded 13 albums, which were widely banned from mainstream media outlets. He remained openly defiant in the face of increasing harassment from state authorities who, he reported, viewed him as a dangerous subversive who encouraged \u201cnon-conformity\u201d.\nHis sudden death in a car accident in February 1985 was widely rumoured to have been ordered by state officials to silence a \u201ctroublesome\u201d voice \u2013 although no firm evidence for this has ever emerged. Popularly seen as a martyr who died fighting for the poor and the marginalised, Primera and his songs rapidly passed into the realm of myth. His songs united Venezuelans in their denunciations of political corruption, increasing poverty levels and severe state oppression in the late 1980s and early 1990s.\nBy urging Venezuelans to listen to Primera\u2019s songs, by singing and quoting from these songs and officially honouring Primera\u2019s legacy via cultural policy, Ch\u00e1vez connected his government with the masses on whose behalf Primera was seen to have struggled. In February 2005, on the 20th anniversary of Al\u00ed\u2019s death, the National Assembly unanimously agreed to declare Al\u00ed\u2019s music legacy part of the nation\u2019s official cultural heritage, and the newly organised Ministry of Culture financed an exhibition of posters, photographs, records and press articles, the production of two documentaries about the life and work of Al\u00ed Primera, and an album of heavy metal covers of his songs.\nBut this produced competing power struggles over who was best placed to legitimately interpret the songs \u201ccorrectly\u201d. Ch\u00e1vez supporters predominantly supported and understood the state\u2019s co-option of Primera\u2019s legacy to be an official recognition of their grassroots history of social and political activism. But many opponents contested the official representation of Primera as an \u201cideological root\u201d of Chavismo. Others harnessed the oppositional qualities of the songs to express their resistance to the Ch\u00e1vez government via social media.\nOn March 5 2013, Venezuela\u2019s then vice-president, Nicol\u00e1s Maduro, announced on state television that President Hugo Ch\u00e1vez had died in Caracas at 4.25pm that afternoon \u201cafter battling a tough illness for two years\u201d. Maduro then urged Venezuelans to be strong and not lose hope, and to use Primera\u2019s songs to prepare for the future:\nLet us take \u2026 the songs of Al\u00ed Primera \u2026 Let us rise with the songs of Al\u00ed and the spirit of Hugo Ch\u00e1vez, the greatest forces of this land, in order to face whatever difficulties we may have to face.\nWith the US president, Donald Trump, now facing pressure to heighten sanctions on Chavista officials, there is no doubt Venezuelans face many challenges ahead. But Primera\u2019s songs remain one of the most powerful resources available to Venezuelans. Not only to imagine and share political alternatives, but also to defend, challenge and resist the legacy of Ch\u00e1vez.\nHazel Marsh, Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of East Anglia\nExpert Political Analysis, Music & Politics, Political Leaders", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 8195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.unicom.com/chrome/a/001165.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MIVSMZWV5GLSFRAG2ZFPA7XN5KYGDOYO", "length": 1394, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.unicom.com", "title": "Sen. Hutchison kills net neutrality | Unicom Systems Development", "raw_content": "Submitted by chip on Fri, 30-Jun-2006 - 11:26 am\nOn Wednesday, the Stevens telecom bill moved out of committee and on to the full U.S. Senate. There is much not to like about this bill, from allowing build-out discrimination to mandating copy-protection technology. The most discussed, most controversial aspect, by far, is net neutrality protections.\nThe current Internet is content and provider neutral. The large providers like AT&T have indicated a desire to move to a tiered access model, which allows them to \"double dip\": charging both ends of the connection for the same content. Not to get all chicken little about it, but tiered access really does mean the end of the Internet as we know it.\nSen. Olympia Snow offered an amendment to the legislation to protect net neutrality. The amendment failed on an 11-11 tie vote.\nThis is a particularly sad day for Texans, because Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison sat on this committee. Her vote could have assured an open and neutral Internet. Instead, she voted the telco position to permit tiered access.\nHere is another Texas take on the issue.\nThe good news is that the telco-funded initiative may be faltering. They won by a landslide in the House. This week, their margin was cut to a whisker. Sen. Ron Wyden has threatened to put a hold on the telecom legislation over this issue. So there is increasing hope the big telco grab can be stopped.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vainmommy.com/postpartum-depression-stigma/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:53Z", "digest": "sha1:IURSLYTCUNTZLKFQ3NUUQ6G3NWFUUBXA", "length": 5280, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.vainmommy.com", "title": "Shell-Shocked: The Day After CNN Shed Light on PPD | Vain Mommy", "raw_content": "I can not speak . . . I can feel the tears working their way into my eyes; there\u2019s a horrible pit in my stomach . . . I feel sick.\nI was recently interview by Kelly Wallace from CNN for an article that she wrote called, Postpartum Depression: One mom\u2019s mission becomes a movement featuring Katherine Stone of Postpartum Progress.\nLet me tell you, I have been beyond excited to have had the chance to be a part of this. Albeit a tiny part. Katherine is the star, all her work over the last ten years is . . . no words. I have been waiting for weeks for this article to go live, and yesterday was the day! It is an amazing article!\nMy joy was taken away just as quickly as it arrived. After receiving a Facebook notification saying that some crazy comment was posted on CNN\u2019s website. I went to see what all the fuss was about.\nWhen I began reading the comments it literally felt as if I took a blow to the stomach. All of the air was sucked out of me, I couldn\u2019t think straight . . . there were many comments in support but of course the negative comments stole the show; for me.\n\u201cNonsense. My wife has borne two children and never wavered a bit in terms of her mood. She is a confirmed believer that PMS and PPD are myths made up by women who will not take responsibility for their lousy attitudes.\u201d -Heinz Doofenshmirtz\n\u201cPPD is a myth. Another ploy for attention from women whose real \u2018depression\u2019 comes from no longer being the center of all attention. I have seen this time and again.\u201d -Heinz Doofenshmirtz\n\u201cSurvivor?? While I consider PPD a real disorder, talking about it like some sort of cancer that\u2019s now in remission might be a bit much, don\u2019t you think?\u201d -owlnspace\n\u201cPlease explain the concept of a \u201cWarrior Mom\u201d? I\u2019ll admit my bias here: it sounds like describing a janitor as a \u2018custiodial engineer\u2019.\u201d -owlnspace\n\u201cThis is obviously not a healthy place for these children to be. Where is child protective services?\u201d-guest\n\u201cBooHoo. Poor women.\nThey have only been having children for thousands of years. Now they have an issue with having kids. I call BS. My wife had 3 kids without any PPD. It must be my wonderful Male Leadership.\nOh wait I thought women didnt need us men, you guys are equal. Oh thats right only when it suits you.\nPPD is just an excuse to get away with having an abortion after giving birth.\u201d \u2013 Common Sense\n\u201cWarrior Mom? (rolls eyes). please. Thousands of years humans had to fight every day to find food and survive countless risks to them and their children\u2026.Yeah your lives are so hard these days. lol\u201d-reason587\nI did not read all of the negative comments; I couldn\u2019t. I\u2019m sure (I hope) many of them were just \u201ctrolls\u201d, but that doesn\u2019t make it hurt any less.\nYes I know better . . .\nI immediately felt sorrow, embarrassment and shame wash over me. I wanted to respond to each nasty comment that I\u2019m sure was spawned out of ignorance but I thought, what\u2019s the point? . . . where would I even begin? . . . A f*ck you would suffice . . . but that\u2019s not me. Lord please help me not sin in my anger.\nThese types of comments are what cause women to go into hiding and not seek help . . . cause US to feel like we are just not woman enough to handle life postpartum . . . these comments are enough to trigger someone in the midst of suffering.\nI can\u2019t say for sure that I have ever been discriminated against. This is the first time in my life that I have felt TRUE discrimination. It hurts . . . As much as I want to retreat and hide away. THIS is what I needed. Fuel added to my fire.\nMaybe I\u2019m naive; but when people have said to me how proud they are that I was brave enough to share my story. I took it as a kind sentiment. After reading those comments I realize that we really do HAVE to be brave . . .\nEven though I know better, there\u2019s that little voice of doubt that creeps in \u201cAm I just weak \u2014 Could I just push through and be stronger \u2014 Am I just making it up \u2014 Maybe I should pray more.\u201d But I know better. My thoughts go to the mom that doesn\u2019t . . . what about her?\nThose are fighting words . . . Not fighting the ignorance, instead this makes me want to fight for US . . . the moms!\nDuring my interview with Kelly, she asked me if I thought we had a long way to go (in reference to awareness). I said yes . . . especially for men/dad\u2019s. At that time I had NO idea how far we have to go. It wasn\u2019t until I read the comments . . . It was a wake up call . . . Just the call I needed.\nLook at the war ahead of us . . . . We are warrior moms regardless of what others may think, this proves it. We have so much more to fight than our illnesses. I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019m going to do or how I\u2019m going to do it. I can only pray that God will work through me in this fight.\nSimply put . . . Thank you A**HOLES for the fuel!\nTo those of you who purposely & innocently (out of ignorance) responded in a hurtful way, thank you for the fuel. Thank you to everyone who commented in support and thank you Greg for your support, on and off-line! I love you! Oh, THANK YOU Kelly for getting the conversation started in a big way!\n\u201cAwareness is the greatest agent for change\u201d -Eckhart Tolle\nPeople who make critical comments about something they have never experienced are just showing their ignorance. They don\u2019t have the brains to keep their mouths shut.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vegarada.net/vegarada/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=2&id=80859&Itemid=135", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:17Z", "digest": "sha1:JVCPIK2U5AY552MCEPXTNNEP2A24L3TT", "length": 7296, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.vegarada.net", "title": "more resources for", "raw_content": "more resources for\nTEMA: more resources for\nmore resources for\thace 2 semanas, 2 d\u00edas\t#80859\nATLANTA (AP) The Atlanta Braves acquired outfielder Adam Duvall from the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night to bolster their lineup http://www.raysfanproshop.com/authentic-nathan-eovaldi-jersey , especially against left-handers, for a postseason push.Duvall was targeted for a platoon role, starting against left-handers. The move will cut into Ender Inciarte\u2019s playing time.For the Reds, the trade opens the way for full-time roles for corner outfielders Jesse Winker and Scott Schebler while adding three young players.The Braves sent right-handers Lucas Sims and Matt Wisler and outfielder Preston Tucker to Cincinnati. All three spent time in Atlanta this season but were with Triple-A Gwinnett at the time of the trade.The trade was announced following the Braves\u2019 5-3 win over Miami on Monday night.Duvall, 29, has hit 15 home runs with 61 RBIs but is hitting only .205 this season.Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos said the Braves plan to start Duvall in left field against left-handers, with rookie Ronald Acuna Jr. moving to center and Inciarte, a Gold Glove Award-winning center fielder, moving to the bench.\u201dWe\u2019ve been a good team against left-handers but we can get better and this is a guy who\u2019s under control going forward,\u201d Anthopoulos said.Anthopoulos said Duvall and Inciarte have been told of the outfield plan.\u201dI talked to Ender tonight and he was great,\u201d Anthopoulos said. \u201dHis response was `I just want to get to the playoffs.\u2019 He\u2019s awesome.\u201dDuvall hit 64 homers over the previous two seasons, including 31 in 2017. He was an NL All-Star in 2016.Duvall was also a finalist for the Gold Glove Award in each of the last two seasons.The Braves are only a half-game behind Philadelphia in the race for the NL East. The Reds are last in the NL Central despite a recent surge.\u201dWe\u2019re pleased with the performance we\u2019ve seen in the middle of the summer,\u201d said Reds president of baseball operations Dick Williams. \u201dWe\u2019ve been trying to keep an eye on next year but this year is also important. \u2026 I think when we looked at next year we saw Winker and Schebler really emerging as corner outfielders that are going to have a lot of success in the big leagues.\u201dWisler http://www.raysfanproshop.com/authentic-daniel-robertson-jersey , 25, had a 5.40 ERA in seven games, including three starts, with Atlanta this season. Sims, 24, had a 7.84 ERA in six relief appearances. Tucker, 28, hit .256 with four homers and 22 RBI in 62 games. Tucker was optioned to Gwinnett on Saturday.\u2014 CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 The Cubs offered suspended shortstop Addison Russell a 2019 contract while maintaining Friday his future with the team is not certain.Russell is serving a 40-game domestic violence suspension following allegations by his ex-wife.President of president of baseball operations Theo Epstein called the decision a \u201cprocedural step\u201d and said it \u201cdoes not represent the finish line nor rubber-stamp his future\u201d with them.\u201cIt does however reflect our support for him as long as he continues to make progress and demonstrates his commitment to these important issues,\u201d Epstein added.Teams had a deadline Friday to offer contracts to unsigned players on their 40-man rosters.Russell accepted a 40-game suspension last October for violating Major League Baseball\u2019s domestic violence policy. The decision followed allegations made by his ex-wife Melisa Reidy. Though Russell has denied the allegations, he apologized to Reidy and his family for \u201cmy past behavior.\u201dRussell had a $3.2 million salary last season. His unpaid suspension includes the 11 regular-season games he missed after being placed on administrative leave Sept. 21. Russell will be eligible to return on May 3 against St. Louis, barring any postponements.\u201cSince accepting my suspension, I\u2019ve had time to reflect on my past behavior and think about the next steps I need to take to grow as a person,\u201d Russell said in a statement issued by the Cubs.Russell said he will meet regularly with experts and counselors mandated by his treatment plan. He said he also plans to keep working with his own therapist Matt Andriese Jersey , whom he has been seeing several times a week the past two months.He also hopes to work with non-profit groups in his hometown of Pensacola, Florida, as well as Chicago and Arizona \u201cto become part of the solution.\u201d\u201cI am just in the early stages of this process,\u201d Russell said. \u201cIt is work that goes far beyond being a baseball player. It goes to my core values of being the best family man, partner, and teammate that I can be, and giving back to the community and the less fortunate.While there is a lot of work ahead for me to earn back the trust of the Cubs fans, my teammates, and the entire organization, it\u2019s work that I am 110 percent committed to doing.\u201dEpstein said the Cubs have consulted with domestic violence experts to help them raise awareness and prevent more incidents, and the team has remained in touch with Reidy \u201cto support her and to listen.\u201d Epstein said he and chairman Tom Ricketts met with Russell in Chicago this week to \u201cassess his progress and communicate our expectations as he works to earn back the trust of our fans and entire organization.\u201dMLB began an investigation last year after allegations against Russell first became public.Reidy had posted a photo on her Instagram account with a caption suggesting her husband of about 18 months had been unfaithful to her. In another post, a user described by Reidy as a close friend claimed Russell had \u201chit\u201d his wife. The post was later deleted. Reidy declined to talk to MLB at the time because she decided it was not in her family\u2019s best interests, her lawyer http://www.raysfanproshop.com/authentic-c.-j.-cron-jersey , Thomas Field, said last year.Reidy published a blog post in September describing more detailed allegations, including years of physical and emotional abuse. Less than 12 hours later, MLB announced Russell had been put on leave under MLB\u2019s domestic violence policy.The Cubs have been willing to employ players following suspensions under the domestic violence policy. All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman served a 30-game ban with the Yankees in 2016 before Chicago acquired him midseason and utilized him to help end a 106-year World Series title drought.Epstein said the Cubs are \u201ctaking a hard look at how we can support domestic violence prevention.\u201d He said they have dedicated more resources for training players, their families, coaches and the front office to create \u201cthe safest workplace possible.\u201dHe said the Cubs are also working with Family Rescue, an organization based in Chicago dedicated to community education and helping victims of domestic violence.\u201cWe understand every action we take and word we use sends a message to our fans \u2014 all of whom have their own unique experiences and perspectives, and some of whom have a personal connection to domestic violence,\u201d Epstein said. \u201cThe message we would like to leave you with is we take the issue of domestic violence seriously. There is a long road ahead for Addison, and we will hold him accountable. There also is a long road ahead for our organization as we attempt to make some good of this situation. We are committed to being a part of the solution.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 14382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.venetianglassart.com/About-Us_ep_7.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:59Z", "digest": "sha1:CK25R5N4ACLQEJCNOMAYCUIJ5IGQERV4", "length": 2641, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.venetianglassart.com", "title": "About Venetian Glass Art - Home of Genuine Murano and Venetian Glass Jewelry and Home Accessories", "raw_content": "Venetian Glass Art is a direct importer of Venetian Glass and Murano Glass. Working directly with the furnaces in Murano to bring the finest from the Murano Glass furnaces directly to our customers.\nOurs is a story of the love of Venetian glass, a fascination with the techniques of glass blowing and, of course, a love of Italy, its people, and its culture. It all started with a trip to Venice in 1984 when Brenda purchased a Moretti glass necklace with the famous Murano beads. Many compliments and requests by friends prompted another trip and more purchases and sparked an interest in the glass. We began studying the language and our love and appreciation of the people and the culture grew. Importing the wonderful glass of Murano was a natural extension of our new lives in Italy with friends and family.\nExhibitors for many years with the International Gem and Jewelry Shows, the San Francisco International Gift Show and at various shows in the San Francisco Bay Area, we opened our first online store in 1998 on Yahoo Stores. We were pioneers in the E-commerce age! And, the rest, as they say, is history.\nWe remain a family owned business located in Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, CA, USA where we have been importing Venetian Glass and Murano Glass commercially since 1993.\nOne of our goals at Venetian Glass Art is to provide you with the most exquisite pieces of Venetian and Murano Glass available, whether it be a blown vase or a Murano Glass bead necklace. We do this by working directly with individual artists and families, many whom are second and third generation glass blowers or bead makers. We're sure you'll find the quality of our products to be unrivaled.\nWe only collect personal data required to process your order and your payment and maintain that information per the US laws regarding credit card transactions.\nWe have an opt-in newsletter and each issue of the newsletter provides a link for you to opt-out removing your name from our email list. 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This is our policy.\nIf you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us with your question(s).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ventilejamafasade.lv/wall-renovation-with-ventilated-facades/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:39Z", "digest": "sha1:C2T3YNY2ML6QLA65QTT6TI5W6DL7MOCA", "length": 5460, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ventilejamafasade.lv", "title": "Wall renovation with ventilated fa\u00e7ades", "raw_content": "The ventilated fa\u00e7ade is a system that consists of cladding material fastened to a load-bearing frame fixed onto the wall of a building so that the protective-decorative cladding and the wall are separated by an air gap.\nThe ventilated air gap is a barrier of air open to exterior air that is located between the cladding and the wind insulation. A layer of thermal insulation can also be installed for additional heat retention. In such a case, the air gap should be placed between the cladding and the thermal insulation. It is this air gap that gives ventilated fa\u00e7ades a high-performance edge.\nThe ventilated fa\u00e7ade system consists of the following components:\nFastening and fixing elements;\nA layer of thermal insulation;\nA layer of wind insulation;\nExternal cladding, typically fastened with rivets or screws.\nThe cladding elements and the thermal insulation layer are fixed to a wood or metal frame. The latter can be made of aluminium, galvanised steel or stainless steel profiles. What elements are used and how they are assembled depends on various factors, such as wall type, building height, wind loads and cladding material.\nAluminium frames, which consist of aluminium steel profiles, are typically the structure of choice due to their great resistance to corrosion, simple assembly, light weight and price.\nThere is no need to even out or straighten exterior walls when installing a ventilated fa\u00e7ade. Any unevenness is compensated by the frame system to which the exterior cladding is attached.\nAtmospheric stress is one of the most important factors in the disintegration of external walls. Atmospheric stressors are typically classified as natural processes (rain, snow, sleet, wind, cold, heat) or complex chemical and biological processes caused by air pollution. Sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide are the main air pollutants that affect buildings. These pollutants react with water, oxygen and various oxidants to form acid rain. Such acids settle on external walls and corrode them.\nThe Lithuanian climate is much harsher towards external building structures than the climate conditions in Central Europe. More attention should be paid to the impact of freeze-thaw cycles, especially if they are accompanied by higher levels of moisture.\nWhen carrying out thermal insulation work for buildings, the movement of heat, moisture and air must be taken into account.\nMoisture has a great influence on the thermal conductivity of various materials. The thermal conductivity coefficient of water is about 20 times greater than that of air, and the thermal conductivity of ice is 4 times greater than that of water. If a material gets wet, moisture enters its pores and pushes the air out. This means that the thermal conductivity of the material increases.\nWhen a structure is not ventilated and the layer of thermal insulation is pressed against the outer layer of cladding, water can enter the layer of insulation in one of two ways. During the heating season, the water vapours that pass through structures at low temperatures begin to condense within the material or on the surface of the structural layer behind the thermal insulation. Affected by wind pressure and capillary action, rainwater can also leak through exterior cladding and dampen layers of thermal insulation. Water absorption depends both on the capillary properties of the cladding material and the quantity and size of the cracks within it. Once a uniform film of water forms on the surface of a wall, the wind pushes the water into these cracks and the gaps of various structural joints.\nThus it is important to ensure the water tightness of external structures when renovating a building and seeking to prevent heat loss. Ensuring adequate interior ventilation is also essential because poor ventilation leads to increased levels of moisture. This, in turn, leads to greater levels of condensation, greater risk of mould infestation and poorer air quality. However, increasing circulation with forced ventilation also increases heat loss and this can only be rectified by using a recuperator.\nRenovation designs must be drawn up with a special focus on the prevention of condensation in the layer of thermal insulation due to air movement from the outside in. Damp thermal insulation has poorer thermal conductivity than dry insulation. Moisture levels can be reduced by using materials that are permeable to water vapours in the construction of a building's external insulation system.\nRegulations applicable in Latvian demand that walls are designed and constructed only using thermal insulation elements for ventilated fa\u00e7ades that have European Technical Assessments (ETA) and/or CE marking.\nPanel characteristics are governed by the LVS EN 12467 standard.\nTaking into account the materials they are made of, all the elements used in the construction of ventilated fa\u00e7ades must be resistant to corrosion, moisture, mould and UV light or they must undergo appropriate protective treatment before use. The resistance of system elements to the mentioned stressors should be evaluated with tests based on the standard requirements for each product type. The frame, fastening elements and the metal elements of the cladding material must be selected so that the conditions for electrochemical corrosion are not created. The cold tolerance of cladding elements must be no lower than that indicated by integrated product standards and no lower than 100 freeze-thaw cycles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 6107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 234.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vernonadventchristianchurch.com/About%20Us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:37Z", "digest": "sha1:6EU6UK63NYIUZQ4H7VFTESZ7KZAPL6GF", "length": 689, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.vernonadventchristianchurch.com", "title": "About Us", "raw_content": "We believe we will glorify God as we love and worship Him, love and care for each other in the spirit of unity, and become an effective church for the cause of Christ until His return.\nWe believe an effective church is one which:\nconsistently wins the lost to Christ.\nlovingly builds up the body of Christ, teaching believers to obey everything Jesus commanded.\nsystematically equips \"the saints for works of service\" which God would have us do.\npatiently develops new leaders whom God raises up from among us.\nThe means by which we aspire to this mission are the studying and teaching of the Word of God and dependence upon God through earnest prayer under the leading of the Holy Spirit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.verteidiger-in-berlin.de/en/rechtsberatung_berlin/amtstraeger.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VB7FL2MX3TMIFIP4AFTRBIIRUCI355RQ", "length": 1055, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.verteidiger-in-berlin.de", "title": "Defence of public officals - Ignor & Partner GbR, Law firm", "raw_content": "Defence of public officals\nTo be accused of having committed a crime weighs heavily on every human being. This is particularly true for public officials (civil servants, judges, mayors or employees in civil service).On the one hand, the Criminal Code contains acts such as taking undue benefits or bribes or perverting the course of justice which can only be committed by public officials. On the other hand, the law provides for delicate penalties for offenses, such as assault and falsification of public records, when committed by public servants in the line of duty.\nIn addition, the initiation of a criminal investigation can lead to disciplinary proceedings, and the outcome of both proceedings will in many cases threaten the livelihood of the accused.\nAll the members of our law firm have a great deal of experience in the defence of public officials. In appropriate cases, we also take over representation in disciplinary proceedings. Should it be necessary, we can also rely on a network of highly specialized colleagues, with whom we cooperate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 139.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.videofantastica.com/view_video/152734/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:14Z", "digest": "sha1:KHNJXAU5ZF3NOCMXRMPDCL35FXGB4VC7", "length": 154, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.videofantastica.com", "title": "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing (HBO) - Video Fantastica!", "raw_content": "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Sugar (HBO)\nLast Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO): Net Neutrality\nLast Week Tonight with John Oliver: The IRS (HBO)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.villagedancearts.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:15Z", "digest": "sha1:IDCNGR4GUS25NWXJJP4BDH6KW7WKDL7S", "length": 1242, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.villagedancearts.org", "title": "Village Dance Arts", "raw_content": "Village Dance Arts is dedicated to offering quality dance education.\nABOUT VILLAGE DANCE ARTS\nFounded in 1969, Village Dance Arts has been offering excellence in dance education for over forty years. Rooted in the best of American and European dance traditions, the school is committed to the artistic and physical development of its students. Village Dance Arts' philosophy is founded on the classicism of the Russian, Italian, and French ballet schools, and is enhanced by the versatility of modern movement forms. Under the direction of Toni Ebell Carrion, the program develops talent in a manner that will ensure a lifetime involvement in, and enjoyment of, dance. Village Dance Arts is a Royal Academy of Dance Registered School.\nIt is our purpose to nurture and produce dancers who, by working within their physical limitations, can demonstrate a high level of technical proficiency along with musical awareness and expressiveness. It is our goal to provide quality dance training in a positive and supportive environment. Through dance training, we aim to foster self confidence and discipline in our students, and maintain an atmosphere where students are encouraged to develop to their fullest potential regardless of ability levels.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.virginiaslate.com/faqs/how-much-does-slate-weigh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:59Z", "digest": "sha1:2C4W3D6N63VX5G34EOIDR2CWPFWC2Y4W", "length": 704, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.virginiaslate.com", "title": "How much does slate weigh? - Virginia Slate", "raw_content": "How much does slate weigh?\nSlate weighs between 800 to 1,000 pounds per square, or eight to ten pounds per square foot. The weight of each slate piece is directly related to the thickness of each piece of slate. The thinner the slate, the lighter it is. The thicker the slate, the heavier it is. Since all slate roofing material is still hand split today, the thickness for each slate varies according to the eye of the splitter.\nMost producers offer slate in several ranges of thickness:\n1/ 4\u201d \u2013 3/8\u201d about 900 to 1,200 pounds per square\n3/8\u201d \u2013 1/2\u201d 1,200 to 1,800 pounds per square\n3 /4\u201d \u2013 1\u201d 2,500 to 3,300 pounds per square\nThe majority of slate sold today in the United States is 1 /4\u201d \u2013 3/8\u201d thick.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vision4cameroon.com/testimony01.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:48Z", "digest": "sha1:JBET2R5UPFK43DKOT6B4OLWNRTCL2Q5B", "length": 1861, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.vision4cameroon.com", "title": "\ufeff Testimony", "raw_content": "\u201cMy very own Bible!\u201d Jimmy was standing in front of me and holding his new Bible to his chest with both hands. He said it again: \u201cMy very own Bible!\u201d and then added, \u201cI never thought that I would be able to have a Bible of my own. Thank you Lord!\u201d\nJimmy was one of 30 young men and women who did some work for us in order to earn their very own Bibles. They carried heavy rocks from the nearby mountainside to the site where we plan to build our dorms for the training center. Each of them carried 7 piles of rocks, which is the set amount of rocks for the price that a Bible costs.\nMost of these youth and young adults are members of our Future Leaders' Program. After doing Bible studies all summer long, they have grown to realize the importance of studying God's word on their own, and with this realization came the desire to obtain a Bible of their own. Since many of them did not have the money to purchase a Bible, they were more than happy to do some work for us in exchange for one. They all worked very hard to earn their Bibles, and will certainly cherish the Word of God all the more it. It has certainly been a joy for us to see these 30 young men and women so eager and hungry for God's Word. And we pray that as they now own a Bible of their own, that they would read it and grow in their faith.\n\u201cWhen I'm done with my schooling I want to do what you guys are doing. I want to tell people about Jesus and teach them God's Word. Before I didn't know the importance of God's Word, but now I understand it.\u201d\n~ Adasha (one of the youth in our Future Leaders' Program)\n\u201cI don't know what I would do without you and the people who support you. There would be no other way for me to finish high school, since my parents don't have the money. 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It follows the lives of a group of teenagers from Derry, and one of the girl\u2019s male cousins from England as they navigate their way through school life in the 1990s during the Troubles.\nIt is expected that tourism numbers will increase following on from the popular shows, as visitors to the 2013 City of Culture look for the real \u2018Derry Girls\u2019 experience.\nOdhran Dunne of Visit Derry, said the show has given the city a \u2018real profile\u2019 and he looks forward to welcoming more visitors to Derry as a result of its success.\nFor those thinking about visiting the vibrant city, then check out Visit Derry's fab short break offers which start from as little as \u00a382.50pps for a two night break.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vittoriomartire.it/collection/classic-2015/product/23-rodolfo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:36Z", "digest": "sha1:IVBSC2C6COLOQU4HEVVPWMYFHIKJXVHB", "length": 72, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vittoriomartire.it", "title": "Rodolfo", "raw_content": "Milan\u2026 a smart and sophisticated man\u2026\nan unforgettably glamorous person\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 235.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wacomasonic.org/josephus-steiner/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7CJ6LBUGT74Q2WPVMSKYLEJLGOJATMT6", "length": 5030, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.wacomasonic.org", "title": "Josephus Steiner - Waco Masonic Lodge #92", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Josephus Steiner\nDr. Josephus Murray Steiner\nFather of Hill County\nWinner of Infamous Duel\nOne of our earliest members, Josephus Steiner, was a figure of great interest in the Waco area. He was born September 17, 1823 in Maryland. He got his Bachelors Degree at Kenyon College in Ohio and then attended medical school in Pennsylvania. Shortly thereafter, Steiner enlisted in the U.S. Army and was made Assistant Surgeon early in 1842. During the Mexican-American War, he came to Texas with his military outfit and afterwards was stationed at Fort Graham west of present day Hillsboro. After arriving at Fort Graham, Steiner led efforts through his connections in the military and in masonry to have Hill County established. His efforts were successful and he was the first doctor to open a practice there. Shortly thereafter and while still at Fort Graham, Steiner stuck himself in the history books for another reason.\nFort Graham was located west of Hillsboro where Lake Whitney is today.\nLate in 1853, Steiner\u2019s Commanding Officer was West Point graduate Ripley Arnold, the founder of Fort Worth. Despite the fact that both were Masons, Arnold and Stiner despised one another and it seems their dispute had gone on long enough that their friends could no longer recall the initial problem. Whatever it was, things came to head that fall when Steiner angered Arnold by filing a report suggesting that Arnold had illegally benefited by selling some horses owned by the Army.\nArnold responded by issuing an arrest warrant for Steiner while the surgeon was supposedly drunk in public. He and his lieutenant, Richard Anderson, attempted to make the arrest. The result was a shootout begun with Arnold firing a shot off at Steiner and by the end, Major Arnold laid dead in the dirt with three bullets in him. Steiner was unharmed but was court-martialed and was a no-show at his hearing in Austin. Lt. Anderson had been prepared as a witness but when Steiner failed to appear, Anderson was given the task of finding Steiner and bringing him to justice. This began a series of arrests during which Anderson located and arrested Steiner several times but returned to Austin empty-handed for various reasons. First, the local sheriff convinced Anderson to turn Steiner loose on account of jurisdiction. When Anderson returned to Austin, he was told that he had been fooled so he went back again. In the arrests that followed, local settlers ganged up on Anderson forcing him to release the doctor.\nThe last time Anderson attempted an arrest, a group of Hill County and Waco men(believed to have been members of Waco Masonic Lodge) heard that Anderson arrested Steiner and was heading to Austin. The group set a trap in Waco and when Anderson came through escorting Steiner, they jumped upon him and once again, Anderson was forced to release the doctor. Finally, it was agreed that a civilian trial would be held in Waco since a stalemate had clearly been reached in the efforts to court martial Steiner in Austin.\nAs the trial began, several Fort Graham witnesses testified that Major Arnold had made very clear threats against the life of Dr. Steiner in response to Steiner\u2019s claims that Arnold had defrauded the government out of its horses. Further evidence provided by Steiner\u2019s attorneys substantiated his claims about the horse theft. Due to this and also probably because the people in the jury were sympathetic to Steiner who had become something of a Waco hero, Steiner was found not guilty. The people in attendance at the trial leaped out of their seats, screamed for joy, and hoisted Steiner up on their shoulders before carrying him out of the courthouse in triumph. Steiner\u2019s convincing attorney in the trial was also a member of Waco 92, future Governor Richard Coke. On May 9, 1856, Steiner was formally discharged from the Army and that long chapter of his life was over.\nIn 1859, Steiner, George Erath(our charter member), Richard Coke, and John Henry Brown were named Indian Commissioners. In this capacity, they served as liaisons between the state of Texas and area native Americans. Often times, they would advocate on behalf of natives with the state government.\nBrother Steiner was head of the State Lunatic Asylum in Austin from 1861 to 1865. 92\u2019s Dr. Wallace later served in the same role.\nAfter the end of the Civil War, Steiner relocated to Madison, Wisconsin and lived there for several years before he died while in Georgia in 1873. Twenty years later, his remains were relocated from Georgia to Oakwood Cemetery in Waco.\nA town near Whitney was named Steiner after Bro. Steiner and so was Steiner Valley Park at Lake Whitney. The towns of Meridian and Hillsboro were both built on land donated for the purpose by Steiner and his brother. Steiner\u2019s son, Dr. Ralph Steiner, was a Consulate to Germany, Texas State Health Officer, and was on the Board of Regents at UT in Austin. Ralph Steiner is remembered for popularizing the theory that sharing drinking cups could lead to the spread of sickness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 7051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.warwickshirechess.org/2017-18/Junior.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EABSGSDGOE3WUEMLWUB7AOKMYTEYMJRF", "length": 4094, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.warwickshirechess.org", "title": "Home", "raw_content": "Grand Prix Final Standings\nThe Grand Prix for this season has now finished. The overall winners for each section are as follows:\nUnder 18 Boys: David Phillips\nUnder 18 Girls: Estera-Alexandra Ercsei\nUnder 14 Boys: Robert-Georgel Grozea\nUnder 14 Girls: Imogen Dicen\nUnder 11 Boys: Tristan Wong\nUnder 11 Girls: Margarita Sanchez\nUnder 9 Boys: Rohan Pal\nUnder 9 Girls: Elis Dicen\nView Grand Prix results in full.\nRugby Junior Open Results\nThe Rugby Junior Open took place on Sunday 1st July 2018. There were 90 junior players in total split into 6 sections based on age and rating. Full Results\nJunior 4NCL Weekend 3\nThe Warwickshire Bears Junior 4NCL team won the third weekend of the season in Telford on 21-22 April. They won 3 out of the 4 matches played. Full Results\n2018 EPSCA U9 Final\nThe EPSCA U9 Final took place in Solihull on 28th April. The Warwickshire U9 team finished 2nd which is their best ever result in the competition. Full Results\nRugby Junior Open\nThe Rugby Junior Open is being held at Lawrence Sheriff School in Rugby on 1st July 2018. This is a tournament for players aged under 18. The online entry form is now available. For further information please visit the tournament website.\nThe Warwick Junior Open took place on Saturday 7th April 2018. There were 43 junior players who participated in the competition. The players were split into 4 groups of similar abilities. Medals were awarded to players who scored at least 50%. Full Results\nThe Warwick Junior Open is being held at Warwick Preparatory School on 7th April 2018. This is a tournament for players aged under 11. The online entry form is now available. For further information please visit the tournament website.\nWarwickshire Junior Grand Prix Rules\nThe rules for the 2017/18 Warwickshire Junior Grand Prix have been amended. Please familiarise yourself with the new rules. New Rules\nFour Counties 2017 Results\nA Four Counties junior team tournament was held on Sunday 26th November at Rugby. Warwickshire won 3 sections and came runners up in the other section. Full Results\nThe Warwickshire Junior Championships took place on Sunday 19th November 2017. There were 79 junior players who participated in the competition. Trophies were awarded to the winners in each section. The grand prix leaderboards have been updated again. Full Results\nDecember 5, 2017 | Posted By webmaster\nThe Kenilworth Junior Open is being held at Kenilworth School & Sixth Form on 14th January 2018. This is a tournament for players aged under 18 (please enter the appropriate section for your age). The online entry form is now available. For further information please visit the tournament website.\nThe grand prix leaderboards are now up on the website. The grand prix runs from September to July. This season the following events are part of the grand prix: Leamington, Coventry, Junior Championship, Kenilworth, Birmingham, Warwick, Rugby.\nWarwickshire Junior Championships\nThe Warwickshire Junior Championships is being held at Kenilworth School & Sixth Form in Kenilworth on 19th November 2017. This is a tournament for players aged under 18 (please enter the appropriate section for your age). The online entry form is now available. For further information please visit the tournament website.\nOctober 15, 2017 | Posted By webmaster\nThe Leamington Junior Open took place on Sunday 10th September 2017. There were 23 junior players who participated in the competition. Medals were awarded to players who scored well in their sections. Full Results\nThe Coventry Junior Open is being held at King Henry VIII School in Coventry on 7th October 2017. This is a tournament for players aged under 18 (please enter the appropriate section for your age). The online entry form is now available. For further information please visit the tournament website.\nLeamington Junior Open\nThe Leamington Junior Open is being held at SYDNI Centre in Leamington Spa on 10th September 2017. This is a tournament for players aged under 9 and 11. The online entry form is now available. For further information please visit the tournament website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/03/AR2008080301819.html?hpid=moreheadlines", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WDTQFOOKT7SFVXYXYFZP6C6IOWHLFIY2", "length": 4866, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "Researcher Kept Security Clearance as FBI Closed In", "raw_content": "Researcher Kept Security Clearance as FBI Closed In\nBruce Ivins was able to continue to handle biological agents at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., even as he became the top suspect in the 2001 anthrax case. (By Katherine Frey -- The Washington Post)\nBy Carrie Johnson, Marilyn W. Thompson and Joby Warrick\nAs an FBI investigation increasingly focused on him as a suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks, Fort Detrick scientist Bruce E. Ivins enjoyed a security clearance that allowed him to work in the facility's most dangerous laboratories, to handle deadly biological agents, and to take part in broad discussions about the Pentagon's defenses against germ warfare.\nOn July 10, the day he was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation, for example, Ivins spent part of the afternoon at a sensitive briefing on a new bubonic plague vaccine under development at the Army's elite biological weapons testing center, according to a former colleague who talked with him there.\nRecords that have surfaced since Ivins committed suicide last week show that Fort Detrick officials abruptly barred him from the base July 10, based on what a counselor called his deteriorating emotional condition. Until then, his security clearance gave him access to some of the most secure areas at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, or USAMRIID. Months earlier, Ivins had become one of a handful of scientists regarded by federal investigators as the lead suspects in the unsolved killing of five people by mailed letters containing anthrax.\nThe FBI made a genetic match between anthrax spores from Ivins's lab and those used in the attack, including those taken from victims' bodies, according to sources familiar with the evidence. Sources familiar with the investigation say government scientists, through forensic genetics, traced the strain used in the attacks to a beaker that Ivins used at Fort Detrick.\nIvins's attorney, Paul F. Kemp, repeatedly has professed his client's innocence and instead has characterized Ivins as a man hounded by the investigation into taking his own life. Co-workers and neighbors say they cannot conceive that Ivins would be responsible for anthrax attacks, but court records and testimony from his onetime therapist, Jean Duley, paint a more disturbing view of Ivins and his psychiatric state.\nHis freedom to move about Fort Detrick, even as the FBI closed in on him and threatened an indictment, adds another layer of mystery to the massive case, which law enforcement authorities now hope to close as early as today. As a world-renowned specialist in the study of anthrax bacteria, Ivins worked closely with the FBI in its \"Amerithrax\" probe while gradually becoming the principal suspect in the case. His scientific expertise was so recognized that he took part in broader discussions about a major government buildup of biological protections to guard against future attacks.\nThe July 10 plague briefing brought together experts to discuss the next stages in developing a vaccine to protect U.S. troops. Jeffrey J. Adamovicz, who formerly supervised Ivins as head of Fort Detrick's bacteriology division, saw him at the briefing and talked to him for about 10 minutes. \"He seemed stressed but fairly normal,\" said Adamovicz, who helped develop the plague vaccine while at USAMRIID.\nColleagues question how Ivins could have maintained his security credentials if the FBI suspected him in the anthrax case. \"Even back in the old days, there was a screening process for people who work in those laboratories,\" Adamovicz said.\nCaree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman for USAMRIID, said government rules bar her from discussing the security clearance of a specific employee.\n\"There are time-honored procedures to examine security clearances on a regular basis, to verify information provided by the security-clearance holder, and traditional steps to ensure that only the appropriate level of security access is granted, largely based on the nature of the person's government job,\" she said in an e-mail. It would not have been \"unusual\" for a scientist of Ivins's standing to attend a briefing on the unclassified plague-vaccine research program, she added.\nIvins himself had questioned the effectiveness of the fort's security procedures in interviews with reporters as long as six years ago. At the time of the anthrax attacks, only senior managers at USAMRIID were routinely required to obtain top-secret-level security clearances. Most scientists of Ivins's rank would be required to undergo a background check and would be cleared to see classified documents on a need-to-know basis, according to a former senior official at the lab.\nThe rules were tightened after 2001, with the addition of \"biosurety\" regulations that governed the handling of pathogens and required more extensive background checks for lab workers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 5104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wealthwayonline.com/inspiration/the-relationship-between-millennials-and-credits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EMTBX73GYQKHWK6FC2X3WDC73HGV7MCU", "length": 1912, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.wealthwayonline.com", "title": "The relationship between Millennials and Credits \u2013 Wealth Way Online", "raw_content": "Home Inspiration The relationship between Millennials and Credits\nThere are numerous pointers that are used to help define a particular generation, and when it comes to millennials, you can find evidence to suggest that their typical profile would be someone who is highly educated, ambitious and self-confident, as well as definitely tech-savvy.\nMillennials are definitely a connected generated, using their cell phones and other mobile devices, to communicate and engage with others via social media and text.\nThere is no doubt that millennials have definitely made their mark and noticeably influenced mainstream culture, but one of the most noticeable differences between this generation and those that we have sought to define before it like the baby-boomers, is their attitude towards credit.\nThis infographic takes a look at millennials and credit, demonstrating an interesting contrast and shift in attitudes in comparison to previous generations.\nAny changes in attitude and the way they do everyday things like banking are going to potentially influence future generations, especially when you consider that millennials outnumber baby boomers by 15 million.\nOne major shift that immediately leaps out when you view the facts and figures about millennials, is that just 3% of them have taken out a mortgage. There definitely seems to be more of a shift in emphasis on what this generation likes to spend its money on, so all of the traditional life goals such as buying a house, getting married and starting a family, are not taking such a priority.\nIt seems millennials have a different attitude not just towards credit, but a lot of other things besides, that tend to define a generation.\nThinking of Redecorating? Here are the Top Interior Design Trends This Year\nWhat online gambling taught me about money\nCEO of the Best Drug Rehab Explains 7 Reasons Why Most People Will Never Become Entrepreneurs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/12-29-97/austin_books_feature1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:58Z", "digest": "sha1:KNYNOA7SCYULEY6XJUMY4YWRZN5O6ZIS", "length": 24770, "nlines": 78, "source_domain": "www.weeklywire.com", "title": "Books: No Prozac for the Wicked (Austin Chronicle . 12-29-97)", "raw_content": "DECEMBER 29, 1997: Like God and the Devil, - - writer Donald E. Westlake has many names and sometimes seems to be everywhere all at once. In the field of crime literature, Westlake has few peers, a legion of admirers, and innumerable imitators. Since the 1960 publication of his smash debut The Mercenaries, he's written more than 70 novels (40-something under his own name and dozens more under a gaggle of pseudonyms), including two of the best crime fiction series ever written, and dozens of one-shot genre-twisting classics. His film credits include at least two movies that many writers would kill to have on their resum\u00e9. Westlake's screenplay for The Grifters, adapted from the Jim Thompson novel, won a well-deserved Academy Award in 1990. It was also widely acknowledged as being the first completely successful translation of Thompson's incredibly dark and tortured visions into the language of film.\nTrue aficionados of hard-boiled fiction and cinema were the least surprised by Westlake's deft handling of Thompson's stark, hellish world view. After all, Stark was practically Donald Westlake's middle name. More precisely, Richard Stark was the pen name under which he wrote 20 hard-boiled classics between 1962 and 1974, the first of which, The Hunter, was made into a killer film noir in 1967 called Point Blank! With a stellar cast led by the inimitable Lee Marvin, director John Boorman transformed Westlake's original caper/revenge tale into a unique, stunning, and sometimes psychedelic celluloid trip that blew the genre to smithereens and, in the process, redeemed it from anachronistic irrelevance. (Should be required viewing for wannabe noir filmmakers weaned on Tarantino and MTV.) So far, six of the Stark novels have made it to film, a pretty fair number when you consider their dark, amoralistic tone. They're the best caper novels ever written, with lean and mean prose and chapters that flash back and forward to drive a narrative that zips along at whiplash speed despite the infinite convolutions of the heists, take-downs, betrayals, and general mayhem of the plot.\nParker reacted at once, almost without thinking. The lights flashed on, he spun and saw them, he heard the engine turning over, and he raised the shotgun and fired. The right barrel. The left barrel. The lights went out. -- The Black Ice Score\nSixteen of the Stark novels feature a protagonist named Parker (no first name), a professional crook who never gets caught. A cold, almost mechanical anti-hero, Parker has an ironclad set of rules for success in crime:\nNever have sex when working a caper. (Before and after is a different story.)\nDuring a takeover job, learn and use the first names of the people you're holding at gunpoint. It boosts their ego and makes them easier to deal with.\nWhen a caper goes sour and a partner gets in trouble, it's their tough luck. The professional crook sticks his neck out for no one.\nAt large since his first appearance in 1962, Parker is cold as an iceberg, sure as lightning. No marine was ever as professional or dedicated to his craft. Despite all that, no caper ever goes off without a hitch. Military precision devolves into carnage and chaos, but Parker always comes out on top. None of the conflict and suspense ever has anything to do with whether the crooks' behavior is right or wrong. The concept of amorality is almost as irrelevant as it would be discussing the behavior of animals. They're just doing the thing they do. And after the gig, Parker sleeps just fine. No Prozac for the wicked.\nHearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off the chair to the left. The bullet furrowed a line through the plans on the table, the sound of the shot echoed loud and long in the closed room, and Parker rolled amid suddenly scrambling feet, his arms folded in tight over his chest. He didn't have a gun on him, and the first thing to do was get away from the guy who did. -- Plunder Squad\nIn 1974, Westlake stopped writing about Parker. He'd already written four other novels as Richard Stark, but these featured one of Parker's sometime partners, a part-time actor named Grofield who supplements his stage income with crime capers. The Grofield books were good. Grofield was not Parker. Westlake tried to write another Parker novel, but \"Parker just wasn't alive for me,\" he says. That's not to say that Westlake suffered from writers' block. He kept up his usual prodigious output, under numerous pen names (Samuel Holt, Tucker Coe, Morgan J. Cunningham, Curt Clark, and Timothy J. Culver, to name a few), but his most significant work was published under his own name, and most of it was, believe it or not, comic. The Hot Rock, published in 1970, introduced a new series character named Dortmunder. Like Parker, Dortmunder is a bent twig who thinks big. Unlike Parker, Dortmunder is a wannabe, a bungler. He never gets away with it. The Hot Rock was filmed as a light-hearted Robert Redford movie. The follow-up, The Bank Shot, also made the transition to film, though not as successfully.\nThe bulk of Westlake's work in the past two and a half decades proved that he's just as good at being soft-boiled and biting and satirical as he is at being tough and dark and suspenseful. But was it really a detour or merely a shifting of gears? In some of Westlake's most successful crime novels (the Parker series in particular), he had already pushed the envelope just about as far as it could be pushed. Push it a little farther, the envelope turns inside out, and the payoff for a suspenseful setup isn't a sock in the jaw or an exploding bank vault but a tickled funny bone. Sometimes it's just a matter of attenuation, of tweaking the reader or viewer's expectations. Notice, for example, how much humor there is in Hitchcock's films. Try watching noir classics like The Big Sleep, Out of the Past, The Glass Key, The Maltese Falcon, or The Postman Always Rings Twice and think of them as comedies. It's easy once you've seen them a couple of times. You can only watch a guy blindly following a suicide blonde into a rain-slick dark alley or falling out of her bed and into the gas chamber a few times before you start thinking, Hey, he shoulda known better. Notice how most of the best tough-guy lines are the ones that get laughs. The line between noir suspense and dark comedy is a fine one. Or as Westlake says, \"It's the other side of the same street.\" And Westlake knows both sides like the back of his hand.\nChanneling Hitchcock is easy while reading The Ax (Mysterious Press, $23). Published to rave reviews last June, The Ax details the predicament of one Burk Devore, a middle-class, middle-aged executive who is \"downsized\" out of his job as a specialist at a paper company. After being unemployed for two years, Burk decides that he will be a victim no more. Taking out a phony employment ad in order to attract all the top men in his field, he collects the resum\u00e9s of the six men more qualified than he for the next job opening in his special field. Then he murders them. It's all quite logical. He has to do it. Otherwise he'll lose his wife, his two kids, his home with a two-car garage (already absent the second car), his minivan. Film rights are already being negotiated. If Michael Douglas hadn't already done Falling Down, I'd expect him to kill for the part. The Ax is truly a fable for our times, a hell of a book that should make a hell of a movie, too. Expect to see more and more Westlake film credits in the future. Like a flashback-driven plot, the resurgence of film noir seems to be cycling back to the scene of Westlake's brand of crime. Filmmakers turning out movies like The Usual Suspects and, more recently, L.A. Confidential and U-Turn, not only emulate the noir style but employ high-octane narratives to prove just how entertaining men behaving very badly can be.\nNot-so-coincidentally, Brian Helgeland, co-screenwriter of L.A. Confidential (adapted from the work of another great crime novelist, James Ellroy), will be writing and directing a remake of Point Blank!, starring Mel Gibson. Can Mel do Parker? Can Helgeland handle a hard-boiled heist? Devoted crime fiction aficionados will be sweating bullets.\nAnd the crime wave rolls on, in print as well as film. Here the big news is that Richard Stark is back, with a new novel called, appropriately enough, Comeback (Mysterious Press $18). This time, Parker's crew robs $400,000 in \"love offerings\" from the stadium revival meeting of big time evangelist William Archibald's Christian Crusade. Everything goes off without a hitch -- almost. Parker's inside man, one of Archibald's \"angels,\" starts to have second thoughts in the middle of the heist. Too bad for him.\nParker reached out and closed his left hand around Carmody's right thumb, bending the thumb in on itself, applying only the slightest pressure. Carmody's face turned almost as white as the makeup smeared on it, his knees bent, his mouth opened in a wide O. Parker said, \"Shut up, now. You said your say. Now we walk to the money room.\"\nNext year, Parker will strike again with a new novel, Backflash, and in the fall, Mysterious Press will begin reprinting the entire series of Stark novels. A very welcome comeback. A timely one, too: Westlake's fabulous creation is the original Material Man, the ultimate Just Do It guy. Show me the money? Gimme a break. When Parker says it, you know exactly what he means. And what's more, he's the pop culture anti-hero who anticipated the craze of one-name celebrities by 20 years.\nThe creator of Parker is a guy who writes books faster than most people read. A very focused, very busy man, you'd think. Although, like most people who have a lot of aliases in their closet, there are some things he'd rather not discuss; he's an open, easygoing, entertaining guy to talk with. During our interview, he even laughed at all my jokes. But then again, he seems to be a guy who laughs easily. You could say that Donald Westlake is a guy who laughs all the way to the bank robbery.\nAC: Was Mercenaries (1960) indeed your very first published book?\nDW: Yeah, well, under my name. There was a bit of juvenilia before that but that's the first one I acknowledge.\nAC: And what about the dozens of other books written under various pen names that you haven't acknowledged? Some of those are pretty wild and very sought-after by collectors. Anything in particular you'd like to say about any of those?\nDW: Uh, no. (laughs)\nAC: How did you start out writing the two series characters, Parker and Dortmunder?\nDW: They were both supposed to be one-shots. I wrote the first Parker book, thinking it was for Gold Medal, the great paperback original house, but they rejected it, so my agent sent it to Pocket Books. There was an editor there named Bucklyn Moon, a wonderful man. He called me, and we discussed the fact that I had Parker get caught at the end. I thought bad guys had to get caught at the end. He asked me if there was any way I could let Parker get away and do more books about him. I said, \"Oh yeah.\" So that was completely inadvertent.\nAnd so with Dortmunder I just did The Hot Rock and didn't expect to see him again. Then two years later I was driving back and forth between New York and New Jersey every week and there was a bank being torn down and a new bank being built next door, and they were operating out of a mobile home next door while the construction was going on. I finally drove by one time and I said wait a minute, there's wheels on that thing, somebody could just pull up and drive that bank away, and I think I got the perfect people to do it. And so that's how Dortmunder came back, in The Bank Shot. But it was all inadvertent. I just get up every morning and scratch my head.\nAC: Everybody says your books have this amoral center. Do you have an attitude or philosophy that explains that?\nDW: It just seems to be natural. It's not that I am specifically myself anti-authority but it's just that I think I just basically have a distrust of people who say, \"I'm in charge here.\" I remember years ago I was walking on the beach and there was a guy walking towards me and he was wearing a T-shirt that said, \"Question Authority,\" and my immediate reaction was, \"Who says?\"\nAC: It's interesting that writers like you and Hammett and Robert B. Parker are able to balance humor and darkness while writing in the hard-boiled style. Then you've pushed it all the way over to the other side for the Dortmunder series. Was Dortmunder specifically intended as a satirical take on Parker?\nDW: Actually Dortmunder came out of a failed effort to do Parker. I had an idea for a novel in which Parker would have to steal something over and over and that turned out to be too comic of an idea that you just couldn't give it to Parker. The character would lose credibility as a tough guy if you gave him that story, and that's why I wound up with Dortmunder. But it's just the other side of the same street.\nAC: I see a lot of Hammett in your style. Do you like his Bloodmoney?\nDW: Oh, yeah, yeah, yes. Hammett is one of the people I wanted to write like because he was laconic. He didn't waste words. He didn't make a big deal about emotions. But he made them very plain. You knew the emotions were there without him having to tell you a whole lot. I liked that a lot in him, so that was the stylistic thing I liked, not the kind of stories he was doing but the way he was telling them.\nAC: Before Comeback arrived I was wondering how you were going to handle the time and age issue. Now that I've read it, I know. Here we are, 23 years after his last caper and he seems as spry as ever, but I feel a lot older.\nDW: I figured that if Dick Tracy could go on without ever aging then Parker could too. I mean, if the cops can do it, then why not a robber? Dortmunder hasn't aged in 27 years. They live in a sort of perpetual Now. Like in one book they don't know about fax machines, and in another book they do, and things like that.\nAC: How about Point Blank! Is that a great movie or what?\nDW: Oh, yeah, that's a terrific movie.\nAC: What's your interpretation of the ending? Is he supposed to be dead or is he really, literally, hiding in the shadows?\nDW: Well, nobody who made the movie has ever been prepared to talk about what the ending means. One interpretation is that in the opening sequence, when he's lying on the floor in the cell, he's about to die and the entire movie is his dying dream sequence. Now that's a little artsy-fartsy.\nAC: You think so? I've always kind of liked that interpretation. But it doesn't matter to me either way, doesn't detract from the movie.\nDW: Yeah, it's better to leave it alone, which is why I'm glad that the people who made it never talked about it.\nAC: Let's talk about the remake.\nDW: I don't know too much about it. They never came to us, we went to them. My agent read in Daily Variety that they were going to do a movie called Parker. We got in touch with them and said, well, there are lots of things you can do but you can't do a movie called Parker because you don't own the name.\nAC: Oh, is that why the Parker character is always named something besides Parker? How did that get started?\nDW: Because Lee Marvin wouldn't do sequels. He just refused to do sequels. So you don't use up the name on a guy who's never gonna do another one. The second time, The Split, Jim Brown played the lead, and he wasn't gonna do a whole bunch of them either, so again, we said you can't use the name. And then it sort of became a habit. They own the remake rights but they don't own the name. We tried to work out a deal, because Brian Helgeland really wanted to use the name, and we tried to work out something that would be fair for everybody but it just wasn't possible, so I don't know what they're calling him, but...\nAC: Spenser?\nDW: Huh? What?\nAC: That's a joke. You know, like Robert B. Parker's Spenser.\nDW: Oh, yeah, that's a good one. I think that at one point they were saying that if they couldn't call him Parker they'd call him Hunter, since the book was called The Hunter, and the movie is now called Payback.\nAC: Do you do anything differently when you're working as Richard Stark? Put on a different pair of shoes, or stick a gun in your pocket, maybe?\nDW: No, no. I look at what I did yesterday to get back into that head. The personas and all that are waiting for me in my office. I don't carry them around.\nAC: Let's talk about The Ax. Have you had any interesting feedback from people who've been in that position?\nDW: Yeah. One letter, the guy said, \"Now that I've read your book I'm surprised that murder never occurred to me in those 18 months.\" And there's a guy from the New York Post, a reporter, who told me he thought that The Ax is terrific, but he didn't finish it. He was out of work a couple of years, and he said, \"That feeling of helplessness and rage and sadness is what you live with until you get back and your book is full of it and I couldn't stand it.\"\nAC: So you're gonna have that on your conscience now.\nDW: Well, the problem is that the natural audience for that book can't afford hardcovers.\nAC: Why and how did Stark come back?\nDW: I tried three or four times over the years, from '73 up to maybe 1980. Then in 1988 I started to do the screenplay for The Grifters and the Writers Guild went on strike. I was writing a Dortmunder novel, Drowned Hopes, and when I finished it the strike was still going on, and I had a little idea for what might have been a Parker novel and I started it then. But then the strike ended and I did The Grifters. So then a year later I went back and looked at those two chapters and I thought, geez, maybe I can, and I did half a book and then it just stopped. Then about a year and a half ago, I finished something, I forget what, and I said to my wife, usually I know what I'm gonna do next, usually by the time I finish a book I've got an idea for something, or I've been hired to write a screenplay or something, but I don't know what I'm gonna do next and it feels weird. She said why not take a look at that Richard Stark book you never finished. I went back and looked at the first half that existed I said, I see the next three chapters. And it just flowed and it went so easily then that I've done another one since. He'd gone away and then he'd come back. There's no telling why. Maybe it was me or something in the world around me...\nAC: Maybe it was hanging out with those grifters.\nDW: Yeah, that could be it.\nAC: Did you experience any weird feelings slipping inside Jim Thompson's head when you wrote The Grifters?\nDW: Yeah, I've been on both sides of this, I've been the novelist who somebody else adapts and I've been the adapter who adapts someone else's novel, so I've been both sides. My feeling is that the screenwriter's job is to get the original writer's feeling across, what it was that he was doing when he was putting it on paper. His world view, his attitudes, his approach, what he was trying to accomplish. You're not gonna get the specifics, you might get some of the dialogue, you may get some of the scenes, but it's a different field. Now, Thompson is the most nihilistic writer America has ever produced. As somebody says, every one of his novels ends when his characters go to hell. I mean, they just go to hell. The people who put The Grifters together were just wonderful, including the production designer, Dennis Gassner. He and Stephen Frears got together and they decided that in the early part of the movie there would be no red, to the extent that there's an early sequence outside in Los Angeles between John Cusack and a cop and in the background behind them it's like two blocks worth of parking lots. And somebody noticed there was a red car a block and a half away. So they ran down there with a car cover and covered it. Because they wanted to gradually introduce red until when you get to the end of the movie, when Anjelica Huston gets into the elevator and goes down, she's in bright, bright red, in an amazing amount of white light on her, in a black box. She's in red-red-red, and Stephen said that is the descent into hell.\nSo we tried to do in our way what Thompson was doing in his way. The thing was, Thompson had to write too fast for too little money; he knew he was better than that. And there was nothing he could do about it but just keep slogging ahead and you can see in his books, particularly if you do like I did and you're trying to get the parts right. You see, well, oh he should have introduced this back on page 30 but it didn't occur to him until he got to page 50, and he was damned if he was gonna retype page 30, so he'll introduce it on page 50. But I can take it and put it back in the story where it belongs. So I said what I'm doing is giving Jim Thompson the second draft he never got to do for himself.\nAC: That's great. I've argued with people who carp about what they see as technical faults in his writing, and I say that they're missing the point. A Thompson book is an experiential thing. You can't judge his work by conventional standards.\nDW: Yeah. He was very talented and very driven and so that sense of a guy who has a story to tell about everybody going to hell and has to do it in commercial enough terms so he can pay the rent and he's like he's got a following wind, and he's being driven forward at top speed and doing the best he can with it. It's sort of exciting and scary to go along with it. It was very interesting, very interesting to do.\nAnd there was a premiere in Los Angeles and a party afterward and Thompson's widow and daughters and they're all tall, they're all like six feet tall, and they all looked like Anjelica in the movie! I was saying oh my God, oh Jesus!\nAC: I know what you mean, I met some of the family at a book party in Westwood a few years ago. Let's come back to my favorite anti-hero for a minute. What are some things Parker would NOT do?\nDW: I spoiled a book by having him do something he wouldn't do. The sixth book in the series is called The Jugger, and that book is one of the worst failures I've ever had. The problem with it is, in the beginning of the book this guy calls him and says \"I'm in trouble out here and these guys are leaning on me and I need help,\" and Parker goes to help him. I mean, he wouldn't do that, and in fact, the guy wouldn't even think to call him! (laughs)\nAC: But in Comeback, Parker convinces Ed and Brenda to come pick him up when he's on the run.\nDW: Yeah, and they discuss it and Ed Mackey says, Well, he wouldn't do that for me, and Brenda says, No he wouldn't, but he expects you to, and you will.\nAC: I noticed you've got some stronger female roles in Comeback than in previous Parker novels.\nDW: Well, you're always writing in the time you're writing in, and women --\nAC: Are stronger these days.\nDW: Yeah, and they take a more active part in stories. I've seen the script for the remake of Point Blank!, and again, the women are stronger, because it's just natural. That's the reality.\nAC: I like tough women in stories.\nDW: Yeah, these days, any time I have dealings with a tough lawyer, it's always a woman. Used to be, it was always a man, it was always this sort of a bony older man, and now it's a bony, younger woman.\nAC: Are you familiar with Paddy Mitchell, the professional bank robber?\nDW: No, I don't think I've heard of him.\nAC: There's a nice long story on him in GQ, the fall fashion special with Sean Penn on the cover. Until recently, Paddy was a very successful professional bank robber. 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The key aim of the program is to educate and train students of Government Schools, staff members of NGO\u2019s, social workers, Anganwadi workers and other institutes supporting the under-privileged community. Till now more than 1100 students from various schools including Government Higher Secondary School, Arumbakkam and Kanchipuram, ADW Girls Higher Secondary School, Arakonam and Presidency Girls Government Higher Secondary School, along with school teachers, have benefitted through this initiative.\nThe curriculum comprises of 2.5 hours of First Aid and BLS training. Along with practical training, knowledge material on First Aid and BLS in Tamil and First Aid Kit is provided to each beneficiary. The purpose of the program is to design models on health information dissemination to reach the vulnerable sections of the community. Under the \u201cSAVERA\u201d program there are two initiatives: (a) Health Education on First Aid and BLS (b) Awareness on Health and Hygiene to the underprivileged children in the age group of 5-12 yrs.\nSpeaking on the initiative, Dr. Deepan, Emergency Medicine, Fortis Malar Hospital said, \u201cAs a healthcare organization, it is our responsibility to address the critical needs of the society. Emergency needs are critical, and knowledge on addressing emergency needs is important for the community at large. However, despite knowledge, several unanticipated disasters may occur. And knowledge of how to handle these disasters can be critical to saving the lives of yourself, your family and neighbors, and handling accidents occurring around you.\u201d\nSpeaking on the initiative, Ms. Jasrita Dhir and Mr. Ajay Maharaj, Director, Fortis CSR Foundation said, \u201cThe CSR initiatives are driven by our vision, philosophy and the need of the community, with health remaining our main focus. The objective of \u2018SAVERA\u2019 program is to raise the level of basic knowledge on First Aid Response and increase the number of people who can help. Eventually, through training in schools and making First Aid/BLS training part of the curriculum, Fortis Malar Hospital along with Fortis CSR Foundation will create the pool of volunteers in Tamil Nadu, who will be equipped with the knowledge to \u2018try\u2019 and save lives. CSR foundation also promotes awareness and educational programmes on preventive care and training people on several health-related problems including emergency care\u201d.\nThe course curriculum of First Aid and Basic Life support includes dealing with an emergency; unresponsive \u2013 breathing; unresponsive \u2013 not breathing (cardiopulmonary resuscitation \u2013 CPR); Nose bleeding; cut & wounds; choking; broken bones, strains, and sprains. In the second phase of the CSR initiative, the program will focus on providing health education and preventive healthcare on First Aid and BLS initiative to the staff of NGO\u2019s, children home, orphanages and many such need-based organizations, as they have the capacity to address the critical need of the beneficiaries they are supporting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 5285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.werockthespectrumplacerville.com/parents-corner/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:31Z", "digest": "sha1:XUUJOAUHOFL3KWYKX6MNCNXVVPU2LGTJ", "length": 28679, "nlines": 142, "source_domain": "www.werockthespectrumplacerville.com", "title": "Parents Corner - WRTS Placerville", "raw_content": "Home | Parents Corner\n\u201cFinally a Place Where You Never Have to Say I\u2019m Sorry\u201d \u2122\nSpecial Education is the practice of educating students who have special needs in a way that specifically addresses their individual requirements. These exceptional children are typically underprepared for the general classroom setting and require a variety of special assistance to aid them in becoming better prepared to enter a general classroom environment.\nSpecial Education does not refer to disabilities nor does it reflect negatively on the child. Special Education is not a place but a process where a child will receive the assistance they need to navigate their educational careers. A child may require special education services for a variety of reasons; learning disabilities, communication disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, physical disabilities, developmental disabilities and intellectual giftedness.\nSpecial Education services can be offered to a student through the use of an Individualized Educational Plan (IEP). This plan will provide the student with a direct path and plan that is fully tailored to them in order to give them the best chance at success and possibly preparing them for introduction into a general classroom environment.\nIn some cases, Special Education services are being given to children who continue to thrive in a general classroom environment and only require a slight adjustment for them from the rest of the students. The more a student is able to thrive in a general classroom environment, the sooner they typically adjust and eventually overcome the need for their IEP.\nSpecial Education services are designed to offer several components working together to assist the student. Often this can be the team of teachers and administrators ensuring the student have a modified curriculum, environmental accommodations and physical assistance. For some students the educational need includes collaboration between parents, the school and DIS services, friendship/facilitation, consultation with specialists, behavior support plans, and/or staff development.\nSpecial Education should be:\nBased on assessment results\nConsidered using various factors\nLined to the standards\nMonitored and modified\nNot just a place to send students\nSpecial Education should not be:\nSynonymous with under-achievement\nOnly remediation\nJust small group instruction\nFor students with behavior problems\nFor substance exposed students\nFor students whose special needs can be met in a general education environment\nSpecial Education is designed to aid children in their education and work toward them becoming capable and prepared to participate in the general education environment as quickly as possible. By working with professionals in the field of Special Education and creating an IEP for your student, your child can gain the assistance they need to learn how to overcome any difficulties they might be experiencing.\nAn Individualized Education Program (IEP) is a legal document which is designed to completely spell out the learning plan, needs, progress expected and accommodations a child will receive in order to improve their learning capabilities throughout the school year. An IEP is a legally binding document and requires the school to provide everything it promises in the document.\nBy law an IEP must include:\nA Statement of the child\u2019s present level of performance (PLOP) \u2013 how the child is currently performing in school\nThe child\u2019s annual educational goals\nSpecial education support and services that the school will provide to help the child reach their goals\nModifications and accommodations the school will provide to help the child make progress\nAccommodations the child will be allowed when taking standardized tests\nHow and when the school will measure the child\u2019s progress toward the annual goals\nTransition planning to help prepare teens for life after high school\nAn IEP is part of the special education process and is necessary for students to receive needed special education services through the school. Not all students who struggle with school will necessarily be approved or require and IEP. There are two actions that must be taken in order to qualify a child for an IEP; an evaluation and a decision. The evaluation is conducted by an IEP team after consulting with parents, teachers, a counselor or a doctor who may see the child is struggling to keep up in school. The decision to implement an IEP is done with an IEP team made of up parents and school officials who decide the child needs and will benefit from the use of special education services through the use of an IEP. The evaluation and decision making process can be lengthy in nature and take time to implement, but once an IEP is in place, the child is to be afforded all accommodations spelled out in the IEP by law.\nA 504 plan is an alternative method of offering accommodations to students who do not qualify for an IEP. This type of plan falls under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities who are able to learn from and participate in the general education curriculum. A 504 plan outlines measures taken to accommodate children and remove barriers to learning for children who need accommodations but can still perform in a general education setting.\nBecause Section 504 defines \u201cdisability\u201d in very broad terms those who don\u2019t qualify for an IEP may qualify for a 504 plan. Section 504 defines a person with a disability to be a person who:\nHas a physical or mental impairment that \u201csubstantially\u201d limits one or more major life activity\nHas a record of the impairment\nIs regarded as having impairment or a significant difficulty that isn\u2019t temporary.\nQualification for a 504 plan requires an evaluation which can be initiated by the parent or the school. Before the school can initiate the evaluation they must receive permission from the parent to conduct a 504 evaluation.\nWith no standard 504 plan required by law each school district handles these plans a little differently from each other. The following should be included in a 504 plan in order to ensure the child will be able to succeed and have their needs met:\nSpecific accommodations, support or services\nNames of the school professional that will provide each service\nThe name of the person responsible for ensuring the 504 plan is implemented\nIn general a 504 plan can provide a wide range of accommodations and services including specialized instruction, physical accommodations, speech therapy, occupational therapy or counseling. As a much less detailed plan than an IEP, a 504 is much simpler to implement and works to give parents a peace of mind their child will be accommodated as needed.\nWhat is the difference between an IEP and a 504 Plan?\nBoth plans area designed to provide accommodations and support to children who need it while in school. Even though in many ways these two plans are very similar, there are some very distinct differences to make note of as well.\nBoth provide a blueprint for the educational experience of a child\nBoth are at no cost to the parents\nBoth provide a list of accommodations and services that will be needed for the child\nBoth address the needs of the child brought on by a form of a disability\nBoth create a list of needed accommodations for the child\nParental consent is required for both plans\nBoth plans address ways for parents to resolve discrepancies found with the school and the accommodations being provided\nAn IEP is part of Special Education Services, a 504 plan is not\nAn IEP applies under IDEA, a 504 plan is part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973\nTo qualify for an IEP a student has one or more of the 13 specific disabilities listed in IDEA and the disabilities affect the child\u2019s educational performance, a 504 plan has a broader definition of a disability and can be applied to students who are able to continue in a general education classroom and don\u2019t qualify for an IEP\nAn IEP has very strict rules and requirements for who can create the plan, the 504 plan is much less specific and can make the evaluation\nAn IEP is very specific, sets goals, ensures progress, and spells out the accommodations needed, the 504 plan spells out the accommodations but is not standardized\nAN IEP must be reviewed at least once a year, a 504 plan is to be reviewed as needed or more often depending on the rules of the state\nUnderstanding the differences between the two plans can help parents know what plan is going to best work for their child. Some students will benefit more from an IEP than a 504 plan while others will perform with only minimal accommodations to ensure they can enjoy the learning environment of the general education setting.\nIDEA is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act that is a federal law requiring schools to serve all educational needs of eligible students with disabilities. For parents who feel their child needs the benefit of Special Education services, IDEA provides the legal rights and protections needed to ensure children receive the assistance and accommodations they need in order to participate in the educational process and experience.\nIDEA was passed originally in 1975 and has been amended several times since, but still has two main purposes:\nTo protect the rights of children with disabilities\nTo give parents a voice in their child\u2019s education\nThe children who are protected under IDEA are aged from infants through high school graduation or 21 years old, whichever comes first.\nIDEA is very specific as to who is actually eligible to receive protection. A child must first have one of 13 kinds of disabilities:\nOther health impairment (for example ADHD)\nIDEA covers these thirteen disabilities in the process and implementation of an IEP in order for students to be offered the best possible opportunity to make progress and be successful in school. Without IDEA, parents of children with disabilities had very little voice in the education process of their children and were left to find specialized services that would allow their child to participate. With IDEA in place, the parents and children are protected with the school owning the implementation and execution of the IEP and Special Education services needed by the child.\nAutism, also called Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), both are general terms for a group of complex disorder for brain development. Because these disorder represent a widely varying degree of social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and certain repetitive behaviors there is a full spectrum, or degrees which a person can be affected by Autism.\nAutism is most often associated with a difficult in motor coordination, but is also associated with intellectual disability, attention and physical health issues. In many cases, children and adults with ASD excel in specific skills such as visual skills, music, math and art.\nUsually autism will begin to emerge between the ages of two and three even though it actually begins at the very beginning of brain development. Currently nearly 1 in every 68 American children are on the autism spectrum with a majority being boys who represent approximately 1 in every 42 with girls showing up with a 1 in every 189 ratio.\nWith no one cause for Autism, just as there is not just one type of Autism, scientists have found the causes they have discovered so far include a combination of autism risk genes and environmental factors. Even when the autism risk genes are present, a child does not always show signs of ASD unless environmental stress or risk factors are also present.\nAutism is a unique and specialized disorder with many who are affected having above average intellectual abilities. With a wide spectrum of afflictions, children who have been diagnosed with Autism benefit greatly from the comprehensive and continuous support and Occupational Therapy offered at We Rock the Spectrum Kid\u2019s Gym.\nWith the use of sensory equipment and smaller toys that challenge the fine motor skills of a child, a child with Autism typically shows signs of improvement and growth beyond the expectations of doctors and their normal Occupational Therapists. The use of larger play equipment helps children learn strength and improves their ability to function while the smaller toys and texture sensitive equipment and toys assist children with the skills they will need on a daily basis. Those who suffer socially are also able to gain the benefits of participating in activities with other children and learn what appropriate social behaviors are. The environment at We Rock the Spectrum Kid\u2019s Gym is specifically designed to address needs of children on any part of the Autism Spectrum.\nFor more details regarding the changes to the criteria, visit the American Academy of Pediatrics News website at http://aapnews.aappublications.org/content/early/2013/06/04/aapnews.20130604-1\nDown Syndrome occurs when a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21 is present in a person. Having this additional genetic material causes developmental characteristics that have become knowingly associated with having Down Syndrome. The physical traits most commonly associated are low muscle tone, a small stature, eyes that slant upward, and a single deep crease across the center of the palm. These traits are most common, but a person with Down Syndrome may possess all or none of these traits in a variety of degrees.\nDown Syndrome affects 1 in 691 children in the United States which makes it the most common genetic condition in the country. With this statistic, and the number of births considered, approximately 6,000 babies are born with Down Syndrome each year. There are three types of Down Syndrome: trisomy 21 (nondisjunction), translocation and mosaicism. Each type of Down Syndrome has its own unique characteristics and causes leaving parents with a variety of developmental challenges they will face with their child. Down Syndrome can often be diagnosed early, either prenatally or shortly after birth giving parents an early start on helping their child face their challenges.\nGenerally children who have Down Syndrome suffer from cognitive delays that offer a range of severities. Those who have mild delays are sometimes simply thought of as being a \u201clittle slow\u201d and find themselves more easily integrated into society as they reach adulthood. Those who suffer from much more severe delays require more assistance and patience during their formative years.\nRegardless of the severity of the Down Syndrome of a child, the marvelous advances in medicine along with the ability for children with Down Syndrome to enjoy their lives, these children are finding themselves more integrated in society than ever before. Many programs are available to families who have children with Down Syndrome including the use and benefits of the equipment and staff at We Rock the Spectrum Kid\u2019s Gym.\nOne note of interest is the amazing change in the life expectancy of a person with Down Syndrome. In 1910 the life expectancy was only age nine with an increase to twenty with the discovery of antibiotics. Today with many treatment options and surgeries to help correct heart issues many adults with Down Syndrome can live full and happy lives that reach as far as age sixty, a huge improvement over the short expectancy of only a century ago.\nA child is considered to have an Intellectual Disability when their ability to perform intellectual functioning (reasoning, learning, problem solving) or their adaptive behavior (which is a range of social and practical skills) is significantly limited. This form of disability shows itself well before the age of 18 and covers a wide variety of factors that lead to the limited ability to process information by a child.\nChildren are diagnosed as having an Intellectual Disability when the following is present\nAn IQ of 75 or less\nLimitations in adaptive behavior- this covers conceptual skills, social skills and practical skills\nThese results are present as a child, which is defined as age 18 or less\nIntellectual Disabilities can be caused by a varying number of factors. Children can be born with Intellectual Disabilities, but environmental and social factors can also contribute to a child developing an Intellectual Disability. With a variety of risk factors that can contribute to a child having an Intellectual Disability is has been difficult for experts to find one main cause for these forms of disability.\nBecause this form of disability encompasses the cognitive part of the brain and the thought process, children who have been diagnosed with Intellectual Disabilities most often benefit from Occupational Therapy that is designed to challenge this part of their brain and have them thinking. Playing with puzzles, building blocks and even learning how to clean up and put away toys help these children with everyday activities in order to prepare them for the simple problem solving skills needed in their lives.\nChildren with Intellectual Disabilities can also benefit greatly from open play and learning how to master a variety of activities such as climbing, swinging, jumping, crawling and even falling. To address a social deficiency, children are able to gain an advantage by learning how to take turns and what is acceptable behavior. All of the necessary elements to assist children in problem solving and helping them to spark the cognitive part of their brain are present at We Rock the Spectrum Kid\u2019s Gym.\nEven though children with Intellectual Disabilities are likely to suffer from them during their entire lifetime, it has been found these children can learn and master many of the basic functions needed to be able to comfortably function in social settings.\nA Learning Disability is a neurological disorder that often shows itself in a child who has difficulty reading, writing, spelling, reasoning, recalling and organizing information. These disabilities cannot be cured or fixed, they are something the child has to learn to live with and find ways to overcome. In many cases children with Learning Disabilities are as smart or smarter than their peers and can show signs of frustration when a lack of understanding or results is present in the classroom.\nWith nearly 42% of school age children receiving some form of assistance for a diagnosed Learning Disability this category is one of the most common seen at school or play. Of the 42%, approximately two-thirds are male, making it more prevalent in boys than in girls. Attention issues are much different from Learning Disabilities and children with Learning Disabilities often do not draw attention to themselves and it can take a few years to actually diagnose and begin a path to treatment and improvement for the child with a Learning Disability.\nLearning Disabilities show up in a variety of ways. A Language-Based Learning Disability (LBLD) can affect a variety of communication and academic skills. This includes listening, speaking, reading, writing and performing math calculations. Children with this form of a Learning Disability have been known to be unable to perform the alphabet in the correct order and have difficulty sounding out a spelling work. Children suffering from LBLD may be able to read an entire story without being able to explain the subject matter of the story at all. A variety of therapies and counseling can assist children who suffer from LBLD, but often it\u2019s not discovered until the child is of school age.\nChildren with LBLD often show the following:\nLearning is difficult because the information becomes fuzzy or scrambled\nA serious deficiency in reading comprehension, spelling, written expression, math computation, problem solving, organizational skills, time management or social skills\nAn inconsistency to have problems in these areas, but some problem is always present\nOften act out from frustration to themselves and others\nAnother form of a Learning Disability is a Nonverbal Learning Disability (NVLD). Children with NVLD often miss nonverbal cues and have difficulty understanding nuances and sarcasm. These children are typically highly intelligent and understand reading and writing but can read an entire story while missing important parts of the story. Unfortunately for children with NVLD, they are often classified as \u201cdifferent\u201d by their peers because they don\u2019t comprehend the same nonverbal cues the rest of society so easily processes. Diagnosing NVLD can be difficult because it shows up in ways that simply seem to be socially inappropriate, however when repeated actions are present and children seem to have problems keeping friends, parents and teachers should be aware to consider NVLD.\nChildren with NVLD often show the following signs:\nTalking, but not connecting\nAsking about things, but not exploring\nStrong reading and spelling, but poor comprehension\nMemorizing math answers, but showing no understanding of the concepts behind them\nMemorizing information, but not knowing how to share it\nIn either form of Learning Disability, early detection and diagnosis is vital in order to properly manage the disability and provide the assistance and accommodations needed for these children in order for them to thrive and grow intellectually and socially. Children with Learning Disabilities have shown over the years they can flourish and become successful, with the support offered through Special Education services these children can be shown how to work and overcome their disability to be successful.\nWhat is a Speech and Language Impairment?\nSpeech Impairment is caused by difficulty of the brain being able to communicate with the muscles of the mouth in order to create proper speech. This can show up in a wide variety of forms, mostly showing up as a speech impairment that causes the child to be unable to properly form the words with their mouth and jaw. This Impairment does not signify a disability in learning, but a struggle with the regurgitation of information through speech.\nSpeech Impairments are generally very easy for parents and teachers to discover in students as it shows up daily in their speech, making them difficult to understand or showing an inability to communicate appropriately. For children with Speech Impairments a Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP) is normally seen on a regular basis at the school by the child in order to work to improve their speech over the course of time. Even though the initial discovery of the Speech Impairment can be fairly easy to see, learning exactly what is needed in order to assist the child in correcting their speech becomes the challenge for an SLP to help the child work through.\nA Language Impairment is present for children who display a serious difficulty not only understanding what is said to them, but also in expressing themselves. Children who suffer from Language Impairments often end up confused or frustrated by what is said, because they either don\u2019t understand what was said or aren\u2019t sure what a correct response would be. The main areas of Language Impairment show up as articulation, fluency, voice and language. These are defined below for easier reference, but difficulty in one or all of these areas makes it very difficult for someone with a Language Impairment to feel understood.\nSome common characteristics of Language Impairments include:\nImproper use of words and their meanings\nInability to express ideas\nInappropriate grammatical patterns\nContinued efforts with children who suffer from Language Impairments by use of additional learning and problem solving activities assists these children who can eventually overcome their impairment. In fact, both children who suffer from Speech Impairments and Language Impairments can eventually overcome their impairments and grow to have fluid speech and a full understanding of language.\nAreas of Speech and Language:\nExpressive Language \u2013 expressing ideas verbally using appropriate vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structure\nReceptive Language \u2013 the comprehension of language; understanding grammar, vocabulary, directions and questions\nArticulation \u2013 how well the child is able to produce sounds in words and sentences\nFluency \u2013 shows an age appropriate flow of speech\nVoice \u2013 shows an age appropriate pitch, volume or a nasality of the speech\nWhat do I do if I think my child has a disability?\nAs a parent of a child with a disability you have a long list of rights and privileges that are guaranteed to you. It\u2019s a good idea to familiarize yourself with these right prior to beginning an IEP or 504 process in order to ensure you are fully aware of what should be taking place and when with regards to your child\u2019s educational needs.\nOne of the most frightening possibilities is having a child with a disability. This is truly only scary because most parents have never experienced the challenges of having a child with a disability and the fear of the unknown becomes present. Before you head out and book the best Occupational Therapists in the area and buy all the equipment you feel might be necessary to actually assist your child, you need to take a variety of steps in order to be certain your child has a disability.\nThe steps you need to take include:\nTalking to your child\u2019s doctor or pediatrician\nContact your local Regional Center \u2013 http://www.dds.ca.gov/RC/RCList.cfm\nTalk to the school nurse, speech therapist, or other educational specialist\nContact your local school district (the school psychologist, school principal, and/or director of special education)\nContact your local SELPA (Special Education Local Plan Area) Community Advisory Committee (CAC), and /or Family Resource Center(FRC)\nStarting with the pediatrician will help to discover if there is a medically based disorder present, but the inclusion of any number of the experts listed can assist in the discovery of a disability or a learning deficiency. If you discover your child has a disability you will then be able to start the path toward and IEP or 504 plan in order to provide your child with all the necessary assistance and accommodations to help them grow, develop and become the most advanced they can possibly be.\nWhat are my Parent Rights?\nState and federal law under the Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) guarantees parental rights\nNotice: Before a child is tested or placed in a special education program, you have the right to be notified of what the school plans to do.\nConsent: You must give your consent before special tests are given and before your child is placed in a special education program.\nEvaluation: You have the right to a full evaluation of your child to determine individual educational needs.\nRecords: You have the right to know what records are kept on your child.\nConfidentiality: With the exception of school personnel with legitimate educational interests, no one may see your child\u2019s records without your permission.\nLeast Restrictive Environment: You have the right to have your child educated with children without disabilities tto the maximum extent appropriate.\nDue process: If at any point along the way you do not agree with how the school is dealing with your child, you have the right to request a hearing. At this hearing, you and the school will reach an agreement concerning the identification, evaluation, placement or educational program of your child.\nEach school district across the country is required to present to parents, in more detailed format, the Parents Rights and Procedural Safeguards document.\nIEP Meeting Tips/Resources\nOnce you have been notified and agree to an IEP meeting it\u2019s important for you to understand what this meeting is going to consist of when you arrive. Showing up at school with a room full of administrators, some of whom you may have never met can be an unnerving experience by itself. One of the most fundamentally important aspects to keep in mind is the goal of an IEP meeting is to develop a plan for your child to grow and improve in their education. Because an IEP is formal and governed by IDEA your child will have a set of goals the school administrators are working to help them reach during the school year. 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I stopped listening to it after it became that show\u2019s theme song. No matter how long it\u2019s been around, I\u2019m still personally aghast at the fact that the show is so insanely popular with viewers; so much so that they\u2019ve reached their benchmark 650th episode.\nReggae and the law? That relationship, let\u2019s just put it this way, has not typically been a cozy one.\nIn any case, they apparently haven\u2019t (yet) asked Inner Circle to do a \u201cBad Girls\u201d version, but I suppose anything is possible, especially in light of the recent installment of the show under that name. It was the same theme, same format. But this time, all the attention was turned on female criminals.\nIf you could call them that.\nOne after another, police officers simply roll up on these \u201cBad Girls,\u201d who are almost all strung out addicts. (Crack or alcohol being the culprit in almost all the cases.)\nThe case that stick in my mind is that of one woman, who looked to be 60, but could have been 30 for all I know. She is caught on tape as she\u2019s being stopped and questioned by a female officer who suspects she\u2019s high on somethin\u2019.\nCrack found, the woman admits that she used her paycheck to buy herself drugs. She comes across as a desperate mess of a human being, and just about admits at much. I\u2019m already just about in tears watching this damn thing. (In point of fact, this woman\u2019s so far gone that it\u2019s going to take something short of a miracle to bring her back.) As she\u2019s thrown in the back of the cop car, the police officer asks her if she has anything else on her person.\n\u201cYes,\u201d she admits quietly.\nShe has crack-smoking paraphenalia.\nWhere? Hidden in her underwear.\nSo, as the cameras close in on it all, the female officer asks her to dig it out so that she won\u2019t have to. The camera zooms for the horrible close-up, and the woman digs out a stem from her crotch-area, both hands still in cuffs. She wriggles and struggles to pull it out, the shame is evident all over her face. Something like this would be humiliating just to endure, but to have this level of addiction and suffering broadcast around the world \u2026 well, don\u2019t even talk to me about what \u201cconsent\u201d means when you\u2019re dealing with a woman whose entire, painfully limited world revolves around the poison known as crack cocaine.\nAnd this, folks, is entertainment?\np.s. If you\u2019re interested, here\u2019s a bit more on just how much entertainment value the mainstream media (tv in particular) gets out of *certain* kinds of women who commit crime\u2013or from the interpretations of what it means when a woman commits a crime. It\u2019s a piece I wrote for ITT with the same title, Bad Girls. That title, however, was based on a BBC serial tv show, and not on my own version of the Inner Circle song.\nThis entry was posted on Thursday, June 1st, 2006 at 10:42 pm\tand is filed under Criminal Justice & Prisons, Drugs, Reality TV. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.\n2 Responses to \u201cBad girls, bad girls, whatchu gonna do?\u201d\ncheap donuts\nHello there , we are back now ! Come to our site to get cheap donuts . You really can save up to 90% of the original price with us . Deliver time is 24 hours .\nAlva Pacius\n\u00ab Your Yucky Body: Summer Swimsuit Spectacular\nNewsweek to Unmarried Women: Whoops! We Were Wrong! \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 393, "original_length": 11307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worilla.de/portfolio/veuve-clicquot/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6EJYTJ5GT6HXY5Z7VEUHR35S7AUA5LLI", "length": 707, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.worilla.de", "title": "Veuve-Clicquot \u2013 WoRilla", "raw_content": "\"Without confidence, passion drains.\"\nPRIX VEUVE CLICQUOT CAMPAIGN SPOT\nIn 2014, the hamburg-based agency Elbkind hired me to create & produce a 3D-animated short film for the brand \u201eVeuve Clicquot\u201c. Every year, \u201eVeuve Clicquot\u201c selects & awards the \u201eWoman of the year\u201c \u2013 in honor of the brand\u2019s founder Mme Clicquot. This film tells the story of this remarkable woman, visualized with beautiful animated illustrations (illustrations done by Typecolics) on the surface of the bottle\u2019s label. Modeling & Rendering was done by 3D-artist Maurice Jochem (Hamburg).\nConcept, Direction, 2D-Animation, Edit, Post: WoRilla\nIllustration: Typeholics\n3D-Lighting & Rendering: Maurice Jochem\nSound-Design: Achim Schnell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1081, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-important-to-sustainable-energy-mix,-says", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:21Z", "digest": "sha1:X3CLC7COLOO7W43ZFJR6XPIRLYVV6KDH", "length": 3977, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.world-nuclear-news.org", "title": "Nuclear important to sustainable energy mix, says UNECE report - World Nuclear News", "raw_content": "Nuclear important to sustainable energy mix, says UNECE report\nAll energy sources, including renewables, nuclear and high efficiency fossil fuel with carbon capture and storage, must be considered along with new business models and significant improvements in energy efficiency and productivity to ensure that the energy needed for sustainable development is available and affordable.\nThis is one of the key messages expressed in the Outcome Document of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's (UNECE's) Ministerial Conference of the International Forum on Energy for Sustainable Development that was held in Kiev last month. UNECE published the Outcome Document yesterday. Nuclear power was for the first time included on the programme of the conference, which is in its ninth year.\n\"Some countries choose to pursue nuclear power with a view that it can play an important role in the global sustainable energy mix,\u201d the Outcome Document states, noting that nuclear power is the second largest source of low-carbon electricity, after hydropower. It adds that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 1.5-degree pathway report estimates that nuclear power generation will need to grow 2.5 times by 2050 if objectives are to be met.\nAmong its recommendations for priority action, the Outcome Report says that \"decisions regarding the future energy mix should be made on the basis of a technology-neutral policy framework where all supply and demand options are recognised for their contribution\u201d. It also says that global investment in the energy sector is \u201crunning behind what is needed to achieve deep transformation\".\n\"Governments should create conducive environments to gain investor trust,\" it says. \"Enhancing open markets and strengthening rule of law can contribute to such trust-building. This applies equally to state-owned investors and foreign and domestic private investors.\"\nIn 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2016, the Paris Agreement on climate change entered into force, with the target of limiting global warming to 'well below' 2 degrees Celsius.\nThe UNECE conference in Kiev included a workshop on nuclear power, which was co-organised by World Nuclear Association and the International Atomic Energy Agency.\nOpening the workshop, Scott Foster, director of the Sustainable Energy Division of UNECE, said: \"I really want to highlight how important this session is for the whole Forum. We're heading down the path to 4-6 degrees, which is quite enormous, and the question is what the role of nuclear power is going to be. A dialogue on the energy transition is incomplete without considering nuclear power.\"\nAmong its other key messages, the Outcome Document states that the current Nationally Determined Contributions \u201cwidely fail\u201d to meet a 2-degree temperature objective \u201clet alone\u201d the Paris Agreement\u2019s goal of keeping warming temperatures well below 2 degrees.\n\"All nations are committed and are in the process of developing or implementing their approach to achieving their interpretation of sustainable energy and the 2030 Agenda. It is necessary that each country recognises the perspectives and the drivers of the others, that there is not a single approach to the transition but a multitude of approaches,\" the Outcome Document states.\nIt adds: \"The current political, regulatory, and industrial infrastructure is not ready for deep transformation. Best practices and experiences should be shared and promoted and, where they are insufficient, reconsidered.\"\nSome 80% of today\u2019s energy mix is fossil-based, and fossil energy will remain important, the document says, \"a reality that makes it imperative to address the environmental footprint of fossil fuels urgently\".\nClimate change Energy policy\nConference: Nuclear growth relies on good policies Climate change demands world 'revisits' nuclear, says UNECE director", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 6189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 210.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worldlibrary.org/eBooks/WPLBN0002118240-How-To-Tutorials-Download-Kindle-eBooks-by-World-eBook-Library.aspx?", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:44Z", "digest": "sha1:XES45YGFILIOAXOEPEZIAKT4WVPWEUGM", "length": 108, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.worldlibrary.org", "title": "How-To-Tutorials: Download Kindle eBooks | World Library - eBooks | Read eBooks online", "raw_content": "Library, W. E. (n.d.). How-To-Tutorials: Download Kindle eBooks. Retrieved from http://www.worldlibrary.org/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 12181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 72.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yakimaheraldphotos.com/gallery/watching-the-weather-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YLSRY4ZVCQD3YY54FXCFGBDYPUMPXU7H", "length": 2138, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.yakimaheraldphotos.com", "title": "Watching the weather | IN FOCUS", "raw_content": "It seems that the weather is always a topic of conversation around here. It\u2019s either too hot, too cold, too dry or too wet. Or it\u2019s forecast to be too hot, too cold, too dry or too wet. Or not.\nAccordingly, we do a lot of weather stories and weather-related photos.\nWhich means we watch closely the weather forecast so we can make photos which reflect the current conditions and what everyone will most likely be talking about at one time or another.\nThe forecast has been for frigid cold in Yakima and it starting getting cold last night so I knew my day today would start with looking for a cold-weather photo. Also, I knew we would need that photo as soon as possible in the day to update our website and Facebook page at the start of day, a high-traffic time for the website.\nMy idea was to photograph an elementary school crossing guard. They\u2019re on the job early in the morning when it\u2019s really cold and the light is good. I figured they\u2019ve got to be cold standing on the street corner and hopefully I could capture that sense of cold in a photograph.\nIt was cold (13 degrees with a breeze) when I began hanging out with Mireya Castillo, a paraeducator at a local elementary school who also pulled the crossing guard duty this morning. She was wearing three layers of clothing under her jacket and, she said, \u201cI\u2019m still cold!\u201d\nI shot some wider-angle photos of her standing on the corner with the school in the background to give the photo some context. Problem was, from that angle she just didn\u2019t look that cold.\nAt the same time I noticed how the early-morning light illuminated her breath. So, I went tight to get the photo I was looking for.\nBy going with a tight shot the reader can see her breath and know how cold it. Also, the fur-trimmed hood pulled close around her face shows it\u2019s cold. Plus, the tight head shot has a very clean background focusing the reader\u2019s eye on Mireya and her breath. All in all, the tight photo is a more dramatic, storytelling photo than the wide shot. So, that\u2019s what I went with today.\nIt\u2019s supposed to be cold again for the next several days. Hopefully one cold-weather photo will be enough.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zehren.com/team-view/jessica-cuadra/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:52Z", "digest": "sha1:2T5CMH7KGONUBGYX3U47DRR2OR2MZRDE", "length": 570, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.zehren.com", "title": "Jessica Cuadra | Zehren & Associates", "raw_content": "Jessica Cuadra\nJessica grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and later attended the University of Arizona, where she received her 5-year Bachelor of Architecture. After spending her entire life in the desert, she moved to the mountains to join the Zehren and Associates team. The opportunity to work with different architectural typologies drew Jessica to Zehren and Associates, and she looks forward to furthering her experience with a wide range of building types. In her free time, Jessica enjoys running, hiking, snowshoeing, biking, and cheering on her Boston Red Sox.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 2095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 114.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www1.gnnetcom.dk/About-GN/Board-of-directors?resume=1ba4d20f-4100-4d7c-976a-cc9646227490", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VVGUIIYZYQ232GBWA2C7BXZ7UQOO6JG6", "length": 975, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www1.gnnetcom.dk", "title": "GN - Board of directors", "raw_content": "Position: Chief Commercial Officer, Group Commercial, TeliaSonera\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne brings a unique set of capabilities and values to the board of GN Store Nord within marketing and general commercial management\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne is an international senior executive with strong commercial general management skills from her background in Mobile Communications and the IT sector. She has 20 years of experience from go-to-market, marketing, branding, communications, product management, channel management and general management.\nH\u00e9l\u00e8ne holds an MSc in International Business from the University of Lund and has also completed master studies at ESCP in Paris and Webster University in Geneva. From 2001-2009 she worked for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications where she held various management positions within marketing. In 2009, she joined EMC Corporation as Vice President, Marketing EMEA. In 2011, she was appointed Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field & Channel Marketing at EMC Corporation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wwwapps.dotd.la.gov/administration/announcements/Announcement.aspx?key=18422", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:09Z", "digest": "sha1:M6E7HLMLO2BDHFIJRT25PJ5DXZS7P3KV", "length": 1537, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "wwwapps.dotd.la.gov", "title": "Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development", "raw_content": "DOTD to remove illegally placed signs along LA 191 in Sabine Parish\nTuesday, December 04, 2018 at 9:26:47 AM\nThe Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development advises residents that beginning Monday, January 7, 2019, DOTD maintenance crews in Sabine Parish will be removing illegal signs along the LA 191 corridor.\nAll illegally placed signs on state right-of-way, regardless of size and mounting location, will be removed and disposed of by DOTD maintenance personnel. Prior to removal, DOTD personnel will be placing red stickers on signs with economic value as required by DOTD policy. An example of a sign with economic value would be a sign constructed of plywood and 2\u201dx 4\u201d studs. Signs of no economic value will not be identified with the red sticker. Examples of signs with no economic value would be a cardboard sign stapled to a wooden utility pole, or inserted into the ground with a wire frame.\nSigns placed illegally in state right-of-way can impede visibility and contribute to driver distraction, creating a safety hazard. DOTD considers the safety of its highways to be a top priority. Additionally, this corridor along LA 191 is officially considered the Toledo Bend Forest Scenic Byway, one of 18 scenic byways across Louisiana, and illegally placed signs detract from the natural beauty of the byway.\nDOTD appreciates the cooperation of local businesses in removing these signs prior to January 7, 2019, as well as their continued cooperation in ensuring no illegal signs are installed on state rights-of-way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://xbodyconcepts.com/6-moves-for-sick-lats/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:14Z", "digest": "sha1:GFMOERMWT3LEPBZU6MJZAYH7ZU75OID3", "length": 9085, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "xbodyconcepts.com", "title": "6 Moves for Sick Lats \u2013 XbodyConcepts", "raw_content": "6 Moves for Sick Lats\nTurns Out Most Guys Have Been Training Their Lats Wrong Their Whole Life\nThe pull-up is one of the simplest exercises that can be done virtually everywhere. All you need is a bar to grab on and pull up. Yet, at the same time, the pull-ups and it\u2019s numerous variations are also one of the exercises that deliver the best results in back development, especially when it comes to your lats. And if you really want to get your back in perfect shape, you cannot rely simply on pulldowns and machines.\nStill, many beginners, and even advance gym goers, chose to shy away from this killer back routine. This is probably due to the fact that pull-ups can be really demanding. However, in the world of muscle building, it\u2019s the hardest work that delivers the best results. Broadening your pull-ups repertoire is absolutely essential if you want to develop your lats.\nHITTING THEM FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES\nPull-ups might be the king of lats exercises, but at the same time they are very demanding for your muscles. At the same time, while cheating on their performance may help you in the beginning, and could be tolerated in the last couple of reps in the set, it won\u2019t get you far on the long run. As a large muscle group, the lats need to be targeted from different angles. That\u2019s why you need to use many different exercises that add variety to the movements. One of the greatest advantages of the pull-ups is that they also activate great many other muscles that contribute in the movement. In other words, you don\u2019t only get to work on your lats, but you also rip the benefits of faster muscle growth.\nIf your goal is building an awe inspiring back, try our list of 6 killer back exercises. Including them in your routine will make your lats fly. Though at the beginning you might not be able to do more than few reps per set, with consistency, determination and precise execution, you\u2019ll soon be able to reach the dozen mark.\nWide-Grip Pull-up\nThis exercise focuses on the upper lats and teres major.\nThe wide-grip pull-up hits the whole length of the lats, but it\u2019s mainly focused on the top third, making it perfect exercise for building your width. Because you are using a wide grip, it\u2019s range of motions is more limited compared to the other pulls. Due to the open angle of your arms, the biceps involvement in this exercise is rather minimal. Perform this exercise by pulling as high as you can, taking your chest close to bar. At the top of the motion squeeze your shoulder blades together.\nIdeally, you should aim for doing about 50 reps till muscle failure. Split them in as many sets as you need to reach that number, but it would be preferable to do them in as few as possible. Once you\u2019re able to do the 50-reps mark in less than five sets, you can start adding weight.\nPull-up (Shoulder Width)\nThis exercise focuses on the upper-middle lats, rhomboids, rear delts.\nIn addition to targeting the above mentioned muscles the shoulder width variation of the pull-up also activates the brachialis and brachioradialis. Since your hands are placed closer to each other, you can execute a wider range of motion, and as a result the focus of the pull moves to your lower lats, with the upper lats still handling most of the weight. For best results you should always try to lower yourself all the way to the starting position with arms fully extended.\nSince this exercise calls for a greater involvement of your biceps, you need a strong grip to execute the movement. If your forearms are not up to the task, you can compensate by using straps that will help you complete the sets. Aim for 10 to 12 reps and at least 3 sets. Once you find this easy, start adding weight. If, on the other hand, you find it hard to complete the sets, you can cheat the last 2-3 reps by using a kipping pull-up.\nThis exercise focuses on the upper lats, teres major, biceps brachii.\nThe kipping pull-up was at first introduced for training the athletes to use the body momentum in alpinism and gymnastics. With the recent popularity of CrossFit, the exercise became popular again. However, you should have in mind that although the lats and upper back are highly involved in this exercise by initiating the movement, it can reflect badly both on your form and on your capability to handle strength exercises after performing it. This is due to the nature of the movement, which can trigger fatigue.\nIf you are aiming for building your size and strength, we recommend doing this exercise as a finisher at the end of traditional pull-up set. Once you feel the failure approaching, do 3 to 5 kipping pulls. However if you\u2019re inexperienced with this movement, make sure that you begin practicing them with the help of an experienced coach. The kipping pull-ups can place a great strain on the shoulder joint muscles, which can result in injury.\nThis exercise focuses on the lower lats, rhomboids, biceps brachii.\nThis variation activates the biceps more than any other pull-up because it uses a supinated (underhand) grip, and your elbows are kept closer to your body. This allows a considerably longer range of motion. Due to its nature of movement the chin-up is a fantastic exercise for activating the full length of your lats. Namely, the pull is initiated with the upper part of lats. As you climb up, the focus shifts downward, hitting the lower lats as they take you to the top position. Additionally, considering that it also activates the rhomboids, traps and mid-back, this movement might be the best total-back exercise. And with the involvement of so many muscles, this variation is one of the easiest pull-ups. You can\u2019t have a complete back routine without including overhand and underhand pull-ups. To avoid dividing the focus between your biceps and your lats, try not to wrap your thumbs around the bar. This will force a greater involvement from your lats.\nIf you want to pay greater attention to your lower lats, then you should think about including this exercise in your routine. In order to rip the full benefits of the exercise you should keep your body vertical throughout the move. Once you\u2019ve reached the top position, squeeze together your shoulder blades. You can spice up this exercise and slightly shift the focus hitting your muscle from a different angle by using wider underhand grip.\nNeutral-Grip Pull-up\nThis exercise focuses on the lower lats, rhomboids, traps, brachialis.\nSimilarly to the underhand grip, the range of motion in this variation is longer allowing you a full focus on the whole length of your lats, with the involvement of the traps and rhomboids. It also strongly activates your biceps. Yet, with the contribution of so many muscles this variation is fairly easy to execute. However, you can spice it up and add difficulty if you use a wide-grip. This will reduce the range of motion, and take out the biceps from the equation, putting a greater focus on your rear deltoids. We recommend alternating between narrow and wide grip when doing this exercise.\nThis exercise focuses on the rhomboids, traps, lower lats, wrist flexors, brachialis and brachioradialis.\nBy performing the pull-ups with towel attachments you get to work on your forearm strength, as you rely on your grip for executing the pull. You can execute this move both with wide, and narrow grip. Use multiple towels arranged along the bar for the former, and a single towel for the latter. You can adjust the grip difficulty with the towel thickness. The thicker \u2013 the harder. However, this might result in serious fatigue of your forearms, and will weaken your grip strength reducing your ability to lift hard. Consequently, you should consider doing them at the end of your back-day routine.\nThe primary focus of the towel pull-up is on your forearms. As a result, if your grip is not strong enough, your lats won\u2019t be capable to complete the pull. Because of that, this move is mainly reserved for more experienced gym goers. On the other hand, the towel pull up can improve your grip strength, improving your efficiency of the other pull-ups, so you might consider performing it even if you are a beginner. Introduce it at the end of your back day routine, doing 2-3 sets till failure. Try increasing the number of reps with every next training.\nTo Strap Or Not To Strap?\nThe answer to this age old question is very simple, and it depends on your objectives and constitution. Namely, if you want to work on your forearm strength, avoid using straps. However, if your forearms are not strong enough and hinder your back development, using them is not only prudent but wise as well. According to the studies, the straps can help you execute a couple of additional reps. On the other hand, by using the straps you are not solving but only bypassing the problem. 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He spent the remainder of the decade back in Canada, first joining the Vancouver-based Fun With Numbers band before touring five years with Endless Summer. In 1989, he returned to the studio, working in Nashville alongside Donald Dunn and Pat Boone, then at Daniel Lanois\u2019 Grant Avenue Studio with Dave Rave (DesRoches), the latter sessions resulting in the Valentino\u2019s Pirates album, which became the first independently-recorded western release to be issued on the Soviet Union\u2019s Melodiya record label.\nAfter relocating to New York City with DesRoches to form the Dave Rave Conspiracy alongside Billy Ficca of Television and ex-Washington Squares Lauren Agnelli, Gold co-founded the pioneering alternative-country band The Ghost Rockets, whose maximum rhythm \u2018n\u2019 bluegrass cover of the Beach Boys\u2019 \u201cIn My Room\u201d became a radio \u201cturntable hit\u201d in Europe. 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Much like his yacht Guilty, Joannou is a surreal, unapologetic, and larger-than-life figure. In a turbulent year of capital controls and austerity sanctions, Joannou\u2019s endeavor proved to exist in its own sovereign universe. During 2015, his DESTE Art Foundation hosted more exhibitions than any other in its history. Joannou\u2019s collection tells the story of a 50-year-long infatuation with art that has spun out into a network of objects and friendships. \u201cIt\u2019s about changing ideas,\u201d the collector says regarding the public impact of his work. While he has been credited with pulling the art world\u2019s attention to Athens, Joannou insists that the social benefit of his foundation is \u201ccollateral.\u201d But what larger project \u2013 or desire \u2013 this benefit is collateral of remains a mystery.\nTim Noble and Sue Webster in Hydra aboard Dakis Joannou\u2019s yacht. 1999. Photo: Dakis Joannou\n1) Paul Chan, Hippias Minor 2015\n\u201cIf a visitor knows he\u2019s going to be lied to, then he is forced to challenge the authority of what he sees,\u201d the docent said. The sun was beginning to turn pink as a small group of us sat on a concrete porch on the Isle of Hydra. We were discussing Hippias Minor, an early dialogue by Plato with a controversial thesis. At this point in his work, Plato\u2019s Socrates played the role of provocateur, publically trolling the Athenian establishment with counter-intuitive, yet rational, arguments. In his conversation with the celebrated sophist Hippias, Socrates defends the excellence of Homer\u2019s Odysseus \u2013 the inventor of the Trojan Horse \u2013 who Hippias claims is inferior to other heroes on account of his dishonest ways. In the process of dismantling Hippias, Socrates argues that someone who deceives cunningly and willingly is superior to those who tell the truth. Lying is a skill, and it requires a special trait: the ability to create another reality.\nOur discussion of cunning quickly shifted to more recent Trojan Horses in Greek history: corruption surrounding the 2004 Olympic Games, un-taxed swimming pools and Porsche SUVs, defective Siemens submarines, and the upcoming election held to address Greece\u2019s ongoing economic meltdown. It was September 2015, and bigots in the Anglo-European media had spent the entire summer painting Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras as an overwhelmed buffoon. But maybe that was the perfect way to appear in front of debt collectors who are asking for hundreds of billions of dollars?\n\u201cI think us Greeks have a special appreciation for cunning,\u201d a journalist said on the porch, who told me she had recently switched to travel writing due to declining Greek newspaper budgets, \u201cI mean, look at that boat over there.\u201d She pointed to the mouth of Hydra\u2019s harbor, where a motor yacht painted with a Jeff Koons razzle-dazzle camouflage pattern was docked in the distance. \u201cThat boat\u2019s named Guilty,\u201d she smiled, \u201cIf you say it first, what can anyone accuse you of?\u201d\nThe boat she was pointing to belonged to Dakis Joannou, who also owned the building in which we were sitting. Furthermore, his art foundation DESTE had sponsored Paul Chan\u2019s commission to create the translation of Hippias Minor that we had all been browsing. The boat omitted the sensation that we were all sitting in someone else\u2019s planned reality. Earlier that morning, Guilty pulled into Hydra and parked itself near a seaside restaurant formerly known as Lagoudera, where Aristotle Onassis had once presided over a revolving cast of 1960s jet-set celebrities. From the moment of its -arrival, the yacht became required viewing for a town that curls like an amphitheater around its harbor. Or perhaps it was the billionaire who was watching all of us, an invisible lunch guest chewing salad behind the tinted windows of his Pop Art battleship.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: Tell me about the birth of Guilty.\nDAKIS JOANNOU: With the architecture of the boat, we wanted to forget about style altogether. We wanted to put these spaces next to each other \u2013 living room, kitchen, whatever. Then we trimmed it a bit and ended up with the shape. I showed it to Jeff Koons when he was in Corfu and asked him what color it should all be. He came up with the idea of dazzle camouflage. I thought it was a great idea. Then I saw Ivana Porfiri. I tell her, \u201cJeff gave me a great idea about painting the boat.\u201d She opens her file and she has the exact same idea! Two people came up with the same idea completely independently. I just had to do it!\nJOANNOU: I couldn\u2019t decide on a name for a long time. Then I saw a Sarah Morris painting coming up for auction called Guilty. And I said, \u201cWe\u2019ve got it!\u201d I bought the painting, and Sarah also came to paint the word \u201cGuilty\u201d in the main guest room \u2013 like her painting, but more enlarged.\nIn this time of economic crisis, negative attitudes have been developing about wealth. Does the name of the ship address that as well?\nJOANNOU: It\u2019s just an idea. It\u2019s a boat painted like this \u2013 so what? Why should it be luxurious, or offensive? It\u2019s just a yacht. It\u2019s not a mega-yacht. It\u2019s like a tenth of some of the other boats around. So it\u2019s not about showing off. It\u2019s just a simple boat with living rooms and bedrooms. That\u2019s it.\nWhen it was developed in World War I, razzle-dazzle camouflage was designed so that you couldn\u2019t see what direction a boat was moving in. You couldn\u2019t hit it, because it was impossible to triangulate where the torpedo should be shot.\nJOANNOU: That happens with our boat. When it goes slow, people from far away can\u2019t tell if we\u2019re coming or going.\nIt\u2019s also a metaphor. At the Paul Chan show, I spoke with a group of people about cunning in Hippias Minor. Tricksters and Trojan Horses. Greece is in a crisis, and Guilty is a way of being completely in your face while making a joke about itself at the same time. It\u2019s a moving target.\nJOANNOU: We can take it a little too far. I bought a work by David Shrigley \u2013 it\u2019s a big flag that says \u201cPlease don\u2019t kill us.\u201d I put it up on Guilty, and when we were in Hydra, people were asking about the flag and saying it looked great. Then we went to Rhodes, and the islands near Turkey, and the -police came and called the captain. They said, \u201cIt\u2019s your business if you want to keep it up.\u201d And we said, \u201cBut please don\u2019t kill us!\u201d [Laughs]\nThe three sculptures atop Paul Chan\u2019s \u201cHippias Minor\u201d signify the three interlocutors in Plato\u2019s dialogue: Socrates, Hippias, and Eudices. Photo: Paul Chan.\nDocumented in numerous articles, Joannou\u2019s yacht Guilty has become a living-breathing meme of art world excess. It is the crown jewel of a super-charged cultural milieu, one in which auction results continue to balloon towards billion-dollar figures and Instagram provides art fairs with mainstream appeal. This context has been influenced greatly by Joannou and the \u201cblue-chip\u201d artists \u2013 such as Jeff Koons, Urs Fischer, and Maurizio Cattelan \u2013 that he has collected and befriended. Guilty is stuffed with the prizes of this conquest. However, it would be reductive to call it a trophy. Joannou\u2019s yacht is one of many episodes in a longstanding love affair with objects \u2013 one that is personal and libidinal, yet deeply public. For the collector, the boat seems like the fulfillment of a Citizen Kane-esque goal: to live inside a work of art. Such a proposition is alienating to those of us without a private jet, and yet Joannou\u2019s endeavor is strangely familiar in a world defined by the high-speed consumption of culture. Before smartphones, it took an enormous bankroll to freely collide disparate objects and images, as Joannou did in the early exhibitions of his DESTE Foundation in the 1980s and 90s, which mixed ancient Cypriot pottery, Neo Geo painting, American advertisements, and a whole host of contemporary artworks. The hyper-consumption that was once an old world privilege is now a digital norm. And Dakis Joannou has become the moneyed ancestor of this moment. He is the Internet\u2019s grandfather.\nRome, 1965: A young Joannou sits holding his final artwork, a sculpture of a Coca-Cola bottle, glued to a pipe. To his left is his first acquisition as a collector, Lucio del Pezzo\u2019s \u201cIl Grande Bersaglio Tricolore\u201d (1964)- Photo: Vassilis Tsengis.\n2) Jeff Koons, One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank 1985\nIn 1964, Dakis Joannou glued a Dunhill pipe to a Coca-Cola bottle and painted it white. He was living in Rome at the time, and had just received his first painting \u2013 a piece by Lucio del Pezzo with a Jasper-Johns-like painted target \u2013 as a gift from his parents for having graduated architecture school. The homemade sculpture was Joannou\u2019s last work as an artist, but it innocently predicated the spirit of things to come. The Cypriot mogul now owns one of the world\u2019s most influential collections of contemporary art, as well as the rights to distribute Coca-Cola in several countries. Magritte\u2019s pipe glued to Warhol\u2019s Coke bottle, all cast in the mode of Duchamp. This is Joannou\u2019s holy trinity: Surrealism, Pop, and the Readymade.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: The artwork you made when you were young, of a pipe glued to a bottle \u2013 what significance did it have to you when you made it?\nDAKIS JOANNOU: This was at a time when I had just moved from New York to Italy in the mid-60s. New York at the time was at the height of Pop Art. As a student, I wasn\u2019t really in art circles, but I was going around seeing shows and absorbing all of that. Then I went to Rome. I was already interested in art. Duchamp has been for me \u2026 a god. So having this pop experience in New York City as a student, I then moved to Italy and was faced with a completely different environment. I didn\u2019t really have a relationship with Arte Povera, which was emerging at the time. So it was really between the -metaphysical and the pop, with Duchamp always on my mind. I then got the idea of making this gesture, which became an object that contained all these elements of where my mind was about art.\nIt was not until almost 20 years later \u2013 over lunch in Athens with the critic and curator Pierre Restany \u2013 that Joannou\u2019s interest in art collection would become something more than a hobby. After Restany suggested he start a foundation, Joannou met curator Adelina von F\u00fcrstenberg during a business trip to Geneva, who introduced him to a cast of international artists such as Joseph Kosuth and Marina Abramovic. With the help of Von F\u00fcrstenberg and others, Joannou started DESTE, the art foundation that became the gravitational center of his acquisitions. From its very onset, DESTE positioned itself as a project that combined the visibility of a public institution with the reckless abandon of a private endeavor. Its first exhibition, \u201cEmerging Images,\u201d took place at his family\u2019s newly constructed Athens InterContinental Hotel. In what would later become classic Joannou form, the exhibition simultaneously worshiped and mocked its gaudy setting. In a description of the show, the collector longingly recalls a large-scale installation made of apples by Leda Papaconstantinou that rotted after two weeks and created an odor that turned off hotel guests. But DESTE\u2019s international reputation and signature brand of full-frontal visual representation was forged under the stewardship of Jeffrey Deitch. Deitch and Joannou met in 1984, while Deitch was working as an art adviser for Citibank in Geneva. The partnership seemed meant to be from the beginning. During their very first outing in New York, they found the piece that would come to define the Cypriot\u2019s collection. Thirty years later, I spoke to all three men involved in this encounter.\nJeff Koons (left) and Dakis Joannou (right) with \u201cOne Ball Total Equilibrium Tank.\u201d Photo: Todd Eberle.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: Tell me about how your work with Dakis Joannou began.\nJEFFREY DEITCH: I was introduced to Dakis as someone who wanted to develop a museum on contemporary culture. After our initial meeting in Europe, we met in New York and I took him to some downtown galleries. It ended with us visiting the first Jeff Koons show at International With Monument. Dakis was so struck by Jeff\u2019s work, and One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank was his first purchase in this new collection.\nWhat struck him about the piece?\nDEITCH: One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank is a very, very strong work. Years later, it is still very strong and compelling. It also led to so many things. Look at Damien Hirst, for example, or other younger artists that are working with aquarium formats. It\u2019s a strong formal and conceptual work. There\u2019s so much there \u2013 the connection of putting together geometric and organic traditions in art. In addition to that, it\u2019s an intriguing commentary on contemporary visual culture. After all, it is a basketball floating in the tank \u2013 one of contemporary culture\u2019s central obsessions. It remains central to Dakis\u2019s whole approach to collecting and led to a great friendship with Jeff Koons.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: How did you meet Dakis Joannou?\nJEFF KOONS: I met Dakis in 1985. It was through my \u201cEquilibrium\u201d show at International With Monument in the East Village. It was the first time Dakis went around with Jeffrey Deitch. Jeffrey was with Citibank, and he was in contact with Dakis for a while, but it was the first time that they went out together and looked at art. Dakis was really moved by the exhibition and he acquired the Equilibrium Tank.\nJeffrey Deitch told me that the tank remains central to the Joannou collection. How would you define the spirit of this collection?\nKOONS: Dakis is drawn to things that stir curiosity \u2013 things that are on the edges of normal perception, things that help break down rules and dogma. Dakis is intellectually curious. But when you\u2019re curious, it\u2019s not about art. Art is a vehicle. But it\u2019s how it can stimulate and create its own set of possibilities for yourself. I think that was when Dakis got re-interested in art \u2013 there was a period when he got curious about art and then he left that and he wasn\u2019t so profoundly involved. And then, when he saw the exhibition in 1985, it re\u2013triggered his interest in contemporary art. He then became involved in it on an international level. I think Dakis was looking to \u2013 within himself \u2013 stimulate his curiosity about life. He was very involved in business and he was managing his family life while travelling the world and building the company. And there was a certain point where he realized that he had to enjoy this experience. He let art be the vehicle to let him really look around and enjoy the experience of life.\nAre there any particular things or impressions you remember him telling you when he first saw One Ball Equilibrium Tank?\nKOONS: He was excited and he really enjoyed it. He enjoyed the maintenance of the piece. Dakis had a gentleman that worked for him named George, who was very, very knowledgeable about how to continue the maintenance of the work, and he put great care into it. So whenever I would see an image of the Equilibrium Tank, it was always very, very fresh. And he would always keep it that way, year in and year out. In every aspect, collecting is a way of life. It\u2019s a celebration of the enjoyment of becoming. We live in our interior life and in the exterior world. This dialogue back and forth is constant in Dakis and his collection. You seek clear reference to psychological things taking place, but it is also very, very externalized. So you have the world \u2013 its effect on the mind and the body \u2013 and then you have the effect of the mind and body onto the world.\nI think there\u2019s a similarity between many of his ambitions as a collector and the ideas in your work. It seems as though he\u2019s very drawn to these large, iconic images. There seems to be a lot of object-desire in the things he chooses to surround himself with \u2013 a lust for things.\nKOONS: I think Dakis likes a Gestalt, a very strong sensation when you see something. He likes the senses and the use of feelings. Feelings become ideas. Ideas come about through sense-perception. And as soon as you explore ideas, you want to come back and connect that to the body again. There\u2019s this dialogue with the body that\u2019s also in classical Greek art. It\u2019s all about the harmony of the body and the mind. Dakis never gets away from the body completely. He always remembers the body and the functions of the body \u2013 the needs and desires of the body. But at the same time, he\u2019s able to dwell in ideas that are completely abstract \u2013 that are ideas for idea\u2019s sake. Yet neither of them ever completely leave the other. They are polarities, but they always find a sense of harmony within the whole collection. And that\u2019s just a classic Greek ideal.\nLocals from Hydra Town carry a vitrine topped with the body of a shark for \u201cThe Blood of Two\u201d by Elizabeth Peyton and Matthew Barney (2009). Photo: Hugo Glendinning.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: What were your impressions when you first saw One Ball Total Equilibrium Tank? How long did it take to realize that this would be the seminal piece that began your collection?\nDAKIS JOANNOU: It took a second. Not to figure it out, but to connect with it. It was a kind of a perfect object \u2013 so simple and normal \u2013 but then totally abnormal, because the ball is not in a normal position. It\u2019s impossible to have a ball stand in the middle of water. You see a perfect object in an ideal situation and you suddenly realize that there\u2019s something wrong with it. This clash was exciting for me. That\u2019s why I wanted to meet Jeff and talk about it. And then I bought it afterwards. [Laughs]\nIn the years that followed, Joannou and Deitch would unravel the power of this sculpture \u2013 this \u201cperfect object\u201d \u2013 into a zeitgeist-shaping pile of acquisitions. At the House of Cyprus in Athens, the duo put together a series of four exhibitions on bombastic topics: \u201cCultural Geo-metry\u201d (conceptualism and commerce), \u201cPsychological Abstraction\u201d (surrealism and telecommunications), \u201cArtificial Nature\u201d (advertising and ecology), and \u201cPost-Human\u201d (technology and identity). At its core, these exhibitions revolved around a strange sense of humor that focused on exuberant breaches in the art-life continuum \u2013 a version of Fluxus with an American Express card. Dan Friedman\u2019s cover for the \u201cCultural Geometry\u201d catalogue was a magazine clipping of a Midwestern family arranged in an absurd formation of mass-produced vehicles. Such gestures felt at home teetering on the edge between satire and decadence. As Paul Taylor wrote in a review of \u201cCultural Geometry\u201d in Flash Art: \u201cThe exhibition reeked, rather enjoyably, of collusion \u2026 All in all, the exhibition was set to be a fascinating meeting of minds from the most venerated institutions of the modern world: financiers, corporate designers and advisors, art collectors and, of course, artists too.\u201d\nThe Joannou-Deitch partnership was intellectually concerned with the condition of the modern consumer yet completely gripped by its own consumption on an epic level. The result of this powerful irony-machine was an international shopping spree that inhaled a decade of cultural production and digested it into an idea of the \u201ccontemporary\u201d that is now ubiquitous in the museums and hotel lobbies of the world. The frenzied appetite of this endeavor can still be felt while looking at exhibition views of The House of Cyprus, a relatively small mansion packed with loud sculptures. It is an atmosphere made visceral by Jeffrey Deitch in an interview with Galleries Magazine in 1990: \u201cOne Saturday, shortly after the opening of \u2018Cultural Geometry,\u2019 Dakis and I were walking around SoHo. Suddenly, we found a kind of convergence of ideas in the work of artists like the Neo Geos \u2013 a new way of dealing with nature in our consumer culture. In an hour and a half we had acquired pieces by Meg Webster, Bill Stone, and Martin Kippenberger.\u201d\nCurated by Deitch, 1996\u2019s \u201cEverything That\u2019s Interesting is New\u201d \u2013 which featured over 100 artists and 200 artworks \u2013 was a show that brought the scale of DESTE\u2019s exhibitions to a completely different amplitude. In one perfect exhibition view, a vast white factory filled with artworks (including an Andy Warhol Brillo Box) is shot through the glass of Koons\u2019s Equilibrium Tank, with its haunted basketball floating in the foreground. But the largest and most recent of Koons\u2019s works \u2013 a sculpture entitled Moon that had been in construction for two years \u2013 did not make it into the exhibition. As Joannou describes in a text recalling the exhibition, he had to arrange for one level of New York\u2019s George Washington Bridge to be closed in order to get Moon to the airport and en route to the exhibition in Athens. After a jumbo jet made a pit-stop in Greece to drop off the piece, Koons inspected the work and told Joannou that it was not in the right condition to be exhibited. The sculpture was then destroyed, and Kiki Smith\u2019s Bowed Woman was installed in its place.\nMaurizio Cattelan riding atop Dakis Joannou. According to curator Massimo Gioni, Cattelan originally wanted \u201cUntitled, Manhole\u201d installed in the collector\u2019s bedroom, with its eyes pointed at Joannou\u2019s bed. The artist does not recall this plan. Photo: Todd Eberle.\n3) Maurizio Cattelan, Untitled, Manhole 2001\nThe cars arrived at the hotel at 8pm and transported us from our lodgings at Dakis Joannou\u2019s New Hotel in Central Athens to his private home in a suburb called Nea Ionia. The area, including the home we were visiting, had a distinct 1980s white-stucco texture, somewhat of a global calling card for affluent neighborhoods in warm climates \u2013 from Naples to Palm Beach to Montevideo. Joannou himself greeted us at the door, wearing a dark suit and an inviting smile, somewhat of a signature look. I noticed he was wearing a large, silver belt buckle. He immediately ushered us into a private gallery to the left and downstairs from the entrance. The group of us proceed to ooo and aaa our way through a narrow salon filled with possessed, anthropomorphic sculptures by Andra Ursuta. The room then opened up onto a larger gallery where caterers awaited us with glasses of sparkling white wine. I later heard from one of the collector\u2019s favorite artists that the marble floor of this second room was discovered by Joannou himself while skin-diving off of his yacht. It was then ceremoniously pulled out of the ocean, much like Elizabeth Peyton and Matthew Barney\u2019s sculpture at the first DESTE Slaughterhouse exhibition in Hydra.\nUp another flight of stairs and through a narrow corridor, we were led to a cocktail hour in the living room, where all the visitors quietly dispersed to oggle their surroundings. The room had a density of objects that felt more human than the white cube below our feet. Here, the colorful evidence of a life entangled with art overflowed in a melange of clashing patterns. Fashion photographs, sculptures, and 1960s Italian furniture mixed freely with family snapshots, including a giant portrait of Joannou\u2019s daughter taken by Juergen Teller. Near a leopard-printed \u201cSafari Couch\u201d by Archizoom, I gazed at a bowl of shelled and peeled pistachios. Somehow this sight, more than any of the others, truly gripped me with the fact that I was in the home of a contemporary Medici. I heard a rumor that Duchamp\u2019s Fountain was somewhere on the premises, but it felt impolite to ask. On the other side of the house, a set of Helmut Newton and Robert Mapplethorpe prints presided over Joannou\u2019s empty home gym with their hard beach-bods. It reminded me of a hypothesis a former professor once had about the all-female selection of portraits in Henry Clay Frick\u2019s study. She told me that the Gilded Age collector \u201cliked to have women watching him while he worked.\u201d\nDinner was served in the central courtyard of the home. It was September and the weather was a breezy shade below body temperature. The occasion was the incipient announcement of the DESTE Prize, a biennial award given to a young Greek artist. The prize was to be bestowed by the foundation the next day, but on the eve of the ceremony, Joannou wanted to break bread with the six finalists as well as the jury members, which included visiting museum directors Max Hollein of the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Bernard Blist\u00e8ne of the Centre Pompidou. The collector himself was to be one of the jurors, and when we spoke to each other at dinner, he seemed thrilled about the idea of spending the next day locked in a room talking about art. During our first conversation, Joannou and I discussed Paul Chan\u2019s Hippias Minor, which I had just visited on Hydra. We spoke about a chat he had during the opening \u2013 an early summer bacchanal, attended by his entire network \u2013 with three of his artists who had been moving away from creating objects and towards publishing digitally and in print. Half in jest, Joannou poked at the existential threat this posed to someone whose life is wrapped up in objects. What things are we going to put in the museum of this decade? It could be empty. Yet, for Joannou as with all people, things seem to be surrogates for something else.\nA man wearing a t-shirt with Jenny Holzer\u2019s \u201cTruism\u201d (1996), photographed by Wolfgang Tillmans for the catalog of \u201cEverything That\u2019s Interesting Is New.\u201d The name of Joannou\u2019s former yacht, \u201cProtect Me From What I Want,\u201d was also authored by Holzer.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: You spend a lot of time with the artists you collect. Do you ever give them input on what direction they should take with their work?\nDAKIS JOANNOU: No, I just talk and go wherever the conversation leads us. There\u2019s no agenda or program.\nThey\u2019re all friends of yours.\nJOANNOU: Exactly. I\u2019ve been friends with Jeff for 33 years now. It\u2019s a very interesting relationship. Maurizio, I\u2019ve known for 15 years. We\u2019re very close. We talk about a thousand things. Relationships are key to me. In a way, the collection is a byproduct of these relationships.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: Tell me about how your relationship with Dakis developed.\nJEFF KOONS: After he acquired the Equilibrium Tank, Dakis made contact and invited me to Greece. As an artist, I had never really befriended a collector. I was a bohemian artist, and it seemed like artists should stay a little distant from collectors, as far as friendship was concerned. Anyway, I went to Greece and met Dakis and Lietta and I was completely disarmed. And to this day, I really base many aspects of my own life on how Dakis and Lietta live their lives. Their priorities are that people and friends are above everything. It\u2019s really about being interwoven in your community. And so immediately when I went to Greece, we went out on one of Dakis\u2019s boats, and all of his friends would come and tie up their boats and spend their afternoon eating and talking. It was really about the joy of the company of people. And, to this day, I realize that\u2019s what Dakis really loves about the art world. He\u2019s curious about the objects and images that are created through art, but really it\u2019s the interaction of people and potential that everybody has and the richness of the interaction of ideas and a dialogue.\nWhen did you feel you stopped being a \u201cbohemian artist\u201d? Or do you still feel that way?\nKOONS: I don\u2019t have physical needs, because I was brought up to have a sense of self-reliance. I enjoy art for the pleasure, or its intellectual stimulation and physical stimulation. I enjoy life that way. So, if I\u2019m walking down the street and I see shorts in a store, I\u2019ll look but I\u2019m not really a buyer. I always feel like what I have now is nice enough. So I\u2019m really not involved in consumerism on that level. I\u2019m involved in a dialogue of desire \u2013 and the interior life of the exterior world. But I\u2019m not really one that needs possessions. But I do enjoy collecting great art!\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: Dakis\u2019s world is completely saturated with objects. As a friend of his, how would you describe his relationship to these objects? Is it intellectual? Is it libidinal?\nMAURIZIO CATTELAN: Most importantly, collecting needs to avoid the didactic, to avoid strategy. And Dakis manages in this. I wouldn\u2019t define it as intellectual, or libidinal. It\u2019s about an unreasonable love for art. I could not say I agree with him though: While Dakis loves to be surrounded by memories, I love to forget the past as soon as possible. But, you know, opposites do attract!\nPortrait of Maria Joannou, daughter of Dakis Joannou (2008). Photo: Juergen Teller.\nOn paper, this idea that Joannou\u2019s massive collection of blue-chip artwork is a \u201ccollection of friendships\u201d seems like a vacant nicety. But sitting at a table in Joannou\u2019s courtyard, the feeling was more than palpable. Despite the blanketly good things I had heard from acquaintances of Joannou, I travelled to Greece expecting to meet a Hellenic hybrid of Stefan Simchowitz and Dominique Strauss-Kahn. I was therefore surprised to find myself completely at home and comfortably reclining into a wine buzz at Sunday dinner with Joannou, his wife Lietta, his daughter, and his DESTE Foundation \u201cfamily.\u201d The artists sitting at the table were likely sinking into a similar feeling. What initially felt like a stiff encounter between artists and curator-jurors had almost completely thawed into a Mediterranean revery within hours. It made sense why Joannou had immediately invited a young and \u201cbohemian\u201d Jeff Koons to this world, to a place\nthat was ancient and yet completely and utterly his. But what looks like a \u201cgroup of friends\u201d up close, appears as a \u201ccabal\u201d from far away. And while I was taken by the generosity that Joannou extended to me and everyone around him, the experience was also an affirmation of the widespread suspicion that the world is still run by closed-door groups of white men. Social reality was the fly in this soup \u2013 the wedge that divided a man who deeply loved art from the people camping outside of ATMs just kilometers away.\nI first heard the name Dakis Joannou in 2010, in an academic cloister in Uptown Manhattan, where a group of critics who were instrumental in codifying the latter half of 20th Century art-making \u2013 in this case by spiking it with French theory as opposed to cash \u2013 were outraged about an exhibition at the New Museum. The show was called \u201cSkin Fruit\u201d and it was inspired by mutated visions of the body posited by artists such as Cindy Sherman, Charles Ray, Robert Gober, and others. It was curated by Jeff Koons and composed of works from Joannou\u2019s DESTE Foundation, who was also a trustee of the museum. This alignment of interests inspired a wave of critical backlash towards the show, one that art historian Alexander Alberro was able to encapsulate for me succinctly.\nIn reference to Jeff Koons\u2019s curation of artworks for \u201cSkin Fruit\u201d (2010), New York Times critic Roberta Smith wrote, \u201cNearly all emanate from one stratum of the art world: the one where the money is.\u201d Photo: Tom Powell Imaging.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: How would you characterize the response to the New Museum\u2019s \u201cSkin Fruit\u201d exhibition?\nALEXANDER ALBERRO: That the collection of a trustee of The New Museum was being featured in that very same museum seemed to be an evident conflict of interest. What was more troubling, however, and what many found scary about this particular incident, was that the trustee of the museum and the artist-curator involved didn\u2019t even feel the need to cover up the conflict of interest. Rather, they went public with it as if it were business as usual.\nWhat were your thoughts on the show itself?\nALBERRO: The show only featured work by blue-chip artists, and not particularly important pieces by these artists. I found it quite boring. Someone seems to have given the collector an A-list of artists, and it looks like he went straight down that list and bought at least one of each. Yet, the important thing about the show, and what made it the first of its kind, was that those involved were so blatant in flaunting what they obviously deemed to be the no-longer-relevant detachment between museum trustees and the exhibitions featured by the museum.\nIf a constellation of power such as the one behind \u201cSkin Fruit\u201d had been assembled in finance, it would have been classified under the crime of \u201cinsider trading.\u201d But \u2013 for better or for worse \u2013 the boundaries of the art world are much more soft and pliant than those of the stock market. On its face, contemporary art has come to represent the inclusive attitudes of modernity, but the forces at play behind it continue to be dictated by medieval clusters of personalities. Museums depend on the generosity of collectors to fill their galleries and their coffers, and while this is normally done in the name of charity, it seems optimistic that these interests \u2013 whether they be tax-related, speculative, or simply a matter of prestige \u2013 would remain quarantined from public institutions.This is a reality that potentially puts \u201cun-marketable\u201d artwork in crisis. But Joannou\u2019s violation with regard to \u201cSkin Fruit\u201d seemed to be less about what he did than how he did it \u2013 as though the Cypriot had driven his Jeff Koons yacht straight from Corfu and collided it into The Statue of Liberty, as though he smashed through the walls of the institution from the outside to take a naughty peek, as in Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s famous sculptural self-portrait. In fact, it was the baldness with which Joannou did something that collectors and museums had already been doing for years that brought to the fore a very necessary conversation that none of the parties involved ever wanted to have. Years later, the collector remains unapologetic.\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: I first heard about your collection at Columbia University, when your \u201cSkin Fruit\u201d exhibition was happening.\nDAKIS JOANNOU: Ah, this big scandal!\nIt became this example of collusion between museums and collectors.\nJoannou: It\u2019s totally pathetic. First of all, the museum asked Jeff to curate the show. And Koons chose me. He accepted and chose the pieces. It was his show. I had nothing to do with the selection of the pieces in the show. There were some great works and some less great works. The installation was incredible, but nobody really looked at the work. Instead of really looking at the show and discussing this period represented in my collection, they immediately jumped on the fact that I was on the board of trustees.\nDo you think it\u2019s a problem for artists who don\u2019t make collectible work \u2013 that museums and collections have become so close to each other?\nJoannou: But that case doesn\u2019t happen every day. Of course, if a museum only were to show collections, then it\u2019s not doing its job. Now they don\u2019t dare do it any more. How much extra value are you going to add to Jeff\u2019s tank because it was shown at The New Museum? Or Mark Bradford? People know who he is. He has his market. Just because I put a Mark Bradford in a museum, doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s going to change the market of Mark Bradford. It\u2019s nonsense. I completely ignored this. I didn\u2019t want to deal with these issues at all.\nFrom left to right: Jeff Koons, Dan Friedman, Jeffrey Deitch, and Dakis Joannou in Hydra (1987). Photo: Lietta Joannou.\nIn Joannou\u2019s view, the very fact that the DESTE Foundation is not a public institution is what gives it strength \u2013 an outlook that bypasses the question of what private wealth owes the public. In Athens, museums seem less conflicted about the prospect of displaying his collection. During my visit, I went to DESTE\u2019s Ametria exhibition at the Benaki Museum, a gargantuan and maze-like display filled with a mix of historical artifacts and contemporary works by artists such as Urs Fischer and Terence Koh. With its black walls, unlabeled artworks, and phantasmagorical lighting, the exhibition felt like it was designed to support an almost sexual engagement with the way things look, no matter what they are or where they come from. It was an experience so unilaterally frivolous that it seemed unlikely to have ever come from the mind of a market speculator or a public institution. After dinner at Joannou\u2019s house, a painter whom he collects described an evening when the industrialist called him from his bathtub at 11pm, to tell the painter about a book that reminded him of his work. During a conversation, Joannou told me that he feels proud when artists from Greece and abroad tell him that they were exposed to transformative ideas by things they saw at one of DESTE\u2019s exhibitions, yet he maintains that any social good brought about by the activity of DESTE is simply \u201ccollateral.\u201d Joannou\u2019s contri-bution to the contemporary art scene of Greece is enormous and undeniable, but exactly what this public benefit is collateral of is something that remains a mystery.\n4) Kiki Smith, MOTHER / CHILD 1993\nIn The System of Objects (1968), Jean Baudrillard argues that possessions are as necessary to the psyche as dreams. Certain objects help us as instruments for living, but others (the objects we possess just to possess) are ways of anchoring ourselves in the perpetual flow of time. These objects are the things that we use to pour our lives into something inanimate \u2013 into something that allows us to watch ourselves as viewers from outside. As consumers, our facewash-toner-lotion combo is designed to reveal as much about us as the bathroom mirror under which they lie. Time has shown that fracturing the psyche into a constellation of objects \u2013 making a collection \u2013 is a good way to become immortal. It\u2019s more detailed than a statue, more able to tell a full story. But the process itself, as it transpires, is one of continually experiencing the boundaries of life-death.\nDuring the making of the DESTE exhibition \u201cSystem of Objects,\u201d (2013) curator Andreas Angelidakis recalls a moment of meticulous object-love, in which Joannou stopped a slideshow to correct a small mistake in the dimensions of a painting he bought more than 15 years prior. In the exhibition, Angelidakis and co-curator Maria Cristina Didero placed a baroque statue of a baby Christ in front of a Francis Picabia painting from 1942. The statue watches the painting, and the painting watches it. Here we a see a collection that has grown into a self-sustaining world, with its own actors and agents. It is a relationship between objects that reminds us what the word \u201cfetish\u201d originally meant \u2013 such as in Voodoo, or in the way Karl Marx describes commodities living independently of humans in a market. It is the magic of an object that is given life by desire, or rather an object taught to desire by the humans who desire it. As Baudrillard writes: \u201cWe cannot live in absolute singularity, in the irreversibility signalled by the moment of birth, and it is precisely this irreversible movement from birth towards death that objects help us to cope with.\u201d Reading these words, I imagine Joannou floating on the Aegean Sea in the lacquered womb of his yacht, furnished by the spilt contents of his mind, surrounded by the friendly monsters of his own collection. I imagine him being born again, smiling.\nKiki Smith MOTHER/CHILD. Photo: Dimitris Tamviskos\nTHOM BETTRIDGE: In Germano Clemant\u2019s introduction to your DESTE retrospective book, he speaks about how collage is this basic and fundamental gesture of the avant-garde \u2013 and how the word comes from the French coller, \u201cto glue.\u201d As a collector, do you feel like your ambition is to glue things together?\nDAKIS JOANNOU: You\u2019re right! Even that\u2019s a collage!\nBut what makes your collection more than a group of objects?\nJOANNOU: I think I make connections that a curator would not make. For me, there\u2019s something else that ties things together. The same psyche.\nJOANNOU: I\u2019ve been trying to explain this. I read an interesting definition of \u201cHellenism\u201d by a writer. Greece was never a geographical entity until 150 years ago. It was a spirit, or an idea. Greeks were from Sicily, from Georgia, Northern Turkey, Cyprus, Libya. Various parts of Greece were not even joined together. 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He has also acted in numerous shipping disputes, as well as litigation of a general commercial nature, particularly sale of goods (recently appearing successfully as sole counsel in the Commercial Court in AOT Trading AG v Cassar Fuel Ltd).\nHarry has a first class degree in history, having studied in the UK and the USA, and was a Prince of Wales Scholar and winner of the Du Cann Prize in Gray\u2019s Inn.\nInsurance Act 2015:\nHarry is a leading expert on the Insurance Act 2015. He acted for the Lloyd\u2019s Market Association during the passage of the Insurance Bill, and was responsible for several substantive changes to the statute. He wrote the principal guidance to the Act (Please click here to view), and appeared (led by Alistair Schaff QC) on the first occasion when it was given judicial consideration (by Lord Mance, in the BILA Mock Trial). More recently, he has advised a number of policyholders and insurers on the implications of the Act for their businesses, and is co-author of A Practical Guide to the Insurance Act 2015.\nSuez Fortune Investments Ltd & Piraeus Bank AE v Talbot Underwriting Ltd (the \u201cBrillante Virtuoso\u201d). Harry is junior counsel for the claimant in this dispute involving allegations of scuttling by the insured under a war risks policy. He has subsequently been instructed (led by Jonathan Gaisman QC) in another marine insurance case involving alleged scuttling of a vessel.\nPemberton Greenish LLP v Jane Henry [2017] EWHC 246 (QB). Harry acted as sole counsel for the successful defendant. The case involved an issue of whether a subrogated claim may be brought against a co-insured, as considered in The Ocean Victory.\nCity Disputes Panel Arbitration, acted for underwriters of an FI crime policy in a \u00a330m dispute with the insured involving issues of non-disclosure, misrepresentation, and policy construction.\nPorchuck Boat Company v Kiln Regional Underwriting, sole counsel in the Mercantile Court for a marine cargo insurer; issues involving notification of loss, valuation of the insured powerboat, and policy construction.\nTeal Assurance v WR Berkley Insurance [2013] UKSC 57, involved in extensive research on the \u201chold harmless fiction\u201d in this dispute over the order in which claims are paid under a tower of liability insurance contracts (Christopher Butcher QC and Rebecca Sabben-Clare QC).\nSunboat Inc v Amlin Corporate Insurance, Commercial Court dispute under a contract of marine hull and machinery insurance following the total loss of a superyacht by fire (led by David Bailey QC).\nHarry acted for a reinsured in an international arbitration in New Zealand worth over $100m, which arose from the Christchurch earthquakes, and involved complex issues on discharge, illegality, mistake, rectification, waiver and estoppel (led by Gavin Kealey QC).\nBermuda Form:\nIn 2015, Harry was instructed in two major Bermuda Form Arbitrations:\nThe first of these (led by David Bailey QC) was a $40m claim arising from a rail crash, the issue being the recoverability of defence costs. Issues of contractual construction, estoppel, bad faith and tortious interference arose.\nHe was also instructed (led by John Lockey QC) in another Bermuda Form arbitration concerning building defects in thousands of residential properties in the USA.\nGAFTA arbitration \u2013 Harry has experience of arbitration under the GAFTA rules, including appeals both to GAFTA and to the High Court.\nAircraft Purchase Fleet Limited v Compagnia Aerea Italiana [2018] EWHC 3315 (Comm). Harry acted for the successful Defendant (led by Gavin Kealey QC), which previously operated the airline Alitalia, in a \u20ac300m claim for non-acceptance of thirteen aircraft.\nAOT Trading AG v Cassar Fuel Ltd [2015] EWHC 3674 (Comm), sole counsel in a sale of goods case arising from non-acceptance of a cargo of fuel oil. Harry defeated AOT\u2019s application for summary judgment on liability, arguing that it would serve no useful purpose, which Popplewell J accepted could amount to a compelling reason for trial.\nFlame SA v Agarwal Coal Corporation successfully obtained an anti-suit injunction against an Indian party to a contract of sale of steam coal containing an exclusive English law and jurisdiction clause (led by Robert Bright QC).\nAudit/Accountants:\nHarry is co-author (with James Brocklebank QC) of the chapter on Accountants and Auditors in Professional Negligence and Liability (ed. Mark Simpson QC). He has been instructed in several major audit/accountancy negligence cases, including:\nManchester Building Society v Grant Thornton, a case arising from the Society\u2019s misapplication (on the advice of GT) of hedge accounting to a portfolio of interest rate swaps.\n3D-Gold Jewellery v Pricewaterhouse Coopers, a HK$237m professional negligence claim in the Hong Kong High Court. The case involved complex issues of attribution (including consideration of Stone & Rolls v Moore Stephens).\nWey Bridging v Ernst & Young, a case in the Chancery Division involving an auditor\u2019s allegedly negligent failure to detect fraudulent \u201ccross-firing\u201d payments by directors of a company.\nTrilogy Management v Harcus Sinclair [2017] EWHC 1164 (Ch) (led by Christopher Butcher QC). Obtained summary judgment for the solicitors on basis the claim was time-barred, in (unusually) a second application for summary disposal of the claim (having previously succeeded in [2016] EWHC 170 (Ch)).\nPemberton Greenish LLP v Jane Henry [2017] EWHC 246 (QB). Sole counsel in High Court trial against a solicitor sued by her former firm: the claim against her was dismissed.\nEco-Farming Ltd v Willis Ltd, sole counsel for the insurance broker Willis in a negligence claim by an insured. Succeeded in having the claim struck out on the basis that it was time-barred.\nHarry has also acted in professional negligence claims on behalf of a company suing its former directors in negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.\nIn 2017, Harry has been instructed in several LMAA Arbitrations, including the following matters:\nSole counsel for owners in claim against charterers for loading unlawful cargoes connected with parties subject to US and UN sanctions.\nSole counsel for charterers defending a claim by owners and bareboat charterers, arising from the contamination of a grain cargo by reason of the poor condition of the vessel\u2019s cargo holds.\nJunior counsel for charterers in claim arising from a fatal fire caused by a shore crew performing hot works, giving rise to complex issues of unseaworthiness (led by Charles Priday).\nIn 2017, Harry was instructed by claimant ship sellers in a claim against buyers for wrongful rescission of two contracts for the sale of vessels in a dispute over deadweight. The buyers settled the dispute following service of the claim submissions.\nBritish Insurance Law Association U35 Committee\n2006-10 MA History, University of Edinburgh (First Class)\n2008-09 History and Politics, University of Virginia, USA\n2010-11 GDL, BPP University College, Distinction\n2011-12 BPTC, Kaplan Law School, Very Competent\n2007 Simon Gray Prize for top mark in politics, University of Edinburgh\n2009 Top mark ever awarded in US Politics, University of Virginia\n2010 Winner of BPP & Atkin Chambers Moot\n2011 Prince of Wales Scholarship, Gray\u2019s Inn\n2011 Advocacy Scholarship, Kaplan Law School\n2012 Du Cann Memorial Prize and Gray\u2019s Inn Bowl for winning the Gray\u2019s Inn Moot\nHarry Wright has been named by Chambers & Partners as an up-and-coming junior who \"performs significantly above his year of call\" and who has developed an impressive reputation for his knowledge of the 2015 Insurance Act, among other things.\n\"Incredibly user-friendly.\" \"Very hard-working and clear-thinking.\" Chambers & Partners 2019\n\"Harry Wright is a delight to work with. He is clever, thorough and very responsive.\" \"He is a dream junior.\" Chambers & Partners 2018\n\"Intelligent, quick witted, hard working and a pleasure to work with.\" Chambers & Partners 2017\n\"Great with clients, very personable, very enthusiastic and really efficient.\" Chambers & Partners 2017\nHarry featured in Legal Week's Stars of the Bar 2017 where he was listed as \"highly recommended\".\nHarry is co-author (with James Brocklebank QC) of the chapter on Accountants and Auditors in Professional Negligence and Liability (ed. Mark Simpson QC).\nDavid Kendall and Harry Wright, A Practical Guide to the Insurance Act 2015 (Informa, London, 2018).\n\u201cInsurance Act 2015: Il Diritto delle Assicurazioni UK Si Rinnova\u201d. Please click here to view.\n\u201cGuide to Insurance Act 2015\u201d. Please click here to view.\n\u201cThe Insurance Bill\u201d, British Insurance Law Association Journal, No. 127, October 2014.\nCo-author with James Brocklebank, \u201cStranger than Fiction\u201d, The Lawyer, 24 June 2013\nTrilogy Management Limited v Harcus Sinclair\nChristopher Butcher QC and Harry Wright obtained summary judgment on behalf of a firm of solicitors facing a claim in negligence by a (non-client) third party , on the basis that the claim was statute barred. The case was unusual in that it was the Defendant\u2019s second application for summary disposal of the claim. It [\u2026]\n[2017] EWHC 246 (QB) Harry Wright acted for the successful Defendant, a solicitor sued by her former law firm for alleged breaches of duty arising in the context of a mortgage transaction in which the borrowers turned out to be fraudsters. The Claimant suffered loss in settling with the mortgage lender, and having been indemnified [\u2026]\nNew book on Insurance Act\n\u201cA Practical Guide to the Insurance Act 2015\u201d, co-authored by Harry Wright (of 7KBW) and David Kendall, has been published. The Insurance Act 2015 is the first comprehensive statutory reform of the insurance law of the United Kingdom since the Marine Insurance Act 1906. It introduces thorough and, in some cases, fairly drastic reform of [\u2026]\nHarry Wright features in Legal Week\u2019s \u2013 Stars at the Bar 2017\nHarry Wright has been named as highly recommended in the \u2018Stars at the Bar 2017\u2019 list. 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Alison Smith, MSPOD, Vice President of Organizational Design and Development, Caribou Coffee and Einstein Noah Restaurant Group\nhttps://800ceoread.com/products/be-the-boss-everyone-wants-to-work-for-william-a-gentry-english", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 9185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://800ceoread.com/products/pomodoro-technique-francesco-cirillo-english?selected=814805", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:37Z", "digest": "sha1:6JKHJIFPIFKIMGLDYVJXHONAQHN4RDXG", "length": 1442, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "800ceoread.com", "title": "Buy The Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo, in bulk. 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The process underlying Cirillo's technique includes five stages: planning the day's tasks, tracking your efforts, recording your daily activities, processing what you have done, and visualizing areas for improvement. With this tried and tested method, readers can simplify their work, find out how much time and effort a task really requires, and improve their focus so they can get more done in the same amount of time each day.\nhttps://800ceoread.com/products/pomodoro-technique-francesco-cirillo-english", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://909originals.com/2017/10/11/paul-oakenfold-tells-nme-about-the-emerging-acid-house-scene-october-1988/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:53Z", "digest": "sha1:YTVRQ2ZGZ2XZZAAJZIRUCIGIB6LUMR6B", "length": 1771, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "909originals.com", "title": "Paul Oakenfold tells NME about the emerging acid house scene\u2026 [October 1988] \u2013 909originals", "raw_content": "October 11, 2017 909originals Acid UK\n\u201cThe official line is this. Yes, there are some drugs involved, but not as much as you\u2019d like to think. Instead, why don\u2019t you concentrate on the good things. The new music, the attitude, the fact that we now have a movement as big as punk on our hands. Even bigger really\u2026\u201d\nThus commences this fascinating interview with Paul Oakenfold, conducted by Paolo Hewitt for NME in October 1988, and recorded for posterity on the now sadly-defunct Archived Music Press blog.\nIt\u2019s a document of a period in which acid house crept out of the mainstream to become the music genre du jour at the end of Thatcher\u2019s 80s.\nAs Oakenfold, at the time the resident at Spectrum in London, notes, a year earlier, \u201cwe had 100 people going to [our] Friday night thing. Now we have 1,800 people on the worst night of the week trying to get into Spectrum. It\u2019s unstoppable.\u201d\nElsewhere, given Oakenfold (who was also part of Balearic-tinged troupe Electra) would go on to be one of the highest-paid and most internationally-coveted DJs on the planet, the fact that he believes the nascent scene is set to \u2018go underground\u2019 is somewhat ironic.\n\u201cAcid is going underground,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt\u2019s got to go that way because of all the fuss. The media are out to kill it.\u201d\nThe last word, however, should arguably go to Danny D of D-Mob, however, who believes that time is running out for the acid house scene.\nAs he puts it, \u201cWe are now witnessing the Acid movement breaking out of London and becoming fashionable, and it\u2019s right across the country; hence the Smiley badge and T-shirt craze. Personally, I would give it six months to a year.\u201d\nClose to thirty years later, we\u2019re still waiting for that flame to burn out\u2026\n[Kudos to Archived Music Press for the upload]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ababusinessbrokers.com/listings/item/219-deli-catering-business-with-re-for-sale-in-sw-suburbs-of-chicago-il", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:01Z", "digest": "sha1:OG6SK5KY73G2O3SCE6CFXS753VJVAKIK", "length": 3749, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ababusinessbrokers.com", "title": "Deli & Catering Business with RE for Sale in SW Suburbs of Chicago, IL", "raw_content": "Located in Southwest Suburbs of Chicago, Illinois (Cook County)\nPurchase Price / Business & Real Property = $625,000 plus inventory\nThis Catering & Deli business has been operating since 1980. They specialize in home style meals for dining in, carry out or delivery. They have a big outdoor pavilion space with picnic tables and a garden area that\u2019s a local hotspot in the summer months. The outdoor space can accommodate up to 85 guests. They cater all types of events including weddings, baby showers, corporate events, luncheons, brunches, open houses, etc. they also design custom menus & provide bar service (beer & wine). They recently were aproved for and installed 3 poker machines, so we anticipate further increases in cash flow and profits.\nThe current owners acquired the business and property in 2000. Prior to that, it was owned & operated by their parents since 1980. The building has a 2 bedroom 1 full bath apartment on the 2nd floor. The apartment has a washer & dryer, new refrigerator & central air. The apartment is currently rented for $850/month and the tenancy is on a month to month basis, so a new owner has the option of occupying the space if they choose. They have parking for approximately 15 vehicles plus an additional parking lot they recently purchase for overflow & employee parking on busy days. They're willing to sell the additional parking lot to a new owner or rent it to a new owner. It depends on what the buyer wants to do. The sale also includes a 2010 Ford Transit van. They pay $300/month for the additional parking. Only 1 of the 2 owners works at the deli. The other has a full-time job elsewhere. According to the department of transportation, there\u2019s an average of 16,100 cars driving past this business each day. All of the equipment is included in the sale except for the ice machine, as it is leased.\nThis business has several areas of opportunity. They are only open during the day, so opening in the evenings would certainly increase revenues. There\u2019s also a very large church across the street however, the business isn\u2019t open on Sundays. Opening for breakfast/brunch would be very easy to do. Also, they just added 3 poker machines, so there will almost certainly be an increase in sales and profits. At the moment, they have a limited delivery area, so offering delivery to a bigger area will certainly help as well.\nOne easy thing to address is the fact that they don\u2019t list their hours of operation on their website. If you\u2019re new to the area or if you didn\u2019t already know the deli, you wouldn\u2019t have any idea when they\u2019re open for business. They currently have a beer & wine license, so converting that to a full liquor license would probably be a good idea, especially for weddings. The margins on liquor are better than the margins on food and the shelf life is better too. As you can see, this business is doing well and has room for further growth. It\u2019s a good opportunity to acquire a growing business.\nThe current owners are considering moving out of state, so they\u2019re exploring the possibility of selling the business & property.\n2016 = $1,021,216.00\nAsking Price/Business & Real Estate: $625,000.00 plus inventory\nBuilding, Property details (approximately): The annual Real Estate taxes are $12,000.00. They have 15 parking spaces on premise plus they just purchased another parking lot for overflow. & it's available for sale or rent. The building is 3,041 sq ft. The property is 10,063 sq ft. It is zoned B-1. 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In addition, the data subject is free in the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, to use his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications.\nIf the decision (1) is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between the data subject and a data controller, or (2) it is based on the data subject\u2019s explicit consent, the MovieTech AG shall implement suitable measures to safeguard the data subject\u2019s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and contest the decision.\nIf the data subject wishes to exercise the rights concerning automated individual decision-making, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the MovieTech AG.\nIf the data subject wishes to exercise the right to withdraw the consent, he or she may, at any time, contact any employee of the MovieTech AG.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 34631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 211.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abc7chicago.com/pets-animals/necropsy-puppy-in-united-airlines-overhead-bin-suffocated/3424227/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:J4AAZTXUMO7NMGCLT25HBSXDXRIN4QVY", "length": 2342, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "abc7chicago.com", "title": "Queens family considers lawsuit after necropsy shows French bulldog in overhead bin died from suffocation | abc7chicago.com", "raw_content": "Necropsy: Puppy in United Airlines overhead bin suffocated\nLauren Glassberg reports on a family speaking out after their dog died on a United flight.\nA family from Queens is considering a lawsuit after the death of their 9-month-old French bulldog puppy on a United Airlines flight in March.\nThey say they were forced to put the dog in an overhead bin and that the dog suffocated.\n\"He was smart, intelligent,\" 11-year-old Sophia Ceballos said of little Kokito. \"He was one of a kind.\"\nShe loved the dog, a $6,000 birthday gift from her stepdad. But he died March 12 on board a United flight from Houston to LaGuardia Airport.\nRelated: 'He couldn't breathe:' Family speaks out after dog dies on United flight to New York City\nA flight attendant wouldn't let the family put the dog under the seat, but made them place his bag in an overhead bin despite the fact that they paid for the dog to travel on board. Ceballos and her mother, Catalina Robledo, who was also travelling with her 2-month-old baby, didn't like the idea, but they felt compelled to do what the attendant said.\n\"I thought it was wrong,\" Ceballos said. \"But at the same time, I trusted her, because she probably knew there was air up there.\"\nBut there wasn't much air in the bin, and according to the newly released necropsy report by Cornell University in Ithaca, \"The cause of death is suffocation.\"\nIt is a death that could have been avoided, according to the family's attorney.\n\"The airline knew that Kokito was on the plane, yet they did nothing to preserve Kokito's safety,\" attorney Evan Oshan said. \"The dog was suffocated. It was entombed in an overhead bin. It was treated like a piece of luggage. It was a living, breathing family member.\"\nUnited took responsibility for Kokito's death and refunded the tickets, but the family is still considering a lawsuit. Meanwhile there are two criminal investigations, one in Houston and one in Queens.\nThe airline has also reevaluated its pet travel policies since March and announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Animal Humane to improve safety measures. 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Users of the ACCC computer facilities are expected to abide by the following policies, which are intended to preserve the utility and flexibility of the computer system, protect the work of students, staff, and faculty, and preserve the right to access networks to which the University is connected.\nYou will be assigned an ACCC computer account to access ACCC computer facilities. The University reserves the right to access your account and the system to the extent necessary to investigate security breaches or other infractions of these rules. Your own password will allow access to your account and you may not allow any other person to use your account for any reason. In addition, it is your responsibility to protect your account from unauthorized use by changing passwords periodically and using passwords that are not easily guessed.\nIdentify yourself clearly and accurately in electronic communications. Concealing or misrepresenting your name or affiliation to mask irresponsible or offensive behavior is a serious abuse. Using identifiers of other individuals as your own constitutes fraud.\nYou are expected to take proper care of the equipment in ACCC facilities. Eating, drinking, and smoking are not allowed in UIC labs (i.e., food and beverages are not allowed). Report any malfunction to the consultant on duty or send e-mail to consult@uic.edu. Do not attempt to move, repair, reconfigure, modify, or attach external devices to the systems. In addition, individual ACCC computer laboratories can post additional operational rules and restrictions that are considered part of the ACCC computer policy. You are responsible for reading and following these rules.\nAccept limitations or restrictions on computing resources, such as storage space, time limits, or amount of resources consumed, when asked to do so by the system administrators. Such restrictions are designed to ensure fair access for all users. You are expected to use computing resources in a responsible and efficient manner consistent with the instructional, research, and administrative goals of the University.\nAccept responsibility for your own work by learning appropriate uses of software to maintain the integrity of what you create. Keep archives and backup copies of important work; learn and properly use the features for securing or sharing access to your files on any computers you use.\nWhile great effort is made to keep the contents of what you create, store, and send to be seen only by those to whom you intend or give permission, the University cannot and does not guarantee the security of electronic files on its computer systems. These systems can sometimes be breached by someone determined to do so. Additionally, as specified above, the University reserves the right to access its computer systems, including your account, if it deems it appropriate.\nYou are expected to refrain from engaging in deliberate wasteful practices such as multi-user dungeons (MUDs), sending chain letters through electronic mail, printing unnecessary output, printing multiple copies of files, performing unnecessary computations, generating excessive network traffic, or unnecessarily holding public PCs or dial-up phone lines for long periods of time when others are waiting for these resources. Academic work always has priority over other authorized uses.\nYou are expected to refrain from installing or using unauthorized software, and in particular, software that creates security risks on University computer facilities. Other programs may be restricted by the departmental system administrators and will be announced through appropriate channels.\nUnauthorized transferring of copyrighted materials to or from the ACCC computer system without express consent of the owner is a violation of federal law. In addition, use of the Internet for commercial gain, profit, or advertisement is not allowed from UIC.\nUse of electronic mail and other network communications facilities to harass, offend, or annoy other users of the network is forbidden. All users need to be aware that obscene, defamatory, or any other material which violates University policy on non-discrimination will not be tolerated at UIC. The University reserves the right to take whatever action it sees as appropriate to prevent, correct, or discipline behavior that violates this policy.\nAny attempt to circumvent system security, guess other passwords, or in any way gain unauthorized access to local or network resources is forbidden. Distributing passwords or otherwise attempting to evade, disable, or \"crack\" passwords or other security provisions threatens the work of many others and is therefore grounds for immediate suspension of your privileges. You may not develop programs or use any mechanisms to alter or avoid accounting for the use of computing services or to employ means by which the facilities and systems are used anonymously or by means of an alias.\nAccess to and utilization of the resources of ACCC computing services is a privilege and NOT a right; they can be withdrawn or curtailed forthwith and without notice if there is a reason to believe that the user has or may have violated this policy or applicable law. Additionally, violation of this policy can result in further discipline under the appropriate procedures extant at UIC or by civil or criminal prosecution. All users, as a condition of their access to or utilization of ACCC computing services, agree to cooperate in every way with the Computer Center in an investigation of alleged improprieties or abuse of this privilege and waive any right of confidentiality. Failure to cooperate fully with the Computer Center shall be considered a violation of policy.\nThe ACCC will investigate apparent or alleged violations of these guidelines. The Academic Computing and Communications Center also reserves the right to immediately suspend user privileges for potential violations of these guidelines to the extent necessary to protect the security and integrity of the ACCC computer system. When appropriate, at the discretion of the ACCC, cases of apparent abuse will be reported to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs (student cases), to the Assistant Vice President for Human Resources (academic professional and support staff cases), or to the Provost (faculty cases). These respective offices are responsible for determining any further disciplinary actions.\nIssues concerning these guidelines, or allegations of harassment or other irresponsible use of computing resources, should be brought to the attention of the Academic Computing and Communications Center by sending electronic mail to consult@uic.edu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 8875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://accesswellnessfl.com/homeopathic-medicine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:20Z", "digest": "sha1:E2Q5RT6WTVNZEI3JOL5QLY35LNKU4NME", "length": 626, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "accesswellnessfl.com", "title": "Homeopathic Medicine \u00bb Access Wellness | Acupuncture and Nutrition in Palm Beach Gardens, FL", "raw_content": "Homeopathy is a system of medicine based on the theory that \u201clike cures like.\u201d\nHomeopaths encourage healing by administering tiny doses of harmless, highly diluted animal, plant, or mineral substances that in larger quantities would produce illness (just as you are immunized against flu by being given a harmless form of flu).\nMost chronic and acute illnesses are thought to respond in some way to homeopathic remedies. One of the greatest benefits to homeopathy is that there is little if any interactions with other medications that the patient may be taking.\nHomeopathic Medicine was last modified: May 28th, 2015 by admin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://acelifentertainment.blogspot.com/2018/02/shes-back-kylie-jenner-posts-first.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:11Z", "digest": "sha1:O4I63AGZG6CICU64J5AOF43QF45ASUWX", "length": 795, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "acelifentertainment.blogspot.com", "title": "Acelife Entertainment: She\u2019s back! Kylie Jenner posts first picture since giving birth.", "raw_content": "She\u2019s back! Kylie Jenner posts first picture since giving birth.\nKylie Jenner has posted the first pictures of herself since giving birth to her daughter after months out of the spotlight.\nThe reality TV star, who is one of the most famous selfie-posting stars online along with her sister Kim Kardashian West, had steered clear of sharing pictures since falling pregnant last year.\nAlthough the 20-year-old had been posting some images, they were throwback pictures and mostly promoting her make-up brand, or taken from the neck up.\nJenner, who welcomed her daughter Stormi on February 1, is seen sitting at the wheel of her car in the pictures, wearing a red tracksuit and posing for the camera.\nWithin the space of six hours, the post had been liked more than five million times on Instagram.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://acelifentertainment.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-voice-to-allow-trios-when-it.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:14Z", "digest": "sha1:YWXAGM2FVTQZILKIIPZG5O33EC7DU43U", "length": 324, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "acelifentertainment.blogspot.com", "title": "Acelife Entertainment: The Voice to allow trios when it returns to ITV next year.", "raw_content": "The Voice to allow trios when it returns to ITV next year.\nThe Voice is to allow trios to audition for the first time when it returns to ITV in 2019.\nThe singing show has been renewed for a third series by ITV after joining the channel in 2017.\nPreviously only individuals or duos have been allowed to enter the competition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 125.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://acmagazine.austincollege.edu/issues/spring-2012/an-american-in-bucharest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LVTQ5QOJFSVESH6Y2JUP4TYC3KMKRMQF", "length": 3200, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "acmagazine.austincollege.edu", "title": "An American in\u2026Bucharest", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Issues \u00bb Spring 2012 \u00bb An American in\u2026Bucharest\nWhen deciding on a research project for my spring 2011 sabbatical, one that would take place in Bucharest, Romania, seemed like the obvious choice: the national research lab I was considering had the right equipment for my project, and I grew up and lived in Bucharest until I left for graduate school in 1994, so I was familiar with the culture.\nSo there we were: I and my two Texas-born-and-raised children, aged 5 and 6, arrived in Romania on a cold winter day a little before Christmas in 2010. Over the next seven months I went through every possible emotion regarding my trip there. There were moments of great joy, when hearing my kids talk Romanian, or visiting with relatives and friends I had not seen in nine years or more. There were frustrating times, such as when the train that was supposed to take us to a mountain resort stopped about 15 miles away from our destination due to a power outage. We had a few scary moments, too, such as when my older son had stitches put in his chin without anesthetic after falling while ice skating.\nConversations with taxi-drivers were amusing: not knowing that I have not lived in Romania during the previous 16 years, they would point out residences of media personalities that I\u2019ve never heard of or wanted to engage me in political discussions. There were maddening moments, too, when a simple procedure became impossible once in the hands of a large and inefficient bureaucracy.\nThe research proved to be a very positive experience: my collaborator at the Romanian National Institute of Materials Physics, Dr. Lucica Miu, was very helpful. He gave me access to the SQUID (Superconducting QUantum Interference Device) and we took magnetic measurements in order to study the role of anisotropy in high temperature superconductors. Our samples had columnar defects introduced by irradiation with heavy ions, and our study involved looking at the interaction between the columnar defects and the layered structure of the material. It was exciting working with researchers who, like me, study superconductors.\nThe people we interacted with at the lab and outside were wonderful: a graduate student there, Ion Ivan, would give me rides to the lab in his car; an eight-hour trip by train turned out to be fun\u2014other passengers took time to entertain my two little Texan boys; so many relatives would await excitedly for us and sit us down to a feast; we were treated with kindness and generosity by people who did not have so much for themselves.\nOverall, it was a very rewarding experience: I could tell that Romania has changed a lot since I left. There is still a lot of poverty there, the democracy is still young, and there are still many challenges. Hopefully life improves for Romanians over the next few years.\nBeing back In Romania made it clear to me, though, how much I\u2019ve changed. I hadn\u2019t necessarily felt that I was an American because I had an American passport or because I have the right to vote in the U.S. elections. During this trip, I did realize, though, how much my way of thinking has become that of an American and that while there I, indeed, was an American in Bucharest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 7599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://acmagazine.austincollege.edu/issues/summer-2012/sowing-the-seeds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:07Z", "digest": "sha1:DZHJ6KSXK5HPLIDL7X2TPRSJLOWMXJWG", "length": 20262, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "acmagazine.austincollege.edu", "title": "Sowing the Seeds", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Issues \u00bb Summer 2012 \u00bb Sowing the Seeds\n\u201cAll work is a seed sown;\nit grows and spreads and sows itself anew.\u201d\nThe Austin Teacher Program aims to educate individuals who will be active learners in their personal and professional lives, who will become dedicated and creative teachers, and who will be educational leaders in their schools. The program\u2019s graduates are equipped with a strong curricular base and an ability to evaluate the needs of their students and their classrooms and to determine the best approaches to meet those needs. So say the Austin College faculty members who prepare those future teachers.\nA look at ATP graduates confirms their descriptions. Program alumni are teachers, principals, superintendents, coaches, athletic directors, and policy makers. The program\u2019s faculty members are committed to a unified philosophy of educating their students. They offer a constructivist approach, instructing not by telling\u2014\u201cThis is what you do\u201d\u2014but by asking\u2014\u201cWhat does effective teaching look like?\u201d And the students discover the answers for themselves, each developing a professional teaching philosophy and persona in the process.\nThe Austin Teacher Program is a five-year program culminating in a Master of Arts in Teaching degree. Students undertake their Austin College education and complete majors and minors based upon their areas of interest. They also will take three undergraduate courses in teacher education along with other professional courses and, in the last semester of study, apply to the graduate program.\n\u201cWe get amazing students who have chosen Austin College so they know they will have to work hard, and they continue that work ethic in teaching,\u201d said Jane White, associate professor and member of the faculty since 1994. \u201cThey are critical thinkers, considering not just \u2018why\u2019 but \u2018why not.\u2019\u201d\nBarbara Sylvester, ATP chair, agrees. \u201cPart of the strength of our program lies in the preparation students receive as undergraduates both in their content areas and in the liberal arts tradition,\u201d she said.\nA hallmark of the Austin Teacher Program is the practical experience in teaching that begins with the first course and continues through the last course. The first undergraduate course offers a critical study of \u201cSchools and Society,\u201d examining issues of effective teaching and productive schools, as well as issues of equity, special needs students, bilingual education, and policy-making in education. And critical to the course, students spend time in a classroom to observe the daily reality of the issues under consideration.\nClassroom observations grow into teaching experiences. During the second undergraduate course, students spend 30 hours in the classroom (45 as of this fall), observing and assisting, and by term\u2019s end, teaching at least five lessons. The next course includes 45 hours in the classroom, but this time, the future teachers are responsible for an hour of teaching each day during eight of the nine weeks. These experiences serve to demystify teaching, according to the faculty, allowing the future teachers to discern what they do know and what they don\u2019t know and need to work on during the graduate portion of the program.\n\u201cThe combination of theory and practice students receive in our field-based experiences\u2014that are an integral part of our courses\u2014allows them to reflectively grow at a faster pace than they would without the time in schools,\u201d Barbara said.\nOnce accepted into the graduate program, classroom observation and teaching components increase progressively to the student teaching semester. ATP faculty members observe students and offer feedback and coaching, and the future teachers continue to reflect upon their experiences and critically assess their teaching and the classroom experiences.\n\u201cOur students come out as critical friends of education\u2014in the field not just to comply but also to participate,\u201d said John White, a member of the teacher education faculty since 1980. \u201cThey are committed to becoming leaders and change-makers, not just dispensers of curriculum.\u201d\nBut for the Austin Teacher Program faculty and for the future teachers in their courses, the main focus is the students. \u201cThe structure of our program is such that students consider first whom they teach, then what they teach,\u201d John said. \u201cThe learner-teacher interaction is critical. Our students know that learning and teaching are reciprocal relational activities.\u201d\nJust as the ATP faculty members are constructivists, guiding their students to form their own understanding, so are the future teachers. \u201cOur students are setting up learning so that their students are constructing,\u201d said Julia Shahid of the ATP faculty. \u201cThat\u2019s the kind of learning that lasts\u2014hands-on, minds-on learning.\u201d\nWith challenges ranging from budget cuts to discipline issues to test-score-bound success ratings, teaching in today\u2019s schools is tough business. But for those who want to be teachers, each hardship is another issue to be analyzed and addressed\u2014something else the members of the ATP faculty want students to expect and be prepared to manage.\n\u201cI want students to leave on fire to be a teacher, but to know how hard it will be,\u201d Jane White said. \u201cThey need to have the intellect, the heart, and the commitment.\u201d\nIn Their Own Classrooms\nOne Austin College alumna has found her own classroom\u2014\non the Austin College campus.\nSandy Philipose \u201999 completed her Master of Arts in Teaching degree the next year through the ATP. That January, she accepted a paid teaching internship at a high school in Plano. \u201cI felt ready to step into the role of head teacher even though that is what is normally the student teaching semester,\u201d Sandy said. \u201cAt a time most people are just getting their feet wet, I was ready to take the lead and be the head teacher in the room. We are very well-prepared beginners.\u201d\nSandy remained at the school for four more years, then felt she had come to realize some of the difficulties of the teaching profession and wanted to help prepare young teachers to face them. She entered Stanford University to complete a Ph.D. in curriculum and education.\nShe had joked with her Austin College teacher education professors that she would take their jobs when they retired. The completion of her Ph.D. coincided instead with the sad news of the death of longtime ATP professor Tom Baker. Sandy had to consider whether she wanted to apply. \u201cFrom my Ph.D. work, I knew the model Austin College uses has been researched and supported,\u201d she said. \u201cI realized the strength of it and that this would be my dream job.\u201d\nShe joined the ATP faculty in 2010. \u201cTo have five years to help a student grow is an honor,\u201d she said. She pointed out that ATP-prepared teachers tend to have long careers, differing from the general population of teachers. Research shows that, in general, 50 percent of new teachers leave the profession within five years. \u201cThat\u2019s not the case for Austin College students,\u201d Sandy said. \u201cEven if no longer in the classroom, many Austin College alumni have moved into leadership or have taken on some other role in education.\u201d\n\u201cAustin Teacher Program graduates have staying power,\u201d Sandy said. \u201cThat\u2019s connected to the fact that with so many hours of classroom experience, we already know that we are truly committed to education.\u201d\nFrom student to principal,\nThomas Garrison \u201906 has seen everything at Jesuit College Preparatory School.\n\u201cThe only time being back at Jesuit as a professional threw me was early on with my former teachers still working here. Now that I have the position I have, it\u2019s been fine, but every now and then, I think it\u2019s a little ironic. I\u2019ve got a lot of good relationships with people who taught me, and now they\u2019ve become my coworkers and colleagues,\u201d he said.\nTom just completed his first year as principal at the private school in Dallas. He graduated from Jesuit in 1992 and earned his Austin College bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology in 1996 and master\u2019s degree in secondary education in 1998, which resulted in a teaching internship at Jesuit. The internship turned into teaching English full time in 1998 and appointment to assistant principal of academics in 2003. In July 2011, Tom became the principal at Jesuit.\n\u201cI\u2019m enjoying it. It\u2019s faster-paced than my previous eight years were. It\u2019s never the same thing twice. Every day is different and I get to relate to people on a lot of different levels,\u201d Tom said. \u201cI get to have a relationship with all aspects of our school community.\u201d\nJesuit is a Catholic-affiliated all-male school for approximately 1,000 students in grades 9 through 12. The faculty totals 111 and includes Jesuit priests and lay men and women. The school has seen more than 8,000 graduates since its beginnings in 1942.\n\u201cI think single-sex education has allowed us to tailor our approach to different learning styles. I do think there is some difference between adolescent males and adolescent females. It gives us fewer variables to work with,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re providing a safe place where conflict with the other gender is removed. We work on the subject matter and don\u2019t deal with a lot of the developmental gender things going on.\u201d\nTom knows his school environment changes things, and he has a close understanding of the differences\u2014his wife, Allison, is a high school art teacher in a public school in Plano.\n\u201cWe compare notes a lot. She\u2019s got a really good principal, so I like to find out how he\u2019s approaching things; he\u2019s got good ideas,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019ll get my take on things when she wants to get an idea of what administration is thinking. Because she\u2019s at a public school, we compare notes about differences in teacher retention programs and development. It\u2019s a pretty different world, so we have a lot to talk about.\u201d\nThat kind of reflection is iconic of Tom\u2019s style. It\u2019s something he learned from the Austin College Teacher Program and maintains today.\n\u201cIn the education program we were encouraged to be reflective on what we were doing. We had to videotape ourselves teaching, and that was painful, but we had to watch it and take criticism,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was very powerful, because you see what the kids are seeing and what\u2019s going on in the classroom. I think good educators are reflective of what they\u2019re teaching. I still keep a journal of what decisions I make. I think Austin College prepared me very well for that. No one should do their job in a vacuum.\u201d\nChallenges come both big and small for\nAmanda Patterson Valenti \u201904. \u201cI deal with kids who cannot tie their shoes or walk straight in a line and then with high schoolers and the typical issues teenagers go through\u2014all in one day. The variety of learning, conversation, questions, problems, and answers gives me a challenge that I love. I never have a boring day!\u201d Amanda said.\nAmanda is head swim coach at Plano East High School as well as the physical education teacher for kindergarten to second grade at Rasor Elementary School.\nAfter her Austin College graduation with majors in exercise and sports science and psychology and a master\u2019s degree in secondary education, Amanda accepted the teaching position at Rasor Elementary, in the district in which she grew up.\n\u201cI chose to work in a school district that was once my own and now I see how much it is evolving,\u201d she said. \u201cAustin College prepares you for the changes we face today as people and as educators.\u201d\nHappenstance joined with her swimming experience\u2014Amanda was on the varsity swimming and diving team all four years at Austin College\u2014to create her unusual position.\n\u201cDuring teacher in-service, I ran into a former coach, who was the head swimming coach at Plano Senior High. I asked if he needed any help with his team and my principal gave me permission to volunteer as his assistant coach,\u201d she said.\nHer biggest challenge, however, covers all grade levels. \u201cClass size is always a challenge, even for PE. Ideally, a class of 20 would be great, but I usually have 60 at a time. It is hard to be able to allow for each child to have his/her own piece of equipment when the class size gets larger. This is a challenge in the grade levels, too \u2026 classes keep getting bigger, and budgets seem to keep decreasing,\u201d she said.\nWhile it can be a struggle to balance class sizes with student needs, Amanda came into teaching feeling prepared. \u201cThe Austin Teacher Program (ATP) especially prepared me for my own teaching. We were constantly discussing diversity and cultural changes and how to adapt lessons to allow each child to learn at his or her best. The innovation of the ATP is what I enjoyed the most. \u2026 What is current? What is upcoming? What would best fit my classroom?\u201d she said.\nThe challenges of working with both polished athletes and tripping kindergarteners have produced rewards, however. After only a year of volunteering as assistant swim coach, she was offered the full-time coaching position, and this year was named Experienced Teacher of the Year at Rasor Elementary School.\nAs a varsity football player and member of the track and field team,\nOtis Amy \u201989 always was looking for an edge. At Austin College, he found that advantage not just in athletics, but in education.\n\u201cAustin College is an awesome training ground for educators. My background from the Austin College teacher education program gave me a competitive advantage over my peers,\u201d he said.\nOtis earned his bachelor\u2019s degree with an emphasis on physical education, and his master\u2019s degree in education. He also founded the Black Expressions student organization and even lettered in basketball one year. He came to Austin College partially because of the athletics program, but has found his education has helped him succeed as a school administrator.\n\u201cI wanted to become a teacher because I always idolized teachers and coaches when I was in grade school and high school,\u201d he said. \u201cI worked 19 years in public education along with serving three years in the U.S. Army. I received a second master\u2019s degree in educational leadership from University of Texas at Tyler in May 2007.\u201d\nToday, Otis is principal at Carthage High School, where he also attended.\n\u201cAs an administrator you have to balance the agendas and interests of all stakeholders\u2014students, parents, administrators, central administrators, school board members, community leaders, etc.,\u201d he said.\nRemembering the community from his own youth has helped. \u201cI know a lot of the personnel, students, and parents. Also, having lived here, I know the culture and expectations of the school and city,\u201d Otis said.\n\u201cThe greatest challenge is balancing self, blending personalities, interests, agendas, rules and regulations, and professional ethics while simultaneously keeping student achievement at the forefront,\u201d he said. But the challenge also is a benefit: \u201cNo two days are the same,\u201d he said.\nHe has had an unusual career.\nAfter graduating from the Austin Teacher Program, Richard Matkin \u201974 worked as basketball coach, teacher, bus driver, and director of operations, and this May, was named superintendent of Plano Independent School District.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been at a lot of great places and could have stayed at all of them my whole career, but with the CPA and education background, I was able to get to the highest level,\u201d Richard said.\nThat\u2019s right\u2014he\u2019s also a certified public accountant. After teaching history and math for a few years, he started night school in accounting. His children were young, and his wife, Deborah (White) \u201974, was a stay-at-home mom. Teaching was satisfying, but he hoped accounting would provide a little more stability.\nBut, unexpectedly, after he completed his certification, Richard found himself back in education. \u201cI got the experience out of the way and then I found my way back to schools. I missed the education part, and had the opportunity to get a business manager\u2019s job in Red Oak ISD,\u201d he said.\nRichard joined Plano ISD in 2001 as chief financial officer and head of business finance. In that role, he was responsible for the district\u2019s finances, as well as demographics, facilities, transportation, food, and nutritional services.\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a journey, and I really carved a nice career out of that finance thing. Early in my career, when I came in, there weren\u2019t many CPAs and accounting people in education. As schools started getting more money and more sophistication, they started looking for more CPAs,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat made my career so unique was that I had my master\u2019s in education but the CPA in accounting, so my roots were still back in the classroom. I\u2019m always grounded on what happens in the classroom.\u201d\nHe served as interim superintendent beginning in February, and the school board selected Richard for the top position in April.\n\u201cThe interaction with the community is motivating and stimulating,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s moving forward, for something I see as the highest level of helping society. If a kid doesn\u2019t have an education, he doesn\u2019t have the opportunities that those that are educated have. It\u2019s very gratifying to be able to work at the very top of an organization that is trying to design things to make it better in the classroom.\u201d\n\u201cAt first, I stayed as far away from the ATP as possible.\u201d\nDarcy White Young \u201994 was not interested in classes in which she would see her parents\u2014Drs. John and Jane White, both associate professors of education in the Austin Teacher Program (ATP).\n\u201cI started as a psychology major, but there was a lot more science involved than I had realized. I just wanted to give people advice. \u2026 Why not? At the ripe age of 18, I was quite certain that I was wise beyond my years and would give excellent advice,\u201d she laughs. \u201cAfter abandoning psychology, I threw myself into learning French and planning to be a French major, largely because I imagined living in Paris one day in an adorable flat and eating croissants and making cassoulet. Not exactly a life plan \u2026 and I had no real aptitude for the language.\u201d\nDarcy switched majors again, to English, and \u201ceverything just fell in to place. My interest in working with people and love of reading and writing turned into an interest in sharing that with kids\u2014teaching.\u201d\nBut she took her time getting there. After earning her bachelor\u2019s degree, she moved to Ashland, Oregon, where her brother was acting with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. \u201cI worked in restaurants, substitute taught, and went to as many plays as I could. It was a great time in my life, but intellectually and professionally unfulfilling,\u201d she said.\nShe came back to Sherman and completed her master\u2019s degree in education at Austin College. \u201cI interviewed at a new middle school in McKinney in the hopes of securing an internship for the fall semester that would actually be a year-long contract to teach while earning a salary and finishing my final semester in the ATP,\u201d she said. \u201cI was offered the job during the interview\u2014I think that speaks volumes as to the preparation I received in the ATP.\u201d\nDarcy had only three classes taught by her parents in her five years on campus, but she has become a strong advocate for the program they help to lead.\n\u201cBetween the liberal arts education we all receive as students at Austin College and the experiential learning in the ATP, there are few, if any, gaps in preparing students to become competent teachers,\u201d Darcy said. \u201cATP students are well-grounded in the knowledge of education theories and have a clear notion of their own beliefs before they ever enter a classroom. We also have the humility that a strong liberal arts education provides\u2014we know that we don\u2019t know everything, and that as the world changes and new knowledge is revealed, we must evolve as educators as well.\u201d\nDarcy is now an English teacher at Highland Park High School in Dallas. Though she initially struggled with the idea of following in her parents\u2019 footsteps, she is certain she found her vocation.\n\u201cTo a degree, I think teaching is a calling, and I felt that call,\u201d she said. \u201cThe environment and mission of Austin College develop a sense of responsibility to one\u2019s community and not only a desire to bring change but also the knowledge and skills necessary to do so. Education is such a primal right \u2026 something so crucial should be undertaken with care and competence. I wanted to meet that challenge.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 24875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adifferenttake.org/2017/08/02/story-4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:52Z", "digest": "sha1:4VUMGX4ZIBR25ZD5354OWZRG2OBNG7WJ", "length": 1537, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "adifferenttake.org", "title": "Only Time Can Tell\u2026 \u2013 A Different Take", "raw_content": "It was hard for her to think back to a time when he had actually belonged to her. It felt like another lifetime.\nShe hated that today, she had no choice but to think of him as a third person she didn\u2019t know.\nIt hurt, but she hoped that there was some light at the end of the tunnel. She definitely couldn\u2019t even imagine an outcome that was otherwise.\nThe only thing that kept her going at this point was the hope that he would still be happy.\nMaybe his happy ending wouldn\u2019t be with her.\nMaybe they just weren\u2019t meant together.\nAs much as she wanted to throw the blame on God, she couldn\u2019t. Some part of her still believed that whatever happened, happened for good. She might not be able to see the good out of this specific problem yet, but she hoped that she would some day.\nFor now, all she could do was focus on going strong.\nIt killed her that she couldn\u2019t remember his face as well as she used to. It killed her that he wasn\u2019t in her life anymore. It killed her that he didn\u2019t belong to her anymore.\nBut she was proud of herself.\nBy stepping away, she hoped with all her heart and soul that he would begin to look for happiness elsewhere at least because that was what she wanted. Whatever said and done, she knew that she could never truly be happy with her life unless he was happy with his.\nHer only choice was to hope that he would understand that she needed him to move on.\nOnly time could tell if he would do this for her\u2026\nCategories: Short StoryTags: Happiness in Sadness, Hoping for Good, Keep Going, Moving On, Short Story", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3498, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adifferenttake.org/page/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:46Z", "digest": "sha1:5BDZH7BYWW4OXWUFPHUYQFHO4KPU5IDZ", "length": 1036, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "adifferenttake.org", "title": "A Different Take \u2013 Page 10 \u2013 Life as I see it!", "raw_content": "I looked down at the swimming pool in the backyard. 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[\u2026]\nA huge fan of Vijay ever since I was a little kid, Mersal is right on top of my Top [\u2026]\nWell, I don\u2019t know about everyone else, but I\u2019ve always been a huge fan of the Snow. So yea, I\u2019ve [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 143.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adots.org/go-be-fruitful-multiply-canon-dan-algers-powerful-call-to-a-church-planting-culture-in-adots/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:CUADQGXKR3PSSLNSLNWNIW7R5FZMSIZZ", "length": 2956, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "adots.org", "title": "Go. Be Fruitful. Multiply: Canon Dan Alger\u2019s Powerful Call to a Church-Planting Culture in ADOTS | Anglican Diocese of the South", "raw_content": "\u201cOh, you\u2019re that church planting guy.\u201d\nCanon Dan Alger concedes that this is often how he\u2019s known around the diocese and the province \u2013 and he seems okay with that. As the Canon for Church Planting, he recognizes that the topic is often polarizing, with people skewing either enthusiastic or antagonistic. But what he\u2019s not okay with: an apathetic view of church planting.\n\u201cThis is too important for you to not have a thought on it,\u201d Canon Dan said in his plenary message at the 2017 Synod. \u201cThis is not just something else that we do as the Church; this is one of the most important things that we do as the Church.\u201d\nIn his message, Canon Dan outlines how the entirety of Scripture points us to participating with Him in creating, and walks us through the stories in which God is continually calling us to \u201cgo, be fruitful, and multiply.\u201d When sin enters the world, he points out, what we see instead from humanity is a broken response to that call. \u201cThey still go, but what comes out of their going is ungodly.\u201d\nWhen Jesus tells his disciples, \u2018As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you,\u2019 Canon Dan insists that it\u2019s the same message that it\u2019s always been. \u201c\u2018Go. Be fruitful. Multiply. Fill the earth and subdue it\u2019\u2026 It\u2019s the same plan.\u201d\nSo then, how did the disciples go about doing this work?\n\u201cThey planted churches!\u201d says Canon Dan. \u201cWhat we see in Acts is constantly churches being planted, then the rest of the New Testament are letters to churches that were planted, or to their leaders.\u201d\nHe continues, \u201cWhen we\u2019re talking about mission and church planting, the Church has always been God\u2019s idea. It\u2019s not separate from mission\u2026 The Church being the faithful people of God is the Church on mission.\u201d\nAs we begin a new year, Canon Dan implores the diocese that \u2013 starting now \u2013 church planting needs to become normative and not a rarity.\n\u201cWe have to have a culture of church planting. The ACNA and ADOTS \u2013 we\u2019re new. We\u2019re still very, very new. And we have this small window of time to create a DNA that will shape our institution and our organization and our North American expression of Anglicanism for generations to come. That\u2019s the moment that we\u2019re in right now.\u201d\nAnd to create that culture, Canon Dan says we must hold to the conviction that church planting stems from all of Scripture \u2013 or else it simply won\u2019t happen.\n\u201cChurch planting is hard, it is risky, and it\u2019s scary, and it costs money, and it doesn\u2019t always work,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s inherently risky because it\u2019s on the edges of mission. If we don\u2019t have a conviction for this, we\u2019ll never do it\u2026 We have to hold this conviction that says whether we like it or not, we\u2019re doing it because God has called us to. And that we would be unfaithful if we don\u2019t.\u201d\nListen to Canon Dan\u2019s entire message here\u2026 including common misconceptions about church planting, statistics on church plants and the unchurched, and how church plants influence established churches. Turn up the volume!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aedit.com/provider/samuel-beran-md-183", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:24Z", "digest": "sha1:JU3U6ZJFIF6QTHFDSKVQX3MU6SRUAXQJ", "length": 1640, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "aedit.com", "title": "Dr. Samuel Beran, MD - Provider in New York, NY | Aedit", "raw_content": "Dr. Samuel Beran, MD\nEvery person deserves to feel good about themselves and their appearance, and my goal as a plastic surgeon in Westchester, NY is to help each one of my patients look and feel their very best. Board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS), I am a member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS), and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS). With years of experience and a thorough command of the most advanced techniques and technologies, I consistently provide my patients with the highest level of plastic, cosmetic and reconstructive surgery of the breast, face, skin and body. With offices in Manhattan, White Plains and Valhalla, I offer a private, convenient setting for plastic and cosmetic surgery consultations for the utmost comfort of my patients. A majority of my plastic surgeries are performed at a fully accredited outpatient plastic surgery facility in Harrison, NY. In addition, I am on staff at White Plains Hospital, Northern Westchester Hospital and Lennox Hill Hospital. Many of my cosmetic surgery patients reside outside of the New York area. To make sure their entire cosmetic surgery experience is as positive as possible \u2014 from initial consultation to surgery to follow-up care \u2014 my staff is more than happy to assist with travel accommodations.\nDr. Samuel J Beran MD, FACS166 5th AvenueNew York, NY 10010\nUndergraduate School: Union College (Barbourville, KY)\nResidency: Thomas Jefferson Hospital, UT Southwestern Med Center\nFellowship Hospitals: University Of Texas Southwestern Med School", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 217.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://africaupclose.wilsoncenter.org/chinas-investments-in-africa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:47Z", "digest": "sha1:P6P7F6OYXYOZCEQ57WVXZ7LVGMVWW3TO", "length": 6651, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "africaupclose.wilsoncenter.org", "title": "China\u2019s Investments in Africa | Africa Up Close", "raw_content": "China\u2019s Investments in Africa\nBy leadership project // Tuesday, November 20, 2012\nBy Ambassador David Shinn\nPhoto credits to Graeme Nicol on Flickr Creative Commons\nThere is agreement among those who follow China-Africa relations that state-owned and private Chinese companies have become major investors in Africa over the past 10 years. Even Chinese individuals are investing small amounts in enterprises ranging from restaurants to acupuncture clinics. It is possible that in the past several years, China was the single largest bilateral source of annual foreign direct investment (FDI) in Africa\u2019s 54 countries.\nThere is, however, considerable confusion as to what constitutes Chinese investment in Africa. Many analyses, especially journalistic accounts, conflate investment with multi-billion dollar loans from China to African governments that often use the loans to build infrastructure by Chinese construction companies. These loans tend to go to resource rich countries such as Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ghana and are usually repaid by shipping natural resources to China. These loans are not FDI; they are commercial deals, albeit often with a concessionary loan component. It is important to keep them separate from investment.\nSo how much have Chinese companies and individuals invested in Africa? I have concluded that no one, including no one in China, knows the answer to this question. For that matter, it is not even clear how China defines FDI. China\u2019s Minister of Commerce, Chen Deming, stated in mid-2012 that as of the end of 2011 China\u2019s cumulative FDI in Africa \u201cexceeded $14.7 billion, up 60 percent from 2009.\u201d Also in mid-2012, China\u2019s ambassador to South Africa, Tian Xuejun, in a wide ranging speech on China-Africa relations, said: \u201cChina\u2019s investment in Africa of various kinds exceeds $40 billion, among which $14.7 billion is direct investment.\u201d He did not explain the difference between investment of \u201cvarious kinds\u201d and \u201cdirect investment.\u201d\nMany scholars from China and elsewhere have looked at China\u2019s FDI in Africa. There is no consensus on a total cumulative number except that it is considerably higher than the official figure. When I raised this conundrum early in 2012 in Beijing with a room full of Chinese officials, including one responsible for determining the official figure, he acknowledged the total is based only on FDI reported to the government. He commented that many Chinese invest without government authorization and these figures do not show up in government statistics. In addition, there is no way to ascertain how much Chinese FDI is funneled to Africa through tax shelters like Hong Kong and the Cayman Islands. Ambassador Tian\u2019s undefined $40 billion plus total may well be close to the actual number.\nMore than 2,000 Chinese companies have invested in Africa. Most of the investment has gone into energy, mining, construction and manufacturing. China\u2019s state-owned oil companies are active throughout the continent. The China National Petroleum Corporation, for example, invested up to $6 billion in Sudan\u2019s oil sector. The China Power Investment Corporation plans to invest $6 billion in Guinea\u2019s bauxite and alumina projects. Privately-owned Huawei and publicly-traded ZTE have become the principal telecommunications providers in a number of African countries. While most of their activity is sales, their operations are so large in some countries that they have established huge local offices. Increasingly, Chinese companies are moving into finance, aviation, agriculture and even tourism. In 2007, for example, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China purchased 20 percent of South Africa\u2019s Standard Bank for $5.5 billion. Ever since, China has invested increasingly in the financial sector of African countries.\nThe bulk of China\u2019s FDI has been concentrated in a relatively few countries. Between 2003 and 2007, five countries\u2014Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Algeria and Zambia\u2014accounted for more than 70 percent of China\u2019s FDI. While these countries remain important recipients, others such as Guinea, Ghana, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Ethiopia have joined the list in recent years. In 2010, Ethiopia had, for example, 580 registered Chinese companies operating with estimated investment capital of $2.2 billion. Some of this new FDI is coming thru Chinese special economic and trade cooperation zones. China is working with African counterparts to establish seven of them: two each in Zambia and Nigeria and one in Mauritius, Egypt and Ethiopia.\nChina began to increase significantly its investment in Africa at a time when Western companies, including those in the United States, were drawing back from Africa. China took advantage of opportunities and, to some extent, filled a void left by the West. However, because Western companies began investing in Africa much earlier, their cumulative investments far exceed China\u2019s FDI in Africa. As of the end of 2010, for example, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis calculated that cumulative U.S. FDI in only Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) totaled $54 billion. U.S. FDI flows to SSA in 2010 reached $3.4 billion.\nWe may be witnessing a return to growing U.S. investment in Africa. Early in 2012, for example, Walmart finalized a deal worth more than $2 billion to acquire 51 percent of South Africa\u2019s leading retailer, MassMart. The economic situation in Europe probably precludes in the short-term an increase in FDI flows to Africa. On the other hand, countries such as India, Brazil, Russia and Turkey are stepping up their FDI in Africa and, together with Western companies, will compete with China for the African FDI market.\nThe economic slowdown in China coupled with the arrival of new players in Africa may bring to an end China\u2019s outsized FDI flows to Africa. In addition, China was willing, at least until recently, to take greater investment risks in Africa than most Western companies. Following attacks on Chinese operations in Ethiopia\u2019s Ogaden region, Sudan\u2019s Southern Kordofan region and the need to evacuate 35,000 Chinese workers from Libya, there are signs that China is reassessing the degree of risk it is willing to take in Africa. Nevertheless, China will remain an important source of FDI in Africa for many years to come.\nDavid Shinn is an adjunct professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, co-author of \u201cChina and Africa: A Century of Engagement\u201d, and former US ambassador to Burkina Faso and Ethiopia.\nVisit Amb. Shinn\u2019s blog for the original article here\nTopics: Governance and Emerging Global Challenges, Lessons from the Field", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 10097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aggierealestate.aggienetwork.com/category/uncategorized/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:39Z", "digest": "sha1:HWSCFRQETC4XGFAKKTGUFCRZA4JLJ5DE", "length": 707, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "aggierealestate.aggienetwork.com", "title": "Uncategorized Archives - Aggie Real Estate Network", "raw_content": "February 6, 2019 by Hannah Palmer\nThe Golf Tournament during the 2019 Annual Conference will be held at the Golf Club of Houston! This is home to the PGA Tour's Houston Open, and one of only 11 public courses in the US which host a \u2026 [Read more...]\nJanuary 23, 2019 by Hannah Palmer\nCollege Station Aggies (or those who wish to return)! Come on out for a happy hour with the current MRE students, the AREN Board, and other Bryan/College Station Ags! It will be held at Chimy's on \u2026 [Read more...]\nThe 2019 Annual Conference will be held in Houston from Thursday, July 18, through Saturday, July 20. All professionals working in real estate are invited to attend, and are encouraged to bring \u2026 [Read more...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://agolfersblog.com/home/2017/3/18/gullane-number-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:17Z", "digest": "sha1:S7RHKXBJCJEQP3FMKOO3IGRAB66DI2GW", "length": 7520, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "agolfersblog.com", "title": "Gullane \u2014 A Golfer's Blog", "raw_content": "Gullane offers three courses. The number 1 course is an Open qualifier and has been host to the Scottish Open. Here's a link to their website:\nhttps://www.gullanegolfclub.co.uk\nGolf has been played over the links at Gullane for more than 350 years. Today, Gullane Golf Club is one of Scotland's most prestigious member clubs, mixing the finest tradition with some of the most admired natural links land in the world. Gullane is blessed with superb turf and a climate that allows all year round golf. Visitors are welcome to play our championship courses which offer dramatic coastal views and a golfing challenge to savour.\nLaid out over prime seaside land, the three golf courses are simply known by number reflecting their age. We have 4 flyovers available to view. Click here to view a flyover of all the courses. More information on this can be found in the Courses section of the site.\nGullane No. 1 (1884) has a long history of hosting national and international championship golf events. The Club was delighted to host the 2015 Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open and has also previously hosted Local Final Qualifying for the Open Championship at neighbouring Muirfield. The last time this was held was in 2013.\nGullane No. 2 (1898) was laid out by the legendary Willie Park Jr and has also been used for Open Championship Qualifying as well as the Seniors Open Amateur.\nGullane No. 3 (1910) was also designed by Willie Park Jr. It may be the shortest of the three courses, but it provides a wonderful test based on shot-making skills rather than power.\nI've played at Gullane several times, and love number 1. The third course has many fond memories when I really could not play golf but enjoyed bashing it around on a Sunday morning then meeting the girls for lunch to be followed by a horse ride- hack- and then Chinese at The Loon Fung. A good weekend!\nAt the starters box for a tough opening hole and an even tougher second. Chris W, Kevin Keady and Eric S.\nThe \"new\" Clubhouse at Gullane; there was none of this fancy stuff with a roof and a place to change your shoes in my youth; Gullane Number 3 has lots of memories for me. I had just started working, dating Gill and the lads would go play Gullane number 3 no matter the weather, but had to be a 7am tee off, in order to finish in time to meet the girls for lunch somewhere like Haddington.\nThe perfect day would then roll on to a hack - horse riding to you - and then a Chinese dinner at the Loon Fung in Cannonmills preferably. Awesome, then back to work Monday for a rest!\nLooking back down the ferocious second hole.\nWell, well: controversy at the 2018 Scottish Open!\nEUROPEAN TOURJuly 15, 2018\nIan Poulter responds after Scottish Open marshal calls him an \"arsehole\" and accuses him of verbal abuse\nBy Alex Myers Ian Poulter of England reacts after his par putt on hole two during day two of the Aberdeen Standard Investments Scottish Open at Gullane Golf Course on July 13, 2018.\nIan Poulter complained last month about partisan fans verbally abusing him at the U.S. Open. Over the weekend, a marshal at the Scottish Open took the tour star to task for the same thing.\nA Gullane man named Quintin Jardine, who volunteered at this week's European Tour event, penned a post on his personal blog panning Poulter's behavior and sharing a letter he wrote to the tournament director. Titled \"Ian Poulter is an arsehole,\" Jardine claims the tour pro verbally \"abused\" and displayed \"aggression\" at him after he informed Poulter his tee shot on the first hole had disappeared into a bush.\nJardine also says Poulter was upset that Jardine didn't walk into the bush because if he stepped on the ball as a marshal, Poulter would be entitled to a free drop. Whereas if Poulter stepped on his ball, he'd be penalized. Here's how Jardine ended his letter:\nMy first inclination was to do no more that slaughter Mr Poulter on my blog and Facebook page, but now I feel that I have a duty on behalf of all the other volunteers to bring the incident to the Tour\u2019s attention,\" Jardine wrote. \"I\u2019m not asking for him to be fined, because I don\u2019t see the point of that. However I would like him to be reminded that even though most of the world knows you\u2019re an arsehole, there\u2019s no need to go proving it to the rest. I will take his apology as read, but if he wants to make it in person, I\u2019m not hard to find in Gullane.\nPoulter responded on social media denying any verbal abuse and saying any foul language was directed at himself. In regards to the marshal potentially stepping on his ball, Poulter wrote, \"I replied 'if you stand on it I can replace it without penalty but if I stand on it I will get penalized.'\" Here's Poulter's full statement.\nPoulter wound up finding his ball and getting it back to the fairway on his second shot. He finished the event tied for 30th place, 11 shots behind winner Brandon Stone.\nOne of my better pictures capturing the light and awesomeness of Gullane number 1!\nUPDATE: Jardine has deleted his original post and written another entry titled \"Poulter.\" Here's what Jardine wrote:\nSeems that Mr Poulter has disputed my account of our exchange yesterday. Now I\u2019m having email abuse from pond life and bottom feeders. I don\u2019t need that.\nThe only way I can get rid of it is by deleting the original post. In retrospect I should probably have kept the dispute private, but it\u2019s out of the box now, and I must rely on the Tour to make a judgement.\nMr Poulter has gone public to his two million Twitter followers with his version of events. All I can say is that I stand by mine and at no time did I ever utter the words \u2018OK thanks.\u2019 What I did say was \u2018Vive Les Belges.\u2019 Now I wish I\u2019d said \u2018Come on you Spurs,\u2019 as that really would have pushed his buttons.\nI still hope to hear from him, but I don\u2019t expect to. That won\u2019t bother me, not a bit.\nI never realized Mr Jardine as a golfer nor quite such an outspoken chap, but I loved some of his Bob Skinner novels.\nJardine has written 26 novels featuring senior Edinburgh policeman Bob Skinner:\nSkinner's Rules (1993)[citation needed]\nSkinner's Festival (1994)[citation needed]\nSkinner's Trail (1994)[citation needed]\nSkinner's Round (1995)[citation needed]\nSkinner's Ordeal (1996)[citation needed]\nSkinner's Mission (1997)[citation needed]\nSkinner's Ghosts (1998)[citation needed]\nMurmuring the Judges (1998)[citation needed]\nGallery Whispers (1999)[citation needed]\nThursday Legends (2000)[citation needed]\nAutographs in the Rain (2001)[citation needed]\nHead Shot (2002)[citation needed]\nFallen Gods (2003)[citation needed]\nStay of Execution (2004)[citation needed]\nLethal Intent (2005)[citation needed]\nDead and Buried (2006)[citation needed]\nDeath's Door (2007)[citation needed]\nAftershock (2008)[citation needed]\nFatal Last Words (2009)[citation needed]\nA Rush of Blood (2010)[citation needed]\nGrievous Angel (2011)[citation needed]\nFuneral Note (2012)[citation needed]\nPray for the Dying (2013)[citation needed]\nHour of Darkness (2014)[citation needed]\nThe Last Resort (2015)[citation needed]\nGame Over (2017)[2]\nThis is a description of number 1. The website has more information on each course.\nCourse No. 1 The history of Gullane No. 1 Course stretches back to 1884. Carved into the ancient links turf with pot bunkers, wispy grasses and smooth-running greens the course is a unique challenge for the serious golfer. 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Team Silent and Konami just got everything right about the game. Since that first game there has been a whole flurry of game releases and 2 official movies.\nThere have been fan made films released over the years, but nothing has ever really captured the feel of Silent Hill or actually been watchable for that matter. Nearly 4 years ago however, I caught news that there was another fan film wanting to be made, but to do it, an Indiegogo would be needed. My interest was peaked as this was the first time someone had taken the franchise seriously enough to plow some major financial backing into a movie. A small and relatively unknown film company from right here in the UK calling themselves Zenithfilms was ready to pitch the idea to the public and the fickle fan base with the hope of raising $3,000 to get themselves up and running. Within the time the Indiegogo campaign was active, Gareth Morgan; head of Zenithfilms, smashed through that goal and had to quickly set up stretch goals.\nSo, the initial response from the fans was that they obviously wanted to see a new Silent Hill film, but with little known about the company, this was a huge risk.\nThe filming was completed relatively quickly for the film and all that was left was to piece together all the footage and get it out in the public eye.. not such an easy task, especially when you factor in Morgan\u2019s unique filming style.\nCoupled with moving home and other issues thrown at Morgan, I personally felt that the film would never make it to screen, but he proved that this was a true labour of love and battled through adversity to complete what we now finally have today, something I\u2019m happy to say, I\u2019m glad he did.\nSo, how do I approach my review of this film? Do I review on a pure Silent Hill fan basis? Should I be the actor I am and focus on the stars? Do I leave both of those behind and do a basic movie review?\nWell, I\u2019m going to incorporate each one of those to let you know more about Requiem and I will keep this review as spoiler free as I possibly can.\n\u2018Silent Hill Requiem\u2019 follows the story of the hit video game franchise Silent Hill and sees the return of Silent Hill favourites, including Heather and James, as they are forced to return to the fog filled streets of Silent Hill to put an end to the horrors of the Otherworld once and for all. This of course will not be an easy task and will require them to learn the ancient history of Silent Hill to achieve this.\nImmediately, the first thing you notice about the film is Morgan\u2019s rather unique style when it comes to the look of a movie; something he has stuck with in other short films that he has created in the past. Its hard to describe, but you watch it and you can tell its real people acting, but there is a kind of cartoon feel to it in places. That coupled with the feel of the movie reel being damaged ads to this film in a really positive way. In places I feel there was a little too much of this style happening, but it wasn\u2019t a bad thing. Morgan describes it as Noir themed, but others have used the term \u2018Live Action Animated Movie\u2019. Whatever it is, its clever; very clever, and it works extremely well within the confines of a Silent Hill movie.\nThe opening sequence which Morgan has posted on YouTube draws us straight into the action and left me wanting more, and the whole film follows in the same way, I found myself constantly wanting more. Not to mention lots of nods to the game franchise throughout. If you blink, you can miss them which is why I suggest watching the film over a few times; each time I did I spotted something new. Its not just in the visuals however, there are pieces within the films background audio and that\u2019s before we even get to the amazing soundtrack that accompanies the film.\nThe one thing about Indie films that I always disagree with is the director acting within the film. I have seen and worked on set with people who want all the fame and the end result has been terrible. You should either act or direct, not both. That being said, Morgan has a talent for acting. I could really feel the main character of James Sunderland which was played by Morgan and he pulled it off in fantastic style. So to have him within the film alongside some strong acting ability was great to see. My only complaint was the accent he was using started to annoy me after a while, but if I drank as much bourbon as within the film, I will easily ignore that. I seriously hope that Morgan got Jack Daniels to sponsor him.\nOlwen Davies takes on the role of Heather Cheryl Mason in strong style. This is a woman that I\u2019m sure we will see more of in the future and has no fear in front of the camera in any situation Morgan asked of her. Considering that most of this was obviously filmed in a green screen studio, she really draws you in and makes herself look comfortable within the scenes of the film. She really managed to bring her character to life in a way a lot of people would fall short of.\nThere are a host of other actors within the film, but I would be here all day going into detail on each ones roles and abilities, but there wasn\u2019t a single person that Morgan cast which let any of the others down. They were all great talents who all deserve to progress within the world of acting, even if that is a difficult thing to do in this day and age.\nI want to say so much more about this film, but anything else would class as spoilers and I dont want to do that to anyone. You need to get hold of this film to see it for yourswelf. I was lucky enough to be handed a review copy online by Morgan, but when this is finally released on Blu-Ray I will be first in line to get my hands on a copy to add it to my Silent Hill collection.\nFor me, Gareth Morgan and Zenithfilms have made a Silent Hill film which can stand alongside a big budget film if not overshadow them (yes, we all know that Revelations is a love/hate movie).\nIf you do get the chance to watch, watch it to the end and beyond the credits. As all film makers seem to do lately, there is a teaser before the credits that there could be a followup film possibility. If you watch beyond the credits Morgan treats us to his next project, Silent Hill Lazarus, which has already started an Indiegogo page. This will be a 12 part web series which I am seriously interested in seeing. I didn\u2019t back Requiem for the simple reason that although I believed in the idea of the film, I couldn\u2019t be sure it would be released. I have seen others try to start a project in the same time as Morgan and they have all seemed to dissapear. I will be backing the web series however and urge you all to as well.\nFor me, I can easily give Requiem a solid 8/10. 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(AP Photo/Luis Hidalgo)\nSebastian Pi\u00f1era won the Chilean presidential election on Sunday. The billionaire conservative candidate defeated Alejandro Guillier, promising to push economic growth.\nCGTN\u2019s Joel Richards reports on another country in South America shifting from the left to the right.\nAfter a widely split vote in the first round, Chile decided to go with the candidate it knows best. Pi\u00f1era won a strong mandate for a second term in office, taking 54 percent of the vote.\n\u201cIn these elections, the candidates were not the most important. The most important people were you: your families, our country, and the future of Chile,\u201d Pi\u00f1era said.\nDuring the campaign, Pi\u00f1era promised a future that is more pro-business with a stronger economy. He also pledged to address faults in the pension and education systems, while reviewing sensitive social policies.\nCenter-left candidate Alejandro Guillier said that while he would continue the social reforms of Michelle Bachelet, he accepted defeat and called for a change in how the political class operates.\n\u201cWe have to work to renew our leadership, how we do politics,\u201d the defeated candidate said. \u201cWe must open up to the social movements, listen to the citizens more, leave the palace and go to community meetings, to union meetings. We must travel the country and talk to people\u201d\nOutgoing president Bachelet pursued a socially-progressive agenda that included loosening laws on abortion and education reform. From the left, Bachelet was criticized for not going far enough, while from the right, critics said those reforms scared off private investment.\nChanges to Chile\u2019s electoral system mean that many minority parties won seats in Congress in these elections, meaning Pi\u00f1era will need strong negotiating skills to move forward with his pro-business agenda. But his victory does fit in the broader narrative of the political shift in Latin America.\nChile, like the region, is moving to the right after a series of leftist governments.\n\u201cYou have a dispute in Latin America. It is still not resolved,\u201d according to journalist and analyst Pedro Brieger. \u201cIn the 70s you had mainly dictatorships, in the 80s recovering from dictatorships and building democracy, in the 90s you had neoliberal policies \u2013 in big trends I\u2019m speaking about. And in this new century you had the arrival of popular movements who tried to build a post-neoliberal era. That\u2019s not easy.\u201d\nPi\u00f1era will take office for a second term as president in March 2018. It will be a year in which major regional economies Mexico, Brazil and Colombia also hold presidential elections.\nMichael Shifter discusses Pinera\u2019s election victory in Chile\nChile looked to the past to pick its future leader. Former President Sebastian Pinera is the projected winner of a presidential runoff election. With nearly all the votes counted, his challenger Alejandro Guillier conceded and congratulated the conservative billionaire on his victory. Michael Shifter, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, discusses with CGTN\u2019s Susan Roberts.\nRamaphosa wins narrow vote to become head of S. 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Here goes:\nAs soon as I learned I was pregnant with twins, I started researching like crazy\u2013about the birth among countless other things. It seemed like in Denmark at least the protocol was that women carrying twins that share a placenta (as mine did) were generally induced/had a caesarean section planned for 38 weeks, as this type of pregnancy carries more risk than a singleton or fraternal twin pregnancy. Most hospitals recommend a vaginal birth if at least the leading twin is head-down, and there are no other complications. If the leading twin was breech, or there were other risk factors, a c-section was the recommendation.\nFor most of my pregnancy, I felt a bit in limbo, as I didn\u2019t really know which type of birth I should be preparing for. Finally, towards the end, it seemed that baby A was the leading twin, and both were head-down, so I was all set for a vaginal birth.\nWith my first pregnancy, I was induced at 42 weeks, so I wasn\u2019t holding out much hope of going into labor on my own, even carrying twins (who are usually born early) although I have to admit, I was hoping a bit. The experience of going into labor is one I had always looked forward to.\nHowever, the weeks passed, and I finally reached the date of my induction, which, coincidentally was also my birthday! We had left Theo with his cousins the night before, and walked into the hospital bright and early at 7:45.\nI was checked (four centimeters, and completely effaced\u2013hooray!), was put on monitors for a half an hour, and then was told to sit tight in the waiting room, as there would likely open up a room in the labor ward sometime that morning.\nHours passed, we took a walk around the hospital grounds (finding a four leaf clover!), and had coffee and ice cream at the hospital cafe.\nFinally, around 2 pm when no labor room had opened up decided to hang out at the campgrounds nearby with Andreas\u2019s parents who had come to meet the baby girls when they were born.\nAs a few more hours passed, we decided that 8 pm would be our cut-off. I didn\u2019t want to start an induction being already exhausted, so as no room opened by 8, we decided to stay in a little hut at the campgrounds rather than returning home for the night, with instructions to call again in the morning. I guess the girls just weren\u2019t destined to share my birthday.\nLuckily, after a night of traipsing up to the communal toilets several times, they told us to come in at 8 am, so Andreas\u2019s dad drove us to the hospital! They did the monitoring again as soon as I got there, and everything still looked great. Then we got a room right away (hooray!), I was checked (5 centimeters this time) and they broke my water at 9:30 to try to get things going, with an agreement to start pitocin if things didn\u2019t start on their own by 11:30. Nothing happened, so after some yummy brunch at 11, they started pitocin (and strapped on those irritating monitors and put a port in my hand) at 11:30 and contractions started. I rested through the first hour or so, and as the contractions grew stronger, I moved to the birthing ball, or stood and hung onto Andreas through contractions.\nOne funny thing\u2013I had just read the book The Reluctant Midwife, in which one woman in labor sang through her contractions, so I thought I would try, since I like to sing. I ended up more humming than singing, but it helped me so, so much to get through each contraction. Only a couple of times, I faltered when I couldn\u2019t think of a song quickly enough, and those contractions were much harder to get through.\nAfter a few hours, the midwives started noticing me making \u201cpushy\u201d noises, although I didn\u2019t really register it myself. They asked me to come up on the bed. They checked me and I was at an eight. Contractions were more difficult on the bed, and I can\u2019t really remember why I didn\u2019t get back up\u2026maybe because they said I might be pushing soon? I started using gas and air at this point, which really did help take the edge off, although it did make me \u201cfeel funny\u201d as I couldn\u2019t stop telling Andreas, haha! The midwives had a shift change around here as well, which was a bit disappointing. I really loved the midwives I had (one midwife and one student midwife) and I think I would have done better towards the end and during pushing if they had still been with me.\nAfter a while of not much happening, the midwife suggested I get up on my knees and lean against the back of the bed, which I did. Here, things start getting a little fuzzy. I started to lose control a bit. Contractions were coming really, really fast, and they turned off the pitocin completely, but not before I was saying \u201cI think an epidural is a good idea. Yes. Let\u2019s do that.\u201d They told me they would check me again at 5 pm (it was about 4:30 when I changed position) and we could talk about it then. Things started getting very, very painful, and at about 4:45 they said they would check me again, but as I was going from my knees to laying on the bed, my body did a HUGE push, and I think Oona was *right there.*\nThey called all of the extra people into the room\u2013the head midwife, a doctor and student doctor, two pediatricians, a couple of anaesthesiologists, etc. My body was doing its own thing at this point, and quite honestly I was sort of freaking out. It was all happening so fast, and I had never had a natural birth before! I remember feeling really annoyed, because it felt like the midwife was trying to push the baby back in, and I was trying to push her out, while really she was supporting my perineum, trying to prevent tearing. They invited me to feel the baby\u2019s head, and I reached down, expecting to feel her just starting to crown, but I felt her head about halfway out, and \u201cHoly shit!\u201d flew out of my mouth. Oona arrived at 4:58 pm, and they tried to put her on my chest, but quickly whisked her away, as one of the midwives had to get a death grip on Beatrix in my belly to keep her from somersaulting her way into a breech position.\nI was equally annoyed at everyone as I pushed Beatrix out\u2013she arrived at 5:09, and she came up on my chest for a few minutes so I could admire her, as purply-whitish as she was.\nHowever, they were quite anxious to get the placenta out, as I had some retained placenta after my first birth which caused me to bleed. They upped the pitocin to max, and had me pushing\u2013I remember it was stuck about halfway out, and\u2013guys, that thing was HUGE. I never got to see it all the way, but halfway was enough. (I have a picture of this, but I will graciously not post it here.)\nThe placenta came out in one piece, but I was still bleeding a LOT\u2013my uterus had been so stretched that it couldn\u2019t shrink down on its own, so while one midwife or nurse or someone smashed my stomach down, the doctor was (what felt like) shoving sponges inside. This was 100% the most painful time. They started to wheel me away, and I remember telling Andreas it would be okay, but I was terrified. I became more and more frantic as I was wheeled down the hall to an operating room. I remember they had an oxygen mask on me, and I felt like I couldn\u2019t breath at all\u2013I was flailing and screaming, asking to go to sleep. I thought I might die. Eventually they were able to put me under, get the bleeding under control, and give me a few portions of blood.\nI started to come to, but it took a lot of tries before I could open my eyes. When I finally did, Andreas was just arriving\u2013he told me the girls were fine and offered to show me a picture, but I didn\u2019t want the first time I saw them to be a picture, so I decided to wait. Finally, about four hours after they were born, I was wheeled into the girls\u2019 room in the neonatal unit and saw them for the first time.\nOona had had a C-pap for a little while after she was born, as she had inhaled a bit of amniotic fluid, and they both had a feeding tube, as the staff didn\u2019t know when I would be able to come and nurse them.\nOona\u2019s C-pap was off before I even got there, and the girls both pulled out their feedings tubes in the course of the night, and we were moved to the mother-and-baby unit in the morning where we stayed for a few days to get breastfeeding going and recover a bit more. Our time staying at the hospital was nice (when isn\u2019t it nice to not have to cook any meals?!) and we got to show the girls off to Andreas\u2019s family and to Theodore, who we missed so much while we were away.\nThe girls were born on a Tuesday, and we were on our way home Friday morning.\n4 thoughts on \u201cThe Twins\u2019 Birth Story \u2013 Beatrix and Oona\u201d\nOh man, that sounded scary for a minute there! But looks like everything worked out well in the end. \ud83d\ude42 That camping cabin was super cute. Lucky it was nearby! How has it been taking care of two babies compared to when you just had one?\nI always love to tell my dad\u2019s birth story. My family is Native American, and they lived at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River before it was flooded by a dam. A lot of Native Americans gathered there to fish. They lived in a little trailer and were too poor to go to the hospital often, or maybe at all. My grandpa was delivered my dad and thought that everything had gone well. He was holding my dad, and suddenly my grandma was screaming, \u201cThere\u2019s another one!\u201d She hadn\u2019t known that she was pregnant with twins! So my grandpa set my dad down in the sink and delivered my aunt Joleen. Thought you could appreciate that story. \ud83d\ude42\nI\u2019m sorry I haven\u2019t replied before now, but what an amazing story!! For me, it was surprise enough when I found out at 14 weeks, I couldn\u2019t imagine finding out at the birth!!!\nIt is definitely a lot more work with two babies compared to one, but also a lot of fun, and I think the older they get the more fun it will be!\u2014I feel very lucky!\nSo glad it all worked out but it sounds so stressfull!!\nIt was, but actually what I remember most when I look back on it are the good parts!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 12579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanliterature.com/author/upton-sinclair/book/the-jungle/chapter-13", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:57Z", "digest": "sha1:S3QMLWLCPK6QKPZFY2EI2BLLKBJS7WKP", "length": 18897, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "americanliterature.com", "title": "The Jungle - Chapter 13", "raw_content": "During this time that Jurgis was looking for work occurred the death of little Kristoforas, one of the children of Teta Elzbieta. Both Kristoforas and his brother, Juozapas, were cripples, the latter having lost one leg by having it run over, and Kristoforas having congenital dislocation of the hip, which made it impossible for him ever to walk. He was the last of Teta Elzbieta's children, and perhaps he had been intended by nature to let her know that she had had enough. At any rate he was wretchedly sick and undersized; he had the rickets, and though he was over three years old, he was no bigger than an ordinary child of one. All day long he would crawl around the floor in a filthy little dress, whining and fretting; because the floor was full of drafts he was always catching cold, and snuffling because his nose ran. This made him a nuisance, and a source of endless trouble in the family. For his mother, with unnatural perversity, loved him best of all her children, and made a perpetual fuss over him--would let him do anything undisturbed, and would burst into tears when his fretting drove Jurgis wild.\nAnd now he died. Perhaps it was the smoked sausage he had eaten that morning--which may have been made out of some of the tubercular pork that was condemncd as unfit for export. At any rate, an hour after eating it, the child had begun to cry with pain, and in another hour he was rolling about on the floor in convulsions. Little Kotrina, who was all alone with him, ran out screaming for help, and after a while a doctor came, but not until Kristoforas had howled his last howl. No one was really sorry about this except poor Elzbieta, who was inconsolable. Jurgis announced that so far as he was concerned the child would have to be buried by the city, since they had no money for a funeral; and at this the poor woman almost went out of her senses, wringing her hands and screaming with grief and despair. Her child to be buried in a pauper's grave! And her stepdaughter to stand by and hear it said without protesting! It was enough to make Ona's father rise up out of his grave to rebuke her! If it had come to this, they might as well give up at once, and be buried all of them together!. . . In the end Marija said that she would help with ten dollars; and Jurgis being still obdurate, Elzbieta went in tears and begged the money from the neighbors, and so little Kristoforas had a mass and a hearse with white plumes on it, and a tiny plot in a graveyard with a wooden cross to mark the place. The poor mother was not the same for months after that; the mere sight of the floor where little Kristoforas had crawled about would make her weep. He had never had a fair chance, poor little fellow, she would say. He had been handicapped from his birth. If only she had heard about it in time, so that she might have had that great doctor to cure him of his lameness!. . . Some time ago, Elzbieta was told, a Chicago billionaire had paid a fortune to bring a great European surgeon over to cure his little daughter of the same disease from which Kristoforas had suffered. And because this surgeon had to have bodies to demonstrate upon, he announced that he would treat the children of the poor, a piece of magnanimity over which the papers became quite eloquent. Elzbieta, alas, did not read the papers, and no one had told her; but perhaps it was as well, for just then they would not have had the carfare to spare to go every day to wait upon the surgeon, nor for that matter anybody with the time to take the child.\nAll this while that he was seeking for work, there was a dark shadow hanging over Jurgis; as if a savage beast were lurking somewhere in the pathway of his life, and he knew it, and yet could not help approaching the place. There are all stages of being out of work in Packingtown, and he faced in dread the prospect of reaching the lowest. There is a place that waits for the lowest man--the fertilizer plant!\nThe men would talk about it in awe-stricken whispers. Not more than one in ten had ever really tried it; the other nine had contented themselves with hearsay evidence and a peep through the door. There were some things worse than even starving to death. They would ask Jurgis if he had worked there yet, and if he meant to; and Jurgis would debate the matter with himself. As poor as they were, and making all the sacrifices that they were, would he dare to refuse any sort of work that was offered to him, be it as horrible as ever it could? Would he dare to go home and eat bread that had been earned by Ona, weak and complaining as she was, knowing that he had been given a chance, and had not had the nerve to take it?--And yet he might argue that way with himself all day, and one glimpse into the fertilizer works would send him away again shuddering. He was a man, and he would do his duty; he went and made application--but surely he was not also required to hope for success!\nThe fertilizer works of Durham's lay away from the rest of the plant. Few visitors ever saw them, and the few who did would come out looking like Dante, of whom the peasants declared that he had been into hell. To this part of the yards came all the \"tankage\" and the waste products of all sorts; here they dried out the bones,--and in suffocating cellars where the daylight never came you might see men and women and children bending over whirling machines and sawing bits of bone into all sorts of shapes, breathing their lungs full of the fine dust, and doomed to die, every one of them, within a certain definite time. Here they made the blood into albumen, and made other foul-smelling things into things still more foul-smelling. In the corridors and caverns where it was done you might lose yourself as in the great caves of Kentucky. In the dust and the steam the electric lights would shine like far-off twinkling stars--red and blue-green and purple stars, according to the color of the mist and the brew from which it came. For the odors of these ghastly charnel houses there may be words in Lithuanian, but there are none in English. The person entering would have to summon his courage as for a cold-water plunge. He would go in like a man swimming under water; he would put his handkerchief over his face, and begin to cough and choke; and then, if he were still obstinate, he would find his head beginning to ring, and the veins in his forehead to throb, until finally he would be assailed by an overpowering blast of ammonia fumes, and would turn and run for his life, and come out half-dazed.\nOn top of this were the rooms where they dried the \"tankage,\" the mass of brown stringy stuff that was left after the waste portions of the carcasses had had the lard and tallow dried out of them. This dried material they would then grind to a fine powder, and after they had mixed it up well with a mysterious but inoffensive brown rock which they brought in and ground up by the hundreds of carloads for that purpose, the substance was ready to be put into bags and sent out to the world as any one of a hundred different brands of standard bone phosphate. And then the farmer in Maine or California or Texas would buy this, at say twenty-five dollars a ton, and plant it with his corn; and for several days after the operation the fields would have a strong odor, and the farmer and his wagon and the very horses that had hauled it would all have it too. In Packingtown the fertilizer is pure, instead of being a flavoring, and instead of a ton or so spread out on several acres under the open sky, there are hundreds and thousands of tons of it in one building, heaped here and there in haystack piles, covering the floor several inches deep, and filling the air with a choking dust that becomes a blinding sandstorm when the wind stirs.\nIt was to this building that Jurgis came daily, as if dragged by an unseen hand. The month of May was an exceptionally cool one, and his secret prayers were granted; but early in June there came a record-breaking hot spell, and after that there were men wanted in the fertilizer mill.\nThe boss of the grinding room had come to know Jurgis by this time, and had marked him for a likely man; and so when he came to the door about two o'clock this breathless hot day, he felt a sudden spasm of pain shoot through him--the boss beckoned to him! In ten minutes more Jurgis had pulled off his coat and overshirt, and set his teeth together and gone to work. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer!\nHis labor took him about one minute to learn. Before him was one of the vents of the mill in which the fertilizer was being ground-- rushing forth in a great brown river, with a spray of the finest dust flung forth in clouds. Jurgis was given a shovel, and along with half a dozen others it was his task to shovel this fertilizer into carts. That others were at work he knew by the sound, and by the fact that he sometimes collided with them; otherwise they might as well not have been there, for in the blinding dust storm a man could not see six feet in front of his face. When he had filled one cart he had to grope around him until another came, and if there was none on hand he continued to grope till one arrived. In five minutes he was, of course, a mass of fertilizer from head to feet; they gave him a sponge to tie over his mouth, so that he could breathe, but the sponge did not prevent his lips and eyelids from caking up with it and his ears from filling solid. He looked like a brown ghost at twilight--from hair to shoes he became the color of the building and of everything in it, and for that matter a hundred yards outside it. The building had to be left open, and when the wind blew Durham and Company lost a great deal of fertilizer.\nWorking in his shirt sleeves, and with the thermometer at over a hundred, the phosphates soaked in through every pore of Jurgis' skin, and in five minutes he had a headache, and in fifteen was almost dazed. The blood was pounding in his brain like an engine's throbbing; there was a frightful pain in the top of his skull, and he could hardly control his hands. Still, with the memory of his four months' siege behind him, he fought on, in a frenzy of determination; and half an hour later he began to vomit--he vomited until it seemed as if his inwards must be torn into shreds. A man could get used to the fertilizer mill, the boss had said, if he would make up his mind to it; but Jurgis now began to see that it was a question of making up his stomach.\nAt the end of that day of horror, he could scarcely stand. He had to catch himself now and then, and lean against a building and get his bearings. Most of the men, when they came out, made straight for a saloon--they seemed to place fertilizer and rattlesnake poison in one class. But Jurgis was too ill to think of drinking--he could only make his way to the street and stagger on to a car. He had a sense of humor, and later on, when he became an old hand, he used to think it fun to board a streetcar and see what happened. Now, however, he was too ill to notice it--how the people in the car began to gasp and sputter, to put their handkerchiefs to their noses, and transfix him with furious glances. Jurgis only knew that a man in front of him immediately got up and gave him a seat; and that half a minute later the two people on each side of him got up; and that in a full minute the crowded car was nearly empty--those passengers who could not get room on the platform having gotten out to walk.\nOf course Jurgis had made his home a miniature fertilizer mill a minute after entering. The stuff was half an inch deep in his skin-- his whole system was full of it, and it would have taken a week not merely of scrubbing, but of vigorous exercise, to get it out of him. As it was, he could be compared with nothing known to men, save that newest discovery of the savants, a substance which emits energy for an unlimited time, without being itself in the least diminished in power. He smelled so that he made all the food at the table taste, and set the whole family to vomiting; for himself it was three days before he could keep anything upon his stomach--he might wash his hands, and use a knife and fork, but were not his mouth and throat filled with the poison?\nAnd still Jurgis stuck it out! In spite of splitting headaches he would stagger down to the plant and take up his stand once more, and begin to shovel in the blinding clouds of dust. And so at the end of the week he was a fertilizer man for life--he was able to eat again, and though his head never stopped aching, it ceased to be so bad that he could not work.\nSo there passed another summer. It was a summer of prosperity, all over the country, and the country ate generously of packing house products, and there was plenty of work for all the family, in spite of the packers' efforts to keep a superfluity of labor. They were again able to pay their debts and to begin to save a little sum; but there were one or two sacrifices they considered too heavy to be made for long--it was too bad that the boys should have to sell papers at their age. It was utterly useless to caution them and plead with them; quite without knowing it, they were taking on the tone of their new environment. They were learning to swear in voluble English; they were learning to pick up cigar stumps and smoke them, to pass hours of their time gambling with pennies and dice and cigarette cards; they were learning the location of all the houses of prostitution on the \"Levee,\" and the names of the \"madames\" who kept them, and the days when they gave their state banquets, which the police captains and the big politicians all attended. If a visiting \"country customer\" were to ask them, they could show him which was \"Hinkydink's\" famous saloon, and could even point out to him by name the different gamblers and thugs and \"hold-up men\" who made the place their headquarters. And worse yet, the boys were getting out of the habit of coming home at night. What was the use, they would ask, of wasting time and energy and a possible carfare riding out to the stockyards every night when the weather was pleasant and they could crawl under a truck or into an empty doorway and sleep exactly as well? So long as they brought home a half dollar for each day, what mattered it when they brought it? But Jurgis declared that from this to ceasing to come at all would not be a very long step, and so it was decided that Vilimas and Nikalojus should return to school in the fall, and that instead Elzbieta should go out and get some work, her place at home being taken by her younger daughter.\nLittle Kotrina was like most children of the poor, prematurely made old; she had to take care of her little brother, who was a cripple, and also of the baby; she had to cook the meals and wash the dishes and clean house, and have supper ready when the workers came home in the evening. She was only thirteen, and small for her age, but she did all this without a murmur; and her mother went out, and after trudging a couple of days about the yards, settled down as a servant of a \"sausage machine.\"\nElzbieta was used to working, but she found this change a hard one, for the reason that she had to stand motionless upon her feet from seven o'clock in the morning till half-past twelve, and again from one till half-past five. For the first few days it seemed to her that she could not stand it--she suffered almost as much as Jurgis had from the fertilizer, and would come out at sundown with her head fairly reeling. Besides this, she was working in one of the dark holes, by electric light, and the dampness, too, was deadly--there were always puddles of water on the floor, and a sickening odor of moist flesh in the room. The people who worked here followed the ancient custom of nature, whereby the ptarmigan is the color of dead leaves in the fall and of snow in the winter, and the chameleon, who is black when he lies upon a stump and turns green when he moves to a leaf. The men and women who worked in this department were precisely the color of the \"fresh country sausage\" they made.\nThe sausage-room was an interesting place to visit, for two or three minutes, and provided that you did not look at the people; the machines were perhaps the most wonderful things in the entire plant. Presumably sausages were once chopped and stuffed by hand, and if so it would be interesting to know how many workers had been displaced by these inventions. On one side of the room were the hoppers, into which men shoveled loads of meat and wheelbarrows full of spices; in these great bowls were whirling knives that made two thousand revolutions a minute, and when the meat was ground fine and adulterated with potato flour, and well mixed with water, it was forced to the stuffing machines on the other side of the room. The latter were tended by women; there was a sort of spout, like the nozzle of a hose, and one of the women would take a long string of \"casing\" and put the end over the nozzle and then work the whole thing on, as one works on the finger of a tight glove. This string would be twenty or thirty feet long, but the woman would have it all on in a jiffy; and when she had several on, she would press a lever, and a stream of sausage meat would be shot out, taking the casing with it as it came. Thus one might stand and see appear, miraculously born from the machine, a wriggling snake of sausage of incredible length. In front was a big pan which caught these creatures, and two more women who seized them as fast as they appeared and twisted them into links. This was for the uninitiated the most perplexing work of all; for all that the woman had to give was a single turn of the wrist; and in some way she contrived to give it so that instead of an endless chain of sausages, one after another, there grew under her hands a bunch of strings, all dangling from a single center. It was quite like the feat of a prestidigitator--for the woman worked so fast that the eye could literally not follow her, and there was only a mist of motion, and tangle after tangle of sausages appearing. In the midst of the mist, however, the visitor would suddenly notice the tense set face, with the two wrinkles graven in the forehead, and the ghastly pallor of the cheeks; and then he would suddenly recollect that it was time he was going on. The woman did not go on; she stayed right there--hour after hour, day after day, year after year, twisting sausage links and racing with death. It was piecework, and she was apt to have a family to keep alive; and stern and ruthless economic laws had arranged it that she could only do this by working just as she did, with all her soul upon her work, and with never an instant for a glance at the well-dressed ladies and gentlemen who came to stare at her, as at some wild beast in a menagerie.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 22077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amphibiaweb.org/species/63", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:01Z", "digest": "sha1:KYHTPXQDOFGT4DEBK3HC2TELCYQ3E3XT", "length": 2760, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "amphibiaweb.org", "title": "AmphibiaWeb - Atelopus mucubajiensis", "raw_content": "Atelopus mucubajiensis\n\u00a9 2008 Enrique La Marca (1 of 1)\nThis species has a very restricted distribution of only a few square kilometres at the type locality, in the P\u00e1ramo de Mucubaj\u00ed, in the Sierra de Santo Domingo, Venezuelan Andes. It has an altitudinal range of 2,300-3,500m asl.\nThis species is an inhabitant of p\u00e1ramo and cloud forest, the highest environments in the Venezuelan Andes, resembling alpine tundra, but with daily temperature extremes. It is usually found within grasses and frailejones (Espeletia spp.), and along streams. It probably lives in the shrubs of the sub-p\u00e1ramo environment. It is photophilic and lays egg chains in streams, where the tadpoles also develop.\nIt is a very rare species. This is the only Venezuelan Andean amphibian for which an ongoing population monitoring programme exists. The population seems to have experienced a drastic decline in the last 15 years or so, to the point that no individuals of this species were recorded since 1993 (adults) or 1994 (larvae), until recent surveys confirmed that a few individuals (a total of 23 encountered) continue to survive in the wild (Barrio-Amor\u00f3s 2004).\nBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection was confirmed for this species in two different studies (Lampo et al. 2006a, 2006b). Introduced trout, introduced conifers, fires caused by humans, over collection, and agriculture and infrastructure development for human settlement are all major threats. Severe dry periods have been associated to the declines experienced in populations of Atelopus mucubajiensis. (Lampo et al. 2006; Santiago-Paredes and La Marca 2006). The extreme dry events are thought to have favoured the infection and propagation of chytridiomycosis, which, in synergy with other factors, could be held responsible for the observed population declines.\nMost of the range of this species is within the Parque Nacional Sierra Nevada. A new monitoring project for this species was recently begun (www.andigena.org). In view of the threat of chytridiomycosis, an ex-situ population might need to be established.\nListed as Critically Endangered because of a drastic population decline, estimated to be more than 80% over the last ten years, inferred from the apparent disappearance of most of the population (probably due to chytridiomycosis); and because its Area of Occupancy is less than 10 km2, all individuals are in a single location, and there is continuing decline in the number of mature individuals.\nEnrique La Marca, Suleima Santiago, Stefan L\u00f6tters, Juan El\u00edas Garc\u00eda-P\u00e9rez, C\u00e9sar Luis Barrio Amor\u00f3s 2010. Atelopus mucubajiensis. 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This municipal-owned sewer system serves approximately 1,800 customers, most of whom already receive water service from New Jersey American Water. For additional information click here.\nIndiana American Water Acquires Sheridan Water and Wastewater Systems in Central Indiana\nIndiana American Water President Deborah Dewey today announced the company\u2019s acquisition of the Town of Sheridan\u2019s water and wastewater systems in central Indiana. The purchase of the system adds more than 2,500 water and wastewater customers to the company\u2019s customer base, which represents a population of more than 3,000 residents. For additional information click here.\nNew Jersey American Water Signs Agreement to Purchase Roxbury Water Company\nNew Jersey American Water announced it has signed an agreement to acquire the Roxbury Water Company , a family-owned and operated water utility that provides service to nearly 3,900 customer accounts in Morris County, N.J. For additional information click here.\nPennsylvaina American Water Agrees To Acquire Municipal Water, Wastewater System in Northumberland County\nPennsylvania American Water announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the water and wastewater systems of Turbotville Borough in Northumberland County. The purchase price of approximately $1 million includes acquiring the water assets of the Municipal Authority of the Borough of Turbotville and wastewater assets from the Borough of Turbotville. The water system serves approximately 320 customers in the Borough and a portion of Lewis Township, while the wastewater system provides service to approximately 290 customers in Turbotville. For more information click here.\nPENNSYLVANIA AMERICAN WATER AGREES TO ACQUIRE MUNICIPAL WATER, WASTEWATER SYSTEM IN NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY\nPennsylvania American Water announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire the water and wastewater systems of Turbotville Borough in Northumberland County. The purchase price of approximately $1 million includes acquiring the water assets of the Municipal Authority of the Borough of Turbotville and wastewater assets from the Borough of Turbotville. The water system serves approximately 320 customers in the Borough and a portion of Lewis Township, while the wastewater system provides service to approximately 290 customers in Turbotville. For more information click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 7526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 239.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://andertoons.com/valentines/cartoon/8061/what-can-i-say-im-a-romantic", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:00Z", "digest": "sha1:IGERFHDWGWIBQINAVVLCFZBA3IQMCEA2", "length": 31, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "andertoons.com", "title": "Valentines Cartoon # 8061 - ANDERTOONS", "raw_content": "What can I say? I'm a romantic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 1998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 68.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://andertoons.com/vision/cartoon/8282/say-when-was-the-last-time-you-saw-an-optometrist", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5PU4CVAR77BFLHHDEQGZUCW4FAWUQ3ES", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "andertoons.com", "title": "Vision Cartoon # 8282 - ANDERTOONS", "raw_content": "Say, when was the last time you saw an optometrist?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 2046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://andyscoggin.com/2011/12/31/rapid-redux-goes-for-22nd-still-eligible-for-starter-allowance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:09Z", "digest": "sha1:PRHJR3IDDHXJF5INYFZAZS67F4FRVMK6", "length": 3568, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "andyscoggin.com", "title": "Rapid Redux Goes for 22nd, Still Eligible for Starter Allowance | AndyScoggin in NJ", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Best of AndyScoggin\n2011 Eclipse Award Picks From the Jersey Shore \u2192\nAs of January 1, 2012, Rapid Redux was supposed to have used up his eligibility for the $5,000 starter allowance races. In 2011, Fifteen of his 19 races were run in that condition, which was for horses that \u201cstarted for a claiming price of $5,000 or less in 2010-2011\u201d. Rapid Redux ran for the $5,000 tag on August 13, 2010, at Monmouth Park. When the year changed, the conditions for the starter allowance switch to have \u201cstarted for a claiming price of $5,000 or less in 2011-2012\u201d. That switch would make him ineligible.\nApparently since tracks published a condition book towards the end of 2011 that carried into 2012, they were able to write the starter allowances for which Rapid Redux still would have eligibility in 2012. Owner Robert Cole was able to search the condition books to the benefit of Rapid Redux, \u201cI found five starter allowance races east of the Mississippi that he is eligible to run in. It is conceivable to have one or two more starts after this one because there are already races written in condition books that accommodate his date.\u201d\nOn Wednesday, January 4th, the now six year-old Rapid Redux will go for his 22nd consecutive victory in the 6th race at Laurel. Post time is 2:56 pm ET. The one turn mile starter allowance drew 10 horses but two have already scratched including the eleven year-old Delaware River, a multiple stakes winner of $702,000. Jockey JD Acosta will be riding Rapid Redux for the 6th time in past seven races.\nA fast track is likely as the weather forecast for race day is for sunny skies and temperatures in the 30\u2019s.\nHere is the field:\nAWESOME RHYTHM finished a strong second, a half length behind Rapid Redux in their most recent 13Dec11 mile and a sixteenth race. Before that he finished second in a similar race. His three most recent Beyer Speed Figures (BSF) are: 83, 78, and 75.\nNINTH CLIENT is the second half of a John Rigaltieri trained entry. The six year-old won $65,189 in 2011 with two wins. His last three races have been in NW1 allowances showing a second and two fourth place finishes. His most recent win was on 17Aug11 at Del. BSF: 80, 78, 77.\nGOLD CASING has won his last two races at Laurel for claiming tags of $7,000 and $4,750 N2Y. His come from behind running style produced 4 wins from 15 starts in 2011. BSF: 77, 76, 60.\nRAPID REDUX has now won $351,919 in his career of 41 starts with finishes of 27-1-1. In the current 21 race win streak, five of the victories have been at today\u2019s distance of one mile. BSF: 84, 83, 85, 89, 87, 85.\nGRUNWALD won his most recent race at Laurel on 17Dec11 going seven furlongs in an $8,000 starter allowance. Another off the pace runner, he finished second on 8Dec11 in a mile and a sixteenth $5,000 beaten claiming race. Before that he veered in and lost his rider. BSF: 74, 64, X.\nSARGE\u2019S just came back on 2Dec11 from a five month layoff to finish fourth in $5,000 starter allowance. During the summer the five year grey gelding had two second place finishes at Del. He won three out of eight starts in 2011, for $33,570. BSF: 67, 75, 76.\nWILLIAM\u2019S PRAYER also won his last start at Laurel in a $5,000 claiming race for N2L. He sandwiched a distant seventh place between his maiden claiming $10,500 score and his most recent effort. BSF: 66, 21, 64.\nWALKIN\u2019 BOSS earned his second career victory at Laurel on 13Dec11 in a $7,500 claimer for N2L at a mile and a sixteenth. Since his maiden win he has been running in the non-winners of two lifetime condition. BSF: 57, 48, 51.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://animatedfaith.com/category/bible-study/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:09Z", "digest": "sha1:AGOSLRF3SPZESATG6TNQQGMNLNFNWENQ", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "animatedfaith.com", "title": "Bible Study Video Devotions, Animated Faith", "raw_content": "Topics and Themes from the Bible", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 15715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 162.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anisanasir.com/2016/10/03/sure-i-know-what-love-is-love-is/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:57Z", "digest": "sha1:C6CHSISPQSDCJDCMTYTHUQ2P3U6O5ZOD", "length": 2141, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "anisanasir.com", "title": "Sure, I Know What Love Is. Love is\u2026 \u2013 Anisa Nasir", "raw_content": "October 3, 2016 by Anisa Nasir\n\u201cLove is writing. Love is living my life, love is busying myself, love is eating macarons. That is my version. This is the version I\u2019ve chosen to explore, work on, and further. I finally feel like I\u2019ve found my balance, for I am able to do as I wish and still manage to get things done. I\u2019m still writing, I\u2019m still working, and neither has begun to suffer. I\u2019m comfortable being occupied by my goals, I\u2019m comfortable accomplishing, I\u2019m comfortable moving forward with my life.\u201d\n\u201cHave you been writing?\u201d That is a question that I\u2019m asked on a daily basis, and I\u2019m happy to say that my answer has predominantly been a yes. I am excited by my craft again, I am excited to explore what it is I\u2019ve learned over the time I\u2019ve spent trying to make things work, trying to find my footing. If you would\u2019ve told me a few months ago that I would\u2019ve been this busy, I would\u2019ve laughed.\nI like being busy.\nI like having something to do, I like merely crossing something off of my (many) to-do lists. I like exploring new storylines, playing with plot, balancing hard work and time for myself. Granted, there will be things that\u2019ll never change: I\u2019ll never be able to get out of bed early and enjoy it, I\u2019ll never be able to type a whole manuscript out without fixing things in between, I\u2019ll never be able to get rid of those seemingly pressing bad days, but:\nI will work with them. I will work past them. I\u2019ll do something.\nDon\u2019t try too hard to conform to what you know won\u2019t work for you, find your own way around it all. There\u2019s always something that can be done, and for me, I\u2019m allowing myself to be proud of how far I\u2019ve come, and what I\u2019ve managed to put behind me. Surely, there will times when I\u2019m stuck with inevitable writer\u2019s block, there will be times when I am uninspired and unmotivated, but:\nThere will be times when I can write, when I am inspired, when I am motivated, and I will take advantage of that time. I will make a difference in my life, and hopefully, one day, that of others.\nanisa nasir dear diary inspiration Lifestyle motivation monday writing\nMissing Deadlines and Thumbing Through Planners", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://annabookbel.net/a-true-story-of-the-russian-revolution", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:09Z", "digest": "sha1:JJZLI2HGNACQKAHPC6SBRYF5FOYROKES", "length": 4457, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "annabookbel.net", "title": "A true story of the Russian Revolution \u2013 Annabookbel", "raw_content": "A true story of the Russian Revolution\nThere has been renewed interest in the beloved children\u2019s author Arthur Ransome lately due to the publication of a new biography: The Last Englishman by Roland Chambers. What many people don\u2019t know is that years before he wrote the children\u2019s classics, including Swallows and Amazons, for which he is so fondly remembered, he lived and worked in Russia at the time of the revolution; this is chronicled in the above biog.\nMarcus Sedgwick\u2019s novel also tackles Ransome\u2019s time in Russia. Sedgwick is one of those teen authors whose books are crossover adult reads too, and I can\u2019t recommend this one highly enough \u2013 it has revolution and politics, spies and intrigue, romance and family drama, all steeped in Russian fairy tales.\nStuck in a marriage where he didn\u2019t love his wife, Ransome ran away to Russia in 1913, although he regretted having to leave his daughter behind. There he taught himself the language and became a journalist on the Daily News at the start of the Great War. He also covered the 1917 revolutions, and was close to Lenin and Trotsky. There he met the real love of his life, Evgenia, who was Trotsky\u2019s personal secretary; they married eventually. He was somewhat sympathetic to the Bolshelvik cause, although remained loyal to his homeland, and this led to MI6 using him through their agent Bruce Lockhart (whose Memoirs of a British Agent was a bestseller in the 1930s); MI5 also kept tabs on him for years. Ransome\u2019s occasional journeys to and from the UK were full of adventure and peril, especially the time the Estonians used him to deliver a secret armistice proposal to Litvinov in Moscow in 1919, where his good reputation with both sides was his life-saver.\nIt was at the start of his self-imposed exile that he wrote his book Old Peter\u2019s Russian Tales: these are full of magical talismans, poor peasant folk on quests, cunning animals, greedy men and wicked stepmothers, and Baba Yaga of course. These moral tales are often dark and many don\u2019t have happy endings, but really get into the Russian psyche.\nSedgwick\u2019s novelisation is no dry biography. He starts by using the fairy tales to tell the problems of the people, embodied by a great Russian bear spurred into action against the Tsar by two friends arguing in the forest \u2013 they are Lenin and Trotsky. This is superb scene-setting, and Ransome wanders into it and instantly falls in love with a woman stirring a pot on a stove in an office \u2026\n\u2018This is what you want,\u2019 she said, almost in a whisper.\nShe nodded at the pot, and Arthur found himself drawn towards her. He looked inside.\n\u2018Potatoes,\u2019 she murmured, as if it were the most beautiful word in the world. Her eyes lit up and Arthur realised how very hungry he was. He stood no more than a weak moment\u2019s decision away from her, and looked into her eyes.\nAnd that was how the young writer found love, just when he had stopped looking for it.\nHow can you not be reeled in by the utter romance in those words. Combined with all the derring do of the amateur spy, the author delivers a totally fabulous novel. Swallows and Amazons was his favourite childhood book, and when the National Archives released the files on Ransome, it was a story demanding to be told. Some of the fascinating telegrams from those archives are reproduced in the Appendix.\nThis book is likely to send me off on a Russian reading trail when I have time, as I realised (again) my lack of knowledge of things historical and the October Revolution in particular. I highly recommend it. (10/10)\nBlood Red, Snow White: n/a by Marcus Sedgwick, Orion paperback.\nOld Peter\u2019s Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome, paperback\nThe Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers, paperback\nMemoirs of a British Agent \u2013 Being an account of the author\u2019s early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1918 by Bruce Lockhart\nPosted in RANSOME Arthur, SEDGWICK Marcus, Title begins with B Tagged Spies, YA\nMy Blog is 1 today! \u2192\n\u2190 Two women, two cultures, two lives\n0 thoughts on \u201cA true story of the Russian Revolution\u201d\nI have only read My Swordhand is Singing by Sedgwick so far and I fell in love with it. I hope to read everything by him over time and will put this to the top of the list.\nThat was the second Sedgwick I've read this year and both were fantastic \u2013 I plan to work my way through the lot also. Kiss of Death was the other which was also excellent.\nPingback: Gaskella", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 34011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/120", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:30Z", "digest": "sha1:PI7Y24AQ72NNRMR2ICNYIVM7STCXYI6C", "length": 19983, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "ansuz.sooke.bc.ca", "title": "The delivery man and his death - Ansuz - mskala's home page", "raw_content": "\u00ab Will McCarthy and the Screamin... | Home | The Number 13 Road \u00bb\nWed 30 Nov 2005 by mskala Tags used: fiction, halloween\nHe had to walk a pretty long while before he got to the first house, and when he did he saw that there was a skinny dog tied up in the yard and it barked angrily at him. But the delivery man didn't need to go into the yard and annoy the dog any further to do his job. He just stopped at one corner of the fence, the corner of the delivery, and he took a purple string from his bag and wrapped it three times around the fence post before tying it carefully in a four-looped knot. He knew that in the morning the children would come out to play and they'd find the string and know he had visited, so he tied it pretty loose so they wouldn't have any trouble removing it after the magic had passed. They might play with it for a while or dump it straight in the green garbage cans he saw lining the carport, but that would be okay; it only needed to be in place this one night to get the benefit.\nThe delivery man glanced at the dog again. It was glaring at him balefully, barking every few seconds to remind him that it was still there and still hated him. He fished around in his bag, and pulled out a biscuit. He tossed it to the dog, who jumped up and caught it neatly in midair before settling down to chew, no longer barking. It wasn't really the right kind of blessing for a dog or even the right kind of biscuit, but any blessing or any biscuit is better than none and the delivery man figured even a dog's gratitude would be worth something. Their sin in that household was gluttony.\nThat first house was at the edge of the forest, and the delivery man's route led him along the road where it became narrow and winding, in among the trees. He supposed that some planner down at City Hall must have thought it would be pleasant, to have some kind of scenic drive through wooded parkland or something. Make you feel like you were far from civilization even though you were actually just out in the suburbs. The delivery man knew what came next and kind of wished he could avoid it, but there wasn't any way to avoid it and maybe that was just as well anyway.\nHe stopped at the exact legal boundary of the parkland, took a step toward the trees, then another. Now he was standing on the edge of the sidewalk where it ended. He stepped again, and down maybe a centimetre or so onto the dirt. Just as he knew it would, his death slid up out of the pavement on his left just out of reach.\n\"Hello again, friend.\"\nAt first the delivery man didn't answer. He knew better than to think if he just ignored it it would go away, that doesn't work on bullies or mockers or especially not deaths, but he couldn't resist trying anyway. He didn't look at the insubstantial figure as it drifted along beside him bearing his own face atop a body of withered, charred bones. Not like it wasn't there all the time anyway, but this special night made his death visible, and especially hard to ignore. It tried to put him at ease with conversation.\n\"Oh, you're looking well this year. I think I'm a bit further off. Gonna be that much longer before I catch ya. You been sticking to the diet and all?\" Without waiting for an answer, \"Good, good. Hey, I think you've got fewer stops this time, too. Not so many blessings in that bag. I hope that means not so many folk needing delivery?\"\nThe delivery man had been thinking about that question himself too, of course. His death had just put words around his fear.\n\"Maybe, maybe not,\" he said. \"I hope it isn't just they don't know what they need anymore.\"\n\"Well, that's your job, isn't it? Telling them. Even before they ask.\"\n\"I can't go in where I'm not wanted. You should know that better than anyone, it's the same for you.\"\n\"Oh, you'd be surprised what people will admit to wanting, sometimes.\" The delivery man's death chuckled, a hollow, spooky sound not that every sound it said wasn't. \"Sure it's a rule that I can't enter a household uninvited, or take away a person unwilling, but if you could only understand what counts as an invitation anymore, well. I guess when your time comes you'll understand about wanting me to take you. Maybe if you're real lucky you'll even understand very soon. Don't worry, though, your time isn't coming for a long time yet. You've got a whole lot more to deliver first, even if you do only go where you're wanted.\"\nThey were now deep in the forest, and the delivery man saw a flash of orange among the trees off to one side. Near the railroad tracks, he guessed, though maybe he thought of that a minute or two later because just when he saw it he wasn't thinking, his feet were already turning off the unpaved shoulder of the road, carrying him towards the light. This shouldn't have been on his route but he knew that whatever steps he took would be the route just because those were the steps he did take. On this night he couldn't do anything other than his job, so it would be okay in the end.\nThe flash of orange turned out to be a little fire. There was a clearing in a nasty swampy bit of ground just down one side of the tracks, and some chunks of concrete that seemed to be arranged into a sort of low table, probably by bored homeless persons. There were three kids there, dirty but not poor, maybe seventeen years old or so, and they were huddled around the fire talking and passing around a joint.\nWhen the delivery man's face became visible in the firelight his death sank into the shadows because fire drives it away except when the time for it to appear really comes at last, and the delivery man was left alone to face the kids. As soon as one saw him she muttered something and the others fell silent, one palming the joint, and they all turned and looked at him.\nThe delivery man stared back. Looking around the clearing he saw right through the kids, saw their respective deaths hiding in the shadows like his own, held at bay by the fire, and he saw their sins. Sloth which would be called lack of ambition. Vainglory, now that would be called posing. Drunkenness or something very like. They stared woodenly back at him. Not openly hostile, but he clearly wasn't expected or invited.\nWell, it was true about the not going where he wasn't invited, he'd been telling the truth about that to his death at least, but the delivery man had been looking at those kinds of faces since before these kids were born. Granted he hadn't really been a delivery man back then but only a silly kid playing at being one, even younger than them, maybe twelve or so when they were born. He fished a slightly damp cigarette from his breast pocket, a tobacco cigarette, twisted his face into something like the grins he remembered making when he was seventeen, and said, \"Got a light?\"\nThey went for it. One of the kids gestured at the fire, and that was all the invitation the delivery man needed. He bent over with the cigarette to bring its tip in contact with one of the coals, and released the blessings he'd palmed and prepared, automatically, upon entering the clearing. The blessings were three tiny glass seed beads, one clearblue for drunkenness, one green for sloth, and one goldenrod for vainglory. The beads vanished into the ashes like grains of sand and nobody was any the wiser. If they were teenagers it wasn't necessary to let them know they'd been blessed for it to work. That was one of the special things the delivery man knew about teenagers.\nThe delivery man took a long drag on the cigarette, watching his death out the corner of his eye as it hovered in the shadows with the others, waiting for him. He imagined that he could see it move closer a micron at a time with each swirl of the smoke but of course that was just silly. He held the cigarette up like an ironic toast, may as well let them think he was a homeless bum and not quite right in the head, returned it to his mouth, and said \"Thanks, guys. Have a nice night.\" before leaving the clearing. The teenagers said nothing in response, but the one whose sin was vainglory had an unaccountable urge to thank the delivery man. He didn't know why, and still didn't say anything. Just one of those strange things.\n\"That was neatly done,\" said his death as soon as they were out of earshot.\n\"Of course, their sins weren't very big. Not a lot of time to make mistakes when you're that age.\"\n\"No, but plenty of mistakes to be made.\" The delivery man knew about making mistakes, and maybe his death didn't know quite so much as it thought it did. The delivery man had had plenty of time to make his own mistakes, whereas his death had only gotten to watch, and sometimes the delivery man's mistakes in his life hadn't even looked like mistakes because he'd made the best of them afterward or pretended he'd wanted to do that all along. It was even enough to fool his death, usually.\nHe walked along the road, and it curved again and crossed the park boundary. The delivery man saw the edge of the sidewalk coming up and he stepped thankfully onto it because there was always the chance despite past experience that his death would depart as easily as it had shown itself, but as usual the start of the sidewalk wasn't any kind of magical boundary like the end, and his death was still there, grinning at his side, just out of reach. He sighed, and looked out at the suburbs below him and the city beyond that.\n\"Lot of people down there. Lot of sins.\" That could have been either of them.\n\"Yeah. Lot of work to do.\" It was the delivery man who said that one.\nHe walked along the sidewalk, looking carefully to either side for the telltale signs of sin. Not that he'd have been able to say in words even to his death exactly what he was looking for, but he knew that when he saw a place he needed to go, then he'd know that he needed to go there. If you could have seen his death flying along beside him you'd have noticed that once or twice it would anticipate his moves, because his death also knew the route even though the delivery man made up his route as he went along.\nOne house with not just one but two sport-utility vehicles in the drive was labouring under the sin of avarice, and when the delivery man saw it he had the feeling he ought to knock at the door instead of making his usual silent visit. A thin, serious young man answered the door, or at least the delivery man thought of him as young even though he was really just a year or two younger than the delivery man himself. They looked at each other for an awkward moment, each seeing more than they wanted to admit to, and then the delivery man held out that house's blessing. It was a squishy rubber ball with the shape of the Earth's continents marked out on it in green paint.\nThe young man took the blessing, asked if he needed to sign for it, and on receiving a negative answer said \"Thank you again,\" even though he hadn't said thank you the first time anyway. He said he would pass it on to the people who needed it and shut the door in the delivery man's face.\n\"Who was that, do you suppose?\"\n\"Don't know. He seemed to know the score, though.\"\n\"I'll say. Maybe someone else like you?\"\n\"That's fucking ridiculous. There's nobody else like me.\"\n\"Yeah, I know, but you know what I mean, too. You bet that guy's sin wasn't avarice. He doesn't live there. So why was he in the house?\"\n\"I guess he was invited.\"\n\"Sure must be nice to be invited,\" and it occurred to the delivery man that of course, his death hadn't ever been invited anywhere because the only person with the power to do that would be the delivery man himself, and that only when he was ready to give himself completely to the death. He didn't share that thought because obviously his death already knew about it. It had probably been brooding on the subject all his, and its, life.\nThe bag may have been emptier than usual but there were still a lot of blessings in it and the subdivision was simmering with sin. It took the delivery man hours to zigzag his way across it going from house to house, trying to avoid being seen by the occasional cars that would pass because he had had bad experiences with the police in other years. Most of the sins were venial and boring and the delivery man made quick work of tying a string on here, dropping a bead there, or sometimes just scratching a symbol of delivery onto a house foundation with a piece of chalk. His death made the occasional comment but mostly kept its peace.\nThere was a place where a little river had been broken and tamed, and it ran through the subdivision in a gradually-sloping concrete flume. At the edge it went through a tunnel to pass under the boundary road, and the delivery man saw a flickering white light coming from inside the tunnel. From where he stood he couldn't see what was causing it, and his feet didn't want to move him closer. It wasn't on the route.\nThe delivery man stood staring as the flickering white became brighter and took the form of the weeper. He'd heard about her before but had never seen her, and as her wailing cry echoed from the nearby buildings, at a frequency only the delivery man and his death could hear, he felt a glimmer of smugness that at least in his case there was no cause for fear. One who sees, hears, or even thinks too much about the weeper is put on notice that his death is at hand, but with his death floating on his left just out of reach and chatting like the old friend it was, the delivery man had nothing to be warned about.\nBut the sobs grew louder in his ears and the weeper's form became sharper and clearer, sharper and clearer than anything seen just with the eyes but more like a drug vision. In awful distinctness the delivery man saw the four swirling pools of emptiness lined down the front of her body and the matching vortices where the weepers eyes ought to be with tears flowing out and everything else flowing in. She needed a blessing and her sin was the sin of needing, itself, but the delivery man knew without checking that there was nothing in his bag of blessings for the weeper.\n\"That's okay,\" she cried in her ultrasonic voice, \"I'll take you instead,\" and those eyes grew or the delivery man shrank and as he was sucked into them he thought that this wasn't on the route and it wasn't according to the plan and worst, worst of all, THE WEEPER WAS NOT INVITED HERE so the rules must have been broken and without rules he might as well stop existing after all, but somewhere in the back of his heart the part that was linked to the delivery man's death cried out and there, there was his death, swirling up in black and red robes between the delivery man and the spirit of the sin of need. It grew, scaling uniformly in all direction until it towered over the subdivision, dwarfing both the weeper and the delivery man. Swirling wisps of ectoplasm filled the air, and the weeper was caught up in the fluid and though she presumably continued to exist, she stopped being visible to the delivery man. His death continued to grow until it filled the entire Universe, then grew past that from an infinitesimal point to its normal size and position, to the delivery man's left just out of reach.\n\"Uh, thanks,\" he muttered, shaken; it was an unfamiliar thing to say.\n\"If I can't have you, nobody will,\" said his death grimly. \"But be careful with 'thanks,' because 'thanks' is just a small step away from 'please,' and you must never expect any slack from the likes of me.\"\nPast the tunnel they were in the more serious part of the city, where there were other people out doing the things that people do at night in the city never mind that it was so late, and the delivery man couldn't talk with his death too much because of the danger of being overheard. A man who walks down a city street talking to thin air will not excite much comment, but if the thin air answers, well now, that's a bit of a problem. It wasn't like there were many blessings to deliver here either; most of the apartment buildings were on the routes of other delivery men, and this one only had remaining a few specialized blessings that had been missed or revised for whatever reason.\nThe delivery man stopped in front of a door. It was between two bank branches of two different banks that uneasily shared a building, and it was the door to the apartments on the upper floors of the building; behind it steps led past the mailboxes and up to some dingy corridor, and the door was locked but the delivery man knew it would open for him. He stopped and he thought, as he had done at this place every year for oh, far too many. He'd been dreading this moment but it had always been as inevitable as the appearance of his death.\n\"You're invited here, too,\" said his death quietly.\n\"No, I'm not. Not really.\"\n\"I've told you before that almost anything counts.\"\n\"Not when there's only one option. That's no choice at all. No valid invitation when there's no possibility of refusal.\"\nThe delivery man's death slid behind him and attempted to push him towards the door, and it clawed at the lock before realizing that the door would swing open for the delivery man anyway if he just took one more step closer, but the sin of the woman whose apartment was at the top of that door, well, the closest word you'd know for it would be lust though that wouldn't be completely accurate, and the delivery man's own sin was the one they call pride, and that word was completely accurate, and the delivery man's sin was stronger than him and his death and the door by far. He could no more enter at that door than he could flap his arms and fly to the Moon. After a while the death gave up and slid back into position, bones rattling.\n\"You know I'm trying to help.\"\n\"Yeah, and you know it's not because I don't want to.\"\n\"You know that it's your job to deliver.\"\n\"Yeah, and you know how fucking big a job that is and I can't do it alone.\"\n\"You just can't choose this yourself, right?\"\n\"You're the only one who's allowed the luxury of not having a choice, right?\"\n\"Fuck you,\" the delivery man muttered, and on seeing that a homeless person was standing nearby just ready to ask him for spare change, he added, \"Yeah, and fuck you, too, man!\"\nBut he took a dollar coin out of his pocket and handed it to the homeless person, who said, rather doubtfully, \"Fuck - uh - thank you, sir,\" and hurried away. There wasn't a blessing as such attached to the coin but money is a blessing itself so that should work itself out.\nThe delivery man walked on down the street looking for places to leave his blessings, and he found them and emptied his bag bit by bit. Empty busses trundled by and then a long white limousine with a lady in it who wore a blue dress and far too much makeup, but the delivery man knew that that wasn't makeup. He bowed to the limousine, thinking that maybe when all was said and done, her job was more important than his. Anyway his job was over for the year, because he was a creature of the late evening and the lady in blue showed up at the start of the early morning. Time to go home.\nThe delivery man's death had started to lose substance as soon as he noticed the blue lady and his mind formed the realization that the night was ending. It was almost gone by the time he reached the forest, as were the three teenagers who had probably gone back to warm beds in their parents' houses and already forgotten their meeting with the delivery man. Not that that mattered, of course; what mattered was that it had happened, even once, even immediately forgotten and never understood.\nThe delivery man's feet were cold and tired as he walked in the door. He took down the calendar and flipped it to the next month, gazed for a moment at the picture of the woman on the next page before hanging it back, and then went off to brush his teeth and shave off the stubble. In the mirror, he caught the last glimpse of his death before it faded for the year. 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Takes place from June 4, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Exeter, United Kingdom.\nApple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)\nin the category \"Conferences\". Takes place from June 4, 2018 to June 8, 2018 in San Jose, USA.\nin the category \"Film Festivals\". Takes place from June 4, 2018 to June 9, 2018 in Zagreb, Croatia.\nBritish Urban Film Festival\nin the category \"Film Festivals\". Takes place from June 4, 2018 to June 9, 2018 in London, United Kingdom.\nKinotavr Film Festival\nin the category \"Film Festivals\". Takes place from June 3, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Sochi, Russia.\nin the category \"Conventions\". Takes place from June 2, 2018 to June 4, 2018 in Christchurch, New Zealand.\n3 Barons Renaissance Faire\nin the category \"Fairs\". Takes place from June 2, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Anchorage, USA.\nOdessa Classics\nin the category \"Music Festivals\". Takes place from June 1, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Odessa, Ukraine.\nin the category \"Film Festivals\". Takes place from May 31, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa.\nin the category \"Film Festivals\". Takes place from May 31, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Moscow, Russia.\nin the category \"Film Festivals\". Takes place from May 31, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa.\nin the category \"Film Festivals\". Takes place from May 29, 2018 to June 4, 2018 in Vienna, Austria.\nin the category \"Cultural Festivals\". Takes place from May 29, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Cincinnati, USA.\nLondon Fringe Theater Festival\nin the category \"Cultural Festivals\". Takes place from May 29, 2018 to June 9, 2018 in London (ON), Canada.\nFestival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montr\u00e9al\nin the category \"Cultural Festivals\". Takes place from May 28, 2018 to June 17, 2018 in Montreal, Canada.\nin the category \"Cultural Festivals\". Takes place from May 25, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Bath, United Kingdom.\nin the category \"Other\". Takes place from May 25, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Portland (OR), USA.\nin the category \"Other\". Takes place from May 25, 2018 to June 16, 2018 in Sydney, Australia.\nin the category \"Cultural Festivals\". Takes place from May 25, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Charleston, USA.\nin the category \"Music Festivals\". Takes place from May 24, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Kerrville, USA.\nin the category \"Cultural Festivals\". Takes place from May 22, 2018 to June 5, 2018 in Bergen, Norway.\nin the category \"Film Festivals\". Takes place from May 17, 2018 to June 10, 2018 in Seattle, USA.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 68.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://api.cheddar.com/videos/need2know-thursday-news-roundup-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:DBP7DU6NGZE44V6G4OVSVIHWPITI64YS", "length": 1665, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "api.cheddar.com", "title": "Need2Know: Thursday News Roundup on Cheddar", "raw_content": "Need2Know: Thursday News Roundup\nJoining Forces to Fight Cartels: The United States and Mexico will cooperate to fight drug cartels amid tension between the two countries over President Trump\u2019s immigration policies. The anti-drug plan calls for more aggressively attacking the cartels\u2019 financial infrastructure. For more on this story, click here.\nDozens Overdose at Park Near Yale: At least 70 people overdosed Wednesday on a synthetic cannabinoid substance called K2, which was laced with fentanyl. There has not been a reported fatality in the New Haven, Conn., park, but two people are in life-threatening condition. One person has been arrested in connection with selling the drugs. For more, click here.\nCake Shop Owner May Go Back to the Supreme Court: The owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Jack Phillips, is suing the state of Colorado because he didn't want to make a cake for a transgender woman. Earlier this year, Phillips won a 7-2 Supreme Court decision over his refusal to bake a cake for a same-sex couple because it went against his religious beliefs. Gov. John Hickenlooper, who is named in Phillips' suit, said the new case could also make it to the Supreme Court. For more on this story, check out NPR.\nJury to Decide Paul Manafort's Future: Deliberations are underway in the trial of President Trump's former campaign chairman. Manafort pleaded not guilty to all 18 counts of tax evasion, financial fraud, and concealing of foreign accounts. The verdict could possibly determine the course of the investigation by the special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference with the 2016 presidential campaign. For more on this story, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apnews.com/19e7bd79b7d548aa90597d74db8de47a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:F75BHCA7SOS7KMIP3KX2SKIYZNEWLROV", "length": 693, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "apnews.com", "title": "UN peacekeeper killed in attack in Central African Republic", "raw_content": "Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/19e7bd79b7d548aa90597d74db8de47a\nStephane Dujarric says Thursday\u2019s attack apparently was carried out by \u201canti-Balaka elements\u201d \u2014 a reference to a mostly Christian force that has several times attacked U.N. peacekeepers who are trying to quell interreligious and intercommunal fighting in the country.\nDujarric said Friday that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres offers his condolences to the family of the fallen peacekeeper, as well as to Burundi\u2019s government.\nHe also said that intentional attacks on U.N. peacekeepers \u201cmay constitute a war crime\u201d and urged Central African Republic authorities to investigate \u201cand swiftly bring those responsible to justice.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apnews.com/a66576d85bb94a8fa7a6c645dda4b923", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:43Z", "digest": "sha1:FS4EBHQBDBOJ34HXC2OMZ6UYQLWOZHJT", "length": 1775, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "apnews.com", "title": "John Krasinski grateful to have Emily Blunt on A Quiet Place", "raw_content": "Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/a66576d85bb94a8fa7a6c645dda4b923\nBy CelebretainmentDecember 31, 2018\nJohn Krasinski was grateful to have Emily Blunt on the set of \u2018A Quiet Place\u2019.\nThe 39-year-old actor says his wife was the \u201cbest collaborator\u201d he\u2019s ever worked with and it was nice having his spouse around on the set.\nHe said: \u201cIt was unilaterally helpful for me, because I had everything going for me with her. I had someone who could deliver a performance when we were running out of time, running out of budget. She would hit her mark, and hit her performance every single time. I had that. I also had someone that, after she did her scenes, would stay around, and not only be there for me, but be there for the entire cast and crew ... She was my best collaborator.\u201d\nWhilst Emily added: \u201cI feel the same. I think that we do collaborate really well. It turns out we do work really well together. There were scenes that were certainly traumatic to do ... and you can\u2019t help but be upset by some of those scenes when you\u2019re doing them. They creep under your skin before you know it. But I do feel that John and I are able to find levity in most places.\u201d\nAnd John - who directed and starred in the thriller movie - revealed how Emily admitted that this was the first movie where she had the same fears as her character did.\nHe told Deadline: \u201cWhen we first started talking about it, Emily said it would be the scariest role she\u2019d ever played. I asked her why. She said, \u2018Up until now, every performance has been pretending. Professional pretending. This is the first time I\u2019ve had the same fears as my character.\u2019 Not that monsters would come out of the woods to eat the kids, but that thought of, what if I wasn\u2019t there in my kids\u2019 moment of need? It was our biggest fear.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://appalachiantrail.com/20121015/a-t-movie-americas-wild-spaces/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:03Z", "digest": "sha1:4MZE2LYUSQZGNGRKBWXC5RQGC3DJJBP3", "length": 3239, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "appalachiantrail.com", "title": "A.T. Movie \"America's Wild Spaces\" - AppalachianTrail.com", "raw_content": "The Appalachian Trail -- Photograph: Robert Sutherland\nThe Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) will present the National Geographic film America's Wild Spaces: The Appalachian Trail in select cities as part of their 2012 membership drive. All proceeds from this limited engagement benefit the protection and management of the Appalachian Trail (AT) in honor of the 75th anniversary of the completion of the AT.\nAmerica's Wild Spaces: The Appalachian Trail explores the natural beauty and splendor of the trail. The film provides viewers the opportunity to discover the remote corners of the renowned five-million-step journey. The AT graces roughly 2,180 miles of trails from Maine to Georgia, making it one of the longest and continuously marked footpaths in the world.\nOn Thursday, November 1, 2012, America's Wild Spaces will be shown at the Palace 17 & Odyssey Theater in Hartford, CT (330 New Park Avenue) from 7-9 PM. This presentation is sponsored by Walkabout Outfitter and Salazon Chocolate Co.\nAttendees will also have the opportunity to hear real-life stories from people who have hiked the AT, as well as those who volunteer to protect and maintain it.\nRaffles and prizes will be awarded throughout the event. In addition, the winning submission from the ATC's \"Why Do You Love the Appalachian Trail?\" summer video contest will be revealed.\nBill O'Brien, 2,000-miler, former ATC board member and longtime Appalachian Long Distance Hiker's Association (ALDHA) member. O'Brien has hiked the A.T. twice, headed ALDHA for two years, organized the group's annual conference known as The Gathering six times and served for several years as editor of The A.T. Thru-Hiker's Companion. He is currently the editor of The Long Distance Hiker. O'Brien also serves as the secretary of the Appalachian Trail Museum Board of Directors and is a member of the board of the A.T. Hall of Fame. An avid backpacker, he has also hiked the John Muir Trail in California.\nDave Boone, trails committee chairman for the Connecticut Chapter of the Appalachian Mountain Club, will also speak. Boone has been the chairman since 2003 and has also served as a weekend ridge-runner and volunteer coordinator for the committee. Boone is also a section maintainer on the Undermountain Trail near Bear Mountain.\nJohan \"Sailboat\" van Niekerk, section hiker and motivational speaker is also scheduled to present. In 2012, Van Niekerk spent 70 days trekking 1,020 miles from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Harpers Ferry, WV. Prior to his hike, Van Niekerk sailed around three-quarters of the world with his family. In 2013, Van Niekerk plans to hike the second portion of the A.T. with his father and 12-year-old brother.\nThe ATC hopes to gain 750 new members in honor of 75 years of the Trail's completion. The movie will be shown in 10 theaters across the country. Every dollar raised will help the ATC's efforts to preserve and manage the trail to ensure that its vast natural beauty and priceless cultural heritage will be appreciated for centuries to come.\nClick Here to Reserve Your Seat. Enter Promo Code: PRATC12 to receive $5 off your reservation.\nNow Showing: \"America's Wild Spaces: The Appalachian Trail\"\nBlairsville, GA, Presents Appalachian Trail Movie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 174.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ar2014.bekaert.com/en/report-of-the-board/corporate-governance-statement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RJDR4ITKYISHSQ2AKIQJ4UZMXPFGBX73", "length": 60299, "nlines": 367, "source_domain": "ar2014.bekaert.com", "title": "Annual Report 2014 - Corporate governance statement", "raw_content": "Control and ERM\nIn accordance with the original Belgian Code on Corporate Governance published in 2004, the Board of Directors has, on 16 December 2005, adopted the Bekaert Corporate Governance Charter. Following the publication of the 2009 Belgian Code on Corporate Governance, the Board of Directors has, on 22 December 2009, adopted the 2009 Code as the reference code for Bekaert and revised the Bekaert Corporate Governance Charter. On 13 November 2014 the Board of Directors has further revised the Bekaert Corporate Governance Charter (the \u2018Bekaert Charter\u2019). Bekaert complies in principle with the Belgian Corporate Governance Code and explains in the Bekaert Charter and in this Corporate Governance Statement why it departs from some of its provisions.\nThe Belgian Corporate Governance Code is available at www.corporategovernancecommittee.be.\nThe Bekaert Corporate Governance Charter is available at www.bekaert.com.\nThe Board of Directors consists of fourteen members, who are appointed by the General Meeting of Shareholders. Eight of the Directors are appointed from among candidates nominated by the principal shareholders. The Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer are never the same individual. The Chief Executive Officer is the only Board member with an executive function. All other members are non-executive Directors.\nFour of the Directors are independent in accordance with the criteria of Article 526ter of the Belgian Companies Code and provision 2.3 of the Belgian Corporate Governance Code: Mr Alan Begg (first appointed in 2008), Lady Barbara Judge (first appointed in 2007), Mr Manfred Wennemer (first appointed in 2009, independent since 1 January 2010) and Ms Mei Ye (first appointed in 2014).\nThe Board met on seven occasions in 2014: there were six regular meetings and one extraordinary meeting. In addition to its statutory powers and powers under the Articles of Association and the Bekaert Charter, the Board of Directors discussed the following matters, among others, in 2014:\nthe business plan for 2014;\ncontinuous monitoring of the debt and liquidity situation of the Group;\na review of Bekaert\u2019s strategy;\nthe repurchase of Company shares;\nthe business plan for the period 2015-2017;\nthe succession planning at the Board and Executive Management levels;\nthe issue of convertible bonds;\nthe acquisition of Pirelli\u2019s steel cord business;\nthe way of working of the Board of Directors;\nthe fifth and last regular offer of stock options in accordance with SOP2010-2014.\nExpiry of current Board term\nPrincipal occupation (*)\nregular/\nBert De Graeve(1)(3) 2006 2015 NV Bekaert SA 3/1\nPaul Buysse(2) 2000 2014 NV Bekaert SA 3\nMatthew Taylor(1) 2014 2018 NV Bekaert SA 3/0\nBert De Graeve(2)(3) 2006 2015 NV Bekaert SA 3\nMembers nominated by the principal shareholders\nLeon Bekaert 1994 2015 Director of companies 6/1\nRoger Dalle 1998 2015 Director of companies 6/0\nCharles de Liedekerke 1997 2015 Director of companies 6/0\nFran\u00e7ois de Visscher 1992 2016 President, de Visscher & Co. LLC (United States) 5/0\nHubert Jacobs van Merlen 2003 2015 Director of companies 6/0\nMaxime Jadot 1994 2015 CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board, BNP Paribas Fortis (Belgium) 6/0\nBernard van de Walle de Ghelcke 2004 2016 Of Counsel, Linklaters LLP (Belgium) 6/0\nBaudouin Velge 1998 2016 Managing Partner, Interel (Belgium) 6/0\nAlan Begg 2008 2018 Director of companies 6/0\nLady Barbara Judge CBE 2007 2016 Chairman of the UK Pension Protection Fund (United Kingdom)\nChairman Emeritus of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (United Kingdom) 6/0\nManfred Wennemer 2009 2015 Director of companies 6/0\nMei Ye(1) 2014 2018 Independent director of and advisor to companies 3/0\nAnthony Galsworthy(2) 2004 2014 Advisor to Standard Chartered Bank (United Kingdom) 3\n(1) As of the Annual General Meeting in May 2014\n(2) Until the Annual General Meeting in May 2014\n(3) Bert De Graeve was first appointed as Board Member in 2006. In 2014 he became Chairman of the Board.\n(*) the detailed r\u00e9sum\u00e9s of the Board members are available at www.bekaert.com\nThe Board of Directors has established three advisory Committees.\nThe Audit and Finance Committee is composed as required by Article 526bis \u00a72 of the Companies Code: all of its four members are non-executive Directors and one member, Lady Barbara Judge, is independent. The Committee is chaired by its independent Director, Lady Barbara Judge. Her competence in accounting and auditing is demonstrated by her position as vice chairman of the Financial Reporting Council, the British accounting and corporate governance regulator, which she held until the end of 2007.\nContrary to provision 5.2/4 of the Belgian Corporate Governance Code, according to which at least a majority of the members should be independent, Bekaert takes the view that the Audit and Finance Committee should reflect the balanced composition of the full Board.\nThe Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Financial Officer are not members of the Committee, but are invited to attend its meetings. This arrangement guarantees the essential interaction between the Board of Directors and Executive Management.\nExpiry of Board term\nNumber of regular and extraordinary meetings attended\nLady Barbara Judge CBE 2016 4/1\nBert De Graeve(1) 2015 2\nHubert Jacobs van Merlen(1) 2015 2\nBaudouin Velge 2016 4/1\nPaul Buysse(2) 2014 2/1\nFran\u00e7ois de Visscher(2) 2016 1/1\n(1) As from the Annual General Meeting in May 2014\nThe Committee had four regular meetings and one extraordinary meeting in 2014. In addition to its statutory powers and its powers under the Bekaert Charter, the Committee discussed the following main subjects:\nthe financing structure of the Group;\nthe debt and liquidity situation;\nthe activity reports of the internal audit department;\nthe reports of the Statutory Auditor.\nNomination and Renumeration Committee\nThe Nomination and Remuneration Committee is composed as required by Article 526quater \u00a72 of the Companies Code: all of its three members are non-executive Directors. It is chaired by the Chairman of the Board and its two other members, Mr Begg and Lady Barbara Judge, are independent. The Committee\u2019s competence in the field of remuneration policy is demonstrated by the relevant experience of its members.\nAlan Begg 2018 4\nLady Barbara Judge CBE 2016 4\nPaul Buysse(2) 2014 1\nTwo of the Directors nominated by the principal shareholders are invited to attend the Committee meetings without being members.\nThe Committee met four times in 2014. In addition to its statutory powers and its powers under the Bekaert Charter, the Committee discussed the following main subjects:\nthe composition of the Bekaert Group Executive (BGE);\nthe variable remuneration for the Chief Executive Officer and the other members of the Executive Management for 2013;\nthe base remuneration for the Chief Executive Officer and the other members of the Executive Management for 2014;\nterms of office of the Directors;\nthe appointment and reappointment of Directors and the appointment of the Honorary Chairman;\nthe composition of the Board Committees;\npositioning of the remuneration for the members of the Executive Management;\ntalent management;\nthe long-term incentive plan for managers.\nThe Strategic Committee has six members, five of whom are non-executive Directors. It is chaired by the Chairman of the Board and further consists of the Chief Executive Officer and four Directors.\nBert De Graeve 2015 3\nLeon Bekaert 2015 3\nCharles de Liedekerke 2015 3\nMaxime Jadot 2015 2\nMatthew Taylor(1) 2018 2\nManfred Wennemer(1) 2015 2\nAnthony Galsworthy(2) 2014 1\nThe Committee met three times in 2014 and discussed the Bekaert strategy as well as various strategic projects.\nThe main features of the process for evaluating the Board of Directors, its Committees and the individual Directors are described in this section and in paragraph II.3.4 of the Bekaert Charter. The Chairman is in charge of organizing periodic performance appraisals through an extensive questionnaire that addresses:\nthe functioning of the Board or Committee;\nthe effective preparation and discussion of important issues;\nthe individual contribution of each Director;\nthe present composition of the Board or Committee against its desired composition;\nthe interaction of the Board with the Executive Management.\nA consultant supported the Chairman in 2014 in conducting an exercise to assess the Board\u2019s way of working and its interaction with the Executive Management. The consultant distributed an online survey to all Directors and interviewed all Directors. The Board of Directors discussed the key findings and how to move forward.\nIn the framework of the action plan to ensure compliance with the legal requirement that one third of the members of the Board of Directors are of the opposite gender as from 1 January 2017, Ms Mei Ye became an independent Director on 14 May 2014. The search for additional female candidates continues.\nThe Bekaert Group Executive (BGE) has the collective responsibility to deliver the long-term and short- term objectives of the Group. It is chaired by the Chief Executive Officer and has the following balanced composition:\nmembers representing the global Business Platforms, who are accountable for customers and strategy and for the delivery of the long-term margin and growth objectives of their platforms;\nmembers representing the Regional Operations, who are accountable for the execution and delivery of the annual objectives in their regions; and\nmembers representing the Global Functions, with responsibility for functional excellence and compliance in their functional areas.\nDominique Neerinck, Chief Technology Officer, is stepping down from the BGE effective 31 March 2015, after 9 years as a member of the BGE.\nAs from 1 April 2015 the BGE will have the following members:\nMatthew Taylor Chief Executive Officer 2013\nLieven Larmuseau Executive Vice President Rubber Reinforcement Platform 2014\nPiet Van Riet\nExecutive Vice President Industrial Products and Specialty Products Platforms\nFrank Vromant\nExecutive Vice President Regional Operations Europe, North America and South Asia\nExecutive Vice President Regional Operations North Asia and South East Asia\nBruno Humblet Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Regional Operations Latin America 2006\nGeert Van Haver Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President 2014\nChief Human Resources Officer and Executive Vice President\nStatutory conflicts of interests in the Board of Directors\nIn accordance with Article 523 of the Companies Code, a member of the Board of Directors should give the other members prior notice of any agenda items in respect of which he has a direct or indirect conflict of interests of a financial nature with the Company, and should refrain from participating in the discussion of and voting on those items. A conflict of interests arose on two occasions in 2014, and the provisions of Article 523 were complied with on such occasions.\nOn 27 February 2014 the Board had to determine the remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer. Excerpt from the minutes:\nOn the motion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee the Board:\napproves the proposed short-term variable remuneration payable to the Chief Executive Officer on account of his 2013 performance;\nacknowledges that no mid-term variable remuneration is payable in respect of the period 2011-2013;\napproves the short-term variable remuneration objectives for the Group, the Chief Executive Officer and the Chief Executive Officer Designate in respect of 2014.\nOn 13 November 2014 the Board had to determine the 2015 grant of options to the Chief Executive Officer under the Stock Option Plan 2010-2014. Excerpt from the minutes:\nOn the motion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee the Board approves:\nthe offer of 36 000 options to the Chief Executive Officer, in addition to the simultaneous contractual second sign-on offer of 50 000 options.\nOther transactions with Directors and Executive Management\nThe Bekaert Charter contains conduct guidelines with respect to direct and indirect conflicts of interests of the members of the Board of Directors and the BGE that fall outside the scope of Article 523 of the Companies Code. Those members are deemed to be related parties to Bekaert and have to report, on an annual basis, their direct or indirect transactions with Bekaert or its subsidiaries. Bekaert is not aware of any potential conflict of interests concerning such transactions occurring in 2014 (cf. Note 7.5 to the consolidated financial statements).\nIn accordance with provision 3.7 of the Belgian Corporate Governance Code, the Board of Directors has, on 27 July 2006, promulgated the Bekaert Insider Dealing Code, which is included in its entirety in the Bekaert Charter as Appendix 4. On 13 November 2014 the Board of Directors has revised the Bekaert Insider Dealing Code to reflect a number of organizational changes, effective 1 January 2015. The Bekaert Insider Dealing Code restricts transactions in Bekaert securities by members of the Board of Directors, the BGE, senior management and certain other persons during closed and prohibited periods. The Code also contains rules concerning the mandatory internal notification of intended transactions, as well as the disclosure of executed transactions through a notification to the Belgian Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA). The Chairman of the Board is the Compliance Officer for purposes of the Bekaert Insider Dealing Code.\n1. Description of the procedure used in 2014 for (i) developing a remuneration policy for the non-executive Directors and Executive Management and (ii) setting the remuneration of the individual Directors and executive managers\nThe remuneration policy for non-executive Directors is determined by the General Meeting of Shareholders on the motion of the Board of Directors, acting upon proposals from the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. The policy was approved by the Annual General Meeting of 10 May 2006 and amended by the Annual General Meetings of 11 May 2011 and of 14 May 2014.\nThe remuneration policy for the Chief Executive Officer is determined by the Board of Directors, acting upon proposals from the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. The Chief Executive Officer is absent from this process. The Committee ensures that the Chief Executive Officer's contract with the Company reflects the remuneration policy. A copy of the Chief Executive Officer\u2019s contract is available to any Director upon request to the Chairman.\nThe remuneration policy for the members of the BGE other than the Chief Executive Officer is determined by the Board of Directors acting upon proposals from the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. The Chief Executive Officer has an advisory role in this process. The Committee ensures that the contract of each BGE member with the Company reflects the remuneration policy. A copy of each such contract is available to any Director upon request to the Chairman.\n2. Statement of the remuneration policy used in 2014 for the non-executive Directors and Executive Management\nThe remuneration of the non-executive Directors is determined on the basis of six regular meetings of the full Board of Directors per year. A portion of the remuneration is paid on the basis of the number of regular meetings attended in person by the non-executive Director.\nNon-executive Directors who are members of a Board Committee receive a fee for each Committee meeting attended in person. As an executive Director the Chief Executive Officer does not receive such attendance fee.\nIf the Board of Directors requests the assistance of a Director in a specific matter on account of his or her independence and/or competence, such Director will be entitled, in respect of each session warranting specific travel and time, to a remuneration equal to the applicable amount payable in respect of a Board Committee meeting attended in person.\nThe actual amount of the remuneration of the Directors is determined by the Annual General Meeting for the running financial year.\nThe remuneration of the Directors is regularly benchmarked with a selected panel of relevant publicly traded industrial Belgian and international references, in order to ensure that persons with competences matching the Group\u2019s international ambitions can be attracted.\nNon-executive Directors are not entitled to performance-related remuneration such as bonuses, stock related long-term incentive schemes, fringe benefits or pension benefits, nor to any other type of variable remuneration except for the attendance fees in respect of Board or Committee meetings.\nExpenses that are reasonably incurred in the performance of their duties are reimbursed to Directors, upon submission of suitable justification. In making such expenses, the Directors should take into account the Board Member Expense Policy.\nThe remuneration of the Chairman of the Board of Directors is determined at the beginning of his term of office, and is set for the duration of such term. On the motion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee, it is determined by the Board subject to approval by the Annual General Meeting. In making its proposal, the Committee should consider a clear description of the duties of the Chairman, the professional profile that has been attracted, the time expected to be effectively available for the Group, and an adequate remuneration corresponding to the formulated expectations and regularly benchmarked with a selected panel of relevant publicly traded industrial Belgian and international references. The Chairman, when attending or chairing the meetings of a Board Committee, will not be entitled to any additional remuneration as this is deemed to be included in his global remuneration package.\nThe main elements of the Group's executive remuneration policy are a base remuneration, a short-term, mid-term and long-term variable remuneration, a pension contribution and various other components. The Group offers competitive total remuneration packages with the objective to attract and retain the best executive and management talent in every part of the world in which the Group is operating. The remuneration of the executive managers is regularly benchmarked with a selected panel of relevant publicly traded industrial Belgian and international references.\nA strong focus on performance and achievements at Group and individual level is reflected in the short-term variable remuneration program, which is directly linked to the annual business objectives.\nThe Group's mid-term and long-term variable remuneration programs aim at rewarding managers and executives for their contribution to the creation of enhanced shareholder value over time. Those programs are typically linked to the Company\u2019s longer term performance and to the future appreciation of the Company's shares.\nThe remuneration package of the Chief Executive Officer consists of a base remuneration, a short-term, mid-term and long-term variable remuneration, a pension contribution and various other components. The remuneration package aims to be competitive and is aligned with the responsibilities of a Chief Executive Officer leading a globally operating industrial group with various business platforms.\nThe Nomination and Remuneration Committee recommends each year a set of objectives directly derived from the business plan and from any other priorities to be assigned to the Chief Executive Officer. These objectives include both Group and individual financial and non-financial targets and are measured over a predetermined time period (up to three years). Those objectives, and the year-end evaluation of the achievements, are documented and submitted by the Committee to the full Board. The final evaluation leads to an assessment, based on measured results, by the Board of Directors of all performance related elements of the remuneration package of the Chief Executive Officer.\nThe remuneration package of the BGE members other than the Chief Executive Officer consists of a base remuneration, a short-term, mid-term and long-term variable remuneration, a pension contribution and various other components. The remuneration package aims to be competitive and is aligned with the role and responsibilities of each BGE member, being a member of a team leading a globally operating industrial group with various business platforms.\nThe Chief Executive Officer evaluates the performance of each of the other members of the BGE and submits his assessment to the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. This evaluation is done annually based on documented objectives directly derived from the business plan and taking into account the specific responsibilities of each BGE member.\nThe achievements measured against those objectives will determine all performance-related elements of the remuneration package of each BGE member other than the Chief Executive Officer. The objectives include both Group and individual financial and non-financial targets and are measured over a predetermined time period (up to three years).\nThe actual amount of the remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer and the other members of the BGE is determined by the Board of Directors acting on a reasoned recommendation from the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.\nBekaert regularly evaluates its overall remuneration policies, in order to ensure alignment with the business environment as well as with legislative requirements. The mid-term and long-term variable remuneration policies for the Chief Executive Officer and for the other members of the Executive Management are currently under review, in order to optimize their alignment with the interests of the Company and its shareholders.\n3. Remuneration of the Directors in respect of 2014\nThe amount of the remuneration and other benefits granted directly or indirectly to the Directors, by the Company or its subsidiaries, in respect of 2014 is set forth on an individual basis in the table below.\nThe remuneration of the Chairman for the performance of all his duties in the Company was a set gross amount of \u20ac 250 000.\nThe remuneration of each Director, except the Chair, for the performance of the duties as a member of the Board was a set amount of \u20ac 42 000, and an amount of \u20ac 4 200 for each meeting of the Board attended in person.\nThe remuneration of the Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee, in the capacity as Chair and member of such a Committee, was an amount of \u20ac 4 000 for each Committee meeting attended in person.\nThe remuneration of each Director, except the Chairman and the Chief Executive Officer, for the performance of his duties as a member of a Board Committee was an amount of \u20ac 3 000 for each Committee meeting attended in person.\nAmount for Board\nAmount for Committee\nPaul Buysse 208 350 208 350\nBert De Graeve 145 833 145 833\nAlan Begg 42 000 25 200 12 000 79 200\nLeon Bekaert 42 000 25 200 9 000 76 200\nRoger Dalle 42 000 25 200 0 67 200\nBert De Graeve 21 000 12 600 0 33 600\nCharles de Liedekerke 42 000 25 200 9 000 76 200\nFran\u00e7ois de Visscher 42 000 21 000 6 000 69 000\nAnthony Galsworthy 21 000 12 600 3 000 36 600\nHubert Jacobs van Merlen 42 000 25 200 6 000 73 200\nMaxime Jadot 42 000 25 200 6 000 73 200\nLady Barbara Judge CBE 42 000 25 200 29 000 96 200\nMei Ye 21 000 25 200 0 46 200\nMatthew Taylor 21 000 12 600 0 33 600\nBernard van de Walle de Ghelcke 42 000 25 200 0 67 200\nBaudouin Velge 42 000 25 200 15 000 82 200\nManfred Wennemer 42 000 25 200 6 000 73 200\nTotal Directors' Remuneration 1 337 183\n4. Remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer in respect of 2014 in his capacity as a Director\nIn his capacity as a Director, the Chief Executive Officer is entitled to the same remuneration as the non-executive Directors, except the remuneration for attending Board Committee meetings for which he receives no compensation (cf. the table above). The remuneration received by the Chief Executive Officer as a Director is included in the base remuneration mentioned in the next table.\n5. Performance-related remuneration: criteria, term and method of performance evaluation\nThe remuneration package of the Chief Executive Officer and the other members of the BGE comprises three performance related elements:\na short-term variable remuneration, with objectives related to the annual business plan. The objectives are set at the beginning of the year by the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and are approved by the Board. Those objectives include a weighted average of both Group and individual financial and non-financial targets which are relevant in evaluating annual financial performance of the Group and progress achieved against the agreed strategic objectives; they are evaluated annually by the Board. One third of the annual short-term variable remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer is deferred over a period of 24 months; no deferral is applicable for the other members of the BGE.\na mid-term variable remuneration, with objectives related to the business plan for the next three-year period. Those objectives measure Bekaert\u2019s absolute performance against the plan, as well as its relative performance against a relevant panel of other companies. The achievement of those objectives is evaluated by the Board at the end of each three-year period, against pre-agreed criteria.\na long-term variable remuneration, in the form of the offer of a variable amount of stock options (cf. paragraph 8 below).\nAt par level, the value of the variable remuneration elements of the Chief Executive Officer and the other members of the BGE exceeds 25% of their total remuneration. More than a quarter of the total pay-out of this variable remuneration is deferred with at least 24 months, whilst another quarter of the total pay-out does only vest after a period of 3 years.\n6. Remuneration of the Chief Executive Officer in respect of 2014\nIn line with the leadership changes announced in 2013, Bert De Graeve was Chief Executive Officer until 14 May 2014, after which he became Chairman of the Board of Directors.\nAs planned, Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive Officer Designate during the first months of the year, was appointed Chief Executive Officer on 14 May 2014.\nThe amount of the remuneration and other benefits granted directly or indirectly to the Chief Executive Officers, by the Company or its subsidiaries, in respect of 2014 for their Chief Executive Officer role is set forth below.\nBase remuneration 337 415\nIncludes Belgian base remuneration as well as Belgian and foreign director fees (2)\nShort-term variable remuneration 125 000\nAnnual variable remuneration, based on 2014 performance, paid in 2015\nMid-term variable remuneration 0 Mid-term variable remuneration, based on 2012-2014 performance\nLong-term variable remuneration:\nNormal stock option grant\nNumber of stock options granted in 2014\nPension 228 986\nOther remuneration elements 45 631\nIncludes: company car and risk insurances\n(1) In respect of 2014 (January-May), in \u20ac\n(2) The base remuneration includes the remuneration received by the Chief Executive Officer in his capacity as a Director.\nIncludes Belgian base remuneration as well as Belgian and foreign director fees(2)\nAnnual variable remuneration, based on 2014 performance, paid in 2015(3), as well as a contractual sign-on award\nPension 80 208\n(1) In respect of 2014, in \u20ac\n(3) This does not include the deferred annual variable remuneration based on 2014 performance\n7. Remuneration of the other Bekaert Group Executive members in respect of 2014\nThe amount of the remuneration and other benefits granted directly or indirectly to the BGE members other than the Chief Executive Officer, by the Company or its subsidiaries, in respect of 2014 is set forth below on a global basis. This table includes the remuneration and other benefits granted to the Chief Executive Officer Designate until his appointment as Chief Executive Officer on 14 May 2014.\nBase remuneration\nIncludes Belgian base remuneration as well as Belgian and foreign director fees\nShort-term variable remuneration\nAnnual variable remuneration, based on 2013 performance, paid in March 2015\nMid-term variable remuneration\nMid term variable remuneration, based on 2012-2014 performance\nDefined Contribution and Defined Benefit Plan\nOther remuneration elements\nIncludes : company car and risk insurances\n8. Stock Options for Executive Management granted in 2014\nThe number of stock options granted to the Chief Executive Officer and the other members of the BGE in 2014, and the number of options exercised by them or forfeited in 2014 are set forth on an individual basis in the table below.\nThe stock options granted to the Chief Executive Officer and the other BGE members are based on the SOP 2010-2014 plan that was proposed by the Board of Directors and approved by a Special General Meeting in 2010. The plan offers options to acquire existing Company shares. There is one regular offer of options in December in each of the years 2010 through 2014, and the options are granted on the 60th day following the date of their offer (i.e. in February of the following year).\nThe aggregate number of options to be offered is determined each year by the Board of Directors on the motion of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee. The number of options to be offered to each individual beneficiary is variable in part, based on an assessment of such person\u2019s long-term contribution to the success of the Company. The options are offered to the beneficiaries free of charge. Each accepted option entitles the holder to acquire one existing share of the Company against payment of the exercise price, which is conclusively determined at the time of the offer and which is equal to the lower of: (i) the average closing price of the Company shares during the thirty days preceding the date of the offer, and (ii) the last closing price preceding the date of the offer.\nThe exercise price of the regular stock options offered in December 2013 and granted in February 2014 is \u20ac 25.38.\nSubject to the closed and prohibited trading periods and to the plan rules, the options can be exercised as from the beginning of the fourth calendar year following the date of their offer until the end of the tenth calendar year following the date of their offer.\nThe stock options that were exercisable in 2014 are based on the predecessor plans to the SOP 2010-2014 plan. The terms of such earlier plans are similar to those of the SOP 2010-2014 plan, but the options that were granted to employees took the form of subscription rights entitling the holders to acquire newly issued Company shares, while self-employed beneficiaries are entitled to acquire existing shares as in the SOP 2010-2014 plan.\nNumber of stock options exercised in 2014\nNumber of stock options forfeited in 2014\nMatthew Taylor 80 000 - -\nBruno Humblet\nLieven Larmuseau\nDominique Neerinck 12 000 -\nGeert Van Haver\n9 000 - -\nPiet Van Riet 3 200 - -\nOther than the stock options referred to above, no shares or rights to acquire shares are granted to the Chief Executive Officer or to any other member of the BGE.\n9. Severance pay for Executive Management\nBelgian law and normal practice are the basis for the severance arrangements with the executive managers, except for the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Human Resources Officer, whose contractual arrangements, entered into at the time of their appointment, provide for a notice period of 12 months.\n10. Departure of executive managers\nNo member of the Executive Management has left the Group in 2014.\n11. Company\u2019s right of reclaim\nThere are no provisions allowing the Company to reclaim any variable remuneration paid to Executive Management based on incorrect financial information.\nThe Bekaert share in 2014\nBekaert is committed to providing transparent financial information to its shareholders. It is Bekaert\u2019s intention to engage constantly in an open dialogue with its shareholders. Bekaert has always chosen to respond promptly to new international standards. The consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), which have been adopted by the European Union. Both private and institutional investors can count on our sustained commitment to transparent reporting, be it at shareholders\u2019 or analyst meetings.\nShare identification\nThe Bekaert share is listed on NYSE Euronext Brussels as ISIN BE0974258874 (BEKB) and was first listed in December 1972. The ICB sector code is 2727 Diversified Industrials.\n2014 started off with a short period of uncertainty in the markets until a clear growth trend started to emerge thanks to reassuring statements on interest rates from the European Central Bank.\nThe announcement of Bekaert\u2019s full year 2013 results, and of the acquisition of the Pirelli steel cord plants on 28 February 2014, were well received by the markets. The share gained 6.5% on the day of the announcement and continued its positive trend over the subsequent months. This trend was reversed mid-May with the announcement of Bekaert\u2019s first quarter trading update and the dividend payment. June through August was a period of ups and downs due to the political uncertainty in Ukraine and Scotland on the one hand, and reassuring statements from FED and ECB on the other hand. The Bekaert share held relatively strong during the summer months.\nFrom September till mid-October, the Bekaert share lost up to 20% on the wave of the Auto Index drop. The markets were concerned by an accumulation of negative news on several economic fronts and on a global level.\nOn 14 November, Bekaert released its third quarter trading update. The update was well received by the markets and the share price gained approximately 10% in the three days following the announcement, despite of the company\u2019s cautious outlook for the fourth quarter of 2014.\nMost financial markets declined during the month of December, driven by uncertainties in many areas. Also, the Bekaert share dropped due to concerns following a profit warning by one of Bekaert\u2019s tire cord competitors in China.\nShare performance against stock indices\nShare listing*\nPrice as at 31 December 85.900 24.785 21.875 25.720 26.345\nPrice high 86.960 87.980 33.500 31.110 30.195\nPrice low 32.867 23.500 17.210 20.010 21.900\nPrice average closing 53.819 54.694 22.592 24.926 27.155\nDaily volume 195 856 284 289 218 850 126 923 82 813\nDaily turnover (in millions of \u20ac) 10.9 14.5 5.0 3.1 2.1\nAnnual turnover (in millions of \u20ac) 2 833 3 774 1 313 796 527\nVelocity (%. annual) 85 122 93 54 35\nVelocity (%. adjusted free float) 130 188 144 83 54\nFree float (%) 61.9 61.7 61.9 62.6 61.8\n* All indicators per share before 2010 are stock split-adjusted\nVolumes traded\nThe average daily trading volume was about 83 000 shares in 2014, a decrease by 35%. The volume peaked on 28 February, 451 899 shares were handled.\nBekaert closing prices and volumes in 2014\nBekaert versus Bel20\u00ae, NEXT100 and NEXT150\nIn the BEL20, Bekaert is ranked as number 18, with a market capitalization of \u20ac 1.58 billion, a free float market capitalization of \u20ac 1.03 billion (61.80% and within the free float band of 65%), band adjusted velocity at 54% and a weight of 1.08 %.\nBekaert versus Bel20\u00ae (2014)\nBekaert versus NEXT100 and NEXT150\nThe shareholder structure shows a quite strong internationalization.\nIn connection with the entry into force of the Act of 2 May 2007 on the disclosure of significant participations (the Transparency Act) Bekaert has, in its Articles of Association, set the thresholds of 3% and 7.50% in addition to the legal thresholds of 5% and each multiple of 5%. An overview of the current notifications of participations of 3% or more can be found in the Parent Company Information section (Interests in share capital).\nThe principal shareholders own 38.2% of the shares, while the identified institutional shareholders own 30.36% of the shares. Retail represents 13.31% while Private Banking is 6.63% and 4.39% is unidentified. Of the total number of Bekaert shares, 2.87% is in registered form.\nAs of 31 December 2014 the registered capital of the Company amounts to \u20ac 176 914 000, and is represented by 60 111 405 shares without par value. The shares are in registered or dematerialized form.\nThe Board of Directors has been authorized by the General Meeting of Shareholders held on 9 May 2012 to increase the Company's registered capital in one or more times by an aggregate maximum amount of \u20ac 176 000 000 (before any issue premium). The authority is valid for five years from 5 June 2012 and can be renewed in accordance with the applicable statutory provisions. Pursuant to this authorization, the Board of Directors may, among others, effect a capital increase under the authorized capital by means of issuing ordinary shares, subscription rights or convertible bonds and may limit or disapply the preferential subscription right of the Company's shareholders. Furthermore, the Board of Directors has been authorized, for a period of three years from 26 June 2014, to make use of the authorized capital upon receipt by the Company of a notice from the FSMA of a public takeover bid for the Company\u2019s securities.\nThe Board of Directors has made use of its powers under the authorized capital when it on 21 May 2014 resolved to issue senior unsecured convertible bonds due 18 June 2018 for an aggregate amount of approximately \u20ac 300 000 000. These convertible bonds carry a coupon of 0.75% per annum and their conversion price amounts to \u20ac 37.06 per share.\nIn connection with the issuance of the convertible bonds, the Board of Directors resolved to disapply the preference subscription right of existing shareholders set forth in Articles 596 and following of the Companies Code. The terms of the convertible bonds allow the Company, upon the conversion of the bonds, to either deliver new shares or existing shares or pay a cash alternative amount.\nIn order to mitigate dilution for existing shareholders upon conversion of the convertible bonds, the Board of Directors intends where possible, to repay the principal amount of the convertible bonds in cash and, if the then prevailing share price is above the conversion price, pay the upside in existing shares of the Company. The Board of Directors has initiated a share buy-back program in order to purchase shares, in a number which may or may not equal the maximum number of existing shares which could be required in order to pay the difference between the conversion price and the prevailing share price upon conversion of the bonds. The conversion of the convertible bonds would then have no dilutive effect for existing shareholders.\nFurthermore, the terms of the convertible bonds allow the Company to redeem the bonds at their principal amount together with accrued interest in certain circumstances, for example if the Company\u2019s shares trade at a price higher than 130% of the conversion price during a certain period after 9 July 2016.\nThe total number of outstanding subscription rights under the SOP1 and SOP2005-2009 stock option plans and convertible into Bekaert shares is 490 106.\nA total of 47 534 subscription rights were exercised in 2014 under the SOP1 and SOP2005-2009 employee stock option plans, resulting in the issue of 47 534 new Company shares, and an increase of the registered capital by \u20ac 141 000 and of the share premium by \u20ac 637 914,29.\nIn addition to the 1 652 677 treasury shares held by it as of 31 December 2013, the Company purchased 2 622 333 own shares in the course of 2014. None of those shares were disposed of in connection with any stock option plans or cancelled in 2014. As a result, the Company held an aggregate 4 275 010 treasury shares as of 31 December 2014.\nThe fourth regular grant of options under the SOP2010-2014 plan took place on 17 February 2014, when 373 450 options were granted. Each such option will be convertible into one existing Company share at an exercise price of \u20ac 25.38.\nA fifth and last regular offer of 364 700 options under the SOP2010-2014 plan was made on 18 December 2014, and 349 810 of those options were accepted and were granted on 16 February 2015. Each option of the fifth regular series will be convertible into one existing Company share at an exercise price of \u20ac 26.055.\nThe SOP2010-2014 plan and its predecessor plans comply with the relevant provisions of the Act of 26 March 1999 and with Articles 520ter and 525, last paragraph, of the Companies Code. Detailed information about capital, shares and stock option plans is given in the Financial Review (Note 6.12 to the consolidated financial statements).\nIt is the policy of the Board of Directors to propose a profit appropriation to the Annual General Meeting which, insofar as the profit permits, provides a stable or growing dividend while maintaining an adequate level of cash flow for investment and self-financing in order to support future growth. In practice, this means that the Company seeks to maintain a pay-out ratio of around 40% of the result for the period attributable to the Group over the longer term.\nPer share*\nIntermediate/interim dividend 0.667 0.670\nDividend without intermediate/interim 1.000 0.500 0.850 0.850 0.850\nTotal gross dividend 1.667 1.170 0.850 0.850 0.850\nNet dividend*** 1.250 0.878 0.638 0.638 0.638\nCoupon number 12-13 14-15 16 17 18\n* All indicators per share before 2010 are stock split-adjusted.\n** The dividend is subject to approval by the General Meeting of Shareholders 2015.\n*** Subject to the applicable taks legislation\nThe Board of Directors will propose that the Annual General Meeting to be held on 13 May 2015 approve the distribution of a gross dividend \u20ac 0.85 per share.\nThe Annual General Meeting was held on 14 May 2014. An Extraordinary General Meeting was held on the same day. The resolutions of the meetings are available at www.bekaert.com.\nMore detailed information is available in the Bekaert Shareholders Guide 2014 and at www.bekaert.com.\nElements pertinent to a take-over bid\nThe Articles of Association contain no restrictions on the transfer of Company shares, except in case of a change of control, for which the prior approval of the Board of Directors has to be requested in accordance with Article 11 of the Articles of Association.\nSubject to the foregoing the shares are freely transferable. The Board is not aware of any restrictions imposed by law on the transfer of shares by any shareholder.\nRestrictions on the exercise of voting rights\nEach share entitles the holder to one vote. The Articles of Association contain no restrictions on the voting rights, and each shareholder can exercise his voting rights provided he was validly admitted to the General Meeting and his rights had not been suspended. The admission rules to the General Meeting are laid down in the Companies Code and in Articles 31 and 32 of the Articles of Association. Pursuant to Article 10 the Company is entitled to suspend the exercise of rights attaching to securities belonging to several owners.\nNo person can vote at General Meetings using voting rights attaching to securities that had not been timely reported in accordance with the law.\nThe Board is not aware of any other restrictions imposed by law on the exercise of voting rights.\nAgreements among shareholders\nThe Board of Directors is not aware of any agreements among shareholders that may result in restrictions on the transfer of securities or the exercise of voting rights, except those disclosed in the notifications referred to in the Parent Company Information section (Interests in share capital).\nAppointment and replacement of Directors\nThe Articles of Association (Articles 15 and following) and the Bekaert Charter contain specific rules concerning the (re)appointment, induction and evaluation of Directors.\nDirectors are appointed for a term not exceeding four years by the General Meeting of Shareholders, which can also dismiss them at any time. An appointment or dismissal requires a simple majority of votes. The candidates for the office of Director who have not previously held that position in the Company must inform the Board of Directors of their candidacy at least two months before the Annual General Meeting.\nOnly if and when a position of Director prematurely becomes vacant can the remaining Directors appoint (co-opt) a new Director. In such a case the next General Meeting will make the definitive appointment.\nThe appointment process for Directors is led by the Chairman of the Board. The Nomination and Remuneration Committee submits a reasoned recommendation to the full Board which, on that basis, decides which candidates will be nominated to the General Meeting for appointment. Directors can, as a rule, be reappointed for an indefinite number of terms, provided they are at least 35 and at most 66 years of age at the moment of their initial appointment and they have to resign in the year in which they reach the age of 69.\nThe Articles of Association can be amended by an Extraordinary General Meeting in accordance with the Companies Code. Each amendment to the Articles requires a qualified majority of votes.\nAuthority of the Board of Directors to issue or buy back shares\nThe Board of Directors is authorized by Article 44 of the Articles of Association to increase the registered capital in one or more times by a maximum amount of \u20ac 176 000 000. The authority is valid for five years from 5 June 2012, but can be extended by the General Meeting.\nWithin the framework of that authority the Board can also, during a period of three years from 26 June 2014, increase the registered capital, upon receipt by the Company of a notice from the FSMA of a public takeover bid, and provided that:\nthe shares to be issued are fully paid up upon issue;\nthe issue price of such shares is not lower than the price of the bid; and\nthe number of shares to be issued does not exceed 10% of the issued shares representing the capital prior to the capital increase.\nThis authority can also be extended by the General Meeting.\nThe Board of Directors is authorized by Article 12 of the Articles of Association to acquire a maximum number of own shares that, in the aggregate, represent no more than 20% of the issued capital, during a period of five years from 5 June 2012 (that can be extended by the General Meeting), at a price ranging between minimum \u20ac 1.00 and maximum 30% above the arithmetic average of the closing price of the Bekaert share during the last 30 trading days preceding the Board\u2019s resolution to acquire.\nThe Board is authorized to cancel all or part of the purchased shares during such five-year period. The Board is also authorized to acquire own shares, if required to prevent a threatened serious harm to the Company, including a public takeover bid. Such authority is granted for a period of three years from 5 June 2012, but can be extended by the General Meeting.\nArticles 12bis and 12ter of the Articles of Association provide rules for the disposal of purchased shares and for the acquisition and disposal of Company shares by subsidiaries.\nThe powers of the Board of Directors are more fully described in the applicable legal provisions, the Articles of Association and the Bekaert Charter.\nThe Company is a party to a number of significant agreements that take effect, alter or terminate upon a change of control of the Company following a public takeover bid or otherwise. To the extent that those agreements grant rights to third parties that affect the assets of the Company or that give rise to a debt or an obligation of the Company, those rights were granted by the Special General Meetings held on 13 April 2006, 16 April 2008, 15 April 2009, 14 April 2010 and 7 April 2011 and by the Annual General Meetings held on 9 May 2012, 8 May 2013 and 14 May 2014 in accordance with Article 556 of the Companies Code: the minutes of those meetings were filed with the Registry of the Commercial Court of Kortrijk on 14 April 2006, 18 April 2008, 17 April 2009, 16 April 2010, 15 April 2011, 30 May 2012, 23 May 2013 and 20 June 2014 respectively and are available at www.bekaert.com.\nMost agreements are joint venture contracts (describing the relationship between the parties in the context of a joint venture company), contracts whereby financial institutions or retail investors commit funds to the Company or one of its subsidiaries, and contracts for the supply of products or services by or to the Company. Each of those contracts contains clauses that, in the case of a change of control of the Company, entitle the other party, in certain cases and under certain conditions, to terminate the contract prematurely and, in the case of financial contracts, also to demand early repayment of the loan funds. The joint venture contracts provide that, in the case of a change of control of the Company, the other party can acquire the Company\u2019s shareholding in the joint venture (except for the Chinese joint ventures, where the parties have to agree whether one of them will continue the joint venture on its own, whereupon that party has to purchase the other party's shareholding), whereby the value for the transfer of the shareholding is determined in accordance with contractual formulas that aim to ensure a transfer at an arm's length price.\nThe Company has not issued securities with special control rights.\nThe control rights attaching to the shares acquired by employees pursuant to the stock option plans are exercised directly by the employees.\nNo agreements have been concluded between the Company and its Directors or employees providing for compensation if, as a result of a takeover bid, the Directors resign or are made redundant without valid reason or if the employment of the employees is terminated.\nInternal control and risk management systems in relation to the preparation of the consolidated financial statements\nThe following description of Bekaert\u2019s internal control and risk management systems is based on the Internal Control Integrated Framework (1992) and the Enterprise Risk Management Framework (2004) published by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (\u201cCOSO\u201d).\nThe accounting and control organization consists of three levels: (i) the accounting team in the different legal entities or shared service centers, responsible for the preparation and reporting of the financial information, (ii) the controllers at the different levels in the organization (such as plant and region), responsible inter alia for the review of the financial information in their area of responsibility, and (iii) the Group Control Department, responsible for the final review of the financial information of the different legal entities and for the preparation of the consolidated financial statements.\nNext to the structured controls outlined above, the Internal Audit Department conducts a risk based audit program to validate the internal control effectiveness in the different processes at legal entity level to assure a reliable financial reporting.\nBekaert\u2019s consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) which have been endorsed by the European Union. These financial statements are also in compliance with the IFRS as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board.\nAll IFRS accounting principles, guidelines and interpretations, to be applied by all legal entities, are grouped in the IFRS manual, which is available on the Bekaert intranet to all employees involved in financial reporting. Such manual is regularly updated by Group Control in case of relevant changes in IFRS, or interpretations thereof, and the users are informed of any such changes. IFRS trainings take place in the different regions when deemed necessary or appropriate.\nThe vast majority of the Group companies use Bekaert\u2019s global enterprise resource planning (\u201cERP\u201d) system, and the accounting transactions are registered in a common operating chart of accounts, whereby accounting manuals describe the standard way of booking of the most relevant transactions. Such accounting manuals are explained to the users during training sessions, and are available on the Bekaert intranet.\nAll Group companies use the same software to report the financial data for consolidation and external reporting purposes. A reporting manual is available on the Bekaert intranet and trainings take place when deemed necessary or appropriate.\nAppropriate measures are taken to assure a timely and qualitative reporting and to reduce the potential risks related to the financial reporting process, including: (i) proper coordination between the Corporate Communication Department and Group Control, (ii) careful planning of all activities, including owners and timings, (iii) guidelines which are distributed by Group Control to the owners prior to the quarterly reporting, including relevant points of attention, and (iv) follow-up and feedback of the timeliness, quality and lessons learned in order to strive for continuous improvement.\nA quarterly review takes place of the financial results, findings by the Internal Audit Department, and other important control events, the results of which are discussed with the Statutory Auditor.\nMaterial changes to the IFRS accounting principles are coordinated by Group Control, reviewed by the Statutory Auditor, reported to the Audit and Finance Committee, and acknowledged by the Board of Directors of the Company.\nMaterial changes to the statutory accounting principles of a Group company are approved by its Board of Directors.\nThe proper application by the legal entities of the accounting principles as described in the IFRS manual, as well as the accuracy, consistency and completeness of the reported information, is reviewed on an ongoing basis by the control organization (as described above). In addition, all relevant entities are controlled by the Internal Audit Department on a periodic basis.\nPolicies and procedures are in place for the most important underlying processes (sales, procurement, investments, treasury, etc.), and are subject to (i) an evaluation by the respective management teams using a self-assessment tool, and (ii) control by the Internal Audit Department on a rotating basis.\nA close monitoring of potential segregation of duties conflicts in the ERP system is carried out.\nBekaert has deployed in the majority of the Group companies a global ERP system platform to support the efficient processing of business transactions and provide its management with transparent and reliable management information to monitor, control and direct its business operations.\nThe provision of information technology services to run, maintain and develop those systems is to a large extent outsourced to professional IT service delivery organizations which are directed and controlled through appropriate IT governance structures and monitored on their delivery performance through comprehensive service level agreements.\nTogether with its IT providers, Bekaert has implemented adequate management processes to assure that appropriate measures are taken on a daily basis to sustain the performance, availability and integrity of its IT systems. At regular intervals the adequacy of those procedures is reviewed and audited and where needed further optimized.\nProper assignment of responsibilities, and coordination between the pertinent departments, assures an efficient and timely communication process of periodic financial information to the market. In the first and third quarters a trading update is released, whereas at midyear and yearend all relevant financial information is disclosed. Prior to the external reporting, the sales and financial information is subject to (i) the appropriate controls by the above-mentioned control organization, (ii) review by the Audit and Finance Committee , and (iii) approval by the Board of Directors of the Company.\nAny significant change of the IFRS accounting principles as applied by Bekaert is subject to review by the Audit and Finance Committee and approval by the Company\u2019s Board of Directors, including the first-time adoption of IFRS in 2000.\nOn a periodic basis, the members of the Board of Directors are updated on the evolution and important changes in the underlying IFRS standards.\nAll relevant financial information is presented to the Audit and Finance Committee and the Board of Directors to enable them to analyze the financial statements. All related press releases are approved prior to communication to the market.\nRelevant findings by the Internal Audit Department and/or the Statutory Auditor on the application of the accounting principles, as well as the adequacy of the policies and procedures, and segregation of duties, are reported to the Audit and Finance Committee.\nAlso a periodic treasury update is submitted to the Audit and Finance Committee.\nA procedure is in place to convene the appropriate governing body of the Company on short notice if and when circumstances so dictate.\nGeneral Internal Control and ERM\nGeneral internal control and ERMThe Board of Directors and the BGE have approved the Bekaert Code of Conduct, which was first issued on 1 December 2004 and updated on 1 March 2009. The Code of Conduct sets forth the Bekaert mission and beliefs as well as the basic principles of how Bekaert wants to do business. Implementation of the Code of Conduct is mandatory for all companies of the Group. The Code of Conduct is included in the Bekaert Charter as Appendix 3 and available at www.bekaert.com.\nMore detailed policies and guidelines are developed as considered necessary to ensure consistent implementation of the Code of Conduct throughout the Group.\nBekaert\u2019s internal control framework consists of a set of group policies for the main business processes, which applies Group-wide. Bekaert has different tools in place to constantly monitor the effectiveness and efficiency of the design and the operation of the internal control framework. A mandatory training on internal control is organized for all new employees and a self-assessment tool is in place allowing management teams to evaluate themselves on the internal control status. The Internal Audit Department monitors the internal control situation based on the global framework and reports to the Audit and Finance Committee at each of its meetings.\nThe BGE regularly evaluates the Group\u2019s exposure to risk, its potential financial impact and the actions required to monitor and control the exposure.\nAt the request of the Board of Directors and the Audit and Finance Committee management has developed a permanent global enterprise risk management (\u201cERM\u201d) framework to assist the Group in managing uncertainty in Bekaert\u2019s value creation process on an explicit basis. The framework consists of the identification, assessment and prioritization of the major risks confronting Bekaert, and of the continuous reporting and monitoring of those major risks (including the development and implementation of risk mitigation plans).\nThe risks are identified in five risk categories: business, operational, financial, corporate and country risks. The identified risks are classified on two axes: probability and impact or consequence. Decisions are made and action plans defined to mitigate the identified risks. Also the risk sensitivity evolution (decrease, increase, stable) is measured to address the effectiveness of the action implementation and potential risk context changes.\nBekaert\u2019s 2014 ERM report includes among others, the following potential risks:\noverall pressure on profitability (e.g. general overcapacity in a weak economic environment);\npolitical/economic/social instability in emerging countries (e.g. Venezuela, Russia);\nglobalizing competition;\nasset and profit concentration (e.g. in one city);\nintellectual property risk (overall and permanent risk);\nnon-compliance risk with local regulations and with the Bekaert standards;\nwire rod price volatility and source dependency;\nevolution of environmental regulation;\ncreditworthiness of customers;\nthe risk of failure of the banking system in specific countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 525, "original_length": 63469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/current-events-beer-mix-well-in-half-moon-bay/Content?mode=print&oid=2697648", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:47Z", "digest": "sha1:HIIYUBHCIVGG2EZ4U2R3JVCODRRLNBXC", "length": 3010, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "archives.sfexaminer.com", "title": "Current events, beer mix well in Half Moon Bay | Events | San Francisco | San Francisco Examiner", "raw_content": "February 06, 2014 Arts \u00bb Events\n\u00ab McDowell returns to Pebble for 1st\u2026 | 2 suspects held in San Mateo burgla\u2026 \u00bb\nCurrent events, beer mix well in Half Moon Bay\nLenny Mendonca of Half Moon Bay Brewing Company says the monthly \u201cBrews and Views\u201d lecture series is meant to encourage serious discussion in a casual setting.\nA brewery may not seem like a typical venue for an informed talk on contemporary events, but Lenny Mendonca, co-founder of Half Moon Bay Brewing Co., doesn\u2019t mind bucking the trend.\nTonight Mendonca welcomes David Lewis, executive director of Save the Bay, to the brewery for its \u201cBrews and Views\u201d lecture series, which is celebrating its fifth anniversary.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been a huge fan and listener of the Commonwealth Club lecture series since I was a kid,\u201d Mendonca says. \u201cI thought it would be fun to host a set of events where we can have serious conversations but in a more informal setting. The whole spirit of it is to have a really good, engaged conversation in a relaxed setting.\u201d\nMendonca grew up on his father\u2019s dairy farm in Turlock, and listened to the Commonwealth Club lectures on the radio while milking cows.\n\u201cMy dad still listens to those lectures,\u201d Mendonca says. \u201cWhen you\u2019re sitting milking cows there\u2019s not a lot to engage your mind.\u201d\n\u201cBrews and Views\u201d happens the first Thursday of each month, with occasional special events, including film screenings, sprinkled throughout the year. Technology forecaster Paul Saffo, one of the series\u2019 first speakers, compared it to activities at British pubs, long known for being centers for news and topical discussions, especially in rural communities.\n\u201cSomething we\u2019re trying to do at the brewery is be a community center,\u201d says Mendonca, who, after recently retiring from a consulting job, was inspired by his home-brew experiments to start Half Moon Bay Brewing Co.\n\u201cWe have a setting where everyone knows where it is, and I always start the conversations by saying it is informal, but we\u2019re going to have a serious conversation.\u201d\nFuture guest speakers include Ted Lempert, president of Children Now, and Sean Randolph, president of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute.\nMendonca has yet to be turned down by any speakers, many of whom are intrigued by the casual setting, and of course, the brews. \u201cA lot of them expect a different kind of audience, but it\u2019s actually an informed audience,\u201d Mendonca says. \u201cThey ask good questions, and everyone has fun and learns a lot too.\u201d\nwith David Lewis of Save the Bay\nWhere: Half Moon Bay Brewing Co., 390 Capistrano Road, Half Moon Bay\nContact: (650) 728-2739, www. hmbbrewingco.com\nTags: Events, Lenny Mendonca, Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, Brews and Views, David Lewis, Save the Bay\nFast-casual Asian comfort food at the heart of Green Leaf Asian Bistro\nMisoya adds to local ramen craze in Millbrae\nSandwiches, steaks, and the season\u2019s new brews\nTime for green beer and the luck of the Irish\nSisters host sixth \u2018Project Nunway\u2019\nBerkeley's \u2018Uncharted\u2019 idea festival goes into year two", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 6884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ariarmstrong.com/2007/11/get-ready-for-forced-energy-efficiency/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RZSSNGCVBJGVBG5TPXQLFHZUJMNXKDQZ", "length": 1201, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ariarmstrong.com", "title": "Get Ready for Forced \"Energy Efficiency\" \u2013 Ari Armstrong", "raw_content": "Get Ready for Forced \"Energy Efficiency\"\nP. Solomon Banda writes for the AP: \u201cDespite Colorado\u2019s drive to develop renewable energy, the state will still need the equivalent of 13 new 350-megawatt plants to satisfy its power needs by 2025, according to a report by\u2026 [the] Colorado Energy Forum.\u201d\nThe article reports that \u201cMatt Baker, executive director of Environment Colorado,\u201d said, \u201cWe don\u2019t believe we will need that much electricity. We think it\u2019s totally doable to meet the (new) demand through an investment in energy efficiency and renewable energy.\u201d\nAs noted previously, new plants powered by coal or nuclear reaction are unlikely in this state. \u201cRenewable energy\u201d is not going to close the gap. So we are left with \u201cinvestment in energy efficiency.\u201d What does that mean? It means that we\u2019re going to have to spend more resources (time included) to use less electricity. And the amount of energy that we\u2019re able to use will be determined by what Matt Baker and his ilk deem that we \u201cneed.\u201d\nAuthor Ari ArmstrongPosted on November 15, 2007 May 27, 2017 Categories PoliticsTags Energy, Environmentalism\nPrevious Previous post: Cat Care Society\nNext Next post: What Happens When Victims Fight Back", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arnolds-removals.com/news/attention-property-tycoons/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:08Z", "digest": "sha1:K5TZ76FMTHPWIXABK3TIGHT4NBYIITNK", "length": 330, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "arnolds-removals.com", "title": "Attention property tycoons in Hull and East Yorkshire | Arnolds Removals Hull & East Yorkshire", "raw_content": "Attention property tycoons in Hull and East Yorkshire\nAt Arnolds Removals we were intrigued this week by a story that houses are for sale for as little as \u00a31! Music to the ears of property developers including many of our customers in Hull and East Yorkshire, read more about this extraordinary story here on the BBC News website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artofbeingfabulous.com/positivity-is-contagious-so-pass-it-on/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:05Z", "digest": "sha1:C7HTZ7GC235XK253C2YUSMGTLA6YVPOD", "length": 3407, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "artofbeingfabulous.com", "title": "Positivity is contagious, so pass it on! | The Art of Being Fabulous", "raw_content": "Positivity is contagious, so pass it on!\nFeelings can be passed on to others. Think of a time when you saw someone, especially a child, laughing out of pure joy. How did it make you feel? Didn\u2019t it make you at least smile, even if you weren\u2019t having a great day? I know that when I hear my niece or nephew laugh, I can\u2019t help but smile! Or if someone approaches me genuinely happy and how it softens even a tough moment. It\u2019s also true with negative feelings. Can you remember a time when someone walked into a room completely sour and how it brought down the mood in the room? Or when someone started yelling at you and how it changed how you felt?\nWe all have the ability to influence the feelings of people around us. If you express happiness, then you can uplift other peoples\u2019 mood. If you express anger, people will respond to you with anger.\nWhen you\u2019re experiencing a strong emotion, either positive or negative, you\u2019re wrapped up in the experience and don\u2019t typically think about the impact on those around you.\nPay attention to it the next time you\u2019re at work, school or out socially. Watch how people act if you\u2019re mad. Do they become angrier? If you\u2019re feeling good, do they become more talkative and smile more? Also, watch to see if their positive or negative mood impacts yours.\nDo you want to know how to become more positive and spread positivity to others? Here are a few ways.\nTry to stop complaining\nPlease note that I say \u201ctry\u201d! I know at some point most people feel like complaining about something. But it\u2019s a negative experience that affects everyone involved. If you feel like complaining, try to do it when you have a reasonable solution for the problem, or if you\u2019re looking for advice on how to handle it. If you\u2019re only going to say something negative about somebody or something, then try to keep it to yourself.\nLook for things you can appreciate each day\nAt the end of the day, write down some things that pleased you. It could be as simple as your breakfast, catching your favorite show, like Murder She Wrote (sorry I couldn\u2019t resist!), or bigger like something great that happened. Do it every day and think about it before you go to bed. It will help you go to sleep more hopeful and wake up with anticipation of what the next day can bring.\nConsider your life journey\nLook at your life and think through what is going well. Reflect on the past, present and what you hope for the future. Take stock of the great things that happened, even if you don\u2019t feel like there were many; focus on them.\nLook for laughter\nOptimistic people seem to be able to laugh at situations and themselves. Try to find some fun in your work, school and personal life. If it\u2019s difficult for you to find, watch something funny.\nRemember your worth\nSometimes bad feelings come from how severely you judge yourself, or you may have people in your life that are the ones judging you harshly. Remember that you\u2019re just as worthy as everyone else and deserve to be treated equally.\nSome quick boosters\nCount backward from 100.\nTake four or five deep breaths.\nStretch for 10-15 minutes.\nGo out with friends or family.\nPlay. If you have children or a pet, play with them. If you have none, play on your own!\nThe bottom line is that we have the capacity to influence our social world. So be conscious of how you\u2019re making others feel and how they\u2019re making you feel.\nDo you have any other optimism tips?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://asecuritysite.com/challenges/affine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:15Z", "digest": "sha1:2N2USQWBQKUJ7ACYEXQ65N5MXOGZ2LN5", "length": 1491, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "asecuritysite.com", "title": "Affine cipher", "raw_content": "The Affine cipher uses a mathematical formula to encrypt, such as for a linear equation of \\(E(x) = (a x + b)\\). If we use a 26 letter alphabet the operation becomes \\(E(x) = (a x + b) \\mod 26\\), where x is the character to encrypt, and a and b are constants that are kept secret. Using the a and b values given, create the following Affine cipher codes:\nencrypt [a=3, b=12]\ntaste [a=5, b=2]\nWe can use any value of b (apart from 1), but a should not share a factor with 26 (this is defined as being co-prime). Thus a can be 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23 or 25.\nThe following is taken from Wikipedia:\nA F F I N E C I P H E R\nNow, take each value of x, and solve the first part of the equation, (5x + 8). After finding the value of (5x + 8) for each character, take the remainder when dividing the result of (5x + 8) by 26. The following table shows the first four steps of the encrypting process.\n(5x + 8) mod 26\n8 7 7 22 21 2 18 22 5 17 2 15\nThe final step in encrypting the message is to look up each numeric value in the table for the corresponding letters. In this example, the encrypted text would be IHHWVCSWFRCP. The table below shows the completed table for encrypting a message in the Affine cipher.\nI H H W V C S W F R C P\nThe cipher is generally weak as it is a monoalphabet and doesn't use a key. Overall there are 12 possible values of a (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, and 25), and 26 possible shifts (b). Thus there are 286 possible mappings (\\(12 \\times 26\\))", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 165.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://athletictimemachine.com/2014/07/28/quick-summary-of-my-racing-so-far-this-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QA7FM7NNRQQLQD4J54LDPNSSZYFIPYLQ", "length": 5381, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "athletictimemachine.com", "title": "Quick Summary of my Racing So Far this Year | The Athletic Time Machine", "raw_content": "HomeQuick Summary of my Racing So Far this Year\nAs I\u2019m starting this blog a little late in the year, I thought I\u2019d post a quick \u201ccatch up\u201d post with my racing so far for 2014. As I\u2019ve described in a separate post, I like to do a ton of racing. If anything, 2014 has a bit of a let down with a nagging case of plantar fasciitis\u2013 otherwise, I would have done a lot more!\nResolution 5-K (Seattle, WA on January 1). Speedy little 5-K in 19:28. Discovered later that the race was short by about 1/10 mile. No idea how I did (common with tiny races in Magnuson Park).\nMagnuson Series 10-K (Seattle, WA on February 15). Not so speedy 10-K in 43:45. Again, no idea how I placed.\nKing County Bar Association 5-K (Seattle, WA on March 8). Very speedy 5-K in 19:30. Again, I think that this race was short by a tiny distance. You can tell it was tiny because I took the overall win. Woo hoo!\nPortland Spring Classic Duathlon (Portland, OR on March 29). This is my favorite duathlon, even if the weather can be a little sketchy. It\u2019s also one of the nation\u2019s biggest. This year\u2019s turnout (a little over 200) was small because the weather was rough. Last year, it attracted over 500 competitors from up and down the west coast. I won my AG and came in 11th overall!\nSeattle Seahawks 12K Race (Seattle, WA on April 13). This race was a blast. Mildly hilly and hard. Came in 61st overall (4,044 finishers) and 6th in my AG (out of 140). Finished in 51:22 (6:43 pace). I was happy with this result, particularly because I had only decided to run the race the day before.\nMagnuson Series 10-K (Seattle, WA on April 19). Ran something like 42 minutes and change\u2013 or about a 6:46 pace. I think I got second or third overall, but it\u2019s unclear.\nMount Rainier Duathlon (Enumclaw, WA on April 27). This is always a cold and miserable race. Last year (2013), it served as the USAT national championship for long-course duathlon\u2013 and, consequently, I had the worst race ever. This year, the weather was just as bad but my results were much better. Out of 116 participants, 14 dropped out (mostly weather related). Of the 102 finishers, I managed 19th place and second in my AG.\nBlue Lake Sprint Duathlon (Portland, OR on June 7). This was part one of a marathon weekend\u2013 a sprint duathlon on Saturday and an Olympic duathlon on Sunday. This is another one of those great Portland races (I love Portland duathlons) and, while I really wanted to hit it hard, I had to hold something back for Sunday. I also had a minor pull in my soleus earlier in the week, which I magically cured using my Compex (separate post coming later), which further had me holding back. Somehow managed a win in my AG and fourth overall.\nBlue Lake Olympic Duathlon (Portland, OR on June 8). Part deux of my Portland Weekend Extravaganza. This went surprisingly well except for the last run, where the wheels fell off the truck. This is where I learned that back-to-back races have special nutritional needs; the race on Saturday left me with nothing in the tank. Thankfully, I had a good first run and bike so I still salvaged second in my AG and sixth place overall.\nMoveMore 5-K (Seattle, WA on June 29). Ever since Mount Rainier, my plantar fasciitis had been bugging me. By now, it was really bad. I ran this race as a \u201cC\u201d race\u2013 finished in 21:04. It was a tiny race so I think I got sixth place overall.\nHagg Lake Duathlon (Portland, OR on July 12). This was my last tune-up race before Nationals. While just about every other Portland duathlon is flat and allows me to use my aerodynamics, Hagg Lake is anything but flat. In fact, there\u2019s only about one mile that actually counts as flat. Instead, it is one of the hilliest races I\u2019ve ever done. It\u2019s not hilly in the sense that it has monstrous climbs\u2013 it\u2019s hilly in the sense that it is constantly rolling up and down. This is exactly the kind of race that favors a big rear cassette and a well-tuned front derailleur. Unfortunately, I had neither one. I rode this course with an 11-21 cassette (in case you\u2019re not a gear head, this is one of those TINY rear cassettes that people like criterium riders use). I also dropped my chain twice\u2013 one time forcing me to dismount and dislodge my chain which had gotten deeply stuck near my bottom bracket spindle and right chain stay. It also featured ridiculous trail running (I suck at trail running). Despite a horrible race, I managed third in my AG and 9th overall. Thank goodness for small fields.\nUSAT Duathlon Nationals (St. Paul on July 19). I talked briefly about this race and Seafair in my first blog post.\nSeafair Duathlon (Seattle, WA on July 20).\nSo what\u2019s still on the calendar? I have the Washington State 40K Time Trial Championship coming up on August 10, the Black Diamond Duathlon on September 14, and possibly the Kirkland Duathlon on September 21. In terms of training, I\u2019m in a cycling focus right now until state TT\u2019s. After that, I think I\u2019m going to go into a quick running build and find one or two running races. Then, I might do a general build for hitting the two duathlons towards the end of the season. If I\u2019m really lucky, I\u2019ll hit 20 races by December 31, but I\u2019m not holding my breath.\nIn other news, I do have a Garmin Virb on order to help get some interesting race footage going on this site.\n\u2190 Supercompensation and Timing of Training Effects\nGetting Faster More Safely with Sports Rotation \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 7868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://authenticsblog.com/2018/12/18/my-disappearing-act/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ERZ2ANKN7LMLARRO5U2OB7PWMS5DHMUA", "length": 1966, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "authenticsblog.com", "title": "My Disappearing Act \u2013 Authentics", "raw_content": "The untimely brutal truth behind the souls that disappear often.\nOld friends, lovers, family and previous co-workers have always asked me, \u201cwhy do you randomly disappear?\u201d It\u2019s not until years later of pondering and more disappearances have I came up with some answers.\nI\u2019ve never been attached to anything or anyone. I don\u2019t have that skill of merging my identity with another persons for long. I become it, it becomes me, we learn and I let go.\nI\u2019ve never been good at saying good byes. I don\u2019t like to limit myself to \u201cnever\u201d statements or make limiting claims on my personality; however, it would be a lie to say I want to be good at good byes. Because I don\u2019t, so don\u2019t expect a huge grand goodbye because it hurts too much.\nI\u2019m searching for something I don\u2019t have the words to explain. It\u2019s as if I was born to understand happiness, love, mistakes, trauma and aspects of life most people would rather run away from. I\u2019ve never been a superficial anything and I believe every person/experience is along my journey for a reason.\nNothing is forever and I\u2019m a firm believer in that.\nI\u2019m every where all the time, I\u2019m connected too so much in the world that I can\u2019t fight the urge to go explore. I\u2019ve lived my early years in fear and constraint and I\u2019m over it. I always encourage other\u2019s to do the same.\nI honestly wish more people had less attachments to external thing\u2019s. I believe if people didn\u2019t try to merge their identities or find themselves in people. We\u2019d have more free and happy people in the world.\nI\u2019ve lived on both sides of the spectrum. I have left and been left so I understand both view points, I really do. Yet, I know that denying that time is up in a situation, only hurts everyone involved.\nPosted in Advice Personal Blog Rebirth and Tagged Letting Go Life Lessons Lifehacks self love Story\nPrevious articleAdviceLadies, Your Relationship Is Only As Strong As You Are In Yourself\nNext articleAdviceEmbracing My Daddy Issues Made Me Fearless", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://avantihospitals.com/heroic-actions-gardena-police-department-memorial-hospital-gardena-save-18-month-old/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:04Z", "digest": "sha1:VTDCIJG77VAOOPLD2K4UQO6H5T6DIEJH", "length": 1469, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "avantihospitals.com", "title": "Heroic Actions by Gardena Police Department and Memorial Hospital of Gardena Save 18-Month-Old | Avanti Hospitals", "raw_content": "Gardena, Calif., June 19, 2018 \u2013 Through heroic actions and quick thinking, officers from the Gardena Police Department transported an 18-month-old to Memorial Hospital of Gardena (MHG), giving doctors and nurses the time they needed to provide life-saving care.\nOn Friday, June 15, Gardena PD received a call from a frantic mother reporting that her son was not breathing. Officers quickly arrived on the scene and immediately noted the urgency of the situation. The child was running a high fever and stopped breathing after convulsing due to the high temperature. With concern that there was not enough time to wait for the fire department or an ambulance, the officers sprang into action and took the child directly to MHG.\nUpon arrival, Officer Jose Avalos ran through the emergency room doors with the child in his arms. As a father of two, he said that his \u201cfatherly instincts\u201d took over as he rushed the small boy to the hospital. While he was required to return to duty, he returned to the hospital later to check on the boy.\nMHG doctors and nurses took over seconds after the officers entered the ER, and are happy to report that the child has returned home and is recovering. \u201cIt is an honor to work with the Gardena Police Department and all of the first responders in our community,\u201d said Kathy Wojno, Chief Executive Officer of MHG. \u201cBy working together, these officers along with our dedicated team of doctors, nurses and staff were able to save a life.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 219.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://awcclive.org/2013/01/community-group/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:20Z", "digest": "sha1:JDNIAD7DJMNG66IMO2DZOCPCH64CP5NI", "length": 347, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "awcclive.org", "title": "Community Group | Applewood Community Church", "raw_content": "\u2190 Help Needed to Take Down the Christmas Decorations!\nSenegal Praise and Prayer Service \u2192\nWould you like to be part of a Community Group? There is a group that has some room. They will be meeting February and March meeting on the second and fourth Tuesdays will be studying a book in the New Testament. Call the church office for more information!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://b2b.partcommunity.com/community/knowledge/en/detail/2343/Bismuth", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:32Z", "digest": "sha1:26YRQELSZFIGVLDGWZYAH4VDXMMWWQYK", "length": 33978, "nlines": 178, "source_domain": "b2b.partcommunity.com", "title": "Bismuth - Material DB - RoHS - Reach", "raw_content": "Bismuth (7043 views - Material Database)\nBismuth is a chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83. Bismuth, a pentavalent post-transition metal and one of the pnictogens, chemically resembles its lighter homologs arsenic and antimony. Elemental bismuth may occur naturally, although its sulfide and oxide form important commercial ores. The free element is 86% as dense as lead. It is a brittle metal with a silvery white color when freshly produced, but surface oxidation can give it a pink tinge. Bismuth is the most naturally diamagnetic element, and has one of the lowest values of thermal conductivity among metals. Bismuth metal has been known since ancient times, although it was often confused with lead and tin, which share some physical properties. The etymology is uncertain, but possibly comes from Arabic bi ismid, meaning having the properties of antimony or the German words wei\u00dfe Masse or Wismuth (\"white mass\"), translated in the mid-sixteenth century to New Latin bisemutum. Bismuth was long considered the element with the highest atomic mass that is stable. However, in 2003 it was discovered to be extremely weakly radioactive: its only primordial isotope, bismuth-209, decays via alpha decay with a half-life more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe. Because of its tremendously long half-life, bismuth may still be considered stable for almost all purposes. Bismuth compounds account for about half the production of bismuth. They are used in cosmetics, pigments, and a few pharmaceuticals, notably bismuth subsalicylate, used to treat diarrhea. Bismuth's unusual propensity to expand upon freezing is responsible for some of its uses, such as in casting of printing type. Bismuth has unusually low toxicity for a heavy metal. As the toxicity of lead has become more apparent in recent years, there is an increasing use of bismuth alloys (presently about a third of bismuth production) as a replacement for lead.\nLicensed under Free Art License (Alchemist-hp (talk) (www.pse-mendelejew.de)).\nBismuth, 83Bi\n/\u02c8b\u026azm\u0259\u03b8/\nBIZ-m\u0259th\nlustrous brownish silver\n7002208980400000000\u2660208.98040(1)[1]\nBismuth in the periodic table\nlead \u2190 bismuth \u2192 polonium\ngroup 15 (pnictogens), period 6\nPhase (at STP)\n5, 4, 3, 2, 1, \u22121, \u22122, \u22123 \u200b(a mildly acidic oxide)\n1st: 703 kJ/mol\n\u200brhombohedral[2]\n7.97 W/(m\u00b7K)\n1.29 \u00b5\u03a9\u00b7m (at 20 \u00b0C)\n\u2212280.1\u00b710\u22126 cm3/mol[3]\nClaude Fran\u00e7ois Geoffroy (1753)\nMain isotopes of bismuth\nsyn 31.55 y \u03b2+ 207Pb\nsyn 3.68\u00d7105 y \u03b2+ 208Pb\n100% 1.9\u00d71019 y \u03b1 205Tl\ntrace 5.012 d \u03b2\u2212 210Po\n\u03b1 206Tl\nsyn 3.04\u00d7106 y IT 210Bi\nBismuth is a chemical element with symbol Bi and atomic number 83. Bismuth, a pentavalent post-transition metal and one of the pnictogens, chemically resembles its lighter homologs arsenic and antimony. Elemental bismuth may occur naturally, although its sulfide and oxide form important commercial ores. The free element is 86% as dense as lead. It is a brittle metal with a silvery white color when freshly produced, but surface oxidation can give it a pink tinge. Bismuth is the most naturally diamagnetic element, and has one of the lowest values of thermal conductivity among metals.\nBismuth metal has been known since ancient times, although it was often confused with lead and tin, which share some physical properties. The etymology is uncertain, but possibly comes from Arabic bi ismid, meaning having the properties of antimony[4] or the German words wei\u00dfe Masse or Wismuth (\"white mass\"), translated in the mid-sixteenth century to New Latin bisemutum.[5]\nBismuth was long considered the element with the highest atomic mass that is stable. However, in 2003 it was discovered to be extremely weakly radioactive: its only primordial isotope, bismuth-209, decays via alpha decay with a half-life more than a billion times the estimated age of the universe.[6][7] Because of its tremendously long half-life, bismuth may still be considered stable for almost all purposes.[7]\nBismuth compounds account for about half the production of bismuth. They are used in cosmetics, pigments, and a few pharmaceuticals, notably bismuth subsalicylate, used to treat diarrhea.[7] Bismuth's unusual propensity to expand upon freezing is responsible for some of its uses, such as in casting of printing type.[7] Bismuth has unusually low toxicity for a heavy metal.[7] As the toxicity of lead has become more apparent in recent years, there is an increasing use of bismuth alloys (presently about a third of bismuth production) as a replacement for lead.\n2.2 Chemical characteristics\n3 Chemical compounds\n3.1 Oxides and sulfides\n3.2 Bismuthine and bismuthides\n3.4 Aqueous species\n5.1 Medicines\n5.2 Cosmetics and pigments\n5.3 Metal and alloys\n5.3.1 Lead replacement\n5.3.2 Other metal uses and specialty alloys\n5.4 Other uses as compounds\n6 Toxicology and ecotoxicology\nAlchemical symbol used by Torbern Bergman, 1775\nThe name bismuth dates from around the 1660s, and is of uncertain etymology. It is one of the first 10 metals to have been discovered. Bismuth appears in the 1660s, from obsolete German Bismuth, Wismut, Wissmuth (early 16th century); perhaps related to Old High German hwiz (\"white\").[5] The New Latin bisemutum (due to Georgius Agricola, who Latinized many German mining and technical words) is from the German Wismuth, perhaps from wei\u00dfe Masse, \"white mass\".[8] The element was confused in early times with tin and lead because of its resemblance to those elements. Bismuth has been known since ancient times, so no one person is credited with its discovery. Agricola, in De Natura Fossilium (c. 1546) states that bismuth is a distinct metal in a family of metals including tin and lead. This was based on observation of the metals and their physical properties.[9] Miners in the age of alchemy also gave bismuth the name tectum argenti, or \"silver being made,\" in the sense of silver still in the process of being formed within the Earth.[10][11][12]\nBeginning with Johann Heinrich Pott in 1738,[13] Carl Wilhelm Scheele and Torbern Olof Bergman, the distinctness of lead and bismuth became clear, and Claude Fran\u00e7ois Geoffroy demonstrated in 1753 that this metal is distinct from lead and tin.[11][14][15] Bismuth was also known to the Incas and used (along with the usual copper and tin) in a special bronze alloy for knives.[16]\nBismuth crystal illustrating the many iridescent refraction hues of its oxide surface\nArtificially grown bismuth crystal illustrating the stairstep crystal structure, with a 1 cm3 cube of bismuth metal\nBismuth is a brittle metal with a white, silver-pink hue, often occurring in its native form, with an iridescent oxide tarnish showing many colors from yellow to blue. The spiral, stair-stepped structure of bismuth crystals is the result of a higher growth rate around the outside edges than on the inside edges. The variations in the thickness of the oxide layer that forms on the surface of the crystal causes different wavelengths of light to interfere upon reflection, thus displaying a rainbow of colors. When burned in oxygen, bismuth burns with a blue flame and its oxide forms yellow fumes.[14] Its toxicity is much lower than that of its neighbors in the periodic table, such as lead, antimony, and polonium.\nNo other metal is verified to be more naturally diamagnetic than bismuth.[14][17] (Superdiamagnetism is a different physical phenomenon.) Of any metal, it has one of the lowest values of thermal conductivity (after manganese, and maybe neptunium and plutonium) and the highest Hall coefficient.[18] It has a high electrical resistivity.[14] When deposited in sufficiently thin layers on a substrate, bismuth is a semiconductor, despite being a post-transition metal.[19]\nElemental bismuth is denser in the liquid phase than the solid, a characteristic it shares with antimony, germanium, silicon, gallium and water.[20] Bismuth expands 3.32% on solidification; therefore, it was long a component of low-melting typesetting alloys, where it compensated for the contraction of the other alloying components,[14][21][22][23] to form almost isostatic bismuth-lead eutectic alloys.\nThough virtually unseen in nature, high-purity bismuth can form distinctive, colorful hopper crystals. It is relatively nontoxic and has a low melting point just above 271 \u00b0C, so crystals may be grown using a household stove, although the resulting crystals will tend to be lower quality than lab-grown crystals.[24]\nAt ambient conditions bismuth shares the same layered structure as the metallic forms of arsenic and antimony,[25] crystallizing in the rhombohedral lattice[26] (Pearson symbol hR6, space group R3m No. 166), which is often classed into trigonal or hexagonal crystal systems.[2] When compressed at room temperature, this Bi-I structure changes first to the monoclinic Bi-II at 2.55 GPa, then to the tetragonal Bi-III at 2.7 GPa, and finally to the body-centered cubic Bi-IV at 7.7 GPa. The corresponding transitions can be monitored via changes in electrical conductivity; they are rather reproducible and abrupt, and are therefore used for calibration of high-pressure equipment.[27][28]\nBismuth is stable to both dry and moist air at ordinary temperatures. When red-hot, it reacts with water to make bismuth(III) oxide.[29]\n2 Bi + 3 H2O \u2192 Bi2O3 + 3 H2\nIt reacts with fluorine to make bismuth(V) fluoride at 500 \u00b0C or bismuth(III) fluoride at lower temperatures (typically from Bi melts); with other halogens it yields only bismuth(III) halides.[30][31][32] The trihalides are corrosive and easily react with moisture, forming oxyhalides with the formula BiOX.[33]\n2 Bi + 3 X2 \u2192 2 BiX3 (X = F, Cl, Br, I)\nBismuth dissolves in concentrated sulfuric acid to make bismuth(III) sulfate and sulfur dioxide.[29]\n6 H2SO4 + 2 Bi \u2192 6 H2O + Bi2(SO4)3 + 3 SO2\nIt reacts with nitric acid to make bismuth(III) nitrate.\nBi + 6 HNO3 \u2192 3 H2O + 3 NO2 + Bi(NO3)3\nIt also dissolves in hydrochloric acid, but only with oxygen present.[29]\n4 Bi + 3 O2 + 12 HCl \u2192 4 BiCl3 + 6 H2O\nIt is used as a transmetalating agent in the synthesis of alkaline-earth metal complexes:\n3 Ba + 2 BiPh3 \u2192 3 BaPh2 + 2 Bi\nMain article: Isotopes of bismuth\nThe only primordial isotope of bismuth, bismuth-209, was traditionally regarded as the heaviest stable isotope, but it had long been suspected[34] to be unstable on theoretical grounds. This was finally demonstrated in 2003, when researchers at the Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale in Orsay, France, measured the alpha emission half-life of 209\nto be 7026599594400000000\u26601.9\u00d71019 years,[35] over a billion times longer than the current estimated age of the universe.[7] Owing to its extraordinarily long half-life, for all presently known medical and industrial applications, bismuth can be treated as if it is stable and nonradioactive. The radioactivity is of academic interest because bismuth is one of few elements whose radioactivity was suspected and theoretically predicted before being detected in the laboratory.[7] Bismuth has the longest known alpha decay half-life, although tellurium-128 has a double beta decay half-life of over 7031694267200000000\u26602.2\u00d71024 years.[36]\nSeveral isotopes of bismuth with short half-lives occur within the radioactive disintegration chains of actinium, radium, and thorium, and more have been synthesized experimentally. Bismuth-213 is also found on the decay chain of uranium-233.[37]\nCommercially, the radioactive isotope bismuth-213 can be produced by bombarding radium with bremsstrahlung photons from a linear particle accelerator. In 1997, an antibody conjugate with bismuth-213, which has a 45-minute half-life and decays with the emission of an alpha particle, was used to treat patients with leukemia. This isotope has also been tried in cancer treatment, for example, in the targeted alpha therapy (TAT) program.[38][39]\nSee also: Category:Bismuth compounds.\nBismuth forms trivalent and pentavalent compounds, the trivalent ones being more common. Many of its chemical properties are similar to those of arsenic and antimony, although they are less toxic than derivatives of those lighter elements.\nOxides and sulfides\nAt elevated temperatures, the vapors of the metal combine rapidly with oxygen, forming the yellow trioxide, Bi\n3.[20][40] When molten, at temperatures above 710 \u00b0C, this oxide corrodes any metal oxide, and even platinum.[32] On reaction with base, it forms two series of oxyanions: BiO\u2212\n2, which is polymeric and forms linear chains, and BiO3\u2212\n3. The anion in Li\n3 is actually a cubic octameric anion, Bi\n8O24\u2212\n24, whereas the anion in Na\n3 is tetrameric.[41]\nThe dark red bismuth(V) oxide, Bi\n5, is unstable, liberating O\n2 gas upon heating.[42] The compound NaBiO3 is a strong oxidising agent.[43]\nBismuth sulfide, Bi\n3, occurs naturally in bismuth ores.[44] It is also produced by the combination of molten bismuth and sulfur.[31]\nBismuth oxychloride (BiOCl, see figure at right) and bismuth oxynitrate (BiONO3) stoichiometrically appear as simple anionic salts of the bismuthyl(III) cation (BiO+) which commonly occurs in aqueous bismuth compounds. However, in the case of BiOCl, the salt crystal forms in a structure of alternating plates of Bi, O, and Cl atoms, with each oxygen coordinating with four bismuth atoms in the adjacent plane. This mineral compound is used as a pigment and cosmetic (see below).[45]\nBismuthine and bismuthides\nUnlike the lighter pnictogens nitrogen, phosphorus, and arsenic, but similar to antimony, bismuth does not form a stable hydride. Bismuth hydride, bismuthine (BiH\n3), is an endothermic compound that spontaneously decomposes at room temperature. It is stable only below \u221260 \u00b0C.[41] Bismuthides are intermetallic compounds between bismuth and other metals.\nIn 2014 researchers discovered that sodium bismuthide can exist as a form of matter called a \u201cthree-dimensional topological Dirac semi-metal\u201d (3DTDS) that possess 3D Dirac fermions in bulk. It is a natural, three-dimensional counterpart to graphene with similar electron mobility and velocity. Graphene and topological insulators (such as those in 3DTDS) are both crystalline materials that are electrically insulating inside but conducting on the surface, allowing them to function as transistors and other electronic devices. While sodium bismuthide (Na\n3Bi) is too unstable to be used in devices without packaging, it can demonstrate potential applications of 3DTDS systems, which offer distinct efficiency and fabrication advantages over planar graphene in semiconductor and spintronics applications. [46][47]\nThe halides of bismuth in low oxidation states have been shown to adopt unusual structures. What was originally thought to be bismuth(I) chloride, BiCl, turns out to be a complex compound consisting of Bi5+\n9 cations and BiCl2\u2212\n5 and Bi\n2Cl2\u2212\n8 anions.[41][48] The Bi5+\n9 cation has a distorted tricapped trigonal prismatic molecular geometry, and is also found in Bi\n18, which is prepared by reducing a mixture of hafnium(IV) chloride and bismuth chloride with elemental bismuth, having the structure [Bi+\n] [Bi5+\n9] [HfCl2\u2212\n3.[41]:50 Other polyatomic bismuth cations are also known, such as Bi2+\n8, found in Bi\n8(AlCl\n2.[48] Bismuth also forms a low-valence bromide with the same structure as \"BiCl\". There is a true monoiodide, BiI, which contains chains of Bi\n4 units. BiI decomposes upon heating to the triiodide, BiI\n3, and elemental bismuth. A monobromide of the same structure also exists.[41] In oxidation state +3, bismuth forms trihalides with all of the halogens: BiF\n3, BiBr\n3, and BiI\n3. All of these except BiF\n3 are hydrolyzed by water.[41]\nBismuth(III) chloride reacts with hydrogen chloride in ether solution to produce the acid HBiCl\nThe oxidation state +5 is less frequently encountered. One such compound is BiF\n5, a powerful oxidizing and fluorinating agent. It is also a strong fluoride acceptor, reacting with xenon tetrafluoride to form the XeF+\n3 cation:[29]\n5 + XeF\n4 \u2192 XeF+\n3BiF\u2212\nAqueous species\nIn aqueous solution, the Bi3+\nion solvated to form the aqua ion Bi(H\n2O)3+\n8 in strongly acidic conditions.[49] At pH > 0 polynuclear species exist, the most important of which is believed to be the octahedral complex [Bi\n4]6+\nOccurrence and production\nBismite mineral\nIn the Earth's crust, bismuth is about twice as abundant as gold. The most important ores of bismuth are bismuthinite and bismite.[14] Native bismuth is known from Australia, Bolivia, and China.[51][52]\nAccording to the United States Geological Survey, the world mining production of bismuth in 2014 was 13,600 tonnes, with the major contributions from China (7,600 tonnes), Vietnam (4,950 tonnes) and Mexico (948 tonnes).[53] The refinery production in 2010 was 16,000 tonnes, of which China produced 13,000, Mexico 850 and Belgium 800 tonnes.[54] The difference reflects bismuth's status as a byproduct of extraction of other metals such as lead, copper, tin, molybdenum and tungsten.[55]\nBismuth travels in crude lead bullion (which can contain up to 10% bismuth) through several stages of refining, until it is removed by the Kroll-Betterton process which separates the impurities as slag, or the electrolytic Betts process. Bismuth will behave similarly with another of its major metals, copper.[56] The raw bismuth metal from both processes contains still considerable amounts of other metals, foremost lead. By reacting the molten mixture with chlorine gas the metals are converted to their chlorides while bismuth remains unchanged. Impurities can also be removed by various other methods for example with fluxes and treatments yielding high-purity bismuth metal (over 99% Bi). World bismuth production from refineries is a more complete and reliable statistic.[56][57][58]\nThe price for pure bismuth metal has been relatively stable through most of the 20th century, except for a spike in the 1970s. Bismuth has always been produced mainly as a byproduct of lead refining, and thus the price usually reflected the cost of recovery and the balance between production and demand.[59]\nDemand for bismuth was small prior to World War II and was pharmaceutical \u2013 bismuth compounds were used to treat such conditions as digestive disorders, sexually transmitted infections and burns. Minor amounts of bismuth metal were consumed in fusible alloys for fire sprinkler systems and fuse wire. During World War II bismuth was considered a strategic material, used for solders, fusible alloys, medications and atomic research. To stabilize the market, the producers set the price at $1.25 per pound (2.75 $/kg) during the war and at $2.25 per pound (4.96 $/kg) from 1950 until 1964.[59]\nIn the early 1970s, the price rose rapidly as a result of increasing demand for bismuth as a metallurgical additive to aluminium, iron and steel. This was followed by a decline owing to increased world production, stabilized consumption, and the recessions of 1980 and 1981\u201382. In 1984, the price began to climb as consumption increased worldwide, especially in the United States and Japan. In the early 1990s, research began on the evaluation of bismuth as a nontoxic replacement for lead in ceramic glazes, fishing sinkers, food-processing equipment, free-machining brasses for plumbing applications, lubricating greases, and shot for waterfowl hunting.[60] Growth in these areas remained slow during the middle 1990s, in spite of the backing of lead replacement by the US Government, but intensified around 2005. This resulted in a rapid and continuing increase in price.[59]\nWhereas bismuth is most available today as a byproduct, its sustainability is more dependent on recycling. Bismuth is mostly a byproduct of the smelting of lead, and also of tungsten and copper production. Recycling bismuth is difficult in many of its end uses, primarily because of scattering.\nProbably the easiest to recycle would be bismuth-containing fusible alloys in the form of larger objects, then larger soldered objects. Half of the world's solder consumption is in electronics (i.e., circuit boards).[61] As the soldered objects get smaller or contain little solder or little bismuth, the recovery gets progressively more difficult and less economic, although solder with a higher silver content will be more worthwhile recovering. Next in recycling feasibility would be sizeable catalysts with a fair bismuth content, perhaps as bismuth phosphomolybdate, and then bismuth used in galvanizing and as a free-machining metallurgical additive.\nBismuth in uses where it is dispersed most widely include stomach medicines (bismuth subsalicylate), paints (bismuth vanadate) on a dry surface, pearlescent cosmetics (bismuth oxychloride), and bismuth-containing bullets. Bismuth spread in the environment in these products is unrecoverable with present technology.\nThe most important sustainability fact about bismuth is its byproduct status, which can either improve sustainability (i.e., vanadium or manganese nodules) or, for bismuth from lead ore, constrain it; bismuth is constrained. The extent to which the constraint on bismuth can be relieved is going to be tested by the future of the lead storage battery, since 90% of the world market for lead is currently in storage batteries for gasoline or diesel-powered motor vehicles.\nThe life-cycle assessment of bismuth will focus on solders, one of the major uses of bismuth, and the one with the most complete information. The average primary energy use for solders is around 200 MJ per kg, with the high-bismuth solder (58% Bi) only 20% of that value, and three low-bismuth solders (2% to 5% Bi) running very close to the average. The global warming potential averaged 10 to 14 kg carbon dioxide, with the high-bismuth solder about two-thirds of that and the low-bismuth solders about average. The acidification potential for the solders is around 0.9 to 1.1 kg sulfur dioxide equivalent, with the high-bismuth solder and one low-bismuth solder only one-tenth of the average and the other low-bismuth solders about average.[62]\nBismuth has few commercial applications, and those applications that use it generally require small quantities relative to other raw materials. In the United States, for example, 884 tonnes of bismuth were consumed in 2010, of which 63% went into chemicals (including pharmaceuticals, pigments, and cosmetics); 26% into metallurgical additives for casting and galvanizing;[63] 7% into bismuth alloys, solders and ammunition; and 4% into research and other uses.[54]\nSome manufacturers use bismuth as a substitute in equipment for potable water systems such as valves to meet \"lead-free\" mandates in the U.S. (began in 2014). This is a fairly large application since it covers all residential and commercial building construction.\nIn the early 1990s, researchers began to evaluate bismuth as a nontoxic replacement for lead in various applications.\nBismuth is an ingredient in some pharmaceuticals,[7] although the use of some of these substances is declining.[45]\nBismuth subsalicylate is used as an antidiarrheal;[7] it is the active ingredient in such \"Pink Bismuth\" preparations as Pepto-Bismol, as well as the 2004 reformulation of Kaopectate. It is also used to treat some other gastro-intestinal diseases and cadmium poisoning.[7] The mechanism of action of this substance is still not well documented, although an oligodynamic effect (toxic effect of small doses of heavy metal ions on microbes) may be involved in at least some cases. Salicylic acid from hydrolysis of the compound is antimicrobial for toxogenic E. coli, an important pathogen in traveler's diarrhea.[64]\na combination of bismuth subsalicylate and bismuth subcitrate is used to treat the bacteria causing peptic ulcers.\nBibrocathol is an organic bismuth-containing compound used to treat eye infections.\nBismuth subgallate, the active ingredient in Devrom, is used as an internal deodorant to treat malodor from flatulence (\"gas\") and feces.\nBismuth compounds (including sodium bismuth tartrate) were formerly used to treat syphilis[65][66]\n\"Milk of bismuth\" (an aqueous solution of bismuth hydroxide and bismuth subcarbonate) was marketed as an alimentary cure-all in the early 20th century\nBismuth subnitrate (Bi5O(OH)9(NO3)4) and bismuth subcarbonate (Bi2O2(CO3)) are also used in medicine.[14]\nCosmetics and pigments\nBismuth oxychloride (BiOCl) is sometimes used in cosmetics, as a pigment in paint for eye shadows, hair sprays and nail polishes.[7][45][67][68] This compound is found as the mineral bismoclite and in crystal form contains layers of atoms (see figure above) that refract light chromatically, resulting in an iridescent appearance similar to nacre of pearl. It was used as a cosmetic in ancient Egypt and in many places since. Bismuth white (also \"Spanish white\") can refer to either bismuth oxychloride or bismuth oxynitrate (BiONO3), when used as a white pigment.\nBismuth is used in metal alloys with other metals such as iron, to create alloys to go into automatic sprinkler systems for fires. It was also used to make bismuth bronze which was used in the Bronze Age.\nThe density difference between lead (11.32 g/cm3) and bismuth (9.78 g/cm3) is small enough that for many ballistics and weighting applications, bismuth can substitute for lead. For example, it can replace lead as a dense material in fishing sinkers. It has been used as a replacement for lead in shot, bullets and less-lethal riot gun ammunition. The Netherlands, Denmark, England, Wales, the US, and many other countries now prohibit the use of lead shot for the hunting of wetland birds, as many birds are prone to lead poisoning owing to mistaken ingestion of lead (instead of small stones and grit) to aid digestion, or even prohibit the use of lead for all hunting, such as in the Netherlands. Bismuth-tin alloy shot is one alternative that provides similar ballistic performance to lead. (Another less expensive but also more poorly performing alternative is \"steel\" shot, which is actually soft iron.) Bismuth's lack of malleability does, however, make it unsuitable for use in expanding hunting bullets.[citation needed]\nBismuth, as a dense element of high atomic weight, is used in bismuth-impregnated latex shields to shield from X-ray in medical examinations, such as CTs, mostly as it is considered non-toxic.[69]\nThe European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS) for reduction of lead has broadened bismuth's use in electronics as a component of low-melting point solders, as a replacement for traditional tin-lead solders.[54] Its low toxicity will be especially important for solders to be used in food processing equipment and copper water pipes, although it can also be used in other applications including those in the automobile industry, in the EU for example.[70]\nBismuth has been evaluated as a replacement for lead in free-machining brasses for plumbing applications,[71] although it does not equal the performance of leaded steels.[70]\nOther metal uses and specialty alloys\nMany bismuth alloys have low melting points and are found in specialty applications such as solders. Many automatic sprinklers, electric fuses, and safety devices in fire detection and suppression systems contain the eutectic In19.1-Cd5.3-Pb22.6-Sn8.3-Bi44.7 alloy that melts at 47 \u00b0C (117 \u00b0F)[14] This is a convenient temperature since it is unlikely to be exceeded in normal living conditions. Low-melting alloys, such as Bi-Cd-Pb-Sn alloy which melts at 70 \u00b0C, are also used in automotive and aviation industries. Before deforming a thin-walled metal part, it is filled with a melt or covered with a thin layer of the alloy to reduce the chance of breaking. Then the alloy is removed by submerging the part in boiling water.[72]\nBismuth is used to make free-machining steels and free-machining aluminium alloys for precision machining properties. It has similar effect to lead and improves the chip breaking during machining. The shrinking on solidification in lead and the expansion of bismuth compensate each other and therefore lead and bismuth are often used in similar quantities.[73][74] Similarly, alloys containing comparable parts of bismuth and lead exhibit a very small change (on the order 0.01%) upon melting, solidification or aging. Such alloys are used in high-precision casting, e.g. in dentistry, to create models and molds.[72] Bismuth is also used as an alloying agent in production of malleable irons and as a thermocouple material.[14][54]\nBismuth is also used in aluminium-silicon cast alloys in order to refine silicon morphology. However, it indicated a poisoning effect on modification of strontium (Sr).[75][76] Some bismuth alloys, such as Bi35-Pb37-Sn25, are combined with non-sticking materials such as mica, glass and enamels because they easily wet them allowing to make joints to other parts. Addition of bismuth to caesium enhances the quantum yield of caesium cathodes.[45] Sintering of bismuth and manganese powders at 300 \u00b0C produces a permanent magnet and magnetostrictive material, which is used in ultrasonic generators and receivers working in the 10\u2013100 kHz range and in magnetic memory devices.[77]\nOther uses as compounds\nBismuth is included in BSCCO (bismuth strontium calcium copper oxide) which is a group of similar superconducting compounds discovered in 1988 that exhibit the highest superconducting transition temperatures.[78]\nBismuth subnitrate is a component of glazes that produces an iridescence and is used as a pigment in paint.\nBismuth telluride is a semiconductor and an excellent thermoelectric material.[45][79] Bi2Te3 diodes are used in mobile refrigerators, CPU coolers, and as detectors in infrared spectrophotometers.[45]\nBismuth oxide, in its delta form, is a solid electrolyte for oxygen. This form normally breaks down below a high-temperature threshold, but can be electrodeposited well below this temperature in a highly alkaline solution.\nBismuth vanadate is an opaque yellow pigment in artists' oil and acrylic paint. This compound is a non-toxic lightfast substitute for lemon yellow pigments such as the cadmium sulfides and the lead/strontium/barium chromates. Unlike lead chromate+lead sulfate lemon, bismuth vanadate does not readily blacken with UV exposure.[80][81]\nA catalyst for making acrylic fibers.[14]\nAs an electrocatalyst in the conversion of CO2 to CO.[82]\nIngredient in lubricating greases.[83]\nIn crackling microstars (dragon's eggs) in pyrotechnics, as the oxide, subcarbonate or subnitrate.[84][85]\nToxicology and ecotoxicology\nSee also bismuthia, a rare dermatological condition that results from the prolonged use of bismuth.\nScientific literature indicates that some of the compounds of bismuth are less toxic to humans via ingestion compared to other heavy metals (lead, arsenic, antimony, etc.)[7] presumably due to the comparatively low solubility of bismuth salts.[86] Its biological half-life for whole-body retention is reported to be 5 days but it can remain in the kidney for years in people treated with bismuth compounds.[87]\nBismuth poisoning can occur and has according to some reports been common in relatively recent times.[86][88] As with lead, bismuth poisoning can result in the formation of a black deposit on the gingiva, known as a bismuth line.[89][90][91] Poisoning may be treated with dimercaprol; however, evidence for benefit is unclear.[92][93]\nBismuth's environmental impacts are not well known; it may be less likely to bioaccumulate than some other heavy metals, and this is an area of active research.[94][95]\nThe fungus Marasmius oreades can be used for the biological remediation of bismuth in polluted soils.[96]\nBook: Bismuth\nAluminiumArsenical copperBerylliumChromiumCobaltCopperGlassPlasticPlexiglasStainless steelSteelStructural steelGalliumGoldIndiumIronLeadMercuryNickelPlutoniumRhodiumSilverSamariumTinUraniumZincZirconiumAluminium-lithium alloyAlnicoBirmabrightDuraluminHiduminiumHydronaliumItalmaMagnaliumAluminium alloyY alloyWood's metalRose's metalChromium hydrideNichromeMegalliumStelliteVitalliumBeryllium copperBillon (alloy)BrassCalamine brassChinese silverDutch metalGilding metalMuntz metalPinchbeck (alloy)TombacBronzeAluminium bronzeArsenical bronzeBell metalFlorentine bronzeGlucydurGuan\u00edn (bronze)GunmetalPhosphor bronzeOrmoluSpeculum metalConstantanCopper hydrideCopper\u2013tungstenCorinthian bronzeCunifeCupronickelCymbal alloysDevarda's alloyElectrumHepatizonManganinMelchior (alloy)Nickel silverMolybdochalkosNordic GoldShakud\u014dTumbagaAlGaGalfenolGalinstanColored goldRhoditeCrown goldElinvarField's metalFernicoFerroalloyFerroceriumFerrochromeFerromanganeseFerromolybdenumFerrosiliconFerrotitaniumFerrouraniumInvarCast ironIron\u2013hydrogen alloyPig ironKanthal (alloy)KovarStaballoySpiegeleisenBulat steelCrucible steel41xx steelDamascus steelMangalloyHigh-speed steelMushet steelMaraging steelHigh-strength low-alloy steelReynolds 531Electrical steelSpring steelAL-6XNCelestriumAlloy 20Marine grade stainlessMartensitic stainless steelSanicro 28Surgical stainless steelZeron 100Silver steelTool steelWeathering steelWootz steelSolderTerneType metalElektron (alloy)Amalgam (chemistry)Magnox (alloy)AlumelBrightrayChromelHaynes InternationalInconelMonelNicrosilNisilNickel titaniumMu-metalPermalloySupermalloyNickel hydridePlutonium\u2013gallium alloySodium-potassium alloyMischmetalLithiumTerfenol-DPseudo palladiumScandium hydrideSamarium\u2013cobalt magnetArgentium sterling silverBritannia silverDor\u00e9 bullionGoloidPlatinum sterlingShibuichiSterling silverTibetan silverTitanium Beta CTitanium alloyTitanium hydrideGum metalTitanium goldTitanium nitrideBabbitt (alloy)Britannia metalPewterQueen's metalWhite metalUranium hydrideZamakZirconium hydrideHydrogenHeliumBoronNitrogenOxygenFluorineMethaneMezzanineAtom\nThis article uses material from the Wikipedia article \"Bismuth\", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. There is a list of all authors in Wikipedia\ndatabase,rohs,reach,compliancy,directory,listing,information,substance,material", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 429, "original_length": 37858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bainesreport.org/2017/04/a-lesson-on-religious-violence-from-south-asia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:76FYERDRWM2RTKBIBUYSQV66AZSB3K5O", "length": 6288, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "bainesreport.org", "title": "A Lesson on Religious Violence from South Asia \u2013 Baines Report", "raw_content": "Photo: persecutionbd\nThis past week, a proponent of religious and ethnic tolerance came to University of Texas Law School to discuss religiously motivated violence in Bangladesh. The Law School\u2019s Rapoport Center hosted the talk by Khushi Kabir (pictured above), activist and public face of Nijera Kori, a Bangladeshi NGO that educates and mobilizes the rural poor to advocate for their own land and political rights.\nKabir sat proudly at the head of a long table, in a little white-walled classroom just off an echo-filled hall, on the fifth floor of the law school. The room was cramped\u2014all the chairs around the table were filled when I arrived, and the Rapaport Center\u2019s busy staff were ferrying chairs from some mysterious location and lining them up along the walls like bright red dominos. Attendees were a mix of undergraduate and graduate students and professors from various departments, including the law school, the LBJ school, and the government department.\nAs I situated myself, I studied Kabir\u2019s face. It was unmade-up, wide and fleshy and unfussy, with a strong, pert mouth and eyes that projected calm and skepticism all at once. Her square body was swathed in some kind of traditional Bangla wrap, with golden threads sewn into the lavender fabric, reflecting and softening the harsh fluorescent lighting of the room.\n\u201cI grew up in the 1960s,\u201d she began. And she described a time when young people were inspired and hopeful about the future. \u201cWe believed in change,\u201d she explained, \u201cWe believed it could actually happen.\u201d\nBut from hopeful beginnings, Kabir\u2019s story grew dark. The war for independence in 1971, which Kabir and her peers believed they had fought in the name of secular values, did bring about a free and sovereign state. But in the aftermath there was much to atone for: genocide, widespread displacement of civilians \u2013 largely Hindus\u2013 and various other war crimes.\nIn more recent years, Bangladesh\u2019s government has turned a blind eye to religiously-motivated violence, calling attack after attack on bloggers by machete-wielding Wahabi Muslim extremists merely \u201cisolated incidents.\u201d More than 20 people have been killed by Islamist militants since 2013. Among the victims have been many bloggers, secularists, and religious minorities, as well as two foreigners. In most cases a single attacker wields a machete and hacks his victim to death. For a time, one member of the audience said during the talk, the Islamist radicals openly advocated killing at least one victim per month.\nBecause the new generation has failed to articulate a coherent ideological vision, a darker, bloodier ideology has slunk in to fill the space.\nThere are only two explanations, said Kabir, for the government\u2019s willful blindness toward what is quite obviously a pattern of violence. One, the government is actively pandering to radical fringe groups because it relies on them to stay in power. Two, the government shies away from discussing religion because it fears undermining its own legitimacy. Is that legitimacy based on Islam? It shouldn\u2019t be. One of the four fundamental principles at the heart of the country\u2019s 1972 Constitution is secularism: in this historically diverse country, citizens\u2019 rights come from their status as citizens, not from their embrace of any particular creed.\nYet unofficially, says Kabir, non-Muslims are feeling less and less at home in Bangladesh. In 1972, just after the war, the Hindu minority hovered around 13 percent. That number is now closer to 8 percent. And whenever another blogger or professor is slaughtered in a religiously motivated attack, the victim\u2019s relatives are quick to insist that the dead man or woman was a faithful Muslim, not an atheist.\n\u201cWhy is this kind of justification necessary?\u201d Kabir asked in exasperation. It\u2019s quite telling, she explained, that in the face of a bloody murder, her country is not asking how it can punish the offenders but rather whether or not the victim was religious. Whether or not the victim \u201cdeserved\u201d to be killed.\nThe story that Kabir tells about her country is a sobering one. But, she reminded her listeners gravely, it is not one unique to Bangladesh. In countries all over the world, there are people wielding religions \u2014 even religions we believed to be \u201cfull of peace,\u201d as she put it \u2013 to beat down those who cannot in good conscience adhere to the same tenets of faith.\nThis rampant intolerance is the product, Kabir says, of a vacuum: because the new generation has failed to articulate a coherent ideological vision, a darker, bloodier ideology has slunk in to fill the space. It has taken up residence in the country that Kabir calls home, but it also lives in mosques, churches and temples in London, Paris and New York. In the minds of people everywhere who would sacrifice the rights of their fellow citizens on an altar to a specific creed.\nThere are signs of progress, of course. Kabir\u2019s organization is busy educating and empowering Bangladesh\u2019s rural poor. Meanwhile, a controversial criminal tribunal is holding people accountable for crimes committed during the country\u2019s war for independence, nearly 45 years ago. Atoning for the violence and errors of the past will always be politically unpopular, but it is deeply necessary if any country \u2013 not just Bangladesh \u2013 seeks to move forward. Perhaps with some humility, and with a renewed enthusiasm for diversity and tolerance, Bangladesh will find a way to heal and thrive. May the rest of the world follow suit.\nPreviousLBJ\u2019s Pride Policy Alliance Hosts Domestic Violence Prevention Workshop\nNextBarbara Jordan\u2019s Enduring Legacy\nMargaret Fox is pursuing dual degrees in law and global policy studies. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a writer and editor at a foreign affairs magazine in Austin, where she dealt primarily with issues related to trade and national security. Her focus is now on international human rights promotion and alternative dispute resolution. She is an articles editor for the Texas Review of Law and Politics, a board member of the Texas Law chapter of the American Constitution Society, and a staff editor for the Texas International Law Journal. She is also an enthusiastic member of Texas Law Fellowships, a 501(c)(3) that supports students in public interest.\nTen Years of War", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 9244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bakeryinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/12579/Tesco_profits_slump_again.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DGOSPYDCW6DFFIIXPYIAXTM4UPXNBOBF", "length": 1236, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "bakeryinfo.co.uk", "title": "Tesco profits slump again - British Baker", "raw_content": "Tesco profits slump again\nMartyn Leek \u00b7 16 April, 2014\nSupermarket giant Tesco has this morning reported a 6% fall in group trading annual profit to \u00a33.3bn \u2013 the second year in a row it has announced falling profits.\nUnveiling its preliminary results for the 52 weeks until 22 February, 2014, it said like-for-like sales also fell by 1.4%\nThe company also announced a \u00a3734m loss of value in its European business, which has been hit by the eurozone crisis. In Europe, group trading profit fell 28% to \u00a3238m as sales in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Turkey, as well as Ireland, all slumped.\nGroup trading profit was also down 5.6% in Asia to \u00a3692m.\nPhilip Clarke, Tesco\u2019s under-fire chief executive, said: \u201cWe are transforming Tesco through a relentless focus on providing the most compelling offer for our customers. Our results today reflect the challenges we face in a trading environment which is changing more rapidly than ever before. We are determined to lead the industry in this period of change.\u201d\nTesco\u2019s core UK market share has fallen to a near 10-year low.\nPots & Co\u2019s puddings sweep across Europe\nFood drives Tesco\u2019s Christmas sales\nTesco reports large fall in profits\nJubilee boosts supermarket trading", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 12356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beam.vt.edu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XVTIF4CNO7MZKFRKBI43IILDNXPCMXMK", "length": 2081, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "beam.vt.edu", "title": "index | Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics | Virginia Tech", "raw_content": "Two Programs, One Vision\nThe Virginia Tech Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics (BEAM) combines fundamental and applied mechanics with biomedical science in a unique multidisciplinary interface. 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Link to iframe content: https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z9sBQGSw8rI\nMentorship. Community. Opportunity. These are the words recent Hokie grad and new biomedical engineering Ph.D. alumna Nora Hlavac '18 uses to describe her time at Virginia Tech. She's excited about pursuing a career in academia that will allow her to combine her two passions of teaching and research. Her next stop is the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, where she'll continue her research on central nervous system injury and repair in Christine Schmidt's lab.\nWith a focus on high-impact educational practices, BEAM students in both graduate and undergraduate programs have access to a variety of hands-on learning experiences. Opportunities include research alongside program faculty, access to internships, and a focus on entrepreneurial practices \u2013 among others.\nFollow Virginia Tech Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 6010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 233.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://begado.legitimatecasino.com/betfair-casino-trump-plaza/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TJOLQXO6QAI4NG2JBTDY634LC2T37W24", "length": 3413, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "begado.legitimatecasino.com", "title": "Betfair Online Casino can stay in NJ without Trump Plaza", "raw_content": "Legitimate Casino Sites > Begado > Uncategorized > Closure of Trump Plaza will not force Betfair Online Casino out of New Jersey\nClosure of Trump Plaza will not force Betfair Online Casino out of New Jersey\nWhen the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement scripted its regulatory guidelines for an online casino and poker market in the state, it was a strict prerequisite that all software providers from outside New Jersey must be partnered with an Atlantic City Casino in order to obtain a license. Trump Plaza negotiated such a partnership deal with UK-based online gaming giant Betfair, which subsequently launched BetfairCasino.com in the Garden State late last year. But with the imminent closure of Trump Plaza just 8 days away, the future of Betfair in New Jersey was questionable.\nThe popular land-based casino was built as a skyward destination on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, opening its doors to the public on May 26, 1984 as Harrah\u2019s at Trump Plaza. Six months later, the facility was rebranded, dropping the Harrah\u2019s association and taking on the truncated name Trump Plaza. 30 years\u2019 worth of fond memories for many patrons and employees alike are being shared now as the Atlantic City casino is scheduled to close its doors for the last time on September 16, 2014.\nThe closure of Trump Plaza follows the cessation of activities at another nearby casino destination. The Showboat Atlantic City locked its doors on Sunday, August 31. However, from a virtual standpoint, the two situations are quite different. Showboat never bothered to obtain a license to launch an online casino site in New Jersey, whereas Trump Plaza did.\nThe online gaming company\u2019s eligibility to continue operating BetfairCasino was a moot question that left many players nervous about the future of their accounts. It was initially believed that Betfair would either be left out in the cold, or would have to scramble to find another suitable iGaming partner with a land-based gambling destination in Atlantic City. Fortunately, such worries have finally been abolished by Director David Rebuck of the New Jersey DGE.\n\u201cThe division will consider input from all involved parties to ensure a smooth transition as Trump Plaza winds down its operations and as Betfair continues its iGaming operations in the state,\u201d read the statement from Director Rebuck. \u201cThey want to remain fully functional and stay in New Jersey, and we will work with them to do that.\u201d\nAlso working in Betfair\u2019s favor is the fact that its contract appears to be with Trump Entertainment Resorts, which happens to be the proprietor of another Atlantic City based casino, the Trump Taj Mahal. As a matter of fact, it\u2019s come to light that the servers for Betfair\u2019s online gaming operation in New Jersey were assembled in the Trump Taj Mahal, not the Trump Plaza, resulting in a seamless transition upon the closure of NJ\u2019s 30 year old establishment.\nUnfortunately, while BetfairCasino.com will remain intact in New Jersey, the lack of recognition for local players has failed to produce much in the way of revenue compared to the state\u2019s other online gambling destinations. 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The event became the largest show of force by the Union State of Russia and...\nOn 16 October, the High Command of the Belarusian military conducted a detailed analysis of West-2013 exercise, which played out in Belarus in late September. The event became the largest show of force by the Union State of Russia and Belarus in four years.\nSecond in scope only to the controversial West-2009 exercise, West-2013 has become another milestone in the Russia-driven military integration in the post-Soviet space. Whether the exercise helped the Belarusian leader to strike non-military bargains with Kremlin remains to be seen.\nRussian-Belarusian Integration: Guns for Butter\nPro-regime commentators in Belarus often compare the Union State of Belarus and Russia with the European Union. While regular economic \u201cwars\u201d and top-level spats make the comparison hollow, in one area the Union project has probably achieved more success than its European counterpart. The area is military integration.\nThe roots of the close cooperation between the two militaries lie in the wake of the dissolution of the USSR. The collapse of the Soviet Union did not affect the military ties between the two countries as much as their economic and political trajectories. In the early 1990s, the transitional Communist-dominated government ensured the conservation of the Belarusian military-industrial complex, which was created to serve the needs of the Soviet military.\nAfter the 1994 presidential elections, Alexander Lukashenka reinforced this trend. On the one hand, he turned the conservative Belarusian military, which was nostalgic of the Soviet military might, into his loyal base during the power struggle of the mid-1990s. On the other, his policy of generous military allowances made servicemen and military retirees Lukashenka\u2019s core constituency.\nMoscow-Minsk Military Axis: 1990s to 2000s\nEmpty political declarations and still-born agreements of the 1990s aside, effective cooperation between the two militaries originated from within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).\nThe year 1998 saw the launching of yearly air defence exercises of CIS member-states' Combat Community. The exercises enabled Moscow to maintain control over the air defence capabilities of the former Soviet republics, particularly its Central Asia states. However, by 2013 the Combat Community was reduced to little more than pre-sales testing of advanced Russian air defence technology.\nThe early 2000s marked a time of maturation for the Belarusian military. Three major military exercises took place within a three-year period \u2013 a defensive Nioman-2001, a counter-offensive Biarezina-2002 and a comprehensive air force and air defence exercise \u201cClear Sky-2003\u201d. The latter became the first instance of major Russian military involvement in Belarus.\nOn 13 October 2003, in a statement summarising the outcome of Clear Sky-2003, President Lukashenka claimed that the exercise reflected the lessons learned from the NATO campaigns in Yugoslavia and Iraq and aimed to counter an identical scenario in Belarus.\nThe first truly joint military exercise Union Shield-2006 took place three years later. The pivotal points of this staff-centred exercise were air defence and the coordination of the newly created Joint Military Force, which comprised the military forces of Belarus and the Russian 20th Army.\nWest-2009: a Milestone\nIn 2009, the militaries of Russia and Belarus conducted their first full-scale joint field exercise West-2009, which became the largest field exercise in the region since the dissolution of the USSR. It came as a surprise to Belarus' Western neighbours and caused significant angst in the Baltic republic and Poland.\nWest-2009 lasted for two weeks and played out across several locations, including the Kaliningrad enclave and Belarus. The exercise imitated a full-blown military conflict, involving strategic bombing, airborne and seaborne landings and a tank attack spread over a large front. The scenario of West-2009 leaves no doubt that the exercise had a distinct offensive character.\nThe following major Union State military exercise Union Shield-2011 received little attention in the West, largely due to the fact that it was conducted far from the borders of the EU. Thus, Poland and the Baltic states saw the return of a large joint Russian-Belarusian military force to their borders in 2013 as a repetition of the 2009 scenario.\nWest-2013: Who Benefits\nHowever, the similarities between the two West exercises are only superficial. While comparable in scope and the number of military personnel involved, the exercises differed significantly in the composition of their forces and set objectives. The official exercise plan of West-2013 foresaw the neutralising of a group of terrorists invading the Union State.\nMost military analysts rightly qualified the choice of Belarus and Kaliningrad region for a large-scale anti-terrorist operation as misguided. However, the absence of ground operations over a large front or a serious air component de facto limited the exercise to a number of intense tactical operations completed by elite task forces.\nThis exercise did not display any clear defensive or offensive characteristics. Rather, it was reminiscent of a coordinated anti-insurgency mission. The skills trained during such an exercise would prove useful in a conflict similar to the current situation in Syria or in a potential political breakdown scenario in a Central Asian republic.\nCoupled with the absence of heated anti-Western rhetoric in the state-controlled media, which marked West-2009, it appears unlikely that Lukashenka prepared West-2013 as an opportunity to flex his muscles in the face of his Western critics.\nIn 2009, the impending elections and Russia\u2019s economic backing allowed him to reap the fruits of publicly defying the West with impunity. However, in the late 2013 the Belarusian leader finds himself making cautious advances towards the EU and IMF in the face of a looming currency crisis in Belarus. An aggressive military move simply would go against President Lukashenka\u2019s current game.\nOn a different note, the exercise provided Alexander Lukashenka a rare opportunity to hold circumstantial negotiations with President Putin. Lukashenka used the traditional joint inspection of the troops to raise the issues on Uralkali and extending new credit lines to Minsk. The coming weeks will show whether these talks yielded any practical results.\nQuite predictably, the exercises ended with enthusiastic reports from both the Russian and Belarusian military commands. In contrast to West-2009 and Union Shield-2011, the planners of West-2013 indeed managed to avoid both international incidents and any highly embarrassing loss of life.\nHowever, an implausible legend and the secrecy around the event cast doubts about whether its planners had clarity about the ultimate purpose of the exercise. In the wake of West-2013, it appears that its only clear consequence is the further consolidation of Moscow\u2019s hold over the Belarusian military. However, this alone might as well be considered by the Russian military strategists to constitute a success.\nAlexander Martynau\nThis article won a best article prize in a recent Belarus Digest contest. \u200b\nhttps://belarusdigest.com/story/moscow-minsk-military-axis/\nTags belarus-russia relations Belarusian army CIS kaliningrad Military NATO Putin Union State weapons Zapad 2013\nPaula Borowska21 October 2013\nAzerbaijan Elections Praised, Corruption in Construction Industry, IMF \u2013 Belarus State TV Digest\nState TV Channel 1 widely covered the presidential elections which recently took place in Azerbaijan. A visit of Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov to Minsk resulted in the signing of a package of agreements. Alexander Lukashenka also made it clear that he would not oppose the Western ambitions of Kiev.\nThe IMF mission will be monitoring the economic situation of Belarus, but state TV noted that Minsk already appeared to be a trustworthy partner not only for the IMF, but also for other international organisations.\nThe elections in Azerbaijan: complied with all democratic standards. Belarusian journalists widely reported on recent presidential elections in Azerbaijan. Reporters pointed out that all (unnamed) experts were stating that the current president Ilham Aliyev remained the indisputable leader of the country and the people would re-elect him. Although 10 other opposition candidates took part in the elections, the victory of Aliyev was all but completely assured.\n52 thousand observers monitored the elections, including an observatory mission from members of the CIS. Lidzija Jermoshyna, the head of the Central Electoral Committee, headed the Belarusian delegation. Both she and other experts shared the same views on the elections, \u201cthey went in compliance with democratic norms, with an exceptionally high turnout of voters\u201d.\nBelarusian state TV also showed happy supporters of Aliyev who were glorifying the current president.\nIt is not surprising that the opposition did not win, TV noted. It just became famous for the scandals during the electoral campaign. None of the opposition politicians presented a clear political programme. In the aftermath of the turbulent 1990s, the Azerbaijani people do not wish to go through the same situation again. All it wants is stability which only the current leader can offer, journalists explained.\nMinsk: \u201cYes\u201d to the integration of Ukraine with the EU. Last week the Ukrainian Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov visited Belarus. Both countries have been closely co-operating over the last years in the sphere of industry, agriculture, energy and transport. Also the trade turnover between Minsk and Kiev, which in 2012 reached $4.5bln, is proof of this growing co-operation. According to Belarusian journalists, this course for co-operation will be continued.\nBelarusian authorities sent also a positive message to their Ukrainian colleagues. During the meeting with Azarov, Lukashenka clearly stated that Minsk had no objections against Kiev signing the association agreement with the EU. The whole issue was being politicised, he added. However, apart from the co-operation with the West and its institutions, Ukraine should not close the door on potential integration with the Customs Union.\nLukashenka\u2019s dialogue with the Russian media: open and honest. State television reported on the traditional press conference of the head of the state and Russian journalists from over 70 regional media outlets. Several times it emphasized how open and honest the \u201cdialogue\u201d was. This impressed Russian journalists who could not believe how open and honest a leader Lukashenka is.\nThe Belarusian head of the state pointed out one of his main achievements was formation of a \u201csovereign and independent Belarus\u201d. Apart from telling jokes, he replied to all questions from social policy to relations with Russia, often in a concise and clever way, according to the state TV report. The Russian journalists expressed their full support for the Belarusian leader.\nA warning to officials on utility costs. Lukashenka chaired a meeting on the key aspects of economic and social development of Belarus. He warned officials not to increase the utility costs as a remedy for the state's budget issues. \u201cI will not allow to suffocate the people. And this is not populism\u201d, he added. Increase of the costs should correspond to increase of the salaries.\nThe head of the state criticised the government for its insufficient work. \u201cAnd what do we have here: the government is sleeping, then wakes up after a half a year and we should increase the costs by 40%\u201d, Lukashenka continued.\nWorld Hockey Cup: all hands on board. The state channel continues to report on preparations for the international sporting event. This time Lukashenka met with officials to demand from them their maximum effort to make sure the event is as professional as possible. The Cup should become also an economic forum that will bring money to Belarus in the future.\nApart from that, it will be a chance to improve the international image of Belarus. \u201cWe should show to the whole world that we are a normal civilised Central-European country\u201d, Lukashenka pointed out. Belarusian journalists reminded viewers that Minsk has already simplified its visa regime system for foreigners who would come to the event.\nBelarusian investigators: corruption scandals in construction industry. The TV channel reported on shady practices in the construction sector. The whole porblem has brought about a few million USD in losses to the state.\nJournalists described how the illegal scheme worked over a period of 7 years. Over the 7 years around 200 illegal houses were constructed. The company was buying old houses and building new ones. Instead of two-bedroom flats, it built houses with more rooms and sold them then for around $300,000 a piece. Now a special working group will investigate the whole issue and find out how these illegal practises were possible and whether any officials supported its operations.\nMinsk as a trustworthy partner to the International Monetary Fund. Representatives of the IMF arrived to Belarus to monitor the economic situation of the country. Journalists reported that in 2009-2010 Minsk implemented a stand-by programme supported by a $3.5 bln IMF loan. According to state television, Belarus proved to be a trustworthy partner for the IMF, because it fulfilled all its obligations on time.\nPartnership with the IMF remains beneficial for Minsk. The interest rate is relatively low and repayment conditions do not put too much stress on the Belarusian economy. According to the Belarusian TV, further co-operation also could country attract other international organisations and potential investors to Belarus.\nTags Belarus-Ukraine relations corruption in Belarus IMF IMF-Belarus Lukashenka's press conference preseidential elections in Azerbaijan World Hockey Cup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 16125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://belly-erotic.jimdo.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:23Z", "digest": "sha1:3L4PS4NRS5GH7QIOXPSDTEPO7W42F6CO", "length": 8217, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "belly-erotic.jimdo.com", "title": "PRIVACY POLICY - belly-erotics Webseite!", "raw_content": "We are very delighted that you have shown interest in our enterprise. 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However, I realized that the 1950s was merely a clear example of the entire Cold War era. Some would say the Cold War is still going on, but just with a new name. For certain, the Cold War spans almost the entire living memory of our culture. The people who clearly remember the US before WWII are getting very old and becoming smaller in number. And only now is a new generation growing up with no memory at all of the threat of communism. Maybe terrorism will obsess our collective psyche for the next half century or so as communism had done before it.\nWith the new or seemingly new threat of terrorism, it\u2019s easy for many (the Boomers in particular) to fondly remember the peace and prosperity of the post-war period of history. But let us not get too soft and fuzzy in our memories. There is a dark past that I hope isn\u2019t forgotten for fear of repeating it. Much of our present international troubles are directly rooted in the meddling activities our country did in the last century. We shouldn\u2019t be surprised that the chickens have come home to roost. The problems of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iran are nothing new and our country is far from innocent.\nMid-1940s to early 1990s \u2014 \u201cThe Cold War began in the mid-1940s and lasted into the early 1990s.\u201d This general period involves some of the greatest and worst events of American history. The late 1950s to early 1960s represented the high point of American idealistic optimism, but I\u2019ll instead focus on the negative here because the media, for all of its seeming negativity, too often overlooks the dark underbelly of politics. This, of course, might have something to do with the government becoming ever more adept at controlling the media through propaganda.\nMost of the Cold War was patriotic rallying and international posturing rather than overt fighting and hence the name, but still there was plenty of international conflicts including covert operations (para-military training, assassination attempts, overthrowing of governments, financial support of dictatorships, etc.). The stakes were as real as the World Wars but just with more subtle methods. As this was the beginning of ideological warfare it was also the beginning of the endless war and the military-industrial complex that certain people early on had predicted and warned about. An interesting aspect was the ending of colonization as the preferred method of relating to \u201cThird World\u201d countries, but obviously that didn\u2019t mean the \u201cFirst World\u201d countries were no longer interested in continuing their control and manipulation by other means. From the Wikipedia article on the Cold War:\nNationalist movements in some countries and regions, notably Guatemala, Iran, the Philippines, and Indochina were often allied with communist groups\u2014or at least were perceived in the West to be allied with communists.[79] In this context, the US and the Soviet Union increasingly competed for influence by proxy in the Third World as decolonization gained momentum in the 1950s and early 1960s;[134] additionally, the Soviets saw continuing losses by imperial powers as presaging the eventual victory of their ideology.[135] The US government utilized the CIA in order to remove a string of unfriendly Third World governments and to support allied ones.[79] The US used the CIA to overthrow governments suspected by Washington of turning pro-Soviet, including Iran\u2019s first democratically elected government under Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq in 1953 (see 1953 Iranian coup d\u2019\u00e9tat) and Guatemala\u2019s democratically elected president Jacobo Arbenz Guzm\u00e1n in 1954 (see 1954 Guatemalan coup d\u2019\u00e9tat).[104]Between 1954 and 1961, the US sent economic aid and military advisors to stem the collapse of South Vietnam\u2019s pro-Western regime.[20]\nBecause of new advances in technology, this was an era that brought to a new level the power and ability of the information gathering agencies and secret (and semi-secret) enforcement agencies. It was around this time that many of the alphabet agencies in the US were created and gained immense power. These agencies, however, had predecessors before them. In the past century, there has been a complex ever-changing puzzle of committees and organizations under a variety of names.\nAlso during this time, the US and the Soviet Union began wide experimentation: atom bombs, neutrino bombs, hydrogen bombs, radiation, radar, sonar, microwaves, bio-chemicals, genetics, psychological manipulation, social control methods, brainwashing, psychedelics, ESP, telekinesis, influence of various kinds of energy waves on humans and technology, etc. In order to try to gain an edge, the world powers were willing to try anything at least once both on citizens of other countries and sometimes their own unsuspecting citizens. Still unknown to most people, the government parapsychology research went on for decades in both countries and possibly is still going on. For example, the Stargate Project was a 20 million dollar US intelligence program which at its peak had 14 labs that researched remote viewing(including clairvoyance and out-of-body experiences). This project involved the Army and the CIA and was in operation from the 1970s to 1995 when it either closed down or changed names as is commonly the habit for programs that get too much public attention. The Stargate Project was related to the projects Sun Streak, Grill Flame, Center Lane by DIA(Defense Intelligence Agency that, according to the Wikipediaarticle, \u201ccoordinates the activities of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force intelligence components\u201d) and INSCOM, and SCANATE by CIA.\nThere was intense secrecy surrounding such government activities. We only know about them now because President Clinton was interested in UFOs and the John F. Kennedy assassination which even he couldn\u2019t get information about and so in 1995 he signed the Executive Order 12958 which declassified many documents and promised to declassify further documents later (but in 2003 President Bush essentially replaced this order by amending it and so the government has returned to it\u2019s stance of secrecy). This order forced the government to admit to much that it had denied in the past. This included the various research programs, but maybe more intriguing was the government\u2019s lengthy interest in UFOs which publicly served the purpose of debunking and disinformation.\nThe world\u2019s governments all became majorly interested in the foo fighters first observed in 1944 by military pilots during WWII and the ghost rockets first observed in 1946, but it was only after the war that the national governments realized that these weren\u2019t experimental craft of the enemy and so that it is how they became labeled as Unidentified Flying Objects. The Air Force reports on the Roswel UFO incident didn\u2019t come out until the mid-1990s which was about a half century after the event. There were several investigations into UFOs that lasted almost 3 decades, but of course any recent concerted efforts of government investigation would still be classified. The known investigations include: US Air Force\u2019s 1947-48 Project Sign including the 1948 Estimate of the Situation document, US Air Force\u2019s 1949-51 Project Grudge including the 1949 Grudge report, CIA commissioned 1952 Robertson Panel, US Air Force\u2019s 1952 Project Blue Book including the US Air Force commissioned 1954 Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14, and the US Air Force\u2019s 1968 Condon Committee (formally known as Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects). Besides the Air Force reports from the 1990s, there have been other official responses to UFO sightings such as Federal Aviation Adminstration reaction to the 2006 O\u2019Hare International Airport UFO sighting and the official reaction of the Coast Guard and various space agencies to the 2007 Kodiak Island UFO sighting. Some people speculate that the NASA commissioned 1961 Brookings Report implies a motive for the government\u2019s secrecy about UFOs, but the government is secretive by nature and probably doesn\u2019t need specific reasons. Classifying information as secret was common practice during the Cold War even for uninteresting and harmless documents.\nDirectly in line with this culture of secrecy, there was an intense paranoia that too often emerged as projection of fear and hatred onto fellow citizens. The enemy had many guises: fascists, commies, liberals, aliens, or even your neighbor; and these enemies often blended together for the \u201cenemy\u201d was an amorphous force of constant threat. The movies were filled with the good guys endlessly fighting off various enemies and monsters, but it was also the beginning of film noir which was highly critical of American idealism. This was a time of the rising power of conservatism after Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal liberalism and it was a time of the US ascending as a greater world power than it ever had before. More importantly, this was a time of complete social upheaval. Veterans coming back after WWII were scarred and rootless looking to settle down to the comforting fantasies of the nuclear family portrayed on tv. America as it once was had disintegrated and the women had gotten a taste of liberation during the war. The Baby Boomers born into this new world were a polarizing ideological force of great numbers that would grow up to start more wars than any generation before.\nStrangely or not, all of this ideology and idealism coincided with materialism. There was the romanticism of the Enlightenment project of modern progress embodied in industrialism combined with the promise of the new technological age. Despite conservativism coming to power and despite the collective dreams of traditional values, this was a new world. Capitalism had become a power to compete with democracy itself and some would say capitalism won. This certainly wasn\u2019t the libertarian-leaning conservativism of the early history of the US. In it\u2019s place, neoconservatism was starting to take root. World War II was over and the bad times seemed in the past. Even as the middle class grew to increased power, the elites of the military-industrial complex grew to even greater power than probably the whole middle class combined. But people weren\u2019t worried, bread and circus as they say. People had jobs, had homes, and the entertainment industry was booming. Life had become practically one big advertisement for the greatness of being an American\u2026 unless you were a minority or a sexual deviant such as a homosexual, but those people don\u2019t count. In the 1950s and 1960s, progress almost looked like it would be endless and few people noticed the negative consequences. My dad remembers that a smokestack belching out noxious gases was a symbol of productivity and he has fond memories of seeing them as a child. Things were happening. Every time you turned around, there was something new. Technology was advancing in bounds. The scientist was the savior of mankind. There were rocket ships and skyscrapers, and on a more personal level there were microwaves and tvs. The early versions of the internet was being developed. No doubt, science was kicking ass and taking names.\nThis was also a time when imagery gained power over the written word which had ruled for the last couple of millennia. Two images in particular captured our collective sense of identity: the mushroom cloud and the planet earth as seen from space. Another catchy symbol was the Doomsday Clock.\nThere is an interesting Wikipedia article about the Culture during the Cold War. And here is a lovely summary of a nuclear war scenario in the article Massive retaliation:\nA massive retaliation doctrine, as with any nuclear strategy based on the principle of mutually assured destruction and as an extension the second-strike capability needed to form a retaliatory attack, encourages the opponent to perform a massive counterforce first strike. This, if successful, would cripple the defending state\u2019s retaliatory capacity and render a massive retaliation strategy useless.\nAlso, if both sides of a conflict adopt the same stance of massive response, it may result in unlimited escalation (a \u201cnuclear spasm\u201d), each believing that the other will back down after the first round of retaliation. Both problems are not unique to massive retaliation, but to nuclear deterrence as a whole.\nSome other lovely Wikipedia articles:\nMutual assured destruction (MAD)\nFail-deadly\nDead Hand (nuclear war)\nMadman theory\nThat was just introductory comments about the larger context. The rest that follows is about the specifics of this era, loosely in chronological order. I\u2019m mostly focusing on documented information, but all of this leads to questions of motives. I\u2019m not interested in discussing conspiracy theories for this blog. Where I do discuss conspiracies, I\u2019ll limit myself to those that have been well documented and/or admitted to by the government. This is all actual historical events although some of it didn\u2019t show up in the news media of the time and when it did show up the public only got partial information. Now that the Cold War is over, much more info is available for inquiring minds.\n1942 to 1946\u2014 Japanese American Internment and the propaganda for it: Around 110,000 Japanese were imprisoned in camps, 62 percent were US citizens including those that were native born. The architects of the Internment camps used deception and withheld critical information. There was no evidence of espionage or sabotage from any of the detainees, and a government assessment concluded that the vast majority of the Japanese American citizens were loyal to the US. To promote the use of internment camps propaganda was necessary. Americans were open to such influence partly for the obvious reason of the fearful response to the Pearl Harbor attack, but also because at the time racism was very strong and there were farming conflicts involving Japanese Americans. Also, the media of this era was very agreeable to being used for propaganda purposes. From the Wikipedia article on the Propaganda for Japanese American internment:\nAs a common form of entertainment for many Americans, motion pictures portrayed a positive image of relocation to non-Japanese movie-goers. Produced by the United States War Relocation Authority, such movies as A Challenge to Democracy (1944)[4] and Japanese Relocation (1943)[5], depicted the internment camps in a positive light and showed the Japanese people as happy and content, benefiting from their new life in the internment camps. To accomplish this, these government-issued propaganda films touched on common positive themes, such as:\nensuring the safety of internee property\nproviding Japanese-Americans with greater opportunities, such as education, employment, internal government, and religion\ncooperation of the internees with the local authorities and federal government\nlanguage comparing the relocated people to early American frontiersmen\nSuch motion pictures were made with film from actual Japanese American internment camps with a narrator informing the audience of what they were witnessing. As the UCLA Film and Television Archive writes:\n[This] film reminds us how easily unpleasant truths can be rationalized into banality and individual liberties can be swept away. (UCLA, 2007)\nAs a prominent news source for many Americans in the 1940\u2019s, the newspaper media also played an integral role in influencing national attitudes toward Japanese citizens. Many times, editorials published in these newspapers would approach relocation as a necessary inevitability characteristic in times of war. The San Francisco Chronicle on February 21, 1942 displayed just such an attitude of pro-Japanese-American internment, stating, \u201cWe have to be tough, even if civil rights do take a beating for a time\u201d [6]. The Bakersfield Californian was among the newspapers of the time to criminalize the Japanese American population, stating, \u201cWe have had enough experiences with Japs in times of peace to emphasize the opinion that they are not to be trusted.\u201d [2] Violent sentiment would also be characteristic of some of these editorials, as when a writer to the Corvallis Gazette Times expressed, \u201cThe loyal Jap American citizens have the law on their side, but that may not protect them. Besides, what is the law and what is the Constitution to a dead Jap. If they are smart, they will not return\u201d [2]. Many newspapers would also publish propaganda cartoons concerning the Japanese military, which fueled a general racist attitude towards Japanese-American residents. [7]\nFrom the Wikipedia article on Japanese American Internment:\nIn 1988, Congress passed and President Ronald Reagan signed legislation which apologized for the internment on behalf of the U.S. government. The legislation stated that government actions were based on \u201crace prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership\u201d.[10] About $1.6 billion in reparations were later disbursed by the U.S. government to surviving internees and their heirs.[11]\nA disagreeing opinion by Victor Hwang from the Asian Week (\u201cInternment: More Than Just a Government Mistake\u201d, February 28, 2003):\nBut contrary to the narrative which validates our nation\u2019s commitment to constitutional principles over time, a more careful analysis suggests that the internment of Japanese Americans was not simply an error in judgment, but rather an accepted practice which has been frequently considered for use by our government during times of perceived crisis. In this view, the government has shown itself to be continuously willing to suspend the constitutional rights of the minority in the interests of national security, and it has learned nothing from the sacrifices and injuries done to the Japanese American community.\n1945 \u2014 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: The largest bombing in history; It\u2019s main purpose, besides bomb testing, was to force Japan into submission by destroying heavily populated cities which killed around 220,000 civilians. Whether or not it was necessary and effective for the intended goal, it is without a doubt the most devastating terrorist attack ever implemented (the government admitted that a major reason was psychological warfare). If you prefer euphemisms, you could call it a countervalue. It was the ultimate symbol of the ends justifying the means, a pragmatic ethics of brute force that undermines any claim of a moral highground\u2026 which isn\u2019t to say any other country has the moral highground either. My dad is fond of saying that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the other types of government. He might be correct, that is assuming the US government is still a democracy (or ever was\u2026 considering all of the royal lineages, family relations, business connections, and old money of the majority of politicians, one could be forgiven for thinking that our government is actually a plutocracy or at least a semi-plutocracy).\n1945 to 1980 \u2014 Nuclear Weapons Testing Accidents, Downwinders, and Human Subject Research: There was a lot of nuclear and radiation testing going on and much of it was secret at the time. Because of the secrecy, most people are unaware of how many supposed accidents there were that exposed populated areas. Whether these were genuinely accidents or not, the government was very interested in the health results that ensued. Fortunately, some of these people (the ones that lived and knew what happened to them) were later compensated. Unfortunately, too many people have been negatively effected and compensation can\u2019t solve the problem. Considering all of this, it doesn\u2019t seem all that strange that cancer and other related illnesses and symptoms (such as decreased sperm count and deformities) have massively increased (in humans and other animals as well) since nuclear testing began. Throw in all the other pollutants and you\u2019d think we as a species are collectively trying to commit suicide. From the Wikipedia article on Downwinders:\nBetween 1945 and 1980, the United States, U.S.S.R, United Kingdom, France and China exploded 504 nuclear devices in atmospheric tests at thirteen primary sites yielding the explosive equivalent of 440 megatons of TNT. Of these atmospheric tests, 330 were conducted by the United States. Accounting for all types of nuclear tests, official counts show that the United States has conducted 1,054 nuclear weapons tests to date, involving at least 1,151 nuclear devices, most of which occurred at Nevada Test Site and the Pacific Proving Grounds in the Marshall Islands, with ten other tests taking place at various locations in the United States, including Alaska, Colorado, Mississippi, and New Mexico. There have been an estimated 2,000 nuclear tests conducted worldwide; the number of nuclear tests conducted by the United States alone is currently more than the sum of nuclear testing done by all other known nuclear states (USSR, Great Britain, France, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea) combined. [3] [4]These nuclear tests infused vast quantities of radioactive material into the world\u2019s atmosphere, which was widely dispersed and then deposited as global fallout. [5]\nEven assuming these radiation dispersals were simply accidents involving naive scientists and over-eager politicians and military leaders, there is still plenty of evidence that intentional human experimentation occurred. From DUCK AND COVER(UP): U.S. RADIATION TESTING ON HUMANSby Tod Ensign and Glenn Alcalay:\nIf you have any lingering thoughts that the government\u2019s failure to disclose radiation experimentation on humans was driven by misguided national security concerns, throw them in the nearest nuclear waste dump. At least some officials knew what they were doing was unconscionable and were ducking the consequences and covering their tails. A recently leaked Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) document lays out in the most bare-knuckled manner the policy of coverup. It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work field should be classified `secret,\u2019 wrote Colonel O.G. Haywood of the AEC. *1 This letter confirms a policy of complete secrecy where human radiation experiments were concerned.\nThe Haywood letter may help explain a recently discovered 1953 Pentagon document, declassified in 1975. The two-page order from the secretary of defense ostensibly brought U.S. guidelines for human experimentation. in line with the Nuremberg Code, making adherence to a universal standard official U.S. policy. Ironically, however, the Pentagon document was classified and thus was probably not seen by many military researchers until its declassification in 1975.2\nAs these and a steady stream of similar reports confirm, for decades, the U.S. government had not only used human guinea pigs in radiation experiments, but had also followed a policy of deliberate deception and cover up of its misuse of both civilians and military personnel in nuclear weapons development and radiation research. While the Department of Energy (DoE) has made some belated moves toward greater openness, there are clear indications that other federal agencies and the White House have not yet deviated from the time-honored tradition of deceit and self-serving secrecy.\nFrom the Wikipedia article on Human Experimentation:\nNumerous experiments were done on prisoners throughout the US. Many prisoners eventually filed lawsuits and these actions brought about many more investigations and suits against doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. [1]Experiments included high-risk cancer treatments, the application of strong skin creams, new cosmetics, dioxin and high doses of LSD. Many incidents were documented in government reports, ACLU findings and various books including Acres of Skin by Allen M. Hornblum. The Stateville Penitentiary Malaria Study is one of many examples. The Plutonium Files, for which Eileen Welsome won a Pulitzer Prize, documents the early human tests of the toxicity of plutonium and uranium on people.[21]\nThe CIA ran an extensive toxicology and chemical/biological warfare program in cooperation with the US military. The Edgewood Arsenal and US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Maryland were the main headquarters for such studies. At such centres, the agency developed many toxins, incapacitants, mind-altering substances and carcinogens. Mind-control substances were studied to facilitate interrogation and toxins were used as weapons in assassination. One of the toxins that the CIA studied extensively was derived from red algae called dinoflagellate which produces the red tide.[citation needed]\nThe MK-ULTRA project was a CIA run human experiment program where prisoners and unwitting subjects were administered hallucinogenic drugs in attempt to develop incapacitating substances and chemical mind control agents, in an operation run by Sidney Gottlieb. Biological-weapons specialist Frank Olson\u2018s drink was spiked with LSD by Sidney Gottliebin November 1953. He became psychotic and chronically depressed and committed suicide by jumping from the roof of his hotel ten days later.[22]\n1924 to 1972 and beyond \u2014 J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and COINTELPRO: Hoover was effective at his job and there were real threats in the world that he dealt with, but history has remembered him less kindly since information about his life became open to the public. He was a major player who helped create the groundwork for the oppressive atmosphere of the Cold War era which interestingly spanned most of his long career. Without him, the communist and homosexual witchhunters wouldn\u2019t have had the same power to threaten the public. It\u2019s also important to keep in mind that Hoover\u2019s 50 yr reign as director of the Bureau represents a direct link between Prohibition (along with it\u2019s corrolary War on Crime against gangsters) and the War on Drugs (along with it\u2019s later corollary War on Terrorism). From the Wikipedia article on Hoover:\nAppointed director of the Bureau of Investigation \u2014 predecessor to the FBI \u2014 in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a large and efficient crime-fighting agency, and with instituting a number of modern innovations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Hoover was highly regarded by much of the U.S. public, but posthumously he became an increasingly controversial figure. His many critics asserted that he exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI.[1] He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[2] and to use illegal methods to collect evidence.[3] It is because of Hoover\u2019s long and controversial reign that FBI directors are now limited to 10-year terms.[4]\nIn 1956, Hoover was becoming increasingly frustrated by Supreme Court decisions that limited the Justice Department\u2019s ability to prosecute people for their political opinions, most notably, Communists. At this time he formalized a covert \u201cdirty tricks\u201d program under the name COINTELPRO.[13]This program remained in place until it was revealed to the public in 1971, and was the cause of some of the harshest criticism of Hoover and the FBI. COINTELPRO was first used to disrupt the Communist Party, and later organizations such as the Black Panther Party, Martin Luther King, Jr.\u2018s SCLC, the Ku Klux Klan, the neofascist American Nazi Party and others. Its methods included infiltration, burglaries, illegal wiretaps, planting forged documents and spreading false rumors about key members of target organizations.[14]Some authors have charged that COINTELPRO methods also included inciting violence and arranging murders.[15]In 1975, the activities of COINTELPRO were investigated by the \u201cUnited States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities\u201d called the Church Committee after its chairman, Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) and these activities were declared illegal and contrary to the Constitution.[16]\nHoover amassed significant power by collecting files containing large amounts of compromising and potentially embarrassing information on many powerful people, especially politicians. According to Laurence Silberman, appointed Deputy Attorney General in early 1974, FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley thought such files either did not exist or had been destroyed. After The Washington Postbroke a story in January 1975, Kelley searched and found them in his outer office. The House Judiciary Committee then demanded that Silberman testify about them. An extensive investigation of Hoover\u2019s files by David Garrow showed that Hoover and next-in-command William Sullivan, as well as the FBI itself as an agency, were responsible.\nIn 1956, several years before he targeted King, Hoover had a public showdown with T.R.M. Howard, a civil rights leader from Mound Bayou, Mississippi. During a national speaking tour, Howard had criticized the FBI\u2019s failure to thoroughly investigate the racially motivated murders of George W. Lee, Lamar Smith, and Emmett Till. Hoover not only wrote an open letter to the press singling out these statements as \u201cirresponsible\u201d but secretly enlisted the help of NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall in a campaign to discredit Howard.\nIn the 1950s, evidence of Hoover\u2019s unwillingness to focus FBI resources on the Mafia became grist for the media and his many detractors, after famed reporter Jack Anderson exposed the immense scope of the Mafia\u2019s organized crime network, a threat Hoover had long downplayed. Hoover\u2019s retaliation and continual harassment of Anderson lasted into the 1970s. His moves against people who maintained contacts with subversive elements, some of whom were members of the civil rights movement, also led to accusations of trying to undermine their reputations. His alleged treatment of actress Jean Seberg and Martin Luther King, Jr. are two such examples.\nHoover personally directed the FBI investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The House Select Committee on Assassinations issued a report in 1979 critical of the performance by the FBI, the Warren Commissionas well as other agencies. The report also criticized what it characterized as the FBI\u2019s reluctance to thoroughly investigate the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the president.[17]\nHoover hunted down and threatened anyone who made insinuations about his sexuality.[35] He also spread destructive, unsubstantiated rumors that Adlai Stevenson was gay to damage the liberal governor\u2019s 1952 Presidential Campaign.[35] His extensive secret files contained surveillance material on Eleanor Roosevelt\u2018s alleged lesbian lovers, speculated to be acquired for the purpose of blackmail.[35]\n[\u2026and if you\u2019re into conspiracies\u2026]\nHoover was a \u201cdevoted\u201d Freemason and was coronated an 33rd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason in the Southern Masonic Jurisdiction. \u201cHe was raised a Master Mason on November 9, 1920, in Federal LodgeNo. 1, Washington, DC, just two months before his 26thbirthday. During his 52 years with the Craft, he received innumerable medals, awards and decorations.\u201d Eventually In 1955, he was coroneted a Thirty-third Degree Inspector General Honorary and awarded the Scottish Rite\u2019s highest recognition, the Grand Cross of Honour in 1965 by the Southern Masonic Jurisdiction. [42]\nFrom the Wikipedia article on the FBI:\nDuring the 1950s and 1960s, FBI officials became increasingly concerned about the influence of civil rights leaders. In 1956, for example, Hoover took the rare step of sending an open letter denouncing Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a civil rights leader, surgeon, and wealthy entrepreneur in Mississippi who had criticized FBI inaction in solving recent murders of George W. Lee, Emmett Till, and other blacks in the South. [14]\nThe FBI carried out controversial domestic surveillance in an operation called COINTELPRO.[15] It aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States, including both militant and non-violent organizations, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a leading civil rights organization.[16]\nIn response to organized crime, on August 25, 1953, the Top Hoodlum Program was created. It asked all field offices to gather information on mobsters in their territories and to report it regularly to Washington for a centralized collection of intelligence on racketeers. [1]\nMartin Luther King, Jr. was a frequent target of investigation. The FBI found no evidence of any crime, but attempted to use tapes of King involved in sexual activity for blackmail. In his 1991 memoirs, Washington Post journalist Carl Rowanasserted that the FBI had sent at least one anonymous letter to King encouraging him to commit suicide.[17]\nIn March 1971, a Media, Pennsylvania FBI branch office was robbed; the thieves took secret files and distributed them to a range of newspapers including the Harvard Crimson.[38]The files detailed the FBI\u2019s investigations into lives of ordinary citizens\u2014including a black student group at a Pennsylvania military college and the daughter of Congressman Henry Reuss of Wisconsin.[38] The country was \u201cjolted\u201d by the revelations, and the actions were denounced by members of Congress including House Majority Leader Hale Boggs.[38]The phones of some members of Congress, including Boggs, had allegedly been tapped.[38]\nProtecting an informant, the FBI allowed four innocent men to be convicted of murder in March 1965. Three of the men were sentenced to death (which was later reduced to life in prison). The fourth defendant was sentenced to life in prison, where he spent three decades.[50]\nIn July, 2007, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertnerin Boston found the bureau helped convict the four men of the March 1965 gangland murder of Edward \u201cTeddy\u201d Deegan. The U.S. Government was ordered to pay $100 million in damages to the four defendants.[51]\nFrom the Wikipedia article on COINTELPRO:\nCOINTELPRO (an acronym for Counter Intelligence Program) was a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. The FBI used covert operations from its inception, however formal COINTELPRO operations took place between 1956 and 1971.[2] The FBI motivation at the time was \u201cprotecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order.\u201d\nAccording to FBI records, 85% of COINTELPRO resources were expended on infiltrating, disrupting, marginalizing, and/or subverting groups suspected of being subversive,[3] such as communist and socialist organizations; the women\u2019s rights movement; people suspected of building a \u201ccoalition of militant black nationalist groups\u201d ranging from the Black Panther Party and Republic of New Afrika to \u201cthose in the non-violent civil rights movement\u201d such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Congress of Racial Equality, and other civil rights groups; a broad range of organizations labelled \u201cNew Left\u201c, including Students for a Democratic Society, the National Lawyers Guild, the Weathermen, almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, and even individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation; and nationalist groups such as those \u201cseeking independence for Puerto Rico.\u201d The other 15% of COINTELPRO resources were expended to marginalize and subvert \u201cwhite hate groups,\u201d including the Ku Klux Klan and National States\u2019 Rights Party. [4]\nThe directives governing COINTELPRO were issued by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who ordered FBI agents to \u201cexpose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize\u201d the activities of these movements and their leaders.[5][6]\n[\u2026just in case for some silly reason you thought this was all in the past\u2026]\nWhile COINTELPRO was officially terminated in April 1971, suspicions persist that the program\u2019s tactics continued informally.[35][36]Critics have suggested that subsequent FBI actions indicate that post-COINTELPRO reforms in the agency did not succeed in ending the program\u2019s tactics.[37] The Associated Pressreported in November 2008 that documents released under the FOIA reportedly show that the FBI tracked the late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Halberstam for more than two decades.[38] A review by The Washington Post shows that Maryland activists were wrongly labeled as terrorists in state and federal databases by state police\u2019s Homeland Security and Intelligence Division from 2005 to at least early 2007. [39]\n\u201cCounterterrorism\u201d guidelines implemented during the Reagan administration have been described as undercutting these reforms, allowing a return to earlier tactics.[40] Some radical groups accuse factional opponents of being FBI informants or assume the FBI is infiltrating the movement.[41]\nSeveral authors have accused the FBI of continuing to deploy COINTELPRO-like tactics against radical groups after the official COINTELPRO operations were ended. Several authors have suggested the American Indian Movement (AIM) has been a target of such operations.\nA few authors go further and allege that the federal government intended to acquire uranium deposits on the Lakota tribe\u2019s reservation land, and that this motivated a larger government conspiracy against AIM activists on the Pine Ridge reservation.[2][14][42][43][44]Others believe COINTELPRO continues and similar actions are being taken against activist groups.[44][45][46]\nCaroline Woidatargued that with respect to Native Americans, COINTELPRO should be understood within a historical context in which \u201cNative Americans have been viewed and have viewed the world themselves through the lens of conspiracy theory.\u201d[47]\nOther authors note that while there are conspiracy theories related to COINTELPRO, the issue of ongoing government surveillance and repression is nonetheless real.[48] [49]\nThe War on Terror has brought to new heights the fear-mongering and civil rights infringement. I don\u2019t doubt that COINTELPRO is still happening right now, but there is at least proof of similar activities happening into the 1990s. The Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney were falsely accused of carrying a bomb after a planted bomb blew up in their vehicle even though all evidence pointed away from them. It should be noted that they were specifically travelling for the purpose of organizing a campaign of non-violent protests. After their spending years in jail, a judge finally changed the verdict instead charging the FBI and Oakland police of deception and misinformation and Bari and Cherney were awarded 4.4 million for the infringement of their civil rights. If I remember correctly, it was the first case ever won against the FBI and surely J. Edgar Hoover was rolling in his grave.\n1938 to 1975 \u2014 House Committee on Un-American Activities (officially called House Un-American Activities Committee or HUAC for short): It was an oppressive political organization lasting decades. Although there was a real communist threat, the fear-mongering distorted the actual reality of it and created a state of paranoia which the media played into. Besides media censorship, it led to Hollywood blacklists which destroyed careers and led some to suicide. Another main target of attack was the American Civil Liberties Union. 1975 to present \u2014 The House did abolish the committee, but only to transfer its powers to the House Judiciary Committee.\nLate 1940s to late 1950s \u2014 McCarthyism: 1953 \u2014 Joseph McCarthy helped to create the greatest political oppression in modern US history by scaring government and military officials into submitting to his demands. The FBI became extrmemely intrusive and threatening. With various investigations and committees, many people had their lives destroyed and some were sent to prisons. 1953 \u2014 State Department bowed to McCarthy\u2019s request by removing and in some cases burning books from its overseas libraries. This fear-mongering created a snitch culture where family and friends spied on eachother. From the Wikipedia article:\nIt is difficult to estimate the number of victims of McCarthyism. The number imprisoned is in the hundreds, and some ten or twelve thousand lost their jobs.[42]In many cases, simply being subpoenaed by HUAC or one of the other committees was sufficient cause to be fired.[43] Many of those who were imprisoned, lost their jobs or were questioned by committees did in fact have a past or present connection of some kind with the Communist Party. But for the vast majority, both the potential for them to do harm to the nation and the nature of their communist affiliation were tenuous.[44] Suspected homosexuality was also a common cause for being targeted by McCarthyism. The hunt for \u201csexual perverts\u201d, who were presumed to be subversive by nature, resulted in thousands being harassed and denied employment.[45]\nIn the film industry, over 300 actors, authors and directors were denied work in the U.S. through the unofficial Hollywood blacklist. Blacklists were at work throughout the entertainment industry, in universities and schools at all levels, in the legal profession, and in many other fields. A port security program initiated by the Coast Guard shortly after the start of the Korean War required a review of every maritime worker who loaded or worked aboard any American ship, regardless of cargo or destination. As with other loyalty-security reviews of McCarthyism, the identities of any accusers and even the nature of any accusations were typically kept secret from the accused. Nearly 3,000 seamen and longshoremen lost their jobs due to this program alone.[46]\n1948 \u2014 There was a mass of comic book burnings by priests, teachers and parents. 1954 to present \u2014 Dr. Fredric Wertham and The Comics Code Authority: This organization was created out of fear that children would be negatively influenced and psychologically perverted by reading comic books. Many subjects became taboo: disrespectful portrayals of authority figures and evil winning against good; any inclusion of drugs as used by characters or in terms of plot; sexual innuendo, and depictions of \u201csex perversion\u201d, \u201csexual abnormalities\u201d, and \u201cillicit sex relations\u201d which specifically included seduction, rape, sadism, masochism, homosexuality, masturbation, and nudity; portrayals of violence, gore, cannibalism, kidnapping, and concealed weapons; the words \u201ccrime\u201d, \u201chorror\u201d and \u201cterror\u201d in comic book titles; and the characters of vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and zombies. The odd thing was these were all taboo even if someone wanted to publish a comic book with a morally good message such as portraying drug use negatively. Even though this organization held no legal power to enforce its requirements, through public fear it was able to get the comic book industry to enact its own self-censorship. A comic book had to meet these requirements to get the sticker of approval which determined sales. 1980s \u2014 comic books finally became free of censorship, but the Code in revised form continues to exist and continues to be self-imposed by some publishers.\n1954 to 1956 \u2014 Wilhelm Reich and the FDA: Reich was prosecuted and imprisoned because certain government officials apparently didn\u2019t like his researching sexuality. 1956 \u2014 Reich\u2019s books, papers and journals were burned and his equipment destroyed by the FDA. His fellow scientists remained silent during this government oppression of free scientific inquiry. The term \u201corgone energy\u201d was at the time censored from future publications of his work. This is particularly sad in light of the scientific idealism and social optimism of the 1950s. Dreams of a bright future blinded people to the darkness in their own present time. From the Wikipedia article:\nIn November, Reich wrote in Conspiracy. An Emotional Chain Reaction: \u201cI would like to plead for my right to investigate natural phenomena without having guns pointed at me. I also ask for the right to be wrong without being hanged for it \u2026 I am angry because smearing can do anything and truth can do so little to prevail, as it seems at the moment.\u201d[57]\nTo speculate, it\u2019s possible that the real reason for his prosecution wasn\u2019t about his sexuality research. His main interest was developing technology that could focus energy fields for various purposes. This was an area of great interest of the government at the time. His equipment and paperwork may not have been destroyed but simply taken to a government laboratory. There certainly were many scientists working in various covert military programs. The government (specifically the alphabet agencies) weren\u2019t above destroying someone\u2019s life or career if they weren\u2019t cooperative, and I imagine that Reich wouldn\u2019t have wanted his research into healing methods being used for military purposes. Maybe the most depressing aspect of his story is that I believe his reason for coming to America was at least partly so that he could do scientific research unhindered by government control and interference.\n1972 \u2014 Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal: Nixon was also one of the politicians who fear-mongered about Communism calling it \u201cthe threat\u201d and he was a major player in the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Also, he was the first to use the phrase \u201cwar on drugs\u201d in 1969. The Watergate scandal was the low point in American history and the nail in the coffin of the increasingly depressing events of the period. The Cold War which had been going on for decades was in full gear with all of its fear-mongering and oppressive atmosphere. The Vietnam War demonstrations were getting ugly and Nixon wasn\u2019t open to these opposing viewpoints. The earlier assassinations of the Kennedy brothers and Martin Luther King, Jr. were still fresh in the public memory which just made Nixon\u2019s criminal behavior all that more revolting. I don\u2019t know if he was intentionally trying to destroy democracy, but he created a secret police which is something dictatorships are well known for having. Actually, I think Nixon was attempting to break a record by breaking every law in the book, and then after it all President Ford pardons him. WTF! Spies, and even common criminals for that matter, have been given the death penalty for lesser crimes. You need to look no further for proof that there is no justice (or at least very little) in American politics. If he hadn\u2019t been caught and forced into resignation, who knows what he might have accomplished. Later presidents and politicians learned from his bad example, but I suspect all that has been learned is how to be more sneaky and deceptive.\nBeginning in 1975 \u2014 Operation Condor: US agencies had a long history of manipulating and interfering in the politics of Chile even to the extent of undermining democracy and supporting groups responsible for horrible atrocities (see here), but most notable was Operation Condor which included the support of the Pinochet regime. From the Wikipedia article:\nOperation Condor (Spanish: Operaci\u00f3n C\u00f3ndor), was a campaign of political repressions involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the governments of the Southern Cone of South America. The program aimed to eradicate socialist influence and ideas and to control active or potential opposition movements against the governments.[citation needed] Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor will likely never be known, but it is reported to have caused over sixty thousand victims[1], possibly even more.[2][3][4]\nOperation Condor, which took place in the context of the Cold War, had the tacit approval of the United States. In 1968, U.S. General Robert W. Porter stated that \u201cIn order to facilitate the coordinated employment of internal security forces within and among Latin American countries, we are\u2026endeavoring to foster inter-service and regional cooperation by assisting in the organization of integrated command and control centers; the establishment of common operating procedures; and the conduct of joint and combined training exercises.\u201d Condor was one of the fruits of this effort. The targets were officially armed groups (such as the MIR, the Montoneros or the ERP, the Tupamaros, etc.) but in fact included all kinds of political opponents, including their families and others, as reported by the Valech Commission.[citation needed] The Argentine \u201cDirty War\u201c, for example, which resulted in approximatively30,000 victims according to most estimates, targeted many trade-unionists, relatives of activists, etc.[citation needed]\nHenry Kissinger, Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations, was closely involved diplomatically with the Southern Cone governments at the time and well aware of the Condor plan. According to the French newspaper L\u2019Humanit\u00e9, the first cooperation agreements were signed between the CIA and anti-Castro groups, fascist movements such as the Triple A set up in Argentina by Juan Per\u00f3n and Isabel Mart\u00ednez de Per\u00f3n\u2018s \u201cpersonal secretary\u201d Jos\u00e9 L\u00f3pez Rega, and Rodolfo Almir\u00f3n (arrested in Spain in 2006).[39]\n1979 to 1985 \u2014 Second Cold War, from the Wikipedia article:\nThe Cold War (1979-1985) discusses the period within the Cold War between the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 to the rise of Mikhail Gorbachev as Soviet leader in 1985.\nThe period is sometimes referred to as the \u201cSecond Cold War\u201d[1] due to the rising US-Soviet tensions and a change in Western policy from d\u00e9tente to more confrontation against the Soviets. Many military conflicts occurred, including Soviet war in Afghanistan, the 1981 Gulf of Sidra incident and the US invasion of Grenada.\nPopular anger among sectors of the Iranian population opposed to the Shah\u2019s rule, seething and repressed for a generation, combined with the Shah\u2019s secular reforms, eventually culminated in the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which in turn led to a hostage crisis. Much of the anger in Iran was directed at the U.S., which helped bring the Shah to power in a 1953 CIA-backed coup. In recent years, U.S. officials have expressed regret for past U.S. actions that contributed to the Iran Revolution. Madeleine Albright in 2000 expressed regret for the \u201953 CIA role, stating \u201c\u2026it is easy to see now why so many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.\u201d1\nThe fall of the Shah, a key Middle Eastern ally, was an embarrassment for the United States; and Carter\u2019s inability to get U.S. hostages freed perhaps cost him the 1980 election. While the United States was mired in recession and the Vietnam quagmire, pro-Soviet governments were making great strides abroad, especially in the Third World. Communist Vietnam had defeated the United States, becoming a united state under a communist government. New pro-Soviet governments had also been established in Laos, Angola, Ethiopia and elsewhere. Other communist insurgencies were spreading rapidly across Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.\nMargaret Thatcher became the British Prime Minister in 1979, and Ronald Reagan was inaugurated US President in 1981. Both Reagan and Thatcher denounced the Soviet Union in ideological terms that rivaled those of the worst days of the Cold War in the late 1940s,[2] with the former famously vowing to leave the \u201cevil empire\u201d on the \u201cash heap of history\u201c. Pope John Paul II helped provide a moral focus for anti-communism; a visit to his native Poland in 1979 stimulated a religious and nationalist upsurge that galvanized opposition and may have led to his attempted assassination two years later.[3]\nThe \u201cnew conservatives\u201d or \u201cneoconservatives\u201d rebelled against both the Nixon-era d\u00e9tente and the Democratic Party\u2019s position on defense issues in the 1970s, especially after the nomination of George McGovern in 1972, saying liberal Democrats were the cause for U.S. international setbacks. Many clustered around hawkish Senator Henry M. \u201cScoop\u201d Jackson, a Democrat, and pressured President Carter into a more confrontational stance. Eventually they aligned themselves with Ronald Reagan and the conservative wing of the Republicans, who promised to confront Soviet expansionism.\nThe Soviet Union seemed committed to the Brezhnev Doctrine, sending troops to Afghanistan at the request of its communist government. The Afghan invasion in 1979 marked the first time that the Soviet Union sent troops outside the Warsaw Pact since the inception of the Eastern counterpart of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). This prompted a swift reaction from the west: the boycotting of the 1980 Summer Olympicsin Moscow and the heavy funding for the Afghani resistance fighters. A tedious guerrilla war continued. America supplied the mujahadeenof Afghanistan with weapons, including Stinger missiles used to shoot down many Soviet aircraft.\nAmerica also supplied arms to the Nicaraguan Contras, funded by the sale of arms to Iran, which caused the Iran-Contra Affair political scandal.\nLed by heightened public awareness and fears, the period 1979-1985 witnessed the production in Western countries of several films and television dramas depicting the probable effects of a nuclear war and its aftermath. These included the ground-breaking American film The Day After (1983) and the British television docudrama Threads of the same year. Combining a contemporary Western youth culture of computer games and young love with fears of an accidental nuclear holocaust was the 1983 film WarGames. The Hollywood film Red Dawn (1984) played on American fears by portraying an invasion by Soviet and Cuban forces.\nSeveral films of the James Bond series were set against a Cold War backdrop (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, Octopussy, and most particularly The Living Daylights set in war-torn Afghanistan with Bond vs. the KGB directly), while films such as White Nights and Rocky IV exploited contemporaneous tense Soviet-American relations.\nFor the next couple of decades, people mostly gave up on the naive American dream and consoled themselves with self advancement and material gain. After the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s and the world weary politics of the 1980s, it was hard to remain truly optimistic about the world. However, politics became even more ideological than ever. I suppose the conservatives had their time in the sun and the public attitude was slowly shifting back to liberalism again (which fits the predictions of Strauss and Howe\u2019s generations theory).\nDespite their having been the largest generation, the Baby Boomers never had many of their own elected as president (which certainly isn\u2019t to imply they didn\u2019t have many in positions of power). George Bush, Jr. was a clear example of a Baby Boomer and now Obama is a clear example of a new generation. So, with Bush Junior out of office and with many other Boomers finally retiring late in life, the last remnants of the political power from the Cold War era are disappearing. From birth on, the Boomers have dominated American culture for almost the entire Cold War. The Boomer generation didn\u2019t start the Cold War, but they became the representatives and promoters of it. Then, in the 1960s and 1970s, the Gen Xers were born. And, the latchkey kids that they were, they represented the collective malaise of a decadent society. Gen Xers aren\u2019t ideological as the Boomers were and so maybe we can hope for a waning of the political extremism that has created so much conflict in the world for the last century or so. I\u2019d like to believe that America won\u2019t return to some of the civil rights atrocities of last century, but events of the new century seem to demonstrate a federal government seeking to increase its extra-constitutional powers.\nThere are plenty more fun facts about US history since WWII. There is the United State\u2019s role as world leader and the US \u201crelations\u201d to other countries including a variety of covert (and sometimes not so covert) CIA operations and military conflicts. Also, there are the even more interesting details about covert operations and intelligence gathering within the US. Especially intriguing are the US government activities related to the media, propaganda, and information control. All of this, of course, involves conspiracy theories and the mixing of public and private interests. For a small sampling of such issues, see these Wikipedia articles (in no particular order):\nMessianic democracy\nOverseas expansion of the United States\nOverseas interventions of the United States\nUnited States military aid\nWar crimes committed by the United States\nExtrajudicial prisoners of the United States\nExtraordinary rendition by the United States\nHuman Rights Record of the United States\nCIA transnational human rights actions\nCIA sponsored regime change\nCIA activities by region: Near East, North Africa, South and Southwest Asia\nCIA activities in Iran\nCIA activities in Iraq\nCIA activities in Afghanistan\nCIA activities in Brazil\nDirty War and Operation Condor\nCIA activities in Asia and the Pacific\nWestern Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (School of the Americas)\nLatin America \u2013 United States relations\nNicaragua vs. United States\nCIA and Contras cocaine trafficking in the US\nKerry Committee report\nBlowback (intelligence)\nWard Churchill 9/11 essay controversy\nPsychological Operations in Guerrilla Warfare\nCIA and the media\nCIA influence on public opinion\nPropaganda in the United States\nOffice of Public Diplomacy\nSmith-Mundt Act\nUnited States President\u2019s Commission on CIA activities within the United States (Rockefeller Commission)\nCongressional response to the NSA warrantless surveillance program\nNSA call database\nWarrantless searches in the United States\nFamily Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)\nCuban Project (Operation Mongoose)\nOperation WASHTUB\nOperation Gladio and Propaganda Due\nU.S. intelligence involvement with German and Japanese war criminals after World War II\nArthur C. Lundahl and CIA interest in UFOs\nInslaw\nDeep Throat and William Mark Felt, Sr.\nJuly 10, 2009 Benjamin David Steele\talphabet agencies, America, atomic bomb, CIA, civil rights, COINTELPRO, Cold War, communism, covert, democracy, experimentation, FBI, FDA, government, history, Hollywood blacklist, homosexuality, HUAC, human experimentation, human experiments, human subject research, internment, J. Edgar Hoover, Japan, Japanese Americans, McCarthyism, military, nuclear war, nuclear weapons, Operation Condor, oppression, paranoia, parapsychology, politics, propaganda, remote viewing, research, science, secret, Soviet Union, The Comics Code Authority, U.S., UFOs, United States, US, USSR, Watergate Scandal, Willhelm Reich, World War II, WWII\t7 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 594, "original_length": 97539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bertzhess.com/higher-income-taxpayers-brace-for-higher-tax-bill-with-2013-returns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:06Z", "digest": "sha1:R75FMGCBLVJF5NFZD6NWZWT54PD4DMB2", "length": 1691, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bertzhess.com", "title": "Higher-income taxpayers brace for higher tax bill with 2013 returns | Bertz, Hess & Co., LLP", "raw_content": "Higher-income taxpayers brace for higher tax bill with 2013 returns\nMany higher-income taxpayers will be in for a big surprise when they finally tally up their 2013 tax bill before April 15th. The higher amount of taxes that may be owed will be the result of the combination of several factors, the cumulative effect of which will be significant for many. These factors include a higher income tax rate, a higher capital gains rate, a new net investment income tax, and a new Medicare surcharge on earned income, as well as a significantly reduced benefit from personal exemptions and itemized deductions for those in the higher income tax brackets.\nThe American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 made permanent for 2013 and beyond the lower Bush-era income tax rates for all,except for taxpayers with taxable income above $400,000 ($450,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly, $425,000 for heads of households). Income above these levels has now been taxed at a 39.6 percent rate rather than at the top 35 percent rate since January 1, 2013. Those amounts are adjusted for inflation after 2013 (for 2014, those threshold levels are $432,200, $457,600, and $406,750, respectively. Taxpayers with $150,000 of income above the threshold amounts, for example, must pay an additional $6,900 in tax in 2013 because of the additional tax rate of 4.6 percent).\nIf you would like a further assessment of how the new, \u201chigher-income taxes\u201d will impact what you owe for 2013 this coming April 15, or if you would like to start now to implement a plan to minimize these taxes in 2014, please do not hesitate to contact this office.\nNews > Higher-income taxpayers brace for higher tax bill with 2013 returns", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 8078, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bestbonusforex.com/platforms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YURG7LQLADH5SWNPSSQKV2N5KX4S7YNH", "length": 8289, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "bestbonusforex.com", "title": "What are the best Forex trading platforms? Full list of the winners is here!", "raw_content": "So, you have read up on FX trading. You probably spent hours scrolling through various articles on the internet. Some of the ones that you have read, praised the huge opportunities that the FX market allows traders to have. The other ones warned new traders to stay away from something they knew little about, but you are not scared. You are good at learning new things, and you have decided that trading FOREX is the next thing that you want to learn. You have already chosen a great broker, with excellent reviews, (thanks to the internet) but now you need to choose a trading platform. Now, however, you are completely lost. You don\u2019t even know where to begin.\nIf the former describes you in anyway, then this is the right place to start. Before anything else, first, you need to know what a trading platform is.\nSo\u2026What is a Trading Platform?\nIn the most simple terms, a trading platform is software that a trader and his broker use to exchange information. The Forex trading platform allows the trader to have access to vital information like price quotes, and currency charts, and various indicators that traders can use to help make better trading decisions. The main purpose of the platform is to allow the trader to enter trading orders for the broker to fulfill. Without it, traders would have to call their brokers and personally tell them what trades they wanted to make because they wouldn\u2019t be able to do it themselves. With this telephone method, quite a number of things can go wrong. The broker could make a mistake while entering the order. They could take too long to make a trade and then the trader is left with a bad entry. This could make the trader either gain less profit or take a larger loss. Telephone connections could go bad. Also, closing a trade at the right moment would be difficult as well. Using the telephone was the old way of executing trades, so when FX trading platforms were introduced, they made things much easier for traders.\nThat being said, in terms of format, there are two main types of trading platforms, those that you download to your personal computer, and platforms that traders can access online. The online platform functions in the same way like the downloaded one. It allows the traders and brokers to interact in transactions together. It also shows price information that the trader needs to make his trading decisions.\nBrokers and Forex Trading Platforms\nA Forex trading platform can also be grouped by the type of broker that uses it. There are two main types of brokers: brokers who use the Dealing Desk, and those who are Non-Dealing desk/ECN brokers.\nThese trading platforms are supported by what we call Market Makers. Market Makers are brokers who take traders\u2019 orders and process them directly by making a trade opposite to the one that the trader places. In simple words, they trade against you. If you place a buy, they will place a sell. If you place a sell, they will place a buy.\nIf a trader uses a broker who is a market maker, when they place a trade they are not connecting with the wider FX market, but rather, with the broker\u2019s dealing desk. This is where all the traders\u2019 orders are sent to be executed.\nNon-Dealing Desk\nThese trading platforms are used by brokers who use the ECN model. Unlike the Dealing Desk, price quotes do not come from the broker themselves, but straight from outside liquidity providers. All of these pricings are available to the trader so he can make the best choice for his trade.\nDifferences in FX Platforms: Trading Language\nLastly, there is third way to group Forex trading platforms, not just by format (ie. whether they are hosted online or downloaded onto a computer) or by what type of broker offers them. Trading platforms can also be grouped according to the programming language that they use. It is important to be aware of this, because a trader can have different experiences with each. This would affect the outcome of his trades. Currently, there are five different trading platforms that use five different programming languages.\nThe MetaTrader platform both versions 4 and 5, were designed in the Metaquotes language by Metaquotes Inc. MetaTrader 4 (MT4) is easily the most popular trading platform that traders use. It is a rare thing for a broker not to use this product in the services that they offer. Traders who use MetaTrader consistently praise the software for being user friendly and having a simple layout that makes it easy to use. If a new trader wants to go with what\u2019s popular, then this is the place to start.\nThis platform is a type of ECN or electronic communications network that allows traders to have direct access to the forex market. In an ECN environment, the trader places an order, and instead of it being filled by the broker, the order is sent directly to those companies that provide the brokers with liquidity and they fill the orders themselves. The platform software was created by Spot Systems ltd, and is suited to those traders who want to use brokers who give them direct access to the market, and do not trade against them in order to process their trades.\nThis trading platform is different from MetaTrader in the following ways:\nMost brokers who use the cTrader platform only allow traders to open accounts with a minimum of $1000.\nTraders should expect to pay a commission on every trade that they make, which is typical when using the ECN system.\nThe platform is not as user friendly as MetaTrader and some traders find it difficult to add or remove indicators from their trading charts.\nFX Platform: ActTrader\nThis FX platform is made by ActForex Ltd, and has versions that the trader can either use online, or download to his computer. The layout of the platform is different to MetaTrader4 and 5, but it has become the second most popular platform used by traders. ActTrader isn\u2019t just limited to trading Forex. It can also be used to trade other financial instruments like Options, CFDs, ETFs and others. Is also has a simple layout and is user-friendly, like MetaTrader.\nThis platform comes in two versions. The first is Currenex Classic which is used by typical \u2018market-maker\u2019 brokers, and the second is the Currenex Viking platform that is used by brokers that support ECN trading. The Currenex platform is not very user-friendly and beginners may have a hard time using it. Because of this it is mostly used by professionals. Traders may also find that the Classic model is more simple to use than the Viking platform.\nThis particular Forex trading platform was written in the Lua programming language and was developed by TradeStation Technologies Inc. It is mainly used by two brokers, InterbankFX and Forex Capital Markets Ltd. At one point it was not available to retail traders, but was only used by institutions and brokers. Now, the ordinary trader can have access to a trading platforms that meets the professional standard. The main drawback with using this platform though, is that a trader can only use it on a desktop computer.\nSo Many Forex Trading Platforms to Choose From\u2026\nSo now you know the different types of Forex platforms. You are aware of how they are grouped, but with so many to choose from, you may be asking,..Which one of them is the best? The answer to that is one that only you can determine. As a trader it is very important that you do your research before making any decision towards trading. This includes researching which broker would be the best to suit your needs.\nSo, when you are deciding which one to choose, keep the following in mind:\nThe brokers that support the platform\nThe level of user-friendliness\nThe simpleness of the platform for beginners\nDealing Desk or Non-Dealing Desk\nThe platform formats: downloaded/online\nSupport of other forms of trading (not just Forex)\nLast, but not least, if you are someone who is on the go a lot, then you will need a platform that is supported across multiple devices. You will need a platform that you can use on your phone, your ipad, or your tablet. Many brokers carry platforms that support this, and if you have a very flexible lifestyle then this may also be an important part of choosing the right Forex trading platform. If you keep all of these in mind, then you will definitely make the right choice for your trading needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 9018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://betterlivedlives.com/tag/liberty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:19Z", "digest": "sha1:AM4LLR6QAHFBH4ZTPB4MLL4ZH52NHMW6", "length": 2746, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "betterlivedlives.com", "title": "Liberty | Motivation, Inspiration and Change", "raw_content": "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness\u2026 often attributed incorrectly to the Constitution, they are the famous words found in the Declaration of Independence.\nYou are free to choose how you spend your time, where you live, what you read, the words you speak, and the future you work towards. There are no hordes of barbarians at your gates, no wild beasts hunting you, you don\u2019t have to spend your days gathering and hunting for your meals. If you believe you are being held down by some force, then you are \u2013 you will be holding yourself back.\nSo where is your time spent? This is where the small steps and freedom of choice come into play daily our lives. Will you watch a tv drama, a sports game, or go to the gym? We can spend our time on distractions or we can better ourselves and those around us. Exercise will make you feel better physically and mentally. If you feel better, those around you will notice and be inspired. Lead by example. Will you spend an hour on Facebook or pick up a book and feed your mind?\nLiberty, wrote Thomas Jefferson, is \u201cunobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.\u201d We are all given the right to do as we choose, as long as it does not infringe on others.\nMany people confuse unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the right to be cared for and have our needs met for us. Our needs being met is not something we are owed by being born. We have the freedom to choose how we meet them through our decisions and how we spend our time.\nGovernment was never intended to take care of our needs \u2013 that is what we are intended to use our freedom to accomplish. That and so much more! The beauty of life in our day is that meeting needs is just the beginning, the limit is the limit of your dreams and your hard work.\nVery few people living in the United States understand this concept. Many people would prefer for the government to be our surrogate parents, taking care of us from the cradle to the grave. That has become a big pattern of this world. Paul writes in Romans that as Christians we are not to be conformed to the patterns of our world, but instead we should renew our minds, take care of our bodies, and seek God\u2019s will. Are you renewing your mind? Taking care of your Body? Is your goal, as Paul instructs, to find and follow God\u2019s will for your life?\nThis entry was posted in Daily Inspiration, Faith, God, Life Changing, life hack, Uncategorized and tagged author, daily motivation, determination, dog, Farm, farmlife, freedoom, Happiness, Inspiration Motivation Life Jesus faith grace overcoming personal resposibility, jesus, Liberty, Life, mindset, self help, Training, writer on September 28, 2016 by dog..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 22475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bible.org/seriespage/lesson-20-finishing-well-2-timothy-46-8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MVF7BXKTGGCXGKSAP2FOIMX6YHRXRNME", "length": 19451, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "bible.org", "title": "Lesson 20: Finishing Well (2 Timothy 4:6-8) | Bible.org", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb 2 Timothy\nFrom the series: 2 Timothy PREVIOUS PAGE | NEXT PAGE\nLesson 20: Finishing Well (2 Timothy 4:6-8)\nA man was trying hypnosis to help him quit smoking. His friend asked whether he thought it would work. \u201cSure,\u201d he said, \u201cit worked the last time I tried it!\u201d Let\u2019s face it: starting well is relatively easy. Finishing well is a different matter! Starting that new diet or exercise program is kind of fun, but hanging in over the long haul is the real test. Getting married is exciting and relatively easy. Staying married through the struggles, adjustments, and trials is not always an easy matter.\nThe same is true of the Christian life. Becoming a Christian is relatively easy: acknowledge to God that you are a sinner and receive by faith the free gift of eternal life that Christ provided by His shed blood. You cannot work for salvation nor do anything to qualify for it. God gives it freely to all that recognize their need and trust in Christ alone.\nBut then comes the hard part\u2014hanging in there as a Christian in a world that is hostile towards God and His people. The world constantly dangles in front of you all that it has to offer in opposition to the things of God. From within, the flesh entices you to forsake Christ and gratify your sinful desires. The enemy hits you with temptation after temptation. The real test of your faith is, will you endure? Genuine faith in Christ perseveres to the finish line.\nThe Christian life is a marathon, not a 100-yard dash. Since finishing a marathon well is not easy, when you see a man who sprints across the finish line, you ought to try to find out his secret. The apostle Paul was such a man. It\u2019s as if he has crossed the finish line with energy to spare. He jogs back to where Timothy seems to be losing steam and exhorts him to keep running well. In our text, it is clear that Paul is looking death in the face. His words must have caused Timothy to burst into tears when he first read them. And, these words must have sobered Timothy with the reality that Paul had handed off the baton to him. Now, he had to finish well.\nPaul\u2019s words are not those of a discouraged, broken old man. There is no despair, no defeat, no cynicism, and no fear as he faces imminent execution. His calm assurance is all the more startling when you consider his circumstances. He was in the Mamertine Prison in Rome. Even the worst of our prisons today would be like the Hilton in comparison to the Mamertine. Paul\u2019s cell was a dark, damp dungeon, reached only by a rope or ladder from a hole in the floor above. He had no windows, no lights, no toilet, no furniture, and no running water.\nAs Paul sat on the hard floor in the cold darkness, enduring the stench of his own urine and excrement, the circumstances outside were not encouraging. Many seemed to be turning away from the aged apostle, and even from the faith, following false teachers. Paul had labored for the past thirty years or more to preach the gospel around the Roman Empire, but at this point, it was at best a tiny sect, scattered here and there. Paul was not the world-famous apostle, appearing on TV talk shows, autographing books, with invitations pouring in from around the world for him to speak.\nAnd yet, the man was clearly at rest, confident in the way he has spent his life, and calmly assured as he faces death by decapitation. What does the apostle have to teach us about finishing well? Note that verse 6 speaks about Paul\u2019s present: \u201cI am.\u201d Verse 7 refers to his past: \u201cI have.\u201d Verse 8 begins, \u201cIn the future\u2026\u201d\nTo finish well, keep in focus Paul\u2019s view of the present, the past, and the future.\n1. To finish well, keep in focus Paul\u2019s view of the present (4:6).\nThree key words here will help us finish well: reproduction, sacrifice, and departure.\nA. Reproduction: Paul could finish well because he had reproduced himself in others.\nIn the Greek text, verse 6 begins with the emphatic pronoun \u201cI,\u201d which contrasts with the \u201cyou\u201d of verse 5, along with the connective \u201cfor.\u201d The flow of thought is this: \u201cTimothy, you preach the Word even in the face of opposition, because I am about to die. I\u2019m handing you the torch to carry!\u201d\nDying is easier when you know that you\u2019re leaving behind a number of people who can carry on with Christ because of your influence. Each of us needs to ask ourselves, \u201cAm I working on that task?\u201d I am talking about obeying Jesus\u2019 Great Commission, to make disciples of others. That Commission applies to every Christian at some level. If you know Christ as Savior and are walking with Him, then He calls you to make disciples of others.\nYou can begin at home. Every Christian parent ought to be waging an all-out campaign to train up his or her children to know Christ and walk with Him. It doesn\u2019t happen by accident. It begins by setting the example: you must walk in reality with Jesus Christ if you want to impart that to your kids. Beyond that, dads, are you taking the time to read the Bible and pray with your family? Are you making sure that your family gathers with the Lord\u2019s people on the Lord\u2019s day for worship and teaching? Do you talk openly at home about spiritual things? Do you apply God\u2019s Word when there are tensions or trials on the home front?\nBeyond your immediate family, you ought to have a vision for reproducing yourself in the lives of others. Godly men should be handing off the faith to younger men in the faith (2 Tim. 2:2). Godly women should be training younger women in the things of God (Titus 2:3-5). When you\u2019re gone, there should be others who will carry on with Christ because of your influence.\nB. Sacrifice: Paul could finish well because he viewed his life as an offering to God.\nPaul did not view his execution as a cruel tragedy or as unfair treatment in view of his many years of dedicated service. Rather, he saw it as the culminating offering of a sacrificial life. After the sacrificial lamb had been placed on the altar, and just before it was lit on fire, the priest poured out on it about a quart of wine (Num. 28:7). It was the final sacrifice poured out on the existing sacrifice. That was how Paul viewed his own death. His whole life had been a living sacrifice presented unto God. Now, his death would be the drink offering poured on top of that (Phil. 2:17).\nThis means that to finish well, you need to view all of your life as an act of sacrificial worship to God. As Paul put it (Rom. 12:1), \u201cTherefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.\u201d You don\u2019t serve Christ in order to get praise and acclaim from others. You serve Christ as an act of worship towards Him. If others turn away from you or badmouth you (as they were doing toward Paul), or if your earthly reward for a lifetime of dedicated service is to get your head cut off, it\u2019s okay, because all of your life has been an offering to God.\nThis also means that to finish well, you view yourself as expendable in God\u2019s service. Here is the great apostle to the Gentiles, the man who did more for the spread of the gospel than any other man in church history. His influence was incalculable. Yet he could finish well because he saw himself as expendable, a drink offering. In language similar to our text, Paul told the Ephesian elders (Acts 20:24), \u201cBut I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.\u201d If you have inflated notions of your own importance, you will not finish well. All of us should view ourselves and all of our service as a sacrificial offering to God.\nC. Departure: Paul could finish well because he viewed his impending death as a departure.\n\u201cThe time of my departure has come\u201d (4:6). In the Bible, death is never cessation of existence, but rather, a separation of the soul from the body. It is departure. The Greek word that Paul used was a vivid one. It was used to describe the unyoking of an animal from a plow or cart. Death means the end of our labors and toils in this life. It was also used for loosening the bonds of a prisoner. Death is a release from the bonds of this corruptible body. It was also used for loosening the ropes of a soldier\u2019s tent. This suggests that at death, the battle is over, victory is won, and we are headed home. The word was also used for loosening the mooring ropes of a ship. At death our earthly ship leaves the shores of this stormy earth and puts in at the always-calm port of heaven. (These examples are in William Barclay, The Letters to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon [Westminster Press], revised edition, p. 209.)\nIf you have Paul\u2019s view of death as departure, you will be able to finish without fear and even with anticipation, knowing that to depart and be with Christ is much better (Phil. 1:23). You will be able to say with him (Phil. 1:21), \u201cFor to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.\u201d So to finish well, keep in focus Paul\u2019s view of the present: present ministry is reproduction; present life is a sacrifice to God; and, impending death is a departure to be with Christ.\n2. To finish well, keep in focus Paul\u2019s view of the past (4:7).\nPaul was able to look back on his past in Christ and say confidently that he had done well. He is not implying that there had not been mistakes or times of discouragement\u2014of course there had been. But through all of the problems and trials, Paul had stayed in the race. He could say, \u201cI\u2019ve done what God called me to do!\u201d To be able to join Paul in saying that at the end of our lives, we must be able to make his three statements in verse 7:\nA. \u201cI have fought the good fight\u201d (4:7a).\nWhen you come to the end of your life, will you be able to look back and say, \u201cI have been involved in the struggle for the cause of Christ\u201d? Paul is using an athletic metaphor, either of a wrestling match or a race. It conveys that the Christian life is not a Sunday School picnic, but rather, a struggle against the forces of evil. It is not just any fight, but the good fight, the fight of the gospel of Jesus Christ for the glory of God and the salvation of souls.\nCan you say, \u201cI am currently involved in the struggle for the cause of Christ?\u201d Let me help you answer that question. You cannot say so if you are living primarily for your own comfort and affluence, spending your time and money on your pursuit of the American dream. You may attend church every week. You may profess to know Christ as your Savior. But if your purpose in life is to be as comfortable and affluent as you can be, then you are not seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. You\u2019re not involved in the struggle for the cause of Christ.\nIf, on the other hand, you live for the purpose of building up the body of Christ and extending His kingdom through your labors, your time, and your money, in accordance with the gifts and opportunities that God has given you, then you are involved in that struggle. What a fulfilling thing when it comes time to die, to look back on your past and be able to say, \u201cI\u2019ve been involved in that great struggle for the cause of Christ!\u201d\nB. \u201cI have finished the course\u201d (4:7b).\n\u201cI have not dropped out of the race.\u201d Paul is referring to a long race. The word \u201cmarathon\u201d comes from a geographic place where a decisive battle took place between Greece and Persia in 490 B.C. If the Persians had won, world history would have been much different. The glories of ancient Greece would not have happened. The legend is that after the battle, a Greek soldier ran the distance from Marathon to Athens (21-25 miles, depending on his route) with the news of the victory, and then fell dead. Based on that legend, the modern marathon race began between Marathon and Athens in the 1896 Olympics, and was lengthened to the present 26.2 miles in the 1908 Olympics.\nWe all know those who began the Christian life with a flourish of activity and enthusiasm. Maybe they even went into full-time ministry. But when trials and disappointments hit, they dropped out. Sometimes, we need to take a break from serving to be refreshed and renewed. But then we need to get back in the race. Of course, we never should take a break from walking with the Lord.\nI\u2019ve never ran a marathon, but I know that there\u2019s no such thing as an easy marathon. We need to get out of our heads that the Christian life is all glory and effortless bliss. There is joy, but there also are many trials that require endurance (Acts 14:22). So make up your mind to hang in with the Lord through the tough times, so that you can look back at the end and say with Paul, \u201cI have finished the course.\u201d\nC. \u201cI have kept the faith\u201d (4:7c).\n\u201cI have guarded the truth about Christ.\u201d Several times in these letters to Timothy, Paul has talked about \u201cthe deposit\u201d that Timothy is to guard (1 Tim. 6:20; 2 Tim. 1:12, 14). He was referring to the truth of the gospel, the core doctrines of the Christian faith. When Paul says that he has kept the faith, he means that he has carefully guarded the truth about Jesus Christ that God had entrusted to him. He had not bought into any of the many errors about Christ that were circulating in his day. His life and his teaching had held to sound doctrine.\nYou can\u2019t keep a faith that you are unclear about. To be able to look back on your life and echo Paul\u2019s words, \u201cI have kept the faith,\u201d you need to be clear on the essentials of that faith. It is just as much under attack in our day as it was in Paul\u2019s day. So sink down some roots in sound doctrine. Know what you believe so that you are not tossed around by all of the winds of false doctrine.\nThus Paul could finish well because he could look at his present: he saw his present ministry as reproduction, his present life as a sacrifice, and his impending death as departure. He could look at his past: he saw that he had been involved in the struggle for the cause of Christ, he had not dropped out of the race, and he had guarded the truth of the gospel. But he also looked to the future:\n3. To finish well, keep in focus Paul\u2019s view of the future (4:8).\nPaul could finish well in spite of his dismal circumstances because he had secure hope for the future. There are two aspects of Paul\u2019s future hope:\nA. Paul could finish well because he hoped to meet the Lord, the righteous Judge.\nYou may think that that sounds more like dread than hope! While there ought to be an element of awe and fear when we think of standing before the Lord, the prevailing emotion that we should have is expectant hope. The world, if they even think about standing before the righteous Judge, should be filled with dread. But Christians should love His appearing. Here\u2019s why: Paul wrote (Rom. 8:1), \u201cTherefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.\u201d Jesus said (John 5:24) that the one who believes in Him \u201cdoes not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.\u201d Salvation is God\u2019s free gift given by His grace apart from any merit on our part. If your trust is in Jesus Christ as Savior, you do not need to fear the final judgment.\nThe reason that you will not be condemned on judgment day is not because you have earned it by being a good person. Rather, it is that by His death on the cross, Jesus Christ satisfied God\u2019s perfect righteousness. When you trusted in Him, God imputed Christ\u2019s righteousness to your account (Rom. 3:21-26). That hope of meeting the Lord, the righteous Judge, who will welcome us into heaven on the basis of His perfect righteousness, should help us now to run the race with endurance.\nB. Paul could finish well because he lived in view of that day.\nIt is difficult to interpret what Paul means by \u201cthe crown of righteousness.\u201d Is this a special reward given only to some believers who have lived especially righteous lives, but not to all? Or, is it the reward of eternal righteousness, given to all believers, who have already been justified by faith?\nIn favor of the view that it is a special reward is that the word \u201ccrown\u201d refers to the wreath that was given to the victor in the games. Not all received this crown, but only those who won (1 Cor. 9:24-25; 2 Tim. 2:5). The Bible teaches that while salvation is a free gift, God will reward us on the basis of our service for Him (Rom. 14:10; 2 Cor. 5:10), and these rewards will differ among believers. Some will have their works burned up, because they were not founded upon Christ, but they will be saved yet so as through fire. Others will receive a reward for their works (1 Cor.3: 10-15).\nIn favor of the view that the crown of righteousness is given to all believers is that the phrase, \u201call who have loved His appearing,\u201d seems to be a description of all believers. In this sense, it would be parallel to the crown of life that is given to all who love Christ (James 1:12). If Christ has saved you by shedding His blood for your sins, you long for the day when you will see Him.\nPerhaps Paul\u2019s meaning here is simply that even though his earthly judge (the evil Nero) had wrongly condemned him, he knew that the righteous Judge would vindicate him when he stood before Him. This is the third time that Paul has used \u201cthat day\u201d in this letter (1:12, 18). Clearly, he lived in view of that day, when he would stand before Christ. So should we. The fact that we will stand before the Lord, the righteous Judge, on that day should motivate us to live righteously on this day.\nI read of a journalist who was in charge of the obituaries. One day when he didn\u2019t have any deaths to record, he put a sheet of blank paper in his typewriter and wrote his own name at the top. He then found himself writing his own obituary: \u201cI have been a good husband and a fine father. I have contributed to a number of worthy causes. I have left a reputation of absolute integrity. My friends are many.\u201d By the time he had finished the page, he had already committed himself to the task of living up to his own obituary (told by Robert Mounce, Pass it On [Regal Books], p. 153).\nPerhaps your circumstances seem pretty dismal today. Maybe you\u2019re considering dropping out of the Christian race. From his dungeon, the aged apostle calls out to you: \u201cDon\u2019t quit! Keep going! You can finish well!\n\u201cKeep in focus my view of the present: You can reproduce yourself in others to carry the torch after you. View your life as a sacrifice to God. Your death will be a departure to be with Christ.\n\u201cKeep in focus my view of the past, so that one day it will be your past. You will be able to look back and say that you engaged in the struggle for the cause of Christ. You didn\u2019t drop out of the race! You guarded the truth of the gospel.\n\u201cKeep in focus my view of the future. Soon you will stand before the Lord, the righteous Judge, vindicated by His grace. Live in view of that day!\u201d If you live with Paul\u2019s focus, you will finish well!\nWith whom are you currently trying to reproduce yourself? If the answer is \u201cno one,\u201d ask God to direct you to someone.\nDoes the idea of departing to be with Christ cause you more fear or peace? If fear, how can you change this?\nWhen do you most feel like dropping out of the race? What encourages you to keep going at those times?\nShould believers be motivated by the thought of heavenly rewards? How can we keep that motivation pure?\nRelated Topics: Discipleship, Faith, Suffering, Trials, Persecution, Temptation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 21816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bibleandbirthcontrol.wordpress.com/rebuttal-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:19Z", "digest": "sha1:KRQ37D7NYLSKLYIO76OZUEBQMMUM7YC4", "length": 15479, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "bibleandbirthcontrol.wordpress.com", "title": "Rebuttal 1 \u2013 The Bible and Birth Control", "raw_content": "REPLYING TO A CONCERNED FRIEND ON THE SUBJECT OF ONAN\nSince the Christian News of March 21, 1988, has printed a rebuttal to my article against birth control (CN of Feb. 29, \u201988), it is necessary for me to produce a \u201ccounter-rebuttal\u201d, so that the readers of CN may judge for themselves which position is Scriptural. Because our theological opponent on this issue has called himself \u201ca concerned friend\u201d, we will call him this throughout our reply. When we use this term we do not use it sarcastically, nor do we doubt his or her sincerity in attacking our position. Rather, we believe that our \u201cconcerned friend\u201d is to be highly commended for his thinking about a subject which is very rarely considered by churchgoers today. For this, we are truly appreciative, for does not the road to changing one\u2019s mind on something begin by considering the subject first?\n1. Our friend begins his main argument by attempting to demonstrate that all emission of semen results in the death of the vast majority of the semen. It is of course true that each time sexual intercourse takes place, many individual sperm die, since only one sperm unites with the female egg. Many sperm die during nocturnal emissions. Therefore our concerned friend thinks that there is no difference between deliberate intentional destruction of semen and the death of semen which takes place during \u201cnon birth control\u201d sexual intercourse.\nHowever, this reasoning is not correct, because it leaves out the factor of the human will and intent. Concerning this subject, the Scripture is explicit \u2013 this makes the difference between sin and non-sin in many cases.\nFor example, suppose a married woman is discovered engaging in sexual intercourse with a man who is not her own husband. What does the Bible say? The woman who engages in this act willingly is worthy of death. (Lev. 20:10) But if the woman is forced at gunpoint to do this thing, the woman goes free, without any blame being attached to her. (Deu. 22:25-27) In both cases, the act is the same. The only difference is the will of the female. This makes the difference between life and death. So it is with the death of the semen. If we have done our limited part to \u201cbe fruitful and multiply\u201d, it is enough. God does the rest, for, after all, it is God who creates children. But birth control involves intentional destruction of semen, the ultimate goal of which is to destroy the single semen which might combine with the female egg, conceiving a child.\nTo use another example: sometimes a woman who is pregnant will unintentionally do something which inadvertantly causes a spontaneous abortion, otherwise known as a miscarriage. (She may accidentally fall down the steps, for instance.) Do we attach moral blame to the woman? No. Rather, we sympathize with her misfortune. Yet if a woman goes to a doctor and pays him to exterminate her child while it is yet in the womb, we correctly say that she is a murderess. The results are exactly the same in both of our hypothetical cases, but how different are the acts in the eyes of God! Guilt is determined by the intent and action of the woman.\n2. According to our concerned friend, Onan was killed by God for refusing to give seed to his brother. Let us point out again that the man in Deuteronomy 25:7,9 also refuses to give seed to his brother. Yet this man is not killed. Therefore, the difference in conduct is the key to the difference in punishment, and the only difference in conduct is this: while both refused to give seed to his brother, only Onan destroyed his seed. Therefore, it is for this that he was killed by God. When we say this, we are not saying so on our own: we are saying it because careful consideration of the Scripture proves it, and in eighteen hundred years of church history, the view that Onan was killed because of his intentional destruction of semen is the universal view of the Christian Church. It is only in our \u201cwonderful modern day churches\u201d that birth control has become \u201capproved\u201d. Let us be quick to point out that our century has also produced churches in abundance which have amazingly repudiated the infallibility of the Scriptures; churches which assert that abortion isn\u2019t murder, and homosexuality isn\u2019t a perversion! (We are by no means saying that those who disagree with us on birth control are in agreement with any of the preceding. We are merely pointing out that the same \u201cbad tree\u201d which produced the theological denial of Scripture and the theological acceptance of homosexuality and abortion also pushed for the acceptance of birth control.) We ask you, where did this view (that birth control is morally acceptable) originate? With those who believed the Bible, using it as their guide, or with non-believers? Any study of the modern birth control movement will show that it did not originate in the holy Church of God, but rather in pagans like Margaret Sanger.\nGetting back to the statement of our friend that Onan\u2019s \u201cspilling of seed\u201d is no different than \u201cspilling of seed\u201d which occurs during \u201cnon birth control\u201d sexual intercourse, we would also point out a fact which he has not commented upon. Namely, that out of all the verses which mention the emission of semen in the Old Testament, the Onan verse (Gen. 38:9, \u201che wasted his seed on the ground\u201d) is the only verse to employ the word \u201cshachath\u201d (which means \u201cto waste, corrupt, destroy, devastate\u201d, as our friend has noted). This word is used in many passages as a synonym for \u201ckilled.\u201d (See, for example, Gen. 6:17, 9:15 and Judges 20:21) Do you think that there might be a reason for Onan\u2019s emission of seed to be described as a \u201ckilling\u201d of seed, while all the other passages use words which merely mean \u201cemit\u201d? We do! In all other passages, no one does anything to intentionally harm the semen \u2013 but in Onan\u2019s case, he deliberately killed his. If, as our concerned friend says, \u201cThere is nothing in the whole Bible that specifically condemns the spilling of the seed\u201d, then why does the Scripture use the very negative word \u201cshachath\u201d in Onan\u2019s case but not in any of the others?\n3. Another question raised by our friend is this: \u201cHow can anybody say that spilling the seed is worse than adultery or even incest?\u201d Let me point out that Martin Luther said this, not me, but I think that his reasoning on the subject went something like this: \u201cAdultery and incest, though great evils, at least perform the sexual act in a natural manner, allowing nature to take its course. Onan, on the other hand, took steps to frustrate God\u2019s creative activity, perverting nature. Onan\u2019s deed is an assault upon the natural order of things, and is therefore worse than adultery or incest.\u201d Luther may also have been influenced by the fact that although Tama (Onan\u2019s wife) later committed incest with her father-in-law Judah (as Genesis 38 says), yet God did not kill her \u2013 but he did kill Onan. We are not at this point able to positively affirm Luther\u2019s particular statement, as we wish to carefully consider the subject first. But, at the same time, neither do we wish to disagree with Dr. Luther, who certainly at the very least deserves our respect. So we will leave this particular statement on which sins are the worst (adultery and incest, or destroying one\u2019s semen) for later consideration. We emphatically do affirm, however, Luther\u2019s view on birth control: namely, that it is a great sin.\n4. Our friend also asks the question, \u201cHow can we condemn it [the spilling of seed] if God himself spills the seed \u2013 in night losses, in intercourse, in menstruation?\u201d We agree that God does indeed do these things. Yet this does not mean that the intentional destruction of seed is permitted. By no means! We can easily prove that our friend\u2019s logic is incorrect, by examining parallel cases in the Bible. First, we shall examine the topic of miscarriages. The prophet Hosea says that God causes some miscarriages in order to punish people for sin: \u201cGive them, O Lord \u2013 what wilt Thou give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.\u201d (Hosea 9:14) Does this mean that we humans are permitted by God to punish women by aborting their children? No, for Moses says that if a man causes an abortion, he shall be put to death. (Exo. 21:23) Likewise, God kills people all the time, as God declares in Deu. 32:39: \u201cAnd there is no other god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give life.\u201d Because God, without moral blame, kills people all the time, does this mean that we can kill people when we please? Of course not, for God says to us, \u201cYou shall not murder.\u201d (Deu. 5:17) In the Bible, it is stated that God has killed children for the sins of their parents. For example, God said to Jeroboam of Northern Israel: \u201cYou also have done more evil than all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and have cast Me behind your back \u2013 therefore behold, I am bringing calamity on the house of Jeroboam, and will cut off from Jeroboam every male person, both bound and free in Israel, and I will make a clean sweep of the house of Jeroboam, as one sweeps away dung until it is all gone.\u201d (1 Kings 14:9-10, fulfilled in 1 Kings 15:29) Yet God clearly forbids us from putting children to death for the sins of parents, as he says in Deu. 24:16: \u201cFathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.\u201d Scripture contains many things which are allowable to God but forbidden to us. So, just because God causes the vast majority of semen to die without causing the birth of a child, this does not prove that it is morally acceptable for us to cause semen to die by means of birth control.\nLater, our friend says that the command of God to be fruitful and multiply \u201cis not an absolute command. Jesus did not marry. Paul did not marry. Many cannot marry even if they would.\u201d We would agree that the command to be fruitful and multiply is not an absolute command for all persons. We do not think that eunuchs, three year olds, women who are unmarried, and so forth are obligated to do this, because they are not or cannot be married. The command is not an absolute command for all people, just married people. This is not unusual,for the command was not given to Adam until God had given him a wife, which makes sense to us! Is it not obvious that God\u2019s rules on divorce apply only to those folks who are married in the first place? God says that a husband should love his wife. Is this an absolute command of God? Yes, but (obviously) it only applies to men who have a wife! Just because the command \u201cbe fruitful and multiply\u201d does not apply to people who cannot or are not married, this by no means proves that it does apply to those to whom the command was given, namely, married couples!\n6. Next, our theological opponent says, \u201cGod does not say anywhere that we must have as many children as possible. A person may be said to be fruitful even if he has only six children although having been capable of having more.\u201d Our reply is that, God does not need to say this directly for it to be so. He says it by implication. When God gave this command to Adam, to Noah\u2019s family and to Jacob, do you think God meant that they were to be fruitful for only a day or a month or a year, or until they had a nuclear family? Or, as long as they were able? We think that the latter option is correct, since, if God had thought it was all right to limit God\u2019s blessings to the above people, he would have said so in the pertinent passages. Our friend\u2019s example of \u201csix\u201d being a good number of fruitfulness is to be faulted for the simple reason that , to us, being fruitful and multiplying has no mandatory number. For Abraham and Sarah, their efforts to be fruitful produced only one child, Isaac, and so they obeyed God to the extent of their ability. This is what God expects of us, not some particular number. What right do we have to cancel God\u2019s first blessing (\u201cHe blessed them,\u201d etc.; Gen. 1:28) to married couples?\n7. Our friend says, \u201cGod told our first parents to fill the earth. The earth is pretty well filled up, etc.\u201d I would ask, \u201cHow does he know this?\u201d There are Christians and pagans who quite forcefully disagree with the idea that there is some sort of overpopulation crisis. (For example, R.J. Rushdoony in The Myth of Overpopulation, and Germaine Greer in Sex and Destiny, Chapter 14). In any case, let us look to Scripture for our guidance, not to the high priests of the new religions \u201cScience\u201d and \u201cNews Media\u201d. In Exodus 35:4-9, God told the Israelites to donate gifts to Moses to help build the tabernacle. When enough gifts were received to build it, God gave a revelation to Moses to tell the Israelites to stop giving. (Exo. 36:5-7) If God would give a revelation to stop, about something like this, don\u2019t you think that he would let us know when the world was full, to stop a command which has been in effect for some seven thousand years?! We could also ask the question, \u201cIf the world is full (so eliminating the command to be fruitful and multiply), then why does God still keep adding \u2018unnecessary\u2019 people to the \u2018already overpopulated \u2018 world?\u201d After all, He is the one who causes children to be created, as Psa.139:13 says: \u201cFor Thou didst form my inward parts; Thou didst weave me in my mother\u2019s womb.\u201d So this objection to our opposition holds no water.\n8. Our friendly opponent makes the overstatment, \u201cThe seed is not human life.\u201d Though we of course do not think that millions of little people die when someone has a nocturnal emission, nevertheless this statement needs to be qualified. The fact of the matter is that each seed is alive in a different sense than that of an ordinary cell in the human body: each seed is self-propelled and can live even when separate from the body. No other types of cells in the human body have the ability to create new and separate human life, given the proper circumstances, except for the female egg, the female counterpart to the male seed. And if the seed is not \u201chuman life\u201d, then, pray tell, what type of life is it? Both myself and my opponent once existed as a seed, and I would call both him and myself human. If one eliminated all the human semen from the earth, one would thereby eliminate all future humans also. So, there is a close connection between the two, so close that we do affirm that destroying semen is in effect destroying the children who would otherwise be born. And let it be plain to all, that those who practise birth control do so to eliminate children that they themselves do not wish to raise. They do not dislike the semen: they dislike the children the semen will turn into! In wartime, soldiers do not blow up trains because they don\u2019t like trains: they blow them up because they don\u2019t like what the trains deliver!\n9. It is of course true that \u201cNobody has the right to burden consciences wherein God does not burden them.\u201d We agree. But it is also true that we are commanded to \u201cdeclare to My people their transgression.\u201d (Isa. 58:1) So, if birth control is a sin, then it is commendable and helpful to say so! Since the Bible says that it is a sin, and the holy Church of Christ has, since its inception, declared it to be so, we come to the conclusion that we are guilty of no sin in declaring that Christians should not practice birth control. And I can truthfully say that my motives are to strengthen the Church, not to tear it down.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 16955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blackcoat.livejournal.com/47124.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:01Z", "digest": "sha1:JFLAMW7QDASSP6UA5CPZHYFCCQOIX4HT", "length": 784, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blackcoat.livejournal.com", "title": "My cousin - Welcome to Arkham", "raw_content": "My cousin - Welcome to Arkham\nI got a call today as I was leaving the house for work. Apparently, my cousin had been seriously rear ended by an ambulance. I've been freaking out all day about it, but finally got a hold of his father tonight. he's doing alright, but I'm still a little freaked out. Apparently, Blaze has taken it upon himself to drive down from Clearlake where he was staying with said cousin to rescue his Dog. In windy roads. During a storm. In a crappy Jeep. And now won't return calls. I'm still freaking out a little bit.\nTags: alcohol, angst, family\nWithout the Prozac, I'm: much better\nThe Voices are Singing: Dropkick Murphys - The Dirty Glass\nFrom: hyuga Date: December 31st, 2004 07:01 pm (UTC) (Link)\nRearended by an ambulance? That's seriously cocked up...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blackwaterstudios.co.uk/artist-interview-cat-sims/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:29Z", "digest": "sha1:YX2Q5AQFK3I4QPMHVCLKLEUYIJDVILV4", "length": 2399, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blackwaterstudios.co.uk", "title": "Cat Sims | Artist Interview | Artist Collaboration | Blackwater Studios", "raw_content": "Cat Sims\n\u201cPalm Trees\u201d on a long sleeve T Shirt available here, \u201cPalm Trees\u201d on a white jumper available here & \u201cPalm Trees\u201d on a grey jumper available here.\n\u2013 Your Risograph prints are illustrations from Barbican Conservatory, Berlin Cactus House and public spaces around London, what drew you into these places?\nThey are a celebration of public architecture, which essentially exists to make people feel good.\n\u2013 What is your favourite plant to draw?\nThere are so many alien textures and forms to plants that you can find something new every time you look. Selecting a favourite is pretty impossible.\n\u2013 Your designs are incredibly detailed, how long did it take to finish your zine S P A C E?\nS P A C E took just over a year to put together. It\u2019s a project that I\u2019m still working on and hope to follow up on later this year with a new publication.\n\u2013 What do you see for the future of London?\nIt\u2019s certainly changing quite rapidly. I\u2019ve lived here for 15 years now and am finding myself having to move further out due to the rising cost of living. It\u2019s a shame, but I guess creative people are just starting to develop creative communities elsewhere.\n\u2013 What attracts you to Bauhaus?\nThe beautiful simplicity of the work that was way ahead of its time for one thing, but also the approach to making work. I like the idea of trying your hand at different mediums and questioning the function of the work itself. I\u2019m not a fan of making things that are just for decoration, though I am definitely guilty of that .\n\u2013 If you were to write a manifesto, what would it be about?\nWow. That would take some thought\u2026.\n\u2013 Who are your favourite comic artists?\nThere are so many and always new ones to discover. I have a whole bookcase full of comics. From an aesthetic point of view, I tend to be drawn to work that uses minimal colour and love black and white work. A comic book store near where I used to live had a closing down sale a few years ago and I found some brilliant self-published comics from the late \u201980s / early \u201990s. They\u2019re amazing. One is the most bonkers interpretation of a H.P Lovecraft story. It\u2019s my most treasured stash.\n\u2013 What Markets do you sell your prints at? Which ones would you suggest other artists to go to?\nI\u2019ve only sold work at a handful of fairs and recommend sticking to the smaller ones, but they\u2019re a great way to meet people in the industry, so long as the vibe is right.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blockbooth.com/privacy?peerID=QmVeiCRmbi24wFPocjyPrtqEqYXQLJiPKfJyzY3bu5J5SS", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QOIX2DRJVPKYXS2SJAWEU7CPC2EUXUSL", "length": 176, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blockbooth.com", "title": "Check for OpenBazaar IP address leaks", "raw_content": "On 2018-09-22 07:16:37 UTC a clearnet IP address near Los Angeles, United States was detected\nOn 2018-12-10 19:31:07 UTC a clearnet IP address near Hangzhou, China was detected", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 17783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 130.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.forbushlegal.com/2017/09/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:15Z", "digest": "sha1:YNHRHJSCW3GPCM54C5RD4VXD3P4O2KK6", "length": 10987, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "blog.forbushlegal.com", "title": "Forbush Legal, PLLC: September 2017", "raw_content": "Estate planning should be a necessary part of the preparation for college.\nPeople should consider seeing an estate planning attorney as part of their college preparations, according to the Financial Advisor in \"College Students Need A Power of Attorney.\" At the very least, this should be done to obtain a power of attorney.\nFor most people, as they grew up, they never had to worry too much about what would happen if they had a serious accident. If anything did happen, then their parents would be able to manage everything.\nThat changes once students are over the age of 18.\nIt is not that something will happen to all new college students. However, it could. Consequently, it is best to be adequately prepared.\nParents cannot legally do things such as take money out of a bank account to pay bills or make medical decisions, if necessary.\nTherefore, how do parents get that legal authority?\nThe young adults in their life should sign powers of attorney giving them (or someone else) the ability to manage things, in the event there is an accident or illness causing incapacity.\nA Longer Lifespan Can Create Longer Retirement\nMany elderly retirees with straining budgets are turning to their children for financial help, just as they are reaching retirement age themselves.\nSome members of the workforce are having to delay retirement, so they can financially help their own parents as the life expectancy continues to rise, according to the Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog in \"More Retirement-Age Clients Facing, New Unexpected Expenses.\"\nThis problem can be expected to get increasingly serious, as more elderly people continue to live longer. There is no easy solution to it, as the longer life span puts a strain on finances.\nTo overcome a financial shortfall, many elderly people are turning to their children for assistance.\nUnfortunately, that can create a problem for the children.\nThose children with elderly parents who need assistance are now starting to enter retirement age themselves. They often did not save enough to take care of themselves and their parents.\nLonger lifespans are already expected to put deep financial strains on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid in the near future, so a government-based solution is not likely to be forthcoming soon.\nIf anything, the government will try to fix the finances of current programs, rather than come up with new programs.\nFor now, the best solution is at the individual level. A plan should be in place to save a little more, just in case extra funds are needed.\nLewis' Estate Modest by Hollywood Standards?\nJerry Lewis owned everything in his movies and they are in a trust.\nJerry Lewis, who passed away recently, was one of the most famous entertainers in history. However, he may have left behind a relatively small estate and a clue may be an old real estate transaction, according to Wealth Advisor in \"Jerry Lewis May Leave Shockingly Modest Estate Behind.\"\nLewis purchased his Las Vegas home through a family trust. However, in 2002 he did something very unusual.\nLewis and his wife purchased the home from the trust.\nIt is not a particularly lavish home by celebrity standards. It is probably worth less than a $1 million. There does not appear to have been any estate tax reason for the transfer.\nThere are two possible explanations.\nThe purchase might have been made to wind down the trust. It also could have been made to cover the costs of transferring the rights to his movies to the trust.\nIt means that it is not clear who now really owns the movie rights and what restrictions, if any, have been placed on how those rights can be handled.\nBe Honest with the Life Insurance Company\nLife insurance policies pay out immediately upon death and can help the family through difficult times. However, it is important to make sure that you do not mislead the insurance company.\nIf you decide to use life insurance as an estate planning tool, you may be required to fill out some medical history and life style forms or even undergo a medical examination.\nHowever, it is wise to be honest throughout the entire process, according to Cincinnati.com which recently reported on one extreme case of alleged fraud in \"Feds: Mason family faked life insurance policies, collected $2.9 million and bought Bentley convertible.\"\nIn this case, three members of a family purchased life insurance for another family member who was overweight and who had an extensive history of medical problems.\nThe family lied on the policy application about all of that and had another family member go to a medical exam and pretend to be the applicant. The insurance was approved and paid, when the family member passed away.\nThe family then tried to hide the proceeds by purchasing expensive items.\nThey are being charged with criminal fraud.\nWhile this is obviously an extreme case, it illustrates that you can be caught, if you defraud a life insurance company. If life insurance is a part of your estate plan, make sure that you are honest on the application.\nWe would be happy to advise you on the proper use of life insurance as an estate planning tool that meets your unique circumstances.\nTaking Advice from Britney Spears\nChanging circumstances should spark a fresh look at an estate plan.\nBritney Spears, who currently has a will that would leave all of her assets to her two minor sons when she passes away, has taken a fresh look at her circumstances and decided she\u2019d like to change the distributions from her will, so that a trust provides staggered distributions to her sons.\nWhat this important change will do is distribute her assets over time as her son\u2019s reach specific ages, according to TMZ in \"Britney Spears I Need a New Will to Protect My Kids.\"\nThe important thing to learn from Spears in this case, is that when circumstances changed, she revisited her estate plan to adapt it to those circumstances.\nBefore she had children, her current will might have made sense as her best estate planning option. However, with minor children, a trust to protect the distributions under her will became the better option.\nThis is something that everyone should do. Changed circumstances require changes in estate plans.\nWho Pays for Mistakes in Do-It-Yourself Wills?\nSome mistakes can be costly and create problems for your family.\nShould you make mistakes in a do-it-yourself will, the heirs are the ones who will most likely foot the bill to straighten it out, according to Market Watch discusses in \"The problems with doing your own estate planning.\"\nIf you purchase online estate planning documents and fill them out based on brief instructions, you could hurt your family.\nYou may never know what mistakes you made.\nYour family might never find out about any mistakes until after you pass away. However, the mistakes can be very costly.\nBefore attempting to create your own will by purchasing a form, ask yourself how confident you are about not making a mistake.\nDigital Age Heightens Importance of Estate Planning\nIn the past, physical property were the primary assets tracked for an estate plan. However, the digital age has created some challenges.\nUnlike in past decades, a lot of important business is conducted online today. However, it does not leave a paper trail. This makes the job of estate executor even more difficult unless you plan ahead, according to the Times Standard recently in \"You and the Law: Planning for the expected unexpected.\"\nThe problem is that if no one knows that a digital account exists and whether you own any digital property, then they might not even know to look for it.\nEven if they had a vague notion that you have digital items of value, it would be difficult to even know where to look to find it.\nTechnology companies make it even more difficult, since they are loathe to provide any information about their customers, even after their customers are deceased.\nSomeone might know to check your email for any account information, but they would have a difficult time accessing that email.\nTo avoid these problems, estate planning is even more important than it was previously.\nUndue Influence Difficult to Prove but Not Impossible\nLegal formalities are the key to a valid will. However, undue influence can create a major challenge.\nUndue influence on a testator is difficult to prove but not impossible, according to the Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog in \"Corpus Christi Court Upholds Undue Influence Verdict.\"\nA will is assumed valid, if all legal formalities are met, including the will having been signed by the deceased, witnessed and notarized.\nThis is necessary because there is no way for a judge to ask a deceased person if the will presented in court accurately describes how they wanted to distribute their estate.\nOvercoming that assumption of validity, can be very difficult to do.\nIn most cases, it requires proving that someone pressured (unduly influenced in legal jargon) the testator into making a will in his or her favor.\nThe article discusses one particular case, where a Texas jury found undue influence.\nThat verdict was upheld by the court. While the details of the case are not necessarily important, what is important is that undue influence does not necessarily require definitive proof.\nIn fact, circumstantial evidence can support a finding of it.\nConsult with an estate planning attorney, if there is any question on the validity of a will.\nSlayer Statutes are Sometimes Difficult to Enforce\nThe real challenge is finding out who is responsible for the death and will they benefit from the death.\nMost states have laws preventing someone who has murdered the victim from inheriting assets from the diseased. However, the challenge is determining who is responsible for the death, according to the Daily Mail in \"Heir, 23, accused of murdering his millionaire grandfather, 87 and sinking the boat his mother was sailing off Rhode Island could still get $7 million inheritance despite relatives legal fight to stop him.\"\nAn estate battle occurred in New Hampshire in 2013, when millionaire John Chakalos was found shot to death. Prior to his death, his grandson Nathan Carman had purchased a weapon and bullets of the same caliber as the one that shot Chakalos.\nThe estate was divided equally between Chakalos' four daughters, including Carman's mother Linda Carman.\nIn 2016, Nathan and Linda Carman went out on a boat. Something happened to the boat and Nathan was eventually found adrift by a Chinese ship, miles away from where he claimed the boat had sunk.\nLinda was never found.\nNathan had claimed that he personally repaired holes in the boat to make it seaworthy, but insurance companies in court said the repairs were shoddy.\nLinda Carman's three sisters have filed in court to prevent Nathan Carman from receiving any part of his mother's estate.\nThey accuse their nephew of murdering both his grandfather and his mother for the money.\nHowever, investigations into the deaths remain open and no suspects have been officially named.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 12618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.healthmatters.io/2018/11/02/what-is-alpha-linolenic-acid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FKQRXPVTNHNJLREQKEE4R7JP3IKMPOD6", "length": 2815, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "blog.healthmatters.io", "title": "What is Alpha Linolenic Acid? \u2013 HealthMatters.io \u2013 Lab results explained", "raw_content": "What is Alpha Linolenic Acid?\nLeave a Comment on What is Alpha Linolenic Acid?\nAlpha Linoleic Acid is an \u201cessential\u201d fatty acid, meaning that your body cannot make it and you must obtain it from your diet. Alpha Linoleic Acid is by far the most abundant polyunsaturated fatty acid in most human tissues.\nDietary sources of alpha-linolenic acid include:\nPumpkin seeds and pumpkin seed oil\nNote: Alpha-linolenic acid is not the same as alpha-lipoic acid, an antioxidant that helps the body turn glucose into energy. This can be confusing because both alpha-linolenic acid and alpha-lipoic acid are sometimes abbreviated as ALA.\nOne of the most common essential fatty acid deficiencies is that of alpha linolenic acid.\nAlpha Linolenic Acid may be converted into eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), a longer fatty acid that is involved in regulation of inflammatory processes and prevention of platelet \u201cstickiness.\u201d Diminished platelet stickiness reduces the blood clotting that can lead to heart attack or stroke. Your body can make the other polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids from ALA. However, many things can interfere with this process including zinc deficiency, alcohol, obesity, and aging.\nSevere deficiency in omega-3 intake pointed by numerous epidemiologic studies may increase the brain\u2019s vulnerability representing an important risk factor in the development and/or deterioration of certain cardio- and neuropathologies.\nSome signs of alpha-linolenic acid deficiency include:\nBehavioral changes.\nA modest dietary consumption of ALA (1.2-2g) is recommended\nDo not take alpha-linolenic acid supplements if you have prostate cancer or are at high risk for getting prostate cancer (e.g., you have a father or brother with prostate cancer). There is some evidence that alpha-linolenic acid might increase the chance of getting prostate cancer.\nElevated serum alpha-linolenic acid levels are associated with decreased chance of pregnancy after in vitro fertilization\nWhile omega-3 fatty acids have numerous benefits and clinical indications, as with any nutraceutical, caution should be exercised to avoid adverse reactions, and careful patient selection should be employed.\nThe cardioprotective effects of higher ALA intakes do not appear to be related to changes in serum lipid profiles. A meta-analysis of 14 randomized controlled trials concluded that ALA supplementation had no effect on total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, or triglyceride levels.\nNames and Abbreviations of the Omega-6 and Omega-3 Fatty Acids:\n\u03b3-Linolenic acid\nStearadonic acid\nEicosatetraienoic acid\nAdrenic acid\nDPA (n-3)\nTetracosatetraenoic acid\nTetracosapentaenoic acid\nTetracosapentaienoic acid\nTetracosahexaenoic acid\nhttps://www.spandidos-publications.com/br/8/1/69\nPrevious Entry What is Phenylacetate?\nNext Entry What is Linoleic Acid?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 6210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.seattlepi.com/travelforaircraft/2011/07/04/final-flight-of-robert-h-widmer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:59Z", "digest": "sha1:23ETL6PHCUHIJY2XP4VOLSBWZEX7LFHI", "length": 1927, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.seattlepi.com", "title": "Final Flight of Robert H. Widmer - Travel for Aircraft", "raw_content": "Final Flight of Robert H. Widmer\nBy joseph_may on July 4, 2011 at 10:00 PM\nMany thanks to the New York Times newspaper which published this obituary notice of Richard H. Widmer, a man who was one of the most significant persons in this country\u2019s (the USA\u2019s) aviation history. Mr. Widmer worked originally for Consolidated and stayed with them through the acquisition of that company by Convair and ultimately Lockheed-Martin. He passed away due to natural causes on 20 June 2011 in Ft. Worth TX at the grand age of 95. He obviously lived a long life but not as obvious is how many aircraft designs he was either a significant part of, if not the lead designer.\nThe Consolidated B-24 Liberator\u2019s wing\nThe Convair B-36 Peacemaker wind tunnel testing\nThe Convair B-58 Hustler\nThe General Dynamics F-111 \u201cAardvark\u201d\nThe General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon\nThe General Dynamics Tomahawk cruise missile\nPerhaps he is known even less is his presaging foresight. Often in his career he argued with management staff to move ahead with new designs with leaps that were closer to revolutionary as opposed to evolutionary. The grandest of his actions was his push for two designs in particular \u2014 the Hustler and the Fighting Falcon. Prominently successful aircraft, each in their own way, and his company obtained contracts over others because of his advance work. His advance work on the Hustler and Fighting Falcon gave Convair and General Dynamics, respectively, each two years advantage over the competition. His positive economic impact for the state of Texas economy must have been fantastic. Later his work would be recognized for the pioneering of supersonic cruise speeds as well as fly-by-wire controls.\nAlthough not generally known to the public his work was known by the industry and they awarded him the Reed Aeronautics Award (1983). Much of his work will remain unknown to us as he lived in \u201cextreme black\u201d, as said by him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 3588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 204.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.solidsignal.com/news/satellite-dish-frozen-time-to-stream/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:53Z", "digest": "sha1:523KOUSQVIICWFGAMIH3WQNOXIAL5ARJ", "length": 4278, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.solidsignal.com", "title": "Satellite Dish Frozen? Time to Stream! - The Solid Signal Blog", "raw_content": "Satellite Dish Frozen? Time to Stream!\nDo you have a satellite dish on your roof? And do you live in a cold climate? If you answered yes to both questions, I hope you get a satellite dish warmer like we told you about back in September. If you didn\u2019t, you\u2019re might not watch too much satellite TV this winter. Sooner or later, the snow and ice is going to accumulate on that dish and interrupt your transmission. Since it\u2019s on your roof, you can\u2019t climb up there to brush the dish off without risk of falling. (Repeat, DO NOT get up on your roof during the winter!) Fortunately, if you\u2019re satellite dish is a popsicle, we have some solutions for you.\nStreaming Services During the Snowfall\nBefore you shout, \u201cI\u2019m not paying for another TV service,\u201d hear me out. You can try streaming for free while you\u2019re satellite TV is out of commission. Two of the biggest streaming services \u2013 DIRECTV NOW and DISH\u2019s Sling TV \u2013 offer free trials. This can give you something to watch for a limited time while you wait for the next big warm snap. Since these streaming services are provided by the two big satellite TV services \u2013 DIRECTV and DISH \u2013 you should be very familiar with the programming offered by each.\nDIRECTV NOW Free Trial\nIf you have DIRECTV\u2019s satellite service, you should enjoy DIRECTV NOW. This premier streaming service delivers 65+ channels, many of them the same as what you get with your satellite TV subscription. Currently, you can get a one-week free trial for DIRECTV NOW. What would it hurt to give it a whirl for seven days to see how you like it? If you don\u2019t want to continue it, make sure to contact DIRECTV and cancel DIRECTV NOW so you don\u2019t get billed.\nIf you\u2019re thinking about getting DIRECTV NOW, consider getting it through Signal Connect, a division of Solid Signal. As an AT&T Preferred Dealer, Signal Connect offers some great incentives and savings. For example, if you\u2019re an existing or become a new AT&T Wireless customer, Signal Connect offers qualifying customers a $15/month bill credit. Are you a first responder or military personnel, you\u2019ll also get a $15 bill credit.\nThere\u2019s another way to get low-cost/no-cost streaming from AT&T and Signal Connect. It\u2019s called AT&T Watch TV, and it features 39 national TV channels. You can get it for $15/month if you purchase it a la carte, and it also comes free with an AT&T Wireless account. Since Signal Connect is an AT&T Wireless provider, they can hook you up with that, too. If you want some entertainment you can enjoy on your phone or tablet while your dish is frozen, Signal Connect is the team you need to call.\nSling TV Free Trial\nIf you\u2019re a DISH subscriber, you probably don\u2019t want to jump over to the other side of the fence, even for a free trial. We admire your loyalty. We\u2019re happy to tell you about DISH\u2019s Sling TV. You can check out this streaming service for a free, seven-day trial. You\u2019ll enjoy watching 30+ national channels while your satellite dish is encased in snow and ice. If you end up liking this streaming service, you won\u2019t be alone. As of February 2017, Sling TV had an estimated 2.3 million subscribers, which was nearly 50 percent of all streaming customers at that time.\nWhether you want DIRECTV NOW or DISH\u2019s Sling TV, you can try these streaming service providers out for free. Granted, it\u2019s only for a week, but that\u2019s a week with some of your favorite channels instead of being without them. If you want an AT&T Wireless plan and the Watch TV streaming that comes with it, call Signal Connect at 866-726-4182. They\u2019ll be happy to answer your questions and give you the help you need.\nChances are, you don\u2019t want to try streaming because you love your satellite TV. That\u2019s why you\u2019re so disappointed that it\u2019s frozen solid and not sending signal. If that\u2019s the case, I have some good news. I\u2019ve lived through enough Michigan winters to know that it\u2019s not snow and ice all the time. If there\u2019s a break in the weather, you can always get the satellite dish heater we told you to get back in September. If things warm up just enough, you might get the chance to get on the roof to install it\u2026 or call an installer.\nOPINION: Here\u2019s what a Smart TV really needs\nCord Cutting, Binge Watching and Streaming\u2026 Oh My!\nLocal TV Affiliates Drive Up Streaming Service Costs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 11315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.solidsignal.com/tutorials/can-use-directv-splitter-split-antenna-line/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:24Z", "digest": "sha1:FOIURREJKGZ6T2DJNRKGKCSQVMCS3DLM", "length": 1359, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blog.solidsignal.com", "title": "Can you use a DIRECTV splitter to split an antenna line? - The Solid Signal Blog", "raw_content": "Can you use a DIRECTV splitter to split an antenna line?\nYeah, kinda, but you shouldn\u2019t. First of all, using a DIRECTV splitter for an antenna is really a waste of money. Antenna splitters just don\u2019t need to be built to the level of quality that DIRECTV splitters are. Not only that, DIRECTV splitters are specially designed to let frequencies pass from port to port. This could make no difference, but if any of your TVs is bouncing back interference due to a bad cable, it won\u2019t stay isolated\u2026 it could affect every TV.\nBut all that said, it works. I know, I\u2019ve tried it in a pinch. If you have plenty of DIRECTV splitters sitting around and no antenna splitters, look all I can say is it works. I didn\u2019t see any ill effects from it. I wouldn\u2019t have set out to spend that amount of money on something like that but it didn\u2019t seem to hurt anything. Signals were about 3dB lower than a straight run, which is on par with what I see with other splitters.\nSo, if that\u2019s what you need to do, I wouldn\u2019t worry about it. You might take the time to get a cheaper splitter at some point and save that DIRECTV one for a rainy day, but it\u2019s not going to be a problem if you don\u2019t.\nBroadcast TV\u2019s Best New Shows\nNEW VIDEO: Assembling the Televes DATBOSS LR MIX\nWhat does a compression tool do?\nNICE AND EASY: Can You Use a DIRECTV Receiver with a 220 Volt Power Source?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 8282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.virginatlantic.com/best-beaches-within-easy-reach-london/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:14Z", "digest": "sha1:VWPDYVX3ZB5453KTL4UGYUMSIFDPLOX3", "length": 2587, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "blog.virginatlantic.com", "title": "The best beaches within easy reach of London | Ruby: a blog by Virgin Atlantic", "raw_content": "The best beaches within easy reach of London\nThe beach at West Wittering\nThe UK might not be world-renowned for its beaches, but we have some superior stretches of sand to rival even the finest Caribbean shores. Well, almost. The UK is an island, after all \u2013 and we have thousands of beaches to explore, including some within easy reach of London that should be on every visitor\u2019s must-do list this summer.\nWest Wittering, West Sussex\nThe train from London Victoria will whisk you to Chichester \u2013 gateway to the Witterings \u2013 in just 90 minutes. The sand is white, the sea is blue, and with a line-up of traditional candy-striped beach huts, it\u2019s as idyllic as British beaches get. Explore rockpools, swim in safe tidal lagoons or just lie back and sunbathe in this family-friendly location.\nWest Wittering beach huts\nBotany Bay is one of the most photographed beaches in the UK, with good reason. The sandy cove is backed by the longest stretch of chalk cliffs in Britain, and is hidden away with not so much as a shop in sight. It\u2019s an hour\u2019s walk from Broadstairs, which is a pretty seaside town in its own right, and under one hour 20 minutes by train from London St. Pancras.\nThis tiny estuary island is only accessible at low tide, via an ancient Roman causeway from the mainland. It\u2019s a destination for foodies as well as beach lovers, with liquid refreshment on offer at the Mersea Island Vineyard and Brewery, and plenty of spots to slurp on local oysters. Relax on the quiet beaches, or if you\u2019re feeling active, hunt for fossils \u2013 some have been found here dating back 300,000 years. The train from London Liverpool Street to nearby Colchester will get you here in under an hour.\nCamber Sands, near the historic town of Rye in East Sussex\nWith seven miles of beach and dunes, Camber Sands provides plenty of space to sunbathe and build sandcastles. It\u2019s even been used as a movie location to stand in for the Sahara Desert. Get here via a fast train to Rye from St. Pancras followed by an 18-minute bus journey. And if you tire of sun, sea and sand, head back to the chocolate box town of Rye to explore its cobbled streets and medieval timbered houses.\nThe pretty seaside town of Whitstable\nIf you\u2019re more into soaking up the seaside atmosphere than sunbathing, Whitstable is just over an hour on the train from either Victoria or St. Pancras. This picturesque town offers excellent seafood restaurants and independent boutiques, as well as pubs and oyster bars with sea-facing terraces and colourfully painted houses and beach huts, all on the edge of a pretty shingle beach.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogcritics.org/interview-diane-chamberlain-author-stolen-marriage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VXCR4SFV6DQAXKINEUV5ZKBYOROK4URS", "length": 10261, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "blogcritics.org", "title": "Interview: Diane Chamberlain, Author of 'The Stolen Marriage' | Blogcritics", "raw_content": "Home / Books / Book Interviews / Interview: Diane Chamberlain, Author of \u2018The Stolen Marriage\u2019\nDiane Chamberlain, author of 'The Stolen Marriage.' Photo: John Pagliuca\nInterview: Diane Chamberlain, Author of \u2018The Stolen Marriage\u2019\nAdriana Delgado October 7, 2017 Comments Off on Interview: Diane Chamberlain, Author of \u2018The Stolen Marriage\u2019 2,251 Views\nThe Stolen Marriage is a fitting name for Diane Chamberlain\u2019s new novel. However, for reasons that at first remain hidden, it\u2019s hard to discern why this particular marriage is considered stolen.\nRight away, the fact that something is wrong with Tess DeMello\u2019s marriage to her new husband Henry Kraft is glaringly obvious. Their interactions are so loveless and cold that it\u2019s not a stretch to imagine this has been a tragically arranged union which the couple is firmly against. Soon we discover that it\u2019s Tess who is the true catalyst, ending an engagement to the man she had loved all her life in order to marry a man she knows nothing about and loves even less.\nDiane Chamberlain, author of \u2018The Stolen Marriage.\u2019 Photo: John Pagliuca\nChamberlain doesn\u2019t make us suffer through half the novel to find out the reason behind Tess\u2019s abrupt decision, which is in itself a relief. As it happens, Tess committed an indiscretion with businessman Henry Kraft as a result of a drunken night in a Washington D.C. hotel. The fact that Tess is borderline unconscious, and in no shape to give consent when she sleeps with Henry, would make the act be judged by today\u2019s standards as non-consensual. Perhaps if the novel were set in 2017, it would perhaps be a different story. But it\u2019s 1944, and Tess doesn\u2019t see the painful decision to end her engagement as anything other than her own fault, and her subsequent pregnancy by Henry, a result of her mindless one-night debauchery.\nTess is of course shocked when Henry steps up and offers to marry her, since she only expects to be brushed off with enough money to make her and her baby disappear. But Henry admits his own responsibility, and after the wedding, takes Tess to his hometown of Hickory, North Carolina to introduce her as his new wife.\nTo say that Tess is shocked by all the changes that are abruptly forced on her, is a mirror image of the equal shock experienced by Henry\u2019s relatives and the people of Hickory. Chamberlain\u2019s fast-paced narrative leaves enough room for the suspense that surrounds Henry\u2019s life, leaving clues for us to play detectives along with the young and naive Tess, who slowly learns that there\u2019s too many secrets about her new husband that she\u2019s not privy to.\nHenry\u2019s mother Ruth and his sister Lucy prove to be instant forces of hostility. Tess is trapped between a husband she doesn\u2019t want, a life she feels suffocated by, and a town that judges her for who and what she is, with perhaps the exception of a curious reverend who seems to be the only one prone to show her any kindness.\nTess is ultimately somewhat freed by a polio epidemic that spreads through Hickory, forcing her husband and mother-in-law to allow her work as a nurse in the new community hospital. Can tragedy be sometimes a cover for salvation? Chamberlain drags Tess and her innocence through the mud, but she does so with a purpose.\nA heroine can only be one if she frees herself of past restrictions and erroneous judgement so her fortitude can emerge. Tess DeMello becomes not so much a phoenix but the backbone of a modern-day feminist who struggles through her choices, limitations and mistakes to become a woman.\nIn a telephone conversation, Diane Chamberlain reveals the true story behind the polio hospital in The Stolen Marriage and her unusual encounter with an unconventional medium who inspired one of the characters in the novel.\nWhat books are you currently reading and do you have any preferred genres?\nFor the last two or three weeks, all I\u2019ve been working on are revisions for my new novel that will be published next year, so I haven\u2019t cracked somebody else\u2019s book in a while. Generally though, I like women\u2019s fiction that have a good deal of mystery and suspense, something that doesn\u2019t shortchange on relationships. You still get a lot of who these characters are, their worries and strengths. You know them as real people not just psychopaths (laughs). You care about them but there\u2019s also a strong element of \u201cwhat the heck is really going on here?\u201d\nYou\u2019ve written over twenty novels now, most of them bestsellers. How disciplined are you when it comes to your writing?\nI am not at all disciplined! It takes me a long, long time to figure out what I want to write next and I usually have just a year to do that. I spend the first few months just thinking and talking with my writer friends, brainstorming. When it comes down to the real writing, there\u2019s two ways I like to do it: one is at Starbucks, with a lot of noise, and another one is at home where I have to have complete silence. I can\u2019t explain that, but that\u2019s the way I am. If the weather is nice, I like to work on the porch with a nice view.\nWhat is different between Tess DeMello, your character in The Stolen Marriage, compared to your previous female protagonists?\nI think that just by virtue of the novel taking place in 1944 it makes her quite different. She\u2019s a devout Catholic, grew up in Little Italy in Baltimore, so she has a very isolated existence in terms of not having much exposure to different kinds of people. When she\u2019s suddenly thrown into the South, particularly in Hickory, North Carolina, suddenly she\u2019s meeting black people, encountering no other Catholics and is actually looked down on for being Catholic. Everything that has been her world is now turned upside down.\nThe choices Tess makes, beginning with the end of her engagement, are rooted in a deep sense of guilt. Would you say this guilt is the reason behind all the decisions that ultimately bring her to Hickory and to be Henry\u2019s wife?\nYes. I think that leaving Vincent (her fianc\u00e9e) and not telling him about this thing she did is in fact rooted in guilt. But also, she imagines that Vincent wouldn\u2019t want anything to do with her because of what she\u2019s done, so it\u2019s both guilt and fear. And when it comes to Henry, she\u2019s thinking that she ultimately needs to provide for the child she\u2019s going to have, and marrying him is the best way that she can do that. Otherwise, she probably would have been forced to live a lie, make up a husband who was killed overseas. She would have that hanging over her head for all time.\nTess grows quite a lot as a character, and as the novel progresses, not only is she exposed to a completely different social climate than the one she\u2019s used to, but she also learns to be a stronger person and speak up for herself.\nYes, this is absolutely true. To me, that\u2019s the whole point of this sort of fiction. Wherever my character starts, they\u2019re going to change and grow for the better. That\u2019s particularly true in this case.\nThe Stolen Marriage is set for the most part in Hickory, NC and you based the polio hospital in the novel with the actual hospital that Hickory residents founded in the 1940s. Why did this topic appeal to you?\nIt appealed to me for a few reasons. I had a great-aunt who had polio when she was young. I didn\u2019t know her very well, but my memory of her and whenever I would see her, she was in a wheelchair with a full brace on her leg that kept it perpendicular to her body. Also, I had a very close writer friend, a woman who had polio as a child and had to spend almost a year in an iron lung and she was such an amazing person.\nSo polio was always in the back of my mind, and growing up in an era when the doctor always checked you for polio during your yearly examination, the topic wasn\u2019t really that alien to me. I think what really moved me as I read about Hickory and the polio hospital was the community response, and how they built it in only fifty-four hours. People left their jobs to do this, and I think that\u2019s incredible.\nDo you have a favorite (and conversely) least favorite character?\nI really have an affection for the character of Reverend Sam, who I based on a medium I met that was also a reverend. A friend of mine had told me about this guy who was allegedly able to get in touch with her deceased father. My reaction was: \u201cOh, this is so ridiculous!\u201d\nThe very next night, I had a date with this guy whom I met thought Match.com so of course I didn\u2019t really know him very well. I told him the story about my friend seeing this medium and he said to me, \u201cThat\u2019s Reverend Brown. He gets in touch with my brother who was killed in Vietnam.\u201d I thought the coincidence was just crazy, so I figured I would go see this man and debunk him.\nThis is how it went: The first thing that happens when you go see him, is you have to write down the name of the person you want to contact on a card. I took mine outside, where he couldn\u2019t see me, and I wrote the name of my mother and grandmother. I then folded up the card and went into his office. He rested his hand on top of mine while I was holding the card, and started talking to me about all kinds of other stuff. I immediately thought, \u201cAha, he couldn\u2019t see my card!\u201d But then, all of a sudden he says, \u201cSusan is here.\u201d Susan was my mother\u2019s name. Then he says, \u201cNan is here too,\u201d who was my grandmother, and the other name I had written on the card.\nThat was mind-blowing for me. I\u2019ve wanted to put that character in a book for a long time, and it seemed this was the best place for him.\nMy least favorite character was definitely Ruth. I should have made her a little more well-rounded, but she really was just an awful person with no redeeming features.\nCan you tell me a little bit about the novel you\u2019re working on now?\nIts crazy! It\u2019s involves some time travel which is really unusual for me. Essentially, it\u2019s about a young woman in 1970 whose husband is killed in Vietnam and she is pregnant with his child. She learns her baby is going to die, and her brother-in-law happens reveals that he is from the future and tells her that in the year 2001, she can have fetal surgery to save her baby. He ends up talking her into traveling to the future, and everything ends up going wrong. How\u2019s that? (laughs).\nTags Diane Chamberlain fiction Interview The Stolen Marriage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 14272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bloggingkits.org/using-micronization-to-reduce-api-particle-size/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5RHR5KIJ7FGP4KJH6MRW4FU4HMXOFEHF", "length": 2912, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bloggingkits.org", "title": "Using Micronization to Reduce API Particle Size \u2013 Blogging kits", "raw_content": "Home Tech UpdatesUsing Micronization to Reduce API Particle Size\nMicronization is the process through which the already existing particles are reduced to a rather minute size. This in some cases goes from micro meter or even nano meter. Due to an increase in the surface area of a particle, usually, there is dissolution and the rate at which this happens can keep increasing because of the deteriorating rate of APIs. Micronization is a process that can be helpful in the processing of a lot more drugs that exist in a solid, liquid or a gas state. Especially in the field of fluid energy, this process id helpful in more than one ways. The following is used in different ways and forms, some of which can be explained in the following non-mechanical ways:\nThis is one process that does not necessarily require any mechanical components. Instead of these components, it manages to create a very high velocity for particles that creates a major energy difference in particles. As this gas further enters into the jet-mill chamber, there is a difference in the solid and the gas state of these particles. There are other thing that can be compared to a process like this, are FPS Food, Pharma Systems and so on, however, does not produce too much, the size of the equipment is simply too large, and the requirements for this process to take place is if there is very high gas pressure and is often mistaken as \u2018black box.\u2019\nJet milling that comes under containment\nThe process of Micronization is still being taken into consideration in isolation only, because of the existence of very potent carbons as for very potent drugs, these are can only done in isolation. The conditions that they work under usually involve an isolator that is very powerful in their process, namely RABS (restricted access barrier system).\nAs Micronization is a process that is taken up mostly in the pharmaceutical companies, the rate at which bead mining is used. This process is usually taken into consideration when there is a need to reduce the particle size into nano-meter scales, and this takes place when the equipment is basically differentiated from the grinding media product. Things that are considered for this process to take place are bead density, the size of the beads, stirrer-shaft space, the rate of flow, and so on. These will make the formulation and the process easier for the generation of a good amount of force. However, the risk of exposing this to any kind of contamination is something that one should be looking out for.\nPharmaceuticals are investing heavily in this technology, and are making it easier for the structure of these drugs to change for convenience of consumption. Another company that has offered more without compromising on the quality of these is Orenda Pulverizers. A company that has been in the industry for 20 years, their services include sharpening, automations, upgrades and so on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 180.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blognovic.com/2013/08/05/pope-francis-demand-and-hope/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VG33EKOT3WHCWDVYD6VPXK2RAZQWRVYV", "length": 2889, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blognovic.com", "title": "Pope Francis: demand and hope \u2013 Blognovic", "raw_content": "Link: Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon Previous Link: UN officials urge humanitarian access to thousands trapped by intense fighting in Syria Next\nThe Pope\u2019s message to the young people wasn\u2019t easy. It was demanding. And the young were listening. Last Sunday, the Pope asked in Rome for prayers for the participants to translate to their lives what they experienced in Brazil.\n\u201cI want to ask you to pray with me, that the young people that participated in World Youth Day will be able to translate this experience into their daily journey, in their everyday conduct; and that they will be able to translate it in the most important choices of their life, responding to the personal call of the Lord\u201d, he said.\n\u201cToday in the liturgy the provocative words of Qoheleth resonate: \u201cVanity of vanities . . . all things are vanity\u201d. Young people are particularly sensitive to the emptiness of meaning and values that surrounds them. And they, unfortunately, pay the consequences. On the other hand, the encounter with the living Jesus, in the great family that is the Church, fills the heart with joy, because it fills it with true life, a profound goodness that does not pass away or decay: we have seen this in the faces of the youths in Rio\u201d.\n\u201cBut this experience must face the daily vanity, the poison of emptiness that insinuates itself into our society based on profit and having [things], that deludes young people with consumerism\u201d.\n\u201cThe Gospel of this Sunday reminds us of the absurdity of basing their happiness on \u2018having\u2019. \u201cThe rich man says to himself: \u2018My soul, you have many good things stored up . . . rest, eat, drink, be merry!\u2019 But God says to him: \u2018You fool, this very night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?\u2019\u201d .\n\u201cDear brothers and sisters, true wealth is the love of God, shared with the brothers. That love that comes from God and makes us share among ourselves, and makes us help one another. He who experiences this does not fear death, and receives peace of heart. Let us entrust this intention, the intention of receiving the love of God and sharing it with our brothers, to the Virgin Mary,\u201d he concluded.\nNow, with the WYD in Brazil already finished, my blog is back full of bad, depressing news. That doesn\u2019t mean all that strength and hope seen at Rio de Janeiro is gone. That doesn\u2019t mean that nothing else is happening. There are a lot of good people doing good things around the world, making peace, helping each other, fighting hate, living with values, but they are not making news. We are living in a culture of materialism, and because of that, pessimist, short-sighted. Events like the WYD and words like the ones Pope Francis is offering to the world are helping many people to look up with hope.\nBrazil\tCopacabana\tGod\tJesus\tPope\tRio de Janeiro\tRome\tWorld Youth Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6008, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.bl.uk/oralhistoryofscience/2010/10/a-history-of-climate-models.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YL5WCM5JONK6YOTDDEQHL6HTUCWSHUJO", "length": 4049, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blogs.bl.uk", "title": "A history of climate models - Oral History of British Science", "raw_content": "\u00ab Digital Video for Oral History | Main | Evocative objects \u00bb\nPosted by Katrina Dean\nThe AHRC research network 'Data landscapes: toward an art of environmental change' met recently at the University of Westminster. The workshop was on climate data and how this is handled from various angles: scientific, historical and artistic. In my presentation on a history of climate models I reviewed some past models of climate and visualisations of climate data. Examples include the work of Aristotle, Edmond Halley, Gilbert White, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Lyell, James Croll and Thomas Griffith Taylor.\nAbove: An entry by Gilbert White in the 'the Naturalist's Journal', British Library Add Ms 31846\nI drew attention to three kinds of relationships between climate models and history:\nclimate as a form of historical explanation\nhistory and in particular archival research and research from 'proxy archives' (e.g. sediments, ice cores) as a methodology for uncovering knowledge about past climate\na recent scientific development whose history is unwritten.\nThe last one in particular concerns an Oral History of British Science. To document the theme of 'A Changing Planet' members of the project team are through interviews reconstructing the history of a family of disciplines in the earth and related sciences. We also want to document connections between individual scientists and different disciplines to show how research about the oceans, atmosphere, weather, ice sheets, earth's crust and past climate have all been brought together to establish knowledge about climate change. One key development is the climate model, but how did this come about?\nOne of the origins of climate models is in numerical weather prediction, which applied computing techniques to atmospheric models to produce short-term weather forecasts. These models were tested on past weather events to see if they could produce the weather actually experienced. The analogies with modelling past climate are clear.\nTo date, this is mainly an American (and Scandinavian) story in which numerical weather prediction was developed by the Weather Bureau and military weather services using early electronic, digital computers.\nBy interviewing atmospheric scientists, meteorologists, oceanographers and palaeoclimatologists it will be interesting to learn how these techniques were developed, especially in Britain and Europe. How did climate models come to address more than atmospheric phenomena to include for example ocean circulation and other forms of historical and proxy data? How have computer models become one of the dominant mediums for discovering and expressing knowledge about past climate and for making predictions about the future?\nOne interesting aspect of the Data Landscapes workshop is how models conceal the material, human and technological processes of collecting, compiling and analysing data before it is modelled. Interviews with those who collect this data will contribute to revealing these processes and addressing some of the issues concerning uncertainty in climate model predictions. Unless we know how we know something, it may sometimes be difficult to grasp the basis on which expert knowledge is established and the substance underlying competing claims.\nDrawing on the British Library's collections to review past ideas about climate and attempts to collect data and visualise these ideas and data reminded me that we have plenty of past examples to draw on. Contemporary history presents us with the challenge of analysing our current predicaments with historical tools; and oral history is probably one of the most challenging and rewarding tools available. Thanks to the network convenor Tom Corby for organising the workshop and to Paul Merchant 'A Changing Planet' oral history interviewer for his background research on the history of palaeoclimatology, which will inform some important interviews.\nPosted at 03:24 PM in A Changing Planet, Current Affairs, History of Science, Interview, Oral history, Research, Science | Permalink", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.mcgill.ca/gradlife/tag/movies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:42Z", "digest": "sha1:BVE43XWMCVD3BCDCLZBZB4N6JQBLN4D6", "length": 3396, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blogs.mcgill.ca", "title": "\u00bb movies GradLife", "raw_content": "An Orange Dog Productions\nIf you have read my previous post, you would understand better this one. It\u2019s about fulfilling a childhood dream of filmmaking, that finally concretized itself this summer when I was in Lebanon. Now this was not an easy journey, it was in fact a painful and laborious one, that required a lot of patience. But I can tell you that in the end, the reward just warms up your heart and makes you want to smile until your cheeks hurt. (more\u2026)\nTags: beirut, cinema, cyril aris, festivals, I love you (I love you not), mentors, mounia akl, movies, orange dog productions, passion, short film\nPublished by Yasmine Ghorayeb on 2011/11/29 at 7:03 PM under General Discussions, Grad school experience, Montreal, Personal, Travel, Tricks, tips and recommendations. 0 comments.\nNot only because of the picturesque beautiful orange tree leaves and the burgundy panorama that give me goose bumps every time I pass by them, but because of the amazing film festivals happening in Montreal: the Festival des Films du Monde, and the Festival du Nouveau Cinema (FNC). The latter one is ongoing right now, it ends tomorrow on sunday. It showcases films from all over the world, with particular emphasis on the selections from big movie festivals such as the Cannes Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival.\nAmong the films they were screening, a few have sparked my attention.\nFirst, there is \u201cl\u2019Appolonide: souvenirs de la maison close\u201d, by Bertrand Bonello. In the dawn of the XXth century: L\u2019Apollonide, a house of tolerance, is living its last days. In this closed world, where some men fall in love and others become viciously harmful, the prositutes share their secrets, their fears, their joys and their pains\u2026\nThen there is \u201cMelancholia\u201d by Lars Von Trier. Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd) are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth\u2026 Lars von Trier creates a spellbinding, visually gorgeous and often-moving alloy of family drama.\nLast but not least, \u201cSnowtown\u201d by Justin Kurzel. The story revolves around a 16 year-old boy, Jamie, who begins a friendship with a charismatic man. His world becomes threatened by his loyalty and fear of his newfound father figure, John Bunting: Australia\u2019s most notorious serial killer. An absolutely mesmerizing, uncompromising movie masterpiece.\nSo go ahead and watch some movies at the FNC, if you have not done so already. You still have two more days to catch up !\nTags: appolonide, festival du nouveau cinema, melancholia, Montreal, movies, snowtown\nPublished by Yasmine Ghorayeb on 2011/10/22 at 11:32 AM under Personal. 0 comments.\nPhD Comics \u2013 the movie\nOutdoor screening featuring the skyline of Montreal\nLast week we had the screening of the movie PhD Comics at McGill University. For those of you not familiar with the characters, it is based on the comics of the same name created by Jorge Cham, himself a PhD from Stanford University.\nAlthough most of the jokes in the movie were extracted from the original comics, it was worth watching these grad students\u2019 adventures in the big screen.\nTags: Diego Mastroianni, movies\nPublished by Diego Mastroianni on 2011/10/02 at 3:57 PM under Grad school experience. 2 comments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 8940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluegrassteam.com/video-house-sale-danville-kentucky-hayes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:39Z", "digest": "sha1:LE3LBN2NIJ6W6QYWGY2ZMHFDMF36ZNME", "length": 11269, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bluegrassteam.com", "title": "VIDEO of House For Sale Danville Kentucky Hayes - bluegrassteam", "raw_content": "VIDEO of House For Sale Danville Kentucky Hayes\nYou\u2019ll want to see this VIDEO of this House For Sale Danville Kentucky on Hayes Lane \u2013 the most perfect location in Boyle County. Think I am overstating that? Come see for yourself. Wonderful area, Wonderful spot in the country, 2.5 miles to town (4 minutes) and 7 miles to Danville (10 min) our College town. All Brick, with patio, fireplace and this is a Roger Yankee built home. Ask anyone around, Mr Yankee built the best. Call Ken for more info on this House For Sale in Danville Kentucky on Hayes Lane. 859-494-5521 PAYING too much for YOUR house? Here\u2019s what $668/mo will buy for a Danville Kentucky House VIDEO Transcript I used to do these great drive-ins and I just don\u2019t do them any more, I don\u2019t know why. But anyway, you can tell it\u2019s a really busy highway \u2013 I\u2019m standing in the middle of it. This House For Sale Danville Kentucky is close to Perryville, historic Perryville. It\u2019s a big civil war town, all that stuff. And this goes right up to Danville, about eight miles, maybe seven miles from here and you\u2019re in Danville at the movies and stuff. Look at the beautiful estate homes, and we\u2019re going to shoot right down this little country lane, and just go up and over that knoll right there, that little knoll, and I\u2019m going to show you the cutest little house on the best little property you\u2019ve ever seen with this House For Sale Danville Kentucky. About an acre and a third, 1.3 acres more or less, you have to ask Ken he knows exactly. Remember, I\u2019m just his helper but I\u2019m going to take you down there and you\u2019re going to see a fantastic brick home. Okay, so we\u2019re going down this little country lane. So, you are going to say, \u201cWell who lives here? You know, what do they do?\u201d Well, a lot of people have been living here for years and years and years. In fact, this guy just moved from down here, like five doors down, so he must love the neighborhood. The county attorney lives here so it\u2019s a good, solid, solid neighborhood. Most all the houses are brick, and that\u2019s a really nice thing. And obviously people just walk in the middle of the road. Hey, that\u2019s one of the city councilmen. Anyway, we\u2019re going right down here and this House For Sale Danville Kentucky is the exact property here on the corner, on the corner of Meadowlark. Where this van is coming here, that\u2019s just a farm. So the property\u2013 this road ends at a farm. Anyway you\u2019re going to see this, it is the nicest lot you\u2019ve ever been to. Well maybe not but it\u2019s darn nice. You\u2019re going to love it, I promise. So that\u2019s where the farm is, right there. They just put in a new septic system so that\u2019s why there\u2019s no grass, it\u2019s coming up. If you like the looks of this right now, keep watching, you\u2019re going to want to see all the way to the end. If you don\u2019t like what you see so far, go to our website which is right here. Just click on this button, it should take you right there. Go to http://BluegrassTeam.com and you can see all kinds of properties like this House For Sale Danville Kentucky. Look at how solid this neighborhood is, just beautiful. Everybody keeps their place nice and it\u2019s Perryville, Boyle County. Boyle County schools, Perryville schools, excellent schools, has an elementary school in town. And then the kids go to middle and high in Boyle or we have private schools, we\u2019ve got Danville Christian Academy, we\u2019ve got Montessori, we\u2019ve got a Catholic school. We\u2019ve got a lot of different options and of course you can shoot right up to Lexington, then you got all kinds of options. But anyway, love this area, love this town. This is where we live. We\u2019ve been living here for about 20 years. I wouldn\u2019t live anyplace else. Absolutely love the people. Wait until I show you this house, you\u2019re going to love it, I promise. That\u2019s is lot of loves. I said love like many times, like a whole bunch of times. I guess I love this House For Sale Danville Kentucky. Okay, remember where I was showing you back here in the woods, how neat this is? Well look, they\u2019ve got a spot out here, they actually make\u2013 the people who live here actually make pallet furniture. They make furniture out of pallets and they\u2019ve got a little table there, a little chaise and a little fire pit. So they\u2019ve got a little thing going on here. And you\u2019ve got these little mounds and everything. What that does is it keeps the creek in the banks, which is approximately the property line. There\u2019s a neighbor there, a guy I\u2019ve known for about 30 years. Super guy, know his dad, know his sister, know his wife, everybody. But look at this in the back yard, is this just heaven? Can you imagine, you\u2019ve got little ones, you\u2019ve got grandkids, can you imagine they come out here? They\u2019d want to come to grammy\u2019s house and grandpa\u2019s house all the time to play in the creek and in the woods. There\u2019s a thousand adventures back here and it\u2019s all yours. Look at these woods. Everybody wants woods, this is the perfect woods, it\u2019s got the little acorns, it\u2019s got all the rustling leaves as you can hear. A lot of hickory nuts because there\u2019s a lot of hickory trees back here. So that\u2019s nice, you get a lot of little furry animals like chipmunks and squirrels and whatnot. So plenty of grass so you can play ball, you\u2019ve got the trees in the front. You can play in the front of this House For Sale Danville Kentucky, you can play ball in the side, and then you can go in the woods. I would bet a dollar to a dozen donuts, the kids and grandkids come, they\u2019re going to want to be back in here. They want to be playing in the fire pit, roasting marshmallows, all that jazz. So you\u2019ve got this patio which is a mac-daddy-o patio. All concrete and you know you can clean this up with a power washer, a little bleach, a little TSP, clean that up. You could even stain it, you can stain concrete today. Fantastic option would be to stain this, then you get the nice brick wall, plenty of seating, right? Have the chiminea there, you\u2019ve got the grill, yada yada. Nice. All right, we are going to go inside. We are going in, Danno. What do you think? Okay, we\u2019ve got beautiful light. I\u2019m going to go inside real quick because I\u2019m losing light because it\u2019s getting towards the afternoon. Obviously these people have impeccable taste in houses, in neighborhoods and in cars. A two Honda family, gotta love that. Right, you know those cars last a long time. This Danville Kentucky House is going to last a long time too, all brick, built well. This House For Sale Danville Kentucky was built by Roger Yankee in 1973. Now Roger has gone to the big hammer in the sky, but this house is built well and everyone knows in the area that a Yankee home was done correctly. So it\u2019s a Roger Yankee house, that means a lot. What are you going to do with this out here? They use it for a garage, but you could finish this off. I\u2019m always looking for added living space, right? Like the patio, like the fire pit, all that stuff. You walk right in here and you\u2019ve got a laundry room and of course this door goes right out to that patio. I love that patio. They come home one day and see that patio gone, you better come look at my House For Sale Danville Kentucky. Just joking, just joking. All right, so here you\u2019ve got a fireplace, gas logs, and this big open area. So if you entertain a lot, like we sometimes do, then you\u2019ve got the kitchen here. You guys can be cooking, you can be serving, and you can be chilling and kibitzing and all that stuff. Oh, and you\u2019ve got this coffer\u2013 not coffered ceiling, but like beams and stuff there. It\u2019s about an acre and a third. Got to talk to Ken, he\u2019s going to know about it more than I. So a formal dining room, or not-so-formal dining room. And then check this out, formal living room, or you could open this up and make this all just entertaining. Why not? But this is big, big, big. All in there, gosh that\u2019s got to be almost 30 feet and this was probably 16 feet or so. And again, they just put a new septic system in, so you\u2019ve got a new septic system. How nice is this House For Sale Danville Kentucky? All right, so not to get you lost, here\u2019s the living room with the fireplace. We\u2019re going to go down this really nice hall and you\u2019ve got bedroom number one, with big closet. Master bedroom, look how the lights change so fast, so quickly. This master bedroom with the big closet and full bath. You\u2019ve got two full baths in this house. So, there you go there. And you\u2019ve got the third bedroom here. You\u2019ve got bunk beds in here, but so what? I mean you could put a king in here, it\u2019s a good sized bedroom let me tell you. And it\u2019s got a bath right off of here, so you\u2019ve got a full bath here. And then that is where that really nice wooded area is out there. The light sure went away. So I\u2019m just going to fly through here. Again, if you like what you see, come on down, give Ken a call. Come on down and visit with us and we will show you around. We\u2019ll show you around Perryville, we\u2019ll show you around Danville and more House For Sale Danville Kentucky. Maybe you\u2019ve got a kid who is going to go to Centre College, wouldn\u2019t that be cool? You want to live a little bit closer. You can come on down visit the college, come look at the house. You know, a lot of good things going on here. And if this isn\u2019t exactly for you, go to our website which is right here. Click on that button, it should work. Click right there, it should go right to our website, http://BluegrassTeam.com Call Ken, his number\u2019s here. You can always reach him. That cell phone is in his left shirt pocket every day, so you can call him any time, it\u2019s going to buzz right there. And of course if you want to be alerted about new Danville Kentucky Houses before they come on the market, click on that button right there and that will go to the home finder. It\u2019s going to ask you about 10 or 12 questions and we\u2019re going to get to know a little bit about your perfect property looks like, and then we\u2019ll find it for you, send it to you. You come on up here and live happily ever after. Thanks for watching. Really appreciate it. It\u2019s the end of the day and you know what time that means, it is wine time. This is big wine country around here and we\u2019re going to have a glass of wine with my wife. Goodnight. Thank you. That\u2019s a lot of loves, I said love like many times. But anyway, love this area, love this town, this is where we live, we\u2019ve been living here for about 20 years. I wouldn\u2019t live anyplace else. Absolutely love the people. Wait until I show you this house. You\u2019re going to love it, promise. That\u2019s a lot of loves. I said love like many times. Like a whole bunch of times. So what are you going to do with this out here? They use it for\u2013\nGet Pre-Approved HERE \u2013 CLICK to Get approved for a new loan on this House\nYou will want to get you in our Exclusive Mailing List, so we can send you your PERFECT homes and land \u2013 and farms the second they are for sale (not when they hit the MLS). go to \u201cYour Perfect Property\u201d at Best Real Estate Agent in Kentucky \u2013 it only takes a few seconds to fill out your needs and wants and we will start sending you properties that meet YOUR criteria. http://BluegrassTeam.com/homefinder You\u2019ll be 1st to know about properties \u2013 It\u2019s like a sneak peek \u2013 before they hit the market \u2013 sent right to your inbox.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 13197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluesoftware.com/case_studies/private-brands-restage-safeway/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:02Z", "digest": "sha1:HN4RGRL35ZKSR4KFLBMSQ2SN6SFAXH56", "length": 2465, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bluesoftware.com", "title": "Supporting the Monumental Private Brands Re-Stage for Safeway", "raw_content": "Since its inception, BLUE has helped companies become more agile by providing a label and artwork management solution that reduces errors in the labeling process, improves products\u2019 speed to market, and significantly decreases the risk of recall and lawsuits from labeling inaccuracies and typos. That said, there\u2019s a difference between a software solution that keeps a number of projects running smoothly and one that\u2019s called upon to help execute the quick re-design of 7,500 Stock Keeping Units (SKUs).\nSuch was the case when Safeway decided to execute a complete re-stage of their private label brand portfolio, mounting the largest and most agile private brand re-stage in North America.\nThe Safeway Challenge\nPrivate label brands represented $6.8 billion of Safeway\u2019s $40 billion annual sales revenue. This consisted of 4,500 U.S. and 3,000 Canadian SKUs \u2013 involving an enormous number of design and production files that needed to be successfully and efficiently changed to minimize costs. In addition, with Safeway\u2019s private label brands representing such a large percentage of their bottom line, this process had to be accomplished as fast as possible.\nBefore Safeway engaged BLUE, they used a manual process that was repeatable, but not designed to handle such a massive workload. They quickly realized they needed technology robust enough to bear the weight of their ambitions: a centralized database for all assets, an automated workflow process, and online proofing to achieve quick, thorough packaging changes.\nBy streamlining and digitizing Safeway\u2019s processes and creating a database in which assets could be organized and located quickly, BLUE primed Safeway to complete its private label re-stage in record time. Safeway was able to re-imagine their private label portfolio and accomplish a $100 million re-positioning initiative within their ambitious time frame.\nSo what were the benefits of working with BLUE? Safeway was able to quickly capitalize on changing consumer expectations by successfully re-staging their private label brands. As a result, Private Label Magazine voted Safeway the \u201cStore Brand Retailer of the Year.\u201d Today, Safeway (and now Albertson\u2019s) uses BLUE to manage more than 1,500 suppliers who work on their private label brands. By playing an integral role in the largest and most agile private brand re-stage in North America, BLUE demonstrated its capability as the leading label and artwork management system worldwide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blueventures.org/indian-oceans-largest-community-managed-mpa-established/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:19Z", "digest": "sha1:KAQT3XRNCV27S3P5ET6EDGYL6TTL3FCD", "length": 5396, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "blueventures.org", "title": "Indian Ocean\u2019s largest community-managed MPA established | Blue Ventures \u00bb Blue Ventures", "raw_content": "Indian Ocean\u2019s largest community-managed MPA established\nHome / Latest News, LMMA / Indian Ocean\u2019s largest community-managed MPA established\ntagged: Barren Isles, community conservation, madagascar\nAntananarivo, Madagascar \u2013 The Government of Madagascar has accorded temporary protection to the Barren Isles archipelago, thus creating the largest community-managed marine protected area in the Indian Ocean.\nThis decision was recently reinforced by the commitment of President Rajaonarimampianina to triple the extent of the nation\u2019s marine protected areas by 2020, announced earlier this month at the World Parks Congress in Sydney, Australia.\nThe Barren Isles archipelago, home to some of the healthiest coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean, has been granted legal protection for an initial period of two years, prohibiting industrial fishing in nearly 4,300km2 of coast and ocean, and placing fisheries management in the hands of local communities. This initiative makes this unique group of islands Madagascar\u2019s largest protected area either on land or sea.\nSituated off the western coast of Madagascar, the archipelago\u2019s nine coral islands are home to a rich marine ecosystem with exceptional biodiversity. The new protected area harbours five species of endangered sea turtle as well as numerous seabirds, sharks, dolphins and whales, and a staggering abundance and diversity of fish. Its waters support traditional small-scale fisheries that are of immense importance to local fishing communities.\n\u201cThis protected status will benefit traditional fishers here. Our marine resources are in danger of being exhausted, and we need to create reserves to guarantee their productivity in the future.\u201d- President of the Ampasimandroro fishing village, near Maintirano\nThe new protected status upholds local fishing rights by prohibiting industrial fishing, and preventing mineral extraction companies from obtaining new permits. A permanent marine reserve around the Nosy Mboro island also protects some of the archipelago\u2019s healthiest coral reefs from all fishing activity.\nThe delineation of the protected area was agreed during extensive consultations between coastal communities and representatives of shrimp trawling and aquaculture industries. In a landmark agreement, industry representatives agreed to set aside productive fishing grounds within the protected area for the exclusive use of traditional fishers, with no trawling permitted.\n\u201cThe Association of Aquaculture Farmers and Shrimp Fishers in Madagascar (GAPCM) is committed to working with traditional fishermen in the Melaky region. We worked together for the delimitation of the protected area, and the rebuilding of fish stocks and marine resources requires the participation of everyone.\u201d \u2013 Mr. Ralison, Secretary General of the GAPCM\nThe protected area is unique not only for its size and biodiversity, but also for pioneering a rights-based approach to community management within a globally important conservation initiative. A local law created by fishing communities serves as the legal backbone of this protected area; designed and enforced by community members, the law protects the rights of traditional fishers to the resources upon which their livelihoods depend.\n\u201cWe have prioritised the conservation of marine resources, as this aligns with the state\u2019s general policy regarding the fisheries sector. The creation of this marine protected area certainly contributes to the regeneration of fish stocks and to improving the income of local fishers.\u201d \u2013 Mr. Ahmad, Minister of Marine Resources and Fisheries\nWe look to successful examples of locally managed marine areas, of which Madagascar is proud to be a pioneer in the Western Indian Ocean region. With this model, we have evidence that protected areas benefit not only biodiversity but also local communities, by ensuring their food security, bringing much needed additional revenues to local fishermen as well as by empowering them to be crafters of their own future. This model has fostered the emergence of grassroots leadership. We need these leaders to build our future.\u201d \u2013 His Excellence Mr. Hery Rajaonarimampianina, President of Madagascar \u2013 speech at the World Parks Congress in November 2014\nPress release issued jointly with the Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Forests and the Ministry of Marine Resources and Fisheries.\n\u2013 The Barren Isles Marine Protected Area is part of the System of Protected Areas in Madagascar, which is coordinated by the Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Forests in line with the Durban Vision commitment made during the World Parks Congress in 2003. This system includes new categories of Protected Areas (specifically categories V et VI) according to the IUCN classification, and equally supports other types of governance such as co-management and community management.\n\u2013 The Ministry of Marine Resources and Fisheries is responsible for marine protected areas, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Ecology and Forestry.\n\u2013 Blue Ventures is an award-winning marine conservation organisation that is supporting the development of the Barren Isles marine protected area with local communities.\n\u2013 This inititiative is generously supported by the Darwin Initiative and the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.\nFor more information, please contact: Ny Aina Andrianarivelo \u2013 [email protected]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 11479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bocciconsulting.com/26-appraisal-and-incentive-systems/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WTL4MDQK2MR6UNVR6L7DBUFPPHAH6ROC", "length": 1616, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "bocciconsulting.com", "title": "26 \u2013 Appraisal and incentive systems | Bocci Consulting", "raw_content": "Recognising and rewarding performance fairly.\nInstead of being viewed as a part of the whole performance management system, the evaluation of individual performance is often seen only as a componenti of the rewarding system, to \u201cmotivate\u201d employees with monetary incentives. Most managers and employees dread the performance review process: they hato to play out what they consider an annual administrative ritual devoid of any organizational effectiveness.\nThat being said, it is the performance of people at work that contributes to determine the performance of the whole organization, where performance simultaneously refers to the result and the actions and behaviors that led to the result.\nThe ability to assess employees performance fairly and consistently should be one of the core competencies of any manager. The whole evaluation and appraisal process should be accurately designed to:\navoid any automatic mechanism;\navoid reinforcing undesired behaviors;\ndistinguish whether the performance achieved by an employee is better than the performance achieved by another one;\nreward with equity;\ncontribute to improve the performance of the entire organization in the present and the future;\nengage managers and employees in trustful relationships for mutual growth and value creation.\nBocci Consulting assist organizations in transforming their evaluation and appraisal process from an awkward ritual to an effective tool to improve the performance of the entire organization, making the assessment of individual performance a significant moment in the development and growth of human resources working there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bomberstrap.com/pages/contact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:26Z", "digest": "sha1:UUHZDVQ3OD6GS2U322OFF335NXDJ7YUN", "length": 286, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bomberstrap.com", "title": "Contact - BomberStrap", "raw_content": "As a mountain biker, I want to make sure everyone is fully satisfied with this product. If you have questions about the Bomber Strap or would like to know if it's the right fit for your bike or tailgate, feel free to contact me at Bomberstrap@gmail.com or by filling out the form below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bosic.com.au/dr-maxine-szramaka-joins-the-bosic-team/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:19Z", "digest": "sha1:PWNLAJLHMPXXFKKQ6RGNL7LDHZ57CXT2", "length": 4599, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "bosic.com.au", "title": "Dr Maxine Szramaka joins the BOSIC team! - Barangaroo Orthopaedic and Sports Injury Clinic", "raw_content": "Barangaroo Clinic is proud to welcome Dr Maxine Szramka to our growing team of specialists. Maxine brings her in-depth knowledge and experience in a range of rheumatology-related conditions such as auto-immune diseases, gout, arthritis, spondylitis and musculoskeletal pain, including sports injuries. Let\u2019s find out how she can help you.\nWhat exactly is rheumatology? Why would a person need to visit a rheumatologist?\nRheumatology is a speciality that deals with the musculoskeletal system and auto-immune diseases that target the connective tissue in the body. You need to see a Rheumatologist if you have any form of arthritis, joint pains, muscle pains such as shoulder or back pain, or auto-immune diseases like lupus, vasculitis or Sjogren\u2019s disease. Rheumatologists are excellent diagnosticians and trained to consider conditions as a whole.\nTell us something about yourself, Dr Maxine. What motivated you to study Rheumatology?\nI decided to do Rheumatology because I love the musculoskeletal system. I had always had an innate understanding of how the body works together as a whole, so it was a natural fit for me. I love supporting people and helping them understand what is going on in their bodies.\nWhat can a client expect at their initial consultation?\nYour first consultation with me is a bit longer. I get to know you by discussing what you have been experiencing. It is very important to develop foundations of understanding so that you (the patient) and I are on the same page. I then examine you, look at investigations, make a provisional diagnosis and order further investigations, if needed. We may speak about treatments, but usually the first visit is all about making sure we have a correct diagnosis. I like to get a solid foundation of understanding before starting any long-term treatments.\nWhat are auto-immune diseases? Are there any factors that make a person more susceptible to them?\nAuto-immune disease are diseases where the body\u2019s own immune system attacks itself. The sort of auto-immune diseases I treat are immune conditions where the body\u2019s immune system targets its connective tissue. This results in conditions that affect the muscles, joints and other organ systems since we have connective tissues diseases that I see are lupus (SLE), vasculitis and Sjogren\u2019s disease. I\u2019m not aware of any factors that make people more susceptible to getting them other than, perhaps, a family history of these diseases.\nFind out more about Rheumotology.\nAre there different types of arthritis? Can arthritis be cured?\nThese are over 100 different types of arthritis! Common forms of arthritis are osteoarthritis and inflammatory arthritis. Inflammatory arthritis are the types of arthritis where there is inflammation of the lining joints known as the synovium and fluid in the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis and Gout are common types of inflammatory arthritis. There is no cure for arthritis, but we do have good drugs to help control the symptoms and signs of many forms of inflammatory arthritis.\nCan a change in diet and/or lifestyle help manage the symptoms better?\nMany patients ask me this. There is no evidence for one specific type of diet for arthritis and, in my experience, each person appears to have an individual response to food that is unique. My experience has shown that diet does not cure arthritis but, for some people, it may help to improve some of their symptoms. It\u2019s important to discuss any dietary changes with your rheumatologist and get support from a nutritional expert to make sure you are getting the right nutrients from your diet. Exercise regularly, quitting smoking and reducing alcohol intake all help improve wellbeing. Studies show that quitting smoking improves outcomes in rheumatoid arthritis.\nWhat do you find yourself doing to unwind or de-stress over the weekend?\nI like to stay fit and healthy. On weekends, I take an opportunity to go for a long walk along a nature trail early in the morning, take photos of nature at that time of day \u2013 it\u2019s beautiful . My weekends are often full of catching up with people, having meals with friends, working on any extra projects and, of course, couch time when needed! I also like to do Rheumatology videos for my patients \u2013 they are so much fun to do.\nDr Maxine talks about what she loves about Rheumatology. Her focus is to understand and support her patients through observation and conversation so that she can set up foundations of a successful diagnosis and treatment plan.\nDr Maxine Szramka is available for appointments at Barangaroo Clinic every Thursday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://boysofspring.com/contact.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:18Z", "digest": "sha1:726NJYEZA2F5VZLC4IT3ATW2GSVCF3NQ", "length": 1681, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "boysofspring.com", "title": "Boys of Spring - Tim Sheridan's BIo - Contact Boys of Spring", "raw_content": "Tim Sheridan's Bio\nThe Boys of Spring is the creation of longtime Cubs spring training public address announcer Timothy J. Sheridan. In the spring of 1984, Tim started helping out at old HoHoKam Park as a part-time public address announcer / part-time gofer. It was spring of 1989 when he took over the full-time P.A. duties at Hohokam Park and has been a fixture at Cubs spring training ever since.\nWith a passion for photography and video, Timothy is a one-man film crew, capturing images of Cubs spring rituals at Fitch, and HoHoKam Parks since his early days as the Cubs \"voice of spring\". A die-hard Cubs fan, Tim truly loves being a small part of the one-and-a-half month, friendly atmosphere that is Arizona's Cactus League. With a spot in the press box directly behind home plate, Tim spent 10 spring seasons in a seat next to Harry Caray. Considering the Cubs lack of winning teams from 1946 to 1983 the timing of Tim's entry onto the spring training scene (1984) could not have been better, making him pre-season witness to a Cubs Renaissance, 5 division championships and the wild card team of 1998.\nTimothy has a college background in broadcast communications, has worked in marketing and community relations, interned at NBC TV, and worked five years as editor for FOX 10 TV in Phoenix. After leaving FOX, Tim formed his own video and film production company. The company handles a wide range of projects, but his true passion that combines work and play is the Chicago Cubs.\nTell us what you think \u2013 Give us your comments and suggestions\nHow can we improve the Boys of Spring for Cubs fans?\n*You can also use this form to place an order for items from the store front", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bravovillas.com/tuscany/florence-area/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:36Z", "digest": "sha1:AX7BW2FCIPJNPS5JHK2H7T2IQGMXKFTC", "length": 701, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bravovillas.com", "title": "Florence area | Bravo Villas", "raw_content": "Florence is the capital of Tuscany and, for its architectural splendor, one of the most beautiful cities of the world, obligatory destination for tourists worldwide. Florence, resting on the River Arno banks is the cradle of art, the mother of the Italian language and the home of Opera, and is blessed with a spell-bounding atmosphere which has never failed to delight its visitors.\nThe bountiful Florence\u2019s province contains mainly the famous Chianti region. This verdant and fertile landscape is set between the Arno basin, south of Florence, and the province of Siena. The Chianti rolling hills have become a world icon of quality life, source of good food and excellent wine.\nVillas near Florence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 6442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brookstonesoaps.com/blogs/spending-time-outdoors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:57Z", "digest": "sha1:SXX2PKWA3CAZLCLVXFHC2CNQR3TPWCAN", "length": 558, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "brookstonesoaps.com", "title": "Spending time outdoors \u2013 Brookstone Soaps", "raw_content": "Benefits of Jewelweed\nDid you know that 85% of the world's population is allergic to poison ivy? Poison Ivy is a poisonous Asian and North American flowering plant that is well known for causing an itching, irritating and sometimes painful rash in people who touch a clean liquid compound in the plant's sap. Immediate washing with soap and cold water may help prevent a reaction. Hot water should not be used, it causes the skins' pores to open admitting the oils that cause the reaction. The rash can last for a few days up to a few weeks. Most over the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bsci21.org/predicting-violent-behavior/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:42Z", "digest": "sha1:7NG3BATUC2RNEHXEOX5DEBA5OVTTAHJJ", "length": 2748, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bsci21.org", "title": "Predicting Violent Behavior \u2013 Behavioral Science in the 21st Century", "raw_content": "HomeSocietyPredicting Violent Behavior\nThe New York Times recently published an article on our (in)ability to predict violent behavior, such as the shooting spree at the Washington Navy Yard.\nIn the social and behavioral sciences, the word \u201cprediction\u201d has at least two different meanings. In one sense, we can predict future behavior to the extent we can influence it. This is the type of prediction involved in applied work. We call a treatment or other method of behavior change \u201creliable\u201d and \u201ceffective\u201d to the extent that we are confident in the outcome it will produce. Along these lines, the New York Times suggested a \u201cmental health ambulance\u201d of sorts in which mental health professionals would be dispatched to a scene in order to diffuse the situation.\nA second type of prediction relates to the prediction of events as they occur in naturalistic settings, separate from any treatment or intervention. A common term for this type of prediction are \u201cforecasting.\u201d Weather forecasting aside, the most common type of forecasting we hear about are economic forecasts. The latter exert significant influence over individuals\u2019 monetary decisions.\nMacro-economics aside, behavioral or psychological forecasting is actually more common than you might think. The Guardian published an article a few years back titled \u201cForecasting Human Behavior Carries Big Risks\u201d which stated the following:\nThe personalised recommendations and special offers that pop up when you order books or groceries online, and even the specific sequence of questions an insurance call centre asks about your claim, are all generated by computerised predictive algorithms derived from analysing patterns, links and associations in large sets of data.\nThe suggested movies and shows given to you by Netflix, for example, can be said to use a type of behavioral forecasting.\nBoth articles suggest that while we may be able to predict large-scale sociological trends over time, the ability to predict what an individual will do in a naturalistic environment, particularly low-rate once-in-a-lifetime behavior, is extremely difficult. All sciences have their boundaries of knowledge, and this is certainly one for behavioral science.\nHowever, crossing this boundary may present a host of ethical concerns (e.g., a surveillance state) that mankind simply does not want to deal with.\nLet us know what you think about such boundaries in the comments below and don\u2019t forget to subscribe to bSci21 via email to receive the latest articles directly to your inbox!\nApplied Behavior Analysis Reduces Electricity Use in Northern Ireland\nEd Coffey says:\nSome very interesting thoughts here. Where do you draw the line between having a surveillance state and protecting innocent people?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 6768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCCE-7138", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4CAR5ZNSBLH5XUAG7NXMPKROCCEB5CM4", "length": 873, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bugs.mojang.com", "title": "[MCCE-7138] Water/Lava Placing In End - Jira", "raw_content": "Water/Lava Placing In End\nI wanted to place down a water source using a Water Bucket in The End, but it wouldn't place. I also tried it with a Lava Bucket, to no effect. I than went to the Overworld to test, and both Water and Lava Buckets acted perfectly normal. I moved on to the Nether, and tested: the Lava Bucket placed down lava, and the Water when placed, evaporated as normal. I than went back to the End and tried again with placing down both water and lava, but it still didn't work. I also proceeded to reload my world and try again, but it still isn't working.\nAlso, when I hover over a block with either a Water and/or Lava Bucket, it doesn't even say that I can place it down anymore. It seems that the code allowing any type of Buckets to place down their associated liquids has been completely removed, and it would be really helpful if this was fixed asap.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://business.mapsofindia.com/top-brands-india/consumer-durables.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:CC4HRZR7KGGRG3G5ZN77UQFWSL3POSUU", "length": 6378, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "business.mapsofindia.com", "title": "Top Consumer durable brands in India- its growth and more", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Top-brands-India \u00bb Top Consumer durables brands in India\nTop Consumer durables brands in India\nAbout Consumer Durables Brands\nConsumer durables refer to those consumer goods that do not quickly wear out and yield utility over a long period of time. Some of the common examples of these kinds of goods are electronic items, kitchen appliances, home furnishings, leisure equipment and so on. Consumer durables can be broadly categorised into three heads:\nWhite Goods: These kinds of goods include washing machines, conditioners, audio equipment, speakers and refrigerators.\nBrown Goods: These kinds of goods include kitchen appliances such as microwave ovens, grinders, chimneys, electric fans, iron, mixers and other similar cooking appliances.\nConsumer Electronics: These kinds of goods include VCD players, DVD players, MP3 players, mobile phones, telephones and the likes.\nList of Top (Leading) Consumer Durable Brands\nThis Indian manufacturing major came into existence in 1987 and is headquartered in Bengaluru, Karnataka. Titan is a celebrated manufacturer and dealer of renowned jewellery, watches, sunglasses and other luxury consumer accessories. Titan offers a number of brands that are rated amongst the very best in their respective segments such as Titan, Fastrack, Sonata, Xylys and Helios watches or jewellery brands like Tanishq. Titan is a subsidiary of the Tata Group. The market capitalisation of Titan amounted to Rs. 32,963.50 crore in May 2015.\nWhirlpool is an American manufacturer of consumer products founded in 1911 in Michigan, U.S.A. Whirlpool started off its operations in India in 1987 and has grown up to be one of the biggest consumer durables companies in India today. Whirlpool manufactures, markets, sells and supplies a wide range of refrigerators, washing machines, air conditioners, microwave ovens, water purifiers and the likes. Whirlpool commands great popularity in almost all the segments that it is involved in. In May 2015, the market capitalisation of Whirlpool was valued around Rs. 9,204.55 crore.\nSymphony is an Indian consumer durables company founded in 1988. It is amongst the world leaders as far as manufacturing air coolers is concerned. Symphony operates in more than 60 countries around the world and boasts of making user-friendly and eco-friendly products for residential as well as commercial customers. The market capitalisation of Symphony was worth Rs. 7,804.05 crore in May 2015.\nRajesh Exports is an Indian consumer durables manufacturer of gold and diamond jewellery with its headquarters in Bengaluru, Karnataka. According to the official website of Rajesh Exports Limited, the company is the largest manufacturer of gold products in the world. Rajesh Exports has its own chain of jewellery outlets named as 'Shubh Jewellers'. The market capitalisation of Rajesh Exports amounted to Rs. 6,749.64 crore in May 2015.\nPC Jewellers is a major jewellery manufacturer and a household name in India. It was incorporated in April 2005 and has its most famous showroom in Karol Bagh, New Delhi. It designs, makes, sells and exports gold and diamond jewellery in India and overseas. The market capitalisation of PC Jewellers reached Rs. 6,633.86 crore in May 2015.\nVideocon Industries was established in 1979 and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a long celebrated company dealing in essential consumer electronics and home appliances like TVs, washing machines, refrigerators, air conditioners, CD-DVD players and so on. Videocon is also one of most common household names in India providing a vast range of high quality consumer durables at affordable prices. In May 2015, Videocon's market capitalisation was valued at around Rs. 4,906.51 crore.\nThe consumer durables unit called TTK Prestige belongs to its business conglomerate parent group known as the TTK Group founded in 1928. TTK Prestige is highly reputed and famous for its consumer products especially for kitchenware. It primarily manufactures cookers, gas stoves, frying pans, microwave ovens, 3-in-1 juicer-mixer-grinders, induction cookers and toasters to name a few. The market capitalisation of TTK prestige amounted to Rs. 4,590.47 crore in May 2015.\nBlue Star Infotech was founded in 1983 and is one of the largest manufacturers of consumer electronics in India. It has its corporate offices in Mumbai, Bengaluru, New Jersey, Santa Clara, London, Malaysia and Singapore. It is a subsidiary of the Blue Star Group. The most notable products of Blue Star are air conditioners. Blue Star ACs are amongst the top AC brands in India though it produces refrigerators as well. The market capitalisation of Blue Star Infotech in May 2015 amounted to Rs. 3,168.45 crore.\nAs the name itself suggests, Bajaj Electricals manufactures consumer electronic equipment at macro level. Founded in 1926, the Bajaj Group is the parent company of Bajaj Electricals based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. Bajaj Electricals makes consumer appliances like kitchenware, ceiling fans, table fans, pedestal fans, exhaust fans, light bulbs, lanterns, battery torches to name some. Rs. 2,563.90 crore was the market capitalisation of Bajaj Electricals in May 2015.\nAsia' largest and the world's second largest manufacturer of travel utilities like luggage bags and backpacks, VIP Industries started its journey in 1971 and has its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra. VIP is the undisputed king in the travel utility market in India and Asia. It has been looking after the travel needs of people around the world with a wide range of products such as heavy luggage bags, shoulder bags, backpacks, duffel bags, trolleys, waist pouches and so on. In May 2015, the market capitalisation of VIP industries was valued to the tunes of Rs. 1,356.28 crore.\nGrowth prospect of consumer durables Industry in India\nWith the continuous inflow of disposable income and advancement of technology, the demand for varied consumer durable goods is witnessing a relentless upwards movement in India. This in turn is leading to a strong competition among different consumer durable brands as the price gap between the same consumer goods of different companies is narrowing. These goods are becoming cheaper day by day. 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Comprising of more than 60 stores, the mall ensures that every patron enjoys the ultimate shopping experience. Barnes & Noble, Nordstrom Rack and Best Buy are just some of the major chains that have set up their store here. Besides the shops, the center also features many dining options and cafes like Starbucks...\nLive... Our Collection of luxurious townhomes, condominiums and apartments put you in the heart of it all. Work...... A work place like no other, Garden State Park offers the rare opportunity to lease Class A office space in a lively setting. Play... One of a kind boutiques, brand name stores and great places to dine ... all in the unique setting of Cherry Hill, NJ. Park Place ... This is the...\nPark Place at Garden State Park offers you the unique opportunity to enjoy a townhome or condominium lifestyle within walking distance of a pedestrian-friendly town center.\nThis is convenience defined. Without ever needing to get into a car, you\u2019ll find a choice of diverse restaurants and eateries with our on-site trolley service. You\u2019ll shop at 600,000 square feet of upscale retail stores....\nBe the first NJ.com user to add photos or videos of Park Place-Garden State Park\nLuxury Townhomes, Condos, Apartments and Retail. Distinctive residences by M&M Realty Partners.\nPark Place At Garden State Park is located at 603 Haddonfield Rd, Cherry Hill, NJ. This business specializes in Government and Amusement Parks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 405, "original_length": 8769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bvcs.org/arts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4UJNHI22Q3V6EJKEFT42UZGWQV4LFUNN", "length": 1251, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "bvcs.org", "title": "Arts | Big Valley Christian School", "raw_content": "Current Productions:\nBig Valley Christian Elementary School Theatre Arts presents . . .\nThursday, March 7 at 5 pm & 7 pm\nFriday, March 8 at 5 pm & 7 pm\nTo purchase tickets, please click here: https://bvcs.brushfire.com/events/.\nPreferred Tickets \u2013 $10.00\nGeneral Admission \u2013 Adults \u2013 $6.00\nMore Information about BVCS Theatre Arts Program:\nAt Big Valley Christian School, we are committed to providing our students with a well-rounded experience, and we believe that our arts program adds breadth and depth to our students\u2019 education. Learning to play an instrument or performing in a play or even working behind the scenes on a production challenges students to improve their talents while also providing unique experiences and growth opportunities. The arts are part of our curriculum from preschool through high school. Our program offers our students the opportunity to explore and discover the creative gifts which God has given them and to share these gifts in meaningful ways. Our teachers and volunteers within this program are able to uniquely teach and disciple our students. As a result, Big Valley Christian School is a wonderful place for students to experience the joy of performing arts, visual arts, and music all while glorifying God.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCATRE56S6EI20090729", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRGZIIC5LNR55TQ22HPTK4BE7UAV6NBP", "length": 2381, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "NY museum exhibit to show unseen Tim Burton works | Reuters", "raw_content": "NY museum exhibit to show unseen Tim Burton works\nNEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Films, paintings and drawings by film director and artist Tim Burton, which have never been seen before by the public, will be shown in a new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.\nDirector Tim Burton smiles at a press briefing for his upcoming exhibit at The Museum of Modern Art in New York July 29, 2009. REUTERS/Jamie Fine\nThe retrospective, which will run from November to April, will feature more than 700 works spanning his 27-year film career, including some that were made before he directed such movies as \u201cBatman,\u201d \u201cEdwards Scissorhands,\u201d and \u201cSweeney Todd.\u201d\nThe 50-year-old director described being the subject of a major museum exhibition as an \u201cout-of-body\u201d experience.\n\u201cIt is very surreal, very surprising,\u201d Burton told a news conference at the museum on Wednesday. \u201cThis is a real re-energizing thing for me.\u201d\nThe exhibit, called \u201cTim Burton,\u201d will screen all of Burton\u2019s 14 feature films, as well as student and short films, cartoons, childhood drawings, puppets, costumes and sculptures that Burton drew from pop surrealism, organizers said.\nExcerpts from Burton\u2019s 1996 film \u201cMars Attacks!\u201d and an amateur black and white film called \u201cDr. of Doom,\u201d and a long unseen television adaptation of \u201cHansel and Gretel\u201d that briefly aired in 1983 were shown at the preview.\nBurton said growing up in suburban Burbank, California forced him to tap into his artistic side and escape through his imagination.\n\u201cThere wasn\u2019t a real kind of artistic culture,\u201d said Burton, who now lives in London. \u201cWhere I got anything, it was from TV or movies.\u201d\nThe exhibit is the first retrospective by a major museum to show Burton\u2019s works including those \u201cvirtually unknown\u201d, said Museum of Modern Art Director Glenn Lowry.\n\u201cTheir display offers an intimate experience of Burton\u2019s sensibility \u2014 undiluted, provocative and humorous,\u201d said Lowry. \u201cHis doodles, sketches, drawings and paintings are the raw material from which he draws inspiration as a filmmaker.\u201d\nBurton said he was drawn to his upcoming film, \u201cAlice in Wonderland,\u201d set for release in 2010, because he felt there had never been a strong movie version made of the classic tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit hole into a fantasy world.\nExplaining his inclination for examining life\u2019s oddities, Burton said, \u201cI get intrigued by just weird things.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 183.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cables.gl/ops/collection/hardware", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:06Z", "digest": "sha1:JJHU6A6Y32LNPLLQTBZ2D4YRBGTIMV46", "length": 63, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cables.gl", "title": "cables", "raw_content": "ops that work with external hardware, e.g. input/output devices", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 152.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2015/06/liberty-on-the-rocks-returns-to-des-moines/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3UG3RRE33AVXMA5MID7BHDDYIUYTE333", "length": 3198, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "caffeinatedthoughts.com", "title": "Liberty on the Rocks Returns to Des Moines | Caffeinated Thoughts", "raw_content": "Liberty on the Rocks Returns to Des Moines\nLiberty Iowa has announced the first of many \u201cLiberty on the Rocks\u201d events scheduled to take place Friday June 5 from 5:30 \u2013 8:00pm at Embassy Suites.\nJohn Kasich Is Headed to Iowa\nLiberty on the Rocks will be held at the Embassy Suites in Downtown Des Moines\n(Des Moines, IA) Liberty Iowa has announced the first of many \u201cLiberty on the Rocks\u201d events scheduled to take place Friday June 5 from 5:30 \u2013 8:00pm at Embassy Suites downtown Des Moines.\nThe gathering is a casual social event for Liberty Iowa members and guests to enjoy each other\u2019s thoughts on current and upcoming political issues and events as well as to discuss ongoing matters within the Liberty Iowa grassroots organization.\nLast month, Liberty Iowa\u2019s welcomed its new executive director Andy Curran. And on Saturday, through the Facebook event promoting the upcoming \u201cLiberty on the Rocks\u201d, Sarah Brooks introduced herself as the new executive assistant at Liberty Iowa.\nCurran said the group \u201cplans to make \u2018Liberty on the Rocks\u2019 a regularly scheduled social gathering where members and guests can discuss current political issues and events, and just enjoy each other\u2019s company.\u201d\n\u201cLiberty Iowa is committed to educating voters, and encouraging them to stand up for their liberties. There are many ways you can become involved and have a voice in what is about to unfold politically over this next year. Now is the time to get involved and make a difference towards issues of importance. This first event will be the beginning of much more to come,\u201d stated Brooks.\nThe upcoming \u201cLiberty on the Rocks\u201d event will be an event for Des Moines politicos to network, hear about the new agenda for Liberty Iowa moving forward into the next year, and learn how they can make an impact in their local, state and federal government.\nAbout Liberty Iowa\nLiberty Iowa was formed with the goal of empowering liberty minded voters in Iowa to take control of their government once again. We believe that the status quo in Des Moines politics favors insiders and large political donors while average Iowans are largely removed from the legislative process. We believe that a peaceful and prosperous Iowa is one that maximizes both economic and civil liberties.\nWith this in mind, Liberty Iowa aims to return our state to the principles of limited government, free enterprise and individual liberty, and to make Iowa an example for the rest of the nation.\nLearn more about Liberty Iowa here: http://www.libertyiowa.com/about-us/\nThe Sinclair Report: Week One in the Iowa Senate\nState Senator Amy Sinclair (R-Allerton) provides a snapshot of week one in the Iowa Senate and the priorities she will be working on for her constituents.\nMike Huckabee Announces Book Tour Stops: Iowa, South Carolina, and More\nWinter 2011 Book Tour Schedule A SIMPLE GOVERNMENT: TWELVE THINGS WE REALLY\u2026\nAFP Launches Major Effort to Stop a Gas Tax Hike\nAmericans for Prosperity-Iowa announced today the launch of a major effort to stop a new gas tax hike in Iowa through grassroots lobbying efforts and ads.\nSarah Palin \u2013 Beware of the Iowa Focus Group\nFormer Governor Sarah Palin hasn\u2019t even decided to run. 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I am proud of the contributions DOC\u2019s women scientists are making toward helping California achieve\u2026\nNew Oil & Gas Rules Focus on Environmental Protection, Safety\nBy: Department of Conservation Director David Bunn DOC continues to develop and adopt new regulations to ensure that public safety and the environment are protected during oil and gas production in California. In 2018, DOC\u2019s Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) finalized stronger, more comprehensive regulations for both underground natural gas storage and\u2026\nNew Year New Faces at DOC\nA new year means new faces for our Faces of Conservation project. Faces of Conservation does just that. It puts a face to the work our staff do daily, often outside of the public eye. We are committed to employing top scientists, engineers, technicians, supervisors, and support staff and leveraging their talent to help balance\u2026\nDOC Team Receives Prestigious CAL FIRE Award for Work with Thomas Fire\nSeveral of our staff were recently awarded by CAL FIRE for Superior Accomplishment for their emergency post-fire mapping efforts during the tragic Thomas fire and ensuing mudslide in Montecito last year. The Thomas fire started on December 4, 2017. It ignited on the south-facing hillslopes along State Route 150 above Santa Paula, and burned west\u2026\nDOC Announces $1.9 Million Available to Hire Forest Health Watershed Coordinators\nIf you could invest one dollar and get $7 back, you\u2019d probably jump on it, right? That\u2019s why we at the Department of Conservation (DOC) are excited about the reactivation of a program that allows local entities to hire forest health watershed coordinators. A \u201cwatershed\u201d is an area where all the water running off the\u2026\nTypically, being an oil and gas engineer means handling complex hydrocarbon and geothermal technology, crunching environmental data, using a high level of analytical skill. Sometimes, the job also includes handling fuzzy little kittens. On a usual weekday last month, Brian Tillquist , a field engineer for the oil, gas, and geothermal resources division (DOGGR), and\u2026\nFire and Rain \u2026 and Debris Flows That\u2019s what happened last January in Santa Barbara County. One of California\u2019s largest wildfires, the Thomas Fire, was nearly 100 percent contained after five weeks. Two people died and more than 1,000 structures burned. Flames torched 281,893 acres. Then a band of thunderstorms arrived the morning of January\u2026\nIt\u2019s California Bat Week October 24-31, 2018. Bats are one of the most important animals in our environment. With more than 1,300 different species in the world, bats are diverse in both how they look and how they keep ecosystems balanced. While they might be creepy, bats are vital to a healthy environment. One bat\u2026\nAre You Ready to ShakeOut? With 318 million people living and working in the United States, a major earthquake could cause unprecedented devastation. What we do now, before a big earthquake, will determine how well we survive and recover. Great ShakeOut Earthquake Drills in October 2017 involved more than 56.2 million participants through broad-based outreach\u2026\nDOC relaunches conservation.ca.gov with a new website built to connect visitors to the wealth of natural resource data and services they use most.\nProudly powered by WordPress Theme: Dyad 2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://calmatters.org/articles/gimme-shelter-podcast-housing-stories-watch-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CXSW5TPQG5IN73IPDWNLBKA7NFYAZA6Y", "length": 775, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "calmatters.org", "title": "Gimme Shelter Podcast: Housing stories to watch in 2018 | CALmatters", "raw_content": "Gimme Shelter Podcast: Housing stories to watch in 2018\nBy Matt Levin | Dec. 20, 2017 | GIMME SHELTER, HOUSING, PODCASTS\nYou can also subscribe to us on iTunes, Stitcher, Soundcloud, Google Play and Overcast.\nThe Gimme Shelter year-end holiday spectacular. First, Matt and Liam submit their nominations for \u201cAvocado of the Year\u201d, that story which most distills the absurdity of CA housing in 2017 (2:00). Then, a quick preview of the GOP tax plan and its possible CA fallout (8:30). Liam and Matt predict the major housing storylines of 2018, starting with new CA legislative leadership (16:00) and the political dominoes falling after San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee\u2019s death (19:30). Finally, an interview with a native Californian who actually recently bought a house (38:00)!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://campaignlegal.org/cases-actions/georgia-coalition-peoples-agenda-v-kemp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:10Z", "digest": "sha1:CCRU7Y7C242PHIV2G3M3QB6JKGVTGIEN", "length": 7289, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "campaignlegal.org", "title": "Georgia Coalition for the Peoples\u2019 Agenda v. Kemp | Campaign Legal Center", "raw_content": "Georgia Coalition for the Peoples\u2019 Agenda v. Kemp\nCivil rights groups are challenging Georgia\u2019s restrictive voter registration law requiring voter data to \u201cexactly match\u201d data stored in the state drivers services\u2019 database or the Social Security database. Georgia\u2019s use of this \u201cexact match\u201d protocol disproportionately and negatively impacts the ability of eligible Black, Latino, and Asian-American citizens to register to vote in violation of federal voting statutes and the U.S. Constitution.\nVictory! Thousands of Georgia Voters Wrongly Accused of Not Being Citizens Will Be Able to Vote\nThe U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia ordered Secretary of State Brian Kemp to allow voters who were wrongly flagged as non-citizens to be allowed to cast regular ballots.\nCampaign Legal Center (CLC), Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta and the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, on behalf of a coalition of...\nIn 2017, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal signed House Bill 268 into law, which codified a voter registration database \u201cexact match\u201d protocol. HB 268 was introduced shortly after the settlement of a lawsuit filed in 2016 by CLC and others, which challenged a similar voter registration database \u201cexact match\u201d requirement that had been implemented by Georgia Secretary of State Kemp.\nThe \u201cexact match\u201d protocol requires county registrars in Georgia to match information entered from the voter registration forms into a statewide database against records on file with the Georgia Department of Drivers Services (DDS) or Social Security Administration (SSA). If the information doesn\u2019t match exactly with the DDS or SSA records, the voter\u2019s registration is placed into a \u201cpending\u201d status limbo. If the registrant doesn\u2019t \u201ccure\u201d the problem by showing other identification within 26 months, the registration is cancelled.\nThe result is the flagging for potential removal of thousands of registrations for innocuous mistakes such as misread handwriting, incorrect transposition of driver\u2019s license digits, or the omission or addition of a hyphen in a registrant\u2019s name. These errors are often not the registrants\u2019 fault or related to their eligibility. Nonetheless, they place the burden on registrants to avoid being disenfranchised. To make matters worse, after a mismatch is flagged, Secretary Kemp has not required county registrars to check whether information was accurately entered into the system or engage in any other quality review.\nFinally, the system also relies on outdated citizenship data from the DDS, which does not automatically update when an individual becomes a naturalized citizen. This routinely results in registrants being erroneously flagged as non-citizens\u2014even when registrants present proof of citizenship with their initial registration forms. It appears that Secretary Kemp has no protocol for ensuring that voters who provide proof of citizenship with their registration are not still flagged and asked to provide the same information, again, leading to confusion and intimidation.\nImpact on Minority Voters\nOf the more than 34,000 voter registrations cancelled as a result of a similar \u201cexact match\u201d system from July 2013 to July 2015, approximately 76.3 percent of those registrations were submitted by minority registrants. Since the enactment of HB 268, the \u201cexact match process\u201d has continued to have a discriminatory impact on minority voter registrants and produce high and erroneous no-match rates. Based on data produced by the Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s office, of the approximately 51,111 voter registrations that were \u201cpending\u201d on July 4, 2018 as a result of a no-match, approximately 80.15 percent were submitted by Black, Latino, and Asian-American registrants.\n\u201cExact Match\u201d Process Violates Voting Rights Protections\nIf left in place, this policy has the potential to disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible voters throughout Georgia and punish eligible voters if they choose not to vote within 26 months of their registration. The policy adds nothing to the ordinary practice across the country of requiring first-time voters who do not \u201cexactly match\u201d to show some form of identification\u2014e.g. a utility bill, lease, or photo ID\u2014when they cast a ballot for the first time.\nThe Campaign Legal Center has joined with counsel from the Lawyers\u2019 Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP, the Law Office of Bryan L. Sells, LLC, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice \u2013 Atlanta to represent a coalition of civil rights groups that includes Georgia Coalition for the Peoples\u2019 Agenda, Asian Americans Advancing Justice\u2014Atlanta, Georgia State Conference of the NAACP, New Georgia Project, Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials, and ProGeorgia State Table in the lawsuit challenging this disenfranchisement.\nIn the lawsuit, Georgia Coalition for the Peoples\u2019 Agenda v. Kemp, plaintiffs allege that Georgia\u2019s \u201cexact match\u201d protocol violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The lawsuit calls on the federal district court in Georgia to block the state from enforcing the failed protocol and register applicants whose applications were placed in \u201cpending\u201d status as a result of a failure to meet the \u201cexact match\u201d standard.\nCLC and Partners Sue Secretary of State Brian Kemp to Protect Georgia Voters\nVictory! Federal Court Provides Immediate Relief for Thousands of Georgia Voters\nCoalition of Civil Rights Groups Ask for Emergency Relief for Newly Naturalized Voters Suspended by Georgia\u2019s Exact Match Process\nCoalition of Civil Rights Groups File Suit to Stop Georgia\u2019s Unlawful Suspension and Cancellation of Voter Registration Applications\nGeorgia Coalition for the Peoples' Agenda v. 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The in-field measures 75 x 125 yards and accommodates play for soccer, rugby, men\u2019s and women\u2019s lacrosse, and football.\nTrack access is located on the North side of the facility.\nThe track is open for general public use including running, walking, and jogging. Strollers and bicycles are not permitted on the track.\nThe facility is open daily, weather permitting, according to the current semester schedule.\nThe facility will be closed if covered with snow/ice.\nUse of the track is NOT ALLOWED DURING LACROSSE PLAY OR PRIVATE GROUP RESERVATIONS.\nFacility rentals may be requested here.\nFor additional information, please contact Ryan Kirchner.\nMonday - Friday Sunrise - 12:00 pm Campus Recreation Services\n12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Utah Athletics\nSaturday 8:00 am - 12:00 pm Utah Athletics\n12:00 pm - 6:00 pm Campus Recreation Services\nSunday 10:30 am - 6:00 pm Campus Recreation Services\nFacility Closures -\nThe McCarthey Family Track & Field will be closed during the following days and times. Other times may be closed based on weekly reservations.\nMonday, May 29 All Day\nTuesday, July 4 All Day\nMonday, July 24 All Day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 251.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://canada-haiti.ca/content/igniting-youth-access-contraceptives", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:3ISZTG3TF3OW3MRGLM5DVETMZKE6MPJC", "length": 14965, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "canada-haiti.ca", "title": "Igniting youth access to contraceptives | The Canada-Haiti Information Project", "raw_content": "Lindsay Toulouse leads a Djanm youth session outside of the local Catholic church. (Photo credit: PSI/Evelyn Hockstein)\nBy Sandy Garcon, Population Services International (PSI), Nov. 11, 2018\nAlthough there is progress, use of modern contraceptives in Haiti remains stubbornly low. At 31 percent, the country\u2019s unmet need for family planning is among the highest in the world.\nHaiti also has a high rate of teen pregnancy, which intensifies risks for both girls and their babies. A startling one in three of those who give birth are under 20 years old. Fifty percent of girls and women ages 15 to 24 want contraception but don\u2019t have access to it.\n\u201cWe cannot continue to bury our heads in the sand when we have pregnancies that are happening to 14 and 15-year-olds,\u201d says Dr. Reynold Grand\u2019 Pierre, director of the Family Health Unit of Haiti\u2019s Ministry of Health.\nIn support of efforts to reverse adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health and rights (AYSRHR) trends in the country, PSI and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs have joined forces with the government of Haiti. Countering the risks associated with early pregnancy and unsafe abortions necessitates radically broadening how girls can source sexual and reproductive health services. Doing so effectively, however, requires better addressing the supply and demand realities on the ground.\nThrough the Ignite project, PSI is working to give young consumers easier access to family planning solutions by transforming the health market and ensuring sustainability beyond the life of the project.\nWe take a look at the different players along the supply chain working to increase and sustain the informed use of contraception among Haitian girls and women aged 15 to 24.\nTHE CONVENOR OF MARKETS\nPSI has a long been a key player in the family planning space in Haiti. In the early 1990s, PSI, in collaboration with USAID, successfully introduced the socially marketed Pant\u00e8 condom brand, which became a household name.\nDespite widespread familiarity with condoms, injectables and oral contraceptives (OC), close analysis of the market revealed that most modern methods were largely unknown or simply absent in the private sector, where most Haitians seek care. OHMaSS, PSI\u2019s local affiliate, discovered that the challenge was not getting commodities to Haiti, but instead was the means for wholesale distribution once the products arrived in the country.\nWith a focus on increasing the availability and variety of contraceptive products, OHMaSS found a likely partner and presented Disprophar, a commercial distributor, an opportunity to become a leader in the contraception space.\nAs a result, the distribution partner added to its business model a portfolio of family planning products, including OC, emergency contraception, intrauterine devices (IUDs), implants, the injectable Sayana\u00ae Press and medical vacuum aspiration kits for post-abortion care.\n\u201cIn addition to our own brands, we leveraged our partnerships with manufacturers Merck and Pfizer to offer a menu of high-quality contraceptives at competitive prices,\u201d explains St\u00e9phane Docteur, OHMaSS medical services coordinator.\n\u201cWe took a big bet that we could change the way we do business in Haiti,\u201d says Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick Persoons, OHMaSS executive director. \u201cNow it\u2019s a matter of promoting and making women aware that these methods are available on the market.\u201d\nAs a market convener, OHMaSS not only unblocked obstacles to supply, but also started to drive demand. Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick and his team looked no further than PSI\u2019s Adolescents 360 (A360) project, which aims to increase contraceptive access for adolescent girls in Ethiopia, Nigeria and Tanzania.\nApplying an A360-inspired Human-Centered Design approach, OHMaSS worked alongside adolescent girls and young women (aged 15-24) to understand their experiences, needs and barriers surrounding contraceptive access and use. Utilizing insights gathered, OHMaSS launched a multilayered marketing campaign built around the idea of creating a youth movement.\nThe campaign is Djanm, which symbolizes strength, determination, vigor, dynamism and tenacity in Haitian Creole. It encompasses participation in major cultural events such as Carnival, organization of youth-focused events called Djanm Buzz in local communities and a presence on social media channels like Facebook and Instagram. Djanm\u2019s dedicated Facebook page features videos, live Q&A with providers and other interactive content that has become a viable touch point to reach youth with AYSRHR information and services.\nAt the community level, Djanm\u2019s trained youth ambassadors are another element of the campaign critical to spreading the message to their peers.\nAlready, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick and his team have a greater vision for Djanm, \u201cWe want to create a movement that can serve as a sponsor to any form of positive attitude or activities that are related to sexual and reproductive health.\u201d\nDaniel Malherbe greets guests at Disprophar, the pharmaceutical distribution company he founded with two colleagues 30 years ago, like he\u2019s welcoming guests in his home. Disprophar\u2019s founders, who started their careers as pharmaceutical sales representatives, are bringing their vast experience to help OMHaSS create a market for family planning products and services in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.\nUntil recently, the family planning market in Haiti was completely supported by international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). But a gap in NGO-provided reproductive health products has opened up the opportunity for a sustainable private sector market.\n\u201cWe have a social responsibility to diminish the number of unwanted children in Haiti,\u201d remarks Daniel. \u201cBut first, we must sell family planning\u2014not just the products, but family planning as a concept\u2014to the Haitian people.\u201d\nThey\u2019ve done it before and intend to do it again.\nHaitians are predisposed to eye diseases like glaucoma. But until recently, there was little demand for ophthalmology services due to lack of awareness. The Disprophar team identified the opportunity and launched a large-scale campaign to raise awareness about glaucoma and the importance of regular eye exams.\nWith the help of a robust radio and television advertising campaign, Disprophar reached millions of Haitians and changed behaviors related to eye care. \u201cWe sold the disease, not the products,\u201d Daniel says. \u201cWe must do the same thing for family planning.\u201d\nMarie Lucie Poteau is part of the dedicated team of medical detailers employed by Disprophar to do just that. She focuses on getting doctors to both carry the family planning products that OHMaSS procures and counsel their patients\u2014 especially young women\u2014on the benefits of contraception. She also connects the providers to trainings offered by OHMaSS.\nA team of commercial detailers focuses on working through pharmacies to get the products into the hands of consumers. They cater to more than 200 outlets in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area, ranging from pharmaceutical depots, to high-end drugstores, to small shops.\nTo help them more effectively sell their products, OHMaSS used an application called BaseCase. The tool helps manage potential objections from providers. Individual providers are categorized as one of the following: \u2018aware of the products,\u2019 \u2018ready for trial,\u2019 \u2018already adopted,\u2019 \u2018advocate.\u2019 Depending on where the provider falls, BaseCase provides videos and information sheets that medical and commercial detailers can use to influence behaviors at each level.\nBut Marie Lucie emphasizes that she doesn\u2019t encounter much pushback from doctors. \u201cMy experience is that most doctors are willing and just need us to help them cut through the myths Haitians have about family planning.\u201d\nDaniel and his team are optimistic about the market. \u201cThere is a huge unmet need for family planning services here. I only see demand going up.\u201d\nMany people are under the impression that women in Haiti do not take the proper precautions to avoid unwanted pregnancy. The truth is that most often these women don\u2019t know they have options or where to turn.\nThis is the reality that Dr. Pascal Thierry often faces.\nHe is among the 150 providers\u2014 nurses and doctors\u2014in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area who were trained by Disprophar and OHMaSS to provide youth-friendly modern contraception services.\nHe takes a break from his busy patient schedule to chat with Marie Lucie, the Disprophar medical detailer who sells him family planning products, including implants and IUDs.\nFew of his patients request family planning methods. \u201cThose with more education ask for it,\u201d says Dr. Thierry, \u201cbut other women, they don\u2019t mention it at all.\u201d\nNevertheless, Dr. Thierry counsels women on family planning when he thinks the time is right.\n\u201cAfter I deliver a baby, I talk about a method. Twenty to 30 percent of women come back for one. If I think someone is sexually active, I\u2019ll counsel her, too. But it can be awkward, especially if she comes in with her parents.\u201d\nDr. Thierry thinks PSI\u2019s Djanm initiative is crucial to turn things around. \u201cIt\u2019s a good project. We must reach young women in their early 20s who don\u2019t want to get pregnant. I want them to say to me, \u2018I saw this on Facebook and I want a method.\u2019\u201d\nAcross town, more than 100 women crowd into the local community center in Simon-Pel\u00e9, a neighborhood bordering the infamous Cit\u00e9 Soleil slums. They are gathering for the OHMaSS mobile clinic that calls the community center home once every three months.\nNurse Maritane Henry, whose mobile clinic team regularly visits underserved areas like Simon-Pel\u00e9, credits improved awareness in the community for the turnout.\nMany of the women learned of this mobile team through community criers who circulated through the neighborhood announcing the upcoming services.\n\u201cThe mobile clinic is a way to provide services for those who cannot pay,\u201d explains Maritane. Distribution is capped at 10 percent of the market so as not to interrupt the long-term health of efforts to go beyond aid.\nAll of the women who visited the clinic were aware of at least one modern contraceptive method, the most common being condoms and injectables. Some were afraid of contraception after having heard stories of medical procedures gone wrong or being told by parents or peers that birth control is not good.\nAt their local pharmacies, consumers can now purchase emergency contraceptives and, with a prescription, birth control pills and injectables. \u201cThere is always a shortage of emergency pills, because it is less expensive. We often have to suggest alternative methods because we stockout,\u201d remarks pharmacist Leo Guerson.\nProviders like Leo must also get acquainted with new products and new brands that have replaced those that were discontinued. But there is much excitement for the new arrivals and providers are eager to test how the new products and brands fare with consumers.\nThe next big challenge for OHMaSS is to design a network of clinics to help ensure service providers are youth-friendly, and to build partnerships that effectively spread the word.\n\u201cYell loud so the priest can hear!\u201d As usual, Lindsay Toulouse starts her peer counseling session by encouraging the young participants to belt out the Djanm motto: My life is my choice.\nNot only are most of the participants members of Lindsay\u2019s own Eucharistic Youth Movement chapter, this particular session is being held in the courtyard of a local Catholic church, with full blessings from the priest.\nAt 22 years old, Lindsay is one of 19 peer mentors with the Djanm campaign, which aims to educate young Haitian women and men about family planning and empower them to play an active role in choosing the method that is right for them.\n\u201cMany girls in my neighborhood are getting pregnant. I see it a lot, especially when I go to the mobile clinic. Last week, there was a 14-year-old holding twins.\u201d\nLindsay is a second-generation helper. Her father died when she was three years old. From that moment on, her mother Marie Carol Laurent dedicated herself to raising her children. She never remarried, and her professional career centered on helping people as a nurse, which inspired Lindsay to join the OHMaSS team as a community health worker.\nMarie Carol has seen all too well the damage unwanted pregnancy can inflict on young Haitian women. She mentions a girl who got pregnant and tried traditional methods to end her pregnancy. She was unsuccessful and after she had the baby, she visited Marie Carol, who told her about modern contraception.\n\u201cIt\u2019s so important. Young kids don\u2019t want to get pregnant and now that they can see Lindsay beforehand, it\u2019s better.\u201d\nLindsay just finished her law studies and is writing her thesis. She also works full-time with Djanm. Every other day, she conducts one or two sessions educating her peers on contraceptive options and connecting them to providers through referrals. She also identifies community leaders in churches, schools and community centers who she can approach to advocate for the Djanm campaign.\nGetting people to attend her trainings is the hardest part of her job. But she remains confident in her message. She wants people in her community to be aware of how they can protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies.\nIt takes Junie Joseph nearly two hours to travel to the clinic. To get there, she takes a tap tap, one of the iconic colorful buses that are most Haitians\u2019 favored mode of public transportation. Then she hails a private taxi. She makes this trek every three months. She trusts the OHMaSS-trained nurses and doesn\u2019t want to go anywhere else.\n\u201cI came for the first time in December 2017,\u201d Junie says. \u201cI got an implant, but I had to take it out.\u201d\nJunie lives with her older brother and sister. When they saw the implant under the skin in her arm, they told her to move out of the house. \u201cThey said I\u2019m living a messed-up life. But I just don\u2019t want a baby.\u201d\nAfter an open talk with her siblings, they agreed to turn a blind eye as long as they couldn\u2019t see the method. That\u2019s why she asked Nurse Maritane Henry, the woman who runs the OHMaSS mobile clinic, to remove the implant and start giving her injections. And that\u2019s why she returns to this clinic every three months.\nAfter each visit Maritane gives Junie a note reminding her when to return.\nJunie is open about why she\u2019s here. She is sexually active with her boyfriend Augustin, who is 22. They met when she was visiting a relative\u2019s neighborhood. He saw her on the street and said, \u201cYou look like a model. Can you spare two minutes?\u201d She agreed, and they made a date. They\u2019ve been an item since, going to movies and spending time at each other\u2019s homes.\nAugustin is supportive of Junie\u2019s decision. \u201cHe appreciates that we don\u2019t have the economic means,\u201d she says. \u201cHe knows I have dreams.\u201d\nJunie wants to be a nurse just like Maritane. \u201cI\u2019d like to be in her place. I would like to help women protect themselves. I would like to serve people like that.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 17256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://canfurence.ca/news?start=15", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:10Z", "digest": "sha1:72WUHVQAPZ6OIBMCA2BVQDELQFVFUD6A", "length": 1893, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "canfurence.ca", "title": "CanFURence - News", "raw_content": "As the CanFURence Privacy Officer, I wish to ease any concerns regarding the recent article about the \u201cConvention Master\u201d registration software (see link below).\nThis, indeed, does not impact any of our current or previous attendees, as we have never used this software or website and have no plans to do so going forward.\nI wanted to proactively assure you that your information is secure.\nWe treat all of your personal information, for both attendees and staff, as highly confidential, as required by Canadian federal laws (see link \u201cPIPEDA\u201d below) and ensure that only those with a need-to-know can access it. All staff are also required to abide by explicit policies regarding the handling of sensitive data.\nIf you have any questions regarding CanFURence\u2019s storage and protection of your information, please consult our privacy policy (see link below) or feel free to reach out to me at .\nPrivacy Officer, CanFURence\nOriginal article: https://medium.com/@_sky_/furry-website-leaks-real-identities-7e25c71bd762\nPIPEDA: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/privacy-topics/privacy-laws-in-canada/the-personal-information-protection-and-electronic-documents-act-pipeda/\nCanFURence\u2019s Privacy Policy:\nhttps://www.canfurence.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=61&Itemid=243\nYou can book your room for CanFURence 2018 starting February 14th, 2018.\nBut you need to have purchased your registration!\nIf you have already just log in to your account on the Registration system!\nYou'll see the big red button like this one - just click on it and make your choice.\nPart of this piece created by Vice Canada was recorded at CanFURence 2017, and features a conversation with Dr. Sharon Roberts (one of the nice people of Furscience) where she discusses misconceptions about the furry fandom.\nChallenging Myths About Furries and Sex (clicking this link will open a new window with content from Vice.com)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://canjurol.com/abstract.php?ArticleID=2955&PMID=26497344&version=1.0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KVEASORKXQR6RQSN2YNPHVQR5BJ5OP5I", "length": 1486, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "canjurol.com", "title": "CJU International - Article Abstract: Laser prostate enucleation techniques", "raw_content": "Lerner B. Lori, Rajender Archana, ;\nDepartment of Urology, Boston University School of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA\nLaser treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) through enucleation techniques has become increasingly more utilized in the field of urology. Laser enucleation of the prostate (LEP) is a transurethral procedure that employs several different types of lasers to dissect the adenoma from the surgical capsule in a retrograde fashion.\nWe review basic laser physics and current laser prostate enucleation techniques. Holmium-LEP (HoLEP), Thulium-LEP (ThuLEP), Greenlight-LEP (GreenLEP) and Diode-LEP (DiLEP) applications are discussed. We summarize the current literature with respect to functional outcomes and complications.\nAlthough each laser device used for prostate enucleation has the same goal of removal of the adenoma from the surgical capsule, each has unique characteristics (i.e. wavelength, absorption rates) that must be understood by the practicing surgeon. Mastery of one LEP technique does not necessarily translate into facile use of an alternative enucleation energy source and/or approach. The various LEP techniques have demonstrated similar, if not superior, postoperative results to transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP), the current gold standard in the treatment of BPH.\nThis article outlines the current LEP techniques and should serve as a quick reference for the practicing urologist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careers.insidehighered.com/job/1569191/assistant-associate-full-professor-of-dermatology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VZJ5GMPFGFV7GOPFZ74YWXGBVIZVKKYH", "length": 2409, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "careers.insidehighered.com", "title": "Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Dermatology job with The George Washington University | 1569191", "raw_content": "Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Dermatology\nPosting Number: F001127 Academic Title: Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Dermatology Rank: Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor Administrative Title: Discipline Clinical Medicine-MD Specialty: Dermatology Contract Type: Non-Tenure Track Required Licenses/Certifications and other Specific Requirements: Criminal History Screening, Education/Degree/Certifications Verification, Social Security Number Trace, and Sex Offender Registry Search Proposed Start Date: 08/01/2017 Full-Time/Part-Time: Full-Time Position Description Summary:\nThe George Washington Medical Faculty Associates, an independent, non-for-profit clinical practice group affiliated with The George Washington University, is seeking applicants to fill several openings for full-time academic appointments in a growing Department of Dermatology in the heart of the nation's capital.\nResponsibilities include teaching medical students and residents in a variety of clinical and didactic settings, developing an area of specialization in dermatology, and engaging in clinical and/or translational research. These non-tenure track appointments will be made at rank (Assistant/Associate/Full Professor) commensurate with experience.\nApplicants must have an M.D. degree (or equivalent), be Board-eligible or Board-certified in Dermatology at the time of appointment, and be eligible for licensure in the District of Columbia and Maryland.\nAdvertised Salary: Salary will be commensurate with experience Other Benefits: Other Information: Special Instructions to Applicants:\nInterested applicants should complete an online application and upload a letter of interest and curriculum vitae. Review of applications will begin on June 12, 2017 and continue until the positions are filled. Only complete applications will be considered. If you have questions regarding this position, please contact Alison Ehrlich, MD, Department Chair, at [email protected]\nDepartment Link: http://smhs.gwu.edu/dermatology/ Posting Close Date: Open Until Filled: Yes Background Screening Successful Completion of a Background Screening will be required as a condition of hire. EEO Statement:\n* Do you have the M.D. degree or equivalent?\n* Will you be Board-eligible or Board-certified in Dermatology at the time of appointment?\n* Are you eligible for licensure in the District of Columbia and Maryland?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 9125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 271.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://caroljoyshannon.com/2011/07/18/art-and-the-current-malaise/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PIAEXFOJIWEYRS33YYFNW33BBIRBATAP", "length": 3562, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "caroljoyshannon.com", "title": "art and the current malaise | cjsgeometrix", "raw_content": "\u2190 All things \u201cprincess\u201d\nthe art of giving art \u2192\nAs a painter I try to apply as much discipline and new knowledge as possible into the mix with imagination and technique. I work every day, starting early in the morning until mid-afternoon. For me, that is the best way to keep things fresh: I just dive in, feet first and hope the muse will join in along the way. (If I waited for her I\u2019d be doomed.) This is a technique that writers advise and there\u2019s no reason not to put it to work in the studio. So far, it has kept me from slogging through painter\u2019s block and it\u2019s kept my skills sharp.\nThe other thing I like to do on a regular basis is participate in critiques. These have been a fantastic resource in the years since I began painting and a really good critique \u201cclass\u201d can really move a body of work into another level.\nAs methods go, I can\u2019t find anything wrong with these. What is sometimes hard these days is maintaining the enthusiasm. While accolades, compliments and the occasional significant purchase are usually enough, I\u2019ve noticed that lately a certain malaise has settled over everyone. It\u2019s like a fog that drains the enthusiasm out of the simplest things. It\u2019s not just me and it\u2019s not just the art world. It\u2019s society in general, at least in the States, and it seems to be attached to a sort of dangling anxiety. Everyone seems uneasy so they don\u2019t really dare to step out, make major moves, take risks. It\u2019s like everyone, everywhere is waiting for the other shoe to drop, and expecting it to crush us.\nMy personal response has been to paint ever more relentlessly happy paintings \u2014 architectural abstracts with strict delineations, but in bright, happy colors \u2014 as if by the mere act, I can bring in a wave of positive energy. I know \u2013 too New Agey by half, but think about it. There is a whiff of possibility there. If we all started moving forward again, as if there were no recession, as if we weren\u2019t all uneasy, maybe the forward momentum could create the positive energy needed to turn it around. After all, if the economy collapses, these will look like the good ole days, so what\u2019s to lose?\nA discussion of all this on Facebook over the weekend came around to the law of inertia, and that may be the best summation: a body at rest tends to stay at rest. But a body in motion tends to stay in motion. Maybe we all just need to get moving. Do the work, even if the muse isn\u2019t there. What could it hurt? And you know we all feel better when we have something to do.\nVolunteer. Pick up litter. Read to sick kids. Visit old people. Every institution in America needs help right now. They have all had to lay off staff and have had budgets slashed. So, those of us with the time, instead of moaning and worrying and hunching over the computer wondering when it\u2019s all going to change, can effect the change. Even one day a month would be significant. There are 14 million people unemployed. A lot of those people are fit enough to volunteer in any number of arenas. Think about it. What\u2019s the Buddhist adage about the fluttering wings of a butterfly?\nEven if it didn\u2019t help the economy, it\u2019s still working the muscle and maybe even learning something new. Maybe a volunteer might find a new direction and find a job. Maybe a volunteer team goes on to do something else together. Off the couch, away from the computer, out of the house. Those results alone would probably cheer a few people up. It\u2019s a thought.\nIn the meantime, I am going to continue to paint bright abstracts. I know they bring some smiles. And that\u2019s a good thing, too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 5062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://catherinecarrigan.com/tag/food/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:58Z", "digest": "sha1:RLK56A2MFUJACBPOWBQYHR6RQPSJPPXO", "length": 222, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "catherinecarrigan.com", "title": "Food |", "raw_content": "How to Get Rid of Pain Naturally\nYou can learn how to get rid of pain naturally by learning how...\nAt the end of the day, what\u2019s good for the planet is also...\nYou can tell how much life force is in your food by using a...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 140.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://catholicchampion.blogspot.com/2017/12/christmas-presents-us-with-question-do.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:33Z", "digest": "sha1:RY4TTX7ZCHMKRYA6AE66SYUOCQEFVFWE", "length": 1500, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "catholicchampion.blogspot.com", "title": "Catholic Champion Blog: Christmas Presents Us With A Question: Do You Welcome Him Or Reject Him?", "raw_content": "Christmas Presents Us With A Question: Do You Welcome Him Or Reject Him?\nAdvent is coming to a close and Christmas is almost here. With the coming of Christ in the Incarnation, the world has been changed. No other person in the history of the world has had as much impact on the world as Jesus Christ. There is of course a reason for this, He is the creator of it! With the coming of Christ comes also a responsibility for each and every person. Will the love of Christ be the focus of one's life or will the world be the focus of one's life? As we know wherever the love of man is directed, there his time and his heart will also be found. Does our relationship with Christ come first in our lives or does something else preoccupy us? The Incarnation of Jesus Christ brings mercy to the world, yes, it's the good news! But it also brings forth a mandatory response from each person to accept or reject His mercy. The choice is ours. Which side are you on? This question beckons us this Christmas season. As the world falls deeper and deeper into an anti-Christian abyss, will we ourselves fall into it? Or will we look instead into the abyss of mercy and love of Jesus Christ? As we see the merciful infant Jesus bring forth love and grace to all mankind, are we prepared to welcome Him or reject Him? Is our lamp lit and burning or is it found to be without flame? This is the message we need to share with our friends and loved ones this Christmas season.\nLabels: Christ the King, Christmas, mercy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 553, "original_length": 21596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cbs4indy.com/2015/11/18/elderly-couple-tied-up-robbed-at-gunpoint/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:56Z", "digest": "sha1:JQ3UO4VOUK727HYBYHQ36JXWYQIKMBJ6", "length": 2933, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "cbs4indy.com", "title": "Elderly couple tied up, robbed at gunpoint | CBS 4 - Indianapolis News, Weather, Traffic and Sports | WTTV", "raw_content": "Elderly couple tied up, robbed at gunpoint\nPosted 4:46 pm, November 18, 2015, by Zach Myers\nMORGAN COUNTY (November 18, 2015) - The Morgan County Sheriff's Department is searching for at least three suspects in a home invasion robbery in which an elderly couple were tied up and threatened at gunpoint.\nThe robbery happened around 2:30 Tuesday afternoon in the 500 block of Letterman Road in Paragon. A 74-year old woman says she answered a knock at the front door to find two men standing there.\n\u201cTwo guys were at the door and they told her there was a car stuck in the field,\u201d said the victims\u2019 son, who did not want to be identified. \u201cAs she turned around to look out the window, they put a gun in her face.\u201d\nAccording to the homeowners, the men forced their way into the home while holding the gun to the woman\u2019s head. Then they located the 78-year-old husband while he was shaving in the bathroom.\n\u201cI was shaving, getting ready for a doctor\u2019s appointment when the guy was suddenly standing there,\u201d the husband said. \u201cHe had the gun to my head and said \u2018Don\u2019t move you mother (expletive).\u2019\u201d\nThe woman was tied with zip ties around her wrists and held on the front porch. Her husband was tied with zip ties and forced to lie on the bathroom floor.\n\u201cShe could hear them kind of roughing him up a little bit, once they got him zip tied and on the ground,\u201d the victims\u2019 son said. \u201cThey wanted to know where cash money was at.\u201d\n\u201cThey were in the house for about 20 minutes,\u201d the husband said.\nThe husband says the suspects took his wallet, five or six guns, a big screen TV, and a jewelry box that also contained his hearing aids.\nAfter gathering the stolen items, the suspects prepared to leave in a silver SUV. But before leaving, they took steps to make sure they weren\u2019t followed.\nThe husband said one suspect set an alarm clock in a bedroom and told him to wait an hour and a half before getting off the floor.\nBut the couple didn\u2019t wait that long. As soon as the suspects were gone, they husband freed himself from the zip ties and called police.\nThe husband said somebody has already tried using his stolen credit cards at several locations in Indianapolis. He and family members hope surveillance video from those stores will provide police with pictures of the suspects.\nThe wife and husband said they did not recognize any of the suspects. One of them was wearing a ski mask; the other two did not conceal their faces.\nFamily members suspect the suspects may have targeted the house, believing they would find large amounts of money from a business the couple used to operate.\n\u201cThey probably didn\u2019t realize they haven\u2019t been running (the business) for a couple years now,\u201d the victims\u2019 son said.\nAnyone with information in the case is asked to call the Morgan County Sheriff's Department.\nFlorida woman robs postal worker with plastic gun, rides off on tricycle\nFianc\u00e9e says Dollar General robbery victim died protecting her", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 6896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 272.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cccp-shirts.com/product_info.php?cPath=26&products_id=4653&osCsid=hstdqpj3h7q6h9lvobamgt0fe7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:00Z", "digest": "sha1:4WL7RIPHQZA5CQ5OBAVEMJRQNA6DTKUJ", "length": 351, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cccp-shirts.com", "title": "Hockey Club Amur Khabarovsk T-shirt - Russian Sport T-shirts", "raw_content": "Hockey Club Amur Khabarovsk T-shirt. 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Wishes provide kids hope when they need it most, and research shows they have effects on children\u2019s overall well-being and health outcomes.\nIn fact, wishes have proven physical and emotional benefits that can give children with critical illnesses a higher chance of survival. When a wish is granted, a child replaces fear with confidence, sadness with joy and anxiety with hope.\nThe Dr. Patel Wish Impact Study\nWe\u2019ve known anecdotally about the transformational power of a wish, and now a first-of-its-kind study from Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital (NCH) is opening the door to possibilities of medical and financial benefits.\nA team of researchers, led by Anup Patel, MD, director of the Complex Epilepsy Clinic at NCH, examined quality of life and health care utilization among patients who received a wish and a control group who did not. The study found patients who were granted a wish were more likely to have fewer unplanned hospital and emergency department visits.\nWatch the video below to hear Dr. Patel talk about the true power of a wish and learn more about the study here.\nResearch shows, and physicians agree, wishes can help improve a child's quality of life and produce better health outcomes. Members of the Make-A-Wish Medical Advisory Committee share the life-changing impact wishes have \u2014 beyond just medicine \u2014 on their patients and their families.\n\u2014 James B. Fahner, MD, FAAP\nChair, Make-A-Wish Medical Advisory Council\n2015 Israel Wish Study", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 7089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://celebrities.wiki/celebrity/bernardo-bertolucci", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:42Z", "digest": "sha1:UTDOUOTPASMR3LNSPEYLQ2KJFGRFV67F", "length": 509, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "celebrities.wiki", "title": "\ufeff Bernardo Bertolucci - Celebrities.Wiki", "raw_content": "Short info Bernardo Bertolucci (Italian: [ber?nardo berto?lutt?i]; born 16 March 1941) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Empero... full biography \u00bb\nKnow as Bernardo Bertolucci, Bertolucci, Bernardo\nBirth place Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy\nWork Awards for Bernardo Bertolucci\nOccupation Film director Screenwriter\nParents Attilio Bertolucci , Ninetta Giovanardi, Ninetta Giovanardi\nWhat do you think about Bernardo Bertolucci?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://celebrities.wiki/celebrity/william-shakespeare", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:20Z", "digest": "sha1:7JJTYMV46THWHSL5EJ3ZDDKAAPJD2U3V", "length": 550, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "celebrities.wiki", "title": "\ufeff William Shakespeare - Celebrities.Wiki", "raw_content": "Short info William Shakespeare (/??e?ksp??r/; 26 April 1564 (baptised) \u2013 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world'... full biography \u00bb\nKnow as William Shakespeare, Shakespeare, William\nBirth place Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK\nWork Shakespearean history templates\nOccupation Playwright, poet, actor\nSpouse Anne Hathaway (Shakespeare\\'s wife)\nChildren Susanna HallHamnet ShakespeareJudith Quiney\nWhat do you think about William Shakespeare?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 252.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chadwickandamy.com/2015/01/23/revealed-moments-and-gratitude/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3G6YODX2MH76G2ZP2OSFTK2ZW57JWVWV", "length": 4063, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "chadwickandamy.com", "title": "Revealed Moments and Gratitude | Chadwick and Amy", "raw_content": "examen, gratitude, marriage, prayer, spirituality\nWe are daily afforded opportunities to practice loving each other\u2026 The interesting part of developing intimacy this way is that the deeper we go into each other, the more that personal flaws (on both sides) are revealed. The \u2018easiest\u2019 thing to do in these moments would be to choose negativity and hate and allow love to become blind as we look away from what is actually present each others lives\u2026\nWhat our vocation as a married couple calls us to do, however\u2026 is to allow love to see what is really there and develop the virtue of gratitude together, to help us remember the gift of love that we were given at the beginning.\nGratitude shapes our character. By developing this virtue one to another, we are able to avoid the cardinal sin of marriage: the absence of gratitude. Without gratitude, we cannot appreciate the grace of God which is always around us\u2026 and in our spouse.\nExamen, together as a couple\u2026 is a perfect discipline to practice.\nJesuit father Dennis Hamm gives us a helpful modern version of the ancient examination of conscience which is more an examen of consciousness. He points out that in French and Spanish the word \u2018conciencia\u2018 has a much larger meaning than the English word \u2018conscience\u2019. Consciousness is about awareness, self-knowledge, and feelings. The practice consists in prayer at the end of the day, reviewing high points and low points and being conscious of one\u2019s feelings in relation to the daily activities, challenges and questions. Feelings will rise up and Fr. Hamm assures us that feelings are genuine clues about what is really going on in our interior lives.\nThe method is easily adapted to illuminating the marriage relationship. At the end of the day, find a quiet place for a few moments of prayer, and begin by praying for light to see and understand how you regard your spouse. A simple prayer is all that is needed, followed by a review of the day with the emphasis being on thanksgiving. This is not a search for what is wrong, but for seeing more clearly what is right.\nOne might ask the question, in the spirit of prayer, how the presence of one\u2019s spouse is a source of blessing. What unique qualities of your spouse rise up in your consciousness? As in all prayer, it is essential to be honest with each other, and of course, with God. Don\u2019t make things up. You are concentrating on each person\u2019s reality. Over time it is possible that annoying behaviors will be seen more as quirks. The examen can and should include the relationship itself. How is life richer and more meaningful because you and your spouse are given to each other?\nIf a daily examen seems impossible, then a weekly exercise can still be beneficial. The point is to bring to consciousness the essence of the other person, oneself, and the marital relationship and to express genuine gratitude for all of that.\nBecause Ignatian prayer usually moves toward action, it seems reasonable to find ways to express this gratitude to each other.\nGratitude leads to many other \u201cvirtues\u201d like laughter and fun, compassion and mercy. In addition to highlighting the gifts of our marriage partner, the examen will also uncover our propensity to magnify small failings, our own and others.\nWhen the wife of the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. was shot while she was playing the organ in Ebenezer Baptist Church during a Sunday service, Rev. King turned to his congregation and asked everyone to kneel and thank God for all that had been left to them. How could this be? He had lost his son to assassination and now his wife. How could he say such a thing? Because during the course of his life, loving his wife and his children, loving the people he served as pastor, he was falling ever more in love with God. 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They work closely with local Consultants and Epilepsy Nurses.\nEpilepsy Sussex is Registered Charity 1113429 and more details about the activities of the organisation can be found at their website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 5922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 146.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/search?q=Lectures+on+Data+Security%2C+Modern+Cryptology+in+Theory+and+Practice%2C+Summer+School%2C+Aarhus%2C+Denmark%2C+July+1998", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:21Z", "digest": "sha1:BNYU2VHRICQ2JOM3ROPR6DI57D7WYCTQ", "length": 666, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "citeseerx.ist.psu.edu", "title": "CiteSeerX \u2014 Search Results \u2014 Lectures on Data Security, Modern Cryptology in Theory and Practice, Summer School, Aarhus, Denmark, July 1998", "raw_content": "by Robert C. 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After the Shah was overthrown in 1979, the new Iranian regime took it over and renamed it.[2] The Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office investigations chief, Adam Kaufmann, said, \u201cWe found evidence that the government of Iran really controlled everything about the foundation.\u201d[3]\nThe organization is accused of funneling money to an Iranian bank linked to the Iranian nuclear program and had its assets seized in 2009.[4] The president of the Foundation, Farshid Jahedi, pled guilty to destroying evidence before it could be submitted to grand jury.[5]\nAccording to the Washington Post: \u201cU.S. law enforcement and intelligence officials have long suspected that Alavi and its related institutions are vehicles through which the Iranian government keeps tabs on Iranians here, obtains data about U.S. technology, promotes Tehran\u2019s views on world affairs, provides gathering places for pro-Iran activists and channels money to U.S. academics to gain friendly readings on Iran.\u201d[6]\nThe communications director for the Iranian-American Community of Northern California, Hamid Azimi, said the Alavi Foundation is part of the regime\u2019s \u201cpropaganda machine.\u201d[7] Its financial disclosures show that it has given funds to over 60 Islamic sites in North America[8] and 30 universities.[9] It also distributes about 15,000 free texts each year through four distribution centers to mosques, schools, libraries, individuals and penitentiaries.[10]\n[1] \u201cContact Us,\u201d Alavi Foundation website, http://www.alavifoundation.org/aboutus/contactus.html\n[2] Petrou, Michael. \u201cFollow the Money,\u201d MacLean\u2019s, June 14, 2013. http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/06/14/follow-the-money-4/\n[3] \u201cReport: Columbia and Rutgers Funded by Iran-Controlled Group,\u201d Ha\u2019aretz, November 23, 2009. http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-columbia-and-rutgers-funded-by-iran-controlled-group-1.3599\n[4] Farrell, Michael B. \u201cWhat\u2019s Known About Iran-Linked Alavi Foundation?\u201d Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 2009. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2009/1114/p02s10-usgn.html\n[5] Wiedlich, Thom and Christopher Scinta. \u201cJahedi Pleads Guilty in Probe of Suspected Iranian Front Group,\u201d Bloomberg, December 31, 2009. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=adSWMh4kTqFY\n[6] Kessler, Glenn. \u201cFeds Move to Seize Assets Allegedly Held by Iranian Government,\u201d Washington Post, November 12, 2009. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2009-11-12/news/36841886_1_alavi-foundation-tenants-or-occupants-iranian-bank\n[7] Farrell, Michael B. \u201cWhat\u2019s Known About Iran-Linked Alavi Foundation?\u201d Christian Science Monitor, November 14, 2009. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2009/1114/p02s10-usgn.html/(page)/2\n[8] Mauro, Ryan. \u201cIranian Gov\u2019t Front Group Funded Over 60 Islamic Sites in U.S.,\u201d Clarion Project, July 1, 2013. http://qb5cc3pam3y2ad0tm1zxuhho-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/analysis/iranian-govt-front-group-funded-over-60-islamic-sites-us\n[9] Mauro, Ryan. \u201cIranian Front Group Funded 30 Universities in U.S. & Canada,\u201d Clarion Project, June 25, 2013. http://qb5cc3pam3y2ad0tm1zxuhho-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/analysis/iranian-regime-front-funded-30-universities-us-canada\n[10] \u201cBook Distribution,\u201d Alavi Foundation website, http://www.alavifoundation.org/programs/bookdistribution.html#start\nHi, this may be interesting you: Alavi Foundation! 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Miner discussed her discovery of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in the downstream water of the Silvretta Glacier in the Swiss Alps, and the potential for resulting health risks in an area where wind and weather systems accumulate toxic materials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 3878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cmcacorner.com/2013/01/23/in-the-news-10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NZYPRDDGTWVQPSDPY6VI7SH5GMEJ2NXS", "length": 1873, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "cmcacorner.com", "title": "In the News | CMCAcorner", "raw_content": "Redrawn flood zones await coastal homeowners after Sandy\nFederal, state and local officials are expected to announce revisions for flood zones in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and that may mean more obstacles for homeowners who are seeking to rebuild. Building in a flood zone translates to increased costs and structure requirements, such as strict minimum heights. New York Post (1/13)\nAmericans may spend more to improve housing this year\nSpending on home improvements in the U.S. is expected to increase this year, a report by Harvard University\u2019s Joint Center for Housing Studies says. About 17% of gross domestic product during the first nine months of 2012 went toward spending on housing, and the figure could be higher this year, says Eric Belsky, managing director of the center. The Boston Globe (tiered subscription model) (1/18)\nU.S. housing industry is facing changes from regulations\nThe final version of the Qualified Residential Mortgage rule, which will define the minimum down payment required for home loans, is likely to be released in the coming months, U.S. regulators say. That rule, along with underwriting and servicing measures released by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last week, have the potential to reshape home lending in the U.S. \u201cThese changes will impact business operations and the future of mortgage access for years to come,\u201d says David Stevens, president of the Mortgage Bankers Association. Bloomberg (1/18)\nPredictions on where the housing market is headed\nThe housing market could begin favoring sellers this year, and buyers should be prepared for a more competitive market, Kathryn Buschman Vasel writes. Among the housing trends she cites are continued low interest rates, a stricter lending process, increasing home prices, a possible increase in housing inventories and less refinancing activity. 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Sorry I\u2019m late. \u2013 TheCoffeeAddict1", "raw_content": "TheCoffeeAddict1\nHey! Sorry I\u2019m late.\nHey! Hope everyone is doing ok. Sorry I\u2019m late with this blog. I know summer is almost over, but I\u2019m back today with something I wrote for my college newspaper. Enjoy\u2026\u2026\nThe days of sitting in classrooms listening to lectures have temporarily reached their end, the nights have grown longer and the temperatures have risen. Summer has finally found us. But no summer would be complete without a playlist to jam to, now would it?\nBelow are ten songs you need to squeeze into your summer playlist right now. Download them, savor them and keep them on repeat.\n\u201cI\u2019m The One\u201d by DJ Khaled ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne\nDespite being released in April, this song can still be found at the top of the charts \u2014 and for good reason. It portrays a true summer pool party vibe. Plus, there\u2019s no deep meaning to it; it\u2019s just a track you can chill to.\n\u201cCold Water\u201d by Major Lazer ft. Justin Bieber, MO\nThis one may be older than others, but it still serves its purpose in the enjoyment it creates while listening to it. Perfect for those late nights behind the wheel, \u201cCold Water\u201d is about being there for one another, whether it\u2019s a relationship or friendship at stake.\nLamar truly delivers knowledge in this popular track. Because it has been heard by many, it sheds some much-needed light on body image issues in the way that it encourages listeners to be real and natural. It preaches what many need to hear in a song.\n\u201cLocation\u201d by Khalid\nKhalid may have popped up out of nowhere, but his voice demands respect. His amazing vocals in this song speak to ladies from all over as he searches for a woman to love. This one\u2019s vibe-worthy.\n\u201cNo Frauds\u201d by Nicki Minaj, Drake, Lil Wayne\nLike DJ Khaled\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m The One,\u201d this song is perfect for your poolside days. In the simplest of terms, it\u2019s a great track with a catchy beat that needs to be added to your summer playlist.\n\u201cShining\u201d by DJ Khaled ft. Beyonc\u00e9, Jay-Z\nDJ Khaled supplies his fans with hit after hit, and this song is no exception of that. He provides an impressive anthem in \u201cShining,\u201d with some help from Beyonc\u00e9 and Jay Z. If you haven\u2019t already added it to your playlist, you know what to do.\n\u201cDespacito\u201d by Luis Fonsi ft. Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber\nYou can find this song at the top of the charts. Is it there because of the uniqueness it provides with its Spanglish lyrics or is it there because it\u2019s just that good? Perhaps it\u2019s featured at the top of the charts for both reasons. Check it out.\n\u201cFree Smoke\u201d by Drake\nThis is the popular song of the season that everyone needs in their playlist. With no heavy message, listeners can just jam to the lyrics and flow to the beat. What more could you ask for in a summer hit?\n\u201cParty\u201d by Chris Brown ft. Gucci Mane, Usher\nJust as its name suggests, this song is the ultimate party track. As soon as it begins to play, you\u2019ll want to dance, but that\u2019s okay because so will everyone else. Gucci Mane and Usher only add to the party in this song.\n\u201cSummertime\u201d by DJ Jazzy Jeff, The Fresh Prince\nThis song is what summer is all about. It\u2019s fun, it\u2019s fresh and you can\u2019t get enough of it. Whether you\u2019re hosting a bonfire party, riding shotgun on the way to your vacation\u2019s destination or just laying out by the pool, this is the song for you. Download it and sing along to the lyrics today!\nRegardless of what your summer plans look like, a sturdy summer playlist is a must-have, and each one of these ten songs belongs on yours. Please your party crowd with this unbeatable playlist or find your headphones and jam alone. Just be sure to enjoy your playlist; happy summer, everyone!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://colorado.massmutual.com/businesses/protect-your-business", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:01Z", "digest": "sha1:7MGBNBC3AVL6HU7SNYFJIWCH2TJKZZIK", "length": 1801, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "colorado.massmutual.com", "title": "Protect Your Business | MassMutual", "raw_content": "HomeBusinessesProtect Your Business\nAs a business owner, you know being prepared for anything is part of who you are. If one thing is certain today, it's that you can't be certain about what will happen tomorrow. You can, however, be certain that you've taken action to help protect yourself and your business from the unexpected.\nThink about what would happen to your business if you, your business partner, or a key employee were to unexpectedly die or become too sick or injured to work. There's no doubt that this would have a tremendous impact on your business and its continued success. But there's good news: this is something you can plan for.\nHaving the foresight to protect your business against the loss of an owner or an essential employee\u2013perhaps the company's most valuable asset\u2013can mean the difference between business as usual or closing up shop. Just as you would insure your business property, you should also consider insuring the people who have the biggest impact on your company's success. We can help with business planning strategies that are designed to protect your business from the unexpected and help ensure the business you've worked so hard to build withstands the test of time.\nConsider a few of the following options to help protect your business:\nMost likely, your company has already taken the appropriate steps to protect the business in the event of the death of an owner or partner. But have you protected the business in the event of a more common scenario - an owner's or partner's long-term disability?\nLearn how life insurance can help you protect your business from the unexpected death of a key employee.\nHaving long term care insurance is part of smart business planning and can help protect your business and family if a long term care need should arise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://commongroundsolutions.org/issues/poverty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GBGBDDYOV6KBN5FKKRCRANMNGCIZYFHB", "length": 747, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "commongroundsolutions.org", "title": "Education and Job Training Lowers Poverty | Common Ground Solutions", "raw_content": "Helping people move out of poverty makes our nation stronger.\nThe long-term objective of antipoverty programs has to be something more than providing a less meager existence. The starting point is a better public education system for all Americans, including the poorest among us, so that fewer people need assistance in the first place. Targeted job training, which can start as early as high school, can prepare young people for middle-skill jobs that pay very well but do not require four years of college. We also have to acknowledge that the massive increase in rates of imprisonment over the last twenty years, especially for young black men, has had disastrous effects on prisoners, their families, and the communities to which they return.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 199.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://commons.commondreams.org/t/greenpeace-india-s-challenge-over-blocked-funds-accepted-by-high-court/8531", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:24Z", "digest": "sha1:65AY54DO4GDFTHHNA5MJG6KN7OH2QPVA", "length": 648, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "commons.commondreams.org", "title": "Greenpeace India\u2019s Challenge Over Blocked Funds Accepted by High Court - News & Views - The Commons | Common Dreams", "raw_content": "Greenpeace India\u2019s Challenge Over Blocked Funds Accepted by High Court\nNEW DEHLI, India - The court issued notices to the home ministry and several Indian banks calling on them to respond to Greenpeace India\u2019s writ petition which is to be heard on Tuesday 26th May.\n\u201cWe believe we have a strong case\u201d, said Samit Aich, Executive Director of Greenpeace India. \u201cWe\u2019re calling for the order to be quashed because of the arbitrary and unconstitutional way the home minister has acted. Freezing both our national and international bank accounts is beyond the scope of the Foreign Contributions Regulations Act and the jurisdiction of the home ministry.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_fyp/48/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3GNKJPW6AN4YGEMECEOPOSSRP4SCFEGS", "length": 3212, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "commons.ln.edu.hk", "title": "\"Discrimination and elimination: transgression in Jeanette Winterson's \" by On Yee, Franziska CHENG", "raw_content": "Discrimination and elimination: transgression in Jeanette Winterson's novels\nOn Yee, Franziska CHENGFollow\nProf. ASKER David Barry Desmond\nThis is a study of the notion of transgression (specifically in a sexual context) as observed in one important contemporary British writer of fiction who was widely considered a transgressive novelist in the 1980s, Jeanette Winterson. The objective of this study is to explore the nature and motives of \"transgression\" as a literary trope in two key fictions, as well as to explore why explicit delineation of sex or violence is not - contrary to popular misconception -- an essential or necessary ingredient in \"transgressive\" literary writing.\nIn this project I will test the hypothesis that transgressive writers are typically stigmatized owing to their deliberate assault of communal ideologies rather than the creation of sexually risqu\u00e9 plots. To do this I analyze two important novels of Jeanette Winterson's which though they contain no overt description of sexuality still retain key features of transgression. This paper will examine how social boundaries can be crossed or even dissolved without the involvement of sexually explicit elements even if homosexuality is a clear background element providing a strong part of Winterson's motivation. It will synchronously demonstrate how Winterson's utilization of homophobic plots (promulgated by the Church), androgynous characterization and logical paradox in the narrative combine to attack ruthlessly the standard of 'norrnalness' and 'naturalness' set by patriarchal and sexually-hegemonic societies, which \"continue to foster social conditions in which disempowered groups are prevented from achieving full social, political, and cultural citizenship\" (Rubinson, 2005:1) by the prejudices of sexual fundamentalism and religious domination. As summarized by Helena Grice and Tim Woods in \"I'm telling you stories\": Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading (1998), Winterson's novels are especially designed to subvert or dissolve structures of transgression - \"of the limits separating self from other, man from woman, human from animal, organic from inorganic objects, and towards constant metamorphosis, with its stress upon instability of natural forms, expressive of its rejection of the notion of the self as a coherent, indivisible and continuous whole, a basic tenet of realist fiction\". (p. 6)\nThis paper starts with an introduction which provides a brief biography of Jeanette Winterson, a concise and broad brush-stroke history of the representation of transgressive sex in a few examples of English fiction and the meaning of 'transgressive fiction'. Then, in the body of the study, a thorough investigation of transgression in two key books will be presented. Major themes of the novels, plot and characterization will be carefully examined. Ending with a detailed conclusion, our minor premise that transgression is not inevitably correlated with sexual explicitness is positively affirmed.\nCheng, O. Y. F. (2010). Discrimination and elimination: transgression in Jeanette Winterson's novels (UG dissertation, Lingnan University, Hong Kong). Retrieved from http://commons.ln.edu.hk/eng_fyp/48", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://community.ireland.com/4807/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:53Z", "digest": "sha1:N44XNR3WVREBOAD5CLC2C4PDQALAX4IF", "length": 1717, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "community.ireland.com", "title": "I've read about Newgrange on the winter solstice \u2013 is it possible to visit? | Ireland.com Community", "raw_content": "I've read about Newgrange on the winter solstice \u2013 is it possible to...\nI've read about Newgrange on the winter solstice \u2013 is it possible to visit?\nNewgrange is an amazing place. Older than the pyramids, this marvel of prehistoric engineering is tucked away in the heart of Ireland\u2019s Ancient East. Visiting is a once-in-a-lifetime kind of experience, whether at the winter solstice, or any other time of year.\nPeople gather at the winter solstice at dawn from December 18th until the 23rd, and there\u2019s a good reason why\u2026 On these mornings, a sunbeam (if weather permits) hits a lightbox above the entrance to this ancient passage tomb, and travels along a 19-metre passage to illuminate the whole inner chamber. Watching the sunrise just as people did 5,000 years ago is a really special experience \u2013 a spiritual one, according to one visitor.\nVisiting Newgrange is easy to do, with the passage tomb and visitor centre open all year round. However, if you want to see the winter solstice from the inside, it\u2019s a bit trickier.\nAccess to the inner chamber at Newgrange for the solstice is decided by lottery. Applications for 2016 were picked in September, but you can apply for 2017 solstice through the Visitor Centre or via email \u00ad\u2013 you can get all the details here. Sixty names are drawn annually, and each brings a guest, so a total of 120 people gather in the chamber to watch the sunrise each December. It\u2019s total luck as to whether you\u2019ll be picked or not, but if you\u2019re not in, you can\u2019t win so it\u2019s always worth having a go. Even if you\u2019re not successful, heading to Newgrange at any time is a brilliant experience. Good luck!\nDecemberIreland Ancient EastMeathPubSeptemberWinter\nPosted Tue 6 Dec 2016 10:50 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://completewellbeing.com/wellbeing-news/get-more-out-of-your-childs-check-ups/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:57Z", "digest": "sha1:M2CWMK5QD2ABX3AOCJGWIYRVETU2KGOW", "length": 3503, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "completewellbeing.com", "title": "Get more out of your child's check-ups - Complete Wellbeing", "raw_content": "Get more out of your child\u2019s check-ups\nLoyola University Health System pediatrician, shares some tips to help us make the most of our children's doctor visits\nGo prepared for your child\u2019s doctor visits to save your and the doctor\u2019s time\nFitting in a doctor\u2019s appointment for your child in one\u2019s busy schedule is sometimes quite a feat. And it turns out to be a time waster if you don\u2019t go well-prepared. Sometimes, it can even mean repeat visits and less than perfect treatment. But we can avoid this.\nDr. Hannah Chow, Loyola University Health System pediatrician, shares some tips to help us make the most of our doctor visits.\n1. Cut to the chase: Dr Chow suggests that the doctors don\u2019t mind if you skip the small talk and share your concern right away. \u201cAsk your most important questions first,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019ve had patients talk to me about smaller issues and by the time I\u2019m ready to close the visit they say, \u2018What I really wanted to talk about is. . .\u2019 This makes it difficult to discuss what\u2019s really concerning you or your child. It might even be good to make a list of the questions you want to ask to make sure we cover your concerns in the visit, but keep it short,\u201d said Chow.\n2. Stick to the top three: It\u2019s possible that you may have many concerns regarding your child and to you all are important. However, avoid discussing all of them in one visit. Chow suggests discussing three most important concerns. \u201cA typical visit lasts 15 minutes, including the examination, so by limiting your concerns you have a much better chance of getting a thoughtful, thorough answer. What might seem like a simple concern to a patient, for example, headaches, involves many detailed questions on the physician\u2019s part and a more thorough examination compared to other issues.\u201d suggests Chow. If there are longer, more complicated issues, schedule a second visit to discuss things further. Doing so ensures that the doctor to pay better attention to all our concerns.\n3. Take the help of the nurse: Sometimes, a nurse is fully equipped to answer our questions. And we can save time if we first discuss the issue with her instead of waiting to visit the doctor.\n4. Provide correct contact details: Ensuring that the clinic has your current contact details enables them to contact you with any recent developments or with details of your tests.\n5. Never assume no news is good news regarding tests, labs, X-rays and other similar results: \u201cA friend of mine hadn\u2019t heard any news of her biopsy. One year later, she found out it was positive for cancer. Fortunately, everything turned out well, but I always ask all patients to call us for all results. There are times I cannot get a hold of patients, whether through wrong phone numbers, incorrect addresses, not receiving messages, full voice mail boxes or language barriers. Please, always contact your doctor\u2019s office if you do not receive a result in the expected time frame,\u201d said Chow.\n7. Don\u2019t bring too many friends: Doctors get distracted if there are too much noise in the room, and too many people usually is what causes more noise. hence, it helps to take minimum number of people to see the doctor.\n8. Time appointments well:If it isn\u2019t urgent, schedule the appointment on easy days when there is no likelihood of a rush. \u201cWith many back-to-back appointments it\u2019s even harder for doctors to give each patient the time and attention they want to give and that you and your child deserve,\u201d said Chow.\nAdapted from Loyola University Health System", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://conservativedailypost.com/soros-claims-trump-administration-danger-to-the-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3KI2AQZHYJRIOHKJR5YKROMRGI5WB6JS", "length": 5479, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "conservativedailypost.com", "title": "Soros Claims Trump Administration \u201cDanger To The World\u201d - Conservative Daily Post", "raw_content": "Soros Enemy Identified\nSoros Claims Trump Administration \u201cDanger To The World\u201d\nHe Fully Expects His World Domination To Prevail\nGeorge Soros is the enemy of freedom.\nIn what has already become one of his most infamous episodes of interventionism, leftist billionaire George Soros provided the most aggressive remarks about President Trump and his administration.\nAs a matter of fact, he even made one particular remark that clearly sounded as a direct threat to the U.S. president. Believe it or not, he claimed that President Trump is a \u201ctemporary phenomenon\u201d that \u201cwill probably disappear in 2020 or even sooner.\u201d In addition, he claimed that the American president was a \u201cdanger\u201d to the world.\nSoros, who is basically the financial backbone of the Democratic Party, made the most outrageous remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, an important event where the president showed his globe leader\u2019s credentials.\nLiterally, the far-left billionaire claimed that President Trump was trying to establish a brutal dictatorship in the United States, which seems as nothing more than a shameful attempt to fear-monger.\nNaturally, the most disgusting element is the fact that he made those comments in front of world leaders. Apparently, President Trump wasn\u2019t present at the time the Hungarian billionaire made the rant against him.\nIn addition to making the same argument that so-called comedian Bill Maher makes every time he wants to get some attention, Soros had a lot of more to say. As a matter of fact, the fear-mongering was about to escalate to unprecedented levels that not even the most radical liberal journalists have been able to reach.\nBelieve it or not, Soros said that the U.S. president was a threat to the world, since he claimed the Republican was about to lead the entire a planet to a nuclear war that would set a horrible turning point. If this wasn\u2019t enough, his explanation of this particular point was even more disgraceful.\nThe leftist billionaire, who spent millions backing the failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, claimed that the Trump administration is set on a course to a nuclear war because it refuses to accept that North Korea has become a nuclear power.\nAccording to his words, this stance creates a \u201cstrong incentive\u201d for Kim Jong Un\u2019s regime to develop nuclear capacity with all possible speed. Furthermore, Soros said that this scenario may induce the Trump administration to use its nuclear superiority in a preemptive way.\nIn order to make his rant sound more exquisite instead of the typical rhetoric of a crackhead, Soros claimed that this was nothing more than the execution of a nuclear war to prevent another one, which he described as a \u201cself-contradictory strategy.\u201d\nAfter that, Soros continued with this anti-Trump discourse. Without any kind of evidence, he claimed that the president is trying to institute a \u201cmafia state\u201d in America. However, he pointed out that this would not be possible considering that the institutions, constitution, and \u201cvibrant society\u201d won\u2019t allow it.\nAfter that, the leftist billionaire said that he will use his radical left-wing organization, Open Society Foundation, to defend \u201cthe democratic achievements of the past.\u201d Basically, he was referring to protect the Obama legacy at all cost. Of course, it seems that he\u2019s quite eager on this move considering that he recently gave $18 billion to Open Society.\nOn another part of his rant, Soros compared President Trump with Kim Jong Un, claiming that the survival of open society and even the entire civilization was at risk because of the rise of these two figures.\nAfter that, Soros predicted a Democratic landslide in the 2018 midterm elections, which according to his words it would push back the danger of this administration. Once again, he was trying to interfere in the U.S. political election by making the most blatant propaganda.\nThe leftist billionaire, whose dire predictions a year ago that President Trump would destroy the U.S. economy have proven wildly wrong, said that his Open Society Foundation is now funding more institutions in America rather than the third world. The reason? To ensure a Democratic victory in November.\nSoros, who also lost $1 billion after the stock market boomed under President Trump, then made the prediction that clearly seemed like a veiled threat against the U.S. commander in chief. After saying he really considers his administration as a danger to the world, he said he believes this would be temporary because the president \u201cwill disappear in 2020 or even sooner.\u201d\nSince Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential elections, Soros has been in panic mode. Soon after the surprising victory, the leftist billionaire claimed: \u201cWe must do something to push back against what\u2019s happening here.\u201d\nIn addition, he considered his victory as the rise of \u201cdark forces\u201d in the United States, considering the collateral damages that the Republican would have for the country. Unsurprisingly, none of his predictions have become reality.\nAs the Conservative Daily Post reported in a previous article, opposing President Trump has represented a really bad business for the 87-year-old Hungarian-born financier, given the fact that this stance has made him lost $16.2 million in a very short period.\nGiven this situation, and the fact that President Trump has managed to end his first year in office in a decent manner, is not surprising that the leftist billionaire is playing his cards more intensively.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 7989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://constitution.com/washington-state-constitution-as-amended-through-2010/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:39Z", "digest": "sha1:LBRZPNGXOAAL7FTO6WY63HB2BYERTTPF", "length": 317283, "nlines": 610, "source_domain": "constitution.com", "title": "Washington State Constitution, As Amended through 2010 \u22c6 Constitution.com \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 \u22c6 The US Constitution \u22c6 Constitution.com", "raw_content": "Washington State Constitution, As Amended through 2010\nPREAMBLE We, the people of the State of Washington, grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our liberties, do ordain this constitution. ARTICLE I DECLARATION OF RIGHTS SECTION\u2026\nSECTION 1 POLITICAL POWER. All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are established to protect and maintain individual rights.\nSECTION 2 SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.\nSECTION 3 PERSONAL RIGHTS. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.\nSECTION 4 RIGHT OF PETITION AND ASSEMBLAGE. The right of petition and of the people peaceably to assemble for the common good shall never be abridged.\nSECTION 5 FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Every person may freely speak, write and publish on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.\nSECTION 6 OATHS \u2013 MODE OF ADMINISTERING. The mode of administering an oath, or affirmation, shall be such as may be most consistent with and binding upon the conscience of the person to whom such oath, or affirmation, may be administered.\nSECTION 8 IRREVOCABLE PRIVILEGE, FRANCHISE OR IMMUNITY PROHIBITED. No law granting irrevocably any privilege, franchise or immunity, shall be passed by the legislature.\nSECTION 9 RIGHTS OF ACCUSED PERSONS. No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to give evidence against himself, or be twice put in jeopardy for the same offense.\nSECTION 10 ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. Justice in all cases shall be administered openly, and without unnecessary delay.\nSECTION 11 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM. Absolute freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment, belief and worship, shall be guaranteed to every individual, and no one shall be molested or disturbed in person or property on account of religion; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state. No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment: PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That this article shall not be so construed as to forbid the employment by the state of a chaplain for such of the state custodial, correctional, and mental institutions, or by a county\u2019s or public hospital district\u2019s hospital, health care facility, or hospice, as in the discretion of the legislature may seem justified. No religious qualification shall be required for any public office or employment, nor shall any person be incompetent as a witness or juror, in consequence of his opinion on matters of religion, nor be questioned in any court of justice touching his religious belief to affect the weight of his testimony. [AMENDMENT 88, 1993 House Joint Resolution No. 4200, p 3062. Approved November 2, 1993.]\nAmendment 34 (1957) \u2014 Art. 1 Section 11 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM \u2014 Absolute freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment, belief and worship, shall be guaranteed to every individual, and no one shall be molested or disturbed in person or property on account of religion; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state. No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment: Provided, however, That this article shall not be so construed as to forbid the employment by the state of a chaplain for such of the state custodial, correctional and mental institutions as in the discretion of the legislature may seem justified. No religious qualification shall be required for any public office or employment, nor shall any person be incompetent as a witness or juror, in consequence of his opinion on matters of religion, nor be questioned in any court of justice touching his religious belief to affect the weight of his testimony. [AMENDMENT 34, 1957 Senate Joint Resolution No. 14, p 1299. Approved November 4, 1958.]\nAmendment 4 (1904) \u2014 Art. 1 Section 11 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM \u2014 Absolute freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment, belief and worship, shall be guaranteed to every individual, and no one shall be molested or disturbed in person or property on account of religion; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state. No public money or property shall be appropriated for or applied to any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment. Provided, however, That this article shall not be so construed as to forbid the employment by the state of a chaplain for the state penitentiary, and for such of the state reformatories as in the discretion of the legislature may seem justified. No religious qualification shall be required for any public office or employment, nor shall any person be incompetent as a witness or juror, in consequence of his opinion on matters of religion, nor be questioned in any court of justice touching his religious belief to affect the weight of his testimony. [AMENDMENT 4, 1903 p 283 Section 1. Approved November, 1904.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 1 Section 11 RELIGIOUS FREEDOM \u2014 Absolute freedom of conscience in all matters of religious sentiment, belief, and worship, shall be guaranteed to every individual, and no one shall be molested or disturbed in person, or property, on account of religion; but the liberty of conscience hereby secured shall not be so construed as to excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the state. No public money or property shall be appropriated for, or applied to any religious worship, exercise or instruction, or the support of any religious establishment. No religious qualification shall be required for any public office, or employment, nor shall any person be incompetent as a witness, or juror, in consequence of his opinion on matters of religion, nor be questioned in any court of justice touching his religious belief to affect the weight of his testimony.\nSECTION 12 SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES PROHIBITED. No law shall be passed granting to any citizen, class of citizens, or corporation other than municipal, privileges or immunities which upon the same terms shall not equally belong to all citizens, or corporations.\nSECTION 13 HABEAS CORPUS. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless in case of rebellion or invasion the public safety requires it.\nSECTION 14 EXCESSIVE BAIL, FINES AND PUNISHMENTS. Excessive bail shall not be required, excessive fines imposed, nor cruel punishment inflicted.\nSECTION 15 CONVICTIONS, EFFECT OF. No conviction shall work corruption of blood, nor forfeiture of estate.\nSECTION 16 EMINENT DOMAIN. Private property shall not be taken for private use, except for private ways of necessity, and for drains, flumes, or ditches on or across the lands of others for agricultural, domestic, or sanitary purposes. No private property shall be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation having been first made, or paid into court for the owner, and no right-of-way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation other than municipal until full compensation therefor be first made in money, or ascertained and paid into court for the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corporation, which compensation shall be ascertained by a jury, unless a jury be waived, as in other civil cases in courts of record, in the manner prescribed by law. Whenever an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated use be really public shall be a judicial question, and determined as such, without regard to any legislative assertion that the use is public: Provided, That the taking of private property by the state for land reclamation and settlement purposes is hereby declared to be for public use. [AMENDMENT 9, 1919 p 385 Section 1. Approved November, 1920.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 1 Section 16 EMINENT DOMAIN \u2014 Private property shall not be taken for private use, except for private ways of necessity, and for drains, flumes or ditches on or across the lands of others for agricultural, domestic or sanitary purposes. No private property shall be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation having first been made, or paid into court for the owner, and no right of way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation other than municipal, until full compensation therefor be first made in money, or ascertained and paid into the court for the owner, irrespective of any benefit from any improvement proposed by such corporation, which compensation shall be ascertained by a jury, unless a jury be waived as in other civil cases in courts of record, in the manner prescribed by law. Whenever an attempt is made to take private property for a use alleged to be public, the question whether the contemplated use be really public shall be a judicial question, and determined as such without regard to any legislative assertion that the use is public.\nSECTION 17 IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. There shall be no imprisonment for debt, except in cases of absconding debtors.\nSECTION 18 MILITARY POWER, LIMITATION OF. The military shall be in strict subordination to the civil power.\nSECTION 20 BAIL, WHEN AUTHORIZED. All persons charged with crime shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident, or the presumption great. Bail may be denied for offenses punishable by the possibility of life in prison upon a showing by clear and convincing evidence of a propensity for violence that creates a substantial likelihood of danger to the community or any persons, subject to such limitations as shall be determined by the legislature. [AMENDMENT 104, 2010 Engrossed Substitute House Joint Resolution No. 4220, p 3129. Approved November 2, 2010.]\nOriginal text Art. 1 Section 20 BAIL, WHEN AUTHORIZED All persons charged with crime shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident, or the presumption great.\nSECTION 21 TRIAL BY JURY. The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate, but the legislature may provide for a jury of any number less than twelve in courts not of record, and for a verdict by nine or more jurors in civil cases in any court of record, and for waiving of the jury in civil cases where the consent of the parties interested is given thereto.\nSECTION 22 RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED. In criminal prosecutions the accused shall have the right to appear and defend in person, or by counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, to have a copy thereof, to testify in his own behalf, to meet the witnesses against him face to face, to have compulsory process to compel the attendance of witnesses in his own behalf, to have a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county in which the offense is charged to have been committed and the right to appeal in all cases: Provided, The route traversed by any railway coach, train or public conveyance, and the water traversed by any boat shall be criminal districts; and the jurisdiction of all public offenses committed on any such railway car, coach, train, boat or other public conveyance, or at any station or depot upon such route, shall be in any county through which the said car, coach, train, boat or other public conveyance may pass during the trip or voyage, or in which the trip or voyage may begin or terminate. In no instance shall any accused person before final judgment be compelled to advance money or fees to secure the rights herein guaranteed. [AMENDMENT 10, 1921 p 79 Section 1. Approved November, 1922.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 1 Section 22 RIGHTS OF ACCUSED PERSONS \u2014 In criminal prosecution, the accused shall have the right to appear and defend in person, and by counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, to have a copy thereof, to testify in his own behalf, to meet the witnesses against him face to face, to have compulsory process to compel the attendance of witnesses in his own behalf, to have a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed, and the right to appeal in all cases; and, in no instance, shall any accused person before final judgment be compelled to advance money or fees to secure the rights herein guaranteed.\nSECTION 23 BILL OF ATTAINDER, EX POST FACTO LAW, ETC. No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligations of contracts shall ever be passed.\nSECTION 25 PROSECUTION BY INFORMATION. Offenses heretofore required to be prosecuted by indictment may be prosecuted by information, or by indictment, as shall be prescribed by law.\nSECTION 26 GRAND JURY. No grand jury shall be drawn or summoned in any county, except the superior judge thereof shall so order.\nSECTION 27 TREASON, DEFINED, ETC. Treason against the state shall consist only in levying war against the state, or adhering to its enemies, or in giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or confession in open court.\nSECTION 28 HEREDITARY PRIVILEGES ABOLISHED. No hereditary emoluments, privileges, or powers, shall be granted or conferred in this state.\nSECTION 29 CONSTITUTION MANDATORY. The provisions of this Constitution are mandatory, unless by express words they are declared to be otherwise.\nSECTION 30 RIGHTS RESERVED. The enumeration in this Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny others retained by the people.\nSECTION 31 STANDING ARMY. No standing army shall be kept up by this state in time of peace, and no soldier shall in time of peace be quartered in any house without the consent of its owner, nor in time of war except in the manner prescribed by law.\nSECTION 32 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES. A frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is essential to the security of individual right and the perpetuity of free government.\nSECTION 33 RECALL OF ELECTIVE OFFICERS. Every elective public officer of the state of Washington expect [except] judges of courts of record is subject to recall and discharge by the legal voters of the state, or of the political subdivision of the state, from which he was elected whenever a petition demanding his recall, reciting that such officer has committed some act or acts of malfeasance or misfeasance while in office, or who has violated his oath of office, stating the matters complained of, signed by the percentages of the qualified electors thereof, hereinafter provided, the percentage required to be computed from the total number of votes cast for all candidates for his said office to which he was elected at the preceding election, is filed with the officer with whom a petition for nomination, or certificate for nomination, to such office must be filed under the laws of this state, and the same officer shall call a special election as provided by the general election laws of this state, and the result determined as therein provided. [AMENDMENT 8, 1911 p 504 Section 1. Approved November, 1912.]\nSECTION 34 SAME. The legislature shall pass the necessary laws to carry out the provisions of section thirty-three (33) of this article, and to facilitate its operation and effect without delay: Provided, That the authority hereby conferred upon the legislature shall not be construed to grant to the legislature any exclusive power of lawmaking nor in any way limit the initiative and referendum powers reserved by the people. The percentages required shall be, state officers, other than judges, senators and representatives, city officers of cities of the first class, school district boards in cities of the first class; county officers of counties of the first, second and third classes, twenty-five per cent. Officers of all other political subdivisions, cities, towns, townships, precincts and school districts not herein mentioned, and state senators and representatives, thirty-five per cent. [AMENDMENT 8, 1911 p 504 Section 1. Approved November, 1912.]\nSECTION 35 VICTIMS OF CRIMES \u2014 RIGHTS. Effective law enforcement depends on cooperation from victims of crime. To ensure victims a meaningful role in the criminal justice system and to accord them due dignity and respect, victims of crime are hereby granted the following basic and fundamental rights.\nUpon notifying the prosecuting attorney, a victim of a crime charged as a felony shall have the right to be informed of and, subject to the discretion of the individual presiding over the trial or court proceedings, attend trial and all other court proceedings the defendant has the right to attend, and to make a statement at sentencing and at any proceeding where the defendant\u2019s release is considered, subject to the same rules of procedure which govern the defendant\u2019s rights. In the event the victim is deceased, incompetent, a minor, or otherwise unavailable, the prosecuting attorney may identify a representative to appear to exercise the victim\u2019s rights. This provision shall not constitute a basis for error in favor of a defendant in a criminal proceeding nor a basis for providing a victim or the victim\u2019s representative with court appointed counsel. [AMENDMENT 84, 1989 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8200, p 2999. Approved November 7, 1989.]\nSECTION 1 LEGISLATIVE POWERS, WHERE VESTED. The legislative authority of the state of Washington shall be vested in the legislature, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, which shall be called the legislature of the state of Washington, but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose bills, laws, and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislature, and also reserve power, at their own option, to approve or reject at the polls any act, item, section, or part of any bill, act, or law passed by the legislature.\n(a) Initiative: The first power reserved by the people is the initiative. Every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. In the case of initiatives to the legislature and initiatives to the people, the number of valid signatures of legal voters required shall be equal to eight percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial election preceding the initial filing of the text of the initiative measure with the secretary of state.\nInitiative petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon, or not less than ten days before any regular session of the legislature. If filed at least four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon, he shall submit the same to the vote of the people at the said election. If such petitions are filed not less than ten days before any regular session of the legislature, he shall certify the results within forty days of the filing. If certification is not complete by the date that the legislature convenes, he shall provisionally certify the measure pending final certification of the measure. Such initiative measures, whether certified or provisionally certified, shall take precedence over all other measures in the legislature except appropriation bills and shall be either enacted or rejected without change or amendment by the legislature before the end of such regular session. If any such initiative measures shall be enacted by the legislature it shall be subject to the referendum petition, or it may be enacted and referred by the legislature to the people for approval or rejection at the next regular election. If it is rejected or if no action is taken upon it by the legislature before the end of such regular session, the secretary of state shall submit it to the people for approval or rejection at the next ensuing regular general election. The legislature may reject any measure so proposed by initiative petition and propose a different one dealing with the same subject, and in such event both measures shall be submitted by the secretary of state to the people for approval or rejection at the next ensuing regular general election. When conflicting measures are submitted to the people the ballots shall be so printed that a voter can express separately by making one cross (X) for each, two preferences, first, as between either measure and neither, and secondly, as between one and the other. If the majority of those voting on the first issue is for neither, both fail, but in that case the votes on the second issue shall nevertheless be carefully counted and made public. If a majority voting on the first issue is for either, then the measure receiving a majority of the votes on the second issue shall be law.\n(b) Referendum. The second power reserved by the people is the referendum, and it may be ordered on any act, bill, law, or any part thereof passed by the legislature, except such laws as may be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, support of the state government and its existing public institutions, either by petition signed by the required percentage of the legal voters, or by the legislature as other bills are enacted: Provided, That the legislature may not order a referendum on any initiative measure enacted by the legislature under the foregoing subsection (a). The number of valid signatures of registered voters required on a petition for referendum of an act of the legislature or any part thereof, shall be equal to or exceeding four percent of the votes cast for the office of governor at the last gubernatorial election preceding the filing of the text of the referendum measure with the secretary of state.\n(c) No act, law, or bill subject to referendum shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted. No act, law, or bill approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon shall be amended or repealed by the legislature within a period of two years following such enactment: Provided, That any such act, law, or bill may be amended within two years after such enactment at any regular or special session of the legislature by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house with full compliance with section 12, Article III, of the Washington Constitution, and no amendatory law adopted in accordance with this provision shall be subject to referendum. But such enactment may be amended or repealed at any general regular or special election by direct vote of the people thereon.\n(d) The filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections, or parts of any act, law, or bill shall not delay the remainder of the measure from becoming operative. Referendum petitions against measures passed by the legislature shall be filed with the secretary of state not later than ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the legislature which passed the measure on which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the governor shall not extend to measures initiated by or referred to the people. All elections on measures referred to the people of the state shall be had at the next succeeding regular general election following the filing of the measure with the secretary of state, except when the legislature shall order a special election. Any measure initiated by the people or referred to the people as herein provided shall take effect and become the law if it is approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon: Provided, That the vote cast upon such question or measure shall equal one-third of the total votes cast at such election and not otherwise. Such measure shall be in operation on and after the thirtieth day after the election at which it is approved. The style of all bills proposed by initiative petition shall be: \u201cBe it enacted by the people of the State of Washington.\u201d This section shall not be construed to deprive any member of the legislature of the right to introduce any measure. All such petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state, who shall be guided by the general laws in submitting the same to the people until additional legislation shall especially provide therefor. This section is self-executing, but legislation may be enacted especially to facilitate its operation.\n(e) The legislature shall provide methods of publicity of all laws or parts of laws, and amendments to the Constitution referred to the people with arguments for and against the laws and amendments so referred. The secretary of state shall send one copy of the publication to each individual place of residence in the state and shall make such additional distribution as he shall determine necessary to reasonably assure that each voter will have an opportunity to study the measures prior to election. [AMENDMENT 72, 1981 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 133, p 1796. Approved November 3, 1981.]\nReferendum procedures regarding salaries: Art. 28 Section 1.\nAmendment 7 (1911) \u2014 Art. 2 Section 1 Legislative Powers, Where Vested \u2014 The legislative authority of the state of Washington shall be vested in the legislature, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, which shall be called the legislature of the state of Washington, but the people reserve to themselves the power to propose bills, laws, and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislature, and also reserve power, at their own option, to approve or reject at the polls any act, item, section or part of any bill, act or law passed by the legislature.\n(a) Initiative: The first power reserved by the people is the initiative. Ten per centum, but in no case more than fifty thousand, of the legal voters shall be required to propose any measure by such petition, and every such petition shall include the full text of the measure so proposed. [Note: Signature requirements were superseded by Art. 2 Sec. 1(a), AMENDMENT 30.] Initiative petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state not less than four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon, or not less than ten days before any regular session of the legislature. If filed at least four months before the election at which they are to be voted upon, he shall submit the same to the vote of the people at the said election. If such petitions are filed not less than ten days before any regular session of the legislature, he shall transmit the same to the legislature as soon as it convenes and organizes. Such initiative measure shall take precedence over all other measures in the legislature except appropriation bills and shall be either enacted or rejected without change or amendment by the legislature before the end of such regular session. If any such initiative measures shall be enacted by the legislature it shall be subject to the referendum petition, or it may be enacted and referred by the legislature to the people for approval or rejection at the next regular election. If it is rejected or if no action is taken upon it by the legislature before the end of such regular session, the secretary of state shall submit it to the people for approval or rejection at the next ensuing regular general election. The legislature may reject any measure so proposed by initiative petition and propose a different one dealing with the same subject, and in such event both measures shall be submitted by the secretary of state to the people for approval or rejection at the next ensuing regular general election. When conflicting measures are submitted to the people the ballots shall be so printed that a voter can express separately by making one cross (X) for each, two preferences, first, as between either measure and neither, and secondly, as between one and the other. If the majority of those voting on the first issue is for neither, both fail, but in that case the votes on the second issue shall nevertheless be carefully counted and made public. If a majority voting on the first issue is for either, then the measure receiving a majority of the votes on the second issue shall be law.\n(b) Referendum. The second power reserved by the people is the referendum, and it may be ordered on any act, bill, law, or any part thereof passed by the legislature, except such laws as may be necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health or safety, support of the state government and its existing public institutions, either by petition signed by the required percentage of the legal voters, or by the legislature as other bills are enacted. Six per centum, but in no case more than thirty thousand, of the legal voters shall be required to sign and make a valid referendum petition. [Note: Signature requirements were superseded by Art. 2 Sec. 1(a), AMENDMENT 30.]\n(c) No act, law, or bill subject to referendum shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted. No act, law, or bill approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon shall be amended or repealed by the legislature within a period of two years following such enactment. But such enactment may be amended or repealed at any general regular or special election by direct vote of the people thereon. [Note: Subsection (c) was expressly superseded by Art. 2 Sec. 41, AMENDMENT 26.]\n(d) The filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections or parts of any act, law or bill shall not delay the remainder of the measure from becoming operative. Referendum petitions against measures passed by the legislature shall be filed with the secretary of state not later than ninety days after the final adjournment of the session of the legislature which passed the measure on which the referendum is demanded. The veto power of the governor shall not extend to measures initiated by or referred to the people. All elections on measures referred to the people of the state shall be had at the biennial regular elections, except when the legislature shall order a special election. Any measure initiated by the people or referred to the people as herein provided shall take effect and become the law if it is approved by a majority of the votes cast thereon: Provided, That the vote cast upon such question or measure shall equal one-third of the total votes cast at such election and not otherwise. Such measure shall be in operation on and after the thirtieth day after the election at which it is approved. The style of all bills proposed by initiative petition shall be: \u201cBe it enacted by the people of the State of Washington.\u201d This section shall not be construed to deprive any member of the legislature of the right to introduce any measure. The whole number of electors who voted for governor at the regular gubernatorial election last preceding the filing of any petition for the initiative or for the referendum shall be the basis on which the number of legal voters necessary to sign such petition shall be counted.[Note: Cf. Art. 2 Sec. 1(a), AMENDMENT 30.] All such petitions shall be filed with the secretary of state, who shall be guided by the general laws in submitting the same to the people until additional legislation shall especially provide therefor. This section is self-executing, but legislation may be enacted especially to facilitate its operation.\nThe legislature shall provide methods of publicity of all laws or parts of laws, and amendments to the Constitution referred to the people with arguments for and against the laws and amendments so referred, so that each voter of the state shall receive the publication at least fifty days before the election at which they are to be voted upon. [Note: This paragraph was expressly superseded by subsection (e) of this section, which was added by AMENDMENT 36.]\n(e) The legislature shall provide methods of publicity of all laws or parts of laws, and amendments to the Constitution referred to the people with arguments for and against the laws and amendments so referred. The secretary of state shall send one copy of the publication to each individual place of residence in the state and shall make such additional distribution as he shall determine necessary to reasonably assure that each voter will have an opportunity to study the measures prior to election. These provisions supersede the provisions set forth in the last paragraph of section 1 of this article as amended by the seventh amendment to the Constitution of this state. [AMENDMENT 7, 1911 House Bill No. 153 p 136. Approved November, 1912; Subsection (e) added by AMENDMENT 36, 1961 Senate Joint Resolution No. 9, p 2751. Approved November, 1962.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 1 LEGISLATIVE POWERS, WHERE VESTED \u2014 The legislative powers shall be vested in a senate and house of representatives, which shall be called the legislature of the State of Washington.\nNote: Art. 2 Sec. 31 was also stricken by AMENDMENT 7.\nSECTION 1(a) INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, SIGNATURES REQUIRED. [Stricken by AMENDMENT 72, 1981 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 133, p 1796. Approved November 3, 1981.]\nAmendment 30 (1956) \u2014 Art. 2 Section 1(a) INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, SIGNATURES REQUIRED \u2014 Hereafter, the number of valid signatures of legal voters required upon a petition for an initiative measure shall be equal to eight per centum of the number of voters registered and voting for the office of governor at the last preceding regular gubernatorial election. Hereafter, the number of valid signatures of legal voters required upon a petition for a referendum of an act of the legislature or any part thereof, shall be equal to four per centum of the number of voters registered and voting for the office of governor at the last preceding regular gubernatorial election. These provisions supersede the requirements specified in section 1 of this article as amended by the seventh amendment to the Constitution of this state. [AMENDMENT 30, 1955 Senate Joint Resolution No. 4, p 1860. Approved November 6, 1956.]\nSECTION 2 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATE. The house of representatives shall be composed of not less than sixty-three nor more than ninety-nine members. The number of senators shall not be more than one-half nor less than one-third of the number of members of the house of representatives. The first legislature shall be composed of seventy members of the house of representatives, and thirty-five senators.\nSECTION 3 THE CENSUS. [Repealed by AMENDMENT 74, 1983 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 103, p 2202. Approved November 8, 1983.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 3 THE CENSUS \u2014 The legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the state in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five and every ten years thereafter; and at the first session after such enumeration, and also after each enumeration made by the authority of the United States, the legislature shall apportion and district anew the members of the senate and house of representatives, according to the number of inhabitants, excluding Indians not taxed, soldiers, sailors and officers of the United States army and navy in active service.\nSECTION 4 ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES AND TERM OF OFFICE. Members of the house of representatives shall be elected in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine at the time and in the manner provided by this Constitution, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year and until their successors shall be elected.\nSECTION 5 ELECTIONS, WHEN TO BE HELD. The next election of the members of the house of representatives after the adoption of this Constitution shall be on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, eighteen hundred and ninety, and thereafter, members of the house of representatives shall be elected biennially and their term of office shall be two years; and each election shall be on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, unless otherwise changed by law.\nSECTION 6 ELECTION AND TERM OF OFFICE OF SENATORS. After the first election the senators shall be elected by single districts of convenient and contiguous territory, at the same time and in the same manner as members of the house of representatives are required to be elected; and no representative district shall be divided in the formation of a senatorial district. They shall be elected for the term of four years, one-half of their number retiring every two years. The senatorial districts shall be numbered consecutively, and the senators chosen at the first election had by virtue of this Constitution, in odd numbered districts, shall go out of office at the end of the first year; and the senators, elected in the even numbered districts, shall go out of office at the end of the third year.\nSECTION 7 QUALIFICATIONS OF LEGISLATORS. No person shall be eligible to the legislature who shall not be a citizen of the United States and a qualified voter in the district for which he is chosen.\nSECTION 8 JUDGES OF THEIR OWN ELECTION AND QUALIFICATION \u2013 QUORUM. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day and may compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each house may provide.\nGovernmental continuity during emergency periods: Art. 2 Section 42.\nSECTION 9 RULES OF PROCEDURE. Each house may determine the rules of its own proceedings, punish for contempt and disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members elected, expel a member, but no member shall be expelled a second time for the same offense.\nSECTION 10 ELECTION OF OFFICERS. Each house shall elect its own officers; and when the lieutenant governor shall not attend as president, or shall act as governor, the senate shall choose a temporary president. When presiding, the lieutenant governor shall have the deciding vote in case of an equal division of the senate.\nSECTION 11 JOURNAL, PUBLICITY OF MEETINGS \u2013 ADJOURNMENTS. Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings and publish the same, except such parts as require secrecy. The doors of each house shall be kept open, except when the public welfare shall require secrecy. Neither house shall adjourn for more than three days, nor to any place other than that in which they may be sitting, without the consent of the other.\nSECTION 12 SESSIONS, WHEN \u2014 DURATION. (1) Regular Sessions. A regular session of the legislature shall be convened each year. Regular sessions shall convene on such day and at such time as the legislature shall determine by statute. During each odd-numbered year, the regular session shall not be more than one hundred five consecutive days. During each even-numbered year, the regular session shall not be more than sixty consecutive days.\n(2) Special Legislative Sessions. Special legislative sessions may be convened for a period of not more than thirty consecutive days by proclamation of the governor pursuant to Article III, section 7 of this Constitution. Special legislative sessions may also be convened for a period of not more than thirty consecutive days by resolution of the legislature upon the affirmative vote in each house of two-thirds of the members elected or appointed thereto, which vote may be taken and resolution executed either while the legislature is in session or during any interim between sessions in accordance with such procedures as the legislature may provide by law or resolution. The resolution convening the legislature shall specify a purpose or purposes for the convening of a special session, and any special session convened by the resolution shall consider only measures germane to the purpose or purposes expressed in the resolution, unless by resolution adopted during the session upon the affirmative vote in each house of two-thirds of the members elected or appointed thereto, an additional purpose or purposes are expressed. The specification of purpose by the governor pursuant to Article III, section 7 of this Constitution shall be considered by the legislature but shall not be mandatory.\n(3) Committees of the Legislature. Standing and special committees of the legislature shall meet and conduct official business pursuant to such rules as the legislature may adopt. [AMENDMENT 68, 1979 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 110, p 2286. Approved November 6, 1979.]\nExtraordinary sessions to reconsider vetoes: Art. 3 Section 12.\nSessions to convene on the second Monday in January.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 12 SESSIONS, WHEN \u2014 DURATION \u2014 The first legislature shall meet on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in November, A. D., 1889. The second legislature shall meet on the first Wednesday after the first Monday in January, A. D., 1891, and sessions of the legislature shall be held biennially thereafter, unless specially convened by the governor, but the times of meeting of subsequent sessions may be changed by the legislature. After the first legislature the sessions shall not be more than sixty days.\nSECTION 13 LIMITATION ON MEMBERS HOLDING OFFICE IN THE STATE. No member of the legislature, during the term for which he is elected, shall be appointed or elected to any civil office in the state, which shall have been created during the term for which he was elected. Any member of the legislature who is appointed or elected to any civil office in the state, the emoluments of which have been increased during his legislative term of office, shall be compensated for the initial term of the civil office at the level designated prior to the increase in emoluments. [AMENDMENT 69, 1979 Senate Joint Resolution No. 112, p 2287. Approved November 6, 1979.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art 2 Section 13 LIMITATION ON MEMBERS HOLDING OFFICE IN THE STATE \u2014 No member of the legislature, during the term for which he is elected, shall be appointed or elected to any civil office in the state, which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased, during the term for which he was elected.\nSECTION 14 SAME, FEDERAL OR OTHER OFFICE. No person, being a member of congress, or holding any civil or military office under the United States or any other power, shall be eligible to be a member of the legislature; and if any person after his election as a member of the legislature, shall be elected to congress or be appointed to any other office, civil or military, under the government of the United States, or any other power, his acceptance thereof shall vacate his seat, provided, that officers in the militia of the state who receive no annual salary, local officers and postmasters, whose compensation does not exceed three hundred dollars per annum, shall not be ineligible.\nSECTION 15 VACANCIES IN LEGISLATURE AND IN PARTISAN COUNTY ELECTIVE OFFICE. Such vacancies as may occur in either house of the legislature or in any partisan county elective office shall be filled by appointment by the county legislative authority of the county in which the vacancy occurs: Provided, That the person appointed to fill the vacancy must be from the same legislative district, county, or county commissioner or council district and the same political party as the legislator or partisan county elective officer whose office has been vacated, and shall be one of three persons who shall be nominated by the county central committee of that party, and in case a majority of the members of the county legislative authority do not agree upon the appointment within sixty days after the vacancy occurs, the governor shall within thirty days thereafter, and from the list of nominees provided for herein, appoint a person who shall be from the same legislative district, county, or county commissioner or council district and of the same political party as the legislator or partisan county elective officer whose office has been vacated, and the person so appointed shall hold office until his or her successor is elected at the next general election, and has qualified: Provided, That in case of a vacancy occurring after the general election in a year that the office appears on the ballot and before the start of the next term, the term of the successor who is of the same party as the incumbent may commence once he or she has qualified and shall continue through the term for which he or she was elected: Provided, That in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of joint senator, or joint representative, the vacancy shall be filled from a list of three nominees selected by the state central committee, by appointment by the joint action of the boards of county legislative authorities of the counties composing the joint senatorial or joint representative district, the person appointed to fill the vacancy must be from the same legislative district and of the same political party as the legislator whose office has been vacated, and in case a majority of the members of the county legislative authority do not agree upon the appointment within sixty days after the vacancy occurs, the governor shall within thirty days thereafter, and from the list of nominees provided for herein, appoint a person who shall be from the same legislative district and of the same political party as the legislator whose office has been vacated. [AMENDMENT 96, 2003 House Joint Resolution No. 4206, p 2819. Approved November 4, 2003.]\nVacancies in county, etc., offices, how filled: Art. 11 Section 6.\nAmendment 52, part (1967) \u2014 Art. 2 Section 15 VACANCIES IN LEGISLATURE AND IN PARTISAN COUNTY ELECTIVE OFFICE \u2014Such vacancies as may occur in either house of the legislature or in any partisan county elective office shall be filled by appointment by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the vacancy occurs: Provided, That the person appointed to fill the vacancy must be from the same legislative district, county or county commissioner district and the same political party as the legislator or partisan county elective officer whose office has been vacated, and shall be one of three persons who shall be nominated by the county central committee of that party, and in case a majority of said county commissioners do not agree upon the appointment within sixty days after the vacancy occurs, the governor shall within thirty days thereafter, and from the list of nominees provided for herein, appoint a person who shall be from the same legislative district, county or county commissioner district and of the same political party as the legislator or partisan county elective officer whose office has been vacated, and the person so appointed shall hold office until his successor is elected at the next general election, and shall have qualified: Provided, That in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of joint senator, or joint representative, the vacancy shall be filled from a list of three nominees selected by the state central committee, by appointment by the joint action of the boards of county commissioners of the counties composing the joint senatorial or joint representative district, the person appointed to fill the vacancy must be from the same legislative district and of the same political party as the legislator whose office has been vacated, and in case a majority of said county commissioners do not agree upon the appointment within sixty days after the vacancy occurs, the governor shall within thirty days thereafter, and from the list of nominees provided for herein, appoint a person who shall be from the same legislative district and of the same political party as the legislator whose office has been vacated.[AMENDMENT 52, part, 1967 Senate Joint Resolution No. 24, part; see 1969 p 2976. Approved November 5, 1968.]\nAmendment 32 (1956) \u2014 Art. 2 Section 15 VACANCIES IN LEGISLATURE AND IN PARTISAN COUNTY ELECTIVE OFFICE \u2014 Such vacancies as may occur in either house of the legislature or in any partisan county elective office shall be filled by appointment by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the vacancy occurs: Provided, That the person appointed to fill the vacancy must be from the same legislative district and the same political party as the legislator whose office has been vacated, and shall be one of three persons who shall be nominated by the county central committee of that party, and the person so appointed shall hold office until his successor is elected at the next general election, and shall have qualified:\nProvided, That in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of joint senator, or joint representative, the vacancy shall be filled from a list of three nominees selected by the state central committee, by appointment by the joint action of the boards of county commissioners of the counties composing the joint senatorial or joint representative district, the person appointed to fill the vacancy must be from the same legislative district and of the same political party as the legislator whose office has been vacated, and in case a majority of said county commissioners do not agree upon the appointment within sixty days after the vacancy occurs, the governor shall within thirty days thereafter, and from the list of nominees provided for herein, appoint a person who shall be from the same legislative district and of the same political party as the legislator whose office has been vacated. [AMENDMENT 32, 1955 Senate Joint Resolution No. 14, p 1862. Approved November 6, 1956.]\nAmendment 13 (1930) \u2014 Art. 2 Section 15 VACANCIES IN LEGISLATURE \u2014 Such vacancies as may occur in either house of the legislature shall be filled by appointment by the board of county commissioners of the county in which the vacancy occurs, and the person so appointed shall hold office until his successor is elected at the next general election, and shall have qualified: Provided, That in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of joint senator, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the joint action of the boards of county commissioners of the counties composing the joint senatorial district. [AMENDMENT 13, 1929 p 690. Approved November, 1930.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 15 WRITS OF ELECTION TO FILL VACANCIES \u2014 The governor shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies as may occur in either house of the legislature.\nSECTION 16 PRIVILEGES FROM ARREST. Members of the legislature shall be privileged from arrest in all cases except treason, felony and breach of the peace; they shall not be subject to any civil process during the session of the legislature, nor for fifteen days next before the commencement of each session.\nSECTION 17 FREEDOM OF DEBATE. No member of the legislature shall be liable in any civil action or criminal prosecution whatever, for words spoken in debate.\nSECTION 18 STYLE OF LAWS. The style of the laws of the state shall be: \u201cBe it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington.\u201d And no laws shall be enacted except by bill.\nSECTION 19 BILL TO CONTAIN ONE SUBJECT. No bill shall embrace more than one subject, and that shall be expressed in the title.\nSECTION 20 ORIGIN AND AMENDMENT OF BILLS. Any bill may originate in either house of the legislature, and a bill passed by one house may be amended in the other.\nSECTION 21 YEAS AND NAYS. The yeas and nays of the members of either house shall be entered on the journal, on the demand of one-sixth of the members present.\nSECTION 22 PASSAGE OF BILLS. No bill shall become a law unless on its final passage the vote be taken by yeas and nays, the names of the members voting for and against the same be entered on the journal of each house, and a majority of the members elected to each house be recorded thereon as voting in its favor.\nSECTION 23 COMPENSATION OF MEMBERS. Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services five dollars for each day\u2019s attendance during the session, and ten cents for every mile he shall travel in going to and returning from the place of meeting of the legislature, on the most usual route.\nCompensation of legislators, elected state officials, and judges: Art. 28 Section 1, Art. 30.\nSECTION 24 LOTTERIES AND DIVORCE. The legislature shall never grant any divorce. Lotteries shall be prohibited except as specifically authorized upon the affirmative vote of sixty percent of the members of each house of the legislature or, notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, by referendum or initiative approved by a sixty percent affirmative vote of the electors voting thereon. [AMENDMENT 56, 1971 Senate Joint Resolution No. 5, p 1828. Approved November 7, 1972.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 24 LOTTERIES AND DIVORCE \u2014 The legislature shall never authorize any lottery or grant any divorce.\nSECTION 25 EXTRA COMPENSATION PROHIBITED. The legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any public officer, agent, employee, servant, or contractor, after the services shall have been rendered, or the contract entered into, nor shall the compensation of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term of office. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prevent increases in pensions after such pensions shall have been granted. [AMENDMENT 35, 1957 Senate Joint Resolution No. 18, p 1301. Approved November 4, 1958.]\nCompensation of legislators, elected state officials, and judges: Art. 28 Section 1.\nIncrease during term of certain officers, authorized: Art. 30 Section 1.\nIncrease or diminution of compensation during term of office prohibited.\ncounty, city, town or municipal officers: Art. 11 Section 8.\njudicial officers: Art. 4 Section 13.\nstate officers: Art. 3 Section 25.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 25 EXTRA COMPENSATION, PROHIBITED \u2014 The legislature shall never grant any extra compensation to any public officer, agent, servant, or contractor, after the services shall have been rendered, or the contract entered into, nor shall the compensation of any public officer be increased or diminished during his term of office.\nSECTION 26 SUITS AGAINST THE STATE. The legislature shall direct by law, in what manner, and in what courts, suits may be brought against the state.\nSECTION 27 ELECTIONS \u2014 VIVA VOCE VOTE. In all elections by the legislature the members shall vote viva voce, and their votes shall be entered on the journal.\nSECTION 28 SPECIAL LEGISLATION. The legislature is prohibited from enacting any private or special laws in the following cases:\n1. For changing the names of persons, or constituting one person the heir at law of another.\n2. For laying out, opening or altering highways, except in cases of state roads extending into more than one county, and military roads to aid in the construction of which lands shall have been or may be granted by congress.\n3. For authorizing persons to keep ferries wholly within this state.\n4. For authorizing the sale or mortgage of real or personal property of minors, or others under disability.\n5. For assessment or collection of taxes, or for extending the time for collection thereof.\n6. For granting corporate powers or privileges.\n7. For authorizing the apportionment of any part of the school fund.\n8. For incorporating any town or village or to amend the charter thereof.\n9. From giving effect to invalid deeds, wills or other instruments.\n10. Releasing or extinguishing in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or other obligation, of any person, or corporation to this state, or to any municipal corporation therein.\n11. Declaring any person of age or authorizing any minor to sell, lease, or encumber his or her property.\n12. Legalizing, except as against the state, the unauthorized or invalid act of any officer.\n13. Regulating the rates of interest on money.\n14. Remitting fines, penalties or forfeitures.\n16. Authorizing the adoption of children.\n17. For limitation of civil or criminal actions.\n18. Changing county lines, locating or changing county seats, provided, this shall not be construed to apply to the creation of new counties.\nCorporations for municipal purposes shall not be created by special laws: Art. 11 Section 10.\nSECTION 29 CONVICT LABOR. The labor of inmates of this state shall not be let out by contract to any person, copartnership, company, or corporation, except as provided by statute, and the legislature shall by law provide for the working of inmates for the benefit of the state, including the working of inmates in state-run inmate labor programs. Inmate labor programs provided by statute that are operated and managed, in total or in part, by any profit or nonprofit entities shall be operated so that the programs do not unfairly compete with Washington businesses as determined by law. [AMENDMENT 100, 2007 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8212, p 3143. Approved November 6, 2007.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 29 CONVICT LABOR \u2014 After the first day of January eighteen hundred and ninety the labor of convicts of this state shall not be let out by contract to any person, copartnership, company or corporation, and the legislature shall by law provide for the working of convicts for the benefit of the state.\nSECTION 30 BRIBERY OR CORRUPT SOLICITATION. The offense of corrupt solicitation of members of the legislature, or of public officers of the state or any municipal division thereof, and any occupation or practice of solicitation of such members or officers to influence their official action, shall be defined by law, and shall be punished by fine and imprisonment. Any person may be compelled to testify in any lawful investigation or judicial proceeding against any person who may be charged with having committed the offense of bribery or corrupt solicitation, or practice of solicitation, and shall not be permitted to withhold his testimony on the ground that it may criminate himself or subject him to public infamy, but such testimony shall not afterwards be used against him in any judicial proceeding \u2013 except for perjury in giving such testimony \u2013 and any person convicted of either of the offenses aforesaid, shall as part of the punishment therefor, be disqualified from ever holding any position of honor, trust or profit in this state. A member who has a private interest in any bill or measure proposed or pending before the legislature, shall disclose the fact to the house of which he is a member, and shall not vote thereon.\nSECTION 31 LAWS, WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT. [This section stricken by AMENDMENT 7, 1911 House Bill No. 153, p 136. Approved November, 1912.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 31 LAWS, WHEN TO TAKE EFFECT \u2014 No law, except appropriation bills, shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted, unless in case of an emergency (which emergency must be expressed in the preamble or in the body of the act) the legislature shall otherwise direct by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house; said vote to be taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journals.\nEffective dates of laws: Art. 2 Sections 1 and 41.\nSECTION 32 LAWS, HOW SIGNED. No bill shall become a law until the same shall have been signed by the presiding officer of each of the two houses in open session, and under such rules as the legislature shall prescribe.\nSECTION 33 ALIEN OWNERSHIP. [Repealed by AMENDMENT 42, 1965 ex.s. Senate Joint Resolution No. 20, p 2816. Approved November 8, 1966.]\nAmendment 29 (1954) \u2014 Art. 2 Section 33 ALIEN OWNERSHIP \u2014The ownership of lands by aliens, other than those who in good faith have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, is prohibited in this state, except where acquired by inheritance, under mortgage or in good faith in the ordinary course of justice in the collection of debts; and all conveyances of lands hereafter made to any alien directly, or in trust for such alien, shall be void: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to lands containing valuable deposits of minerals, metals, iron, coal, or fire clay, and the necessary land for mills and machinery to be used in the development thereof and the manufacture of the products therefrom: And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to the citizens of such of the Provinces of the Dominion of Canada as do not expressly or by implication prohibit ownership of provincial lands by citizens of this state. [AMENDMENT 29, 1953 House Joint Resolution No. 16, p 853. Approved November 2, 1954.]\nAmendment 24 (1950) \u2014 Art. 2 Section 33 ALIEN OWNERSHIP \u2014 The ownership of lands by aliens, other than those who in good faith have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, is prohibited in this state, except where acquired by inheritance, under mortgage or in good faith in the ordinary course of justice in the collection of debts; and all conveyances of lands hereafter made to any alien directly, or in trust for such alien, shall be void: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to lands containing valuable deposits of minerals, metals, iron, coal, or fire clay, and the necessary land for mills and machinery to be used in the development thereof and the manufacture of the products therefrom: And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to the citizens of such of the Provinces of the Dominion of Canada as do not expressly or by implication prohibit ownership of provincial lands by citizens of this state. Every corporation, the majority of the capital stock of which is owned by aliens, shall be considered an alien for the purposes of this prohibition. [AMENDMENT 24, 1949 Senate Joint Resolution No. 9, p 999. Approved November, 1950.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 2 Section 33 OWNERSHIP OF LANDS BY ALIENS, PROHIBITED \u2014 Exceptions \u2014 The ownership of lands by aliens, other than those who in good faith have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, is prohibited in this state, except where acquired by inheritance, under mortgage or in good faith in the ordinary course of justice in the collection of debts; and all conveyances of lands hereafter made to any alien directly or in trust for such alien shall be void: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to lands containing valuable deposits of minerals, metals, iron, coal, or fire-clay, and the necessary land for mills and machinery to be used in the development thereof and the manufacture of the products therefrom. Every corporation, the majority of the capital stock of which is owned by aliens, shall be considered on alien for the purposes of this prohibition.\nSECTION 34 BUREAU OF STATISTICS, AGRICULTURE AND IMMIGRATION. There shall be established in the office of the secretary of state, a bureau of statistics, agriculture and immigration, under such regulations as the legislature may provide.\nSECTION 35 PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES. The legislature shall pass necessary laws for the protection of persons working in mines, factories and other employments dangerous to life or deleterious to health; and fix pains and penalties for the enforcement of the same.\nSECTION 36 WHEN BILLS MUST BE INTRODUCED. No bill shall be considered in either house unless the time of its introduction shall have been at least ten days before the final adjournment of the legislature, unless the legislature shall otherwise direct by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, said vote to be taken by yeas and nays and entered upon the journal, or unless the same be at a special session.\nSECTION 37 REVISION OR AMENDMENT. No act shall ever be revised or amended by mere reference to its title, but the act revised or the section amended shall be set forth at full length.\nSECTION 38 LIMITATION ON AMENDMENTS. No amendment to any bill shall be allowed which shall change the scope and object of the bill.\nSECTION 39 FREE TRANSPORTATION TO PUBLIC OFFICER PROHIBITED. It shall not be lawful for any person holding public office in this state to accept or use a pass or to purchase transportation from any railroad or other corporation, other than as the same may be purchased by the general public, and the legislature shall pass laws to enforce this provision.\nSECTION 40 HIGHWAY FUNDS. All fees collected by the State of Washington as license fees for motor vehicles and all excise taxes collected by the State of Washington on the sale, distribution or use of motor vehicle fuel and all other state revenue intended to be used for highway purposes, shall be paid into the state treasury and placed in a special fund to be used exclusively for highway purposes. Such highway purposes shall be construed to include the following:\n(a) The necessary operating, engineering and legal expenses connected with the administration of public highways, county roads and city streets;\n(b) The construction, reconstruction, maintenance, repair, and betterment of public highways, county roads, bridges and city streets; including the cost and expense of (1) acquisition of rights-of-way, (2) installing, maintaining and operating traffic signs and signal lights, (3) policing by the state of public highways, (4) operation of movable span bridges, (5) operation of ferries which are a part of any public highway, county road, or city street;\n(c) The payment or refunding of any obligation of the State of Washington, or any political subdivision thereof, for which any of the revenues described in section 1 may have been legally pledged prior to the effective date of this act;\n(d) Refunds authorized by law for taxes paid on motor vehicle fuels;\n(e) The cost of collection of any revenues described in this section:\nProvided, That this section shall not be construed to include revenue from general or special taxes or excises not levied primarily for highway purposes, or apply to vehicle operator\u2019s license fees or any excise tax imposed on motor vehicles or the use thereof in lieu of a property tax thereon, or fees for certificates of ownership of motor vehicles. [AMENDMENT 18, 1943 House Joint Resolution No. 4, p 938. Approved November, 1944.]\nSECTION 41 LAWS, EFFECTIVE DATE, INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM \u2013AMENDMENT OR REPEAL. No act, law, or bill subject to referendum shall take effect until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted. No act, law or bill approved by a majority of the electors voting thereon shall be amended or repealed by the legislature within a period of two years following such enactment: Provided, That any such act, law or bill may be amended within two years after such enactment at any regular or special session of the legislature by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house with full compliance with section 12, Article III, of the Washington Constitution, and no amendatory law adopted in accordance with this provision shall be subject to referendum. But such enactment may be amended or repealed at any general regular or special election by direct vote of the people thereon. These provisions supersede the provisions of subsection (c) of section 1 of this article as amended by the seventh amendment to the Constitution of this state. [AMENDMENT 26, 1951 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 7, p 959. Approved November 4, 1952.]\nReviser\u2019s note: (1) In third sentence, comma between \u201cgeneral\u201d and \u201cregular\u201d omitted in conformity with enrolled resolution.\n(2) Subsection (c) of section 1 of this article was amended by Amendment 72, approved November 3, 1981.\nSECTION 42 GOVERNMENTAL CONTINUITY DURING EMERGENCY PERIODS. The legislature, in order to insure continuity of state and local governmental operations in periods of emergency resulting from enemy attack, shall have the power and the duty, immediately upon and after adoption of this amendment, to enact legislation providing for prompt and temporary succession to the powers and duties of public offices of whatever nature and whether filled by election or appointment, the incumbents and legal successors of which may become unavailable for carrying on the powers and duties of such offices; the legislature shall likewise enact such other measures as may be necessary and proper for insuring the continuity of governmental operations during such emergencies. Legislation enacted under the powers conferred by this amendment shall in all respects conform to the remainder of the Constitution: Provided, That if, in the judgment of the legislature at the time of disaster, conformance to the provisions of the Constitution would be impracticable or would admit of undue delay, such legislation may depart during the period of emergency caused by enemy attack only, from the following sections of the Constitution:\nArticle 14, Sections 1 and 2, Seat of Government;\nArticle 2, Sections 8, 15 (Amendments 13 and 32), and 22, Membership, Quorum of Legislature and Passage of Bills;\nArticle 3, Section 10 (Amendment 6), Succession to Governorship: Provided, That the legislature shall not depart from Section 10, Article III, as amended by Amendment 6, of the state Constitution relating to the Governor\u2019s office so long as any successor therein named is available and capable of assuming the powers and duties of such office as therein prescribed;\nArticle 3, Section 13, Vacancies in State Offices;\nArticle 11, Section 6, Vacancies in County Offices;\nArticle 11, Section 2, Seat of County Government;\nArticle 3, Section 24, State Records. [AMENDMENT 39, 1961 House Joint Resolution No. 9, p 2758. Approved November, 1962.]\nContinuity of government act: Chapter 42.14 RCW.\nSECTION 43 REDISTRICTING. (1) In January of each year ending in one, a commission shall be established to provide for the redistricting of state legislative and congressional districts.\n(2) The commission shall be composed of five members to be selected as follows: The legislative leader of the two largest political parties in each house of the legislature shall appoint one voting member to the commission by January 15th of each year ending in one. By January 31st of each year ending in one, the four appointed members, by an affirmative vote of at least three, shall appoint the remaining member. The fifth member of the commission, who shall be nonvoting, shall act as its chairperson. If any appointing authority fails to make the required appointment by the date established by this subsection, within five days after that date the supreme court shall make the required appointment.\n(3) No elected official and no person elected to legislative district, county, or state political party office may serve on the commission. A commission member shall not have been an elected official and shall not have been an elected legislative district, county, or state political party officer within two years of his or her appointment to the commission. The provisions of this subsection do not apply to the office of precinct committee person.\n(4) The legislature shall enact laws providing for the implementation of this section, to include additional qualifications for commissioners and additional standards to govern the commission. The legislature shall appropriate funds to enable the commission to carry out its duties.\n(5) Each district shall contain a population, excluding nonresident military personnel, as nearly equal as practicable to the population of any other district. To the extent reasonable, each district shall contain contiguous territory, shall be compact and convenient, and shall be separated from adjoining districts by natural geographic barriers, artificial barriers, or political subdivision boundaries. The commission\u2019s plan shall not provide for a number of legislative districts different than that established by the legislature. The commission\u2019s plan shall not be drawn purposely to favor or discriminate against any political party or group.\n(6) The commission shall complete redistricting as soon as possible following the federal decennial census, but no later than January 1st of each year ending in two. At least three of the voting members shall approve such a redistricting plan. If three of the voting members of the commission fail to approve a plan within the time limitations provided in this subsection, the supreme court shall adopt a plan by April 30th of the year ending in two in conformance with the standards set forth in subsection (5) of this section.\n(7) The legislature may amend the redistricting plan but must do so by a two-thirds vote of the legislators elected or appointed to each house of the legislature. Any amendment must have passed both houses by the end of the thirtieth day of the first session convened after the commission has submitted its plan to the legislature. After that day, the plan, with any legislative amendments, constitutes the state districting law.\n(8) The legislature shall enact laws providing for the reconvening of a commission for the purpose of modifying a districting law adopted under this section. Such reconvening requires a two-thirds vote of the legislators elected or appointed to each house of the legislature. The commission shall conform to the standards prescribed under subsection (5) of this section and any other standards or procedures that the legislature may provide by law. At least three of the voting members shall approve such a modification. Any modification adopted by the commission may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the legislators elected and appointed to each house of the legislature. The state districting law shall include the modifications with amendments, if any.\n(9) The legislature shall prescribe by law the terms of commission members and the method of filling vacancies on the commission.\n(10) The supreme court has original jurisdiction to hear and decide all cases involving congressional and legislative redistricting.\n(11) Legislative and congressional districts may not be changed or established except pursuant to this section. A districting plan and any legislative amendments to the plan are not subject to Article III, section 12 of this Constitution. [AMENDMENT 74, 1983 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 103, p 2202. Approved November 8, 1983.]\nSECTION 1 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. The executive department shall consist of a governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, and a commissioner of public lands, who shall be severally chosen by the qualified electors of the state at the same time and place of voting as for the members of the legislature.\nSECTION 2 GOVERNOR, TERM OF OFFICE. The supreme executive power of this state shall be vested in a governor, who shall hold his office for a term of four years, and until his successor is elected and qualified.\nSECTION 3 OTHER EXECUTIVE OFFICERS, TERMS OF OFFICE. The lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, and commissioner of public lands, shall hold their offices for four years respectively, and until their successors are elected and qualified.\nSECTION 4 RETURNS OF ELECTIONS, CANVASS, ETC. The returns of every election for the officers named in the first section of this article shall be sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government by the returning officers, directed to the secretary of state, who shall deliver the same to the speaker of the house of representatives at the first meeting of the house thereafter, who shall open, publish and declare the result thereof in the presence of a majority of the members of both houses. The person having the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected, and a certificate thereof shall be given to such person, signed by the presiding officers of both houses; but if any two or more shall be highest and equal in votes for the same office, one of them shall be chosen by the joint vote of both houses. Contested elections for such officers shall be decided by the legislature in such manner as shall be determined by law. The terms of all officers named in section one of this article shall commence on the second Monday in January after their election until otherwise provided by law.\nSECTION 5 GENERAL DUTIES OF GOVERNOR. The governor may require information in writing from the officers of the state upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices, and shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.\nSECTION 6 MESSAGES. He shall communicate at every session by message to the legislature the condition of the affairs of the state, and recommend such measures as he shall deem expedient for their action.\nSECTION 7 EXTRA LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS. He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the legislature by proclamation, in which shall be stated the purposes for which the legislature is convened.\nSECTION 8 COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. He shall be commander-in-chief of the military in the state except when they shall be called into the service of the United States.\nSECTION 9 PARDONING POWER. The pardoning power shall be vested in the governor under such regulations and restrictions as may be prescribed by law.\nSECTION 10 VACANCY IN OFFICE OF GOVERNOR. In case of the removal, resignation, death or disability of the governor, the duties of the office shall devolve upon the lieutenant governor; and in case of a vacancy in both the offices of governor and lieutenant governor, the duties of the governor shall devolve upon the secretary of state. In addition to the line of succession to the office and duties of governor as hereinabove indicated, if the necessity shall arise, in order to fill the vacancy in the office of governor, the following state officers shall succeed to the duties of governor and in the order named, viz.: Treasurer, auditor, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction and commissioner of public lands. In case of the death, disability, failure or refusal of the person regularly elected to the office of governor to qualify at the time provided by law, the duties of the office shall devolve upon the person regularly elected to and qualified for the office of lieutenant governor, who shall act as governor until the disability be removed, or a governor be elected; and in case of the death, disability, failure or refusal of both the governor and the lieutenant governor elect to qualify, the duties of the governor shall devolve upon the secretary of state; and in addition to the line of succession to the office and duties of governor as hereinabove indicated, if there shall be the failure or refusal of any officer named above to qualify, and if the necessity shall arise by reason thereof, then in that event in order to fill the vacancy in the office of governor, the following state officers shall succeed to the duties of governor in the order named, viz: Treasurer, auditor, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction and commissioner of public lands. Any person succeeding to the office of governor as in this section provided, shall perform the duties of such office only until the disability be removed, or a governor be elected and qualified; and if a vacancy occur more than thirty days before the next general election occurring within two years after the commencement of the term, a person shall be elected at such election to fill the office of governor for the remainder of the unexpired term. [AMENDMENT 6, 1909 p 642 Section 1. Approved November, 1910.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 3 Section 10 VACANCY IN \u2014 In case of the removal, resignation, death, or disability of the governor, the duties of the office shall devolve upon the lieutenant governor, and in case of a vacancy in both the offices of governor and lieutenant governor, the duties of governor shall devolve upon the secretary of state, who shall act as governor until the disability be removed or a governor elected.\nSECTION 11 REMISSION OF FINES AND FORFEITURES. The governor shall have power to remit fines and forfeitures, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and shall report to the legislature at its next meeting each case of reprieve, commutation or pardon granted, and the reasons for granting the same, and also the names of all persons in whose favor remission of fines and forfeitures shall have been made, and the several amounts remitted and the reasons for the remission.\nSECTION 12 VETO POWERS. Every act which shall have passed the legislature shall be, before it becomes a law, presented to the governor. If he approves, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon the journal and proceed to reconsider. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members present shall agree to pass the bill it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of the members present, it shall become a law; but in all such cases the vote of both houses shall be determined by the yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for or against the bill shall be entered upon the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within five days, Sundays excepted, after it shall be presented to him, it shall become a law without his signature, unless the general adjournment shall prevent its return, in which case it shall become a law unless the governor, within twenty days next after the adjournment, Sundays excepted, shall file such bill with his objections thereto, in the office of secretary of state, who shall lay the same before the legislature at its next session in like manner as if it had been returned by the governor: Provided, That within forty-five days next after the adjournment, Sundays excepted, the legislature may, upon petition by a two-thirds majority or more of the membership of each house, reconvene in extraordinary session, not to exceed five days duration, solely to reconsider any bills vetoed. If any bill presented to the governor contain several sections or appropriation items, he may object to one or more sections or appropriation items while approving other portions of the bill: Provided, That he may not object to less than an entire section, except that if the section contain one or more appropriation items he may object to any such appropriation item or items. In case of objection he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the section or sections, appropriation item or items to which he objects and the reasons therefor; and the section or sections, appropriation item or items so objected to shall not take effect unless passed over the governor\u2019s objection, as hereinbefore provided. The provisions of Article II, section 12 insofar as they are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [AMENDMENT 62, 1974 Senate Joint Resolution No. 140, p 806. Approved November 5, 1974.]\nVeto power withheld from initiated and referred measures: Art. 2 Section 1.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 3 Section 12 VETO POWER \u2014 Every act which shall have passed the legislature shall be, before it becomes a law, presented to the governor. If he approves, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated, which house shall enter the objections at large upon the journal and proceed to reconsider. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the members present shall agree to pass the bill it shall be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of the members present, it shall become a law; but in all cases the vote of both houses shall be determined by the yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for or against the bill shall be entered upon the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the governor within five days, Sundays excepted, after it shall be presented to him, it shall become a law without his signature, unless the general adjournment shall prevent its return, in which case it shall become a law unless the governor, within ten days next after the adjournment, Sundays excepted, shall file such bill with his objections thereto, in the office of secretary of state, who shall lay the same before the legislature at its next session in like manner as if it had been returned by the governor. If any bill presented to the governor contain several sections or items, he may object to one or more sections or items while approving other portions of the bill. In such case he shall append to the bill, at the time of signing it, a statement of the section, or sections; item or items to which he objects and the reasons therefor, and the section or sections, item or items so objected to, shall not take effect unless passed over the governor\u2019s objection, as hereinbefore provided.\nVeto power does not extend to initiated or referred measures: Art. 2 Section 1(d).\nSECTION 13 VACANCY IN APPOINTIVE OFFICE. When, during a recess of the legislature, a vacancy shall happen in any office, the appointment to which is vested in the legislature, or when at any time a vacancy shall have occurred in any other state office, for the filling of which vacancy no provision is made elsewhere in this Constitution, the governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment, which shall expire when a successor shall have been elected and qualified.\nAppointment of governing boards of educational, reformatory and penal institutions: Art. 13 Section 1.\nSECTION 14 SALARY. The governor shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars, which may be increased by law, but shall never exceed six thousand dollars per annum.\nSECTION 15 COMMISSIONS, HOW ISSUED. All commissions shall issue in the name of the state, shall be signed by the governor, sealed with the seal of the state, and attested by the secretary of state.\nSECTION 16 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, DUTIES AND SALARY. The lieutenant governor shall be presiding officer of the state senate, and shall discharge such other duties as may be prescribed by law. He shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars, which may be increased by the legislature, but shall never exceed three thousand dollars per annum.\nSECTION 17 SECRETARY OF STATE, DUTIES AND SALARY. The secretary of state shall keep a record of the official acts of the legislature, and executive department of the state, and shall, when required, lay the same, and all matters relative thereto, before either branch of the legislature, and shall perform such other duties as shall be assigned him by law. He shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, which may be increased by the legislature, but shall never exceed three thousand dollars per annum.\nSECTION 18 SEAL. There shall be a seal of the state kept by the secretary of state for official purposes, which shall be called, \u201cThe Seal of the State of Washington.\u201d\nDesign of the Seal: Art. 18 Section 1.\nState seal: RCW 1.20.080.\nSECTION 19 STATE TREASURER, DUTIES AND SALARY. The treasurer shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by law. He shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, which may be increased by the legislature, but shall never exceed four thousand dollars per annum.\nSECTION 20 STATE AUDITOR, DUTIES AND SALARY. The auditor shall be auditor of public accounts, and shall have such powers and perform such duties in connection therewith as may be prescribed by law. He shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, which may be increased by the legislature, but shall never exceed three thousand dollars per annum.\nSECTION 21 ATTORNEY GENERAL, DUTIES AND SALARY. The attorney general shall be the legal adviser of the state officers, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law. He shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, which may be increased by the legislature, but shall never exceed thirty-five hundred dollars per annum.\nSECTION 22 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION, DUTIES AND SALARY. The superintendent of public instruction shall have supervision over all matters pertaining to public schools, and shall perform such specific duties as may be prescribed by law. He shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, which may be increased by law, but shall never exceed four thousand dollars per annum.\nSECTION 23 COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC LANDS \u2014 COMPENSATION. The commissioner of public lands shall perform such duties and receive such compensation as the legislature may direct.\nSECTION 24 RECORDS, WHERE KEPT, ETC. The governor, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, superintendent of public instruction, commissioner of public lands and attorney general shall severally keep the public records, books and papers relating to their respective offices, at the seat of government, at which place also the governor, secretary of state, treasurer and auditor shall reside.\nSECTION 25 QUALIFICATIONS, COMPENSATION, OFFICES WHICH MAY BE ABOLISHED. No person, except a citizen of the United States and a qualified elector of this state, shall be eligible to hold any state office. The compensation for state officers shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which they shall have been elected. The legislature may in its discretion abolish the offices of the lieutenant governor, auditor and commissioner of public lands. [AMENDMENT 31, 1955 Senate Joint Resolution No. 6, p 1861. Approved November 6, 1956.]\nAuthorizing compensation increase during term: Art. 30 Section 1.\npublic officers: Art. 2 Section 25.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 3 Section 25 QUALIFICATIONS \u2014 No person, except a citizen of the United States and a qualified elector of this state, shall be eligible to hold any state office, and the state treasurer shall be ineligible for the term succeeding that for which he was elected. The compensation for state officers shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which they shall have been elected. The legislature may in its discretion abolish the offices of the lieutenant governor, auditor and commissioner of public lands.\nSECTION 1 JUDICIAL POWER, WHERE VESTED. The judicial power of the state shall be vested in a supreme court, superior courts, justices of the peace, and such inferior courts as the legislature may provide.\nCourt of appeals: Art. 4 Section 30.\nSECTION 2 SUPREME COURT. The supreme court shall consist of five judges, a majority of whom shall be necessary to form a quorum, and pronounce a decision. The said court shall always be open for the transaction of business except on nonjudicial days. In the determination of causes all decisions of the court shall be given in writing and the grounds of the decision shall be stated. The legislature may increase the number of judges of the supreme court from time to time and may provide for separate departments of said court.\nSECTION 2(a) TEMPORARY PERFORMANCE OF JUDICIAL DUTIES. When necessary for the prompt and orderly administration of justice a majority of the Supreme Court is empowered to authorize judges or retired judges of courts of record of this state, to perform, temporarily, judicial duties in the Supreme Court, and to authorize any superior court judge to perform judicial duties in any superior court of this state. [AMENDMENT 38, 1961 House Joint Resolution No. 6, p 2757. Approved November, 1962.]\nSECTION 3 ELECTION AND TERMS OF SUPREME COURT JUDGES. The judges of the supreme court shall be elected by the qualified electors of the state at large at the general state election at the times and places at which state officers are elected, unless some other time be provided by the legislature. The first election of judges of the supreme court shall be at the election which shall be held upon the adoption of this Constitution and the judges elected thereat shall be classified by lot, so that two shall hold their office for the term of three years, two for the term of five years, and one for the term of seven years. The lot shall be drawn by the judges who shall for that purpose assemble at the seat of government, and they shall cause the result thereof to be certified to the secretary of state, and filed in his office. The supreme court shall select a chief justice from its own membership to serve for a four-year term at the pleasure of a majority of the court as prescribed by supreme court rule. The chief justice shall preside at all sessions of the supreme court. In case of the absence of the chief justice, the majority of the remaining court shall select one of their members to serve as acting chief justice. After the first election the terms of judges elected shall be six years from and after the second Monday in January next succeeding their election. If a vacancy occur in the office of a judge of the supreme court the governor shall only appoint a person to ensure the number of judges as specified by the legislature, to hold the office until the election and qualification of a judge to fill the vacancy, which election shall take place at the next succeeding general election, and the judge so elected shall hold the office for the remainder of the unexpired term. The term of office of the judges of the supreme court, first elected, shall commence as soon as the state shall have been admitted into the Union, and continue for the term herein provided, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The sessions of the supreme court shall be held at the seat of government until otherwise provided by law. [AMENDMENT 89, 1995 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 8210, p 2905. Approved November 7, 1995.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 4 Section 3 ELECTION AND TERMS OF SUPREME COURT JUDGES \u2014 The judges of the supreme court shall be elected by the qualified electors of the state at large at the general state election at the times and places at which state officers are elected, unless some other time be provided by the legislature. The first election of judges of the supreme court shall be at the election which shall be held upon the adoption of this Constitution and the judges elected thereat shall be classified by lot, so that two shall hold their office for the term of three years, two for the term of five years, and one for the term of seven years. The lot shall be drawn by the judges who shall for that purpose assemble at the seat of government, and they shall cause the result thereof to be certified to the secretary of state, and filed in his office. The judge having the shortest term to serve not holding his office by appointment or election to fill a vacancy, shall be the chief justice, and shall preside at all sessions of the supreme court, and in case there shall be two judges having in like manner the same short term, the other judges of the supreme court shall determine which of them shall be chief justice. In case of the absence of the chief justice, the judge having in like manner the shortest or next shortest term to serve shall preside. After the first election the terms of judges elected shall be six years from and after the second Monday in January next succeeding their election. If a vacancy occur in the office of a judge of the supreme court the governor shall appoint a person to hold the office until the election and qualification of a judge to fill the vacancy, which election shall take place at the next succeeding general election, and the judge so elected shall hold the office for the remainder of the unexpired term. The term of office of the judges of the supreme court, first elected, shall commence as soon as the state shall have been admitted into the Union, and continue for the term herein provided, and until their successors are elected and qualified. The sessions of the supreme court shall be held at the seat of government until otherwise provided by law.\nSECTION 3(a) RETIREMENT OF SUPREME COURT AND SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. A judge of the supreme court or the superior court shall retire from judicial office at the end of the calendar year in which he attains the age of seventy-five years. The legislature may, from time to time, fix a lesser age for mandatory retirement, not earlier than the end of the calendar year in which any such judge attains the age of seventy years, as the legislature deems proper. This provision shall not affect the term to which any such judge shall have been elected or appointed prior to, or at the time of, approval and ratification of this provision. Notwithstanding the limitations of this section, the legislature may by general law authorize or require the retirement of judges for physical or mental disability, or any cause rendering judges incapable of performing their judicial duties. [AMENDMENT 25, 1951 House Joint Resolution No. 6, p 960. Approved November 4, 1952.]\nSECTION 4 JURISDICTION. The supreme court shall have original jurisdiction in habeas corpus, and quo warranto and mandamus as to all state officers, and appellate jurisdiction in all actions and proceedings, excepting that its appellate jurisdiction shall not extend to civil actions at law for the recovery of money or personal property when the original amount in controversy, or the value of the property does not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) unless the action involves the legality of a tax, impost, assessment, toll, municipal fine, or the validity of a statute. The supreme court shall also have power to issue writs of mandamus, review, prohibition, habeas corpus, certiorari and all other writs necessary and proper to the complete exercise of its appellate and revisory jurisdiction. Each of the judges shall have power to issue writs of habeas corpus to any part of the state upon petition by or on behalf of any person held in actual custody, and may make such writs returnable before himself, or before the supreme court, or before any superior court of the state or any judge thereof.\nSECTION 5 SUPERIOR COURT \u2014 ELECTION OF JUDGES, TERMS OF, ETC. There shall be in each of the organized counties of this state a superior court for which at least one judge shall be elected by the qualified electors of the county at the general state election: Provided, That until otherwise directed by the legislature one judge only shall be elected for the counties of Spokane and Stevens; one judge for the county of Whitman; one judge for the counties of Lincoln, Okanogan, Douglas and Adams; one judge for the counties of Walla Walla and Franklin; one judge for the counties of Columbia, Garfield and Asotin; one judge for the counties of Kittitas, Yakima and Klickitat; one judge for the counties of Clarke, Skamania, Pacific, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum; one judge for the counties of Thurston, Chehalis, Mason and Lewis; one judge for the county of Pierce; one judge for the county of King; one judge for the counties of Jefferson, Island, Kitsap, San Juan and Clallam; and one judge for the counties of Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish. In any county where there shall be more than one superior judge, there may be as many sessions of the superior court at the same time as there are judges thereof, and whenever the governor shall direct a superior judge to hold court in any county other than that for which he has been elected, there may be as many sessions of the superior court in said county at the same time as there are judges therein or assigned to duty therein by the governor, and the business of the court shall be so distributed and assigned by law or in the absence of legislation therefor, by such rules and orders of court as shall best promote and secure the convenient and expeditious transaction thereof. The judgments, decrees, orders and proceedings of any session of the superior court held by any one or more of the judges of such court shall be equally effectual as if all the judges of said court presided at such session. The first superior judges elected under this Constitution shall hold their offices for the period of three years, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified, and thereafter the term of office of all superior judges in this state shall be for four years from the second Monday in January next succeeding their election and until their successors are elected and qualified. The first election of judges of the superior court shall be at the election held for the adoption of this Constitution. If a vacancy occurs in the office of judge of the superior court, the governor shall appoint a person to hold the office until the election and qualification of a judge to fill the vacancy, which election shall be at the next succeeding general election, and the judge so elected shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term.\nSupreme court may authorize superior court judge to perform judicial duties in any superior court: Art. 4 Section 2(a).\nSECTION 6 JURISDICTION OF SUPERIOR COURTS. Superior courts and district courts have concurrent jurisdiction in cases in equity. The superior court shall have original jurisdiction in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real property, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine, and in all other cases in which the demand or the value of the property in controversy amounts to three thousand dollars or as otherwise determined by law, or a lesser sum in excess of the jurisdiction granted to justices of the peace and other inferior courts, and in all criminal cases amounting to felony, and in all cases of misdemeanor not otherwise provided for by law; of actions of forcible entry and detainer; of proceedings in insolvency; of actions to prevent or abate a nuisance; of all matters of probate, of divorce, and for annulment of marriage; and for such special cases and proceedings as are not otherwise provided for. The superior court shall also have original jurisdiction in all cases and of all proceedings in which jurisdiction shall not have been by law vested exclusively in some other court; and said court shall have the power of naturalization and to issue papers therefor. They shall have such appellate jurisdiction in cases arising in justices\u2019 and other inferior courts in their respective counties as may be prescribed by law. They shall always be open, except on nonjudicial days, and their process shall extend to all parts of the state. Said courts and their judges shall have power to issue writs of mandamus, quo warranto, review, certiorari, prohibition, and writs of habeas corpus, on petition by or on behalf of any person in actual custody in their respective counties. Injunctions and writs of prohibition and of habeas corpus may be issued and served on legal holidays and nonjudicial days. [AMENDMENT 87, 1993 House Joint Resolution No. 4201, p 3063. Approved November 2, 1993.]\nAmendment 65, part (1977) \u2014 Art. 4 Section 6 Jurisdiction of Superior Courts \u2014 The superior court shall have original jurisdiction in all cases in equity and in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real property, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine, and in all other cases in which the demand or the value of the property in controversy amounts to three thousand dollars or as otherwise determined by law, or a lesser sum in excess of the jurisdiction granted to justices of the peace and other inferior courts, and in all criminal cases amounting to felony, and in all cases of misdemeanor not otherwise provided for by law; of actions of forcible entry and detainer; of proceedings in insolvency; of actions to prevent or abate a nuisance; of all matters of probate, of divorce, and for annulment of marriage; and for such special cases and proceedings as are not otherwise provided for. The superior court shall also have original jurisdiction in all cases and of all proceedings in which jurisdiction shall not have been by law vested exclusively in some other court; and said court shall have the power of naturalization and to issue papers therefor. They shall have such appellate jurisdiction in cases arising in justices\u2019 and other inferior courts in their respective counties as may be prescribed by law. They shall always be open, except on nonjudicial days, and their process shall extend to all parts of the state. Said courts and their judges shall have power to issue writs of mandamus, quo warranto, review, certiorari, prohibition, and writs of habeas corpus, on petition by or on behalf of any person in actual custody in their respective counties. Injunctions and writs of prohibition and of habeas corpus may be issued and served on legal holidays and nonjudicial days. [AMENDMENT 65, part, 1977 Senate Joint Resolution No. 113, p 1714. Approved November 8, 1977.]\nAmendment 65 also amended Art. 4 Section 10.\nAmendment 28, part (1952) \u2014 Art. 4 Section 6 JURISDICTION OF SUPERIOR COURTS \u2014 The superior court shall have original jurisdiction in all cases in equity and in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real property, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll, or municipal fine, and in all other cases in which the demand or the value of the property in controversy amounts to one thousand dollars, or a lesser sum in excess of the jurisdiction granted to justices of the peace and other inferior courts, and in all criminal cases amounting to felony, and in all cases of misdemeanor not otherwise provided for by law; of actions of forcible entry and detainer; of proceedings in insolvency; of actions to prevent or abate a nuisance; of all matters of probate, of divorce, and for annulment of marriage; and for such special cases and proceedings as are not otherwise provided for. The superior court shall also have original jurisdiction in all cases and of all proceedings in which jurisdiction shall not have been by law vested exclusively in some other court; and said court shall have the power of naturalization and to issue papers therefor. They shall have such appellate jurisdiction in cases arising in justices\u2019 and other inferior courts in their respective counties as may be prescribed by law. They shall always be open, except on nonjudicial days, and their process shall extend to all parts of the state. Said courts and their judges shall have power to issue writs of mandamus, quo warranto, review, certiorari, prohibition, and writs of habeas corpus, on petition by or on behalf of any person in actual custody in their respective counties. Injunctions and writs of prohibition and of habeas corpus may be issued and served on legal holidays and nonjudicial days. [AMENDMENT 28, part, 1951 Substitute House Joint Resolution No. 13, p 962. Approved November 4, 1952.]\nNote: Amendment 28 also amended Art. 4 Section 10.\nORIGINAL TEXT \u2014 ART. 4 Section 6 JURISDICTION OF SUPERIOR COURTS \u2014 The superior court shall have original jurisdiction in all cases in equity, and in all cases at law which involve the title or possession of real property, or the legality of any tax, impost, assessment, toll or municipal fine, and in all other cases in which the demand, or the value of the property in controversy amounts to one hundred dollars, and in all criminal cases amounting to felony, and in all cases of misdemeanor not otherwise provided for by law; of actions of forcible entry and detainer; of proceedings in insolvency; of actions to prevent or abate a nuisance; of all matters of probate, of divorce, and for annulment of marriage; and for such special cases and proceedings as are not otherwise provided for. The superior court shall also have original jurisdiction in all cases and of all proceedings in which jurisdiction shall not have been by law vested exclusively in some other court; and said court shall have the power of naturalization, and to issue papers therefor. They shall have such appellate jurisdiction in cases arising in justice\u2019s and other inferior courts in their respective counties as may be prescribed by law. They shall be always open except on non-judicial days, and their process shall extend to all parts of the state. Said courts and their judges shall have power to issue writs of mandamus, quo warranto, review, certiorari, prohibition, and writs of habeas corpus on petition by or on behalf of any person in actual custody in their respective counties. Injunctions and writs of prohibition and of habeas corpus may be issued and served on legal holidays and non-judicial days.\nSECTION 7 EXCHANGE OF JUDGES \u2014 JUDGE PRO TEMPORE.The judge of any superior court may hold a superior court in any county at the request of the judge of the superior court thereof, and upon the request of the governor it shall be his or her duty to do so. A case in the superior court may be tried by a judge pro tempore either with the agreement of the parties if the judge pro tempore is a member of the bar, is agreed upon in writing by the parties litigant or their attorneys of record, and is approved by the court and sworn to try the case; or without the agreement of the parties if the judge pro tempore is a sitting elected judge and is acting as a judge pro tempore pursuant to supreme court rule. The supreme court rule must require assignments of judges pro tempore based on the judges\u2019 experience and must provide for the right, exercisable once during a case, to a change of judge pro tempore. Such right shall be in addition to any other right provided by law. However, if a previously elected judge of the superior court retires leaving a pending case in which the judge has made discretionary rulings, the judge is entitled to hear the pending case as a judge pro tempore without any written agreement. [AMENDMENT 94, 2001 Engrossed Senate Joint Resolution No. 8208, p 2327. Approved November 6, 2001.]\nAmendment 80 \u2014 Art. 4 Section 7 EXCHANGE OF JUDGES \u2014 JUDGE PRO TEMPORE \u2014 The judge of any superior court may hold a superior court in any county at the request of the judge of the superior court thereof, and upon the request of the governor it shall be his duty to do so. A case in the superior court may be tried by a judge, pro tempore, who must be a member of the bar, agreed upon in writing by the parties litigant, or their attorneys of record, approved by the court and sworn to try the case. However, if a previously elected judge of the superior court retires leaving a pending case in which the judge has made discretionary rulings, the judge is entitled to hear the pending case as a judge pro tempore without any written agreement.[Amendment 80, 1987 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8207, p 2815. Approved November 3, 1987.]\nORIGINAL TEXT \u2014 Art. 4 Section 7 EXCHANGE OF JUDGES \u2014 JUDGE PRO TEMPORE \u2014 The judge of any superior court may hold a superior court in any county at the request of the judge of the superior court thereof, and upon the request of the governor it shall be his duty to do so. A case in the superior court may be tried by a judge, pro tempore, who must be a member of the bar, agreed upon in writing by the parties litigant, or their attorneys of record, approved by the court and sworn to try the case.\nSECTION 8 ABSENCE OF JUDICIAL OFFICER. Any judicial officer who shall absent himself from the state for more than sixty consecutive days shall be deemed to have forfeited his office: Provided, That in cases of extreme necessity the governor may extend the leave of absence such time as the necessity therefor shall exist.\nSECTION 9 REMOVAL OF JUDGES, ATTORNEY GENERAL, ETC. Any judge of any court of record, the attorney general, or any prosecuting attorney may be removed from office by joint resolution of the legislature, in which three-fourths of the members elected to each house shall concur, for incompetency, corruption, malfeasance, or delinquency in office, or other sufficient cause stated in such resolution. But no removal shall be made unless the officer complained of shall have been served with a copy of the charges against him as the ground of removal, and shall have an opportunity of being heard in his defense. Such resolution shall be entered at length on the journal of both houses and on the question of removal the ayes and nays shall also be entered on the journal.\nRemoval, censure, suspension, or retirement of judges or justices: Art. 4 Section 31.\nSECTION 10 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. The legislature shall determine the number of justices of the peace to be elected and shall prescribe by law the powers, duties and jurisdiction of justices of the peace: Provided, That such jurisdiction granted by the legislature shall not trench upon the jurisdiction of superior or other courts of record, except that justices of the peace may be made police justices of incorporated cities and towns. Justices of the peace shall have original jurisdiction in cases where the demand or value of the property in controversy is less than three hundred dollars or such greater sum, not to exceed three thousand dollars or as otherwise determined by law, as shall be prescribed by the legislature. In incorporated cities or towns having more than five thousand inhabitants, the justices of the peace shall receive such salary as may be provided by law, and shall receive no fees for their own use. [AMENDMENT 65, part, 1977 Senate Joint Resolution No. 113, p 1714. Approved November 8, 1977.]\nAmendment 65 also amended Art. 4 Section 6.\nAmendment 28, part (1952) \u2014 Art. 4 Section 10 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE \u2014 The legislature shall determine the number of justices of the peace to be elected and shall prescribe by law the powers, duties and jurisdiction of justices of the peace: Provided, That such jurisdiction granted by the legislature shall not trench upon the jurisdiction of superior or other courts of record, except that justices of the peace may be made police justices of incorporated cities and towns. Justices of the peace shall have original jurisdiction in cases where the demand or value of the property in controversy is less than three hundred dollars or such greater sum, not to exceed one thousand dollars, as shall be prescribed by the legislature. In incorporated cities or towns having more than five thousand inhabitants, the justices of the peace shall receive such salary as may be provided by law, and shall receive no fees for their own use. [AMENDMENT 28, part, 1951 Substitute House Joint Resolution No. 13, p 962. Approved November 4, 1952.]\nNote: Amendment 28 also amended Art. 4 Section 6.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 4 Section 10 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE \u2014 The legislature shall determine the number of justices of the peace to be elected in incorporated cities or towns and in precincts, and shall prescribe by law the powers, duties and jurisdiction of justices of the peace; Provided, That such jurisdiction granted by the legislature shall not trench upon the jurisdiction of superior or other courts of record, except that justices of the peace may be made police justices of incorporated cities and towns. In incorporated cities or towns having more than five thousand inhabitants the justices of the peace shall receive such salary as may be provided by law, and shall receive no fees for their own use.\nSECTION 11 COURTS OF RECORD. The supreme court and the superior courts shall be courts of record, and the legislature shall have power to provide that any of the courts of this state, excepting justices of the peace, shall be courts of record.\nSECTION 12 INFERIOR COURTS. The legislature shall prescribe by law the jurisdiction and powers of any of the inferior courts which may be established in pursuance of this Constitution.\nSECTION 13 SALARIES OF JUDICIAL OFFICERS \u2014 HOW PAID, ETC. No judicial officer, except court commissioners and unsalaried justices of the peace, shall receive to his own use any fees or perquisites of office. The judges of the supreme court and judges of the superior courts shall severally at stated times, during their continuance in office, receive for their services the salaries prescribed by law therefor, which shall not be increased after their election, nor during the term for which they shall have been elected. The salaries of the judges of the supreme court shall be paid by the state. One-half of the salary of each of the superior court judges shall be paid by the state, and the other one-half by the county or counties for which he is elected. In cases where a judge is provided for more than one county, that portion of his salary which is to be paid by the counties shall be apportioned between or among them according to the assessed value of their taxable property, to be determined by the assessment next preceding the time for which such salary is to be paid.\nIncrease or diminution of compensation during term of office prohibited\ncounty, city or municipal officers: Art. 11 Section 8.\nSECTION 14 SALARIES OF SUPREME AND SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. Each of the judges of the supreme court shall receive an annual salary of four thousand dollars ($4,000); each of the superior court judges shall receive an annual salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000), which said salaries shall be payable quarterly. The legislature may increase the salaries of judges herein provided.\nSECTION 15 INELIGIBILITY OF JUDGES. The judges of the supreme court and the judges of the superior court shall be ineligible to any other office or public employment than a judicial office, or employment, during the term for which they shall have been elected.\nSECTION 16 CHARGING JURIES. Judges shall not charge juries with respect to matters of fact, nor comment thereon, but shall declare the law.\nSECTION 17 ELIGIBILITY OF JUDGES. No person shall be eligible to the office of judge of the supreme court, or judge of a superior court, unless he shall have been admitted to practice in the courts of record of this state, or of the Territory of Washington.\nSECTION 18 SUPREME COURT REPORTER. The judges of the supreme court shall appoint a reporter for the decisions of that court, who shall be removable at their pleasure. He shall receive such annual salary as shall be prescribed by law.\nSECTION 19 JUDGES MAY NOT PRACTICE LAW. No judge of a court of record shall practice law in any court of this state during his continuance in office.\nSECTION 20 DECISIONS, WHEN TO BE MADE. Every cause submitted to a judge of a superior court for his decision shall be decided by him within ninety days from the submission thereof; Provided, That if within said period of ninety days a rehearing shall have been ordered, then the period within which he is to decide shall commence at the time the cause is submitted upon such a hearing.\nSECTION 21 PUBLICATION OF OPINIONS. The legislature shall provide for the speedy publication of opinions of the supreme court, and all opinions shall be free for publication by any person.\nSECTION 22 CLERK OF THE SUPREME COURT. The judges of the supreme court shall appoint a clerk of that court who shall be removable at their pleasure, but the legislature may provide for the election of the clerk of the supreme court, and prescribe the term of his office. The clerk of the supreme court shall receive such compensation by salary only as shall be provided by law.\nSECTION 23 COURT COMMISSIONERS. There may be appointed in each county, by the judge of the superior court having jurisdiction therein, one or more court commissioners, not exceeding three in number, who shall have authority to perform like duties as a judge of the superior court at chambers, subject to revision by such judge, to take depositions and to perform such other business connected with the administration of justice as may be prescribed by law.\nSECTION 24 RULES FOR SUPERIOR COURTS. The judges of the superior courts, shall from time to time, establish uniform rules for the government of the superior courts.\nSECTION 25 REPORTS OF SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. Superior judges, shall on or before the first day of November in each year, report in writing to the judges of the supreme court such defects and omissions in the laws as their experience may suggest, and the judges of the supreme court shall on or before the first day of January in each year report in writing to the governor such defects and omissions in the laws as they may believe to exist.\nSECTION 26 CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. The county clerk shall be by virtue of his office, clerk of the superior court.\nSECTION 27 STYLE OF PROCESS. The style of all process shall be, \u201cThe State of Washington,\u201d and all prosecutions shall be conducted in its name and by its authority.\nSECTION 28 OATH OF JUDGES. Every judge of the supreme court, and every judge of a superior court shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath that he will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Washington, and will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of judge to the best of his ability, which oath shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.\nSECTION 29 ELECTION OF SUPERIOR COURT JUDGES. Notwithstanding any provision of this Constitution to the contrary, if, after the last day as provided by law for the withdrawal of declarations of candidacy has expired, only one candidate has filed for any single position of superior court judge in any county containing a population of one hundred thousand or more, no primary or election shall be held as to such position, and a certificate of election shall be issued to such candidate. If, after any contested primary for superior court judge in any county, only one candidate is entitled to have his name printed on the general election ballot for any single position, no election shall be held as to such position, and a certificate of election shall be issued to such candidate: Provided, That in the event that there is filed with the county auditor within ten days after the date of the primary, a petition indicating that a write in campaign will be conducted for such single position and signed by one hundred registered voters qualified to vote with respect of the office, then such single position shall be subject to the general election. Provisions for the contingency of the death or disqualification of a sole candidate between the last date for withdrawal and the time when the election would be held but for the provisions of this section, and such other provisions as may be deemed necessary to implement the provisions of this section, may be enacted by the legislature. [AMENDMENT 41, 1965 ex.s. Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 6, p 2815. Approved November 8, 1966.]\nSECTION 30 COURT OF APPEALS. (1) Authorization. In addition to the courts authorized in section 1 of this article, judicial power is vested in a court of appeals, which shall be established by statute.\n(2) Jurisdiction. The jurisdiction of the court of appeals shall be as provided by statute or by rules authorized by statute.\n(3) Review of Superior Court. Superior court actions may be reviewed by the court of appeals or by the supreme court as provided by statute or by rule authorized by statute.\n(4) Judges. The number, manner of election, compensation, terms of office, removal and retirement of judges of the court of appeals shall be as provided by statute.\n(5) Administration and Procedure. The administration and procedures of the court of appeals shall be as provided by rules issued by the supreme court.\n(6) Conflicts. The provisions of this section shall supersede any conflicting provisions in prior sections of this article. [AMENDMENT 50, 1967 Senate Joint Resolution No. 6; see 1969 p 2975. Approved November 5, 1968.]\nReviser\u2019s note: This section which was adopted as Sec. 29 is herein renumbered Sec. 30 to avoid confusion with Sec. 29, supra.\nSECTION 31 COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT. (1) There shall be a commission on judicial conduct, existing as an independent agency of the judicial branch, and consisting of a judge selected by and from the court of appeals judges, a judge selected by and from the superior court judges, a judge selected by and from the limited jurisdiction court judges, two persons admitted to the practice of law in this state selected by the state bar association, and six persons who are not attorneys appointed by the governor.\n(2) Whenever the commission receives a complaint against a judge or justice, or otherwise has reason to believe that a judge or justice should be admonished, reprimanded, censured, suspended, removed, or retired, the commission shall first investigate the complaint or belief and then conduct initial proceedings for the purpose of determining whether probable cause exists for conducting a public hearing or hearings to deal with the complaint or belief. The investigation and initial proceedings shall be confidential. Upon beginning an initial proceeding, the commission shall notify the judge or justice of the existence of and basis for the initial proceeding.\n(3) Whenever the commission concludes, based on an initial proceeding, that there is probable cause to believe that a judge or justice has violated a rule of judicial conduct or that the judge or justice suffers from a disability which is permanent or likely to become permanent and which seriously interferes with the performance of judicial duties, the commission shall conduct a public hearing or hearings and shall make public all those records of the initial proceeding that provide the basis for its conclusion. If the commission concludes that there is not probable cause, it shall notify the judge or justice of its conclusion.\n(4) Upon the completion of the hearing or hearings, the commission in open session shall either dismiss the case, or shall admonish, reprimand, or censure the judge or justice, or shall censure the judge or justice and recommend to the supreme court the suspension or removal of the judge or justice, or shall recommend to the supreme court the retirement of the judge or justice. The commission may not recommend suspension or removal unless it censures the judge or justice for the violation serving as the basis for the recommendation. The commission may recommend retirement of a judge or justice for a disability which is permanent or likely to become permanent and which seriously interferes with the performance of judicial duties.\n(5) Upon the recommendation of the commission, the supreme court may suspend, remove, or retire a judge or justice. The office of a judge or justice retired or removed by the supreme court becomes vacant, and that person is ineligible for judicial office until eligibility is reinstated by the supreme court. The salary of a removed judge or justice shall cease. The supreme court shall specify the effect upon salary when it suspends a judge or justice. The supreme court may not suspend, remove, or retire a judge or justice until the commission, after notice and hearing, recommends that action be taken, and the supreme court conducts a hearing, after notice, to review commission proceedings and findings against the judge or justice.\n(6) Within thirty days after the commission admonishes, reprimands, or censures a judge or justice, the judge or justice shall have a right of appeal de novo to the supreme court.\n(7) Any matter before the commission or supreme court may be disposed of by a stipulation entered into in a public proceeding. The stipulation shall be signed by the judge or justice and the commission or court. The stipulation may impose any terms and conditions deemed appropriate by the commission or court. A stipulation shall set forth all material facts relating to the proceeding and the conduct of the judge or justice.\n(8) Whenever the commission adopts a recommendation that a judge or justice be removed, the judge or justice shall be suspended immediately, with salary, from his or her judicial position until a final determination is made by the supreme court.\n(9) The legislature shall provide for commissioners\u2019 terms of office and compensation. The commission shall employ one or more investigative officers with appropriate professional training and experience. The investigative officers of the commission shall report directly to the commission. The commission shall also employ such administrative or other staff as are necessary to manage the affairs of the commission.\n(10) The commission shall, to the extent that compliance does not conflict with this section, comply with laws of general applicability to state agencies with respect to rule-making procedures, and with respect to public notice of and attendance at commission proceedings other than initial proceedings. The commission shall establish rules of procedure for commission proceedings including due process and confidentiality of proceedings. [AMENDMENT 97, 2005 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8207, pp 2799, 2800. Approved November 8, 2005.]\nRemoval by legislature: Art. 4 Section 9.\nAmendment 85 (1989) \u2014 Art. 4 Section 31 COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT \u2014 (1) There shall be a commission on judicial conduct, existing as an independent agency of the judicial branch, and consisting of a judge selected by and from the court of appeals judges, a judge selected by and from the superior court judges, a judge selected by and from the district court judges, two persons admitted to the practice of law in this state selected by the state bar association, and six persons who are not attorneys appointed by the governor.\n(10) The commission shall, to the extent that compliance does not conflict with this section, comply with laws of general applicability to state agencies with respect to rule-making procedures, and with respect to public notice of and attendance at commission proceedings other than initial proceedings. The commission shall establish rules of procedure for commission proceedings including due process and confidentiality of proceedings. [AMENDMENT 85, 1989 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 8202, p 3000. Approved November 7, 1989.]\nAmendment 77 (1986) \u2014 Art. 4 Section 31 COMMISSION ON JUDICIAL CONDUCT \u2014 REMOVAL, CENSURE, SUSPENSION, OR RETIREMENT OF JUDGES OR JUSTICES \u2014 PROCEEDINGS \u2014 There shall be a commission on judicial conduct consisting of a judge selected by and from the court of appeals judges, a judge selected by and from the superior court judges, a judge selected by and from the district court judges, two persons admitted to the practice of law in this state selected by the state bar association, and four persons who are not attorneys appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate.\nThe supreme court may censure, suspend, or remove a judge or justice for violating a rule of judicial conduct and may retire a judge or justice for disability which is permanent or is likely to become permanent and which seriously interferes with the performance of judicial duties. The office of a judge or justice retired or removed by the supreme court becomes vacant, and that person is ineligible for judicial office until eligibility is reinstated by the supreme court. The salary of a removed judge or justice shall cease.\nThe supreme court shall specify the effect upon salary when disciplinary action other than removal is taken. The supreme court may not discipline or retire a judge or justice until the commission on judicial conduct recommends after notice and hearing that action be taken and the supreme court conducts a hearing, after notice, to review commission proceedings and findings against a judge or justice.\nWhenever the commission receives a complaint against a judge or justice, it shall first conduct proceedings for the purpose of determining whether sufficient reason exists for conducting a hearing or hearings to deal with the accusations. These initial proceedings shall be confidential, unless confidentiality is waived by the judge or justice, but all subsequent hearings conducted by the commission shall be open to members of the public.\nWhenever the commission adopts a recommendation that a judge or justice be removed, the judge or justice shall be suspended immediately, with salary, from his or her judicial position until a final determination is made by the supreme court.\nThe legislature shall provide for commissioners\u2019 terms of office and compensation. The commission shall establish rules of procedure for commission proceedings including due process and confidentiality of proceedings. [AMENDMENT 77, 1986 Senate Joint Resolution No. 136, p 1532. Approved November 4, 1986.]\nAmendment 71 (1980) \u2014 Art. 4 Section 31 JUDICIAL QUALIFICATIONS COMMISSION \u2014 REMOVAL, CENSURE, SUSPENSION, OR RETIREMENT OF JUDGES OR JUSTICES \u2014 There shall be a judicial qualifications commission consisting of a judge selected by and from the court of appeals judges, a judge selected by and from the superior court judges, a judge selected by and from the district court judges, two persons admitted to the practice of law in this state selected by the state bar association, and two persons who are not attorneys appointed by the governor and confirmed by the senate.\nThe supreme court shall specify the effect upon salary when disciplinary action other than removal is taken. The supreme court may not discipline or retire a judge or justice until the judicial qualifications commission recommends after notice and hearing that action be taken and the supreme court conducts a hearing, after notice, to review commission proceedings and findings against a judge or justice.\nThe legislature shall provide for commissioners\u2019 terms of office and compensation. The commission shall establish rules of procedure for commission proceedings including due process and confidentiality of proceedings. [AMENDMENT 71, 1980 Substitute House Joint Resolution No. 37, p 652. Approved November 4, 1980.]\nSECTION 1 IMPEACHMENT \u2013 POWER OF AND PROCEDURE. The house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment. The concurrence of a majority of all the members shall be necessary to an impeachment. All impeachments shall be tried by the senate, and, when sitting for that purpose, the senators shall be upon oath or affirmation to do justice according to law and evidence. When the governor or lieutenant governor is on trial, the chief justice of the supreme court shall preside. No person shall be convicted without a concurrence of two-thirds of the senators elected.\nSECTION 2 OFFICERS LIABLE TO. The governor and other state and judicial officers, except judges and justices of courts not of record, shall be liable to impeachment for high crimes or misdemeanors, or malfeasance in office, but judgment in such cases shall extend only to removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor, trust or profit, in the state. The party, whether convicted or acquitted, shall, nevertheless, be liable to prosecution, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.\nSECTION 3 REMOVAL FROM OFFICE. All officers not liable to impeachment shall be subject to removal for misconduct or malfeasance in office, in such manner as may be provided by law.\nSECTION 1 QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS. All persons of the age of eighteen years or over who are citizens of the United States and who have lived in the state, county, and precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election at which they offer to vote, except those disqualified by Article VI, section 3 of this Constitution, shall be entitled to vote at all elections. [AMENDMENT 63, 1974 Senate Joint Resolution No. 143, p 807. Approved November 5, 1974.]\nAmendment 5 (1910) \u2014 Art. 6 Section 1 QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS \u2014 All persons of the age of twenty-one years or over, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections: They shall be citizens of the United States; they shall have lived in the state one year, and in the county ninety days, and in the city, town, ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election at which they offer to vote; they shall be able to read and speak the English language: Provided, That Indians not taxed shall never be allowed the elective franchise: And further provided, That this amendment shall not affect the rights of franchise of any person who is now a qualified elector of this state. The legislative authority shall enact laws defining the manner of ascertaining the qualifications of voters as to their ability to read and speak the English language, and providing for punishment of persons voting or registering in violation of the provision of this section. There shall be no denial of the elective franchise at any election on account of sex. [AMENDMENT 5, 1909 p 26 Section 1. Approved November, 1910.]\nAmendment 2 (1896) \u2014 Art. 6 Section 1 QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS \u2014 All male persons of the age of twenty-one years or over, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections: They shall be citizens of the United States; they shall have lived in the state one year, and in the county ninety days, and in the city, town, ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election at which they offer to vote; they shall be able to read and speak the English language: Provided, That Indians not taxed shall never be allowed the elective franchise: And further provided, That this amendment shall not effect [affect] the right of franchise of any person who is now a qualified elector of this state. The legislature shall enact laws defining the manner of ascertaining the qualifications of voters as to their ability to read and speak the English language, and providing for punishment of persons voting or registering in violation of the provisions of this section. [AMENDMENT 2, 1895 p 60 Section 1. Approved November, 1896.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 6 Section 1 QUALIFICATIONS OF ELECTORS \u2014 All male persons of the age of twenty-one years or over, possessing the following qualifications, shall be entitled to vote at all elections: They shall be citizens of the United States; They shall have lived in the state one year, and in the county ninety days, and in the city, town, ward or precinct thirty days immediately preceding the election at which they offer to vote; Provided, that Indians not taxed shall never be allowed the elective franchise; Provided, further; that all male persons who at the time of the adoption of this Constitution are qualified electors of the Territory, shall be electors.\nSECTION 1A VOTER QUALIFICATIONS FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. [Repealed by AMENDMENT 105, 2011 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8205, p 4281. Approved November 8, 2011.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 6 Section 1A VOTER QUALIFICATIONS FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS \u2014 In consideration of those citizens of the United States who become residents of the state of Washington during the year of a presidential election with the intention of making this state their permanent residence, this section is for the purpose of authorizing such persons who can meet all qualifications for voting as set forth in section 1 of this article, except for residence, to vote for presidential electors or for the office of President and Vice-President of the United States, as the case may be, but no other: Provided, That such persons have resided in the state at least sixty days immediately preceding the presidential election concerned.\nThe legislature shall establish the time, manner and place for such persons to cast such presidential ballots.\nSECTION 2 SCHOOL ELECTIONS \u2014 FRANCHISE, HOW EXTENDED. [This section stricken by AMENDMENT 5, see Art. 6 Section 1.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 6 Section 2 SCHOOL ELECTIONS \u2014 FRANCHISE, HOW EXTENDED \u2014 The legislature may provide that there shall be no denial of the elective franchise at any school election on account of sex.\nSECTION 3 WHO DISQUALIFIED. All persons convicted of infamous crime unless restored to their civil rights and all persons while they are judicially declared mentally incompetent are excluded from the elective franchise. [AMENDMENT 83, 1988 House Joint Resolution No. 4231, p 1553. Approved November 8, 1988.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 6 Section 3 WHO DISQUALIFIED \u2014 All idiots, insane persons, and persons convicted of infamous crime unless restored to their civil rights are excluded from the elective franchise.\nSECTION 4 RESIDENCE, CONTINGENCIES AFFECTING. For the purpose of voting and eligibility to office no person shall be deemed to have gained a residence by reason of his presence or lost it by reason of his absence, while in the civil or military service of the state or of the United States, nor while a student at any institution of learning, nor while kept at public expense at any poor-house or other asylum, nor while confined in public prison, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this state or of the United States, or of the high seas.\nSECTION 5 VOTER \u2014 WHEN PRIVILEGED FROM ARREST. Voters shall in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace be privileged from arrest during their attendance at elections and in going to, and returning therefrom. No elector shall be required to do military duty on the day of any election except in time of war or public danger.\nSECTION 6 BALLOT. All elections shall be by ballot. The legislature shall provide for such method of voting as will secure to every elector absolute secrecy in preparing and depositing his ballot.\nSECTION 7 REGISTRATION. The legislature shall enact a registration law, and shall require a compliance with such law before any elector shall be allowed to vote; Provided, that this provision is not compulsory upon the legislature except as to cities and towns having a population of over five hundred inhabitants. In all other cases the legislature may or may not require registration as a pre-requisite to the right to vote, and the same system of registration need not be adopted for both classes.\nSECTION 8 ELECTIONS, TIME OF HOLDING. The first election of county and district officers not otherwise provided for in this Constitution shall be on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November 1890, and thereafter all elections for such officers shall be held bi-ennially on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November. The first election of all state officers not otherwise provided for in this Constitution, after the election held for the adoption of this Constitution, shall be on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, 1892, and the elections for such state officers shall be held in every fourth year thereafter on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November.\nCf. Art. 27 Section 14.\nSECTION 1 TAXATION. The power of taxation shall never be suspended, surrendered or contracted away. All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax and shall be levied and collected for public purposes only. The word \u201cproperty\u201d as used herein shall mean and include everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership. All real estate shall constitute one class: Provided, That the legislature may tax mines and mineral resources and lands devoted to reforestation by either a yield tax or an ad valorem tax at such rate as it may fix, or by both. Such property as the legislature may by general laws provide shall be exempt from taxation. Property of the United States and of the state, counties, school districts and other municipal corporations, and credits secured by property actually taxed in this state, not exceeding in value the value of such property, shall be exempt from taxation. The legislature shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to exempt personal property to the amount of fifteen thousand ($15,000.00) dollars for each head of a family liable to assessment and taxation under the provisions of the laws of this state of which the individual is the actual bona fide owner. [AMENDMENT 98, 2006 House Joint Resolution No. 4223, p 2117. Approved November 7, 2006.]\nAmendment 81 (1988) \u2014 Art. 7 Section 1 TAXATION \u2014The power of taxation shall never be suspended, surrendered or contracted away. All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax and shall be levied and collected for public purposes only. The word \u201cproperty\u201d as used herein shall mean and include everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership. All real estate shall constitute one class: Provided, That the legislature may tax mines and mineral resources and lands devoted to reforestation by either a yield tax or an ad valorem tax at such rate as it may fix, or by both. Such property as the legislature may by general laws provide shall be exempt from taxation. Property of the United States and of the state, counties, school districts and other municipal corporations, and credits secured by property actually taxed in this state, not exceeding in value the value of such property, shall be exempt from taxation. The legislature shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to exempt personal property to the amount of three thousand ($3,000.00) dollars for each head of a family liable to assessment and taxation under the provisions of the laws of this state of which the individual is the actual bona fide owner. [AMENDMENT 81, 1988 House Joint Resolution No. 4222, p 1551. Approved November 8, 1988.]\nAmendment 14 (1930) \u2014 Art. 7 Section 1 TAXATION \u2014 The power of taxation shall never be suspended, surrendered or contracted away. All taxes shall be uniform upon the same class of property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax and shall be levied and collected for public purposes only. The word \u201cproperty\u201d as used herein shall mean and include everything, whether tangible or intangible, subject to ownership. All real estate shall constitute one class: Provided, That the legislature may tax mines and mineral resources and lands devoted to reforestation by either a yield tax or an ad valorem tax at such rate as it may fix, or by both. Such property as the legislature may by general laws provide shall be exempt from taxation. Property of the United States and of the state, counties, school districts and other municipal corporations, and credits secured by property actually taxed in this state, not exceeding in value the value of such property, shall be exempt from taxation. The legislature shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to exempt personal property to the amount of three hundred ($300.00) dollars for each head of a family liable to assessment and taxation under the provisions of the laws of this state of which the individual is the actual bona fide owner. [AMENDMENT 14, 1929 p 499 Section 1. Approved November, 1930.]\nReviser\u2019s note: Amendment 14 amended Art. 7 by striking all of Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4. Subsequently, Amendment 17 added a new Section 2, and Amendment 19 added a new Section 3.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 7 Section 1 ANNUAL STATE TAX \u2014 All property in the state, not exempt under the laws of the United States, or under this Constitution, shall be taxed in proportion to its value, to be ascertained as provided by law. The legislature shall provide by law for an annual tax sufficient, with other sources of revenue to defray the estimated ordinary expenses of the state for each fiscal year. And for the purpose of paying the state debt, if there be any, the legislature shall provide for levying a tax annually, sufficient to pay the annual interest and principal of such debt within twenty years from the final passage of the law creating the debt.\nAmendment 3 (1900) \u2014 Art. 7 Section 2, was amended by adding the following proviso:\u201cAnd provided further, That the legislature shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to exempt personal property to the amount of three hundred dollars ($300) for each head of a family liable to assessment and taxation under the provisions of the laws of this state of which the individual is the actual and bona fide owner.\u201d [AMENDMENT 3, 1899 p 121 Section 1. Approved November, 1900.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 7 Section 2 TAXATION \u2014 UNIFORMITY AND EQUALITY \u2014 EXEMPTION \u2014 The legislature shall provide by law a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation on all property in the state, according to its value in money, and shall prescribe such regulations by general law as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property, so that every person and corporation shall pay a tax in proportion to the value of his, her, or its property; Provided, that a deduction of debts from credits may be authorized: Provided, further, that the property of the United States and of the state, counties, school districts and other municipal corporations, and such other property as the legislature may by general laws provide, shall be exempt from taxation.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 7 Section 3 ASSESSMENT OF CORPORATE PROPERTY \u2014 The legislature shall provide by general law for the assessing and levying of taxes on all corporation property as near as may be by the same methods as are provided for the assessing and levying of taxes on individual property.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 7 Section 4 NO SURRENDER OF POWER OR SUSPENSION OF TAX ON CORPORATE PROPERTY \u2014 The power to tax corporations and corporate property shall not be surrendered or suspended by any contract or grant to which the state shall be a party.\nSECTION 2 LIMITATION ON LEVIES. Except as hereinafter provided and notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, the aggregate of all tax levies upon real and personal property by the state and all taxing districts now existing or hereafter created, shall not in any year exceed one percent of the true and fair value of such property in money. Nothing herein shall prevent levies at the rates now provided by law by or for any port or public utility district. The term \u201ctaxing district\u201d for the purposes of this section shall mean any political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, or other governmental agency authorized by law to levy, or have levied for it, ad valorem taxes on property, other than a port or public utility district. Such aggregate limitation or any specific limitation imposed by law in conformity therewith may be exceeded only as follows:\n(a) By any taxing district when specifically authorized so to do by a majority of at least three-fifths of the voters of the taxing district voting on the proposition to levy such additional tax submitted not more than twelve months prior to the date on which the proposed initial levy is to be made and not oftener than twice in such twelve month period, either at a special election or at the regular election of such taxing district, at which election the number of voters voting \u201cyes\u201d on the proposition shall constitute three-fifths of a number equal to forty percent of the total number of voters voting in such taxing district at the last preceding general election when the number of voters voting on the proposition does not exceed forty percent of the total number of voters voting in such taxing district in the last preceding general election; or by a majority of at least three-fifths of the voters of the taxing district voting on the proposition to levy when the number of voters voting on the proposition exceeds forty percent of the number of voters voting in such taxing district in the last preceding general election.\nNotwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, any proposition pursuant to this subsection to levy additional tax for the support of the common schools or fire protection districts may provide such support for a period of up to four years and any proposition to levy an additional tax to support the construction, modernization, or remodelling of school facilities or fire facilities may provide such support for a period not exceeding six years. Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, a proposition under this subsection to levy an additional tax for a school district shall be authorized by a majority of the voters voting on the proposition, regardless of the number of voters voting on the proposition;\n(b) By any taxing district otherwise authorized by law to issue general obligation bonds for capital purposes, for the sole purpose of making the required payments of principal and interest on general obligation bonds issued solely for capital purposes, other than the replacement of equipment, when authorized so to do by majority of at least three-fifths of the voters of the taxing district voting on the proposition to issue such bonds and to pay the principal and interest thereon by annual tax levies in excess of the limitation herein provided during the term of such bonds, submitted not oftener than twice in any calendar year, at an election held in the manner provided by law for bond elections in such taxing district, at which election the total number of voters voting on the proposition shall constitute not less than forty percent of the total number of voters voting in such taxing district at the last preceding general election. Any such taxing district shall have the right by vote of its governing body to refund any general obligation bonds of said district issued for capital purposes only, and to provide for the interest thereon and amortization thereof by annual levies in excess of the tax limitation provided for herein. The provisions of this section shall also be subject to the limitations contained in Article VIII, Section 6, of this Constitution;\n(c) By the state or any taxing district for the purpose of preventing the impairment of the obligation of a contract when ordered so to do by a court of last resort. [AMENDMENT 101, 2007 Engrossed House Joint Resolution No. 4204, pp 3143-3145. Approved November 6, 2007.]\nPrior amendments of Art. 7 Section 2, see Amendments 17, 55, 59, 64, 79, and 90.\nAmendment 95 (2002) \u2014 Art. 7 Section 2 LIMITATION ON LEVIESExcept as hereinafter provided and notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, the aggregate of all tax levies upon real and personal property by the state and all taxing districts now existing or hereafter created, shall not in any year exceed one percent of the true and fair value of such property in money: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall prevent levies at the rates now provided by law by or for any port or public utility district. The term \u201ctaxing district\u201d for the purposes of this section shall mean any political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, or other governmental agency authorized by law to levy, or have levied for it, ad valorem taxes on property, other than a port or public utility district. Such aggregate limitation or any specific limitation imposed by law in conformity therewith may be exceeded only as follows:\n(a) By any taxing district when specifically authorized so to do by a majority of at least three-fifths of the voters of the taxing district voting on the proposition to levy such additional tax submitted not more than twelve months prior to the date on which the proposed levy is to be made and not oftener than twice in such twelve month period, either at a special election or at the regular election of such taxing district, at which election the number of voters voting \u201cyes\u201d on the proposition shall constitute three-fifths of a number equal to forty percent of the total number of voters voting in such taxing district at the last preceding general election when the number of voters voting on the proposition does not exceed forty percent of the total number of voters voting in such taxing district in the last preceding general election; or by a majority of at least three-fifths of the voters of the taxing district voting on the proposition to levy when the number of voters voting on the proposition exceeds forty percent of the number of voters voting in such taxing district in the last preceding general election: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, any proposition pursuant to this subsection to levy additional tax for the support of the common schools or fire protection districts may provide such support for a period of up to four years and any proposition to levy an additional tax to support the construction, modernization, or remodelling of school facilities or fire facilities may provide such support for a period not exceeding six years;\n(b) By any taxing district otherwise authorized by law to issue general obligation bonds for capital purposes, for the sole purpose of making the required payments of principal and interest on general obligation bonds issued solely for capital purposes, other than the replacement of equipment, when authorized so to do by majority of at least three-fifths of the voters of the taxing district voting on the proposition to issue such bonds and to pay the principal and interest thereon by annual tax levies in excess of the limitation herein provided during the term of such bonds, submitted not oftener than twice in any calendar year, at an election held in the manner provided by law for bond elections in such taxing district, at which election the total number of voters voting on the proposition shall constitute not less than forty percent of the total number of voters voting in such taxing district at the last preceding general election: Provided, That any such taxing district shall have the right by vote of its governing body to refund any general obligation bonds of said district issued for capital purposes only, and to provide for the interest thereon and amortization thereof by annual levies in excess of the tax limitation provided for herein, And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall also be subject to the limitations contained in Article VIII, Section 6, of this Constitution;\n(c) By the state or any taxing district for the purpose of preventing the impairment of the obligation of a contract when ordered so to do by a court of last resort. [AMENDMENT 95, 2002 House Joint Resolution No. 4220, p 2203. Approved November 5, 2002.]\nAmendment 90 (1997) \u2014 Art. 7 Section 2 LIMITATION ON LEVIES \u2014 Except as hereinafter provided and notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, the aggregate of all tax levies upon real and personal property by the state and all taxing districts now existing or hereafter created, shall not in any year exceed one per centum of the true and fair value of such property in money: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall prevent levies at the rates now provided by law by or for any port or public utility district. The term \u201ctaxing district\u201d for the purposes of this section shall mean any political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, or other governmental agency authorized by law to levy, or have levied for it, ad valorem taxes on property, other than a port or public utility district. Such aggregate limitation or any specific limitation imposed by law in conformity therewith may be exceeded only\n(a) By any taxing district when specifically authorized so to do by a majority of at least three-fifths of the electors thereof voting on the proposition to levy such additional tax submitted not more than twelve months prior to the date on which the proposed levy is to be made and not oftener than twice in such twelve month period, either at a special election or at the regular election of such taxing district, at which election the number of persons voting \u201cyes\u201d on the proposition shall constitute three-fifths of a number equal to forty per centum of the total votes cast in such taxing district at the last preceding general election when the number of electors voting on the proposition does not exceed forty per centum of the total votes cast in such taxing district in the last preceding general election; or by a majority of at least three-fifths of the electors thereof voting on the proposition to levy when the number of electors voting on the proposition exceeds forty percentum of the total votes cast in such taxing district in the last preceding general election: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, any proposition pursuant to this subsection to levy additional tax for the support of the common schools may provide such support for a two year period and any proposition to levy an additional tax to support the construction, modernization, or remodelling of school facilities may provide such support for a period not exceeding six years;\n(b) By any taxing district otherwise authorized by law to issue general obligation bonds for capital purposes, for the sole purpose of making the required payments of principal and interest on general obligation bonds issued solely for capital purposes, other than the replacement of equipment, when authorized so to do by majority of at least three-fifths of the electors thereof voting on the proposition to issue such bonds and to pay the principal and interest thereon by an annual tax levy in excess of the limitation herein provided during the term of such bonds, submitted not oftener than twice in any calendar year, at an election held in the manner provided by law for bond elections in such taxing district, at which election the total number of persons voting on the proposition shall constitute not less than forty per centum of the total number of votes cast in such taxing district at the last preceding general election: Provided, That any such taxing district shall have the right by vote of its governing body to refund any general obligation bonds of said district issued for capital purposes only, and to provide for the interest thereon and amortization thereof by annual levies in excess of the tax limitation provided for herein, And provided further, That the provisions of this section shall also be subject to the limitations contained in Article VIII, Section 6, of this Constitution;\n(c) By the state or any taxing district for the purpose of paying the principal or interest on general obligation bonds outstanding on December 6, 1934; or for the purpose of preventing the impairment of the obligation of a contract when ordered so to do by a court of last resort. [AMENDMENT 90, 1997 House Joint Resolution No. 4208, p 3063. Approved November 4, 1997.]\n(c) By the state or any taxing district for the purpose of paying the principal or interest on general obligation bonds outstanding on December 6, 1934; or for the purpose of preventing the impairment of the obligation of a contract when ordered so to do by a court of last resort. [AMENDMENT 79, 1986 House Joint Resolution No. 55, p 1530. Approved November 4, 1986.]\n(a) By any taxing district when specifically authorized so to do by a majority of at least three-fifths of the electors thereof voting on the proposition to levy such additional tax submitted not more than twelve months prior to the date on which the proposed levy is to be made and not oftener than twice in such twelve month period, either at a special election or at the regular election of such taxing district, at which election the number of persons voting \u201cyes\u201d on the proposition shall constitute three-fifths of a number equal to forty per centum of the total votes cast in such taxing district at the last preceding general election when the number of electors voting on the proposition does not exceed forty per centum of the total votes cast in such taxing district in the last preceding general election; or by a majority of at least three-fifths of the electors thereof voting on the proposition to levy when the number of electors voting on the proposition exceeds forty percentum of the total votes cast in such taxing district in the last preceding general election: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, any proposition pursuant to this subsection to levy additional tax for the support of the common schools may provide such support for a two year period;\n(c) By the state or any taxing district for the purpose of paying the principal or interest on general obligation bonds outstanding on December 6, 1934; or for the purpose of preventing the impairment of the obligation of a contract when ordered so to do by a court of last resort. [AMENDMENT 64, 1975-\u201976 2nd ex.s. Senate Joint Resolution No. 137, p 518. Approved November 2, 1976.]\nAmendment 59 (1972) and Amendment 55 (1972) \u2014 Art. 7 Section 2 LIMITATION ON LEVIES \u2014 Except as hereinafter provided and notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, the aggregate of all tax levies upon real and personal property by the state and all taxing districts now existing or hereafter created, shall not in any year exceed one per centum of the true and fair value of such property in money: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall prevent levies at the rates now provided by law by or for any port or public utility district. The term \u201ctaxing district\u201d for the purposes of this section shall mean any political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, or other governmental agency authorized by law to levy, or have levied for it, ad valorem taxes on property, other than a port or public utility district. Such aggregate limitation or any specific limitation imposed by law in conformity therewith may be exceeded only\n(a) By any taxing district when specifically authorized so to do by a majority of at least three-fifths of the electors thereof voting on the proposition to levy such additional tax submitted not more than twelve months prior to the date on which the proposed levy is to be made and not oftener than twice in such twelve month period, either at a special election or at the regular election of such taxing district, at which election the number of persons voting \u201cyes\u201d on the proposition shall constitute three-fifths of a number equal to forty per centum of the total votes cast in such taxing district at the last preceding general election when the number of electors voting on the proposition does not exceed forty per centum of the total votes cast in such taxing district in the last preceding general election; or by a majority of at least three-fifths of the electors thereof voting on the proposition to levy when the number of electors voting on the proposition exceeds forty percentum of the total votes cast in such taxing district in the last preceding general election;\n(c) By the state or any taxing district for the purpose of paying the principal or interest on general obligation bonds outstanding on December 6, 1934; or for the purpose of preventing the impairment of the obligation of a contract when ordered so to do by a court of last resort. [(i) AMENDMENT 59, 1971 House Joint Resolution No. 47, p 1834. Approved November, 1972. (ii) AMENDMENT 55, 1971 Senate Joint Resolution No. 1, p 1827. Approved November, 1972.]\nReviser\u2019s note: Article 7 Section 2 was twice amended in different respects at the November 1972 general election by the ratification of both S.J.R. No. 1. (AMENDMENT 55) and H.J.R. No. 47. (AMENDMENT 59.) 1971 HJR No. 47 contained the following paragraph:\n\u201cBe It Further Resolved, That the foregoing amendment shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the state in such a manner that they may vote for or against it separately from the proposed amendment to Article VII, section 2, (Amendment 17) of the Constitution of the State of Washington contained in Senate Joint Resolution No. 1: Provided, That if both proposed amendments are approved and ratified, both shall become part of the Constitution\u201d [1971 House Joint Resolution No. 47, part, p 1834]\nThe section as printed above reflects the content of both amendments.\nAmendment 17 (1944) \u2014 Art. 7 Section 2 FORTY MILL LIMIT \u2014 Except as hereinafter provided and notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution, the aggregate of all tax levies upon real and personal property by the state and all taxing districts now existing or hereafter created, shall not in any year exceed forty mills on the dollar of assessed valuation, which assessed valuation shall be fifty per centum of the true and fair value of such property in money: Provided, however, That nothing herein shall prevent levies at the rates now provided by law by or for any port or public utility district. The term \u201ctaxing district\u201d for the purposes of this section shall mean any political subdivision, municipal corporation, district, or other governmental agency authorized by law to levy, or have levied for it, ad valorem taxes on property, other than a port or public utility district. Such aggregate limitation or any specific limitation imposed by law in conformity therewith may be exceeded only\n(a) By any taxing district when specifically authorized so to do by a majority of at least three-fifths of the electors thereof voting on the proposition to levy such additional tax submitted not more than twelve months prior to the date on which the proposed levy is to be made and not oftener than twice in such twelve month period, either at a special election or at the regular election of such taxing district, at which election the number of persons voting on the proposition shall constitute not less than forty per centum of the total number of votes cast in such taxing district at the last preceding general election;\n(c) By the state or any taxing district for the purpose of paying the principal or interest on general obligation bonds outstanding on December 6, 1934; or for the purpose of preventing the impairment of the obligation of a contract when ordered so to do by a court of last resort. [AMENDMENT 17, 1943 House Joint Resolution No. 1, p 936. Approved November, 1944.]\nReviser\u2019s note: Original section 2, as amended by Amendment 3, was stricken by Amendment 14. The original section and Amendment 3, are set out following Art. 7, Section 1, above.\nSECTION 3 TAXATION OF FEDERAL AGENCIES AND PROPERTY. The United States and its agencies and instrumentalities, and their property, may be taxed under any of the tax laws of this state, whenever and in such manner as such taxation may be authorized or permitted under the laws of the United States, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Constitution of this state. [AMENDMENT 19, 1945 House Joint Resolution No. 9, p 932. Approved November, 1946.]\nReviser\u2019s note: Original section 3 was stricken by Amendment 14. The original section is set out following Art. 7 Section 1, above.\nSECTION 4 NO SURRENDER OF POWER OR SUSPENSION OF TAX ON CORPORATE PROPERTY.\nReviser\u2019s note: Original section 4 was stricken by Amendment 14. It is set out following Art. 7 Section 1, above.\nSECTION 5 TAXES, HOW LEVIED. No tax shall be levied except in pursuance of law; and every law imposing a tax shall state distinctly the object of the same to which only it shall be applied.\nSECTION 6 TAXES, HOW PAID. All taxes levied and collected for state purposes shall be paid in money only into the state treasury.\nSECTION 7 ANNUAL STATEMENT. An accurate statement of the receipts and expenditures of the public moneys shall be published annually in such manner as the legislature may provide.\nSECTION 8 TAX TO COVER DEFICIENCIES. Whenever the expenses of any fiscal year shall exceed the income, the legislature may provide for levying a tax for the ensuing fiscal year, sufficient, with other sources of income, to pay the deficiency, as well as the estimated expenses of the ensuing fiscal year.\nSECTION 9 SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS OR TAXATION FOR LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. The legislature may vest the corporate authorities of cities, towns and villages with power to make local improvements by special assessment, or by special taxation of property benefited. For all corporate purposes, all municipal corporations may be vested with authority to assess and collect taxes and such taxes shall be uniform in respect to persons and property within the jurisdiction of the body levying the same.\nSECTION 10 RETIRED PERSONS PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 7, section 1 (Amendment 14) and Article 7, section 2 (Amendment 17), the following tax exemption shall be allowed as to real property:\nThe legislature shall have the power, by appropriate legislation, to grant to retired property owners relief from the property tax on the real property occupied as a residence by those owners. The legislature may place such restrictions and conditions upon the granting of such relief as it shall deem proper. Such restrictions and conditions may include, but are not limited to, the limiting of the relief to those property owners below a specific level of income and those fulfilling certain minimum residential requirements. [AMENDMENT 47, 1965 ex.s. House Joint Resolution No. 7, p 2821. Approved November 8, 1966.]\nSECTION 11 TAXATION BASED ON ACTUAL USE. Nothing in this Article VII as amended shall prevent the legislature from providing, subject to such conditions as it may enact, that the true and fair value in money (a) of farms, agricultural lands, standing timber and timberlands, and (b) of other open space lands which are used for recreation or for enjoyment of their scenic or natural beauty shall be based on the use to which such property is currently applied, and such values shall be used in computing the assessed valuation of such property in the same manner as the assessed valuation is computed for all property. [AMENDMENT 53, 1967 House Joint Resolution No. 1; see 1969 p 2976. Approved November 5, 1968.]\nSECTION 12 BUDGET STABILIZATION ACCOUNT. (a) A budget stabilization account shall be established and maintained in the state treasury.\n(b)(1) By June 30th of each fiscal year, an amount equal to one percent of the general state revenues for that fiscal year shall be transferred to the budget stabilization account. Nothing in this subsection (b) shall prevent the appropriation of additional amounts to the budget stabilization account.\n(2) By June 30th of the second year of each fiscal biennium, three-quarters of any extraordinary revenue growth shall be transferred to the budget stabilization account. However, no transfer of extraordinary revenue growth under this subsection (b)(2) shall occur in a fiscal biennium following a fiscal biennium in which annual average state employment growth averaged less than one percent per fiscal year. \u201cExtraordinary revenue growth\u201d means the amount by which the growth in general state revenues for that fiscal biennium exceeds by one-third the average biennial percentage growth in general state revenues over the prior five fiscal biennia. In making this determination, the comparability of data shall be maintained by adjusting historical general state revenues to reflect statutory changes to the dedication of state revenues. The transfer under this subsection shall be made only to the extent that it exceeds the total transfers under (1) of this subsection for that fiscal biennium.\n(c) Each fiscal quarter, the state economic and revenue forecast council appointed and authorized as provided by statute, or successor entity, shall estimate state employment growth for the current and next two fiscal years.\n(d) Moneys may be withdrawn and appropriated from the budget stabilization account as follows:\n(i) If the governor declares a state of emergency resulting from a catastrophic event that necessitates government action to protect life or public safety, then for that fiscal year moneys may be withdrawn and appropriated from the budget stabilization account, via separate legislation setting forth the nature of the emergency and containing an appropriation limited to the above-authorized purposes as contained in the declaration, by a favorable vote of a majority of the members elected to each house of the legislature.\n(ii) If the employment growth forecast for any fiscal year is estimated to be less than one percent, then for that fiscal year moneys may be withdrawn and appropriated from the budget stabilization account by the favorable vote of a majority of the members elected to each house of the legislature.\n(iii) Any amount may be withdrawn and appropriated from the budget stabilization account at any time by the favorable vote of at least three-fifths of the members of each house of the legislature.\n(e) Amounts in the budget stabilization account may be invested as provided by law and retained in that account. When the balance in the budget stabilization account, including investment earnings, equals more than ten percent of the estimated general state revenues in that fiscal year, the legislature by the favorable vote of a majority of the members elected to each house of the legislature may withdraw and appropriate the balance to the extent that the balance exceeds ten percent of the estimated general state revenues. Appropriations under this subsection (e) may be made solely for deposit to the education construction fund.\n(f) As used in this section, \u201cgeneral state revenues\u201d has the meaning set forth in Article VIII, section 1 of the Constitution. Forecasts and estimates shall be made by the state economic and revenue forecast council appointed and authorized as provided by statute, or successor entity.\n(g) The legislature shall enact appropriate laws to carry out the purposes of this section.\n(h) This section takes effect July 1, 2008. [AMENDMENT 106, 2011 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8206, p 4281-4283. Approved November 8, 2011.]\nAmendment 99 (2007) Art. 7 Section 12 BUDGET STABILIZATION ACCOUNT. (a) A budget stabilization account shall be established and maintained in the state treasury.\n(b) By June 30th of each fiscal year, an amount equal to one percent of the general state revenues for that fiscal year shall be transferred to the budget stabilization account. Nothing in this subsection (b) shall prevent the appropriation of additional amounts to the budget stabilization account.\n(h) This section takes effect July 1, 2008. [AMENDMENT 99, 2007 Engrossed Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 8206, pp 3146, 3147. Approved November 6, 2007.]\nSTATE, COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS\nSECTION 1 STATE DEBT. (a) The state may contract debt, the principal of which shall be paid and discharged within thirty years from the time of contracting thereof, in the manner set forth herein.\n(b) The aggregate debt contracted by the state, as calculated by the treasurer at the time debt is contracted, shall not exceed that amount for which payments of principal and interest in any fiscal year would require the state to expend more than the applicable percentage limit of the arithmetic mean of its general state revenues for the six immediately preceding fiscal years as certified by the treasurer. The term \u201capplicable percentage limit\u201d means eight and one-half percent from July 1, 2014, through June 30, 2016; eight and one-quarter percent from July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2034; eight percent from July 1, 2034, and thereafter. The term \u201cfiscal year\u201d means that period of time commencing July 1 of any year and ending on June 30 of the following year.\n(c) The term \u201cgeneral state revenues,\u201d when used in this section, shall include all state money received in the treasury from each and every source, including moneys received from ad valorem taxes levied by the state and deposited in the general fund in each fiscal year, but not including: (1) Fees and other revenues derived from the ownership or operation of any undertaking, facility, or project; (2) Moneys received as gifts, grants, donations, aid, or assistance or otherwise from the United States or any department, bureau, or corporation thereof, or any person, firm, or corporation, public or private, when the terms and conditions of such gift, grant, donation, aid, or assistance require the application and disbursement of such moneys otherwise than for the general purposes of the state of Washington; (3) Moneys to be paid into and received from retirement system funds, and performance bonds and deposits; (4) Moneys to be paid into and received from trust funds and the several permanent and irreducible funds of the state and the moneys derived therefrom but excluding bond redemption funds; (5) Moneys received from taxes levied for specific purposes and required to be deposited for those purposes into specified funds or accounts other than the general fund; and (6) Proceeds received from the sale of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness.\n(d) In computing the amount required for payment of principal and interest on outstanding debt under this section, debt shall be construed to mean borrowed money represented by bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness which are secured by the full faith and credit of the state or are required to be repaid, directly or indirectly, from general state revenues and which are incurred by the state, any department, authority, public corporation, or quasi public corporation of the state, any state university or college, or any other public agency created by the state but not by counties, cities, towns, school districts, or other municipal corporations, but shall not include obligations for the payment of current expenses of state government, nor shall it include debt hereafter incurred pursuant to section 3 of this article, obligations guaranteed as provided for in subsection (g) of this section, principal of bond anticipation notes or obligations issued to fund or refund the indebtedness of the Washington state building authority. In addition, for the purpose of computing the amount required for payment of interest on outstanding debt under subsection (b) of this section and this subsection, \u201cinterest\u201d shall be reduced by subtracting the amount scheduled to be received by the state as payments from the federal government in each year in respect of bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness subject to this section.\n(e) The state may pledge the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the state to guarantee the voter approved general obligation debt of school districts in the manner authorized by the legislature. Any such guarantee does not remove the debt obligation of the school district and is not state debt.\n(f) The state may, without limitation, fund or refund, at or prior to maturity, the whole or any part of any existing debt or of any debt hereafter contracted pursuant to section 1, section 2, or section 3 of this article, including any premium payable with respect thereto and interest thereon, or fund or refund, at or prior to maturity, the whole or any part of any indebtedness incurred or authorized prior to the effective date of this amendment by any entity of the type described in subsection (h) of this section, including any premium payable with respect thereto and any interest thereon. Such funding or refunding shall not be deemed to be contracting debt by the state.\n(g) Notwithstanding the limitation contained in subsection (b) of this section, the state may pledge its full faith, credit, and taxing power to guarantee the payment of any obligation payable from revenues received from any of the following sources: (1) Fees collected by the state as license fees for motor vehicles; (2) Excise taxes collected by the state on the sale, distribution or use of motor vehicle fuel; and (3) Interest on the permanent common school fund: Provided, That the legislature shall, at all times, provide sufficient revenues from such sources to pay the principal and interest due on all obligations for which said source of revenue is pledged.\n(h) No money shall be paid from funds in custody of the treasurer with respect to any debt contracted after the effective date of this amendment by the Washington state building authority, the capitol committee, or any similar entity existing or operating for similar purposes pursuant to which such entity undertakes to finance or provide a facility for use or occupancy by the state or any agency, department, or instrumentality thereof.\n(i) The legislature shall prescribe all matters relating to the contracting, funding or refunding of debt pursuant to this section, including: The purposes for which debt may be contracted; by a favorable vote of three-fifths of the members elected to each house, the amount of debt which may be contracted for any class of such purposes; the kinds of notes, bonds, or other evidences of debt which may be issued by the state; and the manner by which the treasurer shall determine and advise the legislature, any appropriate agency, officer, or instrumentality of the state as to the available debt capacity within the limitation set forth in this section. The legislature may delegate to any state officer, agency, or instrumentality any of its powers relating to the contracting, funding or refunding of debt pursuant to this section except its power to determine the amount and purposes for which debt may be contracted.\n(j) The full faith, credit, and taxing power of the state of Washington are pledged to the payment of the debt created on behalf of the state pursuant to this section and the legislature shall provide by appropriation for the payment of the interest upon and installments of principal of all such debt as the same falls due, but in any event, any court of record may compel such payment.\n(k) Notwithstanding the limitations contained in subsection (b) of this section, the state may issue certificates of indebtedness in such sum or sums as may be necessary to meet temporary deficiencies of the treasury, to preserve the best interests of the state in the conduct of the various state institutions, departments, bureaus, and agencies during each fiscal year; such certificates may be issued only to provide for appropriations already made by the legislature and such certificates must be retired and the debt discharged other than by refunding within twelve months after the date of incurrence.\n(l) Bonds, notes, or other obligations issued and sold by the state of Washington pursuant to and in conformity with this article shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings of the issuance or sale thereof and shall be incontestable in the hands of a bona fide purchaser or holder thereof. [AMENDMENT 107, 2012 Engrossed Senate Joint Resolution No. 8221, p 2429-2432. Approved November 6, 2012.]\nAmendment 103 (2010) \u2014 Art. 8 Section 1 STATE DEBT (a) The state may contract debt, the principal of which shall be paid and discharged within thirty years from the time of contracting thereof, in the manner set forth herein.\nb) The aggregate debt contracted by the state shall not exceed that amount for which payments of principal and interest in any fiscal year would require the state to expend more than nine percent of the arithmetic mean of its general state revenues for the three immediately preceding fiscal years as certified by the treasurer. The term \u201cfiscal year\u201d means that period of time commencing July 1 of any year and ending on June 30 of the following year.\nc) The term \u201cgeneral state revenues\u201d when used in this section, shall include all state money received in the treasury from each and every source whatsoever except: (1) Fees and revenues derived from the ownership or operation of any undertaking, facility, or project; (2) Moneys received as gifts, grants, donations, aid, or assistance or otherwise from the United States or any department, bureau, or corporation thereof, or any person, firm, or corporation, public or private, when the terms and conditions of such gift, grant, donation, aid, or assistance require the application and disbursement of such moneys otherwise than for the general purposes of the state of Washington; (3) Moneys to be paid into and received from retirement system funds, and performance bonds and deposits; (4) Moneys to be paid into and received from trust funds including but not limited to moneys received from taxes levied for specific purposes and the several permanent and irreducible funds of the state and the moneys derived therefrom but excluding bond redemption funds; (5) Proceeds received from the sale of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness.\ne) The state may pledge the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the state to guarantee the voter approved general obligation debt of school districts in the manner authorized by the legislature. Any such guarantee does not remove the debt obligation of the school district and is not state debt.\n(l) Bonds, notes, or other obligations issued and sold by the state of Washington pursuant to and in conformity with this article shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings of the issuance or sale thereof and shall be incontestable in the hands of a bona fide purchaser or holder thereof. [AMENDMENT 103, 2010 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8225, p 3129-3132. Approved November 2, 2010.]\nAmendment 92 (1999) \u2014 Art. 8 Section 1 STATE DEBT \u2014 (a) The state may contract debt, the principal of which shall be paid and discharged within thirty years from the time of contracting thereof, in the manner set forth herein.\n(b) The aggregate debt contracted by the state shall not exceed that amount for which payments of principal and interest in any fiscal year would require the state to expend more than nine percent of the arithmetic mean of its general state revenues for the three immediately preceding fiscal years as certified by the treasurer. The term \u201cfiscal year\u201d means that period of time commencing July 1 of any year and ending on June 30 of the following year.\n(c) The term \u201cgeneral state revenues\u201d when used in this section, shall include all state money received in the treasury from each and every source whatsoever except: (1) Fees and revenues derived from the ownership or operation of any undertaking, facility, or project; (2) Moneys received as gifts, grants, donations, aid, or assistance or otherwise from the United States or any department, bureau, or corporation thereof, or any person, firm, or corporation, public or private, when the terms and conditions of such gift, grant, donation, aid, or assistance require the application and disbursement of such moneys otherwise than for the general purposes of the state of Washington; (3) Moneys to be paid into and received from retirement system funds, and performance bonds and deposits; (4) Moneys to be paid into and received from trust funds including but not limited to moneys received from taxes levied for specific purposes and the several permanent and irreducible funds of the state and the moneys derived therefrom but excluding bond redemption funds; (5) Proceeds received from the sale of bonds or other evidences of indebtedness.\n(d) In computing the amount required for payment of principal and interest on outstanding debt under this section, debt shall be construed to mean borrowed money represented by bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness which are secured by the full faith and credit of the state or are required to be repaid, directly or indirectly, from general state revenues and which are incurred by the state, any department, authority, public corporation, or quasi public corporation of the state, any state university or college, or any other public agency created by the state but not by counties, cities, towns, school districts, or other municipal corporations, but shall not include obligations for the payment of current expenses of state government, nor shall it include debt hereafter incurred pursuant to section 3 of this article, obligations guaranteed as provided for in subsection (g) of this section, principal of bond anticipation notes or obligations issued to fund or refund the indebtedness of the Washington state building authority.\n(l) Bonds, notes, or other obligations issued and sold by the state of Washington pursuant to and in conformity with this article shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings of the issuance or sale thereof and shall be incontestable in the hands of a bona fide purchaser or holder thereof. [AMENDMENT 92, 1999 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8206, p 2387. Approved November 2, 1999.]\nAmendment 60, part, (1972) \u2014 Art. 8 Section 1 STATE DEBT \u2014 (a) The state may contract debt, the principal of which shall be paid and discharged within thirty years from the time of contracting thereof, in the manner set forth herein.\n(d) In computing the amount required for payment of principal and interest on outstanding debt under this section, debt shall be construed to mean borrowed money represented by bonds, notes, or other evidences of indebtedness which are secured by the full faith and credit of the state or are required to be repaid, directly or indirectly, from general state revenues and which are incurred by the state, any department, authority, public corporation, or quasi public corporation of the state, any state university or college, or any other public agency created by the state but not by counties, cities, towns, school districts, or other municipal corporations, but shall not include obligations for the payment of current expenses of state government, nor shall it include debt hereafter incurred pursuant to section 3 of this article, obligations guaranteed as provided for in subsection (f) of this section, principal of bond anticipation notes or obligations issued to fund or refund the indebtedness of the Washington state building authority.\n(e) The state may, without limitation, fund or refund, at or prior to maturity, the whole or any part of any existing debt or of any debt hereafter contracted pursuant to section 1, section 2, or section 3 of this article, including any premium payable with respect thereto and interest thereon, or fund or refund, at or prior to maturity, the whole or any part of any indebtedness incurred or authorized prior to the effective date of this amendment by any entity of the type described in subsection (g) of this section, including any premium payable with respect thereto and any interest thereon. Such funding or refunding shall not be deemed to be contracting debt by the state.\n(f) Notwithstanding the limitation contained in subsection (b) of this section, the state may pledge its full faith, credit, and taxing power to guarantee the payment of any obligation payable from revenues received from any of the following sources: (1) Fees collected by the state as license fees for motor vehicles; (2) Excise taxes collected by the state on the sale, distribution or use of motor vehicle fuel; and (3) Interest on the permanent common school fund: Provided, That the legislature shall, at all times, provide sufficient revenues from such sources to pay the principal and interest due on all obligations for which said source of revenue is pledged.\n(g) No money shall be paid from funds in custody of the treasurer with respect to any debt contracted after the effective date of this amendment by the Washington state building authority, the capitol committee, or any similar entity existing or operating for similar purposes pursuant to which such entity undertakes to finance or provide a facility for use or occupancy by the state or any agency, department, or instrumentality thereof.\n(h) The legislature shall prescribe all matters relating to the contracting, funding or refunding of debt pursuant to this section, including: The purposes for which debt may be contracted; by a favorable vote of three-fifths of the members elected to each house, the amount of debt which may be contracted for any class of such purposes; the kinds of notes, bonds, or other evidences of debt which may be issued by the state; and the manner by which the treasurer shall determine and advise the legislature, any appropriate agency, officer, or instrumentality of the state as to the available debt capacity within the limitation set forth in this section. The legislature may delegate to any state officer, agency, or instrumentality any of its powers relating to the contracting, funding or refunding of debt pursuant to this section except its power to determine the amount and purposes for which debt may be contracted.\n(i) The full faith, credit, and taxing power of the state of Washington are pledged to the payment of the debt created on behalf of the state pursuant to this section and the legislature shall provide by appropriation for the payment of the interest upon and installments of principal of all such debt as the same falls due, but in any event, any court of record may compel such payment.\n(j) Notwithstanding the limitations contained in subsection (b) of this section, the state may issue certificates of indebtedness in such sum or sums as may be necessary to meet temporary deficiencies of the treasury, to preserve the best interests of the state in the conduct of the various state institutions, departments, bureaus, and agencies during each fiscal year; such certificates may be issued only to provide for appropriations already made by the legislature and such certificates must be retired and the debt discharged other than by refunding within twelve months after the date of incurrence.\n(k) Bonds, notes, or other obligations issued and sold by the state of Washington pursuant to and in conformity with this article shall not be invalid for any irregularity or defect in the proceedings of the issuance or sale thereof and shall be incontestable in the hands of a bona fide purchaser or holder thereof. [AMENDMENT 60, part, 1971 House Joint Resolution No. 52, part, p 1836. Approved November, 1972.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 8 Section 1 LIMITATION OF STATE DEBT \u2014 The state may to meet casual deficits or failure in revenues, or for expenses not provided for, contract debts, but such debts, direct and contingent, singly or in the aggregate, shall not at any time exceed four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000), and the moneys arising from the loans creating such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which they were obtained or to repay the debts so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever.\nSECTION 2 POWERS EXTENDED IN CERTAIN CASES. In addition to the above limited power to contract debts the state may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or to defend the state in war, but the money arising from the contracting of such debts shall be applied to the purpose for which it was raised and to no other purpose whatever.\nSECTION 3 SPECIAL INDEBTEDNESS, HOW AUTHORIZED. Except the debt specified in sections one and two of this article, no debts shall hereafter be contracted by, or on behalf of this state, unless such debt shall be authorized by law for some single work or object to be distinctly specified therein. No such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election, or a special election called for that purpose, have been submitted to the people and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election. [AMENDMENT 60, part, 1971 House Joint Resolution No. 52, part, p 1836. Approved November, 1972.]\nAmendment 48 (1966) \u2014 Art. 8 Section 3 SPECIAL INDEBTEDNESS, HOW AUTHORIZED \u2014 Except the debt specified in sections one and two of this article, no debts shall hereafter be contracted by, or on behalf of this state, unless such debt shall be authorized by law for some single work or object to be distinctly specified therein, which law shall provide ways and means, exclusive of loans, for the payment of the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within twenty years from the time of the contracting thereof. No such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election, and all moneys raised by authority of such law shall be applied only to the specific object therein stated, or to the payment of the debt thereby created, and notice that such law will be submitted to the people shall be published at least four times during the four weeks next preceding the election in every legal newspaper in the state:Provided, That failure of any newspaper to publish this notice shall not be interpreted as affecting the outcome of the election. [AMENDMENT 48, 1965 ex.s. House Joint Resolution No. 39, p 2822. Approved November 8, 1966.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 8 Section 3 SPECIAL INDEBTEDNESS HOW AUTHORIZED \u2014 Except the debt specified in sections one and two of this article, no debts shall hereafter be contracted by, or on behalf of this state, unless such debt shall be authorized by law for some single work or object to be distinctly specified therein, which law shall provide ways and means, exclusive of loans, for the payment of the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such debt within twenty years from the time of the contracting thereof. No such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election, and all moneys raised by authority of such law shall be applied only to the specific object therein stated, or to the payment of the debt thereby created, and such law shall be published in at least one newspaper in each county, if one be published therein, throughout the state, for three months next preceding the election at which it is submitted to the people.\nSECTION 4 MONEYS DISBURSED ONLY BY APPROPRIATIONS. No moneys shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this state, or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within one calendar month after the end of the next ensuing fiscal biennium, and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum. [AMENDMENT 11, 1921 p 80 Section 1. Approved November, 1922.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 8 Section 4 MONEYS DISBURSED ONLY BY APPROPRIATIONS \u2014 No moneys shall ever be paid out of the treasury of this state, or any of its funds, or any of the funds under its management, except in pursuance of an appropriation by law; nor unless such payment be made within two years from the first day of May next after the passage of such appropriation act, and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied, and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.\nSECTION 5 CREDIT NOT TO BE LOANED. The credit of the state shall not, in any manner be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association, company or corporation.\nSECTION 6 LIMITATIONS UPON MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS. No county, city, town, school district, or other municipal corporation shall for any purpose become indebted in any manner to an amount exceeding one and one-half per centum of the taxable property in such county, city, town, school district, or other municipal corporation, without the assent of three-fifths of the voters therein voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor in cases requiring such assent shall the total indebtedness at any time exceed five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness, except that in incorporated cities the assessment shall be taken from the last assessment for city purposes: Provided, That no part of the indebtedness allowed in this section shall be incurred for any purpose other than strictly county, city, town, school district, or other municipal purposes: Provided further, That (a) any city or town, with such assent, may be allowed to become indebted to a larger amount, but not exceeding five per centum additional for supplying such city or town with water, artificial light, and sewers, when the works for supplying such water, light, and sewers shall be owned and controlled by the municipality and (b) any school district with such assent, may be allowed to become indebted to a larger amount but not exceeding five per centum additional for capital outlays. [AMENDMENT 27, 1951 House Joint Resolution No. 8, p 961. Approved November 4, 1952.]\nProvisions of Art. 7 Section 2 (Limitation on Levies) also subject to limitations contained in Art. 8 Section 6: Art. 7 Section 2 (b).\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 8 Section 6 LIMITATIONS UPON MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS \u2014 No county, city, town, school district or other municipal corporation, shall for any purpose become indebted in any manner to an amount exceeding one and one-half percentum of the taxable property in such county, city, town, school district or other municipal corporation, without the assent of three-fifths of the voters therein, voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor in cases requiring such assent shall the total indebtedness at any time exceed five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state, and county purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness; except that in incorporated cities the assessment shall be taken from the last assessment for city purposes; Provided, That no part of the indebtedness allowed in this section, shall be incurred for any purpose other than strictly county, city, town, school district, or other municipal purposes. Provided further; that any city or town, with such assent may be allowed to become indebted to a larger amount but not exceeding five per centum additional for supplying such city or town with water, artificial light, and sewers, when the works for supplying such water, light, and sewers shall be owned and controlled by the municipality.\nSECTION 7 CREDIT NOT TO BE LOANED. No county, city, town or other municipal corporation shall hereafter give any money, or property, or loan its money, or credit to or in aid of any individual, association, company or corporation, except for the necessary support of the poor and infirm, or become directly or indirectly the owner of any stock in or bonds of any association, company or corporation.\nSECTION 8 PORT EXPENDITURES \u2014 INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT \u2013PROMOTION. The use of public funds by port districts in such manner as may be prescribed by the legislature for industrial development or trade promotion and promotional hosting shall be deemed a public use for a public purpose, and shall not be deemed a gift within the provisions of section 7 of this Article. [AMENDMENT 45, 1965 ex.s. Senate Joint Resolution No. 25, p 2819. Approved November 8, 1966.]\nSECTION 9 STATE BUILDING AUTHORITY. The legislature is empowered notwithstanding any other provision in this Constitution, to provide for a state building authority in corporate and politic form which may contract with agencies or departments of the state government to construct upon land owned by the state or its agencies, or to be acquired by the state building authority, buildings and appurtenant improvements which such state agencies or departments are hereby empowered to lease at reasonable rental rates from the Washington state building authority for terms up to seventy-five years with provisions for eventual vesting of title in the state or its agencies. This section shall not be construed as authority to provide buildings through lease or otherwise to nongovernmental entities. The legislature may authorize the state building authority to borrow funds solely upon its own credit and to issue bonds or other evidences of indebtedness therefor to be repaid from its revenues and to secure the same by pledging its income or mortgaging its leaseholds. The provisions of sections 1 and 3 of this article shall not apply to indebtedness incurred pursuant to this section. [AMENDMENT 51, 1967 Senate Joint Resolution No. 17; see 1969 p 2976. Approved November 5, 1968.]\nReviser\u2019s note: This section which was adopted as Sec. 8, is herein renumbered Sec. 9, to avoid confusion with Sec. 8, supra.\nSECTION 10 ENERGY, WATER, OR STORMWATER OR SEWER SERVICES CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of this Article, any county, city, town, quasi municipal corporation, municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the state which is engaged in the sale or distribution of water, energy, or stormwater or sewer services may, as authorized by the legislature, use public moneys or credit derived from operating revenues from the sale of water, energy, or stormwater or sewer services to assist the owners of structures or equipment in financing the acquisition and installation of materials and equipment for the conservation or more efficient use of water, energy, or stormwater or sewer services in such structures or equipment. Except as provided in section 7 of this Article, an appropriate charge back shall be made for such extension of public moneys or credit and the same shall be a lien against the structure benefited or a security interest in the equipment benefited. Any financing for energy conservation authorized by this article shall only be used for conservation purposes in existing structures and shall not be used for any purpose which results in a conversion from one energy source to another. [AMENDMENT 91, 1997 House Joint Resolution No. 4209, p 3065. Approved November 4, 1997.]\nAmendment 86 (1989) \u2014 Art. 8 Section 10 ENERGY AND WATER CONSERVATION ASSISTANCE \u2014 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of this Article, any county, city, town, quasi municipal corporation, municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the state which is engaged in the sale or distribution of water or energy may, as authorized by the legislature, use public moneys or credit derived from operating revenues from the sale of water or energy to assist the owners of structures or equipment in financing the acquisition and installation of materials and equipment for the conservation or more efficient use of water or energy in such structures or equipment. Except as provided in section 7 of this Article, an appropriate charge back shall be made for such extension of public moneys or credit and the same shall be a lien against the structure benefited or a security interest in the equipment benefited. Any financing for energy conservation authorized by this article shall only be used for conservation purposes in existing structures and shall not be used for any purpose which results in a conversion from one energy source to another. [AMENDMENT 86, 1989 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8210, p 3003. Approved November 7, 1989.]\nAmendment 82 (1988) \u2014 Art. 8 Section 10 RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSERVATION \u2014 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of this Article, any county, city, town, quasi municipal corporation, municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the state which is engaged in the sale or distribution of energy may, as authorized by the legislature, use public moneys or credit derived from operating revenues from the sale of energy to assist the owners of structures or equipment in financing the acquisition and installation of materials and equipment for the conservation or more efficient use of energy in such structures or equipment. Except as provided in section 7 of this Article, an appropriate charge back shall be made for such extension of public moneys or credit and the same shall be a lien against the structure benefited or a security interest in the equipment benefited. Any financing authorized by this article shall only be used for conservation purposes in existing structures and shall not be used for any purpose which results in a conversion from one energy source to another. [AMENDMENT 82, 1988 House Joint Resolution No. 4223, p 1552. Approved November 8, 1988.]\nAmendment 70 (1979) \u2014 Art. 8 Section 10 RESIDENTIAL ENERGY CONSERVATION \u2014 Notwithstanding the provisions of section 7 of this Article, until January 1, 1990 any county, city, town, quasi municipal corporation, municipal corporation, or political subdivision of the state which is engaged in the sale or distribution of energy may, as authorized by the legislature, use public moneys or credit derived from operating revenues from the sale of energy to assist the owners of residential structures in financing the acquisition and installation of materials and equipment for the conservation or more efficient use of energy in such structures. Except as provided in section 7 of this Article, an appropriate charge back shall be made for such extension of public moneys or credit and the same shall be a lien against the residential structure benefited. Except as to contracts entered into prior thereto, this amendment to the state Constitution shall be null and void as of January 1, 1990 and shall have no further force or effect after that date. [AMENDMENT 70, Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 120, p 2288. Approved November 6, 1979.]\nSECTION 11 AGRICULTURAL COMMODITY ASSESSMENTS \u2013DEVELOPMENT, PROMOTION, AND HOSTING. The use of agricultural commodity assessments by agricultural commodity commissions in such manner as may be prescribed by the legislature for agricultural development or trade promotion and promotional hosting shall be deemed a public use for a public purpose, and shall not be deemed a gift within the provisions of section 5 of this article. [AMENDMENT 76, 1985 House Joint Resolution No. 42, p 2402. Approved November 5, 1985.]\nSECTION 1 PREAMBLE. It is the paramount duty of the state to make ample provision for the education of all children residing within its borders, without distinction or preference on account of race, color, caste, or sex.\nSECTION 2 PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM. The legislature shall provide for a general and uniform system of public schools. The public school system shall include common schools, and such high schools, normal schools, and technical schools as may hereafter be established. But the entire revenue derived from the common school fund and the state tax for common schools shall be exclusively applied to the support of the common schools.\nSECTION 3 FUNDS FOR SUPPORT. The principal of the common school fund as the same existed on June 30, 1965, shall remain permanent and irreducible. The said fund shall consist of the principal amount thereof existing on June 30, 1965, and such additions thereto as may be derived after June 30, 1965, from the following named sources, to wit: Appropriations and donations by the state to this fund; donations and bequests by individuals to the state or public for common schools; the proceeds of lands and other property which revert to the state by escheat and forfeiture; the proceeds of all property granted to the state when the purpose of the grant is not specified, or is uncertain; funds accumulated in the treasury of the state for the disbursement of which provision has not been made by law; the proceeds of the sale of stone, minerals, or property other than timber and other crops from school and state lands, other than those granted for specific purposes; all moneys received from persons appropriating stone, minerals or property other than timber and other crops from school and state lands other than those granted for specific purposes, and all moneys other than rental recovered from persons trespassing on said lands; five per centum of the proceeds of the sale of public lands lying within the state, which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of the state into the Union as approved by section 13 of the act of congress enabling the admission of the state into the Union; the principal of all funds arising from the sale of lands and other property which have been, and hereafter may be granted to the state for the support of common schools. The legislature may make further provisions for enlarging said fund.\nThere is hereby established the common school construction fund to be used exclusively for the purpose of financing the construction of facilities for the common schools. The sources of said fund shall be: (1) Those proceeds derived from the sale or appropriation of timber and other crops from school and state lands subsequent to June 30, 1965, other than those granted for specific purposes; (2) the interest accruing on said permanent common school fund from and after July 1, 1967, together with all rentals and other revenues derived therefrom and from lands and other property devoted to the permanent common school fund from and after July 1, 1967; and (3) such other sources as the legislature may direct. That portion of the common school construction fund derived from interest on the permanent common school fund may be used to retire such bonds as may be authorized by law for the purpose of financing the construction of facilities for the common schools.\nThe interest accruing on the permanent common school fund together with all rentals and other revenues accruing thereto pursuant to subsection (2) of this section during the period after the effective date of this amendment and prior to July 1, 1967, shall be exclusively applied to the current use of the common schools.\nTo the extent that the moneys in the common school construction fund are in excess of the amount necessary to allow fulfillment of the purpose of said fund, the excess shall be available for deposit to the credit of the permanent common school fund or available for the current use of the common schools, as the legislature may direct. [AMENDMENT 43, 1965 ex.s. Senate Joint Resolution No. 22, part 1, p 2817. Approved November 8, 1966.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 9 Section 3 FUNDS FOR SUPPORT \u2014 The principal of the common school fund shall remain permanent and irreducible. The said fund shall be derived from the following named sources, to wit: Appropriations and donations by the state to this fund; donations and bequests by individuals to the state or public for common schools; the proceeds of lands and other property which revert to the state by escheat and forfeiture; the proceeds of all property granted to the state when the purpose of the grant is not specified, or is uncertain; funds accumulated in the treasury of the state for the disbursement of which provision has not been made by law; the proceeds of the sale of timber, stone, minerals, or other property from school and state lands, other than those granted for specific purposes; all moneys received from persons appropriating timber, stone, minerals or other property from school and state lands other than those granted for specific purposes, and all moneys other than rental recovered from persons trespassing on said lands; five per centum of the proceeds of the sale of public lands lying within the state, which shall be sold by the United States subsequent to the admission of the state into the Union as approved by section 13 of the act of congress enabling the admission of the state into the Union; the principal of all funds arising from the sale of lands and other property which have been, and hereafter may be granted to the state for the support of common schools. The legislature may make further provisions for enlarging said fund. The interest accruing on said fund together with all rentals and other revenues derived therefrom and from lands and other property devoted to the common school fund shall be exclusively applied to the current use of the common schools.\nSECTION 4 SECTARIAN CONTROL OR INFLUENCE PROHIBITED. All schools maintained or supported wholly or in part by the public funds shall be forever free from sectarian control or influence.\nSECTION 5 LOSS OF PERMANENT FUND TO BECOME STATE DEBT. All losses to the permanent common school or any other state educational fund, which shall be occasioned by defalcation, mismanagement or fraud of the agents or officers controlling or managing the same, shall be audited by the proper authorities of the state. The amount so audited shall be a permanent funded debt against the state in favor of the particular fund sustaining such loss, upon which not less than six per cent annual interest shall be paid. The amount of liability so created shall not be counted as a part of the indebtedness authorized and limited elsewhere in this Constitution.\nInvestment of permanent school fund: Art. 16 Section 5.\nSECTION 1 WHO LIABLE TO MILITARY DUTY. All able-bodied male citizens of this state between the ages of eighteen (18) and forty-five (45) years except such as are exempt by laws of the United States or by the laws of this state, shall be liable to military duty.\nSECTION 2 ORGANIZATION \u2014 DISCIPLINE \u2014 OFFICERS \u2014 POWER TO CALL OUT. The legislature shall provide by law for organizing and disciplining the militia in such manner as it may deem expedient, not incompatible with the Constitution and laws of the United States. Officers of the militia shall be elected or appointed in such manner as the legislature shall from time to time direct and shall be commissioned by the governor. The governor shall have power to call forth the militia to execute the laws of the state to suppress insurrections and repel invasions.\nSECTION 3 SOLDIERS\u2019 HOME. The legislature shall provide by law for the maintenance of a soldiers\u2019 home for honorably discharged Union soldiers, sailors, marines and members of the state militia disabled while in the line of duty and who are bona fide citizens of the state.\nSECTION 4 PUBLIC ARMS. The legislature shall provide by law, for the protection and safe keeping of the public arms.\nSECTION 5 PRIVILEGE FROM ARREST. The militia shall, in all cases, except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at musters and elections of officers, and in going to and returning from the same.\nSECTION 6 EXEMPTION FROM MILITARY DUTY. No person or persons, having conscientious scruples against bearing arms, shall be compelled to do militia duty in time of peace: Provided, such person or persons shall pay an equivalent for such exemption.\nCOUNTY, CITY, AND TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION\nSECTION 1 EXISTING COUNTIES RECOGNIZED. The several counties of the Territory of Washington existing at the time of the adoption of this Constitution are hereby recognized as legal subdivisions of this state.\nSECTION 2 COUNTY SEATS \u2014 LOCATION AND REMOVAL. No county seat shall be removed unless three-fifths of the qualified electors of the county, voting on the proposition at a general election shall vote in favor of such removal, and three-fifths of all votes cast on the proposition shall be required to relocate a county seat. A proposition of removal shall not be submitted in the same county more than once in four years.\nSECTION 3 NEW COUNTIES. No new counties shall be established which shall reduce any county to a population less than four thousand (4,000), nor shall a new county be formed containing a less population than two thousand (2,000). There shall be no territory stricken from any county unless a majority of the voters living in such territory shall petition therefor and then only under such other conditions as may be prescribed by a general law applicable to the whole state. Every county which shall be enlarged or created from territory taken from any other county or counties shall be liable for a just proportion of the existing debts and liabilities of the county or counties from which such territory shall be taken: Provided, That in such accounting neither county shall be charged with any debt or liability then existing incurred in the purchase of any county property, or in the purchase or construction of any county buildings then in use, or under construction, which shall fall within and be retained by the county: Provided further, That this shall not be construed to affect the rights of creditors.\nSECTION 4 COUNTY GOVERNMENT AND TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION. The legislature shall establish a system of county government, which shall be uniform throughout the state except as hereinafter provided, and by general laws shall provide for township organization, under which any county may organize whenever a majority of the qualified electors of such county voting at a general election shall so determine; and whenever a county shall adopt township organization, the assessment and collection of the revenue shall be made, and the business of such county and the local affairs of the several townships therein, shall be managed and transacted in the manner prescribed by such general law.\nAny county may frame a \u201cHome Rule\u201d charter for its own government subject to the Constitution and laws of this state, and for such purpose the legislative authority of such county may cause an election to be had, at which election there shall be chosen by the qualified voters of said county not less than fifteen (15) nor more than twenty-five (25) freeholders thereof, as determined by the legislative authority, who shall have been residents of said county for a period of at least five (5) years preceding their election and who are themselves qualified electors, whose duty it shall be to convene within thirty (30) days after their election and prepare and propose a charter for such county. Such proposed charter shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said county, and if a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon ratify the same, it shall become the charter of said county and shall become the organic law thereof, and supersede any existing charter, including amendments thereto, or any existing form of county government, and all special laws inconsistent with such charter. Said proposed charter shall be published in two (2) legal newspapers published in said county, at least once a week for four (4) consecutive weeks prior to the day of submitting the same to the electors for their approval as above provided. All elections in this section authorized shall only be had upon notice, which notice shall specify the object of calling such election and shall be given for at least ten (10) days before the day of election in all election districts of said county. Said elections may be general or special elections and except as herein provided, shall be governed by the law regulating and controlling general or special elections in said county. Such charter may be amended by proposals therefor submitted by the legislative authority of said county to the electors thereof at any general election after notice of such submission published as above specified, and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon. In submitting any such charter or amendment thereto, any alternate article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others.\nAny home rule charter proposed as herein provided, may provide for such county officers as may be deemed necessary to carry out and perform all county functions as provided by charter or by general law, and for their compensation, but shall not affect the election of the prosecuting attorney, the county superintendent of schools, the judges of the superior court, and the justices of the peace, or the jurisdiction of the courts.\nNotwithstanding the foregoing provision for the calling of an election by the legislative authority of such county for the election of freeholders to frame a county charter, registered voters equal in number to ten (10) per centum of the voters of any such county voting at the last preceding general election, may at any time propose by petition the calling of an election of freeholders. The petition shall be filed with the county auditor of the county at least three (3) months before any general election and the proposal that a board of freeholders be elected for the purpose of framing a county charter shall be submitted to the vote of the people at said general election, and at the same election a board of freeholders of not less than fifteen (15) or more than twenty-five (25), as fixed in the petition calling for the election, shall be chosen to draft the new charter. The procedure for the nomination of qualified electors as candidates for said board of freeholders shall be prescribed by the legislative authority of the county, and the procedure for the framing of the charter and the submission of the charter as framed shall be the same as in the case of a board of freeholders chosen at an election initiated by the legislative authority of the county.\nIn calling for any election of freeholders as provided in this section, the legislative authority of the county shall apportion the number of freeholders to be elected in accordance with either the legislative districts or the county commissioner districts, if any, within said county, the number of said freeholders to be elected from each of said districts to be in proportion to the population of said districts as nearly as may be.\nShould the charter proposed receive the affirmative vote of the majority of the electors voting thereon, the legislative authority of the county shall immediately call such special election as may be provided for therein, if any, and the county government shall be established in accordance with the terms of said charter not more than six (6) months after the election at which the charter was adopted.\nThe terms of all elective officers, except the prosecuting attorney, the county superintendent of schools, the judges of the superior court, and the justices of the peace, who are in office at the time of the adoption of a Home Rule Charter shall terminate as provided in the charter. All appointive officers in office at the time the charter goes into effect, whose positions are not abolished thereby, shall continue until their successors shall have qualified.\nAfter the adoption of such charter, such county shall continue to have all the rights, powers, privileges and benefits then possessed or thereafter conferred by general law. All the powers, authority and duties granted to and imposed on county officers by general law, except the prosecuting attorney, the county superintendent of schools, the judges of the superior court and the justices of the peace, shall be vested in the legislative authority of the county unless expressly vested in specific officers by the charter. The legislative authority may by resolution delegate any of its executive or administrative powers, authority or duties not expressly vested in specific officers by the charter, to any county officer or officers or county employee or employees.\nThe provisions of sections 5, 6, 7, and the first sentence of section 8 of this Article as amended shall not apply to counties in which the government has been established by charter adopted under the provisions hereof. The authority conferred on the board of county commissioners by Section 15 of Article II as amended, shall be exercised by the legislative authority of the county. [AMENDMENT 21, 1947 Senate Joint Resolution No. 5, p 1372. Approved November 2, 1948.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 11 Section 4 COUNTY GOVERNMENT AND TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION \u2014 The legislature shall establish a system of county government which shall be uniform throughout the state, and by general laws shall provide for township organization, under which any county may organize whenever a majority of the qualified electors of such county voting at a general election shall so determine, and whenever a county shall adopt township organization the assessment and collection of the revenue shall be made and the business of such county, and the local affairs of the several townships therein shall be managed and transacted in the manner prescribed by such general laws.\nSECTION 5 COUNTY GOVERNMENT. The legislature, by general and uniform laws, shall provide for the election in the several counties of boards of county commissioners, sheriffs, county clerks, treasurers, prosecuting attorneys and other county, township or precinct and district officers, as public convenience may require, and shall prescribe their duties, and fix their terms of office: Provided, That the legislature may, by general laws, classify the counties by population and provide for the election in certain classes of counties certain officers who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of two or more officers. It shall regulate the compensation of all such officers, in proportion to their duties, and for that purpose may classify the counties by population: Provided, That it may delegate to the legislative authority of the counties the right to prescribe the salaries of its own members and the salaries of other county officers. And it shall provide for the strict accountability of such officers for all fees which may be collected by them and for all public moneys which may be paid to them, or officially come into their possession. [AMENDMENT 57, part, 1971 Senate Joint Resolution No. 38, part, p 1829. Approved November, 1972.]\nAmendment 12 (1924) \u2014 Art. 11 Section 5 COUNTY GOVERNMENT \u2014 The legislature, by general and uniform laws, shall provide for the election in the several counties of boards of county commissioners, sheriffs, county clerks, treasurers, prosecuting attorneys and other county, township or precinct and district officers, as public convenience may require, and shall prescribe their duties, and fix their terms of office: Provided, That the legislature may, by general laws, classify the counties by population and provide for the election in certain classes of counties certain officers who shall exercise the powers and perform the duties of two or more officers. It shall regulate the compensation of all such officers, in proportion to their duties, and for that purpose may classify the counties by population. And it shall provide for the strict accountability of such officers for all fees which may be collected by them and for all public moneys which may be paid to them, or officially come into their possession. [AMENDMENT 12, 1923 p 255 Section 1. Approved November, 1924.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 11 Section 5 ELECTION AND COMPENSATION OF COUNTY OFFICERS \u2014 The legislature by general and uniform laws shall provide for the election in the several counties of boards of county commissioners, sheriffs, county clerks, treasurers, prosecuting attorneys, and other county, township or precinct and district officers as public convenience may require, and shall prescribe their duties, and fix their terms of office. It shall regulate the compensation of all such officers, in proportion to their duties, and for that purpose may classify the counties by population. And it shall provide for the strict accountability of such officers for all fees which may be collected by them, and for all public moneys which may be paid to them, or officially come into their possession.\nSECTION 6 VACANCIES IN TOWNSHIP, PRECINCT OR ROAD DISTRICT OFFICE. The board of county commissioners in each county shall fill all vacancies occurring in any township, precinct or road district office of such county by appointment, and officers thus appointed shall hold office till the next general election, and until their successors are elected and qualified. [AMENDMENT 52, part, 1967 Senate Joint Resolution No. 24, part. Approved November 5, 1968.]\nVacancies in legislature and in partisan county elective office: Art. 2 Section 15.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 11 Section 6 VACANCIES IN COUNTY, ETC., OFFICES, HOW FILLED \u2014 The board of county commissioners in each county shall fill all vacancies occurring in any county, township, precinct or road district office of such county by appointment, and officers thus appointed shall hold office till the next general election, and until their successors are elected and qualified.\nSECTION 7 TENURE OF OFFICE LIMITED TO TWO TERMS. [Repealed by AMENDMENT 22, 1947 House Joint Resolution No. 4, p 1385. Approved November 2, 1948.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 11 Section 7 TENURE OF OFFICE LIMITED TO TWO TERMS \u2014 No county officer shall be eligible to hold his office more than two terms in succession.\nSECTION 8 SALARIES AND LIMITATIONS AFFECTING. The salary of any county, city, town, or municipal officers shall not be increased except as provided in section 1 of Article XXX or diminished after his election, or during his term of office; nor shall the term of any such officer be extended beyond the period for which he is elected or appointed. [AMENDMENT 57, art, 1971 Senate Joint Resolution No. 38, part, p 1829. Approved November, 1972.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 11 Section 8 SALARIES AND LIMITATIONS AFFECTING \u2014 The legislature shall fix the compensation by salaries of all county officers, and of constables in cities having a population of five thousand and upwards; except that public administrators, surveyors and coroners may or may not be salaried officers. The salary of any county, city, town, or municipal officers shall not be increased or diminished after his election, or during his term of office; nor shall the term of any such officer be extended beyond the period for which he is elected or appointed.\nSECTION 9 STATE TAXES NOT TO BE RELEASED OR COMMUTED. No county, nor the inhabitants thereof, nor the property therein, shall be released or discharged from its or their proportionate share of taxes to be levied for state purposes, nor shall commutation for such taxes be authorized in any form whatever.\nSECTION 10 INCORPORATION OF MUNICIPALITIES. Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created by special laws; but the legislature, by general laws, shall provide for the incorporation, organization and classification in proportion to population, of cities and towns, which laws may be altered, amended or repealed. Cities and towns heretofore organized, or incorporated may become organized under such general laws whenever a majority of the electors voting at a general election, shall so determine, and shall organize in conformity therewith; and cities or towns heretofore or hereafter organized, and all charters thereof framed or adopted by authority of this Constitution shall be subject to and controlled by general laws. Any city containing a population of ten thousand inhabitants, or more, shall be permitted to frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the Constitution and laws of this state, and for such purpose the legislative authority of such city may cause an election to be had at which election there shall be chosen by the qualified electors of said city, fifteen freeholders thereof, who shall have been residents of said city for a period of at least two years preceding their election and qualified electors, whose duty it shall be to convene within ten days after their election, and prepare and propose a charter for such city. Such proposed charter shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said city, and if a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon ratify the same, it shall become the charter of said city, and shall become the organic law thereof, and supersede any existing charter including amendments thereto, and all special laws inconsistent with such charter. Said proposed charter shall be published in the daily newspaper of largest general circulation published in the area to be incorporated as a first class city under the charter or, if no daily newspaper is published therein, then in the newspaper having the largest general circulation within such area at least once each week for four weeks next preceding the day of submitting the same to the electors for their approval, as above provided. All elections in this section authorized shall only be had upon notice, which notice shall specify the object of calling such election, and shall be given as required by law. Said elections may be general or special elections, and except as herein provided shall be governed by the law regulating and controlling general or special elections in said city. Such charter may be amended by proposals therefor submitted by the legislative authority of such city to the electors thereof at any general election after notice of said submission published as above specified, and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon. In submitting any such charter, or amendment thereto, any alternate article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others. [AMENDMENT 40, 1963 ex.s. Senate Joint Resolution No. 1, p 1526. Approved November 3, 1964.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 11 Section 10 INCORPORATION OF MUNICIPALITIES \u2014 Corporations for municipal purposes shall not be created by special laws; but the legislature, by general laws, shall provide for the incorporation, organization and classification in proportion to population, of cities and towns, which laws may be altered, amended or repealed. Cities and towns heretofore organized, or incorporated may become organized under such general laws whenever a majority of the electors voting at a general election, shall so determine, and shall organize in conformity therewith; and cities or towns heretofore or hereafter organized, and all charters thereof framed or adopted by authority of this Constitution shall be subject to, and controlled by general laws. Any city containing a population of twenty thousand inhabitants, or more, shall be permitted to frame a charter for its own government, consistent with and subject to the Constitution and laws of this state, and for such purpose the legislative authority of such city may cause an election to be had at which election there shall be chosen by the qualified electors of said city, fifteen freeholders thereof, who shall have been residents of said city for a period of at least two years preceding their election and qualified electors, whose duty it shall be to convene within ten days after their election, and prepare and propose a charter for such city. Such proposed charter shall be submitted to the qualified electors of said city, and if a majority of such qualified electors voting thereon ratify the same, it shall become the charter of said city, and shall become the organic law thereof, and supersede any existing charter including amendments thereto, and all special laws inconsistent with such charter. Said proposed charter shall be published in two daily newspapers published in said city, for at least thirty days prior to the day of submitting the same to the electors for their approval, as above provided. All elections in this section authorized shall only be had upon notice, which notice shall specify the object of calling such election, and shall be given for at least ten days before the day of election, in all election districts of said city. Said elections may be general or special elections, and except as herein provided shall be governed by the law regulating and controlling general or special elections in said city. Such charter may be amended by proposals therefore submitted by the legislative authority of such city to the electors thereof at any general election after notice of said submission published as above specified, and ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting thereon. In submitting any such charter, or amendment thereto, any alternate article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others.\nAuthority to incur and limit of indebtedness: Art. 8 Section 6.\nSECTION 11 POLICE AND SANITARY REGULATIONS. Any county, city, town or township may make and enforce within its limits all such local police, sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws.\nSECTION 12 ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION OF TAXES IN MUNICIPALITIES. The legislature shall have no power to impose taxes upon counties, cities, towns or other municipal corporations, or upon the inhabitants or property thereof, for county, city, town, or other municipal purposes, but may, by general laws, vest in the corporate authorities thereof, the power to assess and collect taxes for such purposes.\nSECTION 13 PRIVATE PROPERTY, WHEN MAY BE TAKEN FOR PUBLIC DEBT. Private property shall not be taken or sold for the payment of the corporate debt of any public or municipal corporation, except in the mode provided by law for the levy and collection of taxes.\nSECTION 14 PRIVATE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS PROHIBITED. The making of profit out of county, city, town, or other public money, or using the same for any purpose not authorized by law, by any officer having the possession or control thereof, shall be a felony, and shall be prosecuted and punished as prescribed by law.\nSECTION 15 DEPOSIT OF PUBLIC FUNDS. All moneys, assessments and taxes belonging to or collected for the use of any county, city, town or other public or municipal corporation, coming into the hands of any officer thereof, shall immediately be deposited with the treasurer, or other legal depositary to the credit of such city, town, or other corporation respectively, for the benefit of the funds to which they belong.\nSECTION 16 COMBINED CITY-COUNTY. Any county may frame a \u201cHome Rule\u201d charter subject to the Constitution and laws of this state to provide for the formation and government of combined city and county municipal corporations, each of which shall be known as \u201ccity-county\u201d. Registered voters equal in number to ten (10) percent of the voters of any such county voting at the last preceding general election may at any time propose by a petition the calling of an election of freeholders. The provisions of section 4 of this Article with respect to a petition calling for an election of freeholders to frame a county home rule charter, the election of freeholders, and the framing and adoption of a county home rule charter pursuant to such petition shall apply to a petition proposed under this section for the election of freeholders to frame a city-county charter, the election of freeholders, and to the framing and adoption of such city-county charter pursuant to such petition. Except as otherwise provided in this section, the provisions of section 4 applicable to a county home rule charter shall apply to a city-county charter. If there are not sufficient legal newspapers published in the county to meet the requirements for publication of a proposed charter under section 4 of this Article, publication in a legal newspaper circulated in the county may be substituted for publication in a legal newspaper published in the county. No such \u201ccity-county\u201d shall be formed except by a majority vote of the qualified electors voting thereon in the county. The charter shall designate the respective officers of such city-county who shall perform the duties imposed by law upon county officers. Every such city-county shall have and enjoy all rights, powers and privileges asserted in its charter, and in addition thereto, such rights, powers and privileges as may be granted to it, or to any city or county or class or classes of cities and counties. In the event of a conflict in the constitutional provisions applying to cities and those applying to counties or of a conflict in the general laws applying to cities and those applying to counties, a city-county shall be authorized to exercise any powers that are granted to either the cities or the counties.\nNo legislative enactment which is a prohibition or restriction shall apply to the rights, powers and privileges of a city-county unless such prohibition or restriction shall apply equally to every other city, county, and city-county.\nThe provisions of sections 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8 and of the first paragraph of section 4 of this article shall not apply to any such city-county.\nMunicipal corporations may be retained or otherwise provided for within the city-county. The formation, powers and duties of such municipal corporations shall be prescribed by the charter.\nNo city-county shall for any purpose become indebted in any manner to an amount exceeding three per centum of the taxable property in such city-county without the assent of three-fifths of the voters therein voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor in cases requiring such assent shall the total indebtedness at any time exceed ten per centum of the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for city-county purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness: Provided, That no part of the indebtedness allowed in this section shall be incurred for any purpose other than strictly city-county or other municipal purposes: Provided further, That any city-county, with such assent may be allowed to become indebted to a larger amount, but not exceeding five per centum additional for supplying such city-county with water, artificial light, and sewers, when the works for supplying such water, light, and sewers shall be owned and controlled by the city-county.\nNo municipal corporation which is retained or otherwise provided for within the city-county shall for any purpose become indebted in any manner to an amount exceeding one and one-half per centum of the taxable property in such municipal corporation without the assent of three-fifths of the voters therein voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor shall the total indebtedness at any time exceed five per centum of the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for city-county purposes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness: Provided, That no part of the indebtedness allowed in this section shall be incurred for any purpose other than strictly municipal purposes: Provided further, That any such municipal corporation, with such assent, may be allowed to become indebted to a larger amount, but not exceeding five per centum additional for supplying such municipal corporation with water, artificial light, and sewers, when the works for supplying such water, light, and sewers shall be owned and controlled by the municipal corporation. All taxes which are levied and collected within a municipal corporation for a specific purpose shall be expended within that municipal corporation.\nThe authority conferred on the city-county government shall not be restricted by the second sentence of Article 7, section 1, or by Article 8, section 6 of this Constitution. [AMENDMENT 58, 1971 House Joint Resolution No. 21, p 1831. Approved November, 1972.]\nAmendment 23 (1948) \u2014 Art. 11 Section 16 COMBINED CITY AND COUNTY \u2014 The legislature shall, by general law, provide for the formation of combined city and county municipal corporations, and for the manner of determining the territorial limits thereof, each of which shall be known as a \u201ccity and county,\u201d and, when organized, shall contain a population of at least three hundred thousand (300,000) inhabitants. No such city and county shall be formed except by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the area proposed to be included therein and also by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the remainder of that county from which such area is to be taken. Any such city and county shall be permitted to frame a charter for its own government, and amend the same, in the manner provided for cities by section 10 of this article: Provided, however, That the first charter of such city and county shall be framed and adopted in a manner to be specified in the general law authorizing the formation of such corporations: Provided further, That every such charter shall designate the respective officers of such city and county who shall perform the duties imposed by law upon county officers. Every such city and county shall have and enjoy all rights, powers and privileges asserted in its charter, not inconsistent with general laws, and in addition thereto, such rights, powers and privileges as may be granted to it, or possessed and enjoyed by cities and counties of like population separately organized.\nNo county or county government existing outside the territorial limits of such county and city shall exercise any police, taxation or other powers within the territorial limits of such county and city, but all such powers shall be exercised by the city and county and the officers thereof, subject to such constitutional provisions and general laws as apply to either cities or counties: Provided, That the provisions of sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of this article shall not apply to any such city and county: Provided further, That the salary of any elective or appointive officer of a city and county shall not be changed after his election or appointment or during his term of office; nor shall the term of any such officer be extended beyond the period for which he is elected or appointed. In case an existing county is divided in the formation of a city and county, such city and county shall be liable for a just proportion of the existing debts or liabilities of the former county, and shall account for and pay the county remaining a just proportion of the value of any real estate or other property owned by the former county and taken over by the county and city, the method of determining such just proportion to be prescribed by general law, but such division shall not affect the rights of creditors. The officers of a city and county, their compensation, qualifications, term of office and manner of election or appointment shall be as provided for in its charter, subject to general laws and applicable constitutional provisions. [AMENDMENT 23, 1947 House Joint Resolution No. 13, p 1386. Approved November 2, 1948.]\nSECTION 1 CORPORATIONS, HOW FORMED. Corporations may be formed under general laws, but shall not be created by special acts. All laws relating to corporations may be altered, amended or repealed by the legislature at any time, and all corporations doing business in this state may, as to such business, be regulated, limited or restrained by law.\nSECTION 2 EXISTING CHARTERS. All existing charters, franchises, special or exclusive privileges, under which an actual and bona fide organization shall not have taken place, and business been commenced in good faith, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall thereafter have no validity.\nSECTION 3 EXISTING CHARTERS NOT TO BE EXTENDED NOR FORFEITURE REMITTED. The legislature shall not extend any franchise or charter, nor remit the forfeiture of any franchise or charter of any corporation now existing, or which shall hereafter exist under the laws of this state.\nSECTION 4 LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS. Each stockholder in all incorporated companies, except corporations organized for banking or insurance purposes, shall be liable for the debts of the corporation to the amount of his unpaid stock and no more; and one or more stockholders may be joined as parties defendant in suits to recover upon this liability.\nSECTION 5 TERM \u201cCORPORATION,\u201d DEFINED \u2014 RIGHT TO SUE AND BE SUED. The term corporations, as used in this article, shall be construed to include all associations and joint stock companies having any powers or privileges of corporations not possessed by individuals or partnerships, and all corporations shall have the right to sue and shall be subject to be sued, in all courts, in like cases as natural persons.\nSECTION 6 LIMITATIONS UPON ISSUANCE OF STOCK. Corporations shall not issue stock, except to bona fide subscribers therefor, or their assignees; nor shall any corporation issue any bond, or other obligation, for the payment of money, except for money or property received or labor done. The stock of corporations shall not be increased, except in pursuance of a general law, nor shall any law authorize the increase of stock, without the consent of the person or persons holding the larger amount in value of the stock, nor without due notice of the proposed increase having been previously given in such manner as may be prescribed by law. All fictitious increase of stock or indebtedness shall be void.\nSECTION 7 FOREIGN CORPORATIONS. No corporation organized outside the limits of this state shall be allowed to transact business within the state on more favorable conditions than are prescribed by law to similar corporations organized under the laws of this state.\nSECTION 8 ALIENATION OF FRANCHISE NOT TO RELEASE LIABILITIES. No corporation shall lease or alienate any franchise, so as to relieve the franchise, or property held thereunder, from the liabilities of the lessor, or grantor, lessee, or grantee, contracted or incurred in the operation, use, or enjoyment of such franchise or any of its privileges.\nSECTION 9 STATE NOT TO LOAN ITS CREDIT OR SUBSCRIBE FOR STOCK. The state shall not in any manner loan its credit, nor shall it subscribe to, or be interested in the stock of any company, association or corporation.\nSECTION 10 EMINENT DOMAIN AFFECTING. The exercise of the right of eminent domain shall never be so abridged or construed as to prevent the legislature from taking the property and franchises of incorporated companies, and subjecting them to public use the same as the property of individuals.\nSECTION 11 STOCKHOLDER LIABILITY. No corporation, association, or individual shall issue or put in circulation as money anything but the lawful money of the United States. Each stockholder of any banking or insurance corporation or joint stock association shall be individually and personally liable equally and ratably, and not one for another, for all contracts, debts, and engagements of such corporation or association accruing while they remain such stockholders, to the extent of the amount of their stock therein at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares.\nThe legislature may provide that stockholders of banking corporations organized under the laws of this state which shall provide and furnish, either through membership in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or through membership in any other instrumentality of the government of the United States, insurance or security for the payment of the debts and obligations of such banking corporation equivalent to that required by the laws of the United States to be furnished and provided by national banking associations, shall be relieved from liability for the debts and obligations of such banking corporation to the same extent that stockholders of national banking associations are relieved from liability for the debts and obligations of such national banking associations under the laws of the United States. [AMENDMENT 16, 1939 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8, p 1024. Approved November, 1940.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 12 Section 11 PROHIBITION AGAINST ISSUANCE OF MONEY AND LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS IN BANKS \u2014 No corporation, association, or individual shall issue or put in circulation as money anything but the lawful money of the United States. Each stockholder of any banking or insurance corporation or joint stock association, shall be individually and personally liable equally and ratably and not one for another, for all contracts, debts and engagements of such corporation or association accruing while they remain such stockholders to the extent of the amount of their stock therein at the par value thereof, in addition to the amount invested in such shares.\nSECTION 12 RECEIVING DEPOSITS BY BANK AFTER INSOLVENCY. Any president, director, manager, cashier, or other officer of any banking institution, who shall receive or assent to the reception of deposits, after he shall have knowledge of the fact that such banking institution is insolvent or in failing circumstances, shall be individually responsible for such deposits so received.\nSECTION 13 COMMON CARRIERS, REGULATION OF. All railroad, canal and other transportation companies are declared to be common carriers and subject to legislative control. Any association or corporation organized for the purpose, under the laws of this state, shall have the right to connect at the state line with railroads of other states. Every railroad company shall have the right with its road, whether the same be now constructed or may hereafter be constructed, to intersect, cross or connect with any other railroad, and when such railroads are of the same or similar gauge they shall at all crossings and at all points, where a railroad shall begin or terminate at or near any other railroad, form proper connections so that the cars of any such railroad companies may be speedily transferred from one railroad to another. All railroad companies shall receive and transport each the other\u2019s passengers, tonnage and cars without delay or discrimination.\nSECTION 14 PROHIBITION AGAINST COMBINATIONS BY CARRIERS. [Repealed by AMENDMENT 67, 1977 House Joint Resolution No. 57, p 1714. Approved November 8, 1977.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 12 Section 14 PROHIBITION AGAINST COMBINATIONS BY CARRIERS \u2014 No railroad company, or other common carrier, shall combine or make any contract with the owners of any vessel that leaves port or makes port in this state, or with any common carrier, by which combination or contract the earnings of one doing the carrying are to be shared by the other not doing the carrying.\nSECTION 15 PROHIBITION AGAINST DISCRIMINATING CHARGES. No discrimination in charges or facilities for transportation shall be made by any railroad or other transportation company between places or persons, or in the facilities for the transportation of the same classes of freight or passengers within this state, or coming from or going to any other state. Persons and property transported over any railroad, or by any other transportation company, or individual, shall be delivered at any station, landing or port, at charges not exceeding the charges for the transportation of persons and property of the same class, in the same direction, to any more distant station, port or landing. Excursion and commutation tickets may be issued at special rates.\nSECTION 16 PROHIBITION AGAINST CONSOLIDATING OF COMPETING LINES. No railroad corporation shall consolidate its stock, property or franchises with any other railroad corporation owning a competing line.\nSECTION 17 ROLLING STOCK, PERSONALTY FOR PURPOSE OF TAXATION. The rolling stock and other movable property belonging to any railroad company or corporation in this state, shall be considered personal property, and shall be liable to taxation and to execution and sale in the same manner as the personal property of individuals and such property shall not be exempted from execution and sale.\nSECTION 18 RATES FOR TRANSPORTATION. The legislature may pass laws establishing reasonable rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight, and to correct abuses and prevent discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads and other common carriers in the state, and shall enforce such laws by adequate penalties. A railroad and transportation commission may be established and its powers and duties fully defined by law. [AMENDMENT 66, 1977 House Joint Resolution No. 55, p 1713. Approved November 8, 1977.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 12 Section 18 MAXIMUM RATES FOR TRANSPORTATION \u2014 The legislature shall pass laws establishing reasonable maximum rates of charges for the transportation of passengers and freight, and to correct abuses and prevent discrimination and extortion in the rates of freight and passenger tariffs on the different railroads and other common carriers in the state, and shall enforce such laws by adequate penalties. A railroad and transportation commission may be established and its powers and duties fully defined by law.\nSECTION 19 TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMPANIES. Any association or corporation, or the lessees or managers thereof, organized for the purpose, or any individual, shall have the right to construct and maintain lines of telegraph and telephone within this state, and said companies shall receive and transmit each other\u2019s messages without delay or discrimination and all of such companies are hereby declared to be common carriers and subject to legislative control. Railroad corporations organized or doing business in this state shall allow telegraph and telephone corporations and companies to construct and maintain telegraph lines on and along the rights of way of such railroads and railroad companies, and no railroad corporation organized or doing business in this state shall allow any telegraph corporation or company any facilities, privileges or rates for transportation of men or material or for repairing their lines not allowed to all telegraph companies. The right of eminent domain is hereby extended to all telegraph and telephone companies. The legislature shall, by general law of uniform operation, provide reasonable regulations to give effect to this section.\nEminent domain: Art. 1 Section 16.\nSECTION 20 PROHIBITION AGAINST FREE TRANSPORTATION FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS. No railroad or other transportation company shall grant free passes, or sell tickets or passes at a discount, other than as sold to the public generally, to any member of the legislature, or to any person holding any public office within this state. The legislature shall pass laws to carry this provision into effect.\nSECTION 21 EXPRESS COMPANIES. Railroad companies now or hereafter organized or doing business in this state, shall allow all express companies organized or doing business in this state, transportation over all lines of railroad owned or operated by such railroad companies upon equal terms with any other express company, and no railroad corporation organized or doing business in this state shall allow any express corporation or company any facilities, privileges or rates for transportation of men or materials or property carried by them or for doing the business of such express companies not allowed to all express companies.\nSECTION 22 MONOPOLIES AND TRUSTS. Monopolies and trusts shall never be allowed in this state, and no incorporated company, copartnership, or association of persons in this state shall directly or indirectly combine or make any contract with any other incorporated company, foreign or domestic, through their stockholders, or the trustees or assignees of such stockholders, or with any copartnership or association of persons, or in any manner whatever for the purpose of fixing the price or limiting the production or regulating the transportation of any product or commodity. The legislature shall pass laws for the enforcement of this section by adequate penalties, and in case of incorporated companies, if necessary for that purpose, may declare a forfeiture of their franchises.\nSECTION 1 EDUCATIONAL, REFORMATORY, AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS. Educational, reformatory, and penal institutions; those for the benefit of youth who are blind or deaf or otherwise disabled; for persons who are mentally ill or developmentally disabled; and such other institutions as the public good may require, shall be fostered and supported by the state, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law. The regents, trustees, or commissioners of all such institutions existing at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, and of such as shall thereafter be established by law, shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and upon all nominations made by the governor, the question shall be taken by ayes and noes, and entered upon the journal. [AMENDMENT 83, 1988 House Joint Resolution No. 4231, p 1553. Approved November 8, 1988.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 13 Section 1 EDUCATIONAL, REFORMATORY AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS \u2014 Educational, reformatory and penal institutions; those for the benefit of blind, deaf, dumb, or otherwise defective youth; for the insane or idiotic; and such other institutions as the public good may require, shall be fostered and supported by the state, subject to such regulations as may be provided by law. The regents, trustees, or commissioners of all such institutions existing at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, and of such as shall thereafter be established by law, shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; and upon all nominations made by the governor, the question shall be taken by ayes and noes, and entered upon the journal.\nSECTION 1 STATE CAPITAL, LOCATION OF. The legislature shall have no power to change, or to locate the seat of government of this state; but the question of the permanent location of the seat of government of the state shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the Territory, at the election to be held for the adoption of this Constitution. A majority of all the votes cast at said election, upon said question, shall be necessary to determine the permanent location of the seat of government for the state; and no place shall ever be the seat of government which shall not receive a majority of the votes cast on that matter. In case there shall be no choice of location at said first election the legislature shall, at its first regular session after the adoption of this Constitution, provide for submitting to the qualified electors of the state, at the next succeeding general election thereafter, the question of choice of location between the three places for which the highest number of votes shall have been cast at the said first election. Said legislature shall provide further that in case there shall be no choice of location at said second election, the question of choice between the two places for which the highest number of votes shall have been cast, shall be submitted in like manner to the qualified electors of the state at the next ensuing general election: Provided, That until the seat of government shall have been permanently located as herein provided, the temporary location thereof shall remain at the city of Olympia.\nSECTION 2 CHANGE OF STATE CAPITAL. When the seat of government shall have been located as herein provided, the location thereof shall not thereafter be changed except by a vote of two-thirds of all the qualified electors of the state voting on that question, at a general election, at which the question of location of the seat of government shall have been submitted by the legislature.\nSECTION 3 RESTRICTIONS ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR CAPITOL BUILDINGS. The legislature shall make no appropriations or expenditures for capitol buildings or grounds, except to keep the Territorial capitol buildings and grounds in repair, and for making all necessary additions thereto, until the seat of government shall have been permanently located, and the public buildings are erected at the permanent capital in pursuance of law.\nSECTION 1 HARBOR LINE COMMISSION AND RESTRAINT ON DISPOSITION. The legislature shall provide for the appointment of a commission whose duty it shall be to locate and establish harbor lines in the navigable waters of all harbors, estuaries, bays and inlets of this state, wherever such navigable waters lie within or in front of the corporate limits of any city, or within one mile thereof on either side. Any harbor line so located or established may thereafter be changed, relocated or reestablished by the commission pursuant to such provision as may be made therefor by the legislature. The state shall never give, sell or lease to any private person, corporation, or association any rights whatever in the waters beyond such harbor lines, nor shall any of the area lying between any harbor line and the line of ordinary high water, and within not less than fifty feet nor more than two thousand feet of such harbor line (as the commission shall determine) be sold or granted by the state, nor its rights to control the same relinquished, but such area shall be forever reserved for landings, wharves, streets, and other conveniences of navigation and commerce. [AMENDMENT 15, 1931 p 417 Section 1. Approved November, 1932.]\nTide lands: Art. 17.\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 15 Section 1 HARBOR LINE COMMISSION AND RESTRAINT ON DISPOSITION OF CERTAIN TIDE LANDS \u2014 The legislature shall provide for the appointment of a commission whose duty it shall be to locate and establish harbor lines in the navigable waters of all harbors, estuaries, bays and inlets of this state, wherever such navigable waters lie within or in front of the corporate limits of any city or within one mile thereof on either side. The state shall never give, sell or lease to any private person, corporation or association any rights whatever in the waters beyond such harbor lines, nor shall any of the area lying between any harbor line and the line of ordinary high tide, and within not less than fifty feet nor more than six hundred feet of such harbor line (as the commission shall determine) be sold or granted by the state, nor its right to control the same relinquished, but such area shall be forever reserved for landings, wharves, streets and other conveniences of navigation and commerce.\nSECTION 2 LEASING AND MAINTENANCE OF WHARVES, DOCKS, ETC. The legislature shall provide general laws for the leasing of the right to build and maintain wharves, docks and other structures, upon the areas mentioned in section one of this article, but no lease shall be made for any term longer than thirty years, or the legislature may provide by general laws for the building and maintaining upon such area wharves, docks, and other structures.\nSECTION 3 EXTENSION OF STREETS OVER TIDE LANDS. Municipal corporations shall have the right to extend their streets over intervening tide lands to and across the area reserved as herein provided.\nSECTION 1 DISPOSITION OF. All the public lands granted to the state are held in trust for all the people and none of such lands, nor any estate or interest therein, shall ever be disposed of unless the full market value of the estate or interest disposed of, to be ascertained in such manner as may be provided by law, be paid or safely secured to the state; nor shall any lands which the state holds by grant from the United States (in any case in which the manner of disposal and minimum price are so prescribed) be disposed of except in the manner and for at least the price prescribed in the grant thereof, without the consent of the United States.\nSECTION 2 MANNER AND TERMS OF SALE. None of the lands granted to the state for educational purposes shall be sold otherwise than at public auction to the highest bidder, the value thereof, less the improvements shall, before any sale, be appraised by a board of appraisers to be provided by law, the terms of payment also to be prescribed by law, and no sale shall be valid unless the sum bid be equal to the appraised value of said land. In estimating the value of such lands for disposal, the value of the improvements thereon shall be excluded: Provided, That the sale of all school and university land heretofore made by the commissioners of any county or the university commissioners when the purchase price has been paid in good faith, may be confirmed by the legislature.\nSECTION 3 LIMITATIONS ON SALES. No more than one-fourth of the land granted to the state for educational purposes shall be sold prior to January 1, 1895, and not more than one-half prior to January 1, 1905: provided, that nothing herein shall be so construed as to prevent the state from selling the timber or stone off of any of the state lands in such manner and on such terms as may be prescribed by law: and provided, further, that no sale of timber lands shall be valid unless the full value of such lands is paid or secured to the state.\nSECTION 4 HOW MUCH MAY BE OFFERED IN CERTAIN CASES \u2013PLATTING OF. No more than one hundred and sixty (160) acres of any granted lands of the state shall be offered for sale in one parcel, and all lands within the limits of any incorporated city or within two miles of the boundary of any incorporated city where the valuation of such land shall be found by appraisement to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per acre shall, before the same be sold, be platted into lots and blocks of not more than five acres in a block, and not more than one block shall be offered for sale in one parcel.\nSECTION 5 INVESTMENT OF PERMANENT COMMON SCHOOL FUND. The permanent common school fund of this state may be invested as authorized by law. [AMENDMENT 44, 1965 ex.s. Senate Joint Resolution No. 22, part 2, p 2817. Approved November 8, 1966.]\nAmendment 1 (1894) \u2014 Art. 16 Section 5 INVESTMENT OF SCHOOL FUND \u2014 None of the permanent school fund of this state shall ever be loaned to private persons or corporations, but it may be invested in national, state, county, municipal or school district bonds. [AMENDMENT 1, 1893 p 9 Section 1. Approved November, 1894.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 16 Section 5 INVESTMENT OF PERMANENT SCHOOL FUND \u2014 None of the permanent school fund shall ever be loaned to private persons or corporations, but it may be invested in national, state, county or municipal bonds.\nFunds for support of education: Art. 9 Section 3.\nSECTION 6 INVESTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION PERMANENT FUNDS. Notwithstanding the provisions of Article VIII, sections 5 and 7 and Article XII, section 9, or any other section or article of the Constitution of the state of Washington, the moneys of the permanent funds established for any of the institutions of higher education in this state may be invested as authorized by law. Without limitation, this shall include the authority to invest permanent funds held for the benefit of institutions of higher education in stocks or bonds issued by any association, company, or corporation if authorized by law. [AMENDMENT 102, 2007 Substitute House Joint Resolution No. 4215, p 3145. Approved November 6, 2007.]\nSECTION 1 DECLARATION OF STATE OWNERSHIP. The state of Washington asserts its ownership to the beds and shores of all navigable waters in the state up to and including the line of ordinary high tide, in waters where the tide ebbs and flows, and up to and including the line of ordinary high water within the banks of all navigable rivers and lakes: Provided, that this section shall not be construed so as to debar any person from asserting his claim to vested rights in the courts of the state.\nHarbors and tide waters: Art. 15.\nSECTION 2 DISCLAIMER OF CERTAIN LANDS. The state of Washington disclaims all title in and claim to all tide, swamp and overflowed lands, patented by the United States: Provided, the same is not impeached for fraud.\nSECTION 1 SEAL OF THE STATE. The seal of the State of Washington shall be, a seal encircled with the words: \u201cThe Seal of the State of Washington,\u201d with the vignette of General George Washington as the central figure, and beneath the vignette the figures \u201c1889.\u201d\nCustody of seal: Art. 3 Section 18.\nSECTION 1 EXEMPTIONS \u2014 HOMESTEADS, ETC. The legislature shall protect by law from forced sale a certain portion of the homestead and other property of all heads of families.\nSECTION 1 BOARD OF HEALTH AND BUREAU OF VITAL STATISTICS. There shall be established by law a state board of health and a bureau of vital statistics in connection therewith, with such powers as the legislature may direct.\nSECTION 2 REGULATIONS CONCERNING MEDICINE, SURGERY AND PHARMACY. The legislature shall enact laws to regulate the practice of medicine and surgery, and the sale of drugs and medicines.\nSECTION 1 PUBLIC USE OF WATER. The use of the waters of this state for irrigation, mining and manufacturing purposes shall be deemed a public use.\nSECTION 1 SENATORIAL APPORTIONMENT. Until otherwise provided by law, the state shall be divided into twenty-four (24) senatorial districts, and said districts shall be constituted and numbered as follows: The counties of Stevens and Spokane shall constitute the first district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Spokane shall constitute the second district, and be entitled to three senators; the county of Lincoln shall constitute the third district, and be entitled to one senator; the counties of Okanogan, Lincoln, Adams and Franklin shall constitute the fourth district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Whitman shall constitute the fifth district, and be entitled to three senators; the counties of Garfield and Asotin shall constitute the sixth district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Columbia shall constitute the seventh district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Walla Walla shall constitute the eighth district, and be entitled to two senators; the counties of Yakima and Douglas shall constitute the ninth district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Kittitas shall constitute the tenth district and be entitled to one senator; the counties of Klickitat, and Skamania shall constitute the eleventh district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Clarke shall constitute the twelfth district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Cowlitz shall constitute the thirteenth district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Lewis shall constitute the fourteenth district, and be entitled to one senator; the counties of Pacific and Wahkiakum shall constitute the fifteenth district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Thurston shall constitute the sixteenth district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Chehalis shall constitute the seventeenth district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Pierce shall constitute the eighteenth district, and be entitled to three senators; the county of King shall constitute the nineteenth district, and be entitled to five senators; the counties of Mason and Kitsap shall constitute the twentieth district, and be entitled to one senator; the counties of Jefferson, Clallam and San Juan shall constitute the twenty-first district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Snohomish shall constitute the twenty-second district, and shall be entitled to one senator; the counties of Skagit and Island shall constitute the twenty-third district, and be entitled to one senator; the county of Whatcom shall constitute the twenty-fourth district, and be entitled to one senator.\nDistricts and apportionment: Chapter 44.07D RCW.\nSECTION 2 APPORTIONMENT OF REPRESENTATIVES. Until otherwise provided by law the representatives shall be divided among the several counties of the state in the following manner; the county of Adams shall have one representative; the county of Asotin shall have one representative; the county of Chehalis shall have two representatives; the county of Clarke shall have three representatives; the county of Clallam shall have one representative; the county of Columbia shall have two representatives; the county of Cowlitz shall have one representative; the county of Douglas shall have one representative; the county of Franklin shall have one representative; the county of Garfield shall have one representative; the county of Island shall have one representative; the county of Jefferson shall have two representatives; the county of King shall have eight representatives; the county of Klickitat shall have two representatives; the county of Kittitas shall have two representatives; the county of Kitsap shall have one representative; the county of Lewis shall have two representatives; the county of Lincoln shall have two representatives; the county of Mason shall have one representative; the county of Okanogan shall have one representative; the county of Pacific shall have one representative; the county of Pierce shall have six representatives; the county of San Juan shall have one representative; the county of Skamania shall have one representative; the county of Snohomish shall have two representatives; the county of Skagit shall have two representatives; the county of Spokane shall have six representatives; the county of Stevens shall have one representative; the county of Thurston shall have two representatives; the county of Walla Walla shall have three representatives; the county of Wahkiakum shall have one representative; the county of Whatcom shall have two representatives; the county of Whitman shall have five representatives; the county of Yakima shall have one representative.\nSECTION 1 HOW MADE. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in either branch of the legislature; and if the same shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the ayes and noes thereon, and be submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval, at the next general election; and if the people approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a majority of the electors voting thereon, the same shall become part of this Constitution, and proclamation thereof shall be made by the governor: Provided, That if more than one amendment be submitted, they shall be submitted in such a manner that the people may vote for or against such amendments separately. The legislature shall also cause notice of the amendments that are to be submitted to the people to be published at least four times during the four weeks next preceding the election in every legal newspaper in the state: Provided, That failure of any newspaper to publish this notice shall not be interpreted as affecting the outcome of the election. [AMENDMENT 37, 1961 Senate Joint Resolution No. 25, p 2753. Approved November, 1962.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 23 Section 1 HOW MADE \u2014 Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in either branch of the legislature; and if the same shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their journals, with the ayes and noes thereon, and be submitted to the qualified electors of the state for their approval, at the next general election; and if the people approve and ratify such amendment or amendments, by a majority of the electors voting thereon, the same shall become part of this Constitution, and proclamation thereof shall be made by the governor: Provided, that if more than one amendment be submitted, they shall be submitted in such a manner that the people may vote for or against such amendments separately. The legislature shall also cause the amendments that are to be submitted to the people to be published for at least three months next preceding the election, in some weekly newspaper, in every county where a newspaper is published throughout the state.\nSECTION 2 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS. Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each branch of the legislature shall deem it necessary to call a convention to revise or amend this Constitution, they shall recommend to the electors to vote at the next general election, for or against a convention, and if a majority of all the electors voting at said election shall have voted for a convention, the legislature shall at the next session, provide by law for calling the same; and such convention shall consist of a number of members, not less than that of the most numerous branch of the legislature.\nSECTION 3 SUBMISSION TO THE PEOPLE. Any Constitution adopted by such convention shall have no validity until it has been submitted to and adopted by the people.\nSECTION 1 STATE BOUNDARIES. The boundaries of the state of Washington shall be as follows: Beginning at a point in the Pacific ocean one marine league due west of and opposite the middle of the mouth of the north ship channel of the Columbia river thence running easterly to and up the middle channel of said river and where it is divided by islands up the middle of the widest channel thereof to where the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude crosses said river near the mouth of the Walla Walla river; thence east on said forty-sixth parallel of latitude to the middle of the main channel of Shoshone or Snake river, thence follow down the middle of the main channel of Snake river to a point opposite the mouth of the Kooskooskia or Clear Water river, thence due north to the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, thence west along said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates Vancouver\u2019s island from the continent, that is to say to a point in longitude 123 degrees, 19 minutes and 15 seconds west, thence following the boundary line between the United States and British possessions through the channel which separates Vancouver\u2019s island from the continent to the termination of the boundary line between the United States and British possessions at a point in the Pacific ocean equidistant between Bonnilla point on Vancouver\u2019s island and Tatoosh island light house, thence running in a southerly course and parallel with the coast line, keeping one marine league off shore to place of beginning; until such boundaries are modified by appropriate interstate compacts duly approved by the Congress of the United States. [AMENDMENT 33, 1957 Senate Joint Resolution No. 10, p 1292. Approved November 4, 1958.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 24 Section 1 STATE BOUNDARIES \u2014 The boundaries of the State of Washington shall be as follows: Beginning at a point in the Pacific ocean one marine league due west of and opposite the middle of the mouth of the north ship channel of the Columbia river thence running easterly to and up the middle channel of said river and where it is divided by islands up the middle of the widest channel thereof to where the forty-sixth parallel of north latitude crosses said river near the mouth of the Walla Walla river; thence east on said forty-sixth parallel of latitude to the middle of the main channel of the Shoshone or Snake river, thence follow down the middle of the main channel of Snake river to a point opposite the mouth of the Kooskooskia or Clear Water river, thence due north to the forty-ninth parallel of north latitude, thence west along said forty-ninth parallel of north latitude to the middle of the channel which separates Vancouver\u2019s island from the continent, that is to say to a point in longitude 123 degrees, 19 minutes and 15 seconds west, thence following the boundary line between the United States and British possessions through the channel which separates Vancouver\u2019s island from the continent to the termination of the boundary line between the United States and British possessions at a point in the Pacific ocean equi distant between Bonnilla point on Vancouver\u2019s island and Tatoosh island light house, thence running in a southerly course and parallel with the coast line, keeping one marine league off shore to place of beginning.\nSECTION 1 AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES. The consent of the State of Washington is hereby given to the exercise, by the congress of the United States, of exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such tracts or parcels of land as are now held or reserved by the government of the United States for the purpose of erecting or maintaining thereon forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, lighthouses and other needful buildings, in accordance with the provisions of the seventeenth paragraph of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, so long as the same shall be so held and reserved by the United States. Provided: That a sufficient description by metes and bounds, and an accurate plat or map of each such tract or parcel of land be filed in the proper office of record in the county in which the same is situated, together with copies of the orders, deeds, patents or other evidences in writing of the title of the United States: and provided, That all civil process issued from the courts of this state and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of this state against any person charged with crime in cases arising outside of such reservations, may be served and executed thereon in the same mode and manner, and by the same officers, as if the consent herein given had not been made.\nThe following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of this state:\nFirst. That perfect toleration of religious sentiment shall be secured and that no inhabitant of this state shall ever be molested in person or property on account of his or her mode of religious worship.\nSecond. That the people inhabiting this state do agree and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying with the boundaries of this state, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by any Indian or Indian tribes; and that until the title thereto shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States, and said Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction and control of the congress of the United States and that the lands belonging to citizens of the United States residing without the limits of this state shall never be taxed at a higher rate than the lands belonging to residents thereof; and that no taxes shall be imposed by the state on lands or property therein, belonging to or which may be hereafter purchased by the United States or reserved for use:Provided, That nothing in this ordinance shall preclude the state from taxing as other lands are taxed any lands owned or held by any Indian who has severed his tribal relations, and has obtained from the United States or from any person a title thereto by patent or other grant, save and except such lands as have been or may be granted to any Indian or Indians under any act of congress containing a provision exempting the lands thus granted from taxation, which exemption shall continue so long and to such an extent as such act of congress may prescribe.\nThird. The debts and liabilities of the Territory of Washington and payment of the same are hereby assumed by this state.\nFourth. Provision shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools free from sectarian control which shall be open to all the children of said state.\nIn order that no inconvenience may arise by reason of a change from a Territorial to a State government, it is hereby declared and ordained as follows:\nSECTION 1 EXISTING RIGHTS, ACTIONS, AND CONTRACTS SAVED. No existing rights, actions, suits, proceedings, contracts or claims shall be affected by a change in the form of government, but all shall continue as if no such change had taken place; and all process which may have been issued under the authority of the Territory of Washington previous to its admission into the Union shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the state.\nSECTION 2 LAWS IN FORCE CONTINUED. All laws now in force in the Territory of Washington, which are not repugnant to this Constitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitation, or are altered or repealed by the legislature: Provided, That this section shall not be so construed as to validate any act of the legislature of Washington Territory granting shore or tide lands to any person, company or any municipal or private corporation.\nSECTION 3 DEBTS, FINES, ETC., TO INURE TO THE STATE. All debts, fines, penalties and forfeitures, which have accrued, or may hereafter accrue, to the Territory of Washington, shall inure to the State of Washington.\nSECTION 4 RECOGNIZANCES. All recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be taken before the change from a territorial to a state government shall remain valid, and shall pass to, and may be prosecuted in the name of the state; and all bonds executed to the Territory of Washington or to any county or municipal corporation, or to any officer or court in his or its official capacity, shall pass to the state authorities and their successors in office, for the uses therein expressed, and may be sued for and recovered accordingly, and all the estate, real, personal and mixed, and all judgments decrees, bonds, specialties, choses in action, and claims or debts, of whatever description, belonging to the Territory of Washington, shall inure to and vest in the State of Washington, and may be sued for and recovered in the same manner, and to the same extent, by the State of Washington, as the same could have been by the Territory of Washington.\nSECTION 5 CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS AND PENAL ACTIONS. All criminal prosecutions and penal actions which may have arisen, or which may arise, before the change from a territorial to a state government, and which shall then be pending, shall be prosecuted to judgment, and execution in the name of the state. All offenses committed against the laws of the Territory of Washington, before the change from a territorial to a state government, and which shall not be prosecuted before such change, may be prosecuted in the name and by the authority of the State of Washington, with like effect as though such change had not taken place; and all penalties incurred shall remain the same as if this Constitution had not been adopted. All actions at law and suits in equity which may be pending in any of the courts of the Territory of Washington, at the time of the change from a territorial to a state government, shall be continued, and transferred to the court of the state having jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof.\nSECTION 6 RETENTION OF TERRITORIAL OFFICERS. All officers now holding their office under the authority of the United States, or of the Territory of Washington, shall continue to hold and exercise their respective offices until they shall be superseded by the authority of the state.\nSECTION 7 CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICERS, WHEN ELECTED. All officers provided for in this Constitution including a county clerk for each county when no other time is fixed for their election, shall be elected at the election to be held for the adoption of this Constitution on the first Tuesday of October, 1889.\nSECTION 8 CHANGE OF COURTS \u2013 TRANSFER OF CAUSES. Whenever the judge of the superior court of any county, elected or appointed under the provisions of this Constitution shall have qualified the several causes then pending in the district court of the territory except such causes as would have been within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States district court had such court existed at the time of the commencement of such causes, within such county, and the records, papers and proceedings of said district court, and the seal and other property pertaining thereto, shall pass into the jurisdiction and possession of the superior court for such county. And where the same judge is elected for two or more counties, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the district court having custody of such papers and records to transmit to the clerk of such county, or counties, other than that in which such records are kept the original papers in all cases pending in such district court and belonging to the jurisdiction of such county or counties together with transcript of so much of the records of said district court as relate to the same; and until the district courts of the Territory shall be superseded in manner aforesaid, the said district courts and the judges thereof, shall continue with the same jurisdiction and powers, to be exercised in the same judicial districts respectively, as heretofore constituted under the laws of the Territory. Whenever a quorum of the judges of the supreme court of the state shall have been elected and qualified, the causes then pending in the supreme court of the Territory, except such causes as would have been within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, circuit court had such court existed at the time of the commencement of such causes, and the papers, records and proceedings of said court and the seal and other property pertaining thereto, shall pass into the jurisdiction and possession of the supreme court of the state, and until so superseded, the supreme court of the Territory and the judges thereof, shall continue with like powers and jurisdiction as if this Constitution had not been adopted.\nSECTION 9 SEALS OF COURTS AND MUNICIPALITIES. Until otherwise provided by law, the seal now in use in the supreme court of the Territory shall be the seal of the supreme court of the state. The seals of the superior courts of the several counties of the state shall be, until otherwise provided by law, the vignette of General George Washington with the words: \u201cSeal of the Superior Court of \u2014\u2014\u2014 county\u201d surrounding the vignette. The seal of municipalities, and of all county officers of the Territory, shall be the seals of such municipalities, and county officers respectively under the state, until otherwise provided by law.\nSECTION 10 PROBATE COURT, TRANSFER OF. When the state is admitted into the Union, and the superior courts in the respective counties organized, the books, records, papers and proceedings of the probate court in each county, and all causes and matters of administration pending therein, shall, upon the expiration of the term of office of the probate judges, on the second Monday in January, 1891, pass into the jurisdiction and possession of the superior court of the same county created by this Constitution, and the said court shall proceed to final judgment or decree, order or other determination in the several matters and causes, as the territorial probate court might have done, if this Constitution had not been adopted. And until the expiration of the term of office of the probate judges, such probate judges shall perform the duties now imposed upon them by the laws of the Territory. The superior courts shall have appellate and revisory jurisdiction over the decisions of the probate courts, as now provided by law, until such latter courts expire by limitation.\nSECTION 11 DUTIES OF FIRST LEGISLATURE. The legislature, at its first session, shall provide for the election of all officers whose election is not provided for elsewhere in this Constitution, and fix the time for the commencement and duration of their term.\nSECTION 12 ELECTION CONTESTS FOR SUPERIOR JUDGES, HOW DECIDED. In case of a contest of election between candidates, at the first general election under this Constitution, for judges of the superior courts, the evidence shall be taken in the manner prescribed by the Territorial laws, and the testimony so taken shall be certified to the secretary of state; and said officer, together with the governor and treasurer of state, shall review the evidence and determine who is entitled to the certificate of election.\nSECTION 13 REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS. [Repealed by AMENDMENT 74, 1983 Substitute Senate Joint Resolution No. 103. Approved November 8, 1983.]\nOriginal text \u2014 Art. 27 Section 13 REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS \u2014 One representative in the congress of the United States shall be elected from the state at large, at the first election provided for in this Constitution; and, thereafter, at such times and places, and in such manner, as may be prescribed by law. When a new apportionment shall be made by congress, the legislature shall divide the state into congressional districts, in accordance with such apportionment. The vote cast for representative in congress, at the first election, shall be canvassed, and the result determined in the manner provided for by the laws of the Territory for the canvass of the vote for delegate in congress.\nSECTION 14 DURATION OF TERM OF CERTAIN OFFICERS. All district, county and precinct officers, who may be in office at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, and the county clerk of each county elected at the first election, shall hold their respective offices until the second Monday of January, A. D., 1891, and until such time as their successors may be elected and qualified, in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution; and the official bonds of all such officers shall continue in full force and effect as though this Constitution had not been adopted. And such officers shall continue to receive the compensation now provided, until the same be changed by law.\nSECTION 15 ELECTION ON ADOPTION OF CONSTITUTION, HOW TO BE CONDUCTED. The election held at the time of the adoption of this Constitution shall be held and conducted in all respects according to the laws of the Territory, and the votes cast at said election for all officers (where no other provisions are made in this Constitution), and for the adoption of this Constitution and the several separate articles and the location of the state capital, shall be canvassed and returned in the several counties in the manner provided by Territorial law, and shall be returned to the secretary of the Territory in the manner provided by the Enabling Act.\nSECTION 16 WHEN CONSTITUTION TO TAKE EFFECT. The provisions of this Constitution shall be in force from the day on which the president of the United States shall issue his proclamation declaring the State of Washington admitted into the Union, and the terms of all officers elected at the first election under the provisions of this Constitution shall commence on the Monday next succeeding the issue of said proclamation, unless otherwise provided herein.\nSECTION 17 SEPARATE ARTICLES. The following separate articles shall be submitted to the people for adoption or rejection at the election for the adoption of this Constitution:\nSEPARATE ARTICLE, NO. 1\n\u201cAll persons male and female of the age of twenty-one years or over, possessing the other qualifications, provided by this Constitution, shall be entitled to vote at all elections.\u201d\n\u201cIt shall not be lawful for any individual, company or corporation, within the limits of this state, to manufacture, or cause to be manufactured, or to sell, or offer for sale, or in any manner dispose of any alcoholic, malt or spirituous liquors, except for medicinal, sacramental or scientific purposes.\u201d\nIf a majority of the ballots cast at said election on said separate articles be in favor of the adoption of either of said separate articles, then such separate article so receiving a majority shall become a part of this Constitution and shall govern and control any provision of the Constitution in conflict therewith.\nSECTION 18 BALLOT. The form of ballot to be used in voting for or against this Constitution, or for or against the separate articles, or for the permanent location of the seat of government, shall be:\n1. For the Constitution \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\nAgainst the Constitution \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\n2. For Woman Suffrage Article \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\nAgainst Woman Suffrage Article \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\n3. For Prohibition Article \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\nAgainst Prohibition Article \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\n4. For the Permanent Location of the Seat of Government (Name of place voted for) \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013\nThe result of the election was against both woman suffrage and prohibition.\nSECTION 19 APPROPRIATION. The legislature is hereby authorized to appropriate from the state treasury sufficient money to pay any of the expenses of this convention not provided for by the Enabling Act of Congress.\nSECTION 1 SALARIES FOR LEGISLATURE, ELECTED STATE OFFICIALS, AND JUDGES \u2014 INDEPENDENT COMMISSION \u2014 REFERENDUM. Salaries for members of the legislature, elected officials of the executive branch of state government, and judges of the state\u2019s supreme court, court of appeals, superior courts, and district courts shall be fixed by an independent commission created and directed by law to that purpose. No state official, public employee, or person required by law to register with a state agency as a lobbyist, or immediate family member of the official, employee, or lobbyist, may be a member of that commission.\nAs used in this section the phrase \u201cimmediate family\u201d has the meaning that is defined by law.\nAny change of salary shall be filed with the secretary of state and shall become law ninety days thereafter without action of the legislature or governor, but shall be subject to referendum petition by the people, filed within the ninety-day period. Referendum measures under this section shall be submitted to the people at the next following general election, and shall be otherwise governed by the provisions of this Constitution generally applicable to referendum measures. The salaries fixed pursuant to this section shall supersede any other provision for the salaries of members of the legislature, elected officials of the executive branch of state government, and judges of the state\u2019s supreme court, court of appeals, superior courts, and district courts. The salaries for such officials in effect on January 12, 1987, shall remain in effect until changed pursuant to this section.\nAfter the initial adoption of a law by the legislature creating the independent commission, no amendment to such act which alters the composition of the commission shall be valid unless the amendment is enacted by a favorable vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each house of the legislature and is subject to referendum petition.\nThe provisions of section 14 of Article IV, sections 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, and 22 of Article III, and section 23 of Article II, insofar as they are inconsistent herewith, are hereby superseded. The provisions of section 1 of Article II relating to referendum procedures, insofar as they are inconsistent herewith, are hereby superseded with regard to the salaries governed by this section. [AMENDMENT 78, 1986 Substitute House Joint Resolution No. 49, p 1529. Approved November 4, 1986.]\nAmendment 20 (1948) \u2014 Art. 28 Section 1 COMPENSATION OF STATE OFFICERS \u2014 All elected state officials shall each severally receive such compensation as the legislature may direct. The compensation of any state officer shall not be increased or diminished during his term of office, except that the legislature, at its thirty-first regular session, may increase or diminish the compensation of all state officers whose terms exist on the Thursday after the second Monday in January, 1949.\nThe provisions of sections 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, and 22 of Article III and section 23 of Article II in so far as they are inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. [AMENDMENT 20, 1947 Senate Joint Resolution No. 4, p 1371. Approved November 2, 1948.]\nSECTION 1 MAY BE INVESTED AS AUTHORIZED BY LAW. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5, and 7 of Article VIII and section 9 of Article XII or any other section or article of the Constitution of the state of Washington, the moneys of any public pension or retirement fund, industrial insurance trust fund, or fund held in trust for the benefit of persons with developmental disabilities may be invested as authorized by law. [AMENDMENT 93, 2000 Senate Joint Resolution No. 8214, p 1919. Approved November 7, 2000.]\nAmendment 75 (1985) \u2014 Art. 29 Section 1 MAY BE INVESTED AS AUTHORIZED BY LAW \u2014 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5, and 7 of Article VIII and section 9 of Article XII or any other section or article of the Constitution of the state of Washington, the moneys of any public pension or retirement fund or industrial insurance trust fund may be invested as authorized by law. [AMENDMENT 75, 1985 House Joint Resolution No. 12, p 2398. Approved November 5, 1985.]\nAmendment 49 (1968) \u2014 Art. 29 Section 1 MAY BE INVESTED AS AUTHORIZED BY LAW \u2014 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 5, and 7 of Article VIII and section 9 of Article XII or any other section or article of the Constitution of the state of Washington, the moneys of any public pension or retirement fund may be invested as authorized by law.[AMENDMENT 49, 1967 Senate Joint Resolution No. 5; see 1969 p 2975. Approved November 5, 1968.]\nSECTION 1 AUTHORIZING COMPENSATION INCREASE DURING TERM. The compensation of all elective and appointive state, county, and municipal officers who do not fix their own compensation, including judges of courts of record and the justice courts may be increased during their terms of office to the end that such officers and judges shall each severally receive compensation for their services in accordance with the law in effect at the time the services are being rendered.\nThe provisions of section 25 of Article II (Amendment 35), section 25 of Article III (Amendment 31), section 13 of Article IV, section 8 of Article XI, and section 1 of Article XXVIII (Amendment 20) insofar as they are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. [AMENDMENT 54, 1967 House Joint Resolution No. 13; see 1969 p 2976. Approved November 5, 1968.]\nReviser\u2019s note: (1) Amendment 49 (1967 SJR No. 5) and Amendment 54 (1967 HJR No. 13) each added a new Article XXIX to the Constitution. Amendment 49 is carried herein as Article XXIX while Amendment 54 has been herein redesignated as Article XXX.\n(2) The name of this Article has been supplied by the reviser.\nSEX EQUALITY \u2013 RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nSECTION 1 EQUALITY NOT DENIED BECAUSE OF SEX. Equality of rights and responsibility under the law shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex.\nSECTION 2 ENFORCEMENT POWER OF LEGISLATURE. The legislature shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. [AMENDMENT 61, 1972 House Joint Resolution No. 61, p 526. Approved November, 1972.]\nThe name of this Article and the captions have been supplied by the reviser.\nSECTION 1 SPECIAL REVENUE FINANCING. The legislature may enact laws authorizing the state, counties, cities, towns, port districts, or public corporations established thereby to issue nonrecourse revenue bonds or other nonrecourse revenue obligations and to apply the proceeds thereof in the manner and for the purposes heretofore or hereafter authorized by law, subject to the following limitations:\n(a) Nonrecourse revenue bonds and other nonrecourse revenue obligations issued pursuant to this section shall be payable only from money or other property received as a result of projects financed by the nonrecourse revenue bonds or other nonrecourse revenue obligations and from money and other property received from private sources.\n(b) Nonrecourse revenue bonds and other nonrecourse revenue obligations issued pursuant to this section shall not be payable from or secured by any tax funds or governmental revenue or by all or part of the faith and credit of the state or any unit of local government.\n(c) Nonrecourse revenue bonds or other nonrecourse revenue obligations issued pursuant to this section may be issued only if the issuer certifies that it reasonably believes that the interest paid on the bonds or obligations will be exempt from income taxation by the federal government.\n(d) Nonrecourse revenue bonds or other nonrecourse revenue obligations may only be used to finance industrial development projects as defined in legislation.\n(e) The state, counties, cities, towns, port districts, or public corporations established thereby, shall never exercise their respective attributes of sovereignty, including but not limited to, the power to tax, the power of eminent domain, and the police power on behalf of any industrial development project authorized pursuant to this section.\nAfter the initial adoption of a law by the legislature authorizing the issuance of nonrecourse revenue bonds or other nonrecourse revenue obligations, no amendment to such act which expands the definition of industrial development project shall be valid unless the amendment is enacted by a favorable vote of three-fifths of the members elected to each house of the legislature and is subject to referendum petition.\nSections 5 and 7 of Article VIII and section 9 of Article XII shall not be construed as a limitation upon the authority granted by this section. The proceeds of revenue bonds and other revenue obligations issued pursuant to this section for the purpose of financing privately owned property or loans to private persons or corporations shall be subject to audit by the state but shall not otherwise be deemed to be public money or public property for purposes of this Constitution. This section is supplemental to and shall not be construed as a repeal of or limitation on any other authority lawfully exercisable under the Constitution and laws of this state, including, among others, any existing authority to issue revenue bonds. [AMENDMENT 73,1981 Substitute House Joint Resolution No. 7, p 1794. 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Laura Wright [Carly] \u2013 I would not have been able to do this without her.\u201d\nChloe Lanier picked up a win at the 45th Annual Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series.\nThis marks Lanier\u2019s second nomination for the character Nelle Benson, the conniving stepsister of Carly Corinthos (Laura Wright).\n\u201cStill processing, but I do not take this moment for granted,\u201d she admitted on Instagram shortly after the big night.\nDespite her success, stardom has not come easily to the actress.\nLanier attended Coppell High School from 2006 to 2010, where she was involved with various CHS theater productions and did not exactly exemplify the golden girl of the department.\n\u201c[Lanier] was a fun, interesting girl who I loved having as a student,\u201d said CHS theater department head Lisa Tabor, who remembers casting and directing Lanier during her high school years. \u201cShe always tried out for everything we did, but she wasn\u2019t one who necessarily one who made all the shows.\u201d\nTabor, after seeing Lanier\u2019s impressive performance in a KCBY segment, offered a word of encouragement to her to consider television and film for a career.\n\u201cI noticed she did a fantastic job, and she knew how to work the camera,\u201d Tabor said.\nFollowing her graduation in 2010, Lanier\u2019s next steps remained unclear for a while, when original plans had not panned out as she\u2019d imagined. After being deferred from college, she found herself considering options outside of a traditional education.\nLanier went on to secure an agent, kickstarting her acting career in 2009 by starring in a movie called The Effects of Tragedy as Lisa. In 2012, she joined the cast of \u201cArmy Wives\u201d in the recurring role of Penny, before settling into the role on \u201cGeneral Hospital\u201d that would win her her first Emmy nomination in 2017, and now win.\n\u201cI\u2019m very proud of her,\u201d Tabor said. \u201cShe\u2019s a great person to talk about in class, about having to have perseverance [in the acting field], if this is what you want to do.\u201d\nThe entertainment field is one that is extremely competitive, where the playing field is almost never fair, and aspiring actors find not only their skills tested, but their determination, tenacity, and commitment to the craft.\n\u201cThe willingness to hear \u2018no\u2019 10 times in a week and still go to that 11th audition is what separates people who act as a hobby from the professionals,\u201d junior theater student Danni Murtha said. \u201cI don\u2019t think I would have the strength to handle that kind of treatment, which only makes me admire full-time entertainers more.\u201d\nLanier\u2019s dream has been clear since day one, as has her solid work ethic, which has paid off in the form of a spectacular victory.\n\u201cI couldn\u2019t be happier,\u201d Lanier said on Instagram the following morning. \u201c[I\u2019m grateful for all the] sweet messages and comments. Here\u2019s a huge thank you to my acting coaches, both past and present.\u201d\nThe actress also offers some advice for other young women who are looking to pursue a career in show business.\n\u201cStay in class,\u201d Lanier said. \u201cKeep coaching. Work hard. This business can be brutal and one thing I always try to remember is that as actors we have the ability to grow. Hard work, studying, and passion make all the difference in that growth. So keep growing.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 6653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://corruptionfreeafrica.org/2018-year-of-combatting-corruption-in-africa/item/374-au-echo-2018-winning-the-fight-against-corruption-a-sustainable-path-to-africa-s-transformation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:14Z", "digest": "sha1:A5LT77XGAOV7ZLFE2RO3U4QE5TYDYYFL", "length": 4326, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "corruptionfreeafrica.org", "title": "AU ECHO 2018 \u2018Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa\u2019s Transformation\u2019\u2019", "raw_content": "AU ECHO 2018 \u2018Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa\u2019s Transformation\u2019\u2019\nAU ECHO 2018\n\u2018Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa\u2019s Transformation\u2019\u2019\nCorruption is an endemic affecting people\u2019s daily lives. From poor infrastructure, unequal access to healthcare and medicine, crime and violence to political choices distorted by money and greed, corruption continues to serve as a deterrent towards Africa\u2019s development.\nA lot has been done over the last few years since the adoption of the African Union Convention on Preventing and Combating Corruption (AUCPCC) in 2003. Governments and non-state actors have been instrumental in raising awareness about the devastating effects of corruption on governance, service delivery, human rights and socio-economic development. Additionally, numerous campaigns have been organized to influence national, regional, continental and global agendas that seek to demand for systemic change. Despite the strides that have been made towards combating the culture of corruption, corruption still continues to erode people\u2019s sense of equity and this is reflected by citizen\u2019s general sense of despair, given the failure of governments to effectively address corruption from its roots.\nIn recognition of these challenges and the prevailing need to reinvigorate the fight against corruption, the African Union (AU) Assembly has declared 2018 the \u2018African Year of Anti-Corruption\u2019 with the theme \u2018Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa\u2019s Transformation\u2019. The AU ECHO provides a platform for the 55 Member States of the African Union, and African citizens to profile the successes of Africa, and to impart knowledge and experiences born from African led initiatives, based in the instruments and decisions of the African Union. It is published on an annual basis by the Directorate of Information and Communication (DIC) of the AUC, with a key focus on content aligned to the AU\u2019s Theme of the Year.\nThe scope of the 2018 edition of the AU ECHO calls for evidence based articles on the progress that has been achieved as well as innovative initiatives that are being undertaken at institutional, country and continental level, with regard to promote the fight against corruption and impunity on the continent as a sustainable path to a peaceful and prosperous Africa, guided by the relevant AU frameworks. View previous editions of the AU ECHO here\nContributions are being sought from organs and employees of the African Union, member states, academic institutions, think tanks, civil society organizations, women\u2019s organizations and the wider public. The editors reserve the right to reject papers they deem to be inconsistent with the guidelines outlined in this call for papers.\n\u2022 Languages: Articles for publication may be submitted in any of the AU working languages i.e. English, French, Portuguese and Arabic.\n\u2022 Word count: Not more than 2000 words per article.\n\u2022 Illustrations: Photographs and other illustrations that enhance the article are welcome, although these must be original to the author and/or under a creative commons license.\n\u2022 All submissions must contain the full name and contact of the sender, his/her organization and job title (if applicable). \u2022 Send your manuscript to the Editor at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a copy to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.\nThe AU ECHO will be distributed to Heads of State and Government of the African Union and other delegates as well as to offices of the African Union. 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Automobiles, fueled principally by gasoline, made suburban living possible. Jet fuel gets us from one part of the country to another in less than a day (hopefully). It also can get us to other parts of the world in less than a day. We burn oil, natural gas, or other fossil fuels to heat our homes in the winter. We cool them using electricity generated from a variety resources, but usually from natural gas or coal. This is supplemented by hydro, nuclear, and to a very small degree by solar and wind generators.\nWhen this pursuit of energy to live our lives in the way we want to live them goes wrong, oftentimes the result is calamitous. We recently mourned with the people of West Virginia the deaths of coal miners. There are charges that safety at that mine was compromised for the sake of profit. Government officials may have been bribed to look the other way. Just recently, off-shore oil workers were killed when the rig exploded, burned, and disappeared into the Gulf of Mexico. The growing disaster on the Gulf Coast may be worse than the Exxon Valdez disaster. Also in the past, we cannot forget the Chernobyl reactor disaster. The ground at that site is still unsafe.\nDependence on foreign oil threatens our national security. We produce a lot of oil. We import a whole lot more. Much of our imports are from countries hostile to us. If they decided to turn off the spigots, we would be in deep trouble. We need a rapid conversion away from oil, but that will never happen. We are addicted.\nThen there is the environmental costs of our pursuit of energy. Burning coal is choking the air and everything that breaths the air. Burning fossil fuels increases the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere contributing to our current climate change. Nuclear technology seems much safer these days and does not pollute. France and other countries rely on nuclear power and have very good safety records. Solar and wind farms are increasing, but will only provide a very small fraction of our electricity needs.\nNuclear power is the best alternative to our energy needs. It is relatively safe, but we need to realistically address the spent fuel storage issues. It does not pollute (except for the spent material issues). They can replace our coal and natural gas fired power plants. They can provide power for our automobiles and other vehicles. Airplanes are going to be stuck with oil for a while. The navy has proved that small nuclear plants can power ships.\nGod gave us this planet to take care of it. It is our moral responsibility to leave the earth the way we found it for future generations. Taking what we need without thought to the long-term, with no regard to safety, with denial of the climate effects, with an attitude of \u201cI got mine and you don\u2019t count,\u201d is immoral. The Earth is not ours. It is God\u2019s. How will we account to God for our care of the planet? How will God judge us?\nTechnorati Tags: environmnet,climate change,nuclear power,energy disaster,oil dependence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crayonsandcravings.com/ways-to-reduce-waste-at-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUFMSIDG265KDAQIRNRCLGBYSQCRVEUK", "length": 4382, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "crayonsandcravings.com", "title": "Simple Ways to Reduce Waste at Home", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Family / Home Life / 4 Ways to Reduce Waste at Home\nWhether you want to reduce waste to save money or to help save the environment, these 4 ways to reduce waste at home are a great place to start. Make these changes and your family will be well on their way to cutting down on waste.\nWe all want to do our part to help the environment. A lot of us, though, just don\u2019t know where to start. The idea of \u201cgreen living\u201d or \u201csustainable living\u201d, is intimidating enough to keep most of us from even trying.\nIt\u2019s also difficult to feel like you can make a difference. You are just one person, or one family, so how would your actions make a difference at all to the environment as a whole?\nThe answer is that no, one individual person may not make a huge difference. But change is made up from many different people, across the globe, all doing their small part to make the world a better place.\nRead on for 4 ways that you can reduce the amount of waste that your family produces at home.\nWays to Reduce Waste at Home\nOne of the best places to start, if you\u2019re wanting to cut the amount of waste you and your family produce this year, is to use less plastic.\nNot only will using less plastic cut down on waste and be better for the environment, but it will also save you some serious cash. Buying plastic cutlery and plates is basically like throwing money in the trash.\nThere are a lot of really simple ways to do this! First, you could stop buying disposable dishes and cutlery. It may be convenient to not have to do the dishes every single night, but those disposable dishes and plastic forks are going to end up in a landfill, unable to decompose. Use real plates and forks, and buy stainless steel straws rather than those disposable bendy ones. In short, cut out the amount of plastic you use. Even if it\u2019s multi use, you\u2019re better off buying products that aren\u2019t made of plastic and therefore will last you a lot longer.\nWhen you do use plastic, make sure that you recycle it properly after you\u2019re done using it.\nAnother great way to reduce waste at home is by changing the way that you shop. When it comes to grocery shopping, did you know that most Americans throw out over 40% of the food that they buy? That\u2019s food that they spent a considerable amount of money on, just to throw it away because they didn\u2019t use it in time.\nInstead, shop local (which also helps stimulate local economy), and if you find yourself throwing out a lot of food, go shopping a few times a week instead of once every one to two weeks. This way you are forced to use all of your food up in a much quicker time frame.\nYou probably don\u2019t even think about the effect your cleaning supplies has on the environment. The harsh chemicals that are put in some daily cleaners wreak havoc on our delicate environment.\nYou can very easily make your own green cleaning products right at home. Or, there are a good handful of companies that are dedicated to creating and selling cleaning products that are green and sustainable, and you can get your cleaning products through them, if you\u2019d rather not make them yourself.\nMake sure you aren\u2019t wasting water\nAmericans waste a lot of water. A lot more than you would think. We take incredibly long shower and we leave our sprinklers running to water our lawn for hours on end. We simply aren\u2019t mindful of the water and resources that we are using on a daily basis.\nFinding ways to use less water is not only better for the environment, but it will also save you a considerable amount of money on your utility bill. This is an easy task to start on, because you\u2019ll be able to physically see a part of the effect that your efforts have. Time your showers, and make sure they aren\u2019t too long.\nSet a timer on your sprinkler system.Make sure you are watering your lawn in the early hours of the morning so you won\u2019t waste water by letting it evaporate quickly.\nAlso, make sure that your faucets and pipes are checked regularly for leaks. This is a huge culprit of wasted water. Especially because it\u2019s often something that you don\u2019t even see. Getting these pipes and faucets checked regularly will save you lots of money, help the environment, and you\u2019ll preserve the longevity of the pipes and hardware in your home.\nWhat are some of your favorite ways to reduce ways at home?\n\u00ab Refreshing Cucumber Lime Smoothie\nBaby Food Purees for Busy Parents \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cremefresh.ca/testimonial/love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YUEBLNYMMC42K2P746RW6CJQCTTRSHAN", "length": 38, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cremefresh.ca", "title": "love - cremeFRESH", "raw_content": "Thanks so much\u2026I love your products!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crssa.rutgers.edu/projects/btide/html/72104.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HMPBLUM3JWPEV4DBJNOFYYH4QBINGYMP", "length": 111, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "crssa.rutgers.edu", "title": "Brown Tide in NJ CRSSA at Rutgers SEBS", "raw_content": "Data Collected on July 21, 2004\nLacey TWP.................................................................18000", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 8.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crypto.stanford.edu/portia/pubs/articles/G374676827.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:15Z", "digest": "sha1:JDNVCEL6GHD4OTL6T4F6UUWRUVV34E2X", "length": 396, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "crypto.stanford.edu", "title": "Publications", "raw_content": "Digital Rights Management: A Guide for Librarians\nCitation Legal, Social, and Philosophical Issues Presented at the American Library Association Midwinter Conference, San Antonio TX, Jan 2006.\nAuthor Michael Godwin\nThis paper is a guide for librarians, archivists, and other people in similar professions to Digital Rights Management, how it works, and the legal and policy issues that it raises.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 246.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://culteducation.com/group/1099-polygamist-groups/17140-lost-boys-education-aided-by-trust-funds-.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:12Z", "digest": "sha1:RUVAMFVUG6LXNIV4MO5SEMEICKAGG6JM", "length": 2735, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "culteducation.com", "title": "Lost Boys' education aided by trust funds", "raw_content": "Lost Boys' education aided by trust funds\nDeseret Morning News/January 15, 2008\nOne wants to be a doctor. Two want to go into business. Another wants to be a lawyer, and one wants to create video games.\nThese young men and young women exiled from the Fundamentalist LDS Church may be able to realize those dreams, thanks to a series of checks being cut by the court-appointed special fiduciary of the United Effort Plan Trust.\n\"The trust committed to paying $50,000 a year for education purposes to people in the community,\" Bruce Wisan said Monday.\nThe UEP Trust paid out $24,500 for a semester's worth of tuition for 16 kids. It's through a fund set up as part of a lawsuit settlement with the so-called \"Lost Boys,\" a group of young men who were kicked out of the Fundamentalist LDS Church.\n\"One of the plaintiffs said he didn't want to take all of the money for himself,\" said Shannon Price, the director of the Diversity Foundation, which helps the Lost Boys. \"He wanted it for the benefit of everybody who was exiled.\"\nIn 2004, six young men sued the FLDS Church, then-leader Warren Jeffs and the UEP Trust, claiming their were kicked out of their community and separated from their families. The UEP Trust settled its part of the lawsuit last year, creating an education fund and designating property in the polygamous border town of Hildale.\nJeffs, 52, is serving prison time for rape as an accomplice. He was convicted last year of performing a child bride marriage.\nNonprofit groups and social service agencies have been trying to help what is estimated to be hundreds of teenagers who have either been kicked out or run away from the FLDS communities. Some left because of the community's strict religious codes. Others were ousted for committing some kind of \"sin.\"\nOut on the streets and on their own, some have turned to drugs and alcohol and gotten into trouble with the law. Recently, the HOPE Organization was able to persuade Washington County prosecutors to help Lost Boys who show up in court by striking plea deals that get the kids to complete their GEDs or go to Job Corps.\n\"These kids have almost a failure mentality if you're kicked out,\" Price said. \"For these kids to really take a test and know they can succeed - I've seen their self-esteem rise immensely from being able to pass that GED test.\"\nA 20-year-old man who was exiled from the FLDS communities three years ago received a check for college is grateful.\n\"Coming from a community where most of the people don't even have an eighth grade education, this opportunity is direly needed,\" the man, who asked not to be identified, said in an e-mail to the Deseret Morning News. \"It's a wonderful freedom for us to get an education and become successful.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 197.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://customers.eqm-midstreampartners.com/en/IPWS-Equitrans/Informational%20Postings/Notices/Supported%20Indexes.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CXMF2HFCZPQX5DBKJDSQYFOUR3UR36KW", "length": 225, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "customers.eqm-midstreampartners.com", "title": "Supported Indexes", "raw_content": "Platts Gas Daily: Columbia Gas, App. 12/14/2018 12/13/2020\nPlatts Gas Daily: Texas Eastern, M-2 receipts 12/14/2018 12/13/2020\nInside FERC's Gas Market Report: Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., Appalachia 12/14/2018 12/13/2020", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 1931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://customersatisfactionranking.com/reviews/ircon-international-ltd/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YLOBDWZUZ345PEN3ZDWNQ6GRCHAR32VE", "length": 1274, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "customersatisfactionranking.com", "title": "IRCON International Ltd | Reviews | Customer Satisfaction Ranking", "raw_content": "IRCON International Ltd\nIRCON International Ltd Reviews\nReview IRCON International Ltd Now\nIrcon international limited (ircon), a government company incorporated by the central government (ministry of railways) under the companies act, 1956 on 28th april, 1976 originally under the name indian railway construction company limited, is the leading turnkey construction company in the public sector known for its quality, commitment and consistency in terms of performance. ircon has widespread operations in several states in india and in other countries(malaysia, nepal, bangladesh, mozambique,ethiopia, afganistan, u.k. algeria & sri lanka now). ircon is a specialized constructions organization covering the entire spectrum of construction activities and services in the infrastructure sector. however, railway and highway construction, ehp sub-station (engineering and constructions), and mrts are the core competence areas of ircon. ircon operates not only in a highly competitive environment but also in difficult terrains and regions in india and abroad and is an active participant in prestigious nation building projects. ircon has so far completed more than 300 infrastructure projects in india and more than 100 projects across the globe in more than 21 countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 177.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://datebeautifulwomen.com/its-a-numbers-game-funnel-hackers-live/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:08Z", "digest": "sha1:QFLCIGBA6HIW3M6FYZNBT7O3PS737MSQ", "length": 14370, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "datebeautifulwomen.com", "title": "It's a Numbers Game \u2013 Funnel Hackers Live | Beautiful Women", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a Numbers Game \u2013 Funnel Hackers Live\n3 years back, Paul left his corporate job to launch his freelance composing career, and he\u2019s done relatively well. He has a group of regular clients that keep him going, and they more than happy with his work.\nWhen he initially called me, he revealed issue over the sustainability of his company. \u201cEven though I have actually got terrific relationships with my customers, and they send me adequate projects to keep my company going, I have this nagging worry of losing them. Funnel Hackers Live\nI would actually be in difficulty if I lost one or 2 at the same time. I truly don\u2019t like sensation this vulnerable. I do not seem like I\u2019m in control of my own organisation.\u201d\n\u201d Okay, let\u2019s state that happened,\u201d I triggered him. \u201cI do not actually keep track of those things.\nYou can look at these aspects of your company. I understand it can be frightening, so let\u2019s look at it together.\u201d\nPaul and I continued to discuss this topic throughout our next four coaching calls. During that time, he outlined out his prospecting procedure, developed a system for tracking leads and prospects as they took a trip through the system, and produced a spreadsheet that showed him the status of each prospect at any given time.\nWith these figures, he was able to compute how many leads he needed to create in order to fulfill his sales goals. As an outcome, he now feels much more in control of his service and understands exactly what he must do in order to ensure his service\u2019 survival.\nNone of us can anticipate when a client will move, lose money they budgeted for our services, take our function internal or select another vendor, but we can prepare ourselves to respond to these types of things so they have the least quantity of effect on the practicality of our company.\nDo you understand the number of leads you need to create in order to get a new client? 5? 10? 25? 50? Although market guidelines may be offered, what you actually require to understand is the number of prospects YOU have to approach in order to get one new customer.\nKnowing this number tells you what outcomes you need to be receiving from your marketing efforts and knowing that tells you whether your marketing efforts are sufficient to reach your yearly sales goals. Funnel Hackers Live\nLet\u2019s state you want to increase your sales by $18,000 over the next 12 months, and you know that, typically, each client spends $1200/year with you. That means you have to cause 15 brand-new clients in the next 12 months ($18,000 divided by $1,200).\nKeep in mind that you\u2019ll require to go into more detail in order to determine your own numbers given that in this circumstance the average customer spends $1,200/ year with you, however if you do not bring him/her on until 6 months from now, you\u2019ll just be making $600 in the 12 month duration we\u2019re looking at. Let\u2019s run with what we\u2019ve got for the functions of this example.\nSo you have to bring on 15 additional customers. If you also know that you need to produce 10 qualified prospects for each person that becomes a customer, then you\u2019ll need to generate 150 extra prospects this year (15 clients * 10 qualified prospects).\nIn order to produce $18,000 more in sales you need to come up with some marketing approaches that will produce 150 extra potential customers above and beyond those you are presently producing.\nThis is not an exact science, it does offer you some numbers on which to focus in order to make your development toward your objective more quantifiable. This measurability permits you to chart your progress throughout the year which, in turn, increases the likelihood that you\u2019ll reach your objectives as you are able to make mid-course corrections.\nFor the very first three years of my web design business, I just took what came my method. I did what I thought would generate service and waited for the outcomes. I did really little analysis of the procedure, so I was never ever able to anticipate what activities I required to do in order to get my wanted outcomes.\nA few years ago, a management specialist presented me to the idea of the prospecting funnel. It\u2019s a method to track your prospecting process so you know the number of potential customers remain in each stage at any offered time.\nGradually, you have the ability to forecast how many prospects you require to generate in order to produce one brand-new client. This helps you set realistic sales objectives, plan reliable marketing efforts and budget sufficient marketing dollars.\nOn a blank paper, draw a big funnel taking up the whole page. To the right of the funnel, starting at the top, compose the primary step of your prospecting procedure (for example, first contact with possibility at networking conference, sales call, web site inquiry, etc.).\nBelow that, leaving a little space between the 2, compose the second action of your prospecting process (for instance, scheduling a conference). Continue composing the subsequent actions of your prospecting procedure, one below the other, up until you reach the bottom of the funnel. The last step must be the one where the possibility ends up being a client (for example, you receive the signed agreement back with a deposit check).\nNow, return to the top of the funnel and for each phase that you identified, compose how many prospects you have who are presently at that phase. Write these figures inside the funnel. If you have space, you can compose the names of the prospects that are at each stage.\nNow, you may wish to develop a spreadsheet that assists you track when the possibility entered your system, when they strike each phase and when they became a client. You can use the very first column to write possibility names and other columns to compose each prospecting action. Each row, reading from left to right, can show what date the possibility went into each stage of your prospecting process.\nGradually, you\u2019ll have the ability to come back to your spreadsheet to calculate the number of prospects it takes to create one new client and the amount of time it takes, usually, to transform a brand-new possibility into a client.\nOnce you have actually improved your prospecting system and funnel, you might want to create a giant variation of the funnel on a flipchart where you can write each prospect\u2019s name on a sticky note and move them from one stage to the next.\nIt can provide you a terrific visual of your present prospecting status and show you what locations require your attention.\nDo you understand how lots of leads you have to produce in order to get a new customer? Industry guidelines might be available, what you really need to know is how numerous potential customers YOU have to approach in order to get one new customer.\nThe last step should be the one where the prospect ends up being a client (for example, you receive the signed contract back with a deposit check). Funnel Hackers Live\nNow, you might want to produce a spreadsheet that assists you track when the prospect entered your system, when they strike each stage and when they ended up being a customer. You can utilize the first column to compose prospect names and other columns to compose each prospecting step.\nThree years ago, Paul left his corporate task to release his freelance composing profession, and he\u2019s done relatively well. He has a group of regular clients that keep him going, and they more than happy with his work.\nWhen he first called me, he expressed concern over the sustainability of his organisation. \u201cDespite the fact that I have actually got excellent relationships with my customers, and they send me enough tasks to keep my company going, I have this unpleasant worry of losing them. Funnel Hackers Live\nIf I lost a couple of at the very same time, I would actually be in difficulty. I really do not like feeling this susceptible. I do not feel like I\u2019m in control of my own company.\u201d\nYou can look at these aspects of your business. I know it can be frightening, so let\u2019s look at it together.\u201d\nPaul and I continued to discuss this topic throughout our next 4 training calls. Throughout that time, he outlined out his prospecting procedure, developed a system for tracking leads and potential customers as they took a trip through the system, and produced a spreadsheet that showed him the status of each prospect at any given time.\nWith these figures, he had the ability to calculate how many leads he required to create in order to meet his sales objectives. As a result, he now feels much more in control of his service and knows exactly what he must perform in order to guarantee his organisation\u2019 survival.\nNone of us can anticipate when a client will move, lose cash they budgeted for our services, take our function in-house or select another supplier, however we can prepare ourselves to respond to these kinds of things so they have the least quantity of influence on the viability of our business.\nDo you understand how lots of leads you have to generate in order to get a brand-new customer? 10? Market guidelines might be offered, what you really need to understand is how numerous potential customers YOU have to approach in order to get one brand-new client.\nKnowing this number informs you what results you need to be receiving from your marketing efforts and knowing that informs you whether or not your marketing efforts suffice to reach your yearly sales goals. Funnel Hackers Live\nLet\u2019s state you wish to increase your sales by $18,000 over the next 12 months, and you understand that, typically, each client invests $1200/year with you. That suggests you need to bring on 15 new customers in the next 12 months ($18,000 divided by $1,200).\nKeep in mind that you\u2019ll need to go into more detail in order to compute your own numbers considering that in this scenario the average customer spends $1,200/ year with you, but if you do not bring him/her on up until 6 months from now, you\u2019ll only be making $600 in the 12 month duration we\u2019re looking at. However let\u2019s run with what we\u2019ve got for the purposes of this example.\nYou have to bring on 15 extra clients. If you also understand that you need to create 10 qualified potential customers for every single person that ends up being a client, then you\u2019ll need to generate 150 extra prospects this year (15 customers * 10 qualified prospects).\nTherefore, in order to produce $18,000 more in sales you need to come up with some marketing methods that will produce 150 extra potential customers above and beyond those you are currently creating.\nThis is not a specific science, it does offer you some numbers on which to focus in order to make your progress towards your objective more quantifiable. This measurability enables you to chart your development throughout the year which, in turn, increases the possibility that you\u2019ll reach your goals as you have the ability to make mid-course corrections.\nFor the very first 3 years of my web design organisation, I simply took what came my way. I did what I believed would generate company and waited on the outcomes. I did very little analysis of the process, so I was never able to predict what activities I needed to do in order to get my preferred results.\nA couple of years back, a management consultant introduced me to the concept of the prospecting funnel. It\u2019s a way to track your prospecting procedure so you know the number of prospects remain in each stage at any offered time.\nIn time, you are able to predict how many potential customers you require to produce in order to produce one brand-new client. This assists you set reasonable sales objectives, strategy effective marketing efforts and budget plan sufficient marketing dollars.\nOn a blank paper, draw a large funnel using up the entire page. To the right of the funnel, beginning at the top, write the first step of your prospecting procedure (for example, first contact with prospect at networking meeting, cold call, website question, and so on).\nBelow that, leaving a little space between the two, compose the 2nd step of your prospecting procedure (for example, setting up a conference). Continue composing the subsequent actions of your prospecting process, one below the other, up until you reach the bottom of the funnel. The last step needs to be the one where the possibility becomes a customer (for instance, you receive the signed agreement back with a deposit check).\nNow, return to the top of the funnel and for each stage that you recognized, compose the number of potential customers you have who are presently at that stage. Compose these figures inside the funnel. If you have space, you can compose the names of the potential customers that are at each phase.\nNow, you may wish to produce a spreadsheet that assists you track when the possibility entered your system, when they hit each stage and when they ended up being a client. You can use the very first column to write prospect names and other columns to write each prospecting action. Each row, reading from left to right, can show what date the prospect got in each phase of your prospecting process.\nGradually, you\u2019ll have the ability to come back to your spreadsheet to compute the variety of potential customers it requires to create one new client and the quantity of time it takes, on average, to convert a brand-new prospect into a consumer.\nAs soon as you\u2019ve improved your prospecting system and funnel, you may want to produce a huge variation of the funnel on a flipchart where you can write each prospect\u2019s name on a sticky note and move them from one stage to the next.\nIt can give you an excellent visual of your present prospecting status and reveal you what areas require your attention.\nDo you know how many leads you have to generate in order to get a new customer? Market guidelines may be offered, what you really need to understand is how many prospects YOU have to approach in order to get one brand-new customer.\nThe last action must be the one where the prospect becomes a customer (for example, you receive the signed agreement back with a deposit check). Funnel Hackers Live\nNow, you might desire to produce a spreadsheet that assists you track when the possibility entered your system, when they hit each stage and when they ended up being a customer. 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It\u2019s not unusual to have big names in popular music perform end-title songs for major movies. Opera singers, though, don\u2019t generally roll that way. But nobody ever said they can\u2019t. Which is why Alexandre Desplat, who composed the music for Rise Of The Guardians, decided to approach soprano Ren\u00e9e Fleming about singing \u201cStill Dream,\u201d which uses the melody he wrote for the picture\u2019s main theme and lyrics by the film\u2019s screenwriter, David Lindsay-Abaire.\n\u201cIt covers two octaves,\u201d Desplat says of the song. \u201cThe music is very orchestral; the melody, very lyrical. So it really made sense to ask Ren\u00e9e Fleming, who is the greatest soprano alive. And she said yes right away. It was a suggestion that could have been rejected, but it was right \u2014 though I can\u2019t remember the last time a soprano sang an end-title song.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s really an aria he composed,\u201d Fleming says. \u201cIt\u2019s got a huge range and is quite demanding melodically \u2014 very instrumental. So it was a challenge for me, but it\u2019s so beautiful. Alexandre has an extraordinary melodic gift. I\u2019d never met him before this, but I was familiar with his work, because he\u2019s done so many wonderful scores.\u201d Their collaboration went smoothly despite the lack of prior history, although they didn\u2019t actually meet until a specially arranged recording session in New York that followed the full score\u2019s recording in London. \u201cWe went back and forth about key and range on the phone and email,\u201d Fleming recalls. \u201cHe did several rewrites, but I wasn\u2019t the only one making requests. This all came together in a very short period of time. I couldn\u2019t be there in London, but he was with me in New York.\u201d\nFleming got the lyrics only after Desplat had already sent the music. \u201cI was under a mountain of deadlines when they called,\u201d Lindsay-Abaire says. \u201cBut I couldn\u2019t say no. Alexandre was very set that he wanted the song to revisit and rearticulate the score\u2019s themes. He didn\u2019t want to just tack something onto the end. And in that way, it felt very organic to the movie that was already there. We took the \u2018believe theme\u2019 \u2014 where the little boy believes in Jack Frost for the first time \u2014 and it was like, \u2018Oh, our work is halfway done.\u2019 He wanted the song to have the same sweep and epic quality the film has. It\u2019s not the standard \u2018stick a pop song at the end of a movie.\u2019 It embraces the wonder of childhood and boils it down.\u201d\nRelated: OSCARS: 75 Tunes Eligible For Original Song Category", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deathcafe.com/deathcafe/7872/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DZFE5TLZFGFG46O6NMDZYIYMO6GTYOCU", "length": 2704, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "deathcafe.com", "title": "Death Cafe of Northeast Florida", "raw_content": "Posted by Nfrazier4\nHosted by The Sacred Servant\n1. We gather with open hearts, open minds, and respect for all with no specific agenda at 6:30 p.m. at Unity of Jacksonville Beach, 1079 Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, FL 32233.\n2. We meet and greet for the first 15 minutes while enjoying dessert, tea, coffee and beverages provided by The Sacred Servant.\n3. We gather with curiosity and respect to talk in a confidential and relaxed environment about whatever you wish to discuss regarding life and death. The objective of Death Cafe' is 'to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.'\nAttendees are encouraged to freely talk about their personal experiences with the death of others, as well as their thoughts regarding their own deaths.\n4. At 8:30 p.m. we wrap up discussions, express gratitude, request that you go home... and continue to enjoy your life!\n5. We do it all again the next 1st Wednesday of each month.\n6. We recognize this is not professional therapy, grief counseling, or a place to promote one's particular goods or services.\n7. RSVP and For additional questions, please contact Nada at nada@thesacredservant.com or call 904-402-7061.\nAbout The Sacred Servant\nNada Frazier has been around death since her childhood days spent on the Texas family farm. Nada has personally experienced what some call \u2018a near death experience,\u2019 the grief of the death of a child, having a loved one diagnosed with cancer, as well as provided long distance caregiving to family members with advanced illness and approaching end of life. Nada believes that by exploring death we more fully live.\nNada is the founder of The Sacred Servant (www.thesacredservant.com) where she accompanies, guides and supports those with advanced illness and their family through end of life, serves as a community educator regarding end of life issues, and is a trainer of end of life doulas and consultant trainer for hospice organizations. Nada servesd on the Board of Directors for the National End of Life Doula Alliance (NEDA). She is an interfaith minister and has served as Spiritual Leader of Unity of Jacksonville Beach (www.unityofjacksonvillebeach.com) since 2015. She has served as a hospice spiritual care volunteer for over 10 years.\nSince 1991, she has served as an inspirational speaker in various settings throughout the U.S., is a reiki master teacher, mediator, published co-author, and has worked as a paralegal since her teens. She enjoys time spent with her husband and children, spiritual studies, being in nature, photography, honoring Lakota ways, and she never met a rock or stone she didn\u2019t love.\nPlease also see: http://thesacredservant.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dfrihr.com/happy-holidays-and-a-happy-new-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:47Z", "digest": "sha1:JBZCTCK3U7H6RE6GVDLV62PIVADVON74", "length": 955, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "dfrihr.com", "title": "Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! - DFRI - Develop For Results International", "raw_content": "Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year! 0\nCategory: Business, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, Merry Christmas\nFor the past couple years, DFRI has provided Human Resources solutions to companies like yours by linking strategic HR needs to business objectives.\nThe holiday season is a special time for thankfulness, joy, and, above all, family. At DFRI, we have so much to be thankful and joyous for. We are grateful for last year\u2019s accomplishments, and looking forward to all the awesome opportunities of the New Year.\nWhether you are looking to increase efficiency in your company, manage HR processes, or simply consult with us as needed, under the advisory program, we are here to help.\nFor a FREE consultation with a consultant, please call us at 877-803-4636 or visit us online at DFRIHR.com\nWe wish you and your family a happy holidays, and look forward to working with you in 2016.\nhttps://dfrihr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Christmas-video-DFRI.mp4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dfrihr.com/how-to-achieve-employee-buy-in-of-your-companys-culture-continued/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WSIFCNOQDGY7O7HTA2D3BKJC4JJWLUKA", "length": 1560, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "dfrihr.com", "title": "How to Achieve Employee Buy-in of Your Company's Culture (Continued) - DFRI - Develop For Results International", "raw_content": "How to Achieve Employee Buy-in of Your Company\u2019s Culture (Continued) 0\nCategory: Business, Employee Retention, Human Resources, Organizational Culture\n4- Quickly address issues that run contrary to your culture.\nIt\u2019s important to establish and communicate those actions that actually matter to an organization. These actions include behaviors, such as employee recruitment practices that reflect a company\u2019s culture. Likewise, a manager\u2019s willingness to take substantive actions in response to an employee\u2019s problematic behavior has a positive effect on employee engagement \u2014 a decisive factor in productivity and employee tenure.\n5- Establish lofty objectives that reflect your culture and observe wins as a group.\nBy using strategy to align employee objectives to the company\u2019s culture, the company can easily reward employees when their actions support the company\u2019s strategy. For instance, Google and Apple cultures align with strategies that focus on innovation. Consequently, the companies grant liberal rewards and recognition to any employee who develops the \u201cnext big thing.\u201d\nEmployee retention rates, financial performance and operating efficiencies are aspects of a company\u2019s operations that a company\u2019s culture can positively or negatively affect. For this reason, it\u2019s important that C-level executives make great efforts to improve their company\u2019s culture and align their business strategy with that culture. Once a leader decides what a company culture should be, he must successfully implement it. These five practices will help in this regard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dhdindonesia.com/studies-in-the-sermon-on-the-mount", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:11Z", "digest": "sha1:OLZQHP2LSNKWF3VIEZZM2APHZZKPTLZI", "length": 334, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dhdindonesia.com", "title": "Duta Harapan Dunia Studies in the Sermon on the Mount - God's Character and the Believer's Conduct by Oswald Chambers", "raw_content": "Oswald Chambers\u2019 most well-known title, the devotional My Utmost for His Highest, has established him as one of the most influential teachers of our time. But did you know he wrote books on the Bible as well? Now you can take advantage of this teacher\u2019s profound insight on Matthew 5-7 and what it means to focus on God and God alone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 107.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dianacorner.blogspot.com/2014/05/i-dont-understand-why-all-hoopla.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:KADFEAJWWVZW7GPLGN3PXICQXKVSISV2", "length": 1021, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "dianacorner.blogspot.com", "title": "Diana\u2019s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: I Don\u2019t Understand Why All The Hoopla\u2026", "raw_content": "Over the U.S. Department of Education Office of Civil Rights release of the questions and answers of the Dear Colleague letter of 2010 on bullying and the 2011 Dear Colleague letter on sexual harassment, you would that OCR had just ruled that Title IX covered gender identity.\nA little bit of history, back in of 2010 the OCR released a letter to all school boards in the U.S. saying the schools must enforce Title IX and that bullying based on sex stereotypes included gender identity. It listed some of the areas that are covered in Title IX, in that list they said that gender identity is covered under Title IX.\nOffice of Civil Rights and the U.S. Department of Justice has been enforcing Title IX during the Obama administration and in California's Arcadia School District in 2013 the DOJ and the OCR came down hard on them. The agreement showed that the Departments of Justice and Education believes that the Title IX does cover gender identity and expression and that the laws also cover sex-segregated facilities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 535, "original_length": 15896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digital.maag.ysu.edu:8443/xmlui/handle/1989/66/browse?value=Slovan%2C+Chuck&type=author", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ET3PU2NWCET4TZ5ZDXGEL6J3CHT5KHII", "length": 412, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "digital.maag.ysu.edu:8443", "title": "Browsing Jambar Newspaper Archives by Author \"Slovan, Chuck\"", "raw_content": "Browsing Jambar Newspaper Archives by Author \"Slovan, Chuck\"\nPioneer retires after 37 years in astronomy\nSlovan, Chuck (November 22, 1994)\nAbstract: Ted Pedas announced his retirement as planetarium lecturer after 25 years of service at YSU. Pedas received awards from NASA and other government agencies for his work in promoting space science and wrote a weekly column in the Youngstown Vindicator for 30 years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege/vol5/iss3/13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:01Z", "digest": "sha1:JJORLQ46KYMRLWF6TRK6BNYVQ5UMUIDI", "length": 123, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "digitalcollections.dordt.edu", "title": "\"Blessed Be the Name of the Lord\" by Dale Grotenhuis", "raw_content": "Dale Grotenhuis, Dordt College\nGrotenhuis, Dale (1977) \"Blessed Be the Name of the Lord,\" Pro Rege: Vol. 5: No. 3, 15 - 21.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 149.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://directory.dmagazine.com/attractions/george-w-bush-presidential-center/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:35Z", "digest": "sha1:XLE4K6WFEPAHVBPQVYSBJQ5SVXLBCOOE", "length": 614, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "directory.dmagazine.com", "title": "George W. Bush Presidential Center - Attractions - Irving | D Magazine Directories", "raw_content": "The home of the Bush Presidential Library and Museum and the Bush Institute is a fitting tribute to No. 43, with a permanent exhibit exploring Bush\u2019s 8 years in office and his legacy as president. An interactive \u201cDecision Points\u201d theater allows guests to put themselves in the president\u2019s shoes at critical junctures, while \u201cFreedom Hall\u201d features a massive video wall montage of all the U.S. presidents. The library also serves as an important resource for academic researchers, and the center regularly hosts events and speakers from the world of public policy.\nRead More About George W. 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Animals were sometimes seen as friendly companions like they are today. There is historical evidence the Celts kept dogs, ducks and geese as pets to name a few. Wild animals would still have been seen as allies to some capacity even though not tame. Adversaries like the bear, wolf or boar that might have posed a threat were highly respected for their tenacity and ferociousness. In all the various relationship possibilities with wild animals, the underlying thread is one of respect and admiration of the qualities representative of them. Celtic clans may have had a patron animal much like they had a patron god or goddess that represented them. They would have displayed this proudly by any means appropriate possibly on banners, flags, shields or in the colored patterns on their body when going into battle. Most likely, this was a means to manifest in themselves whatever admirable qualities they saw in that specific animal. Animals were frequently written in mythology as being a human, god or goddess in animal form. Interpreting Celtic belief points to some form of animism belief, that animals and the landscape each had a sort of spirit or essence. In mythology, they often changed form in many consecutive lives into various natural objects or animals, but the spirit remained.\nAnimals that were white seemed to be representative of the purity of spirit and deity and were considered extra sacred. White deer particularly were said to be \u201cfairy deer\u201d and many of their mythological deities kept various white animals as companions or could change into a white animal themselves. Cerridwen could change into a white sow and a white stag occurs frequently in Arthurian legends seen in essence as a spirit guide. The \u201chounds of Annwyn\u201d, later dubbed \u201cthe hounds of hell\u201d by Christians were white hounds with red ears led by Welsh king Annwn who represented the hunt or death capturing its victims and the journey to the Otherworld. The connectedness and veneration they found in animals is very clear. This respect continued well into the present day and there is an old blessing in Scotland that highlights this simply called \u201cHunting Blessing\u201d. \u201cHe is not to take life wantonly. He was not to kill a bird sitting, nor a beast lying down, and he was not to kill the mother of a brood, nor the mother of a suckling. Nor was he to kill an unfledged bird nor a suckling beast, unless it might be the young of a bird, or of a beast, of prey.\u201d It was permissible to destroy certain birds and beasts of prey and \u201cevil\u201d reptiles as well as their young.\nAnother variation of the spirit animal was the \u201cgeis\u201d. This was a rule put upon a person, usually by a deity or druid that forbid them to eat or interact with a particular animal. They were usually done in an effort to prevent a curse or fated prophecy. As I will get into, there were common taboos in general like eating the hare and certain birds but likely many other animals as well, unique to each tribe. Pausanias writes about this as far back as the 1st century when he highlights an interesting taboo of the Tolistobogii tribe in Gaul. \u201cThe Galatians who live around the city of Pessinus will not consume pork.\u201d He claimed this was because of a local legend in which the Asiatic god Attis was killed by a wild boar. In one of the stories in The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, a curse was placed on one of Fionn\u2019s men Diarmaid that he should die by a boar. Angus Og, in an effort to protect Diarmaid placed a geis on him that he should never hunt boar. Ultimately, he was eventually gored and killed by a giant boar. Diarmaid is said to be the founder of the Scottish Clan Campbell. Their crest illustrates a boar\u2019s head, representative of Diarmaid\u2019s geis and death.\nThe final variation of spirit animals is that of the \u201cfamiliar\u201d, another form of spiritual helper. For hundreds of years, cats have been known as the familiars of witches, particularly black cats. Cats were killed in the masses or outlawed (by Pope Gregory IX) for this very reason during the late medieval ages which may have exacerbated the large outbreak of the bubonic plague. Less cats equated to more rats and more fleas spreading the disease. When we make the connections that Druids were the precursor to witches, at least in the British isles, we can see ancient Celtic culture was still being condemned in various form, just called by another name.\nWhen we bring these idealisms into the modern world, it\u2019s quite simply and similarly a deeper way to connect to nature and the beautiful array of animals that inhabit our planet. Spirit animals would be any animal that has qualities you can relate to or that inspires you. Many people wonder how we can know what our spirit animal is. The best answer is most times you \u201cjust know\u201d. Sometimes you will have or had a particular unique experience with a specific animal. If that hasn\u2019t happened, it may just be as simple as taking some time alone to think about it at length. It\u2019s usually going to be one of the first animals that comes to mind. Many people believe that seeing a specific animal in person or in a dream can be some sort of sign. Of course there isn\u2019t any evidence to support that seeing a specific animal truly has any significant meaning although it can be fun to think about and entertain the possibilities. I wouldn\u2019t personally make any large decisions based on having seen a particular animal cross my path. Overall, I see the idea of spirit animals as simply a way to have fun and get closer to nature in the meantime.\nTwo genuine first hand examples of how spirit animals were discovered are as follows:\nWhile going for a walk in the woods, a man came across a fox in a snare struggling and flailing around. The fox was quite exhausted from fighting against the snare. The man sat down quietly next to the fox and after a few minutes, he gently placed his hand on the fox\u2019s head to hold it in place. The fox resigned to his fate, relaxed and went limp. The man was able to retract the snare so that it was big enough for the fox\u2019s head to slide out. The fox slipped out of the snare, took a few steps, then stopped and turned around to stare at the man for a few seconds before finally walking off. The man had a natural affinity towards foxes, although he never quite realized it until he sat down and thought about his collective experiences. His dog was a fox type looking dog, and his favorite animal was the fennec fox.\nIn our second story, a woman and her fiancee were going on a long camping and hiking trip. It was supposed to be a very special trip, but they had been fighting and bickering almost the entire time. She began realizing that her fiancee may not have been the man she thought he was. She ended up spending a lot of the trip thinking about the relationship and if she wanted to continue it. While they were hiking back out of the woods on their last day, her fiancee purposefully separated from her on the trail by falling back and then taking a different route. While he was familiar with the trails and knew where he was going, she did not. She only knew the trail would eventually lead out so she kept walking. With tears streaming down her face looking down at the ground, and while wondering if she should call off the wedding, four hooves suddenly appeared in her view, not more than 6 feet away. There in front of her was the largest deer she had ever seen, a 14 point buck. She scanned up, up, up until their eyes met. The way he looked at her took her breath away and it was like he was seeing completely through her. She felt as if he knew she was the fearful one and was not a threat to him. After a few seconds he turned his back to her and slowly meandered off. It was surprising to her that he didn\u2019t run, even if he didn\u2019t think she was a threat but also that he turned his back to her as if a sign of trust. In the years that followed, she thought back over her life and all the times she\u2019d had a connection with a story or a picture related to a deer. It could all be connected back to watching Bambi as a child or the time her parents took her into an antique store covered in wall to wall buck and doe heads and she felt sorry for them. Either way, she had found her animal and meeting that deer in the forest gave her strength in the coming year.\nI must note that both of these situations could have ended very badly. I do not condone purposefully interacting with animals in the wild and these examples happened purely by chance. It was luck to not have been bitten or trampled. With great respect for animals and their wild nature comes a necessity to keep our distance and let them live their lives in peace without human interference unless it\u2019s to save their life.\nThe following summaries give my best interpretation of the symbolism of animals the Celts came in contact with based on mythology, folklore, artifacts, archaeology and historical references:\nThe wren symbolized efficiency, activity, cunningness and alertness. The wren was thought to be the bird most revered by the Druids. This bird often gives off the energy of being tiny and humble but also resourceful and proud. There is a famous story from Western Scotland which tells us that when a tribe was deciding who their banner bird would be, they declared it would be the bird who could fly the highest. Of course many birds flew into the air including the great eagle which was a popular choice. Then, suddenly when the eagle had reached its greatest height, a wren appeared that had been hiding in its feathers. He flew a few inches above the eagle and declared that he was king of the sky. Wren\u2019s feathers were considered lucky charms and sailors often took them on journeys. The wren also may have symbolized working together as they were highly social and the male and female both helped build their nest and care for their young. Wren hunting became a tradition and had to have been quite difficult considering the size of the birds. Consuming the birds would have represented consuming their qualities they represented. The wren was sacred to the thunder bull-god Taranis and the wren\u2019s nest was thought to be protected by lightning. The Druid\u2019s house became then known as the \u201cwren\u2019s house\u201d so that it too would be protected by lightning.\nThe raven symbolized intelligence, protection, magic as well as prophecy and death. The raven was specifically symbolic of the goddess Morrigan or Badb, the triple goddess. The Morrigan was said to be able to take the form of a raven and fly over battlefields during war, scaring and distracting the enemy with her war cries. The Morrigan in raven form and ravens or black birds in general often appeared when a character was transitioning to death such as in the story of Cu Chulainn when The Morrigan came to rest on his shoulder as he passed away. The Irish god Lugh and English hero Beowulf are both associated with ravens as they served both of these heroes in warning them of impending enemies and danger. The Welsh giant and king, Bran the Blessed (who\u2019s name means raven) asked to be buried with his head facing France under the tower of London so that he will protect the country from invasion. To have \u201craven\u2019s knowledge\u201d was to mean having a seer\u2019s supernatural powers. \u201cI have fled in the shape of a raven of prophetic speech.\u201d -Taliesin The tower of London famously still keeps six ravens as a form of magical protection. There is a superstition that \u201cif the Tower of London ravens are lost or fly away, the crown will fall and Britain with it.\u201d\nThe eagle symbolized intelligence, courage, nobility and death. In Welsh mythology, the god Llew (Lugh) was turned into an eagle at the moment of his murder. In old Manx, the name for the eagle is Drein which means \u201cDruid\u2019s bird\u201d. Only the wren was held to higher esteem than the eagle. In The Death of Arthur (1485), two eagles were to stand guard over Arthur\u2019s grave until a time came when he was to awaken and bring a new golden age to Britain. One of the most famous striking Celtic helmet artifacts has a bird on the top of it with moveable wings that could be an eagle or raven. Scotland clan chiefs used to wear three eagle feathers on their bonnet as a symbol of their high rank.\nThe owl symbolized wisdom, discernment and clairvoyance. Because owls are active at night, they were representative of the protection of the Otherworld, death and likely, the Goddess. More specifically, the owl may have represented the hag, crone or \u201ccailleach\u201d. In the Welsh story of Math Son of Mathonwy, Blodeuedd betrays Lleu and attempts to have him killed by her new love interest. Gwydion places a curse on her, \u201cI will not slay thee, but I will do unto thee worse than that. For I will turn thee into a bird; and because of the shame thou hast done until Llew Llaw Gyffes, thou shalt never show thy face in the light of day henceforth; and that through fear of all the other birds. For it shall be their nature to attack thee, and to chase thee from wheresoever they may find thee. And thou shalt not lose thy name, but shalt be always called Blodeuwedd.\u201d Blodeuwedd, of course means owl.\nThe swan symbolized the soul, peace, longevity and love. They were often thought of as fairy women in disguise. At certain times of the year such as Samhain or Bealtaine, they were able to turn themselves back into a human. Seeing a swan in particular was thought to be a good omen and especially when there was a sacred number of them seen together, likely in groups of three, seven or nine. There is tale in Scotland that survived up into the 18th century recorded in the Carmina Gadelica. \u201cA woman found a wounded swan on a frozen lake near her house, and took it home, and fed the starving bird with lintseed and water. The woman had an ailing child, and as the wounds of the swan healed, the health of the child improved, and the woman believed that her treatment of the swan caused the recovery of her child, and she rejoiced accordingly and composed a famous lullaby in honor of her restored child.\u201c In one of the most famous love stories regarding the deity Angus mac Og, he fell in love with a beautiful woman named Caer who was under a spell where she took swan form and could only change into human form at certain times of the year. He broke her free by turning into a swan himself and throwing off the enchanted silver chains around her neck. They flew away together as swans and he took her back to his home in Newgrange where they lived happily. It was said that if you heard their song, it was so beautiful you would be lulled to sleep for three days. The \u201cWhite Swans of the Wilderness\u201d were children of the Tuatha De Danann and in the famous story, The Children of Lir, the sea god Manannan mac Lir\u2019s four children are turned into swans by their jealous step mother Aoife. Lir\u2019s first wife Aoibh was a very beautiful, kind, wonderful woman and mother. She died giving birth to the twins and her children missed her dearly. Lir married Aoife (her sister) hoping to cheer his children up but Aoife was jealous of their love for one another and the time they spent with their father. She wanted all of his attention and in her anger cursed them and turned them into swans. When her father King Bodb (son of The Dagda) heard of her betrayal, he turned her into an air demon for eternity. Endings for the story are varied and Christianized. In the most frequently told version they were swans for 900 years until they heard St. Patrick\u2019s bell, were changed back into human form, were baptized and then died peacefully in one another\u2019s arms.\nCrane/Heron\nThe crane or heron had similar meaning as the swan but also one of knowledge and is the source for the \u201cDruid Crane bag\u201d. This is referenced in an Irish tale that tells us of the sea god Manannan mac Lir having a bag made from the skin of a crane that contained various tools. It is mostly equivalent to a medicine bag or divination bag and likely Druids would have put their spiritual tools, yews of Ogham or herbs therein. The heron or crane is also referenced in the \u201cDruid stance\u201d of divination in which you stood on one leg, with one arm extended and one eye shut. This stance is mentioned in Irish mythology in the tale of CuChulainn. To have \u201ccrane knowledge\u201d was to be very intelligent and of the learned class of Druids or in Christian times, priests. In one of the Irish tales of the hero Fionn, his grandmother saves him when he fell off a cliff by turning him into a crane. The Irish underworld God Midir owned three cranes to guard his home. In some Christianized tales, cranes were people serving a penance for a particular amount of time in bird form.\nGeese/Ducks/Chickens\nWild ducks and geese were migratory and may have symbolized loyalty returning to the same locations each year. As tame companion pets, ducks and geese played the same similar roles. Chickens were not raised and eaten until after Roman occupation. Julius Caesar wrote, \u201cThey think it is wrong to eat hares, or chickens or geese but they breed them as pets.\u201d In several modern Celtic legends, the cock chases away ghosts or other night terrors by crowing at dawn. This suggests a representation of luck, protection and the power to dispel negativity.\nAll birds seemed to have had some connection to the otherworld via death or as messengers to impart mystical secrets. There is a common thread of being symbols of protection and divination. Many druids or chieftains would make predictions or conduct rituals surrounding bird song or the flight patterns of a flock of birds called augury. This also may have been the origination of the saying \u201cA little birdie told me\u2026\u201d\nBoar/Sow\nThe boar symbolized masculine power and ferocity as well as being associated with war and conflict. This animal wielded great power and \u201cdarkness\u201d that needed to be channeled when the occasion was appropriate. The meat of the boar was served above all else at Celtic festivals and likely, heroes welcomes, in large amounts. It was arguably their favorite meal and food and a common motif of coinage, helmets, shields and swords. Many carved boar figures and swine bones have been discovered in ancient burials. Many carnyx horn instruments were made using the boar\u2019s head. In Celtic mythology, Cian, Lugh\u2019s father turns himself into a pig in order to blend in with a herd grazing nearby to escape his enemies. The Tuatha De Danann also had a magical swine that sprang back to life after being eaten. In the Irish book of Invasions, there was a huge and terrifying boar named Orc Triath. In the Irish Fenian Cycle, the Boar of Ben Bulbain was another vicious boar that killed fifty soldiers. Diarmuid Ua Duibhne, one of Fionn\u2019s faithful warriors died from being gored by the same boar which was fated by a spell by an enemy of Diarmuid\u2019s father Donn. His foster father, Angus Og tried to assuage this by placing a geis on Diarmaid that he should never hunt boar but it was to no avail. In some versions, Diarmuid died from the prick of the boar\u2019s poisonous bristle. The Welsh goddess Cerridwen and the Irish goddess Boand, who was responsible for creating the River Boyne were both known as the \u201cwhite sow\u201d. The sow was likely equally a symbol of power and fertility in its own right, simply being the feminine counterpart. The wild boar was hunted to extinction in approx. the 13th century in Britain and the 17th century in Ireland.\nBull/Cow\nCattle symbolized virility, fertility and wealth as well as provided for daily needs, survival and contentedness. The meat of cows and bulls was also heavily consumed by Celts as was milk. By all accounts they seemed to have been the most highly valued animals the Celts owned. The Roman Polybius illustrates their worth for early Celts by saying that \u201cEach man\u2019s property, moreover, consisted in cattle and gold; as they were the only things that could be easily carried with them\u201d. The cow was sacred and representative of Brigid, one of the most popular Celtic goddesses. The famous Irish legend, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, surrounded the taking of a famous bull. Also, a tabhfheis, or a \u201cfeast of a bull\u201d always preceded the crowning of a new high king. One of the few surviving accounts of a Druid ritual ends in a celebration where they feast on two white bulls. The cow was once so important to the Celts that it was considered a form of currency in and of itself and ancient Irish Lords were known as \u201cbo-aire\u201d or cow-lord. Cow\u2019s milk has been referenced frequently as a healing agent and a common offering to their deities. Both of these practices in particular survived through the ages until at least the last century. The cow is also very sacred in India which harkens us back to the Vedic and Celtic connections and again, a possible cultural, pastoral and spiritual ancestor of both.\nGoat/Sheep/Ram\nGoats and sheep symbolized peace, purification and compassion. Sheep in particular could make affectionate and gentle companion pets. They were used for meat, milk, clothing materials and companionship. They were kept alive to produce milk or wool until they became elderly at which point they were killed for their meat. Lambs in particular were celebrated as a symbol of Brigid during Imbolc as that was \u201clambing\u201d season, and when new baby lambs were born.\nThe horse symbolized stamina, bounty and strength and was another animal that frequently appeared on coinage or battle gear. They were used for meat, provided labor for farming, hunting, travel and in warfare. The horse was specifically used for the wooden chariot and charioteers were known to be incredibly skilled with horses and were said to walk on their backs while at full speed. The horse is one of the oldest revered animals. It is no surprise they were also one of the most frequently used. Several gods and goddesses are associated with horses, the most well known being the Gaulish Epona and Welsh Rhiannon. The Irish goddess Macha could shapeshift into a horse and the Irish god Manannan Mac Lir had a water-horse. These figures were undoubtedly considered horse and rider protectors. Archaeological depictions of Epona lend her also as a figure of abundance as she is depicted with images of bounty. In another image, she is holding a key suggesting she may have been the gatekeeper from this world to the Otherworld and may have carried souls of the dead on their journey. The Uffington White Horse cut into the ground in Uffington England dates sometime between 1380 and 550 BCE and illustrates a very old horse cult in the British Isles. Horses in some tales such as the famous story of Cu Chulainn had powers of clairvoyance. Bones of horses have also been found frequently among grave goods possibly buried with their owners. Horse skeletons have been found in the foundations of housing structures or as offerings, suggesting they were a symbol of good luck and fortune. This belief was passed down through the generations by way of a horseshoe being representative of luck. Many Irish used to place a horseshoe above their front doorframe for luck. This practice continued well up through the 18th century. It was also thought that \u201chagstones\u201d or Druid\u2019s eggs tied around a horse\u2019s neck would keep them from being stolen away by witches at night. In Scotland, there is a famous large horse head sculpture called \u201cThe Kelpies\u201d. The kelpie haunts lochs and offers its assistance to travelers. However, once the rider is on its back, it turns into a terrifying creature and takes its rider to the Underworld. In Scotland, it was told in folklore that unicorns existed in magical and beautiful places such as on the Isle of Skye. The unicorn, not coincidentally, is Scotland\u2019s national animal.\nDogs symbolized protection, loyalty and selflessness. Dogs were invaluable as hunters and companions. They were herders as well as guard dogs against predators and intruders and made favored pets and loving family members. They were kept by people of all ranks and thought to protect against evil spirits. When a woman was in childbirth, her dog would have kept guard by her side. Many Celtic goddesses are depicted holding a dog or with one by their side and images of dogs are found in the healing temple of the god Nodens in England. Even Strabo tells us of the famous hunting dogs of the Celts that were \u201csagacious in hunting\u201d. One of the famous Irish triad\u2019s is \u201cThree glories of a gathering. A beautiful wife, a good horse and a swift hound.\u201d In mythology, the Tuatha De Danann held dogs in high regard which speaks volumes to what their meaning could have meant to the common folk. Heroes and kings in legend as well as real life were often given the name of dogs by way of the prefix \u201cCu\u201d meaning dog. CuChulainn, CuUladh, Cunoglasus, Cunobelinn, Fionn MacCumhal or CuRoi are a few famous examples. Other names simply meant \u201clover of dogs\u201d like Conchobhar which was later anglicized to Connor. There were 8 famous kings whose name began with Conchobhar. To be sure, there were many others and Connor or O\u2019Connor is a common first or last Celtic name. It was considered a great compliment and honor to be called a dog and many heroes in mythology were accompanied by dogs. King Arthur, the god Lugh and Gwyn Ap Nuad had famous dogs at their sides. Many characters in mythology were turned into dogs, for better or worse. Lugh\u2019s mother was killed when she was transformed into a small dog. Fionn mac Cumhal had many family members turned into dogs including his aunt and his two nephews. In Ireland, there are tribes said to be descended from dogs including the inhabitants of Connaught and the Concheannaich, \u201cdog heads\u201d. In early Celtic history, dogs may have accompanied them into warfare and would have been trained to tear their enemies off their horses.\nGelert is one of the more famous folktales related to a dog. The legendary wolfhound is associated with the village of Beddgelert (whose name means \u201cGelert\u2019s Grave\u201d) in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. The story of Gelert is a variation of the well-worn \u201cFaithful Hound\u201d folk-tale motif, which lives on as an urban legend. The dog is alleged to have belonged to Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, a gift from King John of England. In this legend, Llywelyn returned one day from hunting to find his baby missing. The cradle was overturned, and Gelert greeted him in his normal friendly manner but with a blood-smeared mouth. Believing the dog had killed the child, the frantic father plunged his sword into the dog\u2019s side. At the sound of the dog\u2019s dying yelp the baby began crying. Llywelyn found him unharmed under the cradle, along with a dead wolf which had attacked the child and been killed by Gelert. Llywelyn is overcome with grief and remorse and buries the dog with great ceremony. He was haunted by its dying yelp and it\u2019s told that Llywelyn never smiled again.\nCats symbolized guardianship, independence, prowess and sensuality. They mostly seemed to serve the same guardian function as they do in many other cultures in being some sort of gatekeepers of the Otherworld or related to the process of crossing over after death. It\u2019s unclear if they were kept as pets or not although they most certainly were in later years. It\u2019s thought that the cat may have been an ancient symbol of the goddess and therefore one of persecution in later years after Celtic lands became Christianized. The folklore surrounding the cat henceforth took on a more negative tone. The Cat Sidhe, Cat Sith or Cat Si is a fairy creature that evolved some point in Scottish folklore. It\u2019s said to resemble a large black cat with a white spot on its chest. Legend has it that the spectral cat haunts the Scottish highlands. They also appear in many Irish tales. Some folklore suggested that the Cat Sith was not a fairy, but a witch that could transform into a cat nine times. It\u2019s believed this may have been where the myth that cats have nine lives originated from and also why its considered unlucky for a black cat to cross your path. The Cat Sith may have been inspired by the Scottish wildcat itself or Kellas cats which are a distinctive hybrid between the wildcats and domestic cats only found in Scotland. Typical Kellas cats resemble large black wildcats, but with some peculiar features to domestic cats and have been present in Scotland for centuries, most likely since the introduction of domestic cats used for mousing. The Cat Sith is not generally trusted and thought that it could steal a person\u2019s soul before it passed over. Watches called the Feill Fadalach (Late Wake) were performed at night and sometimes the day to keep the cat away from the corpse before burial. Methods of distraction were used such as games of wrestling, riddles, fire, music and even catnip to keep the Cat Sith away from the room in which the corpse lay. On Samhain, it was believed that the Cat Sith would bless any house that left a saucer of milk out for it to drink. If you didn\u2019t leave out milk, your house could be cursed and your cows\u2019 milk could run dry. An early Irish poem written on the margin\u2019s of a 9th century scribe describes a man\u2019s loving relationship with his white cat called Pangur Ban.\nDeer/Stag\nThe deer and stag symbolized the hunt, wisdom and fertility. The stag is one of the oldest Celtic symbols and really one of the oldest symbols in the world, even appearing on ancient neolithic cave drawings from various cultures around the world. The deer has been heavily relied on throughout history. The antlers were used as a tool, the meat to eat and their hides to make clothing and other items. The antlers are shed and regrow which may also have been a symbol of fertility. Horns were thought to be sometimes attached to ancient Gaulish helmets as a way to look more ferocious either as real shed horns or as carved bronze versions. Very old archaeological findings of antlers with various holes in them have alluded to their use as head pieces and other ritual attire for thousands of years. These practices were passed down from generation to generation and there are references in literature to this occurring during deer rutting season as recent as the 7th century. The Celtic Gaulish god appearing on the Gundestrup Cauldron, renamed Cernunnos and Herne in modern times had deer antlers. The \u201cGreen Man\u201d is sometimes depicted as having antlers. The doe is associated with goddesses such as the Irish Flidais or Sadb. The stag as an animal itself appears in many stories throughout Celtic mythology and is mostly thought of as the king of the forest. In many British Isles tales, deer are seen as \u201cfairy cattle\u201d. Fairies, again, were the Aos Sidhe or other worldly gods and goddesses; the Tuatha De Danann that had retired to live in the countryside hills. White deer were very special, considered to be from the Otherworld and their appearance heralded some profound change in the lives of those in myth. One particular Celtic leader by the name of Sertorius is said to have kept a white doe as a pet which he thought enabled him to communicate with the divine Otherworld. In the Vita Merlini written around 1150, Merlin led a herd of deer riding on a stag.\nThe snake symbolized the endless cycle of nature (phallic/fertility/life and death) due to its ability to turn on itself in a circle and essentially eat its tail as well as wisdom, cunning and intelligence. It may have represented more specifically, shedding something old to make room for something new or rebirth because of its ability to shed skin. It has frequently appeared in conjunction with the representation of a god or goddess. For example, a serpent appears in Cernunnos\u2019s hand on the Gundestrup Cauldron. The serpent is also associated with Brigid, one of the most famous Irish goddesses. Biologists believe there were no real snakes in Ireland. They often wonder if they weren\u2019t also referring to any other snake like creatures living in the earth or in the sea like worms or eels. Or, they simply may have been harkening legends and mythology left over from when the Celts or Druids lived in an area that did have snakes, in the British Isles or mainland Gaul and Celtiberia. Archaeologists also wonder if some of the more rudimentary carved snakes on some ancient structures were not snakes at all, but were instead, winding rivers. The Druids were in particular associated with snakes. They supposedly often kept \u201cserpent eggs\u201d as a talisman with stories regarding them to be actual hardened serpent eggs. These eggs were naturally occurring stones that came to be called adder stones with a hole in the middle worn away by water, probably found laying on the beach. When St. Patrick \u201cdrove the snakes out of Ireland\u201d, he was likely referring to the Druids or Pagans.\nThe hare symbolized speed, intuition, rebirth, fertility and luck. It was strongly associated with the Aos Sidhe. In one tale, a Celtic warrior named Oisin hunted a hare, wounding its leg. He followed it into a large thicket where he found a door leading down into the ground. He came to a large hall where he found a beautiful young woman sitting on a throne bleeding from a leg wound. Eating them was huge taboo as they were associated with this magical shape shifting and specifically, that of beautiful women. The hare, in a similar way of the cat was associated with the Goddess. The hare\u2019s movements once it was released from capture were also used for divination in ritual. It is said that Boudicca used a hare in this way just before her famous battle with the Romans. The hare being an ancient symbol of good fortune may have been where the tradition of carrying a rabbits foot with you for good luck originated. The hare was also frequently found in ancient burial sites, likely to bring good fortune in the Otherworld. They become quite active in March and really the entirety of spring time during their mating season. This is one of the main reasons they may be integrally connected with the Germanic holiday of Ostara, Christian Easter, Spring Equinox or Bealtaine and Spring in general. Hares are mostly active during at night and are therefore strongly associated with the moon.\nThe salmon symbolized knowledge, wisdom and understanding and was also seen as one of the oldest of creatures. The salmon made a great journey back to it\u2019s spawning grounds from the sea. There may have been a paralleled belief that the salmon brought it\u2019s knowledge from the Otherworld or Underworld (sea). To eat salmon may have been thought to bring knowledge or inspiration. In the Fenian Cycle of Irish Mythology and the tale of The Boyhood Deeds of Fionn, there was a legend that a specific salmon in the River Boyne had gained all the knowledge in the world by eating the hazelnuts from the nine magic hazel-trees that hung over the well of wisdom. The hazel tree was also representative of wisdom and in eating the nuts, you gained their wisdom. Likewise, whoever caught and ate the salmon would then acquire its wisdom. The (Druid) poet Finegas spent many years trying to catch it. When he finally did he gave it to his servant and apprentice Fionn to cook and prepare, giving him specific instructions not to eat it. However, while he was cooking, a drop of hot fish fat burned his thumb. He sucked on the wound and fish oil, instantly receiving the fish\u2019s wisdom. When Finegas returned he could see the aged and wiser look in the boy\u2019s eyes and knew what had happened. The boy explained the accident, Finegas forgave him and allowed him to eat the rest of the salmon assuming it was his destiny. Throughout the rest of his life, he could draw upon all the wisdom of the world or answer any question simply by putting his thumb in his mouth. Fionn would later become the leader of the Fianna, the famed heroes of Irish myth. There is a similar story in Wales involving a boy named Gwion watching over the cauldron of Cerridwen. In the famous story of Cuchulainn, he made a \u201csalmon leap\u201d in combat and astounded his enemies. One of the most famous Pictish stones in Scotland includes a carved salmon.\nThe wolf symbolized intelligence, ferocity and loyalty and likely had many parallels to the dog. The gaze of a wolf is said to reach into your soul. It\u2019s no surprise the wolf was a sacred animal to the Celts and a number of other ancient cultures. They appear on many Celtic carved stones as well as in mythology. The wolf had many names, one of the most common was \u201cmac tire\u201d which means \u201cson of the earth or countryside\u201d. The wolf was one of the four sacred animals of the goddess Brigid. Wolves or dogs are also depicted on the Gundestrup Cauldron. In Celtic mythology, Cormac mac Airt was raised by wolves and able to communicate with them. In battle, the Morrigan could take the form of the wolf and she would frequently take that form when testing and chasing the Celtic hero CuChulainn. The famous King Cormac of Ireland was taken by a wolf as a baby while his mother was sleeping and he was raised with them for a time. When he became king, a pack of wolves followed him wherever he went. Many clans in Scotland named the wolf their totem animal. The Annals of the Four Masters claims that in 690 CE \u201cIt rained a shower of blood in Leinster this year. Butter was there also turned into lumps of gore and blood, so that it was manifest to all in general. The wolf was heard speaking with human voice, which was horrific to all.\u201d There were many folktales created that involved the wolf and evolved over the years to tales of the werewolf, humans that changed to wolf form on the night of the full moon. Many of these horrific tales started as quite innocent versions such as the following tale. \u201cIn 1182, a priest traveling from Ulster into Meath encountered a talking wolf which revealed itself to be a man of Ossory, whose ancestors had been cursed to turn into wolves every seven years and return to their human form after another seven years had passed. The wolf explained that his wife was ill and pleaded with the priest to help her. The priest complied and was later put on the right road to Meath.\u201d The last wolf in the British Isles was said to have been killed in 1786 in Ireland, about three hundred years after they were wiped out in England.\nThe bear symbolized protectiveness and prowess. The bear was the totem animal of the legendary Welsh King Arthur and shows up in many archeological carvings. Notice the root word \u201cArt\u201d meaning bear in Celtic. There is evidence through sculptures, jewelry and bear-cult sites that the Celts venerated bear goddesses and gods by various names including Artio, Andarta, Artaois, Ardehe or Arthe. There was even an ancient city named Berne after bears. Bear pelts were likely used for bedding and may have been a favored article of clothing, particularly for chieftains. Multiple bear skins have been found among prestigious archaeological grave sites that may have been warriors or chieftains. There is evidence of a bear cult in Europe as far back as 40,000 years ago in the Chauvet Cave drawings in France. The bear was hunted to extinction in Scotland the British Isles in approx. the 11th century.\nThe bee symbolized community, celebration and abundance. The bee is often mentioned in connection with honey and mead. Considering the Celts were well known for their love of celebration and drink, bees and bee keeping was undoubtedly an important part of their daily life and symbol for them. There is evidence of mead drinking for at least 6,000 years. On the famous Irish Hill of Tara, one of the halls was known as the House of Mead Circling. Honey would have been used for cooking and flavoring as well. The bee likely was another goddess symbol given the importance of the queen bee to the hive and honey\u2019s sweetness. Even today, someone\u2019s \u201choney\u201d was generally a nickname for their wife or sweetheart. Britain at one time became known as Honey Island. In Scotland, the first bee seen in summer was secured and kept for good luck. An entire section of the Irish Brehon Laws entitled \u201cBee judgements\u201d was dedicated to bees. The bees and their hives were protected and it was a capital offense to steal bees.\nSeal/Dolphins/Whales\nSea mammals symbolized love, mystery and magic. Seals were thought to be able to shed their seal skin and turn into humans at will. Stories of \u201cselkes\u201d have been passed down from generation to generation throughout Scotland and Ireland. There are many love stories and legends surrounding the selke. The MacCodrums, a clan in South Uist have been known for centuries as the \u201cClan of Seals\u201d and were thought to be descendants of seals. Dolphins and whales, like most water animals were considered magical and associated with sea gods and goddesses. They likely all provided meat, oil and skins for local communities that lived near the sea.\nThe otter symbolized family, playfulness and the hunting chase. Otters are very playful creatures as well as skillful hunters and dedicated family members. Otter skin was thought to be magical as well as to have healing properties. The otter appears in the Welsh Story of Taliesin and was sacred to the Irish god Manannan mac Lir.\nThe butterfly symbolized the soul and transmigration. The golden butterfly was especially held sacred. If it was seen in or near the house where a person was dead or dying, it was a good omen. The butterfly also goes through three stages, the caterpillar, pupa and butterfly which was a sacred number to the Celts.\nImage source: artsybeedigital.com\nThe dragon symbolized power, mystery and wisdom. Dragons were often drawn with their tails in their mouths symbolizing the cycle of nature, life and immortality. The dragon has been a creature of myth and legend in almost every culture of the world in some form. In Celtic mythology, dragons were believed to have existed in the Otherworld. Areas where a dragon crossed paths on the other side were said to be more powerful for ritual and known as \u201cley lines\u201d. There were two dragons, the standard winged version and the sea serpent or worm version and likely dragons for the various elements, earth, wind, fire and water. There were many tales involving earth dragons coiled around an ancient treasure underground or in deep caves that few were brave enough to venture into. There is scant a person who hasn\u2019t heard of the water Loch Ness Monster dragon tale. Whirlpools were often associated with water dragons as well and if you fell in, it was thought you\u2019d be swallowed up instantly by the dragon inhabiting it. Air dragons may have been perceived as naturally occurring phenomenon like tornadoes or exceptionally large storms. Fire dragons may have been responsible for catching forests on fire or other mischievous or mysterious events involving fire. In the Welsh tales of King Arthur, a red and white dragon fought every night causing a tower, the hill fort known as Dinas Emrys to fall down. The red dragon was metaphorically Wales and the white drag was Saxon England.\nFor more information check out The Druid Animal Oracle by Philip Carr-Gomm or Animals in Celtic Life and Myth by Miranda Green!\nTagged animals, Celt, Celtic, Druid, Druidry\nPrevious postIntro to Ogham\nNext postModern Herbalism Basics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 49187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://discussedu.com/index.php/2017/10/09/women-techmakers-scholarship-program-to-study-at-universities-in-europe-the-middle-east-and-africa-check-eligibility-status/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UF2SML2RIK3JYU6XBFX6F645Q62DSO3U", "length": 3806, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "discussedu.com", "title": "Women Techmakers Scholarship Program to study at Universities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa| |Check Eligibility Status \u2013 DISCUSS EDUCATION", "raw_content": "Are you an Undergraduates and Masters female students from EMEA regions of the world? Here is an opportunity for you to participate in the 2018/2019 Women Techmakers Scholarship Program for Women. Through the Women Techmakers Scholars Programme \u2013 formerly known as the Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Programme \u2013 Google is furthering Dr. Anita Borg\u2019s vision of creating gender equality in the field of computer science by encouraging women to excel in computing and technology and become active leaders and role models in the field.\nDr. Anita Borg (1949\u20132003) believed that technology affects all aspects of our economic, political, social and personal lives. A technology rebel with a cause, she fought tirelessly to ensure that technology\u2019s impact would be a positive one. So therefore devoting her adult life to revolutionising the way we think about technology and dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities from entering computing and technology fields. She proposed the \u201c50/50 by 2020\u201d initiative, so that women earning computing degrees would be 50% of the graduates by year 2020. However, the percentage of Computer Science degrees earned by women is still far from 50% throughout the world.\nAs part of Google\u2019s ongoing commitment to furthering Anita\u2019s vision, Google is proud to honor Anita\u2019s memory and support women in technology with the Women Techmakers Scholars Program (formerly the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship).\nThrough the scholarship, Google aim to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, and become active role models and leaders.\nType: Bachelors, Masters, PhD\nSponsors: Google\nEligible Countries: Women from Europe, the Middle East and Africa\nTo be taken at: Universities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa\nEligible Subject Areas: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Informatics or a closely related technical \ufb01eld\nThe scholarship recipients will each receive a \u20ac7,000 (or equivalent) scholarship.\nA retreat opportunity to connect with fellow scholars and Google mentors, while participating in professional and personal development trainings and workshops.\nAn online network with fellow scholars program participants designed to share resources, support the global community of women in tech and collaborate on projects to make continued impact.\ncurrently be enrolled at a university for the 2017/2018 academic year\nIntend to be enrolled in or accepted as a full-time student in a Bachelor\u2019s, Master\u2019s or PhD program at a university in Europe, the Middle East or Africa for the 2017-2018 academic year\nDemonstrate and Maintain a strong academic record\nExemplify leadership and demonstrate passion for increasing the involvement of women in Computer Science\nSelection Criteria: Multiple scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of candidates\u2019 academic performance, leadership experience and demonstrated passion for computer science.\nHow to Apply: The Women Techmakers Scholarship is a one-time scholarship. While past applicants and finalists are encouraged to reapply, unfortunately, past recipients of any Google scholarship, including the Women Techmakers Scholarship and Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, are not eligible to apply.\nComplete the online application and submit all requested documents by 1st December 2017. 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That Friggin' Hurt - Doc Tsai Spanking", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Scenes / Cat / Visit 1 \u2013 More than I Imagined / 3. That Friggin\u2019 Hurt\nMy experience with you was so much more than I imagined it could be. You gave me a wonderful gift Doc, and I thank you for that. You know, I said I couldn\u2019t have been prepared for the sudden intensity of the pain because I had never been there but the truth is I don\u2019t think it is something that you can ever be prepared for whether you have experienced it or not. I have a feeling that next time, & I sincerely hope there will be a next time, it will be just as much of a shock to my system. And I wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.\nFrom the bottom of my heart, or should I say my very abused bottom, I thank you Doc. Even if we should never meet again, I will keep this treasured memory. You are everything & more than I could have ever hoped for.\nhttps://doctsai.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Cat-9-That-frigging-hurt-CR.mp3\nCat, That friggin\u2019 hurt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 177.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://docublogger.typepad.com/thunder/2016/05/director-of-photography-railsback-brings-magic-to-thunder.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WWWDFYRTYRCRUVVPZBXHRL4SFOSZJ47F", "length": 3513, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "docublogger.typepad.com", "title": "Director of Photography Kevin Railsback Captures \"Thunder\" - Sons & Daughters of Thunder", "raw_content": "\u00ab \"The Barn Raisers\" and \"Sons & Daughters of Thunder\" Rise to Rundles' Release List | Main | \"Sons & Daughters of Thunder\" Presentation at Andover's \"More Fun on 81\" June 4th \u00bb\nDirector of Photography Kevin Railsback Captures \"Thunder\"\nDirector of Photography Kevin Railsback captures the vision of Sons & Daughter of Thunder.\nPost-production, the final hurdle. After years of nurturing Earlene Hawley's spirited play to life for the big screen, we are finally at the editing phase and bringing all of the elements together.\nWe have come a long way. The film project began in 2011 with a preliminary meeting with Kent and Earlene Hawley and a discussion of transforming Earlene's award-winning stage play into a screenplay. After months of writing and revising, and a read-through of the script with actors, the film project was ready for development and fundraising.\nThanks to the support of a number of generous contributors, pre-production and production became a reality with auditions, locations set, costumes created and located, an excellent cast selected and a stellar crew hired--among them award-winning filmmaker Kevin Railsback who would serve as Thunder's Director of Photography.\nSons & Daughters of Thunder Director of Photography Kevin Railsback and Director Kelly Rundle.\nSons & Daughters of Thunder is Kevin's first feature-length narrative film--his main interest and personal focus has been nature documentary filmmaking. His extraordinary nature footage has been featured on National Geographic, Animal Planet, The Discovery Channel, in theatrical films, and in commercials for companies like AT&T. He is also the author of the popular blog Filmmaking Naturally.\n\"From an early age I wanted to capture the incredible sights I encountered. One of the first images I recall taking was of a walrus at Brookfield Zoo outside of Chicago when I was eight. But it was living in Iwakuni, Japan that really taught me the importance of lines and form,\" Kevin notes on the blog.\n\"Japan is a land of indescribable beauty and I spent my time there trying to capture on film as much of it as I could. I am driven to tell the story that Mother Nature and all her creatures share with me.\"\nRailsback's cinematography captures the mood of the final scene of Sons & Daughters of Thunder featuring Harriet Beecher (Jess Denney) and Theodore Weld (Thomas Alan Taylor).\nCameras began rolling late 2013 through 2015. Kevin's superb eye and exceptional talent has served Thunder well, with months of stunning footage of dramatic scenes captured during filming at the Dillon Home Museum in Sterling, Illinois; Augustana College's House on the Hill and the Karpeles Manuscript Library in Rock Island, Illinois; the Jenny Lind Chapel in Andover, Illinois.\nLyman Beecher (Janos Horvath), James Thome (Anthony Stratton) and Theodore Weld (Thomas Alan Taylor) watch for a storm.\nAdditional footage was gathered at the historic Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, Ohio where the actual Lane Seminary debates took place in 1834.\nWe are honored and so very grateful to have Kevin Railsback behind the camera, capturing the beauty and drama of this important and timely story.\nSons & Daughters of Thunder is produced by Fourth Wall Films, owned by Emmy\u00ae nominated filmmakers Kelly and Tammy Rundle, a film and video production company specializing in historical documentaries for public television broadcast and DVD home video. The film is slated for release in 2018.\nPosted at 06:38 PM in Project Updates | Permalink", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://douleurchronique.org/diseases/neuropathy/painful-diabetic-neuropathy/?lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QILXELHV6KV3M5A6K435RXWLSWEAT2YC", "length": 3502, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "douleurchronique.org", "title": "Painful Diabetic Neuropathy | AQDC", "raw_content": "Diabetic neuropathies (say: die-uh-BET-ik noo-ROP-e-thees) are a group of disorders that can cause pain, along with numbness, weakness, or odd sensations. Up to 70% (7 out of 10) of people who have diabetes (both Type 1 and Type 2) have some form of neuropathy. This can involve the hands, feet, arms, and legs. It can sometimes also affect the digestive tract, heart, or sex organs.\nSome patients who have diabetic neuropathy have no symptoms at all. Others may have:\npain in the hands and feet, especially burning, electric shock-like pain\nextreme sensitivity of the skin, similar to a bad sunburn\nweakness in the muscles of the hands or feet\nerectile dysfunction (problems having or keeping an erection) in men, or vaginal dryness in women\ndifficulty urinating (peeing)\nfeeling dizzy or lightheaded when standing quickly\nBecause there are so many possible symptoms of diabetic neuropathy in different people, researchers think there are likely a number of ways that diabetes causes nerve damage. But in general, high levels of blood sugar are toxic to nerves and impair their ability to heal and recover from injury. There is also damage to blood vessels in diabetes. This means that nerves can not get the oxygen they need to survive. If you smoke cigarettes or drink beyond the usual amounts of alcohol, this can also be damaging to small nerves in the hands and feet, and can make diabetic peripheral neuropathy worse.\nSome people with diabetes do not develop neuropathy. This may mean that part of the cause is genetic as well. This may make some people more prone to nerve injury than others.\nThere are a number of tests that can help to diagnose diabetic neuropathy and guide treatment.\nMonofilament testing\nThe simplest test is a small filament, which your doctor can use in the office to test your sensation. The device applies a consistent amount of pressure so your doctor can compare how sensitive your skin is to that of a person without neuropathy. Often this is the only test that needs to be done.\nQuantitative sensory testing (QST)\nQuantitative sensory testing (QST) can be used to make note of changes in your condition over time. This test checks your sensitivity to light touch, pinprick, pressure, vibration, and temperature. It is very rarely needed, but is helpful in research studies to look at disease progression.\nNerve conduction studies (NCS) or electromyography (EMG)\nNerve conduction studies (NCS) or electromyography (EMG) check how well an electrical signal is being passed through a nerve or how well the muscles respond to the nerve signal. Most often, these tests are not needed but may help to rule out other causes of nerve damage, if needed.\nHow much your blood pressure and heart rate change over time can suggest problems with your autonomic nerves. These nerves control those non-voluntary functions.\nControl of blood sugar\nThe most important way to prevent and treat diabetic neuropathy is good control of blood sugar. This can prevent further damage. When sugars are controlled for the first time, some patients find that the pain is worse for a little while, then improves.\nThere are a number of medicines that are used to control nerve pain. Some patients may benefit from:\nNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. National Institutes of Health information. NIH Publication No. 08\u20133185, February 2008. Rashiq S, Schopflocher D, Taenzer P, Jonsson E, (eds). Chronic Pain: A Health Policy Perspective, Wiley Blackwell, October 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 7524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://downthechupacabrahole.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:04Z", "digest": "sha1:JJNYKRCZ36SD63XSZN2QPUGCXDZ6NPZC", "length": 112, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "downthechupacabrahole.com", "title": "contact \u2013 Down the Chupacabra Hole", "raw_content": "Have a question or a suggestion for a future topic that you\u2019d like to learn more about? Feel free to contact me!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dpla.wisc.edu/facstaff/faculty/ohm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YBGNAMPQ67A4UNAXLYHESBR5Q7XHGXJV", "length": 25636, "nlines": 123, "source_domain": "dpla.wisc.edu", "title": "Brian W. Ohm | Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture", "raw_content": "Brian W. Ohm\nBachelor of Arts with majors in History and Political Science, St. Olaf College; Master of Arts History, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison; law degree from University of Wisconsin Law School\nUW-Extension Specialist, Affiliate faculty with the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and UW Law School\nbwohm@wisc.edu\nProfessor Ohm\u2019s teaching, research, and outreach focus on the legal and institutional framework for managing community growth and change. He is particularly interested in the need to revise and update state enabling laws that govern local planning, the impact of local laws on community livability, and the \"takings\" issue. Professor Ohm joined the faculty in 1994. He holds a joint appointment with the University of Wisconsin Extension where he is the state specialist in land use law, environmental regulation, and growth management. He lends his expertise to a variety of governmental and private organizations through his work with Extension. A news article about Professor Ohm\u2019s work is available here. He also has an affiliate appointment with UW\u2019s Nelson Institute of Environmental Studies. Professor Ohm served as Chair of the Department of Urban & Regional Planning from 2008\u20132012.\nPrior to joining the faculty at UW, Professor Ohm worked as an attorney for the Metropolitan Council, the regional governing body for the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. While at the Council he was involved in numerous regional planning initiatives involving land use, affordable housing, natural resources, transportation, governance, and local public service delivery. Prior to that he worked as an attorney in private practice for the Minneapolis law firm then known as Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., where he specialized in litigation involving land use, eminent domain, and complex securities fraud.\nProfessor Ohm holds a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School, a Master of Arts Degree in History from the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from St. Olaf College with majors in History and Political Science.\nSince joining the faculty at UW, he has been actively involved in a variety of planning related projects at all levels of governance -- campus, neighborhood, city, county, and state -- and with non-governmental organizations.\nFrom 2004 until 2015 he served as Vice President for Chapter Affairs for the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association.\nFrom 2013\u20132015 he served on the steering committing overseeing the preparation of the neighborhood plan for the University Hill Farms neighborhood. Prior to that, he served on the City of Madison Plan Commission, for 4 1/2 years where he was involved with the development of the City of Madison\u2019s first comprehensive plan under Wisconsin\u2019s 1999 comprehensive planning law and other initiatives. He was appointed by the Town Board for the Town of Dunn to serve on the first Land Trust Commission overseeing the initial implementation of the Town\u2019s purchase of agricultural conservation easements program.\nHe also served on the steering committee overseeing the development of Dane County\u2019s first comprehensive plan under Wisconsin\u2019s 1999 comprehensive planning law. He was also appointed by the Dane County Board of Supervisors to Chair the North Mendota Parkway Advisory Committee to study transportation options related to a controversial proposed \u201cNorth Beltline\u201d around the northern part of the Madison area and was subsequently appointed chair of the North Mendota Parkway Implementation Oversight Committee to oversee the carrying out of the study\u2019s recommendations.\nAt UW, Professor Ohm has served as Chair of the Campus Transportation Committee and on the Campus Planning Committee. He served on the Campus Planning Committee during the development of the Campus Master Plan. In December 2013 he was appointed by the UW Board of Regents to serve on the Design Review Board for the University Research Park and is a current member of the Board.\nAt the state level, in 1996, he was appointed by the Wisconsin Legislative Council to serve on the Special Committee on Federally Tax Exempt Lands. In 2000 he was appointed by Governor Tommy Thompson to serve on the South Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission Study Committee. From 2000 to 2006 he served as Chair of the State-Local Government Private Sector Working Group established by the Wisconsin Land Council within the State of Wisconsin Department of Administration. In 2004, he was appointed by Governor Jim Doyle to serve as the University of Wisconsin System representative to the Wisconsin Land Council. In 2008 he was appointed by the Wisconsin Legislative Council to serve on the Special Committee on Regional Transportation Authorities. In 2009 he was appointed by the Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection to serve on the State Purchase of Agricultural Conservation Easements Council.\nProfessor Ohm is also active with NGOs having been a founding Board member of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Environmental Initiative.\nOhm, Brian W. 2018. A Quarter Century of Changes to Wisconsin\u2019s Local Land Use Enabling Laws. Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture Applied Research Report. 35 pp.\nOhm, Brian W. 2018. Local Zoning Ordinance Options for Conditional Use Permits After 2017 Wisconsin Act 67. Department of Planning & Landscape Architecture Applied Research Report. 20 pp. (Version including Appendix available here. 113 pp.)\nOhm, Brian W. 2018. Conditional Use Permits and the \"Substantial Evidence\" Standard. Perspectives on Planning (July). 4 pp.\nOhm, Brian W. 2018. Conditional Use Permits After 2017 Wisconsin Act 67. Perspectives on Planning (January). 5 pp.\nOhm, Brian W. 2018. 2017 Wisconsin Act 67 Limits Substandard Lot Provisions. Perspectives on Planning (January). 2 pp.\nOhm, Brian W. 2017. Is There a Law of Regional Planning? Belmont Law Review, vol. 4, pp. 35-64.\nOhm, Brian W. 2016. \u201cLand Use.\u201d Chapter 10 in Handbook for Municipal Officials (Second Edition). League of Wisconsin Municipalities. 19 pp.\nMagera, Kyle, Erin O\u2019Brien, and Brian W. Ohm. 2016. Model Wetland Conservation Ordinance: A Policy Development Tool for Wisconsin Counties, Cities, Villages, Towns, and Tribes. Wisconsin Wetlands Association. 39 pp.\nOhm, Brian W. 2016. 2015 Wisconsin Act 391: Consistency Revisited. Perspectives on Planning (May).4 pp.\nOhm, Brian W. 2015. Some Modern Day Musings on the Police Power. Urban Lawyer, vol. 47, no. 4, pp. 625-663.\nSorensen, M. and B. Ohm. 2015. How to Define a Family? The Special Case of Regulating Student Rental Housing in Single-Family Residential Neighborhoods in Wisconsin\u2019s College and University Communities, URPL Extension Working Paper 2015-4. Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension. 40 pp.\nOhm, Brian W. 2015. 2015 Legislative Changes Affecting Wisconsin's Shoreland. Perspectives on Planning (November). 4 pp.\nOhm, Brian W. 2014. Planning and zoning consistency. Planning. vol. 80, no. 9, pp. 45-46.\nOhm, Brian W. 2014. The Current Status of Extraterritorial Plat Approval Authority in Wisconsin. The Municipality, vol. 109, no. 11, pp. 358-367.\nOhm, Brian W. 2014. By the Numbers: Trends in Planning-Related Court Decisions in Wisconsin, 2008-2013, Extension Report 2014-03, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension. 13 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 2014. The Year in Review: A Summary of Wisconsin Planning Cases From June 1, 3013 to July 1, 2014 and Recent Legislation. Extension Report 2014-02, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension. 30 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 2013. Wisconsin Land Use and Planning Law. Madison: University of Wisconsin Law School. 283 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 2013. Unifying Wisconsin\u2019s Zoning Enabling Laws: A Simple Approach. Working Paper Series, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension. 85 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 2013. Legal Nonconforming Uses, Structures, and Lots . . . After 2011 Wisconsin Act 170, Extension Report 2013-02, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension. 41 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 2011. There Goes the Neighborhood: Conflicts Associated with the Location and Operation of Airports. Chapter 18 in Elizabeth Hoppe, ed. Ethical Issues in Aviation. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.\nOhm, Brian W. 2011. The Smart Growth Movement, Planning, and Information Technology. Chapter 9 in Niemann, Benjamin, Dave Moyer, Steven Ventura, Richard Chenoweth, and Doug Miskowiak. Citizen Planners Shaping Communities with Spatial Tools. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.\nHibbard, Calder, Leslie McInenly, Lee Nellis, Kayla Block-Torgerson, Jane Prohaska, Michael, Kilgore, Brian Ohm, Jean Coleman, Steve Taff and Stephanie Snyder. 2011. Maintaining the Forestland Base in Minnesota: Forestland Parcelization and Policy Tools. Minnesota Forest Resources Council. 185 pages.\nRosen, Lara, and Brian Ohm. 2010. Protecting Our Turf: Should Planners in Wisconsin Be Licensed? Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association Newsletter (Spring).\nOhm, Brian W., Thomas Gaumert, Michael S. Adams. 2010. \u201cThe Institutional Structure for River Management in Germany: A Case Study of the Elbe River.\u201d Chapter in Transatlantic Institutional Environmental Policy in Relation to Environmental Education. University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison.\nOhm, Brian W. 2010. \u201cAn Institutional Framework for Interdisciplinary Investigations of Environmental Issues in Post-secondary Education: The Wisconsin River Context,\u201d Chapter in Transatlantic Institutional Environmental Policy in Relation to Environmental Education. University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison.\nOhm, Brian W. 2010. 2010 Updates to Wisconsin\u2019s Comprehensive Planning Law. Perspectives On Planning. (May) 1-4, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 2008. Protecting Coastal Investments: Examples of Regulations for Wisconsin\u2019s Coastal Communities. University of Wisconsin Sea Grant and University of Wisconsin Extension. 67 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 2008. Zoning Districts Must Include Permitted Uses. Zoning Practice, vol. 25, no. 10, p. 7.\nBrewster, Chris, Matt Lawlor, Brian Ohm and Mark White. 2008 Tweaking the System: Getting Projects Built and Codes Changed Within the Existing Zoning Framework. Chapter 3 in Doris Goldstein and Dan Slone, eds., A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development. New York: John Wiley & Sons.\nOhm, Brian W. and Mark White. 2008. Changing the Rules: New Approaches to Zoning. Chapter 4 in Doris Goldstein and Dan Slone, eds., A Legal Guide to Urban and Sustainable Development. New York: John Wiley & Sons.\nOhm, Brian W. 2007. Amicus Curiae Brief for the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association and the American Planning Association to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Wisconsin Realtors Association v. Town of West Point. 13 pages.\nSitkowski, Robert J. and Brian W. Ohm. 2006. Form-based Land Development Regulations. Urban Lawyer, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 163-172. (Reprinted in 2007 Zoning and Planning Law Handbook, Patricia E. Salkin, editor, Thompson/West.)\nOhm, Brian W. 2006. What Do Planners Do? Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association News. Vol. 2006, No. 1, p. 4+.\nOhm, Brian W. 2005. Universities as Participants in Land Use Enabling Law Reform. Chapter 13 in Knaap, Gerrit and Wim Wiewel, eds., Universities and Smart Growth. Armonk, N.Y., M.E. Sharpe, Inc.\nOhm, Brian W. 2005. Let the Courts Guide You: Planning and Zoning Consistency. Zoning Practice, vol. 22, no. 11, pp. 2-7.\nOhm, Brian W. and Robert J. Sitkowski. 2004. Integrating New Urbanism and Affordable Housing Tools. Urban Lawyer, vol. 36, no. 4, pp. 857-866.\nOhm, Brian W. and Robert J. Sitkowski. 2003. The Influence of New Urbanism on Local Ordinances: The Twilight of Zoning? Urban Lawyer, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 783-794. (Cited by the Connecticut Supreme Court in Andros v. Town of West Hartford, 285 Conn. 309, 939 A.2d 1146 (2008); cited by the Court of Chancery of Delaware, Sussex, in Barry v. Town of Dewey Beach, 2006 Del. Ch. LEXIS 115.)\nOhm, Brian W. 2003. Consistency and the Comprehensive Plan. The Municipality, vol. 98, no. 7, pp. 230 - 238.\nOhm, Brian W., John Merrill, Joni Herren, and Erich Schmidtke. 2003. Housing Wisconsin: A Guide to Preparing the Housing Eelement of a Local Comprehensive Plan[Second Edition]. University of Wisconsin Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 2003. The Patch-work Quilt of Town Zoning in Wisconsin. Perspectives On Planning. 5(1): 1-2, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nSitkowski, Robert J., and Brian W. Ohm. 2002. Enabling the New Urbanism. Urban Lawyer, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 935-943.\nOhm, Brian W. 2002. Land Use & Water Planning--Understanding Public, Private Property Rights. Focus on the Waters, vol. 13, no.3, pp.12-16.\nOhm, Brian W. 2002. Planning for Natural Resources: A Guide to Including Natural Resources in Local Comprehensive Planning. University of Wisconsin Extension and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. 85 pages.\nSitkowski, Robert J., Anna M. Breinich, and Brian W. Ohm. 2001. Enabling Legislation for Traditional Neighborhood Development Regulations. Land Use Law and Zoning Digest, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 3-10. (Cited by the Connecticut Supreme Court in Andros v. Town of West Hartford, 285 Conn. 309, 939 A.2d 1146 (2008).)\nOhm, Brian W. 2001. Adopting a Comprehensive Plan by Ordinance. The Municipality, vol. 96, no. 4, pp. 120-121.\nOhm, Brian W. 2001. Required Elements of a Local Comprehensive Plan. University of Wisconsin Extension, Cooperative Extension Publications # G3749. 4 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 2001. Key Points about Wisconsin's New Comprehensive Planning and \"Smart Growth\" Law. University of Wisconsin Extension, Cooperative Extension Publications # G3750. 2 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 2001. Adopting a Comprehensive Plan by Ordinance. Perspectives On Planning. 3(5): 1-2, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W., Matt Cobb, et. al. 2000. Conservation Easement Legislation in the 7th and 8th Federal Judicial Districts. Chapter 19 in Squires, Rod and Julie Gustanski, eds., Conservation Easements; Past, Present and Future. Washington, D.C.: Island Press.\nOhm, Brian W. 2000. Wisconsin: An Emerging National Leader in \u201cSmart Growth.\u201d On Common Ground, National Association of Realtors, vol. 1, no. 1, pp.6-9.\nOhm, Brian W. 2000. Elevating the Importance of Transportation Planning. Common Ground, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 37-38.\nOhm, Brian W. 2000. Reforming Land Planning Legislation at the Dawn of the 21st Century: the Emerging Influence of Smart Growth and Livable Communities. Urban Lawyer, vol. 32., no. 2, pp. 181-210.\nOhm, Brian W. 2000. The Purchase of Scenic Easements and Wisconsin\u2019s Great River Road: A Progress Report on Perpetuity. Journal of the American Planning Association, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 177-188. (Reprinted in Regional Government Innovations: A Handbook for Citizens and Public Officials, Roger L. Kemp, editor, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc.)\nOhm, Brian W. 1999. Guide to Community Planning in Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.\nOhm, Brian W. 1999. Today\u2019s Decisions; Tomorrow\u2019s Wisconsin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Publications. 16 pages.\nEdwards, Mary, and Brian Ohm. 1998. Annexation: Fiscal Implications for Cities, Villages and Towns. Common Ground, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 29-30, 35.\nOhm, Brian W. 1998. Moratoria for Planning Purposes--More Questions Than Answers. The Municipality, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 43, 45.\nOhm, Brian W. & Erich Schmidtke. 1998. An Inventory of Land Use Plans in Wisconsin. Extension Report 98-4, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension. 55 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 1997. Towards a Theory of Wisconsin Regulatory Takings Jurisprudence. Wisconsin Environmental Law Journal, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 173-213. (Reprinted in National Business Institute. 1997. Land Use Planning and Eminent Domain in Wisconsin. Eau Claire, WI: National Business Institute.) (Quoted by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Eberle v. Dane County Board of Adjustment, 595 N.W.2d 730 (1999).).\nOhm, Brian W. 1997. The Need to Update Wisconsin\u2019s Planning Enabling Legislation. Extension Report 97-4, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension. 38 pages.\nOhm, Brian W. 1997. Court Limits City\u2019s Extraterritorial Plat Review Authority. Perspectives On Planning. 3(3): 1-2, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1997. The Wisconsin Supreme Court Strengthens Role of Master Plans. Perspectives On Planning. 3(2): 1-2, Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1997. Wireless Facilities Siting. The Municipality, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 173-174. (Reprinted in Current Municipal Problems, vol. 24, no 1, pp. 43-47.).\nOhm, Brian W. 1996. The Wisconsin Supreme Court Responds to Lucas. 48 Land Use Law & Zoning Digest, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 3-7. (Reprinted in Great Lakes Wetlands, vol 8, no. 1, pp. 8-12 (1997).)\nOhm, Brian W. 1996. What is a Comprehensive Plan? Perspectives On Planning. 2(8):1-2. Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1996. Understanding Tax Base Sharing. Perspectives On Planning. 2(7):1-2. Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1996. The Final Report of the State Interagency Land Use Council: Updating Wisconsin\u2019s Land Use System. Perspectives On Planning. 2(6):1-2. Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1996. The Wisconsin Supreme Court Bolsters Prior \u201cTakings\u201d Decisions. Perspectives on Planning. 2(5):1-2. Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension (reprinted in Wisconsin Preservation, 20:5 (Sept./Oct. 1996)).\nOhm, Brian W. 1996. What is Meant by \u201cState Goals\u201d for Planning. Perspectives on Planning. 2(4):1-2. Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1996. Vested Rights. Perspectives on Planning. 2(1):1-2. Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1995. Reviving Comprehensive Planning in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area: The 1995 Amendments to the Metropolitan Land Planning Act. Minnesota Real Estate Law Journal, vol. 8, no. 6, pp. 81-86.\nJacobs, Harvey M. and Brian W. Ohm. 1995. Statutory Takings Legislation: the National Context, the Wisconsin and Minnesota Proposals. Wisconsin Environmental Law Journal, vol 2, no. 2, pp.173-223.\nOhm, Brian W. 1995. Amicus Curiae Brief for The Association of State Wetland Managers, Inc., to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Zealy v. City of Waukesha.\nOhm, Brian W. 1995. A Context for Reforming Wisconsin Land Use Law. Perspectives on Planning. 1(3):1-2. Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1994. Wisconsin\u2019s New Impact Fee Law. Perspectives on Planning. 1(1):1-2. Department of Urban & Regional Planning, University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison/Extension.\nOhm, Brian W. 1993. Growth Management in Minnesota: the Metropolitan Land Planning Act. Hamline Law Review, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 359-387.\nOhm, Brian W. 1992. Amicus Curiae Brief for The Metropolitan Council to the Minnesota Court of Appeals in Woodbury Place Partners v. City of Woodbury.\nOhm, Brian W. 1986. Wisconsin's Environmental Decade, Inc. v. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: The Limited Scope of Secondary Impacts in Threshold Determinations Under the Wisconsin Environmental Policy Act. Wisconsin Law Review, vol. 1986, no. 3, pp. 585-61.\nProfessor Ohm\u2019s principal projects relate to his research, teaching, and outreach interests on the legal and institutional framework for planning. As the UW-Extension specialist on planning law, his projects focus primarily on Wisconsin.\nSince 2007, Professor Ohm has been engaged in a longitudinal study examining Wisconsin appellate court cases related to planning. In conjunction with this study, he has been providing monthly case law updates for the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association since 2007. The monthly updates are available on the \u201cLaw and Legislation\u201d page of the Chapter\u2019s website.\nIn addition, many of Professor Ohm\u2019s projects address the need to revise and update state enabling laws that govern local planning. This work resulted in Wisconsin\u2019s 1999 comprehensive planning law (sometimes referred to as the \u201csmart growth\u201d law). For additional information about the law visit the \u201cComprehensive Planning\u201d pages of the Wisconsin Department of Administration website. Since 1999, Professor Ohm has been involved with several amendments to the 1999 law and has worked with hundreds of communities and individuals to help them fully understand the law.\nProfessor Ohm work in Wisconsin has also extended to planning enabling law reform elsewhere. He was the principal investigator for a major project funded by the Minnesota Forest Resources Council looking at reforming Minnesota\u2019s planning enabling laws in an effort to address forest fragmentation and has worked with scholars in China related to reforming the eviction and demolition processes.\nOne section of Wisconsin\u2019s Comprehensive Planning law required that the University of Wisconsin Extension develop a model ordinance for a traditional neighborhood development and an ordinance for a conservation subdivision. Professor Ohm was asked to take responsibility for these ordinances. These ordinances were approved by the Wisconsin Legislature in July 2001.\nA Model Ordinance for a Traditional Neighborhood Development\nAn Ordinance for a Conservation Subdivision\nIn addition to these projects, Professor Ohm was the principle investigator of a grant from the National Sea Grant Law Center to evaluate local strategies to manage Great Lakes coastal hazards and to develop model ordinances for local Great Lakes communities. The ordinances incorporate recent innovations in methodologies for understanding bluff stability and computer visualization of Great Lakes coastal hazards. URPL Affiliate Faculty David Hart was the co-principal investigator on the project. He is currently working on another project with David to evaluate the current status of plans and programs related to coastal hazards around the Great Lakes.\nHe also was the co-principal investigator (along with Mike Adams, Emeritus Professor in Botany) of two grants from the United States Department of Education focusing on trans-Atlantic comparisons. The first focused on urban ecology education and the management of cultural landscapes in Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain. The second focused on comparing education about U.S. and German, Dutch, and Spanish institutions involved in environmental policy and culminated in an international conference in Madison in September 2008.\nFinally he was also principal investigator of a project exploring coastal management issues in Estonia funded by the National Research Council of the National Academies INTREU grants program.\nURPL 833: PLANNING AND THE LEGAL SYSTEM Syllabus for Spring 2019\nThis course attempts to \"demystify\" the legal system for planning students by providing an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the operation and functioning of the legal system and its impact on planning in the United States. It is a required course for all Masters students.\nLAW 830: LAND USE CONTROLS Syllabus for Spring 2019\nThis course is offered through the UW Law School for law students. The courts covers limitations imposed upon the use of privately owned land by the court-made law of nuisance, by private covenant, and by public action; master plan, official map, subdivision regulation, zoning, and urban redevelopment.\nURPL 731: INTRODUCTION TO REGIONAL PLANNING Syllabus for Fall 2017\nThis course provides an examination of the policy and institutional framework (both historical and contemporary) for regional planning in the United States.\nAs the State specialist in planning law for the University of Wisconsin Extension, Professor Ohm\u2019s outreach courses include the annual \u201cLocal Land Use Planning and Zoning\u201d Teleconference Series taught through Extension\u2019s Local Government Center; teaching continuing maintenance [CM-Law] credit courses sponsored by the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association for certified planners; teaching at various continuing legal education courses for the State Bar of Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin Law School, and other CLE providers; and teaching at a variety of other workshops, conferences, and seminars.\nWisconsin Planning Law Resources\nWisconsin Land Use and Planning Law\nGuide to Community Planning in Wisconsin\nMonthly Wisconsin Planning Case Law Update\nCompilation of Wisconsin Statutes on Planning and Land Use\nConsistency and the Comprehensive Plan\n2010 Updates to Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Law\n2015 Wisconsin Act 391: Consistency Revisited\nLet the Courts Guide You: Planning and Zoning Consistency.\nModel Ordinances and Plan Elements\nLocal Zoning Ordinance Options for Conditional Use Permits After 2017 Wisconsin Act 67 (Appendix available here).\nProtecting Coastal Investments: Examples of Regulations for Wisconsin's Coastal Communities\nAdopting a Comprehensive Plan by Ordinance.\nA Model Forest Resources Element for Local Plans", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 27330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 197.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dreamdamage.com/dream-damage/2009/08/11/assassins", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:08Z", "digest": "sha1:IJWSLLSIMLH2RZLZM5UG5C66U5XK2LKI", "length": 1385, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "dreamdamage.com", "title": "Assassins 88 \u2014 DREAM DAMAGE", "raw_content": "Assassins 88 is a bass and drums combo from Australia. 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The book is the first of three books that make up The High-Performance Triad Series.\nNew York, NY, Feb 2017 Dr. Karen Jacobson has been selected to be part of C-Suite Network Advisors\u2122, an elite group of experts chosen to advise the executives who are part of the C-Suite Network. The C-Suite Network strives to provide added value to their community...\nToday is a bitter sweet day. My emotions are all mixed up, if tears could show up on a computer, mine would be flooded. Today I see my last several patients and retire from my chiropractic practice. I\u2019ve been thinking about this this day for quite a while now,...\nOn October 26th 1998, I landed in Sky Harbor with a small truck to start a new chapter in my life. I was on disability after a head on collision. With plates & screws in my arm I had to learn how to write again, even brushing my hair was a challenge. None of that...\nHost Charlotte Howard interviews Dr. Karen Jacobson on her talk show Success and Beauty. 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It was 4PM with bright light all around. I had Canon EOS 5D Mark III camera with Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM Lens with me.\nSince these birds are not shy of humans, I could go around and find a right place to get the bird how I wanted. Among the 6 birds who were preening around, I found only one suited for my angle which became the hero of shooting session. This I feel is important else I will be trying to shuffle between several of them and might miss my goal. I positioned myself east of the birds, so that 4PM Sun was behind the bird. There was a darker clump of trees, behind the bird quite far away. They become my out of focus and dark background. Foreground light and background on the bird was around 1.5 stops different, thus giving you a great rim light you see here. If it was later part of the evening, since the foreground light drops, you get much darker foreground. This becomes almost a silhouette. So choosing right position, right direction of light, right time of the day and right angle of capture helps to create photograph as you want.\nThe cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis) is a cosmopolitan species of heron (family Ardeidae) found in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate zones. It is the only member of the monotypic genus Bubulcus. Despite the similarities in plumage to genus Egretta and the common name itself, it is more closely related to the herons of Ardea. Originally native to parts of Asia, Africa and Europe, it has undergone a rapid expansion in its distribution and successfully colonised much of the rest of the world in the last century.\nIt is a white bird adorned with buff plumes in the breeding season. It nests in colonies, usually near bodies of water and often with other wading birds. The nest is a platform of sticks in trees or shrubs. Cattle egrets exploit drier and open habitats more than other heron species. Their feeding habitats include seasonally inundated grasslands, pastures, farmlands, wetlands and rice paddies. They often accompany cattle or other large mammals, catching insect and small vertebrate prey disturbed by these animals. Some populations of the cattle egret are migratory and others show post-breeding dispersal.\nThe adult cattle egret has few predators, but birds or mammals may raid its nests, and chicks may be lost to starvation, calcium deficiency or disturbance from other large birds. This species maintains a special relationship with cattle, which extends to other large grazing mammals; wider human farming is believed to be a major cause of their suddenly expanded range. The cattle egret removes ticks and flies from cattle and consumes them. This benefits both species, but it has been implicated in the spread of tick-borne animal diseases.\nThe cattle egret is a stocky heron with an 88\u201396 cm wingspan; it is 46\u201356 cm long and weighs 270\u2013512 g. It has a relatively short thick neck, a sturdy bill, and a hunched posture. The non-breeding adult has mainly white plumage, a yellow bill and greyish-yellow legs. The plumage you see here in the blog is that of non-breading variety. During the breeding season, adults develop orange-buff plumes on the back, breast and crown, and the bill, legs and irises become bright red for a brief period prior to pairing. The sexes are similar, but the male is marginally larger and has slightly longer breeding plumes than the female; juvenile birds lack coloured plumes and have a black bill.\nThis species gives a quiet, throaty rick-rack call at the breeding colony, but is otherwise largely silent. The cattle egret nests in colonies, which are often, but not always, found around bodies of water. The colonies are usually found in woodlands near lakes or rivers, in swamps, or on small inland or coastal islands, and are sometimes shared with other wetland birds, such as herons, egrets, ibises and cormorants. The breeding season varies within South Asia. Nesting in northern India begins with the onset of monsoons in May.\nThe male displays in a tree in the colony, using a range of ritualised behaviours such as shaking a twig and sky-pointing (raising his bill vertically upwards), and the pair forms over three or four days. A new mate is chosen in each season and when re-nesting following nest failure. The nest is a small untidy platform of sticks in a tree or shrub constructed by both parents. Sticks are collected by the male and arranged by the female, and stick-stealing is rife. The clutch size can be anywhere from one to five eggs, although three or four is most common. The pale bluish-white eggs are oval-shaped and measure 45 mm \u00d7 53 mm.\nThe cattle egret feeds on a wide range of prey, particularly insects, especially grasshoppers, crickets, flies, maggots, moths, as well as spiders, frogs, and earthworms.\nA conspicuous species, the cattle egret has attracted many common names. These mostly relate to its habit of following cattle and other large animals, and it is known variously as cow crane, cow bird or cow heron, or even elephant bird or rhinoceros egret. Its Arabic name, abu qerdan, means \u201cfather of ticks\u201d, a name derived from the huge number of parasites such as avian ticks found in its breeding colonies.\nEXIF info - Aperture : \u0192/6.3 | Camera : Canon EOS 5D Mark III | Taken : 26 January, 2016 | Flash fired : no | Focal length : 500mm | ISO : 200 | Location : 12\u00b0 56.1373\u2032 0\u2033 N 74\u00b0 55.4123\u2032 0\u2033 E | Shutter speed : 1/500s | Images and content Copyright \u00a9 Krishna Mohan. Please contact me to purchase prints or for image publication license.\nCategories Nature, Photography, WildlifeTags 5D Mark III, Ardea ibis, Ardeidae, Ardeola ibis, Asia, Aves, birds, Bubulcus, Bubulcus bubulcus, Bubulcus ibis, Buphus coromandus, Canc, Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM Lens, Chordata, Dakshina Kannada, Gurupura, India, Karnataka, Mangalore\tPost navigation\n4 thoughts on \u201cCattle Egret\u201d\nZameerpasha\nWow, Outstanding, Always a right postion is important, after a long time, saw your work on Birds, I love your work and I\u2019m mad about the work you do. God bless you and like to see more work on Bird\u2019s photography.\nGopal Krishna Baliga\nVery informative Dr. Krishi\nThis is one of my dream shot sir , with rim light\u2026\nL M Pandit\nVery informative Sir\u2026\nShort Horned Grasshopper\nThe Darzee Bird\nhttps://drkrishi.com/cattle-egret/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 13589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/1150/browse?value=WTO+and+regional+trade+agreements&type=subject", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:48Z", "digest": "sha1:5REDFYJMPSRQ3GB3VL4SX7KHCXRU2JZO", "length": 463, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "dspace.nwu.ac.za", "title": "Browsing PER: Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal by Subject \"WTO and regional trade agreements\"", "raw_content": "Browsing PER: Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal by Subject \"WTO and regional trade agreements\"\nThe Southern African Development Community Trade Legal Instruments Compliance with Certain Criteria of GATT Article XXIV \ufeff\nSaurombe, A (2011)\nArticle XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) lays down the legal principles with which regional trade agreements have to conform. Based on these principles, WTO members have the mandate to determine ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Shaolin-Kung-Fu-Bodhidharma-Channel-Changing-Scripture/70027909", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:45Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4TZECOD3ALEUXT6ZNCSIPHZSUE5USMC", "length": 618, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dvd.netflix.com", "title": "\u0000 Rent Shaolin Kung Fu: Bodhidharma Channel Changing Scripture (2005) on DVD and Blu-ray - DVD Netflix", "raw_content": "Shaolin Kung Fu: Bodhidharma Channel Changing Scripture\nIntended to harmonize the energies of the mind, body and spirit, the Bodhidharma channel-changing method can help strengthen physiological functions, balance the yin and yang, and improve the immune system. Known as one of the Shaolin Buddhists monks' earliest exercise techniques, this traditional method is utilized to regulate vital organs, stimulate the energy flow between the body's meridians and prolong a practitioner's life span.\nShi Deyang\nForeign, Kung Fu, Martial Arts, Boxing & Wrestling, China\nSpanish (Neutral), English, French, Chinese Simplified", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dynamitereview.com/2018/08/09/snatched-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:56Z", "digest": "sha1:IRW4ORZ5P2A3B3NFMDAYBJZ4JSRVEY75", "length": 106, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "dynamitereview.com", "title": "Snatched (2017) | Dynamite Review", "raw_content": "\u2190 Anne with an E Season 2 (2017-?)\nThe Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 38.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://e2f.com/6349/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:38Z", "digest": "sha1:OJYSJMTXLM5BM5TOXX2M6ZNAUJVLDS67", "length": 2828, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "e2f.com", "title": "Meet e2f's Canadian Team | e2f", "raw_content": "Back in February 2016, e2f announced the opening of Services de Traduction e2f Canada Inc., a new subsidiary with offices in the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal in central Montr\u00e9al, Quebec.\nYesterday I had a opportunity to visit and speak with the staff. We enjoyed lunch at a nearby Japanese restaurant, where I learned that what we call gyoza in California is called ravioli in Montr\u00e9al. Sitting traditionally around a low table on cushions, we discussed the translation industry, the culture and history of Quebec, and the opportunities ahead.\nAbdou Wagu\u00e9 (pictured in the photo at left) leads the team. Born in France, educated in Canada at Universit\u00e9 Laval, and having spent time at e2f\u2019s California headquarters, Abdou is a soft-spoken cosmopolitan with an easy smile. Though fluent in French and English, and proficient in Spanish and German, he admitted to me that one of his greatest challenges was visiting the country of his heritage, Mali. Which is quite understandable. Mali has no less than 13 national languages. Even though French is the official language, its influence has waned over time. Now, only about 10% of the country can speak French.\nSolange Beaulieu (center) came to e2f from the world of media and marketing. She felt a sense of deja vu coming to work at e2f\u2019s office. She had lived just a few blocks away in years past and the streets and shops were second nature to her. When I asked Solange what made Quebec unique, her mind immediately leaped to music and the arts. While much of Anglophone Canada is heavily influenced by American television and movies, the French Canadian community has found itself somewhat insulated and thus able to flourish, developing its own voice and its own style. If there is anything that Solange would love to see \u201cexported\u201d from French Quebec into English, it would be such cultural beauty and treasure.\nRen\u00e9 Brisebois (pictured at right) came to e2f by way of Canada\u2019s West Coast: Victoria and Vancouver, British Columbia. Ren\u00e9 has a considerable (even formidable) background in government, having worked for the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages, the National Research Council Canada, Elections Canada, the Canada Public Service Agency and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. We spoke a bit about the recent trends and evolution of the Translation Bureau. When given a chance, Ren\u00e9 would rather wax poetic and passionately about a true universal language: jazz music.\nHow about you? What are your experiences in Montr\u00e9al, Quebec, and the rest of Francophone Canada? Have you any need to translate your work into, or from, Canadian French? Let us know! Contact us at [email protected], so Abdou, Solange, Ren\u00e9, and the rest of the team here at e2f can help you reach and inspire your own audiences.\nLearn More About e2f\u2019s Montreal Operations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://e7universe.com/2017/12/13/dragon-breath-release-december-13-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:45Z", "digest": "sha1:I7ILMSTVF6FRW52MEIU6YENHMKJEBFWS", "length": 802, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "e7universe.com", "title": "Dragon Breath Release \u2013 December 13, 2017 \u2013 The E7 Prophecy Universe", "raw_content": "Jarrod Edge\tDecember 13, 2017 0 Comments\nDragon Breath, the latest in the award-winning Acts of the Dragons series officially releases December 13, 2017. You may be able to find it a day or two early on Amazon.com.\nDragon Breath is the conclusion of the early New York episodes and is full of mystery, action, and adventure as the young Dragons attempt to take down a New York-based gang that is extorting and harming businesses in the city. Join Elizabeth, her siblings, and all of their New York-based friends as they take on the ePolics!\n\u201cA great way to end this section of the E7Prophecy and Acts of the Dragons.\u201d\n\u201cLove the new characters. Love the Psyclarion story arc. Can\u2019t wait to see how far that storyline goes.\u201d\n\u201cHut Chu! Love it!\u201d\nCategoriesBook, Characters, Reviews\nTagsActs of the Dragons", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://earthjustice.org/from-the-experts/fighting-fossil-fuels-in-the-era-of-trump", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PO6GIUPEGMWEOF7ETV43JDJB2PXMDXUG", "length": 9563, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "earthjustice.org", "title": "From the Experts: Fighting Fossil Fuels in the Era of Trump | Earthjustice", "raw_content": "Fighting Fossil Fuels in the Era of Trump\nJan Hasselman Staff Attorney\nFour ways to make progress on clean energy now.\nThe president of the United States, who neither knows nor cares about climate change, is actively seeking to restore coal, oil, and fracked gas to the top of the national energy pyramid. He has appointed a ghastly assemblage of climate deniers, oil industry insiders, and ethically bankrupt grifters to run energy policy. Their early work has been devastating. Trump walked away from the Paris accords, rolled back the federal Clean Power Plan, and moved to open vast areas of public lands to fossil fuel exploration. Congress is hardly better: Gridlocked at the best of times, the Republican majority refuses even the most sensible measures to hold fossil fuels accountable. While the rest of the globe moves forward to transition away from fossil fuels, the current government of the United States is racing in the opposite direction.\nDoes this mean that progress on fossil fuels is stalled until the political picture changes? The answer is no. While working towards a shift in Congress and White House will be key, we do not have time to wait. The clean energy revolution is well underway and its momentum is unstoppable. In the meantime, here are a few principles that can guide work keeping fossil fuels from getting back in the way.\n1. It's the Infrastructure, Stupid\nAchieving a clean energy economy will require a top-to-bottom transition of our entire energy and transportation sectors. The first critical step is to prevent major infrastructure investments that would \u201clock in\u201d fossil fuel use\u2014investments like new pipelines, power plants, and export terminals. These projects, if built, would operate for decades and make phasing out fossil fuels even harder to achieve than it already is. We may not be able to phase out fossil fuel use overnight, but we can block multi-billion dollar investments that commit us to these approaches for the next 50 years. And the good news is that many of these projects are decided at the state and local level, where decisions can be influenced by local communities despite a federal government that will aggressively support such projects.\nThe track record is impressive. Over the last two decades, advocates have blocked hundreds of proposed coal-fired power plants, and are leading the charge to force the closure of the oldest and dirtiest existing ones. They have led the fight to block major drilling investments in the Arctic Ocean, one of the world\u2019s most sensitive environments. And a vibrant coalition of environmental and faith groups, businesses, and Indian Tribes effectively shut down the Pacific Northwest from being transformed into an international hub for coal, oil and liquefied natural gas industries. These are tough, resource intensive battles, but ones that committed communities can bring and win.\n2. Correct Market Imbalances\nFossil fuels have historically been the cheapest form of energy for a simple reason: The price of using them does not account for the many costs they impose on people and the environment. Economists call these \u201cexternalities,\u201d and the fossil fuel industry has mastered the art of externalizing its costs onto the public while \u201cinternalizing\u201d all of the profits. For example, in order to get coal out of the ground, the industry literally has to blow the tops off mountains and bury streams in tons of rock, destroying the ecology of the area, and reducing property values and the quality of life for nearby residents. Transporting fossil fuel has big impacts too, from air pollution to oil spills. For example, moving crude oil via rail has resulted in catastrophic explosions, one of which killed 47 people, while oil pipelines spring leaks with depressing regularity. And of course, the burning of coal, oil, and gas itself represents the mother of all externalities, pumping out millions of tons of climate-altering greenhouse gasses and other pollutants that have major effects across the globe, all of which are dealt with on someone else\u2019s dime. The dollar \u201cprice\u201d of coal-fired electricity or a gallon of gas simply doesn\u2019t reflect any of these costs.\nAlso distorting price signals are the direct and indirect subsidies that benefit fossil fuels, making them appear cheaper to consumers than they should be. Fossil fuel exploration has been subsidized to the tune of over $20 billion a year in taxpayer funds. In between subsidies and unpaid externalities, a 2015 International Monetary Fund study estimated that fossil fuels impose a staggering $5 trillion in costs annually.\nAny action that internalizes costs and eliminates subsidies levels the playing field with clean energy. For example, forcing the most effective pollution controls possible on old coal power plants has often resulted in their abandonment in favor of clean energy and conservation. The industry must be held fully accountable for the spills, disasters and mistakes that seem to follow them wherever they go. Toxic wastes like coal ash and water pollution must be dealt with properly. Once the industry has to account for all of these costs, clean energy will virtually always be the economically preferable choice.\n3. Diminish Social License\n\u201cSocial license\u201d refers to the idea that an industry must earn the approval of communities where it operates. For decades, the fossil fuel industry has paid no price for spewing toxic pollution into our towns, degrading wild areas, and fighting life-saving climate policies. It is time to withhold our collective consent from their pollution, their political opposition to sensible environmental controls, and their refusal to take seriously the threat they pose to the world\u2019s climate.\nHow do we do that? Primarily through storytelling. Throughout the nation, families and communities have been burdened by the industry\u2019s casual disregard for their well-being, in ways that affect them deeply. Even so, they remain mostly invisible to the rest of the world. Advocates like us can tell stories. Stories like the Louisiana crawfisherman whose generations-old way of life has been jeopardized by the industry\u2019s careless disregard for the fragile wetlands of the Atchafalaya basin. Stories like the dozens of people at the Swinomish Indian Reservation rushed to the emergency room after the nearby Shell refinery belched a toxic cloud of emissions into their community. Stories like the hunters and fishers on Western public lands who have watched in dismay as the landscape they\u2019ve loved for generations is wrecked by careless oil and gas development.\nTelling stories of how the industry has destroyed peoples\u2019 livelihoods and special places undermines its social license to operate. By highlighting the harmful things that they do, communities can make a choice whether they are welcome to operate in their collective civic space. And as society becomes fully aware of the true costs of fossil fuels, and withdraws its consent for the industry to operate, room is cleared for alternatives.\n4. Grow an Equitable Movement\nFossil fuel advocacy must recognize and respect the social justice aspect of fossil fuel development, transportation, and consumption. It should come as no surprise that the most politically and economically marginalized members of our society\u2014especially black and brown communities, from the urban core to Native American reservations\u2014have paid the highest prices for, and received the fewest benefits from a fossil fuel-based economy. Historically, the mainstream environmental movement hasn\u2019t done a good enough job of listening to those communities, elevating their stories, and embracing them as partners and leaders in this fight.\nThat is changing. The historic gathering at Standing Rock highlighted the egregious history of our government\u2019s approach to Native American treaties. Environmental justice groups and minority communities in places from the rural Gulf Coast to dense California cities are leading the charge against polluting oil refineries. Families in Appalachia are standing up to tell their stories of the coal industry\u2019s abuses. These groups are working hand-in-hand with mainstream environmental groups and elevating issues of equity and social justice within the movement.\nAdvocates will build power against fossil fuels by broadening the movement to include historically marginalized communities, since environmental advocacy is inherently linked to social justice. This starts with being present in those communities, and listening.\nTrump\u2019s efforts to double down on a 19th-century fossil-fuel economy are dangerous and shortsighted. For the next few years at least, the federal government will not lead the transition from fossil to clean, and in many respects will work aggressively to slow it. The collapse of federal leadership raises the stakes for citizens, communities, and organizations that want a different future. By creatively applying these principles, we can help catalyze the transition to a fossil-free culture.\nJan Hasselman is a staff attorney in Earthjustice's Northwest office. His legal work focuses on fossil fuels, clean energy, and Puget Sound. Follow him on Twitter at @JanHasselman.\nEarthjustice's Northwest Office has been at the forefront of many of the most significant legal decisions safeguarding the Pacific Northwest\u2019s imperiled species, ancient forests, and waterways.\n\u201cClimate action plans from across the world collectively send the message that fossil fuels are no longer blue chip investments.\u201d\n\u2013 Abigail DillenPresident, Earthjustice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 11437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://earthrecordlabel.com/tag/steve-warner/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OOEMQF3QR4GVIBLFBKTUGUNGSNV2Y5GU", "length": 77, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "earthrecordlabel.com", "title": "Steve Warner | Earth Recordings", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201cSteve Warner\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 159.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://earthrecordlabel.com/tag/the-guardian/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:07Z", "digest": "sha1:WMFPEIJPIJ2BP4E47YHA4MR4KOVJZWD5", "length": 77, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "earthrecordlabel.com", "title": "The Guardian | Earth Recordings", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201cThe Guardian\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 87.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ecommerce-platforms.com/ecommerce-selling-advice/10-easy-steps-to-establishing-an-online-retail-store", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HS6CBUSIKAWEVH3JBE6GGVLREX7F76QB", "length": 6305, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "ecommerce-platforms.com", "title": "Online Retail Business: A Quick 10-Step Guide to Start an Online Business", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Ecommerce Selling Advice \u00bb Online Retail Business: A Quick 10-Step Guide to Start an Online Business\nCatalin Zorzini May 4, 2018\nOften, the largest obstacle that business owners face is being unfamiliar with the process: they are trying to figure out how to start an online retail business. So here are ten easy steps to learn how to open an online store, whether you already sell products in a brick-and-mortar location or you're starting an online business from scratch.\nWould you open a brick and mortar business without a business plan? You should not attempt to start an online retail store without one either. A business plan is critical to developing the roadmap and framework necessary to establish a successful business. A business plan for an online business should include the approach that will be used for financing, marketing, and advertising of the business. It should also establish a clear idea of how it will reach success. If you need funding, you will also require this business plan to get venture capitalists on board with your ideas. These elements don't become any less important just because you're saving overhead on facility costs.\nStep 2: Choosing an Online Retail Business Structure\nAfter establishing a plan for your online business, you will need to choose an appropriate business structure. If you are unsure of the structure that is best for your company, consider the tax benefits and requirements of each. The IRS website can help you with this decision. After making this decision, you will be able to file all of the documentation to make your business and its name legal. This is generally the end of the offline process. Now, it\u2019s time to take the steps to get your store established online.\nStep 3: Choosing the Products You Will Sell\nWhile your business plan probably outlined the general types of products you want to sell, this step entails a much more thorough list of your offerings. You should include the different products, as well as their unique colors, sizes, or other features. In addition to deciding on the types of products, you will also decide how they will be manufactured. In general, if you're not producing your offerings yourself, you will need to get a supplier or find a solution that allows you to distribute through reselling or drop shipping.\nStep 4: Getting Bar Codes for Your Products\nTo legally sell products to consumers through an online store, you will need UPC bar codes for each item you are selling. Does your product come in different sizes, colors, or patterns? You will need a separate barcode for each product, with each combination of features. Luckily, purchasing barcodes can usually be done easily online. You can even buy large batches of consecutive codes at a discount through various online services.\nStep 5: Building Inventory\nIf you are just establishing yourself online, you will need to have a decent sized inventory of products. This is true regardless of whether your ecommerce store is your only storefront or if you have a physical location as well. Nothing can make an online business lose money quite like having a surplus of backed up orders. In addition to establishing your inventory, you will need to make decisions about storage. The good news is that even if you do not have the money for a warehouse yourself, many companies will store your items and ship them out as orders come in for an affordable rate.\nStep 6: Choosing a Domain Name and Site Location\nFirst, you must choose a hosting provider. You also have the option of purchasing a domain name and setting up a site yourself. However, this requires an understanding of technical processes that many business owners may not have.\nSome of the most popular options to use for building an online retail store include Shopify, Bigcommerce, and Wix eCommerce. The great thing about these sites is that they allow you to purchase your own domain name, as well as provide you with the basic tools and instruction that you need to build your website from the ground up.\nStep 7: Building the Site\nOnce the technical parts of the site are set up, you will need to choose an overall design for your website. This includes setting up the theme, headers, product categories, and more. You will also need to organize your products into categories, and decide whether you want to include sections such as About Us or a company blog to attract customers to your site.\nStep 8: Setting up the Shopping Cart\nIf you choose to go with an ecommerce platform to help you with your online retail business, setting up the shopping cart should not be difficult. When you do set up a cart, it is often beneficial to use hosted shopping cart software. When you choose self-hosted software, some potential customers may turn away from your business because they are unsure of the security of your site. This is a big factor to consider when establishing your online retail store \u2014 read more about features you should consider here.\nStep 9: Launching, Advertising, and Marketing\nOnce your business has been established, your products are ready for sale, and all the bugs have been worked out of the site, you are ready for the official launch. After the launch, you will need to work hard on your ecommerce marketing and advertising strategies to grow your base of loyal customers.\nStep 10: Maintaining the Business\nOnce everything is up and running, the final step \u2013 actually this is a step you'll do every day for the whole life of your business \ud83d\ude42 \u2013 is maintaining your business. This includes taking care of technical aspects, such as working out any bugs on the site. It also includes continuing to manage the company inventory, make decisions about new and discontinued products, and providing customer service that will keep customers coming back for more. Finally, this will require you to market using techniques such as promotions, sales, emails, and more so that your business continues in its success. There are few instances where you can \u201cset-and-forget\u201d about your shop but I would focus on making sure I do everything I can to make the best of a good start.\nFeature image curtsey of Creativedash\nPrevious Article 10 Actionable Tips to Increase Your Online Store\u2019s Traffic Quickly\nNext Article Credit Card Processing Rates & Fees: The Cost and Benefits", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 11133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://edrugsearch.com/medi-share-health-care-christian-alternative-obamacare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4YZF6XFXDFYRUENF4VEIXN2BM6GT43H5", "length": 4461, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "edrugsearch.com", "title": "Medi Share Health Care: A Christian Alternative to Obamacare", "raw_content": "Home/Medi Share Health Care: A Christian Alternative to Obamacare\nMedi share health care is an increasingly popular way for Christians who disapprove of some of the different measures of Obamacare to acquire affordable health care without sacrificing what they believe.\nIt is essentially a program that allows Christians within the Medi Share health care network to work together to pay for each other\u2019s health care treatment costs. They are able to choose their own doctors and pay premiums that are approximately forty percent less than the premiums that they used to pay.\nMedi Share is a ministry of health care, which allows it to avoid being governed by the guidelines set by Obamacare. This means that members who join this health care ministry will not be penalized for not having insurance in 2015.\nMedi Share health care was developed in 1993 and has gotten more members to the tune of approximately ten percent more per year. However, after Obamacare was passed, the growth of Medi Share health care networks have increased by more than fifteen percent each year.\nThere are about 150,000 people total that are a part of the health care ministries, and slightly less than half are part of a Medi Share health care network. In order for a health care ministry to be allowed to be exempt from the guidelines governing health insurance set by Obamacare, the ministry needs to have been operating since 1999.\nHow To Join Medi Share Health Care\nThere are several different things that a person must promise in order to be eligible to join a Christian care Medi Share network. Each adult must . . .\nProfess Lord Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and profess the \u201cStatement of Faith\u201d\nAttend a fellowship with other believers on a regular basis\nShare the same conviction to bare each other\u2019s burdens as mention in Galatians 6:2\nBelieve your body is a temple of the Holy spirit and must be kept pure\nNot use tobacco or abuse drugs in any form\nNot engage in sex outside of \u201ctraditional\u201d Christian marriage\nIt is not uncommon for a person to have to have his or her submit a letter of reference affirming that the person in question will be able to uphold his or her promises. These requirements are put inot place in order to keep the Medi Share health care network free of those who do not share the same beliefs.\nThis type of health ministry does not support lifestyles that are not condoned by the Bible. It discourages premarital sex by not paying for contraception and makes drug using nearly impossible to deal with by not offering substance rehabilitation coverage.\nThe main advantage to this method is to allow those who are seeking health care to not have to sacrifice what is morally correct in order to pay for treatment.\nHow Christian Care Medishare Works\nWhen a person has a bill for health care treatment, he or she will submit the bill to the Medishare organization. A panel will look at the bill and determine if it is eligible and falls within the owner of the bill\u2019s plan\u2019s guidelines.\nIf it does, the the bill is \u201cshared,\u201d or paid for. If it is not accepted, the owner of the bill is able to appeal it. Approximately 76% of the bills submitted are approved and fully paid for. This makes covering the costs of health care much more affordable.\nMedi Share Health Care Savings\nIn fact, Medishare has saved individuals an average of $945 per year, or 32% of what they would pay otherwise for a regular health care plan.\nMedishare has been able to save families 47% of what they would pay for a regular plan, which comes to approximately $2,944 per year. B\necause Medishare is a not for profit organization, it is dedicated to helping those it serves, rather than making money.\nClick the \u201cApply\u201d button below to get started on drastically saving money on all your healthcare costs!\nBy Cary Byrd|2018-11-28T20:01:53+00:00February 14th, 2014|Affordable Healthcare, Biblical Healing, Medi-Share|3 Comments\nEverything You Need to Know About Medicare Open Enrollment\n5 Reasons Why You Should Get a Fluzone Shot During Flu Season\n12 Ways to Save Money on Your Diabetes Medications [Cheat Sheet]\nThyroid Medication Not Working? These Drugs Can Cause Interactions\u2026\nAm I reading this correctly the one of the stipulation of joining is that you will not have sex after marriage?\nSorry for the confusion. Each adult Must NOT engage in sex outside of traditional Christian marriage.\nThis is a great alternative even for Catholics who are against abortion,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 11429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elcerdokl.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:22Z", "digest": "sha1:A5NTQLPILCENYTNWCGR6NP6HNM4AO2VD", "length": 957, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "elcerdokl.com", "title": "About | Spanish Restaurant In Changkat Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur - Elcerdo KL", "raw_content": "Spanish Restaurant In Changkat Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur\nHome-cooked Spanish pork dishes in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. Known to many as the best spanish pork restaurant, we abide to the philosophy of \u201cnose to tail eating\u201d, as every part of the pig is served in various forms in the menu. Located within the popular nightlife district of Changkat Bukit Bintang, Elcerdo pioneered the development of the area by becoming the 1st spanish restaurant in the lively Bar & Eatery neighborhood. Chef Werner Kuhn has devoted his heart and soul in nurturing this dining outlet for all occasions to be the best one in town. We would like to invite you to try our signature dishes such as crispy pork knuckle and Spanish Paella since they have been our regular customers\u2019 favourite for more than a decade! We look forward to welcome you in Changkat Bukit Bintang\u2019s longest standing spanish restaurant for an unparalleled pigging out feast! Cheers! (we mean, \u201cOink\u201d;-)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elearning.fibl.org/de/sc-home.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:21Z", "digest": "sha1:O2XTU2SQHRT45IVLOQ5WCW47ZMPX5OUM", "length": 1108, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "elearning.fibl.org", "title": "FiBL -Home", "raw_content": "elearning.fibl.org\nLectures on organic agriculture\nAdvancing training and teaching of organic agriculture in South-East Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Hungary)\nSwiss National Science Foundation (SNFS)\nRunnning from: October 1, 2011 to September 30, 2014\nProject coordination: Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL, Switzerland\nSCOPES.FiBL.org\nP3SNF.CH: Project description\n(MSc Agr.)\nDepartment of Livestock Sciences\nanna.bieber(at)fibl.org\nUrs Niggli\n(Prof. Dr. Dr. hc.)\nurs.niggli(at)fibl.org\nLessons on Organic Agriculture\nThis website contains basic lessons on organic agriculture. They are the output of the project \u201cAdvancing training and teaching of organic agriculture in South-East Europe (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Hungary)\", which was coordinated by the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) and financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS) within the SCOPES program from September 2011 to September 2014.\n\u00a9 Forschungsinstitut f\u00fcr biologischen Landbau (FiBL). Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Letzte \u00c4nderung: 01.09.2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://electricalapparatus.wordpress.com/tag/3m/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ITWHP44M67UIJXWURRDAUFELT5WA56GV", "length": 437, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "electricalapparatus.wordpress.com", "title": "Electrical Apparatus Magazine | Tag Archive | 3M", "raw_content": "3Months to Shutdown?\nPlant closing watch: 3M\u2019s Elyria, Ohio location With about three months left on the clock, there seems to be little hope for 3M\u2019s Elyria, Ohio plant. Following a November announcement of closure slated for June 2017, the 140-odd employees of the sponge manufacturing facility lobbied tirelessly for a reversal. Inevitably, their hope was kindled by a changing [\u2026]\n3M, Elyria, jobs, manufacturing, Ohio, plant closing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elfinalde.com/personas/saunders-triplets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:26Z", "digest": "sha1:W4JKWGKSUZER52KKOLAWASK5VXP3E7XK", "length": 543, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "elfinalde.com", "title": "Saunders Triplets - elFinalde", "raw_content": "The Saunders Triplets are three brothers who played the baby version of Harry Potter in the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. They portrayed baby Harry during an early scene when he is being brought to his aunt and uncle's house. Their first names are unknown as they are just credited as \"Saunders triplets\". As minor child parts are often played by more than one person, this is likely the reason why these three identical triplets, who are nearly impossible to differentiate, all are credited as playing the role.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 119.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elitesportsny.com/2015/11/04/jonny-gomes-the-man-who-played-zero-playoff-games-talks-smack/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:6SLCDUVSMC3MZIWPVQJDIAKLNLBVOHP3", "length": 1304, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "elitesportsny.com", "title": "Jonny Gomes, The Man Who Played Zero Playoff Games, Talks Smack", "raw_content": "Jonny Gomes, The Man Who Played Zero Playoff Games, Talks Smack\nKansas City Royals outfielder Jonny Gomes had no issue saying \u201cwe whupped their ass\u201d even though he wasn\u2019t on the World Series roster.\nTypically, the biggest trash talkers and smack runners come from athletes on the field. They get so locked into the competition that verbal assaults on the opponent simply cannot be held back.\nIt\u2019s understandable at times.\nWhat\u2019s also understandable is when a little smack talk flies after the ultimate goal is met: a championship. Guys let it all loose at the parade.\nIn this instance, however, it seems a little over the top.\nJonny Gomes, an outfielder for the World Champion Kansas City Royals decided to make his presence felt on stage. Not only was he carrying an American flag, he proclaimed that he was the \u201cun-politically correct person.\u201d\nTo top it off, he says \u201cwe whupped their ass\u201d (in referring to the New York Mets).\nThis guy played a grand total of zero games during the 2015 postseason. The man wasn\u2019t even on the Royals 25-man World Series roster. He basically held the same relevance as the hot dog guy at Kauffman Stadium \u2013 both Royals employees who helped the team in hidden ways, I suppose.\nYou might as well have gotten the guy who sells Cracker Jacks to make the same idiotic speech.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 5716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://emiliocasanueva.weebly.com/teaching-philosophy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:07Z", "digest": "sha1:JPN7U2NRYSUYE5XM2RLKYGHVZ4OZI7TA", "length": 2904, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "emiliocasanueva.weebly.com", "title": "Teaching Philosophy - Espa\u00f1ol", "raw_content": "My teaching objective is to provide all students with a high-quality education that empowers students to become global thinkers. I strongly believe that it is our duty to educate all students so they can become respectful citizens in their communities. I empower students to explore their creativity, to become knowledgeable about the cultures that make our world, and to help them understand our global community through foreign language.\nPositive Learning Community\nI foster relationships with my students that go beyond a teacher student relationship. It is important that I establish trusting relationships with my students in order to create a spark in student learning and help foster a positive community environment in my classroom. Building an exciting learning community and gaining respect from your students\u2019 motivates them to learn. Fostering this kind of relationship creates trust amongst the members of your learning community. Students learn because of their interest and curiosity in life. My job is to fuel that fire!\nInstructional Strategies To Reach All Learners\nMy curriculum is designed to purposefully have a variety of different modalities, instructional and literacy strategies in order to reach all of my students. This includes spending time with the 4 structures of learning a language: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. My teaching uses a variety of instructional strategies for students to progress under the 4 structures by creating instructional goals, methods, materials and assessments that will work for everyone in my classroom. I use TPRS, student and teacher centered learning, authentic realization and comprehensible input strategies to reach my learners. My teaching has flexible approaches that can be adjusted and customized to fit my learner\u2019s needs. I believe that it is important to spend as much time as possible in the target language so that students are constantly engaging and listening to the target language.\nAssessments that Reflect Language Ability\nLanguage acquisition occurs through teaching with comprehensible input. It is important to use relevant and personal student informationto introduce new concepts. Foreign language assessments are designed to show students\u2019 progression in listening, reading, writing and speaking. My assessments vary to coincide with my students\u2019 strengths and weaknesses. My instruction aligns with my assessments so students have a clear understanding of what it means to reach proficiency. My assessments monitor students\u2019 ability to interpret, understand and converse in the target language. It is important to vary assessments just like we vary our instructional strategies to reach all learners. I strongly believe in the educational framework of Universal Design for learning. Every student has the ability to learn and it is my duty to make sure that every student reaches his or her full potential.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 3167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.cifnews.com/china-new-year-fall-love-peppa-pig/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:05Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3VOHMIU67DFJKXDKVUQEPW3DPAOGIZU", "length": 2910, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "en.cifnews.com", "title": "Cifnews International", "raw_content": "Cifnews International > Cross-border news > Market Insights > China with the new year could fall in love with Peppa Pig\nPeppa Pig is a British preschool animated television series directed and produced by Astley Baker Davies in association with Entertainment One\nEntertainment One, listed in London, is the owner of the cartoon character called Peppa Pig and on Tuesday, the beloved pink pig makes its big screen debut in China, with a film, while the Chinese New Year is celebrated in Beijing.\nAll this interest obviously arises because this will be for China the Year of the Pig, and Peppa Pig is increasing its presence in the country. Peppa Pig is now a worldwide success and the brand accounts for about 62 percent of the Entertainment One\u2019s Family & Brands division of the London media group.\nChina has also been hit by the phenomenon: inaugurated for the first time in China in June 2015, the animated series has accumulated 60 billion views on state CCTV and video services such as Tencent, iQIYI and Youku. Live licensing agreements have gone from 22 in 2017 to 43 last year and over 45 million books have been sold since launch in 2016.\nAccording to the National Bureau of Statistics, there are about 95 million children under the age of 5 in China\nOlivier Dumont, president of Family & Brands at Entertainment One, said: \u201cIt is a great opportunity. China as a whole for us as a business is really important. China over the past few years has really opened up internationally and as a result is becoming one of our main partners for content making, funding and as a market place.\u201d\n\u201d The way we see it, it is an almost normalising of China in being an important market and trading partner for us, in the same way as the US or UK. It is up there as one of the main territories in all areas of our business: development, production, distribution \u201c.\nOn Tuesday Entertainment One will release the film \u201cPeppa celebrating the Chinese New Year\u201d, in collaboration with the Chinese Alibaba Pictures\nIn particular, on Tuesday, Entertainment One will publish the film Peppa celebrating the Chinese New Year, in collaboration with the Chinese Alibaba Pictures. Furthermore, in early January, two Family & Brands vice-presidents were hired to open an office in Shanghai, \u201camping our presence\u201d in China, he said.\nA specific merchandising for China has also been created, in line with the growing importance of the market. Peppa Pig products sold globally were withdrawn from China in the last quarter of 2018 and a line of toys exclusively for the country was launched through a partnership with the toy manufacturer Alpha Group.\n\u201cThat is the first clear sign that we are adapting to local needs and tastes. We are appointing local licensees to create products which are adapted for the China market,\u201d said Dumont.\nTags: Cartoon Chinese New Year film Peppa Pig Pig\nStan Lee\u2019s latest superhero is a Chinese pop star", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.cifnews.com/world-biggest-tech-firms-will-train-millions-young-southeast-asians/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:47Z", "digest": "sha1:TRUZFMKVQUVQLJARX4XDCCW3XYA7HZMX", "length": 2229, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "en.cifnews.com", "title": "Cifnews International", "raw_content": "Cifnews International > Cross-border news > Tech Innovation > World biggest tech firms will train millions of young Southeast Asians\nThe transition to automation threatens to put millions of people out of work and many companies are focusing on the sectoral education of their employees\nWith world technology that improves and always achieves new goals, the transition to automation threatens to put millions of people out of work. Much manual work, in fact, are already performed by robots in a more efficient and faster way.\nIt is estimated that by 2022, roughly 75 million jobs worldwide will be lost, and for this reason Southeast Asia is seeking to increase the digital skills of its workers.\nWith education there could be the creation of 133 million new jobs\nAnother important help for Southeast Asian workers comes from the World Economic Forum think tank, whic announced on Monday its \u201cAsean Digital Skills Vision 2020\u201d initiative to improve the technological capacity of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) with training, funds for scholarships, internships and shaping the curricula of technology and computing courses, among other measures.\nCompanies are aware of this need for employee renewal and Cisco, Grab, Lazada Group, Sea Group and Tokopedia are already training their employees. Google leads the pack, with a pledge to train 3 million small-to-medium-size enterprise employees across Asean.\nMinisters from countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam also pledged to join the initiative\nJustin Wood, the forum\u2019s Asia-Pacific head, said at a news conference said there are lots of exciting developments in Southeast Asia surrounding the digital field which point to a \u201cvibrant economy emerging,\u201d but the level of skills among workers in the digital field \u201cis not as good as it needs to be to capture this digital opportunity.\u201d\nIn September, the World Economic Forum issued a report saying that more than half of all workplace tasks will be carried out by machines by 2025. It estimated that by 2022, roughly 75 million jobs worldwide will be lost, but that could be more than offset by the creation of 133 million new jobs.\nTags: Firms Southeast Asia tech Train workers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Salty_Dog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ILYWQ3EEE2YGUBTE2223RVH73DGXZYM7", "length": 6446, "nlines": 77, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "A Salty Dog - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Regal Zonophone, A&M\nProcol Harum chronology\n(1968) A Salty Dog\n(1969) Home\nA Salty Dog is the third studio album by English progressive rock band Procol Harum, released in 1969 by record labels Regal Zonophone and A&M.\nA Salty Dog has an ostensibly nautical theme, as indicated by its cover (a pastiche of the famous Player's Navy Cut cigarette pack). Interspersed with straight rock, blues and pop items, A Salty Dog showed a slight change of direction from its predecessors, being thematically less obscure. The title track itself was the first Procol track to use an orchestra, as would be referred to in the live album performance released some three years later.\nThe album was the first record produced by Matthew Fisher, who quit the band soon after its release. This was also the last Procol Harum album to feature bass guitarist Dave Knights.\nA Salty Dog was recorded in March 1969. The musical tensions between the group and Robin Trower were beginning to show in this album, and although his guitar sound remains integral to most of the tracks, \"Crucifiction Lane\" (featuring a rare Trower vocal), in retrospect, shows that Trower was already moving in a different direction from the rest of the band. Still, this album is much more musically varied than the two previous albums, with three Fisher vocals and one by Trower.\nReportedly, when Gary Brooker first played \"A Salty Dog\" at the piano for B.J. Wilson, a sunbeam illumined Wilson's face and he told Brooker he thought it was the most beautiful song he had ever heard.[1]\nA Salty Dog was released in June 1969 by record labels Regal Zonophone and A&M. The title track, backed with \"Long Gone Geek\", reached number 44 in the UK Singles Chart in 1969 and the album itself number 27 in the Albums Chart.[2]\nJohn Mendelson, writing for Rolling Stone, called it \"a confusing album. At its best it represents the group's greatest success to date with the brand of rock for which the group is known; at its worst it is both surprisingly mediocre and trivial\".[3] Robert Christgau was more enthusiastic in The Village Voice, giving it an \"A+\",[4] although he later said the printed grade was \"a mistake\" and should have probably been a \"B+\".[5]\nIn a retrospective review, Bruce Eder of AllMusic wrote, \"This album, the group's third, was where they showed just how far their talents extended across the musical landscape, from blues to R&B to classical rock. In contrast to their hastily recorded debut, or its successor, done to stretch their performance and composition range\", calling the title track \"one of the finest songs ever to come from Procol Harum and one of the best pieces of progressive rock ever heard\".[6]\nThe title track was covered by Transatlantic and was featured on the two-disc Special Edition of The Whirlwind. It is sung by drummer Mike Portnoy. Styx covered the song on their cover album Big Bang Theory (2005) with Lawrence Gowan on lead vocals. Sarah Brightman covered the song too on her album Dive in the year 1993.\n1. \"A Salty Dog\" Gary Brooker, Keith Reid 4:41\n2. \"The Milk of Human Kindness\" Brooker, Reid 3:47\n3. \"Too Much Between Us\" Brooker, Robin Trower, Reid 3:45\n4. \"The Devil Came from Kansas\" Brooker, Reid 4:38\n5. \"Boredom\" Matthew Fisher, Brooker, Reid 4:34\n1. \"Juicy John Pink\" Robin Trower, Reid 2:08\n2. \"Wreck of the Hesperus\" Fisher, Reid 3:49\n3. \"All This and More\" Brooker, Reid 3:52\n4. \"Crucifiction Lane\" Robin Trower, Reid 5:03\n5. \"Pilgrim's Progress\" Fisher, Reid 4:32\n11. \"Long Gone Geek\" (B-side of the single release of \"A Salty Dog\"[7])\n12. \"All This And More\"\n13. \"The Milk of Human Kindness (Instrumental Version)\"\n14. \"Pilgrim's Progress (Instrumental Version)\"\n15. \"McGreggor\" (previously unreleased track, originally intended for Shine On Brightly[8])\n16. \"Still There'll Be More\"\n11. \"Long Gone Geek\" Reid, Brooker, Fisher 3:20\n12. \"Goin' Down Slow (Live in the USA, April 1969)\" James B. Oden 7:56\n13. \"Juicy John Pink (Live in the USA, April 1969)\" Robin Trower, Reid 2:37\n14. \"Crucification Lane (Live in the USA, April 1969)\" Trower, Reid 4:34\n15. \"Skip Softly (My Moonbeams) / Also Sprach Zarathustra (Live in the USA, April 1969)\" Brooker, Reid, Richard Strauss 5:26\n16. \"The Milk of Human Kindness (Take 1; Raw Track)\" Brooker, Reid 3:51\nGary Brooker \u2013 lead vocals (1\u20134, 6, 8), piano, celeste, three-stringed guitar, bells, harmonica, recorder, wood, orchestral arrangements (1, 8)\nRobin Trower \u2013 lead and acoustic guitars, lead vocals (9), sleigh tambourine\nMatthew Fisher \u2013 organ, lead vocals (5, 7, 10), marimba, rhythm and acoustic guitars, piano, recorder, orchestral arrangements (7), production\nDave Knights \u2013 bass\nB. J. Wilson \u2013 drums, conga drums, tabla\nJohn \"Kellogs\" Kalinowski \u2013 bosun's whistle, refreshments\nKeith Reid \u2013 lyrics\nKen Scott \u2013 engineering (1\u20135, 8\u201310)\nIan Stewart \u2013 engineering (6)\nHenry Lewy \u2013 engineering (7)\n^ Allison, Charlie (2001). \"Jim Gilchrist Feels the Tug of Strangely Unattainable Shores\". The Scotsman. Retrieved 10 March 2015.\n^ UK Chart Stats\n^ Mendelson, John (31 May 1969). \"Records\". Rolling Stone. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc. (34): 37. Retrieved 2 June 2015.\n^ Christgau, Robert (July 10, 1969). \"Consumer Guide (1)\". The Village Voice. Retrieved April 20, 2018.\n^ Anon. (April 25, 2002). \"Nitpicking Issues With the Lists\". robertchristgau.com. Retrieved April 20, 2018.\n^ Eder, Bruce (2011). \"A Salty Dog \u2013 Procol Harum | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic\". AllMusic. Retrieved 12 August 2011.\n^ This was listed as an album main track on the re-release despite not having appeared on the original album\n^ A story of a soldier who was hanged for shooting a senior officer; provenance of this story is unknown Procol Harum site\nProcolHarum.com's page on this album\nGraham Broad\nMick Grabham\nB. J. Wilson\nProcol's Ninth\nThe Prodigal Stranger\nThe Well's on Fire\nProcol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra\nOne More Time \u2013 Live in Utrecht 1992\nOne Eye to the Future \u2013 Live in Italy 2007\nProcol Harum \u2013 In Concert With the Danish National Concert Orchestra and Choir\nThe Spirit of N\u00f8kken\nSome Long Road\nAs Liquorice John Death\nAin't Nothin' to Get Excited About\n\"Homburg\"\n\"A Salty Dog\"\nBook:Procol Harum\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A_Salty_Dog&oldid=875671371\"\nProcol Harum albums\nRegal Zonophone Records albums\nPolydor Records albums\nRepertoire Records albums\nAlbums produced by Matthew Fisher", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 255, "original_length": 9113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 191.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITEFA", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:19Z", "digest": "sha1:IC35RVBHZO7HKPQLCTAAEOILI2VJWPCF", "length": 3832, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "CITEDEF - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "(Redirected from CITEFA)\nFind sources: \"CITEDEF\" \u2013 news \u00b7 newspapers \u00b7 books \u00b7 scholar \u00b7 JSTOR (May 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)\nThe Institute of Scientific and Technical Research for Defense (CITEDEF, Spanish: Instituto de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y T\u00e9cnicas para la Defensa), is an Argentine federal agency in charge of research and development in various scientific fields. It is also in charge of homologation of weaponry.\nCITEDEF is one of the scientific and technological organisms that depend on the Ministry of Defense and its Secretary of Planning. It is also a part of the \"Constituyentes Technological Hub\" along with other institutions such as the Atomic Energy National Commission (CNEA), the University of San Mart\u00edn (UNSAM) and the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI), among others.\nCITEDEF currently develops a series of projects that give it an edge on research and technology at a regional level. It is the first link of the productive chain within the Production Industry for Defense through the implementation of scientific research and technological development programs, plans and projects mainly for the Armed Forces, Military Manufactures (Fabricaciones Militares) and the Airplane Argentine Factory. All activity is developed within the technological - scientific political frame issued by the Ministry of Defense authorities.[1]\n2 Products designed\nThe Institute was created by President Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n in Decree \u201cS\u201d N\u00ba441 of the year 1954. The original name was \"CITEFA\" (Institute of Scientific and Technical Research for the Armed Forces). Its participation and findings were key in the development of weaponry and warfare materials and the increasing demand for technology caused an expansion and diversification to various disciplines and fields.[2]\nIn its beginnings, the Institute was dispersed over many geographical locations, but in 1969 all areas unified in a 19 hectare lot in the Villa Martelli neighborhood, Buenos Aires province, which is still its location nowadays. It 33.000 square meters lodge laboratories and workshops, along with a drill-destined estate in the Villa Mar\u00eda Military Factory, Cordoba province.\nIn 1973, a new Scientific Regime was created for the R&D staff of the Armed Forces, called RPIDFA (R\u00e9gimen para el Personal de Investigaci\u00f3n y Desarrollo de las Fuerzas Armadas). Its objective was to recruit and retain technicians and professionals of all the disciplines and fields needed for Defense.[3]\nIn the year 2007, through the Presidential Decree number 788, the name \"CITEFA\" was replaced with the current \"CITEDEF\".\nProducts designed[edit]\nArtillery field gun: L33, CALA 30 & CALIV Ca\u00f1\u00f3n Liviano 105mm gun\nMultiple rocket launcher: 105mm Pampero MRL & 127mm CP-30 video\nAntitank missiles: Mathogo & MARA video\nMissiles: Martin Pescador MP-1000 & AS-25K\nGRADICOM PCX-2009 rocket [4]\nGRADICOM II two stage high altitude rocket\nORBIT rocket to orbit payloads\nAntarctic Wind Generator installed on Marambio Base [5]\nSEON gyrostabilized TV/Infrared/Laser sensor for Intrepida class vessels [6]\nScience and technology in Argentina\nInstituto de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y T\u00e9cnicas de las FFAA at GlobalSecurity.org\n^ CITEDEF, Official webpage. \"CITEDEF\". CITEDEF.\n^ CITEDEF, Official webpage. \"Historia\". CITEDEF.\n^ Ministry of Defense. \"RPIDFA\".\n^ EXITOSO LANZAMIENTO DE UN MISIL DE PRODUCCI\u00d3N ARGENTINA\n^ DEFENSA INSTAL\u00d3 UN GENERADOR DE ENERG\u00cdA E\u00d3LICA EN LA ANT\u00c1RTIDA Archived 2010-04-15 at the Wayback Machine\n^ Proyecto SEON (Sistema Estabilizado de Observaci\u00f3n Naval)\n(in Spanish) Instituto de Investigaciones Cient\u00edficas y T\u00e9cnicas para la Defensa, official site\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CITEDEF&oldid=792770162\"\nResearch institutes in Argentina\nDefense companies of Argentina", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 6488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 142.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Snowden", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZA3TYYO5X5YII2OQKRORGWJJ5LFCUWEX", "length": 326, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Richard Snowden - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Richard Snowden may refer to:\nRichard Snowden (ironmaster) (1688\u20131763), American ironmaster\nRichard Snowden (judge) (born 1962), British judge\nRichard Snowden Andrews (1830\u20131903), American architect and Confederate artillery commander\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Richard_Snowden&oldid=857826342\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 90.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Somers_(DD-381)", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:41:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZNAE6EJEBODM5OIE2AZGBAFMDKSP52I", "length": 7121, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "USS Somers (DD-381) - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "USS Somers (DD-381)\nFor other ships with the same name, see USS Somers.\nSomers circa 1944, with mid-war armament modifications including removal of No. 3 5-inch mount and one of the three torpedo tube mounts in favor of 40mm and 20mm guns.\nNamesake: Richard Somers\nBuilder: Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company\nStruck: 28 January 1947\nFate: sold to Boston Metals, Baltimore\nClass and type: Somers-class destroyer\nDisplacement: 1850 tons (2905 tons full)\nPropulsion: 52,000 shp; geared turbines, 2 screws\nRange: 6500 nm@ 12 knots\n8 \u00d7 5-inch/38 caliber guns (127 mm) single purpose (4 \u00d7 2)\n8 \u00d7 1.1-inch/75 caliber guns (28 mm) (2 \u00d7 4)\n2 \u00d7 .50 caliber machine guns (12.7 mm)\n12 \u00d7 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (3 \u00d7 4), 12 torpedoes\n2 \u00d7 depth charge stern racks\n2 \u00d7 40 mm Bofors guns (1 \u00d7 2)\n6 \u00d7 20 mm Oerlikon cannons\n8 \u00d7 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes (2 \u00d7 4), 8 torpedoes\nUSS Somers (DD-381) was a destroyer commissioned in the United States Navy from 1937 to 1945. She was the lead ship of the Somers-class of destroyer leaders and was named for Richard Somers. During World War II, Somers was active in the South Atlantic, the North Atlantic, and the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.\nSomers was laid down on 27 June 1935 at Federal, Kearny, New Jersey launched on 13 March 1937; co-sponsored by Miss Marie Somers and Miss Suzanne Somers; and commissioned at the New York Navy Yard on 1 December 1937, CDR James E. Maher in command.\nIn 1938 she transported a consignment of gold from the Bank of England to New York. On 6 November 1941, she and the cruiser USS Omaha captured the German freighter Odenwald which was carrying 3800 tons of scarce rubber while disguised as the American merchantman Willmoto.\nOdenwald was taken to Puerto Rico. An admiralty court ruled that since the ship was illegally claiming American registration, there were sufficient grounds for confiscation. A legal case was started claiming that the crews of the two American ships had salvage rights because the Odenwald crew's attempt to scuttle the ship was the equivalent of abandoning her. The court case, settled in 1947 ruled the members of the boarding party and the prize crew were entitled to $3,000 apiece while all the other crewmen in Omaha and Somers were entitled to two months\u2019 pay and allowances. This was the last prize money awarded by the US Navy.[1]\nIn November 1942 Somers, with USS Milwaukee (CL-5) and USS Cincinnati (CL-6), intercepted another German blockade runner, the Anneliese Essberger, near Brazil.\nIn January 1943 Somers and USS Memphis (CL-13) moved to Bathurst, Gambia in West Africa to support the Casablanca Conference between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill, and the Free French. At the end of the month Somers relocated to Dakar, Senegal and assisted in escorting the Free French warships Richelieu and Montcalm to the United States. By March Somers was based in Trinidad on patrols to Brazil as before. On New Years Day 1944 Somers intercepted the German blockade runner Westerland, which scuttled itself. In May Somers escorted a convoy to England as part of the buildup for the Normandy invasion.\nSomers next participated in the invasion of Normandy as a convoy escort and, in August, the Southern France invasion, providing naval gunfire support as well as serving in the anti-submarine screen. On 15 August 1944, four hours before H-Hour, D-Day, along the French Riviera, Somers encountered and sank the German corvette UJ6081 and the sloop SG21 at the Battle of Port Cros. Following this action, she moved inshore to give gunfire support to the invasion. For two days she bombarded enemy strongpoints off the coast near Toulon with 5 inch (127 mm) shells and then exchanged fire with enemy shore batteries east of Marseilles. Somers sustained some damage during this action.\nFor the next month, the destroyer operated in the Mediterranean Sea, visiting ports on the southern coast of France, Ajaccio, Corsica, and Oran, Algeria. She steamed out of Oran on 28 September and arrived in New York on 8 October. Somers was overhauled at the Brooklyn Navy Yard until 8 November, then moved to Casco Bay, Maine, for training. On 23 November, she joined the screen of a Britain bound convoy for the first of four transatlantic voyages which closed Somers' combat service. She returned to the United States on 12 May 1945 at the end of her last voyage to the United Kingdom. For the remainder of the war, Somers operated along the eastern seaboard and, in July, made one summer cruise to the Caribbean to train midshipmen.\nOn 4 August 1945, she put into Charleston, South Carolina, for overhaul and remained until 11 September. Instead of returning to active duty, Somers reported to the Commandant, 6th Naval District, for decommissioning and disposal. She decommissioned at Charleston on 28 October 1945 and was retained there until removed by her purchaser, Boston Metals of Baltimore, Md., on 16 May 1947. Somers was struck from the Navy list on 28 January 1947.\nSomers earned two battle stars during World War II.\nList of United States Navy destroyers\nFriedman, Norman, US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History (Revised Edition), Naval Institute Press, Annapolis:2004, ISBN 1-55750-442-3.\nGardiner, Robert and Chesneau, Roger, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946, Conway Maritime Press, London:1980. ISBN 0-83170-303-2.\nSilverstone, Paul H. (1965). U.S. Warships of World War II. London: Ian Allan Ltd.\n^ Nofi, Al. \"The Last \"Prize\" Awards in the U.S. Navy?\" (#205, 20 July 2008). Strategypage.com. Oldenwald was taken to Puerto Rico. An admiralty court ruled that since the ship was illegally claiming American registration, there was sufficient grounds for confiscation. At that point, some sea lawyers got into the act. Observing that the attempt to scuttle the ship was the equivalent of abandoning her, they claimed that the crews of the two American ships had salvage rights, to the tune of $3 million. This led to a protracted court case, which was not settled until 1947. At that time it was ruled that the members of the boarding party and the prize crew were entitled to $3,000 apiece, the equivalent today of over $25,000 according to the Consumer Price Index, but easily nearly twice that on the basis of the prevailing minimum wage, while all the other crewmen in Omaha and Somers were entitled to two months\u2019 pay and allowances at their then current rate.\nUSS Somers photos at Naval History and Heritage Command\nUSS Somers photo gallery at NavSource.org\nSomers-class destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation\nTin Can Sailors @ Destroyers.org \u2013 Somers class destroyer article\nTin Can Sailors @ Destroyers.org \u2013 Somers class destroyer specs\nUSS Somers and USS Warrington General Information Book with as-built data at Destroyer History Foundation\n\"Goldplater\" destroyers at Destroyer History Foundation\n1850-ton leader classes at Destroyer History Foundation\nSomers-class destroyers\nPreceded by: Bagley class\nFollowed by: Benham class\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=USS_Somers_(DD-381)&oldid=843074606\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 9522, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 175.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_County_Championship", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KHZHYPM2SXZC6I3RN2DKNUHWPMOLAIOW", "length": 8911, "nlines": 79, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Women's County Championship - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "League system in three divisions\nKent (7 titles)\n2018 Women's County Championship\nThe Women's County Championship, known since 2014 as the Royal London Women\u2019s One-Day Cup,[1] is a women's cricket competition organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board. It is the women's equivalent of the County Championship, although it operates as a 50-over limited overs cricket competition with teams organised into a number of divisions. It was introduced in 1997 to replace the Women's Area Championship.\nThe teams competing in the Championship are drawn mostly from the historic counties of England, with 34 teams representing these. The Scottish national side has competed in the competition since 2007, the Wales women's national cricket team since 2008 and the Netherlands joined in 2009.[2] The Ireland national team played in the competition between 2009 and 2015 before withdrawing in early 2016, causing fixtures for the 2016 season to be rescheduled and one fewer team to compete in Division 2 during the 2016 season.[3][4]\nThe competition is the longest established women's cricket competition in England and Wales. It operates alongside the Women's Twenty20 Cup, established in 2009,[5] and the Women's Cricket Super League, a franchise league with six teams initially playing Twenty20 cricket.[6]\nThe current champions are Hampshire. Kent is the most successful county in the history of the Championship with seven titles as of June 2018. Sussex and Yorkshire have both won six titles.\nThe inaugural Women's County Championship took place in 1997, with 16 teams competing in three divisions.[7] This first tournament was organised and run by the Women's Cricket Association, which voted to merge with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on 29 March 1998.[8] As such, the ECB has administered the competition since 1998.[8]\nThe 36 teams that make up the Championship are split into three divisions, with the bottom division split into five groups. The top two divisions are each made up of eight teams, with the bottom two teams relegated from Division One at the end of the season and the top two teams in Division Two taking their place. Previously a four division system had been used with the bottom division split into two groups, but this was replaced with the present structure ahead of the 2017 Championship.[9]\nThe top two divisions for the 2018 season were each made up of eight teams.\nIn 2017, Division Four was abolished, with all its teams promoted to Division Three. The new Division Three is split into five groups of four teams arranged on a general geographical basis to reduce travelling. The groups for the 2018 season were:[10]\nDivision Three - Group A\nScotland Cumbria Durham Northumberland\nDivision Three - Group B\nCornwall Dorset Netherlands Wiltshire\nDivision Three - Group C\nBuckinghamshire Gloucestershire Hertfordshire Oxfordshire\nDivision Three - Group D\nCambridgeshire and\nHuntingdonshire Lincolnshire Norfolk Suffolk\nDivision Three - Group E\nand Rutland Shropshire Staffordshire Worcestershire\n2018 Hampshire Yorkshire Kezia Hassall (Hertfordshire) 620 Kirstie Gordon (Nottinghamshire) 35\n2017 Lancashire Yorkshire Sonia Odedra (Nottinghamshire) 253 Sophie Ecclestone (Lancashire) 27\n2016 Kent Sussex Kirstie White (Surrey) 337 Megan Belt (Kent) 16\n2015 Yorkshire Kent Heather Knight (Berkshire) 305 Sarah Clarke (Surrey) 23\n2014 Kent Surrey Charlotte Edwards (Kent) 642 Erin Bermingham (Kent) 16 [11]\n2013 Sussex Yorkshire Heather Knight (Berkshire 604) Thea Brookes (Worcs), Jenny Withers (Somerset), Anje Lague (Herts) 18\n2012 Kent Essex Sarah Taylor (Sussex, 345) Isobelle Watson (Warwickshire, 18) [12][13][14]\n2011 Kent Sussex Charlotte Edwards (Kent, 541) Jane Riddell (Durham, 28) [15][16][17]\n2010 Sussex Kent Lydia Greenway (Kent, 628) Danielle Wyatt (Staffordshire, 24) [18][19][20]\n2009 Kent Sussex Heather Knight (Devon, 622) Charlotte Anneveld (Kent, 24) [21][22][23]\n2008 Sussex Kent Heather Knight (Devon, 390) Sonia Odedra (Nottinghamshire, 10) [24][25][26]\n2007 Kent Sussex Emily Drumm (Kent, 222) Lynsey Askew (Kent, 13) [27][28][29]\n2006 Kent Sussex Jenny Gunn (Nottinghamshire, 356) Charlotte Edwards (Kent, 12) [30][31][32]\n2005 Sussex Kent Charlotte Edwards (Kent, 302) Judith Turner (Berkshire, 10) [33][34][35]\n2004 Sussex Kent Charlotte Edwards (Kent, 308) Heather Booth (Berkshire, 12) [36][37][38]\n2003 Sussex Nottinghamshire Taryn Keir (Warwickshire, 303) Lynne Spooner (Derbyshire, 12) [39][40][41]\n2002 Yorkshire Berkshire Charlotte Edwards (Kent, 233) Vicky Borman (Hertfordshire, 14) [42][43][44]\n2001 Yorkshire Berkshire Arran Brindle (Lancashire, 274) Yvonne Craven (Berkshire, 13) [45][46][47]\n2000 Yorkshire Nottinghamshire Charlotte Edwards (Kent, 374) Nicky Myers (Nottinghamshire, 13) [48][49][50]\n1999 East Midlands Yorkshire Jane Smit (East Midlands, 335) Janet Tedstone (Yorkshire Seconds, 13) [51][52][53]\n1998 Yorkshire Surrey Charlotte Edwards (East Anglia, 394) Sarah Clarke (Surrey Seconds, 12) [54][55][56]\n1997 Yorkshire West Midlands Jane Smit (East Midlands, 429) Helen Pack (West Midlands, 11) [7][57][58]\nSuper Fours\n^ Royal London Women\u2019s One-Day Cup, England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 2016-08-08.\n^ Dutch join women's championship, England and Wales Cricket Board, 2009-01-29. Retrieved 2016-08-08.\n^ EXCLUSIVE: Ireland Cut Costly County Cricket, Crickether, 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2016-08-08.\n^ Ireland women to play South Africa in seven-match series, BBC Sport, 2016-01-13. Retrieved 2016-08-08.\n^ England to introduce women's Twenty20 Cup, CricInfo, 2008-12-10. Retrieved 2016-08-08.\n^ Super League: Franchise cricket gets set for launch in England, BBC Sport, 2016-07-28. Retrieved 2016-08-08.\n^ a b \"Women's County Championship 1997 Points Table\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ a b \"A History of Women's Cricket\". Yorkshire Cricket Board. Retrieved 10 August 2009.\n^ Berry, Scyld (ed.). \"English women's cricket, 2008\". Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (146th ed.). John Wisden & Co. p. 947. ISBN 978-1-905625-16-1. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)\n^ \"ECB Women's County Championship\". play-cricket. Retrieved 21 February 2018.\n^ \"LV Women's County Championship 2012 Points Table\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 January 2013.\n^ \"Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2012 (Ordered by Runs)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 January 2013.\n^ \"Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2012 (Ordered by Wickets)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 16 January 2013.\n^ \"LV Women's County Championship 2011 Points Table\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2012.\n^ \"Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2011 (Ordered by Runs)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2012.\n^ \"Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2011 (Ordered by Wickets)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 12 June 2012.\n^ \"LV Women's County Championship 2009 Points Table\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 December 2009.\n^ \"Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2009 (Ordered by Runs)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 December 2009.\n^ \"Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2009 (Ordered by Wickets)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 23 December 2009.\n^ \"LV Women's County Championship 2008 Points Table\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"ECB Women's County Championship \u2013 Play-Cricket \u2013 Batting Statistics\". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"ECB Women's County Championship \u2013 Play-Cricket \u2013 Bowling Statistics\". England and Wales Cricket Board. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Batting and Fielding in LV Women's County Championship 2007 (Ordered by Runs)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Bowling in LV Women's County Championship 2007 (Ordered by Wickets)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Liverpool Victoria Women's County Championship 2006 Points Table\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Batting and Fielding in Liverpool Victoria Women's County Championship 2006 (Ordered by Runs)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Bowling in Liverpool Victoria Women's County Championship 2006 (Ordered by Wickets)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Frizzell Women's County Championship 2005 Points Table\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Batting and Fielding in Frizzell Women's County Championship 2005 (Ordered by Runs)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Bowling in Frizzell Women's County Championship 2005 (Ordered by Wickets)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Women's County Championship 2001 Points Table\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Batting and Fielding in Women's County Championship 2001 (Ordered by Runs)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\n^ \"Bowling in Women's County Championship 2001 (Ordered by Wickets)\". CricketArchive. Retrieved 15 July 2009.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Women%27s_County_Championship&oldid=849640705\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 15128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 215.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://endpts.com/amri-fetches-922m-in-the-latest-cro-private-equity-buyout/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MC4AOTECETLFGI6M6AJ3PGZ45ESI44GR", "length": 1288, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "endpts.com", "title": "AMRI fetches $922M in the latest CRO private equity buyout \u2013 Endpoints News", "raw_content": "AMRI fetches $922M in the latest CRO private equity buyout\nThere\u2019s another private equity deal to report on from the CRO front.\nAlbany, NY-based AMRI $AMRI announced Tuesday morning that it is being bought out for $922 million by The Carlyle Group and GTCR.\nThe buyout comes at $21.75 per share, which is a weighted average of 60 days trading ahead of the first reports about the brewing deal that first emerged on April 5th.\nThere have been a string of CRO buyouts and mergers over the past few years, with many of these deals aimed at consolidating a globally fractured industry as drug developers large and small look to outside contractors to do much of the heavy lifting.\nJust weeks ago INC and inVentiv announced a major merger.\n\u201cWe strongly believe in AMRI\u2019s strategic direction and have been very impressed with management\u2019s ability to transform the business into a trusted partner for the biopharma industry,\u201d said Dean Mihas, managing director and head of the healthcare group for GTCR, in a prepared statement. \u201cWe believe AMRI is uniquely positioned to capitalize on an increased trend for outsourcing of pharmaceutical products and services and look forward to partnering with the AMRI team to achieve its strategic objectives and drive value for all of AMRI\u2019s stakeholders.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://english.balkaninews.com/news/the-villain-announces-its-release-date/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:13Z", "digest": "sha1:7F4LYA56MDTGOIN36MT6PN37MA6A7IBT", "length": 1232, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "english.balkaninews.com", "title": "The Villain announces it's release date! - Balkani News", "raw_content": "The Villain announces it\u2019s release date!\nThe most awaited Kannada Film The Villain will release this October 18th all over.\nKannada Cinema\u2019s one of the most anticipated films of the year, The Villain is expected to hit the marquee on October 18th. Earlier, the film was scheduled to be released on September 13 to coincide with the Ganesh Chathurthi festival but some delays in the production led to its postponement.\nNow the makers of The Villain has officially announced the film\u2019s release date, fans all across the nation are cheering up!\nDirected by Prem, the film stars Shiva Rajkumar and Kiccha Sudeep sharing the screen space for the first time in their career. The Villain is touted to be an action thriller, the film is being produced by CR Manohar under his banner Tanvi Shanvi Films on a huge budget. While Amy Jackson plays the female lead in this film, the star cast also includes Mithun Chakraborty, Srikanth, Sruthi Hariharan in supporting roles (As per the film\u2019s Wikipedia).\nThe Villain will be released simultaneously in Kannada, Telugu and Tamil languages with the major portion of the film shot abroad on a lavish scale.\nKiccha Sudeep Shivaraj Kumar The Villain The Villain Kannada Film The Villain Kannada Movie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eric.ed.gov/?ti=Developmental+Studies+Programs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:59Z", "digest": "sha1:V53GD2SSJE5JZTLJWUYSUPVKIIAEDVFA", "length": 383, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "eric.ed.gov", "title": "ERIC - Thesaurus - Developmental Studies Programs", "raw_content": "Developmental Studies Programs\nComprehensive programs with both cognitive and affective components designed to develop the learning and academic skills and the attitudes toward self and others needed to enter and succeed at postsecondary institutions (Note: Do not confuse with \"Developmental Programs,\" which prior to Mar80, was frequently used for \"Developmental Studies Programs\")", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eud.adventist.org/en/utility/search/sr/6/?q=projects&cHash=50fa5458df2bb0b019ea31fd4806df23", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:34Z", "digest": "sha1:6OHZ2RHGULZFI5V7LZMLBUUZS36AP5VY", "length": 2387, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "eud.adventist.org", "title": "Search: The Official Site of the Seventh-day Adventist Inter-European Division", "raw_content": "Searched for \"projects\". Found 314 results in 8 milliseconds. Displaying results 61 to 70 of 314.\nWomen\u2019s Meetings in Titisee-Neustadt, Germany\nRelevance: 20% - after 10 years this outreach project is going strong. According to a report by Gabi Reich\nThousands of Albanian lives have been changed though ADRA\u2019s humanitarian work\nRelevance: 20% - ADRA projects. On his return home, he developed septicaemia and double pneumonia. This led to a severe stroke and then a long and slow path to a partial recovery. But John is not a man to give up easily [...] successful ADRA projects over the years. As Bill delivered supplies to the school, his...\nPlzen Adventists Open New Type of Church Facility\nRelevance: 20% - institutions and those involved in the realization of the project were present. Mr. J. Muzik, a representative of the Pilsen\u2019s city hall, stated, \u201cSuitable facilities for recreational activities are in great [...] the qualities of the builders: \"Those who want to build a real temple for God need...\nItaly: The first Adventist Church on Google Maps\nRelevance: 20% - Rome, Italy [CD EUDNews, BIA]. September 22, 2014. The Romanian Adventist church is now on Google Maps. Thus, it is the first Adventist church in Italy to \"open the doors\" to Internet users who may visit virtually the Romanian church in Rome, thanks to this innovative service of Google and thanks...\nADRA Austria provides new technology for irrigation in Nepal\nRelevance: 20% - ADRA Austria and ADRA Nepal, under Initiative for Agriculture Productivity and Commercialization (IAPAC) Project (EU funded project), supported 4 Barsha Pumps to the communities/beneficiaries in Dang District, Nepal to increase access to irrigation with the purpose to enhance vegetable production...\nRelevance: 20% - interested in volunteering as librarians. The program has grown to include nine churches and 70 volunteers. Mircea Boieriu, one of the project\u2019s coordinators, said that the most important part of the ministry is prayer. While teams are in the field, others stay at the church to pray. In addition,...\nRelevance: 20% - together with the staff to start the New Year focusing on programs and projects to strengthen the church to accomplish its mission. \u201cWalking together is a good opportunity to improve synergy among us\u201d said [...] or project focusing on the mission of the church, need this support from Jesus....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://europe.fastlaneluxurycars.com/rent-rolls-royce/rolls-royce-phantom-rental", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:48Z", "digest": "sha1:LI4XZOJNVKNJCSVJXNPSPTCGYMBVO65Q", "length": 1222, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "europe.fastlaneluxurycars.com", "title": "Hire Rolls Royce Phantom, London, Belfast, Munich, Paris, Monaco", "raw_content": "Rent Rolls Royce Phantom\nEngine6.75 L V12\nRent a Rolls Royce Phantom\nHomeRent a Rolls-Royce in EuropeRolls Royce Phantom\nThe wonderfully named Rolls Royce Phantom is a rare and impressive piece of machinery. Refined, comfortable and spacious, this 4 door, 5 seater is a fine example of a luxury car. The 6.75 litre V12 engine, with 453 hp and 531 lbs-ft of torque, paired with a six-speed transmission offers effortless power. Sprinting from 0-100 km/h (0-60 mph) in 5.9 seconds and a top speed of 240 km/h (150 mph), it is surprisingly agile.\nWhen you hire a Rolls Royce Phantom you will marvel at the attention paid to every detail, with hand stitched soft leather upholstery, a wooden veneer formed from a single tree and pure Blenheim wool carpets. Ample lounge room and large rear hinged coach doors provide an added air of elegance, and it is no wonder this is a popular wedding car, with a quality and sophistication befitting any special occasion.\nThe Phantom Drophead Coupe is also available to rent, offering a stylish convertible version, inspired by the America J-Class Yachts of the 1930\u2019s, with the added quirk of a picnic-boot lid providing a unique for platform for a romantic picnics and social occasions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 250.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://everylinearmile.com/2017/08/06/parisvenice-of-the-west/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:10Z", "digest": "sha1:YBNZ7OCNXSKKD6UYQO7S3NFNTZSJRND3", "length": 482, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "everylinearmile.com", "title": "Paris/Venice of the West \u2013 Every Linear Mile", "raw_content": "Paris/Venice of the West\nObservation: OK, less art and more landscape pics today, but on this ride, I realized that I need to take a weekend off from riding the streets and instead explore the canals in this unique section of southeast Detroit. I\u2019m sure for people who live in this area they think nothing of it, but this is definitely not what people out of town picture in their head when they think of the Motor City.\nD-Fact: Detroit is second in the nation in fishing rod sales.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://experts.ilance.com/jobs/sainte-anne-des-monts/6137749", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:54Z", "digest": "sha1:CCTL7P5GK5JGUCSUFMXBX3MCPHBNJN4M", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "experts.ilance.com", "title": "Jobs at Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, Canada", "raw_content": "All jobs within 100 km around Sainte-Anne-des-Monts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 2552, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 108.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://expressnewsglobal.com/2019/02/saudi-arabia-trying-to-lure-tourists-hosts-music-festival-near-ancient-tombs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RU3DPRYWXYEEMG3TYE5OXZ5LESY2I3JT", "length": 1792, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "expressnewsglobal.com", "title": "Saudi Arabia, Trying to Lure Tourists, Hosts Music Festival Near Ancient Tombs - ExpressNewsGlobal", "raw_content": "HomeTravelSaudi Arabia, Trying to Lure Tourists, Hosts Music Festival Near Ancient Tombs\nFrom the western desert, Saudi Arabia appears to be a different country than the one that has been under constant criticism from American politicians and other international officials since last October, when Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the 33-year-old de facto ruler, was first accused of ordering the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Virginia resident and Washington Post columnist.\nThe weekends revolve around the concerts, held on Fridays. There are sometimes other notable events, like hot-air balloon rides. Mr. Bocelli performed on the same weekend as a well-known horse race that drew royalty from around the Gulf region.\nThe Winter at Tantora website advertises a range of packages for each weekend. All are expensive.\nThere are some cheaper tickets, but none are advertised on the site.\nThe visitors sometimes meet local residents of Al Ula in a weekend tourist market, next to the mud homes of the ancient quarter. An abandoned fort overlooks the neighborhood. Next to the fort is a large sundial where local residents hold a celebration every winter solstice. They call it the tantora.\nThe royal commission and the French government have agreed to send 300 to 1,000 local residents to France for training, mostly in the hospitality industry. In September, the first 68 students arrived at Campus France, a French agency, 32 of them women.\nThis article was originally published at: http://worldnewsweb.space/2019/02/saudi-arabia-trying-to-lure-tourists-hosts-music-festival-near-ancient-tombs/\nThe Slain \u2018Militant\u2019 Was a Model, and a Karachi Police Commander Is Out\nExperts say Tesla board may have too many ties to CEO Musk\nBTS Gig On Japanese TV Canceled Over Member\u2019s Atomic Bomb T-Shirt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 11555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 293.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=26000&progcode=tot_lvstin&yr=m2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:16Z", "digest": "sha1:DIKBSJ3A4WXSV3WCOKKJ52AXJQ3DSENX", "length": 91, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "farm.ewg.org", "title": "EWG Farm Subsidy Database || Farm subsidies in Michigan", "raw_content": "Total Livestock Indemnity Program payments in Michigan totaled $1.5 million from 1995-2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 252.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fashiontargetsbreastcancer.org.uk/our-story/now-and-then/twiggy-lawson-talks-through-her-fashion-targets-breast-cancer-makeover", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:31Z", "digest": "sha1:VHL3UCSNXXP5NEG7WUBDPFTLLTZNNWTT", "length": 293, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fashiontargetsbreastcancer.org.uk", "title": "Make a statement for breast cancer\u2026 | Fashion Targets Breast Cancer", "raw_content": "Twiggy has been a fantastic supporter of Fashion Targets Breast Cancer for many years. We're incredibly proud to have her on board. Here she talks about why she's helping us to celebrate our 20th anniversary and models one of the beautiful t-shirts from our headline partner Marks and Spencer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 257.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fathershousefoundation.com/2017/08/01/norcross-family-building-legacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6QAJOPIY3UKZUQD5RETQKVK24IRTTBHY", "length": 2093, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "fathershousefoundation.com", "title": "We Want to Be a Part! - Father's House Educational Foundation", "raw_content": "Meet Tom and Melisa Norcross\nTom and Melisa Norcross, members of Southfield Christian Fellowship in Arlington, TX (who many years ago became the first congregation to include Father\u2019s House in their monthly discipleship budget) encouraged us greatly in two ways. First, as soon as they read last month\u2019s newsletter, they gave a large one-time gift. Then, they committed to give monthly. In Melisa\u2019s own words, here\u2019s why:\nWho would have known that a trip to Israel can change your life? That\u2019s what it did for my husband, Tom, and me. We were blessed to take a trip with Father\u2019s House along with two of our sons and Tom\u2019s parents. The things we saw, the lessons we learned, and the history we \u201cexperienced\u201d \u2014 all under the wise, loving, and knowledgeable leadership of the Turners \u2014 transformed a memorable trip into a life-changing event. Like Job, we had heard with our ears, but visiting Israel, we were able to see with our eyes, and understand God and His Word and His land with greater clarity, insight and awe. A few years later, I was back on a trip with two of our daughters, for another amazing experience. We are hoping to take all of our children, along with spouses and grandchildren, on trips to Israel in the future. After our Father\u2019s House experiences, we have come to believe that visiting Israel is almost essential to truly understanding God\u2019s land, people and Word.\nWhen we heard that Father\u2019s House was \u201cchanging courses,\u201d Tom and I immediately knew that we wanted to be a part of what God was doing in that amazing organization and in the lives of John and Roxie. We have a long history with the Turners, and know by experience that anything they are involved in will be done well, with much prayer, and with God\u2019s guidance and grace. We feel so blessed to partner with them, and are excited to see what God will do in and through their ministry. We know the Lord, and we know the Turners \u2014 it will be something good! And we want to be part of it!\nThank you, Melisa and Tom, for your partnership from the first day until now!\n\u2190 Reviving the Cities\nStoneWater Steps Up \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fcw.com/articles/2005/08/22/vendor-group-aids-wireless-urban-renewals.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:08Z", "digest": "sha1:LJCFPDSF4HI6HYZLOKTGFRWU2XVSRLQG", "length": 3769, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "fcw.com", "title": "Vendor group aids wireless urban renewals -- FCW", "raw_content": "Vendor group aids wireless urban renewals\nIntel\u2019s Digital Communities initiative\nA group of high-tech companies led by Intel have launched an international initiative to help provide wireless technology and applications for governments and communities.\nUnder the Digital Communities initiative, the companies are helping 13 communities design, develop and deploy Wi-Fi, mesh or other types of wireless networks and associated applications.\n\u201cOur vision\u2026is as you unwire communities and layer on services and applications on top of it we think it should eventually make life better for people,\u201d said Anand Chandrasekher, Intel\u2019s vice president and director, Intel Sales and Marketing Group, during a conference call with reporters Aug. 18.\nFor example, in Taipei, Taiwan \u2013 which started creating a \u201ccyber city\u201d seven years ago \u2013 a public/private partnership is planning to establish the \u201cfirst ever wireless city in the world,\u201d Mayor Ying-jeou Ma said.\nMa said they\u2019re planning to install 10,000 access points over 105 square miles in a city with a population of 2.6 million people. Ninety percent of the city \u2013 including subway stations \u2013 will be covered by the end of the year with the remaining completed by early 2006.\nMa said this would greatly enhance a resident\u2019s way of life, such as using a laptop, personal digital assistant or cell phone to find out how long lines are at a government facility or watching television while waiting for a train.\nHowever, he said the business model hasn\u2019t been fully developed and there are some risks ahead.\n\u201cYou know it\u2019s not that difficult to have a wireless environment in a McDonald\u2019s or Starbucks or a university, but if you want to cover a city of 2.6 million people that\u2019s something not that easy,\u201d he said.\nThe city is using a \u201cbuild, operate and transfer\u201d concept in which a private computer company is installing the access points on city infrastructure, such as light poles. Currently 35,000 people are using the system, with about 200 people being added every week. Ma said the city is not expending funds to install the infrastructure.\nThe program also includes proof of concept tests at other international cities, including Mangaratiba, Brazil, Dusseldorf, Germany, Gyor, Hungary, Jerusalem, Israel, Principality of Monaco, Seoul, South Korea, Osaka, Japan, and Westminster, United Kingdom. In the United States, Portland, Ore., Corpus Christi, Texas, Philadelphia and Cleveland are participating.\nCleveland Mayor Jane Campbell said wireless applications for inspectors and repair personnel from the city\u2019s building, housing and water departments. Additionally, she said the city is enhancing the ability of law enforcement personnel to use their mobile data terminals by providing such applications such as real-time video streaming, and notebook computers will let detectives can complete reports in the field.\nOther applications include emergency room physicians guiding emergency medical technicians or firefighters through video or other methods as they treat patients in the field and developing computer applications for schools and recreation centers.\nChandrasekher said the number of cities could grow by 100 or more based on an educated guess. He said several cities, such as Taipei and Jerusalem, will test Wi-Max, but he did not provide any further details.\nBeyond providing technology, Intel will advise cities on what could and can\u2019t work as they develop their blueprints for wireless deployment and use, he said.\nThe consortium of companies include: Cisco, Dell, IBM, SAP, Accela, Airpath Wireless, Alvarion, British Telecom, CapGemini, CDW Government, Inc., Check Point, Civitium, EarthLink, iMove, Panasonic Computer Solutions Company, Pronto Networks, Szintezis Rt., Telindus, Tropos and Vertex.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 10650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/authors/view/edward-kruk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HF43G3OJAPJ4Z7R4XDZ5OTX6ZK6P3XPC", "length": 1320, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "fernwoodpublishing.ca", "title": "Edward Kruk \u2013 Fernwood Publishing", "raw_content": "Edward Kruk is an associate professor of social work at University of British Columbia. He is the author of Meditation and Conflict in Social Work and Human Services (1997) and Divorce and Disengagement: Patterns of Fatherhood Within and Beyond Marriage (1993).\nChildren\u2019s Needs and Parental Responsibilities\nBy Edward Kruk February 2011\nOnce mainly breadwinners and disciplinarians, fathers are becoming increasingly involved and invested in their children\u2019s lives. Edward Kruk examines how this changing role has affected fathers\u2019 experiences of divorce and the loss of children that too often follows. This book offers a glimpse into the emotional loss that fathers suffer and their perspectives on what is best for their children in the divorce transition. Ultimately, Kruk argues, children benefit most from the love and support of both parents, and we need to ensure that fathers continue to play a meaningful parenting role after divorce.\nDivorce and Disengagement\nPatterns of Fatherhood Within and Beyond Marriage\nBy Edward Kruk January 1993\nThis book\u2019s purpose is to better portray divorced fatherhood and to provide family practitioners and policy-makers with an empirically-based understanding of the impact of divorce on non-custodial fathers, and of fathers\u2019 disengagement from their children after divorce.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/authors/view/jennifer-silverman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CZB3UKTWKXD7NJTTUBW5RTWHWBX453PW", "length": 513, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fernwoodpublishing.ca", "title": "Jennifer Silverman \u2013 Fernwood Publishing", "raw_content": "Jennifer Silverman is an optimist in a pessimist\u2019s clothing. She lives, writes and agitates in NYC, where she is raising two boys, one of whom is autistic. Jennifer has most recently been published in Off Our Backs and Hip Mama, but has written for a variety of parenting publications and community newspapers. She has spoken about her experience raising her son while being an activist at conferences in Washington DC, Minneapolis, Providence and New York with mam*a, a now defunct collective of radical mothers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fetchrewards.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000868467-How-can-I-find-information-on-my-referral-code-points-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SUQOLBKW3VAJ3BRL2VRQIZR6IXVT775R", "length": 223, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "fetchrewards.zendesk.com", "title": "How can I find information on my referral code points? \u2013 Fetch Rewards", "raw_content": "Go to the Me section of the application, then select Referral Code. You will be able to find information such as how many referral bonuses you were awarded and information on lifetime referrals and from the past seven days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://feweek.co.uk/2016/12/02/disappointment-over-further-delay-to-fe-maintenance-loans-decision/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:17Z", "digest": "sha1:DQ3EEIH3NQPMTJNU353KQ7MGYHCWAKYF", "length": 3537, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "feweek.co.uk", "title": "\ufeff Further FE maintenance loan delays cause disappointment", "raw_content": "Disappointment over further delay to FE maintenance loans decision\nSector leaders have been left \u201cdisappointed\u201d after the government delayed its decision on whether to provide maintenance loans for higher level learners studying technical education in FE.\nOn September 9, FE Week reported that the Department for Education had stalled on the issue, but promised to \u201cmake a statement in the autumn\u201d.\nWith the season drawing to a close, FE Week followed up with the DfE, asking if they would be announcing the decision by the end of November.\nThe answer was non-commital, with a spokesperson only prepared to say: \u201cWe will set out our next steps on FE maintenance loans in due course.\u201d\nThe department was unable to give any firm details on the date of any future announcement, meaning there has been a further delay.\nIt is important to ensure there is access to the loan scheme so that people can use it to gain the necessary skills for the workplace\nJulian Gravatt (pictured), assistant chief executive of the Association of Colleges, said: \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing to see that the DfE has pushed back the announcement of its decision on providing maintenance loans for those studying at higher levels.\n\u201cWith the current economic uncertainty, there\u2019s demand for people with high-level skills.\u201d\nHe added: \u201cIt is important to ensure there is access to the loan scheme so that people can use it to gain the necessary skills for the workplace.\u201d\nMark Dawe, chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers, said: \u201cWe\u2019re a little disappointed that there is no news yet on this.\n\u201cWe\u2019re hoping that the announcement will have something to say on loans being available for higher level and degree apprenticeships.\u201d\nIn September, when it published the outcome of a consultation on whether to introduce maintenance loans, the DfE concluded that it would \u201ctake time to consider the responses\u201d and scheduled a full announcement of its plans for November.\nA DfE spokesperson said at the time: \u201cWe are going to take time to consider the responses to the consultation in light of the report by Lord Sainsbury, which has implications for higher level technical learning and how it should be delivered in the future.\n\u201cWe will need to consider the value for money case and fiscal position before taking any decision on the case for FE maintenance loans.\n\u201cWe expect to make a statement in the autumn.\u201d\nThe consultation, which was carried out by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills between March 24, and June 16, 2016, aimed to test whether support for the introduction of maintenance loans in FE was on a par with the level of support available in higher education.\nIt also looked at whether this support should only be made available to 19+ learners studying level four to six technical courses at specialist providers, and whether part-time learners should be supported as well.\nThe DfE found that \u201crespondents felt that the introduction of a loans package would help achieve the objective of increasing the number of learners undertaking technical and professional learning in key sectors that are important to the economy\u201d.\nThe consultation outcome report said: \u201cWhen taking the written responses and the strength of feeling in the focus groups, the majority believed that this offer should be made on the basis of the qualification studied rather than the institution where the learning took place.\u201d\nNearly three quarters of respondents thought that maintenance loans in FE should also be available to part-time learners.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fiasco.design/learning-to-be-a-yes-man/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:24Z", "digest": "sha1:56ZSE7FYFNEYCAPKBSCV4PFEZRUP5TV7", "length": 3130, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "fiasco.design", "title": "Learning To Be A Yes Man - Fiasco Design Blog", "raw_content": "Oct 2016 \u30fb Words by Nick Lewis\u30fb 3 mins to read\nLearning to be a \u2018Yes\u2019 Man\nI was drinking my morning cup of coffee and realised that rather than feeling excited about what the day might bring, I was feeling anxious.\nAs I get older I\u2019m learning more and more about myself. One thing that I\u2019ve learnt, in what would seem like quite a sad epiphany, is that I\u2019m not the type of person who says \u2018yes\u2019 all that often.\nI\u2019m also the type of person who doesn\u2019t think that what I\u2019ve created is good enough \u2013 or that what I\u2019m doing is as good as what others are creating. As a developer, I always feel as though there\u2019s room for more and continuous improvement.\nI was surprised to find that I wasn\u2019t alone in this feeling. There has been quite a lot of research around the links between insecurity and creativity, with science alluding to certain insecure people being creative geniuses (and no, I\u2019m not saying I am one).\nDarwin, Sir Isaac Newton, Winston Churchill, all creative geniuses in their own right yet all suffered from bouts of anxiety.\nBy living in this way, it can often mean that I\u2019m a little jaded by my creative output \u2013 even when others are raving about it. As a designer and coder creating is everything I do \u2013 which is why I need to learn to overcome these thoughts; I need to start ensuring that my glass is half full, not half empty.\nAlthough inspired by Jim Carrey\u2019s Yes Man, I\u2019m not referring to having to limit myself to saying \u2018yes\u2019 to absolutely everything. Instead, it\u2019s more about pushing myself out of my comfort zone once in a while and improving my spontaneity. I\u2019m obviously not going to go out of my way to put myself in strange situations, but I do need to get away from my comfort zone.\nI really love my job and I\u2019m fully appreciative of the diverse projects that I get to work on, though I often get anxious when presented with a brief if it\u2019s something outside of my comfort zone. This is usually due to working with new and further-advanced code that will help to enhance the project itself.\nFrom here, I want to have more confidence in both my skills as a designer and a developer. I know, deep down, that I can create awesome things \u2013 I just need to be easier on myself at the beginning of projects to think I can achieve the brief from the get go. I need to be better at taking onboard what others are saying about my work, both good and bad, and be able to take that into account so I continue to evolve and develop. I basically need to high five myself a little more often.\nLearning and growing are such major factors of life \u2013 and from now on I want to see a confident change in the way I approach new projects and situations. I believe that this will help to make me a better designer and developer as well as increase the happiness I feel towards other aspects of my life.\nLet\u2019s remember, you never know what saying \u2018yes\u2019 will turn into, so why not go ahead and enjoy the journey of throwing yourself into a new adventure.\nIf you have ever felt this way about your work, or feel inclined to get in touch around this topic, we\u2019d really love to hear from you. Tweet us @FiascoDesign or @Nickylewlew", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 9963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/990+Forms+Schedule+J", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:TI3I2J6QQ2KD4PERAUJFZZMVWJPLDIF4", "length": 515, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com", "title": "990 Forms Schedule J financial definition of 990 Forms Schedule J", "raw_content": "990 Forms Schedule J financial definition of 990 Forms Schedule J\nhttps://financial-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/990+Forms+Schedule+J\n(redirected from 990 Forms Schedule J)\nA form that a non-profit organization files with the IRS to report compensation that the organization pays to members of the board of directors, certain corporate officers, the persons with the highest salaries, and key employees.\nForm 990 (Schedule J)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 5586, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://florentjulien.com/life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:VRISIQCGS55V3RNLTFMJKTQPDMHP4LNH", "length": 10, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "florentjulien.com", "title": "Life - Florent JULIEN Photography", "raw_content": "(Color(s))", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://focus.world-exchanges.org/articles/meet-challenges-collectively", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:15Z", "digest": "sha1:72IWYKYOTKSIS5TPG3BCL2O35YM5MU62", "length": 4738, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "focus.world-exchanges.org", "title": "Meet the challenges collectively - The World Federation of Exchanges", "raw_content": "Published by: Daniel Leon, Head of MACS Engineering and Execution, AXA IM Oct 2018\nIn 2008, many of the certainties and truths we took for granted in the financial industry were suddenly questioned and battered. What happened back in 2008 seemed at the time inconceivable to most people: the speed, magnitude, and brutality of the contagion to the global economy took everyone by surprise. As we look back today and focus on the lessons learned, we should remember that beyond the distortions, equity markets exchanges have shown a resilience in maintaining liquidity throughout the crisis.\nWe all worked together to strengthen risk management. Over the past 10 years, a number of measures have been implemented to improve financial markets, and institutions\u2019 stability and robustness. Banks are stronger now and have been recapitalised primarily due to new regulation. On an international level, the coupling of tighter Central Bank cooperation, renewed political momentum stemming from the G20, and the mandate given to the Financial Stability Board has produced encouraging results.\nAll of these actions have contributed to a better-informed decision-making process, in the interest of investors\u2019 protection.\nHowever, one of the main challenges that remains is ensuring that the regulatory environment does not delay financial institutions\u2019 ability to continue to serve their investors\u2019 needs, especially in the face of new societal challenges. For instance, the new MiFIR European Regulation has impacted the structure of the market, but challenges on transparency around execution of block trades remain. Finding a satisfactory tradeoff between our fiduciary duties of best execution on behalf of our clients vs. keeping the market informed on executed trades is difficult to find. This is a collective challenge where all stakeholders have to effectively engage.\nGiven this, two main take-aways should be taken into account in the future. Firstly, regarding the legislative process, we want EU institutions to revert to the Lamfalussy approach i.e. to principle-based legislation instead of rule-based legislation. Secondly, the pace of the delivery of regulations should be slowed down and targeted only to fixing issues where they have been objectively identified: permanent legislative instability should be avoided, as this will benefit both investors and market participants.\nAbout OTC markets\nWe appreciate the efforts of regulators to achieve sound OTC markets in the aftermath of the financial crisis, while keeping the key role of exchanges and CCPs as contributing to market liquidity and post-market safety respectively. As an asset manager, we search not only for guarantees for our transactions, but also for tangible solutions to mitigate counterparty risks as well as the best quality of execution. As a collective effort, we believe that the end-user voice should be heard more by CCPs and clearing members on two fronts. First, to increase CCP transparency to end users, notably on the risk models, to the benefit of the end users to facilitate our own assessments. This way, we will all better assess risk and reduce potential systemic risk. Second, to further engage buy-side dialogue with CCPs, expecting them to develop services that match buy side specificities and needs (securities as collateral, collateral transformation, account segregation and asset tagging, direct access without associated capital requirement).\nGet prepared for the next crisis\nCrisis are recurrent; this is one constant in economic history, and we need to use our common sense to get prepared.\nWe all have to embrace this fast-changing environment with vigilance and flexibility: by leveraging new technologies, like blockchain, to the benefit of investors, and by adapting our models to the society evolutions regarding sustainability growth, like \u2018low carbon benchmarks\u2019 for example.\nAnd while it is tempting to lower one\u2019s guard, we need to better understand new risks to avert the next crisis. In particular, we need to seek to better understand the nature of emerging risks and how to manage them, as well as pay specific attention to operational risks within exchanges. The next crisis could have a non-financial cause, perhaps even a cyber one, and we think this risk is still underestimated as a global systemic risk today.\nSeveral initiatives have made it possible to better regulate the market in order to better accommodate the next crisis. As collective challenges can only be met with a collective effort, it is essential to ensure that all stakeholders do and can effectively engage. We all collectively need to find the right balance between transparency, liquidity split, and healthy competition leveraging innovation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forum.bodybuilding.com/archive/index.php/f-16-p-317.html?s=20934a7a4ab81697d94444630c6aba35", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZVNQDUMAEFBDU6BDZCBQQALL3DQ43EQ", "length": 9685, "nlines": 203, "source_domain": "forum.bodybuilding.com", "title": "Losing Fat [Archive] - Page 317 - Bodybuilding.com Forums", "raw_content": "Pages : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 [317] 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 419 420 421 422 423 424 425 426 427 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 435 436 437 438 439 440 441 442 443 444 445 446 447 448 449 450 451 452 453 454 455 456 457 458 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 467 468 469 470 471 472 473 474 475 476 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 484 485 486 487 488 489 490 491 492 493 494 495 496 497 498 499 500 501 502 503 504 505 506 507 508 509 510 511 512 513 514 515 516 517 518 519 520 521 522 523 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 533 534 535 536 537 538 539 540 541 542 543 544 545 546 547 548 549 550 551 552 553 554 555 556 557 558 559 560 561 562 563 564 565 566 567 568 569 570 571 572 573 574 575 576 577 578 579 580 581 582 583 584 585 586 587 588 589 590 591 592 593 594 595 596 597 598 599 600 601 602 603 604 605 606 607 608 609 610 611 612 613 614 615 616 617 618 619 620 621 622 623 624 625 626 627 628 629 630 631 632 633 634 635 636 637 638 639 640 641 642 643 644 645 646 647 648 649 650 651 652 653 654 655 656 657 658 659 660 661 662 663 664 665 666 667 668 669 670 671 672 673 674 675 676 677 678 679 680 681 682 683 684 685 686 687 688 689 690 691 692 693 694 695 696 697 698 699 700 701 702 703 704 705 706 707 708 709 710 711 712 713 714 715 716 717 718 719 720 721 722 723 724 725 726 727 728 729 730 731 732 733 734 735 736 737 738 739 740 741 742 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 750 751 752 753 754 755 756 757 758 759 760 761 762 763 764 765 766 767 768 769 770 771 772 773 774 775\nHow much fat loss attainable in 3 months?\nmy mates tell me to stop\nHow does a \"Cheat\" day work?\ndown 18lbs 5% bf..New workout plan\nJust finished my 2nd week of HIIT cardio and I think I am doing great so far.\nShould I cut or continue with my bulk?\nHas JOGGING worked for ANYONE?\nsummer lean and cut\nultimate diet 2.0 vs. keto CKD\n15 year old lose 20 pounds of fat with rapid fat loss handbook diet\nEating at a 1200 cal deficit?\nI need to loss my belly fat also have dropped belly after having my bub\nwhere to start at the gym\nFat guy question\nNeed help , plateau !!!\nLosing Weight Quickly, can it cause GYNO?\n30 Day Cut - Best Results?\nFrom 110kg to 86kg- exactly how I did it (long read)\nQuestions about HIIT, Antioxidants, and weight loss comments\nNeed cardio and diet advice\nHIIT and cardio question\nCreating the Maori Spartan Part 1\nGlutamine and weight gain?\nGround Beef on a cut?\nConfused...Calories..??\nHelp. Tips losing chest fat.\ngoing shopping today..\nMy diet thats helped my transformation\nRecreate vs. Lipo 6 Black\nEat when you are hungry,\nAhh i need help\nGood diet to lose weight within the next month\nI just wanted to update you guys..\ntoo little calories\ndefined arms\nshould I up my cardio?\nWhat is the science of cutting?\nThe after math. (Pics)\nhydrations role in your appearance\nanother question I have..\nHypoglycemia and cutting diet...\nMan Boobs! :)\nI really am \"loosing\" fat.\nHow did I do tonight for dinner?\nwhat was your....\nNeed Estimate of my BodyFat%?.. (pics)\nWhat is better, swimming or running?\nQuestion about routine/diet change when it's time to cut\nAdvice please? Keep doing what I'm doing? (pics)\nSomething kind of funny I noticed\nis there anything as too much fruits\n12% -> 8-9% bf\n**Official \"Tryin get rid of last few bf%\" thread**\nFirst Cut Attempt Questions/Troubleshooting\nearly morning cardio, good for wieght loss, bad for muscle\nSlim Xtreme review?\nlosing fat. help?\nHow do I lose butt fat?\nMaintainence Help! - Loose Fat?\nWeightlifter wanting to get cut BAD\nLearn something!! Energy Balance Equation article by Lyle McDonald\nFalling asleep after taking ephedrine and caffeine\nThryoid pill question\nNo-Carb type diets - bad idea if exercising in the evening?\nIs it better to have an unhealthy 'snack' as opposed to not eating?\nPlease tell me the best fat burner for endomorph\nHelp! My diet. 4month goal\nwhy are people so anti-cardio?\nSqueezing in calories? Is it a bad idea bad?\nIs there any ladies that have lost a good amount of weight ???\nto bulk or cut\nlower body fat diet\nface and stomach\nHow long should i expect to lose weight this fast?\nworth cutting for 3 weeks?\nFirst bulk after 100 lb loss.. comments welcome\nmy hiit cardio routine... opinions?\nIs a jump rope a bad thing to lose weight?\nHelp me out please (Pics inside)\nHow I lost 20 pounds over Summer\nhelp asap please read\ncardio pwo is awesome\n100 rep war\nmy lifting/cardio plan while cutting\nschool me on losing fat while gaining muscles\nweight on scale\nHelp plz..\nDieting with Glutamine?\nMeal Recommendations and Timetable for Fat Loss\nWeired Fat Loss Rate\nNeed some advice - diet/training\n2.5 weeks off the wagon..\nwhen do you notice the biggest changes\nRate my plan (cardio/nutrients)\nLosing fat from a specific body area?\nwhere do i take a waist measurement?\nJavorek Complexes for losing weight\nlosing BF % - conflicting info'\nHow can i loose the fat around my thighs?!?!\nDid I Just Plateau? :(\nEC weight loss\nGained 4 lbs after a bad weekend of eating?\nCardio/Weights - What a Routine?\nPSMF & Omega 3 fatty acids\nAwesome Breakfast ~500 Calories\na l w a y hungry\nWho are the posters that most of you look up to and respect?\nIs it a good idea to bulk when trying to lose fat?\nWhat's up with Carb cycling?\nNeed some input on if I should cut or bulk first...\njust my luck... :(\nHow much weight have you lost ???\nContinue creatine while cutting?\nlipo 6X and animal cuts\nAfter I lose the fat, my maintenance calories will be what?\nHow many calories do I need per day?\nTake a look at my profile - and make cardio suggestions plz\nClean Bulk.. this a good starting point?\nLISS 2x a day\nIntensity vs Frequency\nBody Fat % Est?\nIgnoring the scale???\nAnother BF% thread\nGrilling Veggies\nI have lost 75 pounds and need advice\nLosing fat on chest??\nIs my body adapting to my calorie defecit?\n2 questions water and cardio\nrunning and LISS together?\nWould this help in contributing to fat loss?\nHow should I train for Basic?\nNeed help -- Skinny fat..\nEst my BF %\nswitching up my reps\nCardio and Tabata Intervals...\nout of town for 3 days, diet questions\nLyle on calories in vs. calories out\nWeight loss slowing slowing down zzzzzzzzz\nFirst time - Cutting Diet\nTraining with a cold/chest infection\nStudy : Ketogenic Diet Burns Fat and Builds Muscle, at the same time\nTen pounds!!!\nECA results\nEating more ~ but still losing weight\nShould I cheat for my birthday?\nSome Tips and Workout Programs needed...\nNeed help ( Pic Included )\nArticle on Weightloss\nNeed some cutting advice.\nIs it body fat % or muscle mass?\n3 pounds in 24 hours :O\nLoosing weight and Skin\nHigh Carb Macros?\nnoob cutting.\nLipo 6 and weightloss\nNew revolutionary Diet break through!!\nHow long for results when Jogging?\nPossible to have my old body back 14 years later?\nDONT do cardio on an emty stomache in the morning?\nim at a stand still\nI need something explained...\nPerfect Pushup Question\nIs it possible to lose 5 lbs in one week.....\nNew diet, feeling better than ever\nCutting towards the end\nLoose Skin/Bulking\nSugar and weight loss. Reps for best answers\nBF% Question *REPS*\nNo HIIT videos\nBulking & Cutting Cycle Lengths?\nWill I look Different If...?\nTime for me to make the change\nMake this great merengue (Suspiro) dessert of only 90 calories\nreaching the end of my planned cut, not as lean as I want but sick of cutting\nBF% what do you think?\nBody Fat Percentage Loss\nTrust BMI/Fat % readers?\nHow long do you lift weights each day?\nTips for diet/cardio for cutting.\nLosing FAT ASAP\nBF% based on pics...\n\"Surprise 'em\", ever wanted to surprise someone with weight loss?\nI Will........................\nFirst day of cutting routine, I ended up binging :(\nFat burning in the waist/stomach\nTreadmill + 15 min\nFat Loss with psyllium and hemp protein\ngoing to be cutting for a few weeks please tell me what u think of my plan\nIs this a proper HIIT method?\nHELP - Need some advice\nup 20lbs down 10lbs\nCal defecits.... ?\nHelp me with my diet.\nI burned 137 calories in a 1 mile run?\n262 wanting to drop to 200 help me please!\nPoop..\nHelp me drop some water weight quickly\nlooking to shave off 20 lbs\nCritique my terrible weight loss meal plan\nMommas Cookin\ncoffee....helpful in losing weight?\nWhich protein/creatine???", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 10610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fpmt.org/mandala/archives/older/mandala-issues-for-1997/march/spirituality-and-materialism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YFDDIA4HSSMXQGBHT2JLZZOCB7K5PE37", "length": 7033, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "fpmt.org", "title": "Spirituality and Materialism - Mandala Publications", "raw_content": "Mandala Archive Older Archives Mandala for 1997 March\nLama Yeshe gave this talk at the Melbourne University, Australia on April , 1975. Edited by Nicholas Ribush.\nPeople often talk about spirituality and materialism, but what do these terms really mean? You\u2019ll find that, as individuals, each of us has a different view.\nSome think they\u2019re opposites, two irreconcilable extremes. Others think you can\u2019t lead a spiritual life while living in a materialistic society, that to do so you have to abandon all enjoyment of material things. Then there are those who think spiritual seekers are rejects from society who couldn\u2019t succeed in the material world. Yet others think, \u201cI\u2019m a rationalist, I don\u2019t believe anything,\u201d considering religious people blindly ignorant believers.\nSome people, especially those brought up in materialistic societies, become attracted to Buddhism or some other religion the moment they hear about it. Without understanding or even checking that it suits their mind, they immediately grasp at that religion as \u201cfantastic!\u201d This is very dangerous and not at all a spiritual attitude.\nReligion is not just some dry intellectual idea but rather your basic philosophy of life: you hear a teaching that makes sense to you, find through experience that it relates positively with your psychological makeup, get a real taste of it through practice, and adopt it as your spiritual path. That\u2019s the right way to enter the spiritual path.\nIf, for example, after you encounter Buddhism for the first time you think it contains wonderful ideas and immediately try to make radical changes to your life, you won\u2019t make any progress at all. You have to implement it step by step. To actualize Dharma you have to look at your basic situation, what you are now, and try to change gradually, checking as you go.\nSo, why do we all have different views of what spirituality and materialism are? Because we have all had different experiences and therefore think differently.\nTo follow the spiritual path you do not have to abandon material things, nor does leading a materialistic life mean that you can\u2019t engage in spiritual practice. In fact, even if you are totally materialistic, if you check deep within your psyche, you will find that there is already a part of your mind that is flowing in a spiritual direction. It may not be intellectualized, it may not be your conscious philosophy, you may even declare, \u201cI am not a believer,\u201d but in the depths of your consciousness there is a spiritual stream of energy constantly in motion.\nFrom the point of view of religious tolerance, the world today is a much better place than it was even less than one hundred years ago. People held extreme views; the religious were afraid of the nonreligious and vice-versa; everybody felt very insecure. This was all based on misconceptions and is mainly in the past, but some people may still think that way. Certainly, as I\u2019ve been saying, many people feel that spiritual and material lifestyles are completely incompatible. It\u2019s not true.\nTherefore, take the middle way as much as you can; avoid extremes. If you spiritual practice and the demands of your everyday life are not in harmony, it means there\u2019s something wrong with the way you are practicing. Your practice should satisfy your dissatisfied mind while providing solutions to the problems of everyday life. If it doesn\u2019t, check carefully to see what you really understand about your religious practice.\nEverything Lord Buddha taught was for us to penetrate to the essence of our being in order to realize the nature of the human mind. But he never said we had to believe what he said just because he\u2019d said it. He encouraged us to understand the meaning of what he said. Without such comprehension, your entire spiritual trip is a fantasy, a dream, a hallucination: one skeptical question from a doubter and your whole spiritual life collapses like a house of cards.\nTherefore, put it all together. Enjoy your material life as much as you can, but at the same time, understand the nature of both whatever it is that you\u2019re enjoying and the mind enjoying it, and how the two relate. If you understand all this at a deep level, that is religion. If all your narrow mind sees is what is external and you never know what\u2019s happening in your own mind, that\u2019s a materialistic view. It\u2019s not the fault of the materials, but that of your view.\nYou can\u2019t dedicate your life to just one object: \u201cThis flower is so beautiful it makes my life worthwhile. If this flower dies, I won\u2019t be able to live.\u201d That is stupid, isn\u2019t it? I mean, the flower is just an example; we do this with other people and all sorts of other things, but such is the extreme view of the materialistic mind. A more realistic approach would be, \u201cYes, the flower is beautiful, but it won\u2019t last; alive today, dead tomorrow. But my satisfaction does not depend on that flower and I wasn\u2019t born human just to enjoy flowers.\u201d\nWhatever you understand by religion, or Buddhism, or even simple philosophical ideas, should be integrated with the basics of your life. Then you can experiment: does satisfaction come from your own mind or not? That is enough. You don\u2019t need to make extreme changes to your life to learn that dissatisfaction is created by your own mind. You don\u2019t need to suddenly sever your connection with the world. You can lead a normal life while observing the nature of the dissatisfied mind. This approach is both realistic and practical, and guaranteed to give you an answer.\nOtherwise, you accept some extreme idea, intellectually try to give something else up, and all it does is agitate your life. For the human body to exist you have to eat; you can\u2019t become an extreme ascetic overnight. Be realistic; it is unnecessary to make radical changes. Change on the inside; change the way you see things, instead of hallucinating.\nWe also have to accept the fact that everything is constantly changing. Many of us have fixed ideas about the way things should be and suffer when they don\u2019t turn out like that. Lord Buddha\u2019s psychology teaches us to free ourselves from that kind of grasping \u2014 not in an emotional, rejecting way but rather by taking the middle way, between the two extremes. If you put your mind wisely into this balanced space, you will find there happiness and joy.\nThis page appears courtesy of the Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive, established as a separate FPMT entity in 1996 by Lama Zopa Rinpoche to facilitate the preparations of the teachings it contains \u2014 those of Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa himself.\nThe Archive contains some 40,000 pages of transcribed teachings of the FPMT\u2019s founding teachers: all of Lama Yeshe\u2019s teachings (1971 through 1984) and many of Lama Zopa\u2019s teachings (1972 to the present day).\nThe first step in making these teachings available is the transcription of the tapes, 2,000 of which \u2014 of Lama Zopa\u2019s teachings \u2014 remain to be done.\nIf you would like to help in any way, please contact the director\nDr. Nick Ribush\nWeston, MA 02493 USA\nEmail: nick@LamaYeshe.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1976, "original_length": 72880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://franklycurious.com/wp/2014/01/17/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XMQB4543LRM5DZYNQTCIPMOFSO36BRWD", "length": 8286, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "franklycurious.com", "title": "17 Jan 2014 \u2022 Frankly CuriousFrankly Curious", "raw_content": "The Rich Should Plan Ahead\nThis is a slightly different take on income inequality than I normally propose. I say that the rich should want more equality because great inequality breads revolution. In this clip, Bill Maher makes a more immediate argument. If people are desperate enough, they will kidnap the rich. Of course, I suspect most rich people will look at that bit and say, \u201cWell, I\u2019ll just get one of those flaming cars.\u201d Or, \u201cI\u2019ll hire a private army to surround me.\u201d Sadly, one thing that history shows us is that the rich never learn. I\u2019m not saying they are different than anyone else. Everyone thinks things will just continue to be the way they have been. And in fact, that\u2019s a good way to predict the weather. You will be almost 50% accurate predicting that tomorrow will be just like today. But eventually, the clouds roll in. Eventually there is a hurricane. And the rich have far more to lose than the rest of us.\nIn America, the Dummy Controls the Ventriloquist\nEarlier this week, I wrote about the movie Cradle Will Rock. It really is a good film and an indication of this is that I had totally forgotten that I had already written about the film. I was still thinking, I\u2019ve got to figure out how to write about the film. And this morning, it hit me, \u201cMy Suitcase and a Clown.\u201d But all it really meant was that I have more to say about the movie. For a general discussion of it, go and read what I wrote.\nI write songs and in my lifetime, I\u2019ve certainly written over a hundred and very likely double that. My style was always a bit unusual, but in the last decade it has gotten to the point where it is mostly bizarre\u2014or at least that\u2019s the case in the songs I most love. I can still write a blues song. Not that long ago, I wrote a song in iambic pentameter called, \u201cAngela\u2019s Drilling a Hole.\u201d (Regardless what you think, it\u2019s not about that.) And I can still grind out the kind of post-punk I cut my teeth on like a song all my friends hate, \u201cJimmy Burned His Hand.\u201d (That one probably is what you think, as long as you assume he did it intentionally and that there are lots more like him.) But these more recent ones\u2014the bizarre ones\u2014are, according to those who have heard parts of them, unlistenable.\nAs far as I can tell, they are unpleasant (But not to me!) because they are highly syncopated and repetitive. They are, in fact, the kinds of songs I tried to write when I first started writing songs. But people told me that they weren\u2019t songs. And they were right: they were more along the lines of chants\u2014but really \u201cin your face\u201d chants. The first of these more recent \u201cbizarre\u201d songs I remember writing was, \u201cYou Make Me Want to Be a Meat Inspector.\u201d (You can probably guess that\u2019s a love song, but you probably misunderstand the meaning of \u201cmeat.\u201d Don\u2019t think sex, think 1 Corinthians 13:11.)\nOne of the problems with these songs is that I so love them that I never really finish them. They\u2019re like those old Bob Dylan tunes that have dozens of verses. But because no one is paying me or even willing to listen, I never have to stop. And that brings me to \u201cMy Suitcase and a Clown.\u201d Obviously, this is about a a labor dispute between a ventriloquist and his \u201cdummy.\u201d Okay, it isn\u2019t obvious at all, but that\u2019s what it\u2019s about. The \u201cclown\u201d in the title is the ventriloquist, not the \u201cdummy.\u201d Just like the labor struggles of old, it starts violent, but it ends with respect and profit sharing.\nAs you know if you\u2019ve read my other article on Cradle Will Rock, Bill Murray plays Tommy Crickshaw, an old vaudeville ventriloquist. He is one of the anti-communists, but it is pretty clear in the film that the main reason he testifies against the FTP that he is part of, is that he has fallen in love with Hazel Huffman (Joan Cusack). But his testimony has put him out of job and now all the other artists hate him. He\u2019s in his dressing room talking to his puppet and it is implied that Crickshaw used to be a communist himself. And then we get the following scene (don\u2019t worry about the length, it is cued to the right part):\nAnd then we know. He sings (as his puppet) \u201cThe Internationale\u201d[1] by heart. He was a communist. And he is lost. We only see him very briefly later where he and Huffman meet, perhaps implying a relationship, but they both seem broken by the experience.\nWhat I think is interesting is that I\u2019ve always flattered myself that I was unique. And I do think that labor relations from the perspective of a ventriloquist and a \u201cdummy\u201d is fairly creative. What\u2019s more, my take on it is quite different. But I admire Tim Robbins for coming up with the idea and putting it into this film in this way. It really is brilliant. And when the puppet falls off the stand and onto the floor, it is shocking\u2014perhaps the saddest moment in the film.\nClearly, puppet is an inanimate object. In the scene, Crickshaw is doing all the work. In our society, things are the reverse of that. We have a system where the puppet is what is most valued. After all, he\u2019s the funny one; he\u2019s the one who appears to be delivering the goods. But without Crickshaw, he is nothing. By this I absolutely do not mean that capital shouldn\u2019t be privately owned or that it doesn\u2019t deserve a cut of the profits. But for almost 40 years\u2014the vast majority of my life\u2014productivity gains have gone almost exclusively to those who own capital. The Crickshaws, who make everything work by, you know, working have gotten virtually nothing.\nIn the movie, Crickshaw\u2019s puppet is a symbol of lost innocence. But in our world, the dummy is now in control of the ventriloquist. I do not wish it, but one day, the cradle will fall.\n[1] In case you aren\u2019t familiar:\nPosted in Film, TV & Theater, Musical Stuff, Politics\t| Leave a reply\nRobert Gates\u2019 Duty to Cash In\nOne of the first things that Obama did that angered me was to keep Robert Gates on as Defense Secretary. Of all the cabinet positions to put a Republican in, that is the worst. The Republicans have been (wrongly) hammering Democrats for being soft on the military for decades. So what was Obama saying other than, \u201cI can\u2019t find a Democrat as good for this job as this almost random (just happens to be the current office holder) Republican.\u201d Now, I\u2019m not an idiot. I know what Obama was trying to do; he was trying to \u201creach across the isle\u201d; he was trying to show that he was open-minded. As I\u2019ve pointed out, he was (and in many ways still is) a very naive politician.\nBut the thing is, I didn\u2019t like Robert Gates under Bush and I didn\u2019t like him under Obama. And now, he is out with a tell-all book about his time under those two presidents. I am not going to read Duty, of course. These kinds of books are always the most tired and useless things. Life is too short. But I have been really interested to hear what Gates had to say about Harry Reid because it is really unfair.\nThe biggest thing is that Harry Reid said that the surge in Iraq was a bad idea because the war was already lost. Gates thought this was treasonous. Well, this kind of thinking is exactly what I expect from a man like Gates. Yes, no one should ever be allowed to express a negative opinion about a war. But someone should be allowed to make a bunch of money writing a book that takes potshots at a sitting president and vice-president. I\u2019ve got it: IOKIYAR.\nThe other thing is that Gates is mad at Reid because Reid asked him to put a study of \u201cirritable bowel syndrome\u201d into a military appropriations request. But this is how politics works. If Gates thinks that the Secretary of Defense is not a politician, then he is an idiot. In fact, anyone who claims that the top tier generals in the military are not politicians are totally ignorant of what they do.\nBret Stephens at the Wall Street Journal takes Gates to task, summing up the book, \u201cNow he wants you to know he was offended, irritated, enraged, scandalized, \u2018too old for this $%*&,\u2019 and just plain itching to quit nearly every day he spent at the top.\u201d But as he notes again and again, Gates didn\u2019t step down. It isn\u2019t like he needed the money; he\u2019s valued at $5 million. As Stephens also notes, \u201cServing as secretary of defense, after all, isn\u2019t really a duty; it\u2019s an honor and a privilege.\u201d\nThe only duty I see in Robert Gates is his duty to cash in even more on his government work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 15739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://frithlawfirm.com/blog/medical/uncategorized/a-sad-story-about-retirement-and-noncompetes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:47Z", "digest": "sha1:SVSGWAZEVGUVJIIA2TGTFTOM7HUPMJM5", "length": 1330, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "frithlawfirm.com", "title": "A SAD STORY ABOUT RETIREMENT AND NONCOMPETES - Frith Ellerman & Davis Law Firm, P.C.", "raw_content": "Law Firm Blogs & News > Medical > Uncategorized > A SAD STORY ABOUT RETIREMENT AND NONCOMPETES\nA SAD STORY ABOUT RETIREMENT AND NONCOMPETES\nI just read a story about a former Merrill Lynch stock broker who worked for the company for 26 years and invested heavily in Merrill Lynch\u2019s employee stock option plan. The stock option plan was his retirement account. The stock broker rose through the ranks at Merrill Lynch ultimately becoming a a first vice president and a senior financial consultant. The broker retired in the summer of 2008.\nEveryone knows what happened to Merrill Lynch. They were terribly managed, lost millions of dollars, and were purchased by Bank of America. Guess what happened to the value of the retired stock broker\u2019s retirement account? It was almost wiped out! The account dropped from a value approaching $4 million to $200,000.\nThe stock broker must now return to the job market and selling stocks and providing investment advice is all that he knows. Guess what? He signed a noncompete with Merrill Lynch basically preventing him from earning a living doing the one thing he knows\u2026selling stocks and providing financial advice.\nMy Take: Fight these agreements to the bitter end\u2026they are unfair and many are unenforceable.\n\u00ab LIFE INSIDE A ONE STAR NURSING HOME\nWHAT IS NURSING HOME \u201cNEGLECT,\u201d REALLY? \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fromthethicket.com/2010/11/20/free-admission/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BSZOU4LJTQPJC5P4I6YOO45CU5WSTVPK", "length": 5087, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "fromthethicket.com", "title": "free admission? | golden gate park: views from the thicket", "raw_content": "\u2190 ferlinghetti in golden gate park\nget a daily dose of green space \u2192\nOn August 7 this year, the Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park began to charge admission for the first time since it opened to the public seventy years ago. Nobody likes to have to pay for something that was formerly free of charge, so it\u2019s no surprise that there has been some grumbling. But actually, maybe it\u2019s even more surprising that the botanical garden remained open to the public free of charge for so long?\nOther special gardens in the park have been charging admission for some time. When the botanical garden in Golden Gate Park first opened to the public in 1940, it joined the Japanese Tea Garden and the Conservatory of Flowers as special gardens within the larger park, but all were open to the public free of charge. A friend who grew up in San Francisco fondly remembers playing in both the Japanese Tea Garden and the Conservatory as a child, while the adults played tennis at the nearby courts. The Tea Garden only began to charge admission sometime in the mid to late 1980s. The Conservatory of Flowers instituted an admission fee in 2003, when it reopened to the public after undergoing extensive renovation.\nBecause these fees have been adopted gradually over a period of years, it\u2019s easy to overlook the fact that such changes signal a shift in thinking about public parks and how they should be maintained and managed for public use. In the nineteenth century public parks were part of a great social experiment, the hypothesis being that exposure to Nature was morally and socially beneficial to the society at large. Parks were designed to be free of charge to people across the social spectrum, but especially those \u201cless favored by fortune.\u201d Parks were also frequently home to cultural institutions such as art and natural science museums, zoos and botanical gardens, which were products of the same era.\nIn fact, the great nineteenth-century social reform movement produced many public cultural institutions that we now take for granted: parks, libraries, museums, theaters. The thinking was that the society as a whole would benefit from the exposure to Nature and Culture that such institutions offered. Of course, the seeds of public-private partnerships to support these cultural institutions were also sown in the nineteenth century, with New York City leading the way. In the last quarter of the century legislation was passed in New York incorporating many cultural institutions and authorizing the city to build new facilities and to lease them and the parkland on which they often sat back to the newly formed private entities. These public-private agreements usually stipulated that the city would provide the land, facilities and funds for maintenance and security and in return the new private institutions would develop cultural services and collections that would be made available to the public.\nThe public-private partnership model did not apply to public parks until fairly recently; again New York City led the way with the establishment of the Central Park Conservancy in the last quarter of the twentieth century. This nonprofit organization entered into a public-private agreement with the city and rescued Central Park from near ruin following years of diminishing public funding. This model has been followed in San Francisco in the Presidio Trust and the Friends of the San Francisco Botanical Garden. But there is no umbrella nonprofit for Golden Gate Park, our most venerable public park. Why is that?\nThis entry was posted in california academy of sciences, de young museum, history, san francisco botanical garden. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 Responses to free admission?\nInteresting. It\u2019s part of a broader debate, IMO, of what facilities a city should provide \u201cfree\u201d (i.e. funded by taxes) and \u201ccharged\u201d (funded by users). At one end of the debate, every public good should be free, like London\u2019s museums. At the other, all costs should be user-borne, like the fire-fighting service that refused to save the house of a man who had not paid his annual fee. In between there\u2019s a broad middle ground.\nThe other point of a fee is to restrict over-use. The Japanese tea garden is often crowded (despite the fee) and this detracts from the experience for everyone. If it were free, it would probably be more crowded. Also, it is, by its nature, a high-maintenance space, so a fee is justified.\nPerhaps this is true of the new botanic garden. I admire the new habitat-zoo, but I enjoyed the old, unreconstructed one a lot more.\nThe San Francisco Botanical Garden Society has been a disaster for the Arboretum. They have spent a fortune on trying to restrict admission (paying $10K monthly to lobbyist Sam Lauter, building a new wall, hiring security guards, etc).\nThe Japanese Tea Garden is full because tour buses drop tourists there. It started off at 50 cents with free admission for residents. It has become a monster. Taxpayers foot the bill for the Tea Garden, but have stopped visiting, as they have now done with the Arboretum \u2014 which is almost always empty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 8832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 157.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fueloilnews.com/2019/01/30/ahr-expo-attendance-45078/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:6LSA47YMLVQQ6S26NYG4SVNUOCRDJD2N", "length": 9590, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "fueloilnews.com", "title": "AHR Expo Attendance: 45,078 | Fuel Oil News", "raw_content": "Home > Uncategorized > AHR Expo Attendance: 45,078\nThe 2019 AHR Expo returned to Atlanta for the first time since 2001. The Show floor at the Georgia World Congress Center exhibited 1,824 companies from across the industry, including 497 international exhibitors of technology and products.\nRadio-frequency identification (RFID) technology verified attendance, allowing for the scanning in of each person without stalling the crowd and creating long wait times. This means that the Show, held Jan. 14-16, was able to generate a true capture of every attendee who walked through the door and spent time on the exhibitor floor and in education sessions. In previous years the Show relied on pre-registration and on-site registration to quantify attendance. The total verified attendance this year: 45,078.\n\u201cThe planning of the Show has always been focused on creating the best experience for our exhibitors and attendees. We recognized the benefit of verifying attendees long before the technology allowed us to do it in a way that didn\u2019t interrupt the experience we wanted to create for those who travel to be here,\u201d said Mark Stevens, show manager of AHR Expo. \u201cWe want our attendees and exhibitors networking, capturing leads, learning, interacting and focused on their day rather than waiting at the gate to be scanned in. The new verified technology allows us to do just that.\u201d\nThe education program covered a broad range of topics in depth, providing insights for all AHR stakeholders into market trends, tips to building a business, energy savings, as well as industry best practices. Following, some highlights.\nResearch unveiled at AHR Expo pinpointed the best course forward for smart home technology deployments. The upshot: multi-dwelling units (MDUs) remain underserved due to the varieties of end-user requirements. At the same time, they sit at the intersection of the single family\u2014who benefits most from smart home innovation\u2014and commercial buildings, sharing characteristics of each. Importantly, MDUs have the size to invest in new technology, a stronger connection to resident satisfaction and more direct involvement of senior management for investment decisions. This makes MDUs the sweet spot where smart home innovation and experimentation can take root, said the presenter, Continental Automated Buildings Association.\nA strong call to action kicked off this session, underscored by a roll call of blue-chip companies suffering billions in losses due to data breaches, including the $520 million Target breach famously caused by a compromised HVAC subcontractor\u2019s PC and login credential. Attendees learned a step by step plan for developing a strong cybersecurity defense. Recommended best practices: separating network traffic for automation and control systems (ACS) from the internet and other operations; communications encryption and two-factor authentication for remote access; role-based access control limiting where people can go in the network; and integrating security and information and event management (SIEM) systems to help detect attacks as they happen before damage is done. The presenter was Schneider Electric.\nContractors Grow Sales by Saving Customers Money\nThis tutorial case study explained how to deliver energy savings, and sell additional services, by expanding balancing tests and remediation services. The highly detailed presentation showed how adding inexpensive tests provided additional diagnostics information that can help identify problems and create opportunities to sell correctional services. The results can improve actual system performance from 50% to 85% of rated and deliver valuable energy savings, said presenter Schneider Electric.\nThe policy impact on driving markets to replace high global-warming potential (GWP) HFCs cannot be overstated. In the European Union, for example, a 1,000% increase in prices for high GWP HFCs is prompting a move to natural refrigerants in supermarkets. As a result, of the 20,000 supermarkets and convenience stores worldwide that use natural refrigerants, 16,000 are in Europe and 3,500 in Japan. Only 370 are installed in the U.S. Policy leaders are the state of California, the EU and Japan. China is also getting on board and beginning to push natural refrigerants, the presenter said.\nBetter Buildings Make Better Employees\nBetter buildings improve productivity and job satisfaction, according to new research. Building quality ranked second in contributing to employee satisfaction and productivity when benchmarked against other traditional employee perks such as bonuses, fitness benefits and flexible work hours. Only private work offices topped building quality by a slim margin. Since 80% of most organizations\u2019 budget is spent on staff and 10% on buildings, spending more on providing a quality work environment to get more loyalty and productivity from staff makes sense, said presenter Continental Automated Buildings Association.\nGreen Buildings and Energy Savings\nTwo detailed post-installation case studies showed how 250- and 500-ton closed circuit cooling tower chillers reduced energy consumption by 48%, lowered energy demand in peak periods and reduced annual operating costs, according to the presenter, Cooling Technology Institute.\nPersonal Health and Indoor Air Quality\nAir pollutants that can threaten your health are two to 10 times worse indoors than outdoors. The four most dangerous indoor pollutants are tobacco smoke, formaldehyde, radioactive Radon gas and particulate matter that, if large enough, can directly enter the bloodstream and cause health problems. New IoT [Internet of Things] devices can help address these concerns and better protect people indoors with cost-effective sensors that monitor air quality and send alerts to homeowners, according to a presentation by Refresh Smart Home, sponsored by the Indoor Air Quality Association.\n2019 Innovation Awards Product of the Year\nThe AHR Expo awarded its Product of the Year award for 2019 to enVerid Systems. enVerid was also recognized as the winner of the 2019 Innovations Awards Green Building category for its HVAC Load Reduction (HLR) Module 1000E-M. Each year, winners are selected in a total of 10 industry categories. A ceremony hosted during the AHR Expo recognizes all winners from these categories and an overall Product of the Year winner is chosen.\n\u201cBeing named Product of the Year is an enormous honor and extremely gratifying to our entire team,\u201d said Dr. Udi Meirav, founder and president of enVerid Systems. \u201cBut even more importantly, it is a recognition of the transformative potential of HLR technology for the entire industry. We hope this will further encourage the industry to accelerate the adoption of HLR-based designs of HVAC systems and bring its phenomenal benefits to buildings all over the world.\u201d\nAttendees gave the Show high marks. \u201cI\u2019ve attended the AHR Expo for the past 10 years. As an OEM Product Development Engineer, I find it\u2019s a convenient place to meet all of our suppliers in one place. I\u2019m also able to stay up-to-date on the latest technological developments and source new components for my designs. I can meet up with any customers or potential customers to discuss the heat pumps we manufacture,\u201d said Dan Rheault, product development engineer, Maritime Geothermal Ltd.\n\u201cWe come to the AHR Expo year after year because we are looking for the newest devices and software programs that are in our commercial buildings. We integrate new technologies for our customers so that they can use the app-based services via the Internet of Things and cloud-based services. This Show is really the place where you can get all this information in a day or two, look at\nwhat is happening in the industry and really know where the industry is going. We are at the forefront of exciting things happening for manufacturing and HVAC as a whole,\u201d said Michael Youngs, vice president of sales, commercial for Motili, a Daikin Company.\nSo did exhibitors. \u201cThis was a good Show for us, even considering this is a Southern region Show which is typically slower for us since we are primarily a heating equipment manufacturer. We had good numbers and a steady flow in the booth on day one. We really enjoyed and appreciated the Show App and its capabilities this year because we could easily organize our leads and send them off to the appropriate sales contact directly from the Show floor. We\u2019ll be back in Orlando in 2020 and we look forward to a busy year ahead with the leads we\u2019re taking away from Atlanta,\u201d said David Walsh, vice president of sales, USA, NTI Boilers.\nWhat\u2019s Ahead for HVACR\nIndustry trends that are expected to play a role in the coming year were discussed on the Show floor and in the Education Sessions. Among these are: alternative refrigerants; job force replenishment and recruiting into the HVACR industry; whole-building systems operations; and the Internet of Things and building automation control (BAC). Another topic of discussion was HVACR\u2019s role in new markets, such as health and wellness, cloud-based systems and food production via controlled climates. Follow along with AHR Expo throughout the year to track these trends.\nThe AHR Expo is an HVACR event where manufacturers of all sizes and specialties can share ideas and showcase future technology. The next Show, co-sponsored by ASHRAE and AHRI, will be held Feb. 3-5, 2020, in Orlando, concurrently with ASHRAE\u2019s Winter Conference.\nFor more information, visit www.ahrexpo.com and follow @ahrexpo on Twitter.\nPICTURED: Attendees of 2019 AHR Expo.\nPhoto courtesy of AHR Expo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 14721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fundblog.hu/will-foreign-tourists-save-the-chinese-economy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:34Z7PTIVO2WZ7ACZTPLTKQR6SIKPNVCY", "length": 4351, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "fundblog.hu", "title": "Will foreign tourists save the Chinese economy?", "raw_content": "Will foreign tourists save the Chinese economy?\nFriday, December 22nd, 2017 | 10:09 am | Fundblog\nThe Far East is not famous for its openness, which is particularly true for China both in an economic and social sense. Even though China is on the list of the world\u2019s most visited countries, its exclusiveness and political conflicts are rather disadvantageous to tourism. However, tourism has a major role in the economic paradigm change, and it can offer yet unexploited benefits for the country.\nFor years, we have known that there are problems with the Chinese economy, for example, IMF gave a warning sign about the debt that they say could grow up to 300% of the country\u2019s GDP by 2020. Authorities has also been saying that, even if slowly, but surely, the economic recovery model will change from the current credit-fuelled and investment-centred to a more consumption-oriented structure.\nThe services sector with an ever-growing significance has a big role in it, and eventually, it could become the engine of recovery. However, a country with such cultural and natural assets like China, tourism cannot be left neglected. Yet, the exclusivism so typical for its economy does have an impact on its tourism as well.\nThere are numerous obstacles ahead of the Chinese tourism\nIt is relatively well-known that the Chinese society is not among the most open ones, and its roots trace back to the Confucian mentality. The extremely small number of foreign settlers and immigrants is also a proof to it; according to the most recent estimates in 2013, in the country of 1.4 billion people, only 1 million of its inhabitants are foreign.\nHowever, the Chinese discovered the economic bounties of tourism; from the 1970s, the country has been opening its gates to people from abroad. For decades, the Chinese state mobilised serious resources (10 billion dollars annually) to popularize Chinese and found overseas universities or to directly boost tourism. The aim was to make the country more appealing to tourism and increase the number of tourists coming from Europe and the USA.\nThough 60 million tourists visit the country every year, these measures did not bring the desired results because the majority of the visitors, about 60-70% of them come from the neighbouring countries: Hong Kong or Taiwan. However, despite the apparent openness and ambitions, it does not seem like that the country welcomed for foreigners with arms wide open.\nSource: travelchinaguide.com, National Bureau of Statistics of China\nTake the matter of visa required for travelling. Citizens of 13 countries only are allowed to enter China without a visa (in contrast, the USA allows 38 countries). Acquiring a visa can be quite tedious and expensive for many countries. Such issues do raise significant obstacles, which pushes tourism below its potential.\nA recent study said that visa requirements can decrease the number of tourists by about 70% every year. The numbers perfectly reflect it: in 2015, 2 million Americans visited China from the USA, while Hong Kong boasted with 1.8 million American tourists (even if its GDP and population is 3% and less than 1% of China\u2019s, respectively).\nHowever, quite often, politics intervenes in the country\u2019s tourism, especially when it comes to matters with Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. For example, the Chinese government tightened the travel conditions of South Korea because of an incident involving the installation of a missile defence system. As a response to this, South Koreans, who are essential for China\u2019s tourism, stay away from the country and chose a different travel destination somewhere in Japan instead.\nOf course, these matters have macroeconomic impacts too. The study by the Federal Reserve Board said that at the end of 2016, Chinese tourists spent about 190 billion dollars abroad. This is definitely not a balanced situation since tourists coming to China spend about 35 billion dollars every year. In 2016, the official balance of payments statistics showed a 217 billion deficit for tourism, which is 44% of the total surplus of the balance of trade. However, for a country that wants to prevent capital flight, it is a sore point.\nAll in all, China could do more for its tourism, but they would be politically challenging. However, by simplifying the visa system alone, the benefits would already show.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 205.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://futurefive.co.nz/story/review-bento-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:05Z", "digest": "sha1:CZ7HFCFOUNL3XX4HQDEQJNLLCFN2VDIS", "length": 691, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "futurefive.co.nz", "title": "Review: Bento 2 - FutureFive New Zealand", "raw_content": "The second release of Filemaker\u2019s friendly, Mac OS X-only database product adds a few new simple tweaks, including RSS and Apple Mail integration.\nPros: Bento\u2019s biggest plus is that it\u2019s a genuinely easy to use database product, with little to no knowledge of forms, relational databases or programming required. It\u2019s also aesthetically very nice, right out of the box.\nCons: It\u2019s OS X only - Filemaker does make its main database product in a Windows version, but not Bento. In some ways, this is a bit of a \u201cpoint\u201d release of the product, as the new features aren\u2019t that great, and could have arguably been included in a patch.\nVerdict: A great, easy-to-use database product for Mac users.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 10302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://g4c18.sched.com/speaker/marc_lesser.1yagp1i0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:28Z", "digest": "sha1:PFWPT5WWHU4M4IBD5XAMW5GOGXHA4TM7", "length": 660, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "g4c18.sched.com", "title": "Marc Lesser - 2018 Games for Change Festival", "raw_content": "Senior Director, Learning Design\nA specialist in the fields of digital learning and youth development, Marc recently served as Youth Studies Fellow at City University of New York and is the producer and host of a podcast on digital learning titled, \"No Such Thing.\"\nSince March 2008, Marc directs national efforts to design and develop virtual and live offerings for Mouse. He holds a Master\u2019s degree from NYU\u2019s Digital Media Design for Learning program, is the co-founder of the Emoti-Con NYC Youth Digital Media and Technology Festival, and has been named a National School Boards Association \u201c20-to-Watch\u201d among national leaders in education and technology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2366, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 145.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gbjupiter.com/blog/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OE3UJU4WS7SQCTVHC6Y3NIRR2WIE5D7V", "length": 1217, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "gbjupiter.com", "title": "Blog - Gracie Barra Jupiter | Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in Jupiter, FL", "raw_content": "Here is our schedule for Christmas And New Year's Week. Closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and also closed on New Year's eve and New Year's day. We will be open from Wednesday to [...]\nWe Had Such a Great Time With All Of The Kids At Our Gracie Barra Jupiter Kids Holiday Party. And Thank you To All Of The Parents of Jupiter, Palm Beach, Gardens, And Tequesta For [...]\nThis past weekend we had a blast at the Gracie Barra regionals in Orlando. It was great to get together with all of the GB schools in Florida to spend some quality time learning [...]\nHere is Professor Joe Scarola Showing a basic, but very effective armor from closed guard. Check out the detail of controlling your partners head with that left arm as is also helps passing the left [...]\nWelcome To Gracie Barra Jupiter\nHey everyone! My name is Joe Scarola. I am a 3rd degree black belt in the art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Im really excited to be sharing my knowledge with all of you guys in the [...]\nGracie Barra Jupiter Holiday Special\nGracie Barra has a great deal wrapped up for you this month. The best holiday gift one can get! Join Gracie Barra Jupiter Jiu-Jitsu And Self-defense today and get these special gifts from us to [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://geauganews.com/good-tidings-benefit-choir-returns-march-benefit-area-food-pantries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NLS3DN5PDQJLH7CQNNLMVOWTPHCM73IE", "length": 2268, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "geauganews.com", "title": "The Good Tidings Benefit Choir Returns in March to Benefit Area Food Pantries - Geauga News", "raw_content": "The Good Tidings Benefit Choir Returns in March to Benefit Area Food Pantries\nThe Good Tiding Benefit Choir invites you to listen for a cause. This all volunteer ecumenical choir formed 29 years ago to help the local food banks through the work of the Geauga Hunger Task Force (GHTF). The Choir will continue their legacy of raising spirits and funds by performing the Easter sections of GF Handel\u2019s \u201cMessiah.\u201d There will also be guest performances of Bobby Condon on March 18th with his dulcimers and Spirit Bound on March 25th.\nThe two performances will be Sundays, March 18th and March 25th at 3:00 p.m. at Notre Dame Chapel, 13000 Auburn Road in Munson. There is no charge or reservations for the performances but a goodwill offering will be taken. All attendees will also be invited to join in the Hallelujah chorus.\n\u201cWe mimic the composer G. F. Handel who used his \u201cMessiah\u201d to raise funds for the needy in his lifetime. He built orphanages, hospitals, and helped the poor with concerts in the cities of Europe,\u201d said Sue Juhasz, Project Coordinator. \u201cAlthough it is sad that we continue to see increases in need, it is wonderful that this area continues to produce such a talented and committed people ready to help their community. In 2017, the local food banks were able to provide over 475,000 meals from this community\u2019s support.\u201d\nThe choir is under the direction of Robert Boles and accompanied by Joy Leirer. The program will include Mary Ann Ratchko-Gamez on flute and Rick Tate on trumpet. There are solos by Robert Boles, Laura Christian, Sara Hamrick, Sylvia Jurcak, Patsy Orosz, Brenda Moosbrugger, Charles Moosbrugger, Joe Waid, and Aubrey Woods.\nThe Geauga Hunger Task force is a volunteer organization whose mission is to ensure that no resident of Geauga County goes hungry. This is accomplished by seven food pantries located throughout the county that provide emergency food. These Benefits have become a tradition to so many. Please consider attending this wonderful event and extending your neighbors a loving hand. See us also on Geauga Hunger Task Force\nThe Gallery at Lakeland \u201cfrom WOMAN XI\u201d Show: A Legacy of Honoring Women Artists\nIt\u2019s Going to be a Rocking Evening at Lake-Geauga Habitat for Humanity\u2019s \u201cFraming the Future\u201d on April 7!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://getraddish.com/blog/2016/09/13/new-documentation-version.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:13Z", "digest": "sha1:RVCMX24RDCW7WNCF2WU24Q34HPSVDYQ2", "length": 1229, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "getraddish.com", "title": "New template and revised content", "raw_content": "New template and revised content\nIt is finally there, the new version of the documentation site. Except the overall new improvements to the site and the more mature layout, we have also added the API documentation of Raddish.\nHowever this isn\u2019t the only big news for we have much more to announce!\nFor those who have been following on GitHub they have seen a new organisation has been created, namely getraddished. This has a few reasons, it is now more easy to allow other collaborators into the project, and everything belonging to Raddish and the platform has been located here.\nAlso within a few months it is planned that a new version of Raddish will be shipped, this time it will be version 3.0.0. This new version has been completely rewritten and the source is cleaner than ever, also this gives a good opportunity to add a standard to the coding of Raddish and its source.\nAnd for the last point of news Raddish will set the example of everything being reusable, the core of Raddish will also be abstracted and implemented, this as a result will create some more modules which are completely separated from the framework and reusable within any project.\nHope you all like this news and hope to see you soon,\nStay Coding!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://givemiamiday.org/npo/sabrina-cohen-foundation-inc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ALNMZCSKIWY7R23KYTUY42I7COKOCHHX", "length": 1091, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "givemiamiday.org", "title": "Toggle navigation", "raw_content": "Sabrina Cohen Foundation\nThe Sabrina Cohen Foundation (SCF) is a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to developing adaptive fitness programs and funding innovative therapies that will provide a better quality of life for individuals living with paralysis and various disabilities. SCF\u2019s mission revolves around its partnership with the City of Miami Beach that includes multiple initiatives to provide disabled individuals, veterans, children with special needs and the elderly the same perks of living in South Florida as everyone else \u2013 Access to the beach and outdoor recreation. On October 31, 2017, Miami Beach City Officials voted UNANIMOUSLY to allow the Sabrina Cohen Foundation to begin raising funds for the nation\u2019s first fully accessible three-story \u201cAdaptive Recreation Center.\u201d The Center will serve as a one of a kind, year round, access point for people with disabilities to fully enjoy the beach and ocean at 5301 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL.\n1800 SUNSET HARBOUR DRIVE #2406\nSabrina Cohen Featured in Ocean Drive Magazine May/June 2015 issue to promote adaptive beach", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 179.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gizmodo.com/astronauts-caught-a-terrifying-glimpse-of-hurricane-har-1798424941", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIZUQL66L7545S52A5J2QPL2VK3DVFU4", "length": 2463, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "gizmodo.com", "title": "Astronauts Caught a Terrifying Glimpse of Hurricane Harvey Speeding Toward Texas", "raw_content": "Astronauts Caught a Terrifying Glimpse of Hurricane Harvey Speeding Toward Texas\nFiled to: hurricanesFiled to: hurricanes\nAs Hurricane Harvey churns onward toward southwest Texas, astronauts on the International Space Station caught a glimpse of the monster cyclone from a safe viewing distance of 250 miles above the Earth. Honestly, you don\u2019t want to get much closer.\nThe footage was captured on August 24th at 6:15 PM Eastern Time, as warm waters and favorable wind conditions were helping the storm gather strength over the Gulf. Harvey officially achieved hurricane status after a bout of rapid intensification yesterday afternoon that the National Hurricane Center described as \u201castounding.\u201d\nNASA astronaut Randy Bresnik also tweeted some photos of the storm taken from the ISS last night, with words of solidarity for Texans in its path.\nMeanwhile, NOAA\u2019s Hurricane Hunters posted a harrowing time-lapse containing footage from a flight through the eye of the storm yesterday evening.\nHarvey is now centered 135 miles southeast of Corpus Christi, according to a recent update from the National Hurricane Center. While it isn\u2019t predicted to make landfall until later tonight or early tomorrow morning, tropical storm conditions are expected to reach residents of the middle and upper Texas coast by later this morning. Harvey is expected to be a major (Category 3+) hurricane at landfall, which would make it the first major hurricane landfall in the US since Hurricane Wilma in 2005.\nA prolific fifteen to 25 inches of rain is predicted top drop up and down the cost, with isolated accumulation totals of up to 35 inches. The NHC warns of \u201clife-threatening\u201d coastal inundation from the storm surge, and urges residents to complete preparations to protect themselves and their property this morning. Widespread evacuation orders were issued along Texas\u2019s Gulf Coast yesterday.\nAs if the threat to coastal residents wasn\u2019t bad enough, Hurricane Harvey\u2019s track could also bring it perilously close to the enormous petroleum refineries encircling Galveston Bay. As Emily Atkin writes in the New Republic, Harvey has the potential to become a major pollution disaster.\nWe\u2019ll be keeping a close eye on the storm, and bringing you updates throughout the day as they arise.\n[NASA h/t Washington Post]\nHurricane Harvey Expected to Bring Catastrophic Flooding to Texas [Updated]\nNOAA Predicts More Hurricanes Than Usual This Year\nHow a Hurricane Is Going to Kill You", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gizmodo.com/two-women-go-blind-after-checking-phone-in-bed-1782485530", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FDEUWNMTYXAXZFPG6PG2YWVN6MWIFHHW", "length": 2006, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "gizmodo.com", "title": "Two Women Go 'Blind' After Checking Their Phones in Bed", "raw_content": "Two Women Go 'Blind' After Checking Their Phones in Bed\nTwo poor souls suffered through MRIs, heart scans, and other medical tests to figure out what was causing them to go blind for up to 15 minutes at a time. After discovering that checking their phones in bed was to blame, one woman still couldn\u2019t stop. Such is the power of technology.\nThe women (ages 22 and 40) were understandably very concerned about what seemed like recurring vision loss, according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine. After the medical tests were inconclusive, they went to an eye doctor who simply asked them where they were when the blindness started. Turns out they were in bed, which doctors determined was the root of the ailment.\nThe problem isn\u2019t caused by being in bed. The issue is that both women checked their phones with one eye on the screen and the other covered by a pillow. Where the phone eye adapts to the light by being less dilated, the pillow eye is more dilated and adapts to the dark. After the phone is switched off, the phone eye takes a while to adjust to the dark and catch up to the pillow eye, causing the feeling of temporary blindness. There wasn\u2019t any true vision loss, but it was an effect similar to how we feel \u201cblind\u201d right when we go into a dark room after being outside.\nThe (obvious) bad news here is that not being able to see is scary, and nearly all of us check our phones in bed. The good news is that \u201ctransient smartphone blindness\u201d is avoidable and we can technically continue checking tweets in bed as long as we use both eyes.\nThese two case studies aren\u2019t definitive, and experts tell The Guardian that temporary smartphone blindness is a rare phenomenon. But now we know of at least one more thing that can go wrong with our eyes. And really, even if you don\u2019t go blind, it\u2019s probably best not to looking at you phone in bed. Nightmode exists for a reason: We really do need to sleep in total darkness. Your texts can wait until morning.\n[NEJM via The Guardian]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://glenchen.com/2013/08/08/getting-started-on-a-writing-career/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:38Z", "digest": "sha1:YFKPHCEFYLNC5N65PYQYATNTVY3FIBQZ", "length": 3575, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "glenchen.com", "title": "Getting Started in a Writing Career \u2013 The Great Adventure", "raw_content": "Getting Started in a Writing Career\nIn the past couple of years and several hundred entries into this blog, I have talked about how to come up with ideas, how to organize those ideas, how to write stories and novels, and how to get them published. But for me, writing is much more than a one-time thing. I am in it for the duration, which means they will probably need to bury my laptop with me when I die, preferably with wi-fi service. If you have one book in you, then it is simply a matter of getting the courage together to write that book and find a publisher for it. But if you plan on writing more than one project, it\u2019s a little bit different\u2013and then, it really isn\u2019t.\nI say it really isn\u2019t, because every writing career starts with one idea, just as a portfolio full of book titles is a collection of individual ideas. Writers are challenged to either (1) come up with an idea that inspires them, write it, then try to find a publisher who is equally inspired; (2) ask a publisher or editor what they are looking for, and then write that; or (3) find something that get you as a writer and your publisher equally excited. The serendipity of (3) is wonderful, but unfortunately is the exception rather than the rule.\nMy first big idea came back in the late 70s when I was the managing editor of the Pacific Union Recorder, a weekly newspaper for Seventh-day Adventists in the western U.S. I had a couple of little ones at home, and thought of the idea of listing spiritual, yet fun, activities for the family to do on our seventh-day Sabbath. At that time there were three Adventist publishing houses in North America, and I wrote a query letter to each of them. All three said they were interested. But I had never gotten anything published before this, at least that I wasn\u2019t the editor of, and so my apprehension got the better of me. As I put the idea on the back burner, two of the publishing houses forgot about me, but Richard Coffen, senior editor at Southern Publishing Association in Nashville, Tennessee, wrote me a couple of letters over the next two years, wondering what had happened to my idea. That gave me enough courage to try and put something together. And with my wife\u2019s blessing, I spent a Memorial Day Weekend writing the bulk of my first book, 52 Things to Do on Sabbath.\nAs I have mentioned here before, the challenges weren\u2019t over when I finished writing the manuscript. Because I printed it off, put it in an envelope, addressed it, stamped it, and promptly left it on my desk for the next two weeks. Finally I got the courage to mail it, and the rest is history. When I got the news that they were printing it, I said, \u201cNow I can die in peace.\u201d I was 28.\nSince that time, 52 Things has not gone out of print, and has sold more than 30,000 copies. But it almost didn\u2019t happen.\nThe challenges of starting a writing career are these: (1) find an idea that you can get behind and that has at least a reasonable chance of being published; (2) commit yourself to turning that idea to an actual manuscript (it\u2019s amazing how many fall down at this point, including me!); (3) find the courage to market your masterpiece either through conventional or non-conventional (independent) means.\nThe key to success is a writing career is tenacity. You need a modicum of talent, a willingness to pay your dues until you learn what you need to learn, and a desire so strong that it won\u2019t let you say no.\nDon\u2019t expect fame or fortune, but if you love writing, it won\u2019t matter.\nAnd it all starts with that first idea\u2026.\nPosted in Christianity, ideas, Writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 5731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 175.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/4233952/calgarys-reconciliation-bridge-renamed-we-cant-change-the-past-but-we-are-not-prisoners-of-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:59Z", "digest": "sha1:M4L3KO76BRK3D2BPVGWHL735MVFTH7YI", "length": 5166, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "globalnews.ca", "title": "Calgary\u2019s Reconciliation Bridge renamed: \u201cWe can\u2019t change the past but we are not prisoners of it\u201d | Globalnews.ca", "raw_content": "Reconciliation Bridge\nCalgary\u2019s Reconciliation Bridge renamed: \u201cWe can\u2019t change the past but we are not prisoners of it\u201d\nBy Carolyn Kury de Castillo\tReporter\tGlobal News\nSat, May 26: A ceremony was held in Calgary on Saturday for the naming of Reconciliation Bridge. As Carolyn Kury de Castillo reports residential school survivors are expressing their gratitude for the symbolic change.\nAn official naming ceremony was held on Saturday in Calgary at the Reconciliation Bridge. Elders and youth from Treaty 7 First Nations, Metis Nation Region 3 and the Inuit community participated in the event. It began with a prayer circle and a walk across the bridge, followed by drumming and a traditional Round Dance.\nThe bridge was first opened in 1910 and was named Langevin Bridge after one of the men behind Canada\u2019s residential school system. Hector-Louis Langevin was a Father of Confederation and a Conservative cabinet minister. In January of 2017, city council voted to change the bridge name.\nOn Saturday, residential school survivors came to witness the renaming of the bridge.\nREAD MORE: UBC apologizes for role in residential school system\n\u201cI thought for sure I wasn\u2019t going to make it out of that school,\u201d said Morley-area residential school survivor Rod Hunter.\n\u201cWe had a blue box with two holes in it in the basement of my residential school and I spent many nights in there,\u201d Hunter recalled. \u201cI peed on myself and I vomited on myself in that box because I stood against what they were doing to us. I was one of the few that always complained and I was one of the few that was abused by the priest and especially the nuns.\u201d\nMayor Nenshi called it a \u201ccomplicated day\u201d of remembering the children who were taken from their families and never came home, but also a day of joy looking to the future.\n\u201cOur greatest failure as a nation is our failure to have included our indigenous brothers and sisters in the prosperity of this place,\u201d Nenshi said. \u201cAnd that is why we are celebrating the Reconciliation Bridge today. That\u2019s why we are talking about our history with open and clear eyes.\u201d\n\u201cThere is a reason it\u2019s called the Reconciliation Bridge rather than giving it an indigenous name. It\u2019s because the name of the bridge is intended to spark a discussion.\u201d\nTreaty 7 leaders say the renaming of the bridge shows Canadian society is moving in the right direction, but there is still much more do to.\nREAD MORE: Calgary\u2019s bishop includes prayers for Indigenous Canadians during annual Way of the Cross\n\u201cYes, wrongs were done to us; yes, the church is still believes they didn\u2019t do anything wrong; yes, government people still think that we are wards of the state,\u201d said Tsuut\u2019ina chief Lee Crowchild. \u201cBut my grandparents would say you have to forgive them because they don\u2019t know very much at all.\u201d\nFor many at the ceremony it was a day of remembering a painful past, but also expressing gratitude for change.\n\u201cRenaming is something great for me because of what I went through and what some of my survivors went through,\u201d Hunter said. \u201cIt means a great deal. It means thank you from our hearts for recognizing us and for reconciliation. In our language it means to change your mind and to change your heart and to be as one.\u201d\nMayor Nenshi says the renaming ceremony is symbolically important in healing wounds with the area\u2019s First Nations and in demonstrating the country\u2019s commitment to move forward.\n\u201cSymbols matter. Names matter. And coming together today to celebrate this name on this bridge matters. It shows our commitment to each other,\u201d Nenshi said. \u201cWe can\u2019t change the past, but we are not prisoners of it. We are not solely defined by the pain of our shared history but rather by how we choose to move forward. And we choose to move forward in love and kindness and in compassion. In the true spirit of reconciliation.\u201d\nLiberal leader David Khan said this is about acknowledging a painful chapter in Canada\u2019s history.\n\u201cIndigenous peoples have suffered terrible treatment,\u201d said Liberal leader David Khan. \u201cBy renaming this bridge we reject a painful chapter in Canadian history and begin to build an inclusive future.\u201d But, Khan said, there must be more than just symbolic gestures to achieve true reconciliation with Indigenous peoples.\n\u201cTens of thousands of First Nations children lack acceptable access to culturally-based child welfare,\u201d Khan said. \u201cEducation funding on-reserve is far less per capita than off-reserve. Infrastructure is in decay and necessary services like clean water are far less accessible. Indigenous Canadians endure lower incomes, life expectancy and education levels, while suffering higher unemployment, suicide and incarcerations rates.\u201d\nThe name change came about through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, which attributed the following quote to former Public Works Minister Sir Hector-Louis Langevin:\n\u201cIn order to educate the children properly we must separate them from their families. Some people may say that this is hard but if we want to civilize them we must do that.\u201d\nThe quote was given in 1883 as an explanation for establishing residential schools for Aboriginal children.\nLangevin Bridge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 8790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalwomenshistory.com/2018/01/10/november-18-1939/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:33Z", "digest": "sha1:2CTVHQ6C4VHS6PKAWG33TX2RKMD5633V", "length": 1045, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "globalwomenshistory.com", "title": "November 18, 1939 \u2013 Global Women's History", "raw_content": "\u201cOptimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I\u2019m a realist.\u201d Margaret Atwood\nMargaret Atwood Canadian poet was born.\nMargaret Eleanor Atwood CC OOnt FRSC is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, and environmental activist.\nMargaret Atwood \u2013 Poet \u2013 Associated Links\nMargaret Atwood | Twitter: https://twitter.com/MargaretAtwood\nMargaret Atwood | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MargaretAtwoodAuthor/\nMargaret Atwood | Official Website: http://margaretatwood.ca\nMargaret Atwood, the Prophet of Dystopia | The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/04/17/margaret-atwood-the-prophet-of-dystopia\nMargaret Atwood | Poetry Foundation: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/margaret-atwood\nMargaret Atwood | Biography: https://www.biography.com/people/margaret-atwood-9191928\nMargaret Atwood | Quotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/margaret_atwood\nMargaret Atwood | Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3472.Margaret_Atwood\nLink to Photo Credit: Margaret Atwood", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://goldcoastwebsites.com.au/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:19Z", "digest": "sha1:N2RRZNBYN6PYLIJSOONHTWIGUVNPU3ZQ", "length": 2885, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "goldcoastwebsites.com.au", "title": "Privacy Policy - Gold Coast Websites", "raw_content": "\u2013 Updated June, 2018\nThank you for visiting goldcoastwebsites.com.au, the official website of the registered Australian business Gold Coast Websites, located in Gold Coast, QLD. 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Comey described the information as vital in the ongoing debate over policing in the United States.\nContinuing \u201cwithout comprehensive data only stalls meaningful conversation and fuels empty debates, both within law enforcement and in the communities we serve,\u201d [Comey] wrote in a message accompanying the release of the FBI\u2019s crime statistics for 2014.\nThis is not the first time Comey has criticized the lack of data available regarding how often police officers shoot and kill people. While the federal government does track some fatal police shootings, federal officials have acknowledged that this data is incomplete. Not all agencies in the United States participate in the voluntary reporting system, which had left a considerable gap in the ongoing public discussion.\nEarlier this year, Comey joined former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., who called the lack of information about the shootings \u201cunacceptable,\u201d notes the report.\nThe criticism came after protests against police violence following several high-profile law enforcement-involved deaths of unarmed Blacks, including Eric Garner in New York City, Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri.\nFiled under: Attorney General Eric Holder, Eric Garner, FBI, Ferguson, James B. Comey, Michael Brown, police deadly force statistics, police killings, Tamir Rice\nCommunity, Justice, News, Politics, Protests, U.S.\t March 12, 2015\nPROTEST: Hundreds Shut Down Decatur, GA For #AnthonyHill, U.S. Veteran Killed By Police\nBrandon Marshall carries a photo of Anthony Hill as protesters march through the street demonstrating Hill\u2019s shooting death by a police officer, Wednesday, March 11, 2015, in Decatur, Ga. (AP Photo/David Goldman)\nHundreds took to the streets of Decatur, Georgia yesterday, stopping traffic, chanting and holding signs like \u201cDemilitarize the police\u201d to protest the officer-involved shooting death of Anthony Hill, an unarmed 27-year-old black man in DeKalb County, a suburb of Atlanta.\nProtesters, using hashtags like #Antlanta and #AnthonyHill are questioning the use of force against Hill, an Air Force veteran who was naked and unarmed, when he was shot and killed by a white police officer on Monday.\nActivists announced the protest with an email asking this very question reports the Atlanta Journal Constitution:\n\u201cAnthony was naked and unarmed at the time of the shooting, yet Officer Olsen found him to be enough of a threat to take his life.\u201d\nThe officer who shot Hill, a seven-year veteran of the force has been identified by police as Robert Olsen, and has been placed on administrative leave, reports Reuters via The Huffington Post.\nHill was shot after he was dealing with what looked to be a mental health issue, said the DeKalb County police Chief Cedric Alexander on Monday. Alexander confirmed that police received a call about a man \u201cacting deranged, knocking on doors, and crawling around on the ground naked.\u201d\nAfter \u201crunning towards a responding officer,\u201d Hill was shot twice. Police found no weapon. Almost immediately, Twitter was flooded with the hashtags #AnthonyHill and #BlackLivesMatter.\nIronically, Hill had used the #BlackLivesMatter himself in the days before his death, reports Reuters:\n\u201cThe key thing to remember is, #blacklivesmatter, ABSOLUTELY, but not moreso than any other life,\u201d Hill wrote on his Facebook page on March 6.\nIn another post the same day, he said, \u201cNo man (or woman) is ever going to stop me from living the life I envision\u2026Empower yourself. Show these kids that #blacklivesmatter by living yours like it does.\u201d\nHill is at least the third African-American man since Friday who was unarmed when shot dead by police. Thousands have been rallying for the last few days in the streets of Madison Wisconsin for 19-year-old Tony Robinson, who was killed by police last week. Aurora, Colorado police confirmed that Naeschylus Vinzant, 37, was unarmed when he was shot and killed with one bullet by police on Friday.\nHill\u2019s shooting investigation went to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation in an effort at \u201ctransparency.\u201d\narticle by Angela Bronner Helm via newsone.com\nFiled under: #AnthonyHill, #Antlanta, #BlackLivesMatter, African-American veterans, African-Americans in military, aggressive police tactics, Anthony Hill, Decatur, Georgia, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, police killings\nCommunity, Justice, News, Politics, Protests, U.S.\t December 14, 2014\nTens Of Thousands March On NYPD Headquarters To Protest Police Killings\nTens of thousands of protesters streamed out of New York City\u2019s Washington Square Park on Saturday to protest the killings of unarmed black people by police officers, as part of the \u201cMillions March NYC.\u201d\nThe crowd began to wind its way through Manhattan. A large labor union contingent was present, including members of the Communications Workers of America wearing red shirts and AFL-CIO supporters waving blue signs.\nIn contrast to other marches over the past weeks, this large, orderly demonstration took place during the day. A number of families with children took part, and demonstrators followed a pre-planned route. The march made its way uptown to Herald Square, then looped back downtown, with thunderous chants of \u201cHands up! Don\u2019t shoot!\u201d and \u201cJustice! Now!\u201d echoing down Broadway. The demonstration culminated at One Police Plaza, the New York City Police Department\u2019s Lower Manhattan headquarters.\nOrganizers estimated that 30,000 demonstrators participated in the march. The NYPD told The Huffington Post that, as of the official end of the march, no arrests had been made.\nProtesters held up 8 panels depicting Eric Garner\u2019s eyes, created by an artist known as JR. \u201cThe eyes were chosen as the most important part of the face,\u201d said Tony Herbas of Bushwick, an assistant to the artist.\nRon Davis, whose son Jordan was shot dead by a man in Florida after an argument over loud music, was at the head of the march.\n\u201cWe have to make everybody accountable,\u201d Davis told HuffPost. \u201cYou can\u2019t continue to see videos of chokeholds, videos of kids getting shot in the back, and say it\u2019s all right. We have to make sure we have an independent investigator investigate these crimes that police carry out.\u201d\nMichael Dunn, the man who killed Jordan, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life without parole in October. Davis said Saturday that Dunn\u2019s conviction proves it\u2019s possible that justice can be served in racially charged cases.\n\u201cWe ended up getting a historic movement in Jacksonville,\u201d Davis said. \u201cWe had an almost all-white jury, with seven white men, convict a white man for shooting down an unarmed boy of color.\u201d\nAlso at the front of the march were New York City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez and New York state Assemblyman-elect Charles Barron.\nMatthew Brown, a 19-year-old who is African-American and Hispanic, marched down Broadway with his mother, aunt and other family members.\n\u201cI\u2019m trying to support a movement that really needs young people like myself,\u201d said Brown. \u201cI\u2019m here to speak for Mike Brown.\u201d\nThe teenager said part of his motivation for making the trek from West Orange, New Jersey, with his family was his own personal experience. He\u2019s encountered racist verbal abuse from police in Jersey City, he said, who have called him \u201cspic\u201d and monkey.\u201d\nCiting the cases of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and Tamir Rice, Brown said part of the reason he wanted to speak out was because of the way police represent encounters with African-Americans. \u201cI just see so many lies after lies.\u201d\nHe also attended the People\u2019s Climate March in September. But this march felt more intense to him. \u201cThis is one that\u2019s really affecting people on a deep, emotional level,\u201d Brown said.\nContinue reading \u201cTens Of Thousands March On NYPD Headquarters To Protest Police Killings\u201d \u2192\nFiled under: #BlackLivesMatter, Eric Garner, Ferguson, Jordan Davis, Manhattan, Michael Brown, Millions March NYC, New York, nonviolent protests, NYPD, NYPD Headquarters, police brutality, police killings, Tamir Rice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 20306, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://great-store-7.myshopify.com/products/dress-beautiful-girls-008", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:32Z", "digest": "sha1:47VEISLNAJTLMJDOE7IYVM6XL4XYN2RS", "length": 887, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "great-store-7.myshopify.com", "title": "Product Name #008 \u2013 Great Store", "raw_content": "Surround yourself with angels. I\u2019m giving you cloth talk, cloth. Special cloth alert, cut from a special cloth. We the best. Every chance I get, I water the plants, Lion! A major key, never panic. Don\u2019t panic, when it gets crazy and rough, don\u2019t panic, stay calm. You do know, you do know that they don\u2019t want you to have...\nCategory: New Products Vendor: jaxon\nSurround yourself with angels. I\u2019m giving you cloth talk, cloth. Special cloth alert, cut from a special cloth. We the best. Every chance I get, I water the plants, Lion! A major key, never panic. Don\u2019t panic, when it gets crazy and rough, don\u2019t panic, stay calm. You do know, you do know that they don\u2019t want you to have lunch. I\u2019m keeping it real with you, so what you going do is have lunch. You do know, you do know that they don\u2019t want you to have lunch. I\u2019m keeping it real with you, so what you going do is have lunch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 3635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greenfuture.io/sustainable-living/tiny-house-plans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KBNNZLNJDTBGINMH2YFE6FHITDUB54LD", "length": 4980, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "greenfuture.io", "title": "Tiny House Plans: How To Build Your Own Home", "raw_content": "These 7 Tiny House Plans Will Build Your Eco-Friendly Dream Home\nYou don\u2019t have to be a professional to create and customize your own home.\nIt\u2019s been nearly a decade since the housing market collapse and Great Recession, yet owning a home is still out-of-reach for many \u2014 particularly millennials.\nStudent loans and credit card debt, combined with rising rents, make it almost impossible to save for a down payment in most major cities. And that doesn\u2019t even take into account the escalating costs for the median cost of a home in the United States: $308,500 at the end of 2016.\nOne possible solution to these skyrocketing costs is to think small. Tiny house plans cost less than $100,000 to build, and they have the added bonus of being eco-friendly.\nHere are just a few of the reasons an eco-friendly tiny house is perfect for sustainable living:\nMany are solar-powered and can exist completely off-the-grid\nTheir small size means less energy consumed, and they encourage less consumption overall\nThey can be made with recycled material\nRelated: Why Camper Vans Will Spark A Serious Case Of Wanderlust\nTiny house plans make it easy for those who don\u2019t have professional building experience to create and customize their own dwelling. Most companies on this list include floor plans, detailed building instructions, and a breakdown of all the materials you\u2019ll need.\nHere are seven companies that offer building plans, ranging from free to $759.\n1. Tumbleweed Houses\nTumbleweed Houses is one of the biggest names in the tiny house community. The company offers two different styles of tiny house plans, with each available in three different sizes. All plans contain detailed instructions and a full materials list, making them suitable for beginning builders.\nBuilding plans from Tumbleweed are reviewed by architects and engineers, and they include details on how to properly attach your structure to a trailer. Plans cost $759, though the company is offering a $100 discount at the time of publishing.\n2. Four Lights Tiny House Community\nJay Shafer moved into his first tiny home in the late \u201890s, and he has been designing them ever since. Through his company, Four Lights Tiny House Community, he offers six styles of eco-friendly tiny house plans in a variety of sizes. These plans are customizable, featuring building guides for the home and individual components.\nYou can build all of these tiny houses on wheels or on a permanent foundation. Costs range from $199 to $699, including an estimated materials cost.\n3. Portland Alternative Dwellings\nPortland Alternative Dwellings offers more than just tiny house plans. The company also offers a variety of resources, including a compact how-to manual for designing and building your own portable dwelling.\nThe tiny house floor plans don\u2019t include electrical and plumbing diagrams, appliance specifications, and cabinet details or counter heights because the company wants each home to be unique. Costs range from $35-$199.\n4. Tiny Home Builders\nPlans from Tiny Home Builders are especially designed for the do-it-yourselfer. Each of the company\u2019s five styles includes 3D renderings to help you see how every board fits together and envision how your finished home will look.\nCosts range from $147 to $347, and the plans include a detailed, itemized list of materials.\n5. SolHaus Design\nIf you\u2019re looking for custom tiny house floor plans, SolHaus Designs is a great option. Founder Vina Lustado\u2019s signature design is based on a house she built for herself. She also offers two additional tiny house plans, plus the option for a custom design.\nPlans start at $385 and feature a detailed cost breakdown and materials list. Additional consultation and advice is available for an hourly fee.\nOne thing to note: house plans from SolHaus designs assume general building experience, and they do not include step-by-step instructions.\n6. Humble Homes\nTiny house plans from Humble Homes are ideal for someone without much building experience, as all plans come with free support and updates.\nEach of their 11 designs have been designed and reviewed by their structural engineer, and some include eco-friendly additions like solar panel and rainwater harvesting schematics.\nCosts range from $159 to $324 and include details for building your tiny home on wheels or a permanent foundation.\n7. The Small House Catalog\nDesigners Shawn and Jamie Dehner offer free plans at The Small House Catalog. While their company specializes in building homes that are slightly larger than tiny homes, you can find a few house plans on wheels, including one they built themselves in 2010.\nWith a wide variety of building plans on the market, you\u2019re certain to find one that fits your lifestyle. Are you looking to build a tiny home? Tell us about it in the comments, and learn more about how tiny houses are revolutionizing the housing market.\n\"Tiny house plans cost less than $100,000 to build, and they have the added bonus of being eco-friendly.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 9668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greytarticles.wordpress.com/hall-of-fame-greyhounds/dear-tucson-about-testosterone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:58Z", "digest": "sha1:BHZUL63ZSAZJON34C4AIGESVTCU4BSRJ", "length": 5131, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "greytarticles.wordpress.com", "title": "Dear Tucson-About Testosterone | Greyhound Articles Online", "raw_content": "As a retired professional greyhound trainer, over the course of my career, I handled thousands of females, who, with few exceptions, were all given monthly injections of testosterone as a means of responsible birth control. Those few who showed a sensitivity to the hormone were simply taken off them. That sensitivity usually indicated that you had a female who wouldn\u2019t come into season easily, at any rate.\nThe recent clamor [2014} that has come to my attention concerning the administration of hormones to females at the Tucson facility is a bit vexing. For 50 years, greyhound breeders have been castigated by the same anti-racing lobby who now demands forcible cessation of birth control for young female greyhounds, for \u201cover-breeding\u201d their dogs\u2014allegedly creating a glut of greyhounds each year who were in excess of the demand for them by the racetracks in the USA. As if there were no expense involved in breeding and raising those greyhounds, and as if racing opportunities were limitless.\nNow we are being led to believe that this was apparently not the case, and that in actuality, female greyhound\u2019s reproductive systems were being ravaged by hormone injections, creating all manner of widespread illness and reproductive tissue dysfunction. So which is it? They can\u2019t have it both ways.\nI would be interested in seeing the peer-reviewed papers and studies which indicate that there is a cause and effect relationship between the hormones used for birth control in female greyhounds, and the frequency of the alleged diseases, syndromes and dysfunctions, which exceed the frequency of these things occurring within the general canine population. Because that is the only issue that matters here. The various maladies that are alleged to occur among racing greyhounds are not in any way unique to the breed, nor are they rare among the rest of the female canine population. Let\u2019s stop playing \u201che said, she said\u201d, and bring some real science to the table for the purposes of comparing the wherewithal of the two populations. Without that, we are simply evaluating the veracity of anecdotes and hearsay, and viewing the greyhound population as an anomaly.\nAs far as the allegation that these birth control hormones confer a performance advantage upon females, that is easily disproved. One only has to look at the actual facts. Since the advent of formal, competitive coursing and then racing, it has long been known that female greyhounds can compete, stride-for-stride with males, and that racing ability is not sex-linked. There is no segregation of females in track racing, nor has there ever been. Historically, before and after the use of hormones as estrus suppressants, females have always won races at a rate that was proportional to their opportunities. The Tucson females today are no exception. Were they the recipients of a performance advantage as a result of these hormone injections, it is eminently logical to assume that they would then win a disproportionate number of races, compared to their opportunities. But they don\u2019t.\nRecently, Christopher Molnar, who performs the database inputs of race results from the USA for Greyhound-data.com, the world\u2019s definitive greyhound pedigree resource, did a study of all the greyhounds who competed, and the race results at Tucson, from April 1, 2011, through September 8, 2012.\nHere are the results of that study, which encompasses a very large sampling:\nRaces Recorded from 2011 Apr01- 2012 Sep 08: 6873\nTotal Races won by female dogs: 3850 (56%)\nTotal Races won by male dogs: 3023 (44%)\nTotal starts made by greyhounds: 53,890 during period\nTotal Female Starts: 30081 (56%)\nTotal Male Starts: 23809 (44%)\nTotal number of individual dogs during this time period: 1308\nTotal number of individual female dogs: 713 (55%)\nTotal number of individual male dogs: 595 (45%)\nSo we can see that females win at a rate that is in exact proportion to their opportunities, as they have historically. No more, no less.There was no performance advantage implied or expressed. They comprised 56% of the starters, and 56% of the winners. All of this information can be verified on Greyhound-data.com, which has the official charts of the races.\nI won\u2019t exhaust you by hyperventilating over my astonishment that 100 veterinarians in the Tucson area apparently feel that male greyhounds should be exposed to the debilitating and cruel stresses and the inevitable physical battles that will ensue should females be allowed to come into season randomly, within close proximity to them. It\u2019s Canine Behavior 101, and I won\u2019t ask you to spend any more of your time on something that is so easily grasped by anyone who is even casually familiar with the subject. We will also not belabor the unwanted and unplanned pregnancies that are sure to occur as a result of this monumentally absurd, proposed legislation. That will all happen in Court, when a handler is seriously injured, maimed, or worse, breaking up one of those canine battles for mating privileges, which would not have taken place had simple, humane, birth control protocols been allowed.\nCopyright 2014 Dennis McKeon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 532, "original_length": 21140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grist.org/climate-energy/coal-burning-slashed-lifespans-by-five-years-in-china-study-finds/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:44Z", "digest": "sha1:A66T64ABQPI7BYLWMKZWQ62WPCRVBR6A", "length": 3589, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "grist.org", "title": "Coal-burning slashed lifespans by five years in China, study finds | Grist", "raw_content": "Coal-burning slashed lifespans by five years in China, study finds\nShutterstockNow that\u2019s some bad air quality.\nResidents of northern China got free coal from the government during winters from 1950 to 1980, but it turns out that the coal actually came at a heavy price: shorter lifespans.\nThe Chinese government\u2019s Huai River policy provided coal free of charge to everybody living north of Huai River, which cleaves China in two. As residents of northern China, the colder part of the country, huddled around fuel burners inside their homes, the air outside was growing black with particular matter. Breathing that air robbed northern residents of an average of 5.5 years of their lives compared with their southern compatriots.\nThat\u2019s the stark finding of a new comparison of historical pollution levels and mortality data north and south of the Huai River. The study results, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide a stark illustration of the deathly consequences of coal burning.\nAir quality across much of China is famously awful, largely the result of coal burning. Starting in 1950, when the free-coal program began, the air in northern China grew dirtier than the air in the southern part of the country. The difference persists today, in part because many of the old fuel burners remain in use. And though the supply of free coal long ago dried up, residents of the north can purchase coal that\u2019s subsidized by the government.\nAir pollution is linked to everything from lung and heart disease to infant mortality to diabetes to acne. But for this study, the scientists focused on deaths during the 1990s caused by heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and respiratory illnesses.\nBy studying official data of some 500,000 deaths in China from 1991 to 2000, researchers from China, Israel, and Massachusetts found a five-year drop in lifespans just north of the river compared with just south of it. This drop was attributed to the differences in air quality triggered by the Huai River policy.\nPNASClick to embiggen.\n\u201cTo the north of the Huai River, particulate concentrations are \u2026 55% higher, and life expectancies are 5.5 [years] lower, almost entirely due to an increased incidence of cardiorespiratory mortality causes,\u201d the researchers wrote in their paper. \u201cThe estimates suggest that the 500 million residents of Northern China during the 1990s experienced a loss of more than 2.5 billion life years owing to the Huai River policy.\u201d\nWith coal use continuing to grow worldwide, the researchers hope their findings will help guide policy makers. From National Geographic news:\nDrawing on what they said was the most comprehensive data set ever compiled in the developing world, the researchers aimed to provide a yardstick that public policymakers can use as they consider the implications of decisions now being made on energy. 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I also speak to common health conditions that respond well to lifestyle changes such as Type II Diabetes and Heart Disease.\nLinks to some of my recent interviews and talks follow below.\nAutoimmune Diseases: An integrative approach to treatment\nThe Nurse Rona Show | june 7, 2017\nApproximately 50 million Americans are affected by autoimmune diseases, such as Graves disease, Type 1 Diabetes, and Rheumatoid arthritis. There are more than 80 different types of autoimmune diseases. Most conventional doctors treat the symptoms of autoimmune diseases, but may not look to find the root cause.\nIn this interview on KPFA, I discuss how people can use a natural approach to managing issues with their thyroid.\nThe Nurse Rona Show | january 23, 2017\nThe thyroid is one of the largest endocrine glands. It influences almost every cell in your body and helps to regulate your metabolism and weight. When your thyroid levels are out of balance, so are you. 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Some simple lifestyle changes can have a significant positive effect on Type II diabetes, including reversing the disease.\nIn this interview on KPFA, I discuss how people can reduce the complications of diabetes by learning how to make some lifestyle changes.\nThe Use of Medical Cannabis in the Treatment of Chronic Pain\nIM4US Conference: Integrative Medicine for the Underserved | August 19, 2016\nWhile cannabis has long been used as a patient preferred means of self-treating pain, it has emerged as an effective medical treatment for chronic pain, with numerous advantages including: Effective reduction of pain, harm reduction due to decreased reliance on narcotic drugs, flexibility in dosing and delivery methods that improve patient autonomy and self-efficacy in the treatment of their chronic pain.\nIn this talk at the IM4US Conference, I address how use of medical cannabis is evolving rapidly to treat a variety of conditions.\nWant me to speak to your audience?\nPlease fill out this form and I'll look forward to being in touch.\nWhat would you like me to talk about? *", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://haynes.com/en-gb/tips-tutorials/oil-change/renault-megane-2002-2008", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:54Z", "digest": "sha1:W37TBGRZK2INWFAAUHHPR4U7SCKMVAXM", "length": 100, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "haynes.com", "title": "Oil change Renault Megane (2002 - 2008) | Haynes Publishing", "raw_content": "Home | placeholder | Oil change Renault Megane (2002 - 2008)\nOil change Renault Megane (2002 - 2008)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hedgerleywood.org/blog/jo-and-harrys-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KZNOUF3P74EKGJFK6H2BHONBMWY4ZPL6", "length": 743, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "hedgerleywood.org", "title": "Jo and Harry\u2019s Story \u2013 HedgerleyWood.org", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Archives / Jo and Harry\u2019s Story\nJo and Harry\u2019s Story\n1st March 2013 /in Archives, Work /by admin\nThis week sees the launch of a powerful new feature film, Mary and Martha. The creation of Richard Curtis, best known for great comedies like Blackadder, it\u2019s the story of two mothers brought together by the shared personal tragedy of malaria. It\u2019s to be broadcast on BBC1 on Friday 1st March at 8.30 pm.\nBut behind this extraordinary film is an extraordinary real-life story. I talked to Jo Yirrell, the inspiration for the part of the mother played by Brenda Blethyn in the film, who has gone through family tragedy to become an ambassador for change with Malaria No More UK.\nMalaria No More! So that\u2019s empathy in practice!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://heightline.com/kari-wuhrer-bio-husband-children-height/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NBPUHXPKVGV2TT76DKQYADX643TL6IEF", "length": 6301, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "heightline.com", "title": "Kari Wuhrer Biography, Husband, Children, Age, Height and Family Life", "raw_content": "Home Actresses Kari Wuhrer Biography, Husband, Children, Age, Height and Family Life\nKari Wuhrer Biography, Husband, Children, Age, Height and Family Life\nKari Wuhrer is an American actress and singer who began her career as a teenager. She is best known for starring as a cast member on MTV\u2019s Remote Control as Sheriff Samantha Parker in the horror comedy film Eight Legged Freaks.\nShe is not only a good actress but is also considered beautiful. Kari was voted in two consecutive years, 2000 and 2001 on FHM 100 sexiest Women at #76 and #73 respectively.\nInsecurity is not only the usual social phenomenon among the common people, it also happens with the famous. At one time in her career, Kari felt insecure which led to her getting breast implants following pressures from a prominent record producer to do so. She called her experience the era of the Vide Vixen.\nAfter the implantation, she observed that she acquired the sense of self-acceptance as she wrote in September 2002 issue of Glamour magazine. During the filming of Spiders Web, her implants encapsulated leading to her removing them in 2002.\nThe beautiful actress is not all about her career and her body, there are more interesting facts about her. Read about her biography, family, and husband in this article.\nKari Wuhrer Biography, Age\nIt was in Brookfield, Connecticut, on April 28, 1967, that the actress was born as Kari Samantha Wuhrer. She was welcomed into the family of Karin, a payroll accountant and a German American police officer and car salesman, Andrew Wuhrer. Kari grew up with her three siblings; Christopher, Scott, and Kim. Her nationality is American and she is of white ethnicity.\nShe got interested in the show business at a tender age having been born into the lineage of performers. Her father and grandfather played the piano and her grandmother was a Jazz Singer. She would sneak out of the family house to sing in nightclubs as a teenager.\nSee Also: Chloe Lang Biography, Acting Career, Family Life, Age, Height and Quick Facts\nKari was well prepared and educated for her future career in the entertainment industry. From the age of 13, she studied acting at the Wooster School of Dramatic Arts. She also had further formal training both in New York and London at these institutes:\nNew York University\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts,\nMarymount Manhattan College,\nNew York H. B. Studio (with renowned and influential teacher Uta Hagen),\nRoyal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London,\nHarry Mastrogeorge,\nBennes Mardin, Checkov Institute.\nShe signed with the talent division of the world-famous Ford\u2019s Model Agency as a teenager and performed with a hard punk band called Freudian Slip occasionally. Her agency helped her to land a few roles in commercials.\nHer first appearance in a movie was in the 1986 film, Fire with Fire where she portrayed Gloria. She had her breakthrough in TV when she worked for the popular MTV game show, Remote Control for two seasons and would later work as a VJ on the channel.\nKari appeared regularly in television series in the \u201990s including Swamp Thing (1991-1992), Class of \u201996 (1993), Sliders (1997-2000). Her guest appearances include The Marshall (1995), To Have & To Hold (1998). Her recent works include CSI: Miami (2006), Leverage (2010).\nShe portrayed Ariel Hunter in the long-running prime-time soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210 (1994-1995). Kari Wuhrer joined the cast of the daytime soap opera General Hospital as FBI Reese Marshall from February 3 to November 2005. Her role came to an end after her character died from injuries incurred in a train wreck.\nAs opposed to the reason for her exit from the show which is the death of her character, Kari announced in January 2006 that she was suing General Hospital. On what grounds? She claimed that she was fired because of her pregnancy. However, the case was resolved in December 2006.\nHer film credits include The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990), Higher Learning (1995), Thinner (1996), Anaconda (1997), Kissing a Fool (1998), Kate\u2019s Addiction (1999), Berserker (2004), Eight Legged Freaks (2002), The Air I Breathe (2007).\nFor her role in Do It for Uncle Manny (2001), she won New York International Independent Film and Video Festival in the Best Actress category.\nA Flick with Music\nKari proved her talent as a singer with the release of her debut album, Shiny in 1999. She signed a record deal with impresario Rick Rubin and her album was released by Del-Fi Records. The singer did not only use her voice in the project but also tripled as a songwriter, writing most of the songs and an instrumentalist. She played both the guitar and the flute on several tracks.\nShiny became her only album as she has not recorded any other known one since then. We anticipate more from her if she ever ventures into that arena again.\nWho is she Married to? Husband, Children, Family Life\nYes, Kari Wuhrer is married, and not just once but twice in her lifetime. Sit back as we talk details about her marriage and family life.\nShe was married for the first time to Daniel Salim in 1995 but the union ended in divorce in 1999. Kari married a film producer, James Scura in 2003. She said on the size of her ideal family that she wants a big one. Kari described her husband as an incredible help and said he\u2019s like a dream not missing out the fact that he is romantic too. The kind of work she fancies is one where she can have her family and keep her job.\nSee Also: Laura Haddock \u2013 Bio, Husband, Relationship with Sam Claflin, Feet, Height\nHer marriage has produced three lovely children, two daughters, and a son. Their first child, a son, Enzo Scura was born in January 2004. Echo Luna Scura was born on 8th September 2008 and Evangeline Lotus Scura came on 27th March 2006.\nKari Wuhrer Height\nThe beautiful actress once said that her body is her greatest asset, indeed, it could be as you will soon find out why she said so. She has a curvaceous and buxom figure that is well supported by her height of 5\u2032 5\u2033 (1.65 m), elegantly borne on a weight of 49.9 kg (110 lbs).\nLittle wonder she has been recognized on more than one occasion as one of the hottest and sexiest women. 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For more information please see our Terms and Conditions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 238.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://herodescent.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/holy-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:22Z", "digest": "sha1:EDMR32UNSIQEKCWTRWWBQ7TNHZF5D6KQ", "length": 6058, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "herodescent.wordpress.com", "title": "Holy Family? \u2013 The Hero's Descent", "raw_content": "Holy Family?\n1 Sam 1: 20-22, 24-28; Luke 2: 41-52\nThe first thing that struck me in this gospel, as we all spend time with family and friends this holiday season, is that as Mary and Joseph search for Jesus, they spend most of their time in the midst of the clan, the family, and with friends, and he\u2019s nowhere to be found. Isn\u2019t that often the same for us? You would think the easiest place to find Jesus, God, is in the midst of the people that know us the best, our family and friends? Yet, we know that\u2019s not always true. Sometimes that makes it even harder because they are closest to us and so we\u2019ve been hurt by them, we have expectations that aren\u2019t met, we want them to give us something they\u2019re not capable of, and so it makes it that much harder in seeking God, Jesus, in those relationships. For many the holiday is not easy because of that. We come from broken homes as we call it, with divorce, abuse, family members that don\u2019t speak, grudges, and all the rest that gets entangled with family, making it difficult to find God, no matter how much we search, we can come up empty. It can take a lifetime to begin to untangle the hurt from the love and the gift that encompasses both.\nBut there\u2019s something else and we hear it through Hannah in today\u2019s first reading from First Samuel, among other stories of babies and children in the Scripture. It seems, as it is with Hannah, as well as others, such as Elizabeth that he heard just a week ago on the last Sunday of Advent, they freely hand their children over to God. It\u2019s amazing, and it often comes through these women who have been barren and have struggled for years, too, questioning where God was in all of it, and then it happens and they want to give back. We must be mindful not to read these accounts historically, otherwise they become linear as life often seems. Rather, we must read them as myth, a truth that is eternal, and so we can glean something from these women and families about what we are called to as family here.\nAnother perspective, or approach, to these stories is that they see their children as gift and their primary vocation is that of steward of that gift. They know this child is not their own. They don\u2019t possess the child. They cannot control the child. They cannot even determine the destiny of the child. All they can do is give them back to God. We like to think that they\u2019re \u201cour\u201d kids, when in reality, we are the stewards of the gift that God has given, knowing it\u2019s all for such a short time. All we can do is get out of the way and guide them in finding their purpose in this life. We can see in Jesus, one who has a deeper purpose and vocation, even at the young age of twelve, as he is drawn to the temple in today\u2019s gospel.\nOf course, I don\u2019t think I\u2019m the one to tell you how to raise your kids or what\u2019s best for them. I\u2019m in no position to do that. However, I have spent a great deal of time working with teens and so I have some perspective as to where they come from and I can tell you, that, we as adults put a great deal of pressure on them these days to be someone or something, often times who they aren\u2019t. I\u2019d bet none of us would respond the way Mary and Joseph do in today\u2019s gospel after their son had been lost for days! Yet, again, they point us to a greater truth about one another and how we see life and do we see it as gift and we the stewards of this fragile gift that has been entrusted. We\u2019ve become so much about consuming and producing that we\u2019ve lost sight of the gift. It\u2019s about success. It\u2019s about being the best at everything. It\u2019s so often about living through our kids because we were somehow shorted a childhood. It\u2019s about getting into the best schools. And then go produce. Make yourself useful.\nDon\u2019t get me wrong. There is some of that that is necessary when we are young and part of our responsibility to care for others and this planet, but not until we\u2019re ready. There must be time to explore and learn as Jesus does, sit at the feet of wisdom figures to absorb what is important in life. Otherwise, we lose sight of the gift we are and lose sight of the gift others are around us and toward us and even in spite of us! Maybe that\u2019s why it is so hard to find God in the place that you would think to be the most obvious. Maybe even Mary and Joseph had to learn a lesson about this child entrusted to them in their quest and their \u201cgreat anxiety\u201d that they experienced. In the end, as much as we want to control and dictate, it\u2019s just not our place. All we can do is get out of the way, and like Hannah, give them back to God. It helps to create space within us and around us so that we can see all along God has been present, but even that gets distorted in our youth as to what we expect rather than seeing the deeper mystery of the relationships at hand.\nAs we gather on this feast of the Holy Family, we pray for the same openness that we see in this family and in people like Hannah, among others, who continuously create that space in their lives for a deeper and greater mystery at work, a God who calls us to be His stewards to the gifts that have been entrusted to us, most especially the gift of life. There\u2019s no doubt that a renewal of family is necessary but there\u2019s also a need for healing among God\u2019s people, for a family goes beyond our biological family. We are all gift, a mystery that continues to unfold within us, leading us to our deeper call, a deeper family, to be stewards of the greatest gift offered, the gift of human life, given back in order to become the greater glory of God.\nThis entry was posted in Current Events, Homilies, Uncategorized and tagged family, giftedness, produce. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 Forever Changed\nThe Further Journey \u2192\n3 thoughts on \u201cHoly Family?\u201d\nClrspgknl@aol.com | 12/27/2015 at 6:07 PM\nThat is a beautiful homily, Fr. Marty. Happy New Year! Ginny and Jim Emerson\nmaxinehudak@verizon.net | 12/27/2015 at 9:47 PM\nBridget | 12/27/2015 at 9:50 PM\nThank you Father. 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The vacation rentals are able to benefit both the people who have big families and the ones who are travelling independently. A vacation rental that has been constructed next to the ocean or the beach has an ability to offer with a very beautiful view.\nFor families, a vacation rental is considered to be very important since they are actually able to save you on a lot of money. After you have decided to take your entire family on a vacation, picking a villa is considered to be the wisest move. Payment of rent of done on a weekly or on a monthly basis on these vacation rentals. The importance of the vacation rentals is that they are able to provide with discounts for their customers especially when the rent is being paid on a weekly basis.\nThe weekly rent is considered to be actually less expensive that the amount of money that you are likely to pay for in a resort for one week. 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However, this entirely depends on the kind of vacation rental that you have chosen for your vacation since some of them may provide for amenities such as spas, something that may be provided in other vacation rentals. similar amenities are however also provided in some of the hotels. Conversely, the amenities that are usually provided in the hotels and the resorts are more private and reserved. The television and the wireless internet are some of the additional amenities that are usually provided by the vacation rentals.\nFurthermore, a full kitchen is also provided for the whole family. A kitchen may be considered to be very essential especially if the vacation is going to last for a number of weeks or even months. These kitchens have an ability to be of more convenience and to ensure that they have saved you on a lot of money. Many are times when you may not be feeling like you want to dine in an outside restaurant, and this is where the kitchens come in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 4722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 146.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://houseoflyrics.com/lyrics/frank_sinatra/a_friend_of_yours.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VOABQR67LEEDKHVTUCIOH47UPI7T7TPZ", "length": 436, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "houseoflyrics.com", "title": "Frank Sinatra - A Friend Of Yours Lyrics", "raw_content": "Frank Sinatra - \"A Friend Of Yours\" lyrics\nJust say that I'm a friend of yours and maybe they won't get wise, And if they see us together, I'll brush the dream from my eyes. I'll tell my heart it mustn't seem the song of remember when, I'll tell my heart that it mustn't seem the song of remember when, Just say that I'm a friend of yours that you happen to meet again. Just say that I'm a friend of yours that you happen to meet again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://how2makelemonade.wordpress.com/2013/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:29Z", "digest": "sha1:QNFSJIA3DON6B2VVD733CP43ECALERAU", "length": 1863, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "how2makelemonade.wordpress.com", "title": "August | 2013 | How to Make Lemonade", "raw_content": "Posted on August 21, 2013 by emilykgoss\nI lost something else. This time it was the key to my mailbox at my apartment complex. Yes, I am sure you are thinking, \u201cDon\u2019t you keep your mailbox key on your key chain with all your other keys?\u201d And the answer would be yes. So now you are probably wondering how I only lost the one key and not the rest of them. Well this is how it happened, or at least how I think it happen.\nI like most people find it difficult to take keys on and off key rings. So I decided to add a second ring to my key chain that made it much easier to take my house key off when I go running. My guess is the mailbox key fell off somewhere and I did not hear it fall. I know it sounds a little crazy but it has happened before. Last year the keyless entry to my car fell off and it took me months to find it. (It had fallen into a crack in my car.) I should have changed the key ring then but didn\u2019t.\nWell I still have not found the key. I figured I would give it a few days to show up before I went to extreme measures, but couldn\u2019t wait forever since my mail was starting to pile up. First, I started at the post office to see if they had an extra key and they did not. I knew it was a long shot but I figured that I would at least try it. Then, I called my real estate agent to see if the owners had an extra key and no luck there either. Finally, I had to call the local locksmith to remake the keys to the box. This was surprisingly not very painful at all (besides the $50 I had to spend). I called them and gave them the information and later that day picked the keys up. They even made me a few extra.\nI am sure you are all wondering, so here\u2019s what it looked like when I finally got inside\u2026.\nIt just happened that the Fall issue of Harper\u2019s Bazaar decided to come during that week. 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It happened actually very randomly and unexpectedly. I was away at a work convention (believe it or not) and was in a relaxed state of mind, and the lighting was a bit low as we were inside a convention hall with no windows in particular. I began seeing these waves of transparent light coming out and up from everyone's heads in that room with me. At first I thought maybe I had fallen asleep and was dreaming. Then I thought I was just going crazy and tried to blink it away. But the more I tried to get rid of it, the more I realized that I couldn't...that I was probably seeing auras. It looked sort of like when heat is coming off of a just used car. Heat waves protruding and waving up is what they looked like. Some were more apparent than others, some went up higher than others. Have you had an experience like this? Since then, I'm able to see auras of others at different times, but not always on command.\nYes I actually have. Back when I meditated daily I learned how to do it. Though it wouldn't always do so when I wanted to I could see them on occasion. My experience with how they look is like what you explained except they had colors to them. Some were more vibrant than others. I am glad to see that you have experienced this Kitty. To me that means you are growing spiritually. I hope to be able to experience this again for it has been a while. Only recently since joining hubpages have I grown more spiritual once again.\nI have yet to see color...I more or less can sense colors but not physically see them. Thanks for sharing.\nCheck either your blood-sugar levels or your eyes.\ni don't believe you. you have never seen an aura , just like no one has ever seen god , ghosts or any of that other stuff. i find it amusing the things people say they can see but it also bothers me when i see them trying to get others to believe them in order to get attention.\nThen, they were probably heat waves. Why would you jump to the conclusion they were something else?\nI once had a similar experience in one of my classes in high school. Afterward, I tried on several occasions to do so again. Yet the more I tried, the more I simply experienced retinal burn which gives a similar appearance (transparent like a heat wave, but simply the echo of the shape being observed). With time and patience, I am sure I could have figured out what I did that first time. However, I've found that sensing rather than seeing is more my talent and so focus on that instead.\nEvelyn - Thanks for sharing. I've come to learn that I am big into sensing things as well and rarely get the \"vision\", but when I do get the vision it's pretty intense.\nWhen I was a student frequenting pubs and nightclubs, I believe that I must have been giving off a homosexuality aura, as never once did I ever get chatted up by a woman!!!\nthat would mean that your aura prevented you from seeing a areola\nIf you're going to make tasteless jokes, at least use proper grammer. \"a areola\" should be \"an areola\".\nif you have never tasted them, you can't judge\nDo male areolas count?\nno.. i'm sorry, they are biologically unnecessary\n...but fun!\nSure enough; jokes should be grammatically correct; if English would be one's mother tongue; but you know he is Greek One.\nAnd disappearinghead - That's not surprising.\nwanzulfikriposted 7 years ago\nI've never seen an aura but I believe they exist\nwanzulfikri - Yes, hasn't science proven some sort of energy field around the human body? Thanks for posting!\nThank goodness no! Usually it's the same women who think they see ghosts and believe they have psychic abilities to boot!\nI'm not really sure how many times you were dropped on your head as a child, but I truly feel bad for you.\nComing from someone who sees \"auras,\" I'll take that as a compliment. What's your excuse?\nIt sounds to me like you were having a mild migraine. Many people experience an \"aura\" prior to a migraine headache.\nThat could possibly be, but I had no other symptoms of a migraine and I've had them before. Thanks though.\nThat might mean consulting a physician or a phsychologist.\nSure...but I was pretty high at the time. lol\nThe term \"Aura\" was used lightly but I saw a documentary a few years ago where people were taking pictures of oher people in different moods and were able to capture waves or color coming off them. It was small and the film had to be zoomed in on but it was there.\nAnother interesting place for info on like subjects is from the film, \"What the BLEEP do we know?\" Fun stuff on there.\nTV good... facts bad.\ndepends when I am in the mood for hallucinating.\nThen again, I took some drugs in my youth that \"allowed\" me to all sorts of fun stuff\nYeah, apparently most of these people on here have. I was more than sober when I had my experience.\nSo to what end though does this serve? What is the reason for seeing colors around someone? I don't understand the concept.\n4elementsposted 7 years agoin reply to this\nColors are taken for emotions and moods, feelings which ever word you would like. Like for instant, White- innocence, spiritual. Black- dark, evil, devoid. Red- passinate, anger, pissed off, and so on. These are just a few examples about colors and auras. If there are any mispelled words I apoligize, next to math it was one of my worst subjects. Peace, love, and light. Blessings\nSo the colors reflect the mood of the person in that moment?\nYes colors reflect moods and their over all personality. For example if a person is mainly a passionate type then main color of aura could be orange with a redness to it, or if they are a naturally angry or pissed off type then majority color of aura would be dominantly red,. This is how I come to understand colors and auras. Blessings\nAlthough moods can be reflected in one's aura, the aura is merely a reflection of the individual's current electrical field. That said, the colors can reveal matters of physical and mental health as well as moods and personality. The colors seen, however are limited by the one's physical ability to view colors within the light spectrum (which means our interpretations of those colors are likewise limited). Thus, human perceptions of colors of the aura are incomplete. Although auras can be useful in detecting problems, other means of diagnosis and treatment are important even to the practitioner who can physically see auras and/or work with auras.\nSo is this kind of, forgive my terminology here, belief in line with evolution? Like is this the next step?\nI'm not sure exactly what you mean. Possessing auras, as previously mentioned, has always and will always be a matter of fact for anything composed of energy (which is all matter). In that sense, it has nothing to do with evolution. As for humans being able to see auras, I suppose you could consider that an evolutionary possibility. Enough people developing the ability during their lifetimes and the ability being passed down to offspring through genetic coding and in time more people can see auras than can't. Yeah, sure.\nPersonally, though, I do not see any evolutionary benefit in it. If we could evolve to see the entire light spectrum, the ability to see auras could be like an instant visual recognition and diagnostic tool. However, with our current visual capacity (not just the color spectrum, but also other aspects of visuo-spatial cognitive abilities), our knowledge of the appearance of auras and what they mean is simply too limited. We would be much better off developing strength in other skills, such as empathy and intuition. Those would certainly provide evolutionary benefits.\nWe can see the entire light spectrum now. There are no invisible colours. UV and IR are not light, because we have defined light to be that part of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be detected by the (typical) human eye.\nYou are correct. There are no invisible colors. Human vision is limited. Just because a human cannot see a particular type of wavelength (be it color or otherwise) does not make it \"invisible.\" For a very brief explanation see http://www.sciencecore.columbia.edu/dem \u2026 /6266.html Believe it or not, objects, wavelengths, entities, energy, and so on and so forth can do exist beyond human observation.\nLOL! That's a pretty funny argument. Since eyes have evolved to capture certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, but not others, the other wavelengths can't be detected or measured according to your logic, even though they have been measured with great precision.\nFurther to that, the argument extends to include things that cannot be observed \"beyond human observation, but do exist, despite never having been observed.\nOur eyes are sensitive to wavelengths from about 400 to about 700 nanometres. That's slightly less than one octave (where an octave is a doubling of frequency). The electromagnetic spectrum is continuous for almost unlimited octaves (doublings or halvings) at both ends of the visible spectrum. 'Invisible' means that which we cannot see. To say that just because we can't see something it isn't invisible is palpable nonsense. This is all well understood and doesn't need to be rendered 'mystical'.\nFor example, a bat can hear ultrasonic airborne waves. We can't. But we have instrumentation that can produce and detect such waves. There's nothing special about it. Inaudible is a word that means 'that which humans cannot hear', i.e. air pressure waves with frequencies below 20 Hz or above 20 kHz (approx).\nOnly the Bizarro world has facts like that. Not here on Earth, though.\nLOL! Magic is not evolutionary or passed down to offspring through genetic coding.\nA bit of an education would also offer some benefit to those who pretend to have one and help develop skills in critical thinking and logic.\nPerhaps you are too caught up on the word \"aura.\" The aura is nothing more than the electromagnetic field around an individual. (The article \"Aura: A Scientific Explanation for Its Mysticism\" available at http://sps.nus.edu.sg/~kuldip/My-Web/USC2001/Aura.pdf provides information on the biological explanations for this electromagnetic field as well as other evidence-based explanations for and against the metaphysical belief in auras.) Considering this definition, the aura exists here in the real world.\nNo one said magick is evolutionary. It is a skill requiring development. To say it can be passed down by genetics is like saying if two parents know how to read and their parents before them knew how to read and so on and so forth, then their offspring will be born with the knowledge already intact. Does not work that way. However, if parents develop a new cognitive ability (creating neurological pathways and even over or under developing the physical structures of their brain to do so) and this continues for generations, the cognitive ability could possibly be passed down. The knowledge associated with such an ability would require learning, however. In the same way a child has to learn that hiding their toy behind a pillow does not mean the toy no longer exists and other fun visual illusions, a child born with an ability to physically see electromagnetic fields would need to combine this visual ability with other cognitive skills to have any clue what they are seeing.\nI agree. A bit of education into the basic sciences of the universe would bring some much needed logic to these discussions.\nNo, it's a word describing imaginary electromagnetic fields around an individual.\nUnfortunately, the authors have placed a password protected prohibition from anyone wanting to copy/paste words from the article which I would like to use specifically.\nRead the bit on, \"Defining Aura\" regarding the 6 bodies and oval shaped field.\nThen go to the \"Conclusions\" to see that they agree no such evidence exists or can be shown to exist scientifically.\nLastly, go to the \"Acknowledgements\" to see that they never conducted any experiments whatsoever \"Due to financial and resources constraints\"\nLOL! Arguing that developing new cognitive abilities as a result of creating neural pathways is somehow going to support the existence of auras.\nBetter get started, then.\nWell this has become a hot bed since I was here last.\nI line of questions was just probing for understanding. If seeing an aura for the purpose of knowing someone's mood it seems odd to me since we use facial cues for that. Anyways, thanks for entertaining my questions Evylyn Rose. Sorry if I started something!\nicountthetimesposted 7 years ago\nI haven't, but it sounds fascinating.\nYes I have they can be quite colorful.\nYes a couple times actually.\nCheck your blood sugar levels, they seem high.\nI have not seen an aura. But my father says he saw an aura around my face. (That was the time when I practiced some esoteric rituals.) I believe he said so out of love.\nDid Jesus see an aura?\nI don't think he ever did.\nYashua was God in the flesh Paar, so like everyone else, he would have emitted heat radiation in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Now certain species of snake for example can \"see\"/detect this radiation from their prey, therefore snakes could have seen his heat radiation \"aura\".\nNow we have all seen the wavy pattern that 'appears' to rise from hot objects. This is due to the light scatter as it passes through the rising warm air. If a person is sufficiently warm in a very cold environment, it is conceivable that this \"aura\" could be visible.\nDid Bible mention that Jesus had an aura, always around him, seen by the naked eye?\nYou didn't read a single word I said did you Paar.\nIn fact I read the whole of it. I don't think it answered my query. Please elaborate.\nPersonally, I would not be surprised if he did considering many of his other metaphysical talents. That said, we have no documentation that he ever mentioned it. In the spirit of \"if it isn't recorded it didn't happen\" your answer is no.\nI think Jesus did not have any aura; had he had it our friends Brenda Durham and Emile R should have jumped to it.\nThe question of yours I responded to was whether or not Jesus saw an aura. Personally I believe yes, but there is no evidence to support this so the answer is inconclusive at best. As for him having one the answer is yes. Considering that the practice of viewing auras was not geographically relevant to the areas in which he was documented (and certainly honing the ability would have been worthless to those doing the documentation), there would be no reason for the mention as to whether Jesus did or did not have an aura.\nAnything composed of electromagnetic energy has an aura regardless of whether or not a human has the ability to perceive it. I believe you are confusing the aura as some sort of mystical light surrounding certain people and not as the energy that it is. All matter has the potential to give off an aura to anyone or thing that can perceive it.\nLOL! Funny that some who pretend to be 'special' have to make up stuff so ridiculous, they lose sight of the fact some of us are adults.\nI'm a little confused by your post. What stuff is ridiculous? The scientifically proven fact that all matter is composed of energy? Or that someone would think they are somehow unique for having an aura as all things do? I don't see how either case would have anything to with whether or not someone is an adult.\nYes, I know you don't understand that the stuff you make up has anything to do with being an adult.\nI'm afraid what I state is nothing made up. At worst, I'm just regurgitating information passed on by physicists. Last I checked, even prodigies are adults by the time they earn their doctorates.\nOkay, can you show me a physicists abstract on auras? They should be plentiful if you're regurgitating them.\nMatter and energy are equivalent and can be converted from one to the other, but that does not support your claims regarding auras.\nI always have heard that the color of the aura reflected one's state of consciousness.\nastral projection - have you ever...?\nby Katrionawrites 8 years ago\nI would like to know if anyone else has ever had any out-of-body experiences; and what they saw whilst they were 'under'. I have been researching this particular skill with the open mindedness of one who will believe anything until she dissproves it to herself, and about three weeks ago believed I...\nIf someone told you they personally experienced a supernatural healing, would yo\nIf someone told you they personally experienced a supernatural healing, would you believe them?\nDo you believe people have an aura about them with negative or positive energy a\nDo you believe people have an aura about them with negative or positive energy and can you tell?Some people believe there is a positive or negative energy about others and a lot of people can feel that energy making the person either more or less approachable. Do you believe that about...\nWhat do you believe brings a spirit to you? Are some people more susecptible tha\nby Mudrearth 9 years ago\nWhat do you believe brings a spirit to you? 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Lately, my son and I have been praying for some things in our life and a person in our life that...\nIt is simply not reasonable to believe that a god or gods exist.\nThe belief in supernatural deities, whether in the fashion of the original monotheism of Aten (Judaism and Islam), the polytheism of Christianity or the animism of the ancients is a contradiction to Man's ability to reason.There was a time when Man, limited by knowledge, looked to the sky, himself...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 414, "original_length": 27849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hudsonvalleyone.com/2018/08/15/hudson-valley-ribfest-returns-to-the-ulster-county-fairgrounds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:26Z", "digest": "sha1:4VTY5ZMCX7NDP72WBONPMVUF53UTPPX5", "length": 6547, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "hudsonvalleyone.com", "title": "Hudson Valley Ribfest returns to the Ulster County Fairgrounds | Hudson Valley One", "raw_content": "\nHudson Valley Ribfest returns to the Ulster County Fairgrounds\nJessica and Ava Spadafora of New Paltz enjoy their lunch at the Hudson Valley Ribfest in 2014. (Photo by Lauren Thomas)\nBackyard barbecue has a long tradition in this country. Established in the South by the 19th century, the culinary techniques of cooking meat low-and-slow arrived later in the North, carried to these parts by the mass migration of Southerners seeking better financial opportunities. Firmly entrenched in our collective culture now, one of barbecue\u2019s chief advantages \u2014 in addition to being delicious \u2014 has always been that it allows large quantities of food to be prepared at once, making it a sure bet for a gathering of people seeking to share a meal outside in a natural setting.\nThe biggest barbecue gathering in this region happens every August at the Ulster County Fairgrounds, where the 14th annual Hudson Valley Ribfest will be held Friday through Sunday, August 17-19. The event goes on rain or shine, and parking is plentiful and free.\nThe Highland Rotary Club puts on Ribfest as a fundraiser, enlisting more than 300 volunteers every year to put on the three-day event. The proceeds enable the service club to support their many projects locally and promote humanitarian causes worldwide. Highland Rotarians are among the 1.2 million people in Rotary\u2019s global network who seek to make the world a better place by taking action through more than 35,000 clubs in the U.S. and abroad.\nRibfest kicks off Friday evening, August 17 with free admission from 5-10 p.m., sponsored by Highland Rotary and iHeart Media. Register for free tickets in advance at www.HudsonValleyRibfest.org.\nThe fairgrounds will open on Saturday, August 18 from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday festival hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Single-day general admission costs $7 for adults \u2014 use code BBQ4Me online for a 20 percent discount \u2014 and admission is free for kids under age 12. Tickets are also available at the gate. The price of admission includes entry to the festival, live music, kids\u2019 activities and additional entertainment, access to the contest area and same-day re-entry.\nThe main stage at Ribfest will feature live music all weekend, sponsored by iHeart Media. The lineup on Friday, August 17 begins at 6:30 p.m. with the group Williams Honor, who recently opened for Bon Jovi at Madison Square Garden. Jessica Lynn takes the stage at 8 p.m., fresh off a summer European tour.\nSaturday, August 18 features a mix of country and classic rock with Country Fresh playing at noon, BedRock at 3 p.m. and Led Zeppelin tribute band, Zep Again, at 7 p.m.\nOn Sunday, August 19, live entertainment will be provided by Hudson Valley-based Little Creek at noon and Roadhouse Roosters at 2:30 p.m.\nFood vendors at Ribfest will include those offering hot dogs, hamburgers and fries, jerk shrimp and fish, Mexican and Jamaican food. Barbecue vendors (as of press time) include Big Kev\u2019s BBQ, Butch\u2019s Smack Your Lips BBQ, Gullah Q. Lowcountry BBQ and Jack McDavid\u2019s Down Home Diner. Each will have half and full racks of ribs available along with other barbecued meats and side dishes, and they often sell bottles of their sauces and spice rubs, too.\nTantillo\u2019s Farm will have apple cider doughnuts and pies, and the local 4-H kids their \u201cfamous milkshakes.\u201d Other vendors will have classic fair food: roasted corn, fried dough, fried pickles, Italian ices, soft pretzels, kettle corn, ice cream and lemonade.\nFor those seeking something a little stronger to imbibe, the Highland Rotary Club staffs the beer tent conveniently located in the center of the festival, with a selection of beer and bottled cocktails available. IDs are checked once and wristbands issued for easy purchase on the second round.\nActivities for kids include the free \u201cKid\u2019s Korner\u201d for craft-making and a \u201cFamily Fun Area\u201d with inflatable bouncy houses.\nThe chef demo tent hosts cooking demonstrations and tastings, the cornhole tournaments will return, and for a little retail therapy, check out the marketplace area with vendors offering a range of items from gourmet nuts, fudge and candy to clothing and cutlery. A complete list of vendors is on the event website.\nNew this year for the event is an extension of the \u201cBest of the Fest\u201d VIP experience to two nights rather than just Friday as in years past. Tickets cost $75 for Friday evening and $100 for Saturday, available by advance purchase online only. Early purchase is advised, as just 100 tickets are reserved for each night. Ticketholders to the VIP experience must be age 21 or older.\nThe VIP Tent opens at 5 p.m. Food will be served between 6-9 p.m. Friday evening and 5-9 p.m. on Saturday. Ticketholders enjoy unlimited ribs, beer, wine and soda, samples from Hudson Valley Ribfest vendors and a wide variety of side dishes and desserts, under a private tent close to the stage with a roped-off outside area. A gift bag is included and on Saturday, there will be a private performance under the tent at 6 p.m. by one of the musical acts in the festival lineup: Williams Honor.\nThe barbecue competition\nRibFest also includes a barbecue competition. Sixty teams of competitors set up their grills in a \u201cvillage\u201d of sorts at the back of the fairgrounds, behind where the main action for visitors takes place. RibFest is affiliated with the Empire State BBQ Championship Challenge, a statewide series of competitive events intended to promote the love of barbecue. Winners earn cash prizes and bragging rights.\nOn Saturday afternoon, The New England Barbecue Society will sponsor a grilling contest. Prizes will be won in four categories: pizza, \u201cwrapped in bacon,\u201d ribeye steak and grilled apple dessert. Sunday\u2019s competition, sponsored by the Kansas City Barbeque Society (KCBS), will be all about the barbecued meats: chicken, pork ribs, pork butt/shoulder and beef brisket.\nThe judges for the contest have all completed a KCBS-sanctioned rib-judging training program. Spots to act as judges at Hudson Valley RibFest are snapped up quickly each February when the word is put out to apply. The ribs cooked up by the competitive teams are strictly for judging, not for sale to the public, but some of the contest teams do act as \u201ctailgate vendors,\u201d selling sauces and t-shirts or other BBQ-related products. Competitors are also happy to chat with visitors who wander back to the contest area.\nFor advance tickets to Ribfest or for more information, visit https://hudsonvalleyribfest.org/.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 10589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hullandeastriding.mumbler.co.uk/preston-road-hull-kr-craven-park-the-dance-academy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:49Z", "digest": "sha1:QD3KHO64T6LYPTHN753NS675BR4IEGGL", "length": 1180, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "hullandeastriding.mumbler.co.uk", "title": "Preston Road \u2013 Hull KR Craven Park, The Dance Academy | Hull and East Riding Mumbler", "raw_content": "Preston Road \u2013 Hull KR Craven Park, The Dance Academy\nThe Dance Academy focuses on developing key fundamental movement skills such as agility, balance, coordination, flexibility and core strength. We do this through fun, no pressure dance classes. Our classes aim to enhance performance skills and boost confidence whilst helping young people to stay fit and healthy. We work on different dance styles including Jazz, Pop, Street Dance, Commercial, Contemporary and we also have classes specialising in ballet and musical theatre.\nMembers of the Hull KR Dance Academy have the opportunity to perform at selected Hull KR home fixtures, shows and events throughout the city and around the country. Our dancers have performed at events such as Magic Weekend in Newcastle, Summer Bash in Blackpool, the Four Nations and the Challenge Cup Final at Wembley. We have also taken part in the Hull\u2019s youth dance platform \u201cCreative Voice\u201d and we are always looking for exciting opportunities to be involved in.\nAges 3 \u2013 25. \u00a33 per class. Wednesdays and Thursdays from 4.15 (time dependent on age ans style). 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He has proven to foster an environment of collaboration and change within the organization, that will drive the continued evolution of the Illumina Healthcare model of lighting the path to better health.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://immigrationreform.com/2013/10/17/obama-now-that-weve-reopened-the-government/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4YYHXX4JPATGG5DBGIQIDNBU6C2CRSIM", "length": 5427, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "immigrationreform.com", "title": "Obama: Now That We\u2019ve Reopened the Government, Let\u2019s Deal with the American Public\u2019s 14th Most Important Priority | ImmigrationReform.com", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbJobs & Economy\u00bbObama: Now That We\u2019ve Reopened the Government, Let\u2019s Deal with the American Public\u2019s 14th Most Important Priority\nObama: Now That We\u2019ve Reopened the Government, Let\u2019s Deal with the American Public\u2019s 14th Most Important Priority\nAs the federal government gets back to full operation (for the next 90 days, at least), President Obama laid out his policy priorities for the remainder of the year at a White House news conference.\nAt the top of the president\u2019s list is passing a budget. Okay, that\u2019s a good one. We haven\u2019t done that for a while, and it\u2019s right in sync with what the American people think he and Congress ought to be doing.\nFrom there, President Obama skips over a few matters that the American people would like to see him and Congress work on. You know, like strengthening the economy, improving the jobs situation, defending the nation against terrorism, and that sort of thing.\nInstead, second on the president\u2019s to-do list is addressing \u201cimmigration reform,\u201d \u2013 a Washington euphemism for mass amnesty and flooding U.S. labor markets with lots of new foreign workers. It is reasonably certain that for a large percentage of Americans, this is not their idea of what a reformed immigration policy should do. However Americans think we should be \u201cdealing with illegal immigration,\u201d a recent Pew Research survey found it ranks 14th on the public\u2019s list of policy priorities (out of 18 that were offered on the survey).\nIn case Congress hasn\u2019t figured it out yet, that means the American people are in no mood for them to be taking up legislation to reward illegal aliens with amnesty. Nor, with a 5 percent public approval rating, does the public have any confidence that Congress would handle immigration reform any better than they have handled the issues that got us into this mess.\nOh, and the president\u2019s third priority for this year: Passing an agriculture subsidy bill? That ranks so low that it does not even show up on any list of public policy priorities.\nimmigration reform Obama\nPrevious ArticleStudy Finds 2nd Generation Immigrants More Likely to Commit Crimes\nNext Article Obama Nominates Pentagon Attorney to Head DHS\nAli on October 21, 2013 10:49 am\nNot only is \u201cimmigration reform\u201d at #14, it would also conflict with job creation and putting Americans back to work, which ARE high priorities.\nmoore jack on October 21, 2013 7:43 am\nImmigration reform is very right thing to do we are all children of one and only one God if you have visitor come to your house you should give him/her water to drink a place to sleep because you may also be elien one day in some one land and if you have not welcome I don\u2019t thing you would be hp please brothers and sisters let us help one another\nGeorge on October 21, 2013 11:48 pm\nAnd what will you do the one billion foreigners who knock on your door asking for help and needing your job? Jesus said: \u201cThe poor will always be with you\u201d, and by this he meant there will always be poor, you still need to tithe your church. At some point you need to protect your family and your children and not all of the billion immigrants will be kind to your children.\nDALE JBURD on October 21, 2013 5:26 am\nI WOULD BE WILLING TO BET THAT LESS THAN 10% OF THE PERSONS WHO READ THIS INFO\nHAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT REALLY SAYS ABOUT THE SITUATION. SAD BUT TRUE.\nAgreed,,,let\u2019s get Immigration Reform dealt and done with\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..so far we look like a 3rd World Country\u2026\u2026Canada, EU, Australia do have a more advanced immigration system and we are supposed to be more proactive\u2026..SO IMMIGRATION REFORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!\nsoftwareengineer on October 21, 2013 12:54 pm\nIts Very Hard to Immigrate to Australia\nOnly 6.8M have immigrated to Australia since 1945.\nhttp://www.ehow.com/about_5118227_requirements-australian-immigration.html\nYes let\u2019s copy Australia\u2026..this clearly means stop all American immigration for 100 years. You obviously didn\u2019t study your topic\u2026.LOL\u2026.but I agree with your confusion anyway.\nCatherine Crome on October 18, 2013 7:46 pm\nThe only reform needed is to enforce the existing immigration laws. If they are in this country illegally, they should be deported immediately, NO EXECEPTIONS! There are legal ways to obtain entrance to this country, and many have followed the rules and are now tax-paying, contributing members of our society. There is absolutely NO reason to give amnesty to an entire group of illegal aliens, this includes fear of reprisal. The American people are tired of our own citizens being in need while the demands of this group are taking precedence.\nEllen Bryans on October 18, 2013 7:38 pm\nThe reason for the Agriculture subsidy bill is in support of Monsanto et al and their desire to feed the world with the GMO products that allow much more spraying of their pesticide products. Obama has been a very busy man behind the scenes trying to get a new treaty ready to sign behind our backs. The TPP. We should all be very afraid.\nDon Honda on October 18, 2013 3:32 pm\nCorrection: Obama has repeatedly stated that CIR is his #1 priority, BEFORE US economy, BEFORE jobs for US Citizens.\nsoftwarengineer on October 18, 2013 1:43 pm\nLove to separate job scarcity economic problems from overpopulation/amnesty\u2026.when they\u2019re both TOTALLY related.\nPingback: Obama: Now That We\u2019ve Reopened the Government, Let\u2019s Deal with the American Public\u2019s 14th Most Important PriorityAlternate Viewpoint | Alternate Viewpoint", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 9060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 266.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/8-news/13717-on-twitter-false-news-travels-faster-than-true-stories.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:06Z", "digest": "sha1:E5HSTRNUQMKAQS6HIJ2KSTRSMVGD7H5L", "length": 7052, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "imperialvalleynews.com", "title": "On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories", "raw_content": "On Twitter, false news travels faster than true stories\nWritten by Peter Dizikes\nCambridge, Massachusetts - A new study by three MIT scholars has found that false news spreads more rapidly on the social network Twitter than real news does \u2014 and by a substantial margin.\n\u201cWe found that falsehood diffuses significantly farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth, in all categories of information, and in many cases by an order of magnitude,\u201d says Sinan Aral, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-author of a new paper detailing the findings.\n\u201cThese findings shed new light on fundamental aspects of our online communication ecosystem,\u201d says Deb Roy, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at the MIT Media Lab and director of the Media Lab\u2019s Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), who is also a co-author of the study. Roy adds that the researchers were \u201csomewhere between surprised and stunned\u201d at the different trajectories of true and false news on Twitter.\nMoreover, the scholars found, the spread of false information is essentially not due to bots that are programmed to disseminate inaccurate stories. Instead, false news speeds faster around Twitter due to people retweeting inaccurate news items.\n\u201cWhen we removed all of the bots in our dataset, [the] differences between the spread of false and true news stood,\u201d says Soroush Vosoughi, a co-author of the new paper and a postdoc at LSM whose PhD research helped give rise to the current study.\nThe study provides a variety of ways of quantifying this phenomenon: For instance, false news stories are 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than true stories are. It also takes true stories about six times as long to reach 1,500 people as it does for false stories to reach the same number of people. When it comes to Twitter\u2019s \u201ccascades,\u201d or unbroken retweet chains, falsehoods reach a cascade depth of 10 about 20 times faster than facts. And falsehoods are retweeted by unique users more broadly than true statements at every depth of cascade.\nThe paper, \u201cThe Spread of True and False News Online,\u201d is published today in Science.\nWhy novelty may drive the spread of falsity\nThe genesis of the study involves the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings and subsequent casualties, which received massive attention on Twitter.\n\u201cTwitter became our main source of news,\u201d Vosoughi says. But in the aftermath of the tragic events, he adds, \u201cI realized that \u2026 a good chunk of what I was reading on social media was rumors; it was false news.\u201d Subsequently, Vosoughi and Roy \u2014 Vosoughi\u2019s graduate advisor at the time \u2014 decided to pivot Vosoughi\u2019s PhD focus to develop a model that could predict the veracity of rumors on Twitter.\nSubsequently, after consultation with Aral \u2014 another of Vosoughi\u2019s graduate advisors, who has studied social networks extensively \u2014 the three researchers decided to try the approach used in the new study: objectively identifying news stories as true or false, and charting their Twitter trajectories. Twitter provided support for the research and granted the MIT team full access to its historical archives. Roy served as Twitter\u2019s chief media scientist from 2013 to 2017.\nTo conduct the study, the researchers tracked roughly 126,000 cascades of news stories spreading on Twitter, which were cumulatively tweeted over 4.5 million times by about 3 million people, from the years 2006 to 2017.\nTo determine whether stories were true or false, the team used the assessments of six fact-checking organizations (factcheck.org, hoax-slayer.com, politifact.com, snopes.org, truthorfiction.com, and urbanlegends.about.com), and found that their judgments overlapped more than 95 percent of the time.\nOf the 126,000 cascades, politics comprised the biggest news category, with about 45,000, followed by urban legends, business, terrorism, science, entertainment, and natural disasters. The spread of false stories was more pronounced for political news than for news in the other categories.\nThe researchers also settled on the term \u201cfalse news\u201d as their object of study, as distinct from the now-ubiquitous term \u201cfake news,\u201d which involves multiple broad meanings.\nThe bottom-line findings produce a basic question: Why do falsehoods spread more quickly than the truth, on Twitter? Aral, Roy, and Vosoughi suggest the answer may reside in human psychology: We like new things.\n\u201cFalse news is more novel, and people are more likely to share novel information,\u201d says Aral, who is the David Austin Professor of Management. And on social networks, people can gain attention by being the first to share previously unknown (but possibly false) information. Thus, as Aral puts it, \u201cpeople who share novel information are seen as being in the know.\u201d\nThe MIT scholars examined this \u201cnovelty hypothesis\u201d in their research by taking a random subsample of Twitter users who propagated false stories, and analyzing the content of the reactions to those stories.\nThe result? \u201cWe saw a different emotional profile for false news and true news,\u201d Vosoughi says. \u201cPeople respond to false news more with surprise and disgust,\u201d he notes, whereas true stories produced replies more generally characterized by sadness, anticipation, and trust.\nSo while the researchers \u201ccannot claim that novelty causes retweets\u201d by itself, as they state in the paper, the surprise people register when they see false news fits with the idea that the novelty of falsehoods may be an important part of their propagation.\nWhile the three researchers all think the magnitude of the effect they found is highly significant, their views on its civic implications vary slightly. Aral says the result is \u201cvery scary\u201d in civic terms, while Roy is a bit more sanguine. But the scholars agree it is important to think about ways to limit the spread of misinformation, and they hope their result will encourage more research on the subject.\nOn the first count, Aral notes, the recognition that humans, not bots, spread false news more quickly suggests a general approach to the problem.\n\u201cNow behavioral interventions become even more important in our fight to stop the spread of false news,\u201d Aral says. \u201cWhereas if it were just bots, we would need a technological solution.\u201d\nVosoughi, for his part, suggests that if some people are deliberately spreading false news while others are doing so unwittingly, then the phenomenon is a two-part problem that may require multiple tactics in response. And Roy says the findings may help create \u201cmeasurements or indicators that could become benchmarks\u201d for social networks, advertisers, and other parties.\nThe MIT scholars say it is possible that the same phenomenon occurs on other social media platforms, including Facebook, but they emphasize that careful studies are needed on that and other related questions.\nIn that vein, Aral says, \u201cscience needs to have more support, both from industry and government, in order to do more studies.\u201d\nFor now, Roy says, even well-meaning Twitter users might reflect on a simple idea: \u201cThink before you retweet.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 8214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://incarnation.org/dodge-the-end-of-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:58Z", "digest": "sha1:BEI2JPVKRE3Z3QMZRFFX46D5NGQDJYIO", "length": 3166, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "incarnation.org", "title": "Dodge: The End of History \u2014 Church of the Incarnation", "raw_content": "Dodge: The End of History\nWilliam Miller was a nineteenth-century Christian teacher who attracted many followers with his message of an imminent apocalypse. Drawing on the Jeffersonian idea that people should discover for themselves what was true, Miller befuddled mainstream clergy by encouraging followers to use common sense to interpret biblical prophecy. By reading the Bible \u201cliterally,\u201d one could have a blueprint for the end of history.\nMiller drew on an obscure reference in the book of Daniel that \u201cfor 2,300 evenings and mornings, then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state\u201d (Dan 8.14). Translating days into years and setting his starting point at the command to rebuild the temple in BC 457, Miller calculated the world would end on March 21, 1843. When this prediction failed, Miller moved his date ahead one year to October 22, 1844. Once again, his prediction failed and his movement collapsed.\nAs Nathan Hatch has pointed out in his well-regarded book, The Democratization of American Christianity, the implication of Millerism was that any Christian with a Bible could fend off the most learned scholar. By employing the Bible to argue against \u201chuman opinion,\u201d anti-authoritarian assumptions seeped deeply into the American church. In the twentieth century, this perhaps hastened the decline of mainline denominations in favor of quasi-independent churches with looser authority structures.\nOne of the great ironies of our day is that Christian organizations who most loudly declare themselves to be \u201cbiblical\u201d are sometimes most at odds with historical Christian teaching. Scores of Christians will never receive instruction on the Trinity, the divine-human natures of Christ, the centrality of the Sacraments or the hope of resurrection. Many Christians reject the Creeds, the central symbols of Christian belief, for being \u201cman-made.\u201d A further irony is that this democratic decentralization may be one reason why Americans are still so religious. By \u201cmarketing\u201d religion, some churches have effectively replaced Christian teaching with religious entertainment.\nThe central problem with the loss of Christian teaching is it inevitably results in a loss of hope. Every week, we declare that \u201cwe look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.\u201d This is Christian hope in a nutshell.\nThose who employ the Bible to peddle certainty about the end of the world are suspect. If history has shown anything, Christians can make the Bible justify all kinds of claims. Whether it\u2019s using the Bible to support slavery, to end prohibitions on usury or to justify the overthrow of King George in the Revolutionary War, the Bible can always be employed to support what we already want to do.\nIn a postmodern world suspicious of religious claims and hyper-focused on power relationships, this will always be the case. What we must never lose is our hope in the eventual return of Christ since this is the point of prophecy. Prophecy doesn\u2019t exist to dazzle us with \u201cwars and rumors of wars.\u201d Prophecy is there to bring us hope, hope for a world set right by its creator.\nCategories: Between Sundays, Uncategorized", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 6897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://incarnation.org/music-notes-oct-12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:40Z", "digest": "sha1:RNB4KTVX2UZWMVCHZE45DQUBAMXUNLKT", "length": 1850, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "incarnation.org", "title": "Music Notes (Oct 12) \u2014 Church of the Incarnation", "raw_content": "Music Notes (Oct 12)\nMusic at Eucharist: The Offertory anthem is an anonymous sixteenth-century setting of the fourth letter of Paul\u2019s letter to the Philippians which serves as today\u2019s New Testament lesson. Charming in its simplicity, the work is a typical example of English post-Reformation composition in which clarity of text was of chief importance.\nEdward Elgar (1857-1934), a cradle Roman Catholic, wrote three settings of St. Thomas Aquinas\u2019s famous Eucharistic hymn, O salutaris hostia. In a land saturated by liturgical music for the Anglican Church, Elgar was keen on composing works that reflected Catholic theology. This setting, dating from 1880, would have been used for the service of Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.\nMusic at Evensong: This service features two works composed by Edward Cuthbert Bairstow (1874-1946): Andante serioso, ma con moto from his Sonata for Organ and the anthem, Save us, O Lord. Bairstow served for 33 years as Organist and Master of the Choristers at York Minster in the north of England. His Sonata for Organ in E-flat Major (1937) is the largest of his works for the instrument.\nThe first movement, which serves as the prelude, evokes the sort of \u201cpre-Evensong\u201d atmosphere of hushed anticipation that one expects to find in the great English Cathedrals. Though it begins and ends quietly, the piece does have a tumultuous aural climax at its core that utilizes one of the most English of organ stops, the Tuba.\nComposed in 1902, Save us, O Lord demonstrates Bairstow\u2019s ability to write brilliantly for choir and organ together in his lush harmonic idiom. Not unlike the organ prelude, Bairstow here follows a general soft-loud-soft format. The middle of these sections is an energetic choral fugue set quite appropriately to the text, \u201cthat awake we may watch with Christ.\u201d\nAlso: Music List archive", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 5620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ind99info.com/top-10-tallest-sky-scrappers-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:49Z", "digest": "sha1:CMMSJAVOKEEJEW6WSYUIETDPF37OSMU2", "length": 2665, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "ind99info.com", "title": "Top 10 Tallest Sky Scrappers in the World-ind99info.com", "raw_content": "Top 10 Tallest Sky Scrappers in the World\nSkyscrapers are tall structures in large cities which have steel substructure. They are designed with many livable storeys and are built keeping in view the financial need of land. There is no height clear for the skyscrapers. In the present time, many such tall buildings are constructed crosswise the sphere for which only sky is the limit. Such buildings are a miracle of engineering and mathematics. The skyscrapers are built in a city to reflect the financial and financial power of a nation. Sometimes such buildings are built even if they are not required, just to enlarge the magnificence and beauty of the city. Such buildings show the power and development of many big city cities of the world. They also become a tourist magnetism and are renowned all over the world.\n10. Willis Tower\n9. Zifeng Tower\n7. International Commerce Center\n6. Shanghai World Financial Center\n3. Makkah Royal Clock Tower\nThis tower is under construction and estimated to be completed in 2014; it would set a record height of 632 meters, on completion. It is the tallest building in china and No. 2 in the world which accommodates 125 stories, is located in Shanghai.\nThe world\u2019s tallest structure, Burj Khalifa is named after the president of United Arab Countries, Khalifa Bin Zayed. It is situated in the heart of the city near Dubai\u2019s main business region. With a height of over 828 meters, it holds many annals under its name like highest amount of floor in the world, tallest and fastest facility silo in the world and many more. The building is very ground-breaking and has conventional praise but many people reflect it to be very expensive and unreasonable to maintain. It took around 6 years to build this barbican, and costs a hefty sum of USD $ 1.5 billion. Its building is amazing, with multiple safety features and world class facilities, which created quite a curiosity everywhere, this was a famous traveler place in 2010.\nbengaluru turf tower\nimperial tower 1\nindia tallest building in 2020\nindia tower vs burj khalifa\ntallest building in delhi\ntallest building in india under construction\ntallest building in the india\ntallest building in the world under construction\ntallest building in world under construction\ntallest buildings in the world 2020\ntallest structures in the world\ntallest tower in the world 2017\nthe imperial ii\ntop 10 tallest towers in the world 2017\nTop 10 Qualities that would make you Successful in Life\nTop 10 Holiest Indian Cities\n[\u2026] Cave Lake is positioned on an island of Kefolonia as well as is surrounded by forests, mountains and sea. This lake was [\u2026]\n[\u2026] 10 Most Amazing Staircases in [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ink.enderuncolleges.com/tag/battle-of-the-bands/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2QIZ52JJQRRP4VOZ337TDGE33RPFIMBH", "length": 241, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ink.enderuncolleges.com", "title": "battle of the bands - INK Enderun", "raw_content": "Tagged: battle of the bands\nFor the second time, Enderun Colleges held a Battle of the Bands competition, last October 5, 2012. Organized by Banquets class students under Mrs. Ruth von Siebenthal-Hung, the event was a required activity of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inkwealth.com.au/learning-centre/applying-for-your-loan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNFCDKQAIR56U4HYDQM4AYCXXR2ZALJG", "length": 12400, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "inkwealth.com.au", "title": "Applying For Your Loan \u2014 Ink Wealth", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s get you back in the driver\u2019s seat\u2026\nThere is no doubt the Finance Industry is full of its own importance. By seeming confusing and complex it can leave you feeling vulnerable and immaterial. People have made lifelong careers by looking down their noses at hopeful borrowers and feeding off the power they have over making or breaking someone\u2019s dreams.\nAt Ink Wealth, we think it\u2019s time to take back your freedom!\nWe\u2019re committed to that\u2026 and it all starts with education. (Knowledge = power, and all that.)\nIn fact the loan process is really quite straightforward when you understand the requirements and the roles of everyone involved. Keep in mind that there are many people involved to make it happen, with the main players being lenders, valuers, solicitors, accountants, vendors, real estate agents, insurers, you and us. No one dares to say it, but in reality this is an ad-hoc team thrown together by default with most people working for their own interests.\nBut remember: we\u2019re the ones in your corner! Together we build a partnership designed to deliver you through the maze to achieving your goals.\nWe find out where you are financially\nWe find out what you want\nWe help you with what you need\nWe build a plan with a recommendation\nWhen you agree, we complete the application\nWe submit the application to the lender\nThe property is valued\nWhen approved the mortgage documents are issued\nYou sign and return them\nThe settlement date and time is booked\nThe settlement completes\nYour new accounts are opened and functioning\nWe ensure everything is set up as it should be\nWe monitor your plan and enhance it as you grow your wealth\nFully understanding the process and avoiding potential obstacles will help prepare your expectations and assist in getting you to where you want to be.\nUnfortunately, the lending system does require extensive documentation. There is no way around it \u2013 gone are the frivolous days of low doc lending! The general rule of thumb we use here is\u2026.the better the docs the quicker the approval. Out of everything that happens, this is the one area that you control. It is also the one thing that will ultimately have the biggest impact on the process.\nSee what we mean\u2026 most of the industry talks about how important THEY are in YOUR process. Every chance they get, they will say how important their role is, but here at Ink Wealth, we empower you take control of the system and use it to build your dreams, not someone else\u2019s.\nWhile it may seem daunting at first, it really isn\u2019t that bad. We can\u2019t stress enough how powerful it is in the wealth creation game for you to know where you are with good clean record keeping.\nChill out\u2026 we will help!\nWe will kick off with a telephone discussion in order to get a clear understanding of your current circumstances and your aspirations. We are each unique with our own set of circumstances, so tell it like it is! It\u2019s vital to capture everything that will affect your approval before the lenders do. Remember we want YOU in control \u2013 not the banks.\nThere is no doubt the lenders will check your lending history. In the industry this is referred to as a credit file check. Here at Ink Wealth, we actually suggest you be proactive and know your own credit rating way before the lenders take a look. This simple change of thinking allows us to create a robust plan that will deflect the lender\u2019s interrogation when the time comes.\nYou also need to understand that there is no judgment here; ultimately we respect the people who take charge of where they are and where they want to be, regardless of where that is!\nAs we said, we are here for you. Our 5 Minute Financial Health Check and our About You Questionnaire will give you the means to clearly identify where you are.\nOnce filled in, we will have a clear understanding of your starting point and we can then develop a plan to ultimately achieve your goals. We will send you a recommendation or scenario outlining a strategy designed specifically for you based on what you have told us. You can see now how logical it is to make sure we have all the info.\nOnce you understand and accept the recommendations in the plan, we move into the application stage. Here we will need to gather all the supporting documents required by the lenders. Again we\u2019re here to help. We will send you the Ink Wealth Document Gatherer that will clearly tell you everything we need to pull together for the application. We will also provide you with a detailed quotation, commission disclosure statement and the lender\u2019s application and privacy consent forms.\nAt this point, understand that we can\u2019t proceed with an application without these. The lenders will reject us before we get a foot in the door. In our experience, this area is the single biggest hold up in the application process. Clearly knowing what you need and getting it to us quickly and cleanly is the key to an impressive application.\nThink of it as your financial CV and you\u2019re trying to get a lending interview!\nEach lender and different types of loans have slightly varying requirements. Pay close attention to providing exactly what is asked for and unless otherwise stated, ensure that documents are the most recent available.\nProof of Income (payslips/tax returns) must be your most recent and where multiple documents are required, they must be consecutive. They must clearly show your employer\u2019s name, your name and preferably annual salary or a YTD figure that allows an accurate annual figure to be calculated.\nBank statements unless otherwise stated must be original printed (not internet) statements and must be complete documents (all pages) showing account numbers, balance, limit and transactions for the period specified.\nWe may have to provide an explanation where credit card or overdraft accounts exceed the authorised limit.\nIdentity Documents need to be correctly certified and clearly show certifier\u2019s details, document number and date of issue.\nFirst Home Owner\u2019s Grant and other possible government grants require you to complete the relative forms which may require separate supporting documents like identification.\nBefore submitting we will provide you with a detailed summary of the application and we will ask you to double check and point out any corrections that are required.\nWe can then confidently submit the application.\nOnce the application is lodged we are in the hands of the credit processors. Even the best applications may still need to be adjusted depending on the lender\u2019s criteria. This is because we will often be trying to maximise lending capacity which will always draw more scrutiny from the lenders. Through this part of the process we are in continuous dialogue with the lenders and will only contact you with any necessary updates, adjustments required to the application or further requested documentation.\nIt\u2019s important to know there are different stages or types of approvals that allow for greater flexibility for people at different stages of the purchase timeline.\nPre-approval or approval in-principle\nA pre-approval is not a full approval. It is used to give an indicative amount that the lender will be willing to lend providing that the documentation supplied is accurate. In some cases the lender may not even validate your employment or income information. It is used as a quick means to give borrowers an indication of their purchasing ability while they are actively looking in the market. A small trap to the unaware: be aware that a change in your employment, your deposit amount, a car lease or personal loan etc, could jeopardise your final loan approval and most likely would result in an adjustment to the original application. Also, the interest rate and product quoted at the pre-approval stage may have changed through the period.\nConditional approval is requested once the purchaser has found a property and exchanged on contract for sale. Now the lender will validate the full application and all its supporting documents. It is called conditional approval because the lender is saying they approve the lending criteria of the application but still need to validate the value of the underlying asset. The lender\u2019s valuation is often the final hurdle in the process because it is in their interest to be conservative on the value of the asset in case they are forced to step in and sell it. The value of the underlying asset must meet the minimum required by the lender or you need to have sufficient funds to cover the shortfall.\nAt this stage there are other key elements that you need to be aware of.\nIf the loan is over 80% LVR (loan to value ratio), in other words, you are applying to borrow more than 80% of the lender\u2019s valuation (not the purchase price) then you may require LMI. The mortgage insurer will need to issue insurance to the bank to cover the amount that is the difference between your deposit and the amount above the 80% LVR of the lender\u2019s valuation. Simply put, the lender will only lend 80% of its own valuation of the property. This is in case you default on the loan and the property has to be sold by the lender. They reduce their risk to a downturn in the market by only having to recoup 80% of the value of the asset if sold. If you need to borrow more than 80% of the value of the asset you will need to take out a policy that will repay the amount to the lender that is above 80%. The insurance is only on the amount that you borrow over that 80% level so any funds (deposit) that you have will reduce the LMI amount.\nThe \u2018cooling off\u2019 period\nThis varies from state to state and is stipulated in your contract. Extensions to the period can be negotiated and are very common. Never waive your cooling off option without discussing it with your solicitor and us. It is through this period that we move from conditional approval to unconditional approval; however lenders make no commitment to provide an approval within the cooling off period. When the market is very active, some lenders may take 5 days just to arrange their valuation. If you have a pre-approval in place prior to entering into the contract your chances are greatly improved. You can see why we said to get your stuff together right at the start because, once the cooling off period expires you must either proceed or withdraw from the deal. It would be very inadvisable to continue with a sale contract without having finance approval.\nWhen all stated conditions are met (i.e. the valuation, LMI, etc) then the lender will issue unconditional approval.\nWhen your loan is unconditionally approved, the lender instructs their lawyers to prepare the mortgage contract. The loan documents are issued and accepted by you and the settlement is usually coordinated between your legal representative and the lender.\nThrough the settlement period you need to read the loan documents carefully and ensure they are correct. Again diligence is required here to ensure there are no delays at settlement. Check things like: the name/s appearing on the contract of sale is exactly the same as the name/s used for the applicants on the loan documents; the terms of the loan are correct; the interest rate and type is correct; the loan amount is correct; and the LMI (if applicable) is calculated correctly and so on.\nRemember, the mortgage document is a contract and as such it advisable that you seek legal advice to fully understand the obligations you\u2019re committing to in the terms of the contract. We will assist you with clarification on interest rates and fees etc, however we strongly advise you to seek professional legal advice on the terms of the mortgage contract.\nWhen signing the document, pay close attention to ensure you sign all the areas where required and with the appropriate witness signatures. Any incorrect or missed signatures will delay settlement and possibly result in new documents needing to be issued. When you have everything in order, return all documents that are not indicated as \u2018clients copy\u2019 directly to the lender.\nThe entire process will typically take 4 to 6 weeks. If there are any changes in your lifestyle (employment etc) through the settlement period, let us know a.s.a.p.\nWhen settlement takes place the funds are released and your new accounts are activated.\nYou are on your way to wherever you want to go!\nIf you have any questions about making a loan application, please contact us. We will be happy to help!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 14898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://innerquiet.wordpress.com/category/life/dreams/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:24Z", "digest": "sha1:M7DJVVGNJTJNPPWDO5SDB4FUT4JCRRQL", "length": 3473, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "innerquiet.wordpress.com", "title": "Dreams | Note to Self: Shut Up and Listen", "raw_content": "Archive for the 'Dreams' Category\nPublished August 7, 2008\tDreams , Meta , Stress , Topics Leave a Comment\nTags: Dreams, Meta, Stress, Topics\nI was having trouble sleeping again \u2013 the \u201chead noise\u201d I posted about the other day was the culprit \u2013 but this time I figured out what the running conversation in my head is: I\u2019m writing blog posts in my sleep.\nI\u2019m serious. I guess that this journal has been so cathartic that my brain is like \u201cYes! Tell people!\u201d in overdrive mode. Now, I\u2019ve been blogging for 8 years, but this is the first time I have ever really talked about this subject (as I mentioned in one of my posts), and so I guess it was much-needed!\nSo, I\u2019m going to finish up my reenacting vs. Quaker post now (it\u2019s 5am!), and I also have one coming now that\u2019s about how most of Korea\u2019s tremendous number of nuns and monks (both of Buddhist and Christian persuasion) wear their traditional dress on a daily basis, and the fact that yesterday I realized that it\u2019s reminding me of the Amish.\nAnyway \u2013 enjoy benefitting from my insomnia. At least it\u2019s serving some purpose.\nHead Noise\nPublished August 6, 2008\tDreams , Stress 2 Comments\nTags: Dreams, Stress\nFor some unknown reason, my mind has been very\u2026.unquiet, here at JETI, the teacher\u2019s workshop I am teaching at for 2.5 weeks. I am getting my full 8 hours of sleep, but all night it feels like I\u2019m having a running conversation in my head, so I don\u2019t exactly feel very rested. It is driving me NUTS. Many of you who know me personally know that I have a tendency to talk a lot, and I\u2019m really trying to work on majorly cutting down on the amount of talking I do and increase the amount of listening (in both a literal sense and a more spiritual sense), but it\u2019s very difficult, as the primary part of my job is, well, talking.\nWhen I wake up in the mornings, it\u2019s like I can hear the remnants of the \u201cconversation\u201d fading away, so I can\u2019t remember what it was that my mind was busy doing or saying, but I do have a clear memory of not really dreaming, but instead thinking about conversations \u2013 as if my dreams were purely audio. Normally, my dreams have very little talking, and are very, very visual (gee, what a surprise from a photographer!), and so this is not only unusual, but also a little agitating!\nThis workshop is really, other than Marc\u2019s visit to me during my vacation 2 weeks ago, the first time I have really felt relaxed since coming to Korea, because there is so little pressure here at this facility, and so I am utterly baffled as to what\u2019s up with my brain. Who knows, maybe because I have no stress during the day my body feels that clearly I have to be stressed SOME time, and so its only option is to irritate the hell out of me as I sleep.\nHopefully this will go away soon. If it were contemplative thoughts, I would welcome the reflection, but I can tell that the conversations I\u2019m having are purely superficial and sort of daily talks. I used to have this problem (I called it \u201chead noise\u201d) for most of my life, and after a good 2-3 years of effort, I have pretty much eliminated it from my waking life, but I guess it\u2019s now making itself known while I sleep. Great.\nWho knows. There\u2019s a Meeting (as in Quaker worship, for those of you not up on the terminology) up in Seoul that I might go to next weekend during my weekend jaunt up there. It might be helpful, especially since I will be going back to work in Jindo shortly afterward, and many of you know how stressful that place is.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insiderlouisville.com/government/local/three-incumbents-including-longtime-judge-ousted-in-election-upsets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YR26BNCLWOJSWVOD7SGX7OGNQI6LLVZB", "length": 3653, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "insiderlouisville.com", "title": "Three incumbents, including longtime judge, ousted in election upsets - Insider Louisville", "raw_content": "Three incumbents, including longtime judge, ousted in election upsets\nBy Jonathan Meador | November 7, 2018 3:00 pm\nJonathanMeador\n| Photo by Tony Pacheco\nThree incumbent Jefferson County judges were ousted in Tuesday\u2019s elections \u2014 including a surprise upset involving one of the 30th Judicial District\u2019s longest-serving judges.\nSean Delahanty\nIncumbent Judge Sean Delahanty narrowly lost to challenger Lisa Langford, a prosecutor with the Jefferson County Attorney\u2019s Office, earning just 49.45 percent of the vote to Langford\u2019s 50.55 percent in the close 6th Division race.\nDelahanty\u2019s loss came despite a massive fundraising edge that his campaign held over Langford\u2019s for the entirety of the race: According to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance\u2019s most recently available records, Delahanty had raised a respectable $32,543.41 for the general election cycle, whereas Langford raised a mere $5,321.45.\nDelahanty\u2019s apparent edge also included high-profile endorsements, including Citizens for Better Judges, the Fairness Campaign, Better Schools Kentucky, Louisville Defender, Metropolitan Louisville Women\u2019s Political Caucus and more.\nBut in the end, Delahanty lost by 2,327 votes, ending his judicial career just shy of what would have been its 30-year anniversary.\n\u201cI am very happy about my victory,\u201d Langford told Insider Louisville, adding that she\u2019s looking forward to serving Jefferson County. On the campaign trail, Langford criticized the current cash bail system, and attacked Delahanty over what she called \u201cjudicial hubris.\u201d\nIn an interview with WDRB, Delahanty attributed his loss to a kind of sea change among the electorate, saying that this is \u201cthe year of the woman.\u201d\nIn the 4th Division, incumbent Judge Todd Hollenbach IV lost handily to public defender Julie Kaelin, earning 37.10 percent of the votes compared to Kaelin\u2019s commanding 62.90 percent. According to KREF records, Hollenbach, a former Kentucky state treasurer, gave $100,000 of his own money to his campaign. Kaelin, meanwhile, raised a mere $3,159.39 and was boosted by a variety of progressive endorsements.\nAnd in the Circuit Court\u2019s 2nd Division, Annie O\u2019Connell, a criminal defense lawyer and daughter of Jefferson County Attorney Mike O\u2019Connell, easily defeated Judge Darryl Scott Lavery, who was appointed to the bench by Gov. Matt Bevin last year. O\u2019Connell barely out-raised Lavery, with the most recent KREF records showing OConnell boasting a total of just over $70,778.26 compared to Lavery\u2019s $64,338.70.\n10th Division District Court Judge Derwin Webb emerged as the only male incumbent to hold onto their seat among Tuesday\u2019s contested races.\nWebb, who was appointed in 2017 by Gov. Matt Bevin, narrowly avoided a loss against Emily Digenis, an attorney for a private plastic surgery firm, 50.50 percent to 49.50. Digenis raised a massive war chest to unseat Webb, with the latest KREF records showing a hefty $190,037.77 in receipts. Webb, on the other hand, raised $42,024 and won by 2,229 votes.\n2018 Elections, judicial races, Sean Delahanty\nJonathan Meador\nJonathan Meador has covered local and state issues for nearly a decade. He has worked for LEO Weekly, The Nashville Scene and WFPL, and his reporting has appeared in Salon, Gambit and others. He has won multiple awards from the Louisville Society of Professional Journalists, including first-place accolades for best news story, women and minority issues, investigative reporting, enterprise reporting and political reporting. He supports both the Kentucky Wildcats and the Louisville Cardinals equally.\nThree Louisville teachers win state seats, while majority of Kentucky educators lose", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 5921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://instruq.co/go/instructors/jim-delaney", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:46Z", "digest": "sha1:27B4T2NTGBJGSARGBRZ4TBAHRLMCYGEU", "length": 1340, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "instruq.co", "title": "instruq.co/instructor", "raw_content": "In 1996, SA Delaney was a founding member of the Sacramento Transportation Interdiction Narcotic Group in Sacramento CA. The group, comprised of city, county, state and federal officers, has arrested in excess of 800 couriers transporting drugs and currency and weapons throughout the United States. The STING unit has seized hundreds of pounds of cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana. The group was awarded 1998 and 2000 Western States Information Network (WSIN) Task Force of the Year-Region II.\nSA Delaney has testified in court throughout the United States and Canada as an expert witness over 100 times regarding couriers and their characteristics. He has conducted over 100,000 consensual interviews of travelers resulting in the arrest of over 300 subjects and seizure of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin as a result of consensual encounters.\nIn 2003-2004, SA Delaney was on the Board of Directors for the International Interdiction Narcotics Association.\nSA Delaney authored the instruction curriculum, in part, that is currently in use by the Drug Enforcement Administration for transportation drug interdiction. He also assisted in authoring the curriculum for the California Commission on Police Officer's Standards and Training (P.O.S.T) relative to Airport Security.\nClasses Taught By Jim", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 200.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://internetmarketingbeginners.org/what-is-an-autoresponder", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:10Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZHP4S3CCDUMYLAARNLSE557ZZS3I46N", "length": 5137, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "internetmarketingbeginners.org", "title": "What is an Autoresponder? - Earn Money Online", "raw_content": "An autoresponder is quite simple actually. It\u2019s a computer program that is set to automatically answer any email that is sent to it. It\u2019s capable of a whole lot more but in a nutshell, that\u2019s what it does.\nFor the purposes of internet marketing the autoresponder is programmed with visitors emails that will be sent out at controlled intervals to the people who choose to join your mailing list. They do this by entering their email address in a sign up form on your website.\nThe use of a signup form and an autoresponder service is the best way to begin building a list of subscribers, these are people who are interested in your subject and would like to hear from you again. These people are your potential customers.\nAweber autoresponder is the top rated and most popular email marketing system available. Get Response is the second most popular.\nThere are some free services out there that will (to a point) do the job of Aweber or Get Response for free.\nFree Autoresponder Services\nMailchimp and Mad Mimi are two available email marketing systems that will work. These services are fine as long as you read their terms and agreement thoroughly and are prepared to follow their rules.\nMailchimp says in its terms and conditions that you cannot promote any affiliate products (among several other things).\nSo, this applies to all of us that have joined affiliate programs for any product. If you are promoting someone else\u2019s product then you cannot use Mailchimp.\nI found the Mailchimp dashboard to be quite arduous and hard to figure out. It was not user friendly at all.\nIf you have the available funds then Aweber is the only way to go. Check it out here.\nEmail with Manners\nWhen the internet was young and just emerging, people were learning to grasp its power. It was kind of like the Wild Wild West of days gone by, a little bit chaotic and quite lawless.\nThere weren\u2019t a lot of rules or government bodies trying to reign in the anonymous cowboys and their activities.\nThis allowed for a lot of questionable products and scams to be delivered by the millions to unsuspecting email users. They accomplished this by using mass email and aggressive spamming techniques. For a while people were being barraged by tons of unwanted email.\nThe problem was it was never clear how you got the email in the first place or even who it came from. It was always difficult to unsubscribe from a list. This was done to keep you on the list as long as possible of course.\nRules and control measures began to emerge which brought some laws into existence to stop the tidal wave of unwanted garbage and inappropriate emails.\nServices such as Aweber protect the receiver of these emails by creating the permission system.\nThis is where the \u201cDouble Opt-In\u201d requirements were created. Instead of just one click to sign up for a list, you had to receive a second \u201cconfirmation\u201d email and click to confirm that you chose to join that list. It was then that you were added to the selected mailing list.\nIt\u2019s now law by the CAN-SPAM Act that all commercial emails contain the address and contact information of the sender, have a double opt-in feature and must present an easy to find, visible link to unsubscribe from the list at any time.\nThis two step control measure has really made receiving email a much more pleasant experience. Spamming of course still exists but it\u2019s much more under control than it was.\nAt first this double opt-in system seems like a pain but it is actually a blessing for the publisher (website owner) because it creates a more focused mailing list of interested people. It\u2019s better for the subscriber because they are shielded from all the general online spam.\nIt\u2019s better to have a small list of primed, potential buyers than it is to have thousands of names on a list, who are people that just delete your autoresponder message when it comes in.\nInstead of having hundreds or thousands of names on a list that don\u2019t care about your subject matter, you\u2019ll end up with fewer names but much more qualified customers who are far more likely to buy. This works much better than ramming emails down peoples throats.\nThe best part of the autoresponder is that it can be programmed to send your personally written emails to your interested customers on a predetermined schedule. You only have to set it up with your initial emails and your autoresponder system will handle the rest.\nAweber can also be programmed to automatically send your blog posts to your list. This is called a \u201cBlog Broadcast\u201d and it automatically sends the post to the mailing list. It\u2019s a time saver for the publisher.\nThis is a great way to maximize time usage and keep in personal contact with your subscriber list, as time goes along you will develop an interactive relationship with your readers.\nDo you use an autoresponder? Which one?\nDo you love it. Do you hate it?\nLeave a comment below and tell me your experiences with it.\nLooking for internet marketing training?\nCheck out the #1 rated online marketing training community.\nautoresponder, aweber, email marketing, getresponse, mad mimi, mailchimp, permission marketing, what is an autoresponder", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 7668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/English_modals_of_deduction.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CM6L27ZPV35LQ3NDB353MGT4CWLGO34K", "length": 1388, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "ipfs.io", "title": "English modals of deduction", "raw_content": "English modals of deduction\nFor other uses, see Deduction.\nThe English modal verbs \"must\", \"have to\", \"have got to\", \"can't\" and \"couldn't\" are used to express deduction and contention. Modal verbs are used to state how sure the speaker is about something.\n\"Must\" can be used when the speaker feels sure that something is real because he sees strong evidence of it.\n\"You're shivering\" => \"you must be cold\".\n\"Must have\" is used with a past participle when the speaker is not totally sure about something.\n\"Someone must have taken the key, because it is not here.\"\n\"I didn't order ten books. This has to be a mistake.\"\n\"These aren't mine, they've got to be yours.\"\n\"Can't\" is used to say that the speaker thinks something is not right.\nIt can't be a burglar. All the doors and windows are locked.\n\"Can't have\" + past participle is used for things that the speaker is sure did not occur in the past.\nI can't have left my phone at work. You called me when I was running to my car. That\u2019s it. It must be in the car.\nYou can't have seen him this morning. He was with me all the time.\nShe can't have liked the show. She dislikes musicals.\nIf he wasn't there, he couldn't have committed the murder.\nModals \u2013 deduction (present) learnenglish.britishcouncil.org\nOxford Practice Grammar (Advanced), George Yule, Oxford University Press ISBN 9780194327541 Page:40\nModals Deduction Past ecenglish.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iprlicense.com/Books/Details/across-the-rebel-network-17957557", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:50Z", "digest": "sha1:B5LOES3QDQEXSIB3JJEOCAC62YW2FNW4", "length": 3588, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "iprlicense.com", "title": "Across the Rebel Network", "raw_content": "Anno centres a federated Europe in an uncertain, and not-too-distant digital future, when politics, the media and mass communications have fused into one amorphous whole. He works for the Bureau of Data Protection (BDP), a federal government department responsible for monitoring the full range of material, in all media, posted into cyberspace. The BDP is forced to do this when rebel states are seceding, small satellites once of the federation but now at a remove from it, economically and socially. A handful of organised outsiders threatens to undermine the central state through a concerted propaganda war, using the federation\u2019s own digital infrastructure. It is this climate of mutual suspicion that to Anno makes inevitable decades of digital guerrilla warfare. While his department takes steps to prevent this, he doesn\u2019t reckon on the intervention of his old college sparring partner, Craig Diamond, who is now a powerful media mogul. The two engage in combat conducted through cyberspace, in a rare concoction of literary sci-fi.\nAcross the Rebel Network is a worthy successor to Peter Cowlam\u2019s Who\u2019s Afraid of the Booker Prize? The two novels together compose a single narrative: a dazzlingly inventive, bitingly satirical, and savagely funny critique of postmodern culture and society. They are an Apes of God for our time. Jon Elsby\nThe book\u2019s setting is mid-twenty-first century, with a central narrator, Anno. There is one long section (the \u2018Benbrook\u2019 section) dedicated to Anno\u2019s student life, a reflection back to the first decade of the century. This may give us an extended time frame, but the novel\u2019s social, political and aesthetic concerns are immediate and timely. Its geo-political landscape is a fantasised federated Europe, where government, the media and mass communications have fused into the intrusive surveillance state the likes of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are warning us about. Anno is at the heart of government surveillance, with special interest in material, in all media, posted by small groups of organised rebels waging digital warfare against the state, with its own, counter-propaganda. The novel is one of clever illusion. It is endlessly inventive. It is bound, aesthetically, to the traditions of European poetry and literature rather than the whims of genre fiction. It is rooted in the personal, given that the novel\u2019s generality, its data wars, has as locus the contest that gradually develops between Anno (of the state) and the novel\u2019s other principal character, Craig Diamond. Diamond is a cynical media mogul, and the two have renewed combat begun when the pair were students at Benbrook (hence the Benbrook section). Peppered throughout with references to Nabokov\u2019s *Bend Sinister*, *Across the Rebel Network* shares something of the purpose and aesthetic of that predecessor. It\u2019s a good night now, but not for mothing. Jack d'Argus\nPeter Cowlam is a writer and critic. His brief stint as a commissioning editor saw two issues of The Finger, a journal of politics, literature and culture. His novel Who\u2019s Afraid of the Booker Prize? won the 2015 Quagga Prize for Literary Fiction. His latest novels are New King Palmers and Across the Rebel Network, the latter being longlisted for the Guardian 2015 Not the Booker Prize. Poems forthcoming in Fulcrum. Poems and short stories have appeared in The Battersea Review, Literary Matters, The Brown Boat, The Criterion, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Four Quarters Magazine, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Liberal, Horizon Review and Epicentre Magazine.\nCopyright (c) 2015, Peter Cowlam.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ir.delmarpharma.com/press-releases/detail/841/delmar-pharmaceuticals-and-md-anderson-initiate-new-phase", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:LJBM6F6UMADCQNAYBA3I7REYGFEG4S6Q", "length": 5048, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "ir.delmarpharma.com", "title": "DelMar Pharmaceuticals and MD Anderson Initiate New Phase Two Clinical Trial of VAL-083 for MGMT-unmethylated Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) :: DelMar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (DMPI)", "raw_content": "DelMar Pharmaceuticals and MD Anderson Initiate New Phase Two Clinical Trial of VAL-083 for MGMT-unmethylated Recurrent Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)\nStudy will enroll 48 MGMT-unmethylated Avastin (bevacizumab)-na\u00efve recurrent GBM patients\nVANCOUVER, British Columbia and MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 25, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- DelMar Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: DMPI) (\"DelMar\" and the \"Company\"), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of new cancer therapies, is pleased to announce the opening of enrollment of a Phase II study of VAL-083 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas.\nThe Phase II study of VAL-083 (dianhydrogalactitol) in patients with MGMT-unmethylated, Avastin (bevacizumab)-na\u00efve recurrent glioblastoma will enroll 48 patients in a single-arm design to determine if treatment with VAL-083 improves overall survival, compared to historical control. Further information regarding the clinical trial can be found on DelMar's website and at clinicaltrials.gov (clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT02717962).\n\"This study is a keystone in our strategy to expand the development of VAL-083 to target MGMT-unmethylated GBM, a significant unmet medical need,\" said Jeffrey Bacha, chairman & CEO of DelMar Pharmaceuticals. \"We are pleased to launch this important trial in collaboration with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of the world's most respected medical centers devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education and prevention.\"\nPatients whose tumors exhibit high expression of MGMT have a poor prognosis and significantly shorter progression free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) in comparison to patients with a methylated MGMT promoter and low MGMT expression. In a 2011 study of more than 800 GBM patients, those with tumors carrying the unmethylated MGMT promoter had a median overall survival of 14 months versus 21 months for those with a methylated MGMT promoter. The difference in progression-free survival \u2013 the period after treatment during which the cancer does not worsen \u2013 was 5.7 and 8.7 months, respectively.\nDelMar has also announced plans to advance VAL-083 into a pivotal randomized multi-center Phase III clinical trial for the treatment of bevacizumab-failed GBM and into a separate international Phase II trial for newly diagnosed GBM patients with an unmethylated MGMT promoter.\n\"We believe that data from these upcoming clinical trials, if successful, will form the basis of a new treatment paradigm for the vast majority of GBM patients whose tumors exhibit features that make them unlikely to respond to currently available chemotherapy,\" added Mr. Bacha.\n\"Our data demonstrating that VAL-083's activity against GBM is independent of MGMT expression combined with VAL-083's established clinical activity against GBM from published NCI-sponsored clinical studies provides confidence to our hope that VAL-083 will give doctors and their patients a new and unique chemotherapy to address this enormous global unmet medical need.\"\nGBM is the most common and the most lethal form of glioma. Approximately 15,000 new cases of GBM are expected to be diagnosed in the United States during 2017. GBM progresses quickly and patients deteriorate rapidly. Common symptoms include headaches, seizures, nausea, weakness, paralysis and personality or cognitive changes such as loss of speech or difficulty in thinking clearly. The majority of GBM patients do not survive for more than two years following diagnosis, and the median survival in newly diagnosed patients with best available treatments is less than 15 months.\nAny statements contained in this press release that do not describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Any forward-looking statements contained herein are based on current expectations, but are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties. The factors that could cause actual future results to differ materially from current expectations include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties relating to the Company's ability to develop, market and sell products based on its technology; the expected benefits and efficacy of the Company's products and technology; the availability of substantial additional funding for the Company to continue its operations and to conduct research and development, clinical studies and future product commercialization; and the Company's business, research, product development, regulatory approval, marketing and distribution plans and strategies. These and other factors are identified and described in more detail in our filings with the SEC, including our current reports on Form 8-K.\nTo view the original version on PR Newswire, visit:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/delmar-pharmaceuticals-and-md-anderson-initiate-new-phase-two-clinical-trial-of-val-083-for-mgmt-unmethylated-recurrent-glioblastoma-multiforme-gbm-300396375.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 8446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ivoh.org/person/dan-norton/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:COYNKMKBXV5Q6M6HPTHGKHJYNXRUTEY3", "length": 639, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ivoh.org", "title": "Dan Norton \u2013 ivoh", "raw_content": "Dan Norton is a founding partner and CCO at Filament Games, specializing in the design process and documentation for developing games with specific learning objectives. He has designed games about a uniquely broad range of topics, ranging from marine turtle ecology to legal argumentation. Norton sees Filament as an opportunity to merge his life-long love of games with his incessant quest to learn about new and interesting things. In addition to his work at Filament, Norton is a founding member of the Games, Learning and Society Research Group at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison.\nExploring the overlap between games and journalism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 164.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ivoh.org/person/john-yearwood/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:42Z", "digest": "sha1:AGHOA5TP4VIJNEMALNRRNNSIZ5UM74GB", "length": 1078, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ivoh.org", "title": "John Yearwood \u2013 ivoh", "raw_content": "An award-winning multi-media journalist, John Yearwood is executive board chairman of the Austria-based International Press Institute and former World Editor of the Miami Herald. The World Desk won numerous awards under his leadership, including two McClatchy Company President\u2019s Awards and the Arthur Ross Award for best coverage of Latin America. Before joining The Miami Herald, Yearwood was National/International Editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas, founding publisher/editor of Ibis, a general lifestyle magazine, was a reporter at The Dallas Morning News, a correspondent for the Associated Press, a national correspondent for Focus magazine and the News/Public Affairs Director for WHUS Radio in Connecticut.\nYearwood is a regular guest on national and international radio and television news programs, including National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, BBC and China Central Television. He is recipient of a Miami-Dade County Pillar Award, ICABA Community Builder Award, the Haitian Women of Miami Leadership Award and the COSMOS 2016 Distinguished Citizen Award.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 139.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ivypanda.com/blog/how-to-prevent-unintentional-plagiarism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:25Z", "digest": "sha1:H22WMGAN5UXTZJBFKCTJXQG5STQBUE2X", "length": 12362, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "ivypanda.com", "title": "How to Prevent Unintentional Plagiarism (And What Happens If You Don't)", "raw_content": "Of course, only telling you about plagiarism is not enough. So after that, we\u2019ll go through the steps you need to take when you do spot plagiarism in your assignment. Finally, to make it even more useful for you, we\u2019ve gathered a selection of tips to help you avoid plagiarism in the future.\nConsequences of Plagiarising\nMore often than not, if someone is caught in the act of plagiarism, it\u2019s usually followed by various penalties and sanctions. Their severity depends on a multitude of factors, including the amount and type of plagiarism, the school\u2019s internal rules, and any standing policies regarding plagiarism.\nSanctions can range from penalties and short-term suspensions all the way up to permanent dismissal from your university, college, or workplace. It can definitely hurt your reputation, and it may sometimes even lead to a lawsuit.\nThere are also special databases in which any student who is caught plagiarizing has their name placed for other professors (and even employers) to see. The intention here is not to shame the student, but to let others know that he or she was involved in attempted cheating.\nWhat Is Considered Plagiarism?\nFirst things first, it\u2019s important to make sure that we\u2019re on the same page in terms of defining what is plagiarism.\nIn short, plagiarism is presenting someone else\u2019s work or ideas (including their manner of expressing them) as your own. It can be as little as a single sentence or as much as a complete text.\nMany scholars have proposed different plagiarism definitions, but the majority of them share pretty much the same meaning. Plagiarism equates to literary and intellectual theft. It\u2019s considered highly dishonest and unethical.\nThere are many types of plagiarism, including the following:\nThis is probably one of the most shameless ways of plagiarizing someone else\u2019s work. It may not necessarily be a text from a single author, either. It\u2019s possible for someone to combine copied-word-for-word snippets along with bits of their own personal thoughts. But the fact remains: those snippets are nothing but stolen intellectual property.\nPartial rewriting\nYou might be thinking, \u201cOkay, then how about taking a text and changing a couple of words here and there? Would that still count as plagiarism?\u201d Of course it does! Changing up some words doesn\u2019t cancel out the fact that you\u2019re still trying to present other people\u2019s thoughts as your own. Switching out a couple of words definitely requires much less effort than writing something from scratch.\nComplete paraphrasing\nThis is another way of stealing someone else\u2019s work, and it may seem innocent. This is when you take multiple snippets, change them up, and put them together to make the whole thing sound as if it were your own. Without any citing or attribution, of course. But here\u2019s the bad news\u2014it doesn\u2019t work that way. Complete paraphrasing is almost the same thing as the previous type of plagiarism, only with more words changed and more sources used.\nFake citations\nAlso known as a ghost citation, this is when you attribute part of your text to a source that does not actually cover the text you\u2019ve cited, or when you even go as far as to cite a non-existent source. Even though not all scenarios imply that you\u2019re presenting other people\u2019s work as your own, it\u2019s still obviously dishonest.\nEven if you pay someone to write the text for you and the writer won\u2019t claim their rights to that work, it\u2019s still considered a type of plagiarism. Also known as collusion, you\u2019re still trying to present the result of someone else\u2019s efforts as your own. It\u2019s totally different, though, if you use the text as a template or example to create a unique paper of your own.\nIncorrect citations\nNot knowing how to properly cite a work can also be a type of plagiarism. Incorrect citing may refer to not including a reference list or in-text citation, not crediting the author of a work, or not having proper citations of secondary sources.\nRecycling your own work\nThis type is also known as self-plagiarism. The problem with this type of plagiarism is that your previous works have already been evaluated. Therefore, to include your older texts in a current assignment, you must receive permission and properly cite them. Otherwise, it\u2019s still plagiarism.\nIn the introduction to this article, we mentioned why it\u2019s worth paying extra attention to unintentional plagiarism.\nIt\u2019s true that there is a lot to learn in terms of all those citation styles. And it\u2019s no wonder that students sometimes get confused and fail to provide proper citations in their papers. The problem is that this can result in unintentional plagiarism if the issue is left unnoticed.\nNo one expects you to learn all of the citation styles in an instant and to the dot. It may require some time and getting used to. Especially if you\u2019re just starting out. That\u2019s why examples, guides, and articles like this one exist: to keep you aware of the issue before it\u2019s too late and to help you correct anything that\u2019s wrong to avoid serious consequences.\nLet\u2019s have a look at possible scenarios in which part of your work may be considered unintentional plagiarism.\nConfusion of citation styles. This is probably one of the major reasons why unintentional plagiarism happens. This is simply due to the human factor, where a student doesn\u2019t know how to properly cite sources in a particular style or has confused one citation guideline with another.\nParaphrasing. Yes, we did already mention this in the previous section. But sometimes this type of plagiarism may occur unintentionally, when the student doesn\u2019t realize that changing up sentences from different sources and putting them together to make their own text is against the rules. If you still want to paraphrase something, be sure to do it correctly\u2014you have to deliver the author\u2019s thoughts using your own unique style. Simply changing words (like finding synonyms and altering the word order) is not enough.\nParaphrasing without citing. This is another newbie mistake, as some students think that you only have to cite direct quotes. So, in order to save yourself trouble later, make sure to give proper credit to the person whose conclusions you\u2019re using.\nCiting the wrong source. This mostly happens when you\u2019re trying to cite an online source. The problem here is that your online source may not contain the original work and may use facts from another paper or piece of research (with or without attributing it). To avoid situations like this, you should carefully check all of the resources you\u2019re going to cite and see whether they\u2019re actual original content or they\u2019re attributed to another author.\nA Few Words About Turnitin\nA lot of students who have dealt with this tool consider it their archenemy.\nIt is an internet-based service designed to detect plagiarism. It checks students\u2019 uploaded works against its own database, and it also compares them against the content of other websites. Colleges and universities usually purchase licenses so that professors can use it on a regular basis. Turnitin can also integrate and work with other services.\nConsidering the fact that Turnitin is used across numerous colleges and universities, there have naturally been many attempts to trick it. Here\u2019s what students have tried:\nReplacing letters with characters from different alphabets that look the same (the Cyrillic \u201cc\u201d or \u201ce,\u201d for instance)\nUsing Word macros that mask the copied text and make it unintelligible to the tool\nPutting quotation marks around the whole text\nConverting the file to a PDF and changing the sequence of characters\nReplacing spaces with characters written in white font (which makes them invisible, just like spaces)\nBut there\u2019s a single factor that unites all of these tricky attempts: they all fail.\nTurnitin constantly updates its algorithms, which makes the service more effective and able to spot all kinds of student trickery.\nSo, instead of wasting your time trying to figure out how to disguise plagiarism, it\u2019s a much better idea to just put forth a little bit of effort and avoid it altogether. And IvyPanda is ready to help you with our Plagiarism Checker.\nHow to Deal with Plagiarism\nOne of the best ways to make sure your paper is plagiarism-free is to use a plagiarism checker, either in the form of software or a service. Plagiarism checkers are designed to find wording similarities and any other signs showing your text contains plagiarism. These tools can usually scan your work in just a couple of seconds, so you don\u2019t have to spend hours double-checking everything to make sure it\u2019s fine.\nAt IvyPanda, we can offer you our Plagiarism Checker tool.\nYou upload your document, and the tool counts its number of words. The word count will be used to determine the number of credits you\u2019ll have to spend on this particular document.\nIf you have enough credits and you agree to spend them, you can start the plagiarism check.\nAfter the check is done, you\u2019ll get the results as shown in the screenshot above. The tool will tell you the percentage of plagiarism found, the number of matches, and the total number of detected sources.\nUsing the arrows below, you can click through all of the matches that the checker has found.\nThe match you\u2019re currently on is highlighted in red. You can also see the list of sources related to that match, as well as what percentage this particular match contributes to the total plagiarism amount.\nYou can either add a citation to that match (after which the checker will recalculate the percentage of plagiarism in your text), or you can leave it as is and edit it out.\nAll of your scanned texts and changes are saved in the My Projects section.\nAs you can see, with the help of our Plagiarism Checker tool, it\u2019s much easier to make sure your paper is flawless, and you won\u2019t get into trouble just for leaving a random snippet uncited.\nKnowing how to avoid plagiarism is as important as being ready to deal with it once it\u2019s been spotted in your paper.\nThat\u2019s why we\u2019ve picked out some of the most useful tips and pieces of advice to help you minimize the amount of plagiarism in your work.\nListen to feedback. It\u2019s great if you have the chance to have someone else check your work before submitting it. This gives you a chance to spot mistakes and get rid of them before it\u2019s too late.\nMake accurate notes. Always write down all the necessary facts and most important details about the sources you\u2019re going to cite. In your notes, write paragraphs using your own words instead of mindlessly copying them, and check how well the information provided by each source fits your assignment\u2019s requirements.\nBe generous with citations. If you\u2019re borrowing any idea from any source, attribute it to the author. Remember\u2014not only direct quotes require citations!\nBalance out your work. Your paper has to become a collection of your thoughts and conclusions backed by references, not the other way round. So pay attention to how much of your work reflects your own ideas.\nLeave spare time to check your writing. There\u2019s no such thing as checking your work too many times. In fact, finishing your work at the last minute is often a cause of unintentional plagiarism! If you don\u2019t want to encounter this problem\u2014make sure to save some extra time.\nMake use of software. Along with a plagiarism checker, you can also use citation or reference managers. They\u2019ll help you keep your sources in order, and it will be much easier to remember all the attributions you still need to add into your work.\nKeep the context in mind. Copying and pasting a piece of text word-for-word won\u2019t work if it doesn\u2019t fit the context of your work. Sometimes it may need rephrasing, and sometimes it won\u2019t go well at all. That\u2019s what proper paraphrasing is for.\nCome up with a checklist. Another way of not forgetting anything when working on your references is to create checklists. They will remind you of all the required citation rules for any citation style guide.\nPlagiarism isn\u2019t that hard to tackle, especially if you\u2019re fully aware of the issue and know what to do to prevent it.\nAnd with the help of this article, the task of avoiding plagiarism can become one of the easiest steps of your whole writing process.\nJust make sure to follow the advice we\u2019ve given you, and your papers will always be flawless. If you\u2019re ever in doubt, our plagiarism checker can also help!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 15575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeffandangieknight.com/2012/08/07/when-god-calls-your-name/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TJQOU7CNE73PALNKGRORVYSQGVEU6C3E", "length": 5590, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "jeffandangieknight.com", "title": "When God Calls Your Name | Jeff and Angie Knight", "raw_content": "Walking with my sister, mother, aunt and cousins, along a dirt road last year, I was about to take a step over what appeared to be a letter.\nI stopped. Bent over and low and behold, it was an \u201cA\u201d. Not placed by human hands\u2026but by the Wind.\nHow it happened I didn\u2019t have a clue, but I knew it was significant \u2013at least for me.\nSometimes we look for a \u201cword\u201d from a friend\u2026to encourage us\u2026or uplift us. But that\u2019s all it can do, and sometimes that\u2019s enough\u2026for the time.\nBut there is a WORD that you and I can have on a daily basis\u2026straight from the heart of God.\nI am very excited about what our church has begun this past Sunday.\nOperation 180\u00ba. It\u2019s a call to prayer, Bible reading, and fasting for 90 days.\nDid you just gulp? 90 days will take us to the first week of November\u2013a time when we are thinking, \u201cThanksgiving\u201d\u2026family gatherings\u2013hearts and lives blessed. For many though, it doesn\u2019t mean anything out of the ordinary. It means just another day. Just another 90 days.\nGod has called our name-\u2013He is intent on giving us a message\u2013letting us KNOW that He is present\u2013and wants\u2013desires for us to \u201csee Him\u201d and experience HIM as never before.\nLife as usual won\u2019t get us there. It takes determined steps.\nI know I\u2019ve talked a lot about this\u2026but I have found that I have to dig myself in mentally, spiritually and even physically to make time with HIM all it should be.\nThis morning it was raining\u2013I woke at 3:13.\nOdd time\u2026the odder thing was this: I began thinking of all the times I had heard God speak to me.\nOver the past 4 years, I heard from Him\u2026 (not from any individual), 7 times. Actually, as I was on my way to work, I thought of the 8th. Oh, and sitting here right now, He just reminded me of the 9th. Significant words. Words from the Word.\nWhen reading the Bible, we read down the page (hopefully not passively, but fully involved), and a passage jumps out at us..perhaps we heard it recently, maybe even said something similar in days or weeks prior. But the significance is when we FEEL Him say, \u201cthis Word is for You\u2026for your \u2013today\u2013\u201c.\nMost times, tears fill my eyes as I realize His love afresh for me.\nThe 7 to 9 times of His voice I\u2019m speaking of this morning was His voice\u2013to me. In my ear\u2026to my heart\u2026and no one else heard anything. It wasn\u2019t audible\u2026but it was heart focused and heart felt. So much so that the very words permeated my soul and changed the way I looked at that day!\n7 to 9 times I heard Him call my name with a specific message for me. Not to be ever forgotten (as was recently discussed with a mentor). I can still feel the heat\u2026I can still smell the smells around me\u2013I can even still look around and see what I saw then. It made an impact. (I just thought of another!)\nIn every single instance\u2013my mind and heart was fully focused, fully engaged in following HIM. Not my agenda. I want that every day!\nIt is a fight. The enemy does NOT want you to have that\u2026why, if you have that, you JUST might start to BELIEVE HIM FOR IMPOSSIBLE THINGS!\nI\u2019m laughing right now, because that is what I am doing. Believing HIM for impossible things.\nIf you DARE\u2026step out on the water. Believe for the IMPOSSIBLE\u2026.REACH higher than you\u2019ve ever dared before. It starts with determination.\nWhen we first began discussing this plan of action, I remembered the compass on my phone. If you have a compass on your phone, get it out.\nI\u2019ll wait. Click the icon. Bring up the compass.\nNotice what happens if you fidget in your seat.\nFidgets brings movement.\nSteps in either direction brings movement.\nThe needle will go wild if you spin in your chair!\nDid you know (perhaps at this point you do), every move you make alters your course?\u2026Every. Single. Move.\nOne glance to the left, your whole body makes the adjustment\u2026the needle moves\u2026maybe just a bit, but enough to alter it\u2026.keep glancing to the left\u2026or to the right\u2026and the needle will move so much that you might not remember the direction you were headed in the first place\u2026.\nFriend, we better know.\nWe better keep our eyes open and straight ahead to the straight and narrow.\nIt is hard? You betcha! (GrandBuddy lingo)\nBut the Bible says, few will enter into the straight and narrow path\u2026because they can\u2019t find it\u2026their focus is so off course, they lost sight.\nHey, we are so close to the end, you must KNOW the enemy will try EVERY tactic known\u2013every weakness you have, he will pull out to tempt you with\u2026stay focused. Stay alert.\nWatch your steps\u2026better yet, watch the One you are to be following.\nI have to tell you this before you go: yesterday while driving home from work, I passed a truck and smiled when I read the sign (yes, I have this thing for trucks and billboards). It was a \u201cmoving truck\u201d\u2026(pay attention), the side of the truck read: \u201cDedication at every turn\u201d\u2026.\nIt will take dedication; determination; eyes wide open and focused. Prayer\u2013fasting\u2013not just food\u2013THINGS that have interrupted your life and stolen time from God. He won\u2019t stand for it\u2026He\u2019s not going to \u201ctake it from you\u201d\u2026YOU have to decide to lay it down.\nOperation 180\u00ba. 90 days of purposed steps in His direction will change the course of your life.\n(2 Chronicles 7:14-16) Read it today.\n\u00a9 Angie Knight\u2013The Knightly News 2012\nThis entry was posted on Tuesday, August 7th, 2012 at 10:00 am\tand posted in Devotion, faith, Life, Ministry.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.\n\u00ab How To Have a Big GOD Sized Dream\nIf You Say Go\u2026 \u00bb\nOne response to \u201cWhen God Calls Your Name\u201d\nGlory, glory! Believing for the IMPOSSIBLE from the One whom all things are possible\u2026\nBlessed as always by your words\u2026love you, sister!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 8023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jennifermack.net/2015/03/17/john-mcphee-the-art-of-nonfiction-no-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LDZF6HML3HDWA6IK6FOKPBY4IQEQO55N", "length": 808, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jennifermack.net", "title": "Jennifer Mack", "raw_content": "John McPhee, The Art of Nonfiction No. 3\nNo, I just got through it. Stories are always really, really hard. I think it\u2019s totally rational for a writer, no matter how much experience he has, to go right down in confidence to almost zero when you sit down to start something. Why not? Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you. \u00a7\nAn old photo editor of mine always said you\u2019re only as good as your last shot. She stole the quote but that didn\u2019t make it any less true. McPhee is distilling that that down. That last shot (or story) is done. Finished with a capital \u2018F.\u2019 There\u2019s no going back. The work is out there in the world. You can\u2019t reshoot yesterday\u2019s front page.\nNow it\u2019s time to start over.\nNow it\u2019s time for something new.\nNow you\u2019re on your own.\nlife in general link links writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jezebel.com/in-1920-the-first-year-that-all-american-women-could-v-5061040", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XWY47HR6MVPBTRKNHFD5L5PSF6DFFYAR", "length": 868, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jezebel.com", "title": "Jezebel", "raw_content": "In 1920, the first year that all American women could vote for president, Irma Schmidt walked to her\nFiled to: VotingFiled to: Voting\nIrma Schmidt\nIn 1920, the first year that all American women could vote for president, Irma Schmidt walked to her hometown fire station with her grandmother, mother, and aunt to vote for Warren G. Harding. Now 110 years old, Schmidt has voted in every presidential election since, and is believed to be the oldest registered voter in Connecticut. Schmidt is an unaffiliated voter, and has cast her ballot for Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, and Kerry in the past. \"Voting was always something you looked forward to,\" she says. Staff members at the nursing home where she lives says she reads newspapers and talks about the news every day, but she wouldn't say if she's voting this year, or which candidate she prefers. [The Hartford Courant]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://joiningvisionandaction.com/funding-opportunities/presidential-innovation-award-environmental-educators/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNAC2E42QFAKSAXMTDAKKP3W4XPC623W", "length": 719, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "joiningvisionandaction.com", "title": "Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators - Joining Vision and Action", "raw_content": "Website: https://www.epa.gov/education/application-requirements-and-form-presidential-innovation-award-environmental-educators\nThe purpose of this program is to honor, support, and encourage full-time K-12 teachers who employ innovative approaches to environmental education and use the environment as a context for learning for their students. Funding received by teachers must be used to further the recipient\u2019s professional development in environmental education, and funding received by local education agencies must be used for environmental educational activities and programs.\nnora2019-02-05T16:14:54+00:00February 5th, 2019|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Presidential Innovation Award for Environmental Educators", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 192.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jonmitchell.net/micro/t8tdvkwmui1sdtsi85dwaqqckosrcc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:58Z", "digest": "sha1:L5LSSEFWIRQGDNGJPKFS4U7TERIA3F7A", "length": 208, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jonmitchell.net", "title": "\u2013 Jon Mitchell, author and musician", "raw_content": "I was one of a whole bunch of people blogger Vlad Khvatov included in a round-up of people's reasons to get an Apple Watch. It's fun to see how many different answers are given in a group of this many people.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 154.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jorhett.livejournal.com/320270.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:12Z", "digest": "sha1:FSMGANMBYI4B5KLFVW4ITRZWXGNGV4EE", "length": 234, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jorhett.livejournal.com", "title": "\u041c\u043e\u0438 \u0442\u0432\u0438\u0442\u044b: jorhett", "raw_content": "\u041f\u043d, 22:10: RT @Masadaco: I'd like to go one day without the government pissing me off.\n\u041f\u043d, 22:20: \"[omit] writes his books and essays by generating random text of an appropriate length and then decrypting it.\" Hey, that's my writing!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0006043", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:11Z", "digest": "sha1:L66L53XVXYSWDUISB4GI6FDE3IBOTQCD", "length": 46471, "nlines": 127, "source_domain": "journals.plos.org", "title": "Systematic review of community-based, school-based, and combined delivery modes for reaching school-aged children in mass drug administration programs for schistosomiasis", "raw_content": "Systematic review of community-based, school-based, and combined delivery modes for reaching school-aged children in mass drug administration programs for schistosomiasis\nMichael Burnim,\nRoles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing \u2013 original draft, Writing \u2013 review & editing\nAffiliation Center for Global Health and Diseases and WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training for Schistosomiasis Elimination, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America\nJulianne A. Ivy,\nRoles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing \u2013 original draft, Writing \u2013 review & editing\nRoles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing \u2013 original draft, Writing \u2013 review & editing\n* E-mail: chk@cwru.edu\nAffiliations Center for Global Health and Diseases and WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training for Schistosomiasis Elimination, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America\nMichael Burnim Julianne A. Ivy Charles H. King\nThe mainstay of current schistosomiasis control programs is mass preventive chemotherapy of school-aged children with praziquantel. This treatment is delivered through school-based, community-based, or combined school- and community-based systems. Attaining very high coverage rates for children is essential in mass schistosomiasis treatment programs, as is ensuring that there are no persistently untreated subpopulations, a potential challenge for school-based programs in areas with low school enrollment. This review sought to compare the different treatment delivery methods based both on their coverage of school-aged children overall and on their coverage specifically of non-enrolled children. In addition, qualitative community or programmatic factors associated with high or low coverage rates were identified, with suggestions for overall coverage improvement.\nThis review was registered prospectively with PROSPERO (CRD 42015017656). Five hundred forty-nine publication of potential relevance were identified through database searches, reference lists, and personal communications. Eligible studies included those published before October 2015, written in English or French, containing quantitative or qualitative data about coverage rates for MDA of school-aged children with praziquantel. Among the 22 selected studies, combined community- and school-based programs achieved the highest median coverage rates (89%), followed by community-based programs (72%). School-based programs had both the lowest median coverage of children overall (49%) and the lowest coverage of the non-enrolled subpopulation of children. Qualitatively, major factors affecting program success included fear of side effects, inadequate education about schistosomiasis, lack of incentives for drug distributors, and inequitable distribution to minority groups.\nThis review provides an evidence-based framework for the development of future schistosomiasis control programs. Based on our results, a combined community and school-based delivery system should maximize coverage for both in- and out-of-school children, especially when combined with interventions such as snacks for treated children, educational campaigns, incentives for drug distributors, and active inclusion of marginalized groups.\nClinicalTrials.gov CRD42015017656\nSchistosomiasis is a chronic inflammatory condition, caused by parasitic flukes, that affects over 290 million people worldwide. Consequences of infection include anemia, stunted growth, liver abnormalities, and subfertility. Currently, the main approach to schistosomiasis control involves mass preventive treatment of school-aged children in endemic areas. The treatment, praziquantel, can be distributed through school-based, community-based, or combined school- and community-based systems. The first part of this systematic review compared the three delivery modes and found that combined delivery resulted in the best overall coverage of school-aged children, with community-only delivery the next-best approach. School-only delivery not only had the lowest overall coverage, but especially fell behind in targeting children not enrolled in school. As a whole, these results support the more frequent use of a combined approach to delivery in order to achieve the highest coverage rates and ensure that out-of-school children are not left persistently untreated. In the second part of this review the qualitative factors affecting program success were examined. The results indicate that overall treatment coverage can be improved via small interventions, such as snacks for participating children to reduce drug side effects, educational campaigns about schistosomiasis, incentives for drug distributors, and active inclusion of marginalized groups.\nCitation: Burnim M, Ivy JA, King CH (2017) Systematic review of community-based, school-based, and combined delivery modes for reaching school-aged children in mass drug administration programs for schistosomiasis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 11(10): e0006043. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0006043\nEditor: David Harley, University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA\nReceived: July 28, 2017; Accepted: October 16, 2017; Published: October 27, 2017\nCopyright: \u00a9 2017 Burnim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.\nFunding: These studies received financial support from the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for the SCORE Project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.\nThe Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation (SCORE) was established in December 2008 to answer strategic questions about schistosomiasis control and elimination [1]. SCORE\u2019s goal is to find answers that will help current and future schistosomiasis control program managers to do their job better, with its main focus being control of Schistosoma haematobium and S. mansoni infections in sub-Saharan Africa. This includes learning what approaches to controlling and eliminating schistosomiasis work best, and developing and evaluating new tools for program managers to use. SCORE research is intended inform efforts to gain control of schistosomiasis in high-prevalence areas, to sustain control and move towards elimination in areas of moderate prevalence, and ultimately to eliminate schistosomiasis. As part of the SCORE program, the present systematic review was undertaken to improve understanding of the factors that affect an individual\u2019s adherence to treatment for schistosomiasis where large-scale mass drug administration (MDA) programs are implemented.\nSchistosomiasis is a disease caused by water-borne, parasitic trematodes of Schistosoma species that infect either the genitourinary tract or the intestines and liver. Sequelae of chronic Schistosoma infection include anemia, malnutrition, growth retardation, poor school performance, infertility, and potentially fatal complications such as portal hypertension, renal failure, and bladder cancer [2]. Globally, more than 290 million individuals are estimated to be infected, with another 600\u2013780 million at risk [3, 4]. The most prevalent species, Schistosoma haematobium, is found predominantly in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, where it is transmitted by Bulinus species snails. S. mansoni is transmitted in Africa and South America via Biomphalaria species, and the third most prevalent parasite species, S. japonicum, is transmitted in East Asia and in the Philippines by Oncomelania species snails [1]. Because of SCORE\u2019s focus on schistosome species found in sub-Saharan Africa, results for S. japonicum were not included in this review.\nHistorically, schistosomiasis control has employed a number of methods that limit the impact of disease. Approaches have included molluscicides that target the parasite\u2019s intermediate snail host [5]; interventions to provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene [6]; and selective or mass treatment with anti-schistosomal agents [7, 8]. In the past few decades, control efforts have primarily focused on the use of praziquantel for mass preventive chemotherapy of school-aged children (SAC) and other high-risk adult groups (e.g., fishermen, car washers, laundry workers) in endemic areas, through the use of MDA [7, 8].\nA variety of MDA methods are currently used for schistosomiasis control. Delivery modes can broadly be divided into community-based and school-based programs, or a combination of the two. Community-based distribution strategies include house-to-house distribution, distribution from a health facility or other central location, or a combination of the two. Other program characteristics that may vary from study to study include: i) which personnel distribute the drugs, ii) how communities are educated and mobilized, and iii) whether the anti-schistosomal programs are \u201cvertical\u201d or combined with community-based campaigns against lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis.\nWith respect to school-based programs, most countries affected by schistosomiasis have significant percentages of SAC who are not enrolled in school, and not all children who are enrolled regularly attend school. From data collected between 2000 and 2006, UNICEF reported that in Eastern/Southern Africa, only 70% of children attended primary school, and that in West/Central Africa, only 62% of children attended primary school [9]. If school-based programs leave these sizeable populations of un-enrolled children persistently untreated, this will significantly impede the success of schistosomiasis control and elimination programs.\nWorld Health Organization (WHO) guidelines recommend that in all endemic areas, at least 75% of children are treated either annually (in high endemicity zones with \u2265 50% SAC prevalence), every two years (in moderate endemicity zones having 10\u201349% SAC prevalence), or upon entering and leaving primary school (in low endemicity zones having < 10% SAC prevalence) [8]. Modeling has suggested that, due to the high risk of infection resurgence upon cessation of control programs [10\u201312], an even higher level of population coverage may be required for the effects of preventive chemotherapy to be sustained. For example, it is estimated that in \u201chigh-risk\u201d villages (>50% SAC prevalence at baseline), greater than 90% coverage of SAC will be required in order to achieve 3\u20134 subsequent years of sustained low prevalence (i.e., at < 10%) [13]. With these coverage target numbers in mind, an understanding of what features contribute to the most successful MDA programs is essential.\nThis review sought to assess the overall SAC coverage rates as well as coverage rates of non-enrolled children obtained by MDA through respective school, community, or a combination of school and community delivery systems. We discuss the factors believed to be associated with high or low coverage rates, and summarize different national and regional programs\u2019 suggestions for improving overall SAC coverage.\nThe data used in this project were aggregated, anonymized data from previously published studies; as such, this study does not constitute human subjects research according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services guidelines (https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/guidance).\nStudy protocol and registration\nThe protocol for this study was developed prospectively by the authors. It was registered and published in the International Prospective Register of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO) online database, https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/#index.php, number CRD42015017656, on 06 April 2015. A copy of the registered protocol is found in S2 File.\nIn order to evaluate the effectiveness of MDA programs for schistosomiasis, we aimed to include any studies published before October 2015 that reported quantitative or qualitative data about coverage rates of SAC for MDA with praziquantel in sub-Saharan Africa, or in other low- or middle-income countries in the middle-east or South America. Articles in English or French were included. Relevant \u2018gray\u2019 literature (project reports, white papers) was also obtained and reviewed when possible.\nThe National Library of Medicine\u2019s MEDLINE, along with Elsevier\u2019s EMBASE, Google Scholar, African Journals Online, and Web of Science were used to identify published studies. The reference lists of these identified papers were then used to search for additional unindexed reports. When relevant, attempts were made to contact authors to clarify information and to obtain unpublished literature.\nLiterature searches were performed using combinations of the following key words: \u2018schistosomiasis\u2019, \u2018mansoni\u2019, \u2018haematobium/haematobia\u2019, \u2018prevention\u2019, \u2018control\u2019, \u2018compliance\u2019, \u2018adherence\u2019, \u2018uptake\u2019, \u2018coverage\u2019, \u2018non-enrolled\u2019, \u2018non-attendance\u2019, \u2018community-directed treatment\u2019, and \u2018MDA\u2019. A search log containing citation information for each study was kept using Microsoft Excel.\nThe titles and abstracts of all studies identified in the literature search were screened for relevance to the present systematic review. The full texts of the studies not excluded after the screening phase of the study were obtained from online or library sources when possible. These reports were then reviewed in full to determine eligibility for the present systematic review.\nData from the included papers was abstracted and indexed in a Microsoft Access database. Besides citation information and year of publication, information was collected on study location, study design, MDA delivery method (community-based, school-based, or combined), and population characteristics. The fraction of all eligible SAC treated, the fraction of non-enrolled versus enrolled SAC treated, and the methods used to measure the number of eligible and treated individuals (e.g. censuses, household surveys, drug distributor registers) were also recorded. When a study reported coverage rates using both distributor registers and household surveys, the household survey coverage rate was used. Qualitative data extracted included factors positively or negatively associated with success of MDA, as well as reported side effects of the medication.\nPercentage of SAC coverage (including enrolled and non-enrolled children) was the primary measure used to compare methods of delivery of MDA; when available, coverage specifically of non-enrolled children was also compared between studies. Due to the heterogeneity in which studies reported MDA coverage, it was necessary to use multiple strategies to generate data that would be comparable for analysis: i) when an article reported an aggregate coverage rate for SAC and adults, the coverage rate of SAC was assumed to be at least that of the reported aggregate coverage rate; ii) when an article reported coverage rates by individual district, the coverage rate extracted was a weighted average of the individual district averages based on targeted population size; iii) when coverage rates were reported for multiple years, these were averaged and population-based weighting was again used, where appropriate, in calculating these blended averages.\nDue to the heterogeneity of study sizes as well as methods of measuring coverage, it was not possible to perform formal meta-analyses, i.e., no summary point estimates or confidence intervals have been calculated, nor have statistical comparisons been made among or between distribution methods.\nQualitative analysis was performed to determine other factors, apart from method of delivery, that were commonly cited as affecting coverage rates in the included studies.\nThe studies reviewed in this paper were mostly not protocol-driven randomized trials. They were primarily one-group observational, or pre- vs. post-modification evaluation trials, and they generally did not report on aspects of the study that might help to determine risk of bias. Publication bias could potentially have influenced data availability if reports of innovative MDA strategies were published only if successful, or if standard implementation programs were reported only if unsuccessful in reaching coverage targets.\nFig 1 shows a flow diagram of the study selection process for this systematic review. 623 references were identified through systematic database searches and 39 more through reference lists and personal communications. After screening of titles and abstracts, 114 papers were selected for full-text review; however, the full text could only be accessed for 111. S1 Text contains a list of the studies considered for full review. Reasons for exclusion (n = 89) included: did not measure or report coverage (31), MDA not employed (29), modeling study/no intervention (15), not schistosomiasis-related (6), duplicate report (3), only adults included (2), conflicting data (1), inadequate age category breakdown (1), or other (1).\nFig 1. Flow chart for study selection.\nThe flow diagram indicates the numbers of titles and studies reviewed in preparation of the current systematic review of treatment coverage effects of different approaches to MDA for schistosomiasis.\nTwenty-two studies were included in the systematic review. Fourteen of those studies (Table 1) reported coverage rates for populations of, or including, SAC. Of those fourteen, five reported on combined community- and school-based delivery, four reported on community-based delivery, two reported on school-based delivery, and three compared school-based and community-based delivery. Three of the quantitative studies also reported separate coverage rates for enrolled and non-enrolled children. Several of the studies reporting overall coverage rates, plus eight others (Table 2), provided qualitative analysis of individual, community, or programmatic factors influencing coverage.\nTable 1. Included studies with quantitative data on MDA coverage rates.\nTable 2. Studies describing qualitative factors influencing coverage.\nCoverage rates by delivery method\nBy delivery strategy, the highest SAC coverage rates were achieved with combined community- and school-based delivery (78% to 95%, median 89%) [14\u201318]. The second highest rates were achieved with community-only delivery, including the community arms of the comparative trials. (53% to 85%, median 72%) [19\u201322, 25\u201328]. The lowest SAC coverage rates were achieved with school-only delivery, including the school arms of the comparative trials (28% to 81%, median 49%) [23\u201328]. These results are shown in Fig 2.\nFig 2. Anti-schistosomal drug treatment coverage rates by delivery method.\nThe reported MDA coverage rates for SAC in each study are shown, grouped by delivery method (combined, community-only, or school-only). Each study is identified by its reference citation number in brackets. For the three comparative studies, both the community and school coverage rates are displayed in separate columns.\nCoverage for non-enrolled SAC\nThree studies reported separate data breakdowns on coverage rates for enrolled and non-enrolled children. In combined community/school-delivery programs, coverage results for non-enrolled children followed the trends for enrolled SAC, yielding at 90% coverage for non-enrolled SAC vs. 95% for enrolled SAC in Yemen [14] and 88% (non-enrolled) vs. 96% (in school) coverage in Burkina Faso [15]. In the comparative trial of community-based vs. school-based implementation in Tanzania, the community-based arm reached 80% non-enrolled SAC coverage [27, 28], whereas the school-based arm of the same trial reached only 59% coverage of non-enrolled-SAC [27, 28].\nCombined community and school distribution.\nFive of the included programs delivered praziquantel through combined community and school channels [14\u201318]. In Yemen, the combined strategy was adopted due to disappointingly low coverage of non-enrolled children in a prior school-only delivery system (68% non-enrolled vs. 94% enrolled SAC coverage in 2008) [14]. After the dual channel approach was implemented in 2009, 90% coverage was achieved in non-enrolled children and 98% in enrolled children [14]. In Burkina Faso, the combined approach led to 88% coverage of non-enrolled SAC compared to 96% coverage of enrolled SAC [15], and in Sierra Leone, it led to 86% overall SAC coverage [16].\nIn a Mali-based study, village chiefs, community health workers, and community drug distributors (CDDs) decided on the best distribution strategy for each village, but typically it involved community-based door-to-door distribution and, if MDA occurred during the school year, school-based distribution as well. This approach achieved an overall SAC coverage rate of 89% [17].\nThe combined program in Niger, which reached coverage of 78%, offered treatment for children regardless of enrollment status in both the schools and communities [18].\nCommunity-only distribution.\nThere were four programs that utilized community-only distribution for MDA [19\u201322]. Two of the programs integrated praziquantel delivery with pre-existing onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis control programs, and these achieved coverage rates of 85% [19] and 66% [20], respectively. The other two programs, which were non-integrated, achieved SAC coverage rates of just 58% [21] and 53% [22].\nSchool-only distribution.\nThe only purely school-based distribution program in this review reported an initial SAC coverage rate of 28% [23]. Subsequently, interventions were put in place to increase teacher motivation and supervision in that program. A follow-up study after these interventions were implemented reported an improved SAC coverage of 49% [24].\nComparisons of community and school distribution.\nThree studies, one randomized and two non-randomized, directly compared school-based and community-based delivery [25\u201328]. These studies divided up delivery methods by villages or by counties. The first non-randomized study, located in Uganda, had a coverage rate of 85% in the community-based programs and of 79% in the school-based programs (p = 0.03) [25]. The other non-randomized study, located in Nigeria, achieved 72% coverage in the community-based programs and 28% in the school-based programs [26]. In the third study, which was randomized, the average coverage rate over two years was 81% in the community arm and 81% in the school arm [27, 28]. However, among non-enrolled children, coverage was significantly greater in the community arm than in the school arm: 80% versus 59% in year one, 83% versus 57% in year two, respectively (p < 0.001) [27, 28]. In this trial, non-enrolled children comprised 7.4% of the SAC population in the community-based treatment villages and 6.2% of the SAC population in the school-based treatment villages [27, 28].\nFactors associated with limited coverage\nFear of side effects and education/outreach efforts.\nIn many studies, the participants, CDDs, and/or teachers reported that fear of side effects substantially impacted MDA uptake [14, 20, 23, 29, 30, 32, 36]. Side effects commonly included stomach aches, vomiting, diarrhea, headaches, and dizziness [35]. In a Ugandan study that reached only 28% MDA uptake, 72% of the children who refused praziquantel reported doing so because of fear of side effects [23]. Three hundred and thirty-seven children in that study deliberately missed school in order to avoid MDA [23]. Additionally, in an integrated program in Ghana, 18% of the people who agreed to take ivermectin and albendazole refused to take praziquantel, naming its particularly bad side effects as the reason [20].\nStudies agreed that the main way to prevent severe side effects was to take praziquantel after a meal or snack [14, 34, 36]. However, many students went to school without eating, and thus were given the medication on an empty stomach. A randomized, school-based study by Muhumuza and colleagues found that providing snacks with praziquantel led to significantly higher uptake of MDA, i.e. 94% uptake in snack schools compared to 79% in non-snack schools (p = 0.002) [34].\nIn general, there was also a need for more education about schistosomiasis. Many studies reported gaps or misconceptions in teachers\u2019, CDDs\u2019, and students\u2019 understanding of schistosomiasis [14, 23, 24, 29, 30, 32, 35]. Participants were often unconvinced of the need for treatment, particularly in the absence of symptoms and/or testing for disease [24, 32, 36]. Occasionally, false rumors were spread about the medication, e.g. that it caused cancer or that it was really an HIV/AIDS medication [29, 30, 32]. On the other hand, one study in Uganda found that correct knowledge of schistosomiasis transmission and prevention was associated with a greater likelihood of taking the treatment (adjusted odds ratio (OR) of 2.04 (CI 1.23\u20133.45)) [23]. In another study in Kenya, a mass media campaign was launched to explain schistosomiasis and the benefits of treatment, and CDDs confirmed that this intervention reduced anxiety in subsequent MDA deliveries [33].\nEight studies addressed the issue of incentives for MDA personnel [17, 24, 26, 29\u201332, 36]. Lack of financial or material incentives was often identified as a constraint on MDA programs, with both CDDs and teachers desiring compensation for their involvement [26, 29, 30, 36]. In multiple cases, lack of remuneration caused low morale, poor performance, and attrition among CDDs [29\u201331]. Studies also frequently reported that the reason why drug distributors expected incentives was because such rewards were provided by other health programs, e.g. those for HIV, tuberculosis, and/or malaria [17, 30\u201332]. In one school-based program, incentives for teachers, i.e. US $2 plus t-shirts advertising the program, were introduced as part of an intervention that increased coverage among enrolled SAC from 28% to 49% [24]. Alternatively, in order to overcome distributor attrition, one study trained an especially large number of CDDs [30], and another substituted existing health facility staff for volunteer CDDs [29].\nRatio of distributors to recipients.\nAnother common theme among studies was the issue of unrealistically low numbers of MDA distributors compared to recipients [14, 17, 20, 26, 31, 32, 35]. Reported ratios of distributors to recipients ranged from 1:67 to less than 1:200 [14, 17, 20, 26, 31, 32, 35]. In a Yemen-based study, the average number of people treated per two-person team per day was 203, yet the target range was set much higher, at 300 [14]. Another study calculated that the odds ratio of not receiving praziquantel was 3.4 if the CDD to population ratio was less than 1:150 [31]. The average distributor:recipient ratio in that study was 1:125 [31].\nGender and age.\nFour studies examined gender and/or age differences in coverage. One study reported that of those treated in school, 55% were male, and of those treated in the community, 51% were female. This result, according to the authors, reflected higher school enrollment rates for males [15]. The other three studies did not find a significant difference in coverage between males and females [22, 26, 28]. With respect to age, one study found that better coverage was achieved with community delivery for children ages 5\u20139 and with school delivery for children ages 10\u201314 [26].\nMultiple studies examined the effect of socioeconomic status on coverage [14, 22, 25, 35]. In one study in Uganda, poverty appeared to influence coverage, in that the children who went to school without a morning meal were more reluctant to take praziquantel and teachers were more reluctant to give it to them for fear of side effects [35]. Another study found increased coverage among those who had better \u201chome quality\u201d and among those who lived in a household that included a village council member [22]. In addition, Oshish and colleagues have argued that non-enrolled children, especially those who had withdrawn from school for financial reasons, might be too embarrassed to go to a school for treatment [14]. Another study located in Uganda found no association between coverage rates and wealth or occupation [25].\nEthnicity, religion, and politics.\nEthnic, religious, and political affiliations were also studied for their impact on MDA coverage [21, 22, 26, 31]. In one study, the MDA campaign coincided with an election period, and political tensions affected the acceptability of CDDs in households of different political persuasions [21]. In another study, having a Muslim head of household was associated with a 52% lower likelihood of receiving PZQ compared to having a Christian head of household, despite Muslims being neither less educated nor less complaint than Christians [22]. In that same study, majority tribe members were 2.11 times more likely than minority tribe members to receive PZQ (p = 0.02) [22]. In a Nigeria-based study, the Ilaje minority group largely refused to participate in MDA [26]. Finally, in Mali, there was a significant difference (p < 0.01) in coverage between ethnic groups, with the migrant, cattle-breeding minority having a much higher rate of absenteeism during distribution [31].\nThe first aim of this systematic review was to examine the coverage rates achieved with different delivery approaches during mass drug administration (MDA) against schistosomiasis among school-age children (SAC). Among the different observational and pre-treatment/post-treatment studies included in this review, combined community- and school-based delivery achieved the highest median SAC coverage, followed by community-only delivery, then school-only delivery [14\u201324]. The three comparative studies found similar results, with community-based delivery either outperforming or roughly equaling school-based delivery in every case [2, 25\u201328]. Few studies reported specifically on coverage of non-enrolled SAC, but those that did found that offering community-based treatment (either alone or as part of a combined program) resulted in substantially better coverage for non-enrolled SAC than school-only treatment did [14, 27, 28]. However, even with community treatment, coverage was consistently lower among non-enrolled children compared to enrolled children [14, 15, 27, 28].\nWHO guidelines recommend an SAC coverage rate of at least 75% in schistosomiasis-endemic areas [8]. Each of the five studies that used combined community and school distribution were able to achieve that coverage level [14\u201318]. On the other hand, 75% coverage was not consistently attained across the studies that used community-only or school-only delivery systems [19\u201328]. This suggests that for future MDA programs, combined treatment may be the most reliable choice for achieving an acceptable coverage rate.\nIn future studies, it will be especially important to look closely at MDA coverage for non-enrolled versus enrolled SAC, in order to ensure that all children are equitably targeted. The trend of higher coverage rates in community-based programs versus school-based programs might be explained in part by large numbers of non-enrolled children missing out on school-based distribution. If elimination of transmission is to be the eventual target for control, it is essential that there remains no persistently untreated sub-population within the community.\nThe second aim of this review was to identify qualitative factors affecting MDA coverage rates. On the recipient level, successful distribution was hindered by fear of medication side effects [14, 20, 23, 29, 30, 32, 36] and inadequate education about the need for MDA, despite the absence of overt symptoms [14, 23, 24, 29, 30, 32, 35]. Some of praziquantel\u2019s gastrointestinal side effects may be minimized by giving the drug after food, and provision of porridge or other snacks may yield improved MDA uptake [14, 34, 36], and this aspect deserves greater clinical study. With regard to the efficacy of drug distributors, absence of financial or material incentives [17, 24, 26, 29\u201332, 36] and unrealistically high ratios of recipients to drug distributors [14, 17, 20, 26, 31, 32, 35] led to decreased motivation and staff attrition. Within communities, political tensions and differences among minority groups resulted, at times, in unequal distribution rates [21, 22, 26, 31]. On the other hand, several studies showed that snacks for recipients [34], t-shirts and small monetary rewards for teachers [24], and educational media campaigns about schistosomiasis [33] have led to more successful MDA programs. A number of the issues affecting delivery of schistosomiasis control, namely: i) limited disease knowledge, ii) fear of side effects, iii) unequal age and gender uptake, iv) lack of drug-distributor motivation and v) local political effects are also common to other MDA programs for control of NTDs. Each of these problems was noted by Krentel and colleagues [37] in their recent systematic review of factors affecting MDA participation in lymphatic filariasis elimination programs.\nWith this evidence in mind, it appears that small, targeted program modifications can have a meaningful positive impact on program success. Table 3 includes a listing of suggested strategies for increasing coverage rates. Implementation of these suggestions in future studies would help determine which of these adjunctive strategies, singly or in combination, lead to the most significant improvements in coverage.\nTable 3. Specific recommendations for improving MDA coverage provided in the reviewed studies.\nIn terms of limitations, our systematic review was limited by the small number of studies containing detailed information about schistosomiasis MDA coverage in SAC, especially with regard to non-enrolled children. Even within the eligible studies, heterogeneity in design, size, and methods used to measure and report coverage made it difficult to compare results or develop over-all estimates of the impact of individual program factors. As we have noted, there could potentially be bias in study reporting, which might then influence our current assessment. In order to compare the efficacy of different MDA control strategies more definitively, additional randomized control trials are needed, along with more consistent reporting of target population sizes and coverage rates.\nOverall, this study provides a systematic first look at how to design the most effective schistosomiasis MDA programs. From a quantitative perspective, the limited data suggest that the best means to maximize SAC coverage for both enrolled and non-enrolled children is to use a combined community-based and school-based approach. Qualitative program features that are expected to maximize coverage include provision of food for treated children, educational campaigns about schistosomiasis and its treatment, increased CDD training and incentivization, and active inclusion of marginalized populations. In the push towards elimination of schistosomiasis, consideration of these factors will be essential in the development of future MDA programs. However, beyond attaining high coverage, it is also crucial to continually assure treatment efficacy through follow-up monitoring and evaluation of infection prevalence and intensity [38], and the corresponding Schistosoma infection-associated morbidities [39]. Optimal design of schistosomiasis surveillance strategies remains a very active area of study in operational research [40]\nS2 File. Prospero protocol CRD 42015017656 used for this study.\nS1 Text. Listing of papers screened for this systematic review.\nThe authors would like to thank the staff of the Cleveland Health Sciences Library-Allen Memorial Medical Library for ready assistance with retrieval of the many articles reviewed in this project. We appreciate the helpful comments of the SCORE Project leaders and participants, and their encouragement for completion of this project.\n1. Ezeamama AE, He CL, Shen Y, Yin XP, Binder SC, Campbell CH Jr., et al. Gaining and sustaining schistosomiasis control: study protocol and baseline data prior to different treatment strategies in five African countries. BMC Infect Dis. 2016;16(1):229. pmid:27230666\n2. Colley DG, Bustinduy AL, Secor WE, King CH. Human schistosomiasis. Lancet. 2014;383(9936):2253\u20132264. pmid:24698483\n3. Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Collaborators. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 301 acute and chronic diseases and injuries in 188 countries, 1990\u20132013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013. Lancet. 2015;386(9995):743\u2013800. pmid:26063472\n4. WHO. Schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiases: number of people treated in 2015. Wkly Epidemiol Rec. 2016;91(49\u201350):585\u2013595. pmid:27934297\n5. King CH, Bertsch D. Historical perspective: snail control to prevent schistosomiasis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2015;9(4):e0003657. pmid:25905621\n6. Grimes JE, Croll D, Harrison WE, Utzinger J, Freeman MC, Templeton MR. The relationship between water, sanitation and schistosomiasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2014;8(12):e3296. pmid:25474705\n7. King CH, Mahmoud AA. Drugs five years later: praziquantel. Ann Intern Med. 1989;110(4):290\u2013296. pmid:2643915\n8. WHO. 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Factors affecting infection or reinfection with Schistosoma haematobium in coastal Kenya: survival analysis during a nine-year, school-based treatment program. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2006;75(1):83\u201392. pmid:16837713\n13. Wang X, Gurarie D, Mungai PL, Muchiri EM, Kitron U, King CH. Projecting the long-term impact of school- or community-based mass-treatment interventions for control of Schistosoma infection. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2012;6(11):e1903. pmid:23166850\n14. Oshish A, AlKohlani A, Hamed A, Kamel N, AlSoofi A, Farouk H, et al. Towards nationwide control of schistosomiasis in Yemen: a pilot project to expand treatment to the whole community. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2011;105(11):617\u2013627. Epub 2011/09/13. pmid:21907376\n15. Gabrielli AF, Toure S, Sellin B, Sellin E, Ky C, Ouedraogo H, et al. 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Were we even friends if she couldn\u2019t make the effort to tell me before she told everyone else? Who Even Does That?\nIllustration by William Joel / The Verge\nhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/4/28/17293056/facebook-deletefacebook-social-network-monopoly", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 9503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kaltinthought.com/2018/09/28/thoughts-in-silence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TX2CCF3FB4AGRTJONHFMJMVIIMRBES2A", "length": 1359, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kaltinthought.com", "title": "Thoughts in Silence \u2013 Kalt In Thought", "raw_content": "By K.A.L.T on September 28, 2018 \u2022 ( Leave a comment )\nAs we go about our daily lives, we are often times provided with more time to think than to speak. With a variety of different expectations placed upon us by those around us, we are always wary of what we say so as to not ruin the image others have of us. As much as possible, we would like to maintain a good image so as to not be isolated.\nLiving life this way, our thoughts and feelings are forever bottled with nowhere to be released. They are nothing but fleeting thoughts that never see the light of day.\nWe may think a million different things and not speak a word.\nDon\u2019t you think it is too sad?\nWe spend so much time thinking and contemplating about life, our situations, and our decisions. Surely some of our thoughts could help solve other people\u2019s problems or at least provide them with some comfort. If everyone shared their thoughts and not keep to themselves, fruitful discussions may arise leading to astounding discoveries. Thoughts may be able to go deeper and become more meaningful.\nThe thoughts we have in silence tend to be deep. But if there are others around to help you dig deeper, why not?\nIf you are too afraid to speak your thoughts, type your thoughts. 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Long ago when Karen and myself just started dating, we were looking at a picture of a girl sitting on a rock on top of a mountain. We later found out she was sitting on Table Mountain.\nI then promised Karen that one day, I will take her to Cape Town and we will be on top of Table Mountain.\nSaving up for a journey of a lifetime\nIn April 2015, I ended up attending a Chris Guillebeau live filming session on travel at the CreativeLive studio in Seattle. As soon as I arrived in the studio, I was immediately inspired to travel around the world.\nI then spent nearly two years saving up money and building up my frequent flyer miles account. Nothing was going to stop me from making my dream trip a reality. I always keep my word and my promise to Karen was that we will one day go to Table Mountain together.\nFast forward to October 2016, Karen and myself are nearing the end of our great South African road trip. Our final stop is a place we\u2019ve been dreaming to go for a very long time.\nWe rode the cable car up the mountain. Unfortunately, as soon as we got to the top, all we can see is fog. Nonetheless, we were determined to see the infamous Table Mountain view.\nTable Mountain: A dream destination reached\nWe waited for a bit and eventually, the fog started clearing. The amazing view of the Cape Town became visible at the top of Table Mountain.\nI can tell Karen is getting emotional. And I don\u2019t blame her because this is one of those rare moments that I feel completely present. Seeing the view of Cape Town from the mountain represented so many things.\nIt represented all the obstacles we endured in life, career and relationship. The view represented hard work, dedication and perseverance. We worked REALLY HARD to make this trip happen. And we finally made it.\nGratitude overcame our body and mind. 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The Living Wage is a robust calculation that reflects the real cost of living, rewarding a hard day's work with a fair day's pay.\n\"We have accredited over 1,500 leading employers, including Key Fire & Security, ranging from independent printers, bookshops and breweries, to well-known companies such as Nationwide, Aviva and SSE. These businesses recognise that clinging to the national minimum wage is not good for business. 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The fluid lubricates the eyes and protects them from foreign matter and infection\u2014the latter because it contains salt and lysozyme, an enzyme that kills microorganisms. During normal flow, tears constantly wash over the exterior of the eye and collect at its inside corner, where they drain through two small lacrimal ducts into the nasal cavity. During heavy tear flow, such as that caused by irritation, the excess fluid that is not taken up by the lacrimal ducts spills over the eyelids, carrying off foreign bodies too large to be flushed through the lacrimal ducts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kirpalsingh-teachings.org/en/books-sant-kirpal-singh/morning-talks/223-chastity-we-must-become-selfcentred.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:37Z", "digest": "sha1:MIIYVAOJOE3FBWNTGKJ4ENQTAZTUXJFW", "length": 12604, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "kirpalsingh-teachings.org", "title": "Chastity - we must become selfcentred - Kirpal Singh Teachings", "raw_content": "Chastity - we must become selfcentred\nI was just speaking about the chastity of life, which is the most important part of the spiritual life. Spirituality cannot dawn on a mind which is driven or attracted through the outgoing faculties to the outward enjoyments. Out of the five outgoing faculties of eyes, ears, nose, touch and taste, three are most powerful. Lust attacks us eighty percent through the eyes, fourteen percent through the ears and the remaining six percent mainly through touch. So how to maintain chastity? that's the point. You have just to control your attention. The mind and outgoing faculties derive their power from the soul, and the outward expression of the soul is the attention. So if our attention is riveted at the centre of the soul in the body and we make the best use of the outgoing faculties, we will not be affected by what we see or hear. You might be looking at somebody but you need not be doing so with your full consciousness, even with your open eyes. Somebody might be relating long stories of vicious things to you. If you control your attention, even with your open ears you won't hear.\nWe derive effects from outside and wherever our attention goes, we are affected by the radiation of those with whom we come in contact. If they are pure, that's all right. If not, you get their radiation. How to be air conditioned, I would say, is the question. If there is heat outside, what should we do? We should become air conditioned. If we become centred within your own self by withdrawing your attention from outside, from the body below, then...? If you would like to see through the eyes, you might see at your will. If you will be self centred, you won't be affected by any other of the outgoing faculties. But as we are given up to the outward attachments, naturally we will receive impressions from outside.\nTo be pure is the ground on which God manifests. That is why Christ said, \"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God\". Buddha, Christ and other Saints and Masters all gave out in their own way this very thing. They all said, \"You must be pure at heart\". Out of the abundance of heart a man speaks. You speak what you have already got within you. If you have got pure thoughts within you, then you are pure. Then naturally, whatever will go out from you, through your mouth or by radiation, will have the same effect. Whatever we speak, whatever we radiate, carries the effect of what is within us. That is why it is said, \"A man speaks out of the abundance of his heart\".\nEverybody says, \"Be chaste, observe celibacy.\" For that the only criterion or specific remedy is what? to be self centred. It is we who give power to the mind. It is we who give power to the outgoing faculties. It is we who see good or bad outside. If we become self centred, we may make the best use of our outgoing faculties however we like. At the present time, we are driven away, attracted by outside things like anything. If you are self centred and somebody touches you, you will not be affected. You will be air conditioned. But if you touch those who are not air conditioned, that will carry its effect. So for that, all Masters have enjoined \"Don't touch anybody \u2013 don't look into the eyes of others\". These are the outward precautions to save you. Just like when a tree is cut down, first the branches are shorn off and it is then easier to cut the stem. These precautions are only to cut off the branches. But the whole thing will depend on being self centred, to get your attention centred within you.\nThe outward expression of the soul is called attention or surat. If you become self centred, you can make use of any of your outgoing faculties at your own will and pleasure. Now we cannot do that. We are driven like anything. You are in the world and see everybody. The only precaution is, don't look into the eyes of others and you will be saved. But still the main remedy, the specific remedy, lies in being air conditioned. Then you may come in touch with anybody, like a man who lives among snakes but who has some incantation to protect him, and so is never bitten. You follow my point, what I want to bring out to you?\nSo being self centred is the main thing. That will come in due course with regular devotion of time to your spiritual practices. By airing the soul, you are cut off from outside. By seeing intently the Light within, you are cut off from the body and outgoing faculties. A doctor who used to examine my Master once said to Him, \"You say that you are withdrawn from the body. Can you prove it?\" \"All right,\" the Master said, \"examine me if you like,\" and He became self centred. The doctor found hardly any indication of life in His body. Even His blood circulation was very slow. It is the attention which gives life to the body. This we have forgotten. We are engaged in outward practices which involve the use of the outgoing faculties. You may do these for hundreds of years. They may be either good acts or bad acts and will react accordingly. But unless you become self centred, I will again say, you cannot be saved by outward attachments. So the best way to attain purity is to be self centred. If you want to make use of your eyes or other organs of the outgoing faculties, use them, otherwise not.\nHe is a self centred man, I would say, who is called a Saint. He comes into contact with you and sometimes he pats you or looks at you mercifully. This does not mean that He is influenced by you. He influences others, because He is competent. We are influenced by others, that is the pity. There is a vast difference between the influence of a Saint and the influence of others. You may say that He is sitting with us. Sometimes He talks to us in a jolly way. Do you mean to say that He is attracted by you? Not the least. He sits with us, talks with us only to attract us and others to come on the right way. So there is a vast difference between a man who is self centred and who has come solely to help others to become self centred, and a man who has not become self centred. The time factor is a necessity of course. Rome was not built in a day. Every Saint has His past and every sinner his future. These are the things which we have to grasp and make the best use of. Be self centred, and for that you must be regular in your practices. Go all through life with your attention centred within you.\nI learnt this secret from Napoleon's life. I have read more than three hundred books written about the lives of Saints and other great men. Napoleon was a very self centred man I tell you. At about 2 o'clock in the morning he was writing the proceedings of a primary school. It happened to be the morning of the battle of Waterloo. At about 8 o'clock, he was walking in the garden. One of his ministers was there and asked him, \"What are you doing? the battle is due to start at 9 o'clock.\" \"Oh, that is at 9 o'clock, it is 8 o'clock now,\" replied Napoleon. You see how self centred he was. I have read the biographies of many Saints. We learn something from every man's life. Man is not made great by learning something in his head. It is something which he has brought out in his own life which makes him great. You follow my point now?\nEverybody lays great stress on being chaste, but still we are not chaste. The reason is that the atmosphere is poisoned. The people whom we touch are poisoned. It is better if you can get the company of a good self centred man. If not, then it is better to live alone. These things are referred to in the books but are not given clearly, cut and dried, as I am just putting before you. You want to be pure, all right, then be self centred. The diaries will help you, as in cutting the branches off a tree. When the fruit is cut from a tree it cannot remain fresh. It remains fresh as long as it is untouched by the hand of man. If it is touched by the hand of man, it cannot remain fresh, although there is one way out. That is, keep it in honey, then it won't spoil. The honey should be love of God, love of the Master. That way, we can remain safe, quite fresh, otherwise not.\nThe Masters have given so many examples to bring home these things, but we simply read through and go on in our old ways. We should understand what they are telling us and we should have that very thing in our own lives. If two glasses are carried together, one or both may break. Similarly, by touch you will have the same radiation as the other man. Unless you become self centred, you cannot avoid the influence of others. We have to learn swimming in water, not on dry land. We are to be in the world yet out of it, and to achieve success in this way, we have to be self centred. You follow my point? The company of a person who is self centred will give you the radiation of His life. Maulana Rumi says, \"If you have the company of a Saint (Saints referred to in the Scriptures are meant here, not the so-called masters with whom the world is flooded today), and if you sit by Him for an hour, you will have His radiation. You will have more advancement and progress this way than by putting in hundreds of years of devotion\". Once you sit by a fire, all cold will go. When you sit by a snowy mountain, naturally you will have cold. So the society or the company of the Saints gives wonderful things. If flowers are left in a room, the whole room will be full of perfume. If you keep them in your clothes, they too will be full of perfume. If you keep them in water , the water will become perfumed. Similarly, when a man who is self centred is there, the very atmosphere becomes charged. In that atmosphere, you can have very easily a clear-cut understanding of things and also more progress. The radiations in the atmosphere around Him will become embedded in you.\nPeople will run from hundreds and thousands of miles to have the company of a Saint. When we come to Him, what do we do? We do not derive the full benefit of His company. Why? Because our whole attention is not riveted into the Master. If you go to the Master and just wonder about what He eats or what He drinks, you will not be able to benefit fully from His radiation. When you are at the feet of the Master, you should strike up no friendship with anybody, your whole friendship should simply be for the Master. Your whole attention should be on Him all through. What does He say? Does He ask you to leave the world and go to the desert places? Not the least. He asks us to live in the word but to be self centred.\nGod has united you, some as brothers, some as sisters, mothers or fathers. It is God who has united you and you should behave in the proper way as a matter of devotion to Him. Because God has done this and because you love God, then pay off fully, as best as you can. But all the same, you should be detached while doing this, just like a nurse who looks after somebody else's child. She nurses it of course, but with all that she knows at the heart of hearts that it is not her child. She only does it for the sake of earning a living. Similarly, we should be in the world, pay off our debts, love those with whom our debts lie because God has united us, but all the same remain in air conditioned rooms. They will only be air conditioned if we become self centred. These things are not given direct in the books. Those who have got practical experience know where the shoe pinches. With all our efforts to be chaste, to wish to be chaste, still we are not chaste. Chastity in mind, word and deed, the whole thing depends on the soul's attention. If you make your attention self centred, then who can affect you? You will have become air conditioned. These are practical things pointed out to you. Keep notes of what has been said. If you read through all the scriptures, you will not find it said so directly.\nThe main thing to save you is, \"Don't look into the eyes of others\". Look only into the eyes of one who is self centred. Don't touch anybody and you will be saved. If you are self centred, you won't be influenced by others. If not, you will be influenced by everybody. Beware, if you can't get the company of a competent Master, then remain all alone. Pay off your debts because God has united you. Love the people because they are children of God. For the sake of the love of God, we should love everybody. For that you have not to leave the world and go to the deserted places. You have to learn swimming while in water. You follow my point, a very important point? Just grasp what has been said and try to put in more time to your meditations. 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Whether you're a graduating high school senior or you're looking to go back to school, community college can be a flexible and more affordable option.\nBut which community colleges are the best in Wyoming, at least for 2018?\nHere are the community colleges they determined to be the top 5 schools in Wyoming...\n2. Central Wyoming College\n3. Northwest College - Wyoming\nFiled Under: Community College, Niche.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kpfa.org/episode/89201/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:59Z", "digest": "sha1:76G5IH2VUUQRAP5MQZO2LAXA3XAMD2XS", "length": 69, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kpfa.org", "title": "Music of the World with David McBurnie \u2013 February 22, 2013 at 11:00am \u2013 KPFA", "raw_content": "Music of the World with David McBurnie \u2013 February 22, 2013 at 11:00am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 53.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ktpress.rw/2018/01/rwanda-to-invest-180m-in-gorilla-habitat-expansion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:44Z", "digest": "sha1:UPPPZQD72H3ZY2QXX5ZOCTCAZZGOX3O4", "length": 1561, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ktpress.rw", "title": "Rwanda to Invest $180M in Gorilla Habitat Expansion \u2013 KT PRESS", "raw_content": "byWilliams Buningwire January 15, 2018 at 9:44 pm 0\nA mountain Gorilla cuddles its baby in their natural habitat in Rwanda\u2019s Volcano Mountain\nRwanda has announced a new expansion phase of the mountain gorilla habitat, a few days after land donation from Africa Wildlife Foundation.\nIn a press conference held on Monday, Jean Marie Vianney Gatabazi, the Governor of Northern Province announced the government plan to expand the park by 3,000 hectares.\nThis will bring the total space of the endangered, rare mountain gorillas\u2019 home to 19,027 hectares by the end of this year.\nThe latest expansion happened last week when Africa Wildlife Foundation donated 27 hectares to the park.\n\u201cResidents neighboring the park will be expropriated and accommodated in storied buildings, a move that aims to save land,\u201d Gatabazi said during a press conference on Monday.\nGatabazi said, that this relocation will be financed by the government of Rwanda at a tune of $180 million.\nCitizen near the park were advised to desist from putting long-term investment on their land, because expropriation may take effect before they have gotten return on investment.\n\u201cThey are advised not to put activities that can last for one year on their land,\u201d Gatabazi said adding that Rwanda Development Board (RDB) is working on required designs, including the housing project.\nRDB officials could not be accessed for a comment, but a staff connected to tourism department who cannot be quoted because he does not speak for the institution told KT Press that the project is at its initial phase.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kylemacquarrie.co.uk/blog/computer-art-and-design-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:43:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VICJP7PP2HCRJQ4IWWNJ5SNTCY7BPTW3", "length": 1625, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kylemacquarrie.co.uk", "title": "Computer Art and Design video | Kyle Macquarrie", "raw_content": "If you look back through the earlier posts on this blog you'll notice that it originated as a way to show the coursework I was doing during my HND Computer Art and Design course which I did before moving on to DJCAD in Dundee. A few weeks ago I got invited back to my alma mater to be interviewed for a film they were making to attract people to the course. Here's the result, featuring a bunch of very talented alumni, and me! There are also some snippets of my graded unit work and my Processing showreel featured, which is nice. The students have put together a really nice showcase for the course.\nThe main reason for writing this is to encourage anyone wondering whether this course might be for them to go and check it out. When I applied I had pretty much zero art and design experience, just a few terrible renders I'd made in 3ds Max and some horrendous sketching, but David thankfully decided to take a chance on me, and within just a few weeks he'd blown my mind with something that's radically changed my course for the better and opened up an enormous number of potential doorways for me. I can't really thank David, Dianne and Andy enough for all the help they gave us, and it looks like the facilities they have access to are better than when I was there too.\nAnyway, if you're interested in the course and want to talk about it with someone who's done it (in a totally non-official capacity), I'm happy to oblige- that's the least I can do after all that I got out of it. You can leave a comment here or go through my contact page.\nI'll not mention the fact that they misspelt my surname though... wait, what?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ladslife.co.uk/myth-busters-need-eat-less-lose-weight/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:10Z", "digest": "sha1:POKPK5VCFSLQYDSDKKOP7L6KMH6LS3CU", "length": 2578, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "ladslife.co.uk", "title": "Myth Busters: 'You need to eat less to lose weight' - LadsLife", "raw_content": "Myth Busters: \u2018You need to eat less to lose weight\u2019\nThere can be a lot of confusion when it comes to losing weight, and dieting in general. One common misconception, is that you need to eat less in order to lose weight. On the surface, this makes sense. However what it really comes down to is what you eat, and how much of it. Check it out:\nWhy eating less isn\u2019t always good\nAs previously mentioned the myth that \u2018you need to eat less to lose weight\u2019 is true (To some extent). And by that I mean that it works. If you eat less food, you will consume fewer calories and therefore gain less weight. Although this isn\u2019t the only option. Nor is it the best one. According to the NHS, the average adult male requires at least 2,500 calories a day to function properly. This easily be met by a couple of whole pizzas and a tub of ben and Jerry\u2019s. See where I\u2019m going with this? It\u2019s all about eating the right foods. Not necessarily less food. By consuming less food we are limiting our bodies from important vitamins, minerals, and macronutrients.\nThe solution isn\u2019t to necessarily eat less food, but to consume the \u2018right foods\u2019 in order to give our bodies exactly what it needs, whilst meeting our daily calories.\nEating the \u2018right\u2019 foods\nOkay, so let\u2019s assume you have 4 meals a day. One in the morning, two in the afternoon, and one in the evening. Now let\u2019s assume that you\u2019re eating unhealthy foods with lots of saturated fats, and carbs. You could easily exceed 3,500 calories within those 4 meals. Of course you\u2019re going to put on the pounds.\nNow let\u2019s look at the flip side, you still have 4 meals a day, however this time, you have healthy foods, such as chicken, vegetables, fish, and maybe some pasta. Now instead of consuming 3,500+ calories, you\u2019re consuming 2,300 \u2013 2,600. Much better! (And healthier). In addition you\u2019re still consuming 4 meals , spread across the day to satisfy your hunger. Simple right? Although, I wouldn\u2019t worry about counting your calories too much. Being healthy shouldn\u2019t be so complicated! Instead, just focus on consuming all the right foods.\nIn conclusion you do not need to eat less in order to lose weight, and/or improve your diet. Instead you just need to replace your current diet with healthier foods. This is easily achievable through healthy fats such as fish and avocados, proteins such as chicken and other meats, as well as carbohydrates such as, small amounts of pasta, and potatoes (Not chips!). Stuck for ideas? Start your day right with these healthy breakfasts.\nCategory: Myth BustersTag: Diet, Food, Healthy, Myth Busters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://larrywho.com/2009/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:43Z", "digest": "sha1:YZ7RNK5SXAVETBXU3LD7NPUTROOOT24Q", "length": 6548, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "larrywho.com", "title": "October | 2009 | Larry Who", "raw_content": "Click on following for earlier articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 and Part 11.\nClick on following for earlier articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 and Part 10.\nThe dream has always been about explosions, gas pipes blowing up, bridges being destroyed, cars falling into rivers, buildings being destroyed, death and devastation. And the dream has always been adapted to the particular city I was living in at the time.\nFor instance, in Virginia Beach (VA), I saw US navy ships at the Norfolk Naval Station being blown up by missiles and bombs. Powerful ships sank into the bay, much like the ships at the bombing of Pearl Harbor. In a matter of moments, the largest naval station in the world was gone.\nNow, moving to California was certainly not on my life\u2019s to-do list, but in August, 2001, Honey was upset with our sales jobs in Virginia Beach, Virgina. She kept seeking the Lord about something different and new for us.\nI cringed when she mentioned moving to California; weirdos and lefties \u2013 yuck! But I caved in to Honey\u2019s pleas and sought the Lord for a few days.\nWhat happened is that the Lord filled my heart with an overwhelming peace, much like morphine mellows out a person who is sufering extreme pain.\nAnd also, at the same time, I felt the Lord say that He would show me a sign for His reason in having us move to California sometime during our trip to the West Coast.\nMost of us probably remember what we were doing on September 11, 2001. I was sitting at a computer in Jefferson, Iowa, checking emails. Honey was in the bedroom; and Honey\u2019s uncle was sitting in a recliner watching the Today Show. Then, the first plane hit the World Trade Center. And then, the second plane.\nNow, before you get all huffy, remember: 911 was going to happen whether we obeyed God or not. The Lord just used the tragedy \u2013 which He knew about ahead of time \u2013 to imprint on my heart that America was at war.\nOur federal and state governments, police departments and whatever are helpless. At best, we can expect them to show up with body bags to stuff corpses into, but that\u2019s about it. So, don\u2019t misplace your faith and hope in our governments. It\u2019s a waste of time; time which we have too little of!\nFiled under Christianity, Christians, Church, church planting, Emergent Church, Faith, Gifts of the Spirit, God, grace, Home Church, jesus, Kingdom of God, Prophecy, Red Letter Christians, Religion, spiritual warfare\nA Video That Is Worth A Thousand Words\nHere\u2019s a video from Mark Pedder:\nFiled under Christianity, Christians, Church, Faith, God, grace, Home Church, jesus, Kingdom of God, Prayer, Religion\nClick on following for earlier articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8 and Part 9.\nThough I agree with the teachings of the above men, I have a different passion for ecouraging people to exit the tradition church system, especially on the West Coast.\nLarry Who\u2019s writings and teachings appear on this site on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. It\u2019s a little of this and a little of that, all written to encourage and exhort believers in their Christian journeys.\nTrying To Find My Niche\nThis is just an announcement to let readers know that beginning today, I plan on writing three articles per week. Most of my scribblings will be series oriented and teachings of sorts, ie My Journey Out, Waiting on the Lord, etc.\nIt\u2019s not that I don\u2019t enjoy writing editorial, sound-off, give-a-piece-of-my-mind types of articles because I do. It\u2019s just that my particular niche seems to be more along the lines of teaching rather than anything else.\nAlong with the three articles per week, I need to head back into the discipline of writing books, of which I have taken a detour from for a long time.\nSo, if you want, stop in on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. I\u2019m sure you will sometimes agree with me and sometimes not.\nClick on following for earlier articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Part 8.\nNow, what if Jesus visited the American traditional church system today, what would be the first thing He would point to as a man-made tradition? The office of the pastor.\nClick on following for earlier articles: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7.\nHave you ever had a prophetic word spoken to you which made you grit your teeth and hope it was wrong? As in\u2026really wrong?\n\u201cYou\u2019ve been searching for a home, and the one you\u2019ve found, is not it,\u201d said Jim Goll to us at a meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina.\nIf Honey and I could have chosen any prophetic word not to hear, this would have been the one. At the time, we had moved eleven times to seven cities in six different states in less than two years of marriage. We were feeling like the lost tribe of Israel, looking for the Promised Land.\nOur response to Goll\u2019s words: \u201cHe could be wrong, right?\u201d\nBut he was not.\nSince that prophetic word in 1997, Honey and I have moved at least eighteen more times to nine different cities in three more states.\nNow, in each city, we have attended some awesome churches. Metro Christian (Kansas City, MO). All Nations Church (Charlotte, NC). Vineyard Churches. Four-Square. Baptist. Friends. Non-denominational and countless others. We\u2019ve met and fellowshipped with numerous believers; all of whom we would have enjoyed to stay around forever.\nYet, while I was driving my pickup truck on West Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia, I had a quick vision. In it, I saw a white iron lung. It was like the machines which were used in the 1950\u2019s to help polio victims support their breathing during acute polio infections.\nThere was not an individual in the iron lung, but instead, the American traditional church system was on life support. It was barely breathing. I looked toward the back of the iron lung, and what I saw there shocked me. The unit was not plugged into a normal electrical outlet, but rather, it was plugged into bags and bags of money.\nAs I looked on, a voice spoke to me: \u201cPull the plug!\u201d\nThen, the vision ended.\nLater that day, Honey and I prayed about the vision. We felt that we were supposed to leave the traditional church system; and we did.\nNow to be honest, Honey and I thought (like Elijah) that we were the only ones who were asked by the Holy Spirit to leave the American church system. But thanks to the internet, we soon learned about millions of others who had similar experiences.\nHey, what about the separation of clergy and laity? Is it scriptural?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 296, "original_length": 21474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/2014/sep/17/vegas-weekend-events-comedy-music-ballet/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BSJ34R52ARNGZWQRSJVC4HIQKCPNG2PI", "length": 2196, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "lasvegasweekly.com", "title": "Trust Us: Ballet, Wu-Tang Clan, Jennifer Coolidge and more - Las Vegas Weekly", "raw_content": "Trust Us: Ballet, Wu-Tang Clan, Jennifer Coolidge and more\nSummer may be almost over, but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t still catch NBT\u2019s Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream.\nPhoto: Angela Sterling\nMidsummer Night\u2019s Dream Nevada Ballet Theatre kicks off its season in high comedic fashion, with Act 1 of Shakespeare\u2019s carnivalesque classic, choreographed by George Balanchine and paired with Paul Vasterling\u2019s Seasons, set to the music of Vivaldi. September 20, 7:30 p.m.; September 21, 2 p.m., $29-$128, Smith Center.\u200b\nWu-Tang Clan Whatever you think of the Wu\u2019s recent output, the members\u2019 alleged infighting or the group\u2019s reported release of a one-copy album, surely we can all agree that when Ghost, Meth, Rae and the rest get onstage together, they still rule everything around them. With Dirty Dozen Brass Band. September 18 & 19, 9 p.m., $61-$66, Brooklyn Bowl.\nSean Hayes From breakup lamentations to musings on prison, it\u2019s the San Francisco songwriter\u2019s lyrics that get you. Like this line from 2006\u2019s \u201cPolitics\u201d: \u201cYour mama mistook you for a lion/She cut off your head/She don\u2019t know you\u2019re dead/All the streets you rule run red.\u201d\u200b September 20, 8 p.m., $22-$25, Backstage Bar & Billiards.\nMarvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. kicks off its second season on September 23 at 9 p.m.\nBlitzen Trapper Wish you were a Portlander, so you could catch the experimental folksters perform every song on Neil Young\u2019s Harvest in October? Hell, road trip for that after whetting your appetite at Beauty Bar, maybe with tastes of latest album VII. With Cassorla, Crimson Balladeers. September 22, 9 p.m., $12.\nJennifer Coolidge American Pie. Best in Show. Legally Blonde. 2 Broke Girls. She\u2019s been serving up knee-slapping one-liners for two decades, and now Stifler\u2019s mom will be behind the mic at the Venetian this weekend, for the hotel\u2019s female-focused Lipshtick comedy series. September 19, 10 p.m.; September 20, 7:30 p.m., $52-$96.\nMarvel\u2019s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The second season of the TV series spun off from the Marvel Comics movies promises more superhero action, with new characters played by Lucy Lawless, Adrianne Palicki, Kyle MacLachlan and more. Tuesdays, 9 p.m., ABC; season premiere September 23.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 5823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 174.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://laurameetsworldblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/13/blog-post-title/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ORXBDOYDQWEZTU6JJ23IQCSAABRRTTYG", "length": 4566, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "laurameetsworldblog.wordpress.com", "title": "What I\u2019ve Actually Learned During My Masters So Far \u2013 LauraMeetsWorld", "raw_content": "What I\u2019ve Actually Learned During My Masters So Far\nMy current situation: I need a proper graduate job that starts as close to May as possible! I might even stumble into a new dream job\u2026 Because a full time job, training to be a Special, writing a dissertation all at the same time is a good idea\u2026 I\u2019ll be off to Japan to visit my friend Caitlin at some point during all of it though, so a break will be had!! Alex (boyfriend) has also promised me random weekends here, there and everywhere, so it\u2019s going to be one of the busiest years of my life, but also one of the most fun and rewarding I imagine.\nAnywho, enough of the \u2018catch up\u2019, here\u2019s a quick list summarising how the beginning of a Masters can go for those who are wondering whether to do one, and for me who\u2019s snowed under and needs some inspiration!\n1) My course is bloody fascinating\nAlready my course of Terrorism, Security and Policing has enhanced the basic knowledge I already had in those areas. In all honesty, most of it has come from my Terrorism module, but still! It\u2019s been fascinating hearing about all the different aspects of Terrorism, having facts revealed about leaders and groups I\u2019ve never heard of, and of course debating what Terrorism actually is.\n2) Being 22/23 is weird\nI\u2019m definitely one of the youngest on my course. There are lots of people around my age and that have joined the Masters course straight out of their undergraduate degree, but there are also a lot who older having had years out, or have had a full-blown career had have left that to further their education. It\u2019s mad. Both in the classroom and across my social media people are married/engaged/pregnant/parents, and then there\u2019s myself, still studying and looking forward to my own house and a job. That other stuff is so grown up, and I\u2019m definitely not a grown up, I need to adventure in Asia, Australia and New Zealand first.\n3) Master work is hard work\nAll of my essays are 4,000 words standard, whereas during my undergrad they were 2-3,000 words. The tutors set us up for this increased word count by giving us massively open questions, which can be really frustrating as it makes my mind pop how much information there is to digest and organise into a plan, but then I \u2018pop\u2019 with pride when the plan gets written and the essay comes together. It\u2019s definitely not easy, but it is worth it.\n4) I should have done a marketing degree, and not bothered with a Masters\nMy dream job is to do with law enforcement/logistics/helping people, which is why I have studied the courses that I have. However, now that I\u2019m looking around for jobs, most ask for undergraduate degrees, and if they specify an area of degree it\u2019s usually marketing/business or maths. AKA, not degrees I\u2019ve gone anywhere near\u2026 I\u2019ve also only seen one job outright ask for a Masters degree, but they only want it if you got a 2:2 for you undergrad, which I didn\u2019t, I got a 2:1. I can join my dream career areas without a degree, so it isn\u2019t too disheartening to myself as my degree motivations have all been personal, but I imagine it could be frustrating to others.\n5) Alcohol is meaner to me now then ever before\nThis probably isn\u2019t directly related to my degree, but I have discovered this since September. I literally cannot sniff alcohol without knowing that I did so the next day either through headaches or lethargy or nausea, I\u2019m really not used to this, but I\u2019m all for looking after myself so not having a drink is fine by me!\n6) Unless you know, you don\u2019t know\nPeople try so hard to be all-knowing about adulting, and it\u2019s quite awkward really, because I\u2019ve found that no one is all-knowing. Absolutely no human being can solve all your problems, or tell you what to do when it comes to growing up, you have to find it all our for yourself. I quite like that to be honest, it fits in with life being an adventure, but I wish \u2018know-it-alls\u2019 would just leave me to it, especially as they really don\u2019t have a whole clue. Most of my friends and I are currently just flowing through the enjoyment of figuring it all out, and I love it! This year is definitely my year to make the most of being the most calm and secure I\u2019ve been in a long time and really set myself up for a full life.\n7) Long distance friendships and relationships are hard but worth it\nPretty much what it says on the tin. Stick with your good people!! It\u2019ll be a struggle, but when things calm down or when you have a tough time, you\u2019ll be so grateful that you did.\nTagged 2017, degree, leicester, life, masters, university\nPrevious postLooking Back to Move Forward", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 5798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://laurenizquierdo.com/tag/cibeles-fashion-week/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:50Z", "digest": "sha1:L6X4ZIFC5KXUOYEYUOXAUCQSO72KOXCX", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "laurenizquierdo.com", "title": "Cibeles fashion week \u2013 Talla Treinta y Ocho", "raw_content": "Etiqueta: Cibeles fashion week", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 158.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lawrato.com/advocate-sunil-dalal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:39Z", "digest": "sha1:72C6BBQGK3FSZ27Q6G7SUXVCCA6ENOS7", "length": 3119, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "lawrato.com", "title": "Consult Advocate Sunil Dalal - Lawyer in New Friends Colony, Delhi | LawRato", "raw_content": "Help Advocate Sunil Dalal know your legal issue better.\nGet Advocate Sunil Dalal details by SMS and Email.\nAdvocate Sunil Dalal\nPractice areas: Criminal, Labour & Service, Property, Recovery, Corporate, Supreme Court, Banking / Finance\nCriminal, Labour & Service, Property, Recovery, Corporate, Supreme Court, Banking / Finance\nAdvocate Sunil Dalal has been practicing and handling cases independently with a result oriented approach, both professionally and ethically and has now acquired many years of professional experience in providing legal consultancy and advisory services.\nAdvocate Dalal is a partner in Sondhi Narula Dalal & Associates, which is a \u2018full service\u2019 professional law firm with a well-developed Litigation, Dispute Resolution, General Corporate and Banking Finance Practice.\nAdvocate Dalal and his Firm\u2019s practice areas offer a wide range of comprehensive legal services. The Firm has considerable experience in mediations and arbitrations involving both domestic and international claims pertaining to diverse areas concerning infrastructure, commercial contracts, real estate etc., The Firm has an extensive general litigation practice in the Supreme Court, High Courts, District Courts and other Administrative Tribunals & Forums.\nHe has assisted renowned lead players of the Indian and International market and has advised numerous Indian banks (such as, Punjab National Bank, Axis Bank, and so on) and financial institutions and other blue chip multinational companies (such as Nokia, Whirlpool, and so on), in various corporate compliances, lending transactions, arbitration and litigation.\nHis Firm is strongly committed to the highest quality of legal work and successful advocacy emphasizing thoroughness, promptness and practicality. The Firm\u2019s total strength of 18 includes its partners, counsel, paralegals and a dedicated technical, administrative and financial staff. The Firm is based out of New Delhi and has of-counsels all over India including Mumbai, Banglore, Ranchi. These Of-Counsels are leading advocates in the fields of corporate compliance, litigation, taxation, intellectual property laws and accountancy.\nAdvocate Dalal's Firm upholds the highest ethical standards and takes pride in its reputation of providing punctual and cost-effective advice to the clients. The Firm\u2019s quality of the service is further substantiated by the fact that it relies on the latest computing and communications equipment to enable fast and cost effective services to clients; makes use of a practical and effective precedent development system to ensure uniformity and time effectiveness; continuously updates and improves its knowledge database by participating in legal seminars, business development programs, etc., In this regard, each new assignment, which is proposed to be undertaken by the Firm is assigned to a team headed by a partner which then directly co-ordinates with the client.\nAdvocate Dalal enrolled with the Bar Council of Delhi in 1997. He is a member of the Delhi High Court Bar Association & Tis Hazari Bar Association.\nWrite Your Reviews About Advocate Sunil Dalal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 334, "original_length": 19205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leaddyno.com/conversion-tracking-how-does-it-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:53Z", "digest": "sha1:BULLKYRXWZDEXX7DHNCW4U2IRINQIGEP", "length": 2548, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "leaddyno.com", "title": "Conversion Tracking: How Does it Work?", "raw_content": "Conversion Tracking: How Does it Work?\nWhat is conversion tracking and how does it actually work? This is a question a lot of people ask when they hear the term.\nConversion tracking, in a nutshell, is something you can use to track a specific action taken on your website. It\u2019s important to help you understand the specific actions taken by the customers of your website, like when they make a purchase. Simply put, it eventually helps you optimize your ads for better performance.\nSo How Does Conversion Tracking Actually Work?\nLet\u2019s say, you wish to run an advertisement on Facebook to promote a product that is featured on your website, like a coffee mug. Before you even run the ad, you are provided with a very small snippet of code, by Facebook, commonly referred to as a conversion pixel.\nYou, or the person you have hired to develop your website, will be required to add the conversion pixel into the coding of the website you wish people to visit.\nThe main goal here, by adding the conversion pixel, is to be able to see it yourself when people visit and buy the coffee mug, so you will have to add it to the page that confirms the purchase.\nAfter this, you will be required to create a Facebook ad and choose the target audience you wish to reach. This decision should be based on location, age, gender, and basic interests.\nWhen your ad starts running, Facebook will make it available for people amongst your chosen audience. If/when they click the ad, they will be taken directly to the product page. If they decide to make the purchase then they will be directed to the purchase confirmation page. Every time the page is hit, an alert would be sent to Facebook about the actions taken.\nBased on the purchase patterns, you can optimize your ad to suit the buyers\u2019 needs better. This will help you make a conversion, meaning getting an audience member from visiting your page to purchasing the products.\nThrough ad tracking, Facebook will let you know how many times your ad has been clicked and how many times they have chosen to make a purchase.\nBy using conversion tracking, you can find out exactly how successful and effective your Facebook ad is. This information will help you understand the return on investment for the amount you spent.\nNow that you understand Facebook conversion tracking, you can go ahead and start working on your affiliate marketing strategies. To get the best affiliate marketing program, you can contact us anytime.\nExcellent way to make money for Affiliate Marketers\nHow does Google AdWords Auction Work?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leadership.lifeway.com/2016/04/13/4-reasons-to-believe-in-young-leaders/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QYWXRDFM3QIFMVTB6WLNOLQZSFPLK3OP", "length": 2642, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "leadership.lifeway.com", "title": "4 Reasons to Believe in Young Leaders - LifeWay Leadership", "raw_content": "For a long time, I was the young leader. I took my first role on a church staff just before I turned 19. When I moved to Cincinnati to serve as student pastor, I flew into the airport and was too young to rent a car. I moved to Miami to serve as executive pastor of Christ Fellowship when I was 27. All the while, godly leaders believed in me and trusted me. They invested in me, allowed experiences to teach me and mold me, and kept challenging and encouraging me. I am eternally grateful.\nBy God\u2019s grace, I hope to do the same for others. There are many younger leaders in ministries and organizations that are ready to be believed in and trusted with significant responsibilities. They are hungry to be encouraged, developed, and challenged. Here are four reasons to believe in young leaders:\nYoung leaders are the future, and leaders are responsible for future leadership. A leader who is not developing young leaders for the future is not serving the organization well. The leader is either being shortsighted or selfish\u2014shortsighted in that the future is not being considered or selfish in that the leader thinks only about himself/herself.\n2. New Thinking\nNot only are young leaders the future, but they also carry with them great ideas, energy, and passion. Young leaders want to contribute in this season, not just the future. They often possess new thinking. They believe they can do what others feel is impossible. They have not had the life beaten out of them.\nYears ago, I heard Rick Warren say, and I am paraphrasing, \u201cI have the same ideas now that I had when I was 25, but no one listened to me then. So I am asking: What 25-year-old should I be listening to?\u201d There are younger leaders in every organization who could be leveraged now.\n3. Kingdom Impact\nHistorically, God uses young leaders to encourage His people and build His kingdom. The kingdom benefits when younger leaders are unleashed to serve. For example, Josiah was 16 years old when he began to seek the Lord, which led to a revival among God\u2019s people. Mary was a teenager when the Lord chose to bring the Messiah into the world through her womb. George Whitefield and John Wesley met together with a handful of others as college students in what was called the \u201cHoly Club.\u201d Jonathan Edwards was 19 when he penned his 70 resolutions.\n4. Biblical Example\nPaul told Timothy, a young leader he was developing, \u201cLet no one despise your youth; instead, you should be an example to the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity\u201d (1 Timothy 4:12). Paul believed that Timothy, in the midst of his youth, could set the example and the pace for others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leadershipmanagement.com.au/the-donkey-in-the-well/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LBEFH4XRBV2RYQXES6OMJ5G2TXVUA3HM", "length": 1088, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "leadershipmanagement.com.au", "title": "The donkey in the well | LMA", "raw_content": "You are here: Home > Funny stuff > The donkey in the well\nOne day a farmer\u2019s donkey fell into a well. The farmer frantically thought what to do as the stricken animal cried out to be rescued.\nWith no obvious solution, the farmer regretfully concluded that as the donkey was old, and as the well needed to be filled in anyway, he should give up the idea of rescuing the beast, and simply fill in the well.\nThe farmer asked for his neighbours help, and before long they all began to shovel earth quickly into the well. When the donkey realised what was happening he wailed and struggled, but then, to everyone\u2019s relief, the noise stopped.\nAfter a while the farmer looked down into the well and was astonished by what he saw. The donkey had discovered that by shaking off the dirt instead of letting it cover him, he could keep stepping on top of the earth as the level rose. Soon the donkey was able to step up over the edge of the well, and he happily trotted off.\nLife tends to shovel dirt on top of each of us from time to time. The trick is to shake it off and use it to take a step up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leanchange.org/schedule/event/?id=qhwoySSG", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FNTZ7SGBBUFPW2I4TQLVSMUM5MEMFN2D", "length": 17, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "leanchange.org", "title": "Event | Lean Change Management", "raw_content": "June 1, 9:00 am \u2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 86.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://learnzillion.com/lesson_plans/28344-lesson-1-tiling-the-plane", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5ZPK3GQ6OJO5CTNLFC4P6VOLUAOG6JGV", "length": 3795, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "learnzillion.com", "title": "Lesson 1: Tiling the Plane | LearnZillion", "raw_content": "6.1 Area and Surface Area\nLesson 1: Tiling the Plane\nStudents start the first lesson of the school year by recalling what they know about area (note that students studied the areas of rectangles with whole-number side lengths in grade 3 and with fractional side lengths in grade 5). The mathematics they explore is not complicated, so it offers a low threshold for entry. The lesson does, however, uncover two important ideas:\nIf two figures can be placed one on top of the other so that they match up exactly, then they have the same area.\nThe area of a region does not change when the region is decomposed and rearranged.\nAt the end of this lesson, students are asked to write their best definition of area. It is important to let them formulate their definition in their own words. For English learners, it is especially important that they be encouraged to use their own words and also to use words of their peers. In the next lesson, students will revisit the definition of area as the number of square units that cover a region without gaps or overlaps.\nAs the first set of problems in a problem-based curriculum, students will also begin their year-long work on making sense of problems and persevering in solving them (MP1). This opening lesson leaves space for teachers to begin setting classroom routines and their expectations for mathematical discourse (MP3).\nIn all of the lessons in this unit, students should have access to their geometry toolkits, which should contain tracing paper, graph paper, colored pencils, scissors, and an index card. Students may not need all (or even any) of these tools to solve a particular problem. However, to make strategic choices about when to use which tools (MP5), students need to have opportunities to make those choices. Apps and simulations should supplement rather than replace physical tools.\nNotes on terminology. In these materials, when we talk about a figure such as a rectangle, triangle, or circle, we usually mean the boundary of the figure (e.g., the sides of the rectangle), not including the region inside. However, we also use shorthand language such as \u201cthe area of a rectangle\u201d to mean the \u201cthe area of the region inside the rectangle.\u201d The term shape could refer to a figure with or without its interior. Although the terms figure, region, and shape are used without being defined precisely for students, help students understand that sometimes our focus is on the boundary (which in this unit will always be composed of black line segments), and sometimes it is on the region inside (which in this unit will always be shown in color and referred to as \u201cthe shaded region\u201d).\n1.1 Warm-up: Which One Doesn\u2019t Belong: Tilings (5 minutes)\n1.2 Activity: More Red, Green, or Blue? (25 minutes)\n1.3 Cool-down: What is Area? (5 minutes)\nRecall the meaning of area.\nLet\u2019s look at tiling patterns and think about area.\nI can explain the meaning of area.\nAssemble geometry toolkits.\nIt would be best if students have access to these toolkits at all times throughout the unit.\nToolkits include tracing paper, graph paper, colored pencils, scissors, and an index card to use as a straightedge or to mark right angles.\narea - The area of a two-dimensional region, measured in square units, is the number of unit squares that cover the region without gaps or overlaps. The side length of each square is 1 centimeter. The area of the shaded region A is 8 square centimeters. The area of shaded region B is \\(\\frac12\\) square centimeters.\nregion - Examples of two-dimensional regions include the interior of a circle or the interior of a polygon. Here are two examples of two-dimensional regions. Area is a measure of two-dimensional regions. Examples of a three-dimensional region include the interior of a sphere or the interior of a cube.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 7999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leasing.com/car-leasing-news/contracthireandleasing-norths-fastest-growing-tech-companies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:00Z", "digest": "sha1:A6BIIYM6FAFAB6HXXXVGA6JZ62DJJILL", "length": 1226, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "leasing.com", "title": "ContractHireAndLeasing.com becomes one of the north\u2019s fastest growing tech companies | Leasing.com", "raw_content": "ContractHireAndLeasing.com becomes one of the north\u2019s fastest growing tech companies\nThe UK\u2019s number one car leasing website ContractHireAndLeasing.com has been ranked in the top 100 fastest growing tech companies in the north.\nThe new league table was launched on Thursday night at the Northern Tech Awards in Newcastle to celebrate the growing number of tech success stories in the north of England.\nContractHireAndLeasing.com began as a solution for car leasing companies who were frustrated with traditional offline advertising, and the dramatic rise of online car sales and personal leasing has seen the company grow rapidly over the last few years.\nContractHireAndLeasing.com is now the largest advertising portal for vehicle lease deals in the UK, supporting over 300 brokers and franchised dealers.\nDave Timmis, ContractHireAndLeasing MD, said: \u201cWe\u2019ve been in business for 17 years, but our growth over the last few years has been outstanding.\n\u201cI\u2019m very proud of the team and what they have achieved this year and have high expectations for the future.\n\u201cThe personal car leasing sector is going from strength to strength and consumers are turning to ContractHireAndLeasing to find the best deal on their next new car.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 204.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leeherald.com/2018/09/14/traffic-stop-reveals-over-a-kilo-of-cocaine-in-arrest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WB6IOY3AN75QQ4LGUJGIIPKE3XJMKAAF", "length": 1108, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "leeherald.com", "title": "Traffic stop reveals over a kilo of cocaine in arrest - Lee Herald - Lee County's only FREE Digital-Only Newspaper", "raw_content": "Traffic stop reveals over a kilo of cocaine in arrest\nItems seized, including drugs, weapons, and cash in a September 13, 2018 arrest.(Photo via Lee County Sheriff's Office)\nCash, marijuana, and a large amount of cocaine were sized as a result of traffic stop in Fort Myers on Thursday.\nAccording to the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies conducted a traffic stop on Edgar Vazquez, 33, of Fort Myers on Thursday. LCSO said that Vazquez was found to be in possession of 520 grams of powdered cocaine during the stop.\nAfter obtaining a search warrant for Vazquez\u2019 home located at 2770 Via Piazza Loop, reports say that deputies found an additional 717.3 grams of cocaine, 32.5 grams of marijuana, $1,000 cash, and a .45 caliber Colt 1911.\nVazquez was booked at Lee County Jail on charges of trafficking cocaine and possessing marijuana. He has been released on bond and is due to appear in court on October 15th.\nA half kilogram of cocaine on a scale seized in an arrest on September 13, 2018 by the Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office.(Photo via LCSO)\ncrime drug bust lee county sheriff's office Local traffic stop", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leicester-privateinvestigators.co.uk/gsm-spy-phone.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:56Z", "digest": "sha1:L6FV6XFDD36SRALTKU7DNUOHPWHYRLJE", "length": 1923, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "leicester-privateinvestigators.co.uk", "title": "GSM Spy Phone", "raw_content": "Private investigators and private detectives are normally putting their lives on the line when conducting an investigation; this is why it really is imperative for them to take all precautionary measures so that you can guarantee their safety although conducting the investigation. It is however also important that they are able to get only the most accurate information from their topic of investigation, therefore in situations exactly where endangering one\u2019s life is at part and parcel with gathering evidence the private investigator or private detective can resort to added ordinary measures. 1 such added ordinary measure would be to utilise investigation or \u201cspy\u201d gadgets. The use of these varieties of gadgets would assist guarantee the safety of the private investigator and private detective as the gadgets would permit them to collect info from a distance.\nThe GSM Spy phone is 1 such device that will be utilised by private investigators and private detectives in gathering accurate info. The device is an actual GSM telephone which might be integrated with the software. The defining function of this item is truly the software program that is integrated with the GSM telephone. The software program is undetectable from the mobile phone. It has a function that if the telephone is switched on will alert you by way of SMS when a phone call is made and the number of the party getting called is also sent via SMS and it'll also send you a copy of the SMS message sent through the GSM phone. Via dialling a pre-defined number you are going to also have the ability to intercept and hear telephone conversations. One more excellent feature of this software program is which you could use the telephone to record room conversations by just sending a text message command. Finally, even if you're not monitoring the telephone it is possible to really direct the software program to record all phone conversations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 371, "original_length": 19940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lendy.co.uk/risk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:58Z", "digest": "sha1:WETUGRGZEDDXGVDYIRL7QXFRBHQHE2B6", "length": 7122, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "lendy.co.uk", "title": "Lendy - The crowdfunding marketplace for loans secured on UK property", "raw_content": "Investors' Risk Statement\nLendy Ltd (\"Lendy\") operates an electronic system in relation to lending (the \"Platform\"), which enables investors to invest in loan contracts with borrowers within a peer-to-peer lending environment.\nPeer-to-peer lending carries a degree of risk to your capital, although we reduce this risk to our investors by taking asset security on every loan. Each loan contract is between each investor and the borrower of the loan and Lendy will act as agent on behalf of the lenders in relation to the loan contract. Each investor is allocated 'loan parts' representing their investment.\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) does not prescribe how we should address or disclose the risks relevant to lenders on the Platform, nor the level of diversification investors should seek to mitigate risks, but does require us to ensure all information we provide to users of the Platform is fair, clear and not misleading.\nWhile diversification is important, you should keep in mind how much risk you're prepared to accept on your money.\nCredit Risk refers to the risk that a borrower may not repay a loan and that the lender may lose the principal of the loan or the interest associated with it.\nUnlike traditional peer-to-peer lending companies, the Platform only participates in lending secured against tangible assets such as UK property.\nOur credit assessment will assess whether the property being charged provides an adequate level of cover for the total capital and interest costs due under the peer-to-peer loan contract and for the proposed term.\nAs with any investment, it is good practice to spread your investments across many different loans to reduce the exposure to, and the risk of, a single investment.\nDiversification means the ability to spread risk by investing in more than one loan and choosing different areas such as: geographical location, length of loan, loan interest rate, type of borrower, loan to value (LTV) and interest status.\nInvestors pay their capital into a segregated Client Money bank account operated by Lendy under strict FCA rules and these unallocated investor funds are held in trust on your behalf by Barclays Bank PLC. Your money therefore does not form part of our assets and would not be available to creditors in the event of our insolvency.\nOnce you have invested in a loan on the Platform, your invested capital becomes due and repayable to you only at the end of the loan term, unless you utilise the Secondary Market (the risks inherent to which are described below).\nIn the unlikely event you suffer a loss, peer-to-peer lenders on the Platform are not entitled to compensation from the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS).\nHowever, you may make an application to our fully discretionary Provision Fund for compensation if your initial investment cannot be fully repaid due to a shortfall in the sale of a security.\nBorrower Risk\nAs with all peer-to-peer lending activity, the biggest risk posed to investors is the borrower not repaying the loan on the due date; this means that your capital is at risk and you may not receive back all your investment.\nBefore the Platform agrees to list a loan, Lendy makes identity, fraud and credit checks of a borrower and assesses both the affordability of the loan and the strategy for repaying the loan.\nIf a borrower doesn't make the appropriate repayment at the end of the loan, the loan is then considered non-performing unless, on behalf of all lenders, Lendy has agreed to extend the loan formally, to make some other alternative refinancing arrangements, or to allow a further informal loan period of up to 180 days (the \"Tolerance Period\"). Formal loan extensions longer than a month require prior approval by our Credit Committee.\nIf a loan becomes non-performing we will move it to the NON-PERFORMING LOANS page on our website and provide an update by email to make you aware of the position, explaining our next steps to manage the debt.\nIn order to realise the capital required to repay investors in the loan, Lendy (acting on behalf of Saving Stream Security Holding Limited) will either arrange for the asset that is held to be sold or auction the property subject to the legal charge.\nAs mentioned above, you can make an application to the Provision Fund for compensation if your initial investment cannot be fully repaid due to a shortfall in the sale of the security.\nFor the duration of a loan's term, other than when you have put a loan part up for sale, the Platform ensures you will receive interest in monthly instalments into your Lendy account as we deduct the whole of the loan term's interest from the loan advanced to the borrower.\nThe interest gained upfront from the borrower is held in trust by Lendy in a separate bank account.\nIf a borrower does not make the appropriate repayment at the end of the loan term, interest will continue to accrue during the Tolerance Period until the loan is repaid.\nAll interest due to lenders will be repaid on the sale of the security, subject to the sale proceeds being sufficient to pay both the capital lent and any outstanding interest.\nNo application can be made to the Provision Fund for compensation if some or all of the outstanding interest cannot be paid due to insufficient proceeds from the sale of the security.\nSaving Stream Security Holding Limited will act as security trustee on behalf of lenders in relation to any security held in respect of a loan and will also enforce any security on behalf of lenders, under instruction from Lendy.\nThere is a risk that the security may provide inadequate cover for the total capital and interest due under the peer-to-peer loan.\nSecondary Market Risk\nShould you need access to the capital you have lent, before a borrower is due to pay it back, you may use our Secondary Market facility to make all or some of your loan parts available to other investors.\nYou will continue to be the lender for the loan part until it is sold but you will stop accruing and receiving interest during the period it is for sale.\nOnce sold, the associated capital is credited to your account and treated as unallocated investor funds until such time as you invest in another loan or withdraw it.\nSelling a loan part on the secondary market relies on another investor buying that loan part. 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This includes physical action, non-physical action, intimidation, and threats.\nRefrain from damaging or threatening to damage property.\nAvoid any activity that poses a significant risk to the health or safety of any member of the university's community or a member of the public.\nComply with all university policies and procedures. Examples of University policies include:\nUnequal Consensual Relationship Policy\nStudent Alcohol and Illegal Drug Use Policy\nReview the Student Handbooks, the Faculty Handbook, and the Employee Handbook.\nThe members of the Lesley University community have an obligation to report violations of these Community Standards of Conduct to one of the people listed below. Any reported violation will be promptly investigated.\nInvestigation and Sanctions\nThe university will investigate all good faith reports of violations of these Community Standards of Conduct. Reports of discrimination, harassment, and sexual violence will be investigated pursuant to the Discrimination, Harassment, Sexual Violence Policy and the Discrimination & Harassment Complaint Resolution Procedures.\nThe university\u2019s investigations and sanctions may proceed even if the persons involved are on leave from or not currently engaged with the University.\nDepending on the circumstances, the university may take immediate, interim action pending the conclusion of an investigation.\nThe university may immediately remove anyone from the campus or any University-sponsored event if the person\u2019s behavior:\nIs disrupting the classroom or educational environment, work environment, or any University-sponsored event.\nIs threatening to the health or safety of any person, or may damage property.\nThe university, at its discretion, may also remove someone from campus or prohibit someone from attending a University-sponsored event during the course of an investigation.\nIn the event of alleged unlawful behavior, or as deemed necessary in any emergency situation, the university may notify the Lesley University Office of Public Safety and the appropriate law enforcement agency.\nThe person investigating a reported violation may find that a single significant incident, a pattern of less significant behavior, or a combination of the two, violate the Community Standards of Conduct Policy. The investigator applies a preponderance of the evidence standard and applies a reasonable person standard to determine whether a violation of the Community Standards of Conduct has occurred. 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You\u2019re moving around and staying in shape. You\u2019re having fun as you work together with your crew. You see the results of your hard work at the end of every day, and you\u2019re proud of what you\u2019ve accomplished.\nDoes this sound like your next career?\nWe hope so. We\u2019re Let\u2019s Landscape Together, and we\u2019re looking for you: the next member of our Landscape Maintenance team.\nWe\u2019re an award-winning, Waterdown-based business, that\u2019s designed, built and maintained landscapes across the Golden Horseshoe for over 22 years. We\u2019re proud of the team we\u2019ve built \u2013 our employees come first and feel like family \u2013 and we can\u2019t wait for you to join us.\nYour main goal in this position is to visit customers\u2019 houses to perform landscaping maintenance services on their lawns and gardens.\nYou\u2019ll start your day by reporting to our office. You\u2019ll gather any materials and tools you need for the day and load your work vehicle.\nThen, along with your crew, you\u2019ll travel to multiple job sites per day, based on a pre-set schedule. Using ride-on mowers and tools like hedge trimmers, pruners, shovels, rakes, and blowers, you\u2019ll garden, weed, and beautify customers\u2019 homes.\nExperience working outdoors and with landscaping tools will prepare you for this role. What matters more though, is your attitude and willingness to learn. You\u2019re the right person for this role if you:\nYou take initiative \u2013 you\u2019re proactive, always looking for ways to improve the way you do your work.\nYou\u2019re interested in a career in landscaping \u2013 we\u2019re a well-established business, with room to grow. As you build your landscaping skills, you can progress into more senior roles. Landscaping is something you truly enjoy.\nThis is a full-time position with on call work in the winter months (in the winter, our services also include snow plowing and removal).\nOur employees love working with us because their voices are heard, and they\u2019re treated like family. Working here means you\u2019ll have a say, you\u2019ll feel appreciated, and you\u2019ll be recognized and rewarded for your contributions.\nOur crews genuinely enjoy working together. We have fun on the job, while doing things the right way for our customers. We\u2019re a team of landscape professionals who love what we do.\nExperience doing landscaping maintenance (mowing lawns, trimming hedges, gardening, weeding, etc.) is a major asset\nExperience using landscaping tools (ride-on mowers, hedge trimmers, pruners, shovels, rakes, blowers, etc.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://libarynth.org/contemplative_computing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:OPE22PHO2EOZJF6GFFNC4FKCNK7PSDM6", "length": 809, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "libarynth.org", "title": "contemplative_computing [the libarynth]", "raw_content": "Trace: \u2022 contemplative_computing\ncontemplative_computing\nContemplative Computing\nDeveloping a contemplative approach to computing is not easy or fast: it requires unlearning old habits and ways of thinking, as well as learning new ones. In other words, it's slow. But as the Lift Experience shows us, contemplation and slowness, and technology, are not necessarily incompatible.\nWe normally associate \u201cslow\u201d with age or infirmity or even incompetence; speed is its moral opposite, a sign of high energy and performance. But while it might be bad in computers or organizations, in the human realm it's more often a sign of skill, mastery and experience.\nhttp://www.contemplativecomputing.org/2011/07/marseille-talk-the-blog-version.html#more\ncontemplative_computing.txt \u00b7 Last modified: 2013/02/11 06:20 by nik", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://libguides.mcneese.edu/archives/LCSesqui", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:25Z", "digest": "sha1:B7OQCP44DEH5OW3Y74LRAA4QTAR46SHW", "length": 23993, "nlines": 179, "source_domain": "libguides.mcneese.edu", "title": "Lake Charles Sesquicentennial - Archives - Frazar Memorial Library at McNeese State University", "raw_content": "Archives: Lake Charles Sesquicentennial\nTimeline of significant events in Lake Charles\nIn 2017, Lake Charles celebrated its Sesquicentennial. Here are a few moments from our 150-year history:\nJanuary 31, 1792 Charles Sallier married his first wife, Angelica Fontenot. She died in 1797.\nMarch 12, 1812 Joseph Lawrence Bilbo, a pioneer settler of Lake Charles, was born in the Mississippi Territory.\nJuly 17, 1821 Spain formally transferred the land between the Sabine and Calcasieu Rivers to the United States, having abandoned its claim to this land by the Treaty of Washington in 1819.\nNovember 20, 1829 The U. S. Army authorized the establishment of a western boundary defense post at Lake Charles to suppress illicit trade that might come from Mexico, through the Gulf, and up the Calcasieu River.\nDecember 28, 1834 James W. Bryan was born. He served with the Confederacy as a captain, distinguished himself as a commander of a regiment during the siege of Vicksburg, and became the first mayor of Lake Charles in 1868.\nMarch 6, 1836 Isaac Ryan, son of Jacob Ryan, Sr. of Bayou d'Inde and the older brother of Jacob Ryan, Jr., \"the father of Lake Charles,\" died a hero's death at the Alamo in San Antonio. He was 31.\nMarch 24, 1840 Imperial Calcasieu Parish was created by act of the Louisiana Legislature from part of St. Landry Parish. The name of Marion was given to the first parish seat. It was located on Marsh Bayou Bluff.\nJuly 4, 1843 John McNeese, after whom McNeese State University was named, was born in New York City to William and Mary Beechum McNeese, natives of Scotland.\nSeptember 7, 1846 Jacob Ryan, Sr., father of Jacob Ryan, Jr., the \"father of Lake Charles,\" died.\nOctober 4, 1850 After the parish courthouse was moved from Marion to Lake Charles, a post office was established which, officially, gave Lake Charles its name.\nSeptember 16, 1851 Leopold Kaufman, an early businessman in Lake Charles, was born.\nSeptember 26, 1858 The Catholic church built by David Reed on a lot across Ryan Street from the Calcasieu Parish courthouse was dedicated to St. Francis de Sales.\nAugust 5, 1859 The first Masonic lodge in Lake Charles was organized. Daniel Goos and Jacob Ryan, Jr. were among the charter members.\nFebruary 26, 1861 Common Street Catholic Cemetery was established as a gift from William Hutchins to Reverend Francois Jean Raymond, the first Catholic priest in Lake Charles.\nMarch 7, 1861 The town of Charleston, which would later become Lake Charles, was incorporated.\nApril 16, 1862 The Calcasieu Tigers (Company I, 28th Louisiana Infantry Regiment) were sworn into Confederate service. James W. Bryan, later the first mayor of Lake Charles, was elected captain and commander of the unit.\nOctober 3, 1862 Lieutenant Frederick Crocker and 14 Union soldiers made a daring raid 80 miles up the Calcasieu River to Lake Charles where they burned three blockade-runners, captured the steamboat Dan, and, after six days, escaped downriver.\nOctober 5, 1862 \"Louisiana,\" a pseudonym for a Louisiana Paul Revere, rode all night alerting the planters of the parish to the danger from Lieutentant Crocker's Yankees entering Lake Charles.\nMay 6, 1864 Confederate infantry and artillerymen defeated two Union warships anchored in the Calcasieu River to earn a Southern victory in the Battle of Calcasieu Pass, the only battle fought in Southwest Louisiana during the Civil War.\nMarch 16, 1867 Dissatisfied with the name Charleston, the town was incorporated into the town of Lake Charles.\nFebruary 16, 1868 The first issue of the Weekly Echo, established by Louis Leveque, Judge J. D. Reed, and Bryant Hutchins, was published in Lake Charles, becoming the town's first newspaper.\nMay 23, 1868 The mail for Lake Charles was delivered by one mule who carried it all the way from New Iberia.\nJune 17, 1868 The first town election was held in Lake Charles.\nJuly 5, 1868 Dr. W. G. Kibbe was elected a member of the first Lake Charles City Council and was appointed with Joe Bilbo to select a burial ground for the Protestants of the town.\nJuly 25, 1868 Lake Charles blacksmith and Confederate war veteran Pat Fitzgerald was sworn in as town constable, becoming the city\u2019s first policeman.\nAugust 29, 1868 At the meeting of the Lake Charles Town Council, it was resolved that slavery was dead and black voters were entitled to full enjoyment of the rights of person and property.\nNovember 17, 1870 The New Emanuel Baptist Church in Lake Charles was founded.\nOctober 10, 1871 The steamer Cassie, belonging to Captain Daniel Goos, arrived in Lake Charles from Galveston with 50 or 60 immigrants.\nApril 11, 1874 \"Louise\" observed Lake Charles had three churches: Catholic, Baptist, and Methodist, as well as a nice library.\nFebruary 6, 1875 The Weekly Echo reported the steamer Ramos, commanded by Thomas R. Reynolds, provided transportation to Cameron in a 12-hour trip on Mondays and Thursdays for $5 one way, $8 round trip.\nOctober 1, 1876 The first public schools of Imperial Calcasieu Parish opened following organization of the school board in July with J. W. Bryan as president.\nMay 1, 1877 United Friends of Temperance (Lake Charles Council No. 61 and Bagdad Council No. 64) held a May Day temperance rally and picnic on the Calcasieu River. Long tables of food for 400 people were spread under shady trees.\nJanuary 29, 1878 15th District Judge Alfred M. Barbe, for whom Barbe High School was named, was born in Lake Charles.\nMarch 21, 1878 H. D. Nix advertised in the Lake Charles Echo that his ferry was ready to accommodate all kinds of stock needing to be transported across the Calcasieu River. In addition to a large safe flat, he had beef pens and pasturage on each side of the river.\nJuly 2, 1879 The first railroad and locomotive to reach Lake Charles arrived. Construction of the line worked its way westward from New Orleans.\nMarch 26, 1880 The gap in the railroad between Houston and New Orleans was closed at the Sabine River, making the trip possible in 24 hours and finally connecting Lake Charles with Orange and Houston.\nMay 29, 1880 Lake Charles banned hogs from running loose on town streets.\nMarch 5, 1881 Jacob Ryan and sons advertised in the Lake Charles Echo that, having erected at great expense a new steam rice mill, they were prepared to clean rice. Samples of rice cleaned in their mill could be seen at various stores in Lake Charles.\nAugust 21, 1881 Haskell House Hotel, said to be one of Lake Charles\u2019 finest, opened on Ryan Street.\nOctober 2, 1881 The Church of the Immaculate Conception was dedicated in Lake Charles.\nFebruary 21, 1882 The first Mardi Gras parade in Lake Charles took place.\nSeptember 11, 1882 St. Charles Academy was opened in Lake Charles by the Sisters Marianite of the Holy Cross.\nJuly 3, 1885 The Lake House Hotel in Lake Charles burned down. The fire engine came but there was not enough water to save the building. Captain Green Hall, the proprietor, estimated the loss at $7,000.\nJuly 19, 1885 The first church service was held in the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Lake Charles.\nSeptember 17, 1887 The hall over the Lake Charles Fire Company 1 fire house was fitted out as the town's first city hall.\nSeptember 8, 1888 John McNeese was unanimously elected to the office of Calcasieu Parish School Superintendent.\nOctober 8, 1888 The Warren Methodist Church was organized in Lake Charles.\nJuly 31, 1889 The First Baptist Church was organized in Lake Charles.\nOctober 23, 1889 Workmen completed construction of Central High School on the corner of Kirkman and Kirby streets in Lake Charles.\nNovember 8, 1889 The First National Bank of Lake Charles was chartered.\nMarch 2, 1890 The first service of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held in the Masonic Temple on Hodges Street. Reverend Cyrus King gave its first sermon.\nOctober 28, 1890 The second high school in Calcasieu Parish was opened in Lake Charles (the first had been in Sugartown).\nNovember 7, 1891 The town of Lake Charles granted a water franchise to Lake Charles Ice, Light, and Water Works, Inc.\nJanuary 6, 1892 Calcasieu Bank, the first state bank in the area, was organized and opened for business.\nJanuary 14, 1893 The Review Club was formed in Lake Charles.\nMay 30, 1894 Professor J. E. Keeney was elected principal of Lake Charles Central and High Schools.\nFebruary 4, 1895 The Lake Charles American Press was founded by Guy Beatty and J. F. Reed as the Lake Charles Press. It combined later with two other papers, the Lake Charles Daily and the Daily American.\nFebruary 14, 1895 The Great Snow began in Southwest Louisiana. Over 12 inches fell in two days, accumulating drifts of four to five feet.\nNovember 23, 1898 The Enterprise Club was organized in Lake Charles.\nApril 3, 1899 The new Lake Charles city charter was passed by unanimous vote.\nDecember 17, 1899 Jacob Ryan, Jr., the \u201cfather of Lake Charles,\u201d died at his home on the lake front at age 83. He was buried in Bilbo Cemetery the following day.\nFebruary 23, 1900 Lake Charles High School was the first high school in the state to publish a school newspaper. The publication was called The Record.\nMarch 30, 1900 The Lake Charles Daily American observed that Lake Charles, steadily growing as a center for the pine lumber industry, had ten mills operating within a three-mile radius.\nAugust 27, 1900 Rosa Hart, director of the Lake Charles Little Theatre, was born in Woodville, Mississippi.\nSeptember 20, 1900 The First Methodist Church of Lake Charles moved its front around to face Broad Street and was dedicated.\nNovember 3, 1900 The Lake Charles Weekly took over the Lake Charles Commercial.\nAugust 16, 1901 Harrison C. Drew deeded six acres of land to the city of Lake Charles for a public park to be maintained by the \"patriotic and public spirited ladies\" of the Enterprise Club.\nAugust 22, 1901 A group of citizens petitioned the Lake Charles City Council proposing a sewerage and drainage system for the city.\nMarch 11, 1904 The Lake Charles American was first published.\nAugust 30, 1904 The Lake Charles Loan and Trust Company was chartered.\nOctober 27, 1906 At the end of a strike, all Lake Charles saw mills adopted a ten-hour day and a weekly pay day.\nNovember 19, 1906 The Pleasure Pier Theater in Lake Charles opened.\nMarch 10, 1907 The Calcasieu Council, Knights of Columbus, was organized.\nJune 11, 1907 Temple Sinai filed articles of incorporation in Lake Charles. Jewish worshipers had been meeting first in a rented hall and then a temple constructed at 713 Hodges Street in 1903.\nMarch 17, 1908 St. Patrick Hospital in Lake Charles opened to the public and was formally dedicated.\nJanuary 5, 1909 The U. S. Supreme Court affirmed a lower court judgement that nullified a Lake Charles ordinance passed in 1906 that had granted the right of way franchise to the St. Louis, Watkins, and Gulf Railroad along the lake front and Front Street. The decision forced the removal of the tracks on Front Street.\nNovember 22, 1909 Fire destroyed the Lyric Theater, a warehouse owned by Leopold Kaufman, and one house in Lake Charles.\nApril 23, 1910 The great Lake Charles fire destroyed seven city blocks, including the parish courthouse, the city hall, and 107 other buildings.\nApril 24, 1910 First Baptist Church of Lake Charles dedicated a new building costing $30,000 on the corner of Hodges and Pujo streets.\nSeptember 18, 1910 Arsene Pujo of Lake Charles was elected U. S. Representative of the 7th Congressional District.\nNovember 24, 1910 The Lake Charles High School football team won the Louisiana state championship.\nJune 10, 1911 After a year's copying, three stenographers completed restoring the mortgage, conveyance, and sheriff sales records destroyed in the great fire of 1910.\nNovember 13, 1911 The Lake Charles Humane Society was organized.\nMay 4, 1912 Delegates from Imperial Calcasieu's 10 wards agreed to divide the huge parish into four smaller parishes.\nAugust 23, 1912 The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury paid the final installment of $37,800 for the Ryan Street courthouse.\nNovember 26, 1912 The Lake Charles National Bank and the First National Bank merged with a combined capital of $200,000. H. C. Gill was president and C. H. Moss was vice president.\nSeptember 30, 1913 Lake Charles was inundated by Calcasieu River flood waters.\nJune 2, 1914 John McNeese, after whom McNeese State University was named, died a year after retirement as first Calcasieu Parish school superintendent.\nApril 14, 1915 Booker T. Washington spoke at the Arcade Theatre in Lake Charles discussing white assistance in improving education for rural blacks, improving the work ethic among blacks by increasing material ambitions, and urging an end to migrancy as a precondition to progress.\nJune 3, 1915 The Confederate Monument on the courthouse lawn in Lake Charles was unveiled by the Robert E. Lee Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.\nJune 4, 1917 F. K. White was elected superintendent of Lake Charles schools.\nAugust 25, 1917 The Lake Charles Chamber of Commerce was notified that the U. S. Army would build a fighter pilot training base, later named Gerstner Field, on 1,200 acres of land southeast of Lake Charles near Holmwood. About 3,000 workers built the base in three months. The 45th and 143rd Aero Squadrons of the U. S. Air Service from Chandler Field at Essington, Pennsylvania, became the first units to occupy the new Gerstner Field.\nAugust 6, 1918 The hurricane of 1918, often called the \"1918 Storm,\" struck the Gulf coast between Oak Grove and Cameron with a tidal surge and 100 m.p.h. plus winds. As it moved inland, it caused death and destruction at Creole, Big Lake, Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, Sulphur, and DeQuincy.\nJune 15, 1920 Ward Anderson was elected school board superintendent.\nNovember 29, 1920 Following his unsuccessful campaign as Democratic candidate for the vice presidency, Franklin Delano Roosevelt arrived in Lake Charles for a five-day hunting trip in Cameron Parish.\nFebruary 25, 1921 The U. S. government sold all the remaining hangars, barracks, and other buildings (about 100) and many tons of equipment at Gerstner Field, valued at $2 million, to Harris Brothers, a New York wrecking firm, for $50,000.\nJuly 14, 1924 The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury, under the presidency of H. G. Chalkley, issued a proposal for a highway system. A detailed map printed in the Lake Charles American Press gave the location of the highways to be constructed and rebuilt. Fred Shutts was the parish engineer and W. B. Gabbert was the chairman of the road and bridge committee.\nDecember 3, 1926 The Port of Lake Charles and the Calcasieu Ship Channel were formally opened.\nFebruary 24, 1927 The newly organized Little Theatre, inspired by Rosa Hart, presented its first production, three one-act plays, at the Episcopal Parish House.\nApril 30, 1928 Drew Park, Lake Charles\u2019 first city park, was formally dedicated.\nMarch 1, 1931 The Business and Professional Women's Club of Lake Charles was formed.\nApril 10, 1931 Ethel Barrymore, although hampered with a severe cold, played in The Love Duel in Lake Charles supported by her children, Ethel Barrymore Colt and John Drew Colt.\nMay 9, 1931 LaGrange High School was destroyed by fire.\nJune 29, 1931 United Gas acquired the natural gas distributing system of the Gulf States Utilities Company.\nDecember 7, 1933 The Charleston Hotel grill started the first legal liquor sales in Lake Charles following the repeal of prohibition. Straight whiskey was 30 cents a shot, highballs 40 cents, and wine sold at 30 cents a glass.\nJuly 23, 1934 Calcasieu Marine Bank opened its doors in Lake Charles with Della Bel Krause making the first savings deposit.\nFebruary 13, 1935 Permission to build a new radio station to be operated by the Calcasieu Broadcasting Company in Lake Charles was granted by the Communications Commission in Washington, D. C.\nFebruary 10, 1939 The Lake Charles Civic Symphony, conducted by Francis Bulber, presented its first concert.\nSeptember 11, 1939 The Lake Charles Junior College Opened with classes in 21 departments with 140 students and 13 faculty members.\nDecember 27, 1939 The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury Park Committee, John Doescher, chairman, secured an option to buy a nine-acre tract on Prien Lake to be used as a park.\nFebruary 20, 1940 Sam Jones of Lake Charles, running as an anti-Long reformer, defeated Governor Earl K. Long in the Louisiana Democratic primary, which was tantamount to winning the office of governor.\nApril 4, 1940 The first Southwest Louisiana Fat Stock Show and Rodeo opened.\nOctober 9, 1940 The McNeese Junior College football team played for the first time. Although they played a tight first half, the Cowboys lost to Southwestern Louisiana Institute 32-0.\nNovember 10, 1940 Elder Daniel Bass established a branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Lake Charles.\nDecember 15, 1940 Before 2,000 people, the 135-member Messiah Chorus performed Handel's Messiah for the first time in the McNeese Auditorium. Dr. Francis Bulber directed.\nMay 26, 1941 The Lake Charles High School Drama Club was organized.\nJuly 1941 The Louisiana Maneuvers began with Col. Dwight D. Eisenhower using McNeese\u2019s Kaufman Hall as his headquarters. Lieutenant General Walter Krueger made the McNeese Auditorium his headquarters as they both prepared for mock war games.\nJuly 12, 1941 The new direct, deep-water ship channel from Lake Charles to the Gulf held its grand opening. Governor Sam Jones and 400 others toured the channel on 14 tugs and cruisers.\nDecember 18, 1941 O. J. Gill, chief registrar for the Calcasieu parish civilian defense group, registered a record number of men and women volunteering their services and time to the strengthening and unification of the national effort in this area.\nAugust 1, 1942 The Calcasieu Parish Police Jury donated the German trophy cannon, a familiar sight on the courthouse lawn since 1919, to the nation's scrap metal drive.\nNovember 28, 1942 At 12:12 p.m., Toni Jo Henry was electrocuted with 20,000 volts from a portable generator in the Calcasieu Parish jail. She had been convicted of the 1940 Valentine's Day murder of a traveling salesman in a rice field southeast of Lake Charles. While in jail, she became a Roman Catholic.\nMarch 28, 1943 The Horizon Club at Lake Charles High School was organized.\nApril 1, 1943 George M. Johnson, 26, McNeese College's first librarian, was killed in an accident in the Pacific while serving as a pilot in the Marine Air Corps.\nSeptember 1, 1943 Production began at the Firestone Synthetic Rubber and Latex Plant in Lake Charles.\nDecember 21, 1943 Thomas B. Shearman, Sr. wrote his first editorial after purchasing the Lake Charles American Press.\nJanuary 22, 1944 A parish-wide library service was organized at the Lake Charles courthouse.\nOctober 16, 1944 Levingston Brothers purchased the A. M. Mayo Title Company, which Mayo had started in Lake Charles in 1887.\nNovember 9, 1944 Mayor J. H. Handley declared that cattle would no longer be allowed to roam at large in the streets of Lake Charles. Policemen were to be on duty 24 hours a day to round up any loose livestock.\nJanuary 19, 1945 The giant catalytic crackers of Unit A at Cities Service refinery set a new world record of 283 days of continuous operation while turning out fuel needed for the country's war effort.\nJuly 16, 1945 Bishop Jules Jeanmard created St. Margaret Parish in Lake Charles. The original five blocks of property had been purchased for $625.\nMay 17, 1948 The Lake Charles Little Theatre's production of The Great Big Doorstep opened featuring a weather-beaten cypress shack moved piece by piece from Sweet Lake to provide a realistic setting for the play.\nJune 14, 1948 Life magazine's account of Lake Charles Little Theatre's production of The Great Big Doorstep appeared.\nAugust 12, 1949 Dr. R. Gordon Holcombe, Jr. gave his father's library, containing the first edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association published in 1883, to St. Patrick Hospital in Lake Charles.\nMay 27, 1951 Lake Charles High School was destroyed by fire.\nSeptember 28, 1951 Governor Earl K. Long opened the $13 million Calcasieu River Bridge (I-10).\nOctober 18, 1953 Professional actor Jeffrey Lynn guest starred in the title role of Mister Roberts in the Lake Charles Little Theatre production.\nSeptember 29, 1954 St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church of Lake Charles held its first service in a deserted city fire station at Creole and 18th Streets.\nFebruary 28, 1955 A crippled B-47 crashed into a Lake Charles trailer park killing five people.\nJuly 26, 1955 Eastdale Baptist Church in Lake Charles was chartered.\n1956 Rosa Hart retired from the Lake Charles Little Theatre.\nMay 28, 1956 The first black students graduated from McNeese.\nMay 19, 1957 Calcasieu Parish opened a new $850,000 jail.\nJune 27, 1957 Hurricane Audrey, Southwest Louisiana's greatest natural disaster, hit the Louisiana coast at Cameron, killing hundreds.\nDecember 19, 1958 The Stable, Lake Charles Little Theatre's playhouse, burned to the ground. Despite the efforts of the local fire department, only a few items were rescued.\nApril 6, 1961 Hercules officially opened its first polypropylene plant in Lake Charles.\nMarch 23, 1962 Lake Charles Airport officially opened.\nJune 7, 1964 Rosa Hart, founder and director of the Lake Charles Little Theatre, died. She had served as director for 30 years.\nJune 26, 1964 The $18 million I-210 bridge was opened.\nAugust 18, 1966 The Artists' Civic Theatre and Studio (ACTS) held its first meeting.\nApril 22, 1967 The Lake Charles Centennial Corporation presented \"The Lake Charles Story\" at the McNeese Cowboy Stadium.\nJuly 1, 1967 The Lake Charles city school system merged with the Calcasieu Parish school system ending sixty years as separate systems.\nSeptember 22, 1972 The Lake Charles Civic Center or Centre Civique de Lake Charles formally opened.\nDecember 1, 1975 The Lakeside National Bank building formally opened on the corner of Broad Street and Lakeshore Drive.\n1976 Burton Coliseum built.\n1976 The last classes were held at Central School and the building became offices for the Administrative staff of the School Board.\nNovember 30, 1978 Lake Charles firemen staged the city's first strike by public employees.\nApril 25, 1980 The Catholic Diocese of Lake Charles was established.\nDecember 31, 1982 Governor Dave Treen toured flooded areas of Calcasieu Parish. North Lake Charles, Westlake, Moss Bluff, and Sulphur were affected the most.\nOctober 17, 1983 The Calcasieu Marine National Bank Tower opened on Lakeshore Drive.\n1986 The Calcasieu Arts and Humanities Council began leasing the Central School building from the School Board.\n1986 Boeing maintenance facility established at the Chennault Industrial Airpark.\n1986 Jack Doland retired as McNeese President, replaced by Robert Hebert.\nJanuary 13, 1990 The Lake Charles American Press began operations in its new quarters on East Highway 90.\nApril 13, 1993 Robert Olen Butler, Jr. and Tony Kushner won Pulitzer Prizes for fiction and drama, respectively.\n1996 The Lake Charles Boardwalk built.\n1996 Calcasieu Parish voters vote to allow casinos to begin operating.\nOctober 24, 1996 President Bill Clinton, during a campaign appearance at Chennault Industrial Airpark, became the first sitting president to visit Lake Charles.\nThe McNeese Archives holds many resources regarding Lake Charles' history. For a general overview, please see The History of Lake Charles by Stewart Alfred Ferguson.\nLake Charles Centennial Images\nWant to see how Lake Charles celebrated its Centennial in 1967? Check out these images:\nCentennial Parade\nCentennial Theatrical Production\nCentennial Time Capsule\nOther Centennial Activities\nThe LOUISiana Digital Library has many (but not all!) cataloged images of McNeese. Click here for McNeese's collection. Search for \"Lake Charles,\" \"Ryan Street,\" or any other term to find lots of local history images.\n<< Previous: John McNeese", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 25069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://libquotes.com/umberto-eco/quote/lbu3w3f", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4QCUECU3V2PEFYKGB2KD2KRDVJI7JNHQ", "length": 217, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "libquotes.com", "title": "The sign is a gesture produced with the intention of communicating, that is, in order to transmit one's representation or inner state to another...", "raw_content": "Umberto Eco Quote\nThe sign is a gesture produced with the intention of communicating, that is, in order to transmit one's representation or inner state to another being.\nSemiotics and the Philosophy of Language (1984)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 141.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifestreamblog.com/tag/vibstars/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:03Z", "digest": "sha1:JC6WHCSR7W6YDLYS5WBKAUIB6RDWVTEH", "length": 210, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "lifestreamblog.com", "title": "vibstars | Lifestream Blog", "raw_content": "Social Network Vibstars adds Lifestreaming Features\nVibstars is a Social Networking site based in France that appears to have been built as a platform to share web content with friends. That of course is the a\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifetonik.com/2019/01/16/heres-what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-eat-3-dates-a-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:19Z", "digest": "sha1:E3HKYJIUXZGSEKJ6CDEYTTZRTURZNYEL", "length": 4438, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "lifetonik.com", "title": "Here's What Happens to Your Body if You Eat 3 Dates a Day", "raw_content": "Home Health Here\u2019s What Happens to Your Body if You Eat 3 Dates a...\nHere\u2019s What Happens to Your Body if You Eat 3 Dates a Day\nIf you are used to eating dates for snacks or desserts, good news! These fruits are beneficial for body and mind!\nDates are not only delicious, but they are also very healthy! In fact, this fruit, often eaten as a dessert, is as healthy for the body as it is for the mind. In fact, if you eat three of these delicious fruits a day, it can have several health benefits. Here are some of the properties that dates can have on your body.\n1. Reducing the risk of developing diseases\nIn addition to helping foods flow through the digestive system at a healthy rate, dates also ensure that the intestine is healthy and free of harmful bacteria, which can reduce the risk of developing colon cancer. In fact, when the digestive system and intestine work well, so does the colon, which reduces the risk of developing colon cancer.\nA study conducted by the Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences found that those who consumed dates improved their colon health because dates increased the growth of good bacteria, thereby inhibiting the growth of colon cancer cells.\n2. Rapid and sustainable energy growth\nDates contain natural sugars, such as glucose, fructose, and sucrose, which will give you a quick boost of energy when you need it. And unlike energy bars or drinks, dates contain other healthy components such as fiber, potassium, magnesium, vitamins, and antioxidants that keep these energy levels high and will not cause you to lose energy quickly afterward.\n3. Improved digestive health\nWith a single serving of dates, the equivalent of one cup of these fruits, you will get 12 grams of fiber. This is 48% of the recommended daily intake. Right amounts and types of fibre can benefit your digestive health while preventing constipation and promoting stool regularity. A study published in the British Journal of Nutrition found that people who consumed 7 dates per day for 21 days showed an improvement in stool frequency and an increase in stool frequency compared to those who did not eat dates. Eating dates therefore improves your digestive health, no doubt about it!\n4. Improvement of intelligence\nDates contain vitamin B6. This vitamin improves brain performance by helping the body produce serotonin and norepinephrine. Serotonin is important because it regulates mood while norepinephrine helps your body cope with stress. Lack of vitamin B6 is often linked to depression, so make sure you get enough.\n5. Hemorrhoid treatment\nHemorrhoids are veins in the anus and rectum that become inflamed and swollen. This is often caused by constipation which leads to tension in this area and at the end of the digestive tract. It is often a very painful disease that, fortunately, can be treated and even reversed by a change in diet to reduce constipation. Many doctors recommend a high-fiber diet, and this includes dates to help cure this health problem.\n6. Improvement of the cardiovascular system\nSometimes, it is enough to consume several dates over a long period of time to improve your cardiovascular system. In fact, the potassium in this berry reduces bad cholesterol levels, which can cause blockages in the arteries, which can eventually lead to a stroke and even a heart attack. A study of older women found that high potassium intake is associated with a lower risk of stroke, ischemic stroke, and mortality.\n7. Improvement of blood pressure\nAs mentioned above, dates have a high potassium content. They are also rich in magnesium. Therefore, if you consume between 5 and 6 dates, equivalent to 80 mg of magnesium, this should help you stimulate your blood flow and regulate your blood pressure.\n8. Good source of iron\nKitchen AZ\nThese fruits are also a very good source of iron. Indeed, a single 100 g serving provides 0.9 mg of iron, which represents 11% of the recommended iron intake. Iron is essential because it helps in the formation of red blood cells and hemoglobin and contributes to the flow of oxygen.\nIf you want to maintain a healthy weight, know that dates can help you achieve it. To do this, all you have to do is eat it in the morning, when you are hungry. However, be careful not to overdo the quantities, as these fruits are high in calories.\nPrevious articleIt can be practical to reuse banana peels in the house\nNext articleThis Woman Eats Several Eggs a Day: Find Out Why!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 7570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758%2Fs13428-015-0624-x", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:43Z", "digest": "sha1:QWX33K6DIZLA236TQU7REVD2GOU5MYW2", "length": 44924, "nlines": 122, "source_domain": "link.springer.com", "title": "Mean centering helps alleviate \u201cmicro\u201d but not \u201cmacro\u201d multicollinearity | SpringerLink", "raw_content": "Mean centering helps alleviate \u201cmicro\u201d but not \u201cmacro\u201d multicollinearity\nDeidre L. Popovich\nGeorgios A. Bakamitsos\nThere seems to be confusion among researchers regarding whether it is good practice to center variables at their means prior to calculating a product term to estimate an interaction in a multiple regression model. Many researchers use mean centered variables because they believe it\u2019s the thing to do or because reviewers ask them to, without quite understanding why. Adding to the confusion is the fact that there is also a perspective in the literature that mean centering does not reduce multicollinearity. In this article, we clarify the issues and reconcile the discrepancy. We distinguish between \u201cmicro\u201d and \u201cmacro\u201d definitions of multicollinearity and show how both sides of such a debate can be correct. To do so, we use proofs, an illustrative dataset, and a Monte Carlo simulation to show the precise effects of mean centering on both individual correlation coefficients as well as overall model indices. We hope to contribute to the literature by clarifying the issues, reconciling the two perspectives, and quelling the current confusion regarding whether and how mean centering can be a useful practice.\nMean centering Multicollinearity Moderated multiple regressions Interactions in regression\nMean centering is the act of subtracting a variable\u2019s mean from all observations on that variable in the dataset such that the variable\u2019s new mean is zero. Some researchers say that it is a good idea to mean center variables prior to computing a product term (to serve as a moderator term) because doing so will help reduce multicollinearity in a regression model. Other researchers say that mean centering has no effect on multicollinearity. The debate has left many researchers perplexed: is it good practice to mean center or not, and if it is, why?\nIn this paper, we wish to help researchers by clarifying the issues. We distinguish between micro and macro forms of multicollinearity, and show that whether multicollinearity is lessened by mean centering depends upon this level of analysis and interpretation.\nSpecifically, the conflict between the two viewpoints arises due to the ambiguity as to what constitutes multicollinearity. Multicollinearity is defined to be the presence of correlations among predictor variables that are sufficiently high to cause subsequent analytic difficulties, from inflated standard errors (with their accompanying deflated power in significance tests), to bias and indeterminancy among the parameter estimates (with the accompanying confusion regarding the interpretation and contributions of individual predictors).\nMulticollinearity, or excessive correlations among predictor variables, may be detected sometimes by examining a correlation matrix, for example, the correlation between variable X1 or X2 with their product score X1X 2 is likely to be large. Other times multicollinearity is more subtle, being a nonobvious linear combination of two or more of the independent variables, detectable only by the examination of the determinant of the covariance or cross-products matrix.\nWe define a \u201cmicro\u201d focus on multicollinearity to be that which is based on looking at the correlation or regression coefficients. The \u201cmacro\u201d focus on multicollinearity is based on looking at the properties of the whole matrix such as its determinant, or the overall fit of a model as in an R2. We first briefly review the literature and then we consider both perspectives in greater detail to show how they may be reconciled.\nA number of scholars have considered issues related to mean centering with regard to the inclusion of product terms in a multiple regression model to test for moderators. Let us begin with three points on which these scholars agree.\nFirst, when multiple regression models are expanded from a supposition of two main effects, Y\u2009=\u2009b 0\u2009+\u2009b 1 X 1\u2009+\u2009b 2 X 2\u2009+\u2009\u03f5, to a model in which there exists a multiplicative term to capture the interaction, Y\u2009=\u2009b 0\u2009+\u2009b 1 X 1\u2009+\u2009b 2 X 2\u2009+\u2009b 3 X 1 X 2\u2009+\u2009\u03f5, the main effect variables (both X 1 and X 2) are often highly correlated with their composite product term (X 1 X 2). Some researchers see this as a problem and others do not, and we will show that these different positions are largely a function of which results are under consideration; however, researchers do not disagree that, empirically, the high correlations are likely.\nSecond, researchers who believe that mean centering will help clarify the regression results will obviously recommend that the variables X 1 and X 2 be mean centered before the product term is computed. Researchers who do not believe the mean centering helps have no argument against mean centering per se; for example, if researchers are working with variables whose measurements include arbitrary zeros, then it may be fruitful to mean center a variable such that results are interpretable with respect to the variable\u2019s mean rather than to an arbitrary point of zero. Researchers of both camps mention the variables\u2019 measurement properties as a plausible and defensible reason for mean centering (Dalal & Zickar, 2012; Echambadi & Hess, 2007; Irwin & McClelland, 2001; Jaccard, Wan, & Turrisi, 1990; Kromrey & Foster-Johnson, 1998).\nThird, Aiken and West (1991) attribute to Marquardt (1980) the terminology of distinguishing \u201cessential\u201d and \u201cnonessential\u201d multicollinearity. The terms are not great, given that they are somewhat value-laden, but these terms are used in this literature (cf., Bradley & Srivastava, 1979; Dalal & Zickar, 2012; Shieh, 2010). \u201cEssential\u201d multicollinearity describes correlations between variables for constructs that are very likely to be correlated; Aiken and West (1991, p.36) give the example of a likely correlation \u201cbetween the age of a child and his/her developmental stage.\u201d In contrast, \u201cnonessential\u201d multicollinearity describes correlations that arise due to issues of measurement or in the moderated multiple regression context, the fact that X 1 and X 2 are likely correlated with their product term X 1 X 2 because, of course, they are contained within it. No researchers believe that mean centering affects essential multicollinearity, and they differ on whether they believe that mean centering reduces nonessential multicollinearity.\nBeyond those basic points, there is less consistency among researchers\u2019 points of view. Usually there is agreement on facts, but there exist disagreements regarding the assessments of those facts.\nFor example, looking at the results of a moderated multiple regression of the form Y\u2009=\u2009b 0\u2009+\u2009b 1 X 1\u2009+\u2009b 2 X 2\u2009+\u2009b 3 X 1 X 2\u2009+\u2009\u03f5 from the \u201cmicro\u201d perspective, that is, examining the individual predictors and regression coefficients, researchers agree that mean centering X 1 and X 2 has no effect on the product term X 1 X 2, nor the power with which the moderator effect may be detected (cf. Allison, 1977; Dalal & Zickar, 2012; Kromrey & Foster-Johnson, 1998; Shieh, 2011, 2010, 2009; Smith & Sasaki, 1979). Furthermore, most researchers concur that mean centering X 1 and X 2 will reduce their correlations with the product term X 1 X 2. Researchers in the \u201cmicro\u201d camp will point to this fact as evidence that the mean centering helps reduce (micro) multicollinearity. Mean centering facilitates the likelihood of finding significance for the main effect terms, X 1 and X 2. This multicollinearity is the sort labeled \u201cnonessential,\u201d because it is a function of data processing (i.e., taking a product), not of inherent relationships among constructs (i.e., essential multicollinearity). Some researchers of the \u201cmacro\u201d camp take the value-laden word \u201cnonessential\u201d a step further when they then state that researchers \u201cdo not care about\u201d this kind of multicollinearity or that it is a \u201cmyth\u201d that mean centering can alter substantive conclusions (cf., Dalal & Zickar, 2012, pp. 342, 358) or that whether researchers mean center or not, their results will be \u201cequivalent\u201d (Kromrey & Foster-Johnson, 1998, p. 42). In fact, results on X 1 and X 2 can vary, so we suspect that those macro researchers\u2019 characterizations are based on the frequent orientation in such modeling that the moderator relationship is the key term under investigation (a philosophy with which we agree), with the main effects included to partial out their variance but not for theoretical reasons (e.g., Stone & Hollenbeck, 1984). However, it may certainly be the case that some researchers are interested in both the main effect terms as well as the interaction term (a philosophy with which we also agree), hence, they may well care about reducing the micro level of multicollinearity (e.g., Aiken & West, 1991; Friedrich, 1982; Irwin & McClelland, 2001).\nSimilarly, results of a moderated multiple regressions considered at a \u201cmacro\u201d level, from the determinant of the input matrix to the overall model fit R2, are not affected by being mean centered (Dalal & Zickar, 2012; Echambadi & Hess, 2007)\u2014a fact on which both camps agree, yet the macro camp uses these results to support their claim that mean centering has no effect on multicollinearity. Researchers in the micro camp might well agree that mean centering has no effect on macro multicollinearity, but their interest is in micro multicollinearity, which is affected.\nWith that brief overview of the literature providing an introduction to the issues, we now proceed to define and demonstrate the relationships at the \u201cmicro\u201d and \u201cmacro\u201d levels in moderated multiple regressions. We note that the literature we just reviewed briefly also considers other related issues, including multicollinearity that arises due to power terms (e.g., X2), not just product terms (Bradley & Srivastava, 1979), and the effects of non-normality and analogous effects on three-way interactions (Shieh, 2010). Some articles contain equations and proofs, and some offer demonstrations with very small data sets or simulations (e.g., Allison, 1977; Shieh, 2011). In our investigations that follow, we use all of these methods to offer a more comprehensive view of the micro and macro issues.\nMean centering helps alleviate \u201cmicro\u201d multicollinearity\nThe arguments in favor of mean centering and its role in reducing multicollinearity are based on the \u201cmicro\u201d focus, looking at the effect of centering on single correlation or regression coefficients, one at a time (cf., Irwin & McClelland, 2001; Jaccard, Wan, & Turrisi, 1990; Smith & Sasaki, 1979). From this micro focus, it is correct to state that transforming X1 or X2 to deviation scores,1 \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\) and \\( \\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\), before computing a product term to represent their interaction, \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\), will typically produce a correlation, \\( r\\left(\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right),Y\\right) \\), that is much smaller than its corresponding correlation on the raw (uncentered) variables, r((X 1 X 2),\u2009Y). Similarly the correlation between the product score and either of its components will be smaller for the mean centered variables, specifically \\( r\\left(\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right),\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\right) \\) will be smaller than r((X 1 X 2),\u2009X 1) and \\( r\\left(\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right) \\) will be smaller than r((X 1 X 2),\u2009X 2). To understand these relationships, consider the following simple proofs.\nLet us begin with the familiar equation for a Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient:\n$$ {r}_{X,Y}=\\frac{cov\\left(X,Y\\right)}{\\sqrt{var(X)\\cdot var(Y)}}. $$\nNext, let us simply substitute the product score X1X2, wherever there exists the single variable X in equation (1) to obtain the equation for the correlation between a product score X1X2 and Y:\n$$ {r}_{\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),Y}=\\frac{cov\\left(\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),Y\\right)}{\\sqrt{var\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right)\\cdot var(Y)}}. $$\nSimilarly, let us consider the equation for the correlation between the product score, X1X2, and one of its components\u2014we will take X1 but these results will obviously also hold for X2. Here we take Eq. (2) and substitute X1 in everywhere there had been a Y:\n$$ {r}_{\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),X1}=\\frac{cov\\left(\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),{X}_1\\right)}{\\sqrt{var\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right)var\\left({X}_1\\right)}}. $$\nNow, let us consider the \u201cmicro\u201d claim that multicollinearity is reduced when the predictor variables are mean centered. The question is whether the correlation between X1 (or X2) and X1X2 is smaller when the variables have been mean centered. The equation for that correlation is derived as follows, by simply taking Eq. (3) and replacing X1 and X2 with their respective deviation score counterparts, \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\) and \\( \\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\):\n$$ {r}_{\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right),\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)}=\\frac{cov\\left(\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right.\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right),\\left.\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\right)\\ }{\\sqrt{var\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right)var\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\right)}}. $$\nIn the comparison we seek, it is sufficient to compare the numerators of Eqs. (3) and (4), as will become clear shortly. Thus, let us begin by looking at the numerator in Eq. (3), which is the covariance between the product score and one of its components, X1, when X1 and X2 are in their original (uncentered) form.\nIt has been shown that the covariance between a product score and another variable may be written as follows (under multivariate normality, Arnold & Evans, 1979; Bohrnstedt & Goldberger, 1969; Goodman, 1960):\n$$ cov\\left( AB,C\\right)=\\upvarepsilon (A)cov\\left(B,C\\right)+\\upvarepsilon (B)cov\\left(A,C\\right). $$\nThe notation \u03b5(A) stands for the expected value of all A\u2019s in the population distribution; alternatively, \u03bcA. Thus, for our purposes, the numerator in Eq. (3) may be written as:\n$$ cov\\left(\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),{X}_1\\right)=\\upvarepsilon \\left({X}_1\\right)cov\\left({X}_1,{X}_2\\right)+\\upvarepsilon \\left({X}_2\\right)cov\\left({X}_1,{X}_1\\right). $$\nNote that the last term in Eq. (6) is actually a variance, hence:\n$$ cov\\left(\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),{X}_1\\right)=\\upvarepsilon \\left({X}_1\\right)cov\\left({X}_1,{X}_2\\right)+\\upvarepsilon \\left({X}_2\\right)var\\left({X}_1\\right). $$\nFor comparison, let\u2019s next consider the numerator of Eq. (4), which is the covariance of the product score and one of its components when the predictor variables have been mean centered. According to Eq. (5), the covariance between \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\) and \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\) may be written as:\n$$ \\begin{array}{l}cov\\left(\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right),\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\right)\\\\ {}=\\upvarepsilon \\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\right)cov\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right)+\\upvarepsilon \\left(\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right)var\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\right).\\end{array} $$\nAt this point, the easy observation is made that the covariance in (the left side of) Eq. (8) is expected to be zero because the expected values of deviations for X1 is zero, \\( \\upvarepsilon \\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\right)=0 \\), as is that for X2, \\( \\upvarepsilon \\left(\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right)=0 \\) for normally distributed variables, (see Appendix 1 for the proof). Of course, the fact that the expected (or average) values of these mean centered variables are zero does not imply that in any given data set the covariance (and hence the correlation) will be precisely zero. However, on average, the covariances (and correlations) will be zero.\nThus, if the expected value of the covariance between \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\) and \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\) is zero, then in all likelihood, the correlation in Eq. (4) among centered predictors will be reduced compared to the correlation in Eq. (3) among the original (uncentered) predictors. Therefore we may conclude that, yes, from this micro perspective, mean centering helps to reduce the micro form of multicollinearity.\nIt is also important to note that mean centering variables does not change the nature of the relationships between any variable in the set that does not include the product term. That is, any correlation among {X 1,\u2009X 2,\u2009Y} will be the same as the correlation between the corresponding variables \\( \\left\\{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right),Y\\right\\} \\) (see Appendix 2 for the proof). As Dunlap and Kemery (1987, p. 420) say, \u201cthe intercorrelations among [the] original variables are unchanged, whereas the correlations involving cross-product terms are reduced dramatically.\u201d Specifically, \\( {r}_{X_1,{X}_2}={r}_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)} \\), \\( {r}_{X_1,Y}={r}_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),Y} \\), and \\( {r}_{X_2,Y}={r}_{\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right),Y} \\).\nAt this point, these relationships have been proven, but it might also help to see an illustration. Table 1 shows a random sample of 30 observations for three variables drawn from a multivariate normal population with correlation parameters \u03c1X1,Y = 0.6, \u03c1X2,Y = 0.6, and \u03c1X1,X2 = 0.3 (though the relationships and equalities we are about to illustrate are replicable on any of the reader\u2019s own available datasets). Table 2 shows the correlations among these two predictors, X1 and X2, their product score, and the dependent variable. The correlation matrices are presented in both their original form and after the two main effect predictors had been mean centered (prior to the computation of the product score). Note that the equalities stated previously hold: \\( {r}_{X_1,{X}_2}={r}_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)} \\) = 0.278, \\( {r}_{X_1,Y}={r}_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),Y} \\) = 0.587, and \\( {r}_{X_2,Y}={r}_{\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right),Y} \\) = 0.665.\nIllustration data\nRaw data, N = 30\nComparative correlations\nCorrelations among original, raw variables\nCorrelations among centered variables\n\\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\)\n\\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\)\nIn these results, we see that researchers are correct in asserting that micro multicollinearity is lessened by mean centering (e.g., Irwin & McClelland, 2001; Jaccard, Wan, & Turrisi, 1990; Smith & Sasaki, 1979). Specifically, correlations involving a product score based on centered variables like those in Eq. (4) in the right-hand side of Table 2 tend to be smaller than their uncentered counterparts like the correlations in Eq. (3) in the left-hand side of Table 2; we see that \\( {r}_{\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right.\\right)\\left(\\left.{X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right),\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)} \\) < \\( {r}_{\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),X1} \\), as -0.167 < 0.759 (the magnitude is lessened, regardless of the sign change, and the correlation is not significantly different from zero). Similarly, \\( {r}_{\\left(\\Big({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\Big),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)} \\) < \\( {r}_{\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),X2} \\), as 0.082 < 0.818.\nMean centering does not help alleviate \u201cmacro\u201d multicollinearity\nOn the other side of the debate is the position that mean centering is not effective in reducing multicollinearity (cf., Dalal & Zickar, 2012; Echambadi & Hess, 2007). These arguments are based on the \u201cmacro\u201d focus, looking at the determinant of the predictor matrix or global indices such as R2. These researchers are not against mean centering, per se. For example, mean centering may provide a more parsimonious interpretation of data analysis, namely that the effects of one variable would be interpreted as a function of being above or below the mean on another variable (vs. above or below some arbitrary intercept term). However, these researchers would argue that the decision to mean center is an altogether different issue, and one that does not alleviate multicollinearity (cf., Dunlap & Kemery, 1987; Echambadi & Hess, 2007).\nA macro focus on multicollinearity considers all the interrelationships among the entire set of predictor variables, X1, X2, and X1X2. From this vantage, multicollinearity is not reduced because while mean centering reduces the off-diagonal elements (such as the covariance of X1 with X1X2), it also reduces the elements on the main diagonal (such as X1X2 with itself, that is, its variance). That is, while the correlations might be reduced among X1, X2, and X1X2, the correlation between X1X2 and Y is also reduced. To better understand these relationships, consider the following demonstrations.\nTable 3 presents the regression results for the data previously analyzed in Table 2. Note that the \u201cmicro\u201d level results vary for X1 and X2 (but not for X1X2). These include the parameter estimates, raw regression coefficients b or standardized coefficients \u03b2, their standard errors, and of course, by implication, their t-statistics, p-values, and conclusions regarding which effects in the model are significant. (The b-weight and standard error for the highest order interaction term, X1X2, are not affected, although the corresponding \u03b2 is modified.)\nComparative regressions\nRegression results for the original variables (R2 = 0.622)\nRegression results on the centered variables (R2 = 0.622)\nb-weight\n\u03b2-weight\nAt the same time, note that the \u201cmacro\u201d level results are constant, that the total amount of variance explained in Y is the same R2 = 0.622, whether that variance is explained via {X 1,\u2009X 2,\u2009and\u2009X 1 X 2} or \\( \\left\\{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right),\\mathrm{and}\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right\\} \\). The total variance explained is the same, it is simply redistributed.2 Recall from Table 2 that the correlations between the product scores and their components are lessened, but it is also true that the correlation between the product score and the dependent variable is lessened as well, \\( {r}_{\\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right.\\right)\\left(\\left.{X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)\\right),Y} \\) < \\( {r}_{\\left({X}_1{X}_2\\right),Y} \\), as \u20130.091 < 0.765. Thus we may conclude that indeed, from a macro perspective, researchers are correct to assert that mean centering does not reduce or affect the macro form of multicollinearity (cf., Dalal & Zickar, 2012; Echambadi and Hess (2007).\nIt can be stated that mean centering has no effect on this macro form of multicollinearity when one examines the determinant of the matrix. To understand the concept of a determinant better, consider Fig. 1. This figure plots the determinant of a 2 \u00d7 2 matrix in which a correlation between two variables varies from 0.0 to 1.0. The figure shows that the determinant of a correlation matrix ranges from 0 to 1. The determinant will equal one only if the correlation is zero, otherwise the determinant will be less than one. The determinant becomes zero or near zero when variables are very highly correlated, that is, in the presence of micro multicollinearity.\nDeterminant as a function of multicollinearity rX1,X2\nMulticollinearity is a problem because determinants that are zero or close to zero can cause computational difficulties. For example, the estimation of regression weights, b\u2009=\u2009(X\u2009'\u2009X)\u2212\u20091 X\u2009'\u2009Y requires the inverse of X\u2009'\u2009X. The calculation of the inverse, in turn, requires the term 1/det(X ' X), and obviously the computation will blow up if the denominator is zero. Hence, the determinant of X\u2009'\u2009X must not be zero.\nTo understand X\u2009'\u2009X, first think of one\u2019s data as a matrix X, in which respondents form the rows, and the columns comprise X1, X2, and X1X2 to be used to predict the dependent variable Y (Y is in a separate vector). The product of the matrix transpose (X\u2009') and itself, X\u2009'\u2009X, is referred to as the uncorrected sums of squares and cross products matrix, or the uncorrected SSCP matrix. When the matrix X is corrected for or centered around its means, we call the result a deviation matrix, Xd, and X d '\u2009X d is the corrected SSCP matrix. The covariance matrix among the predictor variables, C, is equal to the corrected SSCP divided by (n-1). The diagonal of the covariance matrix contains the variables\u2019 variances. Next, these variances are extracted and put into a vector, the square root taken to obtain the standard deviations, and their reciprocals are taken, and the result is called S -1/2 . The familiar correlation matrix, R, is equal to the covariance matrix rescaled by the standard deviations, R\u2009=\u2009S \u2212\u20091/2 CS \u2212\u20091/2.\nTable 4 contains the raw uncorrected sums of squares and cross products matrices for the original variables from Table 2, X1, X2, and X1X2 at the left, and \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\), \\( \\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\), and \\( \\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\) at the right. The elements in the two matrices are quite different, yet the determinants of the full X\u2009'\u2009X matrices (from an X matrix that includes a column of ones for the intercept) are equal.\nComparative SSCP (sums of squares and cross products) and determinants\nX\u2019X matrix, original variables (det = 1386656)\nX\u2019X matrix, mean centered predictors (det = 1386656)\nSimilarly, Table 5 presents the covariance matrices. The pattern of identity\u2014the set of elements that are constant in the left and right matrices\u2014is the same as in the correlation matrices in Table 2 (e.g., cov(X1,Y) = cov \\( \\left(\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),Y\\right) \\) = 0.731). Note the variance of the product term is greatly reduced by mean centering, whereas the other variances remain constant. It is also of note that these determinants are identical to each other. Thus, the claim is also correct that the macro form of multicollinearity is not reduced as a function of mean centering.\nComparative covariances\nCovariances among raw variables (det = 0.771)\nCovariances among centered variables (det = 0.771)\nFigure 1 illustrates how multicollinearity affects the determinant in a problematic manner, yet mean centering does not alter that functional form\u2014the relationship holds whether the variables are mean centered or not. To show the effect of mean centering on other results of a regression, we ran a Monte Carlo study. We set \u03c1 X1,Y =\u2009\u03c1 X2,Y =\u20090.5 to represent modest-sized effects of two predictors on the dependent variable, and varied the extent of multicollinearity, \u03c1 X1,X2 from 0.0 to 0.9. For each level of \u03c1 X1,X2, we generated a random sample of size N = 100, with three variables, X1, X2, and Y, with population means, \u03bcX1 = 3 (to approximate a 5-point rating scale), \u03bcX2 = 4 (to approximate a 7-point rating scale), and \u03bcY = 0 (given that its value is immaterial to the effects of mean centering of predictor variables). We computed a product score, X1X2. We ran a regression using the main effects and interaction, X1, X2, and X1X2 to predict Y. We obtained the \u03b2 estimates, their standard errors, and the p-values representing their significance tests. We also took the same generated variables and mean centered X1 and X2. We computed the new product score, ran another regression, obtained the new \u03b2s, standard errors, and p-values. We repeated this procedure for 1,000 replications.\nFigure 2 shows the average over the 1,000 pairs of regressions for the \u03b21 (or \u03b22) estimates (given that the strength of the relationship between X1 and Y was the same as that between X2 and Y, both main effect \u03b2s were equal, for simplicity). As we mentioned previously, it is known that a linear transformation like mean centering will not affect the highest order term in a model, in this case, the X1X2 interaction term (Allison, 1977; Dalal & Zickar, 2012; Kromrey & Foster-Johnson, 1998; Shieh, 2011, 2010, 2009; Smith & Sasaki, 1979), thus we focus on the results for the main effect predictors. Much like the plot in Fig. 1 for the determinant, Fig. 2 shows that greater multicollinearity dampens the estimate of \u03b2. As was also true of Fig. 1, the plot in Fig. 2 is identical whether the predictor variable had been mean centered or not. That is, mean centering does not change the dampening effect of multicollinearity on estimates of regression coefficients.\n\u03b21 or \u03b22 as a function of multicollinearity rX1,X2*\nBy comparison, mean centering reduces standard errors and thus benefits p-values and the likelihood of finding \u03b21 or \u03b22 significant. Figure 3 shows that as multicollinearity increases, the standard error of the \u03b2 estimate increases slightly, which in turn decreases the likelihood of finding predictor variables to be significant. That effect is exacerbated when taken together with the observation from Fig. 2 that multicollinearity lessens the \u03b2 estimate, thus multicollinearity further decreases the likelihood that the \u03b2 will be significant, and this effect is shown in the rising p-values in Fig. 4. Figures 3 and 4 depict the nature of how mean centering enhances a regression analysis\u2014the effects of the correlations between predictors on the standard errors and p-values for \u03b21 or \u03b22 are greatly reduced. Thus, mean centering is beneficial in reducing effects of micro multicollinearity.\nStandard error of \u03b21 or \u03b22 as a function of multicollinearity rX1,X2\nP-value of \u03b21 or \u03b22 as a function of multicollinearity rX1,X2\nNote also in Figs. 3 and 4 that even the improvement offered by mean centering has its limits. When correlations among predictors approach or exceed 0.7, results begin to be affected even if the variables have been mean centered. Parameter estimates will be lower, standard errors higher, p-values higher, and significant findings fewer. When one or more bivariate correlations exceed 0.7, indicating 50 % or more redundancy between the variables, the researcher would be well served by creating a composite variable, based on factor analysis, so as to minimize any possible subsequent detrimental effects of multicollinearity.\nMulticollinearity arises in numerous contexts. In this paper, we considered whether mean centering variables help alleviate multicollinearity in multiple regression models. There are two perspectives regarding whether mean centering variables prior to the construction of their product term to serve as an interaction term helps to alleviate multicollinearity. In this paper, we reconciled the perspectives by distinguishing a micro analysis of correlations from a macro analysis of the determinants of matrices.\nAs we have shown, the debate and confusion about whether mean centering helps to alleviate multicollinearity is a function of discussing multicollinearity in slightly different contexts. In particular, there is a micro and macro view of multicollinearity and both camps are somewhat correct: mean centering reduces multicollinearity if that is meant to characterize individual correlation or regression coefficients\u2014the micro form of multicollinearity, and yet mean centering does not reduce multicollinearity if that is meant to characterize the fit of the regression model as a whole, i.e., R2, or the determinant of the covariance matrix\u2014the macro form of multicollinearity. The micro focus reacts to high correlations, and the macro focus reacts to any linear combination of correlations that indicate that the predictors show some linear redundancies.\nIt is quite likely that researchers naturally gravitate toward a micro or macro perspective on multicollinearity as a function of their paradigmatic contexts and needs. For example, for many research questions in the social sciences, research questions revolve around testing the significance and contributions of particular independent variables, and their individual influences on dependent variables. From this perspective, multicollinearity puts the likelihood that any given predictor will be found significant at risk. Mean centering helps these researchers and is good practice when testing and reporting on effects of individual predictors.\nFor other research questions, a macro view might dominate, such as when a modeler wishes to improve a model\u2019s overall fit or predictions. These researchers may not care as much about the particular contributions of separate independent variables, instead caring about adding predictors so as to maximize macro results including the model\u2019s overall R2. For example, increasingly, practitioners are analyzing real world, \u201cbig data\u201d and are facing the macro issues that plague computer scientists and artificial intelligence researchers regarding identifying conditions under which estimation will be problematic, as estimates approach machine error boundaries. For these researchers, mean centering will not affect (harm or help) their analyses.\nFinally, along the continuum between micro and macro may be placed the indices that many social scientists find useful, namely variance inflation factors (VIFs). The VIF for a predictor variable Xi is VIF i =\u20091/(1\u2009\u2212\u2009R i 2 ), where R i 2 is obtained from the multiple regression in which Xi is predicted from all the other independent variables. The square root of the VIF for Xi indicates how much larger the standard error of the regression coefficient for Xi is compared to what the standard error for Xi would have been if it were uncorrelated with the other independent variables. If there is no multicollinearity involving variable Xi, its VIF will be 1.0, that is to say the standard error of the regression coefficient has not been inflated, there is no biasing problem, and the likelihood that the predictor variable will be found significant is as good as it can be. In contrast, if Xi has a VIF of, say, 9, then the standard error for the regression coefficient representing variable Xi will have been inflated by a factor of \\( \\sqrt{9} \\) = 3, and multicollinearity might therefore be causing problems in the data analyses. It has been suggested that a VIF for any given predictor variable should not exceed 10.0 (Marquardt 1970). Consider, for example, the uncentered data VIFs for X1, X2, and X1X2 are 14.175, 18.164, and 39.483, compared to the VIF indices for their centered counterparts, 1.128, 1.104, and 1.048, confirming from another perspective that mean centering helps reduce potentially bad effects of interrelated variables. While VIF indices take into account the effects of all the predictor variables and thus may be considered to be somewhat macro, their emphasis is on one predictor variable at a time, and they were also improved by the mean centering, so they might be considered somewhat more micro in character than macro.\nGiven the distinction between micro and macro perspectives, different researchers will use this information as they deem most appropriate for their scholarly interests. Researchers who focus on the macro level of analyses, seeking to use several predictor variables to enhance model fits can mean center their variables if they prefer to interpret their results relative to means rather than arbitrary intercepts, and they can proceed confidently knowing that doing so will not affect or improve multicollinearity at a macro level, including determinants and model fits such as R2s. Alternatively, researchers who focus on the micro level of analyses, seeking to test hypotheses about the significance of the contributions of individual predictors should mean center their variables because micro multicollinearity will be reduced, and the patterns of significant predictors will be clarified.\nWhen all is said and done, should a researcher mean center the X1 and X2 variables before computing a product term X1X2 to include in a moderated multiple regression? It depends. Mean centering is advisable when: (1) the predictor variables are measured on scales with arbitrary zeros and the researcher seeks to enhance the interpretation of the regression results vis-\u00e0-vis the variables\u2019 means rather than the arbitrary zero points, or (2) the research questions involve testing the main effect terms in addition to the interaction term and the researcher seeks to obtain these statistical tests without the interference of the so-called nonessential multicollinearity. On the other hand, mean centering may be bypassed when: (1) the research question involves primarily the test of the interaction term, with no regard for the lower order main effect terms, or (2) the research question involves primarily the assessment of the overall fit of the model, the R2, with no interest in apportioning the explained variability across the predictors, main effects or interaction alike.\nDeviation scores are often denoted more simply as a lower case variable label, e.g., \\( {x}_1=\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\) and \\( {x}_2=\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\), and we agree with a reviewer that such notation would make this presentation more elegant. However, we chose to retain the difference notation so that the deviation was explicit, and the reader did not have to remember that \\( {X}_1 \\) was the raw variable and \\( {x}_1 \\) was its centered counterpart.\nAs a reviewer kindly pointed out, the betas do not capture variance per se; the squared part correlations, or effect-size indices like \\( {\\eta}^2 \\), which are a function of the regression weights, capture variance more directly.\nRecall, as claimed in the paper after Eq. (8), the expected value, written \u03b5(X 1) (or population mean, \u03bc 1) of a deviation score such as \\( \\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\) is zero. Essentially,\n$$ \\upvarepsilon \\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)=\\upvarepsilon {X}_{1i}-\\upvarepsilon \\left({\\overline{X}}_1\\right)={\\mu}_1-{\\mu}_1=0. $$\nThe relationship can be seen in the sample values as well:\n$$ \\begin{array}{l}\\frac{1}{n-1}{\\displaystyle \\sum_{i=1}^n}\\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)=\\hfill \\\\ {}\\kern8em =\\frac{1}{n-1}{\\displaystyle \\sum }{X}_{1i}-\\frac{1}{n-1}n{\\overline{X}}_1\\hfill \\\\ {}\\kern8em =\\frac{1}{n-1}{\\displaystyle \\sum }{X}_{1i}-\\frac{1}{n-1}{\\displaystyle \\sum }{X}_{1i}\\hfill \\\\ {}\\kern8em =\\frac{1}{n-1}\\left({\\displaystyle \\sum }{X}_{1i}-{\\displaystyle \\sum }{X}_{1i}\\right)=0\\hfill \\end{array} $$\nTo prove the equality of the correlations with or without mean centering for terms that do not include the product term (as referenced after Eq. (8)), let us begin with the simple equation for the correlation between X1 and X2:\n$$ {r}_{X_1,{X}_2}=\\frac{1}{n-1}{\\displaystyle \\sum}\\left(\\frac{X_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1}{s_{X1}}\\right)\\left(\\frac{X_{2i}-{\\overline{X}}_2}{s_{X2}}\\right) $$\nTo show that the correlation between these two predictors is not affected by centering, we replace X1 and X2 with \\( \\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\) and \\( \\left({X}_{2i}-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right) \\):\n$$ {r}_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)}=\\frac{1}{n-1}{\\displaystyle \\sum}\\left(\\frac{\\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) - 0}{s_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)\\ }}\\right)\\left(\\frac{\\left({X}_{2i}-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)-0}{s_{\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)}}\\right) $$\nThe zeros in the numerators of Eq. (B2) are a result of the proof in Appendix 1. We can also show that the standard deviations are unaffected by centering, that is, \\( {s}_{X1}={s}_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)} \\). The equation for the standard deviation of X1 is:\n$$ {s}_{X1}=\\sqrt{\\frac{{\\displaystyle \\sum }{\\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)}^2}{n-1}} $$\nThe equation for the standard deviation of the centered version of the variable, \\( \\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right) \\) is:\n$$ \\begin{array}{l}{s}_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)}=\\sqrt{\\frac{{\\displaystyle \\sum }{\\left(\\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)-0\\right)}^2}{n-1}}\\hfill \\\\ {}\\kern3em =\\sqrt{\\frac{{\\displaystyle \\sum }{\\left({X}_{1i}-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right)}^2}{n-1}}={s}_{X_1}\\hfill \\end{array} $$\nThus, the correlations in Eqs. (B1) and (B2) are equal, \\( {r}_{X_1,{X}_2}={r}_{\\left({X}_1-{\\overline{X}}_1\\right),\\left({X}_2-{\\overline{X}}_2\\right)} \\). 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Uvarovite Garnets are naturally colored and not enhanced.\nThe Gemstone Uvarovite (Garnet) Sources\n? The main source of Uvarovite is the type locality in Russia. Other localities include Finland, Turkey, Italy, and the U.S. (California).\nThe Gemstone Uvarovite (Garnet) in the Rough Photos\nThe mineral Uvarovite", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 293.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m2-theory.com/erg-publishing/4th-stream-records/accidental-orchestra-musicians-names/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IY46BHCANNORLXUBKB66WABWL3RYC233", "length": 666, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "m2-theory.com", "title": "ACCIDENTAL ORCHESTRA: Musician\u2019s Names | m2theory", "raw_content": "ACCIDENTAL ORCHESTRA: Musician\u2019s Names\nJason Kao Hwang, Rosi Hertlein, Fung Chern Hwei (violins), Stephanie Griffin (viola), Lenny Mims and Carol Buck (cellos), Steve Swell (trombone), Vincent Chancey (French horn), and Waldron Mahdi Ricks (trumpet), Richard Keene (oboe), Elliott Levin (flute, tenor saxophone), Ras Moshe Burnett (soprano and tenor saxophones), Michael Lytle (bass clarinet), Michael Moss (Bb clarinet), Steve Cohn (piano), Billy Stein (guitar), Rick Iannacone (ambient guitar), Larry Roland (string bass), Warren Smith (percussion, vibraphones), Badal Roy (tabla), Chuck Fertal (drums), and Michael Wimberly (djembe, African bells and percussion).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://marqxreport.com/latest-featured/2018/7/22/billboards-list-of-50-highest-paid-musicians-in-2018-only-includes-7-females", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:59Z", "digest": "sha1:72RNNZ7KMDENC7MTO2S4LWYUTSVCEBLE", "length": 2276, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "marqxreport.com", "title": "Billboard's List of 50 Highest-Paid Musicians in 2018 Only Includes 7 Females \u2014 Marqx Report", "raw_content": "Billboard's List of 50 Highest-Paid Musicians in 2018 Only Includes 7 Females\nEvery year, Billboard releases a list of the 50 highest-paid musicians of the year. For its 2018 roundup of the top \u201cMoney Makers,\u201d only seven artists out of 50 are female \u2013 for perspective, that makes up less that 15-percent of the total. The women who appear on the list include Lady Gaga (appearing on the roster at #6 with $29.7 million USD), C\u00e9line Dion (#26 with $16.18m USD), Britney Spears (#30 with $14.1m USD), Faith Hill (#36 with $12.5m USD), Ariana Grande (#42 with $11.36m USD), Janet Jackson (#43 with $11.34m USD) and Taylor Swift (#48 with $9.3m USD). Sitting at the top spot on the list is U2, clocking in with a staggering $54.4m USD.\nOf course, it is fiercely empowering to see women thrive in their respective fields, whether they be representing the genres of pop and country music, or otherwise. However, as it is clearly seen here, the disparity between male and female artists is still the topic of much scrutiny. As has been pointed out already by plenty of advocates within both the film and music industries, there is still a startling imbalance between how much female professionals are being paid when compared to their male counterparts. The most recent high-profile example is that of HAIM. Last month, it was reported by Pitchfork that the band comprised of sisters Este, Danielle and Alana fired their agent when they found out that a festival paid a male artist 10 times what they were offered.\nThe conversation regarding the gender pay gap, however, is definitely not the only topic of debate. Music festivals such as Coachellahave been under fire for its lack of female presence, which was famously called out by Halsey last year. Within its lineup of musical acts in 2017, 168 of those were male artists, while only 60 were female. Based on the results now reported by Billboard, it is apparent that there is much work to be done in terms of equalizing pay amongst men and women.\nTo see the full list of 2018\u2019s highest-paid musicians, you can head over now to billboard.com.\nE-commerce/Services\nLatestMarqx: 11 July 22, 2018\nWillie D Of The Geto Boys Has A Problem With YouTube, Google And Wants Answers\nObama delivers veiled rebuke to Trump in Mandela address", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3412, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://martin.gleeson.net/2018/09/27/simple-ideas-competition-and-acquisition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:01Z", "digest": "sha1:M6X3X5DZU7OYGAI4LALWLCDU3WFCX5HU", "length": 239, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "martin.gleeson.net", "title": "Blue \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Simple Ideas: Competition and Acquisition", "raw_content": "\u00ab It\u2019s the numbers, dummies!\nThis entry was posted on Thursday, September 27th, 2018 at 6:41 am\tand is filed under Personal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 2791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mashable.com/2007/03/16/yebotv/?geo=IN&utm_cid=mash-prod-nav-geo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:01Z", "digest": "sha1:P2NA7YPT4RQUWWXQAIJSJPKZRT5ZEJN7", "length": 894, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mashable.com", "title": "YeboTV Gets $10M - For What?", "raw_content": "YeboTV Gets $10M - For What?\nOhio-based YeboTV just scored $10 million in funding, proving that the money hasn't stopped flowing into video sites just yet. The money comes from the broadcaster Roberts Communications Network and Sunrise Operations, the investor arm of the horse betting company Winticket.com. The company was founded in October 2006.\nYeboTV claims its focus on live music sets it apart - it provides live concert webcasts, for instance. However, I took it for a spin today and didn't see much differentiation at all: it's got tagging, categories, tags and user uploads, plus the ability to rank videos by recency and popularity. There's nothing, however, to suggest that this is worthy of a $10 million investment - hopefully there's more in the pipeline. A lot more.\nRivals include - frankly - everyone...Google Video, MySpace Video, Metacafe, all the YouTube clones and so on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mashable.com/2013/11/15/deforestation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:35Z", "digest": "sha1:RTY4JILGSTMIL4XEYOVUEHMWLEPCYT3L", "length": 2462, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mashable.com", "title": "Earth Has Lost Almost 6 Californias' Worth of Forest Since 2000", "raw_content": "Earth Has Lost Almost 6 Californias' Worth of Forest Since 2000\nRitchie King for Quartz 2013-11-15 10:25:41 UTC\nTake a look: This is deforestation\u2019s footprint from 2000 to 2012, according to a new study of 650,000 high-resolution satellite images.\nThe world lost the trees on some 2.3 million square kilometers (0.9 million square miles) of land, while trees grew back or were planted on roughly 0.8 million square kilometers. Here\u2019s what those total land areas would look like in both the U.S. and Europe:\nDeforestation at this scale is having a tremendous ecological impact on both species and climate. From 2000 to 2011, deforestation effectively added 16 billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere, about 13% of the world\u2019s total contribution to climate change.\nBut good data on worldwide forest loss are hard to come by. Many countries report deforestation on their own soil, but define it in differing ways. In Canada, if a stand of trees is cut down, but the stumps aren\u2019t removed, government scientists do not consider it a loss, because the forest will eventually grow back. A similar definition holds in Indonesia, but not in other countries. This makes it impossible to stitch together a consistent global picture from national figures.\nThe new deforestation study, led by scientists at the University of Maryland and published online Thursday in the journal Science, uses satellite images to look at the wholesale loss and growth of trees around the world, including clear-cutting to make way for agriculture, logging and losses from forest fires. And it does it with extreme granularity. The images have a resolution of 30 meters, which means the entire world is divided up into pixels about one-eighth the size of a soccer pitch.\nIndonesia Is Catching Up With Brazil\nThe analysis confirms that Brazil, the global capital of deforestation, has had some success in reducing it. From 2004 to 2012, its annual rate of deforestation fell nearly by half, from roughly 40,000 sq km a year to slightly more than 25,000. (For this reason, Brazil has the weirdest carbon footprint in the world.)\nMeanwhile, Indonesia has been catching up. By 2012, it was cutting down 20,000 sq km of forest a year, nearly the same rate as Brazil, even though Indonesia\u2019s total land mass is less than a quarter of Brazil\u2019s. Here\u2019s an animated gif of forest loss in Indonesia, courtesy of the researchers:\nImage: Niels Mickers\nTopics: Earth, Science, forests, trees, U.S., World", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 4624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 190.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matchopolis.com/mature/Profile/View/22204", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JFC2J2JYCPMXNUPKLVZFCGTIPKSFKO23", "length": 1405, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "matchopolis.com", "title": "Matchopolis: Ndgentleman in Minot - movies, spirituality, stargazing, philosophy", "raw_content": "Ndgentleman\nGentleman seeks lady\nI am a one-woman man who lives in a small town in the northern parts of the USA. I have my own home and a small business. I read a great deal and I strive to appreciate the most important values in life. I communicate well and have a good sense of humor. I speak some Spanish and German. I am told that I am sensitive and romantic and that I am a gentleman. I love to cuddle with that one right woman, to treat a lady well, like preparing a candlelight dinner for her, giving her a fine massage (I am trained as a massage therapist), offering good conversation (I do listen well), and perhaps a movie (I have a nice collection), a walk, star-gazing, just communing together is very nice, enjoying life together. I would like to meet a good woman who is intelligent, monogamous, and understands what is important in life. Someone who shares at least some of my values or interests. I am not perfect nor am I looking for perfection. Come on, there must be a nice lady out there somewhere? Don't be afraid, write me.\n59 year old Man, in Minot, North Dakota, USA\nInterests: picnics, stargazing, walking (pleasure), working out, yoga, dancing (swing/country), fine dining, karaoke, movies, symphony/ballet/opera, chess, reading, TV news/educational, philosophy, spirituality\nHere is where you can keep any diary notes TO YOURSELF about Ndgentleman. Nobody can see them but you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mathstories4u.com/arithmetic-funnydrillperiod/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:03Z", "digest": "sha1:HEWSC6BAV33VZRSXD4DYMMAFGL7WWWP6", "length": 2880, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mathstories4u.com", "title": "Funny Drill Period \u2013 Math Stories For You", "raw_content": "Funny Drill Period\nMath teacher substitutes for drill\nMany schools have a drill period or what they call a phys ed, physical training or PT period. So did Tanya\u2019s school. The PT teacher took the students out on the school grounds or to the gym and made them do a few exercises. In this school, PT teacher was old and sometimes he be absent. Then some other teacher had to substitute for him. This time, the substitute was a math teacher. He took the students to the field for the drill period.\nWhen the teacher took the students to the school ground for a drill, they wondered what he was going to do. He did not know any drill exercises. When they went outside, they saw that he had drawn many parallel lines in the field. The lines were 1 meter apart. There was another set of parallel lines crossing them. These lines were also 1 meter apart. As a result, they formed little squares 1 meter long and 1 meter 1 wide.\nArea occupied per student\nHe asked one student to stand in a square in the front right corner.\nThen he announced that each square was 1 square meter in area because it was 1 meter long and 1 meter wide. The student was standing on the 1 square meter area of the field.\nHr called three more students so that now there were 4 students standing: two in the front 2 row and the other 2 standing behind them. The teacher said that they were now standing on a 4 square meter area.\nThen he asked 5 more students. All 9 students were now in a 3 x 3 formation and occupied 9 squares.\nNext he added 7 more students to make a 4 x 4 formation which occupied 16 squares. He called them 42 squares.\nThe class had a total of 25 students. He told them that if they stood with the others, they would make a 5 x 5 formation. He said that was because 52 = 25.\nThe students thought that this is an interesting drill class. He also told them, \u201cThe length of a line can be measured in meters. The area of a square or any other shape is measured in square meters. If all the students were to be placed in a cube, the volume of the cube will be measured in cubic meters\u201d\nThe bell rang and the students went back inside the school for other classes.\nThe school playground is 50 meters long and 40 meters wide. If the math teacher makes the 1 meter long and 1 meter wide squares in the whole playground, how many squares could he make? If there are only 500 students in the school and he makes squares to give maximum area for each student, how much area would that be? What size squares could you make from that area so that each student has to occupy one square?\nSolution: A 50 meter x 40 meter field will have an area of 2000 square meters. As shown in this picture, thin lines are 1 meter apart. The field makes 2000 squares.\nIf only 500 students have to occupy the field, each student could get a 2000/500 = 4 square meter space. This is also shown as a square drawn in the picture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matteroftrust.org/3041/film-united-nations-environment-program-world-environment-day-2005", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:3RSSSU7PXQ2W4UQEFJVSJFZ6UR7YPU72", "length": 837, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "matteroftrust.org", "title": "FILM \u2013 United Nations Environment Program \u2013 World Environment Day \u2013 2005 \u2013 Matter Of Trust", "raw_content": "FILM \u2013 United Nations Environment Program \u2013 World Environment Day \u2013 2005\nMatter of Trust was invited to join the San Francisco Department of the Environment in organizing festivities involving international and local participants.\nThe United Nation\u2019s Environment Programme asks that its annual World Environment Day (WED) be hosted by a different international city every year on June 5th. San Francisco, California hosted WED\u2019s first official Expo in the United States in 2005.\nThis fifty-five-minute documentary is a behind-the-scenes look including interviews with contributors to this event. A documentary was filmed and edited by Matter of Trust founder, Lisa Gautier, who coordinated with over 250 community groups providing environmental content for this week-long celebration. See our documentary on YouTube. 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The legal premise of the United Kingdom constitution \u2013 that the UK parliament is sovereign \u2013 is a fundamental part of our constitutional arrangements. This means that an Act of Parliament must be obeyed by the courts, that later acts prevail over earlier ones, and that the rules made by external bodies cannot override Acts of Parliament.\nThe application ofconstitutional due process is traditionally divided into the two categories of Substantive Due Process and procedural due process.\nSource: Rule of Law (World Treasures of the Library of Congress: Beginnings)\n\u2190 Report on Fact Finding Visit to London in November 2015 by Eight MEPs\nUnderstanding PTSD\u2019s Effects on Brain, Body and Emotions/ TED Talk \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 7690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 217.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mbc.school.nz/mbc-mgc-co-location", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7MAFPQ3TJGE3TPZBWLX234JVM6LNAQ5H", "length": 68, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mbc.school.nz", "title": "MBC & MGC co-location", "raw_content": "Marlborough Colleges Colocation\nhttp://www.marlboroughcolleges.co.nz", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 1350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 231.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mc34.com/who-to-work-with-on-next-event/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:21Z", "digest": "sha1:HNLSGZX4P6NI2JR5MBTAQZKHKJKSCNGP", "length": 3033, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "mc34.com", "title": "Who Should You Work With On Your Next Event? - The Manhattan Center", "raw_content": "Meet Tony Cimmino, Director of Events, Manhattan Center.\nHaving worked at Manhattan Center for 22 years, Tony can tell you a story or three. One of his favorites involves a certain high-maintenance Diva from the pantheon of Rock & Roll.\nShe had a simple request for Tony and his team:\nI WANT EVERYTHING IN WHITE! EVERYTHING!\nNow, The Hammerstein, considered one of the best event venues in NYC, is 12,000-square feet with a 75-foot hand-painted ceiling, two balconies and six opera boxes. So \u201ceverything\u201d is a big-time request. Even for a Diva.\nThen there\u2019s security, bathrooms, tables, glasses, utensils, carpeting, lighting, etcetera, all needing to be white. But Tony and his team were on their game\u2014or so they thought. Then, through the static on Tony\u2019s walkie-talkie came the call you don\u2019t want to get: \u201cShe wants to see the guy in charge right now!\u201d\nTony descended the stairs with a slight feeling of unease. A feeling that was confirmed as soon as he crossed the threshold into the dressing room.\n\u201cI wanted everything white!\u201d cried the Diva in residence. Tony, always composed, replied calmly, \u201cBut Ma\u2019am, everything is white\u201d. Well, not so fast Tony.\nThe Diva harshly points to a bowl of M&Ms that were the model of diversity. They were, indeed, not white.\nTony sent out his very best to scour the stores of mid-town Manhattan and, lo and behold, the offending coated candies were soon replaced with their pure-as-the-driven-snow counterpart. Diva Disaster diverted.\nOf course, Tony still had work to do. Checking on the ice and liquor supplies. The fire exits. The hundreds of other little things that could go wrong. Well, nothing did, and the event has gone down as one of the best ever staged at Manhattan Center.\nTony is ready, willing and very able to accomplish the same for you and your next event. With or without the M&Ms.\nMeet Pete Auslan, Director of Production, Manhattan Center.\nAs a kid growing up, Pete was the kind of lad who dreamed big. Like \u201cI-am-going-to-be-a-rock-star\u201d big. So he got real nasty at the guitar and a had a few brushes with fame. But fame being fleeting he taught himself how to be a sound engineer along the way.\nAnd we can presume he was a pretty good teacher because one day he found himself sitting behind the soundboard for Diana Ross in Amsterdam in a stadium filled with 60,000 hysterical fans. Touring with Diana and others like Jeffrey Osborne and Ashanti, he also learned a ton about lighting, stage design, TV production and a bunch of other stuff you need to get the gig he now has at Manhattan Center.\nA gig that recently found him chasing down some misaligned lights in the grid high above The Hammerstein, the iconic venue that\u2019s part of the Manhattan Center entertainment and hospitality complex. Most people wouldn\u2019t have even noticed. And the rest probably wouldn\u2019t have cared enough to bother. But that\u2019s Pete.\nAnd that\u2019s why you want him running production at your next event. 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We don\u2019t use\n$10 modified templates and pass them on to you for a huge mark up.\n10 Keyword SEO Package\n@ SGD488 per month\nSearch Engine Optimization or SEO has become a very popular term\nthese days, but it seems that many website owners don\u2019t understand the\ntrue meaning of this activity.\n@ SGD688/mth\nSocial networks are one of the fastest growing industries in the\nworld and businesses need to use them to validate their brand.\nThere is no doubt that getting the best mobile application development is not a simple task today. There are many mobile app development in Singapore, but not all of them are the same. The good news is that you can stay away from these problems if you choose MDSM Consulting a mobile app and enterprise web development company in Singapore that has built its reputation carefully in the last few years. We are glad to announce that our track record is outstanding and filled with positive reviews and successfully finished projects. As one of the leading app development solution companies in Singapore, we have managed to extend our client portfolio rapidly. We provide an extended selection of services to all our clients. With so many IT companies in Singapore, it is quite logical for some people to ask why they should choose MDSM Consulting over the others. If you want to find the answer, keep reading.\nMDSM Consulting has been operating in Singapore since 2010 offering high-quality, optimized software and hardware solutions to a wide range of industries. Our main goal is to help companies get the most from state-of-the-art technologies and incorporating IT discoveries into efficient, effective and modern IT solutions. With the help of our experienced and skilled programming teams, project managers and designers, we are able to provide an outstanding solution to all our clients regardless of their size.\nOur main strengths are Programming Services, Mobile App Development, and Infrastructure Design. However, we have helped many projects by providing a complete solution with our unique turnkey services like Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and analytics, email marketing, corporate identity and website development just to name a few.\nAt MDSM Consulting your requirements and needs are our top priority. We are focused on providing the most reliable and efficient solutions for businesses at the most reasonable rates. Feel free to send us as an email or call us at any time. We will be eager to schedule a meeting and talk the details of your valuable project as soon as possible. We are sure that once you try our service, you will become one of our loyal clients. It doesn\u2019t really matter whether you are looking for a complex enterprise corporate intranet or a simple website to enhance your brand identity, MDSM Consulting will become your one-stop shop for all these services.\nSome of the technologies we work with\nWe work with many different technologies such as PHP, Dot Net, ColdFusion, MYSQL, MSSQL and can consult you on what is the best technology for you project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://meadmavericksboosters.com/mhs-concession-stand/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBNV3POBFWLSHIR6U53PWHGGYOC4ZCD3", "length": 688, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "meadmavericksboosters.com", "title": "MHS Concession Stand | Mead Mavericks Boosters", "raw_content": "The Mead Mavericks Boosters operate the concession stands at Mead High School. We have an outdoor concession stand north of the football field and an indoor stand outside the main gymnasium.\nThe Boosters are responsible for stocking the concession stands prior to each home game. Teams or clubs can sign up to staff the stand with volunteers for a particular home game. The proceeds are split as follows: 50% to the group working concessions; 25% to the Boosters; and 25% towards restocking. The funds for the group who worked the concession stand are deposited into their School District account within two weeks.\nGroups should contact the Boosters Concessions Lead for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-ama-opposes-gag-reproductive-health.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:BB644Y7XX4SJOLUKEBGZGWKHSOCFGIAJ", "length": 1586, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "medicalxpress.com", "title": "AMA opposes proposed cuts, gag orders for reproductive health", "raw_content": "(HealthDay)\u2014The American Medical Association (AMA) strongly objects to the Trump administration's plan to withhold federal family planning funding from Planned Parenthood and other entities, according to a statement released by the organization.\nThe AMA says the cuts would impact the Title X program, which ensures that uninsured and low-income patients have access to basic, preventive reproductive health care, including birth control, cancer screenings, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment, and exams. This national program serves four million people each year.\n\"High-quality medical care relies on honest, unfiltered conversations between patients and their physicians,\" David Barbe, M.D., immediate past president of the AMA, said in a statement. \"Gag orders that restrict the ability of physicians to explain all options to their patients and refer them\u2014whatever their health care needs\u2014compromise this relationship and force physicians and nurses to withhold information that their patients need to make decisions about their care.\"\nThe U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is accepting comments on the proposed regulations through July 31.\nMore information: AMA Statement\nCitation: AMA opposes proposed cuts, gag orders for reproductive health (2018, July 31) retrieved 15 February 2019 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-07-ama-opposes-gag-reproductive-health.html\nMandate patient access to primary care medical records\nPhysicians' work should focus on personalized care, not transactional tasks\nIowa tweaks anti-abortion family planning program", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 7913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://medium.com/onfido-tech/machine-learning-101-be2e0a86c96a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:25Z", "digest": "sha1:TMIBS73D4ETCOH6TRAMNMUU7UB3HHOQZ", "length": 7272, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "medium.com", "title": "Machine Learning 101 \u2013 Onfido Tech \u2013 Medium", "raw_content": "In this blog post we\u2019ll briefly cover the following topics to give you a very basic introduction to machine learning:\nTraining machine learning models.\nOptimising parameters.\nDon\u2019t worry if you\u2019re not an expert\u200a\u2014\u200athe only knowledge you need for this blog post is basic high school maths.\nThe Oxford Dictionary defines Machine Learning as:\n\u201cThe capacity of a computer to learn from experience\u201d\nThe goal of machine learning is to come up with algorithms that can learn how to perform a certain task based on example data.\nHere\u2019s an example. Let\u2019s say we want to write a program to play the game Go. We could write this program by manually defining rules on how to play the game. We might, program some opening strategies and decision rules\u200a\u2014\u200athat it\u2019s better to capture a stone than not, for example.\nBut there\u2019s a problem. Programming these rules manually means that they can quickly become quite complex, and are limited by the strategies we as programmers can come up with. A better solution is to build machine learning algorithms. Machine learning can learn how to play Go based on examples and experience, just like humans would. This is what DeepMind did with their AlphaGo program, a machine algorithm based on deep learning that turned out to be so good, it won against the (human) Go world champion.\nMachine learning algorithms train models based on examples of labeled data. A machine learning algorithm typically defines a model with tunable parameters and an optimisation algorithm, as illustrated below. The model takes input in the form of data (x) and generates an output (y) based on the input data and its parameters. The optimisation algorithm tries to find the best combination of parameters so that given the example x the model\u2019s output y is as close to the expected output as possible. The trained model will represent a specific function f that given x produces output y. So: y=f(x).\nPipeline of training a machine learning model.\nThere are many ways to find the best combination of parameters so that the output y of model f is as close to the expected output as possible given input x. One way would be to try out all possible combinations of parameters and select the combination that gives the best results. This might work if there are only a limited number of parameter combinations, but for typical machine learning models that have thousands or even millions of parameters, it\u2019s completely impractical. Luckily (and thanks to the invention of 17th-century mathematician Newton), there\u2019s a much better way of finding the optimal solution for some types of models.\nNewton and Leibniz\u200a\u2014\u200ahttps://xkcd.com/626/\nThat invention of Newton is the derivative (also known more generally as gradient). The derivative of a function represents how the function changes with respect to one of its parameters, and points in the direction of the increase of the function. If we have a function f that has parameter p, then the change, df, of the function f with respect to the change, dp, of the parameter p is noted as df(p)/dp.\nDerivative (gradient) df(p)/dp of f(p) = p\u22c5sin(p^2) for different values of p.\nSo how can this derivative be used to make the model\u2019s optimisation more efficient? Assume that we have some data (x, t) so that input x corresponds to target t. This data is plotted as follows:\nLabelled data (x,t)\nIf we now want to create a model that best approximates target t for given input x for all given examples, then we can try to fit a straight line through the origin (this is also known as linear regression). This straight line can be represented by the function y=f(x) with f(x)=p\u22c5x where p is the only parameter of the model (note that p represents the slope of the line). This model can be represented visually as:\nRepresentation of our model y=f(x)\nTo find the parameter p so that y=x\u22c5p is as close to t for all given examples (x,t) we have to define a measure of \u201ccloseness\u201d in a mathematical way. This measure is also known as a cost function. A typical cost function for this problem is to sum the squared values of all absolute differences between target t and model output y: |t-y|\u00b2 for all examples (x,t). The final cost function becomes \u2211|t - (x\u22c5p)|\u00b2 where the sigma represents the sum. Because this example is quite simple, we can actually visualise this cost function easily for all parameters p:\nCost function for our example.\nTo find the best parameter p we need to minimise the cost function. Remember that our model has a parameter p, takes input x and produces output y. We can write this model as y=x\u22c5p. Since the cost is \u2211|t-y|\u00b2 we can substitute y, and also write the cost function as \u2211|t - (x\u22c5p)|\u00b2. If we want to minimise this function and make the outputs y as close to the targets t as possible, we can try out all possible values of p for each input sample (x,t) and select the value of p where the sum of the cost over all input samples is the lowest. Trying out all possible values of p in this case would be possible, but would soon become unfeasible the more parameters the model has. This is where the derivative comes into play. With the derivative, we can simply select a random starting parameter value for p, and start following the derivative in the opposite direction to find the lowest point on the cost function. This process of descending down while following the derivative (gradient) is also known as gradient descent. The process is illustrated below, where we start at p=0.3 and follow the gradient for 12 steps while improving the fit of the model to the data (line fitted on right figure). We stop fitting the model when the cost doesn\u2019t decrease much anymore, so the final parameter p found is 1.94 with cost 0.451. Note that the final line fits the data (x,t) much better than the initial line.\nGradient descent optimisation.\nThis, in essence, is what happens if we train a neural network model. However, more typical neural network models are made up of much more complicated functions than our y=x\u22c5p model. There is a large variety of neural network models, but typically they are all differentiable and can be optimised with gradient descent as we\u2019ve illustrated in this blog post.\nA typical neural network used in computer vision, for example, will consist of multiple layers. Each layer will have hundreds or thousands of parameters and will be followed by a nonlinear function. Having multiple layers in a neural network is where the term \u201cDeep Learning\u201d comes from. The benefit of using multiple layers in the model is that each layer can use the information extracted in the previous layer to build up a more complex representation of the data. It\u2019s because of this that neural networks have been shown to be so powerful, successfully trained to recognise cats in videos, recognise speech, and even play Atari video games.\nIf you\u2019d like to play around with small neural network examples, try Google\u2019s Tensorflow Playground, or if you\u2019re more technically minded and like to learn more, you can try to implement your own models with the help of my tutorial on how to implement neural networks.\nOnfido Tech\nStories from Design, Engineering, Product and Research at Onfido\nNever miss a story from Onfido Tech, when you sign up for Medium. Learn more\nNever miss a story from Onfido Tech", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 7990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mexicotours.review/puerto-vallarta-mexico-the-movie-predator-jungle-tour-1999/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LVPWUPXW6FJVP6QVAXGPN6E7IECAHH4T", "length": 2455, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mexicotours.review", "title": "Puerto Vallarta Mexico, The Movie (Predator), Jungle Tour 1999 | Mexico Tours", "raw_content": "Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas.[4] It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of an elite military rescue team on a mission to save hostages in guerrilla-held territory in an unspecified country in Central America.[notes 1] Kevin Peter Hall co-stars as the eponymous antagonist, a technologically advanced form of extra-terrestrial life secretly stalking and hunting the team. Predator was written in 1984, under the working title of Hunter. Filming ran from March-June 1986 and creature effects were devised by Stan Winston.\nThe film\u2019s budget was around $15 million. 20th Century Fox released it in the United States on June 12, 1987, where it grossed $59,735,548. Initial critical reaction was mixed; criticism focused on the thin plot. In subsequent years, critics\u2019 attitudes toward the film became positive, and it has appeared on a number of \u201cbest of\u201d lists and is now considered one of the best action films of all time.[5] It spawned three sequels, Predator 2 (1990), Predators (2010) and The Predator (2018). A crossover with the Alien franchise produced the Alien vs. Predator films, which includes Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007).\nCommitments by Schwarzenegger delayed the start of filming by several months. The delay gave Silver enough time to secure a minor rewrite from screenwriter David Peoples. Principal photography eventually began in the jungles of Palenque, Mexico, near Villahermosa, Tabasco, during the second week of March 1986, but most of the film was shot in Mismaloya, Mexico. Much of the material dealing with the unit\u2019s deployment in the jungle was completed in a few short weeks and both Silver and Gordon were pleased by the dailies provided by McTiernan. On Friday, April 25, production halted so that Schwarzenegger could get to his wedding on time, flying to Hyannis Port in a Learjet chartered by Silver. Schwarzenegger was married on April 26, 1986, to Maria Shriver, and honeymooned for only three days while the second unit completed additional lensing. The production resumed filming on May 12 and ended in late June 1986.\nAuthor: 30 Seconds in Missouri\nTags: 1999, Jungle, MEXICO, Movie, Predator, Puerto, Tour, Vallarta\nBeach Wedding & ATV Jungle Tour | Puerto Vallarta, Mexico\nPuerto Vallarta zipline atv mule jungle tour.\n#61. What To Expect on a San Blas MEXICO JUNGLE Boat Tour", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 6469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 127.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mfedock.movetomyrtlebeach.net/community/area/Hagley%20Estates%20-%20Pawleys%20Island/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:46Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4TNN3OC4IDXNT4IAJEICAYEFVK36AHC", "length": 1769, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "mfedock.movetomyrtlebeach.net", "title": "Hagley Estates - Pawleys Island Real Estate Listings", "raw_content": "Hagley Estates is one of the few ungated residential communities in Pawleys Island, SC. This community is 10 miles north of Georgetown, the county seat and 25 miles south of Myrtle Beach International Airport. Many residents of Hagley Estates enjoy overlooking the beautiful Intracoastal Waterway with the public beaches of Pawleys Island less than 1 mile from the main entrance.\nHagley Estates is one of those low country gems that shouldn\u2019t be overlooked! The community consists of a combination of paved and dirt roads which wind their way past marshes, century-old, moss-draped live oaks, lakes and the new Founders Club Golf Course until you reach the banks of the Waccamaw River. The community is home to one of the few public boat ramps along the Waccamaw River. Plus, there are no HOA fees for Hagley Estates residents!\nThe comfortably rustic community of Hagley Estates is a perfect choice for individuals seeking the laid back lifestyle of Pawleys Island. Home prices range from $200,000 to more than $1 million for riverfront homes. Home sites are priced from $89,000-$975,000, with home sites on wooded lots, some with golf course views, and others are riverside parcels. Just minutes away from the beach, Hagley Estates affords easy access to the Intracoastal Waterway from the Hagley boat landing.\nSearch Hagley Estates - Pawleys Island Homes for Sale\nToday's Market Trends for Hagley Estates - Pawleys Island *\nHagley Estates - Pawleys Island Listings Search\nHagley Estates - Pawleys Island New Listings (30)\nHagley Estates - Pawleys Island Foreclosure Listings (4)\nHagley Estates - Pawleys Island Short Sale Listings (1)\nHagley Estates - Pawleys Island Single Family Homes for Sale (284)\nHagley Estates - Pawleys Island Condos & Townhomes for Sale (168)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 7096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mgs-bridgebuilder.com/2018/09/03/to-friend-or-not-to-friend-on-facebook/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:32Z", "digest": "sha1:3HM7M3VMFYKDKMAYJXRKTFMDSKREXDDX", "length": 9724, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "mgs-bridgebuilder.com", "title": "To Friend or Not to Friend (On Facebook)", "raw_content": "I thought I\u2019d take a bit of a break from the Security+ over the three day weekend and discuss something that I\u2019ve gone back and forth with at every job I\u2019ve had: Whether or not you should friend your boss and work colleagues on Facebook.\nFacebook came out when I was in college, and I\u2019ve had kind of a fraught relationship with it. At one point, I deleted my account entirely due to harassment from another student in the graduate school. I only re-activated the account because my other friends used it to organize gatherings (which the harasser was not invited to). By that time Facebook had introduced the block user feature, which came in very handy to keep the harasser in check since he never had the nerve to actually harass me in any other way then while hiding behind a keyboard. But that initial experience definitely impacted how I use the platform.\nToday, I mainly use Facebook to keep in touch with family and friends. My family is located back in Michigan, as are most of the friends from high school I still keep in touch with. My college friends have scattered across the US, and I also have friends from college who are international and often traveling from country to country. Despite all of its flaws, Facebook is the easiest way to keep in touch with them all. I prefer to keep Facebook limited to these groups in part due to my past experience with it, and in part due to other factors I will discuss.\nBut once I joined the working world, I promptly found that having this type of \u201cKeep the personal personal\u201d view when it came to Facebook was not only not the norm\u2026it could lead to a lot of unnecessary drama. Here are some of my experiences trying to navigate these tricky waters.\nExperience 1: The Badgering Boss\nI hadn\u2019t been in my first after-college job very long before my boss started sending me friend requests on Facebook. My initial response was to ignore the requests. I did not know her very well, and after the experience with the harasser in college I had firmly decided not to friend people that I do not actually consider to be friends in real life.\nNot long after the requests started, my boss started asking about why I had not responded to her requests. Being young and less than confident in myself, I mumbled out something about not seeing it, but that I would check. I did not want to have conflict with my boss so soon after starting my job, especially since I was without a car in central Kansas and had literally no way to get back home if this job disappeared. I was completely at her mercy for my job, which paid just enough to have me go into low income forbearance on my student loans and make sure that the best eating I could afford was from the Dollar Store within walking distance of my rental.\nWhen I did not respond to the Friend request within a week, the passive aggressive comments started. \u201cOh, Maggie won\u2019t friend me. She must not like me!\u201d or \u201cMaggie must have something to hide! I wonder what it is!\u201d or \u201cYou must be looking for another job and that\u2019s why you won\u2019t friend me!\u201d and the like. After several weeks of these what I now recognize as bullying tactics, I finally relented and added her as a friend.\nI regretted it almost immediately. Not only did I feel the need to start censoring myself and my thoughts on my own profile because my boss could see them, I had to worry about things others might post. At one point, a misunderstanding between one of my good friends from college and my boss erupted into a Facebook Comment War, and I had to delete the post, apologize to my friend for my boss\u2019s behavior and try and explain to my boss that everything had been a misunderstanding. The stress from this event, combined with being under immense financial stress and completely isolated from any support system nearly caused me to relapse into anxiety attacks I had experienced in graduate school.\nI promptly removed my boss from my Facebook Friends list. Mercifully, this is when things had really started to go downhill at the office and my boss was too busy creating work drama to even notice I had removed her.\nExperience 2: The Work Frenemies\nIn my next job, feeling exhausted and anxious after the previous experience, I held off on Friending any of my new work colleagues on Facebook for as long as I could. I had gotten a bit more confident since my first experience and told them that I liked to keep my work life separate from my personal life, and for the most part they seemed to understand.\nI quickly began to realize that there might be a cost to this approach. The group I had joined was pretty cliquey; most of them had been in their positions for between 3-7 years together at that point. I was the definite outsider in the group, and I knew that I would need to try and fit in to survive and advance my career in this new workplace. Eventually I did add them to my Facebook Friends, but only after Facebook had released the Friends List feature where you could add people into groups and then control what things those groups could see.\nThe Friends List feature was a godsend for this situation. I felt like I didn\u2019t need to censor myself quite as much, because I could control what types of posts they would see. But they would still see that I had accepted their requests. I had hoped that this might help me be accepted more into the group, while at the same time allowing me to keep my own identity. Plus, the Friends List feature allowed me to not worry that my political beliefs as a bright blue dot in a deep red state would hurt my career if they discovered our different points of view.\nBy that time we were all Facebook Friends, and my teammates were acting on the platform like I was a part of the group\u2026.but I was most definitely not accepted as a part of the group in real life. Just one example: A teammate was in town for a project, I offered to take her to dinner. She feigned fatigue and said she was going back to the hotel after a long day being onsite with a client. My husband and I went out for dinner that night\u2026only to discover that same teammate also out to dinner at the same restaurant with two others from my department. To say it was an awkward situation would be an understatement. My husband was livid at their rude behavior and exclusion of me, but I convinced him not to say anything to them. Knowing they\u2019d been caught, they did reluctantly offer to let us join them, which I politely declined.\nOver the next few years, I matured in myself and in my role. My work performance was stellar and my clients and project teams gave me rave reviews, even requesting to work with me on different types of projects over others. My teammates acted like they were friends. But while I was succeeding in my job, I knew I was firmly outside the clique and I was very careful in how I interacted with them for my own sanity and the protection of my career and reputation. And I wasn\u2019t the only one who noticed the behavior.\nAt one point, my teammates exclusion of me from the group was so obvious at a company event that several people from another department came up to me and asked me if something was going on, because even they had noticed that my teammates were treating me like a modern day leper.\nMy decision to exclude my teammates from 90% of my activity on Facebook justified itself over and over again as I watched them and others gossip about people in the company based on what they had seen on Facebook. On several occasions, Facebook became a weapon that was used by people at varying levels against others. I was relieved that I had chosen to keep them at arms length, especially on Facebook, because I knew what I was dealing with. They were frenemies\u2026friends to your face but perfectly happy to stab you in the back if it could help them, and I was not willing to give them anything to help them take down myself or others.\nWhen I accepted a new job offer, before I had even put in my notice I immediately went on a Facebook purge, removing all of my team members from my Facebook. None of them noticed I was no longer connected to them. My old boss even commented that we would \u201cstay in touch on Facebook\u201d, not realizing that I had deleted her from my friends list three weeks prior. I am grateful for the experience of working in what was a truly challenging work environment because it taught me a lot about how to navigate the waters of workplace politics, and why Facebook and work shouldn\u2019t mix.\nShould You Mix Facebook and Work?\nUltimately, this is a decision that is up to you. Depending on how you see and use Facebook, it can be a good tool for connecting with people and getting to know them. This can be great for bonding and building a team. But if you are going to add your colleagues, it is a good idea to add them to a group or friends list where you can control what they can see.\nAs for myself, I continue to keep my private life separate from my work life. I have not Friended any teammates at my current job on Facebook; refreshingly I have not felt any pressure to. I continue to view the risks as not worth the rewards. Between the risk of your employer discovering information about you that could be prejudicial to your career advancement (think political beliefs, major health issues or other unprotected characteristics) to the risk of just general fights between friends and colleagues over a post or a joke, in my view it is far easier and more beneficial to keep a wall between your friends and your work.\nCategory: Career Management, Managing Your Risk\nTag: Facebook, Social Media, World of Business\nPrevious: Previous post: The Intersection of Organizational Threats and Process Design\nNext: Next post: Want Better Security? Try Crowdsourcing Your Security Controls!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 12561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mic.com/articles/1950/world-day-against-the-death-penalty-reflecting-on-europe-s-model", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7XLTV3LWDIXWSH3SJY5SP42WFUVEFLZ3", "length": 3781, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mic.com", "title": "World Day Against the Death Penalty: Reflecting on Europe's Model", "raw_content": "World Day Against the Death Penalty: Reflecting on Europe's Model\nBy Jonathan Dowdall | Oct. 10, 2011\nToday is World Day Against the Death Penalty, and major European officials used the opportunity to mark 14 years without a judicial execution on European soil. More so, they lamented the 58 countries which still retain the death penalty worldwide \u2014 most notably, the United States.\nThis occasion could strike a nerve with the U.S. \u2014 especially those who passionately debated the execution of Troy Davis. In fact, European nations still find the death penalty to be a controversial topic \u2014 but their ability to see past the debate and build a legal system on logic, not feelings, is commendable.\nFor all the self-congratulations, Europe also finds the death penalty a contentious and controversial topic. Those who believe Europeans are fundamentally opposed to the death penalty are wrong. Polling varies, but even the most optimistic picture is that the European public has mixed feelings about executing certain types of criminals.\nSome polls seem to show a net support for reinstating the death penalty, with a dividing line drawn between an anti-capital punishment Western Europe and a pro-capital punishment Eastern Europe. In far-right newspapers, absurdly high support for the death penalty can be found, and it is also understood that those who have been victims of crime increase their support for the death penalty substantially.\nThe debate for many revolves around the idea of justice: Does life-time imprisonment equate to the severity of murder or other potentially capital crimes? In many respects, those who argue imprisonment is \u201cpunishment enough\u201d are not always intellectually honest.\nFor instance, when the Lockerbie Bomber was controversially released from Scottish prison, Europeans joined the chorus of opposition. The fact that Libyan Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was diagnosed with terminal cancer \u2014 and thus eligible for release \u2014 didn\u2019t satisfy pundits, who essentially wished that al-Melgrahi\u2019s 2001 conviction would put the criminal out-of-sight forever. In other words, they wanted his life sentence to serve essentially as an execution; his release on humane grounds exposed their hidden pro-execution logic.\nSo how has Europe managed to resolve its death penalty debate?\nPrimarily by acknowledging that the very fact that the death penalty is so emotive justifies its abolition. Public opinion is not how a legal system works \u2014 public judgment and court-based justice are different things. Law is not supposed to be emotional.\nMoreover, European legal systems turned against capital punishment after high-profile convictions were found to have been unsafe or flat-out incorrect after the fact. If a legal system maintains someone is innocent until proven guilty, it has to maintain that a legal judgment could be over-turned at a later date. Executions, unlike judgments, cannot be undone, so are justifiably prohibited.\nFinally, the European model of abolishing capital punishment has clear human rights logic. That is, the European abolition of capital punishment reflects the recognition that the emotional feelings behind capital crimes can distort justice. A system that allows justice to be distorted by emotion is not abiding by the human rights principle of fair treatment for all.\nIt is thus down this legal path that Europeans, despite their internal disagreements, resolved to abolish the death penalty. The emotions that capital crimes evoke are understandable, and a desire for justice natural. But emotional law is bad law. Perhaps there is something to be taken from this European experience in the ongoing U.S. debate.\nPhoto Credit: dabnotu\nBy Jonathan Dowdall\nThree Reasons Why Europe Doesn't Care About Bin Laden's Death May 12, 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mikecampese.com/guitar-player-february-2010-string-skipping-loops/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:21Z", "digest": "sha1:4PTVSFY4UYFZATMEIDOMTFNYXDBKSVM7", "length": 2330, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mikecampese.com", "title": "Guitar Player February 2010 \u2013 String Skipping Loops | Mike Campese", "raw_content": "Home > Lessons > Guitar Player February 2010 \u2013 String Skipping Loops\nIn this lesson we\u2019ll check out some string-skipping ideas you can loop, as in continuously repeat. This is a techique I love to use in my music, and it is very good for your chops. Because the notation doesn\u2019t always include repeat signs, you\u2019ll have to use your imagination with some of these phrases.\nEx. 2 is based on the D Phrygian Dominant scale (D, Eb, F#, G, A, Bb, C). The concept behind this phrase is that the D pedal tone is played after each note. The phrase is based off an ascending four-note scale sequence and then a descending pattern in third intervals. This is a technique used in different types of music, especially classical. Be sure to start slow and then build up speed.\nThis next example, Ex. 2, is in the key of G major (G, A, B, C, D, E, F#). This is a string-skipping pattern that starts off with eighth-note triplets and then, in the 3rd bar, the same phrase is played with sixteenth-note triplets. The tempo is the same throughout, we\u2019re just changing the note value. This is great for developing your right-hand technique and to add some excitement to your playing.\nEx. 3 is another string skipping pattern, this time in the A Mixolydian mode (A, B, C#, D, E, F#, G). You will notice the same pattern repeats through the scale with a six-note pattern. The notation is written using straight sixteenth-notes, but also try converting this phrase into sixteenth-note triplets. I begin this pattern with an upstroke, so the right-hand alternate picking pattern will be up, down, up down, etc. You can experiment with the right hand picking that is comfortable to you.\nThe next couple of phrases in Ex. 4 sound real cool looped. In this example, we have a string skipping line that uses the B minor scale (B, C#, D, E, F#, G, A) with an added b5 interval, which would be a F note. You could think of this as a B minor scale mixed with a B blues scale.\nThe line in Ex. 5 is similar to the previous example, but now we will be skipping two strings and is also in the key of B minor. This moves across the neck very quickly, so be sure to follow the suggested fingerings.\nThere you have it. Don\u2019t be afraid to incorporate different rhythmic patterns to mix things up and practice these (and everything) with a metronome or a drum machine!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4298, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/06/11/construction-i-35w-downtown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:56Z", "digest": "sha1:Q52XFRVR5QSCYHUQ3RMLJ4AA7ESKTWIP", "length": 1060, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "minnesota.cbslocal.com", "title": "4-Month Construction Headache Begins For Southside Commuters \u2013 WCCO | CBS Minnesota", "raw_content": "4-Month Construction Headache Begins For I-35W Commuters\nFiled Under:Construction, Downtown Minneapolis, Local TV, Susan-Elizabeth Littlefield, Traffic\nMINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) \u2013 As of Monday morning, driving in Minneapolis is a bit more complicated.\nAll of the major southside exits from Interstate 35W into downtown \u2014 11th Street, Grant Street and 5th Avenue \u2014 are closed for construction.\nThey\u2019ll be closed for the next four months.\nWhile the morning commute Monday was congested, it wasn\u2019t a parking lot. In other words: it could have been worse.\nMegan Oelfke, who works at Target Corp. on downtown\u2019s Nicollet Mall, said that her drive was 10 minutes longer.\nThe Minnesota Department of Transportation is suggesting that commuters take alternate routes in and out the city, such as Highway 62 crosstown, Highway 100 and Interstate 394.\nAnother suggestion: Take the bus.\nMetro Transit has expanded service on 12 routes.\nThe downtown construction is part of a 4-year, $239 million project that is replacing 11 bridges and adding a major transit hub at Lake Street.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 9757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://missionalscore.com/pricing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:53Z", "digest": "sha1:QOKJFVGOSXPTMQZXKUUA5B4BXG52UFZ6", "length": 400, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "missionalscore.com", "title": "Pricing - Missional Score", "raw_content": "We offer an annual membership for Missional Score for only $99.\nWith your membership, you will have total access to all of our tracks, including new tracks every month. We will offer an auto-renewal with your membership, but of course you are free to cancel your membership anytime. We think that you will find Missional Score to be such a great value that you\u2019ll stay with us for many years to come!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://missworldsecurity.com/2013/01/04/blown-away/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:32Z", "digest": "sha1:BRZLGT3GLJ63J4SJ6B4QLQQYH3SLFXTQ", "length": 420, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "missworldsecurity.com", "title": "Blown away\u2026 | Miss World Security", "raw_content": "An amazing shot by Piotr \u015awiderski, taken in Poland. I found this shot on https://www.facebook.com/MagiaPodlasia?fref=ts. To find more awesome imagery take a look and like my facebook page! https://www.facebook.com/missworldsec\nThis entry was posted in Graffiti and Pics and tagged art, https://www.facebook.com/missworldsec, nature, peace, photography, Podlasie, Poland, travel, windmill, world. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mnlive.co.uk/threads/project-italy-project-charon-modified-viral-hemorrhagic-fever.5492/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:S432ET7LGZP7S54ULOS7PWSNAIZHB3SP", "length": 2206, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mnlive.co.uk", "title": "[Project] Italy - Project Charon - Modified Viral Hemorrhagic Fever | Modern Nations", "raw_content": "TYPE Research & Development\nPROJECT Project Charon - Modified Viral Hemorrhagic Fever\nPROJECT INFORMATION Project Charon is a modified strain of the Ebola Virus. This strain is modified specifically to be transmittable via aerosol (I.E. Coughing, Talking, Sneezing, Exhaling), ingested liquids (I.E. a cold drink.), and contact with any bodily fluids, including saliva. Furthermore, it's incubation period has been engineered to be far shorter than the original virus, and its effects on the body have been modified to be more damaging, and ultimately to create a higher likelihood of death.\nDue to these vast modifications, normal treatment options for Ebola and similar VHF (Viral Hemorrhagic Fever) diseases will see limited success, and in the worse cases may ultimately speed up the death of the patient/victim. In order to keep this virus from spreading beyond a given target area, the virus' genetic code is implanted with \"kill-switch genes\" ensuring that only a certain amount of reproductions chained from the original laboratory-produced virus will be effective, and eventually the virus will become a chunk of dead DNA code. Ultimately, only a chain of around 20 transmissions between hosts is sustainable (meaning, on average, with an R-Nought of 2, around 1,000,000 people could fall ill to the disease, if not properly detected and contained quickly, before the \"kill switch\" genes would render the virus harmless).\nThis virus is intended to be deployed via Aerosol-releasing canisters (no bigger than a bottle of Febreze or Lysol), or by removing the vial from the canister and directly applying to ingested liquids (such as someone's drink.)\nOfficially, research into this virus is being conducted in order to better prepare vaccines for possible use against Italy, though it certainly would be capable of being used for evil, should malevolent forces within Italy's military or scientific committee wish to use it for such. Furthermore, the King and the High Command of the Italian Military have not yet been read in to the existence of this virus, as it has been decided that they would most likely object to research being made, even justified as a an attempt to create better vaccines.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mokuska.com/2018/03/19/a-wrinkle-in-time-a-film-review-with-a-difference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:44Z", "digest": "sha1:AQWTVFSYVHYF46QGVO6CKAUMCZFBM55O", "length": 12110, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "mokuska.com", "title": "A Wrinkle in Time: A film review with a difference | MOKUSKA", "raw_content": "March 19, 2018 August 20, 2018 by Alexandra Roumbas Goldstein\nA Wrinkle in Time: A film review with a difference\na wrinkle in time, ava duvernay, film review, oprah winfrey\nIt\u2019s not every day you have to say \u201cno\u201d to meeting Ava DuVernay.\nHaving a full-time day job means I do have to decline quite a few of the invitations I get, but this one really hurt. And I was honestly really excited about seeing the film. Luckily, I had the perfect stand-in up my sleeve: web series whizz, producer, actor and writer Rochelle Dancel, who attended a roundtable with Ava and A Wrinkle in Time\u2019s lead actress, 14yo Storm Reid.\nRochelle was all set to guest post a film review here too, when another wonderful friend, blogging powerhouse Vicki of Honest Mum, asked me if I\u2019d like to stand in for her husband at the premiere of the film, along with stylist Lauren Jobling and the highly motivating Lucy Hird. Um, YES? Best of all, we\u2019d get to hear Ava and all the main cast (including ZOMG OPRAH) speak at a Q&A beforehand and I not-so-quietly died inside with happiness.\nSo this post, while containing a film review, is a little different. We\u2019ll look at our thoughts going in, what we thought of the film itself, and what we learned from the cast and director \u2013 so if you\u2019re just looking for film info, head for the middle bits. No spoilers.\nA culture shift\nRD: Admittedly, I was a little bit apprehensive about going to see this. I am clearly not the target audience, and I don\u2019t have kids. So the lens I naturally had through which to watch this was borne from everything I\u2019d read about it: strong female leads, directed by one of only a handful of women to have a $100m+ budget and, in the week I saw it, the first time two films helmed by African-American directors had the number 1 and 2 spots in the US box office (shoutout Black Panther). I think it\u2019s very difficult not to consider this film in the current social and political climate, which I\u2019m sure also had a part to play in the creative changes they made from the book e.g. the decision to create a blended family with adopted children from different ethnic backgrounds. But it all works. Regardless, I invite any grown-ups going to see it to leave all of that at the door, and bring their younger, teenage selves into the theatre.\nAG: I\u2019m pretty much fully in touch with my inner child \u2013 potentially more than my sensitive 7yo is. If I didn\u2019t love L\u2019Engle\u2019s source material \u2013 and I\u2019m afraid I didn\u2019t \u2013 I put this down to being 30 years a little too old when I read it, but that hadn\u2019t stopped me being really excited to see the film. I\u2019ll come back to the Q&A I saw directly before in a moment, but what really framed the viewing for me was the DuVernay asked everyone in the audience aged 6-16 to stand up. And then told them specifically that this film was for them, and invited the rest of us to put ourselves in their shoes. Sometimes it can feel like saying \u201cthis was made for kids\u201d is seen as negative \u2013 or it actively excludes adults from enjoying it \u2013 but I actually prefer for films to know who they\u2019re for. For example, my daughter and I both enjoyed Inside Out at the time, but neither of us have wanted to watch it again since because the more we look back at it the less we know what it\u2019s for; she found it a bit long-winded for kids, I found it a bit basic for adults.\nA brief history of A Wrinkle in Time\nBased on a much-loved children\u2019s novel from Madeleine L\u2019Engle, A Wrinkle in Time is the story of Meg Murry, whose parents are notable physicists \u2013 but whose ambitious work is greeted with incredulity when it seems to go too far. Meg\u2019s father disappears in the course of his research, and for four years his family \u2013 Meg, her mother and her brother, Charles Wallace \u2013 know nothing of how or why, making Meg angry and closed off. Just as it looks as if she\u2019ll have to accept he\u2019s never coming back, a trio of outlandish guides show up to suggest there could still be hope of unravelling the mystery and saving the day \u2013 if Meg can only find the strength in herself.\nRD: My favourite thing about this film is that our lead character isn\u2019t a superhero: she doesn\u2019t have to transform to be anything superhuman to do anything over and above what she has previously perceived herself to be. She\u2019s perfect exactly as she is, flaws and all, and I think that\u2019s a major point of difference from other films that may be thrown into the same category, especially for young people.\nAG: Yes! I would have killed for a female lead that was kind of nerdy when I was a kid. But even more for a girl who wears glasses and can\u2019t see without them and doesn\u2019t have to remove them to be \u2018beautiful\u2019. I know that\u2019s very specific, but seriously. It\u2019s so rare that the removal of glasses to reveal physical beauty has become a trope. Meg\u2019s physical appearance is almost entirely irrelevant except in terms of her being asked to accept herself as she is.\nI\u2019m all for films making proud statements, and I found myself wanting to stand up and clap as one theme after another was teased out \u2013 from facing the realities of teen life, to family dynamics, adoption, siblinghood and accepting the fallibility of the most loving parent. But there were lots of other things about A Wrinkle in Time I enjoyed that were purely dramatic. I thought the pacing was perfect, and I\u2019m a harsh judge of films that outstay their welcome. The central performances \u2013 especially Reid and Deric McCabe \u2013 were terrific. I can only imagine the skill it takes to coax such natural performances from young actors. It\u2019s also just really beautiful to look at. In many ways it reminded me of Tomorrowland, with its audacious scope and proudly female tone.\nRD: I also thought the young actors were amazing. At the roundtable, Ava described Deric McCabe as exuberant, and it truly is the perfect adjective for him. He is so fiercely committed to his character, and I am very much looking forward to seeing what he does in future. Of her lead actress, Ava said, \u201cStorm Reid is one of the most deeply feeling actors I\u2019ve ever worked with of any age \u2013 I compare here with David Oyelowo who played Dr King in Selma in terms of the depth of the way that she feels about her characters.\u201d I was immediately struck by the respect that Ava has for her young actors, and she went on to say that, as the director, she made sure that they knew they could try anything, and that she would be there to catch them. I think this reassurance shows in the final film: intuitive, confident and beautiful performances all around.\nAG: I have to acknowledge a couple of avoidable issues. One was chunks of surprisingly clunky dialogue \u2013 not at all what you usually get from a film co-written by Jennifer Lee (Frozen, Wreck-It Ralph), and it meant Mindy Kaling in particular suffered from not enough to do. My main familiarity with DuVernay\u2019s other work is 13th, a documentary, so I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s her usual feature-film style to get quite so vertiginous. I did see the film in IMAX, but I found the regular extreme close ups slightly queasy, and sometimes the technique seemed to undermine the intimacy instead of underscore it.\nRD: I enjoyed the concept of the Mrs characters; they\u2019re like a squad of fairy godmothers with whom you don\u2019t always agree or understand, but will come through for you in the end. I didn\u2019t find them entirely cohesive though. Reese Witherspoon was perfect: Elle Woods, having had a career change, in an alternate universe. I really wish that Oprah had had more screen time; she\u2019s always very reassuring, and both the actress and character did serve to ground the film in the little time she was there. Unfortunately, although I am a huge Mindy Kaling fan, I found that the majority of her dialogue \u2013 interjected quotes a la inspirational Instagram feed \u2013 made it really difficult to see her beyond two dimensions or connect her to the journey of the main characters.\nAG: On a parenting note, I\u2019d add that, while the themes are probably most strongly resonant for the middle of the 6-16 group, it\u2019s pretty friendly to the whole age range. I talk a lot about my daughter being a gentle soul \u2013 The Jungle Book was too much for her \u2013 but she\u2019s super excited to see Wrinkle and so far my judgement is that she\u2019ll be completely fine with it. The scariest bit is mostly implied (unless you have a phobia of trees or branches) and she\u2019ll probably miss some of the nuance there until she\u2019s older anyway.\nHearing from the filmmakers\nRD: As I\u2019ve worked with young actors, which means I\u2019ve met many parents, I asked Reid what her advice would be to parents whose kids wanted to get into acting, and I was totally floored by the maturity and insight of this response: \u201cI think that if I were to tell parents \u2013 well, you\u2019re not supposed to tell parents anything because you\u2019re supposed to respect them \u2013 but I would just say that, if your kid wants to do it, let them do it, and as long as they are having fun and they are enjoying it, they should be doing it, and if they\u2019re doing the right things at home and being good people then you should let them do it. If your kid doesn\u2019t have the same interests as you, then I don\u2019t think that you should force your kid into something because that\u2019s when they become resentful or that\u2019s not when they want to put 150% into something \u2013 and not only just acting.\u201d\nAG: Storm Reid. STORM REID. She was so immensely poised at the Q&A, talking about the reality of having to find strength inside yourself as a girl or woman in this world, and especially as a girl or woman of colour. Between that and Oprah\u2019s rallying cry to look for the positives \u2013 the uprisings, the revolutions \u2013 in every difficult and painful piece of political news, there wasn\u2019t a dry eye in the house. DuVernay also took the time to call out to the men in the room and ask them to stand up if they\u2019re good allies; you see that figure reflected in the character of Calvin, a model for how to fight for someone else and for change even when it looks like you\u2019re holding all the cards (and it takes time to show that all might not be as it seems).\nRD: So to sum up: the film isn\u2019t perfect. It is flawed. But in the same way that Mrs. Whatsit gifts Meg her faults, I think the film\u2019s flaws serve to highlight the film\u2019s strengths: courage, strength and beauty \u2013 enough of each to love it exactly as it is.\nAG: That\u2019s such a perfect summary, I\u2019m leaving it right there.\nA Wrinkle in Time is out in UK cinemas from 23rd March. Thank you to Disney UK for the opportunity to send Rochelle to the roundtable and a screening, and to Honest Mum and Disney UK for the chance to attend the European premiere and Q&A. All thoughts and opinions our own (apart from where we\u2019re quoting others, obviously\u2026).\n\u2190 Previous Post Why the most important character in Lady Bird wasn\u2019t Lady Bird.\nNext Post \u2192 Film review: Mary and the Witch\u2019s Flower\nHonest Mum\u00ae (@HonestMum) March 19, 2018 at 20:01\nWhat an incredible review Alex and such an important film. You are spot on about it being for children, I wish we\u2019d grown up with films inhabited and steered by powerful female leads like A Wrinkle In Time. Thank you for being Peter\u2019s stand-in and for making it a magical night x\nMe toooo! It was a magical experience; thanks for making me part of it! xx\nAlex Santos March 20, 2018 at 16:31\n\u201cMy favourite thing about this film is that our lead character isn\u2019t a superhero: she doesn\u2019t have to transform to be anything superhuman to do anything over and above what she has previously perceived herself to be.\u201d \u2013 YES, ROCHELLE DANCEL!!\nReview: Mumboss \u2013 Vicki Psarias | ALEXANDRA ROUMBAS GOLDSTEIN May 20, 2018 at 15:35\n[\u2026] I\u2019m late writing about this. The reasons are many, some of them I can talk about (a flurry of minor family illness, busy work, social obligations) and others aren\u2019t my story to tell so I will simply say\u2026 well\u2026 let\u2019s go for personal drama. The effects have drained me of both time and mental availability, so I\u2019m about 3 weeks later than I wanted to be to share my thoughts on this book, which was painstakingly and lovingly written by a friend of mine, Vicki of Honest Mum. (Yes, that Vicki.) 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It's also about food.\nSeveral companies are offering crazy promotions to try and attract hoops fans.\nDomino's (DPZ) has a 50% off deal on pizzas that are ordered through its online and mobile platforms. That lasts through Sunday ... when the 68 teams selected for the tournament will be whittled down to a Sweet 16.\nPizza Hut, which is owned by KFC and Taco Bell parent Yum! Brands (YUM), is going the nostalgia route.\nRelated: Domino's stock delivers\nIt's selling its signature stuffed crust pizza, which is now 20 years old, for an \"anniversary price\" of just $9.99. It even brought back former San Antonio Spurs legend David \"The Admiral\" Robinson to appear in an ad again like he did in 1995.\nPizza Hut is also running a contest that will give fans a chance to win a trip to the Final Four in Indianapolis and take a half-court shot backwards (since that's apparently how you're supposed to eat a stuffed crust pizza) for a chance at winning $1 million.\nNot to be outdone, Papa John's (PZZA) is bringing back its \"fan favorite\" (I'll take their word for it) Philly Cheesesteak Pizza. The company said in a release that it's \"just in time for the college basketball championship kick-off.\"\nI'm not sure what a Philly Cheesesteak has to do with basketball, especially since the top-seeded Villanova Wildcats were the only Philly school to make it to the Big Dance. (Poor Temple.) Also, shouldn't it be a tip-off instead of a kick-off?\nWill the sales and stocks of these pizza purveyors get a boost as a result of their March Madness stunts? Perhaps.\nIt's already been a good year for the companies. The three stocks have all outperformed the S&P 500 so far in 2015. The first quarter is typically a big one for these food chains.\nRelated: Inside Pizza Hut's test kitchen: Tasting some really weird pizzas\nThe Super Bowl is always a big day for them, and the beginning of March Madness is like the Super Bowl on steroids. There will be 48 games on TV starting on Thursday at noon through Sunday night, airing on CBS (CBS) and Turner Sports, which like CNNMoney is owned by Time Warner (TWX).\nStill, these companies (part of a restaurant stock Final Four if you will) may be big underdogs compared to Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD).\nThe sports bar chain is actually an NCAA corporate sponsor. It's billing itself as the \"official hangout\" of March Madness.\nA big part of the NCAA tournament's appeal is the social aspect.\nAnd by social, I am not talking about Twitter and Facebook. I mean analog social: actually going somewhere with a group of friends to watch the games live so you can exchange high-fives and hugs when your alma mater wins instead of texting a happy face and beer emojis.\nOf course, Buffalo Wild Wings recognizes the 21st century notion of social too. It's promoting #wingswisdom as a trending topic and also will have an online tournament tracker with \"reaction GIFs to major moments\" among other things.\nRelated: Buffalo Wild Wings CEO Sally Smith was one of the best execs of 2014\nThe company has done a phenomenal job of capitalizing on big sports events. It was a winner during last year's World Cup as well as the Super Bowl this year.\nThis success comes at a price, however. Shares trade at 30 times earnings forecasts -- a pretty expensive valuation.\nBut that's in line with the valuations for Domino's and Papa John's. 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Usmanov found a creative application for the medal: he donated it back to Watson. ;-)\nOne can't see into Watson's head but it was probably due to a combination of his increased need to get some money; and the decreased prestige that was apparently coming from that most well-deserved biology Nobel prize due to the harassment by the politically correct brownshirts.\nNow, The Daily Mail and Forward.com etc. tell us that Leon Lederman became the second living person in the history who sold the prize at auction (eight other Nobel prizes were sold after the recipient died). He received $765,002 for his 1988 Nobel prize in physics that he had shared with Schwartz and Steinberger for their discovery of the muon neutrino.\nLederman is 92 and he and his wife made the decision together after he received his diagnosis of dementia. The idea is that he may need the money for the medical bills now \u2013 I wish him good luck with that. Also, my understanding is that he only sold the medal now, the cash wasn't auctioned. He had spent the money to buy a vacation home in Driggs, Idaho, where he's been living permanently for years.\nLeon Lederman is known as the author of the term \"God Particle\" \u2013 actually coined by an editor who found \"Goddamn Particle\" too long. It was chosen as a title of his 1993 book promoting particle physics and the Superconducting Supercollider \u2013 that was killed just months later. In 1976, his E288 collaboration \"discovered\" Oops-Leon, too. It was a non-existent 6 GeV particle seen as a resonance decaying to the electron-positron pair.\nThat \"discovery\" was a fluke \u2013 one with less than two-sigma significance which wouldn't be considered enough later. (It's actually surprising to me that the required confidence level was so low in this \"nearly golden era\" of particle physics.) However, the discovery wasn't \"complete nonsense\". Quite on the contrary, the coming events showed that Lederman knew very well what kind of stuff may be expected to be discovered. Just a year later, in 1977, Lederman's E288 collaboration discovered a genuine particle that was almost the same, \\(\\Upsilon\\) (Upsilon), which is a 9.5 GeV bound state of bottom and antibottom. The name was reused from the previous \"discovery\".\nWhat would you say that is the actual value of the Nobel medal? I think that Lederman will never be replaced in the history textbooks and the minds of experts \u2013 so he has sold \"just\" the physical medal. He's showed it to everyone whom he knows and who wanted to see it. At some point, it is just a piece of a metal whose shape is generally known. From this viewpoint, $765,002 is a lot of money for 200 grams of (not the purest) gold. 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Those whose contributions to science were less important and who are less famous are probably more proud about the medal that they \"barely\" received. ;-)\nBefore he and his wife had the idea to sell the medal, he was making living from the fees from the beggars, homeless men, and pedestrians on the street who wanted to learn some particle physics while the Nobel medal was used as a toy for little kids.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://motorcyclespecs.co.za/model/Honda/honda_cb175.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:55Z", "digest": "sha1:45ZYKHJF6F52UIVBRHJ6AVUJXIG7PBL4", "length": 720, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "motorcyclespecs.co.za", "title": "Honda CB200", "raw_content": "The CB175 was a standard motorcycle made by Honda from 1969 to 1973. 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In the early summer of 2014 his single \u201cThe Letter\u201d was released on iTunes with word that Jo was working with multiple producers in the Philadelphia area preparing for another project set to be released in 2015.\nHe is currently in the recording process working on an EP which will include original songs such as \u201cEggshells\u201d and \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go\u201d which at this time can be seen on Jo\u2019s Youtube page.\nFor more information on Jo Stones, check out the following All Access interview:\nWhat\u2019s a typical day like for you lately? How often do you spend working on your music?\nAt this point, I like to have a checklist of what I have to get done written out the night before. In the morning I make my coffee and sit at the piano and just fool around with whatever music comes to me. The mornings are the most creative time of day for me, and I usually wind up with a tune that I just enjoy playing that I\u2019ll come back to throughout the day. In between that, I try my best to meet any of the \u2018plans\u2019 for that day. If I do just one thing that I wanted to get done then I consider that day a success.\nGrowing up, was music always a big part of your life? Has your family always been supportive of this passion?\nMusic has always been a constant in my life. I was lucky to grow up in a household that never tried to stop me from expressing myself, except at the dinner table of course. That was the only time my family could get me to shut up (most days) in regards to singing. My mother has always been my number one fan and still is, even more-so than when I was a kid. She always pushed me to pursue music and singing, she bought all of my pianos through the years and was so thrilled when I chose to attend Westminster Choir College for singing.\nDo you think music and creating music has helped you and your new-found sobriety? How do you think being sober has changed the way you create music or ultimately think about music?\nGetting my second D.U.I. and hitting rock bottom was the driving force behind putting this album together. At the same time, I realized my alcoholism was the only thing keeping me from taking my performing and songwriting career serious enough to even consider it a career instead of a hobby. Music is the web that holds it all together for me, it is my sanity in this new chapter of my life.\nThere\u2019s been a huge change in not only the vibe of my music but in the intention behind each song. I find that the subject matter comes second to the main message behind my songs, which is that no matter the situation, find the beauty, look outside of the \u2018pressure\u2019 of the moment to see the lessons and growth that comes out of any experience. One of the lyrics from my song \u201cWhile You Can\u201d is \u201cnothing is defeating, play the game of life as if no one is competing\u201d and I think that\u2019s an example of that message.\nYou have mentioned that you hope your debut album, \u201cUnder The Influence\u201d gives a message of strength. What songs do you think are particularly hopeful? Essentially, how do you think your album gives off this message?\nI find both joy and strength in knowing that every single moment, situation, and experience in this life is a lesson to be learned. Sometimes it takes longer to learn that lesson and this is when we see patterns of repetition, the same drama with a different face. The strength comes from just accepting, acknowledging, and moving on or letting go, which is the main theme throughout the album.\nThe song \u201cShades of Grey\u201d (not to be confused with those naughty novels) tells the story of a woman close to her 90\u2019s who\u2019s eyesight had deteriorated to the point where she was only able to see shadows and vague shades of light. What inspired me to write the song, however, was the brightest and most genuine smile and the sense of positivity that she radiated. She wasn\u2019t sulking in her situation. She accepted it and because of that was able to embrace the joy and love that surrounded her. She found beauty in the chaos.\nWhat songs are you most proud of on \u201cUnder The Influence\u201d?\nI\u2019m always so excited when I play the first song from my album \u201cOff My Mind\u201d. I think it takes the listener down many different avenues and the same goes for the last song \u201cSay Don\u2019t Go\u201d. Both are the longest songs on the album as well. They\u2019re basically the bookends of the album, giving you a taste of who I am, a bit of my attitude, a bit of my love \u2013 especially for the piano, and a huge chunk of my soul.\nTell me about the Songbird Competition that you were in. What was that experience like for you?\nSongbird is an American Idol styled singing competition in Philly\u2019s gayborhood. I won the first season of the competition and grew so much during that period not only in my confidence, but in my willingness to take risks and giving my all even when I knew I was going to forget the words (which I did often) which gave me a chance to work on my improvisational skills. It was a chance to find my own stage presence without the security of sitting at a piano. I went into the competition a long haired \u2018Jo Jo Walsh\u2019 and came out a buzzed \u2018Jo Stones\u2019.\nHow has being from New Jersey influenced your music?\nI\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s influenced my music in any particular way, but living a train ride from both NYC and Philly definitely has its benefits. I grew up in a suburb with no real music scene, so most of my influence comes from my experiences from attending and playing open mics and shows in Jersey but mostly Philly.\nWhat musicians have consistently inspired you and your music? Who would you love to work in the future? Who would be your dream duet partner?\nGrowing up and still to this day, I have always been so fond of Tracy Chapman. Even through the heavy traffic of fame she embodied a sense of stillness and stayed true to her art. Thom Yorke is another inspiration but more so musically and in his ability to be daring and trusting in his work, again without falling apart and losing sight of his passion. I\u2019d Love to make an EP with Yorke and Anthony Gonzales from M83! That would be EPIC! As for duets, I\u2019ve always loved Alison Krauss\u2019 voice, I\u2019d be honored to sing alongside her.\nSo far, what do you think has been your biggest accomplishment to date?\nAdmitting to myself that I was powerless in my addiction and taking the first steps towards recovery. It was the easiest thing to do- not being true to myself, but since I\u2019ve been able to really dedicate myself to sobriety and become aware of the strength that we all possess, my life has become worth living.\nWhere do you see yourself in 10 or 20 years?\nHonestly, I\u2019m all about living in the present moment and I don\u2019t see a use for worrying or planning for that far down the road. I\u2019d love to be alive, happy, and pursuing some avenue of music with the intention of just expressing myself. I want to be honest, productive, and really truly alive.\nWhat else would you like our readers to know about you or your music?\nI believe strongly that we are all one, and that we are all in this together. Releasing this album is just one example of what can be accomplished when you go with the flow of life instead of against it. 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I did it!!\nOkay\u2026 all I\u2019m sayin\u2019 is\u2026 I DID IT! I was in some serious pain and I really believed I was not going to be able to go out with the kids trick-or-treating\u2026 but I ate some food, put my shoes on and I walked out the door.\nSo let me backtrack a bit. I went to my daughter\u2019s soccer game in the afternoon and thought I was going to have to go to bed on the way home from that. I was almost in tears on the way home, my body hurt so bad. I just took some deep breaths and when I got home, I sat down and relaxed for about 20 minutes before folks started coming to the house.\nAs family and friends came over and we started to get the food out and the kids started to get ready, I started to get excited and at the same time really nervous\u2026 \u201cwould my body fail me\u2026 would I just go for it and pay later...\u201d\nMy sister-in-law drove over the hill from Santa Cruz, bringing with her my 11-year-old niece and 3-year-old nephew\u2026 God bless her for that!\nAs we all stepped out the door to go trick-or-treating, the thoughts going through my mind\u2026 \u201cplease don\u2019t make me have to call my husband to pick me up\u2026 body, please don\u2019t fail me now\u2026 just let me have fun on this Halloween night!\u201d\nMy nephew kept me laughing for the next hour and a half as we walked the neighborhood. He was sooooo excited, his excitement and happiness from the night just overflowed and had me smiling and laughing!! He ran from house to house to house and told us every piece of candy he got from each house. He was first at the door in front of the big kids. He said \u201cTrick-or-Treat\u201d, \u201cThank You! Happy Halloween!\u201d at every single house without being told. He knew to only go to the houses with the lights on, he told us which houses to go to\u2026 he carried that bag of candy by himself and did not complain ONE TIME! Man! I was in awe of this child\u2026 how can we bottle up that joy? At the end his bag of candy had to weigh at least 1/2 his body weight! He carried it like Santa carries his bag of toys, slung over his shoulder\u2026\nSo\u2026 yes\u2026 I am celebrating the fact that I walked the neighborhood and didn\u2019t have to be picked up!\nMostly, I am celebrating the fact that I have this little angel to be thankful for, that made me so happy and allowed me to enjoy Halloween for another year.\nThis entry was posted in Chronic Pain, fibromyalgia, Halloween and tagged Chronic Pain, fibromyalgia. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 sleep\u2026 what does that feel like?\ndon\u2019t give up! my experience getting into the level 2 pain program\u2026 \u2192\n2 thoughts on \u201ci did it\u2026 and i\u2019m gonna celebrate it!!\u201d\nKim | November 3, 2009 at 2:14 pm\nWhat a great accomplishment! As someone who deals with chronic pain I have such an appreciation for Victory and such empathy for your trepidation. Having that little ball if energy spur you on is just so cool. Adorable picture by the way. And Keep it up- Way to Go!!!\nmyfoggybrain411 | November 3, 2009 at 3:44 pm\nThank you! I appreciate you taking the time to comment. I have to keep reminding myself\u2026 and all my fellow chronic pain, fibromite and cfs friends to celebrate our wins no matter how big or small!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 7100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myingmag.com/columns/celebrating/cinco-de-mayo-the-importance-of-celebration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PPEGGXMZQTHJR73POCUIXITJUCAU4XGJ", "length": 2524, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "myingmag.com", "title": "Cinco de Mayo: The Importance of Celebration \u00bb Ing Magazine", "raw_content": "Cinco de Mayo: The Importance of Celebration\nWritten by Allison Bertram on April 1, 2018 . Posted in CELEBRATing\nIt\u2019s May 5. You and your friends are stumbling down the streets of East Lansing, wearing sombreros after a tequila-filled party. You wonder to yourself, \u201cwait, what are we celebrating again?\u201d\nIt\u2019s time that we, as adults, do some research on non-American holidays we choose to celebrate. Although May 5, 1862 was an important day for Mexico, it\u2019s not actually Mexican Independence Day (officially celebrated on September 16), which many people assume.\nAccording to the History Channel, newly elected Mexican President Benito Ju\u00e1rez negotiated debt payments with Spanish and British troops in 1861, after years of financial strife in his country. France also awaited payments, but Napoleon III decided to try and make an empire out of Mexican territory. The French invaded Veracruz, Mexico later that year, forcing Juarez and his government to retreat.\nThe tables turned in Puebla, Mexico on May 5, 1862. The Mexican military had only 2,000 men compared to France\u2019s 6,000, but still achieved the unlikely victory; France lost 500 men while Mexico lost fewer than 100. Can you say, underdog?\nA victory like this deserves celebration for sure, and we at ing Magazine want everyone to know exactly what they\u2019re celebrating on May 5 and how to mindfully celebrate.\nCultural appropriation is defined by the Cambridge Dictionary as, \u201cthe act of taking or using things from a culture that is not your own, especially without showing that you understand or respect the culture.\u201d Sure, margaritas and sombreros are fun, but what do they really highlight: a victory or a misrepresentation of culture?\nSharing cultural aspects across the world can help connect people through their differences, but the connection becomes weak or dies when we don\u2019t take into account what we\u2019re actually doing. Mexico doesn\u2019t recognize Cinco de Mayo as a national holiday and the city of Puebla only recognizes it through military reenactments. When attention is put on tequila and colorful hats, rather than the historical positivity behind that event, we\u2019re doing it wrong.\nSo on this May 5, try not to have a Napoleon complex. Chill on the sombreros and have a drink at your favorite local authentic Mexican restaurant in honor of the underdog.\nValentine\u2019s Day Abroad: A peek into what the \u201cday of love\u201d looks like around the world\nGraduation Do\u2019s and Don\u2019ts\nCelebrating Local Businesses: Fiesta Charra\nStreet Tacos and Humble Beginnings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mysticpost.com/2018/07/medjugorje-is-la-verita-the-real-reason-why-our-lady-chose-the-second-day-of-her-appearance-to-be-her-anniversary-date/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:40Z", "digest": "sha1:66OJ7XXQ5X5Y6HZUW5KCNV6O7BKVAV4S", "length": 27315, "nlines": 82, "source_domain": "mysticpost.com", "title": "Medjugorje is \u201cLa Verita\u201d \u2013 .. The Real Reason Why Our Lady Chose the Second Day of Her Appearance to Be Her Anniversary Date \u2013 Mystic Post \u2013 Medjugorje", "raw_content": "Medjugorje. For 37 years, Our Lady has called humanity to peace and to the love of God\n37 years of peace and hope: the feast of the Queen of Peace is celebrated (a feast that is not yet officially recognized, but it is still possible to celebrate the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary). In the \u2018alleged\u2019 appearance of February 2, 1982, Our Lady said: \u2018I would like the Feast in honor of the Queen of Peace to be celebrated on June 25\u2019; just that day the faithful went for the first time on the hill!\nWhile we await the report and the indications of Pope Francis in joy and prayer, we propose this \u2018Special\u2019 from the town of Bosnia Herzegovina, known throughout the world for the possible apparitions of Our Lady. According to the testimonies of the visionaries, the Virgin appeared on the hill of Podbrdo. From that day Medjugorje has changed. It was a village of shepherds, while now pilgrims come from all over the world: two million a year, six hundred thousand Italians.\nMedjugorje at the beginning of the apparitions was a small unknown village, not even marked on maps. Now it is one of the best known locations in the world. Medjugorje means \u2018land between the mountains\u2019, in fact it is located on the edge of a small plateau, surrounded by hills. It is located in the municipality of Citluk, about thirty kilometers away from Mostar (Herzegovina), and the village is also home to a parish run by the Franciscans in the province of Herzegovina. This parish belongs to the diocese of Mostar and includes, in addition to Medugorje, also the hamlets of Bijakovici, Miletina, Vionica and Surmanci. It has a beautiful church, with three naves, completed in 1969, and three other churches.\nPODBRDO: THE HILL OF APPARITIONS\nAccording to the story of the 8 visionaries above Mount Crnica, in the locality of Podbrdo, in the village of Bijakovici, the Madonna appeared on June 24, 1981. At the precise spot indicated by the visionaries as the place where Our Lady appeared to them a large wooden cross was erected, placed on a pile of stones now blackened by the smoke and wax of candles, lit continuously. At the edges of the clearing, in the cracks between the rocks, you can see many other small crosses, some with the crucified Christ hanging, others without: sacred images are attached to the crosses or sheets of paper on which are hand-written by the many who have passed hence, requests for grace, prayers or other; or there are hung coronets, collanine, flowers, photographs, ex votos in general.\nOther more improvised and crafted crosses, built by twining two sticks or twigs or even two stalks of grass, tied together at the crossing point with a ribbon or a thread, appear everywhere, on the bare stone or in the thorn bushes.\nOver time, at the foot of the Podbordo, another small corner of prayer has arisen whose name is given by the blue color of the wooden cross that some have placed in the place where the Madonna appeared in the first days of the apparitions, when it was not possible to go to the hill because of the police ban. Today, apparitions occur here to Ivan and his prayer group (every Tuesday and Friday) and to Mirjana (the second day of the month). At the Blue Cross, especially on certain solemnities, there are present some thousands of people since at that place at the foot of Podbrdo it is easily accessible from the road, even for elderly and sick people.\nThe other mountain that makes a corner with the Crnica was once called Sipovac (540 m in height), but since 1933 it has taken the name of Krizevac, because of a large concrete cross raised on top by the parishioners to honor the 1900s years of death and resurrection of Christ. Since then every year for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, which is celebrated here on the Sunday after the Nativity of Mary (September 8), up to 70,000 pilgrims gather around the Eucharist. The cross of Krizevac is dear to God, as Our Lady revealed in the message of August 30, 1984: \u2018Dear children, even the cross was part of God\u2019s plan, when you built it \u2026 Go to the mountain and pray before the cross. I need your prayers\u2019. On the cross are engraved the words: \u2018To Jesus Christ the Redeemer of the human race, as a sign of faith, love and hope, in memory of the 1900th anniversary of the Passion of Jesus\u2019 and a relic from Rome has been inserted for the occasion: a little piece of the cross that Christians consider the one on which Jesus Christ was crucified and whose main part is preserved in the church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome. Many people right on this mountain have found peace and their own way that leads to God. To get to the foot of the cross you have to go along a path much steeper, more difficult and longer than that of Podbrdo. Just by climbing up the steep path that leads to the summit, the pilgrims began to celebrate the devotional practice of the Via Crucis and so, on either side of the path, fourteen simple crosses marked with Roman numerals were placed, which serve as stations. The Virgin follows Jesus and we too along the way of life.\nBeginning of the apparitions (1981)\nOn June 24, 1981 at 6.00 pm, six young people from the parish of Medjugorje, Ivanka Ivankovic, Mirjana Dragicevic, Vicka Ivankovic, Ivan Dragicevic, Ivan Ivankovic and Milka Pavlovic, saw on the hill Crnica, in the place called Podbrdo, an apparition, a white figure with a child in her arms. Surprised and frightened, they did not approach her.\nThe following day at the same time, on June 25, 1981, four of them, Ivanka Ivankovic, Mirjana Dragicevic, Vicka Ivankovic and Ivan Dragicevic, felt strongly attracted to the place where, the day before, they saw what they recognized as the Madonna.\nMarija Pavlovic and Jakov Colo joined them. The group of visionaries of Medjugorje was thus formed. They prayed with Our Lady and talked with her. Since that day, they have had daily appearances, together or separately.\nOn June 24, 1981 at about 6 pm the following young people: Ivanka Ivankovic, Mirjana Dragicevic, Vicka Ivankovic, Ivan Dragicevic, Ivan Ivankovic and Milka Pavlovic saw, in an area called Podbrdo (on Mount Crnica), a young and beautiful woman with a baby in her arms. That time she did not tell them anything, but only motioned them with her hand to approach. But the children, astonished and frightened, did not approach at all, although they immediately thought it was the Madonna.\nOn the second day, June 25, 1981, the children all at the same time went again to the place where the Madonna appeared to them the day before, hoping to see her again. Suddenly a light flashed. Together with it the children saw the Madonna, but without the child in her arms. She was indescribably beautiful, radiant and smiling. With her hands she gestured them to approach. They took courage and approached her. Immediately they fell on their knees and began to recite the Our Father, the Hail Mary and the Glory Be, and Our Lady prayed with them, with the exception of the \u201cAve Maria\u201d. After the prayer, she started talking to the children. Ivanka immediately asked her about her mother who had died two months before. Mirjana asked the Virgin a sign to make it clear that they had not lied and were not crazy, as some claimed.\nAt the end the Madonna took leave of the young people with the words: \u2018Goodbye, my angels!\u2019 To the children\u2019s question, that is, if she would appear again the following day, she answered with an affirmative nod.\nAccording to the testimony of the children, the whole scene had been indescribable. That day on the spot where they had seen the Virgin the day before were not present Ivan Ivankovic and Milka Pavlovic. In their place were Marija Pavlovic and Jakov Colo. From then on the six children, according to their testimony, the Virgin appears regularly. Milka Pavlovic and Ivan Ivankovic who were together with the other seers on the first day, have not seen her since although they later joined the others hoping to see her again.\nOn June 26, 1981, the children could hardly wait until 6.00 pm, the hour when the Virgin had appeared before them. They went again to the same place to meet her. They were very happy, but that happiness was a little mixed with fear due to the uncertainty that still prevailed over all this.\nBut despite all, the children felt an inner strength that attracted them to the Virgin.\nWhen they were still on their way, a light flashed rapidly three times. For them and for the others who followed them this was the sign that made them understand where Our Lady was. This time something more appeared than in the previous days, but in the meantime the Virgin had suddenly disappeared.\nBut when the children began to pray again she reappeared and she was wonderful, serene, happy and smiling.\nLeaving the house, on the advice of some elderly women, a man from the group who had gone with the children to the apparitions had brought with him some holy water so that the children could use it to sprinkle the apparition and in this way put themselves at the shelter from satan. Once in the company of the Virgin, Vicka took the water and began to sprinkle, saying: \u2018If you are the Madonna stay with us, if you are not, go away!\u2019.\nHearing this the Virgin smiled and stayed with the children.\nThat same day, once the children left Podbrdo, the Virgin appeared again, but only to Marija and said: \u2018Peace, peace, peace and only peace!\u2019 The cross was behind her.And with tears in her eyes she repeated twice: \u2018Peace must reign between God and men and in the midst of men!\u2019 This point is located about halfway up the road leading to the site of the apparitions.\nOn June 27, 1981, the Virgin appeared to the children three times. Several questions were addressed to her, which she answered. Regarding the priests she said: \u2018May the priests firmly believe and protect the faith of the people!\u2019\nAgain Mirjana and Jakov asked her to leave a sign because it had been implied that the children were crazy or drugged. The Virgin replied to them: \u2018Do not be afraid of anything!\u2019\nBefore saying goodbye, when asked if she would come again, the Virgin nodded affirmatively. As they descended from Podbrdo, the Virgin appeared to them again and took leave of the children with the words: \u2018Goodbye, my angels! Go in peace! \u201c\nOn June 28, 1981, as soon as it was time, countless people came from everywhere.\nAt midday there were fifteen thousand people. That same day the parish priest, Fra Jozo Zovko, questioned the children about what they had seen in the previous days.\nAt the usual hour the Virgin appeared again. The children prayed with her and again asked heru some things.\nFor example, Vicka asked her: \u2018My Madonna, what do you want from us?\u2019 and again \u2018My Madonna, what do you want from our priests?\u2019 and she replied, \u2018Let the people pray and believe truly!\u2019 and, concerning the priests, she replied that they really had to believe and also help others in this sense.\nThat day the Virgin came and left several times. On one occasion the children asked her why she did not show up in the parish church where everyone could see her, but she answered:\n\u2018Blessed are those who without seeing will believe\u2019. Although the day was muggy and people were asking a lot of questions, the children felt like they were in paradise.\nOn June 29, 1981, the children were taken to Mostar for a medical examination and after the exams they were declared healthy. The responsible doctor declared the following: \u2018The crazy guys are not the children, but those who brought them here\u2019.\nThat day on the mountain of apparitions the crowd was more numerous than ever. When the children came to the usual place and began to pray, the Virgin appeared to them immediately. On that occasion she invited everyone to believe: \u2018May the people truly believe and not fear anything!\u2019\nThat same day the doctor who had followed the children and observed them at the time of the apparition, felt the desire to touch the Madonna and when, at the request of the children, with his hand touched her shoulders he felt like a shiver that crossed it. And he who was not a believer recognized later and said: \u2018There is something miraculous here!\u2019\nThat same day Our Lady miraculously healed a child, Danijel Setka, whom his parents had led there, asking that he be healed. She promised, on condition that parents prayed, fasted and really believed. At that point, the child was healed.\nOn June 30, 1981, two men proposed to the children to go with them for a ride in the car; in fact, their goal was to go far from the place of the apparitions and to hold them until the time of the apparitions would have passed. However, although the children were far from Podbrdo, at the usual time of the apparitions, as if feeling an inner push, they asked to get out of the car. They went down and prayed and the Virgin from the Hill of the apparitions, many kilometers away from Medjugorje, came to meet them and recited with them seven Our Father\u2019s \u2026 So the deception of those men did not succeed. Immediately after, the police began to prohibit access to Podbrdo, the place of the apparitions. The children, and later not even to the crowd, were allowed access to that place. But the Virgin continued to appear to them in secret places, in their homes, in the countryside. The reassured children spoke openly with the Virgin and willingly listened to her advice, admonitions and messages. All this continued until January 15, 1982.\nMeanwhile, the parish priest had begun to call pilgrims to church to participate in the Rosary and the celebration of the Eucharist. Even the children came and recited the Rosary. Here, too, the Madonna appeared to them sometimes. The same parish priest, Fra Jozo Zovko once, while reciting the rosary, saw the Virgin and interrupted the prayer and spontaneously began to sing \u2018Beautiful! You are beautiful, Virgin Mary\u2019. The whole church understood that something unusual was happening. He later declared that on that occasion he had really seen Our Lady. And he who until then had not only had doubts, but had been opposed to the rumors about the apparitions, became their proponent and continued to bear witness to the point of being imprisoned.\nFrom January 15, 1982 the children saw the Madonna in an area near the church and this was granted to them by the parish priest because of the recent difficulties and dangers. The Virgin had already previously consented.\nFrom April 1985, at the request of the diocesan bishop, the children abandoned this space which was the site of the apparitions in exchange for a small room in the parish rectory.\nFor all this period of time, since the beginning of the apparitions to date, there have been only five days the children have not seen Our Lady.\nThe Virgin has not always appeared in the same place and her apparitions have not always had the same duration. Sometimes only for a couple of minutes, sometimes hours. In addition, the Virgin has not always appeared when the children wanted it. Once they prayed and waited, but the Virgin did not appear at that hour, nor later, in an unexpected way. Sometimes she appeared to some and not to others. If she had not previously promised to appear at a certain time, no one was able to predict if or when shet would appear. She not only manifested to the seers, but also to other people of any age, culture, race or interest. All this makes us understand that the apparitions are not controlled by man, and does not depend on time, place, desire or prayers of the seers and the people, but only by the will of who appears.\nThe 6 visionaries of Medjugorje\nJakov Colo was born on March 6, 1971 in Sarajevo. He had daily appearances from June 25, 1981 to September 12, 1998. That day, entrusting him with the tenth secret, the Virgin told him that throughout his life he would have an apparition once a year, on Christmas Day, December 25. Jakov is married, has three children, and lives with his family in Medjugorje. The intention of prayer entrusted to him by the Virgin: for the sick.\nIvan Dragicevic was born on May 25,1965 in Bijakovici, a hamlet of Medjugorje. He still continues to have daily appearances. The Virgin revealed nine secrets to him. Ivan is married, has four children, and lives with his family in the United States and in Medjugorje. The intention of prayer entrusted to him by the Virgin: for the youth and for the priests.\nIvanka Ivankovic-Elez was born on June 21, 1966 in Bijakovici, a hamlet of Medjugorje. She was the first to see the Gospa. Until May 7, 1985, she had daily apparitions. On that day, entrusting her with the tenth secret, the Virgin told her that throughout her life she would have an apparition every year on the anniversary of the apparitions, on June 25. Ivanka is married, has three children, and lives with her family in Medjugorje. The intention of prayer entrusted to her by the Virgin: for families.\nMarija Pavlovic-Lunetti was born on April 1,1965 in Bijakovici, a hamlet of Medjugorje. She still continues to have daily apparitions. The Virgin has revealed nine secrets to her. Through her, the Virgin sends her message to the parish and to the world. From March 1, 1984 to January 8, 1987, the message was given every Thursday, and from January 25, 1987, the 25th of each month. The Virgin revealed nine secrets to her. Marija is married, has four children, and lives with her family in Italy and in Medjugorje. The intention of prayer entrusted to her by the Virgin: for the souls in purgatory.\nMirjana Dragicevic-Soldo was born on March 18, 1965 in Sarajevo. He had daily appearances from June 24, 1981 to December 25, 1982. On that day, entrusting her with the tenth secret, the Virgin told her that throughout her life she would have a yearly apparition on March 18th. From August 2, 1987, according to her testimony, on the second day of the month, Mirjana hears the voice of the Virgin and now sees her and together with her pray for the unbelievers. Mirjana is married, has two children, and lives with her family in Medjugorje. The intention of prayer entrusted to her by the Virgin: for the unbelievers, those who do not know the love of God.\nVicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic was born on September 3, 1964 in Bijakovici, a hamlet of Medjugorje. She still continues to have daily apparitions. The Virgin revealed nine secrets to her. Vicka is married, has two children and lives in Krehin Grac near Medjugorje. The intention of prayer entrusted to her by the Virgin: for the sick.\nAccording to the unanimous testimony of the visionaries, during her apparitions the Virgin gave certain messages for humanity. Although there have been many messages, it is possible to refer them to five basic messages because all the others represent or support these five.\nPEACE \u2013 On the third day Our Lady exposed as the first of her messages: \u2018Peace, peace, peace and only peace!\u2019 and she repeated twice: \u2018Peace must reign between God and men and in the midst of men!\u2019\nConsidering the fact that the visionary Marija saw the cross behind the Madonna while expressing this message, this clearly means that this peace can come only from God who through the Virgin in Christ has become \u2018our peace\u2019 (Ephesians 2:14) , \u2018Peace not as the world gives it\u2019 (John 14,27) and for this Christ has commanded His Apostles to bring it to the world (Matthew 10,11) so that all men can become \u2018sons of peace\u2019 (Luke 10.6). Therefore, even the Virgin, as \u2018Queen of the Apostles\u2019, is presented in Medjugorje as the true \u2018Queen of Peace\u2019. No one else knows, like her or better than her, how to convince the current world that it is facing problems of destruction and the fact that peace is the greatest and most precious good.\nFAITH \u2013 The second message of the Virgin is that of faith. The Virgin spoke about it on the fourth, fifth and sixth days of the apparitions and this is understandable. That is, without faith it is not possible to find peace. Therefore faith is the answer to the word of God in which He not only manifests Himself, but gives Himself to men. In faith, man receives the word of God who in Christ has become \u201cour peace\u201d (Ephesians 2:14). By welcoming it, man becomes a new man, with a new life in Christ and a participant in the nature of God (Ephesians 2:18).\nThus man obtains peace, both towards God and towards men.\nNo one, therefore, knows how Our Lady is the value of faith and how important it is for the man of today. For this reason she always puts it before the visionaries and asks them to give it to others. She puts it before all that men seek and consider it the primary condition to be able to satisfy all the requests, wishes and prayers that refer to health and to any other human need.\nCONVERSION \u2013 Conversion is also one of the most frequent messages of the Virgin because in today\u2019s man faith is weak or completely absent, and without conversion, it is not possible to obtain peace. True conversion means \u2018to wash the heart\u2019 (Jeremiah 4:14) because a corrupt heart creates and favors an unsatisfactory structure and social relations, unjust laws and servile organizations. Without a radical transformation in the heart and its conversion, peace is not possible. This is why Our Lady recommends frequent confession.\nThis request is indiscriminately addressed to all men because \u2018there is no right, not even one \u2026 all were misled, all were corrupted\u2019 (Romans 3: 11-12).\nPRAYER \u2013 From the fifth day of the apparitions and almost daily, the Virgin recommends prayer.\nShe asks all men to pray incessantly, just as Christ had asked (Mark 9,29, Matthew 8,38, Luke 11,5-13 \u2026). Prayer therefore spurs and reinforces the faith of man, without which there are no regular relations, either with God or with others.\nMoreover, through prayer, man manifests his vital bond with God: He recognizes Him, thanks Him for the gifts received and confidently expects all the other things he needs, especially salvation. Prayer reinforces this attitude of man and helps him to establish a regular relationship with God because without this relationship it is not possible to preserve and promote peace with oneself and with others.\nThe validity of prayer is particularly evident because the Word of God is addressed to man and man responds to it with words. The answer is an expressed faith or just a prayer that strengthens, renews, promotes and supports prayer itself. Furthermore, through prayer, man proclaims God and the Gospel and ignites faith in others.\nFAST \u2013 From the sixth day of the apparitions the Virgin has frequently recommended fasting which is at the service of faith. In this way man verifies, strengthens and assures his own control of himself. Only the man who manages to dominate himself can be free and ready to put himself at the service of God and neighbor, as faith wants. Fasting guarantees to man that his surrender to the faith is sincere and sure. Fasting helps man to free himself from any slavery and above all from sin. Who does not belong to himself is a slave. So fasting helps man to curb his desires that would easily lead him to waste the goods in a reckless way that others would need for mere survival.\nWith fasting it is possible to obtain goods that allow us to show our love for the poor and the miserable and at least partially to bridge the differences between them and the rich. Fasting treats the poverty of one with abundance and that of others with poverty itself. In this way, we create that peace which today is in particular threatened by the enormous differences between rich and poor.\nFrom the messages of the Virgin it is clear that peace is the most precious good and that faith, conversion, prayer and fasting are the only conditions for obtaining it.\nWe have said that, in addition to the five messages that the Virgin gave to the whole world from the beginning, She began, from March 1, 1984, every Wednesday and through Marija Pavlovic, to deliver other messages for the parish of Medjugorje and for the pilgrims who go to Medjugorje. Our Lady therefore chose not only the visionaries, but also the whole parish and pilgrims as her witnesses and collaborators. All this is evident in her first message, in which she says: \u2018I have specially chosen this parish and I intend to guide it\u2019. She confirmed all this on another occasion saying: \u2018I have chosen in a particular way this parish which is dearer to me than others and I have gladly dwelt there when the Most High sent me\u2019 (March 21, 1985).\nOur Lady has also provided a motivation for this choice: \u2018Go back to the parish, this is my desire. So that all those who come here can do so (March 8, 1984). \u2018I beg you, all of you who belong to this parish, live my messages\u2019 (August 16, 1984). It is necessary that first of all the parishioners and the pilgrims become witnesses of her apparitions and her messages so that, together with the visionaries, they can realize her plans for the conversion of the world and reconciliation with God.\nThe Virgin knows well the nature and the weakness of the parishioners and of the pilgrims with whom she intends to collaborate for the redemption of the world and she is sure that all this requires a supernatural force.\nAnd it is for this reason that she addresses them and leads them to the source of this force. The first source is prayer.\nIn almost all her warnings, she strongly recommends it. Among the prayers particularly emphasizes the Holy Mass (March 7, 1985, May 16, 1985), a constant devotion to the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar (March 15, 1984), to the Holy Spirit (June 2, 1984, June 9, 1984, April 11, 1985, May 9, 1985, May 16, 1985, May 23, 1985 \u2026) and the reading of the Holy Scriptures (October 8, 1984, February 14, 1985).\nWith these special messages addressed to the parish of Medjugorje and to the pilgrims, the Virgin wishes to deepen and make more understandable for all the first messages she has sent to the world.\nFrom January 25, 1987, the Blessed Virgin sends her messages on the 25th of each month through the visionary Marija Pavlovic. All this continues today.\nDr. Fra Ljudevit Rupcic\n(Professor of theology, translator of the Holy Scriptures in Croatian, lives in Medjugorje).\n\u2190 Prophetic Times \u2026Trump Warns: \u201cI\u2019ll be Vladimir Putin\u2019s \u2018worst enemy\u2019 if dealings don\u2019t work out between USA and Russia\u201d\nI weep for my country.. (then I will pray) Trump Seeks Peace with Russia and is called a traitor\u2026 Bush Destroys Iraq then Dances with Celebrities \u2192\nFriday of Easter Week Jesus revealed himself again to his disciples at the Sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself in\nIf you are experiencing a moment of great suffering, these words of Padre Pio will help you a lot\nApril 14, 2018 ryanmysticpost Comments Off on If you are experiencing a moment of great suffering, these words of Padre Pio will help you a lot\n11348950_1634299080190207_1398529574_n The most well spent time is that which is spent in the sanctification of the soul of others. Time\nWith the intercession of St. Anthony Abbot, here is the prayer to bless the animals we have at home..\u201dAnimals with all creation are part of the plan of the universal salvation of the Lord Jesus.\u201d\nJanuary 17, 2018 ryanmysticpost Comments Off on With the intercession of St. Anthony Abbot, here is the prayer to bless the animals we have at home..\u201dAnimals with all creation are part of the plan of the universal salvation of the Lord Jesus.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 34131, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myvue.ie/event/cliff-richard-live-60th-anniversary-tour", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IR7DXGVI4TX4WRYKVBOD6IXDPFGV3GI4", "length": 74, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "myvue.ie", "title": "Cliff Richard Live: 60th Anniversary Tour | Book tickets online | Vue Cinemas", "raw_content": "No Glastonbury in 2018 - but there's a festival of music on our big screen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 163.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mzu.edu.in/index.php/academics/school-of-education-humanities/about-seh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QSD6VMMXD7YRO5VZFPSEDMBATXDBUTTT", "length": 2038, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mzu.edu.in", "title": "Mizoram University - About the school", "raw_content": "School of Education & Humanities (SEH) came into existence in 2001 with the establishment of Mizoram University. Till July, 2018 the School was consisted of 4 academic post-graduate departments namely, Education, English, Mizo and Hindi and the lone U.G. department of Philosophy. Out of the four P.G. Departments, three were established before 2001 i.e. before the establishment of Mizoram University. Education and English Departments were started in 1979 and Mizo Department in 1997 under the erstwhile Mizoram Campus of North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) at Aizawl whereas Hindi Department was set up in July 2010. Post Graduate programme in Philosophy has stared in Pachhunga University College which is the constituent college of the University from the Academic Session 2018-19. The Departments of Education, English, Mizo and Hindi offer M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes along with M.A. Apart from these, Department of Education runsa Two Year B.Ed. Programme which was started from the session 2016-17 and a Two Year M.Ed. Programme from the academic session 2018-19 with recognition from NCTE. Department of English was awarded the UGC-SAP DRS I for the period 2011-2016 and has now been upgraded to UGC-SAP DRS II from the year 2016. Department of English publishes a refereed bi-annual journal having ISSN named Journal of Literature and Cultural Studies. Mizo Department also publishesa peer reviewed Quarterly Journal named \u2018Mizo Studies\u2019 having ISSN \u2013 2319-6041. Further, a national refereed bi-annual journal with ISSN named \u2018Mizoram University Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences is published by the University. Seminars/ Conferences/ Workshops used to be organized by all departments under the school periodically. The Department of Education is running two centers namely National Resource Centre (NRC) on Research Methodology in Education and Faculty Development Centre (FDC) sanctioned by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India, New Delhi in favour of Mizoram University from the year 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 5009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 190.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nationalpost.com/pmn/entertainment-pmn/books-entertainment-pmn/audiobooks-growing-in-popularity-in-canada-as-publishers-jump-on-the-trend", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AI36QETU3D4CQIJ7TO45AJSDT27ARDOY", "length": 5617, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "nationalpost.com", "title": "Audiobooks growing in popularity in Canada as publishers jump on the trend | National Post", "raw_content": "Audiobooks growing in popularity in Canada as publishers jump on the trend\nAuthor Debbie Travis prepares to record a passage from her book at her publisher's studio, in Toronto on Thursday, July 19, 2018.Chris Young / THE CANADIAN PRESS\nToronto actress Carina Cojeen is a voracious bookworm these days \u2014 thanks to her headphones and computer speakers.\nIn the past year in a half, she\u2019s consumed dozens of titles via digital audiobook, a format she first got into as a way to help her sleep at night. Now, she also listens while cleaning and doing work at home.\n\u201cAlmost every second of the day,\u201d Cojeen says. \u201cI don\u2019t listen to the radio anymore, I hardly watch movies or TV.\u201d\nCojeen is part of a growing trend of readers looking for convenient ways to consume their favourite authors.\nAudiobook production has grown for the past three years, according to a recently released study by industry organization BookNet Canada on the state of digital publishing in this country in 2017.\nMore than half, or 61 per cent, of Canadian publishers are now producing digital audiobooks \u2014 up from 37 per cent in 2016, according to the report.\nAnd 73 per cent of Canadian publishers surveyed said they believed audiobook sales will increase in the coming year.\nLast September Penguin Random House Canada launched its own audiobooks program, complete with a recording studio in its Toronto office. So far they\u2019ve created more than 50 digital audiobooks in Canada, including Miriam Toews\u2019s upcoming novel \u201cWomen Talking\u201d and Debbie Travis\u2019s upcoming book \u201cDesign Your Next Chapter.\u201d\n\u201cThe business itself is in its infancy, so we\u2019re starting from the ground and going up, but we are seeing a really good response,\u201d says Marion Garner, who heads the audiobooks program as deputy publisher at Penguin Random House Canada.\nHarperCollins Canada says it\u2019s also seen a growth in audiobook popularity this year.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a 60 per cent increase for us this year, compared to year over year,\u201d says Leo MacDonald, senior vice-president of sales and marketing at HarperCollins Canada.\nSimon & Schuster Canada, meanwhile, released its first Canadian digital audiobooks this past spring.\nHouse of Anansi Press also entered the audiobook market in the past year, producing over two dozen of its own titles in Toronto through ECW Press, including Tanya Talaga\u2019s award-winning book \u201cSeven Fallen Feathers.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s a super time-consuming activity but it\u2019s also totally fascinating, and not cheap,\u201d says Sarah MacLachlan, president of House of Anansi Press. \u201cWe are still waiting to see how it bears fruit.\u201d\nBoth Kobo and Audible say they\u2019ve seen growth in the market in recent months.\nExperts point to a rise in listening culture due to the popularity of podcasts, the ubiquity of smartphones and smart speakers, and a demand for entertainment that can be consumed on the go and while multi-tasking.\nCanada was slower to adopt the format, largely due to a lack of dedicated digital audiobook retailers in this country. But that changed in the past year with the emergence of platforms including Audible and Kobo.\nAudiobooks are also available in Canada on the OverDrive platform for libraries and schools.\nCarlyn Craig, founder of Canadian audiobook publisher Post Hypnotic Press, says she used to run into \u201ca lot more snobby attitudes toward\u201d the format in this country when she first launched her company in 2010.\nMost of her company\u2019s sales are in the U.S. but these days she\u2019s seeing a \u201ca small uptick\u201d in the market in Canada.\n\u201cWe\u2019re certainly seeing a big interest in actors who want to narrate, in publishers who want to get their work out there,\u201d Craig says.\nIndeed, actors on this side of the border are getting word in the medium.\nPenguin Random House says it has hired some local actors for audiobooks in Canada, including Gordon Pinsent for author Wayne Johnston\u2019s \u201cFirst Snow, Last Light\u201d and Paul Gross for \u201cOperation Medusa\u201d by Major General David Fraser and Brian Hanington.\nAnansi has also used actors, and Garner says Canada\u2019s performers\u2019 union, ACTRA, is encouraging their membership to embrace the format.\nBut not all performers are a good fit to voice books, says Dawn Harvey, a Calgary-based audiobook narrator who\u2019s done about 50 titles and teaches a course on the craft.\nHarvey notes audiobook narrators often specialize in doing different accents and reading different languages. They can also voice both male and female characters who range in age, and \u201cdo it in such a way that the listener knows who\u2019s speaking even without attributions in the text.\u201d\n\u201cIf (A-list actors) haven\u2019t listened to a lot of audiobooks to understand the requirements, they\u2019re not necessarily going to do a very good job \u2014 but they\u2019re going to get paid 100 times more than the people who do this every day for a living,\u201d says Harvey.\nOf course, some authors also narrate their own books. Publishers say they prefer that approach when it comes to memoirs.\nCanadian author Vironika Tugaleva decided to narrate her own book, \u201cThe Art of Talking to Yourself,\u201d in part because of its personal nature.\n\u201cIf somebody else were to read those words, it just wouldn\u2019t have felt right,\u201d Tugaleva says, noting there\u2019s one part in the upcoming audiobook where her voice shakes because of the emotional material.\nFor Cojeen, what matters most is that they\u2019re good narrators.\n\u201cI\u2019m extremely picky,\u201d she says, noting she\u2019s stopped listening to some audiobooks because she didn\u2019t like the narrator.\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard to find good American readers. I really wish Canadians would get more into the audiobook world, because I have a feeling the way we talk and read will be better.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 8815, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nbaalertsofficial.com/2018/09/25/gregg-popovich-says-he-wont-try-to-change-demar-derozans-game/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:38Z", "digest": "sha1:REE4OUZH26ESS5EYPJ3JVCQZZDP543M4", "length": 1085, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "nbaalertsofficial.com", "title": "Gregg Popovich Says He Won\u2019t Try to Change DeMar DeRozan\u2019s Game", "raw_content": "Home \u203a NBA Teams \u203a Gregg Popovich Says He Won\u2019t Try to Change DeMar DeRozan\u2019s Game\nGregg Popovich Says He Won\u2019t Try to Change DeMar DeRozan\u2019s Game\nPop won\u2019t change DeRozan\u2019s game: \u201cDeMar\u2019s already an All-Star. He\u2019s played a certain way. There will be some things we\u2019ll try to add to his game, if he\u2019s willing. I\u2019m not going to jump on him the way I did L.A. I tried to turn L.A. into John Havlicek. I think it confused him.\u201d\nPopovich made it clear that he has no intention of changing DeRozan\u2019s game, but only helping him to add to it if he\u2019s willing. When the San Antonio Spurs head coach tried to alter LaMarcus Aldridge\u2019s game, it backfired. The 33-year-old at one point requested a trade, but the issue was later resolved.\nDeRozan was probably lost at first when he was traded because he was so invested in the Toronto Raptors. However, his current situation seems like it couldn\u2019t have worked out any better.\n\u2039 Heat Trade Rumors: Hassan Whiteside, Justise Winslow Among Players Available\nGordon Hayward plans to play in the Celtics first preseason game on Friday vs. the Hornets \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ncbaptist.org/staff/lester-evans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:53Z", "digest": "sha1:AFVKS2WU7Z2AMPGZENAOZANDVXEMHEHK", "length": 1335, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ncbaptist.org", "title": "Lester Evans - Baptist State Convention of North Carolina", "raw_content": "Team Leader, Associational Partnerships\nLester Evans serves as team leader of Associational Partnerships.\nHis responsibilities include working with Baptist associations in North Carolina, general seminary extension, bivocational ministries, Appalachian regional ministry, demographics, ministry partnership agreements, On Mission Celebrations, and church and community ministers.\nLester has served as a pastor in five Baptist churches in North Carolina. For 13 years he served as director of missions for the Macon Baptist Association. He has also participated in mission and ministry projects from the local to international levels, worked with local community action agencies to address pressing needs, and served as a coach and consultant for various ministry needs.\nHe became a Christian in 1971 and received God\u2019s call into ministry in early 1972. He received degrees from Mars Hill University, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.\nLester is married to Judy, and they live in Otto, N.C., in Macon County where they both grew up. Lester and Judy have two daughters. Jessica, their oldest, lives at the Younce House, an assisted living group home in Franklin, N.C. Their youngest daughter, Tanya and her husband, Shane, live in Otto, N.C., where they both serve in law enforcement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 5906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nebraskabolt.wordpress.com/tag/dad/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MBRFRV4DDWV7WXR2KA67C5FZBBV43TJK", "length": 3277, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "nebraskabolt.wordpress.com", "title": "dad | Reflections of a Pastor Couple", "raw_content": "Diary of a Dad- The Hard Part of Being a Dad (January 9, 2014\nPosted in buttface, Diary of a Dad, tagged dad, diary of a dad, firstpresnc, ggbolt16, ncnewspress on January 14, 2015| Leave a Comment \u00bb\nI have been asked to contribute a weekly column to our local newspaper, The Nebraska City NewsPress, my goal is that people are reminded that they are loved, they are not alone, and that we can do positive things together as a community. Here is this week\u2019s column, it\u2019s called \u201cThe Hard Part of Being a Dad\u201d.\nSomething happened over the Christmas holiday that I\u2019m not really sure how to deal with.\nI have two young children. My daughter is 5 and my son is 3. My wife and I try to share the parenting responsibilities as much as possible. That means that I change diapers, give baths, make meals, drive to daycare and preschool, shuttle off to dance, read books, put them to bed, console them when they are scared, play with them, kiss their boo boos, you know, all the things a parent might be called to do. I love doing it. Now I\u2019ll admit there are times when I need a break, when I would rather just sit and watch TV, but for the most part I love being a dad, even when it isn\u2019t glamorous.\nOver the holiday my son decided that I no longer would be allowed to be his parent. There\u2019s nothing like trying to make breakfast for your child and they just scream, \u201cI DON\u2019T WANT YOU! I WANT MOM!!\u201d On multiple occasions in the last month he has chosen to wait for mom instead of having me help him. Wait for food, wait for diaper changes, wait for being picked up when he fell, waiting to play, wait, wait, wait.\nThere\u2019s something heartbreaking about your own child vocally refusing to allow you to help or be a part of his life, it\u2019s even more heartbreaking when he\u2019s 3.\nThe second and probably worse part of this \u201cphase\u201d is that my wife now has the burden of being a solo parent, while the other one just sits there unable to help. I can deal with a fickle three year old not wanting me to get him yogurt in the morning or help him put on his clothes for the day. What I can\u2019t deal with is my partner feeling like she\u2019s all by herself.\nI take great pride in the fact that I am an involved parent, I take great pride in knowing I\u2019m not a babysitter or a fill in, but I am present in my kids\u2019 lives, I know who they are, and I love the fact that my wife and I co-parent. I don\u2019t want to just be a helper, an assistant, or stand by. I\u2019m a dad and I love it.\nI want my wife to know that she is not alone and that I will always be willing to stand with her and do my part to make sure our kids know they have two loving and involved parents. So for the time being I\u2019m ok with my son only wanting mommy because I know at some point it will be my turn and I want to be ready when it is.\nFavorite: Knowing that I have a loving partner that will be with me through the low spots.\nNot Favorite: Not being good enough for my son right now.\nPosted in buttface, lent, tagged dad, ggbolt16, jboltwv, lent, live, rethinkchurch on February 24, 2013| Leave a Comment \u00bb\nWhen I thought of someone who sets an example for me of how to live, I immediately thought of my parents. This is my favorite picture of all time, I only hope that my kids know that I love them as much as I know my dad loves me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 7620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nebraskaradionetwork.com/2017/11/02/nebraska-congressman-in-the-thick-of-tax-reform-debate-in-congress-audio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:08Z", "digest": "sha1:6LSKFGS27LXUB2QSZXTTQKFZQ4ULXCTU", "length": 2127, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "nebraskaradionetwork.com", "title": "Nebraska Congressman in the thick of tax reform debate in Congress (AUDIO) - Nebraska Radio Network", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Featured Stories / Nebraska Congressman in the thick of tax reform debate in Congress (AUDIO)\nNebraska Congressman in the thick of tax reform debate in Congress (AUDIO)\nA Nebraska Congressman will be in the middle of attempting to push tax reform through Congress.\nCongressman Adrian Smith sits on the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee which has unveiled its $1.5 trillion tax reform plan.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not everything that I personally was hoping for, but I\u2019ll tell you what, it is certainly better than what we have right now,\u201d Smith tells Nebraska Radio Network.\nThe proposal would have a wide-ranging impact on the federal tax code, both for individuals and for corporations.\nUnder its provisions, individual income tax brackets would shrink from seven to three: 12, 25, and 35%. It would retain a top rate of 39.6% for the wealthiest. No income tax would be assessed on those making up to $24,000. The alternative minimum tax would be eliminated.\nThe standard deduction for the middle class would nearly double. The child tax credit would increase from $1,000 to $1,600. A $300 credit would be added for nonchild dependents.\nOther tax credits would be eliminated under the proposal, including a 15% tax credit for those 65 and older who are retired or on disability as well as the deduction for medical expenses.\nMortgage interest would remain deductible, but the cap would be lowered from $1 million to $500,000. Homeowners benefiting from the deduction now would be grandfathered in.\nThe deduction for state and local taxes would be limited to property tax payments and would be capped at $10,000.\nCorporations would pay a 20% tax, down from the current 35%. A new, global minimum tax of 10% would be established in an effort to keep U.S. companies from shifting profits overseas. It also changes provisions for how businesses deduct expenses to encourage investment.\nSmith says Congress owes the country a thoughtful approach to tax reform.\n\u201cAnd that\u2019s why I was supportive of this measure, because it\u2019s exactly that, a thoughtful approach It is one that I think positions us well for the future.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nestingstory.ca/category/wellness/food/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:UQXRIMRG3ZRJXGI2DOOUBWJ64ID6B2U2", "length": 1492, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "nestingstory.ca", "title": "Food | Nesting Story", "raw_content": "This blog post was created with Hellmann\u2019s\u00ae and JONES Voice I am ready to admit it. 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I am a very busy mom of four who also [...] Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 4299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newatlas.com/whistlegps-pet-location-trackert-sigfox/32181/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ANOUF3EKIFUXJWBXKPE6AWANDQ6VZ7VL", "length": 2708, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "newatlas.com", "title": "WhistleGPS pet tracker first consumer device to join Sigfox's IoT network", "raw_content": "WhistleGPS pet tracker first consumer device to join Sigfox's IoT network\nThe WhistleGPS pet activity tracker adds GPS capabilities and is the first consumer device to tap into Sigfox's low-power Internet of Things (IoT) network\nBilled as a Fitbit for dogs when it hit the market last year, Whistle's compact activity monitor uses a 3-axis accelerometer to monitor Fido's daily exercise. The company has now added GPS capabilities to allow the tracking of location to the device, as well as making it the first consumer product to tap into Sigfox's low-power Internet of Things (IoT) network.\nThe waterproof WhistleGPS retains the same 38 mm diameter by 10 mm high form factor and all of the features of the original device. The addition of GPS capabilities and connection to the Sigfox network allows users to locate their pet at any time on iOS or Android devices for a monthly subscription of US$5. Whistle says this is the lowest monthly fee of any GPS pet tracker on the market .\nThe network, which relies on Ultra Narrow Band based radio technology and uses sub-GHz frequencies (902 MHz in the US and 868 MHz in Europe), offers two-way communication at much greater range than Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but at a lower bandwidth of around 100 bits per second. It is also low power and able to support millions of connections, making it suitable for connecting a wide range of low-bandwidth devices to the IoT ... such as the WhistleGPS.\nFor the WhistleGPS, this means pet activity and location data from the device can be synched with the company's servers via the Sigfox network, as well as by Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. Whistle says the use of the Sigfox network has also doubled the life of the WhistleGPS' internal rechargeable battery in comparison to its predecessor, with a charge now lasting around a week, depending on usage.\nThe WhistleGPS is currently available for pre-order in the US, where Sigfox is in the process of rolling out its network, starting around San Francisco. With the help of partners, Sigfox's has already been deployed in France, the Netherlands and Russia, with plans announced for the UK and Spain. The WhistleGPS will be made available to other countries as the Sigfox network becomes available.\nWhistle is offering the WhistleGPS for the introductory price of $49 until May 28, with shipping due to commence in the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2015. The price after May 28 will be $129.\nThe video below introduces the WhistleGPS.\nSources: Whistle, Sigfox\nThe WhistleGPS is waterproof\nThe WhistleGPS retains the same 38 mm diameter by 10 mm high form factor as its predecessor\nFido's activity and location can be tracked via the companion smartphone app on iOS and Android\n#Sigfox", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newhealthmed.com/testimonial/knowledgeable-and-confident/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:44Z", "digest": "sha1:BOFXJAS7KHSRTETBTHW5JUJRIWMCGZ36", "length": 1144, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "newhealthmed.com", "title": "Knowledgeable and Confident - New Health Medical Center", "raw_content": "I\u2019ve had a nasty cough and clogged lungs for a month straight, so bad my ribs were killing me when I coughed. Went to a regular health clinic and the doctor said it was probably a virus, though it should have been healed by then if it were. He offered an inhaler to ease the symptoms but nothing else. I suffered through another 2 weeks with absolutely no change in the condition.\nThis Sat. I went to Dr. Kitaeff and had acupuncture plus two kinds of Chinese herbal oils \u2013 one for clearing the lungs and one for eliminating whatever was causing the problem. Plus he recommended a mineral-rich mud bath that can be used at home for eliminating toxins and boosting the immune system. Well, it\u2019s Monday morning, less than 48 hours after the acupuncture treatment, and I\u2019m almost totally well. Dr. Kitaeff was very friendly and seemed very concerned with my treatment and very thorough.\nThe doctor was obviously quite knowledgeable and confident when he was working on me. At any rate, it\u2019s the cure I wanted so I\u2019m happy (and healthy). Moreover, I wanted to be HEALED; not for my symptoms to be covered up like the traditional doctor wanted to do.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newmansofleguevin.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/cathar-country-chateaux/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:09Z", "digest": "sha1:RZTJX2BOMMLOZK5UV4HCEFUXO3VKDW4V", "length": 2450, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "newmansofleguevin.wordpress.com", "title": "Cathar Country Chateaux | Newmans of Leguevin", "raw_content": "\u2190 Twins: Derek Jeter and Us\nIt\u2019s American Week Again! \u2192\nIt was a nice weekend, so we took a little Saturday drive down south, to the departement of Ariege. This area has beaucoup de monuments Cathars. The most famous would be the ruins of Montsegur, which we have visited more than once.\nBut figuring that we\u2019ve \u2018been there, done that\u2019 in re Montsegur, we decided to visit a different place or two.\nOur first stop was the Chateau de Roquefixade, perched on top of a cliff above the little town of the same name. There is written evidence that a chateau has been at this place since at least 1034, meaning that it will soon be coming up on its millenial celebration. After we parked the car and got out, we looked up at our destination and each of us thought (or said out loud), \u201cWe gotta get up there?\u201d\nGood thing La Famille Newman is in such outstanding shape.\nIt was a steep climb, but we made it. Once we reached the ruins of the chateau, we met a couple of German ladies who heard us talking in English and spoke to us in the same language (German not being a language in which any of us have any facility). Although it didn\u2019t really figure in the Cruades against the Cathars, they did seek and find refuge here from time to time.\nAfter we climbed around some of the fence-free, danger-enhanced area, we made our way back down, where we went to the local gite (a FR BnB) for drinks and popsicles (or whatever they\u2019re called in FR). To see more pix of Roquefixade, click here.\nSeeing that the day was relatively young, we decided to go visit another chateau. So this time we headed to a place about a 30-minute drive from Roquefixade: the Chateau de Puivert. This castle, dating back to at least the 12th C, has Cathar ties: the lords were Cathars and in 1210, it was subject to a three-day siege. It fell.\nView from the courtyard.\nThe scenery was fantastic: Sunflowers fields in the valley below were in bloom and I got to see gliders in action for the first time in my life as two of them were towed into the sky by a prop plane using a dirt airstrip in the valley.\nThe castle is privately owned these days \u2013 a man\u2019s home is his castle and all that \u2013 and some movies have been filmed there as well, notably the Johnny Depp feature, \u2018The Ninth Gate,\u2019 directed by, um, Roman Polanski.\nTo see more pix of Chateau de Puivert, just click here.\nNext time, I think we\u2019ll go see the chateau at Peyreperteuse, which is supposed to have outstanding views.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 5946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/minutes/124195", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:28Z", "digest": "sha1:7TWNOC7UIQDGXCM3RU7UCHPOBHZLOF7O", "length": 845, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "Do you enjoy the work of Charles Dickens but detest old crones? Never fear, Miss Havisham is hot now. | The New Republic", "raw_content": "BBC Red Planet\nDo you enjoy the work of Charles Dickens but detest old crones? Never fear, Miss Havisham is hot now.\nAnnounced last year, the 20-part BBC series Dickensian is Dickens fan fiction writ large, in which all of the author\u2019s characters live not only in the same world, but on the same street.\nIn previous incarnations, Miss Havisham, the jilted spinster from Great Expectations who knew she looked great in that wedding dress and gave zero fucks about changing it up, has been played by such disgusting crones as Gillian Anderson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Charlotte Rampling. In Dickensian, she will be played by 28-year-old Tuppence Middleton, an actress who, judging by her name, may herself be trapped in a Dickens novel.\nIf \u201cyoung Miss Havisham revenge fan fiction\u201d is a thing that exists, please make it known to us immediately.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 26580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newrepublic.com/minutes/147460", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:45Z", "digest": "sha1:I7XBGJLQLCVD33ZO3AIHF2GHEWRPB2KK", "length": 1891, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "newrepublic.com", "title": "The 2018 midterms are looking great for Democrats: A continuing series. | The New Republic", "raw_content": "The 2018 midterms are looking great for Democrats: A continuing series.\nThat was going to be the takeaway regardless of the outcome of Tuesday\u2019s special election in Pennsylvania\u2019s 18th District. The fact that Democrat Conor Lamb was running a close race in a district that Mitt Romney had won by 17 points and that Donald Trump had won by 20 points was remarkable in and of itself: evidence of a fired-up Democratic base and an apathetic Republican one. But Lamb\u2019s apparent victory was stunning nonetheless, evidence that the Democrats are poised to retake the House of Representatives in the fall.\nMuch is already being made of the weakness of Republican candidate Rick Saccone, whom President Trump reportedly referred to as a \u201cweak\u201d candidate in the hours before polls opened. There is already a lot of analysis about what Lamb\u2019s success means for the Democratic Party, given that he is a pro-gun moderate who distanced himself from a number of liberal positions, notably on immigration. But to a large extent the particulars of the race are beside the point. The big picture is simple: Democrats have a huge advantage heading into the 2018 midterms and they appear to be poised to pick up seats in deep-red districts.\nFor the moment, well-educated, suburban voters are driving this trend. In 2016, Trump was able to cobble together a coalition of these voters and working-class ones by pushing an amalgam of conservative and (relatively) liberal positions. But that coalition appears to have already frayed and Republicans haven\u2019t figured out how to field candidates in a world where Trump is president. On Wednesday, Paul Ryan was telling Republicans that the results in Pennsylvania should be a \u201cwake-up call\u201d and that they should aggressively fundraise and run on the tax bill that was passed last year. But Saccone raised more money than Lamb and ran on the tax bill. It didn\u2019t work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 27627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.avclub.com/morrissey-cancels-some-shows-again-this-time-for-a-goo-1798254383", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ELGIL23QJET4OWSTZDBIZEDHNYUDIHV2", "length": 1326, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "news.avclub.com", "title": "Morrissey cancels some shows again, this time for a good reason", "raw_content": "Morrissey cancels some shows again, this time for a good reason\n(Photo: Getty Images/FilmMagic, Gabriel Olsen)\nMorrissey is known for being a bit particular about the shows he will or will not do. He likes things a certain way\u2014typically as meat-free as possible\u2014and if his standards aren\u2019t met, then he\u2019s more than willing to drop out of a planned performance in the most dramatic way possible. That\u2019s just who Morrissey is, and if nobody\u2019s managed to get him to change his wacky ways by now, he definitely never will.\nSo, it\u2019s not particularly surprising that Moz has just announced that he\u2019s canceling a handful of tour dates. What is surprising, however, is that he actually has a good reason this time that goes beyond \u201cMorrissey being Morrissey.\u201d As reported by Pitchfork, the keyboardist for his backing band\u2014a guy named Gustavo Manzur\u2014collapsed backstage before a sold-out show in Colorado, forcing Morrissey to cancel the concert entirely. Now, since Manzur is still recovering, Morrissey has canceled his next few shows as well. The affected dates are tonight\u2019s show in Dallas, tomorrow night\u2019s in San Antonio, and Friday\u2019s in Houston (all of his Texas performances, in other words).\nHe\u2019s still set to play Royal Oak, Cleveland, and Chicago next week, but as we\u2019ve established, those plans could change at any moment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.cancerresearch/cancer-and-exercise-do-mix/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:10Z", "digest": "sha1:QBSA2JLTVPF4UKSK57K6M2BAUL45U6L5", "length": 3488, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "news.cancerresearch", "title": "Exercise is beneficial for cancer patients", "raw_content": "Cancer and exercise do mix\nWhen you hear the word \u201ccancer\u201d probably the last thing that you think of is physical activity. In fact, most of us think of cancer as a death sentence. Treatments for cancer make many people feel lousy and the side effects of treatment include fatigue, anxiety, nausea, vomiting and pain. So it is hardly surprising that people who are diagnosed with cancer are not reaching for their running shoes or gym kit.\nThe perception of cancer as a death sentence is incorrect. Of course people die from the disease, but the prognosis for many people diagnosed with the disease is pretty good.\nAt any one time, there are about 25m people living with cancer in the world. Many people diagnosed with cancer are likely to die of something else. This means that helping the millions of people who have been diagnosed and treated for cancer to live a long and healthy life is a goal worth striving for.\nPhysical activity can help people manage the side effects of cancer treatment. Being physically active during and after treatment improves cardio-respiratory fitness, muscle strength, physical well-being, quality of life, and reduces fatigue, anxiety and depression.\nPeople who are physically active after cancer are also more likely to live longer than those who are not physically active, especially after breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer. Health professionals around the world recommend that people diagnosed with cancer get physically active.\nYet most people, during and after treatment for cancer, are not physically active. In fact, people reduce their amount of physical activity after a cancer diagnosis and treatments.\nGetting the health benefits from physical activity does not mean having to run marathons or pump iron (although some people after cancer treatment do quite happily engage in vigorous physical activity).\nThe recommended amount of physical activity for people with cancer is the same as for the general public: 150 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity each week. This can be broken down into about five 30-minute brisk walks a week. Muscle strengthening exercises are also recommended. However, treatment can really zap people and they should not feel bad about being unable to do the recommended amount.\nOne reason for the drop in activity in those with cancer is that doctors and nurses rarely give advice about physical activity to patients, so it\u2019s understandable why people are not physically active after a cancer diagnosis. And many of us still believe that when you\u2019re ill you should rest up.\nThere are of course other barriers to being physically active beside lack of information and advice from oncologists. A key barrier in most countries is the lack of provision of cancer rehabilitation to promote and support physical activity.\nAll this is not to polarise medicine versus physical activity. Nor is it to champion physical activity as the miracle cure for all of the problems that people during and after cancer treatment face. Yet, being physically active during and after cancer treatment has many health benefits. This is why for people diagnosed with cancer it is important to promote exercise as medicine.\nAlongside getting the best possible medical treatment people should also get the best possible exercise treatment.\nGill Hubbard receives funding from various research funders. Currently she receives funding fromthe Scottish Chief Scientist Office and the United Kingdom charity Melanoma Focus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.gallup.com/poll/114007/Opinion-Briefing-Image-Middle-East-North-Africa.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:04Z", "digest": "sha1:JRS2FJM7XJUSTLQCSD6MOYIT5JVTCKL5", "length": 11396, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "news.gallup.com", "title": "Opinion Briefing: U.S. Image in Middle East/North Africa", "raw_content": "Iraq withdrawal among top actions residents say would improve opinions\nIssue at Hand: As U.S. President Barack Obama seeks to pave a new, more positive way forward with the Muslim world, Gallup Polls underscore the gravity of the task. Gallup Polls in 143 countries reveal the image of the leadership of the United States is generally poor worldwide, but that the Obama administration will have the most repair work to do on its image in the predominantly Muslim Middle East and North Africa, where regional median approval is just 15%.\nObama's Stance: Obama is already reaching out directly to residents of this region. In an interview with Al Arabiya television, the president said the most important thing for the United States to do is \"get engaged right away\" and \"start by listening.\" Obama's comments in the interview echoed strains from his inaugural address, when he reaffirmed his campaign promise to restore the United States' reputation and credibility as a world leader and outlined shifts in policy that emphasize diplomacy and international cooperation. Obama said the United States will \"seek a new way forward\" with the Muslim world that is \"based on mutual interest and mutual respect.\"\nAfter less than a week in office, Obama has already set in motion one action that some residents in the predominantly Muslim Middle East and North Africa region told Gallup would improve their opinions of the United States significantly -- the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility camp in Cuba. And Obama has started discussions on another action that also will likely affect a number of residents' opinions -- the expedited withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq.\nResidents' Views on Actions the U.S. Can Take to Improve Its Image: In 2008, Gallup asked residents in 10 predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East and North Africa to rate the extent to which various actions might significantly improve their opinions of the United States. In addition to asking about the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, respondents were asked to rate actions related to economic development, technology, poverty, and governance*.\nOverall, residents in eight of the countries surveyed are most likely to say the United States' withdrawal from Iraq would improve their opinion very significantly. However, opinions about the different actions vary within the region.\nSyria: Syrians' 4% approval rating of the leadership of the United States -- one of the lowest in the world -- bespeaks years of strained ties. Signaling a potential thaw in relations, Syrian President Bashar Assad recently said that he's willing to cooperate with the Obama administration, but that the United States must withdraw from Iraq and commit to the peace process.\nAmong the issues tested, Syrians were most likely to say \"pulling out of Iraq\" would improve their opinions of the United States very significantly; a slim majority (52%) rated this as very significant.\nEgypt: Although Egypt is a key U.S. ally in the region and receives billions in foreign aid, the general public doesn't express feelings of goodwill. Egyptians' views of U.S. leadership have soured significantly since 2005; their current 6% approval rating of the leadership of the United States is among the lowest in the world.\nAt least half of Egyptians said each action that Gallup asked about would improve their opinion of the United States very significantly.\nSix in 10 or more Egyptians said the United States' withdrawal from Iraq (64%) and removal of military bases from Saudi Arabia (60%) would improve their opinion very significantly.\nJordan: Another major ally in the region, Jordan and the United States have traditionally enjoyed close relations for six decades. Jordanians' 9% approval rating of U.S. leadership in 2008 represented a decline from 18% in 2007 and 15% in 2005.\nAmong the issues tested, Jordanians were most likely to say the United States pulling out of neighboring Iraq would improve their opinion of the country very significantly; slightly less than half of Jordanians (47%) rated this action as very significant.\nSaudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia is another strategic U.S. ally in the region and a key trade partner. Saudis are at least twice as likely as Egyptians or Syrians to approval of the United States, but the 12% of residents who approve is slightly lower than the regional median.\nMajorities of Saudis rated withdrawal from Iraq (59%), closing Guantanamo Bay prison (56%), and removing military bases from their country (52%) as actions the United States could take that would improve their opinion very significantly.\nSaudis, along with Tunisians, were the only populations surveyed in which majorities said closing Guantanamo Bay prison would improve their opinion very significantly.\nPalestinian Territories: Palestinians' approval of U.S. leadership has been low and relatively stable since 2006; 13% of Palestinians expressed approval in 2008, which is on par with 12% in 2007 and 15% in 2005.\nAmong the issues tested, Palestinians were most likely to say the United States pulling out of Iraq would improve their opinions very significantly; slightly less than half of Palestinians (46%) rated this action as very significant.\nTunisia: The United States has a long history of good relations with Tunisia that dates back nearly 200 years. In 2008, just 14% of Tunisians said they approve of the leadership of the United States.\nOf the items tested, Tunisians were most likely to say the United States pulling out of Iraq would improve their opinions very significantly; a definitive three in four Tunisians (75%) rated this action as very significant.\nMajorities of Tunisians said closing Guantanamo Bay prison (57%) and removing military bases from Saudi Arabia (55%) would improve their opinions of the United States very significantly.\nIran: While low, Iranians' 16% approval rating of the leadership of the United States is higher than ratings among the populations of key U.S. allies in the region, which is interesting given that the countries have not had normal diplomatic relations for nearly three decades.\nUnlike other populations in the region, relatively few Iranians rate withdrawal from Iraq as very significant to improving their opinion.\nIranians were most likely to say greater technology transfer and the exchange of business expertise with their country would improve their opinions of the United States very significantly.\nIranians, in general, were more likely to say actions related to economic development and aid would improve their opinions of the United States very significantly.\nTurkey: Turks' low approval rating of U.S. leadership provides evidence of the strain the Iraq war has placed on relations between the two longtime allies. In 2008, 16% of Turks said they approved of the leadership of the United States, which is unchanged from the 16% measured in 2007 but lower than the 23% measured in 2005.\nAmong the items tested, Turks were most likely to say pulling out of Iraq (30%), removing military bases from Saudi Arabia (29%), and more humanitarian aid to alleviate poverty (30%) would improve their opinions of the United States very significantly.\nLebanon: Lebanese views of the leadership of the United States have continued to erode since 2005, when 40% of residents said they approved. After the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict in 2006, which a substantial number of Lebanese held the United States primarily responsible for, approval declined significantly to 31%. By 2008, Lebanese approval had dropped even further, and stood at 25%.\nOf the items tested, Lebanese were most likely to say more direct humanitarian aid that alleviates poverty would improve their opinions of the United States very significantly; nearly 6 in 10 (59%) Lebanese rated this action as very significant.\nMajorities of Lebanese also said promoting greater economic development and job creation in their country (54%), greater technology transfer and exchange of business expertise (54%), and the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq (52%) would improve their opinions very significantly.\nAlgeria: Unlike other populations in the Middle East/North Africa region, Algerians' opinions of the leadership of the United States have actually improved in the past few years. In 2008, 25% of Algerians said they approved, which was up seven percentage points from 18% in 2007.\nOf the items tested, Algerians were most likely to say the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq would improve their opinions of the United States very significantly; a slight majority (54%) rated this action as very significant.\nPolicy Implications: The United States' ability to rebuild or construct alliances and partnerships in the Middle East does not hinge on how the United States' image is perceived among the general public, but experts in the region believe a poor image makes it more difficult for their leaders to work with the United States.\nObama's order to close the Guantanamo facility and even the United States' expedited departure from Iraq will not renew America's leadership in the region, not while a perceived imbalance in U.S. relations with Israel remains, but they may help improve its image among some residents. At the very least, they may help open a window of opportunity through which the Obama administration can see its \"new way forward.\"\n*Note: Gallup asked about each action in rotating order. Gallup did ask respondents to rate an action concerning Israel, but those data are unavailable at this time.\nRead more U.S. Foreign Policy Opinion Briefings\nResults are based face-to-face interviews with approximately 1,000 adults, aged 15 and older in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, and Iran between May and August 2008. For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error ranges between \u00b13 and \u00b14 percentage points. In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.\nMulti-country USA Foreign Affairs Foreign Policy Opinion Briefings Leadership Muslim-West Relationships Africa Americas Asia Asia Pacific Muslim World World\nIn U.S., More Optimism About Iraq, Less About Afghanistan\nAmericans\u2019 views of the war in Afghanistan are now the most negative they have been, with 42% calling the war a \u201cmistake.\u201d Six years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 52% of Americans still call that war a mistake, but the public\u2019s optimism about the Iraq war has been on the upswing.\nAmericans\u2019 Support for Israel Unchanged Since Gaza Conflict\nAs Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits Israel and the West Bank this week, 63% of Americans view Israel favorably, contrasted with 73% who view the Palestinian Authority unfavorably. When choosing sides, 59% support Israel vis-\u00e0-vis the Palestinians, identical to a year ago.\nAmericans See Afghanistan War as Still Worth Fighting\nBefore President Barack Obama\u2019s decision this week to send additional U.S. forces to Afghanistan, a majority of Americans (52%) perceived the situation there to be going very or moderately badly; 70% thought the Taliban would retake control if U.S. forces withdrew.\nGallup https://news.gallup.com/poll/114007/Opinion-Briefing-Image-Middle-East-North-Africa.aspx", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 17054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.gcu.edu/2014/04/ugandan-bishop-shares-inspirational-message/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:18Z", "digest": "sha1:275MDBJZD4TLCHJ3O3PTCOXUDVGNQS5F", "length": 2708, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "news.gcu.edu", "title": "Ugandan bishop shares inspirational message - GCU Today", "raw_content": "College of Theology Featured Recent News Spiritual Life\nThe parable of the widow\u2019s mite from Mark 12 was brought to life in a visit to Grand Canyon University by a Ugandan humanitarian Thursday night.\nBishop Hannington Bahemuka of the Charismatic Episcopal Church of Uganda spoke to a small group at Howerton lecture hall about his leadership of thousands left in refugee camps in 2001 by Allied Democratic Forces rebels opposed to the Ugandan government. His talk was hosted by Dean Jason Hiles and the College of Theology.\nBishop Hannington Bahemuka\nA simple campaign to round up blankets for orphans grew into a movement by Bahemuka to teach the principles of Christian stewardship to those living in camps in the Bundibugyo district, near the border between Uganda and the Congo.\nThe impoverished, war-torn region heard his message of hope and self-reliance \u2014 and acted on it.\n\u201cWe said everything that we have comes from God,\u201d Bahemuka said. \u201cPeople started helping one another. They helped build houses and churches.\u201d\nA disabled woman named Valerio gave her only chicken to the effort, and fellow church members in turn acquired a wheelchair for her and built her a house. In the story from Mark\u2019s Gospel (also found in Luke 21), Jesus tells about a widow who was willing to give her last two coins as an offering.\n\u201cThat\u2019s an example of how the message sunk into their hearts,\u201d Bahemuka said of Valerio and her church family.\nThe bishop, 59, has overseen the construction of three high-performing schools serving about 600 students, one-third of them orphans. He serves more than 30 churches and also has been a Wycliffe Bible translator for more than 14 years.\nHe said giving comes down to four simple points:\nEverything belongs to God.\nGod puts everything into the hands of man.\nGod has put resources in every place.\nGod calls on us to meet the needs of one another.\n\u201cGiving touches the heart of God,\u201d Bahemuka said. \u201cGod has put everything we need in every locality. If the people raise up, they can meet the needs they have.\u201d\nPatrick Young, missions pastor for Community Church of Joy in Glendale, accompanied Bahemuka to campus and said his church goes to western Uganda twice a year to help. He said the church has helped build a well at one of the schools and a dormitory at another, adding that it is trying to raise funds for a medical center and pharmacy.\nBahemuka, who speaks five languages, said he is writing a book with the working title of \u201cAmazed by His Grace.\u201d\n\u201cThere is no reason to doubt what God will do,\u201d he said. \u201cGod is always on the side of the oppressed, the poor and the orphaned.\u201d\nClick here to watch a video about the ministry of Bishop Hannington Bahemuka in western Uganda.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 5212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.psu.edu/story/163125/2010/11/04/penn-state-fayettes-new-chancellor-aims-lift-campus-new-heights", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:18Z", "digest": "sha1:WEU3QASCZHRHUVUBVJ7OOU5IWKDUWBMJ", "length": 6121, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "news.psu.edu", "title": "Penn State Fayette's new chancellor aims to lift campus to new heights | Penn State University", "raw_content": "Francis Achampong, the newly appointed permanent chancellor of Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, welcomes the opportunity to take Penn State Fayette into a \"vibrant future that takes the campus to new heights and a future of possibilities.\" Nov. 1 marked the official start of Achampong's new tenure at the campus.\nAchampong\u2019s appointment followed a six-month search for a new chancellor for the campus. In March, Achampong, who was serving as director of academic affairs at Penn State Mont Alto, was named to oversee campus operations on an interim basis following the unexpected death of former Chancellor Emmanuel I. Osagie.\nAs Achampong points out, many visionary leaders and philanthropists in the past \u201cenvisioned more than the eye can see\u201d for the campus, which has now grown to be Fayette County\u2019s only four-year institution of higher education. He explained, \u201cThe campus has the excellent faculty, staff and resources needed to bring high-quality education to southwestern Pennsylvania. I will be working with the campus and local community to move the campus up to the next level.\u201d\nHow to do that? Achampong says by focusing on Penn State Fayette\u2019s Vision Statement: \u201cPenn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus will be recognized as the region\u2019s finest student-centered university, focusing on academic excellence, and the social, cultural and economic development of the community.\u201d\nSome of Achampong\u2019s ideas include assisting faculty by providing support and services so they can work with students and engage them in research and the process of discovery, and by focusing on student success with additional student learning support. \u201cWe need to work proactively to change the perception that only weak students utilize learning support services. Let\u2019s create an academic culture in which all students seek out resources so they get stronger and better, improving graduation and retention rates in the process,\u201d he said.\nPenn State University and the Fayette campus offer students and the local community benefits they cannot find elsewhere, Achampong believes. \u201cPenn State Fayette is a vital and integral member of the southwestern Pennsylvania community because of what we can offer. The expertise of Penn State faculty is world class. Fayette students have an opportunity to connect with the resources of a top-notch university, yet experience the one-on-one benefits of a small campus. And Penn State Fayette grads can be confident their degree is in demand by recruiters of top corporations, that they have the potential to earn more over their careers, and that the worldwide network of Penn State alumni is a resource for a lifetime.\u201d\nAchampong indicates other strategic areas of interest will get focused attention as well, including possible changes to the campus\u2019 academic offerings. He says it is important for the campus to study market demand for programs so Fayette can meet the needs of the region in a highly competitive marketplace.\nThe ability to offer residential housing, either by the University or in partnership with third-party providers, will be a key strategy to attract more out-of-state and international students, which will increase diversity and enrich the campus as a whole, he added.\nOutreach and Continuing Education, also, are vital services. Achampong explained, \u201cOutreach that contributes to the socio-economic and cultural development of our community is a crucial part of our mission and our vision.\u201d He emphasizes that credit and noncredit programs contribute to the readiness of the workforce, so he will focus on better collaboration to design programs \u2014 on and off campus \u2014 for the communities the campus serves.\nAchampong said, \u201cI strongly believe that Penn State Fayette ought to be the very first institution of higher education that comes to mind in our community when [anyone] needs us for solutions to social problems or when [anyone is] looking for ideas of catalysts for economic development.\u201d\nThe campus will always need to be at its best, Achampong said, to achieve these goals, and the campus will need to hone its skills to remain on the cutting edge. In addition, \u201cWe have to tell our story and tell it well,\u201d he said. But Achampong is confident the campus community, as a whole, wants Fayette to rise to the next level. \u201cTogether, we will use our vision, mission and strategic plan to capture the opportunities of the future.\u201d\nAchampong has been a part of Penn State for over eight years. He led the Mont Alto campus in adopting a vision and core values statement; introduced new degree programs, mentored faculty; and provided fiscal leadership in times of budgetary constraints.\nAn expert in sexual harassment, workplace harassment and risk management, Achampong holds a doctorate in law from the University of London; a master of laws degree from both Georgetown University Law Center and the University of London, Kings College, where his primary area of study was insurance law, credit and security; and a bachelor of laws degree magna cum laude from the University of Ghana. He is a member of the Virginia Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association and was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1990.\nBefore his appointment at Mont Alto, Achampong served in a variety of positions at Norfolk State University, including as interim dean of the AACSB-accredited School of Business at Norfolk State; as head of the Department of Entrepreneurship, Finance and Marketing; and also as a professor of business law and insurance.\nAchampong was a Fellow of the American Council on Education from 2008-09 and holds a Certificate in Management and Leadership Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the author of several publications, including a book, \"Workplace Sexual Harassment Law: Principles, Landmark Developments, and Framework for Effective Risk Management,\" published in 1999. His latest work, \"Integrating Risk Management and Strategic Planning\" was published in Winter 2010 in Planning for Higher Education.\nPatrick Jones appointed chancellor at Penn State Schuylkill\nchancellor, Francis Achampong", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 8931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 190.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.psu.edu/story/363071/2015/07/15/arts-and-entertainment/honors-music-institute-offers-summer-music-making", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:PIQ3ZTOJK4FYA7EFQBWYOIQ35LVWXETO", "length": 4665, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "news.psu.edu", "title": "Honors Music Institute Offers Summer Music-Making Experience for High Schoolers", "raw_content": "Honors Music Institute offers summer music-making experience for high schoolers\nDennis Glocke, director of concert bands in the School of Music, conducts the Honors Music Institute Wind Ensemble.Image: Cody Goddard\nDuring the academic year, it\u2019s common to hear a variety of music wafting from the studios and rehearsal halls in Music Buildings I and II. During one week in the summer, passers-by are likely to be treated to some music as well, but this time by talented high school students participating in the Honors Music Institute (HMI). The 2015 institute takes place July 12\u201318, with about 90 participants from across Pennsylvania and beyond.\nThe Honors Music Institute, directed by Jayne Glocke, started as a summer music camp in 1997 and has evolved into a prestigious opportunity for high school musicians. Originally called Summer Music at Penn State, the program was open to all and included options in choir, band, jazz band and piano. In 2013, in order to address participants\u2019 desire for an appropriately challenging experience, the program was revamped and renamed the Honors Music Institute. Applicants to HMI must submit a YouTube video audition, which is evaluated by the institute\u2019s faculty, many of whom are School of Music faculty members. Options for participants\u2014selected based on level of musicianship and technical ability\u2014now include chamber choir, piano and wind ensemble.\n\u201cAlthough we loved the \u2018come one, come all\u2019 concept, we found that we did not have the mass of participants needed to have multiple choirs and bands so as to give each student a meaningful musical experience at the level to which they were suited,\u201d explained Glocke, who serves as director of Penn State\u2019s Campus Choir and Women\u2019s Chorale.\nParticipants, which include students entering 9th through 12th grade, stay in North Halls and fill their days with masterclasses, lessons, chamber ensembles and classes on various musical topics. They also rehearse for an end-of-week concert. In the evenings, they attend recitals by the HMI faculty.\n\u201cThe days are busy, fun and full of great music-making and learning,\u201d said Glocke. \u201cBecause all participants arrive on campus with similar abilities, they are able to have significant musical experiences and achieve a very high level of music-making by the end of the week.\u201d\nAccording to Glocke, many of the participants ultimately attend Penn State, majoring in music and/or participating in one of the School of Music\u2019s numerous ensembles.\nHonors Music Institute 2015\nThe annual Honors Music Institute, a highly selective opportunity for talented high school-age musicians, is taking place in the School of Music July 12-18. The final concerts, open to the public, will take place Saturday, July 18, in Esber Recital Hall: Piano at 9:30 a.m., Chamber Choir at 11:30 a.m. and Wind Ensemble at 2 p.m. Visit music.psu.edu/hmi for more information.\nHonors Music Institute Wind Ensemble\nDennis Glocke, director of concert bands in the School of Music, conducts the Honors Music Institute Wind Ensemble.\nIMAGE: Cody Goddard\nHonors Music Institute Chamber Choir\nChris Kiver, director of choral activities in the School of Music, conducts the Honors Music Institute Chamber Choir.\nHonors Music Institute Piano Masterclass\nChristopher Guzman, assistant professor of piano, instructs an Honors Music Institute student in a piano masterclass.\nHigh school students rehearse as part of the Honors Music Institute Wind Ensemble.\nThe Honors Music Institute is the only summer music program at Penn State. Previous participants have commented that the institute helped them to grow both as a musician and a person. \u201cHMI was honestly one of the best experiences I have ever had in my life, both inside and outside of music,\u201d said a 2013 participant.\nGlocke said her goal is for the students to learn more about and experience great music in as many ways and settings as possible. \u201cIf the students leave us at the end of the week with a new or renewed appreciation of their art form and with a few more tools to use in their music-making, we feel as though we have made a great contribution to the world.\u201d\nThe 2015 HMI final concerts, open to the public, will take place Saturday, July 18, in Esber Recital Hall: Piano at 9:30 a.m., Chamber Choir at 11:30 a.m. and Wind Ensemble at 2 p.m.\nThe 2016 Honors Music Institute is set for July 10\u201316. For more information and to apply, visit music.psu.edu/hmi. Applications will be accepted beginning in January 2016.\nArts and Entertainment, Campus Life, Impact, Music, Pennsylvania\ncollege of arts and architecture, conferences and institutes, Honors Music Institute, School of Music, summer camp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 7613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsroom.aviator.aero/iberia-presents-its-most-advanced-aircraft-in-the-market-new-destinations-and-growth-of-8-in-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QZ4RQLBC2BHXMLEQ5PBFQ54XFML2VJRW", "length": 3778, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "newsroom.aviator.aero", "title": "Iberia presents its Most Advanced Aircraft in the Market, New Destinations, and Growth of 8% in 2018", "raw_content": "Iberia presents its Most Advanced Aircraft in the Market, New Destinations, and Growth of 8% in 2018\n\u00b7 The long-haul Airbus A350s Iberia will receive in June consume some 30% less fuel.\n\u00b7 Hi-speed Wi-Fi, an improved in-flight entertainment system, higher ceilings, more space for hand luggage, and an advanced air circulation system are some of the improvements passengers will notice.\n\u00b7 Business Class touch screens are larger, seats are wider, and there is additional space for storing personal items.\n\u00b7 For its short- and medium-haul fleet, Iberia will receive new Airbus A320neo\u2019s, equipped with quieter engines and consuming 15% lower fuel.\n\u00b7 This year Iberia will launch is non-stop flights from Madrid to San Francisco and to Managua, while Iberia Express is adding Mikonos and Palermo to its newtwork.\n\u00b7 Once again, Iberia and Iberia Express were the world\u2019s most punctual carriers in their categories in 2017.\nMadrid, 22 January 2018\nIberia presented its new developments for this year at the annual FITUR travel trade fair in Madrid, including its first Airbus A350/900, the most modern commercial airliner in the market today, which will join the fleet in June\nIberia will become the first airline to fly this improved version of the A350/900, featuring enhanced aerodynamics and structure and reinforced landing gear.\nIberia\u2019s new Airbus A350/900s also incorporate the latest cockpit technology, integrating all systems with the operating infrastructure, and more advanced transfer of information from the aircraft.\nThey are powered by Rolls Royce Trent XWB-84 engines, which allow higher speeds and fuel consumption some 30% lower than the A340-600\nPassengers will also notice that the A350/900 is the world\u2019s quietest aircraft, with panoramic windows, wider aisles, and higher ceilings for a greater sense of spaciousness. The new air intake and circulation system ensures a level of humidity of up to 16%.\nThe new aircraft also features high-speed Wi-Fi, and more sensitive HD touch display screens for easier use of the in-flight entertainment system.\nThe Airbus A350/900\u2019s Business Class seats are wider: 58 cm instead of 52.5cm, and display screens are 18\u201d. Footrests are also wider. with side protectors, and there is more space for storing belongings.\nThe first Iberia\u2019s long-haul flight operated by its new A350-900 will be New York in August 2018.\nA320neo \u2013Quieter and More Efficient\nFor its short- and medium-haul network, Iberia will be taking delivery this year of its first two Airbus A320neo planes, whose new engines make them quieter and 15% more fuel-efficient than the previous generation of Airbus A320s. More slender seat backs add an inch to passenger space.\nIn 2018, to San Francisco and Managua\nThe new year will also see Iberia launch non-stop flights from Madrid to San Francisco and to Managua.\nSan Francisco fights will be seasonal, starting on 25 April and ending on 28 September, with departures on Mondays, Wednesday, and Fridays. Flights to Managua will operate on the same week days, and will begin on 1 October.\nIberia also expects to see substantial growth in traffic on several of its long-haul routes \u2013to Japan, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Puerto Rico, and Brazil\u2013 as well as shorter routes \u2013France, Italy, Portugal, etc.\u2013 for which it is adding 8% to overall seat supply over the 2017 total. Meanwhile, the low-cost carrier Iberia Express is launching new services to Mikonos and Palermo.\nIberia and Iberia Express were world\u2019s most punctual carriers in their respective categories in 2017, according to FlightStats, an achievement that reflects the commitment of all employees to outshine all other airlines with their dedication and efficiency.\nAirBridgeCargo reports 13% growth rate for 2017 as volumes surpass 700,000 tonnes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 293.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nhl.nbcsports.com/2013/11/21/video-detroits-nyquist-scores-17-seconds-into-season-debut/comment-page-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:41Z", "digest": "sha1:SHNMR5HHZA5RKC3WPO5ASMXK26UT6WQG", "length": 1222, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "nhl.nbcsports.com", "title": "Video: Detroit\u2019s Nyquist scores 17 seconds into season debut \u2013 ProHockeyTalk", "raw_content": "Video: Detroit\u2019s Nyquist scores 17 seconds into season debut\nBy Mike HalfordNov 21, 2013, 7:55 PM EST\nGustav Nyquist, the Detroit forward squeezed out due to salary cap issues, proved he belonged with the Wings all along by scoring just 17 seconds into his season debut on Thursday, giving his club a 1-0 lead over Carolina:\nNyquist cracked the Wings roster last year with a good regular season (six points in 22 games) and a very impressive postseason (five points in 14 games). He proceeded to join Grand Rapids for its Calder Cup run, then signed a two-year, $1.9 million extension in the hopes of becoming a full-time contributor in Detroit.\nBut that was before the Wings re-upped with Dan Cleary and couldn\u2019t find any takers for the likes of Jordin Tootoo and Patrick Eaves (who have since been waived, and are now in Grand Rapids). Detroit was carrying as many as 16 forwards on NHL contracts this year, and only found room for Nyquist after putting defenseman Danny DeKeyser on LTIR.\nNyquist, 24, has been tearing it up for the Rapids this year, scoring 21 points in his first 15 games. He sits tied for fourth in league scoring and is second in assists, with 14.\nTags: Dan Cleary, Danny DeKeyser, Detroit Red Wings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 25983, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nikhilgopal.com/bime591/update/2016/02/24/eighth-class.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:27Z", "digest": "sha1:JDGQJIYWU4QW3DIVP4MYMNVKP7EZEPKQ", "length": 683, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "nikhilgopal.com", "title": "Working Group Day", "raw_content": "Working Group Day\nToday, we covered some of the changes in the field since the Shneiderman paper, and then broke out into working groups. We had three working groups, one for each of three areas of biomedical informatics (bioinformatics, clinical informatics, and public health informatics). In each working group, we take biomedical data, design visualizations as a group, and implement them (if we have time). As requested by the class, we will continue where we left off in the working groups next week.\nLinks from class today:\nLadder of Abstraction - I mentioned this blog post to those in the bioinformatics group. It takes about an hour to peruse through, and is well worth it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nownownow.com/p/LQKk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:29Z", "digest": "sha1:GBLIVETLBZ2FLIGSN5D7LZ47KYO4CFKT", "length": 668, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "nownownow.com", "title": "Paul Sufka : Now Now Now profile", "raw_content": "\u201c\"I think generally people\u2019s thinking process is too bound by convention or analogy to prior experiences. It\u2019s rare that people try to think of something on a first principles basis.\" -- Elon Musk\u201d\nEagan, MN United States\nRheumatologist at HealthPartners\nI'm a rheumatologist because it's one of the fields in medicine that still requires great physical exam skills, but also uses the latest in immunology for diagnosis and treatment, and allows you to have long term relationships with patients.\n\u201cThe Four Hour Work Week\u201d by Tim Ferriss. This is a great book to start thinking about challenging your assumptions about life in general.\npaulsufka.com\ntwitter.com/psufka", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4255, "original_length": 168039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://npcmustangs.com/summer-camps-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:CLTZ555MIHCXRRHSVZUWYMBKIER4UW2W", "length": 161, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "npcmustangs.com", "title": "NorthPointe Christian - Team Home NorthPointe Christian Mustangs Sports", "raw_content": "Starting June 11, camps will be offered for Elementary and Middle School age students.\nHere is the link for online registration:\nBy Scott Huckaby on Mar 21, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 3781, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://oakseed.org/urban-church-and-community-development/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ET7JMGXJEGXJBVK7F7AWDSXFKQY5JF3B", "length": 1441, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "oakseed.org", "title": "Urban Church and Community Development - Oakseed Ministries International", "raw_content": "Ashirvad Kanti\u2014 Fosters community development and works through government programs to help poor communities improve their infrastructure, gain access to healthcare, and meet basic needs. (India)\nAssociation of Christian Thoughtfulness (ACT)\u2014 Partners with churches to teach them how to advocate for the poor and address issues of advocacy, health, developing life-skills, and confronting abuse in their communities. (India)\nBirhan Social Development\u2014 Provides education for those who are unable to cover the cost of training and trains social development workers to prepare them to address the root causes of poverty with the power of the gospel. (Ethiopia)\nEvangelical Social Action Forum (ESAF)\u2014Helps impoverished families start small biblically-based enterprises through a microfinance program and improves quality of life for those living in the slums through projects such as providing running water or distributing solar lamps and Greenway stoves. (India)\nMosoj Yan\u2014 Friendship Club programs work with local churches to prevent problems such as addiction, bullying, and violence. (Bolivia)\nPakistan Fellowship of Evangelical Students\u2014Serves in 10 cities throughout Pakistan, reaching almost 1,500 students through 19 weekly Bible study groups. (Pakistan)\nSouth Mumbai Center (Valley of Praise)\u2014Shares the gospel through Bible study, church services, spiritual retreats, worship training, and Bible and literature distribution. (India)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 3146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2010/10/22/leading-example-va-funds-solar-energy-projects-hospitals-clinics-cemeteries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:40:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYS5MYARE7G4ZAP23LCLI7UME75JCLWV", "length": 5269, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "obamawhitehouse.archives.gov", "title": "Leading by Example: VA Funds Solar Energy Projects at Hospitals, Clinics, Cemeteries | whitehouse.gov", "raw_content": "Leading by Example: VA Funds Solar Energy Projects at Hospitals, Clinics, Cemeteries\nOctober 22, 2010 at 9:44 AM ET by Jim Sullivan\nThe Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awards $78 million in contracts to build solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at VA facilities nationwide.\nJust over a year ago, President Obama asked the Federal government to lead by example when he signed Executive Order 13514: Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance. This Order directs federal agencies to set aggressive sustainability goals, and to promote \u201cgreen practices\u201d more generally. The Department of Veterans Affairs has responded enthusiastically to the President\u2019s request. Indeed, we have long been leading by example in the area of environmental sustainability. For instance, as far back as 2005, when the Energy Policy Act ordered federal agencies to purchase 7.5 percent of their electricity from renewable sources by 2013, VA responded by setting its own target at 15 percent\u2014double the mandated amount. This increased use of renewable energy also helps VA to accomplish another aggressive goal we have recently set ourselves: reducing our greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2020.\nThis week brings more good news regarding VA\u2019s leadership in environmental performance, and its commitment to renewable energy in particular. On Monday, we proudly announced that we have awarded nearly $78 million in contracts to build solar photovoltaic (PV) systems at VA facilities nationwide.\nBy fall 2011, VA will have installed the solar PV systems at hospitals, clinics and national cemeteries in a dozen particularly sunny locations, from Florida to California. In several cases, these systems will produce up to 100 percent of the facility\u2019s annual electricity usage.\nVA conducted feasibility studies to determine the optimal locations for these on-site renewable energy project investments, ultimately selecting seven facilities in California (Los Angeles, San Diego, Dixon, Martinez, Menlo Park, Monterey, and Sepulveda), three in Florida (Miami, Viera, and Tampa), one in Salt Lake City, and one in Prescott, Arizona. Together with our previously awarded solar PV projects (in Phoenix, Albuquerque, Tucson, Dublin (GA), San Juan (PR), Calverton (NY), Santa Nella (CA), and Riverside (CA)), these contracts will help us meet our goal of 15 percent renewably-generated electricity consumption by 2013.\nAt the GreenGov symposium held on the campus of George Washington University earlier this month, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality Nancy Sutley announced plans to install solar panels and a solar hot water heater on the roof of the White House Residence. The idea behind that initiative is to demonstrate that American solar technologies are available, reliable, and ready for installation in homes throughout the country\u2014even the White House.\nI like to think of VA\u2019s recent announcement in a similar vein. For instance: as the operator of our nation\u2019s single largest healthcare system, VA\u2019s decision to install PV systems at our hospitals and clinics serves to demonstrate that healthcare facilities, no less than private homes, can benefit from these technologies today. In this way, we join the President in leading by example.\nAs VA Secretary Eric Shinseki said recently, \u201cWith these investments in clean energy and other renewable energy projects for our medical centers, clinics, and cemeteries, we are marching forward with the President\u2019s initiative to \u2018green\u2019 the Federal government. The benefits of using solar power are significant, from our reduced utility bills to the quality of the air we breathe. This initiative is good for Veterans and good for our environment.\u201d\n[UPDATE: For those wondering just how much energy projects like these solar PV installations really contribute, VA has just updated its figures regarding projects that help reduce our nation\u2019s dependence on foreign oil. And the figures are pretty compelling: VA projects in operation and under construction harnessing wind power and geothermal heat are estimated to contribute the equivalent of 12.4 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) annually for VA (roughly the amount of energy consumed by 1,200 American households). Renewably-fueled combined heat and power projects will generate 45.3 million kWh annually, with one project already in operation and six new projects being installed. And solar projects going in \u2013 including those described above \u2013 are projected to produce 50.6 million kWh annually, once completed. All told, the total anticipated energy generation and savings from these and other VA energy efficiency and renewable energy projects installed or underway is equivalent to approximately 308 million kWh per year. To put this in perspective, that is enough to fully power eight large VA medical centers, or nearly 30,000 American households!\nI\u2019m also excited to announce the launch of our brand new \u2018Greening VA\u2019 website. You can read more about VA\u2019s renewable energy projects, and many other of our greening initiatives, at http://www.green.va.gov. Be sure to check back regularly for updates on other new and exciting ways in which VA is leading by example in the area of environmental sustainability.]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 10602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ohsonline.com/articles/2011/07/18/rochester-mn-ranked-highest-for-resilience.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:47Z", "digest": "sha1:U72GRPCN6YWDT7T2VKDZXP3PPLNF4372", "length": 2297, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ohsonline.com", "title": "Rochester, MN Ranked Highest for Resilience -- Occupational Health & Safety", "raw_content": "Rochester, MN Ranked Highest for Resilience\nThe Resilience Capacity Index ranks 361 metropolitan areas for their capacity to recover from stresses -- recession, natural disaster, etc. -- relatively unscathed.\nMetropolitan areas in the South and West did not score well in a new ranking called the Resilience Capacity Index that is available on the website of Building Resilient Regions (BRR), a group of experts whose research is supported by the MacArthur Foundation. The top-ranked metro area is Rochester, Minn., while the lowest-ranked is College Station-Bryan, Texas. The rankings were released July 11.\nHouston, Los Angeles, San Antonio, and Miami all ranked near the bottom of the index.\nBRR Network member Kathryn Foster of the University of Buffalo's Regional Institute created the index. She explained in a Q&A on the BRR website that 12 factors are included in the scoring. They are grouped into three categories: regional economy, social and demographic factors, and community connectivity. She said network research shows \"there are two basic ways to think about resilience. One is as a performance measure -\u2014 how well did my region respond to and recover from a stress? The other is as a capacity measure \u2014- how well positioned is my region to respond and recover effectively from a stress? The RCI focuses on capacity. It is a single ranking number that accounts for 12 factors we believe make regions more resilient.\"\nRegional economy factors are economic diversification, income equality, regional affordability, and overall business environment. Social and demographic factors are educational attainment in the region, percentage of the population living in poverty, percentage with disabilities, and percentage with health insurance. Community connectivity include voter participation, homeownership, how long people have lived in the region, and civic infrastructure.\nAsked why civic participation and health insurance are included, she said civic participation is an indicator of civic engagement. Having community networks affords communities a foundation for assistance and support during crises and also a way for residents to become involved in their own communities, she said, and having health insurance provides a foundation for social, physical, and economic security.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://one.mdfoodbank.org/2015/10/erik-danyeil/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KJO6UQNJHN42UUGBVE2RBZ7DGWI7FG4I", "length": 4883, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "one.mdfoodbank.org", "title": "Erik & Danyeil's Transcription \u2013 One MarylandOne Maryland", "raw_content": "Living in a van and working long hours at 7-Eleven, Erik and Danyeil make every effort to save for an apartment. But money for groceries is scarce, and the two struggle to make the most out of a tough situation.\nErik: I\u2019m currently in Ironworkers and that\u2019s for an apprenticeship program, and Dani\u2019s about ready to go back to school probably later on this year.\nDanyeil: Hopefully. If things work out.\nErik: Well.\nDanyeil: We both work at 7-11.\nErik: We work at 7-11. Both of us. Same owner, different stores.\nDanyeil: Yeah, different stores.\nErik: Oh, our work schedule\u2019s crazy. We work midnight to 8. It\u2019s pretty much, we don\u2019t get set lunches or set breaktimes for that.\nDanyeil: No. We just work out eight hours and sometimes plus eight hours. I mean, we\u2019re working six days a week to get together money to get an apartment. If it wasn\u2019t for a pastor who had done several funerals in his family and two weddings, I mean, we wouldn\u2019t be going into the apartment that we\u2019re getting in January. Yeah, he offered to help us. We\u2019re very blessed to have that help.\n2. Dani\u2019s Reflection\nDanyeil: I\u2019ve been homeless a couple times before, but never to this degree. He\u2019s really not had to face that, at all. It\u2019s depressing. I feel like I\u2019ve failed. I feel like, I don\u2019t know. Even though I know it\u2019s not my fault, it\u2019s hard. Because I look at my life. I used to have a really good job, and I really liked that. Now, I\u2019m working for 7-11, which, I thank god I even have a job because a lot of people don\u2019t have jobs.\nIt\u2019s a real wake up call. It really is.\nI worked as an internet tech support person. I was making $13.78 an hour. Going from that to steadily moving down the ladder as far as jobs, I had to wind up quitting because I just couldn\u2019t handle the stress. It was really affecting my health. I had health issues at the time. That was when I was first diagnosed with diabetes. I had my gall bladder removed. All in the same time frame, so it was just a lot. And I wound up quitting, which is probably one of my worst mistakes that I made.\nThen I was a server for several years. Different restaurants. I got laid off October 2013? Yeah, October 2013. That\u2019s when things started really going downhill. Because it seemed like after that, I couldn\u2019t find a full time job, and that\u2019s when his grandfather really started going downhill so between not having a very good job and having to take care of a person with dementia, it was a lot of stress.\nDanyeil: We just eat what\u2019s available.\nErik: We try to eat non-perishables.\nDanyeil: Unfortunately, the government, our wonderful government, when we had a place to live, they were giving him a decent amount of food stamps, and now they\u2019ve knocked him back to $15 a month.\nErik: I was getting about $100, I was getting $200 when I was first taking care of my grandfather because I was part time college student, full time care giver for him so I was not making any money at all.\nDanyeil: But then even after you got the job.\nErik: No, then they knocked it down to $180. Got the job, they still kept it at about $160. Then when I became homeless, I told them, I\u2019m homeless, I don\u2019t have an address.\nDanyeil: Because it was about time for redetermination.\nErik: They told me, you\u2019re eligible, but because you\u2019re working and you\u2019re homeless, $15.\nDanyeil: Which they don\u2019t understand, you can\u2019t keep a lot of food in the car.\nErik: But even if it\u2019s not perishables, it still helps.\nDanyeil: Well, I know, but I\u2019m just saying, they don\u2019t understand.\nErik: Well, everything has been in slow decline since I was in high school. I was the one that worked as a nurse tech. Did that for about, I think it was twenty years.\nDanyeil: He\u2019s talking in general.\nErik: No, it\u2019s interesting because I mean, I was used to having a really good job, like Dani had. I worked in nursing. I worked at places like shock trauma, worked at places like those. Then it\u2019s onto a fire company. Then it\u2019s becoming a volunteer fire fighter EMT. It was just like a slow decline. It really was, and pop, and I was always used to making decent money. I mean, 7-11 pays me just slightly more than minimum wage. Where I was used to just going out and my job gets me an apartment, be able to have money, I can go get a credit card if I want one. And you know, it has been devastating. What I\u2019ve been trying is to get with a new attitude. With a lot of guys in my iron working hall and stuff like that, they\u2019ve been trying to keep me positive, Dani\u2019s been trying to keep me positive. It\u2019s: we\u2019re going to make it through it, and . . . and we\u2019re going to.\nAnd that\u2019s the toughest part is just watching my family slowly disappear because of everything. Because of greed and everything like that. To now where I can\u2019t even ask anybody for anything. It\u2019s up to me. It\u2019s up to me, it\u2019s up to Dani. It\u2019s up to whoever that may be around us at the time.\nErik & Danyeil\u2019s Full Story", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8427, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 244.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://onebillionrisingnb.org/2011/11/18/code-of-silence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ALF4VM4T6XFBDYKMKGSSVUJ2NIUT4G7N", "length": 3393, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "onebillionrisingnb.org", "title": "Code Of Silence | North Bay ONE BILLION RISING", "raw_content": "\u2190 Dear Port-au-Prince, Bukavu & New Orleans V-Sisters\n({V})olunteers Are Our FOUNDATION! \u2192\n\u201cThere\u2019s a code of silence that we don\u2019t dare speak, There\u2019s a wall between and the river\u2019s deep\u2026\u201d \u2013 Bruce Springsteen \u201cCode of Silence\u201c\nIn the recent tragedy at Penn State it is reported that trusted Coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on 40 counts related to allegations of sexual abuse of eight young boys over a 15-year period. This allegedly occurred while other coaches looked on and kept silent about what they saw, what they knew and perhaps even tried to cover up for their colleague and \u201cthe program\u201d.\nAs men we have a long history invested in collusion with other men and codes of silence. Also known as codes of honor, vows of silence, the blue curtain of silence with names like \u201cthe family\u201d or \u201cthe brotherhood\u201d. Many of us in our youth and adulthood have participated in defining violators of the code of silence as haters, suckers, punks, rats, snitches, weasels, a snake and much worse.\nThis pervasive silence among men in our culture to protect the status quo, to win at any cost, and never tell on your brother is a glaring example of how destructive the current model and definition of manhood operates to demean, diminish and oppress anyone who is not considered a \u201creal man\u201d in our society. Our fear of being perceived as less than a man or weak, keeps us in line with these codes, regardless of right and wrong. This fear is running ramped and dominating our sense of righteousness. Dare we be a \u201cwhistleblower\u201d, when most of us as boys have been told \u201cdon\u2019t be a tattle tale\u201d.\nThis code protects men from confronting or challenging other men about their behavior, no matter how violent or inappropriate. This agreement has at its foundation the belief that men have more value and should receive entitlements and benefits, even if it compromises the rights and humanity of anyone else and therefore should be given priority, protection and the benefit of the doubt in cases of any wrong doing. These social and cultural norms that have been established by men for the benefit of men are steeped in our history, laws and tradition and we continue to pass this belief system down to our sons and boys.\nWhile all of the perpetrators of the Penn State incident need to be held accountable and dealt with swiftly by the law, it does not let the rest of us off the hook. What happened at Penn State is \u201ca cough in the cold\u201d, a symptom of the illness. While clearly, there are specific individuals involved and responsible, we believe that this is not just an individual ill but a social ill requiring a social response.\nAs men, we must join the growing movement of men and women, willing to challenge these age old notions and norms defining manhood. We must be willing to escape the fear of being viewed as less than a man and branded an outcast or traitor of the unit, the organization , the team. We must be willing to step outside of what we at A CALL TO MEN call \u201cThe Man Box\u201d. We must be willing to break the code of silence which continues to restrict us and compromise our humanity\u2026 \u201cWe keep pretending that there\u2019s nothing wrong, But there\u2019s a code of silence and it can\u2019t go on\u201d \u2013 Bruce Springsteen \u201cCode of Silence\u201d\nFrom the Co-founders \u2013 A CALL TO MEN\nThis entry was posted in Until The Violence Stops, V-Day Petaluma and tagged code of silence, men. 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D Walker | OpenJurist", "raw_content": "21 F. 3d 426 - United States v. D Walker\n21 F3d 426 United States v. D Walker\nZakeem D. WALKER, a/k/a Carl Webb, a/k/a David Sims,\nAppeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, at Charleston. Charles H. Haden II, Chief District Judge. (CR-92-304)\nC. Cooper Fulton, Asst. Federal Public Defender (Hunt L. Charach, Federal Public Defender, on brief), Charleston, W VA, for appellant.\nMichael Lee Keller, Asst. U.S. Atty. (Charles T. Miller, U.S. Atty., J. Kirk Brandfass, Asst. U.S. Atty., on brief), Charleston, W VA, for appellee.\nS.D.W.Va.\nBefore WILKINS, LUTTIG, and MICHAEL, Circuit Judges.\nDuring the search of Zakeem Walker incident to his arrest for violating the Charleston, West Virginia, \"open container\" ordinance, a patrolman found crack cocaine in Walker's jacket. Walker appeals the district court's denial of his suppression motion, and we affirm.\nShortly after midnight on October 27, 1992, Zakeem Walker and three companions got out of a taxi at the guard shack in front of the Spring Hill apartment complex at Roseberry Circle in Charleston, West Virginia. Walker and his companions walked past City Patrolman Keith Peoples, who was on duty in the area. Peoples saw Walker drinking a can of beer as he walked along. Charleston has an open container ordinance that prohibits drinking \"alcoholic liquor,\" which includes beer, in a public place.\nPatrolman Peoples started toward Walker, who put his beer on the sidewalk. Peoples told Walker drinking in public was against the law, and Walker said, \"Sir, I'm sorry, I'll never do it again.\" JA 11. When Patrolman Peoples asked Walker where he lived, Walker gave a tenth floor apartment number at 1311 Roseberry Circle, a building within the Spring Hill complex. Peoples knew the address was false because the building had only nine floors. Peoples told Walker there was no such address, but Walker insisted he lived with his aunt at the address given. After Peoples suggested that he would check the tenant list, Walker said, \"Sir, I lied. I don't live there.\" JA 11.\nAt this point, Peoples told Walker he was under arrest for violating the open container law and asked him to put his hands against the wall. As Peoples was doing a pat down, Walker kept pulling away from the wall, and Peoples told him to keep his hands against the wall. Next, Peoples felt a bundle in Walker's jacket, and Walker swung his right arm around. A struggle ensued, and Peoples wrestled Walker to the ground and handcuffed him. Peoples completed the search and found some crack (cocaine base) in a hole in Walker's jacket.\nWalker was charged in a one count indictment with possession with intent to distribute cocaine base in violation of 21 U.S.C. Sec. 841(a)(1).\nWalker moved to suppress the cocaine base as the fruit of an illegal search incident to an unlawful arrest. He argued below (as he does here) that Charleston's open container ordinance violates the Fourth Amendment because it gives an officer unbridled discretion either to arrest on the spot or to issue a citation for a later appearance. Shortly after the district court denied his motion to suppress, Walker pled guilty under a plea agreement in which he reserved the right to appeal the denial of the suppression motion. Walker now pursues that appeal.\nThe district court held an evidentiary hearing on Walker's motion to suppress on January 19, 1993. At the conclusion of the hearing, the district court denied the motion, ruling as follows:\nThe local ordinance gives an opportunity to an officer confronted with an open alcoholic or non-alcoholic beer container to arrest that person or to take some other action. The officer here chose to effect an arrest. The officer, in the Court's estimation, had probable cause in that the individual, when questioned in a situation after midnight when he was attempting with others to enter the gate, that individual gave what was known to the officer at the time as a false address. The individual was--popped open a beer after he exited the car on public property, ... and all of which gave the officer probable cause to make a stop and, according to the authority of the local ordinance, likewise to make an arrest. The officer, because of the circumstances as he apprehended them at the time, ... decided to go forward with effecting the arrest and did the pat down search. During the course of that search, he found ... crack cocaine.... I find that these circumstances are sufficient ... to deny the motion to suppress and to allow the government to introduce this before the jury as a search incident to a lawful arrest.\nAn officer, at any time a crime is being committed in his presence, has the authority to effect an arrest....\nI don't find that there is any situation here that the officer was even called upon to exercise unbridled discretion. I think the circumstances here, being the time this incident occurred, where it occurred at the guard shack or at about the gate of the Spring Hill Apartment complex coupled with the open beer and all gave the officer probable cause to make the stop and then make the arrest and the arrest inevitably led to the search which led to the disclosure of these controlled substances.\nJA 52-53.\nAfter reviewing the decision of the district court, considering the parties' briefs and the record, and hearing oral argument, we are convinced that Walker's appeal is without merit. We affirm on the reasoning of the district court, as set out above. United States v. Zakeem D. Walker, Cr. No. 2:92-00304 (S.D. W.Va., Jan. 19, 1993). The district court was correct to conclude that Walker was searched incident to a lawful arrest and that the fruits of that search are admissible. United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218 (1973).\nThe district court's January 20, 1993, order denying Walker's motion to suppress is affirmed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 6711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://origin-www.medica-tradefair.com/cgi-bin/md_medica/lib/pub/tt.cgi/When_is_a_medical_device_considered_to_be_a_medical_device_%E2%80%93_Certification_norms_and_standards.html?oid=88273&lang=2&ticket=g_u_e_s_t", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:27Z", "digest": "sha1:CJSBLQZBLOUVDNUXXKF2XW74KUCPKNF2", "length": 6812, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "origin-www.medica-tradefair.com", "title": "When is a medical device considered to be a medical device? \u2013 Certification, norms, and standards -- MEDICA - World Forum for Medicine", "raw_content": "Medical devices have to carry the CE symbol to be sold in Europe.\nFor many patients, the directives, norms, and certifications designed to guarantee safety and quality in medical technology are a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Even startup companies are often initially at a loss when they are confronted with this hodgepodge of yet unknown regulations for the first time. \"In our consulting experience, we frequently meet startups that have developed a novel product and now need help to determine whether and why this product is subject to the Medical Devices Act and to consider the resulting consequences and necessary procedural steps. In this case, we are able to quickly and easily provide important information pertaining to classification and refer them to the responsible entities for subsequent actions. In doing so, these types of issues no longer needlessly slow down the work processes of startups,\" explains Dr. Wiebke L\u00f6bker from the Innovation Office of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (Bundesinstitut f\u00fcr Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte) in Bonn. The Innovation Office provides services for startups that want to enter the medical device industry.\n\"Smaller companies and research centers often have little experience and knowledge about the prerequisites that must be met for the accreditation process and marketing of their devices. That\u2019s why developers frequently believe they face insurmountable regulatory barriers, which can lead to wrong decisions in development. As a result, promising projects are delayed or even entirely stopped,\" L\u00f6bker adds.\nEven a generally accepted definition of the term \"medical device\" seems to be a difficult undertaking, considering that even medical apps can be added to the mix. According to the European Council Directive 93/42/EEC, medical device means any instrument, apparatus, appliance, material or other article, whether used alone or in combination, including software if it is intended for specific health purposes. For example, this includes the diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment or alleviation or compensation of diseases or disabilities. In addition, products that serve the investigation, replacement of the anatomy or a physiological process also fall under this category. This also takes account of products intended for control of conception. There are also exceptions that are not defined by the Directive 93/42/EEC, such as active implantable medical devices for example. In many instances, they are subject to other related Directives.\nMedical devices are further subdivided into the two basic categories \"active\" and \"non-active\" medical devices. In a next step, they are assigned to four risk classes: I, IIa, IIb and III, based on the respective application of risk. In addition, there are the subclasses Is (for sterile class I products) and Im (class I products with a measuring function). The classification of certain products into specific classes is not defined by law and statutory but must be determined on an individual basis by the manufacturer.\nGetting a medical device certified according to different norms and standards is a ticket to new markets for manufacturers.\nAccording to the \"Essential Requirements\" of the Directives 93/42/EEC(Annex I) and 90/385/EEC (Annex 1), medical devices must not only be safe but also medically and technically efficient. This primarily refers to the purpose as intended by the manufacturer. Since June 14, 1998, Directive 93/42 EEC further stipulates that medical devices have to carry the so-called CE mark to be officially put into service and sold.\nThe \"Essential Requirements\" pertaining to the safety of a medical device are technically specified in the so-called \"harmonized standards\", which are defined by the European CEN and CENELEC or ETSI standards organizations. These need to be published correspondingly in the Official Journal of the European Union. They are revised every five years and adopt the latest technical standards. The application of these harmonized standards is not a mandatory legal requirement to obtain CE certification and is left at the manufacturer\u2019s discretion. Manufacturers can also establish that their product ensures regulatory compliance in other ways, based on other technical procedures for example. Not all standards are consistently defined in the European regulatory framework. That is also why national standards can be considered to a certain extent. For example, the German Institute for Standardization (Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Normung), DIN, is responsible for the development and setting of these standards in Germany.\nThe legal requirements for CE certification are generally reviewed as part of a quality management system according to the DIN EN ISO 13485 and DIN EN ISO 9001 standards. Both standards also specifically emphasize product safety. In its systematic approach, DIN EN ISO 13485 is based on DIN EN ISO 9001, though the two standards do not completely correlate with each other. For example, unlike EN ISO 9001, DIN EN ISO 13485 does not explicitly require demonstration of continual QM system improvement.\nThe implementation and continued adherence to these standards are the biggest challenges for medical device manufacturers, especially when teams are small. For Dr. Thomas H\u00fcbner, Managing Director of Preventicus GmbH, it was especially difficult to \"implement the processes to where they not only hold up in an audit but are also 'internalized' within the company, that is to say, all developers have adopted and work according to these processes,\" he explains in an interview with MEDICA-tradefair.com. His certified company provides the \"Preventicus Heartbeats\" app, which is a CE-marked medical device whose effectiveness was tested in clinical trials. He advises startup companies that want to bring a medical device to market to \"start with the certification planning process as soon as possible and include the required resources in their business plan\" because the process is very time-consuming and labor-intensive.\nThroughout the world, there are other national certifications for medical devices. For example, Canada issues certification based on CMDCAS (Canadian Medical Devices Conformity Assessment System), Japan has PAL (Pharmaceutical Affairs Law) and China implements the TCP (Technical Cooperation Programme).\nThat's why standards and certifications in medical technology are not just a cut and dry body of rules and regulations but a guarantor of global safety and quality in practical application. Once startup businesses have gotten their bearings \u2013 in theory, at least- virtually nothing stands in the way of the development and sale of a new medical app.\nThe article was written by Julia Unverzagt and translated from German by Elena O'Meara.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 9604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 175.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://orthopaedicseminar.com/listing/pathfinder-cell-therapy-inc--5671a5a88db91.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:48Z", "digest": "sha1:B2QH3SRQVQP53VP2JG6D33DOP2OMRKN5", "length": 425, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "orthopaedicseminar.com", "title": "Pathfinder Cell Therapy, Inc., United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge | Orthopaedic Seminar", "raw_content": "Pathfinder Cell Therapy, Inc.\nPathfinder Cell Therapy is developing a novel cell-based therapy for the treatment of diabetes, renal disease, myocardial infarction, and other diseases characterized by organ-specific cell damage.\nPathfinder has discovered a new mammalian cell type, which is able to stimulate damaged tissues to regenerate without the Pathfinder Cells (\u201cPCs\u201d) themselves being incorporated into the new tissue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 239.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ourstage.com/profile/terrijsongwriter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:48Z", "digest": "sha1:TFQG7UTOFUW764DSOB2WJ7L3Z2WY2KKX", "length": 1619, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "ourstage.com", "title": "OurStage | Terri- J", "raw_content": "Terri- J\nAbout Terri- J\nTerri is an award winning Songwriter/Producer from the Washington, DC metropolitan area.\nTerri J. singles \"Lonely\" and \u201cI\u2019ll Come Running\u201d ft. Sylver Logan Sharp, previously of Chic, and \"Yearning and Hoping\" ft. Meritxell Negre were released independently and here are the latest stats :\n- #1 Hot New R&B/Soul New Releases Amazon Spain\n- #1 Hip Hop/R&B/Soul Release on eMusic\n- Top 10 MP3 Albums on Amazon Spain- Top 10 Hip Hop/R&B/Soul Releases on eMusic\n-Top 100 R&B/Soul New Releases on iTunes in over 30 countries\n- Amazon Spain, Amazon.com and Amazon UK Best Sellers\n- Top 100 R&B/Soul New Releases, Just Added, and New Albums on iTunes\n- Top 100 R&B Hot New Releases on Amazon UK\n- Radio Airplay in the U.S. and UK\nSongs are currently licensed by internationally-recognized brands such as the five-star Baglioni Hotels and high-end retail stores such as Ermenegildo Zegna and Zegna.\nTerri J. signed a sync/licensing deal with MTV/Viacom for the use of her music on the network and website.\nSilver Logan Sharp, Latin-American singer Meritxell, and Broadway performer Yolanda Wyns have performed some of my musical creations. Xzwer, a rapper from Norway (a crowd favorite on Norway\u2019s Got Talent), rapped on one of my songs. Terri J creates soulful, R&B music that has been described as \u201cmoody and passionate.\u201d\nHer songs have won several songwriting competitions and she has inked publishing deals in Europe, Canada and the U.S.. Terri's songs have been featured in over 22 countries and ranked on the Amazon UK Bestsellers.\nFollow Terri- J on\nwww.pmpworldwide.com...\nwww.mtv.com/artists/...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://owengreaves.com/category/marketing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:02Z", "digest": "sha1:NA7TGROVZKI2RMYSHGH4DPX53UKVF67H", "length": 7014, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "owengreaves.com", "title": "Marketing \u2013 Owengreaves.com", "raw_content": "The Future Of Business \u2013 Is Not SEO!\nThere is much confusion on what SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is, and what it will do for you, in fact, there are many claiming it to be the end all to your websites problems. I\u2019m not going to go into the details of SEO, I\u2019m going to share an experience, what I\u2019m often asked to do for a business. I can safely say, if you think SEO is going to bring the desired outcomes you\u2019re hoping to obtain without planning, without knowing why you\u2019re flexing the SEO muscle in the first place, you most likely would be wrong and disappointed. If your website sucks, SEO will merely reveal that it sucks even more, much like Social Media Networks do.\nSEO is not duck-tape, it\u2019s not a quick fix to a perceived problem,I\u2019m not saying SEO doesn\u2019t play a role in your marketing efforts, I am saying\u2026you need to step back, fly at 50,000 feet, and ask yourself what it is you want your website to accomplish, and then work towards that end. It\u2019s called a realistic strategy, and then a marketing strategy. To explore, to discover what your business objectives are, why do you even have a website? There are many, many questions that need to be answered long before you journey down the Search Engine Optimization road. The future of business is not about shortcuts, it\u2019s not about SEO either.\nSEO is not duck-tape, it\u2019s not a quick fix to a perceived problem, it\u2019s supposed to enhance, to improve your findability on the interwebs, to assist your conversion ratio, and much, much more. SEO is so much more than just trying to game Google or Bing, to just end up on page one. If you haven\u2019t done the hard work, SEO won\u2019t do anything if your site isn\u2019t designed or setup to make people do something. If you\u2019re only goal is to end up on page one, that\u2019s easier than you think\u2026.but you will still fall short of your desired outcome.\nSEO is so much more than just trying to game Google or Bing. SEO, in my opinion, should be in your marketing efforts, well after the planning and building, after you have completed a mind map of your site\u2019s objectives. SEO is a tool to ensure your content is directing visitors to a call to action of some kind. SEO is not a destination, it will not fix other broken problems with your content, or your website, it will reveal them. SEO should be used to qualify those visitors, and then enticing them to go where you want them to go, what you want them to do. The very notion that SEO should is the solution to your site reaching page one is the wrong objective, it\u2019s the wrong goal, you are asking the wrong questions, there are deeper reasons why Google and other search engines aren\u2019t giving your site it\u2019s due, your site isn\u2019t doing the right things to garner their attention in the first place.\nThe future of business is not SEO!\nPosted in Future of Business, Marketing and tagged Bing, Google, Marketing, Marketing strategy, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Social Media Networks, Strategic Planning, Web Design and Development, Web search engine, Website\nWhen The Dog Days Of Summer Hit Your Business\nSo summer finally arrived, now it\u2019s the dog days of July & August, and business has dropped off right? It happens every year, but most business owners don\u2019t plan for the drop off. So when the drop hits, you start to panic, you make offers you normally wouldn\u2019t make, you do things you normally wouldn\u2019t do.\nI too have the same problem, in fact, we all have the same problem, it\u2019s called needing more clients / customers every month. We all at some point experience the dog days of summer drop off in business, or maybe it\u2019s attendance for your workshop and so on. Why are we so shocked or suddenly surprised when it happens?\nOne of the best tips I can give you is this, find like-minded partners in your business community. Why not get together with 2 or 3 other businesses and work together for the common good of your businesses. Help each other get through the summer months by building a promotion that involves all of you, and share the costs evenly if at all possible. This is very common in the online world of doing business on the Internet, it just makes sense. The MLM businesses call this having the best interest in your success, why, because everyone wins.\nBrainstorm ideas together, work the details out and promote it like it you would the Olympics, invest in it. This is not a new concept, it\u2019s just one we tend to over look or blow off, mostly because it seems like it\u2019s too much work. Well, welcome to the world of being in business, work is part of the deal when you started your business.\nThe work is actually the easy part of solving your problem, the real issue is foresight. Taking the time to stop and look ahead 3 \u2013 6 months can help prevent these down turns in July & August. It takes effort, you may want to bring someone in to help look at your situation from the outside looking in, they will see things you can\u2019t. Why? Because you are too close to the problem.\nThis all sounds so simple doesn\u2019t it, if it was these short-term struggles wouldn\u2019t happen to most businesses. So keep it simple, because simple is hard enough.\nSo, find some partners going through the same struggle in your area, make sure they are not competition : ) Pose the question of doing a promotion together, and get creative. Do something significant, not the usual giveaways and 10% discounts, do something special for your business communities / tribes. Make your clients/customers want to get involved, they have the money, give them a reason to buy. Your customers are worth it.\nPosted in Business, Commerce, Marketing and tagged Business, Business and Economy, Marketing, Olympic Games, Promotion, Small Business, Summer\nThe Future Of Business \u2013 When Simple & Brilliant Collide\nWhen simple & brilliant collide. You would think this happens often, but it doesn\u2019t. In the marketing world, this collision would be called a homerun, the grand slam, or utopia, that\u2019s when they think they have nailed it. When you hear the words, or see the picture, you can\u2019t help but smile.\nThe word KitKat, or seeing a picture of one, just makes you feel good, you want to have one. Could you imagine if everyone felt this way when they think of your product or service?\nThe super stars tend to have this collision more often than most, that\u2019s why they are the leading brands, they bring simple and brilliant together, often.\nWhat do you feel when you see this picture above, do you think the marketing department knows what they are selling? Is it a chocolate bar, or a feeling you get when you eat one?\nI just had to share this with you, it\u2019s simple & brilliant. The future of your business should practice this, how could you bring simple & brilliant together for your product or service?\nThe Future Of Business \u2013 Pay Attention (owengreaves.com)\nThe Future Of Business \u2013 Hardwood Floors (owengreaves.com)\nIs Your Business Normal? (owengreaves.com)\nPosted in Marketing and tagged Business, Chocolate bar, Food, Future, Kit Kat, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 10200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pakistani.pk/category/celebrities/pakistani/tag/actorzodiac/capricorn/?pg=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:13Z", "digest": "sha1:GWA2FLW3KRNX5LSW4XKUTRYLAWZDWOHA", "length": 7594, "nlines": 86, "source_domain": "pakistani.pk", "title": "Pakistani Celebrities Who Are Capricorn - Page 2", "raw_content": "Pakistani Celebrities Who Are Capricorn\nDanish Wakeel\nPakistani Updated February 15, 2018 656 0 14 0 0\nDanish Wakeel is a British fashion designer, model and actor who has appeared in Pakistani drama Sangdil. He has his own menswear brand in London. 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Mirza is a member of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 546, "original_length": 18477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 282.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://palmerghonline.com/BREAKING-NEWS-Former-US-president-George-HW-Bush-dead-766", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:41Z", "digest": "sha1:YD7CFUUYZHU4RYQRPRNN4MI33KMTD3O5", "length": 2362, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "palmerghonline.com", "title": "BREAKING NEWS: Former US president George HW Bush dead. | PalmerghOnline", "raw_content": "Former US President George H.W. Bush has died at age 94 in Houston.\nGeorge Bush Sr, as he was known, passed away on Friday evening, a statement said on behalf of the family. In April, he was admitted to a hospital intensive care unit with an infection, a week after the death of his wife Barbara.\nBorn into privilege and a tradition of service, Bush was a son of a senator, celebrated World War II combat pilot, student athlete, Texas oilman, Republican congressman, national party chairman, pioneering diplomat and spy chief. After his own 1980 presidential campaign came up short, he served two terms as Ronald Reagan's vice president before reaching the pinnacle of political power by winning the 1988 presidential election, soundly defeating Democrat Michael Dukakis.\nAfter losing the White House in 1992, Bush became a widely admired political elder who leapt out of airplanes to mark birthday milestones. Emphasizing the generosity of his soul, he forged a close -- and unlikely -- friendship with Democrat Bill Clinton, the man who ended his presidency. When Parkinson's disease mostly silenced him in public, Bush flashed his sense of humor by sporting colorful striped socks.\nBush's death comes after his wife of 73 years, Barbara Bush, passed away on April 17 aged 92. Before her funeral, Bush was pictured in a wheelchair gazing at his wife's flower-covered casket, in a moment that encapsulated their life-long love affair\nIn addition to the 43rd president, Bush is survived by his son Jeb, the former Florida governor and 2016 presidential candidate; sons Neil and Marvin; daughter Dorothy; and 17 grandchildren. His daughter Robin died of leukemia as a child, a tragedy that still moved Bush deeply late in his life. He will be buried alongside her and the former first lady at his presidential library in College Station, Texas.\nWhen Bush left office in 1993, he joined the dubious club of presidents rejected by voters after only one term in office. A career filled with top jobs preparing him for the presidency was cut short in its prime.\nHe lost to Clinton after failing to shake off his image as a starchy Yankee oblivious to the struggles of heartland Americans during an economic downturn.\nBut as time passed, his foreign policy acumen has come to define his presidency, leaving a legacy of wise and sure-handed management of world affairs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 201.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://parabolicapress.com/blogs/news/tagged/english", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:57Z", "digest": "sha1:AZQOMCWDQBQX534RKHYUJOAOPIZ3XTO5", "length": 23981, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "parabolicapress.com", "title": "News Tagged \"English\" - Parabolica Press", "raw_content": "Home / News / English / Page 1 of 3\nReview by Porsche Road & Race of the Turbo 3.0 book:\nThe book, Turbo 3.0, written by Ryan Snodgrass and published by Parabolica Press, is an outstanding piece of work. The book\u2019s narrow remit is precisely its strength, because if you are the lucky owner of a 911 Turbo 3.0, then you would not need any other book on this subject on your bookshelf. This exhaustive volume endeavours to cover everything an owner, restorer, historian or enthusiast would want to know about the dawn of Porsche\u2019s turbocharged supercar. Turbo 3.0 covers not only Porsche\u2019s historic 3.0-litre Turbo, but also the development of production-based turbocharged race cars by examining the Carrera RSR Turbo 2.14 and Turbo RSR 934/934.5 race cars.\nIn a letter from the author that accompanies each book, Snodgrass tells the reader that it was his desire to raise the bar for quality and research, in the publication of top-line books. He has indeed succeeded in achieving both goals, admirably. Without any doubt, this is one of the best researched books on the subject of Porsche production cars yet, and the quality of writing and presentation, ensure that it will stand out in the market. But the book is no lightweight, comprising 512 pages, and with book dimensions of 280 x 320 mm tall, this is a substantial piece of work, but be assured, you won\u2019t find a better piece of research and writing on this model anywhere.\nIndividual chapters cover: Turbocharging Roots; Porsche Turbo Arrives; Drivetrain; Rolling Chassis; Body; Interior\u2026and much more. There is a chapter devoted to motorsport, and then separate sections covering Accessories, Literature, and Production Data with several Appendices closing out the book. As a Turbo 3.0 owner or enthusiast, you will not want to be without this book, as for example, from page 452-497 the author has listed the production data on all 2819 Turbo 3.0 chassis. After this follows many pages giving Production Changes: Engine; Gearbox; Rolling Chassis, and much more.\nThis is truly a comprehensive, all-inclusive publication and you will be glad that you have a copy on your bookshelf. The book is offset printed on the highest-quality paper and enclosed within a protective slipcase, but only 2500 individually numbered hardcover copies of the Turbo 3.0: Limited Edition will be sold.\nIf you really want to get the full works, then the exclusive Turbo 3.0: Publisher\u2019s Edition is offered in an individually signed and numbered series and limited to just 300 copies. Only available direct from Parabolica Press, the Publisher\u2019s Edition differs from the Limited Edition with several unique and extra special surprise features included within a bespoke clamshell box designed specifically for the Publisher\u2019s Edition. Additionally, the Publisher\u2019s Edition carries on Parabolica Press\u2019s theme of offering a \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d look into aspects for how each book is produced. The Turbo 3.0 Behind the Scenes Supplement continues where the Carrera 2.7: Publisher\u2019s Edition Supplement left off by exploring the deep research necessary to produce books at this level, peering through the viewfinder of several photographers and, finally, understanding how artistic concepts become reality for several commissioned illustrations.\nThe purchase price is not insignificant, but you will not be pleased when they are all sold out, so get your copy now!\nLove for Porsche \u2013 Turbo 3.0 Book Review\nThe Porsche fan site Love for Porsche \u2013 Liebe zu Ihm review of the Turbo 3.0 book:\nThe Turbo 3.0 book is just as the car : a benchmark\nThe automotive industry had not easy times in the mid seventies. New safety and emission regulations were imposed to them, and the oil crisis left quite a trace in the period. Porsche had some dark times too with diminishing sales. Dr Ernst F\u00fchrmann, designer of the iconic 4-cam Carrera Engine, was the CEO of Porsche in that period. In Can-Am races, the turbocharged Porsche 917/10 and Porsche 917/30 had proven its reliability. So Ernst F\u00fchrmann had the idea of putting a turbocharged engine in a street legal Porsche 911. The idea of the Porsche 911 Turbo was born.. a story that still continues.\nRyan Snodgrass of Parabolica Press, known from the excellent Carrera 2.7 book, took a dive in the history of the Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0 liter, nicknamed the Porsche 930. Ryan Snodgrass used all possible material to his disposal. The Porsche factory archives were of course an important source of information, but that was not enough for the author. Ryan Snodgrass interviewed people involved with the design of the Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0, as well as mechanics, test drivers, engineers, racers and owners. The enormous amount of information is compiled in the book \u201cTurbo 3.0 \u2013 Porsche's First Turbocharged Car\u201d. And just as the Carrera 2.7 book, the Turbo 3.0 book became a one- model only encyclopedia. A book any Porsche enthusiast needs to have in the library.\nIt is hard to imagine how detailed the Turbo 3.0 book is. That makes it a perfect source for perfectionists, restorers and historians. As you could expect of a book like this, there is a list of all the chassis numbers with information like the color the car left the factory, type of engine and gearbox and the option list for that particular car. But there is more useful information. How many of you know all the different possible colors for a Turbo 3.0? And did you know what the toolkit should look like? The Turbo 3.0 book has plenty of detailed information about all possible colors. The chapter about the interior has pictures and information of all upholstery available at the time. All gauge variations are described as well as the radios that could be ordered at the factory.\nIn the 536 pages, literally nothing remains uncovered. The privateer racing exploits of the 3.0 liter Turbo are included as well as the development of the cars that directly derived from the Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0: the iconic Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 2.1, the Porsche 934 and Porsche 934/5. \u201cTurbo 3.0 : Porsche's First Turbocharged Supercar\u201d was among the 6 books shortlisted for the Specialist Motoring Book of the Year Award of the Royal Automobile Club. Even though it was another book that ran away with the award, being on the shortlist is an honor on its own. And to be honest... well deserved. This book sets a new standard and it will become the reference for the Porsche 911 Turbo 3.0 without any doubt. It is worth every cent. This book should be in any automotive library. You can order it directly at Parabolica Press.\n000 Magazine \u2013 Turbo 3.0 Book Review by Kerry Morse\nReview of the Turbo 3.0 book in 000 Magazine, issue 006/Summer 2018, by Kerry Morse:\nA few months ago, I picked up a rather large package at the post office, brought it home and\u2014it being the end of a long day\u2014put it aside. After dinner, I opened the box and discovered a book full of boost.\nYou may be familiar with author Ryan Snodgrass\u2019 freshman effort, Carrera 2.7, a first-rate reference book that fit right in with the new edition of Carrera RS from TAG. Both titles are considered go-to-books for settling matters of originality, and there was every reason to expect that the long-awaited sophomore offering from Snodgrass would follow the established format.\nThis time, however, Snodgrass enlisted as art director Richard Baron, whose body of work would fill a few bookshelves. Baron\u2019s stylistic shift has given Turbo 3.0 a separate identity, in much the same way that a 1976 911 differs from a 1976 930. The core remains, but the differences are immediately apparent and very pleasing.\nThe organization seen in the previously mentioned books was used to form this one\u2019s structure: chassis numbers, color codes, optional equipment, promotional campaigns, literature, tool kits, racing variations. All are where they should be, along with a narrative of the concept, development, introduction, and production run for 1975\u20131977. A more suitable title for this comprehensive study is The Really Big Book of the 3.0 Liter Turbo.\nTurbo 3.0 is offered in a Limited Edition with a print run of 2,500, priced at $395, and the Publisher\u2019s Edition of 300 for $595. Between the two, I feel Snodgrass got the print runs wrong: With its extra supplement and archival features, the Publisher\u2019s Edition is so far superior to the Limited Edition that that additional $200 should be considered a smart move. When the 300 editions are gone, I expect to see the prices get up to a couple of grand on the various online outlets\u2014and I don\u2019t need a Magic 8 Ball to convince me this is a certainty.\nOne of the clever design aspects of the Publisher\u2019s Edition involves the supplement and the archival folder. Think of the book as a published DVD, where you scroll down the menu and click on the special features box. The supplement takes the reader through a behind-the-scenes look at how the book was put together\u2014it\u2019s informative while avoiding any self-congratulatory traps.\nReference books often take up shelf space without justifying their presence. After the initial excitement while surveying such books, they\u2019re usually put away because few of these reference titles are enjoyable no matter how engaging their overall story. The details might be accurate, but a lack of context robs them of the emotional connection that gives them meaning and allows them to evoke memories like your first car or first kiss\u2014which can provoke an awareness that life is ever changing. For me, Turbo 3.0is just such a catalyst, one that prompted me to revisit a rewarding array of experience.\nFor those who can recall the early to mid 1970s, there was a great deal of unpleasantness, both in general life but especially in a car culture plagued by environmental issues, oil shortages, mandatory smog equipment, and a lethargic attitude toward design. For many of us who were VW enthusiasts, modifications were a way of life\u2014and the aftermarket was an escape. We followed the major sportscar races, and we were thrilled by the 917s and successes of Follmer and Donohue. But, given a choice between a new 911 and a 914-6, it was the VolksPorsche that spoke to us. Few remember that, by 1973, the 911 was considered an old man\u2019s car, one owned by aerospace engineers and dentists. Long before it was a deemed a class or \u201ciconic,\u201d the 911 shape had looked the same for almost a decade. In contrast, the 914, especially the \u201cSix,\u201d was a youth statement. It was different and almost within reach financially\u2026almost.\nRemember, too, that the 911 ST and 911 Carrera RS were not road legal in the U.S. Unless you read AutoWeek or Road & Track, those 911s didn\u2019t exist. The news traveled considerably slower back then, and print magazines were often three months behind in delivering the latest trends from over the pond. When the 911 Turbo was announced, BMW had already produced the 2002 Turbo and a few U.K. manufacturers made attempts, but none of these ever hit our shores\u2014so this market was unprepared for one of the most influential cars to ever reach production.\nPorsche was not only build a road-legal 911 with forced induction, it would provide a version for the U.S. One of the strengths of the new 911 Turbo came about because of a change in safety regulations that required alteration to the bumpers. Design chief Tony Lapine and crew got it right and then some, transforming the 911\u2019s aura and making it cool again. We didn\u2019t just have a 911 and 911S we even had a Carrera with rear spoiler\u2014but it was the Turbo we all wanted, knowing damn well only a few of us would ever own one.\nThis is where Snodgrass and his book come in. They bring all of the memories back\u2014the anticipation, the yearning, and, most of all, the first time I drove a Turbo, in 1976, when a friend trusted me with his new car for a couple of days. Silver on tourist delivery plates, it was beautiful. It was also, as I was quick to learn, one of the most dangerous cars ever built. Learning about turbo lag was a new experience, and boost was to be respected\u2014because you absolutely had to know when the power was about to come on. What really caught my attention were brakes, because brake pads the same size as those introduced on the 1969 911S were no expected to stop the boostmobile. Even so, I loved every moment in that car\u2014and Snodgrass\u2019 book provided an emotional ticket back to those times.\nWhat distinguishes the 930 from almost every other Porsche is its cultural influence. When the word \u201cturbo\u201d came up in conversation, chances were high that it was in reference to a Porsche. The impact the 930 had when it came to extending the lifespan of many used 911s cannot be overstated. Dealers sold thousands of 930 flares, and the aftermarket quickly offered up complete body kits in fiberglass to give your 1966 912 that \u201cTurbo look.\u201d No Porsche model\u2014before or since\u2014has made the singular impact that the Turbo in its original, 3.0-liter form did.\nThe high point of the Publisher\u2019s Edition may be its archival folder, which has accurate reproductions of internal memos, production numbers, FIA documents, a price listing for each model, photos, and color proof sheets. It is as if it\u2019s 1975 all over again, with a twist Snodgrass\u2019s mammoth book has taken something familiar and made it an original, much as Porsche did when it transformed the 911 into the 930. As a reference book, the roots are permantent. As a time machine it\u2019s a bargain.\nSports Car Market \u2013 Turbo 3.0 Book Review\nReview by Mark Wiggington in Sports Car Market, September 2018:\n\u201cExhaustive\u201d doesn\u2019t even begin to describe Ryan Snodgrass or his opus on the Porsche 930 3.0 Turbo. Let\u2019s start near the back, on p. 452. Here, along with a handy production-data decoder for the model, is an exhaustive list of EVERY 930 from 1975 to 1977, including paint, interior, engine, gearbox, tires, distributor, de- livery and completion date \u2014 plus a synopsis of installed equipment. This level of detail is emblematic of Snodgrass\u2019 work. He is a former software engineer, and his love of Porsches led him to start his writing career with Carrera 2.7, now followed by Turbo 3.0.\nIt\u2019s a thick, 10.5-pound, beautifully printed, designed and written book on the car that Porsche used to repudiate the awful cars that came out of the mid-1970s, when fuel economy and safety were the highest representation of the art, and performance was an ugly stepchild. Using turbo technology and knowledge gained from racing the 917, the Carrera 3.0 was an antidote to the times.\nWhile only 2,819 of the 3.0 Turbo cars came out of the factory, they had an outsized impact on the market (with prices to match, as a first-year 930 is going for around $150,000). Sometimes called the \u201cdoctor killer\u201d for the dangerous intersection of high-horsepower, turbo-lag and a lack of skills behind the wheel, the 930 was actually a touch slower than the mechanically injected 2.7-liter predecessor. But that was mostly down to extra weight that balanced the increased output, mostly thanks to safety equipment (thanks, Ralph Nader!) demanded at the time. Heck, safety was such a top-of-mind item that there were threats to kill all convertibles in that period. So the introduction of the 930 was certainly counterintuitive \u2014 and well-received by enthusiasts.\nAnd well-received is what this book should be. It\u2019s an instant classic in the category of single-model history and detail.\nProvenance: Ryan Snodgrass brings a software engineer\u2019s hyper-fo- cus and demand for perfection to his second book. Turbo 3.0 is an intense, deep dive into the history of the model and every scrap of information available.\nFit and Finish: This book is simply beautiful. The claimed (I didn\u2019t count them) 1,508 photos and illustrations are beautifully reproduced on quality stock. The overall design is understated and serves the content. The entire package is top-shelf.\nDrivability: With Turbo 3.0, Ryan Snodgrass has reset the bar for any future Porsche book. The text is smart, lively and easy to read, supporting an incredible amount of information. At $395 for one of 2,500 copies of this limited-edition tome, you can expect the same appreciation in value as in the car \u2014 even as you appreciate Turbo 3.0 as a resource and good read.\nPanorama Magazine \u2013 Turbo 3.0 Book Review\nPanorama's May 2018 issue reviewed the Turbo 3.0 book:\nFollowing its domination of the Can-Am racing series in 1972 and 1973, Porsche used its experience with turbocharging technology gained in motorsports for serial sports car production. Launched in 1975 with a turbocharged flat-six engine, flared wheel arches to accommodate wider wheels, and unmistakable \u201cwhale tail\u201d rear spoiler, the 930 Turbo was revolutionary in its performance. It was the fastest German production car upon its introduction, helping Porsche to fortify its reputation as a seminal sports car manufacturer.\nFollowing in the considerable wake of his award-winning Carrera 2.7, author Ryan Snodgrass again hones in with laser-like focus on just a single variant of the iconic 930 Turbo\u2014the earliest 3.0-liter examples produced from September 1974 through June 1977\u2014tracing the model\u2019s roots and origin during an era that is often referred to as a dark time for performance cars.\nNaturally, there are the de rigueur in-depth chapters that one might expect to be found on the subjects of turbocharging, drivetrain, chassis, body, and interior, incorporating first-hand accounts and interviews with factory personnel who worked on the project. Additional content includes sections on accessories; literature; marketing materials; and special bespoke models built by the factory for exhibition, executives, and important clients. Racing derivatives such as the Martini Carrera RSR Turbo 2.14, 934, 934.5, and privateer Turbo 3.0 entries are also examined. An appendix at the end of the book lists all 2,819 Turbo 3.0 chassis numbers complete with notations on original colors, interior, and equipment.\nOver 536 beautifully designed pages, the prose is supported by more than 1,500 incredible color and black-and-white images, including illustrations, charts, publications, and internal documents, the majority of them truly uncommon or not published before.\nBefitting a book that Snodgrass states demanded almost 5,000 man-hours of research, writing, design, and production time, the attention to detail is incredible, surpassing the already superb levels of data analysis and engineering development insights from the author\u2019s previous effort. The book\u2019s production quality is on an equal plane of existence with its writing and utilizes special wide-gamut inks and high-resolution, 15-micron stochastic screens, allowing the reader to zoom in on the details should they want to scrutinize the photos more closely with a magnifying glass when researching various minute details for their own restorations.\nAvailable in a slipcased standard Limited Edition, of which 2,500 have been printed, and a numbered-series Publisher\u2019s Edition (shown here) limited to just 300 copies containing additional niceties, Turbo 3.0 is a sublime reading experience, automotive book or not, and one that will undoubtedly generate feelings of lust for the 930.\nAlthough a starting price of $395 might seem lofty, consider it a small price to pay\u2014the reader is gleaning the immeasurable benefit of all the hours of effort and achievement the author has invested into uncovering anything an owner, collector, or re- storer could possibly want to know. A monumental piece of work, Turbo 3.0 must be considered one of the finest automotive books extant, and the definitive word on the model.\nRS Magazine \u2013 Turbo 3.0 Reviewed in 2018 Father's Day Books You Want\nRS Magazine reviewed the Turbo 3.0 book for its 2018 Father's Day Books You Want article:\nRyan Snodgrass is an excellent storyteller who proved capable of making the subject of a single Porsche model \u2013 the 911 Carrera 2.7 MFI \u2013 engaging reading supplemented with exceptional documentation. That book had no shortcomings.\nHowever, when Snodgrass set out to relate the planning, engineering, styling, and development history of the Typ 930, he used his own work as his benchmark. Then he reset it a great deal higher with his latest book Turbo 3.0. This work \u2013 throughout \u2013 tends to humble the word \u201cencyclopedic\u201d as Snodgrass explores every element of turbocharging and the turbocharged Porsche 911 in detailed photos, diagrams, and documents. There are pages (and pages) of paint color representations, a complete series on actual cars, and an astonishing chart identifying ALL Turbo 3.0 colors and the frequency of their appearance in 1975, 1976, and 1977.\nReinforcing the exhaustive attention to detail, captions for many photos in this book not only identify the model year and country of original delivery but also include the car\u2019s VIN. The chapter on interiors identifies standard and optional upholstery materials (and on one jarring two-page spread illustrates the interior color scheme of one particular 1977 Martini Turbo 3.0 (also identified by chassis number) done for the London Motor Show.\nFor those intrigued \u2013 or enthralled \u2013 by Porsche factory custom cars, Snodgrass\u2019s chapter on these special Turbos is fascinating. Snodgrass devotes equal space, time, and research to Turbo accessories, literature, and of course, production data.\nWith the title of his book, Ryan Snodgrass posits an interesting idea. While most automotive historians quickly and willingly will award Porsche\u2019s 959 with the title of world\u2019s first supercar, Snodgrass suggests the Turbo 3.0 may more rightfully carry that distinction. It was, after all, the fastest production car in the world when Porsche introduced it. It also was one of its most courageous, announced just as O.P.E.C. told the world the mid-eastern oil exporting countries were cutting off supplies of petroleum.\nBooks such as this \u2013 especially one printed and produced with such high quality photo reproduction, taking immeasurably high research, and representing several years of Snodgrass\u2019 and his collaborators\u2019 time, necessarily must command high prices. If you own one of these cars or simply are deeply interested, you must have this book in your reference library.\nTurbo 3.0 \u2013 Porsche\u2019s First Turbocharged Supercar 1975-1977; Ryan Snodgrass. 2018 Parabolica Press. 536p plus supplements. ISBN: 978-0-9962682-4-0. $395.00 (limited edition) from www.parabolicapress.com. More information at info@parabolicapress.com\nCarrera 2.7 English Info Reviews\nThe Best Motoring Books: Appreciating Classics \u2013 Autocar, February 2018\nInteresting perspective from Ben Horton of Horton's Books in the Feb 28th issue of Autocar magazine discussing potential collectible books, including the Carrera 2.7 book:\nWhat\u2019s the next best thing to buying a Porsche Carrera 2.7? Buying a book about it.\nSpecifically, Ryan Snodgrass\u2019s definitive guide to the model, published by Parabolica Press in 2015 and called, helpfully, Carrera 2.7. Just 2500 were printed. There are about 300 copies of the Limited Edition version left, each costing \u00a3225. Sounds a lot? Don\u2019t worry: in two years your investment could be worth \u00a31000.\n\u201cCarrera 2.7 set a new benchmark for motoring books,\u201d says Ben Horton of Horton\u2019s Books, a specialist motoring bookseller in Marlborough, Wiltshire. \u201cIt\u2019s not only an in-depth story of the car but is also packed with all the information \u2013 colour charts, component photographs, mechanical evolution \u2013 every owner, enthusiast or restorer could desire, plus it\u2019s beautifully produced. \u201cBuy a limited-edition version today and in two years it\u2019ll fetch four and a half times its new price. I\u2019ve been selling motoring books for more than 25 years and for the highest quality or most interesting books, I\u2019ve never known a downturn.\u201d\nFor the speculative petrolhead who\u2019s clumsy with spanners but loves a good read, Carrera 2.7, and books like it, seem to be the perfect alternative.\nRead the full article \"The best motoring books: appreciating classics\" in Autocar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 30293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://patents.justia.com/patent/10205176", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:08Z", "digest": "sha1:GQLOIFTA4HAAV6KNZ5ZXQQXWQVLJ62YS", "length": 58773, "nlines": 148, "source_domain": "patents.justia.com", "title": "US Patent for Cell module for solid oxide fuel cell, and solid oxide fuel cell using same Patent (Patent # 10,205,176 issued February 12, 2019) - Justia Patents Search", "raw_content": "Justia Patents Embedding Of Laminae Within Face Of Additional LaminaeUS Patent for Cell module for solid oxide fuel cell, and solid oxide fuel cell using same Patent (Patent # 10,205,176)\nMay 21, 2015 - Nissan\nA cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell includes a cell substrate (1) having gas permeability, one electrode (2) among a fuel electrode and an air electrode formed on the cell substrate, a solid electrolyte (3) formed on the one electrode, and the other electrode (4) formed on the solid electrolyte, wherein in the case of counter-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow, the gas permeability of a central portion (1b) of the cell substrate in the gas flow direction is lower than the gas permeability of an inlet portion (1a) and an outlet portion (1c) of the cell substrate.\nThe present invention relates to a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell, and a solid oxide fuel cell using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell in which excessive increases in temperature are suppressed, and a solid oxide fuel cell using the cell module.\nIn recent years, the heightened awareness of global environmental problems has resulted in considerable investigation of the application of various types of fuel cells to automobiles. Among the various types of fuel cells, solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) exhibit high efficiency, and are the focus of much attention as potential vehicle power sources.\nSolid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) use a solid oxide material with oxygen ion conductivity such as a stabilized zirconia or ceria-based solid solution as the electrolyte. Moreover, an air electrode and a fuel electrode that exhibit gas permeability are stacked on the opposing surfaces of the solid electrolyte to form a unit cell. Using the gas-impermeable solid electrolyte as a partition, a fuel gas such as hydrogen or a hydrocarbon is supplied to the fuel electrode side from externally, and an oxidant gas such as air is supplied to the air electrode side, thereby generating electricity. Besides hydrogen and hydrocarbons, reformed gases obtained by reforming all manner of liquid fuels are sometimes also used as the fuel gas.\nIn those cases where a solid oxide fuel cell is used in an automobile or the like, the peculiarities of the usage environment mean that the solid oxide fuel cell sometimes requires a simultaneous combination of high-output operation and high durability. For example, Patent Document 1 discloses an electrochemical cell that includes a solid electrolyte layer, a first porous electrode layer, a second porous electrode layer, and a conductive porous support for supporting these layers, wherein gas flow channels are provided through which a gas flows when the surface of the conductive porous support contacts the gas. The conductive porous support has portions of differing porosity, and those portions of differing porosity are configured so that the porosity is low at the upstream side of the gas flow channels in the gas flow direction, and high at the downstream side. By employing this type of configuration, in which the porosity is low at the upstream side of the gas flow channels and high at the downstream side, the performance and efficiency of the electrochemical cell can be enhanced.\nPatent Document 1: JP 5364477 B\nProblems Invention Aims to Solve\nIn solid oxide fuel cells, a temperature distribution occurs in the unit cell during power generation. Specifically, in the case of co-flow, when the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow in the same direction within the plane of the unit cell, the temperature of the unit cell is at its highest at the outlets for the fuel gas and the oxidant gas. Accordingly, if the porosity is increased at the downstream side of the unit cell as described in Patent Document 1, then because the porosity is raised and power generation is increased at the downstream portion where the unit cell temperature is already higher, the temperature of the unit cell tends to increase excessively. As a result, there is a possibility that the operation limit temperature, which is determined on the basis of the properties of the cell materials, may be exceeded, resulting in damage to the unit cell and a deterioration in the durability.\nThe present invention has been developed in light of these issues associated with the conventional technology. Objects of the present invention are to provide a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell in which the operation limit temperature is unlikely to be exceeded and any deterioration in durability can be suppressed, and also to provide a solid oxide fuel cell that uses this cell module.\nMeans for Solution of the Problems\nIn order to achieve the above objects, a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to an aspect of the present invention has a cell substrate having gas permeability, and a fuel electrode, a solid electrolyte and an air electrode formed on the cell substrate. Then, in the case of counter-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas, the gas permeability of the central portion of the cell substrate is lower than the gas permeability of the inlet portion and the outlet portion. Further, in the case of co-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow, the gas permeability of the outlet portion of the cell substrate is lower than the gas permeability of the portions other than the outlet portion.\nBy using the cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to the present invention, the amount of power generation decreases for the unit cell opposing the portion of the cell substrate having reduced gas permeability. As a result, the maximum temperature of the cell module can be lowered, and any deterioration in the durability of the cell module can be suppressed.\nFIG. 1 is a set of schematic cross-sectional views illustrating a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell. (a) illustrates the case of co-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow, and (b) illustrates the case of counter-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas.\nFIG. 2 is a perspective view illustrating a solid oxide fuel cell.\nFIG. 3 is a graph illustrating the relationship between the position along the gas flow direction in the cell module and the temperature of the cell module.\nFIG. 4 is a set of graphs illustrating the relationships between the position along the gas flow direction, and the gas permeability of the cell substrate and the temperature of the cell module, in a cell module having co-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas. (a) is a graph illustrating the relationship between the position along the gas flow direction in the cell module and the gas permeability of the cell substrate, and (b) is a graph illustrating the relationship between the position along the gas flow direction in the cell module and the temperature of the cell module.\nFIG. 5 is a graph illustrating the relationship between the position along the gas flow direction and the temperature of the cell module, in a cell module having co-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas.\nFIG. 6 is a set of graphs illustrating the relationships between the position along the gas flow direction, and the gas permeability of the cell substrate and the temperature of the cell module, in a cell module having counter-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas. (a) is a graph illustrating the relationship between the position along the gas flow direction in the cell module and the gas permeability of the cell substrate, and (b) is a graph illustrating the relationship between the position along the gas flow direction in the cell module and the temperature of the cell module.\nFIG. 7 is a graph illustrating the relationship between the gas permeability of the cell substrate and the temperature of the cell module.\nFIG. 8 is a series of drawings illustrating a method for producing a cell module according to a first embodiment. (a) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a cell substrate having uniform gas permeability, and (b) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a cell substrate that has been subjected to compression. (c) illustrates a state in which an air electrode, a solid electrolyte and a fuel electrode have been stacked on the cell substrate that has been subjected to compression, and is a schematic cross-sectional view along the line C-C of (e). (d) is a schematic cross-sectional view along the line D-D of (e). (e) is a bottom view of the cell module of this embodiment.\nFIG. 9 is a series of drawings illustrating a method for producing a cell module according to a second embodiment. (a) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a cell substrate having uniform gas permeability, and (b) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a cell substrate that has been subjected to notching. (c) illustrates a state in which an air electrode, a solid electrolyte and a fuel electrode have been stacked on the cell substrate that has been subjected to notching, and is a schematic cross-sectional view along the line C-C of (e). (d) is a schematic cross-sectional view along the line D-D of (e). (e) is a bottom view of the cell module of this embodiment.\nFIG. 10 is a series of drawings illustrating a method for producing a cell module according to a third embodiment. (a) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a cell substrate having uniform gas permeability, and (b) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a state prior to the implantation of a porous plate into the cell substrate. (c) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which an air electrode, a solid electrolyte and a fuel electrode have been stacked on the cell substrate provided with an implanted portion. (d) is a plan view of the cell module of this embodiment.\nFIG. 11 is a series of drawings illustrating a method for producing a cell module according to a fourth embodiment. (a) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a cell substrate having uniform gas permeability, and (b) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a state prior to the implantation of a porous plate into the cell substrate. (c) illustrates a state in which an air electrode, a solid electrolyte and a fuel electrode have been stacked on the cell substrate provided with an implanted portion, and is a schematic cross-sectional view along the line C-C in (e). (d) is a schematic cross-sectional view along the line D-D of (e). (e) is a bottom view of the cell module of this embodiment.\nFIG. 12 is a series of drawings illustrating a method for producing a cell module according to a fifth embodiment. (a) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a state prior to bonding of a low-permeability structure and a high-permeability structure, and (b) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which an air electrode, a solid electrolyte and a fuel electrode have been stacked on the cell substrate obtained by bonding the low-permeability structure and the high-permeability structure.\nFIG. 13 is a series of drawings illustrating a method for producing a cell module according to a sixth embodiment. (a) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a cell substrate having uniform gas permeability, and (b) is a schematic cross-sectional view illustrating a state in which gas penetration barrier members have been bonded to the cell substrate. (c) illustrates a state in which an air electrode, a solid electrolyte and a fuel electrode have been stacked on the cell substrate provided with the gas penetration barrier members, and is a schematic cross-sectional view along the line C-C in (d). (d) is a bottom view of the cell module of this embodiment.\nEMBODIMENTS FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION\nCell modules for solid oxide fuel cells according to embodiments of the present invention, and solid oxide fuel cells using those cell modules, are described below in further detail. The dimensional ratios in the drawings have been exaggerated in some cases to facilitate the description, and may differ from the actual ratios.\nAs illustrated in FIG. 1, a cell module 10 according to this embodiment has a cell substrate 1 having gas permeability. The cell module 10 also has an electrode 2 that is one of a fuel electrode and an air electrode formed on top of the cell substrate 1, a solid electrolyte 3 formed on top of the electrode 2, and the other electrode 4 formed on top of the solid electrolyte 3.\nMoreover, as illustrated in FIG. 2, in a solid oxide fuel cell 20 of this embodiment, the cell module 10 is sandwiched between a fuel electrode interconnector 21 (fuel electrode separator), and an air electrode interconnector 22 (air electrode separator). The fuel electrode interconnector 21 includes a plurality of fuel gas channels 21a, and the air electrode interconnector 22 includes a plurality of oxidant gas channels 22a. The fuel gas channels 21a and the oxidant gas channels 22a form a plurality of linear channels that are arranged parallel to each other (parallel channels).\nThe cross-sectional shapes of the channels (the fuel gas channels 21a and the oxidant gas channels 22a) provided in the fuel electrode interconnector 21 and the air electrode interconnector 22 are composed of protrusions known as ribs, and recesses known as channels. Of these components, the ribs of one of the fuel electrode interconnector 21 and the air electrode interconnector 22 contact the cell substrate 1, thus enabling the conduction of electrons between the interconnector and the cell substrate 1. Further, the ribs of the other of the fuel electrode interconnector 21 and the air electrode interconnector 22 contact the other electrode 4, thus enabling the conduction of electrons between the interconnector and the other electrode 4.\nThe fuel gas that flows through the fuel gas channels 21a and the oxidant gas that flows through the oxidant gas channels 22a may flow in opposite directions within the plane of the cell module 10 (counter-flow). Further, the fuel gas and the oxidant gas may flow in the same direction within the plane of the cell module 10 (co-flow).\nIn the following description, for the sake of convenience, the cell module 10 according to the present embodiment is described with the assumption that the first electrode 2 is the fuel electrode, and the other electrode 4 is the air electrode. In this case, the fuel electrode interconnector 21 contacts the cell substrate 1, and the air electrode interconnector 22 contacts the air electrode.\nIn the case of a co-flow structure such as that illustrated in FIG. 1(a), where the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow in the same direction within the plane of the cell module 10, the cell module temperature is highest at the outlet portions 1c for the fuel gas and the oxidant gas, as illustrated in FIG. 3. In other words, in the case of a co-flow structure, the heat generated due to heat production from the cell reaction and Joule heating is transmitted to the downstream side by a convective heat transfer effect produced by the working fluids. As a result, the temperature of the cell module increases from the inlets toward the outlets of the gas channels.\nThis type of phenomenon is similar both in the case where the porosity of the cell substrate 1 is uniform across the entire surface, and the case where the porosity is increased at the fuel gas and oxidant gas outlet portions as described in Patent Document 1. This fact is clear from both experimental data and from the literature, and a number of reports exist in the literature. For example, K. Lai, B. J. Koeppel, K. S. Choi, et al., \u201cA quasi-two-dimensional electrochemistry modeling tool for planar solid oxide fuel cell stacks\u201d, Journal of Power Sources, vol. 196, no. 6, pp. 3204 to 3222, 2011 discloses a comparison of temperature distribution experimental data and simulation results. In particular, if the porosity of the cell substrate is increased at the gas downstream side as described in Patent Document 1, thereby facilitating penetration of the fuel gas into the power generation surface of the fuel electrode 2, then the amount of power generated at the fuel gas outlet portion 1c increases compared with that at the inlet portion 1a. As a result, compared with the case where the porosity of the cell substrate 1 is uniform, the cell module temperature at the outlet portion 1c is more likely to increase in an intensive manner.\nIn contrast, in the case of a counter-flow structure such as that illustrated in FIG. 1(b), where the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow in opposite directions within the plane of the cell module 10, a different temperature distribution to that of the co-flow structure is obtained. Specifically, in the case of counter-flow, rather than the inlet portions 1a and outlet portions 1c of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas in the cell module 10, a portion of higher cell module temperature develops in the central portion 1b. This is because in the case of counter-flow, the outlet side of the oxidant gas is the inlet side for the fuel gas, meaning a low-temperature fuel gas is introduced at the outlet side of the oxidant gas. As a result, the cell module temperature is more likely to increase in an intensive manner in the central portion 1b rather than the outlet portion 1c or the inlet portion 1a.\nIn this manner, regardless of whether the fuel gas and the oxidant gas are in a co-flow or counter-flow arrangement, the temperature of the cell module 10 increases in a localized portion, and there is possibility that the temperature may exceed the operation limit temperature, leading to a deterioration in the durability. Accordingly, in the present embodiment, in order to suppress any localized temperature increase, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 is reduced in the portion corresponding with the high-temperature portion in the cell module 10. In other words, in the case of co-flow, the gas permeability of the fuel gas outlet portion 1c in the cell substrate 1 is set to a lower value than the gas permeability of those portions in the cell substrate 1 other than the outlet portion 1c. By so doing, arrival of the fuel gas at the surface of the fuel electrode 2 is suppressed in the outlet portion 1c, resulting in a reduction in the amount of power generated in the downstream portion (the outlet portion 1c) of the unit cell. In this case, in order to achieve the same output from the unit cell, this reduction in the amount of power generated is compensated by an increase at the upstream side, resulting in an increase in the amount of power generated in the upstream portion (the inlet portion 1a). As a result, the temperature increases in the inlet portion 1a, which was the low-temperature portion, whereas the temperature decreases in the outlet portion 1c, meaning the high-temperature concentration in the outlet portion 1c can be alleviated, enabling a more uniform temperature across the entire cell module.\nMore specifically, as illustrated in FIG. 4(a), in Patent Document 1, the porosity is increased at the downstream side of the gas channels, thereby increasing the gas permeability. However, in the present embodiment, the gas permeability is lowered at the downstream side of the gas channels. Accordingly, as illustrated in FIG. 4(b) and FIG. 5, the temperature at the outlet portion is of the cell module 10 decreases compared with the structure described in Patent Document 1, meaning a state in which the temperature does not exceed the operation limit temperature can be maintained. As a result, heat degradation of the cell module 10 is suppressed, and the durability can be improved.\nIn a similar manner to that described above, in the case of counter-flow, as illustrated in FIG. 6, the gas permeability of the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 in the gas flow direction is set to a lower value than the gas permeability of the fuel gas inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c in the cell substrate 1. By so doing, arrival of the fuel gas at the surface of the fuel electrode 2 is suppressed in the central portion 1b, resulting in suppression of the amount of power generated in the central portion 1b of the unit cell. In this case, in order to achieve the same output from the unit cell, this reduction in the amount of power generated is compensated by an increase at the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c outside of the central portion 1b, resulting in an increase in the amount of power generated in the portions other than the central portion 1b. As a result, as illustrated in FIG. 6(b), the temperature increases in the portions other than the central portion 1b, whereas the temperature decreases in the central portion 1b, meaning the high-temperature concentration in the central portion 1b can be alleviated, enabling a more uniform temperature across the entire unit cell.\nFIG. 7 illustrates the relationship between the gas permeability of the cell substrate and the maximum temperature in a portion having a high cell module temperature. Specifically, in the case of co-flow, the figure illustrates the relationship between the gas permeability and the maximum temperature of the fuel gas outlet portion 1c in the cell substrate 1. Further, in the case of counter-flow, the figure illustrates the relationship between the gas permeability and the maximum temperature of the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 in the gas flow direction. In FIG. 7, a gas permeability of 1.0 indicates a gas permeability of the same level as other locations in the cell substrate. Further, a gas permeability of 0.6 means that 60% of the gas is transmitted compared with other locations, namely a 40% reduction in the amount of gas permeation.\nAs illustrated in FIG. 7, when the gas permeability is reduced, the maximum temperature of the cell module tends to decrease, but if the gas permeability is further reduced, the maximum temperature of the cell module starts to increase again. The point at which the maximum temperature of the cell module reaches its lowest level is at a gas permeability of about 0.6. Accordingly, when due consideration is given to the cell substrate production conditions and the temperature reduction effect for the cell module, the gas permeability is preferably within a range from 0.4 to 0.8, and is more preferably from 0.5 to 0.7. In other words, in the cell substrate 1, the gas permeability of the portion having low gas permeability has a gas permeability that is preferably 40 to 80%, and more preferably 50 to 70%, lower, than of the gas permeability of the other portions having high gas permeability.\nThere are no particular limitations on the method used for measuring the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1, provided the relative values for the gas permeability in the low-gas permeability portion and the gas permeability in the other portions can be determined. The gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 may be measured, for example, using a differential pressure gas permeability evaluation device.\nNext is a description of the method used for changing the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 using a reactive gas flow device. For the sake of convenience, a method for reducing the gas permeability in the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 in a counter-flow structure is described. A method for reducing the gas permeability in the outlet portion 1c of the cell substrate 1 in a co-flow structure may be performed in a similar manner.\nIn the present embodiment, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 can be reduced by providing a dense portion formed by compressing the cell substrate 1. In other words, by subjecting the cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability to compression to form an indentation in the portion for which the gas permeability is to be reduced, a portion of changed gas permeability can be formed.\nSpecifically, as illustrated in FIGS. 8(a) and (b), by subjecting the cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability to compression from the underside of the cell substrate 1 to form an indentation in the portion for which the gas permeability is to be reduced, a dense portion 1d is formed. As illustrated in FIG. 8(c), by stacking the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4 on the flat surface (the upper surface) on the opposite side to the lower surface of the cell substrate 1, the cell module 10 can be obtained. There are no particular limitations on the stacking method for the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4, and conventional methods may be used.\nBecause this type of dense portion 1d is formed by compressing the cell substrate 1 and increasing the density, the fuel gas penetrates less readily. Accordingly, in the dense portion 1d, the permeability of the fuel gas decreases, and the amount of fuel gas penetrating through to the fuel electrode 2 decreases. Consequently, the amount of power generation decreases for the unit cell opposing this dense portion that has undergone this type of compression, enabling the maximum temperature of the cell module to be reduced. Further, by adjusting the amount of compression of the dense portion 1d, namely the thickness and density of the dense portion, the desired gas permeability can be achieved with ease.\nThe dense portion 1d may be formed across the entire portion in which the gas permeability is to be reduced. In other words, in the case of counter-flow, the dense portion 1d may be formed across the entire central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1. Further, in the case of co-flow, the dense portion 1d may be formed across the entire outlet portion 1c of the cell substrate 1. However, because the dense portion 1d is formed by compressing and indenting the underside of the cell substrate 1, there is a possibility that the indented portion may not make contact with the ribs of the fuel electrode interconnector 21, meaning conduction between the cell substrate 1 and the fuel electrode interconnector 21 may not be able to be satisfactorily ensured.\nAccordingly, as illustrated in FIGS. 8(c), (d) and (e), in the present embodiment it is preferable that the dense portion 1d is formed in an elongated shape along the direction of flow of the fuel gas (the Z direction), and that a plurality of dense portions 1d are provided along the direction perpendicular to the Z direction (namely the X direction) with spaces provided therebetween. By providing a plurality of dense portions 1d in this manner, with spaces provided therebetween, the cell substrate 1 and the fuel electrode interconnector 21 can make electrical contact even in the portion in which the gas permeability is to be reduced. As a result, satisfactory conduction between the cell substrate 1 and the fuel electrode interconnector 21 can be ensured. Further, by providing the plurality of dense portions 1d with spaces therebetween, and also adjusting the width, the spacing and the density of the dense portions 1d, the desired gas permeability can be achieved.\nIn this embodiment, there are no particular limitations on the cell substrate 1, provided it has gas permeability and has sufficient strength to function as a support, but a substrate having high electrical conductivity is preferred. Examples of materials that can be used include plate-like substrates formed from stainless steel or corrosion-resistant alloys or corrosion-resistant steel containing nickel (Ni) and/or chromium (Cr), and having a plurality of openings formed in the plate. Specific examples include punched metal substrates, etched metal substrates, expanded metal substrates, foamed metal bodies, metal powder sintered compacts, metal meshes such as wire gauze, and metal nonwoven fabric formed from the above types of materials. Further, if necessary, layers of the same material or different materials may be stacked to form the substrate.\nExamples of materials that can be used favorably as the fuel electrode 2 include materials that are resistant to a reducing atmosphere, allow the transmission of the fuel gas, have high electrical conductivity, and have a catalytic action on the conversion of hydrogen molecules to protons. In some cases, lone metals such as nickel (Ni) may be used as the material for the fuel electrode, but the use of a cermet containing an oxygen ion conductor, typified by yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ), is preferable. By using this type of material, the reaction area can be increased, and the electrode performance can be improved. Ceria solid solutions such as samaria-doped ceria (SDC) and gadolinia-doped ceria (GDC) can also be used instead of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ).\nExamples of materials that can be used favorably as the air electrode 4 include materials that are resistant to an oxidizing atmosphere, allow the transmission of the oxidant gas, have high electrical conductivity, and have a catalytic action on the conversion of oxygen molecules to oxide ions. The air electrode 4 may be formed solely from the electrode catalyst, or may be formed from a cermet of the electrode catalyst and an electrolyte material. In some cases, metals such as silver (Ag) and platinum (Pt) may be used as the material for the electrode catalyst, but the use of a perovskite oxide such as lanthanum strontium cobaltite (La1-xSrxCoO3: LSC), lanthanum strontium cobalt ferrite (La1-xSrxCo1-yFeyO3: LSCF), samarium strontium cobaltite (SmxSr1-xCoO3: SSC) or lanthanum strontium manganite (La1-xSrxMnO3: LSM) is preferred. However, this is not an exhaustive list, and conventionally known air electrode materials can be used. Further, one of these materials may be used alone, or a combination of a plurality of materials may be used. Moreover, examples of the electrolyte material include cerium oxide (CeO2), zirconium oxide (ZrO2), titanium oxide (TiO2) and lanthanum oxide (La2O3), but this is not an exhaustive list, and mixtures with oxides such as any of the various stabilized zirconia materials and ceria solid solutions can also be used favorably.\nExamples of materials that can be used favorably, as the solid electrolyte 3 include materials having gas impermeability and an ability to allow the passage of oxygen ions without conducting electrons. Specific examples of the material used for forming the solid electrolyte include stabilized zirconia solid solutions with yttria (Y2O3), neodymium oxide (Nd2O3), samaria (Sm2O3), gadolinia (Gd2O3), or scandia (Sc2O3) or the like. Further, ceria solid solutions such as samaria-doped ceria (SDC), yttria-doped ceria (YDC) and gadolinia-doped ceria (GDC), as well as bismuth oxide (Bi2O3) and lanthanum strontium magnesium gallate (La1-xSrxGa1-yMgyO3: LSMG) can also be used.\nIn this manner, the cell module 10 of the present embodiment has a cell substrate 1 having gas permeability, an electrode 2 that is one of a fuel electrode and an air electrode formed on top of the cell substrate 1, a solid electrolyte 3 formed on top of the electrode 2, and the other electrode 4 formed on top of the solid electrolyte 3. Then, in the case of counter-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow, a structure is formed in which the gas permeability of the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 in the gas flow direction is lower than the gas permeability of the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c of the cell substrate 1. Further, when the cell module 10 of the present embodiment has a structure having co-flow of the fuel gas and the oxidant gas flow, a structure is formed in which the gas permeability of the outlet portion 1c of the cell substrate 1 in the gas flow direction is lower than the gas permeability of those portions in the cell substrate 1 other than the outlet portion 1c. Accordingly, the amount of power generation decreases for the unit cell opposing the portion of the cell substrate 1 having reduced gas permeability, and therefore the maximum temperature of the cell module can be reduced, and the durability of the cell module can be improved.\nFurthermore, in the cell module 10 of the present embodiment, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 is reduced by providing the dense portion 1d produced by compressing the cell substrate 1. Because the dense portion 1d is formed in this manner, by compressing and indenting the portion for which the gas permeability is to be reduced, the gas permeability can be reduced using a simple method.\nIn the above description, the cell substrate 1 was divided into three portions along the direction of gas flow (the Z direction), with those portions prescribed in order from the upstream side of the fuel gas flow as the inlet portion 1a, the central portion 1b and the outlet portion 1c. However, the present embodiment is not limited to this particular configuration. In other words, the cell substrate 1 may be divided into three or more portions along the direction of gas flow (the Z direction), with the portion that includes the fuel gas inlet prescribed as the inlet portion 1a, the portion that includes the fuel gas outlet prescribed as the outlet portion 1c, and the high-temperature portion located between the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c prescribed as the central portion 1b.\nNext, a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to a second embodiment is described in detail based on the drawings. Those structures that are the same as the first embodiment are labeled with the same symbols, and duplicate descriptions are omitted.\nIn the cell module of this embodiment, in the case of counter-flow, the formation of a structure in which the gas permeability of the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 is lower than the gas permeability of the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c is the same as the first embodiment. Further, in the case of co-flow, the formation of a structure in which the gas permeability of the outlet portion 1c of the cell substrate 1 is lower than the gas permeability of those portions other than the outlet portion 1c is also the same as the first embodiment. This embodiment differs from the first embodiment in terms of the method used for changing the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1. For the sake of convenience, the method used for reducing the gas permeability in the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 is described, but the method for reducing the gas permeability in the outlet portion 1c may be performed in a similar manner.\nIn this embodiment, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 can be adjusted by providing a groove-shaped notch in the cell substrate 1. In other words, in those portions of a cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability in which the gas permeability is to be increased (for example, the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c), the surface of the substrate is cut away to form a groove, thereby changing the gas permeability.\nSpecifically, as illustrated in FIGS. 9(a) and (b), the cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability is subjected to partial removal of the lower surface of the substrate to provide notches in those portions in which the gas permeability is to be increased, and the portion in which the gas permeability is to be reduced is left uncut. Then, as illustrated in FIG. 9(c), by stacking the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4 on the flat surface (the upper surface) on the opposite side to the lower surface of the cell substrate 1, the cell module 10 can be obtained. There are no particular limitations on the stacking method for the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4, and conventional methods may be used.\nIn this manner, by partially cutting and removing the cell substrate 1 and providing the notches 1e, the fuel gas is able to penetrate more readily into the cell substrate 1 in the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c where the notches 1e are provided, resulting in an increase in the gas permeability. In contrast, in the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 where the notches 1e are not provided, the gas permeability is maintained at the original level. Accordingly, viewing the overall cell module, the gas permeability of the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 decreases relatively. Accordingly, because the amount of power generation decreases for the unit cell opposing the central portion 1b that has not been subjected to this type of notching, the maximum temperature of the cell module can be reduced. Further, the size of the reduction in the gas permeability can be easily adjusted by adjusting the width and cutting depth of the notches.\nThe notches 1e may be formed across the entire portion in which the gas permeability is to be increased. In other words, in the case of counter-flow, the notches 1e may be formed across the entire inlet portion 1a and outlet portion 1c of the cell substrate 1. Further, in the case of co-flow, the notches 1e may be formed across the entire inlet portion 1a and central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1. However, because the notches 1e are formed by partially cutting and removing the underside of the cell substrate 1, there is a possibility that the removed portion may not make contact with the ribs of the fuel electrode interconnector 21, meaning conduction between the cell substrate 1 and the fuel electrode interconnector 21 may not be able to be satisfactorily ensured. Further, if the size of the notches 1e is increased, there is a possibility that the strength of the cell substrate may decrease excessively.\nAccordingly, as illustrated in FIGS. 9(c), (d) and (e), in the present embodiment it is preferable that the notches 1e are formed in elongated shapes along the direction of flow of the fuel gas (the Z direction), and that a plurality of notches 1e are provided along the direction perpendicular to the Z direction (namely the X direction) with spaces provided therebetween. By providing a plurality of notches 1e in this manner, with spaces provided therebetween, the cell substrate 1 and the fuel electrode interconnector 21 can make electrical contact, meaning satisfactory conduction between the two can be ensured. Further, by providing the plurality of notches 1e with spaces therebetween, and also adjusting the width, the spacing and the cutting depth of the notches 1e, the desired gas permeability can be achieved.\nIn this manner, in the present embodiment, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 is adjusted by providing groove-shaped notches in the cell substrate 1. In other words, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 is adjusted by lowering the apparent volume of the cell substrate 1. Accordingly, by notching the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c of the cell substrate 1, and reducing the apparent volume of the cell substrate 1 formed from the porous material, the gas permeability of the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c can be increased, resulting in a relative decrease in the gas permeability of the central portion 1b.\nNext, a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to a third embodiment is described in detail based on the drawings. Those structures that are the same as the first embodiment are labeled with the same symbols, and duplicate descriptions are omitted.\nIn this embodiment, the method used for changing the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 differs from that of the first embodiment. For the sake of convenience, the method used for reducing the gas permeability in the central portion 1b of the cell substrate 1 is described, but the method for reducing the gas permeability in the outlet portion 1c may be performed in a similar manner.\nIn the present embodiment, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 can be reduced by lowering the porosity of the porous material that constitutes the cell substrate 1. In other words, by subjecting the cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability to additional compression to implant a porous plate into the portion of the cell substrate in which the gas permeability is to be reduced, a portion of changed gas permeability can be formed.\nSpecifically, as illustrated in FIGS. 10(a) and (b), a porous plate 1f is compressed into the lower surface of the cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability, in the portion in which the gas permeability is to be lowered, and by implanting the porous plate 1f within the interior of the cell substrate 1, an implanted portion 1g is formed. Then, as illustrated in FIG. 10(c), because the lower surface of the cell substrate 1 following implantation can be made flat, by subsequently stacking the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4 on the lower surface, the cell module 10 can be obtained. There are no particular limitations on the stacking method for the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4, and conventional methods may be used.\nIn this type of implanted portion 1g, the implantation of the porous plate 1f in the cell substrate 1 causes a reduction in the porosity, meaning the fuel gas penetrates less readily. Accordingly, in the implanted portion 1g, the permeability of the fuel gas decreases, and the amount of fuel gas penetrating through to the fuel electrode 2 decreases. Consequently, the amount of power generation decreases for the unit cell opposing this implanted portion 1g, enabling the maximum temperature of the cell module to be reduced. Further, by adjusting the thickness of the porous plate 1f used for forming the implanted portion 1g, the desired gas permeability can be achieved easily.\nIn this embodiment, the implanted portion 1g is formed by compressing the porous plate 1f against the surface of the cell substrate 1 and implanting the porous plate 1f within the interior of the cell substrate 1. Accordingly, because both the upper surface and the lower surface of the cell substrate 1 can be formed as flat surfaces, the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4 can be stacked on the lower surface of the cell substrate 1, as illustrated in FIG. 10(c). The fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4 may also be formed on the upper surface of the cell substrate 1.\nFurther, because both the upper surface and the lower surface of the cell substrate 1 can be formed as flat surfaces, a larger contact surface area can be ensured between the fuel electrode interconnector 21 and the ribs compared with the cell substrates of the first and second embodiments. Accordingly, compared with the first and second embodiments, the cell module of the present embodiment enables the power generation performance to be further improved.\nIn a similar manner to the cell substrate 1, examples of materials that can be used for forming the porous plate 1f include plate-like substrates formed from stainless steel or corrosion-resistant alloys or corrosion-resistant steel containing nickel (Ni) and/or chromium (Cr), and having a plurality of openings formed in the plate. Specific examples include punched metal substrates, etched metal substrates, expanded metal substrates, foamed metal bodies, metal powder sintered compacts, metal meshes such as wire gauze, and metal nonwoven fabric formed from the above types of materials. Further, the shape of the porous plate 1f is not limited to the frustum-shaped plate illustrated in FIG. 10, and for example, a rectangular prism-shaped plate may also be used.\nNext, a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to a fourth embodiment is described in detail based on the drawings. Those structures that are the same as the third embodiment are labeled with the same symbols, and duplicate descriptions are omitted.\nIn this embodiment, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 is reduced by lowering the porosity of the porous material that constitutes the cell substrate 1, in a similar manner to the third embodiment. Specifically, as illustrated in FIGS. 11(a) and (b), a porous plate 1f is compressed into the lower surface of the cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability, in the portion in which the gas permeability is to be lowered, and by implanting the porous plate 1f within the interior of the cell substrate 1, an implanted portion 1g is formed. Then, as illustrated in FIG. 11(c), by stacking the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4 on the upper surface of the cell substrate 1, the cell module 10 can be obtained.\nIn this embodiment, as illustrated in FIGS. 11(c), (d) and (e), each implanted portion 1g is formed in an elongated shape along the direction of flow of the fuel gas (the Z direction), and a plurality of these implanted portions 1g are provided along the direction perpendicular to the Z direction (namely the X direction) with spaces provided therebetween. By providing a plurality of implanted portions 1g in this manner, with spaces provided therebetween, and by adjusting the width and the spacing of the implanted portions 1g, the desired gas permeability can be achieved.\nFurther, in a similar manner to the third embodiment, because both the upper surface and the lower surface of the cell substrate 1 can be formed as flat surfaces, a larger contact surface area can be ensured between the fuel electrode interconnector 21 and the ribs compared with the cell substrates of the first and second embodiments. Accordingly, compared with the first and second embodiments, the cell module of the present embodiment enables the power generation performance to be further improved.\nNext, a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to a fifth embodiment is described in detail based on the drawings. Those structures that are the same as the first embodiment are labeled with the same symbols, and duplicate descriptions are omitted.\nIn the present embodiment, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 can be reduced by lowering the porosity of the porous material that constitutes the cell substrate 1. Specifically, as illustrated in FIGS. 12(a) and (b), the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 is adjusted by using two types of porous structures having different porosities and therefore different levels of gas permeability, and bonding those two structures together.\nAs illustrated in FIG. 12(a), the cell substrate 1 of this embodiment is formed using a low-permeability structure 1h and a high-permeability structure 1i having higher gas permeability than the low-permeability structure 1h. The thickness of the central portion 1b in the low-permeability structure 1h is increased, whereas the thickness of the central portion 1b in the high-permeability structure 1i is reduced. In other words, within the central portion 1b, the thickness of the low-permeability structure 1h in the stacking direction (the Y direction) is larger than the thickness of the high-permeability structure 1i. Further, the thickness of the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c in the low-permeability structure 1h is made relatively smaller, whereas the thickness of the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c in the high-permeability structure 1i is made relatively larger. In other words, within the inlet portion 1a and the outlet portion 1c, the thickness of the low-permeability structure 1h in the stacking direction (the Y direction) is smaller than the thickness of the high-permeability structure 1i.\nAs illustrated in FIG. 12(a), by inserting the protruding central portion 1b in the low-permeability structure 1h into the recessed central portion 1b in the high-permeability structure 1i, thereby stacking the two structures, the cell substrate 1 according to the present embodiment is obtained. By bonding the thicker portion of the low-permeability structure 1h in the portion in which the gas permeability is to be lowered, and bonding the thicker portion of the high-permeability structure 1i in the portions other than the portion in which the gas permeability is to be lowered, the gas permeability can be adjusted with ease.\nSubsequently, by stacking the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4 on the obtained cell substrate 1, the cell module 10 can be obtained. There are no particular limitations on the stacking method for the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4, and conventional methods may be used.\nBy using this type of structure, the permeability of the fuel gas decreases in the portion where the low-permeability structure 1h is thicker, meaning the amount of fuel gas penetrating through to the fuel electrode 2 decreases. Consequently, the amount of power generation decreases for the unit cell opposing this portion where the low-permeability structure 1h is thicker, enabling the maximum temperature of the cell module to be reduced. Further, by adjusting the thickness of the low-permeability structure 1h, and the levels of gas permeability of the low-permeability structure 1h and the high-permeability structure 1i, the desired gas permeability can be achieved easily.\nFurther, as illustrated in FIG. 12, in the present embodiment, because both the upper surface and the lower surface of the cell substrate 1 can be formed as flat surfaces, a larger contact surface area can be ensured between the fuel electrode interconnector 21 and the ribs compared with the cell substrates of the first and second embodiments. Accordingly, compared with the first and second embodiments, the cell module of the present embodiment enables the power generation performance to be further improved.\nNext, a cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to a sixth embodiment is described in detail based on the drawings. Those structures that are the same as the first embodiment are labeled with the same symbols, and duplicate descriptions are omitted.\nIn the present embodiment, the gas permeability of the cell substrate 1 can be reduced by providing gas penetration bather members on the cell substrate 1. In other words, by installing gas penetration barrier members on the surface of the cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability in the portion where the gas permeability is to be reduced, thereby suppressing gas penetration within that portion, a portion of changed gas permeability can be formed.\nSpecifically, as illustrated in FIGS. 13(a) and (b), gas penetration barrier members 1j are bonded to the lower surface of the cell substrate 1 having uniform gas permeability, within the portion in which the gas permeability is to be reduced. Then, as illustrated in FIG. 13(c), by stacking the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4 on the upper surface of the cell substrate 1, the cell module 10 can be obtained. There are no particular limitations on the stacking method for the fuel electrode 2, the solid electrolyte 3 and the air electrode 4, and conventional methods may be used.\nBy providing these types of gas penetration barrier members 1j, the fuel gas penetrates less readily in the portion where the gas penetration barrier members 1j are bonded to the cell substrate 1. Accordingly, in the portion where the gas penetration barrier members 1j are provided, the permeability of the fuel gas decreases, and the amount of fuel gas that penetrates through to the fuel electrode 2 decreases. Consequently, the amount of power generation decreases for the unit cell opposing the portion where these types of gas penetration barrier members 1j are provided, enabling the maximum temperature of the cell module to be reduced.\nThere are no particular limitations on the gas penetration barrier members 1j, provided they are members capable of suppressing penetration of the fuel gas into the cell substrate 1. For example, the gas penetration barrier members 1j may be formed from the same material as the cell substrate 1, but employ a more dense structure, and may have a plurality of through-holes formed in the plate. Specifically, punched metal substrates, etched metal substrates, expanded metal substrates, foamed metal bodies, metal powder sintered compacts, metal meshes such as wire gauze, and metal nonwoven fabric and the like may be used. The gas penetration barrier members 1j may be bonded to the lower surface of the cell substrate 1, or may be partially embedded in the cell substrate 1.\nFurther, an interconnector that contacts the surface of the cell substrate 1 may also be used as the gas penetration barrier member 1j. In other words, by increasing the interconnector contact surface area in the location where gas penetration into the cell substrate 1 is to be suppressed, the amount of fuel gas penetrating into the interior of the cell substrate 1 can be suppressed. In contrast, by reducing the interconnector contact surface area in locations where gas penetration into the cell substrate 1 is to be increased, the amount of fuel gas penetrating into the interior of the cell substrate 1 can be increased. By using this type of structure, the amount of power generation by the unit cell can be adjusted, and the maximum temperature of the cell module can be reduced.\nThe content of the present invention has been described above with reference to a plurality of embodiments, but the present invention is in no way limited to the descriptions provided above, and it will be self-evident to a person skilled in the art that various alterations and modifications are possible.\nDESCRIPTION OF THE SYMBOLS\n1: Cell substrate\n1a: Inlet portion\n1b: Central portion\n1c: Outlet portion\n1e: Notch\n1j: Gas penetration barrier member\n2: Fuel electrode\n3: Solid electrolyte\n4: Air electrode\n10: Cell module\n20: Solid oxide fuel cell\n21: Fuel electrode interconnector\n22: Air electrode interconnector\n1. A cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell comprising:\na cell substrate having gas permeability,\none electrode comprising a fuel electrode or an air electrode, and formed on the cell substrate,\na solid electrolyte formed on the one electrode, and\nanother electrode comprising an other of the fuel electrode or the air electrode, and formed on the solid electrolyte, wherein\nin a case of counter-flow of a fuel gas and an oxidant gas flow, a gas permeability of a central portion of the cell substrate in a gas flow direction is lower than a gas permeability of an inlet portion and an outlet portion of the cell substrate, and\nthe cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell further comprises at least one of: at least one dense portion formed by compressing the cell substrate, the at least one dense portion configured to reduce a gas permeability of the cell substrate, or at least one groove-shaped notch formed in an elongated shape along a gas flow direction in the cell substrate, the groove-shaped notch configured to adjust the gas permeability of the cell substrate.\n2. The cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to claim 1, wherein an apparent volume of the cell substrate is configured to be lowered such that the gas permeability of the cell substrate is adjusted.\n3. The cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to claim 1, wherein\nthe cell substrate comprises a porous material, and\na porosity of the porous material is configured to be lowered such that the gas permeability of the cell substrate is reduced.\n4. The cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to claim 1, further comprising a gas penetration barrier member provided on at least a portion of the cell substrate such that the gas permeability of the cell substrate is reduced at the portion of the cell substrate on which the gas penetration member is provided.\n5. The cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to claim 1, wherein within the cell substrate, a gas permeability of a portion having a low gas permeability is 30 to 50% lower than a gas permeability of other portions.\n6. A solid oxide fuel cell comprising:\nthe cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to claim 1, and\ninterconnectors that sandwich the cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell.\nthe cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell comprises the at least one dense portion formed by compressing the cell substrate, and\nthe at least one dense portion is formed in an elongated shape along the gas flow direction.\nthe cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell comprises the at least one dense portion formed by compressing the cell substrate,\nthe at least one dense portion comprises a plurality of dense portions that are separated from one another by a distance therebetween.\nthe at least one dense portion is formed in the central portion of the cell substrate.\n10. The cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell according to claim 9, wherein\na thickness of the at least one dense portion formed in the central portion is less than a thickness of the inlet portion and a thickness of the outlet portion.\nthe cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell comprises the at least one groove-shaped notch formed in the elongated shape along the gas flow direction in the cell substrate, and\nthe at least one groove-shaped notch is formed in a surface of the cell substrate opposite to a surface of the cell substrate on which the one electrode is formed.\nthe cell module for a solid oxide fuel cell comprises the at least one groove-shaped notch formed in the elongated shape along the gas flow direction in the cell substrate,\nthe at least one groove-shaped notch comprises a plurality of groove-shaped notches formed in elongated shapes along the gas flow direction and separated from one another by a distance therebetween.\nthe at least one groove-shaped notch comprises a first groove-shaped notch formed in the inlet portion of the cell substrate, and a second groove-shaped notch formed in the outlet portion of the cell substrate.\n4269642 May 26, 1981 DeCasperis\n5336569 August 9, 1994 Misawa et al.\n20040253504 December 16, 2004 Mossman et al.\n20070298299 December 27, 2007 Izawa et al.\n20100062317 March 11, 2010 Selcuk\n20160329587 November 10, 2016 Ohrn\n2011-17055 January 2011 JP\n2012-94427 May 2012 JP\n5364477 December 2013 JP\nWO 2015/045682 April 2015 WO\nKevin Lai et al., A Quasi-Two-Dimensional Electrochemistry Modeling Tool for Planar Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Stacks, Journal of Power Sources, 196, 2011, pp. 3204-3222, available on-line Nov. 26, 2010.\nAssignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD. (Yokohama-shi)\nInventor: Yasunori Iwakiri (Kanagawa)\nPrimary Examiner: Jonathan G Jelsma\nCurrent U.S. Class: Embedding Of Laminae Within Face Of Additional Laminae (156/298)\nInternational Classification: H01M 8/0202 (20160101); H01M 8/1213 (20160101); H01M 8/1226 (20160101); H01M 8/12 (20160101); H01M 8/02 (20160101); H01M 8/0258 (20160101); H01M 8/0232 (20160101); H01M 8/124 (20160101);", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 62822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pauluslandericus.com/2014/06/04/seeing-as-there-are-quite-a-lot-of-posts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TN6F3ZBV32JLMCC75IFALBY7B3ESUZNO", "length": 1373, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pauluslandericus.com", "title": "Acerbity [\u0259\u02c8s\u025c\u02d0b\u026at\u026a]", "raw_content": "https://pauluslandericus.com/2014/06/04/seeing-as-there-are-quite-a-lot-of-posts/\nSeeing as there are quite a lot of posts concerning the 25 year remembrance of the Tiananmen Square protests, some things need to be noted. Firstly China is no longer a communist economic system therefore referring to China as communist is inaccurate. Secondly while its reported that people in China are not aware of it this is absolutely false. Its well known that with a VPN or proxy you can pretty much access everything while staying in China.\nWhile its good that people wish to remember history lets keep the democracy worship to a minimum shall we. While unfortunate that protesters lost their lives, Deng Xiaoping was in the right I am afraid. He understood that China would essentially go into a hypodermic shock if it suddenly had so much free politics and free economics at the same time . He valued the economics over the political freedom which is why China is #2 in the world and rising to the top where it ought to have been. The true tragedy is that the political freedoms were more than likely to come soon after but the ridicule China felt from the outside world pushed China to be hesitant when it comes to political freedoms.\nIn history, Personal Writings\t25 years, china, chinese history, my observations, my opinion, myposts, tiananmen square, tiananmen square massacre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://payplay.fm/a6b0-33miles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:40Z", "digest": "sha1:32MG3AUP2DCCNAQSQVXCTP6ZHQBED3HR", "length": 9452, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "payplay.fm", "title": "PayPlay.FM - 33Miles Mp3 Download", "raw_content": "CCM/Contemporary Gospel, Traditional Gospel\nAlternative CCM, Contemporary Christian, Gospel\nChristian, Christian Rock, Contemporary Christian, Modern Rock, Number Bands, Rock\nYou only get just one time around. You only get one shot at this-one chance to find out the one thing that you don't want to miss. One day when it's all said and done, I hope you see that it was enough: this one ride, one try, one life to love. The developing story of talented pop trio 33Miles goes hand in hand with the message of its completely heart-stirring second album, One Life. Group members Jason Barton (lead vocals)...\nThe developing story of talented pop trio 33Miles goes hand in hand with the message of its completely heart-stirring second album, One Life. Group members Jason Barton (lead vocals), Chris Lockwood (guitar/vocals) and Collin Stoddard (keys/vocals) were taking a risk, giving their dreams a shot when they released their self-titled debut less than two years ago.\nValidation was seemingly instant. Concerts at more than two hundred churches nationwide ensued, and radio spun several of the band's songs into hits. Journalists also took notice, calling these humble guys \"a talented and devoted group of performers who possess some amazing gifts for music\" (InFuze Magazine). Soon enough, 33Miles was a Gospel Music Association Dove Award nominee for New Artist of the Year.\nNow, One Life reveals the heart of a group even more intent than before on loving the church with transparency. Committed family men who are as fun to meet personally as they are to hear in song, each member of 33Miles is married, and two have children. They've kept a constant presence at home and still managed to put 120,000 miles on the touring van over the past year, not to mention the thousands traveled by air.\nThe road isn't always easy (ask Chris about the car that crashed into their dressing room and started a gas leak), and the skyways have their turbulence (ask Collin about that landing during a tornado watch), but the rewards are eternal.\nJason puts One Life in perfect perspective: \"The theme of the album is simple, it is about loving God and living every mile to the fullest.\"\nIndeed, One Life resounds with the experience of casting off safety nets and following dreams. First single \"One Life to Love\" tells of men and women who finally learn to love their families and God more than work and money, played out across a powerful melody and musical track.\n\"'One Life to Love' still gives me chills,\" says Jason. \"It also goes back to the meaning behind 33Miles-the idea that life can be short, that Christ lived only thirty-three years on this earth. So the question remains: what will you and I do with our miles, with the years we are given?\"\nCollin sees the song in relation to the band's unfolding adventure, how each member could have stayed put where they were, but instead chose to answer a no-guarantees call.\n\"We joke with each other about leaving school early or foregoing other job opportunities to be in 33Miles, but the song says, you only get one time around to find the one thing you don't want to miss, and this group is clearly a God-given opportunity to honor Him.\"\nAs implied, the formation of 33Miles didn't come without its leaps of faith. Jason was already an established studio and touring vocalist. Chris was about to enter Boston's eminent Berklee College of Music (John Mayer, Diana Krall) on a scholarship, and Collin was just one semester shy of a commercial music degree. But there's no doubt today about the appeal and strength that's found in the sum of their parts.\nLike 33Miles' acclaimed debut, One Life was produced by Nathan Nockels (Passion, Point of Grace, Phillips, Craig & Dean) and Sam Mizell (Matthew West), adding top song-shaper Brown Bannister (Third Day, MercyMe) into the mix for the first time on \"Something Different,\" \"Gone\" and \"Apologize.\" The former cuts represent the muscular, rootsy pop/country tinge that flavors half the album and flows naturally from Jason's Louisiana upbringing, Collin's love for classic rock, and the passion Chris has for his well-worn six-string. \"Apologize,\" a stand alone ballad with a classic ring to it, more quietly highlights the vocal and piano gifts of Barton and Stoddard, pleading to the wronged one: if I left a scar, let me say I'm sorry.\nDeeper in, \"When It All Comes Down\" and \"One of Those Days\" also carry an upbeat style comparable to today's biggest selling country pop acts.\n'\"One of Those Days,'\" admits Lockwood, \"We've all said it . . . 'Ugh, it's just one of those days.' But this song puts a spin on that statement. Some days have their clutter and distraction, but God is worthy to be praised every day, so hallelujah anyway!\"\nCertainly, a signature element found throughout the music of 33Miles is the expressive worship so evident on the urgent \"Jesus Calling\" and unforgettable \"My Offering.\"\n\"My favorite song, at this moment, is 'Jesus Calling.' It captures the sound 33Miles has looked for over the past year. When you come to our concerts, this is what you're gonna hear live,\" Chris says with enthusiasm. \"And the message is clear: even though the world is so full of noise today, if you just listen, Jesus is always speaking in and through it all.\"\nThe performance merits of \"My Offering\" are no less definitive of 33Miles; shining examples of the band's exceptional, emotional vocal interplay, chiming guitars, and a poetic lyric for the church that could just as easily stir people outside the chapel walls:\nI cursed your name; You called me child. I was to blame; You went to trial. And I lived to take . . . On my own I made a mess of things, but You take it as my offering.\nAt every turn, One Life grippingly offers the listener a reminder of what matters most: tuning in ever closer to God and those we love, aligning our earthly dreams with heavenly things. Be watching for the mile markers that you don't want to miss.\nSinging was a part of Jason Barton's life in Louisiana from an early age. After winning a talent show in 5th grade, he knew it was his calling. He toured locally, performing whenever and wherever he could. In school, he was a member of the choir, and at church was considered the token soloist. Although clearly gifted with natural ability, he began formal voice lessons during high school and went on to major in Music at Louisiana Tech. After college, Jason spent some time touring, which solidified his call to music ministry, and in 1998 he followed that call to Nashville. Once there, he was given numerous opportunities to perform all over the United States and Europe, but Jason felt that God was calling him to even greater things. With the support and encouragement of those around him, Jason considered starting his own group. He was introduced to Chris Lockwood and then Collin Stoddard, and it is from their shared heart for the church that 33Miles was born. When he's not on the road, Jason enjoys spending time in Nashville with his wife Jennifer and their two sons, Jacob and Jonah.\nChris Lockwood is a musician at heart. While growing up in Mobile, AL, you could find him practicing guitar in his room almost every day for hours at a time. After being selected for his high school honor choir, he began to take his voice more seriously as well. Upon graduation, Chris majored in Music at the University of Mobile and toured with the school's vocal group 'Vision'. His hard work and enthusiasm for Christ and music paid off in 2000 when he was invited to play guitar for the Christian group 'Truth'. As 'Truth' came to a close in 2001, God opened a door for Chris to serve as the Worship Associate for First Baptist North Mobile. In addition to the church, Chris continued doing session work while also completing his degree at the University of Mobile. In the fall of 2005 Chris was accepted to Berklee School of Music in Boston, but before he could leave, a mutual friend introduced him to Jason Barton. After the addition of Collin Stoddard, Chris caught the vision for 33Miles and joined the group with a heart to encourage the church and impact the world for Christ. Chris and his wife Joy currently live in Mobile with their daughter, Ella Joy.\nTo see Collin Stoddard sing and play the piano is to witness a miracle. At the age of three, his eardrums deteriorated as an adverse reaction to having tubes implanted. While he should not have been able to hear, Collin maintained a normal childhood, and even began taking piano lessons. Five years later, he was scheduled for surgery to repair the damaged eardrums, but they were all astounded when a visit to the doctor revealed healthy eardrums instead. With newfound love and appreciation for music, Collin devoted even more time and energy to practice and performance. Originally from Colorado Springs, Colorado, Collin's musical career developed through the church, classical venues, and numerous performance and composition competitions. Upon graduating from high school, Collin decided to pursue a commercial music major with an emphasis on piano performance at Belmont University. After only two years in Nashville, he was asked to join Jason Barton and Chris Lockwood as the youngest member of 33Miles and welcomed the opportunity to reach the church through music while finishing his degree. 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His extensive production experience, spanning over 27 years, includes work on over 50 feature films such as the Academy Award winning film Sideways, The Fighter, The Nutty Professor, Liar Liar, Bruno, Anchorman, Apt Pupil, 500 Day of Summer, Next Friday, Dracula, and Sky High to name a few.\nAs an accomplished director, Alter directed and produced the feature film, The Perfect Sleep, which Time Out NY called \u201cwitty, self-aware and consistently compelling\u2026a rare pleasure.\u201d Gary Oldman called the film \u201ca fantastic, wonderful ride\u2026it\u2019s film noir on crack.\u201d\nAlter has directed numerous award-winning music videos for artists such as Chris Cornell, Ariana Grande, New Found Glory, Boys Like Girls featuring Taylor Swift, Orianthi, Steve Vai, The Spill Canvas and Halestorm. He was awarded an MVPA Award for Best Directorial Debut for his highly acclaimed Social Distortion video \u201cMachine Gun Blues.\u201d His video was also nominated for the MVPA Award for Best Rock Video.\nDuring his nine year tenure as Head of Production / Supervising Producer for Meiert Avis\u2019 award winning production company Windmill, he produced nearly a hundred music videos for artists including U2, Evanescence, Weezer, Paramore, Bush, Ben Harper, Rise Against, Take That, Jakob Dylan, The Aquabats, The Pretty Reckless and Michael Buble\u2019. He also produced the live shoots of Glee Live at Radio City Music Hall and Yo Gabba Gabba! Live at the Nokia Theatre. His videos have amassed well over a half billion hits on YouTube.\nAs a feature film producer, Alter produced David Lynch\u2019s renowned feature film Inland Empire. Alter\u2019s most recently released feature film is the critically acclaimed, award-winning Touched with Fire starring Katie Holmes and executive produced by Spike Lee. The film premiered at SXSW and was theatrically released through Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate Films. His work on the film earned him the prestigious p.g.a. producers mark.\nAlter produced the film, Gray House, which is the directorial debut of Austin Lynch, featuring Denis Lavant and Aurora Cl\u00e9ment. The film made its world premiere at the prestigious 2017 CPH Dox Festival and is currently making its rounds through the international festival circuit.\nHis impressive client roster includes working with internationally renowned corporations such as Ray Dalio\u2019s Bridgewater Associates, Microsoft, Epson, Nokia, Nike, Allstate to virtually every major film studio and music label in Hollywood.\nHe developed and co-produced the initial conceptual/development phases for a $400+ million Chinese project entitled \u201cThe Valley of the Emperors.\u201d This included the design of a tourist destination complex in Xi\u2019an China to house a monumental stage spectacle about the history and mythology of the first emperor of China and his terra cotta warriors.\nRecently he produced an international multimedia campaign for the acclaimed video game, Summoner\u2019s War featuring Dave Franco and Alison Brie. He also produced an award-winning music video which was the directorial debut of notable actress M\u00e4dchen Amick (Riverdale, Twin Peaks).\nCurrently, Alter is in post-production on the narrative feature film She\u2019s in Portland which stars Tommy Dewey, star of Hulu\u2019s show Casual, Francois Arnaud star of The Borgias and NBC\u2019s Midnight Texas, and Minka Kelly from Friday Night Lights fame. He is also prepping a feature documentary about the famous advertising man, art director, designer and author George Lois.\nAdditionally, Alter is an active member of both the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Producers Guild of America (PGA). He is an advisory board member for the tech startup company, Magic Leap. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.\n\u2190 Previous Previous post: Spencer Griffin\nNext \u2192 Next post: Mike Farah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 145.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pdroms.de/dreamcast/dreamcast-es-dc-misc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:57Z", "digest": "sha1:2OL7AYH2VKPEQADA2O44G2ALLY3IAVPW", "length": 294, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "pdroms.de", "title": "Dreamcast.es (DC misc) \u203a Dreamcast \u203a PDRoms - Homebrew 4 you", "raw_content": "Dreamcast.es (DC misc)\nDCiberia.net and Dreamcast.es and have merged into a new portal dedicated exclusively to the Sega Dreamcast and continue to disseminate all the information together in Spanish language.\nThanks to ron & http://www.dcemu.co.uk for the news.\nhttp://www.dreamcast.es/news.php", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 192.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://people.howstuffworks.com/how-did-stand-ground-laws-originate.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXRBHDLRHIUFYHMXLU5R75KUOAVHYYW4", "length": 5911, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "people.howstuffworks.com", "title": "How Did 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Originate? | HowStuffWorks", "raw_content": "How Did 'Stand Your Ground' Laws Originate?\n\"Stand Your Ground\" laws are legal justification for self-defense from perceived threats against an individual, including the use of deadly force. The variations occur in the definition of the location where the claim of self-defense can be used. In the Drejka case, it was a parking lot like this one. sshaw75/Getty Images\nOn July 19, 2018, outside a convenience store in Clearwater, Florida, 47-year-old Michael Drejka, began arguing with Brittany Jacobs about a handicapped parking spot while her boyfriend, Markeis McGlockton, shopped inside the store. After learning of the argument, McGlockton allegedly returned to the car and pushed Drejka to the ground. Drejka then pulled out a Glock .40-caliber pistol and, according to police reports, shot McGlockton in the chest. Thirty minutes later McGlockton, father of three, was dead.\nMichael Drejka was not arrested or charged. The next day the sheriff of Pinellas County, Bob Gaultieri, stated, \"The law on Stand Your Ground is clear, and the Florida legislature has spoken on this. [Drejka's actions are] within the bookends of Stand Your Ground, and within the bookends of force being justified, and the immunity that people are granted under the 'Stand Your Ground' law is not just immunity from being charged, not just an immunity from convicted, but is an immunity from arrest.\"\nBut what are \"Stand Your Ground\" laws, and where do they come from? In short, these laws are legal justification for self-defense from perceived threats against an individual, including the use of deadly force. Florida statute 776.013, the Stand Your Ground law of Florida, states: \"A person who is in a dwelling or residence in which the person has a right to be has no duty to retreat and has the right to stand his or her ground and use or threaten to use: Nondeadly force against another when and to the extent that the person reasonably believes that such conduct is necessary to defend himself or herself or another against the other's imminent use of unlawful force; or deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.\"\nThe idea behind Stand Your Ground laws comes from the Castle Doctrine, according to Caroline Light, author of \"Stand Your Ground: A History of America's Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense,\" and senior lecturer and director of undergraduate studies at Harvard University. The Castle Doctrine was a common law that allowed for an individual to defend themselves in the home, whereas typical English common law doctrine stated persons had a duty to retreat when faced with a hostile threat. Light explains that the Castle Doctrine dates back to the 1600s \"and was the one exception to the duty to retreat to preserve life and let the state adjudicate the wrong.\"\n\"The boundaries of the castle began to move out of the home around the time of the American Civil War. After the Civil War there were state cases that expanded the boundaries that of where a man can defend himself outside of his home,\" Light says.\n\"There was a deliberate push by the NRA (National Rifle Association) and the ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council, run by the Koch brothers), to expand stand your ground laws in the mid-2000s, starting with the south \u2014 with Florida being the harshest,\" Light says. The first Stand Your Ground law in American came to pass in Florida in 2005. Beyond offering immunity, it has been expanded with amendments that require the prosecution to prove the individual threatened was not reasonable in defending their property.\n\"Approximately half the states have SYG laws,\" says Light. \"The variation is in the definition of the social geography where self-defense can be used.\" According to Giffords Law Center, 29 states have Stand Your Ground laws of some form or another. Another seven \"permit the use of deadly force in self-defense in public with no duty to retreat through a combination of statutes, judicial decisions and/or jury instructions.\"\nLight offers that there are a host of underlying roots to the development of Stand Your Ground laws, most of them stemming from racial and gender issues.\n\"In the U.S., the [history of] the Castle Doctrine was specifically for white, property owning men. It sounds like a universal, written in race and gender-neutral terms, but it's not adjudicated that way. Stand Your Ground laws are the selective expansion of the Castle Doctrine, but only for certain people; one that's written for everyone, but not adjudicated for everyone. There are cases where black families are prosecuted for the same defense. Women who try to claim Stand Your Ground against violent partners go to jail,\" she says.\nThe chief example she points to is that of Marrisa Alexander, a Florida woman who was convicted in 2012 of three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after firing a warning shot, in her home, after her boyfriend threatened to kill her. She was released from prison in 2017. The law has also been proven to be ineffective in combating crime. In 2017 a study by Oxford University, published by the American Medical Association discovered that homicide rates in Florida have increased nearly 25 percent since the introduction of its Stand Your Ground law.\nIn the case of Michael Drejka, Florida's Stand Your Ground law proved to be no defense for his shooting of Markeis McGlockton. On Aug. 13, 2018, the Florida States Attorney's Office charged Drejka with manslaughter.\nOn March 16, 2018, Wyoming became the 36th state to qualify as a \"Stand Your Ground\" state.\nThe Scandal of the Cross-Dressing Men of Victorian England\nDo countries with stricter gun laws really have less crime or fewer homicides?\nCan a felon own a gun in the United States?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 7348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://perceptionsofpregnancy.com/2016/02/29/the-wages-of-sin-is-a-month-in-the-locke-irish-modernism-and-the-politics-of-venereal-disease/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:39Z", "digest": "sha1:65DFO5TWQUO2GV7QMBRHBLYKTEJMU5IT", "length": 11264, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "perceptionsofpregnancy.com", "title": "\u2018The Wages of Sin is a Month in the Locke\u2019: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease | Perceptions of Pregnancy", "raw_content": "\u2018The Wages of Sin is a Month in the Locke\u2019: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease\nThe Perceptions of Pregnancy blog, like the Researchers\u2019 Network, aims to reach beyond boundaries and borders, and to facilitate an international and interdisciplinary conversation on pregnancy and its associated bodily and emotional experiences from the medieval to the modern. This week\u2019s posting comes to us from Lloyd Houston, who has recently completed a M.St. in English Studies (1900-Present) at Brasenose College, Oxford.\nIn the midst of the psycho-sexual phantasmagoria of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus\u2019 visit to Bella Cohen\u2019s Mecklenburg Street brothel in the \u201cCirce\u201d episode of Ulysses (1922), the prostitute Kitty Ricketts presents an affectingly stark account of the occupational hazards facing women in her profession:\nMary Shortall was in the lock with the pox she got from Jimmy Pidgeon in the blue caps had a child off him that couldn\u2019t swallow and was smothered with convulsions in the mattress and we all subscribed for the funeral\u2019 (U 15.2578-81).[1]\nThe \u2018lock\u2019 in question was Dublin\u2019s Westmoreland Lock Hospital, which, since its establishment in 1755, had served as the capital\u2019s dedicated centre for the treatment of venereal disease.[2]\nThe Westmoreland Lock Hospital, 21 Townsend Street, Dublin, photographed shortly before its demolition in 1955. Source: The Skibbereen Eagle.\nBrought under British military administration by the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Lock hospitals served as emblems of a gendered colonial double-standard which licensed the sexual conduct of British soldiers at the expense of the liberty of Irish women even as they tangibly belied nationalist efforts to figure Ireland as physically and culturally \u2018pure\u2019.[3] This paper offers a brief account of the ways in which Joyce\u2019s novel registers and responds to this paradox and explores the political and aesthetic ends to which references to Ireland\u2019s Lock hospitals and the discourses of sexual hygiene with which they were enmeshed could be deployed by authors such as Joyce in the first decades of the twentieth-century.\nAlthough only a brief vignette in the novel\u2019s most voluminous episode, Joyce\u2019s description of Mary Shortall\u2019s infection, institutionalisation, and bereavement potently condenses a range of contemporary debates over gender, colonialism, and national identity. The most obvious of these concerns the pathological co-dependence of British militarism and Irish prostitution. Kitty\u2019s reference to \u2018the blue caps\u2019 identifies the pox-ridden Pidgeon as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, a predominately Irish regiment whose distinctive uniform Bloom collocates with venereal disease in the novel\u2019s \u201cLotus Eaters\u201d episode (U 5.66-68). [4] The syphilitic symbiosis of British garrisons and Irish brothels was an acknowledged fact of contemporary Dublin life. An 1854 Select Committee on Dublin Hospitals reported that of the 6,550 unmarried women admitted to medical institutions in the city with venereal disease in 1850, at least half were believed to have been infected by soldiers. [5] Joyce\u2019s sometime friend Oliver StJohn Gogarty playfully drew attention to the issue in \u2018The Irish Yeoman\u2019s Return\u2019, a poetic Trojan horse smuggled into the June 1901 issue of the staunchly Unionist Irish Society under the suggestive pseudonym \u2018J.R.S. of Knocklong\u2019. While at first blush an apparently straight-faced ode of welcome for an Irish regiment returning from the Boer War, on closer inspection Gogarty\u2019s poem proves to be an acrostic in which the first letter of each line combines to declare that \u2018THE WHORES WILL BE BUSY\u2019. [6] The British military\u2019s response to the astonishing rates of sexually transmitted infection to which such situations gave rise was a string of Contagious Diseases Acts which mandated the inspection, hospitalisation, and incarceration without consent of any woman accused of prostitution in the vicinity of a garrison. [7] Oliver Gogarty pithily summarises the logic of these Acts in his 1917 tenement comedy Blight when a young prostitute, piously reminded that the \u2018wages of sin is death\u2019, retorts that the \u2018wages of sin is a month in the Locke [sic]\u2019. [8] As contemporary feminist activists such as Josephine Butler emphasised, this legislation punished financially and physically vulnerable women for the sexual misconduct of men who were left free to spread the infection with impunity. Thus, by having Kitty insist that it is Jimmy Pidgeon who has infected Mary Shortall with syphilis, and not the reverse, Joyce subverts a dominant narrative of British social hygiene policy in order to register the very real impact of British soldiers as a vector for venereal disease in Ireland.\nContained within this indictment of British militarism is a repudiation of the models of racial and sexual difference through which British rule in Ireland was justified in the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-centuries. As Marjorie Howes and Susan Canon Harris have noted, Matthew Arnold\u2019s influential account of the \u2018Celt\u2019 as \u2018feminine\u2019, \u2018sentimental\u2019, and fundamentally \u2018undisciplinable\u2019 constructed Irishness as a state of hysterical and self-destructive femininity which could only be redeemed through \u2018vital union\u2019 with the rational, masculine \u2018Anglo-Saxon\u2019. [9]\nIn the masculinist logic of contemporary degeneration theory, this pathologised femininity was synonymous with the dysgenic impact of syphilis and its hereditary manifestations. The degenerative effects of syphilis were an abiding concern for British\nL0038208 Illustration of baby diseased with hereditary Syphilis Credit: Wellcome Library, London.\ncolonial administrators such as Lord Landsdowne, Viceroy of India, who in 1891 expressed his concern that \u2018infected men\u2019 would return home from overseas service \u2018to spread the contagion among the civil population of Great Britain\u2019 and \u2018transmit a heritage of misery to posterity\u2019.[10] As Joyce\u2019s description of the new-born\u2019s dysphagia, \u2018convulsions\u2019, and suffocation makes clear, Mary Shortall\u2019s child is the victim of congenital syphilis, and, as such, an apparent manifestation of the eschatological process which Fournier and Landsdowne outline. However, as has already been emphasised, the source of this dysgenic taint is not Mary Shortall, but Jimmy Pidgeon. As such, far from offering salvation from a hereditary state of sexually-pathologised irrationality, in Joyce\u2019s rendering the \u2018vital union\u2019 of an archetype of Irish femininity with an avatar of British martial authority serves only to deprive the Irishwoman of her health, her liberty, and her child, whose death may be read as a symbol of Ireland\u2019s thwarted political futurity.\nAs this example illustrates, while Joyce repudiated Sinn F\u00e9in and its supporters for their overuse of \u2018the \u201cvenereal excess\u201d cry\u2019 as an explanatory metaphor through which to replicate the movement\u2019s call for linguistic, cultural, and economic autarchy at the microcosmic level of the individual Irish body, he nevertheless recognised the ways in which references to institutions such as the Westmoreland Lock could be used to register and critique the pathological impact of colonialism in Ireland.[11] In this sense, an examination of the ways in which Lock hospitals are depicted in Irish culture in the first decades of the twentieth-century renders it possible to arrive at a more nuanced understanding of the political role which images of fertility and its pathological other, venereal disease, were made to serve at a crucial period in the nation\u2019s history.\n[1] James Joyce, Ulysses: The Corrected Text, eds. Hans Walter Gabler, Wolfhard Steppe, and Claus Melchior (New York:Vintage, 1986). Cited parenthetically by episode and line number.\n[2] For an account of the hospital\u2019s origins, architecture, and administration see: Laurence M. Geary, \u2018\u201cThe Wages of Sin is Death\u201d: Lock Hospitals, Venereal Disease, and Gender in Pre-Famine Ireland\u2019 in Gender and Medicine in Ireland, 1700-1950, eds. Margaret H. Preston and Margaret \u00d3 h\u00d3gartaigh (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2012), 154-68. Gary A. Boyd, Dublin 1745-1922: Hospitals, Spectacle & Vice (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006).\n[3] Despite consistent lobbying on the part of the city\u2019s military and medical authorities, Dublin was in fact never brought under the jurisdiction of the Contagious Diseases Acts, which applied only to the military and naval garrisons at Cork, Cobh, and the Curragh (Queenstown). Nevertheless, British militarism, Irish prostitution, and the Lock hospitals remained strongly associated in the popular imagination and in Sinn F\u00e9in and Inghinidhe na h\u00c9ireann anti-enlistment propaganda. See: Maria Luddy, Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Chapter 4.\n[4] Major Arthur Mainwaring, Crown and Country: The Historical Records of the 2nd Batt. Royal Dublin Fusiliers, formerly the 1st Bombay European Regiment, 1662-1911 (London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1911), p. 294\n[5] Report of the Select Committee on Dublin Hospitals, 1854, Q. 39. Quoted in Luddy, Prostitution and Irish Society, p. 138.\n[6] J.R.S. of Knocklong (Oliver StJohn Gogarty), \u2018The Irish Yeoman\u2019s Return, or Love is Lord of All\u2019, Irish Society (June 1901).\n[7] For a discussion of the relationship between these Acts and British colonialism, see: Philippa Levine, Prostitution, Race & Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire (New York: Routledge, 2003)\n[8] Alpha and Omega (Oliver StJohn Gogarty), Blight, the Tragedy of Dublin: An Exposition in Three Acts (Dublin: Talbot Press, 1917), p. 15.\n[9] Matthew Arnold, The Study of Celtic Literature (London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1867), 108-09, xii. Marjorie Howes, Yeats\u2019s Nations: Gender, Class, and Irishness (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Chapter 1. Susan Canon Harris, Gender and Modern Irish Drama (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), Chapter 1.\n[10] Lord Landsdowne (Viceroy of India) to India Secretary, Lord Cross, 4 February 1891. Quoted in Levine, Prostitution, Race & Politics, p. 44.\n[11] Richard Ellmann, ed. The Letters of James Joyce: Volume II (London: Faber and Faber, 1966), p. 192.\nLloyd Houston has recently completed an M.St. in English Studies (1900-Present) at Brasenose College, Oxford. His work examines the political and aesthetic roles which venereal disease and discourses of sexual hygiene played in the emergence of Irish modernism. Other research interests include postcolonial literature and the law, and the institutional construction of literary obscenity. His recent publications include a short history of the Bodleian\u2019s restricted \u2018Phi Collection\u2019, and a reception study of Joyce\u2019s Ulysses in Britain\u2019s copyright libraries.\nFollow him on Twitter: @Dipthefal, Academia.edu: https://oxford.academia.edu/LEJHouston,\nor his personal site: https://branded.me/lejhouston.\nThis entry was posted in Blog Posts, Past Posts and tagged James Joyce, Lock Hospital, venereal disease. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 Podcast of the evolution of understandings of pregnancy in Mexico\nCFP: Travellin\u2019 Mama: Mothers, Mothering, and Travel \u2192\nOne thought on \u201c\u2018The Wages of Sin is a Month in the Locke\u2019: Irish Modernism and the Politics of Venereal Disease\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 13752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pharrezychica.livejournal.com/312380.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:44Z", "digest": "sha1:JSEINNCUBE6Q7DRI6SGFIHYSS6NK56CJ", "length": 807, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "pharrezychica.livejournal.com", "title": "From Twitter 01-04-2011: pharrezychica", "raw_content": "09:00:56: Good morning. Just had a sad lil breakfast in the office from the vending machine and now I'm ready (more or less) to start work.\n10:51:41: *LOVE* that I have to spend money on MY CELL to contact my boss cuz they didn't pay the bill of the company's cell and it can't make calls\n13:22:35: Couldn't resist today. Been munching on wafers to last til 2PM... 40 minutes to go! *g*\n14:16:55: And all of a sudden I'm effing freezing cold. The hell?\n15:54:42: Great Simphony: Boss yelled on the phone for everyone to hear.\n19:08:16: I think I decided. Coming home and seeing Rocky so weak made the decision for me. I can't see him suffer like this.\n20:18:56: Vet came here as soon as we called...\n20:19:19: I can't watch, I'm staying in here.\n20:23:04: R.I.P. Rocky. You have no idea how much I love you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 2863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://phyxius.livejournal.com/827618.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:03Z", "digest": "sha1:YCN4ML26VVWJ2BCP3LIVAVL4TLJCJI3C", "length": 952, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "phyxius.livejournal.com", "title": "I was at school production coordinating all day and just got home at\u2026: phyxius", "raw_content": "I was at school production coordinating all day and just got home at 9pm. Luckily I didn't have to get there until 10 or so. It's been like that all week, and starting next week, I'll be working ~14-16 hrs/day (6am - 9pm-ish), 5-6 days/wk, for four weeks. Oh boy. :) It'll be intense, but it should be fun. I'm excited. :)\nI love that all I have to do in order to graduate is everything I want to do after I graduate (Oct 24!). This is how school should be.\nWhich reminds me, if anyone wants to come to my graduation, it's at the Brava Theatre, 2781 24th Street, San Francisco, California, 94110. October 24th, ceremony starts at 4pm (speech-making, completion certificate-passing), then food and drink, and the screening starts at 6:30pm (watching each person's 10min thesis film, and these are really gonna be good, too). The first part's mostly for family - most people won't be arriving until the screening, but anyone's welcome to the whole thing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 204.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://picsofthen.com/2011/08/27/family-with-television/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:06Z", "digest": "sha1:5H5AB3O5HT3WPBRZKZUIEKSANY4D63HS", "length": 2988, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "picsofthen.com", "title": "Family with television | Pics of Then", "raw_content": "Antique reprint\nTags: 1953, photography, television, vintage photography\nCategory: Bert & Slim, Families, Groups\nThree snapshots measuring 3.5 x 3.5 inches each. Mounting traces on the back.\nEach photo is dated February 1953 in ink on the back.\nSeveral things to say here. 1.) I know that having a TV set was a rare and special thing in those days, but it\u2019s funny to see how much it is included in the poses here, and how much attention it gets, even though it seems to be turned off. 2.) I left these photos \u201cas is\u201d to demonstrate what I mean by \u201cmounting traces on the back\u201d. Many of my photos were previously mounted in photo albums. I don\u2019t know why they were taken apart (possibly after someone\u2019s death by a family member distributing photos to other heirs or an estate dealer breaking up an estate for sale, possibly by someone trying to salvage photos from an otherwise damaged album, etc., etc.). But many of my photos have traces of being mounted, such as the scraps of black album paper still glued to the backs of the above snapshots. I generally leave them alone, though sometimes I try to remove them since the traces can obscure identifying information previously written on the backs of the photos. 3.) The man and woman on the right appear numerous times throughout a large assortment of random snapshots I bought all at once. I\u2019ll probably post more pictures of them over time. I know very little about them from these photos, except that they were a couple and seemed happy together. He served in WWII. And their pet names for each other were \u201cBert\u201d and \u201cSlim\u201d, though to be honest I\u2019m still not quite sure which was which. The photos I have generally indicate that they were childless, in which case I\u2019m not sure how, if at all, they were related to the woman on the left and the toddler. I also don\u2019t know whose house this was (was it Bert and Slim\u2019s house, or where they just visiting?).\n4 comments on \u201cFamily with television\u201d\n27 Aug 2011 at 1:08 pm Momoko\nI look forward to seeing the other photos of Bert and Slim. How do you know that the husband served in WWII? Do you have a photo of him in uniform?\nI wonder if these pictures were taken right after the TV was purchased. It looks pretty shiny.\nYes, a pic or two in uniform, stationed somewhere in Florida if I recall, but dated 1943.\n27 Aug 2011 at 2:53 pm gingkochrisgkochris\nThe fact that the toddler and Bert/Slim are both looking at the screen in the center photograph makes me think the television might have been turned on, at least in that picture. In the early 50s the TV picture was often more \u201csnow\u201d than not, grainy and, of course, black and white \u2013 definitely no HD. With the flash at an angle and an image that may have been predominately white, the picture may be totally washed out.\nYes, I was thinking that might be the case with the center photo. It may just be the fascination with the new item, or the baby is seeing his reflection in the screen, but it is likely on at an angle we can\u2019t see.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/18663-migos-t-shirt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:00Z", "digest": "sha1:LZUEQZDNLL7WUDJNIRF7X6WHDF7G43HB", "length": 2089, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "pitchfork.com", "title": "\u201cT-Shirt\u201d by Migos Review | Pitchfork", "raw_content": "When Migos pop up, they are inescapable. They can be quiet for long stretches, then suddenly resurface bigger and more ostentatious than ever before. When accepting \u201cAtlanta\u201d\u2019s Golden Globe win for Best TV Series - Musical or Comedy, Donald Glover thanked the group, not for their appearance on the show, but for making \u201cBad and Boujee,\u201d which is the No. 1 song in the country this week. It felt fitting, not just because we are in the midst of another Migos moment, but because the group stands at the center of Atlanta\u2019s vibrant rap scene\u2014and the center of the rap universe. They re-popularized triplet flows with cascading schemes, and brought call-and-response to the trap. They survived Drake vampirism, and turned a Disney star into a coke euphemism. They mainstreamed the term bando; they dabbed; they watched a Quavo lyric become a Travis Scott album title. They were superficially (and perhaps facetiously) deemed contemporaries of the Beatles years before \u201cBlack Beatles.\u201d Only they could brand their upcoming album C U L T U R E, as if encompassing it all, taking full credit for the entire rap zeitgeist, and basically be right.\nMigos\u2019 latest single, \u201cT-Shirt,\u201d is, a sly homage to the late D4L co-founder Shawty Lo, that repurposes one of his most memorable lines as the backbone of a new trap anthem. It has its share of quotables (\u201cSpace coupe/Quavo Yoda/Pourin\u2019, drinkin\u2019 sodas\u201d), but this is, as the best Migos songs are, a marvel in timing; each word is staccato and sharp, surging toward the downbeat. The production here is a subtly disorienting Nard & B gem, which strobes in and out like a beam from a light house. Quavo mimics the synth\u2019s pattern in the background, laying his ad-libbed, Auto-Tune vocal flourishes into the beat\u2019s casing, as the verses whack away between hi-hats. In the \u201cOscar-worthy\u201d video, the trio take their coke enterprise into a snowy woodland, channeling The Revenant, while clad in animal pelts and surrounded by snowmobiles. More likely, it\u2019ll be awarded a far higher honor: internet immortality. After all, they do it for the the culture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pmworldjournal.net/almahdy-eltonsy-joins-pm-world-correspondents-network-egypt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:52Z", "digest": "sha1:S32C4S6EB5SM5UQ72R3KCU7X22G5LO4Y", "length": 6867, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "pmworldjournal.net", "title": "Almahdy Eltonsy joins PM World Correspondents Network in Egypt - Project Management World Journal", "raw_content": "Almahdy Eltonsy joins PM World Correspondents Network in Egypt\n14 February 2014 \u2013 PM World has announced that Almahdy Eltonsy has been appointed an International Correspondent for the organization in Cairo, Egypt. Mr. Eltonsy has many years of experience in several major healthcare organizations, working on major hospital facilities and medical systems projects. Almahdy will report about professional developments in Egypt for the PM World Journal (PMWJ).\nAlmahdy Eltonsy, IPMA \u2013 B is a Senior Project Manager in the HealthCare industry, and the first healthcare PM granted the IPMA-B certification in Egypt. Starting with Siemens in 1993, Almahdy has extensive technical and managerial experiences, gaining the ability to work cross-functionally in a time-intensive environment.\nOne of the most important milestones in Almahdy\u2019s project management career is Children\u2019s Cancer Hospital in Egypt (57357) ( www.57357.com ), a 30 Million Euro Project. As a GPM for this strategic pivotal project, the scope was not only project management but also the service management, in addition to work with accreditation bodies.\nIn addition to his work in healthcare, Almahdy worked as an IT project developer with one of the largest media and advertising groups in Egypt. Almahdy was able to realize a new methodology and software for Media planning and advertising campaign planning. Almahdy holds a B.Sc. in Systems and Biomedical Engineering from Cairo University \u2013 Faculty of Engineering, and passed many specialized courses in Siemens, GE and Microsoft.\nAccording to Wikipedia, Cairo is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle-East and Africa. Its metropolitan area is the 16th largest in the world. Located near the Nile Delta, Cairo has long been a center of the region\u2019s political and cultural life. Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century CE, but the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt as it is close to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are near the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.\nCairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab world, as well as the world\u2019s second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University. Many international media, businesses, and organizations have regional headquarters in the city; the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for most of its existence.\nWith a population of 6.76 million spread over 453 square kilometers (175 sq mi), Cairo is by far the largest city in Egypt. With an additional 10 million inhabitants just outside the city, Cairo resides at the center of the largest metropolitan area in Africa and the Arab World as well as the tenth-largest urban area in the world. Cairo, like many other mega-cities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic. Cairo\u2019s metro ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1 billion annual passenger rides. The economy of Cairo was ranked first in the Middle East and 43rd globally in 2010. [1]\nEgypt is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia, via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. Most of its territory of 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi) lies within the Nile Valley of North Africa and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Gulf of Aqaba to the east, the Red Sea to the east and south, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.\nWith over 84 million inhabitants, Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East, and the 15th-most populated in the world. The great majority of its people live near the banks of the Nile River, an area of about 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large regions of the Sahara Desert, which constitute most of Egypt\u2019s territory, are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt\u2019s residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.\nEgypt has one of the longest histories of any modern state, having been continuously inhabited since the 10th millennium BC. Its monuments, such as the Giza Necropolis and its Great Sphinx, were constructed by its ancient civilization, which was one of the most powerful of its time.\nIts ancient ruins, such as those of Memphis, Thebes, Karnak, and the Valley of the Kings outside Luxor, are a significant focus of archaeological study and popular interest from around the world. Egypt\u2019s rich cultural legacy, as well as the attraction of its Red Sea Riviera, have made tourism a vital part of the economy, employing about 12 percent of the country\u2019s workforce.\nThe economy of Egypt is one of the most diversified in the Middle East, with sectors such as tourism, agriculture, industry and services at almost equal production levels. Egypt is considered to be a regional and middle power, with significant cultural, political, and military influence in North Africa, the Middle East and the Muslim world. [2]\nAccording to PMWJ Managing Editor David Pells, \u201cWe are honored to have Almahdy Eltonsy join our international correspondent team in Cairo. His background in both IT and healthcare is an exciting addition. Even with all of the turmoil in Egypt recently, Almahdy\u2019s commitment to modern professional project management suggests that he is making an important contribution to both his organization and country.\u201d\nAlmahdy Eltonsy stated, \u201cI am happy to join the PM World team, and to support the global mission of the journal and organization, to share project management knowledge around the world. I look forward to sharing my experiences and news related to project management in the Egyptian healthcare sector and in Egypt.\u201d\nThe PM World Journal (PMWJ) is published by PM World in the United States, but created by a virtual team of contributors and editors around the world. Each month, the PMWJ features dozens of articles, papers, and stories about projects and project management in many countries and industries. PM World also produces the PM World Library (PMWL), a global resource for continuous learning in portfolio, program and project management (P/PM). PM World is a virtual organization reflecting the 21st century reality of a connected world where individuals and organizations worldwide can collaborate for the creation, sharing and application of new knowledge. To see the latest edition of the PMWJ, visit www.pmworldjournal.net; to learn more, visit www.pmworldlibrary.net.\n[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo\n[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt\nShare the post \"Almahdy Eltonsy joins PM World Correspondents Network in Egypt\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 9365, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 128.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pmworldjournal.net/article/mega-projects-on-egypts-horizon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:07Z", "digest": "sha1:JWGRXTRNDQVJTVEGVEBUGP2YVNWINDR6", "length": 2935, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "pmworldjournal.net", "title": "Mega Projects on Egypt\u2019s Horizon - Project Management World Journal", "raw_content": "Mega Projects on Egypt\u2019s Horizon\nBy: Rania Al-Maghraby, PMP, OPM3\nOneWayForward Inc.\nSince my young age, when I started to realize the surroundings and recognize the world around consciously, I have always been wondering how a country like Egypt can be poor or needy or underdeveloped?! A country possessing a rich and generous supply of all kinds of resources: human resources (with a population now around 90 million), natural resources (the Nile, moderate temperature all year long, soil, minerals, seas), historical reserve, strategic location, regional leadership, \u2026 what else? The list goes long. Given that fact, the undeserved demoted situation in which Egypt exists is very questionable. The problem was definitely with the leadership and management system.\nLeadership problems can derail any kind of organization, including a country large organization. When the leadership was lacking vision of the future, careless, showy, and selfish, that opened the doors for endless list of forms of corruption. The result is a stolen economy, lost and depressed people, and lack of control on the future.\nOur new Egypt has on its agenda a number of brilliant projects that were dismissed deliberately during the \u201cthieves\u2019 era\u201d. Such projects are promising to take the whole country to new levels, and they are actually receiving a fair deal of attention and dedication at the current time. The following is a short description of some of these mega projects.\n1) Egypt \u2013 Saudi Arabia Bridge:\nA project that was supposed to be inaugurated back in 2007, but was unexpectedly cancelled without explanation, despite the offered funds from the Saudi side. The bridge is planned to be the shortest land line link between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, crossing the narrowest point in the Red Sea in between of the two countries, supported by islands on the way.\nMs. Rania Al-Maghraby is an independent management consultant from Egypt. She is PMP\u00ae certified, ITIL\u00ae Foundation certified, MSc Computer Science, and a certified OPM3\u00ae Consultant and Assessor. Rania is the owner and general manager of the OneWayForward Inc. (www.OneWayForward.com), a sole proprietary consultation firm based in Egypt. She is a speaker at several professional events including PMI Global Congress and IPMA World Congress. She has published a number of papers and articles in wide spread international magazines, journals, conference proceedings, and authored books. Rania has contributed to professional development over years as a member in a number of committees and professional organizations. She has worked across local and international private sector companies, NPOs, and governmental organizations of various industries. Her interests include Project Management, Open Standards, Business Administration, and Academic Research. Personal Website: www.OneWayForward.info. She can be contacted at [email protected].\nShare the post \"Mega Projects on Egypt\u2019s Horizon\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pnyx.com.au/access-redevelopment-new-user-circle-controls.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3IYTNNTZVWR6URDCLXZPRY7OQYHLDCTN", "length": 1888, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "pnyx.com.au", "title": "Access Redevelopment & New User-Circle Controls Access Redevelopment & New User-Circle Controls | Pnyx", "raw_content": "Access Redevelopment & New User-Circle Controls\nWe\u2019ve been making some small design changes around the system lately, but we\u2019ve also been hard at work behind the scenes, listening to your feedback - and now, we\u2019ve released another giant update! We\u2019ve heard your voices, and have redeveloped our User Roles, including clarifying the capabilities and names of each Role, redeveloping Organisational Roles, and - we\u2019ve given you a new way to change the Roles of your Staff Members, in all their Circles!\nYour Roles in Circles will remain the same, however no longer will Organisational Roles be listed as Coordinators, Admins, Providers and Aids, as in Circles. These Roles have been replaced by Managers, Staff and Volunteers, and at the release of this update, all users with the former Role of Coordinator and Admin will be reissued with a Manager Role, Providers will become Staff, and Aids will become Volunteers.\nThese are huge changes; you now have an accurate way to title Staff Members, including Volunteers. Additionally, you were previously required to enter each individual Circle and change the Role of a Staff Member manually. Now, by entering the Profile of a Staff Member as an Admin, you can view a list of the Circles they are a member of, and change their Role in that Circle - all in the one screen!\nNot only is this guaranteed to be a huge time-saver, but it also gives you an added level of organisational and user management abilities - by being able to see which Circles your team belongs to, you can better monitor any unauthorised access, and easily change their roles, giving them more or less abilities. We\u2019ve created a guide on how to use these new tools - click here to learn about the new roles, or click here to discover your new User-Circle management capability! We\u2019re working on a stack of other updates as well, including NDIS connectivity, so stay tuned!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://porthealth.org/index.php/about/mission-and-values", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:33Z", "digest": "sha1:XR56HH43VVIO5LR6456TT6QQOUZRCMBZ", "length": 2025, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "porthealth.org", "title": "Mission and Values Behind our Services | PORT Health", "raw_content": "A Clear Path to Recovery\nPORT Health strives to provide services in a manner consistent with the \"Three Pillars\" that support our mission and values:\nThe Three Pillars represent PORT Health's guiding principles and uphold the lofty ideals of our agency. Together with our mission and values, they form a sound and solid structure for the effective delivery of services.\nTo improve the lives, health and well-being of individuals and families dealing with substance use and mental health disorders by providing a comprehensive range of services that treat the whole person and empower patients to find their way forward.\nWe support the following values that embody the guiding philosophy of our services.\nMental illness and substance use disorders are treatable illnesses.\nMental illness and substance use disorders in many instances are preventable.\nIn the importance of providing options and opportunities to persons understanding their diverse needs and the challenges of their families.\nEach individual in need of treatment is unique and has a voice.\nAll persons with mental health and substance use disorders are people first.\nIn providing high-quality services to assist the persons we serve to reach their fullest potential and be active participants in the community.\nTreatment should be timely, affordable, in adherence to best practices, and should be provided in a safe, flexible, and accessible environment.\nTreatment benefits the individual person served and his or her family, but also the public health, safety, and economy of our community.\nHighly qualified, diverse, and well-trained staff is the key to realizing treatment success.\nIn teamwork that fosters honesty, cooperation, and open communication.\nIn sharing our patients served, staff, and program success as a means of advocating the benefits of treatment and fostering positive community attitudes regarding treatment and support services.\nIn creating support services based on personal goals and desired outcomes.\nIn the right of self-determination.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 229.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://premier-door.co.uk/add-value-to-your-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:45Z", "digest": "sha1:TIRNKFKBZISPIHKZT2AVNJF2RO2VWTSZ", "length": 6077, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "premier-door.co.uk", "title": "9 Easy Ways To Add Value To Your Home (#2 Might Surprise You!)", "raw_content": "Adding value to a property is always a good thing, and it\u2019s a lot easier than you might imagine. Making a few changes around the house can go a long way in improving it\u2019s worth, and its never a bad idea to shake things up.\nWhether you\u2019re looking to sell your home or simply add value through upgrades, these improvements are sure to bump up the asking price of your house.\nSometimes all a home really needs is bit of attention and a new splash of paint.\nOutdated or cheap looking walls can say a lot about a home, and applying a new coat of paint every few years is sure to keep your house feeling fresh and exciting. Sticking with lots of neutral colours that blend together nicely such as cream, grey and brown will ensure a stylish look without being too harsh on the eyes.\nThis doesn\u2019t just apply to the walls as well, fixing up door handles and banisters will be sure to give your home a brand new feel, and making the contents of your home generally more appealing.\nNobody wants to live a dark, gloomy looking home, so introducing a bit of light into the home is definitely the way forward.\nHaving a lot of light flowing through a property will automatically make it more appealing to anyone, and is bound to add some value in the process. Being able to draw a lot of natural light will also help with electrical bills, reducing the need to switch lights on.\nSome idea for bringing some more light into the home are moving furniture around, cleaning windows regularly or maybe even adding a conservatory if you have the space.\nFlooring is a big factor when considering the value of a home, and an outdated floor isn\u2019t doing anything for anyone.\nMost modern homes now make use of laminate and real wood flooring, as opposed to the carpet option that used to be popular. Laminate flooring has a lot of benefits, being very easy to clean and maintain, making it a much more efficient option and a must-have for any home looking to improve.\nThis mentality applies to the kitchen as well, and changing up the tiles for a fresher look will instantly transform the look of your cooking space for the better.\nImprove The Exterior\nFixing the fence, taking care of the garden and adding in some lights can make a big difference, and we imagine you\u2019d want to be proud of the outside of your home.\nGiving the garden some well needed attention and taking care of any weeds, dead flowers and overgrown grass are all easy fixes to improving the look of your garden. Throw in some lighting and maybe even a water feature and you\u2019ve got yourself a fantastic looking garden.\nAs the front door is the first thing someone is likely to see, it\u2019s a wise idea to freshen it up every now and then. Applying a new coat of paint or investing in a new front door will improve kerb appeal greatly, and matching it up with your garage door will give your home a complete look.\nWant to know some more tips on improving your home\u2019s exterior? Check out our handy guide.\nChanging out old windows in favour of double or even triple glazed windows is a great investment, and can even help you reduce the amount you spend on heating bills.\nBeing able to keep the heat contained in your home, the windows are specifically designed to reduce heat loss and will definitely come in handy during the old, harsh winter. This means you\u2019ll end up spending less, not having to constantly keep the heating on and bringing a lot of value to the property as well.\nA new set of windows can also improve the kerb appeal and generally making the house more aesthetically pleasing.\nGet Central Heating\nThe majority of homes in the UK have some sort of central heating system in place, but it can prove to be a useful installation if you don\u2019t already have it.\nHeating your home through the use of radiators is a much more efficient way than the likes of a wood-burning fireplace, and central heating is essential for any modern home.\nIf you\u2019re worried about the price, installing a central heating in your home is almost guaranteed to add more value than what it costs, making it a sound investment.\nInstall Roller Shutter Garage Doors\nChanging out the old garage door for a brand new, high quality roller shutter door is a sure fire way of increasing the value of your home.\nInstalling a roller shutter garage door will vastly improve the aesthetic of your home, being able to choose from a range of colours to best suit your home. People often underestimate how much the exterior of a home can say, so having a shabby, dated looking garage door isn\u2019t doing you any favours.\nNot only does it improve the overall look of the exterior, but a roller shutter garage door improves safety thanks to the automated system and will protect the contents a lot better. Using an auto-lock mechanism, the doors cannot be opened when in the fully closed position, and this kind of security equals value.\nUpdate Electric Outlets\nConsidering we all spend most of our time glued to our phones, having a lot of plug sockets feel like a need in this modern age.\nAdding in some more plug sockets and electrical outlets to a property will make things much more convenient, and will actually add some value to your home. Having access to multiple different sockets across the room will turn out to be a life saver, and looks great if you\u2019re thinking of selling.\nWhile this may not send the asking price souring, it\u2019s a worthy investment nonetheless.\nYou can never be too safe, and a safe home is a valuable home.\nGoing the extra mile and installing more locks and security systems in a home will definitely increase the value, and make it much more appealing to any potential buyers.\nAdding a chain to the front and back door and a light sensor will do wonders for making your home feel more secure, and should help to prevent any would be intruders from attempting a break in.\nYou can increase the value of a property through many different upgrades, and you don\u2019t have to spend a fortune to change the look of your home.\nIf you\u2019re interested in learning more about the benefits of roller shutter garage doors, feel free to get in touch today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://prestozon.com/terms-of-use/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HFVZ2NOKGOGYXQTFJBQNU4WCTTBZJCIW", "length": 11313, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "prestozon.com", "title": "Terms of Use \u2013 Prestozon", "raw_content": "PRESTOZON TERMS OF USE\nWelcome to Prestozon! 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Before joining AIT in 2000, he had been working for several years at the European Commission\u2019s Institute for Prospective Technological Studies IPTS in Seville and Ispra. Next to his research work on science-industry relations, the impact of foresight on policymaking and the governance of innovation system, he is advising national governments, European institutions and international organisations on matters of RTI policy from a forward-looking perspective. He served on several European and national expert groups, including EFFLA (2011-2014), RISE (2014-2017) and \u2013 since 2017 \u2013 the HLG on Innovation Policy Management. Over the past two years, he has been leading project BOHEMIA (Beyond the Horizon. Foresight in Support of the Preparation of the EU\u2018s Future Policy in Research and Innovation), aiming to help prepare the next European framework programme. 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It was only in 2000 when he joined the Tel Aviv Camera Club that he took photography more seriously, culminating in four solo exhibitions and TACC group exhibitions.\nDuring 2003 to 2004, Michael helped set up of Ventures Group of Song-writers, Poets, Artists and Photographers which was a group that mixed artistic outputs for various products and became the group Publicity Secretary. In January 2005, he returned to London and joined the Isle of Wight Photographic Society and the Hampstead Photographic Society and went on to serve the HPS as Programme & Publicity Secretary. During this time, he initiated the HPS Newsletter which he continues to edit.\nMichael has had numerous solo exhibitions and had acceptances in various group exhibitions including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2016 as well as in various international salons of photography. His work can be described as either documentary or artistic deciding which style to use depending upon the end-use of the image.\nMichael earned his QPSA in 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 6710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychcentral.com/disorders/eating-disorders/treatment-for-bulimia/?all=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FQ4PXYUVXHAB65KF2MFP3SYLFQHL7HNH", "length": 11586, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "psychcentral.com", "title": "Treatment for Bulimia", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Disorders \u00bb Treatment for Bulimia\nTreatment of bulimia, as with all eating disorders, can be challenging. Effective treatment addresses the underlying emotional and mental health issues \u2014 issues that can often date back to childhood and a person\u2019s self-perception and self-image. Many of the treatment approaches described below help a person with bulimia break their unhealthy pattern of eating \u2014 the binging and purging cycle. Treatment will also help a person with bulimia understand how their own negative self-image impacts their eating behavior.\nSome people with bulimia can be in what psychologists call \u201cdenial.\u201d Part of the challenge of treatment with bulimia, as with many eating disorders, may be just helping the person with bulimia understand they do have a serious mental health concern that needs professional treatment (see family therapy below).\nWhile there are many different routes to treatment, virtually all of them begin with seeing an eating disorder specialist. Usually this individual is a psychologist who has deep experience and training in helping a person with bulimia. A physical examination and workup by a medical doctor is also an initial part of the standard treatment of bulimia, to understand and begin addressing the physical problems that may have occurred as a result of the disorder.\nPsychotherapy for Bulimia\nPsychotherapy is the most common treatment for bulimia and has the greatest research support. Psychotherapy can involve a significant time and financial commitment, particularly if you are struggling with other issues (sexual abuse, depression, substance use, or relationship problems). Psychotherapy can be very helpful in addressing not only your disordered eating, but also your overall emotional health and happiness. The focus of psychotherapy treatment will be to address the underlying emotional and cognitive issues that result in the disordered eating.\nPeople with bulimia often \u201cbinge\u201d \u2014 that is, they consume a large amount of food in a very short time \u2014 and then they\u2019ll \u201cpurge\u201d \u2014 inducing vomiting of the food they\u2019ve just eaten (often times in the very same bathroom at the restaurant they\u2019re eating at, or shortly late in the safety of their home). Some bulimic behaviors may be more subtle, such as taking large amounts of laxatives, or drinking pots of coffee each day to ensure their body gets rid of food as quickly as it takes it in.\nCognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is considered the treatment of choice for people with bulimia. With the support of decades\u2019 worth of research, CBT is a time-limited and focused approach that helps a person understand how their thinking and negative self-talk and self-image can directly impact their eating and negative behaviors.\nCognitive-behavioral therapy will often focus on identifying and altering dysfunctional thought patterns, attitudes and beliefs, which may trigger and perpetuate the person\u2019s pattern of harmful eating behaviors. Cognitive-behavioral therapy used in the treatment of bulimia focuses on the traditional foundations of CBT therapy \u2014 helping a person understand, identify and change their irrational thoughts (the \u201ccognitive\u201d part), and helping a person make the changes real through specific behavioral interventions (such as promoting health eating behaviors through goal setting, rewards, etc.).\nCognitive behavioral therapy is the gold standard treatment for bulimia.\nCognitive-behavioral therapy is time-limited, meaning that a person with bulimia will go into treatment for a specific period of time with specific goals in mind. Like all psychotherapy, it can be conducted in either an outpatient (once weekly) or inpatient setting. If done in an inpatient setting, eating disorders are often treated at residential treatment facilities (see below), since eating is such an integral and necessary part of our lives.\nThe first part of CBT for binge eating will focus on helping the person with bulimia break their pattern of unhealthy eating \u2014 the binging and purging cycle. This cycle is something that can be challenging to break, as the person has inadvertently setup a reward system for themselves. CBT will help the individual with bulimia monitor their eating habits and avoid situations that make them want to binge. The treatment will also help them cope with stress in ways that don\u2019t involve food, eat regularly to reduce food cravings, and fight the \u201curge to purge.\u201d\nThe second part of CBT will help the person with bulimia better understand their dysfunctional and broken beliefs about their own self-image, weight, body shape and dieting. They will do this through traditional cognitive-behavioral techniques such as challenging black-or-white, all-or-nothing thinking, and the other irrational beliefs commonly held by people with bulimia. CBT also helps a person to better understand the connection between their emotional state and eating \u2014 especially eating or turning to food when feeling bad.\nAccording to an article published in 2008 from the U.S. National Guideline Clearinghouse that looked at the treatment research for bulimia, \u201cCognitive behavioral therapy administered individually or in groups reduced core symptoms of binge eating, purging, and psychological features in both the short and the long term.\n\u201cThe [medication research] supported fluoxetine (60 mg/day) administered for 6 to 18 weeks in terms of short-term reductions in binge eating, purging, and psychological features. The 60 mg dose performed better than lower doses and was associated with prevention of relapse at 1 year.\n\u201cGenerally, more than one-half of patients no longer suffered from this diagnosis at the end of various studies. A substantial percentage continued to suffer from other eating disorders; depression was related to worse outcomes. Bulimia nervosa was not associated with increased mortality.\nAnother form of psychotherapy is known as family therapy. Family therapy helps a person with bulimia see and understand the often-times dysfunctional role they play within the family, and how their eating behaviors maintain that role.\nFamily therapy is usually conducted with the person who has bulimia and their family. However, in some instances, a few family therapy sessions may involve therapy without the person who has bulimia present. This may help the family understand the roles they are playing in supporting the disordered eating, and suggest ways the family can help the person with bulimia acknowledge the problem and seek out treatment.\nWhile many medications may be prescribed for symptoms related to bulimia, only Fluoxetine (brand name: Prozac) has approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of bulimia nervosa. This medication has been found to decrease the number of episodes of binging, as well the desire to vomit, in people with moderate to severe bulimia.\nAs of now, Medications such as Fluoxetine (Prozac), Sertraline (Zoloft), Paroxetine (Paxil) \u2014 which are approved for depression and obsessive compulsive disorder \u2014 may help the person with bulimia have less depressed feelings, as well as be less obsessed with food and their weight.\nAt appropriate doses (similar to those used for OCD treatment), antidepressants have been found to decrease the strength of urges to binge for some individuals. Individuals with a positive response to these medications have reported a lessening of their carbohydrate cravings, which appears to help prevent binging. Others have experienced a less dramatic relief or pleasure associated with their binge/purge behaviors. This response makes the binge/purge cycle less enticing as a means of stress release.\nNaltrexone, which works on the opiate system in the pleasure center of the brain, has yielded some initial positive research results in some people with bulimia as well.\nResidential Treatment Facilities for Bulimia\nResidential treatment facilities offer a complete array of treatment services in one place.\nOne place where all of the above treatment options are available is called a residential treatment center. Such treatment centers are located throughout the United States and in many other countries as well, and focus on the treatment of all the different types of eating disorders (including bulimia). Such facilities usually include a wide range of specialists \u2014 psychologists, medical doctors, nutritionists, meditation and relaxation professionals, and fitness experts. They help a person learn all of the skills necessary (through the cognitive-behavioral techniques outlined above), and put them into daily practice in a safe, relaxed setting.\nOften these kinds of treatments may be paid for by an individual\u2019s private health insurance, for up to a certain period of time (often 30 days). Check with your health insurance provide to see if such coverage is available for you.\nHospitalization for Bulimia\nIn cases where a person with bulimia is severely ill or the individual has other serious medical problems, inpatient hospitalization may be necessary. Underweight or overweight individuals often suffer from medical complications, especially if the person is using laxatives or vomiting as a method of controlling their over-eating behaviors. Hospitalization may be necessary in order to immediately address the most pressing medical problems. Group and individual therapy supplement dietary and medical therapies.\nAt one time inpatient treatment lasted many weeks, if not months, but in today\u2019s climate the goals of hospitalization are weight gain and medical stabilization. The person with bulimia is moved to outpatient therapy when it is considered safe to do so.\nSelf-Help for Bulimia\nThere are a variety of self-help methods available for eating disorders, including bulimia. Self-help support groups are a great way of getting emotional support while trying to make changes in one\u2019s life to support a healthier self-image and eating behaviors. Self-help books on bulimia can be a great place to start to gain some insights and tips on changing one\u2019s self-image and disordered eating.\nSince many people with bulimia use food as a coping skill for dealing with negative emotions, finding other, healthier coping skills may be a good place to start.\nOur positive self-image and eating issues blog Weightless is a great place to find more tips on improving your coping skills and self-image. However, you can also start with these tips about how to improve your body image from the Something Fishy website:\nWear clothes you feel comfortable in \u2013 Dress to express yourself, not to impress others. You should feel good in what you wear.\nStay away from the scale \u2013 If your weight needs to be monitored, leave that up to the doctors. How much you weigh should never affect your self-esteem.\nStay away from fashion magazines \u2013 Unless you can look through these magazines knowing they are purely fantasy, it\u2019s just better to stay away from them.\nDo nice things for your body \u2013 Get a massage, a manicure, or a facial. Pamper yourself with a candlelight bath, scented lotion, or a new perfume.\nStay active \u2013 Movement therapy helps improve your sense of wellbeing. Take up Yoga or Tai\u2019 Chi, play volleyball with the kids, or bike ride with friends. Make angels in the snow or sandcastles at the beach. Be active and enjoy life!\nGrohol, J. (2018). Treatment for Bulimia. Psych Central. 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The main intrusions consist of ultrabasic and alkali-ultrabasic rocks, surrounded by a narrow halo of fenites and hornfels. The majority of the rare minerals occurring in this complex occur in pegmatite and hydrothermal veins, some associated with carbonatites. 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In the unique setting of Windsor Castle, sixty of the world's greatest motor cars were displayed for three days in the inner Quadrangle of our most historic Royal Castle, in celebration of six decades of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s reign.\n\u2018Best in Show\u2019 was awarded to Jon Shirley from America, for his 1938 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta. Pullman Gallery is pleased to have donated the winner\u2019s trophy - working to our own design, John Elwell created the PULLMAN Trophy, standing almost 30 inches (75 cms) tall, the highly polished, engineering-grade sculpture depicts an Art Deco-inspired Pegasus \u2018emerging\u2019 from its plinth of seasoned walnut. John also sculpted a smaller version which was given to Jon Shirley to keep.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_2614535", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:03Z", "digest": "sha1:M2ZQACKOLPTUBGA2NKVWRKVD3GLW7D7P", "length": 496, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "pure.mpg.de", "title": "Choking on the money: Reward-based performance decrements are associated with midbrain activity :: MPG.PuRe", "raw_content": "Choking on the money: Reward-based performance decrements are associated with midbrain activity\nhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02399.x\nRD_Choking_2009.pdf\nMobbs, D., Hassabis, D., Seymour, B., Marchant, J. L., Weiskopf, N., Dolan, R. J., et al. (2009). 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Psychological Science, 20, 955-962. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02399.x.\nZitierlink: http://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0001-A0F8-2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 152.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pursuitist.com/daily-dream-home-west-hollywood/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OINKNN5T7KNR3O7VX2UT23UZ7VGEUKQ5", "length": 764, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "pursuitist.com", "title": "Daily Dream Home: West Hollywood - Pursuitist", "raw_content": "One of the original stars on Hollywood\u2019s famed television series Fashion Police, George Kotsiopoulos, is known for his incredible sense of style which on display in his West Hollywood home.\nThe three-bedroom home has a cozy living room with vaulted ceilings and a gas fireplace.\nGlass doors lead out to an outdoor living space that includes an in-ground spa.\nThe first-floor den has built-in shelf space and opens out to a terrace with a firepit.\nThe three-bedroom home is located near West Hollywood\u2019s restaurants and entertainment.\nThis property is listed by Mimi Starrett of CORE Real Estate Group for $2.395 million.\nTags: california real estate, core real estate, Daily Dream Home, luxury real estate\nCruising Kennebunkport, Maine in the Stunning McLaren 720S", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 5240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://qualityessay.net/essay-samples/law/law-of-recovery-for-psychiatric-injury.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:57Z", "digest": "sha1:RB33XETXTKRDXB53BXH2ZCJA7OK5JBKR", "length": 18595, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "qualityessay.net", "title": "Law of Recovery for Psychiatric Injury", "raw_content": "Law of Recovery for Psychiatric Injury\nLaw on Recovery for Psychiatric Injury Caused by Negligence is strongly in Need of Reform\nMost legal jurisdictions throughout the world now recognize a right to seek redress with regard to the concept of negligently subjected pure psychological harm.1\nCommon law jurisdictions have been largely slow to recognize such a duty. Even during these present times, following such recognition, there would seem to be a judicial bias in favor of physical injuries, and of restricting the categories of victims.\nIn piece of work I purpose to examine the current legal implications of the Irish Legal System with regard to the existing, unfavorable law of recovery for Psychiatric Injury caused by Negligence. In my observation I also want to assess the situation in this nation in comparison with two of its close allies: Australia and England. The countries share a lot while implementing some policies in unbelievably parallel ways. They seem to have discordant ideologies especially in legal issues as it will be seen in the way they handle the law of recovery in respect of psychologically unstable individuals who may suffer from unexpected damages due to negligence on the part of others.\nIn order for anybody to get a better view of the entire concept of the main area of discussion, there is inevitable necessity to jump backwards a little bit. This should help us to get the basics of the law that guides and handles matters of compensation (or recovery) in case of harm and or damages by any given party. This is the Law of Torts. Moreover, there is the tort of Negligence, which we need to at least have a general understanding of how it operates.\nUsually, common law jurisdictions define a tort as a civil offense. The Law of Torts has to handle such matters as appropriately as it is necessary; in cases where a person's deed has caused another one significant harm.\nIn some scenarios, a tort may not necessarily qualify to be an illegal act although harm may be caused. It permits people who have suffered to recover whatever they may have lost. This is quite different from the usual criminal law. The latter comes into play in situations where a person's actions bring damage to society, in general.\nA claim in tort may be raised by any affected person. Criminal cases, on the other hand, the state takes responsibility. In some other cases, individuals and even corporate organizations may bring private prosecutions.\nOne can as well differentiate tort law from equity. With equity, a petitioner complains of a violation of some right. Delict is the equivalent of tort in civil law. A tort may be defined as a personal injury; or a civil deed other than a breach of contract.\nIn legal terms, negligence occurs when occurs when one breaches their duty of care. According to the law of torts, everyone is responsible for the damages caused around them if they did occur but they could not show any reasonable care in an attempt to avoid it. Simply put, if I pay my uncle a visit then fall on the slippery floor before they give a warning of the status of their floor; I am legally entitled to filing a case against them. They never showed reasonable care which brought about my free fall! This is an issue of great concern in the Republic of Ireland whereby people commit such offences yet the flaws in law enforcement allows the offenders to go scot free.\nThe republic of Ireland has laws, just like any other independent nation. Among its many laws, there is the Law of Torts. It governs how people get compensated for damages caused out of utmost negligence. This applies across the board.\nAccording to the implementation of the Irish Law of Recovery, many people have raised issues and expressed their dissatisfaction with the entire policy, and the way they implement it in that sovereign state.\nIn the common law, the most outstanding tort liabilities are cases of lack of care. If the victim can provide evidence that whoever caused the injury acted negligently, without upholding reasonable care to avoid it, tort law will compel the culprit to compensate the grieving party.\nHowever, tort law also recognizes intentional causes of harm, where an individual has deliberately acted carelessly and ends up injuring others.\nThe ultimate decision under the Australian law that deals with the requirement of a shock in negligently induced psychological injury cases anchored the decisions in several other jurisdictions such as the conflict between Jaensch and Coffey. This case was dealing with the development of a psychiatric problem on the respondent's part by way of being a witness, in the medical personnel informed her that his condition was serious and, having gone to take for some rest, they called her back. Her husband's condition had deteriorated.\nOne traditional criterion required, in Ireland, to establish a successful claim for psychological damage is a requirement of a shock-induced psychological injury which arises suddenly due to fright, as opposed to a slow onset of such injury by the effects of a difficult collection of issues.\nThe requirement of a sudden shock built a core component in the call for recovery for psychological harm. The whole concept itself has often been termed nervous shock, which is unsuitable and confuses the entire concept of psychiatric harm with one of the parts which, for the sake of precision, should be discarded.\nMedical officers informed the lady that the man\u2019s condition was a bit serious and, having gone for some rest, they called her back in later due to her husband\u2019s deteriorating state.\nThe High Court of Australia recognized the requirement that, in case of absence of physical injury, the psychological harm suffered should be shock-induced. That is harm caused by sudden, sensory perception, hearing or touching, which is distressing.\nPsychiatric injury caused in any other way, besides by sudden shock does not merit being recoverable. In this regard, Brennan J. gave two illustrations: firstly, a spouse suffered a psychiatric harm by way of caring for a tortuously injured partner. Secondly a parent suffers psychological harm because of weird behavior of a mentally challenged child.2\nThis judgment, especially, and the firm grip onto the sudden shock requirement is the major topic of attracting significant criticism and discomfort among many different scholars.\nTo begin with, imposing such serious restriction on the right to rejuvenate from a horrible psychiatric injury of that magnitude remains vague. This is evident from the judgment of Brennan J who merely remarks that this is the way it is. He does not, however, give any underlying evidence as a justification for such a firm stand. He strongly rules out any recovery when cases bear the element of the sudden shock component. This comes in spite of the gradual onset psychological damage which may end up as a reasonably predictable aftermath of the negligence of the culprit (tortfeasor).\nBesides that, he, unfortunately, fails to give a concrete reason for the exclusion of such. Doing so would perhaps create a scenario that will allow people to make worthy claims. This is, to a great extent, a sign of impunity whereby people with some limited judicial powers can actually scuttle ordinary citizen\u2019s efforts to attain justice. This judge denies people a chance to enjoy their human right; he withholds the necessary common people need to know. He feels he should allow them to get to his level; perhaps he fears competition. Or, maybe he is just a self-centered human being.\nThis makes everything clear that this is simply an issue of remoteness. Any harm caused would be too far-fetched to constitute any compelling claim for recovery. However, this does not come out clearly from the judgment. In a twist of events, one can argue that the real facts of the case cannot support the justification of the sudden shock requirement in the psychiatric cases like the ones placed before Brennan J.\nFrom his judgment, it is apparent that enough energy is dedicated to ensuring non-disclosure of some reliable facts. In fact, the events are not collectively and chronologically presented to help reach clear conclusions as to whether or not there is recovery for the injured individuals. The question is: why should this not be described as procedurally required?\nOne needs to assume that the meaning of the term sudden would gain some aspect of immediacy. Brennan, in his judgment, never mentioned or insinuated the concept of sudden shock in this case. What comes out evidently is the illness which affected the Plaintiff; a result of the combined effects of what she witnessed on the 2nd and 3rd June 1979. The realization that her husband's health continued to deteriorate made matters terrible for her. The dicta of Brennan J support this contention when he personally says that she had been under the impression for that period of about a month.\nThe claimant suffers terribly by virtue of sudden shock and not due to gradual onset of psychological harm over time, as one would commonly expect. In such a case, the liability will attach to the tortfeasor. This remains to be one doctrine that elicits sharp criticisms among academicians. There are also significant conceptual hindrances due to the unbelievable reasoning of the courts of law.\nThe case of Alcock V Chief Constable of South Yorkshire was the premier case to be expressly handled the necessity of psychiatric harm.It resulted from a sudden shock requirement component in the United Kingdom case. Many players and other individuals who went to watch the beautiful game of football died. This ugly occurrence came about as a consequence of negligence on the part of law-enforcement agents. The authority in charge had to be responsible and stood accountable for such negligence of the officers under him.3\nLord Ackner holds onto the notion that liability for psychological injury can only attach to a tortfeasor where such misfortune arises from the sudden shock. That is to say that only the unexpected appreciation of sight or hearing of a horrifying event could violently agitate the mind. Sometimes things of this nature do not occur. The mind of a person may remain sober they are physically injured. Such restrictions discourage people from valiantly handling their problems brought against them by their treacherous neighbors. When one is emotionally stable then they automatically cease to even imagine of making any claims of recovery. They have to wait till that moment of emotional breakdown to initiate such processes.\nLogically, this idea is biased. It only favors those who can act well when they have to. Others who let the intensity of a problem to determine whether or not, they can wipe a tear; and those who never shed tears no matter the situation, always have to deal with their own plights. The legal system does not recognize them even when they have genuine claims for compensation for damages.\nThe doctrine is yet to include psychiatric illnesses resulting from accumulation of many assaults on the victim's nervous system. Lords Keith and Oliver also termed the requirement of sudden shock, as requiring an abrupt assault on the nervous system, and sudden shock to the complainant's nervous system, respectively. In expressing this serious view, Lord Ackner quoted the instances of Brennan J in Jaensch V Coffey concerning the cases of gradual onset of psychological injury in the spouse and parent as being inadequate to attract redress.\nThe judgments of the Lords continue to be criticized for such unwanted division between cases that involve a sudden shock component and the gradual onset of the psychiatric harm. It is possible to trace the mere reason that guided Lord Oliver in the delivery of his judgment.\nThe Lord states that though the law may be somehow illogical with regard to this issue and quite unfair; it is a crucial policy behind the restraining of the ability to recover for negligently caused psychological injury and the imposition of limits to such recovery, like the requirement that the illness be sustained by sudden shock.\nFurthermore, he seems to subsume the sudden shock requirement Moreover, he seems to subsume the sudden shock requirement with the general requirement of proximity. He states that the necessary extent of proximity between parties to the occurrence is established. This could be by the unexpected and direct visual impression on the plaintiff\u2019s mind of witnessing the happening or its immediate result, and to extend liability to cover damages in such cases.\nThe rules and guidelines in place to facilitate recovery for negligently inflicted psychiatric harm are globally criticized. This is evident in Ireland and even its close neighboring nations, including the United Kingdom.\nThe law of recovery is a law that deals with money and property directly. This could be the main motivation for the profound commitment by the law-enforcers to twist it and ensure they also benefit from it. Corruption is a factor that promotes impunity and abuse of office. People with itchy fingers will always strive to get in positions that give them an opportunity to manipulate the law for their own sake. Ireland has experienced that bitter reality, and the only way out of the bondage is by embracing reform agendas that can be sustained over the next generations.\nIn the case of law of recovery for psychiatric injury, there is always one elusive issue that has always caused loopholes in the legal systems with Irish legal system being one victim. This is the issue of perfect proof of a recognized psychiatric illness. It is very difficult to tell whether a given condition is actually psychiatric or the dramatic ingenuity of the interested party. Some people may act and truly look like victims of some circumstance.\nHowever, one area which, to date, has escaped with a minimum of judicial or academic scrutiny concerns the very threshold requirement for these actions: proof of a \u2018recognized psychiatric illness\u2019. Everyone can talk about it. Unfortunately, perhaps no one understands it. Sometimes, different groups would or even individuals would conventionally agree on the meaning of the terminology just to fulfill a given need. The diverse interpretations would probably necessitate a common, objective judicial stand concerning. This is the only way to restore sanity among Linguists, Legal Experts, Medical Officers and all other individuals.\nPeople argue that the international classifications of disorders of psychiatric nature get misapplied and even misunderstood in the English, Medico-legal context. These classifications need deep and intense judicial examination and scrutiny. This has never been the case, posing another difficulty in the quest to find a long-standing solution to all problems emanating from interpretation and comprehension of the law itself.\nWith such prominent challenges, there is a very difficult task ahead for the responsible individuals entrusted with guarding of the Irish Legal System, generally, as they endeavor to better the Law of Recovery for the Psychiatric Injury.\nFor Ireland, and any other nation, wishing to have a successful system that would alleviate cries of criticism and discomfort with handling of injurious negligence acts; major stumbling blocks have to be cleared from the way. They are fundamentally two: sudden shock requirement and onset of psychological harm.\nThe concerned parties never want to discuss the two issues conclusively and vividly. They are the main problems that the reform agenda should target. They ought to be wiped out completely so that forward motion can take place in respect of finding a solution to the pending legal dilemma.\nFirstly, they should find a clearly definitive description, and classification of psychiatric disorders. They should then establish stringent measures to identify and deal with opportunistic individuals. These are people who insensitively take advantage of some available situations to oppress their colleagues through unwarranted claims for compensation. Punitive measures should be set up to restrain tricksters from exploiting other innocent individuals.\nBesides, proponents of the sudden shock requirement should come out clearly and state their real interests in the plan. They need to explain exhaustively to all the critics why they think and believe that is the way to go. Sometimes people may criticize something or someone out of sheer ignorance. They are, however, allowed to and need to be answered when they ask questions and raise issues worthy of discussions and debates.\nIn Britain, there are remarkable steps going away from the sudden shock requirement. The law commission of England and Wales is in the forefront in spearheading their citizens towards a future full of hope and confidence in their new system. The commission has released a very comprehensive report on psychiatric illness. They are redefining their entire system with the aim of abolishing the sudden shock requirement completely.4\nThe developments elsewhere, however, seem to be out of range of the Irish leadership\u2019s ears. It is shocking that not long ago one would hear of the relentless implementation of the highly disregarded legal tactic: sudden shock requirement; operating in full force. This simply means that the Irish position stands uniquely isolated and cannot withstand the regional and global debate. The Supreme Court\u2019s decision of Kelly V Hennessy says it all. That is just an example of many other wayward rulings and shocking occurrences that would not be imagined in such a country during the present century.5\nThere is urgent need for reforms in Irish Law of Recovery for Psychiatric Injury. Negligence of the highest order is riding high in Ireland and total overhaul of the current legal environment is long overdue. If a system is fine for the regional nations and others in the world then the Republic of Ireland is no exception.6 ireland cannot pretend to be okay when they are lagging behind other developed nations.\nIt is time for serious change in the laws governing the Irish citizens. Oppressive rule is a political technique which has become obsolete in modern leadership system. The vulnerable members need to be consoled and comforted. This must be done at all levels of an individual\u2019s social circle. If legal justice becomes elusive, yet, it is the symbol of care and fairness for the people; what would have remained of a nation? To answer this, one does not have to think twice; just say \u2018Reforms\u2019!\nHow The Prc\u2019s Judicial System Works", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 21134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://quieterhomebuffalo.com/best-free-internet-dating-sites/best-dating-sites-reviews/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OVLYPVIUDQT26KAXDS35TDB6GIJ3UO37", "length": 10608, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "quieterhomebuffalo.com", "title": "Best Dating Sites - Reviews - Free match dating site", "raw_content": "Best Dating Sites \u2013 Reviews\nBy: Saundra Latham on January 30, 2017\nMatch.com has two big advantages on its side: a massive user base and one of the most recognizable names in online dating. 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The fee structure is typically similar to that of other dating sites \u2014 while you may be able to browse for free, you\u2019ll need to subscribe to contact another member.\nWhile most dating sites have their own apps, there are several app-only services that have attracted users with their elegant, easy-to-use interfaces. Approving a match can be as elementary as swiping the screen with your finger. Many of these apps also aim to ease users\u2019 security concerns by mining their existing friend networks or requiring users to send current \",selfies\", to verify their profile pictures. Dating apps may be the best choice for junior users in thicker cities, where they\u2019re most likely to find a good number of other users. Most are free, but some suggest premium features you can pay for.\nFinding The Best Dating Sites\nThere are dozens of pro reviews and roundups of online dating sites, many of which involve hands-on testing. 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It is sometimes performed as a uterine-sparing surgery for certain cases with cervical malignancy 2-3. When it is performed with the curative intent it is often termed a radical trachelectomy and is ...\nTransient abnormal myelopoiesis\nTransient abnormal myelopoiesis (TAM) is a phenomenon that can happen in the fetuses or neonates with trisomy 21. The condition can mimic leukemia. Epidemiology The estimated incidence is at ~10% of newborns with trisomy 21 3. Radiographic features Antenatal ultrasound In the context of kno...\nTransient physiological myometrial contraction\nTransient myometrial contraction is a physiological phenomenon which may mimic focal adenomyosis Radiographic features It appears as focal low signal intensity bulge/region of the myometrium which may disappear on subsequent images or at cine MR imaging. Differential diagnosis focal adenom...\nTransverse cerebellar diameter\nIn obstetric imaging, the fetal transverse cerebellar diameter (TCD) is often measured as an additional fetal biometric parameter. It is measured as the maximal diameter between the cerebellar hemispheres on an axial scan. The value of the transverse cerebellar diameter in mm's is considered rou...\nTransverse vaginal (transvaginal) septum (TVS) is a type of rare congenital uterovaginal anomaly (class II under the Rock and Adam classification). Epidemiology It is rare with a frequency of 1 in 70,000 females. Clinical presentation In the case of a complete septum, patients commonly prese...\nTriploidy is a rare lethal chromosomal (aneupliodic) abnormality caused by the presence of an entire extra chromosomal set. Epidemiology It is considered the 3rd commonest fatal chromosomal anomaly 7. While it is thought to affect as much as 1-2% of conceptions, the vast majority are thought ...\nTrisomies are chromosomal anomalies which usually occur due to non-disjunction. The vast majority of affected fetuses being spontaneously aborted, often very early during gestation. Only three are compatible with extra-uterine life (T13, T18, T21), and only one beyond early infancy (T21). In or...\nTrisomy 22 is an aneuploidic chromosomal anomaly which is usually fatal unless in mosaic forms. Pathology Variants Duplication of the short arm (p) and a small section of the long arm (q) of chromosome 22 can give result to the cat-eye syndrome - Schmidt-Fraccaro syndrome. Radiographic featu...\nTrue hermaphroditism is a form of disorder of gender development. Pathology Patients with true hermaphroditism have mosaicism of 46XX and 46XY. They therefore have both ovarian and testicular tissues. Subtypes There are three forms of true hermaphroditism: unilateral true hermaphroditism ...\nT-shaped uterus refers to a specific radiographic appearance of the endometrial cavity. Pathology It is the most commonly associated abnormality from in utero diethylstilbestrol (DES) exposure, seen in 31% of exposed women. It is classified as a class VII M\u00fcllerian duct anomaly. Background D...\nTubal ectopic pregnancy\nTubal ectopic pregnancy (or adnexal ectopic pregnancy) is the most common location of an ectopic pregnancy. Epidemiology It is the most common type of ectopic by far, accounting for 93-97% of cases. Pathology Although the fallopian tube has many anatomical parts, for the purposes of ectopic ...\nTubal ring sign, also referred to as bagel sign or blob sign, one of the ultrasound signs of a tubal ectopic. It comprises of an echogenic ring which surrounds an unruptured ectopic pregnancy. It is said to have a 95% positive predictive value (PPV) for ectopic pregnancy. Differential diagnosis...\nTuberculosis (fallopian tube)\nTuberculosis of the fallopian tube is one of the most common sites of tuberculous pelvic inflammatory disease. Clinical presentation Many patients may be asymptomatic, with the disease being discovered during the workup for infertility. Signs and symptoms are often vague and can include acut...\nTuberculous pelvic inflammatory disease\nTuberculous pelvic inflammatory disease refers to pelvic inflammatory disease due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Epidemiology Genital tract involvement may be present in ~1.5% of cases of those affected with tuberculosis 4. Pathology Infection almost always results from spread from an extrag...\nTubo-ovarian abscesses are one of the late complications of pelvic inflammatory disease. Epidemiology Risk factors Risk factors include 15: previous pelvic inflammatory disease 16 intrauterine device multiple sexual partners diabetes mellitus immunocompromise history of uterine surgery ...\nTunnel cluster\nTunnel cluster (TC) is a type of Nabothian cyst characterized by complex multicystic dilatation of the endocervical glands. Epidemiology Tunnel cluster is found in ~8% of adult women, 40% of whom are pregnant, almost exclusively multigravid women, and older than 30 years. Clinical presentatio...\nTurner syndrome, also known as 45XO or 45X, is the most common of the sex chromosome abnormalities in females. Epidemiology The incidence is estimated at 1:2000-5000 of live births, although the in utero rate is much higher (1-2% of conceptions) due to a significant proportion of fetuses with...\nUltrasound guided percutaneous drainage\nUltrasound guided percutaneous drainage is one form of image guided procedure, allowing minimally invasive treatment of collections that are accessible by ultrasound study. It has several advantages and disadvantages over CT, which include: Advantages is a dynamic study, allowing greater prec...\nUmbilical venous dilatation\nUmbilical venous dilatation is a rare entity and often tends to occur as an isolated finding 4. Dilatation of the umbilical vein can arise from a number of pathologies: umbilical venous varix (UVV): particularly if focal fetal hydrops: a focal dilatation due to an umbilical venous varix with...\nUndifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium\nUndifferentiated carcinoma of the endometrium is rare histological subtype of endometrial cancer. It is considered a high grade carcinoma, carries a poor prognosis and is often under-recognised 1. Epidemiology It is thought to represent approximately 1-9% of endometrial cancers 1,6. Pathology...\nUndifferentiated carcinoma of the ovary\nAn undifferentiated carcinoma of the ovary is a rare type of ovarian epithelial tumor. They account for ~ 4% of ovarian cancer 2. Pathology With these tumors, cellular differentiation is not sufficient for the tumor to be categorized into serous, mucinous or other specified subtypes. Pure undi...\nA unicornuate uterus or unicornis unicollis is a type of M\u00fcllerian duct anomaly (class II) characterized by a banana-shaped uterus usually draining into a single Fallopian tube. Epidemiology This type can account for ~10% (range 6-13%) of uterine anomalies and infertility is seen in ~12.5% (ra...\nUrethral agenesis\nUrethral agenesis (or urethral atresia) refers to a situation where there is a congenital absence of the urethra. It can be a cause of fetal obstructive uropathy. Pathology Associations prune belly syndrome 5 bladder agenesis 2 Radiographic features Antenatal ultrasound May show a dilate...\nUrethral diverticula, or urethroceles, are focal outpouchings of the urethra. They should not be confused with a ureterocele of the distal ureter. Epidemiology Urethral diverticula occur far more frequently in women than in men and are estimated to occur in 1-6% of women, especially those with...\nThe urogenital triangle forms the anterior half of the diamond-shaped perineum. The triangle's corners are defined by the pubis symphysis anteriorly and the ischial tuberosities anterolaterally. The anterolateral borders are the ischiopubic rami and the posterior border is the transverse perinea...\nUterine agenesis is the extreme of Mullerian duct anomalies (Class I) where there is a complete absence of uterine tissue above the vagina. Epidemiology The uterine agenesis-hypoplasia spectrum accounts for ~10-15% of all M\u00fcllerian duct anomalies. Clinical presentation Clinical presentation...\nUterine arteriovenous malformations (UAVM) result from the formation of multiple arteriovenous fistulous communications within the uterus without an intervening capillary network. Clinical presentation The presentation can vary. UAVMs can cause life-threatening massive bleeding in young women....\nThe uterine artery is seen bilaterally and is a branch of the anterior division of the internal iliac artery. Gross anatomy Course It runs medially in the pelvis, within the base of the broad ligament, to the outer surface of the uterus. From lateral to medial it has a descending, transverse ...\nUterine artery embolization (UAE) is an interventional radiological technique to occlude the arterial supply to the uterus and is performed for various reasons. History Uterine artery embolization has been practised for more than 20 years for controlling hemorrhage following delivery / abortio...\nUterine artery embolization: MRI assessment\nUterine artery embolization (UAE) is used as an alternative to hysterectomy in selected patients and MRI assessment is key in allowing not only pre-procedure assessment but also assessing post-procedural outcome. For a general discussion of the underlying condition refer to the article on ute...\nUterine artery flow notching\nUterine artery flow notching refers to a phenomenon observed in uterine arterial Doppler ultrasound assessment. Pathology Associations The presence of notching after 22 weeks is associated with several other conditions including adverse pregnancy outcomes. These include pregnancy induced hyp...\nUterine artery pseudoaneurysm\nUterine artery pseudoaneurysm (UAP) is a rare cause of secondary postpartum hemorrhage. Clinical presentation UAP usually presents as delayed (secondary) postpartum hemorrhage, that is per vaginal bleeding which occurs more than 24 hours and up to 6 weeks postpartum. However, some reported ca...\nUterine biophysical profile\nUterine biophysical profile refers to assessment of uterus to produce a successful conception and implantation environment. Uterine scoring system for reproduction (USS) The uterine scoring system for reproduction comprises the following parameters, taken in mid-cycle: 1. endometrial thickne...\nUterine choriocarcinoma\nUterine choriocarcinomas are one of the commonest choriocarcinomas and are often associated with gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD). Epidemiology These tumors typically occur in women of childbearing age as a gestational choriocarcinoma. Most such cases present within one year of an ante...\nUterine dehiscence\nUterine dehiscence is, usually, used to refer to the process of gradual myometrial rupture without a rupture of membranes. However, the term is used synonymously with uterine rupture by some authors. It is often described in the context of C-section scar where it is also termed an incisional deh...\nUterine duplication anomalies are a group of M\u00fcllerian duct anomalies where fusion of the M\u00fcllerian duct associated structures fail to some degree: uterus didelphys: class III bicornuate uterus: class IV (second commonest duplication anomaly) septate uterus: class V (commonest duplication ano...\nUterine enlargement (differential)\nUterine enlargement can occur in a number of situations from both diffuse and focal processes. These include: gestation related events normal intrauterine pregnancy molar pregnancy - gestational trophoblastic disease postpartum uterus - still larger than usual hormonal causes exogenous h...\nUterine leiomyomas, also referred as uterine fibroids, are benign tumors of myometrial origin and are the most common solid benign uterine neoplasms. Commonly an incidental finding on imaging, they rarely cause a diagnostic dilemma. There are various medical, surgical and interventional treatmen...\nUterine leiomyosarcomas are malignant uterine tumors that arises from the myometrium. The uterus is the commonest location for a leiomyosarcoma. Epidemiology Typically present in women in the 6th decade. They account for up to one-third of uterine sarcomas but only ~8% of all uterine cancers 1...\nUterine lipoleiomyoma\nUterine lipoleiomyomas result from degeneration of smooth muscle cells in an ordinary leiomyoma and represent a rare benign tumor of the uterus 1. Epidemiology Lipoleiomyomas have a reported incidence of 0.03-0.20% and are typically found in postmenopausal patients with typical uterine leiomyo...\nUterine lymphoma refers to involvement of the uterus with lymphoma. Some authors also place lymphoma of the uterine cervix under this group. Epidemiology It is rare condition with initial uterine involvement occurring in only 1% of patients with lymphoma 3. However, uterine involvement is more...\nUterine perforation represents a serious complication that can occur as a result of any type of intrauterine procedure or implantation. Some authors use the term uterine rupture synonymously with the term uterine perforation. Pathology Causes IUCD insertion: IUCD related uterine perforation ...\nUterine rupture is a rare but nevertheless potentially catastrophic complication that can occur in pregnancy. Epidemiology The incidence rate in pregnancy is at 0.05% 6. Clinical presentation Uterine rupture is usually an acute presentation with haemodynamic instability and abdominal disc...\nUterine sarcoma is a malignant uterine tumor thats is composed of part or all sarcomatous (mesodermal) elements. They however account for a minority of all uterine malignancies (1-6% 3-4). Pathology Classification They can be broadly classified as pure or mixed 4: mixed malignant mixed Mul...\nUterine smooth muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential\nUterine smooth muscle tumors of uncertain malignant potential (STUMP) is a recently defined entity by the World Health Organization for a heterogeneous group of uterine smooth muscle tumors that cannot be histologically diagnosed as unequivocally benign or malignant 1. See also malignant neopl...\nThe uterine tube, also known as the Fallopian tube or less commonly the oviduct, is a paired hollow tube that bridges between each ovary and the uterus and functions to convey the mature ovum from the former to the latter. If conception occurs, it normally does so within the tube. It can be affe...\nThe uterus is a hollow, thick-walled, muscular organ of the female reproductive tract that lies in the lesser pelvis. Gross anatomy The uterus has an inverted pear shape. In the adult, it measures about 7.5 cm in length, 5 cm wide at its upper part, and nearly 2.5 cm in thickness. It weighs ...\nUterus didelphys is a type of M\u00fcllerian duct anomaly (class III) where there is a complete duplication of uterine horns as well as duplication of the cervix, with no communication between them. Epidemiology Didelphic uteri account for approximately ~8% (range 5-11%) of M\u00fcllerian duct anomali...\nVACTERL is an acronym that describes a non-random constellation of congenital anomalies. It is not a true syndrome as such and is equivalent to the VATER anomaly. Epidemiology The estimated incidence is 1 in 10,000-40,000 births 3. Pathology The acronym VACTERL derives from: V: vertebral an...\nVACTERL-H association\nThe VACTERL-H association is a rare non-random association which bears the features of the standard VACTERL association with added fetal hydrocephalus. Unlike the standard VACTERL association which is sporadic, the VACTERL-H is hereditary with both X-linked 3 and autosomal recessive 2 inheritan...\nThe vagina is a midline fibromuscular tubular organ positioned in the female perineum extending superiorly from the vulva, to the cervix and uterus in the pelvis. Gross anatomy The vagina is 8-10 cm in length, extending posterosuperior from the vestibule through the urogenital diaphragm to th...\nVaginal atresia refers to a spectrum of anomalies comprising of failure to form a part or all of the vagina. Epidemiology It is considered the second most common cause of primary amenorrhea. The estimated Incidence is at ~ 2 in 10000 women. Clinical presentation The most common symptom...\nVaginal cancer (staging)\nThe staging of primary vaginal cancer covers for all histological sub types and is as follows FIGO staging system stage 0: carcinoma in situ stage I: tumor confined to vagina stage II: invasion of paravaginal tissues but no extension beyond pelvic side walls stage III: extension to pelvic s...\nVaginal cuff\nThe vaginal cuff is the remnant tissue after a hysterectomy. The cuff may be evaluated for tumor recurrence (often with ultrasound) if the uterus was removed for cervical or endometrial carcinoma. Radiographic findings The appearance of the cuff depends on what type of hysterectomy was perform...\nVaginal leiomyoma\nVaginal leiomyomas are an extremely rare entity and fall under extra-uterine pelvic leiomyomas. Epidemiology They are extremely rare with only ~ 300 cases reported in literature 3. Pathology It may occur anywhere along the vaginal canal and is usually localized, mobile, non-tender, and circ...\nVaginal lymphoma can refer to: secondary involvement of the vagina (secondary vaginal lymphoma) from widespread generalised lymphoma relatively commoner usually comprises of diffuse large cell B non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (DLBCL) 2 primary vaginal lymphoma much rarer\nA vaginal pessary is a device inserted into the vagina which can either be mechanical or pharmaceutical. Terminology Strictly-speaking a pessary only refers to a medical device designed to be placed in the vagina to support the pelvic floor. Therefore stating vaginal pessary is tautologous alt...\nVaginal stenosis refers to a narrowing of the vagina, it can be congenital or acquired. Pathology Causes Acquired causes include scarring from prior pelvic irradiation - brachytherapy Radiographic features General Depending on the site of stenosis and state of menstruation there can be a...\nThe Valsalva maneuver is the forced expiration of air against a closed airway, resulting in increased intra-abdominal, intrathoracic and pharyngeal pressure. It can be performed against a closed glottis or by one closing the mouth and pinching the nose while forcibly exhaling. It is commonly us...\nVascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) or type IV Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS 4) is the most malignant form of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. This form is often accompanied by neurovascular complications secondary to vessel dissections and/or aneurysms. Epidemiology Vascular EDS represents about 4% of...\nVenetian blind artifact (uterus)\nThe Venetian blind artifact (shadows) is a sonographic finding that is typically associated with adenomyosis but can also occur in uterine fibroids. The Venetian-blind artifact associated with adenomyosis is typically \"thin\" whereas when associated with uterine fibroids, there are also edge shad...\nVesicovaginal fistulas are abnormal fistulous connections between the urinary bladder and vagina, resulting in an involuntary discharge of urine through the vagina. Epidemiology The overall incidence of vesicovaginal fistula is unknown but was reported to be 2.11 per 100 births in Nigeria 1. ...\nVesicovaginal reflux\nVesicovaginal reflux is a well-known entity rarely encountered by radiologists. It is a behavioral disorder, a type of dysfunctional elimination syndrome commonly encountered in pre-pubertal girls. It is defined as reflux of urine into the vaginal vault either in supine or upright position durin...\nVestibule (disambiguation)\nA vestibule is an anatomical term and refers to a small cavity at the proximal end of a tube. vestibule (aorta) vestibule (ear) vestibule (larynx) vestibule (mouth) vestibule (nose) vestibule (esophagus) vestibule (vulva) History and etymology Vestibule derives ultimately from the Latin...\nThe vestibule of the vulva (vestibule of the vagina in some texts 2) is the area between the labia minora, and posterior to the glans of the clitoris. It marks the boundary between the vagina and the vulva. The urethra, vagina and the greater vestibular glands open out into the vestibule.\nThe vulva (or pudendum) is the collective term given to the female external genitalia. The vulva consists of the: mons pubis labia majora labia minora clitoris vestibular bulbs vestibule of the vulva vaginal opening hymen Bartholin glands Radiographic features Individual component st...\nStaging of vulval cancer is the FIGO staging system and is as follows: stage 0: carcinoma in situ (pre-invasive); corresponds to Tis stage I: tumor <2cm (greatest dimension) and confined to vulva/perineum; corresponds to T1 stage Ia: stromal invasion by <1mm Stage Ib: stromal invasion by >1m...\nVulval neoplasms\nVulval neoplasms are rare and mostly seen in an elderly female patients. Squamous cell carcinoma is most common malignancy of the vulva which only 30% of them are associated with oncogenic HPV viruses. Pathology Squamous neoplastic lesions Premalignant classic vulvar intraepithelial neopla...\nWhirlpool sign (mesentery)\nThe whirlpool sign of the mesentery, also known as the whirl sign, is seen when the bowel rotates around its mesentery leading to whirls of the mesenteric vessels. Terminology The term whirlpool sign is used in other contexts: see whirlpool sign (disambiguation). Radiographic features It is...\nWhirlpool sign (ovarian torsion)\nThe whirlpool sign or whirl sign of ovarian torsion is characterized by the appearances of a twisted ovarian pedicle seen on US or even on CT. Terminology The term whirlpool sign is used in other contexts: see whirlpool sign (disambiguation).\nThe WHO histological classification is a detailed classification of tumors of the uterine cervix. epithelial tumors squamous tumors and precursors squamous cell carcinoma, not otherwise specified - 8070/3 keratinizing - 8071/3 non-keratinizing - 8072/3 basaloid - 8083/3 verrucous - 8051/3...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 387, "original_length": 28999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rafinleybooks.com/2015/07/22/flash-fiction-challenge-random-phrase/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:11Z", "digest": "sha1:LJQFSTMYOTN7XRRGYJZO4MNT67EUFXQE", "length": 5761, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "rafinleybooks.com", "title": "Flash Fiction Challenge: Random Phrase \u2013 Words, Words, Words.", "raw_content": "Chuck Wendig, author and author guru, posted a challenge over at his website, Terrible Minds, and it sounded like fun.\n1,000 words that must incorporate a randomly generated phrase.\nI\u2019ve revealed mine on the challenge\u2019s page (in an attempt to lure people over), but for those of you who found this post by other means, I\u2019ll let you find it on your own\u2026in bold, below.\nTo say that she noticed it straight off would be to lie. Truth was, she didn\u2019t know for certain when it had begun: all the hovering, the following, the darting out of reach.\nShe didn\u2019t care, either, not really. Not at this point. If she had to choose between pieces of information, she\u2019d prefer to know \u201cwhy her,\u201d or\u2014(and always, with this one, a certain amount of dread)\u2014what it wanted.\nA week or so after she had cause to notice it, she had of course asked. The sidewalk had been relatively clear, so she\u2019d taken her chances with looking like a fool. More of one, rather, than she did already.\nIt hadn\u2019t answered. Of course. And as frustrating as that had been, she had to admit that there was a certain relief in that, too. How worse it would be, really, if it could speak.\nBad enough that it showed enough sentience to be able to follow her to and from work each day\u2014and pick up where it left off after the weekends. It knew when to expect her and where. It knew how to keep out of reach; she\u2019d noticed (now that she knew to look, and how) that it would stay well away from children and their eager-to-be-entertained hands.\nIt wasn\u2019t stupid.\nAnd that made it rather ominous, to her mind.\n\u201cJust like that movie, huh?\u201d\nThat\u2019s what some random man had remarked as she and he passed, going in opposite directions, on that morning. The first notice. When he\u2019d spoken, he had been looking somewhere in the area above her right shoulder. He hadn\u2019t made a big deal of it, hadn\u2019t even paused or glanced back to catch her reaction. Her confusion, as it was, since she had no idea what he was talking about.\nStill wouldn\u2019t, probably, if not for the plate glass window of the building on her left. And so she made her first sighting\u2014the cartoon-bright red roundness of it, floating behind and a little ways above her right shoulder.\nShe thought of that now as its default position, its preferred spot, out of her sight but for reflections in windows and the side mirrors of parked cars. It didn\u2019t mind being seen by anyone, it seemed, except her. She had tried sudden turns, unexpected reverses, and one desperate, prolonged spin like a tail-chasing dog; but all those maneuvers had got her were more curious stares (when she already got plenty) and, with that last try, dizzy.\nIt was fast, that inexplicable balloon. Very fast.\nShe had tried to snap \u201cselfies\u201d with her phone\u2014and even asked strangers to take her picture\u2014but it didn\u2019t cooperate. Not so much as a bit of string ended up in frame.\nThis was not at all like \u201cthat movie\u201d the man had referenced. Oh, sure, it made a similar visual, and the following behavior was\u2026sort of similar. But she wasn\u2019t a little French boy, and this ballon rouge was not the product of a prop department and filmmaking trickery. What it was the product of, she had no idea. The whole thing defied explanation.\nPeople seemed to find it amusing. Other people, including her friends. Not her.\nThey wouldn\u2019t be amused if it was happening to them, she could promise them that. (And she had, a few times, when she just couldn\u2019t take their chuckling lack of sympathy.) They didn\u2019t get it. Even her so-called best friends couldn\u2019t fathom why she was the least bit unnerved by a balloon.\nSure, the first few days she\u2019d enjoyed the novelty of it. The magic. Would it be there when she left work? When she started out the next day? She looked forward to those moments, and then the challenge of catching sight of it during her walk, of observing its behaviors given different situations, and watching other peoples\u2019 reactions when they saw it moving along behind her.\nAfter two weeks, the novelty wore off and the apprehension set in.\nWhat did it want?\nIt didn\u2019t interact with her; it wasn\u2019t like a stray cat, playing coy even as it sought attention. No. It wanted no interaction whatsoever. It didn\u2019t even want her to look at it directly.\nIt played a stalking game of its own design and she was to have no part in it except as\u2026except as a what? An object to follow?\nShe had considered popping it (although that would be a trick, what with it always being behind and out of reach), but she couldn\u2019t so much as step on an ant at a picnic. To pop the balloon when it hadn\u2019t actually done anything\u2026She didn\u2019t have the heart.\nThe other problem with trying to\u2014well, to kill it\u2014was that of failure. Chances were high that she would fail, and then what would happen? What would the balloon do then?\nShe couldn\u2019t risk provoking it.\nWhat, though, could it do? Bop her on the head? Like that would hurt. It was just a balloon.\nOnly it wasn\u2019t, was it. Balloons were inanimate. Balloons were just colorful sacs of air or water or helium that were completely at the mercy of fate in the form of hands, air currents, popcorn ceilings, and what have you.\nThis one didn\u2019t seem to be at the mercy of anyone or anything. She felt at the mercy of it. There was no telling what it might do when threatened, or what it was capable of doing.\nShe didn\u2019t know what it was, exactly, but it was not just a balloon and she had the feeling that it could do anything it wanted.\nMaybe she would call in sick. Maybe if she stayed home long enough, it would get bored and go away.Or maybe it would get angry.\nShe could put in for her vacation time, take a trip. But\u2014assuming it didn\u2019t follow\u2014she\u2019d have to return eventually.\nPrevious postBook Cover: In Progress\nNext postFlash Fiction Challenge: Why I Write", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 314.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rafstories.org/about/partners", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:07Z", "digest": "sha1:CB27A3ZY3AIJYHDHXPT2IYNATZJBON6C", "length": 293, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rafstories.org", "title": "RAF Stories - Partners", "raw_content": "The RAF Museum is working with a range of organisations, publishers, museums and individuals to help tell the story of the RAF through its people and collections. The RAF Stories project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Find stories curated by our partners by clicking on the images.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 164.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rawlinsons.co.nz/project/invercargill-prison/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VCJFPJVHUCS6PHVGVPKWFQVQE4R4D6G2", "length": 476, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rawlinsons.co.nz", "title": "Invercargill Prison | Rawlinsons", "raw_content": "Invercargill Prison\nThis major prison refurbishment was completed whilst it remained operational during the whole process. The additional P&G, staging and decanting costs incurred needed to be monitored and managed in a logical and controlled way. As a staged project, it is a good example of specialised staged work carried out over a three year period.\nRawlinsons are experienced in this sector and our specialist security and safety knowledge was appreciated by the client.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://readingpops.com/side-by-side/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HZMPVETZO4G6JQXBSHSXN23T5YN7EOI7", "length": 481, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "readingpops.com", "title": "Side by Side | Reading Pops Orchestra", "raw_content": "Attention Student Musicians!\nOn Saturday, June 8th, 2019 The Reading Pops Orchestra will play Side-By-Side with students of Berks County at Oley Valley High School. The event will consist of rehearsal with the pops, an intermission providing pizza for the students and members of the pops, and then the concert! Proper concert attire is required.\nMusic will be available to students by May 10, 2019. Please register no later than May 1, 2019 at http://bit.ly/ReadingPopsSideBySide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://readtiger.com/wkp/en/Inductor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:00Z", "digest": "sha1:4FKPMD7PFYPWTB7BW254DSA42T5I4E7Q", "length": 46656, "nlines": 268, "source_domain": "readtiger.com", "title": "Inductor", "raw_content": "For inductors whose magnetic properties rather than electrical properties matter, see electromagnet.\nA selection of low-value inductors\nMichael Faraday (1831)\nAn inductor, also called a coil, choke, or reactor, is a passive two-terminal electrical component that stores energy in a magnetic field when electric current flows through it.[1] An inductor typically consists of an insulated wire wound into a coil around a core.\nWhen the current flowing through an inductor changes, the time-varying magnetic field induces an electromotive force (e.m.f.) (voltage) in the conductor, described by Faraday's law of induction. According to Lenz's law, the induced voltage has a polarity (direction) which opposes the change in current that created it. As a result, inductors oppose any changes in current through them.\nAn inductor is characterized by its inductance, which is the ratio of the voltage to the rate of change of current. In the International System of Units (SI), the unit of inductance is the henry (H) named for 19th century American scientist Joseph Henry. In the measurement of magnetic circuits, it is equivalent to weber/ampere. Inductors have values that typically range from 1 \u00b5H (10\u22126 H) to 20 H. Many inductors have a magnetic core made of iron or ferrite inside the coil, which serves to increase the magnetic field and thus the inductance. Along with capacitors and resistors, inductors are one of the three passive linear circuit elements that make up electronic circuits. Inductors are widely used in alternating current (AC) electronic equipment, particularly in radio equipment. They are used to block AC while allowing DC to pass; inductors designed for this purpose are called chokes. They are also used in electronic filters to separate signals of different frequencies, and in combination with capacitors to make tuned circuits, used to tune radio and TV receivers.\nIdeal and real inductors\nInductor construction\nAir-core inductor\nFerromagnetic-core inductor\nLaminated-core inductor\nFerrite-core inductor\nPowdered-iron-core inductor\nToroidal-core inductor\nLaplace circuit analysis (s-domain)\nInductor networks\nInductance formulas\nAn electric current flowing through a conductor generates a magnetic field surrounding it. The magnetic flux linkage \u03a6 B {\\displaystyle \\Phi _{\\mathbf {B} }} generated by a given current I {\\displaystyle I} depends on the geometric shape of the circuit. Their ratio defines the inductance L {\\displaystyle L} .[2][3][4][5] Thus\nL := \u03a6 B I {\\displaystyle L:={\\frac {\\Phi _{\\mathbf {B} }}{I}}} .\nThe inductance of a circuit depends on the geometry of the current path as well as the magnetic permeability of nearby materials. An inductor is a component consisting of a wire or other conductor shaped to increase the magnetic flux through the circuit, usually in the shape of a coil or helix. Winding the wire into a coil increases the number of times the magnetic flux lines link the circuit, increasing the field and thus the inductance. The more turns, the higher the inductance. The inductance also depends on the shape of the coil, separation of the turns, and many other factors. By adding a \"magnetic core\" made of a ferromagnetic material like iron inside the coil, the magnetizing field from the coil will induce magnetization in the material, increasing the magnetic flux. The high permeability of a ferromagnetic core can increase the inductance of a coil by a factor of several thousand over what it would be without it.\nAny change in the current through an inductor creates a changing flux, inducing a voltage across the inductor. By Faraday's law of induction, the voltage induced by any change in magnetic flux through the circuit is given by[5]\nE = \u2212 d \u03a6 B d t {\\displaystyle {\\mathcal {E}}=-{\\frac {d\\Phi _{\\mathbf {B} }}{dt}}} .\nReformulating the definition of L {\\displaystyle L} above, we obtain[5]\n\u03a6 B = L I {\\displaystyle \\Phi _{\\mathbf {B} }=LI} .\nIt follows, that\nE = \u2212 d \u03a6 B d t = \u2212 d d t ( L I ) = \u2212 L d I d t {\\displaystyle {\\mathcal {E}}=-{\\frac {d\\Phi _{\\mathbf {B} }}{dt}}=-{\\frac {d}{dt}}(LI)=-L{\\frac {dI}{dt}}} .\nfor L {\\displaystyle L} independent of time.\nSo inductance is also a measure of the amount of electromotive force (voltage) generated for a given rate of change of current. For example, an inductor with an inductance of 1 henry produces an EMF of 1 volt when the current through the inductor changes at the rate of 1 ampere per second. This is usually taken to be the constitutive relation (defining equation) of the inductor.\nThe dual of the inductor is the capacitor, which stores energy in an electric field rather than a magnetic field. Its current\u2013voltage relation is obtained by exchanging current and voltage in the inductor equations and replacing L with the capacitance C.\nMain article: Lenz's Law\nThe polarity (direction) of the induced voltage is given by Lenz's law, which states that the induced voltage will be such as to oppose the change in current.[6] For example, if the current through an inductor is increasing, the induced voltage will be positive at the terminal through which the current enters and negative at the terminal through which it leaves, tending to oppose the additional current.[7][8][9] The energy from the external circuit necessary to overcome this potential \"hill\" is being stored in the magnetic field of the inductor. If the current is decreasing, the induced voltage will be negative at the terminal through which the current enters and positive at the terminal through which it leaves, tending to maintain the current. In this case energy from the magnetic field is being returned to the circuit.\nOne intuitive explanation as to why a potential difference is induced on a change of current in an inductor goes as follows:\nWhen there is a change in current, there is a change in the strength of the induced magnetic field. Without loss of generality, let us assume we have increased the current over our inductor, and now our induced magnetic field is stronger. This, however, does not come without a price. Magnetic fields store energy, and the stronger they are the more energy they store. To make up for an increase in magnetic potential energy in the induced magnetic field, we must take some energy from the inductor in the form of electrical energy. Here we experience a drop in electric potential over the inductor i.e a negative voltage. Once we stop increasing the current, and keep it constant, no additional energy must be supplied to the magnetic field and the electrical potential returns to its original value, thus we see no voltage drop over the inductor.\nLikewise, when the current decreases, the induced magnetic field strength decreases, and that superfluous energy must be returned. Hence, we experience an increase in electrical potential over the inductor.\nWe know that the work done per unit charge on a charged particle when passing the inductor is \u2212 E {\\displaystyle -{\\mathcal {E}}} . The negative sign indicates that the work is done against the emf, and is not done by the emf.\nBy knowing that I {\\displaystyle I} is the charge per unit time, it follows that the rate of energy W {\\displaystyle W} done against the emf is given by\nd W d t = \u2212 E I = L d I d t \u22c5 I = L I \u22c5 d I d t . {\\displaystyle {\\frac {dW}{dt}}=-{\\mathcal {E}}I=L{\\frac {dI}{dt}}\\cdot I=LI\\cdot {\\frac {dI}{dt}}.}\nWe may proceed to state that\nd W = L I \u22c5 d I {\\displaystyle dW=LI\\cdot dI} .\nIf the magnetic field in the inductor approaches the level at which the core saturates, the inductance will begin to change with current and thus we will henceforth denote the inductance L {\\displaystyle L} with L I {\\displaystyle L_{I}} to accommodate for this dependency. Neglecting losses, the energy W {\\displaystyle W} stored by an inductor with a current I 0 {\\displaystyle I_{0}} passing through it is equal to the amount of work required to establish the current through the inductor. This is given by:\nW = \u222b 0 I 0 L I I d I {\\displaystyle W=\\int _{0}^{I_{0}}L_{I}IdI} .\nIf the inductance is constant over the current range L := L I {\\displaystyle L:=L_{I}} , the stored energy is\nW = L \u222b 0 I 0 I d I W = 1 2 L I 0 2 {\\displaystyle {\\begin{aligned}W&=L\\int _{0}^{I_{0}}IdI\\\\W&={\\frac {1}{2}}LI_{0}^{2}\\end{aligned}}}\nFor inductors with magnetic cores, the above equation is only valid for linear regions of the magnetic flux, at currents below the saturation level of the inductor, where the inductance is approximately constant. Where this is not the case, the integral form must be used with L I {\\displaystyle L_{I}} variable.\nIn circuit theory, inductors are idealized as obeying the mathematical relation (2) above precisely. An \"ideal inductor\" has inductance, but no resistance or capacitance, and does not dissipate energy. However real inductors have nonideal properties which cause their behavior to depart from this simple model.[10][11] They have resistance (due to the resistance of the wire and energy losses in the core), and parasitic capacitance due to electric potential between the turns of wire. This capacitive reactance rises with frequency; at some frequency, the inductor will behave as a resonant circuit, becoming self-resonant. Above the self-resonant frequency the capacitive reactance is the dominant part of the impedance. At higher frequencies, resistive losses in the windings increase due to skin effect and proximity effect.\nInductors with ferromagnetic cores have additional energy losses due to hysteresis and eddy currents in the core, which increase with frequency. At high currents, magnetic core inductors also show sudden departure from ideal behavior due to nonlinearity caused by magnetic saturation of the core. An inductor radiates electromagnetic energy into surrounding space and circuits, and may absorb electromagnetic emissions from other circuits, causing electromagnetic interference (EMI). For real-world inductor applications, these parasitic parameters may be as important as the inductance.\nAn early solid-state electrical switching and amplifying device called a saturable reactor exploits saturation of the core as a means of stopping the inductive transfer of current via the core.\nThe winding resistance appears as a resistance in series with the inductor; it is referred to as DCR (DC resistance). This resistance dissipates some of the reactive energy. The quality factor (or Q) of an inductor is the ratio of its inductive reactance to its resistance at a given frequency, and is a measure of its efficiency. The higher the Q factor of the inductor, the closer it approaches the behavior of an ideal inductor. High Q inductors are used with capacitors to make resonant circuits in radio transmitters and receivers. The higher the Q is, the narrower the bandwidth of the resonant circuit.\nThe Q factor of an inductor is defined as, where L is the inductance, R is the DCR, \u03c9 is the radian operating frequency, and the product \u03c9L is the inductive reactance:\nQ = \u03c9 L R {\\displaystyle Q={\\frac {\\omega L}{R}}}\nQ increases linearly with frequency if L and R are constant. Although they are constant at low frequencies, the parameters vary with frequency. For example, skin effect, proximity effect, and core losses increase R with frequency; winding capacitance and variations in permeability with frequency affect L.\nAt low frequencies and within limits, increasing the number of turns N improves Q because L varies as N2 while R varies linearly with N. Similarly, increasing the radius r of an inductor improves Q because L varies as r2 while R varies linearly with r. So high Q air core inductors often have large diameters and many turns. Both of those examples assume the diameter of the wire stays the same, so both examples use proportionally more wire. If the total mass of wire is held constant, then there would be no advantage to increasing the number of turns or the radius of the turns because the wire would have to be proportionally thinner.\nUsing a high permeability ferromagnetic core can greatly increase the inductance for the same amount of copper, so the core can also increase the Q. Cores however also introduce losses that increase with frequency. The core material is chosen for best results for the frequency band. High Q inductors must avoid saturation; one way is by using a (physically larger) air core inductor. At VHF or higher frequencies an air core is likely to be used. A well designed air core inductor may have a Q of several hundred.\nExample of signal filtering. In this configuration, the inductor blocks AC current, while allowing DC current to pass.\nExample of signal filtering. In this configuration, the inductor decouples DC current, while allowing AC current to pass.\nInductors are used extensively in analog circuits and signal processing. Applications range from the use of large inductors in power supplies, which in conjunction with filter capacitors remove ripple which is a multiple of the mains frequency (or the switching frequency for switched-mode power supplies) from the direct current output, to the small inductance of the ferrite bead or torus installed around a cable to prevent radio frequency interference from being transmitted down the wire. Inductors are used as the energy storage device in many switched-mode power supplies to produce DC current. The inductor supplies energy to the circuit to keep current flowing during the \"off\" switching periods and enables topographies where the output voltage is higher than the input voltage.\nA tuned circuit, consisting of an inductor connected to a capacitor, acts as a resonator for oscillating current. Tuned circuits are widely used in radio frequency equipment such as radio transmitters and receivers, as narrow bandpass filters to select a single frequency from a composite signal, and in electronic oscillators to generate sinusoidal signals.\nTwo (or more) inductors in proximity that have coupled magnetic flux (mutual inductance) form a transformer, which is a fundamental component of every electric utility power grid. The efficiency of a transformer may decrease as the frequency increases due to eddy currents in the core material and skin effect on the windings. The size of the core can be decreased at higher frequencies. For this reason, aircraft use 400 hertz alternating current rather than the usual 50 or 60 hertz, allowing a great saving in weight from the use of smaller transformers.[12] Transformers enable switched-mode power supplies that isolate the output from the input.\nInductors are also employed in electrical transmission systems, where they are used to limit switching currents and fault currents. In this field, they are more commonly referred to as reactors.\nInductors have parasitic effects which cause them to depart from ideal behavior. They create and suffer from electromagnetic interference (EMI). Their physical size prevents them from being integrated on semiconductor chips. So the use of inductors is declining in modern electronic devices, particularly compact portable devices. Real inductors are increasingly being replaced by active circuits such as the gyrator which can synthesize inductance using capacitors.\nA ferrite core inductor with two 20 mH windings.\nA ferrite \"bead\" choke, consisting of an encircling ferrite cylinder, suppresses electronic noise in a computer power cord.\nLarge 50 Mvar three-phase iron-core loading inductor at a utility substation\nAn inductor usually consists of a coil of conducting material, typically insulated copper wire, wrapped around a core either of plastic (to create an air-core inductor) or of a ferromagnetic (or ferrimagnetic) material; the latter is called an \"iron core\" inductor. Since power inductors require high induction levels, high permeability and low saturation points in the core materials are not ideal.[13] The high permeability of the ferromagnetic core increases the magnetic field and confines it closely to the inductor, thereby increasing the inductance. Low frequency inductors are constructed like transformers, with cores of electrical steel laminated to prevent eddy currents. 'Soft' ferrites are widely used for cores above audio frequencies, since they do not cause the large energy losses at high frequencies that ordinary iron alloys do. Inductors come in many shapes. Some inductors have an adjustable core, which enables changing of the inductance. Inductors used to block very high frequencies are sometimes made by stringing a ferrite bead on a wire.\nSmall inductors can be etched directly onto a printed circuit board by laying out the trace in a spiral pattern. Some such planar inductors use a planar core. Small value inductors can also be built on integrated circuits using the same processes that are used to make interconnnects. Aluminium interconnect is typically used, laid out in a spiral coil pattern. However, the small dimensions limit the inductance, and it is far more common to use a circuit called a gyrator that uses a capacitor and active components to behave similarly to an inductor. Regardless of the design, because of the low inductances and low power dissipation on-die inductors allow, they're currently only commercially used for high frequency RF circuits.\nInductors used in power regulation systems, lighting, and other systems that require low-noise operating conditions, are often partially or fully shielded.[14][15] In telecommunication circuits employing induction coils and repeating transformers shielding of inductors in close proximity reduces circuit cross-talk.\nAn antenna tuning coil at an AM radio station. It illustrates high power high Q construction: single layer winding with turns spaced apart to reduce proximity effect losses, made of silver-plated tubing to reduce skin effect losses, supported by narrow insulating strips to reduce dielectric losses.\nThe term air core coil describes an inductor that does not use a magnetic core made of a ferromagnetic material. The term refers to coils wound on plastic, ceramic, or other nonmagnetic forms, as well as those that have only air inside the windings. Air core coils have lower inductance than ferromagnetic core coils, but are often used at high frequencies because they are free from energy losses called core losses that occur in ferromagnetic cores, which increase with frequency. A side effect that can occur in air core coils in which the winding is not rigidly supported on a form is 'microphony': mechanical vibration of the windings can cause variations in the inductance.\nCollection of RF inductors, showing techniques to reduce losses. The three top left and the ferrite loopstick or rod antenna,[16][17][18][19] bottom, have basket windings.\nAt high frequencies, particularly radio frequencies (RF), inductors have higher resistance and other losses. In addition to causing power loss, in resonant circuits this can reduce the Q factor of the circuit, broadening the bandwidth. In RF inductors, which are mostly air core types, specialized construction techniques are used to minimize these losses. The losses are due to these effects:\nThe resistance of a wire to high frequency current is higher than its resistance to direct current because of skin effect. Radio frequency alternating current does not penetrate far into the body of a conductor but travels along its surface. For example, at 6 MHz the skin depth of copper wire is about 0.001 inches (25 \u00b5m); most of the current is within this depth of the surface. Therefore, in a solid wire, the interior portion of the wire may carry little current, effectively increasing its resistance.\nAnother similar effect that also increases the resistance of the wire at high frequencies is proximity effect, which occurs in parallel wires that lie close to each other. The individual magnetic field of adjacent turns induces eddy currents in the wire of the coil, which causes the current in the conductor to be concentrated in a thin strip on the side near the adjacent wire. Like skin effect, this reduces the effective cross-sectional area of the wire conducting current, increasing its resistance.\nDielectric losses\nThe high frequency electric field near the conductors in a tank coil can cause the motion of polar molecules in nearby insulating materials, dissipating energy as heat. So coils used for tuned circuits are often not wound on coil forms but are suspended in air, supported by narrow plastic or ceramic strips.\nThe capacitance between individual wire turns of the coil, called parasitic capacitance, does not cause energy losses but can change the behavior of the coil. Each turn of the coil is at a slightly different potential, so the electric field between neighboring turns stores charge on the wire, so the coil acts as if it has a capacitor in parallel with it. At a high enough frequency this capacitance can resonate with the inductance of the coil forming a tuned circuit, causing the coil to become self-resonant.\nHigh Q tank coil in a shortwave transmitter\n(left) Spiderweb coil (right) Adjustable ferrite slug-tuned RF coil with basketweave winding and litz wire\nTo reduce parasitic capacitance and proximity effect, high Q RF coils are constructed to avoid having many turns lying close together, parallel to one another. The windings of RF coils are often limited to a single layer, and the turns are spaced apart. To reduce resistance due to skin effect, in high-power inductors such as those used in transmitters the windings are sometimes made of a metal strip or tubing which has a larger surface area, and the surface is silver-plated.\nBasket-weave coils\nTo reduce proximity effect and parasitic capacitance, multilayer RF coils are wound in patterns in which successive turns are not parallel but criss-crossed at an angle; these are often called honeycomb or basket-weave coils. These are occasionally wound on a vertical insulating supports with dowels or slots, with the wire weaving in and out through the slots.\nSpiderweb coils\nAnother construction technique with similar advantages is flat spiral coils.These are often wound on a flat insulating support with radial spokes or slots, with the wire weaving in and out through the slots; these are called spiderweb coils. The form has an odd number of slots, so successive turns of the spiral lie on opposite sides of the form, increasing separation.\nTo reduce skin effect losses, some coils are wound with a special type of radio frequency wire called litz wire. Instead of a single solid conductor, litz wire consists of a number of smaller wire strands that carry the current. Unlike ordinary stranded wire, the strands are insulated from each other, to prevent skin effect from forcing the current to the surface, and are twisted or braided together. The twist pattern ensures that each wire strand spends the same amount of its length on the outside of the wire bundle, so skin effect distributes the current equally between the strands, resulting in a larger cross-sectional conduction area than an equivalent single wire.\nSmall inductors for low current and low power are made in molded cases resembling resistors. These may be either plain (phenolic) core or ferrite core. An ohmmeter readily distinguishes them from similar-sized resistors by showing the low resistance of the inductor.\nSee also: Magnetic core\nA variety of types of ferrite core inductors and transformers\nFerromagnetic-core or iron-core inductors use a magnetic core made of a ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic material such as iron or ferrite to increase the inductance. A magnetic core can increase the inductance of a coil by a factor of several thousand, by increasing the magnetic field due to its higher magnetic permeability. However the magnetic properties of the core material cause several side effects which alter the behavior of the inductor and require special construction:\nCore losses\nA time-varying current in a ferromagnetic inductor, which causes a time-varying magnetic field in its core, causes energy losses in the core material that are dissipated as heat, due to two processes:\nFrom Faraday's law of induction, the changing magnetic field can induce circulating loops of electric current in the conductive metal core. The energy in these currents is dissipated as heat in the resistance of the core material. The amount of energy lost increases with the area inside the loop of current.\nChanging or reversing the magnetic field in the core also causes losses due to the motion of the tiny magnetic domains it is composed of. The energy loss is proportional to the area of the hysteresis loop in the BH graph of the core material. Materials with low coercivity have narrow hysteresis loops and so low hysteresis losses.\nCore loss is non-linear with respect to both frequency of magnetic fluctuation and magnetic flux density. Frequency of magnetic fluctuation is the frequency of AC current in the electric circuit; magnetic flux density corresponds to current in the electric circuit. Magnetic fluctuation gives rise to hysteresis, and magnetic flux density causes eddy currents in the core. These nonlinearities are distinguished from the threshold nonlinearity of saturation. Core loss can be approximately modeled with Steinmetz's equation. At low frequencies and over limited frequency spans (maybe a factor of 10), core loss may be treated as a linear function of frequency with minimal error. However, even in the audio range, nonlinear effects of magnetic core inductors are noticeable and of concern.\nIf the current through a magnetic core coil is high enough that the core saturates, the inductance will fall and current will rise dramatically. This is a nonlinear threshold phenomenon and results in distortion of the signal. For example, audio signals can suffer intermodulation distortion in saturated inductors. To prevent this, in linear circuits the current through iron core inductors must be limited below the saturation level. Some laminated cores have a narrow air gap in them for this purpose, and powdered iron cores have a distributed air gap. This allows higher levels of magnetic flux and thus higher currents through the inductor before it saturates.[20]\nCurie point demagnetization\nIf the temperature of a ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic core rises to a specified level, the magnetic domains dissociate, and the material becomes paramagnetic, no longer able to support magnetic flux. The inductance falls and current rises dramatically, similarly to what happens during saturation. The effect is reversible: When the temperature falls below the Curie point, magnetic flux resulting from current in the electric circuit will realign the magnetic domains of the core and its magnetic flux will be restored. The Curie point of ferromagnetic materials (iron alloys) is quite high; iron is highest at 770 \u00b0C. However, for some ferrimagnetic materials (ceramic iron compounds \u2013 ferrites) the Curie point can be close to ambient temperatures (below 100 \u00b0C).[citation needed]\nLaminated iron core ballast inductor for a metal halide lamp\nLow-frequency inductors are often made with laminated cores to prevent eddy currents, using construction similar to transformers. The core is made of stacks of thin steel sheets or laminations oriented parallel to the field, with an insulating coating on the surface. The insulation prevents eddy currents between the sheets, so any remaining currents must be within the cross sectional area of the individual laminations, reducing the area of the loop and thus reducing the energy losses greatly. The laminations are made of low-conductivity silicon steel to further reduce eddy current losses.\nMain article: Ferrite core\nFor higher frequencies, inductors are made with cores of ferrite. Ferrite is a ceramic ferrimagnetic material that is nonconductive, so eddy currents cannot flow within it. The formulation of ferrite is xxFe2O4 where xx represents various metals. For inductor cores soft ferrites are used, which have low coercivity and thus low hysteresis losses.\nSee also: Carbonyl iron\nAnother material is powdered iron cemented with a binder.\nMain article: Toroidal inductors and transformers\nToroidal inductor in the power supply of a wireless router\nIn an inductor wound on a straight rod-shaped core, the magnetic field lines emerging from one end of the core must pass through the air to re-enter the core at the other end. This reduces the field, because much of the magnetic field path is in air rather than the higher permeability core material and is a source of electromagnetic interference. A higher magnetic field and inductance can be achieved by forming the core in a closed magnetic circuit. The magnetic field lines form closed loops within the core without leaving the core material. The shape often used is a toroidal or doughnut-shaped ferrite core. Because of their symmetry, toroidal cores allow a minimum of the magnetic flux to escape outside the core (called leakage flux), so they radiate less electromagnetic interference than other shapes. Toroidal core coils are manufactured of various materials, primarily ferrite, powdered iron and laminated cores.[21]\n(left) Inductor with a threaded ferrite slug (visible at top) that can be turned to move it into or out of the coil. 4.2 cm high. (right) A variometer used in radio receivers in the 1920s\nA \"roller coil\", an adjustable air-core RF inductor used in the tuned circuits of radio transmitters. One of the contacts to the coil is made by the small grooved wheel, which rides on the wire. Turning the shaft rotates the coil, moving the contact wheel up or down the coil, allowing more or fewer turns of the coil into the circuit, to change the inductance.\nProbably the most common type of variable inductor today is one with a moveable ferrite magnetic core, which can be slid or screwed in or out of the coil. Moving the core farther into the coil increases the permeability, increasing the magnetic field and the inductance. Many inductors used in radio applications (usually less than 100 MHz) use adjustable cores in order to tune such inductors to their desired value, since manufacturing processes have certain tolerances (inaccuracy). Sometimes such cores for frequencies above 100 MHz are made from highly conductive non-magnetic material such as aluminum.[22] They decrease the inductance because the magnetic field must bypass them.\nAir core inductors can use sliding contacts or multiple taps to increase or decrease the number of turns included in the circuit, to change the inductance. A type much used in the past but mostly obsolete today has a spring contact that can slide along the bare surface of the windings. The disadvantage of this type is that the contact usually short-circuits one or more turns. These turns act like a single-turn short-circuited transformer secondary winding; the large currents induced in them cause power losses.\nA type of continuously variable air core inductor is the variometer. This consists of two coils with the same number of turns connected in series, one inside the other. The inner coil is mounted on a shaft so its axis can be turned with respect to the outer coil. When the two coils' axes are collinear, with the magnetic fields pointing in the same direction, the fields add and the inductance is maximum. When the inner coil is turned so its axis is at an angle with the outer, the mutual inductance between them is smaller so the total inductance is less. When the inner coil is turned 180\u00b0 so the coils are collinear with their magnetic fields opposing, the two fields cancel each other and the inductance is very small. This type has the advantage that it is continuously variable over a wide range. It is used in antenna tuners and matching circuits to match low frequency transmitters to their antennas.\nAnother method to control the inductance without any moving parts requires an additional DC current bias winding which controls the permeability of an easily saturable core material. See Magnetic amplifier.\nAn MF or HF radio choke for tenths of an ampere, and a ferrite bead VHF choke for several amperes.\nA choke is an inductor designed specifically for blocking high-frequency alternating current (AC) in an electrical circuit, while allowing DC or low-frequency signals to pass. It usually consists of a coil of insulated wire wound on a magnetic core, although some consist of a donut-shaped \"bead\" of ferrite material strung on a wire. Like other inductors, chokes resist changes in current passing through them increasingly with frequency. The difference between chokes and other inductors is that chokes do not require the high Q factor construction techniques that are used to reduce the resistance in inductors used in tuned circuits.\nThe effect of an inductor in a circuit is to oppose changes in current through it by developing a voltage across it proportional to the rate of change of the current. An ideal inductor would offer no resistance to a constant direct current; however, only superconducting inductors have truly zero electrical resistance.\nThe relationship between the time-varying voltage v(t) across an inductor with inductance L and the time-varying current i(t) passing through it is described by the differential equation:\nv ( t ) = L d i ( t ) d t {\\displaystyle v(t)=L{\\frac {di(t)}{dt}}}\nWhen there is a sinusoidal alternating current (AC) through an inductor, a sinusoidal voltage is induced. The amplitude of the voltage is proportional to the product of the amplitude (IP) of the current and the frequency (f) of the current.\ni ( t ) = I P sin \u2061 ( \u03c9 t ) d i ( t ) d t = I P \u03c9 cos \u2061 ( \u03c9 t ) v ( t ) = L I P \u03c9 cos \u2061 ( \u03c9 t ) {\\displaystyle {\\begin{aligned}i(t)&=I_{\\mathrm {P} }\\sin(\\omega t)\\\\{\\frac {di(t)}{dt}}&=I_{\\mathrm {P} }\\omega \\cos(\\omega t)\\\\v(t)&=LI_{\\mathrm {P} }\\omega \\cos(\\omega t)\\end{aligned}}}\nIn this situation, the phase of the current lags that of the voltage by \u03c0/2 (90\u00b0). For sinusoids, as the voltage across the inductor goes to its maximum value, the current goes to zero, and as the voltage across the inductor goes to zero, the current through it goes to its maximum value.\nIf an inductor is connected to a direct current source with value I via a resistance R (at least the DCR of the inductor), and then the current source is short-circuited, the differential relationship above shows that the current through the inductor will discharge with an exponential decay:\ni ( t ) = I e \u2212 R L t {\\displaystyle i(t)=Ie^{-{\\frac {R}{L}}t}}\nThe ratio of the peak voltage to the peak current in an inductor energised from an AC source is called the reactance and is denoted XL.\nX L = V P I P = \u03c9 L I P I P {\\displaystyle X_{\\mathrm {L} }={\\frac {V_{\\mathrm {P} }}{I_{\\mathrm {P} }}}={\\frac {\\omega LI_{\\mathrm {P} }}{I_{\\mathrm {P} }}}}\nX L = \u03c9 L {\\displaystyle X_{\\mathrm {L} }=\\omega L}\nReactance is measured in ohms but referred to as impedance rather than resistance; energy is stored in the magnetic field as current rises and discharged as current falls. Inductive reactance is proportional to frequency. At low frequency the reactance falls; at DC, the inductor behaves as a short-circuit. As frequency increases the reactance increases and at a sufficiently high frequency the reactance approaches that of an open circuit.\nIn filtering applications,with respect to a particular load impedance, an inductor has a corner frequency defined as:\nf 3 d B = R 2 \u03c0 L {\\displaystyle f_{\\mathrm {3\\,dB} }={\\frac {R}{2\\pi L}}}\nWhen using the Laplace transform in circuit analysis, the impedance of an ideal inductor with no initial current is represented in the s domain by:\nZ ( s ) = L s {\\displaystyle Z(s)=Ls\\,}\nL {\\displaystyle L} is the inductance, and\ns {\\displaystyle s} is the complex frequency.\nIf the inductor does have initial current, it can be represented by:\nadding a voltage source in series with the inductor, having the value:\nL I 0 {\\displaystyle LI_{0}\\,}\nI 0 {\\displaystyle I_{0}} is the initial current in the inductor.\n(Note that the source should have a polarity that is aligned with the initial current)\nor by adding a current source in parallel with the inductor, having the value:\nI 0 s {\\displaystyle {\\frac {I_{0}}{s}}}\nMain article: Series and parallel circuits\nInductors in a parallel configuration each have the same potential difference (voltage). To find their total equivalent inductance (Leq):\n1 L e q = 1 L 1 + 1 L 2 + \u22ef + 1 L n {\\displaystyle {\\frac {1}{L_{\\mathrm {eq} }}}={\\frac {1}{L_{1}}}+{\\frac {1}{L_{2}}}+\\cdots +{\\frac {1}{L_{n}}}}\nThe current through inductors in series stays the same, but the voltage across each inductor can be different. The sum of the potential differences (voltage) is equal to the total voltage. To find their total inductance:\nL e q = L 1 + L 2 + \u22ef + L n {\\displaystyle L_{\\mathrm {eq} }=L_{1}+L_{2}+\\cdots +L_{n}\\,\\!}\nThese simple relationships hold true only when there is no mutual coupling of magnetic fields between individual inductors.\nMutual inductance occurs when the magnetic field of an inductor induces a magnetic field in an adjacent inductor. Mutual induction is the basis of transformer construction. M=(L1\u00d7L2)^(1/2) where M is the maximum mutual inductance possible between 2 inductors and L1 and L2 are the two inductors. In general M<=(L1\u00d7L2)^(1/2) as only a fraction of self flux is linked with the other. This fraction is called \"Coefficient of flux linkage\" or \"Coefficient of coupling\". K=M\u00f7((L1\u00d7L2)^0.5)\nSee also: Inductance \u00a7 Self-inductance of thin wire shapes\nThe table below lists some common simplified formulas for calculating the approximate inductance of several inductor constructions.\nCylindrical air-core coil[23]\nL = \u03bc 0 K N 2 A \u2113 {\\displaystyle L=\\mu _{0}KN^{2}{\\frac {A}{\\ell }}}\nL = inductance in henries (H)\n\u03bc0 = permeability of free space = 4 \u03c0 {\\displaystyle \\pi } \u00d7 10\u22127 H/m\nK = Nagaoka coefficient[23][a]\nA = area of cross-section of the coil in square metres (m2)\n\u2113 = length of coil in metres (m)\nK \u2248 1 {\\displaystyle K\\approx 1} Calculation of Nagaoka\u2019s coefficient (K) is complicated; normally it must be looked up from a table.[24]\nStraight wire conductor[25]\nL = \u03bc 0 2 \u03c0 \u2113 ( A \u2212 B + C ) {\\displaystyle L={\\frac {\\mu _{0}}{2\\pi }}\\ \\ell \\left(A\\;-\\;B\\;+C\\right)} ,\nA = ln \u2061 ( \u2113 r + ( \u2113 r ) 2 + 1 ) B = 1 r \u2113 + 1 + ( r \u2113 ) 2 C = 1 4 + r 2 \u03c1 \u03c9 \u03bc {\\displaystyle {\\begin{aligned}A&=\\ln \\left({\\frac {\\ell }{r}}+{\\sqrt {\\left({\\frac {\\ell }{r}}\\right)^{2}+1}}\\right)\\\\B&={\\frac {1}{{\\frac {r}{\\ell }}+{\\sqrt {1+\\left({\\frac {r}{\\ell }}\\right)^{2}}}}}\\\\C&={\\frac {1}{4+r{\\sqrt {{\\frac {2}{\\rho }}\\omega \\mu }}}}\\end{aligned}}}\n\u2113 = cylinder length\nr = cylinder radius\n\u03bc = conductor permeability\n\u03c1 = resistivity\n\u03c9 = phase rate\n\u03bc 0 2 \u03c0 {\\displaystyle {\\tfrac {\\mu _{0}}{2\\pi }}} = 0.2 \u00b5H/m, exactly.\nExact if \u03c9 = 0, or if \u03c9 = \u221e.\nNote that term B subtracts rather than adds.\nL = \u03bc 0 2 \u03c0 \u2113 [ ln \u2061 ( 4 \u2113 d ) \u2212 1 ] {\\displaystyle L={\\frac {\\mu _{0}}{2\\pi }}\\ \\ell \\left[\\ln \\left({\\frac {4\\ell }{d}}\\right)-1\\right]} (when d\u00b2 f \u226b 1 mm\u00b2 MHz)\nL = \u03bc 0 2 \u03c0 \u2113 [ ln \u2061 ( 4 \u2113 d ) \u2212 3 4 ] {\\displaystyle L={\\frac {\\mu _{0}}{2\\pi }}\\ \\ell \\left[\\ln \\left({\\frac {4\\ell }{d}}\\right)-{\\frac {3}{4}}\\right]} (when d\u00b2 f \u226a 1 mm\u00b2 MHz)\nL = inductance (nH)[26][27]\n\u2113 = length of conductor (mm)\nd = diameter of conductor (mm)\nRequires \u2113 > 100 d[28]\nFor relative permeability \u03bcr = 1 (e.g., Cu or Al).\nSmall loop or very short coil[29]\nL \u2248 \u03bc 0 2 \u03c0 N 2 \u03c0 D [ ln \u2061 ( D d ) + ( ln \u2061 8 \u2212 2 ) ] + \u03bc 0 2 \u03c0 N D d \u03bc r 2 f \u03c3 {\\displaystyle L\\approx {\\frac {\\mu _{0}}{2\\pi }}N^{2}\\pi D\\left[\\ln \\left({\\frac {D}{d}}\\right)+\\left(\\ln 8-2\\right)\\right]+{\\sqrt {\\frac {\\mu _{0}}{2\\pi }}}\\;{\\frac {ND}{d}}{\\sqrt {\\frac {\\mu _{\\text{r}}}{2f\\sigma }}}}\nL = inductance in the same units as \u03bc0.\nD = Diameter of the coil (conductor center-to-center)\nd = diameter of the conductor\nf = operating frequency (regular f, not \u03c9)\n\u03c3 = specific conductivity of the coil conductor\n\u03bcr = relative permeability of the conductor\nTotal conductor length \u2113 c \u2248 N \u03c0 D {\\displaystyle \\ell _{\\text{c}}\\approx N\\pi D} should be roughly \u200b1\u204410 wavelength or smaller.[30]\nProximity effects are not included: edge-to-edge gap between turns should be 2\u00d7d or larger.\nConductor \u03bcr should be as close to 1 as possible \u2013 copper or aluminum rather than a magnetic or paramagnetic metal.\nMedium or long air-core cylindrical coil[31]\nL = r 2 N 2 9 r + 10 \u2113 {\\displaystyle L={\\frac {r^{2}N^{2}}{9r+10\\ell }}}\nL = inductance (\u00b5H)\nr = outer radius of coil (in)\n\u2113 = length of coil (in)\nRequires cylinder length \u2113 > 0.4 r: length must be at least \u200b1\u20445 of the diameter. Not applicable to single-loop antennas or very short, stubby coils.\nMultilayer air-core coil[32]\nL = 4 5 \u22c5 r 2 N 2 6 r + 9 \u2113 + 10 d {\\displaystyle L={\\frac {4}{5}}\\cdot {\\frac {r^{2}N^{2}}{6r+9\\ell +10d}}}\nr = mean radius of coil (in)\n\u2113 = physical length of coil winding (in)\nd = depth of coil (outer radius minus inner radius) (in)\nFlat spiral air-core coil[33][34]\nL = r 2 N 2 20 r + 28 d {\\displaystyle L={\\frac {r^{2}N^{2}}{20r+28d}}}\nr = mean radius of coil (cm)\nd = depth of coil (outer radius minus inner radius) (cm)\nL = r 2 N 2 8 r + 11 d {\\displaystyle L={\\frac {r^{2}N^{2}}{8r+11d}}}\nAccurate to within 5 percent for d > 0.2 r.[35]\nToroidal core (circular cross-section)[36]\nL = 0.01595 N 2 ( D \u2212 D 2 \u2212 d 2 ) {\\displaystyle L=0.01595N^{2}\\left(D-{\\sqrt {D^{2}-d^{2}}}\\right)}\nd = diameter of coil winding (in)\nD = 2 * radius of revolution (in)\nL \u2248 0.007975 d 2 N 2 D {\\displaystyle L\\approx 0.007975{d^{2}N^{2} \\over D}}\nApproximation when d < 0.1 D\nToroidal core (rectangular cross-section)[35]\nL = 0.00508 N 2 h ln \u2061 ( d 2 d 1 ) {\\displaystyle L=0.00508N^{2}h\\ln \\left({\\frac {d_{2}}{d_{1}}}\\right)}\nd1 = inside diameter of toroid (in)\nd2 = outside diameter of toroid (in)\nh = height of toroid (in)\nHanna curve\nSaturable reactor \u2013 a type of adjustable inductor\n^ Nagaoka\u2019s coefficient (K) is approximately 1 for a coil which is much longer than its diameter and is tightly wound using small gauge wire (so that it approximates a current sheet).\n^ Alexander, Charles; Sadiku, Matthew. Fundamentals of Electric Circuits (3 ed.). McGraw-Hill. p. 211.\n^ Singh, Yaduvir (2011). Electro Magnetic Field Theory. Pearson Education India. p. 65. ISBN 8131760618.\n^ Wadhwa, C. L. (2005). Electrical Power Systems. New Age International. p. 18. ISBN 8122417221.\n^ Pelcovits, Robert A.; Josh Farkas (2007). Barron's AP Physics C. Barron's Educational Series. p. 646. ISBN 0764137107.\n^ a b c Purcell, Edward M.; David J. Morin (2013). Electricity and Magnetism. Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 364. ISBN 1107014026.\n^ Shamos, Morris H. (2012-10-16). Great Experiments in Physics: Firsthand Accounts from Galileo to Einstein. Courier Corporation. ISBN 9780486139623.\n^ Schmitt, Ron (2002). Electromagnetics Explained: A Handbook for Wireless/ RF, EMC, and High-Speed Electronics. Elsevier. pp. 75\u201377. ISBN 0080505236.\n^ Jaffe, Robert L.; Taylor, Washington (2018). The Physics of Energy. Cambridge Univ. Press. p. 51. ISBN 1108547893.\n^ Lerner, Lawrence S. (1997). Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Vol. 2. Jones and Bartlet Learning. p. 856. ISBN 0763704601.\n^ Bowick, Christopher (2011). RF Circuit Design, 2nd Ed. Newnes. pp. 7\u20138. ISBN 0080553427.\n^ Kaiser, Kenneth L. (2004). Electromagnetic Compatibility Handbook. CRC Press. pp. 6.4\u20136.5. ISBN 0849320879.\n^ \"Aircraft electrical systems\". Wonderquest.com. Retrieved 2010-09-24.\n^ Dull, Bill. \"What to Consider When Constructing Power Inductors\". Retrieved 2017-08-15.\n^ Ott, Henry W. (2011). Electromagnetic Compatibility Engineering. John Wiley and Sons. p. 203. ISBN 1118210654.\n^ Violette, Norman (2013). Electromagnetic Compatibility Handbook. Springer. pp. 515\u2013516. ISBN 9401771448.\n^ \"An Unassuming Antenna \u2013 The Ferrite Loopstick\". Radio Time Traveller. January 23, 2011. Retrieved March 5, 2014.\n^ Frost, Phil (December 23, 2013). \"What's an appropriate core material for a loopstick antenna?\". Amateur Radio beta. Stack Exchange, Inc. Retrieved March 5, 2014.\n^ Poisel, Richard (2011). Antenna Systems and Electronic Warfare Applications. Artech House. p. 280. ISBN 1608074846.\n^ Yadava, R. L. (2011). Antenna and Wave Propagation. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd. p. 261. ISBN 8120342917.\n^ \"Inductors 101\" (PDF). vishay. Retrieved 2010-09-24.\n^ \"Inductor and Magnetic Product Terminology\" (PDF). Vishay Dale. Retrieved 2012-09-24.\n^ [www.coilcraft.com] Coilcraft catalog page with aluminum cores. Accessed 10 July 2015.\n^ a b Nagaoka, Hantaro (1909-05-06). \"The Inductance Coefficients of Solenoids\" (PDF). 27. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan: 18. Retrieved 2011-11-10.\n^ Kenneth L. Kaiser, Electromagnetic Compatibility Handbook, p. 30.64, CRC Press, 2004 ISBN 0849320879.\n^ Rosa, Edward B. (1908). \"The Self and Mutual Inductances of Linear Conductors\" (PDF). Bulletin of the Bureau of Standards. 4 (2): 301\u2013344. doi:10.6028/bulletin.088\n^ Rosa 1908, equation (11a), subst. radius \u03c1 = d/2 and cgs units\n^ Terman 1943, pp. 48\u201349, convert to natural logarithms and inches to mm.\n^ Terman (1943, p. 48) states for \u2113 < 100 d, include d/2\u2113 within the parentheses.\n^ Burger, O. & Dvorsk\u00fd, M. (2015). Magnetic Loop Antenna. Ostrava, Czech Republic: EDUCA TV o.p.s.\n^ Values of \u03c0 D {\\displaystyle \\pi D} up to \u200b1\u20443 wavelength are feasible antennas, but for windings that long, this formula will be inaccurate.\n^ ARRL Handbook, 66th Ed. American Radio Relay League (1989).\n^ Wheeler, H.A. (October 1928). \"Simple Inductance Formulas for Radio Coils\". Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers. 16 (10): 1398. Retrieved 22 June 2015.\n^ For the second formula, Terman 1943, p. 58 which cites to Wheeler 1928.\n^ \"A Magnetic Elevator for Neutral Atoms into a 2D State-dependent Optical Lattice Experiment\". Uni-Bonn. Retrieved 2017-08-15.\n^ a b Terman 1943, p. 58\n^ Terman 1943, p. 57\nTerman, Frederick (1943). \"Radio Engineers' Handbook\". McGraw-Hill\nWheeler, H. A. (October 1928). \"Simple Inductance Formulae for Radio Coils\". Proc. IRE. 16 (10): 1398. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1928.221309\nThe Wikibook Electronics has a page on the topic of: Inductors\nLook up inductor in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.\nWikimedia Commons has media related to Inductors.\nBowley, Roger (2009). \"Inductor\". Sixty Symbols. Brady Haran for the University of Nottingham.\nOnline coil inductance calculator \u2013 Online calculator calculates the inductance of conventional and toroidal coils\nInductors 101 Instructional Guide \u2013 Vishay\nPentode transistor\nPoint-contact transistor\nSolaristor\nProgrammable unijunction transistor (PUT)\nStep recovery diode\nPentagrid (Hexode, Heptode, Octode)\nSutton tube\nClassical simple machines\nEductor-jet pump\nCheck weighing machines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 559, "original_length": 51422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 177.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://recoverydiva.com/2018/03/11/what-is-the-heck-is-this-about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:33Z", "digest": "sha1:PTRJPRW47U25VWEVP4FRX7AXDSVALRRK", "length": 3100, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "recoverydiva.com", "title": "What The Heck Is This About? | Recovery Diva", "raw_content": "Two accounts of a strange recent action taken:\n(1) From USA Today on March 10: Government watchdog purges mostly positive reports on FEMA from website.\nIn a rare move, the government watchdog for the Federal Emergency Management Administration has removed a dozen largely positive reports evaluating how the agency responded under President Obama to several disasters from 2012 to 2016, according to an internal memo obtained by USA TODAY.\nThe 12 reports were rescinded by the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Office of Inspector General because they \u201cmay have not adequately answered objectives and, in some cases, may have lacked sufficient and appropriate evidence to support conclusions,\u201d read the internal memo issued Thursday. \u201cIn an abundance of caution, we believe it best to recall the reports and not re-issue them.\n(2) From The Hill, on March 10: FEMA watchdog removes positive evaluations of agency under Obama.\nAs a researcher and historian in the field of emergency management, the Diva is baffled by this action. I cannot recall a precedent for the removal of reports on disaster responses from a federal agency website. Do any of you readers have additional information about this matter?\nUpdate on March 13: Here is the memo that explains the removal. The Diva has copies of the deleted memos if anyone would like to do a content analysis.\n4 thoughts on \u201cWhat The Heck Is This About?\u201d\nMurray Turoff on March 12, 2018 at 1:18 pm said:\nThanks Claire for putting this in. If there was something wrong with those reports than the new leadership of FEMA should have added the reasons why these reports were wrong or incomplete.\nI do think Craig Fugate was one of the best leaders of FEMA we have ever had in recent years. A lot of the problems that exist are the lack of strong local standards in building codes, zoning, and infrastructure requirements where national standards do not exist (e.g. electrical services) thanks to prior acts or lacks of other acts of congress.\nI agree with you on all points.\nLeo Bosner on March 11, 2018 at 2:47 pm said:\nOh c\u2019mon Claire, \u201cbaffled?\u201d Didn\u2019t you ever read 1984? When I was a Watch Officer at FEMA in the summer of 2005, my team generated two National Situation Reports (NSRs) warning of Hurricane Katrina, 48 and 24 hours before landfall. When the FEMA biggies told reporters that they had little or no advance warning of the storm\u2019s likely impacts, I would refer the reporters to the FEMA website where they could see the two NSRs for themselves. FEMA later fixed the problem\u2026by deleting the NSRs from the website. (Naturally I had already downloaded the NSRs and saved them to my home computer for just such an eventuality.) Plus la change\u2026\nYes, I had read the book. And yes I did suspect foul play.\nSo far the only reply I have received (via the facebook group on EM) that might be true is that the reports did not meet Generally Accepted Government Auditing Standards. However, the person said if the standard was not met, the OIG possibly could have removed that statement from the reports and reposted rather than taking them all down.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://red-line-design.com/blogs/blog/f-is-for-fish", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BXPSVJEU6WKM345R7W4ZREDNG5MGVLG4", "length": 530, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "red-line-design.com", "title": "f is for Fish - redlinedesign\u00ae", "raw_content": "While traveling to Santa Barbara a few years ago, I was on a walk through the campground where we were staying and these beautiful fish were placed in such a way that they looked like they were jumping right out of the water and over the bridge we were walking across. What I loved about them was the relationship between the two fish. The color and pattern on the first then just the raw material with detail on the second. Such an interesting way for the artist to look at what could have been just fish jumping over the bridge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 205.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://redcarcleveland.co.uk/live/education-learning-redcar-cleveland/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OJEHG7HFDO4JUVNH73F2SIQKL5YKT7G4", "length": 1677, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "redcarcleveland.co.uk", "title": "Live", "raw_content": "With some of the best primary schools outside London*, you can rest assured your children will receive a quality education here in Redcar and Cleveland.\nAs well as high performing primary schools (including St. Bede\u2019s in Marske which was named as the country\u2019s best state school) , 2018 saw our local secondary school students achieve GCSE maths and English pass rate at Grade 4 of 66% and Grade 5 at 50%.\nThe hardworking, committed teachers and school support staff are all focused on ensuring our young people benefit from a well-rounded educational experience to equip them for future success.\nYou can find out about any school in Redcar and Cleveland on the government\u2019s schools information website.\n*Source: The Telegraph\nGuisborough\u2019s Prior Pursglove College enjoyed a stellar 2018 with an A-level pass result of 99%. A testament to the committed staff and hard-working students, Prior Pursglove College can rightly be proud of its achievements and high academic standards.\nRedcar & Cleveland College has recently merged with nearby Stockton Riverside College to create a new, forward-looking further education provider for the borough.\nProviding apprenticeships, vocational training, access to higher education and bespoke courses for employers, Redcar and Cleveland College will continue to be the first-class destination further education provider for years to come.\nThe award-winning Teesside University is within easy travelling distance, just a couple of miles away in neighbouring Middlesbrough. Offering undergraduate, postgraduate and short courses, Teesside University also has strong links with the Digital City initiative to create high-tech local businesses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 8905, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 194.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reginawalkerauthor.com/2011/02/28/talented/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:14Z", "digest": "sha1:4A6Q7OSGMTIPBUEUTYJLTQZC6R6BAIHZ", "length": 4422, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "reginawalkerauthor.com", "title": ">Talented | Regina Walker", "raw_content": "\u2190 >Silly things work!\n>Audibly Claustrophobic \u2192\n>Talented\n>Let me start of by saying that church yesterday was AMAZING. Church was amazing yesterday before praise and worship even started. Church was amazing before we even got to church! I guess it would be more accurate to say that GOD was amazing yesterday.\nMy morning started off by breaking my heart and showing me a skeleton in my closet. This is probably the ugliest skeleton that haunts me and beats me up. This is the skeleton that tells me that no one will ever really love me, that I\u2019ve never been good enough, that I\u2019ve never been talented enough\u2026 This skeleton is truly ugly, and I\u2019ve had it for years.\nI can\u2019t remember the first time I thought I didn\u2019t measure up. I\u2019ve just always looked at everyone else as being talented, and well, I\u2019m just not. When I first started dating my husband, at 16 years old, he told me that if he had the opportunity to date this other girl, that we would break up. Well, as I think back, I\u2019m pretty sure he had the opportunity, but he never broke up with me. Yet, as we exchanged vows, those words were somewhere in my mind, and every so often I would be reminded that he would leave for someone else. We were married for 5 years, and I never once thought he was in it for the long haul. Something, or someone, better would come along.\nSunday morning, I was reminded of the most prominent woman that I thought would replace me in my husband\u2019s life. The reminder came with a fairly simple, \u201cDo you still hate \u2026. ? Or is it different now that we are not married?\u201d I was shocked that my snoozer was asking me this. I just told him I don\u2019t hate her. Then a while later I said it again. I never had hated her, and as we talked, and as I thought, I started crying. I let him know, I never hated her, I always hated knowing that no one would ever love me as much as he loves her.\nI\u2019m going to cry again now. We were driving to church during this conversation, and God was working on my heart before we even arrived. It\u2019s true that I fall short \u2013 I fall short of the Glory of God, I am a sinner. But I am loved. He sent His Son for me. As I was reminded of the truth, I prayed, and am I still praying and believing, that God would help me recognize His love. I also asked that God would help me develop and grow my talents, and that I would recognize them as being from Him, no matter how they compare to the rest of the world.\nI have ventured into a few different small business ideas of my own, and I\u2019ve shared a few with friends/business partners. Somehow, when I find someone else in the same business, I assume my product, or my business, doesn\u2019t compare. This comparison is generally followed by me giving up.\nOne of my latest adventures has included a long desired DSLR camera. I\u2019ve been thoroughly enjoying it, yet when I see someone else\u2019s work, I find myself wanting to tuck my camera away and not admit that I\u2019ve been taking pictures. I don\u2019t want anyone to know that I take bad pictures, or pictures that aren\u2019t that great. I don\u2019t want anyone to think I shouldn\u2019t have that great of a camera with the lack of talent I possess.\nI\u2019ve also been writing. I\u2019ve been writing my blog, and I\u2019m working on a book. I actually have several book ideas, I\u2019m just trying to stay focused and write one at a time. Yet, I get fearful that I\u2019m not as good as another writer. Yet, God keeps reminding me to \u201cJust Keep Writing.\u201d I think He keeps telling me to take pictures too, although that is a little less clear than the writing. I know I love both, and I get very excited about both.\nMy big question for myself is: What am I saying to God when I compare and downplay my talents? Am I telling Him that He didn\u2019t make me \u201cright\u201d? Am I telling Him that He didn\u2019t know what He was doing when He made me?\nRest assured, God knew what He was doing when He made me\u2026and when He made you. Yes, we are sinners, and we fall short of His glory. Yet, in His perfect love He made a way for us by sending Jesus. So, today, join me in recognizing that we are loved by God, created for God, and He gave us each talents to use for His glory and honor, and I believe we are supposed to enjoy our talents. They are not our own, but we do get some enjoyment from them.\nWhat are your talents and how do you use them to glorify God?\n(P.S. I\u2019ll post later about the sermon at church\u2026because this really didn\u2019t have anything to do with the sermon at church! LOL)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 9348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 237.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rememberfestival.com/stories/first-organized-party", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:29Z", "digest": "sha1:E7BMFOMLKCPET5F3FISQESQLRCYUTLRP", "length": 1987, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "rememberfestival.com", "title": "Short story: Our first organized party in hometown - Remember OpenAir", "raw_content": "End of the summer, 2017.\nThe very last moments of a crazy summer with a lot of great memories made. A small group of young and adventurous soon-to-be university students. They have always waited for it, waited for the opportunity to go out into a real world and take on all the challenges ahead of them.\nA few weeks left until the end of the summer. How do we finish this summer? How do we mark the end before starting a new episode in our lives? \u2013 We gotta throw a big house party. That\u2019s how we want to end this summer, we want it to be fun and REMEMBERable\nSo we started working for it, we wanted to make it all nice and organized, make it a bit more official, with the name and everything. We started arranging the music, lights, activities and other general things. It was fun and exciting because it was something new to us.\nThe summer is almost over, it\u2019s 24th of August. We didn\u2019t have too much time, but we made it happen. Friday evening, everybody\u2019s off work and ready to have some fun. A pretty big house party with a chill zone outside, custom bracelets at the entrance, a beer pong table inside, a special room for the people who are going to pass out and a big piece of fabric attached on the doors of the garage with a nametag \u201cREMEMBER\u201d. Around 50 people gathered around to dance, chat with each other and see what they are up to. The party started really well with a lot of great vibes and drinks. In midnight we even had our own fireworks going up in the air followed by our screams and excitement. And then everybody went even more crazy partying and having fun.\nIt was a great party overall, some great time spent, everything turned out pretty successfully and there were people dancing up until the morning. The special room, mentioned before, did fill up a bit with some people, though. And for us, it was a really great and enjoyable experience organizing such a thing that gave us some ideas for the future\u2026\nparty, remember, remember openAir festival, short story", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://remodelingsmallkitchen.com/california/moraga.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:51Z", "digest": "sha1:HHKG4W3RVPDGOL4KXLV6OLZ2YL5C3QQX", "length": 3569, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "remodelingsmallkitchen.com", "title": "Remodeling Small Kitchen in Moraga, California", "raw_content": "Remodeling Small Kitchen in Moraga, California\nTransforming Your Small Kitchen in Moraga, California into Your Dreams on a Budget\nIt doesn't take a great deal of money in order to completely transform your kitchen. Many improvements have been made to kitchens with minimal planning and capital in Moraga, California. It's possible to get your kitchen remodel done for only $2,000 to $4,000.\nMoraga Remodeling Small Kitchen\nFor many people, the kitchen is the heart of the home and it needs to be represented well. If you're really working with a small budget take advantage of the power of paint and how color is simple but extremely powerful. Sometimes the most satisfying remodeling projects in CA are the most simple. sAccording to the Joint Center for housing studies of Harvard University, spending on Home Improvement in Moraga, California is expected to increase by 6% every year. This totals to $318.6 billion dollars, only by the first quarter of 2018.\nRefreshing an outdated design in your kitchen is not as difficult as what it may seem to be. The kitchen is a place in the home where special moments are shared and often times important conversations are had. The kitchen is multi-functional in nearly every home in your kitchen design in Moraga, California should reflect that. The time that you spend planning your kitchen remodel in CA should far outweigh the time that you actually spend remodeling the kitchen in CA. By planning well, you and your household will be less inconvenienced by how much time your remodel is taking. Your kitchen will not be a construction zone for a long period of time when you have done the proper planning and you know how long contractors will be present. Plus, planning for everything is going to ensure that you stay on track with your budget. You won't have the temptation to change your mind from the original plans when you've spent so much time planning. To ensure that your project stays within budget, planning is necessary. Otherwise, you may be more likely to veer off course and go slightly outside of your budget. By researching \"contractors near me\" you'll likely find prices or at least get an estimate. The contractor should be able to provide you with a timeline of the construction costs. Then, you can determine if you're getting a return on your investment in the remodel in Moraga, California.\nIf the new modern the fridge you want is larger than the doorway of course you can't get it inside. This may sound like of mistake that's difficult to make but this mistake has been made numerous times by many people. Also, consider the height of your kitchen and whether your space can accommodate larger appliances. Also, think about the natural flow of traffic in your kitchen in Moraga, California. Consider that you may need at least 42 to 48 inches, especially if there is more than one cook in your household. Give yourself some leeway for the unforeseeable. If you want to have your kitchen remodel done by summertime then plan on being done in the spring. Likewise, if you want the kitchen remodel done by the holidays so you can enjoy the new kitchen with your family, plan on being done in early fall.\nConsider getting a professional to help you with the kitchen remodel to expedite the process. By working with a professional designer you can help simplify your kitchen remodel in Moraga, California. A professional will help you make decisions on style and can help you foresee issues before they occur. You can expect the fee of a professional to be around 5 to 15% of the total project cost.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 11805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://renegadeworks.com/category/reputation-management/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:19Z", "digest": "sha1:OXDKN4ATGX7CCBTBUSWGQTFVLIRZKI3X", "length": 91, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "renegadeworks.com", "title": "Reputation Management Archives - RenegadeWorks", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as \u201cReputation Management\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 13138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 102.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://report2016.munich-airport.com/working-environment-and-society/training-and-hr-development.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:20Z", "digest": "sha1:2UH4N3XYDDDJLASTGD7GSUWA6UT3G3S4", "length": 7212, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "report2016.munich-airport.com", "title": "Flughafen M\u00fcnchen Integrated Report 2016 - Working environment and society - Training and HR development", "raw_content": "Training in demand at the airport\nThe Munich Airport Group is one of the largest training organizations in the region. School leavers interested in the airport can choose from 20 different apprenticeship and dual study options. 88 apprentices embarked upon their professional career at Munich Airport on September 1, 2016. This meant there were 274 young people taking part in apprenticeships Group-wide as of the reporting date of December 31. Flughafen M\u00fcnchen GmbH received a total of 1,671 applications to begin apprenticeships in 2017. At the same time, 38 young people completed their apprenticeships with FMG, 34 of whom went on to become fully fledged employees. A further 103 school-age and 128 university interns received their first insight into the world of airports, producing 25 project-related Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s dissertations in the process.\nThe company\u2019s twelve-month trainee program provides graduates with an insight into the structures and processes at the airport. FMG transforms up-and-coming talent into experts in a specific field, or trains them up for multi-disciplinary projects and in-house consultancy work. A mentoring program helps trainees to establish their own company-wide network.\nOur outstanding status on a nationwide scale highlights our reputation as an exceptionally attractive employer, even beyond Bavaria\u2019s state boundaries.\nDr. Michael Kerkloh,\nPresident and Chief Executive Officer, Personnel Industrial Relations Director\nTen years of the Bachelor of arts in air traffic management\nGermany\u2019s dual Bachelor program in air traffic management has been running for ten years, and Munich Airport played an important role in its development. Students complete placements at the Munich Airport Group and study theoretical aspects at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences. The program aims to enable students to gain a comprehensive insight into economic and operational aspects of the aviation market. Since the launch of the program, around 50 young people have received a degree in air traffic management at Munich Airport. 386 high school graduates applied for the five places available on the course at FMG in 2016.\n\u00abSchuleWirtschaft\u00bb working group for schools and businesses\nIn the \u00abSchuleWirtschaft\u00bb working group, Flughafen M\u00fcnchen GmbH works alongside principals from local schools, other regional businesses, specialist tradespeople, and representatives from the employment agency. The aim of this voluntary network is to make the transition from school to working life easier for young people.\nIn fall 2016, the airport\u2019s MAC Forum hosted its \u00abTraining night\u00bb event, under the motto \u00abDiscover your future\u00bb. Members of the Group and other apprenticeship organizations at the airport gave a group of young people an introduction to over 50 different apprenticeships and study programs.\n\u00abJugend forscht\u00bb (youth research) at the airport\nAs a mentor and one of the organizers of the regional research competition for young people \u00abJugend forscht \u2013 Sch\u00fcler experimentieren\u00bb, Munich Airport uses its role as one of the area\u2019s largest employers of apprentices to support up-and-coming talent in the fields of mathematics, IT, science, and technology. In 2016, the event took place in March under the motto \u00abNeues kommt von Neugierig\u00bb (\u00abCuriosity breeds innovation\u00bb).\nP seminars\nWork experience for schools: Munich Airport provides regular support to high schools in the area, helping them to design and run P seminars (a practical project about working life that is mandatory for certain types of schools in Germany). The aim of these projects is to help young people to advance their social skills and specialist expertise.\n\u00abGirls\u2019 Day/Boys\u2019 Day\u00bb\nAs part of the nationwide \u00abGirls\u2019 Day/Boy\u2019s Day\u00bb initiative, over 130 school children visited Munich Airport in April 2016 to find out about the range of training opportunities available there. The girls were able to explore their prospects in the fields of manual skills, technology, IT, and science, while the boys gained an insight into careers in the areas of childcare, education, health, and social services.\nVocational training events and trade fairs\nBy way of vocational training events for schools, visiting universities, and taking part in trade fairs such as \u00abStuzubi\u00bb or \u00abVocatium\u00bb, Munich Airport Group\u2019s HR team provide school children from Munich and the area around the airport with information on the wide range of apprenticeships, internships, and dual study programs available at the airport.\nThe company\u2019s training partner: Airport Academy\nSkilled and motivated staff are essential for a company to meet its quality goals. Munich Airport therefore operates its own certified training center with just under 50 employees at the Airport Academy. The center offers a wide range of professional development options, mainly in the areas of human resources, management, aviation, and security. Over 30,000 participant training days document employees\u2019 willingness to make the most of the newly designed professional development program as the basis for their career progression. The Airport Academy is also open to external customers, who are able to complete courses for example in aviation security, hazardous goods handling, and management skills, or receive their apron driver\u2019s license.\nExchanging knowledge with other airports\nThe international exchange program once again proved to be very popular in 2016. Some 18 apprentices visited partner airports in Athens, Malta, and Vienna as part of the European mobility program \u00abErasmus+\u00bb. A selected group of specialists and managers advanced their knowledge during trips to the company\u2019s sister airports in Johannesburg and Bangkok. The international experience acquired helps employees develop as people, and Munich Airport progress as a business.\nThe Leadership Excellence program aims to improve management skills at Munich Airport. In 2016, around 230 members of management took part in 23 Leadership Excellence training modules.\nACSA Airports Company South Africa\nBCIA\tBeijing Capital International Airport\nAOT\tAirports of Thailand\nCAG\tChangi Airport Group (Singapore)\nDEN\tDenver International Airport\nCentrair\tCentral Japan International Airport (Nagoya)\nFlughafen M\u00fcnchen GmbH is the travel industry\u2019s number one provider of apprenticeships\nFMG finished way ahead of the pack in an independent employer study by the magazine Focus: FMG finished in first place from the 400 or so companies in the category for operations with 4,001 to 10,000 employees. In the overall ranking covering all industries, Munich Airport finished in 13th place. FMG was also awarded the title \u00abBest provider of vocational training in Germany\u00bb for the \u00abLogistics and transport\u00bb industry.\n\u2013 Costs for vocational and professional development measures: external professional development budget at FMG of 3.2 million euros\n+ Airport Academy as an in-house training center\n+ Ongoing advancement of knowledge among employees\n+ Higher standard of leadership\n+ Increased brand value\n+ Personal and technical development\n+ Improved employee satisfaction\n+ Increased appeal as an employer\n+ Wide range of apprenticeships\n+ High standard of service and quality at the airport", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 9459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repository.usfca.edu/thes/283/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JGPV4VZMH54EVAMWCA2UHQORWM2DUBNR", "length": 249, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "repository.usfca.edu", "title": "\"Theodore Roosevelt's martial dream : the proposed Roosevelt army divis\" by Thomas K. Harrison", "raw_content": "Theodore Roosevelt's martial dream : the proposed Roosevelt army division of World War I\nThomas K. Harrison\nHarrison, Thomas K., \"Theodore Roosevelt's martial dream : the proposed Roosevelt army division of World War I\" (1955). Master's Theses. 283.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rescommunis.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/regulatory-guidance-provision-of-entire-aircraft-with-crew-to-a-us-certificated-air-carrier-by-a-foreign-air-carrier/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5PA6OUXF34JITX4BXOA6L64DA7ROFRKZ", "length": 827, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rescommunis.wordpress.com", "title": "Regulatory guidance: Provision of Entire Aircraft With Crew to a U.S. Certificated Air Carrier by a Foreign Air Carrier | Res Communis", "raw_content": "Regulatory guidance: Provision of Entire Aircraft With Crew to a U.S. Certificated Air Carrier by a Foreign Air Carrier\nFebruary 29, 2008 at 10:09 am | Posted in Aviation Law | Leave a comment\nThe FAA has published, in today\u2019s Federal Register, regulatory guidance on the Provision of Entire Aircraft With Crew to a U.S. Certificated Air Carrier by a Foreign Air Carrier (73 F.R. 10986-10987):\nSUMMARY: This Notice sets forth the conditions under which a foreign air carrier may make an arrangement with a U.S. air carrier for a flight or series of flights, to be conducted with the foreign air carrier\u2019s aircraft and crew, for that U.S. certificated air carrier\u2019s-authorized services in foreign air transportation. This Notice also describes the regulatory steps involved for seeking Department approval for such an operation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://research.chalmers.se/publication/245351", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TCDDWGMMXU6VLEPU3W35PMMPZETXLTSK", "length": 3008, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "research.chalmers.se", "title": "Investigating lead time, cost and patient pathways of breast cancer care: a comparative study of four hospitals in Sweden", "raw_content": "Investigating lead time, cost and patient pathways of breast cancer care: a comparative study of four hospitals in Sweden\nIntroduction: This paper aims to provide support for quality improvement in breast cancer care in Sweden. Using quality register data from 2009-2012 with approximately 2630 patients in four hospitals, we would like to answer three questions: (1) Is there a hospital which has the shortest lead time and/or lowest cost thus serving as a role model? (2) Is there a typical way of working, in terms of patient pathways, that leads to shorter lead time and/or lower cost? (3) Does shorter lead time imply lower cost? The results of this research will be useful for inter-organizational learning among the hospitals for creating better breast cancer care. Methods: Descriptive statistics is used to analyze the lead times to surgery and subsequent treatments (radiation and chemotherapy) and cost per patient for each hospital. Process mining using ProM software is used for understanding patients\u2019 pathways. For all hospitals, the lead time and cost are categorized into three groups, namely, short or low, moderate, and long or high. The grouping uses discretization technique in such a way that the low-cost or short-lead time class corresponds to set goals and the moderate group will be the majority of the cases. The analysis is carried out within and across hospitals. The relationship between low/high cost care, short/long lead time and patient pathways are investigated visually and cross-checked with the practitioners. Results: Results show that lead times often exceed set goals and this is especially true for time between surgery and radiation. Two hospitals seem to achieve a better result here, and one of these hospital also appear to stand out positively from the other three hospitals in terms of lead time from diagnosis to surgery. The two hospitals above also have a larger percentage of low-cost patients than the other two hospitals. Pathway mapping revealed differences in the use of personnel resources among the hospitals. Generally, there seems to be a relationship between the unique pathways and the cost. Across hospitals, the low cost group has a lot less unique pathways. This can imply that the deviation from the common clinical pathway may lead to higher cost. Discussion: This work shows how quality register data can provide useful information for improving breast cancer care. Based on the evidence, areas of improvement can be mapped for each hospital and how they can learn from each other. This work provides a starting point for a more directed investigation into understanding patient clinical pathways and towards explaining why some care costs a lot more than the others or why some patients have to wait for such a long time. Declaration of competing interests We gratefully thank Regional Cancer Centre West for the funding of this research.\nSara Dahlin\nKatrin Gunnarsdottir\nInternational Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare, April 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 4549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://researchandrescue.typepad.com/holding_pen/religion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:57Z", "digest": "sha1:24TMGTHIXUIOVRTJZQ2J63X5N6XXT5GC", "length": 2574, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "researchandrescue.typepad.com", "title": "Research & Rescue Holding Pen: Religion", "raw_content": "BBC News - Belgian lawmakers pass burka ban\nDo you know the difference between an Al-Amira and a Burqa? I didn't until I read this piece. Click through to the original and check out the explanation with graphics. And will someone please explain to me the efficacy of passing a law that applies to a grand total of 30 women? Does Belgium see this as such an uptrend that they will be overrun?\nBelgium's lower house of parliament has voted for a law that would ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public.\nThe law would ban any clothing that obscures the identity of the wearer in places like parks and on the street. No-one voted against it.\nThe law now goes to the Senate, where it may face challenges over its wording, which may delay it.\nIf passed, the ban would be the first move of its kind in Europe.\nOnly around 30 women wear this kind of veil in Belgium, out of a Muslim population of around half a million.\nRead the rest at news.bbc.co.uk\nPosted at 07:44 AM in Current Affairs, Religion, Women's Issues | Permalink | Comments (0)\nImmigration Impact \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Got Faith? A Closer Look at the Religious Movement for Immigration Reform\nToday, hundreds of Evangelical leaders from around the country will join hands to raise awareness for comprehensive immigration reform during a National Day of Prayer. Like many faith groups, Evangelicals are the most recent to sign onto the national religious effort to \u201cact on the Biblical mandate of compassion and justice toward immigrants\u201d and call for reform of our broken immigration system. Some restrictionists groups, however, continue to criticize the role of religion and faith in the immigration reform movement\u2014some even using the Bible as a weapon to condemn immigrants as law-breakers and sinners. The Center for Immigration Studies, a restrictionist group that bills itself as \u201cpro-immigrant with a low-immigration vision,\u201d recently released a poll which \u201cclaims to have found broad opposition among people of faith for comprehensive immigration reform.\u201d The group also published a report, A Biblical Perspective on Immigration Policy, which condemns immigrants and attempts to promote an anti-immigrant agenda by narrowly examining the biblical role of civil government through scripture. Predictably, the report falls short and as Dr. M. Daniel Carroll Rodas, a Professor of Old Testament at Denver Seminary, points out, reveals a substantial lack of fact, scope and at best a loose interpretation of historical context.\nPosted at 03:58 PM in Immigration, Religion | Permalink | Comments (0)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reserve-home.com/pillows-poufs/4sc5s427h2rtg9sthwzc5lecm9f596-7fgyj", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ELZOIZYEVDCIM53XNBJTG7PHOOKDUU2C", "length": 89, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "reserve-home.com", "title": "Moroccan Boujaad Pouf No 8 \u2014 Reserve Home", "raw_content": "Condition: Some variation in color throughout, as well as a few mended areas in the pile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 198.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetID=45020", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KKEDTT6NOW2F53NS3TU26OFZQORGCZDV", "length": 573, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "resources.sei.cmu.edu", "title": "On the Anonymization and Deanonymization of NetFlow Traffic", "raw_content": "On the Anonymization and Deanonymization of NetFlow Traffic\nBy Michalis Foukarakis (Institute of Computer Science), Demetres Antoniades (Institute of Computer Science), Evangelos P. Markatos (Institute of Computer Science)\nIn this paper, the authors describe anontool, which allows per-field anonymization up to the NetFlow layer and offers a wide range of primitives to choose from.\nThis white paper, presented at FloCon in January 2008, describes anontool, which allows per-field anonymization up to the NetFlow layer and offers a wide range of primitives to choose from.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 4156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://restorelogs.com/log-home-dry-rot-can-be-avoided-if/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:NVHCELBE6FJJR66RBICAMXOGH7FSUZ2Z", "length": 1755, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "restorelogs.com", "title": "Log Home Dry Rot Can Be Avoided | Edmunds and Company", "raw_content": "Home > Log Home Problems > Log home dry rot can be avoided if\u2026\nLog home dry rot can be avoided if\u2026\nLog home dry rot, and the associated repairs, can be avoided if you pay attention to these details. There are design features that can protect a log home from exposure to the elements such as large overhangs and plenty of \u201cfree board\u201d between the ground and the first course of logs. There are also many things a log home owner can do to protect their logs and avoid problems with dry rot.\nOne of the main causes for dry rot is water splashing back onto the logs. In the photo here, the chairs are stacked so that water drips off the roof onto the chairs and then back onto the logs. A good rule of thumb is not to have objects under the drip edge of a roof.\nHere is another example of dry rot caused by splash back. In this situation, the gas tanks acted as a springboard for the water to land on the logs and over time, the exposure to moisture got the better of these logs.\nThe term \u201cdry rot\u201d is somewhat of a misnomer because the rot is actually caused by moisture. Here is a link to our website on \u201cWhy do Logs Rot\u201d. Click here to see how we fixed the logs on this home near Madison, WI.\nAnother common problem with log homes that can lead to dry rot is when there isn\u2019t sufficient \u201cfree board\u201d to keep water from splashing off the ground and on to the lower logs.\nThis photo shows the rot that can occur. Sometime this problem can be resolved by putting up gutters along the roof edge to redirect the water away from the log walls. For more information on how we replace rotten logs, click here.\nIn summary, keep objects away from your log walls. Don\u2019t do these things and you hopefully won\u2019t be faced with log home dry rot.\nCracks and checks in logs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://revheadpin.org/2018/11/27/in-worship-we-gather-are-nurtured-but-must-be-sent/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EAOUCOBF2NIPYKKN5DQP2XVM74Q3GGDV", "length": 4498, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "revheadpin.org", "title": "In Worship,\u200b we Gather, are Nurtured and Sent on Mission \u2013 The light breaks through", "raw_content": "This four-week journey into worship has been interesting. I was not sure where God would lead this, but I do know I heard warnings from friends of \u201ctread lightly.\u201d Sad that worship is a touchy subject. People wrongly assumed I would pick sides on disagreements about traditional liturgical forms vs. more free-flowing forms (I refuse to get into the contemporary language argument). All worship should apply to today\u2019s audience. Wrapping this series up in a nice little package, let me leave you with this final charge. No matter what side of the worship discussion you fall, we can all agree worship must extend beyond Sunday morning. I love this quote. \u201cCan we really call it worship if it is not followed by service? It is a mockery to praise the Lord inside church walls unless we tell others about Him outside those walls![1]\u201d\nSome Stunning Facts:\nChurches in the United States have about $80 billion invested in real estate, mostly in church and Sunday school buildings. This represents about 80% of total resources of religious bodies in this country.\nIt has been estimated that America\u2019s nearly 400,000 churches show a facility utilization rate of only 1%. This means the average church makes full use of its property and equipment for about one hour for every 168 hours in the week. No architectural structure is used so sparingly in the world.[2]\nDo we still have a sense of urgency? Do we preach with a sense of expectancy that Christ could return at any moment? Jesus says that should be our approach. In Matthew, He says, \u201cTherefore, stay alert! You don\u2019t know what day the Lord is coming. 43 But you understand that if the head of the house knew at what time the thief would come, he would keep alert and wouldn\u2019t allow the thief to break into his house. 44 Therefore, you also should be prepared, because the Human One will come at a time you don\u2019t know.\u201d\nI wonder if the struggle in worship becoming a Sunday morning only focus has something to do with the shift in our thinking.\nIn early centuries, churches were built with the pulpit on the east end. The sun rises in the east, and believers were supposed to look to the east for Christ\u2019s return (Matt. 21:27).\nDuring the Reformation, the pulpit was moved from the side of the nave, and people were positioned around it as focus point (amphitheater style). There was a separate room for the Lord\u2019s Supper with a long table for the people to sit.\nIn the third century, basilicas had east ends raised a little, with a \u201cbishop\u2019s chair\u201d at its center, from where he preached and was surrounded by presbyters. In front of him was the Lord\u2019s Table, around which deacons grouped.\nToday, many church buildings incorporate the above features: amphitheater-styled seating around the pulpit, with a raised platform.[3]\nReturning to the Heart of Worship\nWhen I began this series in the back of my mind this song was on my mind and heart.\nwritten by Matt Redman\nI\u2019ll bring You more than a song,\nWorship is so much deeper than hearing our favorite religious hymns or the pastor stepping up into a pulpit which is now becoming the focal point and nailing a sermon that moves your heart to action. The very heart of worship is all about Jesus. Jesus had a conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4:24. As she comes seeking answers on how to repair her broken life. He turns the conversation to living water and also to worship. And worship is not about the temple. He says if you want to truly worship God then you need to understand worship. \u201cGod is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.\u201d The essence of worship is not the many good externals. It is not about the forms, it is not about the music, nor the emotions you can create. Worship at its core is about the heart and head. Spirit and truth. God in worship through the working of the Holy Spirit, stirs our innermost being and connects us mysteriously to God, his Son; the gospel proclaimed, offers forgiveness, and then sends us on the mission to tell those who don\u2019t know. While on the mission we tell them, what God has done for us and them through Jesus\u2019 death and resurrection. We gather as a community, to be fed and equipped to be sent on the mission.\n[1]Hobbs, H. H. (1990). My favorite illustrations(p. 272). Nashville, TN: Broadman Press.\n[2]Tan, P. L. (1996). Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations: Signs of the Times(p. 1652). Garland, TX: Bible Communications, Inc.\n\u2190 John O\u2019Leary: Be The Everyday Hero\nPic of the Week: Mountains \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 9245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rtrfm.com.au/tags/nepal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FTG6XJ2APSCZYAQRWM37VYVWYULUU333", "length": 86, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rtrfm.com.au", "title": "Nepal \u00ab Tags \u00ab RTRFM / The Sound Alternative", "raw_content": "There\u2019s a local man missing and we can help find him. His name\u2019s Matt Allpress and [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 3972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 144.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sablecollinserotica.wordpress.com/2017/10/21/coach-kennedy-forced-lesbian-submission/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CIIOQCJDVPJETRQWGNZNFGHIMD5NNSHR", "length": 6897, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "sablecollinserotica.wordpress.com", "title": "Coach Kennedy: Forced Lesbian Submission | sable collins erotica", "raw_content": "Coach Kennedy: Forced Lesbian Submission\nMy name is Marcia Deacon. Remember that name, because you\u2019ll be hearing from me very soon. This season I\u2019m playing for one of the biggest teams in NCAA basketball and after that I\u2019m going to be tearing up the WNBA. I\u2019m going to be huge.\nI sound really arrogant, don\u2019t I? Good. That\u2019s because I am. My arrogance is the best kind though, the kind that\u2019s based on talent. Oh yeah, a lot of the girls in the game hate me. Well you know what they say about haters, don\u2019t you. I tell people I\u2019m good, because I\u2019m good. Really good. I doubt if you\u2019ve seen a player like me in the women\u2019s game in your whole life.\nI didn\u2019t always talk this way. In fact, not so long ago I was pretty different. I guess I\u2019ve come a long way in just a few months. And I have one woman to thank.\nI was always naturally gifted. I started playing on my driveway. At the age of seven I was the best player in my street. By the age of ten, I was the best in my school and by the age of sixteen, I was the best in the state. The sport has always come naturally to me. I\u2019m 5\u20198\u201d and kind of gangly and uncoordinated and clumsy too. I\u2019m like one of those creatures that only comes alive in one environment. Put me on a date or working in a restaurant or tidying my room and I\u2019m hopeless. I break things, I fall over, I tread on people\u2019s toes. But get me on a court and I come alive. Dribbling, passing, shooting; I had it all, and I could hold my own in the paint too.\nI held the school and state scoring records every year right up to eleventh grade. My form fell off a bit that year, and at the time I didn\u2019t really know why. I was still the best player on the varsity team, but I was missing a few shots and didn\u2019t feel quite right out there. Still, no-one thought it would last and when my senior year rolled round, I was ready to go again.\nSenior year. New challenges, new opportunities and a new coach. Coach Kennedy. She was a last minute deal, a replacement for old Coach Connor, who\u2019d retired the previous spring. We\u2019d heard rumors; that she was tough, that she used to beat up her students, that she was totally lesbian, but no-one really took it seriously, that is, until our first session.\nWe were all gathered in the hall, ready for practice when the door slammed open and Coach Kennedy walked in. Strode in, would be a more accurate assessment. She was tall, tanned with bright blonde hair tied back in a fiercely tight ponytail. Tight was probably the best word to describe her. Tight hair, tight body, tight little shorts, tight tee.\n\u201cRight then ladies, let me tell you something about yourselves. I gather you think you\u2019re good. Well let me explain exactly why everything you have achieved so far is worthless.\u201d\nAnd that\u2019s what she did. She stood on the spot, like a cross between a super model and a Marines drill sergeant and told us all how useless we were, how fat, how slow, how lazy, how weak and how pathetic we were. Then she told us that the only way she believed in was total obedience. We were to do exactly what she said, when she said it and anyone who disagreed would be off the team. When she\u2019d finished, she looked at us all and shook her head.\nThings didn\u2019t get any better. Training was horrible. Endless, punishing physical endurance work, push-ups and forfeits if we missed a shot and a constant stream of shouting and abuse and more shouting. By the time of the first game, we were on the brink of breaking down.\nWe lost our first game 85-60. We lost our next two, by increasing margins. By the time we were 0-5 and staring at the worst season in the school\u2019s history, the girls decided that someone had to confront her and they decided that it had to be me.\n\u201cNo way!\u201d I said.\n\u201cBut you\u2019re the best player on the team,\u201d said Hannah.\n\u201cYou have to do it,\u201d said CC. \u201cIf you don\u2019t this season is going to be a disaster.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s already a disaster,\u201d I said. \u201cConfronting her won\u2019t make any difference.\u201d\nI looked up. All the other girls were looking at me. I could see the desperation in their eyes. I wasn\u2019t the only one with ambitions, and even those girls who wouldn\u2019t go far in college ball still wanted to end their senior year on a winning team. They would only get one shot at this, after all.\nThe truth was, I was terrified, and I didn\u2019t feel any less terrified when, half an hour later, I stood in Coach Kennedy\u2019s office, waiting for her to finish on her computer.\n\u201cRight. Deacon. What do you want?\u201d\n\u201cI\u2026that is\u2026\u201d\n\u201cGet on with it, girl, I\u2019m busy.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2026me and the girls, the team, we\u2026well we don\u2019t think it\u2019s working and we\u2026\u201d\nMy voice trailed off as she glared, icily at me. There was a silence, which lasted about thirty seconds. Then she stood up, suddenly and I flinched.\n\u201cI\u2019ve finished here today,\u201d she said. \u201cAre you ready to go.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2026er yes.\u201d\n\u201cGood. I will give you a lift to my house. We can talk more about your concerns there.\u201d\n\u201cOh\u2026well\u2026.I\u2026\u201d\nIt didn\u2019t really feel right but I kind of felt obliged to go with her. I mean I had started the conversation and anyway she had the tone of voice that you don\u2019t argue with.\nShe didn\u2019t talk at all as we drove to her house, which was in the wealthy Green Acres suburb. In fact, her house was more of a mansion. She showed me into a huge reception area, and then through the biggest living room your\u2019ve ever seen, through a big kitchen and then opened another door. As I stepped through the door, there was the sound of lights going on and I found myself standing on the edge of a court.\n\u201cYou have a court in your house?\u201d\nI looked around in wonder. It wasn\u2019t as big as the school court, but it was cleaner and professional looking and even had benches along the side.\n\u201cI have a reputation for finding young talent and team owners pay me well for it. I work hard, and if you work hard, you get the rewards.\u201d\nBack in the living room, still thinking about the court, I sat on one of her leather sofas and tried to compose the speech I was going to make. I was still thinking about it when she thrust a drink into my hand.\n\u201cDrink this,\u201d she said, \u201cIt\u2019s an energy drink. Replenishes what\u2019s important.\u201d\nI looked at the fizzing green juice which didn\u2019t seem particularly wholesome but she was standing over me so I drank it in three gulps.\n\u201cGood girl,\u201d she said, smiling.\nI didn\u2019t like her smile, mainly because I had never seen it before and it was kind of sinister. I didn\u2019t have long to think about it though because not long after I felt the juice slide down my throat, the room began to spin, and the light faded. My eyelids began to feel incredibly heavy and I wanted nothing more at that moment to lie down, put my head on her cool leather sofa and sleep.\nPosted in Uncategorized and tagged basketball, erotica, forced lesbian submission, girl on girl, lesbian erotica, short stories on October 21, 2017 by sablecollinserotica. Leave a comment\n\u2190 Erotica For Men: Bimbos & Brats\nInitiation: A Dubious Foursome \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 9202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sajp.co.za/index.php/sajp/search/authors/view?firstName=G.&middleName=&lastName=Gibbs&affiliation=Lecturers%20and%20students%20from%20the%20Department%20of%20Physiotherapy%2C%20University%20of%20Pretoria&country=ZA", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:01Z", "digest": "sha1:OAXE2273ZN2PJLNQNMPX3SJ7AKUV7FAX", "length": 108, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sajp.co.za", "title": "Author Details", "raw_content": "Gibbs, G., Lecturers and students from the Department of Physiotherapy, University of Pretoria, South Africa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 88.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/12/05/outside-expert-to-help-investigate-mans-death-after-being-tasered-in-millbrae/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:TULCQUZFOS4DL7KYTOSIOIOPPLLMVEJP", "length": 2004, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com", "title": "Outside Expert To Help Investigate Man\u2019s Death After Being Tasered In Millbrae \u2013 CBS San Francisco", "raw_content": "Outside Expert To Help Investigate Man\u2019s Death After Being Tasered In Millbrae\nBy Devin Fehely December 5, 2018 at 5:15 pm\nFiled Under:Chinedu Valentine Okobi, Millbrae, Police Brutality, San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, Taser\nSAN MATEO COUNTY (KPIX) \u2014 Faced with growing public pressure, the San Mateo County District Attorney\u2019s Office on Wednesday agreed to hire an outside expert to help investigate the death of a man who was repeatedly tasered by Sheriff\u2019s deputies during an October incident in Millbrae.\n36-year-old Chinedu Okobi died on October 3 after a run-in with five San Mateo County Sheriff\u2019s deputies. The deputies claimed Okobi was acting erratically, running in and out of traffic before attacking a female officer.\n\u201cThere was no reason for them to use a taser. He was not a threat to himself. He was not a threat to them. He was not violent. So, the fact that they used a Taser was already against policy,\u201d said Ebele Okobi, Chinedu\u2019s sister who spoke to KPIX via Skype from London.\nEbele, a Facebook executive, said she was allowed to view roughly 30 minutes of video from officer body-worn cameras, cell phones and dashboard cameras that captured the incident. She says her brother never threatened or attacked the officers and believes their use of force was not justified.\nShe shared her concerns on social media, hoping to bring renewed attention to her brother\u2019s death.\n\u201cIf there was a reason for him to be stopped, certainly there is no reason for him to be tasered to death,\u201d said Rev. Penny Nixon of the Congregational Church of San Mateo.\nNixon saw Ebele\u2019s Facebook post and helped organize religious leaders and community activists. They packed a meeting of the Board of Supervisors Tuesday where dozens offered emotional testimony demanding the immediate release of all videos and 911 recordings in the case.\nThe district attorney\u2019s office says hiring an outside expert will likely add an additional month or two to their investigation.\nDevin Fehely\nMore from Devin Fehely", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 10102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saodarly.com/yellow-monday-210414/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:38Z", "digest": "sha1:MRA7X4L3HANBRJVEKYVZYBKDEJDQ6MRL", "length": 121, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "saodarly.com", "title": "Yellow Monday 210414", "raw_content": "Yellow Monday 210414\non April 21, 2014 in Flowers and Plants\nTwo daffodils near sunset for Yellow Monday, April 21, 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/267/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:29Z", "digest": "sha1:GAD2B77HU5O37KC2BAIMYUOQHJJRUXRE", "length": 107, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org", "title": "Re: a simple traffic load test run | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute", "raw_content": "Re: a simple traffic load test run\nPlease do these tests on the test network. That's what it's for. Thanks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 285.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sc-terschelling.nl/index.php/component/jevents/evenementenperdag/2018/12/4/-?Itemid=289", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JW6U7QSMR5TGPYZB5H2IHQR3A5EXNO4L", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sc-terschelling.nl", "title": "Sportclub Terschelling", "raw_content": "Dinsdag, 4. December 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 1637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scalablemaps.com/place/salt-lake-city", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:40Z", "digest": "sha1:64YYYRNNJBE6BRQNWZ3TIW3VRUZKHNGQ", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "scalablemaps.com", "title": "ScalableMaps: Vector maps of Salt Lake City for Illustrator", "raw_content": "Vector maps of Salt Lake City, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 212.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications/767/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:19Z", "digest": "sha1:SFM2YVYDJ3ZQRTYUQNHTB3VDFRJG5XME", "length": 1274, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "scholarship.law.gwu.edu", "title": "\"To the Promised Land: A Century of Wandering and a Final Homeland for \" by Michael L. Davis and Michael Davis", "raw_content": "To the Promised Land: A Century of Wandering and a Final Homeland for the Due Process and Taking Clauses\nMichael L. Davis, George Washington University Law SchoolFollow\nThe fifth amendment imposes two constraints on the federal government's authority to interfere with private property rights. First, it prohibits the deprivation of property without due process of law. Second, it bars the taking of private property for public use without just compensation. The fourteenth amendment explicitly imposes only the former constraint on the states. Since the late nineteenth century, however, the Supreme Court has interpreted the fourteenth amendment's due process clause to incorporate and make applicable to the states the fifth amendment's taking constraint. This article aims to briefly review the separate natures of deprivations and takings as reflected in court opinions, describes three models of relating the two clauses, traces each model through jurisprudential eras, and recommends a final choice among the models to serve as a constitutional predicate for future fourteenth amendment issues.\nRobert L. Glicksman & Michael J. Davis, To the Promised Land: A Century of Wandering and a Final Homeland for the Due Process and Taking Clauses, 68 Or. L. Rev. 393 (1989).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2017/06/06/once-in-a-career-feeling-as-trial-shows-offering-prostate-cancer-drug-earlier-improves-survival/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:58Z", "digest": "sha1:KC5HFRBFRBQO3EV6XKEU5ZOXGMT6X5MI", "length": 14093, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org", "title": "'Once in a career feeling' as trial shows offering prostate cancer drug earlier improves survival - Cancer Research UK - Science blog", "raw_content": "In 2012, the drug abiraterone (Zytiga) was first made available on the NHS to treat men with advanced prostate cancer that has stopped responding to standard hormone treatment.\nNow, a strong case is being made for the drug to be made available to even more men with prostate cancer.\nAccording to results from the Cancer Research UK-funded STAMPEDE clinical trial, offering abiraterone plus prednisolone in combination with standard therapy to men with prostate cancer earlier, before the disease becomes resistant to standard hormone therapy, can help boost survival.\nThat\u2019s the take home message from new findings presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago in the US.\nThe results of the trial, also published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that giving this combination to men whose prostate cancer has spread, or has a high risk of doing so, extends their lives.\nExperts have said the results could be practice-changing. So what would this mean for men with prostate cancer?\nWhat did the trial look at?\nThe STAMPEDE trial is many different trials in one. It\u2019s looking at new combinations of treatments for prostate cancer patients to see which, if any, can improve survival.\nResults from some parts of the trial have already been reported. And other parts are still open and available for patients to join.\nThe part of the trial presented today focused on abiraterone, a drug our research played a leading role in discovering and developing. It works by blocking a molecule inside cells, which stops the body from producing the hormone testosterone. This is important for prostate cancer as testosterone can fuel the growth of tumour cells.\nThe STAMPEDE team wanted to see if combining abiraterone plus the steroid prednisolone with standard hormone therapy \u2013 which blocks or lowers the amount of testosterone in the body \u2013 reduced the chances of the disease coming back, or improved survival.\nCombining the two could therefore be a double whammy \u2013 it would stop cancer cells using testosterone as a fuel to grow, and prevent the production of more testosterone.\nIt\u2019s one of the biggest improvements in overall survival I\u2019ve seen\n\u2013 Professor Nick James\nApproximately 1,900 men with prostate cancer who were at a high risk of their disease spreading, or who have prostate cancer that has already spread, took part in the trial and were followed for just over 3 years.\nJust under half were treated with standard hormone therapy. The others were treated with standard hormone therapy plus abiraterone and prednisolone.\n\u201cWe know androgen deprivation therapy works well for a lot of men with prostate cancer. But we wanted to see if we could improve things further,\u201d says Professor Nick James, chief investigator of the STAMPEDE trial based at the University of Birmingham.\n\u201cThat\u2019s why we looked at combining abiraterone with hormone therapy \u2013 to see if this drug could give even more men with prostate cancer even more time with their family.\u201d\nWhen comparing the 2 groups, the researchers looked for 2 key results:\nWas there any difference between the groups in terms their disease coming back after treatment?\nWas there a difference between the 2 groups in terms of how many men survived after treatment?\nWhat they found was something James describes as \u2018the most powerful results\u2019 he\u2019s seen from a prostate cancer clinical trial.\nMen who received the combination of abiraterone plus prednisolone and hormone therapy were far less likely to see their disease spread or get worse compared to those who received only hormone therapy.\nBut that doesn\u2019t necessarily mean that these men were likely to live longer.\nThat\u2019s why James and his team also looked at whether the combination improved survival. And it did.\nThey found that there were fewer deaths in the group who received the combined treatment (184 vs 262). And those men who received the combination were far more likely to be alive 3 years after treatment than those receiving hormone therapy only.\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of the biggest improvements in overall survival I\u2019ve seen in any clinical trial for adult cancers,\u201d says James. \u201cTo be part of something like this is a once in a career feeling.\u201d\nHe\u2019s also keen to point out that not only does this new combination improve survival and reduce the chances of a man\u2019s cancer coming back, it also does so with fewer side effects.\nI really hope these results can change clinical practice\n\u201cAs well as improving survival this drug combination also reduced severe bone complications, a major problem for prostate cancer patients, by more than 50%,\u201d he says.\nResults from another prostate cancer clinical trial, called LATITUDE, also presented at the conference and published in the New England Journal of Medicine alongside the STAMPEDE trial results.\nExcitingly, this trial shows that combining abiraterone and standard hormone therapy lowers the risk of death in men whose prostate cancer has already spread at the time of diagnosis.\nThe combined treatment also more than doubled the time before patients\u2019 disease worsened, again signalling promise for offering abiraterone earlier in these men.\nThe purpose of clinical trials is to test new drugs and combinations of drugs to see if they\u2019re better than existing treatments.\nIn the case of this part of the STAMPEDE trial, it\u2019s certainly done the latter.\nAnd for James, it\u2019s something he hopes will change how men with prostate cancer are treated.\n\u201cFor me, these results mean abiraterone combined with androgen deprivation therapy should be the new standard of care for men with early stage prostate cancer,\u201d he says.\n\u201cI really hope these results can change clinical practice and that this drug can now be used to treat more men with prostate cancer, not just those with advanced disease.\u201d\nFizazi, K. et al. (2017) Abiraterone plus Prednisone in Metastatic Castration-Sensitive Prostate Cancer. The New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1704174\nJames, N.D. et al. (2017) Abiraterone for Prostate Cancer Not Previously Treated with Hormone Therapy. The New England Journal of Medicine. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1702900\nASCO conference Cancer in the news Cancer Research UK-funded research Clinical trials Prostate cancer Treatment\nAnnie Humphrys November 22, 2017\nMy husband has beeen on the combined therapy ie Aberaterone & predisolene & monthly hormone injections. The PSA was rising after having had radiotherapy 9 months earlier. my husbands PSA has dropped to 1.5 & despite reducing the dose the PSA is at the moment stable. The drugs have affected his memory (hence reduced dosage) & weight has been increased around the stomach area. tiredness is another factor but all these side effects are coped with. A brilliant drug!!\nAine McCarthy September 26, 2017\nWe\u2019re very sorry to hear about your husband. We would advise you and your husband speak to his doctor. They are be best placed to talk through the treatment options available.\nYou could also speak to our nurses, freephone on 0808 800 4040, Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. They won\u2019t be able to provide advice on which treatment(s) would be best for your husband specifically, but they will be able to talk through the different types of treatment available for men with prostate cancer and offer general support and advice.\nPauline Stewart September 25, 2017\nMy husband had a prostatectomy 2yrs ago ,unfortunately the op didn\u2019t get clear margin. PSA has continued to rise but he has not been offered any other treatment.Would he be a candidate for this treatment.\nMarshall Kinnear August 17, 2017\nAre the drugs mentioned in tour report available to NHS doctors in Scotland?\nAine McCarthy August 14, 2017\nRecruitment for this part of the STAMPEDE clinical trial is now closed, but there are other parts of the trial looking at different treatments that are still open. If you or someone you know would like to join STAMPEDE, or any other clinical trial, the best thing to do is speak to your doctor. They will be able to help you find out if there are any suitable trials available to you.\nA fascinating report, thank you. Is there any way one can participate in a trial with this treatment?\nElise Tshikaji August 10, 2017\nHi,i would like to have the informations on research in some fields in nursing,starting date:available now.Elise\nGerry Leach August 4, 2017\nThis news is groundbreaking for all whom suffer from this disease and pressure has to be brought to bear on N.I.C.E To make these drugs available to ALL and NOT a Post code lottery excercise.\nAine McCarthy August 4, 2017\nThanks for your comments. Based on these new results from the STAMPEDE trial, we hope NICE will recommend abiraterone plus the steroid prednisolone combined with standard hormone therapy as a first treatment for men whose prostate cancer has spread or has a high risk of doing so soon.\nNICE (in England, Wales and Northern Ireland) and the SMC (in Scotland) set guidelines about what treatments should be available on the NHS. These organisations take into account a range of evidence including clinical trial results, and balance many different factors to make decisions about what treatments will have the best outcomes for patients.\nWe\u2019re still waiting to hear when they will review their guidelines in light of these new results from the STAMPEDE trial. We continue to engage with NICE and SMC on improving patient access to new evidence-based cancer medicines.\nAbiraterone is available now on the NHS as a treatment for men with advanced prostate cancer that has stopped responding to standard hormone treatment (http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/05/16/abiraterone-now-available-on-the-nhs-except-in-scotland/). Speak to your doctor about whether or not abiraterone could be suitable for you or someone you know with prostate cancer.\nJohn Staniforth August 3, 2017\nI have read about some of this before from Stampede Trial ( which I am participating in).\nSo why aren\u2019t we being given these additiional drug combinations yet?\nI do hope that the bodies involved in hopefully fast-tracking the use of such combinations of drugs do not drag their feet \u2013 as I am not getting any younger and my PSA keeps inexorably rising.\nJohn Renshaw August 3, 2017\nSounds very interesting and promising progress on the project and I am bearing this in mind\nCathy August 3, 2017\nMy husband was put onto this trial when diagnosed with advanced metastatic prostate cancer in Feb 2013. His PSA dropped and remains under 0.03% since. We are now in August 2017 so for him this treatment has definitely proved a huge success. The research into cancer is producing some excellent results thank God.\nA Penny August 3, 2017\nThis is fantastic news but will the government fund this on the NHS. If they allow it, will it be another postcode lottery of who gets the treatment. My uncle has been suffering from aggressive prostate cancer for over ten years, they said treatment similar to this could help. But then was put on a different treatment. No reason was given and now it\u2019s basically a waiting game for the inevitable!\nColin Webb August 3, 2017\nAll very good, but how many years will it take before common use. I am speaking as someone who has had prostate cancer, had 2 months of radiotherapy and now find my PSA increasing again.\nRobert Shovelton August 3, 2017\nI think this is a very exciting discovery\nGraham Bushnell-Wye August 3, 2017\nHow effective might this approach be for prostate cancer that has spread to lymph nodes but not yet to bones? I\u2019ve had chemotherapy and ongoing hormone treatment but I\u2019m concerned that the cancer will continue to spread despite a low PSA at the moment.\nDavid Pinion August 3, 2017\nDoes this do anything to help prostrate cancer ,recently diagnosed and on last dose of chemo,that had spread to my pelvic bone. PSA running now at 0.3 for several months.\nAine McCarthy June 28, 2017\nBoth the STAMPEDE and the LATITUDE clinical trials looked at adding abiraterone (Zytiga) to standard hormone therapy and a steroid (prednisone or prednisolone). But, they differ in relation to the groups of men they included.\nThe STAMPEDE trial was looking at combining abiraterone, prednisolone and standard hormone therapy as a treatment for men with prostate cancer that had spread or who were at a high risk of their disease spreading. The results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1702900?query=featured_home).\nThe results of the LATITUDE trial were also published in the New England Journal of Medicine (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1704174?query=featured_home) and looked at the same combination of drugs \u2013 abiraterone and standard hormone therapy \u2013 but this time with a different steroid prednisone. This study was also different because it looked at men whose prostate cancer had already spread at the time of diagnosis, and who had not yet been given hormone treatment.\nIt\u2019s a subtle but important difference. You can read more about these trials on our website (http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/news-report/2017-06-03-giving-prostate-cancer-drug-earlier-extends-lives-of-men-whose-disease-has-spread?_ga=2.41327073.217671705.1498469716-1079042811.1485172819).\nmatua (@chaichairobot) June 22, 2017\ni\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s just me, but the study that you said was published in New England Journal of Medicine (http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1704174?query=featured_home) is not the STAMPEDE trial but the LATITUDE trial. The STAMPEDE trial made use of ADT plus abiraterone. The LATITUDE trial is the one that used ADT plus abiraterone and prednisolone.\npallavi June 16, 2017\nyes the results can change clinical practice scientists done a great job\nWill you take a movement to against cancer?\nLet\u2019s Join #FightCancerGlobal to connect Cancer hospitals, Doctors, Fighters and Survivors to inspire and empower other to find their own silver lining.\nPamela Hale June 8, 2017\nGreat news about prostate cancer, congratulations to research scientists.It makes all our groups Cruk funding raising worth worthwhile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 385, "original_length": 20532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sciencehexagons.blog/2018/07/18/180718-more-high-tech-but-simple-sensors-in-your-mouth-might-make-sports-safer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:36Z", "digest": "sha1:2QGIZX6JCFQGJWPCKVVVAPIOEEV6YWCH", "length": 1650, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sciencehexagons.blog", "title": "Gunmarie", "raw_content": "180718 More high tech, but simple\u2026sensors in your mouth might make sports safer!\nAre you competing or exercising to stay healthy? When I write my posts, I try talking about as many sports as possible, so that I can target as many people as possible and make you all get closer to sports and physical exercise. Today I want to introduce to our readers a device that can be used for different activities, from soccer to rugby, from boxing to mixed martial arts. What do all these sports have in common?\nThey are fun and challenging, they keep you in shape and give you the possibility to meet new people, but they are also exposed to the risk of brain injuries. There are different technological solutions on the market that monitor concusssion\u2019s risk: they provide information about it using LED and they are usually placed on your head.\nFITGuard though, offers a different approach. In this case, sensors are placed on the mouthguard, and it is not there for you to chew on them!\nSince clinical studies suggest that this positioning, as opposed to placing an accessory on a helmet or a chinstrap, guarantees a higher correlation to the center of gravity of the brain. This device measures linear and angular accelerations and compares them with values stored in a database. The information can be adapted to the users, according to their age, weight and gender and showed in an app, where the whole registry can be seen by the athlete, coaches and parents/ family. This is a great device that allows people to enjoy their sports in safety, without renouncing to the fun!\nCheck out the video at https://www.fitguard.me/\n(Picture from Fitguard website)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scottiestoybox.com/2018/06/22/cop-murders-fleeing-black-teens-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:51Z", "digest": "sha1:R2QVZ5ZGTZ3PXHFSOQSZ6S7BFIEEKIEA", "length": 2371, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "scottiestoybox.com", "title": "Cop Murders Fleeing Black Teens (VIDEO) | Scotties Toy Box", "raw_content": "Cop Murders Fleeing Black Teens (VIDEO)\nFiled under: Bigotry, Children, Criminal, Harm, News, Political, Questions, Race \u2014 Scottie @ 16:13\nThis is cut and dry, and caught on VIDEO. The police stopped a car and later admitted it was the wrong one. A 17 year old black boy ran from the car. They shot him in the back. IN the BACK. He posed no danger to any one at that point, so for all my training in my former job there was NO reason to use deadly force. The police just murdered an unarmed black teen running from them. Is this the U.S. of A. you want to live in? Hugs\nComment by Arkenaten \u2014 June 22, 2018 @ 18:38\nYes Ark, and now far too common in the U.S. Only one police officer has been convicted of the unlawful death of a shooting of an unarmed black person because they claimed they were afraid for their lives so had to shoot.\nAfraid of someone running away from them.\nThat police officer was not convicted of the murder, but lying about it. The level of open racism by authority figures is like nothing I have seen in my country. You may have a better grip on it as you are in South Africa, but to me this last year has been a real eye opener. I do not know how we heal from all this. Hugs\nThe worst of Apartheid I missed, but there were so many similar incidents like this to mention.\nWhen is impeachment starting?\nComment by equinoxio21 \u2014 June 22, 2018 @ 18:45\nNot soon enough. As I just wrote to Ark, only one police officer in more than a year of unlawful shootings of unarmed black men has been convicted. Then it was not about the shooting but about the lying about the shooting. I don\u2019t even recognize the country I live in. The Deplorables as I think they should be called are coming out in force. Now the same guy who organized the Charlottesville Nazi march is now trying to get a white superiority pride celebration in front of the white house. WTF! Hugs\nI can\u2019t even imagine what it\u2019ll all be in just a few more years. I feel like it\u2019s all falling apart. I think we\u2019ve actually come up onto the point of no return. And so many people don\u2019t even see this\u2026amazing\nI think you may be correct but not quite so far. I think we are on the tipping point of what will define our country. We need to make sure the tipping point comes down on the side of justice and civil rights. It was done back in the 1960\u2019s and dang it we can do it better and again. Hugs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 10095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sendai-travel.jp/shopping/aeon-sendai/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LB26SOZN6NRY5N66EXKAFL57TMNSFK53", "length": 722, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "sendai-travel.jp", "title": "Aeon Sendai | DISCOVER SENDAI", "raw_content": "Home ShoppingElectronic Stores & MoreAeon Sendai\nAeon Sendai is a shopping center located 7 minutes on foot from Sendai Station, the entrance to the Tohoku area.\nVisitors can enjoy shopping and meals here, from fashionable clothes, to daily necessities, cosmetics, medicine, food, and drinks. Since it is located in the central shopping area of Sendai, Aeon Sendai is an easy-to-find landmark no matter where you are, with hotels lined up around the neighborhood.\n1F, B1, B2: 9:00\u201322:00\u30002F-8F: 9:00\u201321:00\u3000Pharmaceuticals (1F): 9:30\u201321:00\n7 minutes on foot from JR Sendai Station\n2 minutes on foot from Aoba-dori Station on the Senseki Line\n2-3-6 Chuo, Aoba-ku, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture\nMITSUI OUTLET PARK SENDAI PORT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sethjacobsonphoto.com/2009/12/18/iphone-photo-of-the-day-dec-18th/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CKPY4LMT3EO3F5C63R3ZSBGZT5NNRRUE", "length": 202, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sethjacobsonphoto.com", "title": "iPhone photo of the day Dec 18th | Seth Jacobson Photography's Blog", "raw_content": "I like the nice lines in this photo.\nPosted on December 18, 2009, in 365, Abstract, photo of the day. Bookmark the permalink.\t1 Comment.\nKelly | December 18, 2009 at 7:20 pm\nI like the warm look of it\u2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 4305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sg.gsk.com/en-sg/about-us/what-we-do/pharmaceuticals/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PGCYRTIMVJ4PXHHYCS5FTTVG7NII3UXS", "length": 5333, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "sg.gsk.com", "title": "Pharmaceuticals | GSK Singapore", "raw_content": "Our Pharmaceuticals business develops and makes a broad range of medicines to treat both acute and chronic diseases.\nAs a business, it is the company\u2019s biggest financial contributor and generated sales of \u00a315.5 billion in 2014, representing 67% of the total turnover of GSK.\nThe business is focused on a number of global franchises across more than 8 therapy areas and a number of platforms, including the emerging bioelectronics technology. Our portfolio is made up of both patent-protected and off-patent medicines.\nSales by therapy area (2014)\nRespiratory 6,181\nCardiovascular, metabolic and urology 965\nImmuno-inflammation 214\nOther pharmaceuticals 2,407\nViiV Healthcare (HIV) 1,498\nEstablished products 3,011\nThe global pharmaceuticals market is vast. The biggest areas of growth over recent years have been from the emerging markets and Asia Pacific regions.\nThis trend of increasing demand is expected to continue as the world\u2019s population grows, economies in the emerging markets become more prosperous and global changes in lifestyles affect long-term health.\nOur Pharmaceuticals business creates value by researching and manufacturing innovative products and making these as widely accessible as possible to countries at all levels of income and development.\nWhile we continue to have a strong presence in developed markets such as the USA and Europe, we are increasing investment in emerging markets, including Africa, where we see significant growth potential.\nOur Pharmaceuticals business develops and makes medicines to treat a broad range of acute and chronic diseases. Our portfolio is made up of innovative and established medicines and we have leading global positions in respiratory disease and HIV.\nWe have been a leader in respiratory disease for over 40 years and have a portfolio of mature products. In recent years, we have strengthened and broadened our respiratory portfolio with the addition of new medicines including an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) and long-acting beta2 agonist (LABA) combination, a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) and LABA dual bronchodilator.\nOur HIV business is managed through ViiV Healthcare, a global specialist company in HIV that we majority own, with Pfizer and Shionogi as the other shareholders. ViiV Healthcare is now a leading global company in HIV and has had significant recent success with regulatory approval and industry leading launches of new medicines. ViiV Healthcare has a number of other antiretroviral medicines in clinical development.\nBeyond respiratory and HIV, we have a portfolio of other Pharmaceutical products for the treatment of conditions such as lupus, benign prostatic hyperplasia, type 2 diabetes and bacterial infections.\nOver the past six years we have built a significant oncology business. In recent years we have had multiple regulatory approvals and global product launches. As part of the proposed Novartis transaction, we have agreed to divest our marketed oncology portfolio, related R&D activities and rights to our AKT inhibitors currently in development. This represents a unique opportunity to crystallise value for shareholders and leverage the global scale that Novartis has in this therapy area to improve patient outcomes.\nIn addition, we have an Established Products Portfolio (EPP) which includes over 50 off-patent products, as well as our branded generics business and other local products. These products are an important part of our Emerging Markets business where the GSK brand is an important differentiator.\nFocus on best science\nIf we are to continue to discover new medicines and get them to the patients who need them as quickly as possible, we must invest in research. In 2014, 80% (\u00a32.5 billion) of our total R&D spend (\u00a33.1 billion) was invested into the search for new pharmaceutical medicines. Our strategy is to increase our productivity in R&D and improve our rate of innovation, while we control our costs.\nThe journey to discovering and developing new medicines is lengthy, expensive and subject to a high rate of failure. Learn more about how we discover new medicines.\nWe are exploring different approaches to promote \u2013 and speed up \u2013 innovation in our labs. Having broken down the traditional, industrialised R&D model, our scientists now work in smaller units focused on specific areas of research. This encourages greater entrepreneurialism and accountability. These groups are tasked with seeking out the biological targets involved in disease and creating molecules or biopharmaceuticals that will ultimately become new medicines.\nWe also know that we won\u2019t discover everything inside our own labs and that we need to partner with other companies, academic institutions and research charities. We currently have research collaborations with more than 3,000 external organisations and this number is growing every year.\nWe also recognise our responsibility to meet society\u2019s expectations to invest in disease areas where the science is difficult or where the typical business model to reward innovation may not be relevant; one example being our antibiotics research. We are also one of the few healthcare companies researching the World Health Organization\u2019s three priority diseases - HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Find out more about how we are fighting disease in the developing world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 334, "original_length": 14622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sgbonline.com/write-offs-hurt-at-cross-in-2008/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:41Z", "digest": "sha1:AHRM36BPGQCZH4YDO5E4FVMNSWGEEIQP", "length": 4197, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "sgbonline.com", "title": "Write-offs Hurt A.T. Cross in 2008 | SGB Online", "raw_content": "Write-offs Hurt A.T. Cross in 2008\nPosted by Thomas J. Ryan | Mar 2, 2009 | Feature, Uncategorized\nA.T. Cross Co., the parent of Native Eyewear, reported a net loss in\nthe fourth quarter of $3.7 million, or 25 cents per diluted share,\nafter $6.3 million of restructuring\nand impairment charges on a pre-tax basis. In the year-ago quarter, the company earned $3.3 million net income, or 21 cents. Sales declined 12.6% to $41.7 million.\nThe CAD segment recorded a drop\nof 19.9%, for revenue of $32.4 million, compared with the 2007 fourth\nquarter. The Cross Optical segment reported a fourth-quarter sales\nincrease of 27.6% to $9.3 million, from the same period the year\nbefore, driven by continued growth of the Costa Del Mar brand.\nGross margin in the quarter was 54.5% compared to 55.6%\nin last year's fourth quarter due primarily to promotional\nactivities related to the CAD segment.\nOperating expenses, excluding $6.3 million of restructuring\nand impairment charges, were $19.6 million, or 47.0% of\nsales, in the quarter versus $21.4 million, or 44.8% of\nsales, for the same period a year ago.\nIn the fourth quarter, the company recorded a non-cash goodwill\nimpairment charge of $3.9 million, representing all of the\nCAD segment's goodwill.The CAD segment's goodwill was the\nresult of the acquisition of assets in 1999 associated with\nthe Company's OEM effort.\nOperating loss in the fourth quarter was $3.1 million, including\n$6.3 of restructuring and impairment charges, compared to\noperating income of $5.1 million in the fourth quarter of\nNet loss for the quarter, after restructuring and impairment\ncharges, was $3.7 million, or a loss of $0.25 per basic\nshare, compared to $3.3 million, or $0.22 per basic share\nand $0.21 per diluted share, last year.\nConsolidated sales in 2008 increased 5.4% to $160.1 million\ncompared to $151.9 million in 2007. The Cross Accessory\nDivision revenue was $111.4 million, down 3.3% from $115.3\nmillion in the prior year. The Cross Optical segment reported\na full year sales increase of 33.1% to $48.7 million, compared\nto the full year 2007. The Optical Group's revenue increase\nwas driven by double digit growth of the Costa Del Mar brand\nas well as the contribution from Native Eyewear.\nGross margin for 2008 was 55.8% as compared to 56.1% in\nOperating expenses, excluding restructuring and impairment\ncharges, were $79.3 million, or 49.5% of sales, in 2008\nas compared to $75.5 million, or 49.7% of sales, in 2007.\nFor 2008, net income was $0.5 million or $0.03 per basic\nand diluted share, compared to $6.7 million or $0.45 per\nbasic share and $0.43 per diluted share in 2007. Included\nin 2008 and 2007 results are restructuring and impairment\ncharges of $6.5 million and $0.3 million, respectively.\nExcluding these restructuring and impairment charges, basic\nearnings would have been $0.40 per share for 2008 compared\nto $0.46 per share in 2007.\nFor 2008, the company generated operating cash flow of $14.3\nmillion, up $16.6 million from 2007.\nDavid G. Whalen, president and chief executive officer of\nA.T. Cross said, \u201cA. T. Cross made progress in 2008. While\nthe global economic events of the year had a negative impact\non our results, particularly our CAD segment, we left the\nyear a stronger company than when we entered. Our sales\ngrew 5%, operating income before restructuring and impairment\ncharges grew 2% and our operating cash flow grew to over\n$14 million. Also, we made a major strategic acquisition\nwith Native Eyewear. While our pre-restructuring and impairment\nEPS declined from $0.46/share in 2007 to $0.40/share in\n2008, that performance outstripped many companies that rely\non discretionary items and fourth quarter revenue to drive\ntheir business. 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Fans can enter a contest for a chance to watch a Dodgers home game from the recliners. Courtesy rendering\nThe Los Angeles Dodgers and Ashley HomeStore announced a multi-year partnership on Friday through a press release, making the furniture chain a Proud Partner of the Dodgers.\nThough there were many factors that led to the partnership, the driving force behind the collaboration is Ashley HomeStore\u2019s Hope to Dream initiative, which provides beds for children in need.\nAccording to Ashley HomeStore advertising manager Samantha Beltran, for every mattress purchased in the store, $5 gets put aside toward Hope to Dream.\n\u201cWe give them a mattress, a bed frame, a comforter and pillowcase. We give that to any child that doesn\u2019t have a bed to sleep on of their own,\u201d Beltran said. \u201cWhether they are sharing or on an air mattress, whatever the case may be we give those out to the children. This year our goal is to give out 4,000 beds between California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.\u201d\nThe kids are usually referred to Ashley HomeStore in person or online, or sometimes through organizations that help with finding beds for kids.\nThe program was started in 2010, providing bed sets to over 80,000 children. The furniture chain not only provides kids with an entire bed set, but also with memorable experiences.\nIn partnering with the Dodgers, Hope to Dream will host an event at Dodger Stadium where 100 kids will receive bed sets and participate in a stadium tour.\nThough full details are still being worked out, the event will likely include dinner, numerous activities and the opportunity to meet a Dodgers player.\n\u201cEach year we try to host a larger event, something fun for the kids to do,\u201d Beltran said. \u201cThe first year we took them to Disneyland. We\u2019ve partnered with the Utah Jazz. They got a stadium tour and got to play on the court. 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It's the concept described as \"a cross between a Concorde, a railgun and a bullet train.\" Think: Los Angeles to Vegas in 20 minutes or LA to San Francisco...\nMight a \u2018Gold Rush\u2019 on the Moon Trigger the Next Epic Space Race?\nAs a kid, I devoured Star Trek: The Next Generation, and though it now appears nearly as campy as the original series did back then, I still love it. But Star Trek led me...\nTop 5 Videos in Elon Musk and SpaceX\u2019s Quest For Reusable Rockets\nA week ago, in the open ocean off the Florida coast, the first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket nearly made history. SpaceX is attempting to recover, refurbish, and reuse its rockets to...\nVirgin Galactic\u2019s SpaceShipTwo Lost Over Mojave Desert\nThe European Space Agency recently made a short film to celebrate the Rosetta mission to visit and land on a comet. The film is aptly titled, \u201cAmbition.\" What is space exploration if not ambitious?...\nElon Musk Is Right: Colonizing the Solar System Is Humankind\u2019s Insurance Policy Against Extinction\n3D Printer Delivered to Space Station Launching New Era of Space Manufacturing\nIf space is the final frontier, we pilgrims have a lot to learn. To date, we\u2019ve rarely ventured far beyond the thin envelope of Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Why? Because we can\u2019t yet survive long in...\nYour Legacy: Getting Off This Rock\nWe just celebrated the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing. The fact that we went to the Moon with 1960s technology is extraordinary. The fact that we never went back is shameful. Should we send...\nWe Don\u2019t Have to Play Cosmic Russian Roulette With Asteroids Anymore\nForget Armageddon, says Ed Lu. Forget sci-fi space shuttles. Forget burying nuclear bombs in comets. Forget all that. Asteroids are a real and potentially existential threat. But if we find them early enough, they\u2019re...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 17886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sites.temple.edu/rhartman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:52Z", "digest": "sha1:MKXJT5ZE5MNPODTZHASD2ZCXSFRP67KD", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sites.temple.edu", "title": "Rebecca Hartman", "raw_content": "Posted on October 4, 2018 by Rebecca Hartman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sjmagazine.net/people/camdens-bryan-morton-talks-little-league-on-nbc-nightly-news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:02Z", "digest": "sha1:H4FXEFJ6N73LMUTCLJ7FT3H2OAXCKJ33", "length": 498, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sjmagazine.net", "title": "Camden's Bryan Morton Talks Little League on NBC Nightly News - SJ Magazine", "raw_content": "Camden\u2019s Bryan Morton Talks Little League on NBC Nightly News\nBryan Morton, founder of North Camden Little League, appeared on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on July 23 to talk about the impact baseball and softball have had in the city.\nIn the segment, Morton explains that baseball isn\u2019t just about summer fun \u2013 it\u2019s also a powerful lifeline for kids in the South Jersey community.\n\u201cThe message is simple,\u201d Morton explains to Holt. \u201cGet out there and play. Play is important. Play is crucial.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 2724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://slate.com/business/2011/04/too-big-to-fail-too-many-houses-and-other-unresolved-financial-dilemmas.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:31Z", "digest": "sha1:XPTMSWISBCT67V5XALR2BJVWSJ53ME4N", "length": 10680, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "slate.com", "title": "Too Big To Fail, too many houses, and other unresolved financial dilemmas.", "raw_content": "A bouquet of dilemmas for the current economy.\nI keep a file of issues that I mean to write about one day. Since I\u2019m about to take a short leave from this column\u2014six weeks or so\u2014I\u2019m going to take the opportunity to do a little housekeeping. Here, in no particular order, are five questions that have been troubling me about our financial future.\nIs TBTF really dead? Do you remember the never-ending series of Friday the 13th slasher films? No matter how many ways we killed Jason, he would never die. Well, the concept of \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d is the new Jason: We may never be able to kill it off.\nThe Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation was supposed to fix TBTF. Remember President Obama\u2019s words when he signed the bill? \u201cThere will be no more taxpayer-funded bailouts. Period.\u201d But I can\u2019t find anyone\u2014besides the bankers at the TBTF firms and a few politicians who are eager to defend their handiwork\u2014who argue we don\u2019t need to worry about future bailouts. Skeptics say that once the government establishes, as Dodd-Frank does, a process to prevent failing big firms from taking down the whole economy\u2014funded not by taxpayers but by industry\u2014then by definition you already have a big, or rather a too-big, problem, because politics will enter into what should be purely market-driven decisions. (Speaking of horror films, the Dodd-Frank requirements are actually kind of spooky themselves. Firms that are deemed systemically important are supposed to create \u201cliving wills,\u201d or lay out a process for winding themselves down; the business can also be subjected to something called the Orderly Liquidation Facility.)\nThere\u2019s a pretty strong consensus that TBTF is alive and well. Indeed, it may be worse than ever, because the financial crisis led to even more consolidation in the financial sector. In a Feb. 23 speech, Thomas Hoenig, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, said, \u201cI am convinced that the existence of \u201ctoo big to fail\u201d institutions poses the greatest risk to the US economy.\u201d He noted that in 1999, the five largest U.S. banking organizations had about 38 percent of total banking assets. Now, the top five banks have 52 percent of all bank assets.\nIn a recent paper, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who helped create the 2008 financial mess, wrote this:\nThe American government, in response to the Lehman crisis, did what to most had been unthinkable previously. Henceforth, it will be exceedingly difficult to contain the range of possible [government] activism. Promises of future government restraint will not be believed by markets.\nThen, in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, hedge fund manager Paul Singer, the founder of Elliott Management, had this to say about the big banks:\nIt\u2019s a very important part of this equation that a few survivors exist in the peculiar relationship with government, having to kowtow to government, make relationships with regulators. Are they puppets of the government? Are they cronies of the government? Will their lending be affected by the perceived shims or beliefs of the particular government regulators existing at a particular time? Yes.\nAnd Neal Barofsky, who is leaving his position as the inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, said in his final testimony before the Senate, \u201cFor all its help in rescuing the financial system from the brink of collapse, TARP may have left a truly frightening legacy. It has increased the potential need for future government bailouts by encouraging the \u2018too big to fail\u2019 financial institutions to become even bigger and more interconnected that before, therefore increasing their ultimate danger to the financial system.\u201d\nStay tuned for Friday the 13th Part XIII: Jason Takes Manhattan.\nDo we really have a homeownership problem? One lesson many have derived from the financial crisis is that U.S. regulatory, economic, and tax policies put too much emphasis on homeownership.\nBut I\u2019m inclined to think that what many see as a homeownership problem is really a credit problem. Subprime lending started in the 1990s not as a way to put lower-income people into houses, but to turn people\u2019s equity in their homes into cash. Subprime lending was never really about the purchase of a home. As late as 2004, Ameriquest, the country\u2019s largest subprime lender, didn\u2019t actually make loans people could use to purchase a house; it just offered refinancing. Even in the late stages of the bubble, most of the business at the mega-lenders like Countrywide and New Century came from cash-out refinancings\u2014adding to your mortgage in order to get cash to spend now\u2014rather than home-purchase loans. \u201cOne of the major sparks on the kindling that become the housing inferno was the ability for borrowers to extract larger and larger shares of home-equity without any real cost or consequences,\u201d wrote David Zervos, head of global fixed-income strategy at Jefferies, in a recent email. Replacing equity with debt is replacing ownership with borrowed money. That\u2019s the opposite of homeownership.\nZervos went on to note that in the old days, the cost involved in getting a new mortgage\u2014from application fees to title fees and closing fees\u2014was so high that the interest rate on the existing loan had to be 1.5 to 2 percentage points higher than the prevailing rate for a refinancing to make sense. That was a high bar. But as the technology boom of the late 1990s shrank those costs to zero, the friction in refinancing went away, thereby negating what had been a built-in restraint.\nTime to reestablish some limits. One idea Zervos has to limit the amount of mortgage debt would be to cap the amount of equity people can take out of their homes. Another idea I\u2019ve heard bruited about is that instead of the mortgage interest deduction, why not give people a tax deduction based on the amount of equity they\u2019ve accumulated have in their homes? Now, those are policies that would reward homeownership!\nDo we really need to start spending again? A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran a front page story that said the reduction in American consumers\u2019 overall indebtedness\u2014our debt burden has shrunk to its lowest point in six years\u2014meant that we could start spending again. (Or, as the Journal put it, we can \u201cmake a big contribution to the world-wide recovery.\u201d) But I\u2019m not convinced that a return to previous bad habits is the path to prosperity.\nStart with the fact that baby boomers, who even before the financial crisis hadn\u2019t saved enough for retirement, must now contend with a drop in the value of their houses, stock portfolios, and 401(k)s. I\u2019m not sure a buying spree is what the doctor ordered for them. Then there\u2019s the federal budget deficit, which will necessitate cuts to entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. Then there are the cuts to state and local pensions. Add in that home prices are sliding again. Unemployment is still high at 8.8 percent, and more than 13 percent of the U.S. population is on food stamps. Even the Journal piece conceded that the overall decrease in debt hardly meant that borrowers had sworn off the bottle. More than half of the drop was due to defaults!\nInstead of pumping up debt, I say let\u2019s try living within our means. If we don\u2019t create debt, then Wall Street won\u2019t have anything to package up and sell off. Granted, this may not be realistic. Warren Buffett had this to say in his most recent letter to shareholders: \u201cLeverage is addictive. Once having profited from its wonders, very few people retreat to more conservative practices.\u201d\nWhy do we pay CEOs so much more than they deserve? \u201cRatchet, ratchet, ratchet,\u201d Buffett said in his interview with the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (transcript, audio). \u201cThat\u2019s the name of the comp[ensation] board.\u201d He continued:\nYou\u2019ve got this envy factor, I mean, you know, the same thing that happens in baseball. I mean, if you bat .320 you expect to get more than .310 and nobody knows in business whether you\u2019re batting .320 or not so everybody says they\u2019re a .320 hitter. And the board of directors has to say, well, we\u2019ve got a .320 hitter because they couldn\u2019t be responsible for picking a guy that bats .250. So you have this ratcheting effect.\nIn other words, most boards of directors don\u2019t want to even consider the possibility that they would ever hire anyone who wasn\u2019t first-rate. (Lake Wobegon has nothing on corporate America.) And if a company\u2019s executives are first-rate, well, they clearly need to be paid like they\u2019re first rate, so that the world knows that the company has first-rate executives! So the board\u2014at the urging of compensation consultants\u2014sets the executives\u2019 pay at the high end of what other star performers make. But of course, if everyone is paid at the high end of average, then the average goes yet higher.\nUntil we really pay for performance incentives will be messed up. (So-called \u201cclawback provisions,\u201d which are in vogue now, and which allow regulators or companies to demand repayment of compensation in the event of disaster, are well-intentioned. But they only go so far, because most bad performance doesn\u2019t result in a catastrophic failure, but rather a slow drain.) If a CEO can make a lot in the short-term, regardless of what happens in the long-term, then he would require superhuman integrity to care sincerely about the long-term. A system that requires superhuman integrity on the part of CEOs is not a system that\u2019s going to focus much attention on the long-term.\nWill China start selling our debt? That\u2019s worth worrying about, because the lack of a big buyer would probably force U.S. interest rates higher. Already interest on our national debt is projected to rise from 2 percent of GDP, the average that prevailed from 1960 to 2010, to more than 3.5 percent by 2020. It\u2019s well within China\u2019s power to make that proportion rise still higher.\nDennis Gartman, a long-time commodities trader and observer of the market, who has written the Gartman Letter for 26 years\u2014he\u2019s never missed one day!\u2014thinks China won\u2019t be a big seller. But he does think China will stop being a big buyer. Especially if China\u2019s trade surpluses turn into trade deficits, as unexpectedly happened in February, Gartman writes, China will \u201cslowly, quietly but inexorably wind down its purchases of U.S. debt and will allow its current holdings to mature and run off. There will likely be no aggressive sales of U.S. debt; there simply won\u2019t be the buying that there has been in the past\u2026\u201d In other words, we\u2019ll get a slow leak, rather than a big boom. Now, isn\u2019t that reassuring? Let\u2019s hope he\u2019s wrong.\nThat\u2019s my to-do list of questions and worries. See you in a month or two.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 72025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sleepingmansbooks.com/contact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:04Z", "digest": "sha1:FHSBESLEA2PFHJQ7EUTR5EWD3LEIXZKY", "length": 21, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sleepingmansbooks.com", "title": "Wake up Sleeping Man!", "raw_content": "Contact the Author...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 140.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://soundblab.com/reviews/albums/classic-albums/21146-george-harrison-all-things-must-pass", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WI5L7CBY3YM5TB5JYT4SRGUWGUZ6NKS4", "length": 7649, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "soundblab.com", "title": "George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - Classic Albums - Reviews - Soundblab", "raw_content": "George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - Classic Albums - Reviews - Soundblab\nby Howard Scott Rating:10 Release Date:1970-11-27 Label: Apple\nThat isn\u2019t meant to sound haughty, it's just that it was such a unique and transformative experience that I think you kind of had to be there. When the Beatles played the Ed Sullivan show in February 1964, I was eight years old and sitting transfixed in front of a black and white television with the rest of the country. I knew music existed, but nothing quite like what I was hearing. The three-part harmony of \u201cShe Loves You\u201d flipped a switch in my head that permanently and completely turned on a love of music, and especially rock and roll (much to my parent\u2019s chagrin). I am sure it was the same for thousands of kids older and younger than me.\nFor the next six years, the Fab Four not only rewrote all the rules for how music was composed, played and marketed, but their contributions to the culture of the world remain immeasurable. Fashion, art, the use of psychedelic drugs and life as we previously knew it were all upended. The music matured at a breakneck pace, and introduced genres never before imagined. As I say, I think you had to be there.\nIn April of 1970, when the Beatles announced they were about to cease to exist as a group, we all feared a giant hole in our collective psyches was about to appear that would never really be filled again. I can remember girls in my junior high school halls crying their eyes out when they heard the news. It was like someone had died. I think in some small way, it was yet another nail in the coffin of our collective and highly endangered innocence.\nWith all this considered, it was like a renewal of hope when George Harrison released \u201cAll Things Must Pass\u201d in November of 1970. It had been obvious with Harrison\u2019s later contributions to the Beatle\u2019s albums that he was coming into his own as a songwriter, but no one saw this coming. Harrison had always been the member who seemed most ill at ease as a Beatle, and the ability to escape the Lennon-McCartney shadow obviously agreed with him. The three-disc compilation was a cornucopia of sound that touched on a multitude of styles. There were the required rock songs like \u201cWha-Wha\u201d and \u201cLet It Down\u201d which I believe is one of his most beautiful but underappreciated offerings. Folkier tunes like \u201cIf Not For You\u201d (penned by Bob Dylan) and the title tune were embellished with orchestral backgrounds that only Phil Spector could create.\nThere were hits such as \u201cMy Sweet Lord\u201d and \u201cBeware of Darkness\u201d that meshed seamlessly with musical masterpieces such as \u201cAwaiting on You All\u201d and \u201cIsn\u2019t It A Pity\u201d to create two vinyl albums completely devoid of filler. The third disc in the package was called \u201cApple Jam\u201d and consisted of four cuts of just what the title described: instrumental sessions (other than \u201cIt\u2019s Johnny\u2019s Birthday\u201d) put together by some of the finest players in the world. Just imagine a jam session where the three main guitar players were Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Dave Mason. It is not easy to fathom.\nThe fact that the cast of players on the undertaking was basically an All-Star team of late sixties rock certainly didn\u2019t hurt its overall quality. Aside from the previously mentioned maestros, Ringo, Peter Frampton, Delaney, and Bonnie Bramlett and their band, Apple signee Badfinger, a young Phil Collins, Beatle collaborators Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann and countless others all contributed. They combined with co-producer Spector to bring forth what is often considered the best work any of the four Beatles would release in their solo days. While the actual roster of musicians has always been mysterious and fluid, it is safe to say that it was the best of the best.\nAnother notable player on ATMP was Quiet George\u2019s slide guitar. His use of the instrument made several cuts unique for the time and lessened the effect of them being Beatle-esque. Harrison had already made different guitars his trademark while with the Beatles. His rosewood Telecaster was a favorite for years, and the fact that he possessed the first Rickenbacker 360/12 the company released also gave him a signature sound. The slide was usually a country western staple until it appeared on \u201cAll Things\u201d, and it has been more prevalent in rock ever since.\n\u201cAll Things Must Pass\u201d went to the top of the charts all over the world when released, and stayed there for numerous weeks. Critics fawned over it from every continent where music was played, and even the world\u2019s harshest critic, John Lennon, said it was \u201cAll right\u201d. He also added that he thought it went on too long!\nOne of the last projects Harrison did before he died was a re-issue and remaster of the album in 2001 for a 30 year anniversary compilation. Five songs were added, and the sequencing on Apple Jam was rearranged. The reissue was an instant commercial success, debuting at number 4 on the Billboard album chart, and left Capitol Records with egg on their face when they underestimated its popularity. They soon found themselves with a tremendous back order for the album that probably somewhat stymied its initial sales numbers. In their defense, a reissued album had never been so successful, again.\nNew pressings for a fortieth anniversary edition were released on Record Store Day in 2010, and another for a boxed set in 2014. The 2010 album is especially prized since all issues were numbered from 1 to 7000 and sold on one special day.\nAs it is with all things Beatles, whether or not \u201cAll Things Must Pass\u201d is the best post Beatle work by any of the four is always up for debate. \u201dJohn Lennon/Plastic Ono Band\u201d is high on the list as a competitor. Lennon\u2019s album was released shortly after Harrison\u2019s and was also Spector produced, but that is all they had in common, in my humble opinion. While George was laying out his positive vision for inner peace and a path to serenity, Lennon\u2019s work, while a fine album in its own right, was basically a soundtrack to the primal scream therapy he was undergoing at the time. It is the work of a very unhappy man trying to make sense out of the scrambled world he found himself in. It is a fascinating work, but not the best he had to offer. If Lennon had not been taken from us just as he was getting back in the game, I believe some of his best work would have followed. \u201cDouble Fantasy\u201d gave us a quick taste of a songwriter in a much more stable, and happy, place.\nSir Paul\u2019s \u201cBand on the Run\u201d is another album some consider the best. No one can argue McCartney knows his way around a tune, but his lyrical content has often bordered on the inane, and I believe the quality of the bandmates he surrounded himself with weren\u2019t always as top shelf as he deserved. His wife\u2019s background singing alone was a bit of an albatross around his neck. \u201cBOTR\u201d would probably be considered a landmark for anyone else, but its always been my opinion that Paul did his best work with the Beatles.\nThe exact opposite can be said of Harrison on \u201cAll Things Must Pass\u201d. In his later years, Harrison scatologically quipped that album was the result of someone who had been constipated for years suddenly having a liberating bout of diarrhea. It must have been a one-time affliction since his work would never reach the same heights again.\n\u201cAll Things Must Pass\u201d allowed us to bask in the glow of the immense talent and superior songwriting that had emanated from the Beatles while we were coming of age in America, and for that, this is one lifelong Beatles fanatic who will be forever grateful. Lennon might have thought the dream was over, but George prolonged it just a bit longer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 11017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 178.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://southmiamiwomenshealth.com/urinary-incontinence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:58Z", "digest": "sha1:S736GLPWED7C2T3AI4XSDDL5VQIDVMBH", "length": 3416, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "southmiamiwomenshealth.com", "title": "Female Urinary Incontinence Treatment in South Miami FL | Overactive Bladder", "raw_content": "Treatment for Female Urinary Incontinence in South Miami, FL\nUrinary incontinence is a condition where there is loss of control in managing the flow of urine from your body. At South Miami Women\u2019s Health, we are board certified gynecologists that are experts in the diagnosis and treatment or urinary incontinence for women living throughout the Miami-Dade County Area\nWhat are the 7 Types of Female Urinary Incontinence?\nUrinary incontinence can be caused by a range of different issues. Because of this, incontinence can be categorized in one of the following seven ways:\nThe sudden and unexpected need to urinate more than 8 times per day can lead to leaks voiding.\nThe involuntary loss of urine due to increased pressure on the abdomen and bladder.\nSmall amounts of urine involuntarily leaks because the patient is unable to sense when the bladder is full.\nMixed incontinence is the most common form. Patients exhibit symptoms of both stress and urge incontinence.\nThere is no issue with the urinary system, but the patient is unable to make it to the bathroom in time due to mental or physical limitations.\nTransient Incontinence\nThis form of incontinence is temporary and caused by a short lived condition or treatment for a condition.\nTotal incontinence is the complete loss of urinary control due to a severe physical injury or abnormality.\nBehavior therapies. Behavior modification is used to train one\u2019s bladder and sphincter muscles by decreasing fluid intake and by prompting or scheduling voiding.\nPelvic muscle exercises. Called Kegel exercises, these exercises commonly are intended to strengthen weak muscles surrounding the bladder.\nProtective undergarments. Basically these are pads undergarments designed to absorb leaked urine.\nCatheter. These tubes are inserted into the urethra to collect urine into an external drainage bag. These are generally left in place 24 hours a day.\nExternal devices. Called a Pessary, this device is designed to apply pressure to help reposition the urethra permitting it to close tightly. It features a stiff ring that is inserted into the vagina to exert pressure press against the wall of the vagina and urethra.\nBulking injections Bulking agents such as collagen are injected directly into the urethral lining to firm and bulk up the urethral lining so that the urethra can close more tightly.\nMedications. There are a number of medications to treat incontinence caused by urge to continually void. Where incontinence is stress related, there are no medications for to treat this. For incontinence caused by a combination of both urge and stress, drug therapy may be helpful in treating the urge component.\nUrinary Incontinence Surgery in Miami, FL\nThere are a number of surgical approaches to strengthen, support, elevate and/or restore the urethra and bladder. These are employed when other treatments are not working and include:\nRetropubic Suspensions. Surgical procedures (Burch procedure) intended to restore the urethra and neck of the bladder to a higher anatomical position.\nSlings. Procedures used to treat that treats hypermobility in which a sling is used to support the urethra when there is increased abdominal pressure.\nIf you\u2019re experiencing urinary incontinence, or would like to learn more about any of our treatment options, contact South Miami Women\u2019s Health today at (305) 665-9644 or request an appointment online. We\u2019re always here to help!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sovereigntyuk.com/author/marcussteaduk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FRZXPT4J5XHSQPE2ASZUPE67YJ66INBX", "length": 587, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sovereigntyuk.com", "title": "Marcus Stead \u2013 Sovereignty UK", "raw_content": "I am a freelance journalist and author living in Cardiff, UK. In my career to date, I have worked in newspaper, radio and online journalism. I have also had three sports biographies published, on jockey Frankie Dettori, rugby star Brian O'Driscoll and controversial cricketer Kevin Pietersen. The purpose of this blog is to give you a chance to read some of my work that has not yet been published in print form. If you wish to use any of this material, please drop me an email at: marcusstead@hotmail.co.uk. I am willing to adapt or expand the work in question to suit your publication.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 328, "original_length": 83226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 162.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sparkcreativepartners.com/2017/06/23/the-art-of-procrastination/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:09Z", "digest": "sha1:BA245GNFALOPIQKVDSYCIWVWRAPXEKEH", "length": 3758, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "sparkcreativepartners.com", "title": "Spark Creative Partners \u00bb The Art of Procrastination", "raw_content": "Posted Jun 23 2017, 7:43 am in Productivity, Time Management\nWriting is hard work. And it takes a lot of focus, a lot of time in the chair with your fingers on the keyboard, and a lot of time. So much time, in fact, that you may find yourself looking up from your manuscript, bleary eyed, to realize that your home has been overrun by ravening wolves.\nIt\u2019s difficult to find the time to take a break while you\u2019re in the midst of a writing fugue, but regular breaks to do bits and pieces of housework or to exercise are a very good idea, to help keep you sharp. That\u2019s not the point of today\u2019s blog, however. Today, the topic is how to successfully make all that \u201cstuff\u201d that you should be doing but aren\u2019t doing work alongside your writing production schedule.\nThe problem: There\u2019s always more to do, but you really should write\u2026\nAs a full time author, you know that writing the book is not even half the battle. The rest of being an author involves things like maintaining an online presence, marketing an upcoming book, promoting a current or past release, dealing with elements of book production (if you\u2019re Indie) or your publisher\u2019s editorial/marketing/publicity folks (if you\u2019re traditionally-pubbed)\u2026 the list goes on.\nBut the most important piece of all of that is\u2026 writing the next book. Publishing today (and perhaps it has always been) is a content game. If you don\u2019t have new content \u2013 new books, new novellas, new short stories, new something \u2013 it becomes more and more difficult to build your reader base. So you\u2019re constantly having to produce\u2026 which means you\u2019re constantly letting other things slip. This can become an almost overwhelming pressure, until you realize the built-in power of planned procrastination.\nThe solution: Your \u201cFree Pass\u201d Procrastination List\nLet\u2019s face it, we\u2019re not machines. There are going to be time that no matter how well-intentioned you are, writing the next scene in your WIP makes you break out in a cold sweat\u2026 or want to take a nap. The trick is recognizing early on when the words just aren\u2019t going to come, and making a decision. Do you tough it out or take a break?\nIF you take a break, then it\u2019s a question of how much of a break.\nIf it\u2019s only 10-20 minutes, then you need to do something physical: work out, take a walk, change out the laundry, clean a room\u2026 something. Get moving!\nIf it\u2019s a break of 30-60 minutes, then after a quick dash up and down the stairs to clean the fog out of your mind (or move in some way, even if it\u2019s a short walk or jogging in place), then you turn to your Free Pass List. Your Free Pass List is all-the-things you need to do, but you haven\u2019t taken the time for because you were writing.\nA recent free Pass List for me included: update website, update Facebook/Twitter, finish updating revised print version of book and upload to CreateSpace, write a blog for Postscript, read marketing book, create graphic memes\u2026. the list went on. These were all good things, things I needed to do, but that I\u2019d blown off in order to write. Faced with a situation where I felt I couldn\u2019t write, then I had one other choice (and only one): I could do something from my Free Pass list.\nBy giving myself two choices: Write or complete a Free Pass task, I keep my focus on my career no matter what I\u2019m working on. YES, the writing must come first most days, but when I need to take a break, by using the Free Pass List, I know that I\u2019ll stay on track (and feel virtuous doing so!)\nConsider creating your own Free Pass Procrastination List for the next time YOU need a break from your WIP!\nOne response to \u201cThe Art of Procrastination\u201d\nPSMediaSvcs says:\nThe art of procrastination: Writing is hard work. And it takes a lot of focus, a lot of time in the chair with\u2026 https://t.co/N3d9N76sKD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 5337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spivoche.com/2018/12/christmas-tree-farmers-urge-americans-to-buy-real-trees.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:23Z", "digest": "sha1:G26OLZU3CF4QGKW2OQJ2AU4UDHRSYSSM", "length": 426, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "spivoche.com", "title": "Christmas Tree Farmers Urge Americans to Buy Real Trees - \u0421\u041f\u0406\u0412\u041e\u0427\u0415 \u041f\u041e\u041b\u0415", "raw_content": "This time of year, all across the United States, empty lots are turned into miniature forests as live Christmas trees are displayed for sale. But The Christmas Tree Promotion Board worries that more Americans are opting for artificial trees as they become more realistic-looking. So Christmas tree farmers in the U.S. have launched a social media campaign to get Americans to buy real trees this season. Faith Lapidus reports.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://splco.me/eng/2018/10/09/us-ambassador-to-un-nikki-haley-quits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:35Z", "digest": "sha1:3WISSXYNPTMFEW2IWOREHVBJLFLTZYYB", "length": 3165, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "splco.me", "title": "US Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley quits \u2013 Welcome to Splco.me", "raw_content": "The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, is resigning \u201cto take a little time off,\u201d President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, as she became the latest in a long line of high-profile departures from the administration.\nTrump said he had accepted Haley\u2019s resignation and would name her successor within two or three weeks. She will leave at the end of the year, he said.\nAppearing beside Haley in the Oval Office, Trump praised her and said he hoped she could come back to the administration.\n\u201cWe\u2019re all happy for you in one way, but we hate to lose (you). \u2026 Hopefully, you\u2019ll be coming back at some point. Maybe a different capacity. You can have your pick,\u201d Trump said.\nA former governor of South Carolina who is the daughter of Indian immigrants, Haley is seen as a rising star in the Republican Party and a possible candidate for the 2020 presidential elections.But she said on Tuesday she would not be running in 2020 and would campaign for Trump.\nEchoing previous statements from Trump, Haley said the United States under his presidency is now respected around the world.\n\u201cNow the United States is respected. Countries may not like what we do, but they respect what we do. They know that if we say we\u2019re going to do something, we follow it through,\u201d she said.\nHaley is the latest in a long list of senior staff members to leave the Trump administration, including former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who was fired in March.\nEarlier this year, Haley, 46, told Reuters that, \u201cEvery day I feel like I put body armor on,\u201d to protect US interests at the United Nations.\nHaley discussed her resignation with Trump last week when she visited him at the White House, Axios news site reported.\nTagged Ambassador, america, Hayley, trump, Unitednations\nEngaged 74 Officials have found what was described as a \u201csophisticated\u201d cross-border tunnel likely designed for drug smuggling between the US and Mexico, that included a rail system and a solar system to provide ventilation and lighting. Agents from the US Border Patrol, Homeland Security Investigations and the Drug Enforcement Administration, measured that the tunnel Read More\u2026\nPosted on November 7, 2018 November 7, 2018 Author Splco Webdesk\nEngaged 69 Democrats rode a wave of dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, giving them the opportunity to block Trump\u2019s agenda and open his administration to intense scrutiny. With a House majority, Democrats will have the power to investigate Trump\u2019s tax returns and possible conflicts Read More\u2026\nAlaska Airlines Flight stolen crashed in Washington\nEngaged 82 The Alaska Airlines plane that was stolen by an airline employee from Seattle-Tacoma International airport has crashed in Washington\u2019s South Puget Sound. No passengers were onboard during the incident and normal operations have resumed at the airfield, the airport said on Twitter. The US fighter jets chased the planes to divert the Horizon Air Read More\u2026\nInterstate Read More\u2026\nIndia ranks 103 out of 119 in global hunger index\nLS passes 124th Constitutional amendment, 10 percent quota for poor in Upper castes\nLok Read More\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 10425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 222.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stmichaelschurch.ca/2018/02/18/rectors-corner-sunday-reflection-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:34Z", "digest": "sha1:BNREKD3TYZSOHZTBTG5GPOM2B2HWWZV6", "length": 3380, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "stmichaelschurch.ca", "title": "Rector\u2019s Corner & Sunday Reflection | Saint Michael's Anglican Church", "raw_content": "Rector\u2019s Corner: I would like to thank all of you for coming to our Ash Wednesday Services and pancake supper. Just like what I have said during the services, it is a day when we start our Lenten journey together by self-examination, penitence, prayer, fasting, and alms-giving, and by reading and meditating on the word of God. And I quote, \u201cRemember you are dust and to dust you shall return\u201d Genesis 3:19.\nOn behalf of our parish, I would like to welcome our sister in Christ, Kim Hodge, who would facilitate our parish Mutual Ministry Review today in the Peart Lounge at 1:00pm. This conversation aims to provide a discernment process for the leadership team of St. Michael\u2019s with regards to our common Mission and Ministry for this community. My hope is to share the perspective of church council during our annual vestry meeting.\nI hope that all of us who were given copies of the Lenten Study Booklet have started your journey in \u201cMeeting Jesus in the Gospel of John\u201d. Please note that there are more available resources for you to use for reflection by logging on to this website \u2013 www.meetingjesusinjohn.org\nAnnual Vestry Meeting reading materials: If you do not have access to a printer, please send us a note through email or leave a voice message on the church machine and we would have a printed copy for you to pick up on a particular time during the week or just after our Sunday Worship Service.\nLast Thursday, I welcomed the new Director for Mission and Ministry Development, The Reverend Tellison Glover, in our parish. It was an opportunity for me to walk him around our premises. He was delighted to see that we have a couple of programs during the week. He admired our sanctuary for its beauty and an atmosphere of serenity and sacredness.\nSunday Reflection:\n\u201cAn appeal to God for a good conscience\u201d Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Anglican Church of Canada\nIn the midst of two stories we know so well, the story of Noah and the flood and the story of Jesus and his baptism we hear in the First Letter of Peter some teaching about the nature of our baptism. He speaks of it \u201cnot as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience through Christ.\u201d (1 Peter 3:21)\nLent is a time for us to be especially mindful of any and every arrogance reflecting the thought that some peoples are superior to others. I speak of the sins of racism, ethnic cleansing, and government-enforced policies of assimilation designed \u201cto remake others in our image\u201d. (The Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s Apology to the survivors of the Indian Residential Schools in Canada, 1993)\nLent is a season to confess these sins against our brothers and sisters. It is a time to correct attitudes, words, and actions, blatant or subtle that perpetuate them. It is a time to forge new relationships grounded in our baptismal vow to strive for justice and peace among all people.\nTo quote First Peter, Lent is a season of \u201cappeal to God for a good conscience\u201d, cleansed of the sins of prejudice, and cleared for respect and affection, one for another in accord with the Gospel we proclaim.\nPrayer \u201cFor all false judgements, for uncharitable thoughts toward our neighbours and for our prejudice and contempt toward those who differ from us, Accept our repentance, Lord.\u201d (The Litany of Penitence for Ash Wednesday, The Book of Alternative Services, The Anglican Church of Canada)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stonemyerslaw.com/2017/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:43Z", "digest": "sha1:M2RUBTXZXQJAYGJ7CN6NHNZMCNU7UW2W", "length": 876, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "stonemyerslaw.com", "title": "September 2017 \u2013 StoneMyers Law PLLC", "raw_content": "Unmarried couples that don\u2019t have children together may not think that joint estate planning is necessary. However, it\u2019s an important thing to consider. Some couples may want their partner to have the legal right to make medical decisions for them; others may want to easily pass real estate to their\u2026\nHave you talked to your family about the details of your estate plan? Do they know your wishes in the event of your incapacity or death? Do they know where your legal documents are kept? Have you had these important discussions with your own parents? These can be tough conversations\u2026\n\u201cDoing something is better than doing nothing. Don\u2019t let the fact that you don\u2019t know the perfect way \u2026 make you do nothing at all.\u201d -Justin Halverson The often difficult decisions of selecting individuals to act as the executor of your estate, guardian of your children, as your power of\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stopsmoke.co.za/category/english/quitting-smoking/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:07Z", "digest": "sha1:FDT3EP6Q7JIXT57FD3Q67FENJOVMS5FD", "length": 2677, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "stopsmoke.co.za", "title": "Quitting Smoking Archives - Stop Smoking with Fibre-Quit Caps", "raw_content": "Want to stop smoking? Here are a number of common sense tips that have been proven to make it easier to cope with the nicotine withdrawal symptoms \u2013 which are at their peak during the first few days: 1. Avoid [...]\nBlog - English, Quitting Smoking\nAfter having tried and failed, or having seen others try and fail, it makes you worry: Is there an easy way to stop smoking, or is it simply a choice of either fooling yourself with gimmick products, or having [...]\nWhen you stop smoking, the journey can be tough \u2013 depending on the method you chose. It is crucial that you stay motivated in order to be successful \u2013 but how? Here are a few ideas: 1. Be aware of what [...]\nVideo: Stop Smoking Timeline\nA quick video about the progressive restoration of your health, starting from the moment you choose to stop smoking. Even if you have been smoking for a long period of time, the benefits of stopping are substantial \u2013 see [...]\nStop Smoking \u2013 7 Great Benefits You Can Experience\nFor most people, the choice to stop smoking is one of the hardest possible choices to make \u2013 especially if you smoked for some time. Sometimes, however, all it takes is a simple mind shift. You may want to [...]\nHow do I stop Smoking without an iron Will?\nYou may have seen people trying to quit, and failing miserably, and now you wonder \u201chow do I stop smoking?\u201d After all, it seems to require an iron will, relentless persistence, and resistance to withdrawal symptoms\u2026 Well, you only need [...]\nVideo: Stop Smoking Side Effects And Nicotine Withdrawal Symptoms\nStop smoking side effects are numerous. 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There are just so many stop smoking products out there, and all of them promise you the world. Unfortunately, you NOT being a doctor doesn\u2019t really help\u2026 It\u2019s all smooth sales talk, promises, wonderful claims, \u201cscientific [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://storage-centre.ca/blog/2018/8/15/vkugvbsa78pfajui6fdc9aawi9mgxo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:40Z", "digest": "sha1:OA7O5SYROT5KLCVOYOUR2U7TUQXARBSW", "length": 2321, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "storage-centre.ca", "title": "Blog", "raw_content": "Having a self storage unit can be helpful by providing extra space when moving, decluttering, renovating or assisting you and your business needs by storing excess goods and products. However, if you don\u2019t use the space optimally you will reduce the amount of help your unit provides. With the right strategy and some advanced planning you can maximize the space, getting the most value and efficiency out of your unit.\nHaving an inventory list with clearly labelled boxes will help you organize your unit both immediately and down the road. Once the list is complete, you can easily plan to place similar items next to each other, positioning heavy boxes at the bottom of each stack for stability or figure out which items need to be accessed more frequently than the others. Most of your organizational ideas will stem from this list which is why it should be performed first.\nChoose the Unit Size That Best Suits Your Needs\nUse your master list to start planning what type of unit you will need and for what function it will have for you. If you don\u2019t think you\u2019ll be visiting the space often then it may be the most efficient to go for the smallest unit that accommodates all your items safely. However, if you think you\u2019ll be in and out of it several times or use it for business then it might be worth your while to get a larger unit. Having enough space to make pathways, easily read boxes and, room to move within the unit will greatly improve your ability to become and stay organized. For additional information on how to select your unit size visit this blog entry for advice.\nPlace a Map of Your Belongings Inside the Unit\nSince you have an inventory and properly labeled boxes there won\u2019t be any need to map out items that are visible, but you should list anything that gets buried. This will come in especially handy if you have a compact unit. You won\u2019t have to paint a Picasso, just a quick sketch that will give you a basic idea of your setup. Once this is complete it\u2019s best to keep it in your unit up on the wall or wherever it is easily visible.\nA self storage unit should make your life easier and more organized, not the opposite. By following the proper organizational steps above you will get the most out of your storage unit. 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The MCP3428 is a 4-Channel Analog to Digital Converter with 16-Bit resolution, ideally suited for low-speed high-resolution sensor monitoring. The MCP3428 is capable of reading analog voltages at 15 samples per second with 16-Bit resolution or 240 samples per second at 12-bit resolution. The MCP3428 has an x1, x2, x4, x8 programmable gain amplifier, making it an ideal choice for monitoring extremely low-voltage sensors. All 8 channels are capable of monitoring a full-scale range of 0-10V. Up to 8 MCP3428 devices are capable of sharing a single I\u00b2C communication port, using floating address inputs.\nThis 0 to 10V Analog to digital Converter board has 2 MCP3428 onboard, so to use both at the same time you will need to setup both at a different address. This Analog to Digital Converter board has on-board jumpers to select the different-different addresses for both of the MCP3428.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 375, "original_length": 17987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 236.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/2016_05_14_archive.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:31Z", "digest": "sha1:LNTPBNTYK7WWCJEW624IF3KZEUFZ5WXR", "length": 4209, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "storytimesecrets.blogspot.com", "title": "Story Time Secrets: 05/14/16", "raw_content": "Everything I Know About Surviving Middle School I Learned from a Middle Grade Novel\nToday's topic for Armchair BEA is Surviving Fictional Worlds. Because I focus almost exclusively on realistic fiction written for children, there aren't many fictional worlds in the books I read that are all that different from the real world that I live in. But there is one world which, no matter the character, no matter the time and geographical location, is difficult to survive. That is the world of middle school. I have read what probably amounts to hundreds of middle grade novels set in middle school, and many of them have similar themes and messages. Today, I'd like to share a few things young readers can learn from these books about surviving middle school.\nLying is a big problem for many fictional middle schoolers. Often kids lie to impress a potential boyfriend/girlfriend, like Kevin Spencer (from Liar Liar by Gary Paulsen) who lies to get out of class in order to get closer to his crush, Tina, or Cici Reno (Cici Reno, Middle School Matchmaker), who pretends to be someone else on Twitter in order to get the attention of the boy she likes. Other characters lie to manipulate situations, like Avery from Fake Me a Match by Lauren Barnholdt, who tries to win over her stepsister by rigging a matchmaking service to pair her with her crush, or Sadie from Peanut by Ayun Halliday, who invents a peanut allergy in order to make herself seem more interesting. There are even characters who lie to cover up what they've done, such as Thad in How to Break a Heart by Kiera Stewart. In all of these situations, though, the lies snowball to the point where they take over the characters' lives and eventually, the awful truth comes out in an awkward and difficult confrontation.\nMake friends who share your interests.\nI have to admit that the ease with which girls find like-minded friends in fictional middle schools is not always believable. I really didn't have friends during middle school at all, so this idea that you could walk into the cafeteria (or detention, or an after school club meeting) and immediately find your tribe sometimes makes me roll my eyes. But it's definitely worked in series like How to Survive Middle School, Annabelle Unleashed, The Odd Squad, The Snob Squad, and Nerd Girls. Personally, though, I think Jamie's friendship with Isabella in the Dear Dumb Diary books is much closer to the truth for most middle schoolers.\nDon't bring your diary to school.\nHarriet from Harriet the Spy learned the hard way what happens when you write down blunt observations of your classmates and those words fall into the wrong hands. Still, that hasn't stopped other fictional characters from keeping diaries and bringing them to school. In both Mackenzie Blue and This is All Your Fault, Cassie Parker, diaries are stolen and shared with the very people from whom they should have been kept most secret. If a middle schooler is going to share her innermost thoughts, it is best to do so at home, and then hide the evidence!\nDon't over-emphasize popularity.\nMany, many protagonists in novels about middle school worry about their popularity, but whether they lose it, experience it temporarily, or can't even achieve it in the first place, they eventually realize that being well-liked by many people is not as satisfying as have one or two close friends. This common theme runs through many popular series: Dork Diaries, Popularity Papers, The Classroom and The Winnie Years, as well as in titles like Always, Abigail, Mission (Un)popular, and Pack of Dorks.\nTo explore more of the world of fictional middle school, try these posts: 8 Funny Middle School Series for Boys and 12 Middle Grade Series About Friendship for Girls.\nI kind of hit the wall reading-wise on day 5. I'm getting to the point where the only titles left on my list are the ones I've been putting off, and I have a cold and just couldn't get motivated to read more than two books. They were:\nBeany Malone by Lenora Mattingly Weber\nThe Turn of the Tide by Rosanne Parry\nI really hope to get at least two more books read over the weekend, but I'm not making any guarantees.\nEverything I Know About Surviving Middle School I ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 967, "original_length": 18106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://storywarren.com/the-warren-the-world-vol-6-issue-32/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:28Z", "digest": "sha1:VBTVVW6OQSXZ5GZWH2YY2LMWTK4CW4F2", "length": 4041, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "storywarren.com", "title": "The Warren & the World Vol 6, Issue 32", "raw_content": "A Year in the Big Old Garden\nJames D. Witmer released his book of short stories on Kindle this week. A Year in the Big Old Garden is a collection of children\u2019s stories in the spirit of beloved classics by Thornton Burgess and Beatrix Potter. These twelve short stories are crafted to be read aloud, mixing whimsical storytelling with the love and knowledge of backyard wildlife. Turn waiting rooms, car trips, and bedtimes into moments of enjoyment as you meet animals like Sammy the squirrel, Jasper the chipmunk, and Smudge the rabbit, and follow their adventures through the seasons.\n10 Ways Moms Can Bond With Middle School Daughters\nMIddle school can be a hard season, and one of the greatest tools available to any kid in the season is a good relationship with his or her parents. Moms, if you\u2019ve got daughters of middle school age, here are some ideas for connecting.\nMiddle school can be an exciting time for a girl. New friends, new school, new body, new crushes. Your baby is growing up \u2014 and that\u2019s a good thing! But it\u2019s not always smooth or easy. As she straddles childhood and teenage years, it\u2019s hard for Mom to know where she fits in or what her new role is in parenting. As you navigate this new emotional territory, it\u2019s important to give your daughter some leeway. Allow her to grow \u2014 and even make mistakes.\nWriting Journals for Children that Teach Self-Awareness and Creativity\nA writing journal can be a great place for your child to explore their own creativity and emotions.\nThis list of Writing Journals for Children is a bit different than my typical book lists for kids. Writing in journals does not just provide handwriting practice. Journaling, whether daily, weekly or even just every once in a while, gives kids a sense of accomplishment. Kids develop a great sense of self-awareness and are able to give voice to their emotions and experiences in a safe, non-judgmental space.\nMonica Brands writes a short devotional that focuses us on our growth in Christ.\nI love the powerful song \u201cWe Shall Not Be Moved.\u201d The song captures a unique vision of true peace. Like a firmly planted tree, being deeply rooted in God gives us the courage to stand firm for His justice\u2014even when we\u2019re surrounded by powerful forces of corruption.\nResources for Teaching with Children\u2019s Books\nErica at What do We Do All Day has a resource list for using Children\u2019s Books in educational settings.\nI share loads of children\u2019s books here at What Do We Do All Day? and while you can read my tips for reading wordless books, or choosing chapter books I haven\u2019t shared much about how to teach with children\u2019s books. This is because I am not a trained teacher, I don\u2019t homeschool and in our house we primarily read books, rather than do activities around them.\nGlenn McCarty reminds us of our reality in the Story\nEvery year in December, our church presents a unique event called the Live Nativity Hayride for two evenings a couple of weeks before Christmas. Bundled up against the frigid temperatures, guests board a hay wagon and begin a 20-minute ride through seven scenes, as audio narration and live actors tell the story of the Nativity, beginning with the visit of the angel Gabriel through the ministry and death of Jesus.It is \u2013 apologies here for my lack of objectivity \u2013 a stunning thing to watch.\nS. D. Smith interviews our own James Witmer\u2014managing editor of Story Warren and Author of A Year in the Big Old Garden.I love being an editor! It is an honor to be asked into the creation of something new, and a pleasure to be able to help in small ways to make that new thing good. I always feel like I\u2019m getting away with something; sneaking into the show early, as it were.\nNothing about editing, however, prepares one for the stomach-sinking, standing-on-the-edge-of-a-high-dive feeling of beginning your own story.\nDid you know there is an ancient Swedish tradition of a herding call, \u201ckulning\u201d to call back the herds at the end of the day? It\u2019s lovely. If I were a cow, I\u2019d come home just because this lady was singing to me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://strathpinesurgical.com.au/strathpine-surgical/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:RZQ3HIMPZFA5LOWFYLB4M55LBWHVMVGP", "length": 1361, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "strathpinesurgical.com.au", "title": "Strathpine Surgical Clinic | Cosmetic Surgery Strathpine | Brisbane", "raw_content": "Home / About / Strathpine Surgical\nThe Strathpine Surgical Clinic is located in Dixon Street, Strathpine; in the northern suburbs of Brisbane.\nThe Strathpine Surgical Clinic aims to provide quality surgical services to the local community, with a wide range of surgical services available. Many procedures can be performed on site, avoiding the need for hospitalization in many cases.\nThe practice has been established for 15 years in the medical centre attached to the Pine Rivers Private Hospital.\nThe clinic in addition is staffed by a Reception Staff and registered Nursing Staff. We aim to make your medical requirements as easy as possible to deal with.\nThe clinic is easily accessed with ample parking at the centre and in Dixon Street. It is opposite the Westfield Shopping Complex in Strathpine and is close to the Strathpine bus station.\nConsultations and a wide variety of surgical procedures are performed on site. In addition consultations are available at the Caboolture Private Hospital consulting Rooms on a weekly basis.\nDr. Scarlett has appointments to all local private hospitals to allow flexibility as to admissions sites for patients in different localities.\nVeterans Affairs and Workcover patients are welcome. Special arrangements are available for financially disadvantaged.\nEmail us for more information on your condition or operation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stubterminal.com/Wisconsin-Badgers-Womens-Hockey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:52Z", "digest": "sha1:RPUCAWXEVIU57U2ELZEBVEMXPBW75OAA", "length": 141, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "stubterminal.com", "title": "Wisconsin Badgers Women's Hockey Tickets", "raw_content": "Wisconsin Badgers Women's Hockey is always a great hit with every crowd. We stock all tickets to every Wisconsin Badgers Women's Hockey show!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studiopress.blog/sites27/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:35Z", "digest": "sha1:GMYZGTEP6YYXJYBT4YMRLZECD6FGK5ZA", "length": 507, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "studiopress.blog", "title": "[27] How to Be a Successful Affiliate Marketer in the WordPress Ecosystem", "raw_content": "Affiliate marketing is a great way to enhance the income from your site \u2014 if you know how to do it right.\nAt StudioPress, we have a lot of experience with affiliates \u2014 seeing the tactics that work and those that don\u2019t.\nAnd the affiliates that are successful focus on helping people at different stages of their personal journey to find solutions to their problems.\nIn this 26 minute episode, Chris Garrett from StudioPress joins the show to share his insights and tactics for successful affiliate marketing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studymetro.blog/2018/10/10/incredible-facts-about-study-masters-in-france-in-english/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:19Z", "digest": "sha1:PIB6L5GAONP4ZNDYEDSZHC3B77RH4FEX", "length": 1835, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "studymetro.blog", "title": "Incredible Facts About Study Masters in France in English \u2013 Study Metro- Study Abroad in Top University", "raw_content": "Incredible Facts About Study Masters in France in English\nFrance is among my preferred places. It does allow dual citizenship with the United States and a few other countries. It is the most powerful nation in the world. LIVING If you\u2019re just moving to France with zero French expertise, it will probably be the early months that will supply the biggest challenge to you.\nThe Most Popular Study Masters in France in English\nThe country you would like to teach in will help determine the qualifications you\u2019ll need to teach English. After you\u2019ve narrowed that down, consider the top countries to work abroad in the field you want to explore or get more international knowledge in. There are lots of nations worldwide where students can study abroad for free or for an extremely very affordable quantity.\nWhat Does Study Masters in France in English Mean?\nJust like au pair jobs, teaching English can vary based on the place you mean to call home. English, because it is now, is only a hodge podge of many languages. English isn\u2019t just a language, it\u2019s a commodity. English is a language that is used all around the world.\nLanguage being the absolute most important element of the communication process, we will need to realize that while interacting with people across the planet, we must master no less than a few foreign languages, which will bridge the gap of cultural and societal differences. While it is not exactly the same as arithmetic, there are similar strategies that can be adopted by speakers who have a preference for rote-based or rule-based learning. Thus the start of the introduction of what is known as the Italic-Latin languages.\nPrevious Previous post: Details of Ireland Universities for Ms\nNext Next post: New Questions About Masters Programs in Australia Answered and Why You Must Read Every Word of This Report", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://supertargetsystems.com/protection-law-enforcement-officers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:NIQLVMZF5OYPX7JCMBSJHU5KZI5WLCXQ", "length": 3619, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "supertargetsystems.com", "title": "Security measures for law enforcement officers", "raw_content": "Security measures for law enforcement officers\nIf you work in Law Enforcement, you know how important the right body armor is for your safety. Although most police departments issue standard protective armor to new officers, vests and other equipment have usually been worn by previous law enforcement agents and this can compromise their protective properties.\nEquipping yourself with body armor that has previously been worn means there is no way of knowing the state of its condition. This essentially means that you have no way of knowing whether the previous owner has taken proper measures in storing and taking care of his or her protective equipment. Because body armor has a shelf life of about five years (with proper maintenance), it is imperative to know how it has been handled to determine if it can provide adequate ballistic protection.\nFor example, a common sign of wear and tear results in the damage of the armor panels. This may not necessarily be visible to the naked eye, but even minor scrapes and cuts can render the vest unusable as it no longer protects.\nIt is recommended that all body armor panels are inspected and approved by an armor specialist. This will guarantee that, at the time of issue, the body armor will protect up to the specified NIJ levels. You can always purchase your own body armor, which puts you in charge of your safety and allows you to own a carrier that fits, looks, and functions the way you want it to.\nIt is important to be sure that you store and care for the body armor properly. You may want to store your armor at your home rather than at your department, so that you can clean you carrier when needed, and ensure that you have your body armor when you need it. You can also be sure that it is cared for and handled how you would like it to be.\nPolice Body Armor Vests Worn Over Clothing\nPolice officers typically wear overt vests. However, it is important to be sure that your body armor conforms to your department\u2019s unique specifications and regulations.\nBefore buying body armor, you may want to take the time to talk to your superiors and find out what\u2019s acceptable. Some stations only allow carriers to be a certain color, or to be made from certain materials \u2013 this may be to ensure uniformity among officers.\nIf you choose a covert vest, you will want to be sure that the vest fits you properly. A vest that is too large could get in the way of your active daily duties. Similarly, a vest that is too tight could cause movement restriction, or cause excessive crushing or folding of the panels.\nTherefore, it is important that you have a vest that is the perfect fit for you. You can refer to our useful Sizing Guide for further information on how to select the best fit for your build, or contact our team for help with choosing the correct size..\nSpecialist teams, such as SWAT teams, often require bulkier and more enhanced protective vests. These vests are usually worn over their standard uniforms, and can feature additional protective panels that cover areas such as the neck, throat, upper arm and groin areas. Although these are less comfortable to wear over extended periods of time, they provide the necessary level of protection in a high risk environment.\nWhen selecting additional protective panels, including Ballistic SAPI plates and helmets, we recommend that you take the time to practice moving around in full gear. This will help you be sure that you are able to manoeuvre during tactical operations, and help ensure that you remain as safe as possible in your job.\n\u2190 Bullet proof vests for prison officersBody armor for military \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://swaay.com/15-woke-ways-celebrate-womens-history-month/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HAQXJZYFWBGOVAPFG6FQARXGTGMRIUYM", "length": 7547, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "swaay.com", "title": "15 Woke Ways to Celebrate Women\u2019s History Month - SWAAY", "raw_content": "15 Woke Ways to Celebrate Women\u2019s History Month\nMarch 11, 2018 by Madeleine Crenshaw\n15 Woke Ways to Celebrate\nPhoto Courtesy of dvcs\nMarch is Women\u2019s History Month, a time to reflect on the achievements of women and to seek new ways to empower them.\nIn the past year and a half, the Women\u2019s March and the #MeToo movement have begun to reshape national conversations about gender equality. But sometimes in our haste to advocate for women\u2019s rights, we forget that womanhood can come in many forms.\nThis month grants the perfect opportunity for anyone to start to acknowledge the diversity of women and champion for the equality of all: including women of color, trans women and women from around the world. Here are 15 woke ways to support, educate and celebrate all women for Women\u2019s History Month.\n1. Make your smartphone even smarter by downloading this female-forward app.\nChange starts with small steps, so why not begin with your phone? Download Women & Girls, an app that uses data from 201 countries to track gender equality around the world. Or keep tabs on sexual harassment by using Hollaback! an app that allows you to record and share stories about sexual harassment in your neighborhood.\nPhoto Courtesy of ThoughtCo\n2. Become pen pals with a woman from across the globe.\nLearn about women\u2019s experiences in other countries by finding an international pen pal. You can use the Women & Girls app to select a country that lacks women\u2019s equality. Then, use Postcrossing, a free website that connects you with people from 213 countries, to find your female pen pal.\n3. Divest from companies that don\u2019t support equal rights and support ones that do.\nSadly, some of the brands we love support discrimination and inequality. Thankfully, there are tons of great women-owned brands you can put your dollar to that are supportive and inclusive. Check out Adorned by Chi, a clothing and accessory line full of cheeky tees and accessories that promote black girl magic and kawaii looks. Or SheNative, a handbag line started by Devon Fiddler, a First Nations woman looking to destigmatize the perception of indigenous women.\n4. Dive into feminist theory.\nWomen make up 49.5 percent of the global population, and that\u2019s just those who are biologically born female. Expand your mind and learn about the many definitions of womanhood. Discover Kimberle Crenshaw, a civil rights activist and pioneer of intersectional feminism. Or read a book by Bell Hooks, a gender studies scholar who deconstructs what it truly means to be a woman of color under the white, male patriarchy.\n5. Host a Women\u2019s History Month party.\nWhat better way to celebrate Women\u2019s History Month than to recognize the women in your life? Ask guests to bring menstrual products, diapers, and makeup as a point of entry. At the end of the party, you can collect the products and donate to your local women\u2019s shelter. Here are some ideas on what you can ask your guests to bring.\nDuring the party, your guests and you can color these awesome print-outs of badass women. Or opt for a movie marathon featuring powerful female characters. Uninspired? Check out this extensive list of movies with powerful female leads.\n6. Treat yourself with this holistic, Latina-owned beauty line.\nBrujita Skincare is a line based in Los Angeles that uses fairly-sourced, mineral-rich clays and powders from Mexico. The founder, Leah Guerrero, travels regularly in Mexico to find holistic ingredients sourced from local market vendors. The line specializes in masks, oils and creams.\nPhoto Courtesy of American Top Team Aventura\n7. Sign up for that boxing class you\u2019ve been putting off.\nU.N. Women estimates that 35 percent of women have experienced either physical or sexual violence at some point in their lives. Sign up for a boxing class at your local gym or better yet, a crash course women\u2019s self-defense.\n8. Donate a picture book about a strong woman or girl.\nGive the gift of women\u2019s empowerment to a girl in need. Check out this list of 45 must-have books for girls. If you don\u2019t have a Little Free Library where you live, try Project Night Night, a program that assembles \u201cnight packages\u201d to homeless children 12 and under, or United Through Reading, a program that helps children of active military personnel bond with their deployed parents through reading.\n9. Flood your feed with feminist Instagrams.\nWho doesn\u2019t love a good RBG meme? For starters, check out @femalecollective, an Instagram run by Candace Reels, an intersectional feminist from Los Angeles who went from running the account to a full-fledged blog and online clothing store. Or @ladiesgetpaid, a women\u2019s network focused on sharing resources and job opportunities across the web.\n10. Indulge in a TED Talk on feminism.\nChoose from 10 talks that discuss different aspects of women empowerment. Examples include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u2019s speech that inspired her book, \u201cWe Should All Be Feminists,\u201d and Malala Yousafzai\u2019s father, Ziauddin Yousafzai\u2019s speech on his daughter. These talks will open your mind and inspire the ways in which you think about female empowerment.\n11. Call your local representatives to support and further promote equality for all.\nKeep up with issues that affect your community. Whether it\u2019s speaking out about women\u2019s reproductive rights, or protections for trans women, call up your local representative and make your voice heard. Check out USA.gov to get in touch with your local, state and federal officials.\n12. Register to vote.\nIt\u2019s important to remember the power we have when we cast a ballot. To learn more about how to register, click here.\n13. Learn about the women you weren\u2019t taught about in history class.\nFor many, just like Black History Month, the scope of Women\u2019s History Month is narrow or non-existent in school. Use this time to learn about the hundreds of women around the world who have paved the way for future generations. Whether its women from the past like Queen Hatshepsut, the first queen of Egypt, or Miss Major, a pioneer trans civil rights activist who was active in the Stonewall Riots, try to learn about a woman each day for the month of March.\n14. Find out about your own women\u2019s history.\nIt\u2019s important to remember the women in our own personal histories, too. Looking at old photo albums with family members can bring to light the past women in your family\u2019s narrative. But if you want to dive deeper, go online. Check out FamilySearch.org, a free ancestry site that has millions of records from around the world. The site also has tutorials and tips on how to look through archives.\n15. Continue to celebrate women beyond history month.\nEmpowering women and fighting for gender equality should go beyond 31 days. Continue to advocate for the rights of all women by practicing these methods above, or better yet come up with some methods of your own.\nMadeleine Crenshaw\nIn 1994, at the age of nine, I received my first \u201cserious\u201d diary as a gift from my grandmother. Though I \u2026\nFor Randi Zuckerberg, The Secret To Doing it All is Not Doing it All\nWork, sleep, family, friends, fitness; all important, but not all possible to do at once. Picking three o\u2026\nDiana Madison On New Show \u2018Glam Masters\u2019: \u201cA Lot Of Makeup Artists\u2019 Dream Is To Be Discovered by Kim Kardashian\u201d\nYou might call Diana Madison an \u201cIt Girl.\u201d That would certainly make sense considering her high profile l\u2026\nFrom Vogue Assistants to Startup Founders: Meet The Mothers Behind Maisonette\nFrom Vogue Assistants to Startup Founders: Meet The Mothers Behind Maisonette For fashion-forward parents\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 8903, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tarisio.com/cozio-archive/cozio-carteggio/david-tecchler-cello/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:09Z", "digest": "sha1:KLT7EYLSKWFGNKW7OBNTD3HWPDV3ABWI", "length": 6266, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "tarisio.com", "title": "David Tecchler cello, c. 1714 - Tarisio", "raw_content": "David Tecchler cello, c. 1714\nPlayed by Guy Johnston, this handsome cello has typically excellent materials, with a distinctive hazelficte ripple in the spruce of the top\nBy Jason Price April 25, 2017\nDavid Tecchler (c. 1666\u2013c. 1747) was the greatest of the Roman cello makers. Originally from the Bavarian town of F\u00fcssen on the northern slopes of the Alps, Tecchler came to Rome at the end of the 17th century. Over a working career of roughly 50 years, he made violins, violas, cellos, basses and some mandolins and lutes, but he is best known for his cellos. These are built on a large and broad pattern with a rounded full arch and an overall very powerful appearance.\nTecchler\u2019s materials were generally of excellent quality with the cellos in particular often using figured spruce and attractive maple covered in a tawny orange-brown varnish. Tecchler soundholes are a unique blend of Stainer and Amati influences with large and often rounded notches, elegant curved stems and tapered wings. They are set wide apart and low in the belly, giving them an easily recognisable appearance. The scrolls are also highly distinctive with a very narrow width between the ears, a deep and finely carved volute, and a chunky eye. Tecchler cellos have long been favoured by soloists for their colourful tonal range and their powerful, commanding resonance.\nDavid Tecchler cello, Rome, c. 1714. Photos: Tarisio\nThe back of this handsome cello is made of two pieces of \u2018oppio\u2019 maple with a narrow, rippling curl. Some sections are cut squarely on the quarter with horizontal flame, and others show a more slab-cut, irregular figure. The outline has been reduced to its present length of 73.4 cm but the central section \u2013 the corners and C-bouts \u2013 has been left untouched. The white of the purfling is in beech, as is typical of Tecchler, and the dark strips are stained a rich black. The arching is moderately full but the edges are fluted generously, with the lowest point of the channel set in a considerable distance from the purfling. The ribs are of similar maple to the back but cut squarely on the slab. Abundant plane and scraper marks, particularly on the ribs, give the cello a rich, rustic charm.\nThe scroll of this cello was made by Giovanni Grancino in Milan. It is not known when it was joined to the body but we can assume the original Tecchler head had been damaged in some way that prevented it from being adequately repaired. Stylistically the Grancino head is of the same period and suitably matches the strong and masculine character of the cello.\nThe front is striking in appearance both for its quality of spruce and for the elegance of the soundholes. Like many makers in Italy at the turn of the 18th century, Tecchler was greatly influenced by the Tyrolean maker Jacob Stainer. The soundholes of this cello show a Stainer influence, but their position on the belly of the instrument is distinctive to Tecchler. The distance between the upper lobes of the soundholes is an extreme 122 mm (this distance on a Stradivari forma-B cello is 92\u201393 mm). Likewise, the stems of the soundholes are slightly angled and taper more than a typical Stainer pattern. The spruce is of the highest quality and shows beautiful hazelficte, particularly in the lower bouts. The cello is covered in a vibrant golden-brown varnish.\nThe term \u2018violoncello\u2019 did not come into existence until the late 17th century, and the early instruments we nowadays refer to as cellos were in fact originally conceived as bassettos or violones. Nearly all 16th- and 17th-century precursors to the cello were larger than the modern standard, and instruments made by Tecchler were originally built a full 2\u20133 cm longer than the size we see today. Thanks in part to advancements in string-making technology, cellos with smaller body sizes began to be developed in the early- to mid-18th century, making it easier for cellists to play emerging virtuosic solo repertoire. The old, large-sized instruments soon became outmoded, and most violones were reduced in size in the following centuries.\nHazelficte causes a ripple in the normally straight grain of spruce and produces an irregular pattern similar to the flame of curly maple\nThe distinctive figurations running perpendicular to the grain on the top of this instrument are commonly seen in spruce used by Tecchler for his cellos. Known as hazelficte, this irregularity is found in dense, slow-growing spruce and for some instrument makers it indicates wood of superior tone qualities. Hazelficte causes a ripple in the normally straight grain of spruce and produces an irregular pattern similar to the flame of curly maple. For whatever reason, Tecchler cello tops are often highly marked with hazelficte, whereas the pattern is much less common in cellos from Cremona, Milan or Venice. In English hazelficte is known as \u2018bear claw\u2019 as the irregular, crescent-shaped figure looks like scratches from a bear. In Italian the wood is called abete macchiato.\nThe cello previously bore a processional hole\nLike many classical cellos, this instrument has a small round plug inserted just above the mid-point of the back, close to the centreline. Known as the \u2018processional hole\u2019, this is believed to be the point where a strap that musicians wore around their neck, was attached to the cello to support its weight. The term refers to the idea that cellists were required to carry the instrument in processions, though the strap could have also been used to support the cello when seated. Early iconography shows players holding the instrument between their legs, supporting it on a fixed wooden peg, or suspending it with a strap from their neck or shoulder. Evolving styles of playing in the early- to mid-18th century meant the processional hole was no longer necessary, and they were filled with the vestigial plug we see in the back of classical cellos today. The modern day adjustable end-pin, allowing cellists to position the instrument at the optimum height and angle, remarkably only came into widespread use in the late-19th century after it was made fashionable by the Belgian cellist Adrien Servais.\nRead our interview with Guy Johnston about his cello and how he marked its 300th anniversary with a trip to its birthplace in Rome.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 10923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/10/yelp-will-soon-let-you-skip-the-line-at-restaurants-thanks-to-nowait-partnership/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:09Z", "digest": "sha1:OEQPTEKKKW3NMQEYB2QFP4C5KY3YXRPQ", "length": 2439, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "techcrunch.com", "title": "Yelp will soon let you skip the line at restaurants thanks to Nowait partnership \u2013 TechCrunch", "raw_content": "Yelp will soon let you skip the line at restaurants thanks to Nowait partnership\nYelp and Nowait announced a partnership that will enable Yelp users to check nearby restaurants\u2019 wait times and \u201cget in line\u201d remotely from the Yelp app. Yelp will be making an $8 million strategic investment as part of the partnership, which was announced as part as Yelp\u2019s 2Q earnings release yesterday.\nBased in Pittsburgh, PA, Nowait is a mobile platform that has a network of more than 4,000 casual-dining restaurants across the country, including national chains such as Chili\u2019s and First Watch. By using the Nowait guest app, users can see how long they would have to wait at a restaurant that does not accept reservations, as well as put their names on the waitlist without being physically present at a restaurant.\nWhen their table is ready, users get a text message. Customers can also text back to say they\u2019re running late, and restaurants can decide whether or not to hold the table for them.\nNowait charges restaurants a monthly fee. The company, which received its first round of funding in August 2012, has now raised a total of $23.5 million.\nNowait\u2019s services will be integrated into the Yelp app \u201cin the coming months,\u201d said Ware Sykes, Nowait CEO, in an interview with TechCrunch. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a specific deadline.\u201d\n\u201cThis partnership has multiple benefits,\u201d said Sykes. \u201cIt helps us by enabling us to drive more traffic to our restaurants and it allows us to bring the Nowait experience to as many consumers as possible.\u201d\nAsked how the company is going to use the $8 million investment from Yelp, Sykes said: \u201cOur first priority is opening up the Yelp network to the Nowait restaurants. We are going to expand our restaurant and customer base.\u201d\nRestaurants are 18 percent of reviewed businesses by category on Yelp, the company said. According to Yelp\u2019s media relations, many people begin using Yelp to find restaurants, then discover other types of businesses, like plumbers and dog groomers.\nChad Richard, senior vice president for business development, said in an interview with TechCrunch that Yelp discovered the existence of Nowait thanks to references from friends and colleagues this spring.\n\u201cNowait is a very complementary service to our existing offering for consumers and restaurants,\u201d said Richard. \u201cThey have fundamentally created technology that replaces pen and paper systems for restaurants that don\u2019t take reservations.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 2622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/05/pebble-2-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:23Z", "digest": "sha1:IZXY6GQF6Z4NFSK7HWNTZNHP6TMW2NF5", "length": 8617, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "techcrunch.com", "title": "Pebble bets on simplicity \u2013 TechCrunch", "raw_content": "Pebble bets on simplicity\nThings have changed a lot in the four and a half years since Pebble first took to Kickstarter to help fund its first device. Apple\u2019s entered the space, Samsung has released about 200 different devices and Google has attempted to create some semblance of consistency among dozens of new players \u2014 all while fitness wearable manufacturers have continued to blur the lines of what an exercise tracker can do.\nFor its part, Pebble has offered up a few new lines, including the Time and Steel, but this year\u2019s Pebble 2 (while technically its third generation) marks the first true refresh to the company\u2019s primary line. So, what has the company that helped launch the space done to address an ever-shifting landscape? Not a ton \u2014 and that\u2019s really kind of the point.\nThe Pebble continues to be a simple piece of hardware, built around a black and white display with no touch functionality. Sure, there are some additional hardware features \u2014 namely heart rate (finally) \u2014 but in a world of ever-more complicated hardware offerings, Pebble\u2019s taking a different approach, with an eye toward simplicity.\nIt\u2019s a tough play in a world where advancement is measured in terms of bells and whistles, but Pebble\u2019s already got a solid foundation for its long-awaited sequel, along with a few years\u2019 worth of software upgrades. And, of course, at $129, long battery life and always-on display are nice starting points, as well.\nIf ain\u2019t broke\nSay what you will about Pebble\u2019s on-going Kickstarter-based business model, but, at the very least, it\u2019s proven that, in spite of dramatically increased competition and some trying economics, there\u2019s still enough interest to get the Pebble 2/Time 2/Core campaign into the top three all-time campaigns for the crowdfunding site \u2014 in fact, all but one of the top four slots belong to the company (with the other secured by an as of yet largely undelivered cooler).\nFans of the first-generation Pebble will, perhaps, be pleased to know that the latest version maintains a similar form factor. There are some key differences \u2014 the new version is thinner, lighter and more durable than the original, and the company has made some aesthetic tweaks to the case, making it slightly more angular and shifting the charging pins to the rear.\nThe four-button layout is the same as before \u2014 one on the left, three on the right. And, once again, that\u2019s your primary method for interacting with the device \u2014 still no touchscreen here. The display itself is 1.26 inches black and white 144 x 168 \u2014 not really worth comparing to, say, Apple or Samsung here. It\u2019s just a completely different ballpark.\nOf course, there are a number of positive hardware implications to the relatively low tech here \u2014 including the ability to be always on with little battery impact and a thinner profile. Pebble rates the battery at about a week \u2014 I found I was able to get a solid four to five days on a charge.\nAnd while the Pebble isn\u2019t exactly small by watch standards (it was pretty huge on my 5\u2032 4\u2033 co-worker\u2019s wrist), it\u2019s a heck of a lot more compact than a number of smartwatches out there \u2014 Samsung\u2019s most recent offering springs immediately to mind.\nUnlike a lot of others, I could slip it comfortably under my shirt\u2019s long sleeves with little issue. It\u2019s also light enough to be worn to bed for those looking to take advantage of its sleep tracking \u2014 certainly not something that can be said for a number of other smartwatches out there.\nFrom an aesthetic standpoint, the new Pebble, like its predecessor, is bound to be somewhat polarizing. The baseline device is, perhaps, the Swatch to Samsung\u2019s Bulova \u2014 and at $129, it\u2019s priced to match. Just don\u2019t be surprised when its plastic case doesn\u2019t quite go with your Italian business suit. Thankfully, the company\u2019s also got some classier (and pricier) pieces of hardware.\nSomewhere in timeline\nThe new Pebble maintains the company\u2019s familiar timeline UI. It\u2019s simple, and because Pebble makes its own hardware and software, it works pretty well. For those who haven\u2019t spent any time with the product, it\u2019s pretty easy to pick up, scrolling backward through time in a manner similar to Android Wear\u2019s card system.\nPebble also makes the most of its limited screen resolution with some simple animations, like a flapping bird for Twitter and unfolding envelope for Gmail. It\u2019s a nice little touch that makes the basic black and white layout more engaging than the bare bones you get with most fitness trackers. Depending on the variety, notifications either take up the full screen or slot in the bottom third, as is the case with weather updates.\nIt\u2019s nice to look at, simple to engage with and easier on the eyes than many existing displays. Though for those accustomed to the instant gratification of touchscreens, navigating all those menus by way of side buttons can get a bit cumbersome.\nYou can do a lot on the watch itself, though you\u2019re going to need to utilize the smartphone app from time to time, including set up, any time you need to fiddle with notifications and other settings and when the time comes to change watch faces and add apps. There are 15,000 watch faces and apps.\nThat leaves a lot of room overlap, but some will prove indispensable like the Uber app, which offers a simple pickup based on canned locations. The Pebble ecosystem has been around long enough for app developers to learn how to make the most of limited screen real estate. And third-parties have certainly asked the question of why that plagued Pebble early on. Even still, if you attempt to do much beyond the very basics, you\u2019re going to find your head banging against the ceiling on the Pebble 2\u2019s hardware limitations.\nWorking (and rocking) out\nLet\u2019s be real for a minute. In 2016, there\u2019s no scenario in which the addition of basic fitness tracking qualifies as cutting edge. Pebble\u2019s embrace of the functionality seemed almost begrudging, finally acknowledging that it has become a (if not the) key driver in wearable adoption and rolling out Pebble Health in earnest late last year, while activating native step and fitness tracking on its newer devices \u2014 all those save for the Pebble Classic (Pebble 1) and Pebble Classic Steel.\nThe Pebble 2 and Pebble Time 2 take things a step further, with the addition of built-in heart-rate monitoring, a standard optical sensor on the rear of the device that takes a read of the wearer\u2019s pulse every 10 minutes or so, so as to not put too much of a toll on the battery.\nFootstep and sleep tracking are both accomplished through a built-in, accelerometer. The step tracking is decent, but did seem to miss some of my steps along the way. The sleep tracking, meanwhile, is compared to some of what\u2019s offered on existing wearables, relying on the accelerometer to determine how much you move around during the night. That said, it did a fairly good job knowing when I was asleep. Related: I really need to get more sleep.\nAll of that info feeds into the Health vertical, which is built directly into the standard Pebble app. It\u2019s nice to have all that info in one location, but things do feel a bit tightly packed. Pebble would do well to offer it as a standalone option for those who want more than just a quick glance at their vitals.\nThe other built-in feature that warrants a quick mention is music playback. Functionality is pretty simple \u2014 fire up a song on your handset via Apple Music, Spotify and the like, and then you can play/pause and skip through tracks on the small screen. It\u2019s fairly limited functionality, but it\u2019ll save you from having to pull out your phone to do the same.\nIf nothing else, it seems like another good opportunity to build in voice functionality via the Pebble 2\u2019s built-in mic.\nThe smartwatch landscape is virtually unrecognizable from where it was four and half years ago when Pebble first entered the scene via Kickstarter. Much of Pebble\u2019s initial appeal was thanks to it being one of the first big players on the scene, and the startup is hoping its simplicity was a big part of its success, as well.\nAs such, the device doesn\u2019t represent a huge upgrade over its predecessor. The addition of health functionality is nice, as is the overall streamlining of the hardware. Users who have been waiting for an upgrade to the baseline Pebble will appreciate the touches here and there, and certainly the $129 price point and several-days-long battery are nice touches.\nBut it\u2019s hard to shake the feeling that, after all this time, the company that put smartwatches on the map really ought to be doing more to shake things up several years after it first hit the scene.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 8840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techiegamers.com/resident-evil-revelations-coming-playstation-4-xbox-one-nintendo-switch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:45Z", "digest": "sha1:VNVHPP2Q2LBX6QAUVWVNN5SXOSWQYL55", "length": 1424, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "techiegamers.com", "title": "'Resident Evil: Revelations' Is Coming To PlayStation 4, Xbox One, And Nintendo Switch | Techie + Gamers", "raw_content": "\u2018Resident Evil: Revelations\u2019 Is Coming\u2026\nResident Evil: Revelations originally came out back in 2012, but the survival horror game is being updated and released for modern consoles that were not on the market at that time. PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch are all getting their own version of Resident Evil: Revelations.\nThe game, which takes place between Resident Evil 4 and Resident Evil 5 canonically, features the characters of Jill Valentine and Chris Redfield aboard the abandoned cruise ship the Queen Zenobia. Considering that this is a Resident Evil game, you probably can guess how that turns out.\nThe look of the game has been improved, as it is now available in a smoother 1920\u00d71080 resolution, and the framerate has gotten a boost as well. This all gives the game better detail and creature movement, as video games have obviously come a long way since 2012. Additionally, all previously released downloadable content will be available in the game as unlockable rewards. The game also featured the return of Raid Mode, and it includes a \u201cfresh take\u201d on the popular stage \u201cThe Ghost Ship: Chaos.\u201d\nResident Evil: Revelations will be available for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 29, while the Switch version will come out a bit later in 2017. If it\u2019s been a little while since you played the older version of the game, maybe you\u2019ll want to pick up this new, improved version for a modern console.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teenchallengesuperthrift.cc/testimonial/kevin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:43Z", "digest": "sha1:N3UFT732ETRIYJHDDLWYYFSNIS56YUMX", "length": 1097, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "teenchallengesuperthrift.cc", "title": "Kevin \u2013 SuperThrift", "raw_content": "SuperThrift has been a very challenging part of my time with Teen Challenge. I was a part of the initial team who saw our SuperThrift store open and grow into the fine establishment it is today. I run the cash register, meaning I get to represent Teen Challenge to everyone who walks through the door. I enjoy the opportunity to share my testimony or simply give a warm greeting or smile.\nI\u2019ve learned at SuperThrift the importance of working with God, and not just for God. One of the details of my job is straightening the clothes on the rack. Amid the daily jumble and hard work, I picked up the saying, \u201cI found God in between the hangers.\u201d It was in these moments, amid the long hours, trial and error, and team building challenges, that I drew close to God, and He drew near to me. He taught me over the years and with Teen Challenge the blessings that come from long-suffering and the value of holding my post until my duty is complete.\n\u201cGod is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them\u201d (Hebrews 6:10).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tenkdays.wordpress.com/2008/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:31Z", "digest": "sha1:YSSRXFEEZLQ4F2IUFN4BRRCVTWX3PWVK", "length": 8918, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "tenkdays.wordpress.com", "title": "August | 2008 | 10kdays", "raw_content": "Okay, I\u2019m going to end the lovely ladies of rock theme for now and I\u2019m going to do something I did last year and take a look at the new TV season. I love TV and I\u2019m usually excited when it\u2019s time for the new season\u2026except for this year. This year, I\u2019m scratching my head and wondering if there\u2019s anything that I\u2019m going to watch. Let\u2019s take a look network by network (non cable). First up, what\u2019s going on over at CBS.\nWell they cancelled Moonlight, Cane, Jericho, Kid Nation and some others. The loss of Jericho is a bad thing (the world always needs good sci-fi) but most of the other losses aren\u2019t too bad. So what are they adding and keeping? There will be more Amazing Race, that\u2019s good, and more Big Brother, that\u2019s bad. There\u2019s gonna be a lot of CSI as usual and a bunch of other stuff that I don\u2019t usually watch except for Million Dollar Password and the Ghost Whisperer. And only one of those two things I watch for the entertainment. So what about new shows\u2026well, there are some interesting new shows like Eleventh Hour (a very X-files-esque show about people who stop misuses of science) and The Mentalist (a show about a psychic cop). So who knows, maybe this will be the year that I give a damn about some CBS.\nSo what about some music, you say? The cast of the Mentalist includes Robin Tunney. Robin Tunney\u2019s long movie career has included some flicks with very good soundtracks such as Empire Records, The Craft and End of Days. The latter included a Guns and Roses single. If I\u2019m not mistaken, it\u2019s the most recent G&R single. That\u2019s so sad since it was released in 1999. (Have no fear, new single \u201cShackler\u2019s Revenge\u201d coming soon)\nSong 658- \u201cOh My God\u201d by Guns n\u2019 Roses\nWow, this is a harder theme than I thought. I listen to a lot of female musicians but this is looking at them in a different fashion. It\u2019s interesting though which is why I continue on. And next up is the band Within Temptation. Temptation, huh. When you have a lead singer as lovely as Sharon den Adel, it\u2019s a very fitting name.\nI\u2019ve seen quite a few lists of the \u201csexiest women in rock\u201d as I\u2019ve done research for this theme and I\u2019ve never seen her on the lists. Why the hell not? It\u2019s a travesty. Take a look at this cover they do of Kate Bush\u2019s \u201cRunning Up That Hill\u201d. It\u2019s better than Placebo\u2019s cover and of equal calibre to sweatysuedelips\u2019 cover. And in this video, den Adel is a superstar. She\u2019s captivating from the first moment she appears on screen in her angel wings.\nSong 657- \u201cRunning Up That Hill\u201d by Within Temptation\nBut how does she look without all the music video smoke and mirrors? Does she still captivate. Hell yes. Maybe even moreso. Check out the song live\nDuring the original conversation that spawned this theme, Tori Amos came up. And one of the people basically said that he doesn\u2019t like the music but he does love to watch her ride a piano bench. I found that a little creepy but I will admit that there\u2019s always been a certain sexuality that goes along with Tori. Recent years she\u2019s been more Mommy/Hippie Goddess but for a long while her sexy side was a considerable part of the package.\nI\u2019ve already posted about 3 Tori songs in this blog (\u201ciieee\u201d, \u201cShe\u2019s your Cocaine\u201d and \u201cBig Wheel\u201d). I posted Big Wheel because the video sucks. The other two I posted because of my love of the Choirgirl Hotel album. That means I have neglected the other Tori albums. And if I\u2019m talking Tori sexy, there are a lot of places to go on the other albums. Take for instance \u201cChina\u201d. Nothing like Tori is a skin tight outfit and crawling around. Actually, there is something that beats that. \u201cCaught a Lite Sneeze\u201d, the perfect mix of attractive Tori and brilliant song. One of my all time favorite songs.\nSong 656- \u201cCaught A Lite Sneeze\u201d by Tori Amos\nAnd look, it\u2019s a live video for those who wanna see her at the piano\u2026\nI recently heard the phrase \u201cMorningwood makes puppets sexy\u201d. I knew what they were talking about but it still was a very disturbing statement. Morningwood is an awesome band. I don\u2019t know how I got ahead of the curve with listening to them but I have been listening to the band for years now. and I used to read lead singer Chantal Claret\u2019s many myspace bulletins back in the day before the band started blowing up. And now I see them on MTV all the time with their new song.\nThe band may be very diminished, down to its core of Chantal and Pedro Yanowitz, but the music is still good and Chantal\u2019s powerful presence which is 1 part sexy, 1 part energy and 2 parts fun continues to be present. Their newest song \u201cSugarbaby\u201d has a great video done with puppets. And that\u2019s all I\u2019m going to say because if you haven\u2019t seen it, I\u2019m not giving away any of the plot. It\u2019s a you-have-to-see-to-believe video.\nSong 655- \u201cSugarbaby\u201d by Morningwood\nOne of my favorite albums of all time is \u201cSonic Jihad\u201d by the band Snake River Conspiracy. The band had a lot going for it. It was the brainchild of Jason Slater, a former member of Third Eye Blind, who wanted to go a completely different route with his music. He hooked up with various talented musicians and then put the cheery on top with the addition of singer Tobey Torres.\nThe band had the sound which was a mix of rock and electronica. They had the look. They had the songs including a two well done covers (The Cure\u2019s \u201cLove Song\u201d and The Smiths\u2019 \u201cHow Soon is Now\u201d, the latter of which I posted about at #509). But having all those pluses doesn\u2019t mean you can keep the band together. SRC broke up for reasons unknown on two different occasions! Guess all that musical chemistry doesn\u2019t all equal personal chemistry. But at least I\u2019ll always have Sonic Jihad.\nSong 654- \u201cStrangled\u201d by Snake River Conspiracy\nThis live video also includes one of my favorite YouTube comments ever, regarding how the band sounds live and the hotness of Tobey Torres:\nWhite Zombie Syndrome. There\u2019s so much production on the record that it\u2019s prohibitively expensive to duplicate it live. Given the hugeness of this song on the CD, I think they did a pretty good job playin it live. But, more importantly:\nHoly Jesus, she\u2019s a piece of ass! Bathe her\u2026and bring her to me!\nI don\u2019t know who you are fyresyde1066, but you get kudos from me.\nThanks LJ for making me miss a day due to the inability to log-in. Grrr.\nIt\u2019s Day 2 of my theme- \u201cMy music is my hot hot sex\u201d and I\u2019m all about Bjork today. I just got a copy of Medulla. I\u2019ve never owned the whole album. And the cover of Medulla is much with the sexy.\nBut that\u2019s not surprising at all. She has always excluded incredible beauty and sexiness. Back at Post 471, I talked about the video for \u201cPagan Poetry\u201d featuring a very topless Bjork. Back at #140, I talked about \u201cBig Time Sensuality\u201d which has Bjork at her spritely best. And at #141, I talked about \u201cPossibly Maybe\u201d which in my opinion is the most amazing visual love letter I have ever seen as Stephane Sednaoui portrays Bjork as the most beautiful woman in the world. So I have talked a lot of how attractive she is. So I figure I\u2019ll center on how amazing Medulla is because beautiful without talent ain\u2019t cutting it here. And Medulla is a great feat. The album is mostly mouth sounds but it\u2019s so deep and complex. She never stops experimenting with her music and that\u2019s the best thing about her.\nSong 653- \u201cWho Is It (Carry My Joy on the Left, Carry My Pain on the Right)\u201d by Bj\u00f6rk\nAnd here it is live, which is fascinating to see\nOkay shake to its foundations make have been an exaggeration but this is a new theme. It\u2019s born out of a conversation over at my online home- Songfight! The conversation was about the use of sex appeal in music. Does a musician lose cred for being sexy? I never answered the question in the conversation. Well, my answer is no. So what? If they can back it up as a musician, go for it. For some people, sexy is just part of the package (as long as it\u2019s not the whole package). I\u2019m not gonna hate on Tom Jones for sexing up the ladies because he backs it with good music (I\u2019m a Tom Jones fan). So, for the next few posts (and it may be quite a few if I enjoy the theme), I will be posting about several of my favorite sexy female musicians in a theme I call \u201cMusic is my hot hot sex\u201d.\nI figure a perfect place to start this theme is with Fiona Apple. I will never forget the amount of media fracas that came along with her video for Criminal. Mark Romanek is a very smart music video director. He did such videos as \u201cHurt\u201d by Johnny Cash and \u201cGot Til It\u2019s Gone\u201d by Janet Jackson. Both of those examples as well as \u201cCriminal\u201d include imagery that stick with the artists. Romanek made a vision of Fiona that was full of raw sex appeal. Maybe a little too raw in some people\u2019s opinions as it was often compared with the Calvin Klein mid-90\u2019s advertising. But it really played into the sensuality of the song. And Fiona sold it all the way, making one of the most unforgettable videos of the time.\nSong 652- \u201cCriminal\u201d by Fiona Apple", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 10782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://texasvolunteerattorneys.org/dna-testing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:11Z", "digest": "sha1:FT4KLMUQ6COLFMKMEYFIMICOEIF4FULP", "length": 334, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "texasvolunteerattorneys.org", "title": "Affordable DNA Paternity Testing - Volunteer Attorneys \u2013 Texas", "raw_content": "If you are ordered to pay child support for a child that you suspect may not be yours, or have just never had a DNA paternity testing conducted to confirm if you are the child\u2019s father, you need to call now. The organization is a certified DNA sample collection entity and can let you know with certainty if you are the father or not.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2760, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theallegrasolution.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/health-telematics-and-its-enhancement-of-remote-healthcare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:52Z", "digest": "sha1:S5G6FR2AI6TGZFWPTGQAKQ5A2JJDXWIO", "length": 2759, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "theallegrasolution.wordpress.com", "title": "Health telematics and it\u2019s enhancement of remote healthcare \u2013 Allegra", "raw_content": "remote disease control, remote medical support, Telematic Medical Applications\nTelematic Medical Applications is one of the newest and most powerful of recent additions to the health care management solutions. The many benefits of Telematic Medical Applications make it an area of rapid development in rural, regional, national, and international health care initiatives. People can be diagnosed and treated at local clinics, without having to travel to distant hospitals. Telematic Medical Applications can also reduce the isolation of chronically ill or handicapped persons.\nHealth information and education can be made available in communities of hitherto disadvantaged and under-served populations. In addition, the possibility of home\nmonitoring of chronically ill patients reduces admissions to, and lengths of stay in hospital. Besides leading to direct improvements in public health services, including emergency medicine and triage in emergency situations, Telematic Medical Applications also, more indirectly, increases support among medical personnel working in remote and isolated areas, making traditionally under-served areas more attractive to beginning professionals in medicine, education, and other areas.\nOne World Health Organization (WHO) group has defined health telematics as a\n\u201ccomposite term for health-related activities, services and systems, carried out over a\ndistance by means of information and telecommunication technologies, for the purposes\nof global health promotion, disease control and health care, as well as education,\nmanagement, and research for health.\u201d\nTelematic Medical Applications supports many healthcare efforts, including preventive checkups and care for basic illnesses and injuries \u2014 essentially, the kinds of issues a family doctor would address. But one of its most important functions is to facilitate patient evaluation during emergencies. In an article written by Dr. Philip Sotiriades, general director of Telematic Medical Applications. he stated that, \u201cVirtual consultations allow a physician specialist to work in conjunction with first responders and determine which injuries are truly emergent and require costly transportation, and which can be handled on-site.\u201d\nTelematic Medical Applications is a leading Healthcare System Integrator and Value Added Solutions Provider in the area of Integrated Computer science.\nhttp://www.allegra.co.za/solutions.html\nhttp://www.emsworld.com/pressrelease/12068241/telematic-medical-applications-enhances-remote-healthcare-management-for-shipping-crews\nHealth Telematics and its Societal Implications \u2013 eolss.net\ntelematic health support\nPrevious Post Telemedicine Keeps the Doctor Away\nNext Post Improving Pharmacy operations with Allegra Healthcare Solutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 6055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theampersandwich.com/tag/medication/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:22Z", "digest": "sha1:HJYCEJRMGMKPUPCTPGKPUJJXJVSHJB7H", "length": 8380, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "theampersandwich.com", "title": "medication | the ampersandwich", "raw_content": "A Number of Things Not to Say to Someone with Chronic Pain\nHappy Migraine Monday.\nI spent the entirety of last week with a migraine. I powered through the work day, went home and ate whatever paltry dinner I could muster, and crashed. By Thursday, I was spent. I had the foresight to write my blog posts during recess and lunch, because I knew the evening would provide no writing time. Sleep tends to take priority over writing.\nMy migraines ebb and flow. Sometimes I have an aura, sometimes I do not. Sometimes my eyes are photosensitive, sometimes only the right one functions correctly. All of them have this in common: They diminish my ability to function at full steam. And unless I say something, they remain invisible to all but those who are closest to me: my students, my closest colleagues, and my dearest friends.\nSometimes the facade cracks, and someone else sees a brief glimpse of how hard I\u2019m working to keep going. The secondary language arts teacher in the Blind/Visually Impaired department saw me pause to take a collecting breath before Romeo and Juliet practice on Thursday and gasped. How do you function like that?? I told her I just keep moving. If I stop moving, inertia takes over. As long as I don\u2019t stop, I don\u2019t have to think about it.\nThursday night, when I finally stopped, inertia took over. If anyone is wondering how long I sleep after a week of working with a migraine, the short answer is \u201c18 hours.\u201d The long answer is \u201c18 hours, only waking once to text my boss and my carpool to tell them that the sun (not having risen) was already too bright and I was staying under the covers. I missed the only Friday I was supposed to work this month.\nI used to be punctual. I used to follow through on plans and commitments, eagerly volunteering for committees and extra duties at work and church. I helped build a roller derby league as the president, spending every weekend stomping through town for sponsors and practice spaces and new skaters; I haven\u2019t done a thing in a year. I just can\u2019t. Every plan I make now has a footnote: plans may be canceled or altered with little to no prior notice because blood vessels are fickle.\nThe thing about migraines is that the only people who understand them are neurologists and other people who have them. They aren\u2019t just headaches and more than fibromyalgia is just some aches and pains. These are debilitating conditions.\nA wheelchair user shouldn\u2019t have to apologize for a building\u2019s barely-meets-ADA accessibility if she is late for a meeting. A deaf patient should not have to apologize that the interpreter provided for his appointment is late, unprepared, or otherwise not up to the task of providing the services needed at a medical appointment.\nI am tired of apologizing for my blood vessels.\nThis brings me back to Friday\u2019s text messages, and, really, every text message or email I\u2019ve had to send and conversation I\u2019ve had to cancel plans due to a migraine. As I mentioned last week, my auditory processing takes a huge hit when I have a migraine. And my anxiety spikes. Phone calls have been one of my anxiety triggers since middle school, and the added strain of slow processing does nothing to help that situation. Text messages are what keep me tethered to the \u201cnormal\u201d world.\nIn the spirit of Everyday Feminism\u2019s 7 Things to Avoid Saying to Pregnant People and 7 Racially Coded Phrases That Everyone Needs to Stop Saying About Black People, (which are among the very few listicles that actually teach me something!) I give you my list:\nA Number of Things People Need to Stop Saying to Migraineurs (and probably to other people who have chronic pain)\n1. Oh, it\u2019s too bad you\u2019re canceling, because you\u2019re missing [blank].\nI want to throw my phone when I get this message. I\u2019ve already cringed my way through the screen light assaulting my retinas to send you my cancellation. Chances are I already know what I\u2019m missing. And, frankly, I\u2019m hyper-aware of what I am missing. The collaboration time with my colleagues? Coffee with a friend I haven\u2019t seen in a month? You can bet I\u2019m as disappointed as you are. You don\u2019t have to point out how disappointed I should be. This has been going on for over a year now, I\u2019m well aware of how much it sucks.\nAlternative: I\u2019m sorry to hear that. I hope you are on your feet soon. Or just a Thanks for letting me know.\nYes, I know. I feel like it, too. To be honest, coming from the right person, I don\u2019t mind hearing this. It means that someone knows how hard I\u2019m trying to power through the day. But other times, it means I\u2019m not faking it as well as I thought I was, which just makes me sad. Let me have my illusion sometimes, k?\nAlternative: Can I get you some coffee?\n3. You look a lot better than yesterday!\nReally? Geez, I must have looked awful yesterday.\n4. Have you tried [blank] for treatment?\nUnless you are my primary physician, my neurologist, or a fellow migraineur, your suggestion might make me laugh out loud. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m trying to be rude. It\u2019s just that when I\u2019ve been to the urgent care clinic to get shots of painkillers in my hips and it still takes 4 days for the migraine to subside, your nutritional shake sounds a little silly in comparison. In church last week, there was a group of us discussing the different antidepressants we\u2019ve tried over the last decade, our dosages, the side effects we\u2019ve had, what works best about them. It is a conversation that would be completely foreign to someone who has never experienced a life with depression. And if someone had joined our conversation and said, \u201cWell, I read that if you just eat more bananas, it really helps with the winter blues,\u201d we probably would have stared at that person with our jaws slightly agape. Not even on the same playing field. That\u2019s how I feel when someone suggests putting a cottonball full of lavender on my windowsill.\nAlso, migraines already rule my life; I don\u2019t want every conversation to be about my new antiepileptic drug. And once you ask me, I\u2019ll just keep rambling and I\u2019ll probably tell you about how the migraines affect my IBS, too. So before you ask, make sure you actually want to know about my treatment. And then think about the fact that some migraine patients have menstrual migraines, and then ask yourself if you really want to insert yourself into such a personal conversation between me and my doctor.\nAlternative: Seriously, if you are really curious about my treatment, ask yourself why you want to know. I\u2019m usually an open book. That doesn\u2019t mean you want to read it. You\u2019re better off just giving me some coffee.\n5. Have you tried a detox?\nYes, I already pooped today. Next.\n6. [Missing meetings, losing your voice, doctor\u2019s appointments, etc.] is really impacting your job performance. You need to leave your home life at home.\nI know. We know. When I was going through my divorce, I felt scrutinized when I had an off week. And I admit I had some pretty off weeks. What I didn\u2019t know was that through my work\u2019s insurance, I could have had five free counseling or therapy sessions that could have helped in the aftermath and reorganization of my life after my husband and I split up. That, right there, was the perfect alternative. Those same sessions could help with the depression that has resurfaced as a result of these migraines.\nOther Alternatives: anything that involves talking WITH instead of talking TO is a better choice, in my book. Because we\u2019re adults, right?\n7. Well, at least it\u2019s not [blank].\nNo. Just no. You do not get to use my condition to reinforce your concept of disability hierarchies. When my friend James was in end-stage kidney disease and on dialysis, people would attempt to console him with such platitudes. I have been on the receiving end of this \u201cencouragement\u201d as well. My migraines are debilitating. Full stop. Food allergies and Celiac disease are life altering. Full stop. Don\u2019t compare us. Don\u2019t rank us. Just don\u2019t. It\u2019s not a comfort. It\u2019s ableist and it\u2019s damaging.\nIn summary, don\u2019t be a jerk. If you don\u2019t know what to say, ask me how I\u2019m doing today. Ask me if I need anything. And if all else fails, bring me coffee. Seriously. My neurologist said so.\nPosted in Disability, Migraine Monday and tagged ableism, Celiac, coffee, dehumanization, disability, disability hierarchy, doctors, food allergy, language, medication on January 19, 2015 by Danielle D. 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She uses Color & Chic as an outlet to explore the realms of travel and fashion, but she also stands out for the charitable work she does through her nonprofit Legacy Organization of Vietnamese Enrichment (L.O.V.E.). In a few years, she\u2019s raised thousands of dollars for South Vietnamese veterans living in Vietnam. \"My family immigrated to America from communist Vietnam so we could live in a country with freedom, justice and human rights.\" she says. \"I\u2019m so grateful to them for having the bravery and courage to do so.\" To her, love is communicated through actions.\nBrock and Chris are the duo behind Yummertime, a popular San Francisco blog dedicated to those who \u201crefuse to accept rules and live a boring life.\u201d The love between the newly engaged duo grew during an unexpected moment. Their relationship never would have gotten off the ground, however, if they didn\u2019t approach life in a similar way: with compassion and total acceptance of others. Hear more about their personal manifestos when it comes to love in all areas of life.\nDon't forget to tell us how you define love by using #LoveEquals and tagging @bumble!\nInside The Hive: Meet Dr. Jess, Bumble's New In-House Sociologist\nBumble HQCaitlin Ryan February 14, 2018 HQ, Brand Basics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theblackbusinessschool.com/courses/how-to-buy-and-run-a-successful-franchise/lectures/3412187", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SMH4BFKLMWOL77EQF534EFGWLCCN3KR4", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "theblackbusinessschool.com", "title": "Q & A with Attorney Nebo ( 9/19/2017) | The Black Business School", "raw_content": "Q & A with Attorney Nebo ( 9/19/2017)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 8451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 118.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theblacksphere.net/2013/02/revising-the-american-revolution/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HLM7SB432OUU6DJEBVKYKLFG76YNJGD4", "length": 2038, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theblacksphere.net", "title": "Revising the American Revolution | The Black Sphere with Kevin Jackson | TheBlackSphere.net", "raw_content": "Revising the American Revolution\nIn the O-hole\u2019s inaugural address, he quoted our Declaration of Independence:\nAnd, while all the ObamaPhone low information voters fawned and swayed with mouths agape and drool falling off their faces, he continued by adding,\u201cOur union was founded on the principles of liberty and equality.\u201d Hey, O-hole \u2026 no \u2026 it wasn\u2019t. As Pat Buchanan pointed out a few days ago (http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/obama-has-hijacked-the-american-revolution/), our American Union was NOT founded on the principle of \u201cequality.\u201d \u201cEquality\u201d is NOT mentioned in the Constitution; \u201cequality\u201d is NOT mentioned in the Bill of Rights; \u201cequality\u201d is NOT mentioned in the Federalist Papers. How could equality be a founding principle of a nation, six of whose 13 original states had legalized slavery, and five of whose first seven presidents owned slaves all their lives?\nWhat the O-Hole preached to his perpetually pissed and dumbed down dependent constituents in his inaugural was NOT historical truth but progressive propaganda, an Orwellian rewrite of American history.\nThe skinny socialist thinks the only reason \u201cit\u201d didn\u2019t work before is because it wasn\u2019t him in control. He and the progressive socialist Democraps don\u2019t think beyond their own power, and never learn the lessons of history, or don\u2019t give a crap about the lessons of history. Socialism is not, was not, and never will be about their stated goals of economics, fairness, or any other egalitarian interests. It is solely about concentrating power by any means necessary. All those stated goals are just the excuses for taking the liberties of another by force \u2013 \u201cit\u2019s what\u2019s best for everybody.\u201d\nIt boils down so succinctly \u2026 you can view all the principle issues and eventual outcomes in this one old and original video, Make Mine Freedom (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVUVacU8UOM). It\u2019s a cartoon\u2014so maybe even the O-hole supporters will be able to grasp it\u2014or at least enjoy the pretty colors between tokes of the doobies they buy with their food stamp cards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebusiness.com.pk/2019/02/13/faiz-ahmed-faizs-108th-birth-anniversary-being-observed-today/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:15Z", "digest": "sha1:MNECP44XKJEQ57LCQHWY5IV42MOFTZ5N", "length": 2379, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "thebusiness.com.pk", "title": "Faiz Ahmed Faiz\u2019s 108th birth anniversary being observed today - Daily The Business", "raw_content": "The 108th birth anniversary of revolutionary Urdu poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz is being observed today.\nBorn in Sialkot on February 13, 1911, Faiz in 1963 became the first Asian poet to be awarded the Lenin Peace Prize, the Soviet Union\u2019s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. He was also the recipient of other awards including the Nigar Awards, HRC Peace Prize, Nishan-e-Imtiaz and Avicenna Prize.\nHis notable works include Naqsh-e-Faryadi, Dast-e-Sabah and Zindan-nama.\nFaiz married Alys Faiz \u2013 a British national who had a tremendous influence on his life and poetry. They had two daughters \u2014 Saleema and Muneeza.\nIn 1936, he started a branch of Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind in Punjab and was also a member and secretary of this branch.\nFaiz had also worked as editor of Mahanama Adab-e-Lateef (1938 1942 AD) and became a lecturer in English at MAO College, Amritsar in 1935 and then at Hailey College of Commerce, Lahore.\nHe briefly joined the British Indian Army and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1944, but resigned in 1947 and returned to Lahore to become the first editor-in-chief of Pakistan Times \u2014 a paper started by Mian Iftikharuddin under Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah\u2019s patronage. This paper played an important role in the partition.\nFaiz spent much of the 1950s and 1960s promoting communism in Pakistan.\nHe was charged with complicity in a failed coup attempt known as the Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case and was sentenced to four years of imprisonment in 1951.\nThe jail term gave him a first-hand experience of the harsh realities of life and provided him with much-needed solitude to think and write poetry.\nDast-e-Saba and Zindan Nama were products of this period of imprisonment.\nIn 1959 he was appointed secretary Pakistan Arts Council and worked in that capacity till 1962.\nReturning from London in 1964, he settled down in Karachi and was appointed the principal at Abdullah Haroon College.\nFaiz distinguished himself as a journalist and was editor of the Pakistan Times, the Urdu newspaper Imroze and the weekly Lail-o-Nihar.\nIn the 1965 war between India and Pakistan, he worked in an honourary capacity in the Department of Information.\nIn exile, he acted as editor of the magazine Lotus in Moscow, London and Beirut.\nFaiz Ahmed Faiz's 108th birth anniversary being observed today\nMQM-London \u2018target-killer\u2019 arrested during Karachi raid", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 6481, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 138.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thefallen.militarytimes.com/army-spc-richard-a-hardy/1206340", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:51Z", "digest": "sha1:MEKZGCM3IEBXAFKL3WUOP4N7L6MN54SX", "length": 1085, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thefallen.militarytimes.com", "title": "Army Spc. Richard A. Hardy| Military Times", "raw_content": "Army Spc. Richard A. Hardy\n24, of Newcomerstown, Ohio; assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.; killed Oct. 15 when an improvised explosive device detonated near his M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during combat operations in Ramadi, Iraq.\nTuscarawas County soldier killed in Iraq\nBOLIVAR, Ohio \u2014 A soldier from Bolivar in Tuscarawas County has died in Iraq, his father said.\nArmy Spc. Richard Hardy died Oct.15 in Ramadi with four other soldiers when a rocket-propelled grenade got inside their tank and exploded, said his father, Richard \u201cRick\u201d Hardy of Dennison..\nThe 24-year-old Hardy was on his second tour of duty in Iraq.\nMaster Sgt. James Waialae of the 758th Maintenance Company in Canton says it was a lucky shot that killed the five soldiers. He said the grenade must have entered the tank through an open hatch.\nHardy lived in Bolivar until his parents divorced, then lived in the Canton area for a while until he moved back with his father in Dennison. He graduated from Timken High School in Canton in 2000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 196.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehearsayatl.com/tag/photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:56Z", "digest": "sha1:KTKRSU7MI5WCTAO4SRCCPRGV2NRNR3TU", "length": 1968, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "thehearsayatl.com", "title": "photos \u2013 The Hearsay", "raw_content": "April 4, 2017 April 4, 2017 Updates Leave a comment musicnewsphotosshowsUpdates\n\u2026and to our first blog post!\nProper photos, an EP release, a website\u2026we\u2019ve really been getting on our game in 2017 #swag\nSo here\u2019s more about what we\u2019ve been up to lately:\nTiny Fractions EP \u2013 Our 4-song EP features three original songs and one of our mash-ups (\u2018Timber\u2019 by Pitbull/Ke$ha with \u20182 Heads\u2019 by Coleman Hell). All songs were recorded, mixed and mastered by Jeremy Nichols at CoCoa Break Studios in Woodstock, GA. We\u2019re super excited to share these with the world, so take a listen and give us a follow on Spotify!\nPhoto Shoot \u2013 We finally got some professional-quality photos\u2026we figured with the EP release it was time! Our good friend Emily Holst is a fantastic photographer and did a wonderful job with our awkward selves. Photos were taken at various locations around the Marietta Square, mainly at our favorite two bars Johnnie MacCrackens and Two Birds Taphouse.\n500 Songs For Kids \u2013 We love to perform in the 500 Songs For Kids event benefitting the Songs For Kids Foundation every year. Although this is the first year for The Hearsay, it was Ashton\u2019s 6th year and Travis\u2019 3rd. It\u2019s an amazing organization with the mission to enrich the lives of children suffering from illness and hardship. We performed on April 1st with the song \u201cBelieve\u201d by Cher (watch the video here)! And BONUS, they asked us to do an encore performance on April 28th\u2013 we\u2019ll be performing one of our usual covers Amy Winehouse\u2019s \u201cValerie\u201d at Smith\u2019s Olde Bar.\nBBQ & Brews Festivals \u2013 We got our start as a band a little over a year ago when we were asked to play at the first BBQ & Brews Festival in Canton, GA. Created by a friend of Ashton\u2019s, the BBQ & Brews team has been very good to us\u2013 we played at the one in Ellijay in September, and just played the one in Cartersville this past weekend on April 1st. We\u2019ll be at this year\u2019s Canton festival on April 29th!\nThat\u2019s enough for now, I think \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themadameesquire.com/2010/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:53Z", "digest": "sha1:4KXX7BZJ4EWW7KBE6PQISU3RS7YMDUSG", "length": 424, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "themadameesquire.com", "title": "October 2010 \u2013 THE ANTI-SOCIAL SOCIALITE", "raw_content": "Culture and Society, Uncategorized\nGive Us Free\u2026.\nOctober 24, 2010 April 17, 2012 by Madame Esquire2 Comments on Give Us Free\u2026.\nLast week I went to the Fordham film festival and saw the Amistad. To sit and watch a movie about your people being tortured and sold into slavery is practically unbearable. I do not think any person of African decent can sit there without feeling an ounce of rage or a bit of sadness.... I [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themarketingboutique.net/2014/09/09/why-competing-on-price-is-short-sighted/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SLHSZAX3ESX6DE5BCEPNFECLHMGMEOF7", "length": 2645, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "themarketingboutique.net", "title": "Why competing on price is short-sighted - The Marketing Boutique", "raw_content": "Why competing on price is short-sighted\nWritten by CeciliaPosted on September 9, 2014 February 4, 2017 Leave a comment\nIt\u2019s easy. And, I\u2019ve been there.\nOn the side as a business owner, bidding on a project with the focus on price \u2018just to get in\u2019 and as an employee, being part of a price war, where no one wins. It is easy to compete on price.\nYes, there is a pricing strategy where you go in low but this a short-term strategy. It is always supported with other elements, like loyalty programs, product bundling and limited features.\nYou now see these software companies who offer a free product or service option. It blends two strategies, pricing and penetration. The objective is to get as many people as possible using their free product with the assumption that a percentage of these free users will eventually turn to paying customers. These strategies include a heavily investment in demand generation tactics, quick follow-up by email once you download a free report and an aggressive social media and email marketing programs.\nJust give the companies some time and you will see them adding telemarketing. (Folks, everything goes back to hard-core sales.)\nToday, coaches, bloggers and nutritional consultants takes this strategy in a more simplified form and calls it, list-building program.\nBut, let\u2019s return to traditional B2B industry, the manufacturing, aircraft maintenance, printing and support services industries. If you find yourself consistently reviewing the competition, needing to know their pricing and always, near then end of the negotiation process cut your price, this is a signal that you need to improve your product offering. In doing so, you can develop a clearer brand position.\nIf you find yourself with the type of clients who struggle to pay or spend only pennies, this can suggest that you need to invest in solid sales people who will go out and get you the right customer. These types of clients actually waste your time.\nYou maybe surprised about what a great sales person can do for your company. Not only do they have first-hand information about why your key target customer doesn\u2019t buy from you, they will also help you develop the right products and services to win them over. That\u2019s because a great sales person wants to win!\nWhat about the classic, \u2018me-too\u2019 company. There are many of you and this is where we come in and define your brand position and pound out that message until doubt turns to perception turns to truth.\nAs I said, I\u2019ve been there.\nPosted in Marketing Strategy, Price\nPrevious Entry B2B Marketing Strategy\nNext Entry List Building Tips and Why It\u2019s Becoming An Important Program", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themortegirls.com/articles-of-interest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:03Z", "digest": "sha1:IP2WYQU4XBVISPVKATJ2VJP5RL4VO2DZ", "length": 2181, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "themortegirls.com", "title": "Articles of Interest \u2013 The Morte Girls", "raw_content": "Death Anxiety, Psychology Today, May 18, 2018\nHall of Famer Quietly Owns Funeral Home, CBSsports.com, May 9, 2018\nThe art of the funeral, passed down through generations, LIHerald.com, May 4, 2018\nHealing Grief Through Others, Daily Herald, April 24, 2018\nHow to Talk With Your Dying Loved One, Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2018\nStephen Hawking Funeral, The New York Times, March 31, 2018\nEnd of Life Conversations, News.com.au March 25, 2018\nEnd of Life Art Drawing, The New York Times, March 22, 2018\nBurning Out: What Really Happens Inside a Crematorium, Popular Mechanics, March 1, 2018\nWant to Plan for Your Death and Funeral? Here\u2019s How, The New York Times, February 20, 2018\nOde to an Obituary Writer, a Dying Breed, New Jersey Monthly, February 16, 2018\nArt That Proves Death Doesn\u2019t Have To Be Sad, Women\u2019s Health, February 8, 2018\nUpdate on Formaldehyde, Update on Formaldehyde, Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, February 2018\nLet\u2019s Keep the Funeral Tradition Alive The Saturday Evening Post, Jan./Feb. 2018\nUnderstanding Grief, The New York Times, January 15, 2018\nArlington Ladies\u2019 Attend Every Funeral at the National Cemetery, NBC News, January 2, 2018\nThe Heroes of Burial Road, The New York Times, December 13, 2017\nThe Curious and Gruesome Art of Human Death Masks, CNN Style, October 30, 2017\nNew Study Finds Formaldehyde Does Not Cause Cancer by Gene Mutation, National Toxicology Program, August 2017\nThe One Thing No One Ever Says About Grieving, Thrive Global, July 18, 2017\nShifts in Response to Loss Due to Death: An assessment in Funeral Service Mourning trends Over Time, East Tennessee State University, December 2015\nSee Death as a Triumph, Not a Failure, The New York Times, May 9, 2015\nGetting Grief Right, The New York Times, January 10, 2015\nThe Death of the Funeral Business, Philadelphia Magazine, November 22, 2013\nViewing the Body After Bereavement Due to a Traumatic Death, The BMJ, April 30, 2010\nA Burial Ground and Its Dead Are Given New Life, The New York Times, February 25, 2010\nGood Grief. Is there a better way to be bereaved? The New Yorker, February 1, 2010\nA Decalogue: Ten Commandments for the Concerned Caregiver, NPR, 1997", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/02/01/internet-explorer-snagged-market-share-from-both-chrome-and-firefox-in-january/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:35Z", "digest": "sha1:B56OJ3GLLXQ3CX4CKUAT4TNM47NV7V2M", "length": 1823, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thenextweb.com", "title": "IE Pulls a Chrome, Steals Share From Rivals", "raw_content": "Internet Explorer snagged market share from both Chrome and Firefox in January\nConsider us surprised. The January market share numbers are out for web browsers, and Internet Explorer not only failed to leak new market share, it gained over a point, seemingly at the expense of its arch rivals Chrome and Firefox. Safari also declined.\nFor the month of January, Internet Explorer (all versions) controlled some 52.96% of the global browser market. That is up from December\u2019s tally of 51.87%. Chrome declined from 19.11% to 18.94% over the same time frame. Firefox eased from 21.83% to 20.88%. Safari lost 0.07% market share to end January with some 4.90% of the market.\nWhat the heck happened? Our first thought was that holiday PC demand saw a plethora of new Windows 7 computers ship, therefore boosting the numbers of Internet Explorer 9 (which ships with the operating system), and thus the larger Windows franchise. However, according to the same source, Internet Explorer 9 only grew from 11.48% to 11.64% during the month; we don\u2019t think that that is enough of a change to drive the larger Internet Explorer gains. In short, we don\u2019t know, but this is a relatively unprecedented show of strength by Microsoft\u2019s browser line. In fact, the only time that Internet Explorer has not lost global market share in the last year was between October and November, when it was essentially unch.\nMicrosoft, however, isn\u2019t pushing the new data. In its blog post on the latest numbers, the company continued to discuss market share only in terms what is running on Windows 7. That\u2019s all well and good, but the fact that Internet Explorer is managing to hold its own and more, even if temporarily, is a bigger story in our books.\nRead next: Apple releases OS X 10.7.3 and Safari 5.1.3, extending languages supported and fixing bugs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 248.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thereaderwiki.com/en/Wolfgang_Wagner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IDIA5AOMDWFJR4MCCVQWSLIMQVAAARK4", "length": 5221, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "thereaderwiki.com", "title": "Wolfgang Wagner - The Reader Wiki, Reader View of Wikipedia", "raw_content": "For other people named Wolfgang Wagner, see Wolfgang Wagner (disambiguation).\nWolfgang Wagner (30 August 1919 \u2013 21 March 2010[1]) was a German opera director. He is best known as the director (Festspielleiter) of the Bayreuth Festival, a position he initially assumed alongside his brother Wieland in 1951 until the latter's death in 1966. From then on, he assumed total control until he retired in 2008, although many of the productions which he commissioned were severely criticized in their day. He had been plagued by family conflicts and criticism for many years. He was the son of Siegfried Wagner, the grandson of Richard Wagner, and the great-grandson of Franz Liszt.\nHis mother, Winifred Wagner (n\u00e9e Williams-Klindworth), was English. He was born at Wahnfried, the Wagner family home in Bayreuth in Bavaria. In addition to his elder brother Wieland (1917\u201366), he had an elder sister Friedelind Wagner (1918\u20131991), and a younger sister Verena Wagner (Verena Lafferenz, born 1920).\nDuring the 1920s Winifred Wagner was an admirer, supporter and friend of the Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler, who became a regular visitor to Bayreuth. Wolfgang Wagner first met Hitler in 1923, when he was four years old, and the Wagner children were encouraged to call him \"Uncle Adolf\" or \"Uncle Wolf\" (his nickname). When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, he showered favours on the Wagner family. Wolfgang was a member of the Hitler Youth but never joined the Nazi Party. He joined the German Army in 1939. During the Polish campaign he was severely wounded in the arm, and he was discharged as medically unfit in June 1940 (Hitler visited him in the hospital).[2]\nWagner married twice, to Ellen Drexel (1919\u20132002) and Gudrun Mack (1944\u20132007).[3] He has three children: Eva, born 1945, Gottfried, born 1947 and Katharina, born 1978.[4] He was reportedly estranged from his daughter Eva over control of the Bayreuth Festival,[5] while Gottfried, who has long been publicly critical,[6] and was banned from the family villa in 1975,[7] only learned of his father's death from media coverage.[7] According to Gottfried's autobiography Twilight of the Wagners: The Unveiling of a Family's Legacy (1997, English version: 1999), his father told him in the 1950s: \"Hitler cured unemployment and restored worldwide respect for the German economy. He freed our people from a moral crisis and united all decent forces. We Wagners have him to thank for the idealistic rescue of the Bayreuth festival.\"[8]\nEva was eventually named as his successor as the director of the Bayreuth Festival in conjunction with his preferred candidate, her half-sister Katharina, after the two women reached an agreement following the death of his second wife who was Katharina's mother.[9]\nWolfgang worked with his older brother Wieland Wagner in 1951 on the resurrection of the Bayreuth Festival following Germany's defeat in the Second World War. Since that time, the festival has run on an annual basis. On Wieland's death in 1966, Wolfgang became the sole director of the festival and, under his directorship, the famous Bayreuth Festspielhaus underwent extensive renovations. He stepped down on 31 August 2008 when the year's festival had finished.[10]\nBoth brothers contributed productions to the Bayreuth Festival, but Wolfgang did not enjoy the same critical reception as Wieland did. Like his brother, Wolfgang favoured modern, minimalist stagings of his grandfather's works in his productions. As director of the festival, Wolfgang commissioned work from many guest producers, including innovative and controversial stagings such as the 1976 production of the Ring Cycle by Patrice Ch\u00e9reau. However, he confined the stagings at the festival to the last ten operas by his grandfather that make up the Bayreuth canon established under the direction of his grandmother Cosima Wagner.\nWolfgang attracted some criticism for what was seen as his autocratic sway over the Festival,[5] much of which comes from within the Wagner family itself. Wieland's daughters, Daphne and Nike Wagner, have accused their uncle of ill-treating their branch of the family, saying that he drove them and their mother out of the family home following their father's death and destroyed the scenery, models and correspondence with artists relating to their father's work. Wagner writer Barry Millington notes two rather inconsistent threads of criticism about Wolfgang's role in managing the presentation of the family's connection with the Nazis. Daphne accuses him of blackening her father's name by releasing information on Wieland's connection with the Bayreuth satellite of the Flossenb\u00fcrg concentration camp, while Wolfgang's own son, Gottfried, accuses him of having tried to suppress all information about the Wagner grandchildren's connection with the Nazis.[11]\nNonetheless, he helped make the Bayreuth one of the most popular destinations in the world of opera. There was a ten-year waiting list for tickets.[12] In 1994, he invited Werner Herzog (who had staged Lohengrin at Bayreuth in 1987) to make a documentary about the festival, which was released under the title Die Verwandlung der Welt in Musik (The Transformation of the World into Music).\nWagner family tree", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 5609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 122.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://therecruitingcode.com/interview-with-palm-beach-atlantic-mens-soccer-coach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4TTHXRI72KQH36OAGFUSUBCMLEYCYOMO", "length": 4122, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "therecruitingcode.com", "title": "Interview With Palm Beach Atlantic Men's Soccer Coach", "raw_content": "Interview With Palm Beach Atlantic Men\u2019s Soccer Coach\nI am pleased to share with you the wisdom of NCAA Division 2 Men\u2019s Soccer Coach, Brian McMahon of Palm Beach Atlantic University. Coach McMahon has only been at Palm Beach Atlantic for a year, but he has two decades of coaching at colleges in three different regions of the country. Coach McMahon has proved he can succeed everywhere he has been. In 2012 he was named the NSCAA and the NAIA National Coach of the Year.\nI have been getting to know Coach McMahon and his wife Jennifer online over the last couple of months. Jennifer has extensive experience working for colleges in the financial aid department. She also owns her own company, which helps students (not just athletes) navigate the financial aid process and find the right college fit. http://www.allstarfinancialaid.com In the near future you will see some great information from Jennifer about the financial aspect of your college decision making.\nThe majority of my players that I find are self-referrals and connections through current players. We do have ID camps that are great opportunities as well.\nWe have to wait for a NLI (National Letter of Intent) until Feb for signing date but frequent email and video conversation happens. Facebook pages, and twitter are great ways to keep recruits connected.\nPalm Beach Atlantic is a Christian school. Will all religious schools be similar? What are differences recruits should think about when choosing a religious school?\nPBA was voted the \u201cMost Friendly\u201d university in the south so I think that has a lot to do with our faith aspects. Prayer and a belief of something greater than ourselves is our overriding sense of purpose.\nThe most important thing to do would be to attend Summer, ID (Identification), and try out dates. Also, a good CV with video is very important.\nIt\u2019s very similar to D1 I would say but just not all the travel away from classes. We lift 3 times a week and train every day. Most of our guys do work jobs as well.\nD2 is allowed 9 scholarships however at PBA we can \u201cstack\u201d so GPA above a 3.3 is a really big deal to get academic money as well. We are close to the max at PBA.\nLimited but important in the early parts just for the organizational aspects. Also, financial aid and the FAFSA is very important.\nWhat is the NCCAA and what are the benefits to your program?\nNational Christian College Athletic Association is a group of schools that are all faith based and we have our own honors and National Tournament. It covers all divisions including D1,2,3 and NAIA grouped together. In Soccer, the level is very high at the national tournament in Florida each year in December.\nYou must maintain a 2.5 gpa at PBA and also pass 24 hours each year. Student comes before athlete.\nAs Iron Sharpens Iron so one man sharpens another. A brotherhood and your best friends for life.\nVery few recruits understand the fitness and speed of play needed to play at our level. Time management is the biggest key to college success.\nYou\u2019re always 1 injury away from choosing a school you don\u2019t like. Make sure the university is the right fit for you and NOT just the soccer program. South Florida life is easy living.\nBrian McMahon was named the new head coach of the Palm Beach Atlan tic men\u2019s soccer program on February 11, 2014.\nCoach McMahon has over 20 years of collegiate coaching and playing experience with a resume that includes coaching stints at Belhaven (Miss.) University and Greenville (Ill.) College.\nMcMahon spent the past two seasons leading Belhaven to back-to-back appearances in the NAIA National Tournament, reaching at least the Elite 8 in both campaigns.\nIn 2012 he was named the NSCAA and the NAIA National Coach of the Year.\nHe has a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from IWU and master\u2019s degree in kinesiology with a concentration in sport behavior and psychology from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. In addition, McMahon also holds a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor Licensure at the one level.\nNext, take a look at First Contact With a College Coach.\nTag :#Interview, #Men's Soccer, #NCAA Division 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theringfinders.com/blog/Dennis.Burlingame/2018/08/lost-engagement-rig-recovered-long-branch/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:11Z", "digest": "sha1:KHH2LT4TDH4TYEPTRXRPCCYBOFUHYS6N", "length": 1205, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "theringfinders.com", "title": "Lost Engagement Ring Recovered in Long Branch", "raw_content": "Lost Engagement Ring Recovered in Long Branch\nAugust 17th, 2018 by\tDennis Burlingame from Neptune City (New Jersey, United States)\nGot a call from fellow Ring Finder Matty St Germain that a woman lost her engagement ring in Long Branch and was asking for help. He was at work and knew I was off and asked if I wanted to get it. I told him to give her my number and I\u2019d head down. Seems Michele was enjoying the day with friends and was down by the waters edge when a wave came up and hit her and she lost her balance and went down. In doing so she felt her ring slide off into the wash. She was right in front of the life guard stand so my search was narrowed down. Starting at the top of the slope I started my grid and worked my way down. I was getting close to the drop off and started to think I was going to have to go in and get wet to find this ring. got about 2 feet from the drop off and got the tone I was hoping to hear, took one scoop of sand and there it was, a beautiful pear shape diamond ring. Went up to where she was sitting waiting and showed her the ring, after the tears of joy and a few hugs and thank you I was on my way. Another great recovery and great feeling that comes with it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesalesblog.com/2014/06/08/when-selling-becomes-urgent/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HMAVIPHIVCIG7Y5O2XJJ6W2R44JDKVVE", "length": 2054, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "thesalesblog.com", "title": "When Selling Becomes Urgent \u00b7 The Sales Blog", "raw_content": "When Selling Becomes Urgent\nSelling is very much the same as diet and exercise. If you haven\u2019t eaten right or exercised for a long time believing that your health was fine, you usually decide to change because you are staring down the barrel of a loaded gun. We tend to find religion when times get really tough and our very existence is threatened.\nIf you haven\u2019t built a list of real targets, what I call dream clients, over a period of time, it takes time and effort to do the work to identify your targets and the right contacts.\nIf you haven\u2019t nurtured your dream clients over a long period of time, you are still unknown. It takes time to be known and to be known as a value creator.\nIf you don\u2019t have a solid pipeline of opportunities that\u2019s three to four times the number you need to make, you have to invest time, usually more time than you think, building a solid funnel of opportunities.\nBut none of this is to suggest it\u2019s too late to do anything. The best time to start was 18 months ago. But the second best time to start is now.\nGet your entire team focused on building a list of target accounts. Start by going back over all of the customers you\u2019ve had and reengage with them. Then make a list of all of the prospects you should be doing business with because you can create massive value for them. The fastest way to help yourself is to help others.\nYou aren\u2019t going to have the time you need to nurture your dream clients. You are going to have to pick up the phone directly and schedule appointments. There are no \u201cifs, ands, or buts\u201d here. This is life or death, and staring at the phone without picking it up is staring at your impending doom.\nThe only way to build opportunities is to get in front of your dream clients and have conversations that result in commitments. Commitments to explore working on challenges and opportunities together. Commitments to share ideas. And, ultimately, commitments to work together.\nIf you need sales urgently, the answer is to respond with an even greater sense of urgency. Nothing less will do.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 4576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thescipub.com/abstract/10.3844/jssp.2018.81.90", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OZMGJ2NANACYQRSUGLLE4C47AIFEIMKX", "length": 1710, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thescipub.com", "title": "Motivations for Remittances and Philanthropy \u2013 Lessons from a Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Literature | Science Publications", "raw_content": "Motivations for Remittances and Philanthropy \u2013 Lessons from a Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Literature\nSabith Khan and Daisha M. Merritt\nWhy do people send remittances? Also, what are the motivations for diaspora philanthropy? While each of these questions have been addressed by scholars in different way \u2013 with the most influential theories suggesting that \u2018identification\u2019 is the key theme that explains each of these phenomenon, we contend that there is much more than purely \u2018identification\u2019 with the recipients that is at play. In this study, based on synthesis of various theories and some empirical studies, we propose a new \u2018mid-range\u2019 theory, that seeks to explain the motivations for giving \u2013 both remittances and philanthropy. We explain how the motivations in each can be similar and distinct and offer insights that aim to further the scholarship on philanthropy and remittances. We hope to contribute to the discussion on the motivations for remittances and philanthropy and how it plays out, in the context of international development. With the urgency in fund-raising efforts and the need to accurately identify mechanisms and tools that will address the urgent needs of millions of people around the world, scholars are also coming together with innovative approaches and models to help understand how and why people give money. In addition, there is also the factor of donor fatigue that one has to contend with.\n\u00a9 2018 Sabith Khan and Daisha M. Merritt. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thesensitivegut.com/2016/09/24/when-fat-intolerance-becomes-sphincter-of-oddi-dysfunction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:02Z", "digest": "sha1:EIPI4U7LW6SOSRFTJ32IBIYHW4ST33HA", "length": 7564, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "thesensitivegut.com", "title": "When fat intolerance becomes Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction. | The Sensitive Gut", "raw_content": "When fat intolerance becomes Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction.\nMary has had constipation-predominant IBS for most of her adult life. She also has severe intolerance to fats and more recently a lot of other foods, which give her symptoms of bloating and pain. She tries to control her symptoms by taking a restricted diet, but any lapse makes her panic and brings on the symptoms she most dreads.\nConstipation is often associated with gallstones. Stagnation of the colon may be accompanied by stagnation in the gallbladder, facilitating an overgrowth of bacteria which may form a nidus for supersaturated cholesterol in bile to come out of solution form stones and cause inflammation of the gall bladder wall. Cholecystitis is a major cause of fat intolerance, but removal of her gall bladder only made the problem worse. Any ingestion of fat could leave her in agonies of pain and cause her severe bloating. She also developed bloating with fruit and vegetables, perhaps because the constant leakage of bile acid irritated her intestine or because stagnation of the small intestine led to bacterial overgrowth. It was only when her doctors found that the severe pain she experienced with fat was associated with raised liver enzymes that they confirmed the diagnosis of Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction.\nThe Sphincter of Oddi is a ring of muscle that lies at the end of the common bile duct that normally relaxes to allow bile and pancreatic secretions to enter the duodenum during digestion of a meal. Between meals, it is normally under a state of tonic contraction but release of the hormone cholecystokinin by fat and protein in a meal relaxes the sphincter, induces peristaltic contractions in the common bile duct and also contracts and gall bladder and stimulates pancreatic secretion.\nSphincter of Oddi dysfunction can occur because of scarring or inflammation but most often results from a functional spasm of Oddi\u2019s sphincter and dysmotility of the terminal few centimetres of the common bile duct. It would seem to bear an uncanny resemblance to the anal spasm and distal colonic dyskinesia recorded in patients with constipation predominant IBS. That would seem to suggest that her SOD may be a component of IBS in some people. SOD is often instigated by cholecystectomy, which impairs the response of the sphincter to cholecystokinin. Nowadays many surgeons treat SOD by dividing the sphincter to aid drainage of bile, but that has yet been tried for Mary.\nThe cause of SOD is as uncertain as the cause of IBS. There may be some constitutional or genetic susceptibility, but there is also evidence that SOD is associated with high levels of stress and particularly the use of work, humour, sublimation, denial or passive aggression to suppress emotion associated with life trauma. It is more common in middle aged women, whose symptoms initially respond to cholecystectomy but then return often with a vengeance. It may be relevant that constipation is also associated with repression with conscientiousness, denial and depression.\nMary\u2019s symptoms of bloating and extreme fatigue started with a bout of epidemic labyrinthitis, following a prolonged period of multiple stresses. Always conscientious and capable, she never liked to let people down. So she was trying to support her elderly widowed father and also her mother-in-law with dementia, she helping her dyslexic son with his business and she was organising her daughter\u2019s wedding. It had all been a bit too much.\nAlthough Mary denies any trauma in her life, when she was 21, she fled the country to join her boy friend upon discovering she was pregnant. The child was stillborn. Nevertheless, she returned to England, married, had two children and tried to settle down, but the marriage didn\u2019t survive. She was left alone with two small children and a mortgage to support. Never one to give up, Mary put what happened behind her and got on with life with a combination of hard work and humour. She trained to become a teacher.\nMary says her life has always been stressful, though her second husband has been a tower of strength through all her recent woes. They are able to enjoy their retirement with no money worries. Mary describes herself as \u2018a happy introvert despite the restrictions imposed by my health problems. I knit and sew when I have the energy and she plans to take up drawing and painting and do more in the garden. As long as I know where I stand and am not flying by the seat of my pants, I can manage.\u2019\nMary has demonstrated a considerable degree of resilience despite the instability of her first marriage. Life could be a lot worse. Her attitude is that \u2018we have to play the hand that life deals us as best we can\u2019. Nevertheless, none of us can escape being affected by what has happened to us. This fits with the somewhat stoical psychological profile, described in the study quoted above, and may cause her to react to situations in ways that are no longer relevant, holding onto tension in her gut and repressing the secretion of bile. Excessive biliary secretion leading to bilious vomiting has often had connotations of anger. Bile is a metaphor for anger, and choleric an adjective for angry. I have even read that the Mexican word coraje is used to describe the fury of women who had been so wronged that they vomited bile.\nThe body always remembers. Such symptoms only make sense when seen from the perspective of what happened. They may be calmed by drugs or procedures that alter the physiology, or by restricting life to avoid the triggers or by denying what happened and toughing it out. But the evidence suggests that long term resolution of persistent post traumatic bodily symptoms is only likely to occur if people can make sense of them and reprocess them with understanding and forgiveness in the context of psychodynamic therapies.\n3 comments on \u201cWhen fat intolerance becomes Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction.\u201d\nMany thanks to Tamily, who responded to this post by Facebook.\nThis is a condition I have after I had my gall bladder out, I can happily tell you more about the condition and how after three nasty Ercps and now living on a low fat has transformed my life. Some need to think about their diet with this condition as major issue, I get niggles but nothing like it was. The day will come again when my bile duct will become spasmodic and stenosed again bit for now my low fat diet is helping. Happy to help any one with this condition and the advise above is crucial to help manage sphincter of oddi dysfunction.\nLynne Graves commented on Facebook.\nI too have had this since I had my gallbladder out. I was 22 now 51. keeping to very low fat diet does help loads. Although I am naughty but boy do I pay for it!! bad cramps and nearly fainting. Glad to hear your ok at the min x\nTam replied\nYes a low fat diet is paramount, chocolate is the worse thing I can eat for spasms in both my bowel and sphincter of oddi, so I am pretty strict these days. I get niggles all the time but it\u2019s manageable. Other health problems are less manageable unfortunately, but I\u2019d do anything to ensure I get better and in control of my health.\nmsdomo@hotmail.com\nSOD is not caused by STRESS. Most instances are caused by postcholecystectomy. IBS is a symptom/side effect of SOD not a cause. I\u2019ve had it for 31 years and counting.\nThis entry was posted on September 24, 2016 by nickwread in Food Intolerance, Functional Gastrointestinal Diseases. i, Post Traumatic IBS and tagged constipation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction.\nhttps://wp.me/p5jVcV-vm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 11247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theworldaccordingtoneema.wordpress.com/2017/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:59Z", "digest": "sha1:QX2YT2L6LCS675YSBC4WHTGACCQ33AS3", "length": 1881, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theworldaccordingtoneema.wordpress.com", "title": "May 2017 \u2013 The World According To Neema", "raw_content": "My Heritage and Breaking the Cycle of Racism\nvia Photo Challenge: Heritage\nI grew up in a small southern town where the black population lived on the opposite side of the main highway that went through the center of our town. We are famous for the bombing murder of civil rights activist Harry T. Moore and his wife. Mr. Moore had called for the suspension of Groveland County Sheriff McCall because of the abuse suffered by the Groveland 4 (four young black men falsely accused of rape and assault).\n\u201cSix weeks later on Christmas night, 1951, a bomb went off beneath the house of Moore and his wife in Mims, Florida. It was the Moore\u2019s twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. They were fatally injured: Moore died on the way to the hospital and his wife died from her injuries nine days later at the hospital in Sanford.\u201d Courtesy of Wiki.\nThis memorial park is situated on the very land where the Moore\u2019s lived and died. It is a beautiful place nestled of 11+ acres of large oak trees and lush vegetation. The vision statement on their website says it all. \u201cTo develop a national civil rights resource and tourist center incorporating the latest technology and information management systems. To form cooperative working relationships with academic, corporate and cultural institutions throughout the nation and the world to link the historical trail of the early civil rights pioneers and their effect on communities both large and small.\u201d\nI don\u2019t believe in the division that this country had and continues to have. I\u2019m not sure who is profiting from it but I do know that it is wrong and grossly unnecessary in this day and age. If our schools would stop teaching the lie that the civil war was all about keeping slavery, and tell the truth that it was because the government couldn\u2019t tax those slaves; then maybe the next generation would be able to stop all of this horrible hate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 7011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 165.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ticketfinal.com/uscities/Salem-tickets", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:12Z", "digest": "sha1:G2LWCN22P2GQSINMU26CRM2KOJG74TH6", "length": 2634, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "ticketfinal.com", "title": "Salem Tickets , Salem Events , Cheap Salem Tickets , Salem Schedule & Information , Salem Seats", "raw_content": "Kris Kristofferson & The Strangers February 23, 2019, 8:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nAll About Eve - Film February 27, 2019, 2:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nThe Roadshow: Matthew West, Tenth Avenue North, Matt Maher, Michael W. Smith & Leanna Crawford March 1, 2019, 7:00 pm Salem Pavilion\nCasting Crowns March 1, 2019, 7:00 pm Salem Civic Center\nWhose Live Anyway? March 7, 2019, 7:30 pm Elsinore Theatre\nIt Happened One Night - Film March 13, 2019, 2:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nAlabama March 14, 2019, 7:00 pm Salem Civic Center\nPink Martini March 15, 2019, 7:30 pm Elsinore Theatre\nWynonna Judd & The Big Noise March 16, 2019, 7:30 pm Elsinore Theatre\nSalem Symphonic Winds: Grand Tour Musicale March 17, 2019, 3:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nLegally Blonde March 19, 2019, 7:30 pm Elsinore Theatre\nKazim Shrine Circus March 21, 2019, 6:30 pm Salem Civic Center\nKazim Shrine Circus March 23, 2019, 10:00 am Salem Civic Center\nHoney, I Shrunk the Kids - Film March 27, 2019, 2:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\n2019 ICC A Cappella NW Semifinals March 30, 2019, 7:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nCharade - Film April 10, 2019, 2:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nSalem Red Sox vs. Frederick Keys April 11, 2019, 7:05 pm Haley Toyota Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark\nNewsboys April 14, 2019, 7:00 pm Salem Civic Center\nSalem Red Sox vs. Down East Wood Ducks April 15, 2019, 7:05 pm Haley Toyota Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark\nCalamity Jane - Film April 17, 2019, 2:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nKelsea Ballerini April 17, 2019, 7:00 pm Salem Civic Center\nSalem Red Sox vs. Myrtle Beach Pelicans April 26, 2019, 7:05 pm Haley Toyota Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark\nRoanoke Symphony Orchestra: David Stewart Wiley - The Music of Fleetwood Mac April 26, 2019, 7:30 pm Salem Civic Center\nMozart's Great Mass April 28, 2019, 4:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nSalem Red Sox vs. Carolina Mudcats April 29, 2019, 7:05 pm Haley Toyota Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark\nSalem Red Sox vs. Carolina Mudcats May 1, 2019, 11:05 am Haley Toyota Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark\nRaiders of the Lost Ark - Film May 1, 2019, 2:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nSalem Red Sox vs. Carolina Mudcats May 2, 2019, 7:05 pm Haley Toyota Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark\nFriends The Musical Parody May 2, 2019, 7:30 pm Elsinore Theatre\nPJ Masks May 3, 2019, 6:00 pm Salem Civic Center\nSalem Red Sox vs. Wilmington Blue Rocks May 7, 2019, 7:05 pm Haley Toyota Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark\nColin Hay May 10, 2019, 7:30 pm Elsinore Theatre\nTim Hawkins May 11, 2019, 7:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nCat on a Hot Tin Roof - Film May 15, 2019, 2:00 pm Elsinore Theatre\nSalem Symphonic Winds: The Queen Symphony May 19, 2019, 3:00 pm Elsinore Theatre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 9326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tides.mobilegeographics.com/locations/4906.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DHUBCGCRYFXLB3EY3R65WNIRAN2HQDI2", "length": 90, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tides.mobilegeographics.com", "title": "Mitlenatch Island, British Columbia (2) Tide Chart", "raw_content": "Mitlenatch Island, British Columbia (2) Tide Chart\nMitlenatch Island, British Columbia (2)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 9341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 208.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://timdyson.wordpress.com/category/recessionary-behavior/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:36Z", "digest": "sha1:P4NEYJE52AFINWE2HVSJTHCMRDYWXJWH", "length": 2458, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "timdyson.wordpress.com", "title": "Recessionary behavior | A view from Silicon Valley", "raw_content": "Posted: December 15, 2008 | Author: timdyson | Filed under: PR, Recessionary behavior | Leave a comment\nJust as in the fashion industry everyone awaits the answer to the question: \u201cwhat\u2019s the new black?\u201d business leaders should be asking \u201cwhat\u2019s the new behavior?\u201d The new behavior I\u2019m referring to here is recession behavior. Of course the obvious signs of the new behavior are people being more cautious with their spending. However, the behavior shifts are a lot more complex than that.\nThe new behavior is built on people replacing one action with another. For example I heard from a friend who is a family doctor that many of the patients that would normally be in her office at this time of year complaining about a cough or cold are simply not coming in. This isn\u2019t because they don\u2019t have a cold but because they don\u2019t want to make their copay. So instead of going to see a doctor they are taking over the counter medicines and riding it out. Put another way they are still doing something. They\u2019re just taking a different (cheaper) path. Of course this may end up being an equally expensive route and could even wind up being more expensive.\nReplacement recessionary behavior as I\u2019d call it, is something we can expect across all aspects of life and isn\u2019t simply limited to consumer behavior. This is something PR people need to consider when they plan activities for \u201909. For example is your client\u2019s product a product that could be a replacement for another more expensive (normal market conditions) option? Or is it a product likely to be replaced by another? In many cases the way the product is sold will need to change. For example if you are selling chocolate or a latte I\u2019d suggest it is sold as a replacement to those who are cutting back on eating out. If you can do this it may actually open up a new market.\nAs I mentioned this type of behavior won\u2019t be limited to consumer markets. For example in business, people are cutting back on off sites and business travel. How about spending some of that saving on Skype video conferencing technology (a few cheap web cams)? I for one would much rather do a video conference than spend hours on a United Airlines flight across country. In other words for every change in behavior there is an opportunity. The challenge is how to make your client\u2019s product or service the beneficiary of this change. In some cases it will require some creativity but I can assure you it will be worth the effort.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 347, "original_length": 13272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tochnia.co.il/2015/08/28/because-you-loved-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:40Z", "digest": "sha1:RXDSZNOOSJGANB7IJCZ54BTY34F3WDWK", "length": 1038, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tochnia.co.il", "title": "Because you loved me - \u05ea\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4", "raw_content": "t uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.There are many variations of passages of Lorem Ipsum available, but the majority have suffered alteration in some form, by injected humour, or randomised words which don't look even slightly believable.\nIf you are going to use a passage of Lorem Ipsum, you need to be sure there isn't anything embarrassing hidden in the middle of text. All the Lorem Ipsum generators on the Internet tend to repeat predefined chunks as necessary, making this the first true generator on the Internet. It uses a dictionary of over 200 Latin words, combined with a handful of model sentence structures, to generate Lorem Ipsum which looks reasonable. The generated Lorem Ipsum is therefore always free from repetition, injected humour, or non-characteristic words etc.\nIf i were a boy\tBad day", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 287.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://torontoglobal.ca/TG-Blog/September-2018/Toronto-Region-Powerhouse-in-the-Creative-Indust", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:JLTNU6OSVCMWB7B2HQXGTB5EWHNLZMLU", "length": 3962, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "torontoglobal.ca", "title": "Toronto Global - Toronto Region - Powerhouse in the Creative Industry Proto..", "raw_content": "Posted by Toby Lennox | September 13 2018\nOne of the unique pleasures of working at Toronto Global is that our offices are located at the heart of TIFF. We are kitty-corner to the Bell Lightbox where so many films are screened. Perhaps even more fun is the fact that our windows overlook the red carpet itself, albeit from nine stories up. Every afternoon, starting at roughly four o\u2019clock, the sounds of screaming crowds draw the Toronto Global team to the windows to see if we can identify which stars are being greeted by their adoring fans.\nCanada, Ontario and the Toronto Region all owe a huge debt of gratitude to TIFF for the stellar work they have done to put our country, province and region on the film map year-in and year-out. In our bid on behalf of the Toronto Region for Amazon\u2019s HQ2, we featured TIFF prominently as an indication of the dynamism and vitality of our region as a whole. As Idris Elba famously said, \u201cThis is one of the greatest film festivals in the world and you are amazing\u2026I just realized what TIFF actually stands for: Toronto is f**king fantastic!\u201d (And yes, we included that whole quote in the Amazon bid book. Probably the only bid book to include a swear word!)\nAs much fun as TIFF is, however, we should not miss the opportunity to reflect on the scale and importance of the film, TV, animation and special effects industries to the economy of our region. As residents of the Toronto Region, we sometimes get frustrated by the sight of white production trucks cluttering up our sidewalks while our neighbourhoods are turned into a Christmas scene in a July heatwave.\nBut, we all need to recognize that film and TV production is a massive and critical element of our regional economy and one that stimulates economic growth in areas outside the production of the film or TV show itself. Yes, we all know that Toronto Region crews and talent helped to produce the Oscar winning film, \u201cThe Shape of Water,\u201d and that our region and the City of Hamilton have been at the centre of the ground-breaking series, \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale,\u201d but from Durham to Halton, our talent, our people and governments from all levels have turned the region into a magnet for film and TV production. Film production in Durham is up 70 per cent in 2018. New studios are planned for Toronto and Markham, adding to the more than 2,000,000 square feet of production space in the region and more than 7,000 shoot locations. Over 30,000 highly skilled people are employed in the production of the movies and TV shows that are enjoyed by millions around world.\nOur colleges and universities are pumping out the talented animation, CGI and digital arts graduates that are being employed by production companies making documentaries, animated TV shows, blockbuster productions and taut crime shows. Alumni of Sheridan College have taken home Emmys, Golden Globes, Annie Awards and Oscars.\nThis high tech talent finds its way into industries and sectors that seem at first blush to be distant from film and TV. We see graduates of digital animation schools producing ground-breaking developments such as VR applications for medical diagnostics, self-driving car interfaces and hundreds of other applications. This, in turn, assists in cementing the Toronto Region as a world tech leader.\nGiven this impact, we have to view the entire area as a vibrant and critically important element of our economic resilience. No longer should we think of the \u201cscreen industry\u201d or the \u201cmovie business.\u201d We have to embrace the fact that we are in the Toronto Region, a leader in the creative industries, which is every bit as important to our vitality and vibrancy as any other large industries such as finance, advanced manufacturing and health care.\nCongratulations to all those who have worked hard to make the region such a powerhouse in the creative industries. Let\u2019s not sit back and just watch the show. Let\u2019s make sure it grows, prospers and has a resilient future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://torontosavvy.me/2019/02/10/cbcs-coroner-has-become-the-networks-highest-rated-new-drama-series/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WYFZHWYXLC7KCQHYYR3WTI7W7E3B3RR3", "length": 362, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "torontosavvy.me", "title": "\u201cCORONER\u201d HAS BECOME CBC TELEVISION\u2019S HIGHEST-RATED NEW DRAMA SERIES LAUNCH \u2013 Toronto Savvy", "raw_content": "This entry was posted in Culture, What's On & Entertainment and tagged Canada, CBC, CBC television's 'Coroner', CBC's 'Coroner' a hit in Canada & the UK, Toronto. Bookmark the permalink.\n\u2190 TORONTO\u2019S PEARSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT HAS A PERMANENT ART & SCULPTURE COLLECTION\nRECOGNIZE THIS? IT\u2019S AN AERIAL VIEW OF THE NEW CAMH CAMPUS AT OSSINGTON & QUEEN ST. WEST \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 270.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2018/09/15/the-study-saying-the-u-s-is-the-mecca-for-mass-shootings-was-just-taken-to-the-w-n2519237", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:14Z", "digest": "sha1:KSHFK6JXYD5WEMRGXYRD3M6VIPK2ZRTU", "length": 7709, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "townhall.com", "title": "The Study Saying The U.S. Is The Mecca For Mass Shootings Was Just Taken To The Woodshed", "raw_content": "The Study Saying The U.S. Is The Mecca For Mass Shootings Was Just Taken To The Woodshed\nWell, it\u2019s another day, and another anti-gun study that\u2019s shoddy. It comes with additional controversy since its author will not release his data or even open himself to questions about his work. In August, the Crime Prevention Research Center\u2019s John Lott took to task an anti-gun study by Adam Lankford, who suggests the U.S. is the mecca for mass shootings, being the epicenter for 31 percent of them; all of this thanks to our rates of gun ownership. Again, it\u2019s not the criminal\u2019s fault; it\u2019s all about the gun, which apparently has magic powers that forces people to commit acts of violence. Regardless, former President Obama cited it, as have a slew of media organizations:\nLankford claims to have \u201ccomplete\u201d data on such shooters in 171 countries. However, because he has neither identified the cases nor their location nor even a complete description on how he put the cases together, it is impossible to replicate his findings.\nIt is particularly important that Lankford share his data because of the extreme difficulty in finding mass shooting cases in remote parts of the world going back to 1966. Lack of media coverage could easily lead to under-counting of foreign mass shootings, which would falsely lead to the conclusion that the U.S. has such a large share.\nLankford\u2019s study reported that from 1966 to 2012, there were 90 public mass shooters in the United States and 202 in the rest of world. We find that Lankford\u2019s data represent a gross undercount of foreign attacks. Our list contains 1,448 attacks and at least 3,081 shooters outside the United States over just the last 15 years of the period that Lankford examined. We find at least fifteen times more mass public shooters than Lankford in less than a third the number of years.\nEven when we use coding choices that are most charitable to Lankford, his 31 percent estimate of the US\u2019s share of world mass public shooters is cut by over 95 percent. By our count, the US makes up less than 1.43% of the mass public shooters, 2.11% of their murders, and 2.88% of their attacks. All these are much less than the US\u2019s 4.6% share of the world population. Attacks in the US are not only less frequent than in other countries, they are also much less deadly on average.\nYeah, I can see why Lankford would want to head for the bunker concerning questions on his work (via CPRC):\n\u201cIn phone calls and emails from RealClearPolitics, Lankford was asked how he supplemented the NYPD methods. He did not answer those queries. Nor has he responded to requests for his raw data, which is missing from his published paper, or to clear up basic questions. One of them is why he lists \u201cshooters\u201d instead of \u201cshootings,\u201d the term most criminologists use when comparing data. This is significant because mass shootings outside the United States often involve multiple triggermen. Also, although Lankford cites 202 shooters globally from 1966 to 2012, these cases aren\u2019t listed in any appendix and he only lists totals for a handful of countries. This means that other scholars can\u2019t replicate his research to test his findings \u2014 or point out shootings he overlooked.\u201d\n\u2014 Carl Cannon, Washington Bureau Chief, Real Clear Politics, September 4, 2018\n\u201cLankford declined an interview request about his study and told Fox News in an email that he\u2019s \u201c\u2019not interested in giving any serious thought to John Lott or his claims.\u2019\u201d\n\u2014 Lukas Mikelionis, a reporter at Fox News, September 1, 2018\n\u201cI am not interested in giving any serious thought to John Lott or his claims,\u201d he said in response to an email seeking comment. . . .\u201d\n\u2014 Stephen Dinan, a reporter at The Washington Times, August 29, 2018\n\u201cUnlike Lankford, Lott has released all of his data in nearly 500 pages of appendixes so people can reach their own conclusions. Lankford declined a request to release his research or to discuss in any way his findings in comparison to Lott\u2019s report. However, in an email exchange with The Fact Checker, Lankford acknowledged the Mumbai attack in 2008 that killed 168 people was not included in his overseas tally.\u201d\n\u2014Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, September 5, 2018.\nLott furthered turned this study\u2019s results into sashimi in a NY Post op-ed:\nLankford cites a 2012 New York Police Department report which he claims is \u201cnearly comprehensive in its coverage of recent decades.\u201d He also says he supplemented the data and followed \u201cthe same data collection methodology employed by the NYPD.\u201d But the NYPD report warns that its own researchers \u201climited [their] Internet searches to English-language sites, creating a strong sampling bias against international incidents,\u201d and thus under-count foreign mass shootings.\nDoes Lankford\u2019s paper also have that problem?\nA new report from the Crime Prevention Research Center, which one of us heads, has just finished collecting cases using the same definition of mass public shootings used by Lankford.\nWe know of no way to discover most of the cases where four people have been shot to death in an incident in Africa or many other parts of the world during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s or even 1990s, and that is the reason the new study just looked at the last 15 years from 1998 to 2012 of the 47 years he examined.\nLankford\u2019s data grossly undercount foreign attacks. We found 1,423 attacks outside the United States. Looking at just a third of the time Lankford studied, we still found 15 times as many shooters.\nEven when we use coding choices that are most charitable to Lankford, such as excluding any cases of insurgencies or battles over territory, his estimate of the US share of shooters falls from 31 percent to 1.43 percent. It also accounts for 2.1 percent of murders, and 2.88 percent of their attacks. All these are much less than the United States\u2019 4.6 percent share of the population.\nOf the 86 countries where we have identified mass public shootings, the US ranks 56th per capita in its rate of attacks and 61st in mass public shooting murder rate. Norway, Finland, Switzerland and Russia all have at least 45 percent higher rates of murder from mass public shootings than the United States.\nWhen Lankford\u2019s data is revised, the relationship between gun ownership rates and mass public shooters disappears.\nWell, further discussion on the data is over since Lankford isn\u2019t answering questions, telling Fox News and Circa \u201cI am not interested in giving any serious thought to John Lott or his claims,\u201d he said in response to an email seeking comment.\u201d This is why Second Amendment supporters, conservatives, gun owners, republicans, and rural voters don\u2019t trust the push for more government funding for gun control studies\u2014and for good reason, just look at this fiasco. If this is what comes from one study that appears to be erroneous, what will come when government becomes a main funding partner in these ventures? Holy hell!\nRemember Obama\u2019s surgeon general, who tried to make this a public health crisis?\nCould you imagine if Obama and other anti-gunners had endless government-funded studies compiled by left wing academics? Oh, it would be the slog of the century\u2026maybe.\nThis study might not have had that intent\u2014or who knows it could have been\u2014but what is certain is that the anti-gun Left would use these studies compiled by academia, which is disgustingly liberal, and have ample political ammunition to push for terrible pieces of legislation across the country, which chip away of our constitutional rights. It\u2019s not worth the risk. Though the Crime Prevention Research Center seems busy, doling out their data that undercuts or refutes the liberal consensus on Second Amendment issues. Carry on, folks. Carry on.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 11624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://traveltriangle.com/thailand-tourism/krabi/places-to-visit/koh-lanta", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:N6WFSYPWI2WLFM7SBWL2DFTCJMZ2NGLX", "length": 6946, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "traveltriangle.com", "title": "Koh Lanta In Krabi | Koh Lanta Krabi (Thailand)", "raw_content": "Koh Lanta in Krabi\nEnjoy the natural beauty of Koh Lanta Islands and have an incredible holiday experience\nTourism in Krabi\nhttp://tourismthailand.org/About-Thailand/Destination/Krabi\nAbout Koh Lanta in Krabi\nAt about 7 km from Krabi, Koh Lanta is a group of islands that offer breathtaking views of the surrounding areas and has some very beautiful beaches. The main Koh Lanta Island amongst all is Koh Lanta Yai, which has been very well developed by the Koh Lanta tourism industry. Many resorts and hotels are established in the area to give the Koh Lanta islands tour to the people. Koh Lanta is the perfect place to get away from busy city life and spend some time with family and friends.\nThe best time to visit Koh Lanta Krabi is from October to April when the weather is quite cold with minimum humidity. It is the peak season for Koh Lanta tourism during this period, and therefore, travelers might experience high rates of flights, hotels, markets, etc. Koh Lanta beaches are the main attraction of the place. The beautiful and peaceful surroundings make these beaches exotic, and a perfect spot to spend some nice time with one's acquaintances. Some of the famous Koh Lanta beaches and main tourists\u2019 spots are Baan Saladan Village, Klong Dao beach, Klong Khong Beach, Kantiang Beach, Lanta Old Town, etc. The population and crowd in most of these places are quite less, and therefore, they are perfect for a peaceful vacation.\nUnlike various other places in the world, Koh Lanta nightlife is very laid back, where one can have a nice time chatting and enjoying with friends. Thailand Koh Lanta is for people who like staying together with other people as a society. The Koh Lanta nightlife may disappoint people who like wild parties with loud music and crowd. The place is for people who like to enjoy karaokes and other such performances. Some of the best places to visit at night in Koh Lanta are Mango House, Cheeky Monkey, Aqua bar, Blue Moon Bar, etc. One can visit these places according to the area they are in. Baan Saladan is a place in the Koh Lanta Island which depicts the true form of Koh Lanta nightlife. The place gets quite busy after 7PM, and there are lively owners who make the place energetic and soothing at the same time.\nBeing a complete package, that Koh Lanta is, apart from various tourists\u2019 attractions and places to visit, there are many Koh Lanta things to do. Most of them are water sports and other water activities because water is what these places have in abundance. Some of the Koh Lanta things to do are sea kayaking, exploring caves, swimming, partying on the pools, beach hopping, hiking through the jungles, etc.\nAll in all, Koh Lanta tourism has played a major role in developing these islands to make them welcoming and friendly for the tourists. Koh Lanta Krabi is a perfect holiday destination for people who want a peaceful vacation without missing on some of the fun things and interesting places to explore. One must visit Thailand Koh Lanta to have the best vacations with family and friends.\nKoh Poda Island In Krabi\nThe Poda Island group consists of four main island- Koh Poda, Koh Tap, Koh Kai, and Koh Mor. Out of these, the Koh Poda is the largest and most popular tourists\u2019 destination. Though the diameter of the Koh Poda Island is not more than a kilometer, it is still the most looked for islands amongst the Poda Island group. The pl...\nThe Khao Phanom Bencha National Park is a small national park near Krabi which is famous for its waterfalls, trails, forests, caves, etc. The park offers spectacular views of nature and forests. The greenery of the place along with the waterfalls give a pleasant feel to the Khao Phanom Bencha National Park. It is a perfect ...\nAo Nang Beach In Krabi\nThe Ao Nang Beach is yet another popular choice of beaches in Thailand. This place is also known as Ao Phra Nang, however, that name simply did not catch up. Just like any other type, the Ao Nang Beach in Krabi is famous for its scenic beauty and helps various kinds of tourists to enjoy their time here.\nWith many fun acti...\nKoh Phi Phi Le In Krabi\nOne of the most iconic beaches in Thailand to enjoy the perfect tropical summer vacation is the breath-taking beach of Ko Phi Phi Le is the best place for everyone. Ko Phi Phi Le or Ko Phi Phi Leh is situated on the Phi Phi Archipelago, in the Strait of Malacca.\nIn case one wonders what is so special about Ko Phi Phi Le, T...\nMaya Bay In Krabi\nMaya Bay is one of the most popular beaches in Thailand. Maya Bay, Thailand is one of the most iconic beaches in the country and is an amalgamation of various beaches along the cliff. Furthermore, Maya Bay in Phi Phi helps one enjoy life at the fullest. This beach is one of those beaches that made Thailand famous.\nFurtherm...\nHot Springs In Krabi\nOne of the most interesting and relaxing things to do in Krabi is taking a dip in the famous Klong Thom hot springs. Around 70 km from the city centre, within the forests of Phra Bang Khram Nature Reserve, the presence of multiple hot water Jacuzzis in the form of hot spring waterfall in Krabi look almost a miracle. But the...\nSnorkelling In Krabi\nKrabi hides within itself some fascinating beaches in the hundreds of offshore islands like Phi Phi and Railey, within its territory. Located along the western coast of Thailand and dominated by ragged edges of limestone cliffs, these island beaches are a heaven for all kinds of adventure sports, like surfing, waterboarding...\nScuba Diving In Krabi\nThe province of Krabi in the west coast of Thailand is as beautiful under the water as it is above it. Krabi scuba diving scene attracts thousands of tourists and divers alike from all over the world every year, and the experience offered by the beaches and offshore Krabi dive sites is totally worth it. Moving away from the...\nThe gorgeous karst formations of ancient limestone jut out along the entire west coast of Thailand and stretches north and south into China and Papua New Guinea as well. These magnificent wonders of nature offer the best opportunities for rock climbing in Krabi, Thailand. The mass of limestone highlands along the beach of t...\nKrabi Town Night Market In Krabi\nShopping in Thailand is on everyone\u2019s list no matter what. Right from clothes to art installation to the little trinkets to remember the trip by, one can find everything at the local markets in Thailand. Thailand markets are quite unlike any other in the world. One such astonishing place is the Krabi town night market, also...\nReach Koh Lanta in Krabi\nNew Delhi to Krabi\nMumbai to Krabi\nBangalore to Krabi\nFAQ's of Krabi\nWhich is the best place to stay in Koh Lanta?\nLong Island is the best place to stay in Koh Lanta.\nWhat is the best way to explore Koh Lanta?\nIf one is up for an adventure, then taking a bike around Koh Lanta is the best way to explore the island.\nHow many islands does Koh Lanta comprise of?\nThere are 52 islands in Koh Lanta.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 576, "original_length": 19877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trumannchamber.org/community-support/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MLYBUMWMW7FQFACRCJRPPWPW43FS2JTK", "length": 1729, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "trumannchamber.org", "title": "Community Support - Trumann Chamber of Commerce ARTrumann Chamber of Commerce", "raw_content": "The Chamber works with local and regional organizations, such as the Lions Club, Fine Arts Council, Stepping Stone Sanctuary (mission), Food Pantry, local churches, private foundations, Crowley\u2019s Ridge Development Council, and others to help promote their programs and activities. The Chamber collaborates with these organizations, nearby communities, the county, state, and federal government to acquire assistance in community enhancement programs and infrastructure.\nIn recent history, the Chamber of Commerce paid 100% of the costs for installing regulation-sized concrete boxes for the disc golf course in Cedar Park. The chamber was the organization that encouraged the city to install the disc golf course in the park.\nIn 2016 and 2017, the community development project funded by the chamber was the expansion of electrical boxes around the walking track in the Trumann Recreation Complex on Pecan Grove Road.\nThe chamber championed the concept and was instrumental in advocating for a utility extension under I-555 (completed in December 2016) that serves the western region of our city\u2019s developing business district.\nThe chamber wrote the grant and secured private funding for the construction of the Sims/Talbot Adult Education/Workforce Development Center, completed in 2015.\nThe chamber partnered with the Industrial Development Commission to secure funding for the city\u2019s Detention Pond, completed in 2013 which succeeded in providing flood relief for Mulberry \u2013 a 40+ year problem for residents in the Sims Addition.\nAs part of its mission, the Chamber will work to develop and promote enhancement projects in the community and region. We truly are striving to make Trumann a better place to live, work, and play.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tsinelasrunner.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:50Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5TQNQ2TBGNBFJDOOBUVVLCXSEOVSR62", "length": 433, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "tsinelasrunner.wordpress.com", "title": "Uncategorized | Tsinelas Runner", "raw_content": "All Women Ultra Marathon\nIt was the first in Cebu, the first in the Philippines, and most probably the first in the World.\nA successful event as evidenced by the photos and stories all over the papers and online social networking sites, but little is known about how it was conceptualized, planned, worked on, and implemented.\nHere\u2019s what happened behind the scenes (based on my own perspective and without the boring minute details)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 173.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tuanimeonline.com/series/906/chapter/32377/links", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JVYUB3U55XMMUOR6R3TS6M32HFORWYUS", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tuanimeonline.com", "title": "2x15 - Detective Conan - Series - TuAnimeOnline", "raw_content": "Season 2 - Episode 15: The Kidnapping of Conan Edogawa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tv-english.club/articles-en/discover-great-britain-en/your-guide-to-scottish-ski-resorts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:02Z", "digest": "sha1:P5QUT4SPIRTGRA7NSJAKOQGVVMCGLFUX", "length": 3381, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "tv-english.club", "title": "Your guide to Scottish Ski Resorts", "raw_content": "Home | Articles | Discover Great Britain | Your guide to Scottish Ski Resorts\nAre you a skiing or snowboarding enthusiast? Planning a ski trip? Looking for that ideal piste? Snow covered mountains? Look no further than the Scottish Ski Resorts. Improving snow conditions over the recent years have made it an ideal destination for one and all, from novice to veteran.\nIn the list below, we give you a snapshot of the best Scottish Ski Resorts based on their facilities and quality of slopes.\nThe Nevis Range Mountain Resort\nSpanning high on to Scotland\u2019s eighth highest mountain with pistes up to 3900 feet, the Nevis Range Mountain Resort is ideal for Skiing and Snowboarding late into spring. With its base being accessible only by the United Kingdom\u2019s only mountain gondola, visitors can enjoy a ride from sea level to an elevation of around 2000 feet. The Nevis Range Mountain Resort boasts a beginner\u2019s area consisting of blue and green graded pistes and a wide range of red and black pistes for the more seasoned skiers.\nLocated in Rannoch Moor, the Glencoe Mountain Resort is home to some of the most stunning vistas of the BuachailleEtive Mor. Featuring a considerably large campsite including hook-ups and mini lodges the resort is an ideal destination for more seasoned skiers. The resorts amazing scenery and varied palette of ski-runs, most notably the \u201cFlypaper\u201d run which is, without a doubt, the United Kingdom\u2019s steepest Black graded run make it a must on any avid skiers repertoire. During summertime, many outdoor activities such as hill walking, climbing Mountain biking, and tubing making the resort more than just a winter destination.\nThe Glenshee Ski Centre\nGlenshee, from the Gaelic, \u201cGlen of Fairies\u201d is a truly magical destination that even the most avid skier will find inviting time and time again. Spanning a total area of 2000 acres which include four mountains and three valleys and a grand 21 lifts and tows, Glenshee is without a doubt the largest of the Scottish Ski Resorts and indeed the biggest Ski Resort in the United Kingdom. It\u2019s 36 runs comprise of 40 km of pristine pisted snow, the longest of which is GlasMaol which is a whopping two km of truly phenomenal skiing.\nThe Cairngorm Mountain\nArguably Scotland\u2019s most famous resort, Cairngorm has earned its reputation as one of the world\u2019s most beautiful destinations for skiing. Advanced skier or bare novice, visitors are in for a treat from the word get-go. Begin with a unique train jaunt to Ptarmigan Top Station, replete with panoramic views of the area. The pride of the resort is its Funicular railway, the only one in Scotland. The resort comprises 12 lifts servicing seven green runs, Six blue and a single black piste.\nThe Lecht Ski Centre\nPositioned right in the middle of Scotland\u2019s largest national park, the Lecht has been in operation since mid-1970. An all year Highland activity centre, the resort is home to 20 well-maintained ski runs serviced by 14 lifts. Recognised as one of the top Scottish Ski Resorts, the resort offers many activities for both summer and winter. The resort caters to all ages from as young as two years old and equipped with a Rotondo Carousel enabling children to learn to balance on ski\u2019s or snowboards in a safe and entertaining manner. 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The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing. Initially, the Fair Housing Act prohibited discrimination because of race, color, religion and national origin. Later, protections from discrimination because of sex, disability and familial status were added.\nFor more information on Fair Housing visit the following links:\nFiling a Fair Housing Complaint\nFor questions on Fair Housing Resources: adeionno@ucpcog.org\nYour Link Name", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ucsdcommunityhealth.org/news/uc-san-diego-youth-advisory-council-international-youth-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:08Z", "digest": "sha1:W2AOH6Q2C7CZUCEKKZHOZTL5DQAS4Q5T", "length": 1977, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ucsdcommunityhealth.org", "title": "International Youth Day | UCSD Center for Community Health", "raw_content": "Permanent link to page: https://ucsdcommunityhealth.org/news/uc-san-diego-youth-advisory-council-international-youth-day/\nYoung people are residents like all others. And like all residents, young people have a voice in the policies that impact their community.\nOn July 31st, 2015, the UC San Diego Youth Advisory Council made its voice heard by organizing and hosting an International Youth Day event. In keeping with the theme of the UN International Youth Day 2015, \u201cYouth Civic Engagement,\u201d the UC San Diego Youth Advisory Council and the Copley-Price Family YMCA collaborated to create an opportunity highlighting the importance of accessible, affordable, healthy foods in the community.\nThe event featured Chef Chelsea Carpenter from Copley-Price Family YMCA, who not only shared her culinary expertise, but also her enthusiasm for youth participation, both in the kitchen and through motivating youth with hands-on activities.\n\u201cIn today\u2019s world, engaging youth is a significant way to enact positive change in our society,\u201d said Amina Sheik Mohamed, Senior Manager at UC San Diego Center for Community Health. \u201cOur youth engagement program offers tools, leadership training, and a trusted environment so that youth may share their voices and be the change makers in their communities.\u201d\nMore efforts are needed to raise awareness about the importance of youth civic engagement and its benefits for both the individuals and the community. Promoting youth involvement empowers future leaders and brings attention to the importance of social, economic, and political contributions from all members of the community. Our young leaders captured the enthusiasm of the day using photography and social media to share their stories and their voices, for all to see and hear.\nTo partner or learn more about the UC San Diego Youth Advisory Council contact Amina Sheik Mohamed at Asheikmohamed@ucsd.edu\nPrevious Article: Hispanic Heritage 2015 Hero Award\nNext Article: Healthy Cocina", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com/army-honors-mccain-opening-modernization-004113293.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DZJWLQEJFE2HUIHKWIAPWAT2KKGUDTNB", "length": 242, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "uk.news.yahoo.com", "title": "Army honors McCain in opening new modernization HQ in Texas [Video]", "raw_content": "As Sen. John McCain's family announced that the ailing veteran is stopping treatment for brain cancer, the Army paid tribute Friday at the opening of a new warfare modernization headquarters in Texas that he played a driving role in creating.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.sans.org/webcasts/combatting-cyber-risks-supply-chain-100657", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7QQ4EVBA7KCDPJEBX6AONJILBLQDKPVB", "length": 2172, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "uk.sans.org", "title": "Combatting Cyber Risks in the Supply Chain - SANS Institute", "raw_content": "Combatting Cyber Risks in the Supply Chain\nThursday, September 10th, 2015 at 1:00 PM EDT (17:00:00 UTC)\nDave Shackleford and Joshua Douglas\nAlong with unprecedented advancements in the sophistication of attackers comes an acceleration of the pace of data breaches and intrusions into computer systems. At the same time, advances in technology have created greater efficiency and effectiveness for organizations and their supply chains. However, in the past several years, there have been a number of high-profile breaches that have implicated the supply chain. Because of the damage such breaches can cause, it is vital that all organizations consider ways to enhance their supply chain security practices.\nOne key to supply chain security is developing a vendor management program, which provides insight into vendor practices and enables appropriate communication to avoid or mitigate breaches. This webcast provides guidance on building an effective vendor management program and describes the best practices to secure the people and processes in your supply chain.\nAttendees will learn about implementing the following technology controls to ensure secure supplier interactions:\nNetwork isolation and segmentation\nBe among the first to receive the associated whitepaper written by Dave Shackleford.\nJoshua Douglas, CTO for Raytheon | Websense, has nearly two decades of experience in helping global enterprises and government agencies secure their most prized business/mission assets. During his past nine years at Raytheon, he has overseen Raytheon's cybersecurity intelligence operations, malware concepts, security infrastructure operations, and research technologies. His mission is to produce effective forward-looking cyber software solutions to contain and control advanced threats, thus helping commercial and government entities protect their enterprises and the global supply chain from ever-changing advanced persistent threats and malware. Prior to joining Raytheon, Joshua had a successful track record in network security operations and engineering management positions, securing enterprise environments while promoting contextual awareness and response.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 247.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ukwir.org/biosolids-to-market-a-strategic-proposal-to-explore-the-threats-to-biosolids-to-land-now-and-in-the-future-sl-850/sl-1072-sl-1060-combined-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:33Z", "digest": "sha1:VLWC76LGPFO4C63ODXDW7UUBKSZ4O2FD", "length": 833, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ukwir.org", "title": "Biosolids to Market: A Strategic Proposal to Explore the Threats to Biosolids to Land \u2013 Now and in the Future", "raw_content": "Biosolids are valuable sources of crop nutrients, stable organic matter and lime which improve soil quality and fertility. Their recycling to land also completes natural nutrient and carbon cycles. However, there is increasing concern about the fate of substances in biosolids (e.g. microplastics, fibres and organic chemicals) following application to land and their impact on the environment and human health.\nA robust, evidenced based approach to address these emerging issues is required to ensure that biosolids are managed safely and sustainably.\nA comprehensive review of the industry\u2019s approach to biosolids management, and the range of substances/issues that could be present, and which could affect the current practice of biosolids recycling to agricultural land in particular, has therefore been undertaken.\n18/SL/01/9 CD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unitedwomenslacrosse.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XIIZ7BRSINVZHFE7MVKEBTIMVBHDAOOD", "length": 1590, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "unitedwomenslacrosse.com", "title": "United Women's Lacrosse League", "raw_content": "Home ABOUT SCHEDULE TEAMS NEWS\nABOUTSCHEDULETEAMSNEWS\nUWLX ANNOUNCES NEW HYBRID FORMAT FOR 2019 SEASON\nUWLX Announces Hybrid Box-Field Format with Olympic Rules Experimentation For Season Four\nBOSTON \u2014 The United Women\u2019s Lacrosse League has announced evolutions for the 2019 season to include a box-field hybrid format and experimentation with Olympic-style rules.\nIn a first for professional women\u2019s lacrosse, the UWLX will take on a box-field format for 2019: the league schedule will consist of box games, played with modified indoor rules and a six-on-six format, and field games, some of which will be played in a small-sided format using an iteration of women\u2019s field rules proposed for future use in the Olympics.\nTeam USA to Play UWLX, WPLL Squads at IWLCA President\u2019s Cup\nFrom US Lacrosse Magazine | WED 24 OCT 2018 | BRIAN LOGUE | USA INSIDER\nSPARKS, Md. \u2014 The U.S. Women\u2019s National Training Team will continue its building process when it plays at the President\u2019s Cup in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., next month.\nThe President\u2019s Cup, a signature event of the Intercollegiate Women\u2019s Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA), will feature more than 300 teams competing at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex from Nov. 16-18 in one of the sport\u2019s biggest recruiting showcases.\nThe 2018 UWLX season ended on August 4th, 2018 as the Philadelphia Force captured the team's first league title over the Boston Storm. Check back for details on an All-Star game and next season's schedule.\nUnited Women's Lacrosse League is proud to be sponsored by\nCopyright \u00a9 2018 United Women's Lacrosse League", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 304.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unric.org/en/latest-un-buzz/30177-honour-our-heroes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:59Z", "digest": "sha1:DN7GFGDAX6KXARDZ4FF25BZIUPDQ2QMV", "length": 1958, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "unric.org", "title": "Honour Our Heroes", "raw_content": "Honour Our Heroes\n19.05.2016 \u2013 Accompanied by his family, Senegal's Captain Mbaye Diagne \u2013 who saved lives during the Rwanda genocide \u2013 is today present at the celebration of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers at UN Headquarters in New York. The event sees the launch of a new medal in his name, which recognises peacekeepers who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to do the right thing.\nThe International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers was established to honour the memory of the UN peacekeepers who have lost their lives in the cause of peace, and pay tribute to all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in UN peacekeeping operations for their high level of professionalism, dedication and courage.\nThe theme this year is \u2018Honouring our Heroes\u2019, recognising the work done by all uniformed and civilian peacekeepers. A video was also released to draw attention to women\u2019s increasingly integral role in the peacekeeping family, as peacekeeping evolves to encompass a broader humanitarian approach.\nFor more than 70 years, UN Peacekeeping has proven to be a legitimate, reliable and effective tool in facilitating the transition from conflict to peace. Fifteen years ago, the UN had fewer than 40,000 military and police personnel. Today, more than 105,000 uniformed personnel from 124 troop- and police-contributing countries serve under the UN flag, along with 18,000 international and national civilian staff and UN Volunteers. They courageously risk their lives in order to bring stability to some of the world\u2019s most vulnerable populations.\nAs the size, complexity and accomplishments of peacekeeping have grown, unfortunately so have the risks as the \u2018Blue Helmets\u2019 are increasingly and directly targeted. Last year, 129 UN peacekeepers lost their lives.\n- @UNPeacekeeping\n- #Together4Peace\n- International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers\nOne: A Good Man in Rwanda, BBC\nTwo: Women In Peacekeeping, UN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 155.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://upge.wn.com/?from=hongkongassets.com&pagenum=3&language_id=1&template=cheetah-photo-search%2Findex.txt&query=hongkong_assets", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:11Z", "digest": "sha1:XPQJL7SYH74W6SHKSDRHDLX46SKIJR7I", "length": 37045, "nlines": 99, "source_domain": "upge.wn.com", "title": "Hongkong Assets", "raw_content": "Hongkong Assets\nAn interview with Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing. In this interview Li Ka-shing discusses his early interest in business, why cash flow is the most important thing and building his companies, CK Hutchison Holdings and CK Property Holdings. Li Ka-shing also talks of his foundation, Li Ka Shing Foundation, and the philosophy behind it. Like if you enjoyed Subscribe for more:http://bit.ly/InvestorsArchive Follow us on twitter:http://bit.ly/TwitterIA Other great Entrepreneur videos:\u2b07 Larry Ellison's in depth interview on his Life and Success: http://bit.ly/LEllisonVid Jeff Bezos on Amazon, Business and Life/Work:http://bit.ly/JeffBezosVid Bill Gates on Business, Microsoft and Early Life: http://bit.ly/BillGatesVid Video Segments: 0:00 Introduction 1:50 Careful with cash flow 2:25 Is cash flow the most important thing? 3:03 How did you educate yourself? 5:13 Beating the competition? 6:27 Yangtze river metaphor 7:33 Management style 8:52 Always half an hour early 10:27 Rich before 30 but unhappy 13:00 Leaving money to a foundation 13:47 Building the Tsz Shan monastery 14:40 Combining western and buddhist influences 17:05 Inequality in Hong Kong 18:47 When are you retiring? 21:46 Will it be the same without you? Interview Date: 29th June, 2016 Event: Bloomberg Original Image Source:http://bit.ly/LiKaShingPic Investors Archive has videos of all the Investing/Business/Economic/Finance masters. Learn from their wisdom for free in one place. For more check out the channel. Remember to subscribe, share, comment and like! No advertising.\nCyberspace Assets is proud to present ELPIS Artificial Intelligence trading technology for managing Crypto Currencies and Traditional Assets. Token Sale Link: https://bit.ly/2ydw1g2 Elpis is the first company to be using AI technology to make their trades, and blockchain to audit their trading signals for both - tradition Markets and cryptocurrencies. For more information visit: https://bit.ly/2ydw1g2 or to discuss opportunities contact us: CSA@cyberspaceassets.com Presented by: Cyberspace Assets Pty Ltd Feat. Anatoly Castella - CEO at Elpis Investments Director: Aaron Battle - CEP at CSA Elevator pitch recordings sourced from Proactive Investor Music by www.bensound.com Event: WI Emergence Hong Kong 2018 Speaker/ Presenter: Aaron Battle\nAre You Tired Of Winning Yet? Smells Like Big Trouble In Little China For Teigen! Our News Website: TruthinContextnews.wordpress.com Our Twitter: https://twitter.com/Truth_inContext Our Gab: https://gab.ai/TruthInContext Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/truthincontext - Be Our Next Patron! Thank You For Your Support!\nHong Kong is not considered a \"tax haven\" and therefore enjoys a deserved reputation for business and financial legitimacy. Jurisdictions which attempt to hide assets through private registries and obstructive procedures are justifiably targeted by foreign authorities and have little relevance to legitimate pension planning and management. Hong Kong, conversely, provides an established, straightforward, low-tax system that attracts legitimate and transparent pension planning for both international and local clients. Hong Kong's Occupation Retirement Scheme Ordinance (ORSO) is a government regulated retirement regime available to residents and non-residents of Hong Kong. The ORSO makes it possible for individuals to establish a retirement plan that has the result that no estate duty, no wealth tax, no capital gains tax, no withholding tax, no VAT, and no annual net income tax is attributed to the pension member. These significant positive tax implications are derived from Hong Kong's premium on low taxes, a free market and an almost unfettered capacity for investment. The ORSO maximizes the return on members' wealth by avoiding double-taxation regulations, overlapping taxes, and unnecessary administrative and regulatory fees. Importantly, the regime offers flexibility and freedom of investment by including the widest range of investment class and asset location. In addition, in the unfortunate event of the pension member's death, the estate is effectively distributed to desired recipients with ultimate tax efficiency. These savings on estate succession, combined with the greater possibilities for investment, make the ORSO a unique retirement essential. We encourages people of all countries to take advantage of Hong Kong's ORSO. There may be little that is more frustrating than losing large parts of an estate to the government for the sole reasons of mismanagement, poor planning, and a misunderstanding of tax law. The options under the ORSO make it possible to efficiently manage your financial estate and avoid many of the common crucial mistakes made in everyday pension planning. More information available from http://www.investoffshore.com\nHong Kong is full of hidden gems. Unfortunately, not everything lasts forever in this city. Let\u2019s explore and capture the side in Hong Kong that is disappearing, ranging from neon lights to traditional handwritten signs, and from Dai Pai Dong to pre-war Tong Lau, and let people see that they are important and valuable assets of Hong Kong before it is too late. Subscribe for more videos about best photo spots and things to do in Hong Kong! 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In 1974, Mandarin International Hotels Limited was formed as a hotel management company, with the intention was to expand into Asia. That year, the company acquired a 49% interest in The Oriental, Bangkok, resulting in two \"flagship\" hotels for the company.\nIn 1985, the Company combined the two hotels under a common name, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group. In 1987, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group was floated on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong under the name of \"Mandarin Oriental International Limited.\" Mandarin Oriental International Limited, is incorporated in Bermuda, and listed in London, Singapore and Bermuda. Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group Limited, which operates from Hong Kong, manages the activities of the Group\u2019s hotels.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Mandarin_Oriental_Hotel_Group\nCities: Skylines is a city-building game by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive, released on 10 March 2015 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux, with an Xbox One port planned. The game is a single player open-ended city-building simulation. Players engage in urban planning by controlling zoning, road placement, taxation, public services, and public transportation of an area. Players work to maintain the city's budget, population, health, happiness, employment, pollution (land, water and noise), traffic flow, and other factors.\nThis page contains text from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia - https://wn.com/Cities:_Skylines\nSir Ka-shing Li, GBM, KBE,JP (born 29 July 1928 in Chaozhou, China) is a Hong Kong business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, as of 16 April 2014 he is the richest person in Asia, with a net worth of $31.9 billion. He is the chairman of the board of CK Hutchison Holdings as of 2015; through it, he is the world's largest operator of container terminals and the world's largest health and beauty retailer.\nConsidered one of the most powerful figures in Asia, Li was named \"Asia's Most Powerful Man, Li Ka-Shing\" by Asiaweek in 2001. His companies make up 15% of the market capitalisation of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.Forbes Magazine and the Forbes family honoured Li Ka-shing with the first ever \"Malcolm S. Forbes Lifetime Achievement Award\" on 5 September 2006, in Singapore. In spite of his wealth, Li has cultivated a reputation for leading a no-frills lifestyle, and is known to wear simple black dress shoes and an inexpensive Seiko wristwatch. He owns a house in one of Hong Kong's most expensive districts, Deep Water Bay in Hong Kong Island. Li is also regarded as one of Asia's most generous philanthropists, donating over US$2.18 billion as of August 2015 to charity and other various philanthropic causes. Li is often referred to as \"Superman\" in Hong Kong because of his business prowess. 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To celebrate 50 fantastic years, Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong welcomed over 800 celebrities, dignitaries and society guests from Hong Kong and around the world. Celebrities and VIPs included Mandarin Oriental fans Dame Helen Mirren, Maggie Cheung, Bryan Ferry, Vivienne Tam, Karen Mok, Mary McCartney, Frederick Forsyth, Caterina Murino, Darcey Bussell, and Sir David Tang. Notable guests from Hong Kong included Moses Chan, Aimee Chan, Hins Cheung, Michelle Wai, Kathy Chou, Ankie Beilke, Pansy Ho, Simon and Daisy Ho, Maisy Ho, Yvette Yuen, Ming Ho and Louisa Cheng, to name a few. Overseas guests included George Osborne, Boris Johnson, Olivier Krug and Pierre Gagnaire. The magnificent evening began with a star-studded red carpet arrival in front of the hotel, which drew a stellar crowd. Guests were welcomed by Edouard Ettedgui, the Group's Chief Executive, Jonas Schuermann, General Manager/Area Vice President, Operations and hotel colleagues. An extraordinary outdoor spectacle, fusing history, design and technology -- three elements for which the Group is renowned -- then took place. A three-dimensional projection over the fa\u00e7ade of the property traced the hotel's history and beginnings in 1963 and the subsequent development of the Group into the global luxury brand that it is today. To view the 3D projection video, click http://youtu.be/ZG0vqyY5_Mo. Later in the evening, guests were treated to live performances by two of the Group's celebrity fans, Hong Kong's very own actress, singer and songwriter Karen Mok and the enigmatic Bryan Ferry. Menus were prepared by talented Executive Chef Uwe Opocensky and his team, and The City Contemporary Dance Company, showcased a \"Dance of Golden Fans\" choreographed by Willy Tsao. Fran\u00e7ois Curiel, President of Christie's Asia auctioned off three outstanding prizes raising funds for local charities Mindset, The Hong Kong Red Cross and Hong Kong Cancer Fund. About Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong: The 50th anniversary is a special milestone in the history of Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong, which has been part of the social fabric of Hong Kong since opening in 1963. \"The Mandarin,\" as it is often referred to by locals, has been embraced by royalty, heads of state, celebrities, leaders of finance and industry\u2014and by its sophisticated guests from all over the world. When the hotel completed its renovation in 2006, the hotel was completely transformed, but was careful to preserve its much-loved character and soul. In a city that is changing so rapidly, the long-standing history and heritage of Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong is one of its greatest assets -- which makes this celebration so special. About Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group: Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group is the award-winning owner and operator of some of the world's most prestigious hotels and resorts. The Group now operates, or has under development, 45 hotels representing over 11,000 rooms in 26 countries, with 20 hotels in Asia, 11 in The Americas and 14 in Europe, Middle East and North Africa. In addition, the Group operates, or has under development, 13 Residences at Mandarin Oriental connected to its properties.\nCities Skylines Building Hong Kong Episode 13 All Mods And Assets Are Gone Can't Reload\nCities Skylines Building Hong Kong Series Patreon https://www.patreon.com/GMLiquidMedia Music production by Liquid Media Games https://youtu.be/6ZyY0PNXw4E Cities Skylines, Building Hong Kong with the Snow Fall Expansion. it\u2019s a city building game from Colossal Order and Paradox. Cities Skylines Snow Fall Updated and I am now using mods and starting with everything unlocked. I will be reconstructing a city with some additional assets I am only going for close not an exact match. Starting with the map editor and then constructing what I can fit in at the scale of the game. 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Velandra Brochi will replace her.\nINDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 8, 2018 \u2013 The ninth-annual Nastia Liukin Cup Series kicked off this past weekend with the Alamo Classic and the Atlanta Crown Invitational, where the first four athletes earned their spots to the 2018 Nastia Liukin Cup, scheduled for March 2 at the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Ill. The Nastia Liukin Cup Series continues this weekend with the California Grand Invitational in Anaheim, Calif.; CGA Coaches\u2019 Spectacular in Covington, Ky.; and the Tampa Bay Turners Invitational in Bradenton, Fla.\nKylie Coen of Arlington, Texas/Empire Gymnastics, junior, and Maya Bordas of Austin, Texas/Capital Gymnastics Texas, senior, punched their tickets to the Nastia Liukin Cup at the Alamo Classic. Coen posted a 38.225 to take the junior title, while Bordas scored 38.150 as the top senior at the event. At the Atlanta Crown Invitational, Lali Dekanoidze of Charlotte, N.C./Southeastern, topped the junior all-around standings (38.500), earning her third-straight trip to the Nastia Liukin Cup. In the senior division, Haleigh Bryant of Cornelius, N.C./Everest Gymnastics, garnered a 39.000 to capture the senior all-around crown and secure her second trip to the Cup.\nThe Sears Centre Arena will host both the Nastia Liukin Cup and, on the following day, the AT&T American Cup, the USA\u2019s most prestigious international invitational and part of the International Gymnastics Federation\u2019s all-around World Cup series. 2017 World all-around champion Morgan Hurd of Middletown, Del./First State Gymnastics, and 2017 AT&T American Cup champion and World bronze-medalist Yul Moldauer of Arvada, Colo./University of Oklahoma, will represent the United States at the 2018 AT&T American Cup. The Elite Team Cup, a team event with many of the USA\u2019s top junior men, wraps up the weekend\u2019s events on Saturday evening.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 10929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://utexas.influuent.utsystem.edu/en/persons/charles-fraser", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JIPMUYDNY22HV6CCHOWTLSWMWYSVNEGP", "length": 3508, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "utexas.influuent.utsystem.edu", "title": "Charles Fraser, MD \u2014 the Research Networking System", "raw_content": "Professor; Section Chief for Pediatric and Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery (DCMC)\nEmailcharles.fraser@austin.utexas.edu\nCharles Fraser Jr. is a professor in Dell Medical School\u2019s Departments of Surgery and Perioperative Care and Pediatrics. He is also chief of pediatric and congenital cardiothoracic surgery at Dell Children\u2019s Medical Center of Central Texas.\nFraser plays a leading role in building the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, a focused pediatric and congenital heart program that leverages the power of the partnership between Dell Medical School, the greater University of Texas community, and Dell Children\u2019s, part of Ascension.\nPrior to joining Dell Med, Fraser served at Texas Children\u2019s Hospital in Houston as senior surgeon of its congenital heart surgery program, ranked No. 1 nationally by U.S. News & World Report. He also served as surgeon-in-chief of the hospital\u2019s surgical enterprise, leading more than 100 surgeons.\nFraser previously led the division of congenital heart surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, working to refine the surgical treatment of small babies, children and adults with congenital cardiac disease. His focus has remained on the surgical care of these patients with particular emphasis on complex neonatal repairs of serious cardiac malformations. Fraser developed dedicated pediatric heart and lung transplant and mechanical circulatory support teams to offer every available therapy in the care of critically ill children.\nFraser graduated from UT Austin with a bachelor\u2019s degree in mathematics (with honors) and received his medical degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He is a distinguished alumnus at both institutions. He moved on to become a surgical resident at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, followed by a pediatric heart surgery fellowship at Royal Children\u2019s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and a heart surgery residency again at Johns Hopkins.\nHe maintains active research interests including congenital heart surgical outcomes and quality, transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, brain protection and bioengineering. He has contributed over 250 peer review journal articles, numerous chapters and textbooks to medical literature.\nFraser has been honored with notable awards including the Outstanding Young Alumnus Award from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999, The American Heart Association Medical Honoree in 2002, the Michael E. DeBakey Distinguished Service Award from Baylor College of Medicine in 2004, the Ashbel Smith Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2007, the Distinguished Surgeon Award from the Association of perioperative Registered Nurses (AORN) of Greater Houston in 2008, the Ray C. Fish Award for Scientific Achievement from the Texas Heart Institute in 2010, and Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Texas at Austin in 2013.\nHe has also served as a member of The University of Texas at Austin Commission of 125, The University of Texas Alumni Association Board of Trustees, the Board of Trustees of the Episcopal High School of Houston, the greater Houston Chapter of the American Heart Association, and the Vestry of St. John the Divine Episcopal Church in Houston. Fraser served as President of the American Heart Association Houston Board in 2012.\nHeart-Assist Devices Medicine & Life Sciences\nPulsatile Flow Medicine & Life Sciences\nHeart Transplantation Medicine & Life Sciences", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 110.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://valwilliams.com/the-silent-self-doubt-of-powerful-performers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:15Z", "digest": "sha1:Q55CXOWTSE65PKQT7TQEWS2CWYU5H3FX", "length": 6856, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "valwilliams.com", "title": "The Silent Self-Doubt of Powerful Performers \u2013 Val Williams \u00bb The Silent Self-Doubt of Powerful PerformersVal Williams", "raw_content": "\u00ab Your Formula 1: Championship Performance @ High Speed\nExecution: Powerfully Shaping the Future \u00bb\nAs a senior executive, have you ever heard a colleague talk openly about how their self-doubt may be impacting their performance? The C-suite is not exactly the place for that kind of conversation. C-level leaders are working under heavy expectations. Meanwhile, your peers are competing with you for resources. And your multiple stakeholders are expecting you to produce results. Even if you have doubts, you\u2019re probably not going to talk about them.\nHowever, I meet a surprising number of highly successful VPs and C-suite executives who do experience concerns about their confidence in specific areas. Rarely do we stop to consider that business changes so much these days and so quickly that almost anyone can at some time begin to doubt their ability to keep up\u2014let alone step up.\nSILENT TRIGGERS\nSeveral different types of situations can trigger self-doubt in a high-performing leader.\nWhen an organization or an industry is going through disruptive change, leaders at VP level and above often feel especially vulnerable. By virtue of their position so close to the top and the size of their compensation package, they realize that they may become targets. Some C-suite positions are more prone to casualties than others (for example, Fast Company, a business magazine, was reporting this for Chief Marketing Officers over five years ago). Under this constant threat, your confidence can take silent unrelenting hits even if you are effectively keeping up with your daily challenges.\nAnother trigger for executive leaders is when they\u2019re promoted into new or significantly different roles. Their self-confidence may take a quick silent hit when they first step up. The increased scope and complexity of their new role can leave them overwhelmed and doubting their capacity to deliver. Never mind the additional pressure of realizing that the higher you go, the more your success depends on your ability to influence people over whom you have no authority.\nLast week, I was talking with one such leader who was struggling after having been promoted to divisional VP at a financial services company. He sensed that his bosses were looking to him for immediate answers. Even though he had a breadth and depth of experience in his business area that far exceeded his superiors, he doubted his ability to make the right choices. He also believed that his superiors, as well as his team, were more knowledgeable and better informed than he was. He felt challenged by his direct reports when they questioned him and pushed back on his decisions. He thought he needed to have all the answers and he was very uncomfortable with the fact that he didn\u2019t. \u201cNeeding to have all the answers\u201d was actually his blind spot.\nExecutive leadership today is not about having all the answers: it\u2019s about inspiring your teams of talented high achievers to create the answers. What this VP is not seeing is that his biggest contribution as a leader is in leading a team to commit to a vision and facilitating the conversations that the team needs to have to create strategies and execute on that vision. A key part of his job is to coach and develop people so they have the courage to speak their ideas and the skill to carry them out.\nWHAT\u2019S AT RISK IF YOU DON\u2019T HANDLE SELF-DOUBT?\nHigh achievers who don\u2019t address self-doubt thoroughly\u2014whenever and wherever it occurs\u2014risk their performance, their health and their well-being.\nWhen self-confidence starts to drop, leaders subtly (and often unconsciously) shift their behavior: they pull back on contributing or, paradoxically, they go into overdrive and start working longer hours. Like the financial services VP, you may find yourself becoming more tentative in meetings, holding back your ideas and suggestions, or avoiding controversy. This is all very subtle at first\u2014barely noticeable\u2014but you feel the stress. Unfortunately, in competitive environments, either of these strategies (pull back or work harder) may have you heading straight for executive burnout, being marginalized, or even being terminated.\nSometimes executives try to achieve a better balance by hiding their doubts under a mask of false confidence. To all appearances, they\u2019ve got it all together. Yet they assert themselves a little too strongly and try a little too hard to prove themselves. Underneath this, a prevailing sense that they\u2019re \u201cnot enough\u201d drives them. The result is a usually negative impact on their leadership. Others can interpret this behavior, this false bravado, as slightly \u2018edgy\u2019 or \u2018arrogant\u2019. Some people tend to respond to this by withdrawing their trust.\nOver time, any of these behaviors (pull back, work harder, hide out under false confidence) negatively influence your ability to deliver the impact needed at the VP or C level. The joy of facing challenges and creating innovative solutions fades when you\u2019re trying to survive the day with your image as a leader intact. Overwork is a constant danger. A subtle, low-grade anxiety lingers in the background. Unfortunately, none of this goes unnoticed for long.\nCONFIDENCE @ WORK\nWe can successfully avoid dealing with self-doubt for a while. However, when I coach senior executives, we look at the potential downstream impact of hidden self-doubt.\nMost senior executives that I work with have come to realize that, in today\u2019s market, there is no job security at VP level and above. This is not a reflection on you. This is how the game is played.\nSo how can you be confident?\nMore than ever before, the secret to powerful performance and a successful executive career lies in having confidence in yourself, your abilities and especially in your personal presence as a leader.\nReal security lies in playing the game with the confidence of an entrepreneur. Get comfortable with the fact that there is no job security. Keep up your networks, get skilled at negotiating, and be prepared to go into job search mode on short notice.\nRemove self-doubt at its core. It takes courage to face our fear. This is where coaching is a useful tool. (I also have a coach myself.) The benefit of having a partner to help us fully explore, understand and create strategies to eliminate self-doubt can be invaluable.\nRather than base your self-confidence on your title and compensation package, build a new self-confidence. One based on being crystal clear about what your contribution is and its value\u2014independent of what company you may be in at the moment.\nGenuinely confident people do not have to pretend that they\u2019re all-knowing or invincible. They realize that their performance is only one variable among many in determining their longevity. Powerful performers have confidence in who they are. And in today\u2019s world, that confidence forms a critical foundation for their success.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 8075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vaperanks.com/njoy-becomes-first-major-u-s-e-cigarette-company-to-declare-bankruptcy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:09Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4DRP4S3RUGPYP6BFH3PBOAGRUKZFZXE", "length": 4025, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "vaperanks.com", "title": "NJOY Becomes First Major U.S. E-Cigarette Company to Declare Bankruptcy | E-Cigarette Reviews and Rankings", "raw_content": "NJOY Becomes First Major U.S. E-Cigarette Company to Declare Bankruptcy\nScottsdale-based electronic cigarette company NJOY has recently filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11, citing $32 million in debt and a serious liquidity crisis. Last month, NJOY announced that it had a deficit of more than $234 million and had begun operating under a cash preservation strategy that included delaying payments to vendors.\nIn 2012, NJOY was considered the biggest player in the U.S. e-cigarette industry, covering around 50% of the electronic cigarette market. Fast forward to present day, NJOY controls just 4.5% of the U.S. market and is in such a dire situation that it can\u2019t even find a buyer. So what led to the unfortunate downfall of this once popular brand? Court documents filed by the company cite the failure of its Kings 2.0 electronic cigarette as the main reason, but it was actually a combination of factors.\nThe original NJOY Kings was a widely popular e-cigarette, which at its peak, in 2013, brought the company over $90 million in sales. However, near the end of that year, NJOY launched an updated version of the e-cig, the Kings 2.0. which performed poorer than expected. Its rejection by consumers led to higher rates of returns for the product, and sales of other NJOY products stared dropping as well. The company ceased the manufacture of this product in January 2014 and replaced with an improved version, but the damage had been done. NJOY sales dropped to to $22 million in 2014, and to an abysmal $7.4 million in 2015. In February 2014, NJOY received a $70 million capital injection from investors including Brookside Capital and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, but that was not enough to stop the bleeding.\nBut while the poor performance of the Kings 2.0 seems to be the main cause of NJOY\u2019s downfall, it was certainly not the only one. The aggressive push of tobacco companies, with their endless financial resources and established retail chains, into the cigalike market also affected NJOY. The bulk of their sales came from physical locations like supermarkets and convenience stores, where it\u2019s almost impossible to compete with Big Tobacco. But while other independent companies sold out to tobacco companies, NJOY tried to ride out the storm and failed.\nIn his declaration, NJOY CEO Jeffrey Weiss also mentions the \u201csubstantial expenses\u201d of trying to prepare for the deeming regulations of the Food and Drug Administration and complying with state laws. The costs involved in preparing pre-market applications are too high for the vast majorities of independent e-cig companies, and by effectively removing all devices introduced to the market after February 2007, the FDA is forcing small players to compete with Big Tobacco in the cigalike sector.\nLastly, NJOY is engaged in a court battle with Fontem Ventures, a subsidiary of Imperial Tobacco, over patent infringement. Weiss claims that the company has so far spent over $2.5 million on its defense alone.\nNJOY reportedly hired Barclays Capital in January to find a buyer for the company, but it appears no one was interested. Barclays has been marketing the company\u2019s assets since then.\nThe downfall of NJOY is especially sad considering that in 2009, the company then known as Sottera took the FDA to court and won a landmark case that prevented the agency from regulating electronic cigarettes as drug-device combination products. Everyone, including its competitors, agrees that NJOY played a pivotal role in the rise of vaping and paved the way for the whole industry to prosper.\nWhile NJOY is the first major e-cigarette company to file for relief under Chapter 11, many in the vaping community believe that in light of the recent regulations enforced by the FDA, other independent companies will share its fate in the not so distant future.\nCan E-Cigarette Companies Resist Big Tobacco\u2019s Push into the Market?\nGrowing E-Cigarette Sales Starting to Affect Tobacco Industry Profits\nNapster Co-Founder Invests in Electronic Cigarettes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 182.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://verilymag.com/2014/10/postpartum-depression", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:00Z", "digest": "sha1:R5IB6QEHFNMVRT7HIKYAWW757CVZVC65", "length": 10499, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "verilymag.com", "title": "Why You Probably Know a Woman With Postpartum Depression (But Might Not Realize It) - Verily", "raw_content": "Chances are you know a woman who has suffered from postpartum depression. But chances are she\u2019ll never tell you.\nPostpartum depression (known as PPD) and the taboo surrounding it have been getting a lot of press lately, as evidenced by a recent New York Times series on the subject, and as researchers slowly discover just how many causes and symptoms may be involved.\nSome now prefer the term \u201cmaternal mental illness,\u201d to capture the vast array of symptoms and not confuse the distinct types of mental disorders women may suffer from after birth. These can range from anxiety or depression to bipolar symptoms and severe psychosis\u2014and sometimes they can even begin during pregnancy.\nThe causes are likely just as varied. Previous forms of depression, outside stress factors, fluctuating hormones as a result of pregnancy, trouble breast-feeding and caring for a child, or trauma from a past miscarriage or abortion can all play a role in developing PPD.\nAccording to one study, a fifth of all women will experience some form of depression in the year after giving birth. Half of these cases will involve what\u2019s considered \"serious\" symptoms. And because women sometimes believe what they have is just the \"baby blues,\" a common temporary and less serious experience, many cases of PPD are never identified.\nWhen mental illnesses start to come into the public light like this, \u201cnational conversations\u201d and greater openness often follow. But how does a woman actually living with PPD tell her friends and family that the infant she wanted to bring into the world has brought darkness into her life?\nJean\u2019s daughter was born in the summer of 2012, right after moving across the country so her husband could accept a new job at a university. She had a good birth experience, and at first felt physically fine.\nBut soon the hormones kicked in, and Jean found herself constantly weeping. She felt unshakably anxious about the baby, and would not allow herself to sleep. Instead she lay awake worrying, \u201czoning out\u201d in exhaustion.\nHer daughter had trouble breast-feeding, and couldn\u2019t gain enough weight. Determined not to give up, Jean pushed herself to keep up with a strict regimen of pumping breast milk. This left her in \u201cemotional and physical pain,\u201d but for a while she was able to ignore the feeling that something was wrong.\nLooking back, she realizes that, buried beneath the stress, she felt numb. \u201cWhen my daughter needed me I was there, I was present for her, but the rest of the time I was just kind of like a zombie.\u201d\nBefore the pregnancy she had been very active, teaching Pilates, swimming, doing yoga. Now she felt \u201clistless,\u201d and her mother began to notice. She encouraged her to get out more.\nShe joined mothers groups, but felt uncomfortable opening up about what she was going through. \u201cThat would be admitting I was failing,\u201d she says. \u201cI was afraid that everyone was doing better than I was.\u201d\nAt one point, she says, \u201cIt was like my body was acting completely separate\u2014I had no control over what was going on.\u201d\nJean finally broke down in her pediatrician\u2019s office, after learning that, at four months, her daughter had dropped off the growth curve for infants her age.\nShe became hysterical. \u201cI had been trying so hard; I had been working so hard,\u201d and she had been living for months with anxiety and panic over her daughter\u2019s health.\nThe pediatrician recommended she get help\u2014both for her daughter and for herself. She began to see a psychologist and later a psychiatrist.\nShe went on the anti-depressant Zoloft for over a year. Her mental health gradually improved, and she slowly stopped using the medication. Her daughter has just turned two.\nShe credits her depression partly to being alone and overwhelmed in a new place. \u201cI didn\u2019t have that feeling of being a part of anything, I was just floating in this new city.\u201d\nJean still rarely discusses her PPD. \u201cIt\u2019s tough,\u201d she says. \u201cBecause it\u2019s not like I\u2019ve never been depressed before, but this was different. There\u2019s kind of a shame attached\u2014feeling like you\u2019re failing at being a mother.\nShe sometimes talks to friends who are pregnant, to tell them if they experience something similar, there are resources for them and ways to get through it.\nBut relating to other young mothers can be complex. One of her friends recently had a baby, and Jean went to visit her at the hospital\u2014the same hospital in which she had given birth. As soon as she set foot in there, the unpleasant memories came flooding back. She can\u2019t tell her friend that seeing her new infant fills her with dread.\nNikki Wray is a postpartum doula who helps new mothers in their homes, providing education and assistance in caring for a newborn. Support from outside resources like a doula are thought to reduce the incidence of PPD. She says about 25 percent of her clients come to her because they have had PPD or some other form of depression in the past.\nOne of her first clients was a mother of twins who had experienced some complications during the birth. Wray met her when she came home from the hospital. Within an hour, the mother was suffering from an anxiety attack, shaking and telling Wray, \u201cI think I\u2019m going to die, I think I\u2019m dying.\u201d\nAt times, she would tell Wray she had no concept of days passing\u2014 \u201cIt\u2019s light out, and then it\u2019s dark out, and then it\u2019s light out, and then it\u2019s dark out.\u201d\nBut even with a doula, trained to support women through the postpartum period, not all women are comfortable revealing their anxieties. With one client, Wray would only find out later that she had had PPD in the past and had never told her. \u201cShe was ashamed I guess.\u201d\nWray says some mothers may struggle because they don\u2019t have enough support, as mothers are more and more likely to raise children far from their mothers and other female family members who can tell them what a normal infancy is like. They have no one to tell them even simple things, like how long their baby should sleep through the night.\nSome women worry that if they seek medical help for their depression, they\u2019ll be prevented from breast-feeding, so Wray assures them there are anti-depressants and anxiety drugs that can be taken while breast-feeding. She encourages them to seek medical treatment if they need it, and to let others help them when they're overwhelmed.\n\u201cThey don\u2019t know if they\u2019ll be able to eat today or take a shower today,\u201d says Wray. Sometimes, she says, \u201cYou just need someone to cook you a meal and hold the baby for an hour while you sleep.\u201d\nPriscilla Bier does volunteer counseling for PPD and worked for a time at a hospital helping with a PPD support group. She says awareness about PPD has come a long way in recent years\u2014there was a time when doctors were reluctant to diagnose it, and few people knew what it was.\nShe encourages women to line up support during their pregnancies. Many women feel they should be able to handle a newborn on their own, but, she says, \u201cWe\u2019re not made to be independent\u2014we\u2019re made for grandma to be there.\u201d Even hiring the teenager next door to help out with chores could make a world of difference.\nAlexandra had her second child, a daughter, thirteen months to the day after her first. She had just moved to a new city, and found herself with an infant and a child not old enough to walk. Her husband was in school, and her family was far away.\nSimple tasks, like going to the grocery store, were suddenly daunting with two very young children in tow and a city to navigate by foot.\nSix weeks after her daughter\u2019s birth, right after her mother and mother-in-law had ended their visits to help her, Alexandra woke up one morning unable to walk. She was diagnosed with an auto-immune disease.\nFor months she dealt with fear and depression as she sorted out the diagnosis of her disease. She was only 25, and wondered if she would ever be able to walk again or care for her children.\nAt first she tried to brush off her depression as stress from her disease, but after several months she realized something else was wrong. \u201cI felt like I had become a burden, being sick, and that I was hurting my kids more than helping them. I was feeling like they would be better off if I wasn\u2019t their mother.\u201d\nAlexandra felt worthless and knew something outside her was manipulating her emotions.\nShe had blood work done, and discovered her progesterone was dangerously low. She began receiving progesterone shots and seeing a therapist, and felt an improvement within just a month.\nThe therapy was healing. She needed someone to tell her that her work, \u201ceven when it was hindered by what was going on with me, was still valuable to my family, and I was still worthy of getting myself better.\u201d\nFor her third child, Alexandra and her husband had moved to the Midwest, and her autoimmune disease was more under control. Her youngest child was older. She says it was an \u201camazing experience, very life-giving,\u201d to remember that birth could still be joyful.\nShe also hired help to watch her kids occasionally. It encouraged her to improve her health. \u201cIt felt like an investment. It felt like a sacrifice we were making in honor of my health.\u201d\nAlexandra says it was difficult for her to tell others about her PPD. \u201cI had things like suicidal thoughts, which felt shameful to me.\u201d\nShe says it was hard for some of her friends to understand, particularly since many were single. Months after she recovered, she finally told her mother\u2014only to learn her mother had also once experienced PPD.\nStunned that someone so close to her had silently gone through the same things, she decided it was important to share her experience with other women. Now women regularly approach her privately to ask about how to cope with PPD. One woman, she recalls, whom she had long admired as a mother, came to her while struggling with PPD, for the first time, after her seventh birth.\nAs difficult as it is to approach, Alexandra says, women need to know that they can survive their depression. \u201cBecause when you\u2019re so deep in it, it feels like you can\u2019t even survive until dinner.\u201d\nThere will probably never be one simple answer to how a woman should talk about PPD. National conversations can raise general awareness, but most of the real work will be done by young mothers like Jean and Alexandra, in quiet conversations, one person at a time.\ncultureCommentarypregnancydepressionpostpartum depressionMotherhoodpostpartumreportingcommentaryFeatured\nWhy We Haven't Told the World We're Expecting\nIn defense of keeping pregnancy news off Facebook.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 12621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://verilymag.com/2019/02/in-her-shoes-getting-married-later-than-you-expected", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UDAKHCM4BX5XVOD7DLS7TAF3PZM3YHOK", "length": 8490, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "verilymag.com", "title": "In Her Shoes: Getting Married Later Than You Expected - Verily", "raw_content": "Editors\u2019 note: The In Her Shoes column sheds light on personal experiences and perspectives in your life or the lives of women you may know. Marriage in the U.S. is less common and later for young Americans today than it was in previous generations. According to the U.S. Census, in 2018 the median age of first marriage for women was 27.8, compared to 23.9 in 1990. This edition of In Her Shoes interviews a woman who married later than she expected and desired.\nName: Jacqueline Von Schleppenbach\nAge: late forties\nHer Story: Jacqueline married her husband Greg at the age of 44. They live on the East Coast with their dog, Beanie.\nMarriage is a life event most girls dream about, and few women think when they start dating that their road to marriage may be years or decades long. Tell us a bit about your journey toward marriage: When did you meet your husband? How did you meet him? Was marrying later in life at all on your radar?\nOk, well I\u2019m going to start with the last question first. Marrying later in life was absolutely not on my radar. I envisioned myself being married sometime before twenty-five, and having children right away, you know, being fifty and having grandchildren.\nInstead, I was the last girl to get married in every single group in my life\u2014high school, college, work friends, church friends, and so forth. If someone had told me when I was younger that I wouldn\u2019t get married until forty-four, I\u2019m not entirely sure what I would have done. I would have been utterly discouraged and uncertain that I could still have happiness and fulfillment in life.\nI met my husband at the age of forty-two through mutual friends who knew both of us. He lived in the Midwest, I lived on the East coast, so we dated long distance. Neither of us had ever married before.\nIf you had told me in my twenties or thirties that at forty-four I\u2019d marry a man as good and as wonderful as my husband, I wouldn\u2019t have believed you. Greg is the type of guy I would have always wanted and desired but I wouldn\u2019t have even asked for him because I didn\u2019t think he existed. I sometimes tell other people, I wish there were more Greg Schleppenbachs, because then I could tell the wonderful single women I know\u2014I have the perfect man for you.\nIt's often said that timing is everything when it comes to love. Why was the timing of your meeting your husband and ultimate marriage right for you? What thoughts generally do you have for women who struggle when they hear things like, \"It's all about timing\"?\nThe funny thing is, the friends who set us up had known us both for years, and it had never occurred to them to set us up with each other until then. A handful of other close friends knew him, too. Everyone knew I was looking to get married, and no one ever thought of him for me prior to then.\nOne might think that would have been frustrating when they finally did suggest him, but in the larger scheme of my life, the timing of meeting Greg was perfect.\nI had a lot of growing to do - and learning to accept that my life was actually perfect just the way it was. I was probably depressed and a little bit bitter that things in my love life didn\u2019t pan out exactly as I had hoped, especially as I approached forty. I was more and more hopeless, mostly because I wanted to have kids. That despair led me down bad roads, like being open to relationships that were really bad for me.\nDiscouragement is so difficult to overcome sometimes. What eventually drew you out of your despair?\nWe all are subject to our own worst thoughts and if we don\u2019t have somebody or something that can help us with our perspective\u2014like our friends and our faith, we can quite easily succumb to it.\nAs my single years went on, I was really open to things I shouldn\u2019t have been open to. Eventually, I hit the bottom but thankfully, that led to a sense of surrender.\nIn that surrender, I no longer believed I was entitled to get married and to have everything it entailed. But I also surrendered more to an understanding that nothing on earth was worth feeling the sort of pain I was feeling in my singleness.\nI began to embrace a few thoughts: I don\u2019t need any more bad relationships; I especially don\u2019t need any more unavailable men who are not willing to give their whole heart, or who don\u2019t share my faith. There are worse things than not being married and being married to the wrong guy is among the very worst.\nI didn\u2019t care anymore if I got married because the peace that I felt in my heart was priceless\u2014it gave me freedom to be happy in my friendships, in my work, and in my life as it was.\nAnd that is a message I think all women wishing for marriage deserve to know and understand. Nothing is missing; you\u2019re completely fine. You are loved\u2014completely. I had always assumed that love would be given to me by a wonderful husband. And it is now, but I had to learn first to surrender to my life as it was - to accept that love through friends and family, my faith, and to grow in gratitude for all that I had been given already.\nWhen you were still single, what were the things family and friends said that were helpful to hear?\nTo be honest, there was a point when I almost felt like nothing was super helpful to hear. I had an internal struggle for peace for which I ultimately needed healing.\nThat said, my healing was accelerated when people validated me as a woman and a person. I think this is really important. Single women especially need to know they are wonderful with or without a man.\nI\u2019m also remembering a time an older man from work, a father-like figure, simply said to me once, \u201cI am sure it must be frustrating.\u201d It was frustrating to be dating with few healthy relationships and no marriage to show for it. His validation of that struggle helped me to appreciate that I was \u201ca catch,\u201d even if it wasn\u2019t working out with a man yet.\nWhat was unhelpful to hear from others?\n\u201cYou\u2019re such a catch.\u201d While I appreciated the sentiment, I always found myself a bit frustrated; like, it\u2019s great you think I\u2019m a catch, but men I\u2019m dating clearly don\u2019t. That phrase reinforced toxic narratives in my head that, of course, I had to get over first.\nThe other thing that was unhelpful to hear was, \u201cYou just gotta get out there.\u201d People said that often. \u201cIt\u2019s a numbers game, you just have to get out there\u2014online or socially or whatever.\u201d While there might be some truth to that, I don\u2019t know if really believe that. What really matters most is that you\u2019re happy with yourself. If you\u2019re not happy with yourself, no one\u2019s going to make you happy. That message of \u201cgetting out there\u201d only led to more insecurity for me, that I wasn\u2019t doing enough or being enough to attract someone. The truth is, I had a lot of friends and a lot of opportunities to meet men. I wasn\u2019t not \u201cout there,\u201d it just wasn\u2019t my time yet.\nAs women, we doubt ourselves a lot. And especially in dating, doubt can creep in\u2014Is it something I'm doing? Is there more I could be doing? Will it ever work out for me? What helped you to overcome those doubts?\nI think we\u2019re all happier when we don\u2019t focus on who\u2019s paying attention to us. We\u2019re happier when we\u2019re not getting our validation from others. And that happiness attracts.\nSo, to the woman who is feeling stagnant in dating, or who is finding herself ruminating on those toxic thoughts that she\u2019s not good enough, or that there are no good men left, etc: Be very reflective about what makes you happiest. Invest in those things\u2014your family relationships, your love of hiking or bike rides or whatever. Decorate your home so that you\u2019re happy to be there. Please, do your heart and mind a favor and banish the discouraging thoughts. They are not worth a second of your time!\nFind friends who like to do the same things and live your life each day to the fullest doing the things you love the most. You\u2019re alive right now, today\u2019s the day.\nHere at Verily, we love our Daily Doses\u2014quotes or phrases that motivate or inspire us. Do you have a mantra or phrase that you love or live by?\n\u201cBe open to receive the love that is being given to you.\u201d\nOnce I found peace in my single life, I was so afraid to rock the boat, so to speak, that I was somewhat closed to dating. A good friend said to me, \u201cYou don\u2019t have to do anything, but you do need be open to the love being given to you.\u201d And it was that mindset which really increased my gratitude - I noticed all the love and happiness already in my life and that allowed me to be open to Greg and his goodness toward me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 10861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://villagesmithyopals.com/looking-for-opal-parcels-and-money-in-coober-pedy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:47Z", "digest": "sha1:FNOGS3BSDCWW7MLA2XF73YDDM6V4UBUG", "length": 2945, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "villagesmithyopals.com", "title": "Looking For Opal Parcels (And Money) In Coober Pedy | Village Smithy Opals", "raw_content": "Jun 16 2000Looking For Opal Parcels (And Money) In Coober Pedy\nOur friend Edward Radeka who we met over the internet. He was a great help to us in our search for opal parcels...and a wonderful guide and host!\n6/16/2000: Got up, took showers, went to find the Bed and Breakfast that we had previously booked. We found one, but not the right one. Landscape here can only be described by pictures\u2026.a desert, full of sandy mounds, lots of discarded mining equipment, homes and shops are dugouts, very dirty, dusty town (opal capital of the world). Stopped inside of a shop underground (The Opal Cutter). As we visited this lovely shop, Barbara called the owner (Joe & Anne Johnson) of the B & B\u2026he came and got us. The B & B is a place attached to a closed supper club-underground. Joe took us to our accommodations\u2026\nBreakfast at one of the establishments\u2026ordered sausage and eggs, got a wiener and eggs. I hate hotdogs. No more sausage for me in C.P. Off to the bank we went, where we had previously transferred our opal buying money. We needed to show proof of identity (passport and drivers license) in order to withdraw any money. Can\u2019t withdraw any money, because they don\u2019t have any cash in the bank. You have to order it, and then it only comes in on Wednesdays. Well, we needed money before then. We ordered some anyway. The teller told us to come back at 4:00 P.M. today, and she would see if there was any money left in the bank that we could have by day\u2019s end. Back to \u201cThe Opal Cutter\u201d for some advice. They pulled a few strings and freed up some money. We were able to get 40% of our money out at day\u2019s end. Unloaded the camper into the B & B and decided to wash clothes. We secured some phone numbers while we spoke w/Barbara. While I washed clothes, Steve went back to the bank to cash some Travelers Checks into Australian dollars. No one want travelers checks in Australia\u2026they are really just a nuisance. Live and learn.\nLengthy conversation with Barbara and Piet at the Opal Cutter. He had parcels for us to look at. They offered to loan us $20,000.00 (we declined) in case we weren\u2019t able to get our money out of the bank.\nWe were quite nervous about having the cash on us.\nIn the evening 2 men came knocking at our door\u2026we didn\u2019t know them. Edward Radeka and his friend Kevin. We have been corresponding with Ed for the last 2 years over the Internet\u2026.Kevin was VERY rough looking. We had a great visit with the two of them. We made plans to go with Ed to see an underground mine at 10 A.M. in the morning. He may know of some parcels, he will scout. His friend\u2019s mining operation suffered a broken blower today. Supper at The Opal Inn\u2014looking for Joe but didn\u2019t see him. Walked to Joe and Anne\u2019s place and had a good visit there. Joe is scouting parcels for us too. Home to bed.\nAwakened at 2:00 A.M. Rowdy people outside with a dog. Basically it is very dark, cool and quiet in the dugout. Had a hard time going back to sleep.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://virungapost.com/2018/11/30/musevenis-cmi-misinformation-website-overcooks-comments-by-us-political-groups/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:45Z", "digest": "sha1:2NOJ3ZZOFANOOTOA2B3VBOAGQYHN5E6X", "length": 5329, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "virungapost.com", "title": "Museveni\u2019s CMI misinformation website overcooks comments by US political groups | VIRUNGA POST", "raw_content": "Museveni\u2019s CMI misinformation website overcooks comments by US political groups\nBy Charles Kamya Ssentamu\nA website called Spy Reports has run a headline entitled US Congress warns Kagame against jailing Diane Rwigara, on a statement about a Rwandan woman who is already out of jail on bail, facing a court trial while out of detention.\nSpy Reports\u2019 sweeping \u201cUS congress warns Kagame\u201d headline and story builds on a brief statement through a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission that said: \u201cPeaceful political expression is not a crime. Running for office is not a crime\u201d.\nAn examination of news reports to do with relations between Rwanda and the United States found no more evidence of \u201ca warning\u201d than that.\nDiane Rwigara is facing court charges relating to attempts to incite insurrection, and additional charges of forgery. According to reports in both public and private media, the charges against Diane Rwigara are fully in accordance with the country\u2019s laws. Last year a court sentenced her and her mother, who also faces trial as an accomplice and co-defendant on some of the charges, to preventive detention.\nThis year, a higher court, the Rwanda High Court, granted bail to noth women.\nIn what many Rwandans on social media perceived to be an unacceptable politically-motivated interference in a Rwandan judicial process, Dick Durbin an American senator said he was \u201ctroubled by what appears to be highly questionable charges against Diane Rwigara\u201d.\nThis he did in his personal capacity, since, as a number of observers note, he does not speak for the US government. According to international relations experts, some of these politicians in the West have a tendency of falling prey to misinformation fed to them by disgruntled groups and individuals from the other side of the globe and their supporters, and then, with little real knowledgeable of issues in those far off countries, these politicians issue all manner of statements or, even more likely, have statements issued in their names by staffers equally ignorant about the issues they are propounding on.\nA Twitter user of the account Karangwa Sewase replied to Durbin: \u201cHon Senator, in Rwanda there is no law against people who want to run for office. You may gather all the required information about the case inasmuch as it is an ongoing case. But if you want to dictate our judicial organs on how they\u2019d handle the case, you are in the wrong turn\u201d.\nAnother respondent, Kajangwe Joseph said in part, \u201cjustice is done in the name of the people and in the interest of public order!\u201d\nThere were many responses like that to which the senator offered no response.\nInformation available to this reporter, however, is that \u201cSpyreports\u201d is one among many misinformation websites of Uganda\u2019s plethora of security agencies, like the Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence (CMI) or the Internal Security Organi (ISO). According to individuals that know them well, these are bent on deflecting as much as they came from the acute problems Uganda faces.\n\u201cThey will therefore jump on even the most inconsequential statement by a US senator to show that the US is \u2018warning this or that country\u2019\u201d, remarked one of our sources. \u201cIt all has to do with attempts to divert attention from Uganda\u2019s dire internal political and security situation.\u201d\nOn the other hand, \u201cpeople the world over have now recognised that there is a very real human rights problem in Uganda,\u201d said a private researcher that preferred not to be named for this article.\n\u201cIn just recent times the world has seen how the Museveni regime has meted terrible brutality to MPs, even shooting the driver of one who Museveni\u2019s presidential guard, the Special Forces Command (SFC), mistook for his employer, or torturing their supporters. That is where members of the US congress should focus attention, not a country like Rwanda where laws are abided by religiously,\u201d said the Kampala-based researcher.\nOver recent months, other human rights abuses by the Museveni government that have shocked people and drawn widespread condemnation include the terrible beating of a Reuters journalist, Jimmy Akena, and the shockingly violent daylight machinegun butt assault of Yusuf Kawooya by a group of men in civilian clothes in front of Christ the King church in Kampala city centre, who then proceeded to force him into a fake matatu taxi with false numberplates. This kind of abduction of civilians by Museveni\u2019s security operatives has become an all too common modus operandi.\n\u201cWe haven\u2019t seen any breaking of laws like that in Rwanda,\u201d said the researcher, adding, \u201cThis is why we would prefer the American politicians or rights groups to focus on real issues, like what we have here in Uganda.\u201d\nUgandans in the media, as well as on all social media have expressed outrage over very many unresolved crimes, and would appeal to the Tom Lantos group as well as the US Congress \u201cto come to our rescue from this president Museveni, who is torturing and murdering people without trial or any pretence of due process!\u201d\nA few of his more recent victims were well-known public figures, including Muhammad Kirumira, AIGP Andrew Kaweesi, Susan Magara among others. Others like Yassin Kawuuma, the driver of MP Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, aka Bobi Wine, were less so. They are only the tip of a large iceberg of Museveni victims.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 8872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visionsource-telfair.com/eye-care-products/eye-diseases/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DHIW2R4KAVV535IF4HL3M5CLZLLNHDW2", "length": 1264, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "visionsource-telfair.com", "title": "Eye Diseases Treated at Vision Source - Telfair in Sugar Land TX", "raw_content": "A quick look at some of the most common eye diseases diagnosed and often treated at Vision Source \u2013 Telfair in Sugar Land\n\u201cEye diseases\u201d is a blanket term that refers to a host of diseases relating to the function of the eye. Below we describe some of the more common types of eye diseases and how they are generally treated. For more in-depth information, please speak with your eye care provider at Vision Source \u2013 Telfair.\nWhile many minor cases improve within two weeks, some can develop into serious corneal inflammation and threaten sight. If you suspect conjunctivitis, visit your eye care provider at Vision Source \u2013 Telfair for an examination and treatment.\nIn most cases, reversing damage caused by AMD is not possible, but supplements, protection from sunlight, eating a balanced diet and quitting smoking can reduce the risk and progression of macular degeneration. For suggestions, speak with your eye care provider at Vision Source \u2013 Telfair.\nVision Source \u2013 Telfair has the experience and equipment necessary to diagnose and often treat the eye diseases detailed above, as well as many other eye diseases, at our office in Sugar Land. For more information please schedule an appointment with your optometrist, and we\u2019ll be in touch with you shortly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visit.kaunas.lt/en/kaunastic/a-few-facts-proving-sarunas-jasikevicius-is-the-coolest-cat-in-the-euroleague/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:50Z", "digest": "sha1:NG4LCIM35DR5A2EKEEZLW6HAZ7VVRNQH", "length": 4615, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "visit.kaunas.lt", "title": "Visit Kaunas - A Few Facts Proving \u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius is the Coolest Cat in the Euroleague", "raw_content": "A Few Facts Proving \u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius is the Coolest Cat in the Euroleague\nThe head coach of BC \u017dalgiris Kaunas, 41, might be one of the youngest out there, but he\u2019s definitely one of the most ambitious and charismatic.\n\u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius, 41, might be one of the youngest head coaches out there, but he\u2019s definitely one of the most ambitious and charismatic. The former basketball player (and one of the best point guards in the history of Lithuanian basketball) spent most of his pro career abroad, but his love for Lithuania and Kaunas was so strong he eventually came back here and started working with BC \u017dalgiris Kaunas, his favourite team since he was a little kid.\nThe man, the legend. Photo by Kirilas \u010cachovskis/Delfi.lt\n\u017dalgiris (founded in 1944) is one of the oldest teams in the Euroleague. The team won the Euroleague in 1999 and have become Lithuanian champions dozens of times. As \u017dalgiris is currently playing its best Euroleague season in a while, we\u2019ve decided to collect a handful of facts proving Jasikevi\u010dius is the coolest cat in the game, even if he\u2019s not playing it himself anymore.\nLeading the Lithuanian champions. Photo by Rafaelis Achmedovas/Delfi.lt\nThe destiny of \u0160ar\u016bnas was pretty much written in the stars. His mother Rita is a famous handball player \u2013 she even won silver with the Soviet Union team in the world championship of 1976 and it was obvious she\u2019d be part of the team in the Montreal Olympics in 1976. Everything was going according to the plan, but Rita became pregnant and chose family above everything. Rita never made it to the Olympics as the Soviet sports officials shut all the doors, but her son \u0160ar\u016bnas once quoted his mother saying \u201cMy son will give me back the Olympics\u201c. And he did! Jasikevi\u010dius retired from the Lithuanian national team following London 2012, after participating in the Olympics four times in a row.\nLike mother, like son! Dad's always in the picture, too. Photo by Kirilas \u010cachovskis/Delfi.lt\nThe childhood dream of the energetic kid growing up in the tough residential area of Partizan\u0173 street in Kaunas was to become a \u017dalgiris player. He loved the team so much he even knew the shoe sizes of the players! The dream had to wait, though, as, in 1998, after coming back from his studies in University of Maryland (USA), Jasikevi\u010dius made his pro debut with BC Lietuvos Rytas, the biggest local rival of \u017dalgiris.\nHe didn\u2019t stay in Vilnius for too long \u2013 in 1999, Union Olimpija Ljubljana invited the Lithuanian to Slovenia, and that\u2019s when his fantastic years of Euroleague and NBA started. \u0160ar\u016bnas played in FC Barcelona, Maccabi Tel Aviv, Panathinaikos Athens, Fenerbah\u00e7e Istanbul, Indiana Pacers and Golden State Warriors. The Lithuanian refused a handful of offers to play for Russian clubs.\nJasikevi\u010dius is the only player in the history of Euroleague tournament to win the competition with three different clubs, four times in total. In 2015, Jasikevi\u010dius was named a Euroleague Basketball Legend, as a reward for his stunning playing career.\nWhile in Indiana Pacers, \u0160aras was honoured with personalized basketball shoes from Adidas. Still available online!\nHe finally signed with \u017dalgiris in 2013 and joined the coaching staff after the season. He officially became the head coach in January 2016, that is, exactly two years ago.\nHis autobiography (written together with an Italian journalist Pietro Scibetta) called \u201cTo win is not enough. My life, my basketball\u201c is available in a few languages including English (get the ebook here). An inspiring read and a very personal way of telling a story! Highly recommended. Especially for those who think they don't really like basketball.\n\u0160ar\u016bnas Jasikevi\u010dius is known for his enthusiasm and nervousness in the field during the matches, and even technical fouls appointed by judges do not stop him from feeling the game and being 200% part of it. Of course, it adds a lot of value for those watching the game either live or on TV.\nPhoto by Domantas Pipas/Delfi.lt\nPhoto by Modestas Pata\u0161ius\nJust before we finish... There's one more thing proving \u0160ar\u016bnas is, like, one of the best and most true people in the history of basketball, ever. In May 2017, Jasikevi\u010dius famously replied to a journalist who questioned his decision to give some days off during the semi-finals for a team player Augusto Lima whose girlfriend had just given birth. Make sure the subtitles are on.\nFollow BC \u017dalgiris Kaunas on Facebook and make sure you attend a match in \u017dalgirio arena when you\u2019re in Kaunas. That\u2019s one of the most kaunastic experiences out there! Of course, we\u2019ve blogged about it before.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 21656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visit.kaunas.lt/en/kaunastic/historic-formula-junior-racing-is-coming-to-kaunas-in-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:MXMA6JINCJ4O5YZPKUW4AGPXCP4JIIZQ", "length": 4005, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "visit.kaunas.lt", "title": "Visit Kaunas - Historic Formula Junior Racing is Coming to Kaunas in 2018", "raw_content": "Historic Formula Junior Racing is Coming to Kaunas in 2018\nBack in 1960, when the Nemunas ring held its first-ever motor race, Formula Junior was already into its 3rd season. It's time for the two to meet face to face!\nMonza in Italy, Silverstone in England and Nemunas ring in Ka\u010dergin\u0117, Kaunas district, Lithuania \u2013 what do they all have in common? They are all race circuits on the Formula Junior Diamond Jubilee World Tour!\nBy Sarah Mitrike / Formula Junior\nNemunas ring back in the days. Author unknown\nBack in 1960, when the Nemunas ring held its first-ever motor race, Formula Junior was already into its 3rd season.\nFormula Junior racing began in 1958, on 23rd April, at the Monza Race Circuit. It was the idea of an Italian Count called \u2018Johnny\u2019 Lurani, to create a starter formula for drivers to progress through to Formula One. The formula was for 1.0 and 1.1 litre production engines, and gearboxes, in mini Grand Prix chassis.\nThe Formula lasted just 6 seasons in total, but was hugely successful with races taking place all over the world, including countries like Australia, Cuba, South Africa and of course the USA and Europe. Formula One drivers such as Jim Clark, John Surtees, Jochen Rindt, and Graf Wolfgang Von Trips often began their careers in Formula Junior.\nIn 1975, Formula Junior was the first past formula to be revived as an historic series, and in 1993, the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association was created, with the author\u2019s father, Duncan Rabagliati as the leader. Since then, both Historic Formula Junior, and Historic Motor Racing in general, have grown enormously in popularity, and there are Historic Race Events taking place almost every weekend of the year at circuits all over the world. Events such as the Monaco Historic GP, the Goodwood Revival Meeting, the AVD Oldtimer GP at the Nurburgring and the Silverstone Classic are some of the most well-known and popular such meetings in Europe, and Historic Formula Junior races were included in all of these events over the last few years.\nTo celebrate the 60th Anniversary of Formula Junior, a 3-year World Tour of racing for Formula Junior cars and drivers has been taking place, visiting many of the circuits which were raced on historically when Formula Junior was new. The Tour began in South Africa in 2016, and has visited Australia, New Zealand, America, and various European countries.\nBrands Hatch GP Circuit. July 2016. Photo by Chris Dicken\nHaving lived in \u017dagar\u0117, Lithuania on and off since 2004, and permanently since 2011, it has been the author\u2019s ambition, as event coordinator for the Formula Junior Historic Racing Association, to bring the drivers, cars, and racing to Lithuania as part of the Tour.\nSydney Motorsports Park, November 2016. Photo by Peter Schell\nSo, on 1st-3rd June 2018, together with Asociacija Retromobile and V\u0161\u012e Nemuno \u017diedas, together with support from the The Lithuanian Automobile Sport Federation (LASF), the team will be organising the first-ever Retro Festival on the Nemunas ring, to celebrate not only the history of Formula Junior, but the heritage of Lithuanian motor sport in general, from cars to buses and bikes, and also the fashion, dancing and music from the same time period.\nUSSR championship in Ka\u010dergin\u0117, 1964. Author unknown\nThis photo above shows cars very similar in design to Formula Junior cars, starting a race at the Nemunas ring. The organizer team would love to discover some more history of single seater racing in Lithuania, including photos, old video footage, event memorabilia, original race programmes, newspaper articles from the 60\u2019s era, and of course importantly, to hear from any people who were either racing, or building and designing the cars that raced in that time. Maybe you know of any of the cars that have survived, in the back of a neighbours shed, for example?!\nHere are a few photos from our World Tour so far. The team look forward to meeting everyone in Ka\u010dergin\u0117 in 2018!\nwww.formulajunior.com\nwww.facebook.com/fjhra", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 20953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visit.kaunas.lt/en/kaunastic/kaunas-events-calendar-for-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:53Z", "digest": "sha1:DC4S73F7GYTWN67XBQLTTJ5XPQO6WQOB", "length": 8652, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "visit.kaunas.lt", "title": "Visit Kaunas - Kaunas Events Calendar for 2018", "raw_content": "Kaunas Events Calendar for 2018\nWe\u2019ve compiled a list of the most kaunastic events for your cultural itinerary.\nPlanning a trip to Kaunas, Lithuania in 2018? Great! We\u2019ve compiled a list of the most kaunastic events so that you can start building your culture itinerary.\nCentennial Festival of Lights\nTo celebrate 100 years of Statehood, 18 buildings in Kaunas designed in the interwar period will be showcased in the most unexpected ways.\nCentral Post Office in Kaunas / Photo by Leggato\nThe Act of Reinstating Independence of Lithuania was signed by the Council of Lithuania on February 16, 1918, proclaiming the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania. Latvia and Estonia followed later that year. In 2018, the Baltics are celebrating the centennial of independence \u2013 expect hundreds of various events in the three countries all year round.\nFor the first time in history, the German pioneers of electronic music are finally coming to Lithuania. Of course they chose Kaunas and \u017dalgirio arena for the performance.\nPhoto from the archives of Kraftwerk\nDay of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania\n82 years younger than its February sister, the Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania is equally as important for us to celebrate with joy, pride and hope.\nIIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B\nThe story of Lithuanian ice hockey began right there in Kaunas \u2013 it\u2019s about time we put ourselves back on the map! \u017dalgirio arena will be turned into a gigantic skating rink for almost a week full of intense games. Lithuania\u2019s playing, too.\nPhoto from the archives of Hockey.lt\nKaunas Jazz\nEnd of April\u2013start of May\nBorn in 1990 together with independent Lithuania, the festival brings local and foreign jazz musicians to indoor and outdoor spaces all around Kaunas. It has extended the legacy of jazz outside the city limits, too \u2013 a couple of Kaunas Jazz concerts are held in Vilnius each year.\nPhoto from the archives of Kaunas Jazz\nKite Festival \u201cBetween Earth and Sky\u201d\u2028(\u201cTarp \u017eem\u0117s ir dangaus\u201d)\nFor almost three decades kite enthusiasts, mostly families (thousands of them!), have been gathering in Nemunas valley in Zapy\u0161kis, district of Kaunas, near a charming little church, to colour the sky for one day.\nPhoto from the archives of organisers\nA nation-wide initiative of bringing designers of all kinds closer to people has planted its roots deeply in Kaunas, occupying numerous spaces all around town to celebrate Lithuanian talent for one week every year.\nPhoto from the archives of Design Week\nGallery Weekend Kaunas\nWell known all around the world, the tradition for most galleries in town to showcase what they have and know best in the scope of one weekend, arrived in Kaunas in 2016. The event turned out to be a great success, 2017 was an even bigger one, so the galleries are already planning May 2018.\nPhoto from the archives of Gallery Weekend Kaunas\nInternational Folklore Festival \u201cAtataria Lamzd\u017eiai\u201d\nThe traditional folk festival is held annually in May since 1984. The program stretches from traditional song and dance performances from different regions in Lithuania and abroad to photography exhibitions, arts and crafts workshops and music lessons.\nInternational Poetry Festival \u201cPooetry Spring\u201d [\u201cPoezijos pavasaris\u201d]\nSince 1965, the last week of spring each year brings a stream of poetry to the cities and towns of Lithuania. More than 50 readings and meetings are held during the week. The festival locations in Kaunas usually include memorial museums and cozy courtyards.\nThe worldwide event is much-celebrated here in Kaunas; most of city\u2019s numerous museums host special events planned long in advance and, of course, grant free entry till wee hours.\nPhoto from the archives of M. K. \u010ciurlionis National Museum of Art\nHanseatic Days\nOne of the most significant cultural events in Kaunas is the city-wide birthday of Kaunas. The medieval theme and intense program of the annual celebration distinguishes it from the rest of Lithuania. Yes, that\u2019s true \u2013 Kaunas is the only Hanseatic city in the country.\nPhoto from the archives of Kaunas Municipality\nWhat started as a small music festival at the Pa\u017eaislis monastery garden in 1995 today is a catchall name for numerous classical music events taking place all over Kaunas and its suburbs (and beyond!) for three months each year.\nPhoto from the archives of Pa\u017eaislis festival\nKaunas Marathon\nA marathon like no other! Start in the city hall square, thriving with life from the 16th century, run by the remains of Kaunas castle, built in the 14th century. Enjoy the vast and flat route near two of the biggest Lithuanian rivers and examples of Lithuanian architecture from the Medieval, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Modernist, Soviet era to modern times. In 2018, the event will be back for the 6th time.\nPhoto from the archives of Kaunas Marathon\nOpening of the Centennial Song Festival\nA showcase for the region\u2019s tradition of performing folk art, this cultural expression culminates in large-scale festivals in all of the Baltic countries. Thousands of singers and dancers will gather into the Valley of Songs for the Centennial celebrations.\nSong festival in Kaunas / Photo from the archives of Kaunas Municipality\nKaunas Castle Operetta\nThe region\u2019s sole operetta festival is held annually at the valley of the Kaunas castle.\nHeld at one of the oldest aerodromes in Europe, the festival will mark the 85th anniversary of the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean by Steponas Darius and Stasys Gir\u0117nas.\nBaltic Bees at the Kaunas Aviation Festival in 2015 / Photo by R. Tenys for Kas Vyksta Kaune\nFestival \u201cAcacia Boulevard\u201d [\u201cAkacij\u0173 al\u0117ja\u201d]\nThe Saturday closest to July 6th\nA massive (15k attendees!) sung poetry concert is held every year in Kulautuva, a very green suburb of Kaunas. The genre is very popular in Lithuania and is characterized by a single musician, single instrument, no special effects and thought-inspiring lyrics.\nRoger Waters live\nRoger Waters\u2019 of Pink Floyd legendary live performances are renowned as immersive sensory experiences featuring high class, state-of- the-art audio visual production and breath-taking quad sound. This new tour promises to be no exception. See you in \u017dalgirio arena?\nPhoto from the archives of Roger Waters\nSugihara Week\nOrganized for the first time in 2017, the event aims to perpetuate the achievement of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara. He lived in Kaunas) during 1939-40 and, same as Dutch Consul Jan Zwartendijk, issued the famous \u201cVisas for Life\u201d, thus saving thousands of lives of Jewish refugees.\nModern dance performance in the Kaunas Railway Station, the last stop of Sugihara in Kaunas / Photo by Jonas Petronis\nKaunas Photo Festival\nIt\u2019s the longest-running annual photo art festival in the Baltic States (since 2004). It\u2019s also the most attended photographic event in Lithuania, comprising 200-300 participants per program and counting its audience by tens of thousands of visitors.\nExhibition opening in 2017 / Photo from the archives of Kaunas Photo\nAURA is the only municipal theatre of contemporary dance in Lithuania; its history dates back to 1980. 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The events of the festival, of course, are not limited to the gallery space at the Town Hall Square; in fact, the festival occupies the whole city.\nThe Buddhist Bug by Anida Yoeu Ali, 2016 / Photo from the archives of Kaunas In Art\nContemporary Music Festival \u201cI\u0161 arti\u201d (\u201cUp-close\u201d)\nThe contemporary music festival was born in 1997 out of the desire to promote the work of Kaunas-based composers and encourage relationships between Lithuanian musicians from different regions and grew into a solid annual showcase of modern music.\nLate autumn-early winter\nThe festival aims to enable undiscovered and unknown filmmakers from all around the world to present their works to the audiences. The program of the festival includes film screenings, debates, lectures and meetings with filmmakers.\nKaunas IFF at the Kaunas Artists' House in December 2017\nThe patron saint of Kaunas is St. Nicholas; the fact makes Kaunas the unofficial Christmas capital of the Baltics. 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This is Bird\u2019s second funding round over the last few months, sending the company above a reported valuation of $1 billion during May to a June valuation of more than $2 billion.\nIn March, Bird was valued at just $300 million, but the hype of the Scooter industry has been impressive over the last few months as investors hand over large sums of money for what is considered the next popular method of transportation in large metropolitan areas.\nIn this latest round of fund raising, the investors joining for the first time include B Capital, Accel, CRV, Greycroft, Sound Ventures and e-ventures; while previous investors include Craft Ventures, Valor, Index Ventures, Upfront Ventures and Goldcrest Tusk Ventures.\nScooter mania captured the hearts of many in Silicon Valley as well as with investors overall, including Vice President of Business at Bird Paige Craig who left VC to be with Bird.\nThe quick influx of investor money into the industry or the revolving door processes of fundraising are not that uncommon, and especially when it comes to hot areas of investing, although the scooter industry has definitely exploded onto the scene in a much fast way than most.\nThe fund raising round by Bird comes amidst rumors of competitor Lime having a mega round of fundraising with the company reported to have raised in excess of $250 million led by its biggest investor GV. Skip has also been able to raise $25 million.\nOne investor said that the Bird has built the market\u2019s best product and while there are additional startups entering the space, Bird remains the best.\nOthers feel the same way about Bird, whose scooters can be found throughout cities such as Los Angeles. For trips only a few miles down sidewalks or wide-lane roads, a quick code scan and off the user goes is now considered worth the few dollars it costs to save time.\nHowever, hurdles do exist as the industry moves forward. In San Francisco, the company faces significant pushback by the local government and for the time being scooters are not allowed on sidewalks. 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The firm owned 702,385 shares of the financial services provider\u2019s stock after purchasing an additional 57,899 shares during the quarter. Citigroup accounts for approximately 1.4% of Becker Capital Management Inc.\u2019s investment portfolio, making the stock its 25th largest position. Becker Capital Management Inc.\u2019s holdings in Citigroup were worth $36,566,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.\nA number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of C. Evolution Wealth Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Citigroup in the fourth quarter worth about $29,000. Signet Investment Advisory Group Inc. bought a new position in Citigroup in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $32,000. Hudock Capital Group LLC raised its holdings in Citigroup by 79.0% in the 4th quarter. Hudock Capital Group LLC now owns 836 shares of the financial services provider\u2019s stock valued at $43,000 after buying an additional 369 shares during the last quarter. Ayalon Holdings Ltd. bought a new position in Citigroup in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $50,000. Finally, Ironwood Financial llc raised its holdings in Citigroup by 97.2% in the 4th quarter. Ironwood Financial llc now owns 1,134 shares of the financial services provider\u2019s stock valued at $59,000 after buying an additional 559 shares during the last quarter. 73.99% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.\nC has been the subject of a number of research reports. TheStreet upgraded shares of Citigroup from a \u201cc+\u201d rating to a \u201cb\u201d rating in a report on Friday, January 25th. Zacks Investment Research upgraded shares of Citigroup from a \u201chold\u201d rating to a \u201cbuy\u201d rating and set a $65.00 price objective for the company in a report on Monday, December 10th. Wells Fargo & Co lowered shares of Citigroup to a \u201cbuy\u201d rating in a report on Friday, January 4th. Finally, Standpoint Research upgraded shares of Citigroup from a \u201chold\u201d rating to a \u201cbuy\u201d rating and set a $49.70 price objective for the company in a report on Wednesday, December 26th. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, four have issued a hold rating and thirteen have assigned a buy rating to the company\u2019s stock. Citigroup has a consensus rating of \u201cBuy\u201d and an average target price of $76.80.\nNYSE:C opened at $63.04 on Thursday. The company has a market cap of $159.37 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 9.48, a PEG ratio of 0.78 and a beta of 1.67. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.30, a current ratio of 0.99 and a quick ratio of 1.00. Citigroup Inc has a fifty-two week low of $48.42 and a fifty-two week high of $78.42.\nCitigroup (NYSE:C) last released its earnings results on Monday, January 14th. The financial services provider reported $1.61 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts\u2019 consensus estimates of $1.55 by $0.06. The business had revenue of $17.10 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $17.57 billion. Citigroup had a net margin of 18.58% and a return on equity of 9.93%. The company\u2019s revenue for the quarter was down 2.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.28 EPS. On average, sell-side analysts expect that Citigroup Inc will post 7.49 EPS for the current year.\nThe company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, February 22nd. Shareholders of record on Monday, February 4th will be given a dividend of $0.45 per share. This represents a $1.80 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.86%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, February 1st. Citigroup\u2019s dividend payout ratio is presently 27.07%.\nILLEGAL ACTIVITY NOTICE: This piece of content was posted by Week Herald and is owned by of Week Herald. If you are accessing this piece of content on another publication, it was illegally stolen and republished in violation of United States & international trademark & copyright law. The correct version of this piece of content can be viewed at https://weekherald.com/2019/02/14/citigroup-inc-c-position-raised-by-becker-capital-management-inc.html.\nCitigroup Profile\nRecommended Story: How is the S&P 500 index different from the DJIA?\nWant to see what other hedge funds are holding C? 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In the statements below, The Practice refers to Wellington Road Surgery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 120.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wheatonacademy.org/fine-arts/newsies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:53Z", "digest": "sha1:WCG3N6BRIUADKCTN7Q3Z6MPPXQUGFQST", "length": 2518, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "wheatonacademy.org", "title": "Newsies - Wheaton Academy", "raw_content": "Academy Theater presents:\nNewsies Ticket Information\nThe Academy Theatre is proud to present Newsies. The performances are scheduled as follows:\nMarch 1, 2 at 7:00 p.m.\nMarch 7, 8, 9 at 7:00 p.m.\nAll performance are in the Fine Arts Center and seating is reserved. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Thursday, February 21. We are pleased to offer online ticket sales, making ticket purchasing easy and hassle-free. Please follow prompts for Newsies on the Wheaton Academy website to purchase tickets.\nTicket Sale Information and Policies\nTickets for the families of cast/pit/crew may be purchased with a credit card online beginning February 19 at 8:00am. A promotional code was sent to parents by email and is required for these sales.\nTickets for the general public may be purchased with a credit card online beginning February 21 at 8:00 a.m.\nTo purchase tickets go to the Wheaton Academy website, www.wheatonacademy.org and follow the link to Newsies ticket sales.\nTickets may be purchased on the evening of a performance with cash/check, only if there are remaining tickets available.\nTickets may be purchased online until 3:00 p.m. on the day of the performance. After that point, all ticket sales will take place at Will Call in the Fine Arts Center, which will open each performance night at 6:00 p.m.\nPurchased tickets can be held for pick-up at Will Call on the nights of the show or can be printed at home (online ticket sales). No tickets can be held without being paid for in full.\nOnce tickets are purchased, they may be exchanged for a different performance (if seats are available) at no charge, but we are unable to offer refunds. Also, please remember that once tickets are purchased, it may not be possible to add additional seats near your original seats.\nSeating for performances will begin 30 minutes prior to the start of each show. 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There will be tickets reserved so that when tickets go on sale for the general public there will still be excellent seats available.\nCast, Pit and Crew \u2013 February 19\nGeneral Public \u2013 February 21", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 4928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wikivisually.com/wiki/1973_Old_Bailey_bombing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:42Z", "digest": "sha1:WHULC5WQWE4NQZKBYOSIOJXKNYPCA3VQ", "length": 57443, "nlines": 252, "source_domain": "wikivisually.com", "title": "1973 Old Bailey bombing - WikiVisually", "raw_content": "Part of the Troubles\nEntrance door to the Old Bailey\nOld Bailey Courthouse\n1 British civilian (heart attack)\nWilliam Armstrong, Martin Brady, Hugh Feeney, Paul Holmes, Gerry Kelly, William McLarnon, Roisin McNearney, Dolours Price, Marian Price, Robert Walsh, and an Unknown IRA volunteer\nall but McNearney (acquitted for providing information)\nlife in prison (later reduced to 20 years)\nBurntollet Bridge ambush October 1968\nBattle of the Bogside/August 1969 riots\n1970 Crossmaglen bombing\n1971 Provisional / Official IRA feud\nNewry killings\nBattle of Lenadoon\nNewry Bomb 1972\nImperial Hotel bombing\nTop of the Hill shooting\nBelturbet bombing\nNew Lodge Six shooting\n\"Captain Black\" killings\nRose & Crown Bar bombing\n\"Romper Room\" murder\nConway's Bar\nStrand Bar bombing\nTullyvallen massacre\nBelfast & Coleraine attacks\nDublin Airport bombing\nDundalk & Silverbridge attacks\nGilford bombing\nCastleblayney bombing\nStep Inn Pub\nCharlemont pub attacks\nStore Bar\nCrossmaglen Ambush\nDunmurry train bombing\nBessbrook landmine attack\nDivis Flats bomb\nBallygawley landmine attack\nDarkley killings\nKesh ambush\nGransha shootings\nStrabane ambush\nKilleen Landmine attack\nThe Birches barracks\nRosnaree Hotel shooting\nAvenue Bar shooting\nDrumnakilly ambush\nDownpatrick bombing\nDrumbeg killings\nCraigavon killings\nDonegall Arms shooting\nSean Graham bookmakers\nScience Lab bombing\nJames Murray's bookmakers\nIRA purge of IPLO\nShankill bombing\nConnolly station bomb\nKillyhevlin Hotel bombing\n1996 Derry riots\nNewtownhamilton bombing\nQuinn brothers' killings\nBanbridge bombing\nKing's Cross & Euston stations\nWestminster bombing\nParliament bombing\nBrook's bombing\nWoolwich pub bombing\nCaterham bombing\nHilton bombing\nTrattoria bombing\nScott's bombing\nWalton's bombing\nBiddy Mulligan's bombing\nCannon Street bombing\nWest Ham attack\nOlympia bombing\nAirey Neavey killing\nGlasgow bombings\nChelsea bombing\nBrighton bombing.\nEltham bombing\nWembley bombing\nLichfield shooting\nHAC bombing\nStock Exchange bombing\nVictoria & Paddington station bombings\nLondon Bridge bombing\n1992 Leeds Bombing\nStaples Corner bombing\nSussex Arms pub bombing\nWood Green bomb\n1993 Harrods bombing\nCamden Town bombing\nHeathrow attacks\n1996 Hammersmith Bridge bombing\nBrussels bombing (Belgium)\nRheindahlen bombing (Germany)\nGlamorgan Barracks bombing (Germany)\nRoermond killings (Netherlands)\nThe 1973 Old Bailey bombing was a car bomb attack carried out by the Provisional IRA (PIRA) which took place outside the Old Bailey Courthouse on 8 March 1973. The attack was carried out by an 11-person ASU from the Provisional IRA Belfast Brigade. The unit also exploded a second bomb which went off outside the Ministry of Agriculture near Whitehall in London at around the same time the bomb at the Old Bailey went off. This was the Provisional IRA's first major attack on mainland Britain since the Troubles began back in 1969 (not including the 1972 Aldershot bombing, which was carried out by the Official IRA). One British civilian died of a heart attack attributed to the bombing, estimates of the injured range from 180\u2013220 from the two bombings. Two additional bombs were found and defused. Nine people from Belfast were convicted six months later for the bombing, one person managed to escape and one was acquitted for providing information to the police.[1]\n2 Boston College tape interview\n4 Court and sentence\n5 Further IRA bombs in England\nThe Troubles had been raging for four years in Northern Ireland and to a lesser extent in the Republic of Ireland since the Battle of the Bogside in Derry in August 1969 which brought British troops to Ireland for the first time since 1921.[2] Rioting, protests, gun battles, sniper attacks, bombings and punishment beatings became part of everyday life in many places in Northern Ireland, especially in the poorer working class areas of Belfast and Derry. Ulster had not seen violence like this since the early 1920s.[3] These events and others helped to heighten sectarianism and boosted recruitment into Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups and the security forces; mainly the newly created Ulster Defence Regiment.\nGreat Britain had been relatively untouched from the violence up until the beginning of 1973, but the IRA Army Council had drawn up plans for a bombing campaign to take place in England some time early in 1973. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, loyalist paramilitaries had bombed Dublin and other parts of the Republic of Ireland a number of times before the PIRA began its bombing campaign in England. These early loyalist bombings were carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force and were small bombs aimed at destruction only, not injuring or killing anybody.[4][5] Following the Dublin bombings in late 1972 and in January 1973 carried out by Loyalists which killed three people and injured over 150, the media attention these bombings received helped the Provisional IRA decide to take its campaign to Britain in return. Another reason the IRA brought their campaign to England Billy McKee explained to journalist Peter Taylor was that the IRA had decided to bomb England early if there was an emergency in the IRA and it began to weaken in Ireland. The arrest of top Provisionals in both the Republic and Northern Ireland like M\u00e1ire Drumm, Se\u00e1n Mac St\u00edof\u00e1in, Ruair\u00ed \u00d3 Br\u00e1daigh and Martin McGuinness in late 1972 [6][7] helped to convince the IRA to bomb England to take the heat off of the IRA in Ireland.[8]\nJournalist Ed Moloney in his book A Secret History of the IRA has alleged that Gerry Adams was the overall Commander of the IRA's Belfast Brigade at the time and was tasked with selecting the Volunteers who would constitute the active service unit for the England bombing operation,[9] which was scheduled to take place on 8 March 1973, the same day that a border poll \u2013 boycotted by Nationalists and Roman Catholics [10] \u2013 was being held in Belfast. The team included 19-year-old Gerry Kelly, 24-year-old Robert \"Roy\" Walsh (an expert bomb maker from Belfast), Hugh Feeney (a Belfast-born IRA volunteer & explosives expert), and two sisters, Marian, 19, and Dolours Price, 22, from Belfast who were from a staunchly Republican family, along with five other lesser-known volunteers from Belfast: Martin Brady, 22, William Armstrong, 29, Paul Holmes, 19, William McLarnon, 19, and Roisin McNearney, 18.[11] Moloney quoted an IRA source on the recruiting process for the London bombing operation... \"Toward the end of 1972 we started working on the plans. The first priority was to recruit unknown Volunteers with no records. It was Adams who went to the three battalions to get them, he told them that the operation was a very big one, that it could be a hanging offence, as it was treason. There was rooms full of Volunteers, and when he said that and anyone who didn't want to go should leave, he was nearly knocked down in the rush. The result was the team ended up with red lights, people like Gerry Kelly who was on the run for murder and others who had been interned.\"[12]\nBoston College tape interview[edit]\nWhen interviewed for Boston College for research on the conflict former IRA Volunteer & Belfast brigade Commander Brendan Hughes had the following to say about the Old Bailey operation & the decision to bomb England in general ...\n...it was a Belfast Brigade initiative that brought about the London bombings. It was ourselves [the PIRA Belfast Brigade] who planned, organised and recruited for the London bombings . . .the initial idea was discussed at Belfast Brigade meetings with myself, Gerry Adams, Ivor Bell, Pat McClure, Tom Cahill, basically that group of people. We would have been the main people in the Belfast Brigade at the time ... No one dissented. At that particular period, everyone knew we had to step up the war and bring the war to England, and I can\u2019t remember anybody dissenting from that ... Once the decision was made, the next thing was to pick who would go . . . we ordered people from different units within Belfast to come to a call house in the Lower Falls ... Myself and Gerry Adams were there and it was put to these Volunteers that there was a job planned; it was a very dangerous job ... [it] would mean being away from home for a while; [it] would mean being out of Belfast for a while. They were not told that they were going to England [and] after the talk people were invited to either stay or leave. Twelve or so did so [left]. Those who remained were the two Price sisters, Hugh Feeney, Gerry Kelly, Gerry Armstrong and Roy Walsh.It was put forcefully to them that the operation was extremely dangerous, [there was] a possibility of their being killed, arrested and not returning to their homes. Then they were told what the operation was. They were then sent across the border for intensive training in explosives ... weapons and so forth, for about three weeks. Then the cars had to be acquired \u2013 there was a special squad put together. Pat McClure was in charge of that, taking them across the border. After that, I had no contact with them because the operation was starting from across the border. I was [Brigade] Operations Officer at that time and once the people were picked, once they were moved across the border, Pat McClure took over ... We didn\u2019t intend to kill people in London. The intention was to strike at the heart of the British Establishment ... if the intention had been to kill people in London, it would have been quite easy to do so, quite simple, but our intentions were not to kill people ... what we should have done was to bury the team in England [afterwards]. When I say \u2018bury the team\u2019, we should have arranged hiding places for them there. The mistake we made was to get the bombs in and get the people out as quickly as possible. Unfortunately the British got onto the bombs too quickly and arrested our people coming back. Our idea was a simple one, get the people in, get the explosives in and get our Volunteers out ... It was like that with the bombing campaign in Belfast or Derry or wherever: put the bomb in, run back, always plan your run back. And we went with that simple idea. In hindsight it was obviously the wrong one. [Maybe] if the British hadn't got onto the bombs so quickly it would have been the right idea.[13]\nBombing[edit]\nSeveral days before the bombing, the leaders of the Provisional Irish Republican Army active service unit (ASU), which included sisters Marian and Dolours Price, went to London and picked out four targets: the Old Bailey, the Ministry of Agriculture, an army recruitment office near Whitehall, and New Scotland Yard. They then reported back to their Officer Commanding in Belfast, and the IRA Army Council gave the go ahead. The bombs were made in Ireland and transported to London via ferry, according to Marian Price.\nThe Royal Ulster Constabulary warned the British that the ASU was travelling to England, but were unable to provide specifics as to the target.[14]\nThe drivers and the volunteers who were to prime the bombs woke up at 6:00 a.m. and drove the car bombs to their various targets. Gerry Kelly and Roy Walsh drove their car bomb to the Old Bailey. It was planned that by the time the bombs went off at around 15:00, the active service unit would be back in Ireland. The bomb at New Scotland Yard was found at 8:30 by a policeman who noticed a discrepancy in the licence plate.[10][1] The bomb team started lifting out 5-pound bags of explosives and separated them, so that if the bomb did go off, the force of the explosion would be greatly reduced. The bomb squad eventually found the detonating cord leads, which ran under the front passenger seat of the car; Peter Gurney, a senior member of New Scotland Yard, cut the detonator cord leads, defusing the bomb.\nHowever, at the Old Bailey the bomb exploded, injuring many and causing extensive damage. Scotland Yard stated it had warned the City of London police at 14:01 to search near the Old Bailey for a green Ford Cortina; the car was not located until 14:35 and exploded at 14:49 while police were evacuating the area.[1] A shard of glass from the explosion is preserved as a reminder, embedded in the wall at the top of the main stairs. Several more people were injured by the car bomb near the Ministry of Agriculture, which brought the total number injured to over 200. A British man, 60-year-old Frederick Milton, died of a heart attack.[15] Dolours Price wrote in her memoir: \"There were warnings phoned in but people had stood about, curious to see... If people ignored the warnings and stood around gawking, they were stupid. The numbers of injured came about through curiosity and stupidity.\"[11] The ASU was caught trying to leave the country at Heathrow Airport prior to the explosions, as the police had been forewarned about the bombings and were checking all passengers to Belfast and Dublin. All 10 gave false names that did not match their documents.[10][1]\nCourt and sentence[edit]\nThe IRA Volunteers had to be tried at Winchester Crown court as the Old Bailey was wrecked by the car bomb there. The trial took 10 weeks and was set amid extremely strict security. William McLarnon pleaded guilty to all charges on the first day of the trial. On 14 November 1973, a jury convicted six men and two women of the bombings. The jury acquitted Roisin McNearney in exchange for information, and she was given a new identity. As her verdict was handed down, the other defendants began to hum the \"Dead March\" from Saul, and one threw a coin at her, shouting \"Take your blood money with you\" as she left the dock in tears.[16] Six of the nine people convicted admitted to Provisional IRA membership.[17]\nAt the court, the judge sentenced the eight to life imprisonment for the bombings and 20 years for conspiracy, while McLarnon was sentenced to 15 years.[10] As the eight were led to the cells below the court, several gave raised fist salutes to relatives and friends in the public gallery, who shouted \"Keep your chins up\" and \"All the best\". The Price sisters immediately went on hunger strike, soon followed by Feeney and Kelly, for the right not to do prison work and to be repatriated to a jail in Ireland. The bombers on hunger strike were eventually moved to jails in Ireland as part of the 1975 IRA truce agreed with the British. In 1983, Kelly escaped from Maze Prison and became part of an IRA ASU in the Netherlands; he was recaptured three years later by the Dutch authorities and extradited.[16]\nFurther IRA bombs in England[edit]\nThe Old Bailey bomb was the beginning of a sustained bombing campaign in England. The next large bombing by the IRA in England was the King's Cross station and Euston station bombings which injured almost 15 people and did widespread damage. Another large one that year was the 1973 Westminster bombing which injured almost 60 people.\n1974 Houses of Parliament bombing\nKings Arms, Woolwich\n1973 Westminster bombing\n1974 Tower of London bombing\nCAIN project\nEd Moloney, Voices From The Grave: Two Men's War In Ireland\nPeter Taylor, Behind The Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein\n^ a b c d \"Ten held after Provo bombs blast London\". The Guardian. 9 March 1973. Retrieved 27 September 2016.\n^ \"BBC ON THIS DAY - 12 - 1969: Police use tear gas in Bogside\". BBC News. Retrieved 1 August 2017.\n^ \"Today in Irish History \u2013 July 10 1921 \u2013 Belfast's Bloody Sunday\". Theirishstory.com. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 1 August 2017.\n^ \"Irish Tighten Security After Dublin Bombing\". The Lewiston Daily Sun. Dec 29, 1969. pp. 1, 7. Retrieved 1 August 2017 \u2013 via Google News Archive Search.\n^ \"Bomb Damages RT\u00c9 TV Studios\". RT\u00c9. Retrieved 1 August 2017.\n^ November 1972 CAIN\n^ December 1972 CAIN\n^ Peter Taylor Behind The Mask: The IRA and Sinn Fein, p.179,181\n^ Moloney, Ed (5 July 2007). A Secret History of the IRA. Penguin Books. Retrieved 1 August 2017 \u2013 via Google Books.\n^ a b c d Eder, Richard (16 November 1973). \"8 Get Life Terms in London Blasts\". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 September 2016.\n^ a b Sawyer, Patrick; Graham, Bob (23 September 2012). \"IRA bomber says Adams ordered terror attacks on London targets\". Irish Independent. Retrieved 27 September 2016.\n^ Ed Moloney A Secret History of the IRA: The Big Lad p.125\n^ \"Voices from the Grave\" (PDF). Linksunten.indymedia.org. Retrieved 2017-08-01.\n^ Wilson, Ray; Adams, Ian (2015). Special Branch: A History: 1883-2006. Biteback Publishing. p. 234. ISBN 9781849549639. Retrieved 27 September 2016.\n^ \"Old Bailey bomber arrested over murder of two soldiers\". The Daily Telegraph. 17 November 2009. Retrieved 27 September 2016.\n^ a b \"BBC ON THIS DAY: IRA gang convicted of London bombings\". BBC News. 14 November 1973. Retrieved 27 September 2016.\n^ Melaugh, Dr Martin. \"CAIN: Chronology of the Conflict 1973\". CAIN. Retrieved 1 August 2017.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1973_Old_Bailey_bombing&oldid=871059343\"\nExplosions in 1973\nProvisional IRA bombings in London\n1970s in London\nCentral Criminal Court of England and Wales\n1973 crimes in the United Kingdom\nCar and truck bombings in England\n1. The Troubles \u2013 The Troubles is the common name for the ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict, it is described as a guerrilla war or low-level war. The most recent instalment of violence began in the late 1960s and is deemed to have ended with the Good Friday Belfast Agreement of 1998. Although the Troubles mainly took place in Northern Ireland, violence spilled over at times parts of the Republic of Ireland, England and mainland Europe. The conflict was political and nationalistic, fuelled by historical events. It also had an ethnic or sectarian dimension, although it was not a religious conflict, a key issue was the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. Unionists/loyalists, who are mostly Protestants and consider themselves British, want Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom, Irish nationalists/republicans, who are predominantly Catholics, want Northern Ireland to be reunited with the 26 counties which make up the Republic of Ireland in an independent united Ireland. This campaign was met with violence by loyalists who viewed the campaign as a stalking horse. This eventually led to the deployment of British troops, initially to protect Catholic civilians, the security forces of the Republic played a smaller role. More than 3,500 people were killed in the conflict, of whom 52% were civilians, 32% were members of the British security forces, there has been sporadic violence since the Good Friday Agreement was signed, including a campaign by anti-ceasefire republicans. The Troubles refers to the recent three-decade conflict between nationalists and unionists, the term the Troubles was previously used to refer to the Irish revolutionary period, it was adopted to refer to the escalating violence in Northern Ireland after 1969. The violence was characterised by the campaigns of Irish republican and Ulster loyalist paramilitary groups. It thus became the focus for the longest major campaign in the history of the British Army, nationalists regard the state forces as forces of occupation or partisan combatants in the conflict. One part of the Agreement is that Northern Ireland will remain within the United Kingdom unless a majority of the Northern Irish electorate vote otherwise and it also established the Northern Ireland Executive, a devolved power-sharing government, which must consist of both unionist and nationalist parties. In 1609, Scottish and English settlers, known as planters, were given land escheated from the native Irish in the Plantation of Ulster. As the Penal Laws started to be phased out in the part of the 18th century, there was more competition for land. With Roman Catholics allowed to buy land and enter trades from which they had formerly been banned, tensions arose resulting in the Protestant Peep ODay Boys and Catholic Defenders. This created polarisation between the communities and a reduction in reformers among Protestants, many of whom had been growing more receptive to democratic reform\n2. Car bomb \u2013 A car bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, is an improvised explosive device placed inside a car or other vehicle and detonated. The latter type may be parked up or the vehicle might be used to deliver the bomb. It is commonly used as a weapon of terrorism or guerrilla warfare, the gasoline in the vehicles fuel tank may make the explosion of the bomb more powerful by dispersing and igniting the fuel. Car bombs are effective weapons as they are a way to transport a large amount of explosives to the intended target. A car bomb also produces copious shrapnel, or flying debris, in recent years, car bombs have become widely used by suicide bombers. Since the height of the Provisional Irish Republican Army campaign in 1991, where major public roads pass near buildings, road closures may be the only option. Historically these tactics have encouraged potential bombers to target soft or unprotected targets, in the Syrian Civil War, and Iraq, the car bomb concept was modified so that it could be driven and detonated by a driver, but armoured to withstand incoming fire. The vehicle would be driven to its area, in a similar fashion to a kamikaze plane of WW2. These were known by the acronym SVBIED or VBIEDs and this saw generally civilian cars with armour plating added, that would protect the car for as long as possible, so that it could reach its intended target. Cars were sometimes driven into enemy troop areas, or into incoming enemy columns, most often, the SVIEDs were used by ISIS against Government forces, but also used by Syrian rebels against government troops. In some cases trucks were used, as well as cars. They were sometimes used to start an assault, generally the vehicles had a large space that would contain very heavy explosives. In some cases, animal drawn carts with improvised explosive devices have been used, tactically, a single vehicle may be used, or an initial breakthrough vehicle, then followed by another vehicle. Though using a less refined technology, the principle of the hellburner is similar to that of the car bomb. The first possible suicide car bombing was the Bath School bombings of 1927, mass-casualty car bombing, and especially suicide car bombing, is currently a predominantly Middle Eastern phenomenon. The tactic was first introduced to the region by the Stern Gang, the tactic was widely used in the Lebanese Civil War by the Islamic fundamentalist group Hezbollah. A notable suicide car bombing was the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, marines and 58 French military personnel. The perpetrator of attacks has never been positively confirmed\n3. 1969 Northern Ireland riots \u2013 During 12\u201317 August 1969, Northern Ireland was rocked by intense political and sectarian rioting. There had been sporadic violence throughout the year arising from the civil rights campaign, Civil rights marches were repeatedly attacked by both Ulster Protestant loyalists and by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, a unionist and largely Protestant police force. The disorder led to the Battle of the Bogside in Derry, in support of the Bogsiders, nationalists and Catholics launched protests elsewhere in Northern Ireland. Some of these led to attacks by loyalists working alongside the police, the most bloody rioting was in Belfast, where seven people were killed and hundreds more wounded. Scores of houses, most of them owned by Catholics, as well as businesses and factories were burned-out, in addition, thousands of mostly Catholic families were driven from their homes. In certain areas, the RUC helped the loyalists and failed to protect Catholic areas, events in Belfast have been viewed by some as a pogrom against the Catholic and nationalist minority. The British Army was deployed to order and state control. The events of August 1969 are widely seen as the beginning of the conflict known as the Troubles. NICRA was opposed by Ian Paisleys Ulster Constitution Defence Committee and other loyalist groups, during the summer of 1969, before the riots broke out, the International Commission of Jurists published a highly critical report on the British governments policy in Northern Ireland. The Times wrote that this report criticised the Northern Ireland Government for police brutality, religious discrimination, the ICJ secretary general said that laws and conditions in Northern Ireland had been cited by the South African government to justify their own policies of discrimination. The Times also reported that the Ulster Special Constabulary, Northern Irelands reserve police force, was regarded as the militant arm of the Protestant Orange Order. The Belfast Telegraph reported that the ICJ had added Northern Ireland to the list of states/jurisdictions where the protection of rights is inadequately assured. The first major confrontation between civil rights activists and the Royal Ulster Constabulary occurred in Derry on 5 October 1968, when a NICRA march was baton-charged by the RUC. Disturbed by the prospect of violence, the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Terence ONeill, promised reforms in return for a truce. In spite of promises, in January 1969 Peoples Democracy. Ulster loyalists, including off-duty policemen, attacked the marchers a number of times, the RUC were present but did not protect the marchers. This action, and the RUCs subsequent entry into the Bogside, in March and April 1969, there were six bomb attacks on electricity and water infrastructure targets, causing blackouts and water shortages. There was some movement on reform in Northern Ireland in the first half of 1969, on 23 April UUP Stormont MPs voted by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland at their parliamentary party meeting\n4. Operation Demetrius \u2013 Operation Demetrius was a British Army operation in Northern Ireland on 9\u201310 August 1971, during the Troubles. It involved the mass arrest and internment of 342 people suspected of being involved with the Irish Republican Army and it was proposed by the Northern Ireland Government and approved by the British Government. Armed soldiers launched dawn raids throughout Northern Ireland, sparking four days of violence in which 20 civilians, all of those arrested were Irish nationalists, the vast majority of them Catholic. Due to faulty intelligence, many had no links with the IRA, Ulster loyalist paramilitaries were also carrying out acts of violence, which were mainly directed against Catholics and Irish nationalists, but no loyalists were included in the sweep. The introduction of internment, the way the arrests were carried out, and the abuse of those arrested, led to mass protests, amid the violence, about 7,000 people fled or were forced out of their homes. It was later revealed that the British Government had withheld information from the ECHR, in December 2014 the Irish government asked the ECHR to revise its 1978 judgement. The policy of internment lasted until December 1975 and during that time 1,981 people were interned,1,874 were nationalist, the first loyalist internees were detained in February 1973. Internment had been used a number of times during Northern Irelands history, but had not yet been used during the Troubles, Ulster loyalist paramilitaries such as the Ulster Volunteer Force had been engaged in a low-level violent campaign since 1966. After the August 1969 riots, the British Army was deployed on the streets to bolster the Royal Ulster Constabulary, up until this point the Irish Republican Army had been largely inactive. However, as the violence and political situation worsened, the IRA was divided over how to deal with it and it split into two factions, the Provisional IRA and Official IRA. In 1970\u201371, the Provisionals began to retaliate against the British Army, the Officials policy was one more defensive. During 1970\u201371 there were clashes between state forces and the two wings of the IRA, between the IRAs and loyalists, and occasionally between the IRAs. Most loyalist attacks were directed against Catholic civilians, but they clashed with state forces. The idea of re-introducing internment for Irish republican militants came from the unionist government of Northern Ireland and it was agreed to re-introduce internment at a meeting between Faulkner and UK Prime Minister Edward Heath on 5 August 1971. The British cabinet recommended balancing action, such as the arrest of loyalist militants, the calling in of weapons held by clubs in Northern Ireland. However, Faulkner argued that a ban on parades was unworkable, that the rifle clubs posed no security risk and that there was no evidence of loyalist terrorism. It was eventually agreed that there would be a ban on parades but no interning of loyalists. On the initial list of those to be arrested, which was drawn up by RUC Special Branch and MI5, there were 450 names, key figures on the list, and many who never appeared on them, had got wind of the swoop before it began\n5. Bloody Sunday (1972) \u2013 Fourteen people died, thirteen were killed outright, while the death of another man four months later was attributed to his injuries. Many of the victims were shot while fleeing from the soldiers, other protesters were injured by rubber bullets or batons, and two were run down by army vehicles. The march had been organised by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, the soldiers involved were members of the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment, also known as 1 Para. Two investigations have been held by the British government, the Widgery Tribunal, held in the immediate aftermath of the incident, largely cleared the soldiers and British authorities of blame. It described the shooting as bordering on the reckless, but accepted their claims that they shot at gunmen. The report was criticised as a whitewash. The Saville Inquiry, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, was established in 1998 to reinvestigate the incident, following a 12-year inquiry, Savilles report was made public in 2010 and concluded that the killings were both unjustified and unjustifiable. It found that all of those shot were unarmed, that none were posing a threat, that no bombs were thrown. On the publication of the report, British prime minister David Cameron made an apology on behalf of the United Kingdom. Following this, police began an investigation into the killings. Bloody Sunday was one of the most significant events of the Troubles because a number of civilian citizens were killed, by forces of the state, in full view of the public. It was the highest number of killed in a single shooting incident during the conflict. Bloody Sunday increased Catholic and Irish nationalist hostility towards the British Army, Support for the Provisional Irish Republican Army rose and there was a surge of recruitment into the organisation, especially locally. While many Catholics initially welcomed the British Army as a force, in contrast to what was regarded as a sectarian police force. In response to escalating levels of violence across Northern Ireland, internment without trial was introduced on 9 August 1971, there was disorder across Northern Ireland following the introduction of internment, with 21 people being killed in three days of rioting. In Belfast, soldiers of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 11 Catholic civilians in what known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. On 10 August, Bombardier Paul Challenor became the first soldier to be killed by the Provisional IRA in Derry, a further six soldiers had been killed in Derry by mid-December 1971. At least 1,332 rounds were fired at the British Army, who also faced 211 explosions and 180 nail bombs, both the Official IRA and Provisional IRA had established no-go areas for the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary in Derry through the use of barricades\n6. Murder of Ann Ogilby \u2013 The murder of Ann Ogilby, also known as the Romper Room murder, took place in Sandy Row, south Belfast, Northern Ireland on 24 July 1974. It was a punishment killing, carried out by members of the Sandy Row womens Ulster Defence Association unit, at the time the UDA was a legal Ulster loyalist paramilitary organisation. The victim, Ann Ogilby, a Protestant single mother of four, was beaten to death by two teenaged girls after being sentenced to a rompering at a kangaroo court. Ogilby had been having an affair with a married UDA commander, William Young and his wife, Elizabeth Young, was a member of the Sandy Row womens UDA unit. Ogilby had made remarks against Elizabeth Young in public regarding food parcels. Eight weeks after Ogilby had given birth to Youngs son, the unit decided that Ogilby would pay for both the affair and remarks with her life. The day following the court trial, they arranged for the kidnapping of Ogilby and her six-year-old daughter, Sharlene. After Sharlene was sent by Graham to a shop to buy sweets, Ogilby was made to sit on a bench, as Ogilby screamed and pleaded for her life, Sharlene, who had already returned from the shop, overheard her mother being beaten and killed. A later autopsy report revealed that Ogilby had sustained 24 blows to the head, within weeks of the killing, ten women and one man were arrested in connection with the murder. They were convicted in February 1975, all but one, a minor whose sentence was suspended, went to prison. The murder caused widespread revulsion, shock and horror throughout Northern Ireland, Ann Ogilby, a young Protestant woman, moved to Belfast from Sion Mills, County Tyrone on a date that has not been firmly established. She was one of 13 children from a poor family, described as a very attractive girl with dark-brown silky hair and blue eyes, and a slender figure, she embarked on a transient lifestyle, regularly changing her address and employment. The jobs she held were mostly low-paid positions in offices and shops and her striking good looks made her popular with men. Young came from the loyalist Donegall Pass area and was a local UDA commander and he told Ogilby his marriage had already broken up and that his divorce hadnt been finalised. Ogilby by that time had three children each by a different partner, Sharlene, Stephen and Gary, the boys had been put up for adoption after their birth, leaving only the eldest child, her daughter Sharlene, in her care. When Young was interned inside the Maze Prison in 1973, she visited him. He complained that his wife, Elizabeth never sent him food parcels. The LPA was unaware of the Young couples estrangement, the delivery of food parcels by women to imprisoned members was a long-established practice by the UDA and a particular source of pride for the organisation\n7. Miami Showband killings \u2013 The Miami Showband killings was an attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist paramilitary group, on 31 July 1975. It took place on the A1 road at Buskhill in County Down, five people were killed, including three members of The Miami Showband, who were then one of Irelands most popular cabaret bands. The band was travelling home to Dublin late at night after a performance in Banbridge, halfway to Newry, their minibus was stopped at what appeared to be a military checkpoint, where gunmen in British Army uniforms ordered them to line up by the roadside. At least four of the gunmen were serving soldiers from the British Armys Ulster Defence Regiment but, unbeknownst to the band, while two of the gunmen were hiding a time bomb on the minibus, it exploded prematurely and killed them. The other gunmen then opened fire on the band members. It is believed the bomb was meant to explode en route, killing the band and framing them as IRA bomb-smugglers, two serving British soldiers and one former British soldier were found guilty of the murders and received life sentences, they were released in 1998. Those responsible for the attack belonged to the Glenanne gang, an alliance of loyalist militants, rogue police officers. There are also allegations that British military intelligence agents were involved, the Historical Enquiries Team, which investigated the killings, released their report to the victims families in December 2011. It confirmed that Jackson was linked to the attack by fingerprints, the massacre dealt a blow to Northern Irelands live music scene, which had brought young Catholics and Protestants together. In a report published in the Sunday Mirror in 1999, Colin Wills called the Miami Showband attack one of the worst atrocities in the 30-year history of the Troubles, Irish Times diarist Frank McNally summed up the massacre as an incident that encapsulated all the madness of the time. The conflict in Northern Ireland, known as the Troubles, began in the late 1960s, the year 1975 was marked by an escalation in sectarian attacks and a vicious feud between the two main loyalist paramilitary groups, the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Defence Association. On 4 April 1974 the proscription against the UVF had been lifted by Merlyn Rees and this meant that both it and the UDA were legal organisations. The UVF would be once more banned by the British government on 3 October 1975, during that strike on 17 May, the UVF carried out the Dublin and Monaghan car bombings, which killed 33 civilians. The Provisional IRA were suspected by British police of bombing two pubs in the English city of Birmingham the following November, resulting in 21 deaths. UK Home Secretary Roy Jenkins introduced the Prevention of Terrorism Act, at Christmas 1974 the IRA declared a ceasefire, which theoretically lasted throughout most of 1975. This move made loyalists apprehensive and suspicious that an accord was being conducted between the British government and the IRA, and that Northern Irelands Protestants would be sold out. This had meant the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland. In early 1975 Merlyn Rees set up elections for the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention at which all of Northern Irelands politicians would plan their way forward\n8. Kingsmill massacre \u2013 The Kingsmill massacre took place on 5 January 1976 near the village of Kingsmill in south County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Gunmen stopped a minibus carrying eleven Protestant workmen, lined them up alongside it, only one victim survived, despite having been shot 18 times. A group calling itself the South Armagh Republican Action Force claimed responsibility and it said the shooting was retaliation for a string of attacks on Catholic civilians in the area by Loyalists, particularly the killing of six Catholics the night before. The Kingsmill massacre was the climax of a string of killings in the area during the mid-1970s. A2011 report by the Historical Enquiries Team found that members of the Provisional IRA carried out the attack and it has been claimed that the IRA members acted without the sanction of the IRA Army Council. The HET report said that the men were targeted because they were Protestants, the weapons used were linked to 110 other attacks. Following the massacre, the British government declared County Armagh to be a Special Emergency Area and hundreds of extra troops and it also announced that the Special Air Service was being moved into South Armagh. This was the first time that SAS presence in Northern Ireland was officially acknowledged, on 10 February 1975, the Provisional IRA and British government entered into a truce and restarted negotiations. The IRA agreed to attacks on the British security forces. However, there were dissenters on both sides, some Provisionals wanted no part of the truce, while British commanders resented being told to stop their operations against the IRA just when\u2014they claimed\u2014they had the Provisionals on the run. The security forces boosted their intelligence offensive during the truce and thoroughly infiltrated the IRA, There was a rise in sectarian killings during the truce, which officially lasted until February 1976. Loyalists, fearing they were about to be forsaken by the British government and forced into a united Ireland, Loyalists killed 120 Catholics in 1975, the vast majority civilians. They hoped to force the IRA to retaliate and thus end the truce, some IRA units concentrated on tackling the loyalists. The fall-off of regular operations had caused unruliness within the IRA and some members, with or without permission from higher up, Irish National Liberation Army members, and current or former members of the Official IRA, were also involved. Between the beginning of the truce and the Kingsmill massacre, loyalist paramilitaries killed 35 Catholic civilians in County Armagh or on its borders, in that same period, republican paramilitaries killed 16 Protestant civilians and 17 members of the security forces in the same area. A former member of the said they wanted to provoke a civil war. On 31 July, loyalists shot five members of an Irish pop band at Buskhill, like the Kingsmill massacre, the bands minibus had been stopped at a fake military checkpoint by gunmen in British Army uniform. Loyalists carried out two similar attacks over the following month, on 1 September, gunmen burst into Tullyvallan Orange Hall and shot dead five Protestant civilians, all members of the Orange Order\n9. Dublin and Monaghan bombings \u2013 The Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17 May 1974 were a series of co-ordinated bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland. Three bombs exploded in Dublin during rush hour and a fourth exploded in Monaghan almost ninety minutes later and they killed 33 civilians and a full-term unborn child, and injured almost 300. The bombings were the deadliest attack of the known as the Troubles. Most of the victims were women, although the ages of the dead ranged from five months to 80 years. The Ulster Volunteer Force, a loyalist paramilitary group from Northern Ireland and it had launched a number of attacks in the Republic since 1969. There are allegations taken seriously by inquiries that elements of the British state security forces helped the UVF carry out the bombings, some of these allegations have come from former members of the security forces. The Irish parliaments Joint Committee on Justice called the attacks an act of international terrorism involving British state forces, the month before the bombings, the British government had lifted the UVFs status as a proscribed organisation. The bombings happened during the Ulster Workers Council strike and this was a general strike called by hardline loyalists and unionists in Northern Ireland who opposed the Sunningdale Agreement. Specifically, they opposed the sharing of power with Irish nationalists. The Republics government had helped bring about the Agreement, the strike brought down the Agreement and the Northern Ireland Assembly on 28 May. No-one has ever been charged with the bombings, a campaign by the victims families led to an Irish government inquiry under Justice Henry Barron. His 2003 report criticised the Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1nas investigation and said the investigators stopped their work prematurely and it also criticised the Fine Gael/Labour government of the time for its inaction and lack of interest in the bombings. The report said it was likely that British security force personnel were involved but had insufficient evidence of higher-level involvement, however, the inquiry was hindered by the British governments refusal to release key documents. The victims families and others have continued to campaign for the British government to release these documents. At about 17,30 on Friday 17 May 1974, without warning, the streets all ran east-west from busy thoroughfares to railway stations. There was a bus strike in Dublin at the time, which meant there were people on the streets than usual. According to one of the Irish Armys top bomb disposal officers, Commandant Patrick Trears, twenty-three people died in these explosions and three others died from their injuries over the following few days and weeks. Many of the dead were young women originally from rural towns employed in the civil service, an entire family from central Dublin was killed\n10. Battle of the Bogside \u2013 The Battle of the Bogside was a very large communal riot that took place during 12\u201314 August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland. The fighting was between residents of the Bogside area, and the Royal Ulster Constabulary along with local unionists, the rioting erupted at the end of an Apprentice Boys parade which was passing along the city walls, past the Catholic Bogside. Fierce rioting broke out between local unionists and the police on one side and Catholics on the other, rioting between police and Bogside residents continued for three days. The police were unable to enter the area and eventually the British Army was deployed to restore order, the riot, which sparked widespread violence elsewhere in Northern Ireland, is commonly seen as one of the first major confrontations in the conflict known as the Troubles. Tensions had been building in Derry for over a year before the Battle of the Bogside, in part, this was due to long-standing grievances held by much of the citys population. The city had a majority Catholic and nationalist population, in 1961, for example, the population was 53,744, of which 36,049 was Catholic and 17,695 Protestant. However, because of gerrymandering after the partition of Ireland, it had ruled by the Ulster Unionist Party since 1925. Unionists maintained political control of Derry by two means, firstly, electoral wards were designed so as to give unionists a majority of elected representatives in the city. The Londonderry County Borough, which covered the city, had won by nationalists in 1921. It was recovered by unionists, however, following re-drawing of electoral boundaries by the unionist government in the Northern Ireland Parliament, secondly, only owners or tenants of a dwelling and their spouses were allowed to vote in local elections. Nationalists argued that these practices were retained by unionists after their abolition in Great Britain in 1945 in order to reduce the anti-unionist vote, figures show that, in Derry city, nationalists comprised 61. 6% of parliamentary electors, but only 54. 7% of local government electors. There was also widespread discrimination in employment, as a result, although Catholics made up 60% of Derrys population in 1961, due to the division of electoral wards, unionists had a majority of 12 seats to 8 on the city council. When there arose the possibility of nationalists gaining one of the wards, control of the city council gave unionists control over the allocation of public housing, which they allocated in such a way as to keep the Catholic population in a limited number of wards. This policy had the effect of creating a housing shortage for Catholics. In March 1968, a number of activists in the city founded the Derry Housing Action Committee. The groups founders were mostly members of the Northern Ireland Labour Party, such as Eamonn McCann. By the summer of 1968, this group had linked up with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and were agitating for a programme of reform within Northern Ireland. On 5 October 1968, these activists organised a march through the centre of Derry, when the marchers, including Members of Parliament Eddie McAteer and Ivan Cooper, defied this ban they were batoned by the Royal Ulster Constabulary\n11. 1971 Scottish soldiers' killings \u2013 The three Scottish soldiers killings was an incident that took place in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It happened on 10 March 1971, when the Provisional Irish Republican Army shot dead three unarmed British Army soldiers of the 1st Battalion, Royal Highland Fusiliers, two of the three were teenage brothers, all three were from Scotland. They were killed off-duty and in civilian clothes, having been lured from a bar in Belfast, driven to a remote location. Three British soldiers had been killed prior to event, all had been on duty. The deaths led to public mourning and protests against the Provisional IRA, pressure to act precipitated a political crisis for the government of Northern Ireland, which led to the resignation of Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark. The British Army raised the age needed to serve in Northern Ireland to 18 in response to this incident. In 2010 a memorial was dedicated to the three soldiers near to where they were killed in north Belfast, British troops had been deployed to Northern Ireland in 1969 for Operation Banner in response to a deteriorating security situation following the 1969 Northern Ireland riots. The British Army had become involved in the disturbances culminating in the Falls Curfew of July 1970, the Provisional Irish Republican Army was created in December 1969 after a split from the Official Irish Republican Army. After the split, the Provisional IRA planned for an offensive action against the British occupation. Provisional IRA Chief of Staff Se\u00e1n Mac St\u00edof\u00e1in decided they would escalate, escalate and escalate until the British agreed to go, the IRA Army Council sanctioned offensive operations against the British Army at the beginning of 1971. In this year, Robert Curtis was the first British soldier shot and killed by the Provisional IRA, on 6 February 1971, the shootings occurred on 10 March 1971 after the three soldiers had been granted an afternoon pass which allowed them to leave their base. McCaugheys younger brother was serving in the unit but was on duty. The three soldiers were off-duty, unarmed and in civilian clothes and they were drinking in Mooneys, a Belfast city centre bar in Cornmarket, one of the safer areas of the city for soldiers at this stage in the Troubles. The three previous shootings that year had occurred in different circumstances, during rioting, one report said that the three Scottish soldiers were enticed into a car by Republican women who promised them a party. The three were taken to the White Brae, Squires Hill, off the Ligoniel Road in North Belfast, there they were murdered by Provisional IRA members, two were shot in the back of the head and the other in the chest. The inquest in August 1971 was not able to establish the sequence of events. It was established all three were shot at very close range, probably in a line. All had been drinking, and Joseph was found to be severely intoxicated, the jury was told that the three were probably shot whilst relieving themselves beside the road\nCar bomb [videos]\nA car bomb, lorry bomb, or truck bomb, also known as a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED), is an \u2026\nThe result of a car bombing in Iraq\nCar bomb in Iraq, made up of a number of artillery shells concealed in the back of a pickup truck.\nTSA officers view the post-blast remains of a Chrysler Neon after an explosive was detonated inside it during training.\nVietcong car bombing aftermath scene in Saigon, 1965.\nOperation Demetrius [videos]\nOperation Demetrius was a British Army operation in Northern Ireland on 9\u201310 August 1971, during the Troubles. It \u2026\nImage: Compound 19\nHMS ''Maidstone'' (pictured here in Algiers in the Second World War), a prison ship which docked at Belfast and where many internees were sent\nModern anti-internment graffiti on Derry's Walls seen from the Bogside area of Derry\nMurder of Ann Ogilby [videos]\nThe murder of Ann Ogilby, also known as the \"Romper Room murder\", took place in Sandy Row, south Belfast, Northern \u2026\nThe M1 motorway at Stockman's Lane close to where Ann Ogilby's body was found\nAnn Ogilby's grave at Umgall Cemetery.\nMiami Showband killings [videos]\nThe Miami Showband killings (also called the Miami Showband Massacre) was an attack by the Ulster Volunteer Force \u2026\nSite of the massacre; the band's minibus was parked in the lay-by behind the roadsign\nThe Miami Showband in 1975; one of the last photos of the band before the attack L\u2013R: Tony Geraghty, Fran O'Toole, Ray Millar, Des McAlea (\"Des Lee\"), Brian McCoy, Stephen Travers\nVolkswagen Type 2 (T2) similar to the minibus used by the band\nSterling submachine gun similar to those used in the attack\nKingsmill massacre [videos]\nThe Kingsmill massacre took place on 5 January 1976 near the village of Kingsmill in south County Armagh, Northern \u2026\nThe bullet-riddled minibus which had been transporting the 11 Protestant workers who were gunned down as they lined up alongside the vehicle\nArmaLite AR-18s (top) and AR-15s (bottom) were used in the massacre; some were later seized and linked to the IRA\nImage: AR 18\nImage: St. Laurence O'Toole's Primary School, Belleek geograph.org.uk 1542679\nBattle of Lenadoon [videos]\nThe Battle of Lenadoon was a series of gun battles fought over six days between the Provisional IRA and the British \u2026\nSeamus Twomey confronts British Soldiers in Lenadoon Avenue before the battle began\nImage: IRA Sniper\nImage: British Soldier in Lenadoon Avenue\nImage: Irish Republican Flag\nDublin and Monaghan bombings [videos]\nThe Dublin and Monaghan bombings of 17 May 1974 were a series of co-ordinated bombings in Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland. \u2026\nSome of the damage caused by the second car bomb on Talbot Street, Dublin\nA hijacked green 1970 model Hillman Avenger was used in the Parnell Street explosion which killed 10 people\nA 2006 view of Talbot Street where a further 14 people died\nMemorial to the bomb victims in Dublin's Talbot Street\nBattle of the Bogside [videos]\nThe Battle of the Bogside was a very large communal riot that took place during 12\u201314 August 1969 in Derry, Northern \u2026\nImage: Battle bogside 2\nFree Derry Corner in the Bogside; the slogan \"You are now entering Free Derry\" was first painted in January 1969 by John Casey\nThe Bogside in 2004, looking down from the city walls. The area has been greatly redeveloped since 1969, with the demolition of much of the old slum housing and the Rossville Street flats.\n1971 Scottish soldiers' killings [videos]\nThe three Scottish soldiers' killings was an incident that took place in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It \u2026\nSquire's Hill, north Belfast, the area of the killings\nJohn McCaig, Dougald McCaughey, and Joseph McCaig, the three killed Scottish soldiers\nImage: Belfast, the cenotaph geograph.org.uk 611322\n1971 Balmoral Furniture Company bombing [videos]\nThe Balmoral Furniture Company bombing was a paramilitary attack that took place on 11 December 1971 in Belfast, \u2026\nPlaque commemorating the bombing on the side of Shankill Leisure Centre\n1972 Donegall Street bombing [videos]\nThe Donegall Street bombing took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 20 March 1972 when the Provisional IRA detonated \u2026\nOne of the 148 people injured in the Provisional IRA car bomb explosion in Belfast city centre which killed seven men\nThe carbomb exploded outside The News Letter offices located at 55-59 Donegall Street\nLower Donegall Street in 2007, looking south\n1972 and 1973 Dublin bombings [videos]\nBetween 26 November 1972 and 20 January 1973, there were four paramilitary bombings in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. \u2026\nEden Quay as it appeared in 1998\nSackville Place, as viewed from O'Connell Street, January 2012\nPlaque commemorating the dead on Sackville Place\nFalls Curfew [videos]\nThe Falls Curfew, also called the Battle of the Falls (or Lower Falls), was a British Army operation during 3\u20135 July \u2026\nImage: Divis Street Murals, Belfast, May 2011 (07)\nThe Falls Road in 1981\nImage: Flag of the British Army (1938 present)\nOperation Motorman [videos]\nOperation Motorman was a large operation carried out by the British Army (HQ Northern Ireland) in Northern Ireland \u2026\nImage: Centurion AVRE 3\nImage: HMS Fearless L10 Portsmouth 1994\nImage: Flag of the Ulster Defence Regiment\nReavey and O'Dowd killings [videos]\nThe Reavey and O'Dowd killings were two co-ordinated gun attacks on 4 January 1976 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. \u2026\nA rural road at Greyhillan (near Whitecross), where the Reavey shootings took place\nImage: The Slopes between the Plantation Road and the Crowhill Road. geograph.org.uk 531725\nBattle at Springmartin [videos]\nThe Battle at Springmartin was a series of gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland on 13\u201314 May 1972. It involved the \u2026\nImage: Peace Line, Belfast geograph 1254138\nThe dead commemorated in a republican Garden of Remembrance in Ballymurphy, Belfast\nAbercorn Restaurant bombing [videos]\nThe Abercorn Restaurant bombing was a paramilitary attack that took place in a crowded city centre restaurant and bar \u2026\nA victim's body being removed from the scene by members of the security forces following the bomb explosion\nCastle Lane as it appeared in 2007. The Abercorn Restaurant and Bar was close by the spot from which the photograph was taken.\nClaudy bombing [videos]\nThe Claudy bombing occurred on 31 July 1972, when three car bombs exploded mid-morning on the Main Street of Claudy in \u2026\nA 2004 loyalist mural on Lower Newtownards Road in Belfast making reference to the bombing. It shows a priest wearing a balaclava and holding a bomb and rosary beads.\nClaudy bombing memorial statue by Elizabeth McLaughlin\nBenny's Bar bombing [videos]\nBenny's Bar bombing was a paramilitary attack on 31 October 1972 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A unit of the Ulster \u2026\nBenny's Bar after the bombing\nMemorial plaque at St Joseph's Church, Sailortown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 866, "original_length": 71981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://willowsclothing.com/contact/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RJKZADCEZBZSOXPMWMHQHD7H2RTVV4W7", "length": 415, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "willowsclothing.com", "title": "Contact \u00bb Willows Boutique", "raw_content": "location, hours & more\n104 Grand Blvd., Vancouver, WA\nYou can find willows in the Grand Central shopping center in Vancouver, WA. We\u2019re easy to get to, not far from the Downtown Vancouver or the waterfront. And while you\u2019re in the neighborhood, check out some of the other great places nearby:\nThatcher\u2019s Coffee\nLove notes, questions, concerns\u2026send us whatever you\u2019ve got and we\u2019ll be in touch!\nMessage for Willows*", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://willowtreehalifax.wordpress.com/we-have-questions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:10Z", "digest": "sha1:QUNFAVLWSNHFETKRYCV5EFAGLIIXL67T", "length": 8888, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "willowtreehalifax.wordpress.com", "title": "We Have Questions | Willow Tree Group", "raw_content": "At HRM\u2019s September 17 Public Information Meeting about the proposed 29-storey Armco Tower at 6009\u20136017 Quinpool Road, members of the audience (including the Willow Tree Group) were asked for questions. Do we have questions!\nThe Municipal Government Act allows HRM to amend the Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-Laws where circumstances can be shown to have changed since the MPS and LUB were approved. What evidence has or will the developer be required to submit to demonstrate that circumstances have changed to such an extent that it would warrant increasing the allowable height on this site by more than double?\nAndrea Arbic\nI recently learned of a situation where a woman inherited a house in the north end of Halifax that had been converted into two flats about nine years ago. Before selling the property she asked the city if the two flats are legal and was told that they are not. The reason? The city considers the lot to be too small for two flats, i.e., that this would be too much density. As a result, she must convert the building back into a single family home before selling it. How can a city that will not allow the conversion of a house into two flats even consider a developer\u2019s proposal with a density of 597 persons per acre? Are there different rules for different people?\nCandace Stevenson\nThe set of initiatives that includes the St Pat\u2019s site, the Westwood application, and the Armoyan/Fares application (18966) will have significant collateral impacts. Those who favour the enhanced business opportunities released by 18966 will see these initiatives as beneficial. By the same token, those who support increasing the residential population of the peninsula will be buoyed up by the 448 additional persons promised by 18966. But collateral damages will also follow. Assessments will increase. Taxes will increase and rents will increase. Small businesses will have even greater difficulty. Traffic along the Robie, Quinpool, and Windsor \u201ccorridors\u201d will increase significantly. And the neighbourhood\u2019s stock of affordable rental housing, irreplaceable but already at risk from condo converters and upgraders, will be even further jeopardized.\nThat being the case, what portion of the roughly $15 million \u201clift\u201d that will accrue to 18966 as a direct result of all the concessions you are requesting from the City will be returned to the City for the purposes of securing, upgrading, and adding to the neighbourhood\u2019s stock of affordable market and non-market rental housing?\nThe Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law are the core documents that guide planning decisions in Halifax. They were developed through public consultation and approved by HRM Council. By laying out the rules for everyone, these documents should expedite development and minimize negotiations with individual developers.\nIn June 2014 the HRM staff report noted that this proposed development on Quinpool does not meet the city\u2019s requirements for height, building massing, setbacks from adjacent properties, population density, landscaped open space, or parking. In fact, it doesn\u2019t even try to do so. In height, it\u2019s 2\u20137 times higher than what\u2019s permitted. In population density, it\u2019s more than four times greater. In landscaped open space, it provides only 13% of what\u2019s required.\nWhen applying for a development agreement to amend the Land Use By-law, the onus is on the developer to show that circumstances have changed significantly to warrant an amendment. As far as we\u2019re aware, this hasn\u2019t been done. HRM staff raised a red flag about this in their initial review of the proposal:\nAmendments to the Municipal Planning Strategy are generally not considered unless it can be shown that circumstances have changed since the document was adopted to the extent that the original land use policy is no longer appropriate. Site-specific amendments, in particular, require significant justification to be considered.\nSo far, there has been no justification by either the developer or the city, so it\u2019s not clear why the public is being asked to consider this proposal. Is no one willing or able to write something down? If all we have are vague words in the air about densifying the peninsula, that\u2019s not good enough. Much more would be needed to justify such a blatant disregard for the city\u2019s core planning documents.\nMy question is for the developer. It\u2019s clear that this development is not intended for the public good, so it would be helpful for us to know what you were intending. Let me list five options, to see if they apply:\ngaining an immediate $15 million profit for your company if the city grants you the development rights for this project\nproposing something outlandish and expecting to be haggled down to something less outlandish\nerecting a monument to your company\nsqueezing out smaller developers and builders who might want to build smaller projects elsewhere on Quinpool\ncapitalizing on insider economic information that could be shared with the city and the rest of us\nOn the other hand, if your intentions are none of the above, we would be interested to learn what they are.\nSteve Parcell\n1. The Halifax Common was designated as a historic site under the City Charter in 1971. The 1994 Halifax Common Plan made no mention that high-rises might encircle the Common, as height restrictions were in place at that time; however, it does emphasize the improvement of the Halifax Common and its surroundings. It mentions: special treatment of streetscapes; trees with large canopies; broad views and a sense of openness (rather than the more restrictive notion of view planes); historic houses and places; lands and buildings that are attractive to people at ground level; pedestrian linkages; and safe street crossings. Directions in the Halifax Common Plan were based on extensive public consultations that recognized the need for public open space, views to open space, and green space. These public values remain.\nWhen introducing the site at Robie and Quinpool (on the edge of the Halifax Common), the HRM planners mentioned the Halifax Municipal Plan, the Regional Plan, and the Quinpool Road Commercial Area Plan. Why was there no mention of the 1994 Halifax Common Plan? Like the other plans, it was adopted by the City of Halifax as a policy document. How does the city intend to respect the 1994 Halifax Common Plan and prepare a master landscape design for the Halifax Common when large, inappropriate developments are being proposed one at a time around the edge of the Common? Approving these developments now would diminish future options in carrying out a master plan for the Halifax Common and would preclude proper discussion for a future Centre Plan.\n2. The Robie-Quinpool area already has very strong winds caused by the existing towers. Why has the developer not provided any results of wind studies? Climate change will result in more extreme weather events, so this is a serious omission. The developer\u2019s response that this will be done during the final design phase is not an acceptable answer. Wind studies should be done early in the design process, when height and massing are being considered. To ensure results of the highest possible standard, they should be commissioned independently by the city and paid for by the developer.\n3. To understand the impact of this development on the North Common, we should know how many people use this area. HRM says that 30,000 people use the Oval in a relatively short season (10\u201312 weeks). Parks Canada estimates that 488,500 people visit Citadel Hill each year but only 155,000 enter Fort George. How many other people participate in organized recreational activities, leisure activities, events, and tournaments on the North Common? How many use it as a walking route? The total is probably several million per year.\n4. How many pedestrians use the sidewalks along Robie Street and Quinpool Road? This area is heavily used and the existing tall buildings already have a negative impact on pedestrians due to wind, shade, and a general aesthetic deficiency at ground level.\n5. The HRM planners stated that this area is changing, citing nearby tall buildings as reasons for considering this development agreement at Robie and Quinpool; however, those buildings either pre-date the current planning regulations or were approved as exceptions through a development agreement process. Accepting them as \u201cprecedents\u201d underscores the problem with this current development agreement application, as it would set a precedent for future developments in the area, such as St Pat\u2019s. Why should we have planning regulations and public meetings if developers can set the rules one building at a time?\n6. Cumulative impact is a well-understood concept. What is the city doing to measure and mitigate the cumulative impact of multiple high-rises that are being proposed and built one at a time?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 10762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2009/09/memories-of-the-futurecast-episode-two.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:55Z", "digest": "sha1:DF3F3ASGYYMZVTCQA4WNHMBE3ZUKEMOC", "length": 1123, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "wilwheaton.typepad.com", "title": "Memories of the Futurecast: Episode Two - WWdN: In Exile", "raw_content": "\u00ab Behind the rabbit? It IS the rabbit. | Main | D&D Penny Arcade Podcast: Series Three \u00bb\nMemories of the Futurecast: Episode Two\nHaving clawed my way far enough out of fevertown to think and speak (mostly) clearly, I decided to take advantage of the lull in construction next door and record this week's Memories of the Futurecast.\nI'm not 100% today, and as a result, the podcast isn't 100%, but someday we'll all look back on this and laugh as we flee the planet in a space ship.\nThis week's theme music is used under Creative Commons license from the incredible Coconut Monkeyrocket. You can get the whole thing yourself, as well as a mountain of awesome music, at Comfortstand Records dot Com.\nMemories of the Futurecast Episode One contains excerpts from the synopsis of Encounter at Farpoint, (Part 2), and Behind the Scenes Memories.\nThis week's episode is twice as long as last week's, and comes in at just over 18 minutes long.\nMemories of the Futurecast Episode Two weighs in at 8.7MB.\nMemories of the Futurecast will eat up all your crackers and your licorice.\nMemories of the Futurecast has Improved Initiative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wincline.com/2016/12/14/future-of-certain-aca-taxes-and-fees/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WMQK6D5ZIG7SNFCCL6I5R5CTQFY75FMJ", "length": 6224, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "wincline.com", "title": "FUTURE OF CERTAIN ACA TAXES AND FEES | Wincline", "raw_content": "ACA TAXES AND FEES FOR 2017\nSeveral steps have been taken in 2017 toward repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including the introduction of the American Health Care Act (AHCA).\nAlthough the AHCA was withdrawn by Republicans, Congress may choose to pursue another ACA repeal and replacement bill in the future.\nWhile the future of the ACA as a whole is currently unclear, some definitive changes have been made to some ACA taxes and fees for 2017.\nImplementation of the Cadillac tax on high-cost group health coverage was delayed for two years, until 2020.\nA moratorium applies for 2017 on the health insurance providers fee and the medical device excise tax.\nThe reinsurance fee expired after 2016.\nEmployers should be aware of the evolving applicability of existing ACA taxes and fees so that they know how the ACA affects their bottom lines. Wincline will continue to keep you informed of changes.\nA federal budget bill enacted for 2016 made the following significant changes to three ACA tax provisions:\nDelayed implementation of the ACA\u2019s Cadillac tax for two years, until 2020;\nImposed a one-year moratorium on the ACA\u2019s health insurance providers fee for 2017; and\nImposed a two-year moratorium on the ACA\u2019s medical device excise tax for 2016 and 2017.\nIn addition, the ACA\u2019s reinsurance fee expired after 2016, although the 2016 fees will be paid in 2017.\nFAILURE OF THE AHCA\nOn March 24, 2017, Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives withdrew the AHCA\u2014their proposed legislation to repeal and replace the ACA. A House vote was scheduled to take place on that day, but House Republicans could not secure enough votes to approve the legislation and, instead, canceled the vote. As a result, the ACA will remain in place at this time.\nBecause the House was unable to pass the AHCA, the ACA remains current law, and employers must continue to comply with all applicable ACA provisions. Both President Donald Trump and House Republican leadership have stated that they now intend to focus on other issues. Despite this, Congress may choose to pursue their own ACA repeal and replacement in the future.\nCADILLAC TAX DELAYED\nThe ACA imposes a 40 percent excise tax on high-cost group health coverage, also known as the \u201cCadillac tax.\u201d This provision taxes the amount, if any, by which the monthly cost of an employee\u2019s applicable employer-sponsored health coverage exceeds the annual limitation (called the employee\u2019s excess benefit). The tax amount for each employee\u2019s coverage will be calculated by the employer and paid by the coverage provider who provided the coverage.\nAlthough originally intended to take effect in 2013, the Cadillac tax was immediately delayed until 2018 following the ACA\u2019s enactment. The 2016 federal budget further delayed implementation of this tax for an additional two years, until 2020. The 2016 federal budget bill also:\nRemoved a provision prohibiting the Cadillac tax from being deducted as a business expense; and\nRequired a study to be conducted on the age and gender adjustment to the annual limit.\nThere is some indication that this additional delay will lead to an eventual repeal of the Cadillac tax provision altogether. Over the past several years, a number of bills have been introduced into Congress to repeal this tax. Although President Trump has not directly indicated that he intends to repeal the Cadillac tax, he has stated that repealing and replacing the ACA is a main goal for his administration.\nThe AHCA would have delayed the Cadillac tax\u2019s effective date even further, so that it would have applied only for taxable periods beginning after Dec. 31, 2025. However, the AHCA was withdrawn before the House vote.\nMORATORIUM ON THE PROVIDERS FEE\nBeginning in 2014, the ACA imposed an annual, nondeductible fee on the health insurance sector, allocated across the industry according to market share. This health insurance providers fee, which is treated as an excise tax, is required to be paid by Sept. 30 of each calendar year. The first fees were due Sept. 30, 2014.\nThe 2016 federal budget suspended collection of the health insurance providers fee for the 2017 calendar year. Thus, health insurance issuers are not required to pay these fees for 2017. Employers are not directly subject to the health insurance providers fee. However, in many cases, providers of insured plans have been passing the cost of the fee on to the employers sponsoring the coverage. As a result, this one-year moratorium may result in significant savings for some employers on their health insurance rates.\nMORATORIUM ON THE MEDICAL DEVICES TAX\nThe ACA also imposes a 2.3 percent excise tax on the sales price of certain medical devices, effective beginning in 2013. Generally, the manufacturer or importer of a taxable medical device is responsible for reporting and paying this tax to the IRS.\nThe 2016 federal budget suspended collection of the medical devices tax for two years, in 2016 and 2017. As a result, this tax does not apply to sales made between Jan. 1, 2016, and Dec. 31, 2017.\nUnder the ACA, health insurance issuers and self-funded group health plans must also pay fees to support a transitional reinsurance program for the first three years of Exchange operation (2014-16) to help stabilize premiums for individual market coverage. Fully insured plan sponsors do not have to pay the fee directly.\nBecause the transitional reinsurance program was operational only through 2016, reinsurance fees do not apply for 2017 and beyond (although the 2016 fees will be paid in 2017). Reinsurance fees may be paid in either one lump sum or in two installments. For the 2016 benefit year, reinsurance fees are due as follows:\nPaid in Two Installments\nDue Nov. 15, 2016: Submit the 2016 contribution form and schedule payment.\nDue Jan. 15, 2017: Pay the full contribution amount of $27 per covered life.\nPaid in One Lump Sum\nDue Nov. 15, 2016: Submit the 2016 contribution form and schedule payment of the first collection, then duplicate the form and schedule payment of the second collection.\nDue Jan. 15, 2017: Remit the first contribution amount of $21.60 per covered life.\nDue Nov. 15, 2017: Remit the second contribution amount of $5.40 per covered life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wincline.com/2018/09/14/medicare-part-d-disclosure-to-cms-due-march-1-2018-for-calendar-year-plans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:46Z", "digest": "sha1:E227LZGE753DFLTUGU6MQJ6IZRICH3MW", "length": 1057, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "wincline.com", "title": "MEDICARE PART D DISCLOSURE TO CMS DUE MARCH 1, 2018 FOR CALENDAR YEAR PLANS | Wincline", "raw_content": "ONLINE FORM FOR EMPLOYERS OFFERING PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE TO MEDICARE PART D-ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS\nThe Medicare Modernization Act requires employers that provide prescription drug coverage to Medicare-eligible individuals to complete the Online Disclosure Form to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to report whether such coverage is creditable prescription drug coverage. Creditable coverage means that the coverage is expected to pay, on average, as much as the standard Medicare prescription drug coverage.\nThis disclosure is required annually, no later than 60 days from the beginning of a plan year\u2014typically March 1st for calendar year plans\u2014and at certain other times.\nADDITIONAL DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS\nUnder the law, employers whose groups health plans offer prescription drug coverage also must provide a written notice to all Medicare-eligible individuals disclosing whether such coverage is creditable. This disclosure must be provided annually prior to October 15th, and at various other times as required under the law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wjccschools.org/ses/event/school-board-regular-meeting-9/?instance_id=84378", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2J4NM5YS5B3S5E5GHHIJVHZTR6QCLB7B", "length": 247, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wjccschools.org", "title": "School Board Regular Meeting \u2013 Stonehouse Elementary School", "raw_content": "https://wjccschools.org/ses/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2017/11/Stonehouse-01-1.png 0 0 WJCC https://wjccschools.org/ses/wp-content/uploads/sites/17/2017/11/Stonehouse-01-1.png WJCC2019-01-28 13:39:582019-02-15 16:42:28School Board Regular Meeting", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 2698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 200.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://worcesterdiocese.org/events/plynch-165", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JZLYZDFVD6TD4EY2OYCUPVEAN44IQVG2", "length": 454, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "worcesterdiocese.org", "title": "Celebrate a Shower of Roses - \"A Triduum Celebration In Honor of St. Therese of Lisieux\" - Diocese of Worcester - Worcester, MA", "raw_content": "Celebrate a Shower of Roses - \"A Triduum Celebration In Honor of St. Therese of Lisieux\"\nThursday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. Prayer Service, Anointing of the Sick, Blessing of the Roses, Fr. Conrad Pecevich - Speaker; Friday, Sept. 30 at 7 p. m., Prayer Service, Veneration of Relics, Fr. Conrad Pecevich - Speaker; Saturday, Oct. 1 at 4:40 p.m. Feast Day Mass, With Procession, Fr. Conrad Pecevich - Homilist. St. Mary of the Hills, 630 Cross Street, Boylston.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://workingwomanreport.com/patientlink-launch-new-product-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:34Z", "digest": "sha1:MLB7Y2RFB26TGKVQDQSQ7HRRALDJXRAP", "length": 5578, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "workingwomanreport.com", "title": "PatientLink To Launch New Product In 2018 - Working Woman Report", "raw_content": "Careerchallengecomputersdoctorsentrepreneurhealthhealth techhealth technologyinformationmedicalresearchtechnologywork\nBy Adam Wilmoth\nThe Oklahoman, Oklahoma City\nWWR Article Summary (tl;dr) Over the past 19 years, Debi Willis\u2019s \u201cPatientLink System\u201d has evolved to where medical information can be accessed by smartphones, tablets and personal computers at home before patients arrive at the doctor\u2019s office. She developed the platform after frustrations with transferring information during her own cancer scare.\nAfter making a career of collecting medical information, a cancer diagnosis made the effort even more personal for Oklahoma City entrepreneur Debi Willis.\nFounded in 1999, Willis\u2019 PatientLink Enterprises Inc. helps medical offices more easily digitize and use the paperwork patients fill out before appointments. The inspiration for her second major product followed from her own experiences with doctors.\n\u201cI realized we needed something for patients to gather our data,\u201d she said. \u201cI just got diagnosed with cancer. I didn\u2019t know what was going to happen to me. I had to stand in doctors\u2019 offices to get that information, and I even got chastised by one doctor who said I could only get two copies even though more than two doctors needed that information.\u201d\nSuch information is more than just a convenience, she said.\n\u201cHad I not been persistent with my doctors, I would be dead now,\u201d Willis said. \u201cThey told me I was fine, but my journey showed me that we as patients need to be more involved.\u201d\nWillis and her company have spent much of the past six years developing MyLinks, a system designed to collect records from multiple doctors and use it to create reports that can be useful to both patients and their medical providers.\n\u201cI had spent a decade focused on moving data from patients to the doctor\u2019s office, and it felt like it was time to move data from the doctors back to the patients so they could take better care of themselves,\u201d Willis said.\nThe process is complicated because doctors and hospitals have used various, incompatible systems. Federal law, however, requires medical providers by January 2019 to use compatible formats.\nPatientLink has worked closely with government regulators throughout the process. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology have been encouraging medical offices to allow better access to patient data. The office last year recognized PatientLink and its MyLinks system as the winner of its consumer health data aggregation challenge.\n\u201cThe Consumer Health Data Aggregator Challenge asked submitters to address a need that many consumers have today \u2014 the ability to easily and electronically access and securely integrate their health data from different health care providers using a variety of different health IT systems,\u201d the health department said in a statement.\nWillis said she expects MyLinks to be available to the public sometime this year. Some medical offices already are compatible with the system, and the rest are expected to update their systems by the end of the year.\nWhile MyLinks is designed to primarily to benefit health care patients, Willis said she also hopes it will boost medical research.\n\u201cA focus of MyLinks for me is that not only will people be able to download and understand their information, but they will be able to share it,\u201d she said. \u201cThere are so many diseases where we don\u2019t understand how they are started, like autism, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson\u2019s. One reason I believe we can\u2019t find a cure is because the data is sliced all over the place.\n\u201cPatients are the only ones with access to the complete picture. Being able to opt in to share the data will help find cures faster.\u201d\nMyLinks users can opt into the data-sharing program, but no information is used without permission, Willis said. The research components also have personal significance for Willis, whose mother has Alzheimer\u2019s disease.\n\u201cI was at a conference several years ago and was surprised to see how many of us had moms with Alzheimer\u2019s,\u201d she said. \u201cAll of us acknowledged we would be happy to share our data and answer questions to help figure out what\u2019s happening and to see if there\u2019s a way to turn it back and get our moms back.\u201d\nWhile Willis and her 15 employees at PatientLink Enterprises work to roll out MyLinks, they also continue to focus on their flagship product.\nWillis developed the PatientLink system beginning in 1999 when a client asked her to help the office workers save time collecting patient data. The system began with a bubble form similar to a standardized test and a scanner that imported the data to a computer where it could be translated into a format preferred by doctors.\nOver the past 19 years, the system has evolved to where it can be accessed by smartphones, tablets and personal computers at home before patients arrive at the doctor office.\nWillis said she expects the PatientLink system to continue to evolve with technology and doctor and patient needs.\n\u201cThe PatientLink format is a great path for adding other things like more educational materials and the ability for patients to learn about different responses while they\u2019re filling out information for a provider,\u201d she said.\n(c)2018 The Oklahoman\nVisit The Oklahoman at www.newsok.com\nHow Can Dockless Bike And Scooter Companies Make...\nLI Salons Changing Focus To Adapt To Growing...\nImpact On Women Workers In Question After Supreme Court Ruling\nSurrogacy Fulfilling Form Of Motherhood\nBreathe, Reflect and Take Ownership of Issues", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 7996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://works.bepress.com/f_douglas_scutchfield/74/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:58Z", "digest": "sha1:QNFPHOGGKX63WJCJQKJBM6QLDQEYRYLD", "length": 1858, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "works.bepress.com", "title": "\"Local Public Health Agency Capacity and its Relationship to Public Health System Performance\" by F. Douglas Scutchfield", "raw_content": "Local Public Health Agency Capacity and its Relationship to Public Health System Performance\nEvelyn A. Knight, University of Kentucky\nAnn V. Kelly, University of Kentucky\nMichelyn W. Bhandari\nThe study described in this article identifies local public health agency capacity characteristics that are related to their local public health systems' performance scores on the CDC's National Public Health Performance Standards Program assessment instrument. Public health system performance scores from a test version of the National Public Health Performance Standards instrument (5b) from county and city/county jurisdictions in three states were matched to organizational capacity data from the 1997 National Association of County and City Health Officials profile of health departments, resulting in a sample of 152 jurisdictions. Twenty-eight capacity variables from the profile and all 10 scores on the Essential Public Health Services plus the total performance score were analyzed in 11 separate multivariate regression models. Public health agency capacities in the areas of funding, organizational leadership, and certain nonprovider partnerships were found to be significantly related to public health system performance. Further study is needed to determine if these relationships between agency capacities and system performance are found, with data from other states now using the nationally released performance assessment instruments and with capacity measures that are more specific for evaluating public health system performance.\nNational Public Health Performance Standards Program,\nNPHPSP,\nF. Douglas Scutchfield, Evelyn A. Knight, Ann V. Kelly, Michelyn W. 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Different types of tiles for ceiling. When you begin the search, you will find different types of tiles to decorate the ceiling of your home. However, do not act on impulse and buy whatever has caught your fancy. Try to gather some information about the tiles before making any decision.\nLuella Oneil Ceiling Trend, 2018-08-07 08:31:57. Doing this will make sure that all of the colors that are in the room you are redecorating or remodeling will all tie together in the end. Be sure that you do not choose the same color for the ceiling tiles that you will have on the walls. When you have too much of the same color in the room, you will find that it can be domineering and takes away from the feeling and comfort of the room.\nFlorine Diaz Ceiling Trend, 2018-08-13 16:52:45. Apart from this, there are different decorations available for ceilings that you can just buy off the shelf. For example, you get artificial ceilings that add to the look and feel of the house, like shining stars and even the moon. These are a very good way to decorate the ceilings of the children's room. In some cases, you can add some romantic facades to the bedroom, etc. artificial ceilings were the talk of the town a few years ago, and some of them even come with atmosphere control, which means that they are bright and sunny during the day, and cool and calm during the night.\nDena Roach Ceiling Trend, 2018-08-15 16:49:08. One of the biggest lighting problems in many homes is the lack of a central light fixture in large rooms. Some living rooms, bathrooms and some family rooms and dens often have no ceiling light at all, but instead use things like floor lamps and table lamps. It's most likely that these homes were built with an eye toward cutting costs, as it would have taken a little extra time and expense to install a light fixture in these rooms.\nAdriana Osborne Ceiling Trend, 2018-08-12 17:54:57. When you are thinking about getting your suspended ceilings installed there should be one main concern on your mind, this is Safety. You need to know that your ceilings are going to be safe and cause no harm to anyone or be a hazard in any way. You are going to need to make sure that the tiles and anything else you place up in the suspended ceilings in firmly attached to the grid otherwise there can be problems with the ceiling falling down or in the event of an emergency where the ceiling has to be pulled down I.e. a fire, then the whole ceiling can be brought down as one and doesn't come down in pieces causing major hazards.\nLinda Moss Ceiling Trend, 2018-08-10 08:27:13. Those who want to install eco-friendly tiles can opt for Cork Tiles. These tiles look simple. Yet this comes with various patterns and designs. It is easy to install. Both waxed and un-waxed forms are available. To bestow natural look upon the rooms, many install this tile. To create a royal appearance you can install tin tiles. These tiles are slightly costlier than the other tiles. 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Scripps Company ( NASDAQ: SSP ) has named Leon Clark to the position of vice president and general manager of KGTV in San Diego, effective Nov. 19.\nClark is currently vice president and general manager for KGUN and KWBA, Scripps\u2019 television stations in Tucson, Arizona. A southern California native, the new position will mark Clark\u2019s return to San Diego, where he worked for CBS in the late 2000s.\n\u201cLeon has proven himself a seasoned leader across all areas of the Scripps Local Media business, and his understanding of the evolving news landscape will benefit the team in San Diego,\u201d said Brian Lawlor, president of Local Media. \u201cI look forward to seeing the great work ahead for KGTV under Leon\u2019s leadership.\u201d\nClark joined Scripps in 2014, first leading Scripps\u2019 radio operations in Tucson. He then led the TV stations and, for a short time, led the radio and TV operations as general manager.\nPrior to his arrival at Scripps, Leon launched the sales operations on the West Coast for audio streaming company TuneIn and, before that, was market sales manager for CBS in Atlanta. In each of his management roles, at companies like Emmis Communications, Air America and Radio One, he has excelled in advertising sales, digital media, strategic partnerships and team building.\n\u201cHeading back home to San Diego is an exciting opportunity as I look to the next chapter in my career,\u201d said Clark. \u201cI have had an incredible experience with my colleagues in Tucson, and look forward to continuing my career with Scripps and helping San Diego continue its great work in that market.\u201d\n*About Scripps * The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) serves audiences and businesses through a growing portfolio of local and national media brands. With 33 television stations, Scripps is one of the nation\u2019s largest independent TV station owners. Scripps runs a collection of national journalism and content businesses, including Newsy, the next-generation national news network; podcast industry leader Stitcher and its advertising network Midroll Media; and fast-growing national broadcast networks Bounce, Grit, Escape and Laff. Scripps produces original programming including \u201cPickler & Ben,\u201d runs an award-winning investigative reporting newsroom in Washington, D.C., and is the longtime steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Founded in 1878, Scripps has held for decades to the motto, \u201cGive light and the people will find their own way.\u201d\n*Investor contact: * Carolyn Micheli, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3732, Carolyn.micheli@scripps.com\n*Media contact: * Kari Wethington, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3763, Kari.wethington@scripps.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 4909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.3dmx.com/orange-planet-labs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:EFWXFJT7JNR74DMD4MTBCZJKP2XUFBPS", "length": 2082, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.3dmx.com", "title": "\u00bb Orange Planet Labs Orange Planet Labs | 3DMX Inc.", "raw_content": "UNIAT\u2019s merger of digital technology and content generation with high-end manufacturing technology leads to a unique educational and training experience.\nSince 2003, Orange Planet Labs has been creating extraordinary 3D & 2D animation, stereoscopic 3D, visual effects, motion graphics, corporate imaging, special effects, visualizations, live action, stop motion and video games for the medical, technology and entertainment industries.\nOver ten years of experience in digital content development for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, and entertainment industries, has provided Orange Planet Labs with answers to the challenges of delivering world-class creative support and production capabilities for corporate imaging, digital visualizations in 2D/3D animation or still images for product launching and training material.\nAs part of 3DMX\u2019s constant evolution, Orange Planet Labs has taken its expertise in the generation of digital content and simulators to the next level. It is developing unique digital content for UNIAT that can address the complex training needs of high-end manufacturing in industries such as the automotive, aerospace, electronics, and medical devices.\nOrange Planet Labs is evolving with these industries and aims at be the reliable partner that today\u2019s companies need for innovation and groundbreaking content generation services.\nIn addition to its already strong service offering, Orange Planet Labs now provides custom digital interactive training solutions and physical or virtual prototypes for presentations or product launches via the use of our new in-house capabilities in CNC machining and 3D printing.\nBe it user-friendly interactive tutorials and training material, 3D & 2D animation and visual productions, appealing art and imaging for marketing campaigns or specific applications such as architectural walkthroughs of projects, we are ready to support your needs via our creative and multi-disciplinary team of digital designers, programmers and artists using state of the art software and hardware.\nWebsite: www.orangeplanet.net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 271.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.4029tv.com/article/national-park-service-reports-graffiti-at-3-washington-dc-monuments/8959218", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EZVMWRLXIWIC43TEQPR5ZU4CIT7SANEY", "length": 1670, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.4029tv.com", "title": "Graffiti found at 3 popular D.C. monuments", "raw_content": "Graffiti found at 3 popular D.C. monuments\nWikimedia Commons\\David Bjorgen SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons\\David Bjorgen\nThe National Park Service says graffiti has been found at the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the World War II Memorial. U.S. Park Police spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Rose said Tuesday that the messages written in permanent marker were discovered over the holiday weekend. Similar graffiti was found on a power box along the National Mall. Rose says the message written on the Washington Monument references President John F. Kennedy's assassination and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Park service spokesman Mike Litterst says because of similarities in what's written and the handwriting, it's thought the graffiti was left by the same person. U.S. Park Police are investigating and a news conference was planned for 11 a.m. EST. The graffiti was first reported by WRC-TV.\nThe National Park Service says graffiti has been found at the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the World War II Memorial.\nU.S. Park Police spokeswoman Sgt. Anna Rose said Tuesday that the messages written in permanent marker were discovered over the holiday weekend. Similar graffiti was found on a power box along the National Mall.\nRose says the message written on the Washington Monument references President John F. Kennedy's assassination and the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.\nPark service spokesman Mike Litterst says because of similarities in what's written and the handwriting, it's thought the graffiti was left by the same person.\nU.S. Park Police are investigating and a news conference was planned for 11 a.m. EST.\nThe graffiti was first reported by WRC-TV.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.5pm.co.uk/restaurant/glasgow/city-centre/cafe_andaluz_city_centre/review/76024/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JHH4JCJLHWFAPXQ7NJYMSIWJBZMK7TYH", "length": 75, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.5pm.co.uk", "title": "User Review of Cafe Andaluz City Centre by Paula Freck on 30/08/2010", "raw_content": "The food was very good and the staff very friendly\nPaula Freck - 30/08/2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.72hourbeijing.com/the-31st-annual-gold-key-awards-for-excellence-in-hospitality-design-go-to-intercontinental-sanya-resort-20111124/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4N5CP3TN6IVZEAE5VY3XIRVH5PHSWCNS", "length": 3494, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.72hourbeijing.com", "title": "The 31st Annual Gold Key Awards For Excellence In Hospitality Design Go To InterContinental Sanya Resort \u2013 72 Hour Beijing", "raw_content": ", November 24, 2011 /ChinaNewswire.com - Xinwengao.com/ - InterContinental Sanya Resort Awarded the \"Best Bathroom, Best Spa, Best Hotel Design Resort of 2011\" at the 31st annual Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design ceremony held in New York City.\nSanya, China (November 24, 2011) /ChinaNewswire.com/ \u2014 At the award ceremony of running through November 15 at New York City, The International Hotel, Motel + Restaurant Show (IHMRS) announced winners of the 31st annual Gold Key Awards for Excellence in Hospitality Design, Honorees were selected by a panel of industry experts from a field of more than 150 projects representing 24 countries. The InterContinental Sanya Resort was awarded Best Bathroom, Best Spa, and Best Hotel Design- Resort. The Awards are sponsored by Interior Design and HOTELS magazines with the 96th annual IHMRS.\n\"It is our great honor that InterContinental Sanya Resort had been awarded as the \u2018Best Bathroom, Best Spa, and Best Hotel Design- Resort\" said Mr. Geoffrey Ryan, the General Manager of InterContinental Sanya Resort. \"We are very happy that the industry experts, audiences, and the guests like our distinctive eco-friendly property design, superior facilities, friendly services and the incredible beautiful environment. The entire team of InterContinental Sanya Resort is committed to exceed our guests' expectations.\nOpened in July 2010, InterContinental Sanya Resort occupies one of the most beautiful locations \u2013 Xiao Dong Hai in Sanya, surrounded by sandy beaches and green mountains, offers guests picturesque views from every room. Beautiful water features and water gardens throughout the Resort create a serene yet stylish ambience. The Resort offers 343 sea view rooms including 24 beachside villas & 12 executive suites, and guests can lounge in 5 swimming pools, dine in 8 restaurants and bars, unwind in our soothing SPA InterContinental or choose from 1 ballroom and 7 inspiring meeting rooms.\nFor this awards more information please visit: http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/154000320/4053787.html.\nAbout InterContinental Sanya Resort\nInterContinental Sanya Resort is owned by Luhuitou Tourist Area Development Co., Ltd. Sanya and managed by InterContinental Hotels Group, the world\u2019s largest hotel group by number of rooms. For more information on InterContinental Sanya Resort and its facilities, please visit www.intercontinental.com/sanya or call 400 886 2255 for reservations.\nInterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) [LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)] is the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. IHG owns, manages, leases or franchises, through various subsidiaries, over 4,400 hotels and more than 645,000 guest rooms in over 100 countries and territories around the world. The Group owns a portfolio of well recognised and respected hotel brands including InterContinental Hotels and Resorts, Hotel Indigo, Crowne Plaza Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Hotels and Resorts, Holiday Inn Express, Staybridge Suites and Candlewood Suites, and also manages the world's largest hotel loyalty programme, Priority Club Rewards with 48 million members worldwide.\nIHG has nearly 1,400 hotels in its development pipeline, which will create 160,000 jobs worldwide over the next few years.\nInterContinental Hotels Group PLC is the Group's holding company and is incorporated in Great Britain and registered in England and Wales.\nEmma Gao\nPhone:+86 898 8861 8888 Ext.8240\nE-mail:yangemma.gao@ihg.com\nSource: intercontinentalsanyaresort", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 4939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.a1autosupply.com/special/large-selection-used-wiper-motors-arms-related-parts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:56Z", "digest": "sha1:VPT7TSKA2W4MHUEUOVWN73SFLSKFQFCY", "length": 45, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.a1autosupply.com", "title": "We Have A Large Selection Of Used Wiper Motors, Arms, And Related Parts", "raw_content": "Priced right and ready to go to work for you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 574, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 174.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aaacn.org/about/press-room/press-releases/shifting-health-care", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:38Z", "digest": "sha1:S43LREMAF3IJ4U5AX5462UL2WZPVCVM4", "length": 3857, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.aaacn.org", "title": "Shifting Health Care System Fuels Profound Changes In Nursing, Patient Care Outside the Hospital | American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing", "raw_content": "Contact: Janet D'Alesandro\n856-256-2422; communications@ajj.com\nThe American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing releases position paper on the increasingly crucial role of the outpatient RN\nPitman, NJ - The groundswell of change in health care delivery from inpatient to outpatient settings continues to build. The American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) has released a landmark position paper clarifying the pivotal role of registered nurses (RNs) who practice in settings outside the hospital, also known as ambulatory care.\n\"The traditional outpatient model of single physicians in their own office is disappearing,\" said Margaret Fisk Mastal, PhD, RN, lead author of the paper. \"Today, patients\u2019 needs are much more complicated, and their care is provided by a team of health care providers, not just a single doctor in an office.\"\nWith a team approach, coordination of care is essential, Mastal said. RNs are the providers most qualified to handle that job \"because of their professional skills with patient-nurse relationships, their knowledge of health systems, and their collegiality with other health professionals.\"\nAmbulatory care RNs work in a wide variety of outpatient settings, from the community to physician group practices to telehealth call centers. Their roles include nurse managers and administrators; staff nurses, educators, consultants, nurse practitioners and researchers. They are highly trained and are respected as leaders and innovators in the health care industry. Ambulatory settings employ 25% of the RNs in the U.S., according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).\nThe paper, \"The Role of the Registered Nurse in Ambulatory Care,\" was published in the July-August 2012 issue of Nursing Economic$ journal. It outlines the evolution of ambulatory care environments thanks to advancing technology and changes in U.S. health care policy; changes in the scope of practice for ambulatory care nurses (including telehealth and organizational leadership); the growing complexity of patient needs; and recommendations for the future.\nAccording to Mastal, not only have patients\u2019 needs become more complex, many more of them are getting care in outpatient settings. Recent reports showed an estimated 994.3 million outpatient visits to physician offices in 2007, up from 906 million in 2003, she said.\nThis increased demand has led to growing numbers of ambulatory care RNs, and consequently a need for a clear definition of what role those nurses play in patient care.\nRecognizing the need for a clear role definition across the industry, AAACN released an official position statement in February. The statement represents the work of a task force that was followed by the group\u2019s intensive research to develop the more detailed position paper.\n\"Today\u2019s emphasis on quality and safety has produced a critical need for more RNs in ambulatory care,\" Mastal said. \"The position paper advocates for registered nurses in our specialty because of their advancing knowledge and skills that will help ensure safe, quality care for patients and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations.\"\nThe position statement and paper are key documents to be referenced by nursing and health care professionals, consumers, regulatory agencies, and federal, state, and local governments. They will help steer the ambulatory care nursing specialty as care delivery continues to evolve in outpatient settings.\nThe American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing (AAACN) is a welcoming, unifying community for registered nurses in all ambulatory care settings. As the premier nursing organization for this specialty, AAACN is devoted to advancing the art and science of ambulatory care nursing. For more information, about AAACN, visit the AAACN Website; call: 1-800-AMB-NURS (6877); fax: 856-589-7463, or email us at aaacn@aaacn.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 7076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/awards", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:06Z", "digest": "sha1:F6CH32PSFF6VHPD3TKMY2WDRG37KYIRG", "length": 3282, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.aamc.org", "title": "AAMC Awards - Initiatives - AAMC", "raw_content": "Through its prestigious awards program, the AAMC honors individuals and organizations making significant contributions to improve the health of all. These awards recognize the talent and contributions made by the academic medicine community and allies in other professions to advance innovation in medical education, cutting-edge patient care, groundbreaking research, and outstanding community service. Awardees are honored at a formal dinner held during Learn Serve Lead: the AAMC\u2019s Annual Meeting.\nThe AAMC continually strives to attract a more robust and diverse pool of nominations to be considered for these prestigious awards. Diversity as a core value embodies inclusiveness, mutual respect, and multiple perspectives and serves as a catalyst for change resulting in health equity. In this context, we are mindful of all aspects of human differences such as socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, geography, disability, and age.\nWe are now accepting nominations for the 2019 Awards. Faculty and staff at medical schools and teaching hospitals are encouraged to identify candidates for the following awards and prepare one or more nominations. There are no fees required to submit nominations, and there is no limit on how many nominations you may submit. For detailed nomination information, go to the individual award pages listed below:\nAbraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education\nThe Flexner Award is granted annually to an individual for extraordinary contributions to the medical education community.\nThe Alpha Omega Alpha Distinguished Teacher Awards recognize the significant contributions to medical education made by gifted teachers.\nAward for Distinguished Research in the Biomedical Sciences\nThe Award for Distinguished Research honors outstanding biomedical research related to health and disease.\nRobert Wood Johnson Foundation David E. 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Ask questions, sample the range and generally find out more about Ableforth's. We look forward to seeing you!\nhttp://www.matthewclark.co.uk/about-us/events/events/the-drinks-emporium/\nSource:: http://www.matthewclark.co.uk/about-us/events/events/the-drinks-emporium/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abpsus.org/abps-career-center-anesthesiology", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VZ6U2MQM6HA5RLTFAGPEC7HPUGTLKY7X", "length": 3331, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.abpsus.org", "title": "ABPS Career Center Anesthesiology", "raw_content": "Do You Need to Recruit a Highly Qualified Anesthesiologist? Advertise the Opportunity in the ABPS Career Center\nThe American Board of Physician Specialists (ABPS) has long been committed to matching physician recruiters with ABPS board certified physicians \u2013 men and women at the pinnacle of the medical profession. The ABPS Career Center is a platform designed to give ABPS Diplomates the opportunity to explore job opportunities in a wide variety of medical specialties across North America.\nIf you are a physician recruiter who would like to list an opening in the field anesthesiology, the ABPS will be pleased to help you bring the opportunity directly to the attention of some of most well-qualified anesthesiologists from the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Board certification in anesthesiology through the ABPS indicates that a physician has fully mastered the core competencies of the specialty. In addition, it indicates that the physician has made a commitment to adhere to the ABPS Medical Code of Ethics \u2013 a written set of pledges underscoring the professionalism of our Diplomates and the multifaceted mission of our organization. For example, ABPS Diplomates pledge to maintain the highest standards of personal conduct, uphold all laws and regulations relating to the practice of medicine, provide impartial patient care, maintain the confidentiality of privileged information, and improve public understanding of the role of the specialist physicians \u2013 among other professional and ethical practices.\nABPS board certification in anesthesiology is, by design, not an easy credential to obtain. Eligibility requirements for physicians who wish to become board certified through the Board of Certification in Anesthesiology (BCA) include the following:\nGeneral ABPS Requirements:\nSubmit a completed application and fee\nBe an active specialist in anesthesiology\nHold a degree from a recognized domestic or foreign medical school\nPossess a valid and unrestricted license to practice medicine in the U.S. or Canada\nProvide a current curriculum vitae\nAnesthesiology-Specific Requirements:\nComplete both a PGY-1 program or accredited internship AND an approved anesthesiology residency\nTender proof of active practice with a letter detailing active privileges and period of service signed by chief of department, chief of staff, or chair of credentialing committee\nShow documentation demonstrating completion of at least 30 hours of continuing medical education (CME) in anesthesiology earned within two years of the date of application\nSubmit 25 anesthesia case reports\nComplete eligibility and application requirements for becoming board certified through the BCA can be found here. The initial board certification process in anesthesiology also requires the successful completion of a written and oral examination. After the eight-year certification period expires, a Diplomate may re-certify by submitting a re-certification application, completing a re-certifying exam, and showing documentation that he or she has completed the required number of CME hours.\nWhy recruit just any anesthesiologist when you can hire one that is an ABPS Diplomate? The ABPS has been a recognized choice for physician board certification since 1960. Contact us today to learn how to list a job opening on the ABPS Career Center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 286, "original_length": 11490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abpsus.org/urgent-care-certification", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:45Z", "digest": "sha1:HAILA7DEAFPMRCR6DIRRZESQQD2MOXW3", "length": 1943, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.abpsus.org", "title": "Urgent Care Certification", "raw_content": "Urgent Care Certification from the BCUCM\nAs urgent care centers continue to proliferate across the country, it has become increasingly necessary for experienced, qualified urgent care physicians and practices to find ways to differentiate themselves from others. The most effective way to do that is to achieve urgent care certification through the Board of Certification in Urgent Care Medicine (BCUCM), a member board of the American Board of Physician Specialties (ABPS).\nDemand for urgent care services by patients and insurers has surged in recent years, and it is expected to continue to do so as the public gains familiarity with the convenience of medical service that acts as a bridge between primary care and emergency care. Urgent care certification through the BCUCM gives patients the peace of mind that comes with knowing a physician has demonstrated the knowledge base and skill set required for this emerging specialty.\nWhat sets certification through the BCUCM apart?\nWe are the only board certifying body with more than 50 years of experience offering certification in this specialized field.\nThe examination is created through a rigorous process and vetted using industry-recognized psychometric standards.\nThe core competencies of the examination are taught at urgent care fellowship programs and nationally recognized urgent care conferences.\nThe BCUCM is composed of rotating, independent, volunteer board members from across a broad range of practice settings and relevant specialties.\nEligibility to test for urgent care certification through the BCUCM is open to allopathic and osteopathic physicians in the United States and Canada who are residency-trained and practicing urgent care medicine full-time. The BCUCM is overseen by dedicated urgent care physicians from the U.S. and Canada, many of whom are dual-boarded by multiple bodies of certification.\nFor details about eligibility requirements, contact the ABPS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 8635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abqjournal.com/791040/calif-tech-company-brings-224-jobs-to-rio-rancho.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:05Z", "digest": "sha1:APSU6HGMKT4SFE4ICHTQUZ4UYIIPMFPP", "length": 3515, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.abqjournal.com", "title": "Calif. tech company brings more than 200 jobs to Rio Rancho \u00bb Albuquerque Journal", "raw_content": "Calif. tech company brings more than 200 jobs to Rio Rancho\nPublished: Monday, June 13th, 2016 at 11:59am\nUpdated: Monday, June 13th, 2016 at 3:37pm\nGov. Susana Martinez announces that PCM, a California IT company, is expanding to the Hewlett-Packard building in Rio Rancho with plans for 224 sales positions.\nRIO RANCHO, N.M. \u2014 PCM, a California-based IT services provider, said Monday it will open a sales center in the Hewlett-Packard building in Rio Rancho this summer, with the first group of more than 200 employees coming on board in August.\nGov. Susana Martinez, who was joined by state and city officials and PCM representatives, made the announcement of the firm\u2019s expansion to New Mexico at Rio Rancho City Hall. The governor and other state officials went on a recent trade mission to California, where they asked the company\u2019s CEO to consider New Mexico. That helped economic development officials cinch the deal with the El Segundo-based firm.\nThe state will contribute $700,000 in LEDA funding for infrastructure improvements to accommodate PCM. LEDA is New Mexico\u2019s closing fund. Also, the company will get more than $568,676 from the state\u2019s Job Training Incentive Program to help it hire and train the workforce it needs.\nMartinez said more private-sector companies are \u201cin the recruitment pipeline\u201d to relocate to the state, which will result in an improved economy.\n\u201cWe are willing to go anywhere to grow jobs in New Mexico,\u201d said Martinez. \u201cWe want to make sure the private sector is growing \u2014 not just government employment. We want these companies to see that New Mexico is open for business.\u201d\n\u201cThese incentives help the state remain competitive\u201d as it vies with other states recruiting new employers, she said.\nPCM, which will lease 30,000 square feet in the HP building, provides technology support to clients that include the NFL\u2019s Cincinnati Bengals and Green Bay Packers, Sea World, Wendy\u2019s, GE, and other international organizations, according to a news release. Salaries of the sales positions will range between $45,000 and $65,000.\n\u201cWe are honored that PCM chose to locate its sales center in Rio Rancho,\u201d Mayor Gregg Hull said. \u201cPCM is an established, proven company that will create high-quality, well-paying jobs for New Mexicans.\u201d\nFrank Khulusi, CEO and founder of PCM, said, \u201cMeeting with Gov. Martinez and her team in California was a game changer. Learning about New Mexico\u2019s improved business environment and talented workforce was a deciding factor in expanding our operations to this state.\u201d\nThe publicy traded company, which will generate $2.2 billion in sales this year, provides access to over 300,000 IT products like tablets, slate, notebooks, desktops, servers, storage and networking from leading manufacturers like Cisco, HP, Apple, Adobe, Lenovo, and Microsoft.\nTom Ducatelli, executive vice president of commercial sales for PCM, said the campaign to bring the company to New Mexico was so compelling, that the company scrapped plans to staff up in another facility.\n\u201cWhen we look at expanding our sales team, these are more than jobs \u2014 they are careers,\u201d he said. The company has an extensive training and career development program for staffers to move up the ladder.\n\u201cWe will be here for a long, long time,\u201d he said.\nCalif. firm to bring $12 million payroll to Rio Rancho \u2013 Jun 24, 2016\nRR votes to administer development funds \u2013 Jul 16, 2016\nSafelite, PCM exceed hiring forecasts \u2013 Mar 11, 2017\nIT firm well ahead of hiring target in Rio Rancho \u2013 Jun 13, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 6968, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.accessible-japan.com/visiting-japan-with-a-service-or-guide-dog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:42Z", "digest": "sha1:L4SINIPY6XBXYDQRAL23GFWJ6GIGEKTQ", "length": 3432, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.accessible-japan.com", "title": "Visiting Japan with a Guide Dog", "raw_content": "Traveling to another country with a guide dog can be a challenge. In addition to the quarantine guidelines, due to the laws regarding guide dogs in Japan, only Japan-trained dogs are covered by the law \u2013 and therefore the right to use public facilities with your guide dog will not be recognized. However, as a workaround, people traveling to Japan with a guide dog are able obtain credentials from the Japan Guide Dog Association to ensure equal access.\nIn 1938, a young American man visited Japan with his guide dog \u2013 the first guide dog to be used in Japan. A year later, Rita, Astor, Podo and Luthi were imported from Germany and trained as the first guide dogs in Japan. After the war, guide dog training stopped until Kenichi Shioya began studying dog breeding and eventually trained Champy as the first domestic guide dog.\nNow there are approximately 1,000 guide dogs actively helping their owners in every day life. Within Japan, 130-140 guide dogs are trained every year.\nIn May of 2002, The Act on Assistance Dogs for Physically Disabled Persons was established to guarantee access to public facilities, stores, and hospitals for people with physical disabilities* using guide dogs, service dogs and hearing dogs. The law also stipulated that the owners must control the behavior and sanitation of their guide dogs and display a sign to inform others that the dog is a guide dog. The organizations breeding guide dogs are also held to high standards by this law.\nFor a look at the life of a Japanese guide dog, read our review of Quill: The Life of a Guide Dog.\nWhile it is great that this law has now been established, it has one problem \u2013 it only acknowledges dogs certified in Japan. If your dog was trained in any other country, it is not considered certified in Japan and you will not be guaranteed access to public facilities, public transportation as well as private facilities, such as hotels, restaurants and shops, which are open to the general public.\nIn response to this problem, the Japan Guide Dog Association has stepped forward and now provides temporary IDs for foreign guide dogs. They require that that people applying for the temporary certification be a graduate of a member organization of the International Guide Dog Federation. Processing the temporary certification can require a number of weeks, so please see their website here: https://www.moudouken.net/en/\nIn addition to this certification, your guide dog will also need to follow the rules of quarantine for Japan. The Japan Guide Dog Association doesn\u2019t handle this, so please see the website of the Animal Quarantine Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and fisheries of Japan: http://www.maff.go.jp/aqs/english/index.html\nIn preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) created an English version of the Assistance Dog portal site, including information on immigration procedures: https://www.mhlw.go.jp/english/policy/care-welfare/welfare-disabilities/assistance_dogs/\n*Unfortunately, the law currently only covers persons with physical disabilities, not persons with mental illness. Please contact the Japan Guide Dog Association for more details.\n[\u2026] website offers information about everything from how accessible Japanese trains are and guide-dog regulations in Japan, to common questions every tourist has, such as questions about Internet access in Japan, and [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 214.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.acronymfinder.com/First-Sergeant-(1SG).html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4V4KIVIDMPRR3INV57UC5KFUNFNJ7RKC", "length": 617, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.acronymfinder.com", "title": "1SG - First Sergeant | AcronymFinder", "raw_content": "What does 1SG stand for?\n1SG stands for First Sergeant\nWe have 1\tother meaning of 1SG in our Acronym Attic\n1SG\nMLA style: \"1SG.\" Acronym Finder. 2019. AcronymFinder.com 15 Feb. 2019 https://www.acronymfinder.com/First-Sergeant-(1SG).html\nChicago style: Acronym Finder. S.v. \"1SG.\" Retrieved February 15 2019 from https://www.acronymfinder.com/First-Sergeant-(1SG).html\nAPA style: 1SG. (n.d.) Acronym Finder. (2019). Retrieved February 15 2019 from https://www.acronymfinder.com/First-Sergeant-(1SG).html\nFirst Sergeant (United States Marine Corps)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adventisthealthcare.com/health/library/topic/?id=uh1552", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:02Z", "digest": "sha1:KBSFFKEMFQ2YRAD4ZJ4VFG6O3J6766OP", "length": 2478, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.adventisthealthcare.com", "title": "Phlebotomy for Too Much Iron - Adventist HealthCare", "raw_content": "Home > Healthy Living > Health Library > Phlebotomy for Too Much Iron\nPhlebotomy is a procedure that removes blood from the body. Regular phlebotomy treats people who have too much iron in their blood, such as with hemochromatosis, or who are producing too many red blood cells, such as with polycythemia. Removing blood regularly decreases iron levels in the body by reducing the number of iron-rich red blood cells.\nHealth professionals perform phlebotomy in a medical clinic. The process is similar to donating blood. A health professional inserts a needle into a vein in your arm and removes about 500 mL (17 fl oz) of blood. The procedure takes about 30 minutes. You do not need to fast or make special preparations before phlebotomy. But try to eat a good meal and drink plenty of fluids before phlebotomy. This will prevent dizziness or fainting.\nHealth professionals will have you sit or lie down. During the procedure, they monitor your blood pressure and pulse.\nSome people feel tired or dizzy after phlebotomy. You might get relief from these symptoms by resting for the next 24 hours and drinking plenty of fluids.\nYou may want to have a family member or friend take you home after the procedure.\nExcess iron is often stored in the organs, especially the liver. Eventually, the excess iron can cause serious organ and tissue damage. Phlebotomy lowers iron levels by removing iron-rich blood cells from the body.\nRemoval of excess iron can significantly reduce the possibility of severe and even life-threatening damage to the liver and other organs.footnote 1\nPhlebotomy is safe when done by a health professional. You may get a small bruise at the puncture site. You can reduce the risk of bruising by keeping pressure on the puncture site for several minutes after the needle is withdrawn. In rare cases, the vein may become inflamed after the blood sample is taken. This condition is called phlebitis and is usually treated with a warm compress applied several times a day. There is also a small risk of infection at the puncture site.\nDepending on the cause of iron excess, you may not need phlebotomy as often after iron levels are at a safe level.\nMedical Review:Kathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine & Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine & Martin J. Gabica, MD - Family Medicine\nBacon, BR et al. (2011). Diagnosis and management of hemochromatosis: 2011 practice guideline by the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. Hepatology, 54(1): 328-343.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.affiliate-programs.biz/tracker-tool-for-traffic-arbitrage-adsbridge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:45Z", "digest": "sha1:P5HELEDVV365WXMGH7DYH4N2DVU454JN", "length": 2902, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.affiliate-programs.biz", "title": "Tracker tool for Traffic Arbitrage Adsbridge for the best Affiliate Marketing", "raw_content": "Tracker tool for Traffic Arbitrage is an essential thing for campaign optimization. It\u2019s something that helps you to get the highest possible profit in the niche you work in. The main idea is to understand how efficient your ads are and that\u2019s what this tool is able to offer.\nThere are many solutions for tracking in affiliate marketing you can find in the web. Still, not many of them meet the needs of marketers. Actually, it might be rather difficult to find a decent variant. Tracker tool for Traffic Arbitrage AdsBridge is definitely among these tools. Let\u2019s find out why is it so good for affiliates and what benefits it\u2019s able to offer.\nAdsBridge Tracker tool for Traffic Arbitrage: main advantages\nIt\u2019s a good idea to find some Affiliate program review before launching a campaign. The same thing is with tracking in affiliate marketing. You should know how good is it and only than start using the tool.\nIt will help you to choose the best possible variant. If we talk about AdsBridge Tracker tool for Traffic Arbitrage, it has the following advantages:\nThere is a free trial available, which you can use for 30 days. It\u2019s a great opportunity to see how everything works before paying money for full subscription. You won\u2019t lose money anyway, so this is a perfect solution for those, who don\u2019t know what to choose.\nAdsBridge can be used for tracking in the mobile sphere. You\u2019ll have a possibility to know how do your ads perform on mobile devices. People surf the Web mostly using smartphones and tablets, so such AdsBridge Tracker tool for Traffic Arbitrage function will help you to optimize your campaign in a right way.\nYou can organize the campaigns you have into one group and see the general performance. It might be a very useful function, when you want to see the whole picture.\nYou don\u2019t have to install any programs. The solution is cloud-based, which is very comfortable when you have a stable internet connection.\nAdsBridge is an advanced Tracker tool for Traffic Arbitrage. It has an embedded algorithm that allows the system to automatically optimize your campaigns. The tool uses effective marketing strategies to maximize your revenue.\nThe other thing AdsBridge will offer you is a landing page builder. It\u2019s a rather rare function for tracking solutions, which makes AdsBridge unique in some way. It gives you a great opportunity to see how your campaigns perform and then optimize them, and all this in one place.\nIt will be fair to say that AdsBridge Tracker tool for Traffic Arbitrage is not an advanced solution in this area. Still, it allows you to do many small changes and big ones, sometimes. It\u2019s enough in most cases, but if you need to make some substantial changes, you\u2019ll have to use specialized tool. Anyway, it\u2019s great to have such function in your tracking solution.\nYou can choose your business tariff from below ones.\nAlso you can use the cost calculator.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 4700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.afrinik.com/category/news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:31Z", "digest": "sha1:2Q6TXMYLGZAIZYLLUHNLJCMBURD6ST6H", "length": 447, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.afrinik.com", "title": "News Archives - Afrinik", "raw_content": "A lonely monkey thinks that he needed a companion but decide to have it from another angle. The lonely monkey\u2026\nJohn Bobbitt, enraged by the documentary about the case that shocked the world 25 years ago: \"They paint me like\u2026\nAn escaped dog running away from home has made a train trip on his own in the Netherlands. The animal\u2026\nIn Colombia, husband organized a party to expose the secret affair between his wife and his best friend. The husband\u2019s\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 219.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.agence-scimmo.com/en/vente-immobilier/exterieur-beaune", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:LEF7MTCDXI4ZP4H6JMTSXOKCJKSXLAOR", "length": 308, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.agence-scimmo.com", "title": "Ext\u00e9rieur Beaune | Immobilier Beaune - Agence immobili\u00e8re SC Immo", "raw_content": "Charming Burgundy house to renovate in total on a plot of about 900 m\u00b2 bordered by a river where calm and serenity reign.\nLiving room with...\nAERA ST MAURICE LES...\nHigh potential for this property on a plot of about 1,890 m\u00b2.\nPart house consisting of a living room, kitchen, bathroom. 3 bedrooms upstairs...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aims.ca/in-the-media/proportional-representation-cure-is-far-worse-than-the-disease/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:OTT2OVWY62SZO4ISCDPAM6CTERJ2PX33", "length": 5319, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.aims.ca", "title": "Proportional representation: cure is far worse than the disease - AIMS - Atlantic Institute for Market Studies", "raw_content": "Proportional representation: cure is far worse than the disease\nPR sounds good but isn\u2019t: Why I am a recovering electoral reformer\nRecently electoral reform, including proportional representation (PR), is back on the national agenda. The BC government has just commissioned a thoughtful former provincial Liberal leader, Gordon Gibson, to look at major changes to the way elections are run in that province. Earlier this week former NDP leader Ed Broadbent teamed up with IRPP President Hugh Segal to make the case for PR in a Globe op-ed.\nI once shared this passion for PR, and helped write the Quebec government\u2019s Green Paper touting PR in the late 70s. But over the years I\u2019ve come to have growing doubts that PR would in fact improve our democracy.\nPR\u2019s supporters believe that elections are supposed to produce a legislature that is a faithful representation of all the currents of policy opinion in the electorate at election time. Not so: elections are about choosing a government. Under our current system, voters get to do that directly, but are robbed of that ability by PR. Look at New Zealand or Germany or Israel or most of the other PR systems: the choice of government is often the unpredictable outcome of a mad few weeks of behind-closed-doors horse trading after the election is over. It\u2019s Meech Lake every four years.\nIt is no vice of first past the post (FPP) that it usually boosts the seat count of the most popular party; on the contrary, this \u201cwinner\u2019s premium\u201d is a way of boosting the chances that the party with the strongest support can form a stable government. A stable government able to resist the short term shifts of public opinion and unambiguously answerable for its stewardship of power at the next election is a great strength of our democratic system.\nFriends of PR believe that elections are essentially policy-based and forward-looking. They are neither. For most people policy is far too complicated and uninteresting. What elections allow them to do is to form judgements about people \u2013 something most people are pretty good at.\nAn election is a contest between competing teams for the confidence of voters. And the first thing to be judged is the performance of the outgoing team. In other words, because actions speak louder than words, past performance counts for more than future promises. That is why incumbents enjoy an advantage. Elections are first and foremost a judgement on the past.\nOnly where past performance has been disappointing do other parties really have much of a chance. And then the electorate\u2019s judgement is chiefly about intangibles like personalities, trust and confidence. If that is the case, then most votes are only a weak expression of preference for one party\u2019s \u201cprogramme\u201d or \u201cprinciples\u201d, and yet Broadbent and Segal, for instance, clearly think that this is the central point of elections.\nPR supporters also tend to believe that party platforms ought to bind future decisions by parties, and indeed that the platform ought to trump all other considerations in policy making. Yet this is not at all the way politics works. George Bush didn\u2019t have a policy on the war on terrorism when he was elected; there wasn\u2019t anything to have a policy on. Ditto for the Enron collapse and a series of other matters. And many of the things that people *did* vote for with George W. have been pushed aside by events. That is not a failure of politics or our institutions, but a recognition that politics is a struggle to impose will and order on unpredictable and shifting events and people.\nThe future is not bound by party platforms. That\u2019s why democracies confer a rather unrestricted ability to make decisions about unpredictable future events on specific individuals and party teams. And voter judgements are relative, not absolute. When Stockwell Day was Alliance leader, a lot of anti-Grit votes went to Joe Clark because, relatively speaking, he inspired the most confidence. Now that Stock has been replaced by Stephen Harper, the situation may be reversed. And it looks like both Jean Chretien and Paul Martin will continue to trump both of them in the confidence sweepstakes, but in shifting proportions as specific issues emerge and strike the public\u2019s consciousness.\nWhat democracy requires is that each election produce a party which is clearly accountable at the next election for its administration of the necessarily unpredictable affairs of the country. The population can then pass a judgement on whether that team should be returned to office, or hand that responsibility to others in whom they have greater confidence.\nIn other words, PR focuses too much on mathematical representation of parties, on binding politicians to programmes, on principles and on the future, when elections are really about letting the population choose a government, the confidence that potential leaders inspire in people, dealing with the unpredictable and accountability for the past. First past the post, for all its faults, simply does it better.\nBrian Lee Crowley is the President of the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, a public policy think tank based in Halifax.\nBy Atlantic Institute for Market Studies| 2002-10-04T00:00:00+00:00\tOctober 4th, 2002|In the Media|Comments Off on Proportional representation: cure is far worse than the disease", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 7487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.airbaltic.com/en/bottom_menu/press-room/baltic-outlook/outlook/may2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:38Z", "digest": "sha1:2RCOUNKWGTY3QMFX3XPZPD4SHFB62NXA", "length": 1212, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.airbaltic.com", "title": "May 2018", "raw_content": "Read May 2018 magazine\nArchive\t February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 96.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/tr/originals/2013/07/israel-republican-ambassador-us.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SE22D4O55LHMFA7TQPZ32BD375RPF6Q7", "length": 7622, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.al-monitor.com", "title": "Israel's Republican Ambassador To Washington?", "raw_content": "Israel's Republican Ambassador to Washington?\nBy Akiva Eldar Temmuz 15, 2013\nRon Dermer's appointment as Israel's next ambassador to Washington may be sending a signal to the Obama administration.\nIsrael's newly appointed ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer (R), confers with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in this undated photograph.\nAsk yourself what Ron Dermer, adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would have said had the president of the United States appointed as his ambassador to Israel an Israeli \u00e9migr\u00e9 known for his leftist views, somewhere between left-wing Meretz and the communist/non-Zionist Hadash party. What would the pro-Netanyahu Israeli daily Yisrael Hayom have written if a senior White House adviser working to undermine Netanyahu\u2019s re-election as prime minister had been named US ambassador to Israel? What would Deputy Minister of Transportation Tzipi Hotovely of the Likud party have had to say about President Barack Obama\u2019s choice of a senior official who had been involved in the invitation of a rival party leader to a much-publicized Washington visit at the height of the Israeli election campaign? How would the Israeli public have reacted to the nomination of an Israeli citizen who gave up his Israeli citizenship (a so-called \u201cyored,\u201d a pejorative term for someone who leaves Israel) to be the ambassador of a foreign country in Tel Aviv?\nThe criticism of Dermer\u2019s appointment as Israeli ambassador to the United States does not concern his diplomatic skills or his experience in diplomacy. The frequent visits of Secretary of State John Kerry to the region and the long private talks that he conducts with Netanyahu epitomize the depreciation of the contributions made by ambassadors to the dialogue between Washington and Jerusalem.\nThe truly important issues are discussed, in any case, over well-secured phone lines between the president and the prime minister, far from the ears of the ambassadors. When the US president decides to appeal directly to the Israeli people, he talks with Channel 2 news anchor Yonit Levy or orders Air Force One readied for a trans-Atlantic flight. Therefore, Ambassador Dermer\u2019s negative views of the two-state solution and the Palestinian partner will not influence the diplomatic process any more than the views of Dermer as diplomatic adviser to Netanyahu.\nThe main mission still entrusted to Israel\u2019s ambassador in Washington is to rebuild mutual trust between Netanyahu and the Israeli administration and Obama and the Democratic camp. Dermer is considered one of the main saboteurs of their relations. Some consider his appointment insensitive and reflecting poor judgment on the part of the prime minister. At worst, positioning a person nurtured on neoconservatism will be perceived as poking the US president in the eye. Dermer is a graduate of the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem research institute, the ideological hotbed tended by Sheldon Adelson, the man who publicly declared war on Obama.\nThe second task of the Israeli ambassador in Washington is to represent Israeli society in all its diverse culture and values to the US public. But Dermer\u2019s resume and career sound more like those of a nominee for US ambassador to Israel or a candidate for the US Congress than those of a diplomat sent to serve Israel in the United States.\nDermer was born 42 years ago in the United States, where he lived, worked and studied for 30 years. His father and brother both served as Democratic mayors of Miami Beach, but the family is considered very close to the Bush family. At the age of 26, shortly after graduating from college, Dermer emigrated to Israel, here he lived for a total of 12 years since 1997. Together with Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, he wrote the book The Case for Democracy, which former president George W. Bush cited as a source of inspiration.\nIn 2004, Dermer returned to the United States to serve for four years as economic attach\u00e9 at Israel\u2019s embassy in Washington, and was forced to renounce his US citizenship. An article published in The New York Sun, quoting from the sharply worded letter he attached to his formal request to that end, attests to the extent of his Israeliness.\n\u201cI have always been proud to be an American, and I will always be proud to have been an American,\u201d Dermer wrote. \u201cI was born in America, raised in America and formed in America. I have been educated by the wisdom of its founders, inspired by the words of its leaders and protected by the sacrifices of its soldiers.\u201d\nBy the way, Dermer did not serve in the Israeli army, a service considered, rightly or not, a central component of the Israeli ethos.\n\u201cWhen I think of freedom, I think of Lincoln,\" it read. \"When I think of courage, I think of Normandy. When I think of justice, I think of Martin Luther King, Jr.\u201d\nI wonder where his Israeli identity and appreciation for Jewish history disappeared to. Dermer ended his letter with a promise that as \u201ca faithful son of America,\u201d he would never betray its ideals. But what if American ideals cannot be reconciled with Israeli values \u2014 for instance, the value of conquering another people, settling on its land and violating the rights of millions of Palestinians?\nThese questions bring us to the third task of the Israeli ambassador in Washington: nurturing Israel\u2019s special ties with the most important Jewish community in the world. These are the thoughts of one New York Jew who has been active for Israel his whole life, who has made substantial donations and served as head of the \u201cfriends\u201d association of one of the leading Israeli academic institutions and one of its largest hospitals:\n\u201cAfter reading the story about the new ambassador, we were dumbfounded,\u201d he wrote in an email sent last week to friends in Israel. \u201cWhatever Bibi [Netanyahu] is, he is not dumb, which begs the question: Why? Does he really want to antagonize? Selecting someone who is a relatively new immigrant, with parents prominently associated with the Republican Party and the Bushes, what is Bibi trying to say? Why select someone so closely associated with the Romney campaign and Dan Senor (a close Romney adviser who, according to the Jewish website Tablet, initiated with Dermer Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney\u2019s visit to Israel).\n\u201cThere must be dozens of qualified people that could have been selected, who would have started with a clean slate when they got to Washington. In this case, Dermer's baggage precedes him. My wife and I also feel that Dermer may not be good for American Jewry, as he may bring to the fore the perennial question of the Jews' dual loyalty.\u201d\nIn my previous article about Israel\u2019s arrogant harassment of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the banks of the Bosphorus, I mentioned the movie \u201cThe Mouse That Roared.\u201d Frighteningly so, the roar of the Israeli mouse carries all the way to the banks of the Potomac.\nBu b\u00f6l\u00fcmlerde bulundu: us middle east policy, us, obama, benjamin netanyahu, ambassador\nAkiva Eldar Al-Monitor'un \u0130srail'in Nabz\u0131 b\u00f6l\u00fcm\u00fcn\u00fcn k\u00f6\u015fe yazarlar\u0131ndand\u0131r. Daha \u00f6nce Haaretz'in ba\u015f yazar\u0131 ve k\u00f6\u015fe yazar\u0131 olarak \u00e7al\u0131\u015fan Eldar, Hebrew gazetesinin de ABD temsilcili\u011fini ve diplomasi muhabirli\u011fini y\u00fcr\u00fctt\u00fc. Yahudi yerle\u015fimleri \u00fczerine Idith Zertal ile birlikte yazd\u0131\u011f\u0131 \"Lords of the Land\" isimli son kitab\u0131 \u0130srail'in \u00e7ok satanlar listesine girmi\u015f ve \u0130ngilizce, Frans\u0131zca, Almanca ve Arap\u00e7a'ya \u00e7evrilmi\u015ftir.\n\u0130ran, Hizbullah ve \u0130srail aras\u0131nda yeni bir sava\u015f olas\u0131 m\u0131?\n\u0130ran, \u0130srail i\u00e7in ni\u00e7in \u00f6nemli bir koz\n\u0130srail-K\u00f6rfez ili\u015fkilerinde zamans\u0131z kutlamalar\n\u0130srail\u2019in Orta Do\u011fu\u2019daki gizli diplomat\u0131: Mossad Ba\u015fkan\u0131", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 10887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alexandriablaelock.com/blog/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:23Z", "digest": "sha1:D2EIXQBO4PERNEB3LDRKO7KCXDOFNPU5", "length": 5543, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.alexandriablaelock.com", "title": "Blog \u2022 ALEXANDRIA BLAELOCK", "raw_content": "Here in Australia, the major banks have increased their mortgage rates, and the \u201caverage\u201d borrower (whoever that is) will be paying another $50 a month. I think that most people will actually be paying more. And when you add that to increasing credit card debt, it\u2019s time to think seriously about debt reduction. Vision, Mission, Virtues I\u2019m fairly sure that\u2026\n8th September 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock Leave a Comment\nI\u2019ve been watching a few romances lately, and I can\u2019t help asking, what is love? Bearing in mind the standard romance book/movie/song storyline where a person meets another person, falls in love, has a big fight, gets back together and lives happily ever after. Forever. And ever. And ever\u2026 What is Love for Teens? Modern high school romances such as The\u2026\n4th September 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock 2 Comments\nOne of the key Stoic philosophical foundations is preparing yourself for misfortune. There\u2019s a sort of miss you or make you risk management element to it. Every morning you prepare for the day by thinking about what can go wrong and how you will deal with it. Will you miss your bus? What if the sandwich bar sells out before\u2026\n31st August 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock Leave a Comment\nI was recently reading Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch, for whom making peace with food is one of the key steps of reaching and maintaining a healthy weight. It discusses the psychological effects of deprivation. And interestingly that applies whether that\u2019s a cigarette, new car, or wardrobe diet. Dieting is the practice of restricting what you eat, generally with\u2026\n27th August 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock Leave a Comment\nAfter a turbulent week in Australian politics, we are onto our thirtieth Prime Minister. The sixth in 11 years \u2013 it\u2019s getting hard to keep up. Along the way, there\u2019s been a lot of debate about Big L and small l liberals, and it got me thinking about the difference between Big F and small f friends. Our key conservative (right-wing)\u2026\n23rd August 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock Leave a Comment\nA while back, I mentioned I was inspired to write a book about Housekeeping, and I asked if there was such a thing as minimally viable housework? Well, housework survey says maybe. As you read the results, you\u2019ll guess that the survey was mostly completed by women, but interestingly, the mix of age groups was more or less even across\u2026\nThe most common event outfit code today is Cocktail Dress; a semi-formal day/night transitional wear. It came about during the inter-war years when it was common to meet in the evening for a quick drink before dressing (black tie) for dinner. Men can generally get away with a dark, but not black, dress suit, white shirt and coloured tie. Modern\u2026\nI spent a good proportion of July 2018 business planning and reviewing, and I feel like it\u2019s almost Christmas because my head is so far in the future. Mind you, right now the future looks bright, so that\u2019s a good thing. Virtue Jun Jul Notes Wisdom I learn and grow every day. \ud83d\ude10 \ud83d\ude42 Partly because of the business work,\u2026\nThere\u2019s been another round of dud apologies, and I just don\u2019t get why some people find it so hard to apologise. Perhaps they too have a mother who spent years demanding that they apologise like they mean it. And when (if) they do, it\u2019s often too late \u2013 the horse has bolted \u2013 the damage is done and repairing the\u2026\n7th August 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock Leave a Comment\nIt\u2019s tax time here in Australia, and when people see their numbers in black and white on their returns, many start wondering about going into business for themselves. That makes it a good time for a Start a New Business Holistic Spending Plan. The most important part of starting a new business is knowing why. Usually, it comes about as\u2026\n3rd August 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock Leave a Comment\nLove is forever. At least that\u2019s what traditional marriage vows say: to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part. And oddly enough, it really is. Whether you stay together, or part and go your own ways, you are irrevocably changed by\u2026\n30th July 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock Leave a Comment\nWhile a Stress Free Dinner Party when you\u2019re not hungry seems like a contradiction, it does sometimes happen that for one reason or another you lose your appetite. I find that when I\u2019m not hungry, small snacks are easier to face than big meals, so for that reason, we\u2019re going to use the principles of Nouvelle Cuisine. Nouvelle Cuisine was popular\u2026\nRecently I\u2019ve been pondering the culture of selfishness we live in. The one where people pull out in front of you rather than waiting a few seconds for you to drive past. Or tap their feet impatiently while you count out your cash payment. Or cut in line to order their coffee. I\u2019ve been wondering how we got here. And\u2026\n22nd July 2018 By Alexandria Blaelock Leave a Comment\nThey say there\u2019s a novel in all of us, but it seems to me that the stories you tell yourself on an average day could write a novel a day for the rest of your life. And still not make a dent in your story. For example, there\u2019s the story about: The woman on the train who appears to be judging\u2026\nNow and again there are times you need to be in public as yourself, only better. When you\u2019re being a public figure, you need a public appearance outfit that makes it clear you\u2019re \u201csomeone\u201d. If you\u2019re meeting a public figure, these tips may also bolster your confidence at being in the same actual place as them. Or if you\u2019re making a\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 8513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.allischalmers.com/employees/edit.asp?id=4657", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:32Z", "digest": "sha1:PKXPK6IBPLNDXEOKN66JFIWDPDNZ2UC7", "length": 588, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.allischalmers.com", "title": "Allis Employee Registry", "raw_content": "My grandmother said her family moved from Joliet, IL to Milwaukee sometime after 1920 so her father Ernie Kohn could go to work for Allis-Chalmers. She remembers her father getting injured on the job when she was about 10 years old (around 1928.) He got blood poisoning in his hand and spent time in the hospital in Milwaukee. His hand was permanently crippled and he received a settlement from Allis-Chalmers which he used to buy a farm in Westboro, Wisconsin. I would very much like to hear from anyone who might have known my great grandfather or have records regarding his employment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 152.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alternateending.com/2012/05/bond-for-glory.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:27Z", "digest": "sha1:67XLJZEBHJN7YJBTBPMZ67M5ZAL5OLK2", "length": 18706, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.alternateending.com", "title": "Dr. No - Alternate Ending : Alternate Ending", "raw_content": "Cast : Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman\tScreenplay : Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather\tRelease : October 4, 1962\tDirector : Terence Young\tGenre : Adventure, Action, Thriller\tStream Now\nBond for Glory\nWritten by Richard Maibaum & Johanna Harwood & Berkely Mather\nPremiered 5 October, 1962\nNA - the only Eon Productions Bond film without a pre-title sequence.\nThis being the first-ever James Bond film and all, some of the kinks were still to be worked out, and one of those is the title sequence: instead of a pop song using the title as an inexplicable lyric (which I imagine would have included the refrain \"Dr. No! Dr. No! Dr. No! Dr... Yesssss!\", Dr. No makes do with one of the most insanely iconic pieces of film scoring in history: the James Bond Theme, composed by Monty Norman and arranged and performed by John Barry. You know it: \"DUH-duh duhduh DUH-duh duhduh DUH-duh-DUH-duhduh.\" And so forth. Not hardly a better way to introduce world cinema to one of its most enduring heroes than to launch into his ecstatically '60s leitmotif, incorporating a sort of brassy jazzy sound with surf rock guitars.\nThe only problem, though, and it's a biggie: there comes a point where it sort of drifts away to be replaced by a bright but largely anonymous bit of calypso, that then shades into another calypso song, a cover of \"Three Blind Mice\", unimaginatively setting up the three blind assassins who start the plot off. None of it sounds wrong, as such, but it doesn't flow worth a damn.\nRating: 4 Shirley Basseys\nThe first of Maurice Binder's many wonderful title sequences is largely centered around circles and lines - beginning, of course, with that instantly-recongnisable line of white dots sliding across the screen before transforming into a gun barrel, through which we watch stuntman Bob Simmons shoot us dead as our blood trickles down the screen.\nFrom then it's on to a cavalcade of primary-colored shapes, an marvelous abstract Pop-influenced animation that suggests in a vague way computers, or a sound mixing board, or God knows what - but my word, is it ever the early 1960s. Then, as the James Bond Theme disappears, we get the series' very first dancing girl silhouettes! And even these are primary-colored and Poppy, and all in all it is just about as terrifically sleek in its graphic cleanness as you could conceivably want. It's not the best of the title sequences, but it's one of the most distinctive, and it set the tone not just for the series, but for dozens of other credit sequences in films for years and years to come.\nRating: 5 Silhouetted Women\nAdapted from Ian Fleming's 1958 novel - his sixth James Bond adventure - Dr. No strikes a good balance as an adaptation, leaving most of the book intact (far more than the bulk of its sequels, anyway) without strangling itself with fidelity. Herein, Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Jamaica to investigate the death of another MI6 agent; as he pokes around, Bond quickly discovers that the agent was investigating the peculiarities surrounding Crab Key, a private island some miles away. Recreating the information that his predecessor was killed over, Bond eventually arrives on the island to find that it is the centerpiece of a plan perpetrated by SPECTRE - the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, an international crime organisation - to knock American manned space flights out of the sky and thus rule the world. The details are a bit foggy, as is pretty much the entirety of the finale, at least to me: other than \"it is evil and must be stopped before they destroy the Mercury Program\", I've never quite followed what's happening in the evil control room or how, exactly, SPECTRE intends to rule the world by dicking around with NASA. And, while the low-key mystery plot and the resolutely human-sized drama of it all makes this one of the sanest of all Bond pictures and thus guarantees it a fair number of partisans, I invariably find myself wishing for a few more crazy flights of fancy whenever I watch it.\nRating: 3 Stolen Nukes\nDr. No is meant to be a half-Chinese, half-German engineering of an icily precise demeanor and impeccable taste, and Joseph Wiseman manages half of this balance flawlessly; but he looks about as half-Chinese as Scott Baio. This is not necessarily a slam against the villain or the performer, but against the low-boiling racism present throughout the movie; Fleming's novels were all rather, as it were, colorful in their dismissal of people who skin color came in any other hue than pasty English pink, and Dr. No is one of the two films produced by Eon Productions where this unsavory element of the source material was carried over the most.\nThat being said, Dr. No still isn't very much of a bad guy. This does have something to do with our ability to read forward to the excessive cartoon villainy that will start showing up in the very next picture - as a genre film villain, Dr. No doesn't have much besides his mysterious black-gloved hands to distinguish himself - but there's more to it than that. From the title of the film itself on down to the many conversations where his name is spoken in a sort of half-hush, Dr. No is set up throughout the movie as a kind of menacing puppetmaster, and the payoff for that needed to be superb - Harry Lime in The Third Man superb, I mean. And he's just not. I do not blame Wiseman for this, who did what he could, and was certainly terrific at the refined, strangling sense of intellectual superiority that the bad doctor displays during his only major scene. But there simply wasn't much to work with: a tacky, trite back story and a crazy expensive aquarium and a pleasant, very nice dinner simply cannot impart the menace the character is stated to have elsewhere in the film.\nRating: 2.5 Evil Cats\nNot even James Bond himself got such an iconic introduction as Honey Ryder, portrayed by Swiss sexpot Ursual Andress and the distinctly non-Swiss voice of Nikki Van der Zyl: Andress, sauntering out of the Caribbean in a white bikini is such a famous moment that it hasn't just been parodied God knows how many times, it was even re-done twice in future Bond movies (once with a future Bond Girl, and then with Bond himself). You can't argue with that kind of legendary status, except, well: Andress isn't that great an actress.\nWhich, obviously. The reason we call them \"Bond Girls\" and not \"Bond's Sophisticated, Sexually Independent Women\" is because they represent the series' male fantasy element at its most unadorned and anachronistic. They are objects to be seduced, protected, and fucked, though the order changes from film to film. And in that regard, at least, Andress is a perfect fit: it wouldn't take much to make the argument that she's the single most physically attractive woman of the Connery pictures, and one of the top 3 or 4 overall.\nBut then, even within the straitjacket of the franchise's reflexive sexism, there are many actresses who were both ridiculously attractive and able to to meet Bond on his own terms, at least briefly: ones with spice and personality and wit all their own. Andress's Honey Ryder - one of the less beat-you-on-the-head sexual puns that these characters will be saddled with - is just one vacant stare after another: I don't doubt the language barrier was a problem, but there's still a profound deer-in-the-headlights quality to most of her time onscreen that makes the objectification of her undeniably fine figure all the more queasy-making in its borderline misogyny. Still, since I am trying to meet the Bond tropes on their own ground, I have to give her some bonus points for being that immensely hot.\nRating: 2.5 White Bikinis\nOne could argue that there isn't one; Bond goes a-detectiving and survives a few attempts on his life, but there's not that one thug he keeps crossing paths with over and over again. There are, however, two \"featured\" minor bad guys, at least one of whom gets more screentime than Dr. No himself: and that would be Professor Dent (Anthony Dawson), the craven geologist who was part of the conspiracy to kill the last agent and is tasked with killing Bond (he fails). There's also the first of the Bond femmes fatales in the form of Miss Taro (Zena Marshall), who allows Bond to have sex with her even though she already knows that he's outwitted her plot to kill him. They're both fairly thin characters whose narrative function is almost solely to be bad at their jobs, and that is just not the stuff of great thriller-making.\nRating: 1 set of Metal-Plated Teeth\nWe meet Bond at a fancy casino playing some obscure card game - it's not called baccarat, but it sure looks like it, not that I'm a baccarat expert - against the beautiful Sylvia Trench (Eunice Gayson), whom he invites to his room in the most presumptuous way possible. Fulfilling her narrative duty to be not absolutely hot, Sylvia has weirdly-shaped eyebrows; and she serves literally no purpose other than to demonstrate that James Bond is such a rugged slice of condensed testosterone that he can have any woman with absolutely no effort. She doesn't even get killed by the bad guys, hoping to get to Bond himself - she's not around that long. And yet, in the casually sexy moment where she's chilling Bond's hotel room by herself, hitting golf balls across the floor, she manages to have so much more autonomy and charisma that Andress manages, oddly. So there's that.\nThe Bond movies very quickly stopped being anything resembling spy stories; the novels didn't until they started to be influenced by the movies. But at the time of Dr. No, the emphasis was still much heavier on intelligence gathering than on adventuresome exploits, and there is, I do not doubt, less action by volume in this film than in any other. And of that, only the film-ending explosion of Dr. No's lab really works on any particularly exciting level. Other than that, it's a few curt, efficient fistfights, and one dodgily-executed car chase. Oh, and a scene - it's not \"action\", but close enough - where Bond is menaced by a tarantula, and it is the absolute worst scene in any Connery film: it could not possibly be any more obvious that a glass pane separates him from the spider, and the cutting to the stuntman who has the tarantula on his shoulder does not match the geometry of the shots of Connery at all.\nVery much a product of the later, more absurd films, the closest we come here is when Major Boothroyd (Peter Burton) of what is not yet called Q Division, informs Bond that all agents are to start carrying the Walther PPK 7.65mm handgun. And since that gun is as much Bond as vodka martinis, it is a good choice; but not really what this Bond trope really means. Rating not appropriate.\nThis film and its immediate successor are, to put it bluntly, the \"cheap\" Bond films: since they had not yet come out and changed the entire world market for action cinema, it wasn't clear yet that they were going to make enough money to justify spending a lot. This means that Ken Adam, who would later create some of the most ridiculous sets in all the movies, couldn't play around as much as he would later; and thus I am compelled to grade on a curve. But even so, Dr. No's island lair is a fascinating place: all imposing concrete walls and support pillars with inexplicable touches like a bookshelf carved right into the cement, or halfhearted attempts to give the monstrous place a homey feel with delicate Asian touches. And Dr. No's office/dining room, while cramped, is a really clever way to get the most mileage from a small number of elements; sleek and futurist while also being grim and industrial. It's a dry run for what is to come later, but it still works damn well: too bad about the chintzy control room with its glowing nuclear pool and spinning wheels of High Tech Doom everywhere.\nRating: 3 Volcano Fortresses\nFleming's books presented a Bond who liked the good things but was also a bit of a rough animal plucked up from the working class because of his usefulness as a \"blunt instrument\"; but Terence Young, the director of three of the first four movies, didn't just like the good things, but viewed them as the very reason life existed, and he made sure to emphasise that element of the movie. Not for nothing are we introduced to Bond being glamorous in eveningwear at a classy casino; and there are moments that creep in through the cracks all throughout Dr. No that make it clear that while he might be a spy, and a good one, he enjoys things like food and drink more: the quintessential moment for Connery's version of the character in any of his films is, to me, when he has been stopped from clubbing one of Dr. No's henchmen with a bottle of wine. The doctor informs him it was a '55 Dom Perignon, at which Bond pauses, gently and very deliberately slides it back into the ice bucket, and idly comments that he prefers the '53 - not to bait Dr. No, nor to prove his superiority, but with the airy smugness of a connoisseur who suddenly realises that he has met a kindred soul. There would unquestionably be Bond films with more elegance than this one, but arguably, none where it was so surprising or pervasive.\nWhat we know: MI6 needs to send \"James Bond\" to Jamaica to deal with this situation. Cut to a casino, where we deliberately are not allowed to see the face of a man dealing some sophisticated and dull game. His opponent continues playing in defiance of the pile of money she's losing, and he compliments her courage in a thick Scottish burr. She gives her name - Sylvia Trench - and compliments \"your luck, Mr...?\" The camera jumps straight to Connery's face, blandly lighting a cigarette and clearly aware that he is the most impressive man in the room. \"Bond. James Bond\" he responds, hardly looking at her.\nForced or Badass? It can hardly be anything but badass, this being the first movie and all, but as a character-defining moment - this man is ice-cold, suave, and does not have a shred of genuine empathy for other humans - it is so flawless that it would be, regardless.\nThough the film has a certain cool humor to it, Bond isn't the jokester he'd become yet. So even though this is kind of weak sauce, it will have to do:\nMONEYPENNY: \"You've never taken me to dinner.\"\nBOND: \"I would, you know. Only M would have me court-martialed for illegal use of government property.\"\nDr. No is a first movie, and you can feel that over the whole thing: the obvious cheapness of the whole affair, with its small number of ambitious sets, minimal action setpieces, and single location - in fact, it was because the novel would suit itself to a relatively small-scale production that Eon Productions head and series mastermind Albert R. \"Cubby\" Broccoli selected it for the first Bond movie.\n50 years on, it's awfully damn hard to judge the film on its own merits: there are both big things and small that are just far enough from what they'd become to be distracting. For example, Bernard Lee's M and Lois Maxwell's Moneypenny aren't the fleshed-out people they'd become: M is just Bond's crisp boss, and Moneypenny is just the boss's flirtatious secretary. And Connery, though I am certain this is reading things in that were not there yet, simply isn't as comfortable as he'd be later on: I can't quite bring myself to call it his worst performance in the role, but the insouciance that, for me anyway, makes Bond Bond hasn't completely gelled, though in certain scenes - the casino, his banter with Moneypenny, his interrogation of a fake driver and would-be assassin - it's so close as to not matter.\nMostly, though, Dr. No is primarily notable for how shockingly low-key it is; and this was very much not how it was received in 1962, which is what I mean about it being hard to judge it on the merits. \"Low-key\" is not bad, and \"more of a real spy movie than an action thriller\" is not bad - the very next movie in the series, From Russia with Love, is more of the same, and it's my favorite entry of them all. But it's not tentative in the way that Dr. No sometimes can be.And there are the other things keeping it from really rising above itself: the slightly horrifying way that non-white characters are depicted, the general incoherence of the third act, the lack of any characters besides Bond we can hang onto until well past the halfway point.\nThat said, there's still a whole lot to enjoy about the film, much of it because even more than the rest of the Connery films, it's a real time capsule - were I less of a fan, I'd say that it's the most dated of the '60s Bond movies. And, of course, there's the simple fact of Connery himself, who is not the best all-around actor to play James Bond - I can't imagine anybody denying that honor to Daniel Craig - and is not the closest to to the James Bond that Ian Fleming wrote - I remain somewhat uncertain where I'd land on that question, and it will come up again before this retrospective is over - nor the most glamorous, smartest, breeziest, or whatever - though he is probably the best of them all at action, in later films than this one.\nWhat Connery did that separates him from the rest of the Bonds, and makes him, unquestionably in my estimation, the best of them, is that he's the only one ever make James Bond a movie star turn: not only because it is literally the film that made the minor actor a movie star, but because of how he inhabits the iconic side of the character; we might say that he asserts Bond rather than performs him. The later Bonds were all obliged, owing to Connery's ownership of the role, to play variations of Bond, self-conscious attempts to highlight this or that element of the character; Connery isn't playing anything, just inhabiting the character and erasing the distinction between Bond's presence in the film's world, and his own presence on the movie screen. Even in this not-quite-there version of the character, Connery is wholly magnetic, and it's this X factor of watching a new star who feels completely formed already, and not the undernourished plot or the thin ensemble or the lax action, that lends Dr. No its unmistakable but undefinable potency. Even after generations of Connery being Connery, there's something that feels raw and new about his work here, and as many of the individual elements of the film feel limp and flat, the whole thing is anything but.\n28/50 [eq. 33.6/60]\nI should hasten to point out that this is artificially low: that score is relative only to how I would judge it as it fits the Bond formula, and that formula not yet existing, Dr. No can hardly be expected to exemplify it.\nCategories: british cinema, james bond, mysteries, spy films, thrillers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 25593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.alternativedrmcare.com/natural-kidney-stone-treatment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:09Z", "digest": "sha1:PU4QZXU2HBFIDTNOGYEVRWJUL7PKOEI4", "length": 2640, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.alternativedrmcare.com", "title": "Natural Kidney Stone Treatment | Alternative DrMCare", "raw_content": "Natural Kidney Stone Treatment\nMost humans have two bean-shaped kidneys that are found just below the rib cage. Their main role is to filter the blood, in addition to controlling blood pressure. Typically, the kidneys will filter about 180 liters of blood every day! We need to filter our blood because our body takes all the good stuff like nutrients from the food we eat, but much of the waste hangs around in our blood. The kidneys constantly filter the blood to eliminate waste by-products from our body. As the kidneys filter the blood, they produce urine which we excrete.\nKidney stones form as a result of concentrated, excess amounts of substances (like calcium and uric acid) in the urine. Physically, they are hard and can be painful to pass. If they become stuck in the urinary tract, they can present complications like infection. It is estimated that one in every ten people will develop kidney stones during their lifetime. Conventional medicine can treat kidney stones using shock wave lithotripsy, cystoscopy or ureteroscopy. However, these can be invasive procedures that require time off work and possibly recovery time. Therefore, it seems logical to turn to natural remedies to treat kidney stones. The following is a list of just some of the natural kidney stone treatments available:\nWater is a great natural kidney stone treatment. Kidney stones can form because of substances being concentrated in the urine. Drinking more water is a good way to dilute the fluid.\nApple cider vinegar has a multitude of natural benefits, one of them is helping to alkalize the blood and urine which could help prevent the generation of new kidney stones. When mixed with water and ingested, it could help dissolve kidney stones.\nAmmi Visnaga is a plant that has roots in the treatment of kidney stones. Its proposed mechanism of action is as a calcium channel blocker. After administration, it has been shown to result in recovery of kidney stones.\nBasil is a plant commonly used in cooking. It contains acetic acid which aids in dissolving kidney stones and lowering uric acid levels.\nImportantly, these natural kidney stone treatments are examples of how to treat them in a cost-effective, non-invasive manner. These ingredients offer a natural, alternative way to treat kidney stones.\nWhen carefully and accurately prescribed by a well-trained, homeopathic doctor, homeopathic remedies can provide significant relief for kidney stones.\nPlease become an emissary of true health and well-being by sharing today the Alternative DrMCare Natural Medical Self-Care Protocols with your loved ones, family or anyone you feel will benefit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 529, "original_length": 24660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/news/2012/01/25/10881/immigrants-and-the-child-tax-credit-by-the-numbers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:50Z", "digest": "sha1:I32YVAICCYCWX5PIKXF6LM2KPVCYFS73", "length": 4921, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.americanprogress.org", "title": "Immigrants and the Child Tax Credit by the Numbers - Center for American Progress", "raw_content": "Immigrants and the Child Tax Credit by the Numbers\nDenying the Credit to Some American Children Doesn\u2019t Make Sense\nBy Marshall Fitz and Sarah Jane Glynn Posted on January 25, 2012, 9:00 am\nAs the February deadline for Congress to extend the payroll tax holiday through 2012 approaches, members of Congress continue to come up with inhumane and counterproductive ways to offset the loss of tax revenue. Rather than look to the wealthiest citizens who can afford to pay more (and in many cases are already paying a lower tax rate than those of us with significantly less income), some members are arguing that low-income American children of immigrant parents should be the ones to foot the bill.\nThe \u201cRefundable Child Tax Credit Eligibility Verification Reform Act\u201d would require taxpayers to provide their Social Security numbers in order to claim the refundable portion of the child tax credit. This means that parents filing their federal taxes using an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, or ITIN, which enables immigrants who are not eligible for Social Security numbers to file and pay federal taxes, would no longer be eligible for the credit.\nExtending the payroll tax cuts is vitally important as our economy continues to recover from the recession. But as the following numbers show, if our end goal is a stronger economy, offsetting the payroll tax holiday by denying the child tax credit to immigrant parents of American children would be both cruel and ineffective.\nImportance of extending the payroll tax cut\n122 million: The number of American households that will continue to see more take-home pay if the payroll tax holiday is extended.\n$1,426: The average amount of money that will be put in the pockets of U.S. households annually if Congress extends the payroll tax holiday.\nMore than 1 million: The number of new jobs that will be created through the payroll tax cut extension. Nearly three-quarters of this job growth will be due to increased spending by workers who will see a bump in their take-home pay.\n1.3 percent: The decline in economic growth our nation will face if the payroll tax holiday is not extended.\nThe benefits of the child tax credit\n2.3 million: The number of people, including 1.3 million children, who were kept out of poverty by the child tax credit in 2009.\n$1,800: The average amount claimed in child tax credits by ITIN filers in 2010.\n3: The number of months for which a family of four with two children could put food on the table using the average child tax credit refund under the Department of Agriculture\u2019s \u201cThrifty Food Plan.\u201d\n$1.38: The amount of economic growth that results from every $1 spent on child tax credits. Not all tax cuts are created equal, though. The payroll tax holiday results in $1.25 of economic growth for every $1 spent, while making the Bush tax cuts permanent would result in $0.35 per dollar.\nLunacy of funding the payroll tax cut through denying the child tax credit to immigrant parents of American children\n4 million: The number of U.S.-born children whose families would be affected by the proposed offset.\n20 percent: The amount of the payroll tax holiday extension that would be offset by raising taxes on lower-income immigrant parents of American children. The payroll tax holiday extension is worth $120 billion. The proposed legislation to offset the tax cut, however, will, by conservatives\u2019 own calculations, save a total of only $24 billion over 10 years.\nAbout $100 billion: The amount of payroll taxes that will be contributed by ITIN filers over the next 10 years. These taxes contribute to the trust funds for Medicare and Social Security\u2014programs from which immigrants will never recoup benefits because of their status.\n$21,240: The average household income for ITIN filers claiming additional child tax credit refunds in 2010. This is less than half of the 2010 median household income in the United States of $49,445, and would mean that a family of four with two children was living below the poverty line. Latino children are more likely to be living in poverty than any other racial or ethnic group in the United States.\nAlternative offsets\n$155 billion: The amount of money that would be gained by implementing Senate Democrats\u2019 1.9 percent surtax on income of more than $1 million.\n0.2 percent: The amount of surtax on millionaires that would result in the same savings as denying the child tax credit to lower-income immigrant families.\n$20 billion: The additional tax revenue over 10 years if the \u201ccarried interest\u201d loophole is closed so that financial managers\u2014among the highest-paid workers in the nation\u2014are required to pay the same tax rates on their wages as other Americans in their tax bracket.\n$321.3 billion: The amount that would be saved over 10 years if itemized deductions that disproportionately benefit the wealthy are limited.\nTalk About Class Warfare! by Marshall Fitz and Sarah Jane Glynn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 6914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.amnesty.org/fr/documents/ASA17/028/1995/fr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:36Z", "digest": "sha1:RH4VTNWPZCVVZUFW5U52I4YTVM24G4Z6", "length": 880, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.amnesty.org", "title": "China: Six years after Tiananmen: increased political repression and human rights violations | Amnesty International", "raw_content": "China: Six years after Tiananmen: increased political repression and human rights violations\nThis document decribes AI's concerns about major human rights violations six years after the supression of the 1989 pro-democracy protests. It reports increased political repression and the adoption of new repressive legislation in the past year. Hundreds of arbitrary arrest have been carried out and administrative detention was used increasingly against dissidents. Unfair trials continued to be the norm. Torture and ill-treatment of political prisoners was widely reported and the death penalty continued to be used extensively. Repression of religious groups was reported and repression of dissent in the Tibet Autonomous Region increased. The appendix consists of a translation of the verdict passed in the case of Hu Shigen and 14 other defendants on 16 December 1994 in Beijing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/07/htc-desire-530-coming-us-verizon-t-mobile.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IERG5J7RJZHU77H7GOADPGUDIFCC5YF4", "length": 2224, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.androidheadlines.com", "title": "HTC Desire 530 Coming to the US on Verizon & T-Mobile | Android Headlines", "raw_content": "HTC Desire 530 Coming to the US on Verizon & T-Mobile\nWireless carriers are always looking for devices of all shapes and sizes and price points. Seeing as not every customer that walks in the door of their stores are looking to drop north of $500 for a brand new smartphone. That's where smartphones like the HTC Desire 530 come in handy. The HTC Desire 530 was actually announced at Mobile World Congress back in February, alongside the Desire 630 and Desire 825. However, HTC is finally bringing the Desire 530 over to the US. Both T-Mobile and Verizon in the US will be offering the device in both prepaid and postpaid flavors. T-Mobile has already announced that they will be first to offer the device, and will offer it in the \"Sprinkle White\" color. It'll be available next week, July 13th for $160 outright, or $6.67/month with $0 down. Verizon hasn't announced availability, but it will cost $179 outright.\nWhen it comes to the specs here, the HTC Desire 530 sports a 5-inch 720p display and is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 which is paired with 1.5GB of RAM. It also sports a 8-megapixel camera around back with a 5-megapixel front-facing camera. Additionally, it features HTC's BoomSound audio and is powered by Android 6.0 with the latest version of Sense. The HTC Desire 530 is available in Sparkle White, Blue Lagoon and Stratus White. As mentioned, T-Mobile will offer the Sparkle White color first, which means it should be available at Verizon a bit later on.\nNow the HTC Desire 530 isn't the most spectacular smartphone out there, but for under $200 outright, it's not a bad smartphone at all. It's likely the cheapest smartphone available at both T-Mobile and Verizon, which is pretty impressive in itself. The HTC Desire 530 is going to be a great smartphone for those that aren't heavy users (like teenagers and your parents), as they don't need the latest and greatest specs in their smartphone. Especially if they are only checking email and such. T-Mobile has already posted up their unboxing of the HTC Desire 530, which you can check out below, and see exactly what you'll be getting with the HTC Desire 530 when it launches next Wednesday on the Magenta carrier.\nSource: HTC Via: Pocketnow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 8837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anera.org/stories/breast-cancer-awareness-in-palestinian-refugee-camps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:59Z", "digest": "sha1:J4MLHQLPBWHBKK2KJM4QJ3T6SBYV4XZM", "length": 2947, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.anera.org", "title": "Breast Cancer Awareness in Palestinian Refugee Camps - Anera", "raw_content": "Breast Cancer Awareness in Palestinian Refugee Camps\nBreast cancer is the most common cancer in Jordan and the most common of all diseases affecting women.\nIn order to raise awareness of the disease and to encourage early detection, Anera has partnered with the Jordan Breast Cancer Program (JBCP) to establish a system of home visits reaching out to thousands of women, aged 40-65, who live in the Wehdat Refugee Camp. The program\u2019s objectives are to break down barriers, spread comprehensive knowledge and save lives.\n\u201cThis health program is the first in Wehdat and, with its sustainable approach, we\u2019re cooperating with women\u2019s centers from the camp to conduct lectures, training and other activities to raise public awareness,\u201d says JBCP Acting Senior Health Communication Officer Nisreen Qatamesh.\nIn the underprivileged Wehdat Refugee Camp, there are an estimated 88,000 women over 20 years of age and the majority are either uninformed or reluctant to seek a diagnosis or help for breast cancer. One major problem is the lack of available resources pertaining to breast cancer and early detection. Another problem is the surrounding society\u2019s attitude towards cancer in general.\n\u201cThe societal factors that prevent women from seeking help are ignorance and faulty convictions, fear of their husbands or potentially having their breasts removed, or fear of ostracism or ending up unmarried or divorced, if they were ever diagnosed with breast cancer,\u201d explains Qatamesh.\nTo make matters worse, the camp\u2019s one health center \u2013 which serves 300,000 \u2013 does not provide mammography services. And, because of the poverty affecting the community, women often cannot afford to leave the camp to visit a health center that provides the services they need.\nThrough raising awareness, tackling stigma, reinforcing implementation, and providing advice, Anera and JBCP are encouraging women in Wehdat to conduct self-breast exams and arrange professional exams.\nIn addition to developing toolkits and other materials, Anera and JBCP are arranging for 25 community workers from community-based organizations to undergo a three-day training on communication skills, planning home visits and other important issues they must know before conducting home visits. Based on the training results and trainees\u2019 performance, five women will be selected as program outreach workers. There will also be training of 30 care providers, and four mammogram and radiologists.\nApproximately 2,400 home visits will be conducted with 500 women referred to free-of-charge mammography screening at Al-Hilal Hospital in Eastern Amman, which offers a comfortable atmosphere and experienced and well-trained staff.\nWith its sustainable approach, the Breast Cancer Home Visit Outreach program has the great potential of serving as a model for replication in other refugee camps in Jordan, thus helping save the lives of thousands of impoverished women from this widespread disease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anera.org/stories/womens-day-2014/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ISRSAXSSTLN3MUCYXB5RESWWR6O2C7OK", "length": 441, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.anera.org", "title": "Women's Day 2014 | Anera", "raw_content": "The women featured below are helping others and improving their lives despite overwhelming poverty and the broken social and physical infrastructure that are their everyday reality.\nAnera celebrates the women of the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Anera is proud to support services like vocational training, community centers and sports activities that have helped these women to make a better life for themselves and their community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 2416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 197.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.annemadecards.com/product258.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MNWHY6VZTCKNKHJ3XBFMUXN6SZ67XND7", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.annemadecards.com", "title": "The German King | Animal Art Cards for Pet Lovers", "raw_content": "You are a most striking individual.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anthonychapels.com/obituaries/Jessie-Woodward/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:GOYUTZMQV3W5ARLVYSVQGTDYQI5TUYWQ", "length": 517, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.anthonychapels.com", "title": "Jessie Powel Woodward Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Jessie Powel Woodward\nRochester: Jessie P. Woodward died on April 3, 2011 at St. John\u2019s Home after a long series of illnesses. She is survived by her sisters, Lillian Cotter and Ann Powel; her brother, Samuel Powel III; her four children; Steven, Allison, Leslie... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Jessie Powel Woodward created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nRochester: Jessie P. Woodward died on April 3, 2011 at St. John\u2019s...\nSend flowers to the Woodward's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anywhere.com/ecuador/destinations/santa-cruz/hotels/royal-palm-resort-hotel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DVJVPNTYJ3YEAYU5JUILB62RVHOWZK7G", "length": 3728, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.anywhere.com", "title": "Royal Palm Hotel - Santa Cruz, Ecuador", "raw_content": "Set on 370 acres (150 ha) in the middle of Santa Cruz\u2019s highlands, Royal Palm Hotel offers guests ample opportunity to experience the stunning biodiversity of the Gal\u00e1pagos. The grounds of the hotels are landscaped to show off the area\u2019s native beauty.\nFrom the hotel, you can drive 20 minutes south to the Puerto Ayora downtown. This is the most active part of the island, and a popular destination for dining out and shopping. You should also make time to drive north to Las Bachas beach. Sea turtles use this beach as a nesting location. You\u2019ll also find some interesting lagoons near the beach, a good place to check out the local flamingo population. Travelers come to the Santa Cruz highlands mostly to see the lava tunnels, formed by past volcanic activity. Hardened lava has formed smooth, high-ceilinged passageways underground. Royal Palm Hotel has its own lava tunnel on the property. Make sure to borrow one of the hotel\u2019s mountain bikes to explore the trails near the hotel.\nEven though it is a short distance from the coast, the highlands experience much different (and often foggier) weather conditions than the coast. But weather conditions change very quickly, and you can expect to take frequent advantage of the many active pursuits available to guests. Visit the hotel tennis courts, surrounded by dense foliage, or take a walk through the hotel gardens. There\u2019s also a sunlight-filled fitness center if you want a traditional workout. If you work up a thirst, don\u2019t worry about bottled water \u2013 the hotel provides guests with purified water.\nVisit the spa for some personal attention, or take a dip in one of the Jacuzzis dotted throughout the hotel property. Next to the bar and outdoor patio, you can take a dip in the pool. It is nearly the same shade of blue as the ocean it overlooks. This is the ideal location for a happy hour at sunset.\nIf you have any business to take care of, visit the hotel\u2019s meeting room. You\u2019ll find pencils, paper, and a photocopier. There\u2019s also air conditioning and meeting table, creating a comfortable space for conducting business.\nIn the dining room, you\u2019ll find simple decorations, with wood floors and white walls. Your attention is drawn to the large windows that let in the bright Gal\u00e1pagos sunlight, looking out over the sea and the gardens. The hotel's Three Finches Restaurant serves upscale Ecuadorian cuisine, much of which is sourced from the nearby fishermen or the hotel gardens. Guests can have a drink at the piano bar, and wind down with live music.\nYou have the choice of a villa, or a room in one of the casitas. The villas each have their own piece of the Royal Palm Estate, while the casitas are situated closer together, on the estate\u2019s main development. Both habitations come with their own dining areas. Rooms in any of the buildings offer clean, spacious accommodation. They have the same simple aesthetic as the rest of the estate, with custom wood furniture and simple decorations.\nIn a villa, your guesthouse will come with its own private Jacuzzi. All of the rooms offer private bathrooms and hair dryers. You\u2019ll also find coffee and tea stations, minibars, and air conditioning. Turn on the LCD flat screen TV and flick through the 15 satellite channels, or access the hotel\u2019s free Wi-Fi. Use the iron and ironing board to keep your dining-out attire looking neat. 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Published weekly, SAT is maintained as a community networking tool for professional and avocational archaeologists in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Review our submission guidelines here.\nIf you have news, announcements, or events, let us know.\nGot news? Contact Southwest Archaeology Today Editor\nsat-editor@archaeologysouthwest.org\nBLM Temporarily Defers Leases in Chaco Buffer Zone\nBLM Temporarily Defers Leases in Chaco Buffer Zone The U.S. Bureau of Land Management reversed course Friday, saying certain land near Chaco Culture National Historical Park would no longer be offered at an oil and gas lease sale in March. 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They managed this feat by collectively maintaining an ex...\nDo Better by Chaco\nCommentary: Do Better by Chaco However, outside the pueblos, little information is available about the Pueblos\u2019 ties to the Greater Chaco Region that would enable the BLM to meet its mandated duties. Pueblo ethnographic information is scarce or entirely absent from the archaeological and academic...\nUnprecedented Number of Comments Submitted on Behalf of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante Organizations in Utah announced Tuesday that Americans across the country submitted more than 500,000 comments on the future of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This outsized...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 6673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.archdaily.com/191477/educational-centre-of-the-medical-faculty-of-charles-university-domy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TOKHHCPZWUPFXHX62GSYXT6FBR4ZCLNB", "length": 5506, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.archdaily.com", "title": "Educational Centre of the Medical Faculty of Charles University / DOMY | ArchDaily", "raw_content": "Educational Centre of the Medical Faculty of Charles University / DOMY\nMichal Juha, Jan Topinka in co-operation with Roman Repa and Edita Mojzisova\nDanica Havlikova\nMedical Faculty in Hradec Kralove\nTotal useful area\nText description provided by the architects. Decorative furnishings hanging from roof of lobby and chairs were provided by Vitra. Atypical interior elements and tables were provided by KBV Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 Carpentry. The statue of the renowned pathologist and Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 native MUDr. Rokitansk\u00fd in the lobby is the work of sculptor Prof. Vladim\u00edr Precl\u00edk.\nArchitectural and urban solution:\nThe original idea to build a teaching centre came about as part of an architectural competition for construction of the pavilions of internal medicine of the Faculty Hospital. The winning proposal, by architects J. Topinka, J. L\u00edman, and M. Juha, placed the teaching centre in the middle of a new central area, in front of the new pavilion of internal medicine which faces northeast. The building was located directly on an existing transforming station which was subsequently covered by a new green covering hill. A glazed-in lecture hall was its dominant feature. Preparation of the building project was interrupted and not renewed until after completion of construction of the pavilion of internal medicine in 2003, when the university reconsidered how the building would be used. At that time, the number of seats in the seminar rooms and in the main lecture hall was increased. The computer lab was expanded, as was the library. This expansion, however, called for a change in concept of the whole building. The idea of building the new centre on top of the transforming station was abandoned.\nProject authors M. Juha and J. Topinka chose to construct the new teaching centre as the product of two sweeping curves, these curves being the building\u2019s main artistic motif, with an ellipse forming them. This ellipse rises in two different heights from the pavilion\u2019s interior, only to return to the ground upon culmination. These curves define the shape of the roof and demarcate the two main sections of the building. The larger and longer one, with a striking light glass fa\u00e7ade with the internal medicine pavilion marks the boundary of the entry area to both buildings and closes the south side of the central area in the hospital. It includes the seminar rooms, the library, a computer lab, and service rooms. The shorter and lower but wider object holds the lecture hall. The goal of this solution was to avoid competing with other pavilions and not to block the internal pavilion from sight, while at the same time creating a memorable building which could be distinguished from the other buildings on the hospital\u2019s grounds, emphasising its different function. The whole project is based on contrasts. The building\u2019s curves leading to the centre, are balanced by more moderate forms. The fair-face architectural concrete is in contrast to the perfectly processed metal and the elegance of the glass. The grey colour of the architectural concrete contrasts with the natural beauty of the wood, the closed spaces alternate with unexpected openings and the glass fa\u00e7ade.\nThe teaching centre is composed of two expansion sections, with one of these created by the building of the teaching centre itself and the other by a connecting hall to the pavilion\u2019s internal areas. The actual teaching centre has external measurements of 27.65 x 47.75 m, with a height of 11.85 m. The connecting hall measures 17.85 m x 2.95 m, with a height of 3.85 m.\nThe building itself has three aboveground floors, the connecting hall just one. The building does not contain any underground floors.\nIt is constructed as a combination of a reinforced concrete wall system and a girder frame. The roofing is partially reinforced concrete shell, partially reinforced concrete roof slabs. The building is constructed on a foundation resting on piles.\nConstruction technology used:\n- Fair-face concrete in the interior and exterior, external concrete walls as outer parts of sandwich construction are anchored to the main internal bearing walls.\n- The XYPEX system, based on chemical crystallisation in concrete constructions, was used for water-resistant insulation of the building. This system also provides joints and crawl spaces with the help of a combination of cement and sealing. Prevention of radon absorption in the building is provided by the hydroinsulation system WATERFIN which is applied to the concrete subfloor.\n- The roof is designed in the Kalzip system based on an unbroken aluminium strip fitted directly to the roof construction. The ceiling\u2019s curved roof plates are secured against weather by the hydroinsulation system WATERFIN and a protective finish, Betosil W, with a silicone-acrylate resin.\n- The wooden acoustic facing of the lecture hall was proposed by the architects with the help of acoustics specialists. It is composed of three surfaces \u2013 resonance panels, normal panels, and panels with a hard reverberant surface.\n- The teaching centre is equipped with the most modern audiovisual, communication, and instructional technology.\nProjects Built Projects Selected Projects Educational Architecture Higher Education University EducationalCzech Republic\nCite: \"Educational Centre of the Medical Faculty of Charles University / DOMY\" 15 Dec 2011. ArchDaily. Accessed . 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His experience also includes roles as a senior portfolio manager at Investors Mutual, credit research manager in Westpac\u2019s Institutional Banking Group and several years in chartered accounting.\nBrydie Lloyd-Roberts\nInvestment Analyst BComm\nBrydie Lloyd-Roberts joined Argo in 2004 as an Investment Analyst. Brydie has over 15 years\u2019 experience in equities research across the market for listed investment companies.\nPrior to this Brydie worked at investment bank UBS AG. She has a Commerce degree from the University of Sydney, an Advanced Certificate of Analysis from UTS and has completed level one of the CFA program.\nInvestment Analyst BA (Hons) Accounting and Finance, CFA\nColin Whitehead joined the company in 2012 as an Investment Analyst and has over 15 years of industry experience.\nBefore joining Argo, Colin was Head of Research at a leading Australian equities research house. His earlier experience includes analyst roles with State Street Bank and BNP Paribas in Sydney, prior to NatWest Investments and State Street Bank in London. Colin is a Chartered Financial Analyst with an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Finance.\nInvestment Analyst BComm, CFA\nAndrew Moller joined Argo in 2017 as an Investment Analyst and has over 10 years\u2019 experience analysing listed companies across multiple sectors and regions.\nBefore joining the Company, Andrew worked as an equity research analyst at Shaw and Partners. His experience also includes roles as a Director in the UBS equities research team, an analyst in Morgan Stanley\u2019s equity research team and various accounting roles. Andrew is a Chartered Financial Analyst and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 6678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asa.org/bio/aria-finger/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:41Z", "digest": "sha1:N4YR4T5R4E3QZ2K3LYH6NOBONWTLKTOX", "length": 525, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.asa.org", "title": "Aria Finger | ASA Leadership & Board", "raw_content": "Aria is CEO of DoSomething.org, the largest tech company exclusively for young people and social change, with 6 million members in 131 countries. In 2013, she founded TMI Strategy, a strategic consultancy that has brought in over $6 million for DoSomething to date.\nFinger graduated with an economics degree from Washington University in St. Louis, serves as an adjunct professor at NYU, and was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2016. She has a fabulous husband and two adorable sons named Luke and Sawyer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 72.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asa.org/bio/candice-perodeau/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:08Z", "digest": "sha1:XJLLDJZNA6WNKGI5EWM7A6B6X7WHSHT7", "length": 837, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.asa.org", "title": "Candice Perodeau | ASA Leadership & Board", "raw_content": "Candice Perodeau is the Director of Public Relations, responsible for strategic communications and engagement among key stakeholders in support of ASA\u2019s mission. Candice has built her career around helping organizations to communicate and connect effectively to achieve success.\nIn her role as the primary PR strategist, Candice manages ASA\u2019s external public relations and consults on internal communications. She is an accomplished professional with extensive experience leading PR programs for nonprofits, B2B tech companies and government officials/agencies. Highlights of her career include serving as the Press Secretary for U.S. Representative Deborah Pryce (OH-12), as well as the Director of Communications for the Massachusetts Department of Economic Development.\nCandice holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Providence College.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 150.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asahq.org/advocacy-and-asapac/fda-and-washington-alerts/washington-alerts/2010/02/update-scheduled-21-percent-medicare-physician-payment-cut-to-be-implemented", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:16Z", "digest": "sha1:KRJT3TCQZG3ZCMRUMPFNOOZ6FXFBIPF4", "length": 1704, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.asahq.org", "title": "Update: Scheduled 21 percent Medicare Physician Payment Cut to be Implemented | American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)", "raw_content": "update-scheduled-21-percent-medicare-physician-payment-cut-to-be-implemented\nUpdate: Scheduled 21 percent Medicare Physician Payment Cut to be Implemented\nAs a result of U.S. House and Senate negotiators failing to reach consensus, the pending 21 percent Medicare physician payment cut will be implemented on March 1st. The implementation is expected to be temporary.\nOver the last few days, Senate negotiators attempted to advance a 30-day \u201cpatch\u201d as part of legislation to extend a series of expiring tax provisions. This \u201cextenders\u201d package was blocked from consideration by Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY). Senator Bunning objected to the package for budgetary reasons.\nThe House of Representatives successfully passed a 30-day \u201cpatch\u201d as part of its \u201cextenders\u201d package, H.R. 4691, the Temporary Extension Act of 2010, the evening of February 25th.\nDiscussions regarding advancing legislation to avoid the 21 percent payment cut are expected to continue over the weekend and into early next week. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has crafted an \u201cextenders\u201d package that includes a 7-month physician payment \u201cpatch.\u201d It is expected he will attempt to advance the proposal Tuesday, March 2nd.\nThe American Medical Association has informed medical specialty organizations that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to notify their contractors to hold Medicare physician claims for 10 additional business days, effective Monday, March 1st.\nASA continues to push for a full repeal of the current SGR formula and the implementation of a new Medicare physician payment update mechanism that accurately reflects the increasing annual costs of providing services to Medicare beneficiaries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 5735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aseanbreakingnews.com/2018/11/germanys-economy-europes-powerhouse-contracts-for-first-time-in-years/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WWAFVMZQBHKILA43KCYWR72Z2RWL7QKS", "length": 3065, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.aseanbreakingnews.com", "title": "Germany\u2019s economy, Europe\u2019s powerhouse, contracts for first time in years \u2013 Asean Breaking News", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Economy / Germany\u2019s economy, Europe\u2019s powerhouse, contracts for first time in years\nGermany\u2019s economy, Europe\u2019s powerhouse, contracts for first time in years\nBy William Boston The Wall Street Journal Nina Adam Wed., Nov. 14, 2018 BERLIN\u2014Germany\u2019s economy shrank for the first time in 3\u00bd years, confirming that Europe\u2019s anchor economy is losing steam after years of solid growth, increasing risks for the continent. German gross domestic product declined 0.8% in annualized terms in the third quarter, the worst showing since early 2013 and in contrast to a U.S. economy that expanded at an annual rate of 3.5% in the third quarter. Economists and executives polled by The Wall Street Journal said Europe\u2019s largest economy was likely to bounce back in the coming months. But they warn the pace of growth will slow, and they point to a number of risks to that scenario. One is U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s confrontational trade policy, which is threatening to undermine Germany\u2019s export-oriented economy. Others range from a possible return of market jitters over the fate of Europe\u2019s single currency to slower growth in China, which has long been a key market for German goods. A draft deal reached this week to seal the U.K.\u2019s departure from the EU could ease some concerns, but there are still huge doubts the deal will be approved by Britain\u2019s parliament. 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The decline in the German economy dented growth in the\u2026 [Read full story]\nRumour: Tesla to Launch Longer-Range 'P100D' Model S, Model X\nThe \u2018conundrum\u2019 at the heart of the British economy is getting worse \u2014 and economists are baffled\nThe cofounder of a shaving company that\u2019s raised nearly half a billion dollars to take on Unilever and Procter & Gamble explains how he\u2019s building a brand to last 100 years\nIraqi police say man admits to murder of 14-year-old German girl\nAaron Rodgers\u2019 new contract extension could have huge ramifications for defensive stars that have been demanding quarterback money in recent negotiation\nBusiness optimism deepens as economy keeps marching\nPowerhouse China quiet on hoops front\nRacism holds back economy as society ages\nEconomy rsquo s meaning, U.S. Economy, u.s. economy 1960s, the U.S. economy, germany on map of europe, economy europe, s economy class lufthansa, s economy, u.s. economy collapse, russia s economy, Europe Germany, s.s.c boards time table, economy germany, economy of germany, economy in germany, germany economy, biggest economies in europe, s and s corporation, full time one year mba, mirena 7 years europe, germany 10 year bond yield, s & s appliance birmingham al, t.s.s worldwide money transfer, the o.s.s, 10 year s&p 500 chart, military 2 year contract, time 2006 person of the year, U.S.A., Foreign news, business, finance, Economy, Germany, Europe, Donald Trump, smg_economy, smg2_wsj", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 5019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.askmen.com/fashion/galleries/best-and-worst-dressed-2013-2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:45Z", "digest": "sha1:26KTN2K5H22HYH2ZG2HPWI6AOSS37G7Y", "length": 111, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.askmen.com", "title": "Best-Dressed: Will Arnett: Best- And Worst-Dressed: 2013 - AskMen", "raw_content": "A funny guy with great style? Dressed up or down, Will Arnett shows us that looking good is no laughing matter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aspenideas.org/session/human-health-and-planet?page=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:31Z", "digest": "sha1:RKKJLVWY4XYTXO74JOXBCMYSUTEXBFNZ", "length": 1385, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.aspenideas.org", "title": "Human Health and the Planet | Aspen Ideas Festival | Page 3", "raw_content": "Human Health and the Planet\nThe health effects of climate change sound a clarion warning that we must attend to a rapidly deteriorating environment. Polluted cities, severe droughts and flooding, and devastating storms are portents of a world in which risks to the health of the planet and the health of families are closely linked. We urgently need visionary and strategic leaders who can identify and implement local, national, and global public policies, build boundary-busting collaborative partnerships, and advocate effectively for change. How do we tame unsustainable resource consumption, protect human health, and become better stewards of the only planet we can inhabit?\nSpeakers: Michael Myers, Montira Pongsiri, Dan Glickman\nThe Whale and the Wind Turbine: Innovation Inspired by...\nLuckily for us, a truly sustainable world already exists. Life on Earth had been in perfect balance for 3.8 billion... See more\nA 'Stubborn Optimist' in the Face of Climate...\nAs secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Costa Rican diplomat Christiana Figueres led the... See more\nEarth\u2019s Vital Signs: A View from Space\nThe past two years have been the hottest ever recorded on Earth. Hundreds of gigatonnes of ice have been lost in... See more\nThe science is clear that humans are not alone in their capacity to think and feel. Studies and anecdotes reveal... See more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 3406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asser.nl/about-the-institute/asser-today/involve-citizens-in-discussions-on-the-legal-order/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:P4QGPBX7OBRKZJPI5VN6PE77JC7663HH", "length": 3028, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.asser.nl", "title": "Involve citizens in discussions on the legal order", "raw_content": "The discussions in today\u2019s newspapers - on Brexit and the EU, TTIP, the attitude of the Trump Administration towards international organisations and international law, on the ICC and the PCA - suggest a decline in public support for multilateral organisations and treaties. According to Janne Nijman, member of the board and academic director of the Asser Institute, both citizens and politicians have to be involved in discussions on the development of the international legal order of the 21st century.\nNijman gave this message in a speech during the celebration of the fourteenth lustrum of the Public International Law Society 'Prof. mr B.M. Telders' on February 11 2017. In her contribution, Nijman refers to Theresa May\u2019s call for \u2018Taking back control\u2019 that taps into an erosion of trust in international law and institutions as linked to their impact on state sovereignty. \u201cLeaving her proposed solutions aside, erosion of trust in multilateral organisations and treaties is often explained by their transformative affect on States and, in particular, on the regulatory control of States in service of the public.\u201d\nAre States Losing control?\nAccording to Nijman, the renowned professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York Saskia Sassen phrases the question as to whether States are losing control in the context of economic globalisation. \u201cWhile companies gain rights and influence through globalisation, privatization and deregulation, power structures are changing. Is corporate economic growth prevailing over the safeguard of public goods and interests? Globalisation transforms the state, and it challenges public international law too.\u201d In her speech Nijman stated that the current crisis of trust requires us to face the fundamental question who wins and who loses within the structures of the current international legal order.\nProtect and advance social justice\nIn her contribution, Nijman drew on the scholarship of former ICJ judge and Leiden law professor Peter Kooijmans (1933-2013) to argue that the ordering capacity of international law depends to a large extent on its capacity to protect and advance (social) justice. She pointed to the need for public international law and institutional architecture to address the consequences of the fundamental transformation of the state and the global society by globalisation, deregulation, and privatisation. \u201cMoreover, both citizens and politicians have to be involved in discussions on the development of the international legal order of the 21st century \u2013 thereto, considerations of social justice need to be taken into account.\u201d\nJanne Nijman, member of the board and academic director of the Asser Institute, and professor of history and theory of international law at the University of Amsterdam, gave this message in a speech during the celebration of the fourteenth lustrum of the Public International Law Society 'Prof. mr B.M. Telders' on February 11 2017.\nRead the complete speech (in Dutch) on trust in international law and institutions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 458, "original_length": 28995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 248.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asser.nl/cleer/about-cleer/advisory-board/eleftheria-neframi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:41Z", "digest": "sha1:Z77GXHQQ5TJ22DXEJNANFNZCSAJYVV4C", "length": 953, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.asser.nl", "title": "Prof. Eleftheria Neframi", "raw_content": "Prof. Eleftheria Neframi\nEleftheria Neframi is Professor of European Law at the University of Luxembourg and member of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence (Robert Schuman Institute of European Affairs). Her research activities cover various fields of European Law, with particular emphasis on the interaction of legal orders, the fundamental principles of European Law, the external relations of the European Union, and the European litigation law. She taught European law as visiting professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, Paris 2 University, Panth\u00e9on-Assas, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Tokyo Chuo University. She is the author of numerous publications in European Union law. She edited \u201cConstitutional Issues of EU External Relations Law\u201d with M. Gatti (forthcoming, Nomos), \u201cRenvoi pr\u00e9judiciel et marge d'appr\u00e9ciation du juge national\u201d (Larcier) and \u201cObjectifs et comp\u00e9tences dans l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne\u201d (Bruylant).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 8011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 173.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asser.nl/cleer/about-cleer/cleer-network/federico-casolari/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:51Z", "digest": "sha1:XENINRFXO4PYP2TXEUD2TJQ4OVJI6LXZ", "length": 895, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.asser.nl", "title": "Dr. Federico Casolari", "raw_content": "Dr. Federico Casolari\nFederico Casolari is Associate Professor of European Union Law at the Alma Mater Studiorum \u2013 University of Bologna, where he teaches EU law and law of international organizations. His current research agenda includes the relationship between European Union law and international law, the external relations of the European Union, the general principles of EU law and the international & European disaster response law. He currently serves as member of the Flying Faculty of the China-EU School of Law (CESL). He is also member of the International Research Centre on European Law (C.I.R.D.E.) of the University of Bologna and tutor at the Collegio Superiore of the University of Bologna (2016-2019). His recent publications include \u201cThe Principle of Equality in EU Law\u201d with L.S. Rossi (eds, Springer) and \u201cRoutledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters\u201d (eds, Springer).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 8304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 110.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2013/onglyza-hypoglycemia-pancreatitis-subanalyses-savor-cardiovascular-trial-outcomes-easd-26092013.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:37Z", "digest": "sha1:X3W3IBEU37IRXEZBM65U7RRIREGIDMKD", "length": 13732, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.astrazeneca.com", "title": "New hypoglycemia and pancreatitis subanalyses from the Onglyza\u00ae (saxagliptin) SAVOR cardiovascular outcomes trial presented at the 49th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)", "raw_content": "New hypoglycemia and pancreatitis subanalyses from the Onglyza\u00ae (saxagliptin) SAVOR cardiovascular outcomes trial presented at the 49th annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)\nNo increased rate of hypoglycemia when Onglyza was added to metformin monotherapy compared to placebo\nHigher rates of hypoglycemia compared to placebo only observed in patients receiving Onglyza in combination with sulfonylureas, agents known to cause hypoglycemia\nMore patients taking Onglyza vs. placebo achieved target HbA1c without hypoglycemia, except those who had received sulfonylureas alone at baseline\nRates of pancreatitis were balanced between the Onglyza and placebo groups and majority of cases resolved without study treatment being withdrawn\nOverall incidence of adverse events similar between Onglyza and placebo\nAstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company today announced additional results from the SAVOR cardiovascular outcomes trial, which found no increased rate of hypoglycemia among patients treated with Onglyza\u00ae (saxagliptin) compared to placebo when added to metformin monotherapy and higher rates of hypoglycemia only in the Onglyza group compared to the placebo group among patients taking sulfonylureas, agents known to cause hypoglycemia, at baseline. Additionally, a greater percentage of patients taking Onglyza reached their target HbA1c without hypoglycemia, except patients who were treated with sulfonylreas alone at baseline. These findings are consistent with previous studies of Onglyza. Results were presented today at the 49th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Barcelona, Spain.\n\u201cTreating diabetes often requires the use of multiple therapies to help lower blood glucose levels without increasing the risk of hypoglycemia,\u201d said Itamar Raz, MD, Co-Primary Study Investigator and Head of the Diabetes Unit, Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem. \u201cIn a post-hoc analysis from SAVOR, the data reflected that when saxagliptin was used in combination with metformin, there was a lowering of blood sugar and no increase in the risk of hypoglycemia.\u201d\nAdditionally, results from SAVOR found rates of any event of adjudication-confirmed pancreatitis were balanced between the Onglyza and placebo treatment groups (24 patients in the Onglyza arm versus 21 patients in the placebo arm). Moreover, in patients who experienced pancreatitis, the duration of the event, study drug actions and outcome of the adverse event were balanced across the two treatment arms. Observed rates of pancreatic cancer were also low (5 patients in the Onglyza arm versus 12 patients in the placebo arm).\n\u201cRecent discussions regarding the pancreatic safety of some type 2 diabetes medicines, including incretin-based therapies such as DPP-4 inhibitors, have been largely based on non-randomized studies with significant limitations,\u201d said Prof. Raz. \u201cSAVOR is the first large-scale, randomized, blinded study of a type 2 diabetes treatment to report an adjudicated review of pancreatitis events, and results from this trial showed no overall increased risk of pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer in patients taking saxagliptin.\u201d\nSAVOR (Saxagliptin Assessment of Vascular Outcomes Recorded in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus), a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 16,492 adult patients with type 2 diabetes, was designed to minimize glycemic control differences between Onglyza and placebo by allowing study physicians to actively manage blood glucose through use of additional antidiabetic drugs or dose titration.\nIn this assessment of hypoglycemia, patients were analyzed by antidiabetic medication at baseline (not treated with antidiabetic drugs, treated with metformin alone, treated with sulfonylurea, treated with insulin alone or treated with insulin in combination with other antidiabetic drugs) and HbA1c at baseline (entire study population, HbA1c < 7% or HbA1c \u2265 7%). Results showed there was no significant increase in the incidence of hypoglycemia with Onglyza compared to placebo when added to patients who were treated with metformin alone (2.4 events per 100 patient years for Onglyza versus 2.6 for placebo; Hazard Ratio [HR]: 0.92), insulin alone (17.4 events per 100 patient years for both the Onglyza and placebo groups; HR: 1.00), or patients not treated with other antidiabetic medications at baseline (3.0 events per 100 patient years for Onglyza versus 2.1 for placebo; HR: 1.44), regardless of baseline HbA1c. There was an increased incidence of hypoglycemia with Onglyza compared to placebo in patients who were taking a sulfonylurea (a class of agents known to cause hypoglycemia) at baseline, regardless of HbA1c (9.7 events per 100 patient years for Onglyza versus 6.8 for placebo; HR: 1.42) and in patients who were treated with insulin in combination with other antidiabetic drugs, but only those with a baseline HbA1c < 7% (HR: 1.42). There was no increase in rates of major hypoglycemia between Onglyza and placebo, in any subgroup, other than patients taking sulfonylurea with baseline HbA1c < 7% (HR: 2.24). At two years, the percentage of patients achieving HbA1c <7% without hypoglycemic events was greater among patients who were treated with Onglyza and metformin alone (36.1% vs. 23.6%), insulin alone (12.1% vs. 7.6%) or other antidiabetic medications (16.1% vs. 11.4%) compared to placebo. Among patients treated with Onglyza and sulfonylrea alone, fewer patients (20.6% vs. 22.4%) achieved their target HbA1c without hypoglycaemia compared to placebo.\nThe SAVOR trial also included evaluation of possible events of pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer, which were reported by investigators. All reports of pancreatitis were, in addition, adjudicated without knowledge of treatment assignment by an independent external expert committee, which included two pancreatic disease experts. Reported cases of pancreatitis were classified into four categories: definite acute pancreatitis, possible acute pancreatitis, chronic pancreatitis or unlikely to be pancreatitis.\nOverall, a total of 33 patients treated with Onglyza and 30 patients who received placebo were reported by investigators to have pancreatitis, with 35 cases in each group. By adjudication, pancreatitis was confirmed in 24 patients (26 cases) in the Onglyza arm versus 21 patients (25 cases) in the placebo arm. Additional results from the adjudicated analysis on pancreatitis found that:\nDefinite or possible acute pancreatitis was observed in 38 patients, 22 patients in the Onglyza arm versus 16 patients in the placebo arm. Out of these patients, 17 (0.2%) in the Onglyza arm and 9 (0.1%) in the placebo arm were classified as having definite acute pancreatitis.\nRecovery rates from pancreatitis were similar between the two treatment groups (21 patients [80.8%] in the Onglyza arm versus 21 patients [84.0%] in the placebo arm were resolved, 3 patients [11.5%] versus 1 patient [4.0%] was recovering, 2 patients [7.7%] versus 1 patient [4.0%] was not resolved, 0 patients versus 1 patient [4.0%] was resolved with sequelae and 0 patients vs. 1 patient [4.0%] died in the Onglyza and placebo groups, respectively).\nChronic pancreatitis was reported in 2 patients (0.02%) in the Onglyza arm versus 6 patients (0.07%) in the placebo arm.\nAmong patients with pancreatitis, the majority remained on treatment, with 4 patients (15.4%) discontinuing study medication and 2 patients (7.7%) interrupting study medication in the Onglyza arm versus 6 patients (24.0%) discontinuing study medication and 1 patient (4.0%) interrupting study medication in the placebo arm.\nPancreatic cancer was reported in 5 patients in the Onglyza arm versus 12 patients in the placebo arm (p-value = 0.095).\nPrimary Study Results and Study Design\nThe primary study results from the SAVOR trial were presented at the 2013 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress in Amsterdam, Netherlands and published in The New England Journal of Medicine.\nLed by the academic research organizations TIMI Study Group and Hadassah University Medical Center and conducted at more than 700 sites worldwide, SAVOR was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial designed to evaluate the cardiovascular safety and efficacy of Onglyza in adults with type 2 diabetes at risk for cardiovascular death, heart attack and stroke, compared to placebo.\nThe study included 16,492 adult patients with type 2 diabetes, 8,280 of whom were randomized to receive Onglyza and 8,212 of whom were randomized to receive placebo. Recruitment included patients with type 2 diabetes and baseline HbA1c levels of \u2265 6.5% and < 12% on any diabetes treatment including diet, insulin and/or oral therapy (excluding GLP-1 agonists and DPP-4 inhibitors) who were at elevated risk for cardiovascular events according to two categories:\nPatients \u2265 40 years of age with established cardiovascular disease, defined as ischemic heart disease, peripheral vascular disease or ischemic stroke.\nMales \u2265 55 years of age and females \u2265 60 years of age with at least one of the following risk factors: dyslipidemia, hypertension or current smoking, but without established cardiovascular disease.\nFurther grouping was based on renal function, including patients with normal/mild (eGFR > 50 mL/min), moderate (30 - 50 mL/min) or severe (eGFR < 30 mL/min) renal impairment.\nThe primary safety objective was to establish that the upper bound of the 95% confidence interval for the estimated risk ratio comparing the incidence of the composite endpoint (cardiovascular death, non-fatal myocardial infarction [MI] or non-fatal ischemic stroke) observed with Onglyza to that observed in the placebo group was less than 1.3. The primary efficacy objective was to determine, as a superiority assessment, whether treatment with Onglyza compared to placebo when added to current background therapy would result in a reduction in the composite endpoint of cardiovascular death, non-fatal MI or non-fatal ischemic stroke in patients with type 2 diabetes. Secondary efficacy objectives included a reduction in the primary composite endpoint together with hospitalization for heart failure, coronary revascularization or unstable angina pectoris, and reduction of all-cause mortality. Secondary safety objectives included the evaluation of safety and tolerability by assessment of overall adverse events and adverse events of special interest.\nPatients were randomized between May 2010 and December 2011. The median follow-up was 1.97 years and maximum follow-up was 2.9 years.\nResults from the primary analysis of SAVOR found that the primary composite endpoint of cardiovascular death, non-fatal MI or non-fatal ischemic stroke occurred in 613 patients (7.3%) in the Onglyza group vs. 609 patients (7.2%) in the placebo group (HR: 1.00; 95% Confidence Interval [CI]: 0.89, 1.12; non-inferiority p-value < 0.001). Onglyza did not meet the primary efficacy endpoint of superiority to placebo for the same composite endpoint (superiority p-value = 0.99). The major secondary endpoint, consisting of the primary composite endpoint and hospitalization for heart failure, unstable angina or coronary revascularization, occurred in 1,059 patients (12.8%) in the Onglyza group vs. 1,034 patients (12.4%) in the placebo group (HR: 1.02; 95% CI: 0.94, 1.11; p-value = 0.66). Hospitalization for heart failure, a component of this secondary composite endpoint, occurred at a greater rate in the Onglyza group (3.5%) than in the placebo group (2.8%) (HR: 1.27; 95% CI: 1.07, 1.51; p-value = 0.007). The pre-specified secondary endpoint of all-cause mortality occurred in 420 patients (4.9%) in the Onglyza group compared to 378 patients (4.2%) in the placebo group (HR: 1.11; 95% CI: 0.96, 1.27; p-value = 0.15).\nAs of September 2013, Onglyza is approved in 86 countries including those in the European Union, the United States, Canada, Mexico, India, Brazil and China.\nOnglyza is indicated as an adjunct to diet and exercise to improve glycemic control in adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus in multiple clinical settings.\nOnglyza should not be used for the treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus or diabetic ketoacidosis.\nOnglyza has not been studied in patients with a history of pancreatitis.\nIn 2012, diabetes was estimated to affect more than 370 million people worldwide. The prevalence of diabetes is projected to reach more than 550 million by 2030. Type 2 diabetes accounts for approximately 90% to 95% of all cases of diagnosed diabetes in adults. Type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease characterized by insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells in the pancreas, leading to elevated glucose levels. Over time, this sustained hyperglycemia contributes to further progression of the disease. Significant unmet needs still exist, as many patients remain inadequately controlled on their current glucose-lowering regimen.\nThe major cause of death and complications in patients with type 2 diabetes is cardiovascular disease. As many as 80% of patients with type 2 diabetes will develop and possibly die from a cardiovascular event.\nDedicated to addressing the global burden of diabetes by advancing individualized patient care, AstraZeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb are working in collaboration to research, develop and commercialize a versatile portfolio of innovative treatment options for diabetes and related metabolic disorders that aim to provide treatment effects beyond glucose control. Find out more about the Alliance and our commitment to meeting the needs of health care professionals and people with diabetes at www.astrazeneca.com or www.bms.com.\nKirsten Evraire (US) +1 302 885 0435", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 18118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.atarimagazines.com/st-log/issue35/64_1_ST_BINGO.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:05Z", "digest": "sha1:5ENO4SKGJZJ64JELOKGMJIRZR46QH3J3", "length": 9771, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.atarimagazines.com", "title": "ST Bingo", "raw_content": "ST BINGO\nBY ALBERT BAGGETTA\nThere is a game of chance that has fascinated people for over 100 years. In Italy it is known as Tumbule. In Latin America they call it Bolito. In Great Britain it is known as House. Americans know and love the game as Bingo. Every Saturday night masses of people gather in church halls all over the country with dreams of being the big card winner.\nThe problem with ordinary Bingo is that you have to play with a group of people in order to have any real fun. The element of competition is what makes the game interesting. Now, with ST Bingo, enthusiasts of the game can enjoy playing in the comfort of their own homes\u2014even if there aren't any other players available. But if you happen to have a few friends around, they can play too.\nFor those not knowledgeable about the game, let me state the rules: Each player has a card or set of cards. (How many can you handle?) The cards have five rows and five columns of numbers, each column capped with a letter. Some of the number slots are marked FREE; these can substitute for any number. Letters and the numbers 1 to 75 are called out randomly, and when a player gets five horizontally, vertically or diagonally, he screams, \"Bingo!\" and is proclaimed the winner. And so it goes with ST Bingo, which can be played by any number of players\u2014one or more players against the computer (it plays two cards), and each other; or for those who just like to watch, one computer card can be played against the other, on screen.\nTo run the program, you will have to take care of a couple of details. Your master disk must have the program called CONTROLACC. This came free on your system disk when you bought the computer. Boot up your ST so that you can see the usual desktop. Move the mouse arrow to the top of the screen and click on Desk. On the pull-down menu click on Install Printer.\nIn the dialog box that is produced you will see a box for Pixels Per Inch. Click on 960 and then on OK, and the box will disappear. This will set up your printer for the proper placement of graphics. Now save the desktop by clicking on the Save Desktop selection of the Options drop-down menu. After you have done this, you will no longer have to change the printer default before running the main program.\nIn addition to CONTROL.ACC, your master disk must contain the following programs: BINGO.PRG and WINNER. FIL. The first is the compiled GFA BASIC program, and the latter is a file that will hold the name of the most recent winner.\nIf you don't have this month's disk version, you can create a copy of ST Bingo by typing in Listing 1 using GFA BASIC 2.0. You will also have to create the file WINNER.FIL. Do this with any word processor that can save ASCII files. Simply type in the string \"COMPUTER\", including the quotation marks, and save the file as WINNER.FIL.\nTo get started, click on BINGO.PRG. The main menu will now pop on the screen. Using the mouse to click on the circle, choose one of the following: Play Bingo, Make Cards or Quit.\nBefore we play Bingo, let's click on the circle next to Make Cards, so that we can print some cards to play with. Be warned that in order to print the cards, you must have done the printer configuration explained above. Also, you must have an Epson or Epson-compatible printer (I use the Star SG-10) attached to your computer and powered up, ready to go.\nYou should now see an Alert Box offering three options:\nRandomly\u2014the computer will design the cards, randomly placing the numbers in the columns and rows (with up to three free boxes).\nPersonal\u2014You can design your own cards, placing the numbers and free boxes where you want.\nQuit\u2014Return to the main menu.\nClick on Randomly first. The computer will instantly draw a card that fills the majority of the screen and plunk down a combination of numbers and free boxes.\nTake a good look at the card. If you do not like the way it came out, use the mouse to click on the letter N on the far right of the screen. The card will quickly redraw with a new set of numbers. You may do this as many times as you like until you're satisfied. If you are happy with the card (check to see that your printer is turned on and the paper at the top of the page), click on the letter Y at the far right of the screen. The prompt area will clear and the screen will dump a handsome Bingo card to your printer. The process takes a little over two minutes per card.\nWhen the printing is completed the screen will clear, a new card will be screened, and you will be given the option to change the card, print the card or quit. If you choose to quit, you will be returned to the main-menu screen.\nClick on Quit then click on Make Cards again. Let's try designing our own card now. Click on Personal. You should now see a screen reminiscent of the other make screen, except the card does not have any numbers.\nYou can enter any number from 1 to 75 in each box. Point to one of the boxes and press the left mouse button to increase the numbers. Press the right button to decrease the numbers. Notice that between 1 and 75 you are offered a free box (FR). Go ahead, and fill in all of the boxes.\nAll done? Okay, set up your printer again (actually, you are probably already at the top of the page after printing the last card), then click on the box that reads Done, and your personal card will be sent to the printer. Of course you may quit at any time without printing by clicking on QUIT.\nThat's all there is to making cards. You will find that if you make a few cards before each game session, you will soon have quite a collection to use with friends later on.\nLet's take our cards and go back to the main menu. (Click on QUIT.) To get to the game, click on Play Bingo. Your screen will clear and then fill with lots of graphic goodies. On either side of the screen, under the title, you will see the two computer cards. These will be played by the ST. If the computer gets a number, the corresponding square will fill with a dark gold color.\nIn the upper center of the screen is a black window that will display the current letter and number being called. At the start, the window will read Let's Play Bingo! At the bottom of the play screen, you will see two large orange and green bars. The one marked Call is pressed when you want to see the next letter/number combination.\nIf by some chance any of the players (except the computer) has made Bingo on a card, press the other orange bar, marked Bingo! This will allow the winner to verify his winning card. More on this later.\nUnderneath the black window, there is a gold and green bar marked Auto Call-On/Off (the \"/\" indicates a toggle-type switch). If you press this bar, the computer will take over, calling the numbers automatically, allowing a reasonable amount of time for the players to study their cards. You may shut off the auto calling by pointing to the bar during a call and holding down the left mouse button, until the indicator reads Off.\nTake a look at the very bottom of the screen, left and right. See the two white message bars? One reads Last Winner, and the other reads Cash Prize. Under these banners you will find the name of the last game champion and the prize money for the current game, respectively. (I've worked on the game for quite a while, and I'm still not sure who is going to pay the prize money.)\nFinally, if for some reason you have to leave the game, just click on the Quit icon, the little Atari symbol in the bottom center of the screen. This will bring you back to the main menu, where you can quit properly.\nVerifying a winner\nOkay, let's see where that Bingo bar brings you. Do not press this unless you really have a winning card. First, you will go to a black verification screen, where you will then be asked your name (eight characters only). Press Return when you are done. You may use your real name, an abbreviation or some code word.\nNow you will be given five prompts for your winning entries, one at a time. For each, you must enter a letter and a number. For example, you might enter B29, G72, I15...etc. You will only be allowed three characters for each entry. Press Return after each entry. If you have a free block enter FRE instead of a letter/number combination. You must enter five legitimate combinations to leave this area. The computer will also check with you to be sure you have entered the correct combinations. If not, you may reenter all of the information.\nWhen all five of your numbers have been accepted, you will receive either some bad news or some good news. The bad news is that your card is no good (don't try to pull a fast one on old ST). In this case, the game will be resumed. The good news is that you are a winner. The screen will light up with your name on a star field, announcing you as the winner of whatever sum of money is displayed. (Sure wish I knew who was going to pay all this cash.)\nAfter a few fleeting moments of glory, your name is recorded as the latest winner (remember this will be displayed in subsequent games until you are unseated), and you will be returned to the main menu to play another game or quit.\nIf the ST gets a Bingo, this verification is not necessary. An immodest flashing Bingo sign will appear in the black window, after which the computer will reveal its winning card. After the computer's name is registered as victor, the main menu will appear to offer a new game or to allow you to quit.\nBingo is a fun game, and ST Bingo makes it even more fun, since you won't have to fight the mobs in local church halls. Now if I can only figure out how to make the computer pay out the prize money, it will be the greatest game ever.\nAlbert Baggetta is an English teacher and a professional guitarist. He frequently can be found, wandering the ST-LOG SIG on DELPHI.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 9943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.audioverse.org/espanol/acerca/12/spiritofav.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:52Z", "digest": "sha1:32QH5ENNMKRI7BC54G7DMJI3MU5TYRKY", "length": 2874, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.audioverse.org", "title": "Spirit of AudioVerse - AudioVerse Espa\u00f1ol", "raw_content": "AudioVerse provides free Bible-based and Christ-centered audiovisual resources aimed at inspiring and educating Seventh-day Adventists and all spiritually interested people around the world. Our main purpose is to proclaim the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to hasten and to prepare the world for His imminent Second Coming. In view of this, AudioVerse upholds the following set of principles regarding the materials that we make available on this website:\nMaterials should promote doctrines, theology, principles and values that have been established through a careful, thorough study of the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy by trustworthy, experienced and godly people.\nMaterials should affirm the Bible and the Spirit of Prophecy as reflected by the stated fundamental beliefs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.\nMaterials should promote the reality that victory over sin is possible through the believer\u2019s dependence on the grace and power of Jesus Christ.\nMaterials should promote lifestyle and behavioral choices that are in harmony with principles from Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy.\nMaterials should represent the historical-grammatical/historical-Biblical method of Biblical interpretation along with the historicist method of prophetic interpretation rather than futurism, preterism, higher criticism, imposed allegorical, or other speculative and unacceptable hermeneutics.\nMaterials should predominantly appeal to the mind and reason, rather than the speculative or sensational; neither hype, an unwarranted excitement, nor extra-Biblical predictions about the future, are acceptable.\nMaterials should represent a balanced and disciplined view of Scripture and the Spirit of Prophecy that reflects the entirety of these inspired writings. We do not advocate the overemphasis of one aspect to the exclusion of other equally important aspects nor do we condone viewpoints that extend beyond the proper application of Biblical and Spirit of Prophecy principles.\nMaterials should seek to provide lessons from church history rather than revising or criticizing it to the detriment of our doctrines or teachings.\nMaterials should be supportive of the Seventh-day Adventist Church as well as her leadership and institutions. They are not to seek to tarnish or vilify the reputations of individuals or institutions.\nMaterials should be completely truthful. Dishonesty or anything that is intentionally misleading is unacceptable.\nMaterials should be delivered in a spirit of reverence, respect, and humility, recognizing that they represent the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We reject an attitude that is spiteful, arrogant, vulgar, irreverent, flippant, frivolous, demeaning, or otherwise unChrist-like.\nMaterials should be from presenters who are associated with organizations or groups who uphold and represent the above-described spirit of AudioVerse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 249.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/120425-stm-p-ostseerat-jugend/249824", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KVFQNGCRDHFLDPCKTTZRKQQWWSHZH6BE", "length": 4166, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.auswaertiges-amt.de", "title": "Speech by Minister of State Cornelia Pieper, given to open the final day of the Baltic Sea Youth Session - Federal Foreign Office English Fran\u00e7ais Espa\u00f1ol Portugu\u00eas \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439", "raw_content": "Speech by Minister of State Cornelia Pieper, given to open the final day of the Baltic Sea Youth Session\n-- check aganist delivery --\nLadies and gentlemen, friends and neighbours from all over the Baltic Sea region,\nI am very pleased to welcome more than 60 young people from the CBSS countries to the Federal Foreign Office during these Baltic Sea Days. I also take this opportunity to pass on the best wishes of Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, the patron of this session.\nYou have already spent several days together working on committees and using the time to get to know each other better. Most of you enjoy the benefit of prior experience, having worked in the Youth Parliaments of your own home countries. That will have given you a good idea of the work that \u201creal\u201d members of parliament do \u2013 from discussions and debates to the search for compromise, an everyday political necessity which is nonetheless often a very hard thing to achieve, something for which everyone involved must be willing to make sometimes difficult concessions.\nYesterday, so that your debates in the Baltic Sea Youth Session would be more than just a drill, some of you had the chance to present the ideas you had developed together to the \u201creal\u201d members of parliament from the Baltic Sea Region at their dialogue event.\nI was very glad to see with what energy and evident enjoyment you put your points of view to my parliamentary colleagues. Not only were you setting a good example, you also inspired hope by so impressively countering people\u2019s assumption that the younger generation is frustrated by politics.\nYour commitment so far has shown me that you want to play a part in your society and that we share a fundamental conviction \u2013 namely that democracy is not something we can take for granted, but is a precious achievement that must be supported and defended.\nWe can see that in the Baltic Sea Region\u2019s extremely varied post-war history. You are most probably too young to remember yourselves, but many of you come from countries that experienced the historic changeover to a democratic system after 1989. I myself come from the former GDR and remember well the time of sham elections, which consisted mostly of folding the lists of candidates we had been given and stuffing them into the ballot box.\nThere was absolutely no chance of actually having a voice by getting involved in politics or civil society. Knowing that makes me all the more pleased to have the Baltic Sea Youth Session as a way of enabling young people to play a part in shaping socially relevant debates and to engage in dialogue that reaches beyond their own borders.\nThe Baltic Sea Youth Session is being held as part of the Berlin Baltic Sea Days; these, in turn, constitute one of the highlights of Germany\u2019s Presidency of the CBSS, which will come to end in June 2012.\nPerhaps some of you will have the opportunity to check out one or two of the other events: the NGO Forum, for example, or the evening crime-fiction readings that are taking place here at the Federal Foreign Office today, tomorrow and the day after.\nFederal Chancellor Merkel will pass on the symbolic baton of the CBSS Presidency to the future Russian Prime Minister at the summit in Stralsund at the end of May 2012. Perhaps you will have the opportunity to see each other again in Russia in 2013.\nI am sure that you will all come away from this session with new and lasting friendships or even ideas for your future professional or political activities. I would be very glad to think that you would all remain part of the network of former participants.\nI would like to extend my special thanks to all those who have contributed to the success of this stimulating session, above all the Schwarzkopf Foundation and the national committees of the European Youth Parliament. I also want to thank all the others who have helped make this event a reality.\nIn closing, it only remains for me to wish you all a successful final day and a safe trip home.\nTwenty years of Federal Foreign Office support for the preservation of the Angkor temple complex\nGermany supports restoration of threatened World Cultural Heritage in Indonesia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 6448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/news/roth-religion-verantwortung/2108302", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:WHYNB64TZ5SH5NNK4A2NZVZF2IY46HIU", "length": 4056, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.auswaertiges-amt.de", "title": "Religion and responsibility go hand in hand - Federal Foreign Office English Fran\u00e7ais Espa\u00f1ol Portugu\u00eas \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439", "raw_content": "Religion and responsibility go hand in hand\nWhy German foreign policy is committed to the dialogue with religious representatives. An article by Minister of State for Europe Michael Roth in \u201cDer Tagesspiegel\u201d.\nI am a parliamentarian in two senses of the word. Firstly, as a Member of the German Bundestag, I am committed to my country. And secondly, as a member of the synod, the parliament of the Protestant Church of Kurhessen\u2011Waldeck, I assume responsibility for my church. While the state and the church and politics and religion have traditionally been separate areas of life in Germany, there are many relationships and links between them that also have a bearing on our foreign policy.\nAt a time when the world is undergoing dramatic upheaval, orders are crumbling and conflicts have pseudo\u2011religious undertones, religious communities are gaining in importance as non\u2011state actors. While secularisation may be a trend in Germany, indeed in the Western world, the political influence of religion in general is growing \u2013 particularly outside Europe. More than 80 percent of people around the world are members of a church or religious community. At a time when civil society is becoming an increasingly important partner in foreign policy, religious representatives are indispensable points of contact for us.\nThis is why we have made the social responsibility of religions a key focus of our foreign policy in recent years. After all, all of the world\u2019s major religious communities claim to be a force for peace. Religions convey important values such as reconciliation, humanity and justice, values that also guide us in our foreign policy. We want to use and strengthen this constructive and unifying potential of religions by approaching religious representatives around the world and encouraging them to take their responsibility for peace and stability seriously.\nAs a politician in Germany, I have often found that our churches and religious communities have very specific expectations of the political realm. By the same token, we politicians also have very specific expectations of churches and religious communities. We want to get religious representatives on board as strategic partners and to work together with those who are committed to reconciliation and justice in their societies and who oppose hatred and violence.\nWhat we mean by \u201ccultural intelligence\u201d\nLast but not least, we want to use our interfaith network to better understand social and cultural developments and thereby to improve our ability to analyse developments and act within the framework of our foreign policy. This is precisely what we mean by \u201ccultural intelligence\u201d.\nFollowing our most promising first conference with religious representatives from North and West Africa, the Middle East and Europe in May 2017, we are expanding our horizons this week with participants from South, South East and East Asia. We want to bring together those bridge\u2011builders and \u201cambassadors for peace\u201d who are engaged in conflicts as mediators, who work in the area of religious peace education or who strengthen the role of women in peace processes. In so doing, we have deliberately placed our focus on Asia for this conference in order to expand our network in the region in a systematic way. Asia is home to all of the world\u2019s major religions, and many countries have a long tradition of interfaith tolerance. However, we are observing here too with great concern how religion is being instrumentalised to an increasing degree. A traditionally peaceful and tolerant understanding of Islam is coming under ever\u2011greater pressure, for example.\nWe are extending invitations to our Asia conference together with the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, which has focused on the responsibility of religions for peace for many years. This conference shows how well we in Europe are able to learn from and with each other. As a politician who cherishes both our country and my faith, I believe in the potential of religions to strengthen peace and social cohesion.\nwww.tagespiegel.de", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 6258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 203.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autonews.com/article/20030822/SUB/308220709/greek-jan-july-new-used-car-sales-down", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:57Z", "digest": "sha1:IN6FLVEI2UYDTRJU7NL4TEW7TZXTY5BC", "length": 350, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.autonews.com", "title": "Greek Jan.-July. new, used car sales down", "raw_content": "Greek Jan.-July. new, used car sales down\nATHENS (Reuters) - Sales of new and used vehicles in Greece fell 2.3 percent year-over-year in the first seven months of 2003, the country's statistics service (NSS) said on Friday.\nNew and used vehicle registrations, including cars, buses and lorries, reached 206,860 in the first seven months of this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 452, "original_length": 8435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autopartswarehouse.com/blog/tag/superbird/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EZOUJ3T2UHS7M6YRMZI3AXP4WY2CYTUE", "length": 517, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.autopartswarehouse.com", "title": "Superbird Archives - The Auto Parts Warehouse Blog", "raw_content": "5 Abandoned Superbirds That Are Worth Your Time and Money\nThe Plymouth Superbird is one of the most iconic vehicles from the muscle car era . And that's not even up for debate. With its distinct features like the aerodynamic nosecone and tall rear wing, even a non-enthusiast can easily recognize it. It wasn't all style, too. It was backed up with a high-performance engine that allowed it to win multiple championships in NASCAR...and \u2026 [Read more...] about 5 Abandoned Superbirds That Are Worth Your Time and Money", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 265.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avadileaders.com/faq", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VGHTN3INCLDBAQMNUY5XDFOLBSJJCWNA", "length": 8700, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.avadileaders.com", "title": "FAQ \u2014 Avadi Leaders", "raw_content": "Have questions, I may have the answer here.\n+ What is Coaching?\nProfessional Coaching is a professional partnership between a qualified coach and an individual or team that supports the achievement of extraordinary results, based on goals set by the individual or team. Through the process of coaching, individuals focus on the skills and actions needed to successfully produce their personally relevant results. should be to produce successful results.\nThe individual or team chooses the focus of conversation, while the coach listens and contributes observations and questions as well as concepts and principles which can assist in generating possibilities and identifying actions. Through the coaching process the clarity that is needed to support the most effective actions is achieved. Coaching accelerates the individual's or team\u2019s progress by providing greater focus and awareness of possibilities leading to more effective choices. Coaching concentrates on where individuals are now and what they are willing to do to get where they want to be in the future. ICF member coaches recognize that results are a matter of the individual's or team\u2019s intentions, choices and actions, supported by the coach's efforts and application of coaching skills, approaches and methods.\n+ How is coaching different from other service professions?\nProfessional coaching is a distinct service which focuses on an individual\u2019s life as it relates to goal setting, outcome creation and personal change management. In an effort to understand what a coach is, it can be helpful to distinguish coaching from other professions that provide personal or organizational support.\nTherapy. Coaching can be distinguished from therapy in a number of ways. First, coaching is a profession that supports personal and professional growth and development based on individual-initiated change in pursuit of specific actionable outcomes. These outcomes are linked to personal or professional success. Coaching is forward moving and future focused. Therapy, on the other hand, deals with healing pain, dysfunction and conflict within an individual or a relationship between two or more individuals. The focus is often on resolving difficulties arising from the past which hamper an individual's emotional functioning in the present, improving overall psychological functioning, and dealing with present life and work circumstances in more emotionally healthy ways. Therapy outcomes often include improved emotional/feeling states. While positive feelings/emotions may be a natural outcome of coaching, the primary focus is on creating actionable strategies for achieving specific goals in one's work or personal life. The emphasis in a coaching relationship is on action, accountability and follow through.\nConsulting. Consultants may be retained by individuals or organizations or the purpose of accessing specialized expertise. While consulting approaches vary widely, there is often an assumption that the consultant diagnoses problems and prescribes and sometimes implements solutions. In general, the assumption with coaching is that individuals or teams are capable of generating their own solutions, with the coach supplying supportive, discovery-based approaches and frameworks.\nMentoring. Mentoring, which can be thought of as guiding from one\u2019s own experience or sharing of experience in a specific area of industry or career development, is sometimes confused with coaching. Although some coaches provide mentoring as part of their coaching, such as in mentor coaching new coaches, coaches are not typically mentors to those they coach.\nTraining. Training programs are based on the acquisition of certain learning objectives as set out by the trainer or instructor. Though objectives are clarified in the coaching process, they are set by the individual or team being coached with guidance provided by the coach. Training also assumes a linear learning path which coincides with an established curriculum. Coaching is less linear without a set curriculum plan.\nAthletic Development. Though sports metaphors are often used, professional coaching is different from the traditional sports coach. The athletic coach is often seen as an expert who guides and directs the behavior of individuals or teams based on his or her greater experience and knowledge. Professional coaches possess these qualities, but it is the experience and knowledge of the individual or team that determines the direction. Additionally, professional coaching, unlike athletic development, does not focus on behaviors that are being executed poorly or incorrectly. Instead, the focus is on identifying opportunity for development based on individual strengths and capabilities.\nSource: Branding and Marketing Subcommittee (Jan Austin, MCC, Val Williams, MCC, Nora Klaver, MCC and Ariane Cherbuliez, PCC) www.coachfederation.org\n+ What are the Benefits of Coaching?\n+ How can I determine if Coaching is right for me?\nTo determine if you could benefit from coaching, start by summarizing what you would expect to accomplish in coaching. When someone has a fairly clear idea of the desired outcome, a coaching partnership can be a useful tool for developing a strategy for how to achieve that outcome with greater ease. Since coaching is a partnership, also ask yourself if you find it valuable to collaborate, to have another viewpoint and to be asked to consider new perspectives. Also, ask yourself if you are ready to devote the time and the energy to making real changes in your work or life. If the answer to these questions is yes, then coaching may be a beneficial way for you to grow and develop.\n+ What are some typical reasons why someone might want to work with a coach?\n\u2022 There is something at stake (a challenge, stretch, goal or opportunity), and it is urgent, compelling or exciting or all of the above\n\u2022 There is a gap in knowledge, skills, confidence, or resources\n\u2022 A big stretch is being asked or required, and it is time sensitive\n\u2022 There is a desire to accelerate results\n\u2022 There is a need for a course correction in work or life due to a setback\n\u2022 An individual has a style of relating that is ineffective or is not supporting the achievement of one\u2019s personally relevant goals\n\u2022 There is a lack of clarity, and there are choices to be made\n\u2022 Work and life are out of balance, and this is creating unwanted consequences\n\u2022 One has not identified his or her core strengths and how best to leverage them\n\u2022 The individual desires work and life to be simpler, less complicated\n\u2022 There is a need and a desire to better organized and more self-managing\n+ How is Coaching delivered?\nThe Coaching Process \u2014 Coaching typically begins with a personal interview to assess the individual\u2019s current opportunities and challenges, define the scope of the relationship, identify priorities for action, and establish specific desired outcomes. Subsequent coaching sessions may be conducted over the telephone or video conference. Between scheduled coaching sessions, the individual may be asked to complete specific actions that support the achievement of one\u2019s personally prioritized goals. The coach may provide additional resources in the form of relevant articles, checklists, assessments, or models, to support the individual\u2019s thinking and actions. The duration of the coaching relationship varies depending on the individual\u2019s personal needs and preferences.\nAssessments \u2014 A variety of assessments are available to support the coaching process, depending upon the needs and circumstances of the individual. Assessments provide objective information which can enhance the individual\u2019s self-awareness as well as awareness of others and their circumstances, provide a benchmark for creating coaching goals and actionable strategies, and offer a method for evaluating progress. There will be additional fees for assessments.\n+ How long does a coach work with an individual?\n+ What does the coach do? What does the individual do?\nThe role of the individual or team is to create the coaching agenda based on personally meaningful goals, utilize assessment and observations to enhance self-awareness and awareness of others, envision personal and/or organizational success, assume full responsibility for personal decisions and actions, utilize the coaching process to promote possibility thinking and fresh perspectives, take courageous action in alignment with personal goals and aspirations, engage big picture thinking and problem solving skills, and utilize the tools, concepts, models and principles provided by the coach to engage effective forward actions.\nHave other questions or ready to schedule a quick call?\nQuestion for Avadi Leaders", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 11982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avnet.com/wps/portal/emea/about-us/terms-and-conditions-of-sale/avnet-services/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6FMJ63M6FVGU55Z4JWUY5MSKS3LWSSMA", "length": 16577, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.avnet.com", "title": "Avnet", "raw_content": "Terms and conditions of sale (Avnet Services) - Hero Banner\nAvnet services\nAvnet, Inc., and its divisions, subsidiaries, and affiliates (\"Avnet\") will provide services (\"Avnet Services\") and products associated with Avnet Services (\"Products\"). Avnet Services may (a) consist of a variety of services performed directly by Avnet (or its subcontractor), such as performance of a task, assistance, support, access to resources that Avnet makes available; or (b) creation of software or as otherwise defined on a Statement of Work (\"SOW\"). For avoidance of doubt, \"Avnet Services\" excludes third-party services (\"Third Party Services\"), which may include but shall not be limited to software and other offerings provided solely by a third party. \"Avnet Services\" as used in these terms and conditions does not include Third Party Services. Except for mutually agreed upon terms such as in an SOW or change order, Avnet's provision of Avnet Services, Third Party Services and Products are subject to only these terms and conditions of sale for Services (\"Agreement\"), regardless of any other additional terms or conditions that conflict with or contradict this Agreement in any purchase order, document, or other communication (\"Order\"), including any preprinted terms and conditions on any document of customer (\"Customer\"). Avnet's failure to object to such conflicting or additional terms will not change or add to the terms of this Agreement.\nQuotes from Avnet are invitations to tender and are subject to change at any time without notice. All Customer Orders are subject to acceptance by Avnet. Contracts between Customer and Avnet are formed upon Avnet's written acceptance or execution of SOW or Customer's Order, which shall be governed only by the terms and conditions of this Agreement and SOW, if any. In the event of conflicting terms between the terms and conditions of this Agreement and SOW, the terms and conditions of this Agreement will control.\nAvnet will rely on the specific instruction and information provided by Customer in the applicable SOW. The scope of the work to be performed will be tentative until confirmed in writing by both parties in the applicable SOW. Avnet is not responsible for any default or delays caused by Customer's failure to confirm applicable SOW in a timely manner, to provide accurate and timely instructions, comprehensive information, or necessary access to facilities or application environment.\nExcept as otherwise agreed in applicable SOW, prices are estimates and are subject to change at any time. Avnet will use reasonable commercial efforts to notify Customer if estimates provided to Customer in writing will be exceeded. In such an event, (i) Customer may terminate the Services and pay only for the work performed through the effective date of termination, even though such amount may be less than or in excess of the estimate, or (ii) if Customer makes no such termination request, Avnet will continue to perform services according to the existing work authorization, including all fees and expenses which may exceed the initial or revised cost estimate. Prices are for Products, Avnet Services or Third Party Services only and do not include taxes, or other charges or fees, such as out of pocket expenses, permits, licenses, certificates, customs declarations and registration (collectively, \"Additional Fees\"). Customer is responsible for any Additional Fees as well as obtaining such licenses, permits or permissions on its own accord that may be needed for the performance of the Avnet Services.\nPayment of the total invoice amount, without offset or deduction, is due 30 days from the invoice date or as otherwise indicated and approved in writing by the parties in the SOW. On any past due invoice, Avnet may charge (i) interest from the payment due date to the date of payment at 18% per annum, plus reasonable attorneys' fees and collection costs; or (ii) the maximum amount that is allowed under the applicable law if Avnet's interest rate is deemed invalid. At any time, Avnet may change the terms of Customer's credit, require financial data from Customer for verification of Customer's creditworthiness, require a bank guarantee or other security, or suspend any outstanding Orders of Customer. Avnet may apply payments to any of Customer's accounts. 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In particular, Avnet does not warrant that software provided as part of the Avnet Services is uninterrupted or error-free. Customer's sole remedies for breach of this Avnet Services warranty are, at Avnet's sole discretion, to: (i) re-perform the Avnet Services, or (ii) refund the portion of the fees paid by Customer that relate to the non-conforming Avnet Services. Avnet will have no obligation with respect to any warranty claim if the claim is the result of (i) damage caused by unauthorized modification by Customer or any third party not performing under the direction of Avnet, (ii) any abuse or misuse by Customer or any third party not performing under the direction of Avnet, or (iii) damage caused by disaster such as fire, flood, wind or lightning. Avnet will pass through to Customer any transferable Third Party Services warranties and remedies provided by the third party service provider.\nTo the extent permitted by law, neither Avnet nor any of Avnet's successors or assigns shall be liable for and Customer is not entitled to any indirect, special, incidental, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages of any nature including without limitation removal, reinstallation costs, reprocurement costs, costs of cover, loss of use, loss of profit or revenue, business interruption, loss of data, promotional or manufacturing expenses, overhead, injury to reputation or loss of customers even if Avnet has been advised of the possibility of such damages. To the extent permitted by applicable law, Customer's total recovery from Avnet for any direct damages will not exceed the total amount paid by Customer for Avnet Services or Third Party Services performed under the relevant SOW during the twelve month period immediately preceding the event giving rise to the liability. Avnet will not be liable for any loss or damage arising out of significant changes to, or errors, omissions or inaccuracies in the information provided by Customer. Avnet is also not liable for any claims based on Avnet's compliance with Customer's designs, specifications, or instructions.\n8. 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These rights will not be interpreted as providing to Customer unlimited rights in data, software, or intellectual property rights provided by the manufacturers or any other third party or for Avnet's commercial software. Avnet specifically rejects the flow down of any federal requirements which are inapplicable to services.\n12. ELECTRONIC ORDERS.\nIn the event that any part of the provision of Avnet Services and Third Party Services utilizes electronic data interchange, Customer's internal portal or third party portal, or any other electronic means (\"Electronic Purchase Order\"), this Agreement will continue to apply to the provision of Avnet Services and Third Party Services between Customer and Avnet. Customer's acceptance of Avnet's acknowledgment request or Avnet's specification of details with respect to Electronic Purchase Orders via writing, email or other electronic data interchange shall be binding on Customer.\nA. 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As the finale gets closer, we take an in-depth look at one of the storylines set to reach their climax.\nCharlotte\u2019s web untangles\nPoor Charlotte has been wracked with guilt in recent months. Not only did she have to cover for Hunter after he started the fire at Leah\u2019s house, he then electrocuted Marilyn, and, in a way that\u2019s only possible in Summer Bay, her son\u2019s actions left her burdened with a third secret after she accidentally murdered Denny back in September.\nCharlotte panics after accidentally killing Denny\nThings have been spiralling further out of control with every passing week, and she recently ran over and killed Tristan after he kidnapped Hunter. Oh dear.\nThere are only so many secrets one person can keep, and Kat is doing everything she can to get to the bottom of things. She\u2019s been suspicious of Charlotte for a while, and now that she believes that Charlotte purposefully ran over Trystan, she wants to do everything in her power to prove it. However, Charlotte isn\u2019t exactly known for giving in easily, and was seen drugging Kat at the end of Monday\u2019s episode.\nSadly for Charlotte, Kat survives the drugging, but when she wakes up she discovers her gun and handcuffs are gone! Not only that, but Kat is suspended for having alcohol in her system while on duty.\nOver the coming days, Kat continues to investigate Charlotte in her own time, looking for proof that she was responsible for Trystan\u2019s death. TV Week reports that she sneaks into Charlotte\u2019s apartment, where she discovers Denny\u2019s travel itinerary open on Charlotte\u2019s laptop. Why on earth would Charlotte be looking at that?! Kat begins to piece things together, and Charlotte\u2019s web starts to unravel further as Kat begins to think that she may have been responsible for Denny mysterious disappearance.\nYet Charlotte has yet another trick up her sleeve. The magazine reports that we can expect to see Kat confronted by two \u201cgoons\u201d, who knock her out before turning on the gas, leaving her on the brink of death. Will she manage to discover the truth before Charlotte finally silences her for good?\nProbably not! \u2026 Luck is not on Charlotte\u2019s side, and a storm hits Summer Bay, which looks set to uncover Denny\u2019s dead body. Will Kat be able to link Denny\u2019s murder to Charlotte?\nNot only has Charlotte been plagued by guilt over the murder, she\u2019s also constantly had to endure seeing ex-partner Zack fall further in love with Leah. Her attempts to prise them apart have so far failed, and the happy couple are set to walk down the aisle during the season finale.\nThe newly released promo for the season finale reveals that Charlotte doesn\u2019t plan on going down without a fight, and turns up at the wedding hell bent on causing trouble, wanting to \u201ctake back what\u2019s [hers]\u201d. With access to a gun, and getting closer and closer to the edge, will Charlotte take matters into her own hands to spoil their big day?\nOr will it be Charlotte herself who ends up staring down the barrel of a gun? It\u2019s been rumoured for a while that Charlotte may be murdered, and we know that Erika Heynatz is pregnant, so it\u2019s perfectly possible she won\u2019t be sticking around in the bay for much longer. So could she be murdered in the finale, or perhaps turn the gun around on herself? The promo shows a gun hit the bottom of the sea, as \u201cevery poisonous second is leading to one killer ending\u201d.\nWe\u2019ve been promised a never-been-done-before season finale. Producer Lucy Addario has told Digital Inside Soap that \u201cit\u2019s going to keep audiences guessing in a different way from previous years\u201d. The way the finale was filmed is also \u201ca first\u201d for Home and Away. With the promo revealing a gun dropping into water, perhaps some underwater filming will add even more drama to an already action-packed finale.\nAs for exactly who meets their match in the finale, we shall have to wait and see.\nThe final episode airs in a movie-length triple episode on Wednesday 9th December.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 6319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1991-02-15-1991046039-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LFCVKK2HGUBWC3LF7HH2QN5FGVERP66C", "length": 3718, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "Anti-stadium vote hurts St. Louis' NFL bid Legislative panel denies initial funding - Baltimore Sun", "raw_content": "Anti-stadium vote hurts St. Louis' NFL bid Legislative panel denies initial funding\nVito StellinoTHE BALTIMORE EVENING SUN\nPolitical and business leaders in St. Louis were scrambling yesterday to save their city's bid for a National Football League expansion franchise after a subcommittee in the Missouri State Legislature voted Wednesday against state funding for a proposed downtown domed stadium and convention center.\n\"It's far from over,\" said Missouri House speaker Bob Griffin, despite the 9-7 committee vote to deny an initial $4.5 million in funding for the $200 million project. Griffin hopes to overturn the negative vote next month when the entire budget committee meets.\nThe stadium project, which is supposed to be funded by the state, county and city, seems likely to remain engulfed in controversy even if the funding is approved, and that\nmay boost the chances other cities seeking NFL teams, including Baltimore.\nCity comptroller Virvus Jones is opposing the project, and a state legislator who voted against it, Elbert Walton, called it \"welfare for the rich, a method by which the rich can perpetuate their riches while ignoring the needs of those who need food, housing and medical care.\"\nJones has called Jerry Clinton and Fran Murray, the businessmen heading the St. Louis expansion effort, \"used-car salesmen and flim-flam artists,\" even though they provided Jones with Super Bowl tickets and accommodations last month.\nIf the project isn't approved, St. Louis' attempt to get an expansion team would appear to be doomed. The football Cardinals left after the 1987 season for Phoenix because Busch Stadium wasn't deemed appropriate for football.\nThe timing of the controversy couldn't come at a worse time for St. Louis because if the league goes ahead with its plan to add two expansion teams for 1993, it will have to name them within a year.\nExpansion will be one of the items on the agenda when the owners meet in Hawaii next month, although the NFL hasn't set a timetable for picking the cities.\nThe controversy will raise questions about whether St. Louis ever will build the project, even if this funding is approved. From 1984 -- when Cardinals owner William V. Bidwill warned he'd move if a new stadium wasn't built -- to 1987, the city and county came up with various stadium projects, but all fell through. This project was developed after the team left.\nMurray, who owns 49 percent of the New England Patriots, said that if the funding isn't in place when the league starts to review the cities, \"We will miss this round of expansion. We will not be selected, and we can look forward to a lapse of 15 or 20 years. The last expansion occurred that many years ago [1976].\"\nBut Murray said he doesn't think there will be a \"long-term negativeimpact\" on the city's expansion chances if the vote is overturned.\nSt. Louis' problems could help other expansion hopefuls, but Herbert J. Belgrad, chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority, said Baltimore's bid will stand on its merits and that he is concentrating on firming up his plans to head the Baltimore delegation to the March meetings.\nPepper Rodgers, who is leading the Memphis, Tenn., expansion effort for Federal Express owner Fred Smith, predicted Baltimore and Memphis would get the two teams. 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A Life Membership costs 250 euros.\nAlso exclusively available to members, the Banca del Vino releases special \u201cWine of the Month\u201d offers, which provide an opportunity to obtain hard to find wines that the Banca deems interesting for its members.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bark.com/blog/bristol-woman-posts-request-for-a-clairvoyant-to-make-decisions-for-her-can-you-help/?wgu=10951_54264_15493814915051_91cfb08318&wgexpiry=1557157491&campaign=webgains-22278&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=webgains&utm_campaign=webgains-22278-54264&utm_content=0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VMIVG55DTJQ5KYWGCUJPWEF4FYUSTC7M", "length": 3458, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.bark.com", "title": "Bristol woman posts request for a clairvoyant to make decisions for her \u2013 can you help? \u2013 Bark Blog", "raw_content": "Bark News\nInsights & Market\nBristol woman posts request for a clairvoyant to make decisions for her \u2013 can you help?\nWe get some truly quirky requests through Bark.com sometimes, and we\u2019re always more than happy to try and help find our customers the right professional for them, no matter how weird their request is. Recently a women from Bristol posted a request in our clairvoyant category, asking for a spiritual person to make all of her decisions for her.\nThis isn\u2019t a service that our clairvoyants/psychics/spiritual guides normally provide \u2013 however, we\u2019re hoping that some of our professionals will be able to help her out. The woman has asked to remain anonymous, because she\u2019s using the money from some inheritance she received last year, and doesn\u2019t want her family to find out. She has however agreed to let us make the Bark public in order to help her find the right person for the job.\nIf you think this sounds like something you\u2019d like to try, here\u2019s the request in full:\nHiya, bit of a weird one I know but basically, I feel like I need someone to make my decisions for me. I\u2019ve had a really rubbish year and would love for someone to take control of my life think of it a bit like a real life Bandersnatch :). I have no idea if this sort of thing exists, but came across clairvoyants when I was looking for another service, so thought it was worth a shot.\nAs I said, the past year has been awful. I lost money that I loaned to an old friend, I got stranded without any money while backpacking in New Zealand, was in an abusive relationship for 6 months before I got dumped and then I got mugged because I decided to take a shortcut home through a dodgy area. I am obviously completely incapable of making the right choices by myself!\nMy mum even jokes about it. It seems like every week some minor mishap will happen to me and I\u2019m fed up.\nI\u2019ve always been quite spiritual so I\u2019m looking for someone like a clairvoyant or spiritual guide that I can really connect with, who can help me make the right decisions. I think a month should be long enough to get things back on track for me. But if it works, then maybe I\u2019ll keep on going with it.\nThe type of decisions I\u2019d need help with include who I should go on a Tinder date with (I seem to have terrible taste in men) and what I should spend my savings on, amongst other things. Basically, I\u2019d like the person to be on-call so they can help me whenever and with whatever I need. I text a lot so they should be available to message me frequently and very quick to respond.\nI\u2019m really ready to try anything \u2013 and I\u2019ve set aside \u00a32,000 for this from some inheritance money I received last year.\nDo you think you can help the women out? If you answered yes and you\u2019re a clairvoyant/psychic/spiritual person, then register your services here.\nHere\u2019s what our co-founder, Kai Feller had to say about it:\n\u201cDespite the fact it\u2019s a bit of a strange idea, with the pressures of modern life I\u2019m surprised that a request like this hasn\u2019t come in sooner. 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(65.7 x 45.7 cm.) Painted circa 1500.\nLes femmes d'Alger (Version 'O')\nPablo Picasso (1881-1973) Les femmes d'Alger (Version 'O') signed 'Picasso' (upper right); dated '14.2.55.' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 44 7/8 x 57 5/8 in. (114 x 146.4 cm.) Painted on 14 February 1955.\nAntique Gold Portrait Box - Napoleon - Price \u00a3950 Wax Antiques\nRafael Canogar - Grabado al Aguafuerte y Collage \"La Tierra\" Grabados y Litografias\nBror Bonfils Stringtavla 1950-tal Danmark Tradera\nAmedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) Nu couch\u00e9 signed \u2018modigliani\u2019 (upper right) oil on canvas 23 5/8 x 36 \u00bc in. (59.9 x 92 cm.) Painted in 1917-1918\nFrancis Bacon (1909-1992) Three Studies of Lucian Freud titled and dated '3 studies for portrait Lucian Freud 1969' (on the reverse of the center panel) oil on canvas, in 3 parts each: 78 x 58 in. (198 x 147.5 cm.) Painted in 1969.\nEdvard Munch, The Scream Signed E. Munch and dated 1895 (lower left) Pastel on board in the original frame 32 by 23 1/4 in. 79 by 59 cm Executed in 1895.\nFillette \u00e0 la corbeille fleurie\nPablo Picasso (1881-1973) Fillette \u00e0 la corbeille fleurie signed \u2018Picasso\u2019 (upper right); signed again, dated and inscribed \u2018Picasso 1905 13 Rue Ravignan\u2019 (on the reverse) oil on canvas 60 7/8 x 26 in. (154.8 x 66.1 cm.) Painted in 1905\nRaw, uncensored, and fiercely magnificent, Untitled from 1982 is a virtually incomparable masterwork from Jean-Michel Basquiats revolutionary body of paintings, executed in the very first month of the pivotal year of 1982. Emblazoned upon the monumental canvas, the visceral impact of the artists painted searing visage is absolute and immediate, consuming the viewers gaze in an impenetrable maelstrom of violent gesture, chromatic radiance, and pure, unbridled electric charge. The overwhelming visual dynamism of Untitled vehemently declared the arrival of the brilliant, then virtually unknown young artist into a world that would be forever transformed by his paintings. In an explosive torrent of gestural vigor, Untitled embodies the indomitable force of Basquiats creative insurgency, which, in a flourishing conflagration of word, color, and mark, sent shockwaves through downtown Manhattan in the early 1980s and inaugurated a radical return to figurative painting. Here the artists anatomically rendered skull-like headexecuted in intricate strata of kaleidoscopic oilstick, acrylic, and spraypaintis surrounded in a barrage of arresting iconography, most notably the three-pointed crown and an all-over flurry of typography. Held in the same private collection since being acquired in 1984, Untitled has not been publically exhibited since its initial unveiling in June of 1982. Shortly following its creation, Untitled was exhibited in Fast, a selection of new figurative works at Alexander F. Milliken gallery in New York. When cited in the charged presence of Untitled, the preface to the 1982 exhibition catalogue is, to this day, profoundly resonant: The spontaneity of [Basquiats] brushstroke is not lost in the transition from city walls to canvas. The graffiti, authentic and painterly, are todays answer to the New York Schools gestural marks The evidence of the artists hand confers on the work a humanistic component. These artists share an acute awareness of the times they live in, making their work highly sensitized to objective reality. Although critical, disorienting and provocative, they address an overburdened, highly complex nervous system. (Susan L. Putterman, About Fast, in Exh. Cat., New York, Alexander F. Milliken Inc., Fast, 1982, n.p.) Irrefutably the most significant work by the artist to ever appear at auction, Untitled ranks among the ultimate paragons of the artists oeuvre, and is the commanding counterpart to Basquiats Untitled (Head) in the collection of The Broad Museum. As malevolent mirror-images, the pair of shamanistic skulls ushered in a provocative artistic shift that, in its unfiltered grit and guttural symbolism, expressed the vibrant reality of urban life with thrilling authenticity. As an indisputable masterpiece from the singular formative year of Basquiats meteoric career, the unveiling of Untitled marks an extraordinary moment within the legacy of Contemporary Arts most mythic and revered figure. Pulsating with creative furor, Untitled is the superlative embodiment of the unprecedented new manner that emerged in Basquiats paintings as he channeled the explosive charge of his street art into the first, staggeringly intense canvases of his mature corpus. A monumental fusion of viscerally charged figuration and unbridled painterly assault, the remarkable diversity of marks woven into the impenetrable layers of Basquiats figure is a clear articulation of both the artists past, as a celebrated member of Manhattans graffiti vanguard, and of his remarkable future, as contemporary arts dazzling prodigy. In the gestural ferocity of the figure, its outline delineated in bold masterstrokes of thick black pigment, the rapidly executed scrawls of Basquiats graffiti alter-ego of the late 1970s, SAMO, is readily apparent. As SAMO, Basquiat roamed the streets of New York, emblazoning his moniker and chosen icons the three point crown and the acquisitive \u00a9 upon the abandoned walls of the city. From the beginning, the celebrated SAMO was known for his unique blend of the conceptual and the visual, merging a diverse linguistic arsenal of words with enigmatic symbols and icons that, while inscrutable, were likewise unforgettable. In Untitled, Basquiat sacrifices none of the immediacy and directness of SAMO, but rather, channels the explosive marks of spray paint, oilstick, and violently wielded brush into a formal order that harnesses his emotive power within the boundaries of figuration. Describing this shift, critic Achille Bonito Oliva reflects, Now, he brought to his canvases the abstract-figurative intensity of this experience, its declarative and narrative nature, explicit and didactic vigor, and its confused and spontaneous accumulation of visual elements. (Achille Bonita Oliva, The Perennial Shadow of Art in Basquiats Brief Life, in Exh. Cat., Lugano, Museo dArte Moderna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2005, p. 40) Absorbing, warping, and reshaping the myriad cacophonous influences of the street, Basquiat forged an extraordinarily lucid and intelligent pictorial vernacular that, while entirely his own, typified the language of the streets with searing candor. Attempting to verbalize the indescribable relevance of Basquiats new mode, Glenn OBrien reflected, He was the once-in-a-lifetime real deal: artist as prophet. (Glenn OBrien, Greatest Hits, in Exh. Cat., Art Gallery of Ontario, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Nows the Time, 2015, p. 180) In the frenetic, rampant inscription of graphic forms that courses across the surface of Untitled, Basquiats illustrious draftsmanship is on glorious and full-bodied display. Traces of a crossed out tic-tac-toe grid in the upper section of the canvas are surrounded by layers of overwritten and overpainted letters, counterbalancing the prominent upper and lower case a at the bottom left of the composition. As described by Richard D. Marshall, To Basquiat, the meaning of a word was not necessarily relevant to its usage because he employed words as abstract objects that can be seen as configurations of straight and curved lines that come together to form a visual pattern. The visual and graphic impact of printed letters was sufficient enough to stand alone as an artistic expression. (Richard D. Marshall, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Speaking in Tongues, in Exh. Cat., Lugano, Museo dArte Moderna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 2005, p. 40) Conjuring allusions to the graceful scrawls and scribbles of Cy Twomblyan artist for whom he held a deep admirationthe glimpses of Basquiats graphic forms invoke a sort of proto-handwriting: a primitive kind of expression that strives toward resolution and legibility but is suspended in a perpetual territory of formal symbolism, akin to our contemporary reading of classical mark-making. Typifying this impulse, the spiky scrawl of an upper and lower case letter A is boldly emblazoned in black oil stick at the bottom left of the canvas, as though to label this work as the beginning, the first, the immediate origin of meaning. Then, conjuring the specter of SAMO, notorious vandal/hero of the streets, Basquiat violently scratches out his illusory hieroglyphs, leaving only the suggestion of signifier in a shimmering crown around the head of his gargantuan skull. Despite the variegated hues layered into the upper portion of the canvas, the potent symbol of Basquiats notorious street tag the iconic three-pointed crown gleams though the chroma, a ghostly silhouette of raised oil stick. The intricately accreted layers evoke a graffiti-scarred wall, characterized by accretive strata that in their very build-up and lush tonal variety divulge a sense of temporal progression. Below a saturated ground of vibrant blue pigment, the shimmering signifiers of Basquiats hieroglyphic scrawls peer through, offering the elusive promise of legibility without conceding meaning. Inscribing and scrawling over, painting and scraping away, he hovers between inscription and obfuscation, building the brilliant chromatic strata of his canvas with every stroke. Following the completion of the present work in January of 1982, over the course of the year, this once-in-a-lifetime artist would receive his first solo exhibition with Annina Nosei in New York, followed quickly by Larry Gagosian in Los Angeles, Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, and, most astoundingly, an invitation to attend the international exhibition Documenta 7 in Kassel as the youngest artist of more than 176 to present his art. Paralleling the artists spectacular rise, every expressive mark of Untitled is imbued with the insatiable artistic drive which fueled Basquiat as he began his ascent. In the coursing frenzy of jet-black veins that line the frenetically rendered skull of Untitled, Basquiats impassioned, almost compulsive desire to create is readily apparent and undeniable. Reflecting upon the artists corpus, Marc Mayer describes Basquiat as, an articulate and prolific spokesman for youth: insatiably curious, tirelessly inventive, innocently self-deprecating because of youths inadequacies, jealously guarding his independenceHis work is likely to remain for a long time as the modern picture of what it looks like to be brilliant, driven, and young. (Marc Mayer, Basquiat in History, in Exh. Cat., New York, Brooklyn Museum, Basquiat, 2005, p. 57) In its searing, talismanic rendering of a skull, Untitled heralds the imminent resurgence of figurative painting through New York in the 1980s. Forged within the crucible of the gritty downtown art scene, Basquiats artistic vernacular was at the forefront of a revolution against the reigning artistic dogmas of the preceding decade. Nowhere was more enthusiastically volatile, or more bewitched by an insuppressible ferment of cultural expression, than the creative vortex of downtown Manhattan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. OBrien conjures the atmosphere luridly, citing: If you were turning eighteen in New York City in 1978, The New Frontier had gone down in flames, but the city was still frontier. New York City was the Wild, Wild East. Shootouts. Bandits. Savages. Badlands, The greatest city in the world was broke and all broke down and it was exciting.(Glenn OBrien, Basquiat and the New York Scene, 1978-82, in Exh. Cat., Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Basquiat, 2010, p. 38) Within this cacophonous context, a new style of painting began to emerge, one that privileged the immediacy of the isolated image over narrative, and the metaphoric strength of cultural signifiers over the interpretive freedom of undiluted abstraction. Typified in the celebrated Times Square Show of 1980 and the spectacular exhibition New York/New Wave at P.S.1 in 1981, both of which featured the young, undiscovered Basquiat, the rehabilitation of figuration sent reverberations throughout the artistic community. In his 1981 review of New York/New Wave, OBrien boldly proclaimed, This is a tidal wave of art, about to reduce the entire art world to limp rubblehere, art is based on life, not on art. The public might like it. (Glenn OBrien, cited in Glenn OBrien, New York, New Wave, Artforum, March 2003, n.p.) This momentous shift is verbalized with exceptional precision in the prophetic preamble for Fast, which remarked: The eighteen artists share a commitment to the painting process as a human, vulnerable endeavor, and to the use of recognizable imagery as a tenable tool. Finding the modernist canons of faith invalid and the realist methods of reportage insufficient, these artists use representation for expressive purposes. Although the use of figuration is not in itself new, these artists have found a viable and powerful way of using it today. (Susan L. Putterman, About Fast, in Exh. Cat., New York, Alexander F. Milliken Inc., Fast, 1982, n.p.) In its searing, almost unbearable legibility, Untitled thunderously heralds the triumphant revenge of bold symbolism into an art world that, upon Basquiats impact, would never be the same. Built up of innumerable layers of vibrant hues and coursing rivulets of pigment, Untitled is an unparalleled example of the virtuosic ability to apply, execute, shift, and render paint upon canvas that distinguished Basquiat as an undisputed master within the vanguard of young and ambitious image-makers. Exemplifying his singular command as a master colorist, Basquiat layers undiluted primary hues to spectacular effect, rapidly building up the bold figurative outlines of his composition with frenetic bravura. Describing Basquiats innate natural ability, Marc Mayer notes, \"With direct and theatrically ham-fisted brushwork, he used unmixed color structurally, like a seasoned abstractionist, but in the service of a figurative and narrative agenda. Basquiat deployed his color architecturally, at times like so much tinted mortar to bind a composition, at other times like opaque plaster to embody it. Color holds his pictures together, and through it they command a room.\" (Marc Mayer, \"Basquiat in History,\" in Exh. Cat., New York, Brooklyn Museum, Basquiat, 2005, p. 46) Intermingling oil-stick with spray-paint, pigment with gestural smear, in rapid succession, Basquiat builds his figure up before him, sealing the immediacy of the figure with the final addition of white to the glowering eyes. In a manner that conjures the infinite generations of graffiti on urban walls, or the peeling layers of posters papering a downtown structure, Basquiat covers his canvas in impenetrable strata of vibrant marks until every line and form of the skull is reinforced and overdrawn. In the bared teeth alone, impastoed layers of mark coalesce with hallucinogenic depth. While the furious speed of Basquiats paint application conjures a vision of chaotic yet remarkably controlled movement, the textural depth of Untitled suggests the paintings careful and deliberate creation. Indeed, Untitled (Head), 1981, the iconic counterpart to the present work, was begun in the early months of 1981, yet unfinished for several months as Basquiat continued to stall and delay its completion. Fred Hoffmans description alludes to a vision of Basquiat conjured in the studio, similarly painting the present work: One can only speculate about the reasons for this hesitation, but several individuals close to the artistincluding myself and Annina Nosei, the artists dealer at the timesuspect that this young, unseasoned artist hesitated to complete the work because he was caught off guard, possibly even frightened, by the power and energy emanating from this unexpected image. (Fred Hoffman, The Defining Years: Notes on Five Key Works, in Ibid., p. 13) Jubilantly demonstrative of the radical creative pinnacle of Basquiats career, Untitled offers a ferocious portrait of an artist defined by explosive talent and calamitous brilliance. Ritualistically lining and relining the crude cranium, Basquiat constricts the combustive color and mark of his figure within a thrumming web of dark oil stick, alluding to an interior realm as richly textured and variegated as the canvas below. Enacting an exceptionally groundbreaking use of figuration, Untitled breaks down the dichotomy between the external and internal, revealing the cacophonous innermost aspects of psychic life with breathtaking dynamism. Visual and emotive force are fused as, turning to his canvas, Basquiat renders a figure that is raw and aggressive, a cacophonous melee of color, gesture, light, and sound held together by the unwavering confidence of the artists line. The ineffable triumph of Untitled is perhaps best reflected in the words of Ed Baynard, the curator of the only exhibition that revealed the present work to the public eye: I chose the word Fast as an umbrella title because Fast seems (to me) the opposite of apathy. Fast is passion made concrete. (Ed Baynard, cited in Exh. Cat., New York, Alexander F. Milliken Inc., Fast, 1982, n.p.) Inaugurating the beginning of Basquiats ascendancy to the highest echelons of acclaim, Untitled is an enduring triumph to the passionate, emotive force of Basquiat incomparable painterly mark. Signed, inscribed NYC and dated 82 on the reverse\nPablo Picasso (1881-1973) Nude, Green Leaves and Bust signed and dated 'Picasso XXXII.' (upper right) oil on canvas 63\u00be x 51\u00bc in. (162 x 130 cm.) Painted on 8 March 1932\nGARCON A LA PIPE\nPablo Picasso, GARCON A LA PIPE Signed Picasso (lower left) Oil on canvas 39 1/4 by 32 in. 99.7 by 81.3 cm Painted in 1905.\nJohn Richardson The Eye of the Storm: Warhol and Picasso I arrived in New York for the first time in 1959 and within a year or two I met Andy. After that I saw a great deal of him. But nobody ever got to know Andy or, for that matter, Picasso: neither ever really opened up to anybody. Andy was often asking me about Picasso. I see Andy always at the Eye of the Storm. The Eye of the Storm where there is stillness, and all around is disaster. Here was Andy at the center of all this horror: the horror of modern life. Yet Andy was unaffected. He felt this, he sensed this, but he wasn\u2019t one of the victims of it. By virtue of being in the Eye of the Storm he could see it. And he transmitted his feelings into these amazing images. When I gave the eulogy at Andy\u2019s funeral I stressed the fact that Andy was a Catholic who went to Mass every single day of his life. So much of his work, including the Disaster paintings, comes out of that. The whole repetition of Andy\u2019s imagery stems from the fact that he was Catholic. He went to church, he went to confession, he had to do ten Hail Marys, twenty Ave Marias, and all this is reflected in the way his imagery is repeated again and again and again. Picasso used to claim he was an atheist, but he was the least atheistic person I\u2019ve ever met. He was deeply spiritual. Indeed, I see Guernica as a votive painting: it is an Ex Voto. And that seems to me the link between Picasso and Warhol: this deep, spiritual approach to their work. These Disaster paintings are not Andy reveling in disaster: this is Andy sitting at the Eye of the Storm, being the one still person among disasters, death, and horror. That is the key thing that these Disaster pictures were intended to convey. And that is why to my mind they are the most moving, and the strongest of all of Andy\u2019s imagery. From an interview with Tobias Meyer, New York, October 2013 Screening History: Andy Warhol\u2019s Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) To stand in front of this work of art is to bear witness to events that exist beyond description: it is to be in the presence of something phenomenal. To contemplate the sheer vastness of its achievement is to enter a realm of experience rarely encountered in Art History. Enlisting the dimensions of a specific narrative to achieve a fundamental human universality, this work belongs to that rarest elite of historic masterpieces which have occasionally altered our deepest perception. Like its illustrious forbears of the epic History Painting genre, this work stands as both the most astute allegory of its era and the vital mirror to our present. Here exists something utterly essential, something that has always been and always will be integral to our human story. Here is an arena that exists both inside and outside of the present, a place where time seems suspended. It is the proposition of both a definitive end and an unending beginning. On the left there is the final instant: the permanent flash where the possibilities of existence have been extinguished. Freedom and independence lie lifeless in wreckage as definitive lament to the hopes of the future. All this is repeated over and over and each version is unique: the tragic occurrence and recurrence is never identical. Yet, however the reel of life differs, here is the moment that it is conclusively severed. The screen turns blank. On the right there is an ever-shifting silver ocean of promise: a reflection to our ever-changing current experience. The specific, unalterable finality of the past meets the abstract, permanent continuity of the present. Stories told give way to stories as yet untold. Andy Warhol created Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) in the summer of 1963, at the turn of his thirty-fifth birthday. Composed of two canvases, each over eight feet high and together spanning in excess of thirteen feet, it ranked among the most monumental and ambitious works he had ever undertaken. Indeed, there exist only three other Car Crash paintings of remotely comparable scale: Orange Car Crash 14 Times, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Black and White Disaster #4, Kunstmuseum Basel; and Orange Car Crash, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna. It represents the zenith of the Death and Disaster corpus, a body of work that was then Warhol\u2019s total focus, and which surely remains his most significant and enduring contribution to the course of Art History. As Heiner Bastian succinctly declared: \u201cWhatever the many different conclusions arrived at in art-historical observations on the significance of Warhol\u2019s work in the context of his time and his contemporaries, it is the images of disaster and death that he started to make in 1963 that Warhol the chronicler gains his credibility and Warhol the artist explains the world.\u201d (Exh. Cat., London, Tate Modern, Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2002, pp. 28-9) In this groundbreaking year Warhol successively produced the series that comprise this seminal canon, which today read as a roll call of almost unfathomable artistic accomplishment: Suicides, Black and White Disaster, Early Serial Disasters, Silver Electric Chairs, Red Explosion, Tunafish Disasters, Race Riots, Burning Cars, 5 Deaths and Late Disasters. Of all the paintings in this spectacular outpouring of compulsive innovation, Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) is truly exceptional. It is one of only seven in the monumental, double-canvas format: in addition to the three Car Crashes mentioned above are Red Disaster, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Blue Electric Chair and Mustard Race Riot. As denoted by the corresponding titles, Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) stands out from this pantheon of immense Death and Disaster works for its exceptional silver color, providing the expansive surface with a constantly adjusting, reflective quality that is absent from the single color acrylic grounds of the other paintings. The incomparable nature of Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) is further confirmed by the remarkable heritage of its provenance. Three venerated collectors have previously owned this painting: Gian Enzo Sperone, Charles Saatchi and Thomas Ammann, each of whose eminent collections famously included some of the most outstanding artworks of the Twentieth Century. Subsequently this painting has been held in the same private collection for the past quarter of a century and has been publicly exhibited only once in that time, at the Fondation Beyeler in 2000. Having been rooted in heroic tales of immigration, American history evolved over two centuries through narratives of migration and ceaseless movement. Whether by horse, stagecoach, steam train or the automobile, this vast continental expanse was traversed by countless generations in the quest for opportunity and betterment. In the Twentieth Century there came to be no more potent symbol of the freedom and independence that are such monolithic cornerstones of the American Dream than the automobile. From John Steinbeck\u2019s The Grapes of Wrath to Jack Kerouac\u2019s On the Road; Frank Capra\u2019s It Happened One Night to Nicolas Ray\u2019s Rebel Without a Cause; Chuck Berry\u2019s Get Your Kicks on Route 66 to the Beach Boys Little Deuce Coupe; America\u2019s love affair with the automobile became profoundly endemic to its cultural identity. When Andy Warhol created this work in 1963, forty-four percent of Americans owned a motor vehicle, nearly double the number of just twenty years before. Seven years prior in 1956, the US Congress had authorized the largest and most ambitious public works enterprise of the postwar era: a nationwide interstate highway system comprising over 40,000 miles of high-speed roadways. Fittingly Time magazine declared the highway the \u201ctrue index of our culture.\u201d (\u201cThe New Highway Network,\u201d Time, no. 69, June 24, 1957, p. 92) And in the eighteen years between the end of the Second World War and 1963, 620,000 Americans died in automobile accidents, on average almost one hundred people per day and more than the totals of all American casualties in the First and Second World Wars combined. Looming like an ever-present, seemingly indiscriminate scythe over Middle America\u2019s new golden age of economic prosperity and everything it stood for, the car crash had quietly become the primal, devastating threat to an entire way of life. This work's execution belongs to an extraordinary shift in this most iconic of artistic careers, during which Warhol revolutionized the terms of popular visual culture. The ideal of the seminal Death and Disaster series, which was one of the most provocative, confrontational and brilliant projects undertaken by any artist in the transformative decade of the 1960s, this canvas epitomizes the monumental themes of Warhol\u2019s career: namely an unprecedented artistic interrogation into the agencies of mass-media, celebrity and death. With deafening resonance Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) exclaims an immediately harrowing and intensely violent scenario: the instant aftermath of a brutal car crash. Within the composition the unmistakable corporeal outline of a single body is slung across the front seats of its deformed vehicle. The metallic expanse of the vehicle's massive form accentuates the flesh-and-blood mortality of its ill-fated passenger. Intertwined with the deformed metal superstructure and jointly sprawled across the asphalt concrete is this twisted victim: man and machine having become fused together through mundane catastrophe. In more metaphorical terms, the harsh division between the gleaming automobile and the spectacularly crushed chassis is mediated by the strewn body, caught at the point between organized construction and chaotic destruction. Thus one of the great symbols of 1950s and 1960s America, a facilitator of individualism and a key signifier of social mobility, the automobile, becomes the devastating delivery system of indiscriminate fatality. As Neil Printz relates, \"the car crash turns the American dream into a nightmare.\" (Neil Printz in Exh. Cat., Houston, The Menil Collection, Andy Warhol: Death and Disasters, 1988, p. 16) Silver Car Crash (Double Disaster) offers the nightmare, but also concurrently normalizes this dystopian vision of sanitized suburban brutality. Here import is incited not only by subject, but also by method, process and context. Silkscreened on spray-painted silver, the cinematic silver-screen expanse is revealed on the left through the patterned gradations of anonymous dots. In addition, Warhol faithfully reproduces the composition of the photojournalist, replicating the foreign aesthetic of a found image. The nature of this rendering is strategically impersonal. Walter Hopps succinctly describes that \"Warhol took for granted the notion that the obvious deployment of traditional rendering need not be revealed or employed, thereby expunging manual bravura from his work.\" (Walter Hopps in Exh. Cat., Houston, The Menil Collection, Andy Warhol: Death and Disasters, 1988, p. 7) Here the mechanical silk-screen dot and absence of manual bravura silence the subject, at once evoking the production of newsprint photojournalism and the unceasing everyday phenomenon that the car crash had itself become. In an interview with Gene Swenson in 1963 Warhol stated that \"when you see a gruesome picture over and over again, it doesn't really have any effect.\" (the artist interviewed by Gene Swenson, \"What is Pop Art?'', Artnews 62, November 1963, pp. 60-61) In his 1970 monograph, Rainer Crone discussed how, although the car crash photos \"evoke the immediacy of the actual event... this decreases as such occurrences become more frequent.\" (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 29) Nevertheless, the raw power of this confrontational image remains urgently accosting, despite our immersion in supposedly desensitizing mass-media representations of violence and brutality. The tonal polarization of the silkscreen impression bleakly particularizes the mangled figure and dramatizes the finality of deathly stillness. The atrocity here is highly quotidian: it is a thoroughly everyday catastrophe, typical of what Hopps calls the \"unpredictable choreography of death\" amidst the \"banality of everyday disasters.\" (Op. Cit., p. 9) Warhol, himself obsessively fixated with the fragility of existence, here scrutinizes the public face of a private disaster and questions why anonymous victims are elevated to celebrity through their unexpected encounter with death. The source was an unidentified newspaper photograph, and despite the horror of the scene before him, the photojournalist nevertheless intuitively cropped the image through the view finder to engender narrative and provide an aesthetically satisfying picture according to compositional convention. Warhol selectively accentuated lights and darks on this photograph to intensify the contrast of the reproduction on the screen when he ordered his mechanical, in order to improve its legibility as well as enhance the compositional polarization of the image. In purely formal terms, the composition is bifurcated in two by the vertical tree or telephone pole that proved the automobile\u2019s undoing, invoking both the double take and before and after narratives in our reception. Our eye is drawn to travel side to side, up and down, and diagonally between the four principal arenas of pictorial data. Warhol's exceptional aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time defines him as the consummate twentieth-century history painter. Inasmuch as his canvas implicates our fascination with mortality and a certain voyeurism of death, as well as being sourced in the reportage of controversial contemporary events, Warhol\u2019s masterpiece advances a heritage proposed by the likes of Jacques-Louis David\u2019s Death of Marat, Francisco Goya\u2019s The Third of May, Theodore G\u00e9ricault\u2019s The Raft of the Medusa and Pablo Picasso\u2019s Guernica. It continues this illustrious line of precedent as a defining History Painting of the Twentieth Century. On 5 July 1816 the French naval frigate M\u00e9duse ran aground off the coast of Africa, near today\u2019s Mauritania. With insufficient capacity of lifeboats, at least 147 passengers and crew were forced onto a makeshift raft. After thirteen days\u2019 drifting, all but fifteen of those souls perished, either by starvation, drowning, dehydration or cannibalism. When the twenty-five year-old Th\u00e9odore G\u00e9ricault heard of the widely-reported events he launched into an unprecedented undertaking that would culminate in one of the most celebrated paintings of all time, The Raft of the Medusa, which he finally completed in 1819. Interviewing survivors, visiting morgues and hospitals, working from severed limbs and creating a scale model of the raft, G\u00e9ricault worked in isolation for eighteen months. Utterly dedicated to an uncommissioned, spectacularly controversial work that retold a highly-charged recent event, G\u00e9ricault created a seminal History Painting that still thunderously resonates through its sheer evocation of unknowable human suffering and endurance. There perhaps remains no greater metaphor for, in the words of Christine Riding, \u201cthe fallacy of hope and pointless suffering, and at worst, the basic human instinct to survive, which had superseded all moral considerations and plunged civilised man into barbarism.\u201d (Christine Riding, \"The Fatal Raft: Christine Riding Looks at British Reaction to the French Tragedy at Sea Immortalised in G\u00e9ricault's Masterpiece 'The Raft of the Medusa,'\" History Today, February 2003) On 26 July 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, German and Italian warplanes acting for Spanish Nationalist forces annihilated the village of Guernica in northern Spain, indiscriminately massacring innocent civilians with bombs and gunfire. The atrocity incited widespread outrage and having read the eyewitness account by British journalist George Steer in the French newspaper L\u2019Humanit\u00e9, Pablo Picasso, living in Paris and then Honorary Director-in-exile of the Prado Museum, conceived perhaps the most recognized artistic expression of anti-war sentiment ever to come into being, Guernica. As memorialized by Michel Leiris, \u201cIn a rectangle black and white such as that in which ancient tragedy appeared to us, Picasso sends us our announcement of our mourning: all that we love is going to die, and that is why it was necessary to this degree that all that we love should embody itself, like the effusions of last farewell, in something unforgettably beautiful.\u201d (Michel Leiris, Cahiers d\u2019Art, 1937, Nos. 4-5, cited in Roland Penrose, Picasso: His Life and Work, 3rd Ed., Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1981 [first published 1958], p. 309) Like G\u00e9ricault and Picasso before him, here Warhol created a painting for the ages, that would always speak something essential about humankind\u2019s struggle with existence. Confronted by the tragedy of death and its incongruous by-product of celebrity, Andy Warhol nullified the news story zeitgeist through the effects of replication and multiplication, so undermining the manipulative potentiality of mass media. In keeping with his very best work, celebrity, tragedy and the absurdity of human transience inhabit every pore of this breathtaking painting, and this compelling work stands as a treatise on the emotional conditioning inherent to our culture. Scrutinizing the public face of a private disaster, it questions how anonymous victims are elevated to notoriety via the exceptional conditions of their demise, or as Thomas Crow describes, \"the repetition of the crude images does draw attention to the awful banality of the accident and to the tawdry exploitation by which we come to know the misfortunes of strangers.\" (Thomas Crow, \"Saturday Disasters: Trace and Reference in Early Warhol,\u201d Art in America, May 1987, p. 135) The uncertain interplay between anonymous suffering and the broadcast exposure of bereavement is here locked forever into the silver and ink lamina of this masterwork. Left: signed twice and dated 63 on the overlapright: signed and dated 63 on the overlap\nGiacometti's extraordinary Chariot is his masterpiece and ranks among the definitive achievements of 20th century art. With its painted surface and rich, golden patina, the present sculpture is perhaps the most important bronze that the artist created. His biographer James Lord, while discussing what is considered Giacometti\u2019s \"great period\" of the late 1940s and early 1950s, identified Chariot as his finest accomplishment: \"There are many extraordinary sculptures of 1949 and 1950,\" he wrote. \"Among them all, however, there is one, perhaps, more extraordinary than the others by reason of having required him to be extraordinary. It asks the beholder to be extraordinary, too\" (J. Lord, Giacometti, New York, 1985, p. 304). Chariot had a profound personal significance for Giacometti, reflecting an epiphany in his creative development. The image came to him in a memory from his Surrealist period of the late 1930s. Like other sculptures from those years, it was a product of his unconscious mind, an \u201cautomatic\u201d image that arrived fully-formed and unmediated. In accounts of its origin, the artist explained that Chariot derived from his souvenir of 1938 when, recuperating in Bichat hospital after an accident, he had \"marveled\" at nurses\u2019 pharmacy wagons with their \"tinkling\" bells. This sensory image stayed with him, and he drew several sketches that would lead ultimately to the present work. As he explained in a letter to his dealer Pierre Matisse, \u201cIn 1947 I saw the sculpture before me as if already done, and in 1950 it was impossible not to realize it, although it was already situated for me in the past\u201d (A. Giacometti, 1950, quoted in J. Lord, ibid., p. 306). When cast in bronze in 1950, Chariot would become a heroic emblem of Post-War renewal. Locked in place despite the large apparatus of propulsion, the figure is Giacometti's attempt to crystallize the Existentialist philosophy which dominated Post-War Paris. His charioteer exists in a state of perpetual immobility yet her strength remains intact. She raises her arms in a commanding gesture, much like that of the gleaming sentinel in front of the tomb of King Tutankhamun. A figure of perseverance and a beacon of hope, she stands for all eternity upon her chariot, steadfast in her mission. The spirit of victory prevails over adversity and with this glorious sculpture Giacometti made his triumphant mark on history. The genesis of the sculpture was in fact more complex than Giacometti implied. His hospital stay resulted after injuring his foot in a late-night traffic accident beside the gilded sculpture of Joan of Arc in the Place des Pyramides. It was perhaps his remembrance of looking up at the image of the saint that inspired him to create this sculpture in gold. As Laurie Wilson points out in her biography, \"gold was the substance of the magically alive mechanical servant girls of Vulcan who helped the lame smithy walk.\" Wilson continues to describe Giacometti's work on this sculpture, which she likens to that of a goddess figure for the artist: \"Implying movement in the charioteer cost Giacometti much effort, and he repeatedly revised the position of her arms. By raising her above the multitude, Giacometti made the woman of the Chariot into an object of worship. She stands in direct contrast to his numerous immobile or encaged women of that year who were simultaneously enticing and threatening.... Giacometti momentarily triumphed over death with his contemporary image magic, just as ancient Egyptians believed that the shining sun triumphed every day over the darkness of night and death.... in 1950, at the height of his powers he could afford to carry out a project that secretly celebrated one of his profoundest fantasies \u2013 an apparently inanimate creature could be seen as vital\" (L. Wilson, op. cit. p. 261). Scholars also note that Giacometti\u2019s Chariot draws its formal inspiration from several art historical precedents. Most obvious of these, according to Reinhold Hohl, is the Egyptian chariot that Giacometti saw at the Archeological Museum in Florence. Another possible source, given his fascination with classical statuary, is the Delphic charioteer whose hands extend to hold the reigns in a manner similar to the figure in the present sculpture. The idea of the obsolete wheel also invokes Marcel Duchamp\u2019s famous Bicycle Wheel, which challenged the fundamental role of a utilitarian object. But the most direct antecedent is Giacometti\u2019s own Femme au chariot I, a 1942 sculpture of a woman standing on a small-wheeled dolly. While the woman in that sculpture could not control her mobility, the rotating wheels of her cart could be moved by an exterior force. For his 1950 Chariot Giacometti grossly enlarged the proportion of the wheels and precluded their motion entirely. The woman on this chariot is going nowhere, yet she is a harbinger of times to come. Over the following years, motionless women and aimlessly walking men became the main characters in Giacometti\u2019s drama of humanity, and his identity as an artist became inextricably linked with these images. James Lord suggests the following interpretation in his biography on the artist: \"Like a dream, the Chariot moves inward upon itself even as it seems to rush ominously forward, and in our perspective this motion signifies that the sculpture was not created by accident. Art uses life, and the extent of the use gives the moral of the work. The Chariot leads us to look more closely than usual at this interaction. It is fascinating but frightening. Where first there was nothing, suddenly there is everything\" (J. Lord, op. cit., p. 307). The present cast of Chariot is among the rare sculptures that Giacometti painted meticulously to enhance the textural quality of the bronze, adding precise details of to the face, lips and body. This technique alludes to the polychrome empyreal funerary figures of ancient Egyptian statuary, whose timeless stance Giacometti also invokes. Only the present work and another in the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, are treated in this unique way. Perhaps inspired by the gilt of Joan of Arc, Giacometti favored an unusual golden patina for this composition. James Lord argues that this appropriate since \u201cChariot called for association with the metal most prized by man, the first to be worked in the pre-dawn of history, the one most often used to make or enrich the effigies of heroes, saints and deities (J. Lord, ibid., p. 306). The scale of his sculptures was an important component of Giacometti's creative vision and one that he discussed frequently with his companions. Sculptures that were too big \"infuriated\" him because they relied too much on imagination rather than on existential experience. On the other hand, he found works that were too small to be \"intolerable\" because they were difficult to handle and materially unsustainable. The present work, standing about a meter and a half high, was purely a concrete object in a clearly defined space, relatable in scale to its viewer. With its connotations of stoicism, resilience, strength, vulnerability, perseverance and stasis, it calls to mind a passage from Samuel Beckett's classic of Existentialism, Waiting for Godot: \"Why are we here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in this immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come.\" Referring to the cast in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, curator Anne Umland has written about the significance of Chariot in relation to the Existentialist philosophy popular among intellectuals within Giacometti\u2019s circle. \u201cGiacometti was preoccupied with the elusiveness of contour, with the uncertain boundary between the object and the space that surrounded it. Jean-Paul Sartre influentially wrote about figures such as this as existing in some liminal state between being and nothingness. The figure's arms are tentatively outstretched; she diminishes as your eye travels up her rail thin legs to a slight swelling of the hips, to small breasts and head. No matter how close you get to her, she is always going to retreat thanks to the play of light and touch across the mottled, gnarled, knotty surface\u2026. The pencil-thin woman is frozen in position, balanced on a platform attached to the axle of a chariot whose wheels are raised on tapered blocks. Yet her stance, with arm extended, looks unstable, raising the likelihood of sudden movement. But in which direction? Our uncertainty is heightened by the disparity in size between the figure and the huge wheels and pedestal. Looking at her, it's not clear if she's about to come toward us, or to move away. Paradoxically, the woman's reduced dimensions only add to her stature. We are drawn to her vague features. But no matter how carefully we look, we cannot quite make them out\u201d (excerpt fromwww.moma.org). Chariot was cast in a bronze edition of six numbered 1/6-6/6, according to the Fondation Giacometti in Paris. Of these six, only two bronzes, including the present work, remain in private collections. The four other casts are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Kunsthaus, Zurich; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, MO. Inscribed with the signature A. Giacometti, with foundry mark Alexis Rudier Fondeur Paris and numbered 2/6\nDora Maar au chat is one of Picasso\u2019s most spectacular depictions of his mistress and artistic companion (see fig. 1). Picasso's love affair with Maar (1907-1997) was a partnership of intellectual exchange and intense passion that lasted nearly a decade, and Maar\u2019s influence on the artist resulted in some of his most daring portraits of his career. Among the best of them are the oils completed during the war years, when Picasso's art resonated with the drama and emotional upheaval of the era. The luminous Dora Maar au chat was painted in 1941, at the beginning of the Second World War in France and just as the couple's relationship was reaching its fiery climax. This large canvas is one of the most complete and compositionally dynamic depictions from an elite group of portraits from the late 1930s and early 1940s that includes Portrait de Dora Maar dans le jardin (see fig. 2) and Dora Maar assise (see fig. 3). The story of Dora Maar\u2019s relationship with Picasso is legendary in the history of 20th century art. Picasso met Maar, the Surrealist photographer, in the fall of 1935 and was enchanted by the young woman\u2019s powerful sense of self and commanding presence. Although still involved with Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter and still married to Olga Khokhlova at the time, Picasso became intimately involved with Maar by the end of the year, and by 1937 she had ascended to the status of the artist's primary mistress. Unlike the docile and domestic Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se who had given birth to their daughter Maya in 1935, Maar was an artist, spoke Picasso\u2019s native Spanish, and shared his intellectual and political concerns. She even assisted with the execution of the monumental Guernica and produced the only photo-documentary of the work in progress. And as she was one of the most influential figures in his life during this time, she also became his primary model. Looking back on the pictures that he painted of her, Picasso once admitted that Dora Maar had become for him the personification of the war. Her image, which he reinterpreted countless times between 1937 and 1944, embodied all of the complicated and conflicting emotions of life in the midst of occupied Paris. But what first caught Picasso's attention was Maar's transfixing beauty, which is not lost in the present picture and which James Lord described upon meeting Maar in 1944: \"Her gaze possessed remarkable radiance but could also be very hard. I observed that she was beautiful, with a strong, straight nose, perfect scarlet lips, the chin firm, the jaw a trifle heavy and the more forceful for being so, rich chestnut hair drawn smoothly back, and eyelashes like the furred antennae of moths\" (James Lord, Picasso and Dora, New York, 1993, p. 31). More than most of the women in his life thus far, Dora Maar was Picasso's intellectual equal \u2013 a characteristic that the artist found both stimulating and challenging. During the occupation and as tension mounted in their relationship Picasso would express his frustration by furiously abstracting her image, often portraying her in tears. While the present portrait is undeniably appealing and might seem a departure from Picasso's more hostile depictions of his model, it may be, in fact, one of his most brilliant and biting provocations of his Weeping Woman. Picasso once likened Maar's allure and mercurial temperament to that of an \"Afghan cat,\" and the cat in this picture resonates with meaning. In the history of art, the pairing of cats and women was an allusion to feminine wiles and sexual aggression, as exemplified in Manet\u2019s notorious portrait of Olympia (see fig. 4). Surely this significance was not lost on Picasso, who had referenced the cat in some of his earliest and most recent compositions (see figs. 5 & 6) as symbol of women's sexual availability and animalistic nature. Moreover, the cat's inclusion here is yet another opportunity for Picasso to impose his predilections and control on his model. James Lord tells us that after the death of Maar's beloved pet dog, Picasso insisted on replacing the animal with a cat. But Maar despised the creature, who was unfriendly and prone to vicious scratching. It is interesting to consider, then, that here Picasso has paid particular attention to the sharp, talon-like nails on the figure\u2019s long fingers. In life Maar\u2019s well-manicured hands were one of her most beautiful and distinctive features, but here they have taken on another, more violent characteristic. When Harriet and Sidney Janis first published this picture in a monograph on the artist in 1946, they wrote that, \"it must be emphasized that at no time did Picasso paint any of these pictures as series\" (Harriet and Sidney Janis, Picasso, The Recent Years, 1939-1946, New York, 1946. n.p.). Considering the other portraits that he completed of her throughout the 1940s, Dora Maar au chat is a composition that Picasso never matched or attempted to revise. Janis wrote about this picture in the context of the other portraits of Dora Maar that Picasso completed during the war, and reminded readers that, \"it has been observed that Picasso never works directly from the model. His portraits are of persons remembered. They portray, through the instinct and vision, through the delicately balanced co-ordination of eye, mind, hand, and heart, a new realism reaching into the deepest recesses of man's inner nature. This is particularly true of the first group [that includes Dora Maar au chat], for all of these portrayals, psychologically intense and penetrating, become increasingly so throughout the group. Characterized by the extreme eccentricity and psychopathic distortions of their personalities, the likenesses are visibly stamped with their traumatic scars\" (ibid.). Its symbolic significance notwithstanding, the present work is a picture of great compositional ingenuity. Dora maar au chat was the most elaborate portrait of Dora that Picasso painted in 1941. In other depictions of her from the Spring and early Summer of 1941, he renders her with similarly sharp nails (see fig. 7), but in no other picture from that year does he so generously embellish her image with ornamentation and color. One of the rare, full portraits of Maar, the present work is also extraordinary for Picasso's attention to detail, right down to the polkadots on the figure's dress. The artist has not spared one inch of the canvas from his brush, using an extraordinarily vibrant palette in his rendering of the angles of the chair and the patterning of the figure\u2019s dress. Although punctuated by planar elements, dots and stripes of bewildering variety constitute Dora and the chair on which she sits. Discussing the use of stripes in Picasso\u2019s work of this period, Brigitte L\u00e9al commented : \u201cWhile in portraits of Marie- Th\u00e9r\u00e8se stripes appear in a range of pastel colors that always have a summery and childlike connotation, in [the portraits] of Dora stripes proliferate until they cover the figure and the background entirely, becoming an eloquent statement of the intensely emotional character of her image. What is one to think of the meaning of this network of concentric lines that, not content to bud prettily on her clothes, begin progressively to invade every part of her body in order to end up covering her totally with a fine tattoo that transforms her into some barbarous idol?\u201d (Brigitte L\u00e9al, \u201c`For Charming Dora\u2019: Portraits of Dora Maar,\u201d Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation (exhibition catalogue), The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1996-97, p. 392 ). The most embellished and the most symbolic element of the sitter\u2019s wardrobe in this picture is the hat, Maar\u2019s most famous accessory and signifier of her involvement in the Surrealist movement. Ceremoniously placed atop her head like a crown, it is festooned with colorful blossoms and outlined with a band of vibrant red. In 1937 the critic Paul Eluard wrote about the symbolism of the hat, explaining its fetishistic importance within the Surrealist movement and shedding light on its role in Picasso\u2019s paintings: \u201cAmong the objects tangled in the web of life, the female hat is one of those that require the most insight, the most audacity. A head must dare to wear a crown\u201d (quoted in Brigitte L\u00e9al, op. cit., p. 389). Larger than life, an impression enhanced by her vibrant body that cannot be confined by the boundaries of the chair, Maar looms in this picture like a pagan goddess seated on her throne. As the artist was inspired by the beauty and charisma of his mistress, his paintings of this period focus almost exclusively on her rather than on the happenings of wartime France (see fig. 9). Picasso\u2019s portraits of Dora Maar are renowned as the best paintings from the late 30s and early 40s. The artist once explained, \u201cI have not painted the war because I am not the kind of painter who goes out like a photographer for something to depict\u201d (quoted in Mary-Margaret Goggin, Picasso and his Art during the German Occupation: 1940-1944, Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1985, p. 395). However, the stress of war ultimately created a terrible strain on the artist\u2019s relationship with Maar, and dramatic conflicts naturally arose between these two strong-willed personalities. Not surprisingly, the portraits of Dora contain, perhaps more than any other paintings from these years, a brilliant distillation of the \u201cterrible beauty\u201d of the times. Brigitte L\u00e9al writes, \u201cTheir terribilit\u00e0 no doubt explains why the innumerable, very different portraits that Picasso did of [Dora] remain among the finest achievements of his art, at a time when he was engaged in a sort of third path, verging on Surrealist representation while rejecting strict representation and, naturally, abstraction. Today, more than ever, the fascination that the image of this admirable, but suffering and alienated, face exerts on us incontestably ensues from its coinciding with our modern consciousness of the body in its threefold dimension of precariousness, ambiguity, and monstrosity. There is no doubt that by signing these portraits, Picasso tolled the final bell for the reign of ideal beauty and opened the way of for the aesthetic tyranny of a sort of terrible and tragic beauty\u201d (ibid, p. 385). The first owner of record of the present work was the Surrealist dealer Pierre Colle (see fig. 8), who had a professional relationship with both Picasso and Maar during the war years. According to Sidney Janis, this picture was in Colle's collection in 1946. The following year, it was lent to the Art Institute of Chicago by the famed Chicago industrialist Leigh Block, who must have acquired it between 1946-47. Block sold the picture through the Paris-based dealer Heinz Berggruen to the present owner in 1963, where it remained for over forty years. Although it was published in 1946 in Sidney Janis\u2019s important monograph on Picasso\u2019s war-years paintings, Dora Maar au chat was largely unknown to the public until now. Fig. 1, Dora Maar and Picasso in Mougins, 1937. Photographs by Roland Penrose Fig. 2, Pablo Picasso, Portrait de Dora Maar dans le jardin, December 10, 1938, former collection Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Saidenberg, sold: Sotheby\u2019s, New York, November 10, 1999 Fig. 3, Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar assise, 1937, Mus\u00e9e Picasso, Paris Fig. 4, Edouard Manet, Olympia, oil on canvas, 1863, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, Paris Fig. 5, Pablo Picasso, Parody of Olympia, pen and ink, 1901, Private Collection Fig. 6, Pablo Picasso, Chat, bronze, 1943, Mus\u00e9e Picasso, Paris FIg. 7, Pablo Picasso, Femme \u00e0 l'artichaut, Paris, Summer 1941, oil on canvas, Museum Ludwig, Germany Fig. 8, Pierre Colle, the first own of record of the present work, photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Fig. 9, Picasso\u2019s studio at 7, rue des Grands-Augustins, Paris, circa 1939. Photograph by Dora Maar, Mus\u00e9e Picasso, Paris, Picasso Archives Signed and dated Picasso 41. (lower left)\nRoy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) Nurse signed and dated \u2018rf Lichtenstein '64\u2019 (on the reverse) oil and Magna on canvas 48 x 48 in. (121.9 x 121.9 cm.) Painted in 1964.\nEdward Hopper (1882-1967) Chop Suey signed 'Edward Hopper' (lower right) oil on canvas 32 x 38 in. (81.3 x 96.5 cm.) Painted in 1929.\nMark Rothko (1903-1970) Orange, Red, Yellow signed and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1961' (on the reverse); signed again and with initials 'M. Rothko M.B.' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 93 x 81\u00bc in. (236.2 x 206.4 cm.) Painted in 1961.\nFrancis Bacon, Triptych, 1976 Signed, titled and dated 1976 on the reverse of the right panel; titled and dated 1976 on the reverse of the center panel Oil and pastel on canvas in three parts Each: 78 x 58 in. 198 x 147.5 cm.\nBarnett Newman (1905-1970) Black Fire I signed and dated 'Barnett Newman 61' (lower right) oil on canvas 114 x 84 in. (289.5 x 213.3 cm.) Painted in 1961.\nL'HOMME QUI MARCHE I\nAlberto Giacometti, L'HOMME QUI MARCHE I Inscribed Alberto Giacometti, numbered 2/6 and with the foundry mark Susse Fondeur Paris Bronze Height: 183cm. 72in. Executed in 1960 and cast in bronze in a numbered edition of 6 plus 4 artist's proofs. The present work was cast in 1961 and is a life-time cast.\nMark Rothko (1903-1970) No. 10 signed twice, titled and dated three times '#10 1958 MARK ROTHKO 1958 MARK ROTHKO 1958' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 94 1/4 x 69 1/4 in. (239.4 x 175.9 cm.) Painted in 1958.\nTriple Elvis [Ferus Type]\nAndy Warhol (1928-1987) Triple Elvis [Ferus Type] signed, titled and dated 'elvis Andy Warhol 63' (on the reverse) silkscreen ink and silver paint on linen 82 x 69 in. (208.3 x 175.3 cm.) Painted in 1963.\nKazimir Malevich (1878-1935) Suprematist Composition oil on canvas 34 7/8 x 28 in. (88.7 x 71.1 cm.) Painted in 1916\nFrancis Bacon (1909-1992) Three Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards signed, titled, inscribed and dated '3 Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards Francis Bacon 1984 left panel' (on the reverse of the left panel); signed, titled, inscribed and dated '3 Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards Francis Bacon 1984 center panel' (on the reverse of the center panel); signed, titled, inscribed and dated '3 Studies for a Portrait of John Edwards Francis Bacon 1984 right panel' (on the reverse of the right panel) oil on canvas, in three parts each: 78 1/8 x 58\u00bc in. (198.3 x 148 cm.) Painted in 1984.\nNymph\u00e9as en fleur\nClaude Monet (1840-1926) Nymph\u00e9as en fleur stamped with signature 'Claude Monet' (Lugt 1819b; on the reverse) oil on canvas 63 x 70 7/8 in. (160.3 x 180 cm.) Painted circa 1914-1917\nClaude Monet (1840-1926) Meule signed and dated 'Claude Monet 91' (lower left) oil on canvas 28 5/8 x 36 \u00bc in. (72.7 x 92.1 cm.) Painted in 1891\nLaboureur dans un champ\nVincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Laboureur dans un champ oil on canvas 19 7/8 x 25 \u00bd in. (50.3 x 64.9 cm.) Painted in Saint R\u00e9my, early September 1889\nOdalisque couch\u00e9e aux magnolias\nHenri Matisse (1869-1954) Odalisque couch\u00e9e aux magnolias signed \u2018Henri - Matisse\u2019 (lower right) oil on canvas 23 \u00be x 31 7/8 in. (60.5 x 81.1 cm.) Painted in Nice, 1923\nWhite Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose)\nMark Rothko, White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose) Signed and dated 1950 on the reverse Oil on canvas 81 x 55 1/2 in. 205.8 x 141 cm.\nAndy Warhol (1928-1987) Green Car Crash (Green Burning Car I) synthetic polymer, silkscreen ink and acrylic on linen 90 x 80 in. (228.6 x 203.2 cm.) Painted in 1963.\nNo. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)\n\u201cThe progression of a painter\u2019s work, as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity: toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea and between the idea and the observer\u2026 To achieve this clarity is, inevitably, to be understood\u201d Mark Rothko, cited in The Mark Rothko Foundation: 1976-86, p.1 \u201cPictures must be miraculous: the instant one is completed, the intimacy between the creation and the creator is ended. He is an outsider. The picture must be for him, as for anyone experiencing it later, a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.\u201d Mark Rothko, \u2018The Romantics were Prompted\u2026,\u201d Possibilities,New York, No. 1, Winter 1947-48, p. 84 \u201cAs far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.\" Carl Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 1962, chapter 11 The majestic summation of Mark Rothko\u2019s legendary aesthetic language, No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) stands as an ideal achievement of the sublime in abstract painting. This unrepeatable, inimitable masterpiece affords the privileged viewer a visual and somatic experience that is beyond comparison. The stunning aura of its brilliant red and orange surfaces is superbly countered by the intensely vivid blue rectangle towards its base; creating an alluring emanation that is impossible to reproduce in illustration. Indeed, it is almost as if this extraordinary painting is brilliantly illuminated from within: a translucent vessel of pure color and light. No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) was the ultimate crescendo of Rothko\u2019s first one-man exhibition in a major US museum, at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954. The show was organized by one of the foremost champions of the avant-garde in post-war America, and the Institute\u2019s first curator of modern painting and sculpture; the visionary Katherine Kuh. Every other work from that renowned event is now housed in a major institutional collection, except No. 6 (Yellow, White, Blue over Yellow on Gray), which broke the auction record for the artist when it was sold by Sotheby\u2019s in 2004. In preparation for the exhibition, Kuh and Rothko corresponded extensively, originally in order to provide material for a pamphlet to accompany the show. Having visited the artist's studio in New York, her initial request for paintings specifically singled out the present work, as she wrote: \"I particularly want that marvelous large red one\" (letter of June 3, 1954). When Rothko provided the final list of paintings to be sent to Chicago on September 12, 1954, he included prices at which they should be sold to the public (given that he had ended his contract with the Betty Parsons Gallery in the previous Spring, it can be assumed that these were his own figures). The highest price was for No. 10, 1952-53, which, at almost ten by fourteen feet, was the largest canvas of the group by far, and which is now housed in the Museo Guggenheim in Bilbao. The second most valuable painting, as determined by the artist, was the present work, which provides resounding confirmation of the artist's very high esteem for this specific painting. Through the decades since its creation, No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue)has continued to captivate audiences as a pure icon of Rothko\u2019s genius. It has been central to major Rothko exhibitions and was even selected as the key work for the vast announcement banner at the comprehensive retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in 1998. Among the 116 major works included in that show were many of the artist\u2019s most iconic works, and the fact that the present painting was chosen in this way, acting as figurehead for the exhibition, further affirms its remarkable reputation. Executed at the kernel of the artist\u2019s halcyon era, No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) is archetypal of his very best painting and its appearance here at auction, after three decades residence in a prestigious private collection and inclusion in comprehensive major exhibitions, marks an historic moment. Following the crucial turning point of 1949-50, when Rothko resolved an abstract archetype out of the preceding multiform paintings, the artist entered what David Anfam, the editor of the Rothko catalogue raisonn\u00e9, has called the anni mirabilis: the first half of the 1950s, during which the artist\u2019s mature mode of artistic expression pioneered truly unprecedented territory. The present work is critical and integral to this spectacular outpouring of innovation and is one of just twelve canvases that Rothko created between 1950 and 1955 on a scale to exceed nine feet in height. Indeed, the scale of this painting is absolutely fundamental to the most authentic experience of Rothko\u2019s vision, whereby we become participants in his all-encompassing canvases, rather than mere spectators. A number of other constituents of this esteemed body of paintings are today housed in the some of the most prestigious museum collections of the world such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. At the precipice of a decade during which Rothko would redefine the very essence of Abstract Art, he wrote the following words in a published statement: \u201cA picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token.\u201d (Mark Rothko, \u201cStatement,\u201d Tiger\u2019s Eye, New York, vol. 1, no. 2, December 1947, p. 44) Rothko thus asserted a fundamental equation between the artwork and its beholder, whereby the true potential of his painting could not exist without the presence of the viewer. When Rothko asked Katherine Kuh to describe her reactions to his paintings she wrote of the ones she had seen, including the present work: \"for me they have a kind of ecstasy of color which induces different but always intense moods. I am not a spectator - I am a participant.\" (letter July 18, 1954). Rothko\u2019s statement that it is the experience of a painting that completes the artwork; and Kuh\u2019s concept of becoming a participant in Rothko\u2019s art rather than a mere spectator stand as two core tenets that make the present work a masterpiece of his oeuvre. For our experience of No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) as participants in its stunning drama brings it to life, and may give new dimensions to our life. We do not look at this painting; we are absorbed into it. Indeed, being in its presence parallels a line of Nietzsche that had inspired Rothko since he had been a young man: \u201cThere is a need for a whole world of torment in order for the individual to sit quietly in his rocking row-boat in mid-sea, absorbed in contemplation.\u201d (Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, translation by Francis Golffing, New York, 1956, pp. 33-34) At over 113 inches in height, the scale of No. 1 (Royal Red and Blue) is sheer and monumental: broadcasting its allure on a greater-than human register; engulfing the viewer\u2019s entire experience; and situating us as actors within its epic expanse. An apparent paradox typifies the artist\u2019s ambition, declared in 1951: \u201cI paint very large pictures\u2026precisely because I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience\u2026However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn\u2019t something you command.\u201d (Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Mark Rothko: 1903-1970, 1987, p. 85) Of course, scale is absolutely fundamental to the nature of Rothko\u2019s work, identified as such by Clement Greenberg even in 1950: \u201cBroken by relatively few incidents of drawing or design, their surfaces exhale color with an enveloping effect that is enhanced by size itself. One reacts to an environment as much as to a picture hung on a wall.\u201d (\u201c'American-Type\u2019 Painting\u201d (1955) cited in Clifford Ross, Ed., Abstract Expressionism: Creators and Critics, New York, 1990, p. 248) Indeed, Rothko wrote to Katherine Kuh to instruct the hanging of the 1954 Chicago exhibition, of which the present work was such an important climax: \u201cSince my pictures are large, colorful and unframed, and since museum walls are usually immense and formidable, there is the danger that the pictures relate themselves as decorative areas to the walls. This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.\u201d (Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Op. Cit., p. 58) Indeed, describing \u201cRothko\u2019s desire to envelop the spectator with art that overcame its ambient space\u201d, David Anfam cites as example the 1955 show at the Sidney Janis Gallery that this work was also included in and where \u201cthe stature of the pictures and their siting \u2013 wedged into the spaces \u2013 is instructive. They seek to displace their environment.\u201d (David Anfam, Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9, New Haven and London, 1998, p. 73) Three shimmering zones of color, which are simultaneously drawn together and held apart from each other by ethereal and imperceptible boundaries, dominate the canvas. The brilliant royal blue anchors the composition and works in magisterial chromatic concert with its exact complimentary color of vivid orange that pushes towards the uppermost limits of the canvas. The central royal red strip is tonally equivalent to the luminous sea of orange above it, yet works as an elegantly sophisticated horizontal axis that our eye is drawn to, between the two larger pulsating expanses. Rothko applied paint in diverse fashions; the rectangles, or objects, being achieved either by paint being spread out from the center, or by an outline thereafter being filled in, or by strokes being applied in parallel until the form was completed. As noted by Irving Sandler, \u201cRothko built up his rectangular containers of color from lightly brushed, stained and blotted touches which culminate in a chromatic crescendo.\u201d (Exh. Cat. New York, Pace Gallery, Mark Rothko: Paintings 1948-1969, 1983, p. 8) Here chromatic resonance is attained through the meticulous aggregation of translucent veils of brushed pigment, with especially close attention paid to the spaces between forms and the edges of the canvas. Both despite of and due to their differences, the color fields equilibrate: the lure of one is immediately countered by the irresistible pull of the other as they reverberate over the fractionally paler ground. The layers of pigments concurrently hover indeterminately as three-dimensional floods of color in front of the picture plane, while also reinforcing the materiality of the painted object through their saturation of the canvas weave. Through form, surface, texture and color Rothko has struck a perennial balance that lures the viewer's constant attention. There is also a certain tension struck between the uplifting emotions conventionally evoked by warm golden hues and something implicitly more tragic. Such elemental colors harbor primal connotations of light, warmth and the Sun, but inasmuch as they invoke the Sun they also implicate the inevitable cycle of dawn and dusk, of rise and set, and their own continual demise and rebirth. Rothko once stated to David Sylvester: \u201cOften, towards nightfall, there\u2019s a feeling in the air of mystery, threat, frustration \u2013 all of these at once. I would like my painting to have the quality of such moments.\u201d (in David Anfam, Op. Cit., p. 88), and with its suggestion of an unobtainable horizon and an infinite, unbreakable cycle, this work harbors something that is indescribably portentous. While much contemporary commentary cited Rothko\u2019s oeuvre as radically dislocated from historical precedent, subsequent perspective readily posits his oeuvre an eminent historical location. From J.M.W. Turner, Caspar David Friedrich and Claude Monet to the Luminists, Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse; predecessors concerned with the pure effects of color from decades and centuries past informed the new painting Rothko initiated in mid-century New York. Perhaps foremost among these was Matisse, whose own practice had so radically redefined relationships between form and color, and as Robert Rosenblum has pointed out: \u201cit dawned on many of Rothko\u2019s admirers that his dense seas of color might not have existed without the example of Matisse, a point the artist himself acknowledged.\u201d (Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Op. Cit., p. 22) It is well documented that Rothko was fixated with the literary work of Friedrich Nietzsche, above all the German philosopher's seminal opus The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music written in 1872. Nietzsche\u2019s ideas of how the tension between Apollonian and Dionysian forces dictates the terms of human drama were important to the advancement of Rothko's color fields. Indeed, Rothko\u2019s vast tableaux have often been discussed in the lexicon of the immediate and saturating effects of music. David Sylvester\u2019s review of the 1961 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition in London provides an apt response to the present work in these terms: \u201cThese paintings begin and end with an intense and utterly direct expression of feeling through the interaction of colored areas of a certain size. They are the complete fulfillment of Van Gogh\u2019s notion of using color to convey man\u2019s passions. They are the realisation of what abstract artists have dreamed for 50 years of doing \u2013 making painting as inherently expressive as music. More than this: for not even with music\u2026does isolated emotion touch the nervous system so directly.\u201d (in New Statesman, 20 October 1961 cited in Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Op. Cit., p. 36) Excepting a letter to Art News in 1957, from 1949 onwards Rothko ceased publishing statements about his work, anxious that his writings might be interpreted as instructive or didactic and could thereby interfere with the pure import of the paintings themselves. However, in 1958 he gave a talk at the Pratt Institute to repudiate his critics and to deny any perceived association between his art and self-expression. He insisted instead that his corpus was not concerned with notions of self but rather with the entire human drama. While he drew a distinction between figurative and abstract art, he nevertheless outlined an underlying adherence to the portrayal of human experience. Discussing the \u201cartist\u2019s eternal interest in the human figure\u201d, Rothko examined the common bond of figurative painters throughout Art History: \u201cthey have painted one character in all their work. What is indicated here is that the artist\u2019s real model is an ideal which embraces all of human drama rather than the appearance of a particular individual. Today the artist is no longer constrained by the limitation that all of man\u2019s experience is expressed by his outward appearance. Freed from the need of describing a particular person, the possibilities are endless. The whole of man\u2019s experience becomes his model, and in that sense it can be said that all of art is a portrait of an idea.\u201d (lecture given at the Pratt Institute 1958, cited in Exh. Cat., London, The Tate Gallery, Op. Cit., p. 87) Signed, titled #1 and dated 1954 on the reverse\nUntitled (New York City)\nTo articulate the inexplicable: this is what Cy Twombly set out to do, in paintings that consecrate the sublime visual poetry of that which cannot be written. With the obsessively systematic repetition of his Blackboard paintings, Twombly lyrically expresses both a ceaseless effort and persistent inability to depict an emotion that is quite simply beyond representation. Created in an outburst of significant invention, Twombly\u2019s epic Untitled (New York City) from 1968 sits at the very head of the artist\u2019s celebrated Blackboards. Unrivaled for its scale and ambition, the artist painted an extremely limited number of other seminal Blackboard canvases that share the present work\u2019s fully formed loops and vast format. Untitled (New York City) has remained in the same private collection for the past quarter-century, prior to which it belonged to two highly distinguished collections: the Saatchi Collection in London and the Collection of Fred Mueller, an illustrious fixture in the New York art world of the 1960s. The painting is a rare, monumental testament to the artist\u2019s iconic drama and piercing intelligence. Evoking the richly worked surface of an archaic palimpsest, the present work confounds drawing, painting, and reading in the oblong lines that boldly proliferate across every verse. In Untitled (New York City), Twombly\u2019s cylindrical forms reverberate within their own echo chamber, refracting into seeming infinity whilst elegantly contained within the parameters of the canvas. Twombly here investigated the definition and physical nature of a simple geometrical element in space as it erupts within the picture plane with cataclysmic graphic narrative, pulsing with an ineffable rhythm. The six magnificent horizontal bands of loops increase in volume and expressive abandon as the artist progressed down the canvas\u2014Twombly\u2019s lassoed lines progressively lose regularity and control, resulting in thrillingly increased drips, smears, and spatters toward the bottom of the picture. Especially against their grey ground, the oval scrawls emerge from and recede into one another in dense relief, teetering on the threshold of legibility. The painter leaves behind any didactic meaning of his intervention, abandoning the safe haven of mythological symbols and reverting to the most primal usage of the line as an almost na\u00efve yet extremely potent transmitter of space, duration, and motion. As explained by Heiner Bastian: \u201cTwombly tries to shatter form as well as its concomitant intellectual and narrative history in a kind of relativism, reducing it to a rationality of 'black and white' that is at the same time the structural sum of all movement.\" (Heiner Bastian, ed., Cy Twombly: Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the Paintings, Volume III 1966-1971, Munich, 1994, p. 23) When Leonardo da Vinci painted his whirlwinds, storms, and floods, he sought to capture a subject that could be written about but was nearly impossible to be painted. Da Vinci\u2019s cataclysms and maelstroms were a considerable influence for Twombly\u2019s all-engulfing abstraction, a muscular study of colossal light and shadow that in its tempestuous intensity evokes da Vinci\u2019s sublime storms. Twombly approached the issue of movement and time within pictorial space by reconsidering artists like Leonardo, Marcel Duchamp, and the Italian Futurists, who would conceive mythology and history through abstract principles. Suzanne Delehanty described the critical moment in Twombly\u2019s practice during which he painted the present work: \u201cAround 1967-1968, Twombly isolated the abstraction of movement, whether at rest or in motion, and its coefficient, space-time; the passionate centrifugal motion of Galatea is transformed into the supreme poetry of movement which intrigued Leonardo throughout his life\u2026 It is as if Twombly entered Leonardo\u2019s mind to envision the affinities between natural and human processes\u2014to see the drawn line, like a natural phenomenon, unfold in space and time.\u201d (Suzanne Delehanty, \"The Alchemy of Mind and Hand\" in Nicola del Roscio, ed., Writings on Cy Twombly, p. 68) The painting reflects the artist\u2019s supreme introspection and affinity for draftsmanship, here magnified through an exceptional scope. With expressive clarity and sobering gravity, Untitled (New York City) exudes the ineffable vitality and cadence of the most resplendent written or musical compositions. The enigmatic plasticity of the matte paint, coupled with the operatic calligraphy orbiting the surface\u2019s grisaille expanse, seduces in its rich, impassioned reduction. The spectacular scale of the present work amplifies the momentum of Twombly\u2019s cyclical shapes, which unroll along a rectilinear axis with unparalleled rhythm. Twombly complied with the canvas\u2019s perimeter, as evident by the bounded edges of each lassoed line; this nuanced formal restraint is challenged as Twombly grappled with controlling an irrepressible energy that reached a riveting crescendo in the seismographic jolts of accelerating scale and intensity along each band. The Blackboard works marked Twombly's abrupt abandonment of the richly colorful and expressive compositions from the first half of the 1960s known as Baroque Paintings, giving rise to works that would employ a visual language of pure austerity and sublimity. Renouncing the rich, Baroque style of his earlier 1960s work, in 1966 Twombly turned his focus back to the restrained monochrome works that he first embarked upon in the 1950s. However, unlike the static, semi-figurative black and white paintings of Twombly's formative years in the early 1950s, the inimitable gray works of the 1960s saw the centrifugal energy and erotic charge of Twombly's Baroque-inspired early 1960s paintings transferred into a rhythmic discourse of mood and movement. In the same year Twombly painted Untitled (New York City), he opened his first one-person museum exhibition in the United States at the Milwaukee Art Center; upon the occasion of the show, Robert-Pincus Witten praised Twombly\u2019s heroic development: \u201cHandwriting has become for Twombly the means of beginning again, of erasing the Baroque culmination of the painting of the early 1960s\u2026 it has been drowned in a schoolmaster\u2019s blackboard. It has been reduced to rudimentary exercises\u2026 With it, Twombly casts down all that was grandiose in his mature style, rejecting a lush manner for simple and stringent exercises.\u201d (Pincus-Witten cited in Nicola del Roscio, ed., Ibid., p. 216) This new series revived the artist\u2019s career following a troubling period in the early part of the decade. In the winter of 1963, Twombly completed the painting cycle Nine Discourses on Commodus (Guggenheim Museum Bilbao), a group of nine canvases based on the murder of the Roman emperor Aurelius Commodus. The lushly impastoed yet highly esoteric paintings were shown at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York in 1964; the exhibition was received by scathing critical reviews, after which Twombly severely slowed his production. The artist made only 20 canvases in 1964 and none in 1965; he returned to painting in 1966 with a series of grey-ground works from which the cycle of Blackboard paintings emerged. With 1966 paintings like Problem I, II, III (Museum f\u00fcr Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt) and Night Watch (Private Collection), Twombly eschewed the literary and mythological undercurrents of his earlier works in favor of pure geometry and abstracted line to advance a similar expression of temporal development and motion. Although the first of the grey-ground paintings were made in Rome in the spring of 1966 and shown in February 1967 in Turin, the artist himself noted that New York proved to be a more suitable location for them because of its relative \u201ccoolness.\u201d Twombly spent the greater part of the years 1967 to 1970 in New York, working in studios on the Bowery and on Canal Street; Untitled (New York City) exudes a metropolitan severity and urban grit reflective of the artist\u2019s surroundings at the time. The present work ushered in a rediscovered Americanness in Twombly\u2019s work, reflecting the contemporary artistic discourse in marked contrast to the Europeanness of his earlier works. Minimalism had become the dominant strain in contemporary art, and it was in the mid-1960s that artists such as Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, and Sol Lewitt were pioneering aesthetic developments toward a stark and austere form of art that dominated the city. In 1966, Primary Structures opened at the Jewish Museum; organized by Kynaston McShine, the exhibit was the first to group the major artists working in similar modes of production under the umbrella of Minimalism. Moreover, two years later in 1968, the Paula Cooper Gallery opened its doors with the now legendary exhibition \u201cBenefit for The Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam,\u201d bringing together work by 14 artists including Andre, Judd, Lewitt, and Flavin, in addition to Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, and Bill Bollinger. Chromatically sparse and formally reductive, the grey-ground pictures demanded new modes of reading Twombly\u2019s work with relation to the artistic developments pulsing through New York City. Kirk Varnedoe explained: \u201cJust as those earlier pictures had represented a cooling shift away from painterly and erotic energies, these new canvases were lean and unemotional, in contrast to the baroque color and violence of the work of the early 1960s\u2026 That temporal aspect was then extended through the grey-ground works of the next few years, in the frequent imagery of analytically segmented movement\u2026 Twombly\u2019s previous attraction to the evidence of deep, slow, \u2018vertical\u2019 time, in scarred surfaces, here is translated into a fascination for the forms of \u2018lateral\u2019 speed, forms and forces rushing by with their proliferation of marks more rationally divided than confoundingly layered.\u201d (Kirk Varnedoe, \"Inscriptions in Arcadia\" in Nicola del Roscio, ed., Ibid., pp. 215-6) The rhythmic harmony and balanced composure of voluminous loops that sprawl across the surface of Untitled (New York City) recall Paul Klee\u2019s Pedagogical Sketchbook and Palmer Method handwriting exercises. These are forms that insist on a progressive linear continuity but simultaneously concede to isolated bursts of irregular activity. Unlike Twombly\u2019s earlier canvases, in which episodes of personal expression are scattered across the canvas, the artist here constricts his activity to a gestural framework\u2014nevertheless, the lassoed bands give way to expressive subjectivity in their vigorously imprecise execution. Twombly recalled being taught to write using the Palmer method, a strict technique of teaching handwriting that required pupils to repetitively practice rote drills keeping their fingers and wrists rigid while only moving their arms. In the lattice of tiered lateral ovals scoring the canvas, Twombly\u2019s own gestural abandon erupts from the structural balance of the composition; while more precise and mathematical than the automatism of the Surrealists or the impulse of the Abstract Expressionists, Twombly\u2019s subjectivity seeps through what appears to be mechanical labor. Like the individual strokes of encaustic that burst forth through the predetermined grids and formats of a Jasper Johns painting, Twombly\u2019s loops similarly bely in subtle disobedience a totally objective geometric precision. With the rigid syntax and rudimentary forms of the grey-ground paintings, Twombly appeared to deny the insouciance of personality; however, the tremulous inflections of each parabolic rise and fall inevitably give way to the signature intensity of the artist\u2019s own hand. Varnedoe commented: \u201cAs before, Twombly courts the accusation that there is no mind involved\u2014previously, because the manner seemed chaotically subjective, without sufficient ordering control, too episodic and too little marked by work; and now, because it seems mechanically rote and impersonal, too monotonous and too completely a matter of work. No familiar evidence of heroic spontaneity or intuited compositional judgment, nor any universal coordinate such as geometry, anchored the pictures\u2019 claim to attention.\u201d (Kirk Varnedoe, \u201cInscriptions in Arcadia\u201d in Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, Cy Twombly: A Retrospective, 1994, p. 42) Like the work of Minimalist artists who pursued a repetitive, doggedly systematic task\u2014such as Yayoi Kusama\u2019s looped Infinity Nets, Sol Lewitt\u2019s serial pencil-drawn lines on the wall, or G\u00fcnther Uecker\u2019s intricately nailed surfaces\u2014Twombly\u2019s painting experimented with the unplanned personal inflections that can arise from following strict conventions, a departure from ideals of purely spontaneous expression. At moments, the line is tight and dense; at others, Twombly abandoned control and his cursive energy drives off course, a high-speed choreography in which individual events of personal expression are sublimated into a greater whole of dense accumulations. Within this dichotomy lies the very brilliance of Twombly\u2019s painting: reveling in the contradictions between the systematic and the irregular, the unruly and the cerebral, the premeditated and the intuitive, Twombly achieved a balletic complexity unsurpassed by any of his contemporaries. Twombly was conscripted to the military from November 1953 to August 1954, and during these years of service, the artist was assigned first to Camp Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, and then the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. It was here that Twombly worked as a cryptologist, studying the art of writing and solving codes. The artist often drew at night after lights out, producing a group of works that initiated his motif of \u2018scribbling\u2019 and laid the foundation for much of his subsequent work. Drawing in the dark excised the sense of reason and rationality associated with the eye; instead, Twombly liberated his graphic activity from optical control and made his hand alone responsible for form, thereby encouraging instantaneity and the unanticipated. Such techniques evolved out of Surrealism\u2014abandoning inhibitive self-consciousness, blind composition was a method of automatism taught by leading figures like Andr\u00e9 Breton and Andr\u00e9 Masson. Around this time, Abstract Expressionist artists seized on the influence of European Modernism and adopted considerable interest in glyphs and modes of primitive communication. This attention to the symbols of archaic societies and their inherently expressive power were a natural point of departure for these New York School painters, for whom the power of simple expressive abstract signs held clear associations to their own modes of gestural abstraction at the time. Jackson Pollock\u2019s Stenographic Figure and Adolph Gottlieb\u2019s various pictographic structures come to mind as critical starting points for the intersection between cryptology and painting that occupied Twombly during this formative period. The artist arrived in New York in September 1950, precisely at a critical moment in the city\u2019s development as the nucleus of the most significant artistic breakthroughs of the century. This is the year that Jackson Pollock dripped his most revered paintings, among them Autumn Rhythm (Number 30), Number 1 (Lavender Mist), and One: Number 31, 1950; Willem de Kooning had begun work on Woman I; Mark Rothko had moved away from his earlier Multiforms to develop the stacked zones of color he is best known for today; and Barnett Newman had just painted his first \u2018zips\u2019. Enrolling in the Art Students League following two years at the Boston Museum School, Twombly\u2019s landing in New York coincided with the height of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. His Blackboard paintings, executed 15 years later, bridged Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Pop, akin to his pioneering peers Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Together these three artists embraced, questioned, and advanced the formal and conceptual progressions enacted by the preceding generation of painters and sculptors. Twombly met Rauschenberg at the Art Students League in New York in the beginning of the 1950s, and it was Rauschenberg who suggested Twombly study at Black Mountain College. The two artists later journeyed to Europe and North Africa from fall 1952 to the spring of 1953, in part enabled by a grant Twombly received from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Upon his return to New York, and whilst sharing a Fulton Street loft with Twombly, Rauschenberg completed his body of black paintings, composing layers of newspaper and dense, glossy black paint on a two-dimensional surface. The thickly built-up surfaces reveal Rauschenberg\u2019s preoccupation with collage, while the highly articulated inky paint evokes gestural expressionism and the monochromatic surface anticipates the advent of Minimalism. Rauschenberg said that he wanted his Black paintings to possess \u201ccomplexity without their revealing anything.\u201d Like Rauschenberg, Twombly brought the outside world into his abstract paintings by way of a highly self-aware detachment, suffusing them with his own personal brand of subjective mark-making. In undertaking the challenge of capturing movement in time and space, Twombly aligned himself to the godfather of the avant-garde, Marcel Duchamp. Like the shadows of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, the ethereal loops multiply and overlap across the surface of the canvas. Katharina Schmidt noted: \u201cDuring these years Twombly\u2019s interests ranged beyond the Leonardo drawings mentioned and his draping studies to all those artists and movements in art at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century that sought new, more adequate forms for the representation of space and movement in a changing world. Eadweard Muybridge, Marcel Duchamp\u2019s painting Nude Descending a Staircase II, 1912, and the formal and spatial concepts of the Russian Constructivists should all be mentioned here, as well as his investigation of the Futurists, Balla, Boccioni, and Russolo.\u201d (Katharina Schmidt, \u201cWay to Arcadia: Thoughts on Myth and Image in Cy Twombly\u2019s Painting,\u201d in Nicola del Roscio, ed., Op. Cit., p. 154) The linear sequences of layered frames in Untitled (New York City) recall the Futurist explorations into forms in motion, and its chronicling of a contemporary psychological landscape. While the Futurist principle of movement in space was centered on the rational, quasi-scientific understanding of transformation and duration, Twombly appears to have reacted to the dispersion of forms in which painstaking precision comes into contact with an energetic abandon. With all the rough, fractured rawness of street graffiti, Twombly presented an entirely novel visual language that innovatively explored both the most elementary and the most sophisticated concerns posed by the genesis of creativity. Heiner Bastian expounded on Twombly\u2019s representation of time and spatial progression, exemplified in the geometric planes that vibrate across Untitled (New York City): \u201cTwombly\u2019s understanding of space had developed through his experience of form. The definition of individual forms led to the dramatic imagining of space as surveying and distance, as movement and the prism of this movement in temporal progressions and static sequences. In place of the total figure, which also takes a firm place in the movement at a given moment, there follow representations in which the figure, split into parts, becomes a dynamic configuration. From this lining up of movement sequences, Twombly moves to the problem of the permanence of pictorial impressions... Time and space blend in the idiosyncrasy of a constant Present. 'Spatial time' is fixed through the dissolution of all substantive, physical impressions. Perception, memory, and progression coincide in the darkness of the moment that is just transpiring. The attempts to render it transparent are energetically flowing lines and sweeping movements.\u201d (Heiner Bastian cited in Katharina Schmidt, \u201cWay to Arcadia: Thoughts on Myth and Image in Cy Twombly\u2019s Painting,\u201d in Nicola del Roscio, ed., Op. Cit., pp. 155-156) The surface of Untitled (New York City) evokes a graffiti-scarred wall, characterized by accretive layers that in their very build-up and lush tonal variety divulge a sense of temporal progression. Atop a lustrous silvery ground of oil-based house-paint, Twombly used a pearlescent wax crayon to impress a torrent of overlapping lassoes into the thin wet surfaces; his impressions are both positive and negative, oscillating between additive mark-making and reductive incisions tangled and together suspended in fractured continuum. In Untitled (New York City), Twombly's gestures hover between inscription and erasure\u2014the record of his process is captured in the luscious drips of diaphanous paint that spatter and cascade from the six horizontal bands. Pentimenti punctuate the surface of his painting like a chalkboard, resulting in a constant state of flux between writing and erasure, and possessing a ripe wetness that lends it the urgency of the here and now. This graphic, primitive mode of expression is at once imbued with Twombly\u2019s fascination by archaeological surfaces corroded over time, together with the reductive schematic economy of prehistoric art. Moreover, the scrawled spirals invoke a sort of proto-handwriting: a primitive form of expression that strives toward resolution and legibility but is suspended in a perpetual territory of formal symbolism, akin to our contemporary reading of classical mark-making. Twombly said: \u201cGenerally speaking my art has evolved out of the interest in symbols abstracted, but never the less humanistic; formal as most arts are in their archaic and classic stages, and a deeply aesthetic sense of eroded or ancient surfaces of time.\u201d (the artist cited in Nicola del Roscio, ed. Op. Cit., p. 199) His marks, in this way, escape any fixation in time; the temporality exists within the primacy of the line, embroiled in the narrative, history, and rhythm of its own unrolling across the canvas. The development of each loop traces its own history and charts the narrative of its own realization, existing forever both in the moment that Cy Twombly applied his crayon to canvas and in each current moment that the painting speeds before the viewer\u2019s eye. With Untitled (New York City), Twombly rendered the past as alive as the present, and makes the present ever more electric and more sensuous in every instant that we are suspended in the painting\u2019s sublime odyssey. Signed, inscribed NYC and dated 1968 on the reverse\nCy Twombly (1928-2011) Untitled signed and dated 'Cy Twombly 1970' (on the reverse) oil based house paint and wax crayon on canvas 61 1/4 x 74 3/4 in. (155.5 x 190 cm.) Executed in 1970.\nFour Marlons\nAndy Warhol (1928-1987) Four Marlons signed and dated 'Andy Warhol 66' (on the overlap) silkscreen ink on unprimed linen 81 x 65 in. (205.7 x 165.1 cm.) Painted in 1966.\nNu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine)\nAmedeo Modigliani, Nu assis sur un divan (La Belle Romaine) Signed Modigliani (lower right) Oil on canvas 39 3/8 by 25 5/8 in. 100 by 65 cm Painted in 1917.\nBuste de femme (Femme \u00e0 la r\u00e9sille)\nPablo Picasso (1881-1973) Buste de femme (Femme \u00e0 la r\u00e9sille) dated '12.1.38.' (on the stretcher) oil on canvas 25 5/8 x 21 \u00bc in. (65.1 x 54 cm.) Painted in Paris on 12 January 1938.\nWoman as Landscape\nWillem de Kooning (1904-1997) Woman as Landscape signed 'de Kooning' (lower left) oil and charcoal on canvas 65 1/2 x 49 3/8 in. (166.3 x 125.4 cm.) Painted in 1954-1955.\nPicasso's extraordinary La Gommeuse is among the rare and coveted pictures created during the artist's Blue Period (1901-1904). The painting dates from the second half of 1901, following Picasso's widely-praised exhibition at Vollard's gallery that June and amidst the sobering aftermath of his friend Casagemas' suicide earlier in the year. Just shy of 20, the artist was sharing an apartment in Paris with his Catalan anarchist friend Pere Ma\u00f1ach, and the two young men immersed themselves in the debauchery of the Parisian demi-monde. This dizzying mixture of professional success and personal tragedy, along with the carnal pleasures of youth and the inexorable sadness of mortality, brought Picasso's creative genius to a climax. Central to this artistic narrative is La Gommeuse, a gorgeous cabaret performer whose very body defines the perverse beauty of the age. Portrayed in an absynthian haze of sexual ennui, she is both temptation and downfall incarnate, a high priestess of melancholy and a siren of joie de vivre. In recent correspondence with Sotheby's, curator and Picasso historian Marilyn McCully has provided her interpretation of the picture, in which she states that it features an entertainer posed in front of a painting in Picasso's studio. Art historians have also suggested that the composition depicts a cabaret perform in front of a stage, where a dancer appears to be swirling a floral skirt. McCully has expanded on her analysis as follows: \"The painting known as La Gommeuse represents a pivotal moment in Picasso\u2019s artistic development in 1901, the year in which he had his first major exhibition at Ambroise Vollard\u2019s gallery in Paris (24 June-14 July 1901). That show had featured more than sixty paintings and drawings, which reflected the young Spaniard\u2019s immediate response to recent French art. The major influence was Toulouse Lautrec, both in subject matter \u2013 caf\u00e9 scenes, prostitutes and dance halls \u2013 and, to some extent, technique, but Picasso\u2019s subsequent focus on isolated figures and restricted, subdued palettes in his new works emphasized his own exploration of the theme of loneliness and his interest in formal experimentation. The depictions of syphilitic prostitutes and poverty-stricken mothers in his Blue Period of late 1901-1902 was in many ways anticipated in La Gommeuse and works related to it. Here the nude, who is placed at the left in the foreground, is enclosed with a strong defining outline to emphasize her self-containment within the composition. Her body, with its ochre and greenish hues, is set against a flat background divided between light and dark, in a way that is reminiscent of a similar formal device used by Gauguin to give emphasis to frontal figures. The slumped position of La Gommeuse, where her head obscures her neck and joins her rounded shoulders, is characteristic of a group of compositions by Picasso in which women, usually seated at caf\u00e9 tables, are depicted alone. These \u201csisters\u201d of La Gommeuse, painted from the late summer to the autumn of 1901\u2013 such as Woman with a chignon (Fogg Art Museum) \u2013 are, however, always dressed. And while these women often seem to have been of a generic, French type, La Gommeuse appears to have been based on a specific model. The woman\u2019s black wavy hair, black curved eyebrows, straight nose, and downturned mouth are noticeably different from the others, whose red or dark hair is piled on their heads. The title La Gommeuse was probably given to this composition when it was exhibited, and the woman portrayed was presumably an entertainer. Around 1900 the word \u2018gommeuse\u2019 was popularly associated with sexily dressed \u2013 or underdressed \u2013 caf\u00e9-concert singers and with their songs. We know that in 1901 Picasso drew from life a number of such performers, including the celebrated singer Polaire, for the Paris journal Frou Frou, which published his drawings between February and September 1901. Polaire, who is easily identified by her wavy black hair and diminutive features and often wore plunging necklines and even patterned scarves around her neck, may have been the inspiration if not the real model for this composition. Around the turn of the century, when Polaire was performing in Paris, she was referred to as \u201cla gommeuse \u00e9pileptique\u201d because of the way her body shook as she shifted her feet from one side to the other during her songs. Picasso painted La Gommeuse in his atelier on the Boulevard de Clichy, and the painting on the wall behind the figure defines the setting as the artist\u2019s studio, where the woman may actually have posed. In the painting on the wall we only see the lower part of what appears to be a large, predominantly blue canvas with a figure wearing a gauzy dress and red stockings, surrounded by loosely painted, bright colors \u2013 evoking another composition that Picasso had done earlier in the summer of 1901, Nude with red stockings (Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Lyons). The caricatural composition on the reverse of La Gommeuse bears the inscription \u201cRecuerdo a Ma\u00f1ach en el d\u00eda de su santo\u201d \u2013 which reveals that the canvas was intended as a gift to Pere Ma\u00f1ach on his Saint\u2019s Day (29 June), and this allows the completion of the canvas to be dated with accuracy. Pere Ma\u00f1ach, who shared the Boulevard de Clichy studio with the artist, was a Catalan who lived in Paris and worked as a runner for several dealers, scouting out new artists from Spain. He had been responsible for finding buyers for Picasso\u2019s works in 1900 and had put him under contract when the artist returned to his native country at the end of that year. It was Ma\u00f1ach who organized for the artist to show at Vollard\u2019s in the following summer, and Picasso\u2019s bold portrait of his friend (National Gallery of Art, Washington) was one of the featured works in the Vollard show. In contrast to the rather conventional pose of Picasso\u2019s formal portrait of Ma\u00f1ach, the painting on the reverse of La Gommeuse shows the moustached dealer wearing a turban, which is painted with yellow and red stripes, perhaps alluding to the Catalan flag. Ma\u00f1ach\u2019s nude body is adorned with necklaces, and the awkward posture suggests that he has assumed a sexual, if not Kamasutra-like pose. Picasso shows him urinating in an imaginary landscape, which is dotted with lotus flowers and unexplained symbols. If, as we assume from the inscription, La Gommeuse was a gift to Ma\u00f1ach on 29 June 1901, the latter must have sold or given the canvas to Vollard at a later date\" (Marilyn McCully, \"La Gommeuse,\" in correspondence with Sotheby's, October 2015). Picasso's emasculation of Ma\u00f1ach here is not without significance, evidencing the whimsical spirit of the young Spaniard at a particularly vulnerable moment of his life. Picasso's reasons for poking fun at Ma\u00f1ach's are not made explicit, but his outrageously wicked rendering of the man speaks volumes about the ribald exchanges that must have transpired between them. Perhaps it is no surprise that Ma\u00f1ach did not retain this picture and it ended up with the more successful dealer Ambroise Vollard, probably sometime after 1906. In later years, it came into the possession of the young New York dealer Lucien Demotte, who sold it to Josef von Sternberg (1894-1949), one of the most acclaimed Hollywood film directors of the 1930s. Sternberg is best remembered as the director of the 1930 film \"The Blue Angel,\" in which Marlene Dietrich made her screen debut as the louche caberet performer Lola Lola. It seems that Sternberg acquired this work about one year after the release of \"The Blue Angel,\" so the subject of La Gommeuse would have held great significance for the director. In 1949 Sternberg sold this picture, along with over one hundred other objects from his collection of fine art, at Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York. It was later acquired by Jacques Sarlie, a Dutch-born financier based in New York, who had befriended Picasso after the war and amassed a large collection of the artist's work from every period. Sarlie sold this picture at Sotheby's in London in 1960, at which point it was acquired by a dealer for a private collection. The picture was later offered for sale at Sotheby's in 1984, when it was purchased by William I. Koch, who has kept it in his private collection for the last 30 years. Having lived with this picture for three decades, Mr. Koch has interpreted La Gommeuse to be slumped on a banquette or divan in the same fatigued posture of so many of Degas' ballet dancers post-performance. Her sad, contemplative expression and physical exhaustion inspire the viewer to think about what her life must have been like that evening. The verso of the picture, however, presents a whimsical character depicting Manach\u2019s head on a woman\u2019s body leaping like a dancer. The paradoxes presented by this dual composition will no doubt continue to intrigue generations to come. Sotheby's would like to thank Marilyn McCully for contributing to the catalogue essay of the present lot. Signed Picasso (upper left); inscribed Recuerdo a Ma\u00f1ach en el d\u00eda de su santo and fully painted on the reverse\nMark Rothko (1903-1970) Untitled signed and dated 'MARK ROTHKO 1952' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 103 x 62\u00bd in. (261.6 x 158.7 cm.) Painted in 1952.\nContraste de formes\nFernand L\u00e9ger (1881-1955) Contraste de formes signed and dated 'F. L\u00c9GER (1913)' (on the reverse) oil on burlap 36 3/8 x 28 7/8 in. (92.4 x 73.2 cm.) Painted in 1913\nL'All\u00e9e des Alyscamps\nA majestic all\u00e9e at the peak of its autumnal splendor is the subject of Van Gogh's magnificent L'All\u00e9e des Alyscamps, his Arles-period painting from November 1, 1888. This was the very moment in Van Gogh's career when his most legendary expressions of great beauty and exuberance were captured on canvas. Works such as Sunflowers, Self-Portrait, L'Arlesienne, the Night Caf\u00e9, The Sower and the postman Monsieur Roulin were all brilliantly realized with unparalleled creative force during this period, and the unrestrained passion of this artistic genius was at its apotheosis. For two months during the fall of 1888 Van Gogh painted in the company of his close friend Paul Gauguin, who had come to the south of France for a shared artistic experiment known as the Studio of the South. The artists would set up their easels side-by-side or back-to-back, tackling what are now some of the most famous subjects of their careers. Their first shared experience to this end was a series of views of lovers strolling through Alyscamps, the ancient \"Elysian Fields\" just outside the walls of the city. With its lush scenery, historic importance and romantic undertones the location was an irresistible starting point, resulting in four major oils by Van Gogh and two by Gauguin. Over the passing weeks conflicts increasingly arose between the two artists, with the simmering tension ultimately resulting in Van Gogh's violent breakdown at the end of the year. But the present work, created during those exciting first days of their time together, presents the glorious product of Van Gogh's ambitious undertaking.The scene depicted here is the central thoroughfare of the Alyscamps, one of the most famous Roman burial grounds in all of Europe. During the prime of Caesar's reign Arles was an important imperial outpost, boasting a stately amphitheater modeled after the Colosseum. Alyscamps was central to city life, as it served as the great necropolis for the nobility of the empire and would later be a coveted Christian burial ground throughout Middle Ages. Over the centuries Alyscamps was pillaged by the locals for building materials, souvenirs and museum displays, and the shaded ruins became an ideal setting for lovers' rendez-vous. Much romanticized by 19th century Romantic writers, Alyscamps was well-known to artists during Van Gogh's time, and his choice to paint here would have been a foregone conclusion for any artist spending time in Arles. In Van Gogh's depiction here, the ruins of Romanesque sarcophagi are visible down the tree-lined promenade known as the All\u00e9e des Tombeaux, now a popular lovers' lane and parade ground for fashionable and single Arlesiennes of questionable virtue. \"\"The street girl is as much a lady as any other and looks as virginal as a Juno,\" Gauguin marveled after his first day on site. Aside from its historic importance and illicit allure, Alyscamps offered an accessible place for tourists and locals to experience the tranquility and beauty of the Proven\u00e7ale countryside. On October 29th, both artists completed views of the grounds, with Gauguin focusing on three women walking alongside the canal with the bell tower of the 12th century church of St. Honorat in the background. Van Gogh, however, situated himself in the middle of the all\u00e9e, painting the smokestacks of the railway workshop across the canal on the left and the archway of the church in the distance, while the ruins of ancient crypts flank a solitary couple taking a romantic stroll. Two days later, on the Feast of All Saints', the artists returned to the all\u00e9e, depicting the colorful foliage in all of its splendor. Gauguin positioned his easel at the end of the promenade at the portico of the church, and Van Gogh looked down the dramatic all\u00e9e towards the direction of Saint-Accurse chapel to paint the present picture. L'all\u00e9e des Alyscamps presents a more formal schematization and vastly grander perspective than did the one Van Gogh had painted two days earlier. While slightly larger in size, this second composition presents a vertical alignment of trees that creates an illusion of profound depth and frames the sky so that it appears to be a giant funnel lifting into the heavens. All Saints' Day would have been a popular one to stroll through the grounds of the sacred cemetery, Van Gogh captures the visitors as they walk from the church. Figures appear in motion down the great expanse of the promenade, with the rhythm of their gate reverberating in the colored patches along the pathway. In a letter to Bernard written on November 2, the artist described his Alyscamps picture as a \"study of the whole avenue, entirely yellow.\" Van Gogh described the support on which he painted to be \"burlap,\" but recent scholarship suggests that it is actually rough jute. He and Gauguin had purchased this material in bulk and primed themselves, and Van Gogh used it for the first time for this picture. Both artists were fascinated by the visual effect that the coarse surface lent to their compositions, and they exploited this property differently in their works. Whereas Gauguin painted with thinner layers of paint that allowed the texture of the weave to appear more clearly, Van Gogh applied his paint impulsively and with thick slashes, building up the surface texture dramatically in areas and allowing colors to blend more fluidly. But these different approaches to painting on jute became a point of debate, sowing the seeds for future conflicts between the two artists. Writing to \u00c9mile Bernard in mid-November, Gauguin alluded to his lack of compatibility with his partner, taking issue with the very manner by which he paints: \"In general, Vincent and I agree on very few topics, and especially not on painting... He appreciates the hazards of thick paint as Monticelli uses it, whereas I detest any form of tampering by brushwork\" (R. Brettell, op. cit., p. 113). Van Gogh criticized Gauguin's highly controlled painterly style, which he believed was at the expense of authentic creative expression. \"Aren't we seeking intensity of thought rather than tranquility of touch?\" he lamented. \"Under the conditions of working spontaneously, on the spot, and given the character of it, is a calm, well-regulated touch always possible? Goodness gracious - as little, it seems to me, as during an assault in a fencing match (quoted in D. Silverman, op.cit., p.206).\" This last quip was apparently a thinly-veiled attack on Gauguin, who prided himself at being an accomplished fencer and was a believer that \"the head, always the head\" should prevail in painting. Van Gogh, however, prided himself on the frenetic pace of his execution, and the slow and meticulous pace of his companion, who often completed his paintings within the studio, were antithetical to this approach. In due time, the artists' ideological differences would send them on different courses, with Gauguin deciding to leave France for the South Pacific. The anxiety caused by Gauguin's scheduled departure, among other things, prompted Van Gogh to commit the legendary act of self-mutilation that December, which sent him to the hospital in Saint-Remy for a period of recovery. But the present picture, created at the \"honeymoon\" phase of the Arles period, evidences the joyous expressive power that Van Gogh possessed at the beginning of this most important collaboration. In the days following his completion of the present composition, Van Gogh would go on to paint two other depictions of jute of Alyscamps, but in horizontal format. These pictures, both entitled Falling Leaves, would hang in Gauguin's room at the quarters the two men shared at the Yellow House and signified their important collaboration. The present work, however remained with Mme Marie Ginoux, the beloved innkeeper at the Yellow House and the model for L'Arlesienne. The picture then came into possession of Henri Laget, the editor of a journal called Provence artistique. Laget sold this picture, as well as several others left with Mme Ginoux, to Ambroise Vollard. Isaac (Jack) Aghion, the husband of Marguerite Bernheim, acquired the picture, presumably from Vollard, by 1901 and was sold at his Estate sale in 1918, when it was presumably purchased by his in-laws at Galerie Bernheim Jeune. Paul Vallotton, the art dealer and brother of the Nabis artist Felix Vallotton later acquired the picture for his private collection, and then it was acquired by Hans Mettler (1876-1945) and remained with his family until it was sold at auction in 1985.\nEdouard Manet (1832-1883) Le Printemps signed and dated 'manet 1881' (lower left) oil on canvas 29 1/8 x 20\u00bc in. (74 x 51.5 cm.) Painted in 1881\nJuin-Octobre 1985\nTranscendence and the Sublime Juin-Octobre 1985 In the annals of the history of art, it is those who have triumphed in forging and defining an iconic style that are inducted into the rarefied league of artistic masters. To have achieved such success yet continue to challenge oneself, pushing past previous heights, requires a quality that goes beyond talent, courage, and perseverance: it requires a profound wisdom. It is this wisdom that opens the door for one to create something that endures through the ages. Many artists belonging to the era of modern art have devoted the prime of their lives to creating these enduring masterpieces, often designed for public display, as a way of leaving something to posterity, to close ones life and career with a grand finale. Matisse, for example, during his artistic prime, designed the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence; Rothko created the paintings that hang on the walls of the Rothko Chapel in Houston; Tsuguharu Foujita designed and painted the frescoes for the French chapel, Our Lady Queen of Peace. Each of these endeavours was inspired by religious themes, and from these themes, the artists harnessed an energy and intensity that elevated the works to the realm of the spiritual. By the 1950s and 60s, Zao Wou-Kis paintings from his Oracle-Bone Period (1954-1959) and Hurricane Period (1959-1972) had already been inducted into the permanent collections of important museums and institutions in Europe and the Americas, establishing Zao Wou-Ki as the first Asian master to attain such levels of international renown. But Zao Wou-Ki had his eyes set on something higher. He continued to strive, breaking through the boundaries of his previous limits, and by the 1970s, the artist had embarked upon the Infinite Period, a brilliant era that would accompany him for decades. This Infinite Period marked his arrival at the highest summit. The paintings express the divinity of the universe, brushing up against the apex of human civilization. By the 1980s, this achievement had firmly established Zao Wou-Kis now-indisputable status as an international master. With great pride and honour at this Evening Sale, Sothebys presents the single largest oil painting created by Zao Wou-Ki during his lifetime, Juin-Octobre 1985 (Lot 1004). This triptych of extraordinary size was commissioned by renowned architect I.M. Pei for the Raffles City complex in Singapore. The painting is a singular accomplishment, a prodigious effort by the artist to express his ideas and essence at full capacity, with great artistic power and boldness. During his entire career, Zao Wou-Ki created no more than twenty large-scale triptychs. The offering of this singular masterpiece at Sothebys Evening Sale marks a grand achievement in East Asian auction history. Rewriting Asian Art History in the 1980s As it was in the West, the 1950s to 1970s was a period of emergence and intense vying among different schools of thought in the post-war Asian art world. But avant-garde artists from China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia had their gazes fixed upon Europe and North America; entry into the Western art world was the ultimate goal and marker of accomplishment. By the 1970s and 80s, alongside the rapid rise of Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, and Singapore, Mainland China also started on its important journey of reform and opening up. Overnight, the entire East Asian economy was roaring forward, and finally, after thirty years of leaning toward the West, a monumental change was occurring among the Asian post-war artists. They were turning back towards the East, a trend that was becoming the new mainstream. As an artist who had already established a reputation for himself in the West, Zao Wou-Kis own return to his motherland was deeply symbolically significant. In 1981, Zao Wou-Ki held a large solo exhibition at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris, and exhibiting at the same time was the equally renowned Russian-French abstract master Nicolas de Sta\u00ebl. This was an event that signified the Western art worlds high regard of Zao Wou-Ki, and served as the consummate conclusion to this stage of the artists Western journey. Following the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais exhibition, the artist immediately embarked upon a rotating exhibition in East Asia, launching at the Fukoka Art Museum in Japan, and continuing onward to the Tokyo Nihonbashi Art Gallery, the Fukui Prefectural Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, and the Museum of Modern Art in Kamakura. He followed with solo exhibitions at the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the National Museum Art Gallery in Singapore. In 1983, Zao Wou-Ki held exhibitions on both sides of the strait, at the National Museum of History in Taipei as well as the National Museum of Fine Arts in Beijing and the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou (formerly the National School of Fine Art). In May of 1985, Zao Wou-Kis three-week art lectures at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts marked the first time an overseas artist had been invited to teach a workshop in Mainland China since the countrys reform and opening up. Students were selected from all across China, and included Shang Yang, who later became the Associate President of the Hubei Arts Academy, as well as Xu Jiang, the current President of the China Academy of Art. The workshop was highly influential for the development of Mainland Chinese art in the 1980s. It also produced the only extant Zao Wou-Ki instructional text, The Lecture Notes of Zao Wou-Ki in China. Soon after this historic series of lectures, Juin-Octobre 1985 was created. A Crown for the Lion City The dimensions of Juin-Octobre 1985 are highly unusual, the painting created through a commission by I.M. Pei. Both Zao Wou-Ki and I.M. Pei were born to large families during the Republic of China, and both had fathers who were successful bankers Zao Wou-Kis father Zhao Hansheng was a Managing Director at the headquarters of Shanghai Commercial and Saving Bank , and I.M. Peis father Pei Zuyi was the President of the Central Bank of the Republic of China as well as one of the founders of the Bank of China. Both of Chinese descent, these two international masters first met in 1952 at the Galerie Pierre Loeb in Paris, and established an immediate camaraderie. Zao Wou-Ki reunited with I.M. Pei and his wife in 1964 during his travels to New York. As I.M. Peis career as an architect gained momentum and success, he began commissioning Zao Wou-Ki to create paintings for the walls of his building projects. In 1979, when I.M. Pei took on the construction of the Fragrant Hill Hotel in Beijing, he commissioned the artist to create a set of quadriptych ink panels for a central location in the main hall of the hotel. In 1980, after more than a decade since the project was first proposed, I.M. Pei was given the reins to design Singapores Raffles City. Ground was broken next to the Raffles Hotel at the location of the original Raffles College. Six years later, the architectural complex was completed, becoming a Singaporean landmark. But shortly prior to its completion, in May of 1985, I.M. Pei had invited Zao Wou-Ki to tour the premises, and commissioned the artist to create a large panel painting for the grand lobby of the main building. The painting would be displayed alongside works by Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Nolan, and together, these three paintings would become Singapores most important public contemporary art collection. Following careful deliberation, Zao Wou-Ki settled on a triptych measuring 2.8 x 10 meters, and immediately after completing his three weeks of lectures at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Zao Wou-Ki returned to France and devoted himself to the painting, working tirelessly for five months. Juin-Octobre 1985 was finally completed and unveiled to the world in October of the same year. It was first exhibited at the Galerie de France, which at the time was managing the artist. On the day of the opening, Zao Wou-Ki released another edition of a large artist monograph, first published in 1978 and edited by his friend Jean Leymarie, but this time with Juin-Octobre 1985 featured on the covers. In 1986, after the exhibition closed, Juin-Octobre 1985 was officially moved to Raffles City and put on public display. All the way until 2005, when the painting was relocated during a significant reconstruction, Juin-Octobre 1985 remained at Raffles City, open for public viewing, serving as the brilliant crown in the architectural landscape of the Lion City. The Majestic Epic of the Triptych Within Zao Wou-Kis oeuvre, the large-scale triptych occupies a special position. In the forty years from 1966 to 2006, the artist completed twenty large-scale triptychs, eight of which were created after 2000. Among these twenty large-scale pieces, three have been inducted into museum collections, and seven are in the care of the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation, leaving only ten in the hands of private collectors. Because the triptychs span the artists Hurricane and Infinite periods, they serve as a connecting thread, offering a new angle from which to interpret Zao Wou-Kis work, and illuminating the elements of constancy in the artists artistic pursuits across different periods. The path that led to Zao Wou-Kis eventual use of the triptych format began with his creation of large-scale single-panel paintings. Large-scale canvases were favoured by the abstract expressionists, who Zao Wou-Ki had encountered while living in New York. These tall and wide panels allowed the artists a greater degree of freedom and unrestrained expression. After returning to Paris, Zao Wou-Ki also began painting on large-scale canvases. The artists later adoption of the triptych format, however, was not simply another expansion of creative space. Within the Western tradition since the Renaissance, the triptych has been closely tied to religious themes in painting, and carries with it an aura of deep solemnity and divinity. And in fact, examining the dimensions of Juin-Octobre 1985, one discovers that the widths of the three panels are not entirely equal. The centre canvas is 280 x 400 cm, while the left and right panels are 280 x 300 cm. This arrangement reveals the artists clear intention in invoking the religious paintings from the Renaissance. Correspondingly, within traditional East Asian painting, large-scale pieces often appear in the format of several joined or separate panels, together expressing an atmosphere of grandeur and magnificence. In a gesture to both Eastern and Western traditions, then, Zao Wou-Kis triptychs often express sentiments of respect and homage. This is apparent in many of the artists painting, including Hommage \u00e0 Andr\u00e9 Malraux 01.04.76 (now in the collection of the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan), dedicated to the artists friend and French Minister of Culture; Hommage \u00e0 Claude Monet, f\u00e9vrier-juin 91, in honour of the founder of French Impressionism; Hommage \u00e0 mon ami Henri Michaux avril 1999-ao\u00fbt 2000, for his friend and French poet laureate; Hommage \u00e0 mon ami Jean-Paul Ripolle Histoire de deux \u00e9rables canadiens, 21.06.2003, for the Canadian and fellow abstract painter; Hommage \u00e0 Fran\u00e7oise, 21.10.2003, painted for his wife; and Le Temple des Hans, 2005, created in honour of the Han dynasty. It was an attitude of devotion and respect that Zao Wou-Ki brought to the triptych. Beginning in the 1980s, the artist began receiving invitations for solo exhibitions at important museums, as well as more commissions. In 1980, for example, Zao Wou-Ki had solo exhibitions at the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Carleroi in Belgium and the Mus\u00e9e dHistoire et dArt in Luxembourg. Both exhibits featured large-scale oil paintings. In the same year, Zao Wou-Ki designed a large-scale mosaic for the Honor\u00e9 de Balzac grammar school in Mitry-Mory, built by architect Roger Taillibert. Later, in October, Zao Wou-Ki was appointed as professor of mural painting at the Parisian \u00c9cole nationale sup\u00e9rieure des art d\u00e9coratifs, a post he held until 1984. In 1981, Zao Wou-Ki travelled extensively around China, encountering the majestic and romantic ancient Yungang grottoes and frescoes in the province of Shanxi. The reverence and longing for the deities expressed by these ancient large-scale creations left a deep impression on Zao Wou-Ki. The artist fervently studied the mural form for the next five years, even purchasing a studio space in the French countryside of Loiret, larger than the one on Paris Rue Jonquoy, so that he could create large-scale paintings. Each of these creations were a step in the preparation toward creating Juin-Octobre 1985. Boundless Mystery: Manifesting the Spirit of the Universe Juin-Octobre 1985 possesses the trademark characteristics of Zao Wou-Kis Infinite Period. As Yann Hendgen, Art Director of the Zao Wou-Ki Foundation, explains in an essay for Sothebys Hong Kong 40th Anniversary Evening Sale: From the beginning of the 1980s, Zao Wou-Ki was then able to give free rein to his desire to create large-scale painted polytychs; a new workshop, public commissions, and an enthusiastic public for the introduction of such monumental compositions. Such large works also communicate a decisive turn in Zao Wou-Kis work: his gradual rediscovery of China (15.01.82 Triptych and Its Role Among the Large-Scale Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki). The paramount characteristic of the Infinite Period is a compositional departure from using a central axis, in which the visual weight is distributed along a vertical or horizontal dividing line. The artists change in composition is not merely a visual one, however, but a significant shift rooted deeply in artistic and human philosophy. During the Hurricane Period, Zao Wou-Kis career and romantic life were carrying on smoothly. His mood was one of contentment; his body was strong. As the artistic described himself, during this period, he approached the canvas wielding his bold ambition, as though the canvas were an oppositional force, and he were fighting against [it]. Thus, his use of the central-axis in the paintings from the period demonstrates a strong sense of individualism. It is a scene in which the dominant individual conquers space in every direction, constructing a new world. This was the overriding creative spirit. But in 1972, this formidable energy of domination came to a halt the artists wife, May Zao, had passed away. After a period of deep contemplation and reconsideration, the artist began creating paintings that displayed a striking open composition, in which the perimeters of the canvas are reinforced, and more space is given to the centre. This new composition revealed a sudden opening-up, an enlightenment in the artists soul, a liberated state of non-self. The artist had departed from his previous perspective of man conquering nature, toward a belief in the oneness of nature and humanity. This foundational shift in ideology formed the basis for the Infinite Period. The Western tradition of painting derives from a single-point perspective, originating philosophically from Western civilizations individual-centred way of viewing and conceptualizing. The tradition of Chinese paintings scattered perspective, however, comes from Taoism, the belief that all things in the universe are one. The Western tradition places its faith in man being made in the image of a Christian God, whereas the Eastern interpretation of god, informed by Taoism, is our omnipresent and all-encompassing nature. The most profound value of the Infinite Period, then, is the manifestation of Eastern philosophys belief in nature as god, within which there exists a continuous cycle of life and death. It is this endless cycle that is the permanent law of the universe. The ultimate essence of the universe is that of oneness. Juin-Octobre 1985, an epic of abstraction, is a grand expression of this idea. Primordial Mist, Roaming as One with the Universe In a 2001 special interview with Phoenix Television, Zao Wou-Ki explained that painting is a slow creation of a world. This philosophy is manifested with brilliant perfection in Juin-Octobre 1985. Making use of the capacious size of the panels, the artist has taken the lateral scroll of Chinese painting and expanded it, creating an abstract space that seemingly expresses a concrete realness. Standing in front of the painting, the viewers gaze naturally departs from viewing in a point-to-point manner, and instead allows ones eyes to freely roam across the canvas. In this way, the viewers perspective is in constant change, as though immersed in a scattered perspective arrangement, journeying across the spectacular world created by the artist. The arrangement continues without end, with flowing light driving the changes and shifts in colour, representing the boundless, infinite, ever-flourishing universe. When creating the painting, Zao Wou-Ki released his drive to conquer, but rather allowed his spirit to linger contently within the painting, achieving an even more prodigious aura of freedom and ease. Throughout the painting, his use of colour and brush technique is also dynamic, dancing and adapting with natural ease. At the beginning of the Infinite Period, the artist was drawn to the empty space emphasized in Chinese ink-wash paintings. This translated into the use of white tones in his oil paintings in the 1970s, which by the 1980s, had become all the more brilliant and richly expressive. During this time, the artist had returned to the soil of his motherland, encountering again the landscape and surroundings he had been away from for a long time, and once again, they nourished his mind and body. The verdigris green and ultramarine colours that appeared in his earlier works are in Juin-Octobre 1985 melded in with softer, lighter tones. His oil colours are further diluted, heightening the appearance of translucence. The pearlescent, clear light, along with a ravishing violet, soft orange, and bright yellow intersect in meticulous concert. The exquisite and ethereal splashes and spatters of paint replace the brittle lines; sharp edges are concealed, further amplifying an aura of vitality and spirituality. Every inch is imbued with the breath and vigour of the universe. Blue is a colour that Zao Wou-Ki used in all of his stylistic periods. He once explained that his understanding of the colour originated from his earliest days in Paris. He was at a museum, and encountered a painting of the Virgin Mary and Jesus by Giotto, the Early Renaissance master. The classic painting depicts the Virgin Mary wrapped in a blue robe, the image holy, sublime, and pure. The use of blue in all of Zao Wou-Kis periods has been executed with great richness. Up until the 1980s, Zao Wou-Kis use of blue often manifested in its deeper shades, the blue of grapes, gentle and exquisite, with a sheen of translucence. Applied with varying pressures and speed, it splattered and flowed, coalescing into a crystalline and mysterious space. In Juin-Octobre 1985, the blue manifests in a shade closer to purple jade, and in its various permutations of rich and light, dry and wet, it becomes void and substance, emptiness and fullness, linking together all the exquisite complementary colours that reverberate across the canvas. In tracing the painting back to its Eastern roots, it is important to note that after many years apart, Zao Wou-Ki reunited with the Zhang Daqian, a great master of Chinese painting, in Taipei in 1981. The inspiration behind Zhang Daqians iconic splashed-color landscapes came from the Western abstract paintings of the 1960s. These landscapes established a revolutionary new style for traditional Chinese painting. This example of invoking traditional Chinese painting techniques and artistic concepts was perhaps an inspiration for Zao Wou-Ki. He, also, could return to tradition. To examine the paintings Western roots, one looks to the colour philosophy of the Impressionists. The romantic and enchanting blue-purple tones are the result of developments in optical science during the mid-19th century, and, in Monets later years, they became the poetic images of his lily pond, seen through his fading vision. These subtle threads to the past resonated with Zao Wou-Ki, who boldly applied these blue-purple tones across the canvas. Later, this colour was also the basis of the triptych completed in 1991, titled Hommage \u00e0 Claude Monet, f\u00e9vrier-juin 91. The Artists Prime, the Key to the Summit Juin-Octobre 1985 symbolizes the beginning of Zao Wou-Kis late-career work. By the time of the opening ceremony of Raffles City, the artist had already been commissioned to create the poster for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. In 1993, the artist received the Commandeur de lOrdre de la L\u00e9gion from French President Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, as well as an honorary doctorate from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1994, he was awarded with Japans Praemium Imperiale. Shortly after, in 1996, the artist held a large-scale retrospective exhibition at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, titled Infinite Image and Space. The following year, Zao Wou-Ki accompanied French President Jacques Chirac on a visit to China, where he confirmed three retrospective exhibitions in honour of sixty years of painting. They were to be held in Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou between 1998 and 1999. In 2002, Zao Wou-Ki was inducted as a member of the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux-Arts, the highest honour of his lifetime. The following year, he held a large-scale solo exhibition at Paris Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume. The number of visitors to the exhibition exceeded 135,000 people. Since then, across all the arenas of academia, culture, and the market, the artists prodigious reputation has proven unshakeable. Zao Wou-Kis accomplishment of artistic flourishing over thirty years late in his career, among all of the artists of the world, is a rare one indeed. And Juin-Octobre 1985 can be said to be the beginning of this glorious chapter. Signed in Chinese and Pinyin; signed in Pinyin, titled and dated Juin-Octobre 1985 on the reverse\nAndy Warhol (1928-1987) Race Riot signed and dated 'Andy Warhol 64' (on the overlap of the upper left panel) acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen, in four parts overall: 60 x 66 in. (152.4 x 167.6 cm.) Painted in 1964.\nFemme au b\u00e9ret et \u00e0 la robe quadrill\u00e9e (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter)\nPicassos portraits of women his muses represent the most consistently innovative and expressive body of work in twentieth century art. From the cubist portraits of Fernande Olivier or neo-classical depictions of Olga Khokhlova, to the acclaimed 1930s paintings of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and the final great works depicting Jacqueline Roque, the women of Picassos life are the fulcrum of his creative genius. The formal experimentation and emotional intensity that characterise his most celebrated portraits of women are embodied in Femme au b\u00e9ret et \u00e0 la robe quadrill\u00e9e (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter). The artists lover is shown in profile but with her features presented frontally in the style that he had pioneered in his earlier portraits of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se. He employs a bold, primary palette and an emphatic handling of paint that mark this work out from the depictions of the early 1930s and chart Picassos evolving relationship with his muse. Indeed, whilst the figure in Femme au b\u00e9ret et \u00e0 la robe quadrill\u00e9e (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter) is unmistakably that of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se, elements of the portrait are suggestive of the increasingly dominant presence of Picassos new lover Dora Maar. Picasso had first met Maar at the Caf\u00e9 des Deux Magots early in 1936. Over the following months he was seduced by her striking looks, quick intelligence and sense of independence and she became his principal mistress later that year. Her presence in his life further complicated an already complex situation and Femme au b\u00e9ret et \u00e0 la robe quadrill\u00e9e (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter) belongs to a series of works which Picasso appears to have used as a means for exploring his feelings for the two women. These personal disruptions were mirrored by the wider political unrest in the artists native Spain. As Neil Cox observed: For Picasso the question of modernity was acute in the 1930s and 1940s, since modernity in this period meant a personal life, a nation, a Europe and indeed a world in crisis. This period in Picassos art is marked by a succession of shattering events in his personal life that no doubt appeared to him mirrored by the disasters in the world at large []. Personal events include the death of his mother in 1939; the slow breakdown of his marriage to Olga Khokhlova (they eventually separated in 1935); his ongoing secret affair with Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter (from 1927) leading to the birth of his daughter Maya, in 1935; and new relationships with the artist and photographer Dora Maar (from 1936) and then the painter Fran\u00e7oise Gilot (from 1943) (N. Cox in Picasso, Challenging the Past (exhibition catalogue), National Gallery, London, 2009, p. 88). Picassos response to this turmoil was to work, painting both the great masterpiece of his career, Guernica (fig. 7), and a series of female portraits that are among his most complex and adventurous. At the beginning of 1937 he embarked on his great work for the Spanish Pavilion at the Exposition Internationale; over the following months he worked on ideas for the composition, but it was not until the bombing of the small town of Guernica in Basque Spain that his fully-formed concept for the work was consolidated. It was at this point that the figure of a woman mourning her child began to appear in the preparatory sketches. This figure would inspire one of Picassos most renowned series of female portraits; his work on the weeping women continued long after Guernica had been completed and was one of the major achievements of that year. The Weeping Women have habitually been linked with Maar; they incorporate many of her features and as the woman who documented the creation of Guernica she is naturally associated with the series of female portraits that were born out of that seminal work. However, Palau i Fabre suggests that weeping women were actually the continuation of a pre-existing subject; that Picasso had devoted almost all of his activity as a painter to woman, her troubles, her sadness, her loneliness. And, in the course of the past ten years, life had led him to depict two women crying. People speak of Dora Maar but too often forget that Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se has also been seen very often, and earlier, as a weeping woman (J. Palau i Fabre, op. cit., p. 328). He also argues the case for the present work belonging to a smaller group of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se portraits in which she is entirely reduced to inner tears, showing A resigned sadness, and nonetheless suffused with love (ibid., p. 349). The link between the weeping women and concurrent portraits of Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se is particularly apparent in Femme au b\u00e9ret et \u00e0 la robe quadrill\u00e9e (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter). There is a remarkable congruence between the weeping woman he painted on the 26th October of that year (fig. 8) and the small group of portraits that he painted on the 4th December that include the present work. It is almost possible to track the slow transition from Maar to Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se in these works. In the October painting the woman has the long dark hair, the angularity and the thick eyelashes of Maar. In one of the December paintings (fig. 4) she retains the long hair of Maar but in the other two she has shifted to embody the younger woman. The choice of beret in these latter two is a significant indicator it was the hat Picasso associated with Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se from his earliest depictions of her. Yet the three women all wear the same fur-trimmed jacket and Picasso uses similar lattice patterns and a tonally cohesive palette to create a dialogue between the paintings. The three December works also show Picasso experimenting with the device of presenting the main subject of the painting with a silhouetted other emerging from behind. Picasso had used a shadowy-half-silhouette as way of indicating a doubleness or conflict previously in the 1929 painting Buste de femme et autoportrait in which he depicted his then wife Olga against the unmistakeable outline of his own features. This was some two years after he had first met Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and his relationship with Olga was disintegrating rapidly; the distorted features, teeth and vicious tongue of the female figure are symptomatic of the frustration and growing antipathy Picasso felt towards his wife but the inclusion of his own adumbral profile also hints at a continuing interdependence, or even a pervasive dominance on his part. In a similar way, the shadowy profile that indicates Maar in the present work and others from this period suggests her omnipresence in his life at this stage and perhaps for Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se had similarly ominous implications. After all, as Picasso told John Richardson: It must be painful for a girl to see in a painting that she is on the way out (J. Richardson, Picasso and LAmour Fou, in New York Review of Books, no. 20, 19th December 1985, p. 68). There is certainly a contrast with the Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se paintings of the early 1930s (figs. 1 & 2); embodiments of new love, these works have a nascent sensuality that has all but vanished by the end of the decade. Where Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se was once characterised by voluptuous curves and a sleepy suggestiveness, by 1937 she has matured. Still imbued with an innocence and freshness particularly in comparison to the more vulpine sexuality of Maar she is also now a woman where before she was a girl; she is mother to his child, and with that domesticity and responsibility there is a discernible difference in Picassos treatment of her as artistic subject. As Judi Freeman observes: By 1936 Picassos depictions of Walter had shifted from being dual explorations of her personality and sensuality to straightforward recordings of her character (J. Freeman, Picasso and the Weeping Women (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1994, p. 166). However, as this suggests and as we see in the present work Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se continued to be of central importance to Picasso. Although Maar might have been foremost in his affections, this was partly because she represented a change; as an educated, established artist in her own right, she provided an irresistible contrast to Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and by 1937 she must have had the additional attraction that her political engagement paralleled Picassos own concerns and involvement with wider political causes. Yet Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se was still the mother of Picassos child and the artist continued to see and paint her regularly. The relationship between the two women was understandably fraught. According to Fran\u00e7oise Gilot, Picasso later recalled an occasion when he working on Guernica with Maar and Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se arrived unexpectedly at the studio, challenging Maar: I kept on painting and they kept on arguing. Finally Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se turned to me and said, Make up your mind. Which one of us goes It was a hard decision to make. I liked them both, for different reasons: Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se because she was sweet and gentle and did whatever I wanted her to, and Dora because she was intelligent. I decided I had no interest in making a decision. I was satisfied with things as they were. I told them theyd have to fight it out for themselves. So they began to wrestle. Its one of my choicest memories (quoted in ibid., p. 177). Yet whilst this particular anecdote casts Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se as the jealous wife to Maars more sophisticated mistress, the rivalry ran both ways. Maar later recalled travelling to the house at Tremblay where Picasso had installed Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se and Maya and waiting outside, torturing herself by imagining them together as a family. It was a complex m\u00e9nage and Picassos own feelings were evidently unresolved. He often referred to his work as acting as a diary of sorts and that was evidently one of the motivations in painting Femme au b\u00e9ret et \u00e0 la robe quadrill\u00e9e (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter). A vividly realised portrait, it combines his two central muses during this critical period, and achieves the remarkable in encompassing the complexities of real life and revealing simultaneously the artists contrary emotions. In doing this, Femme au b\u00e9ret et \u00e0 la robe quadrill\u00e9e (Marie-Th\u00e9r\u00e8se Walter) also reveals the centrality of the woman-muse in Picassos art. Over history artists have often turned to the women in their life as subjects, but these women have not always been muses. To be a muse is to be essential to the creative and intellectual processes of the artist. Picassos engagement with the women in his life facilitated his exploration of the world and his pursuit of the formal innovations for which he is so acclaimed. In using his muses in this way from the very beginning, he established a pattern. The same interdependence can be found in contemporaries as diverse as Amedeo Modigliani and Salvador Dal\u00ed, but also in a subsequent generation, perhaps most notably in Andy Warhols appropriation of Marilyn (fig. 10) or Jackie Kennedy to explore ideas of celebrity. It is a specifically modern treatment of the muse and as such might be considered among Picassos most significant contributions to twentieth century art. The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Claude Picasso. Dated 4 D 37 (upper right)\nUntitled XXV\nWillem de Kooning (1904-1997) Untitled XXV signed 'de Kooning' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 77 x 88 in. (195.7 x 223.5 cm.) Painted in 1977.\nSir peter paul rubens siegen 1577 - 1640 antwerp, the massacre of\nSir peter paul rubens siegen 1577 - 1640 antwerp, the massacre of the innocents,...\n1949-A-No . 1\nClyfford Still, 1949-A-No . 1 Signed and dated Clyfford 49; signed and titled 1949-A twice on the reverse Oil on canvas 93 x 79 in. 236.2 x 200.7 cm.\nNature morte, Vase aux marguerites et coquelicots\nTeeming with visual drama and emotion, Van Gogh's richly-colored bouquet of wildflowers exemplifies the creative genius of the artist at the culmination of his career. Depicting a bounty of sensory splendor from the fields of Auvers, this important picture captures the artist at the height of his mania and only weeks before his tragic end. It was during this period that Van Gogh painted the most powerful pictures of his career, including his legendary Portrait of Dr. Paul Gachet and Wheat Fields with Crows. An expressive masterwork, Nature morte, Vase aux marguerites et coquelicots transcends the boundaries of its genre and offers an insightful psychological profile. The present composition was painted in mid-June 1890 in Auvers-sur Oise, the town where the artist settled following his release from the asylum at St-R\u00e9my in May 1890. \"Auvers is very beautiful, among other things a lot of old thatched roofs, which are getting rare...really it is profoundly beautiful, it is the real country, characteristic and picturesque\" (Letter 635). Renting a small room at the Auberge Ravoux, he lacked a proper studio, which compelled him to go elsewhere to paint. He spent his days setting up his easel in the fields to paint the lush countryside, or visiting his physician, Dr. Paul Gachet. The artist described his new living situation with enthusiasm, especially the close kinship he felt with the \"rather eccentric\" art collector, Dr. Gachet, who offered him a quiet environment in which he could work. As he told Theo in one of his first letters after meeting the doctor in late May, Gachet's house was filled with black antiques as well as Impressionist paintings including \" two fine flower pieces by C\u00e9zanne.\" Van Gogh found Gachet's environment so inviting that he pledged to \"... gladly, very gladly, do a bit of brushwork here\" (LT635). Over the coming weeks, Van Gogh would paint his celebrated portrait of Dr. Gachet, along with several views of his flower garden and members of his family. The present work was painted at Gachet's house and probably came into his possession upon completion. Van Gogh was inspired by the many objects that Gachet collected, including one particular C\u00e9zanne still-life that hung on Gachet's wall. In that picture, the rounded edge of the table top and general arrangement can be likened to that of the present work. On June 4, he told Theo that despite the clutter of the Gachet's accomodations, \"there is always something for arranging flowers in or for a still life. I did these studies for him to show him that if it is not a case for which he is paid in money, we will still compensate him for what he does for us.\" The present work was one of the few works that Van Gogh sold or traded during his lifetime, and it was possibly given to Gachet in exchange for treatment. Looking at this picture, we can imagine the artist traipsing through the fields on his way to Gachet's, gathering up armfuls of poppies, daisies, cornflowers and sheaves of wheat to squeeze into one of the modest vases in Gachet's antique-filled house. Indeed, several days later, the artist began work on the present composition as well as another painting, featuring the same earthenware vase. Writing on June 16, he explained \"At the moment I am working on two studies, one a bunch of wild plants, thistles, ears of wheat and sprays of different kinds of leaves -- the one almost red, the other bright green, the third turning yellow\" (letter no. 642). While his description most certainly applies to Still life, Vase with Field Flowers and Thistle (F. 763), the catalogue raisonn\u00e9 identifies the present work as being painted contemporaneously on June 16-17. In comparison with the more reserved and academic still-lifes that he had completed in Paris in the mid-1880s, the present work evidences the dramatic shift in the artist's painterly style, now characterized by nfrenetic energy. \"I am working a good deal and quickly these days,\" the artist wrote June 13,\"in do doing, I seek to express the desperately swift passing away of things in modern life\" (Letter W23). As noted in a recent biography of the artist, Van Gogh was flooded by anxiety in Auvers, and his agitation surely spilled over onto even his most optimistic canvases: \"It was a beautiful, alluring vision -- as much as paint and works could make it. But real life for Vincent in Auvers was anything but idyllic. He had arrived in May holding on to the thinnest thread: terrified by the possiblity of another attack, still racked with guilt over the money diverted from Theo's new family, haunted by the stacks of unsold paintings in Paris. He poured his despair into a letter so bleak that he didn't dare to mail it: 'I am far from having reached any kind of tranquility... I feel a failure ... a lot that I accept and that I will not change .... The prospect grows darker, I see no happy future at all'\" (Steven Naifeh & Gregory White Smith, Van Gogh, The Life, New York, 2011, p. 838). It is under this black cloud of despair, using flowers from the same fields in which he would attempt to take his own life only weeks later, that the artist painted this extraordinary composition. It is probable that Gachet either sold or faciliated the sale of this painting to Gaston Alexandre Camentron, the collector of Impressionist pictures, who eventually sold the picture to Paul Cassirer in 1911. The picture remained with a series of private collectors in Germay until the mid-1920s, when it made its way to London and eventually across the Atlantic, where it was one of the first pictures by the artist to be sold in the United States. In 1928, it was sold by the Knoedler Gallery in New York in 1928 to A. Conger Goodyear. Known as one of the principal founders of the Museum of Modern Art, Goodyear kept this work in his family's private collection. It was eventually gifted by the Goodyear family in part to the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, where it was on display to the public for over thirty years.\nBauerngarten (Blumengarten)\nPainted in 1907 during the golden period of Klimts career, Bauerngarten is a masterpiece of Viennese fin-de-si\u00e8cle art. This remarkable landscape is rooted in the natural world yet simultaneously reaches towards the symbolic, decorative avant-garde. It is this synthesis of natural beauty and harmonious regularity which lends the work its profoundly moving quality. During the summer months, from 1900 onwards, Klimt travelled out of Vienna to Litzlberg on the Attersee with his friends and family to relax and paint. In the rustic garden of the Mayr-Hof Klimt found inspiration for the present work, with its informal profusion of poppies, daisies, zinnia and roses, and transformed it into a shimmering array of colour. Celebrated since its very first exhibition in Vienna in 1908 Kunstschau, Bauerngarten is regarded as one of the artists finest landscapes. The exhibition caused a sensation, with critics claiming that Klimt had endowed his works with an almost mystical quality, and declaring him a master landscape painter. Writing a review of the show Josef August Lux stated: The flower meadows are even more beautiful since Klimt has painted them; the artist gives us an eye with which to see the radiant glory of their colours. We never learn to seize nature in her magical beauty other than through art, which always renews her appearance (J.A. Lux quoted in Gustav Klimt: Modernism in the Making (exhibition catalogue), op. cit., p. 115). The 1908 exhibition came at an important time for Klimt, having left the Secession in 1905 taking with him an eponymously named splinter group, and he had not had a public showing of his work for three years. The Kunstschau was a comprehensive exhibition of avant-garde Viennese art in rooms designed by Josef Hoffmann, and Klimt was given a room to himself in which were hung sixteen pictures including Bauerngarten. In his opening address at the Kunstschau he declared: We have not been idle - on the contrary - perhaps just because we have been freed from worries about exhibitions, we have worked all the more assiduously and intensely on the on the development of our ideas (the artist quoted in Christian M. Nebehay, op. cit., 2007, p. 169). Though publically known from the outset of his career for his allegorical compositions and female portraits, in the 1890s and afterwards landscape painting became an increasingly important outlet for Klimts creativity eventually accounting for nearly a quarter of his uvre. The development of his landscape style mirrored and motivated the technical changes found in his figure paintings - initially employing both Impressionist and Pointillist techniques (fig. 1), and latterly engaging in more expressive brushwork and colour. These stylistic changes also reflected his intellectual concerns - at the turn of the century he painted en plein air like his Impressionist contemporaries in France which endowed his early work with a level of naturalistic fidelity. However, as Johannes Dobai explains: Klimt, unlike the Impressionists, was not fascinated by a form of art which represented, ultimately, the perfection of naturalism, and hence the artistic apogee of an empirically positivist view of the world. Instead Klimts inner passion was for making his understanding more real focusing on what constituted the essence of things behind their mere physical appearance []. The development of his treatment of the picture surface reveals that Klimt must have been well acquainted with the techniques of Impressionism and Pointillism, although he did not set pure colours next to one another. He graded his colours in a way which bears comparison to Monet and Seurat, although his Klimts work is more refined the artist wished to create a mood painting (J. Dobai, Gustav Klimt, Landscapes, London, 1988, pp. 12-15). In the mid-1910s this changed and working primarily inside his studio he pioneered a decorative intensity and symbolism of his own devising, and which was to become his greatest contribution to the history of art. This shift was in part inspired by a major exhibition of paintings by Van Gogh at the Galerie Miethke in Vienna which Klimt visited and greatly admired (fig. 3). Seeing Van Gogh's ability to render brilliantly coloured landscapes using pure paint and few traditional techniques emboldened Klimt and he began using much thicker brushwork. These works reached their zenith in the flower paintings of 1905-1908 (figs. 4 & 5) wherein, as Frank Whtiford explains: His paintings are faithful to what he saw, yet at the same time they go beyond it. They use design and texture, pattern and colour, in order to make the transitory permanent, to arrest the fleeting, to transform and fix a world that is constantly changing and decaying into an immutable paradise (F. Whitford, Klimt, London, 1990, p. 184). The square-canvas format chosen by Klimt for the present work heightens its visual impact and creates a marked difference to traditional landscape painting. Klimt started to use this type of support exclusively for landscapes in 1899, with the format used to impart two specific effects; the symmetry denies the dominance of either horizontal or vertical elements in the picture, thus containing the scene with a tighter efficience, and secondly the square increases the sense that these are objects for contemplation - they emanate atmosphere. Significantly Claude Monet had started to use the square format in 1898 until 1916 to depict his waterlily ponds at Giverny (fig. 6). Monet was attempting to increase the impact of the surface of his paintings; the square negated the traditional emphasis on perspective and gave his daring brushwork a stable support upon which to play. Both Klimt and Monet used this technical innovation to make a break from the accepted form of landscape art. Frank Whitford has suggested that one particular characteristic of Klimts landscapes was that the majority have an extremely high horizon line, or lack one altogether, so that their subjects, whether flower beds, woods or meadows, seem to unfurl before the eye from top to bottom of the canvas, more like tapestries or rugs than paintings (ibid., p. 184). The unconventional composition of the Bauerngarten is also key to its visual and symbolic potency. Discussing the present work, Johannes Dobai wrote: In Flower Garden the basic motif is a kind of floral pyramid; the triangular shape - which tends to have a condensing effect - contains an abundance of flowers and leaves, all of varying size, colour, luminosity and characteristics; it contains a 'multiplicity in simplicity'. The positioning of these elements follows the 'rule' of uncultivated, untamed nature - accident and agglomeration. Just as the seeds are carried away at the whim of the wind, so the blossoms grow in distorted clusters, although occasionally there is as rigorous a geometry about them as there is about the square of the painting itself. Bottom right, for instance, there is a group comprising four flowers; three of them lie horizontally at equal distance from one another, while above the third flower on the right there floats a fourth of the same species. In other clusters there is a similar dialectical interplay between geometry and disorder. Now and again within the pyramid individual flowers appear, almost like surprise special effects, in this firework display of summer heat (J. Dobai, Gustav Klimt Landscapes, Boston, 1988, p. 19). The triangular arrangement of the uppermost flowers enrobed by poppies and zinnias bears some striking visual similarities to that of several figurative paintings that were executed during the same period. This direct comparison can provoke certain allegorical readings of the work, as well as offering a more human interpretation of its floral display. As Thomas Zaunschirm has written about Bauerngarten: The flowers are composed in an almost anthropomorphic manner on what is still a flickering green surface of obsessive detail (T. Zaunschirm quoted in A. Weidinger (ed.), op. cit., 2007, p. 285). Furthermore, Johannes Dobai believed that the locus of Klimt's thematic material is the erotic, which branches into its sexual and biological aspects. The predilection toward the erotic can be noted both in figural compositions and in landscape (J. Dobai, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, New York, 1965, pp. 23-24). During the years 1905-1908 Klimt painted some of his most celebrated and innovative figurative works, including Der Kuss, Der Hoffnung II (fig. 9) and his golden portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (fig. 1). The compositions of these major works all reference the bejewelled studies of flowers worked on during the summer months, and their dazzling intensity is mainly derived not from his use of gold and silver pigments, but their sections of superb brushwork depicting brightly coloured flowers. Richard Muther was one of the earliest critics to identify the close connection between Klimts landscape paintings and the golden figurative works, writing: In addition to the feeling for form, there is an amazing sense for the voluptuous atmosphere power of colours... A miserable nature, a nature working in the service of man, a sedate nature, peaty bogs and steaming fields were never painted by Klimt. In his work, even the lake is not threatening or gloomy. It resembles a beautiful womans silk gown, shimmering and flirtatiously sparkling with blue, grass green, and violet tones (R. Muther, quoted in Gustav Klimt Landscapes (exhibition catalogue), op. cit. p. 68). This sentiment is particularly prescient considering Klimts close friendship with the fashion designer Emilie Fl\u00f6ge, with whom he had an intense personal and artistic relationship and with whom every year he spent holidays in the Salzkammergut countryside. Intriguingly Klimt also designed dresses for Emilie, many of which were decorated with stylised flower patterns enabling life to imitate his art. The present work was acquired by the N\u00e1rodn\u00ed Galerie in Prague in 1910 where it remained until 1968. It was first exhibited in Prague at the Deutsch-B\u00f6hmischer Kunstlerbund in 1910, where it received a great deal of praise and attention, including the reviewer in the Prager Tagblatt, who praised this gloriously luminous country meadow that, like the sky in summer, glitters with hundreds of stars (quoted in T. Natter (ed.), op. cit., p. 603). Signed Gustav Klimt (lower right)\nMen in Her Life, Executed in October-November 1962 \u2013 Andy Warhol\nAndy Warhol Men in Her Life Executed in October-November 1962 Silkscreen and pencil on primed canvas. 84 1/2 x 83 1/4 in. (214.6 x 211.5 cm).\nKazimir Malevich, Suprematist Composition Oil on canvas 34 7/8 by 28 in. 88.5 by 71 cm Painted in 1916.\nKunst, Malerei und Grafik\nKunstauktionen mit Gem\u00e4lden aus fr\u00fcheren Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart sind zusammen mit Zeichnungen, Lithografien, Radierungen, Collagen, Postern und Filmplakaten in dieser Kategorie gesammelt. 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It is a Port town and there is a thriving neighbourhood with the Fort Walls. Once inside you can walk around the Old Fort and get lost amongst all the small streets. 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Throughout the interview there are wonderful flashes of ego and vainglory.\n\"But if you were once the centre of a pop world that moved on without you, it's not that easy to come back to the real world.\"\nYou've been away from the music business for so long. Why come back now?\nI was approached two years ago by the O2 arena. I was offered a very good business proposition - guaranteed money.\nBut I was on a lot of anti-depressants, which I now know I'm physiologically allergic to. I had to get my health straight, so I said 'look guys, I don't feel I can do it'.\nSo then I went away and, with the help of my GP, I very gradually came off that particular drug. It took me six months to get it out of my system and I'm pleased to say I feel kind of better.\nAfter that, I went away and wrote a double album and I'm very happy with it.\nAdam Ant is The Blueblack Hussar in Marrying the Gunner's Daughter.\nAdam Ant is me. The Blueblack Hussar is the character who had the stripe on his nose, who has virtually come back from the dead.\nMarrying the Gunner's Daughter is a naval term for when a sailor was beaten for doing something wrong. So I figure that's a metaphor for my experiences in the music industry.\nWhy did you decide to become Adam Ant, instead of Stuart Goddard?\nIn the 1970s. I don't think it's that surprising - Sting changed his name, Cliff Richard changed his name. Lots of musicians do it.\nImage caption Adam Ant's last album was 1995's Wonderful\nI really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.\nIf we go back to the start of your career, Ant Music was your first big hit...\nIt was only kept off number one by the death of John Lennon.\nBy the time Stand and Deliver hit number one, you were ubiquitous. How did that feel?\nYou're like, \"What?!\" Because, before that, there were 300 shows, three long years of rejection. And suddenly they say, \"You are now in the public domain and you have to deal with it\".\nAnd I felt, \"Well, why not?\" I almost didn't believe it, so I worked my socks off. I only had 11 days off in six years. That's probably the reason I ended up feeling rather unwell.\nYou've said in the past you have bipolar disorder. Did you ever feel the condition taking hold of your life?\nI don't accept the terminology.\nIf I give you examples of some people with bipolar disorder, you'll find they're all creative and they're all magnificent in their own work.\nKurt Cobain, Edward Munch, Winston Churchill, Van Gogh, Stephen Fry. The list goes on. They're all working with an abstract palette.\nYou need the dark side and you need the light side to be creative. If it's all great, then you're a Teletubby. And I'm not a Teletubby.\nAs long as you pursue your work without hurting anybody, you should be left alone.\nIt's not something I'm ashamed of. It's not something I'm particularly proud of. I did wrong things as a result of it.\nBut there's only one thing worse than making a mistake, and that's not learning from it\u2026 and I've learnt from it.\nYou can hear the full interview with Adam Ant on BBC 6 Music on 27 February at 1200 GMT.\nAdam Ant to Michael Jackson - Shaping the MTV landscape\nEMI 'blocks' Adam Ant charity CD\nAdam Ant arrested\nThe First Time with Matt Everitt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 7927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-12587397", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:05Z", "digest": "sha1:EP4YGMRN2X6L5QFX7LRMAF5TQVJSZAM4", "length": 1159, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bbc.com", "title": "Czech author Arnost Lustig dies aged 84 - BBC News", "raw_content": "Czech author Arnost Lustig dies aged 84\nImage caption Lustig wrote short stories, plays and screenplays as well as novels\nCzech author Arnost Lustig, a survivor of the Holocaust who later wrote about it in his fiction, has died aged 84.\nThe writer, whose novels included A Prayer for Katerina Horowitzova and Darkness Casts No Shadow, had been suffering from cancer for five years.\nBorn in Prague in 1926, Lustig survived Auschwitz and two other Nazi camps before managing to escape from a train that was taking him to Dachau in 1945.\nHis novel Lovely Green Eyes was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2003.\nBorn into a Jewish family, Lustig was sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942.\nHe was transferred to Auchwitz and Buchenwald two years later before escaping in the spring of 1945.\nReturning to Prague he took part in an anti-Nazi uprising. After the war he worked as a reporter, covering the Arab-Israeli war of 1948.\nLustig left Czechoslovakia during the Soviet occupation in 1968, eventually settling in the US.\nHe returned to Prague after the fall of Communism, remaining there until his death on Saturday.\nCarey up for international Booker", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 4428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-27133511", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6P77HGFWSZK6RDSGJ7CSEK36UCHYVHUW", "length": 1613, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.bbc.com", "title": "Scottish independence: Main referendum campaigns named by commission - BBC News", "raw_content": "Scottish independence: Main referendum campaigns named by commission\nImage caption The two campaigns will have to adhere to a series of rules in the run up to the referendum\nThe elections watchdog has officially named Yes Scotland and Better Together the two main campaign groups ahead of the Scottish independence referendum.\nThey will each be subject to a \u00a31.5m spending limit and other rules in the run up to the vote, the Electoral Commission said.\nThey were designated as \"lead campaigners\" following an application process.\nVoters in Scotland go to the polls in the referendum on 18 September.\nThey will be asked the Yes/No question: \"Should Scotland be an independent country?\"\nYes Scotland, the campaign group for independence, and Better Together, which backs the Union, will also have access to specific benefits during the regulated referendum period which runs from 30 May to 18 September.\nThese include a free delivery of campaign material to voters, referendum broadcasts and the use of public rooms.\nScottish Electoral Commissioner John McCormick, said: \"Following careful consideration of their applications, the Electoral Commission has designated Yes Scotland and Better Together as lead campaigners for each side at the Scottish referendum.\n\"Both campaigners set out clearly how they will ensure their campaigns will reach voters across Scotland and we are grateful for the constructive way that they each engaged with the commission during the designation process.\"\nAnyone intending to spend more than \u00a310,000 during the referendum period is required to register with the Electoral Commission.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 5441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/26195617", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:12Z", "digest": "sha1:JV3JZFPCHGJCQPTH3HY6MA45CWPBBSSW", "length": 3124, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.bbc.com", "title": "Michu could make Swansea come back against Everton - BBC Sport", "raw_content": "Michu could make Swansea come back against Everton\nSwansea City forward Michu is in contention to return to the side to play at Everton in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday.\nThe 27-year-old Spaniard has been sidelined since having ankle surgery at the end of December.\nSwansea head coach Garry Monk says Michu has been training and could feature against the Toffees.\n\"We'll look at him and see how he feels and if it's a possibility for the weekend,\" said Monk.\nMichu this season...\nSwansea City:\n\"If he feels right, maybe.\"\nSpanish international Michu scored 22 goals for the Swans last season.\nHe has not featured for the club since Swansea's 1-1 draw at Norwich City on 14 December.\nThe Swans have struggled without him in the Premier League, winning just twice in 10 matches.\nAlthough 10th in the table they sit just four points above the relegation zone.\nTheir form in the FA Cup so far has been a different story with victories at Manchester United and Birmingham City.\nOn Sunday, they will be aiming to reach the quarter finals of the competition for the first time since 1964, when they beat Bill Shankly's Liverpool at Anfield.\nStanding in their way are fifth placed Everton, managed by their former boss Roberto Martinez.\nMonk played alongside Martinez at Swansea after joining from Southampton in 2004 and became Martinez's captain when the Spaniard returned as manager in 2007.\nMartinez went on to manage Wigan who he led to win the FA Cup last season before joining Everton.\nMonk says he has a close relationship with the Toffees boss and has been given advice from him since taking over from Michael Laudrup at the Liberty Stadium.\n\"That relationship will always be there no matter what,\" said Monk.\n\"I have learnt from him and the experiences he had here.\nThe Swans last reached the quarter finals of the FA Cup in 1964, beating Bill Shankly's Liverpool 2-1 at Anfield. They lost the semi-final 2-1 at Villa Park to Preston North End.\n\"It's like what I am doing now, taking charge after being a player and changing your role.\n\"He is a great guy and he is at the top of his game. I've experienced his management so I know how good he is.\n\"He's probably better now since he's left.\"\nMonk, has led Swansea to a win against Cardiff and a draw at Stoke in his first two games in charge.\nAlthough he says Premier League survival is the Swans' priority, he wants to do well in the cup as well.\n\"We had a good experience in a cup competition last year, and we'll be trying to win the game,\" said Monk.\n\"If we can come through this game and the rest of the month with some good performances and good results, then I think it will stand us in good stead for the rest of the season.\"\nSwansea waiting on Michu fitness\nRead more on Michu: Swansea City waiting on Spain forward's fitness\nSwansea hope for Michu derby return\nRead more on Swansea hope for Michu's return in Welsh derby against Cardiff\nMichu happy with recovery progress\nRead more on Swansea City: Michu happy with progress following ankle surgery\nSwansea's Michu faces six weeks out\nRead more on Swansea striker Michu set to miss six weeks after ankle surgery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 6467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bcbsri.com/shop/resume", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:D4UNQ2SSQS2M4KTKA7NZVRJC373JHJ6E", "length": 1186, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.bcbsri.com", "title": "Resume Application | Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island", "raw_content": "We saved your form right where you left off. Enter the information required below and we'll get you going again. Your First and Last Name and Date of Birth must match what we have on file.\nContinue Code\nPlease enter a continue code\nThe information that you provided doesn\u2019t match our records. Please make sure the data is correct.\nThe application you\u2019re trying to resume has already been submitted. Please contact us if you have any questions.\nWe apologize \u2014 Medicare's Annual Enrollment Period has ended, so you can no longer change your BlueCHiP for Medicare plan online. But you can give our Medicare Concierge Team a call and they'll be happy to walk you through it. Call (401) 277-2958 or 1-800-267-0439 (TTY: 711).\nHours are October 1 - February 14, seven days a week, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. February 15 - September 30, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 8:00 a.m. to noon. You can use our automated answering system outside of these hours.\nNeed your Continue Code?\nIf you don't have your Continue Code on hand, well resend it to your email address.\nPlease enter a date of birth\nThere was a problem processing your request. Please try again later.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 4845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beautynwa.com/financials/financial-aid", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:27Z", "digest": "sha1:DRMHSQFC54QAZ5SRZ3RFJYS2TC76XGZ6", "length": 6426, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.beautynwa.com", "title": "Financial Aid", "raw_content": "We offer many types of financial aid.\nCareer Academy of Hair Design participates in the Federal Pell Grant and the Federal Direct Student Loan Programs. Students needing financial assistance can apply for these programs by completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Each student must apply for a Personal Identification Number (PIN) to serve as their electronic signature. When completing the electronic application, if it is determined that the student is classified as \"dependent student\", one parent must also apply for a PIN and sign the applicaiton electronically. Students can access the FAFSA website at: www.fafsa.ed.gov to complete the application and apply for a PIN.\nSpringdale school code: 016596\nRogers school code: E01654\nSiloam Springs school code: E01766\nFayetteville school code: 016596\nFort Smith school code: E40413\nDetermining Student Aid Eligibility\nEligibility for most federal student aid is based on financial need and on several other factors.\nThe most basic eligibility requirements to receive federal student aid are that you must\nbe a U.S. citizen or an eligible non-citizen,\nregister (if you haven't already) with the Selective Service, if you're a male between the ages of 18 and 25,\nmaintain satisfactory academic progress in college or career school, and\nshow you're qualified to obtain a post-secondary education by\nhaving a high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate;\npassing an approved ability-to-benefit test (if you don't have a diploma or GED certificate, a school can administer a test to determine whether you can benefit from the education offered at that school);\ncompleting six credit hours or equivalent course work toward a degree or certificate;\nmeeting other federally approved standards your state establishes; or\ncompleting a high school education in a homeschool setting approved under state law.\nThe most need-based of the student aid programs, this program provides grant aid to low- and middle-income undergraduate students. Awards vary depending on the cost of attendance and financial circumstances of students and their families. These grants do not have to be repaid.\nThese funds are lent directly to students for undergraduate and graduate studies, through participating postsecondary schools, with funds borrowed from the U.S. Treasury. Direct Loans include subsidized and unsubsidized loans, PLUS loans for parents and graduate or professional degree students, and consolidation loans, which allow borrowers to combine federal education loan debt. Students receiving thes loans must also complete Entrance Counseling and a Master Promissory Note. To complete Entrance Counseling or to sign a Master Promissory Note (MPN), please visit: https://studentloans.gov. Upon leaving the school (whether your drop or graduate) you must also complete Exit Counseling, please visit http://www.nslds.ed.gov/nslds_sa.\nStudents can apply for the Career Academy of Hair Design Scholarship.\nStudents can pick up an application for the Joe Francis Scholarship at the school starting in January. In June, the foundation will choose 16 students across the nation to receive $1000.00. You can also apply online at www.joefrancis.com. Last year, two of our students received the Joe Francis Scholarship.\nStudents are informed of other scholarships from suppliers as they become available.\nBy clicking this link, students can receive an estimate of financial assistance. The estimate provided using this calculator does not represent a final determination, or actual award, of financial assistance, or a final net price; it is an estimate based on price of attendance and financial aid provided to students in a previous year. Price of attendance and financial aid availability change year to year. The estimates shall not be binding on the Secretary of Education, the institution of higher education, or the State. Students must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) in order to be eligible for, and receive, an actual financial aid award that includes Federal grant, loan, or work-study assistance. For more information on applying for Federal student aid, go to http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator.\nView your student loan account balances and payment history, print a loan verification letter, sign up for automatic monthly Kwikpay\u00ae debits, enroll in electronic services, make online payments and much more...\nGrace Counseling Outreach\nYou\u2019re not alone when it comes to student loans. Career Academy of Hair Design has partnered with Inceptia, a division of National Student Loan Program (NSLP), to provide you with FREE assistance on your Federal student loan obligations to ensure successful, and comfortable, loan repayment. Inceptia\u2019s friendly customer representatives may reach out to you during your grace period to answer questions you have about your loan obligation and/or repayment options. They may also contact you if your loan(s) become delinquent. Inceptia is not a collection agency. We\u2019ve partnered with them to help you explore a wide variety of possibilities such as alternative repayment plans, deferment, consolidation, discharge, forgiveness, and forbearance options. Inceptia will stay in touch with you via phone calls, letters, and/or emails to help you find answers to your questions and solutions to your issues.\nIf you have, or have had, a physical or emotional disability, please contact the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services office for possible financial assistance.\nCall 479-582-1286 to get more information. Note: this agency prefers that students start the qualification process through their office before a student starts attending at one of our campus locations.\nCareer Academy of Hair Design has met the standards set forth by the Arkansas Higher Education Commission and the Veterans Administration. 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Arsene Wenger stepped down at the end of the previous season, after mediocre results and an understandably irritated fanbase turning on him, with banners, chants and stadium boycotts. The new season will be breath of fresh air for the Gunners. With the appointment of Unai Emery, there is an air of optimism surrounding the Emirates.\nWith players like Alexandre Lacazette, Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Mesut Ozil among the ranks, it leaves a lot to be desired from this group. Gooners are advised to not be too overconfident either. Just ask any Manchester United supporter. The Old Trafford club endured a difficult period following the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson after 26 years at the helm and are still undergoing a transition. Unai Emery\u2019s stock has a gone down a bit as well, following his difficult spell as boss of Paris St. Germain.\nEmry In France\nThe former Sevilla boss underwent a turbulent period at the French capital, struggling to get through to various figures in the dressing room. These figures are echoed by former Arsenal defender Emmanuel Petit.\nHe quoted,\n\u201cThe players must trust in him and follow his instructions, but I\u2019m not sure that will happen,\" Petit said. \"He was unable to do that at Paris Saint-Germain because of the egos in the dressing room. He was being eaten by the players, and he didn\u2019t have the personality to be the leader. \"Having watched him over the past two years in France, you could see he was frustrated. It was obvious he was a lone ranger at the club.\u201d If the Arsenal players accept Emery and his philosophy, then there are sunny days ahead in North London. On the other hand, this could be the start of a transition period that may take a few seasons to settle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 564, "original_length": 13892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biblestudytools.com/gnta/matthew/19-12.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:17Z", "digest": "sha1:EJYM6IDHBQIJP5K7E62WRM7AXWYTI4VQ", "length": 243, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.biblestudytools.com", "title": "Matthew 19:12 - GNTA - For there are different reasons why men cannot ...", "raw_content": "12 For there are different reasons why men cannot marry: some, because they were born that way; others, because men made them that way; and others do not marry for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven. Let him who can accept this teaching do so.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bigbuzzinc.com/win-battle-new-patients/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:10Z", "digest": "sha1:I7HHJ2HEMQKEBR24IJBPMCVRVRTEISX3", "length": 2051, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.bigbuzzinc.com", "title": "Win The Battle For New Patients - Big Buzz", "raw_content": "Win The Battle For New Patients\nBy Wendy O'Donovan PhillipsJanuary 31, 2017Blog, Uncategorized\nHere\u2019s a dirty little secret about dentists\u2026 the majority of them figure that if they just throw enough dollars at what\u2019s hot in marketing, they will get ahead of the competition in the battle for new patients.\nThe name of the marketing game is not to attract new patients. The goal is to attract your ideal new patients: those who pay on time, accept treatment, welcome your dental benefits policies and refer family and friends.\nThe right marketing solution is not that shiny new approach that the last sales rep called to promote. It\u2019s a strategic marketing plan: the exact mix of everything possible in marketing expertly whittled down to precisely what is right for your practice right now.\nAnd that strategic marketing plan is not an expense. It is an investment: it works on the practice\u2019s behalf to more than pay for itself.\nIt\u2019s a plan that cuts off \u201cprice shopper\u201d patients at the pass before they waste your time and resources.\nIt\u2019s a plan that honors potential patients and makes clear to them that they will feel right at home at your practice \u2013 even before they cross the threshold.\nIt\u2019s a plan that attracts patients from miles away who are willing to pay fee-for-service and who respect you as the expert that you are.\nIt\u2019s a plan that has the right patients flocking in the door on a regular basis.\nIt\u2019s a plan that will make the competition obsolete.\nMore than all of that, it\u2019s a plan that makes your practice more prominent and more profitable than ever before.\nYour peers may not know that there are 50 possible marketing tactics that practices use to attract patients. They may be narrowly focused on only a few that they are trying on a darts-in-the-dark basis.\nMany don\u2019t know that there is a simple and quick way to strategically define which of the 50 possible marketing tactics will make their practices soar.\nBut dentists nationwide are making use of just such a strategy.\nYes! I want a complimentary initial marketing strategy!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.billacholla.com/website-redesign/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5JLFAA24WBBAJVFP76C76BVB5CVBOJCQ", "length": 8945, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "www.billacholla.com", "title": "The Definitive Guide to Website Redesign (Updated)", "raw_content": "How a Website Redesign Can Support (and Improve) Your Overall Marketing Efforts\nLike most people, I enjoy online browsing. Be it for research, news, online shopping or just getting updated with social media.\nBut when the website I\u2019m looking at looks like a remnant of the late 90s one, it makes me cringe a bit and I just head off to another website immediately!\nEven if that website is a treasure chest of valuable information, if it\u2019s hard to look at, then it\u2019s not worth scrolling down the page.\nWebsite redesign can be intimidating and even costly but with the current business trend, it\u2019s a known necessity.\nConsider this; if Apple has kept this website design from 1997, it may not be as successful as it is now. Right?\nIf you need more prodding, here are some points on how a website redesign can support (and improve) your overall marketing efforts:\n1. It provides a better user experience\nTen seconds is the maximum time you have to pique someone\u2019s interest in browsing your website before they close the tab and look for another website to view.\nThus, it is important to think of your website as your front liner in driving sales. Accept that users will check your website with this in mind, \u201cWhat\u2019s in it for me?\u201d\nYou may have just a small-time family business that has been going on for decades and you have a steady number of loyal clients.\nUnfortunately, if you don\u2019t keep your website updated, even your loyal clients might end up trying the services from your competition.\nYour consumers need to be able to browse your website with ease using their computers, laptop, tablets or mobile phones.\nJust visit a coffee shop or a restaurant and you\u2019ll find people looking down their phones. They\u2019re not doing that to just check messages; most of them are browsing the web.\nAnd if you\u2019re website is not mobile-friendly, meaning, they don\u2019t immediately get the information or service they need, then, it\u2019s high time for an upgrade.\nVisit your competitors\u2019 websites and those of major companies and see what features they have available that you can do in your own website.\nAs an example, Airbnb redesigned their website and used photos taken by professional photographers they employed to take pictures for the site instead of amateur photos from their users. The move resulted to a quick revenue increase.\nRun a survey among your loyal customers and ask them what they like and don\u2019t like about your website, what they hope to see in your content and what features they think would be nice to see at your website. Doing this will make your consumers know that you value their feedback.\nThe results of your survey will also help you decide on whether you need to redesign your entire website or just portions of it like your \u201cAbout us\u201d page or list of products and services.\n2. It makes your company more visible online\nNowadays, even if you have just a small business, you can have a huge online presence with millions of followers by keeping your website informative and updated.\nBad Pickle Tees, for example, saw an increase in revenue after they created a website for their shirts.\nThere are lots of website hosting and domain registration service providers available. If you would like to see updated reviews of the major providers, visit Hrank.\nIf you\u2019re trying to save cost and looking to create a free website, Wix and WordPress are good options.\nBelow are some features of the two providers to give you a better idea.\nEven a website creation newbie will be able to navigate Wix. With WordPress, you\u2019ll need to have some knowledge about coding or HTML/CSS to start with your website.\nThrough its App Market, Wix has lots of free and/or paid features available such as Live Chat Room. Customer reviews, and Events Calendar.\nWhile WordPress started out as a blogging website, through its plug-ins, it has now evolved to include features such as commenting systems, safety plug-ins and SEO packs.\nDesign Comparison Chart\nWix allows users to personalize their available templates, which is not the case for WordPress.\nYou may want to test the waters for both providers to have a better assessment of which works best for your company\u2019s needs.\n3. It keeps your company up to date\nThey say that your shoes reflect who you are. In the same way, your website shows what your company is all about. And redesigning your website helps your consumers realize that you have a growing company.\nBut don\u2019t leave it to your website designer to do all the work for you. Otherwise, your website may not the one that you like and what your business needs.\nWebsite design and content marketing may not be your forte but you still need to build the solid foundations of what your website is all about.\nIf you have a new promotional campaign, your website should be at its forefront. Your consumers should be able to research all your updated products and services with just a click from your website.\nHowever, it\u2019s not necessary to do a complete overhaul on a regular basis. According to Christian Riggs of Riggs Creative Group, changes that need to be done to your website depend on your company\u2019s goal and objectives and of course, budget.\nBut what is important is to keep your website visually interesting. Your website content should have the important information that your target market needs and it should have all the details to keep them interested enough to bookmark your website.\n4. It helps you become more competitive on the web\nApparently, being adaptable to change is the key to remaining competitive online.\nAs an example, Amazon started out selling books long ago. They\u2019ve successfully adapted and they\u2019re now selling anything and everything from A to Z.\n5. It gives you the results that you want\nUsers now check reviews and ratings before availing of an online company\u2019s products or services.\nIf you\u2019re customers are able to easily rate your offerings on your website, then you\u2019re providing your consumers to an opportunity to be engaged with your company.\nHowever, it\u2019s important to ensure that your all of your website features work well. If you have automated customer service through chatbots in your website but it doesn\u2019t work half the time, then you\u2019ll end up losing clients.\nInvesting on website redesign will certainly cost you money but if you\u2019re able to turn your website visitors to consumers, then it means good business for you.\nKeep your consumers want more of what you offer by having a creative call to actions feature.\nA remarkable example of providing great customer online experience is how Uber made it easy to get a cab, which is one of the most stressful things to do in most part of the world.\nBy building a user-friendly mobile app, Uber was able to help improve commuters\u2019 lives by providing an improved transportation service.\nAlso, it has provided opportunity for private car owners to use their cars for Uber\u2019s services as an additional source of income.\nHere are some ways to help you get started\nThere\u2019s an estimate of 2.46 billion social media users in the world in 2017. So, if you want your business to reach global heights like Amazon and eBay, social media marketing is the way to go.\nIf you need help to get started in strategizing for your campaign, this video, which features interviews of social media marketing all-stars is what you need.\nIt\u2019s a fact that there are increasing numbers of social media users. Thus, you\u2019ll need to be very creative in making a connection with your users and in earning their trust.\nOne major way to build trust is to be transparent. This is why there are more companies who are brave enough to recall defective products.\nIt\u2019s their way of saying, \u201cWe\u2019re sorry our product is defective but know that we\u2019re doing our best to improve it for you.\u201d\nWhile it would be easier to hire a known influencer, you may also opt to involve your active and trusted social media followers to make your products known. Word of mouth is still one of most effective ways in marketing and in the online word, it\u2019s known as social media.\nIf you\u2019re the traditional type and if you want to keep the days of newsletter writing alive, email newsletter is another option for you.\nYou may add a subscribe button in your website where people can sign up for your newsletter.\nWhen you email your newsletter, provide a link where readers can unsubscribe if they decide to do so.\nSend your newsletter on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis but not too often. Make it simple, informative and easy to read.\nI hope by now you\u2019ve realized the importance of website redesign. The return of investment might take a while but the opportunity to engage your website visitors and turn them to followers and consumers is worth the wait.\nDon\u2019t let your website visitors to just do a quick glance at your website and regret that they spent 5 seconds browsing through it. Make them love your website at first sight.\nHave you ever redesigned your website? Let me know how it impacted your marketing effort?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 10680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biopsychiatry.com/pharmacogenomics.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:20Z", "digest": "sha1:XCRDCTHCM4DFJT2VMLS2P2KWZ7ULFH6H", "length": 1693, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.biopsychiatry.com", "title": "Pharmacogenomics", "raw_content": "the frontiers of genome medicine\nTanaka T, Tsujimoto G, Sugiyama Y, Hashimoto Y.\nMolecular and Cellular Pharmacology,\nMie University School of Medicine,\nTsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan.\nNippon Yakurigaku Zasshi 2002 Sep;120(3):141-8\nThe Human Genome Project provides insights so profound that it has the ability to change everything we know about medicine and how medicines are developed. Pharmacogenomics is defined as studies to identify the genes that are involved in determining the responsiveness to a given drug and to distinguish responders and non-responders to a given drug. Genome sequencing, transcriptome, and proteome analysis are of particular significance in pharmacogenomics. Transcriptome analysis can be done by methods of random cDNA sequencing, mRNA display and, differential hybridization (i.e., cDNA microarray and associated methods). Our results suggest that the pharmacogenomic transcriptome analysis and pharmainformatics have potential as strategies for defining novel drug targets in various diseases. Pharmacogenomics enhances the development, commercialization, and clinical use of conventional pharmaceutical products for common diseases, and it will eventually become a powerful tool for Evidence-Based Medicine. It is also important to predict interindividual pharmacokinetic differences by genetic polymorphisms of transporters or pharmacokinetic changes by transporter-mediated drug interactions during drug development. Pharmacogenomics and pharmainformatics enable us to move quickly and efficiently from targets to appropriate medicines.\nProteomics and the CNS\nMss4 gene and antidepressants\nAntidepressants and the genome\nPharmacogenomics and new antidepressants", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biopsychiatry.com/socanxevo.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:37Z", "digest": "sha1:PK7NIS2T2WM4M36XR7JOGS2BLM7JCQMM", "length": 3112, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.biopsychiatry.com", "title": "Evolution and social anxiety", "raw_content": "Evolution and social anxiety. The role of attraction, social competition, and social hierarchies\nMental Health Research Unit,\nKingsway Hospital, Derby, United Kingdom.\np.gilbert@derby.ac.uk\nPsychiatr Clin North Am. 2001 Dec;24(4):723-51.\nIf human social anxiety is not predominately about the fear of physical injury or attack, as it is in other animals, then, to understand human social anxiety (i.e., fear of evaluation), it is necessary to consider why certain types of relationships are so important. Why do humans need to court the good feelings of others and fear not doing so? And why, when people wish to appear attractive to others (e.g., to make friends, date a desired sexual partner, or give a good presentation), do some people become so overwhelmed with anxiety that they behave submissively and fearfully (which can be seen as unattractive) or are avoidant? This article has suggested that humans have evolved to compete for attractiveness to make good impressions because these are related to eliciting important social resources and investments from others. These, in turn, have been linked to inclusive fitness and have physiological regulating effects. Being allocated a low social rank or ostracized carries many negative consequences for controlling social resources and physiological regulation. Social anxiety, like shame, can be adaptive to the extent that it helps people to \"stay on track\" with what is socially acceptable and what is not and could result in social sanction and exclusion. However, dysfunctional social anxiety is the result of activation of basic defensive mechanisms (and modules for) for threat detection and response (e.g., inhibition, eye-gaze avoidance, flight, or submission) that can be recruited rapidly for dealing with immediate threats, override conscious wishes, and interfere with being seen as a \"useful associate.\" Second, this article has suggested that socially anxious people are highly attuned to the competitive dynamics of trying to elicit approval and investment from others but that they perceive themselves to start from an inferior (i.e., low-rank) position and, because of this, activate submissive defensives when attempting to present themselves as confident, able, and attractive to others. These submissive defenses (which evolved to inhibit animals in low-rank positions from making claims on resources or up-rank bids) interfere with confident performance, leading to a failure cycle. While psychological therapies may target specific modules, cognitions, and behaviors (e.g., damage limitation behaviors, eyes gaze avoidance, theory of mind beliefs) that underpin social anxiety, drugs may work by having a more generalized effect on the threat-safety balance such that there is a different \"weighting\" given to various social threats and opportunities. If social anxiety (and disorders associated with it) are increasing in the modern age, one reason may be invigorated competition for social prestige, attractiveness, and resources.\nHedonic recalibration\nRank theory and depression\nOpioids for pleasure and dopamine for anticipation?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biowashing.com/uncategorized/mold-growth-sporulation-in-buildings-part-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:AIXH74ML36U3KWETDZKWCXB5BK7FQ4XI", "length": 4069, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.biowashing.com", "title": "Mold Growth & Sporulation in Buildings - Part 2 - Mold Solutions and Inspection Services", "raw_content": "Home / Uncategorized / Mold Growth & Sporulation in Buildings \u2013 Part 2\nTags: Biology, Fungus, Germination, Holomycota, Mold, Plant physiology, Plant reproduction, Reproduction, Resting spore, Seeds, Spore, Stachybotrys\nEach stage of fungal growth (spore germination, vegetative growth, sporulation) has a specific set of conditions that is optimal. Important conditions in this set are nutrient types and concentrations, light, temperature, oxygen and water availability. Water availability (i.e., water activity) is one of the most important of these. Each fungus has optimal water activities for spore germination, radial growth and sporulation. At optimal water activity, temperature changes will affect each of these processes. Optimum germination, growth and sporulation occur only when all environmental conditions are ideal. For example, Stachybotrys chartarum spores will swell and begin to germinate in distilled water, while Penicillium chrysogenum spores will germinate only if some soluble nutrients are present in the water. These properties have evolved as part of the fungal defense mechanism. The ability of Stachybotrys chartarum spores to germinate in pure water enables this fungus to grow under conditions that are not suitable for many other fungi. The ability of Aspergillus restrictus to grow at a very low water activity (0.69) was measured under optimal conditions for all of the other variables. As these other conditions depart from the optimum, more water is needed to allow continued growth. Practically speaking, this means that most xerophilic fungi will not grow at very low water activities under normal building conditions.\nThere are sensors on the market that are being used to test the potential for fungal growth on building surfaces. They consist of specific spore types sandwiched between water vapor permeable membranes. They are placed on a surface and read after a number of hours. If germination occurs, then growth is considered possible. The sensors are available with different kinds of fungi, recognizing the fact that different fungi have different optima for spore germination. One should remember, however, that optimal germination conditions may not be the same as those for growth and sporulation, and a positive test does not necessarily mean that conditions are suitable for growth. On the other hand, if germination does not occur, it still may be possible for some other spore type to germinate under the given conditions.\nNow, how do we use this information on fungal characteristics to prevent fungal growth? We usually talk about controlling water activity in buildings, and this is the most important and best approach for preventing fungal growth. Controlling water activity in buildings is accomplished by controlling relative humidity and keeping temperatures high enough so that condensation does not occur. This does work. Dry buildings do not become moldy even when really delicious fungal food is available. There are wall-surfacing materials available now that will not hold water. Although still relatively expensive, these materials provide time following water incidents before fungal growth occurs. Where water is inevitable, the next step is to control nutrients. Thus, leaks onto plaster walls rarely result in fungal growth, and hard flooring (tile, marble, hardwood) provide little intrinsic nutrient and can be kept free of accumulated dirt and dust.\nBiocides that are included in some paints seek to prevent either germination or growth or both. Some do prevent most spores from germinating but have no effect on the growth rate of those spores that are biocide resistant. Others allow germination but slow or prevent subsequent growth. The important point to remember with biocides is that fungi are adaptable. Optimal requirements for germination, growth and sporulation are genetically determined, and they can change with genetic recombination. Resistance to biocides also changes so that, eventually, some spore is likely to be able to resist even the most potent biocide.\nResting spore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/university/colleges/eps/news/alumni/Alumni-support-novel-applications-of-Computer-Science.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7YOLWVDMNRXAP5HGXSCSYBRF5EG4RFNT", "length": 3087, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.birmingham.ac.uk", "title": "Alumni support a wide range of novel applications of Computer Science", "raw_content": "Home > Our University > Our colleges and professional services > Engineering and Physical Sciences > News > Alumni > Alumni support a wide range of novel applications of Computer Science\nAlumni support a wide range of novel applications of Computer Science\nThe School of Computer Science is always striving to solve real-world problems. Thanks to alumni generosity, this summer we've been able to host a number of undergraduate interns to tackle two extremely different, but challenging, tasks.\nEngaging Girls in Computer Science\nThe first of these is to develop materials for a workshop which we can use to help engage school girls in Computer Science (CS). Women are significantly underrepresented at all levels of CS education and careers, and this can only be addressed by coordinated action at all levels. In line with national efforts such as the Computing at Schools include programme, we are using alumni funding to develop an event which we can run either on campus or in schools in order to give school children (with an initial focus on girls) an exciting first experience of CS. We plan to base this around the guided development of an augmented reality application for a mobile device, using an existing toolkit such as MIT's App Inventor. The choice of application was made to both highlight the techniques that go in to the development of apps (which many of us now use every day), but to also show how technology can connect with the world around us. Once developed we plan to take the workshop into some of Birmingham's schools for girls and evaluate its effects. We will also be looking for further support or sponsorship to provide infrastructure (phones and laptops) to enable us to reach wider audience.\nA Drink Serving Robot\nIn 2014 the University of Birmingham will host the British Science Festival. At the 2013 event in Newcastle we will host a party to celebrate the handover to Birmingham. As the University is keen to use this event to showcase the kinds of cutting-edge science we do, the School of Computer Science was asked to bring one of our mobile robots along to help serve drinks. Thanks to alumni support we have been able to employ a undergraduate student over the summer to take cutting edge robot control software and use this to develop and artificially intelligent robot able to be called (via a web app) to bring a drink from a bar. The major challenge in this task is enable the robot to move through crowds as such navigation behaviours typically use sensors which can be confused by the presence of lots of moving people. Such confusion causes the robot just to sit still, which is not a desirable behaviour when you're thirsty. However, safety is priority in such crowded situations, so striking the right balance between providing a drink quickly whilst not running over toes is the main task the student faces. Once perfected we hope to be able to use this system at a range of University functions, from Open Days to balls.\nTo find out more about how you could transform the work we do in Computer Science, please visit our giving pages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 5672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bis.org/review/r171009d.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:06Z", "digest": "sha1:C5TAMXOYAEIX7L5OXKPRFVNL2FSWATZX", "length": 865, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bis.org", "title": "Chris Salmon: Keeping up with fast markets", "raw_content": "Chris Salmon: Keeping up with fast markets\nSpeech by Mr Chris Salmon, Executive Director for Markets of the Bank of England, at the 13th Annual Central Bank Conference on the Microstructure of Financial Markets, London, 6 October 2017.\nby Chris Salmon\nGood morning and welcome to the second day of our conference. Yesterday we heard from Richard Payne's session on the subject of algorithmic trading - a key development in market structure, enabled by the greater prevalence of electronic trading. This morning I want to step back a little further and look at the broader implications of the moves toward more electronic and automated trading.\nOne phenomenon this has given rise to - and perhaps the element which has most captured the public imagination - is the series of 'flash' events which have occurred over recent years (Chart 1).\nExecutive Director, Markets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 7497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bis.org/review/r180206e.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:22Z", "digest": "sha1:U4MLGANYXJKZRGGX7QDAQU2TNFQ2TQUH", "length": 5838, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.bis.org", "title": "Jens Weidmann: Welcome remarks for a lecture given by Agust\u00edn Carstens", "raw_content": "Jens Weidmann: Welcome remarks for a lecture given by Agust\u00edn Carstens\nWelcome remarks by Dr Jens Weidmann, President of the Deutsche Bundesbank and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, for the SAFE/CFS/Deutsche Bundesbank Lecture, given by Mr Agust\u00edn Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements, Frankfurt am Main, 6 February 2018.\nby Jens Weidmann\nDear Agust\u00edn Carstens,\nDear Vice-President Haar,\nIt's a pleasure and a privilege to welcome you to the joint lecture of the SAFE Policy Center, the Center of Financial Studies and the Deutsche Bundesbank.\nToday we welcome a former minister of finance, a former central bank governor, a former Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a graduate from the University of Chicago and an erstwhile General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).\nNormally, this constitutes a highly exiting composition for a panel discussing monetary and financial issues. But today we are doing even better. Our speaker has held all these positions - not at the same time, but at some point in his career.\nI am talking about Agust\u00edn Carstens. After graduating with a PhD from the University of Chicago, Agust\u00edn began his career at the Central Bank of Mexico. He then became Executive Director at the IMF, before being appointed Mexico's Deputy Finance Minister and thereafter Deputy Managing Director at the IMF. In 2006 he returned from Washington to Mexico-City to serve as minister of finance.\nIn this position - rather unusual for a finance minister - he earned some reputation in the oil market. In 2008 he insured Mexico's oil revenues against lower oil prices. A move that earned Mexico 8.5 bn $ in 2009. Some traders joked, he was that year's most successful, but worst paid oil manager.\nThe finance ministry was by no means the end of your career. Between 2010 and 2017 you served as Governor of the Bank of Mexico.\nAnd in December last year, you added the most recent entry to your CV, when you became the General Manager of the BIS. You are an excellent choice for the position and I am already looking forward to working with you in Basel. I am certain the BIS will benefit from your enormous experience. This experience manifests itself not only in the long list of positions you held in your impressive career, but also in the economic events you witnessed during that time.\nIt is safe to say that your career was very eventful in this respect. In the 1990's, when you were head of the research department at the Banco de Mexico, Mexico went through the so called Tequila-crisis, when it encountered difficulties in financing its large current account deficits. And in 2008, as Mexico's Minister of Finance, you helped to coordinate an international response to global financial crisis in the G20.\nIt was during this time that we first met and I was impressed by your strong push towards an international response to the crisis. It helped prevent the world from falling back into trade protectionism and an even deeper recession. And it established to G20 as the key body for international economic cooperation - not only on the field of financial market regulation.\nThe common efforts of the G20 have demonstrated that multilateral cooperation does work - a message which is worth to be repeated these days when some countries do not get tired to doubt the meaning of multilateral agreements.\nDear Agust\u00edn, at the high-point of the sovereign debt crisis in euro area, you offered the euro area to benefit from your huge experience. In a 2013 speech you draw lessons from Mexico's Tequila crisis for the euro area1. Two of your conclusions were that \"an exchange-rate system [or a common currency] cannot be a substitute for policy discipline\". And you also pointed out that fiscal discipline needs to be maintained after the crisis. This is very close to our thinking here at the Bundesbank.\nIt also appeared to me that at that time you were tactfully trying to remind us in the euro area to make progress in crisis resolution. I am aware that many considered the sovereign debt crisis as a risk for the global economy.\nThis is why I am happy to be able to state that matters have improved substantially since then. The euro area has turned from a drag to a driver of growth. In 2017, the euro area grew slightly faster than the average of the advanced economies.\nThe greatest risk is now to assume that all problems are solved. Shocks in specific region or specific sectors of the economy can still put the euro area to an endurance test - despite the progress that has been made in the past years.\nBut at least the times where the sovereign debt crisis required the full attention of policy makers, regulators and bank-supervisors is behind us. We are now able to turn some of our attention to other important issues. One such issue is certainly the digitalization of finance. The Bundesbank has put this topic on the agenda of the G20 during Germany's presidency last year.\nOne important aspect of this issue we weren't able to look at in the framework of the G20 is the possibilities and risks that come with the issuance of digital tokens or even digital central bank money. The question whether new technology changes fundamentally the foundations of central banking is increasingly discussed amongst central bankers.\nAgust\u00edn, your talk today is highly welcomed because it will contribute to an objectification of the debate and will constitute an important input for our policy deliberations. I am very happy that we were able to attract such a distinguished speaker for this task.\nFire away. The floor is yours.\n1 Agustin Carstens (2013). The quest for successful policy responses to sovereign crises. Speech at the Monetary Authority of Singapore Lecture 2013, 5 February 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 12548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blackburnandgreen.com/indiana-slip-and-fall-injury-attorneys", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RQSM2QWET5ADZCG7KX6XOJYPJI3ZHEBL", "length": 4512, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.blackburnandgreen.com", "title": "Indiana Slip and Fall Attorneys | Premises Liability | Free Case Review", "raw_content": "Indiana Slip & Fall Attorneys\nIndiana Slip and Fall Accident Attorney\nDid you know that if you suffer injuries in a slip and fall and a property owner or manager is responsible for maintaining that area, you could hold them responsible by filing a personal injury claim? Slip and fall injuries are extremely common and yet the severity of their impact on your life can be downplayed, causing you to think that it is not a serious issue to fall down in a slip and fall accident.\nA slip and fall injury can occur for many different reasons. If you were injured on another\u2019s property and you believe that your health has been impacted by a dangerous situation, you should contact an experienced Indiana slip and fall accident lawyer. The National Safety Council shares that slip and fall accidents are the number one cause of ER trips.\nSadly, many of these trip and fall injuries could have been avoided if the property manager or owner had maintained the premises or appropriately warned others of the possible dangers. You need to report your concerns to an Indiana slip and fall lawyer as soon as possible so that you can begin the process for recovering maximum compensation.\nPremises liability claims tied to slip/fall injuries usually initiate when an injury occurs on someone else\u2019s property. These injuries are most often tied to a slip and fall accident.\nThese situations are common examples of slip and fall accidents: pool drownings, products falling off shelves within a store, inadequate lighting, falling trees, construction site injuries, uneven walkways and slippery floors. Indiana slip and fall law stipulates that a victim\u2019s reasons to be on or status on a property determines whether or not the owner or manager had a responsibility.\nA slip and fall victim might be a visitor who was there by invitation and not for the economic benefit of the owner; as well as a trespasser or a business invitee who is there for the mutual economic benefit of the both parties. The highest amount of protection will be given to the business guest, whereas the lowest is given to trespasser.\nThe key to any Indiana slip and fall accident is the determination that the negligence of the property owner caused the injuries that the victim suffered. An experienced attorney can help you if you have suffered life changing injuries, such as a head injury, concussion, neck and back injury, broken bones or others tied to your slip and fall accident.\nRecovering evidence from the scene of the incident is extremely important as this could help to strengthen our case as you move forward. Knowing that you have someone in your corner advocating for what is best for you is extremely important because slip and fall cases can easily become complex and require the proper presentation of evidence and illustration of negligence. For this reason, you need an attorney who has successfully handled other slip and fall cases in Indiana.\nFrequently Asked Questions About Slip and Fall Accidents\nCan I file a lawsuit if I get hurt at someone else's house?\nIt is not just owners of public property who are responsible to their guests. If you are invited to another person\u2019s house, that property owner maintains a legal responsibility to correct any dangerous condition that could hurt you.\nCan I still recover benefits if I was trespassing?\nAnyone who was on a property illegally will be barred from obtaining compensation for injuries suffered in a slip and fall accident. However, courts recognize that there can be many factors that influence an accident so any serious fall requires insight from an injury attorney.\nWhat should I do if the property owner denies responsibility?\nMany property owners or their insurance companies will deny responsibility for your slip and fall injuries. You will need to illustrate that the property owner or someone acting for them, like a renter or manager, had an obligation for your safety and did not meet it. Your attorney can be used to help with this.\nWhat evidence can I use to receive compensation for my slip and fall accident?\nYour Indiana slip and fall accident attorney will evaluate your case in full to identify your next steps. You will need to show evidence that proves that you were hurt by a hazard on the defendant\u2019s property and that the defendant had a responsibility to ensure that you were safe on the property and that he or she neglected to do this. 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The atmosphere was electric as the crowd of mostly students waited restlessly for a glimpse of Curry. After more than an hour of waiting, a voice came over the auditorium announcing Curry\u2019s plane was delayed and the film would go on and start in 15 minutes. As you would imagine, that didn\u2019t go over well with most students, who came just to see the 5-time NBA All-Star.\nMinutes after, the mood of the room completely shifted once the film started. The film was met with roaring cheers as the beginning starts with excerpts from Jon Stewart (then host of The Daily Show) and former President Barack Obama speaking about the events that occurred the night of June 17th 2015. Soon you could hear nothing but screams and tears as family members told their chilling stories of what happened to their loved ones as surveillance video showed Dylann Roof entering and exiting the church. Emanuel\u2019s director Brian Ivie, uses water throughout the film to illustrate the haunting past of Charleston, which at one point in time served as the premiere port for slaves entering America for the first time.\nEmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church is the oldest AME Church in the country founded in 1816. It is also the first independent black denomination. Emanuel was also home to South Carolina State Senator Clementa Pinckney, who was a victim in the 2015 shooting. According to the FBI, Dylann Roof left a manifesto detailing his racist views and meaning behind the deadly shootings.\nIn a Q&A panel moderated by the New York Times, Curry and directors Brian Ivie and Jeron Smith, a Howard alum discussed the moments they shared with each family member of the shooting, Ivie said \u201cThe first few times we met with families we did not record nor have cameras with us, just to earn their trust and connect with them on a human level. When it came time to shoot, I actually had Jeron interview them because I understand the difficulties as a white man connecting and empathizing with a black person, so I was mostly behind the camera.\u201d Ivie went onto say the documentary will debut on June 17th of this year, the four-year anniversary of the shooting.\nWith his mother in attendance wearing a black hat with a low brim, jeans and sneakers, Steph Curry explained the importance of athletes speaking up and out on issues that affect their community. \u201cWe are smart, we are educated and have a huge platform, and I\u2019ll continue to use my platform until I don\u2019t have it anymore.\u201d As for his mother Sonya Curry, one of the NBA\u2019s most recognizable mothers, said, \u201cAs a mother, this is one of the proudest moments for me, watching the film I was at a loss for words.\u201d Both Sonya and Steph stayed after the screening to take pictures and more with students and faculty.\nPrevious article Trailer To Gina Torres\u2019 Leading Role & Suits Spinoff Series, \u2018Pearson\u2019\nNext article Cast Interviews From The Kid Who Would Be King", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 9776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blandfords-online.com/factsheets/capital-taxes/stamp-duty-land-tax", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GTRLBAYEFTO6WII5RXPQDI5O4SVKNQ2T", "length": 663, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.blandfords-online.com", "title": "Stamp Duty Land Tax Middlesex : Blandfords & Co", "raw_content": "Stamp Duty Land Tax is payable by the purchaser in a land transaction which includes a simple conveyance of land such as buying a house but also creating a lease or assigning a lease. If you are considering property investment or acquiring a lease on a commercial property in the Middlesex area we, at Blandfords & Co, can help you to make property acquisitions in a tax efficient manner.\nIf you are planning to enter into an arrangement to purchase land, in the Middlesex area we can advise you of the precise impact of Stamp Duty Land Tax on the transaction so please contact us at Blandfords & Co. 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Photo Ted Grant\nWINNIPEG, MB., October 3, 2016 \u2013 The Winnipeg Blue Bombers today announce Herb Gray as the eighth inductee to the Ring of Honour presented by the Insurance Brokers of Manitoba (IBAM) at Investors Group Field.\nGray spent 10 years as a Blue Bomber and was team captain for nine. Drafted by the Baltimore Colts in 1956, Gray opted to sign with the Blue Bombers and went on to be named a West Division All-Star defensive end six times and once more as guard.\nIn 1960, Gray was named the CFL\u2019s top lineman, becoming the first defensive player to capture that honour. He was also named the Bombers\u2019 top defensive player of their first half century of existence in 1980, and was inducted into the University of Texas Hall of Honor (1983), the Winnipeg Football Hall of Fame (1984) and the the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame (1995).\n\u201cWhile Herb Gray has many accolades to his name, spending nine seasons as team captain may be what speaks the most to his character and value to the football club,\u201d said President & CEO Wade Miller. \u201cWe are thrilled to be able to add his name to the seven Canadian football legends in the Ring of Honour.\u201d\nThis season\u2019s inductees will be recognized with an unveiling ceremony at each regular season home game. Each following year, one more alumni will be added to the Blue Bombers Ring of Honour.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 445, "original_length": 9291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 138.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.blufftontoday.com/jaspersuntimes/article/2014-10-09/countys-outlook-isnt-poor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:09Z", "digest": "sha1:QZ5BBSICXYXC6CZ2A6A3KA5QIFZLEHDU", "length": 2689, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.blufftontoday.com", "title": "County's outlook isn't poor - News - Bluffton Today - Bluffton, SC", "raw_content": "County's outlook isn't poor\nJasper County might have a reputation as being Beaufort County's poor cousin, but County Administrator Andrew Fulghum had some surprising statistics to share at a recent Jasper County Council meeting.\nAccording to a package he put together with information from \"various sources,\" workers in the private sector actually make more money each week in Jasper County.\nThe average weekly wage in the private sector in 2009 was $619 in Jasper County, compared to $591 in Beaufort County. That does not include school or municipal salaries but private businesses located in each county.\nThe numbers came from dividing the wages of everyone from minimum wage workers to millionaires and dividing them by 52 weeks. That's traditionally not the way average salaries are calculated -it doesn't include unemployment rates - and it's unclear where commuters who take lower paying jobs in other counties are calculated.\nA large number of Beaufort County workers travel by bus from other county jobs to work at hotels or fast food restaurants.\nBut for Fulghum it was one sign that Jasper County's economy is healthier than many have long believed.\nUnemployment rates in April were 8.3 in Jasper County, compared to 11.3 in June of last year. That's far better than the 11.6 unemployment rate in South Carolina and the 9.9 percent national rate. Beaufort County's unemployment was 7.3 percent in April.\nAnd looking over a 10 year period, Jasper County has the 6th lowest unemployment rate in the state, Fulghum said at 5.6 percent. (Beaufort's is 5 percent.)\nMeanwhile, Jasper is the fifth fastest growing county in the state, outpacing Beaufort County with a growth rate of 2.088 percent compared to its coastal cousin's 2.005 percent.\nOnly York, Lancaster, Lexington and Berkley counties were growing faster, he said.\nMeanwhile, \"Prospect Activity,\" is bright for Jasper County, with nine prospective companies bringing in a possible 1,045 jobs. Beaufort County was looking at 10 prospects with 1,038 jobs, he said.\nPerhaps some of the best new is the growing number of new, small businesses locating in Jasper County.\nAccording to business licenses, Jasper County acquired 71 new businesses with 161 new jobs in the past year. Hardeeville drew 20 new businesses with 112 new jobs. The number for Ridgeland was not available.\n\"It' remarkable they're doing so well in this economy,\" Fulghum said.\nHe also touched on the need for economic development, collaboration with other agencies and large prospects on the horizon that could change the entire face of the county including the Cypress Ridge Industrial Park, RiverPort, the Lowcountry Commerce Park and the Frampton Tract.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bna.com/fewer-consumer-bankruptcies-n17179933813/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FA2A3FM3D2DKDY5FXBZEUKQ3VZBNE2EW", "length": 3953, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.bna.com", "title": "Fewer Consumer Bankruptcies, More Repeat Filers in 2014 | Bloomberg Law", "raw_content": "Fewer Consumer Bankruptcies, More Repeat Filers in 2014\nJuly 21 \u2014 Bankruptcy petitions filed by individuals with consumer debt are down 12 percent when compared to filings in 2013, and there are more repeat filers, according to an annual report released July 21 by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.\nThe report also found that 34 percent of debtors filed under Chapter 13, up from 32 percent in 2013. Chapter 13 is for individuals with regular income who have debts below a statutory threshold and can make installment payments to creditors under court-confirmed plans, the AOUSC said.\nThe report includes bankruptcy statistics required to be submitted annually by the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, and covers debtors with consumer debts seeking relief under Chapters 7, 11, and 13 of the Bankruptcy Code.\nOverall Filings Down, Except Ch. 13\nAccording to the report, 883,930 consumer bankruptcy cases were filed in 2014, down 12 percent from the 1,000,143 bankruptcy petitions filed in 2013.\nApproximately 66 percent of the petitions, down from 68 percent in 2013, were filed under Chapter 7, the report said. In Chapter 7 bankruptcy, a debtor's nonexempt assets are liquidated and the proceeds are distributed to creditors, according to the report.\nOnly Chapter 13 cases filed in 2014 were up by 2 percent from 2013, the report indicated. In 36 percent of the 301,103 Chapter 13 cases filed in 2014, debtors reported that they had filed a bankruptcy petition during the previous eight years.\nOne-tenth of one percent of petitions filed by individuals with consumer debt were filed under Chapter 11, which is for businesses or individuals whose debts exceed the statutory thresholds for Chapter 13, the report said.\nAccording to the report, consumer debtors seeking bankruptcy protection under Chapters 7, 11, or 13 during 2014 reported holding total assets in the aggregate amount of $87 billion, and total liabilities in the aggregate amount of $140 billion. The total assets fell 21 percent below the 2013 amount, and the total liabilities fell 18 percent below comparable data for 2013, the report said.\nSeventy-three percent of the assets reported by debtors were real property, and 27 percent personal property, the report said.\n\u201cOverall, debtors categorized 93 percent of debts and obligations as dischargeable debt,\u201d according to a summary of the report.\nAccording to the report, the median average monthly income of debtors was $2,616, which is 2 percent lower than in 2013.\nThe median average reported monthly expenses was $2,600, 3 percent lower than in 2013.\nA total of 351,960 Chapter 13 consumer cases filed on or after Oct. 17, 2006, were closed by dismissal or plan completion in 2014, the report said. Of these cases, 173,322 cases were dismissed, according to the report.\nRepayment plans were completed in another 178,369 of the cases or 51 percent, which is up from 45 percent in 2013, the report said.\n\u201cNationwide, failure to make plan payments was cited in 54 percent of dismissed cases as the reason for dismissal,\u201d according to the report's summary.\nOf the 1,037,603 consumer cases filed on or after Oct. 17, 2006, and terminated in 2014, sanctions under Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 9011 were imposed against debtors' counsel in 46 cases, with damages totaling $54,000 awarded in 42 cases, the report said.\nAttorneys may be sanctioned under Rule 9011 for improper or frivolous representations to the court submitted in any petition, pleading, written motion, or other paper, according to the report.\nCaution Regarding Data\nThe AOUSC cautioned that the data for many of the tables in the report are provided by debtors when they submit forms, schedules, motions, agreements, and other filings to the court and because they are not validated by the AOUSC, they may be inaccurate.\nThe AOUSC's report is available at: http://www.uscourts.gov/statistics-reports/bapcpa-report-2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 536, "original_length": 17850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bna.com/ftc-denies-application-n17179880183/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:01Z", "digest": "sha1:NDEZISXMGEN66UNIQ7TTF74XCSA4HTA4", "length": 4462, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.bna.com", "title": "FTC Denies Application by AssertID For COPPA Parental Consent | Bloomberg Law", "raw_content": "FTC Denies Application by AssertID For COPPA Parental Consent\nNov. 14 --The Federal Trade Commission announced Nov. 13 that it has denied an application by AssertID Inc. for approval of a proposed method of verifying parental consent for the collection of children's personal information under the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule.\nIn a Nov. 12 letter to the company, the FTC said AssertID's proposed verifiable consent (VPC) method, which uses \u201csocial-graph verification,\u201d does not meet the approval criteria in the COPPA Rule, which implements the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.\n\u201cWe remain confident that our social-verification method is superior to the currently approved methods which do NOT verify the parent-child relationship,\u201d Keith Dennis, president of Mill Valley, Calif.-based AssertID, told Bloomberg BNA in a Nov. 14 e-mail.\n\u201cWe will continue to work with the FTC to demonstrate the strength of our verification method,\u201d Dennis said. \u201cIn the interim, we will launch our industry-first, fully-automated, shared VPC service using the other approved FTC methods we have already incorporated.\u201d\nGroups Raise Concerns\nThe FTC's final amendments to the COPPA Rule took effect July 1 . The rule imposes parental notice and consent requirements on websites and online services collecting information from children younger than 13.\nAlthough the rule sets out several methods for obtaining verifiable parental consent, it also permits an \u201cinterested party\u201d to request that the FTC review and approve a different consent method. In August, the commission sought public input on AssertID's proposed consent method .\nAssertID has developed a technology called \u201cConsentID\u201d that verifies a parent's identity on the basis of a \u201ctrust score,\u201d which is based on peer verifications through the parent's social network, according to its application.\nTwo FTC-approved COPPA safe harbor programs, Aristotle International Inc. and Privacy Vaults Online Inc. or PRIVO, as well as several consumer advocacy groups called on the FTC to carefully consider AssertID Inc.'s proposal. Among the concerns raised by the groups were the possibility that the consent method would collect and share parents' personal information and the developing nature of social verification technology.\nIn a blog post responding to comments by the Center for Digital Democracy, AssertID said \u201cthe information we collect from the parent is only shared with friends who already have access to that information\u201d and \u201cis never shared with any third-party.\u201d\nFTC: Rule Criteria Not Satisfied\nThe FTC said that AssertID's analysis does not meet the criteria in the COPPA Rule, at 16 C.F.R. \u00a7 312.5(b), for applicants requesting approval of a proposed parental consent method.\nAssertID \u201cfailed to provide sufficient evidence\u201d demonstrating that its proposed parental consent method is \u201creasonably calculated, in light of available technology, to ensure that the person providing consent is the child's parent,\u201d the FTC said.\n\u201cWithout relevant research or marketplace evidence demonstrating the efficacy of social-graph verification and that such a method is reasonably calculated to ensure the person providing consent is the child's parent, the Commission believes approval of such a VPC method under the Rule would be premature,\u201d the letter said.\nIn addition, there is insufficient evidence indicating that AssertID's proposed techniques to improve the effectiveness of social-graph verification will function in the marketplace, the FTC said, noting the company's \u201climited beta testing of its product.\u201d The commission highlighted several comments indicating that Facebook profiles can be readily fabricated and that children younger than 13 can falsify their information on social media accounts.\nDennis told Bloomberg BNA that his company's service does not rely on Facebook to verify user profiles. \u201cNot only are we aware of the high incidence of fake Facebook profiles, but our solution assumes EVERY Facebook profile is fake until WE verify it is real,\u201d he said.\n\u201cIn short, identity verification via social-graph is an emerging technology and further research, development, and implementation is necessary to demonstrate that it is sufficiently reliable to verify that individuals are parents authorized to consent to the collection of children's personal information,\u201d the FTC said.\nThe FTC's letter to AssertID is available at http://www.ftc.gov/os/2013/11/131113assertid.pdf.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 529, "original_length": 18342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bna.com/no-region-shakeup-n73014453447/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ODEZA3WQJDW6VZH2OAMYIYHX5ZAKNBC2", "length": 4039, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.bna.com", "title": "No Region Shakeup or Staff Layoffs, EPA\u2019s Pruitt Says | Bloomberg Environment", "raw_content": "No Region Shakeup or Staff Layoffs, EPA\u2019s Pruitt Says\nThe EPA is not aiming to relocate any of its 10 regional offices, and ongoing discussion of that prospect is \u201cpure legend,\u201d Admininstrator Scott Pruitt told House appropriators June 15.\nThat statement comes after months of speculation over a regional shakeup, which has drawn criticism and concern from outside groups and internally at the Environmental Protection Agency.\nOn top of that, the agency doesn\u2019t plan to lay off any workers in the coming year, despite a Fiscal Year 2018 budget that calls for a reduction of more than 3,000 employees, Pruitt told the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies at a hearing on the Trump administration\u2019s budget proposal that would slash EPA funding by nearly a third.\n\u201cThe proposed cuts to personnel in this budget will be achieved through attrition, through voluntary buyouts and through the hiring freeze that is currently in place,\u201d Pruitt said, adding that agency staff is aging and nearing retirement. Around 400 to 500 buyouts could take place this fiscal year.\nStill, the budget would bring the agency down to 11,611 employees, the fewest in three decades. Congress will weigh in on all EPA budget proposals and craft separate plans.\n\u2018Unlikely to Entertain\u2019\nDemocrats and environmental groups have criticized the budget as a threat to human health, and even Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.), the top appropriator at the hearing, said the committee is \u201cunlikely to entertain\u201d many of the cuts.\nDemocrats also criticized Pruitt.\n\u201cBetween your disturbingly close ties to oil and gas industries, your past work to directly undermine the EPA and skepticism that human activity plays a role in climate change, I suppose it\u2019s surprising you didn\u2019t propose to eliminate the agency altogether,\u201d Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) told Pruitt.\nPruitt sued the EPA more than a dozen times as Oklahoma attorney general.\nRep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), the ranking member of the subcommittee, said she would oppose any EPA budget that undercuts the roughly $8.3 billion Fiscal Year 2017 funding.\nDeference to Congressional Action\nMuch of the hearing focused on Pruitt\u2019s regulatory goals. The agency aims to curb what it says was \u201coverreach\u201d on the part of the Obama administration in a number of areas while providing certainty to companies, Pruitt said.\nThe EPA will seek legislative fixes to environmental laws in order to avoid lengthy litigation involving the Clean Power Plan and the Clean Water Rule, Pruitt said.\n\u201cWhen you disrespect rule of law, and what that fundamentally means, is when you take statutes passed by Congress and act in a way that\u2019s not authorized, it creates uncertainty,\u201d Pruitt told lawmakers. \u201cIf you have not spoken to an issue, if you have not given authority to the agency, we\u2019re not to reimagine it. We\u2019re not going to create it. We\u2019re going to let you know when those deficiencies arise.\u201d\nTwo high-profile regulations have been in legal limbo in recent years, and the Environmental Protection Agency is now reconsidering both. The Clean Power Plan, arguably the hallmark of the Obama administration\u2019s environmental legacy, would require decreased carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants. The Clean Water Rule, which sought to clarify which types of waters are subject to federal protections, will be re-proposed no later than the first quarter of 2018, Pruitt said.\n\u2018All Hope is Lost\u2019\nLawmakers may want to amend the Clean Air Act\u2019s National Ambient Air Quality Standards to loosen non-attainment for western regions with naturally occurring ozone, he added.\nBut a Republican member from Utah, who pleaded for regulatory relief from the standards, dismissed the likelihood of legislative action.\n\u201cIf you say you need the help of Congress, well all hope is lost,\u201d Rep. Chris Stewart (R-Utah) said, arguing his state is getting \u201chosed\u201d by the standards. \u201cThe narrative will be Republicans want to weaken clean air standards, and that\u2019s not true.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 532, "original_length": 17979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bolerlaw.com/blog/2011/04/keanu-reeves-says-past-paternity-suit-was-no-excellent-adventure.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ALCRJXURNYKTS5MVRNRKSYOAGTLFSLLU", "length": 1728, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bolerlaw.com", "title": "Keanu Reeves says past paternity suit was no excellent adventure | Law Office of Nancy H. Boler", "raw_content": "Keanu Reeves says past paternity suit was no excellent adventure\nOn behalf of Law Office of Nancy H. Boler posted in Paternity on Wednesday, April 6, 2011.\nWe are used to seeing actor Keanu Reeves as a cool guy in his movies. Whether he's on an excellent adventure as a tubular teen or saving passengers on a speeding bus, Reeves' characters portray him as a man who can roll with the surprises that life throws at him.\nBut even the most seemingly calm person can be significantly shaken by a family law dispute. According to recent reports, Reeves has admitted that he become embroiled in a paternity lawsuit in 2009. Sources quote the actor as describing the experience as \"horrible.\"\nThe Toronto Sun claims that a woman came forward in 2009, claiming that Reeves had fathered at least one of her children. At this point, the kids are all adults; therefore, the mother reportedly wanted millions of dollars in back child support.\nUnsurprisingly, the paternity suit was a huge stress on Reeves. Since the woman first made the allegations against him, the supposed father has insisted that he never even knew his accuser. He couldn't be the father of any of her kids.\nFortunately for Reeves, a DNA test proved his side of the story. The test showed that there was no relation between the star and the woman's children. He has to pay her nothing, and the case has been dismissed.\nFamily law disputes can be some of the most emotional and stressful legal disputes of all. In Reeves paternity case, it's hard to imagine what he was feeling when faced with the possibility that he had been a father for years without knowing it.\nToronto Sun: \"Reeves: 'Paternity suit horrible,' 6 Apr. 2011\nTags: child support, family law, paternity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boloji.com/blog/1572/what-gauhar-khans-slapping-entails", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:38Z", "digest": "sha1:7OABSOSU4RGLNSUJTOJS3ZIHDIK2VU4X", "length": 730, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.boloji.com", "title": "What Gauhar Khan''s slapping entails by Sharbaaniranjan Kundu", "raw_content": "What Gauhar Khan''s slapping entails\nDoes the man who reportedly slapped Gauhar Khan in a reality show know that by slapping her he has actually violated the fundamental tenets of the constitution of India (apart from being guilty of transgressing a lady's modesty in public) and is therefore punishable for treason? Nobody has any right to pronounce modicums on anybody in respect to anybody's religious faith and practice and avocation as lucidly explained by Salman Khan as reported in the news item that carried the news of Gauhar Khan. People who are out of sync with the modern world should know that they are nothing more than recluses and therefore should not come in the public and should practice their faith in private.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 2202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/anne-emery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:57Z", "digest": "sha1:GWBIF3MTC7Q6VZGCQFOHAGR55C6WTYJU", "length": 6098, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.bookseriesinorder.com", "title": "Anne Emery - Book Series In Order", "raw_content": "Anne Emery Books In Order\nPublication Order of Collins-Burke Mystery Books\nSign of the Cross (2006) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nObit (2007) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nBarrington Street Blues (2008) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nCecilian Vespers (2009) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nChildren in the Morning (2010) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nDeath at Christy Burke's (2011) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nBlood on a Saint (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nRuined Abbey (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nLament for Bonnie (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nThough the Heavens Fall (2018) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nAnne Emery is a published Canadian author.\nAnne was born in Halifax. She attended St. F.X. University for a few years and graduated, then attending Dalhousie Law School. She was a lawyer and then a legal affairs reporter/researcher.\nEmery is not just a published author. She has a lot of interests, one of them being reading. The others include learning about Irish history, travel, philosophy, architecture, and music. She resides in Halifax with her family.\nAnne Emery is the creator and author of the Collins-Burke Mystery series. This series kicked off for the first time in 2006 with the release of the debut novel. The sequel, titled Obit, came out the next year. There have since been several more books published in the series and it is quite popular. The tenth book came out in 2018 and is titled Through The Heavens Fall.\nSign of the Cross is the debut novel in the Collins-Burke series of fiction. Here readers get to meet the main character of Monty Collins for the first time.\nThe saying goes that you should be careful just what it is that you\u2019re wishing for. Monty\u2019s mother used to have a fondness for this saying. He always took it as being a vague warning, but that hasn\u2019t stopped him from wishing for things over the years.\nMostly, he wishes to have a client come his way that does not have any tattoos, is able to articulate their sentences well, and has a level of intelligence. He always made it his mission to defend those that belonged to the lower class for two decades, yet you can\u2019t blame him for wanting to change things up once in a while.\nEven though his mother warned him against being careful about what you wish for, Monty has now find that he has a client just like he wanted. How relevant could warnings like that really be? Still, he has a little bit of worry in the back of his head\u2013 what if his mom was right?\nMonty hopes that in this one case the warning will not come true. But it turns out that it might just come true yet. His client is Brennan Burke, a priest. While he was born as a baby in Ireland, his family moved to New York where he was raised. Traveling the world further still, he received his education in Rome. As a result, the Father has a fluent tongue in Latin and also knows the common tongue spoken there by locals on the street.\nHe is a man of the world and of God, but now Father Brennan is facing a new challenge. It appears that the murder of a young girl has all eyes turned towards him, as he is now the main suspect in the case. The girl was attractive and on her body it was discovered that a religious sign had been carved into her.\nNaturally, suspicion makes its way to the priest. This could be a set up, and the father has now come to Monty for help. Ever since the very first time that they met, the lawyer has had his doubts. Instead of finding his client a pleasure to work with\u2013 as he hoped initially thanks to the fulfilled qualities he had hoped for being apparent in this individual\u2013 Monty views Brennan as being arrogant and even acerbic in nature.\nOn top of all of that, he seems to be uncomfortable and even evasive when Monty questions him about how he knows the victim. Monty would rather be on the same page as his client, but how is that supposed to happen when the father does not appear to be answering questions in a straight forward way?\nIt\u2019s clear that this attorney has his work cut out for him. As he struggles to try and work with his client, Monty is doing his best to try and get some answers out of his client so that he can go ahead and defend him. This is becoming steadily more difficult as they always seem to be having some type of conflict between them\u2013 and the tension and the evidence against him only seem to rise.\nIt seems that the end result will be Burke being charged with murder. Monty does not want to see that happen, but with the priest continuing the course of staying mum when it comes to the past, there might be no other way that this thing concludes.\nThe lawyer is left with no other choice\u2013 he has to go ahead and dig into his client\u2019s background to get the answers that he needs. He would rather get the answers from his client, but that doesn\u2019t seem to be happening. He\u2019s won cases in the past, but this one might finally be the one to get away from him.\nHe\u2019s lacking for answers, but when some new information surfaces about an incident from long ago, will he be able to rise to victory? Or will he go up in flames, just like his client? Find out for yourself by picking up this thrilling debut novel in an awesome crime fiction series.\nObit is the exciting second book in this fun mystery series from Anne Emery. In the last book, we met Collins, a lawyer based out of Halifax. He fights the good fight and always does his best to try and represent his clients to the best of his ability.\nForty years before, Declan Burke left Ireland in a hurry. Once he started his new life in New York, it was full steam ahead and he decided to forget the past. When he reads an obituary, Declan realizes that it is a message making him a target.\nMonty decides to investigate this case and the obituary. Burke\u2019s offering no help or info thanks to his past with the IRA. When a shooting at a family wedding occurs, Burke may be more involved in this than the lawyer would like to believe.\nWhen a body is discovered in Brooklyn, is Burke\u2019s old commanding officer from Dublin to blame? Is Burke being manipulated secretly? Read this book to find out!\nBook Series In Order \u00bb Authors \u00bb Anne Emery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 8719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boomerangbooks.com.au/book.cfm?isbn=9780143572046&ru=/Afterworlds/Scott-Westerfeld/book_9780143572046.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:07Z", "digest": "sha1:KSKWPGNTOTTOG5LCJTBMBZ6WFTKGB4DV", "length": 2678, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.boomerangbooks.com.au", "title": "Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld (9780143572046) | Boomerang Books", "raw_content": "Description - Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld\nScott Westerfeld is renowned in the YA fiction market, this is a perfect blend of contemporary love story and fantastical thriller. Darcy has secured a publishing deal for her three paranormal books. Now she must find the wherewithall to write the second one whilst she has a reprieve from going to college, thanks to her savvy sister. She has enough funds for 3 years in NY... if she eats only noodles every day. In the story Darcy has written, the character Lizzie survives a traumatic shooting event only to discover that she has become a phsychopomp; a spirit guide to the dead. But she's not dead.. or is she? With one foot in each world, Lizzie's challenges are somewhat unique. Then there's her hot spirit guide... and all those ghosts that keep appearing... and the 'living' friend she usually tells everything to... More than all I'd seen and heard. It was coming back to life that made me believe in the afterworld.\nBuy Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, Boomerang Books.\nOther Editions - Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld\nBook Reviews - Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld\n\u00bb Have you read this book? We'd like to know what you think about it - write a review about Afterworlds book by Scott Westerfeld and you'll earn 50c in Boomerang Bucks loyalty dollars (you must be a Boomerang Books Account Holder - it's free to sign up and there are great benefits!)\nAuthor Biography - Scott Westerfeld\nScott Westerfeld spends his southern hemisphere summers in Sydney, Australia, and his northern hemisphere summers in New York City. He was born in Texas and has been a musician, software game designer and ghost-writer; but writing under his own name turned out to be the most fun. He is not nearly as cool as Hunter in So Yesterday (he says) which won the 2005 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction, but his writing definitely is. His novels have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year, made the Times' Essential Summer Reading List, and awarded the Philip K Dick Special Citation. He has contributed essays and stories to Scifi.com, Nerve.com, Nerve, and Book Forum. He has two series' Uglies and Midnighters which won the Aurealis award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Penguin have also published So Yesterday and Peeps. Scott's steam-punk saga begins with Leviathan, continues in Behemoth and concludes with Goliath. http-//scottwesterfeld.com https-//twitter.com/ScottWesterfeld https-//www.facebook.com/scottwesterfeldfan\nBoomerang Books customers who bought Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld also bought the following titles:\nBirrung the Secret Friend", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 313, "original_length": 8291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.boonevillefuneralhome.net/obituaries/Wythel-Saylors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YAZ5FGSW3U2SP2S5G2V2HYUT2FIIAQC6", "length": 506, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.boonevillefuneralhome.net", "title": "Wythel Saylors Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "Wythel Saylors\nWythel\nWythel B. Saylors, 72, passed away Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Booneville. He was born in Booneville on August, 10, 1945, to Herman Leo and Georgia Henderson Saylors. He was a member of The Church of Jesus... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of Wythel Saylors created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nWythel B. Saylors, 72, passed away Tuesday, February 13, 2018,...\nSend flowers to the Saylors' family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bostoncriminaldefenselawyer-blog.com/probable-cause-in-massachusett/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KP7PBAET65ACOXUV6UEAZYJMGX3CPJMH", "length": 3650, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bostoncriminaldefenselawyer-blog.com", "title": "Probable Cause in Massachusetts Drug Crime Cases \u2014 Boston Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog \u2014 July 20, 2015", "raw_content": "Probable Cause in Massachusetts Drug Crime Cases\nIn Commonwealth v. Jovani A. Garcia, the defendant was charged with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Two detectives were doing undercover surveillance in a \u201chigh crime area\u201d at the prompting of neighbor complaints. One detective was in an unmarked vehicle, while another was near a residential building.\nA detective saw a car turn right on the street, stayed still, drove north, and then made a U-turn to drive south again. Around the same time, a man came out of the building. The detectives were familiar with him. They described him as \u201clight-skinned\u201d and \u201cSpanish.\u201d The man got into the car\u2019s back seat. The car traveled a short distance and stopped, whereupon the man got out and went back inside the building and the car drove off.\nThe police believed they\u2019d just witnessed a drug transaction. They radioed takedown detectives to stop the car. At the stop, the takedown officers discovered 3-4 bags of crack cocaine on the front seat.\nThe occupants of the car were put under arrest, while the detectives continued their surveillance. A detective saw another vehicle drive onto the street, make a U-turn, and then park. The detective believed that the same man who had previously left the building to get in the other car, and then reentered the residential building, came out and got in the back seat.\nThe detectives radioed the takedown detectives and told them to stop the car if it made a third right turn. They told the takedown officers to place the male in the car under arrest for a prior distribution. The takedown officers stopped the car at the intersection and told the detectives that the suspect, driver, and passenger were in custody and that they\u2019d found five small bags of crack cocaine.\nAt the police station, one of the detectives realized that the suspect who got in the second car was not the same as the suspect who got in the first car. It turned out that the second man was the defendant in this case, Jovani A. Garcia, and he was the brother of the first man.\nAfter an evidentiary hearing, the judge permitted Garcia\u2019s motion to suppress. The Commonwealth appealed. The appellate court analyzed the record to determine whether the lower court\u2019s findings were supported. The Commonwealth argued that the detectives\u2019 observations gave rise to probable cause to arrest Garcia for drug distribution and that the police could stop the car for that purpose. The Commonwealth found there was so much similarity between the behaviors of the two cars, the first of which had also contained drugs, that the detectives had good reason to believe the man who came out of the residential building was committing a drug crime.\nThe appellate court, however, found that the two events were not similar in a critical respect, and so the stop for purposes of arresting the defendant was unjustified. When the detective had asked the takedown detectives to stop the second car, he told them to do so when the car turned onto a specific street on the assumption that the car would be dropping a suspected dealer back at his operations base. However, the takedown detectives had stopped the second car in the intersection, rather than waiting for the turn. Therefore, it couldn\u2019t be concluded that the Commonwealth had probable cause to arrest the defendant who had gotten into the car, and the stop was illegal. The motion to suppress evidence from the stop was affirmed.\nIf you are charged in Massachusetts with drug possession, contact the Law Office of Patrick J. Murphy today to discuss the criminal charges. Call us at 617-367-0450 or contact us through this website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bransonhvac.com/market-served/shell-knob", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PNSN3IXCXSI77XV6EYJ23XYWJEOUH6HN", "length": 2084, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bransonhvac.com", "title": "Shell Knob Heating and Cooling Service | Branson HVAC, LLC", "raw_content": "Your Source for Heating and Cooling Service in the Shell Knob Community\nWhen it comes to heating and cooling maintenance, repair, and replacement in Shell Knob, your friends and neighbors know that Branson HVAC, LLC is the company to count on. 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The panel pictured above featured Kevin Stotts, Talent 2025; Tim Sowton, Business Leaders for Michigan; Dave Campbell, Kalamazoo RESA; Amber Arellano, The Education Trust - Midwest; and Thomas Haas, Grand Valley State University President.\nMarch 23, 2018\t Ted Roelofs\t Talent & Education\nLeaders in West Michigan have reached much the same conclusion as leaders in Southeast Michigan: The state\u2019s public schools are in crisis.\n\u201cThere is a deep and fundamental crisis in this state,\u201d said Mark Murray, vice chair of Meijer Inc., a former state treasurer, budget director and president of Grand Valley State University.\nVideo: Watch the full conference archive here\n\u201cLess than half the kids in every grade in every subject in the state of Michigan are at basic proficiency,\u201d Murray noted at a Grand Rapids Solutions Summit conference convened Friday by The Center for Michigan to examine possible reforms to the state\u2019s troubled public schools system.\nHe repeated that statement a second time, for effect.\nDetroit conference: Getting past politics to give Michigan the schools it deserves\nCo-hosted by the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, the conference was the last in a series of policy conferences the Center and Bridge Magazine are hosting as a kickoff to the Center\u2019s 2018 Michigan Truth Tour, intended to present Michigan voters with the factual background to make informed decisions about candidates running for state office in November.\nIt followed a similar conference focusing on state education policy held in Detroit on Thursday.\nThese are among the facts facing Michigan students, educators and state policymakers:\nMichigan fourth graders ranked 28th in the nation reading in 2003 \u2013 but fell to 41st by 2015.\nAfrican American fourth graders fell from 38th in reading in 2003 to 41st in 2015.\nWhite fourth graders dropped from 13th in reading in 2003 to 49th in 2015.\nMichigan fourth graders who were not in poverty fell from 24th in reading in 2003 to 48th in 2015.\nReflecting these deficiencies, 27 percent of Michigan college students take at least one remedial college class. That\u2019s projected to reach more than 50 percent by 2030 in the absence of education reforms. (Remediation rates for African-American students already exceed 50 percent.)\nDocumenting failure, conference speakers agreed, is the easy part. The bigger, more difficult, question: How to turn around Michigan\u2019s public schools?\nSeveral solutions were urged.\nHelp teachers get better\nExperts called for improved teacher accountability and support, an approach that helped Tennessee turn its K-12 system around.\nOver the past decade, Tennessee adopted a consistent, statewide teacher evaluation program, made major investments in a performance data collection system, and installed a rigorous program of teacher training. The result: Tennessee, far behind Michigan in 2003 in fourth-grade math, raced past Michigan by 2013, ranking 37th to Michigan's 42nd. It led the nation in highest improvement in several key subjects.\nContrary to predictions that these measures would sow chaos among teachers, 81 percent of Tennessee educators report they feel appreciated under this system, with 88 percent saying they feel encouraged to participate in school leadership.\nPilot programs for students in poor districts\nWorking in partnership with the Steelcase Foundation, Royal Oak-based Education Trust-Midwest opened the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, to develop more effective teaching and school leadership in three West Michigan districts.\nEducation Trust-Midwest reported that one Grand Rapids Public Schools elementary school, Sibley Elementary, ranked among the highest improving schools statewide in third-grade reading and math. In 2016, reading proficiency rates for low-income third graders at Sibley outpaced Kent Intermediate School District and statewide proficiency levels for low-income students.\nDisrupt state leadership of education\nDave Campbell, Superintendent of the Kalamazoo RESA, called for changes from the current, more decentralized education leadership model in Michigan. It's a sentiment shared by some lawmakers, with one bill in Lansing that would abolish the State Board of Education and allow the governor to appoint the state superintendent. (The state superintendent is now appointed by a politically elected board.)\nThat bill, which would require an amendment to the state constitution, faces heavy obstacles, since it would require a two-thirds vote by legislators and approval by voters.\nCampbell does not want to see the state board abolished, but shares the sentiment of other critics who say the current system spreads accountability for the state\u2019s troubled schools, meaning that no single entity ever takes responsibility or is held accountable for their failure.\nCampbell said Michigan would be better served if state board members were appointed, rather than the current system of being nominated at partisan party conventions \u2013 Michigan is the only state in the nation to do so.\nCampbell also argued that Michigan\u2019s legislative term limits law, adopted in 1992, hampers the Legislature\u2019s ability to adopt serious school reform. He favors its repeal, though that also would require voter approval.\nImprove university training for future teachers\nAn eight-bill package passed Thursday in the state House would require instructors in the state\u2019s schools of education to complete 30 hours of continuing education annually for the school to be certified as a teacher preparation program.\nIt would also require education schools to offer a \u201cwarranty\u201d to teachers who are determined to be ineffective teachers in their first two years of teaching. These struggling novice teachers would have to enroll in the warranty program to improve their skills, with the school paying for it.\nOther bills address how to improve the apprenticeship that future teachers typically undergo in school classrooms. The measures require schools of education to make a $1,000 stipend available to mentor teachers to help develop the skills of a student-teacher in their classroom, and would require student-teachers to complete at least 400 hours of classroom experience.\nI would guess nearly every new teacher in their first two years are going to be stuggling novices in getting used to the job. A \"warrenty progam\" seriously? These are people, not a car off the assembly line, this terminology sounds degrading. What methods are going to determine whether someone is struggling or not?\nWe are never going to see substantive improvement until both education policy and education spending decisions are removed from the legislature. They are committed first to monetizing the system for the benefit of their contributors. Educated citizens are far down their priority list.\nWe don't allow city councils or township boards to control local education, and there's no good reason to allow the legislature to continue to control state education--particularly given the bang-up job they've done for the last two decades.\nMost of the people I hear clamoring for the abolition of the state board of education in favor of gubernatorial power are people who hold executive positions--CEOs, executive directors, etc.. They LOVE the concept of a political strong man, even though it's a failure most of the time. The state BOE should be expanded, its members elected by district on a non-partisan ballot, and nominations by political parties prohibited. It should be a legislative body for education entirely separate, both policy and budget, from the state legislature.\nI totally agree. Politics in education never serves anyone well except those that have a specific agenda, ex. DeVos family. Those that spend the most to put their candidate in office, get what they want. Michigan is the poster child.\nBINGO!! You hit nail on head with this!\nWhy would you have this summit in DeVos territory whose goal is to destroy public education?\nAt least charters weren't one the list of their solutions!\nI listened to the conference on line. You should too.\nEngage schools with the community.\nAllow teachers to collaborate with one another.\nFocus on the learning needs of individual students.\nEnd inequality in facilities and support services.\nA \"degree\" is not the only outcome.\nProject based learning works.\nEarly education works.\nAnd there is more. Decide for yourself, go to the second and third panel discussions and listen carefully.\nThen contact your legislator, www.legislature.mi.gov and share your conclusions. Attend a school board meeting and share your conclusions.\nI don't often go to Bridge; the topics and solutions tend toward the corney. But it's occasionally fun to poke the bear and see what primitive reflexes one elicits. So-\nPublic schools are not the same as public education.\nPublic education is the original term used by the Founders who knew that their republic would not survive unless the people knew and involved themselves in the issues in the public realm. They included morals and the philosophic issues of the time. Public schools (PS) piggybacked onto this honorable term to aggrandize their own project which is the training of individuals, much as we train soldiers, doctors (like myself) or dogs for that matter.\nThe term and the institutions that we now call PS arose with the progressive era, the 1870s but were anticipated in the 1840s by Horace Mann of Massachusetts who had studied the universal, compulsory and free-to-the-student school system that Prussia had instituted after it lost a war with Napoleon in 1806. The Prussians endeavored to train a population that would be obedient, hard working, and make good soldiers. Nine years later they crushed the French emperor at Waterloo. Europeans attributed Prussia\u2019s military prowess to their invention of PS and one by one succumbed.\nMann talked the Mass. legislature into instituting this scheme in 1852, but there was a lot of resistance among the citizenry and no other state dared to repeat the Mass experiment. Until-\nThe big movement in PS started in the 1870s, Michigan passed our law in 1871, NY, my home state in 1874. Before that, no \"free,\" mandatory and universal schooling in the USA. There is a plaque at Fayette State Park in the UP from 1879 saying that 1/3 kids did not go to PS. The good citizens who were pretty smart didn\u2019t think that PS were an advance of civilization and many would not subject their kids to the governmental training. I\u2019ve often noted that the original PS in Kent County which are spaced at two mile intervals and were built at the intersection of the main roads all have the date 1891 on the door lintel. It\u2019s probably the year that the Kent County commission caved in to state pressure.\nThe battles over the public schools were fought vigorously and in public; Mark Twain\u2019s \u201cSchooling interferes with their education.\u201d says a lot.\nOn the other side, were progressives like John Dewey who wanted to design the perfect society and who wrote at some length that PS were to re-train bright enterprising farm kids to become dull, uncomplaining factory workers. This was the era of manufacturing when designers and planners like Frederick Taylor (of scientific management) squawked loudest in the media. the term \u201cFactory model School\u201d has been applied. Children, like automobiles were to be moved down a line and stuff added to them at station one, station two, grade three, grade four etc. They still operate on the principle of loading our kids up with facts and use the amount of stuff added up, be it mathematics, English or Science, to judge their efficacy and efficiency. They never, ever look into how fit their work product is for living in a constitutional republic or in a moral universe. PS enforce PC, teach diversity and eschew judgmentalism. Everyone is great and gets participation awards. The PS must make everyone equal, right all societal injustices, even prevent the bright from progressing ahead of the dull.\nThere are good reasons for debunking PS claims that they have led to any advance of civilization. I\u2019ll list them;\n1) Our greatest presidents; Washington, Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and FD Roosevelt; no public schools, not even any schools listed that I can find for any of these guys..\n2)There is good evidence that literacy was almost universal in the US as early as 1820. https://mises.org/library/free-education-and-literacy and https://fee.org/articles/education-in-colonial-america/ Think on it; what else did a famly have to do for entertainment after the grim workdays of 200 years ago except read, write, maybe make some humble house music. Read Laura Ingalls Wilder\u2019s LIttlie House on the Prairie for information on the communal spelling bees that her father won. Compare literacy from 1820 to that of any large city in Michigan in which up to 50% of high school graduates are unable to read.\n3)Home schooled kids excel; they seem to win all of the national spelling bees, science contests, quiz bowl competitions. They are sought after when they apply to colleges, if they want to waste their time getting \u201chigher education.\u201d\nThe next most highly educated group in Michigan are the Amish who go to one room school houses taught by their 19 year old aung and stop going to school after seventh grade. They run enterprises running into the hundreds of thousands and have families with a dozen kids by the time that they are 30 years old. Compare that to graduates of Harvard University of whom Ben Franklin said that they were unable to earn a living by using their wits. Ben, BTW, had a year of primary school in in native Boston before he left for Philadelphia to earn his fortune as a printer, publisher and raconteur. (He had an out of wedlock son with whom he fought all his life and married at age 24 to prevent \u201cvenery\u201d an old term for syphilis. My kinda guy.)\n4)Folks who didn\u2019t go to PS invented the telegraph, telephones, steam engines, built railroads and steel mills, wrote Shakespeare and the Declaration of Independence, developed the calculus and business empires. The guys who developed computers, plastics and automobiles stood on the shoulders of creative and unschooled giants.\n5)The PS are quick to claim credit when one of their products is elected to office or makes a lot of money. But roads run downhill in both directions. Public Schools must accept reproach when the individuals and groups that they favored and profited from indulge in crimes or in other antisocial behavior. And so we can finally put Nikolas Cruz into context. He came from a dysfunctional background growing out of the easy divorce and public assistance dating from progressive social ideas and from the Great Society programs during the 1960s. The ideals that he was taught in the classroom were a mixture of becoming a team player, a cell in some glorious but unnamable organ blended in with the kids in the neighboring desks, the anti-individualism that is now the dogma in academia beginning in Pre K through to post docs. He learned that the individual does not count. Only the collective provides guidance and is the reason for his existence. Furthermore, he was a white kid with an Hispanic surname and so morally suspect. Nikolas had little reason to respect himself and certainly had no polestar of truth that made his fellows important, much less sacred as he might have learned had he homeschooled or gone to a small community school. So, what prevents Nikolas from fantasizing escaping his being a tiny blob, a part of a larger blob of protoplasm? Maybe making himself into an important person, or at least someone who can be distinguished. He has learned nothing of the moral universe from 13 years of governmental indoctrination, told that he is a nothing. He longs to be something, so buys a semiautomatic and uses it. Headlines! And the next intellectual, emboldened by participation medals from a public school elsewhere finds a dim bulb light up in the unlit corridors of his brain (but what else is it that guides our moral conduct?)\n6)The PS claim falsely, that lifetime earnings and presumably happiness increase in direct proportion to the amount of schooling that one has, Wrong! These \u201cstudies\u201d are based on pure selection biases.. Kids who finish high school or college or grad schools are more disciplined, have better family structures, start off with more family money, are more motivated to succeed and above all, have higher IQs than do folks who don\u2019t excel in the academic milieu. I could as easily claim that more schooling makes kids dumber and less successful in life than they would have been had they walked away from the PS and colleges; prove me wrong.\n7)The use of \u201ceducational attainment\u201d is racism; The employer advertises for a college grad for a job that pays moderately well after several weeks of training. He knows he will get a pleasant, tractile white woman and doesn\u2019t have to deal with an aggressive abrasive black man who could as easily learn and do the job.\n8)I have tried to look at \u201ceducation theory\u201d and dogma as scientific literature; it is as close to fraud as it can get. It is the equivalent of bloodletting and grinding up horned beetles in medicine. I could not use this level of bad statistics and of flights of imagination to treat patients.\n9)More money to improve PS is a fool\u2019s errand. (Look up the Kansas City experience.) If you want to improve PS get better students. The output goes up directly with the input, not with the quantity of money that you can extract from the impoverished poor people who pay these taxes.\nI have no particular animus against PS but I present the above historical and observational observations to create a suspicion that maybe, the \u201cneeds\u201d of the PS for more money and influence are overwrought, that we should be rethinking \u201cmore education\u201d as the cure for every societal ill, and that there might be better ways to truly let the public \u201ceducate\u201d themselves by letting them spend time with their families, with their religious and philosophical thinkers and with the cornucopia available on the internet.\nI would personally advocate for one room neighborhood schoolhouses until age 14 or so, that teach what the parents want their children to learn, to allow the brighter kids to test out instead of sitting through the repeated attempts to drill basics into the skulls of the dimmer, of encouraging enrollment in apprentice and work-experience programs at an early age, and of using the internet to let kids do whatever self education that they want-or need for their own purposes, not for that of the State of Michigan.\nI realize you certainly seem to think you are an education expert. You are a doctor of what?? Have you taught in today\u2019s schools? Have you observed classrooms lately, or are you basing this on your prior experience??? Things are changing in education. To say that home schooling and Laura Ingalls Wilder provide models for a proper education tells me you have no currect vision of what public education is.\nYes, Michigan schools aren\u2019t doing well. The lesson from history show us that this downward trend started with republican Governor John Engler and continues to this day with republican Governor Rich Snyder. If there is a common denominator about his downward trend, it\u2019s the vast majority of time, republicans have been in control of state government. Although Governor Jennifer Granholm was a democrat, all of the time she was in office, she had to battle a Michigan Senate that has been majority republican since 1983; that\u2019s 35 years of total senate control by one political party.\nElected republicans have just about completely politicized public education to the point of destroying public education as one pillar of our democracy. Our founding fathers were very supportive of public education. In his Thoughts on Government in 1776, President Adams stated that no expense should be spared: \u201cLaws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.\"\nBut starting with Engler, public schools have lost local control, as a result of Proposal A, passed in 1994 and in Engler\u2019s 3 terms in office, unaccountable charter schools were created which currently steal $1 billion dollars annually from traditional public school budgets. Remember, charter schools were supposed to be created for innovation so that traditional public schools could learn from, allowing innovation in public education. This was an Engler ploy, since he needed some mechanism to destroy teacher unions and to get the rest of republicans to go along, he found a way to make money off the backs of school children, since about 80% of Michigan charters are run by for-profit charter school profiteers, where no accounting is made of how they spend taxpayer dollars.\nAlong the way, republicans have painted those who work for public schools, particularly teachers, as the root of all evil and have de-valued the teaching profession, so few people going to college want to go into that profession. Most of what ails public education, lies at the feed of John Engler, since he was the godfather that started all of this, aided by DeVos and their ilk with their campaign millions.\nSo, why isn\u2019t Michigan\u2019s trifecta of republican control doing anything to reverse this trend, they\u2019re too busy gloating about their accomplishments, since they chose long ago that if children were collateral damage in their war against public education, it was the price they were willing to pay.\nKinderden\nDavid Britten\nIt figures that you left out the important issue of equity in school funding that was not only a major point but the very first point raised in yesterday's Summit.\nI was quite clear that I favor a strong and independent State Board of Education (SBE). Independent from the Governor as we are a purple state and education should not get whip sawed every four to eight years. The SBE also needs to be independent from the party conventions to make it much less political and more focused on developing good policy that would produce much better results for children. I asked participants in the Summit to support Rep. Kelly's efforts to work with Democrats to develop a compromise that would create a strong and independent body that could lead public education much more effectively than our term-limited legislature has been doing.\nYour goal is laudable, but I'm having a hard time envisioning Republicans and Democrats working together (or separately, for that matter) and creating a strong, independent body to lead anything, let alone a system with billions of dollars to manipulate. Power is never ceded--it has to be taken.\nI'll never believe we can have a body independent from the governor and legislature as long as people think political parties and their progeny should be trusted to create it.\nAs a teacher of 22 years I have never felt more under-appreciated and targeted with hated by members of the public and government. Republican autocrats have slowly chipped away at the basic infrastructure of public education by dismantling programs, slicing budgets, pushing more under-performing charter schools everywhere, and spreading their dislike of education in general. Democrats are not much better, but have a softer standard are are willing to listen carefully without talking back. Yet, we have slashed pay for teachers both in salary and benefits. Thus, when my eldest graduated with teaching degree I begged her to search outside the state as this state no longer values education. She settled in Vermont and loves everything about it - the salary, the community involvement, the natural environment, and the reciprocity from the students and children. Michigan, just like the rest of the country, is too divided over basic ideas and philosophy of a citified life. So, even though my pension is wrapped up in this system, I vote for dismantling the entire public educational system and replacing it with something that will treat teachers with the respect they deserve. The only stipulation is that the school administration should take marching orders from the teachers, not the other way around.\nI've finally seen it on Bridge! Someone besides me, from industry or the economy, has said something like this:\n\u201cLess than half the kids in every grade in every subject in the state of Michigan are at basic proficiency,\u201d said Mark Murray, vice chair of Meijer Inc., a former state treasurer, budget director and president of Grand Valley State University.\nThank you Mr. Murray.\nWhat does his statement say about the quality of each teacher? About the quality of each 'educational school?'\nStruggling teachers, struggling students, and struggling 'education schools' do not seem to be able to recognize when a child has become 'unable to learn'.\nI would add, looking forwards in terms of solutions, \"Every teacher, in every subject, must demonstrate: the ability to detect when a child has become unable to learn.\"\n\"Every teacher, must demonstrate the ability to return 'the ability to learn' to any child in their care.\"\n\"Every teacher, must demonstrate, the ability to sustain 'the ability to learn' in any child , in their care, throughout the school year.\" Every student must pass at 'grade level' by the end of the school year, or the teacher, has to hire a tutor to do this, before the beginning of the next school year. The school must retrain any teacher who can NOT to do this, or hire a tutor to do this retraining. The educational school must have their educators RETRAINED to meet this standard, or hire a tutor to do this retraining. Then they must RETRAIN any of their teacher graduates that fail to meet this standard, or hire a tutor to do this.\nThe Bridge contributor currently identified as \"***\" asks, \"What methods are going to determine whether someone is struggling or not?\"\nHere is my answer to that. It is not a substitute for each reader learning how to do this themselves.\nWhen one person communicates to another, they have an idea, an understanding, the idea goes from them to another person. The other person then understands the idea. When this is done with words, the words must be understood, or communication does not occur. When a student reads he takes the written word from the page, understands it, then applies it. If this does not happen, he is unable to learn.\nAll one needs to do to return a student's understanding, and 'the ability to learn' in any subject, is to find the first word they did not get in that subject, then get it properly defined so they do understand, so they do get, that specific word.\nWhen this is done the student looks \"bright\", \"enthusiastic\", \"full of understanding\", \"full of the willingness to learn that subject\". They have \"the ability to apply\", what they understand. They can \"do the actions\" they have learned. They are \"certain\".\nWhen a student does not look like that, they have already become \"unable to learn\". People can learn to see when a child does not have the ability to learn. People can ask the child, \"What does this word mean? If the child can not say quickly you have him look it up. Now the child that reads out loud at 250 words per minute has to know the words pretty well to understand them, and comprehend the material, when moving that fast. So you look to see if they do understand the meaning of the word that fast, when you ask them what the word means. If they hesitate, don't know or anything else, then they should look it up and learn it a little better.\nDespite the complexity of the problems in Michigan for 1.6 million students, and the tens of billions of dollars spent every year, the solution is not complex at all. For a student to get the idea of another when it is expressed in words, they have to learn to understand the words. (or this will NOT happen.) Nearly every word is fully defined in ANY good dictionary. Words may be defined in textbooks. The student has to know how to use a dictionary. He has to know how to see when someone becomes unable to learn (himself or herself for instance). The first thing that happens when the student goes past a word that is NOT understood is that they go blank. Their understanding of the subject goes blank. Their ability to apply goes blank. If you are looking at them they look blank. If you are having them read out loud, they will also have a physical reaction right at that exact instant, instant in the material, that you can see, where you can detect something, and then stop to find the exact word that was not understood. They might substitute another word, hesitate, clench a fist, sigh, or show any other sign of discomfort or stress. They should be reading comfortably without stress. You stop right there and ask, \"Is there any word there (you might point to the location on the page) you do not understand?\" I did this with one young man, 3 months before his high school graduation and we found 80 words right there on that page that had only 200 words on it. He then could read that page comfortably.\nYou find the word. You get the student to understand it. He can now read smoothly, quickly and easily, comfortably with NO stress. He fully understands. So does he look \"bright,\" \"enthusiastic,\" and all that? If not, find another word, till he does. A student can retain the ability to learn through out the school year and learn the subject to grade level, or much faster. When my son learned to read this way, he could increase two grade levels in reading, per year with no help from parents, his teachers, from tutors, all by himself. Students need to know how learn.\nTeachers need to know how to help the student achieve this. Educators at educational schools need to know how to help teacher's to do this.\nI think we need to head off policy makers, educational schools, school boards, teachers, unions, students, parents, newspapers, TV reporters from doing anything else. This needs to be done.\nLeon L. Hulett\nProfessional Engineer, Tutor\nI hear what you are suggesting, however, when you have 30 students in a classroom and 55 minutes per class in a high School setting, and you have a specific amount of time to push the information into the students before the \u201cmandated\u201d state tests, it is difficult to be able to commit the time that you are suggesting for a specific student during instructional time. And, it is difficult for teachers to meet with students after school due to the financial needs of our teachers who have to work a second job, or coach in order to make ends meet. As to the thought of calling out a student in class that he/she doesn\u2019t know a word just adds to the embarrassment and shame that a student feels and they shut down further rather than less. Contrary to popular belief, there are students who cannot or will not be willing to learn in a standard school setting. I\u2019ve had a student like that. No matter what I did to reach out to him, change in tactics, change in attention, he would push back and refuse to learn from me. He ended up dropping out of school completely and struggled for a while then resorted to theft to make ends meet. He is now incarcerated. The biggest issue is trying to do standardized testing. The test is standard to who? Rich, Caucasian, Suburban students with both parents who care about them in the home? Marie and more students are coming in wth parents saying, \u201cyour the teacher, teach them. I don\u2019t have time cause I got 2-part time jobs and clean houses on the side to pay the bills. I ain\u2019t got time to read to them i ain\u2019t got time for that!\u201d Or another classic that I have heard was, \u201cI don\u2019t want my kid to be smarter than me. He don\u2019t need to learn this crap!\u201d\nMentor teachers would help because the first 2 years of teaching are the most difficult. A Board of Education controlled by the governor would be no better. We need to take the politics out of education. We need to assess students based on multiple measures not just standardized tests, while raising the standards. We need to eliminate Credit Recovery because students are passing a year of classes in 2 weeks. It is a scam to make it look like graduation rates are going up. Tennessee is still 37, not so great seems to me. We are making a huge mistake if we hold back 3rd graders because of a reading score based on a standardized test and without a plan on how to improve reading (notice I didn't say reading scores). We can improve reading scores and at the same time insure those better readers do not read at all in the future because they hate reading. Is that progress?\nWhile all of this is part of the problem, remember that education funding was gutted by Snyder\u2019s admin and our state test is not a normed test but something the state came up with rather than a standardized test that provides reliable data.\nThis all sounds like it came from the Betsy DeVos school of education......\nShow me more proof Charter schools have done better OR\nRETURN THE MONEY TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM....\nHow about we let teacher\u2019s teach and kids be students and learn?? Make sure all kids/public schools have same level of funding and make sure there is music/art/physical education in all schools.\nAnd mostly get rid of these ridiculous arbitrary standardized assessment that have kids starting to hate school in kindergarten! All these tests are, are MEGA profit makers for private companies that own them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 38158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/German-Chain-of-Command-in-Western-Europe-June-1944-1673116", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:29Z", "digest": "sha1:2N3NHCMCJQXTXASBUK6IXGH3CHT6CCTR", "length": 2500, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "German Chain of Command in Western Europe, June 1944 | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "The military command structure of German forces in Europe in mid-1944 reflected the growing megalomania of the F\u00fchrer and supreme commander of the armed forces, Adolf Hitler, as well as the rigidity of the Nazi state. All military operations in the western theatre were placed under the direction of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW; Armed Forces High Command); this body reported to Hitler separately from its rival, the Oberkommando des Heeres (OKH; Army High Command), which ran the war on the Eastern Front. Under the OKW, the defense of western Europe against a possible Allied invasion from Britain was entrusted to the Oberbefehlshaber West (OBW; Commander in Chief West), Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. Yet even this veteran army commander had no direct authority over Navy Group West or the Third Air Fleet, which were crucial to the security of his theatre. Both of these forces reported to their own high commands, which in turn reported to Hitler. The same situation applied to the theatre armoured reserve, Panzer Group West: its commander was to deliberate in concert with the OBW, yet none of its well-armed, mobile divisions was to be moved without the explicit permission of the F\u00fchrer. Finally, through Army Group B, Rundstedt directly controlled some 30 infantry divisions and air force field divisions, as well as several armoured units from Brittany to the Dutch-German border; yet even the commander of this group, Erwin Rommel, having been awarded the title of field marshal, was entitled to appeal personally to Hitler with pressing tactical concerns\u2014a resource that this determined general was not loath to exploit.\nThe military disaster implicit in this inefficient structure was made even more likely by deep social cleavages in the German command. Many commanders in the west came from the Prussian nobility or from the pre-Nazi military elite. Between these professionals and the Nazi ideologues in Berlin there was little common purpose except defense of the fatherland. Indeed, some of the commanders were aware of plots against Hitler, and a few actively conspired to depose or even assassinate him in the hope that his removal would spare Germany from total destruction.\nPanzer, series of battle tanks fielded by the German army in the 1930s and \u201940s. The six tanks in the series constituted virtually all of Germany\u2019s tank production from 1934 until the end of World War II in 1945. Panzers provided the striking power of Germany\u2019s panzer (armoured) divisions\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buildingmaterials.co.uk/timber-sheet/carcassing-cls/cls", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:27Z", "digest": "sha1:M3NHD56KLXFYP43CYSOVDE2C5EDG23MZ", "length": 176, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.buildingmaterials.co.uk", "title": "CLS Timber Sheets | BuildingMaterials.co.uk", "raw_content": "We have a wide range of Canadian Lumber Standard Timber, available in many different sizes. We have CLS available in a wide range of lengths, suitable for various requirements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 457, "original_length": 8269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 140.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/vermont/2014/02/22/vermont-snows-prompt-worries-of-spring-flooding/5731141/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:15Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5AVLXSWLTVDLFMVQXFTIMLKV7X6IH6Z", "length": 3551, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.burlingtonfreepress.com", "title": "Vermont snows prompt worries of spring flooding", "raw_content": "Vermont snows prompt worries of spring flooding\nThe National Weather Service has begun issuing bi-weekly reports on the spring flooding threat. Currently the threat is rated at near or slightly above normal. Everything depends on what happens over the next six weeks.\nVermont snows prompt worries of spring flooding The National Weather Service has begun issuing bi-weekly reports on the spring flooding threat. Currently the threat is rated at near or slightly above normal. Everything depends on what happens over the next six weeks. Check out this story on burlingtonfreepress.com: http://bfpne.ws/1bxtWfC\nWILSON RING; Published 5:03 p.m. ET Feb. 22, 2014\nTwo fishermen pick their way past a badly damaged part of the Colchester Causeway on June 4, 2011. Record spring flooding severely eroded the recreation path. It has since been restored. (Photo11: Free Press file )Buy Photo\nMONTPELIER \u2013 A series of February snowstorms have piled up the snow in the mountains of Vermont heading into the last month of winter and emergency planners and weather forecasters are starting to prepare for the possibility of flooding when that snow starts to melt.\n\u201cThe spring flood threat really has a lot to do with what happens from basically mid-February through April,\u201d said Scott Whittier of the NWS office in South Burlington.\nIn a worst case, Vermont could see a repeat of 2011, when heavy winter snows and spring rains kept Lake Champlain well above flood stage until late June. It was a foretaste of the catastrophic statewide flooding caused later that year by Tropical Storm Irene.\nIn 2001 officials warned that a heavy winter snowpack would almost certainly combine with spring rains and warm temperatures to flood low-lying areas. But the weather cooperated and there was no flooding that year.\nFollowing four separate flood emergencies in 2011, including Irene, and three last year, people at Vermont Emergency Management and Homeland Security are also starting to watch the flood forecast, said spokesman Mark Bosma.\n\u201cIt\u2019s always top of mind at certain times of the year and this is one of them. We\u2019ve always been curious and interested in what the flood forecast is. It could be a case where people are just noticing it more because of Irene and that whole awful 2011,\u201d he said.\nEven though there have been several large snowstorms in recent weeks, for the season the snowfall measured at the Burlington International Airport is near normal. But in 2011 there were major storms in March.\nThe flooding danger will escalate if the snow continues to fall and it starts to melt all at once, especially if it\u2019s accompanied by heavy spring rains, Bosma said.\nVermonters could be more sensitive to the threat of flooding, given the four major floods of 2011 and three from 2013.\n\u201cThere is always going to be some version of a snowmelt threat, whether it\u2019s localized ice jams or whether it\u2019s a big event like 2011,\u201d Whittier said.\n\u201cI think people have very short memories, thus if they are impacted, they are more likely to be responsive, which may actually be a good thing,\u201d Whittier said.\nAt the beginning of April 2001, there was the equivalent of 10 inches of rain held in the snow in the mountains. But major flooding was avoided when the weather warmed slowly and there were no major rain storms. Three years ago, the heavy winter snows combined with heavy spring rains to push Lake Champlain above flood stage until June 20.\nIt was just over two months later when Tropical Storm Irene hit the state.\nRead or Share this story: http://bfpne.ws/1bxtWfC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/hotel-where-the-martini-originated-2017-5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:39Z", "digest": "sha1:246RUZ3BGCWA75WPGOVUEC4JV22KRVBH", "length": 2295, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.businessinsider.com", "title": "Hotel where the martini originated - Business Insider", "raw_content": "This hotel bar claims to have invented the martini \u2014 look inside\nA bartender makes a martini at The Knickerbocker Hotel.\nThe official history of the martini is shrouded in mystery, and competing stories come from both the East and West Coast of the US. Despite the cocktail's recipe being documented in the 1880s in Harry Johnson's \"Bartender's Manual\" (the first guide to the bartending trade), there's still some debate as to where it came from.\nIts West Coast origins involve stories of gold miners going to the bar after striking it rich. On the East Coast, however, its rumored origin story takes place in the heart of New York City and involves the wealthy Astor and Rockefeller families.\nThe storied birthplace of the martini is The Knickerbocker Hotel, which was opened by John Jacob Astor IV in 1906, in New York City's Times Square. Back then, rooms averaged around $3.25 per night, and writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and George M. Cohan were frequent guests.\nThe old entrance to The Knickerbocker Hotel.\nGuests would enter the Knickerbocker's speakeasy via a door located underground in the Times Square shuttle stop. The door, though no longer functional, can still be seen in the Times Square station today. Once they entered, they'd see bartenders who were busy serving a roster of guests that included oil tycoon and millionaire John D. Rockefeller.\nIt was Rockefeller who was supposedly served an eponymous cocktail by then-bartender Martini di Arma di Taggia. Made with gin, dry vermouth, sweet vermouth, citrus bitters, orange bitters, and garnished with a lemon twist, the original martini recipe is still served at the new bar inside the recently reopened and landmarked Knickerbocker Hotel today.\nWhile Astor died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, the Knickerbocker Hotel didn't close until 1921, and the building went through several renovations, including a stint as the Newsweek Building in the '40s and '50s.\nThe hotel reopened as the Knickerbocker Hotel in 2015, after a $250 million renovation, according to a spokesperson.\nSEE ALSO: I wrote about the Old Fashioned's 'comeback' and a bunch of people from Wisconsin freaked out\nNOW WATCH: You have to break codes to get cocktails at this spy-themed bar\nMore: Visual Features Arts & Culture Martini New York City", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 179.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/keens-steakhouse-james-beard-classics-2013-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:45Z", "digest": "sha1:FBHM5BVKT4LVN6PH4MYBGHEPFTJBBVKY", "length": 3826, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.businessinsider.com", "title": "Keens Steakhouse James Beard Classics - Business Insider", "raw_content": "Beloved New York Steakhouse Keens Just Got A Major Award\nKeens Steakhouse, a 120 year-old restaurant well-loved for its no frills feel, was just given the James Beard 'Classics' Award. It's an accolade given to restaurants that elevate and uphold the American culinary tradition.\nThis is a huge deal. The James Beard Foundation was named for the cookbook author and teacher (James Beard) and seeks to educate and inspire Americans interested in our country's culinary tradition.\nBasically, if you like to eat, you should know what the foundation is buzzing about. Everyone in the food world does, anyway.\nFive restaurants win the Classics Award every year. This year, along with Keens, the winners are Kramarczuk's in Minneapolis, Frank Fat's in Sacarmento, Prince's Hot Chicken Shack in Nashville and C.F. Folks in Washington D.C..\nHere's what James Beard said about the Classics Award and Keens in their press release (h/t eater):\nNew York, NY (February 28, 2013) - Today the James Beard Foundation announced the five recipients of its 2013 America's Classics Award, presented by The Coca-Cola Company. The America's Classics Award is given to restaurants that have timeless appeal and are beloved for quality food that reflects the character of their community. This year's honorees will be celebrated at the annual James Beard Foundation Awards, the nation's most prestigious recognition program honoring professionals in the food and beverage industry, in a ceremony taking place on Monday, May 6, 2013, at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York City.\n\"The America's Classics Awards are always a highlight of the ceremony,\" said Susan Ungaro, president of the James Beard Foundation. \"Our honorees come from all walks of life. We have the privilege of hearing their unique stories, which celebrate the great variety and authentic flavors of America's culinary scene. These local hangouts, neighborhood diners, and family restaurants truly bring communities together, a concept James Beard would have loved.\"...\nNew York City specializes in new restaurants, not old ones, and local interest in them is generally measured in months instead of years. So it's nothing short of astonishing that a 120-something-year-old restaurant has managed to stay both relevant and wildly popular in the middle of Manhattan.\nAlbert Keen, a theater producer, opened the restaurant in 1885, when the Herald Square Theatre District thrived. Actors came in for a drink between acts. Today, the walls are decorated with over 50,000 clay pipes, from celebrated customers like Teddy Roosevelt and Albert Einstein, souvenirs from a era when smoke clouded many restaurants. George Schwarz, the current owner, took over in the late 1970s, investing much money and sweat equity in reviving the restaurant.\nWhat Keens has always done well is to age and grill meat. They were one of the first restaurants to dry-age beef. It's a terrific place for a prime T-bone steak, well-charred on the outside and juicy within, served with a tangy-sweet house steak sauce. But their most famous cut of meat is not beef: it's the 26-ounce mutton chop. In one of their few nods to modernization, the mutton is now lamb, but it's still accompanied by homemade mint jelly.\nThe menu is stocked with classics like shrimp cocktail, iceberg wedge with chunky blue cheese, and extra-thick slices of smoked bacon, served unadorned on a plate. And the bar at Keens is one of the more democratic places in the city. Yes, it is a destination for Wall Streeters, artists, and fashion editors, but it also draws shoppers from nearby Macy's. The bar room is especially welcoming in the winter, when the fireplace roars and regulars nibble complimentary chicken wings or drink their way through the 275-plus selection of single-malt scotches.\nMore: Food Steak New York City", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/why-isnt-the-london-whale-charged-2013-8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DEQVDV4YMCVPSLR6EBDMNKAWLZHJCTKV", "length": 3414, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.businessinsider.com", "title": "Why Isn't The 'London Whale' Charged - Business Insider", "raw_content": "Why Two Unknown Traders Could Take The Heat For The JP Morgan 'London Whale' Loss\nGetting reeled in.\nNeither Javier Martin-Artajo nor Julien Grout were the so-called \"London Whale\", yet they are the two former traders in the JP Morgan Chief Investment Office (CIO) that have been charged for various offenses related to the $6 billion loss that rocked the House of Dimon last year.\nFirst thing's first, Bruno Iksil, the man known as the 'London Whale' has been talking to prosecutors about what happened in the CIO for months, and cut a deal to avoid prosecution. That leaves other traders in the CIO that managed the portfolio of synthetic dervitives in question to take the fall.\nGrout and Artajo are two such traders \u2014 both are charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to falsify books and records, and falsifying records to the SEC.\nAccording to the Department of Justice's complaint, the wire fraud charges stem from e-mails and phone calls starting around the end of March 2012, in which the two traders talked about their position in CIO's synthetic credit portfolio. It was at this point that it was clear that the portfolio was losing a ton of money, and they were definitely freaking out.\nNow, it's not illegal to lose money \u2014 which U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara pointed out in his press conference today \u2014 it's how these two traders allegedly tried to cover their losses that Bharara called \"not a tempest in a teapot...but a perfect storm.\"\nFor months in 2012, as the portfolio started losing millions of dollars ($130 million in January and $88 million in February) traders in the CIO thought they could hedge their way out of the hole they'd dug themselves into.\nTo be able to do that, according to the Department of Justice's complaint, they hid their losses from their superiors and kept two separate accounts of the portfolio \u2014 one that had the fair value of the derivatives that they were trading, and another rosier account that did not.\nBy March 15, 2012, said Bharara, the difference between those two books was $292 million.\nAccording to the complaint, a day later some of Martin-Artajo and Grout's co-workers (one co-conspirator named as \"CC-1\" and someone who entered a non-prosecution with the U.S. Attorney named as \"CW-1\") were asking Martin-Artajo to make the two books public. He wouldn't.\nDOJ complaint\nTwo things to keep in mind here. First, by April, when the losses in the CIO became public, the hole had widened to $2 billion \u2014 so even without the $292 million difference, there had to be something wacky going on in the portfolio Martin-Artajo and Grout were presenting (thus the freak-out phone calls in late March).\nAnother thing to keep in mind here is that the CIO is supposed to be reinvesting the bank's excess deposits \u2014 so at that point $350 million worth of un-loaned JP Morgan customer money. That's doubly uncool to regulators.\nAccording to this narrative, the bank didn't know the extent of the damage that had been done because there were allegedly two separate accounts of this specific portfolio. As a result, when the bank released an 8-K earnings release it was inaccurate. That's where you get the \"falsifying records to the SEC\" charge.\nFrom the complaint against Grout (the language in both complaints is similar):\nAnd that's where you get why these two sort of random guys are having the book thrown at them.\nMore: Wall Street JP Morgan Trading Loss JP Morgan Banks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businesstoday.in/current/economy-politics/vijay-mallya-back-in-uk-court-for-extradition-hearing/story/275748.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:50Z", "digest": "sha1:NAKX3G7AG7OBKR6EFM7C72YA77Z4ID6Q", "length": 4526, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.businesstoday.in", "title": "Vijay Mallya back in UK court for extradition hearing", "raw_content": "Vijay Mallya back in UK court for extradition hearing\nThe 62-year-old, who is wanted in India to face charges of fraud and money laundering amounting to around Rs 9,000 crore, is currently on a 650,000 pounds bail since his arrest on an extradition warrant by Scotland Yard in April last year.\nPTI Last Updated: April 27, 2018 | 15:45 IST\nEmbattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya was back in a UK court today for a hearing in his ongoing extradition trial.\nChief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot of the Westminster Magistrates' Court here is set to consider some additional material sought from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), arguing on behalf of the Indian government, hear closing arguments, and set a timeline for a verdict in the case which is expected by next month.\nAt the last hearing in the case on March 16, the judge had noted that it was \"blindingly obvious\" that rules were being broken by Indian banks which sanctioned some of the loans to the erstwhile Kingfisher Airlines owned by Mallya.\n\"There are clear signs that the banks seem to have gone against their own guidelines (in sanctioning some of the loans),\" she said, \"inviting\" the Indian authorities to explain the case against some of the bank officials involved because that relates to the \"conspiracy\" allegations against Mallya.\nAt the end of that hearing, the judge had indicated her decision on the admissibility of evidence would go in favour of admitting some material and excluding some affidavits, which she said did not pertain to the prima facie case of fraud.\nMallya's counsel, Clare Montgomery, had also argued that evidence which was claimed as a \"blueprint of dishonesty\" by the CPS was in fact a privileged interaction between Mallya and his lawyer about \"legal advice in clear contemplation of litigation\" and hence should be inadmissible.\nThe judge said she was still \"on the fence\" about admitting that correspondence.\nToday's hearing comes days after the Indian government's High Court appeal against a previous Westminster Magistrates' Court extradition ruling that had been denied.\nUK-based Sanjeev Kumar Chawla, wanted in India as a key accused in the cricket match-fixing scandal involving former South African captain Hanse Cronje in 2000, had been discharged in October last year on human rights grounds over severe conditions in Delhi's Tihar Jail, where the accused was to be held on being extradited.\nDistrict Judge Rebecca Crane had based her verdict to discharge Chawla largely upon the testimony of Dr Alan Mitchell, former head of healthcare at the Scottish Prison Service and an elected member of the European Council's Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).\nMallya's defence team has previously deposed the same prisons expert in his extradition case, who told Judge Arbuthnot during the course of the trial that conditions in all Indian jails are \"far from satisfactory\".\nDuring the last hearing in the case in March, CPS barrister Mark Summers reiterated that the Indian government had provided further clarifications related to availability of natural light and medical assistance at Barrack 12 of Mumbai Central Prison on Arthur Road, where Mallya is to be held if he is extradited from the UK.\nThe trial, which opened at the London court on December 4 last year, is aimed at laying out a prima facie case of fraud against Mallya, who has been based in the UK since he left India in March 2016.\nIt also seeks to prove there are no \"bars to extradition\" and that the tycoon is assured a fair trial in India over his now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines' alleged default of over Rs 9,000 crore in loans from a consortium of Indian banks.\nThe CPS, representing the Indian government, has argued that the evidence they have presented establishes \"dishonesty\" on the part of the businessman and that there are no bars to him being extradited from the UK to face Indian courts.\nMallya's defence team has deposed a series of expert witnesses to claim he had no \"fraudulent\" intentions and that he is unlikely to get a fair trial in India.\nIf the judge rules in favour of the Indian government, the UK home secretary will have two months to sign Mallya's extradition order.\nHowever, both sides will have the chance to appeal in higher courts in the UK against the Magistrates' Court verdict.\nTags: Vijay Mallya | extradition | UK court | money laundering | fraud\nRupee can breach 68 mark against dollar; here's how it will affect India Inc\nGoogle's parent Alphabet may partner with Walmart to acquire stake in Flipkart: report", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bustle.com/articles/160048-drake-gets-his-first-no-1-on-the-billboard-hot-100-with-one-dance-its", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:33Z", "digest": "sha1:CCAM6Z5H2UK4Q3J7RMZ4WZCIG4N7APDB", "length": 3052, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.bustle.com", "title": "Drake Gets His First No. 1 On The Billboard Hot 100 With \"One Dance\" & It's About Damn Time", "raw_content": "Drake Gets His First No. 1 On The Billboard Hot 100 With \"One Dance\" & It's About Damn Time\nCongratulations are due to Drizzy, Aubrey, Jimmy from Degrassi \u2014 however you see the hip hop sensation, he's done something big. On Monday, it was announced that Canadian rapper Drake had gotten his first No. 1 song, having made it to the top of Billboard's Hot 100 with his collaboration with WizKid and Kyla, \"One Dance.\" He's come close to reaching that spot before, with \"Hotline Bling\" making it to No. 2, and Rihanna collaborations \u201cWork\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s My Name?\" hitting No. 1. But this is the first time that Drake has made No.1 for a song on which he was the main artist. Good job, Drizzy \u2014 we all knew you had it in you.\nDrake earning his first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 is certainly impressive, but it's just one of the rapper's many major achievements. Taking a step back from this victory, everyone's favorite champagne-popper (or Champagne papi, as his Instagram handle calls him) has made quite a few accomplishments in his extensive career \u2014 he may have \"started from the bottom,\" but he has found himself on the top for quite some time now. I, for one, am pretty certain that he'll be staying there for a long, long time. Here's a look back at some of his most impressive achievements.\n1. His First Two Singles Made It To The Top 10 Of The Billboard 100 Chart\nOn July 4, 2009, \"Best I Ever Had\" and \"Every Girl\" entered the top 10 at positions three and 10, respectively.\n2. His Mixtape, So Far Gone, Won Rap Recording of the Year At The 2010 Juno Awards\nFor a mixtape that was produced by Drake's own label, October's Very Own, when he was just starting out, that's pretty darn impressive.\n3. Two Of His Albums Hit No. 1 On The Billboard 200\nThank Me Later hit No. 1 in 2010 and then What A Time To Be Alive did the same in 2015. All I have to say is \"fire.\" Fire, ladies and gentlemen. Fire.\n4. In 2016, He Became A Member Of The Forbes 5\nForbes added Drake to its ranking of the wealthiest hip-hop artists that year, alongside Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and Birdman.\n5. He Was Given The Key To Toronto\nOn February 12, 2016 at the NBA All-Stars game in Toronto, Mayor John Tory presented Drake with the key to the city. Drake has numerous accolades, but according to NME, he called this particular award \"one of the greatest moments of my life, if not the greatest.\"\n6. He Created \"YOLO\" \u2014 Well, Maybe\nDrake is credited with inventing one of the greatest life mottos since hakuna matata, in his song \"Motto.\" There's some controversy about whether or not he actually invented it which Vanity Fair covers perfectly in a 2013 article about YOLO's origins, but let's just say that he \"popularized\" the word.\n7. Awards, Awards, Awards\nThe 2010 Juno Awards were special because it marked Drake's first award, but since then, he has won a Grammy, three Juno Awards, and five BET awards.\nIn the six years since Drake seriously entered America's pop culture landscape, he has been winning acclaim left and right. I can't wait to see what he does next.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 126.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bustle.com/p/the-bustle-huddle-what-bustles-editors-are-talking-about-on-march-30-48003", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:37Z", "digest": "sha1:6V2QBUN2VK4TKWYIDWZ3AKIU56RBQSYU", "length": 3224, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.bustle.com", "title": "The Bustle Huddle: What Bustle's Editors Are Talking About On March 30", "raw_content": "Happy Thursday! We're so close to the weekend that I can almost taste it. But before I completely get ahead of myself and start fantasizing about my special Netflix marathon yoga pants and bottomless brunch, here's what Bustle's editors were talking about today, March 30.\nIvanka + Donald Trump\nIvanka Trump now has an *official* role in the White House. After months of unofficially advising her father (and concerns over that being a conflict of interest), news broke that Ivanka would be moving into an official, unpaid position as \"special assistant to the president.\" So, umm, what does that even mean? In this role, Ivanka says she will \"continue to offer my father my candid advice and counsel, as I have for my entire life,\" though it's unclear if she'll also focus on other policies or issues.\nTravel Ban Update: On Wednesday, a federal judge in Hawaii put the kibosh on Trump's revised travel ban \u2014 indefinitely. That's right: Until the state's lawsuit is resolved, the ban cannot be implemented in the U.S.\nGame of Thrones + Season 7\nThe official Game of Thrones Season 7 promo dropped today and, wow. It. Is. So. Good. While the 90-second promo doesn't actually feature any clips from the upcoming season, it does give fans a taste of what they've been waiting for: a glimpse of their favorites headed to the throne. Season 7 premieres on HBO on July 16, so yes, you can expect this to be on loop quite a bit between now and then.\nWait, What?! The original ending of Disney's Frozen was revealed, and OMG, it would have been so good!!\nNorth Carolina + HB2\nOn Thursday afternoon, North Carolina's House of Representatives passed a bill to partially repeal HB2, the bathroom bill that restricted transgender people's use of public restrooms. Trans advocates are saying that this \"repeal\" falls far short of what they had hoped for. The new bill, HB142, was signed by Gov. Roy Cooper shortly after. Cooper previously said he would support it, though it is \"not a perfect deal.\"\nBustle Exclusive: If you were a Veronica Mars super fan, have watched \"Africa\" more times than you can count, and already saw CHiPs, then you're going to love Bustle's exclusive interview with Kristen Bell. Yes, she really is that nice. No, she doesn't care what you think.\nApp-less April + You\nMarch isn't over yet, but we're already gearing up for another App-less April here at Bustle.\nWhat's that, you ask? App-less April is a time to put down the dating apps and get out there to meet people IRL. All month long, we'll be sharing tips and tricks for how to meet people, and editors will share their own progress. Up for the challenge? Come on!\nShopping Break: In today's political climate, it can be hard to stay sane. That's why these products are *perfect* for introducing more mindfulness into your life.\nToday's WTF Moment: Former Bachelor in Paradise couple Amanda Stanton and Josh Murray are having a week. Josh reportedly called the cops on Amanda on March 20 to get back the car he'd bought her while they were still together. It's messy. Here's a full timeline of their relationship to help clear things up.\nWhat to Watch: Thursday = Shondaland! Tune in to ABC starting at 8 p.m. for Grey's Anatomy, Scandal, and The Catch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buydvdus.com/news-Weeds-Justin-Kirk-Hope-Davis-Join-Foxs-Wayward-Pines-4875.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:FFCYI3VCV7WEDOBC6HSCA5G52CVVDL6O", "length": 1421, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.buydvdus.com", "title": "Weeds' Justin Kirk, Hope Davis Join Fox's Wayward Pines", "raw_content": "Weeds' Justin Kirk, Hope Davis Join Fox's Wayward Pines 2013/11/8 16:16:30\nWeeds dvd vet Justin Kirk and The Newsroom dvd's Hope Davis have signed on for recurring roles on M. Night Shyamalan's upcoming Fox event series, Wayward Pines, according to The Hollywood Reporter.\nWritten with Chad Hodge, Wayward Pines is based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Blake Crouch and is described as a Twin Peaks-like thriller. The 10-episode drama's center is on Ethan Burke (Matt Dillon), a Secret Service agent who arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho to find two missing federal agents. Instead of answers, Ethan's investigation leads to more questions, natch. As Ethan gets closer to the truth, he strays further away from the life he knew as a husband and father.\n25 unnecessary spin-offs\nKirk will play Peter McCall, an unassuming realtor in own, and Davis will portray a teacher at Wayward Pines Academy named Megan Fisher. The duo joins a cast that includes Terrence Howard, Toby Jones, Melissa Leo, and Carla Gugino.\nAfter wrapping Weeds' eight-season run, Kirk starred on the short-lived comedy Animal Practice and will also guest-star on NBC's new series The Blacklist. Davis, who played gossip columnist Nina Howard on The Newsroom, also appeared on Law & Order dvd: SVU earlier this year.\nWayward Pines is set to debut sometime next year. Are you excited for the series?\nPrevious Nikita Final Season Will Be Back", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2574, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=Videos&sort=Newest&personid%5B%5D=1002716", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:51Z", "digest": "sha1:XCA4H2ZY2AOBG2WFYW52H4L3XS3SNTNH", "length": 240, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.c-span.org", "title": "Videos | Search | C-SPAN.org", "raw_content": "1Dick Posthumus\n1Jennifer M. Granholm\nDick Posthumus\nCandidates debated on another in a television studio with journalists asking questions of the candidates. Several viewer questions, submitted via the Internet, were also asked. Among the\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 1938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.c-span.org/search/?searchtype=Videos&sort=Newest&personid%5B%5D=49907", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:DQ3LPBHT7EXJMGOOWG5M3B5DGMEPJQ5B", "length": 1069, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.c-span.org", "title": "Videos | Search | C-SPAN.org", "raw_content": "4Hermione Lee\n2Claudia Roth Pierpont\n1Joel Conarroe\n1Philip Roth\n1Benjamin Taylor\n1Ross Miller\n1Charles D'Ambrosio\n1Ross Posnock\n1Nathan Englander\nBook Discussion with Hermione Lee\nHermione Lee talked about the process of writing biographies and the lives of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton. Hermione Lee is the author of several non-fiction books, including: The Novels of\u2026\nThe Life and Work of Philip Roth\nPanelists talk about the life and work of Philip Roth, author of such works as I Married a Communist, The Plot Against America, and The Human Stain. The first part of this event included speakers\u2026\nTribute to Philip Roth\nPhilip Roth, author of over twenty novels, including Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy\u2019s Complaint, American Pastoral and The Human Stain and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book\u2026\nJune 13, 1997 Last Aired September 1, 1997\nMs. Lee talked about her new biography of Virginia Woolf who was an English novelist and critic. She talked about the challenges of writing the book and of writing biography in particular.\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cameroncaravanssa.com.au/caravans-for-sale/new-age-big-red-20/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HNH73PI3CEVRQQ5CZLBQO5XWAMFCC5IO", "length": 47, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cameroncaravanssa.com.au", "title": "New Age Big Red 20 - Cameron Caravans", "raw_content": "A very well looked after van, it is a must see.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2706, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 186.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/the-parish-of-st-catherines-capilano/p2p/LLNOH2019/page/brenda-joan-stenson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:54Z", "digest": "sha1:375J3TRUIYLLMMRWQKBWSR5HX4RLYT66", "length": 131, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.canadahelps.org", "title": "Campaign: THE PARISH OF ST. CATHERINE'S (CAPILANO) - The Long, Long Night of Hope 2019 - Brenda Stenson - CanadaHelps", "raw_content": "Brenda Stenson\nBrenda Stenson's fundraiser supporting THE PARISH OF ST. CATHERINE'S (CAPILANO) in The Long, Long Night of Hope 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canberratimes.com.au/entertainment/music/feeling-the-love-rod-laver-arena-s-most-memorable-shows-20181227-p50ofb.html?ref=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss_entertainment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:04Z", "digest": "sha1:WQBTCAWXQ7HX6EMIIHVDRSW5D6DB5LX2", "length": 5562, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.canberratimes.com.au", "title": "'Feeling the love': Rod Laver Arena's most memorable shows", "raw_content": "'Feeling the love': Rod Laver Arena's most memorable shows\nBy Martin Boulton & Broede Carmody\nFrom tennis champions to pop stars, Rod Laver Arena has seen its fair share of celebrities.\nThe Melbourne institution first opened its doors 30 years ago. Since then, the stadium has witnessed everything from Eminem's anti-John Howard rant to Australia's own Kylie Minogue frolicking above a giant water fountain.\nHere's three decades of highlights at one of Melbourne's premiere live entertainment venues.\nU2 singer Bono performing during the 1990s. Credit:AP\nThere would be far more extravagant and lengthy tours to come, but when U2 touched down in Melbourne for seven spectacular nights at Rod Laver Arena in October 1989, the whole world was feeling the love.\nThe Irish rockers\u2019 Lovetown tour arrived a year after their Rattle and Hum album, but the icing on this musical feast was touring partner and blues legend BB King. Local favourites Weddings Parties Anything also played, however the biggest sing-a-longs at these brilliant shows came with the new hits Desire, All I Want Is You as well as a cover of All Along the Watchtower.\nWhen U2 next came to town in 1993, they played two shows at the MCG as part of their epic Zoo TV tour, but these \u201989 shows at RLA will live long in the memories of those who saw the spotlight growing ever wider on Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullins Jr. The band has gone on to sell 170 million albums around the world.\nEminem performing at Rod Laver Arena in 2001. Credit:The Age\nEminem, 2001\nEminem's show at the turn of the century is among Rod Laver's most-memorable because of all the fuss it kicked-up. It was, of course, an election year. Then prime minister John Howard hoped to appeal to his base by denouncing the American rapper over lyrics he thought were both \"sickening\" and \"offensive\".\nAfter some uncertainty regarding Eminem's visa \u2013 not to mention numerous headlines \u2013 the highly-anticipated show went ahead. It was the rapper's first time down under.\nBut he couldn't let things go without one last spray at Mr Howard.\n\"I want to buy a house and move here, but I don't think your prime minister would like it,\" he told the crowd. \"They almost didn't let me into your country. So I brought a gun with me. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.\"\nKylie Minogue wows fans at Melbourne's Rod Laver in 2011. Credit:The Age\nKylie Minogue, 2011\nIt's not every day that a pop star insists on setting up a fountain in the middle of a stadium. But that's exactly what Kylie Minogue did back in 2011 for her Aphrodite tour.\nMinogue sung some of her biggest hits to more than 25,000 adoring fans. However the biggest screams came when her backup dancers were propelled into the air alongside water jets, spraying those lucky enough to nab a front-row seat.\nMinogue's neo-classical inspired costumes also reinforced the idea that she is Australia's pop princess. More than one costume has ended up in an Australian exhibition.\nRobert Smith of The Cure performing at Rod Laver Arena in 2016. Credit:Paul Rovere\nThe Cure, 2016\nA little more than 10 years since their previous tour the Cure returned two years ago to Melbourne and their adoring fans at Rod Laver Arena.\nThe evening generated as much sheer joy as this writer has ever seen at a live performance, coming four decades since the band formed in the southern English county of West Sussex. Founding member and frontman Robert Smith, his distinctive black hair still resembling a magnificent bird\u2019s nest, made the decade long wait between tours worth it.\nNow close to 60, Smith and his bandmates played no less than 35 songs, including four stunning encores, themselves totalling 12 songs including Why Can\u2019t I be You?, A Forest, Let\u2019s Go to Bed, The Lovecats, Boys Don\u2019t Cry and The Caterpillar.\nEverybody should experience such a show at least once in their life. Instantly recognisable and impossible to stand still to, the Cure were hot on that chilly July night.\nRoger Waters performing as part of his Us + Them tour. Credit:Kate Izor\nRoger Waters, 2018\nRoger Waters has proved time and time again that age is no barrier to an energetic, politically-charged performance. At 75 years of age, he's still got it.\nThe singer-songwriter brought his 157-show Us + Them tour to Australia earlier this year, juggling classic Pink Floyd tracks and with recent solo work. War and inequality have long been the subject of Waters' rage. The Melbourne leg of his world tour, which kicked off in February, was no different.\nThe popular singer and guitarist let giant, flying pigs drift around the stadium \u2013 so close attendees could almost touch them. The animals were emblazoned with anti-Trump imagery. The props certainly raised eyebrows among Rod Laver Arena staff, who hadn't ever seen anything like it.\nP!NK performs at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne on July 16. Credit:Jay Wennington\nPink soared over the crowd during her 2018 stadium shows. But so too did her bank account.\nThe American pop star sold more than half a million tickets during the Australian and New Zealand leg of her Beautiful Trauama World Tour. This meant the mother-of-two raked in more than $100 million dollars, earning her the title of the second-highest grossing artist of all time to visit down under (bested only by The Rolling Stones).\nWhile Pink's stay in Australia was marred with ill-health and a string of rescheduled performances, the singer won back the crowd with a physically-demanding routine that saw her fly through the air and belt-out lyrics without her feet even touching the ground.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 8359, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cancertherapyadvisor.com/skin-cancer/a-closer-look-at-two-common-types-of-skin-cancer/article/355878/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PM4CFNVESFCE3YREVNHGOQTHVJWGGP2C", "length": 3042, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.cancertherapyadvisor.com", "title": "A Closer Look at Two Common Types of Skin Cancer - Cancer Therapy Advisor", "raw_content": "A Closer Look at Two Common Types of Skin Cancer\nAbby Jacobson, PA-C\nThe start of the \"sun-worshipping season\" is a good time to review the basics of basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas.\nA Closer Look at Two Common Forms of Skin Cancer\nAccording to the American Cancer Society, skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States.1 While melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer, basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are much more common.\nBCC Overview\nBCCs account for approximately 80% of all skin cancers.2 These epithelial tumors develop from basal cells, located in the lower layer of the epidermis. BCCs are slow-growing and rarely metastasize. They are seen most frequently, but not exclusively, in fair-skinned individuals with a history of actinic exposure.\nThe most common sites of BCC are sun-exposed areas such as the face, ears, and chest. The majority of BCCs\u201470%\u2014occur on the face, particularly on the nose.2 Another 25% of BCCs occur on the trunk or the extremities, and the remaining 5% on the penis, vulva, or perianal skin, suggesting that there is more to the development of BCC than simply actinic exposure, although actinic exposure is carcinogenic and can lead to mutations directly related to the development of BCCs.\nClinical appearance. BCCs can have various presentations, with the most common being a pearly papule with telangiectases in the lesion and a rolled edge. These tumors often bleed. Many patients present with a chief complaint of a nonhealing pimple.\nRELATED: Skin Cancer Resource Center\nThe pathology of these classically appearing BCCs are reported as \"nodular\" BCCs on histologic analysis. Infiltrative BCCs often appear clinically the same as nodular BCCs; however, infiltrative BCCs are difficult to read at the margins because they do not have distinct borders under the microscope.\nThis makes treatment more challenging. Micronodular BCCs have a more distinct border both to the naked eye and under the microscope, and appear as classically described but tend not to ulcerate.\nThree forms of BCC can have a more variable clinical appearance that makes diagnosis difficult: morpheaform BCC, pigmented BCC, and superficial BCC.\nMorpheaform BCC appears yellowish and waxy with a tinge of pink, and is often more sclerotic, lacking any ulcercation. These lesions often feel firm on palpation. This finding illustrates the point that a skin examination is often tactile as well as visual.\nPigmented BCC resembles a traditional BCC but has specks of pigment in it, giving it an almost peppered appearance.\nSuperficial BCC can be much more subtle and appear as an erythematous patch or plaque with or without scale. Superficial BCC occurs most commonly on the upper trunk and shoulders. These lesions are easily misdiagnosed or overlooked as being an eczema patch or psoriasis patch.\nWhat's Causing the Dramatic Rise in Skin Cancer Among Middle-aged Adults?\nSelf-treatment Harmful for Skin Cancer\nNonmelanoma Skin Cancer Raises Risk for Subsequent Primary Cancers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 14347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.captive.com/captive-videos/thought-leaders/stewart-feldman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:52Z", "digest": "sha1:54HN62VTUXWT4UZ7DVCBR6PVZWSZYCQF", "length": 2842, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.captive.com", "title": "Stewart Feldman | Captive.com", "raw_content": "Stewart A. Feldman Videos\nStewart A. Feldman has been chief executive officer and general counsel at Capstone Associated Services, Ltd., for more than 3 decades. As Capstone's CEO and general counsel, Mr. Feldman is considered an expert on tax issues affecting middle market companies in relationship to captive insurance companies.\nView Stewart's VideosView Sponsor Profile\nFor more than 3 decades, Stewart A. Feldman has been the chief executive officer, managing partner, and principal owner of several businesses based in Houston, Texas, where he has lived for 35 years. These businesses currently include Capstone Associated Services, Ltd.; The Feldman Law Firm LLP; and RSL Funding, LLC. Mr. Feldman has built a strong tax, financial, and accounting background, dating back to a career in public accounting (CPA\u2014Ohio, 1975, and Texas, 1980) following his completion of graduate business school.\nMr. Feldman draws upon years of experience on the substantive business side of transactions from financial and legal perspectives and as a principal in various businesses. His education includes a J.D. awarded cum laude by the University of Michigan Law School, May 1980, where he also taught intermediate accounting in what is now Michigan's Ross Business School. Mr. Feldman also holds an M.Sc. (Accounting) and a B.S. (Economy), magna cum laude, from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, 1975. Mr. Feldman attended the London School of Economics and Political Science (General Course, 1973\u20131974) and sits on the North American Advisory Committee for the school.\nIn 2007, Mr. Feldman was chairman of Northstar Healthcare (TSX:NHC), a cross border rollup, which was the largest initial public offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange that year. Mr. Feldman was also admitted to practice before the US Tax Court in 2017. As a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics, and as Capstone's CEO and general counsel, Mr. Feldman is considered an expert on tax issues affecting middle market companies in relationship to captive insurance companies.\nStewart Feldman of Capstone says that captive insurance taxation issues concern (1) risk transfer, (2) risk distribution, and (3) common notions of insurance.\nIn evaluating whether captive insurance makes sense for your business, Stewart Feldman says that attention should focus on the risk management issues.\nStewart Feldman advises that a prospective captive owner should consider a number of factors before selecting a captive management team.\nBefore forming a captive insurance company, organizations will do advanced planning and analysis through a captive feasibility study.\nCaptive insurance planning takes a team of people to put a program in place, according to Stewart Feldman, CEO of Capstone Associated Services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.caracaschronicles.com/2018/02/08/elections-without-agreement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VUSEVD4VJTFO6444R567ZLNIU6T4YSLT", "length": 13096, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.caracaschronicles.com", "title": "Elections Without Agreement | Caracas Chronicles", "raw_content": "Home Briefing Elections Without Agreement\nElections Without Agreement\nFor Thursday, February 8, 2018. Translated by Javier Liendo.\nThe government didn\u2019t refuse to sign the opposition\u2019s version of the so-called agreement, it was just that minister Jorge Rodr\u00edguez signed his own version early yesterday to later depart and leave everything in the suspense of his imposition.\nThe statements of former president Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero were shameful.\nJust not much worse than those of Dominican President Danilo Medina, who used all the ornaments available.\nJulio Borges said that they didn\u2019t sign the agreement with the government because they won\u2019t allow them to abuse Venezuelan people\u2019s rights, later explaining the differences between the document that the opposition handed over yesterday and the one left signed by the government. Their document details the aforementioned rights and specifies the opposition\u2019s demands, while the other is a bunch of sui-generis statements, as is usual in chavista documents. Borges said that Nicol\u00e1s \u201cdoesn\u2019t own Venezuela\u2019s democracy, which belongs to Venezuelans, and they must be respected.\u201d\nLeaving PSUV\nNational Electoral Council chairwoman Tibisay Lucena reappeared in her office after weeks of absence and met with Delcy Rodr\u00edguez, who formally changed the name of party NCR for Somos Venezuela. NCR is remembered because in 2017, it had to go to a second signature collection round for revalidation (the same process denied to Primero Justicia) although you probably don\u2019t know a single militant of that cause. Don\u2019t worry, Delcy said that in order to avoid double membership, she quit PSUV.\nHours later, however, Nicol\u00e1s claimed that Somos Venezuela isn\u2019t a political party but a movement (?), and remarked that the opposition didn\u2019t sign his version of the agreement because \u201cJulio Borges got a phone call from Bogot\u00e1 and someone spoke to him in English,\u201d although he assumes that the agreement was settled even without a single opposition signature. He restated that he wants Henry Ramos Allup to be his contender and that he\u2019ll fulfill everything he signed, taking the chance to call president Juan Manuel Santos \u201cgarbage\u201d. He made a cryptic announcement about the creation of a \u201cnetwork of intellentuals\u201d (sic).\nTibisay Lucena played her role and announced that presidential elections will take place on April 22, in compliance with the ANC\u2019s decree and the date established by the document signed by the government in the Dominican Republic. The Electoral Registry will be open until February 20, with a special campaign for voters who want to register for the first time or change their place of residence so they can be included in the total number of voters to be released on March 5. Lucena said that nominations will be made over the internet between February 24 and 26 and candidates will have 48 hours from then to submit their requirements. The electoral campaign will take 16 days, starting on April 2 (although Nicol\u00e1s has been on that for weeks now) and they foresee \u201c15 inspections and all the guarantees for a transparent and reliable election,\u201d features that couldn\u2019t possibly be reached in such a small window of time, and she knows it.\nOh! Electoral table members will be the same as in regional and municipal elections.\nHe doesn\u2019t agree\nRector Luis Emilio Rond\u00f3n rejected the call to elections due to lack of guarantees to create trust for Venezuelans, pointing out that he reserved his vote in view of these rushed decisions, \u201csince this is the country\u2019s most important election, with the largest turnout of Venezuelans (\u2026) less time and less guarantees.\u201d\nhttps://t.co/7TS25SFD8U\nAccording to him, the CNE establishes 63 days for such a relevant process, so he asked Venezuelans to \u201cdemand full compliance with their political rights.\u201d His most crucial question was: \u201cIs the Constitution of Venezuela valid or not?\u201d\nInflation broke the 80% mark for a second month in a row, according to the estimates of the National Assembly\u2019s Finance Committee.\nVenezuela en #hiperinflaci\u00f3n. Tasa de inflaci\u00f3n oficial de la AN correspondiente a enero de 2018: tasa mensual 84,2%. Tasa de inflaci\u00f3n anualizada enero 2018-enero2017: 4068%. Venezuela arruinada. pic.twitter.com/5ZZbvtb7Jj\n\u2014 Jose Guerra (@JoseAGuerra) February 7, 2018\nThat\u2019s second highest inflation rate recorded in the country\u2019s recent history.\n\u201cWe must stop hyperinflation and for that we must dismantle currency exchange controls and stop the printing of inorganic money,\u201d said lawmaker Rafael Guzm\u00e1n, remarking that \u201cthe only person accountable for the tragedy we now live is Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\u201d\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross believes that Venezuela lives a difficult social-economic situation and it\u2019s monitoring how the crisis evolves to offer aid whenever possible. Operations head Dominik Stillhart said in United Nations headquarters that the Red Cross has an all-terrain team that works with the Venezuelan Red Cross. If that\u2019s true, then maybe he should be informed, for instance, of the measles outbreak that has been affecting four parishes of Libertador municipality between December 2017 and January 2018 (Sucre, La Pastora, 23 de Enero and El Junquito) and the Health Ministry has remained silent about the virus\u2019 spread, despite it being a highly contagious viral disease that can be prevented with vaccination.\nHeavy sanctions\nU.S. State Secretary Red Tillerson said that his country draws closer to imposing sanctions against the Venezuelan oil sector and they\u2019re planning on mitigating their impact at once: \u201cthere\u2019s great unanimity in the region and certainly in the hemisphere that we all want to see some progress on this situation in Venezuela which only gets worse day by day.\u201d Describing president Trump as an understanding man, he explained that he\u2019ll work on the options and leave the call to him, because they\u2019re concerned as to how to mitigate the impact of potential oil restrictions, not only on Caribbean nations but also on U.S refineries that import Venezuelan heavy crude. In any case, Jamaican prime minister Andrew Holness suggested that the region is already making progress after years of dependency to subsidized Venezuelan oil.\nAfter European Union High Representative Federica Mogherini demanded an agreement for \u201cfree, credible and transparent elections,\u201d in addition to lifting bans on opposition candidates and guaranteeing the CNE\u2019s impartiality, three demands that were ignored yesterday, the Eurochamber plenary will vote on a resolution that will include their condemnation for the call for presidential elections as well as the expulsion of the Spanish ambassador, and a resolution to expand EU-imposed sanctions to new high-ranking members of the Venezuelan government, including Nicol\u00e1s.\nOAS chief Luis Almagro said that he met with U.S. senator Marco Rubio to discuss Venezuela\u2019s political situation and define coming actions and regional commitments against the government.\nBy signing an agreement with himself, Nicol\u00e1s opens the door for more severe sanctions, as well as international disregard for his presidency, all of this only for refusing to accept elections with guarantees. Everything comes from recognition and acceptance. Neither a new party nor an early date for elections will solve the emergency of those who are starving to death and dying of treatable diseases every day; they won\u2019t stop epidemiological outbreaks or shortages; they won\u2019t put a check on inflation or stop the diaspora. Nicol\u00e1s in his labyrinth. So sadistic that he could never inspire pity.\nPrevious articleMaduro Might Lose the April Election, but Democracy Won\u2019t Win It\nNext articleOn Educated Psychiatrists, Poetry and Genocide\nElGuapo February 8, 2018 at 11:13 am\nPolitics 101: Any time some pet project blows apart and whatever amount of effort you put into it comes to nothing, it makes you look like an incompetent. Which is what Jos\u00e9 Luis Rodr\u00edguez Zapatero is: incompetent.\nHe didn\u2019t care about Venezuelans. He cared about the process, and how this bit of statesmanship on his part would give him some political legs. Now, since his efforts were fruitless, he must blame someone else, since his efforts were \u201csuperhuman\u201d\u2026 preferably the opposition, as they are powerless. And maybe my history fails me, but isn\u2019t he a Socialist? So I think we know where his loyalties lie.\nWhat matters is that the opposition didn\u2019t back down.\nMRubio February 8, 2018 at 6:50 pm\nA leftist accepting responsiblity for his own actions? I\u2019d been waiting to see that but have instead shifted my focus to the skies in the hopes of seeing a flying pink unicorn.\nPedro Jose February 8, 2018 at 12:34 pm\nHas EL Universal newspaper shutdown? The last articles on their web site are from 2/2/2018. nothing new has been post their over the last 6 days.\ncapa1010 February 8, 2018 at 1:30 pm\nInteresting. And the last cover they have is from January 31st.\nBoludo Tejano February 8, 2018 at 2:46 pm\nFrom Foreign Policy website: Elephants in the Room:Cuba Is Making the Crisis in Venezuela Worse. Putting pressure on Caracas means holding Havana accountable.\nSo what more can the Trump administration do to hold Cuba accountable?\nSuspend the working groups between the U.S. and Cuba established by the Obama administration, especially the U.S.-Cuba Law Enforcement Dialogues, which involves intelligence-sharing on counterterrorism, counternarcotics, and other criminal activity. Cuban President Ra\u00fal Castro desperately craves legitimacy through these meetings, even as common sense screams out about their utter incongruity.\nExpand U.S. drug investigations in Venezuela to Cuban officials based there. Venezuela is a full-blown narco-state, with numerous high-ranking officials implicated in facilitating drug shipments from Colombia through Venezuela and on to the United States and Europe. Given Cuba\u2019s intimate standing in Venezuela, it defies belief that some Cuban officials are not likewise complicit.\nOppose Cuba\u2019s participation in the eighth Summit of the Americas, to be held April 13 and 14 in Lima, Peru. Although there has been no word on Cuba\u2019s participation, it attended the 2015 summit with the acquiescence of the Obama administration. Cuba\u2019s ongoing, destructive role in Venezuela merits vociferous opposition on the part of the United States this time around.\nTarget Cubans operating in Venezuela with sanctions. In its first year, the Trump administration sanctioned more than two dozen Venezuelan officials for narcotrafficking, assaults against democracy, and human right abuses. It should extend those sanctions to Cuban officials in Venezuela. While they are not likely to have assets in the United States to be frozen or visas to be withdrawn, sanctions would target their dealings with entities that come into contact with the U.S. financial system. Secondly, the stigma of U.S. sanctions is a powerful psychological tool, especially when targets are named and shamed before the Venezuelan people.\nTo raise the economic costs to Cuba, reactivate Title IV of the 1996 Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity (Libertad) Act, which denies U.S. visas to foreign persons profiting from confiscated property in Cuba claimed by U.S. nationals. In 22 years, the provision has only been invoked a handful of times. Reintroducing this threat will have a chilling effect on the Castro regime\u2019s effort to lure foreign investment in its tourism industry, the Cuban military\u2019s cash cow.\nReturn Cuba to the official list of state sponsors of terrorism. The Obama administration removed Cuba for purely political purposes to facilitate its normalization process, despite there being no evidence the Castro regime had mended its ways (in fact, the evidence points to the contrary).\nThere is very little to be optimistic about regarding Venezuela. Some liken it to an out-of-control bus that needs to crash before anything can be done. But that is an abdication of responsibility by those in a position to prevent such a tragedy and a disservice to the Venezuelan people. Moreover, there will be those who claim the United States has no moral authority to act in preventing the destruction of Venezuela. It\u2019s very likely, however, that not many of them live there.\n\u201cThere is very little to be optimistic about regarding Venezuela. Some liken it to an out-of-control bus that needs to crash before anything can be done.\u201d\nLOL, an out-of-control bus. Just imagine who\u2019s at the steering wheel.\n\u201cMoreover, there will be those who claim the United States has no moral authority to act in preventing the destruction of Venezuela. It\u2019s very likely, however, that not many of them live there.\u201d\nHe doesn\u2019t realize they they don\u2019t live there because of a finely-crafted strategy of not paying the Venezeulan captor, Nicolas Maduro. They\u2019re actually helping average starving Venezuelans by not contributing to the economy in any way whatsoever. Feed a Venezuelan, feed Maduro. 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Those who live a religious life in imitation of Christ's own poverty, chastity and obedience, offer \"a special witness to the gospel of the Kingdom of God,\" Francis said.\nPope Francis said that the year 2015 will be dedicated in a special way to religious life.\nKeywords: Pope Francis, Angelus, World Consecration Day\nLOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - \"Every consecrated person is a gift for the People of God on a journey. There is much need of their presence, that strengthens and renews the commitment to spread the gospel, to Christian education, to charity for the most needy, to contemplative prayer; the commitment to a human and spiritual formation of young people, of families; the commitment to justice and peace in the human family,\" Pope Francis declared.\nTaking into account that February 2 is the World Day for Consecrated Life, the Pope continued, \"consecrated persons are signs of God in diverse environments of life, they are leaven for the growth of a more just and fraternal society, prophecy of sharing with the little and the poor. As such understanding and experience, the consecrated life appears to us just as it really is: a gift of God!\nFind that special gift for that special someone by going here!\n\"What would happen if there were no sisters?\" the pontiff said, departing from his prepared notes. \"Sisters in the hospitals, sisters in the missions, sisters in the schools. one can't imagine it! They are the leaven that carry the people of God forward!\"\n\"The Church and the world have need of this testimony of the love and mercy of God,\" he stressed.\nWhile all Christians are consecrated to God in baptism and all are called to make \"a generous gift of our lives, in the family, at work, in service to the Church, (and) in works of mercy,\" those in religious life experience this consecration \"in a particular way.\n\"Totally consecrated to God, they are totally given over to their brethren, to carry the light of Christ there where the darkness is thickest and to spread his hope to hearts who are discouraged,\" the pontiff said.\n\"It is necessary to value with gratitude the experience of consecrated life and deepen the knowledge of different charisms and spiritualities. We must pray, so that many young people respond 'yes' to the Lord who calls them to consecrate themselves wholly to Him for disinterested service to their brethren.\"\nPope Francis also made special mention of the \"Day for Life\" celebrated in Italy, thanking everyone who works to defend life, \"to accept, respect and promote it, especially when it is fragile and in need of attention and care, from the womb of a mother until its end on this earth.\"\nPope Francis calls for your 'prayer and action'...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 9168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbs58.com/news/in-sign-of-detente-north-korea-skips-annual-anti-us-rally", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DR434XSZLZ2ALRHLD2G3GV2SRIMLJR32", "length": 3963, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.cbs58.com", "title": "In sign of detente, North Korea skips annual anti-US rally", "raw_content": "In sign of detente, North Korea skips annual anti-US rally\nPYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) \u2014 In another sign of detente following the summit between leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump, North Korea has decided to skip one of the most symbolic and politically charged events of its calendar: the annual \"anti-U.S. imperialism\" rally marking the start of the Korean War.\nFist-pumping, flag-waving and slogan-shouting masses of Pyongyang residents normally assemble each year for the rally to kick off a month of anti-U.S., Korean War-focused events designed to strengthen nationalism and unity. It all culminates on July 27, which North Korea celebrates as a national holiday called the day of \"Victory in the Fatherland Liberation War.\"\nLast year's event was held in Kim Il Sung Square with a reported 100,000 people attending. North Korea even issued special anti-U.S. postage stamps.\nOfficials had no on-the-record comment on the decision not to hold the event this year. But Associated Press staff in the North Korean capital confirmed Monday that it would not be held.\nNorth Korea has noticeably toned down its anti-Washington rhetoric over the past several months to create a more conciliatory atmosphere for the summit and avoid souring attempts by both sides to reduce tensions and increase dialogue.\nNorth Korea's state media were filled with reports, photos and video of the June 12 meeting between Trump and Kim in Singapore.\nA 42-minute documentary-style news special was aired on the state television network two days after the summit and has been repeated frequently since, meaning that by now there are probably few North Koreans who are unaware of the changes in the air. For many North Koreans, the program was also quite likely the first time they had ever seen what Trump looks like.\nStill, North Korea's handling of the changes and how it presents them to its people remains highly nuanced.\nSo far, it hasn't said much about what Washington is interested in the most \u2014 denuclearization. But it has made significantly fewer references to its need to have nuclear weapons than it was making last year, when Kim was test-launching long-range missiles at a record pace and tensions with Washington neared the boiling point.\nNorth Korea's decidedly less strident posture these days underscores the delicate position it finds itself in after decades of touting the United States as its archenemy.\nState media referred to Trump quite deferentially in their reports of the summit, calling him by his full name and adding the title of president of the United States of America \u2014 itself a somewhat jarring contrast to the way it normally spits out merely the surname of U.S. officials, with no titles.\nConsidering how its relations with Washington could quickly slip back into acrimony if the difficult process of negotiating denuclearization and the lifting of trade sanctions breaks down, it remains unclear how much, or if at all, North Korea intends to recalibrate its other propaganda and indoctrination efforts.\nGetting rid of all the anti-American propaganda would be a Herculean task.\nThe 1950-53 Korean War, and the devastation the country suffered at the hands of the U.S. and its allies, remain a major part of every North Korean's education.\nNegative portrayals of Americans as big-nosed goblins are a common sight at elementary schools and kindergartens and exhortations to beware of American aggression, deceit and brutality are a staple message of textbooks and at \"class education\" centers around the country. Anti-American slogans can also still be seen in Pyongyang and throughout the countryside, though they are not that numerous.\nAnd while softening its criticism of the current U.S. administration, North Korea has stepped up its attacks on \"capitalist values\" in general \u2014 an oblique warning that its diplomatic outreach to the world should not be taken to mean it's ready to throw away its socialist ideals anytime soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 34839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cejc.ptks.pl/Central-European-Journal-of-Communication-Volume-6-No-1-10-Spring-2013/What-can-the-history-of-communication-studies-tell-usabout-its-practical-relevance-in-th", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:35Z", "digest": "sha1:UTUG4GORUG2KSKHRIC5ZYCU5WRAFSCB2", "length": 1812, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cejc.ptks.pl", "title": "What can the history of communication studies tell us about its practical relevance in the future? The four \u201ccurrencies\u201d of academic success and an alternative chronology of the subject\u2019s development in Germany since 1945 - Central European Journal of Communication", "raw_content": "You are here: Home > List of issues > 2013 > Central European Journal of Communication Volume 6 No 1 (10) Spring 2013 > What can the history of communication studies tell us about its practical relevance in the future? The four \u201ccurrencies\u201d of academic success and an alternative chronology of the subject\u2019s development in Germany since 1945\n(Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany)\nABSTRACT: In German-language communication studies, the long-running debate about the increasingly important practical relevance of the subject is currently being picked up once again. In this article a reflection on the history of the subject since 1945 will be used to formulate a prediction for the possible development of the subject and the practice-related research being undertaken within it. Four basic \u201ccurrencies\u201d of academic success will be drawn upon to do this: reputation, public attention, funding, and evaluation results. These assist in constructing an alternative chronology of the subject, which also demonstrates the social forces which affect the \u201ccurrencies.\u201d This leads to the conclusion that the current incentive structures for each individual scientist in communication studies could lead to a bisection of the subject. One group will orientate itself increasingly on the requirements of modern science-based society and predominantly solve practical problems, while the second group will remain more dedicated to the classic understanding of science.\nKEYWORDS: sociology of science, history of communication studies, Germany, chronology, reputa- tion, practical relevance\nFULL TEXT: What-can-the-history-of-communication-studies-tell-us-about-its-practical-relevance-in-the-future-The-four-currencies-of-academic-success-and-an-alternative-chronology-of-the-subjects-developmen (PDF / 579.34 kb)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.centimark.com/centimark-blog/entry/centimark-veterans-ron-boucher", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7VYC5EFMTDBAEM65CEIA2OXRCFBP2VC3", "length": 742, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.centimark.com", "title": "CentiMark Veterans: Ron Boucher - Blog", "raw_content": "1. Why did you join the military? I couldn't afford to attend college, so the military was the best opportunity for my future.\n2. How does your military experience affect your life today? It helped me to grow as a person. I got out from under my Mom\u2019s care and learned to take responsibility.\n3. What values, freedoms, rights did you feel that you served our country for? Serving your country definitely opens your eyes to those who sacrificed everything we take for granted as Americans. FREEDOM as we know it is NOT FREE. I knew so many good men and women who died for our country. They had families, children and lost everything so that our borders will never ever be invaded. 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Publications - Chapman Tripp", "raw_content": "Home / Publications / Resource Management Reform Bill\nResource-Management-Reform-Bill\n\u200bFurther streamlining of the resource management regime and a new one-off process for preparing the Auckland Unitary Plan were introduced in Parliament yesterday as part of the Resource Management Reform Bill.\nThe omnibus Bill amends the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), the Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Act 2010 and the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987.\nProvisions in the Bill include:\nthe new process for preparing Auckland\u2019s first Unitary Plan (referred to in the Bill as the \u201cAuckland combined plan\u201d), which includes submissions to an independent hearing panel coupled with limited appeal rights\nstreamlining the RMA to introduce a 6-month consenting timeframe for medium-sized projects, and to provide for direct referral of regional projects (based on an investment threshold to be established in regulations).\nThese amendments were signalled in Government announcements in October. Chapman Tripp\u2019s earlier commentary provides further information regarding the Unitary Plan process, and we will be reporting separately in more detail on this aspect of the Bill.\nThe Bill also includes various other changes to the RMA, many of which will affect local authorities and applicants more generally, such as:\nnew s32 report requirements for plans and policy statements, with a greater emphasis on quantitative assessment of costs and benefits and the need to consider regional economic impact and opportunity costs\nchanges to the information required for resource consent applications (including a new Schedule 4), and\namendments relating to timeframes for processing applications and \u201cstopping the clock\u201d.\nAnother tranche of amendments to the RMA is still to come as part of the Government\u2019s wider Phase II reform agenda, with consultation on other changes expected next year.\nRelated topics: Resource management law reform\nPaula Brosnahan; Jo Appleyard; Joanna Bain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlottehungerford.org/2014/01/27/chh-elects-john-janco-as-new-chairman-of-the-board/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZG7I372OGET3GGOSNRCIRNQC7JGDMLO", "length": 1916, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.charlottehungerford.org", "title": "CHH Elects John Janco as New Chairman of the Board - Charlotte Hungerford Hospital", "raw_content": "CHH Elects John Janco as New Chairman of the Board\nJohn E. Janco, President and COO of Torrington Savings Bank, has been elected the new Chairman of the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital Board of Governors for a two-year term beginning in December 2013. Mr. Janco succeeded immediate past chairman John Lavieri, President of Sterling Engineering who completed his second two year-term serving as Chairman in December.\n\u201cI am extremely grateful to Past President John Lavieri for his continuous and unwavering dedication and commitment to our hospital and its employees. I look forward to continuing our exciting progress under John Janco\u2019s leadership whose knowledge and expertise will be an incredible asset to myself and the Board.\u201d said Dan McIntyre, the CHH President and Executive Director\nBefore his recent promotion, Mr. Janco was the Executive VP and CFO of the Torrington Savings Bank where he started as a teller in 1973, and has held a variety of Officer level positions over the years. A Torrington native, he attended Sacred Heart School, Torrington High School, the Connecticut School of Finance and Post College. He also holds his Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of New Haven. Mr. Janco is active in the Torrington community, and is also currently serving as a Board Member and Treasurer of the Torrington Historical Society, BoardMember and Treasurer for the Community Foundation of Northwest Connecticut and President of the Torrington Club. Mr. Janco has also been involved with the United Way, The Torrington Parking Authority, the Torrington Little League, the Sacred Heart Parish Council, Catholic Family Services, Connecticut Bankers Association and the American Institute of Banking. 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But they missed the game.\n\"By then, almost the entire team was homeless,\" reported the Los Angeles Times, which detailed how the Camp Fire ravaged the town of Paradise and left about 90 percent of its students without a home.\nCalifornia businessman and restaurant owner Bob Wilson read the story about the teens - about how they scattered with their families looking for roofs over their heads, about how they were regular kids one day and their lives were upended the next. The school shut down. It was uncertain how the seniors would even graduate.\n\"I felt terrible for them,\" Wilson said in an interview with The Washington Post. \"I couldn't stop thinking, 'How can I help?' \"\nSo he took out his checkbook and wrote a $1,000 check - then another and another and another - 1,085 of them in all. He wrote one for each student, teacher, administrator, custodian and bus driver from Paradise High School. And he delivered them personally on Giving Tuesday.\n\"Good intentions are just good intentions unless you act on them,\" said Wilson, an 89-year-old real estate developer who co-owns a chain of Fish Market restaurants and shuttles between homes in Los Angeles and San Diego.\nAs every day goes by, searchers are finding fewer human remains in the rubble of California\u2019s deadliest wildfire.\nAt the same time, they are slowly narrowing the list of the missing, which on Monday stood at 203 yet still down by about 1,000 from last week.\nBut amid this work, authorities are coming...\nWilson spent hours in his Los Angeles office stuffing envelopes with checks - worth a total of $1.1 million - and placed them into two suitcases before traveling more than 500 miles to the city of Chico, near Paradise, to hand them out. He had one for each of the school's 980 students and 105 teachers, administrators, custodians and bus drivers. He does not otherwise have a connection to Paradise.\nParadise students haven't been able to return to school since Nov. 8, when the Camp Fire raged through Northern California, killing nearly 90 people, destroying 14,000 homes and sending residents fleeing for their lives. Over the weekend, officials said they had finally contained the fire. Paradise students will resume classes Monday in a Chico shopping mall, 15 miles away.\nWilson said he was touched by their story because he imagined himself as a teenager - looking forward to the football playoffs, excited about prom - but then losing everything.\n\"It's hard to think of anything more difficult than losing your home and everything you own, especially when you're enjoying your high school years,\" he said.\nMoita Lindgren, a nurse and mother of three, had the recipe picked out long in advance of Thanksgiving.\nHer father-in-law, Papa Forrest, had died this summer at age 76. Someone would have to make the vegetarian stuffing he prepared every year, a favorite of her children. Luckily, Lindgren had taken...\nWilson was concerned that if he wrote a check to a charity it might take too long to reach victims of the fire, so he delivered the checks himself, no strings attached, no questions asked.\nHe thought $1,000 would help students buy new clothes, shoes and laptops, or they could choose to give the money to their parents for gas, groceries and other expenses.\n\"I decided that if I could just put a smile on their faces and give them the freedom to do whatever they wanted with the money, that would make me happy,\" he said.\nWilson's own teen years were the best time of his life, he said, especially his senior year on the football team at Escondido High School near San Diego.\nRaised on a small farm with two siblings, \"my high school experience was the first, last and only carefree time I've ever known,\" said Wilson, who graduated in 1947. \"Sports, dances and hanging out. That's what high school is about.\"\nParadise High School Principal Loren Lighthall said he was overwhelmed by Wilson's generosity.\n\"What he's done is awesome. This puts money into people's hands right now, and it pumps more than a million dollars into the economy,\" Lighthall said. \"Over 90 percent of the homes in Paradise burned down, so our kids are super excited to get these checks. Really, it's all they're talking about.\"\nWilson handed out the checks Tuesday evening at a pizza party held at Chico High School. He pointed out that only half of the money came from him; the other half is from his 90-year-old wife, Marion Wilson, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease.\n\"She no longer knows me, and she doesn't know the dog,\" he said, \"but I'm not going to say, 'Woe is me.' I can't do one thing about it. But I can do something to help the kids in Paradise.\"\nStudents found a letter from Wilson tucked inside their envelopes, wrapped around each check.\nThe notes read, in part:\n\"My age would probably place you not as a grandchild, but a great-grandchild if you were part of my family. Please know that you are not alone, as someone as far away as San Diego is rooting for you and has the firm belief that tomorrow will be better than today.\"\nFirst published on The Washington Post", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 6262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.churchproduction.com/news/sony-unveils-second-generation-of-optical-disc-archive/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:18Z", "digest": "sha1:DIWP7MSAJZ4BODJIRKT5DJQVUCLF76DM", "length": 3504, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.churchproduction.com", "title": "Sony Unveils Second Generation of Optical Disc Archive - Church Production Magazine", "raw_content": "Home News Sony Unveils Second Generation of Optical Disc Archive\nSony Unveils Second Generation of Optical Disc Archive\nNew high-performance hardware and media double transfer speeds and increase storage capacity to 3.3 TB\nSony is unveiling the second generation of its Optical Disc Archive System, which adopts a new, high-capacity optical media developed jointly by Sony and Panasonic. This newest media, rated with a 100-year shelf life, doubles the capacity of a single cartridge to 3.3 TB. Generation 2 of Optical Disc Archive System also introduces an eight-channel optical drive unit, doubling read/write speeds over the previous generation, accommodating 4K video in real time and meeting the users' increasing data storage needs.\nSony's press release states, \u201cOptical Disc Archive, launched in 2013, is widely used by broadcasters, sports organizations, corporations, schools and production companies. It delivers reliable long-term storage and provides stable operations with efficient power consumption. Continuing its open platform approach for wider compatibility, Sony is providing technologies and support to encourage other manufacturers to develop supporting products for Optical Disc Archive. Currently, 42 companies have announced their support and have created interfaces for Optical Disc Archive.\u201d\nOptical Disc Archive technology is designed for use in near-line applications, deep archive storage or disaster recovery systems. Hardware configurations range from stand-alone to large, scalable robotic archive systems. The main components of Optical Disc Archive Generation 2 include: a stand-alone USB drive unit (ODS-D280U), an 8 GB fiber channel library drive unit (ODS-D280F), for use in robotic systems, and the Optical Disc Archive media cartridge (ODC3300R).\n\u201cOptical Disc Archive is one of our most modular technologies,\u201d says Ellen Heine, Marketing Manager at Sony Electronics. \u201cIt can scale from a tabletop drive accepting a single cartridge at a time up to a library that supports petabytes of data. This technology crosses a number of markets and applications, and can be tailored to meet the unique requirements of individual organizations.\u201d\nAcceptance of Optical Disc Archive is growing as Sony introduces the following new customers:\nAlabama Public TV APTV (US), ATM Grupa (Poland), ATV (Turkey), Beijing Television (China), Capitol Broadcast (US), Carolina Panthers (US), China Central Television (China), China Education Television (China), KUAC-TV (US), National Film Board of Canada (Canada), San Marino RTV (San Marino), Sun TV Network Limited (India), Universit\u00e4t Mozarteum Salzburg (Austria), Wells Fargo (US), WRAL (US).\nThe release also states that Sony Pictures Television (US) is also planning to use an automated workflow to employ Optical Disc Archive as the primary archival medium for original camera negatives. ZDF (Germany) will evaluate a small Generation 2 library as a candidate technology for future solutions.\nSony Optical Archive Inc. (US), a fully owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation, recently announced a new library system called Everspan, saying the new system incorporates the newest optical media and new drives for large-scale robotic systems targeted specifically at data centers. The new stand-alone USB Drive Unit (model ODS-D280U), fiber-channel library drive unit (model ODS-D280F) and Optical Disc Archive Cartridge (model ODC3300R) are planned to be available in summer 2016.\nIndustry Buzz Product Announcements video storage Sony", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cinemablend.com/games/1654699/fire-emblem-echoes-shadows-of-valentia-season-pass-costs-more-than-the-game", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:37Z", "digest": "sha1:GCAGLX4S3OV424LVTE3FJ5SJCGD2GIL7", "length": 3572, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cinemablend.com", "title": "Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia Season Pass Costs More Than The Game", "raw_content": "Subscribe To Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia Season Pass Costs More Than The Game Updates\nFire Emblem Echoes: Shadows Of Valentia Season Pass Costs More Than The Game\nYet another Fire Emblem game is heading to the 3DS this month, loaded with hours upon hours of exploration and battles. But no matter how big Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia turns out to be, Nintendo has big plans for the game post-launch, too. The unexpected part is that all of that extra content will actually cost more than the game itself.\nAnnounced earlier this year, Fire Emblem fans were ecstatic to learn that Shadows of Valentia would be heading to the 3DS on May 19. With the game's launch only a couple of weeks out, though, today we have learned that May 19 is the same day the game's DLC will start rolling out, too.\nNintendo sent out a press release this morning explaining that Shadows of Valentia will boast five major DLC packs, which are set to start rolling out day one. But while the game itself is set to cost $39.99, you can spend another $44.99 if you want to land yourself a season pass to the DLC. Obviously, that's ruffling a few feathers.\nNintendo is only just getting into this whole DLC game in recent years, and they seem to have learned the ropes from some of the worst practices in the business. No matter how much DLC you're offering, nobody likes to be asked, up front, to pay for a bunch of extra content when they haven't even played the original game yet. And, while we definitely prefer having a clear outline of the DLC plan before dropping more money on it, having as many details as Nintendo is offering tends to beg the question, why does it feel like we're being asked to pay for content you've already got ready to release alongside the game? The fact that almost all of the DLC will be available about a month after the core game launches isn't really helping matters, either.\nEither way, nobody is forcing anybody to buy the DLC, it just feels a bit odd to have a season pass that costs more than the core game. And if you were to buy the DLC piece meal, you'd be spending 30 percent more.\nAs for what you'll be getting, here's a brief rundown of the five packs. Once you take a gander at that, it's up to you to decide if it's worth another 45 bucks.\nDLC Pack #1 -- Fledgling Warriors Pack (May 19, $7.99, three pieces of content): Ideal for early- to mid-game adventurers, this pack includes a new dungeon (The Astral Temple) and two new maps, great for gaining more items, money and experience points.\nDLC Pack #2 -- Undaunted Heroes Pack (May 25, $9.99, three pieces of content): In addition to a new dungeon (The Inner Sanctum), this pack also includes two challenging new maps that stronger, more seasoned heroes will want to tackle.\nDLC Pack #3 -- Lost Altars Pack (May 25, $14.99, 10 pieces of content): The mysterious dungeons included in this pack hold the power to upgrade characters to exclusive classes that don't appear in the main game.\nDLC Pack #4 -- Rise of the Deliverance Pack (June 1, $12.99, four pieces of content): Discover the previously untold history of Valentia in this Prologue pack. Complete with new story content and additional voice acting that details the rise of the Deliverance in Zofia, this collection of challenging maps includes new support conversations between selected heroes, as well as the ability to take command of a character players won't be able to control in the main game.\nDLC Pack #5 ($5.99, two pieces of content): More information about this final DLC pack will be revealed in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.circa.com/story/2016/12/15/scitech/imagine-being-able-to-charge-your-phone-with-the-clothes-youre-wearing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:35Z", "digest": "sha1:PRVBLJVJEX5SK4SA4KVUDYJTAPUBHD3V", "length": 2511, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.circa.com", "title": "Imagine being able to charge your phone with the clothes you're wearing", "raw_content": "A team of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technolgy has developed a fabric that can generate energy from the sun and motion. (Georgia Institute of Technology)\nImagine being able to charge your phone with the clothes you're wearing\nWATCH | A team of scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a fabric that can generate electricity from the sun and motion.\nGT researchers make fabric that uses sun & wind to generate electricity. #WeCanDoThat | https://t.co/UYjaGIRsah pic.twitter.com/bmoKHFhVIx\n\u2014 Georgia Tech (@GeorgiaTech) September 14, 2016\nThis Georgia Tech tweet shows a sample of the fabric.\nFlexible, breathable, lightweight\nDr. Zhong Lin Wang, a professor at the Georgia Tech School of Materials Science and Engineering, explained that his team used a commercial textile machine to weave together solar cells and lightweight, low-cost polymer fibers.\nThe fabric is flexible, breathable and lightweight, so it can be used for a wide range of things.\nIt's capable of creating a small amount of electric power from movement.\nOff-the-grid power\nMost of the materials, such as copper and wool, are fairly cheap to incorporate into the fabric. The most expensive material is the dye molecule, which is needed for solar energy conversion.\n\"That costs more, so if we want to make this really commercially viable, we have to reduce the cost for the dye molecule so the whole cost can be reduced,\" Wang explained. Wang says the fabric could be integrated into tents, curtains or wearable garments so people can charge electronics when they're off the grid.\nEnough to charge a phone on a cloudy day\nDuring testing, researchers attached a piece of fabric the size of a sheet of paper to a rod and held it out a window while driving to determine how much power could be generated on a cloudy day.\nTests showed a piece of the fabric could charge a commercial capacitor to two volts in a minute using sunlight and energy. So while that's not a ton of electricity, it could be enough to give your phone some charge.\n2-3 years away for consumer use\nWang said the test indicated that the fabric is usable in harsh environments because they were able to generate a decent amount of energy, despite the lack of sunlight.\nOne major roadblock still remains: The fabric can't be washed. Wang says the next step is developing a way to protect the electrical components of the fabric from moisture.\nThe fabric will likely be incorporated into consumer products within the next two or three years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 5593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cityandguildsgroup.com/whats-happening/our-views-and-opinions/opportunities-and-risks-corporate-learning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ULJ56YLU3HPWHBP4OF4RVSS7N6HIZVOQ", "length": 6562, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.cityandguildsgroup.com", "title": "Opportunities and risks for corporate learning | City & Guilds Group", "raw_content": "Opportunities and risks for corporate learning\nIt\u2019s a changing world for skills development \u2013 in further and higher education, but also in the corporate learning sphere. Shifts in funding, global labour markets and technology are keeping us all on our toes. How are we responding and what\u2019s likely to be around the corner?\nThat was the theme of a discussion panel I took part in recently for the Education Investor Summit 2016. Along with fellow leaders in learning and development \u2013 Jonathan Satchell, Mike Feerick and Guy Cooper \u2013 I explored issues around the present and future for corporate learning. The following are questions that were put to the panel - but what are you seeing, and what would your responses be?\n\u2018Which models of learning delivery are currently popular?\u2019\nBlends remain popular and are becoming the norm for workplace learning. It\u2019s understood now that face to face training on its own isn\u2019t always the answer, nor is a long online course. A big chunk of what we learn happens on the job rather than in a training intervention. The City & Guilds Group\u2019s latest research \u2013 Skills Confidence 2016 - revealed that 68% of UK workers name on the job learning as their preferred method. But there is still a mismatch between terms \u2013 learners typically ask for \u2018training\u2019 even though they understand the value of \u2018on the job development\u2019.\nOur client base is global and we see different trends in different parts of the world. That usually revolves around the speed of change. For instance, the US market is moving much more quickly towards cloud-based solutions, using a stripped down learning management system (LMS). In the UK businesses are tending to move towards integrated talent pipeline management systems, taking an end to end view from recruitment through to on the job development.\n\u2018How will business training needs change over the next five years?\u2019\nPerhaps we should change the question here: we are no longer talking about business training \u2013 we need to shift our perspective. Instead we should start with the outcome we\u2019re seeking, for the learner and for the business. The City & Guilds Group\u2019s purpose is to help people and organisations to develop their skills for personal and economic growth \u2013 this is a better starting point.\nWe\u2019re seeing a greater focus on learning revolving around the learner and driven by not just the learners\u2019 needs but their expectations. We\u2019re calling it the Martini model \u2013 learners want to access content anytime, anyplace, anywhere. L&D needs to meet this challenge \u2013 whether that means creating responsive digital content that\u2019s accessible on any device, or allowing learners to create their own personalised blends.\nIt must all be related to measurable business outcomes, though. Organisations should work to measure the success of different learning methods \u2013 and to evaluate what they offer according to the results they see.\n\u2018Is in-house training becoming more common?\u2019\nPerhaps there is a move towards the development of the tools to allow more self-authoring and increasing capabilities to allow clients to create content and courses themselves. But of course, someone still has to develop the tools, someone has to train the professionals.\n\u2018Is the rise of MOOCs, nanodegrees and accreditation platforms a threat for traditional corporate training providers?\u2019\nIt depends where you sit on the value chain. There is no doubt in my mind that \u2018micro learning\u2019 is a trend \u2013 these are modular, bite-sized interventions at the point of need from a wider range of sources. Increasingly these are user generated \u2013 think of how-to videos on YouTube. Rather than see these as a threat, corporate training providers can effectively curate this content and incorporate these trends into what they deliver \u2013 for instance, social learning and networking tools as an add-on to a traditional LMS.\nAccreditation and badging are a central strategic pillar to LinkedIn\u2019s acquisition of Lynda.com. But we\u2019re still waiting to see how such accreditation platforms and badging will be monetised \u2013 LinkedIn has taken a risk that professionals will be prepared to pay for their own development.\nLinkedIn is not the only company embracing the rise of badging. The City & Guilds Group recently announced its acquisition of Makewaves and sister company Digitalme, which designs credentials using open badges to recognise individuals\u2019 skills and talent, and works with employers, training providers and schools across the world.\n\u2018What are the exporting opportunities like for British L&D providers?\u2019\nI\u2019m less convinced about the opportunity to export products per se \u2013 it\u2019s more about exporting standards, tools and capabilities. What\u2019s interesting is the ability to learn from one country that is perhaps a little further on the elearning development journey and to leverage that model into markets that demonstrate the right growth prospects.\n\u2018Is the introduction of the apprenticeship levy a threat or an opportunity?\u2019\nIt\u2019s both an opportunity and a threat, from the point of view of providers and employers. At the moment policy is not clear and this is creating uncertainty in the market. Once the policy is clear, corporate training providers will be able to create solutions that meet the market demand. We need to make sure that we are still delivering a quality product aligned to business needs.\nGrasping the opportunities\nIt\u2019s a bit of a truism that change is the only constant, but that\u2019s certainly how it feels in corporate learning. We are not using the terms \u2018elearning\u2019 or \u2018training\u2019 so much anymore. Instead we talk about learning and development \u2013 whatever the delivery channel.\nThe locus of responsibility for career development seems to have shifted much more towards individuals rather than employers. And responsibility for workplace effectiveness has shifted away from L&D towards HRDs and line managers.\nThis change has been facilitated by both technology advances (devices, bandwidth, speed) and the growing ubiquity of free, quality content. In a sense, learners have become empowered and encouraged to develop themselves, whenever and wherever they happen to be. We must adapt to provide them with the means to do so. And to do this we must not only adapt our portfolio, but our mind-set and approach as well.\nMatt Johnson is the Managing Director of Kineo, a City & Guilds Group business.\nMatt Johnson is the Managing Director of Kineo, a City & Guilds Group business. Kineo is a corporate learning solutions provider which helps businesses improve performance through learning and technology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 8150, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.citylab.com/design/2012/09/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-cities/3167/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:00Z", "digest": "sha1:54P3LOQMUVW6XCPPI5SLS7XQ4IWSR7HS", "length": 10005, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.citylab.com", "title": "What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities - CityLab", "raw_content": "What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities\nOn cities, sustainable placemaking, and the careful use of words.\nI\u2019ve been clean and sober for 20 months now and still counting. Lest you think that I am about to take you down a path of Too Much Information, please join me in lifting a beverage of choice to celebrate that it has been at least that long since I last used the word \"vibrant\" in my writing. I won\u2019t speak for everyone, but for me the word had become so overused in expressing what smart growth and urban advocates seek in communities that it had become annoying at best, lazy and hackneyed at worst, stripped of fresh meaning by repetition. Enough already.\nBut it was also more than that: I\u2019m not even sure that vibrancy is always a desired outcome. Merriam-Webster defines vibrant as\n(1): oscillating or pulsating rapidly (2): pulsating with life, vigor, or activity \nWhile the second of those meanings certainly describes one kind of place (or person, for that matter) that can be very desirable in the right context, I don\u2019t buy that lively places are inherently superior to calm ones as locations to live, work and visit. We should support vibrant cities and neighborhoods, yes, but we should strive to preserve and create serene ones, too.\nSo, for several reasons I remain done with the word. More about vocabulary in a minute but, first, a personal detour:\nAcquiring fresh perspective\nWith today\u2019s article, I\u2019m coming off a three-week break from writing, the first such intermission I have taken in five years. It has felt a little weird, to be honest. I\u2019ve actually discerned a hint of what people may mean when they speak of this phenomenon called \"free time.\" But I have needed the break, because my almost-daily writing was feeling a bit routine, a bit of a chore, and that\u2019s not what I want: quite beyond the lazy overuse of any one word, the last thing I want is for this space to become repetitive or predictable.\nPhoto by Urban Grammar/Flickr\nI don\u2019t want just to advocate, to promote ideas that are already part of established agendas. Instead, I want to probe and explore, to challenge and stretch my own thinking along with that of my readers. I\u2019ve expressed before my concern that advocacy in the world of placemaking and smart growth has become a bit stale, a bit 20th-century, (more than) a bit too reluctant to admit mistakes or uncertainties, to absorb new knowledge, and to evolve with experience.\nIndeed, a reluctance to admit mistakes and uncertainties is built into the job of advocacy if one doesn\u2019t guard against it: conventional approaches, especially in the worlds of law and policy, tend to encourage advocates to act 100 percent certain about things we frequently have reason to be less than 100 percent certain about. That doesn\u2019t mean that being 70 or 80 percent confident about something isn\u2019t ever good enough to justify a definite point of view, but I believe that those of us in the business of trying to make the world a better place should be not just advocates but also thinkers and truth-seekers. It is important to acknowledge and honor that 20 or 30 (or whatever) percent of doubt.\nThe hazards of \u201curbanism\u201d\nIf you're still with me, thanks for tolerating that bit of self-indulgence. Now, back to vocabulary: as a lover of words and language, I am always thinking about their meaning and best use. And I now believe it may be time to send \"urbanism\" to the same literary retirement as \"vibrant.\" To readers who come from the environmental world, it may seem a bit strange to question a term than no one in that world ever uses in the first place. But I also have a foot in the realm of city planning and architecture, where it has a great deal of currency. The goal of avoiding the word may prove a challenge: a search of my archives reveals that I have used urbanism or urbanist in over 300 previous blog entries (\u201cvibrant\u201d clocked in at 51, if you\u2019re wondering). I may not be able to swear off its use altogether.\nWhile I am definitely pro-city, my first problem with urbanism is that in some circles it has taken on the air of a cult, providing a verbal badge of identification. The word carries an assumption not just that adherents love and promote cities but also subscribe to a growing code of written and unwritten precepts and rules about how our built environment should be organized \u2013 starting but not ending with density, gridded streets, mixed uses, priority to pedestrians rather than drivers, and so on. The details can get pretty elaborate. Although, in any given situation, I probably subscribe to at least 80 percent of those rules, and to a much higher percentage of the most basic ones, I don\u2019t want to be defined by them. I would rather discuss what makes a particular solution appropriate to a particular situation than apply a formula; I would rather articulate and include the 20 percent or so of deviation, if you will, in my thinking and writing. I also believe that, just as the principles of smart growth have gotten stale, so have the overlapping principles of urbanism. Overly familiar vocabulary can lead to overly familiar thinking.\n(I should interject here that the Congress for the New Urbanism, of which I have been a member for going on 15 years, as well as an occasional volunteer and partner, has an elaborate set of principles defining what good urbanism is, starting with a brilliantly conceived founding charter. I won\u2019t discuss here all the subsequent expositions of \"the\" new urbanism, but that charter \u2013 about as long as this blog post \u2013 remains perhaps the most articulate statement I have seen to date describing how the built environment can be organized to support sustainability. I\u2019m in, and my career would not be the same without the many lessons I have absorbed from CNU and its practitioners. But the charter\u2019s implementation has been messy: to the extent I have quarrels with some examples of new urbanism as actually practiced, and I certainly do, it is not with the ideals in that initial document but with the occasional distortion of those ideals in the real world of money and opportunity. New urbanism can also be incomplete as a system, placing less emphasis on environmental and social values than on the physical form of settlement.)\nUrbanism about 30 miles from the disinvested city of St. Louis \u201cagrarian\" strain, and more. Various versions of the label are used to justify everything from illegally spray-painting public property to development in places that no sensible person would honestly consider \u201curban\u201d unless they have drunk gallons of metaphorical Kool-Aid. I could define urbanism in my own way and probably be perfectly comfortable with the result. But communication is about using words in ways that are not just personal but understood in common, and this one has now splattered all over the map, including in ways that I find troubling.\nBut perhaps an even bigger problem with \u201curbanism\u201d is that the word is ridiculously overused. A lot of us have been invested in it. Indeed, a search on Amazon for books associated with urbanism now produces over two thousand titles. It comes in a bewildering variety of forms \u2013 old, new, sustainable, tactical, landscape, pop-up, accidental, adaptive, emergent, Latino, recombinant, magical, integral, green, military, \"true,\" everyday, postmodern, guerilla, mobile, even an oxymoronic\nOther \u201cisms\u201d and my hopes for this blog\nI should add that I\u2019m not really thrilled with \u201cenvironmentalism,\u201d either, for similar reasons. There\u2019s no way I would be in my line of work if I didn\u2019t believe in respecting nature and the bundle of values that we associate with \u201cthe environment.\u201d But that doesn\u2019t mean that I think the strongest course of action to protect the environment is easy to define \u2013 indeed, sometimes protecting one aspect of the environment means allowing some impact to another \u2013 or should always trump other values.\nI want this blog \u2013 this is post number 1,125 \u2013 to be not about advocating any script or preset system of belief but instead about thought, the pursuit of truth and, yes, sometimes about finding a balance among the various competing interests \u2013 planetary health, local environmental health, individual aspirations, community, solitude, economy, equity, the whole messy gumbo \u2013 that, pretend as we may, cannot always be aligned when it comes to cities, neighborhoods or the environment. \"Isms\" of any sort can get in the way of those objectives.\nWhen I first joined NRDC 31 years ago, I considered myself lucky just to have a job that allowed me to advocate \"the environmental point of view.\" Now, though, I feel more responsibility, including a duty to consider, shape and, yes, even question what that point of view should be.\nI also want this blog to be about humor, discovery and the celebration of great work and provocative new approaches to challenges. It will certainly continue to be\nImage courtesy of Sean Lamb/Creative Commons about images as much as words \u2013 that makes for twice as much work, but it\u2019s how I like to communicate. (By the way, if you aren\u2019t reading this on my home blog site, you may not be seeing all the images I select to illustrate a given article, and you may be seeing a different headline than I would choose. Other sites exercise their own editorial judgment.)\nAnd, frankly, sometimes my writing will just be about a whim that interests me and that I hope will interest you. I can\u2019t thank my readers enough for supporting my work and engaging in dialogue on how to keep improving our cities, towns, regions and neighborhoods. Not to mention all the writers and thinkers whose work inspires and teaches me \u2013 there are many. On some level, this is about keeping a broad conversation going and helping each other figure out the solutions to the puzzle. Let\u2019s keep at it.\nOh \u2013 one more thing: for the record, I\u2019m about 80 percent confident in what I wrote above. See you next time.\nRendering of a plan for Portsmouth, Va. 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Some of the most important include the exchange of CO2 and the partitioning of surface energy into latent and sensible heat fluxes. The sensitivity of the terrestrial biosphere to climate and atmospheric chemistry result in the biosphere and atmosphere behaving as a coupled system, with the potential for strong positive and negative feedbacks. Anthropogenic disturbance of natural ecosystems, climate, and atmospheric chemistry is currently changing this coupled system over much of Earth\u2019s land surface. Understanding the coupled behaviour of the terrestrial biosphere and atmosphere is therefore a key research priority, not least because of the major role of terrestrial ecosystem in the global carbon cycle, but also because of the significance of surface characteristics for local and regional climate through biogeophysical effects.\nThe HYBRID model is a detailed global model of terrestrial ecosystem dynamics. It is being used to understand the influence of climate and atmospheric CO2 variability on the distribution of vegetation types, productivity, and carbon stored in plants and soils. Components have been used to develop the land surface model of the GISS GCM modelE, and the model is currently being used in a number of projects, including IPCC assessments of climate change impacts for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and for various projects within the GREENCYCLESII Marie Curie Initial Training Network.\nGREENCYCLES II project overview. Atmosphere-biosphere interactions. [Credit: Bethan Jones & Andrew Friend, 2013]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 5216, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.climbing.com/.amp/news/a-necessary-evolution-michaela-kiersch-and-paige-claassen-send-necessary-evil/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:15Z", "digest": "sha1:BTK67P3OEAQXCRD6N22674DXDGODA7GE", "length": 8226, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.climbing.com", "title": "A Necessary Evolution: Michaela Kiersch and Paige Claassen Send Necessary Evil (5.14c) | Climbing Magazine", "raw_content": "A Necessary Evolution: Michaela Kiersch and Paige Claassen Send Necessary Evil (5.14c)\nKiersch and Claassen climb a venerable American testpiece\nBy James Lucas , Feb 13, 2018\nPaige Claassen hits the slot hold on Necessary Evil (5.14c) in the Virgin River Gorge, Arizona.\nTara Kerzhner\nLast week, February 7 marked the 32nd annual Women and Girls in Sport Day, a nationwide observance to acknowledge female athletes' accomplishments. While people across the country recognized achievements in organized sports, climbers saw yet another push in the standards of women\u2019s climbing. The week saw 40 women entering the open category at USA Climbing (USAC) Bouldering Nationals, fighting for the title of the nation\u2019s strongest boulderer. More notably, Michaela Kiersch and Paige Claassen climbed Necessary Evil, a 5.14c at the Virgin River Gorge (VRG), one of the benchmark routes in American sport climbing, with their ascents coming less than 24 hours apart. Kiersch ticked the climb on February 6, then Claassen sent the next day.\nThe history of hard female climbing dates back to the first woman to put on climbing shoes, but for 5.14+ climbing at the VRG, it goes back to April 2001, when French professional climber Liv Sansoz walked under the I-15 bridge and up to the Blasphemy Wall, the home to one of the hardest routes in the country at the time, Necessary Evil (5.14c). It is a singular, striking line up the belly of the wall, climbing impeccable orange- and black-streaked limestone that tilts a few degrees past vertical.\nIn 1989, Salt Lake City climber Boone Speed placed 11 bolts on the wall, hoping for a \u201cmoderate 5.13\u201d route. \u201cI was mistaken,\u201d he said after bolting what would later become one of the hardest routes in America. The tiny crimps proved extremely difficult. \u201cThat was kind of the culmination of the idea that the hardest routes have the smallest holds,\u201d said Speed. In 1997, a teenage Chris Sharma completed the first ascent, linking the opening V10 boulder problem into the redpoint crux, a low-percentage move to a slot 40 feet off the ground. Despite the easy access, 90 miles west of Las Vegas and a few minutes\u2019 hike from the highway, Necessary Evil has only seen 17 recorded ascents in over 20 years. The number of ascensionists is small compared to newer routes like Golden Ticket (5.14c) and Lucifer (5.14c) in the Red River Gorge. \u201cNecessary Evil has really hard footwork, small holds, and is mentally difficult,\u201d says Jonathan Siegrist, who redpointed the route in 2011. \u201cIt\u2019s not the type of skill or strength you can develop in the gym.\u201d\nBack in 2001, Sansoz began working the easier version of the climb, Route of All Evil (5.14a), which skips the initial boulder problem, coming in at the move to the slot. After she dispatched Route of All Evil, she began working the boulder-problem introduction on the harder climb. \u201cI was extremely close to sending it,\u201d she says. On one attempt, she sent the boulder problem but cut her finger on a sharp crimp. The blood caused her to slip on the move to the slot. \u201cI had really no doubt I was going to send the route. It was just a question of tries and days,\u201d she says. After her strong attempt, she returned to the VRG with a glued finger. Her friends had left, and so she climbed with a new partner, who accidentally dropped her on a warm-up on the right side of the wall. The fall injured her back and ended her chance for a first female ascent of the American benchmark.\nIn 2014, professional climber Paige Claassen, then 23, of Estes Park, Colorado, began trying Necessary Evil. For a month, she attempted the route, waking at 5 a.m. to beat the 80-degree spring temps. She quickly figured out the lower boulder problem but fell on the redpoint crux move to the slot. \u201cThe Route of All Evil crux is V10,\u201d says Mike Doyle, who fell on that move 58 times before his 2014 ascent of Necessary. \u201cYou just have to do a V10 a little tired. If you\u2019re strong, it\u2019s easy. If you\u2019re weak\u2026it\u2019s hard.\u201d Indeed, strong boulderers have redpointed Necessary Evil in very few tries: Daniels Woods made an ascent in 2006 on his sixth; Ethan Pringle climbed it in four tries in 2007, after he sent Route of All Evil three years earlier; and Adam Ondra completed the route in three tries over 45 minutes in 2015. Claassen's resume was strong: She'd made the first ascent of Digital Warfare (5.14a) in South Africa in 2013 and an ascent of Grand Ole Opry (5.14b) at the Monastery, Colorado, in September 2010. Later that summer, she'd redpoint Just Do It (5.14c) on Smith Rock\u2019s Monkey Face, the first 5.14c in America. Still, she struggled on the slot move. \u201cI fell about 50 times on the move that [2014] trip,\u201d Claassen says.\nMichaela Kiersch on Necessary Evil.\nOn January 14, 23-year-old Chicago native Michaela Kiersch walked under the I-15 bridge toward the Blasphemy Wall. Bouldering strong after a recent trip to Hueco where she flashed Diaphanous Sea (V11) and climbed Crown of Aragorn (V13), Kiersch made quick work of the initial boulder-problem crux. At the end of her first day, she was falling at the redpoint crux, going into the slot. She tried the route up to four times a day, but fell over a dozen times at the low-percentage move. On one attempt, she hit the slot but then fell adjusting her hand, dry-firing. Then she hit the slot, made the next clip, and dry-fired moving off the slot. With bad skin and a prior commitment beckoning, she left the VRG, walking back under the \u201cYou Suck\u201d graffiti scrawled on the highway overpass. She got in her car and traveled four hours north to Salt Lake City.\nWhile Kiersch fought for a solid eleventh place finish at USAC Bouldering Nationals, climbing against a stacked field of female competitors, Claassen stuck the boulder-problem introduction and stabbed at the redpoint-crux slot. Shortly after Kiersch had arrived, Claassen had returned to the VRG to try the route. During the fall and winter season, she had been working full-time in South Africa with her husband on their grape farm. With only an hour a day to climb/train, Claassen had focused on training for the route, joining Kiersch and a strong field of women at the VRG.\n\u201cFemale participation in climbing has definitely increased in the past ten years,\u201d says five-time national sport climbing champion and professional climber Emily Harrington, who along with Tara Kerzhner was working the bouldery Don\u2019t Call Me Dude (5.13c) just a dozen feet left of Necessary Evil while Kiersch and Claassen put in their attempts. Indeed the \u201cslaydies\u201d outnumbered the men at the Blasphemy Wall. \u201cClimbing is a pretty welcoming and positive thing for females right now,\u201d Harrington says, discussing how some of the tokenism of climbing has dissipated, creating a healthier, more supportive environment where \u201cthe rising tide lifts all of us.\u201d\nOn February 6, at around 9 a.m. with highs in the upper seventies, Michaela Kiersch made the first female ascent of Necessary Evil. This is Kiersch\u2019s seventh route of the grade and her first one outside of the steep sandstone of the Red River Gorge. Earlier this year, she made the first ascent of Goldilocks, a 5.14b at the RRG\u2019s Gold Coast. Less than 24 hours after Kiersch\u2019s ascent, Claassen redpointed Necessary Evil, completing a hard-fought life goal.\nThe past twelve months have seen a flurry of women\u2019s accomplishments, with Margo Hayes\u2019s Feb 17, 2017, first female ascent of La Rambla at Siurana, Spain, the first 5.15a for a woman. On September 6, 2017, Anak Verhoeven made the first ascent of Sweet Neuf at Pierrot Beach in France, completing the hardest first ascent by a woman. And then in October 2017, the Austrian Angy Eiter climbed La Planta de Shiva, the first 5.15b redpointed by a woman. \u201cClimbing is becoming obsolete for men,\u201d says Claassen. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to become a women\u2019s-only sport.\u201d\nTurbo Charged: The Remarkable Energy and Drive of Michaela...\nMichaela Kiersch Ticks Two More Red River Gorge 5.14c's\nPhoto Gallery: Michaela Kiersch, Tom Randall, Alexander...\nPaige Claassen Sends Just Do It (5.14c)\nWatch Michaela Kiersch's Journey to Send The Golden Ticket...\nVideo: Michaela Kiersch Makes the First Female Ascent of...\nClaassen, DiGiulian Send New 5.14s in South Africa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 10971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cloverdalereporter.com/business/opposition-strong-to-expanded-farmland-uses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:05Z", "digest": "sha1:3ONPFSWBO6LSWIM3HG2CK3KMFO7ARBDL", "length": 2924, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cloverdalereporter.com", "title": "Opposition strong to expanded farmland uses \u2013 Cloverdale Reporter", "raw_content": "The popular ideas for Agricultural Land Reserve changes were to allow breweries and distilleries, as well as leasing farms\nAllowing breweries and distilleries on farmland\nThe B.C. government\u2019s proposals to expand food processing, retail and alcohol sales on farmland got a rough ride during a summer consultation tour with farmers, local governments and individuals invited to comment.\nThe agriculture ministry released a summary of submissions this week, after closed-door meetings in August with community, farming, ranching and agricultural industry representatives. The meetings were set up to develop regulations after the province passed legislation this spring, dividing the Agricultural Land Reserve into two zones with the intent of easing restrictions on farm-related and non-farm revenue activities.\nA proposal to revise regulations restricting food storage, processing and retail sales, requiring half of products to be produced on the farm, was rejected by \u201ca considerable majority of stakeholders from all regions,\u201d the summary states.\nWith wineries and cideries already allowed on farmland, a proposal to extend the regulation to include breweries, distilleries and meaderies was supported by a majority in all regions, particularly from local governments in Zone 1, the Lower Mainland, Okanagan and Vancouver Island.\nWineries and cideries are allowed without approval from the Agricultural Land Commission, as long as half of the materials are produced on the farm. Some questioned whether that rule would work for breweries and distilleries, with hops, malting barley and distilling grain not produced in large quantities in B.C.\nThe government\u2019s suggestion to allow larger tasting areas for wine, cider and potentially beer and distilled liquor was also rejected by \u201ca considerable majority\u201d of respondents. Selling alcoholic products not produced on the host farm was also opposed by a large majority, with opposition strongest in the North and Vancouver Island regions.\nThe loudest opposition came in response to the suggestion to allow a wider range of non-farm activities without approval of the ALC. The strongest supporters were landowners in Zone 2 (Interior, Kootenay and North regions). Oil and gas services on farmland are already allowed in northeastern B.C. under supervision of the Oil and Gas Commission.\nThe proposal to waive ALC approval for farmland subdivisions larger than a quarter section (64 hectares) was also opposed by a large majority, but the suggestion of leasing farmland to put it into production was widely supported.\nAgriculture Minister Norm Letnick is preparing regulation changes for the cabinet approval, and hopes to have new regulations in place by the end of the year.\nThe consultation received more than 1,500 submissions by mail, email and through its website, and held meetings in Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George, Fort St. John, Cranbrook, Nanaimo and Abbotsford.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 8565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cmswire.com/customer-experience/diversity-polarization-and-connectivity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:52Z", "digest": "sha1:YG6CTGD7TBJ6D2LLQEK4KGUS7OIXS3YE", "length": 3211, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cmswire.com", "title": "Diversity, Polarization and Connectivity", "raw_content": "Diversity, Polarization and Connectivity\nBy Gerry McGovern | Nov 13, 2017\nThe web is facilitating both diversity and uniformity PHOTO: Annie Spratt\nAt one level, the web facilitates diversity. At another, it encourages uniformity. Paradox and contradiction seems to be the hallmark of complex, interconnected systems.\nIn politics, the web has allowed those of similar views to flock together. The center struggles as the wings and peripheries bulge. Tribalism and groupthink are flourishing. \u201cThe divisions between Republicans and Democrats on fundamental political values \u2014 on government, race, immigration, national security, environmental protection and other areas \u2014 reached record levels during Barack Obama\u2019s presidency,\u201d Pew Research Center stated in October 2017. \u201cIn Donald Trump\u2019s first year as president, these gaps have grown even larger.\u201d\nHowever, there are counter-currents. \u201cToday, more than one-third of marriages start online,\u201d according to an article in MIT Technology Review. Online dating is now \u201cthe second most common way for heterosexual couples to meet. For homosexual couples, it is far and away the most popular.\"\nOnline dating has also led to a significant increase in interracial marriage, particularly in the United States. \u201cIt is intriguing that shortly after the introduction of the first dating websites in 1995, like Match.com, the percentage of new marriages created by interracial couples increased rapidly,\u201d say researchers, Josue Ortega at the University of Essex in the U.K. and Philipp Hergovich at the University of Vienna in Austria.\n\u201cIn 2015, 17 percent of all U.S. newlyweds had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, marking more than a fivefold increase since 1967, when 3 percent of newlyweds were intermarried,\u201d according to a Pew Research Center analysis published in 2017.\nPerhaps the trends of polarization and diversity are not that far apart as they might initially seem. Where we are born is an accident of geography and race is essentially an illusion. In 2016, Scientific American wrote that, \u201cthe mainstream belief among scientists is that race is a social construct without biological meaning.\u201d\nRepublican National Committeeman from Alabama, Paul Reynolds, recently stated that, \u201cIf I\u2019ve got a choice of putting my welfare into the hands of Putin or The Washington Post, Putin wins every time.\u201d Reynolds is by no means alone in his views. A 2017 Morning Consult-Politico poll found that 49 percent of Republicans consider Russia an ally.\nThe idea that a significant percentage of U.S. citizens would prefer to be ruled by Russia than someone from their own country is not really surprising. Nationalism is a flag of convenience for most, and patriotism, as Samuel Johnson once stated is often \u201cthe last refuge of a scoundrel.\u201d Most nations are no more than accidents of geography. People may be close physically but miles apart emotionally and attitudinally.\nGiven time, the web will remake nations and states, and create a new geography where the like-minded find each other. Where those who share the same values and outlook on life come together and coalesce.\nTags customer experience, cxm, digital experience, dxm, gerry mcgovern, user experience", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/02/conservative-donor-koch-rails-against-corporate-cronyism.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:17Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZMOYPSTLOVKICDB76CGZVOSXHEWIF5H", "length": 5455, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.cnbc.com", "title": "Conservative donor Koch rails against 'corporate cronyism'", "raw_content": "Conservative donor Koch rails against 'corporate cronyism'\nBy JULIE BYKOWICZ, Associated Press\nPublished 1:48 PM ET Sun, 2 Aug 2015 The Associated PressCNBC.com\nGetty Images (L) | Koch Foundation (R)\nBillionaire industrialist and conservative political donor Charles Koch welcomed a group of roughly 450 like-minded fundraisers to one of his twice-annual conferences Saturday by challenging them to advocate for ending \"corporate cronyism\" - even if those policies help their businesses.\nKoch, who along with brother David has long pressed for a federal government that collects fewer taxes and issues fewer regulation, said cutting back special treatment for business is the first step to ending a \"two-tiered society\" and encouraging \"principled entrepreneurship\"\n\"Where I believe we need to start in reforming welfare is eliminating welfare for the wealthy,\" Koch said. \"This means stopping the subsidies, mandates and preferences for business that enrich the haves at the expense of the have nots.\"\nRead MoreJoe Biden: Well, maybe I will after all...\nMost recently, the Kochs have been strong advocates of the shutting down the federal Export-Import Bank, and their groups have spent money on advertisements and outreach to win senators and representatives over to their side on the issue.\nThe bank is a federal agency that helps U.S. companies sell products overseas by underwriting loans to foreign customers. Small-government activists have said it wastes taxpayer dollars to enrich the country's biggest companies.\nThe Koch brothers and their network of donors, many in attendance at the weekend event at a luxury resort south of Los Angeles, are preparing to spend $889 million to influence elections next year \u2014 much of it aimed at ushering a Republican to the White House. As such, among those in attendance were several of the GOP candidates for president, including Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former technology executive Carly Fiorina.\nWalker compared the Koch donor conference with the tea party rallies of five years ago, saying both groups of people are motivated by the same frustration with politics and desire to see the country improved.\n\"I wish the whole world could see what goes on here,\" he told the donors, adding that he believes they're not giving to political candidates out of personal financial interests. \"You're here because you love America.\"\nDemocrats would disagree, and have done so vehemently. The party has routinely portrayed the brothers \u2014 their Koch Industries is one of the largest private companies in the country \u2014 as greedy corporate tycoons whose work in politics is an end to padding their bank accounts. The brothers, who are billionaires many times over and rank among the wealthiest people in the world, dismiss the criticisms.\n\"We're doing all this to make more money? I mean, that is so ludicrous,\" Charles Koch said of his political involvement during a rare interview in April with USA Today.\nOther GOP presidential candidates \u2014 Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz \u2014 were scheduled to address the group Sunday. Each is being interviewed separately by Mike Allen, a journalist at the Washington publication Politico. Other Republicans mingling with donors over cocktails on a lawn ringed with palm trees and decorative columns that overlooks the Pacific Ocean included Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner and Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey.\nAsked about some of his Cabinet choices, should he be chosen as GOP nominee and elected next November, Walker named fellow hopefuls Fiorina and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, as well as former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent and former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who was also in attendance.\nLeaders of two of the largest Koch-backed political entities, Americans for Prosperity and Freedom Partners, have said they will not spend money to influence the Republican presidential primary, instead holding back their resources to spend on defeating the Democratic nominee in November 2016.\nStill, many of the men and women at the donor conference, including the Kochs themselves, have the ability to spend millions of dollars backing their preferred candidate. David Koch has said several times in recent months that Walker would make a great president, while asserting that he is not planning to formally endorse anyone.\nThe Koch brothers have hosted such gatherings of donors and politicians for years, but always in private. For the first time, this weekend's event includes a small number of reporters who were invited to hear the 2016 candidates and attend some other forums. As a condition of attending, reporters were not permitted to identify any of the donors in attendance.\nThe Kochs are protective of their fellow donors in other ways. Most of their contributions remain out of public view, as all but a few entities in the Koch network aren't legally required to name their contributors \u2014 even though they can spend money to influence politics, such as through issues advocacy ads. The groups may even promote specific candidates in limited ways.\nFundraising reports filed Friday with federal regulators show how important deep-pocketed donors have become.\nAbout 60 donations of $1 million or more accounted for about one-third of the more than $380 million brought in so far for the 2016 presidential election, an Associated Press analysis found. The review included contributions to the official campaigns and the far larger gifts to outside groups called super PACs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/29/meet-the-millennials-running-asias-family-businesses.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:27Z", "digest": "sha1:EFMINO52NDXRZ6RCBQ5D6FA5EGFYPJQR", "length": 4560, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.cnbc.com", "title": "Meet the millennials running Asia\u2019s family businesses", "raw_content": "Meet the millennials running Asia\u2019s family businesses\nLiza Tan\nYoung business leaders share their most important business lessons 5:55 AM ET Thu, 29 June 2017 | 03:44\nA clutch of next-generation leaders are helping chart the future of some of Asia's wealthiest families and disproving the notion of millennials as the entitled generation.\nCNBC spoke to four such millennials as part of a panel discussion and found that while some are focused on sparking innovation in their legacy businesses, others weren't averse to developing their own ventures.\nNararya Ciputra Sastrawinata is the grandson of Indonesian property tycoon Ciputra and as a director of the Ciputra Group, he oversees real estate projects in Jakarta for the family business.\nDrawing from his grandfather's entrepreneurial spirit, he's also branched out and started a venture capital fund \u2013Indogen Capital\u2013 with his friends, having spent eight years in the family business.\nHe said: \"I think I'm a bit more settled in, I thought it's time to be more entrepreneurial, be innovative\u2026 I think if you see properties more traditional in the sense, more brick and mortar. I think you need to do more product developments and more business processes that you can improve.\"\n\"That's how I decided to start with a group of friends outside the family business, start a VC fund. I think that's my method of getting into the conversation at least.\"\nLionel Leong shares a similar path. His father, Leong Hoy Kum, is a big player in the Malaysian property scene and as a second generation business owner, he runs operations for Mah Sing Group.\nLeong co-founded RHL Ventures with Rachel Lau and Raja Hamzah Abidin, whose families also own prominent Malaysian companies. Their plan is to attract outside capital and build the firm into Southeast Asia's leading independent investment group.\nCalvin Sit | Bloomberg | Getty Images\nLionel Leong, co-founder and partner at RHL Ventures, poses for a photograph in Hong Kong on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017.\nThe Leong family was supportive of his venture and Lionel sees value in venturing outside while still working for the family business.\n\"I think the way you look at start-ups today, the way they deploy capital, it's so efficient. And so, if I could even bring an element of that back to the corporate world, just a little fraction of that\u2026 I would be saving a lot of money,\" Leong said.\nRichie Eu is general manager of strategic development for Eu Yan Sang International and he represents the fifth generation in his family business.\nWhile he sees the attractiveness in carving a niche outside the family business, he also thinks he can \"make a real difference\" at the 138-year old company. He joined the company after a four and a half year stint in private equity.\n\"I'm really looking for the sixth generation and that's what drives me \u2026 one thing that I've always learned from my granddad and my dad is \u2026 we will always be owners \u2026 so I'm obsessed with finding the best talent for the company because I want to survive beyond myself,\" he said.\nOne millennial who has taken a somewhat different approach is Yen Kuok, the youngest of the eight Kuok kids. Her father is Robert Kuok, whose empire includes Shangri-La Hotels as well as Wilmar International. Forbes currently ranks him as Malaysia's richest person with a net worth of $12 billion.\nAs the \"wildcard of the family\", Yen decided after college in the U.S. that she was not going to join the family business.\n\"A lot of my older siblings do work in the family business \u2026 I'm really grateful and I'm a bit lucky that as the youngest one, I do have a bit of freedom to come out and get my own thing going as opposed to if I were let's say the eldest son of the family, I would feel a lot more pressure,\" she said.\nYen is Founder and CEO of Guiltless, a secondhand luxury e-commerce site that she launched in May 2016. While there were initial discussions to keep one foot in the family business and another in Guiltless, Yen decided she would focus on her entrepreneurial venture for now.\n\"It's almost like\u2026 the Chinese saying 'If you can't straddle two boats with one feet', although it's normally used in a romance setting but same with companies\u2026 for me I'll say well, I definitely want to set my sights on Guiltless (and) focus on making it work\u2026 probably in the future with synergies with anything we can bring it back into the fold,\" she said.\nCatch the second season of Lasting Legacy, Thursdays in June, on CNBC Asia at 17:30 SIN/HK and on CNBC EMEA at 23:30 CET.\nLiza TanExecutive Producer, CNBC Asia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnet.com/news/the-myth-of-customer-satisfaction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BAVFWS7XRFGQPBZ6FQXXFKWCSNWGWJ3L", "length": 5660, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.cnet.com", "title": "The myth of customer satisfaction - CNET", "raw_content": "Why are customers who say they're satisfied, not necessarily repeat customers? Experts from Strategy + Business explore the seeming contradiction.\nAt first glance, creating an army of satisfied customers seems an obvious way to build a business. But as a leading computer software company has learned to its surprise, satisfied customers aren't necessarily good customers. Indeed, the company discovered in a recent survey that there was no correlation between customers' satisfaction scores and their actual purchase behavior.\nWhy are customers who say they're satisfied, not necessarily repeat customers? Because satisfaction is a measure of what people say, whereas loyalty is a measure of what they actually do. Many managers still don't recognize this fundamental difference, so they use customer satisfaction and customer loyalty interchangeably, as though they were synonyms.\nWhat customers report in satisfaction surveys is their attitude, which usually reflects their recent experience in transactions with the business in question. The survey and the report it generates take the temperature of customer feelings about events that have already occurred.\nThe importance that businesses ascribe to these surveys is profound. Indeed, measuring customer attitudes has become an industry in its own right, and such groups as J.D. Power and Associates, the University of Michigan Business School's National Quality Research Center, the Customer Satisfaction Institute and other similar organizations have become powerful shapers of business practices.\nThere's no question that satisfaction measurements can be valuable. They allow customers to vent frustrations. They can highlight problems with product quality and customer service.\nBut satisfaction surveys also have limitations. The larger the customer base, the more expensive and time-consuming it can be to survey. Because of the time and expense they require, surveys can be conducted only periodically, which means they may not reflect current attitudes. Additionally, surveys cannot include all customers--and results can be biased when customers either are excluded or don't bother to respond. Most important, surveys measure opinion and are not reliable predictors of future behavior. Even surveys that ask customers about their intentions do not necessarily shed light on the future because customers don't always do what they say they'll do.\nLoyalty and satisfaction are decidedly different indicators of business vitality.\nLoyalty (be it to a king, a brand, or a relationship) is most definitely not a matter of opinion. It is a measure of commitment and a strong indicator of future behavior. In a business setting, sales data (such as the transaction date, amount and product description) can be used to profile customers' past behavior, and can be a reliable basis for predicting their future actions.\nIf, for example, past measurement shows that the Ajax Partnership has been buying supplies regularly every three months for the past two years, and then it begins purchasing smaller amounts at less frequent intervals, you can be fairly certain that Ajax's loyalty is at risk.\nIn a small organization with few customers, this kind of behavior measurement is usually a matter of eyeballing the records. There are, however, new and sophisticated mathematical techniques that allow an enterprise with hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of customers to extract data automatically from accounting databases and convert it into an early-warning system that segments customers on the basis of their loyalty profiles and then identifies potential defectors. In this way, enterprise accounting records can be transformed into valuable marketing intelligence.\nLoyalty profiles can predict defections and the amount of revenue that will be lost as a result of those defections. Loyalty measurement can also identify when customers will buy next, what they're likely to buy, and how much revenue these sales will generate. It can identify the customers who are likely candidates to buy more than they now do, and predict how much enterprise revenue will grow if these candidates can be upgraded.\nBut do loyal customers generate more profits than the merely satisfied do? There is every indication that they do, though measuring the revenue impact of satisfaction is far harder than measuring the impact of loyalty.\nThe myth that a satisfied customer will become a loyal customer is just that--a myth.\nWhat can be said for certain is that when a company acts on what it learns from loyalty analysis--marketing to selected customers instead of the entire customer population, targeting customers who are candidates for incremental purchases, protecting revenue by spotting potential defectors before they defect--both margins and return on dollars invested in marketing improve significantly. Tenfold returns on investments in loyalty analysis are not unusual.\nLoyalty and satisfaction are decidedly different indicators of business vitality, but as management tools they complement each other. Good satisfaction measurement can help identify what's broken in your business today (although fixing it is up to you). Good loyalty measurement is an easily applied forward-looking tool that sales and marketing can use to devise strategies to hold on to customers they want to keep--and also to earn more from every relationship.\nTo read more articles like this one, visit www.strategy-business.com.\nCopyright \u00a9 2003 Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.\nReprinted with permission from strategy+business, a quarterly management magazine published by Booz Allen Hamilton.\nDiscuss: The myth of customer satisfaction", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 8606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnsnews.com/print/news/article/unemployment-among-college-grads-oct-more-2m-now-out-work", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:43Z", "digest": "sha1:FMSEWV635ORWNSRRE5EMBPVHAA7CLWRM", "length": 2223, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.cnsnews.com", "title": "Unemployment Up Among College Grads in Oct; More Than 2M Now Out of Work", "raw_content": "Home > Unemployment Up Among College Grads in Oct; More Than 2M Now Out of Work\nUnemployment Up Among College Grads in Oct; More Than 2M Now Out of Work\nPresident Barack Obama speaks at the University of Michigan commencement on May 1, 2010. (AP Photo)\n(CNSNews.com) - While the national seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped from 9.1 percent in September to 9.0 percent in October, the unemployment rate among college graduates went in the other direction, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, climbing from 4.2 percent to 4.4 percent.\nHistorically, according to BLS data, American workers who have earned at least a bachelor\u2019s degree have experienced lower rates of unemployment than workers who have not earned a bachelor\u2019s degree.\nHowever, during President Barack Obama\u2019s time in office, college graduates have not been immune from rising unemployment.\nIn January 2009, when Obama was inaugurated, there were approximately 1,759,000 unemployed college graduates in America, according to BLS. In October 2011, there were 2,058,000\u2014an increase of 299,000.\nIn January 2009, according to BLS, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate among college graduates was only 3.9 percent. Since then, it has never dropped below 4.1 percent.\nMeanwhile, despite the increase in unemployment among college graduates, the unemployment rates among Americans without college degrees remained much higher in October than the rate for college graduates.\nAmong those without a high school degree, unemployment dropped from 14.0 percent in September to 13.8 percent in October. Among high school graduates with no college experience, it dropped from 9.7 percent in September to 9.6 percent in October. And among high school graduates who had some college education but who had not earned a college degree, it dropped from 8.4 percent in September to 8.3 percent in October.\nIn calculating the unemployment rates for Americans with different levels of education, the BLS only surveys those in the U.S. workforce who are 25 years or older.\nUNEMPLOYMENT LEVEL-COLLEGE GRADS-BLS.txt\nUNEMPLOYMENT RATE-COLLEGE GRADS-BLS.txt\nSource URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/unemployment-among-college-grads-oct-more-2m-now-out-work", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 184.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cobbcountydui.com/DUI-Defense/DUI-Under-21.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VJPAQIAU5QIUKUYQORSH7QYCEABO7NHS", "length": 1745, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.cobbcountydui.com", "title": "Cobb County Underage DUI Attorney | Under 21 DUI Lawyer in Marietta GA", "raw_content": "DUI under 21 in Cobb County\nMarietta DUI under 21 Defense Attorney\nIf you are under the age of 21 and have been arrested on DUI charges, it's important to take your situation seriously. Georgia has a strict zero-tolerance policy that states people under the age of 21 are prohibited from driving with a blood alcohol concentration of .02% or higher. Any underage driver found in violation of the zero-tolerance policy will be arrested and booked on DUI charges.\nIf you or your son or daughter was arrested on DUI charges, it's crucial that you consult a Cobb County DUI defense lawyer as quickly after the arrest as possible. At the police station, the first call you make should be to a DUI defense lawyer from the Law Offices of Richard S. Lawson. The legal team at the firm has over 20 years of experience in DUI defense, and can review the details of your case to determine what you're up against. After evaluating the case, a lawyer will advise you about what defense strategies can be applied to your case to maximize your chances of winning.\nDUI Under 21 Defense Lawyer\nUnderage DUI charges carry heavy penalties. Not only could you lose your license for up to a year, you but may not be able to get a restricted license to get to and from work or school. It is critical that you get immediate legal help before the situation takes its course and makes its way through the system. The faster an attorney starts working on your case, the better your chances will be of overcoming the charges to win your case. Every effort to find flaws in the case against you will be exploited by an aggressive Marietta DUI defense lawyer from the firm.\nContact a Cobb County DUI under 21 defense attorney from the Law Offices of Richard S. Lawson today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 6100, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.codepublishing.com/OR/CrookCounty/html/disclaimer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TNFFBHLXGV2N4WB35SLYQCG75QCKBWAT", "length": 366, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.codepublishing.com", "title": "Disclaimer", "raw_content": "The Crook County Code is current through Ordinance 307, passed August 15, 2018.\nDisclaimer: The Clerk of the Board's Office has the official version of the Crook County Code. Users should contact the Clerk of the Board's Office for ordinances passed subsequent to the ordinance cited above.\nCounty Website: http://www.co.crook.or.us/\nCounty Telephone: (541) 447-6553", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cokermathews.com/services.asp?page=odetail&id=2180&locid=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:QMPJAE6LGDORRI3BWL6WK5SYLF2KOSBY", "length": 1137, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cokermathews.com", "title": "Coker-Mathews Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Carl Lynn Evans\nCarl Lynn Evans, 55, of Greenville, passed away Wednesday, February 14, 2018 at Hunt Regional Medical Center. His memorial service will be 3:00 PM, Monday, February 19, 2018 at Coker-Mathews Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jimmy Vaughn and Mr. Randy Daw officiating.\nMr. Evans was born in Sherman, Texas on August 29, 1962. He was the son of Carl Williams Evans and Doris Bennett Evans. He married Janice Kay Neatherlin on November 6, 1982 in Greenville. He was a veteran of the U. S. Marine Corps and was a certified arborist. He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans.\nSurvivors include his wife, Janice Kay Evans of Greenville; sons, Dereck Wade Evans and Jason Dale Evans, both of Greenville; daughter, Cassie Lynn Evans Buck and husband, Jarrod of Greenville; sisters, Donna McBride of Greenville and Connie Tarver of Irving; grandchildren, Camden Ryder Buck and Piper Lynn Buck, both of Greenville; and fourteen nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Lisa Old.\nIn lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 81, in Greenville.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1484, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.collegeoverview.com/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JPCGB4PGZ2QNFDFXIGNADN3QTRHKEBMX", "length": 2183, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.collegeoverview.com", "title": "College Overview", "raw_content": "CollegeOverview Blog\nIt\u2019s no secret that grades and test scores are an important part of the college admissions process. However, colleges realize you are more than just your grades, and there are a lot of other factors that go into consideration when colleges admit students. We\u2019ll walk you through 7 things that colleges look for besides grades!\n#GettingIntoCollege\n#CollegeApplication\nIn today\u2019s day and age, there has never been a better time to become part of the beauty industry. For those with an interest in becoming part of the billion-dollar, flourishing cosmetology industry, here's an inside look at 6 of the many career paths you can take after cosmetology school.\nThe healthcare field is a booming career field with millions of people employed annually. If you\u2019re someone who has ever been interested in going into healthcare, here\u2019s an easy comprehensive guide to walk you through the ins and outs of the healthcare field.\nBecoming a dental assistant is a popular career choice for many people of all ages and backgrounds. Like with any career choice, it\u2019s a good idea to get to know the aspects of potential career choices before making a commitment. We\u2019ll make that easy: here you can learn everything you need to know about how to become a dental assistant.\nIn a time where college tuition costs are ever rising, the cost of college can be a burden on students everywhere. If you\u2019re someone who is going to college - whether you\u2019re a first-timer or returning - we have 5 awesome tips for you on how to pay less for college.\nThe FAFSA Application is the first step to getting loans, scholarships and grants for college. Make the process easier with this FAFSA guide.\nTo be as prepared as you can be for your next interview, make sure you research the company and have a good idea of what they do and how they do it. Make sure you are qualified and a good fit there. Get prepared for common questions and be ready for some challenging ones. Figure out the right way to dress and show up looking as clean and put together as possible. Once you\u2019re ready, plan on arriving 15 minutes early and show some confidence by shaking hands and making eye contact. Treat every...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coloradospacenews.com/sierra-nevada-corp-expands-relationship-with-cu-boulder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4Y6NLWGPDV4IWEHOPMWW4AWHEHF36XZF", "length": 4396, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.coloradospacenews.com", "title": "Sierra Nevada Corp. Expands Relationship with CU-Boulder | Colorado Space News", "raw_content": "Sierra Nevada Corp. Expands Relationship with CU-Boulder\nPhilip DiStefano, Mark Sirangelo and Louis Stodieck at CU-Boulder. Image Source: Sierra Nevada Corp.\nSparks, Nevada. August 4, 2014 \u2013 Sierra Nevada Corporation\u2019s (SNC) Space Systems is pleased to announce it is expanding its relationship with the University of Colorado Boulder (CU-Boulder) through the signing of a letter of cooperation with CU-Boulder\u2019s BioServe Space Technologies (BioServe). Through the cooperation, SNC and BioServe will jointly explore ways the Dream Chaser Space Utility Vehicle (SUV) can serve as an orbital platform for scientific experiments in microgravity and space life science research.\nSNC and CU-Boulder have a long-standing relationship collaborating on various projects throughout the development of the Dream Chaser commercial space transportation vehicle. Currently, CU-Boulder is a Dream Chaser program \u2013 Dream Team \u2013 member. CU-Boulder has provided SNC with leading research and development support over the past several years, including defining the overall cockpit design of the Dream Chaser spacecraft.\nSNC actively recruits top graduates, alumni and interns from CU-Boulder. Presently, SNC\u2019s Space Systems employs over 55 alumni and close to a dozen interns. Additionally, SNC also supports various senior design projects and works closely with students and research faculty. Several SNC executives hold faculty positions at the university.\n\u201cOur longstanding partnership with Sierra Nevada Corporation\u2019s Space Systems is a terrific example of a successful university-industry collaboration,\u201d said CU-Boulder Chancellor Philip P. DiStefano. \u201cCU-Boulder\u2019s BioServe Space Technologies has been flying hardware and experiments in space commercially for several decades, much of it with the help of our talented students, and we expect our new involvement with SNC\u2019s Dream Chaser project to result in new discoveries, technologies and applications in the life sciences, including biomedicine.\u201d\nRecently, Colorado, through a defined set of objectives outlined by Gov. John Hickenlooper, has taken steps to grow the aerospace industry within the state. Today\u2019s signing of this cooperative agreement between SNC and BioServe is a prime example of a positive public-private relationship directly supporting the goals of Gov. Hickenlooper.\nThe agreement will allow SNC and BioServe to collaborate on activities to advance commercial development of microgravity science by utilizing the Dream Chaser SUV as an orbital laboratory. BioServe will help optimize the hardware onboard the Dream Chaser to enable and enhance International Space Station (ISS) microgravity research, as well as assist SNC in evaluating the utilization of Dream Chaser as a free-flying microgravity science platform.\n\u201cSNC is committed to providing opportunities for collaboration with universities in our space efforts. We are excited about the opportunity this cooperation creates to leverage the hardware, knowledge and experience of both CU-Boulder and now BioServe,\u201d said Mark N. Sirangelo, corporate vice president of SNC\u2019s Space Systems. \u201cCU-Boulder plans for expanding its aerospace and space efforts in the coming years will allow SNC to explore a wide range of educational, technological, scientific and business opportunities associated with the development of advanced Dream Chaser missions.\u201d\nBioServe\u2019s research and hardware development center, located in CU-Boulder\u2019s aerospace engineering sciences department, has conducted a wide variety of space life science research on the space shuttle, Mir space station and the International Space Station (ISS) since 1991. BioServe has developed and flown more than 70 payloads launched on NASA\u2019s space shuttle, Russian Progress and Soyuz vehicles, the Orbital Sciences Cygnus, the JAXA HTV launch vehicles and, most recently, the SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule.\nDream Chaser is a multi-mission capable spacecraft; it provides the only reusable, human-rated lifting-body spacecraft with a commercial runway landing capability, anywhere in the world. The space system is on the forefront of the commercial human spaceflight industry, offering safe, reliable and cost-effective crew and critical cargo transportation to low-Earth orbit destinations, including the ISS.\n\u2190 Swanny Completes High Altitude Relay Race\nFourth Mobile User Objective System Satellite in Final Testing Phase \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 5709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.concordant.org/expositions/he-shall-save-his-people-expositions-in-matthew/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:23Z", "digest": "sha1:OXWWKSTUYRSDHWAIPRZOFE7NLP56PQ7N", "length": 3480, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.concordant.org", "title": "He Shall Save His People (expositions in Matthew) | Concordant Publishing Concern", "raw_content": "Expositions in Matthew\n\u201cSalvation and Judgment in the Book of Matthew\u201d\nWhen our Lord came into this world He came to save: \u201cyou shall be calling His name Jesus, for He shall be saving His people from their sins\u201d (1:21). This promise is a most important declaration of God\u2019s intention. It forms a solid basis for all that is recorded throughout the book of Matthew. Indeed it must never be forgotten in the midst of stern warnings and fearful events, least of all in the account of the evil and darkness surrounding the rejection and crucifixion of this One Who came to save.\nBecause the kingdom had drawn near it was not only appropriate but necessary for John and the Lord to point to the day of indignation which must precede the blessings of Christ\u2019s rule. Indeed, the establishment of the kingdom is associated with judgments of \u201cfire unextinguished\u201d (Matt.3:12). It is not, however, an \u201cunextinguishable\u201d fire. The Greek adjective here indicates merely that the fire will not be quenched by anyone. It is not that it is some kind of super-blaze that must burn on endlessly, but rather it will burn without interference until it has burned up the \u201cchaff\u201d that fuels it.\nJohn had announced the nearness of the kingdom (Matt.3:2), but the kingdom with its deliverance from the many evils of present life did not immediately appear. The death of Christ as a basis for all the blessings of the kingdom must occur first. When our Lord receives the rule it will be as the Saviour Who does not only save and bless, but Who does so on a firm basis established by God.\nIn His sermon on the mount, Jesus spoke of the kingdom and the blessings for those who heard and heeded His words. But it is evident, not only in looking back at the failure of Israel but at our own experience of weakness and sin as well, that no one can achieve the perfection described in Matthew 5:17-48 apart from God\u2019s deliverance from sin. The words of Matthew 5-7 only make the promise of Matthew 1:21 more clearly necessary. There must be One Who saves from sin.\nThe disciples were right in going to Jesus for salvation, but they were wrong in their lack of confidence in the Saviour. We must not suppose that the Saviour is concerned only in saving from small sins. The fact that Jesus was the Saviour of these disciples from the churning sea and will save them from all their sins, including that of unbelief, is evidence for, not proof against, the eventual salvation of the unbelieving leaders of Israel from their sins including the sins of unbelief and enmity.\nThe way in which our Lord conducted His ministry to Israel is full of surprises. The disciples were told not to herald the kingdom to anyone except \u201cthe lost sheep of the house of Israel\u201d (Matt.10:5). Now in Matthew 13 Jesus speaks to the crowds in parables, and in fact, \u201capart from a parable He spoke nothing to them\u201d (13:34). He changes His emphasis from the nearness of the kingdom to the secrets of the kingdom which are made known only to the disciples (13:11).\n\u201cThis Generation\u201d (Matthew 24:34); with supplementary article\nJesus declared to His disciples: \u201cVerily I am saying to you that by no means may this generation be passing by till all these things should be occurring\u201d (Matt.24:34). We may be assured that the Lord meant what He said here; and, what He said here is quite explicit. Still, while it is indeed important for us to believe what He said, the deeper question remains: In what sense is what He said to be understood.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 513, "original_length": 19171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.congsds.org/where-we-are/north-america/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WR7SQTYHUOAHNGIBBGGKCRIJRD2Z2HTL", "length": 922, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.congsds.org", "title": "North America | Sisters of the Divine SaviorSisters of the Divine Savior | Salus tua ego sum\tNorth America | Sisters of the Divine Savior", "raw_content": "The USA province began in 1895 when Our Co-Foundress, Blessed Mary of the Apostles, sent 3 German sisters who were living in the Mother House in Rome to the USA. The province has 58 sisters. The province\u2019s 18 communities are located in cities in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, and Wisconsin. The sisters are engaged in education in schools and Universities; in health care in hospitals and nursing homes; in formation for Christian leadership in the parishes and dioceses, in general pastoral ministry, pastoral and spiritual counselling. They are collaborating with NGOs for life and justice, in vocation promotion, as well as in sponsorship for social development of the poor and in projects against human traffic. The coordinator of the Province is S. Beverly Heitke.\nWepages: www.sistersofthedivinesavior.org www.sdssisters.org/index.html www.dshealthcare.com www.dsha.info www.stopenslavement.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conservapedia.com/Covenant_Christian_Coalition", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:51Z", "digest": "sha1:IU2QQD5LJHJ7EKSFBKXSC7FQLIW3H53W", "length": 8753, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "www.conservapedia.com", "title": "Covenant Christian Coalition - Conservapedia", "raw_content": "Covenant Christian Coalition\nThe Covenant Christian Coalition (CCC) is an international organization that advocates on behalf of evangelical Christian churches.[1] It was founded in Dallas, Texas in 2015 from where original members hail, but it also has an office in New York used for coordinating international efforts.[2][3] The CCC currently recognizes some 454 Christian denominations, 2,179,414 local churches, and approximately 718 million individuals.[4]\nThe CCC assists unaffiliated Christians find local congregations in which to place membership, funds orphanages throughout the developing world, and supports Christian schools and water well projects in South America, Africa, and other countries. The organization also lobbies for evangelical causes and values internationally. It has been reported that the CCC \"is seeking to position itself as a conservative alternative umbrella group for evangelicals globally.\"[5]\n4.1 Current Leaders\nThe Covenant Christian Coalition was founded in 2015 over concerns about the theological and political positions of such organizations as the World Council of Churches and the World Evangelical Alliance\u2014especially concerns about those organizations' changing positions on historic evangelical doctrines.[6][7] The CCC describes itself as \"An international, Evangelical, post-denominational coalition of churches still faithful to Christ and the Gospel.\"[8]\nFrom a theological and doctrinal perspective, the CCC emphasizes historical Protestantism, especially the Five Solas, the Gospel, the Invisible Church, and Conservative Christianity.\nNumerous churches are associated with the CCC including Faros Christian Fellowship in the Canary Islands, pastored by Gerhard Zierl.[9] The church is a member of Vinelife UK.[10] Other member churches include Salvation Church of Christ in Kampala[11] and Iglesia Evangelica Discipulos de Cristo de Colombia in Bogot\u00e1.[12][13][14]\nSubsidiary ministries include God's Song,[15] H\u0113 Hodos,[16] and the organization's publisher Covenant Press.[17][18][19] Covenant Press runs a ministry called the Free Bible Project that provides free digital and print Bibles and it also publishes and distributes its own print Bibles.[20]\nThe CCC is registered with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs[21] and the United Nations Economic and Social Council is slated to vote on consultative status for the CCC in the summer of 2018.\nThe Covenant Christian Coalition currently recognizes at least 454 Christian denominations, non-denominational groups, and Chinese house church networks, among which are over two million individual congregations. Altogether, it represents some 718 million individuals, making its scope larger than either the World Council of Churches or the World Evangelical Alliance.[22]\nThe Covenant Christian Coalition's members are primarily Protestant, and all evangelical, since membership requires agreement with its evangelical Covenant and seven tenets of belief called Convictions.[23] While churches and ministries can join the organization directly, denominations and church associations cannot. Instead, the CCC bestows honorary membership on those denominations that adhere to what the organization considers to be \"core biblical doctrines\" in an effort to estimate the number and extent of convictional evangelicals worldwide.[22]\nThe Covenant is a \"universal, evangelical statement of faith that outlines the importance of biblical inerrancy, substitutionary atonement, and salvation through Christ alone.\" This creed is the official statement of belief of the CCC and is composed of twelve stanzas beginning with \"We believe.\" It was intentionally written in broad, yet conservative language \"to include most evangelical Protestants, while excluding various sects and denominations that the leadership fears seek to distort the gospel.\" Furthermore, \"churches and ministries that join the CCC... have agreed to accept the Covenant and abide by the truths contained therein. The Covenant has thus become a key unifying factor in the movement.\"[11][24] Membership requires agreeing with its tenets either de facto or de jure.[25] Pastors and ministers can sign the Covenant and use it as a statement of faith at their church.[26]\nAlong with the Convictions and the CCC's constitution and bylaws, the Covenant forms the basis for the CCC's organization and doctrine.[25]\nThe Covenant Christian Coalition is led by a voluntary team of church and ministry leaders called the Pastoral Council.[27] The egalitarian Pastoral Council maintains the organization's constitution and votes on amendments to the organization's governing document.[14][25]\nA few of the current leaders in the Covenant Christian Coalition are listed below.[24]\nIbiso Igani, New Covenant Charismatic Church, Yenagoa, Nigeria\nAristeo Betil, Christian Life Center, Cotabato City, Philippines\nAkanni Caleb, Christ Apostolic Church, Akure, Nigeria\nEnrico Grutas, Fairview Temple of Worship, Quezon City, Philippines\nSamson Rai, Manipur Baptist Convention, Imphal, India\nEkemode Olufunmibi, The Ambassadors Ministries Int'l, Nigeria\nSamuel Sowemimo, Light of Covenant Parish, Dallas, United States\nPatrick Reynolds, Christ Church, Worksop, United Kingdom\nEldho Rajan, St. Mary's Jacobite Syrian Church, Kundara, India\nChijioke Ozor, Covenant Chapel Worldwide, Ikotun, Nigeria\nCarlos Perez, Bible Church of Christ, Barranquilla, Colombia\nJos\u00e9 Rodas, Esquipulas Community Church, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia\nGerhard Zierl, Faros Christian Fellowship, La Oliva, Spain[9]\nGrace Kigozi, Salvation Church of Christ, Kampala, Uganda[14]\nWeimar L\u00f3pez, Iglesia Evangelica Discipulos de Cristo de Colombia, Bogot\u00e1, Colombia[14]\n\u2191 FaithSteet, www.faithstreet.com Covenant Christian Coalition, last accessed March 20, 2017\n\u2191 Yelp, www.yelp.com Covenant Christian Coalition, last accessed March 20, 2017\n\u2191 Google Maps, www.google.com Covenant Christian Coalition, last accessed June 20, 2017\n\u2191 CCC, Coalition CCC main website, last accessed January 29, 2017\n\u2191 For 3 European alliances, Evangelical-Catholic unity is going too far; WEA says it has not changed. Ecumenical News (February 1, 2018). Archived from the original on February 2, 2018. Retrieved on January 26, 2018.\n\u2191 L\u2019Alleanza evangelica mondiale conferma la sua posizione storica sull\u2019unit\u00e0. Riforma (January 18, 2018). Archived from the original on February 7, 2018. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 World Evangelical Alliance Responds to Charges it Has a Secret 'Ecumenical Agenda'. Christian Today (January 17, 2018). Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 Jesus Site, www.jesussite.com Evangelistic Ministries, last accessed June 20, 2017\n\u2191 9.0 9.1 About Us. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 Welcome to Vinelife Church Manchester. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 11.0 11.1 Modern Evangelical Creed Unveiled. Digital Journal (January 13, 2018). Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 Recently Launched Christian Organization Sets Out to Change the World. World News (WN.com) (January 8, 2018). Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 Recently Launched Christian Organization Sets Out to Change the World. ABC 7 (January 8, 2018). Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 Evangelical Churches Launch New Worldwide, Interdenominational Movement. CBS 8 (January 8, 2018). Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 The entire Bible through video and music. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 Discover the truth about God.. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 The premiere publisher of up-and-coming Christian authors.. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 500 Years. Covenant Press. ISBN 978-1973210047.\n\u2191 Some Things You Should Know, 2, Covenant Press. ISBN 978-1461009634.\n\u2191 About GetFreeBibles.com. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 United Nations Civil Society Database (January 26, 2018). Archived from the original on January 26, 2018. Retrieved on February 8, 2018.\n\u2191 22.0 22.1 Official CCC Website, www.ccc.one Coalition, last accessed January 26, 2018\n\u2191 (February 7, 2015) Convictions of the Covenant Christian Coalition. Covenant Press.\n\u2191 24.0 24.1 (February 7, 2015) Covenant of the CCC. Covenant Press.\n\u2191 25.0 25.1 25.2 (January 31, 2017) Constitution of the Covenant Christian Coalition. Covenant Press.\n\u2191 Official CCC Website, www.ccc.one Purpose, last accessed January 26, 2018\n\u2191 The Gospel Coalition, www.thegospelcoalition.com Covenant Christian Coalition, last accessed March 20, 2017\nRetrieved from \"https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Covenant_Christian_Coalition&oldid=1447870\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 9696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 251.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conservapedia.com/Orville_Wright", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4OF66GKOOKPA7HSWBLVJPOHE5EE3Q4KI", "length": 1979, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.conservapedia.com", "title": "Orville Wright - Conservapedia", "raw_content": "Orville Wright (1871 - 1948) was the first to fly the flying machine he and his brother Wilbur Wright created. These American brothers are generally credited with the invention of the first airplane (though whether they were truly first or not is debatable). They first flew their aircraft in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.\nOrville was born at Dayton, Indiana, in the year of 1871. Like his brother Wilbur, he never graduated from high school because he took special subjects in his junior year of high school instead of a prescribed course. Wilbur, however, did not graduate because he failed to attend the commencement ceremonies. Together the brothers started a bicycle shop, called the \"Wright Cycle Company\", were they built, sold, and repaired bicycles.\nThe two became interested in aviation when they read an article on the death of a daring glider pilot and inventor named Otto Lilienthal. In 1899, they began to experiment with a biplane kite. The next year, the brothers went to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, to test a 16-foot (ft.) glider, which cost them $15.00 to build. They returned to Kitty Hawk in 1901 to experiment with a larger non-motor powered aircraft, but neither glider had the lift they had counted on. They concluded that the published tables of air pressure on curved surfaces were all wrong.\nThe brothers built a wind tunnel in their bicycle shop, and began experiments with model wings. From these tests, they determined the first reliable air pressure tables on curved surfaces. They then built a new glider in 1902, with aerodynamic qualities far in advance of its time. By the fall of 1903, they had completed building a machine that weighed just over 750 pounds with the pilot, and it had a 40 ft. wing span.\nOn December 17, 1903, they returned to Kitty Hawk to test the new aircraft. Orville piloted the machine, and he flew 120 ft. in just over 12 seconds.\nRetrieved from \"https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Orville_Wright&oldid=1269072\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2574, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 163.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conservapedia.com/Protest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WTSBXUM4ILXUII33CG3XHIEKVSJVV7V6", "length": 1589, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.conservapedia.com", "title": "Protest - Conservapedia", "raw_content": "Protest movements have had a long history in the United States. When a group of people feels they are being marginalized, sometimes they will gather in a show of numbers. Parades and speeches are the usual forum, but sometimes protests turn violent; see riot, hooliganism. One of the earliest and most famous protests in American history was the Boston Tea Party, a protest against British-imposed tax laws known as the Townshend Acts.\nIn more recent American and world history, protests have become a favorite tactic of liberals and revolutionaries. A frequent pattern is to announce a \"peaceful\" protest and then provoke the authorities into using a degree of force which appears excessive. This tactic worked well at Kent State, where after student rioting and an alleged sniper attack, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed students, killing four and wounding nine others. In several cases, liberals and revolutionaries often used the term \"protest\" to refer to what would be better described as riots, and during at least the 1960s also mistook that for \"free speech\" and a demonstration of unpopularity for something, to the extent that several anti-war protestors assumed that North Vietnam having no protests meant that the North Vietnamese government was actually \"popular\" among the people of North Vietnam (when in reality, if the people attempted to speak out against the North Vietnam Communist regime, they would have been killed).\nGallery of Protesters 2011\nRetrieved from \"https://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Protest&oldid=1358610\"\nTax Revolts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.constructionbooks.net/british-standards/construction--building-standards/bs-en-2062013a12016-9780580907463.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JOJG656R75DDULLAYGGFDM6E37M34GNZ", "length": 150, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.constructionbooks.net", "title": "BS EN 206:2013+A1:2016 Concrete. Specification, performance, production and conformity - 9780580907463", "raw_content": "BS EN 206:2013+A1:2016 Concrete. Specification, performance, production and conformity\nConcrete. Specification, performance, production and conformity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 3395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.consultancy.uk/news/12568/rsm-hires-darren-mee-as-director-and-andrew-manning-as-partner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:18Z", "digest": "sha1:WCYY66MFXPVZRASPXA7ZZ7PX56KQSQUP", "length": 3354, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.consultancy.uk", "title": "RSM hires Darren Mee as Director and Andrew Manning as Partner", "raw_content": "RSM hires Darren Mee as Director and Andrew Manning as Partner\nDarren Mee and Andrew Manning have joined RSM. Mee returns to the firm as Director in its Birmingham office, after a two year gap during which he ran his own consultancy firm. Manning joins the firm as a Partner in the Bristol office, joining from Crowe Clark Whitehill where he was also a Partner.\nPrior to re-joining RSM, Darren Mee founded Novus Modo Consulting, a consulting firm aimed at assisting law firms with performance improvement, implementing organisational change and the design new operating models. Previously, from 2011 until 2014, he worked at RSM, as an Associate Director in the firm\u2019s Consulting practice, responsible for supporting clients through business process transformations. Earlier, he worked at Baker Tilly's management consultancy arm as a Senior Consultant, transferring to RSM following its acquisition in 2013. Mee started his career as a Quality Assurance Administrator at Albion Chemicals in 2003, before, in 2004, taking on the role of Worldwide Compliance Coordinator at GlaxoSmithKline. He holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Birmingham and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Warwick - Warwick Business School.\nRSM has appointed Mee as a Director in its Birmingham office. Mee will leverage his more than 12 years of experience to support the firm\u2019s mid-market clients, as well as forge new relationships, across the West and East Midlands \u2013 advising them on growth and strategy.\nMark Taylor, RSM\u2019s Managing Partner for the Central region, says the he is \u201cdelighted\u201d to welcome Mee back to RSM. Taylor further says, \u201cNot only does he have a unique ability to understand the challenges and opportunities facing individuals and businesses, he also has a genuine passion for helping them achieve their objectives. I am sure he will play a key role in helping expand RSM\u2019s business in the Midlands.\u201d\nPrior to joining RSM, Andrew Manning worked at Crowe Clark Whitehill as a Partner, where he provided Internal Audit services to Not for Profit and public benefit entities. Previously, between 2001 and 2013, he worked at Deloitte as Director in his most recent role. Earlier in his career, Manning worked for the Ministry of Agriculture from 1990 until 1999, in his last role as a Senior Audit Manager. Manning attended the Cass Business School Institute of Internal Audit.\nManning brings more than 20 years of risk consulting, governance and internal audit to RSM, where he takes on the role of risk assurance Partner in the firm\u2019s Bristol office. Through the addition, RSM boosts its local capacity for servicing the charity and central government sectors, says Mark Jones, RSM\u2019s National Head of Internal Audit services.\nCommenting on the appointment, Jones adds, \u201cWe already provide internal audit and risk consulting services to major charities and international NGOs as well as central government departments. Andrew\u2019s strength and reputation in these sectors combined with the opportunities we already have with the Government Internal Audit Agency Framework and the firm\u2019s existing charity credentials give us an excellent opportunity to grow our market share in these strategically important areas.\u201d\nIn August RSM added former PwC Senior Manager Mark Wood to its Governance and Risk Consulting Service Group.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 312, "original_length": 13140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/privacy-%26-identity?page=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:6N2VMYHOZFUZ3D3HZJZUG6ELO77D6OZK", "length": 4609, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.consumer.ftc.gov", "title": "Browse by Topic | Page 3 | Consumer Information", "raw_content": "Happy holidays! Shopping tips from the FTC\nMoney & Credit, Shopping & Saving\nWise giving in the wake of California\u2019s wildfires\nCalifornia continues to be plagued by wildfires \u2014 including the Woolsey Fire near Los Angeles and the Camp Fire in Northern California, now one of the deadliest in the state\u2019s history. Dozens of people have lost their lives, thousands of homes and business have been destroyed, and more than 250,000 Californians have been forced to leave their homes. If you\u2019re looking for a way to help those in need, do some research to ensure that your donation will go to a reputable organization that will use the money as promised.\nPicking up the pieces after a wildfire\nExperiencing a destructive wildfire can be devastating and have long-term effects, but taking stock and developing a recovery plan can give you a sense of hope and purpose. Here are a few tips and links to resources to help make the task less burdensome.\nHomes & Mortgages\nFTC: PR firm & publisher violated ad basics\nHardly a day goes by that you don\u2019t see a celebrity, star athlete, or other well-known person touting the benefits of some product or service. But glowing recommendations aren\u2019t always what they appear to be.\nMoney back from MoneyGram?\nStaff Attorney, Midwest Region, FTC\nWe\u2019ve all known for a long time that scammers ask people to pay by wiring money. Money wiring companies like MoneyGram and Western Union have also known that scammers have people wire money using their services. In fact, the FTC has sued both companies \u2013 which have paid a lot of money to settle those charges \u2013 over exactly that issue. When the FTC settled with those companies (MoneyGram in 2009, Western Union in 2017), they also agreed to make changes to protect people from fraud. Except MoneyGram didn\u2019t actually take some of those important steps.\nFTC stops Sanctuary Belize land scheme\nEvery summer at the beach, we see billboards and flags advertising tours of sandy acres. The signs claim these empty stretches will become new communities, and that living here will be amazing \u2014 in a few years. Before you pay to build a castle in the sand, you need to do a lot of research and get some professional advice. The deal might not be as amazing as advertised, and, if a scammer is behind it, it\u2019s not the deal for you.\nVeterans: We thank you\nCarol Kando-Pineda\nCounsel, Consumer and Business Education\nNovember 11 is Veterans Day, a time to commemorate former servicemembers and recognize their service to the nation. In the U.S. today, there are more than 20 million veterans. Whether they\u2019ve been out of the service for days or decades, they can benefit from Military Consumer\u2019s tips on managing money, avoiding scams, and making the most of their service-related benefits.\nDo you have a 2012, 2013, or 2014 VW Passat TDI?\nIf you have a 2012, 2013, or 2014 Passat 2.0L TDI and got the approved emissions modification, Volkswagen has identified a potential problem with the \u201cfix\u201d it installed on your car that needs your immediate attention. If you have one of those vehicles but haven\u2019t gotten the modification, you must make an important decision very soon. You\u2019ll be getting a detailed letter in the mail from VW about this, but in the meantime, here are some key facts.\nMoney & Credit, Buying & Owning a Car\nNational Veterans Small Business Week\nCounsel, Division of Consumer & Business Education\nAccording to a 2017 report from the Small Business Administration (SBA), veterans own more than two and a half million businesses. That\u2019s nine percent of all U.S. companies. Veteran-owned firms employed more than five million people and paid $195 billion in annual payroll. To highlight these businesses, the SBA has designated November 5 \u2013 9 as National Veterans Small Business Week. The SBA\u2019s Office of Veterans Business Development offers specialized guidance and support for veteran entrepreneurs, including programs for women veterans and members of the Reserve and National Guard. The Federal Trade Commission also has tips and tools especially for small businesses. Here are a few examples of resources to help protect your customers, employees, and the bottom line.\nRest insured, you can avoid fake healthcare plans\nIf you\u2019re looking online for health insurance, there are lots of results that seem to offer good choices. But dishonest companies are literally banking on your being confused by all those choices. So, before you sign up and pay, take steps to know you\u2019re getting exactly what the plan advertised. Otherwise, your so-called \u201ccoverage\u201d can leave you exposed to substandard benefits and costly payments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 7584, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.contagionlive.com/news/more-than-40-of-us-adults-plan-to-skip-influenza-vaccine-this-season-survey-finds", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CEKR3M5HG3HTNUPWWMG6TXTQVYOKURY5", "length": 4323, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.contagionlive.com", "title": "More Than 40% of US Adults Plan to Skip Influenza Vaccine This Season, Survey Finds", "raw_content": "More Than 40% of US Adults Plan to Skip Influenza Vaccine This Season, Survey Finds\nDespite the severity of the 2017-2018 influenza season, a new survey has found that 41% of adults in the United States do not plan to get an influenza vaccine this year.\nDuring the week ending November 24, 2018, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a slight increase in influenza activity in its weekly FluView report, with the proportion of outpatient visits for influenza-like illness increasing to 2.3%, above the national baseline of 2.2%. Two states, Georgia and Louisiana, reported high influenza-like illness activity while 37 states reported minimal activity.\nAlthough influenza activity remains low, 5 influenza-associated pediatric deaths have been reported so far in the 2018-2019 influenza season. In comparison, the 2017-2018 US flu season had an estimated 79,000 deaths, 49 million flu-related illnesses, and 960,000 flu-related hospitalizations, making it the most severe influenza season in the United States in a decade.\nSince September 30, 2018, influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses have been reported most commonly by public health laboratories.\nCapitalizing on National Influenza Vaccination Week this week, the CDC is urging everyone 6 months and older to receive an influenza vaccine this season as long as they are healthy enough to do so. However, a new survey released by the nonpartisan and objective research organization, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, revealed that, despite the severity of the last influenza season, 41% of Americans do not intend to receive the flu vaccine this season.\nAccording to the survey results, which included responses from 1022 interviews conducted between November 14, 2018 and November 18, 2018, 63% of respondents incorrectly said that last year\u2019s influenza season was about the same as usual, less severe than usual, or that they didn\u2019t know.\nThose not planning on receiving an influenza vaccine said they did not expect to become infected. Furthermore, they did not have confidence in the vaccine\u2019s effectiveness and were concerned about side effects from the vaccine. A total of 43% of adults reported that they had received the influenza vaccine already this season, while 14% said they had not yet gotten the vaccine but intended to still do so. A total of 41% or respondents reported not receiving the vaccine or not intending to receive it.\n\u201cStrategies like school and workplace flu clinics have helped make vaccines more affordable and easy to access,\u201d Caitlin Oppenheimer, senior vice president of Public Health Research at NORC, said in a recent statement. \u201cUnfortunately, many people are still not getting flu shots due to broader misconceptions about the value of receiving a flu shot and concerns about the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.\u201d\nMeanwhile, clinicians are continuing to research influenza transmission patterns.\nIn new influenza research, investigators on a study recently published in Epidemics examined the last influenza pandemic in the United States in 2009, and found that the early hubs of the epidemic were not in major cities. Instead, the data indicate that three-quarters of all US cases that season originated in 4 smaller cities\u2014Grenada, Mississippi; Albany, Georgia; Stockton, California; and Omaha, Nebraska. Early school start dates may have been a contributing factor, with the investigators noting that several areas in and around Albany, Georgia, had the country's earliest school start dates in the autumn of 2009.\n\u201cContrasting with conventional wisdom, all 4 hubs lie in mid-sized cities, not in the highly-connected urban centers that are often associated with outbreak establishment. While it is likely that air travel played an important role in disseminating the 2009 A/H1N1pdm virus both internationally and within the United States during the early spring wave, these results indicate that other critical ingredients are needed to explain the spatial introduction patterns of the autumn wave of the pandemic in the continental United States,\u201d wrote the authors. These findings, they say, shed light on the need for fine-scale influenza incidence data that can be compared across national boundaries.\nInfluenza Vaccine Is Safe For Hospitalized Patients, Study Reports", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 6219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 186.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cordonbleu.edu/news/announcementbrandambassador/en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:59Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3IHVONVZOJFBRHHXJ7I6JX7F4KZOXUS", "length": 1580, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cordonbleu.edu", "title": "Announcement Brand Ambassador - LCBD", "raw_content": "Le Cordon Bleu Dusit Culinary School is delighted to announce Thailand\u2019s renowned actress - Khun Piyathida Mitrteeraroj (Pock) \u2013 has agreed to become our new female Brand Ambassador alongside our first Brand Ambassador - Khun Phol Tantasathien.\nKhun Pock is an actress. Her acting career began at the age of 21. After studying at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce she went on to star in many popular TV soap operas - including becoming a Film actress and TV host - and gaining local recognition with the \u201cBest Actress\u201d award at the Thai National Film Association Awards in 2012 for the films \u201cLadda Land\u201d(\u0e25\u0e31\u0e14\u0e14\u0e32\u0e41\u0e25\u0e19\u0e14\u0e4c) and 2013 \u201cTogether\u201d (\u0e27\u0e31\u0e19\u0e17\u0e35\u0e48\u0e23\u0e31\u0e01).\n\u201cKhun Pock is a passionate woman who advocates for others \u2013 especially the less fortunate in society. She brings an exceptional level of enthusiasm and passion to everything she does and displays graciousness\u2019s and humility everywhere she goes. She\u2019s happy to work with us on school initiatives, including special events, fund raising charity campaigns, and other innovative projects.\u201d said LCBD Executive Director, Suchada Sthapitanonda.\n\u201cI\u2019m honored and delighted to work with LCBD as their new Brand ambassador in Thailand \u2013 after all - I must confess I am also an alumnus of the school! Actually, the position will give me a wonderful opportunity to work with one of the world\u2019s most famous culinary schools in order to help others. I was happy to be part of the Purest Love Gala Charity Dinner earlier this year and I am always excited to study more courses at Le Cordon Bleu Dusit\u201d said Brand Ambassador \u2013 Pock.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 322, "original_length": 7156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.corephp.com/blog/4-tips-creating-catchy-effective-e-commerce-landing-page/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4UIBQIGUYVRD5EP6NEUHFT47R424M3DP", "length": 3457, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.corephp.com", "title": "4 Tips for Creating a Catchy and Effective E-Commerce Landing Page", "raw_content": "4 Tips for Creating a Catchy and Effective E-Commerce Landing Page\nE-commerce being attractive\nYou might have the greatest products at the most affordable prices, but if your landing page on your e-commerce website is lackluster and ineffective, customers might not be compelled to take the crucial step and place an order. An attractive and eye-catching landing page will do more than merely look great, it can help inspire potential customers to complete the conversion. The following tips can help e-commerce business owners make sure their landing page is as powerful as possible:\nWhile you might be tempted to put all of your business-related cards on the proverbial table and include gobs of information on the landing page, it\u2019s much better to make it as clean and simple as possible. Refrain from adding in pop-ups, flashing graphics, and too many colors or fonts\u2014that will just make your landing page look overwhelming and too busy.\nAlmost a third of all web activity is now through mobile devices, according to Marketingland. In addition, having a website that looks great on a mobile device can even double the chances of conversion. In order to capitalize on this growing trend, it\u2019s vital that your landing page be easily seen and navigated on tablets and smartphones. For example, it must load quickly, be easy to read, and have plenty of places to click. Although any type of small business would do well to have a landing page that is mobile-friendly, companies that sell electronic accessories and books should be especially sure that this is the case, as chances are good your customers will then use your products on their mobile devices.\nYour landing page only has about eight seconds to capture a potential customer\u2019s attention, notes Scale My Business. If the site doesn\u2019t manage to do that, chances are good he or she will move onto the next web page. In order to make those eight seconds count and lead to a conversion, the landing page must clearly show people what your offer and how you will solve their problems. It should also help to explain what sets you apart from the competition in a very clear and concise way. Keep in mind that a lot of people will land on your site while they are browsing the Internet, and they probably already passed on several similar businesses.\nLet your landing page say and show why you are worth sticking around. For example, the landing page is not a place to talk about yourself\u2014make it all about your products and services and how you will help people. Companies that have a lot of inherent competition are especially advised to use this approach. For example, if you are one of a dozen tire shops in your area, your landing page should include compelling wording that will lead to a conversion. This could be a special offer, 24/7 road service, or another attractive feature of your business.\nInspire Customers to Act\nAnother effective technique for a compelling landing page is to include some sort of call to action, or CTA, that will inspire visitors to the site to do something on the page. This can be a large button to click that will take them to a page to leave their contact info, a link that takes them to a short video about the company, or a clickable phrase like \u201clearn more.\u201d For example, incorporate a billing system and make it easy for your customers to sign up for your services, or make a purchase with a recurring bill pay that can easily be accessed from a landing page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 6261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coursesafter10th.com/entrance-exams/mp-ppt-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:02Z", "digest": "sha1:P2KSUQXSSQ2A7PNN4WBVVYN77GEN3AAW", "length": 11001, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.coursesafter10th.com", "title": "MP PPT 2019: Application, Exam Dates, Syllabus, Eligibility & Result", "raw_content": "Everything you need to know about Madhya Pradesh Polytechnic Admission 2019\nMadhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board (MPPEB) which is also referred as MP Vyapam will organize Madhya Pradesh Pre Polytechnic Test (MP PPT 2019) probably in the month of June 2019. MP PPT is basically a state level entrance examination which conducts for admission to various Polytechnic diploma programmes. Candidates, who want to appear in MP Polytechnic exam for taking admission in polytechnic courses offered by several reputed polytechnic institutions in Madhya Pradesh state, should submit their MP PPT 2019 application form as per schedule. The application process for MP PPT 2019 will be commenced in the month of June 2019 and will end up in the month of May 2019. The applicants interested to apply for the exam can check the important details of the examination from this article.\nImportant Dates Related To MP PPT 2019\nThose students who want to apply for the MP PPT entrance exam in the year 2019 need to submit their online application on the given date. It is requested to all the students to have a look at the schedule mentioned below to have a proper idea of all the important dates as well. Any candidate who submits the application after the passing of the last date will not be allowed to appear in the examination.\nIf you are looking for appearing in the MP PPT 2019 then here are some important dates relevant to the MP PPT 2019. Take a look at them. The official dates and other related information are announced by the authority. If there is any change in the dates or if the candidates have any confusion then they can visit the official website of MP PPT\nThere are many important events involved in MP PPT examination such as opening & closing dates for the application process, availability of admit card, examination date, declaration of result etc. Check the expected schedule for MP PPT below\nThe release date of the online application form will be from the second week of April 2019\nThe end date of the online application will be from the second week of May 2019\nThe online correction will be given to the candidates from the third week of May 2019\nThe admit card will be released by the last week of June 2019\nThe examination date of MP PPT will be from the second week of June 2019\nThe result will be declared in the second week of July 2019\nThe admission will also start from the third week of July 2019\nBefore the students start to fill out the application form, it is important that they should go through eligibility criteria. The candidates should check if they meet the given criteria to sit for the MP PPT 2019. If the authority finds that any student is not eligible then their application will be rejected right away. So, it is really important that the students understand how essential it is to see if they are eligible to apply or not.\nThe eligibility criteria specified by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board has been discussed below. Each student must check these criteria to make sure about the eligibility to apply for the examination. The eligibility criteria are\nNationality: All the applicants who are applying for the MP PPT must be an Indian national.\nDomicile: The applicants must have the domicile of Madhya Pradesh state to apply for MP PPT 2019.\nQualifying Marks: The applicants must have passed the 10th standard examination with Physics, Chemistry & Mathematics subjects scoring a minimum 35% marks.\nException: If an applicant has passed the 10th standard exam with grace marks then the grace marks will not be considered in the calculation of minimum obtained marks in qualifying exam.\nMP PPT 2019 Application Form\nFor all the students who want to apply for the MP PPT test, it is important to register their names on the allocated date. The entire process is very simple. However, for those who want to have a detailed idea, we have the below-mentioned details for you.\nThe submission of application forms can be done from the official website link. It is very important for the candidate to read the instructions carefully before applying for the examination. Please note down MP PPT application form 2019 can only be submitted through online mode. Any other mode of application form will not be accepted except online mode.\nThe official authority of the MP PPT will be releasing all the information relevant to MP PPT before the application form. With the information provided by the authority, the candidates will get all the information that is needed for the registration and the process of form filling. Here is some information regarding the registration of the MP PPT.\nThe online application process will start most likely in the month of April 2019. The application form will only be accepted only through online mode. Candidates can get the application forms from the official website. The applicants have to submit their application form before the last date gets over. Please note down, your application form must contain genuine details only as required in the form, otherwise, your application will be rejected. The applicants must fill the field marks as (*). These are the mandatory fields, hence make sure that you do not leave it blank.\nCandidates have to pay Rs. 400/- as a necessary application fee for general category applicants. On the other hand, the application fee for reserved category applicants is Rs. 200/-. An applicant can pay the application fee either through debit/credit card/net banking or by KIOSK Portal. The application fee is mandatory to confirm your candidature. The applicants need to make sure that they pay the application fee on or before the last date.\nMP PPT Syllabus\nThere is certainly no doubt that MP PPT is one of the most popular and important exams that the students of Madhya Pradesh give. The main aim of the test is to make sure that the institutes select the best candidates who can make a proper career for themselves. So, for those who are interested in applying for the exam, it is important to be prepared. Knowing the syllabus will be a great help in that. The syllabus will tell the students a lot about the questions that will be asked in the MP PPT entrance exam. This will also help them in their preparation.\nThe syllabus of the examination will be prepared from the subjects like physics, chemistry, English and Mathematics. The authorities of MP PPT will prepare the syllabus to form 10th class. The candidates should go through the Science and Mathematics briefly.\nExam Pattern Of MP PPT 2019\nIt is very important that the candidate should know about the exam pattern of MP PPT 2019. It will help them in preparing for the exam in a better way. So, here are a few points that tell about the exam pattern of MP PPT 2019. The examination pattern briefs you the guidelines of the examination to be held on a specified date. The exam pattern will share the information such as duration of examination, type & no. of questions, sections in the question paper etc. & many other details.\nMode Of Examination: The exam will be conducted through online mode.\nNumber Of Questions: 150 questions will be asked in the exam.\nDuration: The complete duration of the exam about 2 hours. No extra time will be provided to the candidates\nLanguage Of The Paper: The question paper will be asked in both Hindi & English language.\nTypes Of Question: The question paper will be consisting of objective type question.\nThe admit card of MP PPT is expected to be available from the first week of June 2019. This is because the authorities generally release the admit card before 2-3 weeks of the examination date. As soon as the admit card is out, the candidates can download it by visiting the official website. The candidates will be asked to give their application number in order to download their hall ticket.\nThe candidates will get their MP PPT admit card through online. Once the admit is out, they can download it\nThe admit card of MP PPT will be released in the first week of June 2019\nIf there is any discrepancy in the admit card of the candidate which is printed, then it is important that should contact the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board\nMP PPT 2019 Result\nThe authority of MP PPT announces the results for the candidates to see whether they have qualified the examination or not. Those students who have qualified will be considered for the interview and other selection procedure. The cutoff mark of the MP PPT entrance examination is announced just a few days before the announcement of the results. The cutoff marks help the students to understand whether they are qualified or not. The students who are not able to clear the cutoff marks will not be considered as qualified. The candidates should look for the following points given below in order to get the result of MP PPT\nThe merit list will be prepared on the basis of qualifying (12th) exam after the declaration of the result. The separate merit list will be prepared for the reserve categories.\nThe authority will publish the MP PPT 2019 result in the first week of July 2019. MP PPT 2019 result will be issued after the completion of the written test. Candidates can check the MP PPT 2019 result through online mode.\nThe candidates will have to enter their roll number and date of birth in order to check the results\nIf the candidate is from a reserved category, then a separate list will be prepared for them\nThe candidates are suggested to take a printout of the result for further admission process.\nAdmission Of MP PPT 2019\nBasically, the performance of the student in the entrance examination will leave direct impacts on the admissions in diploma courses. The students who have qualified will get the ranking & selected in merit list as per their marks obtained in MP PPT 2019. Once the merit list is prepared by the authority, it will be published on the official website. The students have to check their name in the merit list to become a part of counselling. During the counselling, the document verification and admissions will be provided to eligible students.\nMP PPT Counselling\nMP PPT 2019 counselling details will be issued by the authority of the local daily newspaper as well as on official websites.\nCandidates will be given opportunities having to select the course and college in which they are seeking for admission.\nDuring the time of admission, the candidates have to carry all the important documents with them for verification. The important documents that they have to carry are 10th class Mark Sheet & Passing Certificate, MP PPT 2018 Admit Card & Rank Card, Domicile Certificate, Caste Certificate (if applicable), PWD certificate (if required), ID Proof, Passport size photograph (same as in application form).\nPreparation Tips For MP PPT\nHere are some tips for the candidates that are looking to sit in the MP PPT 2019. These tips will help the candidate to prepare for the MP PPT. Go through each of the tips carefully\nOdisha DET 2019: Application, Dates, Syllabus,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 16940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpf.navy.mil/rimpac/2012/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IICI6NWU273NDAHKC7UOMYMGBZ3GH7VL", "length": 1058, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.cpf.navy.mil", "title": "About the Exercise \u2014 RIMPAC 2012", "raw_content": "This year's RIMPAC exercise, the 23rd in the series that began in 1971, is scheduled from June 27 to August 7, with an opening reception scheduled for June 29 and closing reception August 3. Twenty-two nations, 40 surface ships, 6 submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate. Units from Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Republic of Korea, Russia, Singapore, and the United States will participate. Military personnel from Colombia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Republic of Philippines, Thailand, Tonga and the United Kingdom will also participate.\nRIMPAC is a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans.\nVice Admiral Gerald R. Beaman\nRear Admiral Fumiyuki Kitagawa\nRear-Admiral Ron Lloyd\nCommodore Stuart Campbell Mayer\nBrigadier-General Michael Hood\nBrigadier General Richard L. Simcock\nCombined Force Land Component Commander", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cpsbc.ca/for-physicians/registration-licensing/applying/postgraduate/trainees", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XPMV3SUCTKOEXKDZCE2HIDY6BCQTSISE", "length": 2176, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.cpsbc.ca", "title": "Trainees | College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia", "raw_content": "have a medical degree from a medical school listed in the World Directory of Medical Schools which includes the Canada sponsor note\nhave acceptable training that warrants admission to a postgraduate program at the University of British Columbia, if requested by the associate dean of postgraduate medical education\nbe legally entitled to live and work in Canada (work permit)\nmeet the College\u2019s English language proficiency requirements\nbe enrolled in a postgraduate program outside of Canada or the USA\nAll postgraduate trainees must apply to, and be approved by, the postgraduate dean\u2019s office at the University of British Columbia before being granted registration with the College.\nThe College requires the postgraduate trainee\u2019s approval of appointment from UBC, resume, and a letter of request from the department head under whose supervision the postgraduate trainee will be training.\nOnce UBC has approved the postgraduate trainee\u2019s application, the College will be informed via email.\nUpon receipt of that email, the College will email the postgraduate trainee an application package with further instructions. All of the forms must be completed and emailed or mailed back to the College at least six weeks prior to the training start date. Note: Failure to complete all of the forms and meet the deadline could result in registration not being granted on time.\nOnce all the above steps have been completed, the postgraduate trainee must contact the College to arrange for an interview. All original documents (passport, medical degree, etc.) must be brought to this interview. Registration will be granted at that time.\nA non-refundable fee of C$140 is required to complete the application process. A portion of this fee ($40) is required to complete a criminal record check.\nA licensing fee of C$150 is required each year registration as a postgraduate trainee is maintained.\nA certificate of professional conduct must be issued by the postgraduate trainee\u2019s current regulatory authority and be dated 60 days prior to the start of the appointment.\nAll international medical graduates (IMGs) must submit their documents to physiciansapply.ca for source verification.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 6238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crevecoeurfamilydental.com/blog/2015/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6QL34OWVQ3MCPIWXTLZHBL5JWRGTKV6N", "length": 2085, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.crevecoeurfamilydental.com", "title": "July 2015 - Creve Coeur Dental", "raw_content": "Answers to Your Questions About Dental Implants\nIt is true that dentists near Peoria perform dental implant treatments on a routine basis, but it is also reasonable to have questions about a surgical procedure that you may experience in your near future.This safe and effective cosmetic dentistry procedure seeks to restore both the function and the appearance of your smile. Here is a brief look at the answers to some of your questions about dental implants.\nAm I Eligible for Dental Implants?\nAlthough the procedure itself typically goes off without a hitch, not everyone is eligible for dental implants. The only way to find out for sure if this procedure is right for you is to meet with your dentist for a consultation. At this point he or she can explain the details of the procedure and ask you about your medical history. A good candidate for dental implants has plenty of jawbone mass to receive the surgical implant. If you hope to receive dental implants, you should also have healthy gums and good oral health in general; conditions such as periodontal disease may reduce your eligibility for this kind of treatment.\nHow Many Teeth Can I Replace?\nDental implants are advantageous in that they can treat a number of problems. If you are missing a single tooth and concerned with your neighboring teeth, you can use a dental implant as a placeholder. This will keep your surrounding teeth in place and help retain bone mass. If you are missing several teeth in the same area, this point becomes more important. Individuals who are missing all of their teeth may also consider dental implants as an alternative to traditional dentures. Implants will not shift around or fall out of your mouth, as they are permanently installed in your jawbone.\nHow Should I Maintain My Implants?\nOnce you have received your new implants you should take care of them in the same way that you would take care of your natural teeth. Combat plaque and bacteria by brushing your teeth twice each day. You should also floss every day and visit your dentist on a routine basis for regular checkups.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 8339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crfashionbook.com/horoscopes/a24891469/november-12-weekly-horoscope/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:50Z", "digest": "sha1:FH5T72NPSRFCDELHKR3I6JQLUPC7SXUJ", "length": 5388, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.crfashionbook.com", "title": "Your Weekly Horoscope for November 12th - Your Weekly Horoscope for November 12th", "raw_content": "The last days of Jupiter in Scorpio will offer you the chance at lasting love\nSingles are giving off a certain magnetism that seems to attract everyone they come across. As for those already in relationships, you've been making plans for the future with your significant other and need time to implement them! Professionally, if you're in a commercial business, you'll soon take the reins at your company and step into a new leadership role.\nDon't complicate your life by dreaming of an impossible love. Return to reality and consider love interests that could actually come to fruition. For couples, don't make decisions without taking your partner into account. Career-wise, don't hesitate to put yourself out there and hit job milestones in order to benefit your future.\nSingles are playing it cool with potential suitors and of course the strategy works. Be careful about giving off mixed signals, however, because they might start getting tired of your games! As for those already with partners, you keep looking to social outings and parties to escape the routine of your relationship. Professionally, your creative spirit is very much appreciate at work and while your ideas are great, don't forget you also have to think about making money!\nThe last days of Jupiter in Scorpio will offer you the chance at lasting love. In any case, you'll have fun with your newfound fling and sometimes that's enough for you. As for those already in relationships, your other half will soon make a proposal to you that's related to your future together. You'll jump for joy, but you should also wait it out to see how a project evolves before you join. Play it safely if you can!\nA beautiful relationship is beginning to bloom, but try not to rush anything. Just live in the moment and the rest will fall into place. For couples, you've been sharing incredible moments of rare intensity. Professionally, it's possible that an unexpected promotion could be in your future, but don't take anything for granted until a contract is signed.\nYou're very pragmatic this week when it comes to love. You want to go out with as many different, new people as possible but if you can't see a future, you don't want to waste your time. As for those already in relationships, you've been looking after your family so much that spending time alone with your SO feels like a relief. If you don't want to get into a struggle at work about finances, state your expectations from the very beginning.\nSingles are finally feeling more in love, but they also don't want to lose their independence or freedom. In short, you don't want to commit quite yet, but you're very attracted to a certain person. As for those already with partners, your darling does everything in his or her power to please you and suddenly you live in happiness without a care in the world. Professionally, listen to the rumors in your workplace and try to use this information to your advantage.\nYou're so afraid of going wrong again when it comes to romance that even if a lover seems very promising, you don't give him or her the proper chance to foster a genuine relationship, which is too bad because it could be long-lasting. As for couples, coldness in your interactions can sometimes drive a wedge between you two. Try to correct your behavior as quickly as possible in order not to sour the relationship. You'll want to throw everything you have into a contract this week\u2014make sure not to spare any time dawdling at work.\nSingles like to make grand speeches to others about how important it is to stay independent, but have very little to say when it comes to their own love lives. Perhaps you really are craving romance after all. As for those already in relationships, you're able to finally count on someone and use his or her shoulder to cry on. Jupiter will also translate into a possible promotion or at new business trips that will delight you.\nDon't fall back on yourself and become isolated this week. Your friends and new social outings can introduce you to new, exciting people and a connection might spark from there. For those already with partners, you have everything in your power to be happy, except sometimes you can get caught up in family drama. Professionally, you're trying to negotiate a new agreement, but as long as the ink isn't dry yet, try not to talk about it with anyone.\nSingles aren't desperate or craving love and don't feel the need to put themselves out there. You might upset others who really want to be with you and it could be worth it to give them a fair shot. As for couples, your other half wants to live his or her life without the fear of being judged by you. You're also hurrying this week to complete a big project that could have a huge payout for you, but don't let your excitement and haste result in you doing a poor job.\nYou want to fall in love but at the same time, you're too scared to take the risk. Ask yourself if you're standing in the way of your own happiness. As for those already in relationships, you get along so well with your partner that you're beginning to look for problems where there are none. Realize that there is no such thing as a perfect relationship and savor what you already have. Professionally, after a particularly confusing period at work, you're on the road to a better job. Take everything in stride and don't feel too discouraged by minor setbacks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 8153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/crystal-palace-star-relishing-christmas-972208", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:03Z", "digest": "sha1:CGEX7BJDKDWB6WBRV7V5Y5KRBJE6CA2U", "length": 1787, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk", "title": "Crystal Palace star relishing Christmas crackers against Arsenal and Manchester City - Croydon Advertiser", "raw_content": "Luka Mllivojevic\nCrystal Palace star relishing Christmas crackers against Arsenal and Manchester City\nLuka Milivojevic is looking forward to big games over the Christmas period\nLuka Milivojevic is back in the Crystal Palace side following his suspension. (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images)\nCrystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic says he cannot wait to test himself against the likes of Arsenal and Manchester City in the coming days.\nThe Eagles face a tough schedule over the Christmas period, with two homes games in the space of three days against the Gunners and the runaway leaders.\nBut the Serbian midfielder, who scored Palace\u2019s goal in their 1-1 draw with Swansea City on Saturday, says these are the games to look forward to in the Premier League.\nCrystal Palace midfielder Luka Milivojevic scores his side's first goal past Swansea City goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)\nAnd he insists that Palace can go into the matches full of confidence off the back of an eight-game unbeaten run.\n\u201cAfter the first seven games we hadn\u2019t taken any points or scored a goal, but now we find ourselves in a better position on an unbeaten run of eight games, but we now need to continue in the same way in the matches ahead,\u201d he told the club website.\nCrystal Palace midfielder: I was confident I would score from the spot at Swansea City\n\u201cIn the last few weeks we have had a tight schedule and now we have more games so we must be ready for them.\n\u201cThe games coming up are the ones you look forward to play in this league as we have matches against the biggest teams in the league and we will be trying to do the best for our club.\n\u201cIt won\u2019t be easy having the three games in a short space of time, but we know what we have to do and we will be ready for it.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 7729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/gb-hist.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6WYG462XB5KYLDDPTBH5KZ73UNDGE5EK", "length": 22513, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "www.crwflags.com", "title": "United Kingdom - History of the Flag: Part 1", "raw_content": "United Kingdom - History of the Flag: Part 1\nKeywords: united kingdom | union jack | kings colours | great union |\nModern Flag (adopted 1801)\n1:2 | image by Clay Moss, 16 December 2006\nFlag adopted 1 January 1801.\nHistory of the flag 1606-1801\nScottish variant\nEarly designs for a Union Jack\nAdoption of the 1801 flag\n\"What is the correct flag to be flown on land by civilians?\"\nEvolution of the use of the Union Jack as the national flag of the United Kingdom\nMaritime Flag History\nThe oldest surviving Union Flag?\nStandard of Henry VII\nRoyal Standard, 1603-1707\nFlags of the Interregnum (1649-1660)\nRoyal Africa Company\nHistory of the flag: 1606-1801\nimage by \u017deljko Heimer, 24 January 2018\nWhen King James VI of Scotland ascended to the English throne, thereby becoming James I of England, the national flags of England and Scotland on land continued to be, respectively, the red St George's cross and the white St Andrew's cross. Confusion arose, however, as to what flag would be appropriate at sea. On 12 April 1606 a proclamation was issued:\n\"All our subjects in this our isle and kingdom of Great Britain and the members thereof, shall bear in their main top the red cross commonly called St George's Cross and the white cross commonly called St. Andrew's Cross joined together according to a form made by our heralds and sent to our Admiral to be published to our said subjects.\"\nThis is the first known reference to the Union Flag. Although the original design referred to has been lost, it is presumed that it was the flag which, with the addition of the St Patrick's cross, forms the basic design of the British Union Flag today. It is also interesting to note that the new flag was not universally popular nor accepted. The English were not overly pleased at the obscuring of the white field of the St George's flag. The Scots, with more justification, were upset at the fact that the red cross was laid over the white. The Scots proposed a number of alternative designs. These included:\nThe St George's flag with the St Andrew's flag in the canton\nThe St George's flag with a St Andrew's flag in each quarter. In this bizarre design the white cross of the St Andrew's flag does not extend to the corners of the flag.\nThe St George's flag with a St Andrew's flag in the centre\nNone of these are very convincing designs and none were ever used. The Scots did, however, use an ingenious design in which the white cross of the St Andrew's flag was brought forward to overlay the red cross. This flag even seems to have achieved some limited official sanction. When the king visited Dumfries in 1618 he was hailed as the king under whose banner \"the whyte and reid croces are so proportionablie interlaced.\" The word interlaced is held to be significant as it implies the use of the 'Scottish' version of the Union Flag:\nimage by Stuart A. Notholt, 4 May 1996\nAs late as 1693, Slezer, Captain of Artillery and Surveyor-General of Stores and Magazines in Scotland, produced an engraving on Edinburgh Castle in which the 'Scottish' version is shown: again, an implication of actual use. Source: Paul Harris (ed.), Story of Scotland's Flag, Lang Syne Publishers Ltd, 1992. Available from the Flag Research Center.\nStuart A. Notholt, 4 May 1996\nThe design of the Union Flag that preceded the current version was established by a royal proclamation of 12 April 1606. However it was for use only at sea in civil and military ships of both Scotland and England. In 1634 its use was restricted to the king's ships. The flag went out of use in 1649 when England became a commonwealth but was restored for use in the king's ships after the restoration in 1660. The flag became 'the ensign armorial of the United Kingdom of Great Britain' as one of the provisions of the Act of Union in 1707, when the kingdoms of England and Scotland were united.\nDavid Prothero, 2 July 1998\nimage by Tomislav Todorovic, 16 May 2013\nAccording to Hulme, \"The Flags of the World\" (1896), p. 46: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Flags_of_the_World there was another proposal, with white Scottish saltire, fimbriated blue, placed over the red English cross on white field. In Hulme's opinion, this variant was probably rejected because \"here we get false heraldry, the blue in contact with the red, and in any case a rather weak-looking arrangement\".\nImage source: http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Flags_of_the_World/Plate_9\nNote that the legend for this illustration is erroneous: \"Scotch suggestion for Union Flag, 1801.\", as is the legend for the variant which was used: \"Suggested Form[s] for second Union Jack.\"\nTomislav Todorovic, 16 May 2013\nAnother variant seems to have been in use, with the Scottish saltire in blue superimposed over the red English cross on white field. It is shown on a ceiling boss from Linlithgow Palace, currently exhibited in the National Museum of Scotland, which depicts the Scottish royal unicorn (heavily damaged - the head no longer exists) holding a flag with this design. The original paints of the flag have been rather paled by age, and even seem to have been peeled off in some places, but are still recognizable, and seem to reveal that there was no white fimbriation between blue and red. The boss is dated c. 1617, not long after the original Union Jack was adopted, and clearly suggests that the Scottish variants of the flag, this one at least, might have had some official use, since this depiction of it comes from a royal palace.\n[1] Wikipedia page about the Union Jack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_jack#Other_proposed_versions\n[2] Large photo of the Linlithgow Palace ceiling boss at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Linlithgow_Palace_unicorn_boss,_c.1617.JPG\nThis one-off example shows it to have been unique and indicates the chance of the artist's ignorance.\nChristopher Southworth, 21 August 2014\nThat may have been the case. On the other hand, there is the variant given by Hulme which has some resemblance to this one. Unfortunately, we currently don't know Hulme's sources. And I think that we should not forget similar flags from the cartoons by James Gillray although these display English cross over the Scottish saltire and at least some of them are certainly erroneous. All of these varying designs, which still strikingly resemble each other, probably did not just come out of nowhere.\nimage located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 23 August 2014\nHere is the relevant part of the Wikipedia image. I'm not sure what to say. It looks like the orthogonal cross has been removed completely, be it by time or human hand. Where the shape left behind shows most clearly, it does looks like there is some sort of fimbriation to the blue.\nPeter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 23 August 2014\nAlthough the red color is indeed less preserved than blue, there still seems be left some. And the parts which might look like a white fimbriation, also look like the result of damage, and in the other parts, blue and red are contiguous. I forgot to add that the flag is actually a painted bas-relief, the areas in different colors also having different elevations, which helps in recognizing the orthogonal cross even there where is very little color left, if any.\nI would see there's no red left at all. What we see is the building material (dark), an undercoat (pale) or two, and the blue and white paints. The shadows along the edges show what is deeper and what is higher. I find it a bit suspect that the red disappeared so completely. Either it was of poor quality, or its disappearance was assisted.\nMaybe some reddish wood was intentionally chosen? Either is possible, although I'd still opt for the first variant - after all, Scottish symbol was placed over the English one, which might be enough to make a number of potential removers give up. Also note that the hoist arm of red(dish) cross is not completely separated from blue saltire by what resembles a white fimbriation - there is a small part where two areas are contiguous.\n\"Scottish symbols\" by William McMillan (Paisley: Alexander Gardner, n.d. but approx. 1915), p.219, in discussing the provision of the Treaty of Union that the crosses of St. Andrew and St. George should be combined in all British flags,\nobjects to the much greater prominence given to the St. George's Cross in the White Ensign, and proposes an alternative. The author says: \"In it the field would be divided between the white fields of St. George and St. Patrick and the\nblue field of St. Andrew. The four bars [presumably horizontal although he goes not specify this] would also represent the four separate kingdoms [sic] which make up Britain\". He must have been counting wales as a Kingdom, which\nwould not be the official view, either then or now. I do not suppose that any attention was paid to this suggestion, although at the same period there were complaints that some English Regiments were permitted to use the St. George's\nCross as the basis of their colours, whereas Scottish Regiments could not use the St. Andrew's Cross.\nKenneth Fraser, 12 November 2015\nby Ivan Sache\nThe June edition of \"BBC History\" magazine has a short piece marking the four hundredth anniversary of the Union of the Crowns in 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England. This included a photograph of a series of designs for a Union Flag, here redrawn by Ivan Sache. The caption to the article said: \"Cross countries: designs for a Union flag, kept in the National Library of Scotland, c 1604 by an unknown artist; the Note of Preference is signed by the Earl of Nottingham\" [this note was attached to the fifth design, per pale Cross of St. George, Cross of St. Andrew.]\nAndr\u00e9 Coutanche, 25 May 2003\nAs a matter of interest, the 'impaled' design was actually used (from c1643) as a jack by Royalist ships in the English Civil War. Another design not shown had a quarterly arrangement - Cross of St George first and fourth, Cross of St Andrew second and third - and this is known to have been used as a jack on at least one occasion (1623).\nby David Prothero\nA drawing of the Union Flag that was sent to the Office of Stores for the Navy Board, on 15 November 1800 was marked, 'Union Flag from 1st January 1801 (c)', but the fimbriation had been made by reducing the width of the red diagonal. The drawing, as reproduced in the Mariner's Mirror (Journal of the Society for Nautical Research), is shown here.\nIt was found among a collection of drawings and letters from the office that organised flags for the Navy. The collection of correspondence was closed in 1837 and apparently retained in the Secretary of the Admiralty's Office until 1949, when it was handed to the Admiralty Library. It is unlikely that it was ever seen by William G. Perrin. Commander Hilary P. Mead R.N. described it in two articles in the Mariner's Mirror, April 1951 and February 1952. He commented that the drawing, \"differed somewhat from that in Perrin's plate IV.\" I wonder if the change was made by accident or design?\n\"Admiralty Office, 15 November 1800.\nA Report from the Lords of the Committee of the whole Council, dated 4th instant etc., etc. [details of decision to issue a Royal Proclamation]\nThat the Committee were further of opinion that the Union Flag should be altered according to the Draught thereof marked (C) in which the Cross of St George is conjoined with the Crosses of St Andrew and St Patrick:\nAnd that the Standard be the Arms of the United Kingdom according to the Draught marked (B);\nAnd that on and after the First Day of January next ensuing the said Flags and Banners should be hoisted and displayed on all His Majesty's Forts and Castles within the United Kingdom, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, and Man, and also on board all His Majesty's Ships of War, then lying in any of the Ports or Harbours of the said United Kingdom, or of the Islands aforesaid, and on board His Majesty's Ships employed on Foreign Service, as soon after the said First Day of January next as His Majesty's Proclamation or Order in Council shall be received by the Commanders of His Majesty's Ships employed on Foreign Service; We herewith transmit to you a Printed Copy of His Majesty's Order in Council of the 5th instant approving the Report of the Lords of the Committee afore-mentioned, and do hereby desire and direct you to cause such Flags and Standards as may be necessary to be prepared conformably to the said Draughts for the use of His Majesty's Ships of War at Home and on Foreign Stations, and to be supplied with them accordingly, with all the dispatch that may be.\nYou are also to cause the Colours described in the said Order in Council to be hoisted in all the Dock Yards of the Kingdom upon the 1st Day of January next, and to supply the necessary Colours for the use of the Naval Hospitals at Home, and the Naval Yards and Hospitals abroad, in the manner directed by the said Order in Council;\nWe are Your affectionate Friends,\nArden, J.Gambier, W.Young. Navy Board.\"\nNote by John David Rolt, chief clerk in the Office for Stores, the Navy Board. Memorandum ( to C ). \"The Ensign is Red, White and Blue according to the Colours of the Admiral's Flag, who bears it, with this Union Jack in a Canton in the Upper or Chief Dexter corner, and next the staff.\" Mead notes; \"The Union Flag is from 24 to 18 breadths and is allowed to Flag Ships only. The Jack is the same in all respects except in sizes, which are from 10 breadths downwards.\nDavid Prothero, 2 February 2003\nThe Admiralty version of the Union Flag, shown above, is, in fact, a corruption of the herald's original intention. In the Admiralty version (still of course in use today) fimbriation to the saltire of St Patrick is created by taking it from the saltire itself instead of from the field, whereas, according to the original design the saltires of St Andrew and St Patrick should be of equal width with a fimbriation added. The colour illustration (preserved in the Privy Council papers) and blazon supplied by Sir Isaac Heard (Garter King-at-Arms) was - in accordance with Article One of the Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland - approved by the King in an Order in Council of 5 November 1800. The Act of Union was then proclaimed in London Gazette No. 15324 dated 1 January 1801, with the blazon (accompanied by a monochrome drawing) reading as follows: \"...that the Union Flag shall be azure, the Crosses Saltires of St Andrew and St Patrick Quarterly per Saltire, counterchanged Argent and Gules; the latter fimbriated of the Second surmounted by the Cross of St George of the Third, fimbriated as the Saltire\".\nWhich brings me to the Great Union of 1900. In preparing a design for the War Office the College of Heralds returned to the original blazon and correctly made the saltires of even width with a fimbriation added, however, whilst it is obvious from the 18th Century illustration that the phrase \"fimbriated as the saltire\" was intended to mean 'fimbriated in the same colour as the saltire', the late-Victorian heralds wrongly interpreted this as meaning of 'the same *width and* colour'.\nI checked some documents that might have had information about the introduction of the new Union Jack in 1801.\nThe Captains Logs from ten RN ships in commission on 1 January 1801, selected at random, produced three references to the occasion. Blanche in Portsmouth \"hoisted the (something, possibly 'union') colour\", Phoebe in Cork \"fired salute of 21 guns to celebrate union between Great Britain and Ireland\" and Agincourt at Spithead did the same, though a day later on 2nd of January.\nThe notice that announced the Red Ensign was headed;\n\"Caution to Masters of Merchant Vessels Against Wearing Unlawful Colours. By the King a Proclamation, First Day of January 1801.\"\nIt included a small drawing of the Red Ensign in black and white with the colours indicated by words. The width of the diagonal stripes was in proportions 1-2-3, arranged with the wider white stripe uppermost not only in the first and third quarters, but also in the second and fourth quarters.\nThe introduction of the present Union Jack appears to have been more complicated than the usual accounts suggest. It obviously depended upon the Union actually taking place, and this required the assent of both British and Irish parliaments, but in December 1799 the Bill was rejected by the Irish parliament. It was re-introduced in the New Year and finally passed its Third Reading on 7 June 1800. I do not know if the corresponding Bill had already been passed by the British parliament, or whether it was done shortly afterwards. It received the Royal Assent on 2 July 1800, (40 Geo. III c. 67).\nThe article in the Act relating to the flag stated; \"That it be the first Article of the Union of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, .... that the ensigns, armorial flags and banners thereof shall be such as His Majesty, by his royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, shall be pleased to appoint.\"\nHowever it appears that the flag had already been designed, and some examples made. On the following day, 3 July, the Duke of Portland, Home Secretary, wrote to Viscount Castlereagh, Chief Irish Secretary ending, \"... and, as to the new Union Flag, that, though ready, was not hoisted, because we found out that we have no right to use it until the first of next year, when the Union takes place.\" http://www.actofunion.ac.uk/castlereaghindex.php?volume=3 Documents 352/353.\nPerhaps it had been intended that the Union should take place on the first day of the new century ? The Order in Council of 5th November 1800 seems to have been a formality.\nWhether the Union Jack is an \"official national flag\" depends upon ones interpretation of the phrase. It is the official royal flag of a monarchy, and thus the kingdom's national flag, but its use by private individuals or bodies has been sanctioned by parliamentary statements, not by legislation.\n22 October 1902. Mr Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury. The questions which have been raised as to the proper use of flags have received careful consideration by the Government, but they are unable to adopt the course of action suggested. Nor does it appear desirable to undertake the legislation that would be necessary in order to regulate the general use by civilians, or any class of civilians, of any particular flag on land. It is a matter which is best left, as hitherto, to the guidance of custom and good taste.\n[By way of further explanation, the First Lord of the Treasury is one of the other offices of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom - and in fact is written on his letterbox at his office at 10 Downing Street, London. This would indicate the high level at which this matter was being deliberated at that time.\nSource: Web site of the British Prime Minister, http://www.10downingstreet.gov.uk, consulted 12 June 2006.\nColin Dobson, 12 June 2006]\n9 May 1912. Colonel M'Calmont. To ask Prime Minister whether the Union Jack is the emblem of the nation rather than the sovereign, and if this is so, in the event of the Government of Ireland Bill becoming law, will it be competent for the Irish Parliament to eliminate the cross of St Patrick from the national flag. Mr. Asquith. The Union Jack was established by Royal Proclamation under the Act of Union and is as much a matter of prerogative as the Royal Standard.\nWhat is the correct Flag to be flown on land by Civilians?\nThis answer was based upon a Minute by Garter, King of Arms:\n\"There is no Flag in existence answering to this general description. Civilians generally are not authorised to fly or display any Flag. Peers and gentlemen entitled to bear Arms have a right to fly from their Castles or residences a banner of their Arms. The Royal Standard appertains to the Sovereign alone. The Union Flag of the United Kingdom is used by authority throughout the Army and Navy, and the State Departments, usually with some modification or addition by way of distinction. The Union Flag, being the National Flag, appertains to the Nation as a whole, and cannot be considered as specially distinctive of individuals, or groups of individuals. The common practice on occasions of national rejoicing of displaying the Royal Standard and the Union Flag indiscriminately with other Flags must be regarded as an attempt to express loyalty by means of decoration. As to Public Buildings, Schools, etc - State Buildings should fly the Union Flag. Schools etc., should fly the Flag displaying their proper Arms. Municipal Buildings should fly a banner of the Arms of the particular Corporate body. The issue of a Royal Warrant touching this matter would, in my opinion, be inexpedient.\nSir Arthur W. Woods.\"\nA 1902 Home Office Minute on the question:\nThere appears to be no such thing as a \"correct\" flag for use by civilians on land. It seems that any one who has a coat of arms may display them on a flag, and the Union Flag has been used without restraint. A warrant under the Act of Union can be and has been issued fixing the ensigns, ceremonial flags and banners of the United Kingdom, but this warrant does not relate to such flags as private people may fly. The Union flag has been used indiscriminately for a very long period. There is no power by law to interfere with the use on land of any flag even the King's Standard. Any such warrant as proposed would therefore be accompanied by no means of enforcing it. There seems no reason why the state should intervene as to flying flags on land, (except as regards the King's Standard). To attempt to enforce any rule would bring the state into conflict with Trades Unions, the Royal Order of Ancient Buffaloes, the Foresters, and for all we know the processions of the Roman Catholics and Ritualists (etc). In fact it is impossible to say where it would end. To lay it down that all schools should use, say the Union Jack, would at once provoke a number of schools in Ireland to display a green flag with a harp, or a sunburst, the Socialists to display red banners. Is the state then to interfere and compel them all to use the Union Jack only ? Such an attempt would I think raise a veritable hornet's nest. The true answer is I think, that \"there is no 'correct flag' for use on land except the Royal Standard by the King, and possibly coats of arms by those who possess them. There is no power at law to enforce the use of any flag. 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Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet in Yalta, Crimea, from 4 to 11 February 1945, to decide the post-war fate of Nazi Germany and plan the constitution of democratic governments in liberated Europe.\nThe Yalta Conference (4 to 11 February 1945)\nMeeting from 4 to 11 February 1945, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin meet in Yalta, Crimea, to discuss in particular the future of Germany and Poland.\nReport on the Crimea Conference (Yalta, 11 February 1945)\nMeeting from 4 to 11 February 1945 in Yalta, Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin discuss the future of Nazi Germany and plan the formation of democratic governments in liberated Europe.\nProtocol of Proceedings at the Yalta Conference (11 February 1945)\nAddress given by Franklin D. Roosevelt (Washington, 1 March 1945)\nOn 1 March 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President, gives an address at the US Congress in Washington in which he details the outcome of the Yalta Conference discussions with Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, and Joseph Stalin, Marshal of the Soviet Union.\nLetter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Joseph Stalin (29 March 1945)\nOn 29 March 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President, writes to Joseph Stalin, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, insisting that he comply with the decisions on the Polish question taken at the Yalta Conference.\n'A real-life experience: the Yalta Conference' (RTL, 31 March 1961)\nReactions to the Yalta Conference\n\u2018Black sea fruit' from The New Statesman and Nation\nOn 10 February 1945, the British weekly periodical The New Statesman and Nation focuses on the political issues of the Yalta Conference attended by the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, the American President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, Joseph Stalin.\n'Conference of the Big Three in Yalta' from the Luxemburger Wort\nOn 13 February 1945, the Luxembourg daily newspaper Luxemburger Wort comments on the outcome of the Yalta Conference and reflects upon the fate of post-war Germany.\n\u2018Decisions taken by \"the Big Three\"' from Le Figaro (14 February 1945)\nOn 14 February 1945, in an article published in the French Conservative daily newspaper Le Figaro, the journalist and diplomat Wladimir d\u2019Ormesson makes an initial assessment of the results of the Yalta Conference.\n\u2018The Yalta Conference' from Le Monde (14 February 1945)\nOn 14 February 1945, the French daily newspaper Le Monde comments on the outcome of the Yalta Conference and speculates on the role that France intends to play in settling the German question and ensuring the establishment of peace.\n'From Yalta to San Francisco' from Combat\nOn 14 February 1945, the French daily newspaper Combat is circumspect about the decisions taken at the Yalta Conference.\n\u2018Hitler is now merely an illusion \u2026\u2019 from Het Parool (27 February 1945)\nOn 27 February 1945, after the Yalta Conference, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Parool considers the political future of Europe and Germany.\nStatement by Winston Churchill to the House of Commons (27 February 1945)\nOn 27 February 1945, Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, presents the principle findings of the Yalta Conference to the House of Commons, focusing on Germany\u2019s fate and the Polish question.\nJames F. Byrnes, Speaking Frankly\nIn his memoirs, James F. Byrnes, Foreign Minister under US President Harry S. Truman between 1945 and 1947, recalls the negotiations on the German and Polish questions during the Yalta Conference held from 4 to 11 February 1945.\nWinston S. Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy\nIn his memoirs of the Second World War, Winston Churchill recalls the Yalta Conference, held between 4 and 11 February 1945, and reflects upon the talks on the fate reserved for Germany after the end of the war.\n'Yalta, from failure to myth' from Le Monde (5 February 1985)\nFrom 4 to 11 February 1945, the Yalta Conference was attended by Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin who were to determine the future of Europe. Forty years on, Andr\u00e9 Fontaine questions the real significance of the Conference in an article published in the French daily newspaper Le Monde on 5 February 1985.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 7014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 132.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cyclepedia.com/manuals/online/free/wheels/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:08Z", "digest": "sha1:3D3TY6SDE5AUXM5D2O6KOMKSLRE4RSDH", "length": 96, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cyclepedia.com", "title": "Wheels | Common Service Manual", "raw_content": "This chapter covers information and servicing procedures for the wheels of motorcycles and ATVs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.czechtrade.us/milan-kwaczek/mini-breweries", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:40Z", "digest": "sha1:AMRI3662KTJ7YZOZBQVZJU2UNNDALODE", "length": 275, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.czechtrade.us", "title": "Mini-breweries", "raw_content": "The mini-brewery is a plant, which has been especially modified to production of beer from the malt extract. Thanks to the remarkable technology, the mini-brewery produces beer of unmistakable taste. The mini-brewery can produce any sort of beer according to customer demand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 177.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2013-01-15-proteas-vs-new-zealand-daily-mavericks-player-ratings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:23Z", "digest": "sha1:OH3ZHDJVD6G5KMILNTGHKDKFDJTAMST2", "length": 8219, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.dailymaverick.co.za", "title": "Proteas vs. New Zealand: Daily Maverick's player rating...", "raw_content": "Proteas vs. New Zealand: Daily Maverick's player rating...\nProteas vs. New Zealand: Daily Maverick\u2019s player ratings\nBy Ant Sims\u2022 15 January 2013\nA crushing performance in general, with some crushing individual performances to boot. That was the general idea when South Africa whitewashed New Zealand 2-0. ANT SIMS ventures into tricky territory and rates the men who demolished the Black Caps.\nGraeme Smith \u2013 6/10\nGraeme Smith takes a lot of flak from South African supporters. The \u201cjoke\u201d amongst them is that he only scores runs every 15 innings. On quick reflection, it might seem true \u2013 truer if you\u2019re from the \u201cSmith is useless and shouldn\u2019t captain the team\u201d school of thought. Oddly enough, he\u2019s only once gone 15 innings without scoring more than fifty. Biff, as he is affectionately known, is a tremendously successful captain, and after being thrown into the deep end at the age of 22, he has grown and evolved and generally become more likeable.\nHis technique might not leave you in awe, but perhaps that\u2019s one of the things that makes Smith so fascinating: despite being completely unorthodox, he still manages to score runs at the top of the order. A bad knock in Cape Town was followed up by a nifty fifty in Port Elizabeth, and his captaincy has been good too.\nHe\u2019s used his bowlers well and while when to declare has hardly played a part, he backed his bowlers in the first Test and was a nice enough to allow Dean Elgar to get a ton in Port Elizabeth. Sweet.\nAlviro Petersen \u2013 6/10\nAmidst all the records broken at Newlands, Alviro Petersen scored a ton. It was a fine effort from the opener who seems to do quite a lot of things slightly under the radar. He couldn\u2019t quite follow up his Cape Town efforts in PE, and his fielding in the slips wasn\u2019t exactly up to his usual standards. He dropped a couple of catches, much to the frustration of Dale Steyn, and while he admitted that the last hour on day two in Cape Town was \u201cjust terrible cricket\u201d all round from the Proteas, the opener played a rather needless shot to get out in the first innings in the second Test.\nDean Elgar 6/10\nA scratchy innings against some village bowling, a dropped catch in the gully and generally still looking out of sorts in the Test set-up encompassed Elgar\u2019s performance in the first Test. He followed it up with a solid hundred in Port Elizabeth on a pitch which was far trickier than the one in Cape Town. Elgar will be tested again in the upcoming series against Pakistan, but he can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that he\u2019s not as useless as his debut performances made him appear.\nJacques Kallis 6.5/10\nJacques Kallis passed 13,000 Test runs in Cape Town. Thirteen thousand! As if that\u2019s not enough, he also took two wickets in the second innings. While he did flop with the bat in Port Elizabeth (scoring just eight), he managed to get rid of Dean Brownlie and break the one New Zealand partnership which was actually looking threatening.\nKallis is, without argument, one of the best cricketers to ever walk the planet, yet he\u2019s somewhat under-celebrated for some reason. And while his score does underline that under-celebration, it shouldn\u2019t be seen as a reflection of his overall class. As a whole, Kallis\u2019 contribution to the side is irreplaceable. With the ball, with the bat, in the slips. He is a colossal legend.\nAB de Villiers 7/10\nSince doing a 180 about this whole keeping wicket in Test thing, AB de Villiers has taken quite a bit of stick (including on these pages). But it seems as though South Africa\u2019s blue-eyed boy has finally shaken off the shackles and he\u2019s slotting into his dual role without his performances being too shoddy. He\u2019s far from your typical keeper, which is perhaps why some might struggle to adjust to him behind the stumps, but rules and stereotypes are there to be smashed to pieces. De Villiers\u2019 keeping is getting better with every match, and his batting seems to be getting back to that level of pizzazz which makes him one of the most enjoyable players to watch.\nFaf du Plessis 7/10\nEverybody thought that Faf du Plessis simply wasn\u2019t the Test match type. Some thought he didn\u2019t have the temperament, the skill or the talent. He\u2019s played just four Tests, but he averages 111.25 in those matches. Not bad for a guy who supposedly isn\u2019t Test quality. Despite that reputation, Du Plessis is quickly becoming a massive asset to the Proteas. He\u2019s a brilliant fielder and seems to score hundreds at will with just the right mix of class and flair \u2013 epitomising the modern cricketer.\nRobin Peterson 7/10\nThere is nothing spectacular about Robin Peterson. He doesn\u2019t have the bamboozling deliveries so many spinners boast with, but his strength lies in his ability to always get batsmen out with a stock ball: the slightly slower one which doesn\u2019t get up. Since his return in Perth, Peterson has come into his role in the Test set-up with ease. In Cape Town he got rid of Brendon McCullum with exactly that kind of ball. In Port Elizabeth he picked up four wickets in similar fashion. Those who are fans of The Art Of War will know that feigning inferiority to encourage arrogance in the opposition is a key strategy \u2013 even in civilised wars, such as cricket matches. Peterson has that bit down.\nMorne Morkel 7/10\nMorne Morkel often bowls very well with little luck, and it was very much the same in the two Tests against New Zealand. While he battled with inconsistency in Australia, he seems to have fixed that nagging problem. He conceded just two extras in the first Test and just one in the second. He partnered Dale Steyn well and picked up a few wickets for good measure \u2013 perhaps not as many as he deserved, but he never dropped his head despite some understandable frustration.\nRory Kleinveldt 7/10\nRory Kleinveldt has grown enormously since making his debut in Australia. And no, we don\u2019t mean around the waistline. He dished up some superb deliveries, unplayable deliveries on a pitch which had plenty to offer the bowlers. Bouncing back from a poor performance on debut takes some doing, and things can only get better from here for Kleinveldt.\nVernon Philander 9/10\nHe might have played just one Test, but Vernon Philander was so utterly destructive in the first innings at Newlands that giving him anything below nine would be an utter travesty. It was one of the finest spells of bowling many ever had the pleasure to witness, and the Ravensmead Wrecker proved once again just how threatening basic line and length bowling can be. His 6-3-7-5 could very well end up being the best figures for a bowler this year. It was poetry in motion.\nHashim Amla 9/10\nHashim Amla\u2019s talents seemingly know no bounds. His wrists are so spectacularly impressive that some have suggested when he eventually dies they should be preserved in formaldehyde. He looked in good touch in the first Test until walking across his stumps cost him, but in Port Elizabeth, the Mighty Hash was completely flawless and sheer batting perfection.\nFor a man who, at the start of his career, was thought to not be good enough for this international Test cricket lark, Amla has proved critics so very wrong, time and time again. He\u2019s started 2013 where he stopped in 2012: a bowler\u2019s worst nightmare.\nDale Steyn 11/10\nDale Steyn bagged his 300th Test wicket in Cape Town. He became the tied third-fastest to achieve that feat. Steyn is good. Scratch that: he\u2019s the best. When he was asked whether he realised just how good he actually was, he laughed and insisted that he\u2019s got much more left in those legs of his.\nHis bowling has been perfect throughout the series, and barring the few blips here and there which would only be spotted by a hyper-critical person like Steyn himself, he\u2019s been sensational and finished the series off where his incredible career first began nine years ago. He had a rough start in his first Test, but whatever demons lingered around PE for him have surely now been exorcised. DM\nPhoto: South Africa\u2019s players celebrate the wicket of New Zealand\u2019s Doug Bracewell (not pictured) on day four of their second cricket test match in Port Elizabeth, January 14, 2013. REUTERS/Rogan Ward\nSouth Africa national cricket team\nSri Lankan cricket team in South Africa in 2011?12", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 12114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.daltontomich.com/the-three-takeaways-from-the-third-global-gathering-of-the-wesleyan-covenant-association/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:30Z", "digest": "sha1:AW4SFY5HDPFWGF627XJCMFHT6VO2QXIN", "length": 3076, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.daltontomich.com", "title": "The Three takeaways from the Third Global Gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant Association - Dalton Tomich", "raw_content": "Written by Daniel P. Dalton on November 4, 2018 Category: Church Property Disputes/Denominational Splits\nIt was a privilege to attend the Third Annual Global gathering of the Wesleyan Covenant Association (WCA) meeting in Marietta, Georgia on Saturday November 3, 2018. Having attended the prior gatherings in Houston, Texas and Chicago, Illinois, it was good to see how much this grass roots organization has grown over the past two years. Aside from the legislative update, the uplifting music and terrific sermons, there were a few takeaways from this event that should give hope to those concerned with the future of the United Methodist Church and the February 2019 General Conference.\nFirst, the WCA will be offering a \u201cmodified\u201d Traditionalist Plan at the February General Conference that will include many of the items originally included in the plan but found to be unconstitutional. The modified plan will take into consideration the issues raised by the Judicial Council and address them with a new proposal that will fit within the constitutional concerns.\nSecond, there are other proposals that were sent to the General Conference that include an amicable separation that are outside of the Traditionalist Plan. On November 26, 2018 the list of proposal will be published and we are aware of at least three proposals that were submitted that included proposals that would allow local churches to leave the denomination, retain their property and pay only the unfunded pension liability of their annual conference. We do not know if any of this proposals will actually be voted on at the February General Conference and likely will not know until the Committee of the Whole, which will be the entirety of the General Conference delegates, makes the decision as to what to vote on at the February meeting. However, there are other proposals pending that allow local churches to leave and this may be helpful for those looking to start anew.\nThird, there are WCA branches that have started, or are in the process of incorporating, in every annual conference in the United States and in many of the Central Conference jurisdictions throughout the world. The movement continues to grow and now includes several United Methodist Bishops who agree with its purposes. The conference itself had thousands of people attending and watching around the world. The takeaway is that there is strength in numbers. If the Traditional Plan does not pass, or if no plan passes, the WCA is ready to pivot to another way forward sixty days after the General Conference.\nThis is truly a year of uncertainty within the United Methodist denomination. We have advised our clients, and continue to advise local churches, that they need to prepare for the change well in advance of the February conference. Call or email Daniel Dalton at Dalton & Tomich PLC to find out what your church should do to prepare for the upcoming changes in the denominational relationships. Learn more about the Methodist Trust clause and find out what documents you should gather by going to our website, here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 8128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.damiadenuga.com.ng/i-am-not-a-feminist-i-dont-believe-women-are-kings-annie-idibia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:XOSU7DC4A2E6OITWHIKJ45BMQ4M3TX6S", "length": 707, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.damiadenuga.com.ng", "title": "I am not a feminist, I don\u2019t believe women are kings \u2014 Annie Idibia ~ Dami Adenuga", "raw_content": "I am not a feminist, I don\u2019t believe women are kings \u2014 Annie Idibia\nMother of two, Actress Annie Idibia has weighed in on the gender equality, feminism debate. Annie spoke with 234stars, and she said she is not a feminist and does not believe that a woman can be King. Annie says a woman can only be a Queen and not a King. When asked if she is a Feminist, the mum of two said\nAnnie Idibia says\n\u201cNo, not really but I believe in women empowerment. I believe that men are still Kings and women are queens. I don\u2019t believe a woman is a king\u201d.\nWatch a clip from the interview below;\nhttps://www.damiadenuga.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/I-am-not-a-feminist-I-don\u2019t-believe-women-are-kings-\u2014-Annie-Idibia.mp4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.danefitness.com/welljournal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:11Z", "digest": "sha1:U7HG7ZT7PEN44SWUH5LD2BJL4PX53DHN", "length": 20697, "nlines": 89, "source_domain": "www.danefitness.com", "title": "Journal \u2014 Nashville Fitness Equipment Sales & Service | Dane Fitness", "raw_content": "Mountain Biking / April 11, 2016 by Dane Burks\nI have been an avid cyclist for almost 20 years but for about the past 5 have been Mountain biking or trail riding whichever you prefer to call it. I love it; there is nothing better than riding through the woods with only the sounds of nature, your bike, breathing, and music.\nHealth & Wellness, Homepage Feature mountainbiking, Lock4, thebikerschoice, crosscountry, trailriding, outdoorfitness April 11, 2016\nA Mission Driven Organization / March 24, 2016 by Deanna Burks\nSupporting The YMCA: A Mission-Driven Organization\nBy Dane Burks\nI started my career in Wellness more than 22 years ago in college. It seems that I have done every job there is in one fashion or another so I can, at least, say I am well rounded. I worked for the YMCA of Middle Tennessee for eight years before starting my company but continued to be involved in YMCA. I donated my time as a training instructor for four years after I left and probably certified/orientated 500 people to the Y\u2019s strength training methodology.\nWellness for All ymca, advisoryboard, communitygiving, volunteer, missiondriven, strongfamilies March 24, 2016\nRemembering Mark / March 8, 2016 by Deanna Burks\nI recently took a trip up to Columbus with Dane and my cousin Jason to see the events at The Arnold Classic. It was a great experience to see all the amazing athletes, and we got to watch the Olympic lifters with Arnold himself. He was taking selfies with the lifters in the background \u2014 we got a giggle out of that!\nThough it was an incredible exhibit of human feats of strength and the amazing things people can do when they choose, this article isn't about that. Not directly, anyway. It's not about Olympic lifting, or powerlifting, or Strongman, or Crossfit. It's about a person that I miss and love dearly. A person I lost about 20 years ago.\nAs I watched the powerlifters do some incredible lifts - some up to three times their body weight - it brought back memories of Mark. He was my first cousin and a natural athlete. He was not only that, he was someone I respected very much.\nWhen we were kids, he would come to our house and work doing whatever he could around the house to earn money. He was always ambitious. He was working and saving, and growing. And growing. He'd come inside and down a gallon of milk. It would drive my mother crazy! She'd get up to make eggs or cereal and say \"Where's the milk? I just bought a gallon yesterday, where did it go?\" Mark would be at our house daily and daily he'd eat everything in the house. My memory of him at this time, around age 14, was of a tall, lanky boy and his push mower always with a gallon of milk in his hand.\nHe was tall and lean and powerful. He got it honestly. Our grandfather was a big, strong man. His father is a big, strong man. It was in his genes.\nWhen I was about 20 years old, I moved to West Palm Beach, Florida to live with Mark at the beach. He was the same age as me but somehow seemed so much older and wiser. He had his own business, took care of his younger siblings who were still in high school. He drove a Corvette, had a great house, and a giant cell phone (it was 1990). I looked up to him. He was so very all-American and inspiring.\nHe started powerlifting when he was in his early 20s. Very quickly, he became a top lifter in the South. While I lived with him, I got to witness firsthand the life of a powerlifter: the diet of massive amounts of protein and hours in the gym training. He loved it. And, I loved watching him lift. He would always do Arnold impressions.\nHe loved everything. Life was good for him. Beautiful girlfriend, all of the material things, strength, looks, friends, family. I would ask him, what if something happens and you lose everything and he would say \"I made this once, I can do it again.\" I will never forget that. That one comment from him had a profound effect on me.\nHe worked hard to make a good living and he was generous and big-hearted. Not only did he care for his siblings and help raise them, but he also gave me a place to live for free. With Mark's help, so many of our friends and family lived better lives.\nAround 1997, close to the time my mother and grandfather had both passed away, Mark injured his back lifting and started taking OxyCodone for the pain. The drug took hold and he was in its grips, unable to break free. It was so hard to understand. I'd seen drug addiction plenty of times and how it would wreck families. But how could this happen to Mark? He was formidable in every way: mentally, emotionally, and physically. Our family was devastated by this. Seeing him lose his will, shrink down to an unrecognizable figure that didn't even resemble the young man he was six months before was more than we could bare.\nWe prayed for him constantly. The family talked with each other regularly trying to find a way to help him back to the life he had before. We weren't successful and shortly after he died from a drug overdose at 27 years old.\nI realized, after my recent trip to The Arnold, that I never really grieved over losing him. Already numb from the loss of my mother and grandfather, I didn't allow myself to feel the tremendous pain from losing someone else so close to me. Mark wasn't unbreakable as I thought. That was just my youthful perspective. He had a good head on his shoulders, but we are all at risk of having a bad day that we don't recover from. That is life.\nTo Mark: You were amazing. Kind, loving heart. I'm sorry beyond what I can express that your life ended too early. I admired you so much. You would have done so much more, given more time. Your words of wisdom, your love, and your memory will always drive me and always be with me. I miss you.\nNew Products On The Way To Our Warehouse / December 10, 2015 by Deanna Burks\nIt's the annual YMCA of Middle TN trade-in time and these fitness products plus several other truck loads are headed to our Gallatin warehouse now. Call Kristin at 615-584-2517 or email her at kristin@danefit.com for more information.\nWhich Treadmill Is Best For Me? / June 29, 2015 by Deanna Burks\nOne piece of equipment that can be useful and convenient for a runner is a home treadmill. But with dozens of choices, it can be hard to choose the right one. In my opinion it is best to talk to someone who specializes in exercise equipment. These experts, however, are not usually found at a large retail store (such as a \u201cbig box\u201d sports store). Your best bet is to talk to local specialty shop. Since I run a local specialty shop, my advice might be perceived as biased, but I do know fitness equipment. If you want to consider all the options and find what suits your needs, an all-in-one shop like ours is where you should start your search. What I mean by an all-in-one shop is a place that sells new, used, and refurbished commercial fitness equipment along with service and delivery.\nHere's a quick little questionnaire to help you figure out which treadmill will suite your needs:\nWhich Treadmill?\nSettling on a Budget\nWhat if you don\u2019t know what to spend? Let\u2019s clear that up. Consumer Reports suggests you spend at least $1000, but most of the top-rated treadmills are $1500 and up. Precor is usually at the top of the list and in my experience they make a good product with good customer support. It is important to know that manufacturers of fitness equipment make them in tier levels. 1. Residential, which is usually the cheapest and can be found in any big box store. 2. Vertical market/light commercial, typically used in hotels/apartments, is more expensive but more durable. 3. Commercial, what you would find in a YMCA or Gold\u2019s Gym, is the most expensive and it is usually a shock to find out how expensive. The increase in price gets you an increase in durability, stability, function and the amount it can be used continuously. The easiest way to explain it is to think of Ford Trucks. You have basically three options, Ranger, F150, and Super Duty F250/350 and with each choice you get an increased degree of function and capability. The truck model analogy brings up a fourth choice: used or refurbished commercial fitness equipment. Like cars and trucks, used can be a good choice because you get a low mileage unit with all the features for as much as half of what you would pay for it new.\nSo what unit or tier should you invest your money in?\nIf you go out and buy a $500 treadmill from one of the big box stores then you are basically buying a throwaway unit. Typically these places do not cover the warranty on the product; the manufacturer does. The manufacturer then subs out the warranty work to a third-party contractor. Residential service can be challenging to schedule so sometimes you can wait a month or more before you get service. Once the warranty expires, then labor and travel rates apply which can be anywhere from $100 to $150 and that is just for the diagnostic fee. If the service tech cannot repair the unit in the first visit, which often happens, then you will be billed a return-visit fee plus the cost of parts. This will eclipse the cost of the treadmill to replace one part.\nThe next option is a vertical market or light commercial unit which will usually cost anywhere from $1500 all the way up to $4000 for a high end one. These units have better quality and stability and are designed to be used several hours a day by multiple users. They come with decent warranties and are usually worth repairing at least one time out of warranty for the lower cost units. To find these units you typically have to go to a specialty store like ours.\nThere you will come in contact with new commercial equipment which can range in price from $4000 all the way up to $15,000 for the most expensive. Commercial units are designed to be used continuously 8-plus hours a day by every kind of user imaginable. Once a person tries a commercial unit, it is hard to use lesser products. This is where the dilemma comes in. The commercial feels the best but the price point of the light commercial is what most people are willing to spend. Enter the used/refurbished option.\nBuying Used or Refurbished\nYou can have the quality and durability of a commercial treadmill for around the cost of a light commercial treadmill. These units are more expensive to repair but extended warranties are usually available. Treadmills that cost $7000-plus retail can be had for $2500 to $3000 refurbished. If purchased from a good shop, then service is easier and less expensive because the used unit can be repaired with used or rebuilt parts, dropping the cost of service in half. So in a nutshell, a little more investment will get you a high-quality treadmill.\nIf you invest your money in a commercial treadmill, new or used, what does that get you in features compared to the other tier models? Treadmills all have some standard features. In all diagnostic records that I have seen stored on treadmill memory, most users use the quick start/manual option 90% of the time while only 10% actually use a program. I mention this so people will not get wrapped up in the program listing. All commercial treadmills come with user programs, a 12 to 14 mph max speed, elevation to 15%, contact and telemetry heart rate, and a varying degree of screen data. iPod connectivity comes standard now on some but not all. Personal video screens are not standard and is an awesome feature but it is also very expensive to repair outside of warranty. The cost of wall-mounted TVs has come down so much that this is the option I recommend for entertainment. In my opinion, a simple commercial treadmill with the basics is the best option. Features are great but can lead to a lot of service frustration.\nI have brought up service several times in this article. Service technicians are some of the most under-respected individuals in the fitness industry. They keep millions of the machines going every year so member/customers do not miss their workouts on their favorite treadmill. They know more about the equipment then the manufacturer in some cases and will give you an unbiased opinion about which ones are the best. They are a good reference if you want to know details about a particular brand or model. They also deal with the manufacturers on a daily basis so they know which ones have the best customer service. (Why am I so high on service technicians? I started my company as one.)\nSo when do I need one? First, always get your owner\u2019s manual when you purchase a new treadmill. It will have a preventive maintenance schedule in it on how to care for you treadmill weekly, monthly, bi-annually, and annually. It will also usually have a list of error codes that your treadmill may prompt when something is malfunctioning. These error codes can lead you to a simple solution for repair or signal you to get more professional help. My dad use to tell me to pick a dealer not a car so you get the total package. The same applies with fitness equipment, especially commercial. Reputable stores will have full-time service technicians and a stock of parts for the products they carry or easy access to them. In most cases, they will have options for lower repair costs with rebuilt or used parts. If you are close then you also have the option of bringing your treadmill to them to have it repaired so you won\u2019t have a travel charge. Some shops offer moving and logistics services in case you ever want your treadmill moved. So choose a reputable shop and you will be pleased with the outcome.\nWe have been in business for 10 years in service and sales but we started as a service company. We have done work for just about every major commercial fitness equipment manufacturer. We are doing service work for at least 15 manufacturers right now and these are the ones that I feel have good product and good customer service: Cybex, Matrix, Precor, Schwinn, Stairmaster, and Freemotion. They all have strengths and weaknesses but for the most part these are good companies.\nI hope that this article has been helpful. Give me a call if you need to know more.\nFounding Partner of Dane Fitness. Cyclist, Former Ironman Competitor. Dad and Husband. Scientist. Philanthropis\nWhat To Watch Now / June 25, 2015 by Deanna Burks\nThere are several eye-opening documentaries on Netflix right now that will change the way you look at food. Here are a few that we've seen.\nHealth & Wellness food, eating, foodindustry June 25, 2015\nEmployee Wellness Programs Are A Strategic Imperative / May 19, 2015 by Deanna Burks\nEmployee wellness programs have often been viewed as a nice extra, not a strategic imperative. But the data show otherwise. The ROI on comprehensive, well-run employee wellness programs can be as high as 6 to 1.\nCorporate Wellness, Health & Wellness, Wellness for All, Homepage Feature employeebenefits, workplacewellness, workplace, corporatewellness June 25, 2015\nThe Complete Guide to Workout Nutrition [Infographic] / May 18, 2015 by Deanna Burks\nConcerned with maximizing your workout results? Of course. See how nutrition plays a key role in getting the most effective results with this Greatist nutrition guideline graphic.\nWellness for All, Health & Wellness nutrition May 18, 2015\nDane Fitness Offers Corporate Wellness Events / May 16, 2015 by Deanna Burks\nIs your team healthy but tense and ready for a physical challenge? We\u2019ll design a camp that leaves them physically spent but mentally invigorated.\nAt the other end of the spectrum, we can design a program for those unaccustomed to regular exercise, introducing them to the benefits of eating right and being active. We promise to push them a little, but not so much they\u2019ll miss work the next day.\nLululemon Support Strong Women for Mother's Day / May 7, 2015 by Deanna Burks\nPosted by lululemon athletica Hill Center on Wednesday, May 6, 2015\nlululemon, mothersday, twelvetwelve, nashvillegulch, nashvilleliving, nashvillecitylife May 16, 2015\nWith Obesity, We Suffer As A Nation / June 19, 2014 by Deanna Burks\n\"If we're going to thrive as a nation, we really have to change that focus on sickness and illness to one of health, prevention and wellness.\" - U.S. Surgeon General Lushniak\nhttp://www.indystar.com/story/life/diet-fitness/2014/06/17/us-surgeon-general-physical-inactivity-major-public-health-issue/10708683/ May 16, 2015\nSustainability / December 5, 2013 by Deanna Burks\nThere is a high cost to equipment replacement. It\u2019s not just financial. There are also enormous environmental costs to making new equipment. Fitness equipment is manufactured from steel, plastics, and electronics. Each time Dane Fitness refurbishes a piece of equipment so that it can be reused, that much less raw material has to be mined, manufactured, and processed. In addition, we often repair components rather than replace them, lessening the environmental impact from the manufacture of new components.\nThe YMCA Offers Hope, Healing for Breast Cancer Survivors / October 11, 2013 by Deanna Burks\nThe YMCA's After Breast Cancer program provides comprehensive nutrition, exercise and wellness services free of charge to breast cancer patients and survivors. During the 16-week program, participants receive full access to the Y, a custom wellness plan designed by a Pink Ribbon Certified personal trainer, nutrition counseling from a registered dietitian and encouragement and support from caring staff members as well as fellow breast cancer patients and survivors.\nhttp://ymcamidtn.org/programs/support-groups/after-breast-cancer May 16, 2015\nA sneak peek at our interview with WNAH today. / September 11, 2013 by Deanna Burks\nTell me how this company got its start.\nDeanna: The company got started out of a need for good service in the industry. Great products were available but service was lacking. Treadmills were down, service would take weeks and customers were unhappy. Dane, who was working for the YMCA at the time, left his job and started out working on Star Trac equipment. Then a week into it, he had a bike wreck and broke his arm.\nCorporate Wellness, Wellness for All corporate wellness, employee fitness, healthy workplaces, employee benefits, health and wellness, community giving, group fitness, fitness reviews, personal fitness, fitness equipment May 16, 2015\nBe Inspired: Follow us on Pinterest / September 10, 2013 by Deanna Burks\nBe inspired. Find motivation. Pin with us.\nhttp://pinterest.com/danefitness/inspiration/ Wellness for All fitness inspiration, fitness motivation May 16, 2015\nWhen To Retire A Running Shoe / September 3, 2013 by Deanna Burks\nGet tips from one of the world's best distance runners, Ryan Hall.\n\u201cI know that my shoes could probably handle a couple of hundred more miles before they are worn out, but my health is so important to me that I like to always make sure my equipment is fresh,\u201d he said.\nOf course Mr. Hall, sponsored by Asics, does not have to pay for his shoes. Most of the rest of us do, and at around $100 a pair they aren\u2019t cheap. Yet we are warned constantly to replace them often, because running in threadbare shoes may lead to injuries that can take months to heal.\nhttp://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/when-to-retire-a-running-shoe/?smid=pl-share Wellness for All, Homepage Feature Running Shoes, new running shoes, when to retire running shoes May 16, 2015\nDane Wins 1st In Lock 4 Race / September 2, 2013 by Deanna Burks\nCongrats to Dane for winning first place in his age group at the Lock 4 Mountain Bike Race yesterday, representing Team Biker's Choice!\nWellness for All wellness, racing, do what you love, mountain bike racing May 16, 2015\nJust A Little Heart Attack! / August 27, 2013 by Deanna Burks\nStarring and directed by Emmy-nominated actress Elizabeth Banks. \"A little film about a super mom who takes care of everyone except herself\" -- Elizabeth Banks\nWellness for All prevention, heart health, AHA, Elizabeth Banks, heart attack, signs of heart attack May 16, 2015\nProject Emotion: Pearl Izumi new line up for 2014 / June 28, 2013 by Deanna Burks\nPearl Izumi launches the new line of running shoes for 2014. Our friend Bryan Baddorf dropped by to show off the new styles, which will be available around early in 2014.\nNew School Fitness Center Opens for Students, Faculty, and Parents / May 15, 2013 by Kristin Wilson\n\u201cI get choked up.\u201d\nThat\u2019s how Dr. Ron Woodard, principal of Maplewood High School, responds when asked to describe the impact of the school\u2019s new fitness center for students, faculty and parents. The new center\u2019s grand opening was April 29, 2013. Mayor Dean and Journey Johnson, CEO of the YMCA, attended the opening along with several other community and business leaders.\nwellnessforall May 16, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 22160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dawgnation.com/tag/mykel-jones", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5S7ABJMLRZJ5ZTHOCBBCDFO7OOLXP4UP", "length": 204, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.dawgnation.com", "title": "- DawgNation", "raw_content": "Friday\u2019s Recruiting Rewind\nWelcome to Friday, folks. Give us about three more of those and we\u2019ll be watching real football around the South on Friday nights. Forget the stars and rankings. That\u2019s still...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 2135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dazetrader.com/site/excerpt-from-yerr-10k-2nd-last-paragraph-is-the-kicker/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:QDW56F7NZ2CFEE4TNP45HFSLLDQN2HBP", "length": 4396, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.dazetrader.com", "title": "Excerpt from YERR 10K - 2nd last paragraph is the kicker! - www.DazeTrader.com", "raw_content": "Excerpt from YERR 10K \u2013 2nd last paragraph is the kicker!\n(FORMERLY KIRIN INTERNATIONAL HOLDING, INC.)\nThe consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of Yangtze River Development Limited (the \u201cCompany\u201d or \u201cYangtze River\u201d) and its subsidiaries, Energetic Mind Limited (\u201cEnergetic Mind\u201d), Ricofeliz Capital (HK) Limited (\u201cRicofeliz Capital\u201d), and Wuhan Yangtze River Newport Logistics Co., Ltd. (\u201cWuhan Newport\u201d).\nThe Company, formerly named as Kirin International Holding, Inc., and Ciglarette, Inc., was incorporated in the State of Nevada on December 23, 2009. The Company was a development stage company and has not generated significant revenue since inception to March 1, 2011.\nOn March 1, 2011, the Company entered into a share exchange agreement that Kirin China Holding Limited (\u201cKirin China\u201d) became the Company\u2019s wholly-owned subsidiary. Kirin China engaged in the development and sales of residential and commercial real estate properties, and development of land lots in People\u2019s Republic of China (\u201cChina\u201d, or the \u201cPRC\u201d).\nOn December 19, 2015, the Company completed a share exchange (the \u201cShare Exchange\u201d) with Energetic Mind and all the shareholders of Energetic Mind, whereby Yangtze River acquired 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Energetic Mind, in exchange for 151,000,000 shares of Yangtze River\u2019s common stock, which constituted approximately 88% of its issued and outstanding shares on a fully-diluted basis of Yangtze River immediately after the consummation of the Share Exchange, and an 8% convertible note (the \u201cNote\u201d) in the principal amount of $150,000,000. As a result of the Share Exchange, Energetic Mind became Yangtze River\u2019s wholly-owned subsidiary and Jasper Lake Holdings Limited (\u201cJasper\u201d), the former shareholder of Energetic Mind, became Yangtze River\u2019s controlling stockholder. The Share Exchange transaction with Energetic Mind was treated as an acquisition, with Energetic Mind as the accounting acquirer and Yangtze River as the acquired party. The financial statements before the date of the Share Exchange are those of Energetic Mind with the results of the Company being consolidated from the date of the Share Exchange.\nEnergetic Mind owns 100% of Ricofeliz Capital and operates its business through its subsidiary Wuhan Newport.\nWuhan Newport was a wholly owned subsidiary of Wuhan Renhe Group Co., Ltd. (the \u201cWuhan Renhe\u201d), a company incorporated in the PRC as at September 23, 2002. On July 13, 2015, Wuhan Renhe transferred all of the equity interests of the Company to Ricofeliz Capital, a company incorporated in Hong Kong on March 25, 2015. Ricofeliz Capital was incorporated by Energetic Mind, a company incorporated in British Virgin Islands (\u201cBVI\u201d). Energetic Mind was incorporated by Mr. Liu Xiangyao on January 2, 2015, and was subsequently purchased by various companies incorporated in BVI or the United States of America (\u201cUSA\u201d), among whom Jasper became its 64% owner. Jasper was 100% owned by Mr. Liu Xiangyao, a Hong Kong citizen.\nThe major assets of Wuhan Newport include land lots for developing commercial buildings that are in line with the principal activities of Kirin China.\nOn December 31, 2015, the Company entered into certain stock purchase and business sale agreements (the \u201cAgreements\u201d) with Kirin Global Enterprises, Inc. (the \u201cPurchaser\u201d), a California corporation and an entity controlled by a former officer and director of the Company whereby the Company sold its interest in certain subsidiaries (see note 11) for an aggregate of $75,000,002. (the \u201cSale\u201d).\nPursuant to the terms of the Agreements, Jasper agreed to finance the Sale by reducing Company\u2019s financial obligations of the Note by an aggregate of $75,000,000. In addition, the Purchaser agreed to pay the remaining two dollar in cash.\nUpon completion of the Sale, the Company operates its business solely through its subsidiary Wuhan Newport, primarily engaging in the business as a port logistic center located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in the PRC.\nhttp://www.otcmarkets.com/edgar/GetFilingHtml?FilingID=11587312\nAuthor DazeTraderPosted on September 22, 2016 Categories Uncategorized\nPrevious Previous post: $NVAX charts & options market analysis, suggests the majority didn\u2019t anticipate stock price below $4.00 per share.\nNext Next post: $AEXE excerpts from most recent quarterly report 10-Q.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 7458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.deansjewelry.com/blog/2017/Mar/20/man-steels-namesake-scores-744-carat-supermans-dia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:45Z", "digest": "sha1:R62KFZGE6KGX6DTKQS7S2QS2AAHZZWJV", "length": 3499, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.deansjewelry.com", "title": "Deans Jewelry: The Man of Steel's Namesake Scores 7.44-Carat 'Superman's Diamond' at Crater of Diamonds State Park", "raw_content": "The Man of Steel's Namesake Scores 7.44-Carat 'Superman's Diamond' at Crater of Diamonds State Park\nThe origin story of Superman tells us that The Man of Steel was born Kal-El on the planet of Krypton and was sent to Earth as an infant by his scientist father, Jor-El, just before Krypton's destruction. On Saturday, March 11, 14-year-old Kalel Langford of Centerton, Ark., celebrated his connection with DC Comics' superhero by naming the 7.44-carat brown gem that he picked off the surface of the search field at Crater of Diamonds State Park \"Superman's Diamond.\"\nSuperman's Diamond is the seventh-largest diamond found at the Murfreesboro, Ark., park since 1972. About the size of a pinto bean, the gem exhibits a dark brown coffee color and has a frosty appearance. Its shape has been compared to that of a pillow or a kite.\nThe teenager and his family, who live in the northern part of Arkansas near the Missouri border, made the 250-mile drive south to attend a baseball tournament, but extended their trip to fulfill the young Langford's dream of visiting the only diamond site in the world where amateur prospectors get to keep what they find.\nLangford paid $10 to enter \u201cThe Pig Pen,\u201d the 37 1/2-acre plowed field that is actually the eroded surface of the eighth-largest, diamond-bearing deposit in the world. Within 30 minutes, he had spotted the shiny brown gem just a few inches from a stream of water near the park's East Drain. The diamond was amidst other rocks that were about the same size, but Langford had a hunch that his stone was special.\nHe picked up the gem and called to his dad, Craig Langford, who was searching nearby.\n\u201cIts color was so dark that we weren\u2019t sure if it was a diamond,\" said the dad, \"but we knew we needed to have it looked at.\u201d\nKalel and Craig Langford stopped by the Diamond Discovery Center to have their finds identified, and Kalel was shocked to learn he had found one of the biggest diamonds in the park\u2019s history.\n\u201cConditions were ideal for Kalel to find his diamond,\" noted Park Interpreter Waymon Cox. \"About an inch of rain fell on the plowed search area during the week. A heavy rain can uncover larger diamonds near the surface. Diamonds have a metallic-looking shine and are often easier to spot on top of the ground.\u201d\nKalel's parents didn't realize the connection to the infant Superman when they named their son. Nevertheless, the lucky teenager chose to honor the superhero by naming his gem Superman's Diamond. Kalel has no immediate plans to have the gem faceted and set into a piece of jewelry. For now, he plans to keep it as a souvenir.\nLess than two years ago, Colorado resident Bobbie Oskarson found an 8.52-carat white diamond at the park. Her icicle-shaped gem, which she named \"Esperanza,\" was expertly cut into a 4.64-carat D-flawless \"triolette\" diamond, which will be offered for sale at Skinner\u2019s fine jewelry auction in Boston tomorrow, March 21. It is expected to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000.\nSo far this year, 97 diamonds weighing a total of 26.84 carats have been registered at Crater of Diamonds State Park. The three most common diamond colors found at the park are white, brown and yellow, in that order. In total, more than 75,000 diamonds have been unearthed at the Crater of Diamonds since the first diamonds were found there in 1906 by John Huddleston, a farmer who owned the land long before it became an Arkansas State Park in 1972.\nCredits: Photos courtesy of Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 7200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 221.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.decisionmarketing.co.uk/reviews/sport-relief-mile-door-drop-campaign", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TZXMDR5YQMRLIQV2N5LXXW6GCLVLS6N2", "length": 1965, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.decisionmarketing.co.uk", "title": "Sport Relief Mile door-drop campaign - DecisionMarketing", "raw_content": "The Sport Relief Mile, the biennial event where many of us dust off our shorts and T-shirts, is looming. We\u2019ve all seen the plugs on the BBC and been enthralled by David Walliams\u2019 and John Bishop\u2019s efforts, that to most of us seem superhuman and frankly mad.\nI was recently equally impressed by the Sport Relief door-drop to entice people to sign up to run the Mile, devised in-house by the charity. The highly colourful front, featuring a pantomime horse, is consistent with the trailers on the BBC promoting the event, which will help drive recognition and stand out on the doormat, while at the same time communicating the fun nature of the whole event.\nThe layout on the reverse of the mailer clearly reinforces the message on the front, and is laid out clearly and concisely.\nIt\u2019s great to see that the copy is highly localised and written in a fun and engaging way. But true to Sport Relief\u2019s form, it also includes a serious message.\nIn this case it is in the form of a local case study, communicating how Manchester benefits from this fundraising event. This case study helps to further drive empathy with the aims of the event and so further help to motivate a response. Furthermore, the clear online call to action \u2013 a unique URL \u2013 makes it easy for interested participants to sign up at home, as well as make the campaign highly measurable.\nWith door drops delivering a physical presence in the home, evidence shows they are often kept, referred to and actioned at leisure. This is vital in this campaign where consumers will be constantly reminded about the Mile on the BBC and via other media as the deadline to take part inches closer.\nOverall, this mailer is a great example of how targeted, localised and responsive door drops should be created. In particular, how they can deliver more in-depth information on an event that other channels would find hard to match.\nPhilip Ricketts is head of door to door strategy, sales and marketing at Royal Mail", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.deltaquestmedia.com/work/career-hunter", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:16Z", "digest": "sha1:THPHBAMYMXNPRCW5EYOT6M7ZUZOZPUQ6", "length": 2504, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.deltaquestmedia.com", "title": "\u2018Career Hunter\u2019 project at DQ Media", "raw_content": "Work Career Hunter\nA testing platform that helps people find their ideal career.\nTo create a series of tests that will help users determine the career path they should follow. They also required the development of a complex technical structure to administer the tests and generate results based on each individual user\u2019s answers.\nBrand Creation & Logo Design\nWeb & Technical Development\nWe were tasked with creating a brand that would reflect the digital service that would be offered to a young and probing audience. Career Hunter takes into account the entire concept of helping its test takers find their ideal career path. The logo was crafted around this, as well as a hunting theme by using a compass symbol.\nWe needed to build a platform to support the advanced testing algorithm, as well as generate results for users who take the tests. We also created a specific function to generate a detailed report for users once they completed all the tests. In addition to the more intense technical programming, we were also responsible for creating and integrating the eCommerce functionality on the site that would allow Career Hunter to sell its services to users.\nWith Career Hunter, not only are the site\u2019s webpages fully responsive and cross device compatible, but the testing environment is also accessible from any computing device with a compatible web browser. The platform was designed in a user-friendly way and has been optimised for speed so that all users can have a trouble-free testing experience. Work has also been done to optimise pages for higher click through rates and performance.\nWe were not only tasked with the planning and creation of the website, but also with the making of the entire scientific process and algorithms behind the tests. With the help of occupational psychologists, psychometricians and career counsellors, we were able to create and thoroughly test working formulas to help map results to recommended careers. Career Hunter now has a database of over 200 professions that can meticulously be linked to each user\u2019s test results.\nOne of the goals of Career Hunter was to build partnerships with educational institutions. With that in mind, we had to build up a full corporate identity that fully represented their testing platform. The folder we created was done using a cutting knife for the shape and foil to bring the logo to life. 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This must be saved.\u2019 \u201d\nTime has been a bit harsh to the Moorish-style brick building tucked away on what was the Jewish Consumptives\u2019 Relief Society campus on Pierce Street north of West Colfax Avenue.\nThe JCRS facility cared for 10,000 of the people who flowed into Colorado for treatment of consumption \u2013 known today as tuberculosis \u2013 in the first half of the 20th century.\nMany patients were Jewish \u2013 though no one was turned away from JCRS because of race, religion or inability to pay \u2013 and the synagogue was built in 1925 to provide them with a place to worship.\nJCRS closed the sanitorium in 1954, and the property was purchased by AMC Cancer Research Institute and, more recently, by the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.\nThrough the years, the synagogue was vacant, suffering water damage, peeling paint and heaving wood floors.\nThe synagogue, which is on national and state historic registers, also needs to be brought up to code. But the structure \u2013 from its dome to its leaded-glass windows and its stout foundation \u2013 are sound.\nA small group, including Goldman and his wife, Susan, formed a nonprofit group to raise $500,000 for the work. So far, $100,000 has been contributed.\nToday, a celebration of art, music, storytelling and books is planned from 1:30 to 4 p.m. in the Mary Harris Auditorium at the Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design. Admission is $18 per person.\nThose who have donated to the fund will be recognized, including the Colorado Historical Society and family members of those who originally built the synagogue.\nSaving the structure is important, said Winifred Ferrill, Lakewood\u2019s lead historic curator.\n\u201cIt is the oldest religious building left standing on its original site in Lakewood,\u201d Ferrill said. Secondly, \u201cits very presence continues the story of the JCRS and its commitment to serving humanity during the \u2018white plague.\u201d\u2018\nThe preservation effort is \u201ctremendous,\u201d said Mayor Steve Burkholder, and \u201cthe building tells a story about the history of Lakewood and Denver. 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If a disability doesn\u2019t result from a work-related incident, it won\u2019t be covered under workers compensation insurance, and Social Security isn\u2019t always available in a timely manner or to the extent that a worker needs it.\nAs an employer, you are in an excellent position to help your staff get that extra income protection they need in the case of disability. A Group Disability insurance policy, whether for a short-term disability or a long-term disability, is much more affordable than an individual disability policy. Many employers offer disability insurance as a voluntary benefit, meaning the employee pays the premiums but still at a group rate, depending on your company\u2019s participation level.\nAt DiNicola Insurance Services, we partner with top-rated insurers that provide not only excellent Short-Term and Long-Term Disability insurance, but also resources and support that improve employee health and help reduce the incidence of disability at your company. 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Equivalent to one minute of latitude on a navigation chart.\nConical navigation buoy that is usually red.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 4085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.divinitybc.org/mod/forum/view-thread.php?thread_id=7283", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MEYEUDWD4CYTOUUUX7TSTTOGXIK5KXMZ", "length": 7204, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.divinitybc.org", "title": "Divinity Missionary Baptist Church - www.indianapoliscoltsteamonline.com", "raw_content": "Manager Ron Gardenhire called it a punch in the gut. The staggering Detroit Tigers now have to find a way to recover quickly and end their six-game losing streak.Nicholas Castellanos\u2018 three-run homer gave Detroit a 4-1 lead against the Oakland A\u2019s on Monday Authentic Darius Leonard Jersey , but the bullpen couldn\u2019t hold it. Oakland finished off the rally with Jed Lowrie\u2019s solo homer in the ninth inning against Tigers closer Shane Greene.The teams match up again on Tuesday night.The Tigers\u2019 slide began during a two-game series in Cincinnati. They were outscored 26-3 while getting swept in a three-game series at Cleveland before Monday\u2019s late collapse.\u201cWe all knew this was going to be a work in progress,\u201d Gardenhire said. \u201cYou\u2019re going to go through some ups and downs.\u201cBelieve me, these (ones) are getting kicked in the gut right here because we really worked at it today and we had a lot of good moments. We didn\u2019t have too many in Cleveland. These are the ones the challenge you. These guys will learn from this and we\u2019ll get better from it, I hope, but it doesn\u2019t make us feel any better today. We\u2019ll come back and regroup tomorrow.\u201dFor the most part, the back end of Detroit\u2019s bullpen has been reliable. Main setup man Joe Jimenez hadn\u2019t given up a run in nine one-inning appearances this month before allowing three in the eighth. Greene hadn\u2019t given up a run in 10 of his previous 11 outings.\u201cThat hadn\u2019t happened in a long time,\u201d Gardenhire said, referring to Jimenez\u2019s outing. \u201cProbably early in the season was the last time he\u2019s done anything like that and kind of had to fight it a little bit. Who knows? Maybe it\u2019s because they haven\u2019t been pitching enough lately. We went through a stretch where we didn\u2019t use those guys four or five days and maybe that\u2019s it, a little rusty.\u201dOakland\u2019s power display continued as Stephen Piscotty homered earlier in the game. The A\u2019s have now homered in 26 straight road games, a major league record.Frankie Montas, who has been Oakland\u2019s most effective starter for the past month, will oppose Blaine Hardy in the second game of the four-game series.Montas (4-1, 2.41 ERA) has produced four quality starts in five outings since being recalled from Triple-A Nashville in late May. He has allowed just one run in 14 2/3 innings in two road starts, including his last appearance at San Diego on Wednesday.The Padres only managed one run with five hits in 6 2/3 innings and Montas had six strikeouts.He\u2019s 1-2 with a 7.88 ERA in three career outings against Detroit, including two starts.Hardy (3-1, 3.30 ERA) jumped into the Detroit rotation when Jordan Zimmermann and Francisco Liriano were on the disabled list. With both of those veterans back, Hardy is now part of temporary six-man rotation.He made six consecutive starts and allowed two or fewer runs in five of them before a relief appearance in Cincinnati on Wednesday. He faced four batters against the Reds and recorded only one out.Hardy has made 10 career relief appearances against the A\u2019s, posting a 1-0 record and a 1.74 ERA.Bartolo Colon has long had two milestones on his mind. Now he has both of them in hand. The 45-year-old right-hander overcame a sluggish start to earn his 245th major league win and match Dennis Martinez for the most by a pitcher from Latin America when the Texas Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 13-4 on Saturday night.Colon already had the most wins by a pitcher born in the Dominican Republic, having surpassed Hall of Famer Juan Marichal for that distinction with his 244th victory at Kansas City on June 18 Authentic Braden Smith Jersey , six days before a loss at Minnesota. Colon won again Saturday in his first home start since June 6 to tie Martinez, who is from Nicaragua. Asked if he was able to put all his achievements in perspective, Colon made it clear there were two that were especially important to him.\u201dNot every milestone,\u201d he said through a translator. \u201dMarichal and Dennis Martinez, and I got those.\u201dThe night was done for Colon (5-5) after Matt Davidson led off the sixth with a homer to center field that pulled the White Sox to 5-3. Four relievers closed it out for Texas.\u201dWe want to be able, if he\u2019s got an opportunity, to put the W behind his name to make sure he gets this,\u201d manager Jeff Banister said. \u201dObviously we want to win every game we possibly can, but a situation like this for him, and the overall history and his impact on the game, and impact on himself, and just what it means for the game of baseball.\u201dJoey Gallo and Ryan Rua homered for the Rangers, who won for the 11th time in 13 games and clinched their fifth consecutive series. Robinson Chirinos hit a three-run double in the fourth inning that put Texas ahead to stay.White Sox lefty Carlos Rodon (1-3) allowed five runs in 5 1/3 innings.Shin-Soo Choo, who has a major league-best on-base streak of 41 games, didn\u2019t play for Texas because of right quad soreness. Choo said he has dealt with the issue for at least 10 days and it really bothered him recently.Chicago\u2019s first two batters got hits, though neither scored. Colon then threw 42 of his 79 pitches in the second inning, when he gave up three hits and his only two walks while the White Sox took a 2-0 lead.\u201dHe\u2019s kind of my half-hero,\u201d Chicago manager Rick Renteria said. \u201dI told (pitching coach Don Cooper), look at that guy. He\u2019s still out there getting after it. Good for him. \u2026 Even though he gave up a couple runs early Authentic Kemoko Turay Jersey , he just kept pitching. No panic, no concern, just keep throwing strikes and let me see what happens.\u201dAffectionately nicknamed Big Sexy, the portly Colon retired 10 of 11 batters before Davidson went deep. Colon even got over to cover first base in time to get speedy Leury Garcia, who dove headfirst as the pitcher took a toss from Gallo to start the third. Colon had a grin on his face walking back to the mound.\u201dI thought that if I didn\u2019t get the guy out, I was going out,\u201d Colon said. \u201dSo thanks that happened that he was out, so I could continue the game.\u201dSHORT HOPSThree White Sox pitchers combined to throw 65 pitches in the eighth inning, when the Rangers scored seven times. The big hits were a two-run triple by Elvis Andrus and a two-run double by Jurickson Profar. \u2026 Adrian Beltre had two hits, increasing his career total to 3,107 \u2013 the most among active players and three shy of Dave Winfield for 20th all-time.TRAINER\u2019S ROOMWhite Sox: 3B Yolmer Sanchez was back in the lineup after missing the series opener with a bruised left quad sustained when he collided with Minnesota 1B Logan Morrison on Thursday.Rangers: Choo doesn\u2019t think his quad issue is serious, but said he didn\u2019t want to make anything worse. \u201dI know I have the streak going on, but my body and staying healthy is more important,\u201d he said. \u2026 LHP Martin Perez (right elbow) allowed two singles in six scoreless innings in his second rehab start, throwing 73 pitches for Double-A Frisco.UP NEXTRangers left-hander Cole Hamels (4-6, 3.61 ERA), one of the top starters potentially available before the July 31 trade deadline, pitches the series finale. 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Former band members were welcomed, once again, into the fold and began to diligently practice for the upcoming event.\nS\u00e9amus Boyle worked with the chairperson of the parade, Anne Tighe in Birmingham, to get matters organised.\nTable quizzes took place, 'The Goats don't shave' played a gig at Caisle\u00e1n \u00d3ir. The hotel was packed on that occasion.\nHowever, the highlight of the fundraising events was when Bu\u00edon Cheoil Anagaire reached the top of Mount Errigal.\nOn reaching the peak, they played a few tunes,which could be heard in the Poison Glen in Dunlewey.\nIt is claimed that no other band has undertaken such a feat.\nNew uniforms, fifes and drums were purchased for the upcoming occasion.\nOn March 12th, the band boarded Feda's bus alongside a BBC film crew and made their way to England, in high spirits.\nOn Friday night, the band went to the \u201cSpotted dog,\u201d Anne Tighe's pub.\nThe band enjoyed Irish stew and Scotch eggs and played a few tunes to a very appreciative audience.\nOn Saturday night, the band attended \u201cThe Irish Sacred Heart Club\u201d in Aston.\nOn Sunday morning, a March sun shone. The band gathered to the spot where they would join the parade. Members were excited and nervous as all their hard work, all their practice was about to be showcased in Birmingham city.\nThere were hugs, photographs and handshakes as they stood waiting for the moment that they would join the parade.\nPaddy Forker's float arrived with a crowd of Donegal youth astride, they all cheered, sang and welcomed the band. The atmosphere was electric.\nAfter a rousing rendition of the \u201cHills of Donegal,\u201d Paul McDevitt of the Druma M\u00f3r, issued the instruction \u201cband ready\u201d and off they marched.\nThe band was led magnificently by Neil Charlie Neil McBride as he strode proudly onto the streets of Digbeth with his band behind him.\nIrish emblems could be seen everywhere and the band marched forward, heads held high, in perfect unison through the thronged city streets as more and more people from the region fell in behind them in support.\nWhen the march ended there was a very pleasant surprise as the Lord Mayor of the city presented Neil McBride with a crystal trophy for the best marching band of the parade.\nNeil's father was a former leader of the band and would have been exceptionally proud of the band that he once led.\nIt was a sight to behold as Neil proudly accepted the trophy on hehalf of the band.\nThe committee worked tirelessly to make this trip a reality and members of the band would like to thank, Paul McDevitt, Neil McBride, S\u00e9amus Boyle and Mary Sweeney for all their hard work and dedication.\nOrganisers would also like to thank members of the Mallaghduff Crickamore and Maghery bands who donned the Anagaire uniform and marched and played alongside them for the occasion.\nAll those who took part in the march enjoyed it and those from the area, living in Birmingham, were delighted to see their band come to their city for St. Patrick's day and made it extra special.\nFor those who couldn't make Birmingham on St. Patrick's day, they will be delighted to hear that the Anagaire band will be out, in all their glory, once again, this Easter Sunday where they will be joined by the Mallaghduff and Ranafast bands.\nAll the bands will play in the village before Mass.\nIt is speculated that the band may be invited to 5th Avenue, New York.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.donmedeirosinsurance.com/college-bound-your-son-or-daughter-has-arrived-now-what/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:59Z", "digest": "sha1:KNXWM46NKYMZENX4DAYZLWNUFGNRTY3O", "length": 4174, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.donmedeirosinsurance.com", "title": "College Bound: Your Son Or Daughter Has Arrived, Now What?", "raw_content": "Home > Insurance Blog > College Bound: Your Son or Daughter Has Arrived, Now What?\nCollege Bound: Your Son or Daughter Has Arrived, Now What?\nYou\u2019ve just dropped off your young adult at his or her new home away from home for the next 9 months. Unfortunately, the hard part is not quite over because in the next few weeks both you and your son or daughter will be going through a time of transitioning. But rest assured it will get easier as time goes on. Here are a few tips as you go through these new experiences and changes.\nThe top priority is to communicate trust with your son or daughter. You\u2019ve done your job bringing up your children, now it\u2019s time to see that what you\u2019ve instilled in them, that they will make good choices on their own. Talk to him or her about your values and your expectations. Make it clear that the lines of communication are wide open regardless of the miles between you and whatever challenges that may come, that you are there for him or her to talk when you are needed.\nTime to let go. This is the hardest part of growing up for the both of you. You need to keep in mind that a big part of their becoming an adult will be in their first year of college. This will involve some experimentation, new ideals, constant challenges and new experiences that are necessary for them to go through to build up their independence and become a successful and productive adult. Remember to just listen to your child and continue to express your trust, love and open communication.\nYou can\u2019t protect them forever, so risks may be necessary. It is important that you may have to support your son or daughter while he or she takes risks, with the understanding that mistakes may be made. It\u2019s learning how to manage a mistake will result in their ability to handle challenges throughout the rest of their lives, personally, academically and professionally.\nYou may not hear from your son or daughter for long lengths of time. This could occur as soon as a few days after your son and daughter have been at college. Keep in mind that most colleges are in tuned to new students having difficulty with the transition and are likely to have ongoing activities to help the new students become more comfortable with college life. Realize that during this time, everything will seem new and exciting and calling you may not end up on the top things to do list. But, know that when the dust settles and a routine is established that you will be getting that call or text message that he or she is doing ok.\nWhen you do finally hear from your son or daughter. Try not to quiz him or her during your talks, keep it simple. Ask about how he or she is doing, how the classes are and if anything exciting is going on. Remember to just listen when you hear about some of the bad things that may come up. You will be able to get a complete picture of what is going on when you remember to listen well and ask little.\nLastly, think about yourself now. Consider taking more time for yourself and your spouse to do the things that you never got to do when your child was at home. It\u2019s an opportunity to become a couple again and enjoy yourselves and your space. If you are a single parent, consider doing some of things that you\u2019ve always imagined doing whether it\u2019s a new hobby, going back to school, adopting a pet or whatever your heart desires for the sky is the limit.\nHere at Donald J. Medeiros Insurance Agency our goal is to try to help our viewers by suggesting solutions about different topics of interest, as well as insurance needs. But, by no means can we address each reader\u2019s specific concerns. So, we strongly advise to check with an expert on the subject area discussed to address your specific needs. However, you can always contact us for any insurance questions or concerns you may have and we will be happy to help you. For college students, we are able to offer a complete line of auto insurance and renters insurance products for all of Massachusetts, Rhode Island & New Hampshire.\nFiled Under: Just Some Good Info | Tagged With: college life, college student, empty nest, Parents Talking with their teen, Renters insurance, transitioning to college", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 6921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.doubleglazinggrants.com/windows-scrappage-scheme/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RS4F7Y2CRDLBBRQYGVFHGOFGJTIRZKNO", "length": 3871, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.doubleglazinggrants.com", "title": "Windows Scrappage Scheme - Double Glazing Grants", "raw_content": "Up to 18% of the energy can be lost through the windows in your property \u2013 it\u2019s like throwing \u00a35 notes away. With that in mind you\u2019ll understand why energy efficient windows are so important, not only can they preserve that energy but they can reduce carbon dioxide emissions too so you\u2019re saving money and the environment. A windows scrappage scheme could be the answer. Encouraging consumers to trade in their old windows against the cost of new, eco friendly double glazing.\nThat\u2019s exactly why the windows scrappage scheme emerges from time to time. To encourage homeowners to replace and upgrade windows with new, efficient windows. This could save up to \u00a3512 per year as calculated by the Glass and Glazing Federation and hence could pay for themselves in a short space of time.\nAnglian Windows originally launched a scrappage scheme back in 2010. It proved such a great success that they reintroduced it in 2013. It provided a discount of up to a massive \u00a33000 of the installed cost of new windows. In addition it provided an additional discount of up to 45% should the homeowner opt for the \u201cEcoHome\u201d status. This scrappage scheme ended in April 2014 and has bee replaced with an alternative promotion entitled \u201cThe Dream Is On\u201d\nScrappage Schemes Today\nRight now therefore there is no official scheme although the windows industry and related trade bodies are actively petitioning the government to introduce a scrappage scheme to encourage the replacement of old, inefficient windows with new, energy efficient models thus saving cash and energy.\nVarious companies run their own schemes periodically \u2013 fo example, Anglian Windows originally launched a scrappage scheme back in 2010 and it proved such a great success that they reintroduced it for 2013. It was designed to provide a discount of up to \u00a33000 of the installed cost of new windows along with an additional discount of up to 45% should the homeowner opt for the \u201cEcoHome\u201d status.\nTo give you an idea of just how effective it is an independent assessor was sent an to the home of a windows scrappage scheme customer on two occasions to assess and document the benefits of the scheme. The assessments were made both before and after replacement of wooden framed, single glazed windows with energy efficient double glazed units.\nThe results were impressive. Whilst the original windows were leaking heat and energy substantially the homeowner reported a marked and instant after replacement improvement reporting:\n\u201cThe difference is very noticeable. Since having the windows fitted and despite it becoming rather autumnal I still have not had to have the heating on\u201d.\nThe way it worked was simple. An order was placed with Anglian who then gave a rebate of up to \u00a32,000 for the old windows. They also discounted the new windows by up to 35% depending on the overall cost.\nThe new windows were designed to enhance the appearance of the home, save energy, reduce CO2 emissions. They would save money and hence pay for themselves in a short space of time. Unfortunately though this particular promotion ended in April 2014 to be superseded by a different type of offer.\nAnglian are one of the most trusted names in the UK windows market today. They are renown to be synonymous with quality and service. They began selling windows in 1966 the year of world cup glory. And opened the first showroom at their Ipswich base three years later.\nSince that time they have grown the business substantially. They now seal their own double glazed units, extrude their own uPVC frames and gas fill their own units. All from a network of national factories and units.\nTheir hard work and dedication has built an enviable but fully deserved reputation amongst customers. Their uPVC windows have been installed in tens of thousands of homes throughout the UK.\nPrev:Grant Or No Grants \u2013 Pick The Right Double Glazing Company", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drjohnonhealth.com/the-relationship-between-cholesterol-and-diabetes%EF%BB%BF/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7WKP2KIUQSWC5Z4J6C6BV2I5LFMHZ4WW", "length": 3708, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.drjohnonhealth.com", "title": "The Relationship Between Cholesterol and Diabetes | Dr John on Health", "raw_content": "Many Americans have chosen to follow a low-carb, high fat diet such as the Keto and Paleo diets which I believe is a good choice for those diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. But many wonder, \u201cWhat will happen to my cholesterol levels if I choose to go on a high-fat diet?\u201d There are many misconceptions when it comes to cholesterol and I suggest you continue reading.\nThis week I want to present some ideas about cholesterol and its correlation with Type 2 diabetes. Take a look at this week\u2019s 2 minute video where I discuss this topic. But first, why so much confusion about cholesterol?\nA Mistaken Science Led Us In The Wrong Direction\nIn the US, one of the major factors behind our love for grains arose out of a misguided war against fat. In the mid-1980s, a million Americans were dying from heart disease, believed to be caused by the consumption of fatty foods.\nSeveral scientists published articles with research that showed that fat, specifically low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, clogs arteries. Politicians influenced by those reports declared war on fat. The National Institutes of Health recommended that all Americans eat less fat and cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart disease.\nIn response, the food industry began promulgating the virtues of \u201chealthy\u201d carbohydrates over fats. Americans bought into that marketing and increased their intake of carbohydrate while reducing their consumption of fat. Grain-based cereals for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and starches (rice, potatoes or corn) to accompany dinners became staples of the American diet, along with mass-produced donuts, cakes, pies, pasta, pizza, and breads.\nThe result: the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes among adults increased over 160% from 1980 to 2012.\nAs an interesting side trip to demonstrate the logic of my theory that the overconsumption of grains is the true cause of diabetes, consider this comparison between high blood sugar and high cholesterol. Although the total amounts of cholesterol can be different based on one\u2019s genetic inheritance, people with high cholesterol are not viewed as having a form of metabolic resistance, so why are they when they have high blood sugar? As you will see, this analogy helps clarify that insulin resistance is an incorrect theory.\nRead the following comparison between cholesterol and glucose that shows how parallel the two nutrients are.\nThis comparison shows that the body\u2019s metabolism handles the two nutrients in a parallel way. This is additional proof that high blood sugar is not due to insulin resistance. Let me put it succinctly: If an elevated blood cholesterol level is considered a symptom of too much cholesterol intake and/or production of cholesterol relative to need, then by extension, the elevation of the blood sugar level should also be considered a symptom of excess glucose intake relative to its use and storage in the body.\n2-Minute Video: The Relationship Between Cholesterol and Diabetes\nI invite you to do your own investigation into cholesterol and what amount is considered healthy for you. But do not be fooled into consuming \u201chealthy\u201d carbohydrates over fats. To learn more about how you can control your own nutrition and reverse Type 2 diabetes, get my book.\nMy informative yet easy to use book will guide you or a loved one to reverse Type 2 Diabetes in 8 weeks. My plan will also help you to remain diabetes free as you will take this on as a lifestyle. Make better choices and take ownership of your health today! Download the eBook for only 99 cents!\nTags: cholesteroldiabetes\nPreviousPrevious post:Why Diabetics Need to Watch Out for CancerNextNext post:Why is the Incidence of Cancer in Adults and Children Rising Worldwide?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.durysguns.com/shop/glock-43-9mm-used-gun-inv-214735", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4CSALI3ZEWGD3HUVQI3G3DU26DPGTJ4X", "length": 195, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.durysguns.com", "title": "GLOCK 43 9MM USED GUN INV 214735 | Dury's Guns", "raw_content": "Glock 43 chambered in 9mm with a 3 1/2 inch barrel, bright bore, good grooves, original case, and 2 extra magazines. This gun is in excellent condition and is covered by Dury's Lifetime Warranty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2199, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 208.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dutchvalleyfoods.com/products/details/165405", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:17Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2I2WOKUN5JDUA7VAIIDSIMK5VLWTKDF", "length": 969, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.dutchvalleyfoods.com", "title": "Bulk Foods by Dutch Valley : Bulk Candy, Bulk Spices, Wholesale Bulk Food Distributor, Organic Foods.", "raw_content": "One Step Stuffing Mix 12/1.75lb\nTry One Step Stuffing Mix to simplify your holiday meals. Easy to prepare - just add water and butter (or margarine) to the mix to create a delicious stuffing with ease. Use this stuffing with roast turkey and fresh vegetables for a hearty home-style meal.\nBread Crumbs (enriched flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], Whole Wheat Flour, Sugar, Vegetable Shortening [palm oil and/or palm kernel oil], Salt, Wheat Gluten, Yeast, Grain Vinegar, Natural Flavor, Soy Lecithin), Soybean Oil, Hydrolyzed Wheat, Corn and Soy Protein, Contains 2% or less of each of the following: Dehydrated Celery, Salt, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Spice, Dehydrated Onion, Monosodium Glutamate, Corn Starch, Dehydrated Chicken, Dehydrated Garlic, Soy Flour, Turmeric (color), Chicken Fat, Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate, Chicken Broth, Modified Corn Starch, Natural Flavor, Gelatin. Allergens: Wheat and Soy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 3918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.e-mj.com/news/australia-and-oceania/lihir-gold-accepts-newcrest-bid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UYR4TH7PG3F32MIBCTZNGCCSD5CP27ZZ", "length": 2121, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.e-mj.com", "title": "Lihir Gold Accepts Newcrest Bid | E & MJ '); //\t})();", "raw_content": "Lihir Gold Accepts Newcrest Bid\nJune 2010 | Australia & Oceania\nNewcrest Mining and Lihir Gold entered into a merger agreement in early May 2010 that values Lihir at about A$9.5 billion. Payment will be in cash and Newcrest shares. The agreement followed rejection by Lihir of two earlier Newcrest offers made in mid-February and late-March. Lihir directors unanimously recommended that its shareholders vote in favor of the agreement in the absence of a superior proposal and subject to an independent expert\u2019s opinion that it is in the best interests of Lihir shareholders.\nThe acquisition will be by way of a scheme of arrangement in Papua New Guinea. Lihir\u2019s flagship property, the Lihir gold mine, is located on Lihir island in Papua New Guinea\u2019s New Ireland province.\nThe Lihir mine and Newcrest\u2019s Cadia Valley, New South Wales, and Telfer, Western Australia, operations in Australia are projected to generate a base load production of 2.5 million oz/y for the combined company for many years to come. The company will also operate a number of smaller producing mines and will have several attractive development and exploration projects.\nNewcrest produced 417,000 oz of gold and 21,000 mt of copper during the first quarter of 2010. The Newcrest board approved the Cadia East underground gold and copper project during the quarter, which will underpin production from the Cadia Valley for at least the next 30 years (E&MJ, May 2010, p. 4). Project construction has begun at Cadia East, and first ore is expected in the second half of 2012, with appreciable production and commissioning during 2013.\nLihir Gold produced 230,000 oz of gold during the first quarter of 2010. On Lihir island, a major expansion to lift gold production to more than 1.1 million oz/y is more than 50% complete. Annual throughput will increase to a maximum of around 11 million to 12 million mt.\nPreviousXstrata Plans Deepening of Its Black Star Open Cut\nNextProposed Australian Mining Tax Draws Heavy Fire\nRegional News \u2013 Australia/Oceania September 2017\nBHP Billiton Begins Work on Outer Harbor at Port Hedland\nAustralia Passes MRRT Law", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earlytorise.com/8-ways-to-immediately-make-more-money-with-stocks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:05Z", "digest": "sha1:I43E7CG4GKO6VZY4RUNRDPUFF3MQ3M3D", "length": 7044, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.earlytorise.com", "title": "8 Ways to Immediately Make More Money With Stocks - Early To Rise", "raw_content": "8 Ways to Immediately Make More Money With Stocks\nby Steve Sjuggerud | Jul 26, 2002 | Investing, Wealth\nWarren Buffett and Bill Gross, two of the most influential investors in the world, both think that stocks will return 6% to 7% a year over the next decade. At that rate, you\u2019ll double your money in 10 years. However, if you\u2019re giving away 2% or more in fees and expenses, it will actually take you twice as long to double your money!\nLooked at another way, the bank is paying you less than 2% a year. Stock dividends are less than 2% a year. Heck, if you\u2019re paying 2% or more in fees, you\u2019re losing money. The point is, 2% matters. Here, then, are eight ways to cut costs and keep that 2% in your own pocket.\n1. Reduce costs by paying no more in commissions than you have to.\nAmeritrade.com charges eight bucks per stock trade. If you\u2019re trading your own ideas, but you\u2019re calling in your orders to a company like Schwab, you\u2019re probably paying around 50 bucks a trade. If you place 10 orders a month, that\u2019s 120 orders a year \u2014 or $6,000 a year in commissions at Schwab vs. less than $1,000 at Ameritrade. Nothing against Schwab (I\u2019ve got money with them myself), but why should you give away $5,000? For frequent traders, Ameritrade offers a good mix of budget and quality. For a good all-around discount service, Schwab has been good to me. And for full service, Merrill and Morgan Stanley do a nice job. For more specific ratings of brokerage firms, both discount and full-service, check out http://www.gomez.com\n2. Reduce costs by paying attention to the spread when appropriate.\nLet\u2019s say you\u2019ve got a 5-year-old car worth $12,500. You take it to a dealer to see if he\u2019ll take it off your hands. He says he\u2019ll give you $10,000 for it. But you say, \u201cHey, that\u2019s not fair. You\u2019ve got the exact same car on your lot for $15,000!\u201d My friend, that\u2019s the spread. If you\u2019re selling your car, you\u2019d like to get $12,500 \u2014 not just $10,000. And if you\u2019re looking to buy, you\u2019d much prefer to pay closer to $12,500 than the $15,000 the dealer is asking. What you want to do is eliminate the spread.\nWith big stocks, like Microsoft, Intel, and basically any other company you\u2019ve already heard of, the spread is not a concern. There are so many buyers and sellers that you\u2019re best off just putting in a market order and owning the shares immediately at the market price. (In fact, the spread on Microsoft, a $50 stock, is only 3 pennies as I write this.)\nBut with small stocks and options, which can have a significant spread, you\u2019re better off wheeling and dealing. With these, it\u2019s more risky to put in market orders. I personally learned this lesson the hard way when I was starting out. I paid $7 at the open for a $4 option. The option went up 50% to $6, and I still lost money. Lesson learned: Never use market orders on thinly traded positions \u2014 especially at the open!\n3. Reduce costs by knowing how to identify \u201chidden costs\u201d of mutual funds.\nBill Gross is the biggest bond-fund manager in the world, and for good reason: He\u2019s earned double-digit returns for investors for 30 years. His flagship Pimco Total Return Fund now has over $50 billion in assets. Wow! It\u2019s amazing that so many people have bought this when you consider that bonds pay only about 4.5% in yield right now and this fund has a 4.5% up-front charge. So by paying this hefty fee, you may just break even your first year. Even worse, annual fees at this fund clock in at around 1% a year.\nMeanwhile, Bill also manages a little-known fund, the Fremont Bond Fund, that does the same thing as the Pimco fund. Only it has no up-front charge and annual fees of only half a percent per year. Amazingly, this fund has less than a billion dollars in assets.\nWhy the big difference? My guess is, I\u2019m sorry to say, investor ignorance. Brokers and financial planners sell the Pimco fund with the up-front fee because they pocket almost that entire 4.5%. If they sell you the Fremont fund, they don\u2019t get paid. How can you find funds like this \u2014 and other ways to significantly reduce your costs? Use Morningstar.com\u2019s Fund Quickrank. It\u2019s free \u2014 and excellent. I\u2019d even recommend springing for Morningstar\u2019s $99 annual fee, because they have reports on thousands of funds. I think you can get a 30-day free trial. Check it out.\n4. Reduce costs by making fewer transactions.\nLook, 90% of fund managers can\u2019t beat the market \u2014 and they\u2019re professionals. If the market averages 12%, you\u2019ll get, on the average, a return of 10% from a fund manager. Why is this? Because you get the return of the market minus the fund manager\u2019s fees and cost of doing business (commissions, spreads, office space, etc.). When you understand what I\u2019m trying to say here, you can see that the cost of doing business is a big hole in your wealth bucket. The more transactions you make, the bigger the hole. So trade as little as possible, and you\u2019ll probably end up better off in the long run.\n5. Reduce costs by paying attention to capital-gains taxes.\nAs you\u2019re likely well aware, if you hold a stock for over a year and then sell it, your tax rate is substantially lower than if you hold it less than a year. So if you need to raise cash but there\u2019s no absolute reason to sell the stock right now and you\u2019re close to the one-year mark, wait. You could save yourself thousands of dollars.\n6. Reduce costs by taking maximum advantage of tax-deferred retirement programs. (This one is important!)\nWhat\u2019s the best way to save money these days? Stuff your 401(k) (or similar retirement program) to the max. If, for example, you make $100,000 this year and put the maximum of $11,000 into your 401(k), the government will tax you on only $89,000. So, in effect, you\u2019ll be saving yourself a huge amount in taxes.\n7. Reduce costs by using margin sparingly \u2014 or not at all.\nThis probably isn\u2019t a problem for you, because you\u2019re probably not using margin. Still, you should understand the concept. Margin is money you borrow to buy stocks. So, if Warren Buffett is right and we can expect only 6% to 7% a year in stock returns \u2014 yet it costs you 6% or more to borrow money \u2014 borrowing money to throw at stocks is just plain not a smart idea. Simple as that.\n8. Reduce costs by eliminating \u201chidden\u201d margin costs of your debt.\nWhy anyone has money in the stock market AND tens of thousands of dollars in credit-card debt, used-car loans, etc. is beyond me. The math is simple: The cost of the money you are borrowing is much higher than the potential return on your money in the stock market. The solution? Sell stocks (which may return only 6% to 7%) and use the proceeds to pay off your credit cards and used-car loans.\nIf you\u2019d like more insight and actionable advice from Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, consider a free subscription to DailyWealth. Sign up for DailyWealth here and receive a report on the top ways to protect your money, your family, your health, and your privacy. This report will show you the best \u201ccommon sense\u201d solutions to help you protect yourself from some of the worst elements in America today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 8998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earth-prints.org/browse?type=author&authority=rp11303", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KKKVCMVXU2QS7QGMO4TGXEOIBIS6QUYX", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.earth-prints.org", "title": "Browsing DSpace | Earth-prints", "raw_content": "Browsing by Author Winter, D. M.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4404, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.edmdroid.com/dj-list/world-djs/miss-nine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:02Z", "digest": "sha1:SUHBCTL3ELBIM47SJZXZI4IRT7MXF4EY", "length": 2163, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.edmdroid.com", "title": "Miss Nine | EDMDroid", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb DJs \u00bb World DJs \u00bb Miss Nine\nBorn in Germany as Kristin Schrot, Miss Nine at the age of 16 was on track to become, not a famous DJ or producer, but a fashion model. Having secured a contract with the Industry renowned Elite Model Management, it gave her the courage and determination to move further into the spotlight. She later on would move to the city of Amsterdam, where Miss Nine began to discover the art of DJing, and it was where her passion grew. The seed had been planted. The evolution began in 2003, just months after first touching the decks. Miss Nine played the legendary Motion parties in Amsterdam\u2019s nightlife scene. She played alongside masters such as John Digweed, Dave Seaman, Nick Warren, and James Zabiela. In 2005 Miss Nine was approached by Grammy award-winning DJ duo Deep Dish, who invited her to team up with the A-lister agency Bullitt Bookings. This was a move that enabled Miss Nine to step to the front of the international DJ scene for the first time during her career. Up to now, Miss Nine has graced the DJ booth at a long list of clubs such as Privilege in Ibiza, Ministry of Sound in London, Avalon in Los Angeles, Pacha in various world hotspots, XS in Las Vegas, Le Queen in Paris, and Warung in Brazil. Additionally, she not only appeared at the 10th edition of Dance Valley as the youngest artist in the line-up, but has also appeared multiple times on the main stage at Ultra Music Festival during WMC in Miami, as well as the Sunburn Festival in India. Miss Nine has joined bills alongside talents such as Ti\u00ebsto and David Guetta and more recently had the pleasure of touring worldwide together with Swedish superstar Avicii. 2008 brought Miss Nine into the world of record labels, launching her own 925 Music with 2 sublabels, 925 Global and 925 Digital. The labels are devoted to progressive house producers discovered on Miss Nine\u2019s world travels as well as the global sound of EDM. 2011 saw the release of \u2018Around The World, a showcase of various talents from the 925 Music catalogue, also released on 925 Music. All of the tracks on the album were picked by Miss Nine herself.\nTags Miss Nine\nMiss Honey Dijon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.educationindex.com/essay/Computer-Industry-Analysis-F3ZEJ5H4EY", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5T4DJBDKRV6SDDQZTNIZKKV5WS7BIJKP", "length": 4593, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.educationindex.com", "title": "Computer Industry Analysis - 4078 Words | Education Index", "raw_content": "Education Index Computer Industry Analysis\nDefinition of the Industry\nThe computers and peripherals industry is comprised of manufacturers of personal computers, servers, mainframes and workstations, electronic computer components, various types of peripheral equipment, and ATMs. While many of the major players in this business operate in various sectors of this industry, the primary computers and peripherals industry is defined under the SIC Code 35771. This industry is growing globally due to innovations in technology components and increased consumer spending in China, India, and Africa, and many of the major players in the industry are refocusing their marketing efforts to these places. While the U.S. market is fairly saturated and mature, new markets in developing countries \u2026show more content\u2026\ndesktop sales have declined over the past few years and notebook shipments are expected to increase to 36.9 million in 2008, up 6.7 million units from 2007.6\nIncreased personalization: As consumers are demanding notebook computers to keep pace with their mobile lifestyles, they are also interested in personalizing their devices to their own tastes. Plastics manufacturers for the computer hardware sector are moving to create differentiation among their products by incorporating color and interesting designs into the devices. Personalization is also taking place in the form of all-in-one systems at a receptionist's desk, smaller notebooks with built-in cellular devices, and large-screen notebooks for college students.6\n''Cloud Computing'- New advances in data management have led to the development of distant servers called clouds that contain all of the information traditionally store on a computer hard-drive. This new innovation leads many to believe that there will be an emergence of low cost, \u201ccloud-centric\u201d machines whose data is managed on distant servers rather than the actual machine. Many say that this low cost option could threaten the business of current industry leaders like HP, Dell, and Microsoft who now offer computers with an\nDepartment Store Industry NACIS 452111 Table of Contents Introduction\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 3 The Industry\u2019s Dominant Economic Features\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026 3 Porters 5 Forces\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026...\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 7 Power of Buyers\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.7 Power of Suppliers\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 7 Barriers to Entry\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 7 Threat of Substitutes\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026...\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026...\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 7 Competitive Rivalry\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.\nIndustry Analysis 1: Apparel Manufacturing NAICS 315 Part 1.\tEnvironmental Analysis The Apparel Manufacturing industry is a sub-sector of the Manufacturing sector. It is composed of two distinct manufacturing processes (cut and sew using purchased fabric and fabric manufacturers that then cut and sew) and three industry groups (apparel knitting mills, cut and sew apparel manufacturing and apparel accessories and other apparel manufacturing).[1] The projected global revenue in 2010 for the\u2026.\nMexican Department Store Industry The department store industry in Mexico functions just like the majority of department stores around the world. They target the middle to upper class people with money to spend on popular brands, food and entertainment. While the department store chains in many countries tend to focus on one line of products (e.g., clothing), the department stores in Mexico have diversified products and services that helps to decrease direct competition, but it also makes it more\u2026.\nPestel and Porter's Analysis of Tourism Industry\n2 Competitive Forces in the Tourism Industry\tPage 4 Conclusion\tPage 6 References\tPage 6 Introduction: This paper will be dynamically examining the tourism industry during the 2000s. It will begin by using the PESTEL framework to analyse the macro environment and determine which factors drive the competitive forces within the industry. Following this, Porter\u2019s Five Forces model will be used to analyse the actual competitive forces at work within the industry and determine the relative importance\u2026.\n1. Introductions In this assignment, a software package named \u2018ERACS\u2019 is used for diagram building of a power system, Load flow analysis, Balanced and Unbalanced Short Circuit analysis. Calculate the short circuit level (in MVA) in balanced, the current fed into the fault and the voltages of the healthy at bus 4 of the unbalanced circuit. Analyze and compare these two results which got by theory and analytical procedures with the system performance. 2. Procedures and Comments I.\u2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 8539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 40.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eizoglobal.com/solutions/casestudies/kohji-suwa/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HN4XMPHH4NAPZNW4QKQMBXGSMDUOCIP5", "length": 2764, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.eizoglobal.com", "title": "Kohji Suwa - Fine Art Photography | EIZO", "raw_content": "Kohji Suwa - Fine Art Photography\nPhotographer Kohji Suwa, one of EIZO\u2019s ColorEdge Ambassadors, has long been using ColorEdge for his work. We talked to Mr. Suwa about what he sees as important when creating works and his experience using ColorEdge.\n\u00a9 Kohji Suwa\nWhat I see as important when creating works can be encapsulated in the word \u201cmatching.\u201d By this I mean matching of all elements, including technical, mental, and motif. That goes for both commercial photographs that I take for work and my own personal projects.\nWhen it comes to photographs for work, it\u2019s important to match them with the client\u2019s wishes and concepts. In my personal projects, I believe that it\u2019s important to match the subject selection and the ideological concept with the technique for how to express them. If a work has no concept or isn\u2019t properly matched, it will be lacking in substance even if it features a novel technique. Works lose their novelty once technique is imitated. On the other hand, if a work has a concept, even if the technique used is traditional and commonplace, it will not be lacking in attractiveness so long as it matches the concept. I arrived at this conclusion after experiencing my own failures resulting from relying too much on technique or a single element such as the subject.\nOf course, matching is an important keyword when it comes to workflow as well. It\u2019s important to match the image in your head and the expression with the output and to match the colors and tones on the monitor within the workflow. By matching these various elements, there is a sense of balance in terms of both the process and the content. Balanced works like this become photographs with depth and presence even if the instant impact is small. I emphasize that matching and balance when I produce my works.\nI\u2019ve been using EIZO monitors since 1994 when they employed cathode ray tubes. I\u2019ve used many different models as they have evolved into ColorEdge LCD monitors with a wider color gamut. What I look for in a monitor is faithfulness in color and tone. I don\u2019t want there to be a gap between my envisioned expression and the final output. From that standpoint, I can\u2019t imagine using anything other than an EIZO monitor for my photographs, considering the wide color gamut, uniformity and stability offered. EIZO monitors have always given me the best environment available. Right now I\u2019m using the CG277 and CG275W as my main monitors and monitors like the CG243W and CG242W as sub-monitors. Each of my computers is connected to two or three monitors.\nKohji Suwa is a member of EIZO's ColorEdge Ambassador Program. The program showcases creatives who are committed to inspiring and educating artist around the world of all levels. To view his profile, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1054, "original_length": 22840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elanco.org/apps/events/2019/2/14/5126436/?REC_ID=5126436&id=0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:45Z", "digest": "sha1:PSOPSKABHHX2TGKIIWWUW6FM6VY44WUB", "length": 144, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.elanco.org", "title": "District-wide Early Dismissal (Except for P.M. Kindergarten) | Eastern Lancaster County School District", "raw_content": "Elementary: 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (Lunch Served)\nSecondary: 7:22 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. (No Lunch Served)\nA.M. Kindergarten - 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 2378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 39.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.electricityforum.com/news-archive/oct09/AECLintalkswithIndianpowerfirms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:10Z", "digest": "sha1:LV3JTRSYOZYCCTUMRURACKUABJMVLYRN", "length": 3209, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.electricityforum.com", "title": "AECL in talks with Indian power firms - EF News", "raw_content": "AECL in talks with Indian power firms\nNEW DELHI, INDIA - As India and Canada get ready to sign a nuclear cooperation pact, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd, or AECL, is in talks with three private sector Indian power generation companies, including Anil Ambani\u00c2\u2019s Reliance Power Ltd, for setting up nuclear power generation plants based on its Candu (Canada Deuterium Uranium) reactor.\nThe Candu pressurized heavy water reactor technology, developed by Canada and currently meeting around 16% of that country\u00c2\u2019s electricity demand, is marketed worldwide by AECL. India has developed expertise in the whole lifecycle of a nuclear program, including life extension of pressurized heavy water reactors.\n\u00c2\u201cWe are in talks with three Indian private sector firms who have plans to set up nuclear power projects,\u00c2\u201d said Hugh MacDiarmid, president and chief executive officer of state-run AECL, on his recent visit to India. \u00c2\u201cThere is mutual synergy between our markets.\u00c2\u201d\nHe declined to name the three companies.\nA person familiar with the development, who did not want to be identified, confirmed preliminary talks between AECL and Reliance Power.\nReliance Power chief executive J.P. Chalasani declined to comment.\nAs per the current policy guidelines in India, atomic energy is exclusively reserved for the Centre. Nuclear power plants can be set up only by Nuclear Power Corp. of India Ltd, a public sector company under the department of atomic energy.\nThis will change as part of the planned opening up of the sector following the civilian nuclear energy agreement with the US, freeing up overseas companies to enter the country.\n\u00c2\u201cThe private sector is doing the preparatory work. As contractors they have come in quickly, but as developers they will take some time. For that the present laws, rules and regulations need to be changed,\u00c2\u201d said Anish De, chief executive at Mercados Asia, an energy consultancy firm. \u00c2\u201cReliance Power has been at it for the last few years. However, the timing will depend upon the change in regulations.\u00c2\u201d\nThe participation of the private sector and other PSUs is expected to increase with the expected changes in the legal and policy framework, the effects of which will only be visible by 2019.\nThe participation of private firms is expected to give a boost to the sector once the government frees up atomic energy. Private sector power firms such as Tata Power Co. Ltd, GMR Energy Ltd, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd, JSW group, NTPC Ltd, Vedanta Resources Plc and Reliance Power have earlier evinced interest in setting up nuclear power plants once this takes place.\nAECL is seeking opportunities in the Indian market, given the significant demand for electricity in the country and its inability to sell a single reactor in the last 10 years. Out of India\u00c2\u2019s installed power generation capacity of nearly 150,000 MW, nuclear energy accounts for only 4,120 MW, even as it tries to close the gap between galloping demand and deficient supply.\nAccording to the India Energy Outlook report by audit and consulting firm KPMG, the department of atomic energy hopes to build 250,000 MW equivalent of nuclear power capacity by 2050 to meet the country\u00c2\u2019s long-term electricity requirements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.electricityforum.com/news-archive/oct09/CanUScompetewithCanadaonoffshorewind", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6PNRBK4IZ3PL5T7GT3ZU6V3L6BKNT6GI", "length": 4883, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.electricityforum.com", "title": "Can U.S. compete with Canadian offshore wind? - EF News", "raw_content": "Can U.S. compete with Canadian offshore wind?\nNANTUCKET SOUND, MASSACHUSETTS - For years the promise of North America's first offshore wind farm has been just that \u00c2\u2013 a promise. The reality has been a big disappointment: proposals pigeonholed by Bush-era dirty energy policies and NIMBY (not-in-my-backyard) opposition.\nThe Cape Wind project off Nantucket Sound was to be the continent's first offshore wind park. Eight years on, it remains in limbo. The latest hiccup? Two Indian tribes are trying to block the turbines by getting Nantucket Sound listed as a \"traditional cultural property.\" In other words, more delay is on the way.\nBut the Massachusetts wind farm is no longer the only offshore game in town.\nWith a pro-renewable energy administration in Washington, increasing state and provincial clean energy standards and coming carbon regulations, a big push is underway that could make North America the next big market for offshore wind generation.\nThe race is on. And for now Ontario, Canada, is in the driver's seat.\nToronto-based Trillium Power is expected to build the first major offshore wind fleet in the Great Lakes and probably North America. The 140-turbine facility will deliver 710 megawatts of power, courtesy of gusts blowing off Lake Ontario, enough to power 300,000 homes in the province.\nAround 15 other such projects have been proposed in Ontario, including the largest in the world \u00c2\u2013 a 4,400 megawatt wind farm on the Ontario side of Lake Erie.\nCanadian Hydro Developers recently bought the rights to build the enormous offshore wind installation. The plan calls for 900 turbines across a 50-mile stretch of lake. Currently, the largest offshore wind farm in the world is one-tenth that size and sits off the coast of Denmark. That 91-turbine, 200-megawatt facility provides zero-carbon power to 200,000 homes.\nIf the Lake Erie project gets built, its wind turbines will churn out enough juice to power two million homes.\nCanadian Hydro explains why it wanted in: \"Canadian Hydro already owns and operates the two largest wind facilities in Canada. We are leading the way in Ontario by generating 40 percent of the province's installed renewable energy capacity, and we are eager to pioneer offshore wind in Ontario and North America.\"\nBut why Ontario? In a word, incentives.\nThe government of Dalton McGuinty just launched a feed-in tariff as part of the Green Energy Act in Ontario. The program will pay producers 19 cents for every kilowatt-hour of electricity their offshore turbines pump out.\nFor its part, the Ontario government is being spurred to action by its commitment to eliminate coal plants in the province by 2014. There are no plans for new nuclear to take coal's place. That's helped to make wind a No. 1 priority. The numbers are proof: In 2003, the province had 10 turbines; today, it has more than 670, with 975 turbines expected by 2012.\nThe Great Lakes are one of Ontario's greatest energy assets. Estimates claim the province has at least 34,500 megawatts of shallow water offshore wind potential spread over 64 different sites.\nThe province isn't alone in trying to tap the richness of those winds. Offshore wind power projects have been proposed in the states of Ohio, Michigan, New York and Wisconsin, though the processes there are expected to be slow and complex.\nThe Eastern seaboard states are expected to be the first to finalize offshore windfarms in the U.S. According to a study by Stanford University and the University of Delaware, a stretch of the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Cod to North Carolina has enough wind potential to generate 330,000 megawatts of electricity. That's almost twice the current energy demand in the nine-state Mid-Atlantic region.\nCurrently, the U.S. has no offshore wind installations. That will change, but whether it happens fast enough to beat its Canadian competitor has yet to be seen. Beating Europe is certainly out of the question: North America has fallen decades behind the continent, where some 30 offshore wind farms are presently in operation.\nIn a major step forward, though, President Obama's Department of Interior issued the first-ever leases for offshore wind facilities in June.\nOn top of that, the state of Delaware has approved Bluewater Wind's proposed project of up to 600 megawatts. The installation could meet half of the state's electricity needs. New Jersey has plans in the works for several 350-megawatt installations. Rhode Island, Maryland and New York are said to be in negotiations with developers, among other states.\nAnd just last week, Duke Energy and the University of North Carolina announced plans for a pilot project involving three demonstrations of commercial turbines off North Carolina's coast.\nKeeping up the competitive rhetoric, Duke Energy said its project's turbines \"may be the first turbines placed in water in the United States.\"\nSolveClimate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 8048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 224.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elsevier.com/journals/environmental-development/2211-4645/guide-for-authors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WIFUWF5XGU555L5T7IWIW7G6SUSTC2YX", "length": 2808, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.elsevier.com", "title": "Guide for authors - Environmental Development - ISSN 2211-4645", "raw_content": "Environmental Development\nEnvironmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action.\nEnvironmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers.\nAll submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal's aims and scope. Five categories of contributions are welcome:\nOriginal research papers (maximum 8000 words):\ntheoretical and methodological development;\nanalysis of quantitative and qualitative data;\nscenario's and modeling;\nregional case-studies, comparative and transnational studies;\npolicy evaluation and monitoring;\ndevelopment of management tools and policy instruments.\nCommunications (maximum 6000 words):\ntrend reports;\nemerging issues;\nNews, views and commentaries (maximum 1000 words).\nBook reviews (maximum 2000 words).\nEditorial notes and letters.\nThe journal is open to special issues addressing exciting themes, as long as these consist of very coherent and high-quality contributions. Please contact the editor-in-chief for further information regarding Special Issues T.A.M.Beckers@uvt.nl.\nPlease submit your article via http://ees.elsevier.com/envdev.\nAuthors are required to submit, with the manuscript, the names, addresses and e-mail addresses of three potential referees. Please only supply the names of referees who can commit to the review, if invited. Note that the editor retains the sole right to decide whether or not the suggested reviewers are used.\nhttp://open.mendeley.com/use-citation-style/environmental-development", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 375, "original_length": 47326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/12/16/working-thread-cybersecurity-act/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:04Z", "digest": "sha1:GOTAFUJOFFX4NTM6Q3A4A777UUAH5DVL", "length": 8582, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.emptywheel.net", "title": "Working Thread, Cybersecurity Act | emptywheel", "raw_content": "Working Thread, Cybersecurity Act\nDecember 16, 2015 /2 Comments/in Cybersecurity /by emptywheel\nAs I\u2019ve been reporting, Paul Ryan added a version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act to the omnibus. It starts on page 1728. This will be my working thread.\n(1745) They\u2019ve changed what gets stripped from \u201cperson\u201d to \u201cindividual,\u201d thereby not requiring that corporate names get stripped.\n(1747) The bill takes out CISA\u2019s requirement of getting authorization before using an indicator for law enforcement.\n(1753) The language on ensuring there are audit capabilities (but not that they\u2019re used) takes out this language, which was in CISA.\nC) consistent with this title, any other applicable provisions of law, and the fair information practice principles set forth in appendix A of the document entitled \u201cNational Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace\u201d and published by the President in April, 2011, govern the retention, use, and dissemination by the Federal Government of cyber threat indicators shared with the Federal Government under this title, including the extent, if any, to which such cyber threat indicators may be used by the Federal Government; and\n(1754) This section replaced an \u201cor\u201d in CISA with the underlined \u201cand,\u201d which I think sharply constrains the list of stuff that shouldn\u2019t be shared. (It also replaces \u201cperson\u201d with \u201cindividual\u201d as consistent with other changes.)\n(i) Identification of types of information that would qualify as a cyber threat indicator under this title that would be unlikely to include information that\u2014\n(I) is not directly related to a cybersecurity threat; and\n(II) is personal information of a specific individual or information that identifies a specific individual.\n(1755) OmnibusCISA requires the AG to make both the interim and final privacy guidelines public; CISA had only made interim ones public.\njointly issue and make publicly available final guidelines\n(1760) The clause noting that other info sharing is still permissible adds the underlined language.\n(i) reporting of known or suspected criminal activity, by a non-Federal entity to any other non-Federal entity or a Federal entity, including cyber threat indicators or defensive measures shared with a Federal entity in furtherance of opening a Federal law enforcement investigation;\n(1761-2) The bill basically gives DHS 90 days (60, really) to set up its portal before the President can declare the need to set up a competing one. This also involves slightly different timing on notice to Congress of whether DHS manages to pull it together in 90 days.\nIN GENERAL.\u2014At any time after certification is submitted under subparagraph (A), the President may designate an appropriate Federal entity, other than the Department of Defense (including the National Security Agency), to develop and implement a capability and process as described in paragraph (1) in addition to the capability and process developed under such paragraph by the Secretary of Homeland Security, if, not fewer than 30 days before making such designation, the President submits to Congress a certification and explanation that\u2014\n(I) such designation is necessary to ensure that full, effective, and secure operation of a capability and process for the Federal Government to receive from any non-Federal entity cyber threat indicators or defensive measures under this title;\n(1766) The OmniCISA is slightly better on threat of death sharing as it must be specific.\n(iii) the purpose of responding to, or otherwise preventing or mitigating, a specific threat of death, a specific threat of serious bodily harm, or a specific threat of serious economic harm, including a terrorist act or a use of a weapon of mass destruction;\n(1768-9) Wow. The regulatory exception is even bigger than it was under CISA. Here\u2019s what CISA said (underline added in both):\n(i) IN GENERAL.\u2014Except as provided in clause (ii), cyber threat indicators and defensive measures provided to the Federal Government under this title shall not be directly used by any Federal, State, tribal, or local government to regulate, including an enforcement action, the lawful activities of any entity, including activities relating to monitoring, operating defensive measures, or sharing cyber threat indicators.\nAnd here\u2019s what OmniCISA says:\n(i) IN GENERAL.\u2014Except as provided in clause (ii), cyber threat indicators and defensive measures provided to the Federal Government under this title shall not be used by any Federal, State, tribal, or local government to regulate, including an enforcement action, the lawful activities of any non-Federal entity or any activities taken by a non-Federal entity pursuant to mandatory standards, including activities relating to monitoring, operating defensive measures, or sharing cyber threat indicators.\n(1771) The Rule of Construction is more permissive in OmniCISA, too. Compare CISA:\n(c) Construction.\u2014Nothing in this section shall be construed\u2014\n(1) to require dismissal of a cause of action against an entity that has engaged in gross negligence or willful misconduct in the course of conducting activities authorized by this title; or\nWith OmniCISA.\nCONSTRUCTION.\u2014Nothing in this title shall be construed\u2014\n(1) to create\u2014\n(A) a duty to share a cyber threat indicator or defensive measure; or\n(B) a duty to warn or act based on the receipt of a cyber threat indicator or defensive measure; or\nWhereas CISA still permitted the government to pursue a company for gross negligence, OmniCISA instead makes clear that companies can ignore cyber information they get shared from the government.\n(1771) I\u2019m going to circle back and compare the various oversight reporting from all four bills in more detail. But the big takeaway is that they\u2019ve stripped a PCLOB review from all 3 of the underlying bills.\n(1782) I\u2019m not sure what this new language does. A lawyer who works in this area thinks it protects Brady obligations. I hope he\u2019s right and it\u2019s not, instead, a way to eat limits on the use for prosecution.\n(n) CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.\u2014Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent the disclosure of a cyber threat indicator or defensive measure shared under this title in a case of criminal prosecution, when an applicable provision of Federal, State, tribal, or local law requires disclosure in such case.\n(1783) In a (long-overdue) report on how to deal with hacking, OmniCISA takes out a report on this topic specifically done for the Foreign Relations Committee, suggesting this information will remain classified and potentially unavailable to the committees. I guess they have to hide Israel\u2019s spying.\n(2) A list and an assessment of the countries and nonstate actors that are the primary threats of carrying out a cybersecurity threat, including a cyber attack, theft, or data breach, against the United States and which threaten the United States national security, economy, and intellectual property.\n(1785) This is the sunset language. It doesn\u2019t seem to sunset anything.\n(a) IN GENERAL.\u2014Except as provided in subsection 3 (b), this title and the amendments made by this title shall be effective during the period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act and ending on September 30, 2025.\nTags: CISA, Omnibus\nhttps://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Logo-Web.png 0 0 emptywheel https://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Logo-Web.png emptywheel2015-12-16 10:58:312015-12-17 11:11:14Working Thread, Cybersecurity Act\nhaarmeyer says:\nOkay, so I read through the Omni CISA, and I have some difficulties with definitions and language on its face:\n1) What does this act mean by a classified defensive measure? Does that mean that there can be fixes for security flaws that cannot be implemented or disseminated because they\u2019ve been classified?\n2) Why does this act repeatedly use the term \u201creal time\u201d without definition? The term has colloquial meaning, but otherwise, it\u2019s extremely domain and application specific to the point of being unintelligible between different experts without explanation. It can mean nano-seconds for HFT, single digit microseconds for video streaming, and less than a day for some of the searches described in the Snowden documents. Or just as frequently, it\u2019s a catchy selling phrase for the greater advertisement community.\nActually, that construction I think informs companies that they don\u2019t have a legally binding duty to act going either way. They can\u2019t be prosecuted for not sharing, either.\nOn Intent, Mental Health, and Terrorism Richard Burr Just Told ISIS USAF Phone Program Gets Internet Phone Data", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 13679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 297.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.english.upenn.edu/news/2018/03/05/peter-decherney-interviewed-cbs-sunday-morning-about-steadicam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:YNV5G7NTIDDAUWUL3SJS2KUGYG5RXNUK", "length": 159, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.english.upenn.edu", "title": "Department of English", "raw_content": "Peter Decherney interviewed for CBS Sunday Morning about the steadicam\nhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/steadicam-inventor-garrett-brown/\nFeaturing Peter Decherney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enidpublicschools.org/245270_3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:42Z", "digest": "sha1:3MRPU6W2LAFCTLV3RN2XR4XVLXFHTAPP", "length": 1920, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.enidpublicschools.org", "title": "Enid Public School - About the Superintendent", "raw_content": "District / District Leadership\nDr. Darrell Floyd has served as Superintendent of Enid Public Schools since June 1, 2014. Prior to that, he served fourteen years as Superintendent of Schools in Stephenville, Texas. He earned a doctorate from Texas A&M University-Commerce, a masters from the University of Texas-Permian Basin, and a bachelors from Texas Tech University.\nSince coming to Enid, Darrell has become very active in community activities including: a participant in Leadership Greater Enid, board member of the Greater Enid Chamber of Commerce, board member and campaign chairman of the United Way of Enid and Northwest Oklahoma, YMCA board member, member of the St. Mary\u2019s Regional Medical Center of Enid\u2019s board of governors, board member of the Garfield County Board of Health, and a 2016-2017 class member of Leadership Oklahoma.\nUnder Dr. Floyd\u2019s leadership, the Enid Public School District has achieved numerous \u201cPoints of Pride\u201d including: passing a $92.8 million bond election on February 9, 2016, being named a Model District for Concurrent Enrollment and Community Partnerships, receiving the District of Distinction Award from the national District Administration journal, and developing a very comprehensive districtwide Strategic Plan with the involvement of well over 1,000 community members.\nOver his 30-year career, Dr. Floyd has assumed a number of regional and statewide leadership roles as well including: United Suburban Schools Association board member, OSSAA Constitution and Rules committee member, president of the Texas Association of School Administrators, president of the Texas Association of Midsize Schools, and recipient of the Texas A&M University-Commerce Alumni Ambassador Doctoral Award. He and his wife, Dr. Cheryl Floyd, have been married for 29 years and have two kids, Tyler and Brittany, who recently both graduated with their master\u2019s degrees from Texas Tech University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 8215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 132.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.entertainment-focus.com/tv-section/tv-news/true-blood-star-nelsan-ellis-dies-aged-39/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:07Z", "digest": "sha1:IY6O5IKTBUXCFTXQ2AJFEYHSENNFF2QH", "length": 1207, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.entertainment-focus.com", "title": "True Blood star Nelsan Ellis dies, aged 39 - Entertainment Focus", "raw_content": "Nelsan Ellis, best-known for playing Lafayette Reynolds on the hit vampire drama True Blood, has died aged 39 it has been confirmed.\nThe actor died from complications from heart failure. No other details about his death have been officially released at this time.\nA statement from HBO, the network behind True Blood, said: \u201cWe were extremely saddened to hear of the passing of Nelsan Ellis. Nelsan was a long-time member of the HBO family whose groundbreaking portrayal of Lafayette will be remembered fondly within the overall legacy of True Blood. Nelsan will be dearly missed by his fans and all of us at HBO.\u201d\nSince news of Ellis\u2019 death broke during the night, many of his former True Blood co-stars such as Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Deborah Ann Woll have paid tribute to him on social media.\nAs well as starring in True Blood, Ellis appeared in the hit film The Help and was in the most recent series of Elementary.\nTags Elementary Nelsan Ellis True Blood\nHow to Get Away With Murder 3x01 We're Good People Now preview\nGame of Thrones 7x01 Dragonstone preview\nElementary renewed for season 7\nElementary season 6 premiere date set by Sky Living\nElementary 5\u00d724 Hurt Me, Hurt You season finale recap", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 3799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.environmentjob.co.uk/directory/861-galapagos-conservation-trust", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:31Z", "digest": "sha1:SVKKDV5SIBUSYPTTJ73SEAZEGF25QNWF", "length": 388, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.environmentjob.co.uk", "title": "Galapagos Conservation Trust | Environmentjob.co.uk", "raw_content": "In 2011, we updated our vision to embrace three primary dimensions of science, education and culture as focal points for our work. This vision promotes the view that the challenges faced by the Galapagos Archipelago are multi-faceted and can best be addressed using a holistic approach.\nWebsite: galapagosconservation.org.uk\nDirectory sectors: conservation & wildlife, marine conservation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.epra.org/news_items/over-3-000-on-demand-audiovisual-media-services-now-on-offer-in-the-eu", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WAEX7K7X45TNR4RWZX3G5WVQKQOAWRH5", "length": 1383, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.epra.org", "title": "Over 3,000 on-demand audiovisual media services now on offer in the EU", "raw_content": "Over 3,000 on-demand audiovisual media services now on offer in the EU\nA new report edited by the European Audiovisual Observatory on On-Demand Audiovisual Markets in the European Union has been published on 10 July by the DG Connect of the European Commission.\nThe report, authored by Observatory analyst Christian Grece, draws a global picture of the state of on-demand audiovisual services in the EU in 2013 by providing analysis and the main available figures on complex and fast growing markets. One of the main objectives of the report is to describe the various business models of on-demand audiovisual media services and their roll-out in the EU:\nAdvertising-financed on-demand audiovisual services (catch-up TV, open platform, branded channels,\u2026)\nPaying transactional VoD services (rental and retail)\nSubscription VoD (SVoD)\nOn-demand audiovisual media services provided by public broadcasters\nThe report also analyses the number of VoD services available in the EU by country of establishment, which highlights the importance of cross-border and international circulation of on-demand audiovisual services as it reveals that around 60% of the VoD services available in individual EU Member States are established in one other country.\nOn-demand Audiovisual Markets in the European Union\nAnnex \u2013 On-demand audiovisual markets in the European Union\nDetailed EAO Press Release", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 310.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.equitybulls.com/admin/news2006/news_det.asp?id=243908", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:43Z", "digest": "sha1:B4QKPXQZRVMRM3DAVBH5CEEC2PC4NER3", "length": 1489, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.equitybulls.com", "title": "Interim Union Budget 2019-20: Defence budget hiked to Rs. 3,05,296 crore - EquityBulls.com", "raw_content": "Interim Union Budget 2019-20: Defence budget hiked to Rs. 3,05,296 crore\nRs. 3,05,296 crore have been provided in the Budget Estimates for 2019-20, compared to Rs. 2,82,733 crore provided in 2018-19 Budget Estimates. 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He said \"The previous Governments announced it in three budgets but sanctioned a mere Rs.500 crore in 2014-15 Interim Budget; in contrast we have already disbursed over Rs.35,000 crore after implementing the Scheme in its' true spirit. The Government also announced substantial hike in the Military Service Pay (MSP) of all service personnel and special allowances given to Naval and Air Force personnel deployed in high risk duties.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.essaytask.com/paper/Ibn_battuta_was_a_traveler_from_North_Africa_who_traveled_more_than_anybody_of_his_time_even_Marco_Polo.-139497.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFKXAGGWU6RYWDXZ3FVBSXFCBPFJJ7PZ", "length": 967, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.essaytask.com", "title": "Essay Examples on Ibn battuta was a traveler from North Africa, who traveled more than anybody of his time, even Marco Polo. | World History", "raw_content": "Ibn battuta was a traveler from North Africa, who traveled more than anybody of his time, even Marco Polo.\nIn 1325, Ibn Battuta, a 21-year-old jurist, left his home in Tangier on a Hajj, to Mecca as all good Muslims should do (p1). It was 29 years before he arrived home again, after travelling further than any known traveller before him: from Mali to China, from Russia to Zanzibar, with his years as legal adviser to the Sultan of Delhi the crowning achievement of his career. His account of his journeys was written in old age\na political history of the great part of the Muslim world. His character was outward. Being an extrovert, he would always make friends wherever he went. And such friends tended to be people in high places, like kings, sultans and princes, governors and dignitaries. He was an intellectual man who wanted to experience different cultures, but one gets the feeling that he was as much a contributor to these countries as he was a learner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 167.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.etihad.com/en-sd/about-us/etihad-news/archive/2016/etihad-airways-appoints-new-general-manager-for-china/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:10Z", "digest": "sha1:H2RTKBCP6SQQYBFXASLPCMBY4EIIUDBJ", "length": 2238, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.etihad.com", "title": "\ufeff Etihad Airways appoints new General Manager for China", "raw_content": "Peter will lead the development of Etihad Airway\u2019s commercial strategy and represent the Abu Dhabi based airline in China. He will be responsible for further strengthening Etihad Airways\u2019 partnerships with travel trade partners and corporate customers.\nWith an extensive amount of experience in Commercial aviation, Peter has over 20 years of experience in senior commercial management roles for Air New Zealand and China Eastern Airlines.\nEtihad Airways\u2019 Senior Vice President Global Sales, Danny Barranger, said: \u201cWe are delighted to welcome Peter to the China leadership team at an exciting time for the airline when we are seeing tremendous growth in the region.\u201d\n\u201cChina is, and will continue to be one of the most important markets for Etihad Airways globally. The airlines\u2019 unique geographic position serves as a significant hub in the global aviation network, and allows Abu Dhabi to closely link China with the GCC region, Middle East, Europe, Africa and South America.\u201d\n\u201cFurthermore, Etihad Airways\u2019 innovative and award-winning products and service will help to meet Chinese travelers\u2019 increasing expectations for greater comfort, higher standards, more choice and better convenience. Etihad Airways\u2019 codeshare flights with China Eastern Airlines and Hainan Airlines provide Chinese consumers with more destinations to choose from, a more flexible flight timetable and frequent flyer programs. Peter\u2019s wealth of knowledge and experience will be instrumental in further expanding Etihad Airways\u2019 presence in the China market.\u201d\n\u201cThe airline business in China has never been more dynamic, along with its strong growth in outbound tourism. But the competition is fierce,\u201d said Peter. \u201cI am delighted to take up this role at what is a truly exciting time for Etihad Airways. It will be a great honor to lead our experienced local team and to work closely with our partner airlines and the industry to continue to grow the airline\u2019s business in this key market for Etihad Airways and to offer a best-in-class travel experience to more business and leisure travelers to a growing number of guests.\u201d\nThe role of General Manager for China reports to Etihad Airways\u2019 Vice President for Asia Pacific South and Australia, Mr. Lindsay White.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 5882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eturbonews.com/58878/proposed-lodge-mana-pools-given-approval-zimbabwe-government", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BJD4X3KUERGH4AFGYKUNH7HRYI35KTEJ", "length": 5809, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.eturbonews.com", "title": "Proposed lodge in Mana Pools given approval by Zimbabwe government | Travel News | eTurboNews -->", "raw_content": "Home News articles Proposed lodge in Mana Pools given approval by Zimbabwe government\nProposed lodge in Mana Pools given approval by Zimbabwe government\n(eTN) \u2013 The Zambezi Society is disappointed to report that construction has begun on one of the controversial new 48-bed \u201clodge\u201d developments along the Zambezi River shoreline in Mana Pools National Park, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a Core Area of the recently-declared UNESCO Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve. This, despite recommendations against such development in the recent Park Management Plan, which cites potential damage to the fragile riverine eco-system at Mana Pools, which is already stressed by tourism impact.\nA lease for the proposed 48-bed (plus 24 staff) \u201cMana Pools Safari Camp\u201d with a 1-km exclusion zone centered on the Vine Camp Site (about 15 kms upstream from the park headquarters in Nyamepi) was granted to ECIS Investments (Ms. Li Song) by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management and signed by the Minster of the Environment in September 2010. An EIA was completed in June 2011 by Vibes Consultancy, and was approved by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) shortly thereafter.\nThe EIA describes this as a \u201csemi-permanent\u201d camp with 12 thatched double chalets on raised metal and wood platforms above the Zambezi River floodplain, a large, thatched living/dining/bar area, a brick-under-tin-roof kitchen/workshop/garage/storeroom complex, a vast (280 sq m) brick-under-tin quarters for 24 staff, a fence, a swimming pool, 14 septic tanks, and a cold-room \u2013 all of this powered by a \u201csolar-system with a back-up generator.\u201d\nThe Vine Camp Site area contains one of the park\u2019s prime examples of magnificent alluvial woodland covering the banks of the Zambezi River. Within this precious woodland are vast specimens of very ancient Zambezi fig trees, Natal Mahoganies and River Litchis, rare climbing lianes, such as the beautiful \u201cTail-less Tailflower\u201d and other species special to the Zambezi \u201calluvial floodplain.\u201d The woodland is a favored spot for a host of wildlife species, including elephant and the predators that Mana Pools is so famous for: lions, leopards, and wild dogs.\nThis EIA was approved by Zimbabwe\u2019s Environmental Management Agency (EMA) without wide consultation. Important and informed stakeholders from Zambia, UNESCO, the Zimbabwean Department of Museums and Monuments, and relevant NGOs, including the Zambezi Society, were not informed or consulted during the process.\nThe Zambezi Society obtained a copy of the EIA only after it had already been approved. It was found to be inadequate, inaccurate, and ill-informed. Environmental experts were consulted, including the Chairman of the UNESCO Mana and Biosphere Committee in Zimbabwe, and the Society obtained their critical reviews of this document. In March 2012, these were submitted, with the Zambezi Society\u2019s own formal objection to the EIA, to the Environmental Management Agency, and copied to relevant authorities in National Parks and UNESCO. The letter stated:\n\u201cWe ask that EMA consider these comments seriously, in the light of our sincere concern for the future of the wildlife and wilderness resources of Mana Pools. We urge you to reconsider your approval of this EIA and ask that a more professional and detailed assessment be undertaken, with wider public consultation, in view of the global significance of Mana Pools. We also request that, should the EIA be re-submitted, those parties copied in this letter be given the opportunity to evaluate the EIA prior to it being authorized.\n\u201cThe Zambezi Society is ready and willing to assist in this process in order to achieve a solution which will sufficiently protect the biological value of Mana Pools, while allowing economic benefit from tourism development in the park.\u201d\nTo this date, there has been no response from EMA.\nThe Society then wrote similarly to the Minister of the Environment and, to this date, there has been no response.\nIn June 2012, The Zambezi Society met with the head of the National Committee of UNESCO in Zimbabwe to brief him about this situation along with colleagues from the Department of Museums and Monuments who, themselves had not been consulted during the EIA process for this development. They have agreed to undertake a \u201chigh level\u201d visit to the construction site as soon as possible to assess the situation for themselves.\nIn the meantime, the Society is liaising with colleagues in Zambia to advise them of the situation and to see what assistance they may be able to provide.\nlodge development\nAnguilla retains Best Caribbean Island ranking in Travel + Leisure World\u2019s Best Awards 2018\nFrangipani Beach Resort ranked #1 in the Top 25 Caribbean Resort Hotels category and #3 in the Top Hotels Overall category in Anguilla.\nIs it safe to travel to the United States? UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand,...\nGill Staden, eTN Zambia - October 22, 2017\nTerror Attacks, mass- shootings, natural disasters like Hurricanes Maria and Irma and the recent wildfires in California, the ZIKA Virus, Hepatitis outbreaks are becoming...\nIATA: Governments Need to Support Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels\nGill Staden, eTN Zambia - June 5, 2017\nThe International Air Transport Association (IATA) 73rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) approved a resolution calling for governments to implement policies to accelerate the deployment of...\nZimbabwe: Tense and dangerous earlier, now safe and tourism normal\nHarare, Zimbabwe dangerous after military steps in, in Victoria Falls its tourism, as usual, this morning.\nHeavy fog shuts down Wellington Airport\nGill Staden, eTN Zambia - February 10, 2018\nNumerous planes have been unable to land at Wellington Airport in the last few hours due to poor weather conditions and low visibility. All flights...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 16345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eu2018.at/latest-news/news/09-21-International-conference-on-the-economic-dimension-of-sport.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:28Z", "digest": "sha1:SZOHVRJNUHARGESZ2E5YK6DY3K45PT3P", "length": 1819, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.eu2018.at", "title": "Background information: International conference on the economic dimension of sport on 21 September in Vienna: eu2018.at Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union", "raw_content": "Background information: International conference on the economic dimension of sport on 21 September in Vienna\nOn 21 September an international conference on the economic dimension of sport will take place in the Hotel Imperial Riding School Renaissance Vienna. Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for the Civil Service and Sport, Heinz-Christian Strache, will be joined by high-level economic and innovation experts as well as delegates from nearly all member states of the European Union.\nThe opening lecture will be given by Karlheinz Kopf, Secretary General of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (Wirtschaftskammer \u00d6sterreich \u2013 WKO). After a panel discussion (facilitator: Folker Hellmund/European Olympic Committees) the conference will be continued in the afternoon with three workshops (\u201cSports and regional development\u201d, \u201cSports and innovation\u201d and \u201cMethodological aspects\u201d). The results of the day will then be summarised in a closing session.\nThe economic dimension of sport, expressed as a contribution to gross value added and employment, is well documented nowadays. However, some of the economically relevant dimensions of sport are not taken into account. The value of voluntary work, for example, is not measured due to the lack of financial flows, but neither is the economic damage caused by physical inactivity. In addition, the significance of sport for regional economic growth on a small\u2011scale, regional level has not yet been documented or if so, then only scarcely. Likewise, the innovative component of sport as a driver of economic growth has not been presented in sufficient detail yet.\nThe aim of the conference is to identify these problems, discuss possible approaches and develop ideas about how to even better quantify and present the entire economic dimension of sport in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3373, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 220.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-07/uouh-psi072115.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OASKKD4Y5NQ4ZUGPLYFVJJL4JHRNTQHB", "length": 5277, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.eurekalert.org", "title": "Poor survival in multiple myeloma patients linked to genetic variation | EurekAlert! Science News", "raw_content": "Poor survival in multiple myeloma patients linked to genetic variation\nSALT LAKE CITY- As part of a multi-institutional effort, researchers with Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah have found that multiple myeloma patients with a genetic variation in the gene FOPNL die on average 1-3 years sooner than patients without it. The finding was identified with a genetic mapping technique, genome wide association studies (GWAS), and verified in patient populations from North America and Europe. This was the first study to survey the entire human genome for genetic variation influencing survival, and included a total of 1,635 patients.\nPublished in Nature Communications, the results are a step toward applying precision medicine to multiple myeloma, a cancer that affects bone marrow plasma cells that help coordinate the body's immune response. Although relatively rare, the disease is aggressive and incurable, with 43 percent of patients dying within five years of diagnosis. Future studies will focus on finding therapies that improve prospects for this newly identified subset, which makes up an estimated 10-14 percent of multiple myeloma patients.\n\"This is the largest study of inherited genetics and myeloma survival to date. We were able to identify the FOPNL variant because it has quite a large effect on survival. With even larger collaborative studies, we hope to add to this,\" says Nicola Camp, Ph.D., Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator, professor of medicine and human genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and Chair of the International Multiple Myeloma Consortium. \"The ability to stratify patients based on their genetic make-up opens the door to personalizing their treatment and care.\"\nCamp led the study together with Elad Ziv, M.D., at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Celine Vachon, Ph.D., at the Mayo College of Medicine Rochester and Federico Canzian, Ph.D., from the German Cancer Research Center. The collaboration includes contributions from 38 scientists at 18 institutions and reports on patient data from clinics across Utah, UCSF, the Mayo Clinic, and several European centers in Italy, Poland, Spain, France, Portugal and Germany.\nAlthough the researchers don't yet understand why the genetic variation in FOPNL is associated with poor prognosis, there are clues that it could be involved in disease progression through centrosome amplification. Analysis of separate multiple myeloma patient datasets show that those with the worst outcomes have abnormal amounts of FOPNL, and carry another sign of poor prognosis, a high centrosome index. The implication is that disruptions in FOPNL could affect fundamental mechanisms controlling the distribution of genetic material to newly made cells.\n\"The results point us to a previously unrecognized gene as a determinant of myeloma prognosis. If we understand what about this gene is causing poor prognosis, that may lead to a better fundamental grasp of the pathways that are important of multiple myeloma progression,\" says first author Elad Ziv, M.D, a professor of medicine at UCSF. \"Such knowledge could ultimately lead to better therapies.\"\nThe Utah research was supported by the Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI), the HCI Cancer Center Support Grant P30 CA042014, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute SEER, Utah State Department of Health, and University of Utah. Other research within the study was supported by Steve and Nancy Grand Multiple Myeloma Translational Initiative, Expression Analysis, the National Cancer Institute, Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the The Research Fund at Region Sj\u00e6lland, Denmark.\n\"Genome-wide association study identifies variants at 16p13 associated with survival in multiple myeloma patients\" was published in Nature Communications on July 22, 2015.\nHuntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) is one of the world's top academic research and cancer treatment centers. HCI manages the Utah Population Database - the largest genetic database in the world, with more than 16 million records linked to genealogies, health records, and vital statistics. Using this data, HCI researchers have identified cancer-causing genes, including the genes responsible for melanoma, colon and breast cancer, and paraganglioma. HCI is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (a 26-member alliance of the world's leading cancer centers) and is a National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. HCI treats patients with all forms of cancer and operates several high-risk clinics that focus on melanoma and breast, colon, and pancreas cancers. The HCI Cancer Learning Center for patient and public education contains one of the nation's largest collections of cancer-related publications. The institute is named after Jon M. 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The English Cocker Spaniel is an active, good-natured, sporting dog standing well up at the withers and compactly built. There are \"field\" or \"working\" cockers and \"show\" cockers. It is one of several varieties of spaniel and somewhat resembles its American cousin, the American Cocker Spaniel, although it is closer to the working-dog form of the Field Spaniel and the English Springer Spaniel.Outside the US, the breed is usually known simply as the Cocker Spaniel, as is the American Cocker Spaniel within the US. The word cocker is commonly held to stem from their use to hunt woodcock.\nInitially, spaniels in England were divided among land spaniels and water spaniels. The differentiation among the spaniels that led to the breeds that we see today did not begin until the mid-19th century. During this time, the land spaniels became a bit more specialised and divisions among the types were made based upon weight. According to the 1840 Encyclopedia of Rural Sports, Cockers were 12\u201320 lb (5.5\u20139 kg). The two Cocker Spaniels were shown together in America until 1936, when the English Cocker received status as a separate breed. The American Kennel Club granted a separate breed designation for the English Cocker Spaniel in 1946.The breed standard indicates that the males of the breed are on average between 39.4cm - 40.6cm at the withers with the females a little smaller, growing to between 38.1cm - 39.4cm. Both males and females of the breed weigh approximately 13kg - 14.5kg. American Cocker Spaniels are smaller, with the males being on average between 36.2cm - 39.4cm, and females again being smaller on average at between 34.3cm - 36.8cm, both weighing approximately 11kg - 13kg.The English Cocker Spaniel is similar to the English Springer Spaniel and at first glance the only major difference is the larger size of the Springer. However English Cockers also tend to have longer, and lower-set ears than English Springers. In addition Springers also tend to have a longer muzzle, their eyes are not as prominent and the coat is less abundant.\nBreed standards restrict dogs to certain colours for the purposes of conformation showing (dependent on country), whereas working Cockers can be any of a wide variety of colours. For instance, the breed standard of the United Kingdom's Kennel Club states that in solid colours, no white is allowed except for on the chest. blue roan, liver roan orange roan with black or brown pigmentation, lemon roan with black or brown pigmentation, black and white ticked, liver and white ticked orange and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white ticked with black or brown pigmentation, black and white, liver and white with brown pigmentation orange and white with black or brown pigmentation, lemon and white with black or brown pigmentation. Of the solid colours, sable is considered rare, and is classified by some countries as being a type of particolour on account of its mixed hair shafts. White is black/brown pigmentation is also considered rare, and is also usually classified as a particolour too. In addition a silver/ash colour, usually associated with the Weimaraner breed of dog, is considered genetically possible but is yet to be recorded by the United Kingdom's Kennel Club. and will bond strongly to an individual person in a family, usually the one who feeds it. Known for optimism, intelligence and adaptability, the breed is extremely loyal and affectionate. The English Cocker Spaniel has a cheerful nature. They rank 18th in Stanley Coren's The Intelligence of Dogs, being of excellent working/obedience intelligence.\nDue to the breed's happy disposition and continuously wagging tail, it has been given the nickname \"merry cocker\". They can also be dominant but loyal to their companion.With a good level of socialisation at an early age, Cocker Spaniels can get well along with people, children, other dogs and other pets. This breed seems to have a perpetually wagging tail and prefers to be around people; it is not best suited to the backyard alone. Cockers can be easily stressed by loud noises and by rough treatment or handling. When trained with a soft hand and with lots of rewards, the Cocker Spaniel will be an obedient and loving companion with a happy, cheerful nature.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 5583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cookin-it-up-round-4-tickets-54378583808?aff=ebdssbdestsearch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:BI64QLAAP5VNHJBO2I2TRB76QFESIGV5", "length": 3038, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.eventbrite.com", "title": "Cookin' It Up! Round 4 Tickets, Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite", "raw_content": "Cookin' It Up! Round 4\nby Okra's Cajun/Creole\nWed, February 6, 2019, 7:00 PM \u2013 10:00 PM EST\nOkra's Cajun/Creole\nLet the Chefs present their best. You be the judge. A meal, a show, and a competition. In the style of TV cooking contests, local amateur cooks will go head to head with you watching (possibly heckling). You will then dine on their creation and judge it according to criteria such as presentation, creativity, flavor, texture, etc.\n* The ticket price covers the meal prepared by the contestants and non-alcoholic beverages for two guests. Feel free to order anything you like from Okra's (not included in ticket price) while you wait for the chefs' masterpieces to land on your table. Twenty (20%) percent of the ticket price will be donated to the chosen charity of the winning chef.\nPlease note that the number on the ticket indicates the round in which the chefs will compete. ie. 1 indicates round one on November 15; 2 indicates round two on December 5, etc.\nThis event will continue on the first Wednesday of the month for seven months. January and April will feature showdowns from the winners of the two months prior and May will be the Grand Championship featuring the winners from January and April.\nWe will do our best to continue improving the technology so that the kitchen will be well covered by closed circuit TV for your viewing pleasure, both in Foundation and Okra's. We are also hoping to be able to live stream the events via Facebook.\nYou don't have to know the contestants to come to the event. Close your eyes and point at a name and buy that ticket.\nWill this event be stupidly fun?\nCan I wait until last minute to buy tickets?\nMaybe, but not likely. The event is selling out and many disappointed people can't get tickets. The capacity is limited to 32 people. Because of the size of the room we can't make exceptions.\nIf you can't get a ticket you can still watch the event from Okra's original dining room on CCTV and on Facebook Live. All you have to do is \"Like\" our FB page and watch. (hint: It's the one with the \"20\" logo to signify our 20th anniversary). You won't get to judge or taste their creations but you can still donate to the winner's charity and spend the rest on Cajun food and Louisiana Craft Beer.\nWhat if I don't know either of the competitors?\nWill I be able to see what's happening in the kitchen?\nWe hope to be able to have cameras on the kitchen at all times, broadcasting on two TVs in the room you'll be sitting in as well as the TV's in Okra's main dining room.\nWhat will the Champion win?\nWe're hoping to secure a $500 donation to the winner's charity. Do you know someone who would be willing to sponsor the Champion's charity donation? Please contact us with any leads ASAP.\nThings to do in Manassas, VA Game Food & Drink\nCookin' It Up! Round 4 at Okra's Cajun/Creole\nCopy of Cookin' It Up! Round 5\nOkra's Cajun/Creole, Manassas\nSun, Jul 7 12:00 PM\nThe Loft at I/O SPACES, Silver Spring\nHoward Theatre, Washington\nLITTY PRESIDENT'S DAY DAY PARTY - THE PARK 14 - FEB 16", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 6515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eweek.com/security/opm-director-resigns-after-breaches-but-the-real-work-remains", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RBN4ITKIXEJHGU7NTCERSOOATVZXMPWH", "length": 2978, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.eweek.com", "title": "OPM Director Resigns After Breaches, but the Real Work Remains", "raw_content": "OPM Director Resigns After Breaches, but the Real Work Remains\nNEWS ANALYSIS: Katherine Archuleta's resignation as the director of the Office of Personnel Management is a necessary step, but it doesn't solve the problem of inadequate security or inept management.\nThe news from the Office of Personnel Management on July 10 was something most people in Washington were looking for. The director of the office, Katherine Archuleta, announced that she was stepping aside in the wake of a series of increasingly dismaying revelations of breaches into OPM's data systems. Initially the agency announced that as many as 4 million records had been accessed. Then another breach was announced with perhaps another 10 million records accessed.\nThe numbers continued to get worse. And on July 9, the agency revealed that 21.5 million background investigations had been breached, in addition to the initial 4 million records. With that announcement, any remaining support for Archuleta in Congress evaporated. At that point the outcome was inevitable, and fortunately Archuleta didn't prolong the agony.\nAs refreshing as it may be to see a member of the administration accept accountability for their actions, it's only the first step in solving OPM's problems. And while the resignation of the director was essential, the real work remains to be done.\nWhat's sad about the whole affair is that the mess does not lie solely with Archuleta. While she was in charge of the department, it was President Obama who nominated a person who was totally unqualified to manage an agency that had as a primary function the operation of several massive databases. In addition, it was Congress that when faced with the job of confirming a person who was unqualified, confirmed her anyway.\nIn addition, I feel compelled to add that it was the same Congress that has consistently underfunded the security necessary to protect the millions of personnel records that are now breached. And yes, it's the same Congress that will now spew forth histrionics blaming everyone but themselves as they attempt to shift the blame from where it rightly lies, which is at that body's doorstep.\nWhen Archuleta took office, despite her lack of experience in managing large, data-intensive organizations, she was astute enough to see that OPM was suffering from years of inadequate funding and inept management. To suggest that the old COBOL-laden mainframes were legacy systems was an understatement, but she did recognize that, and she promised to launch an effort to update those systems.\nBut the truth of government in the United States is that managers in the executive branch can only work with what Congress will give them, and when OPM's budget is cut so far by a hostile Congress that the agency can barely keep the lights on, then it is Congress that must shoulder much of the blame for this breach.\nPrevious Google Taps Neural Network Tech to Bolster Anti-Spam...\nNext Legal Battles Could Trim Down Bloatware", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 279, "original_length": 16749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.excelr8learning.co.uk/cambridge-maths-tutor-annette-le-sage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GAD3XL5GLWRQ3PWW3NHCJPDVLMBQZJ7L", "length": 1978, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.excelr8learning.co.uk", "title": "Maths Tutor - Annette Le Sage - Private maths tuition & private English tuition Cambridge", "raw_content": "Home Cambridge Maths Tutor \u2013 Annette Le Sage\nAnnette Le Sage B.A., M.Sc., P.G.C.E\nCambridge Maths Tutor Annette Le Sage is a highly qualified and experienced teacher who specialises in tutoring Maths and English to GCSE level. She has tutored hundreds of Excelr8 Learning pupils over many years helping them to build confidence and achieve their potential.\nAnnette will be delighted to talk to you about your child\u2019s progress. Please click this link and complete the form.\nTutoring Maths at Excelr8 Learning Cambridge\nAnnette holds many qualifications. These include a BA, PGCE, a CELTA and CELTYL, a PGDip in Art Psychotherapy and additionally, Annette recently completed her Masters\u2019 Degree in Computing and IT, in which, for her dissertation project, she created a system to teach algebra to children through interactive animation.\nAnnette has an extremely varied teaching experience which greatly enhances the tuition she provides Excelr8 Learning pupils. She has worked extensively with both children and adults in the UK and abroad.\nFurthermore, Annette has taught in a range of settings including Pre-school, Primary School, Secondary School, University, in a Corporate environment as well as Community Classes in the UK and in international settings in Poland and Japan.\nAnnette has also worked as an Art Therapist with children and as a Project Manager for Childrens\u2019 Services and Charities.\nAnnette is committed to focussing on the needs of children and developing their potential. She enjoys tutoring at Excelr8 Learning as our centres provide programmes tailored to each child\u2019s specific requirements.\nAdditionally, Annette particularly enjoys teaching maths. She likes to encourage children to think logically and problem solve. She enjoys building relationships with children and parents. Moreover, Annette feels that teaching at Excelr8 Learning allows the opportunity for these relationships to help children to thrive and learn more effectively.\nAnnette Le Sage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 4109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.executivegov.com/2018/10/joe-dunford-us-global-alliance-network-strategic-source-of-strength/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EEKS6GJCRO6UPUCN5PI5VL7HOYDAPYC3", "length": 1204, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.executivegov.com", "title": "Joe Dunford: US Global Alliance Network \u2018Strategic Source of Strength\u2019 \u2013 Executive Gov", "raw_content": "Home / News / Joe Dunford: US Global Alliance Network \u2018Strategic Source of Strength\u2019\nJoe Dunford: US Global Alliance Network \u2018Strategic Source of Strength\u2019\nThe chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff recently described the U.S. global system of alliances and partners as the country\u2019s \u201cstrategic source of strength,\u201d the Defense Department reported Sunday.\nU.S. Marine Corps Gen. 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Russia and China are working to sow doubt among U.S. allies in Europe and in the Pacific.\nDunford said that such efforts, coupled with growing military capabilities, constitute adversarial strategies that aim to deny U.S. forces access to different parts of the world.\nSubsequently, for Dunford, the core issue is maintaining U.S. \u201cability to project power where necessary to advance our interests.\u201d\nTags Cybersecurity Defense & National Security Defense & National Security Department of Defense electronic warfare Joe Dunford", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.faircitydrivingacademy.com/registration", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ENBUKCWP2YCJGC63KBPNNKDSMMW44VBZ", "length": 6507, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.faircitydrivingacademy.com", "title": "Fair City Driving Academy - Registration", "raw_content": "November 3, 4, 10, & 11\nParent Night November 1st @ 6pm\nFair City Driving Academy, LLC\n38 Hour Youth Program: $400.00\nThis course consists of 30 classroom hours of instruction and 8 hours of behind the wheel driving. Students may take the 38 hour course at age 15 years old and must be in at a minimum of the 8th grade. Each student receives individual behind the wheel training with a certified instructor. The student\u2019s birth certificate or a Louisiana State Identification is required during registration. Each class will have built in breaks of 5 minutes each hour.\n14 Hour Pre-Licensing, Defensive Driving, Court Mandated: $250.00\nThis is a 14-hour course that is offered to individual\u2019s ages 18 and older. This course covers Louisiana and U.S. rules and regulations. It also covers defensive driving techniques, as well as alcohol and drug abuse. Pre-registration for this course is not required but encouraged. For identification, you must have a social security card and/or birth certificate. NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME\nPlease give 24-hour notice if a student is unable to attend a scheduled course. No refund of the $100.00 partial payment will be given if the student does not attend and if notification is not given. If 24 hours notice is given and the student does not to attend Fair City Driving Academy an administrative fee of $50.00 will apply with the rest being refunded. In cases of NSF checks a $50.00 fee will apply.\nBehavior Requirements: At F.C.D.A. we treat our student and parents with the highest level of respect. We have high expectations for our students overall success. With that in mind F.C.D.A. will not tolerate any type of cheating, disrespectfulness, fighting, habitual tardiness, stealing, or any other serious discipline problems. These problems may lead to the student being expelled and forfeiture for the full course amount, no refunds. If a student is expelled he/she may enroll in a future class at full course expense. NO tobacco products or illegal substances will be allowed at our facility. Any violations could result in being expelled. No tobacco use will be allowed by any minor at any time while taking any course.\nAbsence, Rescheduling, Grading Policy: If a student is absent the class time he/she has missed must be made up during future classes. Louisiana requires 30 hours of classroom instruction. The scheduling of makeup hours will be handled by the course\u2019s instructor. Louisiana requires that students pass all tests given with a minimum 80%, and the overall course with a minimum 80% to be issued a Certificate of Success Completion.\nF.C.D.A. does not guarantee that successful completion of any course or driving instruction by any student will guarantee the issuance of a Driver\u2019s license or Learner\u2019s permit by the Department of Motor Vehicles.\nDriving Requirements: Students who are enrolled in the 38/14-hour course must complete 8 hours of behind the wheel driving once the classroom instruction is complete. Students will predominately do their drives on weekends. All students will start and finish their drives at the F.C.D.A. facility. Each driving lesson will be for 2 hours and may be postponed by F.C.D.A. due to severe weather. At the end of the fourth drive (8 hours total) each student will receive a driving evaluation sheet. Each student will receive their completion certificate within five business days after completing the course. The white copy will be given to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) and the yellow copy parents will keep for their records. If the original is lost, a new completion certificate will cost $10.00. We ask for 24-hour notice to be given if a student will not be able to drive during his/her scheduled time. If 24-hour notice is not given there will be a $25.00 cancellation fee. This fee must be paid before the next scheduled class in order to continue the drives. IF a student is unable to drive due to health problems please contact F.C.D.A. as soon as possible.\nMiscellaneous Information for Parents/Guardians/Students:\nWe request to meet with each parent prior to start of each new course. During this time, we will give the course introduction and requirements to successfully complete the 38 hours. F.C.D.A. will provide each student with a workbook. If your child has any type of learning difficulties, or disabilities that you feel we need to know, please indicate on your child\u2019s registration form. F.C.D.A. does not guarantee that a driver\u2019s license, permit, or certificate of completion will be obtained by just taking any of the mentioned courses. Any grievances not resolved by the school may be forwarded to the Department of Public Safety & Corrections, Office of Motor Vehicles, Attention: Training & Certification Unit, P.O. Box 64886, Baton Rouge, La. 70896.\nMethods of Payment: F.C.D.A. only accepts cash, and money orders. Payment in full is expected before any services are rendered with exception of the 38-hour course: a $100.00 partial payment and 14-hour course: a $100.00 partial payment is initially required by money order or cash only. Full payment must be made prior to the conclusion of the classroom hours of instruction. No personal checks or credit cards accepted at this time, we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.\n*Parents/Guardians must provide proper identification when registering their child!\n*Remember to bring your child\u2019s birth certificate on the 1st day of class!\nF.C.D.A. shall adhere to all Federal, State, & Local Laws and shall not engage in any form of unlawful discrimination or illegal activities.\nPlease bring Pen and Writing materials to take notes.\nEach Student will be provided with a Workbook and Manual to use during class. PLEASE DO NOT WRITE IN THE WORKBOOK OR MANUAL. If the student would like a copy of the manual for home go expresslane.org and look under forms/study guides, make sure they get the (ro14) version\nStudents are to bring a Picture ID the first day of class.\nA Parent or Legal Guardian of students attending 38-hour class must be available at the classroom at 4:00 PM on the last day of class to sign paperwork or make other arrangements with the Instructor.\nIf you wear contact Lens or Glasses you must bring a note from your doctor, stating you can see well enough to drive.\nPlease pay deposit at least 2 weeks before class begins\n38 Hour Class deposit - $100.00\n38 Hour Class 8:00 AM \u2013 4:30 PM\nWe no longer have online\ndue to some complications.\nCall to make an appointment or\ncome into our office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 8235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Granger-on-Movies-Hitman-Agent-47-6474669.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:11Z", "digest": "sha1:DQUGN46WC2Q22ERRSION63IBFX5BWWY4", "length": 2429, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com", "title": "Granger on Movies: \u2018Hitman: Agent 47\u2019 - Fairfield Citizen", "raw_content": "https://www.fairfieldcitizenonline.com/news/article/Granger-on-Movies-Hitman-Agent-47-6474669.php\nGranger on Movies: \u2018Hitman: Agent 47\u2019\n\"Hitman: Agent 47\" is a new movie sequel to a 2007 film based on a video game.\nFairfield Citizen film critic Susan Granger reviews the new movie, \u201cHitman: Agent 47.\u201d\nEven in the dog days of August, there\u2019s no excuse for this dreadful, mind-numbing reboot!\nBased on a video game, it updates Timothy Olyphant\u2019s 2007 adaptation, casting British actor Rupert Friend (TV\u2019s \u201cHomeland\u201d) as the elite, elusive assassin, who is genetically engineered to be the perfect killing machine, identified only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his bald head.\nSuffering from a mysterious ailment and over-medicated with prescription pills, Katia (Hannah Ware) is on the run in Berlin, searching for her scientist father, Dr. Livenko (Ciaran Hinds), who devised the first Agent program and is now in hiding.\nAlthough she\u2019s ostensibly clairvoyant, she doesn\u2019t realize she\u2019s being targeted until she encounters an American named John Smith (Zachary Quinto), who serves as her ostensible protector \u2014 or is he?\nEndowed with strength, speed and stamina, stoic Agent 47 is after an evil Syndicate that plans to unlock the secret of his past to create a super-military force whose powers will surpass even his own.\nProblem is, early in the fight between Agent 47 and John Smith in the engine-testing facility, the face of Zachary Quinto\u2019s stuntman is clearly visible, breaking any semblance of continuity.\nIncoherently scripted by Skip Woods and Michael Finch, it\u2019s senselessly helmed by Aleksander Bach, making his directing debut with a multitude of uber-violent fight scenes and explosive car crashes, while visiting the sights of Singapore\u2019s Marina Bay.\nAudi must have paid mightily for product placement, and astute spotters report there\u2019s even a reference to the popular Danish video game when a yellow rubber duck is shown floating in a bathtub along with a partially submerged toaster.\nFYI: Paul Walker was cast in the title role, building on the success of his \u201cFast and Furious\u201d franchise, before his sudden death in November 2013.\nOn the Granger Movie Gauge of 1 to 10, \u201cHitman: Agent 47\u201d is a tedious, idiotic 2. But obviously, there were hopes for a sequel, since there\u2019s the introduction of yet another clone.\nVisit www.susangranger.com for more about movies and entertainment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 4285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fairplanet.org/story/how-transgender-women-found-freedom-in-call-centers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:19Z", "digest": "sha1:E4XE2LIE3W76WI4N77YDPMYUJZGIMVHO", "length": 9364, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.fairplanet.org", "title": "How Transgender Women Found Freedom in Call Centers | FAIRPLANET.ORG | Read, Debate: Engage.", "raw_content": "https://www.fairplanet.org/story/how-transgender-women-found-freedom-in-call-centers/\ncall center, LGBTIQ, Philippines\nThe Philippines\u2019 call center boom has provided new opportunities for transgender women to earn a decent income and present themselves in their authentic gender identity without fear of discrimination.\nBy Lynzy Billing\nThe Philippines is the undisputed call center capital of the world. Home to the customer service operations of such multinational companies as IBM, eBay and Capital One, the industry employs half a million people in more than 400 centers across the country, and in 2016 contributed $25 billion to the national economy.\nAs well as boosting the national economy, the call center business has had another, perhaps unexpected, effect: It has provided transgender women with a safe space to express their gender identities at work. Since the call center boom kicked off in the mid-2000s, thousands of transgender agents have entered the industry, often because of the lack of job opportunities in their chosen fields.\nKate Montecarlo Cordova has been working in call centers for 13 years. Today, she is a senior manager.\n\u201cThe biggest issue that transgender women face is economic. We are like any other women or men, we have skill sets,\u201d she says. \u201cBut in the Philippines, many industries do not employ transgender women, so we end up working in a different industry to where our skills lie.\u201d\n\u201cMy friend is a doctor and yet no hospital will hire her because she is a transgender woman, and so she will have to find work elsewhere.\u201d\nOutside these business process outsourcing (BPO) companies, as they are known in the Philippines, there are few opportunities for transgender Filipinas to present themselves in their authentic gender identity and escape discrimination.\n\u201cMy friend is a doctor and yet no hospital will hire her because she is a transgender woman, and so she will have to find work elsewhere,\u201d Cordova says. \u201cSkilled and educated women are affected financially, as they end up in jobs with a lower wage and not suited to their expertise.\u201d\n\u201cAnd at the same time, a hospital is without a doctor.\u201d\nBut call centers are different. Given the anonymous nature of the work, many transgender women can explore their gender presentation and identity in the workplace, wearing women\u2019s clothing and using women\u2019s names, a freedom that would be impossible in most other industries in the country.\n\u201cThe ability to be an openly transgender woman in the workplace gives them confidence to be themselves outside, in their communities,\u201d Cordova says.\nBefore the arrival of call centers, most transgender women found work in the beauty and entertainment sectors. Cordova won the Miss Gay Philippines beauty pageant in 1995.\n\u201cIn the \u201980s, there was no work for transgender women here outside the pageant industry,\u201d she says. \u201cBeauty pageants, in particular, offered a way for transgender women to earn money and be recognized.\u201d\nWhile these industries were a rare refuge for transgender women, they offered low wages compared to 20,000 pesos ($370) a month available in call centers today \u2013 more than double the national minimum wage. Call centers also offer more stable and secure work in the form of full-time positions, rather than contingent and often part-time service work in entertainment, where workers usually have to rely on tips.\nMany call centers are run byU.S. companies, and so adopt American anti-discrimination policies, which are more robust than those in the Philippines. Some even provide domestic partner benefits which recognize the partners of LGBTIQ employees for health cover, regardless of gender identities.\nSupport for Trans Employees\nThough call centers offer a relatively LGBTIQ-friendly environment, they often lack policies specific to the needs of transgender people. So employees have set up support groups within their workplaces to provide solidarity and support. At the Philippine headquarters of Canadian company TELUS international, LGTBIQ employees set up a support group called Spectrum Philippines, which has nearly 500 members.\n\u201cIf I wasn\u2019t working in a BPO company and no one accepted me, I wouldn\u2019t have been able to support my family,\u201d Amiel de Dois, a member of Spectrum Philippines, says. But with her income from the call center, she was able to put her brothers through school.\n\u201cOne of them is now a professional teacher, while the other one, hopefully, she becomes an accountant \u2013 I said \u2018she\u2019 because she\u2019s also transgender.\u201d\nDe Dois started out as a customer service agent at TELUS 10 years ago, and is now a senior operations manager.\n\u201cHere in TELUS, they look at you beyond your appearance [to] what you can contribute to the program or organization. And I guess that\u2019s one thing that they saw in me.\u201d\nDiscrimination Persists\nWhile Cordova and de Dois have found career success, they represent only a small percentage of transgender women in positions of leadership. Emmanuel David of the University of Colorado Boulder has studied the call center industry in the Philippines. He says that for the most part, employers overlook transgender women for promotions and career progression.\n\u201cI am only in this industry because I can present myself as female. In other industries I would have to cut my hair and dress like a man. I cannot go into other work. I am stuck in this industry.\u201d\n\u201cMost of the transgender women I interviewed were in entry-level positions and experienced limited upward mobility,\u201d he said. \u201cVery few of them progressed to supervisor or management positions.\u201d\nTransgender women tend to be clustered in positions with shorter occupational ladders, David says, leading to stunted career growth.\nJaneille Natividad, 30, has been working at a call center in Quezon City for the past four years, but she says she doesn\u2019t see a bright future for her career.\n\u201cI am only in this industry because I can present myself as female,\u201d she says. \u201cIn other industries I would have to cut my hair and dress like a man. I cannot go into other work. I am stuck in this industry.\u201d\nAnd for some employees, something as simple going to the bathroom during a work day is a challenge. \u201cMost call centers do not have a specific policy allowing transgender women to use the female restrooms, despite companies claiming to be LGBTIQ-inclusive,\u201d Cordova says.\n\u201cIt has nothing to do with your genitals. It\u2019s to do with security and the psychological effect barring transgender women from women\u2019s restrooms has. Psychologically I\u2019m a woman, so not being allowed to use a woman\u2019s restroom is a major struggle for me.\u201d\n\u201cPsychologically I\u2019m a woman, so not being allowed to use a woman\u2019s restroom is a major struggle for me.\u201d\nUnlike Cordova\u2019s employer, three of the biggest call center operators in the Philippines \u2013 IBM, TELUS International and Convergys \u2013 do have gender-neutral bathrooms in addition to male and female toilets.\nStrengthening Rights Outside the Workplace\nThere are currently no gender recognition laws in the Philippines that would allow transgender people to change their names or gender status on legal documents, even if they have reassignment surgery. This is somewhat of a regional anomaly: other Asian countries such as Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan recognize a third gender on specific government-issued documents, while China provides an administrative process to change gender markers on official identity documents.\nBut change might be on the horizon. On September 20, 2017, an Anti-Discrimination Bill passed its third reading in the House of Representatives, after 17 years of failing in Congress. The bill would prohibit unfair discrimination against LGBTIQ people, and make it illegal for anyone to force a person to take a medical or psychological exam to assess their gender identity. The bill also proposes jail terms for those who violate its provisions.\nAdvocates take hope in another bill \u2013 one that will make the Philippines the last country in the world to legalize divorce \u2013 which passed the committee stage of the House of Representatives for the first time in March this year.\n\u201cIt would lead to more opportunities for me to work in different industries without discrimination,\u201d Natividad says.\n\u201cDivorce wasn\u2019t allowed here, but now the law is passing in Congress, so maybe we will get gender recognition laws also.\u201d\nCordova and Natividad stress the importance of policies being formulated outside the workplace that allow transgender people to change their name and gender on legal documents without being forced to undergo surgery. For some, that may mean a way out of the call center business.\nThis article originally appeared on Women\u2019s Advancement Deeply. You can find the original here. For important news about women\u2019s economic advancement, you can sign up to the Women\u2019s Advancement email list.\nThe industry employs half a million people in more than 400 centers across the country, and in 2016 contributed $25 billion to the national economy.\nIt has provided transgender women with a safe space to express their gender identities at work.\nThe project has also become an online platform where LGBT people around the world can submit their stories of identity and survival. The mix of [...]\nDonors such as the EU and Japan allow their funding to be used to buy local food. The United States, which makes up 36 percent of contributions to [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 14252, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fanbolt.com/59413/super-troopers-cast-launches-crowdfunding-campaign-to-finance-sequel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:02Z", "digest": "sha1:43F2I3U2NOKJNEV32OWGF3HH7OW3TSY3", "length": 1309, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.fanbolt.com", "title": "'Super Troopers' Cast Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Finance Sequel", "raw_content": "\u2018Super Troopers\u2019 Cast Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Finance Sequel\nSuper-Troopers\nThe stars of cult comedy Super Troopers have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $2 million for a follow-up to their 2001 film.\nMembers of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe, including Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter and Erik Stolhanske, have asked fans to help fund the sequel via IndieGogo.\nBosses at Fox Searchlight have already given the green light for the follow-up and agreed to distribute the film, but executives have given the task of funding the project to the stars of Broken Lizard and their fans.\nThe comedians are hoping to pool at least $2 million by April 24 in order to make a \u201cbarebones\u201d version of Super Troopers 2, but they want to raise more than the goal for \u201cmore action, more cameos, and more shenanigans.\u201d\nDirector and star Chandrasekhar is hoping to start filming in May with a 2016 release date.\nThe first Super Troopers film, about a group of bumbling Vermont state police officers, only cost $1.2 million to make, but grossed $23 million worldwide.\nThe campaign had pulled in more than $1.6 million at the time of publication, securing more than half the goal total less than 24 hours after it went live.\nTags: CrowdfundingIndiegogoSuper TroopersSuper Troopers 2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 3984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 199.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fando.com/blog/the-data-is-in-watershed-groups-make-a-difference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:35Z", "digest": "sha1:53OWY37BJBQCHLIU7ZHMT32QWUGATXXY", "length": 3268, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.fando.com", "title": "The Data is In: Watershed Groups Make a Difference \u2013 Fuss & O'Neill, Inc.", "raw_content": "by Diane L. Mas, PhD, REHS/RS, Associate | Business Line Manager\nAll of the watershed groups that we\u2019ve had the privilege to work with over the past 2 decades share several characteristics: they care deeply about the water quality of their local watershed, they look to engage the public in addressing and solving water quality problems, and they are nonprofit. Now research shows that another characteristic can be added to this list: they provide public goods. A public good is defined in economics as \u201ca commodity or service that individuals cannot be effectively excluded from using, and where use by one individual does not reduce availability to others.\u201d Inherently, public goods cannot be provided for profit, so nonprofit organizations, like watershed groups, can play an important role. Now, there is data analysis to demonstrate that the relationship exists \u2013 watershed groups improve water quality.\nIn their analysis combining data on water quality and watershed groups for 2,150 watersheds in the United States over the period 1996\u20132008, Grant and Langpap (2018) demonstrate that these groups had a positive and significant impact on water quality in the watersheds where they are located, as measured by average dissolved oxygen deficit and proportions of swimmable and fishable water bodies as metrics to gage water quality. And the data show that funding from Federal water quality programs also had a positive impact on water quality.\nBecause water quality impairments don\u2019t happen overnight, water quality improvements usually don\u2019t either, and as improvements do happen they are usually the result of multiple efforts and actions over many years guided by the vision of comprehensive planning \u2013 the watershed management approach. This lag time between positive actions and benefits can be challenging to communicate to a public that may expect immediate results. This national study can provide important messaging for local groups to reinforce the value of watershed management and gain support for ongoing watershed and water quality improvement projects. This study provides important empirical evidence of what we and our watershed partners have known all along, that the investment and persistence of watershed groups pays off in the form of improved water quality and the provision of public goods.\nThe paper by Grant and Langpap (2018) can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805336115\nDiane is an environmental engineer in the Water and Natural Resources Business Line at Fuss & O\u2019Neill, Inc. and a founding member of the company\u2019s environmental impact assessment practice. She has spent nearly 20 years working in the areas of water quality modeling, watershed management, and environmental impact assessment. Her current areas of water resources practice focus on climate change resiliency and adaptation for water resources; water quality assessment, modeling, and watershed management; harmful algal bloom impacts to drinking and recreational waters; and the relationship between water quality and public health. She also leads the preparation of state and federal environmental impact assessments, continuing to look for ways to streamline and focus analysis on key issues to assess and mitigate potential environmental effects.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 5913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 213.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/3004854/nasa-weird-global-weather-continues", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:28Z", "digest": "sha1:7PIQK47KINELXJIUMV4XXLOV3Q77XM4R", "length": 1289, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.fastcompany.com", "title": "NASA: Weird Global Weather Continues", "raw_content": "NASA: Weird Global Weather Continues\nNASA scientists are reporting that 2012 was the ninth warmest year on record. Researchers at NASA\u2019s Goddard Institute for Space Studies also note that the last year the Earth showed cooler-than-normal temperatures was 1976. In 2012, the global average temperature of 58.3 degrees Farenheit was 1 degree warmer than NASA\u2019s global averages.\nData from NASA satellites, spacecraft, and scientific experiments all point to ongoing climate change. Although the possibility of global climate change is still controversial, a growing number of Americans believe global warming and weird weather are a reality.\nNASA scientists warned that seasons like the hotter-than-average summer of 2012 should serve as a wake-up call.\n\u201cThe U.S. temperatures in the summer of 2012 are an example of a new trend of outlying seasonal extremes that are warmer than the hottest seasonal temperatures of the mid-20th century,\u201d NASA GISS director James E. Hansen said in a statement. \u201cThe climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.\u201d\n[Image: NASA]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 230.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fastsaletoday.co.uk/blog/real-life-houses-that-inspired-british-fairy-tales/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AW6BFTXDOV3GG35SVPEWMVYFQT4XH3I3", "length": 4146, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.fastsaletoday.co.uk", "title": "Real-life houses that inspired British fairy tales - Fast Sale Today", "raw_content": "Peter Pan and Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland are two of the most celebrated fairy tales in the library of British classics. But have you ever thought about the real-life houses that inspired the pages of your favourite bed-time story?\nSo what are the real-life houses that inspired British fairy tales?\nWe all know too well the famous bedroom where Peter Pan embarked on his magical journey to Neverland with Wendy, John and Michael. And we\u2019re all too familiar with the rabbit hole Alice fell in and encountered her Wonderland.\nThe house where James Matthew Barrie, most prominently known as JM Barrie was recently put up for sale last year with a hefty price tag of \u00a36,950,000. The very house Barrie resided in has a remarkable resemblance to the house characterised in the cartoon version of Peter Pan and even the famous blue bedroom the children slept in can be seen; including the heavy curtains and ornate furnishings.\nPhoto credit: Strutt & Parker\nBarrie\u2019s home is a Grade II listed building in Bayswater Road next to Kensington Gardens. The story of Peter Pan was written at the residence and is home to the famous statue of Peter Pan that was erected in 1912. Miles Meacock, head of Strutt & Parker Notting Hill commented on the sale of the house: \u2018It is extremely exciting to be involved in the sale of such an exceptional house. Grade II listed, late Georgian and built in 1820 \u2013 it\u2019s one of the two last remaining of its type on Bayswater Road \u2013 a semi-detached, low-rise double fronted villa of almost 5,000 sq. ft.\u2019 The house which was named Leinster Corner is a seven, bedroom, three bathroom home that also owes its heritage to JM Barrie with a significant Blue Plaque; courtesy of English Heritage. The house also comes with two kitchens, utility room, scullery, wine cellar, terrace, garden and underground parking. The house was originally built in 1820 and was half of one of four pairs of semi-detached, double fronted villas in the area. What is astonishing and extraordinary is the house is the only surviving pair.\nNext on the list of inspiring houses that lend themselves to the creation of some of Britain\u2019s well-loved fairy tales. Alice in Wonderland, written by Lewis Carroll was brought to life in his Grade I listed Consort House in Brighton, East Sussex. The house is believed to have come onto the market for \u00a33.65million, which even has the rabbit-hole style tunnel which is Carroll\u2019s most notable aspect of the story that transcends his leading character, Alice into a new world. The real-life tunnel leads from the home down to the beachfront. The house is a five-story building which is in immaculate condition, ivy-covered and has state-of-the-art features of a modern home.\nPhoto credit: photomadly.com\nNot only was Lewis Carroll inspired from his own home in Brighton, the house he met the real-life Alice is even more to be excited about! The looking glass; the famous feature that became Carroll\u2019s motivation to pen the latter stories of \u2018Through the Looking Glass\u2019 and \u2018What Alice Found there\u2019. Not to mention you will become the proud new owner to this house packed full of history, but you will receive the very mirror that the adventurous Alice walked into. The house which is in Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire, was the home of Alice Liddell and was where Carroll had stayed for four days in the 1860\u2019s. The house was priced at \u00a31million and is a three-storey, five bedroom house. The young girls who lived in the house at the time were Alice, Lorina and Edith. The mirror that has become a testament of the legendary tale was in the drawing room of the house and was 6ft by 5ft in size and had gilded features interwoven branches, foliage, bird dogs and other figures.\nLike the history of Blue Plaques, what is striking about the acquirement of property, is the person who lived there many years before. Within the UK, there are an abundant of properties belonging to some of our prolific writers, poets and novelists and much of their inspiration to pen the stories we have come to love, were inspired by the very house they lived in!\nPhoto credit: commons.wikimedia.org / http://web.archive.org/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 6316, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/scms/scholarships/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:09Z", "digest": "sha1:AM2JIAB74JZ4DCTCEWBH2TGS4ZO74KJK", "length": 636, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fau.edu", "title": "FAU | Scholarships and Internships", "raw_content": "The following Scholarship/Internship Awards are available to Communication majors. They will be awarded at the end of the Spring semester at the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Honors Convocation. MORE...\nInternships are extremely important for students pursuing careers in Communication. The School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University has a diverse internship program to allow students to gain practical experience in a wide range of communication-related fields. The internships are designed to enrich the curriculum and to assist students in exploring various career options. MORE...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 2894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 107.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fgmr.com/internet-mania/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:39Z", "digest": "sha1:UV46F7B4SDYUDQ5ADOKPLUOZZMK27DYX", "length": 6419, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.fgmr.com", "title": "Internet Mania | James Turk Blog", "raw_content": "January 25, 1999 \u2013 The Internet offers the potential to become one of the greatest technological advances in the history of mankind. I truly expect that in time it will prove to be as significant a development as the printing press, the steam engine, and even as big and an important advancement as the microchip, itself a technological marvel that provides the computing power that makes the Internet possible.\nThe Internet has already begun to revolutionize commerce, communication, and the dissemination of information. Each of these areas is an important focal point of our society, so it is only logical to conclude that the Internet is inevitably leading to a fundamental change in the way we humans interact with one another. Distance is no longer the impediment it once was to communication and commerce because the Internet truly has a global reach.\nGiven the above, it is understandable that investors are excited about the Internet and its potential. However, it does not follow that this excitement and the investment Dollars chasing the new Internet start-up companies make good financial sense. The bidding up of the Internet stocks to stratospheric market capitalizations smacks of a speculative bubble, and the rapid rise and collapse we\u2019ve seen over the past few weeks in the price of many of these stocks strongly suggests that the bubble has burst. The first wave of Internet euphoria is now grinding to a halt.\nThere are many historic parallels to which the development of the Internet can be compared. The automobile industry provides plenty of good instruction for anyone trying to better understand the twists and turns that accompany the development of any new emerging industry as well as the trials and tribulations that inevitably must be endured by investors seeking an investment foothold.\nAt the turn of this century there were literally dozens and dozens of automobile \u2018manufacturers\u2019. I use this term guardedly and somewhat facetiously because these early manufacturers had little in common with today\u2019s automobile assembly giants, and for that matter, they even had little in common with the automobile industry as it had evolved by the 1920\u2019s. The lesson for today\u2019s Internet companies is clear.\nMany of the companies today attempting to plant their flag on this new territory called the Internet will fail. Through a process of selection fostered by competition and new ideas, the market will reward a chosen few, namely, those companies that best offer to the market a product that the market wants.\nThose companies who cannot compete \u2013 that is to say, they do not offer what the market wants \u2013 will in time cease to exist, like the Reo, Cord, Kaiser and Studebaker, all of which may have been good cars and good manufacturing companies. But they all failed the most important test \u2013 acceptance by the market.\nThis general observation about the freemarket process is particularly true for a new industry that has yet to even define its product, let alone realize, its full potential. This point can be explained by again using the early automobile industry as an example.\nJust like the early automobile industry quickly evolved from the garages of home-grown entrepreneurs into an industry of mass production as a result of Henry Ford\u2019s innovations, so too did the product quickly evolve. The early automobiles of the 1890\u2019s had an appearance more in common with the horse-drawn carriages they eventually replaced than they did with what we now envision when we think of a car.\nThose early efforts consisted mainly of putting an engine on the back of a buckboard, with the driver sitting on top, steering the contraption with a stick fixed to the front axle. There was no roof, nor fenders, windows or doors. It was a 19th century mode of transport \u2013 the horse-drawn carriage \u2013 powered by an engine instead of horses.\nThose early inventors did not fully realize what had been invented. The first automobile inventors and the entrepreneurs who began manufacturing these new contraptions did not conceive the full potential of this new invention. Nor did they realize that they were not restricted to the existing conventions defining the form that a transportation product should take. In other words, they did not realize that their invention would transform what the market perceived transportation to be.\nIt took a decade or two before the automobile evolved from the 19th century look of a buckboard with an engine to the 20th century look of the automobile. There are parallels to this evolution with the Internet.\nFor example, Amazon.com is described as the Internet\u2019s biggest book retailer. But is this company using the new technology of the Internet to its full potential, or is Amazon merely combining a 20th century product with 21st century technology? Compare Amazon.com to OnlineOriginals.com.\nIf you are not familiar with this company, as its name implies Online sells books over the Internet, but in contrast to Amazon, they are sold by Online in .pdf format which can be instantaneously downloaded at the time they are purchased. No waiting for Amazon to get the hard copy from the publisher, then pack it and ship it. No waiting for the Postal Service to deliver it. With Online you download your book right to your computer, with the click of your mouse.\nSo I ask, is Amazon like those early automobile inventors who put engines on the back of buckboards? Does this company recognize that they are no longer bound by what 20th century thinking conceives a book to be? Interesting questions, and no one knows the answer to them yet. But it will be fascinating to see how the market votes with its wallet in the months ahead.\nIn the meantime, is it prudent or is it folly to give companies like Amazon, Yahoo and dozens of other Internet startups market capitalizations in the tens of billions of Dollars? The meteoric rise in the price of these stocks and their spectacular collapse I think tells the whole story.\nAt its peak two weeks ago, Yahoo\u2019s market capitalization exceeded $50 billion, a value greater than but a handful of the world\u2019s largest telecommunications companies that provide the all important access to the Internet itself. Yahoo is now barely half that peak. The market I think has delivered an important. message. 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Read more\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 6487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 272.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.finra.org/newsroom/speeches/111301-remarks-sommer-lecture", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GRYXCAGOYXG5HHYIW6WTIUCXSXVUSXYB", "length": 27712, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "www.finra.org", "title": "Remarks at the A. A. Sommer Lecture | FINRA.org", "raw_content": "Remarks at the A. A. Sommer Lecture\nThank you so much. Al Sommer, Dean Feerick, John Peloso; Dean Sharon Smith; members of the Fordham Law School community; alumni, honored guests and the many friends I see here tonight; good evening.\nIt is a special thrill for me to deliver this second annual A. A. Sommer lecture. For anyone who has followed his wonderful careers, Al Sommer is a legend and an inspiration. From his years of selfless public service to his brilliant work at Morgan Lewis to his words and deeds in World War II, Al's life is a lesson in how much can be achieved by combining a powerful mind with a peerless heart.\nAl and Starr have been wonderful friends to me over the years -- from helping me through my first terrifying months as the youngest SEC commissioner, to Al's service on the NASD Board when I arrived there nearly six years ago to his continuing wise counsel today. During much of our industry's most stunning growth, Al has been a voice -- at the SEC, in the private sector, at the Public Oversight Board and at the NASD -- for doing the right thing in the right way. Al, I am honored to honor you tonight.\nI am also delighted to share in such a propitious moment for the Fordham Law School. Dean Feerick, after two truly distinguished decades of leadership, you will be leaving this institution stronger than ever. And just one sign of that is the establishment of the new corporate law center which will cement Fordham's reputation as a forum for scholarship and practical insight in the city whose financial markets remain the best developed and most admired in the history of the world.\nYou know, I spent a long time thinking about what I should discuss with you tonight. And before the tragedy of September 11, there was no shortage of interesting issues on the horizon -- such as regulatory convergence in financial services; or market structure; or technology; or globalization. But frankly, none of them seemed sufficiently relevant and \"of this moment\" in an industry and a city so profoundly affected by the terrifying events of the past two months.\nSo what I'd like to talk about is our future as an industry in the wake of September 11, from the perspective of the NASD as a self-regulatory organization with major responsibilities for protecting investors and preserving the integrity of our markets.\nThis will be a policy discussion, not a requiem. But I can't simply launch into it without acknowledging the almost incomprehensible grief we all feel for the loss of so many colleagues and heroes. The cold words \"human capital\" cannot begin to capture all the ways in which our friends and associates will never be replaced.\nAnd so much that we once took for granted has changed. The safety of our workplaces and the security of our children. The trepidation of boarding an airplane or taking an elevator up high in a skyscraper. Even the previously heedless task of opening the mail.\nWith so much having changed, it is tempting to think that things will NEVER return to normal. But while that feeling may help to ward off any return to complacency, in the larger sense, I firmly disagree. Because our industry CAN reclaim normalcy. It's just that there will be a \" new normal,\" as I call it -- and it will have to differ markedly from what preceded the tragedy.\nI'm not enough of a sage to be certain whether this new normal will be better or worse than the old. Certainly in a number of ways it will be less convenient and more costly, at least in the short run. But insofar as it will make us wiser about our markets and less insular with respect to America's place in the world, I have to believe -- as an act of willed optimism -- that in the long run we will come through this crucible tempered and stronger.\nNo one disputes what a blow the attacks were to our industry and our broader economy. It's too soon to have reliable numbers, but the Securities Industry Association, among others, has done a study showing that in our industry alone, the impact of the attacks can be measured in many billions of dollars. And of course, September 11 compounded what was already a worsening economic and employment situation.\nBut one truth cuts boldly against this darkening grain. Considering all that has happened since September 11, our securities markets have performed incredibly well. Indeed -- given the orderly trading even in the very first days after the markets reopened -- it has been nothing short of a systemic triumph.\nPartly this confirms the wisdom of the investments in infrastructure and capacity that the industry made over the preceding decade. And partly it indicates that our system did well in absorbing the lessons of the \"Black Monday\" crash of October 1987.\nBut in the broadest sense, it is an amazing tribute to the confidence of investors worldwide in the fundamental soundness of our markets. And that, I would argue, is a function of the unwritten contract between our markets and investors that the markets would operate fairly even in the uncharted aftermath of September 11.\nThe U.S. markets have long attracted capital in times of foreign conflicts, coups or chaos. But there had been no event to test whether this kind of flight to quality and security would be reversed if it were Wall Street, and not some foreign capital, that came to resemble a war zone.\nWell, the global jury is in. And the money has stayed here, in our markets. Through the attacks; through the Anthrax; through the news of rising unemployment; through it all. The world's investors have voted with their wallets and they are saying that the U.S. equities markets remain among the very finest havens they can find.\nOne of the key factors in our markets' success and resiliency throughout this period has been the strength of our regulatory system. Of course, this is no cause for complacency. The long-term future of our markets and our industry is bright only to the extent we can honor that unwritten contract to keep investors' interests paramount. And in meeting this imperative, self-regulation must continue to play an indispensable role.\nSelf-regulation brings to bear a keen practical understanding of the industry. It taps resources and perspectives that are not as readily available to governments. It fosters investor protection as well as member involvement. At its best, it is a nimble, responsive test-bed for regulatory innovation. And it promotes high standards that go well beyond simply obeying the law.\nThat is why self-regulation is so well suited to help usher in the new normal in the securities industry. Because no one has a stronger incentive than our member firms to ensure that their disaster recovery and business continuity plans -- to take just one big example -- are fully adequate to ensure that they can survive and do business under adverse circumstances. And no one can bring greater resources or expertise to bear than our industry, acting collectively, to see that such plans are not only formulated, but followed.\nI don't want to imply that the new normal is simply a matter of doing more to terror proof our markets and our industry. We must do far more than prepare for a repeat of attacks such as those of 9/11. Our efforts must encompass hardening our markets against cyber-terror, disruptions of our mail and telecommunications infrastructure, and natural disasters as well as man-made ones.\nBut the new normal calls for changes far broader even than these. It will also entail a comprehensive and interconnected set of measures, some requiring increased cooperation across markets and across borders; others involving new regulatory flexibility; and many others drawing upon large doses of technological creativity.\nLet me give you a specific sense of what I mean, starting with what has been the NASD's bread and butter as a self-regulatory organization in the two months since the attacks.\nIn dealing with an utterly unforeseen disaster, the appropriate degree of regulatory flexibility can be a hard thing to define in advance. With apologies to the late Justice Potter Stewart, sometimes you just know it when you see it.\nOn the 11th and days following, we fielded dozens of calls from firms needing relief from regulatory requirements, specific to their own circumstances. We evaluated their requests in real time, and provided tailored relief where consistent with investor protection and market integrity.\nOne step the NASD took after the attacks was to expedite our review of corporate financing filings. We extended test windows and continuing education requirements. We granted blanket extensions on regulatory requests for information, and expanded them further, as appropriate, for hard-hit firms. And we made it clear that industry professionals called into active military duty can continue to receive transaction-based compensation -- and that while on special status, all their NASD dues and assessments will be waived.\nNone of this means we abandoned our rulebook, or the goals of investor protection and market integrity that it serves. What it does mean is that we have exercised a good deal of commonsense discretion as to how best to pursue these goals in the wake of the tragedy. Under the appropriate circumstances, I would do so again without hesitation.\nSuch regulatory relief may seem like largely a humanitarian matter. But as you can well imagine, it has very practical, dollars-and-cents consequences. A prime example involves the need of some firms to rapidly reconstitute their offices, business and employment arrangements in the aftermath of 9/11.\nLast year, the NASD put in place new rules and procedures designed to permit certain business expansions without obtaining regulatory pre-review and approval. Then, when the tragedy struck, we devoted extra effort and human resources to processing the most urgent membership applications on an expedited basis.\nNow, going forward, we are developing operating procedures that will harness both of these improvements. Our new contingency plan will enable us to screen and process applications on an urgent basis when our member firms need to merge, consolidate or acquire branch offices; change clearing firms; or make other changes to maintain business continuity with little advance warning.\nThe benefits of such regulatory nimbleness are difficult to quantify in advance. But we can already see that our new procedures will shrink the time it takes to process urgent applications from weeks to days. And in an industry where time is money, the ability to make such changes at the speed of business -- not at the speed of regulation -- makes great economic sense.\nThis also demonstrates why, in the new normal, regulatory flexibility cannot be a one-time accommodation, but must become a permanent part of the landscape. Our industry faces both increasing demands in dealing with the terrorist threat, and increasing cost pressures in dealing with today's economy. So if we as self-regulators are going to sustain the strength of our unwritten contract with investors, we must find more lasting and systematic ways to maximize the industry's regulatory benefits while minimizing its regulatory costs.\nFortunately, the NASD has been marching down this road for some time now. Over the last couple of years, NASD Regulation began the process of modernizing our rulebook with a major retooling of several of our rules. This year, we have broadened that effort. The goal of our Rule Modernization initiative is to ensure that the benefits of our rules justify their burdens.\nTo help us in this effort, we have enlisted the assistance of a distinguished Economic Advisory Board with a wealth of experience in economics, finance, consumer protection and cost-benefit analysis. Working closely with senior NASDR management, these experts are helping us review our existing rules; improve and modernize any we find wanting; and design a template for enacting more streamlined and modern rules in the future.\nThe first tranche of rules we are working through includes, for example, rationalizing across regulatory regimes the definition of an \"institutional investor.\" Clearly, given the state of the industry today, we are powerfully motivated to move this entire process along with a real sense of urgency.\nRule modernization may lead to less prescriptive regulation in some areas. Hopefully it will lead to better-tailored regulation given the changes in market structure, technology and investor base in our industry. But there is one aspect of the new normal that will surely entail more regulation. The securities industry will have to take on much greater responsibilities to detect and deter money laundering and other suspicious activities.\nUntil now, such duties applied mostly to banks. Under the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970, securities firms were encouraged, but not obligated, to file suspicious activity reports. By and large, that status quo was accepted.\nBut September 11 changed everything. Money laundering legislation in the U.S. Senate gained great impetus; and objections to it in the House were swept away. Late last month, President Bush signed into law an anti-terrorism bill, called the PATRIOT Act, which contains comprehensive new money laundering legislation.\nThe new law grants the Treasury Secretary broad discretion in its implementation. The NASD has offered the Treasury Department whatever assistance we can provide in the drafting of these implementing regulations. And we are prepared to do whatever is necessary to help our partners throughout the government and the private sector to ensure that the new money laundering legislation achieves its worthy goals.\nThree things about the new law bear special emphasis for tonight's purposes. The first is its breadth. The law applies to all U.S. financial institutions that maintain even a single account for a customer outside the United States. By requiring broker/dealers to file suspicious activity reports, it makes mandatory what was previously voluntary. And it also requires every affected broker/dealer to establish a soup-to-nuts compliance program, from internal policies, controls and employee training through independent audits.\nSecond, the new money laundering law will require our industry to think and talk about traditional \"know your customer\" concepts in a new way. The NASD and the New York Stock Exchange have used different terms, but meant essentially the same thing, when we have spoken of either \"suitability\" or \"know your customer\" obligations. In both instances, the duties have to do with protecting the interests of investors and securities firms.\nBut the new money laundering law -- and this is my third point -- is not primarily about protecting firms or particular investors. It is about protecting society at large from money laundering and other illicit uses of our financial system.\nSimply put, our industry once had the luxury of not worrying unduly about whether certain customers weren't right -- so long as they were right for the investments we were recommending them. Both of America's elected branches of government have just spoken very plainly that our country can no longer afford that luxury.\nAs you might suspect, commensurate with such major changes, the NASD's examinations of firms for money laundering will also change considerably. This past spring, we began working with the SEC and NYSE to develop a joint money-laundering examination module, and we have been conducting such examinations for several months now. Once Treasury has promulgated its new regulations, we will obviously take them into account in determining how we should adapt our procedures to best examine for compliance.\nIt's already quite clear that in light of 9/11 and the new law, the securities industry is going to have to devote unprecedented focus and attention to illicit uses of our markets generally, and money laundering specifically.\nI do NOT want to leave you with the impression, however, that the new normal is only about new demands on industry (and on regulators for that matter), with no new resources to meet them. Let me turn now to one very valuable growth fund for such resources, which I mentioned earlier. It has to do with greater cooperation and information sharing across markets, across national borders, and across traditional lines of jurisdiction and turf.\nTo extend the metaphor for just a moment, we saw this fund achieve spectacular early returns in response to 9/11. The fiercest of competitors cooperated like the closest of friends. This happened on everything from sharing trading floors to sharing strategies on trading halts to coordinating on the united reopening of the markets.\nI'm not dreaming that once 9/11 has had a chance to recede from memory a bit, the securities industry will be forever transformed from one seen as dog-eat-dog into one in which the lions routinely lie down with the lambs. But I am suggesting that our industry could do far worse than to build on the spirit of civility and cooperation that bloomed in the wake of the tragedy.\nThis is much more than an emotional point. Just as the attacks have spurred a realization that U.S. law enforcement authorities must cooperate far better with one another and their counterparts around the world, so must a concomitant realization spread among regulators and firms throughout the global financial services industry.\nAll of us have more to do in the new normal, from terror-proofing our markets to helping halt money laundering in its tracks. The only way we can do it, under the tightening cost pressures that are already being felt throughout the industry, is if we all leverage our resources more effectively -- with less concern for whose turf or initiative may be at issue, and more concern for what will get the job done.\nLooking forward, that statement applies to the NASD, the other self-regulatory organizations, the SEC, the states and the industry. It applies to sharing suspicions about questionable trading activity or traders. It means we should reach out to our counterparts in the banking industry and among the banking regulators who have a great deal of experience dealing with money laundering issues. And we should help our government put a full court press on the many countries that have been ducking their obligations in this area for far too long.\nHere too, my point can be simply summarized. The financial markets are rightly known as a forum for all-out competition. But that competition should be played out in the field of stocks and bonds, profit and loss. When it comes to meeting the new dangers, obligations and challenges of the new normal, we will all do better working not with our elbows out, but our arms linked.\nI spoke earlier of the increased terror proofing and disaster hardening our industry will have to undergo. This need is as important as it is obvious. Let me address a couple of specific aspects, starting with disaster recovery.\nIt won't surprise you to learn that in the wake of tragedy, the NASD was interested to learn whether our member firms had plans in place to deal with such issues as data back-up and recovery, financial and operational assessments, alternative communications, regulatory reporting, investor access, business continuity and the like.\nSo we took a small survey to find out. And what we learned is that all of the firms we surveyed did have disaster recovery or business continuity plans in place.\nNow we are taking the next step: conducting a greatly expanded second survey that will be far more statistically meaningful -- a true reflection of industry readiness in the face of potential catastrophe. In an area as critical as this, our duty as self-regulators demands that we be armed with facts, not conjecture.\nBy taking this step, we are not primarily looking to judge the value of any individual firm's plan, but rather, to assess the overall readiness of the industry to continue operating and protecting investor interests during an emergency. A clearer understanding of what the industry is doing in this area could form the basis for a set of best practices whose widespread acceptance would bring added strength to the markets and confidence to investors.\nOf course, the NASD's own readiness for disruptive events is being beefed up as a result of the tragedy. For example, we are pulling together an emergency operations manual to capture for future readiness the key procedures we had to formulate in real time in the hours and days after 9/11. And we have begun to build situation rooms where our senior managers in Washington can be linked with counterparts elsewhere in responding rapidly to an event.\nSpeaking of linkages, there is a broader need in our interdependent industry to maintain the best possible emergency contact networks, including among the NASD and our 5,600 member firms. If our industry is to maintain our unwritten contract with investors, we must never fail to provide them access to their brokers and their accounts -- without uncertainty and without delay.\nSo, while something like the maintenance of absolutely current and complete emergency contact information may seem ministerial, in fact it is vital. And not only as a matter of terror-proofing, but of improved cooperation, market resiliency, and investor confidence as well.\nThere is an even more obvious need, in an emergency, to ensure the survival of firms' books and records. This brings us to the cross-cutting issue of technology -- the last subject I'd like to discuss with you tonight before taking your questions.\nThe immediate aftermath of 9/11 has already provided some impressive examples of technological creativity in action. Brokerage firms were able to patch together back-up data in innovative ways. Clearing firms used the time while the market was closed to reduce system risk. Stock exchanges cobbled together temporary trading floors in a matter of days.\nFor our part, the NASD was able to begin posting critical information on our Web Site within hours, regarding everything from regulatory relief to investor advice to a clearinghouse that allowed firms needing office space to find firms that could make space available.\nMany of these are examples of unprecedented cooperation. But they have all been crucially enabled by new uses of technology as well. I'd like to put a couple of ideas on the table, involving NASD technology, that I believe could help expand these trends and make them a more permanent part of the new normal.\nSeveral of you have heard me talk about the great potential of a system we've been developing for some time now, called INSITE. By using a sophisticated analytical engine, data mining and pattern recognition, INSITE will allow us to base our brokerage firm examinations on compliance risk, not on the calendar. The upshot is quite practical. Better focus on where the real risks exist. More timely alerts to potential red flags. Less compliance burden for the overwhelming majority of member firms who run a tight ship.\nAnd consider this added benefit, which today looms larger than ever. If technology such as INSITE can enable us to examine our member firms with less need for our physical presence, it can not only decrease regulatory burdens, but increase regulatory certainty -- by ensuring that we can get our job done regardless of any weak links in the transportation system, including air travel.\nSimilar data mining and pattern detection capabilities are found in our market surveillance technology, called the Advanced Detection System, or ADS. Over time, such tools should enable us to target our surveillance to look for signs of money laundering, or even to provide advance warning of potential terrorist trading activity or other attempted market manipulation.\nFinally, there is Web CRD -- the Central Registration Depository that is the largest such system, bar none, on the Internet. September 11 underscored the vulnerability of our industry's paper books and records; and many firms have realized, if they hadn't understood already, how expensive and cumbersome it is to duplicate all essential books and records.\nThat is why it makes so much sense for the CRD to serve as the \"gold source\" for the books and records of our member firms, thereby transferring a substantial burden from them to us. So we are working with the SEC, other self-regulatory organizations, the states and the industry to see if certain NASD records systems -- which are fully backed up and have disaster recovery facilities -- can serve as firms' official books and records. This will reduce overall industry costs by centralizing a necessary function. Even more important, it will reduce reliance on vulnerable paper records, without reducing regulatory oversight for us or operational capability for our firms.\nBefore I stop for your questions, let me take up one potential objection I can imagine coming from Cheyenne, Wyoming or Topeka, Kansas or any other smaller city that might seem very far removed from the possibility of being a direct target of terror. Brokers in such cities might feel, at first blush, that after 9/11 they are being asked to bear costs and inconveniences that actually have very little to do with them.\nWhile I might understand that feeling, it does not stand up to closer inspection.\nFirst, as evident from my discussion of CRD, Rule Modernization and several other subjects indicates, many of the things I've talked about today will in the long run save the industry money by increasing efficiencies and reducing burdens.\nSecond, giving yourself some margin for error by expecting the unexpected is a habit that almost always, sooner or later, pays off. One key example is Y2K -- derided by some as an expensive non-event, but explicitly credited by several of the respondents to our survey with providing the impetus for business continuity plans that they found invaluable after September 11.\nAnd finally, it should be clear by now that disasters are an equal opportunity threat that know no borders, and that terrorism also has been democratized. Every brokerage firm, however small or remote, depends on infrastructure systems that can fail, and receives mail that has passed through a big-city post office.\nNow, I am NOT talking about curling up into some kind of survivalist's defensive crouch. But it should be more clear than ever that in the new normal -- as in the old -- no one is immune from the possibility of unforeseen business disruptions. It's just that now we can imagine the unimaginable. So we should take seriously the many lessons we have learned from the tragedy. And take heart from all the reasonable steps we can take to apply them.\nYou know, we've all discovered a great deal about our world and our country in the last nine weeks.\nWe've had to confront within our own borders what an oxymoron the term \"holy war\" is.\nWe've learned that a single zealot -- infected by hate -- is the most potent biological weapon of all.\nAnd we have been reminded yet again that it is when times are toughest that Americans are at their best.\nThat is a lesson the greatest generation of Al Sommer knew in its bones and etched in stone with its sacrifice.\nAnd it is one we will reflect on and reaffirm often in the months and years to come.\nOur industry and our nation will face our challenges with purpose, without panic, but also without complacency.\nIf we are faithful to the spirit of service that is found at this law school -- and which imbues the entire life and career of Al Sommer -- then we will act with every bit of wisdom and courage that we need. And thus reclaim, with every step forward, what has rightly been called the quiet miracle of a normal life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 30083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstchoiceforwomen.org/choose-life-license-plate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:07Z", "digest": "sha1:LK4KVL2KYY7NR4NVMEIHFCC5ZKBUDEKE", "length": 237, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.firstchoiceforwomen.org", "title": "Choose Life License Plate - First Choice for Women", "raw_content": "When you purchase a \u201cChoose Life\u201d license plate through the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles, a portion of the funds will be donated to First Choice for Women!\nOrder your Choose Life license plate today at:\nhttp://www.in.gov/bmv/2794.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 180.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.firstshowing.net/2018/first-teaser-for-guy-ritchies-live-action-aladdin-movie-for-disney/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OBGXCEXQKCPWWMARUQMRMIXADDC5BPZG", "length": 1924, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.firstshowing.net", "title": "First Teaser for Guy Ritchie's Live-Action 'Aladdin' Movie for Disney | FirstShowing.net", "raw_content": "First Teaser for Guy Ritchie's Live-Action 'Aladdin' Movie for Disney\n\"Only one may enter here, one whose worth lies far within, the diamond in the rough.\" Disney has revealed the first teaser trailer for their live-action take on Aladdin, directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, following his poorly received King Arthur movie. This new Aladdin stars Egyptian-Canadian actor Mena Massoud as the \"street urchin\" Aladdin, who falls for the princess Jasmine, played by Naomi Scott. In addition, Will Smith plays the genie, and the cast includes Billy Magnussen, Nasim Pedrad, Marwan Kenzari, Numan Acar, and Navid Negahban. This updated take on the 1992 animated Disney classic will feature new songs by Alan Menken and La La Land songwriters Benj Pasek & Justin Paul. This is only our very first look and there's just a tiny glimpse, but it is looking shiny so far. I'm excited to see more.\nHere's the first teaser trailer (+ poster) for Guy Ritchie's Aladdin, direct from Disney's YouTube:\nWhen a street urchin (Mena Massoud) vies for the love of a beautiful princess (Naomi Scott), he uses a genie's magic power to make himself into a prince in order to marry her. A live-action retelling of the 1992 Disney film of the same name. Disney's Aladdin is directed by British filmmaker Guy Ritchie, director of the films Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Revolver, RocknRolla, Sherlock Holmes and its sequel A Game of Shadows, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword previously. The updated Aladdin screenplay is by John August, Vanessa Taylor, and Guy Ritchie; based on the original 1992 film written by Ron Clements & John Musker, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio. Featuring new songs by Alan Menken and La La Land songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Disney will release Guy Ritchie's Aladdin in theaters everywhere starting May 24th, 2019 next summer. First impression? Who's excited already?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 230.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fiscalcouncil.ie/about-the-council/members/appointments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4456L5KC4CQ3O4VGZI6VPNML2HDXHOU", "length": 1523, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.fiscalcouncil.ie", "title": "Appointment Terms | Irish Fiscal Advisory Council", "raw_content": "There are five members of the Council including the Chair. The members were appointed by the Minister for Finance based on their experience and competence in domestic and international macroeconomic and fiscal matters. The current Council has a strong international dimension with three members based outside of Ireland.\nInitial appointments to the Council have been made on a staggered basis with terms of office ranging from two to four years. Thereafter the standard term of office will be four years. Council members cannot serve more than two consecutive terms but are eligible for reappointment at a later time.\nCouncil members may resign at any time during their term of office by official letter submitted to the Minister for Finance.\nThe Minister may terminate appointments in certain circumstances provided that a resolution stating the grounds for such is passed by D\u00e1il \u00c9ireann. 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Their experienced team is involved at each stage of the process: filleting by hand e dry-salting by hand. All these elements combine to create a truly artisanal product, favoured by connoisseurs around the world.\nAll Kenmare products are natural and free of artificial preservatives. The company adheres to a strict 0% GMO policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 311, "original_length": 7282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 221.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fleschnerlaw.com/auto-accident/texting-and-driving-banned-in-indiana-after-july-1st/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WPXPC7MUOBKPNFW4W2AQMHUXHVPNB2FJ", "length": 1431, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.fleschnerlaw.com", "title": "Texting And Driving Banned In Indiana After July 1 - Fleschner, Stark, Tanoos & Newlin | Disability & Injury Lawyers", "raw_content": "Texting And Driving Banned In Indiana After July 1\nby fst | June 22nd, 2011\nAfter June 30th, you had better think again about sending someone a text message if you are behind the wheel of a vehicle. According to The Tribune Star, Indiana\u2019s distracted driving law is undergoing some major overhauls that take effect July 1.\nIt will now be illegal to type, send, or read a text message or e-mail while operating a motor vehicle, punishable by a fine of up to $500. Current distracted driving laws prohibit drivers less than 18 years of age from operating any wireless device while behind the wheel.\nOfficers are finding that it will be a difficult law to enforce due to the many uses of cell phones today as calendars, music players, and other various functions. It is up to an individual officer\u2019s discretion whether an infraction has occurred. Law prohibits authorities from confiscating a phone to see recent activity.\nThe wording of the law has many worried that it may not be effective, as it still allows talking on the phone and using the phone for numerous other applications such as video games or browsing the internet.\nThese activities can be just as dangerous as texting and driving and can just as easily lead to an accident that hurts yourself or someone else. The Indiana Auto Accident Lawyers with Fleschner, Stark, Tanoos & Newlin may be able to help you if you were hurt because of someone else\u2019s negligent driving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fleschnerlaw.com/drug-injuries/fda-lays-new-guidelines-information-found-drug-labels/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:4G36GZ2GB4RGK5C5HA2NQQUYPX6SVCKP", "length": 1663, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.fleschnerlaw.com", "title": "FDA Lays Out New Guidelines for Information on Drug Labels - Fleschner, Stark, Tanoos & Newlin | Disability & Injury Lawyers", "raw_content": "FDA Lays Out New Guidelines for Information on Drug Labels\nA medication may be deemed safe for human consumption, but if you\u2019re a woman who is or may become pregnant, that drug may pose a serious health threat to your unborn child.\nResearchers have gathered evidence that shows taking certain mood-altering drugs\u2014known as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs)\u2014 while pregnant can cause a child to be born with an antidepressant birth defect called persistent pulmonary hypertension.\nBeing aware of how a drug may interact with the child you\u2019re carrying is important, considering estimates show as many as 3 in 5 women will regularly take medication during pregnancy; however, the labeling of medications can make it difficult to decipher which drugs are safe and which are dangerous.\nFederal officials are addressing this issue by revamping what information is displayed on a drug\u2019s label. CBS News reports that beginning next summer the labels of medications must carry any and all available information about the effects a drug could have on a woman or child during pregnancy or while nursing. This must include whether testing was conducted on human or animal subjects.\nIn the meantime, the drug injury lawyers at Fleschner, Stark, Tanoos & Newlin encourage women to discuss any questions they may have about a medication that\u2019s been prescribed to them with their doctor or pharmacist. If you or your child have suffered a drug injury that was caused by a medication you were given, you may want to speak with an attorney about your potential legal rights to compensation. 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A cynic might wonder if the No. 1, the $50,000 mattress they were touting, was a marketing ploy, a question we put to Roger Ericson, the company\u2019s London-based creative director.\n\u201cNo, no, no,\u201d Mr. Ericson said, and, of course, this was good enough for us.\nHas Savoir, which introduced the bed in Britain a year and a half ago, ever sold it at full retail?\n\u201cOh, yeah, absolutely,\u201d Mr. Ericson said. \u201cThe Harrods shop, which opened up in June, is selling about two a month.\u201d\nWhat makes it worth $50,000?\n\u201cIt\u2019s a true luxury product,\u201d Mr. Ericson said. \u201cPriced on two things: labor and what goes into it \u2014 more fabric, more horsehair, more springs, more cashmere. It\u2019s something you have to experience.\u201d\nIt may not be the first $50,000 mattress to flounce into New York, but it is the first I have had the chance to spend the night on, so when the manufacturers invited me, I was there. When I arrived at the store in SoHo one evening last week, a few days before the official opening, there was a bodyguard at the door, built somewhat like a mattress himself. Inside, bottles of Taittinger and Sancerre were chilling, and Marvin Gaye was crooning seductively, followed by Carla Bruni. Nothing puts you in the mood for high-priced fun like Carla Bruni.\nThe room was filled with naked mattresses, save for two at the end \u2014 one of them the No. 1, above, decked out in Sferra sheets, a Hefel silk duvet, a throw, slippers and a Kiki de Montparnasse sleep mask. It looked ravishing.\nBut one does not just throw oneself at a $50,000 bed. The sales staff \u2014 in this case, Eric Svensson, the director of sales for the United States, and the Savoir publicist \u2014 must warm one up. They spoke of Savoir\u2019s four lines of mattresses, which begin at $5,895; they displayed a cross-section of the 8-inch star-lashed box springs. There was a good deal of enforced bed hopping and one had to hear about the extra-special traits of the No. 1 \u2014 the extra-deep springs, the oak base, its cashmere innards.\n\u201cPounds of cashmere,\u201d Mr. Svensson said. \u201cIt all boils down to something very simple: to create an environment in the bed where you move as little as possible. When you don\u2019t move, you can disconnect your brain.\u201d\nThe upside of hearing about how beds are made is that it makes you very tired. I shooed the sales force out and headed for the No. 1.\nThe first problem: extra-deep springs make for a very high bed, and to get in I had to make a running hop. The sheets were silky, divine; but the bed was much too firm and so deeply tufted that it felt \u2014 dare I use the word? \u2014 l-u-m-p-y. And after scooching up toward the headboard, where I like to hunker in at night for maximum safety, my head felt lower than my body.\nI moved around, trying to find the money spot \u2014 the $50,000 spot, as it were. No good. Pressure points (elbows, hips, toes) sank into deeply tufted spots with such specificity, it was as if they were sleeping in different neighborhoods.\nAfter an hour, I was still awake, but it seemed unfair to blame this on the mattress. Maybe I was too busy trying to judge the quality of sleep to sleep. I could take a pill, I thought, but that would dull the keenness of my reportorial senses.\nI dragged my comforter and pillow to the No. 3 bed a few feet way, which I remembered liking and recalled being at least $30,000 cheaper. It was deeply tufted too, but it welcomed me, reaching up to support me. This bed is delicious, I thought. I love this bed. Maybe I will sleep here.\nNo, that\u2019s wrong, I reminded myself, I am here for the $50,000 experience. How will I experience $50,000 dreams?\nI dragged my quilt back to the first bed, hauled myself up on it and tried again. A half-hour later, I no longer doubted myself; the bed was lumpy. But I had an idea: I would go back to the No. 3, get sleepy and then return to Numero Uno. It worked: 30 minutes later, half asleep, I hauled myself back and finally fell asleep.\nI woke up shortly before 7 a.m., from a two-part dream involving a street performer pretending to be a celebrity and fruit juice spilled on a large bed with sheets just like the ones I was sleeping on. These were not $50,000 dreams. And while the mattress no longer seemed pitted, I felt as if my body had sunk into a hole. I hadn\u2019t slept this badly on an assignment since I spent the night on a tuna boat. I was exhausted.\nI headed back to my apartment in the Village. The sky was blue and it was a beautiful morning. I caught myself humming an upbeat song, then realized what my unconscious had sent me: \u201cLast night, I couldn\u2019t get to sleep at all, all, all.\u201d\nApparently, the $50,000 bed didn\u2019t work for me at all: my brain never could disconnect from my body.\nSavoir Beds, 28 Wooster (Grand Street), (212) 226-3640 or savoirbeds.co.uk.\n\u2190 Previous Previous post: Dewey Builds a Bed\nNext \u2192 Next post: Walk A Mile in Her Shoes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fnp.com/blog/2016/11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:SG2LOUXG75KSIQQSOKDK6S4W45IYIQAI", "length": 739, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.fnp.com", "title": "November 2016 - Ferns N Petals", "raw_content": "Understanding Demonetization with Na\u00c3\u00afve Realism\nAuthors: Amrita/Gurmeet Whenever there is the need to stop the old currency and bring the new one in the country, the government has to follow the act of Demonetization. History witnesses that. Recently, demonetization took place in the European nations when the Monetary Union adopted the euro. With the introduction of the euro, the old [\u2026]\nCelebrate Children's Day \u2013 There is always a child in you!\nAuthor: Aamna Mobin What comes to your mind when we talk about the children or the childhood? The innocence, the mischiefs, the games, the fights or you just go and look in the mirror\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6? What do you do? Do you miss being the little kid who could play, jump, sing out loud or dance in [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 3629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/2017/06/19/loving-leadership-why-its-time-to-start-genuinely-caring-for-your-team/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BXDGHARBMQGWPXXXEZ4ZO3FO26XZTILH", "length": 6433, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.forbes.com", "title": "Loving Leadership: Why It's Time To Start Genuinely Caring For Your Team", "raw_content": "Loving Leadership: Why It's Time To Start Genuinely Caring For Your Team\nGregory Stebbins Forbes Council Forbes Coaches Council CommunityVoice\nGregory Stebbins\nDr. Gregory Stebbins is the Founder and Master Coach at PeopleSavvy. He is a member of the American Psychological Association.\nHave you ever felt like you were at war in your business? That shouldn't come as a surprise, given that leadership models were originally based on military models. Military academies still focus on developing leaders.\nYou may have heard the idea that everything is based on either fear or love. In the 1500s, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote The Prince. He was asked a question about being loved versus being feared, and in answering, Machiavelli wrote, \u201cThe answer is of course, that it would be best to be both loved and feared. But since the two rarely come together, anyone compelled to choose will find greater security in being feared than in being loved.\u201d He related this to military models, providing examples of Hannibal and others who were feared. In 1651, Thomas Hobbes\u2019 publication Leviathan described the natural state of mankind as \u201cnasty, brutish and short.\u201d\nOur collective conscious awareness has evolved significantly since Machiavelli and Hobbes.\nIn the early 20th century, business looked for ways to increase productivity with a largely uneducated workforce. Frederick Winslow Taylor, author of The Principles of Scientific Management, proposed what was a thinly disguised military model. Fear was scientifically injected into the workplace. Though productivity did increase, another result was power struggles between management and unions representing workers. World War II and the Korean War only served to reinforce Taylor\u2019s model in the United States.\nTransitioning From Brawn To Brain\nIn the early 1950s, perceptions about leading began to shift with the work of Abraham Maslow and Dr. W. Edwards Deming\u2019s famous \u201c14 Points.\u201d As work became less about muscle and more about mind, leadership styles started to change.\nToday, we have an ever-increasing number of \u201cknowledge workers,\u201d and millennials are rapidly moving into leadership roles. Managing them through fear often results in them voting with their feet to find a more engaging corporate culture.\nRapid changes in the last 25 years now require leaders to look at different approaches. What will replace the old models?\n\"It might sound bizarre, but one of the beliefs for effective leadership is to be madly in love with all the people you\u2019re leading.\u201d - Ken Blanchard\nFor a moment, consider a leader who may have inspired you. Perhaps they inspired you because they touched your deepest essence. They brought forward the very best of who you are, encouraging you to transcend any fear you might have had and any doubts that might have been weighing on you. And, for a select few leaders, they led from their loving, which allowed you to bring forward your loving.\nWe are all born with a consciousness of unconditional loving \u2013 even if only for a brief instant. This consciousness is slowly buried under beliefs about who we are, what we can do, where we can do it, when we can do it and how we can do it. By the time we reach adulthood, there are many layers of rules that have become hardened or crystallized. And yet that spark of unconditional loving still exists inside each person. Only rarely is it extinguished completely.\nWhen we first come into the work environment, we have bosses and co-workers who bring with them their distinctive individual beliefs. These beliefs may or may not match the ones we have. In an effort to be a responsible adult, and to ensure we can support ourselves, we \u201cbuy into\u201d many of these other beliefs even if they don\u2019t match ours. After about 31 days, these beliefs begin to become our beliefs and slip from a conscious choice to an unconscious default action.\nIn the work environment, people often choose from four substitutes for loving:\n\u2022 Some leaders focus on money and become so bound to the quarter-to-quarter expectations of Wall Street that they won\u2019t allow anything but the complete and total focus on revenue and expenses to inform their choices.\n\u2022 Others make sure they gain recognition for their accomplishments, and if they don\u2019t have any accomplishments, they may lay claim to those of their co-workers.\n\u2022 Some focus on protecting themselves by becoming indispensable to the organization, or so they believe.\n\u2022 And finally, human resources' biggest fear: the romantic ideal. In this idealized fantasy, leaders tend to downplay or perhaps reject what other employees see clearly \u2014 for example, customer dissatisfaction, legal challenges, and even the possibility that their employment is coming to an end.\nYet deep down inside, people are crying out for love. Most of us don\u2019t have a definition of loving that won\u2019t put our livelihood in jeopardy, so we continue our pursuit for one or all of the four loving substitutes.\n\u201cGreat leaders genuinely care for and love the people they lead more than they love leading itself.\nLeadership without love degenerates into self-serving manipulation.\u201d - Rick Warren, founder and senior pastor of the 8th largest church in the U.S.\nLoving leadership, the next evolution of leadership, is becoming an answer to that cry. Dr. Raj Sisodia, one of the thought leaders of Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business, talks about love and caring as the main building blocks for building fully-human organizations. Another example is John Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods, and Subaru, which has built an entire advertising campaign on love.\n\u201cThe voice of your loving becomes clearer as you practice listening to it. You learn\nto screen out the voices that are not loving. That way, you build a conscious connection\nto your loving guidance. Then you can be confident that love is leading you.\u201d - John Roger, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness\nThe action of loving is unique in that it is both a choice and an outcome. Regardless of work situations or circumstances, a leader can choose to radiate loving. The outcome is the recipient also begins to resonate with loving, which can have numerous benefits \u2014 including financial \u2014 to an organization.\nHow are you choosing to lead?\nGregory Stebbins Community\nDr. GregoryStebbins is the Founder and Master Coach at PeopleSavvy. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. 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I was able to execute.\"\n- First major league win for Jack Flaherty. First major league win. How does that sound?\n- It's just good to get a win any time. Doesn't matter, you know, first one, whatever. It's always nice to come away with a win at the end of the day.\n- Everything was working for you today, particularly with the slider-- six strikeouts with the slider. Why do you think you were so effective today?\n- I just think me and Pena got into a rhythm, and we kind of got things rolling. And you know, we just got into a rhythm, and he called a really good game. I was able to execute.\n- You give up the home run to Hoskins and moved right past it. How important was that to put behind you quickly?\n- It's obviously important. You know, I made a mistake. He put a good swing on it, but just being able to move past and being able to keep moving, and moving on with the game was good.\n- 120 pitches. That's a lot of pitches. How comfortable were you at the tail end of your appearance?\n- I didn't want to come out of the game, and you know, he asked me how I was doing. I just kind of gave him a look like, I'm good, and you know, he let me go. But it's just nice to come away with a win at the end of the day.\n- You come out of the, game great reception from the fans and your teammates. How nice was that? We got the best fans in the world, so you know, just to hear from them, it's always awesome. Best fans in the world, so it's great.\n- Great outing. Thanks for the time.\n- All right, Danny. Jack Flaherty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 473, "original_length": 8145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.foxsportsasia.com/basketball/nba/1030986/mavericks-luka-doncic-becomes-first-player-to-record-multiple-triple-doubles-as-a-teenager/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:10Z", "digest": "sha1:G2SC5VCIFENOIYGFFWRIQWGJTVVM3MOY", "length": 1343, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.foxsportsasia.com", "title": "Mavericks' Luka Doncic becomes first player to record multiple triple-doubles as a teenager", "raw_content": "Mavericks\u2019 Luka Doncic becomes first player to record multiple triple-doubles as a teenager\nDoncic also became the first teenager in NBA history to record a 30-point triple-double in a 123-120 loss to the Raptors on Sunday.\nLuka Doncic continues to amaze.\nThe 19-year-old Mavericks rookie became the first teenager in NBA history to record a 30-point triple-double in a 123-120 loss to the Raptors on Sunday. He tallied 35 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in the game.\nLuka Doncic is the first teenager in NBA history with a 30-point triple-double.\nHe has 2 of the 3 triple-doubles by teenagers in NBA history (Markelle Fultz has the other). pic.twitter.com/qfKJRB0kl9\nDoncic also became the first player in NBA history to register multiple triple-doubles as a teenager.\nWith 35 PTS, 12 REB, 10 AST tonight, Luka Doncic becomes the first player in @NBAHistory to record multiple triple-doubles as a teenager. pic.twitter.com/wXWIH1KqwN\nDoncic has taken the league by storm. He leads all rookies in points per game (20.2) and minutes per game (32.1). The clear frontrunner for Rookie of the Year has a chance to be voted into the 2019 All-Star Game as a reserve.\nThe loss to the Raptors dropped the Mavericks to 22-27 this season.\nHome Basketball NBA Mavericks\u2019 Luka Doncic becomes first player to record multiple triple-doubles as a teenager", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.freestylephoto.biz/9486002-Canon-LP-E6N-Lithium-Ion-Battery", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:10Z", "digest": "sha1:YWM2XR2DHLWEVP52FI5HPKLR2DBDHPNL", "length": 1155, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.freestylephoto.biz", "title": "Canon LP-E6N Lithium-Ion Battery | Freestyle Photographic Supplies", "raw_content": ">Canon LP-E6N Lithium-Ion Battery\nRechargeable lithium ion battery pack for select EOS DSLRs.\nCan only be charged with the LC-E6 or LC-E6E battery chargers.\nEOS 80D EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Kit\nEOS 7D Mark II Body with WFT-E7A and LP-E6N Kit\nEOS 7D Mark II Body Wi-Fi Adapter Kit\nEOS 7D Mark II EF-S 18-135mm IS USM Wi-Fi Adapter Kit\nEOS 70D Video Creator Kit with EF-S 18-135mm IS STM Lens\nEOS 7D Mark II EF-S 18-135mm IS STM Lens Kit Refurbished\nEOS 70D EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM Lens Kit\nEOS 5D Mark IV Body Refurbished\nXC10 HD Camcorder\nEOS 5DS R Body Refurbished\nEOS 5DS Body Refurbished\nEOS 5D Mark IV EF 24-70mm f/4L IS USM Kit\nXC10 Refurbished\nEOS 80D EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Kit Refurbished\nEOS 80D EF-S 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM Kit Refurbished\nEOS 6D EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Lens Kit\nEOS 7D EF 28-135mm IS Lens Kit Refurbished\nEOS 7D EF-S 18-135mm IS Lens Kit Refurbished\nEOS 5D Mark IV EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM Kit\nEOS 6D Mark II EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM Kit\nEOS 6D Mark II EF 24-105mm f/3.5-5.6 IS STM Kit\nEOS 70D EF-S 15-85mm IS USM Lens Kit\nXC15 4K UHD Camcorder\nPremium Tech Travel Charger PT-53 (for Canon LP-E6 Battery)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 4528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.friendshipschools.org/news/around-friendship-62-featuring-glen-mourning-4th-grade-teacher/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5JOMBPHIDCSSJNXLQ4ATMJ2XEV553QER", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.friendshipschools.org", "title": "- Friendship Public Charter School", "raw_content": "September 28, 2018 By Dev2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2012.00145/full", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:47Z", "digest": "sha1:PW3GOEZGJIDPQHFO64LPLC6XDWUMEJNL", "length": 35954, "nlines": 97, "source_domain": "www.frontiersin.org", "title": "Frontiers | Fluorescent tags to explore cell wall structure and dynamics | Plant Science", "raw_content": "Current challenges in plant cell walls\nCell Wall Structure and Dynamics\nFluorescence Microscopy to Study in Living Cells the Intracellular Dynamics and Stoichiometry of Protein Complexes Involved in Cell Wall Biosynthesis\nImaging Plant Growth in 4D\nFluorescent tags to explore cell wall structure and dynamics\nMartine Gonneau1,2, Herman H\u00f6fte1,2 and Samantha Vernhettes1,2*\n1 INRA, UMR1318, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Saclay Plant Sciences, Versailles, France\n2 AgroParisTech, Institut Jean-Pierre Bourgin, Versailles, France\nPlant cell walls are highly dynamic and heterogeneous structures, which vary between cell types, growth stages but also between microdomains within a single cell wall. In this review, we summarize the imaging techniques using fluorescent tags that are currently being used and which should in the coming years revolutionize our understanding of the dynamics of cell wall architecture and the cellular processes involved in the synthesis of cell wall components.\nWe currently have a reasonably good understanding of the structure of polysaccharides and, in large part thanks to the use of genetics, rapid progress is being made in the understanding of the mechanisms and regulation of wall synthesis. A major challenge for the future will be to understand cell wall architecture and its dynamics during growth. Here, we will review recent progress in fluorescence microscopy, which should largely contribute to reaching this goal.\nPlant cell walls are highly dynamic and heterogeneous structures, which vary between cell types, growth stages but also between microdomains within a single cell wall. Tools are needed to visualize this heterogeneity in living cells with a high spatial and temporal resolution.\nElectron microscopy techniques [transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM)] have been instrumental in obtaining information on wall architecture.However, these techniques require fixed material, which is not always representative for native hydrated cell walls and provide little or no information on cell wall dynamics. The use of fluorescent probes should provide access to dynamic aspects. A large number of anti-glycan antibodies are available (Knox, 2008; Moller et al., 2008; Pattathil et al., 2010; Ralet et al., 2010, see the review Lee et al., 2011; PlantProbes1 CarboSource Services2). In addition, the increasing number of sequenced genomes of plants and microorganisms provide a virtually unlimited supply of often highly specific carbohydrate binding domains (Guillen et al., 2010). These probes in general provide a static picture but labeling of living cells is also possible. For instance, Domozych et al. (2009) used antibodies to study pectin maturation in the single celled Charophycean alga Penium margaritaceum. It will be interesting to explore similar approaches to study wall dynamics in higher plants. Caution is required in using these probes since polysaccharide epitopes are frequently masked by other polymers (Marcus et al., 2008, 2010).\nRecently, significant progress was also made in the visualization of cellulose dynamics in living cells using the cellulose-specific dye Pontamine Fast Scarlet 4B (S4B; Anderson et al., 2010). Confocal microscopy of S4B-stained roots revealed the orientation of cellulose microfibrils. Interestingly, the staining did not interfere with growth and a rotation of the microfibrils, from transverse to longitudinal to the elongation axis, could be observed during cell elongation. This is the first in vivo validation of the 57-year-old \u201cmultinet growth\u201d hypothesis (Roelofsen and Houwink, 1953).\nEnzyme activity can also be visualized in the wall using fluorescent donor substrates. Sulforhodamine conjuguates of xyloglucan oligosaccharides (XGO-SRs) were used to visualize endogenous xyloglucan endo-transglycosylase (XET) activity (of the xyloglucan transglycosylase/hydrolase enzyme, XTH) in Arabidopsis and Tobacco roots and cultured cells (Vissenberg et al., 2005) as well as in poplar wood (Nishikubo et al., 2011). XGO-SRs are infiltrated into the tissue and incorporated into xyloglucan in the cell wall yielding an orange fluorescence indicative of the simultaneous colocalization in the same compartment of active XET and acceptor xyloglucan chains. Interestingly, a fibrillar pattern associated with cellulose microfibrils was observed in elongating cells, suggesting that XTHs act on xyloglucans attached to cellulose microfibrils. The XET activity found in elongating cells may play a role in the incorporation of newly synthesized xyloglucan molecules into the cell wall and/or the remodeling of the existing cellulose/xyloglucan network. Glycosyl hydrolase activity also can be visualized in situ. For instance, endo-\u03b2-1,4-xyloglucanase activity was detected in muro using a resorufin \u03b2-glycoside of a xylogluco-oligosaccharide (XXXG-\u03b2-Res; Ibatullin et al., 2009) and cellulase activity using a resorufinyl-\u03b2-D-cellobioside (Glc-2-\u03b2-Res; Takahashi et al., 2009).\nAnother major advance was made with the use of click chemistry to study the metabolism of glycans in vivo. The strategy is based upon the metabolic incorporation of azide sugars into target molecules, priming them for selective covalent reaction with fluorescent probes. The azide is small, stable in biological systems, and selectively reactive with phosphines or activated alkynes. Previously, the Staudinger ligation has been used to tag azido sugar-labeled glycoconjugates on cultured cells and in live mice (Prescher et al., 2004). The copper-catalyzed click chemistry has shown the incorporation of an azido-containing fucose analog into glycoproteins via the fucose salvage pathway in jurkat cells (Sawa et al., 2006). Since these first experiments, the method has been further developed and adapted for plant cells. Anderson et al. (2012) used fucose alkyne (FucAI) to label pectic rhamnogalacturonan-I (RG-I) in roots of Arabidopsis seedlings. Using pulse-chase experiments, they were able to visualize the deposition of pectin and the reorientation of the pectin network during the elongation of epidermal root cells. A problem with this method is that Cu(I) catalyst formulations are toxic preventing their use in living cells. Different approaches have been developed to overcome this problem. Soriano Del Amo et al. (2010) reported that BTTES, a tris(triazolylmethyl)amine-based ligand for Cu(I), promotes the cycloaddition reaction rapidly in living systems without apparent toxicity. This catalyst allowed, for the first time, non-invasive imaging of fucosylated glycans during zebrafish early embryogenesis. Recent alternative approaches are based on \u201cCu-free click chemistry\u201d (for review, see Chang et al., 2010; Jewett and Bertozzi, 2010) to increase the rate of the cycloaddition without the need of a catalyst. These methods have been used to label biomolecules in zebrafish (Laughlin et al., 2008) and in living mice (Chang et al., 2010). It will be extremely interesting to use similar methods to visualize the sites of synthesis, deposition, and turnover of different polysaccharides in plants (Wallace and Anderson, 2012).\nLaser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) and spinning disk confocal microscopy (SDCM) technologies have been used to study, often in great detail, the dynamics of proteins involved in cell wall synthesis. Whereas LSCM uses a single pinhole for optical sectioning, SDCM uses an array of excitation and emission pinhole apertures (one or two pinhole arrays can be used) on a rapidly spinning disk, such that the pinhole array sweeps the entire field of view over 1,000 times/s. The high scan speed not only improves image acquisition rate (up to 360 frames/s), it also has the effect of lowering the peak excitation light density down to a few \u03bcW/\u03bcm2, thereby increasing fluorescence efficiency and decreasing photobleaching and photodamage effects compared to point scanning. Perhaps most importantly, because the entire confocal field of view can be captured by a high-quantum efficiency, low-noise camera instead of a photomultiplier tube (PMT), SDCM systems have a more than 50-fold increase in light capture efficiency (i.e., average number of photons acquired from a single bead plotted against exposure index which is determined by measuring photobleaching rates and not the actual fluorescence at each analyzed location in the specimen), resulting in a several-fold increase in signal-to-noise ratio relative to LSCM. This unexpected difference is accounted for by the large difference in quantum efficiency (percentage of photons hitting the photoreactive surface that will produce an electron-hole pair) between the CCD camera of SDCM (around 60%) and the PMT of LSCM (around 10%). However, the reasons for the remainder of the efficiency gap remain unclear (Murray et al., 2007). Gr\u00e4f et al. (2005) propose an explanation based on the fact that scanning systems, in contrast to SDCM, are often operated at or near saturation for fluorescence, thus a situation in which no new emitted photons are produced while photobleaching increases.\nUsing SDCM, fluorescent punctae could be observed in the plasma membrane of Arabidopsis hypocotyl cells expressing XFP fused to distinct components of the cellulose synthase complex (CSC; CESA3,CESA6, CESA5, or CSI1/POM2; Paredez et al., 2006; Desprez et al., 2007;Gu et al., 2010; Bischoff et al., 2011; Bringmann et al., 2012; Sanchez-Rodriguez et al., 2012). These punctae migrate bidirectionally following linear trajectories and most likely correspond to individual CSCs. Since the CSCs are propelled by the polymerization of the glucan chains, the rate of the CSCs can be used to quantify cellulose synthesis in vivo. These tools have been extensively used to study the role of cortical microtubules in guiding the CSC trajectories, their insertion into the plasma membrane, the regulation of CSC movement by phosphorylation, as well as the action of small inhibitors of cellulose biosynthesis (DeBolt et al., 2007a,b; Crowell et al., 2009; Gutierrez et al., 2009; Chen et al., 2010; Bischoff et al., 2011).\nThe intracellular trafficking and the lifetime of proteins can be conveniently studied using photoactivatable or photoconvertible fluorescent proteins (Patterson et al., 2010). Photoactivatable fluorescent proteins have been used in the plant field to analyze the dynamic relationship between the ER and Golgi stacks in tobacco leaf epidermal cells (Runions et al., 2006) or the distribution of KAT1 K+ channels in tobacco leaves (Sutter et al., 2006). The property of photoconvertible fluorescent proteins to show pronounced light-induced spectral changes allows pulse-chase analysis of protein trafficking. For instance, UV-induced green-to-red photoconversion of mEosFP was used to study the translocation of PIN2-mEosFP from one intracellular location to another (Dhonukshe et al., 2007). Such tools will be very useful to analyze the trafficking of CSC components or other cell wall biosynthetic enzymes.\nFluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) and fluorescence loss in photobleaching (FLIP) are complementary tools for imaging cell wall proteins. Using FRAP, the delivery frequency of CESA complexes to the plasma membrane was estimated at around 5 events/\u03bcm2 h (Gutierrez et al., 2009). In this case, a short bleaching period followed by post-bleach acquisitions is used to measure any recovery of fluorescence into the bleached area by non-bleached CESA particles. FLIP has been used to study the distribution of CSCs in developing xylem vessels. Using a confocal microscope, yellow fluorescent protein (YFP)\u2013CSCs appear as transverse bands in developing xylem vessels (Wightman and Turner, 2008). To overcome the problem of the high density of YFP\u2013CSCs and the focal depth necessary for imaging deeper layers of the organ, FLIP was used. With this approach, the movement of bleached particles outwards from the bleached region was measured (White and Stelzer, 1999). The identical rates of fluorescence loss on either side of the bleached zone suggested that these CSCs, like the primary cell wall CSCs, also migrate bidirectionally. The motility of YFP\u2013CSC complexes was estimated at around 7 \u03bcm/s far higher than those previously reported for primary wall CSCs. It is unlikely, however, that such a high velocity reflects the cellulose synthesis rate (which would be some 14,000 glucose residues/s.chain against 10 residues/s.chain for primary cell walls). It is more likely that the authors have measured the much faster movement of intracellular CSC-containing compartments (Wightman et al., 2009).\nFluorescence microscopy is also commonly used to study protein\u2013protein interactions in plants. Techniques used are fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) or bimolecular fluorescence (BiFC) or luciferase complementation (Jares-Erijman and Jovin, 2003; Bracha-Drori et al., 2004; Fujikawa and Kato, 2007). BiFC strategies have been used to determine specific interactions between the different CESA isoforms (Desprez et al., 2007; Timmers et al., 2009). The N-terminus half of YFP is fused to a first CESA isoform and the C-terminus to a second isoform. Detection of YFP signal signifies protein\u2013protein interaction events since the YFP halves are in sufficient proximity to form an intact YFP molecule. It is an easy and rapid method, however, it is important to note that it creates irreversible interactions and appropriate controls need to be included such as proteins present in the same compartment that do not interact with the tested protein.\nA recent improvement in the detection of molecules at the surface of plant cells is the use of total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). This technique is based on the physical phenomenon of total internal reflection (TIR), which occurs when a ray of light strikes a boundary between two materials with different refractive indices (n) and the incident angle is greater than the critical angle of incidence. Under these conditions, all of the light is reflected back into the medium with the higher n value. When TIR occurs, a near-field light wave forms at the boundary; this \u201cevanescent wave\u201d (EW) can penetrate the surface of the medium to a depth approximately equal to 1/3 of the wavelength of the incident light. The TIRFM can provide around 100 nm of excitation volume near the plasma membrane. Interestingly despite the presence of the several 100-nm thick cell wall, a TIRF-derived method, known as variable-angle epifluorescence microscopy (VAEM), was recently developed in plants to visualize vesicle trafficking and fusion events at the plasma membrane. The technique uses a laser beam with a suboptimal incident angle, slightly smaller than the critical angle. Konopka et al. were able to visualize the dynamics of membrane proteins, organelles, and cytoskeleton in various plant cells (Konopka and Bednarek, 2008b; Wan et al., 2011) and validated the optical principles underlying VAEM in plant cells. They analyzed in detail the motility of clathrin light chains (CLCs) during endocytosis (Konopka et al., 2008). In both tip growing root hairs and diffusely expanding epidermal cells, a CLC-XFP fusion protein colocalized with the dynamin-related proteins DRP1C-GFP in dynamic foci at the cell cortex. The authors were able to follow appearance and disappearance at the plasma membrane of the proteins and differentiate the behavior of two distinct DRPs (Konopka and Bednarek, 2008a). The results demonstrate the involvement of DRPs in clathrin-mediated membrane dynamics. Since GFP-CESA3 can be visualized in living cells by VAEM (Figure 1), it will be interesting to see if the internalization of CSCs is also mediated by this pathway. Using VAEM, the organization and dynamics of actin filaments were studied in detail in epidermal cells of Arabidopsis hypocotyls and it has also been shown that there is a gradual appearance of the auxin efflux carrier PIN2-GFP at the outer lateral plasma membrane of root epidermal cells (Staiger et al., 2009; Kleine-Vehn et al., 2011). Interestingly, the VAEM method can also be used to analyze the oligomeric state of proteins. The subunit number and stoichiometry of membrane-bound proteins can be determined through the statistical analysis of bleaching steps of GFP fused to the proteins. Li et al. (2011) imaged GFP-labeled aquaporin PIP2;1 in the plasma membrane of root cells. The genetic attachment of GFP to PIP2;1 guaranteed that each PIP2;1 polypeptide was labeled with only one fluorophore. To determine the oligomeric state of PIP2;1, they counted the photobleaching steps for chosen fluorescent spots. The maximum number of elemental GFP photobleaching steps in an individual punctum was four, consistent with the aquaporin tetramer observed in crystallographic studies (Tornroth-Horsefield et al., 2006). This approach will be very helpful to study the stoichiometry of cell wall biosynthetic complexes.\nFIGURE 1.Visualization of GFP-CESA3 using different microscopy techniques. Arabidopsis dark-grown hypocotyl cells expressing the cellulose synthase catalytic subunit CESA3 fused to GFP were imaged using spinning disk confocal microscopy (A) or variable-angle epifluorescence microscopy (B). Note that in (B), only the vesicles at the cell surface are well defined and thanks to the use of an objective \u00d7100 with a numerical aperture of 1.49, the xy resolution and the signal-to-noise ratio near the cell edge are improved. Scale bars: 10 \u03bcM. Images from a time series (C\u2013D). Note the appearance of a GFP-CESA3 vesicle in the second image. Images from a time series (E\u2013F). Note the disappearance of a GFP-CESA3 vesicle. Blue arrows indicate the presence or the absence of GFP-CESA3 in successive pictures.\nRecently, new high-resolution techniques allow imaging beyond the diffraction resolution barrier. Several strategies are being used: stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy, linear or non-linear structured illumination microscopy (SIM), and the pointillist techniques: photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), fluorescence photoactivated localization microscopy (FPALM), and stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM). While they show great promise for cell wall research, these techniques all have individual strengths and weaknesses. For a detailed discussion, see Leung and Chou (2011). Such methods will be of great value to further analyze the organization of CSCs and their link with cortical microtubules. STED already has been used to show that PIN1 and PIN2 auxin efflux carriers cluster in microdomains in the plasma membrane (Kleine-Vehn et al., 2011).\nMajor obstacles for 4D (3D + time) imaging are the inherent speed limitation of point-scanning techniques for optical sectioning and the photobleaching that accompanies repeated excitation. The use of light-sheet-based fluorescence microscopy (LSFM), known in different implementations as selective plane illumination (SPIM) or digital scanned laser light-sheet microscopy (DSLM) overcomes these limitations (Huisken et al., 2004; Keller and Stelzer, 2008). The technique is based on the use of a thin sheet of light, which illuminates a single X-Y plane of the specimen, combined with wide-field fluorescence detection with a CCD camera in the direction perpendicular to the excitation plane. With this technique, only a narrow region near the plane of observation is illuminated, as a result fluorophores outside this plane are not excited which reduces background signals and photodamage. These instrumental characteristics produce an optical sectioning effect, improved contrast, and allow long observations of sensitive samples. Three-dimensional recording is performed by moving the specimen through the illuminated plane. 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Plant Sci. 3:145. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00145\nPublished online:03 July 2012.\nJose Manuel Estevez, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina\nStaffan Persson, Max-Planck Gesellschaft, Germany\nDavid Ehrhardt, Stanford University, USA\nCopyright: \u00a9 2012 Gonneau, H\u00f6fte and Vernhettes. 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Here on our website, we bring you everything you need to know about the games, the players, the teams, and of course where you can watch the events taking place as well as where to get information on the best eSports betting sites.\nTOP RATED GAMES 2018\nWhat eSports Games Are Played?\nThere are a number of games that are played and these multiplayer online titles are available for a number of devices too. The games come in a wide range of formats but there are two main variants and these are first-person shooters and multiplayer online battle arena (MOBAs). MOBA games see two teams battling against each other and the goal is to kill the opponents and destroy their base on the opposite side of the map. Players have unique abilities and strengths and each kill can be used to improve their character.\nThe most popular games are:\nCounter-Strike: Global Offensive: This is a first-person shooter (FPS) game and the goal is to kill the opposing team through attacks. There are two teams, terrorists and counter-terrorists. The terrorists have to either plant a bomb or capture and hold hostages while the counter-terrorists have to stop the bomb from being planted or rescue the hostages.\nDota 2: This is one of the biggest MOBA games. It features two teams of five players and the team that manages to destroy their opponents' structure first wins.\nLeague of Legends: This is another MOBA game. There are two teams of five players and each player has to choose from one of 130 champions to control during the game. The aim of the game is to destroy the opponents' nexus, objectives can vary depending on the game mode chosen.\nOverwatch: This is a FPS game where teams fight over a location and the first team to control it for a set amount of time wins. There are two modes, king of the hill or payload mode where teams take turns attacking and defending.\nStarCraft 2:This is a strategy game where players build armies and try to defeat each other using tactical choices.\nOther popular eSports games include sports games like the FIFA series, strategy games, fighting games, and even card games like Hearthstone where players challenge each other to battle with monsters and spells and the first person to lose all their health loses. You can read our reviews on all eSports games here.\nThese competitive video games are followed players by millions around the world and it is no longer a case of teenagers sitting in their rooms wasting their time on computer games, many of these teenagers are now enjoying the fame and fortune that comes with eSports games.\nEsports Tournaments, Competitions and Cash Prize Games\nCompetitive eSports is where payers are competitions for both cash prizes and getting themselves recognized. International tournaments and competitions can have huge prizes and many of them offer sponsorship deals for the teams involved too. Many eSports leagues also offer salaries and player rights whereby if a player remains in the competition they get a guaranteed salary. Winning competitors can get even greater rewards.\nPopularity of eSports in Canada\nThis is a rapidly growing sector and competitive eSports games seem to be getting more and more popular every year. It is now recognized as a sport and even sites like ESPN have coverage of the big tournaments. Some of the professional competitions are even sponsored by some of the biggest companies in the world like Blizzard and Riot Games. The global eSports market was worth $892 million in 2016 and it is expected to exceed $1 billion as it keeps growing in 2018. The lack of dedicated information portals on eSports is disappointed and that is what we are hoping to change. 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Of course, at the heart of our business is selling fuel oil at highly competitive rates and with high standards of service \u2013 without unnecessarily long term contracts.\nEmergency Heating Oil Deliveries on Long Island\nGeneral Utilities can also provide emergency heating oil delivery service cover which is operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, giving you total peace of mind.\nGeneral\u2019s emergency service can deliver heating oil to Long Island in Nassau County, Suffolk County & Queens. If you have a problem with your heating, we will be there to make sure things are put right.\nNaturally, we also supply features such as automatic deliveries and fully professional and expert installs of new heating equipment. 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This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect, how that information may be used, with whom it may be shared, and your choices about such uses and disclosures. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully when using our application or services or transacting business with us. By using our website or application (our \u201cService\u201d), you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy.\nIf you have any questions about our privacy practices, please refer to the end of this Privacy Policy for information on how to contact us. Please also read our Terms of Service, which govern the basic operation of the Websites. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service, you should immediately stop using or visiting the Websites.\nWhen you visit our Service, we may collect certain data that does not tell us specifically who you are. This is \u201cNon-Personally Identifiable Information.\u201d It includes things like your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, and the last domain you visited before coming to our Website or the domain you go to when you leave. It also includes various statistical data such as which pages you visit on our Websites, how long you stay on them, and what you click.\nWe may place a \u201ccookie\u201d on your computer. A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier, sent to your browser from a website\u2019s computers and stored on your computer\u2019s hard drive. Our \u201cpreference\u201d cookie expires after thirty (30) days. We may use cookies to keep track of your choice of language and home page preference; to understand your exposure to certain Internet advertisements as you use the Websites, and to gather usage data that will help us generally improve the quality of the Websites. There is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept cookies. You should note that cookies may be necessary to provide you with certain features on the Websites.\nWe also may use a small piece of code (sometimes referred to as \u201c1\u00d71 clear pixel,\u201d \u201cWeb beacon\u201d or \u201cclear GIF\u201d) placed in the pages of the Websites to help us gather additional information about which parts of the site receive the most visitors and other user traffic patterns, and enable us to administer the site.\nInformation Shared with Other Users. When you register as a user of UpCast, your profile will be viewable by casting professionals if you submit yourself to jobs on the Service. Other users will be able to view the information you have provided to us directly such as your Name, photos and videos you upload, personal description, links to social media and phone number.\nNo Personally Identifiable Information (see below) is collected through our cookies or Web beacons, however, we may, from time to time, allow advertisers, third-party advertising networks, and third-party advertising serving companies to serve advertisements directly to you within our Websites, Services, and Software. By serving these advertisements directly to you, these companies can set their own cookies on your computer, which may not expire, and trigger their own Web beacons. If you would like to contact the advertisers, third-party advertising networks, and third-party advertising serving companies with which we have relationships to learn more about their privacy policies and what options (if any) they offer to opt out of their data collection, please visit their web sites. Some of these companies are participants in the Network Advertising Initiative (\u201cNAI\u201d), a cooperative of online marketing and analytics companies committed to building consumer awareness and establishing responsible business and data management practices and standards. You can learn more about NAI and how you may \u201copt out\u201d of targeted advertising delivered by NAI member ad networks at www.networkadvertising.org.\nWe also may collect information that can be used to identify you (\u201cPersonally Identifiable Information\u201d). We only collect Personally Identifiable Information when you specifically provide it to us. For example, in connection with your subscription to or use of certain features of our Service, you may be asked to create a user account and provide certain information including your name, email addresses, address, and telephone number. You may also provide User Uploaded Information to the Websites, as described in the Terms of Service, or you may provide information such as your credit card number in connection with the purchase of services or content available through the Websites. When you create a user account with UpCast and sign in to your account on the Websites or post User Uploaded Information, you are not anonymous to us.\nWe may use Personally Identifiable Information to fulfill your requests, respond to your inquiries and provide other services, and to alert you to information, offers, or publications in which we think you may be interested. The emails that we send contain links that enable you to \u201cunsubscribe\u201d from such mailings.\nWe do not sell Personally Identifiable Information or other information you make available to the Websites, or share such information with third parties, except as described below.\nFrom time to time, we may partner with unaffiliated companies or individuals for market research, product development or similar purposes. These companies or individuals may be provided with access to Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information, but we will require by contract that they agree to maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of such information. 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We also reserve the right to remove information upon the request of any third party.\nWe reserve the right to investigate abuses on the Websites and enforce and apply this Privacy Policy, the Terms of Service and any other terms or conditions applicable to the Websites or the use thereof. We may disclose information about you to third parties if we have a good-faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) take action regarding suspected illegal activities; (2) enforce or apply the Terms of Service; (3) comply with legal process and law enforcement instructions and orders, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding or other legal process served on us; (4) protect our rights, reputation, and property or that of our users or the public or (5) protect against legal liability.\nUpCast cannot ensure or warrant the security or privacy of any information you transmit to us. We attempt to follow policies and procedures that will protect against unauthorized access to your Personally Identifiable Information. But we can make no guarantees or promises in this regard, and you provide information to us at your own risk.\nWe may store the Personally Identifiable Information we hold about you indefinitely. We may store this information in the United States or we may transfer it to any other country. The data protection laws of the countries where we store your personal data may or may not provide a level of protection equivalent to the laws in your home country. Wherever we hold the data, we will apply the terms of this Privacy Policy.\nAlthough our Service is a general audience Service, we restrict the use of our service to individuals age 18 and above. We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use personal information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian believes that this site has collected the Personally Identifiable Information of a child under the age of 18, please contact help@getupcast.com.\nIf you have an UpCast account, you have the ability to review and update your personal information within the Service by opening your account and going to settings. More information about how to contact us is provided below. You also may close your account at any time by visiting the \u201cSettings\u201d page for your account. If you close your account, we will retain certain information associated with your account for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, enforce our Terms of Service, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our Service or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law. In addition, if certain information has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, retention of that information will be subject to those third parties\u2019 policies.\nYou may contact us at help@getupcast.com if at any time you would like to see the Personally Identifiable Information we hold about you, or to ask us to correct or update this information, or to ask us to delete it. Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this Privacy Policy applies (see below for contact information).\nYou may contact UpCast Talent, Inc regarding our privacy practices at the following address:\nhelp@getupcast.com\nThis Privacy Policy is effective as of September 1st, 2016. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. We do not undertake to provide you with personal notice of any changes. In the event of material changes, we will provide notice by means that are reasonable under the circumstances, such as by posting a notice on the Websites. Your continued use of the Websites following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept those changes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 13340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gibsoncapital.com/fiduciary-responsibility", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LKNPU5ZQ4RN4SRDIZSVZNHJHLYM3FN55", "length": 2490, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.gibsoncapital.com", "title": "We do the right thing. | Gibson Capital, LLC", "raw_content": "A fiduciary is someone who acts in a position of trust on behalf of, or for the benefit of, a third party. 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It involves the right relationship between risk and return, proper portfolio diversification, the avoidance of conflicts of interest, and the fulfillment of other fiduciary standards.\nAt times, our clients may also be serving in a fiduciary capacity, for example as investment committee members or trustees of foundations and retirement plans. In these situations, we educate our clients about fiduciary standards of care. We focus their attention first and foremost on the investment process. We review their current practices to identify investment or procedural risks. Our expertise in asset allocation also plays an important role in meeting fiduciary obligations. 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Awasi is the only lodge in South America that assigns a private guide and vehicle per room. Thereby, they adapt all excursions to your tastes and preferences, without you having...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 261.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-palestine-relations-a-new-year-new-predictions/4299", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:46:52Z", "digest": "sha1:A32OHMU5VHWVSQE2H7AFD5FBYRLNFD42", "length": 10310, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.globalresearch.ca", "title": "Israel-Palestine Relations: A New Year, New Predictions - Global ResearchGlobal Research - Centre for Research on Globalization", "raw_content": "Israel-Palestine Relations: A New Year, New Predictions\nJerusalem Times 2 January 2007\nOver the past years I have attempted to make some predictions about what we can expect to happen over the next year. I admit that this is quite risky as I don\u2019t have any real crystal ball to tell me the future. This could be somewhat compared to reading coffee cups of looking at the stars. I usually come out better than what sheer luck could provide. I indulge your patience and request that at least you view this as entertainment (perhaps not very good entertainment at that).\nPrediction #1 \u2013 The Olmert Government will survive the year. I don\u2019t expect new elections in Israel in the coming year. With a majority of some 78 seats in the coalition, even with the lowest public popularity rating ever held by a Prime Minister in Israel, Olmert\u2019s government faces no real threats.\nPrediction #2 \u2013 Amir Peretz will continue to lead the Labour party. Even with Peretz\u2019s all time low public approval rating, he has no where to go and he will fight to stay in the Labour leadership position and in the Ministry of Defense. Peretz will not be found primarily responsible for Israel\u2019s failures in Lebanon. The faulty military concept employed in Lebanon and the poor performance of the army had their roots set deep down way before Peretz ever arrived in the Ministry of Defense. Peretz\u2019s leadership in the Labour party is being challenged by many candidates \u2013 Ami Ayalon, the front runner, Danny Yatom, Matan Vilnai, perhaps Ephraim Sneh, Avishai Braverman, Ofir Pines \u2013 the only Labour Minister to resign the government when Lieberman was asked to sit at the table and Ehud Barak. Barak\u2019s chances don\u2019t seem very strong as he still has many more enemies in the party than allies, yet Barak might still find himself sitting at the Cabinet table if Olmert could move Peretz out of the Defense Ministry. A deal could be worked out that in exchange for Barak removing himself from the race for the Labour leadership, Peretz would move into the position of a Minister for Public Welfare. In politics anything is possible. Peretz is a fighter when he is fighting for himself. He has pulled rabbits out of the Labour hat in the past and I would not put is past him that he has some more rabbits there. I would most prefer to see Ofir Pines in the leadership, but that is unlikely to happen.\nPrediction #3 \u2013 There will not be new elections in Palestine over the six months. I cannot predict more than six months forward on this question. President Abbas declared that he would hold new elections, but as in the past, no date was set and no new announcements on this question have been issued since. Abbas is great at making threats and has a very poor record on making good on them. The moment that Hamas announced that it would boycott the elections, it was clear that they could not be held without launching a civil war, which Abbas seems intent on not doing. A couple of things could cause a change in this regard: if, for example, Marwan Barghouthi was amongst those that will be released in the upcoming prisoner exchange, the possible ground swell of pressure from within the Fatah ranks could force new elections, regardless of the potential Hamas boycott. If Fatah activists finally force the democratic processes of reform within Fatah on Abbas, the pressure for new elections will also increase. A senior advisor to PA Prime Minister Haniyeh told me yesterday that Hamas is still intent on reviving the discussions on a Palestinian National Unity Government and he was quite convinced that it would happen. I am somewhat less convinced, but it still remains a real possibility.\nPrediction #4 \u2013 The Bush administration will pressure Olmert to assist in strengthening Mahmoud Abbas. The US position will be to continue to \u201cgesturize\u201d the process rather than bringing the sides to real political negotiations, which is the only thing that could really strengthen Abbas. It seems that there is only one real way to strengthen Abbas, or for that matter any Palestinian leader, and that is to move directly into permanent status negotiations to end the occupation, establish a viable sovereign Palestinian state and to reach real Israeli-Palestinian peace. Everything short of this is simply prolonging the occupation and no Palestinian leader will be able to lead his way out of the chaos without a real and genuine political peace process. It does not seem that Prime Minister Olmert is ready or willing to enter into such a process at the outset of 2006. Perhaps this will change in the coming months.\nPrediction #5 \u2013 Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni\u2019s new political initiative will lead no where. Livni\u2019s plan calls for moving directly to Phase II of the Road Map which would establish a Palestinian state with provisional borders and only then to return to Phase I of the Road Map which includes all of the security related obligations of the Palestinians, the removal of unauthorized outposts by the Israelis and a return to the lines of September 28, 2000. Livni\u2019s plan furthermore calls for Israel to withdraw and to remove settlements east of the separation barrier. Livni got it right in understanding that Phase I of the Road Map is implementable and that someway must be found to bypass it for the time being. The Palestinians have completely rejected the idea of a state with provisional borders; they incorrectly call it a provisional state, but perhaps that term is exactly what it would be. The only way to relate to the dead Road Map is by going to Phase III which is the negotiations on the end of the conflict, the end of the occupation and the creation of the Palestinian state. Only then would be it possible to return to Phase I which would be linked with the implementation of the permanent status agreement. At that time, it would be essential to include mechanisms for monitoring the implementation of the agreements, verifying that both sides are meeting the terms of the agreement and the Road Map and devising a real mechanism for resolving disputes as they arise. Livni was courageous by launching a new initiative against the will of the Prime Minister. It shows that she is thinking forward and is strong enough to go against the party leader. I would put my money on her in terms of her career advancement in the years to come.\nWhat could be!\nThe New Year begins with a sense that there are new opportunities for moving forward. June 5, 2007 will mark 40 years of occupation. It is time for this occupation to end. The changes in Washington with a new Secretary of Defense, the Baker-Hamilton report, the burning desire of most Americans to get out of Iraq, the change of leadership in Congress \u2013 all bid well for a change in the US role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The new Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, also stated in his first major speech that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must come to an end. It is quite clear to most of the world and to most Israelis and most Palestinians how the conflict should end. Olmert and Abbas also both know very well the parameters of a possible Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. What we require is real leadership \u2013 something that has been absent for quite some time.\nEgypt and Jordan can continue to play a very constructive role and my proposal for the establishment of the \u201cmini-quartet\u201d of Israel, Palestine, Jordan and Egypt that would replace the international quartet in future peacemaking is still a real and viable option. The international quartet would have a role to play if and when Israel and Palestine reach agreements. The Israeli request for an expanded international force in Lebanon and the deployment of Egyptian troops in Rafah and EU Monitors at the Egyptian-Gaza border are all very significant. It is crucial that this kind of international involvement be successful, because we are going to need international troops to be deployed in Palestine. I fully believe that it will be Israel that will request the deployment of such troops.\nImmediate steps must be taken to improve the economic situation in Palestine. The main conditions for any economic growth there are freer movement and access. The agreements on movement and access must be implemented immediately. Israel must return the tax revenues that it is holding to the Palestinians, and not only $100m as promised by Olmert to Abbas. All $600m+ is Palestinian money and must be returned to the Palestinians. If Israel does not wish to transfer the money to the Palestinian treasury which is controlled by Hamas, it could transfer the money to Abbas directly. If this is unacceptable by Israel, it could bank the money in an escrow account and allow Abbas to borrow against it. Israel must also allow for the reconnection of the economies of Gaza and the West Bank. The continued strangulation of the Palestinian economy by Israel must finally come to an end.\nAbbas must initiate and allow for democratic reform within Fatah. The new generation of practical Palestinian leaders must step forward to capture their place in Palestinian politics. The old generation must step down and allow the democratic process to take place. There can be no chance of replacing Hamas without real democratic reforms in Fatah.\nIsrael must answer the Syrian peace overtures without delay. The fear is that it is a ploy to regain the Golan Heights without really granting peace. The best deal for Israel would be to link the Syrian initiative with the Israeli-Palestinian track and in that way accept and implement the Arab League Peace Initiative. A successful outcome would assure Israel peace and normal relations with all of the member states of the Arab League. If the Arab League wishes to advance its peace plan it would be very wise to invest a large sum of money in marketing and explaining the initiative to the Israeli people. The plan is the best one that has come along and the people of Israel would be very well advised to accept it.\nWishing all of the readers of the column a very happy and peaceful 2007.\nGershon Baskin is the Co-CEO of IPCRI, the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information. www.ipcri.org\nThe original source of this article is Jerusalem Times\nCopyright \u00a9 Gershon Baskin, Jerusalem Times, 2007\nArticles by: Gershon Baskin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 15187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-detention-of-meng-hongwei-and-the-western-medias-insinuations-against-china/5656575?print=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:34Z", "digest": "sha1:G3L2VSXM2BGLDV3TNSBSVKMHJHPXNAL3", "length": 4139, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.globalresearch.ca", "title": "The Detention of Meng Hongwei and the Western Media\u2019s Insinuations against China - Global ResearchGlobal Research", "raw_content": "The Detention of Meng Hongwei and the Western Media\u2019s Insinuations against China\nhttps://www.globalresearch.ca/the-detention-of-meng-hongwei-and-the-western-medias-insinuations-against-china/5656575\nThe Mainstream Media is approaching a very slippery slope after insinuating that Chinese citizens are loyal to the Communist Party of China first and foremost above any and all of their other duties, and that failure to obey Beijing could lead to them \u201cdisappearing\u201d regardless of how high-profile of an international individual they may be.\nDetails are still emerging about the case of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei who Chinese officials finally confirmed was detained in his home country late last month and is being investigated for corruption. He also supposedly resigned from his post despite not (at least yet) being found guilty of anything, which has led to speculation that he might have been pressured to do so by the authorities. Whatever it is that may or may not be going on, and it\u2019ll probably take some time for all of the facts to be released, the Mainstream Media wasted no time in spreading dangerous insinuations that could quickly lead down the slippery slope of discrimination or worse.\nABC News ran a report from the Associated Press that quoted Willy Lam, a Chinese politics expert at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, who went on record as saying that\n\u201cMeng\u2019s case shows how Chinese officials, no matter where they are, have to obey the Communist Party first and foremost.\u201d\nThis came out the same day as a New York Times piece that cited Michael Caster, a researcher and human rights advocate in Bangkok who studies China\u2019s legal system, who encouraged the reader to \u201cImagine if China were to somehow, someday, get a U.N. secretary general, and then he too one day disappeared\u201d. The innuendo is that all Chinese citizens across the world have to follow the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or else.\nTaken to its \u201clogical conclusion\u201d, this narrative could be expanded to include anyone with family living in China too, including members of the Chinese diaspora born abroad who aren\u2019t citizens of their ancestors\u2019 homeland. The implied idea is that the Chinese are just as \u201cuntrustworthy\u201d as Catholics and Jews, both of whom persistent stereotypes paint as being \u201csecretly loyal\u201d to the Vatican and \u201cIsrael\u201d above all else, just like the developing one seeks to do regarding Chinese and the CCP. This sentiment was already practiced to genocidal effect during the Old Cold War when Indonesian usurper Suharto presided over the killing of at least half a million Chinese on the alleged basis that they were all \u201ccommunist subversives\u201d.\nNobody needs to be reminded of the dangers of irresponsibly attaching a label to any identity group simply because some of their representatives might conform to a prejudiced stereotype, but that\u2019s precisely what might be about to happen to the Chinese after the Mainstream Media\u2019s insinuations. The Trump Administration even reportedly considered banning Chinese students from the country out of fear that they\u2019re infiltrating America as spies, and this initiative might receive a second wind if neoconservative officials exploit Meng\u2019s situation to argue for its revival on national security grounds. Last week\u2019s accusations about an unprecedentedly expansive Chinese espionage operation could also add fuel to this fire.\nThe end result is that the Chinese are at risk of being treated as second-class citizens in the West simply because of the insinuations that are being levelled against them for purportedly being susceptible to blackmail by the CCP. The anti-communist McCarthyism of the Old Cold War is giving rise to an anti-Chinese variant in the New Cold War that also combines with the legacy of its predecessor to form an ethno-ideological cocktail of potential discrimination in the future. History is replete with regrettable examples of what happens whenever an entire people are targeted based on their identity, and while it\u2019s unlikely that an Indonesian-like genocide of the Chinese will ever repeat itself, the world would do well to not run that risk again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 5136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.globalwitness.org/en/archive/reform-international-accounting-standards-oil-gas-mining-offers-opportunity-greater/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2V4P2ILNNVIYMAI4FBYCK4BO6YLFZTFN", "length": 5960, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.globalwitness.org", "title": "Reform of International Accounting Standards for Oil, Gas & Mining Offers Opportunity for Greater Transparency | Global Witness", "raw_content": "Reform of International Accounting Standards for Oil, Gas & Mining Offers Opportunity for Greater Transparency\nThe reforms being considered by international accounting standard setters could give a significant boost to global efforts to better account for revenues from the extractive industries. Disclosure of revenues paid by oil, gas and mining companies for every country of operation is a fundamental step towards improving governance, reducing poverty, and combating corruption in the management of this important source of income for many of the world\u2019s poorest countries.\nThe International Accounting Standards Board, which develops global accounting standards that are used in over 90 countries and that are followed by the majority of the world\u2019s largest extractive companies [1], has initiated a process that will lead to the definition of new standards for the industry, in the form of what is called an International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS).\nIn a report published today titled \u201cExtracting Transparency: The need for an International Financial Reporting Standard for the Extractive Industries\u201d, Publish What You Pay [2] NGO coalition members including CARE International UK, Global Witness, Open Society Institute, Save the Children UK and Transparency International UK put forward the case for why such standards should require upstream extractive industry operators to disclose revenue payments on a country-by-country basis [3]. The disclosure of this information will allow small and large shareholders including analysts and institutional investors, as well as other stakeholders, including governments and citizens, to know how much a company is earning and paying to governments in the different countries where it operates.\n\u201cThe scandals in energy companies like Enron, over reserve declarations by Shell, and numerous bribery allegations about payments by oil companies in countries like Equatorial Guinea have raised the expectations of business to report more transparently to investors,\u201d said Vanessa Herringshaw of Save the Children UK. \u201cThe extractive sector is under enormous scrutiny right now and shareholders are demanding greater accountability from corporations in order to protect their long-term financial interests.\u201d\nThe report suggests that country-by-country reporting on commercial performance, taxes and other benefits paid to governments, and reserves is essential information for making useful decisions about companies engaged in the extractive sector. At present, such information is not available, as current standards only require the disclosure of information on, for example, a regional or continental basis in most cases.\nOther organisations, including several of the world\u2019s largest accounting firms, have long debated and even supported the need for a single set of accounting standards for this global sector. Developing these standards will take a number of year years. However, \u201cit is critical that these standards incorporate clear requirements for transparency of payments to all governments in order to ensure that users of financial statements and others interested in the management of this vital sector have all the information required to fully evaluate risks and the performance of the companies in which they invest. That is why are engaging with a relatively dry topic like International Accounting Standards\u201d, said Hugo Sintes of CARE International UK.\nThe report includes a questionnaire that interested readers are encouraged fill out to share their observations on the ideas and proposals put forward by PWYP [4]. By launching a consultative process on the proposed IFRS for the extractive sector, PWYP members hope to instigate a debate on what information such standards should require to improve accounting procedures for the extractive sector worldwide. The full report and questionnaire can be downloaded from www.publishwhatyoupay.org/ifrs\nHenry Parham, International Coordinator, Publish What You Pay: +44 77 6026 8959, [email protected]\nVanessa Herringshaw, Head of Economic Policy, Save the Children UK: +44 77 7618 4368\nGavin Hayman, Oil Campaign, Global Witness: +44 20 7561 6361 / +44 78 4305 8756\nRichard Murphy, Director, Tax Research Limited (report co-author):+44 77 7552 1797\n[1] All quoted companies in Europe and many quoted companies in other continents do already follow these standards. U.S. based companies follow a different set of standards called Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), but there is a process seeking convergence between the two sets of standards in progress.\n[2] Publish What You Pay (PWYP) is an international campaign aiming to increase transparency over the payment, receipt and management of oil, gas and mining revenues in developing countries. PWYP is supported by a worldwide coalition of over 280 anti-corruption, development and human rights NGOs from over 50 countries. The NGO coalition believes that revenue transparency is an essential condition for alleviating poverty, promoting just development, improving corporate social responsibility, and reducing corruption in many resource-rich developing countries. PWYP calls for stock market and international accounting rules to require oil, gas and mining companies to disclose their net payments to governments. See www.publishwhatyoupay.org\n[3] \u201cUpstream\u201d extractive industry companies are involved in exploration and production of oil, gas and minerals. \u201cDownstream\u201d extractive activities refer to the refinement, transportation and marketing of such resources.\n[4] The report and the questionnaire can be downloaded from: www.publishwhatyoupay.org/ifrs. The responses should be sent by e-mail to Hugo Sintes, Private Sector Programme Officer at CARE International UK: [email protected] or by other means as indicated in the report. Deadline is 31 November 2005. Any further enquiries on PWYP\u2019s work on IFRS should also be directed to Hugo (tel: +44 20 7934 9334).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 8717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 258.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.glutathionediseasecure.com/itp-blood-disease.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:14Z", "digest": "sha1:RTGM2O5JAO7YPOC5C75K67BSASFFL6MA", "length": 7547, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "www.glutathionediseasecure.com", "title": "ITP Blood Disease: What is it? What is the Connection to Glutathione", "raw_content": "ITP Blood Disease\nWhat is it? What is the Connection to Glutathione\nIdiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura or ITP blood disease is a condition where the platelet count is lower than normal. This happens because the immune system attacks and destroys platelets. ITP is also known as immune thrombocytopenic purpura.\nIf You Already Know ITP blood disease then skip to the bottom. There you will find an alternative treatment theory and links to the options and dietary considerations. We have tried to make this as comprehensive as possible. There are numerous things you will not find on other sites.\nWhat is ITP Blood Disease\nPlatelets are also called thrombocytes. Platelets are disk shaped cells with out a nucleus. They are made in the bone marrow along with other blood cells and circulate with the blood. Clotting (the platelets sticking together) is the process that they preform to stop the bleeding.\nIdiopathic (Idio short for idiot and pathic read path way) means all the smart people in the world just do not know what the cause is.\nThrombocytopenic means there are less platelets in the blood than there should be.\nPurpura (sounds like purple) is the telltale of purple bruises caused by bleeding under the skin.\nPeople who have ITP have otherwise normal blood cells. It is just the platelets that are in short supply. The result is that the blood does not clot as it should.\nNew cases of ITP are at 50-100 per million. About half of new cases are in children.\nThe normal platelet count is a range between 150,000-400,000 per mm3. Tpically, ITP patients have counts as low or lower than 20,000.\nIn 15 to 30 percent of those with what appears to look like thrombocytopenia do not have it. They may have pseudothrombocytopenia.\nThere are two types of ITP blood disease\nOne type of ITP affects children between ages 2-4 years of age and the other affects adults. Most often women are diagnosed but it can happen to anyone.\nITP often results in purple bruises on the skin or mucous membranes in the mouth.\nThe bruises come from small blood vessels under the skin. Sometimes the bleeding results in petechiae (tiny red or purple dots on the skin). This may look like a rash.\nWith a shortage of platelets, the resulting will be bruising and potential for bleeding. ITP is a major risk in the event of an injury. The signs and symptoms are also important to help with the diagnosis.\nSomething as simple as a nose bleed may be very difficult to stop in someone who has ITP.\nSome drugs can bring on ITP as can infections, leukemia or when the body uses up its platelet supply.\nOther Symptoms of ITP Blood Disease\nsmall cuts or minor wounds take a very long time to stop bleeding\nunexplained bleeding from the nose or gums\nunusually heavy menstrual flow in women\nCauses of ITP Blood Disease\nThe cause of ITP is unknown. ITP results in the formation of antibodies that destroy their blood platelets. Antibodies usually attack bacteria and viruses. In ITP the same antibodies attack the platelets.\nSome medications can cause ITP as a side effect or can deplete platelets....\nMedicines that can cause low platelet counts include some antibiotics, thiazide diuretics, chemotherapy medicines, quinidine, and meprobamate (Equanil, Miltown, Meprospan).\nAn enlarged spleen can cause a low platelet count.\nThe measles-mumps-rubella vaccine has been known to produce an illness that clinically appears to be acute ITP in children. It starts within 6 weeks from the vaccination.\nGold injections in 1% to 3% of those who receive them may result in ITP. This will usually happen within 20 weeks of the administration. It is likewise associated with the oral preparations. It can persist for several weeks and even months.\nDiagnosis of ITP Blood Disease\nThe diagnosis is made by a doctor who will take a history and doing a physical exam.\nYour doctor may also order a blood test.\nHow is ITP Treated\nTreatment involves increasing the blood platelet count. The treatment of choice is often prednisone to raise platelet count.\nThe prednisone will be decreased gradually as the count rises. Once stopping the steroid, the platelet count may drop again.\nAlso intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) is given or a combination of medications is used.\nAnother treatment is removing the spleen. The spleen is the organ that produces most of the antibodies that destroy the blood platelets.\nThe spleen also destroys the old and damaged blood cells. The spleen can be removed laparoscopically.\nMedicines that decrease platelet counts such as over the counter medicines like aspirin and ibuprofen. Also alcohol consumption should be limited.\nAnother Way, A Better Way\nIf you are on steroids, you should not go off them cold turkey without the risk of severe outcomes. Do not make any changes with out talking to your doctor or pharmacist.\nStudies as far back as 2002 indicate that oxidative damage is involved in the development of ITP. The platelet destruction and bleeding is believed to be part of the elevation of lipid peroxidation and the reduction of antioxidant capacity.\nIn the book, The Autoimmune Epidemic, by Donna Jackson Nakazawa there is a suggestion for the cause of the epidemic. Her search for answers were based on her trying find answers for her own autoimmune disease.\nDonna suggest that environmental toxins are, in part, perpetuating the autoimmune epidemic.\nNote Some doctors will say that these toxins do not cause ITP. The fact is, nobody knows for sure. So if they do not know what causes it, how can it be said that it is not caused by these toxins.\nThe logic is simple. Foreign compounds that create a chain reaction. The body tries to rid itself of foreign substances. Especially those that are toxic. What happens when the toxin is attached to, lets say a platelet. In the bodies attempt to do what it does, a reaction against the self happens. If this is true, it provides an interesting theory on how to treat ITP.\nFirst, consider how many toxins are in the human body to begin with. More specifically, which toxins are in your body?\nIn July 2005, it was reported that an average of 148 different chemicals in our bodies. These are chemicals that do not belong in our body. This report was not comprehensive. They just looked for and found the 148 chemicals. There are no-doubt more.\nAnd what about the toxins, chemicals and poisons that may be in our foods? Lets not leave out chemicals like cleaning products, pest control substances, and off gassing of various synthetic materials as they age.\nMany have found positive results with boosting intercellular glutathione to deal with many auto-immune diseases.\nThere is little information specifically on boosting glutathione in the treatment of ITP. There is evidence that ITP results in oxidative stress.\nITP Blood Disease and Glutathione\nTo enhance current treatment, avoid toxic foods. Avoid toxins in your home as best you can.\nAlso, improve your dietary intake of foods that will boost your intercellular glutathione. This is the bodies main antioxidant. It will help with the detoxification of the toxins that are in your body.\nFinally, you can take supplements that will boost your glutathione. There are two different ones that have been shown to improve glutathione levels.\nITP blood disease can be scary. Hopefully this will empower you to do all you can. It can be added to the treatment the doctors are providing or if you are at risk, to follow as a preventative measure.\nBenefits of N-Acetylcysteine\nThere is evidence that supports the use of N-acetylcysteine Here is more info on it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 9167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gm.k12.mn.us/page/2553", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:27Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZBCC66GJRX4WSLYBZUPIWLCT2EFFSVH", "length": 1094, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gm.k12.mn.us", "title": "Scott Laufenberg-Social Studies - Grand Meadow ISD 495", "raw_content": "GM Staff > Middle School > Scott Laufenberg-Social Studies\nWelcome to 5th, 6th, and 8th Grade Social Studies!\nThis is my 7th year teaching in Grand Meadow. In previous years I taught a combination classroom of 5th and 6th grade students, but for the past couple of years I have been given the opportunity to teach middle school social studies. As far as I'm concerned it's the best subject, so life is good!\nI have three sons: Brett (12th grade), Ian (10th Grade), and Ty (8th grade). Ty attends school in Grand Meadow, and Brett and Ian go to school in Wisconsin. I grew up in Wisconsin and am a huge Packers and Badgers fan!\nI work really hard to keep my classes in Infinite Campus up to date, so if you have a question about whether or not your student has turned an assignment in, when an assignment is due, or even when the next test is please check there.\nI look forward to working with each of you as we help your student grow academically and socially. 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He is also the author of motivational bestseller, Life's Golden Ticket.\nAuthor : Brendon Burchard", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.governancenow.com/views/interview/the-talaq-verdict-is-just-a-beginning-arif-mohammad-khan-supreme-court-muslim-personal-law", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:23Z", "digest": "sha1:E2CBECZ63JFGGDVK5ITI5YP5USGC4QNU", "length": 8230, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.governancenow.com", "title": "\u201cThe talaq verdict is just a beginning\u2026\u201d -Governance Now", "raw_content": "\u201cThe talaq verdict is just a beginning\u2026\u201d\nSays Arif Mohammad Khan, former cabinet minister in an interview\nPankaj Kumar | August 30, 2017 | NEW DELHI\n#Arif Mohammad Khan #politics #supreme court #Muslim personal law #society #triple talaq\nThe supreme court has held the practice of triple talaq as unconstitutional. This takes us back to the Shah Bano case and the question of reforming the Muslim personal law. Had it not been overturned by Rajiv Gandhi in 1986, how would it have impacted the Muslim society?\nThe year 1986 played a very important role as the issue of triple talaq became quite pertinent on the national forum. People had started debating it but there were hardly a few people in the Muslim community who were ready to speak against the Muslim personal law board. But in the last 10-15 years there has been a sea change in the attitude of Muslims as they started listening to views against triple talaq and the Muslim personal law board. Rajiv Gandhi was compelled to overturn the decision of the supreme court in the matter of Shah Bano though he was a man with modern approach. The Muslim personal law board started a very aggressive campaign against the decision of the supreme court. The board had openly called for assault on Muslim leaders who were opposed to triple talaq. Even judges were not spared by some Muslim leaders in parliament. So there was backlash in society and as a result peace and harmony between Hindu and Muslims got disturbed \u2013 much more than the partition in 1947. As a result, the Ayodhya issue came into the picture, to placate Hindus. So who was responsible for all this? None other than the Muslim personal law board as they started a very aggressive movement to pressurise the government to overturn the Shah Bano judgment.\nWhy is the board considered the representative of the community? Does it truly have wider acceptability in the community?\nNo, this is not true. They are given undue weightage. Had they been dealt with sternly in 1986, things would have been different. Three months back, when the proceedings started in the court, there were many who were threatening and saying interference in personal law or sharia law will not be tolerated. But today, after the judgment, everyone is welcoming it and there is hardly any dissenting voice. Actually, the problem lies with the political establishment which does not believe in a direct dialogue with the Muslim community. Political establishment always needs middlemen to deal with the community, ignoring their basic rights. Political parties have always created insecurity among them by posing as the saviour of the community. Who are they to provide security? It is the right of every citizen, irrespective of caste and religion, as the law of land will ensure security for them. Those who pretend to be the champions of secularism are the ones who speak against the constitution.\nHow come Muslim women suffer more even though the divorce rate is higher among the Hindus?\nThis is a great judgment and this has brought great relief to Muslim women. A young Muslim girl grows up with a sense of insecurity that her future husband can divorce her anytime and throw her out of house. Woman with four-five kids have been thrown out of house. They remain helpless as they find no place to go where they can get justice. It is true that the divorce rate is higher among the Hindus than Muslims, but the process of divorce is complicated in the Hindu society. Hindu women get claims and all, and only then they get divorced but Muslim women are divorced first, and then they go to court for claims under section 125 [of CrPC, relating to maintenance]. You go to court, and you will find only Muslim women seeking claims under section 125.\nWill this judgment help abolish the practice of halala which has been alleged to be widely misused by a section of mullahs?\nThere is only one form of talaq in Islam and it takes minimum six months to conclude. First, the husband and wife are asked to patch up, [failing which] they are asked to live separately in the same house even as mediation goes on. One person from the bride\u2019s side and one person from the groom\u2019s side participate in mediation. If things still don\u2019t work, they are asked to go for talaq, but they have to live together for another three months before separation.\nThus, it takes six months for talaq to get formalised. There is no question of practising halala if this process is adopted. Halala comes into picture when triple talaq is practised.\nThe board as well as a section of clerics have criticised the judgment as interference in personal law. Does it mean different interpretations of Quran are causing problems?\nTriple talaq is nowhere mentioned in any interpretation. People from the board have openly said that Quran is not the only source of sharia and this has been widely reported in bold letters in various newspapers. In fact, this has been said by none other than famous cleric Arshad Madni. Had it been said by somebody else on a different occasion, there would have been hue and cry from the same people. I am truly shocked but let me tell you that the only source of sharia is the Holy Quran. Prophet Mohammad has himself said that anything attributed to him must be checked with the Quran. So, religion is a matter of belief and it should not be turned into a profession. Ninety percent of the fatwas are associated with triple talaq. This business is going to be over now. That\u2019s why these interpretation and other issues are coming out.\nPolygamy is another practice which is legal among Muslims though it is practised among other communities too. Will this judgment curb polygamy also?\nAgain, the kind of polygamy allowed in the Muslim society is not permitted in the Quran as per my understanding. It was allowed under special circumstances when people from Mecca had attacked Medina where the great prophet was residing. A third of the male population was killed. There were orphan kids. So it was allowed on the condition that justice can be done to all. Though next ayat disapproves it, as justice to all is not possible. So main ayat prohibits polygamy, but conditional permission was made into a law, that too unrestrained, and the main ayat was ignored. This [the supreme court verdict] is the beginning and I foresee many changes in future.\nCan this judgment be a precursor to the uniform civil code?\nWe can discuss the uniform civil code if there is some roadmap in front of us. We can support or oppose it, since we are a secular democracy. Secular democracy means uniformity of law where no one can be forced to do something which his or her religion prohibits and no one can be prevented from doing something which his religion permits. Actually, a vibrant society is never rigid and it embraces several good things without losing its identity. So without hurting sentiments of any section of society, we can adopt some means, make such laws [like the uniform civil code]. But the problem lies somewhere else. [Former RSS chief MS] Golwalkarji had said that people who talk of the uniform civil code do not understand the diversity of this nation. He said some support it to annoy Muslims and others oppose it to appease. So one is flatterer and another one is flattener, and he opposed both of them.\nThere is a law against dowry and there is another law about women\u2019s share in inheritance, and yet dowry is prevalent and the law of inheritance is hardly followed. Do you think mere law can abolish a practice like triple talaq?\nLaw creates awareness and it educates people. Fifty years back no woman could have dared to oppose dowry but now a number of women are coming out to oppose it and reject the marriage proposal if dowry is sought. Similarly, society has changed. You will now see women asking their husbands to get out of house if they are given talaq. Now it will become a fit case of harassment. Once punishment is meted out for triple talaq, it will act as deterrence. You cannot imagine how this will change the morale of women and at last it will impact the whole society.\npankaj@governancenow.com\n(The interview appears in the September 1-15, 2017 issue of Governance Now)\n#Arif Mohammad Khan\n#Muslim personal law", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 10600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gradschools.com/masters/biomedical-science/on-campus?near=denver", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:15Z", "digest": "sha1:6A7WMT3YVWGP7QWNYY5NX6KXQRNLBIZU", "length": 6812, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.gradschools.com", "title": "Top Denver Biomedical Science Masters Campus Degrees & Graduate Programs 2019+", "raw_content": "Denver Masters in Biomedical Sciences on Campus Programs | Masters in Biomedical Sciences Degrees\nBiomedical Science Masters Programs on Campus\u200b options may prepare students who aspire to a career in health or related fields with the scientific and professional education in graduate level biomedical sciences that is often required. 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This means that the judge could rule in your favor, or against you, when it comes to property division and alimony, as well as child support and child custody if there are kids involved. If the family court judge in your case perceives you as disrespectful toward the court or toward your ex-spouse, you could be in for a rude awakening when the decision is handed down.\nMoreover, although first impressions do matter, keep in mind that you may have to make several appearances in front of the judge in your divorce case, depending on the circumstances \u2013 so you need to make sure to treat the judge with respect and courtesy at all times.\nTo learn more, check out the Huffington Post article, \u201c5 Things Your Divorce Judge Wants to Tell You, But Doesn\u2019t.\u201d\nIf you are thinking about filing for divorce, or you have already begun the divorce process, a qualified family law lawyer can assist you. The successful family law and divorce attorneys at Graziano & Flynn, P.C. have decades of combined experience helping people to navigate divorce courts in New Jersey. 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Prior to attending law school, William served as an Officer in the United States Army, where he trained and led soldiers to successfully employ the Patriot Missile System and later served as his Battalion\u2019s S-2 Security Officer.\nDrake University Law School Board of Counselors\nPhoenix Club of Nashville\nClass 71, 2018\nBlackstone Inn of Court\nIowa Chapter of the Federal Bar Association\nDes Moines Downtown Chamber of Commerce\nFamily Promise of Greater Des Moines\nDes Moines Public Library Foundation\nSpecial Events Chair, 2014\nGreater Des Moines Partnership\u2019s Youth Leadership Initiative\nMentor, 2013-2015\nNamed a Mid-South Rising Star by Mid-South Super Lawyers magazine, 2018\nNamed a Great Plains Rising Star by Great Plains Super Lawyers magazine, 2015-2017\nNashville Bar Foundation Leadership Forum, 2018-2019\nDrake University Law School, J.D., 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.guttmacher.org/news-release/2009/most-laws-mandating-counseling-and-waiting-periods-abortion-have-little-impact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:L2RDSQC7XNZWFQITATX7FBJCSWIBWAIR", "length": 3935, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.guttmacher.org", "title": "Most Laws Mandating Counseling and Waiting Periods Before Abortion Have Little Impact | Guttmacher Institute", "raw_content": "Most Laws Mandating Counseling and Waiting Periods Before Abortion Have Little Impact\nHowever, Laws Requiring In-Person Counseling Cause Delays, Create Additional Burdens; Poor Women Most Likely to be Affected\nLaws that require counseling and waiting periods before abortion, but that allow counseling to be delivered over the Internet, by phone or by mail, appear to have little impact on birth and abortion rates. Yet, according to a new Guttmacher Paper analyzing the relevant literature, these laws may postpone the timing of some abortions. These findings imply that counseling requirements do not cause women to change their minds about having an abortion, and that waiting period requirements do not impose significant barriers to abortion services.\nCurrently, 24 states require women to wait, usually for 24 hours, between an initial counseling session and the abortion procedure. The laws in seven of these states require in-person counseling at least 18\u201324 hours prior to the procedure. Multiple studies of such a law in Mississippi have found that the requirement was associated with a decline in the state\u2019s abortion rates, an increase in the number of residents going out of state for an abortion, and delays in accessing abortion services. These findings suggest that an in-person counseling requirement places an additional burden on some women by forcing them to take more time off from work, arrange child care or stay away from home overnight when the distance to the clinic is great.\n\u201cWhen we looked at the laws across the board, we found little impact,\u201d said the lead author of the new report, Theodore Joyce. \u201cBut the Mississippi studies consistently found that an in-person counseling requirement was associated with fewer abortions overall, but more abortions obtained out-of-state and more second-trimester procedures. In other words, some women had to travel greater distances, and as a result, they decided not to have the procedure or to have it later in pregnancy, when the procedure is less safe and more expensive.\u201d\nResearch from other Guttmacher studies has shown that poor and low-income women\u2014who have the highest unintended pregnancy and abortion rates\u2014are also those most affected by abortion restrictions. Disadvantaged women who have trouble raising the funds for their abortion frequently take up to three weeks longer than better-off women to obtain an abortion and have the greatest difficulties taking time off from work, getting child care and affording the travel costs to obtain the procedure. A requirement of multiple in-person visits imposes even more barriers, which disproportionately affect the most vulnerable women.\nAccording to previous Guttmacher research, abortion providers report that almost all women obtaining abortions are sure of their decision to terminate their pregnancy before they have even picked up the phone to make an appointment. While it is important to ensure that women have the information they need to make an informed decision, the evidence suggests that mandated counseling serves only to delay women\u2019s access to a procedure they have already chosen, rather than to inform their decision making.\n\u201cRequiring women to make two trips to obtain an abortion is unnecessary,\u201d says Guttmacher Paper coauthor Lawrence Finer. \u201cThese laws are intended primarily to block abortion access, and the most disadvantaged women, who already have trouble accessing services, are disproportionately affected.\u201d\nClick here for the full report \u201cThe Impact of State Mandatory Counseling and Waiting Period Laws on Abortion: A Literature Review,\u201d by Theodore J. Joyce of Baruch College, Stanley K. Henshaw and Lawrence B. 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Police personnel have been deployed in strength to prevent any untoward incident.\npatna Updated: May 19, 2018 16:46 IST\nPrashant Ranjan\nHindustan Times, Buxar\nPolice said that although Yadav and his son had a licensed rifle and a gun in the vehicle for self-protection, they did not get a chance to defend themselves.(Pic for representational purposes only)\nTension gripped Buxar after a gang of unidentified men shot at Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) general secretary Khunti Yadav and his son on Friday evening, killing the veteran leader on the spot. His son, Yashwant Kumar, is fighting for survival at a local hospital.\nProtesters hit the streets and blocked traffic on the Buxar-Rohtas highway for over three hours as news of the incident spread, demanding that police arrest the culprits immediately and provide adequate security to Yadav\u2019s family members. Party supporters also entered into a scuffle with police officers at the hospital on Saturday.\nTown police station house officer Awinash Kumar said the incident took place when Kumar and Yadav, who was also the former head of Nadaon village, were returning home after closing their medical shop around 9.30 pm. Their vehicle had hardly reached the Itadhi railway crossing when four people ambushed them and began firing indiscriminately. While Yadav died en route to the Sadar Hospital in Buxar, his son was referred to a medical institution in Varanasi for better treatment.\nPolice said that although Yadav and his son had a licensed rifle and a gun in the vehicle for self-protection, they did not get a chance to defend themselves. Nobody has been arrested so far, an officer said, adding that old animosity could be the reason for the killings.\nSuperintendent of police Rakesh Kumar said a large number of security personnel have been deployed in the area to prevent any untoward situation. A search has also been launched to nab those named in the FIR lodged by Yadav\u2019s family members, he added.\nYadav is the second BSP leader to be killed in Buxar in the last three years. Party politician Pradip Chaudhary was shot dead by armed assailants near Mathila village on May 1, 2016. A resident of Baruhan village, Chaudhary had unsuccessfully contested the assembly election from Dumraon in 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 4742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-hastings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:15Z", "digest": "sha1:63HUWQLMHFHHAQGQ4EZZO3QDYXRAHTKD", "length": 2388, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.history.com", "title": "The Battle of Hastings - HISTORY", "raw_content": "King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings, fought on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, England. At the end of the bloody, all-day battle, Harold was killed\u2013shot in the eye with an arrow, according to legend\u2013and his forces were destroyed. He was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.\nJust over two weeks before, William, the duke of Normandy, had invaded England, claiming his right to the English throne. In 1051, William is believed to have visited England and met with his cousin Edward the Confessor, the childless English king. According to Norman historians, Edward promised to make William his heir. On his deathbed, however, Edward granted the kingdom to Harold Godwine, head of the leading noble family in England and more powerful than the king himself. In January 1066, King Edward died, and Harold Godwine was proclaimed King Harold II. William immediately disputed his claim.\nOn September 28, 1066, William landed in England at Pevensey, on Britain\u2019s southeast coast, with approximately 7,000 troops and cavalry. Seizing Pevensey, he then marched to Hastings, where he paused to organize his forces. On October 13, Harold arrived near Hastings with his army, and the next day William led his forces out to give battle.\nAfter his victory at the Battle of Hastings, William marched on London and received the city\u2019s submission. On Christmas Day, 1066, he was crowned the first Norman king of England, in Westminster Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end. French became the language of the king\u2019s court and gradually blended with the Anglo-Saxon tongue to give birth to modern English. William I proved an effective king of England, and the \u201cDomesday Book,\u201d a great census of the lands and people of England, was among his notable achievements. Upon the death of William I in 1087, his son, William Rufus, became William II, the second Norman king of England.\nhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-battle-of-hastings\nPatriots sting Loyalists at Shallow Ford, North Carolina\nIn the early morning hours of October 14, 1780, a contingent of approximately 350 Patriot troops from the North Carolina and Virginia militias engages a group of British Loyalists, numbering between 400 and 900, at the Shallow Ford crossing of the Yadkin River in North Carolina. ...read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 9943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 121.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holdingredlich.com/asic-s-new-approach-to-regulation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:22Z", "digest": "sha1:BQE5CDLKF5SE7MROID5FA36HAZCAE3E3", "length": 7089, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.holdingredlich.com", "title": "ASIC\u2019s new approach to regulation by embedding supervisory staff in banks - Holding Redlich Lawyers - Melbourne Sydney Brisbane Australia", "raw_content": "ASIC\u2019s new approach to regulation by embedding supervisory staff in banks\nOn 17 August 2018, as part of his opening statement to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, ASIC\u2019s chairman James Shipton, announced plans to embed teams of up to 20 ASIC agents for weeks at a time to sit with bank staff, drop into meetings and trail the CEO, executives and directors to identify misconduct before it arises.\nInterestingly, as part of this same speech, he indicated his deputy chair, Peter Kell, was unable to attend as he was appearing as a witness at the Royal Commission into misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry (Royal Commission).\nThe interim report of the Royal Commission has been released with the Executive Summary raising several pertinent issues that are relevant to this announcement, including:\nAs the Commission\u2019s work has gone on, entities and regulators have increasingly sought to anticipate what will come out, or respond to what has been revealed, with a range of announcements.\nand; Should the existing law be administered or enforced differently? Is different enforcement what is needed to have entities apply basic standards of fairness and honesty by obeying the law, not misleading or deceiving, acting fairly, providing services that are fit for purpose, delivering services with reasonable care and skill, and when acting for another, acting in the best interests of that other? The basic ideas are very simple. Should the law be simplified to reflect those ideas better?\nIs this novel idea a good one?\nClearly ASIC sees benefits in this approach and it is administering the laws differently.\nHowever, will ASIC learn more about the banks by taking this approach or will it have a \u201cchilling\u201d effect, such that the bank employees in contact with the ASIC staff are more guarded in their communications?\nThis is a very real question and the impact of embedded staff is one that may not achieve the objective set out at the end of chapter 7 of the interim report:\nDoing the \u2018right thing\u2019 has not been rewarded. And even in the more recent past, \u2018balanced scorecards\u2019 and \u2018conduct gateways\u2019 have too often used doing the \u2018wrong thing\u2019 as a disqualifying criterion. But penalising default is not the same as rewarding the right and proper performance of a task. Penalising default encourages hiding mistakes; it does not encourage doing the \u2018right thing\u2019. It does not encourage the intermediary or the employee to ask, \u2018Should I, should the bank, do this?\u2019\nOne could suggest that a regulator looking over the shoulder is not the first place to ask that question, as penalty, rather than reward, is the most likely outcome.\nThe recurring themes of cultural issues and effective corporate governance, requiring change across the financial sector are sought to be addressed by this strategy.\nThese themes are a focus in Shipton\u2019s approach that ASIC staff begin \"at the top\" of the major banks and wealth manager AMP to assess culture, accountability and governance.\nOur concern is that our regulators aren\u2019t learning from past mistakes. In 2004, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) completed its investigation into the National Australia Bank (NAB) (for irregular foreign currency options trading), which included APRA personnel conducting \u201con-site risk reviews.\u201d\nDespite APRA\u2019s understanding of the misconduct occurring at NAB arising from their on-site visits, NAB continued to fall into further disrepute, with the Authority later being questioned for its knowledge of NAB\u2019s issues for period of approximately two years prior to the 2004 scandal. APRA responded to the Senate\u2019s concerns by stating it was working collaboratively with NAB to respond to the known issues at hand.\nWhile APRA celebrated its findings from the on-site reviews and its recommendations later handed down to NAB in a publicly available report, others criticised APRA for acting too slow and too soft on NAB for the actions that resulted in an estimated loss of $360 million. APRA\u2019s findings isolated the misconduct to four currency option traders while also naming cultural issues to be at the heart of NAB\u2019s failure.\nNoting two of the key recommendations handed down from APRA to NAB in 2004 were that:\nthe misconduct of middle-management fails to attract the attention of higher management, with line management turning a blind eye to known management concerns\nExecutive Risk Committees were particularly ineffective, missing or dismissing risk information pertinent to the problems that emerged and failing to escalate warnings.\nWhile embedding ASIC staff \u201cat the top\u201d may flow through cultural change, it may be that solely focusing on executives and directors of financial institutions will not provide the change the sector truly requires, for example:\nreducing the risk of misconduct amongst middle-management and front-line staff who are actively involved in the day-to-day conduct and decision-making\ninstilling cultural change, when it is inherent in the roles of senior-executives to focus on profit-deriving conduct.\nThe lessons learned in 2004 about information flows suggest that a focus on understanding how to comprehensively approach compliance reporting, and exception reporting, remain problematic, as seen in the comment in the interim report:\nThe difficulties raised by NAB, and by others, about meeting the Commission\u2019s requests suggest that those entities deal with regulatory compliance piecemeal rather than comprehensively. Approaching compliance piecemeal does not readily permit identification of underlying causes. Particular events are too readily seen as isolated departures from an assumed norm caused only by aberrant behaviour of individuals. Deeper causes and connections remain unconsidered and unidentified.\nSince the initial announcement, ASIC Commissioner John Price, has made the following statement:\nWe believe this initiative will change the mindset in the thinking of decision-makers inside financial institutions. Any decision-maker inside a financial institution who interacts more regularly with a senior ASIC officer, will have regulatory issues \u2013 the physicality of the regulator, almost \u2013 firmly in front of mind.\nWhile it is true regulatory issues will be physically front of mind, the remaining missing piece is the benefit the organisation will gain from this reminder. Unless there is an amnesty or an immunity policy, any engagement with the embedded ASIC regulatory staff may be seen as a fast track to adverse outcomes if the proposed action is not 100 per cent within ASIC\u2019s view of \u201clegal\u201d \u2013 and nothing is ever black and white.\nThe Royal Commission is conducting further hearings this month and is due to submit its final report to the Governor-General by 1 February 2019. At that time, we may have the benefit of further recommendations to influence the implementation of this and other policies to encourage \u201cgood\u201d behaviour rather than merely be a more constant reminder of the consequences of \u201cbad\u201d behaviour.\nAuthors: Lyn Nicholson & Rebecca Siri", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 10056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holihanatkin.com/obituaries/James-Irish/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:39Z", "digest": "sha1:JDZJYTH4NAZ2N6PYOPM2V4E3HWS6FNMJ", "length": 506, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.holihanatkin.com", "title": "James Bruce Irish Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information", "raw_content": "James Bruce Irish\nJames Bruce Irish of Grand Ledge passed away November 25, 2017 after a courageous 2 year battle with cancer. He was born in Lansing, Michigan, at his Grandma Finnis’ house on Center Street on July 9, 1938. He was preceded in death by his... View Obituary & Service Information\nThe family of James Bruce Irish created this Life Tributes page to make it easy to share your memories.\nJames Bruce Irish of Grand Ledge passed away November 25, 2017...\nSend flowers to the Irish's family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 1814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holisticgroup.co.uk/about-us/meet-the-team", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:18Z", "digest": "sha1:3IDV2V6RE5TF27LME4RA46WQEESM5V2D", "length": 5108, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.holisticgroup.co.uk", "title": "Meet the team - Holistic", "raw_content": "Sophie Eastwood MCIPR\nSophie is the founder and managing director of Holistic, with over 15 years\u2019 experience in property and built environment PR and marketing.She is responsible for ensuring outstanding client service and empowering the team to develop strong partnerships with clients. She leads our creative process to ensure ideas are continually developed to help clients excel and stand out.\nsophie@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://twitter.com/SophieEastwoodhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sophieeastwood/\nLaura Torrance MCIPR\nLaura is a director at Holistic. She has over 15 years\u2019 experience in property and the built environment, working with clients to develop and deliver integrated communications campaigns.\nlaura@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://twitter.com/holisticcommshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lauratorrance/\nKim is an associate director at Holistic. Prior to joining the team several years ago, she worked in-house at McLaren on the property development and construction side of the business.\nUsing over 10 years\u2019 experience in the property sector, I lead campaigns, develop communications strategies tailored to my clients\u2019 business objectives and help them stand out in a competitive market.\nkim@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://twitter.com/holisticcommshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kim-taylor-a5bb52a/\nSarah-Beth Money\nSarah-Beth is a senior account director with a strong background in property PR, working with top London and overseas property developers.\nI have experience across traditional and digital PR, and my previous experience working at a fully integrated media agency gives me an in-depth understanding of branding, marketing and media buying. My work is focused on consumer as well as business to business audiences.\nsarah-beth@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://twitter.comhttps://www.linkedin.com\nLisa Northcott\nAs an account director at Holistic, Lisa works on a range of B2C and B2B clients in the property industry, from estate agencies and developers to the wider architecture and construction industry.\nI develop and deliver bespoke strategies for my clients. Skilled at creating opportunities across print media as well as digital and online, I ensure each client receives an integrated approach to their campaign.\nlisa@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://twitter.com/lisanorthcotthttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lisanorthcott/\nNatalie Cush\nNatalie is a PR professional with experience in both the legal and property sectors. As a senior account manager at Holistic, Natalie works across a range of clients within the built environment including architects, developers, quantity surveyors and engineers.\n\u201cUsing my legal and property PR knowledge I identify opportunities to position my clients in front of their target audiences across multiple media channels. I enjoy implementing strategic campaigns that help to support our clients\u2019 business plans.\u201d\nnatalie@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://twitter.com/natjcushhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-cush-82046477/\nLauren Ambrose MPRCA\nLauren is a communications specialist with wide-reaching property PR and marketing experience and a longstanding focus on consumer PR. As an account manager at Holistic, Lauren works across a range of clients within the built environment including developers, architects, contractors and key industry bodies.\nUsing my knowledge of PR, marketing, events, social and digital communications, I plan and implement fully-integrated strategies to ensure my clients\u2019 key messages reach their target audiences.\nlauren@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://twitter.com/LaurenAmbrosePRhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenambrosepr/\nNicola Hanser\nEA to MD/office manager\nNicola is executive assistant to managing director Sophie and Holistic\u2019s office manager.\nI am responsible for the smooth running of the office, freeing up time for our consultancy teams to focus on delivering results and value for our clients.\nnicola@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://twitter.com/holisticcommshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nicola-hanser-462b2348/\nLeah is a PR executive with experience in B2B corporate PR and marketing communications.\nAt Holistic, I support a range of accounts across the built environment. I enjoy writing and collaborating, using my creative and strategic thinking to meet a client\u2019s objective by identifying opportunities across different media platforms.\nleah@holisticgroup.co.uk\nhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/leah-reid-6ab839141/\nWhat it\u2019s like to work at Holistic\n\u201cHolistic invests in you to perform and be the best that you can be. You\u2019re in control of your career progression and are encouraged to drive it. We have an open work culture where every idea or suggestion is listened to and taken on board, as well as transparency around the business so we all feel part of the vision and journey. We work hard, we play hard, and we have a lot of fun on the way!\u201d\n\u201cAt Holistic you\u2019re part of a team that\u2019s always looking for new and exciting ways of working. We challenge ourselves and our clients to get the best results; because of this we have a dynamic and loyal client base and there\u2019s lots of opportunity to grow and broaden your skills.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 255.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hollywoodyesterday.com/hattie-mcdaniel-facts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GMMJOBUUHDEGQDMW7QAQZBHFD7R2CLL4", "length": 4302, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.hollywoodyesterday.com", "title": "Hattie McDaniel Biography and Facts | Hollywood Yesterday", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Old Hollywood Actresses / Movie Actresses / Hattie McDaniel / Fascinating Facts About Hattie McDaniel, Hollywood Trail-Blazer\nFascinating Facts About Hattie McDaniel, Hollywood Trail-Blazer\nHattie McDaniel (Center): Chairman of the Negro Division of the Hollywood Victory Committee\nOne of my favorite actresses of all time is Hattie McDaniel. I fell in love with her when she all but stole the entire movie Gone With the Wind (right out from under the big-name stars!) and I\u2019ve never fallen out of love.\nWhen reading (and writing) about men and women of color during Old Hollywood (or many times in history, unfortunately), I inevitably feel a mixture of emotions. First of all, there\u2019s an overwhelming sense of sadness that there was EVER a time when humans were not treated equally breaks my heart. I once read a biography on Jackie Robinson and had to put it down, like, a hundred times to dry my eyes. A few times, I even thought, \u201cI\u2019m not picking that back up\u2026 my heart cannot take it!\u201d\nThe same can certainly be said when reading about other heroes and heroines \u2013 Harriet Tubman, Hattie McDaniel, Butterfly McQueen, Etta James, Sammy Davis, Jr, Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington..\nHowever, a desire to know them better combined with an intense longing to know what made them strong enough to rise above it all keeps me reading and reading and reading. Is it always comfortable? Heck no. It\u2019s often heart-breaking, maddening, infuriating, frustrating, and a whole slew of other emotions that don\u2019t even have names.\nAnd yet\u2026. all of that can be flipped over, exposing a beautiful other side. These individuals, and so many like them, displayed a strength and grit that most of us will never be called upon to channel. People around them tried to tell them \u201ctheir place,\u201d but they didn\u2019t accept it. They saw no good reason they couldn\u2019t carve out their own place \u2013 and that they did!\nSo, as you read about this talented, lovely actress with a million-dollar smile, keep in mind all that she overcame \u2013 can you imagine the strength of character it took?! Of course she did more than just overcome, mind you. The lady made history.\nFacts About Hattie McDaniel:\nHattie McDaniel (1895\u20131952) was born on June 10, 1895 in Wichita, Kansas.\nShe was the first African-American to win an Academy Award. She won as Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role of Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939).\nHer wish to be buried in Hollywood at the time of her death in 1952 was denied due to the racism that existed at this time. However, 47 years later, she was memorialized with a granite monument at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.\nShe became the first African-American to attend the Academy Awards as an actual guest.\nHer father was a slave who was ultimately freed.\nShe was a huge vaudeville star in her day as both a singer and dancer.\nHattie McDaniel willed her Oscar to Howard University. Unfortunately the Oscar was lost during race riots at Howard during the 1960s and it has never been found.\nHattie McDaniel and Clark Gable were good friends. Gable threatened to boycott the premiere in Atlanta because McDaniel was not invited, but later relented when she convinced him to go.\nClark Gable played a joke on her during the filming of Gone With the Wind. He put real brandy in the decanter instead of iced tea during the Bonnie Blue birth celebration scene!\nPictured on a USA 39\u00a2 commemorative postage stamp in the Black Heritage series, issued 25 January 2006.\nWas referenced in both George Clooney and Mo\u2019Nique\u2019s Oscar acceptance speeches.\nWhen black actors and actresses couldn\u2019t find a decent place to stay in Los Angeles, Hattie opened her doors to them at her home.\nMcDaniel was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: One for Radio at 6933 Hollywood Boulevard and for one for Motion Pictures at 1719 Vine Street in Hollywood.\nShe\u2019s the subject of a bio, Hattie McDaniel: Black Ambition, White Hollywood by Jill Watts.\nHattie McDaniel died on October 26, 1952 at the young age of 57.\nSee Also: Hattie McDaniel Quotes\nHattie McDaniel Quotes (I Love this Lady\u2019s S...\nFiled Under: Hattie McDaniel Tagged With: Hattie McDaniel, Hattie McDaniel biography, Hattie McDaniel facts\nHattie McDaniel Quotes | Hollywood Yesterday says:\n[\u2026] See Also: Hattie McDaniel Facts [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 11314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holtrop-blz.nl/willow-tree/1/willow-tree/details/80/good-health.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FLO7DCNU6ZJNJW7RRMV4S6X5FWO7STS6", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.holtrop-blz.nl", "title": "HOLTROP-Blz Joure, Friesland - Boek- en Kantoorboekhandel", "raw_content": "An abundance of health and happiness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holymonasteryofaxionestin.org.au/events/2018/6/18/sunday-of-the-holy-fathers-orthros-and-divine-liturgy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:30Z", "digest": "sha1:EZXMIBONFWRH4IPS2LODJDQJNX6LGRB5", "length": 218, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.holymonasteryofaxionestin.org.au", "title": "Sunday of the Holy Fathers. Orthros and Divine Liturgy. \u2014", "raw_content": "Saints and Feasts: The Holy Martyrs Cyricus and His Mother Julitta, Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles of Kiev, The Finding of the Head of St. Matrona of Chios, Donald and his Nine Daughters, Swithun, Bishop of Winchester", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2910, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holymonasteryofaxionestin.org.au/events/2018/9/26/translation-of-st-john-the-theologian-matins-and-divine-liturgy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:18Z", "digest": "sha1:LLUFYSVGVIQTQUMGOLRVVPHM3WR6NDQT", "length": 1921, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.holymonasteryofaxionestin.org.au", "title": "Translation of St. John the Theologian. matins and Divine Liturgy. \u2014", "raw_content": "The Falling Asleep of John the Evangelist and Theologian\nAccording to Church tradition, St John the Apostle was assisted by St Prochoros in writing the Gospel According to St John. St John, \u201cSon of Thunder\u201d (Mark 3:17), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. John and his brother, the Apostle James, were fishermen by trade, like their father Zebedee. John is believed to be the youngest Apostle and also \u201cthe beloved disciple\u201d of Christ (John 13:23; 21:7,20). On the Cross, Jesus entrusted His mother, the Virgin Mary, to John\u2019s care (John 19:26, 27). John was a \u201cpillar\u201d of the church in Jerusalem, and later moved to Ephesus. He served as the leading authority (\u201cElder,\u201d lit. \u201cpresbyter,\u201d in 2 John 1) of Ephesus for the remainder of his ministry. During the reign of the tyrannical Roman Emperor Domitian (81-96 AD), John was exiled to the nearby island of Patmos, where he wrote Revelation (also called the Apocalypse). Upon the Emperor\u2019s death he returned to Ephesus to resume his episcopacy and to write his Gospel.\nSt John is the first of only three saints in history to be named by the Church \u201cthe Theologian\u201d, because of the profundity of his Gospel, which has been called \u201cthe spiritual Gospel\u201d. The new Testament contains four other books attributed to John: three letters (1, 2, and 3 John, written about 90 AD, and the Book of Revelation, written about 95 AD).\nSt John the Apostle was almost one hundred years old when he died, about 96-100 AD.\nBeloved Apostle of Christ our God, hasten to deliver a defenseless people. He who allowed you to recline on His breast, receives you as you bow before Him. Implore Him, John the Theologian, to disperse the persistent threat from the heathens, entreating for us peace and great mercy.\nWho shall declare declare your greatness, O virgin Disciple, for you pour forth wonders and are a source of healings, and pray for our souls as Theologian and friend of Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 143.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.homecity.com/blog/dallas-events-week-of-nov-17-2013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:58Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6AVR3XMYCZ4WWJJT4OFDOC7XJHGTQVT", "length": 3186, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.homecity.com", "title": "Dallas Events - Week of Nov 17, 2013 | HomeCity", "raw_content": "The Chi Omega Christmas Market 2013 will be held November 20-23 at the Centennial Hall in Fair Park. Chi Omega Christmas Market has selected the following 2013 beneficiaries: Chi Omega Education Corporation, Community Partners of Dallas, Foundation for the Education of Young Women, Healing Hands Ministries, Just Say YES, Make-A-Wish Foundation\u00ae of North Texas, North Texas Food Bank, Sky Ranch, Suicide and Crisis Center of North Texas, and Chi Omega Collegiate Scholarships. For more information go to: http://www.chiomegaxmas.org/\nHighland Park Village presents The Gingerbread Stroll 2013 through November 30th. Visitors can stroll between 13 different Highland Park Village shops to admire and bid on ornately decorated gingerbread houses, crafted by 12 of Dallas\u2019 premier pastry chefs. Proceeds will benefit Wipe Out Kids\u2019 Cancer. For more information go to: https://www.facebook.com/TheGingerbreadStroll and http://wokc.org/3rd+annual+Gingerbread+Stroll+in.aspx\nThe Trains at Northpark, presented by Bank of Texas, will begin on November 23rd at the Northpark Center. The exhibit has trains rolling across 1,600 feet of track on a journey across America, including cityscapes of downtown Dallas, with the beautiful Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, the State Fair of Texas and the Cotton Bowl; New York City\u2019s Times Square and Grand Central Terminal; Washington, D.C. with The White House; New England\u2019s fall foliage; the Grand Canyon, Route 66, San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Bridge and various other highlights. The exhibit encompasses more than 4,000 square feet of train themed environments, with all the trimmings of the holiday train travel experience\u2014steam engine and coach cars, a ticket booth and a train station as well as interactive features. Since 1987, The Trains at NorthPark has raised money for the children and families served by the Ronald McDonald House of Dallas. For more information go to: http://www.rmhdallas.org/trains/\nHoliday Celebration in the Park 2013\nKlyde Warren Park presents Holiday Celebration in the Park 2013 on Saturday, November 23rd at noon. Activities include photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus, arts and crafts, face painting, balloon artists, performances from Park Cities Dance, Arts District Chorale, Day One Band and the Christmas Celebration Children's Choir and a tree lighting. For more information go to: http://www.klydewarrenpark.org/Things-To-Do/events/celebrate-the-holiday-with-klyde-warren-park.html\nThe 2013 Gift of Lights & Snow will begin Friday, November 22 at 6pm at the Texas Motor Speedway. Gift of Lights & Snow is a drive-thru holiday spectacular show featuring more than two million LED lights and 600 unique holiday displays around the Texas Motor Speedway track. This year there will also be a Snow Village featuring snow tubing, snow play and a snowball gallery for active outdoor winter enjoyment. The Snow Village will be open during the day, 10 am-5 pm, on the following dates: November 23, 24, 29 & 30; December 1, 7, 8, & 14 \u2013 31; and January 1 \u2013 5, 2014. Proceeds benefit Goodwill Industries of Fort Worth, Tarrant Area Food Bank and KLTY Christmas Wish. For more information go to: http://www.giftoflightstms.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 213.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.homesintheglen.com/cambridge-at-the-glen-offers-a-large-variety-of-home-types/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:17Z", "digest": "sha1:XGYBBFSC52GSUS2FU7OT4GWZUJUY4K7V", "length": 1678, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.homesintheglen.com", "title": "Cambridge at The Glen offers a large variety of home types | The Glen in Glenview", "raw_content": "Cambridge at The Glen offers a large variety of home types\nThe Glen in Glenview Illinois is an upscale residential and retail development on the grounds of a former Navy air station. It is composed of several neighborhoods, each with its own particular character. Cambridge at the Glen is unique among the Glen neighborhoods because it has the greatest variety of home types.\nThere are 279 homes in the Cambridge development which consists of single family homes, duplexes, townhomes, row homes and two-flats. Most of the other neighborhoods have only one or perhaps two home types. Here is a breakdown of the number of luxury homes by type in Cambridge:\nAll homes in Cambridge are within walking distance of Glen Town Center\u2019s many shops and restaurants. You can also walk to Gallery Park, two golf courses, and Kohl Children\u2019s Museum. Cambridge is also the closest of the Glen neighborhoods to The Glen\u2019s Metra Station that can get you to downtown Chicago in 31 to 44 minutes depending on time of day.\nIf you may be interested in living in The Glen, please contact me. I have been a Glen homeowner since 2003; and I am an award-winning north shore Realtor focusing on The Glen.\nMargaret Ludemann, Realtor, The Glen Realty Group affiliated with Coldwell Banker.\nCategories: Uncategorized - Tags: Cambridge at The Glen, Chicago, Coldwell Banker, duplexes, estate homes, Gallery Park, Glen homeowner, Glen Town Center, Glenview Illinois, home prices, homes in Cambridge, Kohl Children's Museum, living in the glen, luxury homes, Margaret Ludemann, North Shore, Realtor, row homes, single family homes, The Glen, The Glen Metra Station, The Glen Realty Group, townhomes, two-flats", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hotels.uk.com/uk/somerset/pet-friendly-hotels-in-weston-super-mare", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZR45E2X346REX6BFYDCGEYBG4PMIW6FP", "length": 1670, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hotels.uk.com", "title": "Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare with rooms from \u00a325 HOTELS.UK.COM", "raw_content": "Found 17 Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare\nCavell House Bed and Breakfast\nHawthorns Hotel\nBalmoral Hotel Bar and Restaurant\nNewport Lodge Hotel\nWe currently have 17 Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare with prices starting from \u00a325 per night. For more information on how use this page please read the following paragraphs.\nRatings for quality and value are currently held by many of the Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare, which means that you can rest assured that great attention is being paid to the provision of good standards of accommodation, as well as a warm welcome. You will find genuine value for money is offered by the wide range of Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare.\nIn order that our visitors have peace of mind, many of the Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare have secure on-line booking facilities, so that you can arrange your visit easily, at the touch of a button. In order to protect your privacy on-line, all bookings are made through a secure server, which provides total protection for your personal data.\nOn these links you will find a colour photo of your chosen Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare, along with a basic price for your room stay. Make your choice from the list, and then, for up to date room rates, search the dates by using the calendar. Many of the Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare have links to their own website, which gives you ample opportunity to see for yourself the value and quality on offer from Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare. You can use the Google \u201czoom-able\u201d map to explore the area and landmarks surrounding your chosen Pet friendly hotels in Weston-super-Mare.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 5773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hotels.uk.com/uk/staffordshire/luxury-hotels-in-stoke-on-trent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:04Z", "digest": "sha1:6DRM3RGFIA7QV6J4ENWDWSMJRIQTAQ2X", "length": 1718, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.hotels.uk.com", "title": "4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent with rooms from \u00a339 HOTELS.UK.COM", "raw_content": "4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent\nFound 21 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent\nMoss Farm BandB\nLakeside Retreat (Boutique Hotel)\nThe Laurels BandB\nLadderstile Retreat\nWe currently have 21 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent with prices starting from \u00a339 per night. For more information on how use this page please read the following paragraphs.\nRatings for quality and value are currently held by many of the 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent, which means that you can rest assured that great attention is being paid to the provision of good standards of accommodation, as well as a warm welcome. You will find genuine value for money is offered by the wide range of 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent.\nIn order that our visitors have peace of mind, many of the 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent have secure on-line booking facilities, so that you can arrange your visit easily, at the touch of a button. In order to protect your privacy on-line, all bookings are made through a secure server, which provides total protection for your personal data.\nOn these links you will find a colour photo of your chosen 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent, along with a basic price for your room stay. Make your choice from the list, and then, for up to date room rates, search the dates by using the calendar. Many of the 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent have links to their own website, which gives you ample opportunity to see for yourself the value and quality on offer from 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent. You can use the Google \u201czoom-able\u201d map to explore the area and landmarks surrounding your chosen 4 & 5 Star Luxury hotels in Stoke-on-Trent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 5989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 159.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/shows/houston-matters/2018/06/13/290389/remembering-the-turtle-bayou-resolutions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:31Z", "digest": "sha1:QBHWHUXHCI2BIYPAMLNAYYKZICEZ23UP", "length": 1861, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.houstonpublicmedia.org", "title": "How The Turtle Bayou Resolutions Set The Stage For The Texas Revolution \u2013 Houston Public Media", "raw_content": "How The Turtle Bayou Resolutions Set The Stage For The Texas Revolution\nOn this date in 1832, the Turtle Bayou Resolutions were signed, establishing some of the key players in the more famous Texas events that would follow.\nWe Americans look wistfully on the Declaration of Independence, the document on which our nation was founded, and its self-evident truths that \u201call men are created equal\u201d endowed with inalienable rights including \u201clife, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.\u201d\nSome compelling words, courtesy of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Ben Franklin, and some other pretty smart guys. Of course, \u201call men\u201d meant all white, landowning men, and \u2014 suffice it to say \u2014 our founders fell way short of holding to those equal rights at the time.\nStill, the flowery prose has stuck. It also has overshadowed the point of the rest of the document \u2013 it\u2019s a statement of rebellion and an airing of grievances. It\u2019s like Festivus without the feats of strength. And it\u2019s not the only one of its kind.\nRebels of one kind or another have long established their gripes with power by putting pen to paper. One such example was written, not far from Houston, on this date in 1832. It\u2019s four pages long, made up of admittedly less flowery prose. But those pages are what became known as the Turtle Bayou Resolutions.\nTo tell us more about the document and how it established some of the key players in the more famous Texas events that would follow, Houston Matters host Craig Cohen talks with Dr. Eddie Weller, director of the honors program and professor of history at San Jacinto College.\nA sign marking the site where the Turtle Bayou Resolutions were signed on June 13, 1832 about 50 miles east of present-day downtown Houston.\nTexas Independence Trail\nTags Declaration of Independence documents Eddie Weller history liberty texas history Turtle Bayou Resolutions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 6108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/author/elisabeth-baugh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HYTLRKTPV3HTAAVD2U45A3FCYC5LG4QD", "length": 2325, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.ca", "title": "Elisabeth Baugh", "raw_content": "Elisabeth Baugh\nCEO of Ovarian Cancer Canada\nElisabeth is the CEO of Ovarian Cancer Canada, the only national charity in Canada that's dedicated to overcoming ovarian cancer. She has been honoured with several awards including WXN\u2019s Canada\u2019s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award (honoured on three occasions), the Order of Ontario, Parent/Patient Leadership Award from the Cleft Palate Foundation, the Harold Livergant Award and the Robert Wood Johnson Award, both from the Department of Health Administration, University of Toronto.\nDelmaine Donson via Getty Images\nSpeak Out To Help Make Ovarian Cancer Research A Funding Priority\nThere is still a long way to go if women with ovarian cancer are to experience meaningful improvements in outcomes.\nTake Action Against Ovarian Cancer This September\nFor many women and families living with ovarian cancer, September is a time of hope.\nHave The Ladyballs To Help Make Ovarian Cancer Research A Priority\nEvery Canadian has a stake in this issue. All women are at risk for developing ovarian cancer, yet there is no reliable screening test, no vaccine to prevent it. Progress is long overdue and it's about time for government to step up its support.\nALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY via Getty Images\nGenetic Discrimination Puts Women At Risk. Let's Put An End To It\nIn 2017, no Canadian would accept discrimination based on such genetically determined factors as sex or skin colour. As a matter of principle and common sense, MPs from all parties should unite to pass Bill S-201, which will make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of one's genes.\nJessica Holden Photography via Getty Images\nKnow Your Genes: The Role Of Genetics In Ovarian Cancer\nOvarian cancer is the most fatal women's cancer in Canada. Every year, 2,800 Canadian women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and every day, five Canadian women die from the disease. While all women are at risk for developing ovarian cancer, certain genetic mutations contribute to increased risk.\nShutterstock / Alexander Raths\nOvarian Cancer: 5 Things You Need To Know\nWith the highest mortality rate of all female cancers, ovarian cancer claims the lives of 1,750 Canadian women every year. In Canada, approximately 2,800 women are diagnosed annually. Yet there is no reliable screening test or vaccine for this disease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 6240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ceos-labor-union-trump-manufacturing-council_us_59935321e4b04b193360fe88", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:42Z", "digest": "sha1:IUD5PKE3IREGRD4CTPDDKVA7S2HXKW4O", "length": 4803, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "AFL-CIO Resigns From Trump's Manufacturing Council | HuffPost", "raw_content": "AFL-CIO Resigns From Trump's Manufacturing Council\nThe departure comes after business leaders left the group amid controversy over the president's response to a white supremacist rally.\nUPDATE: 6 p.m. \u2015 The AFL-CIO resigned from President Donald Trump\u2019s manufacturing council Tuesday evening. In a statement, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka pointed directly to remarks Trump had made that afternoon in which he defended people who attended a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.\n\u201cWe cannot sit on a council for a President who tolerates bigotry and domestic terrorism,\u201d Trumka said. \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s remarks today repudiate his forced remarks yesterday about the KKK and neo-Nazis. We must resign on behalf of America\u2019s working people, who reject all notions of legitimacy of these bigoted groups.\u201d\nFour members of President Donald Trump\u2019s manufacturing council have stepped down following his ambiguous initial response to a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend. Yet one of Trump\u2019s loudest critics from the 2016 campaign is staying put, at least for now.\nThe AFL-CIO said Monday that it was \u201cassessing its role\u201d on the council, and a spokesman for Richard Trumka, head of the labor federation, said the following day that that position had not changed. The CEOs of Merck, Under Armour and Intel had left the council as of Tuesday afternoon, as had the head of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, a nonprofit with ties to the Steelworkers Union.\nThe departures have put Trumka and the AFL-CIO in a tough spot. Leaving the council would no doubt invite the fury of Trump, and potentially damage the inroads the organization has made with the administration on manufacturing and infrastructure. But remaining on the council would lead many allies and union members to wonder why a handful of CEOs took a stronger stand against Trump than organized labor\u2019s premiere federation did.\nThe AFL-CIO is a coalition of 55 member unions across industries. HuffPost reached out to more than a dozen of them on Tuesday to see what they thought about the federation being a member of Trump\u2019s manufacturing council. Most unions did not respond to the queries, and others signaled the delicate politics at work by saying they didn\u2019t have a definitive position on the matter yet.\nSeveral CEOs had resigned from President Donald Trump's manufacturing council, but AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka has so far indicated he plans to stay on board.\nThe hospitality union Unite Here was one of the few to directly address the AFL-CIO\u2019s membership on the council, but it stopped short of calling for an exit. \u201cWe don\u2019t know what the outcome of the internal decision within the AFL-CIO will be, but regardless of that decision our union will continue fighting for social and economic justice for immigrant workers,\u201d a spokeswoman said.\nRandi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, couldn\u2019t be reached on Tuesday, but a spokesman noted that she had already applauded those who had left the council:\nA seat at the table is imp,but so is a stand against racism.I salute those who resigned from Trump's manuf council https://t.co/T54apUXzlY\n\u2014 Randi Weingarten (@rweingarten) August 15, 2017\nMember unions could put pressure on the AFL-CIO, but it is ultimately up to Trumka to decide whether to stay on the council. He noted Monday in his statement that the manufacturing council \u201chas yet to hold any real meeting,\u201d but that didn\u2019t stop Twitter users from hammering him for not bailing on it.\nThe internal politics at play are also tricky. Unions within the AFL-CIO don\u2019t walk in lockstep, and Trump\u2019s presidency has already exposed rifts within the federation. Some unions would have more to lose than others if the federation issued a public rebuke of the president. Public-sector unions, for example, are basically already at war with the administration and routinely criticize Trump in public. But the building trade unions are still trying to work with him on some kind of infrastructure package.\nSeveral of those unions are no doubt concerned about the damage that could result from the AFL-CIO protesting the president. Trump has already torn into the members who resigned from the manufacturing council, calling them \u201cgrandstanders\u201d who are easily replaced. He singled out Merck CEO Ken Frazier, the first to leave, for a personal drubbing.\nStill, the pressure will only mount on Trumka if more executives leave the council and condemn the president in the process. And at a certain point, a resignation starts to look less like a principled stand and more like a capitulation to public pressure \u2015 particularly for a guy who, not even a year ago, called Trump \u201can anti-American bigot.\u201d\nDonald Trump U.S. News Must Reads Afl Cio Trade Unions", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 7191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transgender-conservatives-trump-equality_us_58b8530de4b02a4e8ddb0b9a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:02Z", "digest": "sha1:NF4Q3VWE4OFRB6J3KWKLZYUM2GQKJ2CJ", "length": 5997, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Transgender Conservatives Speak Out: Trump 'Failed' The Test Of Equality | HuffPost", "raw_content": "Transgender Conservatives Speak Out: Trump 'Failed' The Test Of Equality\nBut that doesn't dampen their \"mission\" to change minds in the GOP.\nGena Wolfson SiriusXM\nJennifer Williams of Massachusetts holding a sign, standing outside the main ballroom at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland last weekend\n\u201cI can already see it now, a lot of our LGBTQ members rolling their eyes \u2014 but I wanted to believe him,\u201d Jordan Evans of Massachusetts said last weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), speaking about Donald Trump a day after the president rescinded protections for transgender students. Like Caitlyn Jenner, Evans is a transgender Republican who supported Donald Trump, hoping he\u2019d support trans rights. And she still believes she can change the Republican Party.\n\u201cI wanted to believe him,\u201d she repeated in an interview with me on SiriusXM Progress at the annual gathering of conservative activists at which both President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence spoke. \u201cI mean, he was doing things no other Republican candidate has done. Even on the trail, he was doing things that I thought, well, that even if he was doing it for political capital, he was creating a conversation. I was afraid of Mike Pence but Trump strikes me as the kind of guy \u2014 he\u2019s a strong CEO. But what happened yesterday [with the Trump administration rescinding guidelines the Obama administration put in place to protect transgender students], that was the litmus test. I was giving him a chance to kind of prove me wrong on this particular issue, and he failed.\u201d\nEvans, who described herself as a libertarian, is a veteran of CPAC. But this was the first time she \u201ccame out authentically,\u201d and she said it \u201cwent surprisingly well and exceedingly well.\u201d\nShe stood in front of the main ballroom with Jennifer Williams, a New Jersey trans woman, also a CPAC veteran, who held a sign that read, \u201cProud to be Conservative, Proud to be Transgender, Proud to be American, #SameTeam,\u201d as well as a Gadsden flag, which has become the symbol of the Tea Party movement in recent years. This was the second year Williams has attended CPAC as openly transgender.\nMatthew McDonough SiriusXM\nJennifer Williams (left) and Jordan Evans at CPAC 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland last weekend\nWhat made them stand out from most gay, bisexual or lesbian Republicans at CPAC is that these two transgender women weren\u2019t trying to blend in \u2014 they were literally standing there behind a sign \u2014 and they were trying to bring attention to transgender rights in a place in which the crowd applauded when it was announced onstage that Trump had rescinded trans student protections. That was shortly before Education Secretary Besty DeVos clarified that she was fully onboard with the administration\u2019s action \u2015 calling President Obama\u2019s guidelines on transgender students an \u201coverreach\u201d \u2015 contrary to media reports that said she\u2019d opposed the decision.\n\u201cI felt terrible about it,\u201d Williams said regarding Trump\u2019s action. \u201cPut a pit in my stomach. Two-hundred-thousand Americans, two-hundred thousand trans kids were told that you\u2019re other, that you\u2019re foreign, you\u2019re alien. When the president did this, on Attorney General Sessions\u2019 behalf, or whoever\u2019s behalf, that cut to my soul as a conservative, because that goes against our principles of personal liberty and freedom and determining your own destiny.\u201d\nBut, she said, many at CPAC were supporting her, and that, she explained, is a marked change from years before.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had people come over and high five us,\u201d Williams said. \u201cGive us smiles. I just got done with a great conversation with a couple of Marines that really surprised the heck out of me. It was nice. The response has been overwhelmingly good. Hearing that cheer [in the ballroom] bothered me. But I\u2019m glad I heard it, because it makes our mission that much more important and I\u2019m glad we\u2019re here. It\u2019s like Harvey Milk said, \u2018For each one they know, they\u2019re not going to vote against you.\u2019\u201d\nThe fact that CPAC was planning on having former Breitbart editor Milo Yiannoupolos \u2014 who has made horribly defamatory comments about transgender women \u2014 speak at the event, and canceled his appearance only after tapes surfaced in which he promoted sex between underage people and adults, was a \u201cmistake,\u201d Williams said. But she was planning to attend before his cancellation. She was going \u201cno matter what\u201d to hold her sign.\nBoth she and Evans believe that their presence is important and that they can change minds, even if many LGBTQ people believe they\u2019re deluding themselves and that they\u2019re supporting a party and a movement that is working against them.\n\u201cThe fears of the LGBT community are valid,\u201d Evans explained. \u201cThe Republican Party does have a nasty track record on this. But I also feel that doesn\u2019t mean that those of us who do vote Republican for other reasons shouldn\u2019t at least do what we can, and at least try and pull the party into what we see as a more socially common sense position. I understand that we get a lot of flak for it. But I want people in the LGBTQ community to know\u2026there are people here that, I think, we can work with. We aren\u2019t going to see changes today, or tomorrow, but in the next few years we\u2019re going to start to see things happen slowly and improve.\u201d\nDonald Trump U.S. News U.S. Presidential Elections Republican Politics Transgender\nIn 2006 Iwamoto was elected to a position on Hawaii's state Board of Education and became (at the time) the highest-elected transgender official in the United States. She ran for re-election in 2010 and won. See a video of Iwamoto discussing her support of an anti-bullying bill in Hawaii by clicking here.\nCourtesy of Kim Coco Iwamoto", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 7712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.in/2016/09/13/deepa-malik-has-been-a-champion-long-before-her-win-at-the-rio-p_a_21470844/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:27Z", "digest": "sha1:SRVAE4PNGGUQSTVJVJZUCUS7TPCYW2V3", "length": 3244, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.in", "title": "Deepa Malik Has Been A Champion Long Before Her Win At The Rio Paralympics | HuffPost India", "raw_content": "Deepa Malik Has Been A Champion Long Before Her Win At The Rio Paralympics\nAP Photo/Mauro Pimentel\nDeepa Malik.\nDeepa Malik has been a champion long before she became the first Indian female athlete to win a medal at the Paralympics, where she bagged a silver at the shot put F-53 event in Rio. The 45-year-old was the oldest member of the Indian contingent, but that is far from being the only remarkable aspect about her journey.\nA paraplegic, Malik is a pioneer in the field of para-sports in India. \"I want to use this medal to support women with disabilities in India,\" she said after her win.\nMalik has been paralysed waist down since 1999, when a surgery to remove a tumour in her spinal cord made it impossible for her to walk. Her achievement is made only more extraordinary by the fact that she has had three spinal surgeries, has no sensation below her chest, and no bladder or bowel control.\nWith the support of her husband and two daughters, Malik chose to pursue her passion for sports and fitness by starting her athletics career in her late 30s. In 2009, she switched from para-swimming to para-athletics, training in javelin, shot put and discus throw. In the process, she proved that neither age nor her physical handicap would be a barrier in pursuing her dreams.\nChandan Khanna/AFP/Getty Images\nMalik's victory before Brazil has been preceded by years of hard work, and a series of medals at national and international sporting events. In 2010, she became the first Indian woman to win a medal at the Para-Asian Games, where she received a bronze. In 2014, she followed it with a silver medal at the same event. She also won silver in the shot put and discus throw events at the 2011 World Championships. In 2012, she became first sportsperson in the severely handicapped category to get the Arjuna award.\nShe has been a vocal spokesperson for changing people's attitude towards paraplegia and disability. \"The first thing paraplegics do is stay indoors. They must understand it is all right to be paralysed. You are alive, so live your life to the fullest. I agree we have a bladder and bowel issue, but there are ways and means of managing it. The world is there for you, provided you are ready for the world,\" she said in an interview with The Indian Express.\n[Video] This is how #DeepaMallik wins Silver medal in #Rio2016#Paralympics. pic.twitter.com/MkqAuVqrir\n\u2014 Accessible India (@MSJE_AIC) September 13, 2016\nMalik is also an avid biker, rally car driver and businesswoman. She has four Limca records to her name, one for driving across a distance of 1700 km in the Himalayas for nine consecutive days in her customised car, and another for swimming against the current in the Yamuna river for one kilometre in Allahabad. She also ran a restaurant in Ahmednagar in Maharashtra for seven years, before closing it down to focus on sports training. The spunky athlete even appeared in two seasons of the reality show, MTV Roadies.\n\"Life is not over...disability is only a state of mind,\" Malik has famously said about her extraordinary journey \u2014 and proved herself right over and over again.\nPhoto gallery Learning Disability Myths See Gallery\nLearning Disability Myths\nMORE: disability news paralympics Rio sports Women", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 7241, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huntercrown.com/blog-water-wastewater-recruiting/wonder-women-of-water-2018-karen-budgell", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YMTJSSEDCD6XPKUT5Z5X37EIQA2BRYG6", "length": 2705, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.huntercrown.com", "title": "Wonder Women of Water 2018: Karen Budgell \u2014 Recruiting in the Water Industry | Hunter Crown - Water and Wastewater Recruiter | Hunter Crown", "raw_content": "Wonder Women of Water 2018: Karen Budgell\nKaren Budgell is a Senior Process Engineer and Water Treatment Group Lead at Golder Associates, Inc. She has a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Chemical Engineering and a Master\u2019s degree in Environmental Engineering from Colorado School of Mines.\nHer experience is in a variety of water treatment design, process engineering and process safety related projects for manufacturing, mining and industrial clients. She has particular expertise in the treatment of emerging contaminants (1,4-dioxane, nitrosamines) and low level selenium. This work includes developing bench- and pilot-scale systems, technology screening, life cycle cost comparison and detailed design.\nKaren is a certified process hazard leader and has experience in conducting process hazards analyses, process safety management audits and hazard analysis reviews for complex industrial, research, and water treatment facilities. She mentors young engineers formally through established protocols and informally through on-the-job training.\nIn addition to her many faceted role at Golder, Karen has prepared and presented several technical papers on selenium treatment, utilizing a sustainability evaluation tool (GoldSET) to engage stakeholders during decision-making processes, and modelling trace organic contaminants through reverse osmosis systems for optimization of indirect potable reuse systems.\nKaren is a driven and strong female engineer. She has worked hard to provide engineering solutions to waste water problems in a male-dominated industry, while balancing family needs. She works diligently to provide excellent water treatment engineering. She is passionate about water reuse and elegant engineering design. She continues to be a top performer in her area, and also networks and publishes within the industry.\nKaren is an active and involved mother of three. She and her children trained for several years together in the Korean martial art of Taekwondo and received their black belts together. She has also served several key roles in her sons\u2019 Cub Scout Pack and Boy Scout Troop. Community involvement has also included volunteering as Little League Vice President, assisting in grass-roots political organizations, organizing community food drives and participating in local neighborhood rehabilitation projects.\nKaren is very passionate about giving back to the community, implementing sustainable solutions for water treatment and management systems and encouraging young men and women to pursue STEM degrees.\nTo learn more about Karen and Golder Associates, Inc., click here.\nNewer PostWonder Women of Water 2018: Gillan Taddune\nOlder PostWonder Women of Water 2018: Kerrie Greenfelder", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/protesters-welcome-news-that-mp-eric-pickles-will-make-final-decision-on-bicton-wind-farm-1-3435040", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TWZHBNT4Q6IVKKZIWCILNS2M32KFIYLT", "length": 2430, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.huntspost.co.uk", "title": "Protesters welcome news that MP Eric Pickles will make final decision on Bicton Wind Farm | Huntingdon and St Neots News - The Hunts Post | Hunts Post", "raw_content": "Protesters welcome news that MP Eric Pickles will make final decision on Bicton Wind Farm\nStop Bicton Wind Farm group handing in their petitions at Huntingdonshire District Council last year. (Far right) Amy Howard with other members (left-right) Diane Patterson, Martin Patterson, baby Lily, Richard Owen, Geoffrey Beszant, Anne Beszant, and David Handley.\nCampaigners opposed to a wind farm near Kimbolton, Tilbrook and Stow Longa have welcomed the fact that MP Eric Pickles will have the final say on the application.\nBroadview Energy wants to put three 125m turbines near Bicton Industrial Estate, and its proposals will be the subject of a public inquiry at Jubilee Park, King\u2019s Ripton Road, Huntingdon, on Tuesday, June 17.\nFollowing the hearing, which is expected to last eight days, rather than the planning inspector making a decision, they will write a report with a \u00adrecommendation for Mr Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.\nLast June, Mr Pickles said local people should have more of a say on where onshore wind farms were sited.\nThe campaign against the turbines has been led by the Stop Bicton Wind Farm group. Its chairman Richard Murphy said: \u201cThis will be a test case of Mr Pickles\u2019s credibility.\n\u201cIf his words are to carry any weight, the Bicton Wind Farm proposals will be thrown out once and for all.\u201d\nDistrict councillor Jonathan Gray said he was delighted the decision would be made by the Secretary of State. \u201cOne of Eric Pickles\u2019s clearly stated views on wind farm developments is that the views of local people matter and that they should be much more actively consulted by \u00addevelopers,\u201d he said.\nBroadview\u2019s plans were rejected by Huntingdonshire District Council in September because they would have a harmful impact on the area.\nTom Cosgrove, the Broadview Energy project manager, said he was disappointed the Secretary of State had chosen to \u00adintervene. He said: \u201cThe scheduled public inquiry will be heard by a qualified government inspector, who will hear all of the evidence both for and against the project in a public forum.\n\u201cWe are disappointed the planning inspector, who will hear all of the evidence, will no longer be empowered to make the planning decision.\n\u201cRecovering the appeal creates an extra layer in the decision-making process which will delay the timing of the ultimate decision, as well as impose extra costs and work for all interested parties.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 6677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa.cgi?action=getmagazine&InfoID=1393850445", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OIPLZFELGHT34KQ6VIL7PKCEC6IPKHCA", "length": 1221, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.hwalibrary.com", "title": "News Highlights from God's Churches - Good News Magazine", "raw_content": "How many years was Solomon king?\nNews Highlights from God's Churches\nAlbert J Portune Church of God\nGreetings again, Brethren, from headquarters! Here in Mr. Garner Ted Armstrong's office exciting news has been coming in from the church areas - around the world. Once again we would like to share with you - who are all part of the family of God - some of the encouraging and exciting events that are taking place in the Churches of God. Local Church Newspapers. In some of the church areas, the publishing of local church newspaper has sparked a great deal of keen interest and enthusiasm among the brethren. These local church newspapers are jam-packed with articles about church happenings and activities in the local areas. As we receive copies of these church newspapers from around the world, and read the many articles about God's people and the things they're doing, we feel much closer and more a part of the family of God. Those of you who already have a church newspaper under way know what a blessing these local papers are. In a few months, most of the local churches will have their own newspapers - bringing joy and fellowship into the homes of all of Gods people.\nGood News Magazine July 1961 Vol X, No. 7", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 3227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hwalibrary.com/cgi-bin/get/hwa.cgi?action=getmagazine&InfoID=1397307206", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:03Z", "digest": "sha1:IZQDHSZY4W4PENLZAJFOW5ZAY3IO7GUK", "length": 33955, "nlines": 135, "source_domain": "www.hwalibrary.com", "title": "SEVEN \"KEYS\" TO MENTAL MASTERY - Plain Truth Magazine", "raw_content": "SEVEN \"KEYS\" TO MENTAL MASTERY\nHere's how to think \"BIG\"! How to have real wisdom to make the right decisions. Read and USE these vital principles.\nAUTHORITIES now confess to \"giant blunders\" in coping with the twin threats of famine and over-population and the growing danger of a hydrogen bomb war.\nAnd that doesn't include the immediate problems of mounting crime, violence, RACE WAR. And there is also the serious pollution of our air and water. These problems demand real solutions \u2014 not political demagoguery.\nTruly, the WISDOM of a Solomon is needed.\nBut where \u2014 in this mixed-up world \u2014 does that kind of wisdom exist? Yet it is needed more sorely now than at any time in human history!\nThe Real GOAL of Human Life\nThe answer is that the God \"nobody knows\" \u2014 the Creator, the God of your Bible, is going to intervene and send the Living Jesus Christ back to RULE this earth! He will come this time in glory and power as King of kings. The other kings assisting Him in reorganizing the entire society of this earth will be those who, in this life, have surrendered their wills to God and who OVERCOME their selfish, lustful, sinful, rebellious human nature. These \"over-comers\" \u2014 then born of God and composed of divine spirit \u2014 will RULE this earth with and under Jesus Christ (Rev. 2:26).\nMan has always wanted to rule the earth. Now he hopes even to rule outer space!\nGod has given man the capacity to do just that! But man is presently limited by a body of flesh that must receive all of its nourishment from this earth and its surrounding layer of air. Our so-called \"spacemen\" must ALWAYS take with them some form of food that comes from the soil of this earth. They must take air and water from the earth.\nThey must do these things \u2014 or they will surely PERISH.\nSo man is hindered in his efforts to \"conquer\" space.\nYet, in the beginning, God said: \"Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have DOMINION over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the0 air....\" (Gen. 1:26)\nThe Marvelous Human MIND\nTo a limited extent, man is made LIKE GOD. For he is made in the form and shape of God. Unlike any animal, he has a MIND not guided by blind instinct but capable of choice, of decision, of building character. Also, man ALONE has a creative capacity and the ability to think in the abstract, reason, philosophize. He can invent and bring into being infinite new varieties of physical and mechanical things. He is able to compose beautiful music, write inspiring literature and paint majestic scenes \u2014 scenes which in some instances he has \"created\" in his rich and seemingly endless imagination.\nAnd so God gave man DOMINION over all creatures on earth. Yet, in spite of all his God-given possibilities, man has thoroughly botched even his responsibilities here. He needs not only a body with greater capacities. He needs the MIND of a Solomon \u2014 yet a spiritually motivated mind to cope with the agonizing problems now facing the entire human race.\nThe apostle Paul commanded: \"Let this MIND be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus\" (Phil. 2:5).\nThe Christian who KNOWS the purpose of life must come to have the very MIND, the viewpoint, the attitude and the wisdom of Jesus Christ. But what, you may ask, are the qualities and CHARACTERISTICS of that type of mind? And how are these to be developed?\nI. Alertness and Discernment\nThe first quality is awareness of people, things and attitudes. That's the mark of a real leader. He is ALERT. He is fully AWAKE and thinking. He notices people who are tight and tense around the mouth, people who are \"working an angle.\" He also notices people who are UNBALANCED, disturbed and in need of help.\nSuch a person will also notice physical and racial characteristics. He will be alert to and aware of the nature of the foliage, plants and animals around him if he is out in nature. Normally, he will not be the one to blunder into quicksand \u2014 or into a beehive!\nI first became impressed with this characteristic when traveling overseas with Mr. Dick Armstrong \u2014 the elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert W. Armstrong.\nDick and I were driving through Europe in the summer of 1954. I had just graduated from college a couple of years before, and it was my first trip overseas. I was noticing and learning many things. But often, many times in fact, when we would be sitting in the car or at a sidewalk cafe and I would be thinking over what we had seen, Dick would suddenly point out to me some unusual characteristic of the people around us, or of the architecture, or of the plant life, the trees, the flowers, etc.\nI had traveled throughout the Mid-west as a boy and, later, over most of the United States with many different young men. But never had I been with a companion who was so alert to what was going on around him. He used his God-given eyes and ears to discern the characteristics of each type of people we encountered. He noticed their habits and ways. Soon he would pick up certain words and phrases from each foreign language and begin to use them.\nThese mental qualities and abilities made Dick a \"natural\" to head our Overseas Work. He did this, and soon the foundation was laid for the present great and growing Work of God in Britain and Europe.\nJesus was alert to the moods and attitudes of others. You will find His example in Matthew 16:5-12. Here Jesus noticed the subtle looks of doubt and confusion in His disciples. He \"perceived\" the moment His disciples were unsure on a vital point.\nIn Matthew 22:18, Jesus \"perceived\" that the Pharisees were trying to trick Him and bring about His downfall in the way they asked a certain question. If He had not been alert and awake, His ministry might have ENDED right there!\nYes, Jesus of Nazareth noticed the arched eyebrows, the questioning eyes, or the shifty expressions and furtive smirks of those who doubted Him or tried to trap Him in some way. He quickly \"perceived\" attitudes as well \u2014 and was often able to forestall trouble before it got started. Always, therefore, He was one step ahead of His disciples and was able to LEAD them.\nA Constant PRACTICE\nMost of us are not by nature as alert and discerning as we ought to be.\nLearn to observe specific things about people \u2014 such as exact height and weight, color of hair and eyes, voice qualities and accent, and any definite national or racial characteristics. This should not be done, of course, with any remote thought in mind to prejudice yourself against anyone. But this definitive information will help you to better remember people you meet and those whom you only know casually. It will definitely help you to understand and to better serve and deal with them in the future.\nBecome more aware of the scenery and the environment around you. Observe the style and architecture of the buildings and notice what kind of trees and flowers are nearby, and what kind of fish and birds are in the pool or park.\nObviously, this practice will add immediately to your store of knowledge and to your effectiveness in dealing with people and things.\nIf you learn to observe and properly discern all of these things, in right balance, you will in any case be far better prepared to be a literal KING Over some area or phase of society in the World Tomorrow!\nII. Education and Knowledge\nNearly every future king is educated and tutored to prepare him for the wide-ranging responsibilities which await him. He is taught not only the history of his own people and their neighbors, but the social and cultural heritage of the past. He is \u2014 or at least should be \u2014 instructed a great deal about current events. For he must be familiar with recent trends in international diplomacy and warfare as well as domestic and local political issues.\nFor a future ruler, a thorough education is a NECESSITY. For he must KNOW whereof he acts and speaks. He must have correct information and FACTS behind his decisions and his policies \u2014 or he and his nation are headed for DISASTER.\nIt may surprise some to learn that most, if not all, of the great leaders of the Bible were highly educated men. The prophet Daniel was of royal blood and was among the captive princes of Babylon who were taught \"the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans\" (Dan. 1:4). He was, therefore, educated in the royal court of the GREATEST Empire in all the earth at that time.\nMoses, the inspired Stephen tells us, \"was learned in the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds\" (Acts 7:22). Again, this prophet of God was educated in the GREATEST Empire of his time.\nIn Acts 22: 3, the apostle Paul tells us that he was \"brought up,\" or educated \"at the feet of Gamaliel\" \u2014 who historians tell us was the acknowledged GREATEST teacher of Jewish rabbis of that time!\nThe lesson in all of this is that we should endeavor to obtain the best education possible. Especially, we should be concerned about basic subjects such as grammar, diction, mathematics, history, geography and a good knowledge of current events. Obviously, many older people may find it difficult to go back to school. But there are several fine correspondence schools which offer courses in all of the above mentioned subjects. Besides, many outstanding business and industrial leaders have the equivalent of a Ph.D. through diligent personal study of books and courses on their own.\nRead widely, and keep growing mentally all your life!\nA vital point here is to teach your children to read widely and to THINK. Encourage your young children and grandchildren to use the dictionary often \u2014 to become familiar with the basic meaning of thousands of key words in our language. For words provide the very tools by which we think and reason. Teach them also to become familiar with the good encyclopedias \u2014 to begin early building a real STOREHOUSE of knowledge on basic subjects.\nBoth you and your children are to be encouraged to read biographies and autobiographies of the great men of the past and of recent times as well. Read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. Read some of the better volumes of Sir Winston Churchill \u2014 \"the man of the century.\" This type of reading should inspire one to a life of accomplishment and leadership.\nIf at all possible, have your children or grandchildren read this very article! For they should be the LEADERS in The World Tomorrow. They must, therefore, obtain the best possible education today! Teach them to STUDY the Word of God, the Laws of God and the perfect example of Jesus Christ! Teach them that all real knowledge or TRUTH\" is based on \u2014 and in harmony with \u2014 this revelation of basic knowledge from the Creator.\nThousands of \"educated fools\" are abroad in the world today \u2014 utterly CONFUSED about who they are, where they came from, what are the Laws of life, what is the MEANING of world conditions, and WHERE WE ARE HEADED. Yet the true answer to these questions is the MOST IMPORTANT knowledge of all!\nThis, in fact, is one of the purposes for the establishment of the three Ambassador Colleges now in operation. For so much misknowledge is being disseminated today that one must constantly exercise his alertness and discernment to be sure of the \"facts\" being presented to him in class or in a text-book.\nAcquire your education with a high PURPOSE in mind! Acquire it in order to glorify your Creator, and to qualify to join His Son in RULING, in TEACHING, in REBUILDING this world and enforcing PEACE in The World Tomorrow. In this way, you will join the Ambassador College students in acquiring a great deal of tomorrow's education TODAY!\nIII. Understanding, Vision and BIG mindedness\nIn his autobiography, Mr. Armstrong has stated that he had a burning desire for \"understanding\" beginning at about age sixteen.\nWhat is \"understanding\"?\nIt is different from knowledge. For knowledge connotes merely the possession of facts and information. And wisdom is the ability to draw on those facts and with understanding make a right decision in a given situation.\nBut understanding is the grasp not only of information and facts, but of their relationship to each other and their MEANING. It is the awareness of the basic laws and principles governing personal, national and spiritual situations that come up. It usually involves much study, thought and EXPERIENCE. It enables one to see the BIG PICTURE in a given situation.\nTake the example of Sir Winston Churchill, called \"the man of the century.\" It is widely recognized that his greatness was made possible by the unusual understanding and vision he possessed, at least in material things. He became the Prime Minister of Britain at the beginning of World War II. He felt relief to be able, at last, to straighten out a desperate situation his nation had fallen into and about which he had been warning it for many years.\nFor, over and over again, Churchill had warned his fellow Britons about the dangerous tyranny rising in Nazi Germany. He understood the meaning of Hitler's boasts and the Nazi torchlight rallies. He grasped the meaning of the historical background of the German peoples and their militaristic nature.\nLike \"a voice in the wilderness\" he had warned the democratic leaders of his own and other friendly states what was bound to come. But they would not heed!\nOn becoming Prime Minister he was able to DEAL with the ugly situation. His people now were frightened at what he had known all along would come. But Churchill was able to see the BIG PICTURE. For he had a vast knowledge of history, and he understood the nature of the rise and fall of dictators. More, he deeply understood not only the military but the tremendous industrial power of Britain and America \u2014 and worked unceasingly to get America to help Britain before it was too late.\nChurchill had gained early a deep understanding of his nation's army, its navy, its parliamentary system (he had been a member of Parliament since 1901) and of its people. Most important of all, he was able to see them in relation to each other and how they fit together as a WHOLE. This even included the Commonwealth nations which he came to know well through his wide study, travel and his early military experiences.\nHis UNDERSTANDING of this whole picture was unique.\nSo it was that when Winston Churchill was given the crushing responsibility of directing his people in their hour of need, he was not the least upset or overwhelmed. He wrote: \"I felt as if I were walking with Destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.\"\nHow to Exercise VISION\nAlong with understanding comes VISION. This is the ability to foresee events or situations even before they happen. This comes, partly at least, from training the mind to think ahead to consider the END of a series of events or a particular course of action. I am grouping it here with understanding because these two qualities often go together, and complement each other.\nAs would be expected, therefore, Churchill also possessed a great deal of vision. In his autobiography, Mr. Bernard Baruch tells about a conversation with Churchill just after the First World War: \"Pointing his walking stick toward the east, where the Red Revolution had erupted, he made a prophetic remark, 'Russia, Russia. That's where the weather is coming from.' \" Even then, Mr. Baruch tells us, Churchill could sense the antagonistic spirit of the Soviet dictatorship toward free men. For he had vision.\nSolomon wrote: \"Where there is no vision, the people perish; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he\" (Prov. 29:18).\nThe man who keeps God's Law will have vision because he will be given a penetrating insight into human nature \u2014 and the collective nature of people and nations. He will possess superior understanding of the principles of life, and will therefore sense, before others, the OUTCOME of various situations and problems.\nLearn to be BIG Minded\nIn like manner, such a man will be given superior understanding and BIG mindedness. For God promises: \"A good understanding have all they that no His COMMANDMENTS (Psa. 111: 10).\nTo gain greater understanding, read widely \u2014 especially in history \u2014 trying to learn the lessons behind the many adventures and misadventures of man down through the centuries. In any situation, try to see the BIG PICTURE. Relate the situation to similar ones in the lives of others you know or may have read about. Don't be so upset or involved in the immediate problem that you fail to relate it to your whole life and future. Think of its meaning in terms of the entire world and God's ultimate PURPOSE.\nAn amusing yet meaningful account of how Winston Churchill did this concerns his being run down by a New York taxicab in 1931. Confined to a bed of pain and kept from his work for some time, he could easily have become discouraged, or perhaps bitter against America and against all cab drivers, etc.\nInstead, Churchill made front-page news by completely exonerating the driver. Then, he dashed off a lurid description of the episode for which he received $2500!\nChurchill was BIG minded about what could have been thought of as a \"tragedy\" by a lesser man. For he possessed the understanding that this need not be a tragedy at all unless he made it so.\nUse these examples in gaining understanding yourself!\nRemember always the account of King Solomon's early reign over Israel \u2014 while he was still obedient to his God. For, because of Solomon's yielded spirit, God asked him to name what he would like and promised to grant it. Solomon's concern was not for vanity, but for his awesome responsibility as King over all Israel. So Solomon asked: \"Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?\" (I Kings 3:9)\nThis greatly pleased the Eternal. And so God gave Solomon a wise and UNDERSTANDING heart, and both riches and honor \u2014 for which he had not asked (verses 10-12).\nIn addition to reading widely \u2014 especially the lessons of history and the lives of great men \u2014 try always to see the BIG PICTURE in any given situation. Exercise version and train yourself to look to the real END or outcome of a problem or a course of action. Read and study the Bible itself to gain real understanding and acquire Gods view-point on the big questions and problems of life. Then pray earnestly to the Eternal God and ask Him for understanding \u2014 remembering in faith the example of Solomon!\nIV. Wisdom and Resourcefulness\nOne of the most important qualities in any high official or leader of men is WISDOM. For although a President or Prime Minister cannot possibly be an expert in petroleum engineering, aircraft and missile production and nuclear physics, he must nevertheless have the wisdom to make sound decisions on all these matters and many, many more.\nSolomon wrote: \"Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get WISDOM: and with all thy getting get understanding\" (Prov. 4:7).\nWisdom, of course, is the faculty of making sound decisions. Anyone with great wisdom would necessarily need to be possessed of at least a good degree of understanding and vision. He would also have to acquire knowledge of the problem at hand \u2014 and attempt to get all of the pertinent facts.\nHaving the facts, and possessing understanding of the past history, trends and laws governing the type of situation he faces, the man with WISDOM must correlate all of these factors and make a sound decision that will be practical and that will actually work \u2014 both now and in the future. This is true WISDOM.\nAll too often, political decisions, \"expedient\" decisions are made in order to please the general public at the moment. Undoubtedly, those making this type of judgment realize that there will be double trouble in years to come because of their shortsighted, crowd pleasing decisions. But, perhaps at least partially blinded by the pressures of the moment, they \"hope\" that their biased decisions will somehow work out all right!\nOne of the \"keys\" to real wisdom is the willingness to learn from one's own mistakes. One of the wisest men of this century, Mr. Bernard Baruch, wrote of how he systematically developed this practice: \"After each major undertaking \u2014 and particularly when things had turned sour \u2014 I would shake loose from Wall Street and go off to some quiet place where I could review what I had done and where I had gone wrong. At such times I never sought to excuse myself but was concerned solely with guarding against a repetition of the same error.\"\nBe willing to LEARN from your own mistakes!\nAnother point of wisdom is to get all of the pertinent facts concerning any problem. Many are too lazy or too vain to do this \u2014 feeling they can \"play it by ear\" and somehow get by. The powers of human intuition being what they are, this will work part of the time \u2014 especially when one is on familiar ground and the decision is not of major consequence and it is not a volatile or potentially dangerous issue. But when it is, then woe be to the man who rushes around making decisions without having gotten the facts and without also getting WISE COUNSEL!\nFor God's Word makes plain: \"Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the MULTITUDE of counselors there is safety\" (Prov. 11:14). A great leader is usually one who surrounds himself with topnotch assistants and advisors of both ability and wisdom. He will not be seeking insipid \"yes men,\" but men who themselves dig deeply into the facts, possess vision, and who will independently give truly wise counsel when an important decision is to be made.\nWisdom Proceeds from God\nThe Eternal God answers: \"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding\" (Prov. 9:10). Apart from the knowledge of the Creator, deep and lasting wisdom is impossible. In the knowledge of moneymaking, social status and purely material things, Jesus said: \"The children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light\" (Luke 16:8). But in the BIG decisions that involve the OUTCOME of human lives, nations and the entire human race, only those who deeply respect and reverence the great God of Creation and understand His PURPOSE possess real wisdom.\n\"For the Lord giveth WISDOM: and out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding\" (Prov. 2:6). Remember God's promise in James 1:5 \"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.\"\nSo ASK God, in believing faith, for wisdom. Then STUDY the Word of God \u2014 especially the book of Proverbs \u2014 for the examples of wisdom in God's own revelation to man. Also, read and study the lives of great and successful men for some of the keys to wisdom.\nFor God says: \"He that walketh with wise men shall be wise\" (Prov. 13:20). Everyone cannot be the personal friend and confidant of men like Sir Winston Churchill, but everyone can read the examples of wisdom from their lives and in this way \"walk with\" and learn from these great men.\nSeek to learn not only wisdom, but RESOURCEFULNESS \u2014 the capacity to solve emergencies, to come up with wise alternatives when trouble has upset a going plan or operation. Along with wisdom, seek to exercise resourcefulness in your daily lives. For it will grow with habitual use.\nDo all of this to grow in wisdom and resourcefulness.\nThen, when a particular problem arises, always be sure to get all of the pertinent facts involving a decision. Next, be sure that you get wise counsel \u2014 not just from those who necessarily reflect your own opinions \u2014 but from a number of others who understand the subject you are concerned with and will independently give you well-considered advice.\nNot only to be a KING someday, but in our day-to-day lives all of us need more wisdom and resourcefulness to be truly happy and successful. Start now to build these vital qualities into your life!\nV. Faith, Hope and Courage\nA positive frame of mind \u2014 coupled with faith and courage \u2014 is what often \"separates the men from the boys\" in times of trial and test. A truly great leader MUST possess these qualities.\nYet, we live in an age of compromise and expediency. We live in an age when men whine and moan around about the dangers in the world \u2014 and are afraid to Act resolutely when a crisis comes. More, we live in an age when men are \"not sure\" of God's existence, \"not sure\" whether they should be completely loyal to their country, not sure, in fact, of ANYTHING. As stated earlier, too many \"educated\" FOOLS are creeping and whimpering about the countryside!\nIn this sickening situation a person has no basis for faith or courage! Thank God, then, that this kind of society is soon coming to an END.\nFor the kind of real MAN God intends to use in governing this world is typified by King David of Israel. Remember that even before he became king, David exemplified faith and courage to a high degree.\nWhen David, as a very young man, was challenged about his ability to fight the giant Goliath, notice his answer: \"Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear: and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God\" (I Sam. 17:36). David had learned to have confidence and courage. But he also had FAITH in the LIVING God and His willingness to intervene in behalf of those who served and obeyed Him.\nAs young David strode out across that valley toward a cursing, raging, experienced GIANT of a warrior, he had to have raw guts to do his part. And he had to KNOW that the Creator God of his fathers would intervene and help!\nMen who are always fearful and worried are not fit to be leaders and KINGS. For they will be utterly unable to inspire others or command their respect.\nThey will be afraid to make the hard decisions, afraid to take swift ACTION when it is necessary. In addition, their effectiveness is doubly impaired, for their fears and worries will bring on ulcers, high blood pressure and perhaps even a heart attack or mental breakdown!\nNote what God's Word says: \"But the FEARFUL, and UNBELIEVING... shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death\" (Rev. 21:8).\nSo think positive thoughts! Set yourself to develop an attitude of courage and confidence! Set out to PROVE the existence of the true and Living God! [Write immediately for our free booklet, Does God Exist? and the article, Seven Proofs God Exists.]\nLearn WHY you are here, WHERE you are going and WHAT LIFE is really all about. Don't be an intellectual or spiritual coward! Have a reason for BEING \u2014 something worth living for and, if need be, worth dying for!\nHeed God's instruction: \"The fear of man brings a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe\" (Prov. 29:25). Quit worrying so much about what people think or say! Seek and OBEY the Creator God. In all things, prove what is true and right. Then, with God's help, think and act courageously and let the world know that you STAND for something!\nVI. Mental Discipline and Persistence\nThere are many intelligent and capable people who seem to make a success \u2014 for a little while. Then, inexplicably, they suddenly give up and quit when only a minor trial confronts them. Or, they suddenly let their feelings and passions dominate them and begin to throw away their short-lived \"success\" in the pursuit of drunkenness, dope, sexual conquest or some other human weakness.\nThey have not learned to DISCIPLINE THEMSELVES!\nIn our society, dominated by the \"permissive psychology\" in its child-rearing methods and educational processes, this lack of self discipline has become a GIGANTIC problem. With youngsters under eighteen years of age accounting for a major segment of many types of crimes, with drunkenness, dope addiction and the incidence of venereal disease becoming great physical and mental \"cripplers\" in our Western world, we need to learn the vital importance of SELF-DISCIPLINE.\nThe Word of God says: \"He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that RULETH his spirit than he that taketh a city\" (Prov. 16:32). Every lastingly successful person is one who has learned to guide, direct and MASTER his thoughts and emotions. He has learned to say \"No!\" to himself on many, many occasions.\nReferring to the national need for self-discipline, Bernard Baruch \u2014 \"the counselor of Presidents\" \u2014 wrote: \"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to DISCIPLINE OURSELVES.\nApply this to yourself!\nBuild Right Mental Habits\nDevelop the HABIT Of ruling over your thoughts and emotions. Discipline yourself to get up on time in the morning, to get to work on time, to work hard and grow on the job. Direct your thoughts into constructive channels \u2014 NOT permitting yourself to dwell on hurt feeling or lusts. Purposefully guard your mind so that these negative and destructive thoughts do not even find a place of lodgment. Also, avoid idle and purposeless \"daydreams\" which usually engender lusts, vanities, foolishness and are a childish form of escape from REALITY.\nTrain yourself to avoid discouragement and to FINISH whatever worthwhile project you have begun. God says: \"If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small\" (Prov. 24:10). Don't be a \"quitter.\" Train and discipline your mind and body to keep on to the end.\nSo discipline your mind and your moods. Guard the door of your mind against negative, vain or lustful thoughts. Don't allow yourself to sit around moping, to feel sorry for yourself, or to give up and quit anything worthwhile.\nRather, direct your mind and emotions into positive channels \u2014 into productivity and ACCOMPLISHMENT. Have an attitude of outgoing concern for others, of giving and serving and KEEPING ON to the end. Then you will be truly happy and, at least in some degree, a LEADER both now and in your ultimate future!\nVII. Loyalty and Service\nOne of the most important qualities any nation, group or organization looks for in its leaders is absolute LOYALTY. For if a man cannot be completely relied upon \u2014 then ALL of his other good qualities are negated.\nTo the very end of His physical life, Jesus Christ was totally loyal to God the Father \u2014 even unto DEATH. He never argued or questioned His Father's will. He said: \"Not my will, but thine, be done\" (Luke 22:42).\nThe main thing that caused God to promise Abraham and his heirs the ultimate possession of this entire earth was his complete faithfulness and LOYALTY to God. When Abraham had demonstrated his willingness even to sacrifice his own son \u2014 his only legitimate son, the very son through whom the tremendous birthright promise would have to come \u2014 God blessed him. God said: \"By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for BECAUSE THOU HAST DONE THIS THING, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will BLESS THEE, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies\" (Gen. 22:16-17).\nGod gave this tremendous blessing BECAUSE Abraham was faithful and LOYAL to the utmost!\nSo develop this sense of absolute loyalty to God, to your nation, to your employer, to your husband or wife, your children and family. Then, along with it, develop an attitude of SERVICE.\nAt the beginning of this article, I quoted the scripture: \"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus\" (Philip. 2:5). Christ exemplified the spirit of service. He GAVE His life for us. He was constantly giving help, encouragement, blessings, healings, and real LOVE to others throughout His physical life.\nNotice verses 6-9 of the above Scriptural passage. Although Jesus was equal with God, and had been very God, He \"emptied Himself\" as the original Greek should be translated, \"and took upon him the form of a SERVANT, and was made in the likeness of men.\" Even though Jesus had shared the GLORY OF God, even though it was His voice that had said: \"Let there be light,\" when God reformed the earth at the time of Adam, Jesus was more than willing to give that up in order to SERVE the lowly human beings He himself had helped to create (Eph. 3:9).\nAre you not only loyal to God, to your family and others \u2014 but do you have an outgoing concern for them? Do you have the spirit of giving, of sharing, of SERVING?\nJesus said: \"It is more blessed to GIVE than to receive\" (Acts 20:35).\nLearn to GIVE of yourself to others \u2014 in service, in warmth and encouragement and in your TOTAL PERSONALITY. In this way, you will find that what Jesus Christ said is not just an idea, but a living law that WORKS. For it is more blessed to give than to receive!\nGetting the mind OFF of one's self, and onto serving others \u2014 and most of all serving the Eternal God \u2014 that is THE WAY to lasting joy, peace of mind and true success.\nWith the daily practice of alertness and discernment, with the acquiring of right education and knowledge, the cultivation of understanding, vision and BIG mindedness, the exercise and development of wisdom and resourcefulness, faith and courage, mental discipline and persistence, you will be well on your way to building the mind of a great leader \u2014 a KING. With the additional qualities of total LOYALTY, and the spirit of GIVING and unselfish SERVICE to God and fellowman, your horizons will be even broader!\nYou will be building a mind LIKE God, your Creator. You will be building an instrument of SERVICE \u2014 both now and forever. You will be exercising seven basic \"keys\" to building and mastering what is undoubtedly the greatest physical thing God has created, the human mind. In all this, you will be GLORIFYING your Creator. And you will have a sense of deep fulfillment.\nNow it's up to you! Do your part, and be sure to read next month's vital article in this series on the \"keys\" to building dynamic health.\nPlain Truth Magazine November 1966 Vol XXXI, No.11", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 36210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hyipguardian.com/statistics/lid/717/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:49Z", "digest": "sha1:63TQFBQLIQADRAOGPJRYEFSTNBTCBOLR", "length": 55, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.hyipguardian.com", "title": "HyipGuardian.com Your Trusted Monitor", "raw_content": "Profit May 21st, 2018 $4.40\nProfit Apr 23rd, 2018 $8.80", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 6440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hyperxgaming.com/us/company/press/article/42919?ArticleTitle=HyperX%20Brings%20Latest%20Gaming%20Gear%20to%20Intel%20Extreme%20Masters%20in%20Katowice%202018%20-%20(February%2022)", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BK5JI37HN52SR5ZRN2IZD3BLFMIIK5IW", "length": 4560, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.hyperxgaming.com", "title": "HyperX Brings Latest Gaming Gear to Intel Extreme Masters in Katowice 2018", "raw_content": "HyperX is Official Peripheral Sponsor of IEM Season 12 PUBG Invitational; World Championship in CounterStrike: Global Offensive and StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void\nFOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif. \u2013 Mar. 22, 2018 \u2013 HyperX\u00ae, a division of Kingston\u00ae Technology Company, Inc., today announced sponsorship and participation at IEM Katowice 2018 in Katowice, Poland. During the event, HyperX will exhibit and showcase a range of gaming product demos at the IEM EXPO, including its latest gaming peripherals. CS:GO World Championship will commence with group play on February 27-28, March 1, 16 teams will compete for 6 spots in the playoffs in group play, followed by Playoff round 1 on March 2, Playoff semi-finals on March 3 and the Grand final on March 4, winners will be take home a piece of the $500,000 prize pool.\nThe biggest StarCraft 2 tournament of the year within IEM will start February 26 with round of 76 double elimination brackets of 16 players. 12 players advance to next round, and they\u2019ll be joined by 12 players from the online qualifiers, round of 24 starts March 1 with 4 groups of 6 players, round robin format with 3 players from each group advancing to round of 12. Round of 12 is single elimination bracket that starts on March 3, Semi Finalsand Grand Finals will be on March 4, winner will walk away with prize pool of $400,000.\nPUBG Invitational will be taking place at IEM EXPO on February 24-25. This is the second IEM PUBG Invitational, where 16 teams from around the globe battle it out for the $50,000 prize pool.\nFrom Michal Blicharz, VP Pro Gaming at ESL: \"We're very happy to continue marching on with one of our best and most long-standing partners. By Katowice, IEM's cooperation with HyperX will have spanned 27 events and almost five years. It's safe to say that IEM and HyperX have almost become an inseparable duo and that speaks to the shared values that we have as well as similar ideas for esports.\"\nNumerous HyperX sponsored teams including Cloud9 and TSM will be competing at IEM Katowice on February 24-25 and March 2-4 for a chance to take home a share of the aggregate prize pool of over $950,000 and the IEM Championship trophy. For a chance to try out the newest HyperX peripherals and experience the award-winning HyperX Cloud headsets stop by HyperX onsite booth, there will be opportunity to purchase products including a Limited Edition PUBG XL mousepad.\n\u201cWe are thrilled to partner with Intel Extreme Masters Katowice to continue our commitment esports community,\u201d said Annie L. Gerard, global strategic marketing manager, HyperX. \u201cWith IEM\u2019s long history in global pro gaming, we\u2019re excited to be part of that storied past with our latest product offerings to its fans.\u201d\nHyperX is an avid supporter of eSports and the gaming community, developing products designed specifically for FPS genres \u2013 including the HyperX Cloud Alpha headset, which delivers a studio-grade sound that enables gamers to have more accurate sound, enhanced comfort and superior quality. The new HyperX Alloy FPS Mechanical Gaming Keyboard is the official keyboard of Intel Extreme Masters and Eleague gaming events. The Alloy FPS keyboard is the recommended keyboard of top gaming organizations such as NaVi Gaming, Echo Fox and SK Gaming.\nHyperX is the high-performance product division of Kingston Technology, the independent world leader in memory products. The HyperX product line includes high-speed DDR4 and DDR3 memory, SSDs, USB Flash drives, gaming headsets, gaming keyboards and mouse pads. Designed to meet the needs of gamers,over-clockers and enthusiasts, HyperX is known throughout the world for quality, performance and innovation. HyperX is committed to eSports as it sponsors over 30 teams globally and is the main sponsor of Intel Extreme Masters and Eleague gaming events. HyperX can be found at shows across the globe including Brasil Game Show, China Joy, DreamHack, TwitchCon andPAX. For more information visit the HyperX home page.\nHyperX\u00ae is a division of Kingston Technology Company, Inc., the world\u2019s largest independent memory manufacturer. Established in 2002, HyperX is headquartered in Fountain Valley, California, USA. For more information, please call 800-337-8410 or visit www.hyperxgaming.com or connect with HyperX on social channels\nYouTube: http://www.youtube.com/hyperx; Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hyperxcommunity; Twitter: http://twitter.com/hyperx; Instagram: https://instagram.com/hyperx/; LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hyperx; and Google+: https://plus.google.com/+hyperx/videos.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iamondemand.com/blog/page/31/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:20Z", "digest": "sha1:SBPIJWGMPJUUZ3SZST6PJD46JOVO5CUS", "length": 317, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.iamondemand.com", "title": "Blog - Page 31 of 33 - IOD: [tech.content]", "raw_content": "I am very happy to announce that the blog is now open for the public to read and comment. I picked the following to start as this statement can help us reach the understanding of what is the goal when the ISV desires to move business and mission critical apps to the cloud: \u201cAlthough the argument of how the cloud [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 201.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iberdrola.com/about-us/utility-of-the-future/our-history", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:15Z", "digest": "sha1:TWOP53BI7HXZDQEAYUBIXGA4YI5ZXZYC", "length": 16449, "nlines": 147, "source_domain": "www.iberdrola.com", "title": "History of the company - Iberdrola", "raw_content": "A multinational with over 170 years of history\nThe hallmark of the group is its steady growth and its forward vision to prepare for society's future energy needs.\nHard work, talent, commitment and enthusiasm have always been the life force driving Iberdrola's history, a group that is now firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic. The company is today the number one European electricity company in terms of market capitalisation, and a world leader in renewable energy. This position is built on sound values, a merger process which has successfully integrated different cultures, and the capacity to look one step ahead to society's coming energy needs and offer solutions that safeguard the environment for future generations. This is our story.\nIberdrola in the days of the Waltz, by Julio Medem. Video voice transcription [PDF].\nEXPERIENCE, RECOGNITION AND SOLIDITY\nEurope was undergoing a process of change that eventually led to the Second Industrial Revolution.\nWater resources that could be used as energy sources acquired great importance.\nMany cities in the United States saw a boom in companies providing lighting for homes and streets using gas as an energy source. These were the cornerstones of Energy East on the east coast.\nIn Spain, Hidroel\u00e9ctrica Ib\u00e9rica was set up at a time of maximum energy need, and inspired by the future vision of its founders, who were fully engaged with the society of their time.\nSome of the main milestones of the Iberdrola Group\n1840.- The Hartford City Light Company is set up in the USA (the origin of Iberdrola USA, today Avangrid).\n1901.- Establishment of Hidroel\u00e9ctrica Ib\u00e9rica in Spain, which will become part of Iberdrola.\n1907.- Constitution of another of the cornerstones of the company: Hidroel\u00e9ctrica Espa\u00f1ola.\n1918.- Establishment of Saltos del Duero, a pioneer in the development of R+D projects.\n1935.- Inauguration of the Ricobayo dam, Spain's first large-scale hydroelectric operation.\nA complex historical period (1944-1955)\nThe outbreak of the First World War forced the sector to seek new sources of energy and to set up vast distribution networks.\nAmerican electricity companies began to amalgamate as a way of overcoming the uncertainty caused by the changing economic and financial situation. The stock market crash of 1929 nearly drove these fledgling groups to the wall.\nIn Spain the Civil War called an abrupt halt to development, destroyed facilities and seriously interfered with the maintenance of the scarce equipment that remained.\nOutbreak of World War II.\nSpain underwent a period of international isolation in the 1940s and had considerable difficulty acquiring technology and materials.\n1944.- Foundation of Saltos del Duero Hidroel\u00e9ctrica Ib\u00e9rica. Establishment of Iberduero.\n1945.- Work started on the Saltos del Sil hydroelectric plant\n1955.- Establishment of the South of Scotland Electricity Board, the first seed of ScottishPower.\nTowards deregulation (1965-1989)\nIn the 1960s the boom in nuclear energy marked another step forward for the companies that would eventually comprise the Iberdrola Group.\nThe 1970s were marked by the search for new energy sources, mergers, and a huge surge in demand and output.\nDuring the oil crisis the electricity sector played a key role in the recovery\nThe process of privatisation began in the electricity sector, and was the first step on the path towards the definitive deregulation of the business\n1971.- Start of operations at the Santa Mar\u00eda de Garo\u00f1a nuclear power plant.\n1981.- Beginning of commercial operations in the first group at the Almaraz nuclear power plant (C\u00e1ceres), the first Spanish second-generation nuclear facility.\n1989.- Start-up of the La Muela hydroelectric plant (Spain).\nWikinger Offshore wind farm project.\nLOOKING AHEAD TO WORLDWIDE ENERGY TRANSFORMATION\nThe basis of internationalisation (1990-2005)\nThe big electricity companies were starting to operate like genuine multinationals.\nThis was the period when the businesses were restructured, and basically divided into Generation, Distribution and Sales.\nSome of the key milestones of the Iberdrola group\n1990.- Constitution of ScottishPower, a benchmark for the sector in the United Kingdom.\n1992.- Merger of Iberduero and Hidroel\u00e9ctrica Espa\u00f1ola. The birth of Iberdrola.\n1992.- The Carland Cross windfarm starts operations in Scotland.\n1994.- Iberdrola Ingenier\u00eda y Construcci\u00f3n starts operations.\n1995.- First expansion of Iberdrola into the Latin American market.\n1996.- Iberdrola embarks on its first electric car project.\n1997.- ScottishPower listed on the New York Stock Exchange.\n1998.- Creation of Energy East after the merger of six companies in the USA.\n2001.- Iberdrola launches its Strategic Internationalisation Plan and announces its corporate vision of a world whose increasing energy needs will require cleaner and more sustainable sources.\n2005.- Start of operations at the Maranch\u00f3n windfarm, the largest in Spain at that time.\nLeaders in clean energy (2006-2010)\nThe company decided not to follow the general trend of diversifying its business and investment in sectors such as telecommunications, but to focus on the energy sector, where they invested in generation and grids in Spain, Mexico and Brazil. This made it well-placed to prepare for the surge in demand of subsequent years.\nIberdrola opted to make a significant investment in wind power, a business which was then underestimated and even overlooked by competitors, but was on the verge of taking off thanks to the Kyoto Protocol and the European directives that followed.\nIberdrola's corporate vision outlined in 2001 continued to be one step ahead of the trends in the sector, when they predicted that the surge in world energy demand could only be satisfied by clean and sustainable energy sources.\nIn 2007 Iberdrola embarked on a major international expansion and increased its presence in the United Kingdom and the United States.\n2006.- Ignacio Gal\u00e1n is appointed the new Chairman of Iberdrola.\n2007.- Completion of the merger between Iberdrola and ScottishPower.\n2007.- Iberdrola Renovables is listed on the stock exchange.\n2008.- Completion of the merger between Iberdrola and Energy East.\n2009.- The Group attains a capacity of almost 45,000 MW.\n2009.- Whitelee, the largest windfarm in Europe, opens in Scotland.\n2009.- The first CO2 storage plant begins operations in Longannet .\n2009.- Iberdrola undertakes to reduce its emissions below the sector average in Europe.\n2010.- Completion of the merger between Iberdrola and Iberdrola Renovables.\nSustainable long-term growth (2011-2017)\nThe future of the energy sector requires significant investments in order to guarantee supply, competitiveness and sustainability, and to satisfy the worldwide demand for electricity, which is expected to outstrip that of any other form of final energy.\nIn 2016, Iberdrola was consolidated as the 'energy company of the future' as a result of its leadership in clean energy \u2014 Iberdrola is the first renewable energy producer out of the European utilities and a global leader in installed onshore wind power \u2014, the deployment of smart networks, the development of innovative products and services for its customers and its energy storage capacity (4.5 GW).\nCurrently, offshore wind power is one of the keys to the future of the company. The UK, Germany, France and the USA have been chosen as the countries in which the company will develop and expand its activities in this area over the next few years.\n2011- Completion of the merger with Elektro.\n2011.- Start of the work to deploy smart grids in ten geographic areas in Spain, an important step forward in the STAR project after the successful conclusion of the pilot trial in the city of Castell\u00f3n.\n2011.- Start of operations of the Dardanelos hydroelectric plant and the Narandiba substation in Brazil.\n2012.-Completion of the extension of the Whitelee windfarm in the United Kingdom, with 539 MW, one of the largest onshore windfarms in Europe.\n2012.- Successful installation of the 625,000 smart meters scheduled in the AMI project for the implementation of a new advanced measuring and reading system in the State of Maine (USA).\n2012.- Start-up of the La Venta III windfarm in Mexico.\n2013.- Start of the extension of the Santo Estevo hydroelectric plant in Spain.\n2014.- Start of operations at the La Muela II pumped storage hydroelectric facility, with 850 MW, which together with La Muela I constitutes the largest complex of its kind in Europe, with almost 1,500 MW.\n2014.- Completion of Iberdrola's first offshore windfarm in the Irish Sea (United Kingdom), West of Duddon Sands, with 389 MW of power.\n2014.- Completion in Maine of the installation of the high-voltage transmission line connecting the United States and Canada.\n2014.- Completion of the construction of the Baffin windfarm (202 MW) in the United States.\n2015.- Start-up of the extension of the San Pedro II hydroelectric power plant in Spain.\n2015.- Start-up of the Black Law wind farm extension in the United Kingdom.\n2015.- Closure of the Longannet coal-fired plant in the United Kingdom.\n2015.- Start-up of the Pier II (66 MW) and Dos Arbolitos wind farms (70 MW), both in Mexico.\n2015.- Completion of the construction of the Teles Pires hydroelectric plant with a total of 1,820 MW, of which 362 MW correspond to Iberdrola through its share in Neoenergia.\n2015.- Avangrid is created from the amicable merger between Iberdrola USA and UIL Holdings Corporation, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.\n2015.- Iberdrola starts to collaborate with the AECC in awareness-raising activities and collecting funds for research.\n2015.- Iberdrola is granted the contract for an 850 MW combined cycle plant in Northeast Mexico.\n2015.- Iberdrola secures financing for \u20ac325M from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for investments in Spain.\n2015.- Iberdrola and BMW launch a corporate electric 'car sharing' service.\n2015.- Iberdrola and Neoenergia grant a contract to Gamesa for the supply of 84 MW in Brazil.\n2016.- Iberdrola, the only Spanish company amongst the 100 most sustainable in the world.\n2016.- Iberdrola signs a shareholder agreement with Siemens and will own an 8.1% share in Gamesa, as a result of the merger with Siemens Wind Power.\n2016.- Iberdrola has commissioned the Calangas wind energy complex in Brazil, the largest wind energy complex in South America.\n2016.- Navantia and Iberdrola at the delivery ceremony for the first Wikinger offshore wind farm jackets, a project with an investment of approximately \u20ac1,400M.\n2016.- Iberdrola's commitment to promoting women's sports in Spain.\n2016.- Iberdrola has already installed over eight million smart meters in Spain, thanks to the progress of the STAR project.\n2016.- Iberdrola launches the Sustainable Mobility Plan with the goal of contributing to a rational use of means of transport.\n2016.- Iberdrola achieves its best ever quality of supply.\n2016.- Iberdrola commissions the hydroelectric power plant of Teles Pires (Brazil).\n2016.- Iberdrola celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Corporate Volunteerism Program.\n2016.- Over 300,000 homes have hired the personalised rates offered by Iberdrola, achieving a mean 10% saving in their electricity bill.\n2016.- Iberdrola inaugurates the Dulces Nombres II power plant in Monterrey (Mexico).\n2017.- Iberdrola builds the tunnel of the Daiv\u00f5es hydroelectric power plant, the first milestone of its T\u00e2mega hydroelectric project (Portugal).\n2017.- Iberdrola becomes the only Spanish company amongst the 100 most sustainable in the world.\n2017.- Ignacio Gal\u00e1n stands up for the decarbonisation of the economy in Davos, in a scenario in which global demand is rising.\n2017.- Installation of the first wind turbine in the Wikinger offshore wind farm (Germany).\n2017.- Iberdrola has won the tender to supply up to 1,500 MW of offshore wind power capacity in the United States, its first project in North America with this technology.\n2017.- The company is the successful bidder in a tender for the construction and operation of a combined cycle power plant (766 MW) in the State of Sinaloa (Mexico).\n2017.- Inauguration of the 'Memory regained. Traces in the History of the United States', exhibited at the Iberdrola Tower building.\n2017.- Protection of 100% of its customers in Spain against an interruption in the supply of electricity.\n2017.- Iberdrola to build a wind farm for Apple.\n2017.- The company installs over 10 million smart meters in Spain.\n2017.- Neoenergia acquires the businesses of Elektro to create a leading electric utility in Brazil and Latin America.\n2017.- Iberdrola included again in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index utilities industry group.\n2017.- Iberdrola crosses 2,000 MW threshold for renewables in the United Kingdom.\n2017.- Iberdrola renews its support for Women's Universe, the program promoting women's sport.\n2017.- Iberdrola successfully installs all 70 wind turbines at Wikinger offshore wind farm (Germany).\n2017.- Net profit reaches \u20ac2.41 billion (+18.4%) thanks to international businesses which compensate poor results in Spain.\n2017.- Iberdrola announces the complete closure of its coal-fired power capacity.\n2017.- Ignacio Gal\u00e1n visits the COP23 summit in Bonn: \"Time for talking has passed, it\u00b4s time for action now!\"\n2017.- Iberdrola launches the Spanish 'green' hybrid bond market with an issuance of \u20ac1 billion.\n2017.- Trama Tecnoambiental, Instituto Nacional de Eficiencia Energ\u00e9tica y Energ\u00edas Renovables (Ecuador) and Nexus for Development, winners of Iberdrola's II International Energy Cooperation Awards.\n2017.- Iberdrola signs a long-term renewable energy sales agreement with Google.\n2017.- HRM King Felipe gave audience to Iberdrola's scholarship recipients.\n2017.- Iberdrola, awarded 295 megawatts of wind power capacity in Brazil.\n2017.- Iberdrola's Wikinger offshore wind farm connected to the grid in Germany.\nThe energy of the future (2018)\nChanges in the energy sector continue to revolve around three pillars: technological progress, decarbonisation and electrification, and increased customer connectivity.\nThese trends strengthen the focus of our three businesses: renewables, networks, and generation and retail.\nWe are accelerating the creation of value in our businesses by means of five strategic pillars: digitalisation and innovation, profitable growth, operational excellence, customer focus, and capital optimisation.\n2019.- Iberdrola's commitment to gender equality is acknowledged by being included in the 2019 Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) for the second year in a row.\n2018.- The company signs an agreement with the University of Salamanca to hold the Ibero-American Conference on Sustainable Development Goals.\n2018.- In the Davos Forum, Ignacio Gal\u00e1n advocates the decarbonisation of the economy worldwide.\n2018.- Iberdrola extends two syndicated multicurrency loans for 5.3 billion euros under the best terms and conditions since 2007.\n2018.- Announcement of the Iberdrola International Master's Degree Scholarship Program for the 2018-2019 academic year.\n2018.- For the fifth year in a row, Iberdrola has been recognised by the Ethisphere Institute as one of the world's most ethical companies.\n2018.- Iberdrola wins the Stadium Cup at the 2016 National Sports Awards.\n2018.- Iberdrola convenes its General Shareholders' Meeting for 13th of April.\n2018.- Iberdrola will invest \u20ac32 billion between 2018 and 2022, building the foundations for sustainable growth in the next decade.\n2018.- Iberdrola benefits 270,000 people in Spain thanks to its Social Program, for which it has already allocated more than 8 million euros.\n2018.- The company will install 25,000 quick charging points for electric vehicle between 2018 and 2021.\n2018.- For the third year in a row, General Shareholders' Meeting is certificated as sustainable event.\n2018.- Iberdrola reaffirms its support to the paralympic sport for Tokio 2020.\n2018.- Iberdrola launches its calls for its 2019 Social Program in order to support vulnerable collectives.\n2018.- Ignacio Gal\u00e1n confirms its will to consolidate Iberdrola as the utility of the future.\n2018.- The company starts the construction of a marine wind farm in the west coast of the United States.\n2018.- Iberdrola has renewed its Compliance Leader Verification, awarded by the Ethisphere Institute.\n2018.- Iberdrola receives the European Environmental Award.\nTorre Iberdrola: our Corporate headquarters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 625, "original_length": 28327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 264.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/libya-gaddafi-benghazi-consulate-militia-tripoli-obama-386996", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:29Z", "digest": "sha1:5FZQNOHOGD5MZXYGMHBGYN3ZTILW2UAS", "length": 3919, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.ibtimes.co.uk", "title": "Libyan Protesters Storm Benghazi and Evict Militia [PHOTOS]", "raw_content": "Libyan Protesters Storm Benghazi and Evict Militia [PHOTOS]\n4 killed and dozens injured\nHundreds of Libyan protesters have stormed the eastern city of Benghazi and evicted the Islamic militia from their stronghold.\nAs the protesters working with the military police took over the bases of the extremist groups, four people were killed and up to two dozen injured. Some of the protesters were shot in the leg by the militia.\nReports from the region suggest the militant groups did not go down without fighting. Gunfire was heard before they were flushed out of Benghazi. A vehicle and buildings were also set on fire during the confrontation.\nThe militant groups stopped firing soon after the Libyan troops arrived.\nThe protesters stormed the headquarters of the militant group Ansar al-Sharia, the one which is thought to have attacked the US consulate a few days back.\nInitially, the group showed resistance to the protesters firing in the air. They fled their headquarters once they were outnumbered by the protesters who shouted slogans such as \"no to militias\".\nThe orchestrated eviction of the militia seems to have been a planned operation by government forces and activists.\n\"I don't want to see armed men wearing Afghani-style clothes stopping me in the street to give me orders, I only want to see people in uniform,\" a university student involved in the eviction, Omar Mohammed, told the Associated Press.\nThe protesters thronged Benghazi a day after tens of thousands of protesters demanded putting a full stop to the armed militia.\nWhile officials in the Libyan capital Tripoli have appealed for peace, they urged the protesters to differentiate between armed militant groups and rebel brigades.\n\"After what happened at the American consulate, the people of Benghazi had enough of the extremists. They did not give allegiance to the army. So the people broke in and they fled. This place is like the Bastille. This is where Gaddafi controlled Libya from, and then Ansar al-Sharia took it over. This is a turning point for the people of Benghazi,\" a protester Hassan Ahmed told Reuters.\nArmed militant groups have a powerful presence in many parts of Libya after the expulsion of former dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.\nLibyans wearing traditional clothes and riding horses participate in a protest at a main square in Benghazi - Reuters Reuters\nDemonstrators chant slogans while carrying banners during a protest in a main square in Benghazi city Reuters\nDemonstrators cheer after storming the headquarters of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia militia group in Benghazi Reuters\nA file photo of members of Libyan army walking towards one of headquarters of Islamist Ansar al-Sharia militia group to try to break into it in Benghazi Reuters\nSoldiers stand guard at armed militia base belonging to Islamist Ansar al-Sharia militia group, that they had stormed with pro-government demonstrators in Benghazi Reuters\nArmy members talk as they check an armed militia base they stormed with pro-government demonstrators in Benghazi Reuters\nArmy members check an armed militia base they stormed with pro-government demonstrators in Benghazi Reuters\nA soldier stands guard at an armed militia base the army stormed with pro-government demonstrators in Benghazi Reuters\nDemonstrators carrying guns celebrate after burning a car they say was full of ammunition as they stormed the headquarters of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia militia group in Benghazi Reuters\nDemonstrator stands next to a burning car after protesters stormed the headquarters of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia militia group in Benghazi Reuters\nDemonstrators break into the rooms of the headquarters of the Islamist Ansar al-Sharia militia group in Benghazi Reuters\nProtesters take part in a march in Benghazi city Reuters\nA protester holds his daughter surrounded by army soldiers as they attend a march in Benghazi city Reuters\nRelated topics : Storm Libya", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 4431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ibtimes.com/china-says-us-vietnams-normalized-ties-should-boost-regional-peace-2368479", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RBBQJZCNPXNSTMCJUCP4LC3W5MT5XIHD", "length": 1787, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ibtimes.com", "title": "China Says US, Vietnam\u2019s Normalized Ties Should Boost Regional Peace", "raw_content": "China Says US, Vietnam\u2019s Normalized Ties Should Boost Regional Peace\nU.S. President Barack Obama welcomes Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dun upon his arrival at Sunnylands for a 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Rancho Mirage, California, Feb. 15, 2016. Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque\nChina said Friday it hoped that normalized relations between the U.S. and Vietnam would benefit regional peace. The comments come on the heels of Washington\u2019s consideration to lift a three-decade arms embargo on Vietnam.\nU.S. President Barack Obama will be visiting Vietnam later this month. American officials reportedly said he is considering lifting the embargo, which Vietnam said it would welcome. The former wartime foes are now closely watching China\u2019s growing military assertiveness in the contested South China Sea region.\n\u201cFrom the Chinese government\u2019s point of view, we are happy to see Vietnam develop normal relations with the relevant country,\u201d Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said. \u201cWe also hope this relationship can benefit regional peace, stability and prosperity.\u201d\nThe arms ban on Vietnam was relaxed in late 2014 and is one of the last major remnants of the Vietnam War era. The lifting of the embargo would also mark an important step in the ties between the two 21 years after normalization began, Reuters reported.\nVietnam is reported to be in discussions with Western and U.S. arms manufacturers for several years to bolster its fleet of fighter jets, helicopters and maritime patrol aircraft. The country has stepped up efforts to build a military deterrent as China works toward claiming most of the disputed South China Sea.\nAccident In South China Sea Unlikely: US Navy\nChina Working On Plan For Cooperation In Disputed Region", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.icrc.org/en/document/measures-eliminate-international-terrorism-icrc-statement-united-nations-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:09Z", "digest": "sha1:SDPWEX7TRDSDCOAVEO6N3PZZE3ALSAQM", "length": 4453, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.icrc.org", "title": "Measures to eliminate international terrorism: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 2017 | International Committee of the Red Cross", "raw_content": "Measures to eliminate international terrorism: ICRC statement to the United Nations, 2017\nUnited Nations, General Assembly, 72nd session, Sixth Committee, statement by the ICRC, New York, October 2017.\nTerrorism negates the fundamental principle of humanity and is contrary to the core objectives of international law, including international humanitarian law (IHL). The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) condemns all acts of terrorism, whether committed within or outside armed conflict and irrespective of their perpetrators, and is alarmed by the harmful effects of these acts on countries, communities and individuals.\nThe rise of terrorism is a growing concern domestically and internationally. This situation has led States and international organizations such as the United Nations to react by developing their counterterrorism capacities.\nThe ICRC recognizes the legitimacy of States to take the measures necessary to ensure their security and eliminate terrorism. Nevertheless, when such measures are taken, the safeguards protecting human life and dignity must be upheld.\nIn our view, the international community must be clear and firm about the need for counterterrorism activities to be conducted with full respect for the protection afforded to all individuals by international law, in particular IHL and international human rights law. This is also true for persons arrested and detained in connection with terrorism, including those designated as \u201cforeign fighters\u201d. The detention of these individuals in all its aspects must always comply with the relevant international laws and standards, in particular IHL rules when applicable. Independent and impartial monitoring mechanisms, such as the ICRC, should be granted access to these individuals, so that they can assist the detaining authorities in ensuring that detainees are treated humanely and in conformity with applicable international law and standards.\nUpholding the protection enshrined in the applicable legal rules is also in the interest of the international community, as there is a growing recognition today that the violations of those rules may exacerbate the very phenomenon that counterterrorism purports to fight.\nThe efforts undertaken to combat terrorism have also reinvigorated States\u2019 discussion of the UN draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism. Inasmuch as this draft may include armed conflicts in its scope of application, the ICRC deems it essential to include a provision regulating its relationship with IHL. Such a provision would not only be the only way to minimize overlaps and contradictions between the draft comprehensive convention and IHL, but would also be critical to maintaining the rationale for, and the integrity and relevance of, IHL.\nIn particular, in armed conflicts, the draft comprehensive convention should not criminalize actions that are not prohibited under IHL, such as attacking military objectives or persons not entitled to protection against direct attacks. For the ICRC, any agreement on the terms of the draft comprehensive convention on international terrorism must be consistent with IHL\u2019s basic principles and definitions.\nOn various occasions since 2011, the ICRC has underscored the potential adverse effects on humanitarian action of counterterrorism measures taken by States, both internationally and domestically. Such measures, in particular criminal laws, should be drafted in such a way as to ensure that they will not impede or make humanitarian action more difficult. Such action includes humanitarian engagement with non-State armed groups, even when they are designated as terrorists.\nIn particular, criminal laws dealing with terrorism should exclude from their scope of application activities that are exclusively humanitarian and impartial. In our view, such exclusion \u2013 also known as \u201chumanitarian exemptions\u201d \u2013 would be in line with the letter and spirit of IHL and therefore compatible with States\u2019 obligations under IHL. Failure to exclude these activities from criminal laws dealing with terrorism would imply a rejection of the notion of neutral, independent and impartial humanitarian action, an approach that the ICRC strives to promote in its operational work in the field. 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There, you'll find part number H-38-11. {manufacturer} is the manufacturer. IHI Electronics has a wide array of products and services, everything to meet your demand for excellence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 274.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ilrg.com/caselaw/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:02Z", "digest": "sha1:44XOBO7CV2PJTHQHARUJYIXFIO2JJ25T", "length": 4693, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "www.ilrg.com", "title": "ILRG's United States Federal & State Courts", "raw_content": "United States Federal & State Courts\nThe availability of judicial opinions on-line has increased substantially over the course of the years. Most federal courts, including all circuit courts, and many state courts have Internet home pages sponsored by various educational and commercial entities; however, the databases of these judicial opinions tend only to cover the last few years, negating the possibility of conducting comprehensive research. The exception to the problem of limited availability of caselaw is the U. S. Supreme Court, which has decisions on-line dating back to 1760.\nThe most extensive Internet-accessible databases of judicial opinions at the federal and state levels presently are available only through private fee-based providers such as LexisNexis\u00ae and VersusLaw.\nThe most substantial coordinated government service of judicial opinions is PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records), which allows anyone with an account to access official electronic case information and court dockets.\nFreely Accessible Online Archives\nU. S. Supreme Court Decisions 1760-Present\nSupreme Court Primary Materials\nUnited States Constitution, Article III\n28 U.S.C. Chapter 81, Supreme Court\n28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1251. Original jurisdiction.\n28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1252. Repealed.\n28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1253. Direct appeals from decisions of three-judge courts.\n28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1254. Courts of appeals; certiorari; certified questions.\n28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1255, 1256. Repealed.\n28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1257. State courts; certiorari.\n28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1258. Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; certiorari.\n28 U.S.C. \u00a7 1259. Court of Military Appeals; certiorari.\nUnited States Supreme Court: Summary of Online Resources\nLegal researchers interested in the U. S. Supreme Court have a plethora of on-line options available to them.\nFindLaw, Inc., offers a searchable database of Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1890 (U. S. Supreme Court Decisions: 1760-present). This free service from FindLaw allows research by year, U. S. Reports volume number and citation, case title, and full text. FindLaw's Supreme Court database represents the best option for Internet researchers due to its comprehensiveness, powerful search options.\nCornell University's Legal Information Institute has placed the Rules of the U. S. Supreme Court on the Internet.\nFirst Street, N.E.\nU. S. Federal Circuit Courts: Contact & Access\nStaff Note: For each circuit court below, more than one web site is available to the public at which opinions may be accessed for download or text searches. The hypertext link located above the physical address for each circuit court represents the more (or most) comprehensive database currently freely accessible via the Internet.\nU. S. Courthouse\n3rd & Constitution Avenue, N.W.\n1606 John W. McCormack Post Office & Courthouse\n(Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Puerto Rico)\nU. S. Courthouse, Foley Square\n(Connecticut, New York, Vermont)\n21400 U. S. 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Many stereotyped descriptives have been written about Melbourne. \u2018The world\u2019s most liveable city\u2019\u2026\u2019Four seasons in one day\u2019\u2026\u2019The garden state\u2019\u2026 But underneath these florid statements lies an urban subtext\u2014a city of counter-cultures and contradictions. Melbourne is light and dark and all shades in between. Graceful buildings from our colonial past stand defiant against brave futuristic visions. It\u2019s home to a migrant\u2019s tale or a cabinetmaker\u2019s workshop. A stage for lovers\u2019 trysts, lost souls, found treasures and sleeping rough. IMAGE CHASERS, a three year old collective of passionate Victorian photographers, have chosen to explore different perspectives of this extraordinary city, attempting to avoid the typical tourist brochure view of Melbourne and capture a side of the city that perhaps we do not always see, or simply walk past in daily life. Melbourne. A city that is so many things to so many people. A place that is as diverse as its 4 million plus inhabitants.\nA very proper exhibition at the Quadrant Gallery in Kew. July 2015\nEyes on the market...\nContinuing our focus on Melbourne in 2016, we felt the need to document Queen Victoria Market before this site succumbs to further development. Stay tuned for our collection of curated images and observations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.immigrationyes.com/?page_id=5248", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:27Z", "digest": "sha1:AIPOVP4NOQE3MLXGFF7EXT55RA7GXWJ5", "length": 154, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.immigrationyes.com", "title": "Contact \u2013 Immigration Yes", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s talk in person about the business\n3301 Ponce De Leon Blvd., Third Floor, Coral Gables, Florida, USA.\nWe would love to hear from you. Drop us a line.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.importantindia.com/23587/laughter-is-the-best-medicine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:21Z", "digest": "sha1:SGD3BR2ORN76FU4BTG45MK2HBR7WL3PR", "length": 7813, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.importantindia.com", "title": "\"Laughter is the best medicine\" - Origin, Meaning, Explanation and Importance - ImportantIndia.com", "raw_content": "\u201cLaughter is the best medicine\u201d \u2013 Origin, Meaning, Explanation and Importance\nCategory: Proverbs, Sayings, Idioms and Phrases On July 29, 2016 By LightHouse\nIntroduction. The phrase \u2018laughter is the best medicine\u2019 refers to the notion that thinking positively and laughing will help you to feel better. That might mean feeling better about something that was making you upset. Or, as some studies have suggested, it might be the case that laughter and positive thinking can help people to heal from illnesses.\nOrigin of the phrase\nPeople sometimes attribute the origin of this phrase to the American publisher and humor writer Bennett Cerf. However, others have postulated earlier origins for the phrase \u2018laughter is the best medicine\u2019.\nOne suggestion is that the phrase derives from Proverbs 17 in the Old Testament. Here, it is said that \u2018a merry heart is like medicine\u2019.\nThe ultimate origins of the phrase may well just be lost in the mists of time: this phrase has become such an integral property of human culture across the world that it can be said to be the property of everyone without being \u2018owned\u2019 by any single person.\nWhat is the meaning of this phrase?\n\u2018Laughter is the best medicine\u2019 means that laughter can cure both mental and physical ailments. This is a proverbial phrase, i.e. a short, pithy statement of a general truth.\nThe proverb can refer to the fact that laughter has a beneficial impact on several aspects of our health. It also refers to the fact that a positive outlook on life enables us to overcome adversity and sadness.\nThe proverb literary suggests that laughter is a better cure than other forms of medicine such as pills. However, this proverb is usually not taken to have a literal meaning. It is usually used in a light hearted manner. So, laughter is the best medicine may better be defined as \u2018laughter is a good thing\u2019.\n\u2018Laughter is the best medicine\u2019 thus mean that:\nLaughter makes a person lively and high-spirited, and has the power to heal our bodies physically.\nThe state of happiness, joy and calmness has the ability to enhance our health, particularly emotional health.\nA person who laughs easily has the capability to overcome adversity in an effective manner.\nLaughter cures us of negative states of mind.\nCheerful attitude brings harmony and balance in life.\nLaughter and calmness has the power to \u2018heal\u2019 social ills such as arguments or discord in families, communities and nations.\nLaughing more often indicates that you are in a happy state. Also, laughter spreads happiness all around. Hence, what can be a better healing therapy than laughter itself?\nLaughter stimulates blood flow, reduces stress, relaxes tense muscles, distracts us from our symptoms, and helps with mental distress and physical illness. Now-a-days, many people take laughter therapy classes these days because of its latent benefits and ease of practice.\nLaughter can give a new perspective on life. When you laugh more your health improves and keeps you stay positive in life. Positive thinking helps us to recover from physical illnesses and mental distress. It helps to resolve conflict.\nLaughter pushes away depression. Laughter can be said to be a kind of anti-depressant, that relieves you from stress and anxiety, uplift your mood and gives you a lasting feeling of happiness. Also, a hearty laughter enhances mindfulness, and is a natural way of overcoming the feeling of anger.\nOne of the key things that people often ask about this idea is whether it is scientifically proven that laughter can improve our health and our mental and physical well-being.\nWell, in fact, several studies have shown that the act of smiling can make your mood improve. A fun fact about this principle is that in some companies in South Korea, workers are asked to gather together at the start of the working day and laugh together. This laughter may be described as \u2018forced laughter\u2019, however bosses and employees maintain that it creates a sense of unity and also lifts workers\u2019 moods and makes them more productive during the rest of the working day.\nBelow, when we look at the importance of the notion of \u2018laughter is the best medicine\u2019, we will note some of the key health benefits that are thought to result from laughter.\nAlso read: 10 Health Benefits of Laughter and Smiling\nThe importance of the phrase, \u201claughter is the best medicine\u201d, is highlighted below:\n1. This proverb on laughter prompts a cheerful outlook on life. The feeling that you can laugh at any situation and not let it get the better of you is very empowering. It helps you to maintain a positive way of looking at the world and can help you to be more resilient in the fact of challenges.\n2. Laughter relaxes us. When we laugh, our muscles relax, and all the tension that we have been storing up in our ligaments begins to dissipate. This relaxing effect can last for nearly an hour.\n3. Laughter is good for the heart. Laughter gets the blood flowing through our blood vessels, and improves their performance. In this way, laughter is great for cardiac health. So why not go watch a comedy show after your workout for a super cardio health boost?\n4. Laughter reduces stress. Laughter inhibits the release of stress hormones in the body (such as cortisol, for example), and this dramatically reduces our stress and anxiety. So, the next time that you feel sad or stressed out by work, try and cheer yourself up with your favorite joke book or comedy show.\n5. Laughter boosts your immune system. Decreasing the amount of stress hormones in your body (one of the key effects of laughter) also has a positive impact on the immune system. In addition, laughter prompts your body to release more disease fighting antibodies and this also helps to keep you free from nasty colds and other diseases. If you are already feeling ill, moreover, laughter can help to accelerate the healing process.\n6. Laughter makes you feel positively happy. When you laugh, your body releases more endorphins \u2013 and these make you feel positive, happy and confident. So, as well as decreasing your stress levels, laughter actually measurably boosts your happiness too.\n7. Resolving conflict. If you are working in a team and experience a conflict, you can \u2018heal\u2019 this wound with the medicine of laughter. Laughing together enables the team to dissolve tension and also creates a feeling of unity between all members of the group. Try it!\n8. Laughter beats pain. Studies have shown that people who laugh can decrease their pain levels. Of course, you probably should reach for the analgesics, too, but their effect will be much stronger if you can laugh about your pain at the same time.\n9. Laughter makes others laugh. Seeing other people laugh is funny in itself. When we see another person laugh, we can start laughing ourselves and this spreads positivity further and further throughout the world.\n10. Laughter reduces fear. If we are afraid of a person or an event, laughing at it helps to diminish that fear considerably. So try finding something funny about that daunting upcoming interview or meeting with your boss \u2013 that way, you know that you can laugh about it afterwards.\nSo, we have seen that laughter can make our heart healthier, boost our immune system and enhance our mental health as well. By decreasing the hormones that make us stressed and increasing the amount of hormones that make us happy, laughter is great for enabling us to stay resilient, confident and positive no matter what the world throws at us. As the famous slogan says, \u2018don\u2019t worry, be happy!\u2019\nIn addition, laughter can make our whole body feel relaxed, which is exactly what we need after a long day spent hunched over the computer or dealing with the stresses and strains of work. So maybe that old saying is right: Maybe laughter really is the best medicine!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 10351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.importantindia.com/category/essay/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BMYBMOGJDSS7O2UIOPTHR64JJR3JDOLL", "length": 766, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.importantindia.com", "title": "Essays and Paragraphs Archives - Page 2 of 304 - ImportantIndia.com", "raw_content": "Beauty: Short Essay on Beauty\nBeauty - Short Essay It is so hard to define beauty. We can say that it is a characteristic of a person who gives rise to a sense of satisfaction. It is also a quality or an attribute that is much sought after. Anything that is joyful to behold that captures our heart is beautiful. It could be \u2026 [Read more...] about Beauty: Short Essay on Beauty\nBaseball: Short Essay on Baseball\nBaseball is a game in which there are batting and pitching. Two teams can play this game. It is a field game that is played with bats and a ball between two teams. It is very popular especially in the US where it is considered the national game. Countries like Japan and South Korea also play this \u2026 [Read more...] about Baseball: Short Essay on Baseball", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 229.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.improvementloans.co.uk/why-home-improvement-loan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:04Z", "digest": "sha1:IRQ3GJ37FWCXOU6JJ7IC34YNUX7EZTGE", "length": 5928, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.improvementloans.co.uk", "title": "Why Home Improvement Loan?", "raw_content": "Why Get a Home Improvement Loan?\nHome improvement loans allow you to use the equity in your home to fund repairs, redecoration or refurbishment of your home. You can borrow against the value of your property to release cash to fund an extension or conservatory, a new kitchen or bathroom or general repairs or redecoration.\nSo, why get a home improvement loan?\nThey offer a low interest rate\nWhen you take out a secured home improvement loan the lender takes a legal \u2018charge\u2019 over your property. This means that the lender has a legal right to repossess your home if you fail to keep up your repayments.\nAs the lender has the security of your home as collateral, they can offer home improvement loans at lower interest rates than other types of borrowing. You will typically pay a lower rate of interest on a home improvement loan than you will on an unsecured loan, credit card or bank overdraft.\nThey can be arranged quickly\nIt typically takes between 3 and 6 weeks to arrange a home improvement loan. This means that from the point of application you can expect to have the money in your bank account within a month or so. This means that you can get started with your home improvements straight away.\nThey can fund whatever improvements you need to make\nOne of the main benefits of a home improvement loan is that you can use the funds for pretty much any purpose.\nIf you want to increase the living space of your home by adding a single or double storey extension then a home improvement loan can help pay for the building work. You may also want to add an extra bedroom through a loft or garage conversion.\nAlternatively, you may want to improve the interior of your home by replacing your kitchen or bathroom. A home improvement loan can fund the refitting of a room as well as helping pay for new furnishings or carpets.\nIn addition, you can use a home improvement loan to pay for essential repairs to your property. For example, you may want to replace old windows and doors, repair your roof, install central heating or replace your outdated boiler.\nThey can help you add value to your property\nLots of improvements that you can make to your home will increase the value of your property. According to Halifax, a loft conversion should add an average of \u00a324,981 to the value of your home whilst a new kitchen will add 4.6 per cent to the value of your home, according to the Daily Telegraph.\nSo, if you are looking to maximise the value of your property then there are a number of improvements you can consider. Adding off-street parking can add a significant amount to the selling price of your home, particularly if you live in an urban area. Extra living space \u2013 a garage conversion, conservatory or extension \u2013 can also add value.\nThey can help you sell your home\nA home improvement loan can help you fund work that makes your property more attractive to potential buyers and more likely to sell.\nFor example, you could install a new boiler or central heating system in order to modernise your property or you could refit the kitchen or bathroom in a neutral, functional style. You could also use the proceeds of a home improvement loan to redecorate the interior of the property to make it more appealing to prospective buyers.\nThey can help you borrow a large amount\nHome improvements can be expensive. It is not unusual to pay in excess of \u00a320,000 for an extension or loft conversion while a new kitchen can easily set you back \u00a35-8,000. Lots of unsecured loans are only available for smaller amounts while many credit cards will have a credit limit lower than the amount you need to fund your work.\nSecured home improvement loans can generally be arranged for any amount from \u00a33,000 to over \u00a3100,000, depending on the equity in your home. So, if you do need to borrow a large amount for an expensive project, a home improvement loan could be the perfect solution.\nThey can help you avoid selling your home\nMany people need to access the equity in their home in order to pay for essential repairs or vital improvements. Selling your property may seem like the only way of accessing this equity, but a home improvement loan allows you to borrow against the equity you have in your property allowing you to continue living there.\nThey are easy to repay\nHome improvement loans can generally be taken over a term as long as a traditional mortgage. It is not unusual for borrowers to take their home improvement loans over a term of anything between 3 and 25 years.\nWhat this means is that it is possible to spread the repayments of your home improvement loan over a long term. This means that you minimise your monthly repayment, keeping the loan affordable to you.\nThey are available to you if you are self-employed\nMany unsecured loan lenders have been reluctant to agree loans for self employed applicants over recent years. It can also be hard to confirm your income if you\u2019re self employed, particularly if you have been trading less than a year or two.\nAs home improvement loans are secured on your property, the lender has the additional security of your home. This means that they are often much more likely to consider a loan application from a self employed applicant.\nThey are available to you if you have had bad credit in the past\nIf you have experienced credit problems in the past then you may have found it tough to be agreed for an unsecured loan or credit card. Applicants with County Court Judgments (CCJs), defaults, mortgage or loan arrears or missed/late payments on credit cards can often struggle to be agreed for loans and other credit.\nHowever, as you\u2019re offering your home as security when you take out a home improvement loan, lenders are much more likely to be sympathetic to your application. Many lenders are happy to consider applications from people with previous credit problems, although bear in mind that you may pay a higher interest rate if you have a chequered credit history.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 12727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.imrg.org/media-and-comment/press-releases/beast-from-the-east-sees-uk-warm-to-online-retail-as-sales-grow-13-1-in-february/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OID4POQSFTOM4TA23UBSPUMYSHCKMU7K", "length": 3417, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.imrg.org", "title": "Beast from the East Sees UK Warm to Online Retail as Sales Grow 13.1% in February", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Media & Comment \u203a Press Releases \u203a Beast from the East Sees UK Warm to Online Retail as Sales Grow 13.1% in February\nBeast from the East Sees UK Warm to Online Retail as Sales Grow 13.1% in February\nExtreme weather drives a growth spike for last week of February\nConversion rates at 4.2%, down from 4.6% this time last year\nHealth & Beauty up by +33.85% year-on-year, highest growth in 5 years\nLONDON UK \u2013 March 23, 2018: UK online retail sales were up +13.1% year-on-year (YoY) in February, according to the latest figures from the IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index. With the Beast from the East hitting the UK in the last week of February, the cold weather saw shoppers turn online in their droves, driving a +3.5% lift in sales compared to the previous week. This continues 2018\u2019s positive start, with overall year-on-year growth averaging 13.5% year-to-date.\nDespite the strong sales however, the overall market conversion rate (the percentage of site visitors that complete a purchase) was 4.2%, down from 4.6% last year. The conversion rates for both multichannel and online retailers also came in lower than February 2017. However, the average basket value (ABV) rose by \u00a311 in comparison to last February. Meanwhile, smartphone growth remained strong at +38.5% on last year, but is certainly slowing when compared to the +57% growth of last year. Tablets, on the other hand, continued their now 4-month long decline trend, decreasing -6.7% year-on-year, a record low for this device type.\nSome sectors performed notably well this February. Health & Beauty grew by +33.85% year-on-year \u2013 its highest growth in the last 5 years. In addition, Clothing continues to show strong year-on-year growth, up +14.9%, with accessories and footwear the top performers within this at +22.3% and +20.4% respectively. Finally Gifts also grew by a strong +9% year-on-year, a significant improvement on last year\u2019s -3.3%.\nBhavesh Unadkat, principal consultant in retail customer engagement, Capgemini: \u201cFebruary\u2019s sales patterns clearly demonstrate the power of extreme weather on shopping habits; as people avoid the high street in favour of cosier shopping from their well-heated living rooms. As the snowy weather continued well into March we anticipate a continuation of this trend in next month\u2019s results. We\u2019d also draw attention to the performance of the US retail market, which has just reported its third consecutive month of falling sales. As the US market is often seen as ahead of the UK\u2019s this could foreshadow a similar trend in the coming months. Fortunately for internet retailers, the US reported +1% online sales growth.\u201d\nJustin Opie, managing director, IMRG: \u201cOver the course of many years, the overall conversion rate for online retailers crept up very slowly but this has stalled recently and has now actually been in decline for three consecutive months. This suggests that shoppers are spending more time browsing, potentially across a greater range of sites, before making a final purchase decision and that may well be true, but a clear influencing factor is a shift in the devices people are using for shopping. In Q4, 32% of online retail purchases were completed on smartphones (the rest were through desktops and tablets) \u2013 these devices tend to have lower conversion rates due to a variety of reasons, particularly how much more susceptible users are to being distracted when using them.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 10985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/crop-art-features-ebola-virus-image-30648907.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:24Z", "digest": "sha1:XGI47ECCVFCRZWWFUVABMRLGPPZHZTC5", "length": 1043, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.independent.ie", "title": "Crop art features Ebola virus image - Independent.ie", "raw_content": "Crop art features Ebola virus image\nThe ebola virus has become the subject of art carved into crops (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention/PA)\nAn Italian land artist has created a huge work of art in a farm field to raise awareness about the Ebola epidemic.\nhttps://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/crop-art-features-ebola-virus-image-30648907.html\nhttps://www.independent.ie/world-news/and-finally/article30648906.ece/64f77/AUTOCROP/h342/PANews_P-f940d88d-3306-4b28-b255-3f158f46e534_I1.jpg\nDario Gambarin carved up 37-thousand square metres of field in Castagnaro to sketch out a 200-metre drawing of the Ebola virus.\nThe artist from Verona said that he wanted to draw attention to the Ebola crisis, after a Spanish nursing assistant was infected in the first case of Ebola being transmitted outside of West Africa.\nIt is not the first time Mr Gambarin has used a tractor to create a massive drawing - previous works of art included portraits of Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Pope Francis and a drawing of the World Cup trophy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 611, "original_length": 12751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiastat.com/table/cooperatives-data/104592/primary-agricultural-credit-societies/104600/962070/data.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HAPT45AZEKLOVFQYI2J2YOHK7NMTKFDJ", "length": 142, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.indiastat.com", "title": "Paid up Capital, Reserves, Deposits, Borrowings and Working Capital of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies in India (2003-2004 to 2016-2017)", "raw_content": "Paid up Capital, Reserves, Deposits, Borrowings and Working Capital of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies in India (2003-2004 to 2016-2017)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.indiewire.com/2008/01/sundance-2008-funny-games-227664/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:19Z", "digest": "sha1:JDTGPNBBZGSYEU73IXCFEHCR3NJNXVDM", "length": 9341, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.indiewire.com", "title": "Sundance 2008 | Funny Games | IndieWire", "raw_content": "Sundance 2008 | Funny Games\nSome eleven years later, Michael Haneke\u2019s arguments about on-screen violence and audience complicity are more relevant than ever.\nA relatively calm couple of days. Tuesday night\u2019s big event was the world premiere screening of The Deal, Steven Schachter\u2019s comedy about a suicidal film producer (William H Macy) who decides to work the Hollywood system and make a shoot-\u2019em-up action film out of a seemingly impossible script; Bill & Ben, the story of the first Jewish Prime Minister of England, Benjamin Disraeli. The film was warmly received by the audience, which was a nice omen and important to me; Macy and Schachter scored a good deal of financing from the good people of Sarasota, many of them intimately involved with the Sarasota Film Festival (including a Co-Producing credit for our Executive Director Jody Kielbasa). This is the first project that the festival has been involved with on this level, and I am very hopeful we can bring it home in April for a big screening during our event. After a very brief pit stop at the after party (and a quick hello to Sarasota alums Sarah Baker and the always kind Jason Ritter), it was late to bed, late to rise.\nBut when I did wake up, it was beautiful day\u2026\n\u2026the perfect afternoon to take in Michael Haneke\u2019s new English-language version of Funny Games.\nFirst, a note about the programming of the film at the festival; Instead of assuming its rightful place in the festival\u2019s Premieres section, Funny Games is playing Sundance\u2019s Midnight section, a decision so deeply ironic that I can only assume the choice to put the film there was done as a historical corrective to the whole idea of Midnight movies. Maybe it makes sense, though; A film about the voyeuristic guilt implicit in our spectatorship of violence and sexual humiliation in cinema, it might be that the Midnight audiences will be one ones most, well, deserving of Haneke\u2019s smirking middle-finger of a movie. After sitting through films like Diary of The Dead and Donkey Punch, maybe Funny Games will function as intended and make us all feel like assholes for enjoying the bloodshed.\nEggs, Anyone?: Naomi Watts and Brady Corbet in Michael Haneke\u2019s Funny Games\nI\u2019ve never written about Funny Games at length before, but I have thought about the movie in the context of Haneke\u2019s work as a whole. To be honest, the film\u2019s story is so close to the original that a re-telling of the plot seems a bit of a waste of time, but there were some significant differences that struck me about the new version; Most interesting is how, some eleven years later, the film\u2019s arguments about on-screen violence and audience complicity are more relevant than ever which, when you think about it, is deeply depressing. In the age of Eli Roth and the Saw franchise, Haneke\u2019s winking manipulations and his rebuke of narrative catharsis hurts even more. This time around, Haneke gets typically powerful performances from Naomi Watts and Tim Roth as the victims of the titular games, but the major difference between the two films are the characterizations of the murderers, here played by Michael Pitt as the alpha Paul and Brady Corbet as the nastily submissive Peter/Tom. In Haneke\u2019s original German language version, these roles are played by the ice-cold Arno Frisch in Pitt\u2019s role and the sad but menacing Frank Giering in the Corbet role and the differences are worth noting; While both sets of actors are clearly portraying the home invasion and murder of the family as some sort of comedy of manners (funny only to them), for me, the Frisch and Giering\u2019s performances gave off something of the stench of the nihilistic in a way that only a European film can. Those actors, and Frisch in particular, are haunting because they seem morally bankrupt yet carry a firm sense of rebellion against the entitled bourgeoisie, despite the fact that they probably come from the same class as their victims. The Austrian version works both on the level of cinematic and social critique; The unswayable menace, running wild and without the anchor of reason or social constraint seems, like most of Haneke\u2019s films, to be the stuff of perfect bourgeoisie nightmare. How could young people who look like us, raised in our culture, speaking our language, be so cruel? What have we created?\nBad Boys: Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet in Michael Haneke\u2019s Funny Games\nIn the US version of the film, and probably much to Haneke\u2019s chagrin, I think the implications of this dread is lost, much of it due to how we understand and feel about class in this country, but also because of the way in which we see the horror in the world as being an unknowable spiritual force, almost not human. Obviously, while I personally agree with this sort of superstitious reaction to a clearly knowable violence, what Haneke\u2019s film never touches is the populist, religious understanding of the incomprehensibility of random violence. Whereas Frisch\u2019s sober smirk and pontifications seemed, in the original, like something one could reasonably expect from a graduate of an Austrian university who took too much 20th Century philosophy and missed all of his ethics classes, the same words coming from Michael Pitt\u2019s mouth seem foreign, words you would never expect to hear from a young American. Our culture is steeped in a whole different set of callous gestures and our national indifference is on a whole different plane of responsibility now, which makes our pair of happy murderers in the film less vital in a way. This country is morally exhausted by our nonchalant relationship with senseless tragedy, and so, while the time seems right for Funny Games to come along again and rap us on the collective knuckles with its giddy sneer, at this point in our history, we\u2019ve become silent and masochistic to the point that the sting has lost some of its bite. Without a sense of the spiritually ridiculous, and I don\u2019t mean the moment when Paul makes Anne (Naomi Watts) pray a little prayer, but a true indictment of the superstitious understanding of the randomness of suffering, Funny Games misses a crucial component in its goal of implicating American spectators.\nThere are some cultural details that might have made a difference, most of them missing because of Haneke\u2019s wholesale import of the original film\u2019s narrative. Instead of nailing American privilege, Haneke imports his European bourgeoisie milieu and in doing so, paints an off-kilter picture of our culture; Like a crooked portrait hanging above a fireplace, something is just not right here. Whereas a more intimate knowledge of this society, a knowledge of Americana, might have lent more authenticity to the story, the film instead feels just slightly askew; A wealthy couple headed to the Hamptons with their child is probably more likely to be playing rock and roll in the car than opera, the formal politesse of neighborly relations is much more likely to be casual than in the world Haneke\u2019s portrays; The film doesn\u2019t seem to know American casualness. Instead of recasting the small details (the music*, the informal attitudes of the characters) to the proper cultural context of modern America, the film\u2019s relationships feel frozen in amber, something more foreign than domestic, which is why when Haneke gets things right, the critique seems all the more stinging; The murder of a child against the non-stop gibberish of a pair of TV announcers calling a NASCAR race (re-set from the Formula One race in the original) actually adds a layer of interesting conflict. This is a family that would never in a million years watch NASCAR, and this shift underscores their privilege but also detaches them from the culture at large (whereas we could easily imagine Ulrich M\u00fche watching a Formula One race).\nAt its heart, Funny Games was always an act of intellectual terror, the story of a culture (and a cinema) reaping what it sowed. But in a post-9/11 world, in a nation whose daily obsession with the sensationalist press constantly keeps the most grotesque and cruel acts front and center in our minds, acts for which we as a nation harbor so much responsibility, well, at this point, Haneke seems to be piling on. Fine and ha-ha, yes yes. But whereas European elites would eagerly go and take their medicine on a night out to see one of Haneke\u2019s films, the fate and impact of the new Funny Games is more cloudy; This is just the type of movie American elites will avoid. Movies about violence featuring young murderers and semi-nude movie stars are far more likely to be seen by younger audiences, and while young people may get the film\u2019s points about the cinema, they will probably see themselves as outside of Haneke\u2019s bourgeoisie bullseye. To be honest, while the film is uniformly excellent and certainly holds up as a movie about movie violence, the social critique will be a very hard sell. Which only makes me wish the Director had considered instead a remake of Code Unknown, a film with deep convictions about the national responsibility surrounding issues of immigration and collective social welfare; Now that\u2019s a movie America needs to see. Here\u2019s hoping\u2026\n* I should say, the use of John Zorn\u2019s Naked City, both here and in the original, is still one of the best uses of music in a film, hands down. 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Robert Scheer/IndyStar\nEmpty seats are visible beyond Victor Oladipo, who was celebrating near the end of Indiana's victory over the Orlando Magic on Nov. 27 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Indiana won 121-109.(Photo11: Robert Scheer/IndyStar)\nVictor Oladipo's confidence on the court is coming from somewhere. Maybe his blossoming second career has something to do with it.\nThe Pacer guard's second music video for the song \"Unfollow,\" has more than 750,000 views on YouTube. The song, which features artist Eric Bellinger, was one of seven the NBA guard released on his debut EP earlier this year. The single \"Songs For You,\" was turned into a music video shortly thereafter.\nOladipo's vocal talent is nothing new. He sang as part of an NBA Talent Challenge during last year's All-Star Weekend and also sang an Usher song while a player at Indiana University.\nUnlike his first video, the \"Unfollow\" video tells a story parallel to the songs' lyrics. The song talks about relationships in the age of social media and not being able to trust another person.\n\"I don't wanna see your face on my timeline no more\nGirl, you deserve an unfollow, unfollow right now.\"\n\u25b6\ufe0e 'Sick and tired': Victor Oladipo is over the Paul George comparisons. So who\u2019s better?\n\u25b6\ufe0e Hoosier Hospitality: What does Paul George expect Wednesday? 'Boos.'\nThe video was shot over three days at locations in the Los Angeles and Miami areas. Let's take a look inside the making of the video:\nOne of video's locations was the Pink Motel, also known as Cadillac Jack's, in Southern California. If you've watched the movie, \"The Whole Ten Yards,\" or TV show, \"Dexter,\" the buildings may look familiar.\nGelled lights are used to create a mood to match the story, especially in the first half of the video. In a scene that features Oladipo arguing with his girlfriend, portrayed by Jada Paige, magenta and yellow illustrate the tension between the two. You can hear what the two actually decided to argue about in this behind-the-scenes video (it does contain language that some may be offended by).\nOladipo and Paige crack jokes about each other the next day off-camera on their way to another set.\n\"She tried to dress like me today.\"\n\"He wishes.\"\n\"We're supposed to be in a relationship in the heat of battle anyways, so I can go (hard) on her real quick.\"\nOladipo has this kind of laid-back chemistry with others off-camera, too. Before a take with Bellinger, the two compliment each other, then smoothly perform their choreographed movements together, mouthing the words to the song playing from speakers off-camera.\nOn the final day of shooting, the location switches to south Florida. The gelled lights are gone, and a muted, natural light fills the room. Oladipo is with another woman, portrayed by Ericka Wheaton, on the couch of a high-rise apartment. We see his phone in his hand, with video cuts back to the woman in California. What does he do? I'll let you watch (be warned, it also has explicit lyrics) and find out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 6469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ineteconomics.org/research/experts/vfung", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:B5CLHXBNLDWL73J3FCRZLQXOGIF2ZEYW", "length": 2747, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ineteconomics.org", "title": "Institute for New Economic Thinking", "raw_content": "Victor K Fung is an international business leader, thought leader and philanthropist, who holds professional and civic appointments in Hong Kong, the Chinese Mainland and overseas.\nHe is Group Chairman of the Fung Group, a Hong Kong-based multinational which comprises major subsidiaries in trading, logistics, distribution and retailing. They include publicly-listed Li & Fung Limited, Global Brands Group Holding Limited, Convenience Retail Asia Limited and Trinity Limited. Dr Fung played a leading role in driving the development of the supply chain infrastructure at Li & Fung Limited which has enabled the company to become the world\u2019s leading sourcing and logistics service provider for major retailers around the world.\nDr Fung holds independent non-executive Directorships with China Petrochemical Corporation (People\u2019s Republic of China), Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Limited (Hong Kong) and Koc Holding A. S. (Turkey). He is also Chairman of the Asia Advisory Board of Prudential Financial, Inc (USA). Through the philanthropic Victor and William Fung Foundation, Dr Fung is the Fung Global Institute\u2019s Founding Chairman. The Foundation also promotes leadership development through scholarship programs with universities and education institutes.\nDr Fung presently serves Hong Kong as a member of the Economic Development Commission of the Hong Kong Government. He is a former Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (1991-2000); a Hong Kong representative on the APEC Business Advisory Council (1996-2003); Chairman of the Airport Authority Hong Kong (1999-2008), Chairman of the Council of The University of Hong Kong (2001-2009) and Chairman of the Greater Pearl River Delta Business Council (2004-February 2013).\nInternationally, Dr Fung has played a leadership role since 2007 in the Paris-based International Chamber of Commerce, of which he was Chairman from 2008 to 2010. He is a member of ICC\u2019s G20 Advisory Group and chairs its World Trade Agenda Initiative. From 2012 until 2013, he was a member of the World Trade Organization\u2019s Panel On Defining The Future of Trade.\nBorn and raised in Hong Kong, Dr Fung holds bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Doctorate in Business Economics from Harvard University, where he taught as a professor at Harvard Business School before returning to the family business in Hong Kong in 1976.\nDr Fung is married with three adult children.\nEvent Conference |\tApr 4\u20137, 2013\nThe Institute for New Economic Thinking held its annual plenary conference in Hong Kong from April 4-7, 2013 at the InterContinental Hotel in Kowloon. 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This diverse set of features means that EVENTA can be used as a central platform for SCADA functions such as data logging, control centre, historian, remote gateway, remote data capture, and training\nAs part of our Certified Application Partner (CAP) programme, EVENTA has been certified for use over the following Inmarsat services:\nDownload the brochure now to find out more about how EVENTA can enable you to leverage the reliable, global reach of Inmarsat\u2019s award-winning satellite network and provide rapid situational analysis and high-quality pictures and video.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.insidecareers.co.uk/career-advice/audit-junior-moore-stephens-llp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:19Z", "digest": "sha1:O63SE6V6PXPLKYPCG4G2PA6O6TKAYK6I", "length": 4619, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.insidecareers.co.uk", "title": "Audit Junior \u2013 Moore Stephens LLP | Graduate Jobs, Internships & Careers Advice - Inside Careers", "raw_content": "Graduate Profiles: Audit Junior \u2013 Moore Stephens LLP\nRole: Audit Junior\nOrganisation: Moore Stephens\nWhy did I choose accountancy?\nI studied Chemistry as I felt it was a good core subject that provided me with plenty of career choices. I had originally considered a career in banking, but changed my mind after attending a careers fair.\nI\u2019d always enjoyed subjects that involved maths and after speaking with family and university careers advisers I felt that a career in accountancy and completing an ACA qualification would allow me to keep my career options broad.\nI think it\u2019s really important that you understand the difference between firms when you are applying for graduate positions. Moore Stephens LLP was recommended to me as a good place to launch my career by a family member. I really like working in a mid-tier firm.\nWe have a little over 60 partners and almost 600 staff and I get on well with the graduates in my group as well as others based in other audit and tax groups. Although our roles may not require us to work together on a daily basis we all socialise regularly.\nThe public sector team at Moore Stephens is also very social and there is a friendly working environment. We know the partners and they know us which may not happen in a larger firm. Many of us attend an annual ski trip together and a lot of us recently went to Brighton for a weekend. As we are at client sites a lot of the time, I like that when you return to the office you know everyone.\nWorking in public sector audit\nI find auditing public sector bodies really interesting. A lot of what we work on are topics that are in the news and it is interesting to see the point of view of the people working in the sector. It allows you to form your own opinion about what is taking place in the public sector, rather than relying on the media.\nThe nature of the work is very different to private sector audit as you are dealing with not-for-profit organisations so some aspects that you would find in a private organisation\u2019s accounts do not exist. In addition, a lot of functions are outsourced to shared service centres so the information you seek may need to be requested specifically. In private organisations, most of the documentation we need is usually held by the finance team. Processes and controls can also change with a change of government.\nMost of our work is completed at the client\u2019s premises. Since all of the clients I work with are based outside of London, I spend a lot of time travelling. I\u2019ve travelled a lot in the UK and I enjoy finding out what there is to see in different cities. It\u2019s also helpful with my UK geography! Recently I\u2019ve also visited Paris and Norway to assist with audit work on European Commission grants.\nWhen you\u2019re away you spend almost all of your time with your colleagues and you get to know each other quite well. The hours in the London office are usually 09.30-17.30, but when you\u2019re at a client site you normally start earlier and finish later. But you don\u2019t mind because you don\u2019t need to worry about commuting and as you eat out a lot, your meals are made for you. However it does mean your weekends become very busy as you catch up with friends.\nEssential skills for accountancy\nWe are involved with our clients throughout the year as we plan, conduct and finalise their audits. When you are conducting audits you are normally only at the client\u2019s site for a week and you then move to a different client. You need to be very organised as clients or your managers may ask you something about an audit a few weeks later. I\u2019ve become a lot more meticulous in my work and ensure I leave myself clear records of what I need to do.\nYou also need to have strong communication and interpersonal skills as you are always meeting different people. When you first begin you can feel that you don\u2019t really know anything, however you get over your inhibitions quickly. Your tasks vary on each audit and the senior staff provide plenty of support to help you learn.\nStudying for the ACA qualifications\nThe ACA qualification is as stressful as you make it and you need to find your own study and work/life balance methods to succeed. I was stressed before my first exams as I didn\u2019t know what to expect or how much preparation to do. It all worked out fine though. For my second set of exams I changed my revision methods during the final revision weeks and was a lot more relaxed.\nI have found that you do get back what you put in as I have achieved higher results in the exams I have worked harder for. I\u2019m now approaching my final exams and am confident my approach will see me through.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5845, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.inspiredluxuryescapes.com/la-estacion-hotel/124258", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7I6GFS5EW4RYCXTRLL2PKLCIHD2GF6IZ", "length": 623, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.inspiredluxuryescapes.com", "title": "La Estacion Hotel Costa Blanca | Holidays to Mainland Spain | Inspired Luxury Escapes", "raw_content": "Home > Spain > Costa Blanca > Benidorm > La Estacion Hotel\nLocated at the entrance of the Levante and as part of a new complex that includes the bus station of Benidorm and the attractive shopping center \u201cLa Estacion\u201d, this landmark 4-star Hotel offers a different perspective of modern Benidorm. The hotel offers 24-hour reception and rooms for nonsmokers. It has a refreshing swimming pool surrounded by a large terrace. You will have free access to the gym and you can also enjoy the sauna. Hotel guests can use free underground parking available at the Mall. It also features snack bar, a restaurant and TV room. 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Amenities include a cloakroom, a safe and currency exchange facilities. Internet access and wireless internet access are available in the public areas. The hotel features a range of facilities for guests with disabilities. The hotel offers a range of amenities for a comfortable stay, including gastronomic options such as a restaurant, a dining area, a breakfast room, a cafe and a bar. Shopping facilities are available. The grounds of the hotel feature a playground and an attractive garden. A playroom is also among the amenities at the hotel. Parking facilities available to guests include a garage and a car park with charge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2876, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 240.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.instyle.com/news/melania-trump-speaks-out-after-zara-jacket-scandal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:44Z", "digest": "sha1:SDTYQITPFFSUVFRNSEOHERPAHAFSBOLC", "length": 2786, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.instyle.com", "title": "Melania Trump Speaks Out After Zara Jacket Scandal | InStyle.com", "raw_content": "Melania Trump Breaks Her Silence After \"I Really Don't Care\" Jacket Scandal\nA day after Melania Trump's tone-deaf decision to wear a military jacket with the phrase, \"I Really Don't Care, Do U?,\" emblazoned on the back while en route to a detention center for immigrant children, FLOTUS is speaking out.\nOn Friday, Trump took to Twitter with a video from her travels to the center in McAllen, Texas; the video shows her shaking hands with the young kids (whose faces are not shown) and admiring their artwork.\n\"Visiting w children at the shelter in #Texas yesterday was very touching,\" she wrote on Twitter alongside the video. \"Despite the difficult circumstances children were in good spirits & very kind. It's my sincere hope Congress will be able to reach across the aisle & find a solution!\"\nVisiting w children at the shelter in #Texas yesterday was very touching. Despite the difficult circumstances children were in good spirits & very kind. It's my sincere hope Congress will be able to reach across the aisle & find a solution! pic.twitter.com/4ZumcDVVMc\nThe video and its accompanying message ignore the coat controversy completely, as Melania is only depicted in the rosey, safari-esque jacket that she paired with white jeans and Stan Smith sneakers during her time inside the center.\nHowever, after leaving Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, on her way back home to the White House, FLOTUS was spotted re-wearing the $39 Zara parka that sent social media ablaze with its callous message in the first place.\nin a $39 Zara military trench coat with the message, \"I Really Don't Care. Do U?\" on the back. The First Lady wore it while departing Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for McAllen, Texas, where she arrived for a visit to an immigrant children's detention center.\nWhile many critiqued her poor style choice, implying that it was a sign of apathy, Trump's communications director, Stephanie Grisham, said the parka did not hold a hidden message.\n\"Today\u2019s visit w the children in Texas impacted @flotus greatly. If media would spend their time & energy on her actions & efforts to help kids - rather than speculate & focus on her wardrobe - we could get so much accomplished on behalf of children,\" she said, adding hashtags #SheCares #ItsJustAJacket for good measure.\nTo make matters more confusing, President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday evening to say that the jacket did actually hold a deeper meaning. \"\"I REALLY DON\u2019T CARE, DO U?\u201d written on the back of Melania\u2019s jacket, refers to the Fake News Media,\" he wrote. \"Melania has learned how dishonest they are, and she truly no longer cares!\"\nThough Melania's intentions may never be made crystal clear, no one can deny the coat's bold statement. Yet we're still left wondering, does she or doesn't she care?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 7509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.inventpartners.com/news/thirty-pieces-of-silver", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:51Z", "digest": "sha1:LNRAHSLRGGSSTM7BMT5TAPOMT7T4GEU5", "length": 1036, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.inventpartners.com", "title": "Thirty Pieces of Silver | Invent Partners", "raw_content": "Making a Time Lapse Video of an Art Installation\nCornelia Parker's work \"Thirty Peices of Silver\" is currently on loan to York Museums Trust from the Tate. It will be on display at York St Mary's over the coming months.\nThe installation of this work is very labour intensive and complex. The work consists of 3,000 silver objects suspended by copper wire from a frame mounted 8 metres above the ground in the vaulted ceiling of the church. 32 kilometres of copper wire and many hours of careful painstaking labour went into the installation.\nInvent Partners recorded time lapse video of the entire installation, from the mounting of the frame in the high ceiling of St Mary's church, to the attachment of the final piece of silver and the removal of the scaffolding.\nWe also wrote and produced original music for the video.\nThe video above is the product of many weeks work for many people.\nWith thanks to York Museums Trust, Tate and Cornelia Parker/Frith St Gallery.\nMore information on Thirty Pieces of Silver at York St Mary's here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/edgx.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IRTNM7I7WTIZFOX6BFNNYMZ656KAKGC4", "length": 3808, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.investopedia.com", "title": "EDGX", "raw_content": "EDGX\nWhat is EDGX\nEDGX Exchange is a U.S. equities exchange operated by Cboe U.S. Equities.\nBREAKING DOWN EDGX\nEDGX and EDGA Exchanges, formerly independent platforms owned by Direct Edge LLC, merged with Bats Global Markets in 2014, and iIn 2017, Cboe Global Markets acquired Bats Global Markets and now operates the BZX Exchange and BYX Exchange along with EDGX and EDGA. The four equities exchanges provide pools of liquidity and facilitate choice and active, liquid markets for their customers. In the U.S. and Europe, the exchanges focus on providing liquidity and quality order execution. The variety of members enhances liquid and varied trading across marketplaces. Cboe offers risk management tools to its members mitigate risk and to smooth market functioning. It structures risks checks along the life of a trade order to manage risk and monitor activity. In the U.S., Cboe\u2019s markets are regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and it is a self-regulatory organization (SRO) toward fair and orderly markets.\nEDGX members\nEDGX and Cboe members are registered broker-dealers across a broad range of financial services companies. Members include automated market makers, such as electronic market-making firms as well as wholesale broker dealers that mainly are market makers for retail orders. Retail brokers may directly route trades to EDGX and Cboe. In addition, the bulge bracket investment banks that offer research and trading to clients also are members. Proprietary traders who buy and sell for their own accounts rather than for clients also are active on the exchanges.\nCboe Global Markets\u2019 parent company, Cboe Holdings, enables trading in multiple asset classes and regions, including options, futures, U.S. and European equities, exchange-traded funds (ETF\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b), and multi-asset volatility and global foreign exchange (FX) products. CBOE Holdings\u2019 14 trading venues include the largest options exchange in the U.S. and the largest stock exchange in Europe. Cboe Holdings is the second-largest stock exchange operator in the U.S. and a leading market globally for ETF trading. It is located in Chicago and has offices in Kansas City, New York City, London, San Francisco, Singapore and in Ecuador.\nCBOE Holdings Inc owns the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the Bats exchanges, CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE). It houses the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX Index), which is a global indicator of equity market volatility. It also operates the CBOE Options Institute, its education arm as well as CBOE Livevol, an options technology, trading analytics and market data services provider. It has CBOE Vest, an asset management company; CBOE Risk Management Conferences (RMC), a financial industry conference provider on derivatives and volatility products. It also owns ETF.com, an ETF news, data and analysis provider, as well as Hotspot, a global FX trading platform.\nBetter Alternative Trading System (BATS)\nThe Better Alternative Trading System (BATS) is a U.S.-based stock exchange offering investors equities, options, and foreign exchange trading services.\nSpeculation is the act of conducting a financial transaction that has substantial risk of losing all value but with the expectation of a significant gain.\nUnderstanding Globex\nIntroduced in 1992, Globex is an electronic trading platform used for derivative, futures, and commodity contracts. Developed for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Globex operates continuously, unrestricted by geographic borders or time zones.\nNYSE Arca is an electronic securities exchange in the U.S. on which exchange-traded products (ETPs) and equities trade.\nAutex is an electronic platform from Thomson Financial that allows potential buyers or sellers of a large block of shares to identify each other.\nWhat Maker-Taker Fees Mean to You", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 6076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ipse.co.uk/our/news-listing/what-have-our-members-said-about-ir.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:26Z", "digest": "sha1:25U6VK6XTEQZGBRHU57HQZSKLBBGCHTX", "length": 4027, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ipse.co.uk", "title": "What have IPSE members said about IR35? | IPSE", "raw_content": "What have our members said about IR35?\n\u201cChilling\u201d, \u201cnaive\u201d, \u201cbizarre\u201d, \u201cdamaging\u201d, \u201cprohibitive\u201d \u2013 just some of the words contractors have used to describe the Government\u2019s proposed extension of IR35 reforms from the public to the private sector.\nJust weeks ago, IPSE \u2013 alongside the CIPD \u2013 released major research which painted a frightening picture of the legislation\u2019s chaotic impact in the public sector. Behind the statistics, however, the anecdotal evidence from those in the firing line is just as concerning.\nWith next week\u2019s consultation deadline fast approaching, IPSE held a series of focus groups over the last few months to gather the opinions and experiences of members. The responses, which outline the stark and telling reality of the Government\u2019s intentions, will inform IPSE\u2019s official submission.\nAs one contractor put it: \u201cThe proposal alone is having a chilling effect on individuals, businesses and the economy\u201d.\nFollowing the introduction of the public sector reforms in April 2017, we have seen a mass exodus of highly-skilled, specialised contractors forced to walk away from major projects. The result? Stalling major TfL developments and, worse still, contributing to the staffing crisis at the NHS.\nIf extended to the private sector, where many former public sector contractors now reside, IR35 could force contractors to turn down work altogether; exacerbating the economic struggles caused by Britain\u2019s ongoing exit from the EU.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m alone in this, I would walk away from any contract that insists on applying IR35,\u201d one contractor said. \u201cI would work abroad if necessary.\u201d\nWorryingly, they are not alone.\n\u201cI would walk away from any contract that insists that I\u2019m inside IR35,\u201d another told us.\n\u201cThis would cause an absence of highly experienced skill in the UK workplace, which can only be damaging,\u201d said another. \u201cPeople are in different financial circumstances and developing legislation to tax everybody as a direct employee is prohibitive to keeping many of us in the workplace.\n\u201cIt would cause a fall in tax revenue to HMRC as we would no longer be working. Corporation tax receipts and VAT collected through our limited companies would cease.\u201d\nIf the Government rolls out the changes, organisations in the private sector \u2013 many of whom know little about their newfound obligations in determining IR35 statuses \u2013 will be burdened with making judgements about what is an extremely complex piece of tax law.\nThere is the real concern that private sector organisations follow the tactic adopted by many public sector bodies who, to prevent themselves falling foul of HMRC, are making blanket assessments \u2013 thus incorrectly taxing thousands of legitimately contractors as employees.\nWith the private sector\u2019s blissful ignorance of IR35 under threat, the concern of the contracting community is growing.\nAs one individual put it: \u201cThere\u2019s a fair bit of awareness of the proposal (to extend IR35 changes to the private sector) amongst contractors, but definitely not amongst clients \u2013 many are completely unaware and totally unprepared.\n\u201cIt's a bizarre that one company should decide the tax affairs of another. After all, you don't ask the window cleaner how they arrange their tax affairs!\u201d\nFurther still, to avoid dealing with the complexities of IR35 altogether, some organisations would steer clear of contractors entirely, another focus group participant worried.\n\u201cCompanies who hire freelancers are going to look at these IR35 obligations and go, \u2018no way, it\u2019s easier to go to one of the big four consultancies\u2019, and they don\u2019t have to worry about all this complicated IR35 business. This could turn out to be a really anti-small business move.\u201d\nThe Government's insistence on attacking some of the UK\u2019s most skilled, dynamic workers is particularly puzzling given that it flies in the face of the \u2018good work\u2019 narrative. If the Government wants to be taken seriously in its promotion of the \u2018good work\u2019 agenda, it must ditch its hellbent pursuit of such inhibiting policies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ipvs.com.au/avaya-1408-handset/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ODY7TVXTLH4A3XSPXV3SAUWZQRGFKQZC", "length": 220, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ipvs.com.au", "title": "Avaya-1408-Handset | IPVS );", "raw_content": "Avaya-1408-Handset\nhttp://www.ipvs.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IPVS-Logo-1.png 0 0 IPVS http://www.ipvs.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IPVS-Logo-1.png IPVS2015-12-07 13:52:592015-12-07 13:52:59Avaya-1408-Handset", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 153.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.itproportal.com/2012/05/22/paysafecard-pins-sold-over-internet-linked-fraud/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:44Z", "digest": "sha1:KSH2XKMJOBB7WDSQJV4X7ACD33A2RR6B", "length": 1205, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.itproportal.com", "title": "Paysafecard PINs Sold Over The Internet Linked To Fraud | ITProPortal", "raw_content": "Paysafecard PINs Sold Over The Internet Linked To Fraud\nPaysafecard PINs sold over the Internet are increasingly being linked to fraud, the Vienna-based company warns.\nThe electronic payment method billed as \"cash for the Internet\" uses a pre-paid system and does not require debit or credit cards. The service, which is regulated in the UK by the Financial Services Commission, aims to function like cash instead.\nCustomers can purchase secure 16-digit PINs, printed on the back of a card or voucher, from one of 350,000 official sales outlets worldwide, and then spend that money at any of 3,500 authorised online shops, many of which are gaming-related.\nBut there is a growing trend of PINs being sold over the Internet for sums below their actual value, a practice that violates Paysafecard's terms and conditions. The overwhelming majority of these are fraudulent, with users discovering the cards have previously been used or locked only while attempting to redeem them.\nThe company also warns against a form of virus-based fraud, which paralyses infected computers and demands that users pay a fine or ransom using, among other forms of payment, a Paysafecard PIN to regain access to their devices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 290.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ixreach.com/news-events/events-calendar/uknof-32/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:00Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZLEFCZF6ILBPVDIKKBYL3I4B2XOWXND", "length": 580, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ixreach.com", "title": "UKNOF 32 - IX Reach", "raw_content": "After a successful UKNOF 31, of which IX Reach were a sponsor, we are heading to UKNOF 32 in Sheffield, UK. The event will be held over the course of two day \u2013 16th and 17th September and is being held at the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria hotel.\nTo see the full overview of the event and find out about speakers and sponsors, click here and to see the current attendee list please click here.\nIf you are planning on attending the event and would like to meet with a member of the IX Reach team then send an email to enquiries@ixreach.com and a member of the team will get back to you", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jackamans.co.uk/page/personal-injury/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DDBZBCSVLJAV7UWFDAOZYMHWPIVSDKID", "length": 2057, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.jackamans.co.uk", "title": "Personal Injury | Jackamans Solicitors", "raw_content": "Compensation is available if you have been hurt as a result of negligence or Breach of Statutory duty. If you think this is the case then please contact us and we can discuss whether we feel anyone is liable for your injuries. We may be able to obtain compensation for your injuries together with any consequential financial loss you may have suffered.\nWe will discuss the claim with you and, if appropriate, lodge a claim on your behalf. Most personal injury claims are dealt with under a Protocol which requires insurers to respond to us within 3 months. They must either accept responsibility for what has happened or, if denied, explain why.\nIf responsibility is admitted we can then proceed to obtain medical evidence in support of your claim, which may also include obtaining rehabilitation treatment for you or an operation to assist with your recovery. Once you have recovered, you will be referred to an independent Consultant who will see you to prepare a medico legal report in support of your claim. This report will help us assess the level of General Damages appropriate for your injuries/recovery. We can also claim Special Damages, for any financial losses and expenses which you have incurred as a direct result of the accident.\nIf responsibility is denied we will discuss with you the options available, which may involve issuing formal court proceedings. Although even if we do this it is not necessarily the case that the matter will progress to a court hearing as many cases are settled by way of negotiation during this process.\nIn the first instance we will also discuss with you the question of costs. It may well be that your claim is suitable for a Conditional Fee (or \u2018no win, no fee\u2019) Agreement.\nDuring this process one of our highly experienced team will support you through each stage of your claim, keeping you up to date with the progress of your case.\nPlease telephone or email for further information or to discuss your requirements. You may like to take a look at our profiles of our Personal Injury team by clicking here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 6617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jain2jain.org/user/profile.aspx?ID=101422", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:40Z", "digest": "sha1:34G74YVUPH4MNIVI4QUJLNDYBMMLDXV4", "length": 101, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jain2jain.org", "title": "www.jain2jain.org - No. 1 Jain Matrimonial, Matrimony Site", "raw_content": "B.E./B.Tech (Computer Eng) from JIET, Pursuing M.S. 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The car transforms into a light airplane when wings and a flight tail unit are attached, and flies \"200 miles west of Bangkok\", as Bond later reports to M.\nThe actual machine was not airworthy and could only make a 500-metre (1,640 ft) flight, so a meter-long (39 inch) remote controlled scale model built by John Stears was used for the film's aerial sequences. One of these models is on display at the Designing 007 exhibitions around the world.\nThe \"flying AMC Matador\" machine was exhibited at auto shows. It was part of AMC's marketing efforts for the aerodynamically designed coupe, as well as publicity exposure for the concept of unique flying machines. The Man With The Golden Gun movie is filled with AMC cars, as part of a product placement strategy. James Bond himself (Roger Moore) drives an AMC Hornet hatchback, which he takes from an AMC dealership to chase Scaramanga. AMC Matador 4-door sedan police cars can also be seen. 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AMC is mentioned in the end credits of the film.\nScaramanga's AMC Matador coupe has been made into a 1:43 scale model in the James Bond Car Collection, issue 44.\nFind this model on eBay.\nAMC Matador Coupe fan site", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 5869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jasminedirectory.com/computers/software/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TDIESUAKZE5YS4QWRMGOTTJWARC7NJPG", "length": 9037, "nlines": 112, "source_domain": "www.jasminedirectory.com", "title": "Software Web Directory listings (1-30)", "raw_content": "1STEIN - Photo Book Publishing Software\n3P is an advanced photo book software solution, offering an award winning book designer for Windows & Macintosh, a platform independent online designer for print products and a robust and flexible storefront, shopping cart & backoffice print production suite.\nhttp://www.3p-publisher.com\n1STEIN - Photo Book Publishing Software \u00bb\n3StepPDF: Watermark, Crop, Split, Merge and Create PDF Files\nhttp://3steppdf.com\n3StepPDF: Watermark, Crop, Split, Merge and Create PDF Files \u00bb\nAccess aCloud\nOffers a suite of cloud-based software solutions to streamline your business.\nhttps://www.accessacloud.com/\nAccess aCloud \u00bb\nAdvance Systems Inc.: Workforce Management Software\nA premier provider of Workforce Management Systems based in Boston Massachusetts USA.\nhttps://advancesystemsinc.com/\nAdvance Systems Inc.: Workforce Management Software \u00bb\nAppInstitute - DIY App Builder for Small Businesses\nProvides a simple way for small businesses to create, publish and manage their own iPhone and Android app using a DIY app builder platform, making entering the app market easy for even the least tech-savvy small business owner.\nhttps://appinstitute.com\nAppInstitute - DIY App Builder for Small Businesses \u00bb\nApps4wd\nOffers all new mobile apps reviews and direct download links for free.\nhttp://www.apps4wd.net\nApps4wd \u00bb\nArcisphere Technologies\nProvides software development lifecycle & release management consulting as well as training & staffing for IBM Rational software.\nhttp://softwarelifecyclepros.com/\nArcisphere Technologies \u00bb\nAssetPoint CMMS Software\nA provider of EAM CMMS solutions for companies whose success depends on the performance of their assets.\nhttp://www.assetpoint.com\nAssetPoint CMMS Software \u00bb\nCemetery software with mapping, revenue generation and website based records management.\nhttp://cemsites.com\nCemSites \u00bb\nHelps vendors profile, recruit, educate, enable, engage and collaborate with partners to drive channel performance.\nhttps://www.channeltivity.com/\nChanneltivity \u00bb\nCompare Cloudware\nOne of the first IT and communications comparison websites. Consumers are able to choose, compare, review, try and eventually buy from many of the major providers of cloudware services. Compare Cloudware makes choosing the right cloudware for you easier, and helps consumers choose an application that suits their budget.\nhttp://comparecloudware.com/\nCompare Cloudware \u00bb\nA cloud-based software that streamlines all parts of property management.\nhttps://www.condocontrolcentral.com/\nCondo Control Central \u00bb\nProvides full construction management solutions, with project and service management that is completely integrated to the accounting and reporting back office system.\nhttps://www.jonasconstruction.com/\nConstruction Management Software \u00bb\nConvertio EP\nA free online file converter from anything to anything without any limits. Over 45 file formats supporting.\nhttps://convertio.co/\nConvertio \u00bb\ndocSTAR Solutions \u00bb\nOffers categorized Windows freeware and shareware software and games downloads. Each software product have detailed information such as product description, pictures and videos, system requirements, supported languages etc. Products are manually added and updated daily.\nhttps://www.download.hr/\nDownload.hr \u00bb\nProvides an on-demand collaboration service to enable businesses and individuals to share information securely via their email or file encryption software.\nhttps://www.egress.com/\nEgress Software Technologies \u00bb\nComplete employee survey solution that enables you to measure employee engagement and strategic alignment within your organization.\nhttps://www.custominsight.com/employee-engagement-survey/\nEmployee Engagement Surveys \u00bb\nEnsign Online\nOffers deals on software options developed for several UK-based contractors.\nhttps://ensignonline.co.uk/\nEnsign Online \u00bb\nEurodata: SaaS Solutions\nEurodata is a German German Software Company and provides SaaS solutions such as software as a service, accounting software, payroll software, data integration, process monitoring and cloud services.\nhttps://www.eurodata.de/en\nEurodata: SaaS Solutions \u00bb\nForm2go\nOffering users the chance to create online HTML forms and web surveys.\nhttp://www.form2go.com/\nForm2go \u00bb\nFotor EP\nAn all-in-one, photo editing and graphics design suite with a set of tools and preset design elements that are easy-to-use but don't require a steep learning curve.\nhttps://www.fotor.com\nFotor \u00bb\nOnline tool to take screenshots. Alternatively users can extract data from the web using their \"Screen Scraper\".\nhttps://grabz.it/\nGrabzIt \u00bb\nGuruContact\nA platform offering free email marketing solutions.\nhttps://www.gurucontact.com/\nGuruContact \u00bb\nAlora Home Health Software is a complete web based system which allows Home Health Care agencies to increase profitability, save time, and improve workflow efficiency. The software is engineered for agencies of all sizes.\nhttp://www.alorahealth.com\nHome Health Software \u00bb\nIntraFocus EP\nIntraFocus \u00bb\nInvoicea EP\nInvoicea is an online invoicing solution for freelancers and small businesses.\nhttps://www.invoicea.com/\nInvoicea \u00bb\niPad VPN Software. They offer a free trial.\niSimplyConnect \u00bb\nJoyDownload EP\nAn aggregator of free third-party software. Their download manager distributes the original unmodified software, obtained directly from author's websites, and does not modify it in any way.\nhttp://www.joydownload.com/\nJoyDownload \u00bb\nKZO Innovations\nProvides a social online video platform for enterprises to securely capture, manage and distribute on-demand video content with social commenting features.\nhttps://www.kzoinnovations.com/\nKZO Innovations \u00bb\nPages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | >>\nThe average computer doesn't just consist of hardware. In order for the average user to be able to get the maximum benefits from their computer, they have to have software.\nThe term software is used to describe any computer program that performs tasks on a computer. Software is different from hardware as hardware describes the physical workings of a computer (such as motherboards and video cards), while software describes otherwise intangible objects that are otherwise kept on a storage medium such as a hard disk or compact disc.\nThe types of software used today vary greatly depending on the needs of the consumer. For those who want to create and print documents, word processing software such as Microsoft Word is the ideal software to use. Other types of software include graphics manipulation, spreadsheets, games, security suites and diagnostic tools for monitoring the health of your computer. Software driven user interfaces are used with operating systems in order to provide a usable graphical display in other words, the icons and mouse cursor you see on your operating system.\nSoftware can be further broken down into system software, used for running computer hardware and computer systems, programming software consisting of compilers and debuggers for various programming languages such as Visual Basic, and application software ranging from document creation and business software to computer games and database management software.\nSoftware reffers to both computer programs and the other pieces of information that are either written or read by computers. Softwares can be created by programmers, and a software has many meanings. For instance, the term of software can reffer to firmware or system software for example operating systems like Windows which we all know. Without such kind of a software we would not be able to use the computers. Moreover, when it comes to the types of software there is a wide array of softwares such as web pages or others type of software that are especially created for computer games. Programmers are the ones that we should be thankful to for the game softwares that they create.\nCreating a software is not an easy job because the one in charge with software developing must be very familiar with this area of IT and know different types of languages used in programming such as C++ . When programming, a programmer uses a programming software that assists him in his work. Talking about the system software, as mentioned above some of the examples of system software can be Windows or Linux. This is the most complex software because it helps you when starting the computer software and basically this system software supports all the other programs running on your computer, beginning with the Winamp and ending with BS Player which you use when you open a movie.\nThere's much more information about software and how it functions in the computer technology environment, and Jasminedirectory.com is the perfect place to look for more detailed information on software. Our free online web directory features a hassle free way of performing your research, without any membership or registration necessary.\nNow you can get links to informative and relevant websites without having to comb through hundreds of fruitless search engine results. Jasminedirectory.com is the best place for searching for software.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 10266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jche.org/stories-from-jche-reader/items/an-insight-from-a-5t.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VN2OITRIN3YPULCHNFYLRAYMHBFTNLKA", "length": 1912, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.jche.org", "title": "An insight from a 5th grade Generations Together participant: \u201cPeople who are different ages can be the same\u201d - JCHE.org", "raw_content": "An insight from a 5th grade Generations Together participant: \u201cPeople who are different ages can be the same\u201d\nThe conversation began flowing the minute the busload of fifth grade students from the Everett School in Dorchester met their yearlong JCHE pen pals. It didn\u2019t matter that these pen pal pairs were decades apart age-wise and often just as un-alike culturally. After all, they had been exchanging letters throughout the year and learning about one another\u2019s interests, families and favorite things to do. The face-to-face meeting was the perfect time to keep the conversation going.\nAfter working on some word puzzles together and enjoying a delicious picnic lunch, the multi-generational pen pals met in a large group. Forming a circle, they took turns sharing an aspect of the pen pal program they liked. As each person spoke, he/she threw a ball of yarn to another while holding on to a segment of the string. After everyone shared a thought, a beautiful web had been created joining each member of the group.\nThe comments were heartfelt. Here\u2019s what some of the children said about participating in the pen pal program:\n\u201cPeople who are different ages can be the same.\u201d\n\u201cNo matter what you do you always have a friend.\u201d\n\u201cPeople of different ages are not that different.\u201d\n\u201cYou meet new people and enjoy conversations with people of all ages.\u201d\n\u201cI enjoyed meeting my pen pal. We have a lot in common.\u201d\nHere\u2019s what the older adults said:\n\u201cIt\u2019s great to be young no matter how old you are.\u201d\n\u201cI enjoy getting to know young people. I don\u2019t have any school age children in my family.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ve been in the pen pal program for many years and every year, the joy grows. By the end of the year, every child seems to grow at least three years!\u201d\n\u201cI truly learn from these kids.\u201d\n\u201cI like the element of surprise \u2013 my pen pal is so tall, \u201c stated by a JCHE resident who needed to look up to see her fifth grade pen pal!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jeffcok12events.org/public/eventdetail/genie/581/school/8/event/3104288/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:26Z", "digest": "sha1:F7ZGVHSI5DLZCTG4LXBGVOWO37GMKSH7", "length": 79, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jeffcok12events.org", "title": "rSchoolToday", "raw_content": "Monday, Mar 11, 2019 Time 7:30pm - 9:15pm\nvs. Rock Canyon @ Trailblazer Stadium", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 267.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/128649/hi-guys-need-proof-watchtower-article-can-anybody-help", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:05Z", "digest": "sha1:AQ65C6X4AO5AAS4ETO57WE2V27QVFPT6", "length": 12229, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.jehovahs-witness.com", "title": "Hi guys I need proof of a watchtower article, can anybody help?", "raw_content": "Hi guys I need proof of a watchtower article, can anybody help?\nby needproof 8 Replies latest jw friends\nHi, I was just reading e-watchmans website (came across it by accident, wouldn't normally entertain it) and I read that, and quote: \"The August 1st, 2004, Watchtower magazine carries a typical feature article entitled: \"Good Government, Where Can It Be Found?\" The article briefly makes the case for world government and then asserts that world government has already become a reality since 1914 in the form of God's kingdom.\nOn page four the Watchtower appears to be pandering to the sci-fi generation, saying of the tribulation: \"An attack from another planet? Whether that would bring together all the nations of the earth or not, Bible prophecy does speak of an impending crisis that will cause the nations of the world to band together. And the crisis will, indeed, be brought about by extraterrestrial forces.\"\nSomebody please tell me that they haven't gone so far as to say that have they? Does anybody have that scanned? I'd be so appreciative\n**Apostate of 4 years and counting\n*** w04 8/1 p. 4 God's Kingdom Government? A Reality Today ***\nGod's Kingdom Government?A Reality Today\n\"How can so many countries, with such diverse cultures at such different stages of development, agree? It has been said that only an attack from another planet will unify the human race.\" - The Age, Australian newspaper.\nAN ATTACK from another planet? Whether that would bring together all the nations of the earth or not, Bible prophecy does speak of an impending crisis that will cause the nations of the world to band together. And the crisis will, indeed, be brought about by extraterrestrial forces.\nI didn't see that particular article but I know from previous experience that they use the term ET to denote spirit creatures in general...whether it be God, Jesus or the angels...anything not of earthly origin, so I would say that is what was meant. It's an attention grabber I guess.\nI think there is much more to it than that.\nThanks for the confirmation by the way!\ntijkmo\nw048/1pp.4-7God\u2019sKingdomGovernment\u2014ARealityToday***\nKingdomGovernment\u2014ARealityToday\n\"How can so many countries, with such diverse cultures at such different stages of development, agree? It has been said that only an attack from another planet will unify the human race.\"\u2014TheAge, Australian newspaper.\nKing David of ancient Israel prophetically spoke of this world situation. Under divine inspiration he wrote: \"The kings of earth take their stand and high officials themselves have massed together as one against Jehovah and against his anointed one, saying: \u2018Let us tear their bands apart and cast their cords away from us!\u2019\" (Psalm 2:2, 3; Acts 4:25, 26) Note that the rulers of the world would mass together as one against Jehovah, the Creator of the universe, and his anointed one, or his appointed King, Jesus Christ. How would that take place?\nAccording to Bible chronology and fulfilled prophecies, in the year 1914, God\u2019s Kingdom was established in the heavens with Jesus Christ as King. At that time the nations of the world had one thought in common. Rather than submitting to the sovereignty of God\u2019s newborn Kingdom, they were embroiled in a contest of power\u2014the Great War, or World War I.\nHow does Jehovah God view such a reaction on the part of human rulers? \"The very One sitting in the heavens will laugh; Jehovah himself will hold them in derision. At that time he will speak to them in his anger and in his hot displeasure he will disturb them.\" Then, Jehovah will tell his Son, the anointed King of the Kingdom: \"Ask of me, that I may give nations as your inheritance and the ends of the earth as your own possession. You will break them with an iron scepter, as though a potter\u2019s vessel you will dash them to pieces.\"\u2014Psalm 2:4, 5, 8, 9.\nThis final crushing of the opposing nations with an iron scepter will take place at Armageddon, or Har\u2013Magedon. The last book of the Bible, Revelation, describes this climactic event as \"the war of the great day of God the Almighty,\" to which \"the kings of the entire inhabited earth\" are being gathered together. (Revelation 16:14, 16) Under demonic influence, the nations of the earth will finally be united with one objective\u2014to war against God the Almighty.\nThe time when humans will mass together to fight against God\u2019s sovereignty is fast approaching. Ironically, their \"unity\" will bring them no personal benefits. Instead, their action will be a prelude to the long-awaited peace for all mankind. How so? In that final battle, God\u2019s Kingdom \"will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms [of the world], and it itself will stand to times indefinite.\" (Daniel 2:44) God\u2019s Kingdom, not any human organization, will be the government that will fulfill mankind\u2019s desire for world peace.\nChiefAdministratoroftheKingdomGovernment\nThat is the Kingdom for which many sincere people have prayed, saying: \"Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.\" (Matthew 6:10) Rather than being an abstract condition of the heart, God\u2019s Kingdom is a real government that has accomplished wonderful deeds since its inauguration in heaven in 1914. Let us consider some key factors that demonstrate that God\u2019s Kingdom is a reality in full action today.\nFirst of all, it has a powerful and efficient executive branch headed by the enthroned King, Jesus Christ. In 33 C.E., Jehovah God made Jesus Christ the Head of the Christian congregation. (Ephesians 1:22) Since then, Jesus has been exercising his headship, thus demonstrating his administrative ability. For example, when a great famine struck Judea in the first century, the Christian congregation immediately took action to come to the aid of its members. A relief work was organized, and Barnabas and Saul were dispatched from Antioch with a relief ministration.\u2014Acts 11:27-30.\nNo less can be expected of Jesus Christ now that the Kingdom government is in operation. Whenever disasters\u2014earthquakes, famines, floods, hurricanes, storms, or volcanic eruptions\u2014strike, the Christian congregation of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses responds quickly to the needs of fellow believers and others in the affected areas. For instance, when devastating earthquakes hit El Salvador in January and February 2001, relief activities were organized in all parts of the country, and groups of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses from Canada, Guatemala, and the United States provided help. Three of their places of worship as well as over 500 homes were rebuilt in short order.\nofGod\u2019sKingdomGovernment\nEver since its establishment in 1914, God\u2019s heavenly Kingdom has been gathering and organizing its subjects from peoples around the world. This is in fulfillment of a remarkable prophecy recorded by Isaiah: \"It must occur in the final part of the days that the mountain of the house of Jehovah [his exalted true worship] will become firmly established above the top of the mountains, . . . and to it all the nations must stream.\" The prophecy shows that \"many peoples\" would go up to that mountain and embrace Jehovah\u2019s instructions and laws.\u2014Isaiah 2:2, 3.\nThis activity has resulted in the most significant movement of modern times\u2014an international brotherhood of over 6,000,000 Christians in more than 230 lands of the earth. At international conventions of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, observers are often astounded to see the love, peace, and unity among the vast crowds of people, transcending barriers of nationality, culture, and language. (Acts 10:34, 35) Would you not agree that for a government to be able to bring hundreds of ethnic groups together in peace and harmony, it must be effective and stable\u2014and real?\nKingdomandEducation\nEvery government has standards that its citizens are expected to meet, and everyone who wants to live under that government must meet those standards. Similarly, God\u2019s Kingdom has standards that all who would qualify as its subjects must measure up to. However, to enable so many people with vastly different backgrounds to accept and abide by the same standards is certainly a mammoth undertaking. Here, then, is another factor that testifies to the reality of God\u2019s Kingdom\u2014its effective program of education that reaches and transforms not only the mind but also the heart.\nHow does the Kingdom government accomplish this challenging task? By the apostolic method of preaching \"from house to house\" and teaching God\u2019s Word on an individual basis. (Acts 5:42; 20:20) How effective is this form of education? Jacques Johnson, a Catholic priest, wrote in a Canadian weekly about his efforts to dissuade a woman from studying with Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses. \"I was quite baffled and realized that I was involved in a losing battle,\" he said. \"I began to realize that over several months these JW women knitted meaningful relationships with this young shut-in mother. They connected with her by helping her, befriending her, establishing meaningful bonds of the heart. She soon became an active member in their religion and there was little I could do to prevent that from happening.\" Just as the heart of this former Catholic was moved by the Bible message taught by Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses and by their Christian conduct, so the hearts of millions worldwide are being touched.\nThis form of education\u2014Kingdom education\u2014is centered on the Bible, upholding its values and its standards on morals. It teaches people to love and honor one another regardless of their background. (John 13:34, 35) It also helps people to respond to the admonition: \"Quit being fashioned after this system of things, but be transformed by making your mind over, that you may prove to yourselves the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.\" (Romans 12:2) Leaving behind their former way of life and happily conforming to the laws and principles of the Kingdom government, millions have found peace and happiness now and bright prospects for the future.\u2014Colossians 3:9-11.\nAn outstanding aid in achieving this worldwide unity is this magazine, TheWatchtower. By means of coordinated translation methods and multilanguage publishing equipment, the principal articles in TheWatchtower are published simultaneously in 135 languages, and over 95 percent of its readers worldwide can study the material in their own language at the same time.\nA Mormon writer cataloged the most exceptional missionary successes outside of his own church. He listed TheWatchtower and Awake!, published by Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, as the best evangelizing magazines and said: \"No one could ever accuse Watchtower or Awake! of fostering complacency\u2014to the contrary, they generate a sense of awareness that I have rarely encountered in other religious publications. The Watchtower and Awake! are refreshing in their factual-based, well-researched, relevant real-world content.\"\nEvidence is overwhelming that God\u2019s Kingdom is a reality in full operation. Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses happily and energetically share \"this good news of the kingdom\" with their neighbors, inviting them to become its subjects. (Matthew 24:14) Does such a prospect appeal to you? You can enjoy the blessings that come from associating with those who are being educated in and endeavoring to live by the standards of the Kingdom. Better still, you can come to enjoy the prospect of living under Kingdom rule in the promised new world in which \"righteousness is to dwell.\"\u20142 Peter 3:13.\nFor a detailed discussion, see chapter 10, \"God\u2019s Kingdom Rules,\" in the book KnowledgeThatLeadstoEverlastingLife, published by Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, pages 90-7.\n[Picture\nonpage 4, 5]\nIn 1914 the nations became embroiled in a world war\n[Pictures\nonpage 6]\nVoluntary relief work is evidence of Christian love in action\nJehovah\u2019s Witnesses worldwide benefit from the same program of education\nThank you Tijkmo!\nColdRedRain\nAliens from outer space. What will they think of next?\n\"An attack from another planet? Whether that would bring together all the nations of the earth or not, Bible prophecy does speak of an impending crisis that will cause the nations of the world to band together. And the crisis will, indeed, be brought about by extraterrestrial forces.\"\nEveryone \"in the know\" knows the Annunaki are returning soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 13295, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jellynote.com/en/song/ks-choice/2114/come-live-the-life/10666593", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KIESWW7YT2WXNA7X3Q27L4C6MK6EXDQY", "length": 300, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.jellynote.com", "title": "Come Live the Life - sheet music and tabs", "raw_content": "Come Live the Life - K\u2019s Choice\nContribute to the community. Add sheet music, tabs or chords for \"Come Live the Life - K\u2019s Choice\".\nRequest this song. Then, some users will may try to write sheet music, tabs or chords for \"Come Live the Life - K\u2019s Choice\". Jellynote won't provide sheet music itself!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jennycarlisle.net/2017/05/practicing-poise-and-personality.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XJ7F2UDTOTPC2JSSRGYSC6LHD6WACFKL", "length": 4791, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.jennycarlisle.net", "title": "JennyCarlisle.net: Practicing Poise and Personality through Pageantry", "raw_content": "Practicing Poise and Personality through Pageantry\nSomething you might not know - I was actually the official Bryant Junior Miss for 1975. Well, at least by default. Here, as Paul Harvey would say, is the rest of the story. My high school sponsored a pageant each year, which was affiliated with the national Junior Miss program, a well-respected scholarship contest of the time. The winner of our pageant went on to win a regional pageant, which meant the runner up became Bryant\u2019s Junior Miss. This lovely young lady also won a regional contest. Both participated in the State contest, held that year at Robinson Auditorium in Little Rock. Because of their regional wins, neither wore the title of Bryant\u2019s Junior Miss at that event. I had been the second runner-up. So, logically, the vacant title belonged to me, right? I laughingly mentioned this forgotten detail at our class reunion, and my sweet classmates awarded me with an overdue tiara.\nSo, what may you ask, is the big deal with a title, even when a tiara comes along with it? To many young ladies, that title represents recognition for a lot of hard work. Girls love to be reminded how pretty they are, but to be judged the prettiest is not easy. Our pageant in Bryant included several musical numbers, demonstrations of talent by each contestant, and a \u201crunway walk\u201d to show grace and poise in formal dress. The audience at the evening performance saw all of this, but they weren\u2019t present for the interview process held earlier. I remember being very nervous, and also that I was required to purchase a pair of gloves for the occasion. Easier to find in the mid-seventies than they would be now, but still out of my comfort zone for sure.\nLike any competition, pageants can become all-consuming and overdone. I certainly don\u2019t endorse some of the gyrations that parents put their children through all for the sake of winning. Pageant Moms can be every bit as bad as Little League Dads. But, for young people who really display an interest, and parents who are supportive without being pushy, contests of all kinds can be a character building experience for all involved.\nLocal pageants in particular celebrate the culture of their area. In agricultural areas, they usually emphasize the most prominent crop. So, we end up with Watermelon and Pink Tomato Queens in Arkansas, and in Florida, Strawberry Queens. On a trip to the Plant City, Florida one year, we attended the Strawberry Festival, held on fairgrounds that reminded us of the State Fairgrounds in Little Rock. One display in a large exhibit hall held the gowns of past Strawberry Queens dating back to the 1930s. The local ladies have taken this thing very seriously for a long time.\nThere is certainly something to be said for youngsters who can help the family with their dirty, labor intensive work by day, and then clean up to don fancy clothes in the evening. It takes a well-rounded young lady to pull something like that off, for sure. In the Ouachita area, some of these pageants are held around livestock shows, so horsemanship becomes one of the judging criteria. A few years ago, we helped some ladies to select just the right cowgirl attire for the Conway County Fair Queen pageant. Glamour, glitter, boots and hats combine to produce some great results too!\nWhen our daughter was three, our hometown of Shannon Hills held a beauty pageant as part of their Fourth of July celebration. This was no easy feat, as a couple dozen moms and little girls were required to compete in fancy dresses and swimsuits, as well as preparing a short talent demonstation. At that age, the costume changes alone are a major accomplishment. The local cable TV channel \u201cstreamed\u201d the proceedings live, and the ordeal (oh, sorry, I mean the contest) will live in our memories forever. This is certainly the stuff of family legends!\nMost recently, our grand-daughter participated in the pageant at the Fourche River Days held at the Perry County Fairgrounds. Girls from the age of seven months to 15 years smiled, waved and posed to the delight of parents and grandparents. Our nine-year-old coveted the crown itself, but she learned that they don\u2019t just pass those sparkly treasures out to everyone who registers. She is beginning to appreciate the pain and effort that goes into winning any competition.\nThe lesson in all of this- Anything worth having is worth working for. Congratulations to area youth and their parents who are showing off their varied talents and competing in so many different ways. The prizes won are worth the effort, and you will be stronger for it. Even if your tears mess up your makeup a little bit in the process.\nLabels: Fourche River Days, Junior Miss, Shannon Hills, Strawberry Festival\nPracticing Poise and Personality through Pageantry...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 6799, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jennycraig.com.au/blog/success-stories/our-members/meet-karin-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:59Z", "digest": "sha1:R46VP3SWHHF7XHQX7EQMLZWWOHKEMQBS", "length": 933, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.jennycraig.com.au", "title": "Meet Karin Now - Jenny Craig", "raw_content": "Meet Karin Now\nCentre: Taringa, QLD\nI came to Jenny Craig because I felt totally out of control with my eating and I was not sure how to lose weight and keep it off for good. When I started Jenny Craig I weighed 87.9 kgs and had realised I wanted to change my life and keep the weight off for good.\nBy sticking to the Jenny menu I was able to see the results each week and learned about food and portion control. Louisa was my consultant, and the main reason I have succeeded is the accountability of coming in to the centre and weighing in. Louisa was so positive and motivating. I wanted to come into the centre and looked forward to weighing in, her support and encouragement was amazing.\nDoing this program is the best thing I have ever done and I feel at 43, the best I have felt my whole life. It is never too late to set a goal and work toward a healthier lifestyle.\nI would encourage anyone to give it a try. Jenny does work!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jobapscloud.com/MIL/sup/BulPreview.asp?R1=1901&R2=1547.5&R3=001", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:33Z", "digest": "sha1:JHG7POYA7AJH47BWIZZSU64MODT7YWCM", "length": 5642, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.jobapscloud.com", "title": "Job Announcement: MUNICIPAL SERVICES ELECTRICIAN - City of Milwaukee", "raw_content": "MUNICIPAL SERVICES ELECTRICIAN\nRecruitment #1901-1547.5-001\nWhat Milwaukee can offer YOU\nThe City of Milwaukee offers a collaborative, positive work environment where each employee contributes to making the city the best place possible to live and work.\nThe Municipal Services Electrician inspects, installs, services, repairs and maintains electrical equipment for the City\u2019s street lighting, traffic control, water and sewer instrumentation, communication network systems, buildings, and facilities.\nNOTE: The eligible list resulting from this examination may be used to fill Municipal Services Electrician positions within various City of Milwaukee departments, including the Department of Public Works, the Milwaukee Public Library and the Milwaukee Water Works\nInspect, install, service, repair, and/or maintain the following:\nOverhead and underground wires, cables, transformers, switchgear and other accessories, underground conduits, manholes, and vaults.\nElectronic/electrical and mechanical equipment and poles used to carry wires and cables.\nComputerized systems, monitoring/control systems, DC battery systems, high voltage systems (>7KV), variable speed drive equipment, HVAC systems, alarms, and various motor types.\nCranes, telemetry, fiber optic and metallic cable, data-line telemetry, parking control, and other electric/electronic systems.\nProgrammable logic controllers (PLCs) and all types of raceway systems.\nDrive or operate commercial and/or non-commercial vehicles as needed in assigned work unit.\nMunicipal Services Electricians must be available for emergency call-in work, as needed. Evening, weekend, and holiday work may be assigned on a rotating schedule.\nAbility to see colors in order to use color-coded wiring systems (cannot be color-blind).\nAbility to work in confined underground spaces.\nMust be able to perform physical activities in the work environment that require agility, including ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps or poles; walking and standing, crawling, crouching, stooping, kneeling, reaching, balancing, pushing and pulling.\nMust be able to work at heights in excess of 100 feet.\nMust be able to perform heavy physical work, exerting up to 100 lbs. of force occasionally and lifting and moving objects weighing 50 lbs. frequently.\nMust be able to withstand prolonged exposure to variable and extreme weather conditions including rain, wind, excessive heat, intense cold and snow.\nTwo years of experience installing, maintaining and repairing electrical services and equipment.\nA Commercial Driver\u2019s License (CDL) A, B, and C covering general, air brakes, and combination sections within six months of appointment (contingent upon assigned work unit) and throughout employment.\nAppointment to the Municipal Services Electrician positions within the Milwaukee Water Works requires residency within 15 miles of the jurisdictional boundaries of the City of Milwaukee within six months of appointment pursuant to Rule III, Section 4(g) of the Rules of the City Service Commission. A map defining the jurisdictional boundary is located on the Fire and Police Commission website at: http://city.milwaukee.gov/fpc/Residency-Map.htm#.WPTR5E11qAg.\nSuccessful completion of an electrical apprenticeship program.\nState certification as a Master or Journey-level Electrician.\nKnowledge of electrical wiring, circuitry, and/or electronic components.\nKnowledge of National Electric Code (NEC).\nPractical knowledge of work involved in the installation, repair, and maintenance of the electrical systems as described in the essential functions above.\nAbility to read and interpret wiring diagrams, blueprints, and other electrical specifications.\nAbility to use hand tools and other mechanical equipment common to the electrical profession.\nThe current starting annual salary (PG 7QN) for City of Milwaukee residents is $63,169 ($30.37 per hour) and the non-resident starting annual salary is $61,619 ($29.62 per hour) both with excellent benefits. Employees who successfully complete the probationary period will advance to $66,494 annually ($31.97 per hour) for residents and $64,863 annually ($31.18 per hour) for non-residents.\nBENEFITS The City of Milwaukee provides a comprehensive benefit program which includes:\nFor full details of the benefits offered by the City of Milwaukee, please visit https://city.milwaukee.gov/Benefits2019.\nSELECTION PROCESS The selection process will be job related and will consist of one or more of the following: education and experience evaluation; written, oral or performance tests; or other assessment methods. The Department of Employee Relations reserves the right to call only the most qualified candidates to oral examinations. Oral examinations may include written exercises. Selection process component weights will be determined by further analysis of the job.\nThis is a continuous recruitment. Applications will be accepted and interviews held as often as required to meet the needs of the City. Qualified applicants will be notified by email of the date, time and place of the examination. Unless otherwise required by law, the City of Milwaukee will not provide alternative test administration. The applicant is responsible for attending all phases of the job selection process at the time and place designated by the City of Milwaukee. The names of successful candidates will be placed on the eligible list in a rank determined by the final grade without reference to the date of the examination. The eligible list may be abolished every four months.\nCandidates may take an examination for this position only once every six months.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 8433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jobsrmine.com/AU/admin-jobs-in-Henty-of-New-South-Wales", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:25Z", "digest": "sha1:J72H4A3JFF27JYLS24VWXJBDOEXT6X2M", "length": 38, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.jobsrmine.com", "title": "Admin jobs near Henty of New South Wales", "raw_content": "admin jobs near Henty, New South Wales", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 10269, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johnjayfellows.com/people-file/2017/4/24/greg-schaller", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WW4D4NJ5VJXGW3PVE3P7YPNQRTS5KAPX", "length": 1819, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.johnjayfellows.com", "title": "Greg Schaller \u2014 JohnJayFellows.com", "raw_content": "Greg Schaller\nBefore joining the John Jay Institute, Greg Schaller was an Associate Professor of Politics at Colorado Christian University, where he began working in 2009. In 2011, Greg developed CCU\u2019s Political Science major, which now has over 45 students. In addition, Greg is a Fellow at the Centennial Institute, Colorado Christian University\u2019s public policy think-tank, and is a founding member of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Values & Capitalism Project.\nFor eight years, Greg led a week-long trip with approximately 35 students to Washington D.C., exposing them to public policy think-tanks, government officials, and U.S. history. In 2012, he started a student internship program at CCU. Each year, this program sends student interns to the Colorado and U.S. Capitols, as well as to various public policy think-tanks, such as the Heritage Foundation, AEI and Americans for Prosperity. Many of CCU\u2019s Political Science graduates have gone on to work in government at such places as the Colorado state legislature, the U.S. House and Senate, the Heritage Foundation, Focus on the Family, AEI and more. Greg received several grants during his tenure at CCU, including a large grant from the Koch Foundation grant to teach students at Christian universities across the country about liberty and national security.\nPrior to joining CCU, Greg taught at Villanova University and St. Joseph\u2019s University. He has a B.A. from Eastern University, an M.A. from Villanova University and is finishing his Ph.D. at the University of South Dakota. Greg has taught courses in American Government, Constitutional Law, Statesmanship, Congress & the Presidency, Public Policy and more.\nGreg and his wife, Rachel have been married for 25 years and have two daughters, Zoe (24) and Madeline (21).\nOlder PostRachel Schaller", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 96.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johnsmith.co.uk/studentstore", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:47Z", "digest": "sha1:CWW2ZIQNQWAKEEJAYYT5IBMM7YJXDMXS", "length": 363, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.johnsmith.co.uk", "title": "John Smith's", "raw_content": "Welcome to the online store of John Smith's - winner of the Academic and Professional Chain Bookseller of the Year Award for 9 out of the last 12 years.\nHomes, A. M.\nSILENCE OF THE LAMBS: (HANNIBAL LECTER)\nSINGULAR UNIVERSE AND THE REALITY OF TIME, THE: A...\nUnger, Roberto Mangabeira (Harvard Law School, Massachusetts);...\nUNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 5258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 187.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jou.ufl.edu/innovators/melissa-bell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:53Z", "digest": "sha1:PGHLKPQ4GQHHRILUFEX2ONF36TL4CIR4", "length": 737, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.jou.ufl.edu", "title": "Melissa Bell | The Innovators Series", "raw_content": "THE CONVERSATION WITH MELISSA BELL\nMelissa\u2019s Schedule Check out what she\u2019s doing\nMelissa Bell co-founded Vox.com in early 2014 and became the first person at Vox Media to hold both a technology and editorial title as Senior Product Manager and Executive Editor for Vox.com. Prior to Vox, Melissa oversaw digital platforms at the Washington Post. She was also one of The Post\u2019s most-read bloggers and a columnist for the Style section. Before joining The Post, she helped launch Mint, a Wall Street Journal subsidiary in India, where she lived for four years. She has written for a number of publications, including Time, the Guardian and Town & Country. She hails from San Diego, California and makes a mean banana-and-cheese quesadilla.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 1041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 115.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justarrived.lu/en/health-and-wellness-2/hospitals-maternity-medical-houses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DCWR4IYX32LEATGRLRP5ECKNXDXSUAOO", "length": 3667, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.justarrived.lu", "title": "Medical and hospital centers: where to get treatment Luxembourg", "raw_content": "Accueil \u00bb Health and wellness \u00bb Hospitals, maternity hospitals and medical houses\nAdmissions and hospital visits\nLuxembourg hospital services are of good quality. See the study on emergencies in Luxembourg.\nYou can go to the hospital whether for a medical examination, a scheduled hospitalization or for an emergency. For your admission to the hospital, you will have to present yourself at the reception with a passport or an identity card, a proof of your health insurance and will be required to pay a fixed daily contribution, not reimbursed by the CNS.\nIn case of non-affiliation to a health insurance, you will be asked to pay a deposit.\nThe admission of a minor requires the authorization of the person in charge of the parental authority. See hospitals for children.\nIn case of an emergency, these administrative procedures may be completed later.\nHospital care payment and reimbursement\nIn the case of outpatient care, the care will be paid directly by the patient at the exit of the hospital or by payment on invoice sent at home. The patient will then have to send his request for reimbursement to the health insurance fund.\nIn the event of hospitalisation, the accommodation costs are in principle paid by the CNS (third party payer), except for daily contributions for those over 18 years of age, which will be paid directly by the insured.\nPlease note that 1st class supplements are not covered by health insurance. The insured must then have taken out supplementary health insurance in advance.\nFor cross-border workers, please refer to the CNS website.\nVisit of a patient to hospital, clinic or maternity\nVisiting hours are strictly defined to allow patients to rest and caregivers to do their work. Generally visits are allowed afternoons only. Check directly with the hospital.\nWhere to be cured in Luxembourg ?\nHere is the list of hospitals, clinics, maternity homes and medical centers in Luxembourg.\nThere are two major hospital groups in the town of Luxembourg:\nThe Robert Schuman Foundation brings together the hospitals and clinics of the Kirchberg Hospital for the treatment of emergencies and multidisciplinary medical services, the Bohler maternity clinic and mother-child medical center, the ZithaKlinik multidisciplinary hospital center and the Clinique Sainte Marie in Esch- sur-Alzette for geriatrics.\nthe Luxembourg Hospital Center CHL which includes the following institutions: Municipal Hospital and Kannerklinik for the treatment of emergencies and multidisciplinary care centers, the Eich Clinic and the Grande-Duchesse Charlotte Maternity Hospital.\nYou will also find the Center Hospitalier du Nord and the Hospital Center South Emile Mayrisch (CHEM), both multidisciplinary and dealing with emergencies. The R\u00e9haklinik in Ettelbruck for the treatment of mental illnesses and the R\u00e9hazenter for treatment and rehabilitation of injured people.\nSee the pediatric hospitals where your child can be cured\nCenter for pregnant women: Initiativ Liewensufank\nCentre for pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and parenting centre. Consultation centre for new and expectant parents. Institute for the improvement of the conditions of childbirth. Information and free consultation (by telephone or email) for all questions regarding pregnancy, giving birth, breast feeding, life with your baby, etc. Information and advice from professionals.\nwww.liewensufank.lu +352 36 05 97\nDuring week-ends and on bank holidays, you can go to a medical center when you need some medical advice.\nThere are 3 medical houses on duty:\nIn the event of a medical emergency, please always call 112 directly. After midnight, il is mandatory to first call 112 too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 378, "original_length": 12349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justarrived.lu/en/reference/national-museum-history-art-mnha/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIIAAOQQWUTJFNAH5QSZRX737P2IC7RS", "length": 2128, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.justarrived.lu", "title": "National Museum of History and Art - MNHA Luxembourg", "raw_content": "National Museum of History and Art \u2013 MNHA\nAccueil \u00bb References \u00bb National Museum of History and Art \u2013 MNHA\nThe National Museum of History and Art of Luxembourg is located in the historic district of the City of Luxembourg in the Collart-de Scherff house at the \u201cMarch\u00e9-aux-poissons\u201d. Opened after World War II in 1946, the idea of \u200b\u200ba public museum dates back to the end of the 18th century. Thanks to its structure, the museum is much appreciated by visitors of all ages.\nThe visit of this museum starts with the underground levels dug directly into the limestone rock and discover a very special atmosphere in line with the period represented (prehistory, protohistory and gallo-roman period). Then, you\u2019ll visit the other floors, brighter and brighter, dedicated to Middle Ages, Ancient art.\nYou can also visit a collection of coins and medals, decorative and popular arts, fine arts with with a collection of paintings, sculptures and photographs, as well as temporary exhibitions. You can also admire works made by Luxembourg painters as Joseph Kutter (1894-1941) or Luxembourg sculptors.\nMuseum\u2019s visit in 3D is available on the MNHA website.\nArch\u00e9oth\u00e8me, Arth\u00e8me and holiday workshops organized for children.\nBoth alternating every 2 years:\nResearch night (beginning November) organised by the the Natural History Museum and Traffo (Les Rotondes): numerous workshops for every age\nScience Festival (after All Saints): meetings and experiments with researchers, lab visits, \u2026\nTue.-Sun., 10 am-6 pm\nThu., night opening from 5 pm to 8 pm (free entrance)\nThe Fortress 3 Eechelen Museum in Luxembourg, the Museum of the Villa d\u2019Echternach and the Gallo-Roman site of Dalheim are an integral part of the National Museum of History and Art.\nThe National Museum of History and Art is also in charge of archaeological excavations carried out in Luxembourg.\nDo you want to visit Luxembourg and Grand Duchy?\nMore information about the activities offered to children.\nCategorie(s): Activities-Colonies Museum Visits Luxembourg\nhttp://www.mnha.lu/\nMuseum Dr\u00e4i Eechelen Fort Thungen Luxembourg\nNational Museum of Natural History \u2013 MNHN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 367, "original_length": 10624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kainexus.com/2016-kainexus-user-conference/presenters/patricia-kallal", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:54Z", "digest": "sha1:T646QFN7ZLMVNV4DFRWURJPN2QBWSEZ3", "length": 824, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.kainexus.com", "title": "2016 KaiNexus User Conference: Patricia Kallal", "raw_content": "Patricia Kallal\nCredentials: MBA, CMQ/OE, Advanced Manufacturing Specialist\nEducation: MBA, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville\nI began my career in healthcare in 2001 at Christian Hospital, a member of BJC Healthcare, St. Louis, MO. After completing the Advanced Manufacturing Specialist Training Program in 2006, I was promoted to Performance Improvement Specialist.\nOver the next four years, I was promoted to Manager of the department where I helped create a framework for process improvement and build a culture of continuous improvement across the organization. In September 2014, I accepted a Director, Operational Excellence position with Texas Health Presbyterian Plano where I work with the leadership of the hospital to improve performance on KPIs as well as spreading the culture of continuous improvement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.karangupta.com/career-guidance/learn/geography", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:50Z", "digest": "sha1:CHDUTW7VJETXBT23ZZOSOB4QZJWY7EPY", "length": 4194, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.karangupta.com", "title": "Course: Geography - Karan Gupta Consulting", "raw_content": "Learn >> Geography\nGeography is the science of space and place on the earth\u2019s surface. You examine how people, regions, and environment interact to create and sustain the world in which we live. Using a multidisciplinary approach, you study local, regional, and global geography.\nGeography includes much more than the memorization of place names, capitals, and longest rivers. It investigates the way people from a variety of localities relate to their environment and the way their surroundings shape their lives. As a major, you gain a board understanding of the way humans have adapted to, changed, and organized their physical environments. Geography draws from related fields, such as anthropology, economics, political science, and biology.\nTwo main specializations in the major are physical geography and human geography \u2013 and discussions often focus on their overlap. Physical geographers study climates, landforms, vegetation, soils, and water. In human geography, the emphasis is on people\u2019s perception, use, and modification of space, as individuals and communities create and sustain the places they call home. Topics the two groups examine includes the effects, on both human activity and the natural world, of global warming, desertification, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, groundwater pollution, fire, and flooding.\nThe major begins with first-year courses that introduce you to facts, ideas, and tools. Besides human geography and physical geography (such as courses on Africa or North America), and skills (such as cartography or remote sensing). Then you can concentrate in an area such as environmental geography, geographic education, or geographic information systems (GIS) you may be required to complete an independent research project \u2013 a capstone experience that pulls together numerous topics and skills. Sometimes you can meet the requirement by participating in a fiend courses. You should also take courses in other departments that relate to your concentration.\nBecause geography is not usually emphasized in high school, few students begin college as geography majors. Many pick this major in their second or third year of college, so your classmates are often a mixture of upper-and lower-division students. Your course work includes a rich mixture of lecture, lab, and library and fiend research. As you progress, you spend more time in specialized computer labs for physical geography (soils geomorphology, and fluvial and glacial processes).\nFrequently, the best place to learn is in the fiend for example, you can spend a semester collecting, analyzing, and presenting local data, or you can study overseas. Often, the hardest part of begin a geography major in integrating varied subject matter and approaches. In particular, you need to appreciate the perspectives of both the natural and the social sciences.\nBecause of geography\u2019s roots in both the natural sciences and the humanities, programs are offered in a wide variety of divisions and schools. Undergrad programs are often influenced by the emphasis and philosophy of connected graduate programs. Some programs rely heavily on graduate teaching assistants and part-time faculty members. Many specialized courses-such as medical geography; social and physical planning; population and demographics; and race, ethnicity, and class-are based on the research interests of faculty members. But the most noticeable differences are among programs that stress either physical or human geography. Some colleges have successfully bridged the two by focusing on human-environment relations.\nCartographer; GIS manager; economic development analyst; energy analyst; environmental engineer; engineer in photogrammetry (aerial surveying); land use planner; land surveyor; remote sensing specialist; water resources planner.\nThe hottest job market in the field is for graduates with experience in geographic information systems and remote sensing.\nEngineering jobs such as surveying require certification. Increasingly, certification is a requirement for GIS-related jobs. Planning jobs are available to geographers without specific qualifications, but a master\u2019s degree in planning is strongly recommended.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 8329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kdh-law.com/blog/2013/03/american-apparel-ceo-sex-harassment-claims-possibly-discredited.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:33Z", "digest": "sha1:DL6TOM3JMTVXRWKW7HFTYUHVZGWERCP6", "length": 2216, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.kdh-law.com", "title": "American Apparel CEO sex harassment claims possibly discredited | Holman Schiavone, LLC", "raw_content": "American Apparel CEO sex harassment claims possibly discredited\nOn behalf of Holman Schiavone, LLC posted in Sexual Harassment on Friday, March 29, 2013.\nClothing shoppers in Missouri may be interested to know that according to an annual report released by American Apparel, numerous high-profile sexual harassment cases that involved the firm's CEO, Dov Charney, may have been fraudulent. At one point, Mr. Charney was implicated in seven separate cases of allegedly initiating unwanted sexual contact with advertising models and female employees at his company. In one case, he stood accused of imprisoning one woman in his apartment for sexual purposes.\nAmerican Apparel's report revealed that out of the numerous cases against the CEO, the only one that remains outstanding does not actually accuse Mr. Charney. This class-action lawsuit was filed on behalf of all the female workers of the firm, and it accuses an unspecified worker. Other cases that remain in arbitration were settled without monetary liability to American Apparel, and the firm concluded that these matters would not have a negative effect on its business.\nEven though American Apparel's report seems to indicate that its CEO is innocent of the charges against him, the fact that multiple cases occurred may be indicative of other sex discrimination or a hostile working environment in general. Firms like American Apparel that have a business presence all over the U.S. often have pervasive corporate cultures that spread to multiple locations.\nSexual harassment takes many forms, and it does not always have to incorporate explicit or obvious unwelcome behaviors. It can be extremely subtle, and some workplace environments even make it difficult to talk about incidents for fear of ostracism. As a result, many victims seek the assistance of attorneys who may help them build their claims and cases. In Missouri, people who are involved in sexual harassment cases may find it helpful to consult attorneys who may explain their rights and options.\nSource: Business Insider, \"Those sex harassment lawsuits against American Apparel CEO Dov Charney were mostly bogus, it turns out,\" Jim Edwards, March 12, 2013\nTags: Sexual Harassment, lawsuit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 6660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kehe.com/integrity/b-corp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4XRE6CV2RXQJSBK3T5ZE4GTILCRVQSY4", "length": 924, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.kehe.com", "title": "B Corp \u2013 KeHE Distributors, LLC", "raw_content": "Certified leadership in doing things right.\nKeHE is a Certified B Corporation, making us one of 2,300 companies worldwide redefining success in business by voluntarily meeting higher standards of transparency, accountability and performance. B means Benefit.\nWe met rigorous requirements in areas including governance, transparency, ownership, workers, job growth, compensation, work environment, employee ownership and more, and we\u2019re proud of what it means to sport the B Corp stamp of approval.\nIt\u2019s a certification.\nLike Fair Trade (or organic or LEED), but for the whole company that meets the highest standards of verified performance, transparency and accountability.\nIt\u2019s an approach.\nA better way to do business \u2013 better for workers, communities and the environment.\nA community of practice to increase our individual and collective impact.\nLeaders of a global movement of people using business as a force for good.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 1951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kentadvice.co.uk/secondary-school-appeals/review-process.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6NYQM6BRWHJQFP4YNCL3G6AWWWALTCGL", "length": 11351, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.kentadvice.co.uk", "title": "Review and Appeal for Medway Grammar Schools - Kent Independent Education Advice", "raw_content": "Review and Appeal for Medway Grammar Schools\nI offer a Telephone Consultation Service only, for advice on Medway Review (see below) and school appeals. Details here.\nYou will find data for 2017 Appeals in Kent and Medway entryhere and more information including oversubscription and appeal statistics for individual Medway schools here.\nIf your child is unsuccessful in the Medway tests you are entitled to apply for a Review of the decision, designed to select another 2% of children. However, for 2018 admission it reached a new low at 0.37%, (4 out of 74 boys and 8 out of 87 girls). You will find overall figures here, bringing the total up to a pass rate of 23.4% against a target of 25%. For 2017 entry, this process identified just a further 24 successful Medway children (only 0.6%) out of a total of 148 applicants for Review, and for 2016 it was 29 out of 146 for 2016.\nCurrent legislation is in a mess, and if you apply for a Review and are unsuccessful, the rules say you can only have your case heard by an Independent Appeal Panel if you can show the Review process was not fair, objective or consistent. You will find the legal background at Code of Practice for School Appeals, paras 3.12 and 3.13. I do not know how parents can weigh up which option to choose on this reading! However, I attempt to summarise the situation below that may be helpful.\nThe Review procedure for 2018 entry was as follows. Review Panels, each comprising two teachers from different schools, looked at three pieces of work from each of English, mathematics and science submitted by the primary schools (usually but not always within books), together with standardised test results (including Key Stage 1) taken in the schools and a grammar/non selective recommendation from the primary school (there is no indication on the Panel decision sheet of how this information was used). The Panel were not given any other information although parents are asked to complete a form (which panellists were instructed to ignore) giving their reasons for asking for a Review. Each Panel then made a decision based on the work of the children they were reviewing and the total of successful reviews for Medway children turned out to be 0.37 % well below the planned 2% which has been generally followed in previous years. The remaining four successful reviews were for Kent children.\nThe problems are compounded by the Review application Form R1 that invites parents to give their reasons for requesting a Review. It is also made clear that parents should not send in information or documentation additional to their written statement (this cuts out medical evidence or other special reasons for underperformance, including prolonged absence from school which would have an effect on quality of work submitted). However, the form also states that decisions will be based on the evidence supplied by the school, implying (confirming) that these parental reasons will be ignored. Further the primary school headteacher is forbidden to write letters of support or to provide information, other than KS1 results, Year 5 levels and a high/grammar recommendation. In 2008, following a complaint by me, the ombudsman criticised this process as the combination of the two procedures denies parents any opportunity to put forward their case, which flies in the face of natural justice. However, in a 2010 complaint the Ombudsman found this contradiction was reasonable!\nI have received many enquiries on the value of the words on the R1 Review Request form. All I can get from Medway Council is that:\nThose carrying out the Review process should see the parental statement (and no more), just to place the academic evidence in context. The review panel will (then) make their decision based on a consideration of the academic evidence provided by the school.\nThis moves us no further forward as if parents have reasons for underperformance, no Review Panel should/could accept these without evidence that would be supplied by additional materials. In any case, the Panel decision is based (solely?) on academic evidence supplied by the school. I am very disappointed that Medway Council is unable to give proper guidance to parents on the value of their statement on Form R1, preferring to leave them in confusion. My own view is that although Panels are not be able to take the statements into consideration, parents should put reasons for underperformance down as it is often relevant for appeals (see below). Do not mention specific schools. Please feel free to use my telephone consultation service to discuss this.\nConsideration of the Review Process at Appeal\nIn all cases, if the child has been unsuccessful at Review, the school presents the Review results sheet (R2B) to the Independent Appeal Panel. It also provides the R1 Form, when an unhelpful comment by parents, written in good faith, can damage your appeal case. There is also an R2(A) which is presented, containing the information (above) submitted by the headteacher.\nAt an Appeal, parents have the right to present whatever additional information they wish, to try and persuade the Panel that their child is of a grammar school standard. This is likely to include reasons why the child underperformed and alternative evidence of his or her grammar school ability. However, the statutory Code of Practice states that where a Review has taken place, the only grounds for appeal are that the Review was not fair, objective or consistent. In other words, according to the rules, panels cannot consider alternative evidence that the child is of a grammar school standard, or that there were reasons for underperformance on the day, unless they are satisfied that the Review process was unfair (but see below)\nThe real problem about Review often comes at appeal, as Appeal Panels for the different schools adopt different interpretations of the Code, sometimes adopting different views in different years.\nFrom entry in 2010 for several years, clients of mine persuaded Appeal Panels at Chatham Grammar Boys & Chatham Grammar Girls that the Review process was inherently unfair. Since then, Appeal Panels at Chatham Girls have ignored the issue and just considered the evidence put forward by parents. At Holcombe, the 2018 process was a shambles as explained first here, and finally here. I have no idea what will happen for 2019 entry.\nClients of mine have persuaded the Panels at Sir Joseph Williamson's over the years, including 2016, that the Medway Reviews were unfair \u2013 I believe my arguments have been decisive in some years, and so parents did have their academic cases considered. For 2014 entry, the Panel, faced with heavy oversubscription of qualified applicants, decided that in the overwhelming majority of cases, the Review process was fair. You would have needed a very strong set of personal circumstances to overcome this. For 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 entry, the Review process was unfair in some cases!\nThe number of children, initially non selective, who were offered places at Rochester Grammar or Rainham Mark is negligible (for 2018 entry it was none), the fairness of the Review process providing an initial filter.\nPanels at Fort Pitt for 2016, 2017 and 2018 entry the school was heavily over subscribed so it was no surprise it was considered fair.\nSummary of Issues and Strategies for Review Process\nIf you go for Review and are unsuccessful, an assessment of your child\u2019s work is sent to the appeal panel. I believe that because markers want to create clear water between those who are found selective and those who are not, Review reports are often unduly harsh and have a negative effect on Panels.\nThe Admissions brochure, like the parental advice, is ambiguous on the issue of whether parental reasons are taken into account, in spite of being criticised by the Ombudsman who considers parents should have the right to have their reasons presented to the Review Panel Review. The reality is, they are not, but can surface at appeal and count against you.\nThe above analysis by school suggests you should go for Review if you are considering a place at the two Chatham Girls. For Rainham Mark and Rochester, chances of a successful appeal if your child is initially unsuccessful are usually slim (practically nil), and so I am unable to advise you which decision to take. For Holcombe I have no idea what is to come.\nFor Fort Pitt and the Maths School, it may be dependent on the level of oversubscription - Fort Pitt has found it fair in the past few years ; the Math unfair for some even though oversubscribed.\nMedway Council works hard to try and make the Review process fair, objective and consistent, following each previous year's experience, to meet the Code and ensure that Appeals cannot consider parental reasons. I believe that the process is inherently flawed and can be successfully challenged - but it is increasingly difficult! The reality is that if an Appeal Panel is determined to find the process fair, it is very difficult to budge it.\nSchools are not allowed to know the position you have placed them on the Application Form when drawing up rankings of children to determine who is awarded a place. However, for 2014 entry the whole application form,including reasons for applying for a school was sent to Admission Authorities to be provided as evidence for appeal panels when considering appeals. This practice has continued for 2015 admission and subsequently, although I regard it as a seriously retrograde step placing parents in an invidious position regarding their choice of schools. It is certainly wrong according to the spirit, if not the letter, of the mandatory School Admissions Code,that does not allow schools to know in which order the parents have placed them on the form for admission purposes. However, I am told it is legal and other Authorities (not Kent) also use it when parents appeal for a school place in March, It is possible that some schools which are their own admission authorities (including academies) may choose not to present the information to Independent Appeal Panels, but for 2016 appeals nearly all did. If you are likely to have to appeal, you therefore now have to consider order of preference on the Common Application Form much more carefully than in previous years, as the school and appeal panel will now see all your preferences and be entitled to ask the reason for them.\nFurther, there is a section for you to provide the reason for applying to each school separately on the Form. This used to be confidential to the school applied for and continues to be so, unless you appeal, when as it is on the common application form it is shared with all schools you are appealing to. Obviously if you put down strong reasons for applying to one school it may reflect badly on you if appealing for another! My advice is therefore clear. Do not put any entry in this section, unless you are applying on health grounds (or similar) on which you consider your child needs to attend a particular school, in which case you would also need to provide strong medical evidence to substantiate your claim. Otherwise, reasons are completely ignored for allocating places in the admission procedure as they do not form part of the criteria or rules by which places are allocated.\nMore in this category: \u00ab Oversubscription Appeals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 14245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.keranews.org/post/dallas-street-choir-makes-historic-carnegie-hall-debut", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TILVCGX5IJGXXKMO22E75ZTFCLUGV4ED", "length": 8952, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.keranews.org", "title": "The Dallas Street Choir Makes Historic Carnegie Hall Debut | KERA News", "raw_content": "The Dallas Street Choir Makes Historic Carnegie Hall Debut\nBy Wade Goodwyn \u2022 Jun 14, 2017\nThe Dallas Street Choir, whose members are homeless, performs at the Winspear Opera House. The choir has embarked on an East Coast tour that includes a stop at Carnegie Hall.\nColleen Kelley / Courtesy of the Dallas Street Choir\nThree days before the Dallas Street Choir leaves for New York, its traveling members are assembled and listening intently to choir director Jonathan Palant. He makes an announcement about yet one more phase of preparation: haircuts at 12:45 for anybody who wants one.\nWhen you're organizing singers who are homeless for a performance at Carnegie Hall, arrangements have to be particularly thorough. However, a glance around the room at the Dallas Stew Pot \u2014 the city's homeless shelter and the choir's rehearsal spot \u2014 quickly shows that no one in the Street Choir appears offended. The haircuts are one more piece of evidence that this performance is real, and that they're being taken seriously.\nThe Dallas Street Choir is a group composed of the city's homeless. Though its lineup has varied over the years, over time it's become a more concrete unit, and 25 of its most dedicated singers \u2014 including some with mental illness and addiction issues \u2014 have been picked to tour the East Coast.\nIts stop Wednesday night in New York is historic: Never before in its 126-year history has Carnegie Hall hosted a musical ensemble solely comprising performers who are homeless. And what's more: Tickets have been donated so hundreds of New York City's homeless, from all five boroughs, can attend.\nThe sound the Street Choir will bring to the hallowed venue is, Palant freely admits, \"scrappy.\"\n\"We acknowledge that,\" the veteran choral director says. \"But it's unbridled, passionate \u2014 filled with love and joy and uniqueness.\"\nThe Street Choir's sound is understandably rawer, Palant points out, because \"you're teaching the most basic musicianship skills \u2014 loud, soft, slow, fast, long, short. You're teaching folks who have a hard time staying awake because they spent the previous night on a heating grate outside.\"\nDeborah Scott is one of the singers who made the travel team. \"There are so many professional singers that would kill to be on the stage at Carnegie Hall,\" she says. \"Through the choir, I'm going places that I never would've imagined myself being a year or two years ago. Never. I'm so grateful.\"\nFor decades, Scott was a customer service representative for the transit authority in Houston. But after a downsizing, followed by divorce and a move to Dallas that turned out to be a mistake, Scott found herself homeless.\nThough she's recently found a room with the help of professionals at the Dallas Stew Pot, she still returns for the Street Choir. Becoming homeless was a blow to Scott's self-esteem, but singing in the Street Choir has given her a reason to get up in the morning.\n\"We are coming together over our love of singing and our desire to show that there's more to being down and out and homeless than just sitting on the street corners all day,\" she says.\nScott and the rest of the Street Choir will be joined at Carnegie Hall by some of the brightest stars from Broadway and the opera. These include composer Jake Heggie, who has has arranged music and will accompany the choir on piano. Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade will join the singers again, after she performed with them in Dallas two years ago.\nHeggie, whose opera Great Scott was next door at the Winspear Opera House, was in attendance that night in Dallas. \"[My cast and I] were in the back row listening to this group of people who don't have a voice or face and we were all weeping,\" he remembers.\nThe Street Choir's performance reminded the celebrated composer of something he'd started to lose track of in New York City: why he started doing this in the first place.\nTonight, for the first time, a group of homeless singers is performing at Carnegie Hall. The Dallas Street Choir takes the stage with some of the biggest names in opera and Broadway, and hundreds of New York City's homeless from all five boroughs are attending. NPR's Wade Goodwyn was at the rehearsal.\nJONATHAN PALANT: OK, y'all, wrap it up.\nWADE GOODWYN, BYLINE: It's 10:45 in the morning at the city's homeless shelter, the Dallas Stewpot, and the traveling members of the Dallas Street Choir take their seats.\nPALANT: Ricardo, would you take one, pass it out to the first row, please? OK, so listen up.\nGOODWYN: Three days before they leave for New York, Street Choir Director Jonathan Palant is busy. When you're organizing singers who are homeless for a performance at Carnegie Hall, preparations are a little more thorough.\nPALANT: So at 12:45 today, I've got somebody coming to give haircuts to anybody that would like one. We have six on the roster right now. If anybody else would like a haircut...\nGOODWYN: Glance around the room, and nobody appears offended. For the singers, the haircuts are one more example that this is real, that they're being taken seriously. But before the coiffing comes the melodic grooming.\nPALANT: Get words, and...\nDALLAS STREET CHOIR: (Singing) Everybody look around 'cause there's reason to rejoice, you see. Everybody come out, and let's commence to singing joyfully.\nPALANT: Sure, it's a scrappy sound. We acknowledge that. But it's unbridled, passionate, filled with love and joy and uniqueness.\nGOODWYN: Palant is a veteran choral director who mixes his talent for teaching music with compassion, sometimes a little therapy, all while demanding attention and effort.\nPALANT: You're teaching the most basic musicianship skills - loud, soft, slow, fast, long, short. You're teaching folks to have a hard time staying awake because they spent the previous night on a heating grate outside.\nDALLAS STREET CHOIR: (Singing) Can't you feel a brand new day? Can't you feel a brand new day?\nUNIDENTIFIED MAN: Yeah.\nGOODWYN: Twenty-five of the street choir's most dedicated singers, including some with mental illness and addiction issues, have been chosen to go to New York.\nDEBORAH SCOTT: Oh, my goodness. I was so excited. There are so many professional singers that would kill to be on the stage at Carnegie Hall.\nGOODWYN: Deborah Scott is one of those who made the travel team.\nSCOTT: Through the choir, I'm going places that I never would have imagined myself being a year or two years ago, never. I'm so grateful.\nGOODWYN: Scott is an example that the line between middle class and homeless life in America is not as thick as we might imagine. For decades, she was a customer service representative for the transit authority in Houston. But after a downsizing followed by divorce, a move to Dallas that turned out to be a mistake, Scott found herself with nowhere to turn.\nSCOTT: When I experienced homelessness, my ego took a hit. It's kind of hard, especially when you've been used to working in corporate America and, you know, living the dream, so to speak, and then find yourself on the downside of that. It can really damage your self-esteem.\nGOODWYN: With the assistance from the professionals at the Dallas Stewpot, Deborah Scott recently found a room. But she still comes back here for Street Choir.\nSCOTT: Singing for me is my reason for getting up in the morning, so we are coming together over our love of singing and our desire to show that there's more to being down and out and homeless than just sitting on the street corners all day.\nGOODWYN: Scott and the rest of the Street Choir will be joined at Carnegie Hall by some of the brightest stars from Broadway and the opera. Opera composer Jake Heggie has arranged music and will accompany the choir on piano. And beloved mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade will join the singers again. Two years ago, she performed in Dallas with the Street Choir to sing, among other things...\nFREDERICA VON STADE: (Singer) Somewhere there's a place for us, somewhere a place for us. Peace and quiet and open air...\nGOODWYN: Composer Jake Heggie was in the hall that night in Dallas. His opera \"Moby Dick\" was next door at the Winspear Opera House. So Heggie and the cast popped over to watch.\nJAKE HEGGIE: And here we were in the back row, listening to this group of people who don't have a voice or a face. And we were all weeping.\nGOODWYN: Heggie said that performance reminded him of something he'd begun to lose track of in New York City - why the heck he was doing this in the first place. Wade Goodwyn, NPR News, Dallas.\nDALLAS STREET CHOIR: (Singing) There's some place for us, some time and place for us. Hold my hand, and we're halfway there. Hold my hand, and I'll take...\n[POST-BROADCAST CORRECTION: In the audio, as in an earlier Web version of this story, the opera by composer Jake Heggie that was being performed at the Winspear Opera House is reported to have been Moby Dick. In fact, it was Heggie\u2019s opera Great Scott.] Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 9980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ketv.com/article/all-storm-no-calm-nebraska-s-late-comeback-comes-up-short-in-miami/7655108", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LNVLPVSFKQSDQ3RWZP5TDYMFO7XMX5LK", "length": 13595, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.ketv.com", "title": "All storm, no calm: Nebraska's late comeback comes up short in Miami", "raw_content": "All storm, no calm: Nebraska's late comeback comes up short in Miami\n\"Nothing is very easy for us\"\nFor the first time in more than six decades, the Nebraska Cornhuskers traveled south to Florida for a regular season matchup.\"I understand the great history of this game and some of the historical ramifications of the game against Miami,\" first-year Huskers coach Mike Riley said earlier this week. \"That's pretty good stuff.\"The meeting brought together two teams responsible for 10 national championships and two programs thirsting for to be elite in the contemporary college football landscape. Nebraska hasn't won 10 games since 2012; Miami since 2003. Neither has sniffed an elite bowl game in more than a decade.Riley and his team -- his team -- were left in silence after Saturday's 36-33 loss; a 23-point fourth quarter that beget an overtime period that culminated in watching Miami kicker Michael Badgley net his fifth field goal, a career high, in Sun Life Stadium, to win it for the Hurricanes.\"Obviously we have some things we have to correct,\" Miami head coach Al Golden said after the game. \"But I just told the guys, \u2018You\u2019re 3-0, you just beat a good team.\u2019 A team that\u2019s won nine games for each of the last nine years, I think. It was a good win. We have a lot to learn from, and we\u2019ll move on this week.\"That stretch of nine-win seasons -- eight consecutive, actually -- is very much in danger after the Huskers dropped to 1-2 for the first time since 1981; since 1956, Nebraska has lost two of its first three games just three times. \"It\u2019s all about consistency when it comes to our football team,\" Armstrong said. \"We saw games where we\u2019ve been great two or three quarters and then sloppy one quarter, and it happens to lose this game.\"The leitmotif of this football team, three games into the 2015 season, has been laxity, a lack of consistency and an identity void.Offensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf got nearly six yards per carry out of Terrell Newby (14 rush attempts, 82 yards) and yet the tailback would often go entire drives without carries. He barely touched the ball in the second half, affixing more and more responsibility on quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr.'s shoulders. It's a miracle Armstrong didn't melt under the Florida heat halfway through the game.\" seemed out of sync,\" Riley said of his team's performance out of the gate. \"Nothing is very easy for us, and then we drop balls. It did not feel very good.\"Oh, yes, the dropped balls. Nebraska had at least four of them in the first half. Lane Hovey got whacked by a Miami cornerback -- dropped the ball. Cethan Carter, in his first game back with the team, took a shot, dropped the ball. It didn't end there, either. After scoring on the opening drive of each of the past two games, it took Nebraska until the second quarter to stop the bleeding, when they trailed by three possessions. Drew Brown netted a career long 49-yard field goal to pull the game to something manageable, 17-3.Meanwhile, the Hurricanes exposed the Nebraska secondary repeatedly on the team's first three drives -- a 32-yard seam route in which Daniel Davie was burned by nearly five yards, a 38-yard pitch and catch from Brad Kaaya, likely the best quarterback in the Atlantic Coast Conference, toward the sideline, a defensive pass interference call where safety Byerson Cockrell was beat so badly he had to tackle the receiver he was covering. At the end of the first quarter, Miami had racked up 10 first downs, Nebraska had two. There was a point where Miami wide receiver Rashawn Scott had more receiving yards than Nebraska had in total offense.That disfunction again manifested in penalties. After registering seven or more penalties in five games last season, Nebraska has opened up the 2015 season with three straight games of seven or more. They have 31 penalties over three games, amassing 12 against Brigham Young and Miami, both of which being games they lost. Of course they did. The effects of a team that cannot execute are only amplified when high quantities of penalties are introduced to the equation. It's been as if Riley took the team to Costco and bought penalties -- like everything else in the store -- in bulk. \"We'll take more of the illegal procedure ones if you got 'em!\"And through all of this, Saturday's game was something that Cornhusker fans could sit and ruminate with. They could smile for their team and be sincere about it. This would have been the largest comeback in the history of the program. There was no heartbeat in the first half -- Nebraska trailed, 20-6 -- but the ending induced cardiac arrest. \u201cThat\u2019s Nebraska tradition,\" Nate Gerry said. \"That\u2019s just \u2018blackshirt\u2019 mentality. That\u2019s the team mentality ever sense I\u2019ve been here. We\u2019ve been down in the dumps for a couple of games, but ever since I\u2019ve been here, we\u2019ve always rallied back. That\u2019s the tradition of Nebraska.\u201dArmstrong was, objectively, remarkable. He evaded a relentless pass rush, spun out of the pocket to extend plays with his feet, picked up much-needed first downs. The junior incumbent quarterback was unquestionably the catalyst behind the comeback.In the fourth quarter, first it was a 10-yard touchdown pass from Armstrong to senior Alonzo Moore, followed by a successful two-point conversion; then it was Armstrong finding senior Brandon Reilly for a 21-yard score; and finally it was Armstrong finding true freshman Stanley Morgan for an 8-yard score with less than a minute to go and another successful two-point conversion.There was something in the air in the second half: A Nebraska secondary that couldn't stop Kaaya -- who, by the way, broke his own career high in passing Saturday (379 yards) that he set last season, coincidentally, against Nebraska -- picked him off in the end zone and forced Golden's club to punt through most of the fourth quarter. It was a come-back-from-the-dead effort that Nebraska can live with and channel as something other than harrowing devastation.\u201cA loss is a loss,\" Gerry said. \"But like I said, the ballgame could have been a whole lot different if we would have played our game. I don\u2019t think we prepared very well. I thought we had a pretty good week of practice, but I don\u2019t think we put it on tape today.\u201dThe Hurricanes swarmed the field after the win and what was left of the 53,580 in attendance roared for their program. Nebraska's comeback may have come up short, leaving the team in silence, if only for a little while, but the next few weeks will provide no shortage on volume. Riley will hear it from the critics and so will his players. They'll be questioned about whether or not the team can reach nine wins and asked to rate how the transition to a new coaching staff is going.It comes with the territory.*****SOUND FROM PLAYERS AND RILEYHIGHLIGHTSGAME BALL\nFor the first time in more than six decades, the Nebraska Cornhuskers traveled south to Florida for a regular season matchup.\n\"I understand the great history of this game and some of the historical ramifications of the game against Miami,\" first-year Huskers coach Mike Riley said earlier this week. \"That's pretty good stuff.\"\nThe meeting brought together two teams responsible for 10 national championships and two programs thirsting for to be elite in the contemporary college football landscape. Nebraska hasn't won 10 games since 2012; Miami since 2003. Neither has sniffed an elite bowl game in more than a decade.\nRiley and his team -- his team -- were left in silence after Saturday's 36-33 loss; a 23-point fourth quarter that beget an overtime period that culminated in watching Miami kicker Michael Badgley net his fifth field goal, a career high, in Sun Life Stadium, to win it for the Hurricanes.\n\"Obviously we have some things we have to correct,\" Miami head coach Al Golden said after the game. \"But I just told the guys, \u2018You\u2019re 3-0, you just beat a good team.\u2019 A team that\u2019s won nine games for each of the last nine years, I think. It was a good win. We have a lot to learn from, and we\u2019ll move on this week.\"\nThat stretch of nine-win seasons -- eight consecutive, actually -- is very much in danger after the Huskers dropped to 1-2 for the first time since 1981; since 1956, Nebraska has lost two of its first three games just three times.\n\"It\u2019s all about consistency when it comes to our football team,\" Armstrong said. \"We saw games where we\u2019ve been great two or three quarters and then sloppy one quarter, and it happens to lose this game.\"\nThe leitmotif of this football team, three games into the 2015 season, has been laxity, a lack of consistency and an identity void.\nOffensive coordinator Danny Langsdorf got nearly six yards per carry out of Terrell Newby (14 rush attempts, 82 yards) and yet the tailback would often go entire drives without carries. He barely touched the ball in the second half, affixing more and more responsibility on quarterback Tommy Armstrong Jr.'s shoulders. It's a miracle Armstrong didn't melt under the Florida heat halfway through the game.\n\"[Everything] seemed out of sync,\" Riley said of his team's performance out of the gate. \"Nothing is very easy for us, and then we drop balls. It did not feel very good.\"\nOh, yes, the dropped balls. Nebraska had at least four of them in the first half. Lane Hovey got whacked by a Miami cornerback -- dropped the ball. Cethan Carter, in his first game back with the team, took a shot, dropped the ball. It didn't end there, either. After scoring on the opening drive of each of the past two games, it took Nebraska until the second quarter to stop the bleeding, when they trailed by three possessions. Drew Brown netted a career long 49-yard field goal to pull the game to something manageable, 17-3.\nMeanwhile, the Hurricanes exposed the Nebraska secondary repeatedly on the team's first three drives -- a 32-yard seam route in which Daniel Davie was burned by nearly five yards, a 38-yard pitch and catch from Brad Kaaya, likely the best quarterback in the Atlantic Coast Conference, toward the sideline, a defensive pass interference call where safety Byerson Cockrell was beat so badly he had to tackle the receiver he was covering. At the end of the first quarter, Miami had racked up 10 first downs, Nebraska had two. There was a point where Miami wide receiver Rashawn Scott had more receiving yards than Nebraska had in total offense.\nThat disfunction again manifested in penalties. After registering seven or more penalties in five games last season, Nebraska has opened up the 2015 season with three straight games of seven or more. They have 31 penalties over three games, amassing 12 against Brigham Young and Miami, both of which being games they lost. Of course they did. The effects of a team that cannot execute are only amplified when high quantities of penalties are introduced to the equation. It's been as if Riley took the team to Costco and bought penalties -- like everything else in the store -- in bulk. \"We'll take more of the illegal procedure ones if you got 'em!\"\nAnd through all of this, Saturday's game was something that Cornhusker fans could sit and ruminate with. They could smile for their team and be sincere about it. This would have been the largest comeback in the history of the program. There was no heartbeat in the first half -- Nebraska trailed, 20-6 -- but the ending induced cardiac arrest. \u201cThat\u2019s Nebraska tradition,\" Nate Gerry said. \"That\u2019s just \u2018blackshirt\u2019 mentality. That\u2019s the team mentality ever sense I\u2019ve been here. We\u2019ve been down in the dumps for a couple of games, but ever since I\u2019ve been here, we\u2019ve always rallied back. That\u2019s the tradition of Nebraska.\u201d\nArmstrong was, objectively, remarkable. He evaded a relentless pass rush, spun out of the pocket to extend plays with his feet, picked up much-needed first downs. The junior incumbent quarterback was unquestionably the catalyst behind the comeback.\nIn the fourth quarter, first it was a 10-yard touchdown pass from Armstrong to senior Alonzo Moore, followed by a successful two-point conversion; then it was Armstrong finding senior Brandon Reilly for a 21-yard score; and finally it was Armstrong finding true freshman Stanley Morgan for an 8-yard score with less than a minute to go and another successful two-point conversion.\nThere was something in the air in the second half: A Nebraska secondary that couldn't stop Kaaya -- who, by the way, broke his own career high in passing Saturday (379 yards) that he set last season, coincidentally, against Nebraska -- picked him off in the end zone and forced Golden's club to punt through most of the fourth quarter. It was a come-back-from-the-dead effort that Nebraska can live with and channel as something other than harrowing devastation.\n\u201cA loss is a loss,\" Gerry said. \"But like I said, the ballgame could have been a whole lot different if we would have played our game. I don\u2019t think we prepared very well. I thought we had a pretty good week of practice, but I don\u2019t think we put it on tape today.\u201d\nThe Hurricanes swarmed the field after the win and what was left of the 53,580 in attendance roared for their program. Nebraska's comeback may have come up short, leaving the team in silence, if only for a little while, but the next few weeks will provide no shortage on volume. Riley will hear it from the critics and so will his players. They'll be questioned about whether or not the team can reach nine wins and asked to rate how the transition to a new coaching staff is going.\nSOUND FROM PLAYERS AND RILEY\n[TOMMY ARMSTRONG JR.]\n[NATE GERRY]\n[NEBRASKA FALLS TO MIAMI]\n[ANDY KENDEIGH HANDS OUT THE GAME BALL]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 16109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.keystonemontessori.com/classroom-updates/lower-elementary/red-tailed-hawks/blog/1616929/red-tailed-hawks-1st-december-update", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:32Z", "digest": "sha1:XO75IKS22QBBPB6XRPBKKRHFAPM3KXEL", "length": 1020, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.keystonemontessori.com", "title": "Red-tailed Hawks- 1st December Update | Red Tailed Hawks", "raw_content": "Red-tailed Hawks- 1st December Update\nHello again Red-tailed Hawk Families! I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and enjoyed the long weekend. We have been very busy in class, working on a variety of lessons. We have had a lot of renewed interest in the Periodic Table of Elements, which in turn, has reignited interest in science experiments. In language, we have been editing several stories, as well as studying helping verbs and list poems. There are several different geometry studies going on, including studies of polygons, angles, and lines.\nOur newest class pet has been named. Ms. Prickle Pants (Prickles for short), our hedgehog, has settled in nicely into her new home. The students enjoy seeing her run on her wheel and cuddling with her during reading time.\nAs a reminder, our annual soup dinner and cookie exchange will take place on Wednesday, December 12th. This is always a fun evening and a great way to visit other families. More information on the event will be sent home on Monday, December 3rd.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kidsfirst.org/detail/216258.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:28Z", "digest": "sha1:IRFFNN5DMHL4MNJ73KAF64OJ3G3ET6BI", "length": 1403, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.kidsfirst.org", "title": "DREAMSCOPE from ANNA ANTONOVA - KIDS FIRST! Reviews and Videos", "raw_content": "What to know: Very unique with outstanding visuals anc concept.\nThis title is very unique. It has outstanding visuals and concept. It is a very interesting title that has a place in a film festival. For me, this film was somewhat confusing to understand exactly what the point is. I had to watch it a second time to fully grasp the concept. It is about children's imaginations and I think any child with an active imagination will enjoy it. It flows well and, for the most part, makes sense. The vocabulary and concepts are suitable for school aged children. I recommend it for ages 6 to 12. Reviewed by Michael O., KIDS FIRST! juror.\nHave you ever think about, How these strange ideas and questions come up to children mind? I have theory that children with emotional inner world and huge imagination all over the world are connected with each other somehow. 2 worlds. 2 cultures. 2 little kids. What this experience could give them more? Director bio: Graduated Moscow Art Theatre University in 2010. Was working in several theater festivals, than decided to study cinema. Graduated Russian All-state Cinematography University as director of editing, and Moscow Cinematography School as DP. First fairytale for children participated in International film festival 19th Children Film Festival in Hyderabad, India, where I started my next project DreamScope. Currently studying at New York Film Academy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.knoxjewelers.biz/blog/category/buying-a-ring/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:56Z", "digest": "sha1:HZWBVWTZ6UPMN4GRXUTB3QON7E6STQMN", "length": 3155, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.knoxjewelers.biz", "title": "Buying a Wedding Ring Archives - Knox Jewelers", "raw_content": "Category: Buying a Wedding Ring\n5 Things You Never Knew About Buying an Engagement Ring\nBuying an engagement ring is one of the most amazing experiences in life, but it\u2019s also an experience that\u2019s filled with unexpected situations and emotions. The reality of choosing an engagement ring is not nearly as nerve-wracking as proposing marriage but it still ranks fairly high up on the scale of life\u2019s challenges. We collected a few special hints to help you in your quest for the perfect ring.\nThe topic of jewelry suddenly becomes much more interesting\nEven if you don\u2019t know the difference between a carat and a facet, you soon will be talking about these parameters with perfect familiarity\u2014all because you\u2019ve decided to propose. All conversation around jewelry becomes more riveting, especially if she is talking about her taste in jewelry. Only by paying careful attention will be you be able to utilize these important facts to shop intelligently for her ring.\nRemember that if at first glance all diamonds look the same, you\u2019ll soon be singing the praises of some stones that have great cut, carat, clarity and color.\nHitting below the budget\nNo matter how well you plan, buying a good quality engagement ring will be expensive because diamonds are expensive. Even when they\u2019re on sale, they are still expensive. So to get quality, you have to pay for it. Just remember what your budget is and stick to, despite the pleading of that sales person behind the counter. Remind yourself that you\u2019re driving the bus.\nIt\u2019s also important to remember that if you want a ring that is truly unique, you can design the ring yourself. A custom ring is not necessarily an expensive ring, but because it bears the name of \u201ccustom,\u201d you can expect to make it very original.\nThink about what she would buy\nWhen you\u2019re buying a ring for your gal, it\u2019s easy to get confused about what type of ring to purchase. Remember that you are looking for a type of ring she would buy, not a ring that you like. Even though you are the one spending the money, she will be wearing the ring for the rest of her life. Make sure that what you are buying is a ring she would like, not just something that is ring that is a bargain for other reasons.\nHer friends are your friends\nNow is the perfect time to get to know her friends better. Why? Because her friends can tell you more about your gal\u2019s taste in rings than almost any other people in her life. If you want to make sure that you are purchasing the ring of her dreams, ask her girlfriends to help you shop for it or help you design it. She will love the end product and you will have gained the respect\u2013and hopefully the affection\u2013of her friends.\nGet ready to rest\nOnce you\u2019ve purchased the ring, the real work begins. Let\u2019s hope you\u2019re still on good terms with her friends because they can help you arrange the most amazing proposal imaginable. It\u2019s also doesn\u2019t hurt to remember that this could be your one chance at giving your best girl the proposal of a lifetime.\nAuthor James HarrisonPosted on September 29, 2016 Categories Buying a Wedding RingLeave a comment on 5 Things You Never Knew About Buying an Engagement Ring", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/leisure/showbiz/17422892.lady-gaga-celebrates-three-grammy-wins-with-performance-of-shallow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:38Z", "digest": "sha1:V7JTAEJMZYNPLNCDDDV7VQHN6332H6F4", "length": 2183, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk", "title": "Lady Gaga celebrates three Grammy wins with performance of Shallow | Knutsford Guardian", "raw_content": "Lady Gaga celebrated her trio of wins at the 61st Grammy Awards with a powerful rendition of the ballad Shallow from A Star Is Born.\nThe singer and actress picked up three gongs at the biggest night in music on Sunday, two for her work on the film and another for her single Joanne.\nHours earlier, Gaga won a Bafta, making her the first person to win a Bafta and a Grammy on the same day.\nLady Gaga and Mark Ronson performed Shallow at the Grammys (Matt Sayles/Invision/AP)\nShe celebrated with a performance on stage at the Staples Centre, where she was joined by her Shallow co-writer Mark Ronson. Wearing a sparkly catsuit, she belted out Shallow while moving energetically about the stage, whipping her hair back and kicking her legs out.\nAt the end of the song Gaga added a theatrical flourish, staring intensely into the camera for several seconds.\nGaga, real name Stefani Germanotta, won Grammys for best song written for visual media and best pop/duo performance for Shallow. She won best pop solo performance for Joanne (Where Do You Think You\u2019re Goin\u2019?)\n\uf62d\u2764\ufe0fa Grammy for Joanne is more than me & my family could ever dream of. I sang that version in one take, & poured my entire life & soul into it. Thank you so much for this gift I am completely shocked. 2nd Grammy win of the night I am so overwhelmed by this kindness. #grammys\uf3bc\nShe reacted to the victories on Twitter. She said: \u201cA Grammy for Joanne is more than me & my family could ever dream of. I sang that version in one take, & poured my entire life & soul into it.\n\u201cThank you so much for this gift I am completely shocked. 2nd Grammy win of the night I am so overwhelmed by this kindness. #grammys.\u201d\nThe Grammy wins topped an incredible day for Gaga, who earlier won the best original music at the Baftas for A Star Is Born.\nHer co-star and the film\u2019s director, Bradley Cooper, was on hand to collect the prize.\nGaga said on Twitter: \u201cI can\u2019t believe we just won Best Original Music @BAFTA\u2018s . I wish so much I was there but am at the Grammy\u2019s to show them our love as well. We made a film about music. This means the world to me. Thank u to all our fans we love u so much, we wouldn\u2019t be here without u #BAFTAs.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 5280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.konicaminolta.com.au/news-insight/case-studies/db-schenker", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WZV4V4STWFR62OPVJ4PN4FO6R6ENK7XH", "length": 6501, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.konicaminolta.com.au", "title": "DB Schenker Australia - Konica Minolta Customer Success Story", "raw_content": "With 94,000 employees and over 2,000 offices around the world, DB Schenker is one of the world\u2019s leading providers of integrated logistics services, offering a complete range of international air and sea freight, as well as comprehensive logistics solutions and global supply chain management from a single source.\nSchenker Australia Pty Ltd was established in Sydney in 1962 and has since then acquired offices in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth and currently have 19 facilities located throughout Australia and also 3 facilities in New Zealand. Konica Minolta began its relationship with Schenker Australia in 2009, installing its first devices locally in 2011 as part of a global initiative to reduce costs and streamline business processes.\nIn logistics operations, shipping documents are prepared and printed for each item of cargo, as well as the creation of other day-to-day documents, so prior to August 2011 DB Schenker\u2019s biggest global challenge was how to manage enormous amounts of documentation. Its quest was to find a universal cost effective solution to streamline its business processes around the world.\nSchenker Australia had its own unique challenge in reducing its printing costs as it had multiple vendor products and costs in ordering supplies such as toner, paper and ribbons. Schenker needed to consolidate the printer fleet in order to reduce costs and increase environmental efficiencies.\nAccording to Dan Carpenter, General Manager IT for Schenker Australia and New Zealand, an increase in security was another key focus for the freight and logistics specialists.\n\u201cOur current data protection systems were in desperate need of an update, which from an IT perspective, is not something that should be overlooked. So we needed a partner that could not only provide a cost effective solution, but could also deliver improved sustainability initiatives and support our needs for increased security.\u201d\nThe initial stage of the global project involved 13 Australian sites, and the consolidation of 311 machines from several suppliers down to 127 Konica Minolta devices.\nAs well as an extensive hardware consolidation, Schenker Australia adopted an integrated software solution which comprised of Konica Minolta\u2019s Optimised Print Services (OPS) and OPS Advanced Monitoring. This superior offering works to increase workplace efficiency and improve business processes by streamlining the support and management of its print environment with remote monitoring and proactive maintenance.\nSchenker Australia now have access to a dedicated helpdesk service and priority helpdesk phone numbers and provides automated toner ordering, addressing one of their key system challenges.\n\u201cThe automatic toner solution is a huge operational cost saver - we used to have to order hundreds of different types of toner, ribbons and laser heads a month and now devices are remotely monitored to check if they are running low on toner and, if so, orders are placed immediately. It just works,\u201d added Dan. \u201cThis has saved our support staff 2 to 3 hours a week by completely eliminating this day to day task.\u201d\nIn addition, the solution Konica Minolta provided incorporated third party software to address the transition from pre-printed stationery to a plain paper operation.\nWith its proven ability to cut printing costs by an average of 30%, Konica Minolta\u2019s third party pull-printing solution allows Schenker Australia employees to print documents from any location, and at any time.\n\u201cThe third party software solution is one of our best examples of improved business efficiencies. Previously our big freight systems relied on pre-printed forms and had to use specialist printers to print on specific forms, whereas now it\u2019s much more streamlined,\u201d adds Dan.\nSince the installation in 2011, Schenker Australia has seen enormous benefits in cost reduction, greater work efficiency, better sustainability and increased security.\n\u201cWith Konica Minolta\u2019s integrated approach, we\u2019ve gone from 11 Brands and 80+ MFP models to one brand and six models. The way they\u2019ve been able to address our challenges and provide a tailored business solution is the reason why I\u2019m always championing the cause of Konica Minolta. I\u2019ve got many headaches out there in my area of work but printing just isn\u2019t one of them,\u201d said Dan.\nSchenker Australia has seen a 20% - 30% reduction in the total cost of ownership and a 59% reduction in the printer fleet. The elimination of 184 devices has saved the business an estimated $20,000-$30,000 PA in floor space and has had a significantly positive impact on the entire IT team.\n\u201cWe no longer have individual printers on every manager\u2019s desk, so we don\u2019t have to attend to printers as frequently as we used to. Everyone now has access to multiple printers - if one printer is out of action, they can just pop onto another to release the job. This has helped keep costs down as we\u2019ve been able to save time and promote better workflow efficiency,\u201d continued Dan.\nAnother key outcome Schenker Australia has seen is the increase in its data protection and sustainability efficiencies. \u201cThe pull printing solution has dramatically impacted our document security as there is no longer confidential information left on the printers for prying eyes. From this we\u2019ve also seen a huge decrease in our wastage, with documents less likely to be abandoned at the printer,\u201d said Dan.\nAdditionally, updating their printing devices to the latest models with energy-saving features has also reduced power consumption significantly. \u201cWe estimate electricity savings to be greater than 50% when compared to our previous fleet\u201d said Dan. Moreover, continuous monitoring of all the devices\u2019 usage has resulted in a reduction of wasteful printouts and the digitisation of documents has reduced storage space and lowered consumption of paper resources.\nDan also attributes the benefits they\u2019ve experienced as a result of Konica Minolta\u2019s great working relationship with Schenker Australia and its initiative to become educated on the business before delivering a solution.\n\u201cThere are many vendors out there that claim to provide integrated solutions, but do not deliver on their promises. Konica Minolta came into our company committed to learn our business operations and internal systems and, from this they were able to identify exactly what offering would benefit us most. 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Even if it\u2019s not the closest geographically coming from, say, southern parts of the country, you can pack a lot in one weekend.\nThere are quite a few options for accommodation, however, providing there are no weather extremes on the forecast, camping is the best and cheapest option. We stayed at the North Lees Campsite and that only cost us \u00a39 per night, per person, including the parking fee for the car (which is only a mere \u00a32). There are modest toilets and shower facilities on site and overall it is a pleasant and clean place to stay.\nThe best part about our campsite was undoubtedly the proximity to Stanage Edge. It\u2019s a short 30 min walk up to the top and you can make it directly from the back of the campsite, through the woodlands, via a trail that leads you all the way - hard to miss, but in any case there is welcoming staff around the campsite to ask for directions, which we did.\nFrom what we could gather, it\u2019s a popular practice place for mountain climbers and boulderers. We had such a good time hitting the rocks and enjoying the views that we came back the next day for the sunset and it melted our cheesy hearts. We also took so many pictures of sheep, we could probably start our own sheep stock photo selling business.\nThe best day out in Peak District however is a good old hike. The most famous one, the Pennine Way, was the first ever National Trail, opened in 1965, and in its full length stretches out to 268 miles or 430 km, going along rugged hilltops and enchanting landscapes just reaching the Scottish border.\nWe\u2019re not hardcore hikers though,and luckily there are many different routes to choose from. Given our time restrictions, we chose the Pennine Way path to the Kinder Scout plateau. The little town of Edale was our starting point, and having taken the suggestion of the knowledgeable and friendly staff at the Moorland Information Centre, we kind of did it backwards, having the Grindsbrook Clough valley scramble as an initial challenge that most people leave for the end of their trip.\nIn the end, it was the best choice, as the path goes alongside this picturesque stream with a few waterfalls and there was an ascend bit that required some scrambling up the rocks. It would not be a fun and smooth walk down in our opinion.\nThere were some challenging parts but the breeze and flat enough ground at the top of the valley that greeted us with a stunning view made it all worthwhile.\nThe only real issue for us was the lack of clear signage, which combined with our poor map interpretation skills lead us into a shorter walk than initially planned. We thought we were following the map thoroughly only to find that we were on the wrong route and already descending back towards Edale, which ultimately cut about a half of the intended 8 mile (13km) walk short.\nBut we weren\u2019t bummed out about it for too long, especially after stopping by a lovely 16th century pub that we saw on the way out, The Old Nags Head, serving a hearty Sunday roast with a vegan option (as in, by removing the meat). Almost a post-hike dream meal to be honest, and the guy serving it made sure to stop by our table and make us aware we could top up on the veggies as much as we wanted.\nAs we got treated to lot of sunshine and hot weather, we were on the lookout for a place to go for a swim. However, due to preservation reasons, it is not permitted in water reservoirs and most places in Peak District (unlike in Snowdonia National Park where there are plenty of wild swimming spots).\nIf you\u2019re driving, there\u2019s a fairly popular spot called Slippery Stones relatively nearby. However, final stretch of the road that leads up to it is closed on the weekends. Wanting to save our legs for a bigger hike over the next couple of days, we ended up giving it a pass because that bit of closed road meant a good 3+ hours walk.\nOn the remaining weekdays, when that road is open, you\u2019re only a 20 minute drive away from the Fairholmes Visitor Centre. 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You enjoy baking cakes, preparing meat, discovering new recipes. And this is happening every Saturday in Lakefield\u2019s training kitchen. The kitchen is full of young people whose passion is cooking and they want to learn more, ready to join the Cookery Course for school students.\nWe started the new Junior Chef course in the first week of February, it will last for 10 weeks, just in the morning and the last week will be the big day. The students will make a three-course meal for their family and friends to show off all the skills they have learned.\nJunior Chef Academy is a programme for girls from 14 to 16 years old who want to take their cooking skills a little bit further. 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It\u2019s the largest city in America, where skyscrapers pierce the sky and taxis provide a constant symphony for throngs of people of all races, religions, and social strata. New York is the world\u2019s hub for business, communications, finance, fashion, sports, and the arts. It\u2019s the Big Apple, the city that never sleeps. We asked New Yorkers \u201cWhat makes this place so great?\u201d\nWhile it\u2019s impossible to include everything in this great city, NEW YORK-OPOLY hits the highlights. The game is full of the Big Apple, Yo!Yo!Yo!\u2019s, carriage rides through Central Park\u2026and if you think this game could be boring \u2013 FOGETTABOUDIT! This game is about New York City, the most exciting city in the world! Are you looking for a fun way to experience New York?\nHere it is! NEW YORK-OPOLY!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 391, "original_length": 6981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/3711", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:23Z", "digest": "sha1:7W644YJYIIH3P3I2JMX6QQLYMX6KH3VT", "length": 34799, "nlines": 241, "source_domain": "www.law.cornell.edu", "title": "31 U.S. Code \u00a7 3711 - Collection and compromise | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute", "raw_content": "Subchapter II. CLAIMS OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT\nSection 3711. Collection and compromise\n31 U.S. Code \u00a7\u202f3711. Collection and compromise\n(a) The head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u2014\nshall try to collect a claim of the United States Government for money or property arising out of the activities of, or referred to, the agency;\nmay compromise a claim of the Government of not more than $100,000 (excluding interest) or such higher amount as the Attorney General may from time to time prescribe that has not been referred to another executive or legislative agency for further collection action, except that only the Comptroller General may compromise a claim arising out of an exception the Comptroller General makes in the account of an accountable official; and\nmay suspend or end collection action on a claim referred to in clause (2) of this subsection when it appears that no person liable on the claim has the present or prospective ability to pay a significant amount of the claim or the cost of collecting the claim is likely to be more than the amount recovered.\nThe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency may not act under subsection (a)(2) or (3) of this section on a claim that appears to be fraudulent, false, or misrepresented by a party with an interest in the claim, or that is based on conduct in violation of the antitrust laws.\nThe Secretary of Transportation may not compromise for less than $500 a penalty under section 21302 of title 49 for a violation of chapter 203, 205, or 207 of title 49 or a regulation or requirement prescribed or order issued under any of those chapters.\nA compromise under this section is final and conclusive unless gotten by fraud, misrepresentation, presenting a false claim, or mutual mistake of fact. An accountable official is not liable for an amount paid or for the value of property lost or damaged if the amount or value is not recovered because of a compromise under this section.\n(d) The head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency acts under\u2014\nregulations prescribed by the head of the agency; and\nstandards that the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe.[1]\n(1) When trying to collect a claim of the Government under a law except the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), the head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency shall disclose to a consumer reporting agency information from a system of records that a person is responsible for a claim if\u2014\nnotice required by section 552a(e)(4) of title 5 indicates that information in the system may be disclosed to a consumer reporting agency;\nthe head of the agency has reviewed the claim and decided that the claim is valid and overdue;\n(C) the head of the agency has notified the person in writing\u2014\nthat payment of the claim is overdue;\nthat, within not less than 60 days after sending the notice, the head of the agency intends to disclose to a consumer reporting agency that the person is responsible for the claim;\nof the specific information to be disclosed to the consumer reporting agency; and\nof the rights the person has to a complete explanation of the claim, to dispute information in the records of the agency about the claim, and to administrative repeal or review of the claim;\n(D) the person has not\u2014\nrepaid or agreed to repay the claim under a written repayment plan that the person has signed and the head of the agency has agreed to; or\nfiled for review of the claim under paragraph (2) of this subsection;\n(E) the head of the agency has established procedures to\u2014\ndisclose promptly, to each consumer reporting agency to which the original disclosure was made, a substantial change in the condition or amount of the claim;\nverify or correct promptly information about the claim on request of a consumer reporting agency for verification of information disclosed; and\nget satisfactory assurances from each consumer reporting agency that the agency is complying with all laws of the United States related to providing consumer credit information; and\n(F) the information disclosed to the consumer reporting agency is limited to\u2014\ninformation necessary to establish the identity of the person, including name, address, and taxpayer identification number;\nthe amount, status, and history of the claim; and\nthe agency or program under which the claim arose.\nBefore disclosing information to a consumer reporting agency under paragraph (1) of this subsection and at other times allowed by law, the head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency shall provide, on request of a person alleged by the agency to be responsible for the claim, for a review of the obligation of the person, including an opportunity for reconsideration of the initial decision on the claim.\nBefore disclosing information to a consumer reporting agency under paragraph (1) of this subsection, the head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency shall take reasonable action to locate a person for whom the head of the agency does not have a current address to send the notice under paragraph (1)(C).\nThe head of each executive agency shall require, as a condition for insuring or guaranteeing any loan, financing, or other extension of credit under any law to a person, that the lender provide information relating to the extension of credit to consumer reporting agencies or commercial reporting agencies, as appropriate.\nThe head of each executive agency may provide to a consumer reporting agency or commercial reporting agency information from a system of records that a person is responsible for a claim which is current, if notice required by section 552a(e)(4) of title 5 indicates that information in the system may be disclosed to a consumer reporting agency or commercial reporting agency, respectively.\nThe Secretary of Defense may suspend or terminate an action by the Secretary or by the Secretary of a military department under subsection (a) to collect a claim against the estate of a person who died while serving on active duty as a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard during a period when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Navy if the Secretary determines that, under the circumstances applicable with respect to the deceased person, it is appropriate to do so.\nThe Secretary of Homeland Security may suspend or terminate an action by the Secretary under subsection (a) to collect a claim against the estate of a person who died while serving on active duty as a member of the Coast Guard if the Secretary determines that, under the circumstances applicable with respect to the deceased person, it is appropriate to do so.\nThe Secretary of Veterans Affairs may suspend or terminate an action by the Secretary under subsection (a) to collect a claim against the estate of a person who died while serving on active duty as a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard during a period when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Navy if the Secretary determines that, under the circumstances applicable with respect to the deceased person, it is appropriate to do so.\nIn this subsection, the term \u201cactive duty\u201d has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 10.\n(1) If a nontax debt or claim owed to the United States has been delinquent for a period of 180 days\u2014\nthe head of the executive, judicial, or legislative agency that administers the program that gave rise to the debt or claim shall transfer the debt or claim to the Secretary of the Treasury; and\nupon such transfer the Secretary of the Treasury shall take appropriate action to collect or terminate collection actions on the debt or claim.\n(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply\u2014\n(A) to any debt or claim that\u2014\nis in litigation or foreclosure;\nwill be disposed of under an asset sales program within 1 year after becoming eligible for sale, or later than 1 year if consistent with an asset sales program and a schedule established by the agency and approved by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget;\nhas been referred to a private collection contractor for collection for a period of time determined by the Secretary of the Treasury;\nhas been referred by, or with the consent of, the Secretary of the Treasury to a debt collection center for a period of time determined by the Secretary of the Treasury; or\nwill be collected under internal offset, if such offset is sufficient to collect the claim within 3 years after the date the debt or claim is first delinquent; and\nto any other specific class of debt or claim, as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury at the request of the head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency or otherwise.\nFor purposes of this section, the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and withdraw such designation of debt collection centers operated by other Federal agencies. The Secretary of the Treasury shall designate such centers on the basis of their performance in collecting delinquent claims owed to the Government.\n(4) At the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, referral of a nontax claim may be made to\u2014\nany executive department or agency operating a debt collection center for servicing, collection, compromise, or suspension or termination of collection action;\na private collection contractor operating under a contract for servicing or collection action; or\nthe Department of Justice for litigation.\n(5) Nontax claims referred or transferred under this section shall be serviced, collected, or compromised, or collection action thereon suspended or terminated, in accordance with otherwise applicable statutory requirements and authorities. Executive departments and agencies operating debt collection centers may enter into agreements with the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the purposes of this subsection. The Secretary of the Treasury shall\u2014\nmaintain competition in carrying out this subsection;\nmaximize collections of delinquent debts by placing delinquent debts quickly;\nmaintain a schedule of private collection contractors and debt collection centers eligible for referral of claims; and\nrefer delinquent debts to the person most appropriate to collect the type or amount of claim involved.\nAny agency operating a debt collection center to which nontax claims are referred or transferred under this subsection may charge a fee sufficient to cover the full cost of implementing this subsection. The agency transferring or referring the nontax claim shall be charged the fee, and the agency charging the fee shall collect such fee by retaining the amount of the fee from amounts collected pursuant to this subsection. Agencies may agree to pay through a different method, or to fund an activity from another account or from revenue received from the procedure described under section 3720C of this title. Amounts charged under this subsection concerning delinquent claims may be considered as costs pursuant to section 3717(e) of this title.\n(7) Notwithstanding any other law concerning the depositing and collection of Federal payments, including section 3302(b) of this title, agencies collecting fees may retain the fees from amounts collected. Any fee charged pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited into an account to be determined by the executive department or agency operating the debt collection center charging the fee (in this subsection referred to in this section\u202f[2] as the \u201cAccount\u201d). Amounts deposited in the Account shall be available until expended to cover costs associated with the implementation and operation of Governmentwide debt collection activities. Costs properly chargeable to the Account include\u2014\nthe costs of computer hardware and software, word processing and telecommunications equipment, and other equipment, supplies, and furniture;\npersonnel training and travel costs;\nother personnel and administrative costs;\nthe costs of any contract for identification, billing, or collection services; and\nreasonable costs incurred by the Secretary of the Treasury, including services and utilities provided by the Secretary, and administration of the Account.\nNot later than January 1 of each year, there shall be deposited into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts an amount equal to the amount of unobligated balances remaining in the Account at the close of business on September 30 of the preceding year, minus any part of such balance that the executive department or agency operating the debt collection center determines is necessary to cover or defray the costs under this subsection for the fiscal year in which the deposit is made.\n(9) Before discharging any delinquent debt owed to any executive, judicial, or legislative agency, the head of such agency shall take all appropriate steps to collect such debt, including (as applicable)\u2014\nadministrative offset,\ntax refund offset,\nFederal salary offset,\nreferral to private collection contractors,\nreferral to agencies operating a debt collection center,\nreporting delinquencies to credit reporting bureaus,\ngarnishing the wages of delinquent debtors, and\nlitigation or foreclosure.\nTo carry out the purposes of this subsection, the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe such rules, regulations, and procedures as the Secretary considers necessary and transfer such funds from funds appropriated to the Department of the Treasury as may be necessary to meet existing liabilities and obligations incurred prior to the receipt of revenues that result from debt collections.\nThe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency acting under subsection (a)(1), (2), or (3) of this section to collect a claim, compromise a claim, or terminate collection action on a claim may obtain a consumer report (as that term is defined in section 603 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a)) or comparable credit information on any person who is liable for the claim.\nThe obtaining of a consumer report under this subsection is deemed to be a circumstance or purpose authorized or listed under section 604 of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681b).\nThe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency may sell, subject to section 504(b) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 and using competitive procedures, any nontax debt owed to the United States that is delinquent for more than 90 days. Appropriate fees charged by a contractor to assist in the conduct of a sale under this subsection may be payable from the proceeds of the sale.\nAfter terminating collection action, the head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency shall sell, using competitive procedures, any nontax debt or class of nontax debts owed to the United States, if the Secretary of the Treasury determines the sale is in the best interests of the United States.\n(3) Sales of nontax debt under this subsection\u2014\n(A) shall be for\u2014\ncash and a residuary equity or profit participation, if the head of the agency reasonably determines that the proceeds will be greater than sale solely for cash,\nshall be without recourse, but may include the use of guarantees if otherwise authorized, and\nshall transfer to the purchaser all rights of the Government to demand payment of the nontax debt, other than with respect to a residuary equity or profit participation under subparagraph (A)(ii).\nWithin one year after the date of enactment of the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, each executive agency with current and delinquent collateralized nontax debts shall report to the Congress on the valuation of its existing portfolio of loans, notes and guarantees, and other collateralized debts based on standards developed by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury.\n(B) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall determine what information is required to be reported to comply with subparagraph (A). At a minimum, for each financing account and for each liquidating account (as those terms are defined in sections 502(7) and 502(8), respectively, of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990) the following information shall be reported:\nThe cumulative balance of current debts outstanding, the estimated net present value of such debts, the annual administrative expenses of those debts (including the portion of salaries and expenses that are directly related thereto), and the estimated net proceeds that would be received by the Government if such debts were sold.\nThe cumulative balance of delinquent debts, debts outstanding, the estimated net present value of such debts, the annual administrative expenses of those debts (including the portion of salaries and expenses that are directly related thereto), and the estimated net proceeds that would be received by the Government if such debts were sold.\nThe cumulative balance of guaranteed loans outstanding, the estimated net present value of such guarantees, the annual administrative expenses of such guarantees (including the portion of salaries and expenses that are directly related to such guaranteed loans), and the estimated net proceeds that would be received by the Government if such loan guarantees were sold.\nThe cumulative balance of defaulted loans that were previously guaranteed and have resulted in loans receivables, the estimated net present value of such loan assets, the annual administrative expenses of such loan assets (including the portion of salaries and expenses that are directly related to such loan assets), and the estimated net proceeds that would be received by the Government if such loan assets were sold.\nThe marketability of all debts.\nThis subsection is not intended to limit existing statutory authority of agencies to sell loans, debts, or other assets.\n(Pub. L. 97\u2013258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 971; Pub. L. 97\u2013452, \u00a7\u202f1(15), Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2470; Pub. L. 98\u2013216, \u00a7\u202f1(5), Feb. 14, 1984, 98 Stat. 4; Pub. L. 99\u2013514, \u00a7\u202f2, Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095; Pub. L. 101\u2013552, \u00a7\u202f8(b), Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2746; Pub. L. 102\u2013365, \u00a7\u202f4(a)(4), Sept. 3, 1992, 106 Stat. 973; Pub. L. 103\u2013272, \u00a7\u202f5(i)(1), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1375; Pub. L. 104\u2013106, div. A, title X, \u00a7\u202f1089, Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 459; Pub. L. 104\u2013134, title III, \u00a7\u202f31001(c)(1), (g)(1)(C), (k), (m)(1), (p), Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321\u2013359, 1321\u2013363, 1321\u2013365, 1321\u2013366, 1321\u2013371; Pub. L. 104\u2013201, div. A, title X, \u00a7\u202f1010, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2635; Pub. L. 104\u2013316, title I, \u00a7\u202f115(g)(1), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3834; Pub. L. 109\u2013241, title IX, \u00a7\u202f902(b)(4), July 11, 2006, 120 Stat. 566; Pub. L. 110\u2013389, title VIII, \u00a7\u202f801(a), Oct. 10, 2008, 122 Stat. 4185.)\n31:952(a)(less words between 1st and 2d commas), (b)(1st sentence less words between 6th and 7th commas).\n31:952(b)(2d sentence, last sentence words after semicolon).\n31:952(b)(last sentence words before semicolon).\n31:952(note).\nJuly 8, 1976, Pub. L. 94\u2013348, \u00a7\u202f3(e), 90 Stat. 818.\n31:952(c).\n31:952(a)(words between 1st and 2d commas), (b)(1st sentence words between 6th and 7th commas).\nIn the section, the words \u201cexecutive or legislative agency\u201d are substituted for \u201cagency\u201d because of the restatement. The words \u201cor his designee\u201d are omitted as unnecessary.\nIn subsection (a), the word \u201cGovernment\u201d is added for consistency. In clause (2), the words \u201cincluding the General Accounting Office\u201d are omitted as surplus. In clause (3), the word \u201cfinancial\u201d is omitted as surplus.\nIn subsections (b) and (d), the word \u201cofficial\u201d is substituted for \u201cofficer\u201d for consistency.\nIn subsection (b), the words \u201cComptroller General\u201d are substituted for \u201cGeneral Accounting Office\u201d for consistency. The words \u201chas the same authority that the head of the agency has\u201d are substituted for \u201chave the foregoing authority\u201d for clarity. The words \u201cby another agency\u201d are omitted as surplus. The words \u201conly .\u2000.\u2000. may compromise\u201d are substituted for \u201cnor shall the head of an agency, other than .\u2000.\u2000. have authority to compromise\u201d to eliminate unnecessary words.\nIn subsection (c)(1), the words \u201cthat appears to be fraudulent, false, or misrepresented by\u201d are substituted for \u201cas to which there is an indication of fraud, the presentation of a false claim, or misrepresentation on the part of\u201d to eliminate unnecessary words. The words \u201cthe debtor or .\u2000.\u2000. other\u201d and \u201cin whole or in part\u201d are omitted as surplus.\nIn subsection (c)(2), the words \u201cNotwithstanding any provision of the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966\u201d are omitted as unnecessary. The words \u201carising\u201d and \u201can amount\u201d are omitted as surplus.\nIn subsection (d), the words \u201ceffected .\u2000.\u2000. authority conferred by\u201d, \u201con the debtor and on all officials, agencies, and courts of the United States\u201d, \u201cdestroyed\u201d, and \u201cwith a person primarily responsible\u201d are omitted as surplus.\nIn subsection (e), the words \u201cin conformity with\u201d are omitted as surplus.\n31 App.:952(d)(1).\nJuly 19, 1966, Pub. L. 89\u2013508, 80 Stat. 308, \u00a7\u202f3(d)(1)\u2013(3); added Oct. 25, 1982, Pub. L. 97\u2013365, \u00a7\u202f3, 96 Stat. 1749.\nIn subsection (f)(1), before clause (A), the word \u201cGovernment\u201d is substituted for \u201cUnited States\u201d for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code. The words \u201csubsection (a) of this section, or under any other\u201d are omitted as surplus. The word \u201claw\u201d is substituted for \u201cstatutory authority\u201d to eliminate unnecessary words. In clause (A), the words \u201cfor the system of records\u201d are omitted as surplus. In clause (C)(iii), the word \u201cintended\u201d is omitted as surplus. In clause (E)(ii), the words \u201cas appropriate\u201d and \u201cany or all\u201d are omitted as surplus. In clause (E)(iii), the words \u201call laws of the United States\u201d are coextensive with and substituted for \u201cthe Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681 et seq.) and any other Federal law\u201d.\nThis is necessary to reflect the transfer of the non-positive law provisions of title 49 to title 49 appendix.\nSections 502(7), 502(8), and 504(b) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990, referred to in subsec. (i)(1), (4)(B), are classified to sections 661a(7), 661a(8), and 661c(b), respectively, of Title 2, The Congress.\nThe date of enactment of the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996, referred to in subsec. (i)(4)(A), is the date of enactment of section 31001 of Pub. L. 104\u2013134, which was approved Apr. 26, 1996.\n2008\u2014Subsec. (f)(3), (4). Pub. L. 110\u2013389 added par. (3) and redesignated former par. (3) as (4).\n2006\u2014Subsec. (f)(2). Pub. L. 109\u2013241 substituted \u201cSecretary of Homeland Security\u201d for \u201cSecretary of Transportation\u201d.\n1996\u2014Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(c)(1), which directed that this section be amended by substituting \u201cthe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u201d for \u201cthe head of an executive or legislative agency\u201d wherever appearing, was executed in introductory provisions by substituting \u201cThe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u201d for \u201cThe head of an executive or legislative agency\u201d, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.\nSubsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 104\u2013316, \u00a7\u202f115(g)(1)(A), inserted \u201c,\u2000except that only the Comptroller General may compromise a claim arising out of an exception the Comptroller General makes in the account of an accountable official\u201d before \u201c;\u2000and\u201d at end.\nSubsec. (b). Pub. L. 104\u2013316, \u00a7\u202f115(g)(1)(B), (C), redesignated subsec. (c) as (b) and struck out former subsec. (b) which read as follows: \u201cThe Comptroller General has the same authority that the head of the agency has under subsection (a) of this section when the claim is referred to the Comptroller General for further collection action. Only the Comptroller General may compromise a claim arising out of an exception the Comptroller General makes in the account of an accountable official.\u201d\nSubsec. (c). Pub. L. 104\u2013316, \u00a7\u202f115(g)(1)(C), redesignated subsec. (d) as (c). Former subsec. (c) redesignated (b).\nSubsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(c)(1), which directed that this section be amended by substituting \u201cthe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u201d for \u201cthe head of an executive or legislative agency\u201d wherever appearing, was executed by substituting \u201cThe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u201d for \u201cThe head of an executive or legislative agency\u201d, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.\nSubsec. (d). Pub. L. 104\u2013316, \u00a7\u202f115(g)(1)(C), (D), redesignated subsec. (e) as (d) and in par. (2) struck out \u201cand the Comptroller General\u201d before \u201cmay prescribe\u201d and \u201cjointly\u201d after \u201cprescribe\u201d. Former subsec. (d) redesignated (c).\nSubsec. (e). Pub. L. 104\u2013316, \u00a7\u202f115(g)(1)(C), redesignated subsec. (f) as (e). Former subsec. (e) redesignated (d).\nPub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(c)(1), which directed that this section be amended by substituting \u201cthe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u201d for \u201cthe head of an executive or legislative agency\u201d wherever appearing, was executed in introductory provisions by substituting \u201cThe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u201d for \u201cThe head of an executive or legislative agency\u201d, to reflect the probable intent of Congress.\nSubsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(g)(1)(C), inserted \u201c,\u2000the Secretary of the Treasury,\u201d after \u201cAttorney General\u201d.\nSubsec. (f). Pub. L. 104\u2013316, \u00a7\u202f115(g)(1)(C), redesignated the subsec. (g), relating to authority to suspend or terminate collection actions against deceased members, as (f). Former subsec. (f) redesignated (e).\nSubsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(c)(1), (k)(1), (2), in introductory provisions substituted \u201cthe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency shall\u201d for \u201cthe head of an executive or legislative agency may\u201d and \u201ca person\u201d for \u201can individual\u201d.\nSubsec. (f)(1)(C), (D), (F). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(k)(3), substituted \u201cthe person\u201d for \u201cthe individual\u201d wherever appearing.\nSubsec. (f)(2). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(c)(1), (k)(2), (3), substituted \u201cthe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u201d for \u201cthe head of an executive or legislative agency\u201d, \u201ca person\u201d for \u201can individual\u201d, and \u201cthe person\u201d for \u201cthe individual\u201d.\nSubsec. (f)(3). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(c)(1), (k)(2), substituted \u201cthe head of an executive, judicial, or legislative agency\u201d for \u201cthe head of an executive or legislative agency\u201d and \u201ca person\u201d for \u201can individual\u201d.\nSubsec. (f)(4), (5). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(k)(4), added pars. (4) and (5).\nSubsec. (g). Pub. L. 104\u2013316, \u00a7\u202f115(g)(1)(C), redesignated the subsec. (g), relating to authority to suspend or terminate collection actions against deceased members, as (f).\nPub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(m)(1), added subsec. (g) relating to transfer of debt or claim to Secretary of the Treasury in case of delinquency.\nPub. L. 104\u2013106 added subsec. (g) relating to authority to suspend or terminate collection actions against deceased members.\nSubsec. (g)(1). Pub. L. 104\u2013201, \u00a7\u202f1010(1), substituted \u201cMarine Corps, or Coast Guard during a period when the Coast Guard is operating as a service in the Navy\u201d for \u201cor Marine Corps\u201d.\nSubsec. (g)(2), (3). Pub. L. 104\u2013201, \u00a7\u202f1010(2), (3), added par. (2) and redesignated former par. (2) as (3).\nSubsec. (h). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(m)(1), added subsec. (h).\nSubsec. (i). Pub. L. 104\u2013134, \u00a7\u202f31001(p), added subsec. (i).\n1994\u2014Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 103\u2013272 substituted \u201csection 21302 of title 49 for a violation of chapter 203, 205, or 207 of title 49 or a regulation or requirement prescribed or order issued under any of those chapters\u201d for \u201csection 6 of the Act of March 2, 1893 (45 U.S.C. 6), section 4 of the Act of April 14, 1910 (45 U.S.C. 13), section 9 of the Act of February 17, 1911 (45 U.S.C. 34), and section 25(h) of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 App. U.S.C. 26(h))\u201d.\n1992\u2014Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 102\u2013365 substituted \u201c$500\u201d for \u201c$250\u201d.\n1990\u2014Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 101\u2013552 substituted \u201c$100,000 (excluding interest) or such higher amount as the Attorney General may from time to time prescribe\u201d for \u201c$20,000 (excluding interest)\u201d.\n1986\u2014Subsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 99\u2013514 substituted \u201cInternal Revenue Code of 1986\u201d for \u201cInternal Revenue Code of 1954\u201d.\n1984\u2014Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 98\u2013216 substituted \u201c(49 App. U.S.C. 26(h))\u201d for \u201c(49 U.S.C. 26(h))\u201d.\nPub. L. 104\u2013134, title III, \u00a7\u202f31001(n), Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321\u2013369, provided that:\n\u201cEffective October 1, 1995, section 11 of the Administrative Dispute Resolution Act (Public Law 101\u2013552, [former] 5 U.S.C. 571 note) shall not apply to the amendment made by section 8(b) of such Act [amending this section].\u201d\nPub. L. 104\u2013134, title III, \u00a7\u202f31001(aa)(1), Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321\u2013379, provided that:\n\u201cThe Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with concerned Federal agencies, may establish guidelines, including information on outstanding debt, to assist agencies in the performance and monitoring of debt collection activities.\u201d\n\u201cNot later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act [Apr. 26, 1996], the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to the Congress on collection services provided by Federal agencies or entities collecting debt on behalf of other Federal agencies under the authorities contained in section 3711(g) of title 31, United States Code, as added by subsection (m) of this section.\u201d\nStandards and Policies for Compromising, Writing-Down, Forgiving, or Discharging Indebtedness\nPub. L. 104\u2013134, title III, \u00a7\u202f31001(bb), Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321\u2013380, provided that:\n\u201cThe Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall\u2014\nreview the standards and policies of each Federal agency for compromising, writing-down, forgiving, or discharging indebtedness arising from programs of the agency;\ndetermine whether those standards and policies are consistent and protect the interests of the United States;\nin the case of any Federal agency standard or policy that the Director determines is not consistent or does not protect the interests of the United States, direct the head of the agency to make appropriate modifications to the standard or policy; and\n\u201c(4) report annually to the Congress on\u2014\ndeficiencies in the standards and policies of Federal agencies for compromising, writing-down, forgiving, or discharging indebtedness; and\nprogress made in improving those standards and policies.\u201d\nExisting Agency Authority To Litigate, Settle, Compromise, or Close Claims\nPub. L. 89\u2013508, \u00a7\u202f4, July 19, 1966, 80 Stat. 309, provided that:\n\u201cNothing in this Act [now this section] shall increase or diminish the existing authority of the head of an agency to litigate claims, or diminish his existing authority to settle, compromise, or close claims.\u201d\n[1] \u202fSo in original. 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STANDARDS FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE COLLECTION OF CLAIMS\n31 CFR PART 902 - STANDARDS FOR THE COMPROMISE OF CLAIMS\n31 CFR PART 903 - STANDARDS FOR SUSPENDING OR TERMINATING COLLECTION ACTIVITY\n31 CFR PART 904 - REFERRALS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE\nTitle 38: Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief\n38 CFR Standards for Collection, Compromise, Suspension or Termination of Collection Effort, and Referral of Civil Claims for Money or Property\n38 CFR Standards for Collection of Claims\n38 CFR Standards for Compromise of Claims\n38 CFR Standards for Suspending or Terminating Collection Action\n38 CFR Referrals to GAO, Department of Justice, or IRS\n40 CFR PART 13 - CLAIMS COLLECTION STANDARDS\nTitle 41: Public Contracts and Property Management\n41 CFR PART 105-55 - COLLECTION OF CLAIMS OWED THE UNITED STATES\n41 CFR PART 105-56 - SALARY OFFSET FOR INDEBTEDNESS OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO THE UNITED STATES\n42 CFR Subpart C - Suspension of Payment, Recovery of Overpayments, and Repayment of Scholarships and Loans\n45 CFR PART 30 - CLAIMS COLLECTION\n45 CFR PART 608 - CLAIMS COLLECTION AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFSET\n45 CFR PART 1150 - COLLECTION OF CLAIMS\n45 CFR PART 1177 - CLAIMS COLLECTION\n46 CFR PART 505 - ADMINISTRATIVE OFFSET\n47 CFR Subpart O - Collection of Claims Owed the United States\n49 CFR PART 89 - IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FEDERAL CLAIMS COLLECTION ACT\n49 CFR Subpart B - Collection of Claims\n49 CFR PART 1021 - ADMINISTRATIVE COLLECTION OF ENFORCEMENT CLAIMS\n50 CFR PART 29 - LAND USE MANAGEMENT\nClinger-Cohen Act of 1996\nCorporation for the Promotion of Rifle Practice and Firearms Safety Act\nEl Centro Naval Air Facility Ranges Withdrawal Act\nFederal Claims Collection Act of 1966\nFederal Employee Travel Reform Act of 1996\nFort Carson-Pinon Canyon Military Lands Withdrawal Act\nIllinois Land Conservation Act of 1995\nMilitary Force Structure Review Act of 1996\nMilitary Housing Assistance Act of 1995\nNational Imagery and Mapping Agency Act of 1996\nPanama Canal Act Amendments of 1996\nPanama Canal Amendments Act of 1995\nRail Safety Enforcement and Review Act\nReserve Forces Revitalization Act of 1996\nSupplemental Appropriations Act of 1996\nUSEC Privatization Act\nVeterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 2008", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 480, "original_length": 40200, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 210.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lawyersmm.com/criminal-charges/shoplifting-petit-larceny/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:36Z", "digest": "sha1:WZRU2WSOYITVPQP6HRZKLPP46KAYMTML", "length": 3843, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.lawyersmm.com", "title": "Shoplifting and Petit Larceny | The Militello Law Firm", "raw_content": "An Experienced Rochester Shoplifting Attorney can Help.\nShoplifting charges often cause tremendous stress for people, and it helps to speak with someone about your case so that you know what to expect. With an experienced guide, these matters are not nearly as scary as you might initially think. You can call P. Adam Militello, Esq. 7 days a week, to discuss your charges. (The phone consultation is free.) We regularly assist people in Monroe, Ontario, Livingston, Wayne, and Genesee Counties, and we can help you.\nThere are three components to a petit larceny case, and we will handle all aspects of the matter for you:\n1) We will help you with the criminal charge of Petit Larceny (a.k.a. shoplifting, or theft).\nThe most immediate issue you face is a criminal charge. Whether you were stopped in Marketplace Mall, Eastview Mall, Kohl's, or Wegmans, once the police are called, you will have to face a misdemeanor petit larceny charge in a local court. It's true that this is a crime punishable by a hefty fine and jail time, but that is why you hire a lawyer- to avoid those most serious consequences. We have handled many, many petit larceny cases in the courts around Rochester, and although past results do not indicate future outcomes, I am very proud of the results we have achieved for our clients. Whether we are able to negotiate a dismissal of your charge, reduce it to a non-criminal offense, or if we have to take it to trial, we are prepared to help you beat these charges. Our number is (585) 485-0025, and we are available 24/7 for people who have been recently arrested and need to speak with an attorney. (Yes, it's okay to call on the weekend if you have just been arrested.)\n2) We'll also help you with the civil claim alleging theft.\nWhile you are being detained by private security at the store, you may be told to sign an admission of guilt, or an agreement to stay out of the store, or an agreement to pay a fine. Don't sign anything without talking to your lawyer. Even if you do sign some documents, don't pay anybody any money until you have talked to your own lawyer.\nIf store security doesn't ask you to pay them money while you are being held in a room somewhere, you may later received a letter from the store, asking you to pay a fine of between $75 and $500, and possibly asking for reimbursement of up to $1,500 for the allegedly stolen property. Don't pay them. Call your own attorney. As part of the flat fee that we charge to represent people in theft cases, we also contact the store's lawyer. We tell that lawyer we represent you, and we will represent you in a civil case as well. Again, although past results do not indicate future outcomes, not one of my clients has yet been forced to pay a civil penalty after contacting us. We've saved our clients tens of thousands of dollars and protected their credit ratings by taking this precaution.\n3) We'll help make sure that a dismissed charge comes off your record.\nWhen a petit larceny case is dismissed, it isn't really \"over.\" If your attorney doesn't follow up with the court and ask for a confirmation that the arrest was removed from your record, and for a confirmation that your fingerprints were destroyed, you could find that the arrest turns up years later in a background check. This can be a problem for young people who are applying to competitive schools, or for anybody with a sensitive job. We regularly represent teachers, medical professionals, and a variety of licensed professionals in cases of petit larceny. Make sure you hire a lawyer who won't forget about your case once your court appearances are over.\nMore Information on shoplifting / petit larceny\nTo read some of the articles I have written on theft crimes please take a look below:\nIf you are ready to speak on the phone with a lawyer, you can call us at (585) 485-0025.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6392, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leadabroad.com/2016/05/25/way-up-i-feel-blessed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:19Z", "digest": "sha1:7LSGUU2PJBSS2SKJT7YQLKLLXMRDFVLW", "length": 1312, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.leadabroad.com", "title": "Way Up, I Feel Blessed \u2022 LeadAbroad", "raw_content": "What better way to experience a new place than to step out of your comfort zone? Cait Carlson is on DIRECT Cape Town and took her adventure to a new level:\nHey y\u2019all! My name is Cait and I\u2019ll be a senior at Wake Forest next fall. Long story short \u2013 I decided to stay in Winston Salem when most of my class was abroad last fall, so when I had the opportunity to go to South Africa with LeadAbroad, I jumped on it. It\u2019s so easy for older students to get caught up in things like summer internships, grad school, social life, etcetera. I knew that when I came to South Africa, I wanted to put all of those things aside and focus on having an amazing adventure.\nFor me, situations that force me to step out of my comfort zone are the ones I never forget. So today, I stepped way out of my comfort zone and went skydiving! Though I was apprehensive about voluntarily falling out of a plane, I\u2019m so happy that I momentarily ignored my fear of heights and small planes and just went for it. It reinforced my belief that stepping out of your comfort zone typically leads to great things. I\u2019m so grateful for the opportunity to do these things in Cape Town, and it is definitely making for an unforgettable experience. My advice? Take chances and definitely skydive if you have the opportunity!\nRefreshing Culture Shock \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 7929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leadershipflorida.org/news/leroy-collins-lifetime-achievement-award---bob-rhodes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:28Z", "digest": "sha1:F36DAIC7N42DK764D6XOLCP3BF4CEYZZ", "length": 2150, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.leadershipflorida.org", "title": "LeRoy Collins Lifetime Achievement Award - Bob Rhodes - Leadership Florida", "raw_content": "Jacksonville, Fla. \u2014 Bob Rhodes is the 2016 recipient of Leadership Florida\u2019s LeRoy Collins Lifetime Achievement Award. This award recognizes an individual who has gone above and beyond by using their leadership abilities over a lifetime to improve the quality of life for Florida\u2019s citizens and its future generations. The award was renamed in 1991 in honor of the late Governor LeRoy Collins. Rhodes was honored at Leadership Florida\u2019s annual conference on June 25 in Orlando.\nRhodes played a key role in in the creation of Florida\u2019s first statewide law regulating large real estate projects, the creation of regional water management districts, and the first program for the systematic public purchase of environmentally sensitive lands. In 1982, Governor Askew brought Rhodes into his administration as Chief of the new Bureau of Land and Water Management. In 1984, he joined the development company Arvida as senior vice president and general counsel. When Arvida was acquired by the Walt Disney Company, Rhodes became senior vice president and general counsel of Disney Development, working on EuroDisney and other major projects.\nIn Jacksonville, Rhodes has served as chairman of the Downtown Development Authority and the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission, as well as a member of the Jacksonville Civic Council and the regional advisory board for the Trust for Public Land.\nEven though Bob has spent almost his entire career in the private sector, his devotion to sound government and balanced public policy is a model of the public-spirited private citizen. Three governors have appointed him to lead or serve on blue-ribbon committees charged with important law reform efforts. For more than 40 years, Rhodes has worked on the front lines and behind-the-scenes in the creation of the Florida that we live in today.\nLeadership Florida is proud to honor Bob Rhodes with its 2016 LeRoy Collins Lifetime Achievement Award.\nFor more information, contact Mercy Joy Corlew at mcorlewl@leadershipflorida.org.\n2016 - 2017 - Leadership Florida Chair -- Jeff WahlenJune 30, 2016 Florida Regional Impact Award - The FLITE CenterJune 30, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.learnpick.in/prime/documents/notes/details/4520/green-house-effect-and-global-warming", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ROZ476FZDBBDS4XLBTHAHZJ6JNZU3VRY", "length": 13707, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.learnpick.in", "title": "Green House Effect And Global Warming - Notes", "raw_content": "Home\u00bbNotes\u00bbGreen House Effect And Global Warming\nGreen House Effect And Global Warming\nSancy H\nQualification: M.Sc.(Zoology)\nTeaches: All Subjects, Physics, Mathematics, English, Socia...\nThis note is about Green House Effect and Global Warming, Rise in Global Temperature and Reason for Climate Changes\nGREENHOUSE EFFECT INTRODUCTION The greenhouse effect is the process by which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without its atmosphere. If a planet's atmosphere contains radioactively active gases (i.e., greenhouse gases) the atmosphere will radiate energy in all directions. Part of this radiation is directed towards the surface, warming it. The downward component of this radiation \u2014 that is, the strength of the greenhouse effect \u2014 will depend on the atmosphere's temperature and on the amount of greenhouse gases that the atmosphere contains. On Earth, the atmosphere is warmed by absorption of infrared thermal radiation from the underlying surface, absorption of shorter wavelength energy from the sun, and convective heat fluxes from the surface. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere radiate energy, some of which is directed to the surface and lower atmosphere. The mechanism that produces this difference between the actual surface temperature and the effective temperature is due to the atmosphere and is known as the greenhouse effect. Earth's natural greenhouse effect is critical to supporting life. Human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests, have intensified the natural greenhouse effect, causing global warming. The mechanism is named after a faulty analogy with the effect of solar radiation passing through glass and warming a greenhouse. The way a greenhouse retains heat is fundamentally different, as a greenhouse works by reducing airflow and retaining warm air inside the structure. OBJECTIVES To work for protecting and promoting healthy natural environment environmental awareness programmes. To evaluate technology aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To work for healthy, neat and clean cities and urban environments. To limit the emission of carbon dioxide produced by burning of fossil fuels. through\nTo work for the creation of new environment education programmes to sensitize the young generation. Development of a framework for assessing risks of climate change. MECHANISM Earth receives energy from the Sun in the form of ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared radiation. Of the total amount of solar energy available at the top of the atmosphere, about 26% is reflected to space by the atmosphere and clouds and 19% is absorbed by the atmosphere and clouds. Most of the remaining energy is absorbed at the surface of Earth. Because the Earth's surface is colder than the photosphere of the Sun, it radiates at wavelengths that are much longer than the wavelengths that were absorbed. Most of this thermal radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, thereby warming it. In addition to the absorption of solar and thermal radiation, the atmosphere further gains heat by sensible and latent heat fluxes from the surface. The atmosphere radiates energy both upwards and downwards; the part radiated downwards is absorbed by the surface of Earth. This leads to a higher equilibrium temperature than if the atmosphere were absent. Solar Radiation Spectrum 25 .2 o Senii.bt at \u2022f too Wavelength (nm) The solar radiation spectrum for direct light at both the top of Earth's atmosphere and at sea level An ideal thermally conductive blackbody at the same distance from the Sun as Earth would have a temperature of about 5.3 oc. However, because Earth reflects about 30% of the incoming sunlight, this idealized planet's effective temperature (the temperature of a blackbody that would emit the same amount of radiation) would be about \u201418 oc. The surface temperature of this hypothetical planet is 33 oc below Earth's actual surface temperature of approximately 14 oc The basic mechanism can be qualified in a number of ways, none of which affect the fundamental process. The atmosphere near the surface is largely opaque to thermal radiation (with important exceptions for \"window\" bands), and most heat loss from the surface is\nby sensible heat and latent heat transport. Radiative energy losses become increasingly important higher in the atmosphere, largely because of the decreasing concentration of water vapor, an important greenhouse gas. It is more realistic to think of the greenhouse effect as applying to a \"surface\" in the mid-troposphere, which is effectively coupled to the surface by a lapse rate. The simple picture also assumes a steady state, but in the real world there are variations due to the diurnal cycle as well as the seasonal cycle and weather disturbances. Solar heating only applies during daytime. During the night, the atmosphere cools somewhat, but not greatly, because its emissivity is low. Diurnal temperature changes decrease with height in the atmosphere. Within the region where radiative effects are important, the description given by the idealized greenhouse model becomes realistic. Earth's surface, warmed to a temperature around 255 K, radiates long-wavelength, infrared heat in the range of 4\u2014100 gm. At these wavelengths, greenhouse gases that were largely transparent to incoming solar radiation are more absorbent. Each layer of atmosphere with greenhouses gases absorbs some of the heat being radiated upwards from lower layers. It reradiates in all directions, both upwards and downwards; in equilibrium (by definition) the same amount as it has absorbed. This results in more warmth below. Increasing the concentration of the gases increases the amount of absorption and reradiating, and thereby further warms the layers and ultimately the surface below. Greenhouse gases including most diatomic gases with two different atoms (such as carbon monoxide, CO) and all gases with three or more atoms are able to absorb and emit infrared radiation. Though more than 99% of the dry atmosphere is IR transparent (because the main constituents N2, 02, and Ar are not able to directly absorb or emit infrared radiation), intermolecular collisions cause the energy absorbed and emitted by the greenhouse gases to be shared with the other, non- IR-active, gases. GREENHOUSE GASES Atmospheric gases only absorb some wavelengths of energy but are transparent to others. The absorption patterns of water vapor (blue peaks) and carbon dioxide (pink peaks) overlap in some wavelengths. Carbon dioxide is not as strong a greenhouse gas as water vapor, but it absorbs energy in wavelengths (12-15 micrometers) that water vapor does not, partially closing the \"window\" through which heat radiated by the surface would normally escape to space.\nBy their percentage contribution to the greenhouse effect on Earth the four major gases are water vapor, 36\u201470% carbon dioxide, 9\u201426% methane, ozone, 3\u20147% It is not physically realistic to assign a specific percentage to each gas because the absorption and emission bands of the gases overlap (hence the ranges given above). The major non-gas contributor to Earth's greenhouse effect, clouds, also absorb and emit infrared radiation and thus have an effect on the radiative properties of the atmosphere. ROLE IN CLIMATE CHANGE The Keeling Curve of atmospheric C02 concentrations measured at Mauna Loa Observatory. Strengthening of the greenhouse effect through human activities is known as the enhanced (or anthropogenic) greenhouse effect. This increase in radiative forcing from human activity is attributable mainly to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. According to the latest Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, \"atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide are unprecedented in at least the last 800,000 years. Their effects, together with those of other anthropogenic drivers, have been\ndetected throughout the climate system and are extremely likely to have been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century\". C02 is produced by fossil fuel burning and other activities such as cement production and tropical deforestation. Measurements of C02 from the Mauna Loa observatory show that concentrations have increased from about 313 parts per million (ppm) in 1960 to about 389 ppm in 2010. It reached the 400 ppm milestone on May 9, 2013. The current observed amount of C02 exceeds the geological record maxima (\u2014300 ppm) from ice core data. The effect of combustion-produced carbon dioxide on the global climate, a special case of the greenhouse effect first described in 1896 by Svante Arrhenius, has also been called the Callendar effect. Over the past 800,000 years, ice core data shows that carbon dioxide has varied from values as low as 180 ppm to the pre-industrial level of 270 ppm. Pale climatologists consider variations in carbon dioxide concentration to be a fundamental factor influencing climate variations over this time scale. REAL GREENHOUSES A modern Greenhouse in RHS Wisley The \"greenhouse effect\" of the atmosphere is named by analogy to greenhouses which become warmer in sunlight. The explanation given in most sources for the warmer temperature in an actual greenhouse is that incident solar radiation in the visible, long-wavelength ultraviolet, and short-wavelength infrared range of the spectrum passes through the glass roof and walls and is absorbed by the floor, earth, and contents, which become warmer and re-emit the energy as longer-wavelength infrared radiation. Glass and other materials used for greenhouse walls do not transmit infrared radiation, so the infrared cannot escape via radiative transfer. As the structure is not open to the atmosphere, heat also cannot escape via convection, so the temperature inside the\ngreenhouse rises. The greenhouse effect, due to infrared-opaque \"greenhouse gases\" including carbon dioxide and methane instead of glass, also affects Earth as a whole; there is no convective cooling because no significant amount of air escapes from Earth. However the mechanism by which the atmosphere retains heats the \" greenhouse effect\"\u2014is different; a greenhouse is not primarily warmed by the \" greenhouse effect\". A greenhouse works primarily by allowing sunlight to warm surfaces inside the structure, but then preventing absorbed heat from leaving the structure through convection. The \"greenhouse effect\" heats Earth because greenhouse gases absorb outgoing radiative energy, heating the atmosphere which then emits radiative energy with some of it going back towards Earth. A greenhouse is built of any material that passes sunlight, usually glass, or plastic. It mainly warms up because the sun warms the ground and contents inside, which then warms the air in the greenhouse. The air continues to heat up because it is confined within the greenhouse, unlike the environment outside the greenhouse where warm air near the surface rises and mixes with cooler air aloft. This can be demonstrated by opening a small window near the roof of a greenhouse: the temperature will drop considerably. It was demonstrated experimentally that a \" greenhouse\" with a cover of rock salt (which is transparent to infrared) heats up an enclosure similarly to one with a glass cover. Thus greenhouses work primarily by preventing convective cooling. More recent quantitative studies suggest that the effect of infrared radiative cooling is not negligibly small, and may have economic implications in a heated greenhouse. Analysis of issues of near-infrared radiation in a greenhouse with screens of a high coefficient of reflection concluded that installation of such screens reduced heat demand by about 8%, and application of dyes to transparent surfaces was suggested. Composite less-reflective glass, or less effective but cheaper anti-reflective coated simple glass, also produced savings. BODIES OTHER THAN EARTH In the Solar System, there also greenhouse effects on Mars, Venus, and Titan. The greenhouse effect on Venus is particularly large because its dense atmosphere consisting mainly of carbon dioxide. Titan has an anti-greenhouse effect, in that its atmosphere absorbs solar radiation but is relatively transparent to infrared radiation. Pluto is also colder than would be expected, because evaporation of nitrogen cools it.\nA runaway greenhouse effect occurs if positive feedbacks lead to the evaporation of all greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. A runaway greenhouse effect involving carbon dioxide and water vapor is thought to have occurred on Venus. EVALUATION 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. What do you mean by greenhouse effect? Differentiate between natural and artificial greenhouse effect. What are the main causes of greenhouse effect? What is global warming? Suggest some measures to reduce the increasing greenhouse effect. As students, how can you minimize the effect of increasing greenhouse effect. o o o o o o REFERENCES https://www.livescience.com www.environment.gov.au/ https://whatsyourimpact.org/ https://www.livescience.com www.nationalgeographic.co https://www.youtube.com\nPRACTICAL - EDU 107.1 PACKAGE FOR AWARENESS CLASS PREPARATION AND ADMINISTATION GREENHOUSE EFFECT Submitted By: SEENA JOSEPH B.Ed. Student Teacher (2016-18) St. Joseph College of Teacher Education for women, Ernakulum, Kerala Submitted To: Mrs. DINIMOL JACOB Assistant Professor St. Joseph College of Teacher Education for women, Ernakulum, Kerala Date of Submission: 20.09.2016\nAIEEE, Chemistry, Science\nProbability Notes with Summary\nWorksheet for Class 5 on Atmosphere\nOlfactory Nerves For Dental Students\nMBBS Tuition, Science", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 17074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leclaireiowa.gov/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=2018&month=12&day=6&CID=14", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:14Z", "digest": "sha1:BFEOOXQWWYQAV7E7LZ2XMAWT2CJSE2GU", "length": 216, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.leclaireiowa.gov", "title": "LeClaire, IA", "raw_content": "1/2 priced bottle of wine at Steventon's\nDecember 6, 2018, All Day @ Steventon's\n1/2 priced bottle of wine at Steventon's2018-12-06T00:00:00\nThursday, December 6: Steventons has \u00bd priced bottles of wine on Thursdays.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 7222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billInfo/billInfo.cfm?sYear=2019&sInd=0&body=H&type=B&bn=387", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EZG4LAFQFSELSMVGWN5IQHFWL2LYFEB2", "length": 415, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.legis.state.pa.us", "title": "Bill Information - House Bill 387; Regular Session 2019-2020 - PA General Assembly", "raw_content": "An Act authorizing the release of Project 70 restrictions on certain lands owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and through the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, in exchange for the imposition of Project 70 restrictions on other lands to be acquired by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, acting by and through the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.\nRepresentative OTTEN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 91.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/blog/?p=11507", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:21Z", "digest": "sha1:XE4PV65KK6JPNI452G6SGZVYS4JSNI4Z", "length": 6475, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com", "title": "The Color of Pain - When a Boy is Sexually Abused - Lighthouse Trails Inc", "raw_content": "By Gregory Reid\n(author of The Color of Pain)\n[T]he first eleven years of my childhood were a black hole of emptiness. Things had happened, but they had been so horrific I had entered into a world of Forget. I went from a once polite, gentle, God-loving child, changed overnight into a slovenly, sexualized, angry, hard-drinking, rebellious, destructive, secretive, occult-addicted pre-adolescent. My father asked me once, \u201cWhatever happened to that neat little boy I used to know?\u201d\n\u201cHe died a long time ago, Pop,\u201d I replied, though I knew he couldn\u2019t understand.\nStarting at eleven-years-old, I entered the world of the occult. I was drawn into the darkness of it and never could grasp why. I was exploited by predators, raped, and abused and experienced all types of evil. This went on until I felt that I was at the brink of death. A staggering sense of loss and grief had become my constant companions. By the time I was fifteen, I had lived what felt like an entire pathetic life.\nI guess my parents should have asked more questions about the changes in me, but at the time they were struggling with serious health issues, and their lives couldn\u2019t take on anymore than what was already consuming them.\nIn the spring of my 15th year, I met a man hitchhiking who turned out to be a Christian. He gave me a copy of a book called The Cross and The Switchblade. It was the story of Dave Wilkerson, a skinny Pennsylvania preacher, who went to New York and faced down the worst, most deadly gang leader in New York, Nicky Cruz, and told him Jesus loved him. Nicky beat him up. Dave kept on him, and Nicky finally became a Christian.\nEventually, after some very dramatic events, I too surrendered my life to Jesus Christ and became a Christian. Had that not happened, I believe I would have died before ever reaching the age of twenty. I had been on a road to destruction.\nOver the next few years, I continued to heal under the protection of some dear Christian friends and a seventy-six-year-old Baptist saint who took me in and loved me and taught me about God\u2019s unconditional love. I devoured the Scriptures, and they broke the lies. I fought a vicious battle with sexual issues, depression, unhealthy relationships, deep loneliness, and a smoldering rage.\nI went immediately into \u201cministry\u201d at sixteen, and before I was twenty-six, had been around the world. The occult, and demonic influence, had wrapped itself in every fiber of my being, and God gently and firmly took me out of it all.\nHow was I to know that everything inside me would fall apart in my twenties, when as a respected teacher and youth leader, I would have to face a nightmare worse than anything I could imagine? God was now ready for the ordeal to come to me that I know broke His heart, but would be the final deliverance and revelation of who I was and where I had been. I was about to go to the gates of hell\u2014not as a warrior\u2014but as a wanted man, a traitor to the devil, and a terrified child. Those first forgotten eleven years of my life were about to intrude into my adult existence. I had to go back into the dark and empty corridors of my forgotten past to retrieve the truth and, in so doing, become fully prepared to go to war against the satanic powers, organizations, and occult rulers who continue to destroy the lives of thousands of innocent children today.\nIt was the summer of my twentieth year, and I was home from Bible school for three months. It was the beginning of the crack in the wall that would lead to my descent into the mouth of my satanic past. Nearly a decade would pass before all of the horrible ugly truth came out. But the Lord was with me all along the way; and today I can say that He has healed me. Yes, there are and always will be scars, but His love and His Word have been my Deliverer.\nThere are those who say that people who forget some part of their pasts are delusional and psychotic when they suddenly or even gradually remember. One such organization, the False Memory Syndrome Association, has devoted itself to \u201cproving\u201d that such remembrances are never true or at least very rarely. I would be one of those whom they would call delusional.\nI\u2019ve watched for years as this organization has grown, wreaking havoc every place they go. They have crushed victims and sent little children back into abusive homes.\nThey claim recovered memory victims are mostly hysterical females with a history of mental illness whose memories were implanted by clever therapists. I know there are times that does indeed happen. The abuse bandwagon has had some bad baggage, bitter people seeking vengeance, custody disputes, and New Age mystical craziness.\nBut they are wrong as wrong can be to lump together all those saying they remember a forgotten past of being abused. I\u2019m a male, non hysterical, with no history of mental illness or hospitalization, and my memories were worked through solo\u2014no therapist. In other words, I don\u2019t fit their degrading, neat little profile. I can\u2019t be accused of \u201csurvivor network sharing\u201d suggestibility or \u201cMunchausen Syndrome\u201d1 because my memories were found before I even met another survivor.\nWhen a child or pre-adolescent has been sexually abused, it creates an intolerable situation for the child. Their young cognitive minds simply cannot handle it. When they are going through the abuse, in order to survive it, they must mentally separate from it\u2014it would be like putting it into a suitcase, stuffing it out of the way. As they enter their teen years, they are carrying on their back, so to speak, this suitcase that now weighs a ton. That is why so many teens who were abused as children turn into extremely troubled teens, especially for those who have never been able to tell their secret or who have managed to forget it all together. Later, somewhere in their adult lives, that weight cannot be carried any longer, and it begins to come out\u2014they start to remember what had been forgotten. At that point of their lives, how those around them respond is of utmost importance. Will they be believed? Will they be ridiculed or now looked upon as weird, perverts, or gay? In The Color of Pain, I hope to help not only those boys and men who were abused but also help their families and trusted friends so that healing and restoration can finally take place. (Chapter 1 of The Color of Pain by Gregory Reid)\nPosted in: Book/Music Excerpts, Child Abuse, CHILDREN AT RISK!\tTagged: Child Abuse, CHILDREN AT RISK!, Signs of the Times", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 20126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/new-bar-snooker-club-set-2510005", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:51Z", "digest": "sha1:63JGC2QJOBLLVKJL3R6N4H6FY6ARGXRQ", "length": 1366, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk", "title": "New bar and snooker club set to open in Lincoln - Lincolnshire Live", "raw_content": "New bar and snooker club set to open in Lincoln\nPlans for a new snooker club and bar have been given the go ahead.\nAmbitious plans to open a snooker club and bar in Lincoln have been given the green light.\nProposals to convert Super Lincs in the city's High Street into a new leisure facility were tabled last November.\nMr Dana Omar submitted the plans to build a two-storey extension to house two-semi detached homes, at the back of the property.\nOn this new second floor, a bar will be built at the front of the site and a snooker club added to the back.\nFate of HMV in Lincoln and Boston revealed as axe falls immediately on 27 branches across the UK\nThe report said: \"The City of Lincoln Council hereby gives notice that planning permission is granted for the development described above in accordance with the application and plans submitted.\"\nThe plans are subject to certain stipulations and assessments.\nA store room would be added to the back of the existing ground floor building and two residential buildings would be located at the back of the shop.\nWe asked Debenhams about the future of its Lincoln store amid reports 20 shops could close THIS year\nThe proposed site for the new snooker club and bar.\nThe site will face the historic site St Mary's Guildhall, built as a royal palace for Henry II in 1157.\nResidents' shock after armed robbery at McColls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 7444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.linguabarcelona.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:01Z", "digest": "sha1:5IZAGFNVX2BW3NJRSDDFVPJ7WSZQVHSY", "length": 2170, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.linguabarcelona.com", "title": "learn Spanish in Barcelona - Spanish school Linguaschools Barcelona", "raw_content": "> learn spanish in Barcelona > linguaschools barcelona\nLinguaschools Barcelona is proud to present its Spanish language school in a beautiful colonial building with a nice garden in the heart of Barcelona. We have an enthusiastic group of quality teachers who can't wait to teach you the Spanish language and culture.\nYou will notice the special atmosphere from the moment you walk in. Our school is located in a modernistic, late 19th century building in the heart of Barcelona, only a 10 minute walk from Plaza Catalunya. In our school, you can of course learn Spanish, but also meet people from all over the world in our nice garden while having a coffee, catch up with your friends and family on facebook and taste the real life in Barcelona.\nLearn Spanish in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, Spain's second largest city and one of the most dynamic and lively cities in Europe. In Barcelona you will find art, culture, sunshine, night life and relaxation all coming together. The most popular locations are: Las Ramblas, the Gothic Quarter and the city's tourist centre. The narrow streets around the city's \"Ramblas\" create a home for artists from all over the world, bringing together terraces, restaurants, shops and (tapas) bars.\nBarcelona is a surprisingly easy city to navigate. From its medieval Gothic quarter and historic old town of narrow streets and alleys to its world famous art-nouveau buildings and futuristic Olympic Village on the harbor, Barcelona is a city of contrasts and unrivaled artistic beauty and diversity. You're more than welcome to come to Barcelona, discover all this and learn Spanish at the same time.\nClimate summer 28 C (82 F) winter 14 C (57 F)\nTo see Plaza Catalu\u00f1a, the Gothic district, the Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, Montjuic, Picasso museum, home matches of FC Barcelona at Nou Camp stadium.\nTo do Paella- and tapas nights, Flamenco & Salsa classes, sea kayaking, wine tasting, hiking or horseback riding in Catalonia.Excursions to Andorra, Figueras (Dali museum), Girona, etc.\nother destinations: linguaschools spanish in spain - linguaschools spanish in valencia - linguaschools spanish in madrid - Find us on Google+", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.livelaw.in/not-exclusion-but-allowing-women-to-temple-as-a-devotee-is-the-essential-practice-of-hindu-religion-cji-dipak-misra-read-judgment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:43Z", "digest": "sha1:CNLLAMSNY5OF3MEVLYR4IBUPMGGKW2D7", "length": 9494, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.livelaw.in", "title": "Not Exclusion But Allowing Women To Temple As A Devotee Is The Essential Practice Of Hindu Religion : CJI Dipak Misra [Read Judgment]", "raw_content": "Not Exclusion But Allowing Women To Temple As A Devotee Is The Essential Practice Of Hindu Religion : CJI Dipak Misra [Read Judgment]\nBy: ashok kini28 Sep 2018 12:45 PM GMT\n\u201cIn no scenario, it can be said that exclusion of women of any age group could be regarded as an essential practice of Hindu religion and on the contrary, it is an essential part of the Hindu religion to allow Hindu women to enter into a temple as devotees and followers of Hindu religion and offer their prayers to the deity. In the absence of any scriptural or textual evidence, we cannot accord to the exclusionary practice followed at the Sabarimala temple the status of an essential practice of Hindu religion.\u201d\nThe Supreme Court has thrown open the Sabarimala Temple to all woman of all age groups. CJI Dipak Misra, Justice RF Nariman, Justice DY Chandrachud wrote separate judgments, but all held that woman should not be denied entry to the temple, which is the shrine of Celibate God Ayyappa. Interestingly, the lone woman in the bench, Justice Indu Malhotra, is the sole dissenter to the majority judgment.\nChief Justice of India Dipak Misra observed that exclusionary practice (denial of entry to women in Sabarimala) is neither an essential nor an integral part of the Hindu religion without which Hindu religion, of which the devotees of Lord Ayyappa are followers, will not survive.\nIn short, the CJI holds that devotees of Lord Ayyappa do not constitute a separate religious denomination. He also observed that the right guaranteed under Article 25(1) has nothing to do with gender or, for that matter, certain physiological factors specifically attributable to women and the denial of entry to the temple denudes them of their right to worship.\nMore than half of the 95-page judgment deals with submissions of the parties, interveners, Devaswom Board, State and amicus curiae Raju Ramchandran and K Ramamoorthy. The following are some observations made by CJI in the judgment with which Justice AM Khanwilkar also concurs.\nMere observance of certain practices, even though from a long time, does not make it a distinct religion on that account\nReferring to Shirur Mutt case, the CJI observed that the most important condition for a religious denomination is that the collection of individuals ought to have a system of beliefs or doctrines which they regard as conducive to their spiritual well-being. He observed that there is nothing on record to show that the devotees of Lord Ayyappa have any common religious tenets peculiar to themselves, which they regard as conducive to their spiritual well-being, other than those which are common to the Hindu religion. Therefore, the devotees of Lord Ayyappa are just Hindus and do not constitute a separate religious denomination. For a religious denomination, there must be new methodology provided for a religion, the CJI said.\nIt is an essential part of the Hindu religion to allow woman devotees to offer their prayers to the deity\nThe CJI also observed that, by allowing women to enter into the Sabarimala temple for offering prayers, it cannot be imagined that the nature of Hindu religion would be fundamentally altered or changed in any manner.\nCJI Misra remarked: \u201cIn no scenario, it can be said that exclusion of women of any age group could be regarded as an essential practice of Hindu religion and on the contrary, it is an essential part of the Hindu religion to allow Hindu women to enter into a temple as devotees and followers of Hindu religion and offer their prayers to the deity. In the absence of any scriptural or textual evidence, we cannot accord to the exclusionary practice followed at the Sabarimala temple the status of an essential practice of Hindu religion.\u201d\nAlterable parts or practices are definitely not the 'core' of religion\nThe court also observed that the Devaswom Board had accepted before the high court that female worshippers of the age group of 10 to 50 years used to visit the temple and conducted poojas in every month for five days for the first rice feeding ceremony of their children. It had also taken a stand that restriction of entry for women was only during Mandalam, Makaravilakku and Vishu days.\nTaking these and other submissions into account, the CJI observed: \u201cNobody can say that essential part or practice of one's religion has changed from a particular date or by an event. Such alterable parts or practices are definitely not the 'core' of religion where the belief is based and religion is founded upon. It could only be treated as mere embellishments to the non-essential part or practices.\u201d\nThese are the conclusions in the judgment. Important points are highlighted for quick reading.\nIn view of the law laid down by this Court in Shirur Mutt (supra) and S.P. Mittal (supra), the devotees of Lord Ayyappa do not constitute a separate religious denomination. They do not have common religious tenets peculiar to themselves, which they regard as conducive to their spiritual well-being, other than those which are common to the Hindu Lord Ayyappa are exclusively Hindus and do not constitute a separate religious denomination.\nArticle 25(1), by employing the expression 'all persons', demonstrates that the freedom of conscience and the right to freely profess, practise and propagate religion is available, though subject to the restrictions delineated in Article 25(1) itself, to every person including women.\nThe right guaranteed under Article 25(1) has nothing to do with gender or, for that matter, certain physiological factors specifically attributable to women.\nThe exclusionary practice being followed at the Sabarimala temple by virtue of Rule 3(b) of the 1965 Rules violates the right of Hindu women to freely practice their religion and exhibit their devotion towards Lord Ayyappa.\nThis denial denudes them of their right to worship. The right to practice religion under Article 25(1) is equally available to both men and women of all age groups professing the same religion.\nThe impugned Rule 3(b) of the 1965 Rules, framed under the 1965 Act, that stipulates exclusion of entry of women of the age group of 10 to 50 years, is a clear violation of the right of Hindu women to practise their religious beliefs\nwhich, in consequence, makes their fundamental right of religion under Article 25(1) a dead letter.\nThe term 'morality' occurring in Article 25(1) of the Constitution cannot be viewed with a narrow lens so as to confine the sphere of the definition of morality to what an individual, a section or religious sect may perceive the term to mean. Since the Constitution has been adopted and given by the people of this country to themselves, the\nterm public morality in Article 25 has to be appositely understood as being synonymous with constitutional morality.\nThe notions of public order, morality and health cannot be used as colourable device to restrict the freedom to freely practise religion and discriminate against women of the age group of to 50 years by denying them their legal right to enter and offer their prayers at the Sabarimala temple.\nThe practice of exclusion of women of the age group of 10 to 50 years being followed at the Sabarimala Temple cannot be regarded as an essential part as claimed by the respondent Board.\nIn view of the law laid down by this Court in the second Ananda Marga case, the exclusionary practice being followed at the Sabarimala Temple cannot be designated as one,\nthe non-observance of which will change or alter the nature of Hindu religion. Besides, the exclusionary practice has not been observed with unhindered continuity as the Devaswom Board had accepted before the high court that female worshippers of the age group of 10 to 50 years used to visit the temple and conducted poojas in every month for five days for the first rice feeding ceremony of their children.\nThe exclusionary practice, which has been given the backing of a subordinate legislation in the form of Rule 3(b) of the 1965 Rules, framed by the virtue of the 1965 Act, is neither an essential nor an integral part of the religion.\nA careful reading of Rule 3(b) of the 1965 Rules makes it luculent that it is ultra vires both Section 3 as well as Section 4 of the 1965 Act, for the simple pure reason that Section 3 being a non-obstante provision clearly stipulates that every place of public worship shall be open to all classes and sections of Hindus, women being one of them, irrespective of any custom or usage to the contrary.\nRule 3(b) is also ultra vires Section 4 of the 1965 Act as the proviso to Section 4(1) creates an exception to the effect that 95 the regulations/rules made under Section 4(1) shall not discriminate, in any manner whatsoever, against any Hindu on the ground that he/she belongs to a particular section or class.\nThe language of both the provisions, that is, Section 3 and the proviso to Section 4(1) of the 1965 Act clearly indicate that custom and usage must make space to the rights of all sections and classes of Hindus to offer prayers at places of public worship. Any interpretation to the contrary would annihilate the purpose of the 1965 Act and incrementally impair the fundamental right to practise religion guaranteed under Article 25(1). Therefore, we hold that Rule 3(b) of the 1965 Rules is ultra vires the 1965 Act.\nTopics : Article 25(1) of the Constitution | CJI Dipak Misra | God Ayyappa | Hindu Religion | Justice DY Chandrachud | Justice RF Nariman | Sabarimala Temple | Supreme Court | Women To Temple", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 12867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 212.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.livingreefs.com/threads/choosing-the-correct-size-tank.19538/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BGXP5EXKHM7DZHLXXYIOTLSG2QN3SVTD", "length": 2428, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.livingreefs.com", "title": "Choosing The Correct Size Tank | Living Reefs", "raw_content": "An important but often overlooked aspect of the aquarium hobby is the selection of a tank which is appropriate for your personal situation. There are many factors which affect this decision but the main three are: cost, space and experience. Unfortunately, in this hobby, the less experience you have, the more money and space you require to set up a tank which will be easy enough to maintain.\nThe general rule when selecting a tank is: Buy as big as you can afford and have the space for.\nThis is because, for marine aquariums, bigger is most certainly better. A larger tank means greater stability in water chemistry, and any changes that may occur take place over a larger time frame which provides the beginner with much more room for error. A simple example of this is when a heater malfunctions; in a small tank the temperature would change rapidly giving very little time to correct the error. Whereas for a large tank, the change in temperature would be over a much longer period allowing the situation to be rectified before disaster happens.\nNano tanks may be stunning when done right but they are not generally suitable for the novice\u200b\nAnother advantage in having the largest possible tank is the number and type of species you can display. If you decide you want a nice nano tank to sit on your desk but really like Tangs then you have a problem. Having a larger tank allows you to keep much more fish in terms of numbers and widens the number of species you can have. A general rule is to keep no more than 1 inch of fish per 5 gallons of water. This is a very crude guide since it does not take into account your filtration or the territorial behaviour of the fish. However, it does provide a starting point in selecting the best size tank for you.\nThis spectacular 6 metre tank would cost far too much for the average hobbyist\u200b\nThe major problem with buying a large tank is obviously the additional cost. Not only will the tank be significantly more expensive, but all the associated equipment such as protein skimmers, powerheads, and lighting cost more for a bigger tank. For a typical 6 foot tank, you could easily spend thousands of dollars before anything even gets wet! Therefore, it is important to select the largest tank you can comfortably afford, and remember to take all of the running costs into account, i.e. electricity, food, salt etc.\nA large tank suitable for a beginner but not too expensive.\u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lookthink.com/case-studies/kid-and-go", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:29Z", "digest": "sha1:I4TZJOMMZ3AKQ4LI6ZTAOHDBFYP76SWC", "length": 3016, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.lookthink.com", "title": "Kid Up and Go | LookThink", "raw_content": "Help parents find the perfect family activity\nkidupandgo.com\nWithout a doubt, there is an abundance of activities available to kids of all ages across the Washington, DC area - but for busy parents, it\u2019s not always easy to know what\u2019s available to suit YOUR kids\u2019 age(s) and interests on the day and time that works for your family.\nJen Spatz-Martin, the founder of Kid Up and Go and a mom of three in the Washington, DC area, recognized that many families were feeling this frustration and decided to do something about it. Jen, a former COO, didn\u2019t take this task lightly. For her idea to succeed, she knew that she needed to start with competitive research and focus groups to ensure that her solution would meet the need that other websites lacked. Given our commitment to upfront user research, Jen looked to our team to craft a plan and then bring the idea to reality - beginning with strategy and research, then moving into interactive design, and eventually building and launching the site.\nWe started by assessing the strengths and weaknesses of four direct competitors and four indirect competitors and held two focus groups with our target audiences (parents, guardians, and nannies). Our research led us to some important conclusions: parents are HUNGRY for this kind of information, they are often too busy to leisurely browse events/activities, they prefer to have curated recommendations pushed to them via email, and if they are going to browse, they prefer to do so on a desktop rather than a mobile device.\nWith research in our back pocket, we were able to confidently move forward with architecting and designing a responsive website that would carefully curate local activities and events and provide access to a wide variety of resources for parents to answer any kid-related question - from finding the best preschool to recipes for a child with special dietary needs.\nWe started with wireframes to get our vision on the table - focusing on what a \u201clogged-in\u201d experience would look like, for repeat visitors, and an \u201canonymous\u201d experience for a first time visitor. Given the scarcity of free time for parents, we knew that the website needed to immediately serve up relevant content if we expect repeat visits. As a result, we made sure to incorporate a persuasive architecture to encourage visitors to use the customization capabilities.\nOnce the wireframes were set, we moved on to exploring and defining the website\u2019s visual style. Given the audience, we sought out colors and fonts that are friendly and lighthearted. We also created space for full-screen, cheerful photographs of kids and families enjoying themselves. Ultimately, we wanted visitors to smile when they arrive on the site - and kept that goal in mind as we defined the design.\nKid Up and Go is now available to the public in Beta. Go check it out, sign up, and give us your feedback! Updates are being made regularly and we hope it will be your one-stop-shop for family friendly activities in the Washington, DC metro area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lorenzoquinn.com/portfolio-items/rise-through-education-qatar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:54Z", "digest": "sha1:X36CQG2VN4SDEUMTYRPBSNGLP3GEFIKK", "length": 227, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.lorenzoquinn.com", "title": "RISE THROUGH EDUCATION | Lorenzo Quinn", "raw_content": "Home/Portfolio/Art/Sculptures/Installations and Commissions/RISE THROUGH EDUCATION\nRISE THROUGH EDUCATIONLorenzo Quinn2017-07-16T03:42:18+00:00\nASPIRE, the Academy for Sports Excellence, Doha, Qatar\nMeasures: 740 x 630 x 390 cm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 2650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lornekindergarten.com.au/2015/10/29/we-now-have-facebook/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NG63T6Y2P4JDFSVCAMV7HZK7SGGP6R7X", "length": 270, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.lornekindergarten.com.au", "title": "We Now Have Facebook! - Lorne Kindergarten", "raw_content": "We Now Have Facebook!\nWe've noticed that not many people have been going on our website to view our latest news, so we are going to get with the times and jump into facebook to keep everyone informed with ease.\nCheck us out! -> https://www.facebook.com/LorneKindergarten", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lubuto.org/voices-of-lubuto-blog/voice110", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GKJL2H53Y7EEOJK5EKS4ME622IYILSA7", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lubuto.org", "title": "\"We are learning how to move chess pieces with uncle Donald.\" \u2014 Lubuto Library Partners", "raw_content": "\"We are learning how to move chess pieces with uncle Donald.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lufthansa.com/flights/flight-new_york-rome", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EWGGZU7DVTBSXYGR2FEMJ2J63UTBC6CU", "length": 757, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.lufthansa.com", "title": "Book New York Rome Flight (NYC - ROM) from $ 342 - Lufthansa \u00ae", "raw_content": "Flight New York Rome\nBest Price Search: From New York To Rome, Round-trip, 7 Days, 1 Adult, Economy\nNew York Rome flights - (NYC - ROM)\nGet a great rate on New York Rome flights (NYC - ROM). Travel to the Eternal City of Rome for a memorable vacation. Home to the Vatican, the Roman Forum, and the Coliseum, this city is as old and as young as they come. From the embassy row of Via Vento, to the Spanish Steps to the shops of Via Condotti, from St. Peter's Square to Piazza Navona, from the Jewish ghetto to the Trevi Fountain, Rome has more variety than any other city in the world. Food, wine, art, music, dance and architecture all in the same place make a Roman vacation unforgettable. Let us take you here - safely and on a budget.\nRental cars in Rome", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 382, "original_length": 13254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lwebcoupons.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:58Z", "digest": "sha1:GHLOJILFPOF52H4SADEE4O5IYSD2DRVS", "length": 52, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lwebcoupons.com", "title": "Privacy Policy", "raw_content": "Our website address is: https://www.lwebcoupons.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 124.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maconga.org/articles/post/georgias-heartland-quicken-your-pulse/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:30Z", "digest": "sha1:YLHVW3IZPJNZI7IJN2CVGUABGKSHGVHO", "length": 8232, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.maconga.org", "title": "Georgia's Heartland: Quicken your pulse", "raw_content": "Georgia's Heartland: Quicken your pulse\nhttp://www.grouptravelleader.com/Article.aspx?id=871&p=2\nMonks, vampires, fighter pilots, farmers and rock stars \u2014 what do they have in common?\nThey all make their homes in central Georgia, where numerous cities and towns weave a diverse tapestry of cultures and experiences.\nStretching from Athens in the north down to Macon and beyond, Georgia\u2019s Historic Heartland region has its share of antebellum homes, grand public buildings and museums. But this region\u2019s appeal extends far beyond history. A wide variety of attractions and experiences make a great group tour sampler with options to satisfy a range of interests.\nThe largest city in the Historic Heartland region, Macon enjoys a progressive energy and a variety of attractions that range from ancient Indians to modern rock musicians.\nOn the outskirts of town, Ocmulgee National Monument marks the site where a number of prehistoric Indian cultures built burial and ceremonial mounds. Groups can visit a museum at the visitors center and walk into a reconstructed ceremonial mound to learn about the rituals that took place there many centuries ago.\nCloser to downtown, the Hay House is a wonderful example of antebellum architecture. Built between 1845 and 1849, this seven-story home was inspired by palatial architecture in Europe and features vaulted ceilings, stained-glass windows and doors, detailed wall murals and a hidden room.\nGroup tours visit three floors; the tour includes the large basement and the wine cellar underneath the front porch.\nRock \u2019n\u2019 roll fans will enjoy a visit to the Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House. The museum tells the story of the pioneering band that lived, wrote and rehearsed in the home in the early 1970s.\n\u201cThey moved in here in 1970 as an unknown band,\u201d said curator E.J. Devokaitis. \u201cBy the time they left in 1973, they were one of the most popular bands in the country, but they had lost their two leaders in motorcycle accidents.\u201d\nThe museum features lots of original instruments played by band members, as well as some of the clothes they wore, travel cases they used on tour and handwritten lyric notebooks.\nA short drive east from Atlanta, the town of Conyers is home to about 12,000 people. Locals there have banded together to create an impressive war memorial that rivals the monuments of Washington, D.C.\n\u201cThe Walk of Heroes Veterans War Memorial is being built in recognition of those who have served in the 20th- and 21st-century wars,\u201d said Harriet Gattis, tourism manager for the city of Conyers. \u201cWhen it is finished, it will be one of the largest veterans memorials in the country.\u201d\nThe outdoor memorial is being built in phases. Today, visitors will find an impressive entryway that features a statue of five service men and women from different periods of 20th-century history supporting a large globe above their heads. From there, visitors proceed along a walkway with stones that detail the highlights of U.S. military engagements of the 20th century.\nUpcoming phases of the memorial will include an on-site military museum and outdoor enclaves explaining the six major military engagements of the last century.\nAnother Conyers attraction, the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, gives groups a look inside the fascinating lives of an order of Trappist monks, whose members have lived and worked in the area for decades. The Monastic Heritage Center at the site has museum exhibits that illustrate a day in the life of a monk from 4 a.m. prayers to evening meals.\nGroups can also explore the monastery\u2019s bonsai garden, have a meal in the cafe or join the monks for Mass in their abbey.\nwww.conyersga.com\nContinuing east from Conyers, groups will find Madison, a charming small town with a well-preserved historic square and a walkable downtown. Madison enjoys a history of wealth, and its beautiful buildings were spared from fire during Sherman\u2019s March to the Sea.\n\u201cIn the early 1800s, we were one of the most aristocratic towns in the South,\u201d said Ellen Ianelli, director of the Madison-Morgan County Convention and Visitors Bureau. \u201cThere are stories about Sherman refusing to burn the town because it was too pretty. But he never passed through here, and the troops that did had a gentlemen\u2019s agreement not to burn the town.\u201d\nAs a result of this good fortune, Madison presents a largely intact picture of an antebellum Georgia town complete with several historic homes that groups can tour.\nThe grand dame, Heritage Hall, is a Greek Revival-style mansion built in 1811. Groups that visit the home can see an impressive collection of period furniture, hear stories about the families that lived there and see where young ladies etched their names into windowpanes to test the quality of their engagement diamonds.\nNearby, the Rogers House is an 1809 clapboard structure that gives visitors a look at the more modest lifestyle of a middle-class family that lived in Georgia in the early 19th century. Also on the property is the Rose Cottage, a small home built in 1891 by an African-American woman who was born into slavery.\nwww.madisonga.org\nBefore the Civil War, the town of Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia. Although the state government eventually moved to Atlanta, a number of buildings still standing in Milledgeville give visitors a look at the surroundings early governors and lawmakers enjoyed during their time in town.\nGeorgia College and State University now owns and operates the Old Governor\u2019s Mansion and has gone to great lengths to restore the building to its historic splendor.\n\u201cIt\u2019s one of the most accurately restored homes in the Southeast today,\u201d said curator Matthew Davis. \u201cWe spent $9 million on the restoration.\u201d\nDuring a tour, docents use the original 19th-century keys to lead groups into the house through both public government areas and the family\u2019s private living quarters.\nVisitors see some of the notable architectural touches, such as a sky-lit rotunda that is not visible from outside the house, and learn about how slaves helped run the home and put on large dinners and other official state events.\nIn addition to a regular home tour, groups can schedule a special curator\u2019s tour that highlights preservation efforts around the home or a \u201cLabor Behind the Veil\u201d tour, which deals more directly with slavery in the mansion.\nGroups can also visit the nearby Old Capitol Museum. The upper level of this building has been restored to its original appearance as a legislative hall. The lower level contains a history museum that has exhibits ranging from Native Americans in Georgia through the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.\nwww.visitmilledgeville.org\nWarner Robins and Fort Valley\nIn the area just outside of Macon, groups can have experiences that are high-flying and delicious.\nWarner Robins is home to Robins Air Force Base, where the Museum of Aviation gives visitors a fascinating look into the history of military aircraft.\n\u201cWe\u2019re an Air Force museum with a collection of over 90 aircraft, missiles and open cockpits,\u201d said Bob Dubiel, the museum\u2019s director of marketing. \u201cOur mission is really to tell the story of the United States Air Force and Robins Air Force Base.\u201d\nThe museum tells that story through three main hangars, each of which houses an impressive collection of planes; among them are an F-15 fighter jet, a U-2 spy plane and the iconic B-52 bomber. In addition to these and many other aircraft, the museum also has a special exhibit called \u201cDown to Earth\u201d that relates the experiences of the airmen who parachuted onto the beaches of Normandy during the D-Day invasion.\nA short drive away in Fort Valley, Lane Southern Orchards makes a wonderful sweet ending to a tour of the Historic Heartland region. Farmers there grow famous Georgia peaches and pecans, and groups that come through can take a tour of the orchards to learn about the agricultural process and see the packaging center where the fruit is prepared for shipment.\nThe packaging center is connected to a large farm market that has fresh produce and food products made throughout Georgia. A cafe in the market offers full meals for groups as well as delicious freshly made peach cobbler and peach ice cream.\nwww.wrga.gov", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 11936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 190.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maggianolaw.com/health-problems-due-to-hospital-negligence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GMYM4EML7ZONKBKPAZEYMTZCJYMWDC6W", "length": 3461, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.maggianolaw.com", "title": "Health Problems and Hospital Negligence", "raw_content": "Health Problems Due to Hospital Negligence\nWhen you trust a hospital or nursing home, you also trust that they will take care of you in your time of need. Unfortunately, every year more and more people become injured as a result of negligence by hospitals and nursing homes. In fact, in the past studies were done by the Care Quality Commission that found that at least 20 hospitals had care so poor that patients were actually denied the basics of life. This included things that we take for granted everyday, like eating, drinking, and going to the bathroom. But what happens when a hospital or nursing home has acted negligently? Can they be held responsible for their actions?\nToo often we hear the horrifying stories that an elderly person was being abused by neglect or bodily harm; unfortunately enough, we usually hear this news too late. There are many types of abuse that an elderly person may sustain in one of these settings. Here are some of the most common types:\nPhysical Abuse: Unexplained signs of injury, broken bones, dislocations, reports of drug overdoses or apparent failure to take medications, broken eyeglasses, signs of being restrained like marks on the body, and caregiver\u2019s refusal to allow you to see the elder alone\nEmotional Abuse: Threatening, belittling, and behavior from the elder that mimics dementia\nNeglect by Caregivers: Unusual weight loss, malnutrition, untreated physical issues like bed sores, unsanitary living conditions, being left dirty or unbathed, unsafe living conditions, or desertion of the elder at a public place\nThe Specifics of Bed Sores\nBed Sores are one of the most common types of abuse that you may find in a hospital or nursing home. These are lesions on the skin that are a result of pressure on bony parts of the body. The pressure decreases the blood flow in these areas and causes tissue to die, leading to the sores. Often times, when an elderly person is in a hospital or nursing home setting, they may be left forgotten or neglected by staff and sit on unchanged sheets for too long. They may also not be moved often enough to avoid bedsores. This would be seen as negligence and could be cause for a lawsuit.\nPain and Suffering From Injuries\nIf you or a loved one has sustained an injury in a hospital setting, you may wonder how you would be able to receive pain and suffering. Your injuries sustained in the hospital may have caused you physical or mental pain and suffering on a level that nobody else can understand. So how do you put a number on this pain? Juries must use their good sense, background, and general experience when determining a fair amount of compensation for the plaintiff. If a loved one has become too injured or has even died due to negligence, talking to a good attorney is in your best interest.\nWhen making a medical malpractice claim after you or a loved one has become injured, there are many things that must be kept in mind. For instance, you must be aware of the statute of limitations, which requires you to file your claim within a certain time period after the injury has occurred. You should also have a medical assessment to confirm that your case has merit (FindLaw). Contact an attorney you can trust today for more information on a medical malpractice case. If you have suffered an injury at the hands of a medical professional, you may hold the negligent party liable for your injuries. 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Gocke Jr. and Georgia P. (Clevenger) Gocke. She married her best friend and love of her life for 56 years, William, on November 25, 1961. Tillie worked for Hubscher & Son for over 20 years manning the scale house, and was well loved by those who worked with her.\nKnown for her beautiful needlework, Tillie greatly enjoyed sewing, crocheting, quilting, or cross stitching, and always had a project in its beginning or finishing stages. Tillie loved giving back to her community, taking many opportunities throughout her life to give back through volunteer service. She served as a member of the Parks & Recreation Commission during the 1970\u2019s on a community improvement committee, and helped with several national censuses. For many years she was very active with Women of the Moose. Tillie was also passionate about spending time with her family, hosting all major holidays and family events in her home. Later in her life, she could often be found spending time with her grandchildren, going to their concerts, competitions, plays, and 4H events. She enjoyed celebrating the accomplishments of her family, and made sure they knew she was proud of them through her kind words of encouragement. Tillie always had a word of advice or wisdom for anyone she met, and was always looking for ways in which she could help others.\nShe is survived by her daughter Lisa and son-in-law Gerry Sims of Shepherd, grandchildren Samantha and Kyle, nephew Jordan VanAtten and sister Saundra Dull, daughter Michelle Herbert, and other numerous nephews and nieces. She is preceded in death by husband William Riggs, her parents, sister Jacqueline Gocke, brothers Louis A. Gocke III and Howard Gocke, and niece Kelly Riggs.\nA memorial service will be held at Central Michigan Christian Church in Mt. Pleasant on Sunday, July 29, 2018 at 3 p.m. You may view Matilda\u2019s online obituary at www.maierfuneralhome.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 4900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/story/5697177/fitting-the-whole-family-in/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:USMSFPAASEU6W7IFBOVUPXYVKQCFZCEY", "length": 5503, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.maitlandmercury.com.au", "title": "Fitting the whole family in - A guide to multi-generational living | The Maitland Mercury", "raw_content": "life-style, life, style, yourhome, family, multi-generation, homemodification, renovation\nAn ageing population and increasing housing prices are changing the way we live in our homes. With places in aged care facilities at a premium and house prices moving out of reach of first home buyers - more and more families are choosing to create multi-generational homes. Children are living with their parents for longer while ageing parents are moving in with their middle aged children for additional care. This saves costs but poses challenges for homeowners. In some cases, homes will need to be modified to suit these additional needs. Features such as ramps, handrails and re-jigging of floorplans to allow for elderly parents to live on the bottom floor can mean major renovations. The inclusion of separate entryways and additional bathrooms for children living at home into their 20's and 30's are other changes that will become important as time goes on. Introducing babies and small children into the mix demands another level of facilitation. Issues such as child proofing and creating quiet sleeping arrangements for babies can prove challenging when there are so many people to take into consideration. If you are planning to create a multi-generational home, it's advised you participate in some planning discussions with your loved ones. These discussions should centre around the needs and wants of everyone in the house as well as a clarification of the financial expectations. Not only will you need to determine who contributes to the day to day living bills, but also the maintenance of the house. It should also be made clear who is responsible for contributing to the modifications to the home. Having a frank discussion before you begin will avoid misunderstandings and arguments later down the track. In some cases, elderly parents will be able to use some of the capital made on selling their family home to help modify the home of their children. Children living at home can also contribute a weekly payment in lieu of rent if they are working full time. This often works out cheaper than if they had their own place, saves them on a bond and helps them continue to save so they can eventually purchase their own property. Multi generational homes pose many challenges, but they also give everyone in the family an opportunity to live the way they want and save for their own goals. All this while maintaining a close and loving relationship with family members. It\u2019s also wonderful to be able to care for your loved ones as they age or help care for those just beginning their journey in life.\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/a6QNcfGvAMNsmAJDQq5frR/8bb6cc0c-bc94-4cdd-aef2-71973e0a28f0.jpg/r3_0_5757_3251_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nFitting the whole family in - A guide to multi-generational living\nFamily ties: More and more families are choosing to create multi-generational homes. Make sure you take care of a few housekeeping rules first.\nAn ageing population and increasing housing prices are changing the way we live in our homes.\nWith places in aged care facilities at a premium and house prices moving out of reach of first home buyers - more and more families are choosing to create multi-generational homes.\nChildren are living with their parents for longer while ageing parents are moving in with their middle aged children for additional care.\nThis saves costs but poses challenges for homeowners.\nIn some cases, homes will need to be modified to suit these additional needs.\nFeatures such as ramps, handrails and re-jigging of floorplans to allow for elderly parents to live on the bottom floor can mean major renovations.\nThe inclusion of separate entryways and additional bathrooms for children living at home into their 20's and 30's are other changes that will become important as time goes on.\nIntroducing babies and small children into the mix demands another level of facilitation.\nIssues such as child proofing and creating quiet sleeping arrangements for babies can prove challenging when there are so many people to take into consideration.\nIf you are planning to create a multi-generational home, it's advised you participate in some planning discussions with your loved ones.\nThese discussions should centre around the needs and wants of everyone in the house as well as a clarification of the financial expectations.\nNot only will you need to determine who contributes to the day to day living bills, but also the maintenance of the house.\nIt should also be made clear who is responsible for contributing to the modifications to the home.\nHaving a frank discussion before you begin will avoid misunderstandings and arguments later down the track.\nIn some cases, elderly parents will be able to use some of the capital made on selling their family home to help modify the home of their children.\nChildren living at home can also contribute a weekly payment in lieu of rent if they are working full time. This often works out cheaper than if they had their own place, saves them on a bond and helps them continue to save so they can eventually purchase their own property.\nMulti generational homes pose many challenges, but they also give everyone in the family an opportunity to live the way they want and save for their own goals.\nAll this while maintaining a close and loving relationship with family members. It\u2019s also wonderful to be able to care for your loved ones as they age or help care for those just beginning their journey in life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 7843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 262.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/lifestyle/health/74789/mental_health_services_board_of_directors_holds_its_first_meeting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7BJA3KLPBMWWDNCNC3BQKHZLR5IYVILN", "length": 837, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.maltatoday.com.mt", "title": "Mental health services board of directors holds its first meeting", "raw_content": "Mental health services' board of directors holds its first meeting\nBoard of directors\u2019 role is to advise Health Minister on services offered to mental health sufferers\nA board of directors for Mental Health Services has held its first meeting. The board, headed by Jan Chircop, brings together stakeholders working in mental health. It includes medical professionals and NGOs.\nThe board will include organisations that support carers and patients, depending on the subject being discussed.\nHealth Minister Chris Fearne addressed the first meeting of the board. He said that board would be pivotal in giving mental health care in Malta a push.\nThe board has been tasked with advising the minister on \u201ca new vision\u201d for mental health services as well as the services offered.\nThe board will also oversee the governance of services offered.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4289, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.manchestergiants.com/news/wanliss-is-back/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:00Z", "digest": "sha1:EYCIMCMLXS6EMYAHJ3EWMB46W6WMXY6K", "length": 2443, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.manchestergiants.com", "title": "Wanliss is back \u2013 Manchester Giants", "raw_content": "The 6\u20196\u2033, 30-year-old, British forward previously played for the club in 2016-17, making 25 appearances and growing in influence as that campaign progressed, averaging 6 points and 4 rebounds per game over the last five games.\nWanliss had a good start to this season at Worcester Wolves, averaging 4 points and 3 rebounds in seven games, shooting the three-pointer at 29%, including 8 points and 5 rebounds in just 14 minutes per game in his first two appearances over their opening weekend. And this was complemented by a string of impressive defensive displays, none more so than a muscular battle with Willie Clayton when Giants visited Worcester in October.\nLast season, Wanliss played for Leeds Force in the BBL, averaging 10 points and 5 rebounds per game; before joining Barking Abbey Crusaders in NBL Division 1 where he contributed 6 points and 4 rebounds per outing. He started his BBL career with Leicester Riders in 2013.\nWanliss was set to sign overseas after leaving Worcester in November, but when that deal fell through Head Coach Danny Byrne was quick to swoop and bolster the Giants\u2019 frontcourt.\nByrne said: \u201cDean is coming in to fill a crucial role for us as we look to add size and strength for the second half of the season. It\u2019s no secret that we\u2019ve lacked depth in our frontcourt rotation, and we\u2019ve been looking for a player who can come in and give us great defensive minutes, also offering a bit of strength as well as a shooting touch and therefore able to rotate for both Willie and Vlatko, and also Torry if required.\n\u201cDean\u2019s work ethic and commitment have always been outstanding. In addition, we feel like we\u2019ve seen real progress in his game since the last time he was at the club and that he can have even more of an impact in the system that we play now.\u201d\nWanliss said: \u201cI\u2019m really pleased to be returning to the Giants, and I know what Coach Byrne expects of me as he was Assistant during my last spell here. I\u2019ve been really impressed with what the team are doing this season, and I want to come in and provide that energy to help us get over the Play-off line for the first time in five years.\u201d\nWanliss will make his first two appearances back at Giants this weekend against his two former clubs, as we visit Leicester Riders on Saturday night before hosting Worcester Wolves in the first game at the George H Carnall Centre on Sunday.\nTickets are available online, CLICK HERE, or by calling 0161 791 8911.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 6010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marketingweek.com/2000/11/30/qrs-shows-how-publications-can-influence-their-readers/?action=lostpassword", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RFYKYCQ63NPE5F6TUSIFWFWVOMCQO7FH", "length": 1925, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.marketingweek.com", "title": "QRS shows how publications can influence their readers \u2013 Marketing Week", "raw_content": "QRS shows how publications can influence their readers\nThe latest Quality of Readership Survey includes new data which shows 69 per cent of readers across all paid-for magazines have taken some form of action after reading their chosen publication.\nThe data also shows that 55 per cent of readers of national newspapers and newspaper supplements behaved in at least one of four ways \u2013 picked up ideas, followed some advice given, tried something for the first time or bought an item.\nIt is the first time that the research, commissioned by the Periodical Publishers Association, has monitored action taken by readers of newspapers and magazines.\nAs far as the average magazine was concerned, 34 per cent of readers said that they had tried something for the first time and 24 per cent had bought something. But the most common actions were picking up ideas (55 per cent) and following advice given (44 per cent).\nThe PPA first commissioned the QRS because its members felt it was necessary to monitor quality of reading and that there was insufficient capacity to do so within the National Readership Survey.\nThe data also shows the percentage of readers that read cover to cover (That\u2019s Life came top of the table with 67 per cent), the minutes spent reading (Yours came top with 91.4 minutes), the proportion of pages opened (25 Beautiful Homes came top with 90.1 per cent), the average exposures per page (Period Living and Brides were both top at 6.07) and the number of times the title was picked up (Cable Guide, top with 11.7 times).\nYahoo! torn between Wall Street pressures and peanut butter\nHow bad are the problems at Yahoo!? The Web\u2019s largest media company has seen its share price hammered this year and its chief executive Terry Semel has appeared uninspiring. Among the most frequent criticisms of Yahoo! is that it is falling behind Google and News Corp, which have paid top dollar for the next generation [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 9164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marketresearchhub.com/report/the-baby-food-market-in-netherlands-2017-report.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3IDV4A4LRW24NOTP5IWJJXDODY5K2MRW", "length": 2014, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.marketresearchhub.com", "title": "The Baby Food Market in Netherlands 2017, Trends, Share, Size Research Report", "raw_content": "The Baby Food Market in Netherlands 2017\nJun 2017 GlobalData Baby Food135 Pages\tPrice :\n\"The Baby Food Market in Netherlands 2017\" is an analytical report by GlobalData which provides extensive and highly detailed current and future market trends in the Netherlands market.\nThe baby food market in Netherlands is well established and consumption levels are high, but sales have been adversely affected by lower numbers of births and by the generally sluggish economy. Consumption in all sectors has declined since 2010. However, a few areas of growth have emerged, including toddler milks, pouches, and finger foods. Retail sales are expected to rise but consumption is forecast to decline. Per capita intake is also likely to fall although it will remain at a high level by international standards. All sectors except drinks will see some increase in retail value. Milks should continue to benefit from higher use of products for toddlers, wet meals from product innovation, including principally pouches, and finger foods from a move towards more sophisticated savory snacks.\n- The volume sales of baby food in the Netherlands are down by 15% and the value sales are down by 9.4% in current price terms.\n- Baby meals account for the highest proportion of volume sales, claiming 47% of total consumption and in terms of value, milks accounted for 45% of retail sales in 2016.\n- The market is dominated by Danone with 54% of the total market. Hero is in second place; although with a value share of 12%.\n- The Netherlands is one of Europes largest producers of infant formula. FrieslandCampina, Mead Johnson, Danone, Nestl, and Ausnutria Hyproca, via Lyempf, Lypack, and Hyproca, all produce locally.\n- Majority of baby food is sold through hypermarkets and supermarkets, with the remainder going through pharmacies and drugstores. Online sales are growing.\n- During the next six years retail sales are expected to rise by 11.5%. Consumption is forecast to fare less well: in 2022, i.e., decline of 4.3% over 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 12011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marksdailyapple.com/it-doesnt-have-to-be-this-way/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NH3ICX2GVON652WRQL4DZZ6XLHL2VIMY", "length": 17253, "nlines": 118, "source_domain": "www.marksdailyapple.com", "title": "It Doesn't Have to Be This Way | Mark's Daily Apple", "raw_content": "Let\u2019s begin today with an exercise. You might know it\u2019s not something I normally do here, but I think today is the perfect time to try something unexpected. Humor the process if you will. It leads somewhere I think is important for the Challenge \u2013 or any serious change.\nThere\u2019s no magic here. No ruby slippers or manifestation miracles. That said, it\u2019s time to make this Challenge personal. (I find that major life changes tend to work better that way.) The power of an effective mantra rises out of our growing identification with it. Right out of the gate, all of us can identify with this statement.\nThe mantra gets at a critical question: what is this Challenge about for you? What have you decided you\u2019re done with?\nThis can by no means be an exhaustive list, but let\u2019s go through some examples. Maybe you know already. Maybe you\u2019re crystal clear on what you\u2019re ready to kick to the curb regarding the state of your health and what it isn\u2019t offering you. Maybe you have some basic goals but want to get clearer. Whatever the case, see what comes up for you.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you will continue to steadily gain several pounds every year.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you live without the physical vitality you used to enjoy.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that somehow your well-being and self-investment comes last in a day.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that your cravings and/or food issues undo your good intentions.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you commute an hour each direction for work every day.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you take prescription medications (some costly) to control lifestyle diseases and chronic conditions.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you deal with poor sleep on a chronic basis.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you forgo certain travel destinations, social activities or even personal relationships because you\u2019re uncomfortable with your body.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you eat fast food/junk food/sugar/alcohol more often than you ever thought you would.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you can\u2019t keep up with your children, grandchildren or the activities your friends participate in because you\u2019re out of shape.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you prioritize T.V. or Internet time over long walks with a partner/friend/pet/family member each evening.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that your body takes a continual toll from unrelenting stress every day.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that your family\u2019s/partner\u2019s/social circle\u2019s eating habits sabotage your goals.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you\u2019re embarrassed to work out at the local gym because of your body\u2019s size and/or low fitness level.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you steadily watch your muscle fade with age and your body fat accumulate.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you can never find time to work out.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you feel your daily energy and overall health just can\u2019t bounce back from a recent (or distant past) emotional or physical crisis.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you prioritize low cost or long-term routine over high quality and nutrition at the grocery store.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you\u2019re overwhelmed by everything you would need to do or change in order to turn your health around.\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that you can\u2019t face the prospect of doing this alone. (You won\u2019t need to.)\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be \u2013 that the ship has sailed on your health, vitality, physical appearance, or enjoyment of an active, vibrant and fulfilled life.\nNo, it doesn\u2019t have to be this way.\nThat said, things will continue to be the way they have been until something changes. That change begins with you \u2013 today. Right now you have the option of turning it all around. You can say goodbye to this way of being. You can shift the whole trajectory of your health, weight, strength, fitness, aging, life balance, personal well-being.\nYou won\u2019t do it all today. You won\u2019t even do it all in twenty-one days. Who you are today will change today\u2019s business today. Who you become tomorrow will take up tomorrow\u2019s challenges. The person you can\u2019t even envision twenty-one days into this Primal Challenge will be doing things you never thought possible for yourself. Will you take it on faith? Will you take it on the success of thousands who have come down this Primal path \u2013 and transformed their lives \u2013 before you?\nLet\u2019s do it again. Let\u2019s commit to this simple truth together \u2013 right now.\n\u201cThis is the change I choose for my life.\u201d\nSay it throughout the day. Write it down. Put a post-it wherever it will offer a good reminder \u2013 no matter how ridiculous it seems. Psychologically speaking, there\u2019s a certain power in changing our environment to match our intentions. That doesn\u2019t mean writing a quote on your bathroom mirror can ever be a stand-in for the real work of making a behavioral shift. (There are people who will unfortunately tell you that.) Nonetheless, changing our environment is one more way we can invest in the change now \u2013 rather than waiting until we \u201cearn\u201d the right to by \u201cproving\u201d ourselves with the end goal achievement. It\u2019s critical to absorb our intended change into our identities and our environments \u2013 today.\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be this way. I am the change right now \u2013 in this moment.\u201d\nUse it as your mantra today when facing every old pattern. Use it when making each decision that serves or doesn\u2019t serve your health today. Use it when you need encouragement to move forward. Use it to affirm the positive choices you\u2019re making. Use it to envision the new chapter of your life \u2013 the change that \u2013 make no mistake \u2013 is already in play.\nThanks for reading, everyone. What\u2019s the story that \u201cdoesn\u2019t have to be this way\u201d for you? Share your thoughts and support for fellow Challenge members and readers.\n< Previous postContest: Make a Primal Blueprint Workout Video\nNext post >Contest: Grocery Time\n38 thoughts on \u201cIt Doesn\u2019t Have to Be This Way\u201d\nI really, REALLY liked this article. I just made my own \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be this way list\u201d which accomplished a few things: made me aware a few things I\u2019ve never truly realized bothered me and made the figurative weight on my shoulders feel a bit lighter. I honestly started to sit up more and more as I started writing. As usual, well put, Mr. Sisson!\nI\u2019m far enough into my primal journey that my action item list begins with, \u201cI can do this.\u201d\nMine is \u201cstay on target\u2026 stay on target\u2026\u201d.\nToo often we set constraints on ourselves and accept them as this is just the way it is and will always be. This is a great exercise/reminder to help us realize we can create any life for ourselves that we wish.\nGrok, Grant me the Serenity to Accept the things I cannot change (others), the Courage to change the things I can (myself), and the Wisdom to know the difference.\nOne step at a time! (until you get to 10,000)\nKeep comin\u2019 back! (to MDA)\nNow, we will be handing out BPA-free achievement chips..\nKeep it simple. One day at a time. Progress, not perfection.\nLove the 10,000 step program!\nHam-Bone 4 years ago\nBeen enjoying Essentialism on \u201ctape\u201d by Greg McKeown during my commute (PB Law #10). Ahh the power of choice! \u201cBy applying a more selective criteria for what is essential, the pursuit of less allows us to regain control of our own choices so we can channel our time, energy and effort into making the highest possible contribution toward the goals and activities that matter.\u201d\nTessie 4 years ago\nWas tired of every company that I\u2019ve worked for look at me like I had two heads when I requested a stand up work station. I finally bought one myself and its the best thing I could have done. No it doesn\u2019t have to be that I sit 9 hours a day!\nDootsy 4 years ago\nHa,Ha, I started the 21 day challenge yesterday without knowing that Mark\u2019s Daily Apple sight had made that day their date to begin the challenge, so I am too late to sign up. It will be helpful for me to follow along unofficially and I am looking forward to doing just that. I am not new to the Primal lifestyle but over the last 5 months I went back to a more SAD diet. Boy have I noticed a difference both in general health and in weight. I am soooo looking forward to this challenge.\nThis is a great article! It really spoke to me, because I\u2019ve fallen into a mild depression over the past six months due to an aggravated stress fracture in my foot that prevented me from doing a lot of things. I had to wear a walking cast for almost a year, since my foot wasn\u2019t healing properly, and the psychological struggles of telling myself it wouldn\u2019t last forever were beginning to wear me down. I got to the point where I just resigned myself to \u201cgetting old\u201d and not being in the physical shape that I used to be. I wanted to go hiking and run sprints and do all kinds of things that I couldn\u2019t do while I was wearing that walking cast, and it just got to the point where all I could do was wait it out. So for me, my mantra would be, \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be that my foot will never heal properly.\u201d The problem for me was low vitamin D, but even with supplementation, my levels kept going down, so I finally did some research and discovered my migraine prevention medication, Topamax, was causing my body to not absorb vitamin D. Now I\u2019m off the Topamax, and my doctor prescribed CoQ10 to manage my migraines. I\u2019m feeling better and I can finally wear normal shoes without the walking cast! I still can\u2019t walk long distances without pain in my foot, but at least I can walk a little in normal shoes. For months, I didn\u2019t know what caused my stress fracture or why it wasn\u2019t healing, but just knowing what was really going on helped me to get over it mentally as well as physically. Now I know I\u2019m on the road to recovery and I WILL run again someday. I\u2019m active-duty military, so it was never an option for me to not be able to run. I started the 21-day challenge yesterday, and I\u2019m excited to finally make a lasting change in my body and mental state. Thanks Mark for an inspiring article!\nAffirmation, mantra, whatever you want to call it\u2013I recently discovered a great way of doing this by changing the words to a song that easily gets stuck in your head. Thanks to Gary Craig, founder of EFT. Try this one out for size, change the lyrics for yourself:\n(To the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic)\nI walk upon this planet just as awesome as can be.\nMy net worth is a million and my life\u2019s in harmony.\nMy body is athletic and my weight is 120.\nI\u2019m a legend in my time.\nI am awesome, awesome, awesome. I am awesome awesome awesome.\nI\u2019m a legend in my time. (etc etc)\nHaha!! I\u2019ve done this sort of thing before & the fun part is you can hum it & nobody knows the secret lyrics!\nThree years ago I went primal and it\u2019s helping heal sore knees\nBut shh! please keep a secret, I\u2019m cheating with the cheese!\nMy chest get\u2019s thicker and more hairy\nEvery time I pound a bottle o\u2019 sherry!\nSecond verse (same as the first!)\nI look past my limits and see opportunity\nI earn 80 thousand as the bucks they come to me\nI\u2019m full of confidence and I\u2019m as happy as can be\nI\u2019m the one in charge!\nThat\u2019s just fantastic!\nI don\u2019t have to choose between being hurt or being a weakling! I\u2019ve been thin & frail most of my life, largely due to long-undiagnosed Celiac Disease, but also due to a somewhat reasonable fear of hurting myself. Whenever I tried to get strong, I\u2019d get impatient & mad at myself for my weakness & do too much too soon, get hurt & be back at square one or worse.\nThis challenge will be the turning point when I finally learn to do it right! I\u2019ve done five weight workouts so far this year, & I\u2019m not hurting yet! \ud83d\ude42\nNo celiac here, but have always been weak and given up before seeing real results. My weight is good; for me, this challenge is to gain strength.\nKeep up the good work, and your art is awesome (accidentally clicked on your link instead of the reply button, but worth it!).\nThanks for the encouragement & kind words, Sialia! Let\u2019s both get strong together!\nIf I can dream it, then I can be it!\nIt doesn\u2019t have to be that paladins are no more than a naive fantasy that can\u2019t come true. It doesn\u2019t have to be that I\u2019m never able to fully open up to my friends and keep living in the moment!\nI will survive, conquer the quest of life, and protect the ones I love on our way through the journey that lasts forever. I shall stand tall, and believe!\nAre you a Diablo fan?\nSkills: Thorns aura!\nYou will cleanse this land of evil beasts!\nI\u2019ll be the spoiler and complain that negative mantras are poor motivation. The reason is simple. The brain has trouble with negatives and tends to hear the actual statement, not its negation. Instead of \u201cit doesn\u2019t have to be this way\u2026\u201d how about \u201cit\u2019s possible that\u2026\u201d\n\u201cIt is possible to regain the physical vitality I used to enjoy.\u201d There we go!\ndt 4 years ago\nOur brains are capable of it, just think of it as a \u201cSTOP\u201d command.\n\u201cSTOP\u201d is fine, but what needs to \u201cSTART\u201d? Every change requires 2 parts; STOP what isn\u2019t working and START the things that do work.\nYes. Change requires digging deep and finding strength within. I think many people are resigned to their fates. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be\u201d can pull them out of that first loop of thinking, and leads naturally (implies) what CAN be\u2026and once we envision what can be it is ours for the taking. It\u2019s worked for me. Initial victories help-once I know I can defy what the doctors told me and improve my health on my own, it spirals and I am more confident that I can make other things happen. It\u2019s like a little light at the end of the tunnel, this sort of thinking. But, yes, we still must get ourselves through and it can be a loooooong tunnel with a little light far far away. Determination. Courage. If thinking \u201cit\u2019s possible\u201d gets you there, then fine. Use what works within your own head. To me, when I hear something is \u201cpossible,\u201d that implies \u201cbut not likely. \u201d It doesn\u2019t have to be this way\u201d implies there\u2019s another choice. It puts the ball in our court. We can then rise up and conquer our health demons\u2026 Rocky style. Or roll over like complacent wimps, and succumb\u2026stuck, helpless, spewing excuses. Well that was a lot of clich\u00e9s but that\u2019s the sort of self talk that works for me.\nAgreed. A negative just affirms what we believe, and if it hasn\u2019t helped us our entire life, it\u2019s not going to help us now. We all have this \u2018writing on our wall\u201d, core beliefs and values that may not even be true but we still believe them deep down, and we have to dig deep, realize them and if they are harmful to us, take steps to change that writing.\nI believe it should be in the present tense, not \u201cI am capable of being my ideal weight\u201d, but \u201cI am my ideal weight\u201d. Saying I am physically fit and active makes me want to go outside right now. \u201cI can be physically fit and active\u201d makes it seem like I still have some work to do and maybe Monday will be a better time to start.\nEric B 4 years ago\nGabrielle Oettingen has done a lot of research on the efficacy of visualization and goal seeking strategies. It turns out that using present tense is a poor strategy because it fools the brain into thinking the goal is already achieved. The best strategy is to first have positive expectations the goal is achievable, then view the end state as occuring in the future. Finally, you create a mental contrast between the future state and the present state and look at what obstacles you needed to overcome to get \u201cthere\u201d from \u201chere\u201d. The research is pretty interesting.\nI didn\u2019t read all the comments before I added mine.\nWe\u2019re on the same page!\nSee my comment way below.\nMarielle 4 years ago\nThanks Mark, I really needed this post today.\nit doesn\u2019t have to be this way. Yea i think a lot of people get helpless and think that the work is not worth it in any way. There is something going on in the brain where it inhibits the flow to do great things for yourself. But you are definitely right, nothing has to be in any kind of way.\nMichael Cheliak 4 years ago\nGREAT article! So much is available by using a mantra! Thanks for writing this!\nThis was great. So many of those things spoke to me.\nI have a hard time getting time to unwind, with a FT job and two young boys. But last night I just took time to play a game with my 8 year old. I sat on the couch and was going to veg in front of the TV for a few minutes with a magazine when my 2 year old (he just doesn\u2019t SLEEP) wanted a snuggle, so I dropped everything and snuggled.\n(Of course I fell asleep before the 2 year old. I do every night now. He\u2019s up so late. Ugh.)\nSo true, but\u2026\nI\u2019m a pedantess for the positive.\nI\u2019d rather repeat a positive mantra, something to do, something to be, rather that what not to do or what not to be.\nand here my mind goes into overdrive to think up a cool catchline.\nThe possibility is real.\n(I\u2019d love to see the positive statements that others can come up with.)\nThe possibility is real \u2013 that you will maintain a healthy weight for the rest of your life.\nThe possibility is real \u2013 that I will enjoy life with physical vitality.\nThe possibility is real \u2013 that I will prioritise my own well-being and self-investment\nThe possibility is real \u2013 that my good intentions will succeed and I will be satisfied.\nI\u2019m going to write out the positive statements right now.\nThanks, Mark, for the catalyst to get me going.\nVery nice. Thank you, Mark.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 550, "original_length": 25052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maxwell.com/blog/5-ways-ultracapacitors-operate-in-utility-grids-and-microgrids", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CWCZI2MOETRJZUGLHYR2X3ICTR6HU3CW", "length": 2916, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.maxwell.com", "title": "5 Ways Ultracapacitors Operate in Utility Grids and Microgrids", "raw_content": "August 13, 2018 | Kimberly McGrath, Ph.D., Sr. Director, Business Development and Technical Marketing\nGlobally, grid modernization is driven by a number of factors including increased renewable energy generation and a decrease in generation from traditional fuels. Further energy generation is becoming more decentralized. The net result of these factors is less grid stability.\nUltracapacitors, also called supercapacitors, are rapid-response, high power energy storage devices that provide grid operators with a cost-effective strategy for addressing voltage, frequency, and power quality issues. Here are five ways that ultracapacitors can operate in the modern grid.\nPower generators are typically on standby so that they can ramp up or down depending on the increases and decreases in demand. Ultracapacitor energy storage systems can help reduce the need for idling, fuel-burning generators by bridging the time gap between demand and bringing an alternative generation resource online as well as by providing active power support until the generation resource is brought to full power.\nThe modern grid needs new ways to achieve stability, as traditional generation sources, such as fossil fuel and nuclear plants, phase out. Renewables, including wind and solar, introduce unpredictable changes in power supply. Ultracapacitor energy storage systems address the fluctuations of renewable energy by rapidly injecting and absorbing power, helping to stabilize changes in frequency.\nVoltage sag mitigation\nVoltage sags, or a short-term dips in voltage, are one of the most expensive of all power quality issues. Ultracapacitors contribute to power quality by injecting power to support loads and mitigate the risk of downtime at critical facilities. When compared to batteries and flywheels, ultracapacitors have a smaller footprint and lower cost of ownership, with less maintenance required.\nMission critical microgrids and facilities\nMicrogrids exist on military bases, university campuses, commercial and industrial sites and areas isolated from the main power grid. Since microgrids are self-reliant, it is critical to maintain power quality and stability. Maxwell ultracapacitor systems can provide short-duration services such as voltage and frequency support, solar and wind firming, and generator bridging, and likewise be incorporated into hybrid ultracapacitor-battery systems to reduce the charge-discharge rate of batteries, helping to extend battery lifetime.\nSolar and wind power smoothing\nWhen wind turbines have no wind to catch and solar panels have no sun to absorb, power availability dramatically decreases. Grid operators can use the high power and response speed of ultracapacitors to react to millisecond and second changes in power availability and \"smooth\u201d fluctuations caused by intermittent renewable energy sources.\nNEXT: Maxwell\u2019s Unique Position to Future-proof Grid Energy Storage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 8030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/centre-for-digital-humanities/research/history-box", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:39Z", "digest": "sha1:YWHNKKKEALO6QAR3DAVD7UGQOXRQI362", "length": 1465, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.maynoothuniversity.ie", "title": "History in a Box | Maynooth University", "raw_content": "History in a Box is a fairly novel approach to integrating technology into the classroom for deep engagement with the Battle of Mount Street Bridge during one of the most important events in 20th century Irish history: The Easter Rising of 1916.\nThis classroom experience developed for secondary school students blends different modalities of teaching and learning by integrating copies of physical artefacts, e.g. primary sources, photographs, and 3D printed buildings, with tablet-based content, including videos, images, interactive assignments and augmented reality; a technology that superimposes digital content over the real world.\nThe exploration of the Battle is carried out in a student-centred, group-based classroom environment in which students are placed in the position of researchers, evaluating the various, frequently contradictory sources, pooling knowledge with other groups to better understand, not only the event itself, but the nature of documentary evidence, the fragility of memory, and the human toll of events like wars take on a wide variety of individuals caught up in them.\nHistory in a Box resonates with the call for a change in history instruction; from one that promotes passive consumption of facts to that which makes more use of analogue and digital primary sources to foster historical thinking, teach historical reasoning, and provide the opportunity to evaluate different sources and arguments, and form new interpretations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 419, "original_length": 8733, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mba.de/school/warsaw-university-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:18Z", "digest": "sha1:2HAIVFY5T2D7EJ2ASYCQDACSXHJYU2FY", "length": 679, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mba.de", "title": "Warsaw University of Technology - mba.de", "raw_content": "Programm(e) der Warsaw University of Technology\nExecutive MBA at Business School\nManagement of Sustainable Enterprise\nProfil der Warsaw University of Technology\nThe origins of Warsaw University of Technology date back to 1826 when engineering education was begun in Warsaw Institute of Technology. Nowadays, Warsaw University of Technology is one of the leading institutes of technology in Poland, and one of the largest in Central Europe. It employs 2 153 teaching faculty, with 228 professors 288 associate professors. The student body numbers 36 859, mostly full-time. There are 19 faculties (divisions) covering almost all fields of science and technology.\nPl. Politechniki 1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 182.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/320782.php?sr", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:13Z", "digest": "sha1:XLT75XDSZB4UCLGUSW4U3VNTN7CFHKBF", "length": 7745, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "www.medicalnewstoday.com", "title": "Forearm pain: Causes, exercises, and stretches", "raw_content": "What are the causes of forearm pain?\nSurgery or injections\nForearms are integral to hand and arm movement, so pain in this region can be highly disruptive to daily life. Forearm pain can result from a number of different causes, each requiring a different treatment approach.\nThe forearms are composed of the radius and ulna bones, which span the length of the forearm to intersect at the wrist joint. The location means that the forearm is intrinsically involved in a range of everyday arm or hand movements.\nAs a result of this, injury or discomfort in the forearm can have a wide-ranging impact on mobility and interfere with daily functioning. For example, forearm pain can make it difficult to type on a keyboard or grip an item with the hand.\nFast facts on forearm pain:\nThe forearm is the area between the wrist and the elbow of the arm.\nIn most cases, a person can manage forearm pain with rest and structured activity.\nSome groups of people may be at particularly high risk of forearm pain.\nForearm pain may be caused by injury, nerve entrapment, or arthritis.\nThe forearm contains several superficial, immediate, and deep muscles.\nLike most body parts, its structures are connected by tendons and ligaments.\nForearm pain can occur for a variety of reasons including:\nInjury: An acute trauma, such as a fall, can cause a fracture in one of the forearm bones or damage to the ligaments and tendons\nOveruse: Some sports, such as tennis and certain types of weightlifting, put a high degree of pressure on muscles in the forearm and can cause them to strain. Excessive use of computers can also cause muscle strain in the forearm, which is known as a repetitive strain injury (RSI). Pains caused by RSI are becoming increasingly common in the workplace given the growth of computer-based labor.\nNerve entrapment: When nerves become compressed, it can cause pain, numbness, or a tingling feeling in and around the affected region. Nerve entrapment can be caused by a range of different syndromes affecting the forearm. The most common of which is carpal tunnel syndrome.\nArthritis: Arthritis can occur in the wrist or elbow, causing a dull ache in the forearm.\nAn underlying condition: Certain medical conditions, such as angina, can cause pain in the forearm.\nThe type of pain can vary depending on the cause. For example, nerve entrapment can cause shooting pains whereas arthritis of the elbow can cause a dull ache in the forearm. Overuse injuries, such as RSI, can induce both types of pain.\nThe type of treatment will depend on the cause of the forearm pain and its severity.\nIn the case of an injury such as tendon damage, nerve entrapment, or overuse, a person can usually administer treatment at home using the following techniques:\nRest: Reducing activity involving the forearm will help the injured tendon, ligament, muscle, bone, or nerve to recover. A person should rest periodically rather than remaining inactive for sustained periods. However, a person with a sports-related forearm pain should avoid the sport until the pain has entirely subsided.\nPain medication: A person can take Ibuprofen or other anti-inflammatory drugs to manage pain.\nImmobilization: In cases whereby movement is very painful, a person may require a splint or sling to restrict movement and minimize pain.\nHot or cold therapy: The use of an ice pack can help to reduce inflammation and pain. A person may also try heat therapy after the swelling has gone down, which will also ease the pain.\nTreatment is often accompanied by exercises and stretches designed to rehabilitate and strengthen the forearm slowly. However, a person should only start doing exercises or stretches after consulting with a doctor to avoid aggravating the injury.\nA wrist extension exercise may be recommended to help treat forearm pain.\nThis exercise helps to stretch the forearm muscles:\nStanding upright, extend the injured arm in front of you with palm parallel to the floor.\nUsing the opposite hand, pull the wrist back toward the body.\nPull the wrist back until feeling a stretch in the forearm but without feeling any pain\nHold the position for 20 seconds.\nStretching the pronator muscle can help to improve flexibility and reduce pain in the forearm:\nSitting upright, place the elbow on a table or chair arm.\nUsing the opposing hand, gently push the forearm down towards the table or floor.\nWhen feeling a stretch but without any pain, hold the position for 15 seconds.\nWhen the muscle connecting the forearm to the elbow becomes irritated it is known as tennis elbow. Learn more about it here.\nThis exercise can help to improve blood circulation through the forearm and flexes the wrists:\nExtend arms in front of you with hands at shoulder height.\nMake fists and rotate each wrist clockwise then anticlockwise in a circular motion.\nPerform 10 repetitions in each direction.\nStrength building exercises\nDuring later stages of rehabilitation, it can be beneficial to go to a gym and use equipment such as cable machines, light dumbbells, or exercise bands. Strength building exercises, such as wrist curls or reverse curls, can help to build forearm strength, helping to prevent forearm pain from reoccurring.\nExercise is not always sufficient, and some people may require anti-inflammatory medications to reduce the pain. Sometimes, where the pain is caused by trapped nerves or other injuries, surgery may be required.\nA person can take basic precautions to help prevent forearm pain from occurring, such as:\nAvoiding activities that put excessive strain on the forearm, such as tennis or certain types of weightlifting.\nTaking regular breaks from extended periods of computer use and using an ergonomic keyboard at work.\nStrengthening the forearm and increasing grip strength through resistance training.\nForearm pain can be disruptive to daily functioning, but most people can manage it through a careful balance of rest and structured activity. It is also relatively easy to prevent forearm pain from occurring by making some simple adaptations, such as using an ergonomic keyboard at work and taking regular breaks from typing.\nHowever, persistent cases of forearm pain may indicate arthritis or an underlying condition that requires further medical attention.\nRepetitive strain injury (RSI) explained Repetitive strain injury (RSI) covers a range of painful or uncomfortable conditions of the muscles, tendons, nerves, usually due to repeated or overuse. Read now\nBones / Orthopedics Sports Medicine / Fitness\nElbow and arm pain. (2017, December 18). Retrieved from https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/elbow-and-arm-pain/#when-to-get-immediate-medical-help\nEllenbecker, T. S., Nirschl, R., & Renstrom, P. (2013, March). Current concepts in examination and treatment of elbow tendon injury. Sports Health, 5(2), 186\u2013194. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3658379/\nHelliwell, P. S., & Taylor, W. J. (2004). Repetitive strain injury. Postgraduate Medical Journal, 80(946), 438-443. Retrieved from http://pmj.bmj.com/content/80/946/438\nShamsoddini, A., & Hollisaz, M. T. (2013, September). Effects of taping on pain, grip strength and wrist extension force in patients with tennis elbow. Trauma Monthly, 18(2), 71\u201374. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3860678/\nTendonitis. (2017, November 9). Retrieved from https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/tendonitis/\nTennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://orthoinfo.aaos.org/en/diseases--conditions/tennis-elbow-lateral-epicondylitis\nKandola, Aaron. \"What are the causes of forearm pain?.\" Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 30 Jan. 2018. Web.\nKandola, A. (2018, January 30). \"What are the causes of forearm pain?.\" Medical News Today. Retrieved from", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 16559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.meforum.org/2049/denis-maceoin-appointed-middle-east-quarterly", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:12Z", "digest": "sha1:TIS6B6WS7UU6PEVIRNMMCUH4TMTMEQDM", "length": 4252, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.meforum.org", "title": "Denis MacEoin Appointed Middle East Quarterly Editor :: Middle East Forum", "raw_content": "Denis MacEoin Appointed Middle East Quarterly Editor\nhttps://www.meforum.org/2049/denis-maceoin-appointed-middle-east-quarterly\nPHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Middle East Forum is pleased to announce that Denis MacEoin\u2014an Irish specialist of Islam and Iran, and widely published novelist\u2014will take over as editor of the Middle East Quarterly, its flagship publication, starting with the Fall 2009 issue.\nThe Times of London has called the MEQ, founded in 1994, an \"invaluable source of information on the Middle East.\" Bernard Lewis, the doyen of Middle Eastern specialists, terms it, \"Lively and stimulating \u2026 interesting and important.\"\nMr. MacEoin graduated with an M.A. in English language and literature from Trinity College, Dublin, followed by a second degree in Persian, Arabic, and Islamic History from Edinburgh University and a Ph.D. in Persian/Islamic Studies from King's College, Cambridge. In 1986, he became honorary fellow in the Centre for Islamic and Middle East Studies at Durham University.\nMr. MacEoin carried out manuscript-based research in Iran in 1976. In 1979-80, he taught at the Mohammed V University in Fez, Morocco. Following that, he took up a post as lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Newcastle University.\nFrom 2005 to 2008, Mr. MacEoin was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University where he now teaches a short course in creative writing. He is a member of the advisory council of the Centre for Social Cohesion, an offshoot of the Civitas think tank. He writes a blog, A Liberal Defence of Israel.\nHe has published extensively on Islamic topics. His books include The Sources for Babi Doctrine and History (Brill, 1992), Rituals in Babism and Baha'ism (I.B. Tauris, 1994), and The Messiah of Shiraz: Studies in Early and Middle Babism (Brill, 2008); he also co-edited Islam in the Modern World (Wadsworth, 1983). A collection of his journalism was published under the pen-name Daniel Easterman, New Jerusalems: Reflections on Islam, Religious Fundamentalism, and the Rushdie Affair (Grafton/HarperCollins, 1993).\nHe has contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Islam, the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Islam in the Modern World, the Encyclopaedia Iranica, the Penguin Handbook of Living Religions, journals, festschrifts, and books.\nIn recent years, Mr. MacEoin has worked extensively on radical Islam in the U.K. He wrote a full-scale report on Islamic hate literature in Britain, The Hijacking of British Islam (London, 2007), for the think tank Policy Exchange; a study on Muslim schools in the U.K. for Civitas, When Worlds Collide (soon to be published by Civitas), and a third on Shari\u2018a courts, also for Civitas.\nUnder the pen-names Daniel Easterman and Jonathan Aycliffe, he has 25 novels to his credit, including The Last Assassin (1984), set in post-revolution Iran, and The Sword (2007), based in modern Cairo. The Final Judgement (1996) is a thriller based around Holocaust denial. Others have been set in Tibet, Mongolia, Haiti, Mexico, Romania, and elsewhere. A recurring theme is the negative effect of irrational ideas and movements on democratic societies. His books have been translated into a dozen languages.\nDaniel Pipes will continue as the Quarterly's publisher. Michael Rubin will join Patrick Clawson as senior editor. Judy Goodrobb remains the managing editor.\n\"We are delighted Denis MacEoin is joining the Quarterly as editor,\" said Mr. Pipes. \"His scholarship on the Middle East, his knowledge of the languages of the region, and his long experience as a published writer and a writing instructor make him an excellent choice for the position.\"\n\"I am eager to take up the post of Middle East Quarterly editor,\" said Mr. MacEoin. \"I have always enjoyed its heady mix of topics, its nicely-poised balance between the needs of the academy and a general audience, plus its championing of viewpoints not often heard on campus and in the media.\"\nFor more information, contact Amy Shargel at\n215-546-5406, ex. 22\nShargel@MEForum.org\nreceive the latest by email: subscribe to the free mef mailing list This text may be reposted or forwarded so long as it is presented as an integral whole with complete and accurate information provided about its author, date, place of publication, and original URL.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 128.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.menshealth.com/uk/sex/a758372/why-women-are-fantasising-about-this-type-of-threesome/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:3WWR5PPVPGTTV7XGDWPHYVVLEJIOHDID", "length": 6291, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.menshealth.com", "title": "Why Women Are Fantasising About This Type of Threesome", "raw_content": "Why Women Are Fantasising About This Type of Threesome\nAccording to a recent study, this type of m\u00e9nage \u00e0 trois is a lot more common than you think\n\u201cThe Eiffel Tower is such a thing,\u201d says Rachel* (names have been changed to protect sources' privacy), a 25-year-old recent college graduate. To be clear, Rachel isn't referring to the iconic Parisian landmark: she's referring to a slang term for a sex position where a woman is on all fours and giving oral sex to one man, while another man has sex with her from behind. What makes it an Eiffel Tower is when the two men high-five each other, forming the point of what is basically a squirmy, sloppy triangle. \"It's one of the best parts,\" she gushes.\nRachel is polyamorous, which means she is in relationships with multiple partners \u2014 in this case, two men. They both know each other, and they're cool with Rachel having sex with each of them individually. Rachel says they're also turned on by the idea of \u201csharing\u201d her, which means that occasionally, they'll all have sex at the same time.\nBefore she met her boyfriends, Rachel had had a few threesomes with other women. But guy-guy threesomes are a favourite of hers \u2014 and, Rachel adds, they are severely underrated. Being the \u201ccentre of attention\u201d and having the power to \u201ccall the shots\u201d during sex with two men, Rachel says, is \u201cthe most empowering experience.\u201d\n(Related: 5 reasons why sex is good for you)\nThreesomes are a common fantasy: according to a 2016 Archives of Sexual Behaviour study, 82 percent of heterosexual men and 31 percent of heterosexual women have fantasised about having a menage a trois at one point or another. While that study didn't specify what type of threesome people most often fantasised about, girl-girl-guy has typically been considered the gold standard of threesomes, with a separate study indicating that one in three men have fantasised about being in the middle of a two-lady sandwich. But that doesn't necessarily mean your partner will be into it. Morgan*, 24, hates girl-girl-guy threesomes because \"the other girl isn't always that skilled at [giving me] pleasure,\u201d she says. That's why she prefers having sex with two men at the same time.\n(Related: 4 sex positions that will help her climax faster)\nMorgan, Rachel, and their partners aren\u2019t alone in their love of MMF threeways. According to researcher Dr. Ryan Scoats of Birmingham City University, who got his PhD. studying threesomes, five of the 30 men he surveyed had had a threesome with a man. While that sample size is admittedly small, he told Broadly that he got the sense that while MMF threesomes would have been \"more stigmatised\" in the past, the men he polled \"did seem comfortable telling at least their friends that they'd had an MMF threesome. I think because of the reduction of homophobia in general within society, this allows men to have these kinds of threesomes with no fear about what others are going to think of them for it.\" Scoats also cited previous research supporting the idea that straight, working-class guys in the United Kingdom are increasingly participating in \"emotional intimacy and physical tactility\" with each other.\n(Related: 9 sex positions you should try right now)\nThe idea that straight men are becoming increasingly comfortable with same-sex experimentation isn't necessarily new. According to author and sociologist Jane Ward, who wrote Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (which famously spawned the phrase \"bro jobs\"), it's not uncommon for straight dudes to engage in sexual acts with each other without self-identifying as gay or bisexual. Sexual fluidity, the idea that sexual orientation and attraction to a particular gender can ebb, flow, and change over time, is becoming more socially acceptable: while there's an idea that women are inherently more sexually fluid than men, Ward attributes this to \u201clong-held beliefs about the fundamental difference between men and women that are not accurate.\u201d\nThat doesn't necessarily mean that guy-guy-girl threesomes have to necessarily involve guy-on-guy contact. But even if two men are having sex with one woman at the same time and not interacting with each other at all, the MMF three-way is still highly stigmatised.\n\u201cI think there\u2019s a stigma that men feel that if they engage in play with another man present, that it is gay or that it means they like men. While this may be the case [if the two men are gay], it doesn't have to be at all. It can just be about pleasure or an experience,\u201d says Nicoletta Heidegger, a sexologist based in Los Angeles.\nFor Alex*, a heterosexual, 28-year-old freelance cinematographer, MMF threesomes aren\u2019t about the other guy at all \u2014 and he\u2019s had several, with different partners. \u201cI love facilitating a girl\u2019s fantasy of being with two guys,\" he says. \u201cI enjoy doing my best to give her as much pleasure as possible, and then watching someone else extend the pleasurable experience for her.\" (Watching another dude have sex with your partner is actually a pretty common fetish: according to Pornhub Insights, searches for the term \"cuckolding,\" or watching your wife have sex with another man, have increased substantially in the past few years.)\n(Related: 5 sex moves she hates)\nAlex thinks a lot of the stigma surrounding MMF threeways derives not just from \"homophobia,\" but also from a \u201csense of ownership\u201d of the woman involved. Which makes sense: if you're not turned on the idea of watching your partner have sex with someone else, group sex can often incite jealousy, no matter what the third party's gender is. That's why it's important to have an open conversation with your partner about your boundaries and your desires before having a threesome, regardless of who's invited into the mix.\nFFM may be most couples\u2019 go-to when venturing into the wide world of open relationships or group sex, but if you\u2019re both into it, it's worth considering MMF as part of the rotation. \u201cIt\u2019s rare for a girl to feel safe enough to ask, follow through, and allow you to be involved,\u201d Alex says. But when it works, it can be a lot of fun for everyone involved. \u201cIf you think it\u2019s hot, it\u2019s hot,\u201d Rachel says.\nThe truth about single women\nWhat you can learn about fitness, women and friendship from the Vikings\nWhy you shouldn't worry about cholesterol", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 9285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mensvoicesireland.com/features/new-rape-laws/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ELZWRJT6IXUZLFHXEHVRUHTINKGVF7OV", "length": 11450, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.mensvoicesireland.com", "title": "New Rape Laws - Men's Voices Ireland", "raw_content": "In Norse mythology, Odin \u2013 Allfather, the archetypal male and king of the world \u2013 symbolises traits that feminism derogates as \u2018toxic masculinity\u2019 associated with the feminist conception of patriarchy. The proposed amendments to the sexual consent law in Sweden can be analysed as a symbolic castration of the Nordic male.\nOn July 1, 2018 Sweden\u2019s new law on rape came into force. Under the new law a person is guilty of rape \u201cwho, with a person who is not participating freely, has sexual intercourse.\u201d This is an opportunity to consider the controversial nature of the new laws, since these are being implemented in many western countries.\nOn the face of it this is similar to a law enacted in Ireland in 2017.\nBut there appears to be more in the Irish law in that it has a clause:\n(4) Consent to a sexual act may be withdrawn at any time before the act begins, or in the case of a continuing act, while the act is taking place.\nWhich is close to if not identical with the notion of Affirmative Consent, a controversial concept which has been gaining ground rapidly across North America and Europe.\nThe devil is in the detail, but the detail is not spelled out at any rate in Ireland\u2019s case. What of course was required during the legislative stage but was not forthcoming here was a vigorous, robust questioning of the meaning of the statute and a teasing out of the potentialities inherent in it. Our craven political class subservient as usual in the face of a bullying feminist lobby, failed entirely to do this. In their absence it was up to the media and/or academia to scrutinise in fine detail the meaning. But the media is utterly servile, toadies up to the same lobby and may even subscribe to the same ideology. Academic voices have been absent from these issues for a long time.\nAs a result, the bill was enacted without a murmur. At least in Sweden there was some discussion about the law.\nA Library of Congress article of July 3 2018 comments:The new law which the Swedish PM declared to be absolutely clear is anything but according to critics. The government has justified the legislation by arguing that it will set an example and clarify that every human has an unconditional right to personal and sexual integrity and sexual self-determination. As a measure of the vagueness involved one such issue is:\nSilent Consent\nUnder the new provisions, intercourse stemming from silent consent is not automatically rape. However, silent consent needs to be corroborated by additional evidence. The situation must be viewed in its totality to determine whether silent consent was given.\nComment: What if the woman gives a nod, a meaningful glance? This does not appear to be enough here.\nThere is a separate offence of Negligent Rape. Judges argue that the difficult part in adjudicating sexual crimes is determining the intent of the accused, which, according to the new law, means whether the accused was aware that he or she lacked consent. In response to this difficulty, the new law provides for liability and prison sentences for perpetrators convicted of being grossly negligent in obtaining the needed consent. The test as described in the final bill is whether the person could and did do all the things necessary to determine whether consent was actually received.\nComment:The concept of \u2018negligent rape\u2019 appears to shift the burden of proof from the alleged victim onto the alleged perpetrator, that is, it makes sex akin to a strict liability offence which can be defended only by proving that consent was granted, because some risk of misunderstanding is always present.\nAnother article states:\nThe Swedish Prime Minister Stefan L\u00f6fven previously attempted to clarify the meaning of the proposed legislation by stating that you should not engage in sex unless you are sure that consent had been granted \u2013 \u201cIf you are unsure, then refrain!\u201d\nAs one commentator put it: As with other \u2018Yes means Yes\u2019 initiatives, at any trial it will now fall on those accused of rape to prove that their actions were welcomed by their partner, rather than on the accuser to show that they did not consent \u2013 which Lofven said will \u201cput the victims\u2019 interests first.\u201d\nStanding next to the PM, Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said that the line on what constitutes a sufficient show of consent will be decided on a \u201ccase-by-case\u201d basis but added that he \u201cexpects the number of rape convictions to rise.\u201d\nJohansson openly declared that the law, was launched as a purposeful \u201csignal to Sweden\u2019s men and boys.\u201d\n\u201cIf men\u2019s violence against women is to cease, it\u2019s the men who have to change.\u201d\nThe language here, particularly the phrase \u201cviolence against women\u201d is standard extreme feminist terminology. Sending a message to men and boys has also become standard practice in new legislation and indicates the decidedly non-neutral stance of the Justice Minister.\nHow, precisely, exactly, do you know when there is consent? Does it need to occur at each step (as it now does in Canada)? What, precisely, is a step?\nThere has been criticism in Sweden: Referral Response from Anne Ramberg, President of the Swedish Bar Association [Sveriges Advokatsamfund], to Swedish Department of Justice (R-2016-2094, Jan. 27, 2017).) The criticism centers around two issues: it will be difficult to prove whether consent has been given (word against word) and, because it is unclear from the legal text, difficult to determine what specific acts would be punishable.\nFurther criticism from the Council for Legislation:\nThe Swedish Council on Legislation, an independent body made up of current and former Justices from the Supreme Court and Supreme Administrative Court that tests the constitutionality of proposed legislation, has criticized the law for not being predictable, arguing that predetermining what actions will be punishable cannot be done with sufficient accuracy. The Council on Legislation therefore advised against the proposed changes.\nSwedish lawmakers deny that the burden of proof is shifted from the accuser onto the accused, but this denial, even if well intentioned, may be misleading.\nIf there is a dispute that the alleged victim was not participating voluntarily (this could apply if explicit consent were not given at every step of the encounter) and the complainant is prepared to testify under oath that consent was not given, this is an unreasonably low standard of proof for demonstrating culpability of the accused for rape. It amounts to an automatic transfer of the burden of proof from the accuser onto the accused on the basis of a mere accusation of non-consensual sex, whereupon the accused is faced with a nearly impossible task of proving that consent was in fact given, or that the risk of misunderstanding about consent was too low to trigger the obligation to refrain from engaging in the sexual encounter.\nAffirmative Consent has been introduced in California on university campuses. This seems to require not just consent at the outset but consent at each step of the sexual encounter. What this means is of course anyone\u2019s guess. It clearly puts the woman in a powerful position while the man is left completely unsure of where he is at each stage and even afterward.\nJordan Peterson has commented: How, precisely, exactly, do you know when there is consent? Does it need to occur at each step (as it now does in Canada)? What, precisely, is a step?\nAccording to Time Jan. 17, 2018:\nAffirmative consent stipulates that partners must explicitly agree to engage in sex, consent can be withdrawn at any time during an encounter and \u201csilence or lack of resistance\u201d does not imply consent, according to State University of New York\u2019s definition, which is consistent with other definitions. It also says that a person cannot consent while intoxicated and that partners must consent every time a sexual encounter occurs, regardless of whether they\u2019ve consented to a particular type of behaviour in the past.\nComment: As a measure of the muddle surrounding this Time goes on to say:\nEvery state has a different definition for consent. Some states, like Florida, Illinois and California, have definitions of consent that align with affirmative consent, according to RAINN\u2019s state law database. Other states, like Missouri, Michigan, Idaho and Louisiana, don\u2019t specifically define consent.\n\u201cThese states\u2019 laws now have enormous inconsistencies between their definitions of sexual assault for campus tribunals and for criminal courts,\u201d Johnson and Taylor wrote. \u201cIn the former, an accused student must prove that he obtained \u2018affirmative consent\u2019 throughout every sexual encounter, even with a long-time partner. This standard \u2018is flawed and untenable if due process is to be afforded to the accused,\u2019 a Tennessee state judge has ruled.\u201d\nThe only way a man today can be sure that he is acting correctly is by getting a legal document drawn up signed by both parties\nA Legal Contract for Sex\nA number of prominent people, the latest being the American writer Lionel Shriver, have commented that the only way a man today can be sure when engaging in sexual intercourse, that he is acting correctly is by getting a legal document drawn up signed by both parties with agreement clearly detailed. Imagine the scene. Calling a lawyer while in bed and waiting for the document to be finalised and signed. By that time the libido has well and truly vanished.\nAs another indication that this is the only sure-proof line to take, here is what an enterprising lawyer has done:\nCreation of a New App\nOne Swedish lawyer has developed a smartphone app that persons could use to log in and with their national Bank-ID confirm that they are engaging in voluntary sexual relations. She argues that the use of the app will make sexual partners more careful in considering whether they want to engage in sexual relations with the specific person. (Stefan Wahlberg, Nu kan du signera digitalt innan du har sex \u2013 advokaten har tagit fram en samtyckesapp [Now You Can Sign Digitally Before You Have Sex \u2013 Lawyer Produces Consent Application], DAGENS JURIDIK (June 26, 2018).) What bearing the app would have on proving consent in court is unclear.\nWhen one considers that conviction for rape in Ireland now carries an average prison sentence of ten years, it is essential that the law be absolutely clear.\nRadical Feminism is well on the way to achieving its real aim which is to destroy normal sexual relations between heterosexual couples; an aim motivated by its pathological hatred of that act and clearly seen in the writings of Andrea Dworkin, Catherine McKinnon and others. The most natural human behaviour (sex) is thus implicitly criminalised.\nUncertainties about practical application of the proposed consent obligation are likely to create a lot of frustration and sexual stress for both male and female partners in healthy, normal and consensual sexual partnerships. One unintended consequence of the new legislation will be that of providing every disgruntled or rejected former partner (female or male) with a means to exact revenge for any kind of grievance, simply by declaring that non-consensual sex took place at any time during the relationship. Trying to prove explicit consent or a negligible risk of misunderstanding about consent in every past sexual encounter may be an impossible challenge even for the most diligent of lovers.\nPrevious articleMen\u2019s Voices at Peterson-Harris Event\nNext articleResolving Reality Radio Interview", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 14007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mergingtraffic.com/learn/somtaix/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6BBMKUDMGKSDW255S4O6E655V3CJ7BYR", "length": 1902, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mergingtraffic.com", "title": "Somatix Wins in Market Disrupt Pitch Event in LA - Merging Traffic", "raw_content": "Several Merging Traffic executives traveled to Los Angeles earlier this month to judge the Global Healthcare Resources (GHR) and Global Healthcare Ventures Market Disrupt Pitch Event at the 10th Annual Employer Healthcare Benefits Congress. Ten early to mid-stage medical technology startups presented their business to a panelist of judges for the chance to win a prize package. Somatix emerged as the winner.\nSomatix developed the Precision BMD\u2122 (Body Motion Data) platform. Their one of a kind platform enables detailed tracking of an individual\u2019s body movement patterns and analyzes that data to for their impact \u2013 both positive and negative, physical and emotional \u2013 to their health and well-being. Utilizing sensors built into a range of wearables and other connected IoT devices. It tracks, filters and examines massive volumes of motion data in real time, and employs cloud-based machine learning algorithms to produce insights on physiological and even emotional states. Ultimately, the platform generates alerts in real-time and can generate incentives to help the individual improve adherence to improve their health.\nEran Ofir, CEO and Co-founder, Presented in LA\n\u201cWe are honored to win the inaugural Market Disrupt,\u201d said Somatix CEO & Co-founder Eran Ofir. \u201cWith the growth of healthcare costs, not only in the United States but across the world,organizations engaged in providing care \u2013 employers, insurance carriers, hospitals and clinics, elder care facilities and more \u2013 are in need of solutions to help maintain expenses. Utilizing the rise of Big Data, Somatix is a crucial tool in this fight. By not only recording but analyzing and providing actionable information about our actions and how they impact our health is a critical step. We look forward to working more with GHR and Global Healthcare Ventures in the future in order to bring further change to the healthcare industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metro.us/news/nba-capsules-miami-heat-beat-knicks-99-89/tmWlaB---0aGBWnFzjmo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:53Z", "digest": "sha1:UQKJGBZYVRD3NCRSWUPYORCQBBNFVJTI", "length": 9453, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "www.metro.us", "title": "NBA Capsules: Miami Heat beat Knicks 99-89 | Metro US", "raw_content": "NBA Capsules: Miami Heat beat Knicks 99-89\nMIAMI - LeBron James scored 31 points, Dwyane Wade scored 28 in his return from a sprained right ankle, and the Miami Heat beat the three-point-obsessed New York Knicks 99-89 on Friday night.\nChris Bosh scored 13 points and James finished with eight rebounds and seven assists for Miami, which plays host to Chicago on Sunday in a rematch of last season's Eastern Conference finals.\nBill Walker scored 21 points for New York, which took 43 shots from three-point range, the most in the NBA this season and a total that had the Knicks flirting with Dallas' NBA record of 49 set in 1996. The Knicks connected on 18 from beyond the arc, Walker making seven of them.\nToney Douglas scored 16 points, Landry Fields had 14 and Amare Stoudemire finished with 12 for New York, which tried more three's than two-point shots (41).\nHAWKS 107, PISTONS 101, OT\nAUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) \u2014 Joe Johnson scored 28 of his 30 points after halftime, including a tying three-pointer with 1.9 seconds left in regulation, and the Hawks beat the Pistons.\nAtlanta forced overtime with a pair of late three-pointers. Marvin Williams made one with 33.5 seconds left in the fourth quarter to cut the lead to three, then Johnson stole a pass inside and brought the ball up the court. Johnson looked like as if might have hurt himself, but he kept the ball and sank a tough three-pointer over Rodney Stuckey to tie it.\nThe Hawks started the extra session with a 12-2 run, including three-pointers by Williams and Josh Smith.\nGreg Monroe scored 22 points for the Pistons and Brandon Knight added 20.\nBULLS 107, BUCKS 100\nCHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Derrick Rose scored a season-high 34 points to lead the Bulls to a win over the Bucks.\nRose outdueled Milwaukee counterpart Brandon Jennings, hitting 14 of 24 from the floor and scoring 18 of his points in the second half.\nCarlos Boozer had 20 points and 13 rebounds and Joakim Noah added 15 points and 16 rebounds as Chicago bounced back from its first home loss of the season against Indiana on Wednesday.\nJennings led Milwaukee with 25 points and seven rebounds. Rookie Jon Leuer scored all 19 of his points in the second half.\nThe Bucks played without centre Andrew Bogut, who fractured his left ankle in a win at Houston on Wednesday. The Bucks are now 0-6 without Bogut this season.\nFormer Bull Drew Gooden started in place of Bogut and had 23 points, 15 rebounds and six assists.\nTIMBERWOLVES 87, SPURS 79\nMINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Ricky Rubio scored nine of his 18 points in the fourth quarter and dished out 10 assists to lift the Timberwolves to a victory over the Spurs.\nKevin Love had 18 points and 16 rebounds and Nikola Pekovic added 14 points and 10 boards for the Wolves, who have beaten the Spurs two straight times in the same season for the first time since 2000.\nTony Parker scored 20 points and Tiago Splitter continued his strong play off the bench for the Spurs, scoring 12 points and grabbing seven rebounds.\nDerrick Williams scored 12 points for the Wolves, who held the third-leading scoring team in the league 20.5 points under its average.\nCELTICS 94, PACERS 87\nBOSTON (AP) \u2014 Paul Pierce scored 17 of his 28 points in the third quarter, hitting a three-pointer and two more baskets as the Celtics ran off 11 consecutive points to pull away and beat the Pacers.\nPierce added 10 rebounds and eight assists to help Boston win its fourth consecutive game despite playing without starters Ray Allen, Rajon Rondo and Jermaine O'Neal. Kevin Garnett and Mickael Pietrus added 13 points and eight rebounds apiece as the Celtics matched their longest winning streak of the year.\nDanny Granger scored 21 points for Indiana, which had beaten Boston twice this season \u2014 both times by more than 10 points. Paul George scored 16 with nine rebounds and David West had 14 points and eight rebounds.\nCLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Deron Williams scored 27 points and the New Jersey Nets won consecutive games for the first time this season with a victory over the Cavaliers.\nNew Jersey came into the game battling illness and injuries. Forward Kris Humphries missed Friday morning's shoot-around with the stomach flu, but was in the starting lineup and scored 18 points with 11 rebounds in 33 minutes. The Nets played without centre Mehmet Okur (back injury) and guard MarShon Brooks (strained Achilles), but New Jersey led from wire-to-wire despite dressing only 10 players.\nThe Nets, who defeated Philadelphia in overtime on Wednesday, also completed their first winning road trip with a 2-1 record.\nRookie point guard Kyrie Irving scored a season-high 32 points, including 21 in the fourth quarter, for Cleveland, which has lost five of six.\n76ERS 89, BOBCATS 72\nPHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 Lou Williams scored 17 points and Jrue Holiday had 15 to help the 76ers beat the Bobcats.\nJodie Meeks scored 14 points for the Sixers, who bounced back from a rare home loss and still haven't lost two straight games all season.\nThe Sixers won in front of co-owners Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. The Hollywood power couple had a front-row seat for their first Sixers game of the season.\nThe Bobcats scored only 10 points in the first quarter and lost their seventh straight game. Kemba Walker scored 14 points.\nThe Sixers improved to 9-2 at home.\nROCKETS 103, WIZARDS 76\nHOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Chase Budinger scored a season-high 21 points and Luis Scola added 19 points to help the Rockets blow out Washington.\nJordan Hill had 10 points and 10 rebounds for the Rockets, who scored 41 points off Washington's season-high 24 turnovers. Courtney Lee scored eight points for Houston in place of leading scorer Kevin Martin, who sat out with plantar fasciitis in his right foot.\nBy the fourth quarter, the Rockets hardly missed Martin. The Wizards had 10 turnovers in the last 18 minutes, helping Houston outscore them 46-21 over that span to win for the eighth time in nine games.\nJohn Wall had 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists for Washington, playing its second game under Randy Wittman.\nHORNETS 93, MAGIC 67\nNEW ORLEANS (AP) \u2014 Carl Landry scored 17 points and the New Orleans Hornets snapped a nine-game losing streak with a victory over the Magic.\nMarco Belinelli added 15 points and Jason Smith 14 for New Orleans, which won for only the fourth time this season against 15 losses. Jarrett Jack added 11 points and nine assists.\nDwight Howard had 28 points and 16 rebounds, but was the only player in double figures for the Magic, who appeared to be still reeling from blowing a 27-point lead in a loss to Boston a night earlier. Starting in with the third quarter against the Celtics, the Magic have now gone six straight quarters without scoring 20 points in any of them.\nOrlando shot only 39 per cent (24 of 61).\nNUGGETS 96, RAPTORS 81\nDENVER (AP) \u2014 Rudy Fernandez scored a season-high 23 in his return from a sore Achilles as the Nuggets beat the short-handed Raptors.\nDanilo Gallinari added 21 points and Nene had 20 points and 10 rebounds for the Nuggets in their sixth straight win. They capitalized on a Toronto lineup that was missing leading scorer Andrea Bargnani, out indefinitely after aggravating a strained left calf this week.\nThe Raptors took a while to adjust to his absence, and by the time they did, it was too late as they fell to 0-7 in games Bargnani has been sidelined.\nThey missed 14 of their first 15 shots, fell behind 16-2, scored just a dozen points in the first quarter and trudged off the court at halftime trailing 54-32.\nMAVERICKS 116, JAZZ 101\nDALLAS (AP) \u2014 Roddy Beaubois had a season-high 22 points and Lamar Odom added 19 points, his most since joining the Mavericks at the start of the season, to lead Dallas over the Jazz.\nBeaubois made his first start of the season, subbing for Delonte West, who was out with a strained right hamstring.\nOdom has been struggling since his departure from the Los Angeles Lakers, but he made three three-pointers and was 7 for 12 from the floor to help the Mavs to a season-high for points.\nOdom has been starting in place of the team's top scorer, Dirk Nowitzki, sidelined for a fourth straight game while he improves his conditioning and gets treatment for a sore right knee.\nPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 LaMarcus Aldridge had 23 points and seven rebounds and the Trail Blazers blew out the Suns for their sixth straight win at home.\nGerald Wallace added 17 points, Wesley Matthews had 16 and Nicolas Batum added 14 for the Blazers (12-8). Marcus Camby had 20 rebounds and was the only Blazers player who didn't score on a night where both benches emptied early.\nGrant Hill had 12 points for Phoenix, which was held to a season-low in scoring. Sebastian Telfair had 10 and Hakim Warrick had nine.\nTHUNDER 120, WARRIORS 109\nOAKLAND, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Kevin Durant had 37 points and 14 rebounds, Russell Westbrook dazzled with 28 points and 11 assists and the NBA-leading Thunder started a critical road stretch with a victory over the Warriors.\nJames Harden scored 19 points off the bench and Westbrook added six rebounds in the Thunder's fourth straight win. Oklahoma City pulled away with a 14-3 run late in the fourth quarter to begin a string of nine of 11 away from home.\nDorell Wright scored 23 and David Lee had 19 points and seven rebounds for the Warriors, who pushed another one of the NBA's elite to the brink. While Golden State already topped Miami, Chicago and Orlando this season, rookie coach Mark Jackson's bunch came up short this time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 417, "original_length": 16582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metro.us/sports/theo-epstein-he-s-officially-gone/tmWkju---cdEb4l8LzVS", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:39Z", "digest": "sha1:WP22QP4WNXDWU6O4F77NMB3SSLCEHNGJ", "length": 1155, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.metro.us", "title": "Theo Epstein: He's officially gone | Metro US", "raw_content": "Theo Epstein: He's officially gone\nThe Red Sox announced tonight the GM has resigned to join the Cubs.\nThe Theo Epstein era in Boston is officially over.\nThe Red Sox and Cubs tonight released a joint statement saying that the longtime GM has resigned his post on Yawkey Way to join the National League club.\n\"Effective immediately, Theo Epstein has resigned from the Red Sox in order to become the new President of Baseball Operations for the Cubs,\" it read in part. \"The Clubs also have reached an agreement regarding a process by which appropriate compensation will be determined for the Red Sox and that issue will be resolved in the near term.\"\nHe's expected to be formally introduced in Chicago on Tuesday. Ben Cherington should be named Epstein's official successor in Boston the same day.\nThere's no word yet on what the Sox's compensation for letting Epstein out of the final year of his contract will be.\nEpstein, who was named Boston's GM in November 2002, helped build the teams that won the 2004 and 2007 World Series. He left the team for three months in 2005, but soon returned to the helm.\nThis time, however, it appears he's gone for good.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 8002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 184.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mezicpa.com/services/outsourced-cfo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:04Z", "digest": "sha1:X4BVBYAL34EH5CEYST22M7RPN5KWLP5N", "length": 486, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mezicpa.com", "title": "Outsourced CFO - Meseret Y. 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So you have fewer surprises and more control over the money.\nIf you\u2019d like to learn more about our Part-Time CFO Services please contact us for a free consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 202.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.middlewichguardian.co.uk/trade_directory/advert/plumbing_and_heating/999308711/MR%20M%20HAMER", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2CQPP3LTVIOOIG7RLIH65EHLGJZASEFH", "length": 594, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.middlewichguardian.co.uk", "title": "MR M HAMER - Plumbers in Alsager - click2find - Winsford Guardian", "raw_content": "Email: [Send email to MR M HAMER]\nAreas served: Alsager, Altrincham, Bebington, Biddulph, Billinge, Birkenhead, Bowdon, Burtonwood, Chester, Comberbach, Congleton, Corwen, Crewe, Frodsham, Golborne, Goostrey, Hale, Haydock, Heswall, Hoylake, Knutsford, Lancashire, Leigh, Liverpool, Lymm, Macclesfield, Manchester, Middlewich, Moreton, Nantwich, Neston, Newton-le-willows, Northwich, Partington, Prenton, Prescot, Rainhill, Runcorn, Sale, Sandbach, St Helens, Stretford, Tarporley, Timperley, Trafford, Upton, Urmston, Wallasey, Warrington, West Kirby, Whiston, Widnes, Wigan, Winsford, Wirral.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.milforddailynews.com/x1091470260", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YT4FV44U5R2DZIJ6BGGIZRLEZLF6KNB6", "length": 2653, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.milforddailynews.com", "title": "Man on a mission - News - Milford Daily News - Milford, MA", "raw_content": "But likening that mentality to the Red Sox and the World Series, he decided not to partake.\n\"I don't own the history,\" Ogden said during an interview in his office yesterday. \"This was the first time for me here, that's how I treated it.\"\nBut while all Massachusetts superintendents expect a Proposition 2 1/2 tax override vote sooner or later, Ogden didn't know his outlook would be tested so soon. Less than a year into his tenure, a majority of town councilors decided to put a $2.7 million request before voters. At stake were 25 school staffers and possible steep fee hikes for busing and high school sports, as well as a possible charge for middle school clubs.\n\"I didn't think we would be facing an override so quickly,\" Ogden said.\nDespite his intentions, the new superintendent now faced the ghosts of Franklin's past. After voters shot down a $3.9 million override in 2004, for example, major town cuts did not materialize, leading to mistrust and a lingering perception that officials had \"found\" money.\nOn the school side, Ogden's predecessor finished the fiscal year several hundred thousand dollars short, with an overestimation of revenues plaguing the new budget he left behind.\nTo garner support for the new override request, Ogden and several other officials embarked on a series of budget \"roadshows,\" meeting with civic organizations, at the senior center and in residents' homes. The gatherings took up many nights over the past several weeks, including several weekends.\n\"They don't intuitively know the numbers,\" Ogden said of residents. \"They don't intuitively trust public officials. As accurate as your numbers may be, if you don't have that personal touch, it's a no go.\"\nEven though Ogden knew the override's ramifications spread beyond his particular office, at some level he took it personally, viewing it as a referendum on his leadership.\n\"Was I waking up in the middle of the night?\" Ogden asked. \"Absolutely. I was treating this like it was about me.\"\nHe said the vote stirred his inner competitor, describing his mind-set as, \"Damn it, I'm going to win this thing, and if I don't, bad me.\"\nAs the roadshows progressed, he grew \"cautiously optimistic,\" Ogden said, culminating Tuesday with a vote overwhelmingly in favor of the override. He was eating dinner with his wife for what felt like the first time in weeks when he got the news.\n\"When you ask members of the community to make a personal financial sacrifice for something outside their own family, that's a big act of faith on their part,\" he said. \"That's a wonderful, affirming kind of thing.\"\nAnd his sleep that night?\n\"The best I slept in 45 days,\" he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.missioncityrecord.com/business/real-estate-market-ekes-out-small-one-year-gain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:43Z", "digest": "sha1:YKD6TGS3SVK7MBR4NLWJXUSTXYXDAVLB", "length": 1769, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.missioncityrecord.com", "title": "Real estate market ekes out small one-year gain \u2013 Mission City Record", "raw_content": "Prices now relatively stable, realtors say\nDetail of Fraser Valley Real Estate Board graph plotting the average price of detached houses in the Fraser Valley over the past five years. Prices bottomed out at just under $500\nLower Mainland housing prices have posted thin gains over the past year.\nDetached houses rose 5.6 per cent from one year ago to a benchmark price of $799,000, according to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.\nAttached homes on average gained 4.1 per cent to $488,000 while condos were up 1.9 per cent to $389,000 in November compared to the same month in 2009.\nThe Greater Vancouver association covers Metro Vancouver except Surrey, North Delta, White Rock and Langley.\nIn those areas and points further east, benchmark detached homes are up an average 1.4 per cent from a year ago to $504,000, according to the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board.\nTownhomes are up 1.9 per cent to $319,000 and condos gained 2.7 per cent from a year earlier to $242,000.\nThe biggest gain in one-year prices have been in detached houses on Vancouver\u2019s west side, which are up nearly 18 per cent to $1.7 million.\nRichmond houses were up 13.7 per cent to $920,000.\nOn the downside, the stats show Port Moody houses have slid more than 10 per cent from a year ago to $719,500.\nThe median price of Abbotsford townhouses fell about 16 per cent to $230,000.\nRealtors report consistent home sales and relatively stable prices, with continued low mortgage rates helping shore up buyer demand.\n\u201cHome values have been relatively stable over the last five months compared to the summer period when we were seeing some downward pressure on prices,\u201d said Jake Moldowan, president of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver.\nCivic \u2018overspending\u2019 slammed by business lobby", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 7684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.missouristate.edu/music/undergraduate/VocalPerformance.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NBBKU2WBITTCF354ZKYL3WFMAFGVLO5L", "length": 1333, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.missouristate.edu", "title": "Vocal Performance Track - Music Undergraduate Program - Music Department - Missouri State University", "raw_content": "Missouri State > Music > Music Performance Undergraduate Program > Vocal Performance Track\nVocal Performance Track\nHone your vocal talent and develop your overall musical skills\nWhile studying vocal performance at Missouri State, you will have the opportunity to be an active performer in a chorus, choral ensemble or as part of an opera or musical while also receiving focused, often one-on-one vocal training. You can develop your voice while singing in a variety of genres and styles. The program will also round out your musical training with extensive courses in music theory and other aspects of the discipline. You will also have multiple performance opportunities and a chance to prepare for further studies in a graduate program.\nThe vocal performance focus consists of 52-53 hours in addition to the core requirements for the Bachelor of Music degree:\nLarge Ensembles (8 hours) as determined by audition, full-time students shall be in one of the following choral ensembles each semester until graduation. 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The tournament features the top 10 men\u2019s and top eight women\u2019s curling teams from across the country.\nThe results will help determine Team USA for this year\u2019s women\u2019s and men\u2019s World Championships, held in Denmark and Canada in March.\nCurling is played by two teams of four, who slide eight, 40-pound granite stones down a sheet of ice toward a target. The team with the closest stone to the center of the target at the end of each round earns points.\nThe sport is most popular in Canada and Sweden, but has grown in popularity in the United States in recent years. The Kalamazoo Curling Club, established in 2008, is one of several to form in the Midwest in recent years.\nThe national championships first came to Kalamazoo in 2010 and returned in 2015.\nTickets to attend this year\u2019s tournament are available online.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 5307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 189.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mmgastro.com/gastric-stomach-cancer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UI7EYRXTMIZRJUNRQVEELYCDPAESI6SF", "length": 1362, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mmgastro.com", "title": "Gastric (stomach) Cancer - Reflux, Stomach Pain, Ulcers - Steven Nadler, MD", "raw_content": "What is the stomach?\nThe stomach is part of the digestive system and connects the esophagus to the small intestine. Once food enters the stomach the muscles in the stomach help to mix and mash the food using a motion called peristalsis.\nStomach cancer can develop in any part of the stomach and can spread throughout the stomach and to other organs such as the small intestines, lymph nodes, liver, pancreas and colon.\nWho gets stomach cancer?\nHow is gastric cancer diagnosed?\nUpper GI series- The patient is asked to drink a barium solution. Subsequently x-rays of the stomach are taken. The barium outlines the inside of the stomach helping to reveal any abnormal areas that may be involved with cancer. This test is used less often than it used to be, and patients now often undergo endoscopy (see below) first.\nEndoscopy- A lighted, flexible tube with a camera, called an endoscope, is inserted through the mouth into the esophagus and then into the stomach. Sedation is given prior to insertion of the endoscope. If an abnormal area is found, biopsies (tissue samples) can be taken and examined under a microscope to look for cancer cells.\nWhat is the treatment for stomach cancer?\nTreatment plans may vary depending on the size, location, extent of tumor and the patient's overall health. Treatments include surgery, chemotherapy and /or radiation therapy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 232.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.moderntimes.review/jay-rosenblatt-human-condition-sense-loss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:15Z", "digest": "sha1:2J567MLEPO2ON4UQO7VZCX6LNMD6D6Z5", "length": 13891, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.moderntimes.review", "title": "JAY ROSENBLATT: The human condition \u2013 a sense of loss \u00b7 MTR", "raw_content": "JAY ROSENBLATT: The human condition \u2013 a sense of loss\nDOX met the renowned filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt to speak about traits in his films \u2013 like loss, death, Jewish identity and being a filmmaker. Rosenblatt is the programming director of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival [See previous article].\n\u2013 My films are not really narrative, says Jay Rosenblatt in our interview, when we met him last year in Nyon, where Visions du Reel had a retrospective on his films. \u201cI am using archival shots in my films. I am looking for an arc, a narrative arc, I cut sometimes at the peak of the arc and sometimes where the rhythm stays interesting.\u201d\nTRULS LIE: What are your thoughts on using text and commentary in films? Like the text that\u2019s being read, the voices \u2013 like your film with the sign \u201csleep\u201d when you see a dog sleeping?\nJAY ROSENBLATT: In that film called Afraid So some of the images are very literal. Sometimes it is very satisfying for the viewer to see something that corresponds otherwise. I also like to work with metaphor like in Phantom Limb where there are some sections that are completely metaphorical \u2013 like the sheep shaving scene in slow motion It is very intense to watch cause the sheep is so vulnerable and we are hearing all these very intense voice-overs. I didn\u2019t know at first that I would have the comments on the soundtrack, I didn\u2019t know the music I would have, but I knew there must be a slow, extremely slow motion of sheep shaving.\n\u2013 The shave represented loss because the wool is being taken off \u2013 but not death. It is loss but renewal because the wool grows back. A perfect metaphor for grief. The film ends with birth. It is a film about death that ends with birth.\n\u2013 Even my films with my daughter \u2013 I call them comedies \u2013 there is a sense of loss because she is getting older. It\u2019s like they move away from you, she was changing so much. I was falling in love with that age.\n\u2013 First about grief, then about suicide, and emptiness of life. You again and again make films about people dying; why are you so concerned about death?\n\u2013 Well, I mean it is obvious, isn\u2019t it? I had this early very dramatic death of my brother in my life, and it marked me forever. But it is something we all deal with \u2013 some people by being in complete denial and some people deal with it very directly. A loved one dies, when you are young or older, your parents, your friends. And ultimately our own death \u2013 it is the human condition. What else can you deal with? You can deal with love, you can deal with sex, you can deal with a life of forming things, but to me you can\u2019t fully deal with life unless you deal with death. In Phantom Limb one man says when he fully, fully faced death, he had a pure respect for life and really appreciate every moment that he is alive. A lot of us including myself just have not dealt well with death or grieved well enough.\nWe are disturbed about these existential topics seen in Rosenblatt\u2019s films, and keep on asking:\n\u2013 In the suicide film, The Darkness of Day, you have some distinctive examples, for example the Sanders couple who kill themselves when they were old, not to bother their children with their life. They just left a message and some burial advice. What do you think about that?\n\u2013 In that film I wanted to show different types of suicide, like historical moments where all of a sudden a town has a lot of suicides; I have Hemingway with his genetic component of a family often committing suicide; then Primo Levy, making it through the Holocaust, going through all this trauma and then later, maybe because of deep depression, committing suicide. The Sanders couple made a very rational decision, they felt like if they lived a full life \u2013 sixty years of marriage. They didn\u2019t like what they saw ahead, they didn\u2019t want to be taken care of by their children and wanted to leave this world together. I thought it was very beautiful. I didn\u2019t want to have any moralistic judgment about suicide, I think the normal judgment around suicide is very damaging, not only to the person that is suicidal but to the survivors also \u2013 people are so ashamed. They feel responsible, they make up stories, they don\u2019t tell the truth, they say their loves ones died from some other reason.\n\u2013 Your films with Holocaust images \u2026 Do I see a melancholic thread?\n\u2013 The film Four Questions for a Rabbi is about Stacy Ross who committed suicide. She was the woman who started a film. Some of her friends were wondering if I would be interested in looking at her proposal to let me end the film. The only thing they had was one interview she did with her mother, one interview she did with a rabbi and they filmed her funeral, that is all they had. They said she was making a film about Jewish identity, and gave me the proposal. She was also very involved in Palestinian issues and felt very deeply about the Palestinian people which a lot of Jews do actually. I wanted to honor her spirit, what she was concerned about \u2013 I didn\u2019t like the rabbi\u2019s answers, but her questions.\n\u2013 There are a lot of Jewish people that have a lot of trouble with what is going on in Israel, and I felt like I needed to bring that into this film. With my archives I found footage and I put them together \u2013 and yes, it deals with suicide and grief.\n\u2013 Let me ask you since you are Jewish: In this film the rabbi talks about the soul, the Jewish soul. Do you think that you yourself are placed in a kind of destiny, a kind of fixed tradition, a kind of problematic you cannot get out of, a fate \u2026 do you see this?\n\u2013 The Jewish people have a very painful history. I think the irony of what is going on in Israel now is that the Jews have been oppressed for so long and in some ways today the jews are the oppressors. For me that is very painful to see. Jews are not different from other people.\n\u2013 Are you by making all these films trying to convey the soul of the loss of the Jewish people \u2013 or do you think you are therapeutically rather trying to get out of a destiny you were born into?\n\u2013 I am not sure, I am not sure, I don\u2019t know. I can\u2019t say I know the soul of the Jewish people. When you are born Jewish and you have the history of the Holocaust behind you it is a heavy burden on so many levels \u2013 whether you are a Holocaust survivor, or a child of a survivor, you are affected by it. I mean it is not just the Jews. There are still different kinds of holocausts happening \u2013 but that one was so massive and so beyond comprehension.\n\u2013 Now I am programming this Jewish film festival in San Francisco: I can\u2019t tell you how many films about the Holocaust that I have had to watch. I see it all the time. How do you get past something that was so dramatic to humanity? I mean it is unbelievable.\n\u2013 But you aren\u2019t striving to get out?\n\u2013 I think we all need somehow to rise above this. I hope we all transform eventually from this kind of hell that we have created on this planet. I really do have hope that we will be able to transcend.\n\u2013 There are some elements in your films where you have all these births, babies coming out. Trying to talk about hope?\n\u2013 I\u2026 you know, I feel hopeless a lot and I am always trying to find hope wherever I can \u2013 it is a struggle. I do try to end some of my films with a little bit of hope, otherwise you get paralyzed. We need hope.\n\u2013 When we have talked with others about your films, a man said, affected, that you are fetishizing melancholy. What is your defence to such an accusation?\n\u2013 I have no trouble with melancholy, but I do have a little trouble with fetish. I think that is a defensive reaction on his part. I am not making a fetish out of it. I don\u2019t get pleasure out of that. It might be an obsession and it might be a concern, but fetish feels too derogatory.\n\u2013 You have the friendly films like Drop, Periled, DCD, Afraid So. They are all friendly \u2026\n\u2013 I try to do some comedy. Did you laugh? I think they are funny and they are lovelyVbecause there is love in there. When I started making those films it was amazing, because I have been dealing with very dark issues. When I was dealing with The Light, this new baby, it was liberating and really helped my filmmaking. Frankenstein I made at the same time when my daughter started to walk, she looked like Frankenstein. Just going \u201cAAAH\u201d you know.\nIn our intense conversation with this renowned filmmaker, we adress if the personal and collective memory plays a role, often seen as a topic in his films that are based on archival material:\n\u2013 I can see you are working more with a kind of conceptual layer of editing in for example The Smell of the Burning Ants. You are representing your own memory of childhood with the little boy, the mobsters, the bullies, and you are afraid of your father, maturity and all these kinds of things? Can I ask you if you made this film on your background as a kind of therapy?\n\u2013 Well, there is some personal therapy, but for me the therapy is more for the audience \u2013 I hope! That\u2019s the motivation, because I can go to a therapist if I just need to take care of myself. This is a way of somehow turning experiences that maybe were dramatic, difficult or painful into something creative. With The Smell of Burning Ants, I purposely put it into third person so it talks about the boy as \u201cHe\u201d. I don\u2019t say \u201cI\u201d. I didn\u2019t want to use my voice. It is more up to the audience to say \u201coh that happened to me\u201d. I would say 90 percent of the film is autobiographical and about ten percent are things that I was told from other people.\n\u2013 But you don\u2019t have much material from your own personal background.\n\u2013 Not much, I am very grateful my father shot as much as he did \u2013 eleven rolls of 8mm in the 50-60s. But you are very limited using home movies unless your parents were artists or filmmakers.\n\u2013 You are using a lot of archival material in for example The Darkness of The Day \u2013 as a kind of a collective memory?\n\u2013 It is part of our collective memory. We have all seen something like it. I feel like it is a shared memory bank that we have. I am taking images that people are somehow familiar with and re-contextualising it, using it for my own means. Like The Smell of Burning Ants, there are some scenes that I could have filmed today with kids, I could have recreated it, but I don\u2019t think it would have been as powerful. There would be a certain artificiality.\n\u2013 I love the editing process, the challenge of taking all these different elements and trying to make it as one cohesive whole. Like in my film Short of Breath \u2013 it\u2019s a ten-minute film, but it\u2019s comprised of images from twenty-two completely different films. The creative challenge is to have the viewer watch it and feel like it is all one whole piece. I am not doing compilation films where you are very aware it\u2019s all from different sources.\nThere is a tradition of filmmaking close to Rosenblatt; that of Chris Marker and essay filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard and Harun Farocki:\n\u2013 Do you see yourself as being in the tradition of essay filmmakers, like Chris Marker?\n\u2013 Yes, Chris Marker had a very big influence on me actually. Before I saw Sunless (Sans Soleil, 1983) I made films in a very conventional way, wrote a script, found actors and crew. After I saw Sunless I realised I didn\u2019t have to do things in that order. I think Marker just collects, and in the editing he writes the film. Then I just collected images from all different places and tried to make an essay basically out of it \u2013 ever since then I have done a very similar thing. The process is organic, it kind of grows.\n\u2013 For me it is the closest thing I can say because my films are not pure documentaries. Documentaries certainly have narrative elements within, some doing experimentation of form, and maybe some take risks with the content \u2013 but essay films seem to describe it the best. I call them \u201ccollage essays\u201d. For me structure is very important in film to guide the audience. I have used chapter headings several times. Point-of-view in the essay film, important, since my films are collages. It is not a monologue essay but a dialogue where people are responding internally \u2013 so I leave several pauses in the film. Just like when you are with a client or patient, whoever is coming to see you, you don\u2019t do all the talking obviously, you want them to talk.\n\u2013 Through the years I also gained more faith in filmmaking. Now I just know that I am not going to finish a film until I am satisfied. It is not like when TV is paying for it; it doesn\u2019t have to be 52 minutes. One of the trade-offs of not supporting yourself with your own films, is that I make the film I want to make. If I make a 21 minute film it\u2019s 21 minutes. I don\u2019t care what the TV slot is. If they don\u2019t want to show it, they don\u2019t show it.\n\u2013 Do you have a trust fund or something?\n\u2013 Not at all, I have a day job. I used to work in a film school, a psychiatric unit as a therapist, and I have teached about film. I worked first at three different schools with five different classes every semester, I worked like crazy! No, I don\u2019t have a trust fund, unfortunately! The good thing about being a teacher is that you have summer vacations and weekends to work on your projects.\n\u2013 Now I am a festival programmer, I am a director at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, on an eight-month contract. That\u2019s how I pay the rent.\nJay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist who has been working as an independent filmmaker since 1980 and has completed over twenty-five films. His work explores our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal. His films have received over 100 awards and have screened throughout the world. A selection of his films had theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters around the country. His most recent films screened for a week at MoMA.\nFear as Entertainment\n(Scared Very Scared)\nAVANT-GARDE ARCHIVE FILM: Seeing without Knowing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 17297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.monroemy.com/our-why", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:47Z", "digest": "sha1:66CTHOSG425GHKDCB6KGYZ4HAGBBOQAM", "length": 2088, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.monroemy.com", "title": "Our Why | Monroe Massage and Yoga", "raw_content": "You are here: Home > Our Why\nTyler\u2019s massage story began here, in Monroe North Carolina, after graduating from Union Academy and later SPCC. For nearly a decade, Tyler has been traveling and studying under highly trained massage therapists. In Charlotte NC, he began his work in established studios such as Hand and Stone, where he mastered anatomy identification and developed a fuller understanding of how massage helps the human body. Tyler spent a large portion of his career focusing on corporate massage. Corporate massage provides immediate benefits to individuals who are unable to set aside time for a full table massage and are often chronically overworked. This unique look at the lives of non-traditional clients sparked Tyler\u2019s passion for a holistic and balanced lifestyle. In Asheville, NC Tyler continued to gain knowledge of natural and physical health while gaining experience in a variety of alternative medical practices. Tyler joined a unique and versatile practice while completing his RYT 200, a certification for mastery in Yoga. At this point in his life Tyler found clarity in the type of lifestyle he wished, and shares with others.\n\u2018Human anatomy is vast, and we each constantly uncover secrets which make up who we are and how we work and move. I want to do something that changes the way others experience their life. I want to connect people to each other and to the world that we all share. I believe that both Massage and Yoga are essential practices in creating an impact on people\u2019s natural health and wellness.\u2019 - Tyler\nWhy Monroe?\nAs my childhood home, it makes sense for Monroe to be the birthplace of my practice. I want to give back to the community that supported and made me who I am, in the best way that I know. Monroe Massage and Yoga is nestled inside the Franklin courtyard of our once thriving downtown, which is on the road to revitalization. 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This metamorphosis triggered not only an alteration in Monsoon Media\u2019s marketing direction, but also in its inner workings and geographic location.\nThe end result would usher in an assortment of fresh new offerings. From the outset, they included classified media ad services and forum discussion areas, just to name a few. What didn't change was Monsoon Media\u2019s lifelong commitment to offering good value to customers and subscribers, alike.\nWe've come a long way and worked hard to make your surfing experience the best it can be. We'll build on these past achievements and continue striving for a better tomorrow, season after season.\n....President", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.montereyherald.com/2007/09/03/streets-closed-sunday-for-event/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:39Z", "digest": "sha1:SDZLWEB6JHL4KVLWNI2PRTQ3LFIMPMIK", "length": 517, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.montereyherald.com", "title": "Streets closed Sunday for event \u2013 Monterey Herald", "raw_content": "Streets closed Sunday for event\nSeveral streets in downtown Chico will be closed Sunday for the annual \u201cTaste of Chico\u201d event.\nThird Street will be closed from Wall Street to Salem Street. In addition, both Broadway and Main Street will be closed between First and Second streets, and from Second Street to Fourth Street, with Second Street open to traffic.\nThe street closures will begin at 6:30 a.m. with reopening at approximately 7:30 p.m.\nThe Downtown Chico Business Association event runs from noon until 4 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 4007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.morleyobserver.co.uk/news/video-cherished-campaign-to-help-the-vulnerable-and-elderly-in-winter-1-7508442", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:52Z", "digest": "sha1:5CU6HIAFETEOIO2XCVKVLIM3H3FOEUYP", "length": 2319, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.morleyobserver.co.uk", "title": "Video: Cherished campaign to help the vulnerable and elderly in winter - Morley Observer and Advertiser", "raw_content": "Video: Cherished campaign to help the vulnerable and elderly in winter\nA new campaign is calling on communities to look out for elderly neighbours, relatives and friends throughout the winter months.\nWest Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS) has launched the \u2018Cherished\u2019 campaign which aims to remind people to do their bit to cherish older generations and giving 10 top tips for a safe and healthy winter.\nUsing the slogan \u2018kindness in a cuppa,\u2019 WYFRS is urging people to pop in on older people and flag up potential hazards in the home whilst preventing social isolation and the associated mental and physical decline.\nThe drive has been prompted by an unusual spike in the number of fire-related deaths of elderly people across West Yorkshire.\nAssistant Chief Fire Officer Dave Walton said: \u201cWhilst many proudly live independently, we know that living alone can also put you at greater risk from fire.\n\u201cThe Fire and Rescue Service recognises that our role in improving health and wellbeing in the community is vital in reducing demand on already stretched health and social care services. Ultimately we want to save lives.\u201d\nPeople are living longer and it\u2019s estimated 23% of the UK will be aged 65 and over by 2035.\nAs part of the Cherished campaign the Fire Service is highlighting its work to safeguard future generations.\nPrevention staff have also designed a schools package for Year Six pupils which will be rolled out across West Yorkshire.\nThe innovative package uses activities to simulate the physical challenges of aging, such as arthritis, and gives pupils a basic understand of dementia.\nThis leads on to spotting hazards in the home of grandparents and alerting mum and dad.\nACO Walton added: \u201cOur aim is to foster a real sense of social responsibility in children which will pay dividends not only now but in years to come.\n\u201cIf kids can recognise the hazards in the homes of their grandparents and use \u2018pester power\u2019 to prompt mum and dad into action, to get in touch with the Fire Service, then that\u2019s a great success from our point of view.\n\u201cWe are concerned that older people may go under the radar because they feel a burden on public services, but this is entirely incorrect. We want people to view our Home Fire Safety Checks in the same way as they do a winter flu jab, have you had yours?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormonnewsroom.my/article/malay-triple", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:17Z", "digest": "sha1:LDKXOUPOI7N5VLYCCRIGUSJZWGEG4BEX", "length": 3234, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mormonnewsroom.my", "title": "Greater Access to the Word of God in Malaysia", "raw_content": "Greater Access to the Word of God in Malaysia\nIn mid-March, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints received news that additional scripture had been translated into a main dialect of Malay and was available in digital format. The Church recognizes the Bible as the word of God. Additional recognized scripture includes: The Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price. These last three make up what is known as the Triple Combination because they are frequently published in a combined book.\nScripture Study \u00a92018 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.1 / 2\nEder Wong, the main translator who participated in the project said, \u201cThe number of Malay speaking members has increased in East Malaysia. Teachers serving in the Church there have been learning Malay to be more effective in helping people understand the Gospel.\u201d\nThe Church process of preparing Gospel manuals and scriptures is uniform and careful. First, an existing Bible translation is selected for Church use. Then, basic manuals and a web page of LDS.org are prepared. New scripture translation is requested by the area Church leadership when the number of members who speak the language is growing and the basic Church curriculum has been translated into the language. The request is reviewed by Church headquarters committees and approved by the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve.\nThe process began over ten years ago in Malaysia. Once approved, the Translation division begins to search for local individuals as candidates for the translation effort. Translators are mature Church members, have language skills with Malay and English and are active in the Church. They utilize textual, and digital tools to assist them in their work and are supervised by a Church headquarters translation individual. Malay translators are compensated financially because of the time required.\nIn addition, there are other local individuals who evaluate the translation to make sure it is correct and captures the meaning of the scriptures. Eder Wong called \u201cthis team . . . the eyes and ears of members of the Church.\u201d A group of three to five men and women who are local ecclesiastical leaders are called and set apart to help review the translation for readability and doctrinal accuracy. They prayerfully review the translations. Wording changes are not made until the committee unanimously agrees and the changes are in harmony with the translation guide. Local Church members also review the translation. They give feedback on the clarity and appropriateness of the wording. Clarity of translation ensures that the Holy Ghost can bear witness of the teachings.\nEder Wong offered his witness of the spiritual nature of this project: \u201cI had several opportunities to attend gospel classes in several Church congregations in East Malaysia. When the members use the Malay scriptural terms in gospel classes, I received spiritual confirmations that those terms are correct. I received further enlightenment on the meaning of those terms and the scriptures that contain them.\u201d\nRead Previous Article \uea16 Learning and Feeling through Music Read Next Article Hong Kong Welcomes 11th Annual A.S.I.A. LDS Women's Conference\uea18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 7460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.morsewatchmans.com/latest-news/security-info-watch-tracking-keys-pays-dividends", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NIT7PDPDDMQLZY2FWCTSA7LAN7FO2KAI", "length": 264, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.morsewatchmans.com", "title": "Security Info Watch: Tracking Keys Pays Dividends", "raw_content": "Security Info Watch: Tracking Keys Pays Dividends\nBeno\u00eet Chaput has the job of overseeing the vehicles and technical gear used to operate Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Radio-Canada (SRC), the French language counterpart of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., with headquarters in Montreal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mottmac.com/en-US/careers/water", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:14Z", "digest": "sha1:T2QO5W2CJZGACD67JFLLVUUX6WV44CRN", "length": 1776, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mottmac.com", "title": "Water - Mott MacDonald", "raw_content": "Home / Career Sectors / Water\nMott MacDonald\u2019s water business works with governments, funding agencies and water utilities to deliver sustainable water solutions around the world.\nThe best part of my job as an experienced professional is facing new challenges and finding solutions on a vast range of exciting projects where you can really make a difference.\n(Civil 3D team leader)\nWe offer our clients a unique level of quality in our solutions and services, adding value to customers\u2019 businesses and protecting them against risk, while promoting long-term sustainability.\n\u200bWith more than 80 years\u2019 experience in over 120 countries, our water business covers every aspect of water management and the water cycle. Our services cover a range of different disciplines, such as civil engineering, structural engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, BIM, asset management planning, investment appraisal and strategic water resource management.\nOur people have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge, award-winning and world-changing projects, and have access to an extensive range of training opportunities, benefits and career development prospects.\nOur water business in the UK is going from strength to strength. Our design and build joint venture Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) has won AMP6 frameworks with major water utility companies across the country and our consultancy and asset management teams continue to grow as a result of strong demand from both domestic and international clients. As a result we are always eager to hear from talented water engineers and wastewater engineers who may be interested in joining our team.\nUse the grid below to view current opportunities and find out more about our people that work in Water.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mrpest.ca/how-to-get-rid-of-and-kill-bed-bugs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OJMYY3TRXBGA34FOBR3A2KQMIRUCC25N", "length": 2944, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mrpest.ca", "title": "How to Get Rid of and Kill Bed Bugs | Mr Pest Control", "raw_content": "Everyone who has ever dealt with bed bugs knows just how annoying this problem can be. Waking up with itches and sores on a regular basis is just not a way to live life. Bed bugs are very hard to get rid of once they are in your home, but it is something that you can take care of if you know the right way to go about this. The sooner that you take care of your bed bug problem the easier that it will be to eradicate this problem. The longer you let a bed bug problem linger, the harder it will be to get all of the bed bugs out of your house.\nEliminate clutter in your home\nOne main thing that you will need to take into account before you start trying to get rid of the bed bugs in your home is the amount of clutter that is in your home. When you are trying to learn how to kill bed bugs this is something that needs to be taken care of before you go about getting rid of your bed bug problem. With too much clutter bed bugs will be able to hide in the deep and dark places that will be hard to reach. You must do a deep cleaning of your home and get rid of any clutter before you start eliminating your bed bug problem.\nKilling bed bugs takes time\nWhen you are trying to learn how to kill bed bugs you will need to be patient. Completely getting rid of all of the bed bugs in your home can take a few weeks or even a few months if you are choosing the do- it-yourself option of pest control. If you are looking for a non-chemical treatment for your bed bugs then you are going to look at the extreme heat option. This is something that is hard to do on you own, but it can be done on smaller items. You can usually get rid of bedbugs on smaller items if you put them in the dryer on high heat. A full drying cycle with have to be used 3 or 4 times to really make sure you are getting all of the bed bugs.\nMake sure to use safe chemicals\nIf you are looking to use a pesticide option to get rid of bed bugs you must make sure the chemicals you are using are safe. Bed bugs must be listed on the label of the pest control chemical that you are using. You will also want to look for an EPA registered pesticide. This will help you get rid of your bed bugs in a way that is actually safe for everyone living in your home.\nIf you are looking for quick and fast results then you may want to hire a professional pest control company. A professional company has the experience needed in order to help you get rid of your bed bug problem much more quickly than if you were doing it on your own. Mr. Pest is a professional company that prides themselves on their ability to get rid of just about any pest, including bed bugs. This is something that they will be able to help you with quickly and at a cost effective price. If you are looking for a quick and effective way to get rid of bed bugs don\u2019t hesitate to call Mr. Pest at 1-888-794-PEST. \u2013 See more at: https://mrpest.ca/blog/2015/11/how-to-get-rid-of-and-kill-bed-bugs/#sthash.UppLAmRg.dpuf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.msf-me.org/article/global-response-hepatitis-c-hangs-access-new-oral-drugs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:25Z", "digest": "sha1:DXUHQUZKEWCWCHFH4JCSTAC7QL4TA5PP", "length": 5241, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.msf-me.org", "title": "Global response to hepatitis C hangs on access to new oral drugs | MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES - MIDDLE EAST", "raw_content": "PRESS RELEASE: With patent barriers on new oral drugs to treat hepatitis C in developing countries, the high price of new treatment could squander the opportunity governments now have to scale up diagnosis and treatment for the disease\nWith patent barriers on new oral drugs to treat hepatitis C in developing countries, the high price of new treatment could squander the opportunity governments now have to scale up diagnosis and treatment for the disease, international medical humanitarian organisation M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) warned today. The caution comes as MSF welcomed the first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines for hepatitis C virus (HCV).\n\u201cThese guidelines give countries a road map for screening and treating a disease which affects 150 million people worldwide, including some marginalised populations\u201d, said Dr Jennifer Cohn, Medical Director for MSF\u2019s Access Campaign.\n\u201cThe critical aspect now is implementing them, and this hinges on ensuring that access to new drugs and diagnostics is not hampered by patent barriers that undermine low-cost generic supply.\u201d\nCurrent treatment expensive and complex\nCurrent hepatitis C treatment involves using pegylated interferon, which is not only expensive, but is also complex for resource-limited settings and can cause side effects so severe in some people it causes them to stop treatment early and can deter other people from starting.\nThe limitations of current treatment mean countries have been reluctant to address HCV, and have even hindered MSF\u2019s ability to respond to the disease, with only a small number of people on treatment in India.\n\u201cWe welcome the release of these guidelines as they provide guidance on how to start treatment in resource-limited settings but, equally as important, is the registration of new oral drugs in middle-income countries like India \u201d, said Dr Simon Janes, Medical Coordinator of MSF in India.\n\u201cWithout access to the newer treatments that are coming out of the pipeline, our ability to implement effective treatment programs will be hampered.\u201d\nNew oral drugs sofosbuvir and simeprevir, known as direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), have emerged on the market within the last six months, with regulators approving sofosbuvir in late 2013. These new drugs and those still in development have the potential to revolutionise treatment, with studies showing cure rates higher than 90 percent for people with some genotypes of the disease.\nThe new guidelines strongly recommend treatment using sofosbuvir for four of the six genotypes of the disease in regimens that either eliminate or reduce the need for pegylated interferon, depending on the genotype.\n$1,000 per pill\nBut the price of the DAAs is prohibitive. Sofosbuvir has been released in the US with a price tag of US$84,000 for 12 weeks\u2019 treatment, which equates to $1,000 per pill. Simeprevir costs around $45,000 for 12 weeks\u2019 treatment in Russia and sofosbuvir could be priced as much as $5,000 in Thailand.\nAt these prices, access in middle-income countries \u2013 where 75 percent of the world\u2019s poor actually live \u2013 is likely to be extremely limited.\n\u201cThe price Gilead says it will charge for sofosbuvir in developing countries is still far too high for people to afford\u201d, said Rohit Malpani, Director of Policy and Advocacy for MSF\u2019s Access Campaign. \u201cWhen you\u2019re starting from such an exorbitant price in the US, the price Gilead will offer middle-income countries like Thailand and Indonesia may seem like a good discount, but it will still be too expensive for many of these countries to scale up treatment.\u201d\nDAAs can however be produced generically in India and marketed at very affordable prices, just like antiretrovirals (ARVs) used in the treatment of HIV. A study by researchers at Liverpool University however has found that a 12-week course of sofosbuvir could cost as low as $68-$136.\nIt\u2019s possible that diagnosis and treatment together could cost as little as $500. Gold-standard diagnosis and first-line treatment for HIV today costs under $200 per person per year; just over a decade ago, HIV treatment alone cost as much as $10,000 per person per year.\nRamping up funding\n\u201cBringing the price down will be critical to scaling up treatment, so if the cost of drugs are unaffordable, countries should use all the legal means available to ensure affordable access\u201d, said Leena Menghaney, India Manager for MSF\u2019s Access Campaign.\n\u201cAlready, civil society groups have filed patent oppositions in India to ensure affordability and generic production; with 12 million people estimated to be infected with chronic hepatitis C in India, there\u2019s a lot at stake.\u201d\nAt the same time, funding for HCV treatment must be ramped up both on a national and on a global level, as countries face an epidemic on a scale far larger than HIV.\n\"The guidelines give countries a clear signal to begin scaling up HCV diagnosis and treatment; now we need them to commit to quickly do so. But we need the money from domestic and international funders to back it up\u201d, said Dr Cohn.\n\u201cThe Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has made some grants to treat hepatitis C, but this trend needs to continue, and other donors like PEPFAR must contribute.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 7168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mtshastanews.com/x718269430/Will-Pfeifer-The-Spirit-is-so-weird-it-s-almost-worth-watching", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ZA6BW52RFFZRXNIWYYJALCIODRCTRIDC", "length": 3362, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mtshastanews.com", "title": "Will Pfeifer: 'The Spirit' is so weird, it\u2019s almost worth watching - News - Mount Shasta Herald - Mount Shasta, CA - Mount Shasta, CA", "raw_content": "Will Pfeifer: 'The Spirit' is so weird, it\u2019s almost worth watching\nIf I had paid to see \u201cThe Spirit\u201d in a theater, I would\u2019ve been appalled. Having paid slightly less to rent the DVD, I\u2019m merely annoyed. But if I had stumbled across it in the middle of the night on some off-the-charts cable channel, I might \u2014 just might \u2014 have been amazed.\nIf I had paid to see \u201cThe Spirit\u201d in a theater, I would\u2019ve been appalled. Having paid slightly less to rent the DVD, I\u2019m merely annoyed.\nBut if I had stumbled across it in the middle of the night on some off-the-charts cable channel, I might \u2014 just might \u2014 have been amazed.\nAs bad as it is, \u201cThe Spirit\u201d is fascinating. It\u2019s the sort of deeply strange, deeply personal work that you expect to see scrawled on a wall or photocopied and handed out on a street corner.\nSure, \u201cThe Spirit\u201d looks like a multimillion-dollar movie based on a 1940s comic book hero, but it\u2019s really a cinematic canvas on which writer/director Frank Miller has spray painted all his offbeat obsessions.\nMiller landed the \u201cSpirit\u201d gig because \u201c300\u201d and \u201cSin City,\u201d both based on his comic books, were hits. For his solo directing debut, Miller claimed to be bringing cartoonist Will Eisner\u2019s 1940s hero to the big screen. What he really did was deliver 103 minutes of corny narration, computer-generated cityscapes, and a plot that alternates between twisting itself in knots and barely existing at all. It doesn\u2019t work as a movie, but I\u2019ll say this: It\u2019s never boring.\nThe story (not that it matters) involves the Spirit (Gabriel Macht) competing with his arch enemy, The Octopus (Samuel L. Jackson) to find a vase containing the blood of Hercules, which will make them immortal, or invulnerable, or something. What does matter \u2014 to Miller at least \u2014 is packing the screen with femmes fatale. Everywhere the Spirit turns there\u2019s a babe trying to seduce him, from childhood sweetheart Sand Saref (Eva Mendes) to long-suffering doctor Ellen Dolan (Sarah Paulson) to dancer/killer Plaster of Paris (Paz Vega). The only female not trying to get under his mask is Scarlett Johansson, and that\u2019s because she\u2019s too busy wearing ridiculous costumes and delivering bad dialogue with Jackson.\nJackson doesn\u2019t act well in this movie, but he does act energetically, and whenever he\u2019s on-screen, \u201cThe Spirit\u201d approaches goofy nirvana. The film begins with a fight scene between them that involves a toilet, and it ends with Jackson blasting away with a larger and larger arsenal of guns. In between there are scenes where Jackson dresses as a Nazi, obsesses over eggs and creates a foot with a human head attached. (I\u2019m not making this up.)\nI can\u2019t, in good conscience, recommend \u201cThe Spirit.\u201d It\u2019s not a good movie, and you\u2019ll probably hit the stop button on your remote as soon as the stupid \u201cThe city is my lover\u201d voice-over begins. I can\u2019t blame you. I was sorely tempted myself. But if you\u2019re willing to stick with it \u2014 and, ideally, watch it for free \u2014 you might just enjoy yourself.\nSuperhero movies are a dime a dozen, but movies as wildly warped as \u201cThe Spirit\u201d are rare things indeed.\nWill Pfeifer writes about DVDs. Contact him at wpfeifer@rrstar.com or 815-987-1244. Read his blog at blogs.e-rockford.com/movieman/. See video reviews at rrstar.com/multimedia.\nBen Folds, \u201cUniversity A Capella!\u201d\nNOFX, \u201cCoaster\u201d\nSources: dvdtalk.com, tophitsonline", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mukilteodentists.com/chelsea-dental-assistant", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:34Z", "digest": "sha1:HCTHV42POAE6VLXVF6PKR76UQK445ALT", "length": 410, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mukilteodentists.com", "title": "Matthew Huang | CHELSEA-DENTAL ASSISTANT in Mukilteo", "raw_content": "Chelsea, a Registered Dental Assistant, is the newest addition to Lighthouse Family Dental. As an assistant, Chelsea's goal is to make every patient feel comfortable and special during their visit. Naturally, as a native of western Washington, Chelsea enjoys spending time outdoors, fishing, and horseback riding. On rare, sunny weekends, she especially enjoys taking trips with her fiance on their motorcycle!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mulhollandbooks.com/dear-every-breath/dear-marco-antonio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:29Z", "digest": "sha1:M4H7PDHJYCOJDLZVOGD6YZBXAQ3J4GPJ", "length": 568, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mulhollandbooks.com", "title": "Dear Marco Antonio, | Mulholland Books", "raw_content": "Dear Marco Antonio,\nI forgive you. Even though the relationship wasn\u2019t perfect at the beginning, the last two and a half years were the best years of my life. I have some very bad memories, but I chose to stay with the good ones because at the time, you were everything I\u2019d ever prayed for. Tomorrow will be five months since we last talked, and guess what? I\u2019ve survived! I\u2019m in a journey of self-love and I\u2019m happier than ever. I still think about you and miss you from time to time but it gets better every day. Thank you for the great memories we created together!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 150.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mulhollandbooks.com/dear-every-breath/will-we-ever-come-back-to-each-other/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:38Z", "digest": "sha1:NBQL6ZLMY7FGQN6ZI3GDS63I27W73OVE", "length": 627, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mulhollandbooks.com", "title": "Will we ever come back to each other? | Mulholland Books", "raw_content": "Will we ever come back to each other?\nWe didn\u2019t know each other for long and I don\u2019t think we even found \u201clove\u201d together but my heart still thinks and feels for you. People say time doesn\u2019t make a relationship and now I truly believe that. We aren\u2019t together but you\u2019re still one of my best friends. I always think of you and my heart still beats faster when I\u2019m with you. I have to believe that God and time know what they were and are doing to have us separated. It hurts not being with you but I truly hope you are happy in everything you do and can\u2019t wait to see what the future holds. Will we ever come back to each other?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 222.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mundysheatingandair.com/air-conditioning/?s=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4OOXLTLLH2EEBZRVAHL56VTQALRVFGGC", "length": 6440, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.mundysheatingandair.com", "title": "Air Conditioning & Cooling Services | Mundy's Heating and Air: GA, NC, TN", "raw_content": "Air Conditioning & Cooling \u2013 Beat the Heat and Lower Energy Expense\nDoes the Spring and Summer months have your heat rising yet?\nIf so, the right air conditioning and cooling system might cool you down and bring a smile to your face. I don\u2019t know about you, but we love all the seasons at Mundy\u2019s Heating and Air. The Spring and Summer months seem to bring about some of the most beautiful memories due to the amount of days we have sunshine and the fact that some go to the beach on vacation to enjoy the sun and water with their families. Along with the beautiful blue sky and sunshine comes heat and long hot days which causes us to sweat in more ways than one.\nI don\u2019t know about you, but I begin sweating and my temperature just keeps rising when I think of my energy bills as I like my home to be cool on the inside after a long day working outside in the heat, driving in the hot car or working in a warm office. I just like the opportunity to go home, kick back and enjoy a few minutes of cool down time in the luxury of my home. Sounds good doesn\u2019t it, but it comes with a price. Wait! I have found some ways to reduce cost while increasing my cooling and heating efficiency. At Mundy\u2019s Heating and Air, we are always seeking ways to help improve year-round energy efficiency by lowering cost while improving comfort of temperature within the home. We have provided a few cooling pointers for you to think about which could enhance the quality of your cooling experience, increase the longevity of your HVAC system, reduce your monthly energy bill and provide you some piece of mind and comfort. Enjoy and give us a call when you need a free quote on a new air conditioning unit as we serve the Tri-State area (Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee).\nYes, Air Conditioner Size Does Matter and Why\nAir conditioning is more than cooling air temperature relating to your immediate surroundings. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I think of this first as well as I dislike sweating, but it is important to think about something even more important like removing moisture to keep your house from growing mold which increases health issues.\nYes, air conditioning units dehumidify the air inside your house to help control mold and promote a healthy living environment with the proper air filters.\nSome other important points to keep in mind when sizing a new air conditioning (AC) unit is the functions of the unit. For example, if the AC unit is too small, the unit will run longer, because it works harder to keep the larger living area cooled. This increases cost and will decrease comfort over time. On the other hand, bigger is not necessarily better as the AC unit will turn on and off more frequently causing a situation called \u201cshort cycling\u201d which can shorten the lifespan of the compressor. When the compressor quits operating correctly and the unit does not cycle long enough, it may not remove moisture properly which causes other home comfort issues.\nSteps to Sizing Your New AC Unit\nTo enhance the proper quality of air, maintain cooling levels to meet your expectations and reduce costs to promote energy efficiency, it is important to size your new air condition unit properly. A trained technician can work with you to meet your needs.\nFirst, you need to understand that cooling power is measured in BTUs (British Thermal Units). Air conditioning size is determined by the square footage of the area you want to cool. This is true whether you are deciding on a central air conditioning system or a window unit. The following question will remain the same: How much power is required to cool and dehumidify a given room or living space? You can answer this question by making a rough estimate of the space by calculating the square footage of your area you are wanting to cool (home or room).\nCalculate your living space\nBasically, to calculate the total square area of the living space or the space you want to cool, add together the area measurements for all the rooms and spaces on each floor, use the following formulas:\nIf you don\u2019t feel comfortable calculating, need a visual, have your total square area calculated or want a little more information, please use the chart, provided by the federal EnergyStar program, and website as a reference to determine your sizing. You may already know that the load size of an air conditioning systems is measured in tons, where 12,000 BTUs = 1 ton. For example, if you calculated the square footage of the living area you wanted to cool to be 1,400 to 1,500 square feet, then you would need a 24,000 BTU capacity unit based on the chart provided by EnergyStar. If you do the calculations 24,000 BTUs/12,000 BTUs = 2 ton unit, then you would be looking for a 2-ton AC unit. If you are not sure in your calculations, please feel free to contact our office and work with one of our trained professionals, and we will be glad to offer you a free quote and recommend the best cooling solution for your living space.\nThis calculation is only a starting point as there are other variables to take into consideration. One among the mentioned factors is the R-rating of the insulation in your home. If you have a poorly insulated 1400 to 1500 square-foot space, you will require more cooling power than a tightly sealed space of the same area. Another important factor to consider is the direction in which your home faces or the space in which you are trying to cool. For example, south or north facing parts of your home may require more attention. There are a few other factors to consider when you are sizing your AC unit, but this should help for now. Mundy\u2019s Heating and Air is just a phone call or click away, so reach out to us if you need help with your new or used cooling or heating system.\nIn closing, installing a new HVAC (heating and air conditioning system) this year might be the cool choice in making your home more energy efficient, seasonally comfortable and enhanced technically. Remember, an improperly sized unit will cost you more in the long run. Be sure to consult local and state laws that might require you to install units with a minimum Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio (SEER) rating. Also, some local or state governments may offer tax incentives for more efficient models of heating or cooling systems. A certified technician will be happy to visit, evaluate and recommend the best and most efficient air conditioning system for your home, make an appointment today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 7974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.musicmusingsandsuch.com/musicmusingsandsuch/2019/1/20/feature-stayin-alive-when-the-saturday-night-fever-soundtrack-ruled-the-charts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JQD3PJOB3IZLVNUNBHS5GQHOSJSDX67E", "length": 11963, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.musicmusingsandsuch.com", "title": "FEATURE: Stayin\u2019 Alive: When the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack Ruled the Charts \u2014 Music Musings & Such", "raw_content": "When the Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack Ruled the Charts\nTOMORROW is a bit of a big anniversary...\nIN THIS PHOTO: John Travolta (Anthony \u2018Tony\u2019 Manero) in a still from Saturday Night Fever (1977)/PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images\nbecause it remembers the start of an incredible chart run! The soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever started a twenty-four week spell at the top of the U.S. album charts - and would go on to sell over thirty millions copies! Those sales figures would make it the top-selling soundtrack ever and it is amazing to think how ageless it sounds. Many might argue the fact it is Disco-heavy and belongs to the 1970s means it holds no relevance today. I feel Disco has never really died and many artists today incorporate Disco elements into their music. It was inevitable Disco would be phased out and replaced by movements like Punk but I have never subscribed to the notion that it was a cheesy and rather ridiculous style of music. You do not really need to know much about the John Travolta-starring film to fall for the soundtrack and the incredible music throughout. The film was released in December of 1977 and the soundtrack came out the following month. The fact the soundtrack is over forty years old is shocking to me. I love the music throughout and feel, at a time when albums are maybe less important to some people, we went nuts for Saturday Night Fever! John Badham directed the film and it sees a working-class man, Tony Manero (John Travolta), spend his free time dancing at a Brooklyn disco.\nKaren Lynn Gorney played Stephanie Mangano, his dance partner, and they would (in the film) fall in love. It centres on the club/disco and the amazing arc of the lead. Manero\u2019s friends and allies support him as he has to cope with a dead-end job and his unsupportive parents; racial tensions in the community and a general feeling of restlessness (the story is based upon a 1976 New York Magazine article by British writer Nik Cohn, Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night). If we\u2019re talking about classic Travolta films of the 1970s then I\u2019d plump for Grease (1978). It was clear that 1977-1978 period was lucrative and stunning for Travolta. He was able to shine in these two roles but, to many, Saturday Night Fever is a bit coarse, lewd and controversial. Its sexual content and free will regarding bad language did cause some controversy but the central story and the fantastic soundtrack won hearts around the world. The film became a big success and continues to win new fans but I feel its soundtrack is even stronger! It is said the producers, when thinking of the music, wanted to use Boz Scaggs\u2019 Lowdown in the scene where we see Manero and Mangano rehearse in the dance studio. The label, Columbia Records, did not give permission to use the song and it fell to composer David Shire to fill in the gaps and come to the rescue. Many people have their favourite scenes from Saturday Night Fever but I cannot help think of the film and those iconic soundtrack songs.\nThe Bee Gees did not get involved until post-production and, when you see various scenes, other songs were played whilst filming. Producer Robert Stigwood approached the Bee Gees to write music for the soundtrack and the band was a bit wary. They were recording in France on a new album and were told about this new film that needed music. There is debate regarding Saturday Night Fever\u2019s completeness and when the Bee Gees came in. It is evident the film was underway before they were contacted and the brothers wrote the songs practically in a single weekend. When they presented songs like More Than a Woman and If I Can\u2019t Have You, the producers liked the songs but wanted something more Disco-heavy and upbeat. The Gibb brothers set to write a song called Saturday but, knowing there were a lot of songs with that title, changed it to Stayin\u2019 Alive. If the music came after the film started to roll, it is hard to think of Saturday Night Fever and have all the classics dancing in the head! The impact of the soundtrack was immediate in the U.S. The Bee Gees were not aware that songs such as Night Fever and How Deep Is Your Love would appear on the soundtrack as they thought they were just recording a regular Bee Gees record! There are some other previously released Disco songs on the record but it the Bee Gees\u2019 cuts that stand out hardest.\nIN THIS PHOTO: The Bee Gees/PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images\nIt was no surprise to see the soundtrack win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978 and was the first Disco record to win that award! Because it sounds so much like a Bee Gees album \u2013 and there are not vocal snippets throughout like a soundtrack \u2013 it has gained huge acceptance and acclaim and is ranked alongside \u2018traditional\u2019 studio albums by critics. The soundtrack for Saturday Night Fever is often viewed as one of the finest albums ever and helped keep Disco alive \u2013 it gave it a new lease and introduced the genre/movement to a new generation. When reviewing the soundtrack retrospectively, AllMusic had this to say:\n\u201cEvery so often, a piece of music comes along that defines a moment in popular culture history: Johann Strauss' operetta Die Fledermaus did this in Vienna in the 1870s; Jerome Kern's Show Boat did it for Broadway musicals of the 1920s, and the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album served this purpose for the era of psychedelic music in the 1960s. Saturday Night Fever, although hardly as prodigious an artistic achievement as those precursors, was precisely that kind of musical phenomenon for the second half of the '70s. Ironically, before its release, the disco boom had seemingly run its course, primarily in Europe, and was confined mostly to black culture and the gay underground in America. Saturday Night Fever, as a movie and an album, plus a brace of hit singles off of it, suddenly made disco explode into mainstream, working- and middle-class America with a new immediacy and urgency, increasing its audience ten-fold overnight\u201d.\nThey share my views regarding the breakdown of songs and the fact that, in essence, it is a Bee Gees record:\n\u201cDespite the presence of other artists, Saturday Night Fever is virtually indispensable as a Bee Gees album, not just for the presence of an array of songs that were hits in their own right -- and which became the de facto soundtrack to a half-decade of pop culture history -- but because it offered the Gibb Brothers as composers as well as artists, with their work recorded by Yvonne Elliman (\"If I Can't Have You\"), and Tavares (\"More Than a Woman\"), and it placed their music alongside the work of Kool & the Gang and MFSB. In essence, the layout of the soundtrack was the culmination of everything they'd been moving toward since the Mr. Natural album. Even the presence of David Shire's \"Night on Disco Mountain\" and \"Salsation,\" and Walter Murphy's \"A Fifth of Beethoven,\" don't hurt, because these set a mood and a surrounding ambience for the Bee Gees' material that makes it work even better\u201d.\nPitchfork, in 2012 \u2013 spoke about the album\u2019s highlights but also cautioned listeners that it is not an album that perfectly documents Disco \u2013 more an accompaniment and something that has a few gaps:\n\u201cWith its snaking instrumental melody and sneaking beat, opener \"Stayin' Alive\" is all cocksure strut, even separated from Travolta's stroll through the credits, and \"Night Fever\" and \"You Should Be Dancin'\" have an urgency that makes dancin' seem like a life-or-death imperative. Their portion of the soundtrack forms a condensed hits package that few bands of the era can rival...\nUltimately, Saturday Night Fever doesn't disregard disco's underground origins so much as it simply sublimates them to the mainstream white experience. As a soundtrack, it works perfectly well, immersing listeners in the music (and therefore the spirit) of the film while selling more tickets. But as a pop-cultural document, it is significantly flawed, not only linked to a midlevel movie but also unable to fully capture the movement with which it has been so strongly identified. Thirty years later, after the ugly DISCO SUCKS trend and countless revivals both sincere and ironic, the appeal of Saturday Night Fever seems squarely nostalgic, but whatever its impact then or now, there is some amazing music on here-- and even more beyond\u201d.\nIf you do not see Saturday Night Fever\u2019s incredible soundtrack as the ultimate Disco compilation then you will be fine. Sure, there are compilations out there that are more authoritative, authentic and diverse but the beauty of this world-straddling soundtrack is not whether it defined Disco and made it immortal: the wonderful songs and the way it connected with people is what we need to remember. The songs throughout the album are tremendous. I am a big fan of Stayin\u2019 Alive and think it is one of the best Disco songs ever. I also have a lot of time for the slower numbers such as If I Can\u2019t Have You and it goes to show Disco was not just about boogie and big flares \u2013 there was sensitivity and maturity to be found.\nMaybe the stellar soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever was not strong enough to save Disco and keep it burning but I think it a great introduction to those new to the genre. It is accessible and fronted by a band most of us know. The songs are all instant and fantastic and some of the lesser-known cuts \u2013 such as Kool & the Gang performing Open Sesame \u2013 are well worth listening to. I am not surprised the soundtrack stayed high in the U.S. charts for weeks and weeks because it is so catchy and it pays tribute to the legendary Disco scene. For those who attacked Disco and felt it was a bad time need to get their ears around the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and ask whether anything like this exists today. Maybe there are some artists who take bits of the music and make it their own but there is a big hole in the industry that is crying out for Disco. Maybe we do not need to see a return of the big hair, huge shows and some of the tensions of that time but the essence, the fun and infectiousness, needs to make a return. I realise Saturday Night Fever did highlight issues such as racism and it gained a lot of negative press due to its language, sex and violence but one cannot deny the soundtrack is a magnificent thing that has remained dear since 1978. I hear people talking about it today and that amazes me. Many classic albums are not talked about over four decades since their release so it makes Saturday Night Fever\u2019s soundtrack all the more extraordinary!\nI will end things in a bit but I have been thinking about other classic film soundtracks \u2013 including those from Grease, Pulp Fiction and Purple Rain \u2013 and wonder whether any have taken on a life of their own the same way Saturday Night Fever\u2019s (soundtrack) did. Even though it is forty-one-year-old, I can play the tracks on there and they do not necessarily seem rooted to a distinct and rigid time and place. You do not need to be a Disco expert to understand what is going down and, in many ways, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack will compel listeners to investigate Disco deeper and get involved with many of the definitive and essential compilations. Saturday Night Fever\u2019s soundtrack has been added to the National Recording Registry in the Library of Congress for being culturally significant. Disco would die out from 1979 so, in many ways, this year marks forty years since its demise. Thanks to the Bee Gees, a year before its execration, Disco was provided this fine and legendary soundtrack that accompanied a pretty remarkable film. I play the soundtrack if I need a boost and cannot help but jive and jig to its infectious grooves, arms-aloft giddiness and the sheer vitality of the music! If you want to mark forty-one years since the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack began its rule in the U.S. charts then put it on, put the headphones on and get lost...\nIN a simply wonderful album.\nINTERVIEW: Natalie Shay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 12728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mvma.org/legislative-update", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:A4FJAW5JHKFQKRJXA4JU26DIAQHAL3GC", "length": 4186, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.mvma.org", "title": "Legislative Update", "raw_content": "Legislative Update - July/August 2017\nby Thomas Hagerty, DVM\nThe 2017 session of the Minnesota legislature is over and Veterinary Medicine has again fared very well. The rural veterinary loan forgiveness program was funded extremely well. This request was included in the Higher Education budget bill. It includes $375,000 per year in 2018 and 2019. This is included in the base budget which means that it will be funded at $375,000 every year in the future unless there is action sometime to cut it. Previous efforts to fund the program led to $ 225,000 in 2009 and $250,000 in 2013. These were one year appropriations only. This was successful because the MVMA and others have been requesting funding every year at the legislature. Special appreciation is due Dean Ames, Dr. Laura Molgaard and others and a group of veterinary students who testified before committees in the House and Senate and visited legislators in their offices during the Veterinary Day at the Capitol. The MVMA worked closely with Dr. Ames and the College of Veterinary Medicine and with animal industry representatives to accomplish this endeavor. Our lobbyists, Cullen Sheehan and Cory Bennett were actively involved in seeing this request to fruition.\nThe Rural Veterinary Loan Forgiveness Program is administered by the Minnesota Office of Rural Health in the MN Department of Health which administers other health related loan forgiveness programs as well. If you would like more information please contact Brenda Flattum, Program Administrator ([email protected]). The criteria is set for which counties qualify for this program. It is available for final year veterinary students or licensed veterinarians who have graduated no more than 3 years ago from the University of Minnesota. A qualifying veterinarian must agree to serve 5 years in a designated rural area and be involved at least 50% in the care of food animals. The veterinarian receives $15,000 per year on his or her loan for 5 years or $75,000 total. The additional funding received for this program will allow for five veterinarian applicants to receive funding in 2018.\nThe USDA s Veterinary Medicine loan repayment program is intended for veterinary shortage areas throughout the country and has its own criteria for qualification. It pays up to $25,000 per year on the loan up to three years again for a total of $75,000.\nThe Board of Animal Health budget, contained in the Agriculture Policy and Finance Bill, was fully funded on their request for the biennium. The College of Veterinary Medicine and the VDL received base funding under the approved University of Minnesota budget in the Higher Education Bill. As this session ends we begin preparations for the 2018 session which will begin on January 20th, 2018.\nA number of bills were introduced this past legislative session that pertained to veterinary medicine as reported in an earlier Capitol Report. These bills did not make it out of the legislative committee deadline processes in the House and Senate. These bills, however, because they were introduced in the first year of the biennium will be available for review and action in the 2018 legislative session.\nThe MVMA s Legislative affairs committee will meet on November 16, 2017 and in February of 2018 to prepare and implement the legislative agenda for the 2018 Legislative Session. Bills that were introduced but not acted upon in the 2017 session will be reviewed again at these two meetings. The committee will also look at any new legislative proposals that are expected in 2018.\nRemember that your contribution to VET PAC helps us to access legislators that are important to us in getting our message out and receiving hearings in appropriate committees. We also encourage MVMA members to contact the MVMA office if they would like to have us arrange a legislator clinic or office visit set up for you.\nArchived Capitol Report:\n2017 May/June Capitol Report\n2017 March/April Capitol Report\n2017 January/February Capitol Report\n2016 November December Capitol Report\n2016 September/ October Capitol Report\n2016 July/August Capitol Report\nTo find Your MN Legislative District, Senators and Representatives click below", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 7901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mwi.com/en-cn/blog/step-aside-mommy-bloggers-heres-nanahood/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:53Z", "digest": "sha1:6CUHBK2B33RLF2FC7KVEKZOFOTTXG4MY", "length": 3625, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mwi.com", "title": "Nanahood Web Design Case Study | MWI", "raw_content": "We\u2019re proud to announce the launch of the newly redesign Nanahood, a \u201cgrandma\u201d blog focused on everything related to being a grandma. Teresa Kindred is the grandma behind Nanahood, but in addition to being a blogger and a grandma she\u2019s also an author. Setting up blogs of this nature isn\u2019t the kind of work we normally do here at MWI, but Teresa won us over and we decided to make an exception. One of Teresa\u2019s favorite blogs is The Pioneer Woman and we took some inspiration from it\u2019s Pinterest-like layout in the lower area of its homepage. But getting the design right for Teresa\u2019s website didn\u2019t happen overnight. Here\u2019s a look into the process.\nWhen Teresa approached us we asked her for some of her favorite websites, which is always one of the first questions we ask a client interested in a site redesign. It\u2019s not that we ever copy websites, but we want to know what the client is looking for in terms of web design, content, messaging, and layout. We can learn a lot from looking at the sites a client likes. We also would have done some research on the \u201cgrandma blogging industry\u201d but unlike with mommy blogs, there\u2019s aren\u2019t many grandma blogs to speak of. So we jumped in and got to work creating designs. Our primary criteria were that the site had to work as a responsive design, it had to appeal to the target audience, and mostly, Teresa had to love it. Here\u2019s what the first design looked like.\nTeresa seemed to like this one\u2026sort of. But she wanted to see something else, so we came up with a slightly modified version. Here\u2019s v2.\nBut this still wasn\u2019t hitting the spot, so we did another, this time changing up the color scheme to something a bit brighter.\nBut we still weren\u2019t getting it right. Teresa wasn\u2019t thrilled, and neither was I. I thought this design was good, but that we could do something a lot better. So we went out on a limb and I asked our design to come up with something completely different in terms of color and style. How different? Well, how about channeling a little Dolce & Gabbana?\nThat turned out to not be the right direction. But that didn\u2019t stop us from trying a second time.\nBut no, this definitely was not what Teresa wanted, and we knew it before we ever showed it to her. At this point we decided to try something completely different yet again, and we came up with this design.\nThis seemed to be getting closer to the goal, but it was still not as refined as we wanted it to be. So yet again, we tried something a bit different. Now, when I say \u201cdifferent\u201d you\u2019ll notice I\u2019m talking primarily about colors and design. We had nailed it when it came to the basic layout of the site, which did make subsequent designs a bit easier to manage since now it was just a matter of colors, fonts, and other design flourishes. On the 7th attempt, it finally all came together.\nThis time Teresa loved it, and we were pretty pleased with it as well. We sent it to code, integrated it with WordPress, transferred over all Teresa\u2019s posts from her old site to this new one, and now it\u2019s live. We\u2019ve used several plugins to get the site right, including MailChimp for email list management, Yoast for SEO, and a host of others. Now begins the truly fun part of optimizing the blog and coaching Teresa on how to make the most of her new platform. Speaking of platforms, the first reading assignment I gave Teresa was to read the book Platform by Michael Hyatt. If you\u2019re a blogger, knowledge expert, or anyone trying to promote anything, this book is a must-read.\nAre you interested in having us re-design your website? Learn more about our web design services here, or request a proposal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 5596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mydunbarhome.com/r2339236-3030-w-45th-avenue", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:40Z", "digest": "sha1:22ZRGYSDDTJBEYYJUHUSQBVT4OJL4FGR", "length": 662, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mydunbarhome.com", "title": "3030 W 45th Avenue, Vancouver - 3 beds, 4 baths - For Sale", "raw_content": "Stunning example of West Coast modern architecture. Designed by Fred Dalla-Lana for the Zack family this home won architectural awards and editorial recognition during the 1970\u2019s. Built in 1973 and re-built in 2018, this home is simply one of a kind. Complete privacy with indoor/outdoor living overlooking a large courtyard garden. Natural light is maximized through the extensive use of skylights and floor to ceiling windows. Spectacular roof deck with outdoor kitchen and views of the Gulf Islands. No expense was spared to restore this masterpiece to its former glory. 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But he starts off on the wrong foot with the Canadian Ranger guiding him across the forbidding and dangerous land, and Jack would rather be anywhere than sharing a tent with Sergeant Kin Carsen.\nThe Arctic is in Kin's blood, and he can't seem to leave the tundra behind. He wishes he could live openly as a gay man, but the North isn't as accepting as the rest of Canada. Although he's lonely, he loves his responsibility as a Ranger, patrolling the vast land he knows so well. But he's on unfamiliar ground with Jack, and when they're stranded alone by a blizzard, unexpected desire begins to burn. Soon they're in a struggle to survive, and all these strangers have is each other.\nThe Arctic is endless ice and northern lights. It\u2019s intense cold and bone-deep loneliness. Kin Carsen knows. The Arctic is his home. Kin is a teacher and a ranger. His life is peaceful and predictable. Until the day he meets Jack.\nJack left a piece of himself behind in Afghanistan. He\u2019s drifting, going through the motions, but he\u2019s not living, not really. Sent to the Arctic on a discovery mission, Jack thinks the whole thing is pointless. But his commander insists. He knows Jack needs . . . something, something other than a desk job.\nFor Kin and Jack, it\u2019s not love at first sight. Jack comes across as arrogant and dismissive. And Kin is defensive and standoffish. He knows this land better than anyone, and Jack has much to learn.\nThis story has a light enemies-to-lovers feel. There is a sense of anticipation, a slow burn. The men spend but a few days together, yet it feels like so much longer.\nBecause this is a Keira Andrews original, the story is beautifully written and there is a definite sense of place. Time seems to stand still as Kin and Jack get to know each other. There are heated kisses in the middle of a frozen land. There\u2019s danger. And TRUST.\nThis story is fairly light on the sexy but high on the feels. Both men have lost someone close to them, and both play the what-if blame game.\nThe ending is a hopeful HFN. There is a sense of purpose, but Arctic Fire could easily be the first in a series. Much is less unresolved.\nI would gladly read more about Jack and Kin.\nLabels: 4 stars, ARC, contemporary, HFN, M/M, military men, multicultural, novella, romance, slow burn, sweetness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 21974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myfictionnook.com/2017/03/arc-review-ashwin-gideons-riders-1-by.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:16Z", "digest": "sha1:W3YY5U4RLZEZVPSR3MR76SLXBTTCKW2K", "length": 3976, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.myfictionnook.com", "title": "My Fiction Nook: ARC Review: Ashwin (Gideon\u2019s Riders, #1) by Kit Rocha", "raw_content": "ARC Review: Ashwin (Gideon\u2019s Riders, #1) by Kit Rocha\nThe first book in the follow-up to Kit Rocha's bestselling BEYOND series...\nAshwin was a decent start to Kit Rocha's new Gideon's Riders. If you haven't read any of their Beyond series, that is ok, you can start here. Gideon's Riders, while being a spin-off of the Beyond series, is self contained enough that you shouldn't feel lost. The Gideon's Riders series begins several months after the end of the Beyond series ended.\nSector One has a very different feel than Sector Four did. It has a cleaner feel, actually. Less industrial. In Sector One, the focus is on the religion that the Rios family founded. It does have some cultish aspects, but I was never creeped out by the 'cult' factor. Gideon Rios, the current leader of Sector One and head of the family, actually cares for his people and makes sure they are cared for and aid is always offered the other sectors that need it after the war, with no religious strings attached. Also, unlike Sector Four, sex isn't an outright focus. The people do enjoy a healthy liberation and their religion is not anti-sex at all. We just don't see the orgies that are common among the O'Kanes in Sector four. At least there weren't any in Ashwin.\nAshwin Malhotra is a Makhai soldier -- the most elite of the elite super soldiers that Eden created to do their bidding. Makhai soldiers have been manipulated and tortured to make them emotionless, cold-blooded killers. Every now and again, though, A Makhai will fixate on something or someone and that is a danger to everyone, so they undergo a reprogramming. It's a brutal process. For Ashwin, the object of his fixation is Dr. Kora Bellamy.\nKora has spent her life either training to be a doctor or being a doctor. And unlike pretty much every other doctor on Base in Eden, Kora never saw the Makhai as monsters. They are still human and she refused to treat them as anything less. Kora and Ashwin have a history, and since the end of the war, several months ago, Kora had assumed Ashwin to be dead. And she mourned. But Ashwin isn't dead, and encountering Kora again proves that even the harshest of conditioning is useless again some attractions.\nI enjoyed reading Ashwin, though I did have some trouble connecting with Ashwin on an emotional level. Of course Ashwin had a hard time connecting to his own emotions, so... He seemed at first to be going through the motions he felt that other humans would, trying to be more like them. It was kind of like he was wearing an Edgar Ashwin suit. And I think it is absolutely true that's how he started. Ashwin wasn't like \"normal\" humans in any capacity. He takes being analytical to an extreme and tries to work out every possible outcome for a situation, in his head, before doing anything, and that sets him apart. So it took Ashwin a great deal of the book to become accustomed to letting himself feel and to figure out what to do with those feelings.\nKora greatly humanizes Ashwin because she sees him -- really sees him. She knows, from working with the Makhai soldiers, in general, and Ashwin, specifically, that they do feel emotion. Kora is also more empathic than most people. She is driven to help people and is very good at her profession. And when she is unable to save someone, she takes it hard.\nThere was a lot of world building in Ashwin and if this is your first Kit Rocha book, I think you'll benefit greatly from it. Coming from having read the Beyond series, I found some of it repetitive and I felt like it took me longer than it should have to get through this book, as much as I enjoyed it. But, as I said, if you are new to these authors, I think you will be able to enjoy Ashwin more because of it.\nAll in all, I'd give Ashwin 4 \"I'm a real boy\" stars.\nARC of Ashwin was generously provided by the authors, in exchange for an honest review.\nLabels: 4 stars, ARC, dystopian, family, M/F, moderate amounts of steam & sex, new series, Sci-Fi, self-published", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 24380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mygov.scot/stamp-duty-land-tax-rates/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:02Z", "digest": "sha1:U23CFDRZBF2V672S73WK3VNLNV5TLFY6", "length": 352, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mygov.scot", "title": "Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) - mygov.scot", "raw_content": "You have to pay Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) if you buy a house, flat or other land or building in Scotland over a certain price.\nLBTT replaced Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) for land transactions in Scotland on 1 April 2015.\nIt's administered by Revenue Scotland, which gives information on rates, bands and how to pay.\nVisit Revenue Scotland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 241.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mymotherlode.com/news/local/82417/unemployment-rate-increases.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2U27MIVQKZ2I7TO73HTTQXH4YZZSQPUF", "length": 383, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.mymotherlode.com", "title": "Unemployment Rate Increases | myMotherLode.com", "raw_content": "Unemployment Rate Increases\nSacramento, CA \u2014 The unemployment rate in Tuolumne County edged up to 12.7 percent during the month of July and Calaveras County increased to 14.2 percent.\nIn June the rate was 12.2 percent in Tuolumne and 13.7 in Calaveras. Meanwhile, the state average increased from 11.6 to 11.9 percent from June to July.\nThe new statistics were released by the state.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 3396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 131.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.n3rdabl3.com/2017/08/pubg-vaulting-update/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:31Z", "digest": "sha1:VPY34WC43JYYI37RBMPP6AWDJBRDWW34", "length": 1591, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.n3rdabl3.com", "title": "Here's a Closer Look at Vaulting in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - n3rdabl3", "raw_content": "Home News Gaming News Here\u2019s a Closer Look at Vaulting in PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds\nHere\u2019s a Closer Look at Vaulting in PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds\nBluehole have released another glimpse at the upcoming vaulting mechanic coming to PlayerUnknown\u2019s Battlegrounds (PUBG) in the coming weeks, which could be a game changer.\nAnnounced during E3 earlier this year, the vaulting mechanic has been a long-time coming. Currently, players are limited to either trying to jump over small obstacles, or simply going around, which isn\u2019t much fun when you\u2019re being chased by gun fire or the dreaded blue wall.\nNow, it looks like the ability to vault and mantle over walls is coming ever closer in a new video from the game\u2019s developers. What\u2019s more, it shows something pretty interesting which will be a game changer, especially for the game\u2019s new first-person mode.\nThe video, which you can see below, shows a work-in-progress look at the mechanic, and you\u2019ll notice one thing, players can choose to cancel the mechanic half way through allowing them to peek over higher walls, and in first-person mode, where things can get a little tight, this will be a God-send.\nWe currently have no ETA on when this mechanic will arrive, but we\u2019re all pretty excited to see how this might change things, especially now we\u2019d be able to reach more unreachable places in the game, such as rooftops and on top of crates.\nThe next big update for the game is due at the end of the month.\nPrevious articleMiddle-earth: Shadow of War\u2019s End Game sounds Epic\nNext articleFootball Manager 2018 set for Release November 10", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nanaimo.ca/parks-search/Parks/53-Piper-Park", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RYEJRDL2SI3QSAOYZ3M4SYSD3IMCJKLJ", "length": 1281, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.nanaimo.ca", "title": "Piper Park | City of Nanaimo", "raw_content": "Piper park is the 1.1 acre green knoll above front street and adjacent to Vancouver Island Conference Centree. The Nanaimo Military Museum, first nation's petroglyphs, a miner's cottage and steam engine are currently in Piper Park. Heritage trees on site - Douglas Fir and Arbutus. Landmarks include a locomotive, coal wagon and mining components.\nIn 1923, the Cdn. Western Fuel and Electric Company filled in the parts of the Commercial Inlet with mine refuse and turned the area now occupied by Port Place and Piper Park into the Nanaimo Central Sports Field. Piper Park is the only green space that still remains of the original Central Sports Field.\nThe City of Nanaimo bought the Central Sports Field from the Western Fuel Company for $1.00 in 1948. The fields had grandstand with a capacity for 1500 and were host to baseball, lawn bowling, cricket and rugby.\nThe Piper Park land was dedicated in 1948 and Piper Park opened in 1952. Smaller fields around Piper Park were temporarily leased to the lawn bowling club for $1.00 per year until November 30, 1966. The rest was sold for commercial uses in 1951 and Port Place was built.\nPiper Park was named after former alderman Philip J. Piper who was born in Nanaimo in 1891. Piper was instrumental in the purchase of Beban Park", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 799, "original_length": 18643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nanog.org/governance/elections/2007", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:23Z", "digest": "sha1:M2ISH6UQYYVUNWQPLZ7GUBQI5IVNJPSM", "length": 27091, "nlines": 96, "source_domain": "www.nanog.org", "title": "2007 NANOG Election Ballot | North American Network Operators Group", "raw_content": "From: Joe Abley for the NANOG SC\nElections for three of the six elected positions on the NANOG Steering Committee will be held in October 2007. The currently-serving SC members whose terms are expiring are Joe Abley, Chris Morrow and William B. Norton.\nThe NANOG Steering Committee works closely with Merit to promote, support and improve NANOG. The Steering Committee is responsible for the selection of the Program Committee and the Mailing List Committee, and is the community's instrument for ensuring that NANOG as an organization remains open, relevant and useful. If you care about NANOG as a forum, and think you would like to take a turn at volunteering your time to help make it better, please consider either volunteering yourself or nominating someone else. For more information about the role of the SC, or to find out more about what's involved in being an SC member see the NANOG charter or contact someone who is already serving and ask them directly.\nYou may nominate someone else, or yourself. There is no limit to the number of nominations that may be submitted by a single person. Individual nominees will be contacted directly to confirm that they are willing to accept the nomination, and so that they can supply a biography for the NANOG web page.\nTo submit a nomination, send the nominee's full name and contact details to [email protected].\nTue 2007-08-14 Call for Nominations issued\nTue 2007-09-11 Last day for SC Nominations to be received\nSun 2007-10-14 Voting for the 2007/2008 NANOG SC opens at Noon MDT\nTue 2007-10-16 Voting for the 2007/2008 NANOG SC closes at 1 pm MDT; results announced at the close of the meeting\nThe candidates will be given a brief opportunity to make comments and/or accept questions from the community at the NANOG 41 Community Meeting, Sunday, October 14th, beginning at 5:30 PM, MDT.\nThe proposed revisions to the NANOG charter will also be presented on the 2007 NANOG ballot. View the proposed changes. Eligible voters may also propose additional charter amendments to [email protected]by September 30, 2007. Submissions to include names and email addresses of petition signatories, which Merit may verify. Final recommendations for voting will be presented on the 2007 NANOG ballot.\n2007 Program Committee nominations will be accepted October 3 through October 11, 2007. To nominate a PC candidate, send the nominee's name and email address with a brief statement supporting the nomination to [email protected].\n2007 NANOG Election Ballot: to be posted at 1:00pm MDT on Sunday, October 14, 2007.\n2007 NANOG Election and Charter results: to be posted at the conclusion of NANOG41\nTerms Expiring:\nJoe Abley, Afilias\nTerms Not Expiring:\nJoe Provo, ITA Software\nNominations for the 3 Open 2007 SC Positions are:\nSteve Feldman, CNE After eight meetings as Program Committee chair, it's time to move on and bring new faces and ideas into the PC.\nI would like to continue working for the NANOG community, and I believe that I can be most useful by serving on the Steering Committee.\nIf elected, my priorities would include:\n- Work towards the stability and long-term sustainability of NANOG as a conference and as a community.\n- Enhance relationships with the Program Committee, Merit, and other internal and external groups.\n- Develop and enhance processes and procedures, and ensure that the charter and reality agree.\nSteve Feldman has been involved in computer networking since 1978. He has worked in software development and network engineering for Tymnet and MFS/Worldcom, where he was the principal architect for the MAE Internet exchanges. Since then, he has gone on to work for several startups and acted as an independent consultant, and is now a network engineer for CNET Networks. Steve received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.\nLucy Lynch, ISOC I am delighted to be be nominated for a seat on the NANOG Steering Committee and if selected I can bring: a knowledge of both the NANOG community and the mechanics of hosting the meetings, patience and a sense of humor, and a willingness to do housekeeping chores. NANOG was my first introduction to the big I Internet world and I's be happy to serve.\nLucy Lynch was recently hired as the Director of Technical Projects for the Internet Society (ISOC). Prior to moving to ISOC she worked at the University of Oregon (UO) as part of the Academic Computing and Network Applications group. During her years at the UO she worked with the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), The Oregon RouteViews Project, and the UO Multicast Team. She was been an active participant in both the North American Network Operators Group (NANOG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and served a term as Chair of the IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) from 2005-2007.\nLynch holds a Master's degree in Mass Communications from the University of Oregon and has a long history of service in non-profits ranging from Mental Health to a Hands-on Science Museum. She has been a grant writer, project manager, and a computer programmer. She also once managed the Flying Karamazov Brothers and continues to put that experience to good use in the I* community.\nJared Mauch, NTT America\nChris Morrow, UUNET/MCI/VerizonBusiness Chris Morrow started with UUNET/MCI in the Internet Customer Security Department assisting customers with mitigation of live security incidents and Denial of Service attacks. Over the five years he has been with UUNET/MCI he has remained in the Internet Customer Security Department while expanding his responsibilities to include development tasks and backbone security threat mitigation.\nWilliam B. Norton, Equinix Inc. Most NANOGers know me best for running the last 16 popular and well attended NANOG Peering BOFs, and chairing a wide variety of peering forums here and abroad, but I have been involved with NANOG for over 13 years. I was the chair of NANOG for many years, beginning in 1995. During that time I also developed the first NANOG business model as we migrated from the Regional Techs Meetings. When I left Merit in 1998 to help start Equinix, I continued in a guidance role as a member of the NANOG Program Advisory Group.\nWith the new NANOG charter in 2004, I was elected by the community to serve as a member of the first NANOG Steering Committee. During this delicate transition I helped maintain balance between NANOG Operations Community interests and Merit interests.\nAlong with this NANOG experience I am fortunate to have a day job that allows me to spend 90% of my time working with the operations community of carriers, ISPs, and content providers. This position provides me with insight about (and contact with) those implementing changes across the commercial Internet. I am dedicated to the Internet Operations community and, with this background, I feel I am well positioned to continue to serve the community on the NANOG Steering Committee.\nNorton holds a MBA from the Michigan Business School and a BA in Computer Science from Potsdam College. His title is Co-Founder and Chief Technical Liaison for Equinix, Inc., a leading provider of Internet Exchange and collocation services. He has authored a dozen Internet Operations industry white papers, spoken at over 150 forums, and helps with Internet Operations forums around the world.\nJosh Snowhorn, Terremark - NAP of the Americas I would like to humbly serve on the NANOG Steering Committee to help bring balance to the process of creating the best meetings for the community. I have been attending NANOG since 2000 and have been an avid participant in the Peering Community associated with NANOG. In all of the years I have been going to NANOG I have seen the dynamic of what makes NANOG change and feel I can facilitate this even further.\nJosh Snowhorn is a Vice President at Terremark Worldwide responsible for all Peering related services for the company. He has been with Terremark since the inception of the NAP of the Americas (NOTA), the largest carrier neutral Data Center in the Western hemisphere, including being involved with the site selection, design and construction of the facility. He has been a member of the global Peering community for many years including being the founder of the Global Peering Forum events. He is a member of the NANOG Program Committee and an avid participant on all issues related to the global networking community. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters.\nDuane Wessels, The Measurement Factory My nomination to serve on the NANOG steering committe is a welcome surprise. I think that NANOG is an invaluable forum and I always look forward to attending the meetings. Over the years I have been lucky to work closely with the Merit staff by helping to operate the DNS/DHCP/caching servers during the meetings (I'm also handy with RJ45 crimpers and gaffer tape).\nWhereas most most NANOG members are, in fact, network operators, my perspective is more as a researcher and software developer. Through my company I do a lot of research on DNS and IP traffic in cooperation with CAIDA. I am co-owner of The Measurement Factory, creator of the Squid caching proxy, and author of three O'Reilly books. My educational background is in Physics and Telecommunications.\n2007 NANOG Program Committee Candidates\nKobi Hsu\nNominations for the Open 2007 PC Positions are:\nRob Cambra I would like to nominate myself for the PC (I was told I could self-nominate, 'volunteer'?). I have been attending NANOG irregularly for about 9 years now, and have been watching presentations and benefiting from the mailing list since nearly the beginning of the formation of the group. Being that I have not held a position at a service provider in almost 10 years, contribution of useful information through presenting at meetings is not something I have been able to accomplish. I have been \"involved\" in the community for long enough that I believe not only could I be a fair and effective reviewer of content and agenda, but would like to contribute something other than the $400 attendance fee.\nWork experience, chronological: web hosting provider (founder/network manager), global enterprise infrastructure manager, various content network buildouts (startups), operations manager for advertising network. Yes, I still have enable.\nRandy Epstein Randy Epstein is a 20 year veteran of the industry. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Integration Officer of Host.net, a national Internet service and colocation provider. Mr. Epstein serves on the Board of Directors of OCCAID, an IPv6 research and development network deployed globally to assist researchers and Internet service providers in their transition to next-generation IPv6 technology and additionally has taken a keen interest in peering strategy and negotiation. Mr. Epstein splits his time between his home in Palm Beach, Florida and Vienna, Austria.\nNick Feamster Nick Feamster, an assistant professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from MIT in 2005. He received his S.B. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2000 and 2001, respectively. His research focuses on many aspects of computer networking and networked systems, including the design, measurement, and analysis of network routing protocols, network security, anonymous communication systems, and adaptive streaming media protocols. His honors include award papers at the NSDI 2005 conference (fault detection in router configuration), Usenix Security 2002 (circumventing web censorship using Infranet), and Usenix Security 2001 (web cookie analysis).\nPeter Harrison The Internet has become an essential column in the foundation supporting the world economy. The management of the data that flows over it has become the field in which I work and I have a genuine interest in the Web's development. This is an opportunity to both observe and shape the future of the industry by facilitating discussion and learning within the community.\nI have personal experience in technical education having written the book \"Linux Quick Fix Notebook\". As part of this effort I had to interact with both technical experts and the publisher's editing staff to get it produced. I feel this knowledge would be valuable to the program committee's collaborative efforts in presentation reviews and member feedback.\nI have over 20 years experience in the technology field. My most recent experiences have been in high capacity content delivery networks and multi-location large scale data center deployments. I currently work as the Network Manager for Netflix.\nJoel Jaeggli Joel Jaeggli works in the Security and Mobile connectivity group within Nokia. His time is divided between the operation of the nokia.net (AS 14277) research network and supporting the strategic planning needed of Nokia's security business.\nProjects with former employer the University of Oregon included the Network Startup Resource Center, Oregon Routeviews project (still an active participant), the Beyond BGP Project, and the Oregon Videolab.\nHe an active participant in several industry-related groups Including the IETF and NANOG. Joel frequently participates as an instructor or presenter and at regional and international network meetings, on services and security related topics.\nRodney Joffe Rodney Joffe is Senior Vice President, and Senior Technologist at NeuStar. His responsibilities include defining and guiding the technical direction of the company's IP Services division, and leadership with Internet and telecommunications standards bodies and organizations along with the Federal Government\u00d5s Cyberterrorism and cybercrime task forces.\nMr. Joffe is an acknowledged and successful serial entrepreneur, having founded a number of companies including many involved in core networking and Internet technology. Amongst the more visible, he was the founder of Genuity in the early 1990's, which was the largest Internet hosting company in the world at the time it was acquired by GTE (now Verizon NYSE:VZ) in 1997, and was also the founder of UltraDNS Corporation in 1998, acquired in 2006 by NeuStar (NYSE: NSR). His latest venture is Packet Forensics, a specialized network security company.\nHe also serves as an outside director on the boards of a number of other technology companies, including Scientific Monitoring, an aerospace software company, and Plasmanet, one of the largest Internet database marketing networks. In addition to his corporate roles as computer scientist with a number of patents to his name, Mr. Joffe is active in Internet governance bodies, serving currently on both the ICANN SSAC (Security and Stability Advisory Committee) and the ICANN RSTEP (Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel). He served two terms on the ICANN Nominating Committee, and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Postel Center at USC/ISI.\nMr. Joffe is also engaged in a number of Internet working groups and committees, including OARC (Operations, Analysis, and Research Center), NANOG (North American Network Operators' Group), ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) and the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).\nMark Kosters Mark Kosters has over twenty one years of experience as an applications developer, networking engineer, technical manager and executive. Over the last sixteen years, he was a senior engineer at Data Defense Network (DDN) NIC, chief engineer and Principal Investigator under the NSF-sponsored Internet NIC (InterNIC), and Vice President of Research at VeriSign. Recently, Mark has taken a job as the CTO of ARIN. Over his career, he has been involved in application design and implementation of client/server tools, router administration, UNIX system administration, database administration, and network security. He has represented both network information centers in various technical forums such as the IETF, RIPE, APNIC, and NANOG.\nAdditionally, Mark has been involved in Internet standards development, having co-authored RFCs on RWhois (RFC 1714 and 2167), Internet Registry IP Allocation Guidelines (RFC 2050), Root Name Server Operational Requirements (RFC 2870) and DNS Security (DNSSEC) Opt-In (RFC 4956). Mark also is currently serving a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Committee and ICANN's Registry Services Technical Evaluation Panel. Over the past, Mark has participated in ICANN's Root Server System Security Committee and ARIN's Advisory Council.\nI'm interested in serving on the NANOG Program Committee. I've had a lot of experience in operational issues that concern the committee - especially in DNS, routing, address allocation issues. I've been a frequent speaker at NANOG conferences, I've had a lot of interaction with the committee members and know a bit about their work (at least from the outside looking in). Consequently, I'd like to volunteer my time to make the NANOG speaker slate interesting and pertinent to the operational community.\nSylvie LaPerri\u00e8re Sylvie LaPerri\u00e8re, Director of Peering and Commercial Operations at VSNL International, leads the expansion of its Internet backbone network into new markets. Sylvie has 15 years of product management experience for data and mobile telecommunications services. She joined the company in 1993 and launched Teleglobe\u2019s first Internet service in 1995.\nI would contribute my global perspective of the Internet and bring to the forefront the 'O' in nanog meetings.\nDavid Meyer David Meyer is currently a Director in the Advanced Research and Technologies Group at Cisco Systems, where he works on future directions for Internet technologies. He has recently been a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) of the the IETF (www.ietf.org), where he also co-chairs the SPEERMINT working group. Until recently, he was also chair of the MBONED, MSDP, and DNSOP working groups. He is also a member of several IETF directorates and IRTF research groups. He is also active in the operator community, and was a long standing member of the NANOG (www.nanog.org) program committee. He is also active in other standards organizations such as ANSI T1X1.\nPrior to joining Cisco, he served as Senior Scientist, Chief Technologist and Director of IP Technology Development at Sprint. He is also Director of the Advanced Network Technology Center at the University of Oregon. Prior to working at Sprint, he worked at Cisco, where he was involved in software development, working both on multicast and BGP.\nR. Kevin Oberman R. Kevin Oberman is a Senior Engineer for Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) at Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).\n1995 to present: Senior Engineer, ESnet\n1985 to 1995: Network Manager, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Engineering Department\n1980 to 1985: System Analyst, Engineering Research Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\n1977 to 1980: Systems Programmer, Engineering Research Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\n2004 to present: Member of the Program Committee for Joint Techs, ESnet/Internet2\nRob Cambra Lane Patterson Lane Patterson is Chief Technologist for Equinix, Inc, involved in scaling 10GbE switch fabrics, DWDM rings, and R&D topics such as 100GigE, IPv6 and Multicast peering and BGP scalability. He is a regular at Nanog, IETF, Euro-IX, IEEE-HSSG and other global Internet forums. Prior to Equinix, Mr. Patterson was Director of IP Network Management Systems (IP-NMS) for GlobalCrossing Inc, where he contributed to rapidly scaling a global IP network and a large-scale MPLS deployment. During 1995-1996, Mr. Patterson managed operations at MAE-East, during a time when connected ISPs grew from less than 20 to over 130, where he learned to hate the term head-of-line blocking and love new switch fabric architectures. Prior to getting his hands on real networks, he was relegated at Booz-Allen to developing network congestion modeling code subjecting the PSTN to imaginary impacts for government clients. He graduated with a BA in Physics from Cornell University, and MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.\nMatt Peterson Matt Peterson is the Site-Ops Manager for Meta Interfaces, where he is responsible for all network & systems infrastructure. He has been with with Meta for 2 years and has crafted a high availability video streaming service that continues to win high praise. Matt has held career advancing roles from NOC specialist, systems administrator to systems architect. The first non-profit Internet Exchange within San Francisco was co-founded by Matt in mid 2006. Mr. Peterson's work has been presented at numerous industry conferences, such as APRICOT, SANOG, BSDCon, Defcon, CCC Camp, and 802 Planet. While he may be one of the youngest PC candidates, he too remembers when the web was a grey background and how leet flat-rate Centrex ISDN was. He lives and works within the San Francisco Bay Area.\nI'm interested in serving on the NANOG Program Committee for a number of reasons. First off, I'd like to see more \"content provider\" participation from the community. We have a number of active video, social network and other content focused attendees who should be strongly encouraged to present topics. I plan to prod both these members and bring others in from outside of the normal attendee realm, ie: load balancer manufacturers, colo facility manager, etc. Additionally, we have a growing membership of young late \"twentysomethings\" that are doing unique networking solutions; these too need encouragement to participate outside of IRC. Finally, as someone who works within the online video streaming space, I've been helping guide Merit into modernizing the web stream. I'd like to continue this partnership to yield even better video quality and selection of codecs.\nRen Provo Ren Provo is the Peering Relations lead at AT&T, where she is a contributor to a variety of IP network infrastructure related activities. These include peering negotiation, capacity planning, NOC quality control and general network policy interests. Ren also strives to interconnect the people behind the networks via http://nanog.multiply.com. While pursuit of a degree in Electrical Engineering sounded interesting at the start, she received a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Josh Snowhorn Josh Snowhorn is a Vice President at Terremark Worldwide responsible for all Peering related services for the company. He has been with Terremark since the inception of the NAP of the Americas (NOTA), the largest carrier neutral Data Center in the Western hemisphere, including being involved with the site selection, design and construction of the facility. He has been a member of the global Peering community for many years including being the founder of the Global Peering Forum events (www.peeringforum.com). He is a member of the NANOG Program Committee and an avid participant on all issues related to the global networking community. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and two daughters.\nPete Templin Pete is the Manager of Packet Networks at Texlink Communications, a wholesale provider of voice and data services in Texas. He manages the IP/MPLS network and associated products, and slings cards on a regular basis.\nI hope to represent the smaller ISPs within the PC, campaigning for subject material that will help these businesses get their start and keep their foothold. I was quite new to NANOG before my selection in 2005, and come from a smaller network (in the grand scheme of things).\nTodd Underwood Todd Underwood is in charge of operations, security, and peering for Renesys, a provider of Internet Intelligence services. Before that he was CTO of Oso Grande, a small New Mexico ISP. He has a background in systems engineering and security and networking for clustered supercomputers. 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This afternoon, Bohn Crain, Radiant Logistics' Founder and CEO; and Radiant's Chief Financial Officer, Todd Macomber, will discuss financial results of the company's Second Fiscal Quarter and Six Months Ended December 31st, 2018. Following their comments, we will open the call to questions. This conference is scheduled for 30 minutes.\nThis conference call may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The company has based these forward-looking statements on its current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about the company that may cause the company's actual results or achievements to be materially different from the results or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.\nWhile it is impossible to identify all the factors that may cause the company's actual results or achievements to differ materially from those set forth in our forward-looking statements, such factors include those that have in the past, and may, in the future, be identified in the company's SEC filings and other public announcements, which are available on the Radiant's website at www.radiantdelivers.com. In addition, past results are not necessarily an indication of future performance.\nNow I'd like to pass the call over to Radiant's Founder and CEO, Bohn Crain. Sir, please go ahead.\nBohn Crain -- Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer\nThank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining in on today's call. We are pleased to report new record results across all of our key financial metrics, and the continued broad-based improvement in our financial performance for the second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2018.\nWith that, I'll now turn it over to Todd Macomber, our CFO to walk us through our detailed financial results and then we can open it up for some Q&A.\nTodd Macomber -- Chief Financial Officer\nAdam Kramer -- Cowen & Company -- Analyst\nHey guys. This is Adam on for Jason. Congrats on the quarter. I guess, just first --\nJust want to ask you guys about any impact you've seen from tariffs, whether you guys think, you may have benefited from some pull forward prior to the tariffs and maybe if you think that there may be some weakness once the tariffs do go into effect over the coming months?\nThank you for that. So our current results were meaningfully impacted by tariffs one way or another and prospectively I'm not expecting them to be impacted meaningfully as well, but a relatively small portion of our business is truly international, air and ocean freight forwarding. Most of our businesses is focused on time-definite North America ground freight. And so our record results and expectations of future results don't have a lot to do with our view of tariffs. That I mentioned it was a record quarter.\nI think you did, yeah, yeah. Now, that's helpful. Yeah.\nOkay. In that tariffs, I have no -- I have really didn't play into it.\nWell, I think, we've seen some price recovery, I think the market staying reasonably tight. We saw good margin expansion, in terms of -- we had several hundred basis points improvement in the margin characteristics of the business. So I think there is some talk of things loosening up. But from our standpoint things still remain relatively tight and no, we had talked historically about some of our contracts repricing, particularly in the intermodal sector and kind of those things played out and we got some improvement in those contracts as they rolled over. So there'll always be a push and pull within the marketplace, but we believe the markets still generally relatively tight and sets up well for us prospectively.\nYou know, what's called renewals for TL?\nNo, what we're hearing out there is probably the same thing, you are. We listen to all of the same conferences, in terms of what the asset-based carriers are suggesting, they're looking for, in terms of rate increases in the marketplace. So -- and my understanding of that is, what I would call low to mid single digit increases as well as the underlying asset base guys are continuing to -- just kind of price talk, if you will. And how they're trying to set expectations in the marketplace.\nPretty sure. Well, thank you guys. So much for the time. I really appreciate it. And I'll pass it on. Thank you.\nKevin Sterling -- Seaport Global -- Analyst\nIt's funny that you say that. It is snowing sideways outside right now, which is -- it doesn't often happen in Seattle, so.\nThat's why, I also asked favorite (ph) city might be shut down, right?\nWell, there's a lot of stake here, because I expect to be in Miami in the morning. So, I'm hoping the planes are flying.\nOh, gosh. Good luck with that. But hey, let me just start off, I've been following you guys a long-term Bohn, and I got to say, I think this is the best quarter, I've seen out of you guys. And it sounds like, I heard you talk about record quarter. So congrats, my hats off to you. It looks like everything came together very nicely for you. So along those lines, the growth that we're seeing across the board is that all organic?\nYes, this is a clean quarter, in terms of -- even last quarter, only had a very, very modest amount of -- kind of acquisition activity in it, but this has been absolutely clean quarter. And so the results that we're seeing are purely organic. We have said historically that through our vertical strategy and some of our other initiatives and some of the success we were having in Canada, that we're really focused on organic growth, not that we're not still interested in acquisition opportunities and we'll be exploring those as well, but growth in organic certainly one of the key prongs of our strategy and what we see here is the result of those efforts.\nThat's awesome. Great. So, let me ask you along those lines. Do you think, as you look at your company today, we're in an inflection point. It seems like you guys started to turn the corner, maybe a couple of quarters ago, and it really all came together this quarter with just these record results. And what I mean by that is Bohn with the systems you have in place, the people you have in place, is your company position like it's never been before to capture market share?\nI think by any metric, in terms of financial and kind of underlying results, but also financial flexibility. If we think about our run rate EBITDA, and I'm not going to throw out a particular number, but we can certainly talk about that broadly, but where we are in terms of having retired the preferred we're going to drop another where we relieved ourselves of $2 million and non-deductible $2 million dividend payments. We've got good capacity under our credit facility. We're generating free cash flow like we never have in the history of the business. And a lot of things are kind of working our way. We went so far in this current press release to include TTM analysis of our adjusted EBITDA on a quarterly basis and it really kind of lays out the -- kind of the transition. And so that the net-net is we have really one more -- what I'll call soft quarter or easy comp coming up here for the quarter ended March in the year-ago period. So for this TTM, I think we're close to $37 million of run rate EBITDA. We would expect that number to move closer to $40 million, as we replace last year's quarter ended March results. So we believe -- so that's having followed us as long as you have, you know that's -- those are some, some really meaningful improvements for the business.\nAnd also to your point, that's coming from all areas of the business. The forwarding business is doing very well. Canada is doing well. Clipper has been improving and back within the forwarding network itself. Our agent stations are thriving. I think, we paid out more money and commissions this quarter, as well, then we probably ever had in the history of the company that goes to the health of the platform, the health of the partnership, we have with our operating partners and the success that are able to achieve this part of the platform. And at the same time, the company-owned stores within the forwarding network are doing better as a group than they ever had in the history of the business. The technology platform continues to improve. I think recently we had over 10% of our forwarding transaction volumes were occurring through the new SAP-TM. So, we continue to kind of work through that process. And we feel pretty good about where we are and kind of how things set up looking out into 2019.\nWell, Bohn, that's great. Those numbers are quite impressive. It's good to see. Like I said, I've been following you guys a long time. And I quite frankly don't remember a time like this in your company's history, how well positioned you are. But so you talked about the SAP system. If I'm not mistaken, you're probably one of the few three PLs to deploy SAP as a TMS. And is that a competitive advantage, because the majority shippers operate on SAP?\nYeah, we think it certainly will be, and that will prove itself out over time. I would, let me -- I'm going to break, it's a great question. I want to that question apart. We have -- since our very first acquisition, our platform acquisition back in 2006 of Airgroup, Airgroup was on SAP from an accounting standpoint. So we've grown up as an SAP shop. And in terms of kind of the sophistication and relative scalability of our back-office infrastructure, we think, we have a world-class back-office platform. And as we think about scalability and kind of unit cost per transaction process and some of those types of things, we really believe that we're best in class. And we've had an opportunity to move to a new TMS and to have a fully integrated operating system and accounting system on a singular SAP platform. I think, will create a lot of benefits for us up to and including kind of what you're describing, which is, there is a big universe of installed SAP customers out there more in the manufacturing universe. And those guys are generating hard freight, right. And so we view that as a -- that is a unique opportunity for us to be able to engage with this big universe of installed SAP customers and be able to engage with them and exchange information with them in a way that other folks simply won't be able to because they don't speak SAP with the granularity and familiarity that we'll be able to -- from our singular SAP platform. So we're really excited about that and what that represents kind of a long-term strategically. We talked about it before. We really have intentionally set out to build a back-office infrastructure that we believe can support a multi-billion dollar business in terms of the scalability. And how we've positioned ourselves as a first-to-market, in terms of aggregating these agent based freight forwarding networks, puts us in a really interesting position. And then hopefully we'll have an opportunity to take advantage of that, as we look into the future.\nThat's awesome. So, basically is -- what you're doing now, the SAP system, you're building this foundation. So obviously you talked about multi-billion dollar organization to really kind of grow?\nThat's always been the vision and we're --\nYou're starting to see it.\nWe are getting one step at a time, but I -- this quarter, I mean, we didn't talk about it, but we also spend a lot of time talking about EBITDA as a function of gross margin and how those numbers have trended over time, and it's just a great -- ultimately the math speaks for itself. But just a great story line in terms of the scalability of our back-office and overtime how we've been able to drive that metric and more of those gross margin dollars to the bottom line over time through our investment in people process and technology?\nYeah. Awesome. So Bohn, if you guys -- if you kind of -- have you started a national sales force to go after maybe some larger accounts and if so, if you kind of seen the fruits of labor, and some new business wins?\nLook, we haven't organized ourselves in what you would think of as a traditional National Accounts Sales program. What we've done instead of that is focused on a vertical sales strategy, so we've hired a number of senior sales executives with a deep competency in a particular industry vertical. And so we've approached the market with that vertical orientation. Some of those markets include government services, retail, humanitarian aid or some other areas that we focused on. And we've had a lot of success without getting into particular customers. The vertical strategy has worked very well for us, in terms of helping drive that organic growth. And we will, opportunistically continue to build out additional verticals with additional resources, as we can identify those in the marketplace to continue to fuel our organic growth.\nYeah. Awesome. One last question for me. And so you touched on free cash flow and my calculations are right looks like you generated nearly $11 million of operating cash flow in the quarter and obviously leading to strong free cash flow. As going forward, I mean, I've got a sense and tell me if I'm wrong but going forward...\nHold on. We got to stop there. We're going to have a little fun with this. You know what that is, Kevin? That's another record.\nYeah. Got you. Okay. Well, that's all I had. Congrats on the quarter. Keep up the good work. Breaking records and hope we get to Miami. (Multiple Speakers)\nMark Argento -- Lake Street Capital -- Analyst\nHey, guys. Congrats on a very solid quarter. Wish I could feel sorry for you about the snow, Bohn, but being... (Multiple Speakers)\nYeah, we're not going to get any sympathy from most parts of the country.\nWe got our first share, so best of luck. Miami sounds wonderful though. I was just hoping, if you, obviously a lot of positive things going on here. I was hoping you could just help us think through a little bit around this concept of productivity relative to the pricing. So you saw was it adjusted EBITDA margins up 440 basis points. We get half of this from pricing and half of it from productivity, how can we think about and obviously there's ups and flows in the pricing environment, it's been a tighter environment which benefits to degree. But maybe you could help us think through a little bit about how you guys think internally about productivity unit growth versus the ASP growth, or we'll call it pricing growth?\nYeah, sure. So I can take a swipe at there from a high level. What we know is that our incremental cost of supporting that next dollar of gross margin is very, very small. So, ultimately it's a -- the biggest driver is just our ability to grow our gross margin dollars, because our incremental cost of supporting those that next dollar of gross margin is very small. Now, on the backside of that, if you think, if we kind of look at our cost drivers, it's headcount, right. And in our biggest physical labor dollar spend is in the -- in and around the area of the financial settlement of our transactions, whether it's paying the carriers or ultimately settling with our operating partners that are originating a lot of the freight out there. So we've introduced a lot of technology around optical scanning technologies to help automate how we ingest invoices, how we deal with what we would call variances or differences between what was protected as the cost versus the cost that's ultimately arrived. And we're spending a lot of time and energy focusing on, I'll use the term electrifying our business, in terms of building more electronic connectivity with our customers and our carriers with the goal of driving productivity improvement, not only for ourselves, but also for our carrier partners and our customers.\nAnd so that's our orientation, doesn't take you through the ultimate math, but the one thing that I would call out, I think, we've talked on it on prior calls, if we look at the Expeditors and CH Robinson's of the world and look at their EBITDA as a function of gross margin. And I think we'll find that their metrics are up in the 30% to 40% type handle. And we've said from the beginning that's the curve that we're marching up, as we continue to scale the business. And I can remember when that number for ourselves was 2% and 3%, and then 6%, and then 8%, as we've continued to kind of work our way up the mountain. So this -- I think it was 19.5% for this quarter was a really good result for us, but there's lots of incremental opportunity ahead of us, as we continue to scale the business.\nPart of our brand promises to support our operating partners when and if they're ready for their own transition. So we're not -- we're certainly not out there twisting people's arms trying to compel them to sell or convert to a company owned store, but on a time that's right for them will be there to support them. So the pace at which we affect those transactions has more to do with the goals and objectives of our operating partners then any particular initiative we have. We're open for business and we're prepared to support our partners in that way when they are ready. And at the same time, we'll continue to look for other tuck-in acquisitions. That's only, the conversion of agency stations, the company-owned stores is only one, an important one, but only one of a multi-pronged strategy on the acquisition side of the house.\nGreat. Thanks. And make sure (inaudible) no issues, when you send a truck, while getting loaded up where -- yeah.\nJeff Kauffman -- Loop Capital -- Analyst\nThat's good, that's good. You know, we actually do a little of that business, but no, that wasn't for us. Well done, Jeff. That was good.\nAgain I say congratulations. This is just a great quarter to see. And I know you've been working hard, it's just nice to see it all come together like this. So, let me go back and be a broken record here. So, when you say, you don't believe tariffs played any role in this. In other words, you don't believe there was any pre-shipping of goods that occurred in your network this quarter correct?\nWell, I would say -- I'm sure that there was certainly some, but what the point I was trying to make and perhaps I didn't do a justice was that, if we think -- if we were going to draw the economic pie of the various contributors to our business, International transportation, true international air and ocean, which would be the subject of a lot of these trade activities, it isn't a driver in our business, at least, it hasn't been to date. So, was there a little pull forward perhaps...\nOkay. So I shouldn't annualize the $12 million in EBITDA, that's what you're saying?\nNo. Well, I would -- boy, wouldn't that be wonderful, which we certainly don't want to set that expectation. We are appreciative for those results. We're trying to have a little fun with it, but we're quickly going to be back to work and worried about next quarter.\nOkay. What -- and I think you answered this last quarter, but I'm going to ask it again. Terrific improvement in operating margins in the Canadian business, can you remind me what's driving that?\nSure. We -- this is the result of a -- really a strategic initiative we set in place. Really, probably 12 months ago, with our broadly call a bundling strategy, where we, and it really kind of began in earnest with our tuck-in acquisition of Lomas, in Canada, which brought to us more value-added logistic services in conjunction with transportation. So, what you're seeing there is, our growth in our effectively warehousing and distribution service. That's bundling that with transportation services. And so making our customers stickier, making our work more valuable to the end customers that we serve and is really proved to be a real growth engine for Canada, at least so far.\nOkay. One other detail question, probably more for Todd, a general question. There is the new ASU on the new lease accounting rules. It would not have to affect you until the close of this fiscal year, mid-year, but it does bring some operating lease rents to be considered potentially as capital leases, Todd, have you looked at this. I think you're doing about $8 million in operating rents. What impact do you think this will have in terms of 2020 fiscal?\nWe're still assessing that, Jeff. We're looking at, we're bringing up, I think, a system for that. But I don't have exact -- the exact amount on that right now, but that's something that we're working on right now.\nOkay. And then a broader picture, Bohn, amazing quarter, but we have seen some slowdown on the brokerage side of the business with the spot rates moving around, it doesn't affect your business so much. But I wonder, if you're seeing any softening in some of the acquisition prices of potential acquisition candidates you're sitting on all this great fundamentals, you've saved some money, repurchasing the preferred. Is there any change in what you're seeing and are business acquisitions getting a little bit more interesting?\nI think it still remains really competitive out there and particularly at anything of scale. And so, whereas I would like to say, I've seen a lot of softening in price on the M&A side, I personally haven't. Certainly, I think the public company comps have come in, relative to expected growth rates and that kind of stuff. But I think at the end of the day, the PE firms are still driving valuations for transactions of scale. And I have not seen those come in, but when they do will be there.\nGerry Heffernan -- Walthausen & Company -- Analyst\nHey, thank you very much. Just wanted to ask a little bit, or just one question on the income statement here. I understand the cost of transportation is the expense driver and you've done a very good job of improving your margin there. Could you talk to the operating partner commissions as that has grown disproportionately to the growth in overall revenues?\nSure. So, it goes to the underlying kind of nature of our business, where a good chunk of our business originates from our operating partners and we effectively share in the gross margins that they generate. So, well, let me draw distinction. So, this will be good for people not necessarily as familiar with our business. So, if we were going to compare and contrast a transaction originating from a company owned store versus a transaction originating from an agency station, at maps into our financial statements, the same down to the gross margin line. So, whether it's a -- we're coming from our company-owned store in Los Angeles, or an agency station in Dallas, it's the same down to the gross margin line item. But where it's originated from an agency station, we share in that revenue with the agents and that's where those expenditures land on the P&L. So, what that would say is, for this quarter, our agency stations did really well, in terms of their growth in their business. And so their gross margins -- or their percentage of the economic pie went up. And so I think we did also draw and I think this is kind of where you're going with your question. Proportionately, they grew by more than the company-owned stores grew.\nNo, I don't. I mean, there are -- it's an extraordinarily diversified portfolio of businesses. And from time-to-time, there's, let me take it this way. We have over 100 operating locations. And I think, we have 20 company-owned stores. And so sometimes agent stations will originate their own business and they service it through our network. Sometimes corporately will originate business, but based on geography and service needs, we will place that business and an operating location and they will effectively operate it, on our behalf, if you will. So there's a myriad of factors that can come into play around the agent stations and kind of where an individual transaction lands. But I am -- it's funny that you raised this question, I've actually, I was intending on my plane ride to Miami tonight to write a letter to the network to celebrate with them how happy I was for them that they had such success this quarter, that's -- as our partners do well, we do well, and I couldn't be happier that they had such great results with such good success. And hopefully data points like this will get other agency locations that currently aren't part of our network to consider to come be part of our network.\nYeah. Certainly, success does, does attract businesses and business people, that is a good thing. In regards to the strong top line, you've prominent that it's -- it was pretty broad-based. Could you just -- if you could just give a speak to be different client verticals or the shipper verticals that you represent? Just give us any color that you may have from what you saw in those different segments over the quarter?\nWe don't want to get into too much detail there. But you know at a -- certainly at a high level, we do a fair amount of work in government services. We do a fair amount of work in life sciences. We do a fair amount of work in humanitarian aid. We do a fair amount of work in the automotive vertical. We do a fair amount of work in trade shows. So that, those will kind of give you some high-level lanes and which we're having some success.\nGreat. Thank you very much. And as a shareholder greatly appreciate all the work you've done.\nThank you. And that appears to be our last question. I'll turn the floor back over to Bohn Crain.\nThank you. Let me close by saying that we remain very excited with our progress and prospects here at Radiant, and we remain very bullish on the growth platform that we've created and the scalability of our non-asset-based business model. Our now, more than 10-year first to market advantage in executing our multi-brand strategy and consolidating agent based forwarding networks, ongoing investment in technology and low leverage on our balance sheet, puts us in a unique position to support further consolidation in the marketplace. We believe this represents our longer term and almost perpetual opportunity and we continue to invest in technology and our people with an eye toward building out a world-class scalable back-office infrastructure to support a much larger enterprise going forward. We are patiently persistent in pursuit of this long-term vision, which we believe over time will deliver meaningful value for our shareholders, our operating partners and the end customers that we serve.\nThank you. This does conclude today's teleconference. We thank you for your participation. You may disconnect your lines at this time. And have a great day.\n10 stocks we like better than Radiant Logistics\nDavid and Tom just revealed what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy right now... and Radiant Logistics wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys.\nReferenced Symbols: RLGT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 387, "original_length": 48658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nashvillemusicguide.com/songwriter-spotlight-kerry-kurt-phillips/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:44Z", "digest": "sha1:SOOMML237EUKZ7Q2ZLKJSNN24KB23ZTH", "length": 4617, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.nashvillemusicguide.com", "title": "Songwriter Spotlight: Kerry Kurt Phillips \u2013 Nashville Music Guide", "raw_content": "HomeNMG Spotlight FeaturesSongwriter Spotlight: Kerry Kurt Phillips\nSongwriter Spotlight: Kerry Kurt Phillips\nJuly 6, 2011 Amanda NMG Spotlight Features, Songwriter Comments Off on Songwriter Spotlight: Kerry Kurt Phillips\nBy Phil Sweetland\nThere are many who consider George Jones country\u2019s greatest living singer, so it\u2019s no stretch to say that Kerry Kurt Phillips\u2019 Nashville songwriting career started at the very top.\nAfter all, his very first label cut was \u201cWhere The Tall Grass Grows,\u201d which the Possum recorded in 1991.\n\u201cIt was unbelievable, like people think I\u2019m lying. My first actual major-label cut was a George Jones cut,\u201d Phillips says in a conversation in mid-June. \u201cMy publisher sent a letter to the label, CBS records, demanding that the song be a single but they never singled the song. It was an album cut. Vern Gosdin, Ricky Van Shelton, and Tom Wopat all recorded it, and they didn\u2019t single it either.\u201d\nBut in the 20 years since, Kerry Kurt Phillips has had tons of singles, and loads of hits. These include Joe Diffie\u2019s \u201cPickup Man\u201d in 1994 (No. 1 Billboard single, co-written with Howard Perdew); Craig Morgan\u2019s \u201cAlmost Home\u201d in 2003 (No. 6, co-written with Morgan); and George Strait\u2019s \u201cShe Let Herself Go\u201d in 2006 (No. 1, co-written with Dean Dillon).\nHe had an unusual introduction to Nashville for a songwriter, working not only in Diffie\u2019s band but as his tour manager.\n\u201cThat certainly gave me an appreciation for the fans out there. They\u2019re the people who keep this whole thing spinning around,\u201d KKP says. \u201cI\u2019d always been a country music fan. There\u2019s something about being on the tour bus and the road that gives you a different view of things. You see how serious and dedicated the fans are about the artists.\u201d\nThat has stuck with Phillips ever since.\n\u201cThose fans have saved up their money, so it\u2019s my responsibility when I sit down and write a song to say the words where maybe they can\u2019t,\u201d he says. \u201cThat song will take them somewhere, give them a 3\u00bd minute vacation from life.\u201d\nHis Mom played piano by ear, and young Kerry Kurt started guitar lessons in grade school. He dropped it for a while and picked it up again, but says he also \u201calways loved wordplay. I would read anything. Some of my best memories are trying to spend time along with a book, going to the library and getting out books.\u201d\nOne of his most beloved bits of wordplay came in \u201cAlmost Home,\u201d a breakthrough Morgan hit which has had a big impact on countless lives.\n\u201cCraig and I were sitting across the table, and the song idea comes out,\u201d Phillips recalls. \u201cOriginally, it was about a guy who might have been on an airplane. He closed his eyes and fell asleep. Then we came up with the concept of a homeless guy that had fallen on hard times, and a singer came up upon him. That\u2019s the idea we developed.\u201d\nLike many great songs, mystery surrounds \u201cAlmost Home.\u201d\n\u201cThe most interesting thing is that people ask me about the character in the song. Was he dying or was he asleep?\u201d Phillips says. \u201cThe thought never crossed my mind that he was dying. I find that interesting.\u201d\nAnother interesting story is \u201cShe Let Herself Go,\u201d the huge Strait hit.\n\u201cI brought that idea in to Dean Dillon. He loved it and we sat down, and it was relatively a short write for me,\u201d Kerry says. \u201cFor three years in a row, every time the George Strait project came around they pitched that song to all the powers that be. They always turned it down. But Dean knew it was a hit, and he brought it back to the table one final time. That just goes to show you how persistence and the belief in a song pay off.\u201d\nPhillips has been in Nashville since 1988, yet he consistently is able to write hits and stay current with country radio. How?\n\u201cI tell you what,\u201d he says. \u201cThe key is staying fresh and pertinent, and being able to transcend the decade. You have to write outside of your comfort zone and outside your niche. I think the key is also to always be writing with someone new. That\u2019s not just young people, but writing with people who come from different places. Diversity is the key. The more different people you can write with, the more vast a web your catalog creates out there. That\u2019s the secret to success.\u201d\nHe continues: \u201cMost people fail to understand that the goal is to have as many songs and offers as possible. Hopefully, every day someone in town is pitching one of my songs. I\u2019m not that prolific, I\u2019m a little slow, but I feel very fortunate and very blessed, and I\u2019ve had some incredible co-writers.\u201d\nAnd Lord knows, they too have had an incredible co-writer named Kerry Kurt Phillips.\nMusicians Spotlight \u2013 Joe \u201cHoze\u201d Fleming", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 8921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naspa.org/rpi/posts/engage-part-two-options-for-student-affairs-professionals-to-advocate-for-u", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RZE7R75BO6B55DNGD6GAJU3HY7INNAKV", "length": 10662, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.naspa.org", "title": "Engage! Part Two: Options for Student Affairs Professionals to Advocate for Undocumented Individuals", "raw_content": "engage-part-two-options-for-student-affairs-professionals-to-advocate-for-u\nIn the first installment of the Engage! series, Director of Policy Research and Advocacy, Teri Lyn Hinds broadly outlined four levels in which student affairs professionals might advocate on campus: institutionally, as faculty and staff, supporting students and civic engagement, and personally. In the second installment of the series we take a deeper dive into these forms of advocacy through an issue-based lens. The Policy and Advocacy team at NASPA keeps track of policies which fall under five tenants of the NASPA 2017-2020 Public Policy Agenda: student success and college completion; student safety and wellness; cost of higher education, student debt, and borrower protections; inclusive opportunities for access and success in higher education; and civic engagement and freedom of expression. Today we\u2019re going to focus specifically on immigration policies around undocumented individuals, specifically, those individuals who were brought to the US by their parents as children without a legal entry status. These conversations center on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.\nBackground on DACA\nUnder the Obama Administration, the Department of Homeland Security implemented DACA as an executive action to allow individuals who were brought into the US as children to register for work permits so they could legally work in the United States or pursue a postsecondary education. The program included several restrictions \u2013 such as not having committed a significant crime \u2013 and over the course of the last seven years, has allowed about 800,000 young adults to work or go to college. Many of those individuals have enrolled in college, found employment, and started to raise a family of their own. Some recipients of the DACA program have even become employees within student affairs, continuing to support students who, like them, want to uncover what America has to offer.\nHowever, because DACA was created through the action of an executive agency, it was also subject to reversal through the same power, and the Trump Administration announced in early September that it would be ending DACA through a 6-month rollout process, with an official expiration of March 5, 2018. This action was long anticipated, though President Trump had seemed to change his mind on how to handle DACA recipients many times since his campaign, when he initially promised swift action to end DACA. During the months between his inauguration and his decision to rescind DACA, the air of uncertainty around the program prompted many college campuses to declare themselves as \u201csanctuary campuses\u201d in support of their undocumented immigrant students, staff, and faculty. Some states subsequently pursued reciprocal action to punish these campuses for what their state legislatures felt was inappropriate lack of cooperation between campuses and federal immigration officials.\nInstitutional Advocacy\nIn announcing the rescission of DACA, President Trump called on Congress to pass legislation that would protect undocumented immigrants that arrived as children, but it\u2019s unclear whether or what legislation may eventually pass. As an institutional approach to advocacy, a college or university may reach out directly to policymakers through their campus government affairs staff. For example, during the month of October, the American Council on Education garnered the support from over 800 college and university presidents and chancellors urging Congress to find a legislative solution.\nAdditionally, student affairs professionals can push for an institutional review of policies with a focus on barriers for undocumented individuals. While DACA recipients currently have access to work permits, driver\u2019s licenses, and Social Security Numbers, these benefits will end by March 5, 2020 should Congress fail to pass legislation protecting them. Further, many undocumented individuals on campus are not currently DACA recipients. Institutions can limit the barriers these individuals encounter by checking policies and scholarship opportunities for requirements such as a driver\u2019s license or Social Security Number and choosing different identification requirements.\nStudent affairs professionals can also advocate for the dissemination of clear information on institutional policies and practices. For instance, as \u201csanctuary campus\u201d has no legal definition, campuses that identify as sanctuary spaces do not provide any legal benefits over those institutions that have not declared sanctuary status. Certain states such as California and Illinois have passed statewide sanctuary policies that deter cooperation between local law enforcement, including campus enforcement, and Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE). Other localities have citywide policies that can extend to students at public universities.\nThis does not, however, mean that campus policies that provide protections for undocumented individuals can\u2019t be clearly posted and explained. Generally, postsecondary institutions are considered \u201csensitive locations\u201d in which enforcement activity by ICE is limited. Local and campus police are also not required to assist ICE, and the only state law (in Texas) requiring this level of cooperation is currently held in a standstill by the 5th Court of Appeals. Further, data on individuals do not have to be shared with immigration officials without a court order. According to the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), disclosure of student personally identifiable information (PII) must \u201ccomply with a judicial order or lawfully issued subpoena\u201d; ICE detainers do not fall under either of these categories. Campuses can provide this kind of information through easily accessible forums so that undocumented individuals can be fully aware of their rights, and advocates can better provide support where applicable.\nFaculty & Staff Advocacy\nFaculty and staff can advocate on behalf of the campus community through student support services, word of mouth, and through partnerships with community based organizations. If the institution does not have a dedicated or established resource center for undocumented students, identifying safe members of campus staff that students can go to for support and information dissemination about local policies regarding in-state tuition, financial assistance, and scholarship opportunities. Institutions may consider partnerships with their law schools or collaborate with community agencies to provide free, local legal advocacy services that can provide students with information on limitations, benefits, and new policy information regarding DACA and can encourage and facilitate students to meet with licensed immigration attorneys where applicable. Additionally, ethnic-based community organizations often have information readily available and translated into multiple languages.\nWithin the classroom and through word of mouth, faculty and staff can also help disseminate stories of the positive contributions DACA recipients make to their communities to the public and to policy makers. Care should be taken in the language used to talk about undocumented individuals, who deserve basic human rights no matter their achievements or accomplishments. . To learn more about appropriate language use in reference to undocumented individuals, the Policy and Advocacy Team recommends those interested to refer to the Undocumented Immigrants and Allies Knowledge Community who offer an array of resources and expert knowledge on the issue area.\nIn order to advocate on a personal level for undocumented individuals on campus, the Policy and Advocacy team recommends drawing on professional expertise to advocate broadly, and to use your voice to advocate at a grassroots level. Individuals might think about their personal role and access on campus to network with the undocumented community and provide support on an individual level. For example, a student affairs professional might be able to make time to address the needs of an individual student, or might have access to other safe faculty or staff to refer that individual to.\nOutside of campus, student affairs professionals can utilize social media platforms to educate friends and family, share information, and encourage outreach. In the case of undocumented individuals, student affairs professionals must be careful not to share the status of someone unintentionally without receiving their permission. Further, as explained in the first Engage! post, individuals must be careful not to speak on behalf of their institution or represent their institution within their personal media platforms. However; student affairs professionals are certainly allowed to have personal lives and advocate on behalf of personal beliefs on their own time, and social media is a great space to get the conversation going.\nIndividuals can also reach out to their congressional representatives in an effort to move legislation, such as a bill that would codify the DACA protections, forward. This can be especially useful in states and localities where policymakers are divided on issues or haven\u2019t stated a strong stance.\nSupporting Students and Civic Engagement\nFinally, student affairs professionals can advocate on the level of supporting student advocacy and civic engagement. One way to support student advocacy is to create room for guest speakers who specialize in civic engagement efforts such as United We Dream or Southern Poverty Law Center. In addition to creating these opportunities, campuses can encourage students to utilize their right to protest and participate in movement-building efforts.\nFollowing the 2016 presidential election, campuses erupted in protests, in which students urged universities to unite in their declaration of \u201csanctuary\u201d to protect undocumented individuals. These protests resulted in around 30 institutions taking on a \u201csanctuary campus\u201d status, and other institutions making statements in support of their undocumented student population, despite choosing not to identify with the \u201csanctuary campus\u201d terminology. Student affairs professionals can support student participation in these kinds of protests as long as they fall within campus codes of conduct.\nNASPA members also have access to NASPA\u2019s Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) initiative, which offers important tools on promoting civic engagement on campus.\nPlease look for our final installment in the Engage! Series next week for another example on how student affairs professionals can advocate for trans individuals across these four levels of engagement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 13159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naspa.org/rpi/posts/policy-updates-for-the-week-of-october-31-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KRRW2BNOS7IH4Q4S3JV4VAM6ROUWNFH5", "length": 4378, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.naspa.org", "title": "Policy Updates for the Week of October 31, 2017", "raw_content": "policy-updates-for-the-week-of-october-31-2017\nPolicy Updates for the Week of October 31, 2017\nBy Omari Burnside, November 2, 2017\nWe all could benefit from more thoughtful planning to better prepare for the work we undertake. Whether you are implementing a new departmental structure or system, spearheading an institution-wide program or series, or formulating and implementing a policy or process for your department, developing a simple plan with some core tenets can save you time, headaches, and undue stress. In Part II of the Success in Action Series NASPA Director of Strategic Initiatives, Omari Burnside asks key questions and provides guidance to achieve success through planning.\nTax Benefits at Risk for Colleges, Student Borrowers\nBy Andrew Kreighbaum, November 3, 2017\nThe new tax plan released by House Republicans would include a 1.4 percent excise tax on college endowments at private universities affecting more than 150 universities. The legislation would negatively impact charitable contributions and end student loan interest rate deductions. Further by ending state and local income tax deductions, the bill might encourage public education spending cuts. The president of the American Council of Education, Ted Mitchell commented, \"taken in its entirety, the House tax reform proposal released today would discourage participation in postsecondary education, make college more expensive for those who do enroll and undermine the financial stability of public and private, two-year and four-year colleges and universities.\"\nOfficials expect DeVos to resign from Trump administration\nBy Chris Sosa, November 6, 2017\nInside sources have told Politico that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos may be preparing to leave her position with the Department of Education. While just a rumor at this time, Thomas Toch, director of the independent education think tank Future Ed, stated, \"I\u2019ll tell you, in Washington education circles, the conversation is already about the post-DeVos landscape.\u201d Politico found that Toch\u2019s comments might be skewed due to personal biases, so the trustworthiness of this assessment may be in question.\nFederal data shows 3.9 million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016\nBy Jill Barshay, November 6, 2017\nThe US Department of Education College Scorecard tracks statistics for students who have dropped out and the overall debt these students have taken on. Estimates show a total of 3.9 million students with student loan debt dropped out between 2015 and 2016. Over 900,000 of these students came from for-profit institutions. Nearly 2.5 million had attended public institutions, exactly matching the share of public institutions students attend, 64 percent. Nonprofit colleges and universities had the lowest percent of dropouts at 13 percent while holding attendance rates at around 15 percent. Despite regulation rollbacks targeting for-profits, the Department of Education has continued to release data which highlights pitfalls of for-profit institutions.\nPrinceton, Microsoft File Join DACA Lawsuit\nBy Nick Roll, November 6, 2017\nPrinceton University and Microsoft have filed a joint lawsuit against the Trump Administration for rescinding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The lawsuit is part of a whole slew of litigation that has been filed in opposition of this decision. The core debate centers on the violation of the Fifth Amendment\u2019s guarantee of equal protection and the Administrative Procedure Act.\nH.R.4181 \u2013 The POST Act\n-Primary Sponsor: Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) (Introduced 10/31/2017)\nThe Protecting Our Students and Taxpayers (POST) Act of 2017 is legislation that works to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to protect student taxpayers by changing the 90/10 rule to 85/15, mean that an institution cannot derive less than 15 percent of the institution\u2019s revenues from sources other than Federal funds. This legislation is particularly relevant to military-connected students.\nH.R. 1 \u2013 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act\n-Primary Sponsor: Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) (Introduced 11/02/2017)\n-Committees: House \u2013 Ways and Means\nThe Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a bill designed to determine a budget resolution for 2018. As it stands, this legislation would decrease financial options for middle and low-income American families in their pursuit to attend postsecondary institutions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 8931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nastad.org/blog/health-departments-are-key-eliminating-hepatitis-united-states", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:36Z", "digest": "sha1:4YRDXHHM2N5UOH4LKUASOR3JKBTKUJKY", "length": 6567, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.nastad.org", "title": "Health Departments are Key to Eliminating Hepatitis in the United States | NASTAD", "raw_content": "By Murray Penner July 30, 2018\nCross-Posted from the ASTHO. Read the original here.\nWorld Hepatitis Day takes place every year on July 28 to raise awareness around hepatitis and opportunities to eliminate this disease. Despite significant strides in prevention and treatment, hepatitis remains one of the biggest global health threats. Ahead of this year\u2019s observance, Murray Penner, executive director of NASTAD, reflects on what it will take to end this global epidemic and the critical role public health plays in accomplishing this important work.\nNASTAD believes that eliminating viral hepatitis should be a top public health priority. Unless we act boldly and urgently, we will continue losing ground in the battle against hepatitis and new generations of Americans will become infected. It is not often we can say that we have the tools to eliminate an epidemic that affects millions of people in the United States, but we can definitively eliminate hepatitis B and C. The question is whether we will step up and increase our response at this pivotal moment in history, or if we will allow the current trajectory of a worsening epidemic to continue. Health departments are key to efforts to eliminate viral hepatitis, but require additional support to most effectively respond to these epidemics.\nCDC estimates that up to 5.3 million people in the United States live with hepatitis B or C, many of those infected are unaware of their status, and new cases are being fueled by the opioid crisis. In 2015, for example, there were an estimated 33,900 new hepatitis C infections, a threefold increase in cases since 2010.\nEven as we\u2019re seeing these unacceptable increases, we have scientifically validated, effective prevention and care modalities that make ending this epidemic a real possibility. A safe and highly effective hepatitis B vaccine has been available for more than 30 years and yet only 33 percent of adults have been vaccinated. Due to the risk of acquiring hepatitis B or C through injection drug use, we must make comprehensive harm reduction services\u2014including syringe services programs (SSPs), medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and supervised injection facilities\u2014a centerpiece of our prevention efforts.\nHealth departments play a critical role in this response and we must build momentum at the state and local levels. Health department hepatitis programs have been at the forefront of responding to hepatitis by educating communities about prevention, offering free to low-cost testing, linking people to treatment, and other critical services including mental health and substance use treatment. Unfortunately, many state Medicaid programs have discriminatory restrictions that keep treatment out of reach for populations who need it the most.\nAlthough impressive work is happening across the country with very limited resources, more needs to be done and health department leadership is key to reaching elimination goals. Medicaid programs, for example, are slowly loosening restrictions, but we will not be able to effectively treat the most vulnerable populations until all restrictions are removed and people who use drugs are prioritized for hepatitis C treatment.\nHealth officials should also consider convening hepatitis elimination teams which include infectious disease, immunization, behavioral health, and Medicaid program representatives. By working collaboratively, these health department programs can continue to identify common goals, coordinate funding priorities, and ensure populations most at risk for hepatitis B and C receive needed services. In addition to supporting internal actions, health officials should consider making the elimination of viral hepatitis a legislative priority and should make sure that people living with and/or cured of hepatitis are part of these efforts. The time has come for a comprehensive response to preventing viral hepatitis. The piecemeal approach thus far will not achieve our goal of eliminating these epidemics. Around the globe, while eliminating hepatitis has become a real possibility, U.S. efforts continue to be stymied by a lack of political will and the fact that hepatitis is not often recognized as a public health priority.\nSince 2000, NASTAD has supported health department hepatitis activities by providing capacity building assistance, program guidance, and federal advocacy. Since 2006, hepatitis has been formally incorporated into NASTAD\u2019s mission and is a part of our Chair\u2019s Challenge to End the Epidemics. We will soon be assessing the current infrastructure for hepatitis elimination at health departments and tailoring our support to meet these needs. NASTAD also supports viral hepatitis program staff in state and local health departments. Finally, NASTAD convenes the Hepatitis Appropriations Partnership, a coalition dedicated to increasing the resources appropriated to CDC\u2019s Division of Viral Hepatitis within the National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, which ultimately funds health department hepatitis programs.\nEliminating viral hepatitis will require a significant financial investment. With an increased focus on the opioid crisis, there have been opportunities to highlight the infectious disease consequences. Congress has appropriated small increases to CDC\u2019s hepatitis programs, but the current budget is far short of what CDC reports it needs to effectively respond. NASTAD advocates for a $95 million increase in CDC\u2019s budget to respond to the viral hepatitis epidemics.\nNASTAD is also working to increase the urgency of the U.S. response. Last year, NASTAD released a call to action urging policymakers to prioritize hepatitis and devote more attention and resources toward a comprehensive response. Elimination of HCV is not possible without urgently focusing efforts toward the right people, in the right places, right now. This means implementing a strategy to prevent transmission within, and identification and treatment of, hepatitis among people who inject drugs. If you have not already read this call to action and shared it with key stakeholders in your states, I urge you to do so.\nControlling and eliminating hepatitis in the United States is possible. NASTAD urges stakeholders at the national, state, and local levels to join our efforts to make elimination of hepatitis in the U.S. a reality. Our nation has a unique opportunity to not only eliminate a serious public health threat domestically, but to also become a leader globally. We cannot do this alone and we cannot do it without your leadership.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 12273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.natalelaw.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:31Z", "digest": "sha1:42JNGZFDBGVXYP253GEKJLMCDSL55SYB", "length": 3591, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.natalelaw.com", "title": "West Orange Family Law Attorney | Essex County Personal Injury Lawyer | Middlesex County Divorce Attorney", "raw_content": "Close Attention to Detail, Total Commitment to Client Service.\nYou Won't Feel Rushed or Pressured\n\"I give a lot of time to my clients. I don't like to rush them. In the free initial consultation, I find out what has happened and what their goals are. Then I explain what I can and cannot do \u2014 to help them set realistic expectations. I'm not the kind of lawyer who bills my clients for every phone call I make or for every letter I write for them.\"\n\u2014 West Orange attorney Gary Natale\nBecause of his highly personal approach to client service, Gary Natale's family law clients are often surprised to hear that he was an accountant and financial auditor before he began his legal career. However, once clients listen to his detailed explanations of a divorcing spouse's financial options, the benefit of having an attorney with a financial background becomes clear.\nGary J. Natale\nWith a legal career spanning two decades, Gary Natale is a versatile litigation attorney who combines an emphasis on detail and preparation with an unusually high commitment to personal relationships with his family law and personal injury clients. Contact his office in West Orange, New Jersey to learn how this combination can work for you. To learn more about his professional background,\nWhether you were injured at work, in a car accident on the road, or in a slip-and-fall accident while shopping or while on vacation, an accident that causes serious injury can raise questions about your legal rights. In personal injury cases, our New Jersey law firm also believes in staying in close contact with our clients. We do not want your legal rights to get lost in the middle of other challenges \u2014 such as problems with creditors, disputes with health insurers or emotional conflicts within your family.\n\"Companies have a duty to provide an appropriate level of safety measures when manufacturing their products. This includes placing suitable labels that describe correct use, dosage, safety precautions and warnings of any potential hazards. When companies fail to provide this level of safety through warning labels, the probability of injury rises dramatically. OSHA Sets [\u2026]\"\nDealing With Uninsured Drivers\n\"\u201cThere are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?\u201d Woody Allen In New Jersey, the rate of uninsured motorists is said to be about 11%, despite attempts by state lawmakers to reduce those numbers. New Jersey is also one of the most expensive places to try [\u2026]\"\nDeterminants That Affect Who Keeps The Children\n\"\u201cKids spell love \u2018T-I-M-E\u2019.\u201d John Crudele How New Jersey Courts See Custody While there are several good synonyms of the word \u201ccustody\u201d that connote the financial, legal, and protective responsibilities such as \u201cguardianship\u201d, the definition that best articulates the aim of custody is \u201ccare\u201d. New Jersey courts see the goal of custody hearing as determining [\u2026]\"\n\"\u201cYou can\u2019t always get what you want; You can\u2019t always get what you want; You can\u2019t always get what you want, But if you try sometimes Well you might find what you need.\u201d Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones Divorce can be expensive. Especially when emotions get out of control and adversarial [\u2026]\"\nHow To Identify The Roots of Domestic Violence\n\"\u201cI object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil does it permanent.\u201d Mahatma Gandhi At the beginning of a relationship, it is not easy to tell if someday it will become violent. In fact, many people capable of domestic violence seem to be kind, considerate, and [\u2026]\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 6943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalcivicleague.org/team/rebecca-trout/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:22Z", "digest": "sha1:J6VGPAX7IIX4GRFQHBSXDMTSXGZ3ZZV7", "length": 1803, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nationalcivicleague.org", "title": "Rebecca Trout - National Civic League", "raw_content": "Email:rebeccat@ncl.org\nHometown:Owasso, OK\nRebecca Trout is the Program Director of the All-America City Award & Membership at the National Civic League. In this role she connects the over 500 AAC communities with resources around local good governance practices and civic engagement strategies through research, a mentorship program and monthly webinars. She also coaches potential applicant communities on what makes an All-America City and oversees all event management for the annual three-day award and peer-learning conference.\nRebecca also supports National Civic League services by tracking, expanding and communicating with members, potential members and partner organizations. She also coordinates all activities of the NCL Board of Directors.\nRebecca has over six years of membership and project management experience. She worked in the access department at the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) from 2011-2015, where she helped expand the access to quality end-of-life care to typically underserved populations. Rebecca left NHPCO to pursue a passion of international service and travel with the Peace Corps. During her service in Botswana from 2015-2017, Rebecca helped to coordinate her village\u2019s HIV/AIDS intervention plan. Additionally, she was part of a team which solicited a U.S. Embassy grant to fund and open a community youth center. Rebecca was raised in Oklahoma and attended William Jewell College in Liberty, MO where she earned her B.A. in political science, international relations and critical thought and inquiry.\nRebecca has a passion for community service and activism and is thrilled to be at an organization which believes that the most complex social issues can be solved by creating equitable, thriving communities dedicated to civic engagement.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naturalfoodseries.com/11-benefits-lulo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:11Z", "digest": "sha1:NUOOMAN3VZUJVRG4N35MUW75TEUJTFNS", "length": 6992, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.naturalfoodseries.com", "title": "11 Amazing Health Benefits of Lulo - Natural Food Series", "raw_content": "Food & Nutrition By Brandi Marcene December 13, 2018\nLulo health benefits includes boosting the body immunity, promoting good heart health, speeding up digestion, helping with blood circulation, preventing cancer, enhancing your eyesight and strengthening the bones. Other benefits includes regulating cholesterol, detoxification of the body, alleviating mood swings and guaranteeing a flawless skin.\nIt is interesting to note that Lulo is popular by several names. Lulo is the accepted name in Colombia. However, it is commonly referred to as naranjilla in Panama and Ecuador. It has a unique tangy taste and can serve as an incredibly delicious and healthy addition to your diet.\nWhat is Lulo?\nLulo is a citrus-like fruit. Being native to the northwest part of South America, it grows on a small shrub or tree. Its juice is a common and healthy drink with an unusual green color. It is cultivated in different regions of the world with slightly different tastes. And concentration of nutrients may also differ.\nThis fruit has impressive nutritional value. It is rich in many types of vitamins including vitamin A, B and C. Moreover, it also has good amounts of minerals including calcium, magnesium and phosphorus.\nIn addition to that, it is also rich in many types of antioxidants to prevent the damage caused by free radicals and to eliminate symptoms associated with premature aging. It is also noted for its incredible benefits to relieve symptoms linked to poor cardiovascular health along with a slew of other medical complications. Plus, it is also helpful in combating many types of cancers.\nSince it is incredibly low in calories, weight watchers like to consume it as a smoothie. It is also a good diuretic and is high in iron.\nInformation Amount per 100g Total Fat: 0.2 g\nCalories: 25 Total Carbohydrate: 6 g\nSodium: 4 mg Sugar: 3.7 g\nDietary Fiber: 1.1 g Vitamin A: 11% of daily value\nProtein: 0.4 g Iron: 2% of daily value\nVitamin C: 5% of daily value Magnesium: 2% of daily value\nVitamin B-6: 5% of daily value *Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.\nLulo is a citrus fruit, which means it is loaded with all essential vitamins and minerals. Apart from being an impressive source of different B vitamins including B1, B3, B5 and B6; it is also rich in other important vitamins such as vitamin C, E and A. It is also a rich source of many essential minerals.\nYou can consume in its raw form by scooping the pulp out with a spoon. You can also eat it with vanilla ice-cream or yogurt.\nIt is popularly used to make jam or jelly in South America. Moreover, it is also a popular ingredient in different pies and cheesecake recipes.\nSince Lulo is enriched with many vitamins, particularly A and C, it serves as a natural immunity booster. Vitamin C functions as an antioxidant to remove all free radicals from the body to purify your immunity and vital organs. It also triggers white blood cell production to strengthen the body against many types of infections and viruses.\nMoreover, vitamin C is also important for stimulating collagen development to support blood vessels, organs and connective tissues.\n2. Promotes Good Heart Health\nSince Lulo has good amounts of fiber, minerals and vitamins; the fruit significantly improves heart health. Regular consumption also reduces the risks of strokes.\n3. Speeds up Digestion\nLulo contains pepsin, which is a type of fiber to support good digestion. Although all kinds of fiber are good for your digestive system, pepsin is the most important one for having a trouble-free gastrointestinal tract.\nNot only does it eliminate constipation, it also helps many uncomfortable conditions like cramping, bloating and gastric ulcers. Fiber is also essential in regulating the amounts of glucose that is released into your bloodstream. This implies that it is also beneficial for patients that suffer from Type-2 diabetes.\n4. Good Blood Circulation\nAnother remarkable benefit of Lulo is that it has generous amounts of iron. This implies that it also boosts your red blood cell count and increase the flow of oxygen throughout your body.\nThanks to a unique mix of antioxidants, minerals and vitamins, Lulo successfully neutralizes the free radicals in the body that mutate healthy cells; leading to many forms of cancer. There is plenty of research that clearly establishes a direct link with the use of antioxidants and cancer prevention.\nTherefore, consuming Lulo regularly guarantees a natural way to prevent cancer, thanks to its anti-carcinogenic capability.\n6. Enhances your Eyesight\nThe carotenoids found in lulo including beta carotene and vitamin A neutralize the free radicals that cause oxidative stress in some ocular cells such as the macular lutea. Make sure you add Lulo to your diet in order to protect your eyes from falling prey to serious disorders such as macular degeneration and cataracts.\n7. Better Bone Strength\nBeing rich in minerals such as phosphorus and calcium, Lulo promotes good bone tissue density. This is why patients who are suffering from osteoporosis and arthritis are recommended to consume Lulo for relieving their symptoms.\nThanks to the dietary fiber present in Lulo, you can safely eliminate \u2018bad cholesterol\u2019 from the body. Moreover, the minerals and vitamins present in the fruit promotes good functioning of the entire cardiovascular system decreasing your changes to develop symptoms associated with atherosclerosis.\nLulo offers a natural way to detoxify your body. Since it acts as a diuretic, you can safely include it in our diet to flush out toxins and cleanse your kidneys. This way you can remove excess fat and salts from the body to purify your bloodstream.\n10. Alleviates Mood Swings\nOne of the most interesting benefits of having this delicious fruit is that it helps relieve stress-related mood disorders. Since it is associated with a hormonal change in the body, it dramatically reduces stress and lifts your, reducing symptoms linked to depression.\n11. Guarantees a Flawless Skin\nOne of the most popular reasons for consuming Lulo is that it promotes good skin health. The vitamin C present in this gift of nature combats free radical damage that leads to premature aging. It is also used in a wide range of skin products and treats sunburn.\nApart from being rich in antioxidants, minerals and vitamins; Lulo is also noted for its fatty acids and protein content. It offers tremendous benefits to ensure good cognitive functioning, proper digestion and also serves as a natural therapy to relieve many types of psychological disorders.\nAlthough the demand for this fruit is increasing for its exotic flavor and incredible health benefits; it is part of the nightshade family, which is notoriously fragile. It is vulnerable to discoloration, insects and bruising and is not best for mass cultivation. Therefore, it remains as a small-scale crop.\n11 Surprising Benefits of Turmeric and Curcumin\n11 Amazing Health Benefits Of Wild Rice\n11 Health Benefits of Curry Powder", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 9191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naturallycurly.com/questions/hair-types/hair-type-i-think-s-3b3c-im-sure-7798", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:14Z", "digest": "sha1:B6VI3R56WHWU7D7S5K6F4L46QZJYVHZ5", "length": 233, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.naturallycurly.com", "title": "What is my hair type? I think it's 3B/3C, but I'm not sure. | Curly Q&A | NaturallyCurly.com", "raw_content": "What is my hair type? I think it's 3B/3C, but I'm not sure.\nI parted my hair with my fingers, so it's not a perfectly straight line.\nHere are some pictures of my hair. I'm transitioning.\nYou won't know until you cut the relaxed ends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 4014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 194.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-04-02-major-new-study-links-ibs-to-increased-heart-attack-risk.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:33Z", "digest": "sha1:TXBDPXJUA22UGDTWV4T5FNNDYITDV6KR", "length": 4890, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.naturalnews.com", "title": "Major new study links IBD to increased heart attack risk \u2013 NaturalNews.com", "raw_content": "Major new study links IBD to increased heart attack risk\nMonday, April 02, 2018 by: Michelle Simmons\nTags: badhealth, cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular health, crohns disease, health risk, heart attack, heart disease, heart disease risk, heart disease risk factors, heart health, IBD, inflammation, inflammatory bowel disease, inflammatory diseases, Medicine, prevention, ulcerative colitis\n(Natural News) A study that involved 22 million participants suggests that there is a link between inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and the risk of heart disease and heart attacks. The study was carried out by a team of researchers from the University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute who examined the potential role IBD may have in the development of heart disease and heart attacks.\nInflammation is a recognized risk factor of heart disease. In fact, studies have shown links between chronic inflammatory conditions, including lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, and increased heart disease risk. Meanwhile, IBD is an umbrella term for two chronic inflammatory conditions affecting the digestive system \u2013 ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease.\nThe research team recruited more than 22 million patients whom they studied for three years. In their study, they used heart attack, also known as myocardial infarction, as an indicator for heart disease. Moreover, they used IBM\u2019s Explorys, which is a large database that collects electronic medical records from 26 healthcare systems in the U.S.\nThroughout their study, the researchers found that heart attacks were nearly twice as common in patients with IBD \u2013 5.9 percent of individuals with IBD had a heart attack in comparison to the 3.5 percent of participants without IBD. In addition, they discovered that traditional risk factors for heart disease, which include high blood pressure, diabetes, and smoking, were also more common in participants with IBD.\nWhen the researchers considered the age, race, sex, and other traditional heart disease risk factors, they found that patients with IBD had approximately 23 percent greater chance of developing a heart attack. Younger patients, who were 40 years old and younger, were found to have the greatest risk. Meanwhile, IBD is commonly seen in individuals between 15 to 30 years old. Furthermore, aside from younger age at diagnosis, female participants were linked to greater levels of inflammation and more aggressive and disabling disease.\n\u201cThe disproportionately increased levels of inflammation in younger patients who may not otherwise have the traditional heart disease risk factors may explain the increased risk seen in these patients,\u201d said Muhammad Panhwar, one of the researchers of the study.\nThe researchers hope that their study will encourage more health experts to examine patients more thoroughly for heart disease as more than three million people in the U.S. have IBD. The findings of the study also suggest that IBD should be recognized as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.\nMore about IBD\nAs mentioned earlier, there are two types of inflammatory bowel disease: ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease. Ulcerative colitis is a condition that causes long-lasting inflammation and sores or ulcers in the innermost lining of the large intestine and rectum. On the other hand, Crohn\u2019s disease is the condition characterized by the inflammation of the lining of the digestive tract, which frequently spreads deep into affected tissues.\nThe definite cause of IBD remains undetermined, but one possible cause is an immune system malfunction. There is an abnormal immune response that causes the immune system to attack the cells in the digestive tract when it tries to combat a virus or bacterium. Other risk factors include heredity, diet, and stress. (Related: Suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Disease? A healthy diet may help ease your pain.)\nThe symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease differ, depending on the severity and location of the inflammation. The most common signs and symptoms of ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease include diarrhea, fever and fatigue, abdominal pain and cramping, blood in the stool, loss of appetite, and sudden weight loss.\nRead Medicine.news for daily coverage of the latest breakthroughs in medical science.\nPrevious :Eating nuts increases survival in colon cancer patients\nNext : Neuroscience study finds that stress retards your ability to learn\nFrom acute to chronic? Acute psychosis from marijuana use associated with future mental illness\n\u201cStrongest evidence yet\u201d that obesity causes depression, even in the absence of other health problems\nhttps://www.naturalnews.com/2018-04-02-major-new-study-links-ibs-to-increased-heart-attack-risk.html\nMajor new study links IBD to increased heart attack risk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 19951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 189.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-31-six-healthy-lifestyle-habits-that-prevent-dementia.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:N3LZQTYGHXVSN2FR4CVJ4GBXDLXAD67K", "length": 4243, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.naturalnews.com", "title": "Six healthy lifestyle habits that prevent dementia \u2013 NaturalNews.com", "raw_content": "Six healthy lifestyle habits that prevent dementia\nTags: Alzheimer's disease, Brain, brain health, cognitive decline, cognitive health, dementia, dementia prevention, disease prevention, healthy lifestyle, lifestyle, mental health\n(Natural News) Dementia is the term used to describe a group of symptoms such as memory impairment, confusion, and loss of ability to accomplish daily tasks. Globally, nearly 50 million have the condition, with 10 million new cases recorded each year. The risk of having dementia increases with age, but this does not mean that it is a normal part of aging. Thus, it can be prevented. Here are six healthy lifestyle habits you can do to avoid dementia:\nParticipate in mentally-stimulating tasks \u2013 The brain can be strengthened through workplace achievement and leisure activities, such as reading newspapers, playing card games, or learning a new language or skill. Evidence suggests that engaging in memory and problem-solving strategies in groups could enhance long-term cognitive function. This is not confined to computerized brain-training programs. Participating in mentally-stimulating activities in a social setting may also add to the success of cognitive training.\nKeep in contact with friends and relatives \u2013 Socializing with friends and relatives is associated with a reduced risk of dementia. Moreover, being more involved in group or community activities is linked to a lowered risk as well.\nKeep a healthy weight and a healthy heart \u2013 Heart and brain health are strongly associated. High blood pressure and obesity, particularly during mid-life, raise dementia risk. These conditions, when combined, may account for more than 12 percent of dementia cases. In a study of more than 40,000 individuals, those who had Type 2 diabetes were twice more likely to developing dementia compared to healthy individuals.\nBe more active \u2013 Physical activity can help prevent cognitive decline. In a study of more than 33,000 people, individuals who exercised more had a 38 percent smaller chance of cognitive decline than those who were inactive. For adults, a minimum of 30 minutes of aerobic exercise, such as walking, jogging, swimming, and biking, every day is recommended. (Related: Reduce your risk of developing Alzheimer\u2019s by walking FAST and OFTEN.)\nRefrain from smoking \u2013 Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to the heart and lungs, but to the brain as well. The chemicals in cigarettes trigger inflammation and vascular changes in the brain. Moreover, they can also trigger oxidative stress, in which free radicals can damage the cells. These processes may play a role in the development of dementia. In addition, the risk of dementia is greater in current smokers in comparison to past smokers and non-smokers.\nAsk for help if you are suffering from depression \u2013 Depression is a risk factor for dementia. In depression, some changes in the brain occur and may influence the risk of dementia. In addition, high levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, have been associated with the shrinkage of areas in the brain that are essential for memory. Research also suggest that long-term oxidative stress and inflammation may also cause depression and dementia. A 28-year study with over 10,000 participants also discovered that the risk of dementia only increased in those who had depression in the ten years before diagnosis.\nRead more news stories and studies on dementia prevention by going to Alzheimers.news.\nPrevious :Scientists look at the role of antioxidants in lessening the occurrence of Type 1 diabetes in young women\nNext : Smartphone app developed to detect heart disease\nPomegranates are a powerful nutritional preventive for inflammation-related diseases\nCONFIRMED: Alzheimer\u2019s is a lifestyle disease \u2013 that\u2019s why Big Pharma\u2019s drugs can\u2019t stop it\nDrugs more dangerous than the disease: Alzheimer\u2019s drugs found to increase risk of death from multiple acute side effects\nNutrition can help manage Alzheimer\u2019s, from mild to severe stages\nhttps://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-31-six-healthy-lifestyle-habits-that-prevent-dementia.html\nSix healthy lifestyle habits that prevent dementia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 18865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 222.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.naturalremedies.org/hair-loss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:15Z", "digest": "sha1:UMANJQDR5MXA2WSVWUN4COXBQAYPLDKW", "length": 14987, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.naturalremedies.org", "title": "Hair Loss Home Remedies: Natural and Herbal Hair Loss Remedies | Natural Remedies.org", "raw_content": "Hair loss is a common condition in which a person permanently sheds his hair. Hair can be lost from the head or other parts of the body. Unlike elective removal of excess body hair through shaving, waxing, etc., hair loss and baldness is often unwelcome and can be psychologically damaging to the person experiencing it.\nHair loss is such a common problem that a billion dollar industry has developed selling products and services aimed at helping those people who are concerned about their thinning hair to either grow it back or preserve what is remaining. In most cases, hair loss is a harmless part of the natural aging process, but at other times, hair loss can signal an underlying medical condition.\nIn medical terms, baldness and hair loss are broad sections of a medical description called alopecia. Hair loss can occur anywhere on the body where hair is normally found. This includes the head, arms, legs, groin, and arm pits. Hair loss that is limited to one area is called alopecia areata.\nSometimes, as in the case of cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, the whole body sheds its hair in a condition known as alopecia universalis. The most common type of hair loss is referred to as male pattern baldness, or androgenic alopecia.\nAlthough the name only specifically makes reference to males, females can also suffer from male pattern baldness. In men with male pattern baldness, hair loss is noticeable in a recognizable patter, starting on the temples and gradually thinning out to the crown of the head. In women with male pattern baldness, the whole head sees a thinning of the hair, although total baldness is rare.\nWhat exactly is hair? Hair is a growth of strand like cells that contain a protein called keratin. These strands grow out of a special structure on the skin called a follicle. In humans, the hair on the body is in a continuous cycle, with each follicle of hair being in one of three phases.\nFind Hair Loss Products on Amazon\nThese phases of growth are the anagen phase, catagen phase, and the telogen phase. Human hair has a lifespan ranging from 3 years to 7 years, depending on its location and health. In the anagen phase, cells in the base of the follicles begin to divide and produce new hair. The anagen phase is the growth phase for human hair. Depending on how long a hair follicle stays in this phase determines how fast the hair grows. In catagen phase is the resting phase in which the hair follicle detaches itself from the hair strand, effectively cutting off the strand\u2019s blood supply.\nThe hair is then pushed upwards. The final stage of the hair cycle is the telogen phase, which lasts from 1-4 months depending on a variety of factors. In this phase, the hair is dormant and not growing. Eventually, the anagen phase will start again and push out the old hair, resulting in normal hair loss, or shedding. For normal adult humans, 85% of the hairs on the body are in the anagen phase at any given time, while 10-15% are in the telogen phase. In people with permanent baldness, the telogen phase is not followed by a normal anagen phase to produce new hair growth.\nMale pattern baldness has numerous genetic and environmental causes. Genetics is thought to play a primary role in the development of male pattern baldness. Research has shown that an androgen called dihydrotestosterone (DHT) may play a pivotal role in developing baldness. An androgen is any number of hormones that causes the development of male characteristics in the body. Some men have a genetic trait that makes their hair follicles sensitive to DHT.\nWhen the follicles come into contact with DHT, over time, they can begin to shrink which can shorten their lifespans and lead to an early cessation of hair renewal. Genetic research into the genes that control sensitivity to DTH has show that although a number of genes may be responsible for male pattern baldness, the primary cause occurs on the X chromosome, the component contributed by a person\u2019s mother. High levels of the hormone insulin in the blood can also play a role in baldness.\nLow levels of a protein called sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) are often found in people with diabetes. SHGB binds with testosterone and prevents it from turning into DHT, which can cause hair loss.\nAlopecia areata is a condition in where baldness occurs on one specific part of the body. While there is evidence of a genetic basis for alopecia areata, it is thought to be primarily an autoimmune disease. Autoimmune diseases are conditions in where the body\u2019s immune system turns on itself and attacks the body\u2019s own healthy cells. In a normal immune response to a foreign body such as a virus or bacterium, the body detects these invaders and sends out cells to destroy them. In an autoimmune disorder, the body gets mixed up and wrongly targets its own cells for destruction. The autoimmune response that causes alopecia areata is thought to be caused by things like extreme stress and a virus or bacteria.\nBaldness may be caused by an underlying medical condition. Thyroid problems such as hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism can both cause hair loss. Also diabetes and the autoimmune disease lupus can cause hair loss in humans. Fungal infections of the follicles and scalp are responsible for hair loss in some people, but can be alleviated with anti-fungal medications. Anemia caused by an iron deficiency can also lead to baldness. Correcting any underlying medical condition may reverse the hair loss, although some may be permanent.\nFinally, baldness can be caused by trauma to the head or body. Putting too much strain on the hair, such as in elaborate hairdos or pulling of the hair, can result in baldness. For people undergoing chemotherapy, baldness is one of the most common side effects of the treatment. Stress can also cause hair to fall out. Once the traumas and stresses on the body are removed, hair growth will usually start again.\nMale pattern baldness is a medically harmless process, but to the person experiencing it, baldness can have damaging psychological consequences. In modern society, hair is thought to be a symbol of youth, beauty, and vitality. Losing one\u2019s hair can be a sign of frailty and weakness.\nA multi-billion dollar industry has grown over the last few decades offering services and products that help people to prevent hair loss. Many of these products claim to help a person grow hair or prevent old hair from falling out, but results for some of these products are mixed at best. However, some medications have proven effective for many people and are available with a doctor\u2019s prescription.\nFinasteride is a first line drug used in an effort to preserve current hair and cause regrowth. In the United States, finesteride is sold under the trade names Propecia and Proscar, which are manufactured by Merck. Originally developed to combat prostate gland conditions, Finesteride is a DHT inhibitor that works by binding with an enzyme in the body called 5-alpha-reductase, which is responsible for converting testosterone to DHT.\nFinesteride works well for approximately 50% of its users. In studies, 48% of men regrew hair and 42% were able to maintain their current hair with no further hair loss. Finesteride works on all areas of the scalp, but works best on the crown of the head. Its effects will last for as long as a person takes the drug, however once treatment is stopped, hair loss will continue as before after several months of being off the medicine. Finesteride has not been shown to work well in women, however doctors sometimes prescribe it to them.\nWomen who are pregnant or may become pregnant cannot take finesteride as it may cause birth defects. Sexual dysfunction is the major side effect of finesteride, occurring in up to 18% of those taking it. Finesteride treatments can be expensive, with 30 day supplies costing several hundreds of dollars depending on the strength.\nLike Finesteride, Minoxidil was a drug used originally to treat another disease rather than hair loss. Minoxidil is a drug that belongs into a larger class of drugs called vasodilators. Vasodilators are medications used to treat high blood pressure by making arteries and veins open wider, allowing for easier blood flow within them. While it was being developed, researchers discovered that Minoxidil had the side effect of causing hair growth and darkening in some people.\nMinoxidil used for high blood pressure comes in the form of pills, but when it was discovered to have hair growth properties, a topical foam was created to take advantage of this side effect. This foam was marketed around the world under the brand name Rogaine, which is today synonymous with hair growth products. Scientists do not fully understand how or why minoxidil works. One hypothesis says that since minoxidil is a vasodilator, it increases blood flow to hair follicles.\nWhen this happens, the hair follicles enter the telogen phase prematurely, causing old hair to fall out and new hair to grow in its place. Several studies have been done to show the efficacy of minoxidil. What they show is that minoxidil can increase hair count by nearly 30% in those taking it, in contrast to almost no hair growth in placebo groups. Minoxidil is sold in a topical solution of 5% for men and 2% for women. It works best on the crown of the head, although it can cause hair growth on all surfaces of the scalp. It also works best for small spots rather than large areas of baldness.\nApplication of Minoxidil\nMinoxidil, when applied to the scalp must be left on the hair for a long period of time and applied once or twice daily. An hour is the minimum, with recommended times of up to 4 hours. Once treatment is stopped, the effects of minoxidil wane and baldness will occur again. Side effects of topical minoxidil are relatively mild, consisting of itchy scalp and dandruff. Patients treated with minoxidil may also experience hair loss as part of the shedding process in the telogen phase, however, the manufacturers of minoxidil do not guarantee that new hair will replace it. Costs of minoxidil vary widely, depending on the manufacturer and the strength of the solution.\nThere are two surgical methods of correcting hair loss. One is called scalp reduction and the other hair transplantation. Scalp reduction is a painful procedure in which a bald area of the scalp is surgically removed. The remaining hair covered areas are then sutured together to cover the hole. Hair transplantation involves moving hair follicles from one spot on the body to another. It is generally done by means of taking small grafts of 1 to 4 hair follicles and transplanting them to areas that need hair. This method provides natural looking results. Hair is harvested in two different ways.\nThe first method involves the surgeon cutting a long strip of scalp with hair attached to it, from which many grafts can be taken. The second method involves cutting tiny plugs out of the scalp and harvesting hairs individually. They can then be placed in the desired location via small cuts to the area. Hair transplants can be very expensive, with costs ranging from $3 to $12 per graft. Depending on how many grafts are done, prices can therefore reach into the tens of thousands of dollars very quickly, as the typical transplant surgery requires approximately 6000 grafts to be removed and implanted.\nSide effects include pain, itching, swelling, and bleeding at the site of the operation. Also, risks associated with general surgery are also present. These include infection and possibly death. Hair transplants usually last for several years, but over time, they may also fall out, leading a patient to have more grafts implanted.\nImpact of Your Diet\nDiet can have an impact on hair loss in people with a genetic predisposition to male pattern baldness. It has been show that high insulin levels, like those found in type 2 diabetics and people with metabolic syndrome may exacerbate hair loss. High levels of insulin in the blood can cause the levels of SHBG to fall. SHBG is a protein that binds to testosterone, preventing it from being converted into DHT. Diets that maintain strict glycemic control can therefore help to prevent hair loss.\nMaintaining control of insulin in the blood is dependent on controlling the amount of glucose in the blood. Glucose is a simple sugar that the body uses for energy. For those wishing to combat hair loss with diet, it is important to eat foods low on the glycemic index, such as while grains and vegetables. Eating omega 3 fatty acids may also help to prevent hair loss. These fatty acids are found in foods like salmon, tuna, and flax seeds.\nSeveral natural remedies have been touted to help combat male pattern baldness. These herb and supplements can be found in health food stores and specialty nutritional centers.\nIron is an important mineral for preventing anemia due to an iron deficiency. Anemia is a medical condition where there is a drop in the number of oxygen-carrying red blood cells. One of the symptoms of iron deficient anemia is hair loss. Iron can be taken in pill supplements or obtained from ingesting iron rich foods such as broccoli and organ meats.\nB vitamins may also help in preventing hair loss. B vitamins, particularly biotin, are necessary for producing hair and maintaining its health. 3 mg of biotin per day is adequate for aiding in hair loss and health.\nZinc may help to reduce the amounts of DHT in the blood. It is important to take only the daily recommended value of zinc, because taking too much may cause the formation of dangerous free radicals and a copper deficiency.\nSaw Palmetto & Green Tea\nThe herb saw palmetto has been the subject of much research. Like finesteride, it has been shown to help with certain prostate conditions. Because of this, scientists believe it may also have similar effects on hair growth.\nGreen tea has been shown in studies to increase levels of SHGB, which can bind with testosterone and prevent it from being converted into hair damaging DHT. Green tea also has powerful antioxidants and anti-cancer properties.\nWhile hair loss may be a traumatic experience for many people, it need not be. Images of beauty change constantly and in modern years, a shift towards accepting that bald can be beautiful has been occurring. Balding men now routinely shave their heads and proudly display their bald heads, taking control of the situation and making the best of it. For those who are uncomfortable with embracing their baldness, they can try wigs or hats to disguise their hair loss.\nMedical advancements have made it possible to regrow or at least salvage what is left of a person\u2019s hair, but treatments need to be continuous or the hair loss will return. 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Toys\"R\"Us stores nationwide opened at midnight Thursday, November 26, providing shoppers access to its Black Friday deals five hours earlier than ever before. According to the National Retail Federation, a trade organization, as many as 134 million people, 4.7% more than last year, will shop this Friday, Saturday or Sunday. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)\nEven in a place full of big block retailers like Herald Square, there are small businesses who must compete to survive. And the city's trying to help independent merchants by pioneering a new program on the weekend between two of the busiest shopping days of the year.\nFor Diamonds and Dials, a longstanding reputation -- 50 years in business -- helps keeps customers coming. But with no advertising budget it's tough to get the word out to patrons that, just like the massive retailers that line Manhattan streets, they have sales, too.\n\"The biggest challenge is getting them into the store,\" said Diamonds & Dials owner Jimmy Tarzy.\nJust east on 34th Street, Smart Toys faces the same challenge.\n\"Just trying to get the community to understand that we are here\" is an ongoing battle, explains Smart Toys' Tom Keenan.\nThat's where the concept of Small Business Saturday comes in. American Express is offering a platform for these Mom & Pop stores to get some attention while at the same time giving customers $25 back for shopping at an independent retailer.\nMayor Michael Bloomberg and American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault launched the plan earlier this month.\nMore than 1.1 million Facebook users like the idea and it became the top trend on Google, particularly among shoppers in the city.\nAs one out-of-town browser, Tricia Adams, said, the best deals are \"at the smaller shops.\nThe challenge for small business owners, then, has been how to advertise and organize that message.\nIt's tough for small businesses to stand out in a crowd during the holiday rush, especially because it's difficult to find out which business is offering what type of deal, but soon even that may change.\nSmall business websites like the 3/50 Project may soon offer a search engine that highlights nearby small businesses and even allows potential customers to browse for deals.\n\"Now that we have a sponsor on board, we can begin to grow and put those tools in place for consumers to more easily find who those independents are,\" said Cinda Baxter, founder of the 3/50 Project.\nTarzy says the economy does appear to be improving, but customers are still careful about how and where they spend, so he hopes Small Business Saturday will encourage shoppers to step inside his store.\n\"It's been busy so far today and people appear to be using their credit cards,\" Tarzy said.\nThe actual nationwide small business sales numbers won't be available for a few days, but thus far, experts seem to support the idea that people are ready to do some serious shopping at smaller outlets.\nBoth Bloomberg and Chenault appear committed to ensuring the success of independent retailers over the long haul.\n\"It's not a flash in the pan,'' Chenault said in announcing Small Business Saturday. He added that American Express was \"committed to this effort for years to come.''\nThe mayor also lauded the value of small businesses, calling them \"the backbone of our economy and the glue that holds communities together.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcumv.com/news/telemundo-launches-national-latino-empowerment-platform-%E2%80%9C-future-us%E2%80%9D?network=33144", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KY3JLH5JRVMAYO6EYIAKGU745DXSOGCK", "length": 3206, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nbcumv.com", "title": "TELEMUNDO LAUNCHES NATIONAL LATINO EMPOWERMENT PLATFORM \u201cTHE FUTURE IS US\u201d | NBCUniversal Media Village", "raw_content": "TELEMUNDO LAUNCHES NATIONAL LATINO EMPOWERMENT PLATFORM \u201cTHE FUTURE IS US\u201d\nSomos El Futuro: The Future is US, an innovative multi-platform campaign, celebrates Latinos\u2019 impact in the U.S. and highlights the importance of civic engagement\nKicks off nation-wide Community Empowerment Tour and releases report showcasing the power of U.S. Hispanics\nMIAMI \u2013 September 10, 2018 \u2013 As part of Telemundo\u2019s award-winning El Poder En Ti corporate social responsibility platform, today the company announced the launch of a nationwide Latino empowerment campaign, Somos El Futuro: The Future Is US. The multiplatform initiative will highlight the impact Latinos are having on America\u2019s economic future, social attitudes and cultural trends, while aiming to enhance the Hispanic community\u2019s power through increased civic engagement.\nToday\u2019s launch is accompanied by a new report detailing how American Latinos are growing in numbers, expanding their impact and shaping the future of the United States. Latinos are the driving force behind the population growth of the U.S., accounting for half the increase since 2000. At nearly 18% of the total American population, they are the youngest racial or ethnic group in the country. Beyond their growing numbers, today, Latinos in all 50 states are influencing every facet of American life \u2013 as consumers, students, job creators, cultural influencers and voters.\n\u201cThe Latino community is dynamic, diverse and on the rise. Our Somos el Futuro: The Future is US campaign is a recognition of our community\u2019s unique story and a statement of both the power and aspiration of the American Latino community,\u201d said Ginette Maga\u00f1a, Director, Corporate Affairs. \u201cTelemundo recognizes that the U.S. Latino community is playing a major role in shaping the future of the nation we call home. This campaign celebrates the evolution of our American culture.\u201d\nThe campaign will feature a series of segments across network shows including \u201cUn Nuevo D\u00eda,\u201d \u201cAl Rojo Vivo\u201d and \u201cNoticias Telemundo,\u201d among others. Telemundo\u2019s talent, including international Spanish-language television icon Don Francisco, and \u201cNoticias Telemundo\u201d anchor Jos\u00e9 D\u00edaz-Balart, will take part in the campaign.\nTelemundo will embark on a Somos El Futuro: The Future Is US, cross-country Community Empowerment Tour to inform and provide resources to consumers on opportunities to register to vote. The Somos El Futuro: The Future Is US Community Empowerment Tour will make stops in Phoenix, Houston, Orlando, among other key cities across the country. Throughout the tour, Telemundo will leverage partner organizations\u2019 work to increase civic participation and engagement among Latinos.\nIn partnership with national Hispanic-serving organizations Voto Latino, UnidosUS, Hispanic Federation, NALEO Educational Fund and Mi Familia Vota, Telemundo is utilizing its ability to reach tens of millions of U.S. Latinos across platforms to inform, educate, and provide the tools to make voter registration easy and accessible for Hispanic audiences.\nFor more information about the campaign, and to access the full report and tools to register to vote, please visit www.TheFutureisUS.com.\nKrystyna Hall\nKrystyna.hall@nbcuni.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncconstructionnews.com/ncsu-posts-opportunities-for-architects-engineers-general-contractors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:19Z", "digest": "sha1:CNNCJX4K7ISISA5FMG5H6FED2G4IOBHP", "length": 1798, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ncconstructionnews.com", "title": "NCSU posts opportunities for architects, engineers, general contractors | North Carolina Construction News", "raw_content": "Home Contractors NCSU posts opportunities for architects, engineers, general contractors\nNCSU posts opportunities for architects, engineers, general contractors\nNorth Carolina State University (NCSU) has posted opportunities for architects, engineers and general contractors for upcoming and ongoing projects.\nIn one posting, the university says it invites professional design firms (with North Carolina licenses) for \u201copen-ended service agreements.\u201d\nThe university is \u201cseeking firms to provide limited term professional design services for small renovations and new construction projects under $500K for the following disciplines\u201d (the number of firms to be selected in each category is in parentheses): Architectural (7); Asbestos, Environmental, Hazardous Materials (4); Civil (4); Commissioning (4); Electrical (5); Lab Design (3); Landscape (3); Mechanical (5); Move Coordination (3); Roofing (3); Structural (3); Surveying (4); Testing (4); and Transportation (4).\nThe closing time for submissions is 5:00 p.m. on Feb. 12.\nMeanwhile, the university says it is seeking prequalification submittals from general contractors for the improvements to the College of Veterinary Medicine Main Building at 1060 William Moore Dr. in Raleigh. \u201cThe project scope includes the renovation to approximately 8,000 sq. ft. of the existing facility. Hazardous materials will be mitigated as part of this project.\u201d\nNC State University biomedical campus\nThe qualification packages must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Feb. 16.\nFor more details, see the NC State University facilities division website.\nPrevious articleCAGC Pinnacle Awards: Recognizing the industry\u2019s highest achievements\nNext articleNC State Construction Conference March 24\nRDU Airport receives just two bids, rejects one, for multi-million dollar...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nealfh.com/obituaries/Stephen-Yager/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WIYAXFQK6H7H4XCFXO4Z2VQYHTCC6F4R", "length": 615, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.nealfh.com", "title": "Obituary for Stephen C. Yager | Neal Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Stephen C. Yager\nStephen C. Yager, 61, of Conroe, Texas, passed away on Monday, July 30, 2018. He was born on Friday, July 26, 1957, in Trov, New York, to Edward Arden Yager and Margaret (Galvin) Yager, both of whom have preceded him in death. Stephen was also preceded in death by his son, Travis Yager, sister, Kathryn Yager, nephew, Robert. Left to cherish his memory is his loving wife of 30 years, Pamela Jo Yager; daughter, Tara Ann Yager and Chris McAllister; brother, Michael Yager; sister, Sheila Yager; along with numerous other loving family and treasured friends.\nAUG 4. 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM\nAUG 4. 6:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nevadabusiness.com/2014/06/matt-smith-physical-therapy-acquires-rancho-injury-care-center/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:18Z", "digest": "sha1:HDI67SNGKHJXMSCCXREILOR4UN6OZPEK", "length": 2374, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.nevadabusiness.com", "title": "Matt Smith Physical Therapy Acquires Rancho Care Center", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Press Release Wire / Matt Smith Physical Therapy Acquires Rancho Injury Care Center\nMatt Smith Physical Therapy Acquires Rancho Injury Care Center\nJune 12, 2014 By Greg Ferraro 1 Comment\nNew location marks the company\u2019s 14th clinic in Las Vegas\nLas Vegas \u2013 Matt Smith Physical Therapy, a locally owned and operated company dedicated to changing lives through physical therapy and community outreach, has recently expanded its operations to include the acquisition of Rancho Injury Care Center. The clinic will become the company\u2019s 14th Matt Smith Physical Therapy location in Southern Nevada.\nThe newly acquired clinic is located at 500 S. Rancho Drive, Suite 2, in Las Vegas. It is open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday; and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. The location also has bilingual staff.\n\u201cThis acquisition is exciting for our business as we continue to grow and offer convenient locations and quality care for our patients,\u201d said the company\u2019s founder, Matt Smith.\nLeading the clinic is Physical Therapist and Personal Injury Clinical Director John Lyons, MSPT, MCMT, OCS. Lyons graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Physical Therapy. Lyons is a board-certified specialist in orthopedics by the American Physical Therapy Association and a certified manual therapist through Hands-On Seminars in New York. He has been practicing in Las Vegas since 2004 with a concentration in sports medicine, post-operative rehabilitation and persistent pain resulting from car accidents and work-related injuries.\nAbout Matt Smith Physical Therapy\nLocally owned and operated, Matt Smith Physical Therapy maintains 14 locations in the Las Vegas valley, each of which has bilingual staff. The practice specializes in sports medicine, pilates, spine, certified hand therapy, automobile accident/personal injury, and foot and ankle orthotics. Founded by Matt Smith, the practice is committed to changing lives through physical therapy and community outreach. 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However Jessica has also seen first hand the long-term impacts these devices can have such as early stages of myopia (short- or near-sightedness), which is becoming a major Australian public health crisis.\nRising at an alarming rate, new studies have revealed myopia now affects 19 per cent of 12-year-olds, which is almost double the amount in 2005, 31 per cent of 17-year-olds also suffer from the condition and more than half of myopia cases are diagnosed between the ages of six and 15, with the second wave between 18 and 22.\nSo with this in mind, we ask Jessica to share three signs your child may have early stages of near-sightedness\nNear-sightedness may develop gradually or rapidly, often worsening during childhood and adolescence, here is what to look out for when it comes to your children\u2019s eye health:\nChildren with myopia have difficulty seeing things at a distance, which may be demonstrated by sitting too close to the television, squinting, or difficulty in school because they can\u2019t see the board.\nIf your child complains about headaches when they have been concentrating or focusing their eyes on something (TV, school blackboard, street signs, etc.), this may be linked to early stages of myopia.\nIf you notice your child blinking or rubbing their eyes excessively it could be due to eye fatigue which is linked to myopia.\nSchedule an appointment with one an optometrists if your child exhibits any of these signs. A visit with the doctor may reveal that your child has myopia. 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The film, which was written by Mike Makowsky, who grew up in Roslyn during the scandal, has a 2019 release date. Scenes were filmed in October outside a private residence on Elm Drive in Roslyn, and in Manhattan.\nPhoto Credit: HBO / Atsushi Nishijima\nAl Pacino plays former Penn State coach Joe Paterno in the HBO's original movie \"Paterno,\" which filmed football scenes at Hofstra University and Mitchel Athletic Complex in Uniondale.\nPhoto Credit: Getty Images for Turner / Mike Coppola\nPeriod crime drama \"Motherless Brooklyn,\" directed, written by and starring Edward Norton, did location filming March 19 and 20 on the Wantagh State Parkway near Jones Beach. An adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's novel about a 1950s New York private detective with Tourette syndrome, the movie also is shooting interiors at Gold Coast Studios in Bethpage. The production, by Norton's company, Class 5, along with MWM Studios, is set for release by Warner Bros. in 2019. Also starring are Massapequa's Alec Baldwin along with Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Bobby Cannavale, Cherry Jones, Fisher Stevens, Ethan Suplee and Leslie Mann.\n\"The Irishman,\" Martin Scorsese's upcoming mobster film starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Harvey Keitel, Ray Romano and an out-from-retirement Joe Pesci turned the clock back in Huntington Station Sept. 25, 2017, as the Rodeway Inn at 270 W. Jericho Tpke. became once more the Howard Johnson's it had been in the 1970s.\n\"The Week Of\"\nArielle Schwimmer and Danielle Charette, right, pose for a photo with Adam Sandler on July 7, 2017, at Northwell Health Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park. The actor was there filming scenes for Netflix comedy, \"The Week Of.\"\n\"The Comedian\"\nPhoto Credit: Sony Pictures Classics / Alison Cohen Rosa\nGovernor's Comedy Cabaret in Levittown has played host to plenty of comedians over the years, but in March 2016, the club was a filming location for Robert De Niro's \"The Comedian.\" In the film, out Feb. 3, 2017, Jackie Burke (De Niro), has fallen so far down the career ladder that he has to ride the LIRR to Governor's.\n\"The Emperor Jones\"\nIn 1933, Paul Robeson chose Long Island as the location for \"The Emperor Jones,\" the story of the trial of a cunning railway porter, because the color of his skin made it difficult to shoot in the South. Jones Beach was used for one of the few outdoor shots: Robeson as Brutus Jones, swims ashore from a steamship.\n\"Citizen Kane\"\nPhoto Credit: Film Forum\nOheka Castle in Huntington was the setting for the fictional estate Xanadu in the classic film \"Citizen Kane\" (1941).\n\"The Girl From Jones Beach\"\nPhoto Credit: George Eastman House\nSome scenes for the 1949 film \"The Girl From Jones Beach,\" starring Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan and Eddie Bracken, were actually filmed at Jones Beach.\nTwo mansions in Glen Cove were used in two versions of \"Sabrina\": Welland House for the 1954 original starring Audrey Hepburn; Salutation House for the 1995 remake.\nPhoto Credit: MGM\nThe Coleman Estate in Muttontown was the location of choice for Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor to indulge in psychological torture in 1958's \"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.\"\nOld Westbury Gardens and the former Phipps Estate house were the setting for the 1970 movie \"Love Story\" starring Ryan O'Neal as Oliver Barrett IV.\n\"The World According to Garp\"\nPhoto Credit: USA Network\nJohn Irving's novel \"The World According to Garp\" was set in New England, but the 1982 film was shot on location in Fishers Island and Roslyn.\n\"Zelig\"\nWoody Allen wrote, directed and starred in the mockumentary film \"Zelig\" (1983), which features shots of Long Beach and Old Bethpage.\nMill Neck Manor was the setting for some of the comedic scenes in \"Trading Places\" (1983) starring, from left, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Lee Curtis and Dan Aykroyd.\nThe screenplay for \"Compromising Positions\" (1985), by Susan Isaacs, was adapted from her 1978 novel. The plot concerns Judith Singer, portrayed by Susan Sarandon, a Long Island housewife and former Newsday reporter who becomes involved in a murder investigation. Sarandon is pictured in a production scene at Newsday in Melville.\n\"Sweet Liberty\"\nPhoto Credit: Universal City Studios\nAlan Alda opened up the far reaches of Suffolk as a major film site with his 1986 comedy \"Sweet Liberty.\" Sag Harbor was among the Long Island locations where the movie was filmed.\n\"Crocodile Dundee II\"\nPhoto Credit: Paramount Pictures / Peter Carrette\nSome scenes for \"Crocodile Dundee II\" (1988) were shot at the Vanderbilt Museum in Centerport. Paul Hogan returned as Michael J. \"Crocodile\" Dundee in the action-comedy sequel.\n\"Married to the Mob\"\nPhoto Credit: Orion Pictures\n\"Married to the Mob,\" Jonathan Demme's memorable 1988 comedy starring Michelle Pfeiffer, was shot on location in Cedarhurst, Massapequa and East Meadow.\n\"Fletch Lives\"\nNewsday was the location for a fictional Los Angeles newspaper in \"Fletch Lives,\" starring Chevy Chase. If you watch closely, you'll see a map of Long Island on the wall in the newsroom scene from the 1989 movie.\n\"She-Devil\"\nA pink bluffside mansion in Belle Terre was used as the fictional home of a romance novelist played by Meryl Streep in 1989's \"She-Devil.\"\nThe Guggenheim estate homes at Sands Point Preserve played a small role in \"Scent of a Woman\" (1992), starring Al Pacino, pictured left.\n\"Malcolm X\"\nThe seaside Hempstead House at Sands Point Preserve was used for \"Malcolm X.\" The 1992 biopic about the controversial African-American leader starred Denzel Washington.\n\"Batman Forever\"\nPhoto Credit: Acclaim Entertainment\nWebb Institute provided the setting for some scenes in \"Batman Forever\" (1995), produced by Tim Burton.\nThe 1995 comedy \"To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar,\" starring Wesley Snipes, John Leguizamo and Patrick Swayze as New York drag queens, filmed its Miss Drag Queen USA contest at Old Westbury Gardens.\n\"The Associate\"\nPhoto Credit: Hollywood Pictures\nWhoopi Goldberg used the staircase at the Knole estate for a grand entrance in the comedy \"The Associate\" (1996).\n\"Night Falls on Manhattan\"\nScenes for Sidney Lumet's \"Night Falls on Manhattan\" (1996), starring Andy Garcia, were filmed in Atlantic Beach.\n\"The Preacher's Wife\"\nDirector Penny Marshall chose Lake Success as one of the locations for \"The Preacher's Wife\" (1996) starring Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington.\nPhoto Credit: Warner Bros. Productions LTD.\n\"The Devil's Advocate,\" directed by Taylor Hackford, and starring Al Pacino, Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron, had scenes filmed at the Knole estate in Old Westbury.\n\"In & Out\"\nNorthport Village doubled for the fictional Greenleaf, Ind., in the 1997 comedy \"In & Out.\" Tim's Shipwreck Diner took on the name \"Darlene's Diner\" in the Kevin Kline movie.\n\"Love and Death on Long Island\"\nPhoto Credit: CFP Distribution / C. Reardon\nMuch of 1997's \"Love and Death on Long Island,\" starring John Hurt and Jason Priestly, was filmed in Nova Scotia, but filming also took place on the east end of Long Island.\n\"A Perfect Murder\"\nPhoto Credit: Warner Bros./ Andrew Schwartz\nFilmed in Glen Cove, \"A Perfect Murder\" (1998) starred Viggo Mortensen, Gwyneth Paltrow and Michael Douglas.\nOld Westbury Gardens played a small role in in 1999's \"Cruel Intentions,\" starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and Ryan Phillippe (pictured), as well as Reese Witherspoon.\nPhoto Credit: Universal Pictures/ Francois Duhamel\nSome scenes of \"Man On the Moon,\" the biography of comedian Andy Kaufman, starring Jim Carrey, were shot at Saddle Rock Estates in the Village of Saddle Rock near Great Neck.\nPhoto Credit: Newsday / George Argeroplos\nThe 2003 documentary \"Capturing the Friedmans\" was filmed in Great Neck, where the controversial child molestation case began.\nPhoto Credit: Bob Marshak\n\"Something's Gotta Give\" in 2003 had Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton's romantic scenes -- at least the outdoor ones -- taking place in the environs of Southampton and East Hampton.\nPhoto Credit: VNU Digital\nThe 2006 movie \"The Good Shepherd,\" starring Angelina Jolie and Matt Damon, told the story of the Central Intelligence Agency's beginnings on location in Manhasset.\nPhoto Credit: David Lee\nA detective brings down Harlem drug kingpin Frank Lucas in 2007's \"American Gangster.\" Long Island's Briarcliff Manor and Old Westbury Gardens were used in the movie.\n\"What Happens in Vegas\"\nCamera crews set up shop on Fire Island and at Oheka Castle in Huntington for 2008's \"What Happens in Vegas,\" starring Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher.\n\"Win Win\"\nPhoto Credit: Peter Walden Sr.\nCamera crews turned a 1913 Port Washington Colonial into a law office for \"Win Win,\" starring Paul Giamatti (pictured right) as a struggling attorney. Other locations include the Port Washington Long Island Rail Road station, St. Mark's United Methodist Church in Rockville Centre and Lawrence High School.\nAngelina Jolie is a CIA agent suspected of spying for the Russians in \"Salt\" (2010). The former Grumman facility in Bethpage served as a backdrop for part of the movie. Jolie was injured while filming an action sequence and was treated at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset.\nAn upscale after-wedding brunch in \"Sex and the City 2\" (2010) was filmed at Salutations Mansion in Glen Cove, starring the fabulous four -- Cynthia Nixon, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall and Kristin Davis.\n\"Nice Guy Johnny\"\nPhoto Credit: WIilliam Rexer\nEast Hampton was featured as a backdrop in the 2010 romantic comedy \"Nice Guy Johnny,\" starring Edward Burns.\n\"The Normal Heart\"\nPhoto Credit: HBO / Jojo Whilden\nMark Ruffalo, right, and Joe Mantello in a scene from the HBO movie \"The Normal Heart,\" which filmed on Long Island in summer and November 2013. Production spent 11 of 33 filming days on Long Island, including four days on location in Fire Island and Glen Cove and a week at Gold Coast Studios in Bethpage.\nActor Keanu Reeves filmed scenes for the 2014 action thriller \"John Wick\" at Republic Airport in Farmingdale on Dec. 21, 2013.\nFaux Island: Movies, shows set but not filmed on LIThe Seavers of \"Growing Pains\" purported to be a Long Island family, but alas, they were not. Check out more shows and movies set on LI but not actually filmed here. We're famous! Long Island in pop cultureFrom \"Meet the Parents\" and \"Everybody Loves Raymond\" to your favorite Billy Joel lyrics and ... 'Maniac' and more TV shows filmed on LIDid you know \"Orange Is the New Black\" has filmed on Long Island? Plus, see ... 35 books set on Long IslandFrom love stories to horror classics, Long Island provides the backdrop for many books besides ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 15286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsday.com/long-island/education/graduations/extraordinary-senior-nicholas-vinberg-massapequa-high-school-1.10520627", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:KRK7KS2Y5B3KWCCXEV53WOMTWHG7RTZY", "length": 3713, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.newsday.com", "title": "Nicholas Vinberg has 'strong calling' to serve | Newsday", "raw_content": "Long IslandEducationGraduations\nNicholas Vinberg has 'strong calling' to serve\nNicholas Vinberg, Massapequa High School Senior, with the American Flag that is flown in his front yard in Massapequa Park on June 3, 2015. Photo Credit: Jeremy Bales\nBy MICHAEL R. EBERT michael.ebert@newsday.com Updated June 25, 2015 3:49 PM\nNicholas Vinberg took a rare day off from school two years ago -- on May 24, 2013, to be exact.\nThe date marked the funeral for Jonathan Kaloust, 23, a Massapequa alum and Navy SEAL who was killed when his Humvee overturned during a training accident in Kentucky.\nVinberg, a patriotic teen from Massapequa Park with a self-proclaimed \"strong calling\" to serve the United States, wanted to honor the late SEAL in his own way despite never having met Kaloust or his family. He walked to town holding an American flag and stood for five hours across the street from the service at the Massapequa Funeral Home.\nMassapequa's Nicholas Vinberg plays a ball off of his chest during the first half of a Nassau Conference AA-I varsity boys soccer game versus host Uniondale on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014. Photo Credit: James Escher\n\"My heart was broken, so I asked my mom if I could take off from school and she didn't think twice,\" Vinberg, 18, said. \"Whenever I hold a flag, I'm doing it for all the people who are giving their lives.\"\nVinberg's patriotism began at an early age when his mother painted an American flag in his room that spanned the length and width of the sloped ceiling above his bed. He also has the armed forces in his genes: His grandfather was an Army Ranger and Korean War POW who died a month after he was born.\nBut patriotism aside, it's Vinberg's work ethic that has most caught the eye of his teachers. To challenge himself, he omitted a lunch period last year to simultaneously take chemistry and physics, followed by double periods of AP physics and calculus this year.\nThe hard work has paid off. Vinberg is a member of his school's National Honor Society, High Honor Roll and Principal's List -- the latter of which he said recognizes those with an average of 94 or above.\nTo remain focused, Vinberg often reads from a small black notebook filled with hundreds of inspirational quotes.\n\"Nick sets incredibly high standards for himself and consistently meets his personal expectations with grace and modesty,\" said his guidance counselor, Allison Fifield. \"He is an extremely ambitious young man.\"\nIn addition, Vinberg is captain of the varsity soccer team and a member of the varsity lacrosse and swimming teams. He played a key role in helping those teams win state championships for the 2013-14 school year. He also plays trumpet in wind ensemble and is a member of Senior Nation, a group of upperclassmen who mentor the district's younger students.\nOutside of school, Vinberg is a lifeguard for the Town of Oyster Bay and is a buddy for special-needs children competing in the Empire State Games at Mitchel Field in Uniondale. He will attend the New Mexico Military Institute's Service Academy Preparatory Program, with the intention of going to the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point the following year. Vinberg said he is \"looking forward to the strict and regimented lifestyle\" military schools provide.\nWHAT MAKES YOU EXTRAORDINARY:\n\"Although I don't think of myself as extraordinary, I see things differently than most kids my age. I believe there are many people in this world who are going through tough times, and a few words or a simple smile can go a long way and pick them up.\"\nMeet 148 of LI's smartest 2015 teensMeet Long Island's 2015 valedictorians, arranged in alphabetical order by school. LI's valedictorians 10 years laterWhere are they now?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 7330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsday.com/sports/columnists/arthur-staple", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:48Z", "digest": "sha1:JWKTWU5LTK5JKCFIZ544Z6HGX4EIFAXE", "length": 140, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.newsday.com", "title": "Arthur Staple | Newsday", "raw_content": "Arthur Staple\nStaple, with Newsday from 1997 to early 2018, has covered high school sports, hockey and football.\nMost popular sports stories", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a17669", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VLBBX4HU4TYQS6BW3SV4RJG4ONSSUJJ6", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.newyorker.com", "title": "A Cartoon from The New Yorker", "raw_content": "\u201cNarrative play is dead.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 89.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/actress-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ARHBVQRVATQQATQPZJJ7BT2MTDX4B5JY", "length": 1124, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.newyorker.com", "title": "Actress - The New Yorker", "raw_content": "The real-life actress Brandy Burre, a regular on \u201cThe Wire,\u201d left show biz, had two children, and moved, with her partner, Tim Reinke, to Beacon, New York. In Robert Greene\u2019s documentary about her effort to return to the business (and the art) of acting, she gets the role of a lifetime\u2014herself. Doing his own cinematography, Greene (at that time Burre\u2019s neighbor) becomes a virtual part of her household, and his camera becomes Burre\u2019s confidant, framing her in a confessional mood. But her attempt at reinvention comes at the price of her relationship with Reinke, a restaurateur (who is present in the film, along with their young children, Henry and Stella). For Burre, artistic and erotic desire are fused; she sees her life as a series of roles\u2014mom conflicts with actress, partner with lover\u2014and her struggle for fulfillment links creative work with economic independence. Her story is the stuff of classic melodrama, and that\u2019s how Greene, astonishingly, films it: his images, with their shrieking colors and vertiginous geometry, suggest the intimate grandeur and bitter irony of a Douglas Sirk romance come to life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1, "original_length": 1168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nextavenue.org/when-end-life-approaches-who-can-afford-cost-hope/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:17Z", "digest": "sha1:F6Y7TEZLT2BENTO7K6JCHCUWIOULBRSG", "length": 8395, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.nextavenue.org", "title": "When End of Life Approaches, Who Can Afford the Cost of Hope? - Next Avenue", "raw_content": "When End of Life Approaches, Who Can Afford the Cost of Hope?\nAuthor Amanda Bennett shares the lessons of her new book on marriage and \"the quest for life\"\nBy Gary DrevitchAugust 15, 2012\nCredit: By Natasha Cholerton Brown | Courtesy of the authorAmanda Bennett\nIn her new memoir, The Cost of Hope: The Story of a Marriage, a Family, and the Quest for Life (Random House, 2012) Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Amanda Bennett, an executive editor at Bloomberg News, details her husband Terence Foley's seven-year battle with colon cancer. Foley died in 2007 at age 67. The New York Times calls Bennett's book, which grew out of an article she wrote for Bloomberg, \"equal parts marriage confessional and skilled investigative report.\"\nThe couple was married for 20 years and had two children. They met at a party in Beijing in 1983, when she was a foreign correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and he was the director of the American Soybean Association, although he introduced himself to her at a party as a Fulbright Scholar studying Sino-Soviet relations. \"You\u2019re cute. You\u2019re a journalist. I wanted to talk to you,\" he told her when they next met. \"How long would you have talked to me if I told you I was in soybeans?\"\nBennett's book is not just about love and loss; it also offers her perspective on our health-care system. After her husband's death, she gathered all the bills they'd collected during his illness \u2014 for hospital stays, tests and treatments. The exact total, she discovered, was $618,616, much of it for experimental drugs, and more than $43,000 of it for the last four days of his life. After insurance coverage, the cost to the couple was $9,468, or about 4 percent of the total. While Foley was ill, the couple had made multiple moves as she changed jobs, and Bennett writes about the radical differences in the cost of treatments from state to state and from insurance company to insurance company.\nBennett recently spoke to Next Avenue about both elements of her story:\nYou describe how befuddling your husband's medical bills were \u2014 and you're a well-educated, award-winning journalist. What has to change for any of us to be able to make sense of our health costs?\nWe ought to be demanding transparency in pricing and costs and pushing hospitals, doctors and insurance companies to show us more clearly what the costs are. I\u2019ve seen people ask hospitals about their costs and they are told, \"You wouldn\u2019t understand them.\" Just think if you went to an auto mechanic and said, \"I want to know everything you\u2019re doing. Show me an itemized bill,\" and they said, \"You wouldn\u2019t understand.\" Well, I might not, but I want to see what you\u2019re charging me for.\nIn the short term, getting these complicated answers, when you\u2019ve got a busy life and the additional stress of serious illness, is hard. The actual cost of services is very hard to determine. The best I can offer is to remind everyone that a lot of these charges are fantasy. Most people are now realizing that when they see a bill it\u2019s a negotiating point for hospitals and insurance companies. When I got bills I saw that there was no relationship between what was being billed by hospitals and other providers and what was actually being paid by insurance companies. For the same procedures, the cost varies by date, by hospital, by state, by insurer.\n(MORE: What the Supreme Court Decision on Health Care Means for You)\nReferring to all the procedures that your husband underwent, including 76 CAT scans, you wrote that because you had insurance, \"All of us, doctors and patients alike, could casually afford to pop them like cherry Twizzlers.\"\nThe system has to change. But it\u2019s hard for everyone working inside the system to make a difference. If the doctor says you need a test, it\u2019s hard for you to say, \"Are you sure?\" If we think there is a .0001 percent chance that it could do some good, we say, \"Let\u2019s do it.\" It\u2019s hard to push back against the system, but I think we all must. People need to use common sense and add some rationality to this.\nAt some point late in your husband's illness, you started to wonder whether the measures you took to extend his life were more for your benefit or his.\nWhat I've found is that I was pretty typical. You\u2019re really pushing hard for yourself. You can\u2019t bear the idea that you\u2019re going to live without this person you love, whether it\u2019s your parent, your spouse or your child. You really want that for yourself. The person who is sick is also trying to hang on for you. It may be important to try to distinguish between what you want for yourself and what you want for someone else, particularly when you have someone who\u2019s had a long life, and whose quality of life is deteriorating \u2014 and they might be reluctant to let go because they don\u2019t want to disappoint you. It\u2019s hard, which is why I think you need somebody on the outside helping you.\nRight now, the way the system is set up, nobody is a bystander. You have a stake, and the hospital has a stake, in not letting go. And the patient is not letting go, either. We need an outside voice. It could come from all kinds of different places. It could be a hospice professional. It could be a paid care manager or a patient care advocate. It could be a priest, rabbi or minister. It could be a family member, although they tend to have stakes, too. It\u2019s got to be somebody who\u2019s a little bit outside the whole thing.\nWhat are the positives in our health-care system?\nPeople are looking for someone to blame in the system. I didn\u2019t find anybody evil in this system at all. Hospitals are trying to cure people. Doctors are trying to cure people. The professionals we met were totally professional. There is an excellent health care system in this country. We just don\u2019t have an excellent way to pay for it. We have rationing, right now. People like me, with good insurance, have access to the best medical care available in the world. We do whatever we want and don\u2019t need to think about it. And people without insurance don\u2019t get anything because they\u2019re priced out.\nAlso, we tried some extreme, really expensive experimental drug treatments. Most turned out to be very successful \u2014 maybe not to help my husband, but they are now keeping people with cancer alive two, three, five or six years longer than before. These amazing drug discoveries are going to be turning some previously fatal conditions into chronic conditions. We were thrilled to benefit from it a little bit and also to advance the research.\n(MORE: Get the Most From Your Health Insurance)\nSo as everyone who reads The Cost of Hope realizes, I am pretty blunt about how much I was in denial right up to the very end. And I am very frank that that part had its costs. But I'm not sure I was clear enough about the benefits \u2014 although the whole book in a way is a testament to the benefits.\nWhat advice would you give to someone just beginning the journey that you and your husband went on?\nI\u2019d say that you have to realize that denial is a two-edged sword. Denial is unbelievably positive. To call it \u201cdenial\u201d is almost ridiculously understating what it is. It is incredibly powerful and useful in keeping your life normal and happy and not letting an illness consume your whole life. People desperately want their lives to be normal. That\u2019s not a bad thing \u2014 that\u2019s a good thing. The whole book in a way is a testament to the benefits. We absolutely refused to believe he was going to die, and as a result we never did act like he was going to die. And with everything we went through, we had glorious, happy, event-filled lives almost to the last minute.\nThat was wonderfully important to him and important to us. I look back on those seven years filled with hospitals and drugs and things as being part of the life of a family. When I look back on what we had, I don\u2019t look back on it exclusively as the years he had cancer, but the years we went to Spain, the years we had family over, the years we did so much else. It helped us to be normal. It gave him the ability not even three weeks before he died to tell somebody, \"I\u2019ve had a wonderful, wonderful life.\"\nCan You Afford to Become a Caregiver?\nWhat the Supreme Court Decision on Health Care Means for You\nHow to Help a Loved One With End-of-Life Decisions\nGet the Most From Your Health Insurance\nThe Cost of Hope: An Excerpt\nHuff/Post 50: Why I Wish They'd Stop Running Medical Ads", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 263, "original_length": 14068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 199.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nhpinnacleenta.org/who-we-are/newsroom/nnpg28030/1.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:26Z", "digest": "sha1:RTHF3B6NKWU624XNFFSBIKXYTNN3IMQB", "length": 681, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nhpinnacleenta.org", "title": "Newsroom", "raw_content": "CHARLOTTE, N.C. \u2013 75 physicians from Novant Medical Group, the physician network affiliated with Presbyterian Healthcare and its parent company, Novant Health, have been named to the 2011 Best Doctors list for North Carolina. On an annual basis, Boston-based Best Doctors Inc. surveys physicians, asking them to rate their peers by naming the physician to whom they would refer their loved ones or choose for themselves if they needed care in their own specialty area. Doctors cannot pay to be included on the list or nominate themselves for the list. Only 5 percent of physicians nationwide are selected as Best Doctors. To learn more about the process, visit www.bestdoctors.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nolo.com/lawyers/profile/norman-gillis-associates-inc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:02Z", "digest": "sha1:44ZEDM6NA6PP4LLVR7MHC73ZQHJFOWWZ", "length": 6365, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.nolo.com", "title": "Norman Gillis & Associates, Inc. - Nashville, TN Intellectual Property Lawyers", "raw_content": "Norman Gillis & Associates, Inc.\nNashville Entertainment Law Attorneys Advocate for Your Rights.\nTennessee law firm defends businesses and individuals:\nFor more than 30 years, Norman Gillis & Associates, Inc. has been providing the highest quality legal representation in Tennessee, throughout the United States and internationally. As the first Better Business Bureau accredited Entertainment Law firm in Nashville with an A+ rating, we represent music and entertainment companies, songwriters and other individuals and companies in the following:\n-Entertainment law\n-Music publishing/songwriting agreements\n-Music-related litigation\n-Artist and management\n-Licensing infringement\n-Literary publication representation\n-Investor agreements\n-Trademarks/service marks\n-Internet and general intellectual property\nExpert legal service from knowledgeable lawyers:\nWe are dedicated to providing expert legal advice in a timely and cost-effective manner. Our goal is to build long-term and mutually beneficial relationships with clients. Our attorneys have earned a reputation for being highly skilled, attentive, meticulous and experienced advocates. We look out for our clients' best interests, advise them, litigate on their behalf and, most importantly, work our hardest to bring them optimal results.\n1208 16th Avenue, South Suite LL1, P.O. BOX 330218\nhttp://www.musicrowlaw.com\nExperienced Tennessee Intellectual Property Law Firm.\nProtecting your creative property:\nIntellectual property is created by the human mind. The creativity element distinguishes it from personal, intangible or real property. Protecting intellectual property is different than protecting other assets. When handling intellectual property, attorneys must consider how to preserve the value of concepts, designs, ideas and innovations, rather than merely tangible items. The intellectual property attorneys at Norman Gillis & Associates, Inc. have extensive experience maintaining the value of musical compositions, sound recordings, slogans, branding, and business secrets through:\nRegistering your copyrights:\nYou have an exclusive right to the work you produce when you put it into a tangible form, such as a book, photograph, musical composition, computer program or movie. Your work automatically gains federal copyright protection upon production. We can help you register your work with the U.S. Copyright Office to protect it from unauthorized use, reproduction or distribution.\nPreserving your business image through your trademarks:\nTrademark protects your commercial branding, logo, picture or design from use by others. Even use of a confusingly similar look, name or logo can constitute trademark infringement. We file your trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. If infringement occurs, we seek an injunction to stop further use and we sue the infringer for damages.\nSafeguarding your business trade secrets:\nA formula, recipe, method, process or plan distinctive to your business constitutes a trade secret. Trade secrets are intrinsic to the success of your company and give you the competitive edge. When these unique functions are revealed, your company's value is compromised. At Norman Gills & Associates, Inc., we help you protect your business through nondisclosure agreements and employment protocol. If an employee or outside party discloses protected information, our attorneys can minimize damage to your company and pursue your legal remedies.\nNorman B. Gillis\nNorman Gillis is the principal of Norman Gillis & Associates, Inc., the first Better Business Bureau accredited Entertainment Law Firm in Nashville with an A+ rating. Norman's practice includes the areas of entertainment law, entertainment contracts, music law, intellectual property, copyright, trademark, and business and commercial contracts. He received his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Mississippi. He has led continuing legal education seminars for the National Business Institute, and has presented on extraordinary remedies in trademark protection for the Nashville Bar Association. Norman is a regular co-speaker for the televised Pensacola, FL program, Music Business and Taxes, and is a member of the Tennessee, Mississippi and Nashville Bar Associations. Norman is on the Professional Advisory Board for AFTRA, has served on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the International Academy of Design and Technology, and is on the legal team for the Artists Music Guild.\nFor the past 20 years of his 30-year legal career, Norman has practiced on Music Row in Nashville. His clients have included Brooks & Dunn, David Corlew Music Group, Blue Hat Records/Charlie Daniels Band, producer Barry Beckett, Bigg & Rich/Muzik Mafia, Tim McGraw, Creative Artists Agency, Bill Monroe Estate, Leo Lyons (Ten Years After), The Righteous Brothers, Duane Eddy, Bela Fleck and Kathy Mattea, and many more. Norman handled all licensing and negotiations for the Concord Records release, Jamie Oldaker's Mad Dogs & Okies with artists including Eric Clapton, Ray Benson, J.J. Cale, Willie Nelson, Peter Frampton, Vince Gill, Taj Mahal, and Willis Alan Ramsay.\nNorman's current representative clients include Ronnie Dunn, Kix Brooks, Bonnie Bramlett, Bekka Bramlett, Sure Fire Music, Simon & Schuster author R. Gary Patterson, producer Chuck Howard, Pam Tillis, Savannah Music Group, Blue Steel Records, OmniSound Studios, Tuniverse Entertainment, Rachel Holder, Exile, Bomshel, Richie McDonald, Pablo Cruise, Gary Paxton, Daniel Peck, Big Country Records, Fox Music, and Platinum Pen Music Publishing.\nIn addition to his passion for law, church and community activities are equally important to Norman. He has assisted with mission trips to Honduras and the Lacota Sioux Reservation in South Dakota through the Episcopal Church, and worked on a Rotary International project for mentally and physically challenged children in Jamaica. He is past Rotary club president, past Sr. Warden of his church, and is in the St. David's Episcopal Choir, in addition to being a Licensed Eucharistic Minister for the Dioceses of Tennessee and Mississippi.\n-Mississippi and U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi\n-University of Mississippi, J.D.\n-University of Mississippi, B.A.\n-BV Distinguished Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell for his professionalism and ethics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 8888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northantstelegraph.co.uk/whats-on/jools-holland-and-soft-cell-s-marc-almond-head-to-northampton-for-concert-1-8641378", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GPTV25ACGAS3NQDUZYWQJHS6MBE4U3KD", "length": 1615, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.northantstelegraph.co.uk", "title": "Jools Holland and Soft Cell's Marc Almond head to Northampton for concert - Northamptonshire Telegraph", "raw_content": "Jools Holland and Soft Cell's Marc Almond head to Northampton for concert\nMarc Almond and Jools Holland\nMusical master of ceremonies Jools Holland and his acclaimed Rhythm & Blues Orchestra are back in Northampton later this year as part of their annual musical excursion around the UK.\nSoft Cell frontman Marc Almond will be accompanying Jools for tour. In his 36-year career, Marc has sold more than 30 million records worldwide with his list of hit songs including Say Hello, Wave Goodbye, Touch and, of course, Tainted Love.\nHe has also collaborated with the likes of Gene Pitney, Tony Visconti and Burt Bacharach, as well as Jools, who Marc previously toured with in 2014. He was awarded an OBE this year for his services to arts and culture.\nAlso performing with Jools will be the supremely talented vocalists Ruby Turner and Louise Marshall as well as original Squeeze member Gilson Lavis on drums with the Rhythm & Blues Orchestra.\nWith a tremendous collection of Jools\u2019 compositions and boogie-woogie classics to choose from, Jools\u2019 annual UK tour is set to be an unforgettable night out that will delight both Jools and Marc Almond fans and have audiences on their feet.\nPrevious special guests who have performed alongside Jools on his UK tours include the likes of Lulu, Joss Stone, Roland Gift, Melanie C and most recently Jos\u00e9 Feliciano, who released a joint album with Jools in November 2017, As You See Me Now.\nTickets are on sale now and cost \u00a343 before booking fees. Exclusions apply. The duo can be seen on Saturday November 3.\nVisit www.royalandderngate.co.uk for more details or to book tickets", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3109, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northbrevardfuneralhome.com/tributes/Jess-Velasco", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:07Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5BKD47PHFJTTGARYDBZ6LNLDN2ZYDAQ", "length": 820, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.northbrevardfuneralhome.com", "title": "Obituary for Jess Armand Velasco | North Brevard Funeral Home", "raw_content": "Jess Armand Velasco\nJess Armand Velasco, 90, died Monday July 9, 2018 at his home in Titusville. Jess was born in Pueblo, Colorado. He served in the US Army in Germany during the Korean War. Jess received his Bachelors and Master\u2019s Degrees from the University of Denver and worked as a Loan Officer for the US Government Small Business Administration. In his free time he was an avid Ballroom and Square Dancer.\nJess is survived by his children Debbie Velasco of Pueblo CO, Mark Velasco of Satellite Beach, FL, Jess Velasco, Jr. and his wife Zheng of Titusville, Kevin Velasco and his wife Carolina of Port St. John, FL; his grandchildren, Damian Velasco, Julie Maynard, Leona Velasco, Lucas Velasco, and Jack Velasco; his siblings Larry Velasco, Becky Trauth, Lydia Montoya, Marcie Spinuzzi, Mickey, and Billie LaGreca.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northcountrysmiles.com/meet-us/meet-dr-laudati/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:34Z", "digest": "sha1:EVYQMM2GYQR3QMACO56WKWEI4AHLWUKK", "length": 1345, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.northcountrysmiles.com", "title": "Nicholas Laudati DDS, St. James NY Dentist, Dr Laudati", "raw_content": "St. James NY Dentist\nDr. Laudati graduated from Creighton University in 1992 and completed a General Practice Residency at St. Charles Hospital in 1993. His father, Dr. Charles Laudati, opened his St. James practice in 1963. It is here where Dr. Laudati continues the tradition of quality family care. Dr. Laudati is an attending Dentist at St. Charles Hospital and an Assistant Clinical Professor at Stony Brook University School of Dentistry where he volunteers his time teaching residents and students. Dr. Laudati attends the world renowned Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Training in Key Biscayne Fla. Here, Dr. Laudati continues his own education and improves his skills.\nBorn and raised in Smithtown Dr. Laudati enjoys sports, including Golf, Basketball and Hockey, wine making and traveling. He is a member of the St. James Rotary club and an active participant in local charities. Dr. Laudati gives back to his community as well as his profession.\nDr. Laudati has amassed over 1,000 hours of Continuing Education and currently studies with some of the top educators in Dentistry, including Frank Spear. Dr. Laudati\u2019s advanced training at the prestigous Pankey Institute allows him to treat difficult restorative cases, as well as treating TMD better known as, TMJ or headache pain and discomfort without having to take medications.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northtexasdivorcelawyers.com/faq/staying-focused-long-term-financial-planning-divorce/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:02Z", "digest": "sha1:F3HPXWKWMQ2FFXQBHPWUUY5YUP2ABOB7", "length": 2906, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.northtexasdivorcelawyers.com", "title": "Staying focused on long-term financial planning during divorce", "raw_content": "Shortsightedness is often a recipe for financial disaster in divorce\nDuring a divorce it is easy to get caught up in the immediate concerns, such as determining who will keep the house and how child custody will be managed. Although these concerns are important, many people going through a divorce tend to overlook the more long-term considerations, according to USA Today. Considering how one\u2019s post-divorce life is likely to take shape can and should have a significant impact on the decisions a person makes during the actual divorce process.\nA divorce is one of the most momentous and difficult periods many people will have to go through. The end of a marriage signals the beginning of a very different life, which for many people can mean coming to terms with being a newly-single parent or trying to reenter the workforce.\nAs NBC News points out, people who have spent the majority of their marriages at home raising children are likely to feel the biggest shock in their post-divorce lives. Raising a child while also trying to find work is not only emotionally difficult, but obviously leads to financial strains as well. In many cases, people preparing for a divorce underestimate just how big a change their lifestyles will have to undergo once the divorce is finalized.\nEmotions get in the way\nFocusing on long-term goals is almost always a prudent and responsible course of action, but such focus is difficult in the midst of a divorce. The end of a marriage is an extremely emotional time for many people and it can become tempting to get caught up in short-term goals, such as holding on to the marital home, rather than considering long-term solutions.\nMany people going through a divorce, for example, want to get through the process as quickly as possible. In such cases, a spouse may rush into signing a final divorce order as a way to quickly \u201cmove on.\u201d While it is understandable that some people will want to restart their lives sooner rather than later, divorce is a serious issue that deserves to be treated carefully and with proper preparation. Many of the decisions made during a divorce, like spousal support and division of marital property, will have repercussions for years afterwards, but they can be extremely difficult to undo if they eventually turn out to have been handled unsatisfactorily.\nIt should go without saying that anybody going through a divorce should contact a family law attorney to discuss the specifics of their case. However, when it comes to family law, many attorneys focus solely on helping clients through the actual divorce process and pay little attention to what a client is likely to deal with after a divorce is finalized. Finding an attorney who is committed to a client\u2019s post-divorce life and interests can be difficult, but such an attorney, once found, is an invaluable asset when it comes to working out long-term goals during a divorce.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 166.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.notafraidtowin.com/charged-with-retail-fraud-in-michigan-what-can-you-expect/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:43Z", "digest": "sha1:G27BT2WXM2ZBW36W57QQFEPCMTASZEJA", "length": 5831, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.notafraidtowin.com", "title": "Retail Fraud in Michigan - What Can You Expect?", "raw_content": "Retail Fraud in Michigan \u2013 What Can You Expect?\nIn Michigan, the retail fraud misdemeanor charge is extremely common. It can also be punished or charged as a felony under certain circumstances. A retail fraud case involves the allegations that the defendant stole or attempted to steal property from a store. Successfully defending a retail fraud charge takes extensive experience and an understanding of the reasons why good, law-abiding people can find themselves charged with this offense. An good retail fraud / shoplifting attorney who regularly defends these cases will have relationships with mental health professionals that can evaluate the person to determine if there are essentially \u201cnon-criminal\u201d reasons for having committed the crime of retail fraud. In those cases where a person is innocent of the offense, a seasoned retail fraud trial lawyer is the best defense against wrongful conviction.\nRetail Fraud Third Degree \u2013 Misdemeanor\nUnder the Michigan Third Degree Retail Fraud Statute, MCL 750.356d(4), one who is accused of stealing less than $200.00 worth of store merchandise is guilty of a misdemeanor with the possibility of a sentence of up to 93 days incarceration. This is in addition to fines of up to $500.00 or 3 times the value of the merchandise, as well as potential probation. Retail Fraud 3rdDegree is probably the most common retail fraud offense.\nRetail Fraud Second Degree \u2013 Misdemeanor\nUnder the Michigan Retail Fraud Second Degree Statute, MCL 750.356d(1) if somebody gets caught stealing more than $200.00 up to $1,000.00 of merchandise, or get caught committing a retail fraud 3rd degree with a prior retail fraud conviction, they are guilty of retail fraud second degree. Additionally, a conviction for a second degree retail can result in fines up to $2,000.00 or 3 times the value of the stolen merchandise.\nRetail Fraud First Degree \u2013 Felony\nRetail Fraud First Degree, MCL 750.356c, prohibits stealing more than $1,000.00 worth of merchandise from a retail store. Additionally, one may be charged with retail fraud 1st degree if they commit a retail fraud second degree while having a prior retail fraud. The penalty for a retail fraud first degree conviction is up to five years imprisonment, as well as a fine up to $10,000.00 or three times the value of the stolen merchandise.\nRetail Fraud Defenses\nIf our client is innocent of the felony or misdemeanor retail fraud charge, our team of highly skilled defense lawyers and experts can get to work to formulate a winning defense. Our highest priority is obtaining a full, outright dismissal if at all possible. In those cases where charges cannot be dismissed, our retail fraud experts get to work preparing to argue for a Not Guilty verdict. Despite what police or prosecutors may say, an acquittal in a shoplifting case can be achieved with careful preparation, hard work and an aggressive defense.\nWhen most prosecutors and courts look at people charged with a retail fraud charge, they simply see a dishonest person or somebody who likes to steal. However, in the great majority of our cases where our client engaged in some inappropriate act, they actually had the money to easily pay for the merchandise. In these cases there is almost always some other reason for the unfortunate behavior. We regularly can determine a legitimate, credible explanation as to why the offense occurred and how to make certain that the behavior is not repeated. Experts who have worked with LEWIS & DICKSTEIN, P.L.L.C. have been able to diagnose mental health issues, such as extreme stress or anxiety, and have been able to explain how these issues resulted in a cry for help. In these cases, the acting out by shoplifting is not an act of a dishonest or bad person. A good, honest person can easily find themselves in this situation when subjected to stress, anxiety, depression or domestic, verbal or mental abuse.\nRetail Fraud Consequences\nAt LEWIS & DICKSTEIN, P.L.L.C., we know the negative impact a retail fraud conviction can be life changing. Many people are under the misunderstanding that retail fraud, even if it is a misdemeanor, will \u201cfall\u201d of a person\u2019s criminal record after a period of time. This is absolutely not true. A retail fraud conviction will stay on a person\u2019s criminal history forever unless it is eventually expunged or the conviction is set aside pursuant to MCL 780.621.\nIf the property in question is valued under $200.00, the maximum jail sentence is 93 days. If the value is between $200 and $1,000, the maximum is raised to 1 year in jail. For felony retail fraud, the maximum possible sentence is 5 years in prison.\nBecause retail fraud is considered to be a crime of dishonesty, a conviction can have life-long consequences. This type of conviction can result is a loss of employment, changes in child custody, revocation or the inability to get a professional or medical license, loss of public benefits, denial of admittance to college or a university.\nWhen properly and zealously defended, most (if not all) of the consequences of a retail fraud conviction can be avoided. There are a multitude of ways a case can be resolved by a great retail fraud defense attorney in which a conviction, fines, costs, probation and/or jail can be prevented.\nAn experienced, aggressive retail fraud defense lawyer can help you!\nIf you or a loved one is charged with any type of retail fraud case in Michigan it is important that you have legal representation that has experience in those types of cases and access to experts that can help with the defense. Lewis & Dickstein, P.L.L.C. is the law firm with the experience and passion to stand up for you against a prosecutor that just does not understand. Please call us at (248) 263-6800 or complete a Request for Assistance Form and one of our attorneys will contact you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 9510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nowindia.webnewswire.com/2018/10/13/essential-advantages-of-professional-web-design-sydney/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2YPXNGXOANK3GWXW6TCORYPUPSGZ7IQA", "length": 4110, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.nowindia.webnewswire.com", "title": "Essential Advantages of Professional Web Design Sydney \u2013 Webnewswire", "raw_content": "Essential Advantages of Professional Web Design Sydney\nBusiness owners who have second thoughts as to whether or not they should hire a professional web designer sydney will no longer hesitate once they learn about the benefits of a well-designed website. With the help of efficient web design sydney you can take your business to a whole new level and have a competitive edge in your line of business.\nIt is common business that people search for everything they want and need on the Internet. It is in your best interest to be able to cater to their requirements and that is to create a website that highlights your brand and enables them to form an accurate idea about your business. Marketing is an essential component of success and those who are aware of this aspect will not ignore the importance of professional web design. We live in a technology-oriented world, a world where all the information we need is at our fingertips. Wouldn\u2019t it be a pity not to take advantage of it? People are no longer relying on books or local stores for information or products.\nThey prefer to search online for what they need because this is much more convenient and time-saving. Don\u2019t you want your potential customers to be able to learn about your business and to contact you via your website? If you succeed to cater to their needs they will become lifetime customers and this is the whole point of having a well-designed website. The smartest thing you can do is to invest in your website and to hire a competent web designer sydney who has what it takes to build a website that reflects your business and tells the story of your brand. The advantages of having a well-built website are numerous.\nYour target audience will make a first impression about your business by checking out your website. This means that you should have a website that reflects you and your business, one that your visitors will love and that will offer them an enjoyable experience. If your visitors do not like what they see they will move on to the next company that has similar products or services. Are you willing to let this happen? 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After all, this is the whole point of having a website, isn\u2019t it? Skilled designers know how to maximize your website\u2019s potential. Another reason why you should invest in your website is the fact that it enables your target audience to find your business and your contact information quite easy. You need to catch the attention of your target audience and the only way to do that is to create a valuable website that will help your business grow. Having a well-built website is a necessity and you should not hesitate when it comes to investing in your website. Don\u2019t forget that you need a strong presence in the online environment and your website can make this happen.\nWhen it comes to creating or upgrading websites we are the best. It is our pleasure to offer our customers professional web design sydney packages that are tailored to their requirements and within their price range. 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My name is Dani Hemmat and I get to talk with Katy Bowman each and every show as she answers questions about alignment, health, biomechanics, and all the bits and pieces in between. Good morning, Katy!\nKATY: Good morning.\nDANI: What have you been up to today?\nKATY: Well, I have, for the first time in the last couple of years, slept until 9:00 so not much. It\u2019s almost 10:00 Pacific Standard Time where I am, so I haven\u2019t done too much. I made breakfast. I\u2019m stretching my calves now, and just kind of getting ready for the day.\nDANI: Wow, you must feel like you have superpowers with that much sleep.\nKATY: You know what it is? It\u2019s almost more like super panic, you know? It\u2019s like it\u2019s a good thing \u2013 you want the sleep \u2013 but when you wake up this late\u2026normally I\u2019m a 5:30/6AM but the summers get a little\u2026Oh, we had long light. As you know, you used to live up here in Washington. So the sun doesn\u2019t even go down until closer to 10, so we were just up and we\u2019ve been playing hard for 3 days. I took a 3-day work break and just kind of hung out with the kids outside all day. I\u2019m working in the garden, and it\u2019s just messed us up where we\u2019re going to bed late and sleeping in and I don\u2019t know if I can handle it \u2013 all this rest, and peace.\nDANI: Ah, summertime! That\u2019s so nice. Well, this is our first podcast \u2013\nD \u2013 Yay! So we\u2019re going to talk about a few \u2013 well, we\u2019re going to talk about one really important thing that I\u2019ll start us off with. Every show, we\u2019re going to start off with a question because it\u2019s always fun to find out how other people live their lives, and the perspective that other people have. So I\u2019m going to ask you a question.\nDANI: Let\u2019s see. Okay, here\u2019s something I\u2019d love to know. Do you have a favorite time of day to take a walk?\nKATY: You know, I would say my favorite time for walking would probably be daybreak, dawn. I\u2019m an actual early riser, so I don\u2019t like to go out when it\u2019s dark. I would say that just after the sun has started to come up, that\u2019s my favorite time. To even clarify time from time of day \u2013 the time of year would be daybreak in autumn. You know, when you start getting the crunch of leaves under your feet and it\u2019s still warm in the day but it\u2019s starting to get chilly in the morning and you know you\u2019ve got that chilly winter. That\u2019s my ultimate, just being by myself and going out time. I\u2019ll also say that I probably haven\u2019t taken a walk in that way for 3 years now. [Dani laughs] But I also love dusk walks, although on my last walk I went out \u2013 it\u2019s a lot easier for me to get an evening walk because I can put my kids to bed. They\u2019re still young and because of the long light I can take a night walk after they go to sleep. At 7:30 I still have an hour and a half, but I ran into a coyote the last time while I was out walking by myself and that was kind of scary.\nDANI: oh, but also kind of cool, wasn\u2019t it?\nKATY: Yeah, kind of cool, but also kind of scary because I was out by myself and I live out where there\u2019s nothing and it was a big \u2013 it almost looked like a wolf \u2013\nDANI: Yeah, coyotes in Washington are way bigger than Montana coyotes.\nKATY: Yeah, they\u2019re big\nDANI: It\u2019s almost like they\u2019re bred with German Shepherds or something. They\u2019re just huge.\nKATY: And elephants or something. They\u2019re taller than me. It was fine \u2013 I was talking with my dad. I use my walking time, during the day, especially, to do my work. One of the things I recommend for people who work \u2013 which is almost everybody \u2013 that you get in the habit of doing your business calls while you\u2019re walking because it\u2019s such a great way to get more movement during the day. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anyone who wouldn\u2019t be okay with, \u201cyou know, I\u2019m out taking a desk break so I\u2019m calling you right now so I can get some oxygen for thinking creatively through this call.\u201d I was talking to my dad. My dad\u2019s conversation time is kind of like my special time and so here we are, having this moment, this father-daughter moment, and he\u2019s 85, and we\u2019ll talk for an hour and then I was like, \u201coh my god, there\u2019s a coyote!\u201d and he\u2019s like, \u201cQuick, make yourself look big! Make a lot of noise!\u201d and he was just so \u2013 such a dad! So I was walking, and there\u2019s a silo and I was describing it to him because he\u2019s an old farm boy. He says, \u201cNever play in silos.\u201d So, anyway, that was a total tangent \u2013 I just love my dad.\nDANI: Let\u2019s just wrap this tangent up: I\u2019ve got to know why he said, \u201cDon\u2019t play in silos.\u201d Now I\u2019m curious.\nKATY: Well, he said \u2013 it has something to do with the gases, with the fermentation gases. And he said that my brother and I \u2013 he\u2019s Canadian, so they grew up in a bunch of Canadian silos, so I don\u2019t know if this is Canada-specific, but I assume that decomposition gases are the same no matter what country you\u2019re in. They just accumulate, so he and his brother when they were little kids were playing there and were made sick by the gases. I was like, \u201cI promise you I\u2019m not going to go play in any of these decrepit barn silos that I\u2019m walking by, but I\u2019m about to get attacked by a wolf, thank you very much!\u201d\nDANI: Yeah, hahaha.\nKATY: Anyway.\nDANI: So when you walk and do business, do you wear a headset so you can swing your arms, or do you vary what you do?\nKATY: I got a headset that had a microphone. I didn\u2019t even know those existed, like little ear buds but it has a microphone piece, and it totally changed my life. I can put my phone away and I can use my whole body \u2013 I\u2019m not sitting there with my head flexed and my arm to my phone. I just got done writing a small addendum book, like a small e-book that goes with the bigger book all on standing workstations and alignment at the office. That was, again, my recommendation is I think that\u2019s a big solution \u2013 I think a lot of us who work spend a lot of time on the phone. I mean, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a ton of time over an 8 hour day, but it\u2019s certainly about an hour and if you just piece your calls together during that period of time, you can go out and get an extra hour of movement a day. I\u2019ve done contract negotiations; I\u2019ve done all sorts of major things while out walking. I just think it\u2019s the way of the future. It\u2019s a way out \u2013 it\u2019s a way out of a box that you\u2019re trapped in.\nDANI: That\u2019s really good advice. I like that. All right, well, since we\u2019re talking about the book and whole body movement and everything, how about we talk about your \u2013 not your definition of alignment, but the definition of alignment that you\u2019ve based your work on. There\u2019s a lot of ways people use that word, \u2018alignment,\u2019 but I want to know how you use it in your work.\nKATY: Well, I would say that as you probably know, you read a lot of my stuff. People use the words, \u2018alignment\u2019 and \u2018posture\u2019 interchangeably. Or they\u2019ll use the word, \u2018alignment\u2019 meaning a better version of posture. Yes, you have postural guidelines, but alignment is more specific guidelines for posture. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a wrong way to use it, but I think the way I use alignment \u2013 the word alignment \u2013 is similar to how a car mechanic would use the word alignment. So if you take \u2013 everyone drives a car \u2013 if you have, perhaps, dealt with the alignment of your car \u2013 when the alignment of your car is off, as you\u2019re driving it\u2019s pulling up to the right of the left and you\u2019re having to impart some muscle work of your upper body to keep it going in a particular way. What makes alignment poor in terms of cars is not the position of pieces; it\u2019s the forces that the position creates.\nDANI: What do you mean by, \u2018forces?\u2019\nKATY: Well, I mean that if you didn\u2019t\u2019 fix your car alignment; what would happen is that some of the materials that make up your car would wear down faster than others. The reason you get your car alignment fixed is that you don\u2019t want to have to replace your tires prematurely, just one or two of them. Or your axles or your brakes or whatever \u2013 the result is the forces that are created by the position. The thing that you\u2019re trying to fix is the set of forces that are created when the wheels move relative to the car and relative to the ground so there\u2019s things outside of the structure of the car that go into calculating the forces that are created through alignment. It\u2019s all about the ground and the wheel \u2013 I mean, I don\u2019t even know car parts. I\u2019m making up terms right now.\nDANI: You\u2019re on track so far.\nKATY: Yeah, the things that the wheels go on.\nDANI: Axles\nKATY: But then you also have the rubber in the tires, and then there are those invisible things that create forces. The speed at which you drive. The terrain that you drive over. Those are other factors that change the experience of the car, and it\u2019s the experience of the car that you\u2019re trying to adjust through changing alignment. You\u2019re trying to find the perfect orientation of parts so once you are moving in the way that you\u2019re going to be moving \u2013 so car alignment changes based on the speed of the terrain. If you have a four wheel drive, your car alignment is going to be different than if you have a two wheel drive, because the mechanic is considering how to get the most out of your car for the way that you\u2019re going to drive it. Or the way that the factory says it should be driven plus your personal preferences. If you\u2019re a racecar driver and you make over a Subaru to be a rally car, it\u2019s going to be different than if it was just that same structure of a car not driven as a rally car. All of those things change your alignment. So the point that I like to make with alignment is that alignment is about the forces that are created through the positioning once you\u2019re moving. The way most people use alignment and posture has to do with the static arrangement of points. It\u2019s probably that way because it\u2019s a lot easier to evaluate position when things aren\u2019t moving, but I like to just remind everyone that the reason that we\u2019re doing \u2013 the reason we\u2019re even considering how your structure is oriented has to do with the forces that are created once you\u2019re moving. We are in an ergonomic time \u2013 we\u2019re in a time where the science of ergonomics, which is specifically how you\u2019re positioned at work \u2013 people spend most of their time sitting at work. Isn\u2019t that a shocker? Isn\u2019t that shocking?\nDANI: You said something a couple months ago about ergonomics. Modern ergonomics was not so much about making things function well but keeping you at your desk longer\nKATY: Yeah! Ergonomics are not the healthiest way to be. It\u2019s not a list of parameters, like, \u201cmake sure your wrist isn\u2019t broken when you\u2019re typing on your keyboard and keep your head over your ears as you\u2019re typing.\u201d Those parameters are \u2013 that alignment is to keep you structurally sound if your only options were to sit still. It\u2019s the best way to sit still, but the bigger picture as you pan out is that sitting still is not very good for your body. To keep looking for the best ergonomic solution is to miss the point entirely: the question we\u2019re asking is how to get the heck out and away from the desk. Ergonomic is a very narrow perspective about one thing.\nDANI: I think of it as the best way to stay on a sinking ship.\nKATY: Correct!\nDANI: What\u2019s the best way for us to stay here while this sinks?\nKATY: Right. And I think that there\u2019s a certain defeatist attitude at that point \u2013 \u201cwell, we\u2019re all going down, so I might as well go down with the best posture as possible.\u201d So the reason I use \u2018alignment\u2019 mechanically is because there is no best way to stand or sit \u2013 those are problematic. If you have long periods of time in which you\u2019re being still, the first thing to do is to change that. Now, I will amend that statement with: should you compare bouts of sitting still, there are better ways to sit still, especially if you\u2019ve been sitting still in one particular way and have damaged the tissues based on that load profile. Just sitting differently is enough \u2013 it\u2019s amazing how just that little pelvis adjustment when you\u2019re sitting, to untuck your pelvis and get off your tailbone \u2013 that alone, were you to not change the frequency of which you sit, that adjustment for most people would bring about better health. So I don\u2019t want to downplay the importance of adjusting your posture when you\u2019re still. It\u2019s just that I also don\u2019t want to play into that narrow perspective which is that being our end goal: better stillness. I like to always bring back the broader perspective that we\u2019re looking for, which is \u2013 let\u2019s do both. Let\u2019s optimize our periods of stillness and let\u2019s reduce them at the same time. When we start moving, let\u2019s understand that the way we have been still, the position in which we\u2019ve been still for so long, is ingrained in our structure. Our tissues have adapted to that way that we\u2019ve been sedentary, and we have to undo some of those adaptations. That\u2019s where the corrective exercises come in. That\u2019s why we\u2019re doing \u2013 that\u2019s why we have alignment points for objective measures for self-monitoring. Even if you don\u2019t understand the forces, you can at least understand the difference in positions and can adjust them.\nDANI: Speaking of being still, how about we do a stretch break?\nKATY: Yes, that\u2019s good.\nDANI: One of the things that I first loved about reading your blog is that every time I read it, you gave me something to do. You gave me something to learn and it was great. So whatever you want; you can work in that pelvis tilt, whatever you want, but tell us: how can we stretch right now?\nKATY: Okay, so if everyone just stands up \u2013 or even if you\u2019re cemented to your chair, you can sit down and do this to. You\u2019re going to reach your arms out to the right and left side, kind of like you\u2019re making a T with your body. Your palms are down. Think about reaching your elbows away from you, creating traction. This is different than reaching your hands away from you; if you\u2019re just reaching your fingertips away from you, you\u2019ll end up creating forces that just straighten the elbow. And instead of straightening the elbow, I want to traction the upper arm out of the shoulder sockets. Think of stretching your elbows way out. If your nose was pointing due north, your arms would be pointing east and west. Then, look at your fingertips \u2013 I just turned my head \u2013 look at your fingertips, and pull your fingertips back towards your ears so that you\u2019re giving \u201cstop\u201d hands. In sign language it\u2019s stop or Diana Ross Stop In the Name of Love hands, you know what I\u2019m talking about?\nDANI: Yeah. I think of it as Han Solo in the garbage chute in the first Star Wars. Remember the garbage chute is closing? He had to put both hands out with his hands flat and his fingers up to the ceiling to keep the walls from closing in.\nKATY: That\u2019ll be great for all the Star Wars fans out there. So Han Solo hands/Diana Ross hands \u2013 pull your fingertips back towards you, and as you pull your fingertips towards you using the muscles in the hands (you\u2019re not using any other body parts to do this, you\u2019re just working the muscles on the tops of the wrists to extend the wrists back) you should feel a nerve stretch down your arms. As you\u2019re reaching the elbows away and pulling the fingertips back, you should feel a nice stretch that goes through the palm of the hands up through the arms. This is my nerve stretch that I like to give people who work at a desk for a living. It\u2019s the total opposite of bringing your arms back to type on the computer \u2013 type, type, type. Everything is in front of you and your shoulders are in this internally rotated position. So we\u2019re going to reach out to the side again and pull your fingertips back.\nDANI: That feels good; I must be doing this right.\nKATY: There you go\nDANI: I feel blood flowing and all sorts of stuff.\nKATY: Make fists, and then you can release and you\u2019re done. There you go.\nKATY: That\u2019s your tip of the day.\nDANI: Thank you very much!\nKATY: whispers: You\u2019re welcome.\nDANI: Okay, so back to it. The alignment conversation that we\u2019re having. We\u2019re talking about going beyond just the sitting still and fixing ourselves when we\u2019re sitting still. The alignment points \u2013 that\u2019s where I interrupted you. You were talking about alignment points, or maybe you want to jump forward into something else.\nKATY: Well, yeah, we\u2019re going to have to jump forward because I have absolutely no recollection of what we were talking about before.\nDANI: Me neither, and I have all of this blood flow to my brain and shoulders now after that stretch, so I feel like going out for a walk!\nKATY: Let\u2019s just dance!\nDANI: It\u2019s podcast dance. All right. Well, so \u2013 alignment. I\u2019ve heard people in a gym say, \u201cyour alignment when you\u2019re doing this move.\u201d It might be a squat or whatever. They equate alignment and form.\nKATY: Yeah. I would say that alignment is being used as \u2013 like, posture is the relative position of parts. The end. This is your posture. Form, also, has that implication of orientation of parts. However, form, like alignment has that \u2013 let me go back a little bit. Alignment \u2013 the definition of alignment includes the term itself means the optimal way of doing something, where posture \u2013 if you want to talk about good posture you add the word \u201cgood\u201d onto it because posture just means position. There is a good posture and there is a bad posture and the difference between good and bad would be based on whatever your parameters were. Culturally, there\u2019s a good or bad posture. Form: if I\u2019m working on my form in the gym \u2013 like if you\u2019re doing a squat and they say, \u201cyour form needs improvement,\u201d the implication I think would be that there is something that exercise is after that you\u2019re not hitting right now. Sometimes what makes something good or bad in terms of form in an exercise is not always fleshed out really well. So shoulders back would be a good example of where the understanding of form or posture or even alignment has been a little bit muddled. We\u2019ve got a lot of people pulling their shoulders back because we want our gleno-humeral joints (your gleno-humeral joint would be your shoulder joint; if you wore epaulets as a uniform, where that little doily over the shoulders would go.)\nDANI: Fringe!\nKATY: Ball and socket. It\u2019s the ball and socket of the shoulder. So we move our shoulder joints so that they line up with our ears, and we\u2019re like, okay, that\u2019s good posture or good form or whatever. But that can be poor alignment if the way that you got your shoulder joints to line up with your ears pulled your shoulder blades closer \u2013 too close to the spine. Now, you\u2019ve messed with the forces in the muscles between the spine and the scapula, or the shoulder blades. To correct one problem you\u2019ve created another. So that would be not very good alignment, because alignment is about the system \u2013 the entire system and how the system performs as a whole. Alignment is making sure that the activity in one area of the system isn\u2019t causing degrading in another. So you wouldn\u2019t want your mechanic to go, \u201cwell, I got the tires all lined up this particular way, and the tires look great. Unfortunately, the way that they\u2019re lined up right here isn\u2019t going to work well with the speeds between 35 and 55. So when you drive between 35 and 55 you\u2019re going to wear your tires out.\u201d\nDANI: Well, nobody would go for that.\nKATY: No! No! Well, here in Washington there are a lot of people \u2013 I live in a retirement community in Washington, coming from basically the L.A. area of California where it\u2019s just a completely different driving thing going on. I appreciate it. Anyway, that was a tangent. But with alignment, you consider 100% of the body all of the time, and also the end goal. So my alignment parameters are about long-term biological function. Someone who has performance goals would have a different alignment.\nDANI: It would be cool if as many people \u2013 I mean, I bet that people think about alignment as far as performance goals as much as they think about their car alignment. You never really do it unless something\u2019s gone wonky and your car is bouncing up and down or you hear a scrape or something rubbing and it\u2019s kind of the same deal; hey, my knee doesn\u2019t work anymore! How\u2019d that happen?\nKATY: Yeah. And I would say that again it\u2019s always back to semantics \u2013 how you use the term \u201cperformance.\u201d When I use the term, \u201cperformance\u201d just then, I meant some sort of contest, where you\u2019re trying to go faster or harder or longer and you\u2019re looking for a short-term payoff even if it\u2019s at the expense of biological performance. So biological performance: we\u2019re talking about what are the things that the human body should be doing for moving the species forward? That\u2019s really the baseline. Can you procreate? Can you deliver your babies? Can you get \u2013 I mean, some people can\u2019t even have sex \u2013 that\u2019s an issue for a lot of people, where their machinery is not doing that process well. Walking. Can\u2019t walk without pain, can\u2019t stand without pain, can\u2019t breathe without pain \u2013 can\u2019t breathe! I mean, when you start listing what are all the essentials?\nDANI: You need those for survival of the species, to do that.\nKATY: Digestion. Yeah! If you can\u2019t eat, can\u2019t digest your food, can\u2019t breathe, can\u2019t, can\u2019t can\u2019t \u2013 and a lot of people can\u2019t, can\u2019t, can\u2019t as I just listed basic things. But they can do exercise really well at a competitive level. We, as a culture, keep looking to how we can perform fitness-wise, exercise-wise, and are completely ignoring all these biological \u201ccan\u2019ts\u201d around it. So that\u2019s not my perspective. My perspective is not about you as an exerciser. It\u2019s about you as a human being. How well are you being or doing your human activities? A lot of people sacrifice their human activities for this fitness-performance type thing. And that\u2019s fine, but I think a lot of people are doing it without realizing that\u2019 they\u2019re doing it.\nDANI: Probably.\nKATY: I think that there are plenty of people who do realize it, and that\u2019s awesome. But there\u2019s a lot of people who are confused as all get-out because they\u2019ve associated or have been told \u2013 that what they\u2019re doing for their fitness-y thing is what gives them the biological well-being, and that\u2019s just not the case. And so that\u2019s what I do.\nKATY: What I do, what I do.\nDANI: And speaking of what you do, you\u2019ve talked about eye breaks a lot lately. What\u2019s an eye break?\nKATY: An eye break is when you karate chop three boards with your eyeballs. No, just kidding.\nDANI: Excellent! I will get the wood.\nKATY: Go!\nDANI: You get the cinder blocks.\nKATY: an eye break is \u2013 just as \u2013 there are lots of muscles that we consider but I would say that if we were to give everyone a list, even exercise-y people, even well-trained body people and told them to make a list of important muscles, it would probably have at max 50 muscles listed on it. We only think of our big boys. But when it comes to health-making and biology \u2013\nDANI: Or as they\u2019re called, the \u201cglamour muscles.\u201d\nKATY: that\u2019s right, that\u2019s right.\nDANI: Quadriceps, biceps.\nKATY: Yeah, is there anything besides biceps? Hamstrings? I don\u2019t know!\nDANI: Mirror muscles\nKATY: You\u2019ve got ciliary muscles that move your lens in your eye that allows you to see close and see far away. It\u2019s not a muscle that you have control over in a somatic type way, meaning you can\u2019t release and shorten it. I would say that there\u2019s probably some people who spend a lot of time getting control over their smooth muscles that could, so we\u2019ll just add that. In general, what changes the tension within the muscles of the eye is the distance at which you\u2019re looking at things. So if you choose \u2013 it\u2019s somatic in this way \u2013 that if you choose to always be inside, you\u2019re choosing to never relax those muscles in the eye. So in order to exercise those muscles in a different way, you have to go outside and look at something far away. So that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do right now \u2013 you\u2019re going to take a break, either pause this, or if you\u2019re walking around outside, stop looking at things that are five to 30 feet away from you and look at something that is 100-300 feet away from you. Just by doing that, you just used the muscles in your eyes in a different way. You just cross-trained your eyes. It\u2019s really important that people take breaks from looking at their computer screen and looking at the book that they\u2019re always reading.\nDANI: So say I\u2019m at the Empire State Building on the 43rd floor and there\u2019s no way my boss is going to let me go outside and look, what can I do when I\u2019m at my desk?\nKATY: Look out a window.\nKATY: Look out a window. You don\u2019t have to be outside; you just have to give your eyes something else to focus on that is at a distance. If you don\u2019t have a window, you need to figure out how to get one. Even if it\u2019s just walking over to a window, and then bonus, you stood up! But you do need to release \u2013 I mean, imagine casting your arms. If you casted your arms, how good it would feel to drop your arms. What if you were never able to drop your arms? That\u2019s what your eyeballs feel like most of the time. It\u2019s just that you\u2019ve been doing it since you were a little, little kid and you have no idea what it\u2019s like to just, ahhhh, relax those tension patterns. So do that, and then come back.\nDANI: Excellent. Well, actually, that is our time for today! So don\u2019t go outside yet, because we\u2019re all going to go outside together. How do you think you\u2019re going to get some movement in today? I know you just got up.\nKATY: I just got up and what I try to do before \u2013 I have a whole list of projects.\nDANI: Which, by the way, you\u2019re lovely to talk to when you just got up. I\u2019m not nearly as coherent, so I expected a lot less from you today. Good job.\nKATY: I like to breed that perception that you\u2019re always going to get less from me, so I\u2019ll always deliver. Just expect that I\u2019m setting the bar really low.\nKATY: I\u2019m going to go outside, just for 5 or 6 minutes before I have a lot of work to sit down and do. I\u2019m going to go walk to check the mailbox, even though it\u2019s Monday and I know there\u2019s nothing in there because we don\u2019t get mail on Sunday. I have a hula-hoop that a very lovely person gave me a long time ago \u2013 you, do you remember?\nDANI: Oh, excellent!\nKATY: Do you remember when you gave me a hula-hoop?\nDANI: I do! I\u2019m glad you still have that.\nKATY: I\u2019ll go hula-hoop out in the sunshine and look far away at the trees and take a few breaths before sitting down. If I just went from doing this talk with you to doing another one I would notice that I\u2019d have a headache by hour 3, so I do need some outside time, so that\u2019s what I\u2019ll do.\nDANI: Excellent, well, this was super fun today. Thank you.\nDANI: Well, have fun! And your hula-hoop! We\u2019ll talk soon.\nDANI: Bye bye", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 29242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nutter.com/trending-newsroom-publications-Nutter-Bank-Report-April-2012-04-30-2012", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:45Z", "digest": "sha1:ACWGIBE5Y3ZDUD356WGWB2EDZ6OL2A66", "length": 12856, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.nutter.com", "title": "Trending publication: Nutter McClennen & Fish Law Firm", "raw_content": "Nutter Bank Report, April 2012\n1. DOR Eases Restrictions on Pledges of Security Corporation Stock\n2. CFPB Provides Guidance on Compensation to Mortgage Loan Originators\n3. Massachusetts Debt Collection Rules Impose New Burdens on Creditors\n4. Federal Reserve Issues Guidance on the Rental of Residential OREO\n5. Other Developments: Liability for Vendor Acts and Reserves Administration\nThe Massachusetts Department of Revenue (DOR) has issued a revised draft of a regulatory directive addressing the ability of a shareholder of a Massachusetts security corporation to pledge its stock in the security corporation as collateral for a loan to the shareholder. The DOR has removed from the revised draft of the directive released on April 6 certain restrictions on pledges of the stock of a security corporation that appeared in the original draft of the directive released on September 30, 2011. In the original draft of the directive, the DOR announced that it would revoke a security corporation\u2019s classification if the shareholder pledged stock representing more than 50% of the value or total voting power of the security corporation, or if the pledge included covenants that restricted the scope of the security corporation\u2019s permitted assets, liabilities or activities. The revised draft of the directive includes examples of restrictive covenants that the DOR says would result in revocation of security corporation classification, such as a covenant requiring the shareholder to withdraw securities from the security corporation and pledge those securities to the lender or a covenant directing the security corporation\u2019s investments to securities of the shareholder, the pledgee or their respective affiliates.\nNutter Notes: A corporation that qualifies and is classified by the DOR as a Massachusetts security corporation receives beneficial tax treatment. A security corporation must restrict its activities to buying, selling, dealing in or holding securities on its own behalf and not as a broker, and the securities it holds must be acquired and held for investment purposes. In addition to the discussion of impermissible restrictive covenants in connection with a pledge of security corporation stock, the revised directive addresses the circumstances in which a security corporation may acquire appreciated securities from an affiliate and subsequently sell those securities to a third party without resulting in revocation of security corporation classification. For example, a security corporation may acquire appreciated securities from an affiliate and subsequently sell those securities to a third party in cases where the securities acquired from the affiliate were initially acquired by the affiliate through a public exchange or other arm\u2019s-length secondary market transaction. However, according to the revised directive, in general a security corporation may not be used as a conduit for the sale of appreciated securities for the purpose of sheltering the gain on the sale from the general corporate excise tax rate.\nThe Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (CFPB) has issued guidance clarifying the Truth in Lending rules that restrict the payment of incentive compensation to mortgage loan originators. The guidance, CFPB Bulletin 2012-02 issued on April 2, addresses questions about whether and how those restrictions under Regulation Z apply to employer contributions to qualified profit-sharing, 401(k) and employee stock ownership plans (Qualified Plans). Subject to certain exceptions, Regulation Z prohibits the payment of incentive compensation to a loan originator that is based on any terms or conditions of a mortgage transaction. The CFPB said that it has been asked whether a financial institution can, consistent with the restrictions on incentive compensation to mortgage loan originators, contribute to Qualified Plans for employees, including loan originators, if the employer contributions are derived from profits generated by mortgage loan originations. According to the guidance, the CFPB takes the position that Regulation Z permits employers to contribute to Qualified Plans out of a profit pool derived from loan originations. The CFPB\u2019s guidance did not address how the Regulation Z compensation restrictions apply to profit-sharing plans that are not Qualified Plans, but did say that it plans to address profit-sharing plans in a forthcoming proposed rule on the loan origination provisions in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act).\nNutter Notes: Amendments to Regulation Z implementing the loan originator compensation restrictions were originally adopted by the Federal Reserve in September 2010, and compliance with the restrictions became mandatory on April 6, 2011. Rulemaking authority for Regulation Z was transferred to the CFPB pursuant to Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act. The official staff commentary to Regulation Z explains that the terms or conditions of a mortgage loan transaction that trigger the loan originator compensation restrictions include the interest rate, loan-to-value ratio or prepayment penalty. The commentary clarifies that compensation may not be based on a factor, such as a credit score, that is a proxy for one of those terms or conditions. The commentary also provides examples of when compensation is not based on a term or condition of the loan, such as basing compensation on the long-term performance of the loan or whether the consumer is an existing customer or a new customer. Section 1403 of the Dodd-Frank Act contains provisions that also address loan originator compensation. The Dodd-Frank Act requires the CFPB to adopt final loan originator compensation rules by January 21, 2013. The CFPB said that it plans to issue a proposed rule to implement the loan origination provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act in the near future.\nRecent amendments to the Massachusetts Attorney General\u2019s debt collection regulations expand the scope of the regulations to cover debt collection activities involving cell phone and text messaging and make first mortgage loans and consumer loans in excess of $25,000 subject to the rules. The amendments, which went into effect on March 2, include a requirement that a creditor cease collection of a debt under certain circumstances until the creditor has provided the debtor or an attorney for the debtor with certain information and documentation in the event that the debtor disputes the validity of the debt. Under that requirement, a creditor must deliver to the debtor copies of all documents relating to the debt and bearing the debtor\u2019s signature, a ledger or statement reflecting payment history and certain charges relating to the debt (such as interest, fees, charges and amounts collected for escrow), the name and address of the original creditor, if different from the creditor collecting the debt, and a copy of any judgment against the debtor. Lenders, including banks, which collect their own debts should establish policies and procedures to comply with the new disclosure and documentation requirements, and to respond to a notice of dispute of a debt in the manner required by the amended regulations.\nNutter Notes: Other changes to the debt collection regulations made by the recent amendments include the expansion of the term \u201ccreditor\u201d to cover both active and passive debt buyers, whether they collect a debt for themselves or hire a third party or attorney to collect it for them, and, as noted above, the expansion of the definition of \u201cdebt\u201d by removing the exclusions for residential first mortgage loans and consumer loans in an amount in excess of $25,000. Other provisions of the regulations were modernized to reflect newer communications technologies, such as cell phones and text messaging and usage fees related to electronic communications. Amendments to the general prohibitions on unfair or deceptive acts or practices now incorporate certain prohibited practices from Division of Banks debt collection rules. The amended regulation also requires any person collecting a debt to determine, in good faith, whether the debt is time-barred, and to make a specific disclosure to consumers with respect to any debt the collector knows or has reason to know is time-barred.\nThe Federal Reserve has issued new guidance that addresses the circumstances in which banking organizations may rent residential OREO properties as part of an orderly disposition strategy. The guidance, entitled Policy Statement on Rental of Residential Other Real Estate Owned (OREO) Properties (see Supervision and Regulation Letter no. SR 12-5) issued on April 5, advises banking organizations that they may rent 1- to 4-family residential OREO properties without having to demonstrate continuous active marketing of the properties, provided that the institution has appropriate policies and procedures in place. The guidance acknowledges that the general policy of the Federal Reserve is that banking organizations should make good-faith efforts to dispose of OREO properties at the earliest practicable date, but that extraordinary market conditions currently prevail that may merit renting OREO properties more often than in the past. In addition, the guidance indicates that the Federal Reserve will give favorable CRA consideration to institutions it supervises to the extent that OREO properties rented by such institutions meet the definition of community development under the Community Reinvestment Act regulations. The guidance also addresses key risk management considerations for the rental of residential OREO, including compliance with holding-period requirements, compliance with landlord-tenant and associated requirements, and accounting considerations.\nNutter Notes: The Federal Reserve\u2019s policy statement establishes specific supervisory expectations for banking organizations that undertake large-scale residential OREO rental operations. The Federal Reserve considers residential OREO rental activities involving 50 or more properties available for rent or rented to be large-scale. According to the guidance, banking organizations with large-scale residential OREO rental operations should have formal policies and procedures governing the operation and administration of OREO rental activities, including property-specific rental plans, policies and procedures for compliance with applicable laws and regulations, a risk management framework, and oversight of third-party property managers. Regardless of the size of an institution\u2019s OREO rental operations, the Federal Reserve said that it expects each banking organization considering such rentals to evaluate the overall costs, benefits and risks of renting. The guidance advises banking organizations to pursue a clear and credible approach for ultimate sale of OREO rental properties within applicable holding-period limitations. The guidance suggests that institutions consider exit strategies that include special transaction features to facilitate the sale of OREO properties, such as seller-assisted financing or rent-to-own arrangements with tenants.\nCFPB Warns that Financial Institutions May Be Liable for Acts of Vendors\nThe CFPB released a bulletin on April 13 indicating that financial institutions subject to CFPB supervision may be held responsible for violations of consumer protection laws by companies with which they contract under certain circumstances. According to the bulletin, the CFPB expects that supervised financial institutions have effective processes for managing the risks of service provider relationships.\nNutter Notes: The bulletin includes the CFPB\u2019s recommendations for steps that institutions should take to ensure that service provider relationships do not present unwarranted risks to consumers, such as conducting thorough due diligence to verify that the service provider understands and is capable of complying with the law, and requesting and reviewing the service provider\u2019s policies, procedures, internal controls, and training materials.\nFederal Reserve Amends Regulation D to Simplify Reserves Administration\nThe Federal Reserve approved final amendments to Regulation D on April 5 that it said will simplify the administration of reserve requirements and reduce administrative and operational costs for depository institutions. The amendments will become effective in two phases, the first of which will take effect on July 12, 2012.\nNutter Notes: The amendments that become effective on July 12 will eliminate contractual clearing balances, discontinue as-of adjustments related to deposit report revisions and replace all other as-of adjustments with direct compensation. The next phase will implement amendments on the creation of a common two-week maintenance period and replacement of carryover and routine waivers effective as of January 24, 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 15265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nwdentalmedenumclaw.com/partials-dentures-crowns-and-bridges/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:28Z", "digest": "sha1:TCTQZMMBFRB5F37SR6IK7Z3VPOTCFIWU", "length": 2330, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.nwdentalmedenumclaw.com", "title": "Partials, Dentures, Crowns and Bridges | Northwest Dental Medicine Enumclaw", "raw_content": "A crown (cap) is a restoration that is placed on teeth that have lost a lot of their structure. There are many different types of crowns, full porcelain, porcelain fused to metal, full metal crowns\u2026 Your dentist will explain the advantage and disadvantage of each kind for you.\nYour dentist will explain when an inlay or onlay is a viable treatment option for you. In general, inlays and onlays can replace most back teeth fillings and are sometimes cosmetically preferred over conventional fillings. At the same time, they are more conservative than crowns.\nMissing teeth can affect the way you speak, chew, and function. In addition, it affects the shape of your face, lips, cheeks and bone structure. Because teeth function together, when one is missing, others try to compensate, which in turn causes further problems. Adjacent teeth may shift into that spot, or teeth from the opposite jaw may supererupt out of the bone causing periodontal problems, bone loss and ultimately loss of additional teeth. When other teeth try to compensate, your bite is altered and stress is placed on the teeth and surrounding tissues in the mouth. This leads to difficulty in cleaning and the increased likelihood of decay.\nTeeth can be replaced with fixed bridges, removable partials, complete dentures, and implants.\nA fixed bridge is also called a fixed partial denture, which is bonded or cemented to the underlying tooth structure. A bridge is cemented to natural teeth (the abutments) while the missing tooth (the pontic) replaces the missing tooth/teeth.\nImplant bridges are the same thing as a fixed bridge, but rather than using natural teeth as the abutments, the bridge is attached to implants.\nA partial, or RPD, is a denture for patients that are partially edentulous and still have teeth remaining in the arch. A partial is removable and maintains stability using clasps around the existing teeth, while resting on the edentulous ridge(s).\nFull dentures are used to replace a full arch of missing teeth. They rely on suction, muscle coordination, and the underlying soft and hard tissues for support. As changes occur to the soft and hard tissues with long term wear, relining of the denture may be necessary.\nImplants can be used to support both partial and complete dentures to aid in stability, retention and overall comfort.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 6467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nyas.org/bios/governor-candidates/thomas-pompidou/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:35Z", "digest": "sha1:6UK352V56LKL5ECFRQX64B2RY72A3HNH", "length": 729, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nyas.org", "title": "\ufeff Thomas Pompidou | The New York Academy of Sciences", "raw_content": "Thomas Pompidou is a Partner and Founder of Marker LLC, a New York City-based venture firm investing in the US and Israel technology ecosystems. He has been a Partner and held other decision-making roles at Crescent Point, a leading China-focused private equity firm, since 2005. He is also a Venture Partner of Innovation Endeavors and a Partner and member of the Investment Committee of the Armory Credit Fund. Before that he was an Executive Director in the investment banking departments of Lazard and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in New York where he focused on M&A and corporate finance. He holds a business degree from the EDHEC business school in France. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Pompidou Center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 10636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 57.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nydailynews.com/news/mugger-streets-87-year-old-margarita-fuentes-article-1.185728", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:19Z", "digest": "sha1:IJLEIP7QGNF5ELOKWXYIIKAFFIO7XVZX", "length": 1608, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.nydailynews.com", "title": "Get my mugger off the streets, 87-year-old Margarita Fuentes says - New York Daily News", "raw_content": "Get my mugger off the streets, 87-year-old Margarita Fuentes says\nBy Kerry Burke , Jose Martinez and John Lauinger\nThe 87-year-old East Harlem woman who was mugged by a pathetic thug is out of the hospital - and still outraged by her attacker's shamelessness.\n\"Can you imagine? What an abuse to pick on an old lady!\" fumed Margarita Fuentes, who is arthritic and walks with a cane. \"I don't want this man to do this to another person. I want the police to catch him.\"\nWhile cops continue to hunt for the mugger, Fuentes is trying to recover from the brutal June 5 attack that has caused her to suffer recurring headaches.\nFuentes, a mother of four originally from Puerto Rico, recalled yesterday how she went to buy a pumpkin from a local market on E. 121st St. on the morning of the attack.\nThe mugger, described as a Latino in his 30s, approached her and asked if she remembered him.\n\"I told him I'd never seen him before in my life,\" Fuentes said.\nAs she returned home, the thug pounced on her. She tried to crack him with her cane, but he overpowered her and snapped a crucifix off her gold chain.\n\"He grabbed me by the chain and ripped off the Christ,\" she said. \"He shoved me, threw me down, and I hit the floor hard. I had to crawl like a baby just to eventually get back up.\"\nThe thug, who also swiped Fuentes' wallet, could face a new, beefed-up criminal charge if he is nabbed.\nIn 2008, the state legislature passed the so-called \"Granny's Law,\" which raises misdemeanor assault to a felony when the victim is 65 or older.\nFuentes said she now no longer walks alone. \"I've given that up,\" she said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/nyregion/thecity/13rent.html?_r=1&ref=thecity&oref=slogin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:59Z", "digest": "sha1:QUOBH7VXADHZ3GTL7RV3D47CAJQSBMAQ", "length": 12959, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "\u2018Rent\u2019 Nears Its Final Performance, but Its Ragtag New York Faded Away Years Ago - The New York Times", "raw_content": "The City|Bohemia Takes Its Final Bows\nBohemia Takes Its Final Bows\nBy CAMPBELL ROBERTSON JULY 13, 2008\nREQUIEM FOR A STORIED SLUM At a cafe on Elizabeth and East Houston Streets, the face of the new East Village is crowding out the old neighborhood. Credit Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times\nI WAS late to \u201cRent.\u201d Late to the show, and late to the city it portrays. When I arrived in New York, in the fall of 1998, bistros and boutiques had already infiltrated the East Village, gentrification was spreading into the Lower East Side, and northwest Brooklyn had largely fallen to the forces of the bourgeoisie.\n\u201cRent\u201d had already been playing on Broadway for two years, and I wouldn\u2019t see it until several years later. I knew that the show had brought a jolt of young, romantic energy to Broadway, that it had inspired a cultlike following and that the sudden death at age 35 of its creator, Jonathan Larson, after the show\u2019s last dress rehearsal at the New York Theater Workshop in the East Village had given it an almost mythical poignancy.\nBy the time I saw it, in 2003 or 2004, \u201cAmerican Idol\u201d contestants, former members of boy bands and Scary Spice had settled into the cast. Young people in the audience, the so-called Rent-heads, were responding to the show with an almost Pentecostal fervor, crying and clapping at seemingly random moments.\nI had a good time, but it was difficult to identify with the heroin- and AIDS-ravaged dreamers and artists squatting in industrial lofts in the East Village, in part because I couldn\u2019t shake the knowledge that this particular heroin addict used to have friends named Ginger, Baby, Sporty and Posh.\nI\u2019ve seen \u201cRent,\u201d which closes in September after 12 years on Broadway, a few times since. Like all shows, it is different every time you see it. New cast members alter the show, of course, and the original tight direction sags. But \u201cRent\u201d is different in other, more peculiar ways, because it happens to be about a city that I live in, which has gone through some significant cast and directorial changes of its own.\n\u201cRent\u201d is about New York, far more than, say, \u201cChicago\u201d is about Chicago. I have tried to think up a title that could tap as deeply into New York\u2019s consciousness \u2014 \u201cCar Alarm, Car Alarm,\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s a Very Angry Woman on the Subway,\u201d \u201cClass Envy!\u201d \u2014 but nothing comes close. This is a city whose founding mythology involves not a magic spring or a she-wolf but a sweet real estate deal, one in which it\u2019s still unclear who was bamboozling whom, making it all the more touchingly New York.\nBut the city in which \u201cRent\u201d takes place was already vanishing when the show opened. The number of annual AIDS diagnoses was on the decline, and the city was in the midst of what would be an unprecedented drop in the crime rate. Brooklyn had become the preferred frontier for the young, overeducated and underemployed; Williamsburg was home to hundreds like the narrator of \u201cRent,\u201d Mark Cohen, the nice Jewish boy from Scarsdale who dreams of becoming a filmmaker while not, actually, making much in the way of films.\nOn the other hand, heroin arrests were still on the rise in 1996, and finding Chilean sea bass on Avenue C continued to be difficult.\nCredit Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times\nNow, 12 years later, it would be impossible to see the show and think it was set any time in the past decade. Much of \u201cRent\u201d has become downright nostalgic, almost jarringly so. Several numbers revolve around pay phones and answering machines (20-somethings with answering machines!). Roger, the gloomy, HIV-positive guitarist with a nasty case of rocker\u2019s block, plays gigs at CBGB, then a landmark of the New York underground music scene, now a menswear boutique. A group of lefty hipsters talk politics with no mention of anyone named Cheney or even the first Bush.\nTHERE is a fascinatingly antagonistic attitude among the characters toward virtual reality and what they call cyberland. The creation of a cyber studio on a lot on East 11th Street is the great evil of the musical, seemingly more ominous than AIDS or drugs, and yet if \u201cRent\u201d took place today, half the characters in the show would be blogging.\nAnd as has often been noted, the setting has become utterly foreign. At a restaurant on 11th Street and Avenue B, the intersection where Mark and Roger live in an industrial loft and where much of the show\u2019s action takes place, you can now get a nice filet de saumon with potato pur\u00e9e and an herb lemon jus. A few weeks ago, the Life Caf\u00e9, the restaurant on 10th Street and Avenue B where the young protesters gathered at the end of Act I to celebrate the bohemian lifestyle, began selling souvenir T-shirts, baseball caps and tote bags.\nDid \u201cRent\u201d play a part in changing the neighborhood it celebrates? Probably. \u201cRent\u201d is the \u201cAll the President\u2019s Men\u201d of aspirant hipsters, a great advertisement for Alphabet City (once and never more to be marked off by the avenues Awful, Bad, Crazy and Dangerous), where you can come live on dreams and tofu.\nAs the neighborhood has gone from a place cars avoided to a Friday night date spot, a cynical backlash to \u201cRent\u201d has taken place. Film critics appeared to have been waiting in a batter\u2019s stance when the movie came out in 2005. Sure, \u201cRent\u201d the movie was of debatable quality, but a few reviewers took hard swings at the show itself. The whole idea of creating a musical about the dying breed of bohemian squatters seemed suddenly offensive and even cynical. That\u2019s silly, of course.\nThe fact that \u201cRent\u201d the musical sells merchandise and $250 tickets is no more \u201cironic\u201d than the fact that you can buy a copy of \u201cThe Communist Manifesto\u201d at a corporate-owned bookstore (or that you can see \u201cLa Boh\u00e8me,\u201d the Puccini opera on which \u201cRent\u201d was based, at the Met). That\u2019s just how the business works.\nLikewise, it\u2019s missing the point to accuse \u201cRent,\u201d despite its characters\u2019 struggles with AIDS and heroin addiction, of being inauthentic. Of course it\u2019s inauthentic. It\u2019s a musical. People sing and dance. Could you imagine what an authentic musical about East Village squatters would look like? (Curtain time: Whenever.) What about an authentic musical about Irish and Puerto Rican street gangs, or Navy sailors in the South Pacific in World War II? I\u2019ll take the ones we\u2019ve got, corny parts and all.\nI\u2019d go even further and stipulate: \u201cRent\u201d is a safe, accessible show that at times struggles, even strains, to put up a dangerous front. The \u201cRent\u201d marketing campaign has tempered that gritty facade in recent years; the show now, like \u201cThe Phantom of the Opera,\u201d advertises itself as something you simply have to see \u2014 and come back to \u2014 because of its place in the culture.\nOn St. Marks Place, increasingly rare relics of another era. Credit Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times\nBut think about that. Is there a more accurate reflection of recent New York history? Friendly, clean, low-crime, nonsmoking, trans-fat-free, cabs-that-take-credit-cards New York? A city we can\u2019t honestly pretend is rough and gritty anymore?\nI flattered myself with the tough town\u2019s image for a little while, moving to Fort Greene, Brooklyn, seven years ago, and expecting to find mean streets. I did find some nice French restaurants and a grocery store around the corner that sold what seemed to be a dozen varieties of muesli. Great jogging in the park, too.\nTHERE are those who still hold onto the dream of danger, but their numbers are shrinking. Skinny young ex-suburbanites who would swoon at the sight of a pea shooter walk around Williamsburg wearing T-shirts emblazoned with a silhouette of a Kalashnikov and the words \u201cDefend Brooklyn\u201d (from everyone who came after, one assumes). Residents of Hell\u2019s Kitchen adamantly refuse to adopt the name Clinton, an old label for the area that real estate brokers tried to bring back at a time when the Hell\u2019s Kitchen description actually applied.\nI remember going to Times Square shortly after moving here and seeing, in front of the since-closed Warner Brothers store on 42nd Street, a large statue of Daffy Duck (or was it Bugs Bunny?) wearing a trench coat, furtively hawking knockoff watches. It was an incredible symbol of how New York wanted to see itself, and how ridiculous the city looked when it tried too hard.\nBut while \u201cRent,\u201d like the city itself, can reorient its marketing to fit the times, the show endures. It is a work of art about a particular time and place, except that unlike a movie or a book, this work continues to be put on live, night after night for years, as that time and place recede into the distance.\nI returned to \u201cRent\u201d a few weeks ago. I felt old. As if everyone in the row I was sitting in were on a junior high school field trip and I were the chaperon. But the show felt old, too. Old in an easy, comfortable way. Comfortable is the absolute last thing that any self-respecting bohemian is looking for, but in the end, that was the fate of bohemia in New York; it was made comfortable. And that\u2019s what was so striking about the revisit: not what had changed, which is fairly obvious, but what sounded completely, prosaically, blandly familiar.\nTake the lyrics to the song \u201cLa Vie Boh\u00e8me,\u201d the show\u2019s anthem in defiance of respectability. It is Christmas Eve. A protest against the development of a lot on 11th Street populated by homeless people has suddenly turned into a riot. Afterward the characters gather at the Life Caf\u00e9, where they see their former friend, the sell-out, the compromiser, the cynic, Benjamin Coffin III (that imperial, insidious \u201cIII\u201d). Benny is behind the development and is having drinks with his father-in-law, an investor in the project.\nAfter some smarmy back and forth, Benny declares the death of bohemia. The cast begins its song in response, a hymn to the subversive, the antiestablishment. At least that\u2019s the idea.\nThe Life Caf\u00e9, where the show\u0092s protesters hung out, now sells souvenir T-shirts. Credit Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times\n\u201cTo handcrafted beers made in local breweries,\u201d Mark sings. \u201cTo yoga, to yogurt, to rice and beans and cheese.\u201d Also: \u201cTo riding your bike, midday past the three-piece suits/to fruits \u2014 to no absolutes,\u201d and get this: \u201cTo Absolut.\u201d Like the vodka.\nThe song goes on. To Vaclav Havel. To Sondheim, Sontag, Antonioni, Bertolucci and Kurosawa (sounds like a sold-out Saturday afternoon quintuple bill at Film Forum). To German wine.\nIn other words, Park Slope for dummies. That song has become weirdly affecting, more affecting, to me at least, than ever before. As the drug- and disease-buffeted dreamers sing about all these things that would soon be popping up in the aisles at Whole Foods and in the dinner table conversation of Cobble Hill mommies and daddies, you realize that this is no mock funeral for the bohemian lifestyle. It\u2019s the real wake.\nBenny knew it, of course, and was taking good notes, because he won (and he did, in a big way) when he began singing along, simply incorporating defiance into his sales pitch. You, too, can live la vie boh\u00e8me in your $2 million condo on the Bowery, situated between the yoga studio and the organic food store. Today, almost nothing in that song seems dated, and that\u2019s the sad part.\nOccasionally on my way to the shiny new skyscraper on 41st Street where I work, I pass by the Nederlander Theater. The Nederlanders, like most other property owners in Times Square, were in the process of renovating it in the mid-1990s, before \u201cRent\u201d arrived. But the show\u2019s producers asked them to stop the project, so the shabby and half-finished theater would keep that downtown vibe.\nAnd it has, with its graffiti-covered facade and the cast of real homeless people who often congregate there. As it turned out, the intentionally down-at-heels look of the theater was not necessary: The tour of \u201cRent\u201d played perfectly well in clean, nicely appointed theaters around the country. People come for the story, not the trappings.\nNEXT door to the Nederlander, there\u2019s a newish boutique hotel; down the street, a New York Sports Club and the aforementioned skyscraper. Across from the Nederlander is the Disney-operated New Amsterdam Theater, one of the jewels of the 42nd Street development project that hosed out the sex shops and porn theaters and put a shiny, happy face on the block in the 1990s.\nCast and crew members from \u201cMary Poppins\u201d on smoking breaks stand opposite the Rent-heads lining up for the daily lottery of cheap tickets. It\u2019s a bizarre little tennis match, those theaters across from each other on 41st Street, two different symbols of what New York should look like.\nThat match can\u2019t go on forever. After \u201cRent\u201d closes in September, the Nederlanders will finish their long-postponed renovation and the Nederlander Theater will open for the next tenant, looking as good as new.\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page CY1 of the National edition with the headline: Bohemia Takes Its Final Bows. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 16184, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/opinion/06iht-edfinkel06.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:36Z", "digest": "sha1:64PD7VVRN33L3ZMW2RYYYUM5JNPESQPT", "length": 5245, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Turkey\u2019s Muzzled Muckrakers - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Opinion|Turkey\u2019s Muzzled Muckrakers\nTurkey\u2019s Muzzled Muckrakers\nBy ANDREW FINKEL MAY 6, 2011\nISTANBUL \u2014 Imagine if back in the days of Watergate, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein had been put on trial for being part of the very conspiracy they were trying to uncover. Then suppose a large section of the Washington press corps proceeded to pat federal prosecutors on the back for a job well done.\nSuch is the life of a journalist in today\u2019s Turkey \u2014 a world in which the justice system punishes the innocent while the Fourth Estate turns a blind eye. Turkey now holds the dubious record for being the country with the most imprisoned journalists \u2014 57 according to a report by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. There are as many as 1,000 other cases pending against journalists, many of whose only crime was rigorous reporting.\nYet Turkey is also Europe\u2019s fastest growing economy, a candidate country for membership in the European Union, and a nation publicly committed to rooting out the antidemocratic and militaristic forces that have marred its recent past. Turkey should be a beacon to its fellow Muslim-majority nations in North Africa and the Middle East trying throw off the yoke of authoritarianism. But it cannot set an example so long as its own government refuses to tolerate criticism and a cowed media looks the other way.\nTurkey has countless capable reporters and photographers eager to do their jobs. For years, these journalists treated the occasional encounter with the country\u2019s antediluvian penal code as a professional rite of passage. I myself stood in the dock more than 10 years ago, charged with \u201cinsulting the army\u201d in my column for a Turkish-language paper. I was eventually fired after the chiefs of staff \u2014 upset about my reporting on the Kurdish issue, pressured my editors to give me the boot.\nBut state repression is not the only problem; the jelly-like backbone of Turkey\u2019s Fourth Estate is also to blame. Sadly, the most effective censor in Turkey today is the press itself. To adopt a stance critical of current policies is to position oneself in opposition to the government \u2014 and editors only do so as a calculated risk. Columns exposing corruption or criticizing the government\u2019s sprawl-inducing environmental policies are simply spiked.\nWhen Turkish newspapers try to speak their mind, they often discover their advertisers dropping out, explaining apologetically that they have \u201ccome under pressure.\u201d\nSome of the journalists currently behind bars have been charged in connection with a long-running conspiracy trial intended to dismantle what state prosecutors describe as a well-organized network \u2014 codenamed Ergenekon \u2014 that intended to provoke a military coup. Others are charged with defying onerous reporting restrictions on court proceedings, including the Ergenekon trial itself.\nMost of the Ergenekon suspects are serving or retired military officers charged with plotting or carrying out violent acts in order to turn public opinion against the governing AK Party, which has its roots in an Islamic movement.\nBut recently, prosecutors ordered the detention of two respected journalists, Nedim Sener and Ahmet Sik, who were once supporters of the Ergenekon trial.\nSener\u2019s reporting revealed that the police had stopped short of finding those really responsible for the murder in 2007 of the Turkish-Armenian newspaper editor Hrant Dink because the trail might have led back to the police themselves. Sik\u2019s unpublished manuscript, which the police tried and failed to ban before it began freely circulating on the Internet, pointed a finger at a prominent religious group known as the G\u00fclen movement. Sik\u2019s book alleged that the group\u2019s members, who have close ties with the AK Party, had penetrated the police force.\nLast month, in my regular column for an English-language edition of the daily Zaman \u2014 which is affiliated with the G\u00fclen movement \u2014 I argued that the government\u2019s fight against antidemocratic forces was taking a decidedly undemocratic turn.\nThough I am not a member of the Gulen movement, I believed that Zaman, like the Christian Science Monitor in the United States, could provide a platform for differing points of view. So I argued the obvious, that as a newspaper we had an obligation to defend Sik\u2019s freedom of expression in order to protect our own integrity. The article cost me my job.\nMy former editor published a column justifying my dismissal, claiming that I had fallen prey to \u201cstrong and dark propaganda.\u201d I am not the only one: Cuneyt Ulsever of Zaman\u2019s rival Hurriyet had his column axed after being unofficially censored for months by a colleague who demanded that he revise passages the government might not like.\nSo this week, as we mark World Press Freedom Day, let us hope that those journalists languishing in Turkish prisons will be freed until the courts prove them guilty \u2014 and that their colleagues on the outside throw off their shackles to engage in proper journalism.\nAndrew Finkel is a journalist who has been based in Istanbul since 1989, and author of the forthcoming \u201cTurkey: What Everyone Needs to Know.\u201d\nA version of this op-ed appears in print on May 6, 2011, in The International Herald Tribune. Today's Paper|Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 8143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oakmark.com/Commentary/Global-Select/Oakmark-Global-Select-Fund-First-Quarter-2014.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:21Z", "digest": "sha1:33CSS44WDMSOUQHJM7QDHZB56DF7LQT5", "length": 3290, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.oakmark.com", "title": "Oakmark Global Select Fund Commentary: First Quarter 2014", "raw_content": "The Oakmark Global Select Fund returned 2% for the quarter ended March 31, 2014, outperforming the MSCI World Index\u2019s 1% return. For the first six months of this fiscal year, the Fund was up 9%, in line with the MSCI World Index. The Fund has returned an average of 9% per year since its inception in October 2006, outperforming the MSCI World Index\u2019s annualized gain of 5% over the same period.\nBank of America was the top contributor for the quarter, returning 11%. The company's most recent quarterly earnings report demonstrated continued progress toward achieving management's expense reduction targets, driven in large part by declines in the cost of servicing its \"legacy\" mortgages. As management executes on its plan, investors have increasingly recognized the normalized earning power of Bank of America. We believe the combination of further operational improvements and the company's plan to return capital to shareholders \u2013 through its recently increased dividend and additional repurchase authorization \u2013 will lead to continued gains in the stock.\nDaiwa Securities, Japan\u2019s second-largest broker, was the largest detractor for the quarter, falling 12%. Daiwa\u2019s stock price was negatively impacted by general Japanese market weakness during the first quarter. FedEx was another detractor for the quarter, falling 8%. FedEx reported weak third quarter numbers, which were significantly skewed by unusually severe weather and the company\u2019s widely reported difficulties during the holiday season. Despite the issues with inclement weather, FedEx\u2019s ground segment grew nicely; its volume and price grew 8% and 2%, respectively. However, in spite of this performance, the segment\u2019s margins trailed last year\u2019s, primarily because of hub/network expansion costs. In our view, this expansion will allow for rapid growth and share gains and is, therefore, worth the short-term costs. Finally, we believe FedEx remains focused on its shareholders and on returning capital via stock buybacks. During the most recent quarter, it repurchased approximately $2.7 billion of stock, and since its stock-repurchasing program began in October 2013, the company has repurchased 25 million \u2014 or 8% \u2014 of its outstanding shares. We expect further buybacks with 15 million shares left under the current authorization.\nGeographically, 48% of the Fund\u2019s holdings were invested in U.S.-domiciled companies as of March 31, while approximately 42% were allocated to equities in Europe and 10% to equities in Japan.\nGlobal currencies were relatively stable during the quarter, but we continue to believe some currencies are overvalued. As a result, we defensively hedged a portion of the Fund\u2019s currency exposure. Approximately 36% of the Swiss franc was hedged at quarter end.\nWe would like to thank our shareholders for continuing to support us and our value investing philosophy. We believe we have built a portfolio of high quality companies that will provide our shareholders with attractive returns over the long term.\nAs of 3/31/14, Bank of America Corp. represented 4.7%, Daiwa Securities Group, Inc. 5.0%, and FedEx Corp. 4.6% of the Oakmark Global Select Fund's total net assets. Portfolio holdings are subject to change without notice and are not intended as recommendations of individual stocks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 689, "original_length": 30170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oasisalaskacharters.com/pacific-halibut-understanding-this-vital-member-of-alaskas-fishing-grounds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:43Z", "digest": "sha1:3EYIK3ZU3C2FCOVIDHXMVPWAYBD3ZW3X", "length": 5408, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.oasisalaskacharters.com", "title": "Understanding Pacific Halibut", "raw_content": "Oasis Alaska Charters in Ketchikan provide a brief overview of the Pacific halibut\u2019s appearance, range, lifecycle and more\nBesides King, Coho and Pink salmon, the Pacific halibut is a vital part of Alaska\u2019s fishery, supporting native villagers, commercial fishing operations and charter guides. On average, over 70 million pounds of halibut are harvested by commercial and recreational anglers annually. Indigenous tribes and villages throughout coastal Alaska have relied on Pacific halibut as a main food source for centuries.\nIn modern times, the Halibut has become a staple is seafood markets and restaurants throughout the world \u2013 its meat has a mild flavor and is rich in protein, vitamins, minerals and highly coveted Omega-3 fatty acids.\nAs long-term residents and guides around Ketchikan, Alaska, we understand how important Halibut fishing is to our livelihood. We therefore work tirelessly to help visitors to our little slice of paradise understand how these fish live and how to responsibly harvest them to ensure strong numbers for future generations.\nWe invite you to continue reading for a few more basic facts about Pacific halibut, including a few ways it\u2019s commonly prepared here in Alaska.\nWhat does the Pacific Halibut look like? What do they eat?\nKnown in the scientific nomenclature as Hippoglossus stenolepis, the Pacific halibut is a flat fish that spends most of its life along the bottom of the seafloor. Often confused with the Flounder, the Halibut swims sideways and is in fact the largest of all the flat fish.\nHalibut are interesting because, unlike salmon, they swim sideways except in the early stages of life. Their top facing side is a grayish brown color coupled with numerous spots that help it blend in with the sea floor, which is where they spend the majority of their time. Halibut are also fascinating because both of their eyes sit on the same side of their body. Most Halibuts\u2019 eyes are on their right side, but approximately 1 in 20,000 will have eyes on their left side.\nTheir body has the shape of a diamond with the dorsal fin running from right behind their eyes to the base of the tail. Halibuts\u2019 skin has a smooth appearance since its scales are very small and embedded in the body.\nFor diet, Halibut will feed on plankton when they\u2019re very young, but after their first year, they will start feeding on small fish and crustaceans that closely resemble shrimp. As Halibut mature into adulthood (after age 3), they generally feed on fish like Smelt, Pollock and Cod as well as crabs, clams and even octopus.\nThe Halibut can be found off Ketchikan and throughout coastal Alaska in waters ranging between 37.4 and 46.4 degrees Fahrenheit. They have been known to go as far south as California on the U.S. coast. Halibut are also found along the Russian and Japanese coasts. They will move closer into shallower waters of the Continental Shelf in the warmer months and move into deeper waters during the winter.\nWhat is the Halibut\u2019s typical lifespan and size? How do they reproduce?\nHalibut can live quite a long time \u2013 30 years on average, but over 50 years in some cases. You can tell how old a Halibut is by examining calcified deposits that form growth rings near their ear like you see on trees.\nFemales grow larger than males since they carry literally millions of eggs for spawning. While most Halibut will weigh between 25 and 30 pounds, some females can weigh as much as 600 pounds! The largest Halibuts, known here in Ketchikan as a \u201cBarn Door,\u201d can grow to be 8 feet long and 5 feet wide. The current state record for Alaska weighed in at 459 pounds.\nThe Halibut\u2019s spawning season occurs during the winter months, typically between November and March, in anywhere between 300 and 1500 feet of water.\nThe females will release up to several million eggs depending on their size. The eggs will then be fertilized by the males. Once fertilization occurs, the eggs will hatch in approximately 15 days. The newly born Halibut, or \u201clarvae,\u201d then drift with the deep ocean currents. As they grow, they move higher and higher in the water column until they reach the surface-level currents that carry them to shallower waters and more nutritious fare along the Alaska coast.\nBy their sixth month, Halibut will stay along the bottom in shallow waters close to shore.\nUpon maturity, they will move into much deeper water offshore to spawn.\nHow do people enjoy Halibut?\nLike we explained above, the Halibut is rich in protein and other essential nutrients, and has been a dietary staple for centuries. Its meat is white and has a mild flavor. Indigenous cultures would smoke and dry the meat for winter-time use.\nFor anglers throughout Alaska, the Halibut is the most popular gamefish just behind the King salmon.\nWhile smoking Halibut is a common preparation method among native Alaskans, the Halibut can be grilled, baked and even pan-fried. Many physicians and nutritionists recommend halibut as a cost-effective way to eat a healthier diet.\nIf you\u2019re visiting Ketchikan, the Aleutian chain of islands or other parts of coastal Alaska for the first time, you will soon learn why Halibut is an invaluable part of the overall fishery.\nWe invite you to continue browsing our site to learn more about halibut fishing in Ketchikan and throughout Alaska, and if you have any questions or would like to schedule a charter, please don\u2019t hesitate to contact us today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 8187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.odealawfirm.com/richard-odea-named-2016-minnesota-super-lawyer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:25Z", "digest": "sha1:PNTKHA32EOLBEZJQ3DXSXNXJFTO34SIL", "length": 498, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.odealawfirm.com", "title": "Richard O\u2019Dea named 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyer!", "raw_content": "Richard O\u2019Dea named 2016 Minnesota Super Lawyer!\nPosted July 12, 2016 by O'Dea Law Firm | Categories: Uncategorized\nFor the 12th year in a row, Rich O\u2019Dea has been named a \u201cMinnesota Super Lawyer\u201d in the area of Plaintiff\u2019s Personal Injury representation by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Company. The selection process involves attorney nominations, independent research, and peer evaluations of potential candidates, resulting in only 5% of attorneys in Minnesota being selected for this honor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 217.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.off-grid.net/thatchers-legacy-time-to-nationalize-the-utilities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:13Z", "digest": "sha1:BSQWTN4TER73Y2IYNTOQ2CIVR3CWNSZQ", "length": 11007, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.off-grid.net", "title": "Thatcher\u2019s Legacy \u2013 time to Nationalize the Utilities | Living Off the Grid: Free Yourself", "raw_content": "Thatcher\u2019s Legacy \u2013 time to Nationalize the Utilities\nNick Rosen | ENERGY\nWATER | April 8, 2013\nAsset-strippers became media heroes\nMargaret Thatcher privatised Britain\u2019s power, water and rail network, handing huge profits to the private sector, at the expense of ordinary homeowners. Perhaps the best way to mark her death yesterday would be to renationalize the Utilities. Bolivia nationalised its domestic energy resources a few years ago. A shrewd move, at a time when owners of natural resources hold the best cards.\nMaggie Thatcher\u2019s greatest legacy was (together with US President Ronald Reagan) initiating the free market economics that have led directly to the bonus culture and gaping income inequality.\nThe era of \u201cgreed is good\u201d capitalism went global, a fitting tribute to this extraordinary politician. Britain\u2019s first and only female Prime Minister, she set the template for a massive transfer of public money into private hands.\nThe privatization of the state owned energy industry took a lumbering inefficient national power grid and turned it into a lumbering, inefficient and eye-wateringly expensive Corporate national power grid, where nearly 20% of households are officially in fuel poverty. Where the country\u2019s natural gas had been owned and controlled by the State, it was frittered away for a few billion, a figure that now seems like small change compared to the problems of how to replace aging power plants.\nUK energy regulator Ofgem warned last month that Britons may not be able to afford to heat their homes in the years ahead unless there is radical overhaul of the country\u2019s energy supplies.\nThe regulator warned the country\u2019s current system may not be sufficient to ensure \u201csecure and sustainable\u201d power across the country beyond 2015.\nThe big six, which include SSE and RWE, already under fire for increasing domestic bills during an economic downturn, but the latest weekly Ofgem projections show dual-fuel retail bills are now up to an average of \u00a31,420 a year, delivering \u00a395 in profit per customer \u2013 a profit margin for the firms of 7%.\nThat is up from an average bill in 2011 of \u00a31,030 and a profit margin of 3.2%, according to figures provided earlier by the companies but only now published by Ofgem.\nThe 2011 figures \u2013 the first the companies provided under the regulator\u2019s drive to bring more transparency to the market \u2013 also revealed the profit margins of the big six on their power generation divisions. EDF, the French-owned business that is demanding huge subsidies from the UK government to build nuclear plants, had a profit margin of more than 30% in 2011 while Centrica\u2019s was 17%.\nOfgem said average margins in generation across the big six increased from 18.4% in 2010 to 24.4% in 2011.\nIn announcing proposals for a radical range of options, including setting up central buying of power, Ofgem\u2019s chief executive, Alistair Buchanan, admitted that maintaining the current free-market approach was no longer an option.\nEnergy bills could rise between 14% and 25% by 2020 as the industry pays for the \u00a3200bn cost of investment needed to overhaul of the current system. He warned that increasing number of consumers would be unable to afford the cost of heating their homes.\nMaggie Thatcher\u2019s early experiments in privatization were copied all over the world, particularly in Russia, to unsuccessful effect. China has not gone down the same path.\nBy 1990, 42 major British businesses employing almost 900,000 people had been sold off, in every case for less than they were worth with no clawback against future profits. In every case the business running them have been sold and resold, and their executives awarded enormous bonuses.\nCoal, railways and nuclear energy \u2013 not obvious privatisation fodder \u2013 passed into the private sector between 1994 and 1997.\nSo ingrained had it become in the public consciousness that in 1995 under Tony Blair\u2019s leadership the Labour Party amended Clause IV of its constitution which had committed it to \u201cthe common ownership of the means of production\u201d which if unchanged would have meant a future Labour government reversing the privatisations. Unthinkable then, but what about now? When it was claimed last week that prices in the gas market were rigged the public was appalled.\nThe revelations come on the back of a series of above inflation energy bill rises announced recently by members of the so-called \u201cBig Six\u201d suppliers.\nBritish Gas announced a 6% increase at the same time as it was predicted the company would make \u00a31.4bn profit this year.\nMeanwhile 2,700 Britons die every year through not being able to afford to heat their homes \u2013 and around 7.8 million people can\u2019t afford their fuel bills.\nHowever, an interesting accidental experiment has occurred in the privatised rail industry which is subsidised to the tune of billions each year by the government.\nIn 2009, after National Express backed out of the East Coast Main Line franchise it had to be temporarily re-nationalised and since then profits have soared, which are going into government coffers. Punctuality and efficiency of the service has also improved. Is it the shape of things to come? Rosie Rogers, national co-ordinator of the political think tank Compass says why not? \u201cI think the price fixing is the latest example of how privatisation and outsourcing isn\u2019t always the best option. With public ownership there is more accountability. \u201cPeople don\u2019t feel they (private companies) are accountable, they might get a telling off or a slap on the wrist when things go wrong, but that\u2019s it.\n\u201cPeople are becoming increasingly concerned about what they are paying for.\u201d\nA series of recent polls have shown overwhelming support for the re-nationalisation of railways. Those arguing for it say it is a cheaper option to the privatised system as so much in Government subsidies is paid into it. They also say an easy low-cost way of bringing the network back into public ownership would be to simply take each franchise back into the public sector when it expires or when the franchisee is unable to meet the franchise conditions. However with the former Public Utilities it might not be so simple. Dr Martin Farr, political expert atNewcastle University, said: \u201cI\u2019m not sure it could be done even if the public wanted it. It would be difficult to defend the amount it would cost in compensation to the shareholders.\u201d And while Ms Roger gives an emphatic \u201cyes\u201d answer to the question has privatisation failed, Dr Farr is not quite so certain. \u201cIt depends on the eye of the beholder,\u201d he said. \u201cThere are cases for both sides.\u201d\nThe problem with the old state monopolies is that they became state bureaucracies, dedicated to defending their narrow interests. They were incapable of the kind of flexibility and innovation that you get with the best of consumer markets. Could you imagine state companies developing the iPhone or the iPad? We would still be using valves. But it is becoming increasingly clear \u2013 and not just on the left \u2013 that state ownership will not go away and indeed is perhaps becoming more relevant today than at any time over the last 30 years.\nWe are beset with commercial organisations that are too big to fail, too big to bail, too big to trust, and the state is getting ever more involved in managing them. Large sections of the banking industry have become unstable and rapacious monopolies and, in the case of Royal Bank of Scotland and much of Lloyds Banking Group, have fallen into state ownership. Large sections of the rail network, including the East Coast mainline franchise, and track-and-stations owner Network Rail, have come boomeranging back to public ownership. And following the West Coast mainline bidding debacle, Labour is now talking about re-nationalising the entire rail system. If there is to be a new generation of nuclear power stations, it looks as if the state is going to have to finance it because the private sector just doesn\u2019t want to know.\nAs the financial crisis morphs into an economic depression, the state is having to intervene in the economy in ways that would have horrified Margaret Thatcher. But this is exactly what happened in the 1930s. The rail system was run by inefficient private companies which couldn\u2019t generate the necessary investment. Technological developments in telecommunications were hampered by the need for private companies to put shareholders first. And of course, the private health service \u2013 unreliable, expensive and slow \u2013 was unfit for purpose and had to be replaced by the NHS, which some say has the same faults, but is actually the cheapest and most efficient national health provider in the world.\nWith the eclipse of socialism, state ownership is no longer seen as a political programme: a means to expropriate the capitalist class and build communism. We know that didn\u2019t work. But pragmatists are realising that state ownership is the only solution for many areas of economic activity.\n5 Responses to \u201cThatcher\u2019s Legacy \u2013 time to Nationalize the Utilities\u201d\nJubilee101.com\nI like the idea of cutting out the middleman. We need to shower some attention on a man named Jeffery Smith who has been a tireless supporter of the concept of Earth Sharing. You can get a good overview of his ideas at http://www.progress.org/dividend/cdman.html\nBravo for Bolivia ;)\nState ownership of utilities\u2026 (sniff sniff) you smelling what I\u2019m stepping in? Smells like statism\u2026\nI know you are right, but with the gouging immorality today, the insane bonuses, rampant revolving door corruption, and vast tax levied on the energy profits to feed central government, what is the alternative? These are \u201cpublic goods\u201d wind, coal, gas \u2013 being sold back to us at prices determined by international speculators, aided by governments. Lets cut out the middleman.\nFrom your diatribe a few things are evident. One you seem to of missed the thirteen years of labour government who did absolutly nothing on forming a coherent energy policy or indeed regulating any of the privatised business. Their ineptitude was the reason I chose to install my own pelton turbine. Secondly our bills are higher because VAT was added as well as \u2018green\u2019 surcharges. And finally you entirely glossed over the fact that by privatising these utilities reduced government expenditure by 25%. Not one single one of them turned a profit or even broke even. You may believe that governments have a bottomless pit of cash but one glance at Europe demonstrates otherwise. I suspect you are also too young to recollect pre thatcher britain with the constant strikes, wage rise demands exceeding 30 and in some cases 40%. The rolling blackouts, being bailed out by the IMF, rubbish uncollected piled high in the streets. Business struggled to raise finance due to taxes on unearned income being over 90%. Restrictions on taking money out of the country meant you could not take more than\u00a350 per trip. The list was endless. Had thatcher not won then I suspect even the poorest nations would now be sending us aid!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 14873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onethirtyeight.org/idle-gossip/diseased", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CWCSLRR5KN6F6TS36ZYH2OXLFGER5VAE", "length": 1063, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.onethirtyeight.org", "title": "Idle Gossip - onethirtyeight.org - onethirtyeight.org", "raw_content": "Well well well. I'm a bit out of practice, but updating the site was never this easy before. I threw up some old Show Reviews of Lickgoldensky and The Orphans, who are playing this Thursday @ The Double Down. Unfortunately, it's 21 and over, but you could stand outside and listen to them if you don't have an ID to get in. They are seriously that good. I might go, but I highly doubt it. I'm sure you can guess why. I'm all about eliminating any un-necessary Drama in my Life, but I know that I'm gonna run into those people somewhere along the line. The only question is what's gonna happen when our paths do cross. Hmmmmm... oh well. I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it. So yeah... check out the website... get to some shows, and be more than a witness dammit. And to those people who keep calling me from unlisted or private numbers, please stop. I don't answer those calls, so what's the point? I gotta keep a record of anyone who calls me up to harass me or to ask if I need meat... oops! I meant beef... LOL. Sad isn't it, that it's gotten this serious...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 229.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onetonline.org/link/industry/29-1161.00", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:26Z", "digest": "sha1:X3ZANDEOVWPJ6IZOM5L23SCD4VKH6AJX", "length": 284, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.onetonline.org", "title": "Industries: 29-1161.00 - Nurse Midwives", "raw_content": "29-1161.00 - Nurse Midwives Bright Outlook\n95% Health Care and Social Assistance\n5% Other industries\nIndustries: 29-1161.00 - Nurse Midwives by U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 184.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlineceucredit.com/ceus-online/lb-add-adults/secLB26.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:18Z", "digest": "sha1:U6ZZEAG2YW34KPGKPKEYJ7THKIFP47EP", "length": 10551, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.onlineceucredit.com", "title": "Comorbid Substance | Online Continuing Education CEUs for Psychologist | Treating Adults | ADD/ADHD", "raw_content": "Home > CEU courses > ADD/ADHD > ADD: Treating the Locking in & Blocking Out ADD/ADHD Adults > Comorbid Substance Abuse in Adult ADD\nComorbid Substance Abuse in Adult ADD\nThe long-term impact of ADHD has been the subject of considerable deliberation, in particular the manifestation of symptomatology in adulthood. Some 50 \u2013 80% of diagnosed children will continue to experience ADHD symptoms into adolescence (Barkley) and approximately one third of the individuals diagnosed with ADHD in childhood will meet the criteria in adulthood (Swanson et al.). In an attempt to recognize the heterogeneity of the disorder, DSM introduced three subtypes of ADHD, predominantly inattentive type (ADHD-I), predominantly hyperactive \u2013 impulsive type (ADHDHI), and combined type (ADHD-C), which distinguished between individuals in terms of symptoms and area of impairment (Lahey et al.; Wolraich, Hannah, Pinnock, Baumgaertel, & Brown). There has been some debate about the appropriateness of the subtypes, for example Barkley has argued that inattention related to ADHD-I is qualitatively different to that found in the other two subtypes and may actually be a separate disorder. Barkley also suggested that ADHD HI and ADHD-C are developmental stages of the same subtype. Others have argued that the high prevalence of comorbid disorders warrants that ADHD be subtyped according to comorbid patterns (e.g., Biederman et al.; Hudziak & Todd; Jensen, Martin, & Cantwell). An example is the proposed ADHD + CD subtype (e.g., Faraone, Biederman, Mennin, Russell, & Tsuang; Kuhne, Schachar, & Tannock) which is distinct in terms of its earlier age of onset, greater female to male ratio, decreased likelihood of remission, and poorer long-term outcome (Jensen et al.). Moreover, the ADHD + CD group is at greater risk for substance abuse and antisocial personality disorder (APD) than either disorder alone (Hechtman; Whitmore et al.).\nThere does appear to be a relationship between ADHD and drug use problems, but the association is not definitive and is complicated by the high rate of comorbidity between ADHD and CD. Nevertheless, the association between ADHD and drug use is a significant issue and warrants further investigation, particularly given the high estimated rates of SUD (Substance Use Disorder) among adults with ADHD. Barkley approximated that between 10% and 37% of ADHD adults meet the criteria for SUD and Wilens, Biederman, Mick, Faraone, and Spencer and Milin, Loh, Chow, and Wilson reported somewhat higher SUD prevalence rates of approximately 50%. Factors hindering the investigation of this relationship lie in the lack of definitive criteria for diagnosing ADHD in adulthood and the array of drug usage definitions employed, which range from measures of use to abuse to dependence. This study examined the prevalence of ADHD and CD among a sample of drug-using adults and investigated the relationship of adult ADHD with a number of variables including several different measures of drug use. The strength of this study lies in its use of DSM- based ADHD measures and in its acknowledgement of the heterogeneity of drug use, which allowed examination of potential relationships of ADHD to various aspects of drug involvement: associations that might well be overlooked if a single facet of drug use was considered. It was hypothesized that drug users with ADHD would experience more severe symptomatology on measures of childhood ADHD, CD, antisocial behavior, and drug use when compared to non-ADHD drug users.\nParticipants were men aged 18 years or older currently using alcohol or illicit substances and engaged with drug use agencies. Because ADHD, CD, and antisocial behavior all occur much more frequently in the male population, it would have been difficult to locate a sufficient number of female participants. Data were obtained from 95 participants aged from 18 to 65 years.\nThis study found high rates of both childhood and adult ADHD symptomatology in a sample of male drug users, approximately 36% and 46% respectively, which is consistent with previous research suggesting up to 50% co-occurrence of adult ADHD and drug use problems (Milin et al.; Wilens, et al.). The general population has significantly lower rates of ADHD, with the ATAP study (Hay et al.) finding a prevalence of approximately 5% in children and the QIMR study (Hay et al.) identifying rates of approximately 7% in adults. The present study found a high prevalence of CD (68%), compared with only 9.2% in the ATAP sample. It is noteworthy that 97% of participants in this study who met the criteria for childhood ADHD also had CD, which unfortunately precluded analyses exploring differences between ADHD + CD, ADHD-only, and CD-only groups. Examination of differences between adult ADHD subtypes revealed that the combined type and hyperactive \u2013 impulsive type had higher CD symptomatology than the inattentive type. Other studies have similarly found a lower incidence of CD in children with ADHD-I when compared to ADHD-C (Eiraldi, Power, & Nezu; Lalonde, Turgay, & Hudson) and ADHD-HI children (Lalonde et al.), but more than children in the normal population (Eiraldi et al.; Wolraich et al.). The remaining comparisons between the subtypes were found to be not significant. This finding should be considered preliminary at best given inadequate power.\nParticipants with adult ADHD had higher childhood symptomatologies in terms of inattention, hyperactivity \u2013 impulsivity, and conduct disorder as well as antisocial behavior in adulthood. Moreover, their drug use was more severe in terms of psychological dependence, substance use (excluding alcohol), and quantity and frequency of use. Similarities can be drawn between the findings of this study and others that have identified associations between underlying symptomatology, severity of drug use, and ADHD (e.g., Burke et al.; Fischer & Barkley; Molina & Pelham; Tercyak et al.). Interestingly, there were no differences between drug users with ADHD and those without in terms of alcohol use, highlighting the importance of recognizing the heterogeneity in drug involvement and considering different aspects of drug use when examining the relationship between ADHD and substance use.\nThe issue of comorbidity is worthy of comment. Comorbidity occurs when two or more disorders cooccur more frequently than the expected rate of occurrence of the individual disorders in the general population (Angold, Costello, & Erkanli). Comorbidity can manifest in several ways. Substance use disorders, for example, may be associated because one disorder is the cause of the other. Or there may be no causal relationship but rather two disorders share common underlying risk factors, such as biological and environmental vulnerabilities (Degenhardt, Hall, & Lynskey). Nosological considerations that might impact on the rate of comorbidity have also been raised, such as overlapping diagnostic criteria (Caron & Rutter) where the presence of one disorder equates to partial fulfillment of the criteria for the second disorder (Angold & Costello). APD, for example, includes criteria that are both directly and indirectly related to substance misuse such as engaging in illegal behavior, being arrested, conning others, and stealing. Such behaviors, however, are significant features of both pathologies and if consideration is given to \u2018\u2018. . .only the criteria not shared between disorders we will end up ignoring many key symptoms\u2019\u2019 (Angold et al.). Thus although this study has demonstrated high rates of ADHD and CD among drug users, the issues underlying the co-occurrence should be borne in mind and further research targeting the source of the comorbidity would enable exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of the demonstrated empirical relationships.\nThe findings of the present study indicate an overrepresentation of ADHD among drug users, both in childhood and adulthood, compared to the rates typically identified in the general population. Similarly, the comorbidity between ADHD and CD is significantly higher than general population estimates. Neither of the comparison groups likely provides exact population data but are all that is available given the dearth of Australian normative ADHD data. The high co-occurrence of problematic drug use, ADHD, and CD has significant treatment implications. In light of the finding that there are differences between drug users with and without ADHD in the extent of their drug usage, clinicians should investigate the presence of adult ADHD among drug users seeking treatment as part of their assessment. In doing so, attention should be given to differential diagnoses and conditions whose symptoms may mimic or overlap with ADHD symptomatology or be a consequence of substance use (e.g., withdrawal or intoxication). The difficulties differentiating some psychiatric disorders from substance-related symptomatology and behaviors related to a broader substance-abusing lifestyle have been well documented (e.g., Ball; Carey & Correia; Shaner et al.). Hence although this study has demonstrated that comorbidity between ADHD and CD among drug users is a valid and important consideration, clinicians should remain alert for ADHD-like symptoms that may be a manifestation of substance abuse or other disorder. Where appropriate, intervention should be tailored to address both drug use issues and ADHD symptomatology with particular attention to the impact that ADHD symptomatology may have upon drug use behaviors. The utility of pharmacological treatment of ADHD as a component of intervention should also be evaluated. In addition, the high occurrence in this sample of childhood ADHD and CD and their association with adult drug use highlights the importance of monitoring the extent of drug use behaviors throughout childhood and adolescence. Further research is required to determine whether ADHD subtypes can be differentiated in terms of drug use and thus allow intervention to be fine-tuned.\n- Yewers, T.M., D.A. Hay and A. Barton; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and severity of drug use in a sample of adult male drug users; Australian Psychologist; Jun2005; Vol. 40 Issue 2, p109\nThe preceding section contained information about comorbid substance abuse in adult ADD. Write three case study examples regarding how you might use the content of this section in your practice.\nAccording to Yewers, what is the co-occurrence rate of ADD and substance abuse disorders? Record the letter of the correct answer the Answer Booklet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 15630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onstageblog.com/new-blog-1/2018/5/17/addy-and-uno-tackles-disability-and-representation-on-theatre-row", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:36Z", "digest": "sha1:4J45YUC4UKBDBPNRKKTJRAPDQXAJ4GJQ", "length": 11606, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.onstageblog.com", "title": "\"Addy & Uno\" Tackles Disability and Representation on Theatre Row \u2014 OnStage Blog", "raw_content": "The cast of Addy & Uno\nIn an ideal world, the shared goal of performers and theater-creators is to transfix and captivate an audience, and leave them with a different outlook than when they arrived. If the toddler sitting next to me\u2014completely still, eyes fixed on the stage for a full fifty minutes\u2014was any indication, Addy & Uno, currently running at the Kirk Theatre, does just that. Brought to life with puppetry and music, Addy & Uno manages to say a great deal in under an hour about friendship, kindness, and the varied meanings of \u201cdifferent\u201d and \u201cspecial\u201d. The puppetry is similar in technique to the method used in Avenue Q, but the puppets here represent children with vision and hearing impairment, wheelchair use, autism and ADHD. The show depicts these challenges not as limitations but as an impetus for exploration of what makes each character unique and exceptional.\nThe plot: Addy (Caitlin Donohue), who has ADHD, signs up her friend Uno (Noah Pyzik) for a math competition in order to win a new red bicycle. Uno loves math and is extremely good at it, but his autism makes him shy around big groups and the public speaking the competition requires makes him nervous. His friends help him find the courage to join the math team and take part in the competition. Uno and Addy\u2019s friends all have things that make them different and they all have to deal with the school\u2019s bullies, but in focusing on what each of them is good at, they build each other up through kindness, empathy and respect.\nThe show was originally conceived by Nava R. Silton, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology at Marymount Manhattan College. It was workshopped at Marymount before moving to the Fourteenth Street YMCA, where the current producer, Tom D\u2019Angora, saw its threefold potential: to create positive change, to allow children with disabilities to see themselves depicted onstage, and to demonstrate that \u201ckindness makes a difference.\u201d Addy & Uno is now enjoying an ongoing run at on Theatre Row. According to D\u2019Angora, one of the most rewarding aspects of producing Addy & Uno is the reaction of parents whose children have challenges similar to those depicted in the show, who tell him that they are finally able to see the world through their child\u2019s eyes. A TYA production that fulfills this vital function for differently-abled children and their parents is long overdue. According to D\u2019Angora, \u201c(This) show should have happened a long time ago.\u201d\nCaitlin Donohue as Addy\nWhen he took on the role of producer, D\u2019Angora brought his long-time friend Anastasia Somaza on board as a consultant. Somaza, who uses a wheelchair as the result of cerebral palsy, is a disability advocate whom many may recognize from the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where she spoke about the importance of inclusion and respect for those who are differently-abled. Somaza feels that the production \u201cbreaks down barriers around disabilities,\u201d and that it is as much for adults as it is for children in that it reinforces the message that everyone, no matter their circumstances, should be allowed to \u201cdream big.\u201d Somaza rejects the idea of tailoring kids\u2019 ambitions to fit society\u2019s preconceptions about ability. Her advice to parents is to \u201cInvest in\u2026children who have disabilities; believe in them!\u201d\nTo anyone sitting in the audience of Addy & Uno, Somaza\u2019s words have the ring of truth. The show\u2019s impact is apparent simply by looking at the faces of the families. The audience is included throughout the story. Addy and Uno ask for advice and the children heartily chime in with encouragement; they learn how to sign, they even dance along to the music. Their open-minded curiosity and engagement is infectious: it\u2019s obvious that they see themselves in the characters and quickly come to view them as friends. This is evident at the meet-and-greet the cast hosts after every show, when the children have the chance to interact with the actors and see the puppets up close. At the meet-and-greet I attended, I heard the story of a hearing-impaired child who eagerly waited to meet \u201cSeemore,\u201d the puppet who is also hearing-impaired. Unfortunately, the actor who plays Seemore (Stephen Velasquez, in the performance I saw) had to leave right after that particular performance. Tom went backstage and brought the puppet out, and the child immediately leapt up and gave him a big hug.\nBrent Jones as RJ\nAnastasia tells the story of watching a child with cerebral palsy listening to RJ (Brent Jones), a puppet who uses a wheelchair, sing a song called Watch Me Fly. \u201cHe looked like he really wanted to fly. It was beautiful to see him have a character that looked like him on stage for the first time.\u201d Jones expressed how grateful he feels to have the opportunity to sing this song in the show: \"It\u2019s important that the parents see that their children can do things and still are able to dream in a big way.\u201d\nThe cast talks warmly about the show\u2019s two \u201csuper fans,\" Henry and Aiden, who have seen almost every show and even made their own Addy & Uno puppets. \u201cThey know the show by heart,\u201d says Noah Pyzik. Henry and Aiden hold lifetime passes\u2014they can see the show whenever they want. Their families told me that the boys really connect with the show. Bonnie Gleicher, who wrote the music and lyrics for Addy & Uno explains, \u201cWhat's amazing is that these kids now feel like these characters are their friends and they come to the show, they're literally seeing their friends every week. I think it's so amazing for the whole cast to feel like we can be a friend to all these kids.\u201d\nOnstage, the actors physically represent the challenges represented by their puppet characters. For instance, Brent Jones uses in a wheelchair for the performance (although not offstage). Vanessa Pereda-Felix, who plays Melody\u2014a visually-impaired character\u2014holds a walking stick, just like her puppet. Likewise, Stephen Velasquez wears a hearing aid while performing. To the actors and the show\u2019s producers, proper representation is of the utmost importance and every puppet is built expressly to incorporate the character\u2019s specific needs. Everyone involved in the show expresses how much they have learned about living with disabilities. Gleicher says, \u201cIt's like a whole world is suddenly revealed to you, like you were wearing glasses and you switch to contacts, you have this world open up where you see\u2026 handicapped signs and people with walking sticks. And you realize this is a population that needs to be recognized. We need their song; they need to feel like they can fly.\u201d\nAs composer and lyricist, Bonnie Gleicher believes that the characters\u2019 experiences are perfectly suited to musical interpretation. \u201cWhen I first heard their story I instantly got chills because it felt so soulful, I could hear how playful and how heart-warming it could be, how sensitive it had to be,\u201d she says. \u201cThese characters are experiencing so many obstacles every day, and they do it with such humor and such hope and such joy.\u201d For Gleicher, the music acts as a kind of emotional shorthand, allowing the audience to \u201cinstantly feel for the characters and\u2026get in their head(s).\u201d Gleicher\u2019s goal for the music \u201cto be touching and sensitive toward the disabilities and feeling in way that it felt pure.\u201d\nThe puppets, in turn, provide an ideal tool to engage children. Caitlin Donohue believes it is \u201cone way to educate them that isn't their usual structure in school. It's more inclusive. It's just a fun way for them to learn. I don't think if it was just us telling the story, of course you'd still (have) a very special story, but I don't think it would have the impact that it's had.\u201d\n\u201cIt lets people basically brace for something that can be a really heavy topic\u2026 in a way that's actually colorful and fun,\u201d Gleicher says. \u201cSo when kids see the puppets they fall in love with their vibrancy and they get to know the characters, they see their jokes and their dancing and their ability to sing loudly\u2026then they also understand that they're like these very resilient people.\u201d\nThe show feels especially important considering the current social and political climate. \u201cThis world is so polarized right now and everybody's differences are highlighted, usually in a negative way,\u201d Donohue says. \u201cSo this show really does the opposite of that. It says, look, here are these differences and it really showcases them, but it shows why they might be more amazing and more special then maybe at first glance.\u201d Addy & Uno emphasizes celebrating differences while also focusing on what people have in common: Uno and Greg (one of the school\u2019s bullies, played by Bryan George Rowell) both love math. Cindy, another bully, loves rockets, just like RJ.\nAt the center of the show is an anti-bulling message. \u201cI feel like just being a more open human, just being willing to share your heart with people,\u201d Rowell says. \u201cI think that it's a scary thing for a lot of kids. And the show is all about owning who you are and also accepting everybody else. I think if people were more aware of everyone else they would become more accepting and compassionate.\u201d The actors hope the legacy of the show will be to inspire children to befriend someone to whom they otherwise wouldn\u2019t have reached out.\nPerhaps most meaningfully to theatre artists, the show highlights how much representation matters, especially to those who might feel different or left out. \u201cIf the world is a stage, then the world is very diverse. We need to be seeing that diversity on the stage,\u201d Gleicher notes. This polarizing time is \u201cabsolutely the best time to have something where people walk out feeling wonderful. It\u2019s about people who really value each other, and once you can be kind to each other incredible things happen.\u201d\nAs for the show\u2019s future, everyone involved is intent that the production continue to reach as many people as possible. \u201cWe would love for all kids to be able to see the show and feel represented,\u201d Pyzik says, \u201cso whatever form it takes, \u2026 a tour, if it\u2019s that different schools own the production, whatever reaches the most children and can change the most lives and touch as many families as possible. We want to make it accessible to everybody.\u201d The show has launched a GoFundMe campaign with a goal of $75,000. Part of the purpose of the fundraising is to halve the cost of tickets, making the show to be accessible to people at any income level.\nI came out of Addy & Uno We with a fresh realization that we are living in a time where compassion and empathy are especially vital. Perhaps theatre for all age levels should be reminding us to give everyone the opportunity to feel accepted and loved exactly the way they are. \u201cThe show is important because we\u2019ve never seen a musical geared towards children that highlights all these different kids with different abilities, and highlights what makes them special and unique,\u201d says Brent Jones. \u201cI think now it is important that children see themselves in a positive light and not a negative light, especially in the media.\u201d Addy & Uno reminds both children and adults that kindness, above all else, makes all the difference.\nAddy & Uno runs Saturdays at noon at The Kirk Theatre on Theatre Row. Directed by Donna Drake. Music and Lyrics by Bonnie Gleicher. Based on a concept and book by Nava R. Silton, Ph.D. With Kate Ryan, Amanda Lopez and Derek Murphy. Tickets and information available at AddyandUno.com.\nNiki Hatzidis is an actor and award-nominated playwright living in New York City. She last wrote for OnStage Blog about actors creating their own work. NikiHatzidis.com\nAddy and Uno, Puppetry, TYA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 14972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onxwine.com/events/2018/3/30/meet-the-winemaker", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CVOGCNIBW6MUTPIHHZCD6YUQHRSG56RK", "length": 543, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.onxwine.com", "title": "Meet the Winemaker \u2014 ONX Wines", "raw_content": "Windows on the Water 699 Embarcadero Morro Bay, CA, 93442 United States (map)\nCome on out Friday, March 30th from 5:00 - 7:00 PM for an evening of food and complimentary wine tasting for Windows on the Water's next Meet the Winemaker! Along with complimentary wine tasting, our wines will be paired with select menu items throughout the weekend for a wonderful combination of local food and wine.\nNo Charge for wine tasting. Appetizers available for purchase. Reservations recommended should you wish to make it an evening and stay for dinner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 334.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oplaw.com/blog/2018/february/types-of-protective-orders/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:30Z", "digest": "sha1:2K34N6CDU2GSPNZS6WW2AUO65Y6D4AGD", "length": 3362, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.oplaw.com", "title": "Types of Protective Orders | Arizona Family Law Attorneys", "raw_content": "By Brandon M. Sander, Esq. Feb 2, 2018\nThere are two main types of protective orders that frequently coincide with family law cases: Orders of Protection and Injunctions Against Harassment. Both protective orders are intended to provide the plaintiff with a way to keep the defendant from contacting or coming near the plaintiff, and his or her family. Whether the order is an Order of Protection or Injunction Against Harassment, you can add other people (most often children) as protected persons. Additionally, you can add specific locations, in addition to your home address, to prevent the defendant from going to your work, school, or the school of the children. Both kinds of protective orders are intended to protect the plaintiff from the defendant, but there are some differences briefly explained below.\nOrders of protection are granted to prevent a person from engaging in acts of domestic violence. Thus, there must be a familial or like type relationship between the plaintiff and defendant. The required relationship exists if the parties are related by marriage or blood. Additionally, Arizona law provides certain statutory relationships that allow a plaintiff to obtain an Order of Protection. The statutory relationships include:\nParties who live together, or have lived together in the past;\nParties who have a child in common; one of the parties is pregnant by the other;\nThe victim is a child who lives with, or has lived with, the defendant;\nThe parties are currently, or were, in a romantic or sexual relationship.\nIf you meet the relationship requirement, the court must find reasonable cause to believe that it is more likely than not that the defendant may commit an act of domestic violence or has committed an act of domestic violence within the last year to grant the Order. For specifics on the process for obtaining an Order of Protection, watch for my upcoming blog titled \u201cObtaining an Order of Protection or Injunction Against Harassment.\u201d\nInjunction Against Harassment\nSimilar to an Order of Protection, an Injunction Against Harassment is used to prevent the defendant from committing an act of violence, intimidation, or harassment against the plaintiff. The primary difference between the two protective orders is that there is no relationship requirement for an Injunction Against Harassment. Thus, you are able to obtain an Injunction Against Harassment on any person, ie. neighbors, friends or acquaintances, who have been harassing you or will inflict irreparable harm on you if the injunction is not granted.\nTo grant the Injunction Against Harassment, the court must find reasonable evidence that the defendant has committed a series of acts of harassment against the plaintiff in the last year, or find that good cause exists to believe that the plaintiff will suffer great or irreparable harm if the Injunction is not granted. A series of acts of harassment means at least two acts. Again, for specifics on the process for obtaining an Injunction Against Harassment, look for my upcoming blog this month titled \u201cObtaining an Order of Protection or Injunction Against Harassment.\u201d\nWhether you are in need of a protective order or have been served with one, call OWENS & PERKINS at (480) 630-2464 to schedule your free 30 minute consultation with one of our experienced Attorneys.\nPosted By By Brandon M. Sander, Esq.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 7440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.optimistdaily.com/2018/02/this-is-the-most-relaxed-way-to-boost-your-memory/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MSNXEJO2NGOC2PLRFPK2ZWWPFLRZWB4H", "length": 605, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.optimistdaily.com", "title": "This is the most relaxed way to boost your memory", "raw_content": "This is the most relaxed way to boost your memory\nTaking the occasional timeout when studying is necessary if you want to keep your brain fresh, and by time out, we mean doing literally nothing. New research suggests that we should aim for \u201cminimal interference\u201d during study breaks. It can boost both our short and long-term memory and improves the brain\u2019s capacity to learn. So instead of running errands or surfing the web during a break, try dimming the lights and enjoying 10-15 minutes of quiet contemplation. Your brain will thank you when you get back to studying.\n[email protected]timistdaily.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 11080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.opw.ie/en/pressreleases/2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:14Z", "digest": "sha1:E64JYMKZORFVA2ULJTHGODJNRSQK3V7N", "length": 33201, "nlines": 158, "source_domain": "www.opw.ie", "title": "The Office of Public Works", "raw_content": "Canney outlines the significant level of spending on Flood Relief Works\nThe Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief, Se\u00e1n Canney, T.D., today outlined the significant level of investment made by the OPW in addressing and alleviating flood risk in 2016.\nTenders sought for Major Flood Relief Works in Clonakilty\nMr. Se\u00e1n Canney T.D., Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, announced today that a tender competition has been advertised on eTenders.ie for a major flood relief scheme for the town of Clonakilty in Cork.\nMinister Canney welcomes winners of OPW's Annual Winter Solstice Lottery to Newgrange for the Solstice\nSean Canney TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief this morning, (21 December), welcomed the winners of the OPW Winter Solstice Lottery to Newgrange. Their prize granted them access to the Chamber this morning ready to witness the Winter Solstice but unfortunately the sun was obscured by cloud. Nevertheless, the atmosphere at the Monument is weather-proof and all the visitors enjoyed the unique experience of Winter Solstice. The winners were from Finland, Germany, Isle of Man, Japan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Ireland and Ireland. They were joined at the Monument by a large group of media and onlookers, all seeking to share in the excitement of this unique event.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney receives donation to the State of historic Castletown House documentation.\nThe Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief, Se\u00e1n Canney, today (15th December 2016) accepted the donation of a collection of historic legal papers to the State.\nThe papers are associated with the history of Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Kildare and the Conolly family of that house.\nThe OPW announces the launch of the \u201cIAWATST\u201d Exhibition at The Alley, Arts and Conference Centre, Strabane\nIAWATST is the abbreviation for \u2018Interesting And Weird At The Same Time\u2019. It is an intriguing title that reflects the theme of the exhibition. The exhibition is a joint project between the Office of Public Works (OPW), the Department of Finance (DoF, Stormont Executive), Dublin City Council the LAB Gallery and the Central Model Senior School, Dublin.\nMinister of State, Se\u00e1n Canney, T.D., announces major investment in flood relief for Cork - launches Cork City Flood Relief Scheme\nThe Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief, Se\u00e1n Canney, T.D., today announced a major investment in flood relief works for Cork City bringing protection to 2,100 properties at the official launch of the Public Exhibition Stage of the Lower Lee (Cork City) Flood Relief Scheme.\nMinister appoints new Chairman of the OPW\nMr. Maurice Buckley has been appointed by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform as Chairman of the Office of Public Works (OPW).\nShannon Flood Risk Group takes unprecedented decision for the commencement of planning for strategic maintenance works to be carried out on the River Shannon\nThe Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group at its meeting in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim on 2 December, 2016 took a major decision to develop a plan for a strategic maintenance programme on the River Shannon. Programmed maintenance works have not been carried out on the Shannon for a significant period of time and silt and vegetation has built up which impacts on the river\u2019s conveyance capacity. The Shannon Flood Risk Group, which is led by the OPW, considers that maintenance works on the Shannon are essential to halt the deterioration of the river channel. It recognises that the carrying out of strategic maintenance works on the Shannon will be problematic and in bringing forward its plans, the Group will be addressing all of the necessary legal, environmental, technical and other considerations that arise. It intends to bring together all of the relevant stakeholders to discuss, initiate and manage the development of this programme.\nCivil Service Awards showcase staff excellence & innovation within the Office of Public Works\nThe Commissioners of Public Works are delighted to hear that the Ireland 2016 Centenary Programme received the Citizen Impact Award at the Civil Service Excellence & Innovation Awards, this evening at Royal Hospital Kilmainham.\nPhoenix Park Christmas Crib 2016\nThe annual live Christmas Crib will go on display at the Phoenix Park Visitor Centre from Saturday, 3rd December at 10am.\nThis year, the animals have been kindly supplied by local farmers through Agri Aware.\nThere will be carol singing at the crib at 10.30am and this will be provided by Kylemore College, Ballyfermot and The Wood Turners Guild from Castleknock College will also demonstrate wood turning at Ashtown Castle.\nOPW NLI Exhibition at The Main Guard\nThe Office of Public Works (OPW) announces, with the kind co-operation of the National Library of Ireland, the official opening of \"Rising\", a major photographic exhibition which showcases the Library\u2019s rich imagery of the events and Dublin locations of the 1916 Rising at The Main Guard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.\nRoad Works - Wellington Road, Phoenix Park\nThe OPW wishes to announce that the Wellington Road in Phoenix Park will be closed to all traffic from 28th November 2016 for a period of 6 weeks to accommodate road repairs and cycle lane installation.\nTaoiseach visits \u20ac6m Flood Relief Scheme at Craughwell\nAn Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny T.D. and the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Sean Canney, T.D., today visited Craughwell, Co Galway where works are underway on the Dunkellin River & Aggard Stream Flood Relief Scheme.\nThe OPW launched IAWATST Exhibition at The Printworks, Dublin Castle\nThe children of 4th class from the Central Model Senior School selected the 20 artworks for the exhibition and the title reflects their fresh and open responses. Using Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) teaching method, The LAB team led lively discussions with the children prior to and during their visits to select the artworks from the diverse range of historic and contemporary works in both the OPW and the DoF collections.\nMinster Canney announces \u20ac2m for Targeted Voluntary Homeowners Relocation Scheme and significant progress on Ireland\u2019s approach to Flood Risk Management.\nAfter attending today\u2019s Government meeting, Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Mr. Se\u00e1n Canney T.D., has announced he has secured \u20ac2m for the introduction of a once-off targeted Voluntary Homeowner Relocation Scheme.\nThe Minister said \u201cthis is a targeted humanitarian aid scheme for those primary residential properties that flooded during last Winter and had flooded in previous years to ensure those worst affected homeowners have a primary residence\u201d.\nHe said that the Government has agreed that while the terms of funding for relocation will be in line with the previous scheme in 2009; he is to appraise Government of the ongoing review of the administrative arrangements from that earlier scheme, to ensure that the arrangements for this once-off scheme are reflective of its targeted objective and all relevant circumstances.\nMinister Canney notes the announcement by Irish Water of the \u201cPreferred Scheme\u201d for the supply of water to the Eastern and Midlands Region\nS\u00e9an Canney, Minister for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today (8 November, 2016) noted the publication by Irish Water of their \u201cFinal Options Appraisal Report\u201d which identifies the preferred scheme for a new source of water supply for the Eastern and Midlands Region.\nOPW delighted to exhibit 'The Museum of August Destiny' at Pearse Museum\nThe Museum of August Destiny is an exhibition of contemporary art exploring the resonance of the Proclamation a century after it was written. It presents a small 'capsule' museum responding to the final line of the 1916 Proclamation, in which the Irish nation is exhorted to 'prove itself worth of the august destiny to which it is called.'\nThe exhibition will be launched at 5pm on Thursday, 3 November by Professor Sarah Prescott, Principal, UCD College of Arts and Humanities. The exhibition runs until January 8th, 2017, and admission is free.\nThe OPW welcomes \u201cOPW185\u201d Exhibition to Rathfarnham Castle\nOn 15th October 1831 \u2013 185 years ago \u2013 an Act of Parliament in Westminster established the Office of Public Works [OPW]. The Act was entitled Public Works [Ireland] Act, 1831 and was subtitled \u2013 An Act for the Extension and Promotion of Public Works in Ireland.\nTo mark this anniversary, the Office of Public Works has put together an exhibition that will be displayed at Rathfarnham Castle until 28th February 2017.\nOPW delighted to exhibit \u2018Pushing Boundaries\u2019 at Farmleigh Gallery\nH.E. Robin Barnett, British Ambassador to Ireland, today, (27 October 2016) officially launched an exhibition entitled \u2018Pushing Boundaries\u2019 at Farmleigh Gallery.\nThis Exhibition marks the first time that the Printmakers Council have exhibited in Ireland. The title Pushing Boundaries recognizes that 2016 is a significant year for Ireland as the centenary of the Irish Revolution and the beginnings of a new nation. Many events are being held across the country to mark the year and this exhibition might be seen as a small but significant part of the living historical process, taking place between Ireland and the UK.\nThe OPW and the Crawford Art Gallery welcomes \u2018The Crawford at the Castle' Exhibition to Dublin Castle\nMinister Heather Humphreys, TD. Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (19 October 2016) officially launched an exhibition entitled \u2018The Crawford at the Castle\u2019 in Dublin Castle.\nThe Crawford at the Castle: Three Centuries of Irish Art from a National Collection sees the collection of the Crawford Art Gallery travel to Dublin for the first time in its near 200-year history. A selection of 59 works of Irish art from the Crawford\u2019s permanent collection will be exhibited in both the historic State Apartments and Coach House at Dublin Castle, establishing interesting resonance between the two institutions.\nS\u00e9an Canney, Minister for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief attends the fifth meeting of the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group\nS\u00e9an Canney, T.D., Minister for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today (18 October, 2016) attended the fifth meeting of the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group in Government Buildings in Dublin. An Taoiseach, Mr. Enda Kenny T.D. also addressed the Group which was chaired by the incoming Chairman of the Office of Public Works Mr. Maurice Buckley.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney addresses the Irish National Flood Forum Conference in Ballinasloe, Co Galway\nSpeaking at the Conference the Minister said \u201dManaging flood risk is a key priority for this Government. From assessment to delivery of solutions the Government is actively working to alleviate and mitigate the damage from flooding. Government investment of \u20ac480m since 1995 with over 37 completed major flood defence schemes and almost 600 minor schemes, provided protection to 12,000 properties last winter.\nBuilding on this past investment, the Government has demonstrated its support of flood relief by extending its commitment to provide \u20ac430 million to Flood Risk Management between 2016 and 2021. Annually the allocation for flood defence works will more than double from \u20ac45m to \u20ac100m per annum\u201d.\nMinister Canney outlines progress on flood relief works in the Shannon catchment area\nMinister of State for the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Flood Relief, Se\u00e1n Canney has today outlined progress on flood relief works in the Shannon catchment area.\nMinister Canney congratulates the Winter Solstice Lottery Winners for 2016\nMr. Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief (OPW) congratulates the lucky winners in the Winter Solstice Lottery Draw for 2016. The Winter Solstice Lottery draw takes place each year in the Br\u00fa na Boinne Visitor Centre at Newgrange to select those who will be allowed access into the Newgrange Chamber over the winter solstice period.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney announces the Suir draft Flood Risk Management Plan for statutory public consultation\nMr. Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief (OPW) today (4th October) announced details of the draft Flood Risk Management Plan for public consultation for the Suir River Basin District, the final draft plan in the series. This consultation will run for ten weeks until 13th December, 2016. Consultation is ongoing on the draft Plans for the South Eastern, North Western, Neagh Bann, Western and Eastern River Basin Districts on a rolling basis. The public consultation period for the Shannon and South Western draft Plans closed on 23rd September.\nMinister of State, Sean Canney, T.D., announces the completion of safety works at Skellig Michael.\nSe\u00e1n Canney, T.D., Minister with responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today announced the completion of a series of complicated and technically difficult safety works at Skellig Michael, the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site which is located 12 kilometres off the Kerry coast.\nMinister of State, Sean Canney, T.D., welcomes inclusion of flood-related measures in new Housing Bill.\nMr. Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief (OPW) today (30th September) welcomed the inclusion of flood-related measures in the new legislation that the Government has agreed to prioritise for enactment before year end.\nMinister of State, Sean Canney, T.D., visits the Dunkellin River & Aggard Stream Flood Relief Scheme \u2013 Monday, 26th September 2016\nThe Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Sean Canney, T.D., today visited Craughwell, Co Galway where works have begun on the Dunkellin River & Aggard Stream Flood Relief Stream. The Minister was accompanied by elected representatives and officials from the Office of Public Works (OPW) and Galway County Council (GCC) along with representatives from the Scheme\u2019s design consultants. Construction works on the Scheme which is being managed and led by GCC, commenced in June of this year and will be carried out over a three year period with substantial completion expected to be achieved by the end of 2018.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney announces further tranche of draft Flood Risk Management Plans for statutory public consultation\nMr. Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief (OPW) today (23rd September) announced details of a further tranche of draft Flood Risk Management Plans for public consultation for the Eastern River Basin District. This consultation will run for ten weeks until 2nd December, 2016. Consultation is ongoing on the draft Plans for the South Eastern, North Western, Neagh Bann and Western River Basin Districts on a rolling basis. The public consultation period for the Shannon and South Western Draft Plans ends today.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney receives the Dutch Peer Review Report on Irish Flood Risk Management.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today received the Dutch Peer Review Report on Irish Flood Risk Management from Mr. Paul Schellekens, Dutch Ambassador to Ireland.\nMinister of State, Se\u00e1n Canney, T.D., visits Claregalway Flood Relief Scheme\nThe Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Sean Canney, T.D., today visited the site works of the Claregalway Flood Relief Scheme in the company of elected representatives and officials from the OPW and the design consultants. Construction works on the Scheme commenced in June of this year and will be carried out over a 3 year period with substantial completion expected to be achieved by the end of 2018.\nMr. Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief (OPW) today (13th September) announced details of a further tranche of draft Flood Risk Management Plans for public consultation for the Western River Basin District. This consultation will run for ten weeks until 22nd November, 2016. Consultation is already underway on the draft Plans for the Shannon, South Western, South Eastern, North Western and Neagh Bann River Basin Districts on a rolling basis from 15th July.\nOPW confirm its continued commitment to manage and present St Stephen\u2019s Green Park as a first class amenity.\nThe Office of Public Works today (9 September 2016) confirmed its continued commitment to manage and present St Stephen\u2019s Green Park as a first class amenity. Unfortunately unauthorised access outside the Park's normal opening hours is an issue. Despite the Park's historic railings, its difficult to secure its perimeter, which extends to 2km, from determined or desperate intruders. Unfortunately, drug use and homelessness are two major social issues that not only effect the day to day management of this popular Park but also the City Centre.\nMr. Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief (OPW) today (19 August) announced details of a further tranche of draft Flood Risk Management Plans for public consultation for the South Eastern, North Western and Neagh Bann River Basin Districts. This consultation will run for ten weeks until 28 October, 2016. Consultation is already underway on the draft Plans for Shannon and South Western River Basin Districts which commenced on 15th July.\nTunnel Vision: Going Underground at Casino Marino\nThe OPW announce the opening of a new Exhibition at the Casino Marino telling the history of the vaults and tunnels in the outside basement of the building. The Casino Marino, Ireland\u2019s miniature architectural masterpiece, has just added another secret to its already full repertoire of secret plans and clever tricks. Visitors can now explore the story of the long tunnel as part of the regular paid tour.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney encourages Local Authorities to avail of Flood Relief and Minor Flood Mitigation Works & Coastal Protection Scheme.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today (11 August 2016) has contacted CEOs of all local authorities to acknowledge the significant work of and contribution made by the City and County Councils in addressing flooding problems throughout the country. In addition, Minister Canney has reminded authorities of the availability of the Minor Works Scheme and to make the best possible use of the scheme to deal with localised fluvial and coastal flooding problems that may be eligible for funding under the scheme.\nOPW - Conserving and extending the life of the surviving historic decorative plasterwork at Ormonde Castle\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney welcomes the official opening by Uachtar\u00e1n na h\u00c9ireann, Michael D. Higgins, of the Commemorative Avenue in the Phoenix Park\nSe\u00e1n Canney TD, Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, today welcomes (30 July 2016) the creation of a new Commemorative Avenue in the Phoenix Park to celebrate the significant events in Irish History between 1912 and 1922.\nMinister Canney welcomes opening of the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park for limited public guided tours.\nSe\u00e1n Canney TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today (29 July 2016) welcomed the start of the limited guided tours to view the Magazine Fort in the Phoenix Park.\nOPW concludes repair work on Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael\nThe Office of Public Works confirmed today (22 July 216) that major repair works which were made necessary following damage to a rockfall which damaged a key section of the road and wall at Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael island in Kerry, have this week been successfully concluded and the Island infrastructure reinstated.\nOffice of Public Works announces the official opening of \u2018Conversations at the Main Guard\u2019 \u2013 An Exhibition of Portraits from the State Art Collection\nThe Office of Public Works is delighted to welcome visitors today (21 July 2016) to \u2018Conversations at the Main Guard\u2019 a selection of portraits from the State Art Collection in The Main Guard, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.\nMinister Canney launches \u2018Conversations at the Casino\u2019 Exhibition at Casino Marino\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today (19 July) launched \u2018Conversations at the Casino\u2019 \u2013 An Exhibition of Portraits from the State Art Collection.\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney announces commencement of the statutory consultative process for draft Flood Risk Management Plans.\nMr. Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief (OPW) today (15th July) announced details of the commencement of the public consultation process for Draft Flood Risk Management Plans starting with the Shannon and South Western River Basin Districts. The draft Plans have been produced through the Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme (CFRAM).\nSkellig Michael : Use of Life saving equipment on passenger boats.\nFurther to the debate that occurred on the RTE Liveline radio show on Wednesday 13th July, the Office of Public Works (OPW) wishes to clarify the position about what passengers on vessels destined for Skellig Michael should expect by way of measures designed to protect them during the voyage.\nMinister Canney welcomes continued co-operation with Insurance Industry on flood defence issues\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief met the representative body of the insurance industry, Insurance Ireland to discuss matters of mutual interest and concern on Wednesday 6 Jul 2016.\nMinister Canney launches four visitor initiatives at Derrynane National Historic Park\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today (24 June) was in Derrynane House to launch four interconnected visitor initiatives for Derrynane National Historic Park.\nMinister Canney announces \u20ac11m Bandon Flood Relief Scheme Contract\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney, TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today (10 June) announced the appointment of Wills Bros. Ltd as civil engineering contractor for the construction of the Bandon Flood Relief scheme to provide much needed flood protection for the town.\nOPW delighted to announce official opening of \u2018two birds/one stone\u2019 exhibition at Farmleigh Gallery on Saturday 11 June 2016 at 2pm.\nThe Office of Public Works is delighted to announce the official opening of \u2018two birds/one stone\u2019 exhibition which will be officially opened by Manch\u00e1n Magan on Saturday 11 June 2016 at 2pm.\nThere will also be a talk by the curator, Janet Mullarney on Sunday 12 June 2016 at 2pm.\nMinister Canney meets the Interdepartmental Flood Policy Co-ordination Group\nMinister Se\u00e1n Canney TD , Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief today (3 June) welcomed his first meeting with the members of the Interdepartmental Flood Policy Co-Ordination Group whom he met yesterday 2 June 2016.\nSignificant redevelopment and regeneration of key city centre site planned by OPW and Receivers to Apollo House as applications are lodged with Dublin City Council.\nThe Office of Public Works and Tom O\u2019Brien and Simon Coyle of Mazars as Joint Receivers to Cuprum Properties Limited, appointed by NAMA, are delighted to announce today (Friday 3 June), that planning applications were lodged with Dublin City Council for the redevelopment and regeneration of key city centre sites on which currently stand Hawkins and Apollo House.\nOPW announces new traffic control measures at Glendalough Visitor Centre\nThe Office of Public Works (OPW) today (31 May 2016) announced that it will shortly begin implementing new traffic control measures at the popular Glendalough Visitor Centre in Laragh Co. Wicklow in an effort to alleviate some of the difficulties that have arisen from the popularity of the site and the surrounding area.\nOPW announces season opening date for Skellig Michael\nThe Office of Public Works (OPW) today confirmed that Skellig Michael, the famous UNESCO World Heritage Site located off the Kerry coast, will open to visitors on Sunday 15th May this year.\nOPW welcomes \u20181916 Portraits and Lives\u2019 Exhibition to Kilmainham Gaol\nChairman Clare McGrath, Office of Public Works today (12 May 2016) officially launched an exhibition entitled \u20181916 Portraits and Lives\u2019 in Kilmainham Gaol.\nThe exhibition of portraits by David Rooney, illustrates 42 lives selected by James Quinn and Lawrence W. White from the Dictionary of Irish Biography and are included in the Royal Irish Academy\u2019s publication 1916 Portraits and Lives. This explores the lives and careers of 42 men and women and their involvement with the Easter Rising of 1916.\nUPDATE: Further rockfall at Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael on Monday 9th May\nThe Office of Public Works was advised today that a further serious rockfall has this afternoon (9 May 2016) occurred at Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael , just days before the scheduled reopening of the Island on Saturday next to visitors for the new 2016 season.\nOPW confirms opening of Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael site after urgent repairs\nClare Mc Grath, Chairman of the Office of Public Works today welcomed the news that Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael, the renowned National Monument and World Heritage site located 12 km off the Kerry coast, is ready to receive visitors on Saturday next, 14th May this year, as planned, weather permitting. The scheduled opening of the world famous Island had been put into some doubt earlier this year when it was discovered that severe winter weather had caused significant damage which directly affected the Lighthouse Road, the main route for visitor access from the landing Pier to the famed early Christian Monastic site.\nOPW delighted to exhibit \u2018Portraits of a Nation\u2019 in Farmleigh Gallery\nThe Office of Public Works is delighted to welcome visitors today (19 April 2016) to \u2018Portraits of a Nation\u2019 a selection of portraits from the State Art Collection in Farmleigh Gallery, Phoenix Park. The exhibition features 82 portraits by 54 artists and spans five centuries from a School of Rembrandt portrait dating to the 1630s to portraits created in 2016, such as eight prints by David Rooney from his original illustrations created for the 1916 Portraits and Lives book which was published recently by the Royal Irish Academy.\nOffice of Public Works is delighted to announce the official opening of \u2018In the Shadow of the Castle \u2013 Dublin Castle in 1916\u2019\nThe Office of Public Works is delighted to announce the official opening (today 6 April 2016) of \u2018In the Shadow of the Castle \u2013 Dublin Castle in 1916\u2019 \u2013 an exhibition on the role that the building played leading up to, during and after the Easter Rising.\nOPW announces new opening hours for Emo Court Park, Co. Laois.\nThe Office of Public Works today (6 April 2016) has announced new opening hours for Emo Court Park effective from Monday 11 April 2016.\nMinister Harris notes report from the C&AG on Flood Risk Management\nSimon Harris TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works today (5 April 2016) noted the publication of the C&AG's Special Report.\nKilmainham Gaol Restoration Volunteers attend special event in new Kilmainham Gaol Museum Visitor Centre\nSimon Harris TD, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works today (5 April 2016) hosted a special Reception for surviving members of the Kilmainham Gaol Restoration Society and their families in the newly-adapted Visitor Centre in the former Courthouse next door.\nMinister Harris welcomes OPW support of Light it up Blue for World Autism Awareness Day\nSimon Harris, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) today (1 April 2016) is delighted to announce that OPW will be lighting some State buildings blue to mark World Autism Awareness day on 2 April 2016.\nMinister Simon Harris welcomes the official opening by An t\u00daachtar\u00e1in, Mr. Michael D. Higgins, of the new Kilmainham Gaol Museum Visitor Centre\nSimon Harris, Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works, today (30 March 2016) welcomed a new era for the Kilmainham Gaol Museum with the opening of its new Visitor Centre in the former Courthouse building.\nOPW update on Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael Storm Damage - Monastery Undamaged\nThe Office of Public Works today (24 March 2016) has the following update on earlier reports of a breach to the Lighthouse Road wall at Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael. The Island was finally accessed by OPW and Department of Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht staff on Monday of this week (21 March 2016) and the damage inspected at first hand. It is clear, following the inspection, that, though the damage is significant, visitor access will be feasible in time for the start of the official visitor season, which is 14 May.\nOPW confirms winter storm damage on Sceilg Mhich\u00edl/Skellig Michael\nThe Office of Public Works today (15 March 2016) confirmed that it has received reports of significant winter storm damage on Sceilg Mhich\u00edl, the famous World Heritage Site off the Kerry coast.\nOPW announces record visitor numbers to OPW Heritage Sites in 2015\nThe Office of Public Works (OPW) today (14 March 2016) announced another successful year for visitor numbers to its heritage sites.\nOPW announces Greening of State Buildings for St Patricks Festival 2016\nOPW launches \u20181916 Easter Rising in St Stephen\u2019s Green\u2019 Exhibition in St. Stephen\u2019s Green\nThe Office of Public Works is delighted to announce the official opening today (14 March 2016) of the \u20181916 Easter Rising in St. Stephen\u2019s Green Exhibition\u2019 in St. Stephen\u2019s Green, Dublin.\nOPW announces changes to the system of ferrying passengers to Skellig Michael, Co. Kerry.\nThe Office of Public Works today (9 March 2016) announced certain changes to the regulatory system governing the ferrying of visitors to the Skellig Michael World Heritage site in Co. Kerry. The new system replaces the existing arrangements which have been in place since 1994 and is designed to ensure that improved and consistent standards of safety and customer service for the carriage of tourists to the Island are developed and maintained.\nOPW honoured with award for management of Phoenix Park Deer\nOn Saturday 5th March 2016, the OPW was awarded with the John Nicholson Perpetual Trophy from The Irish Deer Society.\nClare McGrath, Chairman of the Office of Public Works, chairs the first meeting of the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group\nClare McGrath, Chairman of the of the Office of Public Works, today (1 February 2016) chaired the first meeting of the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group.\nMinister Harris launches new Guidebook for Altamont Gardens, Co Carlow.\nMinister Simon Harris, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works today (27 January 2016) launched a new Visitors\u2019 Guidebook for the internationally renowned heritage gardens of Altamont, Co. Carlow.\nMinister Harris marks OPW take-over of major Heritage Gardens in Cork.\nMinister Simon Harris, Minister of State at the Office of Public Works today (27 January 2016) marked the donation to the State of the Annes Grove Estate in Castletownroche, Co. Cork.\nMinister Harris welcomes Government Decision to approve the terms of reference for the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group.\nMinister Simon Harris, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works, today (26 January 2016) welcomed the Government Decision to approve the terms of reference for the Shannon Flood Risk State Agency Co-ordination Working Group.\nMinisters and Garda Commissioner welcome refurbishment of former Wicklow Garda Station.\nSimon Harris, Minister of State with special responsibility for the Office of Public Works (OPW) today (25 January 2016) officially welcomed the completion of the refurbishment of former Wicklow Garda Station.\nMinisters welcome European Investment Bank provision of \u20ac200m for investment in flood protection schemes.\nFlood protection schemes across Ireland will benefit from a new \u20ac200 million long-term loan sourced from the European Investment Bank (EIB). Under this initiative, the EIB will help part-finance the Irish Government\u2019s Flood Protection Capital Investment Programme costing over \u20ac400m and expected to be implemented between 2016 and 2020.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 353, "original_length": 36958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 268.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.orbtalk.co.uk/hardware/product/cisco-spa502g", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5J4LP73BYVR77W6IKSAFS2ITXNH6C6R4", "length": 964, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.orbtalk.co.uk", "title": "Cisco SPA502G | Orbtalk", "raw_content": "The Cisco SPA502G is a 1-Line VoIP phone that features a back-lit monochrome display and fully supports Power over Ethernet, thereby minimising on cabling. Also, the handset features a PC port for enhanced connectivity and is suitable for offices or the home office environment. This handset is known for its high reliability and therefore it is the perfect option for businesses where continuous availability is essential, such as call centers.\nAesthetically pleasing back-lit display for ease of use\nTwo switched Ethernet ports, connect either directly to the network or connect to your PC to reduce cabling costs\nThe handset can be installed with ease and can also be pre-configured by our provisioning team if required. Once installed, setting changes can be made via the handset or the web user interface. The SPA502G fully supports SIP and the various features of this handset are centred on making the VoIP experience as simple as possible for the end user.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.orderofbooks.com/characters/anna-travis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:03Z", "digest": "sha1:SVNTW2GWA6CXJLJOAPM4GYFVCKS3FFLT", "length": 574, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.orderofbooks.com", "title": "Order of Anna Travis Books - OrderOfBooks.com", "raw_content": "Order of Anna Travis Books\nAnna Travis is a character featured in a series of novels by English author Lynda La Plante. Anna works as a Detective Inspector in London. The series was adapted into a television series titled Above Suspicion, starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis.\nThe Anna Travis series began in 2004 with Above Suspicion. Below is a list of Lynda La Plante\u2019s Anna Travis books in order of when they were originally published:\nPublication Order of Anna Travis Books\nThe Red Dahlia (2006)\nClean Cut (2007)\nOrder of Books \u00bb Characters \u00bb Order of Anna Travis Books", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oreanda.ru/en/promyshlennost/article982940/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QIDQM7PZPBBX5WUJN2LGMO6ZONTEWJZX", "length": 2828, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.oreanda.ru", "title": "Industry. ABM Comments CHS-Lincoln Pilots Energy Saving Initiative - Oreanda-News", "raw_content": "ABM Comments CHS-Lincoln Pilots Energy Saving Initiative\nOREANDA-NEWS. February 19, 2016. The U.S. healthcare system is notorious for using energy inefficiently or unnecessarily, generating more than 5.9 million tons of waste each year (which contributes more than eight percent of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.). And, they spend more than \\\\$10 billion a year on energy costs.\nWith the financial and resource pressures hospitals face today, healthcare facilities can\u2019t afford this anymore and are starting to realize the benefits of energy conservation.\nButterflies Change Behavior\nChange can be challenging, and saving energy starts with people and their behaviors. Take Carolinas Healthcare System Lincoln (CHS-Lincoln) hospital for example. According to an article in the Lincoln Times-News, the hospital was one of four in North Carolina chosen to pilot a CHS initiative aimed at reducing its energy use by 20 percent by 2017.\nThe first phase of the initiative focused on changing behavior. Employees were asked to carry out these specific actions:\nTurn off lights and televisions when not in use\nShut down computer monitors\nReset thermostats\nClose window blinds\nTo help employees remember to do these things, CHS-Lincoln placed monarch butterfly stickers in half the 90 rooms that were studied daily for compliance. These stickers served as a visual cue. According to the study, rooms with stickers had a 42-percent higher chance of being in compliance!\nPositive results from this first phase led to an enhanced study, which measured the effectiveness of the behavioral change. To date the hospital has shown improvements that have them on track to save \\\\$125,000 on utilities this year.\n\u201cWe actually exceeded expectations,\u201d said Chad Brackett, director of plant operations and maintenance at CHS-Lincoln. \u201cThe expectations of the whole project were reached with first implementations. Everything else was basically a bonus.\u201d\nThe hospital also made a lighting change in the parking lot that resulted in a \\\\$9,000 per year reduction in energy costs alone.\nAccording to Brackett, energy-conscious decision-making will continue into the future, although he doesn\u2019t know yet what different steps can be taken to reduce the carbon footprint further. Luckily, there are a lot of ways hospitals can reduce energy use beyond this initiative.\nFor example, they can easily leverage building and lighting system automation and controls to make them even more energy and cost efficient. Check out this case study on how Arnot Ogden Medical Center implemented an energy efficiency program that will deliver \\\\$14.5 million in guaranteed energy and operational savings \u2014 without having to spend any upfront capital.\nRead the complete Lincoln Times News article for more about the CHS-Lincoln energy saving initiative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.osodarrington.org/unraveling-zero-tolerance-public-schools-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:40Z", "digest": "sha1:KXBRK35WQRRSBL3L7JSIUESKX3YOQI3J", "length": 1565, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.osodarrington.org", "title": "Unraveling Zero Tolerance in our Public Schools (video) | OsoDarrington Daily", "raw_content": "Unraveling Zero Tolerance in our Public Schools (video)\nUsually a one-size-fits-all approach only really works for \u201cone size\u201d \u2014\nPublic Schools across the nation may or may not fit the mold when it comes down to federally mandated policies as they might relate to disciplinary measures.\nOver the last 30 years, schools across the country have enacted tough disciplinary policies. Did they go too far?\nIn the 1980s and 1990s, as crime rates started to rise, schools across the country began to crack down on violence, disorder and weapons in the classroom.\nA new \u201cget tough\u201d approach to discipline took hold that increasingly relied on swift punishment, suspensions and arrests.\nBy the mid-90s, that approach to discipline had been given a name: \u201czero tolerance.\u201d In 1994, the federal government called for zero tolerance, or mandatory one-year expulsion, for anyone who brought a gun to school.\nBut many schools went even further, using a zero tolerance approach for other weapons, drugs and all sorts of misbehavior. By 2011, more than three million students a year were being suspended and nearly 250,000 were being referred to the police by their schools.\nAnd those harsh punishments were much more likely to impact minorities and students with disabilities.\nHave these policies gone too far? Or not far enough?\nWatch this story by Retro Report and give us your opinion on the matter in the comments section below \u2014\nPrevious articleNo charges recommended for driver in fatal vehicle vs pedestrian collision\nNext articleHurricane-level winds expected to slam coast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Lietzke-Hangs-on-to-Win-Legends-of-Golf-7137018.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:00Z", "digest": "sha1:7Q24WCKRLMXDYFIU2YWTXE5T5NZQ6WMJ", "length": 3343, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.ourmidland.com", "title": "Lietzke Hangs on to Win Legends of Golf - Midland Daily News", "raw_content": "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/Lietzke-Hangs-on-to-Win-Legends-of-Golf-7137018.php\nLietzke Hangs on to Win Legends of Golf\nBruce Lietzke overcame the frustration of a number of missed birdie putts Sunday to win the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf for his first Champions Tour victory of the season.\nLietzke made par on the last 10 holes in a round of 1-under-par 71, finishing at 10-under 206, one stroke ahead of Dana Quigley (71) and David Eger (67).\nBob Gilder (69) and Hubert Green (71) tied for fourth at 8-under 208 in the first big-time tournament played in the Savannah area.\nThe Legends, which spawned the senior circuit in 1978, was played in four different cities and on eight different courses before moving to The Club at Savannah Harbor this year.\nLietzke, who began his career playing mini-tour events at the old Savannah Inn and Country Club on nearby Wilmington Island in 1974, earned $350,000 for the win, the largest paycheck of his career. The win was his sixth on the over-50 circuit.\nLietzke couldn't capitalize on a fast start Sunday. He birdied the first hole to get to 10 under, but dropped a stroke with a bogey on the par-3 third.\n\"I had the lead and I birdied the first hole,\" Lietzke said. \"I really should have been able to stretch that lead out, and I just couldn't do it.\"\nPutting was the reason Lietzke wasn't able to extend his lead. He missed just one green in the final round _ the third _ but never made a putt from beyond 10 feet. He was left watching as his ball would either burn the lip of the cup or stop a turn short.\n\"I was pretty disappointed in that,\" he said. \"But, I'm real happy to be the 2003 champion.\"\nThat said, Lietzke promptly announced that he likely won't defend the title in 2004. Lietzke said he wants to play with Bill Rogers in the Legends' team event next year.\nGary Koch and Roger Maltbie won this year's team competition on the 6,967-yard layout on Hutchinson Island, in the middle of the Savannah River.\nThe Legends was strictly a team competition until last year. Players in the two-man, better-ball competition now play for unofficial money.\nQuigley, who won the season-opening MasterCard Championship and tied for fifth in the Emerald Coast Classic last week, seemed to be the most likely to catch Lietzke.\nQuigley hit 9-iron to within 12 feet at No. 15 and made the birdie putt to get to 9 under, one shot off the lead.\nBut Quigley, too, couldn't coax in any birdies down the stretch.\n\"It was something where guys had to make a move, and none of us did,\" Quigley said. \"Bruce did just what he had to do.\"\nQuigley's earned 188 points toward the Charles Schwab Cup, and moved into first place with 786 points in the season-long race for the $1 million annuity.\nGil Morgan didn't earn any points, but maintained second place with 717 points. Lietzke earned 350 points and moved into third place with 593 points.\nDivots:@ Arnold Palmer shot his age for the second time this year, firing a 1-over 73 in the first round. Palmer also shot 73 in the first round of the season-opening MasterCard Championship in Hawaii. \u2026 Bob Charles was playing his first tournament of the season. Charles injured his elbow last fall at the SAS Championship and re-injured it at the New Zealand Open in December. \u2026 Eger made only one bogey in the tournament and none over his final 39 holes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 232.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.outlanderly.com/contact-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RPFFNHQ2XFO6RN272TKWSWY2YMR6IA5E", "length": 207, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.outlanderly.com", "title": "Contact < OUTLANDERLY", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re looking for creative content, an in-depth blog review, or a long-term partnership \u2013 you\u2019re in the right place! Please drop me an email about your ideas for collaboration or just want to say \u2018hi\u2019. \ud83d\ude09", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 304.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.panorama.am/en/shortNews/2018/09/14/Hyundai-Motor-Group/1278280", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:47Z", "digest": "sha1:MTBHJCTRWPPUZYRNFB4BYBNLFLWOU2IR", "length": 246, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.panorama.am", "title": "Hyundai Motor Group names heir apparent as chief vice chairman - Panorama | Armenian news", "raw_content": "Hyundai Motor Group names heir apparent as chief vice chairman\nChaebols like Samsung Group, which have grown into global firms from the rubble of the 1950-1953 Korean War, are undergoing a transfer of power to third- or fourth-generation leaders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 11045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.parkrecord.com/entertainment/live-music-in-park-city-for-may-24-through-may-27/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:44Z", "digest": "sha1:YZ2BL3JTIHJEGH4QJWVCH3NPSYTD3CR4", "length": 562, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.parkrecord.com", "title": "Live music in Park City for May 24 through May 27 | ParkRecord.com", "raw_content": "Live music in Park City for May 24 through May 27\nJordan Young at The Spur, 7 p.m.\nLive music with Emily at Molly Blooms, 6 p.m.\nPark City Live: Michelle Moonshine at The Silver Star Cafe, 7:30 p.m.\nDJ Stario at Downstairs, 8 p.m.\nMotherlode Canyon Band at The Spur, 10 p.m.\nPark City Limits: Pixie and the Partygrass Boys at The Silver Star Cafe, 7:30 p.m.\nSnyderville Electric Band at The Cabin, 10 p.m.\nPark City Limits: Take Five Jazz Trio at The Silver Star Cafe, 7:30 p.m.\nPhoenix Rising at The Cabin, 10 p.m.\nRage Against the Supremes at The Spur, 10 p.m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 3332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.paulaschoice.com.au/ingredient-dictionary/emollients/polyglyceryl-6-isostearate.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:21Z", "digest": "sha1:B2D3EGPFFIDPXKAU5BBOET47DUHBFVTX", "length": 188, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.paulaschoice.com.au", "title": "polyglyceryl-6 isostearate | Cosmetic Ingredient Dictionary | Paula's Choice", "raw_content": "The ester of isostearic acid and a form of glycerin. Functions as an emollient and an emulsifier in moisturizers and other skin-care products.\nSee glycerin ester\n024dfc5cb39dabf960d12d0435", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 200.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcworld.com/article/242642/eff_aclu_file_lawsuits_over_patriot_act_data_collection.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:17Z", "digest": "sha1:KQLMQT7BDGIRM46Q7VFOXTHPAXFRMGBF", "length": 2806, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.pcworld.com", "title": "EFF, ACLU File Lawsuits Over Patriot Act Data Collection | PCWorld", "raw_content": "EFF, ACLU File Lawsuits Over Patriot Act Data Collection\nACLU Wants Details on Mobile Tracking by Police\nSenators Push for Changes in Cybercrime Law\nTwo civil liberties groups have filed lawsuits asking the U.S. Department of Justice to detail its collection of electronic data and other information under the 10-year-old counterterrorism law, the USA Patriot Act.\nThe lawsuits, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, seek to have the DOJ and its U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation branch turn over all information related to information requests allowed under Section 215 of the Patriot Act. Section 215 allows the FBI to ask for a court order to obtain \"any tangible things,\" including books, records, papers, and documents, related to a terrorism investigation.\nThe groups filed two lawsuits Wednesday: The EFF sued the DOJ in California, while the ACLU sued the DOJ in New York.\nSection 215 allows for \"seemingly limitless\" requests for data by the FBI, including, potentially, Internet browsing patterns and other digital data, the EFF said in a press release. In June, the EFF filed a Freedom of Information Act (FIOA) request targeting the data-collection program, but the DOJ has declined to turn over information, the group said in its complaint.\nThe ACLU filed a similar FOIA request in May.\nThe information requested could be \"conceivably anything, and that's the big problem -- we don't know how the FBI, DOJ, or the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court] have interpreted the provision, said Mark Rumold, EFF's open government legal fellow.\nEFF is concerned that the FBI has \"taken what Congress and the public believed was a narrow grant of power and secretly expanded it,\" Rumold added.\nDuring the first three months of 2011, about 80 percent of the Section 215 requests were for Internet records, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.\nSenators Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, and Mark Udall, a Colorado Democrat, have raised concerns in recent months about the FBI's use of Section 215.\nThe senators have warned that U.S. residents \"would be stunned and angry about the government's interpretation of Section 215,\" Rumold, said. \"The only way to ensure accountability is if citizens understand how the government is interpreting this section. The public deserves answers.\"\nThe DOJ declined to comment on the lawsuits.\nEFF wants information on the Section 215 requests and a change in the Patriot Act, Rumold said. Congress has extended Section 215 of the law into 2014. \"To our knowledge, no one receiving a 215 order has ever attempted to challenge it, and 215 orders are accompanied by gag orders, so their existence can never be revealed,\" he said. \"So those two factors severely limit our ability to directly challenge the government's use.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 5263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.perfetly.com/baylor-louisville-oregon-mississippi-state-no-1-seeds-in-first-womens-ncaa-top-16-reveal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:11Z", "digest": "sha1:MLPYPIEUSAPHO2JIIGHCNA2RAT2TGEZ6", "length": 323, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.perfetly.com", "title": "Baylor, Louisville, Oregon, Mississippi State No. 1 Seeds in First Women's NCAA Top 16 Reveal - Perfetly Magazine", "raw_content": "Baylor, Louisville, Oregon, Mississippi State No. 1 Seeds in First Women\u2019s NCAA Top 16 Reveal\nBaylor, Louisville, Oregon and Mississippi State are the No. 1 seeds in the first women\u2019s NCAA Top 16 reveal.\nHARTFORD, Conn. \u2014 Baylor, Louisville, Oregon and Mississippi State are the No. 1 seeds in the first NCAA Top 16 reveal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 6717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.petaluma360.com/entertainment/7702289-181/stepping-out-making-theater-around", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:28Z", "digest": "sha1:27EJOD4IRWJF4RGGBKY2O2NUKCTPYNZN", "length": 5950, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.petaluma360.com", "title": "THEATER: Making a play in just one day", "raw_content": "THEATER: Making a play in just one day\n(1 of ) Rehearsal Time: The students are split up and sent to different parts of the school to rehearse their plays, but each show gets some rehearsal time on the main stage.\n(2 of ) 8:00 a.m. - Three sudent directors reading through scripts that have just been written overnight.\n(3 of ) Tech team: Instructor John Rustan assiting student sound designer in finding sound effects for one of the 24-Hour Play Festical one-acts.\n(4 of ) BUILDING CUES: A student programming light cues on a play as part of 2016's 24-Hour Play Festival at Casa Grande High School\n(5 of ) Show Time: 24-hours after it all began, the plays are performed for a live audience. This one, titled, 'Not a Love Story,' is about a director working with two actors who are falling in love while rehearsing a play that is not supposed to be a love story.\nWhat: 24-Hour Play Festival\nWhere: New Multi-Use Auditorium, Casa Grande High School, 333 Casa Grande Rd.\nWhen: Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7:45 p.m.\nStudents staying up late to cram for a test is nothing new.\nBut after school this Friday, Dec. 8, a select group of student playwrights at Casa Grande High School will gather to pull a decidedly unusual all-nighter. Working in small teams, they will attempt to deliver six completed plays by 7 a.m. the next morning. Then, on Saturday night \u2014 24 hours later \u2014 the curtain will rise on those freshly-minted plays.\nWelcome to Casa Grande\u2019s third annual 24-Hour Play Festival.\nIn roughly ten additional hours, the plays will have been cast, rehearsed, staged, costumed, lit and finalized for performance.\nChalk it up to the energy of youth, plus the guidance of John Rustan, drama teacher at the school since 2008 and the creator of the festival.\n\u201cIt is lots of fun, for both performers and audience,\u201d said Rustan.\nRustan has been the drama teacher at Casa Grande since 2008. After earning a Master\u2019s degree in theatre arts from Occidental College and a PhD in the same from the University of Oregon, Rustan taught at the University of Oregon, Gonzaga University, Napa Valley College, and Santa Rosa Junior College. He has worked professionally as an actor, playwright, and dialect coach.\nTo start the 24-Hour Play Festival creative process, the writing teams begin by reading the \u201cactor/character profiles\u201d Rustan has received from students interested in performing in the plays. The actors were asked to describe \u201ca quirk or secret desire\u201d they would like to include in their character. The writers must incorporate those quirks and desires into their scripts.\n\u201cOne actor wants to be a blind art dealer,\u201d Rustan revealed. \u201cSo one of the teams is going to have to include that role in their play.\u201d\nBased on the profiles, the writing teams will divvy up the actors. They will then disburse to various homes, hosted by interested parents, for an intense night of playmaking.\nThe first year of the festival, most of the plays ended with murder or suicide, so Rustan now advises his playwrights to avoid these conclusions. Otherwise, they are given a free hand.\nRustan makes sure each of the writing teams includes someone with previous experience crafting plays, usually gained through his advanced drama class. No single member of a team has authorial rule, so the teams must truly collaborate.\n\u201cThis takes the pressure off any specific individual, and the team can focus on getting it done.\u201d\nDespite the pressure, Rustan said the students enjoy the process of writing quickly.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no time to procrastinate, so they just jump in and create,\u201d he said.\nAt dawn, the playwrights will send their scripts to Rustan and six current and former student directors.\nBy 8 a.m. the directors will have read and divvied up the scripts.\nAt 8:30 a.m. the actors will arrive at the theater to begin rehearsals.\nDespite the time restraints, the actors usually learn their lines without difficulty, Rustan said.\n\u201cThe plays are short, eight to ten pages, with five or six actors in each, so the line load for each actor is not too burdensome,\u201d he allowed, adding that because his students do lots of improvisational work in class, they are also adept at helping out each other if necessary.\nLate in the afternoon, the student technicians will go to work, adjusting lights, set and sound cues for each play.\nThe hardest task for Rustan, he admitted, is recruiting six student directors.\n\u201cThe students all want to act in the plays, and we don\u2019t allow a student to both direct and act in the same play,\u201d he said.\nFortunately, several of Rustan\u2019s former student directors are glad to help out.\nAccording to Rustan, twelve seniors with directing experience graduated from Rustan\u2019s program last year, and several of them have volunteered to help out this year.\nRustan initially launched the festival to provide an acting opportunity for students unable to take a drama class.\n\u201cI was looking for a project that could be done quickly and require a relatively small investment of time,\u201d he said. \u201cI heard from a friend in Oregon who had done this type of thing, so I picked his brain about what works and how to set it up.\u201d\nThe plays will be staged in the school\u2019s large new multi-use room, which functions as a fully modern theater, with a large proscenium stage, theater lighting and sound, dressing rooms and shop. The modern light board is one of the many upgrades the drama program has received from fundraising efforts of the school\u2019s booster organization.\nThe playwrights, directors, actors and technicians all benefit from the experience.\n\u201cThey must rise to the challenge of a really strong deadline,\u201d Rustan said. \u201cBy going through this, they find out what it means to work efficiently, and they see how creative they can be. They get very excited about what they can produce in such a short period of time.\u201d\nAs for the audience, says Rustan, \u201cThey will see something fresh and immediate, in which the writers, directors and actors have all made strong choices.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 10629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/20204857.article?firstPass=false", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:53Z", "digest": "sha1:CT2MORK3KGCSE6FQSQIU33X2SMRI5DVM", "length": 3832, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.pharmaceutical-journal.com", "title": "More than half of patients using needle exchange pilot tested positive for Hepatitis C | News | Pharmaceutical Journal", "raw_content": "More than half of patients using needle exchange pilot tested positive for Hepatitis C\nThe Pharmaceutical Journal17 MAY 2018By Corrinne Burns\nMore than half of those using a needle exchange programme were positive for hepatitis C antibodies, and just under half of these were previously unaware that they were positive for the virus.\nSource: London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C\nPharmacy minister Steve Brine visited Portmans Pharmacy in Pimlico, central London, with representatives of the London Joint Working Group on Substance Use and Hepatitis C to show his support for pharmacy-based hepatitis C testing\nResults of a four-month pilot project have found that more than half (53%) of patients using pharmacy-based needle exchange services tested positive for hepatitis C (HCV) antibodies. Of these, 47% were previously unaware that they were HCV antibody-positive.\nThe London Joint Working Group (LJWG) on Substance Use and Hepatitis C pilot took place across nine London community pharmacies from October 2017 to March 2018. Those found to be HCV antibody positive (95 out of 178 patients tested) were referred to secondary care services for further assessment and treatment.\nOf those referred for secondary care treatment, 84% said they would in future prefer to receive treatment through a community pharmacy.\nPublic Health England (PHE) estimates that around 160,000 people live with hepatitis C across the country, and that around half of these may be unaware that they carry the virus. Around a quarter (41,500) of those living with the virus are in London. According to PHE, around half of people who inject drugs in London carry the virus.\nPharmacy minister Steve Brine joined representatives of the LJWG at Portmans Pharmacy in Pimlico, central London, one of the pharmacies involved in the pilot, to highlight the project\u2019s findings. \u201cWe are working hard to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health issue by 2025, five years ahead of the World Health Organization target,\u201d he said.\n\u201cInnovative testing initiatives in the community are essential if we are going to diagnose and treat everyone who has hepatitis C, a virus that disproportionately affects some of the poorest and most marginalised groups in society.\u201d\nThe LJWG is a multidisciplinary team of clinician and patients working towards the elimination of hepatitis C in drug users, and those engaged in drug services, in London. Suman Verma, consultant hepatologist at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and co-chair of the LJWG said, that the UK now has the treatments needed to eliminate hepatitis C as a serious public health concern across the nation.\n\u201cOffering free, accessible hepatitis C testing in community pharmacies is a more patient-centric way of engaging with a group of vulnerable, young people where hepatitis C prevalence and risk of transmission is high but, due to personal and social circumstances, engagement with community drugs services or healthcare services in general is poor and sporadic,\u201d Verma said.\n\u201cBy offering hepatitis C testing in community pharmacies, we will be transforming and saving lives, as well as preventing further virus transmissions. This pilot project has the potential to be developed further to encompass the provision of hepatitis C antiviral treatment directly in the community pharmacies for this vulnerable, socially marginalised, at-risk population.\u201d\nThe full report is available from the LJWG website.\nSport and Exercise Medicine for Pharmacists\nAll the information you need to provide patients with evidence-based advice on sports and exercise related health matters.\nReducing hepatitis C virus transmission\nFirst pharmacy-based automated needle exchange opens in Lincolnshire\nHepatitis C: tackling the silent killer\nEMA recommends combination therapies for chronic hepatitis C virus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 353, "original_length": 13037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sportsdoc/Rocky-50K-Run-set-for-Saturday-.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:00Z", "digest": "sha1:YOFL3ERIEJ4JN4KK4R3DHVHD547SXUBI", "length": 3553, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.philly.com", "title": "Rocky 50K Run set for Saturday", "raw_content": "Rocky 50K Run set for Saturday\nby Robert Senior, Posted: December 5, 2013\nIn late September, we profiled Center City resident Rebecca Schaefer who planned to take the famed \"Gonna Fly Now\" training montage in Rocky II and turn it into an event for Philadelphians, Rocky fans and fitness enthusiasts alike.\nInspired by a now-famous blog post by Dan McQuade, Rebecca pieced together the Rocky 50K Run, a race that will follow a course that's as similar as possible to the one Sylvester Stallone traversed in the (first) sequel. She's tweaked the course to make it legal (\"They're not going to let us run on any train tracks,\" she laments) and to make it exactly 31 miles, or 50 kilometers.\nThe run is not a race, Rebecca is quick to point out on the event's website, where she describes the Rocky 50K thusly: \"No Fees, No Awards, No Aid, No Wimps.\" There's no charge to enter, nor is there a trophy, participation medal, etc. All that's promised is a course on which to run.\nAnd what a course it is, as evidenced by this map. The outing will start at 7 a.m. Saturday morning at Wolf and South Lambert Streets in South Philadelphia\u2014the intersection nearest Rocky's house in the movie\u2014and proceed out toward Columbus Boulevard before moving into the Port Richmond/Kensington neighborhoods.\nJust past mile 8, the run turns onto Broad Street where competitors will head up towards City Hall before ultimately taking 2nd Street back towards those Kensington neighborhoods for a second time a trip along the aforementioned train tracks \"We'll be running parallel to the tracks,\" Rebecca clarifies.\nThe run finishes downtown, travelling over Kelly Drive, Chestnut Street and the Parkway before concluding (where else?) on the steps of the Art Museum.\nGiven the nature of the event, nothing is required of runners\u2014meaning people can run the whole time, or join in halfway through the route, or even just for the final few miles. Those who will be at the starting line are encouraged to bring any used shoes\u2014running shoes, dress shoes, etc.\u2014for donations to Back on My Feet, a local running club dedicated to inspiring those experiencing homelessness.\nOf course, the Rocky movies are not only legendary in Philadelphia\u2014and Rebecca Schaefer has learned that firsthand in preparing this race. \"I guess I just didn't know how huge [the movie] is globally,\" she admits. \"We have 1100 people in our Rocky 50K Run Facebook group, which includes people from all over the world. Runner's World magazine did a little blurb on the run. A Brazilian TV station even did a piece where they interviewed me.\"\nThe nature of the event makes it difficult to track how many people will be part of the run, but Rebecca seems optimistic as to the turnout. \"I'm not exactly sure what to expect,\" she admits. \"I plan to run the whole course, and then stick around to cheer on other people.\"\n\"And of course, if people decide to take that celebration to a local watering hole, I'm happy to join them.\"\nThe only thing that hasn't been decided is the weather\u2014and that is up in the air. At the beginning of the week, freezing rain was forecasted, but those chances have steadily decreased as the run gets closer. As of today, the forecast calls for the run to begin under cloudy skies and temperatures in the mid-30s. Cold, to be sure, but nothing that would've stopped a guy who worked out in a meat freezer.\n\"In Rocky IV, he ran up a freakin' mountain in the snow!\" said Rebecca. \"I don't think a little rain is going to stop anything.\"\nRead more Sports Doc for Sports Medicine and Fitness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 7558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.picturingwildlife.com/blog_252234.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PIGJJKK2BY5CQCDKFYEIQ335CA65N34A", "length": 1599, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.picturingwildlife.com", "title": "Bart van Engeldorp Gastelaars: Monthly pic February 2013", "raw_content": "Photoshopped from the dark depths of Bart's mind...\nMy my, there is no stop in the deteriorating rate of this website's picture of the month. After having to resort to my archive I have now descendeded to despicable new lows by digitally fabricating this months pic. ;) Please people, lighten up and let's not take things too serious!\nI recently watched an episode of BBC's - as ever - excellent documentary titled 'Penguins - Spy in the Huddle'. Watching these penquins make both short and huge treks I thought of a couple of Emperor Penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) encountering an information point in the middle of a snow blizzard and what that would look like... Come on, I'm sure that brought a smile to your face!\nAnyway, I recently read about an exciting and upcoming expedition that I wanted to share with you. A 100 meters (330 feet) high drifting platform (more like a buoy really) called the Polar Pod will attempt to follow the Antarctic Circumpolar Current in 2014-2015, while collecting data along the way. What's more... it will actually accomodate 7 people and is self-sufficient for a 6 month period. Adventurer/explorer Jean-Louis Etienne tells you more about his expedition on his website. Their experience will be shared real-time with audiences around the world.\nPersonally, I'm absolutely thrilled by this idea and very curious to see it in action. Jean-Louis, is there any vacancy for a photographer of board? However, before I say yes I would like to know what you guys are planning to do when encountering a iceberg? The emphasis here being on the word floating platform! ;)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.picturingwildlife.com/blog_321578.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:41Z", "digest": "sha1:DV3DSDZ3J5L7B2OC6YAOH5KQG3OTQ6MB", "length": 2053, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.picturingwildlife.com", "title": "Bart van Engeldorp Gastelaars: Monthly pic September 2015", "raw_content": "Male of a Southern or blue hawker (Aeshna cyanea). Canon 5D Mark III, Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM, 1/640, f/4, iso 125, handheld.\nDragonflies appear at places where they are least expected...\nI photographed this dragonfly at the Noorderheide, near Vierhouten in The Netherlands. Although one of the most common and widespread dragonflies in Europe, it\u2019s also one of the most spectacular due to its size and bright colors. Normally you wouldn\u2019t expect this species at an otherwise 'arid' heather moorland were the water level is 35 meters (38.3 yards) below ground level\u2026 Instead one finds mysterious artificial ponds and streams, attracting a multitude of wildlife. This 18 hectares (44 acres) estate once belonged to Rotterdam harbor business magnate D.G. van Beuningen (known from the renowned Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen), who \u2013 around 1935 \u2013 had 2,5 km of artificial streams and 18 ponds constructed. As well as four little pyramid shaped follies. The precise reasons behind both projects are lost in the mists of time, but a local group of volunteers has gone to great lengths to restore them to their former magic.\nThis former estate comes from a time when it was possible for wealthy businessmen \u2013 so not just aristocrats \u2013 to buy large plots of land, mostly for hunting. Another famous example of such an estate in the Netherlands is National Park \u2018De Hoge Veluwe\u2019, which was originally acquired in 1909 by businessman Anton Kr\u00f6ller and his wife Helene Kr\u00f6ller-M\u00fcller and meant as their private hunting estate as well as home to their personal art collection. After being in the market myself for several years to acquire an estate of my own, I decided that enjoying other people\u2019s / foundation\u2019s property makes much more sense and saves a lot of up-keep\u2026 :) And thats exactly the beauty of it. Fast forward to 2015 means that those estates are now enjoyed by lots of people and that the originally owners unwittingly made sure there are still vast expanses of nature to be found in one of the most densely populated countries on earth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 166.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pionline.com/article/20180927/ONLINE/180929875/alaska-permanent-allocates-564-million-in-commitments-direct-investments", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PYENHQADVPG7E7PBEVWHDJ6MWBBB34HM", "length": 1874, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.pionline.com", "title": "Alaska Permanent allocates $564 million in commitments, direct investments - Pensions & Investments", "raw_content": "Alaska Permanent allocates $564 million in commitments, direct investments\nAlaska Permanent Fund Corp., Juneau, made $564 million in new commitments or direct investments, according to a report for the $65.4 billion sovereign wealth fund's board meeting Wednesday and Thursday.\nWithin its private equity and special opportunities asset class, APFC committed $200 million to Sequoia Capital Global Growth Fund III, a growth equity fund focused on investing primarily in China- and U.S.-based technology companies; $49 million total to two funds managed by Index Ventures: Index Ventures Growth IV, a growth equity fund, and Index Ventures IX, a venture capital fund; $48 million to Advantech/Redview II, a joint venture Chinese private equity fund between Advantech Capital and Redview Capital; and $29 million to Bain Capital Europe V, a large-market buyout fund.\nThe sovereign wealth fund also made direct private equity investments of $40 million in Sound Inpatient Physicians and $25 million in Dental Corp. of Canada.\nAlaska Permanent Fund gains 10.74% in fiscal year Alaska Permanent approves new compensation plan, reflecting move to more internal management Alaska Permanent puts $500 million in credit fund\nAs of June 30, the actual allocation to private equity and special opportunities was 11.2%.\nWithin its infrastructure/private credit/income opportunities asset class, APFC committed $123 million to ICG Europe Fund VII, a middle-market mezzanine fund managed by Intermediate Capital Group, and $50 million to North Haven India Infrastructure Fund, an infrastructure fund managed by Morgan Stanley (MS)'s infrastructure group.\nAs of June 30, the actual allocation to infrastructure/private credit/income opportunities was 6.7%.\nAlternatives, Investing/portfolio strategies, Money management, Sovereign wealth funds, Infrastructure, Private debt, Private equity,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 5159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pittmanfirm.com/personal-injury-blog/2016/august/2016-panama-city-national-night-out/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:56Z", "digest": "sha1:5TX5PJZE2XUBNRXZY6W2TX553U7VDD2S", "length": 1635, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.pittmanfirm.com", "title": "2016 Panama City National Night Out", "raw_content": "At The Pittman Firm, P.A., we are proud supporters of law enforcement. We encourage everyone to come out to the Panama City Mall parking lot for the ninth annual National Night Out, co-hosted by the Panama City Police Department and the Naval Support Activity Panama City Security Department.\nThe event is tonight, August 2, 2016, between 5 and 8 P.M. at the Panama City Mall off the State 77. The crime prevention event allows people to come out and meet the local law enforcement, see the equipment these professionals use to keep people safe, and enjoy free hot dogs, popcorn, snow cones, and other goodies.\nThere is expected to be teams from 25 law enforcement and emergency service agencies at the event. This includes the police departments from Panama City, Lynn Haven, Parker, Mexico Beach, Panama City Beach, and Springfield, as well as the Bay County Sheriff\u2019s Office, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida Highway Patrol, and Coast Guard Station Panama City.\nThe event will also have a raffle with one person winning a free Power Wheels vehicle donated by the Bay County LEO Wives. F\nLast year, thousands of people showed up for the event and were treated to seeing the helicopters and squad cars used by these agencies on a regular basis. Many believe that the night was not just a chance for people to gain a better understanding of the agencies and their line of work, but it was also great to experience another side of law enforcement officers.\nWe encourage you to check out the event tonight and enjoy a night out with some of the best law enforcement and emergency service agencies out there. It\u2019s fun for the whole family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 6547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 146.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.planetvb.com/modules/games/?r", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:16Z", "digest": "sha1:D5XIVO5L756MCDBUJNNKRKE54WCFRTEJ", "length": 668, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.planetvb.com", "title": "Released \u00ab Games \u00ab Planet Virtual Boy", "raw_content": "In this section we give you an overview of all released games for the Virtual Boy with links to all the relating stuff for each game.\nTitle Versions Developer Rating ( PVB User)\nT&E Soft 8/10 6.9/10 (130)\nIntelligent Systems Co.,Ltd. 9/10 8.1/10 (172)\nBe Top 5/10 6.5/10 (81)\nAtlus Software 7/10 8.5/10 (110)\nNintendo R&D1 6/10 7.3/10 (164)\nHudson Soft 7/10 7.3/10 (125)\nBandai 5/10 6.3/10 (59)\nTaito 7/10 7.3/10 (71)\nCoconuts Japan 8/10 8.4/10 (105)\nBullet-Proof Software 7/10 6.9/10 (120)\nAthena 8/10 7.1/10 (69)\nNintendo R&D1 10/10 9.5/10 (207)\nPack-in-Video Co. Ltd. 6/10 5.7/10 (72)\nJ-Wing 3/10 4.6/10 (68)\nKemco 7/10 5.2/10 (109)\nOcean Software 3/10 4.1/10 (101)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 355, "original_length": 5780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.51, "perplexity": 277.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.plasticsurgeryoftheface.com/blog/for-the-consultation-for-blepharoplasty", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HY3NWAE37DBYUGDGJ7YKLN5CWMAMHZUG", "length": 1272, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.plasticsurgeryoftheface.com", "title": "For the consultation for blepharoplasty - Q&A", "raw_content": "Blog \u00bb For the consultation for blepharoplasty\nFor the consultation for blepharoplasty\nFor the consultation for blepharoplasty, what are some questions that I should plan on asking the surgeon?\nYou should ask if the surgeon is board certified by the American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. You should ask if this is a procedure in which the surgeon specializes and how may he or she has done . You should view pictures of patients on whom the surgeon has performed the procedure. You may also want to speak to a few of those patients to see how their experience was. You should make sure you feel 100% comfortable with the surgeon and his or her staff. Ask about how to prepare for the surgery, what the after care is, and about the downtime after the procedure. You should ask when the sutures are removed, when you will look presentable, and what exercise and daily activity restrictions you will have. You may want to ask if there are any nonsurgical alternatives to achieving your goals and how long the effects of your procedure will last. You should also ask if the surgery will change your eye shape. Finally ask if you are not happy with the outcome of the results or if something goes wrong, what is the policy for further care and treatment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.positive-magazine.com/tag/toby-binder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:A6ADDQOMKNTLQD7B7V3XOSZU4HWIV6NU", "length": 314, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.positive-magazine.com", "title": "Toby Binder Archives - Positive Magazine", "raw_content": "For about two years Bolivia allows children as young as 10 to work legally which has led to sharp criticism from many international human rights groups \u2013 what has changed for the children since? While most of the world is trying to diminish child labour, Bolivia has become the first nation to legalize it from [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 186.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.postandcourier.com/business/real_estate/tennessee-firm-acquires-a-south-carolina-home-builder/article_9cd07392-f4ee-11e8-bd1e-53177472ec7a.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:14Z", "digest": "sha1:KUBCJ6G65DLUU4YNNL65BPXEZO7DI7LE", "length": 3037, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.postandcourier.com", "title": "Tennessee firm acquires a South Carolina home builder | Real Estate | postandcourier.com \\n \"){return true}else{return \"By Warren L. Wise\\nwwise@postandcourier.com\\n \"||undefined}}, pubDate:function(s){s=s||false;if(s===\"2018-12-03 9:00:00\"){return true}else{return \"2018-12-03 9:00:00\"||undefined}}, /*section:function*/ /*premium:function*/ /*metered:function*/ }}};$.extend(true, EPI.prototype, EPI_prototype);})(); /*Local Variables pushed to EPI Framework*/ (function (){var EPI_prototype = {get:{ page:{ type:function(s){s=s||false;if(s===(\"article\")){return true}else{return(\"article\"||undefined)}}, }}};$.extend(true, EPI.prototype, EPI_prototype);})();", "raw_content": "A model home from Mungo Homes opened earlier this year in the Village at Stiles Point on James Island. File\nChurch Creek Landing off S.C. Highway 61 is one of the communities being built by Mungo Homes. File/Staff\nTennessee firm acquires a South Carolina home builder\nA Columbia-based home builder is now under a new roof.\nClayton Properties Group, a division of Clayton Home Building Group and a Berkshire Hathaway company, acquired Mungo Homes Monday. Terms were not disclosed.\nThe family-owned Mungo was founded in 1954 by Michael J. Mungo in the Midlands and is now led by CEO Steven Mungo.\nThe firm first expanded outside of Columbia in 2003 to Charleston and now builds homes in eight markets throughout South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, making it the largest builder to join Clayton Properties Group.\n\u201cClayton\u2019s partnership equips our team with innovative tools and technologies, superior leadership training and purchasing power that allows us to continue to grow Mungo with a focus on stability, team members and customers,\u201d Mungo said. \u201cIt creates the highest level of opportunity for our company as a whole while allowing us to retain our culture and corporate identity.\u201d\nA Clayton official called Mungo a natural fit in strong growth markets.\n\"The family-like culture is a direct correlation to Mungo\u2019s deep focus on team member and customer experience,\" said Clayton Home Building Group President Keith Holdbrooks. \"Mungo\u2019s tenure in the industry is paramount, and we look forward to coupling this with the talents of our other builders to pursue innovation in housing together.\u201d\nThe buyer's company culture played a key role in the sale, Mungo said.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve had offers and overtures from many public home builders over the years, but we never wanted to become part of something that didn\u2019t stand for anything,\" Mungo said. \"It was also the most important factor for Clayton. Our strong management and commitment to our communities and team members are qualities that can be found in each of the builders in Clayton Properties Group.\u201d\nIn 2012, Mungo was named America\u2019s Best Builder by Builder magazine. The award is based on overall excellence in homebuilding and is determined by finance and operations, design and construction, customer service and quality, community and industry service and marketing.\nMungo sold nearly 1,800 homes in 2017. The company is ranked 33rd on the 2018 Builder Magazine\u2019s Builder 100 list and is projected to close on approximately 1,900 homes in 2018.\nMungo is the eighth acquisition for Clayton Properties Group, and the third this year. Clayton's market footprint now reaches into Alabama, Colorado, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Indiana, South Carolina and North Carolina.\nClayton Properties Group is ranked 29th on the 2018 Builder Magazine\u2019s Builder 100 list, and with the addition of Mungo, is on pace to build over 4,200 homes by the end of 2018.\nClayton Properties Group\nColumbia Home Builder\nCharleston Home Builder\nSouth Carolina Home Builder", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 7777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.potterybarn.com/registry/3931847/registry-list.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:14Z", "digest": "sha1:BBLCHXL6KBU66I4E6VGBTVOB2B2W6T3H", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.potterybarn.com", "title": "TAYLOR & ALLEN's Wedding Registry | Pottery Barn", "raw_content": "TAYLOR & ALLEN's Registry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 787, "original_length": 15791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ppagla.org/blog/2016/6/6/npr-photographer-interpreter-killed-in-afghanistan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:44Z", "digest": "sha1:5MWHUR5F6LQ44D4BPQIDA2TJJZYSURZH", "length": 1059, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ppagla.org", "title": "NPR Photographer, Interpreter Killed In Afghanistan \u2014 Press Photographers Association of Greater Los Angeles", "raw_content": "\u0093David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist who chronicled pain and beauty in war and conflict, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday along with NPR\u2019s Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna.\nDavid and Zabihullah were on assignment for the network traveling with an Afghan army unit. They were in an armored Humvee driven by a soldier of the Afghan National Army. All three were killed after the Humvee was hit by rocket propelled grenades in an apparent ambush.\nNPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva were also in the convoy, traveling in a separate vehicle. They were not injured.\nTom reports that when the journalists\u2019 remains arrived by helicopter at Camp Shorab in Helmand Province \u2014 where the U.S. Army 10th Mountain Division has a training mission \u2014 an honor guard of \u201cdozens and dozens\u201d of U.S. soldiers stood at attention and saluted.\nDavid was 50 and Zabihullah, who for years also worked as a photographer, was 38.\u0094\n\u2014 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/05/480859153/npr-photographer-interpreter-killed-in-afghanistan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 248.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.premiergolf.com/why-new-zealand", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:31Z", "digest": "sha1:KYRR25GRGTNIS7XXPNULWMTEFJWFFVBM", "length": 4501, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.premiergolf.com", "title": "Why New Zealand - Premier Golf", "raw_content": "Why New Zealand? Our resident Kiwi expert Alistair Tod tells it!\nThe Golf Courses: Some of the world's top designers have imprinted their mark on the majestic coastlines and mountainous regions of this stunning country. Home to a growing number of Top 100 ranked golf courses, New Zealand is fast becoming a bucket list golf destination in its own right. Golf the likes of Kauri Cliffs, Cape Kidnappers, Kinloch and The Hills with no stress on tee times and few guests each day, so you'll feel as though you have the whole place to yourselves.\nThe diverse geology and landscapes: From the tip of the north to the bottom of the south, New Zealand covers the equivalent distance and latitude between North Carolina and New Hampshire, but in the Southern Hemisphere. With its stunning beaches in the north to its widespread mountains in the south, the diversity of New Zealand's geology is unlike any other country in the world.\nEasy to get to and travel within: It is a little known fact that New Zealand is only a 1 hour time difference from Hawaii, and to travel to New Zealand from California, it\u2019s a meal, a movie, a 6 hour sleep, breakfast and you are there. When you get here, the fantastic domestic network allows you to get around much of the country with ease by turning up at airport like the good old days: a mere 30 minutes prior to departure! Driving is easy too, although you do drive on the left, but there is little traffic with only 4 million people in the whole country.\nThe culture: The indigenous culture is that of the Maori, and New Zealand is incredibly proud of its Maori heritage. Witness a Haka dance (performed when the All Blacks Rugby team play or at many of the Maori culture experience venues around the country) and you will experience shivers down your spine! Maori traditions include a Maori \"Hangi\", a traditional celebration where meat and root vegetables are slow cooked Polynesian style underground on hot rocks.\nSafety: New Zealand is renowned as being an extremely safe destination. Incidences of crime tend to small and New Zealander's see themselves as one large community. It is not uncommon for relatively \"small\" incidents such as robbery to make national headline news!\nPeople: The large proportion of New Zealander's descend from European heritage (Scottish, English, Irish predominately), Maori (Pacific Islands) and a growing number of Polynesians in the main center of Auckland (the world's largest Polynesian populated city). This eclectic mix of cultures has resulted in a society of some of the most friendly and hospitable people in the world. Don't ever be afraid to stop your car to ask directions, but be forewarned as you may get invited back for dinner at the farm!\nWine: Classic wine growing techniques have adapted New Zealand's wine produce to be some of the finest examples of new world wines in the world. From its stunning classic varieties of the Hawkes Bay (Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec) to the Sauvignon Blanc's from the Marlborough region and the Pinot Noirs of the Queenstown region - there is ample choice and variety of world class wines to try throughout the country.\nFlora and Fauna: New Zealand is the newest country on earth and hence has an abundance of wildlife and incredible fauna which has largely been unaffected by the influences of human habitation. With its isolation, there are hundreds of endemic species to the country, including the flightless Kiwi, the national bird of New Zealand. Along with the Rimu and Giant Kauri trees, another native to New Zealand is the Silver Fern which is often seen on New Zealand clothing, banners and flags.\nThe Outdoors: Ask any New Zealander what they enjoy most about living in New Zealand, and you'll likely get the answer: \"It\u2019s all about the outdoors, mate!\" Participation in outdoor sports and leisure in New Zealand is extremely high with golf, sailing, walking, kayaking, mountain biking and white water rafting being among the more popular pastimes. With the diversity of the landscapes, and its beauty, it becomes very apparent early on as to why you would love to be living in the outdoors in New Zealand!\nPeace and Quiet: Using the North Carolina to New Hampshire example, and imagine New York City with only a million people in it (Auckland area). Then in the rest of the space there is only another 3 million people, plus 50 million sheep and a few million cows! Therefore you have a large area of land, water and mountains, and very few people to spoil it!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 6684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.presonus.com/learn/technical-articles/Songwriting-Basics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3Q55CEBQDABXY236TIYJ22NUGPDADAOM", "length": 5981, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.presonus.com", "title": "Songwriting Basics | PreSonus", "raw_content": "Songwriting Basics\nEvery songwriter wants to compose a song that people sing along with as soon as they hear it. The most ambitious may even want to write a song that lurks in everyone\u2019s subconscious until it pounces to get stuck in your head on a skip loop for a few days. What makes a good song work are two things: familiarity and predictability.\nThis is established by creating a thematic \u2018home\u2019 with a repeated motif. A song maintains the interest of the listener by leaving home and then returning to it. In songwriting, the home that is established is the chorus, the verses are the repetitive leavings, and the bridge is more like an extended vacation.\nThere will always be exceptions, but in general, a chorus is typically repeated 2 to 4 times and often serves as the song\u2019s title. You may have also heard of the term \u2018hook\u2019. The hook is usually contained in the chorus, and is often the part of the song the listener remembers after the song is over. No matter how badly you mess up the verses when singing along with the radio, you nail the hook every time. It\u2019s the \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d in Neil Diamond\u2019s Sweet Caroline, the \u201cAnd I\u2019m free, free fallin\u2019\u201d in Tom Petty\u2019s Free Fallin\u2019, or more recently, the \u201cI keep on hoping we\u2019ll eat cake by the ocean\u201d in DNCE\u2019s Cake by the Ocean.\nThe hook for a song can also be found in verses, but that\u2019s less common. Think of the \u201cHey, man\u201d at the beginning of every lyric in the verses of David Bowie\u2019s Suffragette City. It\u2019s a clever way to keep you actively engaged in the verses for a song that has a fairly wordy chorus. It\u2019s more clever because the \u201cHey, mans\u201d are on the same chord as the first line of the chorus. And you thought it was just catchy.\nThe verses are the parts of the song that tell the story; a song with three verses is set up perfectly to have a three-part narrative with a beginning, middle, and an end. The verses have the same melodic and rhythmic theme, but the lyrics change and evolve. Clever lyricists sometimes pick a word or a line to repeat but use it in a different context in each verse.\nHere's a breakdown of a three-part song structure, particularly common in rock and pop:\nVerse 1 - Chorus \u2013 Verse 2 - Chorus - Bridge \u2013 Verse 3 - Chorus\nIn the example above, notice that the bridge comes after the second chorus. There\u2019s a reason for that. A bridge is the part of a song that serves to break up the Verse \u2013 Chorus \u2013 Verse - Chorus sequence. Because a pattern has been established, the listener will be anticipating another verse after the second chorus. Diverging from this pattern toys with the listener's natural inclinations toward pattern recognition\u2014hearing something unexpected a couple minutes in keeps the song fresh. And architecturally speaking\u2014bridges are for taking us to new places, right? This makes the bridge a great place to add a key change or a shift in lyrical theme. If you\u2019re writing a song about a sad topic but want to add a glimmer of hope, placing this positive sentiment in the bridge allows you to shift the lyrical tone simultaneously with the musical tone. It also provides room for a harmonic build up or climax that will get the crowd going during a live performance.\nThe great news for modern songwriters is that there have never been more tools available to help you be creative with your art and assist you in honing your craft. Studio One Professional now offers a few invaluable tools that will allow you to play with your song\u2019s style and structure until you have crafted the perfect three-chord opera.\nThe Arranger Track in Studio One Professional lets you do just what its name implied: arrange and rearrange your song. We know that creating music is a dynamic, living process. Arrangements change, chords shuffle. Space opens up for solos or closes to tighten up the song. Inspiration strikes in the middle of the night, and your creativity pursues an entirely new direction. It\u2019s all part of the art of songwriting and composition.\nThe Arranger track is a simple, intuitive way to move around song sections. Try out different arrangements, swap sections, lengthen or shorten solos, and structure a song exactly the way you want. When you insert a new section in the middle of a song, Studio One automatically inserts space for the new material and then closes the arrangement around it. And when you cut out a section of a song, Studio One closes the cut portion automatically so you can move on to your next idea.\nStudio One also pioneered Scratch Pads so you could test changes without disturbing your existing arrangement. A Scratch Pad lets you drag out any part of your song, create multiple options, and then audition them without destroying your work. This gives you the freedom to explore varied lines of inspiration without risking the original idea.\nAnd in Studio One version 4, songwriting and arranging reach a higher level with Harmonic Editing. Here\u2019s how it works:\nInsert an instrument and start playing. When you come up with something you like, drag it to the Chord Track, which automatically detects and shows the chords you played. Now you can have subsequent parts conform to the Chord Track or change the Chord Track at any time; the rest of the arrangement follows these changes. Drag chords around. Substitute chords to see if they sound better. Split off an independent bass note from chords. Export chords to Notion 6.4 for effortless lead-sheet creation and printing. Even use Harmonic Editing to smash creative blocks and inspire you with new ideas.\nWhat\u2019s more, the Chord Track works with audio tracks as well as with instrument tracks. It has never been easier to \u201cprototype\u201d a song so quickly and simply\u2014and keep your creative spark alive.\nThe most important thing to keep in mind is that songwriting is ultimately a craft. And like all crafts, you get better with practice. So, be creative; experiment with structure. Studio One Professional gives you all the tools you need to hone your craft and let your voice be heard.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 9737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/100604_prince_philip.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:4PFTOYFJPKYYMZ7QMBG53F7KVJV4JC6Z", "length": 13903, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "www.prisonplanet.com", "title": "Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com", "raw_content": "Prince Philip, In His Own Words: We Need To 'Cull' The Surplus Population\nPrison Planet| June 10 2004\nHere is a re-cap of some of the things \"HIS ROYAL VIRUS\", Prince Philip has said in public concerning \"culling the population\"\nReported by Deutsche Press Agentur (DPA), August, 1988.\nPrince Philip, in his Foreward to If I Were an Animal; United Kingdom, Robin Clark Ltd., 1986.\nI just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers than it was in danger of extinction. What would be its feelings toward the human species whose population explosion had denied it somewhere to exist.... I must confess that I am tempted to ask for reincarnation as a particularly deadly virus.\nPress conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. on the occasion of the ``Caring for Creation'' conference of the North American Conference on Religion and Ecology, May 18, 1990.\nIt is now apparent that the ecological pragmatism of the so-called pagan religions, such as that of the American Indians, the Polynesians, and the Australian Aborigines, was a great deal more realistic in terms of conservation ethics than the more intellectual monotheistic philosophies of the revealed religions.\nAddress on Receiving Honorary Degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, July 1, 1983.\nFor example, the World Health Organization Project, designed to eradicate malaria from Sri Lanka in the postwar years, achieved its purpose. But the problem today is that Sri Lanka must feed three times as many mouths, find three times as many jobs, provide three times the housing, energy, schools, hospitals and land for settlement in order to maintain the same standards. Little wonder the natural environment and wildlife in Sri Lanka has suffered. The fact [is] ... that the best-intentioned aid programs are at least partially responsible for the problems.\nPreface to Down to Earth by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988, p.|8.\nI don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the ``cull'' to the size of the surplus population.\nLecture to the European Council of International Schools. Montreaux, Switzerland, Nov. 14, 1986.\nThe great difficulty about ``life'' is that we humans are part of it, and it is therefore almost impossible to study objectively.... It therefore tends to be anthropocentric and gives scant attention to the welfare of all the other life-forms which share this planet with us.\n...|When the Bible says that man shall have ``dominion'' over God's creation, the choice is between understanding dominion as in ``having power over,'' or dominion as ``having responsibility for.''\n\"Conflict Between Instinct and Reason\"\nFawley Foundation Lecture. Southampton University, Nov. 24, 1967.\nThe conflict between instinct and reason has reached a critical stage in man's affairs, largely because the explosion of facts has revealed the instincts for what they are and at the same time it has undermined traditional philosophies and ideologies. The explosion of facts has effectively altered mankind's physical and intellectual environment and when any environment changes, the process of natural selection is brutal and merciless. ``Adapt or die'' is as true today as it was in the beginning.\nIntroduction to ``Exploitation of the Natural System'' section of Down to Earth by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988.\nIt took about three and a half billion years for life on earth to reach the state of complexity and diversity that our ancestors knew as recently as 200 years ago. It has only taken industrial and scientific man those 200 years to put at risk the whole of the world's natural system. It has been estimated that by the year 2000, some 300,000 species of plants and animals will have become extinct, and that the natural economy, upon which all life depends, will have been seriously disrupted.\nThe paradox is that this will have been achieved with the best possible intentions. The human population must be properly fed, human life must be preserved and human existence must be made safer and more comfortable. All these things are obviously highly desirable, but if their achievement means putting the survival of future generations at risk, then there is a pressing obligation on present generations to apply some measure of self-restraint.\nAddress to Edinburgh University Union, Nov. 24 1969.\nWe talk about over- and underdeveloped countries; I think a more exact division might be between underdeveloped and overpopulated. The more people there are, the more industry and more waste and the more sewage there is, and therefore the more pollution.\nThe Fairfield Osborne Lecture, New York, Oct. 1 1980.\nIf the world pollution situation is not critical at the moment, it is as certain as anything can be that the situation will become increasingly intolerable within a very short time. The situation can be controlled, and even reversed; but it demands cooperation on a scale and intensity beyond anything achieved so far.\nI realize that there are vital causes to be fought for, and I sympathize with people who work up a passionate concern about the all too many examples of inhumanity, injustice, and unfairness; but behind all this hangs a deadly cloud. Still largely unnoticed and unrecognized, the process of destroying our natural environment is gathering speed and momentum. If we fail to cope with the challenge, the other problems will pale into insignificance.\nIntroduction to ``The Population Factor'' section of Down to Earth by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988.\nWhat has been described as the ``balance of nature'' is simply nature's system of self-limitation. Fertility and breeding success create the surpluses after allowing for the replacement of the losses. Predation, climatic variation, disease, starvation--and in the case of the inappropriately named Homo sapiens, wars and terrorism--are the principal means by which population numbers are kept under some sort of control.\nViewed dispassionately, it must be obvious that the world's human population has grown to such a size that it is threatening its own habitat; and it has already succeeded in causing the extinction of large numbers of wild plant and animal species. Some have simply been killed off. Others have quietly disappeared, as their habitats have been taken over or disturbed by human activities.\nHumans are the Greatest Threat to Survival\nInterview with HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in People Dec. 21, 1981 titled ``Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as Overpopulation.''\nQ: What do you consider the leading threat to the environment?\nA: Human population growth is probably the single most serious long-term threat to survival. We're in for a major disaster if it isn't curbed--not just for the natural world, but for the human world. The more people there are, the more resources they'll consume, the more pollution they'll create, the more fighting they will do. We have no option. If it isn't controlled voluntarily, it will be controlled involuntarily by an increase in disease, starvation and war.\nAddress to the Joint Meeting of the All-Party Group on Population and Development and the All-Party Conservation Committee in London, March 11, 1987.\nI do believe ... that human population pressure--the sheer number of people on this planet--is the single most important cause of the degradation of the natural environment, of the progressive extinction of wild species of plants and animals, and of the destabilization of the world's climatic and atmospheric systems.\nThe simple fact is that the human population of the world is consuming natural renewable resources faster than it can regenerate, and the process of exploitation is causing even further damage. If this is already happening with a population of 4 billion, I ask you to imagine what things will be like when the population reaches six and then 10 billion.... All this has been made possible by the industrial revolution and the scientific explosion and it is spread around the world by the new economic religion of development.\nAddress at the Salford University Degree Ceremony, July 16, 1973.\nThere may be disagreements about the time scale, but in principle there can be little doubt that the population cannot go on increasing indefinitely. Resources presently being used will not last for ever and pollution in its broadest sense, unless severely checked, is bound to increase with population and industrial activity.\nAddress to All-Party Conservation Committee in London, Feb. 18, 1981.\nI suspect that the single most important gift of progress to conservation has been the development of human contraception techniques.\nThe survival of the \"most important\"\nInterview with HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in People magazine, Dec. 21, 1981 titled ``Vanishing Breeds Worry Prince Philip, But Not as Much as Overpopulation.\nQ: Is birth control part of the solution?\nA: Yes, but you can't legislate these problems away. You've got to get people to understand the need for it: the more important people, the ones who have responsibilities have got to do it because they're at the receiving end. They've got to accept the measures.\nThe Chancellor's Lecture, Salford University, June 4, 1982.\nAs long ago as 1798, Malthus explained what happens when the factors limiting the increase in any population are removed. One of the factors noticed by Darwin was that all species are capable of producing vastly greater populations than can be sustained by existing resources; populations did not increase at the rate at which they are capable was the basis for his theory of Evolution by Natural Selection.\nThe relevance to natural selection of this capacity for overproduction is that as each individual is slightly different to all the others it is probable that under natural conditions those individuals which happen to be best adapted to the prevailing circumstances have a better chance of survival. Well, so what? Well, take a look at the figures for the human population of this world. One hundred fifty years ago it stood at about 1,000 million or in common parlance today, 1 billion. It then took about a 100 years to double to 2 billion. It took 30 years to add the third billion and 15 years to reach today's total of 4.4 billion. With a present world average rate of growth of 1.8%, the total population by the year 2000 will have increased to an estimated 6 billion and in that and in subsequent years 100 million people will be added to the world population each year. In fact it could be as much as 16 billion by 2045. As a consequence the demand on resources of land alone will mean a third less farm land available and the destruction of half of the present area of productive tropical forest. Bearing in mind the constant reduction of non-renewable resources, there is a strong possibility of growing scarcity and reduction of standards. More people consume more resources. It is as simple as that; and transferring resources and standards from the richer to the poorer countries can only have a marginal effect in the face of this massive increase in the world population.\nSpeech at the Margaret Pyke Memorial Trust Dinner in London, Dec. 14 1983.\nSo long as they [birth control methods] ... remained taboo subjects the chances of making any impression on the human population explosion were that much more remote.\nIn the introduction to the IUCN Red Data Books which list all animals and plants under threat of extinction, it says that virtually everywhere the major threat to a wild species is loss of habitat to a rapidly increasing human population requiring more space in order to build villages and cities and grow more food. But starvation and poverty cannot be eradicated solely by increased food and resources at the expense of what remains of the natural world. Any increase in the provision of food and resources must be accompanied by a drastic reduction in the rate of increase in the human population.\nThe industrial revolution sparked the scientific revolution and brought in its wake better public hygiene, better medical care and yet more efficient agriculture. The consequence was a population explosion which still continues today.\nThe sad fact is that, instead of the same number of people being very much better off, more than twice as many people are just as badly off as they were before. Unfortunately all this well-intentioned development has resulted in an ecological disaster of immense proportions.\nThe object of the WWF is to ``conserve'' the system as a whole; not to prevent the killing of individual animals. Those who are concerned about their conservation of nature accept that all species are prey to some other species. They accept that most species produce a surplus that is capable of being culled without in any way threatening the survival of the species as a whole.\nA Question of Balance by HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Michael Russel (Publishing) Ltd., 1982.\nIt is curious how many philosophers from Plato to Keynes' time have believed in and advocated the control of society by ``philosopher kings.'' According to Plato, ``its kings must be those who have shown the greatest ability in philosophy,'' but--realistically--he added, ``and the greatest aptitude for war.'' Such people may exist in the imagination and occasionally someone with the necessary qualities may briefly dominate the stage of history, but it is a naive appreciation of human nature to imagine that such processed paragons can be invested with the necessary powers and not be tempted to take advantage of their situation.\n\ufffd Occult Elite | \ufffd Decadent Empire | \ufffd Nazi USA | \ufffd World Government | \ufffd Political Assassinations | \ufffd Geopolitics | \ufffd Miscellaneous", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 14335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 219.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.productmediamagazine.co.uk/allwag-conjures-charity-evening/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VCPG4MQDQPNULTRDVQR5YLQ7NFWKU2XQ", "length": 445, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.productmediamagazine.co.uk", "title": "Allwag conjures up charity evening - Product Media Magazine | By The BPMA", "raw_content": "Allwag conjures up charity evening\nAllwag Promotions was delighted to host a unique event to personally thank their key suppliers for supporting them over the past year. A Magical Night with Allwag Promotions was attended by 85 people at the Lion Inn, Chelmsford, where they were stunned and amazed by the talented Nick Crown.\nThe evening also raised \u00a31,025 in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, thanks to the generosity of everyone that attended.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.projectkittblog.com/2016/03/karr-this-is-how-i-roll.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:59Z", "digest": "sha1:WGHWEKQQ3F27ZE2U4SI36D4ZHHUBXYWD", "length": 418, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.projectkittblog.com", "title": "Project: K.I.T.T.: KARR: This Is How I Roll", "raw_content": "KARR: This Is How I Roll\nAs promised, here are KARR's new wheels and tires. I think there are very similar in style to the old low profile wheels, but the difference in ride is nothing short of amazing!\nHere are the old wheels for comparison. If you are in the local area (Aberdeen, South Dakota) and are interested in these, they are for sale.\nRevisiting The Taillight Harness, Part 3\nRevisiting The Taillight Harness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prosoccershinpads.com/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5PGYN3VFLGDTSXQDH3BVQIYLXWWLKN5J", "length": 313, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.prosoccershinpads.com", "title": "Blog - Pro Soccer Shin Pads", "raw_content": "Pro Soccer Shin Pads Blog\nAlthough you probably love the game and always look forward to playing on match day, sometimes you just need that extra boost to get in the zone and ready to do business on the pitch. There\u2019s a few reasons why you might need that extra boost, such as \u2013 You don\u2019t feel like you played [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 7397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.psmortgagelending.com/reverse-mortgages-in-st-lucie-county/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:40Z", "digest": "sha1:V5T4DPGTKXAKFF37FCXUXTA6WWMA2UK3", "length": 2243, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.psmortgagelending.com", "title": "Reverse Mortgages in St. Lucie County, Retirement to Old Florida | PS Mortgage Lending is here to help with all of your mortgage needs in Miami, Florida & Texas.", "raw_content": "Reverse Mortgages in St. Lucie County\nWith ideal, year-round temperatures ranging from 63 to 83, St. Lucie County, home to the City of Fort Pierce, Hutchinson Island, St. Lucie Village and Port St. Lucie, continues to be a retirement destination like no other.\nBoasting 21 miles of pristine, natural beaches and 10,000 acres of parks and natural preserves, St. Lucie County provides a way to escape the fast paced rhythm of city life and discover a more laid back and relaxed lifestyle in \u201cOld Florida.\u201d\nAt St. Lucie, explore the one and only US Navy SEALS museum, go horseback riding on the beach or play a round of golf at the PGA Village as well as other pristine golf courses.\nIf you live in St. Lucie County, there is no shortage of things to fill your days with. With a visit to the Heathcote Botanical Gardens, anyone can experience the nation\u2019s largest collection of tropical bonsai trees.\nIf you\u2019re thinking of relocating to St. Lucie County, prepare to immerse yourself in trout fishing alongside the Indian River Lagoon or visit the resting place of famed African-American author of \u201cTheir Eyes Were Watching God,\u201d Zora Neale Hurston.\nSt. Lucie County has plenty to offer its residents, relocating retirees and incoming visitors.\nThe only thing missing in St. Lucie County is you. It\u2019s time to enjoy a comfortable retirement in St. Lucie County with the help of a reverse mortgage. Whether you already live there or want to relocate, a reverse mortgage can be the solution you\u2019ve been looking for.\nIn a line of credit, the reverse mortgage can help you save up for rainy days and offers consumer control over when, and how much, is withdrawn at any given time. It\u2019s a flexible option for retirees who want to be prepared, just in case.\nIf you\u2019re hoping to relocate, a HECM for Purchase is a viable option. It allows retirees to relocate without the hassle of monthly mortgage payments on their new home.\nAt PS Financial Services, we are here to advise you on your retirement planning, short-term and long-term, our personalized service ensures that you are always taken care of. If you think a reverse mortgage is right for you, give us a call at (888) 845-6630 or email us at info@PSReverseMortgage.com.\nEXPERTS IN St. Lucie County", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 203.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pts.edu/blog/theologys-role-social-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:32Z", "digest": "sha1:NBSXNGGKW6ZRMEE7TEPLZF4EJS46HZON", "length": 2419, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.pts.edu", "title": "Theology\u2019s Role in Social Work", "raw_content": "Theology\u2019s Role in Social Work\nPOSTED BY ptsblog IN Social Work\nMicah 6:8 gives the call to all Christians and all social workers: \u201cAnd what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.\u201d\nI would argue that the values of social workers defined by the National Association of Social Workers Pennsylvania Chapter, of which I am a proud member, fit perfectly with the call of Micah 6:8. The values are:\nThese values inform every action of a social worker and hopefully of all Christians. The greatest commandment of Christ found in Matthew 22:36-40 is clear: \u201cTeacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?\u201d Jesus replied: \u201c\u2018Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.\u2019 This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: \u2018Love your neighbor as yourself.\u2019 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.\u201d\nA result of the overflowing bounty of the love of God in Jesus Christ is our love of neighbor. Here are the Ethical Principles of Social Workers as defined by the NASW: Social workers\u2019 primary goals are to help people in need and to address social problems, challenge social injustice, respect the inherent dignity and worth of the person, recognize the central importance of human relationships, behave in a trustworthy manner, and practice within their areas of competence and develop and enhance their professional expertise.\nCertainly, all social workers would not identify themselves as Christians. But all Christians should identify themselves as social workers. Our duty, our call, our responsibility is to serve our neighbor by helping those in need, address social problems, challenge social injustice, respect everyone, emphasize human relationships, and behave with trust and competence through the love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.\nTags : theology and social work\n\u00ab What Mars Hill\u2019s Latest News Means for Church Planting\nChurch Planting and Fresh Expressions: What Kind of Service Comes First? \u00bb\nRamdhan says:\nI think everything will be more perfect if it comes with commitment.\nLila Bisslik - Mackay says:\nI am a Christian that happened to be a social worker. I am agree 100% with : Micah 6:8 gives the call to all Christians and all social workers: \u201cAnd what does the Lord require of you? 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Pride of the company is the paint department, with highly qualified people and advanced materials.\nThe Italian quality is Rab answer to the market demand: Rab stands for careful design, constant search for solutions by continuous investment in technology, for careful choice of materials and rigorous checks on the finished product.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rainbowkids.com/special-needs/blood-conditions/lead-exposure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:45Z", "digest": "sha1:TSXCITN57RXDH4VAKKTVOMWIRPVD3SE2", "length": 1945, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.rainbowkids.com", "title": "Lead Exposure | Rainbowkids Adoption & Child Welfare Advocacy", "raw_content": "No Children with Lead Exposure\nFacts About Lead Exposure\nLead is a heavy metal that is extremely toxic. When a child comes in contact with items containing lead, the metal builds up in their system over time. Symptoms of lead poisoning can include irritability, excessive sweating, aggressive behavior, low appetite and energy, difficulty sleeping, headaches, loss of previous developmental skills in young children, anemia, and constipation. A blood test can determine the amount of lead exposure that a child has experienced.\nLead can be found in paint, solder used in plumbing, old toys or furniture, pottery, porcelain, leaded glass, and hobby materials. Babies and children may come into contact with peeling paint on cribs or walls, dust containing lead, contaminated bare soil, air, contaminated drinking water through lead pipes, ceramics painted with lead paint, and home remedies containing lead.\nLead Exposure Challenges\nLead poisoning can cause permanent damage to the brain. Lead-level testing is an important part of your child's post-adoption medical evaluation.\nLead Exposure Treatment\nIn milder cases, simply removing the child from the environment with lead contamination can help reduce the lead levels in their system over time. The amount of lead in a child\u2019s body can also be reduced if the child's diet includes plenty of foods rich in iron, calcium and zinc. Examples of foods rich in iron include eggs, raisins, greens, beans, peas, and other legumes. Dairy products such as milk, cheese, and yogurt are recommended for their high calcium content. Lean red meat and oysters are examples of foods that contain zinc. For more severe cases, medication is available to help lower very high lead levels in children.\nLead Exposure Prognosis\nIf caught early and treated, children with lead exposure typically have no long term effects. However, if lead exposure is prolonged or severe and untreated, permanent damage may occur.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 6314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rcsb.org/structure/1QK7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:00Z", "digest": "sha1:C2CQQHNQA2BZDLFPTD5V7AD4H3GA37A4", "length": 1960, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.rcsb.org", "title": "RCSB PDB - 1QK7: Solution structure of Selenocosmia huwena lectin-I(SHL-I) by 2D-NMR", "raw_content": "Solution structure of Selenocosmia huwena lectin-I(SHL-I) by 2D-NMR\nOrganism(s): Cyriopagopus schmidti\nDeposition Author(s): Lu, S., Liang, S., Gu, X.\nSelection Criteria: STEREOCHEMICAL ENERGY AND THE RESULT OF PROCHECK\nThree Dimensional Structure of Selenocosmia Huwena Lectin-I (Shl-I) from the Venom of the Spider Selenocosmia Huwena by 2D-NMR\nLu, S., Liang, S., Gu, X.\n(2000) J.Protein Chem. 18: 609\nThe three-dimensional structure of native SHL-I, a lectin from the venom of the Chinese bird spider Selenocosmia huwena, has been determined from two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy recorded at 500 and 600 MHz. The best 10 structures have NOE violati ...\nThe three-dimensional structure of native SHL-I, a lectin from the venom of the Chinese bird spider Selenocosmia huwena, has been determined from two-dimensional 1H NMR spectroscopy recorded at 500 and 600 MHz. The best 10 structures have NOE violation <0.3 A, dihedral violation <2 deg, and average root-mean-square differences of 0.85 + 0.06 A over backbone atoms. The structure consists of a three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet and three turns. The three disulfide bridges and three-stranded antiparallel beta-sheet form a inhibitor cystine knot motif which is adopted by several other small proteins, such as huwentoxin-I, omega-conotoxin, and gurmarin. The C-terminal fragment from Leu28 to Trp32 adopts two sets of conformations corresponding to the cis and trans conformations of Pro31. The structure of SHL-I also has high similarity with that of the N-terminus of hevein, a lectin from rubber-tree latex.\nA Lectin-Like Peptide Isolated from the Venom of the Chinese Bird Spider Selenocosmia Huwena\nLiang, S.,Pan, X.\n(1995) Toxicon 33: 875\nNational Laboratory of Protein Engineering and Plant Genetic Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China.\nSELENOCOSMIA HUWENA LECTIN-I\n32 Cyriopagopus schmidti Mutation(s): 0\nFind proteins for Q86C51 (Cyriopagopus schmidti)\nOlderado: 1QK7 Olderado", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 6337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rdsobsessions.com/30-things-im-glad-i-did/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DIRXFZUWGLSGHKTVCCZVWSSD6C4M2UEE", "length": 15570, "nlines": 89, "source_domain": "www.rdsobsessions.com", "title": "30 Things I'm Glad I Did Before I Turned 30 - RD's Obsessions", "raw_content": "Life, Spring Outfits\n30 Things I\u2019m Glad I Did Before I Turned 30\n30 Things I\u2019m Glad I Did\nWhy Am I Sharing 30 Things I\u2019m Glad I Did?\nSo why am I sharing 30 things I\u2019m glad I did before I turned 30? Well, it is because today I turned 30!!! I can\u2019t believe I\u2019m about to begin a new decade of my life. Honestly, it is exciting. As I get older, I always say to myself, I totally love this age. I\u2019ve embraced getting older. Especially since I was diagnosed with cancer, birthdays are even more special. It has a whole new meaning when you get to reach a birthday. To me, it means I\u2019m alive. I\u2019m living my life!\nIt Is A Luxury\nI\u2019ve been hearing more and more people complain about getting older. To the point that they no longer look forward to their birthdays. Getting older is a luxury and a gift. There are people out there who do not have a choice and don\u2019t have that luxury. Let\u2019s embrace life and let\u2019s embrace each day we age.\nI decided to share 30 things I\u2019m glad I did because I want this post to be positive. I\u2019ve been seeing way too many \u201cwhat I wish I did\u201d kind of posts. How about we celebrate what we have accomplished? I want to celebrate the things I did in life. Yes, I will admit some of these are like \u2018duh, Rach of course you should have done that.\u2019 Obvious or not, if it is something we feel good about, it should be celebrated as a victory! So without further ado, here are 30 things I\u2019m glad I did before I turned 30.\nBefore you begin, I want to let you know that the list is in no particular order.\nSave. Maybe this is a \u2018duh Rach, you should be saving.\u2019 But I also have been hearing that a lot of millennials don\u2019t save as much as they should. With things going on with my health and major life decisions I had to make, I honestly believe my life would be much more stressful if I didn\u2019t have a decent amount of money saved already.\nBudget. This is somewhat similar to saving my money, but early on (like right when I had my first high school job), I started budgeting my money. A lot of things in life I didn\u2019t think I could afford. But being disciplined with my budget, a lot of those things came true.\nMade sure my parents didn\u2019t have to pay for my college tuition. Right before college, my dad unexpectedly got sick and my entire senior year of high school was dedicated to making sure my dad would live. Let\u2019s just say medical bills quickly became the top priority, and unfortunately it lead to my parents not being able to pay for my college. So I reached out to FAFSA and University of Iowa. The thing with financial aid is that they look at the previous year\u2019s income and not the current income. This obviously became problematic in my particular situation, given that my Dad\u2019s health issues were so sudden. I had to make sure all my dad\u2019s doctors were on board and they gave me everything I needed to prove / coordinate with FAFSA and University of Iowa regarding my situation. Fortunately, the U.S. Government gave me an education grant that covered my tuition based on my excellent grades and financial situation. Of course, I had to maintain my good grades!\nGraduating college. I\u2019m a first generation Filipino American and my parents came to the United States for a better life and a better life for their kids. My parents\u2019 goal was for me to finish college. I\u2019m proud to say I graduated from University of Iowa! My parents couldn\u2019t be more proud. Who\u2019s a Hawkeye Alumni?!\nGetting Married. I am so blessed to have found my person, my best friend, and the love of my life. Getting married was the happiest day of my life. I am grateful to have a husband who always has my back no matter what. I honestly think the cancer experience would have been much more difficult if I didn\u2019t have Tre.\nHaving My Dream Wedding. A lot of people have told me that no one really remembers what you do for your wedding as long as you have food and booze. But to be honest, seeing my dream wedding come to reality meant everything. It was the happiest day of my life marrying my best friend and having my dream wedding come to life was the icing on the cake! And it was so much fun seeing my family tear it up on the dance floor!\nTravel. I love to travel and I plan to continue to travel. In my early 20\u2019s, I didn\u2019t have much so I traveled to places I realistically could afford. The world has so much to offer!\nRan the marathon. I was a big time runner. I always ran half-marathons and eventually I had the guts to run the Chicago marathon. So proud to say I finished in 3 hours and 50 mins.\nFitness. If I didn\u2019t try working out or going to the gym, I would have never realized how much I love it. I just love how amazing I feel afterwards and I love that I\u2019m taking care of my health as well.\nStarted a Blog. At first I was hesitant about it, but with my husband convincing me, this blog became a new found passion. I love connecting with you all and I love that it gave me a creative outlet.\nCutting Out the Negative People. Some people may think it is harsh of me to just cut some people out. But you guys, life is precious and there is no time for negativity. I\u2019m okay with letting go of some people if all they do is add more stress in my life.\nKeeping the Good People Close. At the same time, I am thankful I kept the ones who have been there for me close. It is an effortless relationship. They are the ones where we have each other\u2019s back no matter what.\nFamily First. Always alway always. I\u2019m always there for my family and I\u2019m grateful they are always there for me. (including my dogs)\nSupport my husband. Not many know this, but at one point during my cancer treatment, I also became a caregiver. My husband was dealing with some heath issues of his own and I\u2019m glad I did everything I could to make sure he got well again.\nAttending the YSC Summit. Last year was the first time I attended, and for once since I was diagnosed, I realized I was not the only person going through it. Breast cancer was what set me apart from everyone else. But at the YSC Summit, it was what connected me to everyone.\nMeeting Breasties. I created amazing friendships with other young women who were also diagnosed with breast cancer. It is such an incredible and special bond we have.\nWalking on the New York Fashion Week runway. Who would have thought that would happen? The best part was that it was for a good cause. It was all about sharing to the world the realities of having breast cancer and raising money for cutting edge research for metastatic breast cancer.\nDonate to Charity. There are so many things going on around the world and sometimes I wish there was something I could do. So I do what I can and some of these charities need donations in order to move forward. It feels good to do good.\nBecame an associate board of a nonprofit organization. I have a passion for helping and I want to use my personal cancer experience to help other cancer patients.\nLiving in the city. I knew ever since I was little that I would stay in the city and I\u2019m glad I did. I know the city life is not for everyone, but it is definitely an experience worth having.\nLiving outside the city. I lived in Louisville during an internship for a few months and I also lived in Iowa City during college. I think it is a good experience to know what urban and non-urban life is like. It also made me realize that the non-urban life was not for me.\nHaving my own apartment. There\u2019s something good about having that freedom when you get to live on your own. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I do enjoy living with other people. But I love how I can make my own choices without consulting someone first. And it was so much fun to have a very girly apartment before living with Tre!\nOwning a home. This is such a big girl move, but owning a place is such a big deal and the biggest investment ever!\nResigning from my job. This was one of the biggest decisions I had to make in the past year. But putting me first and thinking about my long term goals put things in perspective. I\u2019m much happier now.\nUnderstood the importance of self-care. I mentioned that this past year I discovered why my doctors were such advocates about self-care and now I understand. It makes such a big difference with your overall health physically and mentally.\nLearned to find silver linings. I strongly believe silver linings exist in any situation, even in the most challenging days or during a tragic time. Good things in life don\u2019t go away.\nEnjoyed food. I know this sounds silly, but I really love food. I love trying so many different cuisines. My motto is don\u2019t say you don\u2019t like it unless you\u2019ve tried it. I\u2019m glad I ate whatever I wanted and how much I wanted. Going through cancer treatments, I now have to make some adjustments. But that\u2019s okay because I know I ate to my fullest (get the pun, haha!).\nCancer Thriver. I love using the terminology thriver because I truly believe it is more than just surviving. Every day is a challenge, but every day I find my strength. As much as I wish I didn\u2019t have cancer, there were so many blessings in life that came out of it.\nDressing for me and not for trends. Don\u2019t get me wrong I love wearing trendy pieces but I also want to make sure I feel comfortable and confident in it. I\u2019m aware that a trend will not work for everyone and that is completely okay. Everyone\u2019s body and preference is different. I also love to wear what I feel good in it, regardless if it\u2019s trendy. My motto is, what\u2019s the point in wearing something if you can\u2019t feel like yourself in it.\nSaying \u2018No\u2019. Sometimes we just need to have time to take care of ourselves. There\u2019s not enough time in a day to agree to everything and in the end we are only treating ourselves unfairly. If we can\u2019t take care of ourselves, then are we really happy? I will admit I still struggle saying no, but I\u2019m getting better at it.\nThat Was A Long One!\nWhoa, totally didn\u2019t realize this would be a really long post. I honestly thought that listing the 30 Things I did would be a quick list of things I am proud I accomplished. No idea I would write a bit more than just a list. I am so sorry for the novel post! What about you guys? What are some of the things you are proud of that you have done? Remember, it doesn\u2019t have to be something elaborate. It can be something that has made your life better or overall made your life easier or happier!\nIf you didn\u2019t already know, I always wear this birthday girl tee every year. The first time I wore it was a few years ago, and looking back, it looks like I had the same concept last year on how to wear it!\nGreen Dress: Asos ($44.50) // Heels: Marc Fisher ($59.99, my all time favorite heels!) // Bag: Cult Gaia // Sunglasses: c/o Zenni Optical\nBirthday Tee: Ily Couture ($38) // Velvet Bow: 65thandMadison ($12) // Mom-Style Jeans: Asos ($56) // Shoes: Kelly & Kate ($39.99)\nAlright, finally ending this post! Hope you all have a wonderful day! I\u2019m off to celebrate the next decade of my life!\nSuch a cute post! Happy birthday!\nYou precious babe, happy birthday and LOVE the tee. It is a luxury to grow older and I can tell you, I have definitely gotten wiser. You are beautiful inside and out!\nI\u2019m glad you got to achieve your goals. I hope you have many more fun times to come, and happy birthday!!\nI love your list- it\u2019s so positive! I also have a lot of those things on mine. Some of them I have yet to do (or I did slightly after 30;) but we have the same sort of goals. I would love to live in the city one day but right now that\u2019s just not an option- so I\u2019m hoping to check that one off one day! In other news I absolutely love that green dress and the seam on those jeans is awesome!!! <3 Jamie\nGlad we have the same list! And it is okay if you did it slight over 30. All it matters is that you did it and you\u2019re proud of it! And do what realistically works, ya know? Thank you Jamie!\nHappy 30th!! I just recently turned 30, as well. It wasn\u2019t so bad!! I think our 30\u2019s are going to be a great decade!\nI love both of these gorgeous outfits, too!!\nHappy Birthday to you too! I definitely think it will be a great decade for us!\nHappiest 30th Birthday, mahal! Loved reading this post! You are such an inspiration and I couldn\u2019t agree with you more on the importance of saving money!!!\nThank you Mahal!!\nWell done, lovely!\nhttp://yukovablog.co.uk/how-to-choose-glasses-for-your-face-shape/\nLove both your dressy and your casual looks. And I also love that your 30 list includes a lot of practical things on there as well. I have not run a marathon, and I\u2019m not sure I ever will but I\u2019m just not a runner. I\u2019d rather hike up a mountain, lol.\nThank you so much Cheryl! I think the practical things in life is what gets us further! Marathons aren\u2019t for everyone but girl that\u2019s amazing you can hike up a mountain. I would love to one day!\nHappy birthday! You look gorgeous in that green dress!\nhttps://www.gloryofthesnow.com\nHappy birthday babe! You are a strong, beautiful women and love your list.\nAditi Oberoi Malhotra | http://www.fancycorrectitude.com\nThank you Aditi!\nDefinitely we must embrace our age and the changes that we are experiencing.\nYou look radiant in 30.\nAwww, I love this post! First of all, HAPPY 30TH BIRTHDAY, YOU RAY OF SUNSHINE, YOU! Second, I love your outlook on aging- it\u2019s a luxury. Not everyone makes it to 30, 40, 50\u2026 Embrace life! Wishing you all the best for year 30 and beyond. \ud83d\ude42\nHappy birthday ! You look radiant in that green dress!\nSo in love with this post \u2014 I feel like I got to know you so much better and a lot of them are so motivational!\nMotivelina says\nI am so happy to finally see a post \u2018things I\u2019m glad I did\u2019 rather than \u2018things I wish I have done\u2019 which are dull and all over blogosphere. It\u2019s my first time on this blog but I fell like I have already learnt so much about you. You send very positive vibes \u2013 it made me feel really good, I am in my 20s, always worrying about future and life. Keep up your great work!\nThank you so much! Enjoy every bit of your 20\u2019s!\nJoice Julian says\nHappy 30th Birthday, dear! You look amazing with the green dress. XO\nwww,cantiquejoice.com\nHey Rachel! I\u2019m so glad I came across your blog and this post! First off, happy birthday (or it might be belated at this point?)! I\u2019ve seen so many \u201c30 before 30\u201d lists around and I can honestly say that yours is the most genuine and most inspiring one I\u2019ve come across so far. Congratulations on all your accomplishments. I hope your dad is feeling better too!\nThank you so much Eena! My dad is doing a lot better!\nHappy 30th Rach!! Hope you had an amazing time!\nThank you Rubi!\nI just found your blog thanks to Alyson with Modern Savvy.\nI turn 40 this year. Work in data analytics. 3-year breast cancer survivor. 1 year home owner.\nI love your fashion style \u2013 just wish this green dress was available in my size. \ud83d\ude42\nThank you so much Emily!! And happy birthday to you!! That is so crazy because I worked in data analytics! Congrats on being a 3 year survivor and a home owner!\nThis was such a fun post to read \u2013 not too long at all! It\u2019s good to celebrate the nice things, like you said we should focus on all the great things we have achieved! \ud83d\ude42\nA belated happy birthday to you. That\u2019s a beautiful dress on you too!\nHope you are having a great week and have a lovely weekend ahead!\nThank you so much Mica! Hope you have a great weekend too!\nI think a lot of people must make a list like this. For the idea of sharing and self accomplishment. You look so fab!\nWhat a journey it has been to 30! So happy for you to be able to do those things dear. Happy birthday, and wishing you to accomplish more of your goals and dreams! 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The player will help Rynn combat the many enemies she encounters and outwit each of their fearsome generals. Rynn will eventually face off against the evil wizard himself in order to free her parents and ultimately save the Enchanted Forest and its inhabitants. Choose which stage to play in any order. Use Rynn\u2019s impressive acrobatic maneuvers to overcome obstacles and enemies alike. Confront challenging bosses waiting at the end of each stage. Unlock fabulous power-ups for each boss defeated. This is a side scrolling adventure for all ages and audiences.\nRynn's Adventure: Trouble in the Enchanted Forest release date for Mac, PC March 31, 2016 2 Years Ago (US)\nRynn's Adventure: Trouble in the Enchanted Forest was released on Mac and PC 1051d ago in the US and the UK.\nhttps://youtube.com/embed/zBRHIsS10GI", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 3206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.renewhomedesigns.com/how-do-i-know-i-need-a-new-roof-for-my-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ELQI26PG36D3UANGTIQUN4OQ64RZBAQ3", "length": 3172, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.renewhomedesigns.com", "title": "When to Replace a Roof", "raw_content": "It is extremely important that you know when it is time to get a replacement roof for your home. Too many homeowners ignore or aren\u2019t aware of the warning signs, and it can mean serious problems if you do not take them seriously. A damaged or deteriorated roof makes for an unsafe home, so you will need to know when it is time to replace it.\nWhen you are trying to determine whether or not your roof needs to be replaced, you will need to evaluate it from all angles, including:\nThe Top of the Roof\nIf you are trying to evaluate the state of your roof to determine whether or not it really needs to be replaced, you will want to start at the top. Be careful when going up on your roof; use a ladder and climb with both hands. Once you are on your roof, you will want to look for sagging areas in the roof as well as signs of water damage or leaking. If you find a lot of dark spots and trains, it most likely means that the roof is letting in rain from outside. Also, look for outside light coming through the roof into the house.\nIt is also important that you check out the exterior of the roof when trying to determine if you need a new one. You will want to do the following things when checking the exterior:\nVisually inspect the roof for cracked or missing shingles\nLook around the roof for any loose material or wear surrounding the chimneys, pipes, vents or anything else with exposure to the outside\nSee if there is an excessive amount of granules from the shingles (they resemble large grains of sand) in the gutters\u2014this is a sign that there is a lot of wear to the roof.\nTake a close look at the drainage to make sure all gutters and downspouts are securely fastened. You will also want to make sure that all drains are open so water is able to flow freely and exit as needed. All gutters and downspouts should be clear of debris as well.\nMake sure that all vents for the dryer, kitchen and bath go outside of the house and not simply into the attic area.\nConsider Simple Solutions First\nIf you find that there is water damage to your roof, do not simply assume that it needs to be replaced. Check to see if your roof can be repaired rather than replaced altogether. As long as the roof isn\u2019t too old and if it was installed improperly to begin with, you may be able to get it repaired. Roof repairs always cost less than a roof replacement, so you will want to avoid it if at all possible.\nThe Material of your Roof\nThe material that your roof is made out of will be important in determining whether or not it needs to be replaced.\nCedar: Roofs that are made out of cedar tend to fall apart in dry climates when they are in need of repair. The average lifespan on these roofs is approximately 20 years.\nTile: If you have a tile roof, look for broken or cracked tiles. Do not walk on the roof though, as the tiles will break. Tile roofs can last as long as 100 years if properly maintained, but individual tiles can easily break. 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Marvin Windows can therefore supply you with a range of different window types, depending on your preferences. All you need to do is have a look through the selection on offer. Prices are also quite reasonable and will offer you a range of high quality products that will last for a long time to come. When it comes to finding replacement windows, all you need to do is go onto the website and have a look at the different kinds. You will be bound to find something for your home.\nAre Marvin Replacement Windows The Best Option For Your Home?\nWith Marvin Windows, customers can also rely on windows that offers a good level of energy efficiency. During the winter time it is important for your home to have a high level of insulation. As a result, when installing your windows professionally you will need to do it in the summer. In the winter you will not want to let any heat out of the house and will therefore need to be careful. As well as this, you do not want to end up spending more money when it comes to heating and energy bills. Timing is everything.\nWhere Is The Best Place To Buy Marvin Windows?\nTo get Marvin windows, make sure to have a look on the website and find a dealer near you. There are a number of different dealers available so you will be able to find someone who can offer you a good selection. Go into the store and look at all of their replacement window options. If you want, you can compare the different prices in order to see what the best types are. As well as looking for good quality, you want to make sure that you can find something affordable. There is no doubt that you will find something good with Marvin windows.\nWhat Different Types Of Replacement Windows Do Marvin Windows Sell?\nCladding, wood options and other types of home renovation products are also on offer for those who are planning on redoing the house. Even if you are planning on building a new home you will be able to take advantage of this. All you need to do is look today. With a well laid-out website, customers can take the time to have a look at the products and even plan out their home in their heads. You will undoubtedly be able to enjoy a better quality of life and a home that will look good. Both quality and good looks is what every homeowner is looking for. 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Having served as a consultant to the audio industry in the 1990s, contributing to audio product development for corporations such as Intel and Creative Technologies, he worked within the Multimedia Systems Lab at the University of Aizu (1999\u20132003), and then at McGill University, where he served as Sound Recording Area Chair for the Schulich School of Music (2003\u20132008). In 2004 he joined the board of the International Community for Auditory Display (ICAD). For the Audio Engineering Society (AES) he has chaired the Technical Committee on Perception and Subjective Evaluation of Audio Signals. 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The more I indulge in Crestron, the more enlightened I am becoming to the level of personal attention they display towards the integration industry.\nRecently, I brought my office manager as well as my project manager with me up to Crestron\u2019s Rockleigh headquarters for a full tour of not just the company\u2019s Experience Center, but also its manufacturing facilities. It was amazing to see good ol\u2019 manufacturing and assembly being done in the USA. Throughout several different buildings, I witnessed a facility for printing motherboards, for assembling final products, and a full R&D center with an RF chamber, and industrial 3D printers for prototyping. In an age when everything is being moved off-shore, it\u2019s great to see a company keeping things local.\nI was struck by the level of investment made in new products, manufacturing, and testing facilities. This is not something you would typically see any public company doing on U.S. soil. That is the advantage of being privately owned. It was reassuring to know that if I installed a product for a client and was having difficulty, not only was there tech support nearby, but also the engineers who actually developed the product were just a building away.\nOne of the most impressive resources I uncovered was that Crestron has an engineer in its facility that can rework or retool the company\u2019s products to work with a specific design aspect or space restriction on a given project. If you are working on a larger installation requiring integration of a system that you are unfamiliar with, you can send Creston\u2019s engineer the specs of that system or piece, and he will provide you with suggestions for the best way to integrate it.\nWhile in Crestron\u2019s Experience Center, I had the opportunity to walk through the company\u2019s expanded areas dedicated to DigitalMedia (there\u2019s a nice video wall that showcases the capabilities of DM) and Crestron Shading Solutions. There\u2019s also a new speaker wall that puts the company\u2019s new ceiling and in-wall speakers through their paces, and another area with all of Crestron\u2019s mobile offerings.\nBut it\u2019s the people that make a company stand out in this industry. Especially since I have not historically been a Crestron supporter, I was surprised at just how genuine everyone was to me. A perfect illustration of this occurred as we were walking through one of the company\u2019s facilities and crossed paths with Crestron CEO and founder George Feldstein. He had no idea I was a blogger for Residential Systems, or even that I was a dealer, but he stopped and spent at least ten minutes chatting with us about our business, the products, politics, you name it. I have found that the most successful and inspired companies are those where the CEO interacts with the rest of the team. In my experience I\u2019ve seen this demonstrated by Screen Innovation\u2019s Ryan Gustafson and Wanjoo Park of URC, and it was refreshing to see it at Crestron, too. These company executives seem to be in tune with the realities and everyday struggles of their company and dealers, so they are able to provide a level of support that brings positive results.\nI know I have said it before but I can\u2019t stress enough the importance of choosing the right manufacturing partners\u2014those who invest in their products, their brand, and their people, making our jobs easier. Installs can get complicated and having the manufacturer in your corner will only help alleviate this extra burden. There are great companies all throughout the industry that can help us thrive. The best way to identify them is to simply call and ask. Have them show you around and introduce you to the staff. It\u2019s always more comfortable when you\u2019ve put a face to a name or voice. Those are the companies that are going to back you up and help you in sticky situations. The ones that won\u2019t give you the time of day for a visit are not going to give you much more than that when something goes wrong on a job.\nMy CEDIA Newbie Experience\nMy Greatest Fears as an AV Integrator\nImpressing My Neighbors, Architects, and Designers\nMy Go-To Brands\nMy Tour of Crestron's Experience Center\nMy Pre-CEDIA Newbie Checklist\nGoing Back to the Installation Basics to Grow My Business", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.resourcesforchristiantheology.org/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DE2I3BU22M7VL7ACUFR7J5KWKOFJOYOP", "length": 722, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.resourcesforchristiantheology.org", "title": "About Us \u2013 Resources for Christian Theology", "raw_content": "This website offers essays on systematic theology, Scripture, Christian doctrine, biblical hermeneutics and contemporary theologians. It also has a number of papers by Professor John Zizioulas, many not available anywhere else, and three pieces about John Zizioulas written by me. There are papers on the work of Colin Gunton, Robert Jenson, Oliver O\u2019Donovan, John Webster and Pope Benedict XVI in the Contemporary Theologians section. The best way to find what you want is via the Categories in the Sidebar (right). Douglas Knight has a range of faster-moving short pieces on theology, culture and public life in the UK. Regrettably, this blog cannot accept comments, but you can get in touch via douglashknight at gmail.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 220.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/operations/how-top-independent-operators-manage-changing-industry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:56Z", "digest": "sha1:BWGVA3ZQ5IRAWTOXWK3FCORAFRG2UAYN", "length": 13289, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.restaurantbusinessonline.com", "title": "How top independent operators manage a changing industry", "raw_content": "How top independent operators manage a changing industry\nIndependents operators may be outpacing chains when it comes to sales growth, but the same challenges are stunting potential growth industrywide. By Scott Hume on Oct. 09, 2018\nPhotographs courtesy of Beauty & Essex\n\u201cYou have to check every box,\u201d Rob Katz, co-owner of Chicago\u2019s Boka Restaurant Group, says. \u201cYou have to excel in every aspect to be a successful restaurant. It\u2019s just too tough out there.\u201d\nRestaurant Business\u2019 2018 ranking of the Top 100 Independent Restaurants shows just how tough the marketplace can be, even for the most successful. Aggregate 2017 food and beverage revenue for these 100 restaurants was $1.845 billion, about 2.4% ahead of the previous year, a percentage increase roughly equivalent to menu-price inflation. In other words, little real gain.\nTop 100 Independents across the map\nThat is not to say that impressive growth is impossible. Katz\u2019s Boka Group, for example, opened a stylish new steakhouse, Swift & Sons, in Chicago in 2015. This year it makes its debut among the Top 100 at No. 66, with sales of $15.1 million last year. It did so, Katz says, because Boka checked the boxes\u2014including a brash interior design that the site Chicagoist labeled\u201csteampunk supper club\u201d and \u201cbreathtaking.\u201d\nSwift & Sons (No. 66) \u2014 The high-end steakhouse from Boka Restaurant Group sits in what was once a cold storage facility. It shares an entrance with Boka's 60-seat seafood and raw bar, Cold Storage. Photograph courtesy of Swift & Sons\n\u201cYou can\u2019t serve good food in a boring room with mediocre service,\u201d Katz says. \u201cYou have to be sensational in every detail in this competitive marketplace.\u201d He says that means creating a distinctive, appealing and affordable menu; having stunning, signature design; and having flawless service.\u201d\n\u201cIt has gotten very competitive in this world we\u2019re in, food and beverage. Very competitive and tricky. You have to blaze a trail instead of following.\u201d\nRob Katz, Boka Group\nBut those features have always been a must for restaurants looking to succeed, so what\u2019s different now? \u201cThere\u2019s so much pressure from home-meal options, from Whole Foods and Blue Apron to delivery,\u201d says Lee Maen, partner at Innovative Dining Group (IDG), operator of No. 96 BOA Steakhouse, among other concepts. \u201cYou can eat great quality food at home very easily these days, so our task is to bring people to us. When they go out dining they\u2019re looking for an experience.\u201d\nMichael Jacobs\u2014partner in Corner Table Restaurants, which placed three The Smith locations among the Top 100 (Nos. 31, 34 and 39)\u2014agrees. \u201cIf you look at the evolution of The Smith from 2007, we have definitely upped out game in terms of finishes and the look and feel of the restaurants. Guests have higher expectations,\u201d Jacobs says. \u201cThe overall experience is more important to diners than ever before. It does make a difference.\n\u201cI tell our people all the time, \u2018Guests will remember how you make them feel more than what you fed them.\u2019 I think [emphasis on experience] has been on the rise for the past five years.\u201d\n\u201cOur primary purpose every day is to make people happy. If we do that, people will visit as regularly as before and they will recognize that operators are making adjustments to accommodate the outside factors, that everyone is doing that, and [people will be] focused on going to the places that provide the best experience.\u201d\nMichael Jacobs, Corner Table Restaurants\nDiners want to experience something different, something special, says Tricia Mackey. The VP of marketing for Chicago\u2019s What If Syndicate\u2014parent of Maple & Ash, which makes its first appearance on the Top 100 at No. 24, with $20.3 million in sales last year\u2014Mackey says the company developed the restaurant \u201cwith the idea of taking the traditional steakhouse and flipping it on its head. So when you walk into Maple & Ash, you know it\u2019s not your grandfather\u2019s steakhouse.\n\u201cIt\u2019s hip and cool with a playful menu and amazing food quality. Chef Danny Grant has modernized the steakhouse menu with elements that are unexpected and even tongue-in-cheek,\u201d Mackey says. \u201cWe\u2019re across the street from one of the oldest, most popular steakhouses in Chicago [No. 89, Tavern on Rush], so we knew we had to be something different and distinctive.\u201d\nThose unexpected touches include putting an onion ring atop the wedge salad. And that playfulness extends to a menu option for the undecided labeled \u201cI Don\u2019t Give a F*@k,\u201d a $145 invitation to let chef Grant create a special multicourse tasting meal.\nLe Coucou (No. 94) \u2014The New York Post called this concept from Starr Restaurants \"one of the 21st century's four or five best restaurants of any type.\" Photograph courtesy of Le Coucou\nThere are tablecloths at Maple & Ash, as well as at Starr Restaurants\u2019 elegant new Le Coucou (No. 94) in New York City. Some industry observers see the return of table linens, crystal and floral bouquets as indicative of a resurgence in formal fine dining. \u201cI\u2019ve seen some people bring back a level of European formality done in a contemporary way,\u201d says Michael Stillman, founder and president of Quality Branded (with three restaurants among the Top 100). \u201cI don\u2019t know if I\u2019d say lavish, but you see tableclothsagain in some places.I suppose that\u2019s almost considered lavish, given where we\u2019ve been [with bistros].\u201d Corner Table\u2019s Jacobs believes the upscaling of decor is part of the need to stand out. He prefers the descriptor \u201cpolished casual.\u201d\nReal-time cost struggles\nWhile the dining experience may be shiny, seamless and happy, ownership\u2019s experience is anything but. The operational challenges restaurateurs face are bigger, meaner and stronger than ever before: Soaring labor costs couple in many markets with labor shortages, rules on minimum wages and tip credits that vary from state to state and city to city, unreasonable rent increases, and a growing consumer affection for delivery that often relies on third parties and softens overall revenues.\n\u201cMy sense is that because of all the costs pressures in the labor market, clearly there is a revolution going [on in the restaurant business],\u201d says Jacobs, adding that there are concerns about what operating a restaurant will look like over the next three to five years. \u201cIt\u2019s easy to get focused in on $15 minimum wage and not really know what to do and panic. It\u2019s like a force you can\u2019t control anymore,\u201d Jacobs says. \u201cSo for us, we\u2019re resigned to the fact that the world is evolving and that\u2019s where we\u2019re heading, and we have to operate a bit differently.\u201d\nFrom a labor perspective, Stillman thinks restaurants have a real challenge ahead of them over the next five to 10 years. \u201cI think there will be fundamental shifts in how consumers are used to eating at restaurants, whether it\u2019s tip-included or other things,\u201d he says. \u201cThe average margin is 7%, so there\u2019s not a lot of room for error. I think rising costs are a big issue now.\u201d\nThe problems have been especially acute on the West Coast, with California lacking the tip credit and raising minimum wages. Maen of West Hollywood, Calif.-based IDG says the minimum-wage problem \u201cis life-altering for the restaurant business.\u201d\n\u201cThe restaurant business has entirely redefined itself, especially here in California. From a few years back, we\u2019ve had a 100% labor increase. The front of the house used to work on gratuities, tips. So the back of the house was always wages. We were able to focus on BOH wages with minimum wage in the FOH. Now that\u2019s completely changed. It\u2019s changed the industry itself.\u201d\nDante Serafini, The Stinking Rose\nSo, too, is a 300% increase property tax, as happened to one of Boka Group\u2019s restaurants. \u201cI\u2019ve been in this business a long time and I\u2019ve never seen anything like that,\u201d says Katz. \u201cAnd then you couple that with a shrinking labor pool that pushes up wages even higher, plus a very competitive marketplace, and it\u2019s hard. It\u2019s really tough. And that\u2019s why a lot of restaurants are struggling or closing.\u201d Restaurateur Tom Colicchio, for example, closed his Craftbar in New York City after a 50% rent hike to $60,000 a month, according to Eater.\nNew York City\u2019s beloved Coffee Shop, No. 82 on this year\u2019s Top 100, is slated to close in October after 28 years. \u201cThe times have changed in our industry,\u201d co-owner Charles Milite told the New York Post. \u201cThe rents are very high and now the minimum wage is going up and we have a huge number of employees.\u201d\n\u201c[The economics of operating] have dampened new restaurant openings. \u2026There are openings but by less savvy restaurateurs.\u201d\nMichael Stillman, Quality Branded\nRestaurants \u201care an arm and leg business,\u201d says Dante Serafini, partner in The Stinking Rose, which operates No. 72-ranked Franciscan Crab Restaurant on San Francisco\u2019s Fisherman\u2019s Wharf, among others. \u201cIt takes a lot of bodies to make all this work. When labor goes up, it\u2019s serious.\nHe adds that he\u2019s lucky food prices haven\u2019t increased exponentially. \u201cIt used to be that food and labor were about the same percentage of our costs and now labor has taken over. \u2026 It\u2019s not a balance you can work with for long.\u201d\nThe hope, Serafini says, it that the labor cost increases have leveled off, at least in San Francisco, where the minimum wage is $15. \u201cWe have another $3 an hour in health benefits plus all the Social Security, workers\u2019 comp and all the other add-ons. An entry-level dishwasher working 40 hours a week is at about $44,000 in San Francisco.\u201d\nCan\u2019t skimp on the experience\nThe difficult market challenges don\u2019t have easy solutions. A recent New York Times articlespotlighted San Francisco\u2019s Souvla restaurants\u2019 adoption of a labor-saving fast-casual service model, with diners getting their wine refills from the bar and runners delivering food that was ordered at a counter. If this year\u2019s list of independents is any indication, upscale restaurateurs don\u2019t want to go there.\n\u201cI know lots of restaurants are doing away with runners or bussers or cutting the number of servers,\u201d says Jacobs. \u201cTo me, it\u2019s a death spiral if you drop your service level. I would rather ask, \u2018Can we do something to reengineer the menu a bit?\u2019 so where we\u2019re losing in labor we might make it up in food and beverage in some fashion. Or how can we operate more efficiently?\u201d\nSays Serafini, \u201cWe\u2019re a full-service restaurant. That\u2019sthe event.It costs more.\u201d His team can\u2019t abbreviate the service much, he says. But that doesn\u2019t mean automation is totally out of the picture as a cost-savings measure: \u201cWe need the bodies, but we\u2019re looking for any automation that can help reduce labor. We\u2019re trying to identify the best employees, compensate them well and have them help train [new employees] to reduce labor turnover, which is expensive. Otherwise we\u2019re just focusing on service. The end experience is what matters.\u201d\n\u201cWe get Yelp feedback like everyone else. When we started with labor increases and prices went up that would be the biggest complaint we\u2019d hear. The cost of food. That has subsided a lot. People come to large cities and they know that the cost of doing business is high. The whole experience is an event and that gives us an opportunity to wow them and make it eventful. And we\u2019re able to charge.\u201d\nTo maximize revenues, some restaurants are renting out dining rooms to freelancers in off hours or outsourcing bag-check rooms to private services, according to a New York Post article. Such gambits are popular because no one wants to raise menu prices.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve pretty much capped out,\u201d says Serafini. \u201cWe\u2019re at a point where we can\u2019t raise prices any more. We do hear the feedback [about high prices]. We do understand why. We\u2019re at the edge where we could price ourselves out of the market.\u201d\nMaple & Ash ( No. 24) \u2014Wine Spectator named the steakhouse's wine program one of America's best. The concept also launched a Maple & Ash Wine Club. Members get bottles delivered quarterly, and they have a personal wine captain who gets to know their preferences. Photograph courtesy of Maple & Ash\nHowever, restaurateurs contacted for this article leavened the despair over operations challenges with aggressive expansion plans. Boka is opening a Girl & the Goat (helmed by \u201cTop Chef\u201d winner Stephanie Izard) in Los Angeles. A second Maple & Ash will open soon in Scottsdale, Ariz. Quality Branded has a Quality Eats in the works for Chicago, where Corner Table is looking to add a The Smith.\n\u201cThe [development] deals are getting more flexible. Developers need restaurants more than ever and I think for new locations we\u2019re going to be able strike a better deal on rent or more TI\u2019s [tenant improvements]. There\u2019s a lot of demand for a restaurant especially if they\u2019re a brand bringing a lot of bodies to the location. Retail is fading as a draw.\u201d\nLee Maen, Innovative Dining Group\nChicago researcher Technomic forecasts real growth for foodservice of just 1.2% this year, below the cautious 1.4% it saw for 2017. But most Top 100 operators know they have checked all the boxes and are well-positioned to withstand the current turbulence.\n\u201cI think the great operators are standing tall at the moment,\u201d says Jacobs. \u201cI\u2019m not overly concerned. I feel we\u2019re a good enough operator that we can figure out how we have to evolve to meet the challenges of the market.\u201d\ntrends independents management", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 16570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.retailwire.com/albertsons-launches-o-organics-virtual-store/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GTERYSA23QHHGFDQBDKEFICBQI65U2YH", "length": 242, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.retailwire.com", "title": "Albertsons launches O Organics virtual store \u2013 RetailWire", "raw_content": "Albertsons launches O Organics virtual store\nThe Spoon\t07/12/2018\nAlbertsons has announced the launch of its O Organics Market online store through the Instacart platform. The store is currently available in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.revealnews.org/blog/bills-seek-reforms-harsher-punishments-in-wake-of-marines-united-photo-scandal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:LMFYZA6PHLWSM2S72EGEXSBTP45K7FGZ", "length": 4885, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.revealnews.org", "title": "Bills seek reforms, harsher punishments in wake of Marines United scandal | Reveal", "raw_content": "Bills seek reforms, harsher punishments in wake of Marines United scandal\nBy Anna Hiatt / June 16, 2017\nSen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., joined at left by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., questions Marine Gen. Robert B. Neller, the commandant of the Marine Corps, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in March about the investigation of nude photographs of female Marines and other women that were shared on the Facebook page \"Marines United.\"\nCredit: J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo\nDuring a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., challenged the commandant of the Marine Corps for not taking sexual assault and harassment in the military more seriously. Out of concern for victimized service members and veterans, Gillibrand\u2019s office confirmed after the hearing that the Military Justice Improvement Act will be reintroduced.\nThe bill would block military commanders from being able to decide whether or not to prosecute service members involved in sexual assault cases, and move the decision-making power out of the chain of command. Gillibrand first tried to pass the legislation in 2013 and again in 2014; it was filibustered and failed.\nDuring Thursday\u2019s Armed Services Committee hearing, Gillibrand questioned why punishment hasn\u2019t been more severe for the Marines identified as having participated in the Marines United scandal, in which veterans and active duty service members shared naked photos of fellow servicewomen without their consent.\n\u201cIf you\u2019re not taking these crimes seriously as an enormous disruption of good order and discipline, I fear that it\u2019s not going to change behavior,\u201d Gillibrand said to the commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Robert Neller.\nThe bill\u2019s reintroduction comes on the heels of the Marines United scandal, which has prompted multiple congressional hearings regarding online sexual harassment and abuse by service members and the 418-0 passage of the PRIVATE Act in the House of Representatives.\nPRIVATE would criminalize under the Uniform Code of Military Justice the non-consensual sharing by service members of explicit images. U.S. Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., introduced PRIVATE on April 6, 2017 in direct response to the Marines United photo scandal. U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., and 100 other representatives co-signed the bill, with a wide showing of bipartisan support.\nDuring 40 minutes of debate about that legislation, both representatives expressed their outrage about Marines United and past instances of similar sexually harassing online behavior by service members.\n\u201cI got a letter back from the commandant which said, \u2018I share your indignation,\u2019 \u201d Speier said. \u201cI didn\u2019t want him to share my indignation. I wanted him to do something about it.\u201d\nSince Reveal and The War Horse broke the Marines United photo scandal on March 4, Speier has been a vocal advocate for the women whose photographs were shared without their consent on a Google Drive shared within the closed Facebook group called Marines United. The women were depicted in various stages of undress in many of the photographs, which were sorted in folders. Some were labeled by rank and duty station.\nFor Speier, the effort has been a crusade. In 2013 \u2013 four years before the Marines United scandal \u2013 Speier alerted the Department of Defense and the Marine Corps to the existence of a different Marines-only Facebook group where members made denigrating comments about female Marines. Gen. James Amos, then-commandant of the Marines Corps, cited difficulties monitoring social media and inadequate funding as barriers to change. Speier called his response \u201cfrankly unacceptable.\u201d\nThe day after it passed the House, PRIVATE was referred to the Senate Armed Services Committee, where Gillibrand is a member. Like Speier, Gillibrand is a champion of women in the military and fiercely devoted to combatting sexual assault and harassment in the armed forces. In mid-March, less than two weeks after the Marines United photo scandal came to light, the Senate Armed Services Committee called the commandant of the Marine Corps to testify. Gillibrand challenged him during questioning.\n\u201cI have to say, when you say to us, \u2018It\u2019s got to be different,\u2019 that rings hollow.\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t know what you mean when you say that. Why does it have to be different? Because you all of a sudden feel that it is has to be different? Who has been held accountable?\u201d\nPRIVATE will likely be rolled into the National Defense Authorization Act, according to Speier\u2019s office. Gillibrand\u2019s new version of her bill will also likely be added into the defense bill, said a member of her staff. However, neither has a retroactive clause, so no matter their fate, they will not affect the outcomes for service members involved in the Marines United scandal.\nBy Anna Hiatt Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting June 16, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 14996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.revelstokereview.com/news/funding-cuts-put-pressure-on-school-programs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:31Z", "digest": "sha1:QD3KPD2GGZD34HLLJ2GBVSAULG2HJWXB", "length": 2750, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.revelstokereview.com", "title": "Funding cuts put pressure on school programs \u2013 Revelstoke Review", "raw_content": "The Revelstoke Board of Education has written a letter to Education Minister Peter Fassbender over continuing cuts to school budgets.\nDecreased funding and rising costs could lead to cutbacks to student learning, says the Revelstoke Board of Education in a letter to the BC Minister of Education.\nThe March 6 letter to Minister Peter Fassbender was prompted by the latest B.C. budget, which asks school boards across the province to cut $29 million from their budget this year, and a further $25 million next year.\n\u201cHe\u2019s got this from every single school board in the province,\u201d Alan Chell, the chair of the Revelstoke Board of Education, told the Review. \u201cIt\u2019s something provincially we\u2019re all united on.\u201d\nFor the Revelstoke School District, this means cutting $59,150 from the administrative budget this year, and $56,000 next year.\n\u201cWe think it\u2019s very misleading to make comments we can cut administration and it doesn\u2019t affect students,\u201d said Chell. \u201cWe\u2019re definitely not a district that has people in communications and all sorts of positions that larger districts have.\u201d\nIn the letter, which is signed by Chell, the board writes, \u201cIt is clear that protecting programs and services to students, in the face of increased costs and a lack of funding to meet those pressures, will be even more challenging than in previous years.\u201d\nThe letter was posted to the BC School Trustees Association website last month.\nIn it, the board writes that the loss of funding protection, teacher salary increases, increases to pensions and benefits, and increased utility costs are all leading to a funding shortfall for the upcoming school year.\nThe board notes it has worked hard to keep class sizes low, address class composition issues, and staff extra education assistants and specialist teacher positions.\n\u201cThe low-hanging fruit has been gone for years,\u201d Chell said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to get the message across that cuts do affect students.\u201d\nThe letter says the school district has reduced spending in all areas not directly related to student learning, but further cutbacks \u201cwill have an impact on the learning conditions in our classrooms.\u201d\nThe school district has begun it\u2019s budget process for next year. It is expecting an extra $25,418 in funding next year over this year, but that cover anticipated cost increases.\n\u201cThere is an immediate need for an increase in funding to address the widening the gap between revenues and expenses,\u201d wrote Chell. \u201cWe call on government to demonstrate a commitment to public education by allocating funding that reflects increased expenses related to conditions outside of our control.\u201d\n2015-03-12 a.chell,SD19 to P.fassbender\u2013 Provincial Budget Announcement by AlexCooperRTR\nSnowmobiler survives Boulder Mountain avalanche", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 8357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.revelstokereview.com/news/revelstoke-man-pleads-guilty-to-incest-making-child-pornography/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:07Z", "digest": "sha1:W3RXZ2L6VQYSY2STD7UXEK7JSLHOFPKG", "length": 1525, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.revelstokereview.com", "title": "Revelstoke man pleads guilty to incest, making child pornography \u2013 Revelstoke Review", "raw_content": "Revelstoke man pleads guilty to incest, making child pornography\nA Revelstoke man pleaded guilty to incest and making child pornography in Revelstoke court on Wednesday.\nThe man, who cannot be named due to a publication ban designed to protect the identity of the victims, appeared in court on video from Kamloops Regional Corrections Centre on March 6.\nHe sat slumped over on a bench in the video room wearing prison-issue red clothing and a cross on a chain around his neck.\nThe charges against him were read out \u2013 that between the January 1, 2008, and October 26, 2012, he committed the act of incest; and that during those dates he was making or publishing child pornography.\nTo each charge, he responded, \u201cGuilty.\u201d\nThe other charges against him \u2013 sexual assault, sexual interference of a person under 14, possession of child pornography, and two other counts of making or publishing child pornography \u2013 were stayed.\nThe man was charged and arrested in late October after his laptops were seized and child pornography was uncovered on his computers. The details of his crimes have not been made public.\nThe man is set to undergo a pre-sentencing report with a psychiatric component. Sentencing is expected to take place at the May 1 sitting of Revelstoke court, though an April 23 date has been set to make sure the pre-sentence report will be ready in time. Judge Mark Takahashi asked that the man be present for his sen\nUpdated: Police hunt Cooper\u2019s purse snatcher\nB.C. Forests minister shelves area-based tenure change", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 7136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.revelstokereview.com/news/slow-markets-labour-shortages-lead-challenges-for-revelstoke-forest-industry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FZEQEZPL3EFJD6PZ3KG76NYYD7TSTYZ5", "length": 4846, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.revelstokereview.com", "title": "Slow markets, labour shortages lead challenges for Revelstoke forest industry \u2013 Revelstoke Review", "raw_content": "Slow markets, labour shortages lead challenges for Revelstoke forest industry\nForestry market remains slow but hopes are high for the future, though labour shortages could pose problems if things pick up.\nJim Scott spends his days out in the bush logging. As the owner of Two Guys Logging, a logging contractor, he admits that he\u2019s at the bottom of the totem pole in the forestry industry. Still, he\u2019s seen the industry\u2019s struggles first hand.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no doubt it\u2019s changed a lot in the last five to 10 years,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m employing 15 guys, I used to have a crew of 35.\u201d\nThose workers he no longer employs have scattered all over, he said. Some have gone to work in the oil fields while others have gone into mining.\nWherever they\u2019ve gone to, they haven\u2019t been staying in Revelstoke.\nRevelstoke\u2019s population decline, as noted in the last census, has been partly attributed to the struggling forest sector. The city is not alone in this regard. Other forestry-reliant towns have taken hits as well; Golden, Invermere, Mackenzie, Kitimat, Hope and Prince Rupert also saw their populations drop. Across the province, the percentage of people employed in the forestry sector has declined to 14 per cent in 2011 from nearly 25 per cent in 2001.\nWhat is the state of the forestry sector in Revelstoke today? The general answer from talking to several people is the industry remains in a slump following the crash of the U.S. housing market in 2008.\n\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been a lot of change in the last few years,\u201d said Mike Copperthwaite, the general manager of the Revelstoke Community Forestry Corporation (RCFC). \u201cThe markets still haven\u2019t picked up very much. What we\u2019re getting for our logs is still fairly low compared to five years ago.\u201d\nAccording to RCFC\u2019s 2010-11 annual report, the average price the company received for its logs was $86.47 per cubic-metre. That\u2019s down from a peak of $130.44 in 2007-08 and almost unchanged from the 2009-10 selling price of $84.98.\nThe value of cedar increased last year but is still well off its peak, while spruce, balsam and Douglas fir are also selling for less than their respective peaks when the U.S. housing market reached the peak of its boom in 2007. The value of pulp logs, that companies must remove and sell, is also at an all-time low.\n\u201cThere is no profitability in this market with prices at historical lows,\u201d Copperthwaite wrote in the report.\nThere are other issues facing the industry, most notably a shortage of skilled workers. While employment across the sector is down, there is a worry that the work force is aging and that as loggers retire or if the market picks up again, there aren\u2019t enough young people to fill the holes.\n\u201cIf you looked at the average age of logging community, we\u2019re probably all getting up into our 50s,\u201d said Copperthwaite. \u201cWe\u2019re all aging and there\u2019s not a lot of younger guys coming into the industry right now.\u201d\nThe challenges are multiple. First, young people are scared to enter an industry where the future seems bleak, while at the same time, falling timber prices means companies can\u2019t pay wages that compete with other natural resource industries like energy and mining.\n\u201cThere\u2019s no stability in the industry so what young person would want to try to make a career out of it?\u201d said Scott. \u201cIt is a big challenge that the industry has lapsed into.\u201d\nThere is recognition of this problem across the province and industry associations and the government are looking to tackle it. The provincial government has launched a campaign promoting careers in the forest industry, and other industries facing skills shortages.\n\u201cTo bring in and start training people is something that the higher echelon of the whole industry province-wide \u2013 and even the government \u2013 have to try to grapple with,\u201d said Scott.\nStill, not all is bleak. Joe Kozek said his sawmill is seeing stronger markets than last year. While sales to the States have plummeted, the Canadian market has held up well. He is foreseeing growth in the future.\n\u201cIt will be more like a ramp than a ladder, a slow steady increase,\u201d he said. \u201cI would say the forest industry in Revelstoke has weathered the storm moreso than other communities. We\u2019re not totally reliant on that U.S. housing market.\u201d\nAt Downie Timber, where the mill is back up to three shifts, there is also a sense of optimism, said wood manager Barry Wagner.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not going wild or \u2026 booming,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a sense of optimism out there that maybe things are going to improve, or at least not drop off again.\u201d\nMike Copperthwaite is also expecting things to improve in the not-too-distant future. \u201cWe\u2019re forecasting next year to be similar to this year but in 2013 we\u2019re looking for a significant improvement.\u201d\nAvalanche closes Trans-Canada from Revelstoke to Golden\nSpecial avalanche warning issued for British Columbia backcountry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 10470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.righttoplay.ch/de-ch/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:53Z", "digest": "sha1:UJ3TW3ABUOJYCCNY7T5FKXGPNDZYHI3V", "length": 10234, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.righttoplay.ch", "title": "Data Protection and Privacy Policy - Right To Play", "raw_content": "The purpose of this policy is to ensure that all staff of Right To Play (also referred to as RTP) are informed about personal data and their responsibilities for the proper collection, handling and storage of personal data to ensure the safeguarding of personal information. Right to Play is committed to processing data in accordance with its responsibilities under current legislative compliance acts and applicable industry governance compliance programs and best practices including, but not limited to, PIPEDA (Personal Information Protection Electronic Documents Act), PHIPA (Personal Health Information Protection Act), PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation).\nThis policy applies to all Right To Play employees, both domestic and international (including National and Country field offices). It also applies to interns, volunteers or consultants who are provided with RTP equipment and/or technology systems access to perform duties that access, transmit or store any personally identifiable information about any individuals.\nNote: RTP recognizes that certain areas of this policy will be superseded by local legislation and laws and will be amended accordingly.\nPersonal Data and Unique Identifiers Definition\nGDPR defines personal information as:\nThis policy is overseen by the IT Services and Solutions (ITSS) department and is provided to all new employees by the Human Resources (HR) department as part of the onboarding process. The specific responsibilities for each of HR, and RTP employees include but are not limited to:\nResponsibility of Human Resources (HR):\nInforming all new employees of this policy; and\nCollecting sign off that new employees have read and reviewed the policy.\nResponsibility of employees:\nUnderstanding and following the policies and procedures set out to safeguard data under RTP\u2019s control; and\nInquiring with the ITSS team, or their supervisor if unsure about the contents of this document.\nTo ensure Right To Plays processing of data is lawful, fair and transparent, Right To Play will maintain a Register of Systems;\nThe Register of Systems will be reviewed annually;\nIndividuals have the right to access their personal data and correct any inaccuracies;\nRTP will have 30 days from the date of the request to respond to the requester. 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Those wishing to opt out of Google Analytics data collection should use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.\nThe collection of personal information is limited to that which is relevant and necessary to our programs and fundraising efforts. Right To Play shall not make unwarranted or intrusive inquiries into a donor or prospect\u2019s gift history or personal life. Right To Play attributes all data that it collects.\nLimited Use, Disclosure and Retention\nPersonal information shall be as complete, accurate and up-to-date as possible. Donors are encouraged to review, correct and update personal information.\nPersonal information gathered by Right To Play shall be kept in confidence. Right To Play\u2019s personnel shall be authorized to access personal information based only on their need to deal with the information for the reason(s) for which it was obtained.\nAppropriate physical and electronic measures shall be used to ensure personal information is secure. Access to donor and volunteer records shall be limited to those who require such information to fulfil their job responsibilities. Special protection shall be given to all records pertaining to anonymous donors. The confidentiality of donor and volunteer records shall continue after the relationship with the individual has ended.\nDonors who request that their name and/or the amount of the gift not be publicly released shall remain anonymous.\nUpon request, individuals shall be given access to the information in their donor record.\nFurther information on privacy and your rights in regard to your personal information may be found on the website of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at www.priv.gc.ca and at the European Commission Website for GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/priorities/justice-and-fundamental-rights/data-protection/2018-reform-eu-data-protection-rules_en", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 12566, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ripplesnigeria.com/youre-not-above-the-law-buhari-warns-police/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:27Z", "digest": "sha1:BSIIY3W3YSLORWT5WBG7Q7G7OI5LXEY4", "length": 5019, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.ripplesnigeria.com", "title": "You're not above the law, Buhari warns police | Ripples Nigeria", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Politics \u00bb You\u2019re not above the law, Buhari warns police\nYou\u2019re not above the law, Buhari warns police\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari has cautioned the Nigeria police against exceeding its lawful bounds in undertaking its functions in the country.\nThe president gave the directive in his address at the convocation and passing out parade of the First Regular Cadet Course at the Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State.\n\u201dWe must abide by the constitutional code of conduct in policing our people.\n\u201dThe Police in its efforts to fight crime must work in partnership with the community. You cannot properly police the people without their consent,\u201d he told the 602 graduands.\nPresident Buhari also used the occasion to remind police officers to shun corruption and resist all temptations that compromise the integrity and professionalism of the force.\n\u201dIt is appropriate to warn you as Police Officers not to see yourselves as being above the Law. You must be above board and resist all temptations. Be contented with your salaries and allowances.\n\u201dThe Government recently increased your general emoluments to make you more efficient and effective in the discharge of your duties. With this increase in your salaries, you have less reason to fall into temptations of financial or other inducements.\n\u201dLet me again reiterate that this administration has zero tolerance for corruption. Corruption is the major reason why the Nigerian economy has not developed at the rate of other comparable countries.\n\u201dIf we must develop and reap the fruits of our democratic dispensation we must shun corruption at all levels. It is, therefore, your responsibilities and other anti-corruption agencies to kill corruption before Corruption overtakes Nigeria, \u201d he said.\nWhile commending the police for the successes it has recorded in the fight against various aspects of crime in the country, the president acknowledged that they had worked closely with the military in the fight against Boko Haram in the North East.\n\u201dI am aware that you have just deployed over 2000 Police Officers including Special Forces to the North East to support the efforts of the Military.\nRead also: Amnesty Int\u2019l is wrong, herdsmen-farmers clashes started since the colonial era\u2013 Presidency\n\u201dThe success recorded in the fight against Boko Haram in the North East cannot be related without mentioning the support you are giving to the Military. The group is no longer occupying any Nigerian Territory as it used to before the advent of this administration.\n\u201dThe recent attacks by the Boko Haram group can be likened to attempts of defeated insurgents to re-organise its ragtag and scattered individuals. This, however, will not be possible as adequate strategic plans have been put in place in conjunction with our neighbouring countries to completely wipe out the group, \u201d he said.\nOn the 2019 elections, President Buhari reiterated that it is the duty of the police, supported by other security agencies to adequately secure the elections.\n\u201dYou must do everything possible to make the election violence free to avoid ballot box snatching, multiple voting, vote buying on sites, attack on electoral officers and other acts which might negatively impact on the elections and their outcome, \u201d the president said at the event attended by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State, the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and other senior police officers.\n\u201dThe elections must be conducted in a violence free environment for it to be adjudged credible, free and fair in the eyes of both local and international observers,\u201d he said.\nThe president pledged that his administration will continue to do all that is possible to make the Nigeria Police efficient and responsive to the security needs of the country by providing the necessary assistance to make its operations technology based.\nWhile congratulating the graduands on successfully completing the five years training programme in the institution, President Buhari enjoined the new officers to be courageous, brave and determined in the fight against all forms of crime in the country.\nThe president noted that he was happy to be the first serving president to witness the passing out parade of the first batch of Nigeria Police Academy Cadet Officers.\n\u201dYou should consider yourselves privileged, not only for being able to complete the course but for being adjudged worthy in character, fitness and in learning to pass out as Cadet Assistants Superintendents in the Nigeria Police Force,\u201d he said.\nA major highlight of the event was the presentation of a sword of honour to the best graduating Cadet, Assistant Superintendent of Police, Shuaibu Aminu, by the president.\nHe also presented an award to the best female graduating Cadet, Assistant Superintendent of Police Evangeline Babuba.\nBuhari First Regular Cadet Course at the Police Academy Kano Nigerian newspapers ripples nigeria Wudil\nKANO: Ganduje\u2019s former deputy leads other Kwankwaso loyalists back to APC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 9380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rirelevant.com/moore-life/moore-life-trumps-state-union-economy-stupid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Y7VSEYZJIANX2XGYXPJAHGZ4N3VIED37", "length": 2559, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.rirelevant.com", "title": "Moore Life: Trump's State of The Union - It's the Economy, Stupid \u2013 RI Relevant", "raw_content": "Home Moore Life Moore Life: Trump\u2019s State of The Union \u2013 It\u2019s the Economy, Stupid\nMoore Life: Trump\u2019s State of The Union \u2013 It\u2019s the Economy, Stupid\nIn a well-delivered, coherent, and entirely effective speech, President Donald Trump framed the state of America as strong, thanks to economic growth.\nLiberals or progressives\u2013or whatever the big government, pro-tax advocates who think Washington DC bureaucrats can make decisions for American citizens better than we can are calling themselves these days\u2013can complain about Trump and protest after their comfortable Sunday brunches.\nBut they cannot deny that there\u2019s been serious economic growth under Trump\u2019s administration. People\u2019s 401k\u2019s, private retirements accounts, are soaring nationwide.\n\u201cAfter years and years of wage stagnation we are finally seeing rising wages,\u201d Trump said.\nHe touted economic success\u2013such as rising wages and low unemployment across the board\u2013as a way to counter one of his biggest criticisms, that he\u2019s insensitive to racial minorities and their plight.\n\u201cSomething I\u2019m very proud of: African American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded.\u201d\nThe unemployment record for black Americans is currently at 6.8 percent\u2013that\u2019s the lowest the number has ever been since it has been recorded (in the early 70s).\nTrump\u2019s critics, however, argue that the President has no right to take responsibility for the nation\u2019s economic growth.\nRhode Island Congressman James Langevin sent out a statement making that argument.\n\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s first year in office continued the long upswing of economic growth that began during President Obama\u2019s term\u2026Tonight, the President took full credit for the healthy economy. But at a time of historic partisan dysfunction in Washington, DC, it\u2019s important to remember much of that progress has taken place despite the President\u2019s action, not as a result of them,\u201d said Langevin.\nCredit to President?\nThe question remains whether or not the American people believe Trump\u2019s policies, particularly, the landmark tax reform legislation passed by Congress late last year, is responsible\u2013and to what degree.\nThe President also said that he wants Congress to act on passing legislation that will lower the price of prescription drugs. Furthermore, Trump is hoping for a massive infrastructure bill as well as immigration reform predicated on compromise.\nIt remains to be seen whether these dreams can become reality.\nBut as long as the economy remains strong, despite what polls may say, Trump will remain a threat to win a second term in office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.robinwiggins.com/blog/the-bridge-in-leadership-5-ways-to-build-confidence-in-new-leaders", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:59Z", "digest": "sha1:UTMNHP22I7TV7SXN6FPFHPXROIJR35CF", "length": 4536, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.robinwiggins.com", "title": "The Bridge in Leadership: 5 ways to build confidence in new leaders - Leadership", "raw_content": "The Bridge in Leadership: 5 ways to build confidence in new leaders\n\u201cLeadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.\u201d~ John C. Maxwell\nThe importance of leadership has been emphasized by a number of Scholars, Executives, Coaches, Trainers, and Authors around the globe. Teachings have shown us ways to demonstrate positive leadership, to teaching development and has given us a way to be effective in communication, collaboration, and coaching. While it can be argued that there are many challenges in the role of leaders, there are ways to effectively change outcomes and achieve high standards and values corporations desire for success.\nThe Business Dictionary defines leadership as:\n\"1. The individuals who are the leaders in an organization regarded collectively.\n2. The activity of leading a group of people or an organization or the ability to do this.\u200b\nLeadership involves:\n*establishing a clear vision,\n*sharing that vision with others so that they will follow willingly,\n*providing the information, knowledge, and methods to realize that vision, and\n*coordinating and balancing the conflicting interests of all members and stakeholders.\n(As noted in the Business Dictionary)\nThe Bridge in Leadership help to close the gap between formal education and corporate expectations. In my profession, most leaders are hired and promoted by the form of education required coupled with the years of experience in the industry. The conflict begins when you have a professional with a Masters in Science and Arts with one year of experience against the professional with a diploma from a technical school with twenty years of experience. As an executive, which would you choose? No matter the opinion of who you would choose and why here are some ways we can strategically develop the transition both candidates from newbie to a top-tier leader.\nOnce you and your candidate have decided to make this transition, encourage them to get feedback from co-workers, past employees, professionals, or other leaders in their community who have worked with them side-by-side and can provide constructive criticism on how they see their performance as a leader and what they can do to improve.\nHelp them understand the mission, vision, and value system of the company, how they can contribute and give them goal lines to aid in their progression with the company. As we all know how important goals are to be successful in business, it\u2019s just as important to set goals in our career. Offer a project with an end date and give the candidate full range and control to see it to completion. Give them the tools they need and delegate specific tasks that only the leader must do. Knowing the processes by which the company works will help them climb the ladder of progression.\nAnalyze their goals and the different stages of their career and offer feedback either quarterly, semi-annually or annually. Building leaders are just like navigating an airplane. Though you\u2019ve set your course, you may find that you need to adjust your direction, speed, or calculations along the way. Leaders also need those same adjustments so they not only succeed in their role; the company will succeed in their visions for success.\nThere\u2019s nothing like being recognized and rewarded for all of your hard work. When you\u2019ve given feedback, and you see positive outcomes, offer an incentive for a job well done. I am a firm believer that company reward programs and acknowledgments should be for those employees who go above and beyond the call of duty to see that vision for the company is achieved. I feel that leaders should be the example of how an employee should perform in their roles so that one day they will know what to do when they\u2019ve progressed into a leadership role.\nSupport Leadership Progression\nI\u2019m sure you\u2019re thinking\u2026. I\u2019ve done all the hard work supporting this person. They\u2019ve done so well in areas such as communication, training, and project management. Now that they\u2019ve done so well, they\u2019re leaving. Well yes! The sign of a good leader is having the ability to teach and train other leaders to do the very same thing.\nIn conclusion, there are times when you have to choose between education and expertise. I hope that you believe we all have the same opportunity for success. What is taught in school is needed to provide a structured environment in the workplace. What is learned over time is needed for consistency. Both candidates have a chance to be great; it\u2019s up to us to be the bridge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 5699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rockpeaks.com/artists/p/Public-Enemy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GFSST454DNEZDMDE675PSY7ASJLFYXUP", "length": 20251, "nlines": 73, "source_domain": "www.rockpeaks.com", "title": "Public Enemy | Rock Peaks", "raw_content": "You are not currently tracking Public Enemy\nPublic Enemy on Wikipedia\nPublic Enemy performing in 2000.\nThe Bomb Squad, Beastie Boys, Anthrax, Big Daddy Kane, Ice Cube, Brother Ali, Ziggy Marley, De La Soul, LL Cool J, PE 2.0, Boogie Down Productions, KRS-One, Prophets of Rage\nKhari Wynn\nPublic Enemy is an American hip hop group consisting of Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Khari Wynn, DJ Lord, and the S1W group. Formed on Long Island, New York, in 1982, they are known for their politically charged music and criticism of the American media, with an active interest in the frustrations and concerns of the African American community. Their first four albums during the late 1980s and early 1990s were all certified either gold or platinum and were, according to music critic Robert Hilburn in 1998, \"the most acclaimed body of work ever by a hip hop act\".[1] Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine called them \"the most influential and radical band of their time.\"[2]\nIn 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Public Enemy[3] number 44 on its list of the Immortals: 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, the highest ranking for a hip hop act.[4] The group was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2007.[5] The band were announced as inductees for the 2013 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on December 11, 2012, making them the fourth hip-hop act to be inducted.[6]\n1.2 Mainstream success (1987\u20131994)\n1.3 Terminator X's exit and DJ Lord's entrance (1998\u2013current)\n3.1 Political activities\n3.2 Anti-Semitism\n3.3 Homophobia\nCarlton Ridenhour (Chuck D) and William Drayton (Flavor Flav) met at Long Island's Adelphi University in the early-1980s. Developing his talents as an MC with Flav while delivering furniture for his father's business, Chuck D and Spectrum City, as the group was called, released the record \"Check Out the Radio\", backed by \"Lies\", a social commentary\u2014both of which would influence RUSH Productions' Run\u2013D.M.C. and Beastie Boys. Chuck D put out a tape to promote WBAU (the radio station where he was working at the time) and to fend off a local MC who wanted to battle him. He called the tape Public Enemy #1 because he felt like he was being persecuted by people in the local scene. This was the first reference to the notion of a public enemy in any of Chuck D's songs. The single was created by Chuck D with a contribution by Flavor Flav, though this was before the group Public Enemy was officially assembled. Around 1986, Bill Stephney, the former Program Director at WBAU, was approached by Ali Hafezi and offered a position with the label. Stephney accepted, and his first assignment was to help fledgling producer Rick Rubin sign Chuck D, whose song \"Public Enemy Number One\" Rubin had heard from Andre \"Doctor Dr\u00e9\" Brown.\nAccording to the book The History of Rap Music by Cookie Lommel, \"Stephney thought it was time to mesh the hard-hitting style of Run DMC with politics that addressed black youth. Chuck recruited Spectrum City, which included Hank Shocklee, his brother Keith Shocklee, and Eric \"Vietnam\" Sadler, collectively known as the Bomb Squad, to be his production team and added another Spectrum City partner, Professor Griff, to become the group's Minister of Information. With the addition of Flavor Flav and another local mobile DJ named Terminator X, the group Public Enemy was born.\" According to Chuck, The S1W, which stands for Security of the First World, \"represents that the black man can be just as intelligent as he is strong. It stands for the fact that we're not third-world people, we're first-world people; we're the original people.\"[7] Public Enemy started out as opening act for the Beastie Boys during the latter's Licensed to Ill popularity, and in 1987 released their debut album Yo! Bum Rush the Show. Over the next few years, Public Enemy released It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Fear of a Black Planet, and Apocalypse 91\u2026 The Enemy Strikes Black. In addition to ushering in the golden age of hip hop, during this time, Public Enemy reached the height of their popularity, adulation, and controversy. The group then separated from Def Jam and has since been independently producing, marketing, and publishing their music.\nTheir debut album, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, was released in 1987 to critical acclaim. The album was the group's first step toward stardom. In October 1987, music critic Simon Reynolds dubbed Public Enemy \"a superlative rock band\".[8] They released their second album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back in 1988, which performed better in the charts than their previous release, and included the hit single \"Don't Believe the Hype\" in addition to \"Bring the Noise\". Nation of Millions... was the first hip hop album to be voted album of the year in The Village Voice's influential Pazz & Jop critics' poll.[9]\nIn 1989, the group returned to the studio to record Fear of a Black Planet, which continued their politically charged themes. The album was supposed to be released in late 1989,[10] but was pushed back to April 1990. It was the most successful of any of their albums and, in 2005, was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress. It included the singles \"Welcome To The Terrordome\", \"911 Is a Joke\", which criticized emergency response units for taking longer to arrive at emergencies in the black community than those in the white community, and \"Fight the Power\".[11] \"Fight the Power\" is regarded as one of the most popular and influential songs in hip hop history.[citation needed] It was the theme song of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing.\nThe group's next release, Apocalypse '91...The Enemy Strikes Black, continued this trend, with songs like \"Can't Truss It\", which addressed the history of slavery and how the black community can fight back against oppression; \"I Don't Wanna be Called Yo Nigga\", a track that takes issue with the use of the word nigga outside of its original derogatory context. The album also included the controversial song and video \"By the Time I Get to Arizona\", which chronicled the black community's frustration that some US states did not recognize Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday. The video featured members of Public Enemy taking out their frustrations on politicians in the states not recognizing the holiday.[12] In 1992, the group was one of the first rap acts to perform at the Reading Festival, in England, headlining the second day of the three-day festival.\nAfter a 1994 motorcycle accident shattered his left leg and kept him in the hospital for a full month, Terminator X relocated to his 15-acre farm in Vance County, North Carolina. By 1998, he was ready to retire from the group and focus full-time on raising African black ostriches on his farm.[13] In late 1998, the group started looking for Terminator X's permanent replacement. Following several months of searching for a DJ, Professor Griff saw DJ Lord at a Vestax Battle and approached him about becoming the DJ for Public Enemy.[14] DJ Lord joined as the group's full-time DJ just in time for Public Enemy's 40th World Tour.[15] Since 1999, he has been the official DJ for Public Enemy on albums and world tours while winning numerous turntablist competitions, including multiple DMC finals.[16]\nIn 2007, the group released an album entitled How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?. Public Enemy's single from the album was \"Harder Than You Think\". Four years after How You Sell Soul..., in January 2011, Public Enemy released the album Beats and Places, a compilation of remixes and \"lost\" tracks. On July 13, 2012, Most of My Heroes Still Don't Appear on No Stamp was released and was exclusively available on iTunes. In July 2012, on UK television an advert for the London 2012 Summer Paralympics featured a short remix of the song \"Harder Than You Think\". The advert caused the song to reach No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart on September 2, 2012.[17] On July 30, 2012, Public Enemy performed a free concert with Salt-N-Pepa and Kid 'n Play at Wingate Park in Brooklyn, New York as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert Series. On August 26, 2012, Public Enemy performed at South West Four music festival in Clapham Common in London. On October 1, 2012 The Evil Empire of Everything was released. On June 29, 2013, they performed at Glastonbury Festival 2013. On September 14, 2013 they performed at Riot Fest & Carnival 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. On September 20, 2013 they performed at Riot Fest & Side Show in Byers, Colorado.\nIn 2014 Chuck D launched PE 2.0 with Oakland rapper Jahi as a spiritual successor and \"next generation\"[18] of Public Enemy.[19] Jahi had met Chuck D backstage during a soundcheck at the 1999 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and later appeared as a support act on Public Enemy's 20th Anniversary Tour in 2007. PE 2.0's task is twofold, Jahi says, to \"take select songs from the PE catalog and cover or reVisit them\" as well as new material with members of the original Public Enemy including DJ Lord, Davy DMX, Professor Griff and Chuck D.[20] PE 2.0's first album \"People Get Ready\" was released on October 7, 2014. \"InsPirEd\" PE 2.0's second album and part two of a proposed trilogy was released a year later on October 11, 2015.[19] Man Plans God Laughs, Public Enemy's thirteenth album, was released in July 2015.\nPublic Enemy made contributions to the hip-hop world with sonic experimentation as well as political and cultural consciousness, which infused itself into skilled and poetic rhymes. Critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote that \"PE brought in elements of free jazz, hard funk, even musique concr\u00e8te, via producing team the Bomb Squad, creating a dense, ferocious sound unlike anything that came before.\"[21][22] Terminator X's innovative scratching tricks can be heard on the songs \"Rebel Without a Pause\", \"Night of the Living Baseheads\", and \"Shut 'Em Down\".\nPublic Enemy held a strong, pro-black, political stance. Before PE, politically motivated hip-hop was defined by a few tracks by Ice-T, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Kurtis Blow and KRS-One. Other politically motivated opinions were shared by prototypical artists Gil Scott-Heron and the Last Poets. PE was a revolutionary hip-hop act, basing an entire image around a specified political stance. With the successes of Public Enemy, many hip-hop artists began to celebrate Afrocentric themes, such as Kool Moe Dee, Gang Starr, X Clan, Eric B. & Rakim, Queen Latifah, the Jungle Brothers, and A Tribe Called Quest.\nPublic Enemy helped to create and define \"rap metal\" by collaborating with Living Colour in 1988 (\"Funny Vibe\") and New York thrash metal outfit Anthrax in 1991. The single \"Bring the Noise\" was a mix of semi-militant black power lyrics, grinding guitars, and sporadic humor. The two bands, cemented by a mutual respect and the personal friendship between Chuck D and Anthrax's Scott Ian, introduced a hitherto alien genre to rock fans, and the two seemingly disparate groups toured together. Flavor Flav's pronouncement on stage that \"They said this tour would never happen\" (as heard on Anthrax's Live: The Island Years CD) has become a legendary comment in both rock and hip-hop circles. Metal guitarist Vernon Reid (of Living Colour) contributed to Public Enemy's recordings, and PE sampled Slayer's \"Angel of Death\" half-time riff on \"She Watch Channel Zero?!\"\nMembers of the Bomb Squad produced or remixed works for other acts, like Bell Biv DeVoe, Ice Cube, Vanessa Williams, Sin\u00e9ad O'Connor, Blue Magic, Peter Gabriel, L.L. Cool J, Paula Abdul, Jasmine Guy, Jody Watley, Eric B & Rakim, Third Bass, Big Daddy Kane, EPMD, and Chaka Khan. According to Chuck D, \"We had tight dealings with MCA Records and were talking about taking three guys that were left over from New Edition and coming up with an album for them. The three happened to be Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, later to become Bell Biv DeVoe. Ralph Tresvant had been slated to do a solo album for years, Bobby Brown had left New Edition and experienced some solo success beginning in 1988, and Johnny Gill had just been recruited to come in, but had come off a solo career and could always go back to that. At MCA, Hiram Hicks, who was their manager, and Louil Silas, who was running the show, were like, 'Yo, these kids were left out in the cold. Can y'all come up with something for them?' It was a task that Hank, Keith, Eric, and I took on to try to put some kind of hip-hop-flavored R&B shit down for them. Subsequently, what happened in the four weeks of December [1989] was that the Bomb Squad knocked out a large piece of the production and arrangement on Bell Biv DeVoe's three-million selling album Poison. In January [1990], they knocked out Fear of a Black Planet in four weeks, and PE knocked out Ice Cube's album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted in four to five weeks in February.\"[24] They have also produced local talent such as Son of Bazerk, Young Black Teenagers, Kings of Pressure, and True Mathematics\u2014and gave producer Kip Collins his start in the business.\nPoet and hip-hop artist Saul Williams uses a sample from Public Enemy's \"Welcome to the Terrordome\" in his song \"Trigger\" on the Niggy Tardust album. He also used a line from the song in his poem, amethyst rocks.\nIn January 1987, Arizona governor Evan Mecham canceled a state holiday for Martin Luther King, Jr. because the holiday had not been properly authorized. In response to this action, the group wrote a song entitled \"By the Time I Get to Arizona\". In the video for the song, the group was seen assassinating Mecham by planting a bomb underneath his limousine and detonating it by remote control, perhaps intending an analogy or other reference to the 1976 murder of Don Bolles, an investigator reporter for the Arizona Republic newspaper.[original research?] This is not the first time that the group has been involved in some political controversies, as their songs revolve around political and social issues at the time.\nIn 1989, in an interview with Public Enemy for the Washington Times, the interviewing journalist, David Mills, lifted some quotations from a UK magazine in which the band were asked their opinion on the Arab\u2013Israeli conflict. Professor Griff's comments apparently sympathized with the Palestinians and he was accused of anti-Semitism. According to Rap Attack 2, he suggested that \"Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world\" (p. 177). (In turn a quote from The International Jew) Shortly after, Ridenhour expressed an apology on his behalf.[26] At a June 21, 1989 press conference, Ridenhour announced Griff's dismissal from the group,[27] and a June 28 statement by Russell Simmons, president of Def Jam Recordings and Rush Artists Management, stated that Chuck D. had disbanded Public Enemy \"for an indefinite period of time\".[28] By August 10, however, Ridenhour denied that he had disbanded the group, and stated that Griff had been re-hired as \"Supreme Allied Chief of Community Relations\" (in contrast to his previous position with the group as Minister of Information).[27] Griff later denied holding anti-Semitic views and apologized for the remarks.[29] Several people who had worked with Public Enemy expressed concern about Ridenhour's leadership abilities and role as a social spokesman.[30]\nIn 1999 the group released an album entitled There's a Poison Goin' On. The title of the last song on the album is called \"Swindler's Lust\". The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) claimed that the title of the song was a word play on the title of the Steven Spielberg movie Schindler's List about the genocide of Jews in World War II.[33] Similarly in 2000 a Public Enemy spin off group under the name Confrontation Camp, a name according to the ADL, that is a pun on the term concentration camp, released an album.[34] The group consisted of Kyle Jason, Chuck D (under the name Mistachuck) and Professor Griff.\nThe title of the 2015 album \"Man Plans God Laughs\" is a well known English translation of a Yiddish proverb [35] \"Der mentsh trakht un got lakht\" Chuck D has not explained why a Yiddish proverb was used.\nIn a letter to the editor, Leo Haber alludes to criticism by The New York Times writer Peter Watrous of the group's supposed homophobia.[36]\n\u2014\u2009Williams, Zoe, \"Hiphopophobia\", The Guardian, 29 April 2003\nFlavor Flav was criticized for allegedly homophobic lyrics on Public Enemy's 1991 song \"A Letter to the New York Post\", in which he raps, \"It only brings agony, ask James Cagney/He beat up on a guy when he found he was a fagney/Cagney is a favorite he is my boy\".[38]\nChuck D (Carlton D. Ridenhour) \u2013 MC\nKhari Wynn \u2013 guitars\nProfessor Griff (Richard Griffin) \u2013 Minister of Information\nBrother Roger (Roger Chillous)\nBrother Mike (Michael Williams)\nJames Bomb (James Allen)\nThe Interrogator (Shawn K. Carter)\nBig Casper (Tracy D. Walker)\nTerminator X (Norman Rogers) - DJ, Producer\nSister Souljah (Lisa Williamson) - Minister of Information (took over Richard Griffin's place when Griffin left group)\nJacob \"Big Jake\" Shankle (died 2013)\nMain article: Public Enemy discography\n2006: Rebirth of a Nation\n2015: Man Plans God Laughs\nGrammy Awards [39]\nPublic Enemy was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.\nFuck You Heroes, Glen E. Friedman Photographs 1976\u20131991, Burning Flags Press, 1994, ISBN 0-9641916-0-1\n^ Hilburn, Robert (July 5, 1998). \"Is Anyone Out There Really Listening?\". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 11, 2013.\n^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. \"Public Enemy - Biography & History\". AlMusic. Retrieved 4 March 2017.\n^ Chuck D. and Yusuf Jah, Fight the Power, p. 82.\n^ McCombs, Joseph (December 11, 2012). \"Decking the Hall: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's New Members \u2013 Public Enemy\". Time. New York. Retrieved June 11, 2013.\n^ \"Public Enemy Look Back at 20 Years of 'By the Time I Get to Arizona'\". Spin Magazine. SpinMedia.\n^ \"Dj Lord of the battle\". In the Mix. Retrieved June 2002. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)\n^ \"SUN 5.31 The Next Gen of Public Enemy PE 2.0 DOORS: 9:15 PM / SHOW: 9:30 PM\". Yoshis.com. Retrieved 8 October 2015.\n^ a b Arnold, Eric K. \"The Oak Q & A: Jahi as PE2.0\". Oakculture. Retrieved 8 October 2015.\n^ PE 2.0 Official Website http://www.2-0pe.com/bio/. Retrieved 8 October 2015. Missing or empty |title= (help)\n^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. \"It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards\". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-04-19.\n^ Dubois, Keir. \"https://web.archive.org/web/20030619220955/http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/topics/infoart/public-enemy/\". Transcriptions Project, December 1999. Retrieved on April 15, 2016.\n^ Pareles, Jon (11 August 1989). \"Public Enemy Rap Group Reorganizes After Anti-Semitic Comments\". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-04-19.\n^ a b Pareles, John (August 11, 1989). \"Public Enemy Rap Group Reorganizes after Anti-Semitic Comments\". The New York Times. New York:: The New York Times. p. C3. |access-date= requires |url= (help)\n^ Pareles, John (June 29, 1989). \"Rap Group Disbands Under Fire\". The New York Times. The New York Times. p. C19. |access-date= requires |url= (help)\n^ Hilburn, Robert (April 10, 1990). \"POP MUSIC REVIEW: Public Enemy Keeps Up Attack\". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles: Tribune Company. Retrieved October 17, 2011.\n^ Hilburn, Robert (February 4, 1990). \"Rap\u2014The Power and the Controversy: Success has validated pop's most volatile form, but its future impact could be shaped by the continuing Public Enemy uproar\". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times: Tribune Company. Retrieved October 17, 2011.\n^ *[1] at Village Voice July 13, 1999/Profits of Rage\n^ [2] at MTVJewish Group Decries Public Enemy's 'Swindler's Lust'\n^ \"Letter to the Editor: \"PUBLIC ENEMY; Strong Adjectives\"\". The New York Times. 13 May 1990. Retrieved 2014-04-19.\nSerpick, Evan. \"Public Enemy Look Back at 20 Years of 'By the Time I Get to Arizona'.\" Spin. Spin, 10 Nov. 2011. Web.\nWhite, Miles. Race, Rap and the performance of Mascinity in American Popular Culture. 2011. University of Illinois. Urbana. ISBN 978-0-252-07832-3\nPublic Enemy has 3 upcoming shows:\nDell Music Center (Philadelphia, PA)Buy Tickets\nMandalay Bay Events Center (Las Vegas, NV)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 310, "original_length": 30141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 121.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rockymountainada.org/about-us/our-team", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:47Z", "digest": "sha1:CIFNZUYJ7A7PTH5USXQKBCP2Z2NZWPI7", "length": 8879, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.rockymountainada.org", "title": "Our Team | Rocky Mountain ADA", "raw_content": "Rearrange order\nDana Barton, Director\nDana Barton is the Director for The Rocky Mountain ADA Center (RMADAC). Her role within the organization is to lead the staff\u2019s daily efforts to provide the Rocky Mountain Region with technical support, training, guidance and the most updated information pertaining to the Americans with Disabilities Act. She is also the organization\u2019s spokesperson for public media and community relations initiatives within the region.\nPrior to joining RMADAC, Barton served as the Business Relations and Employment Development Director at the Pikes Peak Workforce Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. In this role, she planned and implemented business services, and youth and adult programming under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. In this role, Dana worked closely with community partners to provide training and development opportunities to individuals with disabilities to increase their employment opportunities.\nShe brings to RMADAC over 10 years of extensive work within the ADA\u2019s Title I and Title III with the experience she gained as Director of Recruitment for the world-famous Broadmoor Hotel. Among her many accomplishments at The Broadmoor; she led a program that recruited students with disabilities from local school districts to work for the hotel as paid interns.\nThroughout her life, Dana has worked tirelessly in support of people with disabilities. Her work has included supporting initiatives for families with deaf children so that their loved ones are empowered to fulfill their life dreams. She is also an active volunteer in her children\u2019s elementary school, and serves on the School District 11 Mill Levy Override Financial Oversight Committee. Dana is also heavily involved with efforts in Colorado to educate employers on hiring combat-wounded veterans.\nIn 2014, she was recognized as a Rising Star through the Colorado Springs Business Journal and received the Young Professional of the Year award from the Southern Colorado Women\u2019s Chamber of Commerce.\nWhen she is not working, Dana enjoys spending time hiking in the mountains, raising backyard chickens, and cheering on her Alma Mater's Michigan State Spartans!\nMaggie Sims, Project Director\nMaggie Sims is the Project Manager for the Rocky Mountain ADA Center and is the longest-tenured employee of the center. She specializes in providing information, technical guidance and training on the Americans with Disabilities Act for the center\u2019s six-state region.\nMaggie joined the RMADAC in 1992 (one year after the ADA was signed into law by President George HW Bush) as an ADA Information Specialist, with a deep interest in reducing communication barriers for those with hearing, speech, and visual losses. An expert on the ADA and effective communication processes and fluent in sign language, Maggie also provides guidance on technical assistance calls focused on helping the RMADAC\u2019s region. Maggie travels extensively throughout the region, representing RMADAC at many community events and conferences. In addition, she acts as one of the media spokespeople for the center. Sims received an associate\u2019s degree from Colorado Christian University and graduated from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs with a Bachelor\u2019s Degree in political science.\nEmily Shuman, Media Coordinator\nEmily Shuman is the media coordinator for the Rocky Mountain ADA Center (RMADAC). Often considered the gatekeeper within the organization, Shuman is responsible for engaging individuals within the center\u2019s six-state region through both social and public media along with inbound communications.\nOf her many responsibilities within RMADAC, Shuman manages inbound Technical Assistance calls ensuring those seeking information on the ADA are matched with a RMADAC specialists to assist them. She has specific passion for helping businesses and individuals better understand the tools available to them on social media to make these communication items accessible for everyone and is energized each time she is able to provide tips and tools to individuals looking to make their communication channels accessible.\nBefore joining RMADAC, Emily was the program coordinator for volunteer services with the Pikes Peak Workforce Center. In addition, Shuman previously worked as a host Home supervisor with Special Kids/Special Families.\nA Colorado Springs native, Emily enjoys her free time by exploring the great state of Colorado with her 10-year-old daughter!\nPaul Simmons, Information Specialist\nPaul Simmons is an Information Specialist for The Rocky Mountain ADA Center. He has served RMADAC\u2019s region since 2015 and specializes in technical assistance and training for the center.\nPaul has a strong interest in Deaf history, International Deaf issues, and International Disability Rights. For many years, Paul has been involved with a number of Deaf organizations in a variety of capacities and the International Deaf Emergency (IDE) as a consultant. Since then, Paul has taken a keen interest in equal access for people with hearing and speech disabilities in emergency planning.\nSimmons was the President of the Colorado Association for the Deaf from 2016 to 2017. Paul also provides direct consultation in ASL (American Sign Language) on ADA issues to Deaf individuals across the United States.\nPaul is a dynamic media personality who has interviewed countless times in his career. He has a lengthy educational background including:\n- MS, Deaf Education, McDaniel College, 2004\n- MS, Administration, Gallaudet University, 2000\n- BA, Deaf Studies, Gallaudet University, 1999\n- BA, History, Gallaudet University, 1998\nChris Murphy, Information Specialist\nChris Murphy is an Information Specialist who focuses on architectural elements of the ADA, and title II/III of the law. He focuses on covered entity\u2019s obligations for providing accessibility interplay with existing structures and new design elements for The Rocky Mountain ADA Center. He joined the team in 2016.\nChris lives with an invisible disability, Brachial Plexus Palsy, which is permanent nerve damage in his left arm/hand/shoulder caused by a traumatic birth injury. He is a current Team USA Para-Cycling National Team member, 2017 2x world champion, 2016 Paralympian, 15x national champion. He grew up in southern California, moved to Colorado Springs in 2014 to train for the Paralympic Games.\nA true renaissance man, Chris worked as a musician for Disneyland from 2007-2012 and can be seen playing trombone in the 2012 Warner Bros. movie Gangster Squad, starring Josh Brolin, Emma Stone, and Ryan Gosling.\nChris studied music performance in college at California State University, Fullerton with a focus on BM Trombone performance.\nMike Shea, Instructional Designer\nMike Shea is the instructional designer for the Rocky Mountain ADA Center (RMADAC). He is responsible for researching, developing and designing both e-learning curriculum and training materials for the center\u2019s public outreach efforts.\nA true believer that inspiring design combined with thought-provoking content is the center of creating engaging training, Shea works closely with the technical support and training teams within RMADAC to ensure materials that are intended for public consumption are completed with updated ADA information while being pleasing to navigate for the eye.\nShea worked as an instructional media developer for Atos and as a communication center/facilities specialist for Boulder Community Health before joining RMADAC. He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in digital media design.\nWhen not designing top-tier materials, Mike can be found knee deep within Colorado\u2019s many rivers as he is known as a fanatical fly fisherman by his friends and family.\nSarah Garcia, Training Facilitator\nSarah Garcia is the training facilitator for the Rocky Mountain ADA Center (RMADAC). She is responsible for conducting customized ADA-related training across many channels within the center\u2019s six-state region. Garcia spends the majority of her time guiding both large and small groups of training attendees through several ADA-exercises including General ADA standards, Service Animals (Do\u2019s and don\u2019t(s)), ADA and the workplace, responsibilities by both public and private entities under the law and much more.\nPrevious to joining the RMADAC, Garcia spent several years as an educator where the enjoyed inspiring young minds through her efforts as an English teacher. 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The office is open 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Monday to Friday and from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on Saturdays.\nDriving To Rookwood Memorial Gardens & Crematorium Video\nChapel Locations\nPlease see the image below for the locations of each of our chapels.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 265.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.roomlion.com/a/chennai/t-nagar/772-serviced-apartment/6789.html?search%5BcheckIn%5D=13-Feb-19&search%5BcheckOut%5D=20-Feb-19&search%5Bguests%5D=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:56Z", "digest": "sha1:L7WJZQQNXCR4ADANO6RJBP7FXEFIKU6R", "length": 354, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.roomlion.com", "title": "2BHK Apartment With Spacious Rooms, Located At The Heart Of Shopping Zone O | Chennai Serviced Apartments", "raw_content": "2BHK apartment with spacious rooms, located at the heart of shopping zone of T. Nagar Chennai\nA fine 2BHK with all amenities located at T. Nagar, which hosts major shopping spots. The property can be used as guest house for shorter stay and serviced apartment when choosing to stay longer than a month. Guests can enjoy a best in class concierge service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 6510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/london-and-hogarth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:37Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4PHLPPJHQTU6VGUSHXXVOK7VINIW5BB", "length": 1912, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.rousette.org.uk", "title": "BSAG \u00bb London and Hogarth", "raw_content": "London and Hogarth\nLast Saturday, we went to London to catch a couple of exhibitions: Hogarth at Tate Britain, and Originals 07: The Contemporary Printmaking Show at the Mall Galleries. Both were really excellent, but the Hogarth prints and paintings had a particular impact on me.\nWe watched a drama last year about Hogarth and his creation of 'The Harlot's Progress' series of prints, and it was fascinating to see the works themselves. He captures people's characters beautifully, and tells very complex and subtle stories in a compact space. Some are hilarious, but most are very moving, particularly The Harlot's Progress. It's harder to empathise with 'The Rake' in 'The Rake's Progress', but even there, his spurned and good-hearted sweetheart still tugs at your heartstrings. He makes the frightening ease with which people could (and still can) slip into destitution and ruin strikingly evident.\nThere's also a large painting commissioned by one of the homes for orphaned children in London. The little boy being handed over to the benefactor is tightly gripping the skirts of his nurse with his tiny fist, while she weeps and looks away. The boy has such a look of fear and desolation on his face to be leaving the person he considers to be his mother, that it brought quite a lump to my throat. On the other hand, there's a brilliantly funny portrait of a man the morning after a heavy night. He's obviously had one too many glasses of wine, and is sitting on the edge of the bed in his night-shirt, vomiting into a chamber pot, with an expression on his face that we can all recognise as \"Oh man, I'm never drinking again...\" The best bit is that it was commissioned by his wife, to try to persuade him to mend his dissolute ways. I've known people who have shown their other halves camera phone snaps as evidence of their bad behaviour, but a full size oil painting by a master artist? That's class.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 2155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 234.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/newsblur/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:39Z", "digest": "sha1:C3XN7QQL5RMDIDFHW7MPC7SPHRCBUFHY", "length": 7634, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.rousette.org.uk", "title": "BSAG \u00bb NewsBlur", "raw_content": "RSS reader applications and frameworks are in a period of flux. As you\u2019ll know if you read the technology news, Google announced recently that it would shut down Google Reader on 1st July 2013. While it\u2019s probably true that the number of people using Google Reader\u2019s interface directly (and therefore seeing the advertisements) has declined, most of the current feed reading software depends on Google Reader as its syncing mechanism, or indeed for the entire back end. This is obviously a problem for those of us who enjoy keeping up to date with our favourite sites using a feed reader.\nIt actually wasn\u2019t a problem for me personally. I used to use Google Reader, but for a variety of reasons (including wanting to reduce my dependence on Google), I moved from Reader to Fever more than 3 years ago. Fever has a lot of great features. You host it yourself (which is admittedly a problem rather than a feature if you don\u2019t have web space), and there is an absolutely wonderful third-party iOS client for Fever called Sunstroke. In addition, Fever has a clever mechanism for using the content of high-volume feeds to pull out \u2018hot\u2019 topics, without making you read those high volume feeds directly. You put high-volume feeds (like Wired or BoingBoing) in to a \u2018Sparks\u2019 category, and then any topics or links that are shared with feeds in your \u2018Kindling\u2019 category cause those items to appear in a \u2018Hot\u2019 section. The feeds in Sparks are not shown independently.\nHowever, I had a couple of long-term niggles with Fever. While Sunstroke fulfilled my every need on the iPhone, I have never liked the web interface to Fever on the desktop. For some reason, I find it awkward to use and unattractive, and I haven\u2019t found a way around that. As yet, no-one has developed a Mac app with Fever syncing (though I believe that the makers of Reeder promised it at one time). Similarly, while the \u2018Hot\u2019 items feature is very clever, it tells you what everyone is talking about, which isn\u2019t necessarily that same as what you personally are interested in.\nA while ago, I had tried out NewsBlur, which is an independent feed reader built by Samuel Clay. It\u2019s a really amazing project, but when I originally tried it, it was at a relatively early stage, and I wasn\u2019t convinced to switch from Fever. Following the announcement by Google, I decided to take another look at it and \u2014 to cut a long story short \u2014 I signed up for a Premium account and am using it as my only feed reader.\nNewsBlur is an unusual project because Samuel has to a large extent re-thought the way a feed reader should work. It\u2019s an open source project, so if you wish (or if he should ever decide to stop developing it) you can install and run your own instance of NewsBlur. While that would be quite a technical undertaking (as he himself admits), it\u2019s reassuring to know that the option is there. NewsBlur operates on a \u2018freemium\u2019 model whereby you can have a free account with a large but limited number of subscriptions, or you can pay a reasonable minimum of $24 per year to have as many subscriptions as you like.\nThe design of the interface is very attractive (particularly if you use the development version at http://dev.newsblur.com/), and there are lots of power features. For example, there are keyboard shortcuts similar to those used in Google Reader for getting around your feeds and articles. Each item can be viewed as the standard Feed view, Original view (the entire original site), or Story view where each post is shown in the original format, one at a time. Story view is incredibly useful for feeds where the full entry is not posted in the feed, or where you prefer to see the content in the context of the design of the page. You can set this preference \u2014 along with whether you view all items or unread items only, and the sorting of the list \u2014 per-site as well as globally.\nThe crowning feature of NewsBlur is the ability to train it with your preferences for content. I should say that you don\u2019t have to train it, but you get a much better experience if you take the time to do so. The way this works is that you can bring up an interface for each of your feeds in which you give a thumbs up or a thumbs down to various elements associated with the feed, and that helps NewsBlur to classify the feed\u2019s items for you. For example, you could highlight a phrase in the title and either tell NewsBlur that you want to see all items containing that phrase, or that you don\u2019t want to see items with that phrase. Similarly, you can like or dislike a particular author (in multi-authored feeds) or particular tags or categories. Alternatively, if it\u2019s a low volume feed and you want to read everything by the person, you can just like the whole feed.\nThis is incredibly useful with high-volume feeds like Wired, BoingBoing or Slashdot. There are some topics (like posts about Disney, Windows or Android) that I am not interested in and don\u2019t want to see. Similarly, I love reading Penny Arcade, but I come for the comic strips, not the articles, so I can choose to filter out the latter. It does take a bit of time (though you don\u2019t have to do it all at once, and can update or change it whenever you want), but it filters your feeds really effectively. After training, items (and item counts against feeds) are colour coded. They show green for things you have actively chosen, yellow for things you haven\u2019t chosen or rejected, but where you\u2019ve approved the whole feed, and red for items you\u2019ve rejected. In addition, there\u2019s a grey label for feeds you haven\u2019t trained. The \u2018Unread\u2019 view shows you all the grey, yellow and green items, but there\u2019s also a \u2018Focus\u2019 button that allows you to just see the green items. It\u2019s hard to describe how cool this is, but it works really well, and I find that it winnows down the items in my 89 subscriptions very effectively, so that I keep up with stuff that is important to me, but am not overwhelmed with items that I just skip over.\nIf you want to share stores or save them, you can do that, saving or sharing either within NewsBlur itself1, or posting to services like Pocket, Evernote, Twitter or Pinboard. The mechanism for this is a little hidden on the web interface (though easy to use once you\u2019ve found it), but more obvious on the iOS client. Oh yes, I haven\u2019t yet mentioned the iOS client! It works extremely well and is cleanly-designed and easy to navigate2. It\u2019s not quite the minimalist wonder of Sunstroke, but it\u2019s very usable and offers almost all the features of the full web interface.\nThere are lots of other lovely little features of NewsBlur that show great attention to detail. One of the minor inconveniences of reading site content in a feed is that it can be easy to forget which site you are reading if you are working through a group of feeds. NewsBlur shows a coloured border for each item in the list and when you are viewing the item itself that is matched to (I think) the header of the site3. Thus Slashdot has a two-tone green border, BoingBoing is red and my own feed is dark grey. It\u2019s a small thing, but it makes it much easier to remember what you\u2019re reading.\nI\u2019m sure it will be obvious that I\u2019ve rather fallen in love with NewsBlur. Even if something better eventually comes out of Google Reader\u2019s demise, I think it\u2019s well worth putting a modest amount of money Samuel\u2019s way to support him in his Herculean efforts to change the way we read feeds.\nEach user gets a \u2018BlurBlog\u2019 of their own, which is a bit like Tumblr, to which they can save and comment on items, and which can be made public. \u21a9\nAnd free as in beer. \u21a9\nOr perhaps the favicon. Either way, it\u2019s fiendishly clever. \u21a9", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 7995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rowontario.ca/events/ltr-coach-workshop-toronto-on-may-6-7-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:20Z", "digest": "sha1:A5QHPLAHJSIIY6RF5RDREI2VYSCIWUD7", "length": 96, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rowontario.ca", "title": "LTR Coach Workshop \u2013 Toronto, ON (May 6-7, 2017) | Row Ontario", "raw_content": "LTR Coach Workshop \u2013 Toronto, ON (May 6-7, 2017)\nSaturday, May 6, 9am-5pm\nSunday, May 7, 9am-2pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 236.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rsc.org.uk/news/rsc-video-team-at-egx-gaming-event", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:12Z", "digest": "sha1:P3RTMAWOLQBBQICZBCQQIT5JE7UGDC47", "length": 799, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rsc.org.uk", "title": "RSC video team at EGX gaming event | Royal Shakespeare Company", "raw_content": "We will be at the NEC for games event EGX this week, talking about the technology behind our new Troilus and Cressida trailer.\nMembers of our video team will be taking part in EGX Birmingham, the UK\u2019s biggest gaming event at the NEC, from 20-23 September.\nWe will be showcasing our exciting new Troilus and Cressida trailer, set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland created in Epic Games Unreal Engine. We will also be demonstrating some of our latest AR (augmented reality) technology, as we continue to push the boundaries of what is possible in a live theatrical performance.\nA making-of video about the trailer will also be released soon, giving a behind-the-scenes look at the technology and techniques used.\nTroilus and Cressida runs in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from 12 October to 17 November.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 9271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 181.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rubbertrampartist.com/2015/02/23/more-collages-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:SWNVAFBFST42QCYTR5WGNWRUYPSZVAFQ", "length": 2024, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.rubbertrampartist.com", "title": "More Collages | Rubber Tramp Artist", "raw_content": "I promised more photos of collages I created as soon as I could.\nI created this collage for a friend.\nThis is a detail from the collage.\nThe words are my favorite quote in rock-n-roll, from the song \u201cAlready Gone\u201d by the Eagles. The song was written by Jack Tempchin and Robb Strandlund. I\u2019ve used that quote on collages before, one I made for myself and the other I made for an art show in Truth or Consequences I mentioned before. (That one went to my friend JC, so I can\u2019t show it off on my blog.)\nI wanted to show off the four collages that were in the show in Truth or Consequences, but Sue forgot them on her way to China, and I don\u2019t yet have them in my possession. Sue\u2019s promised to mail them to me when she gets back home, so I will eventually be able to post photos of them.\nHere\u2019s the \u201cAlready Gone\u201d collage that I made for myself.\nThe keys in both collages are actual metal keys, not paper cutouts.\nThis is a collage I made to cover up the stereo panel in my van. The stereo doesn\u2019t work, so I wanted something to look at other than the nonfunctional stereo panel. The stones along the bottom are real stones, and the three spirals are made from metal. Here\u2019s the right side detail of that collage.\nHere\u2019s the left side detail of that collage.\nI also have some tins I collaged. I had more, but I\u2019ve recently given two of them away. I have a few more tins, and I do want to add collages to them, but I\u2019m worried they will get scratched up in the van. Even a \u201csafe place\u201d in the van often does not offer adequate protection for things that need to be treated gently.\nHere\u2019s the top and sides of tin #1:\nYou get the idea: farm and healthy food theme.\nI collaged two very small tins, both with a sweet treat theme.\nHere\u2019s the first one, top first, then sides:\nI\u2019m sorry these photos aren\u2019t better. I\u2019m still trying to figure out how to use the macro setting on my camera. I need more practice.\nFiled under Art, I'm Crafty and tagged Already Gone, collage, Jack Tempchin, Robb Strandlund, the Eagles |\tLeave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 6442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rural21.com/english/from-our-partners/browse/1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XS7ME7O2VBTPOEFYPTXPBSB36NNO67RG", "length": 4137, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.rural21.com", "title": "Rural 21 - From our partners", "raw_content": "DLG-Agrifuture Insights supplies essential information for agribusiness and farmers from the world\u2019s most important agricultural regions. Recent studies on Brazil, South Africa, Thailand and Zambia offer detailed information on...more\nAs part of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) is supporting pilot projects to promote women in agricultural vocational training on the...more\nDigital innovations to promote gender equality\nWorld-wide, girls and women are underrepresented regarding the use and production of digital media. This applies in particular to the rural regions. The GIZ Digital Innovation Factory is to contribute to enabling equal...more\nDecentralised access to sustainable energy in Togo\nProENERGIE, a new German-Togolese project, implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), supports...more\nRural and urban development \u2013 SDC\u2019s annual conference 2018\nDeveloping urban and rural areas sustainably \u2013 two of Switzerland\u2019s priorities in Africa \u2013 were at the focus of the SDC\u2019s Annual Conference in Berne/Switzerland last June.more\nBMZ provides new financing for environmental protection and the conservation of natural resources\nThe German Federal Government is renewing its financial support for global environmental protection via the Global Environment Facility (GEF). At a conference in May, Secretary of State Norbert Barthle stressed the responsibility...more\nInnovations to create new prospects for Africa\u2019s rural regions\nThe German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) invited the German partners of the Green Innovation Centres (GIAE) to Bonn/Germany for a network meeting on the 7th and 8th June that focused on sharing...more\nDLG-Agrifuture Insights \u2013 economic conditions for farmers and trends in farm development\nThe German Agricultural Society (DLG) is currently conducting a comparative study on agricultural trends in management and technology in 13 countries world-wide.more\nNiger: Fighting hunger and building resilience in a nexus approach\nAlleviating hunger and ensuring equitable access to healthy and balanced nutrition are a major global challenge and a key issue for the SDC. Efforts in Niger show how Switzerland\u2019s instruments of international cooperation are...more\nGIZ study on digitalisation for rural development\n\u201cHarnessing the chances of digitalisation for rural development (ICT4Ag) - Lessons-learnt in German-funded rural development projects\u201d is the name of a study compiled by GIZ. The study is a practical guideline for projects and...more\nBMZ and KfW support small farmers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo\nUnder a commission for the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) KfW Development Bank is financing small-scale agriculture in the North and South Kivu regions of the Democratic Republic of the...more\nPositive prospects for solar-powered irrigation systems\nFAO is offering guidance on how to make the most of innovation and guard against water waste. In co-operation with GIZ, the organisation has developed a toolbox for solar-powered irrigation schemes.more\nEffective water treatment through solar disinfection\nUnder the Panii Jibon Project, HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation Bangladesh has piloted a water purification treatment called solar disinfection (SODIS). HELVETAS is planning to scale up the SODIS technique in coastal areas prone...more\nSustainably managed pastures and healthy animals: Mongolia's 'green gold'\nThe number of livestock in Mongolia has heavily increased. The SDC is supporting the sustainable use of pastureland, to improve animal health and the marketing of livestock products.more\nNothing about us without us \u2013 empowering rural women and girls\nA joint side event organised by Plan International Germany and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) at the margins of the 62nd Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) stressed the need to...more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 6834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/perspective/tebbetts-milk-is-safe/article_c0498870-4836-5cc3-b54f-b0e30cbf34ba.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6BHGG24KTSTOEBJYF4OMTGBHV4MEJZYJ", "length": 3820, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.rutlandherald.com", "title": "Tebbetts: Milk is safe | Perspective | rutlandherald.com", "raw_content": "Tebbetts: Milk is safe\nFrom time to time, folks will ask our agency, \u201chow safe is the milk we buy in our stores?\u201d The simple answer is, \u201cvery safe.\u201d Let\u2019s dig a little deeper.\nCaring for cows and all farm animals in Vermont is a top priority. It starts with our dairy farmers monitoring the health of their animals. If an animal is thought to be ill and requires medical treatment, the farmer immediately removes it from the routine process of gathering milk for distribution. This protects the milk supply and consumers.\nThe cow is given time to recover while being treated by a veterinarian or the farmer. This recovery period is essential to protecting the cow and the consumer. Farmers are well aware of the risks if they do not follow well-established rules.\nVermont state veterinarian and director of food safety & consumer protection at the Agency, Dr. Kristin Haas, says her office works with the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), state officials, veterinarians and farmers directly to confirm that antibiotics and other medications for dairy animals are used appropriately.\n\u201cOur collaborations with these groups are meant to ensure that antibiotics and other medications are used only as needed to treat sick animals, and to prevent violative medication residues from reaching the milk and meat supplies,\u201d Dr. Haas said.\nAnother tool available to assist Vermont dairy farmers with achieving gold-standard management practices that exceed the minimum requirements established by law is the Food Armor Program (www.foodarmor.org). It provides veterinarians with the expertise needed to work with their client farms to establish best practices regarding veterinary medication use. This program is not limited to antibiotics and is meant to encourage prudent and cautious use of veterinary medication on farms, thereby helping to ensure a safe meat and dairy food supply.\nTo further ensure that milk is safe when it leaves the farm, Vermont State Statute requires that every bulk load be tested for residual antibiotics. The FDA has established public health-based tolerances for antibiotics, and the test results of all bulk loads must fall below these tolerances. Milk that does not pass this rigorous public-health testing is discarded and never makes it to store shelves.\nTainted milk is also prohibited from being repurposed as livestock feed, which means that drug residues are prevented from entering our meat-based foods. Public health-based testing completed prior to milk processing also confirms that bacteria levels do not exceed public safety-based regulatory limits.\nThe Agency\u2019s Dairy Section regulators investigate every positive tanker load to verify that milk is discarded and to recommend corrective actions to the farmer in order to prevent future mishaps. These efforts have paid off and continue to be effective. Since 2011, the number of loads having to be disposed of has steadily dropped. While the numbers are low and trending down, dairy officials will continue to work towards zero.\nWhile those efforts and the support programs are important, the farmers do the real work. Vermont farmers are at the leading edge of some of our most important food-safety efforts, and without their leadership, the food we consume would be much less safe than it is today. In fact, milk that is available to consumers on grocery store shelves is tested more rigorously and comprehensively to ensure safety than any other food product we consume.\nWe will continue to work together to protect public health and safety, but also to raise and support a healthy dairy herd and industry. Working together, we can assure the public of the safest and best dairy in the world.\nAnson Tebbetts is secretary of the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 341, "original_length": 9991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sacbee.com/sports/mls/article19351872.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IAKFEYUE363ZNHM74KEEGLBY7P4E7FCJ", "length": 2496, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.sacbee.com", "title": "Rookie Zev Taublieb is winning hearts of Republic FC fans | The Sacramento Bee", "raw_content": "\u201cA great goal, but I\u2019m not really worried about the goal,\u201d Republic FC coach Preki said. \u201cI thought he came in and looked the part. He was active. He never panicked. He moved the ball. He looked like a proper soccer player.\u201d\nTaublieb also looks like a fan favorite, despite being with the team only a few months. Taublieb plays with enthusiasm and has an engaging personality. On his way to his first postgame interview Saturday, he was continually stopped by fans seeking autographs and photos.\nTaublieb, 21, knows he\u2019s landed a great gig.\n\u201cIt\u2019s really amazing,\u201d Taublieb said. \u201cThe guys have taken me under their wing as one of the younger guys, as a rookie, and taught me so much. The coaching staff has helped me develop my game to another level already. I\u2019m looking forward to so much more.\u201d\nPreki and Republic FC technical director Graham Smith spotted Taublieb at a Southern California tryout, then he survived a highly competitive team assessment camp.\n\u201cWe saw this little kid who was showing everyone how to play,\u201d Smith said of the combine in Ventura. \u201cPreki and I looked at each other, and I said, \u2018I know what you are thinking: a little fella.\u2019\n\u201cBut we stayed and watched him for two days, got him into training and he continued to show well. He has good football intelligence, and he understands what his role is.\u201d\nLast fall, while Republic FC was en route to the USL championship, Taublieb was playing at Valparaiso in Indiana, where he had two game-winning goals as a senior. Last summer, he played with the Seattle Sounders U23 team.\nBut he\u2019s a California kid, having grown up in Malibu, where his father, Paul, is a movie producer (\u201cThe Vow,\u201d starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum).\nNow Taublieb finds himself as a cast member in Sacramento\u2019s biggest hit show that sells out night after night.\n\u201cThe fans here are unreal, as you can tell,\u201d said Taublieb, who graduated from Valparaiso with a communications degree. \u201cThe atmosphere makes me breathless. \u2026 This group has really taken me as one of their own. I talk to them every day on computer, Twitter, Instagram, direct messaging. I thank them. If it wasn\u2019t for them, we couldn\u2019t really be here.\u201d\nOnly 18 players from Republic FC\u2019s 24-man roster are eligible to play in each match. So Taublieb doesn\u2019t know if Preki will select him for Friday night\u2019s game against the Orange County Blues FC, the end of a four-game homestand at Bonney Field.\n\u201cObviously you don\u2019t know, but I always prepare as if I\u2019m going to play,\u201d he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2007-24-0113/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:48Z", "digest": "sha1:MQY5IV7YJZWWBMQXFOU6VC2B2IXUHKSU", "length": 2581, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sae.org", "title": "PEMS Light Duty Vehicles Application: Experiences in downtown Milan", "raw_content": "PEMS Light Duty Vehicles Application: Experiences in downtown Milan 2007-24-0113\nPortable Emissions Measurement Systems (PEMS) are becoming an important regulatory tool to monitor the in-use compliance of large sources like heavy-duty vehicles (HDV) or non-road mobile machinery (NRMM). Legislative research programmes in Europe, United States and Japan are introducing PEMS in the regulations. The application of PEMS to light-duty vehicles (LDVs) is not part of or driven by official legislative requirements. However, as the vehicle-engine operation points in the laboratory test cycles are limited, emissions and fuel consumption under real world driving conditions can differ significantly from those measured under controlled laboratory conditions. The present paper discusses the application of PEMS to real-world emission measurements of passenger cars, under the light of the existing instruments and test protocols already developed for heavy-duty vehicles.\nData are reported for a measurement campaign carried out in downtown Milan. In the first phase, three light duty diesel vehicles, running on their duty cycles (most often in a urban and congested area), were equipped with smart data loggers to retrieve engine and vehicle activity parameters from the engine Electronic Control Unit (ECU) in order to monitor their driving conditions in the city of Milan. Data collected were used to identify \u201ctypical\u201d operating patterns to be reproduced in the laboratory on the chassis dynamometer. The emissions results obtained on these \u2018real-world\u2019 cycles were compared to the ones obtained on the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), to provide a first insight on the variability of emissions induced by the real-world conditions. In the second phase, a 2 litre Diesel vehicle was equipped with a commercial PEMS to measure exhaust emissions under real-world conditions. These results were compared to reference laboratory data under both a standard NEDC and a \u201ctypical\u201d urban cycle using the Constant Volume Sampling (CVS) technique.\nCitation: Rubino, L., Bonnel, P., Hummel, R., Krasenbrink, A. et al., \"PEMS Light Duty Vehicles Application: Experiences in downtown Milan,\" SAE Technical Paper 2007-24-0113, 2007, https://doi.org/10.4271/2007-24-0113.\nAuthor(s): L. Rubino, P. Bonnel, R. Hummel, A. Krasenbrink, U. Manfredi, G. De Santi, M. Perotti, G. Bomba\nAffiliated: European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability - Transport and Air Quality Unit\nEmissions measurement Environmental regulations and standards Test procedures", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.salon.com/2016/11/07/watch-donald-trumps-last-campaign-ad-is-a-fitting-end-to-an-anti-semitic-campaign/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:29Z", "digest": "sha1:4MU6O6DOYZN7PN3RKB7YTIEIUUHI5LYH", "length": 3732, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.salon.com", "title": "WATCH: Donald Trump's last campaign ad is a fitting end to an anti-Semitic campaign | Salon.com", "raw_content": "(Screengrab via YouTube)\nWATCH: Donald Trump's last campaign ad is a fitting end to an anti-Semitic campaign\nFilled with Jewish stereotypes and dog whistles, Trump's last pitch to the U.S. has been widely panned\nDonald Trump may be best known for his antipathy toward Mexicans, Muslims and women, but his 2016 presidential campaign has a long history of anti-Semitism as well. Thus his closing campaign ad, released on Saturday, serves as a perversely fitting final note to his candidacy.\nTitled \"Donald Trump's Argument for America,\" the ad depicts Trump as a populist outsider determined to free Americans from the corrupt insiders ruining this country.\n\"The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election,\" Trump asserts. \"For those who control the levers of power in Washington,\" he intones (as an image of philanthropist George Soros appears), \"and for the global special interests,\" he adds (while an image of Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen appears), \"they partner with these people that don't have your good in mind.\" At his utterance of the last phrase an image of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton appears.\nLater the ad shows video footage of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein as Trump declares, \"It's a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.\"\nWhile this footage may seem innocuous, anti-Semites watching the ad will immediately pick up on the fact that \u2014 aside from Hillary Clinton \u2014 every insider mentioned in the campaign spot is Jewish. Aside from their Jewishness, they don't have very much in common: Soros is a financier well-known for his philanthropy for left-wing causes, Yellen presides over the country's top financial regulator the Federal Reserve, and Blankfein is the CEO of Goldman Sachs, the elite investment banking powerhouse.\nYet the ad evokes the stereotype that Jews are corrupt and secretive and aspire to control the world, a longstanding prejudice that has fueled anti-Semitic persecutions including pogroms in Europe to the Holocaust. It is also one that Trump repeatedly alluded throughout this election.\nDuring a speech in October, Trump claimed, \u201cHillary Clinton meets in secret with international banks to plot the destruction of U.S. sovereignty in order to enrich these global financial powers, her special interest friends, and her donors.\u201d The term \"international banks\" has also been long used as a code word to refer to Jews and suggest that they combine internationally to discuss secret plots to destroy national sovereignty.\nIn July Trump got into trouble after retweeting a post from a white supremacist account that included a picture of Clinton with a Star of David-like symbol over it with the words \"Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!\" Trump later claimed that he had simply thought this was a a generic star.\nDuring a December speech before the Republican Jewish Coalition, Trump trotted out several anti-Semitic stereotypes. He remarked that Jews are \"not going to support me because I don't want your money,\" suggesting that Jews are unwilling to back people whose purse strings they can\u2019t control, a classic anti-Semitic trope. He also described himself as \"a negotiator, like you folks,\" and rhetorically asked, \"Is there anyone in this room who doesn't negotiate deals? Probably more than any room I've ever spoken.\"\nBut this campaign \u2014 run by former Breitbart executive Steve Bannon and embraced by the openly anti-Semitic alt-right \u2014 may have legitimized anti-Semitic pandering to a new generation of right-wingers.\nAnti-semitism Donald Trump Elections 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.santacruzlegal.net/family-law", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:51Z", "digest": "sha1:EK6G6BVLEWN2C2GLFFGILQKFWSJ6FSFU", "length": 5059, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.santacruzlegal.net", "title": "Family Law | Angel L. Hess, Santa Cruz, CA", "raw_content": "Domestic violence has been going on since the beginning of time, but has only become commonly known to the public in the last thirty years or so. \u201cDomestic violence\u201d in the legal sense refers to any physical, mental or emotional abuse that is inflicted by one co-habitant or family member upon another. Despite popular belief, domestic violence includes abuse inflicted by any family member residing in your household, such a sibling on sibling, child on parent, parent on parent, or spouse on spouse, but does not include roommates/housemates unless the roommate/housemate is or was in a dating relationship with the victim.\nIf you are the victim of abuse by a roommate or housemate, the correct procedure for you is \u201cCivil Harassment\u201d which is heard in the general civil Superior Court of California. It is, however, another area of law which this office practices, so please feel free to contact us if that is the type of representation you may need.\nPlease submit a case summary through this website if you believe you may be the victim of domestic violence or if you need help learning how to prepare evidence necessary to obtain or defend against a domestic violence restraining order. We will waive the fee for the initial, first time consultation if the purpose of the consultation is limited to one-time advice on how to handle your domestic violence issues. Whether you are the perpetrator or the victim, we are here to help you through the process.\nCustody and visitation refers to the physical and legal custody of minor children and dependent adults with disabilities. It also covers grandparent rights to grandchildren which the law pretty much limits to parental control unless certain criteria apply. If you are a grandparent who is being deprived the pleasure of spending time with your grandchildren, please submit a case summary through this website so that we can see what can be done to help you.\nSpecial Case \u2013 The Move Away. If one parent wishes to move away from the vicinity of the other parent, the moving parent must have the other parent\u2019s consent or a court order to take the child with him/her. Even in a situation where a parent has sole physical and legal custody of a child, he/she will need the other parent\u2019s consent or a court order to move the child out of the area. The purpose of this restriction is to prevent parental kidnapping. If you have primary physical or sole legal custody of your minor child, do not move away or plan a long distance move without talking to an attorney about your rights and legal obligation to the other parent. A move away matter could take up to six to nine months or more to get finally resolved.\nSpecial Case \u2013 International Travel. You cannot take your child out of the country for any reason without a court order or the other parent\u2019s written and notarized consent. You do not necessarily need a lawyer for this one. The consent must be written (preferably typed) and signed by the other parent, but you can create your own if you make sure the consent has the following information: (a) the names of parent who is granting consent, (b) the name of the parent (or grandparent or guardian or other person who is taking the child on the trip), (c) the location for the international destination, (d) the dates of travel, and (e) the date signed. The document also must be notarized to prevent the fraud easily caused by one parent forging the other parent\u2019s signature on the document. Like the move away order, this consent is necessary to prevent parental abductions.\nCHILD AND SPOUSAL SUPPORT AND FAMILY SUPPORT:\nChild support is only available to a parent with a minor child or a parent with an adult child with permanent developmental disabilities. Spousal support is only available to a person who is married and either is in the process of obtaining a divorce or legal separation or is included as part of the Judgment at the end of a divorce or legal separation proceeding. Family support, on the other hand, is only available to a spouse with a minor child who is found by the court to be eligible for both child and spousal support.\nProperty division only applies in the divorce or legal separation setting. If you have been living with the parent of a minor child and now you are separating, your ability to divide jointly incurred debts or jointly acquired assets is limited and may need to be pursued in a non-Family Law civil proceeding. However, in the divorce or legal separation setting, property division is the characterization of all assets owned or acquired by the parties and the fair and equitable division of those assets that jointly belong to both spouses.\nThere are also special rules that apply to things like personal injury settlement or judgment proceeds, disability payments, and real property owned by either spouse before marriage but paid down during the marriage. If you and your spouse own any property that cannot be easily characterized, please seek legal counsel to determine what your rights and obligations are, if any, in that property or debt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 6024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sar.org/meet-sar/who-we-are/sar-history/compatriot-presidents-of-the-united-states/harry-s-truman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IFK3CBO4YLT2J6Q762HLV3OD4EYJMUY5", "length": 1458, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sar.org", "title": "Harry S. Truman | NSSAR", "raw_content": "Harry S. Truman (33rd President of the United States)\nHarry S. Truman became the thirty-third president of the United States from 1945 to 1954, having previously served as vice president and succeeding Franklin D. Roosevelt. Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri, on May 8, 1884. He was working on the family farm at the outbreak of World War I when his National Guard unit was called to active duty. He saw action in France and was discharged from service as a captain.\nAfter the First World War, Truman operated a clothing store in Kansas City, Missouri, which failed. He then entered politics and was elected as a county judge. In 1934, he became a U.S. Senator from Missouri. He served effectively in the Senate until he was selected as the vice presidential candidate for President Roosevelt\u2019s fourth term.\nUpon completing his second presidential term in 1953, President Truman returned to Independence, Missouri, and wrote his memoirs.\nTruman\u2019s SAR Revolutionary War ancestor was Lieutenant James Holmes of the 2nd Regiment of the Virginia Militia, who served from 1777 to 1781. At Truman\u2019s home in Independence, SAR President General Lee Young Smith presented the former U.S. president with his SAR membership certificate, SAR Membership insignia badge, and the SAR Gold Good Citizenship Medal.\nPresident Truman died in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 26, 1972, at the age of eighty-eight. He is buried at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 6092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 66.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sarcraft.com/sartech-ii-exam-prep", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HF4PYLYV4S74NP3JMB32HYOWBO5YEY5A", "length": 904, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sarcraft.com", "title": "SARTECH II Exam Prep \u2014 SARCRAFT", "raw_content": "This course will give you all the information necessary to successfully pass the National Association for Search & Rescue\u2019s (NASAR) SARTECH II examination. The first weekend of this course will be a combination of an introduction to field skills and a classroom training spanning the topics covered in the written exam, including the basic search & rescue knowledge, expectations and abilities SARTECH II\u2019s in the field, a primer on test-taking strategy, and concluding with a practice written examination and review. The second weekend will be an intensive field training exercise covering required knots, land navigation, route and area searches, basic tracking, and all other topics necessary to pass the field portion of the exam. As this is a highly intensive class, it is recommended that participants have at least one year of field experience or take SARCRAFT\u2019s other intro to SAR skills courses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sarthakwebdesigns.com/2015/08/05/improving-seo-rankings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:29Z", "digest": "sha1:DOFHQKXLSVIVEYRD34LXJRTX6IOPJ2RG", "length": 98, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sarthakwebdesigns.com", "title": "Improving SEO Rankings \u2013 DIGITAL MARKETING", "raw_content": "Ways to Improve your Site\u2019s Ranking (SEO)\nlink credit http://www.mtu.edu/umc/services/digital/seo/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sbballard.com/portfolio/odu-sb-ballard-stadium-updates/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:03Z", "digest": "sha1:PDMELFQC35D2VWJN3BANLIKW4Q5B7SQY", "length": 879, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sbballard.com", "title": "ODU SB Ballard Stadium Updates | S.B. Ballard", "raw_content": "ODU SB BALLARD STADIUM UPDATES\nMoseley Architects, Populous\nOwner: Old Dominion University\nArchitects: Moseley Architects, Populous\nDue to be completed within a nine-month timeframe, S.B. Ballard Stadium at Old Dominion University will receive a $67 million facelift giving it enhanced seating and modern amenities.\nA priority for the new stadium design was to give fans more legroom, which was accomplished by replacing the east and west stands, adding new mid-field fixed back seating and adding bleacher seating with backs.\nThe new design will also bring fans 10 feet closer to the sidelines and offer better views of players\u2019 benches.\nThe stadium will feature a brand new press box on the west side of the stadium along with 21 new restrooms, a state of the art sound system and new lighting. The design also added new entries to the stadium to help improve the flow of fans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sbu.edu/about-sbu/university-mission/lateran-center", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MZXQAUIHOCC2RWNTUASDBL6ROAXUDPQG", "length": 2837, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.sbu.edu", "title": "Lateran Center | St. Bonaventure University", "raw_content": "Lateran Center\nResidential Discernment Program\nFr. Ross Chamberland, O.F.M.\nThe Lateran Center\nrchamber@sbu.edu\nLearn more about Fr. Ross\nOn Francis meeting Pope Innocent III, including a clip from the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon\nAnother reflection on the meeting\nThe Lateran Center for Catholic Identity was created in 2014 as an effort to increase awareness of the Catholic identity and mission at St. Bonaventure University. It's creation is rooted in the global response to Pope Francis\u2019 leadership, an affirmation that the Catholic mission in the Franciscan tradition has something the world is truly longing for, and that we should not be lukewarm in offering it.\nLocated in Francis Hall, The Lateran Center for Catholic Identity assists various departments by serving as a catalyst for program development, special events, and student recruitment. It collaborates with Athletics, Student Life, and student clubs in order to more fully integrate the university\u2019s mission into the campus community.\nThe first major initiative of the Lateran Center for Catholic Identity was the renovation and rededication of Saint Joseph\u2019s Oratory. The Oratory, located in the heart of campus, is now a chapel of perpetual Eucharistic adoration. This inaugural initiative was undertaken to demonstrate how the Lateran Center is rooted in prayer and adoration of the Lord Jesus.\nThe next major focus of the Lateran Center for Catholic Identity is the establishment of a residential discernment program for undergraduate men considering a call to the priesthood and/or the consecrated life. The discernment program is being very well received by vocation recruiters, the bishop of Buffalo, and the Franciscan Friars.\nThe program is flexible enough to incorporate a typical college experience complete with diversity of study and activity, while supported by a life of common prayer, program, and direction. The university has already recruited students for this program that will launch in the fall of 2016.\nThe Lateran Center has developed a strategic relationship with Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora, N.Y., which traces its roots to St. Bonaventure University. The center also intends to collaborate with the friars at Mt. Irenaeus, the Franciscan mountain retreat near campus, for programming, spiritual direction, and retreat opportunities.\nThe center's name recalls St. Francis of Assisi\u2019s journey to the Lateran Cathedral in Rome to receive permission from Pope Innocent III to begin his religious order. Later, the pope received a vision of St. Francis holding up the cathedral, symbolizing the saint holding up the universal Church.\nThe facade of the Lateran Basilica in Rome. A dream of a shattered Basilica being held up by Francis in a dream of Pope Innocent III convinced the Pope to officially recognize the Franciscan Order.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sbu.edu/life-at-sbu/campus-safety/clery", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:12Z", "digest": "sha1:S64U7WJZOILRIDZE6ULL5XQNG7JOSSYH", "length": 862, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.sbu.edu", "title": "Clery Act", "raw_content": "The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act) is a federal law requiring colleges and universities participating in federal financial aid programs to maintain and disclose campus crime statistics and security information that occur within the university\u2019s Clery reportable geography.\nThe Office of Campus Safety and Security prepares an annual Security and Fire Safety Report to comply with the Clery Act, which is published every year by Oct. 1 and contains three years\u2019 worth of reportable crime statistics.\nA copy of this report is made available to all students, faculty and staff. The latest report may be downloaded using the link above. Copies of this report may also be obtained at the St. Bonaventure University Office of Campus Safety and Security located in Robinson Hall or by calling 716-375-2525.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 221.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sbu.edu/support-sbu/make-an-impact-through-giving/funding-priorities/scholarships-and-endowments/barbara-carr-mckee-scholarship-luncheon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TZLQDWMCFNATQERBHVT5VWNZ7DBGUQ57", "length": 19834, "nlines": 88, "source_domain": "www.sbu.edu", "title": "Barbara Carr McKee Scholarship Luncheon", "raw_content": "Scholarships and Endowments/\nBarbara Carr McKee Scholarship Luncheon\nThe annual Barbara Carr McKee Scholarship Luncheon is organized by:\nAssistant Director of Development for Stewardship\nor (800) 664-1273 Opt.3\nEmail: kryan@sbu.edu\nThe Barbara Carr McKee Scholarship Luncheon showcases outstanding work of scholarship recipients.\nThe Barbara Carr McKee Scholarship Luncheon, which is now part of the Celebration of Excellence, is an annual event that celebrates our scholarship recipients and recognizes the thoughtfulness and generosity of our benefactors.\nThe luncheon, held on a Friday in April, features opening remarks by University President Dr. Dennis R. DePerro, speeches by a scholarship recipient, faculty grant recipient, and a scholarship donor, and a showcase of excellent student and faculty work.\nThe event is attended by scholarship and grant recipients, scholarship donors, and the students and faculty members who created the work on display.\nThe 2018 Celebration of Excellence\nThe inspiration of a scholarship and the encouragement of the St. Bonaventure University community have served as pathways to success for Abigail Koetting, a member of the Class of 2018 and the student guest speaker at the university\u2019s Celebration of Excellence on Friday, April 20.\nKoetting, a senior education major from West Hartford, Conn., will graduate in May with triple certification in elementary, early childhood and special education. An honors student named to the dean\u2019s list eight times, she has served four years with the university\u2019s Bona Buddies program and as a tutor in the Teaching and Learning Center. She has also been involved with Enactus and its entrepreneurial service trip to the Bahamas, plus studied abroad in Salamanca, Spain.\n\u201cSo many of my accomplishments are due to the fact that I have been put in an environment that fosters growth and success,\u201d Koetting said. \u201cMy professors and peers have all had positive influences on my journey, and for that I am so thankful.\u201d\nThe Celebration of Excellence luncheon offered scholarship and grant recipients like Koetting the opportunity to meet and thank donors whose generosity helped fund their education. It also featured an academic showcase that highlighted the creative endeavors and academic research of select students as well as faculty recipients of the Keenan-Martine grant awards.\nThe Leo E. Keenan Jr. and James J. Martine Faculty Development Endowments provide funding to improve the quality of teaching and learning at the university and were established in 1999 by Leslie C. Quick III, member and past chair of St. Bonaventure\u2019s Board of Trustees, and his wife, Eileen.\nGuest speakers at the luncheon included Koetting and Laura Peterson, a lecturer in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Peterson, along with fellow faculty in the VPA department, is a co-recipient of two Martine-Keenan Awards.\nA Keenan grant funded a complete upgrade of the MIDI/Audio Production Studio in the Quick Center for the Arts, and a Martine award supported The Martine Performing Arts Series, which offered 11 events and three workshops for Bonaventure students and students in the Greater Olean Area.\n\u201cThese grants allowed us to bring to life ideas for the performing arts division that have long been topics of discussion,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cThis was completely a team effort. It was great to collaborate with my colleagues. What excited us most was that our mission was to try and present events that would specifically interest students. We were always working with them in mind and wanted to get them into the theaters.\u201d\nHer colleagues include Dr. Leslie Sabina, director of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, and artist-in-residence Kathryn Black from the music program; and from the theater program, Dr. Ed. Simone, professor of theater and program director, and Associate Professor Rebecca Misenheimer.\nPeterson also established The Jeffrey H. Peterson Endowed Scholarship, which honors her late husband who touched the lives of thousands of students as a longtime professor in the Department of Finance.\nDuring the 2017-2018 academic year, 551 deserving students were awarded scholarships at St. Bonaventure.\nNearly 150 members of the St. Bonaventure University community gathered in Doyle Hall on Friday, April 21, to honor scholarship and grant recipients and pay tribute to the donors whose generosity makes such a difference in their lives.\nGuest speakers included scholarship recipients Lian Bunny and Michael McLanahan, both members of the Class of 2017, and St. Bonaventure University trustee Leslie C. Quick III, \u201975.\nBunny, a journalism and mass communication major from Kenmore, New York, spoke about the broad and varied education St. Bonaventure allowed her to receive.\n\u201cFor myself and fellow classmates, this Bonaventure journey goes far beyond academics,\u201d she said. \u201cThe journey means personal growth, discovering the true definition of learning and gaining life experiences.\u201d\nAn honors student with minors in history, psychology and Spanish, Bunny has interned for various communications groups, including working as a photographer for the Buffalo Bills. Last summer, she traveled to Phoenix, Arizona, as the university\u2019s first recipient of a national News21 fellowship and worked on a summer-long election project with top journalists from across the country.\n\u201cI have received almost all of my internships, jobs and fellowships through Bonaventure professors and alumni,\u201d she added.\nMichael McLanahan, an accounting major from Bradford, Pennsylvania, told the group about the strong support he received from the Bonaventure family.\n\u201cAs I begin to write this next chapter of my life, I find myself gaining a greater appreciation for my family and everyone I have had the opportunity to get to know here at St. Bonaventure,\u201d he said in his speech. \u201cThese individuals have supported me every step of the way.\u201d\nMcLanahan currently interns with Bysiek CPA, PLLC. He spent last summer at the PricewaterhouseCooper\u2019s Elevate program. He is a member of Enactus and has served as a peer mentor in the accounting department. Like Bunny, he said the support from professors and alumni began before he set foot in the classroom as a freshman and will continue long after he puts away his graduation cap and robe.\n\u201cThis place unites people,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom the moment you begin your journey here, you are never alone.\u201d\nGuest speaker Leslie C. Quick III agreed that it is the people who make the St. Bonaventure experience great. \u201cWe as Bonnies pay it forward, whether it is with money, time or encouraging students to attend the university,\u201d he said.\nThrough a generous gift from Quick and his family, the James Martine Faculty Development Endowment and the Leo Keenan Faculty Endowment were established in 1999 to maintain the teaching quality that has always been a hallmark at St. Bonaventure. A founding partner of Massey Quick Simon & Co., LLC, Quick earned a bachelor of business administration degree with a major in finance from St. Bonaventure.\nThe annual luncheon offers scholarship recipients the opportunity to meet and thank the donors who helped fund their education. It also features an academic showcase that highlights the creative endeavors and academic research of select students as well as faculty recipients of the Keenan and Martine grant awards.\nDuring the 2016-2017 academic year, St. Bonaventure awarded more than $1.5 million to 573 students through endowed and annually-funded scholarships.\nPersons interested in creating an endowed scholarship or establishing an annual award at St. Bonaventure should contact Kathleen Ryan, assistant director of development for stewardship, at (716) 375-2308 or kryan@sbu.edu.\nMore than 150 students, faculty and university donors gathered at the Premier Banquet Center on April 22 for St. Bonaventure University\u2019s 2016 Celebration of Excellence scholarship luncheon.\nThe event, named in honor of the late Barbara Carr McKee, a university administrator, and longtime professors James J. Martine, Ph.D., and the late Leo E. Keenan, offers scholarship recipients the opportunity to meet and thank the donors who helped fund their education. It also features an academic showcase that highlights the creative endeavors and academic research of select students as well as faculty recipients of the Keenan and Martine grant awards.\nThis year\u2019s program highlighted 18 new and continuing academic projects, speeches by three senior students \u2014 Kerry Caher, Sameer Singhal and Jillian Hammell \u2014 and an address by guest speaker Leslie C. Quick III, a member of St. Bonaventure\u2019s Board of Trustees.\nCaher, a recipient of the Ruth E. Crosby Scholarship and The Sylvia Foster and Anna Lo Presti Endowment Scholarship, delivered the first speech. Caher, a Clifton Park, N.Y., native, described how the Bonaventure community supported her through a career change and an eating disorder.\n\u201cThe Bonaventure family brought out the best in me,\u201d Caher, a childhood studies major, said. \u201cIt is as if everyone \u2014 faculty, students, staff and alumni \u2014 made an investment and commitment to me.\u201d\nFollowing Caher, Singhal, a Williamsville, N.Y., native, spoke about the many research opportunities he has had as biology major at St. Bonaventure.\nSinghal, a recipient of the John L. & Leon\u00e9 E. Worden Memorial Award, said of his time at St. Bonaventure, \u201cSimply being here today is an honor for me.\u201d\nJillian Hammell, a strategic communications and digital media major from Boston, N.Y., delivered the final student speech. In her address, Hammell stated she will be the first member of her family to graduate from college.\n\"I entered college with big dreams,\u201d Hammell, the recipient of The Ruth E. Crosby Scholarship and the Henretta Family Scholarship, said. \u201cNow, as a senior, they're even bigger dreams.\"\nFollowing the student speakers, Quick addressed the group, encouraging all Bonnies \u2014 both past and present \u2014 to pay it forward and continue their dedication to the tradition of St. Bonaventure. Quick, a founding partner of Massey, Quick and Co. LLC, earned a bachelor of business administration degree with a major in finance in 1975.\n\u201cI think the future is bright for Bonaventure,\u201d he added.\nFor a full selection of images from the 2016 luncheon, please visit the university's flicker.\n\u201cThe Power of a Bonnie\u201d is never more evident than at an event such as the 2015 Celebration of Excellence, which combines St. Bonaventure University\u2019s annual Barbara Carr McKee Scholarship Luncheon with the Keenan-Martine Endowment celebration.\nNearly 180 members of the St. Bonaventure community gathered at the Premier Banquet Center in Olean, N.Y., on Thursday, April 30, to honor grant and scholarship recipients and pay tribute to the donors whose generosity makes all the difference.\nGuest speakers included scholarship recipient Alexander J. Noguerola, \u201915; grant recipient Kuppuswamy Arumugam, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry; and Leslie C. Quick III, \u201975, a former University Trustee and longtime supporter of the University.\nNoguerola, a native of Lowell, Mass., will graduate this May with a B.A. in political science and minors in law and society, history and philosophy. He serves as president of the Student Government Association, tournament director of mock trial, and as a resident assistant. He is a member of the honors program and recipient of the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John A. Biter Memorial Scholarship Fund.\nNoguerola shared that he was the first of his family to travel a long distance for college and made a point to note how influential the St. Bonaventure community was in making him feel at home.\n\u201cMy classmates, the alumni, the faculty, the friars, and the local community all create a welcoming atmosphere that has been extremely conducive to my growth,\u201d he said.\nNoguerola also spoke highly of the \u201cBona Bubble\u201d and the feeling of pride alumni hold for Bona\u2019s. Noguerola said that this atmosphere would not be possible without the donations St. Bonaventure receives each year.\n\u201cThe contributions from generous donors are a large part of this Bona Bubble and its continued existence,\u201d said Noguerola. \u201cWithout the support of the many people who donate each year to their alma mater, many of the students here would be unable to gain such a high caliber education, myself included. I want to thank all of the people in the room who make the education of so many people possible.\u201d\nThe Keenan-Martine Endowment was also celebrated at the luncheon. Grants from this endowment have helped fund laboratory development and specialized training programs to benefit faculty members. The grants are funded through a gift from Leslie C. Quick III, and his wife, Eileen. In 1999, two $1 million endowments were named after faculty members, the late Dr. Leo E. Keenan Jr. and Dr. James J. Martine.\nKuppuswamy Arumugam, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, hosted a sustainable energy forum on campus in April through grant support from the Keenan-Martine Endowment.\nArumugam, whose grant is titled the \u201cArt of Brewing Hydrogen from Water,\u201d briefly presented about sustainable energy, environment and society. He also spoke of how important financial assistance has been for him as a grant recipient, and for students in general.\n\u201cAll of this is possible because of the Keenan-Martine grant,\u201d said Arumugam, in reference to his work related to sustainable energy. \u201cInvesting in students makes a better future for all of us.\u201d\nQuick, who earned a bachelor of business administration degree with a major in finance in 1975, is a founding partner of Massey, Quick & Co., LLC, a wealth management firm in Morristown, N.J. He and his family have been major benefactors to St. Bonaventure.\n\u201cWhat our scholarships are doing for students is really helping them crush their debts,\u201d said Quick. \u201cTo all of the scholarship donors here today: you are doing good.\u201d\nDuring the 2014-2015 academic year, 626 deserving students were awarded scholarships. There were 13 new scholarships established, bringing the total number of scholarships at the University to 334.\nTo enjoy photos of the 2015 Celebration of Excellence, please visit the University's Flickr album.\nThe 2014 Scholarship Luncheon\nKevin Rogers, a senior journalism and mass communication and political science major, delivered the 2014 Barbara Carr McKee Scholarship Luncheon student speech. Rogers\u2019 collegiate career includes holding the positions of editor-in-chief of The Bona Venture campus newspaper and president of SBU College Republicans. He also interned for a summer at The Washington Guardian in Washington D.C. His speech focused on the specialized attention he received as a Bona student and how Bonaventure shaped his life today. Rogers is a recipient of the Capital City scholarship.\n\u201cI speak with gratitude on behalf of all seniors for those who generously finance scholarships,\u201d Rogers said in his speech. \u201cScholarships do more than help students pay for education; they open the door to the sort of experiences I\u2019ve had in the past four years.\u201d\nThis year\u2019s keynote address was given by Dr. Robert L. Worden, \u201967. The Worden family established The John L. and L\u00e9one E. Worden Memorial Award. The endowed scholarship supports student research in the fields of biology. The award is named after his father and former SBU biology professor, Dr. John Lorimer Worden Jr., and his wife, L\u00e9one E. Worden.\nWorden\u2019s speech detailed his family\u2019s devotion to St. Bonaventure; the man, the saint and the university. Worden also highlighted the most recent recipient of the award. Kyle Alpha, senior biochemistry major, will enroll in an M.D.-Ph.D. dual-degree program following graduation with a focus on research and medicine.\n\u201cIt\u2019s just a perfect moment for our family,\u201d said Worden of honoring Alpha. \u201cWe wanted to hook a student with that research. Our hope was that, through the award, a student would discover a career as a research biologist or some related field.\u201d\nThere were more than half a dozen student projects on display during the event. The projects varied from undergraduate and graduate work of scholarship recipients including projects about campaign finance, integrated marketing plans for local restaurants, research on education and even a pilot script for a TV series.\nDuring the 2013-2014 school year, 507 students were awarded scholarships at St. Bonaventure.\nIn her speech at the 2013 Barbara Carr McKee Scholarship Luncheon, scholarship recipient and honor student Leanna S. Chojnacki, \u201913, thanked donors for the many opportunities their generosity had funded.\nChojnacki, a political science and international studies major with a double minor in history and law & society, detailed her transformation from a shy 17-year-old freshman to an accomplished senior, and she thanked donors for \"giving me the means to become extraordinary.\u201d\nThe annual luncheon offers a unique opportunity for donors to see the culmination of a year of hard work by deserving scholarship recipients. This year\u2019s luncheon featured 18 student showcases displaying special projects that they had completed throughout the academic year.\nThe luncheon's keynote address was given by Marianne Letro Laine, a 1968 graduate of St. Bonaventure and a longtime supporter of the university. Laine chairs the Guild for the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts at St. Bonaventure and aids in funding exhibitions, arts education and other Quick Center projects. The center renamed a gallery in her honor in 2004.\nShe and her husband, Erick, endowed the Mrs. Mary A. Letro Memorial Scholarship in 2011 and The Joseph A. LoSchiavo Endowment for Exhibitions in 2012.\nIn her address, Laine urged students to \u201calways remember the wonderful honor you\u2019ve been given,\u201d and she encouraged scholarship recipients, as they move into their careers, to \u201cpay it forward\u201d by becoming donors themselves so as to help future St. Bonaventure students pursue their passions.\nDuring the 2012-2013 academic year, 435 deserving and promising students were awarded scholarships to St. Bonaventure.\nMore photos from the 2013 luncheon are available on Flickr\nEvent honors the memory of a special administrator\nThe scholarship luncheon, part of the Celebration of Excellence, honors the late Barbara Carr McKee, the administrator who infused special life and enthusiasm into the event. Barbara gave her time and diverse talents to the St. Bonaventure University community for more than 15 years. She died of cancer on June 2, 2003.\nBarbara joined the University Advancement staff in August 1987 as associate director of development, and was promoted to director of development in October 1989. She served as vice president for University Relations from 1991 to 1995 and as director of Planned Giving from 1995 to 1999. From 1999 until her death, she was director of Major Gifts.\nHer giving extended far beyond her work.\nShe was active in the community, serving on the board of the Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce and on the board of the Olean Community Foundation. She held several leadership positions with the Friends of Good Music, and was active as a volunteer with University Ministries, in particular with liturgical dance.\nShe earned her master\u2019s degrees in library science and art history and a bachelor\u2019s degree in classical archaeology from the University of Missouri at Columbia, from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.\nIn her eulogy during Barbara\u2019s funeral, Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., S.T.D., president emeritus of St. Bonaventure, said of Barbara, \u201cThis woman of profound prayer and contemplation ... believed that together we could create an oasis of beauty, truth and culture (at St. Bonaventure). ... She helped us to understand that the world is charged with God\u2019s grandeur, that this divine source lives under the world\u2019s splendor and wonder.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 22674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scia.net/en/software?language=sk", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:LOTIACLUCIH6GVFMKKZMUCVPFUAFBRGM", "length": 516, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.scia.net", "title": "Discover the SCIA Engineering software solutions for the AEC industry", "raw_content": "Select your SCIA software solution\nHere you will find all the software products of SCIA.\n\ufeffSCIA Engineer is an integrated, multi-material analysis and design software suitable for all kinds of structures. Its wide range of functionality makes it the perfect solution for any construction type, from the simple to the complex.\nSCIA Concrete Section is a simple, yet highly effective application for the design and optimization of reinforced concrete sections with safety and cost-efficiency aspects taken into account.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scmagazine.com/home/opinions/know-what-is-the-boards-responsibility/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:7RST43K3YGLZMW2MSJVECQ3HWPSPZWRO", "length": 1792, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.scmagazine.com", "title": "Know what is the board's responsibility | SC Media", "raw_content": "Know what is the board\u2019s responsibility\nGene Hodges, CEO, Websense\nGene Hodges\nSeveral bills are expected to be introduced in Congress soon that would have significant impact on how businesses are required to protect confidential information, as well as when and how they must notify the public in the event of a breach.\nBut, government will face a monumental challenge if it tries to define what exactly constitutes confidential data, or implements standardized rules for protecting said data.\nThe definition of sensitive information varies greatly across different industries and organizations. It can include personal info, company financial data, trade secrets and more.\nFurthermore, a one-size-fits-all approach for data protection prescribed by government will not work. Protecting financial information for a small retail chain will not be the same as at an international bank. Each organization must decide for itself the proper policies for protecting data while still enabling business practices.\nOnly the board of directors is in the position to identify a company\u2019s \u201ccrown jewels\u201d \u2014 from employee and customer data to trade secrets. When considering what information to protect, anything deemed \u201cmaterial\u201d to the organization and subject to indemnity disclosure is a good benchmark for setting internal content protection policies. Most boards realize that if there is a financial risk associated with a breach, it is in their best interest to protect the data or face costly intellectual property loss and legal damages associated with a breach.\nBy not taking the appropriate steps to protect your data in advance of a potential breach, you could be exposing your company to tremendous risk \u2014 which could ultimately be your last mistake as a business.\nIs Zango getting a bum rap?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1899056/china-transitions-new-normal-some-financial-economic-and", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:56Z", "digest": "sha1:GPPICBR4QLBO545P6BYIH7XHRHXSK4Y7", "length": 6984, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.scmp.com", "title": "As China transitions to a \u2018new normal\u2019, some financial, economic and political pain is inevitable | South China Morning Post", "raw_content": "As China transitions to a \u2018new normal\u2019, some financial, economic and political pain is inevitable\nAndrew Sheng says Beijing will have to make some tough decisions this year to ensure the long-term goals of the 13th five-year plan are met\nThe New Year started not with a bang but a whimper. International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde\u2019s prognosis at the end of 2015 was that global growth in 2016 would be \u201cdisappointing and patchy\u201d, blaming rising US interest rates, the economic slowdown in China, persistent financial fragility in several countries and lower oil and commodity prices.\nSure enough, on the first day of market opening on Monday, January 4, the Shanghai A-share market fell 7 per cent ((and again on Thursday), dragging global stock markets with it. The dominant story in 2015 was the slowdown of the Chinese economy and its impact on global commodity prices, including demand on luxury goods. Will this trend continue into 2016?\nThe IMF 2015 Article IV consultation on China, arguably the best available official \u201chealth check report\u201d, commented in August that China was \u201ctransitioning to a new normal, with slower yet safer and more sustainable growth\u201d. In 2014, growth fell to 7.4 per cent and was forecast to slow further to 6.8 per cent in 2015. Sure enough, by October, the IMF World Economic Outlook forecast was 6.3 per cent for 2016, not bad by any standards, but slower than that for India (7.5 per cent), currently the darling of foreign investors.\nThere are good reasons for being cautious. The foreign media\u2019s analyses of the Chinese economy are almost uniformly pessimistic. Not only do they think there will be a hard landing, but several analysts think a financial crash is inevitable.\nREAD MORE: A trillion-dollar question on China\u2019s forex dilemma: just how low should its reserves go?\nThe facts are quite clear on the risks. First, from 2008 to 2014, China\u2019s private debt-to-GDP ratio rose by 73 percentage points. The famous 2009 book by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, This Time is Different, suggested that fast-rising private debt is the best indicator of financial crises. In the past five years, Chinese debt has grown fastest in terms of total debt. Second, the economy is clearly slowing, with both manufacturing and service-sector indicators being negative or showing a slowdown. Third, since last July, despite market intervention, the stock market index is still signalling downwards. Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts are predicting a Shanghai Composite Index level of 2,600 for 2016, compared with a peak of 5,178 last June and current levels of 3,100. Fourth, there are capital outflows and concerns on renminbi depreciation.\nThe level of the stock market index is only an indicator of the complex mix of investor greed and fear\nOn the plus side, proponents argue that, so far, the labour market has remained resilient because of the shift towards a more labour-intensive service sector. Household consumption has remained fairly firm, while inflation has been flat, helped by lower commodity and energy prices.\nUnlike advanced countries, Chinese fiscal policy has much more room to manoeuvre, because total government debt was still less than 60 per cent of GDP at the end of 2014. By allowing more interest and exchange rate flexibility, the room to use monetary policy by the People\u2019s Bank has been strengthened. Despite concerns about the rising level of non-performing loans, the largely state-owned Chinese banking system has adequate capital to absorb these, and those of the shadow banks, which are slowly but surely being brought within the regulatory network. Up to the latest available data, credit and total social financing has decelerated, but there are no signs of abnormal illiquidity or debt deflation, since the property market has shown some signs of an uptick in first-tier cities.\nREAD MORE: China regulators suspend circuit breaker mechanism, citing need for \u2018stability of markets\u2019\nOn the external front, the balance of payments current account remained a surplus at 2.1 per cent of GDP, which offset the capital outflows as indicated by the loss in foreign exchange reserves.\nBecause the economy is so large, looking at China requires a longer-term perspective than normal. The \u201cnew normal\u201d is that the Chinese economy is slowing naturally as it grows larger and the median age increases. Under the 13th five-year plan, the economy is being retooled to become a domestic-consumption-driven, innovation-and-service-driven, open economy that aspires for social inclusivity and environmental sustainability. The mantra on the supply-side adjustment is all about getting rid of excess manufacturing capacity and moving to energy and resource efficiency. The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the renminbi joining the IMF special drawing rights, and Chinese aid to Africa and global climate change initiatives also imply that China will contribute towards global public goods.\nAll these aspirations must be achieved within the context of social and financial stability. No economy in the world has attempted all these ambitious goals simultaneously without some trade-offs. In such a massive transformation in scale and short time frame, some economic, financial or political pain is inevitable.\nSeen from this perspective, the key question for China is whether the economic trajectory is J or L-shaped. In other words, are the reforms aiming for a short correction followed by more sustainable long-term growth, or will China join the rest of the world in a global secular stagnation phase?\nChina\u2019s debt problem is almost unique in that it is largely a domestic debt overhang, with state-owned banks lending mostly to state-owned enterprises with no net debt owing to foreigners. Since local governments and SOEs still own considerable net assets, now is the time to rewrite the national balance sheet with debt-equity swaps to cut back the debt and restore balance in the corporate leverage situation. The state-led system can deal with its state-driven debt problem.\nREAD MORE: Why doomsayers need to put China\u2019s credit risk into perspective\nBut one factor to consider in the current system is whether the political cycle is in sync with the economic cycle. The anti-corruption campaign, which is designed to restore integrity and trust in the cadre system, has now pulled in a number of businessmen, which creates uncertainty whether public and investor confidence can be \u201cbusiness as usual\u201d.\nThe level of the stock market index is only an indicator of the complex mix of investor greed and fear. Just as GDP is no longer adequate as a benchmark of economic progress, policies and business decisions benchmarked against a stock market index can only be wrong.\nTough decisions will have to be taken in 2016 to ensure that the long-term aspirations of the 13th five-year plan can be achieved.\nAndrew Sheng is distinguished fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 410, "original_length": 13492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scotland.org/news/scotland-remains-a-top-destination-for-higher-education", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:07Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4AORYDQOW5YEW32GW66RNA4M2QQO7B4", "length": 2626, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.scotland.org", "title": "Scotland remains a top destination for higher education. | Scotland is Now", "raw_content": "The Times Higher Education Rankings were released this week, with Scotland once again featuring as a top destination.\nScotland has a world-renowned education system, top-class universities and a reputation for producing creative thinkers. These are just some of the many reasons that more than 50,000 students from over 180 different countries choose to study in Scotland every year. You may not know this, but Scotland has actually led the world in a commitment to excellence in education for many centuries.\nThis excellence was once again cemented this week, as Times Higher Education \u2013 the world\u2019s most influential university ranking system \u2013 released their most recent findings. Times Higher Education have been highlighting university excellence around the world for more than five decades, with their analysis and insight providing the benchmark for academic greatness.\nEach year, they compile information on thousands of academic institutions around the world to bring together their ultimate top 200. This year, the 2019 iteration, has ranked an impressive four Scottish universities as being amongst the top 200 in the entire world. To put that in perspective \u2013 that means that almost 25% of Scotland\u2019s 19 universities are considered right up there with the world\u2019s very best!\nAlistair Sim, Director of Universities Scotland, said:\n\u201cEvery Scottish university is committed to excellence. We want to do the very best for our students, our economy and our nation. [...] League tables might be something we love to hate but the global competitiveness of our universities definitely matters. Like other Scottish sectors that compete on the world stage, quality really counts in higher education\u201d.\nProving that things just keep getting better with age, the four universities featured in this year\u2019s top 200 are Scotland\u2019s oldest institutions. Known as the ancient universities of Scotland, these schools date as far back as the medieval period, with the oldest \u2013 The University of St Andrews \u2013 founded way back in 1413.\nOver the years, these universities have helped nurture some of the world\u2019s greatest minds, including Charles Darwin, David Hume, Adam Smith and Robert Louis Stevenson. As well as this, many of the unique traditions established hundreds of years ago are still alive and well and practised today, meaning that current students can relive ancient history.\nIf you're interested in studying at one of Scotland\u2019s universities, we have all the information that you need.\nThe only real question is \u2013 what are you waiting for?\nJapan set to join Scotland\u2019s Saltire Scholarships programme\nDundee is the place to be", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 173.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scrapmetalsydney.com/scrap-metal-recycling-canada-bay/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:12Z", "digest": "sha1:BW2VWVWQUIWHKO2LZ4FV5LDA4NH54PO2", "length": 795, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.scrapmetalsydney.com", "title": "Scrap Metal Recycling Canada Bay - Copper & Other Metals | Scrap Metal Sydney", "raw_content": "Scrap Metal Recycling Canada Bay \u2013 Copper & Other Metals\nScrap Metal Sydney is one of the only independent merchants that serve the Canada Bay area. 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If you want to relive that summer of 50 years ago, take a look at 50 things to do in San Francisco in 2017.\n1. Discover Tape Music\nThe San Francisco Tape Music Festival goes from January 6 to 8 and will kindle a new appreciation for music on tape. That's because the concert will feature the songs and unique sounds made just for this medium. Tape music gained traction during the 1950s and 60s, so attending this festival could be a great way to get acquainted with some of the music heard during the Summer of Love.\n2. Witness the Evolution of Airline Uniforms\nFrom now until January 8, the San Francisco International Airport is hosting \"Fashion in Flight: A History of Airline Uniform Design.\" Just head to the International Terminal to get a glimpse at what flight attendants wore from 1930 to present, and be sure to pay close attention to the fashions of the 1960s while you're there! http://www.flysfo.com/\n3. Understand the Hippie Movement\nThe Summer of Love 50th anniversary is the perfect time to view \"Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia,\" an exhibit at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive. During its run from February 8 to May 21, the exhibit will focus on the art, design and architecture of the hippie counterculture. Loosely organized around Timothy Leary\u2019s famous mantra, \u201cTurn On, Tune In, Drop Out,\u201d the exhibition charts the evolution of the movement, from pharmacological, technological, and spiritual means to expand consciousness and alter one\u2019s perception of reality. http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/\n4. Listen to Live Music and Watch Movies\nThe Summer of Love was filled with good music, and the 50th anniversary will be, too, thanks to the Noise Pop Music Festival from February 17 to 26. Here you can not only listen to dozens of indie bands play, but also watch indie films that have a connection to music and were crafted by up-and-comers on the film scene.\n5. Feel the Vibe at PIER 39\nPIER 39 gets into the Summer of Love mood with special events woven in with their 39th anniversary celebrations. Make sure to wear a flower in your hair and experience the power of flowers during Tulipmania, featuring over 39,000 tulips planted throughout the PIER, February 11 - 26. Check out the special far-out peace sign in the East Park made with the wildly colorful tulips. Return to hang-out and feel the love at PIER 39\u2019s 60\u2019s dance party featuring a Beatle\u2019s cover band and more groovy stuff on Friday, June 23. And while in the rock mood, stop by the Hard Rock Caf\u00e9, where you can sit down, relax and look at memorabilia from the Summer of Love, including guitars on the wall, photos of musicians like Jerry Garcia and framed concert fliers from the 1960s. www.pier39.com and www.hardrock.com\n6. Admire Artwork\nFrom April 8 to August 20, the de Young Museum will be showing off rock posters, light shows, music and pictures from great musicians in Summer of Love: Art, Fashion, and Rock & Roll. The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane are just a few examples of the bands depicted at this museum. https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/summer-love\n7. Be Weird\nThe 18th annual How Weird Street Faire: The Summer of Weird is just in time for the 50th anniversary! It will take place May 7 at Howard and Second Streets and will feature the usual interesting artwork, unique vendors and lots of dancing in the streets,\n8. Flip Through Photos From the Summer of Love\nSome of the best things to do during the 50th anniversary involve looking at pictures from 1967. You can do this at the California Historical Society from May 11 to September 8 with an exhibit called \"Summer of Love: A Photographic Journey.\" www.californiahistoricalsociety.org\n9. Get a Feel for Local Talent\nSan Francisco artists and musicians alike show off their skills every year at the Haight Ashbury Street Fair on June 11, where you can listen to live music, check out artwork and shop for clothes and housewares from local vendors.\n10. Appreciate Art\nAnytime from June 16 to October 1, you can head to the Asian Art Museum to see the \"Flower Power\" exhibit in person. It's here that you'll witness brightly colored artistic representations of what it was like to be involved in the Summer of Love. www.asianart.org\n11. Enjoy the San Francisco Jazz Festival\nThis festival is hosted in the Miner Auditorium of the SFJAZZ Center and features one to two live jazz bands per day from June 7 to 19. So if you're into jazz music, be sure to attend at least one day of this festival during the Summer of Love 50th anniversary. www.sfjazz.org\n12. Relive the Music of the Summer of Love\nDuring the 50th anniversary, the Monterey International Pop Festival will be held on the same dates as it was in the Summer of Love: June 16 to 18. It will even be hosted on the same stage, which is the John Phillips Memorial Main Stage at the Monterey County Fair Grounds. So make plans to come watch a dozen bands on Saturday and another dozen on Sunday, with most being tribute bands playing songs of the 60s.\n13. Celebrate the Solstice\nSummer solstice is worth celebrating since it's when the sun gets to its highest point in the sky, resulting in a longer period of sunlight than usual. You can rejoice over the summer solstice by participating in artistic activities involving light on June 20 and 21. illuminatesf.com\n14. Watch Free Concerts\nIf you want to enjoy amazing performances for free every Sunday from June 25 to August 27, Stern Grove Festival is for you. This outdoor concert series takes place in Sigmund Stern Grove and is meant to make it easy and affordable for San Francisco residents to witness the beauty of live music in-person. www.sterngrove.org\n15. Head North to the Fair\nThe Marin County Fair: Let the Fun Shine In will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love and the spirit of 1967 with music, art, fashion and more featuring tie-dye and macrame competitions, Flower Power horticulture, Groovy/Psychedelic and Abstract art and photography, and daily '60s fashion parades. As always, there are carnival rides, free concerts and fireworks every night, June 30-July 4, 2017.\n16. Hear More Jazz on Fillmore\nIf you\u2019re a jazz fan, you\u2019re in luck, since you can hear even more music of this kind at the Fillmore Jazz Festival. This outdoor event takes place on July 1 and 2, and most of the artists you hear will be playing songs to honor David Bowie, Natalie Cole, Frank Sinatra, Jr. and numerous other musicians we lost in the last year.\n17. Sing at the Flower Piano Summer of Love Sing-Along\nWhen you head to the 55-acre San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park you just might see several pianos located in the many smaller flower gardens if you're lucky. These pianos will be available for visitors to play and sing along to songs from 1967, making it easy to reminisce about the great tunes of the time. www.sfbotanicalgarden.org\n18. Remember Jerry Garcia\nWhat better way to celebrate the Summer of Love than with a day dedicated to Jerry Garcia? Held on August 6 at McLaren Park - at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater, of course - the 15th Annual Jerry Day will allow you to listen to live music from bands that do great justice to Jerry's songs. His relatives are usually at this event to greet his many fans, and people who have attended in years past claim that Jerry Day offers a good idea of what Grateful Dead concerts felt like during the Summer of Love.\n19. Stay Outdoors for the Weekend\nThe Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival features constant live music, food, beer, wine and more. There are even comedy performances, mini golf, arcade games and dancing, keeping you busy all weekend long. This popular festival goes from August 11 to 13 and is located outdoors at Golden Gate Park.\n20. Spend a Night at the Symphony\nThe San Francisco Symphony\u2019s 105th Season Opening Night Gala is scheduled for September 7, so get ready to listen to performances from some celebrated musicians. The excitement in the atmosphere of the gala tends to be infectious! www.sfsymphony.org\n21. Delight in the Opera\nDon\u2019t miss the a quartet of famous operas evolving around the theme of love including La Boheme in the Opera's summer series and the San Francisco Opera Season Opening Night Gala in September during the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. It's the best time to not only view the first opera performance, but also enjoy appetizers and drinks, dance and socialize before and after the event. www.sfopera.com\n22. Attend Hardly Strictly Bluegrass\nHardly Strictly Bluegrass is a free concert that takes place in October at Golden Gate Park. It features over 100 musicians, many of whom you've surely heard of, since the acts at past concerts have included KT Tunstall, Dropkick Murphy and Chris Isaak, to name a few. And since the venue has seven stages, you can expect to hear live music constantly during this concert.\n23. Go to the Treasure Island Music Festival\nAt this concert, which has been traditionally held on Treasure Island but may move to a new location in 2017, you\u2019ll hear dozens of musicians play live for three days in mid-October. Past performers include Ice Cube, The National and deadmau5, so expect to hear some of your favorites in 2017.\n24. Check Out The Fillmore\nThe Fillmore is a ballroom with a long history of helping to launch the musical careers of major acts like the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix and more, which is probably why Hunter S. Thompson even mentioned it as an example of the 1960s counterculture in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. You can still listen to concerts there by big musicians today, including Ani DiFranco, Ziggy Marley and Ingrid Michaelson. thefillmore.com\n25. Browse Love on Haight\nThis boutique, formerly known as Jammin on Haight, evokes the essence of the Summer of Love, tie-dye and all. It might be only a few years old, but this store will take you back with its bright, psychedelic vibe. It even showcases artwork by Jerry Garcia, as well as a great selection of bright tapestries and tie-dyed clothing.\n26. Follow Detour\u2019s Walking Tour\nPeter Coyote -- an activist during the Summer of Love -- narrates this tour through the Haight. The Detour starts at the Panhandle and takes you down Haight, Ashbury, Page, Cole and other nearby streets that perfectly represent the hippie feel you would have gotten here during the Summer of Love. www.detour.com\n27. Let San Francisco Love Tours Lead You\nIf you need a break from walking, you can hop on a hippie bus for a San Francisco Love Tour and explore the local landmarks during the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. The sightseeing tour includes attractions like Haight-Ashbury, the Castro, Mission Dolores, Golden Gate Park and Chinatown. You can also arrange for a private tour or even a tour at night, where the twinkling San Francisco skyline is the star. www.sanfranciscolovetours.com\n28. Take a Flower Power Walking Tour\nOnce you're all rested up and can walk around town again, you'll want to take the Flower Power Walking Tour. This way, you can check out 12 blocks worth of sites that Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jerry Garcia and friends made famous during the Summer of Love. www.haightashburytour.com\n29. Stroll Around With Wild SF Walking Tours\nChoose from multiple tours exploring different San Francisco neighborhoods with Wild SF. The Haunted SF Ghost Tour goes downtown, while the Classic SF Route also checks out Chinatown. And of course the Free Love Tour goes through the Haight-Ashbury and even features music from the Summer of Love, so expect to hear a little Janis Joplin and Grateful Dead. wildsftours.com\n30. Reserve a Summer of Love Experience with Extranomical Tours\nBeginning April 1, Extranomical Tours will offer two Summer of Love experiences with multiple departures: City Treasures which includes landmarks and hidden gems and SF Parks and Coast tour which includes the hippie havens on the city's west side as well as Mission Dolores Prk, the Castro and Mission districts.\n31. Gaze at Wax Figures\nSure, you'll never have a chance to see Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin in-person these days. But Madame Tussauds in Fisherman's Wharf at least attempts to come close with an impressive Summer of Love scene with wax figures of these musicians. www.madametussauds.com\n32. Climb Aboard the Magic Bus\nThanks to the Magic Bus, you can catch a time machine to the Summer of Love with a two-hour tour around the city. This bus tour - which bills itself as more of a \"trip\" - meets in Union Square and goes through Chinatown, the Fillmore, Haight-Ashbury and other San Francisco landmarks you'll love. magicbussf.com\n33. Laugh Along With Beach Blanket Babylon\nBeach Blanket Babylon is a funny musical revue in North Beach that makes light of lots of San Francisco happenings, including the hippie counterculture. The characters included in the lineup change frequently with time, but they have included everyone from Bill Cosby and Kim Kardashian to Donald Trump and Oprah, so come have a laugh at the amusing depictions of your favorite - and least favorite - famous people! https://beachblanketbabylon.com/\n34. Eat During Avital Food Tours\nThis delicious walking tour will take you to four local restaurants and tell you little-known secrets about each as you eat. Come prepared to eat a four-course meal in North Beach or the Mission District, or have a few drinks on the Union Square Cocktail Tour with Avital Tours. Either way, it's ok; you'll walk it off! http://avitaltours.com/san-francisco/\n35. Catch a Giants\u2019 Game\nHead to AT&T Park to watch some baseball on Sunday June 25th, when the Giants take on the Mets on a special Summer of Love promotional day. Special event ticket holders can receive a Giants bus collectable, and enjoy in-game entertainment and music bringing you back 50 years to Haight-Ashbury! http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/sf/ballpark/\n36. Have a Picnic in the Panhandle\nHanging out in the Panhandle is a great way to honor the \u201cLove Pageant Rally\u201d that was held on October 6, 1966, the day LSD was outlawed. On that day, thousands gathered to peacefully protest the new law by taking LSD and listening to Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead perform. Maybe you can't recreate the day exactly, but you can still gather with friends and create great memories by sharing good food and listening to the music of the 1960s.\n37. Wander the Fillmore District\nThe Black Panther Party was established on October 15, 1966. You can pretend it's still that time when change was in the air by heading to the Fillmore district to walk the same streets this group once walked. Though most of the people and businesses that once inhabited the Fillmore district have moved, locals say you can still hear music as bands practice in the area.\n38. Go to the Polo Fields in Golden Gate Park\nThe Polo Fields have a special place in San Francisco's history, since it's the location of the Human Be-In that started the Summer of Love with a bang. On January 14, 1967, over 20,000 people showed up to Golden Gate Park to listen to speakers who urged them to question authority. Of course, they also took LSD and enjoyed live music from bands like Jefferson Airplane and Grateful Dead. You don't have the opportunity to do the same, but you can put in some headphones and listen to similar Summer of Love tunes while you lay in the grass.\n39. Embrace Global Love Day\nGlobal Love Day is on May 1, and it's the perfect time to participate in one of many events around the city celebrating the day. While the events for 2017 have yet to be announced, the organizers of Global Love Day encourage you to simply show some love, which might lead you to hug someone, write a loving poem or host your own love-themed event.\n40. Head to the Library\nThe SF Public Library will open its Summer of Love exhibition on July 10. You can expect to see genuine artifacts from this time period, such as photographs and artwork as examples of the excitement surrounding that summer\n41. Watch the San Francisco Mime Troupe Perform\nThe San Francisco Mime Troupe puts on fun satirical performances in local parks, all for free. Note that these mimes are not the silent type. Instead, they mimic and satirize the times by singing and talking their way through each performance.\n42. Saunter Through SFMOMA\nThis museum is well-known for showcasing amazing art. And from now until January 22, 2017, one exhibition at the SFMOMA will focus on Bruce Connor, an artist who lived in the Bay Area for more than 50 years and whose work was especially big around the Summer of Love. www.sfmoma.org\n43. Smell the Flowers\nThe Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park is the perfect place to go if you love Scott McKenzie\u2019s song \u201cSan Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).\" After all, it has over 2,000 flowers for you to enjoy, so go during the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, and don't forget to hum the song! conservatoryofflowers.org\n44. Amble Around Town With Foot Tours\nTake advantage of this city's close proximity to history by checking out the Flashback tour with Foot Tours! It goes around the Haight-Ashbury area to ensure you get a feel for the Summer of Love. Another great option is the San Francisco in a Nutshell Tour, which goes over 150 years of history on a two-hour walk around the city. www.foottours.com\n45. View the Botanical Garden\nExplore dozens of gardens and plants among the 55 acres nestled within Golden Gate Park, home to the Summer of Love! Visitors may experience events planned throughout the year. www.sfbotanicalgarden.org\n46. Spend an Afternoon at Mission Dolores Park\nThere is no better way to get a sense of what it might have been like in 1967 than to spend an afternoon basking in the sunshine of Mission Dolores Park as you celebrate the Summer of Love's 50th anniversary.\n47. Try Out a Drum Circle on Hippie Hill\nA favorite of locals for years is the spontaneous drumming that you can often find at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park. Pack a picnic and get ready to people watch and possibly hear some drumming just steps away.\n48. Explore the Presidio\nThe Presidio is a national park in the middle of a major city bordering the famous Golden Gate Bridge, meaning it's definitely one of a kind. Start your visit with a trip to the Officers' Club, where you'll see exhibits showcasing the history of the area starting from 10,000 years ago. Another popular Presidio feature is the Walt Disney Family Museum, which focuses on the life of Walt Disney through interactive galleries and a theater that plays Disney classics. And who would have guessed that Jerry Garcia spent time in the Army? Once you visit the Presidio, you'll see the pictures that prove it! www.presidio.gov\n49. Experience the Audium\nLocated just off Van Ness Avenue, this 49-seat theater is a bit off the beaten path, and so is its subject matter. In fact, it's so beloved by music fans because it offers an interesting take on music, as the space was created specifically for sound movement after the Audium's concept was developed in the 1960s. www.audium.org\n50. Discover the Beat Museum\nThe famous Beat Museum provides a great spot for you to view memorabilia focusing on Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and other authors from the Beat Generation who influenced the attitude of the Summer of Love. 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In a letter to the House of Representatives, coordinated by Davids and 11 other House candidates, they write:\nRestoring faith in our elections and in the integrity of our elected officials should be a top priority that all members of Congress can agree upon. Without these reforms we will be unable to truly regain the public\u2019s trust or tackle the challenges of our day, like the costs of health care and prescription drugs, the opioid epidemic, or building an economy that is strong for working families.\nFor those reasons, these reforms must be sweeping, and they must be bold. They must be the very first item Congress addresses. We must not yield on this demand, the American public is counting on us.\nKey elements of the bill would include: reforming the role of money in politics to ensure more transparency and accountability in our elections, eliminating foreign money from our political system, limit the undue influence of mega donors and special interests, and incentivize small dollar donors; as well as lobbying reform, ethics reform, redistricting reform, and voting rights protections.\nIn addition to Davids, Paul Davis, candidate in the Kansas Second District, also signed the reform letter. The letter was coordinated in part by End Citizens United, a grassroots campaign finance reform group. The group has endorsed Davids.\n\u201cThe American people know that Washington isn\u2019t working for them. They want candidates who will unrig the system and put the people ahead of mega donors and special interests,\u201d said End Citizens United President Tiffany Muller. \u201cSharice Davis and the rest of the candidates on this letter are serious about reform. They\u2019re sending a strong message to Washington, that when they\u2019re elected, things will be different. End Citizens United is proud to have endorsed Ms. Davids and we look forward to working with her to help pass meaningful reforms that clear the way for Congress to do the people\u2019s business.\u201d\nDavids\u2019 letter comes amid a series of high-profile scandals that are shining light on the culture of corruption in Washington and exacerbating voter cynicism at a time when faith in government is already at a historic low. A bipartisan poll conducted by the George W. Bush Institute, the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Biden Center and Freedom House shows that money in politics is one of the top reasons people believe the government does not represent them.\nYou can read the full text of the letter here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3808, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/315584/Product.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:K2FUBPBFJQ6AWYJWY45427HHVQNBM2VC", "length": 85, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sheetmusicdirect.com", "title": "Brahms Interlude (from Rhapsody In B Minor, Op. 79, No. 1) - Violin 1 Sheet Music | Monday | Orchestra", "raw_content": "Brahms Interlude (from Rhapsody In B Minor, Op. 79, No. 1) - Violin 1Monday Orchestra", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 565, "original_length": 8954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 242.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/knifeman-bursts-into-rotherham-home-and-threatens-two-pensioners-1-9469072", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YW4UQF6AGZNPFRPCD7KFD63M3XUHZU3J", "length": 1349, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk", "title": "Knifeman bursts into Rotherham home and threatens two pensioners - Sheffield Telegraph", "raw_content": "Knifeman bursts into Rotherham home and threatens two pensioners\nA knifeman pushed his way into a home and threatened two terrified pensioners with a blade.\nAn 85-year-old woman answered a knock at the door at her home in Mansfield Road, Aston, and was pushed to the floor as a man barged his way in.\nAston. Picture: Google\nHe threatened her with a knife and demanded money. The elderly woman managed to get into the kitchen and close the door.\nAt the time of the incident, her friend, a 75-year-old man, was sat in the living room. He was also threatened with the blade and told to hand over his wallet.\nThe elderly man said he didn\u2019t have a wallet and then called out to the woman to call the police. The offender then fled the scene empty handed.\nDetectives have not made any arrests yet and have launched an appeal for information about the incident, which happened on Tuesday, November 27, at 4.55pm.\nIn a statement, South Yorkshire Police said: \u201cOfficers are appealing for any information to help identify the suspect, and would particularly like to speak to two people who were at the bus stop across the road, near Florence Avenue, who may have witnessed the suspect leaving the property.\n\u201cAnyone with any information is asked to please call 101, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111, quoting incident number 526 of 27 November 2018.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 195.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sienaschool.com/Apply/Pre-departure-information/Accomodation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:15Z", "digest": "sha1:WDA3HF5GKFETYUKRUFFLVR7D4MPFF7A2", "length": 2050, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sienaschool.com", "title": "Accomodation - Pre-departure information - Apply - Siena School", "raw_content": "Apply / Pre-departure information / Accomodation\nLiving accommodations within the homes of Sienese families are arranged for the greater part of our students. Exceptions are often made for Deaf Studies Track students who may choose instead to live in an apartment for the length of their studies in our program.\nHotel accommodations can also be arranged as an alternative for our adult students.\nRemember that living abroad, whether in a homestay, apartment, or hotel, offers students a variety of experiences; each option brings its own respective challenges and benefits. The important thing is to be open-minded, patient, and willing to learn and share with others!\nHomestay with a local family facilitates a high level of immersion into Italian culture and promotes a high level of language acquisition. We place you in families that have hosted students for many years and are glad to welcome you into their homes. You will complete a housing form as part of your application that allows us to arrange a suitable placement for you. Families live either in the historic center or in nearby neighborhoods, a short walk or bus ride from downtown. The cost of the homestay includes linens & towels, weekly laundry, and daily breakfast and dinner with the family (great home-cooking!). Students may prepare lunch at the school\u2019s kitchenette or enjoy the many cafes nearby.\nApartments allow for a more independent experience abroad, and a chance to meet other students in a communal environment. Students are provided double rooms in a dormitory or apartment with Italian students in the city center. Both the dormitory and apartments have furnished kitchens, linens & towels, and washing machine. Weekly markets and nearby grocery stores make for easy shopping. Students in all programs may prepare lunch at the school\u2019s kitchenette or eat at the many cafes nearby.\nAdult students who prefer the services of a hotel may make their own lodging arrangements. Students may prepare their meals at the school\u2019s kitchenette or eat at the many cafes nearby.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sierrastar.com/living/article87805947.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:14Z", "digest": "sha1:E5AJOFZ2LSED4X45G7A73YXWGHFIC56Z", "length": 6692, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.sierrastar.com", "title": "The Baby Connection | Sierra Star", "raw_content": "More than 20 MOPS volunteers, and an additional 15 volunteers from Sierra Vista and Yosemite Lakes Community Church gave out 27 new infant car seats, bouncy chairs, strollers, cribs, high chairs, swings, more than 2,000 pieces of new gently used baby clothes, 77 pairs of shoes, and maternity clothes. The event also provided 6,500 diapers, 14,400 baby wipes, toys for pre-schoolers, nursing and feeding supplies, bedding, and blankets.\nFunds for the new car seats were contributed by members of Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church.\nNearly 100 children\u2019s Bibles were provided through a cash donation by Unique Crafters and Women\u2019s Ministry from Yosemite Lakes Community Church.\nMany handmade items including bibs, nursing covers, changing pads, and burp cloths were donated by the Tabitha Project of Sierra Vista, Unique Crafters of Yosemite Lakes Community Church.\nSoroptimist International of the Sierras contributed $1,000 to the event, which was used to purchase an infant car seat, two play pens, a swing, a baby bouncy seat, a play mat, breast pump, two nursing pillows and blankets, two twin size bedding sets, four boxes of pull-ups, 63 packages of wipes, clothing, and 25 new pairs of shoes.\nMothers were served on a first come, first served basis, and each family was assigned a personal shopper to guide the moms-to-be, mothers and grandmothers through the shopping experience. Each family was allowed a package of wipes, one large item (like a car seat), a package of diapers, 10 items of clothing, and one pair of shoes, plus one blanket and whatever else was needed from the bonus room.\nIn order that mothers could focus and thoroughly enjoy the shopping and pampering experience, childcare was provided.\nAs much as the mommies and soon-to-be mommies enjoyed home-made cookies, brownies, muffins, cupcakes, banana nut bread, and the fruit and veggie trays provided, a popular \u2018post-shopping\u2019 room at the church brought a little pampering and relaxed smiles to all. Volunteers from the Yosemite Lakes Park Mops group provided more than 75 complimentary neck and shoulder massages, manicures, pedicures, and warm foot soaks and scrubs, while mothers sat back sipping orange juice from wine glasses, and nibbling on white chocolate-covered strawberries.\nLeah Shelton of North Fork was fortunate to receive the last infant car seat at the event, in addition to clothing, diapers, and a children\u2019s Bible - all for her first baby expected Aug. 10.\n\u201cIt\u2019s cool that they are doing this for the community,\u201d Shelton said. \u201cI\u2019m so glad I came today. It helps out a lot.\u201d\nMountain Area organizations, including Helping Hands, Head Start, Soroptimist, First 5, the supporting churches, and lactation consultant Tamara Dent, provided information booths, which circled the outside courtyard of the church.\n\u201cThis annual event is not only a way for moms of young children and expectant moms to obtain much-needed baby items, but a way to meet new friends and connect with other young mothers,\u201d Joy Judd, coordinator of the event for all four years said. \u201cWhen a MOPS mom has a baby, food is provided for two weeks by other members. MOPS moms become friends, and their children become friends.\u201d\nJudd said all the MOPS volunteers want moms to leave the event feeling equipped, supported, and loved \u2014 and with the knowledge that they are not alone during this exciting and sometimes difficult time of life.\n\u201cI love being a part of this event as do all of the volunteers who serve at the shower,\u201d Judd said at the end of the busy morning. \u201cThe volunteers who served the first year have served every year since. The whole event, from start to finish, is filled with joy. It\u2019s a celebration and it blesses everyone who is involved.\u201d\n\u201cWe all feel the event has a far bigger impact on the moms who attend,\u201d Judd said. \u201cIn this sprawling mountain community it can be difficult to meet and connect with people, which can leave new moms feeling isolated. This event helps moms and families connect with a whole community of moms and other local resources in the area for infants and preschoolers.\u201d\nJessica Chaney of Mariposa agreed with Judd.\nShe has a two-year-old daughter, Lydia, and is expecting her second daughter, Kianna, June 17.\nChaney received a baby bassinet, baby tub, and blankets for Kianna, and a nice jacket for Lydia. Jessica and her husband Pierce, recently moved back to Mariposa from Kauai, as Pierce is preparing to take over the family business, Chaney Painting, as his father Craig retires after 35 years.\n\u201cThis was a nice social outing,\u201d Chaney said. \u201cIt was really nice to meet and get connected to other moms. You can sometimes feel lonely being a new mom. I got phone numbers of some great moms and I plan to stay in contact with them and do things together with our babies.\u201d\nOne of those great moms Chaney met was Melissa Courtney, who serves as the coordinator for the Yosemite Lakes Park MOPS. Courtney and club member Kiki King provided the spa services to appreciative mothers.\nJudd gave special thanks to the Soroptimist club and members of Sierra Vista Church for their generous donations that helped make the event possible.\n\u201cThe Soroptimist donation allowed us to get many more large items and other items that we were running low on,\u201d Judd said. \u201cMost items in our large item room are for infants and we were able to purchase items this year specifically geared towards toddlers which allowed us to bless those families that were past the infant stage. Members of Sierra Vista Church made the new infant car seats possible and opened up their church and volunteered their time to make this such an amazing event. We are also thankful for the monetary donation from Yosemite Lakes Community Church Women\u2019s Ministry and Unique Crafters that allowed us to purchase Sierra Vista Night MOPS favorite children\u2019s Bible \u2013 The Jesus Storybook Bible.\u201d\nMOPS groups are supported by area churches including Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church, Yosemite Lakes Community Church, Oakhurst Evangelical Church, and Christian Fellowship Church in Mariposa.\nJudd estimates that more than 350 families have been served in the four years the event has been held. She explained the event is not just about receiving free diapers and baby clothing.\nMOPS Meetings\n\u2022 YLP MOPS (15 members): 9-11 a.m., third Wednesday of the month, Yosemite Lakes Community Church, 43840 Patrick Ave. Details:\n\u2022 Night MOPS of Oakhurst (20 members): 6-8 p.m., second Thursday of the month, Sierra Vista Presbyterian Church, 39696 Highway 41. Meetings include dinner, child care, and a guest speaker. Details:\n\u2022 Mariposa MOPS: 6-8 p.m., second Monday of the month, New Life Christian Fellowship, 5089 Cole Road. 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The Sigma sd Quattro features an APS-C sized sensor and the Sigma sd Quattro H touting a larger APS-H sized sensor for even greater image quality. Thanks to the mirrorless aspect of the cameras, both the sd Quattro and sd Quattro H are designed to take full advantage of all Sigma Global Vision lenses.\n\u201cWith the introduction of these two new cameras, Sigma continues its rich history of innovation. The Foveon sensor is renowned for its imaging characteristics, and the mirrorless interchangeable format offers photographers the full line of Sigma Global Vision lenses to help realize their creative visions,\u201d stated Mark Amir-Hamzeh, President of Sigma Corporation of America. \u201cThe sharpness of detail and nuanced color tone captured by the Foveon sensors is a key component of Sigma Global Vision. The sd Quattro, and the sd Quattro H, with the newly announced Foveon Quattro APS-H sensor, will be greatly appreciated by photographers who demand the utmost in imaging purity, with the added benefit of portability for both in-studio and on-location photography.\u201d\nBoth the sd Quattro and sd Quattro H feature similar design aspects with a compact form consistent with the dp Quattro line, making them highly portable and utilizing the Foveon Quattro sensor for exceptional imaging quality and fast processing. A magnesium alloy body makes the sd Quattro and sd Quattro H durable and rugged, while a dust- and splash-proof design makes it ideal for photographers facing harsh conditions. In addition to the new body design, both cameras boast a list of useful advancements. These include a two-mode Autofocus detection that combines Phase Detection for focus speed and Contrast Detection for focus accuracy. The focus settings have also been enhanced with such modes as Movement Prediction, Face Detection, Free Movement, Focus Peaking and a variety of others. The new 2.3 megapixel viewfinder displays close to 100% of the field of view and when placed in \u201cAuto\u201d will toggle between the viewfinder when the user has the camera to their eye and then to the LCD when the user lowers the camera. A new \u201cSuper-Fine Detail\u201d mode brings out the full potential of the Quattro sensor by capturing seven different exposures with one shot and merging them for exceptional dynamic range (images can be extracted individually as well). Meanwhile an updated algorithm for the Auto White Balance allows for greater accuracy, even with multiple light sources.\nWhile the sd Quattro and sd Quattro H are similar in physical design details, they stand apart when their Foveon sensors are compared. The sd Quattro utilizes the same sensor found in the dp Quattro line and produces image quality comparable to that of a 39 megapixel Bayer-pattern sensor on resolution testing. The stacked silicon Foveon Direct Imaging sensor captures all detail information on the top 19.6 megapixel layer along with all color information for the Blue channel, while the two five-megapixel layers below capture Red and Green color information, all without the need for a low pass filter. Merged together they create incredible image quality that is comparable to medium format files. The sd Quattro H boasts a larger APS-H sensor (26.6x17.9mm) than the sd Quattro and can produce images equivalent to that of a 51-megapixel Bayer-pattern sensor camera on resolution testing. The sensor structure is similar to that of the sd Quattro but uses a 25.5 megapixels on the top layer of the sensor that captures the detail information. Both cameras use the latest Dual TRUE III image processor and take full advantage of the Art, Contemporary and Sport line Global Vision lenses that are made for high megapixel cameras. Like all Sigma Cameras, RAW (X3F) data can processed via Sigma Photo Pro, which offers editing options, including Monochrome mode to take advantage of the incredible monochrome images the Foveon sensor captures.\nFor information about Sigma, please visit www.sigmaphoto.com or follow the company on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 333, "original_length": 10916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Wars-End/Maj-Gen-Charles-W-Sweeney-USAF/9781510724723", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:Y32VHDI7B4AZLS2PISUXB7W6ZCPMHYXI", "length": 4152, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.simonandschuster.com", "title": "War's End | Book by Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney USAF, James A. Antonucci, Marion K. Antonucci | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster", "raw_content": "An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission\nBy Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney USAF, James A. Antonucci and Marion K. Antonucci\nOn August 9, 1945, on the tiny island of Tinian in the South Pacific, a twenty-five-year-old American Army Air Corps major named Charles W. Sweeney climbed aboard a B-29 Superfortress in command of his first combat mission, one devised specifically to bring a long and terrible war to a necessary conclusion. In the belly of his bomber, Bock's Car, was a newly developed, fully armed weapon that had never been tested in a combat situation. It was a weapon capable of a level of destruction never before dreamed of in the history of the human race, a bomb whose terrifying aftershock would ultimately determine the direction of the twentieth century and change the world forever.\nThe last military officer to command an atomic mission, Major General Charles W. Sweeney has the unique distinction of having been an integral part of both the Hiroshima and the Nagasaki bombing runs. Now updated with a new epilogue from the co-author, his book is an extraordinary chronicle of the months of careful planning and training; the setbacks, secrecy, and snafus; and the nerve-shattering final seconds and the astonishing aftermath of what is arguably the most significant single event in modern history: the employment of an atomic weapon during wartime.\nMaj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney USAF\nJames A. Antonucci\nMarion K. Antonucci\nHistory > Military > Aviation\n\"A splendid book . . . a gripping account of one of history's greatest events.\" \u2014Stephen E. Ambrose, New York Timesbestselling author of D-Day and Band of Brothers\n\"Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney is a revisionist historian's nightmare\u2014a clear-eyed, thoughtful witness who remembers exactly what he did and why. Reading War's End: An Eyewitness Account of America's Last Atomic Mission, it becomes difficult if not impossible to ascribe other motives to the men who bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as so many latter-day interpreters have sought to do. There is no arguing with his somber, compelling story.\nBut this is also an account of the daily life of the men and women who fought World War II, written with such detail, sweep, and compassion that it might have been a novel, not an autobiography.\nCharles Sweeney is the best kind of warrior, motivated by real patriotism. For setting straight a difficult record, his book is invaluable. For commemorating a generation of heroes, his book is unforgettable.\"\n\u2014Dan Rather, former news anchor for CBS Evening News and author of Rather Outspoken\n\"Major General Sweeney's personal account of this historic event that ended World War II is revealed in a way that makes you feel like you are in the plan alongside the crew as they undertake their hazardous, breathtaking mission. A must read for any student of WWII.\"\u2014Senator John McCain\n\"At a time when all too many revisionist want to re-write the history of World War II and the decision to use nuclear weapons to end it, General Sweeney has gives us the first person account of those momentous events. As the only pilot who participated in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Chuck Sweeney vividly portrays the dawning of the nuclear age and explains why it was necessary. \"\u2014former Vice President Dick Cheney\nBR> \"Compelling . . . an exciting tale. . . . Every American who harbors guilt about our use of atomic bombs will find peace of mind after reading Gen. Sweeney's gripping story.\"\u2014James A. Lovell, Gemini 7 and 12, Apollo 8 and 13\n\"A candid account, as authentic as it is arresting, providing the ultimate insider's tale of this fateful mission.\"\u2014James MacGregor Burns, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom \"A gripping account of one of history's greatest events by the only person present at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Sweeney is straight-forward and convincing in answering a question no one asked in 1945 by very much on peoples' minds half a centry later: Was it necessary to use the bombs? ...Recommend without reservation.\"\u2014Stephen Ambrose, bestselling author and historian\nBook Cover Image (jpg): War's End", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 10752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sjjif.com/public/eventInfo/356", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:52Z", "digest": "sha1:2SMVZBZGIH5HFIXZA25LMT4YGETXPW4I", "length": 3230, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.sjjif.com", "title": "SJJIF - World Parajiu-jitsu Championship No Gi", "raw_content": "world parajiu-jitsu championship no gi\nWorld ParaJiu-Jitsu Championship Important Information\nThe SJJIF is proud to present the 2018 World PARAJIU-JITSU Championship.\nParticipation in this event is restricted to athletes that meet the ParaJiu-Jitsu Sport Disability Classifications.\nThe Para Jiu-Jitsu competition will include athletes that have an impairment that belongs to one of the following nine (9) eligible impairment types identified below:\n1. 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Feel free to interact with other professionals from across the world. You can find professionals, find deals on services, find professionals who might barter, or simple post questions, comments, or suggestions. Photography is the science, art, application and action of taking and developing pictures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smartguy.com/group/x-ray-labs-medical-dental", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:KRA7BFDNTJ3DC3MRFSUKCKFTWK7R3QGS", "length": 451, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.smartguy.com", "title": "X-Ray Labs - Medical & Dental Business Network of SmartGuy", "raw_content": "X-Ray Labs - Medical & Dental Group\nWelcome to the X-Ray Labs group of SmartGuy.com. Feel free to interact with other professionals from across the world. You can find professionals, find deals on services, find professionals who might barter, or simple post questions, comments, or suggestions. Many x-ray labs helps those with injuries by diagnosing fractures and dislocations. An x-ray gives injured people the peace of mind of knowing exactly what", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1265, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smithsbookshop.co.nz/bookshop/isbn0713404035.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KZCO52WC3XDOPP32UFBVRZ3Q6C52EK47", "length": 372, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.smithsbookshop.co.nz", "title": "DWARF BULBS", "raw_content": "DWARF BULBS\nBrian Mathew\nCovers 700 species, including the well-known and the uncommon found in cultivation and these are the genera that are hardy in the temperate zones. 60 line drawings and 100 photographs. A very authoritative work.\nB.T. Batsford Ltd., in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, London, 1973. Hardback with dust jacket. 240 pages. SECONDHAND", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smslwithheidi.com/category/reviews/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:06Z", "digest": "sha1:DTBGBXG7OMVGSUP2LKN4KSZS7SPEYWSR", "length": 322, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.smslwithheidi.com", "title": "reviews Archives - Save More Spend Less", "raw_content": "The Minions Are Back In Time for The Holidays\nDecember 8, 2015 December 7, 2015 HeidiLeave a Comment on The Minions Are Back In Time for The Holidays\nMinions Minions have arrived on Digital HD on November 24th, but if you are like me I\u2019m waiting for the [\u2026]\nDvds, movies, reviews, Universal DVDs, Movies, review, Universal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 213.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.snaicc.org.au/i-am-strong-in-my-culture-16-page-story-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:33Z", "digest": "sha1:QG6R6AGNW3HPREOWR5BLTESOAT4VYG5J", "length": 395, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.snaicc.org.au", "title": "I am strong in my culture - 16 page story book - SNAICC", "raw_content": "This 16 page story book was developed out of a Children\u2019s Self Publishing workshop, as part of the Child Rearing Stories project.\nTen clever participants from Aboriginal Early Childhood services developed the beautiful artwork and words over a mere two hours to create a resource which is suitable for families, communities and services working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2189, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sny.tv/knicks/news/whats-next-for-knicks-now-that-trade-deadline-has-passed/303655724", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:23Z", "digest": "sha1:IZF2PYOQFV3DYWDA464C4GCTEDC6UIMK", "length": 2150, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.sny.tv", "title": "What's next for Knicks now that trade deadline has passed? | SNY", "raw_content": "After the blockbuster trade that sent Kristaps Porzingis to the Mavericks and made the possibilities for the summer of 2019 tantalizing, the Knicks remained silent all the way through the NBA trade deadline, which passed Thursday afternoon.\nAs expected, the Pelicans held on to Davis, who will remain with New Orleans for the rest of the season in a situation he was desperately trying to escape from.\nOn Wednesday, it was reported that the Knicks were on equal footing with the Lakers when it comes to where Davis is open to signing long-term if traded. That's the good news for New York. The bad news is that with the Davis sweepstakes opening up again after the season, the Celtics (once July 1 passes) will be able to trade for him.\nWhile the whispers have been that Davis isn't high on signing there long-term, their entry into the sweepstakes is still something that could cause more harm than good for the Knicks if they still have their eyes set on Davis.\nEye on buyouts\nThe Knicks were open to trading Enes Kanter and Wesley Matthews before the deadline but weren't able to find a deal. Now that the deadline has passed, the team is expected to buy out both players.\nKanter, who didn't practice on Thursday, has been loud about his unhappiness. If/when he is bought out, the Celtics are one team that could have interest.\nMatthews, who the Knicks acquired as part of the Porzingis deal, is expected to have several teams interested when the Knicks buy him out as expected -- with the Pacers the frontrunners to sign him, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic.\nThe official wait for the summer free agents begins\nWith Davis staying put, the Clippers now having enough for two max players, and the Mavericks also putting themselves in the conversation for the biggest names this summer, the countdown officially begins.\nWith their current cap space, the Knicks will have enough room to sign two max players or trade for Davis and sign one max player.\nAlong with Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving -- the Knicks' two main targets -- Jimmy Butler, Kawhi Leonard, Klay Thompson, and Kemba Walker are among the players expected to hit the open market.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 746, "original_length": 52523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.solunacollective.com/pages/mordants", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:5VE5MLMZYSXFT4DP5ZY6MZRFBAOA5CV3", "length": 2357, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.solunacollective.com", "title": "Mordants \u2013 Soluna Collective", "raw_content": "Mordants get a bad wrap in the natural dye world. Harmful mordants such as, Tin, Copper and Chromium dominate the discussion while others such as Iron and Alum go unnoticed. Both Alum and Iron are considered safe and when used and treated correctly, they cause no harmful impact to human health or the environment.\nBoth Iron and Alum are approved for use under GOTS, OEKO-TEX, REACH.\nWe use potassium alum. Potassium alum is a naturally occurring mineral salt found in the Earth [1]. Potassium alum is used in some deodorants (Tom's of Maine), pickling recipes and commercial baking powder [2]. In a few cases, potassium alum has been considered a skin irritant [3] however, little evidence exists when alum is applied to fabric.\nWhen treated at a wastewater treatment plant, potassium alum does not present any danger to human health or the environment. It is water soluble and very little of the metal remains after treatment. Well below the regulated amount for drinking water. Lastly, the effects on plant life and the environment is considered minimal to none. Soil already contains potassium alum and studies have shown no effect of small increases in potassium alum [5, 6].\nSide Note: All wastewater at Soluna Collective is required to be treated at a wastewater treatment plant.\nIn the dyeing process, iron comes from the boiling of natural dyes in an iron pot. Similar to a cast iron skillet, small traces of iron are transferred into the solution.\nIron is essential for human life. Iron gives hemoglobin the ability to bind with oxygen [7]. Without this, our red blood cells would quickly die. Because the body can absorb iron, it is considered a toxin. You can overdose on iron at high doses and when taken orally [8]. Children have overdosed on adult iron supplements. It should be noted, many adults take iron supplements and is considered completely safe. We found no results of harmful impact to humans when iron is used in fabric.\nWhen treated at a wastewater treatment plant, iron does not present any danger to human health or the environment. It is easy to remove through filtration and oxidation [9]. Most all drinking water contains small traces of iron and during drinking water preparation, iron is removed through similar processes as mentioned above [10].\nIf you have any questions, please feel free to reach out. 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The highly stylistic thriller tells the story of Julian (Gosling), a drug smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, whose life gets complicated when his mother (Kristin Scott Thomas) compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death.\n'Only God Forgives' is a continuation of the cinematic language started in 'Drive'. The film features an amazing, dark and high energy score by Cliff Martinez - who also composed the music for 'Drive' - and a selection of Thai pop songs. The film is mostly carried by images and music.\n180 Gram coloured double vinyl in Gatefold sleeve with Download.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 3160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 216.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sparklesandshoes.com/category/eastern-europe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:29Z", "digest": "sha1:JKYBNFCRQUE7YSNI3RLQYNROMOPXMEKZ", "length": 75, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.sparklesandshoes.com", "title": "Eastern Europe Archives | Sparkles and Shoes", "raw_content": "11/06/15 | Czech Republic, Eastern Europe, Europe, Eurotrip, Prague, Travel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 3988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 209.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spc.int/taxonomy/term/1535", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:24Z", "digest": "sha1:FWNDXHFRCR5F2VN43LH6WIMG43RD44RW", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.spc.int", "title": "University of Queensland (UQ) | The Pacific Community", "raw_content": "RSS feed for \"University of Queensland (UQ)\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 1826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nba/news/nba-free-agent-rumors-nuggets-sign-isaiah-thomas-to-one-year-deal/o99xw9ah29sw10y9lx979r72f", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:12Z", "digest": "sha1:L26HKM2DIUBYIWCOX5TQY4KUJJS2EPPK", "length": 1385, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sportingnews.com", "title": "Nuggets sign Isaiah Thomas | Sporting News", "raw_content": "(Getty Images) https://images.performgroup.com/di/library/omnisport/4d/14/thomas-isaiah-21118-usnews-getty-ftr_rtt3lkf0ii1k1o26hynasx42s.jpg?t=-2066560623&w=500&quality=80\nThe Nuggets have signed Isaiah Thomas to a one-year deal, according to ESPN.com, to reunite with Michael Malone, who coached him with the Kings.\nThe report states the deal is for the league's veteran minimum.\nThomas was traded to the Cavaliers last season as a part of the Kyrie Irving deal, but he never fully recovered from an injured hip. He was then dealt to the Lakers, where he averaged 15.6 points in 17 games.\nBefore the injury, Thomas had developed into one of the game's elite scoring point guards, averaging 28.9 points in 2016-17 with the Celtics. But questions remain regarding his long-term health.\nThe Nuggets finished last season 46-36, but still missed out on the playoffs in the loaded Western Conference. Second-year pro Jamal Murray started at point guard for them last season, scoring 16.7 points per game.\nDenver also re-signed Will Barton this offseason, and posses two stars in Gary Harris and Nikola Jokic. If Thomas can return halfway to his 2016-17 form, the Nuggets could be very dangerous next season.\nThe Nuggets evidently aren't scared off by injury concerns, as they selected Michael Porter Jr. in the first round of the NBA Draft even though he suffered a back injury at Missouri.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sportsbooks.net/nhl-betting-lines-whats-best/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IMRUO2IR6HMQ6LUAETVZPNNRWPWGHEKO", "length": 3055, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sportsbooks.net", "title": "NHL Betting Lines What\u2019s Best? \u2013 Sportbook | Top Online Sport Book Site", "raw_content": "The Las Vegas Golden Knights are the story of the year in the NHL and it seems that fans can\u2019t get enough. Every game every goal; there has been a story. This has been a fun ride and it would be a tremendous letdown to not see this series go the distance. 2-1 is not the end of the world but 3-1, is pretty much the end of the entire universe in any finals series. The Knights are up against it and they need this victory. They must win this game or this has simply been a fun run.\nThe Knights have been relentless all year long and when their backs were on the wall, they found a way. Can they do it one more time and take this series back to Las Vegas in a 2-2 tie? What the Knights have done has not only been unprecedented it has been a gut check for other NHL teams such as the LA Kings or the New York Rangers. This team has heart and if anybody can dig deep and find a way to win, it will be the Golden Knights.\nThe Knights are on the brink and facing the biggest game of their short lived franchise history. Check the lines closely as they are somewhat different across the board for this one. Some of the bookies have set this one at Washington -130, -120, -125 and even -135. Be sure to get the best bang for your buck on this game.\nThis series will go at least one more game back in Las Vegas on Thursday so with that in mind, and (hoping for at least six games and even seven) we want to give you a couple of friendly tips for betting the remaining games of the 2018, Stanley Cup Finals.\nBetting periods is a must in any nhl playoff game. This is a way to win and get a much better line in the process. Most of the bookies offer first period betting, now this is great but it\u2019s not enough. The way that most bookmakers work is you have an option to bet the entire period before the game starts, just as in the NFL. This works to a point, but what if you are not looking good, deep? You need a backup plan, Make sure your sportsbook offers live lines. Betting the live line can often present a middle and a way for you to break even.\nSome bookies offer a second period and most online sportsbooks do not offer a third period. Find a great bookie service that does. Make sure to do your homework on this one. You most definitely want to bet all three period and have the opportunity to bet live on those periods.\nThe trick to all of this is having more than one online bookie. You should have at least three and maybe even for or five. It doesn\u2019t matter that it\u2019s late in the season, find a book that offer all of the great sports leagues that you are interested in betting and find one with a great reputation. Sign up now and you still be able to get a great bonus and by all means take the bonus. There is nothing better than playing with free money to beat the people that gave you the free money. It\u2019s like having a best friend that owns a sports book and asking him for $100 in wagering credit. He just gave you $100 so that he can pay back the $100 plus another $90 when you win the bet? 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City and State personnel work side-by-side at the TMC coordinating traffic flow in the metro area. The Springfield Transportation Management Center was highlighted in the U.S. Department of Transportation - Federal Highway Administration publication (FHWA-HRC-MW-99-01) Intelligent Transportation Systems in the Heartland.\nWithin the TMC, city and state personnel utilize the citywide computerized traffic signal system, closed-circuit real-time traffic monitoring camera system, 911 CAD system interface, and other useful equipment to address changes in traffic flow patterns and respond to incidents that occur throughout the transportation system. Using the 911 CAD interface and the traffic cameras, TMC operators can identify traffic related incidents and monitor the flow of traffic along major arterials throughout the city. When incidents such as crashes or stalled vehicles occur, TMC operators can relay valuable information to 911 operators who dispatch emergency response personnel to the scene. TMC operators can also modify the traffic signal programming, if necessary, in an effort to alleviate the impact of such incidents to the flow of traffic.\nThe development of the Transportation Management Center and citywide computerized traffic signal system has enabled both agencies to provide a seamless system across multiple jurisdictional boundaries to improve travel times and reduce stops, overall delay, and fuel consumption throughout the community.\nYou may contact the TMC by phone at 864-1160. TMC staff is on duty weekdays from 7:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.\nAt signalized city intersections, the use of pedestrian push buttons are available with corresponding pedestrian signals to indicate walk and don't walk times. For more information on the use of pedestrian signals please view the pedestrian safety flyer (PDF).\nTraffic Signal Installation Guidelines\nThe City of Springfield follows the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), established by the Federal Highway Administration, when evaluating the conditions which may warrant the installation of a traffic signal. These guidelines identify specific traffic and pedestrian volumes, crash history, sight distance, and any unusual conditions at the intersection. Below are 2 warrants out of the total of 8 for consideration of a traffic signal as specified in the MUTCD. 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Ltd., a major Chinese energy construction firm in public procurement proceedings, including before the National Appeal Chamber, concerning construction of two new power stations of a capacity of 1,000 MW and 910 MW, respectively, worth US$1.7 billion and US$1.3 billion, respectively.\nAdvising a number of Spanish, Greek, Canadian and German investors operating in the wind energy sector on various corporate and regulatory matters including: regulatory obligations, negotiating the interconnection agreement with the grid operators, negotiating lease agreements with land owners, and taking over existing projects at various stages of development.\nRepresenting a major Polish renewable energy developer in court proceedings related to the EU funding of a number of biogas projects throughout Poland, involving the total funding of appr. \u20ac15 million. The engagement included representation at all stages of administrative and court proceedings, including before the Supreme Administrative Court, and resulted in obtaining high-level rulings of key significance to the practice of distribution of EU funds for similar projects.\nAdvising a group of subsidiaries of Invenergy LLC and major Polish renewable energy developers in relation to the financing of two phases of wind farm development to be located in Dar\u0142owo in northern Poland. BRE Bank led the consortium of international banks provided the financing, and Wind Invest Sp z o.o. was the main borrower.\nAdvising a group of subsidiaries of Invenergy LLC and major Polish renewable energy developers in relation to the obtaining of the interconnection to the national electricity grid of a 250 MW group of wind farms to be located in northern Poland. 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He is best recognised for his experience in the telecommunications sector. He also advises on new technologies.\u201d\nSelected by peers as the best Polish TMT lawyer for 2013 and 2014 (Rzeczpospolita rankings).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 9279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 196.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ssonetwork.com/business-process-outsourcing/articles/a-day-in-the-life-joe-schleupner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SFOP5WAX7B4RKBJN6AZ7SV2Y4QNABFDC", "length": 561, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ssonetwork.com", "title": "A day in the life\u2026 Joe Schleupner | The Shared Services & Outsourcing Network", "raw_content": "A day in the life\u2026 Joe Schleupner\nTags: SSON shared services\nIf looking forward to waking up and getting into the office to be a part of ground breaking, challenging and rewarding work is your style, then The Charmer Sunbelt Group is the place to be. As an associate with 12 years of time invested in the company, my take on what it means to come to work every day at CSG has never wavered. Having the ability to go outside of the lines in my day-to-day work is what keeps it fresh and engaging. 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(2017, 1:27)\n7 p.m. today, 1 and 7 p.m. Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday, 1 p.m. Tuesday and 7 p.m. Wednesday\nManji, a cursed samurai, battles a mysterious woman, leaving his body filled with sacred bloodworms. While being haunted by the brutal murder of his sister, he promises to help a young girl avenge her parents, who were killed by a group of master swordsmen, a mission that will change his life in unimaginable ways. In Japanese with English subtitles. (2017, Japan, 2:31)\n1 p.m. Thursday. Also showing 7 p.m. Dec. 1, 1 and 7 p.m. Dec. 3 and 5, and 1 p.m. Dec. 6\nAi Weiwei\u2019s documentary examines the global refugee and migrant crisis and its profoundly human impact in 23 countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico and Turkey. (2017, Germany, 2:20)\n7:30 p.m. Thursday. Also showing 1 p.m. Dec. 1, 4:30 p.m. Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6-7\nSee everything through Vincent Van Gogh\u2019s eyes in this animated film, made from 65,000 frames of oil paintings commissioned from 125 artists. Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman directed this fictional mystery about the artist\u2019s suicide. (2017, Poland/U.K., 1:31)\n3566 Harding Ave., 735-8771; $4-$5\n11 a.m. and 2:45 and 6:30 p.m. today; 12:15, 4:30 and 8:45 p.m. Monday\nIn this romantic comedy, Priya is the loyal daughter of a Mumbai insurance man by day but becomes \u201cJennifer David of San Francisco\u201d at her job in CityOne Bank\u2019s call center by night. She helps a man named Granger settle his account, and after a quick look-up on a Google search, she impulsively agrees to dinner with him. Rated PG-13. In English and Hindi with English subtitles. (2008, U.K./U.S./India, 1:46)\n\u201cThe Last Train\u201d (\u201cEl ultimo tren\u201d)\n1, 4:45 and 8:30 p.m. today; 2, 5:45 and 9:30 p.m. Sunday\nIn this comedy adventure, members of the \u201cFriends of the Rails\u201d hijack their beloved Uruguayan train upon hearing the news it will be sold to a Hollywood production company. In Spanish with English subtitles. (2002, Argentina/Spain/Uruguay, 1:34)\n11:30 a.m. and 3:15 and 7 p.m. Saturday; 1:45, 5:15 and 8:45 p.m. Thursday\nWhen a young man living in isolation is asked to join society, he creates a movie of his favorite TV show, \u201cBrigsby Bear,\u201d to share with his new friends. Rated PG-13. With Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear and Claire Danes. (2017, 1:37)\n1:15, 5 and 8:45 p.m. Saturday; noon, 3:45 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday\nIn this action comedy, a bodyguard is tasked with protecting a hit man \u2014 one who nearly killed him 28 times \u2014 as they attempt to travel from London to the Hague without getting killed by a group of Belorussian mercenaries. With Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman and Salma Hayek. Rated R. (2017, U.S./China/Bulgaria/Netherlands, 1:58)\n\u201cBeyond the Front Line\u201d\n2:15 and 6:30 p.m. Monday\nDramatization of a real unit of Swedish-speaking Finnish soldiers battling in the Continuation War of 1941-44 against the Soviet Union. For ages 15 and older. In Swedish and Finnish with subtitles. (2004, Finland, 2:07)\n\u201cNo Return\u201d (\u201cSin retorno\u201d)\nNoon, 3:30 and 7 p.m. Thursday\nIn this tale of injustice, Federico gets into an altercation with Pablo after denting Pablo\u2019s bicycle with his car. Minutes later Pablo dies from a hit-and-run accident, and an innocent Federico is later charged with Pablo\u2019s murder. For ages 12 and older. In Spanish with English subtitles. (2010, Spain/Argentina, 1:44)\nTale behind classic Christmas story shines\nMusic fest brings Diplo, Lil Uzi Vert, others in January\nMore TGIF\nTo Do: George Clinton, The Beach Boys, Elizabeth Gilbert\nReview: Boy struggles for freedom, survival in \u2018Capernaum\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 7122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 129.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stargazette.com/story/news/local/2018/04/30/city-reaches-agreement-boscovs-extend-tax-break/564417002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HG5YGOV2D6M3LYBX6BRFVVJCBE4722MY", "length": 3018, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.stargazette.com", "title": "Boscov's, city agree to extend tax break", "raw_content": "City reaches agreement with Boscov's to extend tax break\nThe city agreed to give a one-year tax break extension to Boscov's Department Store.\nCity reaches agreement with Boscov's to extend tax break The city agreed to give a one-year tax break extension to Boscov's Department Store. Check out this story on stargazette.com: https://press.sn/2r9yrrC\nHannah Schwarz, hschwarz@pressconnects.com | @HannahRSchwarz Published 11:05 a.m. ET April 30, 2018 | Updated 2:15 p.m. ET April 30, 2018\nFootage of the Boscov's department store in Downtown Binghamton Matt Steecker / Staff video\nBinghamton Mayor Richard David announced the city and Boscov's had reached an agreement to extend the department store's PILOT agreement by a year.(Photo11: Hannah Schwarz / Staff Photo)Buy Photo\nBoscov's Department Store in downtown Binghamton will be around for at least another year.\nThe Binghamton Local Development Corporation on Thursday granted Boscov's a one-year extension of its payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT) agreement, the mayor's office announced Monday.\nEntered into in 2013, the five-year PILOT agreement was set to expire April 30.\nBroome County's Industrial Development Agency will now have to approve or reject the extension, and the Binghamton City Council will vote on an extension of the department store's parking agreement May 7.\nBoscov's, founded in 1914, is often considered an anchor of downtown Binghamton. (Photo11: Hannah Schwarz / Staff Photo)\nUnder the terms of the PILOT agreement, Boscov's would pay $135,061. The store would also pay $25,000 for the parking garage extension.\nBinghamton Mayor Richard David said the physical condition of the building \"remains the single largest challenge in securing a long-term deal\" for Boscov's. But he also reiterated his commitment to keeping the store, considered an anchor of downtown, alive.\n\"We must...be realistic about the changing economics of America\u2019s retail industry,\" he said. \"In our own backyard, the Oakdale Mall has lost three department stores in 18 months. Binghamton is one of a few small cities across the nation that has a major department store in its downtown. We must be proactive and do everything possible to prevent what\u2019s happened at the Oakdale Mall from happening to Boscov\u2019s in downtown Binghamton.\"\nBinghamton Mayor Richard David announced the city and Boscov's had reached an agreement to extend the department store's PILOT agreement by a year. (Photo11: Hannah Schwarz / Staff Photo)\n\"We\u2019re delighted to be able to extend our agreement to stay in downtown Binghamton while we work towards a more long-term agreement,\" said Chairman and CEO Jim Boscov. \"At a time when many retailers are struggling, Boscov\u2019s has continued to thrive.\"\nThe extension comes a little more than a year after Chairman Albert Boscov died at the age of 87 from pancreatic cancer. He took over the store from his father, Solomon Boscov, who founded the company in 1914.\nMore: Boscov's chairman dies at 87\nRead or Share this story: https://press.sn/2r9yrrC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.statesmanexaminer.com/content/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-twinkies-and-scented-candles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMKGEUQMGUFWV2S74XS4TRUOSFIS72GU", "length": 2896, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.statesmanexaminer.com", "title": "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Twinkies and scented candles | The Statesman Examiner", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Twinkies and scented candles\nPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Twinkies and scented candles\nMy darling, wonderful parents gave me the best gift anyone could ever ask for. Was it a car? A vacation maybe? A college education? Nope.\nMy parents gave me severe, complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In return for this gift, the state of California gave my parents the gift of prison. It was a very touching gift exchange.\nPTSD is like a seizure disorder- you feel the seizure coming on, you know you\u2019re in the danger area, but there\u2019s nothing you can do to stop the onslaught.\nI wish we thought of mental health disorders the same way we think of physical health disorders. You can\u2019t think happy thoughts and cure your diabetes or epilepsy or any other chronic health condition. All you can do is learn to manage the symptoms.\nWhen PTSD is triggered it feels like you\u2019re locked in a room in London with an armed Jack the Ripper who is intent on ripping out your intestines with a spork, except you\u2019re really just at Walmart. I suppose that might be what Walmart feels like to everyone, but it\u2019s especially strong with PTSD.\nNow imagine you\u2019re walking through Walmart and you walk by the candles and you catch a whiff of French vanilla. A non-PTSD brain might think: \u201cOh, French vanilla. Nice.\u201d A brain on PTSD says: \u201cRemember that other time you smelled that scent? Remember what was happening? It was really bad. Like, really, really bad. Here, I\u2019ll replay the memory for you, on repeat. See? Wasn\u2019t that terrifying? We need to get out of here fast because that scent means Jack the Ripper is about to rip out our intestines with a spork. Run for your life!\u201d Meanwhile, you just walked past a candle aisle and nothing, nothing at all, is actually happening.\nProblem is, your brain doesn\u2019t know that, so it releases chemicals, adrenaline, to aid in your desperate bid to escape from the dark clutches of\u2026the candle. That can\u2019t move. And poses no threat.\nSo you have to have a little talk with your brain. You have to say: \u201cBrain, I\u2019ve known you for a really long time, and we\u2019re good friends, but you\u2019re kind of freaking out right now and we need to buy Play-Doh. If you keep acting like this in the store, we\u2019ll have to leave and then you won\u2019t get that Twinkie I promised you if you behave yourself.\u201d\nAnd your brain responds, \u201cExcuse me? I\u2019m keeping us safe. Do you want to be eaten alive during the zombie apocalypse of scented candles?\u201d\nAnd you say, \u201cDo you want a Twinkie or not?\u201d\nThen the random lady at Walmart says, \u201cAre you okay?\u201d\nAnd you say: \u201cWhy, yes, I\u2019m fine, thank you. 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One of the goals the organization has set is to instill in each of their pupils an enthusiasm for dance and a desire to promote a positive influence in the community.\nThe Dance Company will be providing a four-week session of dance classes for members of The Players Championship Boys & Girls Club which will be taught by high school seniors who are members of the company. The classes will be provided at no cost for members aged 6 to 12, in an effort to expose the members at the club to a new cultural activity which will help with them think about exercise and fitness in a different way. The classes will begin in April and recently company members dropped by to give club members a short performance providing insight on some different variations of dance movement. Club members said they were excited to see the dancers perform and even more excited to start their dance lessons. One girl after seeing the dancers said \"they look so graceful - almost like they can fly. I wonder if I will be able to learn how to do some of the those steps when they come to teach us.\"\nThe Players Championship Boys & Girls Club is located at 555 West King St. and provides enrichment activities in after-school programs for youth aged 5 to 18. The Dance Company is in St. Augustine at 370 A1A Beach Blvd. Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida is dedicated to inspiring and enabling all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. 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It looks like a music video you'd see on BET or MTV, but although I'm humored by the inventiveness of BBH's approach (Smirnoff's ad agency), I worry that Hip Hop in the wrong hands could be the beginning of the end. The video mimics the cliched Rap videos (girls as decoration, cars, yachts), but swaps out video games for croquet; champagne and fried chicken for iced tea and finger sandwiches; club scenes for lawn scenes; camo for club attire, but the lyrics and attitude are the same: \"Straight outta Cape Cod, we are keepin' it real!\"\nMay be I'm too ol' skool....I mean, did I complain about Ali G? No, I embraced him because I went to school with kids like him, f'real! But, when a company can hold up a mirror to a culture and parody it so accurately for commercial reasons it's time for a change... If we, the community, own Hip Hop let's police it diligently: \"Check yourself before you wreck yourself\".\nThere's a website dedicated to the collision that is Hip Hop and advertising. It's called Pro Hip Hop. Go check it.\nAlright, where's my glass of milk and my slippers? 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It\u2019s not only Paragraph Reading in English but also the other subjects concerned that we are not skilful in using them. I think, Listening and Speaking skills, is still difficult for me to study as we have to re-structure the sentences, conversation. Perhaps, vocabularies and accents are rather difficult and not clear to understand, and then when we responded to them, it seemed to be not right.\u201d\nShe studies reading comprehension in English Paragraph Reading with instructor / lecturer Ajarn Aphichit who is very good at English.\nLastly, she would like to tell other students that \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid of speaking English, and I think it is looked like to live with it (English) daily. 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She was the daughter of the late Nicholas and Dellia Ortenzi born in Brooklyn, New York on December 21, 1924.\nShe moved to Hershey at age 7 and graduated from Hershey High School in 1943. Following graduation, Theresa worked at the Mechanicsburg Naval Depot before her marriage. Then in 1964/65 she was employed by the State of Pennsylvania until she retired at age 66. She was a caring mother and grandmother. She was an avid bridge player and played with the same group of ladies for over 50 years. She was a member of St. Joan of Arc and St. Charles Bottomeo Catholic churches.\nTheresa was the widow of Raymond W. Croak. She is survived by her son John Croak (Sheila) and her daughter RaeAnn MacIntyre(William). She also has a grandson William (Katie) and a granddaughter Kelly (James) and 2 great-grandchildren Peter and Ennis. Theresa also leaves behind 2 sisters Grace Cluely and Mildred Ortenzi.\nVisitation will begin at 2:00pm on Friday, September 16th, followed by the funeral service at 2:30pm in the Hoover Funeral Home & Crematory, Inc. in Hershey. Burial will follow at the Hershey Cemetery. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be sent in her name to Tidewell Hospice Philanthropy Department 5955 Rand Blvd., Sarasota, Florida 34238.\nSource: http://obits.pennlive.com/obituaries/pennlive/obituary-print.aspx?n=theresa-elizabeth-croak&pid=181392434", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 363, "original_length": 8152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 203.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stmaryscatholicprimaryschool.co.uk/havering/primary/st-marys/site/pages/schoolinformation/thecurriculum/curriculumoverview", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:02Z", "digest": "sha1:3XEW5DTF6QASR56RVIEMJS3WCB775U2B", "length": 611, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.stmaryscatholicprimaryschool.co.uk", "title": "St Mary's Catholic Primary School - Curriculum Overview", "raw_content": "At St Mary's we aim to provide a broad, balanced and enriching curriculum, that inspires a love of learning. The curriculum objectives are covered across your child's journey through the school and may be taught in a variety of contexts. We strive to deliver an enquiry based curriculum, where children are involved in the planning and design of their learning.\nWe have specialist teaching in Computing and Italian to further our pupils development outside of Mathematics and English. If you would like any more information, please contact the school office.\nLongTermPlanKS2.pdf\nKS1 Long Term Curriculum Map.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 3429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.storey.com/article/writing-rewriting-rabbit-raising-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:03Z", "digest": "sha1:265IRGHFD2A3FAA4YRQGN5EUYMPY2WBY", "length": 5514, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.storey.com", "title": "On Writing \u2014 and Rewriting \u2014 a Rabbit-Raising Book - Storey Publishing", "raw_content": "by Bob Bennett in Author News\nRabbit expert and author Bob Bennett calculates that, with the release of the newly revised Storey\u2019s Guide to Raising Rabbits, he has been working on the same book for over half his lifetime.\nAuthor Bob Bennett in 1975. Photo courtesy of the author.\nBe careful what you wish for. You might get it. You might even like it. That\u2019s the case for Storey\u2019s Guide to Raising Rabbits, a book now in its fifth edition.\nAs a kid, I liked rabbits and writing. While I raised rabbits in the backyard, I wrote short stories, essays, poems, and a newsletter that I passed around elementary school classrooms. I continued to write while in high school, the Air Force, college, grad school, and afterward. It was mostly journalism at small and large newspapers and the Associated Press in the United States, as well as some features for Stars and Stripes, the daily read by members of the military around the world.\nWhen I finally got my own home, complete with a backyard, I was able to return to raising rabbits. This time, it was my writing that took a back seat to magazine editing, public relations, advertising, and marketing work.\nI was commuting five days a week for an hour on a bus to New York from New Jersey. I would read the paper in the morning and a book on the way home. One seatmate was Arnold Gingrich, founding editor and later publisher of Esquire magazine, who worked with the likes of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Arnold asked me what I did for a living and I told him I was a writer and some day hoped to write a book.\n\u201cSo why,\u201d he asked me, \u201care you sitting here reading the paper? If you are a writer you should be writing. You\u2019re wasting time.\u201d\nOkay, I thought, but what to write? I had just completed a rabbit-raising merit badge manual for the Boy Scouts of America and its publication was met with considerable publicity, including an article in the New York Times. An editor at Garden Way Publishing in Vermont, the predecessor company to Storey Publishing, had read it, too. After an outline and some correspondence between us, I had a contract to write a rabbit-raising book. That was in 1974.\nGingrich soon saw me scribbling morning and night on a yellow pad. My wife watched me transcribe the scribbles on a Royal Standard on Saturday mornings.\nThe main idea of the book was to advocate advances in equipment, feeds and breeding techniques, which I had embraced for several years. Some of these methods didn\u2019t sit well with my editor. He wasn\u2019t crazy about my singular enthusiasm for wire hutches or pelleted feed. He wanted me to explore a variety of approaches and let the reader decide what to do. As an avid consumer of \u201chow to\u201d books I had always disliked ambiguous text that asked me to choose from among various possibilities. I especially despised the kind of book where the author wrote about all the mistakes he or she had made.\nI don\u2019t want to read about mistakes. I\u2019m looking for success.\nMeanwhile I had been raising rabbits for about 15 years, communicating with dozens of other raisers and working in the animal health headquarters of Pfizer Inc., surrounded by veterinarian and animal nutritionist colleagues who aided my writing efforts by sourcing agricultural school research studies, reviewing my text, and offering encouragement. I had experience. I had testimony and evidence.\nI had the facts.\nFinally I simply told my editor I was going to write it my way or I would take the book to the highway. He relented. It was published in 1975.\nA 1988 edition of Raising Rabbits the Modern Way, a predecessor to Storey\u2019s Guide to Raising Rabbits.\nOriginally the book was to be called Starting Right with Rabbits because the company had a \u201cStarting Right\u201d livestock book series, but it became Raising Rabbits the Modern Way to fit in with a new series name. Now of course it is part of the Storey\u2019s Guide to Raising series.\nIn its first incarnation, the book included my black-and-white photos and drawings. Now it is in a larger format with many full-color photos and illustrations.\nAn interior spread from the 1988 edition of Raising Rabbits the Modern Way.\nA full-color interior spread from Storey\u2019s Guide to Raising Rabbits, 5th Edition\nWhile I had learned a lot from other rabbit raisers, the former nosey newsman in me wanted to keep learning more, so I put my address and phone number in the book. Now it also includes my email address. Over the years I have received thousands of letters and phone calls and learned a lot more, much of which has become part of the book.\nI have added sections on marketing and selling and showing over the course of the five editions. I\u2019ve made updates and revisions each time it has gone back to the press, which has happened more than 50 times.\nI\u2019ve been writing and rewriting my book for 44 years. I started when I was 38. You do the math.\nThe last I knew it had sold well over 300,000 copies and was the best-seller in its category on Amazon. It has been published internationally in Spain, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. Readers from all over the world have come to see my rabbits \u2014 some from as far away as Japan.\nAuthor Bob Bennett and friend at Book Expo America, with a copy of Raising Rabbits the Modern Way.\nSince 1975, how we find trusted information has changed a lot, too. Today, email and news from the Internet has supplanted snail mail and printed newsletters and left those without computers behind.\nExcept, of course, when they need to refer to their handy rabbit-raising book.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 9729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 209.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.storyblocks.com/images/Information+technology", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:00Z", "digest": "sha1:7VCR6S2PYC7TFG65PSFXKBHJAXLMSIY7", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.storyblocks.com", "title": "\"Information technology\" Royalty-Free Photos and Vectors - Storyblocks", "raw_content": "Search Results for \"Information technology\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 3901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.storyblocks.com/images/SLEEPING", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:51Z", "digest": "sha1:DSAKNWW2Z2UYB4FFLTRHMFGB5DE4LYQN", "length": 29, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.storyblocks.com", "title": "\"SLEEPING\" Royalty-Free Photos and Vectors - Storyblocks", "raw_content": "Search Results for \"SLEEPING\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 4292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 141.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.storyblocks.com/images/chicken+fried+steak", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:YQRGJNILOHGEZ5I5VGWQH6TOUBZQY2SV", "length": 40, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.storyblocks.com", "title": "\"chicken fried steak\" Royalty-Free Photos and Vectors - Storyblocks", "raw_content": "Search Results for \"chicken fried steak\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 3413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 210.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/bride-and-bridesmaid-dress-shopping-sisterly-love-bustle-video-cry-emotional/200629", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:01Z", "digest": "sha1:OVHKPLXLELFCIVAPZJCURV3IM7BAAQDJ", "length": 4262, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.stylist.co.uk", "title": "This bride's show of sisterly love will make you cry", "raw_content": "This bride's show of sisterly love will make you cry\nIt\u2019s not unusual for the wedding party to have some disagreements over the bridesmaid dresses, but what this bride did to please her sister will have her go down in history as the most anti-bridezilla of all time.\nWe\u2019re suckers for a happy wedding story. Whether it be a surprise proposal or a perfectly-timed photograph, it\u2019s not hard to get us blubbing into our keyboards.\nBut a new wedding story that has particularly roused our emotions, is one that concerns a bride and her sister, who also happens to be her newly appointed bridesmaid.\nWhen Victoria Brown asked her younger sister, Olivia, to stand by her on her big day, the siblings were predictably excited about planning and sharing this magical day together. But, when the topic of bridesmaid dresses came up, let\u2019s just say, things took a turn for the worst.\nNow, this wouldn\u2019t be the most unlikely predicament we\u2019ve ever heard of. Notoriously bridesmaids are used to bracing themselves when about to see the dress they\u2019re being asked to walk down the aisle in, with many expecting a gown in a particularly undesirable hue or one which shares similar qualities to a meringue.\nBut in this case, bridesmaid Olivia wasn\u2019t concerned that her dress was too outlandish. In fact, her quibble was quite the opposite.\nAccording to Bustle\u2019s series, Bridesmaid Upgrade, that followed the sisters on their wedding preparation journey, Olivia prefers to wear dresses a lot kookier than the strapless, purple gown her sister had picked out for her.\n\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve seen it at every other wedding\u201d, Olivia admits to her older sister on camera, before stating, \u201cIt\u2019s not me\u201d.\nDespite the sisters having a close relationship and referring to each other as \u201cbest friends\u201d, their difference in taste soon creates tension, as Victoria retorts, \u201cIt\u2019s not about you\u201d.\nAnother huge problem arose when Olivia was very vocal about her wishes to have a dress with sleeves, something that her sister did not take on board. \u201cI feel like it\u2019s always slipping down and I have to catch it - it looks ridiculous\u201d, Olivia pointed out, referring to the bandeau style of the gown.\nOlivia seeing Victoria in her wedding dress for the first time\nAfter listening to her sister Victoria eventually relented, saying, \u201cI won\u2019t be happy, if she\u2019s not happy.\u201d And as the show continues, Victoria works with designer Aviva Falk to attempt to create a dress that her sister will like.\nLooking at different designs and styles, Victoria revealed she\u2019s nervous that her sister won\u2019t like anything she creates as she tries to incorporate as much of her sister\u2019s \u201cexciting\u201d personality into the dress as possible.\n\u201cI\u2019m having this really unconventional wedding, so why not give her the dress of her dreams,\u201d Victoria announced before adding new colours, patterns and a flower pin to the existing gown.\nAs the unveiling gets closer, Victoria tricks her sister into coming to the wedding dress boutique, under the guise that she\u2019s going to see her try on her wedding dress for the first time. After greeting her sister, and showing off the beautiful dress she\u2019s chosen to say her vows in, Victoria prepares Olivia for the big surprise.\nExplaining that she\u2019s been working on a custom made dress just to make Olivia happy, Victoria presents a gown so pretty it\u2019ll bring a tear to your eye. But, it\u2019s the meaning behind the dress, and more specifically the flower pin, that will have you reaching for the tissues.\n\u201cGrowing up we always had a garden, but I felt like we had a lot of hard times. The garden was always beautiful and I wanted to make this for you,\u201d Victoria says through tears to Olivia.\nReaching for the flower pin, Victoria continues, \u201cYou\u2019re an amazing sister, I love you and I\u2019m so happy to give this to you and I hope you like it.\u201d\nBoth sisters burst into tears, and tell each other how much they love each other, are there to support each other and want to make each other happy.\nThis wedding may not have been about the siblings at first glance, but we absolutely adore this show of love and compassion between these two women and sisters. It makes us want to run to the women in our lives and give them a big hug.\nYou can watch the video for yourself here.\nImages: Getty / Bustle", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 6034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sugarbush.com/sugarbush-living/summer-living/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BSOOLKZCJBM6BL4XP4RIPCQ5TZLDJ7Y7", "length": 656, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sugarbush.com", "title": "Summer Living", "raw_content": "Sugarbush Living in its Greener State\nFind yourself on the doorstep of the Green Mountains, with Gadd Brook Slopeside at Sugarbush nestled against the backdrop of Lincoln Peak and boasting views of the Mad River Valley. Sugarbush and the surrounding towns have come a long way from the days of just skiing and riding. Today, you\u2019ll find a community full of activities and events for the whole family to enjoy year-round. Weddings, golf, hiking, mountain biking, summer camps, local food and some of Vermont\u2019s best craft beer highlight some of the many activities found in the Valley. Events can range from music and beer festivals to art expos and parades.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sunbeltatlanta.com/blog/why-leave-a-secure-job-to-buy-a-business", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:51Z", "digest": "sha1:SRC5Y3TOZ3FZJOQ5TWPDQLGKYYJA5M4A", "length": 3745, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.sunbeltatlanta.com", "title": "Why Leave a Secure Job to Buy a Business? | Sunbelt Blog", "raw_content": "Why Leave a Secure Job to Buy a Business?\nThe dream of financial independence is deeply ingrained in the DNA of Americans. Day and night, across television, radio and the internet, advertisements tempt us with the promise of financial freedom: to be your own boss, to set your own hours and to reap all of the benefits of your efforts. Recent trends indicate that, in spite \u2013 or perhaps because of \u2013 a sluggish economy, there are now substantially more people pursuing this dream every day. It often said that the beginnings of Silicon Valley weren\u2019t in the offices and computer labs of big businesses, but instead in the innovation of small technicians and thinkers working in their garages. And many would-be entrepreneurs are concluding that if you have the talent to run your own business, there\u2019s no need to waste it working for someone else.\nStartup ventures are becoming even more tempting to the modern worker, thanks to the ubiquity of online businesses. And statistics seem to confirm that this change is taking place: the rate of people who quit their jobs is increasing, but unemployment has remained consistent. This suggests that there are people quitting their jobs to start their own businesses.\nThe Momentum to Break Free\nWhether independence means starting a business from scratch, buying an existing business, or working with a company that offers franchise opportunities, the momentum to start on your own requires the right attitude and the right plan of action. Here are some of the main motivators behind starting a business:\nLeaving a stifling corporate environment.\nPersonal growth or pursuit of a long-held goal.\nIndependence and the ability to set your own hours.\nEarning and receiving pay at one\u2019s full potential.\nLooking for more excitement and the ability to put to use a range of skills.\nThe numbers indicate trends that most of us already know; most people simply do not like their jobs.\nonly 45% of American workers say that they are satisfied with their job.\na mere 20% feel passionate about their employment.\na full third of American workers think that they have reached the end of their career.\n21% want to change their career.\nIf any of the above reasons sound familiar to you, you may be a good candidate for business ownership. After all, you can set the pace and the growth of your own business. You can set your own goals, your own hours, and your own pay. Most importantly, you can accomplish something that no other job position can provide: self-reliance.\nWhile your peers may be at the mercy of management that is more concerned with the bottom line than their happiness, when you follow your own goals, you gain control over your job satisfaction and direction. For many Americans, owning a small business \u2013 even if it doesn\u2019t at first pay as well as what they currently earn \u2013 is a worthwhile improvement to their psychological well-being. It offers a career without the worry of office politics, promotions or downsizing. And when the time for retirement comes, instead of a gold watch, there may be a business to hand down in the family or sell at a significant profit.\nIs Business Ownership in Your Future?\nSo what should you do if you think you might be ready to take the first step and become a business owner? There are plenty of resources for when you are starting out. Online, check out business owner blogs, like those on Etsy or follow entrepreneurs on Twitter. Also online are groups like Meetup.com that hold local events where beginning business owners can get contacts and advice. If you are not set on a particular type of business, explore franchise opportunities, which are ideal for owners, and don\u2019t forget to talk to a business broker about businesses for sale in your vicinity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 309.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sungardas.com/en-IE/company/news/2017/september/sungard-availability-services-appoints-kathy-schneider-as-new-chief-marketing-officer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:29Z", "digest": "sha1:WFY4QDW3YO27NZQ37OUXZ3KCFZ5AYMJQ", "length": 2607, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.sungardas.com", "title": "Sungard Availability Services Appoints Kathy Schneider as New Chief Marketing Officer | Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS)", "raw_content": "Dublin, Republic of Ireland \u2013 September 6, 2017\u2014Sungard Availability Services\u00ae (Sungard AS), a leading provider of information availability through managed IT, cloud and recovery services, has appointed Kathy Schneider as Chief Marketing Officer reporting directly to Andrew A. Stern, Sungard AS\u2019 Chief Executive Officer.\nSchneider will have global responsibility for Sungard AS\u2019 marketing, market strategy and corporate communications. In this role, she will drive the company\u2019s global go to market approach and brand strategy to further strengthen Sungard AS\u2019 market relevance and recognition and to accelerate revenue growth. Schneider will also represent the voice of the customer, ensuring customer experience is integral to all Sungard AS\u2019 business decisions. As such, she will assume leadership responsibility for Sungard AS\u2019 European and North American Customer Advisory Boards (CABs). She will also serve in a key European leadership position as Sungard AS\u2019 most senior executive in Europe.\nSchneider joins Sungard AS after more than two decades of technology and business-to-business marketing experience at country, regional and global levels in both pre-IPO and Fortune 500 companies. Her most recent role was at Level 3 Communications, where she served as Senior Vice President, Product and Marketing, EMEA. Prior to Level 3, she led global Marketing and Communications at Criteo, a leader in digital marketing and big data. Schneider also spent 14 years at Dell Inc. where she held a variety of marketing leadership roles in the US and EMEA.\nSpeaking of the appointment, Andrew Stern said: \u201cWe are delighted to welcome Kathy to the Sungard AS leadership team as our CMO. Kathy has extensive experience developing global marketing strategies that have helped to achieve growth for both established and emerging IT businesses. As a proven marketing leader, Kathy will help Sungard AS elevate our brand, ensure that we are developing solutions aligned with customers\u2019 evolving needs, and generate increased demand to drive growth.\u201d\nRemarking on her new role, Kathy Schneider said: \u201cFor more than 35 years, Sungard AS has been reputed as the market leader for delivering recovery solutions that keep enterprises and organisations \u2018always on\u2019 and able to meet their business objectives. Over the last several years, the company has transformed its solutions portfolio to also offer fully resilient production and recovery services. I am thrilled to be joining Sungard AS at such a pivotal time as it continues to evolve its solutions portfolio and help customers across their entire IT deployment.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 7664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sunset.com/travel/insider-guides/grumpys-burgers-beer-ketchum", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PFVLLA6U7JFTPRSKXCQ35GCENWO5SS2Z", "length": 364, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sunset.com", "title": "Grumpy's Burgers & Beer - Sunset Magazine", "raw_content": "Grumpy's Burgers & Beer\nKnown for its celebrity drop-ins, the best part of Grumpy's (other than the burgers and the \"Sorry We're Open\" sign) is the schooner, a 32-ounce mug of beer.\nwww.grumpyssunvalley.com\nKnown for its celebrity drop-ins, the best part of Grumpy\u2019s (other than the burgers and the \u201cSorry We\u2019re Open\u201d sign) is the schooner, a 32-ounce mug of beer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 3375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 142.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sunsigns.org/four-everyday-symbols-meanings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:09Z", "digest": "sha1:VJBAPIO5S7BQ6HST2UMB3GQJN7VLL3MF", "length": 4791, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.sunsigns.org", "title": "Four Everyday Symbols & Their Meanings | SunSigns.Org", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Divination \u00bb Four Everyday Symbols & Their Meanings\nFour Everyday Symbols & Their Meanings\nVincent Pritchard 1 Comment\nYou see these symbols everywhere, and might not even recognize them as symbols of any sort. They show up no matter where you go, and you are constantly in their presence. What do these common symbols really mean?\nSymbol 1: The Caduceus\nEveryone knows the symbol of medicine, the winged staff with two snakes wrapped around it. Right? You see it in hospitals, on ambulances, and on first aid kits, but what is it, really? That symbol is called the Caduceus, and historically it has nothing to do with medicine.\nThe only reason it has such a meaning today is because the United States Army\u2019s medical department adopted it as their official insignia in 1902 because a single officer insisted on it, being incorrectly-informed about its meaning.\nThe Caduceus is actually the symbol of the god Hermes, the messenger god with winged sandals, and actually represents communication, commerce, cheating, and all things associated with Hermes.\nThe ACTUAL medical symbol is called the Staff of Asclepius, and is a much simpler common staff with only one snake wrapped around it. This is the actual symbol of medicine, and is the staff borne by the god of healing and medicine, Asclepius.\nThe Caduceus is a symbol of being made rich through commerce and lying and gambling.\nSymbol 2: The Hexagram\nCommonly called the Star of David, the Jewish religion takes this symbol as one of its defining signatures. It\u2019s also commonly used by Catholics, Mormons, and Hindus.\nThe two equilateral triangles overlaid on top of each other, however, have many more meanings than just the religious. In witchcraft, it is attributed to the seven old planets, and is often used for summoning spirits and familiars.\nHowever, the most impressive meaning is the one implied by the Freemasons: The two triangles represent complimentary forces, the dark and the light, the masculine and the feminine. They say it appeared in Solomon\u2019s temple, and is thus also a prevalent decoration on many of their buildings.\nSymbol 3: The Sun Cross\nAn equal-armed cross in the center of a circle, this symbol is often made quite elaborate and called the \u201cCeltic Cross.\u201d Popular belief states it is the symbol of a blending of the ideas of Catholicism and traditional Irish faiths, and this is technically true. However, an older meaning behind this symbol lies under the surface of the Celtic mythos.\nThe cross-in-circle symbol has been in use since the Neolithic period, and represented the sun and its four seasons on the earth. The lines extending from the center of the cross represented the four cardinal directions, and the open spaces represented the four stages of the year.\nThis meaning persists onward today in modern Wicca. A still more modern meaning in astronomy is that this symbol represents Earth (and the sun is represented by a dot within a circle instead). This meaning is accepted by science in general, and shows up in NASA\u2019s official documentation of the known universe.\nSymbol 4: The All-Seeing Eye\nThis one is big, and everyone knows it. The Great Seal of the United States of America is positively rife with symbolism, and there\u2019s no more obvious than the eye in the pyramid. Generally represented in two dimensions as an eye in a triangle with rays of light coming from it, the symbol itself dates back to Egyptian times as the Eye of Horus.\nBack then, the eye was just an eye \u2013 the triangle appeared in the 17th century as part of Christian mythos, representing their tri-deity\u2019s three-fold existence. The Freemasons use it to represent the Eye of the Great Architect, which in their ideology is the God of the Abrahamic religions.\nThe symbol is definitively Freemason, and has been documented as such since the late 1700\u2019s. That it is on the Great Seal of the United States might prove that there is less Christian influence and more secret-society influence on the original founding fathers than one might think.\nGood Luck Symbol Oracle\nChoose A Symbol Type Oracle:\nIndian Good Luck Symbols\nChinese Good Luck Symbols\nJapanese Good Luck Symbols\nEgyptian Good Luck Symbols\nEnglish Good Luck Symbols\nArabian Good Luck Symbols\nNative American Good Luck Symbols\nPrevious Bible Numerology\nNext How To Strengthen My Psychic Abilities?\nTWo of the every day symbols also have a connection with the Egyptian Goddess Hathor..\nSince Hathor is associated with healing The Caducues should be one of her symbols..\nHermes has nothing to do with healing\u2026 should\u2019t Hathor be the one that this symbol is connected with?\nAlso the all seeing eye.. Hathor is known as the eye of Re.. there ought to be a mention of this great goddess.. The meaning of Hathor\u2019s name is the house of Horus..( Horus the elder)\u2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 9769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.surfchemcat.com/co-hydrogenation-to-ethanol", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:50Z", "digest": "sha1:VL55GPXTEZMRD3W6YAYPKAHGRAEAZVQK", "length": 2217, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.surfchemcat.com", "title": "CO Hydrogenation to Ethanol \u2014 Surface Chemistry Lab", "raw_content": "Years of energy production from the combustion of fossil fuels, used extensively in transportation systems, has negatively impacted the environment. As a result, innovative, clean energy sources, such as biofuels, have emerged as an attractive and cost-effective alternative. Ethanol particularly is of high interest due to its high energy density, clean emissions, carbon-neutrality and compatibility with the existing infrastructure. Currently, ethanol is largely produced by biochemical paths like fermentation. However, other synthetic routes like the catalytic conversion of synthetic gas (syngas: CO, CO2, H2 and H2O) are promising alternatives that are currently being investigated.\nFigure 1. Ethanol fuel cycle\nSeveral families of catalysts have been developed for syngas conversion, mainly from carbon monoxide hydrogenation. The most studied catalysts are rhodium based. Rhodium can effectively dissociate CO and form C-C bonds, which are important steps in ethanol formation. Unfortunately, the formation of C2+ oxygenates (like ethanol) is also met with the production of large quantities of methane. In order to increase selectivity towards ethanol, metal promoters such as Fe, Mo, and Mn are used. Ethanol selectivity may also be further enhanced by the choice of metal oxide support, morphology of the metal catalysts and the reaction conditions.\nFigure 2. In-situ X-ray diffraction experimental setting\nIn order to investigate the roles of the promoted Rh/MOx catalysts, a combined approach is used. The structure and morphology of the catalysts are studied via X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Pair Distribution Function (PDF) analysis, X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (EXAFS/XANES) and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). By comparing the structures of the catalysts under different conditions (as-synthesized, reduced, reaction conditions) we're able to determine what sort of changes the catalyst undergoes, as well as gain some insight into the active phase(s) of the catalysts. Using gas chromatography under similar reaction conditions, we're able to correlate catalyst structure with any changes in CO conversion of selectivity and learn how reaction products are influences by catalyst composition.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 210.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sweatcityapp.com/blog/2018/10/16/8-lifestyle-changes-to-improve-mental-health", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:02Z", "digest": "sha1:7HGNQL34ZSWM3SR7HNXLVXF7R22WSGJM", "length": 4530, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.sweatcityapp.com", "title": "8 Lifestyle Changes To Improve Your Mental Health \u2014 SWEATCITY", "raw_content": "Constantly feeling stressed and overwhelmed is something that\u2019s considered normal in our society. We\u2019re so busy with work, school and family life that it\u2019s become increasingly common for many of us to feel this way. But while we\u2019re busy trying to balance our personal and professional lives we may not realize the toll that this kind of lifestyle can take on our mental health.\nConsidering that many illnesses begin with stress, it\u2019s really important to maintain a balanced lifestyle and take care of our mental health the same way that we look after our physical health. Not to mention that this has a huge impact on our happiness levels and quality of life. Keep reading to discover a few lifestyle changes that you can make to improve your mental well-being and overall health.\n1. Exercise: It's not only the cheapest antidepressant but it lowers the risk of depression happening in the first place. Regular exercise improves academic performance at one end of the age scale and reduces the risk of memory loss at the other. While some is good, more is better.\n2. Nutrition: A rainbow diet of multi-coloured fruits and vegetables that includes oily fish and is high in vitamins and nutrients. There\u2019s a reason why fish is considered brain food \u2013 studies have shown that fatty acid DHA (found in fish) is linked to enhanced memory, improved learning abilities, and reduced cognitive decline. To reap the benefits of fatty acids you could also take fish oil supplements.\n3. Nature: Exposure to the outdoors, natural sounds (including silence), sunlight (as opposed to artificial lighting) and fresh air helps prevent depression and reduce its effects. Science has proven that connecting with nature can diminish stress, improve mood, increase focus, and up your energy levels. If you\u2019re busy keep in mind that even a little bit can be good - just getting out of the office for a short walk is better than staying cooped up all day.\n4. Relationships: Human beings are hard-wired to be social. While social isolation increases the risk of developing problems with mental and physical health, spending more time with family and friends can make you feel happier and improve your quality of life. Keep in mind that social media and online messaging don\u2019t replace face-to-face interaction.\n5. Hobbies: Resurrect an old hobby or try out something new. If it's an outdoor activity all the better, but what matters is that it engages your full concentration and attention. And surfing through Netflix doesn\u2019t count! You can kill two birds with one stone by taking up an active hobby that involves exercise. Download the #SweatCity app to find different studios and classes near you.\n6. Stress Management: Whether it\u2019s muscle relaxation exercises such as yoga and meditation, practicing a sport, or writing out your thoughts on paper, find what helps you relax. If you\u2019re taking up yoga you can find a class to join or even teach yourself \u2013 there\u2019s plenty of online material out there. You can search up videos on YouTube and follow along at home. Whatever you do will work best if you practice it regularly.\n7. Volunteering: Altruistic behaviour such as volunteering is linked to improved mental health. It\u2019s been found that Oxytocin (a neurotransmitter that regulates social interactions) spikes in people who regularly volunteer and helps with better managing stressful events. Not only does helping others make us feel good but it can also help us develop a wider perspective and see that in comparison, our problems may not be so bad. Many experience significantly reduced stress and anxiety after a session of volunteering. By helping others we are filling our lives with purpose and also helping ourselves.\n8. Openness about Mental Health: While mental health conditions are very common in our society, stigma can make us feel really uncomfortable with talking about it. In reality, we\u2019re all at risk of being affected. If you\u2019re struggling, seek help and speak to a therapist or a counselor. If this seems too out of your comfort zone at the moment, you can start by reaching out to a family member or friend to get support so that you don\u2019t have to go through everything alone. Recognizing when problems are starting, seeking help early on, and being receptive to the mental health needs of those around us will benefit ourselves and everyone around us.\nTo view the original article at businessinsider.com click here.\nLAURA DAVIDSON December 8, 2018 SweatCity, SweatCity App, Fitness App, Fitness, Toronto Fitness, User Spotlight", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 5042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/nouvo_practice-what-you-preach/44706316?utm_source=multiple&utm_campaign=swi-rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=o", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6XHPTQ645R6O46TLHJ2ZH2AUYPSTTLF", "length": 323, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.swissinfo.ch", "title": "Practice what you preach - SWI swissinfo.ch", "raw_content": "nouvo Practice what you preach\nThe inspiration behind the school strike movement that\u2019s bringing young people onto the streets all over Europe, has arrived in Switzerland. Greta Thunberg, who\u2019s 16, got there the eco-friendly way and is planning to get her message across at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.syke.fi/en-US/search", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:28Z", "digest": "sha1:CY6QJJVHLBJEZG6JKNKRLLZTMPMMTWOX", "length": 1577, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.syke.fi", "title": "Finnish Environment Institute > Search", "raw_content": "Instructions for the Advanced Search\nThe basic search function is located on the top right corner of the page. You can enter one or several words in the search box. Clicking the \"Search\" button will start the search.\nWhen typing in more than one search word the system adds an AND-operator between the words. The system will then search for websites containing all the entered words.\nYou can add the * mark at the end of search words. This will allow you to search for a specific part or unit of a word. For example when typing in health* the search function will look for material concerning healthcare.\nYou can also use quotation marks, in which case the search word will be treated as a phrase. This means that in order for the search function to be able to find the phrase, it has to be included in the data as it is.\nThe Finnish Environment Institute's website is available in three languages. The search is limited to the language version of the website you are visiting when initiating the search.\nThe search function will also look for the search words in the attachment files (MS Office 2003, 2007, 2010 and pdf documents).\nYou can also limit and specify your search. The search options are located on the right side column of the Advanced search page.\nThe search options on the right side column will reappear in the search result page. From the headline of the search function you can see the subject the search is limited to as a default (eg. news search).\nYou can also delete the predetermined limit to the search and extend your search to cover the whole website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 545, "original_length": 9990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tangfamily.me/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:53Z", "digest": "sha1:I7EAQCQX65EGOGU3NHHGHFNEUTGZHHYU", "length": 323, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tangfamily.me", "title": "Welcome to our virtual home! - The Tang Family", "raw_content": "Welcome to our virtual home!\nWe are a family of four. While everyone is busy with their work and school, we try to do as much together as possible before the kids go to college. We share the love for puzzles, board games, music, good food, travel, sightseeing and a great laugh.\nParker Ridge, Columbia Icefields, Banff 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 425, "original_length": 9146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.target.com/p/dollars-sense-a-kid-s-guide-to-using-not-losing-money-hardcover-elaine-scott/-/A-51156962", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:13Z", "digest": "sha1:ZIMIEEP4RO2X4HLCR7MXPLVROVSLZNSX", "length": 1287, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.target.com", "title": "Dollars & Sense : A Kid's Guide To Using, Not Losing, Money (Hardcover) (Elaine Scott) : Target", "raw_content": "Dollars & Sense : A Kid's Guide to Using, Not Losing, Money (Hardcover) (Elaine Scott)\nWe\u2019re in the money! Many things come with instructions. Unfortunately, money isn\u2019t one of them. Most people learn how to use it\u2014or lose it\u2014by trial and error.Dollars & Sense is a basic operating instruction manual for money that will teach readers about the history of money, the way our American economy works, and how to make important decisions about personal finance. From skulls, sheep, and shells as barter in ancient civilizations to credit, interest, and collateral of our modern day economics, money\u2014and all its glorious uses and cantankerous troubles\u2014is explained in this concise and entertaining volume. Learn about how to make money, how to budget your money, how the government manages (or mismanages!) money, and how to be rich without even trying. Money is sometimes your friend and sometimes your enemy, but in this day and age, we all have to learn to get along with it. An engaging and approachable guide for kids tackling how to responsibly manage their money. Included are sidebars, time lines, diagrams, a glossary, and further resources, as well as information on related topics such as the Great Recession and sequestration.\nSub-Genre: Business + Economics\nAuthor: Elaine Scott", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 303.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.targetmaster.com/products/handguns-sig-sauer-e26r9escpn-798681553624-545", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:04Z", "digest": "sha1:CP2FEAYRRIAIZ2TE2VWX6YYNYXSZCQGF", "length": 785, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.targetmaster.com", "title": "Sig Sauer P226 Emperor Scorpion E26R9ESCPN | Targetmaster", "raw_content": "Sig Sauer P226 Emperor Scorpion E26R9ESCPN\nMfg Item #: E26R-9-ESCPN\nSig's Pistols are engineered to perform anywhere, at any time, and under any circumstance. They boast unique, advanced features that stand out among the rest. The Sig Sauer P226 is the pistol that set the standard by which all other combat handguns are measured. It is used by the U.S. Navy SEALs, federal agents, and numerous law enforcement agencies across the country. The P226 Emperor Scorpion model is known for operating in low-light conditions. It features a flat dark earth PVD coated slide and frame, front cocking serrations, and black G-10 grips with Sig Mark. The P226 Emperor Scorpion also has SigLite night sights, accessory rail, and includes two 15-round magazines.\nFlat Dark Earth PVD Stainless Steel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 4433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2018/07/09/1771852/iranian-boy-who-had-football-player-s-name-tagged-on-his-shirt-meets-his-idol", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:29Z", "digest": "sha1:4VCEMR3JV7YAZORYE6S4G4ABU56GYOUV", "length": 1117, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tasnimnews.com", "title": "Iranian Boy Who Had Football Player\u2019s Name Tagged on His Shirt Meets His Idol - Sports news - Tasnim News Agency", "raw_content": "Iranian Boy Who Had Football Player\u2019s Name Tagged on His Shirt Meets His Idol\nTEHRAN (Tasnim) - A young Iranian boy who became an internet sensation has finally come face-to-face with his idol, Alireza Jahanbakhsh.\nJahanbakhsh the Iranian professional footballer and midfielder published a photo last month on his Instagram page showing a boy who was wearing a paper tag on his shirt with Jahanbakhsh\u2019s name on it, asking people to let him know if they are aware of the boy\u2019s where about.\n\u201cAll the sweating (for the world cup) was for you,\nPleas if anyone knows, find the address and information about this lovely angel,\nI love you all,\u201d Jahanbakhsh wrote on his post.\nThe photo went viral and was circulated in the social media and Matin, the little boy in the picture was found so that he could finally come face-to-face with his idol.\nAnother photos was appeared on social media showing Alireza Jahanbakhsh next to young Matin while wearing the football player\u2019s national jersey shirt.\nMatin is from a very poor family who is leaving in Khavar Shahr village, in the Central District of Rey County, Tehran Province.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3033, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teachingkidsbusiness.com/resources/skills/foundation/recommendations-writing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:56Z", "digest": "sha1:JXCM7VKMNZ2NW7PKNRCQWJW7XYIAMAJT", "length": 2132, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.teachingkidsbusiness.com", "title": "Recommendations Writing | Teaching Kids Business", "raw_content": "TeachingKidsBusiness.com, is providing you with tools to develop your business skills at an early stage. We would like to introduce you to a very helpful tool; a method of writing a recommendation.\nThe recommendation tool has been created to help you take your ideas and present them in a way that will prompt results. We all have great ideas that we either haven\u2019t taken the time to develop, have not been comfortable talking about, or felt uneasy presenting to anyone.\nHave some fun with this activity at home by making recommendations around the house. For example, you may feel an increase in your allowance or more responsibilities are in order!\nThe skill of writing a recommendation, will allow you to unleash your great ideasand move towards taking action. As you enterthe business world, you will find this skill to be a very valuable tool andin the mean time, it may help you with ideas at home and school.\nLook at it this way: To recommend is to advise, counsel, or suggest. An idea is a thought, an opinion or belief. A recommendation is simply a way for you to combine both of these things, by writing down your ideas in a short and concise format, that people can easily review.\nRecommendations are used by many companies to develop ideas, share them with other people and use them to make important business decisions. We have developed a recommendation format that walks you through a number of steps. These steps should help you generate excellent workable ideas.\nThis approach will be a very useful tool, which will help you to bring ideas forward in areas of your life.Take some time and try a recommendation for TeachingKidsBusiness.com and have some fun with trying one at home (build a case/recommendation for something you really need or would like to try).\nOur recommended format on our recommendations form will be a little bit of a shock at first, but as you work with it and create your own style, you will find it very useful. If this process allows you to get your great ideas down in writing, it can be considered a success and you will have progressed a step further in developing your business skills.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teamtobati.org/march-2016-trip.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:21Z", "digest": "sha1:POA7GJPWYGUQDDNKFSNFS7RMWDYOELFN", "length": 1521, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.teamtobati.org", "title": "March 2016 Trip - Team Tobati", "raw_content": "Team Tobati's March 2016 service trip will be our 18th annual March community service trip to Tobati, Paraguay. The trip will take place between March 13 - March 23. We will be taking 95 students, teachers, and alums to Tobati. 27 of the team members have been part of previous Team Tobati service trips. It is going to be an awesome experience for both our North American and Paraguayan students. We get better at this trip every year. The team will make structural improvements to Tobati schools, build gardens, medical outposts, and parks as well working in brick factories and farms throughout the 21 villages that make up the district of Tobati. We will partner with students and teachers from the Macchi School to work on each of these projects. Because we will be working along side our Parguayan partners and also participating in games and activities with them at night, we will form great relationships with Paraguayan students and also our host families. The team will participate in informal and formal soccer games and competitions. The team will learn a lot and do some great things in Tobati.\nParents and students should visit http://www.teamtobati.org/parents-faq.html for answers to commonly asked questions.\nPayments will be non-refundable after February 5. At that point, the plane tickets will be non-refundable and the funds for our service projects will have been transferred to the Paraguayan charity that oversees our projects and efforts. \u200b\u200b\nClick here for information on how to pay for the trip.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 7446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techjournee.com/2019/01/23/nasa-pulls-astronaut-eric-boe-from-first-boeing-starliner-crewed-flight-mike-fincke-will-fly-instead/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DN7CQOMRZO3MYBABVRIAMLTBTWWN6TJT", "length": 3725, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.techjournee.com", "title": "NASA Pulls Astronaut Eric Boe From First Boeing Starliner Crewed Flight, Mike Fincke Will Fly Instead -", "raw_content": "Astronaut Eric Boe during an August 2018 announcement of crew for the first manned tests of Commercial Crew Program craft.\nPhoto: David J. Phillip (AP)\nNASA has pulled astronaut Eric Boe, who was scheduled as a crew member for the first manned test flight of Boeing\u2019s Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew capsule in the second half of 2019, as he \u201cis unable to fly due to medical reasons,\u201d the space agency said in a statement on Tuesday.\nInstead, he will be replaced by 22-year veteran astronaut E. Michael \u201cMike\u201d Fincke, a former Air Force colonel with three flights to space under his belt, including stints on the Space Shuttle Endeavor and as the commander of the International Space Station.\n\u201cFincke takes the place of astronaut Eric Boe, originally assigned to the mission in August 2018,\u201d NASA wrote. \u201cBoe is unable to fly due to medical reasons; he will replace Fincke as the assistant to the chief for commercial crew in the astronaut office at NASA\u2019s Johnson Space Center.\u201d\nFincke \u201cpreviously served as an International Space Station flight engineer and science officer on Expedition 9, and commanded the station on Expedition 18,\u201d NASA added. \u201cHe returned as a mission specialist for the STS-134 crew on space shuttle Endeavour\u2019s final mission. So far, the Pennsylvania native has spent 382 days in space and performed nine spacewalks.\u201d\nAccording to Space.com, Fincke has extensive experience working with NASA\u2019s commercial crew partners, including Boeing and rival SpaceX. The two other crew members scheduled to fly in the Starliner\u2014NASA astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann and Boeing\u2019s Chris Ferguson, who left NASA in 2011 and has worked with the company ever since\u2014have not been changed.\nCrew changes (including last-minute ones) are not unusual at NASA, which usually gives only a small amount of information as to why such decisions are made. NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps, who would have been the first African-American to serve as a longterm crew member on the ISS, said last year she had been left in the dark for months as to why she was pulled off her mission. In October 2018, Epps said the experience was \u201creally a bad thing that happened\u201d and that her removal \u201cwas for reasons I don\u2019t really understand at this point.\u201d\nHowever, CBS News noted that changes due to medical reasons are less common, with Boe\u2019s reassignment \u201cbelieved to mark only the fifth time in U.S. space program history that an astronaut has been pulled from a space flight assignment because of a medical issue.\u201d\nBoeing and SpaceX, which is working to convert its own Dragon cargo capsule to carry crew, are in a race to see which company will be the first private entity to send humans into space as part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program. Both companies must complete a successful, uncrewed test flight to dock with the ISS first, with SpaceX\u2019s scheduled for no earlier than February and Boeing\u2019s scheduled for March. SpaceX\u2019s crewed launch is scheduled for June and Boeing\u2019s for August, but the program has repeatedly hit delays (both companies\u2019 spacecraft were originally intended to be ready by 2017).\nTimetables for their readiness could thus change if the craft aren\u2019t ready for their test dates or something goes wrong. SpaceX\u2014which has a lot on its hands right now with its Big Falcon Rocket/\u201cStarship\u201d program\u2014recently announced it would be laying off 10 percent of its staff.\nThe U.S. has bought seats to the ISS on Soyuz rockets operated by Russia\u2019s Roscosmos space agency since 2011, when it retired the venerable space shuttle. But the clock is ticking, and NASA\u2019s contract to send passengers on the Soyuz expires in November 2019.\n[NASA/Space.com]\nApple Lays Off Over 200 Employees Working on Secretive Self-Driving Car Project \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/34256-palm-pre-launch-expected-in-may-june-timeframe.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:52Z", "digest": "sha1:WPGMBCTYMHTYUM5DB4LWADS3NPBWV2TJ", "length": 1059, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.techspot.com", "title": "Palm Pre launch expected in May-June timeframe - TechSpot", "raw_content": "Palm Pre launch expected in May-June timeframe\nSprint recently sent out a company-wide email stating that employees could expect training for the Palm Pre to begin in April. In confirmation of this memo, the blog PreThinking got their hands on a copy and received verification of the rumor from Sprint.\nAlthough it was suggested the Palm Pre didn\u2019t appear to be ready software-wise during the demos at CTIA, based on this bit of information it should be safe to assume that the official launch of the Pre is now imminent. How soon, you ask? The folks over at Engadget seem to have discovered a Sprint planning document which points to a window between 5/17 and 6/30.\nIt has been predicted that the Pre will have a MSRP of $549.99, but will be $150 when coupled with a two-year service agreement. Some of the Pre feature highlights include a 3.1\" multi-touch screen and a real keyboard, in addition to Wi-Fi, USB, Bluetooth 2.1, GPS and a 3-megapixel camera.\nVerizon could launch a Palm-branded smartphone this year\nLenovo's all-screen Z5 will launch on June 5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 3045, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techspot.com/news/74217-major-tech-companies-unite-fight-cyberattacks.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:57Z", "digest": "sha1:6APNWIZY3TDPQZJCKSNRSUNZI2I4YJTW", "length": 2891, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.techspot.com", "title": "Cybersecurity Tech Accord: Major tech companies unite to fight cyberattacks - TechSpot", "raw_content": "Cybersecurity Tech Accord: Major tech companies unite to fight cyberattacks\nApple, Amazon, and Twitter are noticeably missing though\nBy David Matthews on April 18, 2018, 11:02\nA group of 34 major tech companies, including Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft, HP, RSA, and Oracle, have signed the Cybersecurity Tech Accord. This accord promises to establish partnerships to share vulnerabilities, provide consumers with better ways to protect themselves, and refuse to assist governments in carrying out state sponsored cyberattacks.\n\u201cThe devastating attacks from the past year demonstrate that cybersecurity is not just about what any single company can do but also about what we can all do together.\u201d said Microsoft President Brad Smith. \u201cThis tech sector accord will help us take a principled path towards more effective steps to work together and defend customers around the world.\u201d\nRegarding partnerships, the companies seek to build relationships with major players in the cybersecurity field to share vulnerabilities and threats as well as improve technical collaboration. The accord mentions that cyberattacks could potentially cost around $8 trillion by 2022 and can hurt small businesses, governments, and hospitals. To assist in this partnership, big security companies like RSA, Avast, FireEye, and Symantec have pledged their support for the accord.\nThe most interesting part of the accord, however, is the resolve to not help governments launch cyberattacks against \"innocent citizens and enterprises\". This includes supply chain protection against tampering and exploitation.\nSignatories on the accord will conduct their first meeting during the RSA Conference in San Francisco. While membership in the accord is still open, there is a conspicuous lack of participation from the likes of Apple, Amazon, and Twitter. This is especially interesting considering Apple's recent efforts to bill itself as the bastion of privacy and security. Chinese and Russian firms are also missing from the list of signatories although that's probably expected considering how much influence the Russian and Chinese governments have inside their countries.\nIf anything, this is a great first step in companies taking cybersecurity seriously and hopefully some good will come out of it. However, it remains to be seen if meaningful and tangible results will be seen.\n\"The Tech Accord will help to protect the integrity of the one trillion connected devices we expect to see deployed within the next 20 years. It aligns the resources, expertise and thinking of some of the world\u2019s most important technology companies to help to build a trusted foundation for technology users who will benefit immensely from a more security connected world.\u201d\nEight of Trump's cybersecurity advisors resign over 'insufficient attention' to threats\nDeclassified DoD/IG report shows US missile defense cybersecurity was a mess", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/larry-clarks-perverted-marfa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZOPXVA6UCD5O37ECLMKYRFFOZEZ3MA7A", "length": 5679, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.texasmonthly.com", "title": "Larry Clark\u2019s Perverted Marfa \u2013 Texas Monthly", "raw_content": "Larry Clark\u2019s Perverted Marfa\nBut all the casual sex and violence in director Larry Clark\u2019s new film, Marfa Girl, is less surprising than its means of distribution.\nhttps://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/larry-clarks-perverted-marfa/\nDoes a movie you can only watch online still count as a major film release?\nWith Marfa Girl, Larry Clark is shocking audiences again. The transgressive director is best known for Kids, the controversial NC-17 drama that launched Chlo\u00eb Sevigny to stardom in 1995, and Tulsa, his seminal 1971 book of photographs of his friends (and himself) as teenagers playing with guns and shooting up amphetamine.\nMarfa Girl is Clark\u2019s first feature in seven years, and the 69-year-old director hasn\u2019t deviated from the world of teens. Or from the world of deviance. He\u2019s all sex, drugs, and violence. Yes, still. And Marfa, with its population of 1,800 working class whites, Mexican-Americans, and artists living 68 miles from the border in the desolate grasslands of west Texas, serves as the perfect isolate\u2013a petri dish for Clark\u2019s controlled experiments in human depravity.\nClark, as the New York Times wrote in 1995, \u201cis not happy unless he is working the outer limits of moral acceptability,\u201d and Marfa, being the outer limits of Texas, grants his characters\u2013a promiscuous artist (the \u201cMarfa Girl\u201d), a psychotic border patrolman (who\u2019s aroused\u2013literally\u2013by violence), and the Mexican-American high schooler that the border patrolman harasses (but who is otherwise very lucky for a high school boy, if you know what we mean)\u2013both more freedom and less: their wills are mangled by the endless expanse. Where to go. What to do. How to survive the endless waiting rooms of their lives.\nSo, these guys dabble in\u2013you guessed it\u2013drugs, weed and shrooms and they all sleep with one another, too. As the Hollywood Reporter wrote, \u201cthis wouldn\u2019t be a Larry Clark movie if there weren\u2019t at least one scene of a young couple going at it in graphic detail.\u201d One? How \u2019bout at least seven.\nBut it\u2019s not all the sex or the seemingly-obligatory-for-Clark rape scene that\u2019s the most surprising thing about the film (though that scene, expected though it may be, is no less shocking and horrific). It\u2019s Clark\u2019s choice of distribution: Video on demand. Clark designed a website specifically to release the film\u2013larryclark.com/marfagirl. Marfa Girl premiered there November 20, and \u201ctiny passes\u201d allowing 24-hour streaming access are available for $5.99.\nWhy would an iconic director fate his latest baby to an existence only on the mercurial Internet?\n\u201cF\u2014 Hollywood,\u201d was the short answer that Clark offered at the seventh Rome Film Festival. (You can watch Clark\u2019s full Rome interview here.)\n\u201cThis is the future and the future is now,\u201d Clark said of his decision in the Guardian. He elaborated further in an interview with Filmmaker Magazine:\nI wanted to make a movie for the Internet. These days everyone one is on it\u2013emails, social networks and all that. I have kids and they are constantly connected to it. I send them a message and they get back to me straight away. It\u2019s so hard to get a film made, especially an art film with your own final cut. So I thought, \u201cWhy don\u2019t I just do it myself, set up a website and get it going.\u201d I decided to get rid of the middlemen, producers and the like. Anyway, they\u2019re all crooks; I never got paid for my movies. The Internet is happening, people make a video and it gets a million hits, so fuck it, let\u2019s do it.\nThe film took the top prize at the Rome Film Festival\u2013giving \u201c[t]he losers, boozers and casual users of Marfa Girl,\u201d as the Guardian quipped, \u201ca happy ending of sorts.\u201d\nBut otherwise, such happy endings seem to be few and far between (just like gas stations on the road out to Marfa). The film has received little attention since its online premiere. While the Guardian and the Hollywood Reporter have permitted the film slight reviews, as of this publication, there hasn\u2019t been a peep from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, or New York magazine, to name just a few venues previously interested in Clark.\nClark was first introduced to Marfa only recently during a film festival of 1970s No Wave films (made in reaction to French New Wave films). Clark had just discovered a silent movie he\u2019d made back in \u201968 of the same friends he published in Tulsa, and Clark\u2019s Marfa friend, artist Christopher Wool, invited Clark to show it along with a couple other movies from his repertoire at the Marfa festival. As Clark said in an interview with the Playlist, following his Rome win:\nAnd so the last night I\u2019m showing \u201cWassup Rockers\u201d but I\u2019m looking at the audience and it\u2019s not a local crowd, it\u2019s like the art crowd. And so I go, \u201cWhat the fuck, there should be kids seeing this film.\u201d So I go outside and two skate kids skate by, Adam [who stars as the 16-year-old Mexican-American kid] and this other kid and I said, \u201cCome in here, this film\u2019s about you!\u201d So they came in for a few minutes but they had to leave and go to supper and they came back at the end of the film and asked me for a DVD. So I gave it to them and then I\u2019m looking at this kid Adam and I think, boy there\u2019s some charisma in this kid and so it gave me an idea and I went back to Marfa and I photographed him and I got to know him a bit and then Mary Farley [who is also in the film], who I knew, she left town and offered me [guest house], so I had her house and the chickens were there. So I wrote her in as Adam\u2019s mother, and I wrote the chickens in. So I started writing the film there for about a month and that\u2019s how it started.\nWatch the Marfa Girl trailer and decide for yourself whether Clark gets Marfa:\nTags: The Culture, marfa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 11326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thaibkny.com/shop/4-x-1-hour-sessions-saves-90-s8r7e-sp34d", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:07Z", "digest": "sha1:GSRSB2DXTGVYUPXI7EUC7ITVTQZOI3ME", "length": 80, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thaibkny.com", "title": "4 x 2-HOUR SESSIONS (saves $125) \u2014 THAI BROOKLYN", "raw_content": "Shop 4 x 2-HOUR SESSIONS (saves $125)\nPrevious4 x 1.5 HOUR SESSIONS (saves $100)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/01/why-secret-law-is-un-american/282786/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KKJQVGVLUD5O47N3JKDWU3DT2BWW3IPP", "length": 7103, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.theatlantic.com", "title": "Why Secret Law Is Un-American - The Atlantic", "raw_content": "Why Secret Law Is Un-American\nThe system established by the U.S. Constitution requires an informed electorate.\na4gpa/Flickr\nIn recent years, the National Security Agency has relied on secret interpretations of the law to justify its actions, as noted in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and a letter that 26 U.S. senators wrote complaining that \"the 'business records' provision of the Patriot Act has been secretly reinterpreted.\" NSA defenders are fond of saying that its activities are legitimized and overseen by all three branches of government. This elides the distinction between Congress as a body and small subcommittees with access to classified information: A subcommittee can be quietly co-opted in a way that Congress cannot.\nThe notion of a secret body of law is incompatible with the American system of government. Understanding why is as easy as consulting the Federalist Papers, the most thorough explanation the Framers gave us of their republican design and its logic.\nThe House of Representatives is meant to be responsive to ever-changing popular opinion in the country's many congressional districts. \"As it is essential to liberty that the government in general should have a common interest with the people, so it is particularly essential that the branch of it under consideration should have an immediate dependence on, and an intimate sympathy with, the people,\" James Madison wrote in Federalist 52. \"Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured.\"\nWhat good are frequent elections if the people are ignorant as to the actual policies their representatives have put into place? National-security state apologists would prefer a system whereby the people elect representatives and trust them to act judiciously in secret. The design of the House presupposes constant reevaluation of a legislator's actions. Americans watching the debate over reauthorizing the Patriot Act couldn't meaningfully lobby or evaluate the performance of their representative. They didn't know the law had been secretly interpreted to allow mass surveillance. The secret interpretation subverted the ability of the people to evaluate their representatives.\nThe secrecy surrounding surveillance law also meant that many House members themselves were ignorant of what they were voting upon, sometimes because they failed to take advantage of secret briefings, other times because they were incapable of understanding the content of those briefings without outside help, and still other times because the national-security state deliberately withheld information.\nFederalist 53 states:\nNo man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subjects on which he is to legislate. A part of this knowledge may be acquired by means of information which lie within the compass of men in private as well as public stations.\nIn other words, outside help is something legislators are expected to seek by design. Secrecy renders these legislators incompetent by denying them a source of vital information that was presupposed by the men who designed our system of government.\nFederalist 57 ponders the loyalty of legislators in the House to the American people, and explains why they won't be captured by special, elite interests. \"They will enter into the public service under circumstances which cannot fail to produce a temporary affection at least to their constituents,\" it states. \"There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest, is some pledge for grateful and benevolent returns. Ingratitude is a common topic of declamation against human nature; and it must be confessed that instances of it are but too frequent and flagrant, both in public and in private life. But the universal and extreme indignation which it inspires is itself a proof of the energy and prevalence of the contrary sentiment.\"\nFor many members of the intelligence committees, honor, favor, and esteem seem to be most lavishly conferred not by constituents but by members of the national-security state. The gratitude owed the people is often directed toward these insiders, in return for being included in the club of serious people with security clearances.\n\"Those ties which bind the representative to his constituents are strengthened by motives of a more selfish nature,\" Federalist 57 goes on. \"His pride and vanity attach him to a form of government which favors his pretensions and gives him a share in its honors and distinctions. Whatever hopes or projects might be entertained by a few aspiring characters, it must generally happen that a great proportion of the men deriving their advancement from their influence with the people, would have more to hope from a preservation of the favor, than from innovations in the government subversive of the authority of the people.\"\nBut legislators who advance classified policies obscured from the people need no longer worry about preserving their favor, or avoiding a popular backlash against their approach.\nThe public is never meant to know about their actions.\nAs Federalist 57 concludes, \"All these securities ... would be found very insufficient without the restraint of frequent elections. Hence, in the fourth place, the House of Representatives is so constituted as to support in the members an habitual recollection of their dependence on the people. Before the sentiments impressed on their minds by the mode of their elevation can be effaced by the exercise of power, they will be compelled to anticipate the moment when their power is to cease, when their exercise of it is to be reviewed, and when they must descend to the level from which they were raised.\"\nAbsent Edward Snowden's revelations, how meaningfully could Representative James Sensenbrenner's constituents review his exercise of power? Is it not reasonable to suppose that the change in perspective his constituents have been given informed his own change in position on the Patriot Act?\nFederalist 62 concerns the Senate, but contains a passage relevant to secrecy, implying it \"poisons the blessing of liberty itself.\" Musing on \"the effects of a mutable policy,\" it states, \"it will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is to-day, can guess what it will be to-morrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?\"\nSurveillance law could not be read or understood by the people. It changed in such a way that few could anticipate what it would be tomorrow. It was revised without being promulgated, and was little known and less fixed.\nIt was, in this way, un-American.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 8717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecarriedeer.com/2-bulb-t5-fixture-48/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:23Z", "digest": "sha1:6QU6VGKSYQGKY7US4HLGXNTHDSLCZFXU", "length": 1729, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thecarriedeer.com", "title": "2 Bulb T5 Fixture 48 - Lamps : Home Decorating Ideas #WVq33R6qDb 2 Bulb T5 Fixture 48 \u2013 Home Decorating Ideas", "raw_content": "By the time, the old-style home decoration will be boring. It leads people to get something new for his or her home. As the result, you will attempt to boost your home. You will find the newest concept to adopt into the home. The old living place can also be the same. But before beginning the decoration, you have to know about everything you really want. You will need to comprehend it. After getting the idea, you can go any more by selecting the paint color. In here, you will see the attractive 2 Bulb T5 Fixture 48 to try.\nWhen it discusses paint color for family area, there is something to note. Family area includes a specific position. Its role as a place of the guest must be considered well. This is the reason the idea of family area decoration must be more general. In term of the wall color, the consideration is still the same. It will be easier to take the neutral color. The white color is the nice example for this. This is the reason this color become among a necessity adopted colors to consider. But the white color itself can be boring. Adding the other colors can be a good plan for this. As an example, the white color and the black color. The white color with the brown color or the white color with the green color may also great for living room.\nFinding the nice paint color for the wall is challenging. This can be a reality. But no matter what, you'll need to begin it from the concept. You will need a good concept and references for this. If you should be buying good plan, home design websites will be the nice sources. You will see the many home designs from the true projects. As the result, you will see how the 2 Bulb T5 Fixture 48 after the application.\nPosts related to 2 Bulb T5 Fixture 48", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thechatshop.com/blog/live-chat-can-increase-online-sales-at-scale", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7AL4566RU2UTWUIXMVZXT6CDCBWHRZM6", "length": 6298, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.thechatshop.com", "title": "6 Ways Live Chat Can Increase Online Sales at Scale | The Chat Shop", "raw_content": "If you\u2019ve perused our site, you\u2019ve probably noticed we\u2019re quite confident in our ability to boost sales and generate leads through live chat.\nBut where does that confidence come from?\nWe could sit here all day and talk your ear off about The Funnel but there\u2019s so much more to it than that. Understanding where your customers and potential customers are in their journey when they come to your site is only the beginning of what we do as award-winning digital engagement strategists.\nEverything after that is where the real work begins.\nWe\u2019ve heard the old adage, \u201cYou can lead a horse to water but you can\u2019t force him to drink.\u201d While it\u2019s catchy and easy to remember, we respectfully disagree. In fact, we\u2019re willing to bet that horse was just led to water he didn\u2019t want in the first place. Okay, maybe this analogy isn\u2019t perfect, but go with me for a minute.\nCustomers on your site are very much like that old horse. When it comes to conversion, having a potential customer on your site is simply not enough; you have to engage with them\nIf you aren\u2019t engaging customers and potential customers, then you\u2019re not really trying.\nTalking to your site visitors is the first step in bridging the gap between \u201cpotential\u201d and \u201cpaying\u201d customer. If you\u2019re there before they buy, they\u2019ll know you\u2019ll be there afterwards as well.\nEngaging customers is an art form \u2013 don\u2019t fall victim to thinking any digital engagement strategy is adequate.\nThe secret lies in what you\u2019re saying and how you say it. After all, no one likes a pushy salesman telling them what to buy. But they also don\u2019t like having no one to seek out when they need advice.\nRemember \u2013 something brought your visitors to your site. Maybe it was a product, maybe it was your brand, maybe it was a random act of serendipity! You\u2019ve got to narrow in on what landed them there before you can make sure they leave with what they need.\nThis is where your word choice comes into play. Here at The Chat Shop we boast \u201creal conversations with real people\u201d with good reason. If you\u2019re not invested in your customers, why should they show any interest in you?\nHave you ever been in a shop and needed assistance, only to find there wasn\u2019t a single representative around?\nYour website works a lot like that.\nIf you aren\u2019t there for your customers or potential customers, they\u2019re not going to stick around. This is key to sales enablement.\nWe understand how difficult that can be, which is why we offer Managed Chat Services, including out-of-hours chat.\nConnect with your customers as often as possible in order to see your sales skyrocket! Early birds and night owls alike need that interaction.\nVirtual Visitors Have No Time to Waste\nIn a brick and mortar setting, you can assume a customer has the time to shop once they\u2019ve started walking around your store.\nOnline, however, things are a bit different.\nCustomers who choose to interact with you via chat can be doing a myriad of things. Some have a few moments at work to spare, some are killing time on their mobile devices, and some just don\u2019t want to leave the comfort of their home.\nUnderstanding that time is of the essence on chat is important. Be warned, though: If you\u2019re not being mindful in the right ways, you could cost yourself some customers.\nRespecting your virtual customers\u2019 time does not mean rushing through your conversation with them. It means responding in a timely fashion with relevant information to keep them actively engaged.\nBut don\u2019t just take our word for it. Let the facts speak for themselves. It\u2019s hard to argue with 27 second response times, 99% customer satisfaction rating, and a 50% increase in leads.\nTrust Who You Want Your Customers to Trust\nWe\u2019ve touched base on what helps lead generation and sales enablement on chat, but what about what goes on behind the scenes?\nLaying the best foundation possible through training is key to initiating sales enablement success.\nWe know not everyone is on-par with our agents; 100 hours of training with a 100% pass mark is a quite the mountain to climb. But the road to success is paved with sheer dedication and commitment.\nTraining your online representatives is the first step in making sure you\u2019re closing sales and capturing leads with ease. If you can trust them with your sales, so can your customers.\nUnderstand the Obstacles of Live Chat\nLive Chat has the potential to make a huge difference in your lead generation and sales enablement. There\u2019s no question about that.\nIn order to reap the benefits, however, you and your representatives need to understand the key obstacles live chat services present when it comes to interacting with your customers. Below are just a few:\nNo smiling. Interacting with customers face-to-face is tonally simple. A smile goes a long way. On chat, however, you don\u2019t have that advantage. Knowing how to \u201cvirtually smile\u201d is key.\nNo vocalization. When a customer can hear your voice, it\u2019s easy to convey tone and enthusiasm. It\u2019s easy to say what needs to be said. Being on chat takes away that ease of conversation and adds a new element; diction and syntax. Now it\u2019s not just about what you say, but how you say it via text. Think of the difference between someone verbally saying \u201cokay\u201d while they nod and someone sending a text that says \u201cokay.\u201d The ability to misinterpret messages grows exponentially on chat.\nNo eye-contact. While we may be used to this kind of interaction over the phone, chat is different. Without the ability to smile or vocalize your service, not having that eye-contact is just another obstacle on the road to successful sales.\nAsk yourself \u2013 how do you successfully sell a product or service when you cannot see, hear, or smile at a customer? Without considering the answer to that question, you simply cannot have successful sales on chat. We know how.\nAt the end of the day, live chat services can provide growth in lead generation, sales enablement, and customer satisfaction. We see this all the time with our clients at The Chat Shop.\nUnfortunately, we\u2019ve also seen the opposite happen.\nIn order to have a truly successful live chat service, it\u2019s imperative that you understand exactly what goes into it. It\u2019s a lot of work, but it\u2019s rewarding.\nFind out more how our award-winning live chat outsourcing can increase your online sales at scale.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 8011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecollegeview.com/2015/11/21/usi-host-its-first-post-marriage-equality-pink-training/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YBL2X3IGICJZ6YL7VOGJ7JK5IPCJX5AJ", "length": 2822, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thecollegeview.com", "title": "USI host its first post-marriage equality Pink Training", "raw_content": "HomeNewsUniversity NewsUSI host its first post-marriage equality Pink Training\nUSI host its first post-marriage equality Pink Training\nNovember 21, 2015 University News\n350 student delegates from universities and IT\u2019s across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland attended Pink Training, with 20 DCU representatives in attendance, last weekend.\nPink Training involves two days of training sessions, involving workshops on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and plus issues. The weekend is the largest LGBTQ+ training event in Europe for third level students.\nThe event began on Friday, November 13th, with an opening ceremony in O\u2019Flatherty Theatre in NUI Galway.\nUSI hosted 43 workshops over the weekend, facilitated by a variety of speakers. Primarily focused on educating LGBTQ+ students, Pink Training is also open to allies. This year was the first Pink Training that ran workshops on gender non-binary and gender expression, expanding the topics available for delegates to learn from.\n\u201cThe workshops do more than just give knowledge, but they empower people to do something with the knowledge that they have. That\u2019s the power of Pink Training,\u201d Patrick Dempsey, Pink Training speaker and former Chair of the International LGBTQ Student Organization, said.\nWorkshops covered over the weekend included Coming Out, Plus 101, Positive Sexual Health, Being a Trans Ally, Bisexuality Awareness, How to Spot a Queer, LGBTQ+ safe spaces, along with many more.\nThis year\u2019s Pink Training was the last to be organised by USI Vice President for Equality and Citizenship, Annie Hoey.\n\u201cI never thought I\u2019d be standing here after the last year that we\u2019ve had and the changes that we have gone through as a community. I never thought I\u2019d be standing here as an equal citizen in front of you,\u201d Hoey said during the closing ceremony.\nPink Training 2015 was the first one to be held post marriage equality. However, Hoey went on to highlight the work that still needs to be done to achieve marriage equality in Northern Ireland.\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a long road, a very long battle, but I\u2019ve no doubt that they\u2019re going to get there and everyone in this room is sending their solidarity and their support and will be with you every step of the way,\u201d Hoey said.\nHoey concluded the ceremony by looking back at her time working on Pink Training, \u201cPink Training, you have inspired me to be a better person, not only for each and every one of you in the room, but for each and every and every person that\u2019s not here today.\n\u201cYou\u2019ve reminded me why I do what I do. You\u2019ve reminded me why I work on Equality & Citizenship. You\u2019ve reminded me how important this job is, how I have an enormous weight of responsibility on my shoulders, but I hope I do you very proud and continue to work around them,\u201d Hoey said.\nPhoto Credit: USI\nAnnie Hoey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thecomet.net/what-s-on/reviews/elizabethtown-12a-1-277690", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:28Z", "digest": "sha1:24JF6TJ2GTSBVM5WDALQ2YCC46WHUU2Q", "length": 477, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thecomet.net", "title": "Elizabethtown (12A) | Reviews | The Comet", "raw_content": "Elizabethtown (12A)\nDREW Baylor (Orlando Bloom) has been fired after losing his firm millions of dollars. Ironically it is his dad s death which brings him out of his depression and leads to a new romance with an air stewardess (Kirstin Dunst). 4/5\nDREW Baylor (Orlando Bloom) has been fired after losing his firm millions of dollars. Ironically it is his dad's death which brings him out of his depression and leads to a new romance with an air stewardess (Kirstin Dunst). 4/5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 4054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedomains.com/2013/11/13/troubling-federal-court-gives-sharetv-com-to-sharetv-org-despite-com-registered-3-years-eailer-7-years-before-tm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:26Z", "digest": "sha1:OPN5G6ZQYRIYAKQBS5MT2KSJNOLXTMUB", "length": 27133, "nlines": 138, "source_domain": "www.thedomains.com", "title": "Troubling: Federal Court Gives ShareTv.com To ShareTv.Org Despite .Com Registered 3 Years Earlier & 7 Years Before TM", "raw_content": "Troubling: Federal Court Gives ShareTv.com To ShareTv.Org Despite .Com Registered 3 Years Earlier & 7 Years Before TM\nIn a troubling development for all domain investors, The United States District Court for the Eastern District Of Virginia has awarded the domain name Sharetv.com to the owner of ShareTv.org under a lawsuit brought under the Lanham Act and Virginia\u2019s Unfair Competition Act. (Case No. 1:13-cv-00506, Dkt No. 1)\nAlthough ShareTv.org had a federally registered trademark on the term ShareTV, the domain name Sharetv.com was registered three years before the Plaintiff\u2019s own domain name ShareTV.org was registered and some 7 years before trademark was registered.\nThe judgement entered by the court was actually a default judgement as the domain holder of ShareTv.com did not appear in the proceeding however, the court did examine the claims of the trademark holder and made certain rulings on the claims which again I can only describe as troubling for all domain investors.\nHere are the relevant dates:\nThe domain name ShareTv.com was registered on September 29, 2004. (the Defendant\u2019s Domain)\nThe domain name Sharetv.Org was registered on January 4, 2007 (the Plaintiff\u2019s Domain)\nThe owner of ShareTv.org start\u2019s doing business on February 1, 2007\nThe trademark on the term ShareTv was issued by the USPTO on April 19, 2011\nThe court justified its ruling that the registrant of the domain name ShareTv.com owned over 1,500 domain names and only parked the domain finding;\n\u201cSince Registrant registered the Domain Name, he has only used it in connection with a few scattered \u201cparked\u201d pages and mostly revenue-generating sponsored links.\u201d\n\u201cRegistrant never established Trademark or Servicemark rights in or to ShareTV, as evidenced by the fact that Registrant never used the Domain Name in connection with any bonafide offering of goods and/or services.\u201d\nAs you will read below the domain holder didn\u2019t help his cause by taking certain actions in response to Plaintiff\u2019s claim which only hurt his case and of course his biggest error was not defending the lawsuit.\nChris Richmond the owner of ShareTv.org and the plaintiff in this suit sent TheDomains.com an advance copy of a press release will be out later today in which he says in part:\n\u201cBecause Mr. Kim registered ShareTV.com four years before ShareTV launched, the lawsuit did not include the more traditional Domain Name causes of action under the Anti-cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) or the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP).\u201d\n\u201cUltimately, the Court looked past the fact that ShareTV.com was registered prior to ShareTV.org, and found that Mr. Kim\u2019s \u201cactions were done with the deliberate intent to deceive potential and actual users/consumers to [ShareTV\u2019s] website.\u201d\n\u201cThe Court effectively concluded that a parked page or splash page could constitute trademark infringement, regardless of when the infringing domain was registered.\u201d\n\u201cWe hope that our case will set a precedent and pave the way for future startups.\u201d\n\u201cThe fact that we were able to prove trademark infringement against a domain registered four years before we began business is huge, and we hope it encourages companies faced with a similar situation to take action,\u201d says Richmond.\nLike I said Troubling.\nHere are the relevant facts and finding by Magistrate Ivan D. Davis:\nShareTV, Inc. (\u201cPlaintiff \u2018) filed a Complaint on April 25, 2013, seeking relief under 15 U.S.C.\u00a7\u00a7 1114(1) and 1125(a), Va. Code\u00a7\u00a7 59.1-200 and 59.1-92.12, and Virginia\u2019s common law Unfair Competition Act based on Mr.Sooyong Kim\u2019s (\u201cRegistrant\u2019s) use of the Defendant Domain ShareTv.com\nPlaintiff is an online television community offering a broad range of services for more than 10,000 television shows.\nSince the founding of Plaintiff in 2007, Plaintiff has acquired more than fifty million total visitors to its ShareTV website, receives nearly two million monthly visitors, and has over 175,000 registered users.\nOn or about February 1 , 2007, Plaintiff adopted and began to use the service mark and trade name ShareTV in commerce within the United States in connection with its online television services; this use has continued in connection with such services.\nThis service mark and trade name is used by the public to identify the services of Plaintiff and to distinguish it from others.\nPlaintiff registered the domain name on , and has used this domain name since February 1, 2007 in connection with the advertising, offering, and rendering of its online television services.\nIn addition to the domain name sharetv.org, Plaintiff also owns fourteen other domain names which redirect the user to Plaintiff\u2019s primary sharetv.org domain name including Share.tv\nAdditionally, on April 19, 2011, Plaintiff was issued U.S. Registration No.3,947,657 for the SHARETV service mark in connection with its online television services.\nThe Registrant of Defendant Domain Name ShareTv.com, is currently listed as the owner of over 1,500 domain names.\nIn 2011, Plaintiff began receiving reports of confusion between Registrant\u2019s use of the Domain name and Plaintiff\u2019s website.\nAfter these reports continued, Plaintiff notified Sedo Inc., the company hosting the Domain Name, about Registrant\u2019s unauthorized use of the Plaintiff\u2019s SHARETV mark. Sedo Inc. recognized the confusion and promptly removed the Domain Name from its hosting service on or about February 4, 2013.\nIn an effort to remedy the confusion, Plaintiff offered to purchase the Domain Name from Registrant, but did not succeed.\nThrough Plaintiff\u2019s Counsel, on February 25, 2013, Plaintiff sent a cease-and-desist letter by way of e-mail to Registrant regarding his infringing use of the SHARETV service mark and the consumer confusion resulting from such use.\nSubsequently, Plaintiff and Registrant, by way of legal counsel, entered into discussions regarding the Defendant Domain Name.\nAfter discussions between Plaintiff and Registrant failed, Registrant modified the Domain Name website to display Plaintiff\u2019s SHARETV service mark in Korean instead of the former display in English; Registrant also added that the alleged online television services would be \u201cComing Soon.\u201d\nRegistrant subsequently made additional changes to augment the Domain Name website to more closely resemble that of Plaintiffs website, including prominently displaying Plaintiffs SHARETV service mark for the first time since registering the Domain Name in 2004. Registrant also included the phrase \u201cThe TV that we share with Neighbors . .. \u2018Coming soon.'\u201d\nConfusion over Defendant Registrant\u2019s Domain Name and Plaintifrs website continues to increase.\nIn that regard, on April 23, 2013, a writer for the New York Post\u2019s online newspaper confused the Defendant Domain Name with Plaintiff\u2019s website and another user of Plaintiff\u2019s website advised Plaintiff of this article and inquired about the affiliation between the Domain Name and Plaintiffs website.\nDue to Registrant\u2019s now virtually identical service mark to that of Plaintiffs SHARETV mark, save only the minor difference between the Domain Name and Plaintiff\u2019s SHARETV mark, is the top-level domain signifier\u201d.com.\u201d Some of Plaintiff\u2019s users have and continue to be confused as to Registrant\u2019s Domain Name, and the confusion will likely continue if Registrant\u2019s Domain Name remains operable.\nPlaintiff alleges that Registrant\u2019s use of Plaintiff\u2019s SHARETV mark in the Defendant Domain Name constitutes trademark infringement under 15 U.S.C.\u00a7\u00a7 1114 and 1125(a) and violates Virginia\u2019s common law requirements for unfair competition, Va. Code \u00a7 59.1-92.12 and the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, Va. Code \u00a7 59.1-200. Plaintiff moves this Court to enter an Order of default judgment against Defendant and to authorize the transfer of ownership of the Domain Name to Plaintiff.\nFirst, Plaintiff alleges that Registrant\u2019s continued use of Defendant Domain Name violates 15 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 1114 and 1125(a) because it constitutes trademark infringement.\nFurthermore, \u00a7 1125(a) provides that a person will be liable in a civil action, if, without consent of the registrant, the person uses any word, term, name or combination thereof that:\n(A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation,connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods, services, or commercial activities by another person, or\n(B) in commercial advertising or promotion, misrepresents the nature, characteristics, qualities, or geographic origin of his or her or another person\u2019s goods, services, or commercial activities, shall be liable in a civil action by any person who believes that he or she is or is likely to be damaged by such act. 15 U.S.C. \u00a7 1125(a).\nThus, for Plaintiff to prevail in its action for trade and service mark infringement under \u00a7\u00a7 32(1) and 43(a) of the Lanham Act, P1aintiff must establish that: (1) Plaintiff owns a valid and protectable mark; (2) Registrant used the mark in commerce in connection with the sale, offering of sale, distribution, or advertising of goods and/or services; and (3) Registrant\u2019s use of the mark is likely to cause confusion among customers.\nVirginia\u2019s statutory requirements under Va. Code \u00a7 59.1-92.12 for trade and service mark infringement and Virginia\u2019s common law requirements for unfair competition are analogous to that ofthe federal requirements under\u00a7\u00a7 32(1) and 43(a) of the Lanham Act.\nVa. Code\u00a7 59.1-92.12 states that an action for service mark infringement may be brought against any person who uses in a manner likely to cause a consumer confusion, mistake,or deception as to the source or origin of any goods or services, without the consent of the owner of a registered mark, any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of a registered mark in connection with the sale, offering for sale, distribution, or advertising of such goods or services.\n1. Ownership of the SHARETV Service Mark\nPlaintiff is the owner of U.S. Registration No. 3,947,657 for the SHARETV service mark.\nBecause Defendant has failed to respond to Plaintiffs allegations in the instant case.and because upon default Defendant concedes Plaintiff\u2019s allegations, Plaintiff has established its exclusive rights to the SHARETV service mark.\nA likelihood of confusion exists \u201cif the defendant\u2019s actual practice is likely to produce confusion in the minds of consumers about the origin of goods or services in question.\u201d\nIn assessing the confusion, the standard is \u201chow the two parties actually use their marks in the marketplace to detennine whether the defendant\u2019s use is likely to cause confusion.\u201d\nThe Fourth Circuit set out nine factors to assess whether a likelihood of confusion exists including:\n(1) the strength or distinctiveness of the plaintiff\u2019s mark as actually used in the marketplace; (2) the similarity of the two marks to consumers; (3) the similarity of the goods or services that the marks identify; (4) the similarity of the facilities used by the two parties; (5) the similarity of advertising used by the two parties; (6) the defendant\u2019s intent; (7) actual confusion; (8) the quality of the defendant\u2019s product; and (9) the sophistication of the consuming public.\nNot all of these factors are of equal importance, nor are they always relevant in any given case.\nFurther, evidence of actual confusion, is weighed most heavily in the likelihood-of-confusion analysis.\nIn assessing the likelihood of confusion,this Court examines eight of the nine relevant factors within the nine factor test.11\na. Strength of Distinctiveness of Plaintiffs Mark\nSince 2007, Plaintiff has grown significantly and incurred numerous followers and users.\nThus, due to Plaintifrs expansive online television business, including fifty million total users and two million monthly users, it follows that Plaintifrs SHARElV service mark is recognizable.\nPlaintiff has also heavily invested in advertising and promoting its online television website and services in connection with the SHARETV mark.\nConsequently, the commercial value of the SHARETV service mark is strong enough to enhance the confusion of actual and potential consumers.\nBecause Plaintiff federally registered its SHARETV service mark, the mark is presumed inherently distinctive and its registration constitutes prima facie evidence that the mark is not generic or merely descriptive.\nIn total, this Court finds that the foregoing illustrates that Plaintiff\u2019s SHARETV mark is both distinctive and strong.\nb. Similarity of the Marks\nBecause the Domain Name is virtually identical to the SHARETV service mark, save the additional <\u201c.com\u201d>, and also because this additional part is not a part of the actual service mark, the marks appear identical.\nThe Fourth Circuit has held that a likelihood of confusion exists when a domain name is identical to the mark in question, regardless of whether confusion about a website\u2019s source or sponsorship could be resolved by visiting the plaintiff\u2019s true website.\nRegistrant\u2019s addition of \u201c.com\u201d to the Plaintitrs SHARETV service mark to create the Defendant Domain Name may actually enhance the likelihood of confusion between the SHARETV service mark and the Domain Name because many Internet users may mistakenly associate the Domain Name with the SHARETV service mark and business. See id. The fact that the Domain Name is nearly identical to the SHARETV service mark in tenns of appearance, sound,and meaning weighs heavily in favor of a likelihood of confusion. See George & Co., 575 F.3d at 396. Thus, due to the similarity of the Plaintitrs SHARETV mark and the mark Registrant\u2019s uses in the Domain Name, this Court finds that the marks are nearly identical.\nc. Similarity of the Goods/Services\nThe Defendant\u2019s Domain Name website purports to be the home page of Plaintifrs SHARETV and displays the messages:\u201dThe TV that we share with neighbors\u201dand \u201cComing Soon. \u201d (Compl.1j38.) Although the Domain Name website does not currently offer any identifiable goods or services, if Registrant acts on his published statements that TV services will be \u201cComing Soon,\u201dit is likely that Registrant will utilize the Domain Name to offer competing services to those offered by Plaintiff. See George & Co., 575 F.3d at 397. Thus, because Registrant purports to offer the same services as Plaintiff in the future, this Court finds that the goods and services to be rendered are similar.\nd. Similarity of Facilities Used in Business\nDefendant\u2019s Domain Name website and Plaintiff\u2019s website both use the internet to connect with consumers. The use of substantially identical means by both the Plaintiff and Defendant to facilitate services to consumers weighs in favor of finding a likelihood of confusion. explaining that the fourth factor weighs in favor of finding a likelihood of confusion where both parties used the internet to facilitate services to consumers).\nThus, upon comparison of the facilities used by both Plaintiff and Registrant, this Court finds that the facilities are identical.\ne. Similarity of Advertising\nSince Plaintiffs business began in 2007, Plaintiff has conducted business and collected revenue in connection with the SHARETV service mark and trade name.\nPlaintiff has invested heavily in online advertising and promotion for its television community and services offered under the SHARETV service mark.\nRegistrant does not have the same longevity, advertising, and promotion services as Plaintiff.\nIn fact, Registrant\u2019s only advertising contains the phrase \u201cComing Soon\u201d alongside the phrase \u201cThe TV that we share with neighbors.\u201d\nHowever, the advertising does use the same facility, being the internet, and targets the same consumer audience.\nFurther, Registrant\u2019s lack of advertising suggests that Registrant sought to obtain a free ride off the SHARETV service mark reputation and the advertising efforts of Plaintiff.\nThus, although the advertising quality and quantity between the two parties is not similar, because they share the same medium and audience, this Court finds that as a whole, these factors minimally weigh in favor of the likelihood of confusion by consumers.\nf. Registrant\u2019s Intent\nRegistrant\u2019s intent can be inferred by a series of events including:a pattern of registering and using over 1,500 domain names; the lack of the Defendant Domain Name\u2019s use in connection with any bonafide goods or services; Plaintiff\u2019s cease-and-desist letter to Registrant putting Registrant on notice of his infringing use; and Registrant\u2019s modification of the Defendant Domain Name shortly after discussions with Plaintiff.\nAlthough intent to deceive is not required for a finding of confusion, if there is intent to confuse the public, this intent constitutes strong evidence of establishing a likelihood of confusion. See Pizzeria Uno, 747 F.2d at 1535. Thus, as evidenced by the aforementioned events on the part of Registrant, the undersigned concludes that Registrant\u2019s actions were done with the deliberate intent to deceive potential and actual users/consumers of Plaintiff\u2019s website.\ng. Actual Confusion\nA defendant\u2019s conduct which results in actual confusion among consumers is one of the most heavily weighed factors in ascertaining the existence of a likelihood of confusion.\nTo date, multiple users of Plaintiffs website have reported their confusion between Registrant\u2019s Domain Name and Plaintiff\u2019s website.\nAdditionally, a writer for the New York Post\u2019s on-line newspaper confused Defendant Domain Name with Plaintiff\u2019s domain name, which confirms that a variety of consumers are actually confused by Registrant\u2019s use of the Domain Name.\nTherefore, the undersigned finds that Plaintiff pleads clear evidence that actual confusion between the Domain Name and Plaintiff\u2019s website has occurred.\nh. Sophistication of the consuming public\nAlong with the consuming public, a writer for the New York Post\u2019 s online newspaper, a recognizable publication, confused Plaintiff\u2019s website with Defendant Domain Name. Such confusion constitutes adequate evidence of confusion by both the general public as well as sophisticated users.\nAccordingly, upon review of the record and after giving weight to the aforementioned factors, the undersigned finds that Plaintiff has sufficiently plead that Registrant\u2019s actions in connection with Defendant Domain Name result in a clear finding that such actions are likely to cause confusion to consumers. T\nhus, this Court finds that Registrant\u2019s use of Plaintiff s SHARETV mark in the Domain Names constitutes trademark infringement under 15 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 1114 and 11 25(a) as well as Va. Code\u00a7 59.1-92.12 and Virginia\u2019s common law requirements for unfair competition.\nB. Count Three: Virginia Consumer Protection Act\nPursuant to Va. Code\u00a7 59.1-200(A)(2), (3) and (14), the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to \u201cmisrepresent the source,sponsorship,approval,or certification of goods or services\u2026 misrepresent the affiliation, connection, or association of the supplier, or of the goods or services, with another \u2026 [or] use any other deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise, or misrepresentation in connection with a consumer transaction.\u201d\nDefendant Domain Name purports to be the home page of Plaintiff, and displays the messages: \u201cThe TV that we share with neighbors\u201dand \u201cComing Soon.\u201d\nFurther, Defendant Domain Name\u2019s failure to use the website in connection with any bona fide goods or services, Plaintiffs cease-and-desist letter to Registrant making Registrant aware of his infringing use, and Registrant\u2019s modification of the Domain Name shortly after discussions with Plaintiff show an attempt by the Registrant to misrepresent affiliation, connection, or association of SHARETV with Plaintiff in violation of the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, Va. Code\u00a7 59.1-200.\nIn sum, this Court finds that Registrant\u2019s use of Plaintiff\u2019s SHARETV mark in connection with Defendant Domain Name constitutes trademark infringement under 15 U.S.C. \u00a7\u00a7 1114 and 1125(a) as well as Virginia\u2019s common law requirements for unfair competition, Va. Code \u00a7 59.1-92.12, and the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, Va. Code \u00a7 59.1-200.\nIV. RELIEF\nAlthough Plaintiff\u2019s Complaint seeks several remedies Plaintiff\u2019s Motion for Default Judgment asks only for the transfer of the Domain Name to Plaintiff.\nUnder\u00a7 43(d)(2) of the Lanham Act, the relief for an in rem proceeding is forfeiture or cancellation of the domain name or transfer of the domain name to the owner of the trademark.\nSince the registry for Defendant Domain Name, Verisign Inc., is located within this judicial district and subject to the Court\u2019s jurisdiction, this Court may properly order Verisign Inc. to transfer the Defendant Domain Name to Plaintiff\u2019s chosen registrar,eNom, Inc. so that eNom, Inc. may register the Domain Name in Plaintiff\u2019s name.\nFiled Under: Domain Industry, Legal\n\u00ab Sedo.com Is Running Yahoo Premium Domain Auction Featuring AV.com\n1and1.com Tops 4 Million New gTLD Pre-Reservations; Adding 1.5 Million In a Month \u00bb\nlooks like non-profits get special considerations\nmaybe the judge took a bribe. wouldn\u2019t be the first time it happened in the eastern district of virginia. i use to work at the fairfax county courthouse. long time ago though\u2026 i\u2019m sure those kinda practices no longer exist.\nDomainNameSales.co says\nI\u2019m going to go trademark AU and steal au.com\u2026.\nA properly defended lawsuit would likely have yielded much different results.\n+++ Fre.ee +++ Picti.US +++ BreakingNews.VC +++ says\na threat for all domainers\n@George \u2013 I agree. So I shouldn\u2019t trademark AF and go after AF.com?\nSalvador Villase\u00f1or Roman says\nAs someone that has been working in the Start-up scene for some time know this is good news for them, to many cyber-squatters are affecting real company\u2019s in growing and actually creating something. Cyber-squatters an patent trolls are disrupting innovation, its time to update the Laws to stop this.\nThis is very simple argument, would you rather have some one register a domain an never use it, or have some on register a domain, create a company, create jobs, innovate technology an be the next Google or Facebook.\nThe lesson here\u2026 if you want the .COM version of a name, go register another extension of it, trademark it, and hey, you might just get lucky. Or better yet, just buy a gun, go to the .COM owner\u2019s WHOIS address, (hopefully not under privacy or a PO Box\u2026 although you could stalk the PO Box), and threaten to kill him or her, if she doesn\u2019t sign it over to you. Both are somewhat the same thing, since the end result is the same.\nGotta love those in the field of law with a supposedly high educational background, but definitely low common sense.\nI\u2019ve been working with startups in Silicon Valley since the early \u201980s, and NO, this is not good news. Let\u2019s just get rid of copyrights, patents and other property-right laws while we\u2019re at it, shall we?\nGeorge \u2013 you are correct \u2013 you only get as much justice as you can afford\n\u201cJustice\u201d on this is a no-brainer. All the facts are there. It\u2019d be like your neighbor trying to lay claim to your house or wife, using the excuse, \u201cWell, he\u2019s gone on business all the time, and not really using either.\u201d\nThere are legal ways to go about \u2018taking\u2019 the wife, (which the husband would have to agree with and sign the proper legal documents), but not the house. But simply not using either doesn\u2019t mean someone can come along and just take them. At least, not legally.\nOn my street half of the homes are owned by people who come live there for 2 months out of the year. So should the government allow homeless to occupy these homes in the meantime, as the homeowners do pay their property taxes, as do domain owners pay there fees.\nIf a company is going to innovate, and create a company, and jobs, a single domain name will not stop them. Your comment has to be the stupidest comment I have ever read on this blog. I feel sorry for any startup that ever hired you, FAIL!\nSalvador: I have great news. New gtlds are on the way. Now startups can choose between hundreds of .whatevers for their company website, instead of STEALING the .com of the name them and everyone else wish they owned. You talk innovation but I these great startups aren\u2019t even innovative enough to come up with a descriptive meaningful .com domain. And don\u2019t tell me \u201cthey are all taken\u201d because that is hogwash.\nThe \u201ccyber-squatters\u201d as you call them, aren\u2019t the one ones affecting companies growth. Lack of sales and poor decision making affect. companies growth. period dot com\nSalvador: so if your startup wants to brand around a great name in which the .com is already taken instead of buying it, you register the domain in a different extension and then build the brand and register the trademark years later and then go back and take away the domain from the guy who thought of it years before you did\nThat not really innovation that is theft by design and its been around in various forms for many hundreds of years.\nsalvador, that is not what capitalism is about. using that logic if your start up doesn\u2019t offer the best services at the best prices then all of your employees, equipment,etc should just be given to your competitor because they can do more with it than you can. the same idea can be applied to land, lets just take away the land from landowners who don\u2019t put it to the best use. that sounds like communism, not capitalism.\nalso, facebook and google didn\u2019t need to steal domains to be a success.\nDaveZ says\nYour kind of argument didn\u2019t stop the founder of Klout from eventually buying Klout.com. That doesn\u2019t have to be either-or unless you want to limit yourself to that.\nI have to chime in here again with DaveZ.\nWhat you are essentially saying is if you own decent beachfront property \u2013 and lets say you even offer it for sale \u2013 but the high bidder to date is no where close to what you think it is worth \u2013 then they can go to court and take it away. Come on now.\nThis also brings to light that if you own decent real estate you have to be prepared to defend it \u2013 that is a cost of doing business \u2013 and in doing so possibly gives it the value you think it is worth.\nChalk this up as successful demonizing of domain investors by large corporations that didn\u2019t realize the marketing power of the Internet early on. Clueless judges have been brainwashed into believing domain investors are one notch above pedophiles.\nThe real problem is that a judge can order you to give away your domain just because you used it to break the law. It\u2019s absurd. They can order you to pay damages, they can order you to remove current contents, they can forbid you to use it in a certain way \u2013 all this is ok in relevant cases. But taking the domain away? If you buy or build a store next to a Walmart store and put a big sign saying \u201cWalmart entrance HERE\u201d \u2013 they can and will stop you from doing that, maybe they will fine you, but will they take the store away from you just for doing that? For many, domains are just strings of letters. But isn\u2019t a store just a pile of bricks? So easy to just take away something as virtual as a domain name\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 36166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedupontgroup.net/blog/2013/08/01/stinson-beach-ca-real-estate-update/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:09Z", "digest": "sha1:L6HEBPYPH737UTXSBVOS25SJ5RIKCJC7", "length": 504, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thedupontgroup.net", "title": "Stinson Beach CA Real Estate Update | The Dupont Group - Real Estate", "raw_content": "Stinson Beach CA Real Estate Update\nGraphic representation of average selling prices for homes and condos in Stinson Beach California through July 12, 2013.\nYear to year comparison of how many dollars per square foot residences in Stinson Beach California (SFR and condos) are selling for through July 12, 2013.\nVisual display of the number of residential properties in Stinson Beach California (SFR and condos) that have been sold from year to year starting in January 2008, going through July 12, 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/sports/soccer/article-after-loss-to-tfc-impact-look-to-rebound-against-east-leading-red/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:08Z", "digest": "sha1:5QZ7ZRQQ2YHUPDLRFSTXZBAGNREXDHUH", "length": 3949, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.theglobeandmail.com", "title": "After loss to TFC, Impact look to rebound against East-leading Red Bulls - The Globe and Mail", "raw_content": "After loss to TFC, Impact look to rebound against East-leading Red Bulls\nEven after a humbling loss in Toronto, Montreal Impact fullback Daniel Lovitz is eager to face the Eastern Conference-leading New York Red Bulls.\nThe Impact (10-14-3) play host to the Red Bulls (17-6-4) on Saturday night at Saputo Stadium looking to strengthen their grip on the conference\u2019s sixth and final playoff spot.\nMontreal is coming off a 3-1 defeat last week to rival TFC and now faces a New York squad that is unbeaten in its past six games. A 1-0 win over Houston on Wednesday put the Red Bulls into top spot in the east by one point over Atlanta, which has a game in hand.\n\u201cAfter a loss, most people say you want to win the next game, but if you play a weaker opponent it doesn\u2019t really mean as much compared to playing the top team in the East,\u201d Lovitz said this week. \u201cIf you can get a good result against that team, it sets a clear standard and precedent for the rest of the games.\n\u201cIt\u2019s about looking these teams in the eye and playing them straight up because you look at the rest of the games on our slate and I think all of us would say that we really like our schedule, compared to some of the teams we\u2019re competing with.\u201d\nWith seven games to play in the regular season, the Impact are four points ahead of seventh-place New England, who have two games in hand, and six ahead of D.C. United, who have played three fewer games.\nRather than seeing their position as precarious, Lovitz likes where they are. They play at D.C. on Sept. 29 and close the regular season Oct. 28 in New England.\n\u201cWe have less volume of games and the difficulty of those game may not being as strong as some of the teams we have to face,\u201d Lovitz said. \u201cSo everyone we\u2019re close to and need to beat to get in the playoffs, we\u2019re going to be playing. That\u2019s incredibly important.\u201d\nIt\u2019s been a busy month for the Red Bulls, who went 4-0-2 in August. New York will be playing it\u2019s fourth game in 11 days and its third in a week.\nAgainst Houston, the Red Bulls made six changes to the starting 11 from their previous game and still managed to win, as Brian White scored in his first Major League Soccer start.\n\u201cI watched their lineups and I saw that they had three young players starting in the game,\u201d Impact coach Remi Garde said. \u201cThey have a deep squad and they can rotate a lot.\n\u201cSix players from the game before, so I don\u2019t expect a tired team. They will be ready, fit for the last of the five they had to play in the last 15 days. I\u2019m not betting on a tired team at all.\u201d\nThe Impact lost 3-1 in Harrison, N.J. on April 14 in the only other meeting between the clubs this season, with Jeisson Vargas scoring Montreal\u2019s goal from a free kick.\nThe upside of the loss was that first-year Impact players, who make up much of the starting 11, got an up-close look at the Red Bull stars such as Bradley Wright-Phillips and Daniel Royer.\n\u201cThe coaches can prepare and game plan for what the other team will bring, but on game day it always looks and feels a little different,\u201d Lovitz said. \u201cIf it\u2019s your first time it can be a little overwhelming.\n\u201cI think we\u2019ve seen that a couple of times this year. But in general, we\u2019re focused on us more than anything.\u201d\nThe Impact are expected to move team scoring leader Ignacio Piatti back to the left wing after using him at centre forward in Toronto. Veteran striker Matteo Mancosu is likely to return to the lineup.\nThere is a question mark in the central defence as Rudy Camacho took a knock on a knee in training this week, but Garde was optimistic he will be able to play. With Victor Cabrera injured and Zakaria Diallo not yet ready to make his debut, Jukka Raitala would move in if Camacho can\u2019t play.\nWhitecaps look to strengthen defence in rematch with Earthquakes\nSixth-place Impact brace to finish out the season with trio of slumping strikers\nAlphonso Davies among five teenagers named to Canada men\u2019s soccer team for CONCACAF qualifier", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theinformation.com/contributors/179077", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CMZLYUX5JUC73TZF6BZAVYRA3JKKNDQ5", "length": 680, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.theinformation.com", "title": "The Information", "raw_content": "Managing Director, TrendWatching\nHenry is the author of \"Trend-Driven Innovation\" and managing director of TrendWatching. He's given over 50 inspiring and practical presentations in more than 30 countries on six continents in the last three years alone. He has also spoken at events with thought leaders (from Seth Godin to Steven Johnson), ground-breaking entrepreneurs (from Robin Chase to Eric Schmidt), politicians (from George W. Bush to Rudy Giuliani), inspirational world leaders (Kofi Annan and Muhammed Yunus) and many, many more. Henry is regularly quoted as a trend expert in business publications, and has appeared on CNBC, the BBC, Al Jazeera and Brazil's Globo News.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thejournal.ie/ira-murdered-body-british-army-captain-nairac-2568415-Jan2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TIZ65I4PRFSZU34LZN4UDCQT7AGOJREQ", "length": 2358, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.thejournal.ie", "title": "Murdered by the IRA, the body of this British Army Captain has been missing for 40 years", "raw_content": "geoff knupfer\nMurdered by the IRA, the body of this British Army Captain has been missing for 40 years\nNairac was believed to have been undercover as an IRA member when he was killed.\nBy Michael Sheils McNamee Tuesday 26 Jan 2016, 5:15 PM\nCaptain Robert Nairac Source: Wikicommons/Fair Use\nAN APPEAL HAS been made for one of the disappeared about whose final resting place the least is known.\nRobert Nairac, a Captain in the British Army, went missing in 1977 after he was abducted and murdered by the IRA.\nHe was last seen in south Armagh, where he had been working undercover, operating under the guise of being an Official IRA member.\nTo this day his abduction is shrouded in mystery, and speaking today Geoff Knupfer, the chief investigator with the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims\u2019 Remains (ICLVR), said that the case was the one they had the \u201cleast information to work from\u201d.\nOn the hope of uncovering new information, Knupfer said:\nThe Disappeared came from a range of backgrounds but what they all have in common is that they have grieving families who had to bear the additional terrible burden of years of not knowing where their loved one was buried.\nIn the past two years the remains of three of the disappeared have surfaced following appeals for new information.\nIn September last year the bodies of Seamus Wright and Kevin McKee were found in a bog in Meath.\nBrendan Megraw was found in 2014, allowing him to be given a Christian burial ceremony.\nThis renewed appeal comes after the publication of \u2018Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC\u2019 by Alistair Kerr, a book that looks at the detail of the case.\nRead: \u201c1980s Ireland was a different world\u201d \u2013 the injustice in the search for missing woman Priscilla Clarke\nAlso: Family of murdered teenager in emotional appeal for information\n\nEmail \u201cMurdered by the IRA, the body of this British Army Captain has been missing for 40 years \u201d.\nFeedback on \u201cMurdered by the IRA, the body of this British Army Captain has been missing for 40 years \u201d.\nMurdered by the IRA, the body of this British Army Captain has been missing for 40 years Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 10192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thelitbot.com/blog/2016/01/university-agrees-to-settle-wage-and-hour-claim.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:40Z", "digest": "sha1:B72KX6G5GCLRX3GUR7E7QG3PSUUBJ54G", "length": 1398, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thelitbot.com", "title": "University agrees to settle wage and hour claim | The Litigation Boutique LLC", "raw_content": "The $2.5 million settlement was announced on a recent Wednesday as a resolution to the ongoing payment dispute. Each worker is set to receive $7,700 before taxes for the construction work on the campus. Apparently, checks have been mailed to 179 workers so far, with another 146 laborers waiting to be paid by May 2016.\nThe substantial payout comes after an investigation of two years. Approximately 80 audits were conducted by the labor bureau's Wage and Hour Division. Officials determined that more than 40 contractors and subcontractors had failed to pay more than $2 million in required prevailing wages to workers on the project.\nA commissioner from the labor bureau expressed his satisfaction with investigators' efforts to ensure that workers get paid the wages due them. He said that his agency remains committed to making certain that workers in his state receive full wages according to state law. A Colorado worker with prevailing wage and hour claim issues may find it helpful to discuss the situation with an experienced employment law attorney in the area. Such labor situations can be complex and difficult to resolve without legal intervention. An attorney can act on behalf of an employee to pursue a resolution that protects the worker's interests.\nSource: oregonlive.com, \"Southern Oregon University to pay record $2.5 million to settle wage dispute\", George Rede, Dec. 30, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thelocal.it/20180131/italian-town-ollolai-sardinia-houses-1-euro-whats-the-catch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:00Z", "digest": "sha1:3C5R7QSC3STHIHLL5ZYL3U3PYUX4LNAE", "length": 3747, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.thelocal.it", "title": "Can you really buy a house in a historic Italian town for \u20ac1? - The Local", "raw_content": "sardiniatravelrelocationproperty\nOllolai. Photo: Pispisos - CC BY-SA 3.0/Wikimedia Commons\nIt's an unmissable offer for anyone dreaming of spending their days relaxing in the Italian sunshine: an idyllic mountain town is selling houses for just \u20ac1 apiece. So, is there a catch?\nWell, yes \u2013 but you don't need to give up on the dream just yet.\nThe town of Ollolai is nestled in central Sardinia, the island off Italy's southwest coast which is most famous abroad for its beaches, wine, and the locals' longevity. Over the past 30 years, the town's population has halved, reaching a low of just 1,300, with middle-aged childless couples making up the majority. Many of Ollolai's historic stone houses have been left to fall into disrepair.\nUK firm buys Sardinians' DNA to unlock secrets to a long life\nWhy Italy is giving away 100 historic buildings for free\nTo tackle this phenomenon, mayor Efisio Arbau launched the 'houses for \u20ac1' scheme, inviting interested buyers from all around the world to snap up a home at a rock-bottom price.\nBargain hunters should be aware that there are extra costs involved for anyone who chooses to take Ollolai up on the offer. As well as purchasing costs, each of the houses requires significant restoration, and a condition of buying the property is to start restoration within a year and complete it in three, at an estimated cost of around \u20ac20-30,000. Buyers become the owner of the house and, if they wish, can sell it five years after the sale.\nA post shared by Vito (@vitotoro76) on Jan 13, 2018 at 2:12pm PST\nThe scheme has been tried out by several mayors of towns threatened by depopulation, as The Local reported back in 2014, and in Ollolai it's been running since 2015.\nThe first person to take advantage of the \u20ac1 houses was a fellow Sardinian, a retired builder named Vito Casula, who bought his house in spring 2016. \"The house that he has chosen to restore within one year is located in the historic centre, on a street where residents are counted on the fingers of one hand,\" said mayor Arbau at the time.\nAlready by the summer of that year, the town had received twice as many applications as they had available houses, and it began to spark interest abroad. After Dutch TV channel RTL reported on the scheme in June 2017, city authorities said applications increased fivefold, with several Dutch residents hoping to settle down in the town.\nBy late 2017 the number of requests had risen to 120, from Russia, Poland, Australia, and the USA. Arbau said many of the applicants were second-generation immigrants who wanted a \"point of contact\" with the country of their ancestors.\nThe video below shows some of the houses included in the project.\nAmerica's CNN reported on Ollolai in late January 2018, sparking a fresh wave of interest in the English-speaking world.\nBut because of the popularity of the offer, anyone tempted by the move to Ollolai should know that there's a February 7th deadline for applications.\nThe town's mayor said that the number of requests already made had \"potentially exhausted the houses currently available\". He explained that applications would be assessed in the order in which they were made, and that if more houses are made available in the future, it will be announced on the town's official website.\nFor anyone who isn't successful in finding a house in Ollolai, there are several other towns running the \u20ac1-house initiative.\nThe municipalities whose calls are active are: Those include Patrica (Lazio), Lecce de Marsi (Abruzzo) Fabbriche di Vergemol\u00ec (Tuscany), Montieri (Tuscany), and Carrera Ligure (Piedmont). Further information can be found on the scheme's website, Case a \u20ac1 Euro.\nREAD ALSO: The curious ways Italy is bringing its ghost towns back to life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 8442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thepennyhoarder.com/make-money/game-show-auditions-open-casting-calls/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:D2M5F6K6XBVJT47RO4XT4HDTEL7NYJUA", "length": 5847, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.thepennyhoarder.com", "title": "Game Show Auditions: 7 Shows With Open Casting Calls", "raw_content": "Think You\u2019re Smart Enough to Win a Game Show? These 7 are Casting Online\nAdam Korzekwa/Getty Images\nIf you catch yourself shouting answers at the TV during \u201cWheel of Fortune\u201d or killing it during bar trivia night, you might want to show off your skills on the small screen.\nWe found a variety of game shows you can audition for without leaving home.\nThe first four are advertising open casting calls, with filming starting soon. In this list, we\u2019ve also included ongoing audition information for some of your favorite classic shows, in case you want to throw your hat in the ring for future seasons.\nAlec Baldwin hosts the most recent revival of this iconic game show. Two contestants guess how a panel of six celebrities fill in the blanks to a series of \u201csomewhat silly\u201d questions.\nThe player with the most matches after two rounds goes on to play the Super Match, where they can win up to $25,000.\nTo apply: You must be at least 21 years old and legal resident of the U.S. to apply.\nAnswer a few questions and upload recent photos online here. You\u2019ll be contacted within a few weeks if you\u2019re chosen to proceed further in the casting process.\nIf you\u2019re cast on the show, you\u2019ll need to be able to go to New York City between Nov. 2-7 for filming.\n2. $100,000 Pyramid\nThis most recent version of the original \u201c$25,000 Pyramid\u201d is hosted by Pro Football Hall of Famer Michael Strahan.\nThe game features two contestants, each paired with a celebrity, attempting to guess a series of words based on clues from their teammates. You can win up to \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 $100,000.\nYou\u2019ll need to make a video and fill out an online application here. You may be contacted for a phone or Skype interview/audition, and you\u2019ll hear back via email if you\u2019re selected to move forward.\n\u201cPyramid\u201d films in New York, and dates are yet to be set.\nThe reality show that sparked our obsession with the genre is still going strong and casting for seasons 35 and 36 (across 17 years).\nTo apply: You must be 18 years or older and a U.S. citizen to apply (19 in Alabama and Nebraska, 21 in Mississippi and Washington, D.C.).\nYou\u2019ll need to upload a video and recent photo, include your bio, and answer a few questions in the application here.\nYou can also keep an eye out for open casting calls by your local CBS affiliate here.\nYou\u2019ll get an email if you\u2019re selected to move forward. Filming dates for upcoming seasons are tentative, but looking at end of April for season 35 and early June for season 36.\nYou\u2019ll need to be available for filming and travel for 46 days.\n4. Idiotest\nThis game show was derived from the popular app of the same name and is hosted by comedian Ben Gleib on Game Show Network.\nPairs of contestants compete on giant touch screens to \u201canswer deceptively simple questions \u2026 trying to win money or at least not look stupid.\u201d\nTo apply: Email your name, age, contact info and relationship to your game partner to the address listed here.\nThe show shoots in Los Angeles, and potential shoot dates are mid-November, according to Backstage.\n5. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire\nTo throw yourself into the casting pool for the chance to win $1 million, create a 30-second video explaining why you\u2019re a fit. Include a YouTube link to the video in the application here.\nIf selected, you\u2019ll be invited for an over-the-phone test. A passing score on the test will earn you a video interview audition. If you\u2019re selected from your audition, you\u2019ll be in the contestant pool for the next two seasons.\nProducers will select potential contestants from the contestant pool. If you\u2019re selected, you\u2019ll have to make your own travel arrangements to Las Vegas for taping.\nYou must be 18 years of age or older a legal resident of the U.S. to apply. Kids ages 8 to 15 can apply for the specialty Whiz Kids Week shows. A parent or legal guardian should fill out the Whiz Kids application here.\nThink you\u2019ve got the wits and brains to be the next Ken Jennings? Even if you don\u2019t break records and go home with $2.5 million, you could win a bundle on this classic trivia show.\nTo apply: The first step to getting on \u201cJeopardy!\u201d is to take an online test.\nExcept for specialty competitions, you must be 18 years or older to apply. No residency requirements are listed (Canadians are encouraged to apply).\nIf you meet the requirements and pass the online test, you may be contacted within a year for a in-person audition in Culver City, California (near Los Angeles).\nYour in-person audition will take about two hours and include:\nanother test similar to the online test\na mock version of the game\nan interview that shows your personality\nAfter your in-person audition, you\u2019ll remain in the applicant pool for 18 months, and producers will notify you about a month in advance of taping if you\u2019re selected for a show.\nThe show typically tapes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from August to May.\nJust about anyone is eligible to join this game show, according to its website \u2014 \u201cWhether you\u2019re an adult, teenager, undergraduate college student, or member of the Armed Forces, we\u2019re always looking for smart, enthusiastic players!\u201d\nTo apply: You must be 18 or older and a legal resident of the U.S. to apply. If you\u2019re a teen applying to compete in a specialty week, a parent or guardian must fill out the application for you.\nCreate a short video, and include a YouTube URL or upload directly to the application here. You\u2019ll also need to include a head shot and answer a variety of questions about yourself.\nHow to Be Selected as a Game Show Contestant\nReady to audition? Read our tips to make sure you have the best chance to be selected as a game show contestant.\nWant to be the first to know about other fun and interesting money-making opportunities like this? Like The Penny Hoarder Jobs on Facebook to stay in the loop!\nYour Turn: Have you ever wanted to compete on a game show?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 10288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk/en/About-us/Freedom-of-information-(FOI)/Recently-released-information/TPR-event-at-the-Amex-Community-Stadium-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:09Z", "digest": "sha1:6NTXYLESKLLDAI2Y4UQCJEMAWYVVSG72", "length": 491, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk", "title": "TPR event at the Amex Community Stadium | The Pensions Regulator", "raw_content": "TPR event at the Amex Community Stadium\nPlease could you outline any cost incurred to your organisation from the Christmas event held for The Pensions Regulator's employees at the Amex at the end of 2016?\nI can confirm that a Christmas event was held on 8 December 2016 at the Amex Community Stadium at the cost of \u00a318,053. Please note that this cost has been rounded to the nearest pound.\nThis event followed a staff conference which was held on the afternoon of that day at the same venue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 190.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theromegroup.com/job/2525/marketing-and-communications-manager/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HUZ5VFXPYKC4TNCJYEBLOERIYYKZL5PX", "length": 7104, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.theromegroup.com", "title": "Marketing and Communications Manager - The Rome Group", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Jobs \u00bb Marketing and Communications Manager\nFamilyForward\nFamilyForward leads the community in providing innovative solutions for advancing safer, healthier relationships for children and families.\nFamilyForward moves vulnerable children in the direction of hope by delivering comprehensive therapeutic and educational services to support biological, foster, and adoptive families.\nOut Front: We are leaders in the use of innovative tools and methods to get better results for the children and families we serve. We prefer to set the pace, testing new ideas and collecting data; always striving to make the biggest impact we can.\nWhole Hearted: We are tirelessly committed to the vision and mission of FamilyForward. We use our unique talents and expertise to serve our clients and community with compassion, acceptance, and respect.\nRock Solid: We are responsible stewards of an organization with a long and proud history of service. Reliable, trustworthy, and hard-working, we do whatever it takes to get the job done, even when no one is watching.\nThe Marketing and Communications Manager will develop a high level of awareness and financial support for FamilyForward\u2019s vision and mission through planning, development, and implementation of all internal and external communications, public relations activities, and marketing strategies.\nOversees FamilyForward\u2019s brand and positioning, internal and external communications; media relations; website; public awareness and marketing initiatives; social media; development, execution, and evaluation of communications strategies for the agency. Primary working relationships inside the agency include the Chief Development Officer and Development department, executive and clinical leadership, staff, and volunteers. Outside the agency, the position coordinates with the media, other non-profit organizations, donors, and corporate partners. Carries out the vision, mission, and values of FamilyForward by completing the following functions:\nFacilitate internal and external communications, including development, production, and distribution of materials, speeches, reports, and presentations; manage composition, editorial direction, and design of agency communications, including all publications, website, social media, media relations, donor relations, community outreach, and collaborations;\nDevelop marketing strategies; create, implement, and measure the success of comprehensive marketing, communications, and public relations plans to enhance the agency\u2019s brand, image, and position within the marketplace and with the public, and to significantly increase awareness of agency\u2019s vision and mission;\nDevelop and implement plans for effective and timely use of appropriate digital and social media channels (website, email marketing, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube); gather and analyze performance metrics to demonstrate results and enable decision making;\nEnsure consistent communication of FamilyForward\u2019s desired brand, image, and position throughout the community and agency, and to all audiences, both internal and external, to effectively engage constituents (staff, donors, community partners, governmental entities) in financial and non-financial support of the agency;\nEnsure appropriate use and consistency of branding and messaging within and across the agency, including print and digital materials such as letterhead, brochures, website, social media, and graphic assets;\nCoordinate media interest in FamilyForward and ensure regular contact with target media and appropriate response to media requests; provide training to respond to public relations issues thereby creating confidence within the leadership to be able to respond quickly and appropriately to public relations issues;\nCollaborate and participate in planning and implementation of special events to ensure success;\nProduce videos to educate constituents about FamilyForward\u2019s services and encourage financial and non-financial support of the agency (develop story, write interview questions and scripts, coordinate video shoots, partner with videographer to edit footage, and utilize footage in diverse ways to maximize exposure);\nResearch, analyze, and prepare reports and performance metrics on brand awareness, communication effectiveness, and donor responsiveness;\nPerform special projects or additional duties, as assigned.\nCore Competencies identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for workers to perform the job successfully.\nLeadership style that demonstrates team orientation, confidence, business savvy, maturity, and diplomacy.\nExcellent verbal and written communications skills, strong writer and editor, experienced at scripting executive leadership and making presentations to groups of all sizes.\nProfessional and regular use of social media and other digital marketing tools.\nFlexibility, creativity, and the ability to work effectively in a team-oriented, highly collaborative, and mutually respectful environment.\nAbility to develop and sustain positive, long-term, trust-based relationships with internal and external audiences at all levels.\nInnovative and critical thinking skills, ability to solve problems and work persuasively with colleagues.\nPassion about the work, coupled with strong work ethic.\nDemonstrable interest and commitment to the specific vision and mission of FamilyForward.\nStrong project management skills and initiative coupled with the ability to handle multiple and varying tasks with associated deadlines.\nAbility to read, analyze, and interpret business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, and governmental regulations.\nAbility to write reports and business correspondence.\nAbility to effectively present information one-on-one or to groups, and respond to questions from leadership, clients, customers, the public, and other employees of the agency.\nBachelor\u2019s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or relevant field.\nMinimum five years of hands-on experience in management of communications, marketing, or public relations, with a successful track record of communicating complex issues to a variety of audiences.\nFull proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; ability to merge, create reports, and link worksheets and data.\nExperience with the Adobe Creative Cloud applications.\nExtensive experience with HTML, WordPress, and email marketing programs, as well as an in-depth understanding of the effective use of digital media.\nAs directed by the Chief Development Officer.\nWhile performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and ability to adjust focus. Employee will frequently be required to lift files, open filing cabinets and bend or stand on a stool as necessary. (Occasionally: 1-33%, Frequently: 34-66%, Continuously: 67-100%)\nSupervises: Part-Time Graphic Designer and Part-Time Copywriter\nQualified candidates should send cover letter and resume to:\nJessica Dederer, MHA\nJessica.Dederer@familyforwardmo.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 10228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesocialmediatoday.com/google-games/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:FGIZZK7JW2XKACTTICIGL2GAOXEY4JAN", "length": 1666, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.thesocialmediatoday.com", "title": "Google+ users able to get their game on soon code shows", "raw_content": "Home > Google > Google+ users able to get their game on soon\nGoogle+ users able to get their game on soon\nGoogle+ Social game\nGoogle+ could carry social games, code shows.\nParts of the code behind Google\u2019s latest social network found by Engadget seem to indicate that Google+ has been built to be compatible with social games.\nThe section of the code discovered reads \u201chave sent you Game invites and more from Google+ Games,\u201d according to the website.\nThough Google did not address the strand of code directly, the company did say in a statement, \u201cGoogle+ is an ongoing project and this is just the beginning. We plan to add a lot of features and functionality to Google+ over time. We\u2019re just excited to get started.\u201d\nWith Google+, the tech company is attempting to compete with social network giant Facebook. Over the last few years, social gaming has been an important part of Facebook\u2019s revenue stream and led to users spending more time logged into Facebook each day.\nThe social gaming market was worth nearly $1.5 billion in 2010 and is expected to reach almost $4 billion by 2015, according to a report by Business Insights, an analysis firm.\nGoogle+\u2019s code also seems to indicate that the service may introduce a questions feature in the future, which could end up adding a function similar to website Quora, Engadget reported.\nThe social network launched Tuesday and put a halt on its invite-only entry Wednesday. Google+, which is still in a field test, is also expected to be opened to developers soon.\nGoogle Acquisition Could Reinvigorate its TV Plans\nGoogle Antitrust Probe By EU Yields 9 Complaints\nFeatures Comparison Between Facebook and Google Plus", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/2012/03/16/still_kooler_than_van_halen.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:B7NQIIHDBOYFYESJ5TIIID3UVY72AGQN", "length": 4359, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.thestar.com", "title": "Still kooler than Van Halen | The Star", "raw_content": "Still kooler than Van Halen\nBy Nick KrewenSpecial to the Star\nLife has its enduring mysteries.\nThere are the Seven Wonders of the World; the secret of getting caramel into the Caramilk bar and . . . Kool & The Gang opening for Van Halen?\nKool and the Gang opens for Van Halen on Saturday, March 17. (SILVIA MAUTNER / KTG PRESS PHOTO)\n\u201cThat's a bit of a head scratcher for sure,\u201d chuckles Robert \u201cKool\u201d Bell, founder and leader of the horn-heavy, 11-piece jazz funk and R&B band that has borne his name for the past 46 years.\nThe band is opening 52 dates for Van Halen on its reunion tour (they play the ACC on Saturday) and while the L.A. quartet is known for sometimes hiring unusual acts to warm up the crowd (one of Bob Marley's multitude of sons, Ky-mani Marley, did the honours back in '98), Kool & The Gang certainly qualifies as a left-field choice.\nAccording to Bell, it was David Lee Roth's idea. Diamond Dave saw the band perform this past summer in front of 60,000 fans at Glastonbury and that sealed the deal.\n\u201cHe told me when we were rehearsing out in L.A. for the show, that Van Halen was the party rock band of the '80s and Kool & The Gang was the party pop funk band of the '80s, and he said 60 per cent of his audience \u2014 which I didn't know \u2014 is female, and he said, \u2018You guys wrote \u201cLadies' Night\u201d' and he says, \u2018Why not, let's have a party.'\u201d\nWhile Kool reports that no projectiles have come the 10-piece band's way since they launched the tour eight concerts ago, he admits some of the crowd has been standoffish.\nInitially, at least.\n\u201cYou have the people who stand there, waiting to see what we're going to do,\u201d Bell admits. \u201cThe top of the set is ... \u2018Emergency' and \u2018Misled' and \u2018Tonight,' and that kind of gets the crowd going. Then we go into the '70s with \u2018Hollywood Swinging' and \u2018Jungle Boogie,' and then we close it out with \u2018Ladies' Night,' \u2018Get Down on It' and \u2018Celebration.' By that time, everybody's up on their feet, having a good time.\n\u201cNow, you still got some diehards that are just going to look, but I see where Dave was coming from as far as the lady followers, because by the time we hit \u2018Ladies' Night,' they're partying. They're looking at the guy next to them, or whoever came with them, and saying, \u2018What's the matter with you?'\n\u201cAnd they say, \u2018I'm a Van Halen diehard!' And she says, \u2018Well, you better get down on it, because you're now here with me!'\u201d\nBell utters a hearty laugh.\nOne of the more amusing facts about Kool & The Gang, rumoured to boast global sales of approximately 70 million albums, is that they've never taken a break.\n\u201cWe started around 1964,\u201d says Bell. \u201cWe're getting up there.\u201d\nWith 50 years of Kool & The Gang around the corner, Bell reveals there are a few things planned to help \u201cCelebrate\u201d the band's golden anniversary.\n\u201cMike Dunn and I are working on a project called Kool & Friends with guest artists,\u201d Kool says.\n\u201cWe've been talking to people like Bootsy Collins, Nile Rodgers. We'd even love to get Eddie (Van Halen) to be a part of this project. We're looking to do a solo project, which my brother Kalish will be producing.\n\u201cWe've also been in meetings going back and forth with Ben Elton, who did the musical We Will Rock You, and with Andrew Lloyd Webber and been talking about the possibility of doing a musical.\u201d\nAdds Bell, \u201cWe've been blessed to survive four decades, the '60s all the way up to this new millennium, and we've just been evolving our music over the years, starting off as a jazzy act and playing our own style of jazz. I guess you could call it \u2018Kool Jazz.' The name changed from the Jazzy Acts to the Soultown Band, and then Kool & The Flames, and then Kool & The Gang, and we came out with our first record in '69, and that took us into the '70s. . . .\n\u201cWe made it through the '70s and went into the disco style. (They were part of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, the biggest selling album until Michael Jackson's Thriller.)\n\u201cOur music, you could always dance to it, although it wasn't quite disco. I think that's how we slipped through the '80s, when we decided to get a lead singer. Then we came up with \u2018Ladies' Night' and \u2018Too Hot,' \u2018Celebration,' of course, and \u2018Cherish.'\u201d\nOne more word for Toronto concert-goers: \u201cLet them know that Van Halen, Kool & The Gang, we're coming to party. Rock, funk, whatever you like, we're going to give it to you.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 6768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 186.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetireshop.biz/tire-brands/dunlop-tires.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NGUNS6J2ZXBB3H2KI2HB5SLUJIWQFPCG", "length": 263, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thetireshop.biz", "title": "Dunlop Tires", "raw_content": "At The Tire Shop, we are a proud provider of Dunlop tires for customers in Canajoharie, NY, Fonda, NY, and Fort Plain, NY, and surrounding areas. Customers are bound to find the right tire to fit their budget in our selection of competitively priced Dunlop tires.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 4108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theuptrend.com/Good-Morning-Bay-Street-20100602.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SFMUN4JYYYRAFNTWNRBYJIQ776PSJZ7X", "length": 81, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.theuptrend.com", "title": "Stock Market Timing - Good Morning Bay Street - 20100602", "raw_content": "Canadian Stock Market Newsletters - Published Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 7:27am EST", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 163.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thf-cpa.com/2018/12/04/thf-welcomes-beau-liao-mathew-warren-firm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5YEH7BVNX3D4V6KW5OU7GXO7K7CXNX4Z", "length": 686, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thf-cpa.com", "title": "THF Welcomes Beau Liao and Matthew Warren to the Firm - Thomas Howell Ferguson", "raw_content": "THF welcomes Beau Liao and Matthew Warren to the firm.\nMatthew, a Tallahassee native, received his bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting from Flagler College. Matthew attended Chiles High School and is in his first year of public accounting.\nBeau, originally from China, received his bachelor\u2019s degree in accounting from Florida State University, followed by his master\u2019s degree in accounting from Florida State University. Beau is also in his first year of public accounting.\nMatthew and Beau are both members of the Florida Institute of Certified Public Accountants (FICPA) and will be working in the assurance services department.\nTHF welcomes Beau Liao and Matthew Warren to the THF team!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thirdspace.london/2017/01/laser-porn-how-to-stay-forever-young/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XGTAN5U5RY5AF7KAA5S3N7AIFLKFSOTK", "length": 3590, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thirdspace.london", "title": "Laser porn: How to stay forever young | Third Space", "raw_content": "Laser Porn: How To Stay Forever Young\nLifestyle Friday, January 6, 2017\nA few years ago, former Friends star Jennifer Aniston admitted the key to her youthful looks had little to do with super-fruit smoothies or mindful meditation but was down to her obsession with \u2018laser porn\u2019, an intense skin rejuvenation treatment using lasers. You have to love her honesty.\nShe went on to explain how the lasers caused the top layer of dead skin to fall off, revealing fresh, younger-looking skin beneath. Far from shocking us, this revelation had us reaching for the phone.\nAdvanced skin rejuvenation treatment using lasers has taken off: Celebrities from Gwyneth Paltrow to Kim Kardashian have been open about going under the \u2018light\u2019 and the number of beauty salons offering cosmetic laser therapy is on the increase.\nThird Space\u2019s Pearl Antoniou explains the science behind it:\n\u201cSkin rejuvenation is a low-level laser treatment that removes skin layer by layer with precision. The new skin cells that form during healing give the skin a tighter, younger looking surface. Some mild swelling and redness, which subsides after a few hours, are the only side-effects,\u201d says Antoniou.\nBefore undergoing this type of treatment it is worth spending some time reading up on the different methods available as some clinics can be a little woolly about the facts. For example, intense pulsed light (IPL) treatments should not be confused for lasers. These are not as strong and, although more budget friendly, will not deliver the results as quickly as lasers will.\nIn essence, there are two types of laser therapy: ablative and non-ablative. Ablative laser resurfacing destroys the top layer of your skin to expose the lower layers and encourage new growth. Non-ablative techniques encourage new growth in a less aggressive way, without completely removing the top layer of your skin.\nAblative laser resurfacing most commonly uses either a carbon dioxide or an Erbium:YAG (a type of metal-enriched crystal) laser. Non-ablative facial resurfacing uses a variety of techniques, including intense pulsed light that targets the pigment in your skin to remove areas of discolouration or infrared lasers that treat wrinkles caused by sun damage by encouraging new skin to grow.\nFractional resurfacing, which is what is on offer at the Spa at Third Space Canary Wharf, is a technique in which a laser is used in conjunction with other treatments in certain parts of the problem area, rather than all of it. This targeted approach is completed over several weeks \u2013 typically four to six sessions are needed.\nCommon skin problems such as stretch marks, acne, scars and wrinkles can all be treated with fractional resurfacing techniques.\nAccording to Antoniou, this approach is much more effective at keeping wrinkles at bay than using anti-ageing creams and lotions. \u201c Whilst there are an endless list of topical creams on the market, there is nothing that can rejuvenate your skin like a laser treatment and it is one of the therapies (unlike botox) that the celebs will admit to indulging in,\u201d she adds.\nHaving been warned repeatedly about the dangers of sunlight to our skin, it is clear that not all light is created equal. Light therapy is becoming a major player on the skincare scene and should be embraced for it\u2019s therapeutic qualities. If it\u2019s good enough for Aniston, maybe we should all let it glow.\nThe Spa at Canary Wharf is offering 30% off on any three-session courses booked for fractional rejuvenation. For more information go tohttps://www.thirdspace.london/canary-wharf/spa/ or call 0207 970 0912", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisisfarming.org/technology/how-sdsu-precision-agriculture-program-benefits-south-dakota/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3IOMOVKBTGVRQ26GW5PWJH4XG6GFFC2D", "length": 4219, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.thisisfarming.org", "title": "How SDSU Precision Agriculture Program Benefits South Dakota | This is Farming", "raw_content": "The precision ag program is projected to make a powerful, positive impact on South Dakota\u2019s economy over the next 10 years including:\nAt least an additional $615 million to $1.5 billion (2017 USD) in gross state product (SDSU)\nSupport for up to 1,263 jobs elsewhere in the economy (SDSU)\nBringing in an additional $15 to $35 million in state and local taxes (SDSU)\nStudents graduating with bachelor\u2019s degrees who accept jobs in precision agriculture would be paid average salaries of $50,000 to $60,000 (Emerge, A South Dakota Corn Publication, June 2017)\nIn 2016, South Dakota State University (SDSU) began offering the nation\u2019s only four-year precision agriculture program.\nAnd South Dakotans in all walks of life are beginning to understand the wide range of opportunities the program brings to the state.\nPrecision agriculture uses technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS), information technology, control systems, sensors, telematics, variable rate technology, drones, robotics and software to make farming more accurate and give farmers added control.\n\u201cToday we call it precision farming or precision ag,\u201d says Nic Uilk, an ag systems technology instructor at SDSU. \u201cIn 20 years it\u2019s probably going to just be called farming. It\u2019s that next big step in agriculture.\u201d\nThe Silicon Valley of agriculture\nThe precision ag concept came to market in the early 1990s, beginning with mapping fields and controlling in-field operations.\nToday, the field is bursting with new inventions, products and possibilities. But Van Kelley, head of the agricultural and biosystems engineering department, said we\u2019re just at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to precision ag.\nFor example, advancements in sensor technology will allow the detection of plant performance at a nutrient level, showing microbial activity.\nSDSU has positioned the program to be at the forefront of researching and teaching the newest principles and technologies.\n\u201cWe\u2019re trying to inspire the next generation of innovators and leaders in precision agriculture,\u201d says Kelley. \u201cStanford University can take a whole lot of credit for all the innovation that came out of Silicon Valley. We want to do the same thing here in precision agriculture. Our students are going to be industry leaders.\u201d\nSouth Dakota farming experts expect the program will be the catalyst for a cluster of precision ag entrepreneurs and startups, with creativity and collaboration flowing between SDSU and private industry.\nNew, state-of-the-art facility needed\nAs SDSU becomes a world leader in precision ag, plans are in place to build a state-of-the-art facility with the infrastructure and space to accommodate large farm machinery that will be used in hand-on student training.\nThe proposed facility will allow SDSU to take the precision ag program to the next level. The agricultural and biosystems department and the agronomy, horticulture and plant science department together coordinate the program; they would share the building and facilities.\nSDSU professors are working with a large number of land grant universities and three professional societies to create a curriculum, including textbooks and videos. A number of farm machinery manufacturers and dealers are supplying SDSU with equipment and the newest technologies.\n\u201cThe building is critical for the future of agriculture,\u201d says SDSU President Barry Dunn.\nThe university has already raised $13.5 million towards the goal of $55 million, which is the cost for renovation and new construction.\nMany additional benefits\nIn addition to giving South Dakota an economic boost, the precision ag program offers state residents other benefits.\nStudents from farm backgrounds or non-farm backgrounds graduating from the program will have a wide variety of job opportunities\nPrecision ag helps farmers use fewer inputs, enhancing environmental sustainability\nIncreased adoption of precision ag will improve water use efficiency, soil quality, nutrient management, water quality and cropland/grassland health\nAs the precision ag program grows, it\u2019s an exciting moment for agriculture and for South Dakota. Some day\u2014not too far from now\u2014we\u2019ll look back and be able to say we saw the beginning of farming\u2019s future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 5338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thortechnology.co.uk/uncategorised/the-most-expensive-private-yachts-ever-built/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OPYPU7AEBZM4SJ4T67YLQQUAGDPPC76S", "length": 2443, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.thortechnology.co.uk", "title": "The Most Expensive Private Yachts Ever Built | Thortech", "raw_content": "\u2190 The 7 Most Notorious Sea Disasters Ever\nThe World\u2019s 5 Most Dangerous Bridges \u2192\nIf there is one symbol of wealth and extravagance that stands above all others, it is the private yacht. What many of us do not think about, however, is that there is a hierarchy within the private yacht world. Some are even more expensive than others, and at the very top of the scale we find some yachts that are truly jaw-dropping in the money they command\u2026\nTake, for example, the Lady Moura \u2013 a $210 million yacht owned by billionaire Nassar Al-Rashid. With space for thirty guests, it is a very comfortable and roomy boat \u2013 and, indeed, was the ninth largest yacht in the world when it was constructed in 1990. If the idea of eight yachts that are even bigger than this one is taxing your mind, you will probably be surprised to learn that today, the Lady Moura is only the twenty-eighth largest yacht in the world!\nLet us move on to one of the larger yachts: a $350 million number called Dubai, an appropriate name for a vessel that looks more like a city than a boat. IT has changed hands a number of times, but you can bet that each of those owners was proud of the spa, pool and helipad. A glass staircase rounds off the extravagance.\nRussian playboy Roman Abromavich owns a yacht called the Eclipse; the exact cost is uncertain, with estimates ranging from half a billion to one and a half billion dollars. A good chunk of that money will have been spent on the private defence system, which not only halts intruders \u2013 it prevents people from taking photographs of the yacht. That\u2019s one secretive party venue\u2026\nAnd yet, none of these yachts is the most expensive in the world. Prepare to meet a yacht that is even more extravagant than all of these put together\u2026 the $4.8 billion History Supreme. The owner is anonymous; all we know for sure is that he is a Malaysian businessman who somehow afforded to purchase a yacht decorated with gold, meteorites and even dinosaur bones.\nTo round of this list, we must give an honourable mention to Nigel Gee\u2019s Streets of Monaco. It is expected to cost one billion dollars \u2013 but instead of dinosaur bones, that money well be spent on making the yacht as big as possible. The concept art looks like someone built a small town on an aircraft carrier.\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorised and tagged luxury yacht, luxury yachts, most expensive private yachts, private yacht, private yachts. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-density-definition-and-calculation-2698950", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:44Z", "digest": "sha1:BQYEJSSDALBSHOPTIGDECV3YUSSC5TPZ", "length": 4666, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.thoughtco.com", "title": "An Introduction to Density: Definition and Calculation", "raw_content": "Determining the Ratio Between Mass and Volume\nA material's density is defined as its mass per unit volume. Put another way, density is the ratio between mass and volume or mass per unit volume. It is a measure of how much stuff an object has in a unit volume (cubic meter or cubic centimeter). Density is essentially a measurement of how tightly matter is crammed together. The principle of density was discovered by the Greek scientist Archimedes, but it is easy to calculate if you know the formula and understand its related units.\nDensity Formula\nTo calculate the density (usually represented by the Greek letter \"\u03c1\") of an object, take the mass (m) and divide by the volume (v):\nThe SI unit of density is kilogram per cubic meter (kg/m3). It is also frequently represented in the cgs unit of grams per cubic centimeter (g/cm3).\nHow to Find Density\nIn studying density, it can be helpful to work a sample problem using the formula for density, as mentioned in the previous section. Recall that though density is, indeed, mass divided by volume, it is often measured in units of grams per cubic centimeter because grams represent a standard weight, while cubic centimeters represent the volume of the object.\nFor this problem, take a brick of salt measuring 10.0 cm x 10.0 cm x 2.0 cm, which weighs 433 grams. To find the density, use the formula, which helps you determine the amount of mass per unit volume, or:\nIn this example, you have the dimensions of the object, so you have to calculate the volume. The formula for volume depends on the shape of the object, but it's a simple calculation for a box:\nv = length x width x thickness\nv = 10.0 cm x 10.0 cm x 2.0 cm\nv = 200.0 cm^3\nNow that you have the mass and volume, calculate the density, as follows:\n\u03c1 = 433 g/200.0 cm^3\n\u03c1 = 2.165 g/cm^3\nThus, the density of the salt brick is 2.165 g/ cm^3.\nUsing Density\nOne of the most common uses of density is in how different materials interact when mixed together. Wood floats in water because it has a lower density, while an anchor sinks because the metal has a higher density. Helium balloons float because the density of the helium is lower than the density of the air.\nWhen your automotive service station tests various liquids, like transmission fluid, it will pour some of the fluid into a hydrometer. The hydrometer has several calibrated objects, some of which float in the liquid. By observing which of the objects float, the service station employees can determine the density of the liquid. In the case of the transmission fluid, this test reveals whether service station employees need to replace it immediately, or whether the fluid still has some life in it.\nDensity allows you to solve for mass and volume if given the other quantity. Since the density of common substances is known, this calculation is fairly straightforward, in the form. (Note that the asterisk symbol\u2014\"*\"\u2014is used to avoid confusion with the variables for volume and density, \u03c1 and v, respectively.)\nv * \u03c1 = m\nor\u200b\u200b\nm / \u03c1 = v\nThe change in density can also be useful in analyzing some situations, such as whenever a chemical conversion is taking place and energy is being released. The charge in a storage battery, for example, is an acidic solution. As the battery discharges electricity, the acid combines with the lead in the battery to form a new chemical, which results in a decrease in the density of the solution. This density can be measured to determine the battery's level of remaining charge.\nDensity is a key concept in analyzing how materials interact in fluid mechanics, weather, geology, material sciences, engineering, and other fields of physics.\nA concept related to density is the specific gravity (or, even more appropriate, relative density) of a material, which is the ratio of the material's density to the density of water. An object with a specific gravity less than one will float in water, while a specific gravity greater than one means it will sink. It is this principle that allows, for example, a balloon filled with hot air to float in relation to the rest of the air.\nSee How to Calculate Density Using a Sample Problem\nSpecific Gravity: When Gravity Itself Isn't Specific Enough\nKnow the Difference Between Density and Specific Gravity\nKnow the Density of Air at STP\nCalculate Mass from Density with this Example Problem\nWhat Relative Density Means in Chemistry\nThis Example Shows How to Calculate Density\nThe Density of Common Rocks and Minerals\nThis Term Defines the 3-D Space Occupied by a Liquid, Solid, or Gas\nSpecific Volume: What It Means And How to Calculate It\nCompare the Densities of Common Substances\nThe Densities of All the Elements", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thoughtco.com/womens-rights-1930s-4141164", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:13Z", "digest": "sha1:VCFIKXRI7H4GTUN222YI742JYAJDEMYX", "length": 6268, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.thoughtco.com", "title": "Women\u2019s Rights in the 1930s in the United States", "raw_content": "Women\u2019s Rights in the 1930s in the United States\nChanges in Women's Roles and Expectations\nThe Women's Policy Union of New York State heading to New Jersey on a rented Tugboat to encourage voting rights in 1914.\nIn the 1930s, women\u2019s equality was not as flashy an issue as in some previous and subsequent decades. But the decade did see slow and steady progress, even as new challenges\u2014especially economic and cultural\u2014could be seen as reversing the advances made in the first three decades of the 20th century.\nContext: Women in 1900\u20131929\nWomen in the first decades of the 20th century saw increased opportunity and public presence, including a strong role in union organizing; increasing availability of contraceptive information; winning voting rights; clothing styles and lifestyles that were more comfortable and less restrictive; and greater sexual freedom. During World War I, many women who had been stay-at-home mothers and wives entered the work force. African American women were part of the cultural flowering of the Harlem Renaissance that followed World War II in some urban black communities, and were also fighting for more rights and beginning a long fight against lynching. Women activists agitated for more than the vote, which was finally won in 1920, but also for workplace fairness, minimum wages, and the abolition of child labor.\n1930s\u2014The Great Depression\nMinnesota Historical Society/Getty Images\nWith the 1929 market crash and the onset of the Great Depression, the 1930s were quite different for women. With fewer jobs available, employers generally preferred to give them to men, in the name of men's traditional role as family breadwinners. Fewer women were able to find jobs. The culture pendulum swung away from more freedom for women to portraying the domestic role as the proper and fulfilling role for women.\nAt the same time as the economy lost jobs, some technologies like radio and telephones allowed for expanding job opportunities for women. Because women were paid considerably less than men, often justified by the aforementioned male breadwinner role, these industries hired mostly women for many of the new jobs. The growing film industry included many female stars, although many of the films seemed aimed at selling the idea of women\u2019s place in the home.\nThe new phenomenon of the airplane drew some elite women to become pilots trying to set records. Amelia Earhart\u2019s career spanned the late 1920s through 1937 when she and her navigator were lost over the Pacific. Ruth Nichols, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Beryl Markham are among the women who earned honors for their aviation skills.\nWhen Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, he brought to the White House a different kind of first lady in Eleanor Roosevelt. She took a more active role in the role than previous first ladies because of her assertive, capable, and active personality\u2014she had been active as a settlement house worker before her marriage\u2014but also because she needed to provide extra help for her husband, because of the limiting effects of his polio. So Eleanor was a very visible part of the administration, and the circle of women around her became more important than they might have been with a different president and first lady.\nUnder President's Roosevelt's influence, a 1938 key women\u2019s rights and labor rights decision by the Supreme Court, West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, found that minimum wage legislation was constitutional.\nWomen in Government and the Workplace\nArrival of American Mission in Rotterdam on board SS Noordam for the Peace Congress at the Hague. Jane Adams is in the center. Bettmann/Getty Images\nWomen\u2019s work for women\u2019s rights in the 1930s was less dramatic and widespread than in the earlier suffrage battles or the later so-called second-wave feminism of the 1960s and 1970s. Still, some very prominent women effected big changes through government organizations.\nFlorence Kelley, active in the first three decades of the century, was a mentor to many of the women who were activists in the 1930s. She died in 1932.\nFrances Perkins became the first woman cabinet official, when she was appointed to be Secretary of Labor by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first year in office. She served until 1945. Called \"The Woman Behind the New Deal,\" she was a major force behind the creation of the \"social safety net\" that included unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws, and the Social Security system.\nMolly Dewson worked with refugees during World War I and then went to work to gain minimum wage laws for women and children and to limit working hours for women and children to a 48 hour week. She was an advocate for women working in the Democratic Party and became an ambassador for the New Deal.\nJane Addams continued her Hull House project in the thirties, which was serving the poor and immigrant population in Chicago. Other settlement houses, which were often led by women, also helped provide necessary social services in the Depression.\nGrace Abbott, who had been head of the Children\u2019s Bureau in the 1920s, taught at the University of Chicago\u2019s School of Social Service Administration in the 1930s. Her sister Edith Abbot was there as dean. She was a U.S. delegate to the International Labor Organization in 1935 and 1937.\nMary McLeod Bethune had served on presidential commissions under Coolidge and Hoover, but in Roosevelt\u2019s administration, had a larger role. She often spoke alongside Eleanor Roosevelt, who became a friend, and she was part of FDR\u2019s \u201ckitchen cabinet,\u201d advising him on matters involving African Americans. She helped establish the Federal Committee on Fair Employment Practice which worked to end exclusion and wage discrimination for African Americans in the defense industry. From 1936 to 1944 she headed the Division of Negro Affairs within the National Youth Administration. She also helped bring together several black women\u2019s organizations into the National Council of Negro Women, which she served as president from 1935 to 1949.\n30 Highlights in African-American History During the 1930s\nDid the US Neutrality Acts of the 1930s Really Keep the US Neutral?\nMolly Dewson, Women's Advocate During the New Deal\nAbout the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL): Pro-Labor Feminists", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 9179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 156.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tireworldchattanooga.com/car-repairs/four-wheel-drive-system/four-wheel-drive-inspection.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VK2PBQ37TRNKEALVBK2QFSFHD3DK3KYI", "length": 478, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.tireworldchattanooga.com", "title": "Four Wheel Drive Inspection in Chattanooga, TN | Tire World & Auto Service LLC", "raw_content": "Tire World & Auto Service LLC provides Four Wheel Drive Inspection services to Chattanooga, TN, Red Bank, TN, Hixson, TN, and other surrounding areas.\nThe Basics Behind Four Wheel Drive Inspection Services at Tire World & Auto Service LLC\nWhy Should You Have Four Wheel Drive Inspection Services Performed at Tire World & Auto Service LLC?\nWe proudly service the Four Wheel Drive Inspection needs of customers in Chattanooga, TN, Red Bank, TN, Hixson, TN, and surrounding areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 316.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tmj4.com/entertainment/local-hip-hop-artist-websterx-getting-national-attention", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VJA65UNDVK7COOLPH37PCWKX2R2SYF7O", "length": 2107, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.tmj4.com", "title": "Local hip hop artist, WebsterX, getting national attention", "raw_content": "Local hip hop artist, WebsterX, getting national attention\nBy: Katie Crowther\nA hip hop artist from Milwaukee is named one of National Public Radio's artists to watch in 2018.\nHis name is WebsterX, and his music\u2014like his life\u2014tells a unique story. Over the next 12 months, he will be profiled in a variety of ways on NPR.\nWebsterX, whose real name is Sam Ahmed, comes alive on stage. He's a first-generation American whose parents immigrated to Milwaukee from Ethiopia.\nWisconsin No Exception To National Flu Outbreak\n\"They both came here in 1990 with my sister who was five years old,\" he said.\nWebsterX grew up in Sherman Park, and went to school in Wauwatosa.\n\"My entire existence growing-up was such an eclectic mix,\" he said.\nHe decided while at UWM to stop and pursue music full-time. It was something his parents didn't initially understand.\n\"My parents are like all other parents who worked hard to get where they are,\" he said. \"They want you to have a professional life and be successful, so you don't have to worry as much as them.\"\nFinding success in the music business is a whole other challenge though.\n\"In Milwaukee, it's way more difficult than people think,\" WebsterX said.\nCity Issues 3,000 Parking Tickets After Snow\nBut he's chipping away at it. Now getting recognized for his writing and rapping, and performing in front of huge crowds. His locally-made music videos are getting thousands of views online.\n\"One thing I've always felt, that stuck with me, is Milwaukee made me, and I like who I've become, and I have to pay homage that,\" he said.\nWebsterX raps about life issues, relevant to people his age, like his own battle with anxiety and depression.\n\"I was worried too much,\" he said. \"That worrying sent me to a dark place. I decided to write about that, because especially in the black community, most feelings are just not talked about at all. It's almost taboo.\"\nSo he chooses to be a voice, and is honored more people are listening.\nIn Milwaukee, WebsterX also helped create FREESPACE, a monthly event designed to give young people a venue to create, learn and perform music.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 3921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 223.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.todaytells.com/nasa-to-pay-private-space-companies-for-moon-rides/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ICOGBN237GS6V2AYX73JMHLYBMHN5HT6", "length": 7293, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.todaytells.com", "title": "NASA to pay private space companies for moon rides - Todaytells", "raw_content": "Home Science NASA to pay private space companies for moon rides\nNASA to pay private space companies for moon rides\nSmaller than a compact car, Astrobotic\u2019s Peregrine lander could put experiments on the moon for NASA.\nBy Paul Voosen Nov. 19, 2018 , 11:20 AM\nNext month, almost a half-century since the United States last landed a spacecraft on the moon, NASA is expected to announce plans for a return. But the agency will just be along for the ride. Rather than unveiling plans for its own spacecraft, NASA will name the private companies it will pay to carry science experiments to the moon on small robotic landers.\nUnder a program called Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS), NASA would buy space aboard a couple of launches a year, starting in 2021. The effort is similar to an agency program that paid private space companies such as Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS). \u201cThis a new way of doing business,\u201d says Sarah Noble, a planetary scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., who is leading the science side of NASA\u2019s lunar plans.\nScientists are lining up for a ride. \u201cIt really feels like the future of lunar exploration,\u201d says Erica Jawin, a planetary scientist at the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. She and other attendees at the annual meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group in Columbia, Maryland, last week were eager to show NASA why their small experiments would be worthy hitchhikers on the landers.\nSeveral companies, including Astrobotic, Moon Express, and iSpace, are vying to establish a commercial moon market. Buying rides to the moon from launch providers like Rocket Lab, each firm hopes to become the go-to carrier for other companies seeking to prospect the moon for rocket fuel ingredients, or to gather rocks to sell for study. But a contract with NASA is the real prize. Moon Express, for example, has designed the MX-1, a lander roughly the size and shape of Star Wars\u2018s R2-D2. But, \u201cWe won\u2019t pull the trigger until we know we have a CLPS award,\u201d says Moon Express CEO Robert Richards in Cape Canaveral, Florida.\nThe companies selected for CLPS must deliver at least 10 kilograms of payload by the end of 2021, NASA says. It is scrambling to find instruments that are ready to fly. \u201cWhat do you have sitting on shelf now that you can throw onto the mission immediately?\u201d Noble says. \u201cWe\u2019re looking for flight spares, engineering models, student-built projects. It\u2019s a little bit of a weird call for us.\u201d The agency is planning to pay up to $36 million to adapt eight to 12 existing scientific instruments to the initial small landers; by the middle of next decade it aims to build a pipeline of instruments for bigger landers that might also carry rovers.\nThe first small commercial landers will pale in capability next to traditional NASA missions. Some will likely fail, as NASA\u2019s science chief, Thomas Zurbuchen, has repeatedly warned. They will not survive the lunar night, 2 weeks when surface temperatures drop to \u2212173\u00b0C. They may not be capable of landing in a specific spot. But scientists are still excited to get cameras and other instruments back to the surface of the moon, says Clive Neal, a lunar scientist at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. \u201cIt\u2019s a great start.\u201d\nNASA is still working out destinations for the commercial landers. Earlier this year, lunar scientists compiled a list of 16 sites key to testing an emerging picture of the moon as more active volcanically and richer in water than was thought. For example, 4 years ago scientists studying the Ina caldera, a collection of smooth, small volcanic mounds on the moon\u2019s nearside, noticed it was relatively free of craters. The observation suggested that instead of ending a billion years ago, volcanism\u2014a sign of interior heat\u2014persisted until a few million years ago, smoothing the landscape. If true\u2014and some dispute the finding\u2014it would upend theories of how the moon, and potentially the rocky planets, cool over time.\nAt the 2-kilometer-tall Aristarchus plateau, scientists want to study abundant volcanic ash deposits, which were created in explosive, gas-driven eruptions, a rarity on the moon. Thanks to its fine granularity, the ash could also make an excellent building block for human habitats. Samples from Marius Hills, a shield volcano that likely erupted for a substantial time, could shed light on how the moon\u2019s endowment of water, carbon monoxide, and other volatiles evolved over time. And a look inside permanently shadowed craters at the moon\u2019s poles could confirm whether some of its water is frozen there, says Brett Denevi, a planetary geologist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland.\nThe first small landers allow only small steps toward these science goals. But the agency could eventually support commercial robotic sample return missions, which Astrobotic and Moon Express hope to offer. \u201cThey could say, \u2018I want 2 kilograms of lunar regolith from such and such location,\u2019\u201d says John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Returned samples could help researchers with a perennial goal: dating the moon\u2019s old and young craters, which dictate age estimates for surfaces across the solar system.\nNASA also wants to fly people back to the vicinity of the moon\u2014but in its own spacecraft. It is building the Gateway, a small outpost, that, by 2024, would host astronauts for a couple of months at a time in a pressurized volume one-tenth the size of the ISS. The Gateway, which will cost NASA at least $3 billion for its first few sections, would not orbit the moon but, rather, would follow a weeklong loop around a distant gravitational balance point\u2014a poor vantage for lunar observations. \u201cWe\u2019re not 100% sure of its value for lunar science,\u201d says Ryan Watkins, a lunar scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in St. Louis, Missouri. Noble acknowledges that the Gateway may be more valuable for studying the sun or the rest of the universe.\nBen Bussey, NASA\u2019s chief scientist for human exploration, says the agency is trying to accommodate scientists\u2019 concerns. For example, it will prioritize equipping the station with a robotic arm, needed for mounting experiments on its exterior. And it is investigating the possibility of a reusable \u201ctug\u201d spacecraft that could ferry landers, samples, and instruments between the Gateway and low lunar orbit, Bussey says.\nLooming over these lunar plans is the fear that they will change. Republicans in Congress proposed a moon return under former President George W. Bush, only to have the administration of former President Barack Obama emphasize a visit to an asteroid in deep space, as a stepping stone to Mars. So far, the Republican-led Congress has fully funded the agency\u2019s moon plans: Draft 2019 spending bills contain $500 million for the Gateway and more than $200 million for NASA\u2019s initial lander and science plans. Now, lunar scientists need to convey their support to newly empowered Democrats, Neal says. If NASA funds a couple of small landers and the program changes again, Denevi adds, \u201cthat\u2019s just going to be another wasted decade.\u201d\nALSO READ Mars to slide in close to Earth for rare stargazing opportunity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 11194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tomboytarts.com/ride-the-highway-to-hell-with-stars-of-gangland-undercover/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:38Z", "digest": "sha1:42VWXY73JHFR54YIN4SQVUT3VGIAWFVN", "length": 16211, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "www.tomboytarts.com", "title": "Ride the Highway to Hell With The Stars of Gangland Undercover", "raw_content": "HOME / ENTERTAINMENT / MUSIC & TV / RIDE THE HIGHWAY TO HELL WITH THE STARS OF GANGLAND UNDERCOVER\nRIDE THE HIGHWAY TO HELL WITH THE STARS OF GANGLAND UNDERCOVER\nGangland Undercover debuted last year to rave reviews for its gritty portrayal of a former undercover informant who had successfully infiltrated an outlaw biker gang. The show was written and created by the same undercover informant turned writer, Charles Falco, who based the story on his actual experiences. Renewed for a second season, the History Channel series is back with another round of high stakes biker culture docudrama.\nThe second season will follow the events of the first season and see Charles Falco (played by Damon Runyan in the show), living a new life in an unfamiliar town in Virginia. It\u2019s now two years since his undercover infiltration of the Vagos biker gang forced him to disappear into witness protection. But can such a man of action settle down for a quiet, uneventful life? Restless and directionless, he signs up for a new and more dangerous undercover operation that will put him on the front line of a violent war between several biker gangs.\nWe recently caught up with Damon and his Gangland Undercover co-star, Ian Matthews, who were in Singapore recently for HISTORY Asia Original Productions Press Event and in Manila for History Con. They share with us the bikes they like to ride, how true the show is compared with real life and the response from biker community to their series.\nGANGLAND UNDERCOVER S2 airs on HISTORY (StarHub TV Ch. 401), Fridays at 10pm.\nTT: HOW WAS HISTORY CON LIKE FOR BOTH OF YOU? HOW DID YOU FIND ASIA SO FAR?\nDAMON: History Con was surreal, we had no idea that it\u2019s going to be so big and popular and that the crowds would turn up like they did. Just the collective sort of enthusiasm behind the HISTORY shows, it was surreal. We had no idea what to expect.\nIAN: It was big, like a walk in kind of dreamscape or some kind you know, it\u2019s been great! I mean people have been really fantastic to us here and it\u2019s my first time in this part of the world, so it\u2019s very eye-opening.\nTT: HOW WAS SEASON 1 RECEIVED BY THE GANG MEMBERS? ARE THERE THREATS MADE TO ANY OF THE CAST AND CREW?\nDAMON: The irony of that was that was my major concern. It is when I was cast for the show, I asked my agent, like do they have clearance from the gang to portray them in this light? And I still don\u2019t have any answers to that.\nIAN: Yeah it was pretty wishy-washy, there were moments especially when we were doing the riding sequences down in Arizona where we had solo riding shots right, where you are just on a bike, you\u2019re in your biker cuts. This is a known gang still operative in the area and it\u2019s just rife with gang members everywhere and you\u2019re just ripping around on this bike with your cuts on by yourself. At that time, you\u2019re still thinking to yourself, just look over your shoulders a little bit.\nDAMON: You know, I had one Twitter dude make reference to the fact that he was in jail and there was a price or a bounty on my head. But you know it\u2019s that whole social media universe kind of thing. It\u2019s funny, though, where I live in Toronto, my neighbour was in a diner, like a greasy spoon kind of thing, that\u2019s known to be inhabited by Hells Angels. Apparently, they were all sitting next to the counter top, at like 8 in the morning, probably coming in from a late night and they were talking about the show. They were like \u201cyou know what, Falco\u2019s not a bad guy\u201d. My neighbour was all like \u201calright! You\u2019re not a bad guy!\u201d *Damon and Ian laugh*.\nTT: WHAT IS IT LIKE PLAYING THE CHARACTERS CHARLES FALCO AND DARKO IN THE GANGLAND UNDERCOVER? HOW DID YOU PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE ROLE?\nDAMON: Well, with gang culture, I had no history with gangs whatsoever or motorcycles, or drug dealing, or cooking, or any of that. The real Falco was available to us so we\u2019re able to discuss what it was like living this life but when you get on set, you\u2019ve just got to throw that by the wayside and go with your imagination and your given circumstances.\nIAN: For me, it was pretty straightforward, more or less what he just said. The riding was a special emphasis. I think a lot of the whole, you know, ethos comes from understanding the bike culture. You have to ride the bike and make it look like you\u2019ve been on one before and things start to sort of unfolding from there.\nDAMON: Even pulling in and pulling out on a bike, that was where we went to get schooled in motor cross riding and the focus of the whole thing was to essentially make you comfortable on the bike and realise that even if the ground shifts underneath you, that you\u2019re able to ride through it. We\u2019re riding over logs and what not but then there is a focus for two, three hours in the afternoon, pulling in stopping, and then dismounting of the bike. So that you didn\u2019t look like a novice.\nIAN: Turning off everything, putting down the kickstand, and getting off the bike, taking off your helmet and then doing it in reverse, starting it up and taking off and then stop and get off. We kind of take it for granted. Next time you see a motorcycle rider, see how they get on and dismount. It\u2019s very telling.\nTT: ARE YOU BOTH BIKERS BEFORE YOU JOIN THE SHOW? WHAT ARE YOUR FAVOURITE BIKES?\nIAN: Well, no, I\u2019m not a biker. The favourite bike question is a difficult one because I still don\u2019t know what my favourite bike is you know. We have been wandering around on this tour wearing matching t-shirts that say \u201cI want to ride all of the motorcycles\u201d and I think that\u2019s pretty accurate. I do want to ride all the motorcycles except the ones that are less than three hundred cc. *Ian laughs*\nDAMON: I didn\u2019t ride. I basically got into a big argument with my wife about if I get the show, that I\u2019m getting a motorcycle. And it was always a point of contention. So after the war ended, I went out and purchased a bike. I tried a bunch of different bikes but the problem is if you\u2019re over six feet like me, there\u2019s not a lot of bikes that fit you. So I ended up getting a Triumph Thruxton and Ian was just riding on a Scrambler in Manila that I was kind of like \u201cI think I would like to upgrade to that\u201d. But I tried a Ducati Monster in Manila and that was the bike I\u2019ve always wanted, but when I got on it, at the dealership, I\u2019m like \u201cit\u2019s too small\u201d, physically too small. It\u2019s a fantastic bike.\nTT: HOW DID YOU FEEL ABOUT THE BIKER CULTURE AFTER 2 SEASONS OF FILMING?\nDAMON: The thing about that culture, or that club life, is that once you, like all our background performers who are in gangs generally, and all clubs, they call it motorcycle clubs, gangs are like a, it\u2019s a negative term right? It implies that you are doing the nefarious activities which are not necessarily the case. The guys in the background on the show, they\u2019re human beings, they have families, they have histories and they subscribe to a way of life that not everyone does but they\u2019re people and now have become friends.\nIAN: It\u2019s a different set of values and I mean, there are criminal psychopathic elements in all walks of society I mean you know. Very famously, people talk about the psychopathic element within the ranks of the corporate world etc. Just because there are some people who obviously take it too far and their moral compasses are a little sort of askew, I think that the entire culture sometimes gets unfairly painted. Now, of course, we are representing that psychopathic element to a large degree because it\u2019s drama. Most of the guys involved in this life, it is a dedication, it is a philosophy and a way of life. They\u2019re dedicated to it and they make sacrifices to be able to adhere to that life.\nDAMON: Another thing too is that it\u2019s easy to stereotype or classify someone based on how they look and they have an image right but just like racism , it\u2019s very similar in that typecasting.\nTT: HOW TRUE IS THIS SHOW TO REAL LIFE?\nDAMON: Hard to say because we never lived it but we talked to Falco and I would say that it\u2019s actually a lesser version. Its light, it\u2019s definitely light. Lighter on the sex, lighter on the violence, lighter on the drugs. It\u2019s biker life light. You can read the book. His book portrays it in a much darker light. There are qualifying things that you have to do to get into the gang or when you\u2019re in the gang, that are much dirtier, darker than what we actually portray on the show. But the events that transpired in Season One were pulled from the book and Season Two, it evolves into more fictionalised story. So after I believe it\u2019s around like episode two, they start veering off from the book and the characters that evolved are fictionalised.\nTT: HOW IS EVERYONE LIKE AT THE SET OF SUCH A SERIOUS SHOW? DO YOU GUYS HANG OUT AFTER THE FILMING?\nDAMON: For Season One they put us in a vehicle, like a giant limo. All the cast, all the time. So whether you like people or not, you were forced to live with them for two and a half months. So certain bonds were stronger than others, but then they separated us, to see if that social experiment worked and apparently it did.\nIAN: It\u2019s really lovely. It\u2019s been fantastic, and people we haven\u2019t been talking about enough are the crew and the fellow cast. But the crew is largely the same from the first season, and they\u2019re beautiful people really. We work on a lot of things and the crew, they\u2019ve been so lovely when it comes to accommodating.\nTT: MOST MEMORABLE THING THAT HAPPENED TO YOU ON THE GANGLAND UNDERCOVER SET\nDAMON: So the end of Season Two, it was our last day of shooting, and we wrapped up one scene before some other actors were done. Then we went back and we\u2019re all going to hang out and have drinks or what not, and we\u2019re supposed to go to a bar but we ended up hanging out in a make-up trailer and we missed the last call. Then the other actors came into the make-up trailer and I just, I don\u2019t know, I was struck by this impulse to say \u201chey, let me take your make-up off\u201d. It was basically like relieving the make-up artist of her job, letting her have some fun.\nAnd so this one actor, Shaun Benson who is a friend of mine, but it\u2019s also like in that male environment, especially in this like egoist environment of acting. You really just share a little bit of yourself outside but you kind of, I personally save the connection for onscreen and so I offered to take his make-up off and then you realise the importance of that job and the proximity of that job. How\u2019s it\u2019s like in all honesty, it\u2019s a special thing to look someone in the eye and like take care of them and then put their make-up on and take it off.\nIAN: People are like getting wardrobe changes all the time, and it\u2019s all happening quite quick, so often it\u2019s happening right there on the spot, people in various stages of dress or undress etc. You just get to the point where it just all becomes one sort of, I don\u2019t know. Quite clearly, the rest of the world doesn\u2019t work like that, right? I mean there are elements and other jobs of course, that have similar kinds of caregivers and things like that which you know, obviously have a level of personal connection that is way harder than even what we\u2019re doing certainly. It\u2019s been lovely and wonderful in this particular set and the group of people has been exceptional relative to the massive amount of work we do.\nDAMON: You know what\u2019s nice to be that we\u2019ve witnessed people go from being juniors, or assistants to taking over the job. I mean, that\u2019s kind of like when you come on as an actor, the ideology behind this is that you know what you\u2019re doing but in reality, every job is like every first day on set is like your first day at school you know, you don\u2019t know anyone, you don\u2019t know where your status is, you don\u2019t know how you\u2019re being perceived, whether they like you or don\u2019t like you. So there is like do that collectively and move into the second season and grow together, it\u2019s a special opportunity.\nTT: HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT BEING PART OF GANGLAND UNDERCOVER? WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO BRING TO THE AUDIENCE?\nDAMON: Authenticity. Definitely want to shed light on the fact that it\u2019s a grey area, it\u2019s not black or white, it\u2019s not good guys and bad guys. We all have our crosses to bear and the journey of life is a long journey. Hopefully, they\u2019re many seasons of Charles Falco left but I want to show people that there\u2019s hope, there\u2019s optimism in the darkest depths of despair and even if life bottom\u2019s out, there\u2019s always the opportunity to spark a fire and restart your life in some way.\nIAN: And, we would like to portray lots of sex, and violence, drug culture, big bikes racing down the roads. I\u2019m serious, it\u2019s an entertainment for the screen right, and we are also at the end of the day, working to provide entertainment for the viewing audience and that is part of what we are attempting to do.\nTT: HOW IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP LIKE WITH THE REAL CHARLES FALCO?\nDAMON: Well, it\u2019s a fictionalised name, number one. The relationship is interesting because you don\u2019t know how much to share and I speak from personal experience that it was. He will impart some truth or whatever his life is to you, and it feels like it\u2019s meant to be kept secret. Then someone asks you a question like \u201cwhat\u2019s your relationship like?\u201d and you instantly want to share a little bit more than you probably should and so that\u2019s a bit of weird burden to carry.\nThe relationship is all, I mean it\u2019s essentially glamourizing someone\u2019s life right? And so we\u2019ve become friends and he\u2019s also available for any type of information that we need on the show but he resides on another coast so our connection is mostly texting. It\u2019s interesting \u2018cos it\u2019s a weird kind of relationship to portray someone and speak to them. You kind of want to bring yourself to it but then you have this voice or this image of what that actual person is like and that\u2019s weird. You want to mesh the two but not imitate the other person, you know what I mean?\nIAN: Well, he has far more dealings with them than I do but when we were shooting the riding sequences, he was my riding partner. Our riding formation, two by two. My first impression is my lasting impression of Charles Falco. I certainly mean no insult to him at all but I met the guy that brought me over like \u201chere\u2019s Charles Falco, this is the guy\u201d and I stopped and looked at him, I\u2019m like \u201cno way, what? No, you did this? You, did this-this?\u201d and as you get to know him more and you start to understand how he managed to do this and what his real set of skills are in this respect. But the first impression and a part of that is that he does have a benign first impression. I think that\u2019s absolutely necessary for what he achieves because you kind of have to get off the radar a little bit.\nDAMON: He\u2019s not intimidating or whatsoever, you know. His presence is not intimidating. He actually blends in. We were on set, there were all these bikers and what not, and that introduction, when I first met him, like it was funny because he\u2019s like walking through the desert and then I\u2019m sitting, drinking coconut water provided by my friend here. He comes out of this desert with like the heat behind him and he seems like he is important but then we start talking to him. There\u2019s no real defining characteristic that you go \u201cyeah, that guy. It\u2019s that guy\u201d you know it\u2019s almost like you meet him and then he blends in with everybody else and so I think that\u2019s a true side.\nTT: ANY MESSAGE FOR GANGLAND UNDERCOVER FANS?\nDAMON: Number one, watch the show, not just the second season, like go back and watch the first season. And the other thing too is like if this bike culture or biker culture is not your thing, don\u2019t just judge a book by its cover because it goes deeper than what it may appear on the surface.\nIAN it\u2019s a platform in which we can tell universal stories about human life right? And that\u2019s really what it comes down to, having some imagination brought to bear on it. You realise there\u2019s a lot going on here, it\u2019s not just about what I said before, sex and drugs and violence and big bikes etc.\nTAGS : Damon Runyan | Darko | Gangland Undercover | Gangland Undercover Damon Runyan | Gangland Undercover Darko | Gangland Undercover Ian Matthews | Gangland Undercover season 2 | Ian Matthews", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 17917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tomwoodproject.com/products/ice-hoop", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:31Z", "digest": "sha1:V3Z56Z42PHBX4PIMYZJ4LQK3PNMBZS7Q", "length": 71, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tomwoodproject.com", "title": "Ice Hoop \u2013 Tom Wood", "raw_content": "A chunky, yet delicate piece. Made in high quality 925 sterling silver.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.topgear.com.ph/news/car-news/the-ford-focus-rs-is-officially-back", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BM2F2PEILKZN2Y7LQMI6PXMKLDROAWSP", "length": 2931, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.topgear.com.ph", "title": "The all-new Ford Focus RS: launch, specs, photos", "raw_content": "The Ford Focus RS is officially back\n\"Really Serious\" hot hatch\nby Andrew Guerrero | Feb 4, 2015\n\"RS.\" Probably two of the most exciting letters in the automotive world, especially where Ford is concerned. Derived from the words \"Rallye Sport,\" its over four-decade history has been closely linked to motorsports, especially that of rally racing with the success of a variety of Escort RS models. So when you see this badge grace a Ford model, you know it means business.\nAfter almost five years of absence, the Ford Focus RS returns, more powerful and more exciting than ever. Under the hood is Ford's new all-aluminum 2.3 liter EcoBoost engine, which, thanks to its low-inertia twin-scroll turbo and larger compressor and intercooler, lets the car produce \"well in excess of 315hp.\" Paired with it is a six-speed manual transmission, making the all-new Focus RS a true driver's car.\nPower is sent to all four wheels via the \"Ford Performance All-Wheel Drive\" system that features dynamic torque vectoring control. This varies the torque distribution from front to rear and side to side, with as much as 70% being directed to the rear axle and up to 100% being sent to each rear wheel. To eliminate understeer during cornering, torque is sent to the outer rear wheel based on inputs such as steering wheel angle, lateral acceleration, yaw and speed.\nThe Focus RS's steering has also been carefully tuned, according to Global Ford performance director Dave Pericak: \"The Focus ST and the Fiesta ST showed that we can achieve sporty steering feel with an electric power-assisted steering system, and the RS raises the bar.\" In addition, just to show how serious Ford was about the car's handling, its engineers worked with Michelin to develop high-performance tires that would complement the car's driving dynamics. Two types of 235/35 R19 tires will be offered--the standard Pilot Super Sport and the optional Pilot Sport Cup 2 for enhanced vehicle dynamics on the track.\"\nOutside, the all-new Focus RS features a more aggressive look. Up front, you'll be greeted by larger openings to enhance engine cooling, while functional brake-cooling ducts can be found on all four corners. At the rear, you'll find a large roof spoiler, diffusers, and dual exhaust pipes. On the side are sculpted rocker panels and distinctive 19-inch multispoke RS alloy wheels.\nThe car's cabin is just as sporty as the exterior with its leather-wrapped, flat-bottom RS steering wheel, additional high center-mounted gauges, and partial-leather Recaro sports seats. On the tech side, the car features an eight-inch touchscreen, a SYNC system that can be had with a rear-view camera with park distance control, and a 10-speaker Sony premium sound system.\nThe all-new Ford Focus RS \"will be available in major markets around the world.\" Let's hope that includes the Philippines.\nMotor Image PH has a Chinese New Year promo for Subaru customers\nFord Focus RS,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 4764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.totalsheetmusic.com/digital-sheet-music/together-wherever-we-go-from-igypsyi-649888/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:10Z", "digest": "sha1:LKPNJEATSVL57KUS5XR76A6OKPDH5C4W", "length": 83, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.totalsheetmusic.com", "title": "Together Wherever We Go (from Gypsy): Stephen Sondheim | SATB Choral Sheet Music", "raw_content": "COMPOSER(S): Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne\nEverything's Coming Up Roses (from Gypsy)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 7530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 119.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tourmyindia.com/states/maharashtra/sindhudurg-fort.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:MZLRP4NZPSUA3YGBBJMVOS4OBKLETK3N", "length": 2876, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.tourmyindia.com", "title": "Sindhudurg Fort in Maharashtra", "raw_content": "Sindhudurg Fort Maharashtra\nSindhudurg Fort is situated on a projection of the Arabian Sea, off the Maharashtrian coast in the western part of India. The fort lies on the Malvan town of the Sindhudurg district in Konkan region in the state of Maharashtra, which is about 450 km. to the south of the city of Mumbai and is a popular tourist attraction of Maharashtra tourism. This fort is a safeguarded monument. The construction of this fort began in the year 1664 on the 25th of November. This fort was built in about three years from 1664-1667. The huge walls of this fort were constructed to serve as a obstruction and to keep the enemies at bay. The fort exhibits impressive engineering and the entrance to this architectural marvel is concealed in a brilliant way, so that it cannot be located from outside. For the construction of this awe-inspiring fort, massive amount of iron that is about 4000 mounds was used. The sea fort spans across 48 acres and has 3 km. rampart in length with 30 feet high and 12 feet thick walls.\nThis fort was built during of the Maratha ruler Shri Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj. This fort was erected to counter rise the influence of the foreign rulers that is the Dutch, English, Portuguese and the French merchants and to repress the rising of the Janjira and the Siddis. The reception of this fort was done under the guidance of Hiroji Indulkar in 1656. This fort is now a heritage site.\nIn oder to reach this fort, tourists have to board safety boats from the place Malvan, through the channel in between the Padmagad and the Dhontara islands. It takes 15 minutes for travellers to get to the jetty of the Sinhudurg Fort. Guides are available to take tourists inside the jetty. Malvan is well connected to the major cities and towns and private and state buses run from Ratanagiri,Pune, Mumbai, Kolhapur and Panaji to Malvan. The nearest airport to the fort is the Dabolim International Airport at Goa, at a distance of 80km. and the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport at Mumbai, which is 344 km. away. The nearest railways stations are Sawantawdi and Kudal, which are at a distance 35 km. and 25 km. respectively. This fort is one of the famous attractions of Maharashtra tour.\nThe fort is open all days of the week from 10a.m. to 5:30p.m.\nSome of the best places for sightseeing near the Sindhudurg Fort are the Tsunami Island, Tarkali Beach, Malvan Marine Sanctuary, rock garden, Kolamb Beach, Rameshwar Temple, Nivati Beach, and Chopdekars Sapna Water Sports complex etc. These are some of the noteworthy places to visit near the Sindhudurg Fort and it is worth the time and money.\nThe entry to the fort is Rs.50 (per person) for the Indian tourists and Rs.200 (per person) for the foreign tourists.\nThe best time to trek is in the winter months from November-February. Tourists can enjoy winter holidays trekking in this region.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 431, "original_length": 9542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.transform-network.net/newsletter/issue/transform-newsletter-12018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NPKFGVM6PHV2DDOLI2XGRYWXFOHXDQTI", "length": 2471, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.transform-network.net", "title": "transform! Newsletter 1/2018", "raw_content": "On the last weekend of January \u2013 and with a record-high turnout of 66% of 8,363,000 registered voters \u2013 Czechs chose the man who will be President of the Czech Republic for the next five years. [read more... ]\nReport: 11th Annual Nicos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture with Angela Davis\n\u201cThis Is an Era Defined by the Rise of Women\u201d\nThis year, Angela Davis, renowned academic and activist for civil, feminist and prisoners' rights, was asked to deliver a speech at the annual lecture in memory of political sociologist Nicos Poulantzas entitled \u201cAbolition Feminism: Theories and Practices for Our Time\u201d. [read more... ]\nBy Gavin Rae\nAfter two years in government, the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has made some significant changes to the personnel of its government. Nevertheless, these changes are more designed to consolidate the government\u2019s position, rather than signalling any significant alteration in its political... [read more... ]\nBy Dmitri Suhoroslov\nWith the proclamation of independence by Estonia in 1991, the Estonian political elite took action to prevent the Russian national minority from governing the country, depriving Russians of their political and civil rights. The Estonian Left needs the support of the European Left in its struggle for... [read more... ]\nThe reconstruction process of the left in Italy has indicated a new benchmark. But to better understand the path, we must start out once again from the last European elections in 2014. [read more... ]\nPerspectives of a Progressive Danube Region and Central Europe Strategy\nAt the end of October 2018, transform! europe is organizing a conference on the critical dispute over Otto Bauer\u2019s book \u2018The Austrian Revolution\u2019. [read more... ]\nDoes the Right to Self-Determination Exist in Europe?\nThe Polish think-tank \u2018Naprz\u00f3d\u2019 is co-organising a meeting on Sunday 4 February in Warsaw on the topic of \u2018Does the Right to Self-Determination Exist in Europe?\u2019 [read more... ]\nInternational Transform!Danmark Conference 2018\n\u2018Global and Institutional Crises and Red-Green Alternatives\u2019\nThe principal focus of this year\u2019s \u2013 the 7th international conference organized by the Transform!Danmark network \u2013 is the global crisis and red-green alternatives. [read more... ]\nOn general trends of political and social development in the region of CEE (and not only) in the last 25 years \u2013 in order to understand the main roots of recent authoritarian tendencies in their historical contexts. [read more... ]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.transformationmarketing.com/tag/ads/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7IYJ3Q6BSI5HEHIUTQJG7D45ZE2ZEIFP", "length": 859, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.transformationmarketing.com", "title": "Ads | Transformation Marketing", "raw_content": "9 Nov | By The Bean Team | In All Blogs, MARKETING\nHow Ad Retargeting Can Help Your Brand\nWhat is retargeting and why do we think it could make an impact on your business? Retargeting is a fancy term for a fairly simple concept. Essentially, the purpose is to advertise to Internet users who have viewed products or services online but did not follow through with their purchase by advertising the specific product [\u2026]\n29 Jul | By The Bean Team | In All Blogs, Social Media\nInundated With Ads\nSocial media is primarily filled with user-generated content, interactions between individual people, and now, branding. The amount of sponsored content (posts that are paid for in order to reach more people) and other forms of social media advertising are on the rise. And guess what? Users are losing enjoyment. 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But perhaps this demand for marketers with the full range of skills simply recognises that marketing is an evolving skill set; one where intellectual curiosity and continuous professional development is the key to getting results.\nAlthough many marketers are specialised in terms of what they do, most parts of the marketing skill set are constantly evolving.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 7538, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trendmicro.com/en_dk/about/investor-relations/financial-releases/20080219-Shares-buyback-program-2008.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OKDBAO47SFXLBHITWFC4SSWXFSMAMHCH", "length": 773, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.trendmicro.com", "title": "Trend Micro Announces Share Buyback Program (Under the provisions of the Articles of Incorporation pursuant to Article 165(2) of the Corporation Law of Japan)", "raw_content": "Tokyo, Japan \u2013 February 19, 2008 - Trend Micro (TSE: 4704), a leader in network antivirus and Internet content security software and services, today announced that its Board of Directors approved share buyback under Article 156 of the Corporation Law of Japan, as applied pursuant to Article 165(3) of the Corporation Law as described below:\nReason for Share Buyback:\n(2) Number of Shares to be Purchased: Up to 2,000,000 shares (1.48\uff05 of the total outstanding shares)\n(4) Schedule: From February 20, 2008 to March 31, 2008\nNote: As of December 31, 2007\nWe assume no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. 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Festival vendors will have the option of participating in November or receiving a refund if requested by noon Wednesday, Sept. 14. Refund instructions are available at www.kingslandcatfishfestival.com.\nTeen faces felony for thefts, break ins", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trondheim.com/art-memorial-st-clement-church", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:07Z", "digest": "sha1:QCZGVJXXTOSS6763KYHK6UGCWM436SFE", "length": 737, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.trondheim.com", "title": "Art - Memorial to St. Clement\u2019s Church - Trondheim.com", "raw_content": "Art - Memorial to St. Clement\u2019s Church\nOn the west wall of the Central Bank of Norway building, we find this relief indicating that this was the approximate site of St. Clement\u2019s Church, it having perhaps been 100 metres further north. 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TrueDelta's members share Mercedes-Benz SLK pros and cons based on their real-world driving experiences.\nMercedes-Benz SLK Pros and Cons\n2005 Mercedes-Benz SLK Pros and Cons\nLove the look of it - roof on or off - sense of fun - and the heating system is effective enough so that roof off is viable for most of the year in the UK, I have the roof off at least once a month all year round.\nBuying an AMG anything makes no logical sense. But if you want standard models pushed to their extremes this is what Mercedes does. Think Porsche Turbo,BMW M5, the Audi RS's. They don't make everyday sense, but they don't make too many and they sell out. There are just enough of...\nbreathtaking acceleration\nI feel the styling on the SLK300 is looking a little dated now. It is a fine looking car, but compared to the BMW Z4 2009 is no longer in the same class for me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ttnews.com/articles/fed-economists-say-tariffs-more-likely-kill-create-jobs", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:05Z", "digest": "sha1:6BHLSLWKHRFWNZTVWKGMAR7K67GINSHQ", "length": 1770, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ttnews.com", "title": "Fed Economists Say Tariffs More Likely to Kill Than Create Jobs | Transport Topics", "raw_content": "\u201cThe new tariffs are likely to lead to a net loss in U.S. employment, at least in the short to medium run,\u201d Mary Amiti, Sebastian Heise, and Noah Kwicklis wrote in a blog post April 19 on the Fed bank\u2019s website. \u201cAlthough it is difficult to say exactly how many jobs will be affected, given the history of protecting industries with import tariffs, we can conclude that the 25% steel tariff is likely to cost more jobs than it saves.\u201d\nRELATED: IMF spots trouble for global economy after 2020\nThe post followed a warning April 18 in the Fed\u2019s Beige Book that trade concerns were clouding an otherwise positive outlook. The Beige Book report \u2014 which is based on anecdotal information collected by the Fed district banks in March and early April \u2014 cited one unidentified company in the Boston Fed\u2019s region as saying that \u201cthese tariffs are now killing high-paying American manufacturing jobs and businesses.\u201d\nThe New York Fed trio cited a 2003 paper by Trade Partnership Worldwide, a Washington-based consulting firm that advocates on behalf of various industry groups, which concluded the effects of similar tariffs imposed by President George W. Bush in 2002 led to the loss of 200,000 jobs across the U.S. labor market. That number was bigger than the total headcount of U.S. steel producers at the time.\n\u201cU.S. exporters that need steel or steel-related inputs will face higher input costs and will have to either increase export prices or reduce their profit margins,\u201d the New York Fed researchers wrote. \u201cThese effects could lead to lower employment in these steel-intensive industries and possibly plant shutdowns.\u201d\nDonald Trump, Trade, Economy\nConsumer Confidence Increased More Than Forecast in January\nUS Factory Managers Concerned About Effects of Trump\u2019s Tariffs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 4311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tubefilter.com/2017/12/22/instagram-direct-messaging-promote-live-stream/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:58Z", "digest": "sha1:P6FMTV3FBU42X5KEEO7PAPBBZLGW5BXD", "length": 1082, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.tubefilter.com", "title": "Instagram Adds Direct Messaging Feature To Help Users Promote Live Streams - Tubefilter", "raw_content": "Instagram Adds Direct Messaging Feature To Help Users Promote Live Streams\nInstagram wants to make it easier for users to gather viewers to their live broadcasts.\nAn update within the latest version of Instagram enables users to send their friends \u2014 or groups of friends \u2014 a link to an in-progress live stream via direct message. In order to do so, simply tap the \u2018Direct\u2019 icon that appears at the bottom of the screen, Instagram writes in a blog post. However, friends will only be able to watch the video if it\u2019s currently live. If the stream has concluded, a message will be sent indicating as much. Viewers can suggest streams to their friends via direct message in the same way that broadcasters can, in order to initiate a co-viewing interaction of sorts.\nVersion 26 of Instagram is currently available on both iOS and Android .\nInstagram has added several new direct messaging features in recent months as it considers spinning out its Direct product into a standalone app, Techcrunch reports, including photo and video replays, support for links, and new photo orientations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 266.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcmajblogs.com%2Fchildren-on-mont-blanc-the-commonwealth-games-and-a-memorial-service-for-stewart-hillis%2F&title=Children+on+Mont+Blanc%2C+the+Commonwealth+Games%2C+and+a+memorial+service+for+Stewart+Hillis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:16Z", "digest": "sha1:IESEPZ36ANGEE6BDNEB2U6AWWDI24OBT", "length": 191, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tumblr.com", "title": "Post to Tumblr - Preview", "raw_content": "Domhnall MacAuley is a CMAJ Associate Editor and a professor of primary care in Northern Ireland, UK Taking your nine year old to climb Mont Blanc (altitude 4810m), seeking the record for th\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 235.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tweetspeakpoetry.com/2016/01/05/poets-and-poems-donald-hall-and-selected-poems/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:14Z", "digest": "sha1:XVXWSSWH3K2Z4GSV2OTN2UCE4X5NVF53", "length": 5941, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.tweetspeakpoetry.com", "title": "Poets and Poems: Donald Hall and \u201cSelected Poems\u201d -", "raw_content": "Donald Hall, 87, says he can\u2019t write poems any more. But he can still write essays and articles, and he can still select his favorite poems and assemble them into a collection that illustrates a lifetime of poetry.\nThe collection is entitled, appropriately enough, The Selected Poems of Donald Hall. The poems are drawn from some 16 collections of poetry Hall has published since 1955. His poetry is what might be called \u201cNew England Plain Speak, \u201d not unlike that of another New Englander, Robert Frost. Hall\u2019s poetry comes from the land, the weather and the people of New England, specifically New Hampshire and Connecticut, a poetry that is often flint-like and always spare.\nHe\u2019s had a distinguished career. He met Frost at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. According to his biography at The Poetry Foundation, he studied at Harvard, with classmates like Adrienne Rich, Robert Bly, Frank O\u2019Hara and John Ashbery. He received a degree from Oxford. From 1953 to 1961, he was the poetry editor for The Paris Review. He began teaching at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, marrying one of his students, Jane Kenyon. She died from leukemia in 1995, and some of the most moving poems he wrote (several of which are included in this collection) are about Jane, her illness and death, and his grief. In 2006 he was named U.S. Poet Laureate.\nHis poetry is known for something unusual for poets\u2014it got better as he got older.\nHis grandparents lived on a farm called Eagle Pond in New Hampshire; when his grandmother died, he bought the farm and has lived there ever since. Jane Kenyon died there. He\u2019s written a collection of essays about the farm, Eagle Pond, and has published a childhood memoir entitled Christmas at Eagle Pond. A considerable portion of his poetry flows from and through that farm in New Hampshire, with its view of Mount Kearsarge.\nHis poetry is also rooted in emotion and passion. He\u2019s not known as a love poet, but he could be, especially in the poems that relate to Jane Kenyon. This is one:\nLove Is Like Sounds\nLate snow fell this early morning of spring.\nAt dawn I rose from bed, restless, and looked\nOut my window, to wonder if there the snow\nFell outside your bedroom, and you watching.\nI played my game of solitaire. The cards\nCame out the same the third time through the deck.\nThe game was stuck. I threw the cards together.\nAnd watched the snow that could not do but fall.\nLove is like sounds, whose last reverberations\nHang on the leaves of strange trees, on mountains\nAs distant as the curving of the earth\nWhere the snow hangs still in the middle of the air.\nHis poetry uses plain language, yes, but it moves in startling and unexpected ways, like \u201cwhere the snow hangs still in the middle of the air.\u201d\nHe may no longer be writing poetry, but what he\u2019s written is sufficient for a life. The Selected Poems of Donald Hall beautifully illustrates that sufficiency.\nPlace, Almost a Century Apart\nDonald Hall\u2019s Christmas at Eagle Pond\nDonald Hall\u2019s \u201cThe Back Chamber\u201d\nPoets and Poems: Dave Malone and \u201cYou Know the Ones\u201d\nThe Mythic and Heroic: \u201cThe Song of Hiawatha\u201d by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow\nFiled Under: Americana Poems, Blog, book reviews, love poems, Poems, poetry, poetry reviews, Poets\nPat Durmon says\nI love his work. Jane Kenyon\u2019s too. So it is true: we may reach a time when we cannot write poetry any more. : ( Sad. Maybe our eyes and ears will still enjoy what we see and hear, even though we cannot write it. I know. . . . I\u2019m just hanging on to the tail of a dream\u2026.. for a while.\nNice to read your comment here, Pat. Maybe the stopping happens for some writers, but not all? I believe Ted Kooser is in his 70\u2019s and published another book in 2014. I say keep on writing as long as you love it. \ud83d\ude42\nBethany \u2013 great counsel!\nPat \u2013 it would be hard for imagine reaching such a time \u2013 but I suspect Doanld Hall thought that as well. Thanks for reading and commenting.\nThanks for letting us know about this book, Glynn. I\u2019ll highlight your post on the Christian Poets & Writers blog http://www.christianpoetsandwriters.com to encourage other members of our Facebook group to read his work. Jane Kenyon\u2019s too. I loved her poetry \u2013 really identified.\nMary \u2013 thank you so much!\nThanks, Glynn. I have long admired his work and Jane\u2019s, especially his poems for her. Good to know there\u2019s a new collection!\nLaurie \u2013 he says he selected what he considered the best. And the poems about Jane Kenyon are deeply moving.\nI\u2019ve read just about all of Hall\u2019s work, prose as well as poetry. My assessment differs from your opinion that he got better at poetry as he got older, but no matter; he did produce some very fine poems. And I\u2019m grateful to have read his work because it is through Hall that I came to know and love Jane Kenyon\u2019s work. Kenyon was good for him, in so many ways.\nMaureen \u2013 I think I actually agree with you \u2013 his poems got better as he got older. thanks for the comment!\n\u201cHis poetry is what might be called \u2018New England Plain Speak,\u2019 not unlike that of another New Englander, Robert Frost.\u201d\nI\u2019m intrigued by this, Glynn, and:\n\u201cHis poetry uses plain language, yes, but it moves in startling and unexpected ways\u2026\u201d\nMaybe I like this idea so much because it feels doable for me as I think about writing poetry. I would like to stretch and grow my vocabulary, but it\u2019s encouraging to have this option and example of using \u201cplain language\u201d in an original way. Thanks for the post.\nMy years as a speechwriter taught me that plain language was always the best.\nOne of the poems I printed & saved last year was his \u201cWhen the Fine Days.\u201d Interestingly, I also printed & saved a poem by Jane Kenyon, \u201cHappiness.\u201d\nThat is interesting, Magen. I just looked up the two poems you mentioned. I slowly read through Kenyon\u2019s \u201cHappiness\u201d and can see why you printed it off. I wonder if she originally wrote it before or during her relationship with Hall.\nThey met when she was in college and he was a professor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 331, "original_length": 22789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.twizelholidayhomes.com/category/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:36Z", "digest": "sha1:JJEDUTM2EQSCJQLX6DMCW3TZKI3UGJFJ", "length": 238, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.twizelholidayhomes.com", "title": "Blog Archives - Twizel Holiday Homes", "raw_content": "Facebook Competition T&C\u2019s\nAvailable for dates in the months of July, August and September 2017 only\nChoice of available homes up to $350 total stay depending on availability. Booking can be upgraded to any house by paying the difference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/why-we-post/discoveries/6-public-social-media-is-conservative", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:45Z", "digest": "sha1:YBM4QFHDO5CQWNJTNJ4QZNP24QHEOZ4Z", "length": 1763, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ucl.ac.uk", "title": "Public social media is conservative", "raw_content": "The public-facing areas of social media platforms, such as Facebook Timelines, tend to be conservative, and in many of our research sites people avoid political postings. By contrast more private social media, such as WhatsApp, may be used to facilitate (sometimes radical) social change.\nSimilarly, content posted on Facebook is very conservative in our Italian fieldsite, with people trying to only express opinions that will be approved of by others.\nAvoid divisive politics\nHere postings on social media also tend to be conservative, but the reason is less concern about surveillance but rather a reflection of the values of this traditional area. People believe that it is better to use social media to give new meaning to traditional celebrations, such as those associated with babies.\nIn addition to surveillance by family and individuals, the type of content people share on social media is controlled by the gaze of other members of a person\u2019s caste. A problematic post might bring dishonour to the entire caste, an important social unit in India.\nKeeping within caste\nAs with several of our fieldsites, private social media such as WhatsApp is the place where radical or illicit material, such as sharing pornographic materials by women, can now circulate more easily, making this often a very liberal space.\nIn our English and Trinidadian fieldsites, things are less conservative with regard to politics, mainly because there is considerable use of humour. With political posts, as long as the content is funny, people generally won\u2019t take offence\nFinally, public social media is conservative here for a very different reason. People don\u2019t want to be seen as showing off, or as trying to be too different, so most people post the same kinds of content.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ukessays.com/essays/politics/an-analysis-of-vote-buying-in-developing-democracies-politics-essay.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:39Z", "digest": "sha1:NHSCOJRRNHGZRENTGFIWT5X4RIK7DC3D", "length": 29339, "nlines": 92, "source_domain": "www.ukessays.com", "title": "Effects of Vote Buying in the Philippines", "raw_content": "Effects of Vote Buying in the Philippines\n06/06/17 Politics Reference this\nIt is common knowledge that once you enter politics you are ready to any eventuality, especially when it comes to funding. Money always play a major role in bringing about the chances of winnning of a candidate. Popularity per se is not enough to assure the vote of the electorate especially in local politics. Although the COMELEC has already set guidelines and rules regarding the expenditures of the candidadates for each voter, more often than not, they exceed much more than the set amount. Corruption and dishonesty is deeply rooted in our political system, so as the mentality and attitudes of the electorate. Before and during election period, voters flock to headquarters and leaders of politicians to take advantage of the situation: to ask for favors, influence and even money in exchange for a promise of vote. Vote buying become institutionalized in our political system. Those politicians who have money can device a program to identify and to assure that his or her money will be transformed into votes. This situation is more evident in local elections where wealthy political clans are ruling. They organized leaders in every barangay to identify possible voters to be bought. To make sure, they furnish a copy of voters\u2019 registration in COMELEC in the area, so as to identify a potential voter to buy or to corrupt the mind of the undecided.\nIn a poor country like ours, it is not impossible to have a power because our politicians know our vulnerability to pressure and our hardships in life. Majority of our electorate are poor and no means of livelihood, no education to back them up and they just resign themselves to taking alms and reliefs. They take advantage of our weaknesses but we cannot blame those who sell their votes. Filipinos\u2019 minds are set for any answers that are immediate. That is why even when the act is illegal and unlawful, like selling votes, they instanlty resort to it to easily come up with a solution to their problem, like poverty. On the long run, the vote buying will only be a stepping stone for corruption and fiefdom perpetration.\nWHAT IS VOTE BUYING?\n-Vote buying involves the individual, immediate, and private exchange of goods, services, or cash for electoral support, usually in violation of legal norms- Hickens, 2006\n-\u201cmost recurrent violation of election ethics\u201d\n\u2013 Most prevalent form of election fraud.\n\u2013 Dispensing of money to opinion-makers, leaders, and directly to voters\n\u2013 economic exchange (Schaffer, 2002)\u2014 -(page 1) research on electoral politics in San Isidro, Bataan- \u201cvote buying and vote selling can be understood no longer as an economic transaction between those who sell their freedom and those who buy them in the hope of regaining their investments when they get into power\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 from the standpoint of ordinary people\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 elections are the times when equality and justice are temporarily achieved as their patrons fulfill their financial obligations to support them in times of need (Ibana, 1996, 130-131).\u201d\n-\u201cvoters sells his or her vote to the highest bidder\u201d (Schaffer, 2002)\n\u2013 apparent efforts by parties or candidates to influence electoral choices through the delivery or promise of material benefits to voters (Schedler, 2002)\n-Material favors are grabted to obtain electoral support (Schedler, 2002)\nTYPES OF VOTE BUYING\nVote buying can be categorized into two types: direct vote buying and indirect vote buying. Both types are widely used in the case of the Philippines although the idea of direct vote buying serves as the more popular act.\nDIRECT VOTE BUYING\nIt is the most common type of vote buying where direct payments, in many forms, are given to the voter. It may be in the form of cash donations, shares of stock or a promise of a particular plan of action or payment in exchange for a promise of vote (Dekel, E., et. al., 2004).\nINDIRECT VOTE BUYING\nIt is a kind of vote buying done in a non obvious and staightforward approach. This type of vote buying uses campaign strategies that target the weaknesses of the electorate. Here in the Philippines, the strategy of the candidates is to use and take advantage of the different Filipino traits. Example of these traits are our values of utang na loob (an act of voluntary assistance that creates an obligation that the receiver must attempt to repay through reciprocal assistance), pakikisama, our close family and kinship ties, our religiousness, and other social values like loyalty, support and trust. They effectively use the various traits to influence and temp us to follow their selfish plans.\nBava (1998) gave a concrete example on how this character capitalization happens. Different parties and candidates hire poll watchers and workers who are tasked to distribute sample ballots for their party. Each poll watchers and ballot distributors are given 1500 pesos and 500 pesos respectively, per day of work from 7 am to 3 pm. A poll watcher only needs 4 things in order to land the job: 1) a ballpen 2) a tally sheet 3) at least 18 years of age and 4) a registered vote (Bava, 1998). The last requirement is the most important and advantageous in the part of the candidates. If the hired person is a registered voter, the employer will be sure that the employer\u2019s vote will go to him or her. A person offered with this kind of job will definitely take the oppurtunity given all the privileges and comfort that it can give.. They can earn almost 1500 pesos a day by just distributing pamphlets and sample ballots. Adding to the convenience is the free meals given to them by their employer. And if the candidate won in the elections, most of them are given permanent jobs in various government offices. This is where indirect vote buying takes place. This act, according to Bava (1998), displays the Filipino trait of utang na loob. If a person has done something good to us, we would do anything and everything to return that goodness. In this case, the poll watchers and other employees will feel obligated to vote the candidate/employer because of the job that was given to them.\nFORMS OF VOTE BUYING\nMoney is the common type of material that the candidates use in order to buy votes. But vote buying not only takes the form of money. It can be other forms of material offers. Schedler (2002) and Schaffer (2002) made a list that summarizes the different kinds of offers into three categories.\nThe first and the most common form is payment. A payment is an amount of money paid. Schedler (2002, p.4) described it as a \u201ccommercial relationship in which partners trade equivalent values.\u201d The citizen trades his vote in exchange of money. The act of accepting money denotes that there is an indirect agreement between the giver and the receiver of the payment.\nThe second kind of material offer takes the form of gifts. A gift is something that is given out of free will without paying something in return. In the context of vote buying, accepting a gift does not give you the responsibility and obligation of voting the giver.\nThe last kind is in the form of wage. A wage is a amount of money paid in exchange of services rendered. Like gifts, it does not require any obligation to the candidate.\nFACTORS AFFECTING VOTE BUYING\nAccording to Schaffer (2002), there are three factors that affect the strategies of the candidates and the perception of the voters toward vote buying. These are socioeconomic, institutional and political factors. The first factor both affects the candidate\u2019s strategies and the voter\u2019s perception while the last two factors affect mainly the strategies of the candidates.\nOne of the socioeconomic factor is the social class (Hicken, 2006). The formulation of the different strategies are influenced by social classes existing in society. The candidate must make a strategy that can produce strong and favorable impressions on people from different walks of life. It should cater to the needs of the entire high, middle and low class population. But it is impossible to come up with such strategies given that there is a massive gap and conflicting interests present among these social classes. Different social classes connotes different needs and expectations. A strategy that might work to the lower class might be ineffective to the middle and higher class or a strategy that may be good to the higher class might harm those belonging in the lower class. Adding to the problem is the unequal number of population belonging to a certain social class. In the Philippines, the population of the lower class is greater than the population of the middle and higher class combined. The solution to these is to focus the strategy to those who constitute the majority. The easiest and most effective strategy to garner votes is to buy the votes of those who are included in this majority (which is the lower class). It will be very effective since those who belong in this class are financially unable who need money to sustain their everyday living. This scenario is very prevalent in the Philippines since many are members of the lower class. Almost all politicians who are running in office are focusing their campaign on the less fortunate because to them, greater number of voters means more number of votes and more number of votes means greater chances of winning.\nThe second socioeconomic factor is education (Hicken, 2006) which affects the voter\u2019s view about vote buying. For the high and some middle class voters, vote buying is a deviant and somehow an immoral behavior. Those in the higher and middle class are strong attackers of this practice. They are advocates of different anti-vote buying campaigns and they are known for organizing movements that educate the people about this kind of campaign strategies. They have this kind of opinion because education teaches them about this kinds of things. But for some middle class and most in the lower class (who cannot afford to have a higher education), they accepted vote buying because they perceive it as the time when they can receive \u201cfree\u201d money that they can use to buy their necessities.\nHicken (2006, p. 48), stated that \u201cthe rules and institutions under which candidates must operate can influence their incentives to purchase electoral support.\u201d Different institutional factors may encourage or discourage the use of vote buying.\nOne institutional factor is the electoral system itself (Hicken, 2006). Under this factor is the district magnitude. It affects the strategy of the candidate because large constituency means larger amount of money needed to buy votes. Large district also has influence on the manner of distribution of the money. The strategy will be more expensive and costly since the distribution of money will take much longer and there should be an increase in the number of employees to properly accomplish the strategy. As a result, candidates will lessen the amount of money to be distributed to the people in order to prioritize other campaign strategies.\nPolitical factors are different conditions and circumstances in society that affect the creation of various policies political choices.\nOne of the variable under this factor are the election laws, particularly the anti-vote buying laws (Hicken, 2006). The degree of execution of different anti-vote buying laws affect how candidates device their strategy and distribution plans. In the Philippines, vote buying is illegal yet it continues to occur probably because of inefficiency of the laws and the law enforcers and the light punishments that will be given to the law breaker. There is no strict regulation of such laws in our country that is why the practice of vote buying is still a widespread act. More often than not, the law enforcers themselves are the protector of this scheme.\nBUDGET SOURCES\nThe first thing that comes into our minds when we talk about vote buying is money. Money is the vital element of vote buying. It is the foundation of any vote buying scheme. We usually think that all vote buying funds are coming from the pockets of the candidates since most of them are members of the elite. But I think that the candidates are smart enough not to make use of their own wealth and to think of other alternative ways of budget sources.\nSome candidates most likely get their vote buying budget from their own political parties. Others accept donations from different business sectors given the condition that if they win the elections, they will repay them by giving them economic benefits and government protection. For example, the candidate accepted the donation from a construction company. If the candidate won the elections and plans to carry out road projects, he or she will be obliged to make the company the contractor of the said projects.\nOther candidates resort in getting illegal funds. Candidates who seek re-election have the advantage when it comes to money resources because they can easily tap pork barrel and other government funds. Some ask the help of drug syndicates, smugglers, kidnappers, gamblers and robbers to provide them with untraceable funds. It is true because we can observe that many crimes and illegal acts are happening during the election season. In return, the candidates give them financial support and protection.\nDIFFERENT STRATEGIES OF VOTE BUYING\nA carefully devised plan of action is needed to successfully carry out plans, especially if act is illegal. Candidates and politicians are wise in strategizing the effective way to buy the votes of the people. Usually, they even hire experts and professionals who are knowledgeable in fields concerning illegal campaign scheming.\nOne specific strategy to ensure that the money given was translated into vote is what Bionat (1998) called Lanzadera system. In this strategy, the watchers give the voters an already completed ballot which will be dropped by the voters in the ballot box. After dropping the already completed ballot, the voter, then, takes with him or her the blank ballot and give it to the watcher. The watcher will complete that ballot and give it to the next paid voter. In this system, the money is given only if the voter returns with a blank ballot.\nI interviewed people from our barangay in Bulakan, Bulacan about the chronic vote buying in our place. They had first hand experiences on how vote buying takes place in our town. Based from that interview, I was able to learn other strategies and series of actions on how the scheme of vote buying happens.\nAccording to them, vote buying is usually conducted a night or two before the election day, usually around eight in the evening until midnight. Each politicians has their own \u201cleader\u201d per community who is responsible for the identification of supporters and potential vote buying targets. They are also responsible in delivering the money to the house of the identified voters, at times in the apperance of paying the \u201cwatcher\u201d. The intense vote buying is very evident and common in our place that the people are the ones coming and lining up in front of the politicians\u2019 headquarters to ask for the money.\nAnother strategy done by the candidates is getting the trust of barangay officials and other community leaders. In this way, the candidate can almost assume his or her hold in the community. The local leaders, then, are given large amount of money in exchange of buying the votes of their constituencies on behalf of the politician or the candidate.\nOne more strategy that was mentioned by my neighbors is buying non-supporters. Candidates will offer those non-supporters with a huge amount money. If they accept it, they will not be allowed to come out of their houses on the day of the election. There will be someone who will serve as a watchman that will ensure that the voter will abide to the agreement. Some politicians, in order to be extra sure, hire a bus that will take all the paid non-supporters to an out-of-town trip on the election day.\nAnother startegy is the taking advantage of the politicians on our deep family and kinship ties. Some politicians use a relative or an influential member of a clan to convince members of the family and close friends to accept the money and to vote for that politician.\nVote buying also happens during the election day itself as said by the interviewees. Buying may take the form of 100 pesos attached to the sample ballot.\nThere are also ways in order to ensure that the paid voter will comply to the agreement. Before giving the money, they are required to give proofs that they voted that candidate. Usually, they bring with them a carbon paper or they are asked to take a picture of the ballot with a cellphone camera. Others asked the voters to make an agreed mark (a particular fold for example) on the ballot to serve as an identification in the course of the counting of the votes.\nREASON WHY POLITICIANS BUY VOTES\nThe primary reason why politicians buy votes is the hunger for power. Vote buying is a form of desperation to remain in power. Many politicians fight for the privelege of power because it implies influence and control over other individuals. They see power as the easiest way to achieve fame and fortune. Candidates want to perchase the vote of the people to obtain domination on different public organizations as mechanisms. They are not afraid to spend a big amount of money because the moment they win the elections, they can recover much more money than that was paid to the individuals who sell their votes.\nREASONS WHY PEOPLE SELL THEIR VOTES\nAccording to the April 2007 of the Social Weather Station (SWS), one in two of the registered voters think that there is nothing bad in accepting the money offers from the candidates (refer to Figure 1). Others may not see this from of money-giving as an attempt to buy their votes. They accept the money but it does not necessarily mean that they will vote for that candidate.\nAnother reason is the offer seems as an opportunity to get the money, that was stolen by the politicians, back to the people. They might as well accept the offered money since it came from the taxes of the people.\nThe April 2007 SWS survey also found that those in the rural areas were more probable in accepting money compared to those who live in urban areas (refer to Table 1). This shows that the primary reason for the selling of votes is poverty. Those who live in or below the poverty line mostly are unemployed individuals. They accepted the money because they needed it. For the poor, payment for a vote can mean a week without hunger. They just accept the offer because for them, dignity and pride cannot create food and money.\nSome may see elections as the only chance to obtain something from the government. They have this view that it is an obligation of a candidate to give money and other material things to their supporters.\nThere are some reasons that we can consider negative in the part of the voters. People accept payments because they are being threatened. Most of the times, material offers are accompanied with terror, making the offer difficult to refuse.\nFigure 1. \u201cIn an election, it is not bad to accept money provided\none votes according to one\u2019s conscience.\u201d\nSource: http://www.sws.org.ph/pr070503.htm\nTable 1. Rural areas approved accepting money compared to those in\nthe urban areas.\nFor the past few years, many have attempted to stop and eliminate the practice of vote buying in the Philippines. They even formed different organizations that promotes the values of an honest election. But none of them actually succeeded.\nProbably the most successful technique that was done to eradicate vote buying is the campaign against vote buying through different public service posters (see Illustration 1, Illustration 2 and Illustration 3). Successful in the sense that it enables the public to gain information that the act of vote buying is wrong. But it did not really help in the removal of this unacceptable practice.\nIllustration 2: 3M public service ad, May 2001. blinded by money. Vote with your conscience.\u201d\nSource: Schaffer, 2005\nIllustration 1: Namfrel Public Service Ad, May 2001. \u201cYour vote is valuable, it doesn\u2019t have a price. Your character is priceless. So, in this election, don\u2019t sell your character, don\u2019t sell you vote.\nIllustration 3: Red Horse Beer public service ad, May 2001. \u201cA little pocket change won\u2019t put you ahead. Don\u2019t ask for a bribe. Vote for a good candidate.\u201d\nA reforms aims to change the behavior of the candidates and the the voters\nHISTORY OF VOTE BUYING IN THE PHILIPPINES\nVote buying is not just a recent development in Philippine elections. Its existence started with the coming of foreign colonizers and continued to flourish and evolve with the advancement of new technologies and the development of new ideas.\nPre-colonial elections in the Philippines did not have vote buying because the leadership was assumed not through election but through succession. The same thing goes probably with the elections during the early Spanish period (17th to 18th century). I did not find any account stating that there was vote buying but I assume that there was none because there was no elections and the leaders were only appointed by the Spaniards. In the late Spanish period (19th century), Spanish colonial control in the Philippines declined as the Philippine revolution started. The revolution led to the development of a government established by Aguinaldo. Under this government, most officials were selected individuals from the principalia class and elections were only held for higher positions. There was no large scale elections during that time so vote buying was not an option.\nThe coming of the American period started vote buying in the Philippines. The Americans gave all Filipinos the right to rule and the right to vote. Act No. 60, which became the organic law for all municipal governments, started the elite rule in the Philippines (Tangcangco, 1988). The Act provided a requirement that only allowed the elites to vote and participate in elections. The elites became powerful and they may have realized the advantage that the position can give them.They became accustomed to the power that was once denied by the Spaniards. From then on, in order to sustain this power, they did whatever means and costs to be elected in office.\nHere are some of the documented instances of vote buying from the American period until the present period.\nIn the 1929 Elections (during the American period), money was very essential in the campaign period. Money was used to pay-off rivals to withdraw their candidacy, to buy the votes of the people, to threathen the people, and to bribe campaign leaders of the rival candidate. (Banlaoi & Carlos, 1996).\nIn 1940 Local elections (Commonwealth period), Money was again a very important tool. Specific example for this one is the case of Pedro Abad Santos of the Socialist Party. He was predicted as the winner of the gubernatorial race in the province of Pampanga because of his massive popularity to his constituents but his wealthy opponent won the election by almost 7000 votes. There was no evidence of the strategies his opponent had used but the Abad Santos\u2019 camp was really sure that his opponent used his money to buy the votes of the people. Another example was the electoral protest of Dr. Hilario Moncado against Tomas Cabili. They were fighting for a congressional seat in Lanoa province. Moncado accused Cabili of unlawful campaign by promising free legal services and employment for those who will vote for him. (Banlaoi & Carlos, 1996)\nIn the 1949 National Elections (during the post-independence period), all forms of fraud and manipulation were reportedly done by President Elpidio Quirino to ensure his position as president. Quirino and his other candidates used massive and whole-sale vote-buying in forms of money, jobs and pork barrel. It was reported that Quirino had used almost four million pesos during his election campaign. The three provinces where the massive vote buying occurred include Negros Occidental, Nueva Ecija and Lanao. (Banlaoi & Carlos, 1996)\nThe 1969 Presidential and Congressional Elections was between The Nacionalista Party and the Liberal Party. This was considered as the \u201cbloodiest and dirtiest election\u201d (Banlaoi & Carlos, 1996, p.111) prior to the Martial law period. Both parties reportedly used different techniques to ensure their victory. These included cheating, ballot stuffing and massive vote buying. It was stated in the reports that the Nacionalista Party and the Liberal Party spent around 700 million pesos and 300 million pesos respectively. Those money came from the pork-barrel funds and was used as media fees and in buying votes. (Banlaoi & Carlos, 1996).\nDuring the Martial law period, all kinds of wholesale fraud were committed including vote buying. In order to capture the loyalty of the rural people, Marcos personally distributed 4000 pesos to every barrio captain during his campaign. The barrio captains were tasked to divide the money among the inhabitants of the barrio. (Abueva, 1970).\nIn the 1992 elections, there was a ban on media advertisements so the candidates had more cash to spend on their campaigns. Feliciano Belmonte, Quezon City congressional candidate at that time, was reported to have given cash and free tickets to Hongkong during his campaign. (Bionat, 1998)\nThe media advertisement was also banned in the 1995 elections. According to Bionat (1998), mayors in Cebu received a bonus of 50,000 to 100,000 pesos for campaigning the 12 senatorial bets of the administration. Like what Marcos did, candidates also bought the votes of the grassroots leader. The difference is that the value of their support was more expensive. Barangay captains accepted a minimum of 500 pesos and a maximum of 20,000 pesos from the candidates. (Bionat, 1998)\nIn the 2004 Presidential elections, Arroyo commited almost all kinds of fraud according to Tuazon (2006). One example is the Oplan Mercury that was exposed by Rudy Galang (one of the brains of this idea). The goals of this plan is to use public funds to the campaign, to provide money to local officials and to buy the support of those in the opposition. (Tuazon, 2006).\nElections in the Philippines from pre-colonial era to the present shows how we incorporate influences of colonial rule into our political system. The good and bad effects of these interventions became part of the changes in Philippine elections. History tells us that the face of Philippine elections has never really changed. We still continue to perfrom the practices of the past. The difference now is that it just assumes new shape and form.\n\u2013 giving up your rights to vote/ selling one\u2019s ethical standards\n-Vote buying-short term effects are long term. Soon after the election, it\u2019s pay back time.\nReform must start in the smallest unit of the society, which is the family. Our family should inculcate in us the values of honesty and transparency and the importance of a single vote to the development and progress of the country. Change must start within ourselves. Anti-vote buying campaigns will not succeed\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.\nVote buying is not a native Filipino idea. It was only an reflection of our colonial experience. But this experience manifest in us that it became a constant scenario in every elections. History has an indirect effect on the start of vote buying in the Philippines. The desire for self-rule that was forbidden to the Filipinos for almost 300 years was suddenly bestowed to us that it might have created the idea of doing whatever it takes (may it be good or bad) to preseve and uphold this right.\nEssays, UK. (November 2018). Effects of Vote Buying in the Philippines. 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He has worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriter partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date.\nIn his four-decade career John has sold more than 250 million records, making him one of the most successful artists of all time. His single \"Candle in the Wind 1997\" has sold over 33 million copies worldwide, and is the best selling single in Billboard history. He has more than 50 Top 40 hits, including seven consecutive No. 1 US albums, 56 Top 40 singles, 16 Top 10, four No. 2 hits, and nine No. 1 hits. He has won six Grammy Awards, an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him Number 49 on its list of the 100 greatest artists of all time.\nJohn was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Having been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1996, John received a knighthood from HM Queen Elizabeth II for \"services to music and charitable services\" in 1998. He has been heavily involved in the fight against AIDS since the late 1980s, and in 1992, he established the Elton John AIDS Foundation and a year later began hosting the annual Academy Award Party, which has since become one of the most high-profile Oscar parties in the Hollywood film industry. Since its inception, the foundation has raised over $200 million. John entered into a civil partnership with David Furnish on 21 December 2005 and continues to be a champion for LGBT social movements. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked him as the most successful male solo artist on \"The Billboard Hot 100 Top All-Time Artists\" (third overall, behind only The Beatles and Madonna).\nJohn was born Reginald Kenneth Dwight, the eldest child of Stanley and only child of Sheila Eileen (nee Harris) Dwight and was raised in Pinner, Middlesex in a council house of his maternal grandparents. His parents did not marry until he was 6 years old, when the family moved to a nearby semi-detached house. He was educated at Pinner Wood Junior School, Reddiford School and Pinner County Grammar School, until age 17, when he left just prior to his A Level examinations to pursue a career in the music industry.\nWhen John began to seriously consider a career in music, his father, who served as a Flight Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, tried to steer him toward a more conventional career, such as banking. John has stated that his wild stage costumes and performances were his way of letting go after such a restrictive childhood. Both of John?s parents were musically inclined, his father having been a trumpet player with the Bob Millar Band, a semi-professional big band that played at military dances. The Dwights were keen record buyers, exposing John to the popular singers and musicians of the day, and John remembers being immediately hooked on rock and roll when his mother brought home records by Elvis Presley and Bill Haley & His Comets in 1956.\nJohn started playing the piano at the age of 3, and within a year, his mother heard him picking out Winifred Atwell?s \"The Skater?s Waltz\" by ear. After performing at parties and family gatherings, at the age of 7 he took up formal piano lessons. He showed musical aptitude at school, including the ability to compose melodies, and gained some notoriety by playing like Jerry Lee Lewis at school functions. At the age of 11, he won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. According to one of his instructors, John promptly played back, like a \"gramophone record\", a four-page piece by Handel that he heard for the first time.\nFor the next five years he attended Saturday classes at the Academy in central London, and has stated that he enjoyed playing Chopin and Bach and singing in the choir during Saturday classes, but that he was not otherwise a diligent classical student. \"I kind of resented going to the Academy\", he says. \"I was one of those children who could just about get away without practicing and still pass, scrape through the grades.\" He even claims that he would sometimes skip classes and just ride around on the Tube. However, several instructors have testified that he was a \"model student\", and during the last few years he was taking lessons from a private tutor in addition to his classes at the Academy.\nJohn?s mother, though also strict with her son, was more vivacious than her husband, and something of a free spirit. With Stanley Dwight uninterested in his son and often physically absent, John was raised primarily by his mother and maternal grandmother. When his father was home, the Dwights would have terrible arguments that greatly distressed their son. When John was 14, they divorced. His mother then married a local painter, Fred Farebrother, a caring and supportive stepfather who John affectionately referred to as \"Derf\", his first name in reverse. They moved into flat No. 1A in an eight-unit apartment building called Frome Court, not far from both previous homes. It was there that John would write the songs that would launch his career as a rock star; he would live there until he had four albums simultaneously in the American Top 40.\nAt the age of 15, with the help of his mother and stepfather, Reginald Dwight became a weekend pianist at a nearby pub, the Northwood Hills Hotel, playing Thursday to Sunday nights for \ufffd35 a week and tips. Known simply as \"Reggie\", he played a range of popular standards, including songs by Jim Reeves and Ray Charles, as well as songs he had written himself. A stint with a short-lived group called the Corvettes rounded out his time.\nIn 1964, Dwight and his friends formed a band called Bluesology. By day, he ran errands for a music publishing company; he divided his nights between solo gigs at a London hotel bar and working with Bluesology. By the mid-1960s, Bluesology was backing touring American soul and R&B musicians like The Isley Brothers, Major Lance, Billy Stewart, Doris Troy and Patti LaBelle and The Bluebelles. In 1966, the band became musician Long John Baldry?s supporting band and played 16 times at The Marquee Club.\nAfter failing lead vocalist auditions for King Crimson and Gentle Giant, Dwight answered an advertisement in the New Musical Express placed by Ray Williams, then the A&R manager for Liberty Records. At their first meeting, Williams gave Dwight a stack of lyrics written by Bernie Taupin, who had answered the same ad. Dwight wrote music for the lyrics, and then mailed it to Taupin, beginning a partnership that still continues. In 1967, what would become the first Elton John/Bernie Taupin song, \"Scarecrow\", was recorded; when the two first met, six months later, Dwight was going by the name \"Elton John\", in homage to Bluesology saxophonist Elton Dean and Long John Baldry.\nThe team of John and Taupin joined Dick James?s DJM Records as staff songwriters in 1968, and over the next two years wrote material for various artists, like Roger Cook and Lulu. Taupin would write a batch of lyrics in under an hour and give it to John, who would write music for them in half an hour, disposing of the lyrics if he couldn?t come up with anything quickly. For two years, they wrote easy-listening tunes for James to peddle to singers. Their early output included a contender for the British entry for the Eurovision Song Contest in 1969, for Lulu, called \"Can?t Go On (Living Without You)\". It came sixth of six songs. In 1969, John also provided piano for Roger Hodgson on his first ever musical recording.\nDuring this period, John was also a session musician for other artists including playing piano on The Hollies? \"He Ain?t Heavy, He?s My Brother\" and singing backing vocals for The Scaffold.\nOn the advice of music publisher Steve Brown, John and Taupin started writing more complex songs for John to record for DJM. The first was the single \"I?ve Been Loving You\" (1968), produced by Caleb Quaye, former Bluesology guitarist. In 1969, with Quaye, drummer Roger Pope, and bassist Tony Murray, John recorded another single, \"Lady Samantha\", and an album, Empty Sky.\nFor their follow-up album, Elton John, John and Taupin enlisted Gus Dudgeon as producer and Paul Buckmaster as musical arranger. Elton John was released in the April 1970 on DJM Records/Pye Records in the UK and Uni Records in the USA, and established the formula for subsequent albums; gospel-chorded rockers and poignant ballads. The first single from the album, \"Border Song\", made into the US Top 100, peaking at Number 92. The second single \"Your Song\" made the US Top Ten, peaking at number eight and becoming John?s first hit single as a singer. The album soon became his first hit album, reaching number four on the Billboard 200 album chart.\nBacked by ex-Spencer Davis Group drummer Nigel Olsson and bassist Dee Murray, John?s first American concert took place at The Troubadour in Los Angeles in August 1970, and was a success.\nThe concept album Tumbleweed Connection was released in October 1970, and reached the Top Ten on the Billboard 200.\nIn 1972, Davey Johnstone joined the Elton John Band on guitar and backing vocals. The band released Honky Chateau, which became John?s first American number 1 album.\nThe pop album Don?t Shoot Me I?m Only the Piano Player came out at the start of 1973, and produced the hits \"Crocodile Rock\" and \"Daniel\".\nGoodbye Yellow Brick Road gained instant critical acclaim and topped the chart on both sides of the Atlantic, remaining at Number 1 for two months. It also temporarily established John as a glam rock star. It contained the number 1 hit \"Bennie and the Jets\", along with the popular and praised \"Goodbye Yellow Brick Road\", \"Candle in the Wind\", \"Saturday Night?s Alright for Fighting\".\nJohn formed his own MCA-distributed label Rocket Records and signed acts to it - notably Neil Sedaka (\"Bad Blood\", on which he sang background vocals) and Kiki Dee - in which he took personal interest. Instead of releasing his own records on Rocket, he opted for $8 million offered by MCA. When the contract was signed in 1974, MCA reportedly took out a $25 million insurance policy on John?s life.\nIn 1974 a collaboration with John Lennon took place, resulting in Elton John covering The Beatles? \"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds\" and Lennon?s \"One Day at a Time\", and in return Elton John and band being featured on Lennon?s \"Whatever Gets You thru the Night\". In what would be Lennon?s last live performance, the pair performed these two number 1 hits along with the Beatles classic \"I Saw Her Standing There\" at Madison Square Garden. Lennon made the rare stage appearance to keep the promise he made that he would appear on stage with Elton if \"Whatever Gets You Thru The Night\" became a number 1 single.\nCaribou was released in 1974, and although it reached number 1, it was widely considered a lesser quality album. Reportedly recorded in a scant two weeks between live appearances, it featured \"The Bitch Is Back\" and the lushly orchestrated \"Don?t Let the Sun Go Down on Me\".\nIn the late 1960s, John was engaged to be married to his first lover, secretary Linda Woodrow, who is mentioned in the song \"Someone Saved My Life Tonight\". He married German recording engineer Renate Blauel on 14 February 1984, in Darling Point, Sydney, with speculation that the marriage was a cover for his homosexuality. John had come out as bisexual in a 1976 interview with Rolling Stone, but after his divorce from Blauel in 1988 he told the magazine that he was \"comfortable\" being gay.\nIn 1993, John began a relationship with David Furnish, a former advertising executive and now filmmaker. John and Furnish entered a civil partnership on 21 December 2005. They held a low-key ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall, followed by a lavish party at their Berkshire mansion, thought to have cost \ufffd1 million. Their son, Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born to a surrogate mother on 25 December 2010 in California. John and Furnish chose Lady Gaga, magazine editor Ingrid Sischy, and Sichy?s partner Sandy Brant as Zachary?s godmothers.\nIn April 2009, the Sunday Times Rich List estimated John?s wealth to be \ufffd175 million (US$265 million), and ranked him as the 322nd richest person in Britain. John was estimated to have a fortune of \ufffd195 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2011, making him one of the 10 richest people in the British music industry. Aside from his main home \"Woodside\" in Old Windsor, Berkshire, John owns residences in Atlanta, Nice, London?s Holland Park, and Venice. John is an art collector, and is believed to have one of the largest private photography collections in the world.\nIn 2000, John admitted to spending \ufffd30 million in just under two years - an average of \ufffd1.5 million a month. 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They are the trendsetters who define the beauty business, many were founded on the inspiration of a single individual who had a vision for the future.\nMany have achieved outstanding results in their products, standards of training, ecological awareness and willingness to support a variety of good causes along the way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 157.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.umnews.org/en/news/august-27-2012", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:29Z", "digest": "sha1:K7QUOZVJA5UTEFLPVCF5ER5ABQG5OPWK", "length": 3027, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.umnews.org", "title": "August 27, 2012 | United Methodist News Service", "raw_content": "\"I can't tell you how many times people say to me, 'Well, I know Friday is your day off, but&ellipsis; .' I know maybe two clergy that I think of as being good at [setting] boundaries, and they get a lot of flak about it.\" - The Rev. Jeanette Hicks, associate pastor in Jacksonville, N.C.\nBishop accused of encouraging disobedience\nNASHVILLE, Tenn. (UMNS) - More than 70 United Methodist clergy and lay people in the United States have sent an open letter to the Council of Bishops accusing retired Bishop Melvin G. Talbert of encouraging disobedience to the denomination's stance on homosexuality. The letter urges bishops when they next meet to \"publicly censure\" Talbert.\nRead full story and comment\nIs pastor's self-care selfish?\nDURHAM, N.C. (UMNS) - Caught up in the day-to-day demands of ministry, clergy often find it difficult to take time to attend to their health. But, in North Carolina, United Methodist clergy are learning that it's more than OK to care for themselves.\nJoplin church to reopen worship center\nJOPLIN, Mo. 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More specifically, we aim to investigate to what extent trust depends on a close connection between persons, time, and place; all factors that are known to promote reciprocity. To increase the understanding of the role of reciprocity, we not only focus on the willingness to trust others; we also study reactions to trust and distrust.\nIntroduction to Social and Organisational Psychology (Bachelor)\nEconomic and Consumer Psychology (Bachelor)\nGroup Dynamics (Bachelor)\nPsychology of Selling and Advertising (Master)\nMaster Thesis and Internship supervision (Master)\nJan Brouwer Award for best Master's thesis in humanities/social sciences (2015). Awarded by The Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW). \u20ac 2.000,-\nVan de Geer Award for best Master\u2019s thesis of the Institute of Psychology (2014). Awarded by Leiden University. \u20ac 500,-\nProf. dr. Eric van Dijk\nProf. dr. 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It is critically important that we create a safe and supportive environment for all students, employees and visitors. We must always be mindful of our responsibilities to others and ensure that there are clear guidelines for the resolution of concerns and complaints. The University strictly prohibits any acts of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. Sexual misconduct in the workplace in unacceptable and will not be tolerated in any form. It is our goal to build on the positive environment that exists at the University of the Virgin Islands and ensure that it remains a safe and inviting place to study, work and meet.\nSexual Misconduct is defined as non-consensual physical contact of a sexual nature. Acts that constitute sexual misconduct take a variety of forms. Examples of the kinds of conduct that may constitute sexual misconduct include, but are not limited to acts using force, threat, intimidation, or advantage gained by the offended party's mental or physical incapacity or impairment of which the offending party was aware or should have been aware. The use of any drug, including alcohol, judged to be related to the commission of an offense will be considered a contributing factor rather than a mitigating factor.\nSexual Harassment is a form of sex discrimination and is prohibited by the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature, made by someone from or in the work or educational setting, under any of the following circumstances:\ni. 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Her name comes from her home town of Magdala, a fishing village on the western shore of Lake Tiberias. St Luke the Evangelist tells us, in Chapter 8 of his Gospel, how Jesus went from town to town announcing the Good News of the Kingdom of God, and how the Twelve Apostles were with Him together with some women who had been healed of evil spirits or infirmities, and were serving them. Among these was a certain \"Mary, called the Magdalene, from whom seven demons came out.\"\nMisconceptions about her identity: she was not a prostitute\nAs Biblical exegesis teaches, the expression 'seven demons' could indicate a serious physical or moral malady that had struck the woman and from which Jesus had freed her. But, until now, tradition has claimed that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute. This is only because in Chapter 7 of Luke\u2019s Gospel we read of the conversion of an anonymous \"known sinner in that city\" who, when Jesus was a guest in the house of a notable Pharisee, bathed His feet with perfume and her tears and dried them with her hair.\" Without any real textual connection, Mary of Magdala was identified with that unnamed prostitute. But, according to Cardinal Ravasi, there is a further misunderstanding: anointing with perfumed oil is a gesture that was also performed by Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus, on a different occasion, as reported by the Evangelist, St John. And so, in some popular traditions, Mary Magdalene has come to be identified with this Mary of Bethany, after being confused with the prostitute of Galilee.\nMary Magdalene appears in the Gospels in the most dramatic moment of Jesus' life, when she accompanies Him to Calvary and, along with other women, observes Him from afar. 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She did not deny him or run away in fear as the other disciples did, but remained close to Him every moment, up to and including the tomb.\nThe Feast of Mary Magdalene\nPope Francis elevated the memory of Mary Magdalene to the status of Festivity on July 22nd, 2016 in order to stress the importance of this faithful disciple of Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 6433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.velonews.com/2018/07/tour-de-france/bmcs-sponsor-search-not-a-distraction-for-tour-team_471414", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZUGADCIGJPHNWBVMSXDN7XL4ROACOEGG", "length": 5185, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.velonews.com", "title": "BMC's sponsor search not a distraction for Tour team \u2013 VeloNews.com", "raw_content": "Jim Ochowicz doesn't want his team's search for a...\nBMC\u2019s sponsor search not a distraction for Tour team\nBMC Racing is still looking for a team sponsor for 2019, but Jim Ochowicz says that won't distract from the quest for a yellow jersey.\nNANTES, France (VN) \u2014 BMC Racing would like to know it has the money to continue for the 2019 season, but the funding isn\u2019t there yet. Despite this, team boss Jim Ochowicz is focused first on helping Richie Porte win the 2018 Tour de France.\nThe Tour begins Saturday in Vend\u00e9e and ends three weeks later in Paris, where Australian Richie Porte is at least aiming for a third-place finish.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a distraction for the team, for the riders, we had enough international communication about all of this,\u201d Ochowicz said. \u201cThe riders are relaxed and focused on this Tour, as is all the staff including myself. I\u2019m here now, this is what we are doing.\u201d\nOchowicz is in a race against time to secure a sponsor or sponsors, enough to give the team a budget of around $29 million. Waiting much longer he risks losing his star riders.\nAlready, reports and rumors are swirling about Porte is said to be signed with Trek-Segafredo for 2019. Tejay van Garderen for EF Education First-Drapac. Rohan Dennis to Bahrain-Merida. And classics star Greg Van Avermaet could join Dimension Data, following bike manufacturer BMC.\n\u201cRumors don\u2019t help anyone, facts do help. Rumors are just that, they don\u2019t do us or anyone else any good because there are too many of them, and quite frankly most are not true,\u201d Ochowicz said. \u201cIn term of knowledge of things that are reported, it\u2019s just not factual.\u201d\nBMC Racing began as a team after Team Phonak folded in 2006. Over the years, Ochowicz helped Cadel Evans win the Tour de France in 2011 and saw Van Avermaet to monument wins in the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.\nThe American manager spoke at the team bus after his riders met the press during a pre-Tour press conference. The eight men remained in the building sitting to the side after the conference ended.\n\u201cI have not decided my future yet,\u201d Van Avermaet said. \u201cI am going to decide soon. I am waiting for BMC still, and I have a few offers. I think close to the Tour I will make my decision on where I will go and I have a few offers. I think it\u2019s pretty important to not wait too long on this.\u201d\n\u201cI can\u2019t speak for my teammates, but right now, I have not signed anything yet for next year,\u201d van Garderen said. \u201cHopefully we\u2019ll get some news sooner than later. I am not going to give you a date. August 1 is the transfer window, there\u2019s that.\u201d\nEven if the riders or teams reached an agreement, they could not say because the official date for signing deals is not until August 1. After that, any deal made earlier would be made official as if it just happened.\nIt is much more complicated than in decades past. As with specialized training and specific racing schedules, transfers and contracts require greater attention and have become a bigger business.\n\u201cYou can\u2019t compare what was going on with 7-Eleven when we lost them as a sponsor, and Motorola, that was a different world then,\u201d Ochowicz said.\n\u201cThings didn\u2019t move as fast, it was also moving, people weren\u2019t worried so much about contracts. We didn\u2019t talk about them until August or later, after the Coors Classic. The timelines have changed, the management of athletes has changed a lot. I can\u2019t remember more than one or two riders who had a manager in those days. The rest were freelancing or doing it on their own.\n\u201cYou can\u2019t say we can\u2019t find a sponsor for next year, we are not there yet. We just haven\u2019t done it up to this point, today\u2019s date. People can find a sponsor at any time in the year. Our TAG Heuer sponsor didn\u2019t materialize until September two years ago. Companies work in calendar cycles, but not cycling, which may end in June or July. Decisions about financial investments are done at different times in the year.\u201d\nAlready since last year, the team has been looking for a new sponsor when former BMC founder Andy Rihs said that he would pull the business out. That search intensified with his death this April.\nThe marketplace is getting more crowded as well. Team Astana manager Marc Biver is setting up a team. His brother Jean-Claude is the CEO of TAG Heuer, but Ochowicz said that TAG is committed to his team for 2019 and that he has the WorldTour license.\nAnother twist is that long-time BMC press chief Georges L\u00fcchinger resigned before the Tour, said to be heading to Biver\u2019s side. Biver said that he is not trying to take TAG as a sponsor, however.\nOchowicz must keep his head down and focus on the Tour, which could bring more riches for the 2019 season.\n\u201cThe last opportunity we really had was Cadel. Tejay took over, got fifth, but couldn\u2019t squeeze up to the podium level. This is the year for Richie, he just won Tour de Suisse. You can\u2019t deny he\u2019s a contender. It changes the mood in the team, the rides direction and gives everyone focus,\u201d Ochowicz said.\n\u201cOf course, it\u2019s global publicity. This is why we are at the Tour de France, it\u2019s the biggest sporting event, and one of the biggest in the world. It\u2019s a global stage and that\u2019s\u2019 whey people want to sponsor.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 7706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vikingrivercruises.com/cruise-destinations/europe/destinations/cochem/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:09Z", "digest": "sha1:N3VJXQY7HFLDMIGHXEZBJRFFLJ2QBJ5X", "length": 440, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vikingrivercruises.com", "title": "About Cochem", "raw_content": "About Cochem\nPerched on a hilltop above the city and the Moselle River, the 1,000-year-old Cochem Castle is the city\u2019s signature landmark. Timber-framed houses, St. Martin\u2019s Church, the market square and a former monastery now serving as an arts center are all well preserved in the lively old quarter of town. You might want to taste some of the award-winning mustard from the 200-year-old mustard mill, the last one of its kind in Europe.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 4346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 146.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.viralspices.com/products/basil-seeds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:00Z", "digest": "sha1:TQV6T5NH64LRPQZMGAGV4I767C4D653Y", "length": 1102, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.viralspices.com", "title": "Basil Seed | Organic Products India", "raw_content": "Home / Basil Seed\nBasil plant seeds are a member of the Lamiaceae (mint) family and is native to India. It has high importance in the Indian Religion and is hence also known as holy Basil. Everything about Basil is medicinal and so are its seeds. Basil seeds are commonly known in India as Sabja. The seeds have very little calories & high nutritive value which makes them a superfood. It is one of the most ancient grains of India and has a number of references in Indian Scriptures too.\nOrganic Products India are one of the leading Basil seed manufacturers, exporters and suppliers all over the world.\nRabi Crop (Feb/Mar), Kharif Crop (Sept/Oct) (Feb/Mar)\nThe primary use of Basil seeds or Sabja in most Asian countries is as a thickening agent for certain drinks and even water. The seeds bloat when soaked in water and are helpful in reducing body temperature. These are also used as an effective remedy against heat issues & consumed with milk or water for better results.\nHelps in weight loss, relieves constipation, Reduces body heat, Reduces cough and cold and are also good for skin and hair.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vistacolumbia.com/directory/david-hunt-creative", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VZ62BKR4CWUGUWRCWGTMOEI42WKEEVRA", "length": 208, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vistacolumbia.com", "title": "David Hunt Creative - The Vista - Columbia SC", "raw_content": "David Hunt Creative LIKE\nDavid Hunt Creative offers a partnership for creating consistent, strategic, branding and design solutions for businesses, healthcare, retail, industrial, and nonprofit organizations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voiceamerica.com/guest/19256/simon-hartley", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:23Z", "digest": "sha1:GJQG27PUWH37RDFBEO44NPQNWYPX3OAE", "length": 1000, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.voiceamerica.com", "title": "Simon Hartley on Stepping Stones to Everyday Success | Friday, February 14, 2014", "raw_content": "Simon Hartley is a globally respected sport psychology consultant and performance coach. He helps athletes and business people to get their mental game right. For almost 20 years, Simon has worked with gold medalists, world record holders, top five world-ranked professional athletes and championship winning teams. He has worked at the highest level of sport, including spells in Premiership football, Premiership rugby union, First Class County Cricket, Super League, golf, tennis, motor sport and with Team GB Olympians. In 2011, Simon published his first book Peak Performance Every Time, which was followed in 2012 by How To Shine, and in 2013 by Two Lengths of the Pool. For almost 10 years, Simon has also applied the principles of sport psychology to business, education, healthcare and the charity sector. This has included projects with some of the world\u2019s leading corporations and foremost executives. He is also an international professional speaker, delivering keynotes across the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 132.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.voxnature.com/8-herbs-used-for-reducing-fever/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:44:08Z", "digest": "sha1:A3AW4BCKTO7CBS43PVJMXTQ5STCG77DK", "length": 3593, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.voxnature.com", "title": "8 Herbs Used for Reducing Fever", "raw_content": "8 Herbs Used for Reducing Fever\nBecause fevers are a sign that your body is fighting an infection naturally, fevers will usually decrease on their own once the infection has been taken care of. There are occasions, however, when the body has a fever unnecessarily or when the fever is too high; when that occurs herbs can be used to make your fever break.\nHerbs for Fever\nBelow are some of the most common herbs used for lowering fever.\n1. White WIllow (Salix alba)\nUsed by thousands of years by Chinese herbalists, a white willow tea is perhaps the best way to treat both fever and pain. White willow contains salicin, which is the active ingredient in aspirin (which is often used for fevers). The taste of the herb is a little harsh, so try adding some cinnamon or chamomile to your tea.\nThough not as well-known as white willow, meadowsweet is also an excellent source of salicin. It is gentle on the stomach, unlike aspirin. Because it is also an excellent remedy for digestive ailments, it is an excellent choice if your fever is paired with digestive issues.\nAn herb that is used to promote perspiration, yarrow is, therefore, an excellent choice when trying to break a fever. The salicylic acid in yarrow opens the pores, therefore inducing sweat. Simultaneously, yarrow is well-known for its ability to eliminate toxins, which may help the body fight the culprit that is causing the fever.\nBlack Elder (Sambucus nigra)\nFor years, the elder tree flowers have been used to treat colds and flu. This herb also promotes sweating in addition to opening capillaries, eliminating toxins, and reducing congestion. Available as a tea or tincture, this herb is especially recommended to treat spiking fevers in children.\nAmong its plethora of uses, you can also add \u201cfever reducer\u201d to the list for peppermint. In addition to reducing fever, peppermint is also beneficial for the digestive system and may decrease anxiety, allowing the body to relax and recover. Peppermint can be taken in combination with elderflowers, boneset, or yarrow.\nGinger is an item that should be kept in every kitchen, with its uses ranging from easing stomach pain to soothing arthritis pain. By promoting perspiration and stimulating peripheral circulation, ginger is another option for reducing your body\u2019s temperature. Since stomach pain so often accompanies fevers, ginger is an excellent choice for fever sufferers.\nAnother herb that is appreciated for its ability to fight colds and flu, echinacea is also a great choice when trying to reduce a fever. It is a valuable anti-microbial, anti-viral and immune-stimulant herb. Echinacea is safe for everyone, of all ages to use.\nTraditionally used as a cold and flu remedy, catnip has a strong diaphoretic quality, making it ideal for reducing fevers. It also acts as a mild sedative, calming the body and allowing for recovery.\nIt is important to remember that a fever is your body\u2019s way of fighting an infection, so a fever is not always a bad thing. When a fever is excessively high, however, or is no longer necessary to fight the virus or bacteria, it is recommended to try one of or a combination of these herbs. In addition to your choice of herb(s), be sure to drink plenty of water and get enough rest.\nWhat herbal method do you use to reduce fever?\nTagged: fever treatment, Healing Herbs, Herbal remedies, herbs for fever, how to break a fever, how to get rid of a fever, how to reduce a fever, how to treat a fever, medicinal herbs\nPreviousSix of the Best Detox Teas Around\tNextHealth Benefits of Fennel\nHealth Benefits of Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vvdailypress.com/article/20130821/NEWS/308219980", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:45Z", "digest": "sha1:A4IAI6IFDUVBJ6K3OPIFE2J5AMRWT2LF", "length": 2777, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.vvdailypress.com", "title": "It\u2019s a Gas to Go to Class expanded to include educators - News - vvdailypress.com - Victorville, CA", "raw_content": "It\u2019s a Gas to Go to Class expanded to include educators\nLocal high school students aren't the only ones who can win a car by showing up to school every day this year.\nThis year, Victorville Motors' incentive program \"It's a Gas to Go to Class\" is being expanded to include teachers.\nOn Thursday, Victorville Motors Director of Sales Billy Mack addressed teachers at University Prep High School in Victorville and assured them that \"there will be a teacher who wins a car this year.\"\nMack also said that 13 other business are giving away prizes and incentives for students and teachers who show up to school every day. The prizes include flat-screen TVs, digital music players, tablet computers and gift certificates.\nLast year, the dealership gave away two new Dodge Darts in a drawing from students with zero absences throughout the school year.\nAngela Mota of J. Michaels Salon and Day Spa told the faculty that her business was sponsoring the school this year.\n\"I am interested in getting teamwork together between the students and the teachers. Sometimes teachers need pampering,\" Mota said with a laugh. \"We can supply that. And come prom time, we can help the students also.\"\nTeachers may only miss school due to jury duty or bereavement to be eligible for prizes.\n\"The kids love it; we love it,\" University Prep teacher Bev Norris said. \"Because even if they don't win a car, they can still win a blu-ray, an iPad or iPod. It increases attendance.\"\nMack had a more personal reason to include the staff in the program.\n\"I have four daughters who went to high school (in the High Desert) and it was, coaches and you guys (teachers) who made the difference,\" Mack said. \"My kids would come home and talk about budget cuts and state cuts. But you're the ones educating future businessmen, salesmen, police and firefighters.\"\nA drawing will be held on May 17, 2014 to determine the winners.\n\"This is a perfect opportunity for all our teachers to be acknowledged and recognized for all the hard work they do,\" University Prep Principal Valerie Hatcher said. \"(The teachers) are amazing individuals who dedicate their time to the students. It's a great program to recognize that\"\nMack said the program's goal is to beat last year's numbers of 1,400 students and to have 2,000 students qualify this year from area schools.\nOther participating schools include Adelanto High School, Apple Valley High School, Barstow High School, Granite Hills High School, Hesperia High School, Lucerne Valley High School, Oak Hills High School, Serrano High School, Silver Valley High School (a new addition this year), Silverado High School, Sultana High School and Victor Valley High School.\nVisit the program's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/itsagasprogram for further details and updates.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 5166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.walgreensbootsalliance.com/newsroom/news/?start_row=131", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:34Z", "digest": "sha1:UXNRSJTM5JWGMNY43WAJL23VT6X2LYCH", "length": 3923, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.walgreensbootsalliance.com", "title": "Press Releases | Walgreens Boots Alliance", "raw_content": "Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) announced today that it intends to apply to list the shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. common stock on The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC under the ticker symbol \u201cWBA\u201d following the closing of the previously announced reorganization of Walgreens into a holding company structure pursuant to a merger of a wholly owned subsidiary of Walgreens with and into Walgreens (the \u201cReorg Merger\u201d), in which issued and outstanding shares of Walgreens common stock, par value $0.078125 per share, will be converted automatically into the right to receive shares of Walgreens Boots Alliance common stock, par value $0.01 per share, on a one-for-one basis, and the acquisition of the remaining 55 percent of Alliance Boots GmbH that it does not currently own. Listing will be subject to the closing of the Reorg Merger and to Walgreens Boots Alliance fulfilling all of the listing requirements of the Nasdaq Stock Market.\nWalgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) today said that on Nov. 24 it filed and began mailing to its shareholders the definitive proxy statement/final prospectus relating to a special meeting of shareholders, which will take place Dec. 29 in New York City. This follows the announcement made on Aug. 6 when the company exercised its option to complete the second step of its strategic transaction with Alliance Boots.\nWalgreens Announces Pricing of \u00a3700 Million and \u20ac750 Million Notes Offering\nWalgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., has priced an underwritten public offering of unsecured, unsubordinated notes consisting of:\n\u00a3400 million of 2.875% notes due 2020\n\u20ac750 million of 2.125% notes due 2026\nWalgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) today announced that Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc., the anticipated new holding company for the combined Walgreens and Alliance Boots enterprise, filed a Registration Statement on Form S-4 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) containing a preliminary proxy statement/prospectus related to Walgreens acquisition of the remaining 55 percent of Alliance Boots GmbH that the company doesn\u2019t currently own and the reorganization of Walgreens into a holding company structure (the \u201cRegistration Statement\u201d).\nWalgreens (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG) today said it has exercised its option to complete the second step of its strategic transaction with Alliance Boots GmbH ahead of the original option period, which was between February and August 2015. The transaction, subject to shareholder and various regulatory approvals, would fully combine the two companies to form the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise.\nWalgreens and Alliance Boots receive regulatory clearance to make equity investment in Amerisourcebergen\nWalgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG), the largest retail drugstore chain in the United States, and Alliance Boots GmbH, a leading international pharmacy-led health and beauty group, today announced that they have received the required regulatory clearances for their equity investment in AmerisourceBergen, one of North America\u2019s largest pharmaceutical services companies.\nWalgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) (Nasdaq: WAG), the largest retail drugstore chain in the United States, and Alliance Boots GmbH, a leading international pharmacy-led health and beauty group, today announced that they have entered into an innovative long-term partnership with AmerisourceBergen, one of North America\u2019s largest pharmaceutical services companies.\nWalgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG), the largest drug store chain in the U.S., and Alliance Boots, a leading international pharmacy-led health and beauty group, announced the completion today of Walgreens initial investment in the strategic partnership to create the first global pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing enterprise. This follows receipt of all required regulatory approvals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 7794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 223.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.waonews.com/news/19282-European_development_of_new_tanks_against_Russian_T14_with_German_artillery_and_French_turret.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:33Z", "digest": "sha1:BPVZA5XET7NO3BRU7JX6X5OL4UT44NME", "length": 6175, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.waonews.com", "title": "European development of new tanks against Russian T14 with German artillery and French turret | waonews", "raw_content": "European development of new tanks against Russian T14 with German artillery and French turret\nIn the context of America's priority, Europe feels the need for its own defense force, and EMBT is an important step.\nAt the French Sartori Defense Exhibition in 2018, the European main war tank (EMBT) technology concept vehicle, which was developed jointly by the German and French defense industry, made its debut, indicating that a new generation of main war tanks in Europe have been put on the agenda.\nIn particular, it is necessary to point out that EMBT is the joint development of the German and French defense industry. Germany and France had also decided to jointly develop the fourth generation of stealth fighters, so EMBT could also be regarded as another effort to strengthen its own defense and to get rid of its dependence on the United States.\nThe main operational target of EMBT is Russia's T-14 main battle tank.\nFrom the overseas data, the EMBT project was launched in 2012, when the European countries learned that the Russian T-14 main battle tank was about to be developed. It used a unique unmanned turret, 125 millimeter bore cannon (the future is likely to be upgraded to a 152 millimeter bore gun), a 1500 horse power diesel engine, a new generation of armor, The new detection system and information processing system are more powerful than the existing T-90 main battle tanks. In this case, the German and French Panthers 2 and the Leclair main battle tanks have been difficult to deal with the T-14 main battle tanks. Therefore, Germany and France consider the development of a new generation of main battle tank. This project is called the future ground shift. Action warfare system (MGCS), in view of the expensive development of the new generation of main battle tanks, Germany and France are determined to jointly develop a new generation of main battle tanks, which can not only improve the versatility of the military equipment, simplify the logistic support, but also increase the scale of the equipment, share the cost and the cost of development.\nAfter the Ukraine crisis, the relations between Russia and the West are tense, and the western countries feel that they may have ground conflict with Russia in central and Eastern Europe and begin to deal with them. On the other hand, after the new president of the United States, the American priority strategy is carried out, the US and Europe trade is a touch, in this context, Germany and France two The state has to consider that if there is a ground conflict with Russia, it may be impossible or impossible to get the support of the United States immediately. Therefore, it is an important step to set about the establishment of the European defense force and the joint development of the EMBT main battle tank.\nDe France is still developing a new generation of fighter jets\nFrom the relevant pictures, you can see that EMBT uses a German 130 millimeter cannon, indicating that MGCS may use the artillery as the main gun. From the domestic and foreign related units, the T-14 use of unmanned turrets may be an important purpose of saving the weight to strengthen the protection, and the progress of the armored Technology, so the T-14 car Body protection is much better than T-90, so MGCS needs more powerful artillery, and it is obviously the simplest way to increase the caliber of the artillery. In order to deal with the T-14 main tank, Germany and France have respectively launched their own large caliber tank guns, France developed a 140 millimeter cannon, Germany developed a 130 millimeter cannon, two Compared with the existing 120 millimeter bore guns, the artillery can provide larger chambers and launch more powerful armor piercing shells to deal with T-14 main battle tanks.\nFrance 140 mm smooth bore gun, pay attention to muzzle brake.\nGermany has developed a 130 millimeter cannon\nA MGCS picture of a 130 millimeter cannon\nSo why MGCS uses a German 130 millimeter muzzle gun instead of a larger caliber French 140 millimeter cannon, the main reason may be that the 140 millimeter bore is larger and the back seat is more powerful. France has installed the muzzle brake in the 140 millimeter chamber gun, but this will have an adverse effect on the tail wing stably shelling and the armor piercing projectile. The 140 mm projectiles are large, reduce the number of tanks and reduce the capacity of the tanks. In contrast, the German 130 millimeter cannon is a good compromise between power and weight, and Germany is also above the French for tank gun development. From these angles, EMBT chose German 130 millimeter cannon. It's not hard to understand.\nBut the French also have their own technical advantages, that is the automatic loader, which may be the reason why EMBT chooses the French turret. When France developed the Leclair main tank, it thought that the shell was too heavy, the soldiers had a high load, and the automatic loader was developed, and Germany was on its own. The body quality of the tank soldiers is obviously much relieved. The 2 main battle tanks of the leopard still use artificial loading, but the 130 millimeter muzzle artillery shells are much heavier. So Germany also believes that EMBT needs to use an automatic loader to ensure sustained operational capability. In this case, the EMBT or MGCS may be a German chassis, artillery plus. The French automatic loader is integrated together.\nIn the 80s of last century, the Soviet Union developed the four generation main battle tank.\nNATO then launched a new generation of tank development, the 140 millimeter bore gun prototype, the history is always so amazing similarity.\nThe emergence of EMBT reminds us of the cold war during the cold war. In order to deal with the Soviet FST-1 main battle tank, NATO opened the fourth generation of main battle tanks. The most important thing was to develop a 140 millimeter chamber gun. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the work was also pause. Now, the EMBT rejoined the horse, making people exclamation the competition and return of the great powers. The world stage makes the global situation more turbulent. 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Their starting capital: one product \u2013 namely light metal venetian blinds \u2013 with five employees and a great deal of motivation, grit and determination.\nExtension of the product range: Along with venetian blinds, WAREMA then also produced roller blinds, with aluminium roller shutters following shortly after. The practical prefabricated roller shutter developed into a best seller.\nThe initial production facilities in various buildings in the centre of Marktheidenfeld soon became too small. So in 1960 construction was started on the first section of what was to become today's company headquarters. In 1961 the company then moved to the new facilities on the street \u00c4u\u00dferen Ring. Since then, hardly a year has passed in which expansions and additions have not been necessary.\nWAREMA took part in the first roller shutter trade fair, then called R'65, the leading fair in the world today for roller shutters, gates and sun shading \u201cR+T\u201d. To this day WAREMA has remained true to this trade fair and has since become one of the largest exhibitors at the Stuttgart-based fair. Many of our products have been awarded the coveted Innovation prize at this meeting of the industry.\nAnother product innovation came on the market: the \u201cSuper 80\u201d external venetian blind.\nThe product range grew even more: New highlights were awnings, vertical louvre blinds and black-out systems. Not all components required for these were available on the market. That's why WAREMA began manufacturing plastic parts and control components, but also many special machines and tools, itself.\nIn order to be close to specialist partners and customers, WAREMA had a nationwide network of distributors from early on and after 1989 it was also represented in the new eastern states of Germany. That means that WAREMA can quickly react to market developments and offer the customers comprehensive service and consultation locally.\nOne of the first companies from the old West Germany to do so, WAREMA set out to look for a location in Saxony after the political transition at the start of the 1990s and founded a production company in Limbach-Oberfrohna \u2013 WAREMA Sonnenschutztechnik GmbH. The shortage of labour in the west, the good conditions in the east and the skilled workers available there were all assets for the new location, which to this day contributes significantly to the company's success.\nAngelique Renkhoff-M\u00fccke, the daughter of the company founder, took over the role of Chief Executive Officer of the WAREMA Group and has since continued the life's work of her father.\nWith its core competence as the leading SunLight Manager, WAREMA is conquering ever more of the international market. So in 2004 WAREMA International GmbH was founded, which today looks after customers from 53 countries.\nIn September 2009 WAREMA Renkhoff Holding AG rebranded itself as a European joint stock company and merged with WAREMA Renkhoff GmbH to make WAREMA Renkhoff SE (Societas Europaea).\nUpon the acquisition of WAREMA Plastic Technology Hungary Kft. in Gy\u00e1l, Budapest, WAREMA Kunststofftechnik und Maschinenbau GmbH has consolidated its position as a supplier of plastic parts for the automotive industry.\nWAREMA is the leading SunLight Manager. Over more than 60 years it has built up an enormous breadth of expertise that is unparalleled in the industry. 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Simplified game mechanics let players engage in small skirmishes all the way up to large-scale battles involving dozens of ships.\nIf you like Fleets at War!, try the expansion Claws of Chaos, which you can buy individually or as a bundle.\nThree factions: the Imperium, the Magna Supremacy, and the Pirate Clans\n235 full-color ship counters + additional counters for fighters & missiles\n27 Stat Cards (one for each ship class)\n10 Scenarios introducing players to the game\nThe IMP System\nFleets at War! uses the IMP System that reduces the number of die rolls necessary during play. All other calculations are done by referencing a chart of two opposing attributes (ex. Damage vs. Armor) to find a result. The goal of this system is to speed up play and allow for large-scale battles.\nEach counter in the game represents a single starship or a flight of four to five fighters. An inch equals approximately 0.2 miles, or a mile equals 5 inches. Each game turn equals roughly 2 to 3 minutes.\nEach class of ship (i.e.: heavy cruiser, destroyer, frigate, etc.) has a one- or two-sided card listing all the stats for that class, including its offensive and defensive capabilities.\nNicely polished game. It it positioned between a \"fleet scale\" game (where one hit kills a ship) and a \"ship scale\" game (where you keep track of each ship's laboratories, crew members, and weapon arming status). So it can handle a [...]\nAbout me. At time of writing I have yet to play a game but have read the rules a number of times. I have played a number of spaceship games, my favourites being full thrust and colonial battlefleet. For space battles in books i like C J Cherryh and for [...]\nMaurice S. S.\nGreat layout, excellent rules and game counters for all the fleets. Not having to buy a new set of miniatures is the selling point to me of the game. 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He won the last of his six PGA Tour titles in the 2009 British Open.\nLaird also had a bogey-free round. He played the front nine in 5-under 30 and added birdies on Nos. 15 and 18, holing a 50-foot putt on the last. The Scot won the 2009 event and lost in a playoff in 2010 when Jonathan Byrd made a hole-in-one on the fourth extra hole.\nScotland\u2019s Russell Knox was third at 66.\nJarrod Lyle, Bo Van Pelt, Hideki Matsuyama, Sam Saunders, Brian Stuard and Andrew Svoboda shot 66.\nLyle is making his second PGA Tour start since a recurrence of leukemia some 18 months ago. The Australian tied for 31st last week in the season-opening Frys.com Open in Napa, California.\nFedEx Cup winner Billy Horschel had a 71. At No. 13, he\u2019s the top-ranked player in the field.\nWORLD MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP\nASH, England (AP) - Defending champion Graeme McDowell\u2019s comeback fell short in a 2-and-1 loss to Mikko Ilonen, and Henrik Stenson rallied from three holes down to edge Francesco Molinari 2 and 1 in round-robin play in the World Match Play Championship.\nJoost Luiten beat Alexander Levy 4 and 3 to improve to 2-0 in the Larson group. McDowell and Ilonen are 1-1, and Levy - the winner of the rain-shortened Portugal Masters last week - is 0-2. After round-robin play in the four four-man groups, the top two in each group will advance to the quarterfinals at The London Golf Club.\nVictor Dubuisson improved to 2-0 in the Gabrielsson with a 3-and-2 victory over Shane Lowry. Lowery and Pablo Larrazabal are 1-1, and Stephen Gallacher is 0-2.\nIn the McCormack group, Patrick Reed, Paul Casey, Jamie Donaldson and Jonas Blixt are all 1-1. Reed beat Casey 2 and 1. Stenson and George Coetzee top the Palmer group at 1-0-1, Thongchai Jaidee is 1-1, and Molinari 0-2.\nLPGA KEB-HANABANK CHAMPIONSHIP\nINCHEON, South Korea (AP) - Haeji Kang shot a 5-under 67 to take a two-stroke lead over five players, including three fellow South Koreans, after the first round of the LPGA KEB-Hanabank Championship.\nDefending champion Amy Yang, Lee Il-hee and Mirim Lee were in the group at 69 Sky72\u2019s wind-swept Ocean Course along with Australia\u2019s Minjee Lee and Scotland\u2019s Catriona Matthew.\nFourth-ranked Suzann Pettersen of Norway and American Brittany Lincicome topped the group at 70.\nSecond-ranked Inbee Park, in position to move to No. 1 in the world with a win in the absence of top-ranked Stacy Lewis, opened with a 71. Park married swing coach Gi Hyeob-nam on Monday in Seoul.\nThird-ranked Lydia Ko of New Zealand shot 73.\nU.S. Women\u2019s Open champion Michelle Wie opened with a 76. She\u2019s making her first start since withdrawing during the first round of the Evian Championship in September after reinjuring a stress fracture in her right hand. Women\u2019s British Open winner Mo Martin had a 78 in her return from a thumb injury.\nHONG KONG (AP) - India\u2019s Jyoti Randhawa shot a 6-under 64 to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Hong Kong Open.\nAngelo Que of the Philippines was second, and South Africa\u2019s Ernie Els topped the group at 66 in the event sanctioned by European and Asian tours.\nFour-time champion Miguel Angel Jimenez struggled with food poisoning in a 72. The 50-year-old Spaniard won the Hong Kong Open in 2004, \u201807, \u201812 and \u201813.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 8032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/10/03/francis-ford-coppola-live-cinema/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DJYKFXHJDODQ6ZE57SXXSWV5Y2MR5FE6", "length": 9070, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.wbur.org", "title": "Francis Ford Coppola Wants To Bring The Live Experience To Movies | Here & Now", "raw_content": "Francis Ford Coppola Wants To Bring The Live Experience To Movies10:51\n\nOctober 03, 2017Updated Oct 03, 2017 3:15 PM\n\"Live Cinema and Its Techniques,\" by Francis Ford Coppola. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR)\nAcademy Award-winning director Francis Ford Coppola is exploring a new way of making movies. In what he calls \"live cinema,\" the audience watches as the actors perform and sound effects and music are added live.\nCoppola writes about his work in \"Live Cinema and Its Techniques,\" and joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to talk about the book.\nFind more great reads on the Here & Now bookshelf\nScroll down to read an excerpt from \"Live Cinema and Its Techniques\"\nOn what live cinema is\n\"Live cinema is essentially a cinematic piece of work \u2014 we'll call it a film or a motion picture \u2014 with its unique way of telling a story, and yet is not shot conventionally, and then months and months gone by in editing, but is actually made while it's happening, and you're seeing it as it's being acted and being edited and being presented, music is being added. It's all a live experience.\"\nOn the difference between live cinema and conventional cinema\n\"Since it really isn't being practiced quite today, it's hard to say because there are few examples. It certainly wouldn't look like what we'd now call live television. There's been a number of live television productions with 'The Sound of Music,' 'Peter Pan' and 'Grease.' But anyone who turns on a television, and suddenly you're watching a movie, knows instantly the difference between what is a movie and what is television or live television. So you could say that live cinema, if you suddenly just got it and looked at it, it would look like a movie. And whether or not you would notice that it was being performed live would depend somewhat on the power of the performance of the show, and because basically live cinema is going back to the old tradition of performance, which is not present in modern cinema. Modern cinema is canned, as is most of our entertainment.\"\n\"Performance is the thrill of knowing that what's being done is being done while you're watching it, and could go wrong.\"\nOn the excitement of live performance\n\"I think back to the days of the 19th century when there were the equivalent of a movie director, except it was the director of the Dresden opera or some opera company in Europe, and this person had tremendous power and resources to put on a production. And the difference is that when they had worked and were ready to present it to the public, he or the conductor \u2014 which was very often the same person \u2014 got up before the audience and they did it. And that audience was electrified at seeing 'Aida' for the first time, or 'La Traviata' or 'The Flying Dutchman' or whatever it was, so that there was the element of performance. Performance is the thrill of knowing that what's being done is being done while you're watching it, and could go wrong.\"\nOn whether viewers today can find more entertainment on TV than at the movies\n\"I think there's a lot of truth to that. I mean, what happened was that 10, 15 years ago, a lot of the young filmmakers who had been so inspired by the movies that people of my generation made in the '70s wanted to do that kind of cinema, but it was as always very hard to get to do it. So what was offered to them as an option was to do television, and in fact series television, and they grasped that opportunity. And work like 'The Sopranos' or 'Breaking Bad' was done, very much inspired by cinema of the '70s, but they applied it to the form of modern television. So modern television today is extremely rich and ambitious, and has greatness to it.\"\nOn the origins of using three names\n\"I had a wonderfully brilliant and five-year-older brother who wanted to be a novelist, so I immediately said, 'Well I'll be a playwright,' and it was always my dream that we would be two famous brothers like Aldous Huxley and his brother, William James and Henry James or Heinrich and Thomas Mann. He wrote under the name August Floyd Coppola, so I just imitated him, and I became Francis Ford Coppola. I was named for it after the Henry Ford Hospital where I was born. So yes, that's true that I was imitating his use of the three names. I thought that was so cool.\"\nBook Excerpt: 'Live Cinema And Its Techniques'\nBorn in 1939 and being as a child of a scientific leaning, I was drawn to and fascinated by the new wonder of my time, television. My father, who was a classical musician and first-chair flutist in the Toscanini NBC Symphony Orchestra, was also fascinated by innovation. He was the son of a master tool and die maker who had engineered and built the Vitaphone, the machine that made movies talk. In my earliest memories, my father was always bringing home the latest devices from the shops along New York City\u2019s \u201cRadio Row\u201d: the Presto home acetate recorder, the wire and tape recorder, and then the first television set. I was seven, the perfect age to operate these things, so when our small-screen Motorola TV showed up in our Long Island home, I was in heaven.\nTrue, in 1946 there was hardly any programming, so I spent hours watching the geometric test patterns, waiting for something to begin. I can remember the early shows. Howdy Doody looked nothing like the famous puppet in later years; he was then a lanky hayseed with blond hair whose face became wrapped in bandages because he was running for President, we were told, and had gone through plastic surgery. Of course, we kids knew nothing of the copyright suit going on, when the creator of the puppet refused to cede the rights to his character, and a new puppet design, this one with rights intact, had to be introduced to the audience. There were a few Allied Artists cowboy movies coming over on Channel 13 from New Jersey, and the DuMont Television Network offered shows on Channel 5, including Captain Video and His Video Rangers. When I was nine years old, I was paralyzed from polio. I became a prisoner in my room with the television my focus, along with some puppets, a tape recorder, and a toy 16mm movie projector. For a year I saw no children other than my brother and sister. With pleasure and longing, I watched the Horn and Hardart\u2019s Children\u2019s Hour, where talented children performed, and the most gorgeous little girls in the world sang and danced.\nLater, as I grew and regained the ability to walk, I persisted in watching. By the age of 15, beguiled by the beautiful Golden Age of Television, I began to think I could write plays. This was a period known for its live, televised dramas: shows like the Philco Television Playhouse and Playhouse 90, featuring original dramas by young writers like Rod Serling and Paddy Chayefsky, and young directors like Arthur Penn, Sidney Lumet, and John Frankenheimer. Stunning and ambitious works like Marty, Days of Wine and Roses, and Requiem for a Heavyweight were performed live in those years before video tape recording, with stars like Ernest Borgnine, Jack Palance, Piper Laurie, and Cloris Leachman. (Many of these plays for television would soon be made into films.) Even as a teenager, I could see that some of these impressive productions seemed like movies in their style and their use of strong shots and cinematic expression; and without exception, the best of those were the work of John Frankenheimer, who later became a successful film director with many great films under his belt. I\u2019d say that my notion of Live Cinema was hatched while watching Frankenheimer\u2019s work in live television, and something of that work remains with me to this day.\nWhat I hope to accomplish in this book is to lay out the idea of Live Cinema and explore its techniques, as well as its possible benefits and apparent limitations. My perspective is that of a director who grew up on live television; who had early training in the theater; and who has spent a lifetime working as a screenwriter, producer, and director of movies. I have long dreamt of working in all these ways at once: in some form of Live Cinema. The technology continues to change, providing new answers to the questions \u201cWhat for?\u201d and \u201cWhy give up control?\u201d How does Live Cinema differ from theater, television, and conventional cinema? Much of what I will discuss here was learned through intense personal reflection, and during two experimental workshops which involved using sections of my work in progress, a long (screen) play entitled Dark Electric Vision.\nExcerpted from Live Cinema and Its Techniques by Francis Ford Coppola. Copyright \u00a9 2017 by Giostyle LLC. Used with permission of the publisher, Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 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No single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege of Wealth Management Canada hereunder precludes any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege.\nThese Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy constitute the sole and entire agreement between you and Wealth Management Canada regarding the Site, and your use thereof, and supersedes all prior and contemporaneous understandings, agreements, representations and warranties, both written and oral, regarding such subject matter.\nREPORTING AND CONTACT\nThis Site is operated by Wealth Management Canada.\nShould you become aware of misuse of the Site including libelous or defamatory conduct, you must report it to Wealth Management Canada at info@wealthmanagementcanada.com.\nAll other feedback, comments, requests for technical support, and other communications relating to the Site should be directed to: info@wealthmanagementcanada.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 35133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westernjournal.com/hermancain/author/hermancain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BO44IZ2DVJKZGTN63K2AFJJOLFO2HORS", "length": 419, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.westernjournal.com", "title": "Herman Cain, Author at Herman Cain", "raw_content": "Herman Cain February 12, 2019 at 7:10am\nHerman Cain January 28, 2019 at 5:18am\nThomas's Pics via Flickr\nMedia are relentlessly negative, but you direct the symphony in your life and in your mind\nHerman Cain January 9, 2019 at 2:00am\nThis economy isn\u2019t normal, and that\u2019s a good thing\nA simple approach to having a happy 2019\nHerman Cain December 26, 2018 at 5:18am\nWhy the next decade of your life can and should be fun", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 238.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westernjournal.com/national-one-hit-wonder-day-top-one-hit-wonders-per-decade/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PTKPWDWSQWSZOFDHPHQQUKKBP5EJKUVN", "length": 9289, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.westernjournal.com", "title": "National One-Hit Wonder Day: Top One-Hit Wonders Per Decade", "raw_content": "National One-Hit Wonder Day: Top One-Hit Wonders Per Decade\nNot every musician or band wants to be recognized on One-Hit Wonder Day. But as the unsung Sept. 25 holiday approaches, we\u2019re giving these songs some deserved attention.\nYou can find some groups with a great following built from a single hit, and that\u2019s not a bad thing. One-hit wonders are responsible for some of the most popular songs in history. For whatever reason, people did not feel the same about the rest of their songs. Sure, die-hard fans probably know every word. That leaves the rest of us humming along on One-Hit Wonder Day to the catchy classics below.\nWhat Makes a One-Hit Wonder?\nFor many music buffs, this depends on your definition of the term \u201chit.\u201d Just because a band or solo act has a song that hit the charts doesn\u2019t guarantee a spot. If you really want to shine on One-Hit Wonder Day, here are a few tips.\nMake it to the Top 40. There might not be a consensus on what a hit is, but most experts say you should really hit one of the top 40 spots in the Billboard 100.\nCapture a moment. Perhaps even more important than a chart topper is the feeling one-hit wonders evoke. You can probably associate a specific place, time or person with some of the songs on our list.\nDon\u2019t be a household name. Here\u2019s where it gets tricky. Some immensely popular artists are technically one-hit wonders. But if they had tons of lesser hits that everyone knows, they might not qualify for One-Hit Wonder Day.\nTop One-Hit Wonders of the 1950s\nJohn Puddephatt / Wikimedia Commons\n\u201cEarth Angel (Will You Be Mine)\u201d by the Penguins. One of the earliest acts we\u2019ll celebrate on One-Hit Wonder Day is this talented band. The Penguins might not be a household name, but this song still is more than 60 years later. In the age of great crooners, few love songs were as memorable as this 1955 hit.\n\u201cThe Book of Love\u201d by the Monotones. We think the doo-wop era would have been incomplete without this gem. A catchy chorus includes a memorable bass riff that had audiences hooked when it came out in 1958.\n\u201cRockin\u2019 Robin\u201d by Bobby Day. Just mentioning this song has us whistling its catchy tune. Sixty years after it hit the charts in 1958, it\u2019s easy to see why it caught on with so many fans back then.\n\u201cMoney (That\u2019s What I Want)\u201d by Barrett Strong. This 1959 song helped prepare listeners for the new sounds the 1960s would bring. No One-Hit Wonder Day list would be complete without this anthem to cold hard cash.\n\u201cLollipop\u201d by Ronald & Ruby. Here\u2019s another catchy pop hit from the 1950s. Simple lyrics and a melody that gets stuck in your head were the right ingredients then. As it turns out, they tend to get the trick done these days, too.\nArchives New Zealand / Flickr\n\u201cWipe Out\u201d by the Surfaris. One of the most iconic beach hits of all time was the only hit for the aptly named Surfaris. This 1963 classic is almost entirely instrumental and has been widely featured in pop culture.\n\u201cHey There Lonely Girl\u201d by Eddie Holman. This was his only hit, but scores of fans were glad to have it in 1969. Given his range and incredible vocal command, we think it\u2019s a shame he didn\u2019t have more commercial success.\n\u201cCool Jerk\u201d by the Capitols. A lot of bands you could play on One-Hit Wonder Day were famous for a dance song, and that is the case with the Capitols and this 1966 track. You can still tell why everybody seemed to be dancing to this groovy hit.\n\u201cHey! Baby\u201d by Bruce Channel. Chances are you don\u2019t recognize the name. On One-Hit Wonder Day, you might catch yourself humming along to this classic, though. It\u2019s the oldest story in the world, told in a simple and straightforward way. That\u2019s probably why this boy-meets-girl ditty caught on in 1961.\n\u201cEverlasting Love\u201d by Robert Knight. Here\u2019s another name you might not know, but his song about everlasting love became an everlasting hit. After its release in 1967, it kept creeping into the charts decade after decade. Nothing else in his portfolio came anywhere close.\n\u201cRing My Bell\u201d by Anita Ward. This 1979 disco classic probably rings a bell because of that iconic hook. Anita Ward never matched that commercial success, but she secured a place of prominence on One-Hit Wonder Day.\n\u201cAll Right Now\u201d by Free. This song set the stage for loud, confident rock of the 1970s. It came out just after the decade began and had fans clamoring for the fresh and unfiltered sound.\n\u201cLove Hurts\u201d by Nazareth. You might know this song from any number of soundtracks. There were several artists who covered it, too. You probably know the 1975 Nazareth version best, even if you\u2019re not familiar with the band. On One-Hit Wonder Day, that is the recipe for immortality.\n\u201cLove Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)\u201d by Edison Lighthouse. Peace and love were very much in style as the \u201960s turned over to the \u201970s, and this hit for Edison Lighthouse captured that moment perfectly. The love song still rings true today, even if the style remains a time capsule of the period.\n\u201cPlay That Funky Music\u201d by Wild Cherry. Just about everyone will recognize this classic. With funk music at its peak in 1976, the band shot to the top of the charts. Of course, that would be the last time we\u2019d see the band\u2019s name there.\n\u201cFunkytown\u201d by Lipps Inc. The \u201980s got into full swing with this holdover of \u201970s funk. It carried onto the new decade with a catchy hook and the required bass line carrying through the track.\n\u201cWhat I Am\u201d by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. This was a song that encouraged you to listen to the lyrics. It had influences from the hippie culture that preceded it by decades, but it felt fresh at the same time. This makes a great song to rediscover on One-Hit Wonder Day.\n\u201cI Want Candy\u201d by Bow Wow Wow. Another One-Hit Wonder Day staple is this 1982 classic. Not only does it mesh with the electronic fad, it is a natural fit for any number of commercial uses.\n\u201cBust A Move\u201d by Young MC. This hip-hop classic signaled the shift in the genre\u2019s culture that would come in the \u201990s. Keeping the style of dance-worthy \u201980s beats, Young MC brought in a catchy hook that kept it fresh. If you were listening to the radio in 1989, chance are you were nodding your head to this one. And on the dance floor, you might have been doing a lot more.\n\u201cMexican Radio\u201d by Wall of Voodoo. When fans of \u201980s new wave music celebrate One-Hit Wonder Day, they\u2019re probably including this one. It sounds hopelessly dated now, but there\u2019s a reason everybody was singing it in 1982.\nYanko Peyankov / Unsplash\n\u201cNo Rain\u201d by Blind Melon. A lot of folks bought this 1992 album after hearing the single and seeing its unusual video. The song set an early standard for what would become the grunge decade. Unfortunately for Blind Melon, the band wasn\u2019t able to cash in on that trend after its timeless classic. Lead singer Shannon Hoon died of an overdose in 1995.\n\u201cUnbelievable\u201d by EMF. The alternative decade rang in with a dance hit the band EMF could not duplicate. But nearly 30 years later, we bet most of you would recognize the 1990 hit in a matter of seconds.\n\u201cSteal My Sunshine\u201d by Len. The decade, century and millennium all ended as folks were still bobbing their heads to this song. The Canadian band scored a memorable, if fleeting, spot in One-Hit Wonder Day history with this 1999 pop hit.\n\u201cJoey\u201d by Concrete Blonde. It was clear when Concrete Blonde dropped this song in 1990 that the decade would be different. And its unique prelude to alternative rock still stands as a high point in the genre. The band went on to cultivate a long and impressive discography. There was never another hit anywhere close to this one, though.\n\u201cYour Woman\u201d by White Town. This was a band, basically just front man Jyoti Prakash Mishra, with an offbeat look at music. It led to an ethereal cultural classic with \u201cYour Woman,\u201d which featured sampling that was probably ahead of its time. That might explain why White Town didn\u2019t have more hits after this 1997 single.\nJean / Unsplash\n\u201cI Believe In A Thing Called Love\u201d by the Darkness. With raw vocals and screaming guitars, this song stood out in the early 2000s. It wasn\u2019t what everyone else was doing, and that probably contributed to its success. It didn\u2019t hurt that the Darkness had some real talent and its sound caught on with lots of fans.\n\u201cCalifornia\u201d by Phantom Planet. A thoughtful, melodic look at the West Coast earned Phantom Planet its one and only hit in 2001. It really spoke to a generation, as songs about California did in generations before and since.\n\u201cTipsy\u201d by J-Kwon. One of the most popular rap songs to play on One-Hit Wonder Day is this 2004 track. Chances are, you heard its catchy hook plenty at the time. And many of you probably have it stuck in your heads right now.\n\u201cGet Free\u201d by the Vines. This Australian band has created quite an impressive following, but it never attained the success of 2002\u2019s \u201cGet Free.\u201d Many saw the sound as a natural progression of punk, and The Vines have continued to build on that since.\n\u201cTeenage Dirtbag\u201d by Wheatus. Perhaps no song signaled the end of the \u201990s like this song. It perfectly wrapped up the angst and misery of that decade while ushering in a new decade. You might not admit you love it now, but if you were coming of age at the time, you likely know it by heart.\nTags: Billboard, Music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 15598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westeros.org/Copyright/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EGWKHIF4SWLR6V3K5R2SBUHVHBN6KYQY", "length": 1057, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.westeros.org", "title": "Westeros: Copyright", "raw_content": "The A Song of Ice and Fire setting is Copyright \u00a9 George R.R. Martin.\nThis site and all its contents (including -- but not limited to -- html, graphics and text) is, unless it is otherwise stated, Copyright \u00a9 Elio M. Garc\u00eda and Linda Antonsson. It may not be reproduced (this includes using any of our images on other sites) in total or in part without the authors' express written permission. Please see 10 Big Myths about copyright explained and What Is Copyright Protection? if you feel uncertain about what any of this means.\nSome images (in their unaltered stage) were obtained through and are Copyright \u00a9 www.clipart.com.\nThe graphics used as backgrounds for the headers and footers were taken from the paintings created by Ted Nasmith for the forthcoming World of Ice and Fire book that we are co-authoring with George R.R. Martin. The images are Copyright \u00a9 Ted Nasmith and are used with permission.\nOther images (which these are is noted) were drawn by Rich M. Boy\u00e9, Mike Miller or Jason Poulis, and these were adapted and are used with permission.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westsidemedicalspa.com/gallery/laser-energy-treatments/vbeam/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RGO5CTQEMYH7RQLYLSHMVY5XFWRZUL2L", "length": 754, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.westsidemedicalspa.com", "title": "Vbeam Before and After | Westside Medical Spa", "raw_content": "This middle aged patient had a cluster of broken capillaries on her cheeks that she wanted to get rid of. Broken capillaries (telangiectasia) can be caused by many different things such as exposure to the sun, or inflammation in the area from a skin condition such as rosacea. It\u2019s important to be gentle with our skin to not increase inflammation and irritation, which can make these broken capillaries worse. These won\u2019t go away on their own, so treatment is necessary. This patient had tried different creams that claimed to get rid of them but nothing had worked for her. She decided to try Vbeam after hearing how effective of a treatment it is and was glad she did. Her skin is now clear and free of the broken capillaries that bothered her before.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 349, "original_length": 6072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wheatbelt.wa.gov.au/disclaimer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:52Z", "digest": "sha1:GTAZTDPATXJOXHP5BZWZUAWYPK2SZ4BI", "length": 607, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wheatbelt.wa.gov.au", "title": "Wheatbelt Development Commission :: Disclaimer", "raw_content": "The Western Australian Government is committed to quality service to its customers and makes every attempt to ensure accuracy, currency and reliability of the data contained in these documents. However, changes in circumstances after time of publication may impact the quality of this information.\nThe Wheatbelt Development Commission has no control over the content of material accessible on any other sites cross-referenced. It accordingly is the responsibility of the Internet user to make their own decisions about the relevance or accuracy, currency and reliability of information found on those sites.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 200.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whynot-travelblog.com/en/tag/croatia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QQOOO5Y2KHVHWRRCEZUV2N7EBZVKDLJY", "length": 359, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.whynot-travelblog.com", "title": "Croatia Archivi - Why Not?", "raw_content": "You can find all sorts: sandy, rocky, pebbled, equipped\u2026\nIf really exists a paradise with luxuriant nature, crystal clear water that shines with its own light and a boundless beauty, I can say that\u2026\nCroatia is a fascinating land, in the last few years is increasing its \u201cpopularity\u201d. Surely also because it has been chosen as scenery for some of the \u201cGame of\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 196.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wichita.edu/academics/fairmount_college_of_liberal_arts_and_sciences/socialwork/index.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:07Z", "digest": "sha1:S4SE45KIZ7GZMOEQKPUFD53PAJZAOG3Y", "length": 843, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.wichita.edu", "title": "School of Social Work", "raw_content": "WSU Resource Links\nContact the School of Social Work\nThe School of Social Work at Wichita State University prepares its students to enter one of the most rewarding and challenging professions in the human services. WSU offers fully accredited bachelor's (BSW) and master's (MSW) programs that take advantage of the university's location in the state's largest city.\nBSW Program MSW Program Field Practicum\nA wide range of resources are available for student practicum placements in both in the urban metropolitan area and rural surrounding areas.\nThe School of Social Work is dedicated to the advancement of human well-being, the alleviation of poverty and oppression, and the improvement of human service systems with particular attention to the diverse needs of Wichita and the surrounding service region.\nDonate to the School of Social Work", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 129.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wiganathletic.com/news/2014/april/martyn-waghorn-signs-permanent-deal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HI6XYMZQFP3WM26KFSD7G3UWSV57XVV6", "length": 2219, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.wiganathletic.com", "title": "MARTYN WAGHORN SIGNS PERMANENT DEAL - News - Wigan Athletic", "raw_content": "MARTYN WAGHORN SIGNS PERMANENT DEAL\nLatics move quickly after Waghorn impresses on loan\nWigan Athletic are delighted to announce that Martyn Waghorn has signed a permanent deal with the club following his loan spell from Leicester City.\nThe 24 year old former England U21 forward, who has scored three goals and produced five goalscoring assists in nine league games since signing on loan on transfer deadline day, has put pen to paper on a three year deal until the summer of 2017.\nUnder Football League rules, \u2018long term\u2019 loans (i.e window to window) can be turned into permanent deals outside a transfer window and Latics manager Uwe Rosler has moved swiftly to tie up the deal before the summer, when Waghorn is out of contract with the current Championship leaders.\n\u201cMartyn has impressed us all since he arrived in January,\u201d he said. \u201cOn the pitch, he has added something different, scoring and assisting crucial goals and he gives us another tremendous option from set pieces.\n\u201cOff the pitch he has a real professional attitude, he works hard and has fitted in perfectly to the dressing room.\n\u201cI am delighted we have been able to get a young English player with a proven track record on a free and I am sure he will keep helping us this season and become a real crowd favourite here at the DW.\u201d\nWaghorn made his debut at Huddersfield in early February and scored his first goal in the home win versus Barnsley. He also scored at Nottingham Forest and the winner against Watford. He produced crucial assists at Sheffield Wednesday, Brighton, Nottingham Forest and Bolton.\nSouth Shields-born Waghorn began his career at Sunderland, before moving on loan to Leicester in the summer of 2009 before a \u00a33 million permanent move was put in place a year later. He scored 20 goals in 102 appearances for the Foxes, half of those off the bench, but found himself out of the picture this season and spent some time on loan to Tuesday\u2019s visitors to the DW, Millwall \u2013 in fact appearing against Latics in the game there in December.\nHe has also spent loan periods at Charlton Athletic and Hull City. He has five caps for England U21s.\nDespite signing, he remains cup-tied after appearing for Leicester in this season\u2019s FA Cup.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 4636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 220.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.willettstech.com/erie-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YWIR3AIL4XEGFG5E3DE5A234X5KNCBLO", "length": 2279, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.willettstech.com", "title": "MSSC | Willetts", "raw_content": "A Custom Online Platform Powers A Better Customer Experience\nThe Manufacturing Skill Standards Council (MSSC) is an industry-led, training, assessment and certification system that provides front-line production and material handling workers with two industry-defined and federally-endorsed certifications. The purpose of the certification is to allow candidates to demonstrate that they have acquired the skills needed in the technology-intensive jobs of the 21st century.\nIn order to seamlessly provide the assessments across the country, MSSC needs to coordinate with both the candidates working towards certification and the assessment centers providing the tests. To do so, MSSC relies on an online portal where candidates can log in to schedule assessments, view scores, and print certification certificates. Prior to working with Willetts Technology, the basic portal did not meet all of MSSC\u2019s business needs.\nAs its business grew, MSSC\u2019s portal functionality needs also grew. The original portal was no longer enough and the foundation of the portal was not designed to handle the necessary upgrades. MSSC needed a solution that would not only meet the immediate needs of the business but would also be able to grow as their business needs and requirements changed.\nThe Willetts Technology Solution\nMSSC engaged Willetts Technology to build a better foundation to handle the existing functionality and future development. The Willetts team designed and built a custom platform tailored to fit MSSC\u2019s specific needs and goals.\nThere was a long list of goals for the new portal. The most important of these was to improve the user experience for the candidates, site coordinators at the assessment centers, and MSSC staff. There were also a number of secondary goals that included simplifying the processes within the portal, eliminating unneeded applications and improving overall operation.\nThe updated portal designed by Willetts Technology has fulfilled the MSSC goals and greatly improved the user experience. The new portal is also mobile-friendly and clean and easy-to-use.\nThe resulting system addressed all MSSC needs by catering to MSSC employees, candidates and assessment centers. Additionally, the platform is built to support MSSC\u2019s growth for years to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wiscnews.com/baraboonewsrepublic/opinion/editorial/legislature-must-raise-rates-for-public-defenders/article_151a9ef0-547c-5c2e-ac32-309e25f9b7a7.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:30Z", "digest": "sha1:CXTKCMVR3WKFZGRTC37IRRTMMDB6EFRW", "length": 2459, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.wiscnews.com", "title": "Legislature must raise rates for public defenders | Opinion | wiscnews.com", "raw_content": "ANOTHER VIEW | LA CROSSE TRIBUNE\nLegislature must raise rates for public defenders\nSix years ago this month, the La Crosse Tribune editorial board wrote about problems caused by low pay set by the state to reimburse private attorneys representing indigent clients in our criminal justice system.\nThe problems mean fewer and fewer attorneys \u2014 especially outside of Milwaukee and Madison \u2014 think they can afford to take on such cases, which delays representation for people who have been charged with a crime.\nThat means more people sit in jail for a longer time \u2014 costing all of us nearly $100 per inmate per day.\nJustice delayed serves no one. It doesn\u2019t serve victims to allow criminal cases to grow cold. Delaying justice infringes on the rights of the accused. It complicates the lives of those we pay to prosecute, defend and judge. And it costs taxpayers money.\nWhat has happened in the past six years to fix the problem? Absolutely nothing.\nAs Tribune reporter Basma Amer points out in a recent story, while the Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees that raising the reimbursement rate is a good idea, the court doesn\u2019t pay the bill.\nThe Legislature does.\nAnd it\u2019s time the Legislature get moving on raising the rate.\nWhen the state public defender office was established in 1978, the reimbursement rate was $50.\nIn 1995, the rate was changed \u2026 to $40 an hour.\nWe\u2019re 50th in the United States for such reimbursement \u2014 not something to be proud of.\nThe office handles 140,000 cases a year throughout Wisconsin\u2019s 72 counties.\nHere\u2019s how we began our editorial six years ago:\nAs recent political debates have demonstrated in Wisconsin and nationwide, the court system may be the most misunderstood and underappreciated branch of government.\nAnd when it comes to the court system, possibly the most misunderstood and underappreciated function is the public defender\u2019s office.\nFifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright that receiving legal help is a fundamental right of the accused and a key tenet of a fair trial. Of course, not every person accused has the means to hire legal help.\nDale Pasell, a former La Crosse County Circuit Court judge and public defender, points out that a criminal case can go cold when justice is delayed. And a defendant can lose employment, which benefits no one.\nThis problem needs to get fixed. Ignoring the problem doesn\u2019t save money or enhance criminal justice.\nFor the sake of justice, raise the rate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 7015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wlky.com/article/moore-mustangs-changing-football-program-culture-under-reader/24136440", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:44Z", "digest": "sha1:AYZ5UVBTAOHIUDAPZ4OT7OOG4E7WSU6Z", "length": 2068, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.wlky.com", "title": "Moore Mustangs changing football program culture under Reader", "raw_content": "Moore Mustangs changing football program culture under Reader\nWEBVTT FRED: HELLO AGAIN, EVERYBODY. HIGH SCHOOL PLAYBOOK. KENTUCKY PREP FOOTBALL. THIS IS THE FINAL WEEK OF THE REGULAR SEASON. A PERFECT TIME TO RECOGNIZE THE AMAZING DREAM SEASON OF THE MOORE MUSTANGS, WHO HAVE THE SECOND BEST RECORD IN THE OVER FOUR DECADE HISTORY OF THE PROGRAM. MOORE HAS WON 8 OF ITS FIRST 9 GAMES. RANKED FOURTH IN CLASS 4-A. ITS ONLY LOSS WAS TO NUMBER ONE JOHNSON CENTRAL. THE MUSTANGS HAVE ALREADY CLINCHED THEIR FIRST DISTRICT TITLE IN 34 YEARS. A LONG, LONG, LONG WAY FROM WHERE THEY WERE FROM A PROGRAM THAT\u2019S NEVER MADE IT PAST THE SECOND ROUND OF THE PLAYOFFS. AND AS LITTLE AS 3 YEARS AGO, THE MUSTANGS FINISHED THE SEASON WITH JUST 3 WINS. SINCE THEN, THE CULTURE HAS ENJOYED A DRAMATIC REVERSAL IN FORTUNES. THE AUTHOR AND ARCHITECT OF MOORE\u2019S SUCCESS -- SECOND YEAR HEAD COACH ROBERT READER, WHO HAS A 21-10 RECORD AT MOORE AND COUNTING IN HIS THIRD SEASON ON THE JOB. ROBERT READER: OUR KIDS FA THAN FOOTBALL CAN THROW AT THEM. AND FOR THEM, THE USE FOOTBALL AS THEIR SANCTUARY TO GET AWAY FROM THAT. WE TALK ABOUT A LOT OF THA AND IT IS PREPARING THEM TO B, TO BE BETTER AND TO TOUGHER AS THEY GET OLDER, TO BE BUT TO HANDLE ADVERSITY. THEY SEE IT EVERY DAY. AND I AM HAPPY IT HAS BEEN A BRIGHT SPOT IN THEIR LIVES AS THEY DO WITH TOUGH ISSUES. THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT GOING TO STATE. I AM LIKE, ONE GAME AT A TIME. BUT I WOULD LOVE FOR THESE KIDS TO EXPERIENCE THAT RIDE. I GOT TO DO IT AS A COA\nThe Moore Mustangs have the second-best record in the program\u2019s four-decade history.The Mustangs have already clinched their first district title in 34 years and have come a long way in head coach Robert Reader\u2019s second year.WLKY\u2019s Fred Cowgill has more on the Mustangs\u2019 dream season.\nThe Moore Mustangs have the second-best record in the program\u2019s four-decade history.\nThe Mustangs have already clinched their first district title in 34 years and have come a long way in head coach Robert Reader\u2019s second year.\nWLKY\u2019s Fred Cowgill has more on the Mustangs\u2019 dream season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 205.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wmagazine.com/story/hbo-here-and-now-trailer-alan-ball", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:20Z", "digest": "sha1:OWUIONWGR6L46ZER5BUZPMHJAJ5JCINB", "length": 2626, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.wmagazine.com", "title": "HBO's Here and Now Trailer: This Might Be the Anti-This is Us | W Magazine", "raw_content": "HBO's Here and Now Trailer: This Might Be the Anti-This is Us\nAlan Ball is the man who brought HBO its melancholy family hit Six Feet Under and the supernatural-infused soap opera True Blood. For his third act at the network, he'll bring us Here and Now, which, judging form the trailer, very much seems to be a melancholy family drama with a bit of supernatural infusion. Though, it's not exactly what you'd get if you put Six Feet and True Blood in a blender and mashed them together. Actually, it's a little bit more like This Is Us meets Get Out, if that makes any sense.\nHolly Hunter and Tim Robbins star as a well-to-do liberal couple (she's a philosophy professor; he's a lawyer) who have four children. One kid, still living at home and in high school, is biological, but the rest were adopted from across the globe (Vietnam, Somalia, and Colombia to be exact). \"Must be cool,\" remarks one character in the trailer, \"Having siblings from like these exotic places.\"\n\"It could have been,\" Raymond Lee's character Duc shoots back. \"If we weren't advertisements for how progressive our parents are.\"\nIt's clear there's tension within the family, but even then they all seem to be dealing with other problems going on in their lives outside the family unit as well. Then the supernatural elements kicks in: Daniel Zovatto's character Roman, the Colombian adoptee who seems to have a very bearded boyfriend, starts seeing things that other can't (a clock he's looking at freezes at 11:11, which we assume isn't a reference to Lady Fag's New York City party of the same). Though, it's not exactly clear what Roman's newly discovered powers mean to the wider pilot, or even if he's the only member of the family with them.\nThe rest of the cast is rounded out by Jerrika Hinton's eldest daugther Ashley, youngest daughter Kristen as played by Sosie Bacon (yes, the daugther of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick).\nOf course, despite the inner family drama and the supernatural elements, it seems the show will deal with what's going on in the real world right now too. \u201cSo much hatred going around, it feels like the world is falling apart,\" Robbins says in character. Hinton's character is seen being patted down by a police officer, and an older white man takes advantage of his open carry rights by toting around a machine gun in public. This being an Alan Ball show on HBO, there's also some sex.\nWe won't have to wait long to figure out what this all means. The first episode premieres on February 11th at 9 p.m.\nRelated: The Trailer for the PBS 'Little Women' Miniseries Is Here\nHboAlan BallTrue BloodJerrika HintonTim Robbins", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/joe-frank-known-unknown", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:08Z", "digest": "sha1:UDM2JLCZQODLH44MZLISCBSSP523E5BL", "length": 21398, "nlines": 131, "source_domain": "www.wnycstudios.org", "title": "Joe Frank: The Known-Unknown | On the Media | WNYC Studios", "raw_content": "Joe Frank: The Known-Unknown\nRadio producer and host Joe Frank, who passed away on January 15 at age 79.\n( Michal Story )\nJoe Frank died Monday. He was 79. And he was a radio giant. He conducted interviews, read stories, wrote dramas, and none of it was like anything done before because it was so raw and, frankly, nuts. To many of us, it was shocking and sad. He wasn't a huge star but his light has been reflected in the great work of people you do know.\nMark Oppenheimer is the host of the podcast Unorthodox. He spent the past year interviewing Joe and those he influenced for an article in Slate called, \u201cJoe Frank Signs Off.\"\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: So when I first has the idea to write about Joe Frank, for a while he didn't get back to me. Then he sent me some emails basically saying, no, go away. Then there was an email that said, try me in a couple of months when I'm feeling better. Then, at one point, he had this idea that we would collaborate on an article that was partly fictional --\n-- but that I would put my name to it as a journalist and then maybe I would get found out, and wouldn't it be interesting if the world unraveled what he and I had collaborated to make? [LAUGHS]\n[BROOKE LAUGHING]\nAnd I said, Joe, that's not what I do. I write true stuff. It gets fact checked and, if I do that, I\u2019ve basically destroyed my career. You know, I'm not an experimental radio artist. [LAUGHS] I\u2019m a journalist. And then eventually he said, okay, come on out and we can talk.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: Tell me about him, Tell me, first of all, about what his life was like.\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: Joe Frank had one of the most difficult lives of anyone who didn't live through a genocide whom I've ever interviewed. He was sickly his entire life. He was born with club feet. He had testicular cancer at a young age. He had a different cancer about every other decade for all of his 80 years. His mother hated him. His father died young. He was just in enormous physical and psychological pain. He was a child of privilege. He grew up quite wealthy on Central Park in New York City, the child of parents who had fled the Nazis.\nHe hadn\u2019t trained to be a radio person. He had gone to the Iowa Writers\u2019 Workshop and wanted to be a fiction writer. And then for a while he was a high school teacher at The Dalton School in New York City. Then he promoted concerts up in western Massachusetts and he would drive up and down I-91 and listen to the radio on his way to the shows he was promoting in the Springfield area. And that's when he began to think that maybe he had a future in radio because he found that those voices keeping him company late at night on the highway in the cold were so soothing to him and gave him a kind of community and company that held his melancholy at bay. And so, he began to volunteer at WBAI, which was, radio-wise, really the place to be. It was doing very interesting work, hit or miss work, some of it was terrible.\nBut he went there and just studied and learned to cut audio, learned to edit and listened.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: So what did you experience the first time you heard him?\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: I have to say that if I had encountered Joe Frank on my own without knowing how much he had meant to some of these really great cultural figures, like Ira glass or Alexander Payne, the film director, I probably would have listened for a few minutes and then turned the radio off. I probably would have said, this isn\u2019t my cup of tea. He\u2019s difficult. He resists -- you. He doesn\u2019t come to you. He tells stories that don't make sense unless you listen for the whole 25 or 45 minutes.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: And even then. [LAUGHS]\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: And even then. [LAUGHS] He often operates at the boundaries of fiction and nonfiction, so that if you're not paying attention you snap to after your mind wanders and you're not sure if you're listening to a story about his life that really happened or if he's reading the evening news. If you can't pay really close attention, then he's not for you.\nHe is for late-night listening in the car by yourself, and it's not an accident that his career really flourished once he left the New York-Washington axis and moved to Los Angeles because that is a city where a lot of lonely people are in cars by themselves late at night.\nJOE FRANK: This is Joe Frank. I'm here at the Bellflower Hotel in the rooms of Bertram Fields, a preeminent performer in the art of mime. Have you ever thought about what else you might have done in your life had you chosen another career path?\nACTOR ARTHUR MILLER PLAYING MIME: I suppose if I had not become a mime, I think I would have considered going into registered nursing. I was always interested in bodily fluids and people's reaction to different medication and I --\n[AUDIO UP & UNDER]\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: You\u2019ve just been rejected from your 12th audition of the week, you have a couple of drinks at the bar. You get in the car to head back to the Valley to your little efficiency apartment, and it\u2019s 11 p.m. and you turn on the radio and you\u2019re looking for some company, for some solace, and you give it your undivided attention. That's where Joe Frank hits people.\nJOE FRANK: -- any sense of, of what you\u2019re going to be doing at Carnegie Hall. Could you give us perhaps a taste of, of the performance this Thursday evening?\nARTHUR MILLER AS MIME: Well, we\u2019re doing a broad range of material at the concert but perhaps you might like this one. This is from the Dercru days. It\u2019s always been a big favorite. It\u2019s called \u201cNothing Happened.\u201d\n[PAUSE/SIREN SOUNDING]\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: The Joe Frank that I enjoy is, is really the funny and the very silly Joe Frank, the absurdist Joe Frank. And he did a piece called \u201cPrayer\u201d --\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: -- which aired in different versions in 1994 and 1995. So the whole hour is about religion and the different ways people relate to religion. Frank was a very committed atheist. He had very conflicted feelings about his own Jewish background but he was, like many atheists, obsessed with religion. And one of the pieces in the hour-long episode called \u201cPrayer\u201d is a performance by THE late poet and performance artist from Baltimore named David Franks, with an S on the end. And Franks had this stock character who was this radio evangelist, this faith healer --\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: -- who would heal people over the radio. And what Joe Frank did was he had David Franks come on as this preacher and take phone calls from stroke victims, from people with disabilities or palsies, and he would lead them in these incantations. He would say, now, repeat after me, and then he would have them pray to, you know, the great otter god.\nAnd he would, he would, he would say, you know, okay, repeat after me, \u201cLet me be like a mouse, inside a mouse trap.\u201d\nDAVID FRANKS: Inside a mouse trap.\nMALE CALLER: Inside a mouse trap.\nFRANKS: Feed me\nCALLER: Feed me\nFRANKS: Bread\nCALLER: Bread\nFRANKS: Wine\nCALLER: Wine\nFRANKS: Hamsters\nCALLER: Hamsters\nFRANKS: Rats\nCALLER: Rats\nFRANKS: Bullfrogs\nCALLER: Bulldogs\nFRANKS: African Eurasian tiger-pussycats\nCALLER: African Eurasian tiger-pussycats\nFRANKS: And love me, O Father\u2026\n[SOUND UP & UNDER]\nMARK OPPENHEIMER: This was incredibly cruel and I do believe that the callers were real people. Joe Frank would do live shows. Pieces were recorded but pieces could also be live. He also did a pledge drive once where he said, if we don't meet our targets we\u2019re gonna shoot this dog here in the studio.\n[LAUGHS] They, they didn\u2019t meet the target and they pretended to shoot the dog.\nFrank could be very cruel but what you have to remember is that he had suffered at least as much as the people who were calling in. I mean, this was his own pain that he was working through.\nThis is someone who, you know, had nightmares because of the enema he\u2019d been given in the hospital when he had an undescended testicle operated on, and then he had testicular cancer. And, you know, his cousin donated a kidney to him and then billed him for the kidney. This was someone who\u2019d been through enormous pain in his life.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: You can find Mark Oppenheimer\u2019s story, \u201cJoe Frank Signs Off\u201d in Slate.\nWhen Frank died, I assumed I\u2019d find someone he influenced just down the hall. Yep, Radio Lab\u2019s Jad Abumrad. I played him some tape.\nJOE FRANK: When you hug people goodbye after a social event, perhaps a dinner party or a gallery opening, there was always that moment when they squeeze you more forcefully than before, a polite way of letting you know they were about to withdraw. Usually, the one who disengages first is the one who cares less.\nWhen this used to happen to me, I felt rejected and humiliated.\nI\u2019d come home with a lonely, sick feeling. And that\u2019s why, in order to assume the power position and gain the psychological advantage, I now hug people very briefly, perhaps one or two seconds before freeing myself.\nSometimes, if I detect any resistance, I'll push the person away. In one instance, I caused a woman to fall backwards over a chair --\n-- injuring her back, which led to her hospitalization. But I had no choice. It was a matter of self-preservation.\nJAD ABUMRAD: Oh man, that is classic Joe Frank. It\u2019s really good writing, you know? He writes these, like, scenarios. They\u2019re like demented \u201cTalk of the Towns,\u201d in a way. [LAUGHS]\nLike, they\u2019re just these little fragments of dark experience, which are beautifully realized, very vivid, kind of funny but kind of also troubling. Like, and they\u2019re, they\u2019re always many things at once, you know?\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: [LAUGHS] How do you think he influenced you, \u2018cause you were always a great producer, always technically adept. You had tons of musical composition training, you understood the rhythmic possibilities of radio, all of which are heard continually in the programs that you produce. So what did he do that you don\u2019t think you could have done without him?\nJAD ABUMRAD: A lot of different things. This was way at the beginning for me, when Radiolab was just a three-hour thing on the AM station. These --\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: We\u2019re going back how far?\nJAD ABUMRAD: We\u2019re going back to the Stone Age, so say like January, February, 2002 --\nJAD ABUMRAD: -- somewhere around there, really at the beginning. And everybody here who knows the beginning of Radiolab knows that I didn't deserve that show. It was just too soon and I didn't know what I was doing. I didn\u2019t have a style. I had this -- I had the, like, unfortunate thing that we all had back in 2002 is that I just wanted to be Ira Glass; everybody wanted to be Ira Glass, right? And I was still trying to figure out, like, okay, so who am I, what do I want my stuff to sound like?\nAnd so, I would -- every Sunday night, I\u2019d have to put out three hours, and it was an anthology show at that point and it was literally take the best documentaries from the BBC, the CBC in Canada, the ABC in Australia, Radio Netherlands, all this stuff, and package them into three continuous hours. And I would sort of narrate in and out of different segments. And so, from 8 to 11, I\u2019d be playing my show, and I was board opping at the time -\nJAD ABUMRAD: -- which means I wasn\u2019t just making the thing but I had to sit at the board, hit play on the CD and then between hour one and hour two and hour two and hour three, I\u2019d have to say the weather, right? [LAUGHS]\nSo I was doing the whole thing. And after me, Joe Frank would come on, and he was part of my shift. And every time, I\u2019d just be like, what the F is this stuff? I, I would just be sitting there listening to him and just like amazed and like mentally taking notes, being, like, oh, this guy has a feel and a -- there\u2019s a surreal-ity and a disorienting-ness to his stuff that I was just really fascinated by, and I was like, oh, I want to, want to do that.\nThere\u2019s something transgressive in everything that he does, and I like to think we try to sort of embody that spirit a little bit in that we\u2019re making things that aren't always safe. They kind of want to mess you up a tiny bit or they want to trouble you in all the right ways. When I was a little radio baby, I feel like that was something, like, oh, you know, I can do --\nJAD ABUMRAD: -- I didn\u2019t think I could do that [ ? ].\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: Can we play that one that we said that we can\u2019t play?\nJOE FRANK: There was a time when I danced on a street corner dressed as a chicken. My job was to draw attention to a furniture store down the block. One evening, when my shift was over, still wearing my chicken outfit, I walked into a bar across the street. I\u2019d ordered a Bombay martini straight up, olives on the side.\nA prostitute sat down next to me. She was young, willowy, had a faraway look in her eyes. Her name was Meredith. We talked about our careers, the importance of networking, setting goals, focus.\n[ABUMRAD AND BROOKE LAUGHING]\nThen I excused myself, walked into the men's room, entered a stall and sat down on the toilet and had a bowel movement that broke in two.\nAnd half of it was still hanging out of me, so I had to wipe myself 50 times, repeatedly checking to see if there was more left on the toilet paper.\nAnd written on the wall were the words, \u201cKnow that someone is suffering anonymously and unknown and that by the time you read this, I\u2019ll be dead.\u201d\nJAD ABUMRAD: Oh, my God! [LAUGHS]\nOh, that\u2019s good. That\u2019s really good.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: [LAUGHS]\nJAD ABUMRAD: Wow.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: There\u2019s nothing wrong with playing that clip. Actually, he's not using any bad words.\nAnd it\u2019s not --\nJAD ABUMRAD: It\u2019s true. I mean, there\u2019s no FCC violations there.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: [LAUGHS] And it\u2019s simply -- gross!\nJAD ABUMRAD: Yes. [LAUGHS]\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: And yet, you tell me that there is a person on the planet to whom [LAUGHS] that hasn\u2019t happened.\nJAD ABUMRAD: And there\u2019s, there\u2019s some connection between the isolation and loneliness of the person having written and then the loneliness you feel in the stall in that moment, yeah.\nJAD ABUMRAD: You hear something like that and it gives you permission. You know, and you didn\u2019t think you could write could you can write something nutty and gross the way that, that he did in the clip we just heard.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: A sense of -- unboundedness.\nJAD ABUMRAD: Yeah, I\u2019ll put it to you this way: That, that idea of, like, being mischievous and transgressive and a little bit dark, and the way he talks, too, that kind of like super-hushed high hiss, there\u2019s like a high hiss in his words. There\u2019s something just about the sound of his voice. And, and there\u2019s a kind of like deep trance-inducing quality to listening to a Joe Frank story. All of those elements, I thought, could I take that and put it into journalism, the telling of true stories, the reporting of true stories? Could that stuff sound like Joe Frank? I remember thinking very consciously, I'd love to be able to be Joe Frank in a different mode.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: Well, there is a certain similar resonance, and I think you both make really good use of the proximity effect.\nJAD ABUMRAD: Yes.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: I mean, you -- you\u2019re both --\nJAD ABUMRAD: I\u2019m doing it right now.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: Yeah, you\u2019re both really leaning into the mic. You know, there is a sort of -- I\u2019m really in your head!\nJAD ABUMRAD: Mm-hmm. [AFFIRMATIVE]\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: That\u2019s what he does.\nJAD ABUMRAD: Yeah, yeah.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: And you do that, too?\nJAD ABUMRAD: I do, yeah. I mean, Joe Frank always had the quality of, like, he's coming from inside your head out and then back in again.\nHe has that kind of quality, where it, it sounds like he\u2019s somehow like the voice in your head but broadcast back into your head.\nThere\u2019s something about that quality which, like, I -- that\u2019s what I want from the radio. It\u2019s what I want from podcasts. I want someone to be speaking from inside me, in a way.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: Have you ever talked about Joe Frank to --\nJAD ABUMRAD: Oh, yeah. I give this talk 30, 40 times a year, where I have, like, an extended Joe Frank excerpt. I have an image of Joe Frank that I show. Yeah, I talk about Joe Frank [LAUGHS] all the time.\nI -- I\u2019ll tell you what it was. It, it was the experience of being in a studio when you, when you don't know what you're doing, and in those moments when you're staring at this evil mic, like, you have these voices that enter your head. And so, I\u2019d go through the series of voices that were in my head , and it was Scott Simon because [DEEPENS VOICE] Scott has that kind of, like, you know, really -- or that really super intimate way he has, and I was like, oh, I want to be Scott, you know. At the same time, Scott has a certain preciousness. I don't mean in a bad way. And for me, Joe Frank was this, like, antidote.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: but so, what did Joe Frank give you?\nJAD ABUMRAD: That sense of the voice in your head, the dark thoughts that you don't speak out loud, that sense of transgressive, like, I'm going to say something that\u2019s a little bit wrong. All of those things were things I wanted for my show.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: Yeah, and there were many times when people wanted to adapt his stuff but it just didn't seem to travel off the radio. One time, someone stole from him.\nJAD ABUMRAD: Really?\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: It was the writer of the Martin Scorsese film, this absurdist kind of Virgil-like exploration of New York called After Hours. And he got paid, he says, quite handsomely after the lawsuit.\nJAD ABUMRAD: Wow, I did not know that. That\u2019s crazy. It\u2019s funny, now that we\u2019re talking about it, I'm surprised there was never a Joe Frank moment, a moment where he kind of came -- back. So I don\u2019t know, I wonder how some of the clips are playing. I wonder how it sounds to somebody who's in their \u201820s and just getting into podcasting. It still sounds good to me.\nIt could just be because I\u2019m an old fart, at this point. But I was like, I, I would listen to that. Even when the music\u2019s a little weird, I would totally listen to that.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: He was the radio producer\u2019s radio producer. The vast majority of our listeners, of the people listening to this, I'm going to have to assume they never heard of Joe Frank. And he was always available on podcast but he was, like, this --mystery --\nJAD ABUMRAD: Yeah.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: -- to people who weren't willing to sort of follow the breadcrumbs to him.\nJAD ABUMRAD: You know, I\u2019ll tell you, I mean, when I give this talk that I, that I often give --\nJAD ABUMRAD: -- and I go through the series of people who\u2019ve influenced me and I always list -- I list Joe Frank in, in a, in a list that goes, it goes, Ira, Scott, Joe. I\u2019ll always ask, any Joe Frank fans in the house? These will be, like, audiences of about 2,000, 2500 people and, like, one time someone clapped, one time.\nJAD ABUMRAD: I remember, like, there was a clap in the far right and I was, like, oh my God, a Joe Frank fan! It always broke my heart a little bit, \u2018cause no one ever knew his stuff. Like, amongst us, our little sort of posse of radio people, he's a legend, but nobody on the outside ever knew him, you know?\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: This is going to be their chance.\nJAD ABUMRAD: Yeah, this is the opportunity to do that. I think people want stuff that\u2019s just not, not usual right now, and he was basically the epitome of that.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: It certainly takes you out of the crazy dark world you're in and deposits you in a --\n[ABUMRAD LAUGHS]\n-- smarter crazy dark world.\nJAD ABUMRAD: [LAUGHS] Smarter crazy dark world, yeah. [?]\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: Thank you so much, Jad.\nJAD ABUMRAD: Yeah, thanks for, for grabbing me and doing this.\nJOE FRANK: Last night, I dreamt I was lost on an elevator. All the floors were the same. Then I realized the elevator was moving horizontally, so I tried another elevator, the express. But it just got me more lost faster. People kept getting on and getting off. They were all wearing green gauze over their heads and were smoking ice cream cones. I said, please let me off at 39 Street, and a conductor said, this is 35th Street, you\u2019ll have to walk three blocks and take the escalator. But when I got to the escalator it was just a phone booth, so I made a call. I called my father. I said, hello, I\u2019m lost on 39th Street looking for an escalator and I can't find it anywhere. And he said, I'll be right there, and there he was. And the phone booth started moving forward very slowly with my father and I in it and I didn't know where it was going or why. And he said, don't be afraid, this phone booth will take us home. And I said, but we have no home. And he said, we live on the 8th Floor, Apartment Y. And I said, Y? And he said, yes.\nOne day, I\u2019ll visit the Ringling Brothers Winter Home for Retired Animals and watch lions and elephants wearing bathrobes and tattered slippers strolling on the beach. I\u2019ll walk along the shore, climb up on a cliff and think about my life.\nBOB GARFIELD: On the Media is produced by Alana Casanova\u2014Burgess, Jesse Brenneman, Micah Loewinger and Leah Feder. We had more help from Jon Hanrahan, Isaac Naple and Monique LaBorde. This was Monique\u2019s last week with the show. She was awesome and we wish her all the best. And our show was edited -- by Brooke. Our technical director is Jennifer Munson. Our engineers this week wee Sam Bair and Terence Bernardo.\nBROOKE GLADSTONE: Katya Rogers is our executive producer. On the Media is a production of WNYC Studios. I\u2019m Brooke Gladstone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 23080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.womansday.com/relationships/dating-marriage/a45233/the-wasted-years-1602/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TQUIL2BFK3UX5H3YGOL2JKL4WETIXN3Y", "length": 2191, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.womansday.com", "title": "The Wasted Years - Divorce Diaries", "raw_content": "When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they \"don't understand\" one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to. ~Helen Rowland\nIt occurred to me last night, that Peter might not see our marriage the way I do. Duh. I know, I know\u2026that's a bit of a no-brainer, right? Obviously, we have two different views of marriage if he thinks it's OK to fool around while married and I disagree. Vehemently.\nAll that aside, though\u2026.I was thinking about how many divorced or divorcing women I know who consider their marriages a total loss. \"I wasted the best years of my life!\" They wail. I can honestly say I've never felt that way. No matter how it turned out, or how difficult it got sometimes, I don't allow that to taint everything that my marriage was. I think it's all a matter of perspective. We had a lot of fun, a lot of laughter, and a lot of love. It just didn't end that way.\nIt took awhile for me to look back and see the whole picture, while I was knee-deep in anger and fury and disappointment. I was thinking about this last night, because it seems like Peter hasn't moved out of that stage most of the time. It finally occurred to me that he probably looks back on our twenty-five cumulative married and before-married years as \"wasted\". I sometimes feel like he's thinking that without me he could have been rich, could have been married to someone who makes a better salary or likes hockey and golf, could have been taking grand vacations, could have had a kid that didn't have autism, could have been that much closer to an early retirement, maybe. Who knows?\nI've learned that it doesn't pay to dwell on all that might have been when you have a life to live now. And if I hadn't married Peter, I wouldn't be Anna and David's Mom, and that alone is worth more than the Universe on a diamond-crusted platter. My life is what it is, and I refuse to give back a minute of the happiness I've had in trade to the misery I feel sometimes.\nWhat about you? Were the years wasted? Or is your perspective different now?\nSeven Year Letter\nEasing Into A New Year\nSix Years And A Million Dollars Later\u2026\n$15 Million Gone In Four Years???\nRemarriage After 57 Years!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 231.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wondersofweird.com/alice-walker-dp.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:30Z", "digest": "sha1:X4NH5F6KFJM5N354G26RYOPSDYPNSQFN", "length": 2854, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.wondersofweird.com", "title": "Alice Walker DP - Kelly Milner Halls and the Wonders of Weird", "raw_content": "By the light of my father's smile\nRandom House, $22.95\nOct. 4 - Since her birth in 1944, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Alice Walker Shas been on a crash course with multiple destinies.\nThe brilliant daughter of impoverished Georgia sharecroppers, Walker has serendipitously crossed paths with such political luminaries as Martin Luther King and Fidel Castro. She has been befriended and mentored by literary greats Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser and Jane Cooper.\nConsidering the diversity of her personal history, it is little wonder Walker's latest intriguing novel, \"By the Light of My Father's Smile,'' not only celebrates the unexpected, but also embraces ideals well beyond the traditional fringe.\nWalker's erotically charged story follows sisters Susannah and Magdalena through their sexual and spiritual awakenings, and illustrates how the two are inextricably interwoven.\nSusannah, the \"good'' daughter, is adored in childhood by her father, an anthropologist posing as a missionary to study the Mundo tribes in the wilds of Mexico's Sierra Madre. Magdalena, the \"wild'' child, is misunderstood as she dives head first into the ceaseless adventure of her sexuality, despite her father's obvious misgivings.\nWhen he discovers her teenaged affair with a young Mundo tribesman, Magdalena's father - \"sucked into the black cloth'' of puritanical Christianity, Walker writes - brutally beats her with a silver-studded belt made by her lover. A disillusioned Susannah watches through a keyhole in the bedroom door.\nTrust and understanding shattered, the father must struggle to rebuild the familial bond so violently discarded - even as an angel, after death separates his physical presence from the women his daughters become.\nWith explicit sexual flair and fluid, descriptive prose, Walker explores the function and dysfunction of sexuality, as it relates to the growth of the human spirit. She glides unabashed into her story telling and her personal purpose, without hesitation or a moment's regret.\n\"\u000b\"By the Light of My Father's Smile' presents a celebration of sexuality, its absolute usefulness in the accessing of one's mature spirituality, and the father's role in assuring joy or sorrow in this arena for his female children,'' Walker explains. \"It examines the way imposed religion almost always acts to inhibit and harden the hearts of those who would instinctively love.''\nBecause she incorporates several different narrative points of view, and because it leaps from one time frame to the next, Walker's story can be difficult to track, but her descriptive prowess and fast-paced plotting make each chapter a joy to read.\nHer unyielding passion and purpose make this a hard book to put down.\nKelly Milner Halls is a freelance writer who is a regular contributor to the Book Report on America Online. She lives in Longmont.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldatlas.com/as/ir/11/where-is-alvand.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:08Z", "digest": "sha1:B2SY5KF5263GPYDDWETHHD746CDULRQ5", "length": 402, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.worldatlas.com", "title": "Where is Alvand, Iran? / Alvand, Zanjan Map - WorldAtlas.com", "raw_content": "Where is Alvand\nWhere is Alvand, Iran?\nLocation of Alvand on a map.\nAlvand is a city found in Zanjan, Iran. It is located 36.32 latitude and 49.17 longitude and it is situated at elevation 1838 meters above sea level.\nAlvand has a population of 74,889 making it the 2nd biggest city in Zanjan. It operates on the IRDT time zone, which means that it follows the same time zone as Zanjan.\nDistrict Zanjan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 2636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldofhealth.co.uk/walking-weight-off/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:22Z", "digest": "sha1:K4KKCFMCTLDICQFUP7JWUYYL2ULCG7HR", "length": 1039, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.worldofhealth.co.uk", "title": "Walking Weight Off | World of Health", "raw_content": "Walking is one of the most popular recreational activities in England. It is also regarded as the nearest activity to perfect exercise and, due to its numerous health benefits, is prescribed by GPs to help with a whole range of health conditions. The other great news for slimmers, is that walking can help you lose weight!\nWalking is the easiest, cheapest and lowest impact form of exercise to introduce into everyday life. During these testing times a gym membership is a luxury many cannot afford; walking is a great recession proof solution for losing weight. Walking alters fat metabolism so that fat is burned up, instead of sugars, helping to reduce weight.\nWalking for just one mile (1.6km) can burn at least 100 calories and walking two miles (3.2km) a day, three times a week, can help reduce weight by one pound (0.5kg) every three weeks. To maximise weight loss through walking, step up the pace. If you can walk a mile in under 13 minutes you are using and building more muscle groups increasing the number of calories burned.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.xbconsultants.com/asset-management/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:53Z", "digest": "sha1:D66Q3CTM3LCNR2AZR25JJZNBEEOLPPJS", "length": 1839, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.xbconsultants.com", "title": "Asset Management | XB Consultants", "raw_content": "XB Consultants is an executive search and international recruitment company specialising in the Wealth and Asset Management sector. With over 20 years of experience, we have a proven track record in sourcing the very best talent for a wide range of financial institutions, from boutique agencies to global investment companies.\nWe are proud to work on a truly international basis and have a vast network of contacts across the globe, with a particular focus on Luxembourg. We believe in building lasting partnerships with both our clients and candidates and offer an intelligent, consultative and honest approach in order to deliver a completely personalised and discreet service.\nWe believe our customer-focused recruitment service is what makes us truly unique in what we do. Acting as a trusted advisor, we work hard to understand the needs of both our clients and candidates so that we can unite the very best talent to the most innovative asset, wealth and hedge fund companies out there.\nHere at XB Consultants we don\u2019t just find CVs to match our clients\u2019 list of requirements; our team will take the time to really get to know you before using a combination of direct headhunting and referral techniques to match the right candidates to the right roles, assisting talented financial professionals in taking the next career step that is right for them.\nOur highly skilled and experienced team of Asset Management consultants have an unrivaled knowledge of their market, and it is this in-depth industry knowledge that allows us to bring together clients and candidates from a global talent pool.\nFund Selection and Administration\nRisk, Compliance and Audit\nIf you are an organisation looking for the very best talent in Asset Management or are looking to make the next step in your own career, fill out the below form to get started.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 2411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.xtrastore.com/terms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:KTGIPK74ZMFAG7FLQETFD6KRSBMKGFU4", "length": 3336, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.xtrastore.com", "title": "Terms of Service | X-tra Space", "raw_content": "X-tra Space Terms, Conditions, and Notices\nAgreement between X-tra Space and Customer\nWelcome to the X-tra Space website (the \"website\"). This website is provided solely to assist customers in gathering information about self storage, determining the availability of self storage units plus related goods and services, making legitimate reservations, or otherwise transacting business with self storage space suppliers, and for no other purposes. The terms \"we\", \"us\", \"our\" and \"X-tra Space\" refer to www.xtrastore.com and/or our subsidiaries. The term \"you\" refers to the customer visiting the website, mobile site and/or booking self storage unit reservation(s) through us on this website, via phone, and/or through our agents.\nIf you make a reservation or otherwise transact online with X-tra Space, you will safeguard your login information and will supervise and be completely responsible for login by anyone other than you. We retain the right at our sole discretion to deny anyone access to this website and the self storage units we offer, at any time and for any reason, including, but not limited to, for violation of this Agreement.\nX-tra Space\u2019s mobile site is provided in the same way, for the same purposes, and under the same conditions as the website. By accessing or using the mobile site in any manner, you agree to be bound by the Agreement. If you do not accept all of these terms and conditions, please do not use the mobile site.\nX-tra Space uses technology that records incoming telephone calls. If you initiate a call to one of our tracked phone numbers, we will, at our discretion, create a digital audio recording of the telephone call. We represent and warrant that we have established proper procedures to protect the privacy of all callers in connection with call recording services, and otherwise fully comply with all applicable laws, regulations and governmental or self-regulatory guidelines. A voice alert is played at the beginning of each call to notify callers that the call will be recorded. Our use of the call recording is for quality assurance, customer service, and data tracking purposes only. If you choose to allow yourself to be recorded by continuing with the phone call after the recording notification, you expressly agree and acknowledge that:\nX-tra Space shall have no liability whatsoever in respect of the call recordings and their contents, including any personal information provided by you or commentary made by you.\nX-tra Space trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with this website are trademarks or registered trademarks of X-tra Space or X-tra Space\u2019s licensors. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any X-tra Space trademarks or third-party trademarks.\nYou agree to defend, indemnify and hold harmless X-tra Space, its contractors, and its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of your use of the website and services, including but not limited to out of your violation of any representation or warranty contained in these Terms and Conditions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 9839, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 282.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.y-oman.com/2018/01/oman-car-review-ferrari-gtc4lusso/amp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:52Z", "digest": "sha1:NHQB22UXZMXY62EUAZ6AJSSOTQ5SVL6P", "length": 7000, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.y-oman.com", "title": "Ferrari GTC4Lusso \u2013 Y Magazine", "raw_content": "It may be foolish to push an RO100,000 car to its limits, but the temptation to press the pedal hard and down all the way to the carpet was spot on and irresistible. Alvin Thomas takes his dream machine for a spin from Dubai to Abu Dhabi\nA four-seater, four-wheel-drive supercar for the average (well endowed) businessman sounds like a far-fetched idea. But throw on a Ferrari badge on the front and it all magically makes sense \u2013 and I\u2019m not jesting when I say that.\nWho knew that Ferrari \u2013 the makers of cars like the 488 Spider, the 812 Superfast and the LaFerrari \u2013 would be able to pull off what is arguably the most idiosyncratic family haulers of all-time?\nOf course, keen-eyed Ferrari enthusiasts would probably point out that the GTC4Lusso \u2013 the car in question here \u2013 isn\u2019t the first four-seater supercar to hail from the Italian stables.\nIn 1960 it was Ferrari, with its 250 GT/E, that revolutionised the way the Italians drove around the streets of Maranello. Three of your favourite mates could finally travel with you in what could very well be one of the first grand-touring cars (if you ignore the Lancia Aurelia GT) the world had ever seen.\nFast forward 58 years, however, and you have what must be the spiritual successor of the 250 GT/E. And unlike its granddaddy, this one is fast. Very,\nDespite what its profile suggests, the GTC4Lusso is no regular hatchback. Sure, it has two doors and a tailgate that suggests otherwise, but it\u2019s more of a shooting-brake coupe than anything else. The bonnet, for instance, stretches far into the horizon and the C-pillar blends in well with the tailgate and the burly arches in the rear.\nUp front, you\u2019re treated to Ferrari\u2019s signature headlamps; the ones that debuted with the Ferrari FF (the GTC4Lusso\u2019s predecessor). But, for the current model year, the headlamps have more flattering angles. The FF, on the other hand, looked like it wanted to gobble up every car in front of it. Still, at 1980mm, the tracks are wider than the former.\nThe GTC4Lusso is also a long car: its wheelbase measures in at about 2990mm. But the Italians have managed to hide the length very well with sharp contours and subtle lines. In one sentence: it\u2019s a work of art.\nMuch of this dauntlessness carries over to the interior too. It\u2019s a completely radical design change when compared to the FF, but it\u2019s still one of the prettiest ones I\u2019ve seen in an Italian car in a long time \u2013 the last one being the Alfa Romeo 1900 C SS Zagato Berlinetta from 1955 (!)\nThe circular A/C vents in my tester were finished in aluminium and knurled in to replicate a jet engine. Then there was the easy-to-use 10-inch touchscreen infotainment unit that sat like an ornament on the dashboard.\nThe infotainment unit is quick to respond to the user\u2019s inputs and is also easy to navigate through. It has a split-screen setup for when you need to use multiple applications, say, the navigation and the music functions. Also interesting is the optional extra \u2013 which I think everyone buying the GTC4Lusso must tick \u2013 9-inch \u201cscream-o-meter\u201d touchscreen for the passenger, which displays speeds, revolutions, G-force as well as infotainment controls.\nThe steering is derivative of current-day Ferraris \u2013 it\u2019s functional, heavy on buttons and, above all else, a hell of a lot unique than the prosaic ones in our cars. You can control everything from the lights, wiper functions, indicators, engine start/stop and even the drive modes, using the steering-mounted buttons.\nThe insides are finished in premium leather that has been stitched in contrasting colours. The four seats are essentially sport buckets, but are extremely comfortable for long-distance driving. During the course of my 12-hour road-trip from the heart of Dubai to the borders of Abu Dhabi, I felt comfortable and relaxed \u2013 even with the overly supportive shoulder bolstering and\nUnderneath the long bonnet lies an equally big 6.3-litre naturally aspirated V12 that cranks out 680hp and 697Nm of torque at the flywheel. It\u2019s only 200cc smaller than the engine in the 812 Superfast, but it\u2019s more than adequate to put the \u201cf\u201d back in fun \u2013 really!\nThe power is sent to the ground via a quick-shifting seven-speed \u201cF1\u201d dual-clutch gearbox to the beautifully tuned electronic-differential that sends power to all four wheels. The way it shuffles power from each wheel is phenomenal \u2013 it\u2019s impossible to get any form of understeer as the car quickly negates any slip from the front-end by sending a boatful of power to the rear wheels to induce a bit of oversteer action.\nAll of this also translates to a 0-100kph time of 3.9-seconds. And that\u2019s an impressive when you realise that the car tips the scales at about 1,700kg. The car powers off the line quickly and screams (rather euphoniously) all the way to about 8000rpm before ferociously hitting the redline. The torque band of the V12 is wide and strong enough to keep the speedometer ticking all the way to the seventh gear.\nThe GTC4 Lusso \u2013 like all other Ferraris \u2013 is mesmerising to drive. It\u2019s track-ready when you need it to be, and when you want to cool off and cruise, it lets you do so too. The chassis is meticulously tuned to be predictable, despite its large size. The suspension alters itself as per the driving mode to present the driver with the most felicitous control at any given time.\nThe car also makes use of four-wheel steering to curb the effects of its length. The system effectively reduces the footprint of the car in tight corners, but more so than that, it helps the chassis wrap around the cockpit to fool you into thinking that you\u2019re driving a smaller vehicle.\nThe hydraulic steering is well-weighted and precise, and provides ample feedback too. This inevitably gives the driver a sense of confidence when pushing the car hard through corners or when reveling around in a cloud of thick smoke from the rear tyres that are devouring themselves. It\u2019s not advisable to push an RO100,000 car to its limits but, in the name of journalism, I did so (legally). So, after switching the electronic nannies off, I pushed the pedal to the carpet, and sent the rear end into oblivion\u2026 or rather, into a long and wide power slide. But you can quickly counter the drift thanks to the four-wheel steering.\nThis may not be our first review of the Ferrari GTC4Lusso. But I\u2019ll tell you this: the more time I spend behind the wheel, the more I fall in love with it. And that\u2019s a very disquieting prospect. Because, the 10-year-old in me wants to stick a poster of a 488 Spider or GTB on the wall, but the 24-year-old me prefers riding around in a longer and functional shooting-brake coupe. Oh, well! At least the car of my choice is a no-nonsense Ferrari \u2013 and that too a Ferrari that\u2019s just as good \u2013 and if not better \u2013 than all its competitors from Germany\nand Britain.\nEngine: 6.3-litre V12 engine\nDual-view infotainment screen\nfront parking camera\n51cm forged diamond rims\nBianco Avus paintjob\nF1-DCT Gearbox\nF1-Trac, ESP\nTags: 504, Ferrari, Oman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 7546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yogamaris.net/blog/2017/04/27/grit-tenacity", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:S42TUXCNT57ATBZV7JY2OE64EYWTMGA5", "length": 9623, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.yogamaris.net", "title": "Grit & Tenacity \u2014 yogamaris", "raw_content": "I've been thinking a lot about success lately. Namely- and without getting into the semantics of what \"success\" truly is- what causes a person to be successful?\nI've become fascinated with the work of Angela Duckworth, a researcher, author, and recipient of the \"Genius\" grant. Angela studies success, and what kinds of personality traits lead to successful people. And she's found one trait in particular that seems to always point towards bright futures: grit.\nAngela defines grit as \"the disposition to pursue very longterm goals with passion and perseverance.\"\nBut who is most likely to have this magical grit? Probably people who are naturally good and something, and thus more motivated to pursue it, right? Well, surprisingly, students and children who are naturally more talented or gifted don't tend to display more grit. And in fact, Angela's research has found that there's a negative correlation between inherent ability grittiness.\nWhy's that? Well, Angela has pointed out that it's rather simple: if you're always just good at stuff, you'll never learn how to persevere through hard things.\nThis reminds me of a favorite mantra of mine: You can do hard things.\nTurns out the science backs me up.\nRecently, my friend Steph Gaudreau was working on a blogpost about getting out of your comfort zone, and asked for me to contribute my own advice to the piece. I immediately replied, \u201cYou can do hard things. You were not put on this planet to only do what comes easily to you. If you were, you\u2019d have burst into flames of enlightenment by now.\u201d\nThis bubbled to the surface because whenever I'm asked for advice, I try to imagine what I would need to hear in that situation- because the truth is, I'm not a guru, and I don't have everything figured out. Everything I write is as much a message and lesson directed at myself as it is to anyone else; and as someone whose Achilles heel is perfectionism, I know that the thing holding me back from stepping out of my comfort zone is often the fear of simply not being good at whatever new thing it is I've decided to try.\nBy giving ourselves permission to be beginners, we're giving ourselves permission to escape our comfort zone, and magic rarely happens within our comfort zone.\nFor the past few years, I've been on a mission to escape the tempting trap of the comfort zone and embracing what it means to not be inherently good at everything I try. When you were a child, did you ever play that game where you'd jump from couch to couch or chair to chair, pretending the floor was lava and couldn't be touched? That's how I've felt with comfort lately- the second I start getting too comfortable, it feels as though the earth below my feet has transformed into magma, and it's starting to melt my shoes. It's then that I realize I need to take a leap, jump onto something else that isn't becoming dangerously well-known.\nTaking that leap to the next new thing is always the hardest part. Sure, that moment right when you land on the next spot and you teeter back-and-forth for a moment is pretty scary, but nothing compares to the fluttering of butterflies in your stomach right before you jump. I think this is because in that moment- no matter how brief or drawn-out it is- we're forced to face the little voice in the back of our head that tells us that we won't be good enough. That we'll miss the landing. That people will think we were ridiculous for ever even trying if we fail. That we should just stay where we are, even if it's starting to hurt us, because at least we know we were able to manage this much.\nAnd here's the thing, the fear of the leap is completely rational.\nThere's a very real chance that you won't stick the landing, that you'll miss and have your fear of failure realized. But as a child playing \"the floor is lava,\" you didn't just flop onto the floor the first time you missed and accept your fate as a charred blob of failure. You probably laughed along with your friends, maybe a little embarrassed, and tried again. You took a deep breath and jumped onto a different chair (or maybe even the same one, if you were extra brave), and kept doing so until the game was over.\nThat's grit. That's doing hard things.\nNow to pull our nostalgic metaphor into reality, consider trying a new hobby or pursuing a new goal. Just like the moment before you jump off your perch, the moment before you decide to throw yourself into something different and foreign is terrifying, too. But the longer you allow yourself to dwell on \"Well maybe I'll be the world's worst cake decorator,\" or \"Well maybe I'll just be as bad at soccer as I was at tennis,\" the more likely you're going to be to remain in your comfort zone. And the more likely you are to remain in your comfort zone, the more likely you are to miss out on a grand opportunity.\nAnd you know what, you may well end up being the world's worst cake decorator or soccer player or whatever else it is. Despite what all those student athletes and motivational bumper stickers tell you, failure (at least as it is colloquially known) is most definitely an option. Not everyone is the best at everything, because if they were, the Olympics wouldn't be the Olympics. They'd be a weekend activity. So if we're to define failure as not being absolutely amazing at every new pursuit, I'd argue that failure isn't only an option- it's the likeliest one.\nYou were not put on this planet to be perfect, just as you were not put on this planet to only do things that come naturally to you. If you go through life only seeking perfection or being \"good enough,\" you will miss out on the bounty of other lessons and experiences that the world outside your comfort zone has to offer. There's no rule that says only Olympic athletes or platinum music artists can enjoy their craft.\nLearn to embrace the idea of your own personal success.\nInstead of defining success by the otherworldly outliers like top-tier athletes or your idolized friends and neighbors, define success by having gained new experiences, expanded your realm of knowledge, and having fun.\nThis past summer, I decided to try something I'd wanted to do for a long time, but had always been afraid of leaping into: Olympic lifting. I'd always told myself that I would be looked down upon or thought of as silly for trying something so out of my realm that I clearly wasn't going to be competitive in, and I'd allowed that to keep me chained in my comfort zone of yoga for years. But one day I realized: I'm probably not gonna be breaking any world records for Olympic lifting, and that doesn't mean I can't have fun doing it at my own level. It's not some secretive, elite activity only for those who have been specially chosen for their unique talents.\nIt's not like the Karate Kid or something.\nAnd so I leap into it. I stopped lingering in that painful space before the leap and walked into a gym I'd never been before and told a coach I'd never met before that I wan't to do something I'd never done before.\nAnd it was fucking hard. There were many times where I wanted to give up, where I tried to convince myself that I'd never get the technical movements or lift as much as the people around me, so why bother? But I had a goal, and it was to dedicate myself to something new- to challenge my body, brain, and spirit in a new way. And dammit, I was going to stick with it, even if I wasn't going to be the greatest on earth.\nGrit. That's grit.\nInterestingly enough, before I came across the work of Angela Duckworth, I was talking to my dear friend Moya about the difference between \"stubbornness\" and \"tenacity.\" What we found was that while the two seem to be often conflated, they are remarkably different.\nStubbornness is feeling bound to acting or behaving in a certain way, no matter what the feedback we receive is. You've heard that saying, \"insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.\" I think stubbornness is largely the same, but often with the added belief that we're doing something that is inherently good. We're grinding, we're putting in effort. But this stubbornness is inflexible and unchanging, and can result in us being bound to unhealthy behaviors, relationships, or goals. It can even lead to us existing for far too long in a comfort zone we don't even realize has appeared.\nTenacity, on the other hand, is following the path we know to be true in our hearts, while not being bound to any one specific way or methodology. Tenacity is facing fears and embracing change, while staying true to our core beliefs. It is determination without resistance to the necessary growth and evolution that must occur along the way. It's noticing when something we've decided to pursue or chase after is no longer serving us, and finding a different way to follow our higher purposes: let that be strength, humility, or just good ol' happiness.\nConsider the pursuit of health. Stubbornness would be forcing ourselves on the treadmill to run 5 miles a day (even though we hate it) and drink smoothies (even though we hate them) just because that's what we've decided is the \"only way\" to get healthy. Tenacity is trying these things, realizing they don't work for us, and instead of giving up on our health journey, choosing to try swimming instead of running and salads instead of smoothies. It's being willing to try different roads to our ultimate destination if one of them ends up being closed down for one reason or another.\nTenacity cannot exist without grit, and grit cannot exist without tenacity, and neither can exist without the belief that we are capable of hard things.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 10994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yorktour.com/york360.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DYGOLMO3RNWL4YWAC22RNFRKXDB3XDP7", "length": 1776, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.yorktour.com", "title": "YORKTOUR - York 360", "raw_content": "York\u2019s history really is all around. Find a spot outside the art gallery in Exhibition Square, facing the city walls. In front of you is Bootham Bar, a Norman arch with later medieval fortifications on top. Behind that, the west towers of the Minster, the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. To the right is the white plaster facade of the De Grey Rooms, an early Victorian ballroom constructed for a cavalry regiment. Next to that, the Theatre Royal, which has been in operation since 1744.\nNow begin to turn gradually clockwise. Opposite the theatre is a crescent of townhouses built by George Hudson, the \u2018Railway King\u2019 who brought the profitable east coast mainline to York. Keep turning. Behind the crescent is the King\u2019s Manor, originally a 13th century Abbot\u2019s House and later redeveloped in the 16th and 17th centuries as a royal residence where Charles I sought refuge during the Civil War. Alongside the King\u2019s Manor is the city\u2019s art gallery, built in Florentine renaissance style, and the first public building in York to be lit by electricity. To the right of the fountains you can see a portion of the 13th century perimeter wall of St Mary\u2019s Abbey, one of the largest monastic houses in the north of England, which was dissolved by Henry VIII.\nThat brings us round to Bootham Bar again, which stands on the site of the original Roman gateway to York whose foundations are visible through the glass floor of the cafe alongside. We have completed a sweep of almost 2000 years of history, simply by turning in a circle. York is unique in this respect. The entire story of the city - and the country - is visible in one place. Imagine how much more there would be to discover if we actually walked somewhere\u2026.\n360 degree panorama of Exhibition Square, York", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 178.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-03-23/japan-goes-full-krugman-plans-un-depositable-non-cash-gift-certificate-money-drop-yo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:UI2M4YOB7XIVTLGKUZJPTSQ37UNLTBTQ", "length": 7980, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.zerohedge.com", "title": "Japan Goes Full Krugman: Plans Un-Depositable, Non-Cash \"Gift-Certificate\" Money Drop To Young People | Zero Hedge", "raw_content": "Japan Goes Full Krugman: Plans Un-Depositable, Non-Cash \"Gift-Certificate\" Money Drop To Young People\nThe Swiss, the Finns, and the Ontarians may get their 'Universal Basic Income' but the Japanese are about to turn the Spinal Tap amplifier of extreme monetary experimentation to 11. Sankei reports, with no sourcing, that the Japanese government plans to unleash \"vouchers\" or \"gift certificates\" to low-income young people to stimulate the \"conspicuous decline\" in consumption among young people. The handouts may not be deposited, thus combining helicopter money (inflationary) and fully electronic currency (implicit capital controls and tracking of spending).\nSince Ben Bernanke reminded the world of the existence of government printing-presses, echoed Milton Friedman's \"helicopter drop\" solution to fighting deflation, and decried Japan for not being as insane as it could be... it has only been a matter of time before some global central bank decided that the dropping of cash onto the populace was the key to economic recovery. Having blown their wad on QQE (and been left with a quintuple-dip recession) and unleashed NIRP, it appears Japan has reached that limit.\nThe Japanese government plans to include gift certificates for low-income young people in its fiscal 2016 supplementary budget, Sankei reports, without saying who provided the information.\nRecipients would be able to use them for daily necessities.\nThe government sees gift certificates as more effective in stimulating consumption than cash handouts, which may be deposited.\nAs Sankei reports (via Google Translate),\nThe government 23 days, as the centerpiece of the 2016 fiscal year supplementary budget to organize because of the economic stimulus, cemented the policy to include the low-income measures for young people. To examine the distribution of vouchers to be devoted to the purchase of such daily necessities. Although the 2015 supplementary budget, which was established in January was the extraordinary benefits pillars of the elderly, because the conspicuous decline in consumption among young people, hopes to work to shore up at the pin point. Low-income measures of the past on the grounds such as \"benefit is Oyobi difficult wage hike\" (Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga) is for the elderly was the main.\nHowever, in January of Family Income and Expenditure Survey (two or more people households), consumption expenditure of 34-year-old following of young people in a significant negative same month of the previous year of 11, 7% decrease, compared to the total household average of 3.1% year on year decline was noticeable even. Government in order to raise the level of personal consumption to be sluggish, the determination and consumption stimulus measures of young people is essential. Rather than the benefits that potentially turn into savings is pointed out, we are considering the distribution of gift certificates. Details, such as low-income earners of interest and business scale is filled from April.\nAccording to the Cabinet Office survey, for which the straight-line benefits that were distributed in 2009, many of proportion to turn to the consumer from the elderly entitlements is more of the child-rearing households than the household, this time of the measures expected a certain effect on the consumption raise That's it. Per capita 3 27 fiscal distribute the yen supplementary budget of extraordinary benefits to the elderly of the low-income, objection such as \"Why do you favor only the elderly\" was out of the ruling and opposition parties. Ahead of the House of Councillors election, there is also aim to appeal to the support measures for young people.\nAnd so while some might liken it to EBT cards in the US... it appears this is simply a hidden way to directly hand out free money to those that spend (lower income) and force consumption (non-depositable or savable) and thus... increase inflation... So no need for firms to raise wages after all!??! Well played Abe.\nOne wonders how much these \"gift certificates\" will trade for on the black market... as we are sure some 'spending' will be disallowed and require the use of cash - no sugary drinks... no Fugu (google it)... no Sumo tournaments... and no BMW X6\nAnd finally here is Charles Hugh-Smith to destroy the idea that this works...\nAs we previously detailed, support is growing around the world for such spending to be funded by \u201cPeople\u2019s QE.\u201d The idea behind \u201cPeople\u2019s QE\u201d is that central banks would directly fund government spending\u2026 and even inject money directly into household bank accounts, if need be. And the idea is catching on.\nAlready the European Central Bank is buying bonds of the European Investment Bank, an E.U. institution that finances infrastructure projects. And the new leader of Britain\u2019s Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn, is backing a British version of this scheme.\nThat\u2019s the monster coming to towns and villages near you! Call it \u201covert monetary financing.\u201d Call it \u201cmoney from helicopters.\u201d Call it \u201cinsane.\u201d\nBut it won\u2019t be unpopular. Who will protest when the feds begin handing our money to \u201cmid- and low-income households\u201d?\nSimply put, The Keynesian Endgame is here... as the only way to avoid secular stagnation (which, for the uninitiated, is just another complicated-sounding, economist buzzword for the more colloquial \u201ceverything grinds to a halt\u201d) is for central bankers to call in the Krugman Kraken and go full-Keynes.\nRather than buying assets, central banks drop money on the street. Or even better, in a more modern and civilised fashion, credit our bank accounts! That, after all, may be more effective than buying assets, and would not imply the same transfer of wealth as previous or current forms of QE. Indeed, \u2018helicopter money\u2019 can be seen as permanent QE, where the central bank commits to making the increase in the monetary base permanent.\nAgain, crediting accounts does not guarantee that money will be spent \u2013 in contrast to monetary financing where the newly created cash can be used for fiscal spending. And in many cases, such policy would actually imply fiscal policy, as most central banks cannot conduct helicopter money operations on their own.\nSo again, the thing to realize here is that this has moved well beyond the theoretical and it's not entirely clear that most people understand how completely absurd this has become (and this isn't necessarily a specific critique of SocGen by the way, it's just an honest look at what's going on). At the risk of violating every semblance of capital market analysis decorum, allow us to just say that this is pure, unadulterated insanity. There's not even any humor in it anymore.\nYou cannot simply print a piece of paper, sell it to yourself, and then use the virtual pieces of paper you just printed to buy your piece of paper to stimulate the economy. There's no credibility in that whatsoever, and we don't mean that in the somewhat academic language that everyone is now employing on the way to criticizing the Fed, the ECB, and the BoJ.\nAnd it will end only one way...\nThe monetizing of state debt by the central bank is the engine of helicopter money. When the central state issues $1 trillion in bonds and drops the money into household bank accounts, the central bank buys the new bonds and promptly buries them in the bank's balance sheet as an asset.\nThe Japanese model is to lower interest rates to the point that the cost of issuing new sovereign debt is reduced to near-zero. Until, of course, the sovereign debt piles up into a mountain so vast that servicing the interest absorbs 40+% of all tax revenues.\nBut the downsides of helicopter money are never mentioned, of course. Like QE (i.e. monetary stimulus), fiscal stimulus (helicopter money) will be sold as a temporary measure that quickly become permanent, as the economy will crater the moment it is withdrawn.\nThe temporary relief turns out to be, well, heroin, and the Cold Turkey withdrawal, full-blown depression.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 12971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zionmarketresearch.com/report/hybrid-cloud-market", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:16Z", "digest": "sha1:TORNHZEV3M63KB3GM2MJQONNK6U6IR7U", "length": 3423, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.zionmarketresearch.com", "title": "Global Hybrid Cloud Market: Size, Share, Growth, Trends, Analysis and Forecast, 2016 \u2013 2024", "raw_content": "Global Hybrid Cloud Market\nHybrid Cloud Market: Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016\u20132024\nGlobal Hybrid Cloud Market: Overview\nThe hybrid cloud offers features of both public and private cloud computing services to the organization that provides flexibility to perform distinct functions within the same organization. Hybrid hosting is a configuration of hybrid cloud, it possesses various benefits such as cost efficiency, security, scalability, and flexibility. The combination of public and private cloud computing services is deployed for security and to achieve large spaces. Small and big enterprises use hybrid cloud deployment model to reduce their capital expenditures, enjoy disaster recovery, and enhance efficiency, storage, and backup.\nGlobal Hybrid Cloud Market: Growth Factors\nThe key advantage of installing hybrid cloud is that it provides flexibility of switching between the clouds and other economies in order to achieve a competitive edge over other companies, this is anticipated to drive the market. Hybrid cloud holds the ability to use multiple features of private and public cloud which leads to the reduction of cost of deployment, which positively enhances the market growth. Hybrid cloud is gaining popularity, thus it is widely adopted in the small and big size enterprises, which may fuel the hybrid cloud market in the near future. Due to the implementation of hybrid cloud the organizational productivity has improved thus expecting to augment the market. It does not require constant internet connectivity thus can be easily deployed in the small organizations. However, major concerns regarding privacy & security and data compliance issues are hindering the global hybrid cloud market to some extent.\nGlobal Hybrid Cloud Market: Segmentation\nThe hybrid cloud market is segmented on the basis of verticals, delivery model, and type. Based on verticals, the market is fragmented into consumer goods and retail, government and public sector, media and entertainment, banking financial services and insurance, healthcare and life sciences, research and consulting services, telecommunication, information technology, and others. The delivery model is categorized into the platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, and software as a service. Depending on type segment, the hybrid cloud market is segregated into hybrid cloud software, hybrid cloud service, and hybrid cloud hardware.\nGlobal Hybrid Cloud Market: Regional Analysis\nThe largest share of the hybrid cloud market is held by the North America; the growth in this region is mainly attributed to the presence of world\u2019s leading technology companies, growing automation demand from industrial & business sector, and easy access to hybrid cloud networks. 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Net, Cloudcontrol, and Dell.\nGlobal Hybrid Cloud Market: Regional Segment Analysis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 10082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www2.fundsforngos.org/latest-funds-for-ngos/applications-open-for-japan-foundations-grant-program-for-enhancing-people-to-people-exchange/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:11Z", "digest": "sha1:PS25BJ2RNLFGBXBN7RKRXWE2LDPPYQTM", "length": 1362, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www2.fundsforngos.org", "title": "Applications Open for Japan Foundation\u2019s Grant Program for Enhancing People-to-People Exchange!", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Latest Funds for NGOs, Call for Proposals and Call for Applications / Applications Open for Japan Foundation\u2019s Grant Program for Enhancing People-to-People Exchange!\nApplications Open for Japan Foundation\u2019s Grant Program for Enhancing People-to-People Exchange!\nThe Japan Foundation is inviting applications for its Grant Program for Enhancing People-to-People Exchange which is designed to expand the bases for exchange and to promote understanding and friendship among the people in Japan and other Asian countries, particularly ASEAN countries.\nGrants are provided to successful exchange projects at grassroots and regional level conducted by Japan-based organizations.\nMaximum 1.5 million JPY\nThe grant can cover portions of the following categories.\nTravel expense (international and domestic travel)\nOrganizations based in Japan are eligible.\nGrants programs offered by the Japan Foundation\u2019s overseas offices are available for applicants from ASEAN countries. Please contact the Japan Foundation\u2019s offices in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia for more information.\nExchange projects at grassroots or regional levels which are conducted in one (or more than one) of the ten ASEAN countries or in Japan.\nFor more information, please visit https://grant-fellowship-db.jfac.jp/en/people-to-people/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 15736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://xoxoafterdark.com/2014/10/08/york-comic-con-giveaway-sweepstakes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BYM2EXTXBJUVJACGQR2QPOBAG5TMB3RJ", "length": 326, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "xoxoafterdark.com", "title": "New York Comic Con Giveaway Sweepstakes! | XOXO After Dark", "raw_content": "New York Comic Con Giveaway Sweepstakes!\nIf you can\u2019t make it to NYCC this year, don\u2019t worry! You can still win some of the great books we\u2019re giving away at the show.\n4 winners will be chosen at random and will win 3 random books from the list. Ends 10/31/14.\nTo enter, please click HERE and follow the instructions as listed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 1516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://xpatloop.com/search?query=micro%20dramas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:18Z", "digest": "sha1:OGJYGX4CTN5KZGVS4F7O4WTRSFTDGWLG", "length": 634, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "xpatloop.com", "title": "Search - XpatLoop.com", "raw_content": "Video: Hungary\u2019s First Micro Theater Launched In Szimpla Kert\n'Sheltering Sky', Mupa, 28 May\n3 result(s) for micro dramas\nBudapest Micro Theatre\nThe \u201cmicro dramas\u201d will run in Szimpla Kert every Tuesday and Thursday between 5 and 7 p.m. During each performance period, five dramas will be performed in five different spaces. Free admission.\nBudapest Micro, an independent theater company, has announced that it will start performing short dramas at the downtown ruin pub Szimpla Kert, in both English and Hungarian.\nThe return of a successful double-act: Bernardo Bertolucci and Vittorio Storaro. In English, with Hungarian subtitles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 4488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://yesimyuva.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:42Z", "digest": "sha1:BGEHKH524QOVP2IVSXJYEMIOHJIIRUPN", "length": 582, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "yesimyuva.com", "title": "YESIM YUVA \u2014 Yogateacher, Model, Actress", "raw_content": "Hello, thank you very much for visiting my blog. I am here to share some stories of my life with you. Some of them are more personal, some more informative. I just let it flow and see what comes out when I write. My passion for traveling and experiencing other countries and cultures gets bigger and bigger. Traveling opened up my horizon to life and I am more relaxed now. When friends and family keep telling me that I am less stressed and that I have changed, I guess there must be some truth in it. I also believe than rather changing, I am coming back to my roots. YES I aM. :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ymcacentralflorida.com/get-involved/give-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:08Z", "digest": "sha1:6YNYOVJX5W5Z3G5O7F2A5EOMNFQX44N5", "length": 3023, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "ymcacentralflorida.com", "title": "Give to the YMCA YMCA of Central Florida", "raw_content": "Give to the Y Today\nWhen you give to the Y, your gift will have a meaningful, enduring impact right in your own neighborhood.\nWe believe that lasting personal and social change can only come about when we all work together. That\u2019s why, at the Y, strengthening community is our cause.\nAt the Y, no child, family or adult is turned away. 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We\u2019re wrapping up a fun-filled summer here at the Y\u2014with nearly 13,000 summer program participants, 19,100 summer campers and over 6,000 youth sports participants. It\u2019s an honor to be a second home for so many families, including those who became members during our No Child Drowns initiative this summer, which gave a portion of each membership fee to provide 4,504 swim lessons to children in need in our community. 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His most popular and notorious act is breaking the gopi's pots and stealing the butter, but how many of you know the hidden leadership campaign behind this very popular tale.\nWhy did Krishna steal butter?\nHe was the kid of the wealthiest family in the village, and off-course did not have a lack of food/butter at home. He is always represented as a plump-boy with a makhan-butter pot. So why did he engage in this mischief?\nIn the very popular song Krishna's tell is always \"Maiya Mori Mein Nahin Makhan Khayo...\", was he lying, or was it real?\nThe theory goes like this, he actually never ate the stolen butter. He was always well fed by his mother, and then he ran out to play.\nHowever, most of his friends from his village were poor. Butter was the primary wealth source of these Gopis's (the milkmaids), they churned butter and went to the big kingdom of Mathura to sell the butter and earn their livelihood.\nWhenever Krishna and his friends went out to play, the friends complained that they were hungry and weak. Krishna asked them to go home and have some milk and butter, and they mentioned they did not have much as it was reserved for selling.\nKrishna thought the situation to be so unfair. He tried to convince the villagers to ensure they fed the children of the village well, but no one paid heed to this small boy's advise. He took matters in his own hand and he visited the houses of different Gopis, took the butter and offered it to his friends, and that's how he was known as Makhan-Chor (butter thief).\nWith these acts, he got a lot of attention, and gradually he explained to the people :\n1. The first right to the milk is reserved for the calf.\n2. The second right to the milk is reserved to the children of the Gokul Village. Once the calves are done, feed the children of the village.\n3. The remaining unused dairy is then available to sell to Mathura kingdom.\nHe explained to the people, if the calves are happy, so will the cows. if the children are happy they will be better shepherds, and the overall environment of the village will be positive and happy,and the cows will produce more milk. 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Venice!", "raw_content": "Home Venice Beach Cultivating a Bright Future in Venice\nCultivating a Bright Future in Venice\nThe internship team: Garden Manager Natalie Flores, Jose, Veronica Martinez, Garden Manager Matt Finkelstein, and Raymar.\nThe Kiss the Ground Regenerative Garden sweeps around Beyond Baroque, from Venice Fire Station 63 to SPART Art, in the Old Venice Police Station on Venice Blvd. A dustbowl just a few years ago, the area is now a fertile ground where more than plants flourish.\nThe Kiss the Ground regenerative Garden at 685 Venice Blvd., Venice.\nA Venice-based organization, Kiss the Ground is planting seeds for future change.\n\u201cWe operate an urban demonstration garden promoting principals of regenerative agriculture and permaculture here in Venice,\u201d said Matt Finkelstein, a garden manager for Kiss the Ground. \u201cRegenerative agriculture is a new form of agriculture that actually works to combat climate change by sequestering carbon. We\u2019re showing what is done on a large scale, on a small scale to show the local community what they can be doing to have a positive impact on the world,\u201d Matt told Yo! Venice one sunny Friday afternoon.\nFocused on making a global impact, what Kiss the Ground cultivates on a local level is changing lives.\nKiss the Ground Garden Manager Matt Finkelstein.\n\u201cWe host regular events here at the garden, and we also received a grant from the City of Los Angeles to employ homeless youth in the garden. So we partnered with Safe Place for Youth (S.P.Y.), and we have three interns working with us. We are taking in youth from the streets who have no experience in this but are tremendously passionate about it, and we\u2019re giving them experience and essentially, employing them to work in the gardens with us,\u201d said Matt.\nOver 12-weeks, Kiss the Ground teaches the principals of permaculture and gives young people hands-on practice, \u201c\u2026it\u2019s just been incredible how they\u2019ve taken to it. They\u2019ve no experience in any of this kind of stuff, we turn them onto it, and they are so stoked and passionate about it, and they see a light forward, as we do too. It\u2019s a really cool thing,\u201d said Matt.\nVeronica Martinez and Jose both applied for the internship through S.P.Y.\n\u201cI wanted to do this because eventually, I want to own my own restaurant so I wanted to learn about gardening so that I can maintain my own garden for the restaurant,\u201d said Jose. \u201cI\u2019ve been learning a lot more than I expected to here and I like it. I\u2019ve gained a lot of knowledge that I didn\u2019t have before. Mainly, how important soil is and how much of a heavy impact it has.\u201d\nCultivating a bright future.\nFor Veronica, who had always been interested in plants and gardening, the internship has given her great community pride. \u201cIt\u2019s been, in a sense, eye-opening but it\u2019s also made me so proud of our community that all these kind of things are actually going on.\u201d\nVeronica used to work with AmeriCorps. \u201cWe did a lot of plant removal and trail maintenance, so now I like to be on the other side of that, planting things and harvesting things. Instead of just tossing it behind a bigger bush or mulching it, we can actually eat it and compost it, and continue the cycle.\u201d\nEducation and employment opportunities play a huge role in helping young people stay off the street.\n\u201cI love it! I\u2019ve met nothing but really cool people here. So, we\u2019ve been here for six weeks so far, every week we\u2019ve had people come from other places, we\u2019ve had a bunch of speakers come from places like Rainbow Acres and all these different places from in the community, so it\u2019s been really nice,\u201d said Veronica.\nRebuilding the cob oven.\nSplattered in mud, both Veronica and Jose had just finished rebuilding the garden\u2019s cob oven with help from the team at Quail Springs Permaculture. The week before, the group hosted a speaker from Venice High School\u2019s learning garden. After the talk, they visited the garden at the school which \u201cis just like, this wonderland of greenery. It\u2019s just like, really inspiring,\u201d said Veronica.\nKiss the Ground\u2019s Regenerative Garden has given Veronica hope for the future. \u201cI guess just realizing that people are trying to help the planet\u2026this world is so messed up and you think of yourself as such a small part. Just one person. Like what can you do? But, a community will make a bigger impact. Knowing that other people are doing it and you can just help them and actually help everybody around you. It\u2019s just really heartwarming.\u201d\nWhile neighbors are free to roam the garden and even harvest a handful of kale or rip up a beet or two, Matt says it\u2019s important you learn how to harvest. Ripping a kale leaf off the wrong way can kill the entire plant. And don\u2019t be too greedy, \u201cleave some for us, so we can continue to teach people,\u201d said Matt.\nVeronica Martinez and Jose in the garden.\n\u201cIt\u2019s majestic. This majestic feeling. Like, \u2018oh my gosh, this literally used to be dirt and a seed and now it\u2019s this big old plant. I kind of get hungry, to be honest. I just want to eat it,\u201d said Veronica, laughing as she inspected a small crop of Swiss chard.\nVisit the Kiss the Ground regenerative Garden at 685 Venice Blvd., Venice. Find out more at online at www.thesoilsstory.com.\nKiss the Ground to Stop Climate Change | March 30, 2017 at 7:47 am\n[\u2026] Read more about how Kiss the ground is helping homeless youth here. 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Let me know how much you'd need for them.\nTags: opinions wanted, projects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00122.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://12cpbarristers.co.uk/blog/revised-experts-practice-direction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4SYK3CNDJQP5V6FLN7MZNLPHKKFTMZTM", "length": 1743, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "12cpbarristers.co.uk", "title": "12 CP Barristers | Family Law | Revised Experts Practice Direction", "raw_content": "Revised Experts Practice Direction\nThere has been a change to the Practice Direction 25B. From now on only recognised, experienced and accredited professionals will meet the criteria of being \u201cexperts\u201d for the purposes of family court proceedings. It is perhaps understandable that at some stage the Courts would set the qualification criteria for experts to be involved in the family courts and indeed in decision making over children\u2019s lives.\nThe new standards mean that experts now have to meet the following criteria \u2013\n\u2022 They have to have knowledge appropriate to the Court case they are being asked to deal with\n\u2022 They have to have been active in the area of work or practice they are concerned with and have sufficient experience of the issues relevant to the case in hand\n\u2022 They have to be either regulated, or accredited, by a registered body where this is appropriate\n\u2022 They have to have relevant qualifications and received appropriate training and\n\u2022 They have to comply with safeguarding requirements.\nThe above list is comprehensive and will (I would assume) only be applied where a \u201cnew\u201d or untried expert is being suggested by any party. The difficulty may be that the list provides Court with not only a safeguard but a restriction on who may now be an expert.\nThe knock on effect may be that this will limit the introduction of any new, and as yet untried experts, in to the family court arena: and thus with the numbers of experts continuing to diminish it will limit still further the experts we will have access to in the future.\nOn the up side the list above does provide a useful template for those who wish to critique the choice of any expert and analyse their CV, \u201cexpertise\u201d and appropriateness to any particular case.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2899, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://23sthoughts.com/?page_id=49088", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:21Z", "digest": "sha1:4BULOO67VZIRKYDT5EBOG7HKAZ2DR53P", "length": 395, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "23sthoughts.com", "title": "NBA Library \u2013 23's Thoughts", "raw_content": "Welcome to the NBA wing of the 23\u2019s Thoughts Image Library.\nBelow is a gallery of some of the best images that I\u2019ve captured representing what the NBA gaming scene is all about. It\u2019s a mixture of both the NBA 2K and NBA Live series.\nTo view the complete library, navigate back to the menu bar and go to Image Library. Follow the menu drop down to navigate to your desired library page and enjoy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 3732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 265.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://27.www.unseenamsterdam.com/photographers/charlie-rubin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BR6MNZGZBV5HEUUEC4CLDG5JMTF6LFLU", "length": 457, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "27.www.unseenamsterdam.com", "title": "Charlie Rubin | Unseen", "raw_content": "Charlie Rubin (b. 1986, USA) grew up and completed his studies in New York, recently obtaining his MFA in Photography at Parsons New School for Design.\nIn 2013 Rubin was selected for the Foam Talent Call and in 2014 participated in the Wassaic Project Residency in New York. He has participated in a host of exhibitions and installations, many of which were New York-based, and has also six artist books. 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Though our training was French, all the dishes we offer reflect the cuisines of the West Coast with all of its Mexican, Italian and Asian influences\u2026.and our trips to New Orleans.\nWe\u2019re locally owned and operated by people who have lived, cooked and served on the coast for 30 years. Jean-Marc commutes from Astoria, OR. KC, Beau, Ernie, Brenda and Betty live in Long Beach. Combined we have over 125 years of restaurant experience; almost all of it \u201con the job\u201d only one member of the staff attended a culinary school (we kid them). 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Feel free to share these quotes and sayings on Facebook, Pinterest, Tumblr & Twitter or any of your favorite social networking sites.\nDemocracy is like three oxen pulling a plough. The oxen are the independent powers, but you have to walk in the same direction; otherwise, you cannot plough and that is what was happening in Colombia. One ox was walking in one direction, the other in another direction, so the democracy was not working. ---->>>\nGood friends don't have to visit each other every day. ---->>>\nI have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America.\nUribe and I have very good relations. I owe him loyalty, I admire him, he did great things for our country, and I think that because of what he did, I can now concentrate on different issues, different from what he concentrated on. ---->>>\nI remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions. ---->>>\nColombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market. ---->>>\nIt's in the interest of the U.S. to maintain a strong democracy in Colombia. ---->>>\nEurope would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe. ---->>>\nTen years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days. ---->>>\nName: Juan Manuel Santos\nJuan Manuel Santos Calder\u00f3n (Spanish: [xwan ma\u02c8nwel \u02c8santos kalde\u02c8\u027eon]; born 10 August 1951), GColIH is the 32nd and current President of Colombia and sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. 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(Nov. 4, 2013) \u2014 From birth to age eight is a critical time for brain development, and states need to invest more in kids during that window of time, according to a report released Nov. 4 by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.\nDelaware is recognized as a state that has heeded the importance of that time frame: It issued a state strategic plan for an early childhood system last year.\n\u201cWe know that so much brain architecture is created and so much development is happening in those first eight years that we need a professional work force who understands and knows how to help those things along,\u201d said Janice Barlow of Kids Count in Delaware, who adds that the points in the plan are still being carried out.\nThe report\u2019s statistics show that 43,000 Delaware children up to age eight live in low-income households, and financial instability is linked to below-average school readiness by kindergarten time. High-quality preschool focuses not only on education but also social, emotional and physical health.\nBarlow said the whole way of thinking about the early years is undergoing a change: Daily care isn\u2019t just \u201cbabysitting.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s having parents understand that instead of looking for care for my child, it\u2019s looking for quality care,\u201d she stated.\nThe report, \u201cThe First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success,\u201d is at AECF.org.\nPrevious story Suit filed by Muslim escorted from event\nNext story Minnesota has demographics of garbage", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 330.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://abcparis.com/franklin-d-roosevelt-paris/budget-hotels-cheap-flights/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:42Z", "digest": "sha1:ENLH2GVVHGGSPKUISN5IWGHGQFNFOOBV", "length": 103, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "abcparis.com", "title": "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paris ? | ABC Paris - Cheap flights budget hotels", "raw_content": "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paris ?\nBudget hotel best price guaranteed Franklin D. Roosevelt, Paris, France.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://abortionmethods.net/how-to-do-an-abortion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLP455RTZPX7LOO464NXR32ZXVMYVE7Z", "length": 5872, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "abortionmethods.net", "title": "How To Do An Abortion - Abortion Methods", "raw_content": "How to do an abortion? Abortion Procedures\nI am pregnant and want to abort \u2013 what now?\nNot every woman is happy about a positive pregnancy test. Some are forced to stop the pregnancy. Our web site abortionmethods.net answers all important questions about abortion in this article. If you are ready, we can start to take a look the details from below.\nUnwanted pregnant! What now?\nOur subject is unwanted pregnant now. The pregnancy test is positive. Not every woman is happy about it, perhaps because a baby does not fit in with the life plan, the relationship with the child\u2019s father is not stable enough, or there are medical reasons against pregnancy. But what to do if you are unintentionally pregnant? Often a conversation helps with a trusted person, a good friend or a family member. Perhaps you will receive unimaginably more support than you would have thought. If you prefer to talk anonymously about your situation, you can choose one of the many pregnancy counseling centers. Here you will be advised and accompanied by expert staff. And do not worry, the advice is for you for free. Nobody else needs to tell you that you can get advice.\nThere are those moments in life that you would want to erase immediately without batting an eyelid. If that were possible. The moment when two, instead of a strip, appear on the pregnancy test and \u201ctwo\u201d symbolizes what your body is now, in pairs, and the panic that is rising in you is a long way off from anything like that happiness. The moment you stare at the test again in disbelief and think that it can not be, that you were paying attention, that it is actually impossible. That kind of moment.\nEvery year, 130,000 women decide to terminate their pregnancy in every single Europe country. But what comes to the woman when she has decided to abort the child?\nThe first step is to make an appointment for pregnancy conflict counseling. Also, the gynecologist can arrange such an appointment, if asked to do so. There are various counseling centers run by different providers.\nThis consultation is a basic prerequisite for a termination of pregnancy. It is only after a period of three days and with a certificate that the interview has taken place that it is possible to have abortion performed by a specialist gynecologist or clinic. \u201cAny woman who considers a termination of her pregnancy, must be advised in a counseling center,\u201d said doctor. \u201cThis (compulsory) pre-abortion counseling offers pro familia, helping girls and women to reflect and reflect on their decision to discontinue or continue their pregnancy.\nDemolition is not punishable if certain indicators are available (for example, if the woman can not get the child for health reasons). It is important to know: \u201cSince we have the counseling system in Europe, a termination of pregnancy up to the 12th week of pregnancy after a consultation (at a state recognized pregnancy conflict counseling center) is impunity,\u201d explains doctor. The consultation is therefore also not punishable by the termination.\nAn abortion can then be done in two ways: either surgically or medically (only until the 7th week).\nThe cost of a termination of pregnancy takes over the health insurance. This happens completely anonymously for adults and is not passed on to third parties (parents, for example, where you have family insurance). The doctor adds: \u201cIf the income of the woman considering a termination of pregnancy falls short of a certain sum, she can get a cost transfer slip with EVERY health insurance company. Since the costs of a termination of pregnancy are borne by the social welfare office, each health insurance company will be reimbursed by the social welfare office. \u201d\nKath, 25, has spoken with various women about her experiences and with this topic for this text.\nFive things to consider after making the decision:\nContact a counseling center or a gynecologist of your choice. Addresses and phone numbers of the jobs can be found on the Internet and in the phone book. The counseling is free, anonymous and the counselors are obliged to keep silence.\nDo not hurry. The decision and its consequences are only yours alone. You do not have to apologize or tell anyone if you do not want that. Nobody can force you to justify yourself for this decision.\nIf the consultation has been carried out, talk to your health insurance company early about a possible reimbursement. She will advise you and, if necessary, cover the costs of the procedure / medication.\nYou are not liable to prosecution.\n5. Try to stay away from websites and forums. Often these pages are just disguised propaganda sites of abortion opponents and you will sooner or later be confronted with them in the forums.\nI am unintentionally pregnant. Can not I take the pill afterwards?\nThe \u201cmorning after pill\u201d is an over-the-counter medicine that you can get at the pharmacy if you had unprotected sex around the time you ovulated. Male sperm can survive up to 5 days in the woman\u2019s uterus. This means that even with intercourse a few days before the actual ovulation, there is the possibility of becoming pregnant. The active ingredients contained in the \u201cmorning after pill\u201d delay the ovulation of the woman until fertilization can no longer take place. For the drug to work safely, it should be taken as much as possible within the first 12 hours after sexual intercourse. The longer you wait, the higher the likelihood that ovulation will occur and sperm will find their way to the egg. If the ovulation has already taken place, the \u201cmorning after pill\u201d can not work anymore. If you\u2019ve determined that you\u2019re pregnant through a pregnancy test, it\u2019s already too late for the \u201cmorning after pill,\u201d because the drug can not stop the pregnancy, so it\u2019s not an abortion pill.\nWe will go ahead with same major topic again on the other articles. Stay connected us.\nAbortion Abortion Methods", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 10537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://acml-egypt.com/LexisNexis.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:40Z", "digest": "sha1:CKDGCZJICDPW2VL4NQ5DRZZMGVO2B36I", "length": 1569, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "acml-egypt.com", "title": "LexisNexis", "raw_content": "LexisNexis\u00ae Website\nLexisNexis\u00ae is a leading global provider of content-enabled workflow solutions designed specifically for professionals in the legal, risk management, corporate, government, law enforcement, accounting, and academic markets. LexisNexis originally pioneered online information with its Lexis\u00ae and Nexis\u00ae services. 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Across the globe, LexisNexis provides customers with access to billions of searchable documents and records from more than 45,000 legal, news and business sources.\nTo help customers win in their own marketplace, LexisNexis delivers Total Solutions\u2014innovative products and services to address specific customer needs in order to improve productivity, increase profitability and stimulate growth.\nThrough risk and analytics solutions to assess risk, the company helps professionals verify identity, prevent fraud, comply with legislation, facilitate and secure commerce, conduct background screening and support law enforcement and homeland security initiatives.\nLexisNexis encompasses authoritative legal-publishing brands dating back to the 19th century including; Butterworths\u00ae in the United Kingdom, Canada, the Asia-Pacific region, Les Editions du Juris Classeur in France, and Martindale-Hubbell\u00ae and Matthew Bender\u00ae worldwide.\nLexisNexis Products", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 3826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://acpjc.acponline.org/Content/115/3/issue/ACPJC-1991-115-3-076.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:54Z", "digest": "sha1:FCHACG6O544FR5GJ2PYV7OT6WN3U65XA", "length": 4127, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "acpjc.acponline.org", "title": "1991 - Very-low-calorie diet for obese type 2 diabetic patients | 1991 Nov-Dec : Volume 115, Number 3, Page 76 | ACP Journal Club Archives", "raw_content": "Very-low-calorie diet for obese type 2 diabetic patients\nWing RR, Marcus MD, Salata R, et al. Effects of a very-low-calorie diet on long-term glycemic control in obese type 2 diabetic subjects. Arch Intern Med. 1991 Jul;151:1334-40.\nTo determine whether a very-low-calorie diet promotes short- and long-term glycemic control when added to a behavior modification program for obese, type 2 diabetic patients.\nRandomized, controlled trial of 20 weeks duration with follow-up 1 year later.\nNot described.\n10 men and 26 women, age 35 to 70 years, who were 30% or more above ideal body weight and who had type 2 diabetes but no evidence of liver, renal, or heart disease were enrolled. 33 patients (92%) completed all assessments.\nPatients were randomly assigned to either behavior modification (BT, n = 19), which served as the control, or to behavior modification plus very-low-calorie diet (VLCD, n = 17). BT was conducted at weekly meetings with groups of 8 to 10 patients and included instruction on diet, exercise, and behavior modification. Both groups started and ended the 20-week intervention period with a 4200 to 6300 J/d (1000 to 1500 cal/d) diet, but the VLCD group switched during weeks 4 to 12 to 1680 J/d (400 cal/d) of lean meat, fish, fowl, and occasionally a commercial dietary supplement. Both groups were assessed at baseline, at the end of the 20-week intervention period, and 1 year after its completion.\nFasting blood glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin, lipids, and weight.\nFasting blood glucose fell in the VLCD group from 14.2 mmol/L at baseline to 7.7 mmol/L at 20 weeks and to 10.4 mmol/L at 72 weeks compared with values of 12.8, 9.3, and 13.5 mmol/L for the BT group. Decreases in fasting blood glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin were greater for the VLCD group at 72 weeks (P = 0.002 and 0.001, respectively). Average weight loss over the 20-week intervention period was 18.6 kg in the VLCD group compared with 10.1 kg in the BT group; the average weight loss (8.6 kg vs. 6.8 kg, respectively) and lipid values did not differ from baseline to follow-up 1 year later.\nA very-low-calorie diet for 8 weeks added to a behavior modification program did not lead to additional long-term weight loss but produced an improvement in glycemic control that was sustained for 1 year after treatment.\nSources of funding: The American Diabetes Association and the National Institutes of Health.\nAddress for article reprint: Dr. R. Wing, The Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, 3811 O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213.\nThe high rate of recidivism following weight-losing programs was predictably confirmed in this study of considerably overweight type 2 diabetic patients. This study also showed the immediate improvement in glycemic control that follows calorie-restricted diets. A third clinically important effect was the sustained improvement in glycemic control in the VLCD group a year after the intervention. This relative improvement remained despite a 10-kg average weight gain during the same period.\nThe authors offer a number of explanations for this phenomenon, including improved insulin action or secretion, or both, which were supported by other studies and by their observation of improved insulin secretion in the VLCD group. One possible explanation discounted by the authors is that the caloric intake of the VLCD group may have been less than that of the BT group (data not collected in the study). An enhanced energy-efficiency period (lasting for months to years) has been shown in the post-obese state that could contribute to this phenomenon (1-3).\nThis study is generally methodologically sound. 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It\u2019s that same positive outlook that he\u2019s been maintaining during his current recovery.\nAlways wearing a big smile, Gyorko has enjoyed sharing stories about visits with his family, and how the team at Acuity has quickly become an extension of his family. \u201cI love this place,\u201d says Gyorko.\nAcuity Specialty Hospital of Ohio Valley is currently pursuing the Disease Specific Respiratory Failure Program Certification offered by the Joint Commission. Obtaining this certification will set a standard of excellence and will assist in maintaining a consistently high-level of quality of care provided to our patients.\nGyorko has been an active participant in this program. While Gyorko has been a patient at Acuity, he\u2019s received physical, occupational, and speech therapy. 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The objective of this competition was to give a platform to bring out the analytical and real world marketing skills and creativity among business students and also to prepare the marketing major student to compete in various national competitions as most of the national level contests prefer marketing major student as participants. The competition was divided into three rounds. The first round of \u201cFuture Marketers\u2019 2011\u201d held on September 25, 2011; which was composed of general marketing quiz for the participating teams and seven qualifying teams from first round were selected for the second round. In the second round on September 27, 2011; the teams had to analyze a marketing related case and create slides regarding the case within the span of one hour. The teams then had to present their presentation in front of the judges and audiences in the auditorium. 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From left: Ricky Brown of Low Moor; Maurice St. Clair, Jr., of Rockbridge County; and Christion Burks of Clifton Forge. Maurice and Christion both served as speakers for the event, which took place during Black History Month. Maurice was the voice for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, while Christion spoke about his grandfather, the late George Goode Jr., who served as the first African-American mayor of Clifton Forge. The three DSLCC students, as well as DSLCC staff and faculty members Dr. Ben Worth, Gloria Smitka and Chris Shiraki, also participated in a walk prior to the service. Participants read short passages from the writings of civil rights leaders and music was provided by choirs from several different churches in the area. DSLCC sponsors a Multicultural Club, which was organized recently with the purpose of promoting and environment of understanding all people of various cultures, ethnicity and backgrounds. 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Each unit of six weeks takes as its starting point a basic element of Christian faith, from the Ten Commandments to The Lord's Prayer. Designed as a small booklet to take home, this course has proven very popular as a means going deeper into our life as Christians, in both belief and practice. Recently we covered the sixth unit, \"The Eucharist\" and the seventh unit, \"The Bible\". We also read three additional books as a congregation, \"Being Christian\" and \"Being Disciples\" by Rowan Williams, and during Lent, Meg Warner's book, \"Abraham: A Journey through Lent\".\nFor children and youth we have Sunday School during the 10:30 worship service. A team of teachers uses a lectionary-based curriculum, including crafts, during the middle part of the service.\nThree to four All-Age Services at 10:30 are held throughout the year, involving the smallest children as well as older youth in worship on special themes, with a variety of music and liturgical styles.\nFamily and Congregational Retreats are usually offered in the autumn and Spring in places such as the Benedictine monastery of Subiaco, Montefalco and Bevagna, and Spello/Assisi. 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I think it\u2019s safe to say that even thought he show has been gone for two years, it hasn\u2019t lost its heart.\nAnd actually, with no goofy-bad auditions, the show feels like it\u2019s taking itself more seriously this time around, and that\u2019s a good thing. Let\u2019s get to the auditions.\nCrystal Alicea, 20, Winter Haven, Florida. We\u2019ve got a karaoke singer, which makes me think of all the way back to seasons 1 and 2 when people auditioning for Idol hadn\u2019t already had three contracts and been on The Voice. And it was good. She might not be the best vocalist, but for someone who has only done karaoke, her version of \u201cLay Me Down\u201d by Sam Smith was incredible. I\u2019d give that an A- easily and the judges give her the first golden ticket to Hollywood of the night.\nKristyn Harris, 23, McKinney, Texas. She was pretty nervous, but her version of \u201cI Wanna Be a Cowboy Sweetheart\u201d was pretty entertaining. Especially the yodeling. We don\u2019t get that too often on American Idol, so it was refreshing. I\u2019d give her a B+ for the audition. She got a yes from Luke, a no from Katy and a yes from Lionel. So that\u2019s enough for Hollywood.\nJonny Brenns, 18, St. Augustine, FL. Jonny pulled out an original song called \u201cBlue Jeans\u201d and he got a wow from Luke in the first three notes. The song was a little sleepy for an audition, but it was definitely a song and a performance you could hear on the radio tomorrow. I\u2019d like to hear him sing something with more power and the judges agree. They make him sing something else. I\u2019d give him a B- for the audition and an A for the original song. He gets his ticket to Hollywood after a no from Lionel but yeses from Luke and Katy.\nRicky Manning, 22, West Hollywood. Another original song and another mediocre audition. Some of these people are good songwriters, but not great performers. And that\u2019s fine for people in clubs and whatever, but not usually for American Idol. I give that audition a C but the judges liked it much more than I did. He gets three yeses and his ticket to Hollywood, which is just down the road from where he lives.\nEffie Passero, 26, Modesto, CA. Finally we get a songwriter who can also perform. I don\u2019t know what the song was called, but it was an incredible song and so was her audition. She\u2019s a natural musical. That was definitely an A+ audition and thankfully an instant ticket to Hollywood.\nTyler Gordon, 25, Athens, IL. Well this guy had a lot of confidence for such an awful, F- audition. No surprise he doesn\u2019t get his pass to Hollywood.\nJohnny White, 18, Hickory, NC. I think I was supposed to like this audition based on the backstory and the way they worked up to it, but I\u2019ve seen at least 10 better versions of \u201cIt\u2019s a Man\u2019s Man\u2019s Man\u2019s World.\u201d Luckily Lionel seemed to think it was a bit too much too and asked him to sing another song. I thought it was just me. I\u2019d give the whole thing a C but the judges decided to give him a shot. He\u2019s heading off to Hollywood.\nCaleb Hutchinson, 18, Dallas, GA. He isn\u2019t my kind of a musician, but he is very talented. He has a very mature voice for 18 and his guitar skills are also solid. If I put aside my distaste for the style, I\u2019d give the audition an A. And the judges liked it, so he\u2019s off to Hollywood Week.\nShannon O\u2019Hara, 17, Mooresville, NC. She was actually a bit surprising. Her voice was stronger and more mature than I thought it would be. Adele is tough to take on, but she held her own. I liked it. I\u2019d give it a solid A. The judges liked her and sent her off to Hollywood.\nAmelia Hammer Harris, 26, Lexington, KY. She had quite the story. I hope they fact-checked her because those sounded like some tall-tales. I\u2019m sure they\u2019re true, but I admit it gave me pause. I loved the her audition song choice. I mean who goes on American Idol and pulls out \u201cGimme Shelter\u201d by the Rolling Stones? So great. Her voice is soulful and confident and has a unique style. I\u2019d give the audition a B+ and the judges give her the ticket to Hollywood.\nRyan Zamo, 28, Pasadena, CA. No.\nMilo and Julian Sposato, 17, Malibu, CA. These twins seem like natural musicians. The audition was a bit sloppy, though, and I do think that Julian is the better vocalist. This would hard to judge because I\u2019d say Julian is an A performer and Milo is a B, but I think they\u2019d both deserve a spot in Hollywood. And the judges agree. They get their golden tickets.\nLes Greene, 27, Baltimore, MD. Les needed to pull it back a bit, but his version of \u201cA Change Gonna Come\u201d was full of soul and emotion. I think he could do some great things, though, so I\u2019d give it an A- and the judges send him off to Hollywood with three yeses.\nMaddie Zahm, 19, Boise, ID. Maddie is an incredible singer with such a beautiful energy. She has a unique sound, and a perfect pitch. She is definitely one of the best auditions to date. I give her an easy A+ and the judges gave her an easy pass to Hollywood. She\u2019s so so good.\nWhat did you think of the night\u2019s auditions? Who were your favorites? Also, if you\u2019re curious to know if any of your favorites from tonight or any other night make it onto the Top 24 and beyond, be sure to check out our American Idol 2018 Top 24 and Top 14 Spoilers.\nTonight On American Idol 2018: Auditions Continue On ABC\nTonight On American Idol 2018: Auditions Head Back to LA, Nashville, & More\nAmerican Idol 2018 Auditions: Episode 4 Recap \u2013 American Idol Net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 7216, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://americanlandlord.com/state-laws-for-security-deposits/south-dakota-security-deposit-laws/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:06Z", "digest": "sha1:72K27FGJQSX567NQGX354WKBHXJVFHUG", "length": 542, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "americanlandlord.com", "title": "South Dakota Security Deposit Laws - American Landlord", "raw_content": "South Dakota Security Deposit Laws\nSouth Dakota Security Deposit Limit\nThe equivalent of one month\u2019s rent may be collected as security. Special circumstances requiring a higher deposit may be permissible if it\u2019s clear that there is an increased risk for damage to the premises.\nThe landlord must return the deposit within two weeks and tell the tenant the reasons for any deductions. The tenant may request a written accounting of the deductions. 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This road was the only county route in Santa Barbara. This freeway is part of SR 1.[1]\nFor the sequence to the County Road Number No.20, See California County Routes/S/20\n\u2191 County Road S20\nRetrieved from \"http://americanroads.wikia.com/wiki/California_County_Routes_in_zone_S?oldid=4451\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amillionmilesfromanywhere.blogspot.com/2013/08/an-update-on-tube-riders-revenge.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:07Z", "digest": "sha1:JXZSPWNMK4FDOE4JUF52NMQ5JWOQXKH6", "length": 1407, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "amillionmilesfromanywhere.blogspot.com", "title": "A Million Miles from Anywhere: An update on Tube Riders: Revenge", "raw_content": "An update on Tube Riders: Revenge\nI've been writing like a pack mule these last two months, 70,000 words in July and now 73,000 in August, the two biggest months of my entire life by some distance. I've had barely any time to promote the books already out and my sales have dropped off a cliff. However, Tube Riders: Revenge, the book I wasn't even planning to start until September (oh, the pointlessness of making plans, haha) is in the closing stages. I'm sitting at around 120,000 words, and I'm hoping to finish it in the next week. That's right, the next week. I can't guarantee it, but it's looking like it'll wrap in about 15,000 words, which is only 2k a day. Easy ...\nAfter that, I'm going on a short vacation, and when I get back I will be jumping on the editing treadmill to get both Exile and Revenge out as soon as possible. I'm not just doing this for the readers, I'm doing this for me, because I really want to see these two books out of the door. They're long, and they've taken up the vast majority of my free time for the last year. I've become a bit of a hermit, I've put on far too much weight (I'm not joking, like 4kg, haha) and I really want to see the Tube Riders story, at least this part of it, over. I'm right up there in the dying embers, and its great. Cool stuff is happening, and the end is in sight.\nAn update on the Tube Riders series\nHead of Words paperback now available", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 5341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2017/sep/28/us-immigration-changes-you-might-have-missed-all-h/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:04Z", "digest": "sha1:JQHN5ZCI2PDEEH6DRO2VDYPEAFRZIVBN", "length": 3172, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "amsterdamnews.com", "title": "US immigration changes you might have missed in all the hullaballoo | New York Amsterdam News: The new Black view", "raw_content": "US immigration changes you might have missed in all the hullaballoo\nIn what can only be called the maddening crowd of immigration protests and discussions on whether Democrats should make a deal with the devil and the details of such, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has gone ahead and quietly made changes that will have an impact on U. S. employers seeking to hire temporary non-agricultural workers, on Sudanese immigrants who are here on Temporary Protected Status and on some immigrants who previously did not have to be interviewed before adjusting their status.\n(1) The USCIS says it is no longer accepting petitions from U. S. employers seeking to hire temporary non-agricultural workers under the one-time increase to the Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 H-2B cap announced in July.\nUSCIS has stopped accepting petitions and is rejecting any FY 2017 H-2B cap-subject petitions received after Sept. 15 because the agency says it has received a total request of 13,534 workers.\nAdditionally, agency officials say it is committed to protecting U.S. workers, so petitioning employers are now required to attest, under penalty of perjury, that their business would likely suffer irreparable harm if they could not hire all their requested H-2B workers before the end of the fiscal year. Some employers were also required to conduct a fresh round of recruitment efforts for U.S. workers before being allowed to petition for additional foreign workers. Petitions that have been submitted but are not approved by USCIS before Oct.1 will be denied, and any associated fees will not be refunded.\n(2) Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke has determined that conditions in Sudan no longer support its designation for Temporary Protected Status. TPS for Sudanese will now end officially Nov. 2, 2018.\nCurrent beneficiaries of Sudan\u2019s TPS designation seeking to extend their TPS status must re-register and will be allowed one year to prepare for and arrange their departure from the United States or to apply for other immigration benefits for which they might be eligible.\n(3) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will begin expanding in-person interviews for certain immigration benefit applicants whose benefit, if granted, would allow them to get a green card.\nThese categories include the following:\n\u2022 Adjustment of status applications based on employment (Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status).\n\u2022 Refugee/asylee relative petitions (Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition) for beneficiaries who are in the United States and are petitioning to join a principal asylee/refugee applicant.\nPreviously, applicants in these categories did not require an in-person interview with USCIS officers for their application for permanent residency to be adjudicated. Beyond these categories, USCIS is planning an incremental expansion of interviews to other benefit types.\nThis change complies with Trump Executive Order 13780, \u201cProtecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States.\u201d\nUS immigration fees could go up by the fall\n32BJ responds to USCIS bid to end temporary protected status for Haitians", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://andrewscompanies.com/webdesign/websites.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:51Z", "digest": "sha1:KUHFC3QE2EYSZFJ3IPFOY2U3MH6QTUF3", "length": 1373, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "andrewscompanies.com", "title": "Andrews Companies Incorporated - Dynamic Websites", "raw_content": "Dynamic web sites are much more than just a simple 'billboard on the Internet.' While web sites create an impression of your company in the minds of potential customers, they also can be a very useful tool in helping to improve service to existing customers.\nFor example, in the normal course of doing business you might find you need to provide your customers, suppliers or business partners with information contained in your company's files or databases. For some employers, a great deal of their employees' time is consumed by simply having to phone, fax or mail this information - often the same information - repeatedly, wasting valuable time and money. A dynamic web site can answer that problem, as well as many others!\nIn addition to, and often in conjunction with, our ability to design web sites, our skills also include the ability to create dynamic Intranets (special websites that you and your employees can access only from computers in your office) and dynamic Extranets (special websites that only you and your employees can access via the Internet, protected by passwords and other security measures). Both of these specialized types of sites help you and your employees share vital information swiftly and securely.\nContact Us and let us build a dynamic website solution that increases sales, maximizes profits and lowers both overhead and service costs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://angelaspizzaandrestaurant.com/restaurant-gift-cards/returning-gift-cards-subway/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4RTH2YMCUCEGVICKKLCAUXZPB76ZDNSH", "length": 1790, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "angelaspizzaandrestaurant.com", "title": "Returning gift cards Subway - Gift Cards Store", "raw_content": "Returning gift cards Subway\nSubway is one of the most popular restaurant chains in the world. Franchising is the main factor due to which the company so quickly grew up and was able to open its restaurants in almost all countries. The main difference between Subway and its competitors is that it positions itself as a healthy alternative chain compared to other restaurants. And as a rule, such a large chain has returning gift cards Subway and they will be discussed later in the article.\nSome information about returning gift cards Subway\nThe main purpose of returning gift cards Subway is to save on purchases in the restaurant chain of this company. So, for example, a card with a balance of $ 80 can be bought for only $ 74, thus saving 7% and it really looks like a bargain, especially if you are a regular customer of a chain of Subway restaurants.\nHow to Choose and Buy returning gift cards Subway\nIf you are a regular Subway customer, it is recommended that you select returning gift cards Subway with the highest possible balance, thus saving a significant amount of money. If you rarely go to Subway restaurants, then gift cards with a balance of $ 25 or $ 50 can come up to you. You can buy a Subway gift card on the official website of the company, as well as various distributors, which are very numerous on the Internet. Also, Subway provides an opportunity to buy e-gift cards, this option is more convenient in our time, besides it can be very simply sent to someone from your friends or family.\nHow to check returning gift cards Subway\nIn order to check returning gift cards Subway it is enough to go to the official website of the company and enter your personal cabinet. There is also the possibility to check the balance by the card number, as well as using the phone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://anglodeutsch.eu/tag/christmas-traditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OWQ3TTYGKPR4DJD3AYUGB2PE3HHPLGRK", "length": 19189, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "anglodeutsch.eu", "title": "Christmas traditions Archives - AngloDeutsch Blog", "raw_content": "Tag Archive: Christmas traditions\nNew Year\u2019s Eve Traditions in Britain and Germany: similarities and contrasts\nWhereas an earlier post discussed the differences in Christmas traditions in Britain and Germany, this one focuses on the New Year\u2019s Eve traditions.\nBoth countries certainly know how to enjoy New Year\u2019s Eve. That is the wonderful thing about living in Europe: the more diversity the better, as far as I am concerned.\nHappy New Year / Frohes Neues Jahr!\nBritain: New Year\u2019s Eve Germany: Silvester\nParty Time: When the old year is about to end and the new one is about to dawn, Britons celebrate like most people around the world. Parties and fun are the order of the day, often dressed-up for the occasion (e.g. dinner jackets and bow ties for men). They often go to the local pub to celebrate. Silvester Ball: Germans celebrate the change of year just as noisily and merrily at the \u201cSilvester Ball\u201d with the usual eating, drinking, dancing and singing. The 31st of December is the day of the Feast of Pope Sylvester I, the day that he died, hence the reason for the name in German.\nBig Ben and Auld Lang Syne: When Big Ben strikes midnight, people across the country cross arms and link hands with the nearest person, regardless of whether they are complete strangers or not, and sing \u201cAuld Lang Syne\u201d (by the Scottish poet Robert Burns), which refers to friendships and loves in \u201ctimes gone by\u201d. Sekt und Berliner: The focal point of the New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations is the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin and the midnight fireworks. Germans toast the New Year with a glass of Sekt (German sparkling wine) or champagne, as well as a doughnut (Berliner).\nEating and drinking: There is much drinking, especially of Champagne to see out the year and bring in the new one. Shortbread is a feature of Hogmanay, sometimes served with cheese. Whisky of course, if also part of the tradition in Scotland. Essen und Trinken: It is common to enjoy a Feuerzangenbowle or a Punch Bowl. This is a traditional German alcoholic drink where a rum-soaked sugarloaf is set on fire, allowing it to drip into mulled wine (e.g. red wine, oranges, lemons, cinnamon and cloves). Feuerzangenbowle is also the name of a very popular film from 1944. A recent tradition is Raclette, an electric grill which is used to melt individual portions of cheese on small trays (or use a grilling area on top) and each person adds their preferred combination of seasonings, vegetables and meats. Another option is cheese fondue. Raclette and fondue are both Swiss inventions which have been gratefully taken-up.\nFireworks: Fireworks used to be seen only during Bonfire or Guy Fawkes Night but this is beginning to change with fireworks being let out at the stroke of midnight. The fireworks are thought to drive away evil spirits. Feuerwerke: The absolute highlight of the New Year\u2019s Eve celebrations is the fireworks display at midnight. Almost every household comes out, no matter how cold, to let off fireworks, bangers and generally burn through a lot of money. It cannot be described; it has to be experienced.\nOther traditions: Parts of England: at midnight, people open the back door (to let the old year out) and ask the first dark haired man to be seen to come through the front door carrying salt, coal and bread. The following year everyone will have enough to eat (bread), enough money (salt) and be warm enough (coal).Hogmanay: the celebration is derived from a kind of oat cake that was traditionally given to children on New Year\u2019s Eve. Hogmanay can last a day or longer! There is also a tradition of \u201cfirst footing\u201d is observed. The first person to set foot in a home affects the fortunes of everyone who lives there. Strangers are thought to bring good luck.Nos Galan: the Welsh also let out the old year and bring in the new but if the first visitor is a woman and a man opens the door it is considered bad luck. The same applies if the first man to cross the threshold is a red head. Bleigie\u00dfen: Bleigie\u00dfen (pouring lead into cold water) involves telling fortunes by the shapes made by the molten lead.The 90th Birthday or Dinner for One: Many choose to spend \u201cSilvester\u201d at home watching \u201cDinner for One\u201d on TV. This is a short black and white comedy sketch from the 1920s has become the number 1 New Year\u2019s tradition in Germany. Although it was recorded in English, with British actors and has attained cult status in Germany (and elsewhere), it is largely unknown in English speaking countries. New Year\u2019s Eve without watching Dinner for One is simply not done.\nNew Year\u2019s Resolutions: New Year\u2019s resolutions are part and parcel of the new year process. They are basically things that people have resolved to do to make their lives better or different, the most common being to lose weight, to drink less, to stop smoking, etc. Neujahrsvors\u00e4tzen: As in Britain, this is an established tradition in Germany.\nHappy New Year! Frohes Neues Jahr / einen \u201cGuten Rutsch\u201d!\nrpinto_anglodeutsch 28/12/2014 European Union, Festive Season and New YearBritain, Christmas traditions, Germany, New Year's Eve 0 Read more >\nChristmas Traditions in Britain and Germany\nChristmas traditions are among the things which make life worthwhile. However, although we may not realise it, there are big similarities, as well as contrasts, even among Christian countries such as Germany and Britain. Countries \u201cborrow\u201d from each other and traditions evolve over time.\nWe December, the Festive Season is in full flow and Christmas is just around the corner, so I have compiled an overview of the main Christmas traditions in Britain and Germany. I have written this post in the form of a table to illustrate the similarities and contrasts.\nI am a bit surprised by the outcome. I always knew that there were many similarities but I have now realised just how much Britain has borrowed from Germany. However, each country has its own traditions, which is a wonderful thing. I enjoy Christmas and New Year regardless of which country I am celebrating in!\nAdvent Calendar: Advent marks the start of the Christmas season. Advent calendars allow a day by day count-down to Christmas day and are usually for children. They are usually made of cardboard and have 24 small windows or flaps, one of which is opened on each day leading up to Christmas. Although advent calendars are known, it is not much of a tradition to buy them and use them in Britain, though this may yet change in the future (see Christmas Tree below). Adventskalendar: Advent calendars are a Germany invention and are a tradition which is very much part and parcel of Christmas. It was originally designed to involve children in the festivities leading up to Christmas. All households have advent calendars in the form of cards, books and surprise boxes with numbered windows containing pictures, chocolates, toys, etc. It is not unusual children to have several advent calendars, which they open one window per day. Adults often make their own advent calendars made of little sacks and fill them with themes such as teas, chocolates, etc. All German households have them.\nAdvent Wreath: The advent wreath is traditionally a circle to symbolise eternal life. It is usually in the form of four red candles and sometimes a fifth, central candle is lit on Christmas day. The advent wreath is known but rarely used in Britain. Adventskranz: Each household makes its own advent wreath using a ring of fir branches or buys one. The first candle is lit on the first Advent (the Sunday closest to 30th of November or St Andrew\u2019s day) and the last candle is lit on the fourth Sunday. All German households have them.\nSaint Nicholas\u2019 Day: This is the day when Saint Nicolas comes and provides a small present for children that have been good during the year. This wonderful tradition, for children small and large, is not a tradition in Britain. I predict that this will change in the next 5-10 years. Nikolaustag: Nicholaustag is always on the 6th of December and every child cleans their shoes/boots (real ones) place them by their door during the previous evening. Der Nikolaus brings small gifts, such as sweets, chocolates and perhaps a small toy. It is a wonderful way to kick off the Festive Season and breaks up the long wait until the 24/25 of December. German households typically follow this tradition, children or no.\nChristmas Tree: This is the essential decoration in all homes. The tree is usually an artificial one and they can be remarkably similar to the real thing, but obviously much easier to take out, decorate and pack-away to be reused the following year. The decorations are usually in the form of colourful fairy lights, tinsel and baubles or ornaments. The look is to make them bright, colourful and diverse. Christmas trees became popular in 1841 when Prince Albert (Queen Victoria\u2019s husband, a German) brought a Christmas tree over from Germany. The tradition of decorating Christmas Trees became established. The Royal Family was photographed around the tree and voila, a new Christmas tradition was established in Britain. Christmas trees are taken down on the 5th of January. The large Christmas tree on Trafalgar Square is an annual gift from the people of Oslo. Tannenbaum: Christmas Trees are extremely important in German culture and are thought to have been first used during the Middle Ages. They are almost always real fir / spruce trees and great care is taken to select a nicely shaped tree. It is often put-up and decorated on Christmas Eve, though some start earlier. They are often decorated with tinsel, glass baubles, straw ornaments and sweets. Fairly lights are almost always white. Candles are often added and lit but watched over because of the risk of fire. Families often read the Bible and/or sing Christmas songs such as \u201cO Tannenbaum\u201d and \u201cStille Nacht\u201d (Silent Night). The presents are usually placed around the tree. The Tannenbaum is taken down either on New Year\u2019s Day or on January 6th (Three Kings\u2019 Day).\nChristmas Cards: Sending and receiving Christmas Cards is and remains a key element of Christmas in the digital age. People make the effort to send cards (traditional ones such as nativity scenes, Christmas trees, etc. or funny ones such as Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer) to friends and family. Households typically receive a large number of cards which form a key part of the Christmas decorations, usually on the walls. Weihnachtskarten: These are not very popular in Germany, though they are exchanged, for example in the business context. Unlike Britain, it is not unusual not to have cards on display in the home.\nHome decorations: In addition to Christmas cards, there will often be colourful decorations, which people hang in their homes about two weeks before Christmas. The decorations are usually made of paper or foil, often in the form of long garlands or strings, bells, etc. The predominant colours used are red (symbolising blood shed by Jesus), gold (one of the gifts to Jesus from the wise men) and green (evergreens or eternal life). British homes become much colourful and cheerful overnight. Innendekoration: Germans tend to decorate their homes in a less colourful manner. The predominant colour is while (symbolising purity and peace), though this is slowly changing. The main form is in the shape of Christmas triangles (Adventsbogen), which are often visible on more or less every available window of the home. Nativity scenes, hand-carved wooden nutcrackers (Nussknacker), pyramids (Weihnachtspyramiden) and other carved and painted smokers, arches, angels, etc. are much in evidence.\nExterior decorations: The trend is towards the American style external decorations with multi-coloured fairy lights and displays. Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe are also sometimes used to decorate homes or public buildings. The nationally famous external decorations are the Christmas lights in Oxford Street, London. Au\u00dfendekoration: In Germany the emphasis remains very much on homogeneous white fairy lights on trees, roofs, car ports, etc. In addition to strings, there are often fairy light nets around trees and shapes (reindeer, Father Christmas, etc.). The external decorations are increasingly more colourful over time.\nNativity play: Almost all primary schools a nativity play which is the story of Mary and Joseph as well as baby Jesus\u2019 birth in a stable, where he was visited by the Shepherds and Wise Men. All the parts are played by the children in front of proud parents. Krippenspiel: This is usually performed at Church during the services, but also in Kindergartens and Primary Schools.\nCarol Singing: Caroling, singing carols (songs about the birth of Jesus such as Silent Night, O Come all ye Faithful, etc.) in public places is a long-standing customs going back to the Middle Ages. In the past, the poor collected money from singing carols. People still go caroling from 21 December until Christmas morning to collect money but these days it is for all sorts of good causes. Sternsinger: The tradition of Sternsinger dates back to the 16th century but has now become a fundraising custom. The participants are youngsters dressed in costumes resembling the Three Kings that visited the baby Jesus, with one carrying a star. The Star Singers go from home to home on January 6 (Epiphany) singing carols and soliciting donations for charities.\nChristmas Market: Christmas markets were very popular until Oliver Cromwell banned the celebration of Christmas and the fashion died out. There has been no tradition of Christmas markets until recent years but they are rapidly growing in popularity in many cities. Weihnachtsmarkt: Christmas would simply not be Christmas without the Weihnachtsm\u00e4rkte. They date back the 14th Century and that people bought decorations, candles and toys. As soon as Advent begins, Christmas markets spring up everywhere like wild mushrooms in settlements small and large. The streets and squares are bustling with activity as adults and children listen to music, drink beer or hot mulled wine (Gl\u00fchwein) or eat gingerbread hearts, sugar-roasted almonds, crepes, cookies, stollen and all sorts of sweet things. Christmas tree decorations, seasonal items and handicrafts are also available.\nChristmas Eve This is the time when Father Christmas (Santa) comes, so children are usually very excited. They may leave mince pies (see below) and brandy for him and a carrot for the reindeer. They hang-up large Christmas stockings or pillowcases, so that Father Christmas can fill them with presents, but only if they have been good, of course. As in Germany, many attend midnight mass. HeiligabendChristmas Eve is a workday but businesses close early for the celebration of what is the most important day of the Advent in Germany. After the traditional Christmas meal (see below), families sing Christmas carols and exchange gifts, with children the focal point. German families, including less regular church-goers attend mass. The main service traditionally takes at midnight but it is not unusual for it to be earlier. Frohe Weihnachten!\nChristmas Day: This is the day when the presents are opened in Britain. When the children wake-up, they rush for their Christmas stockings or pillowcases, which hopefully were filled by Father Christmas. Normally they unwrap the presents before breakfast. Merry Christmas! Erster Weihnachtsfeiertag: This is the day to celebrate Jesus Christ\u2019s birth. Over time, it has evolved into a family-oriented celebration when shops are closed and people visit the extended family.\nQueen\u2019s Christmas Message: A key feature of Christmas is the Queen\u2019s Christmas Message to the country at 15:00. The Christmas Message is broadcast on radio, television and YouTube. It is widely anticipated and many families ensure that they listen to the Queen\u2019s Christmas Message. Weihnachtsansprache, Neujahrsansprache: There are two equivalents in Germany, though not particularly popular. The first is the Christmas Speech by the German President and the second the New Year\u2019s Speech by the German Chancellor. Neither is so established a tradition as the Queen\u2019s Christmas Message.\nChristmas Meal: The main meal is eaten at lunchtime/early afternoon on Christmas Day. It is nowadays roast turkey (previously roast beef or goose), and \u2018all the trimmings\u2019 such as carrots, peas and Brussel sprouts, stuffing and sometimes bacon and sausages, together with cranberry sauce and bread sauce. Weihnachtsessen: In Germany the typical Christmas meal is carp or Frankfurters with potato salad. It can also be goose, duck or some other roast accompanied by traditional fare such as apple and sausage stuffing, red cabbage and potato dumplings.\nChristmas Crackers: Christmas Crackers are extremely popular part of Christmas meals and are ubiquitous on Christmas Day. It is basically a colourfully decorated paper tube, which is twisted at both ends. Two people pull on each end of the cracker until it pops. It typically contains a paper crown, a token gift and a joke. Everyone willingly wears the paper crown as part of the Christmas meal. Weihnachtsknallbonbons: There is no equivalent in Germany.\nChristmas cake, pudding and mince piesChristmas pudding is a steamed brown pudding with raisins, nuts and cherries. It traditionally contained a \u201csix pence\u201d or a silver coin which brings good fortune to the lucky finder. Brandy may be poured over it and set alight. Mince pies are an important part of Christmas. They are small pies filled with minced fruit (e.g. raisins, cherries, citrus peel but certainly not meat!) nuts and spices (e.g. nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon). Christmas cake is a rich fruit cake covered with marzipan and icing. These are rarely baked at home as part of the preparations for Christmas. Christstollen, Kipferle, Lebkuchen, etc.: Baking is a key part of Christmas, with children also involved both at school and at home. Germans often bake beautifully decorated cookies (Pl\u00e4tzchen). Stollen, a fruited yeast bread, is the oldest and most famous Christmas treat but there are many others. Gingerbread is baked without yeast and is sweetened with honey and spices are added. Lebkuchen also takes the form of the edible witch\u2019s houses (Hexenhaus), also known as Hansel and Gretel\u2019s house (from Grimm\u2019s fairy tale). They are often made from scratch and beautifully decorated.\nBoxing Day: Boxing Day is celebrated on the day after Christmas (26 December) and it is a public holiday. It is called Boxing Day because churches placed an \u2018Alms Box\u2019 on Christmas Day for gifts for the poor. These Alms boxes were opened the day after Christmas, hence Boxing Day. Sport is increasingly to the forefront on Boxing day. Zweiter Weihnachtsfeiertag: The second Christmas day, as it is known in Germany, and is typically a quieter time. It is a day for peaceful contemplation, testing out the new toys and gadgets, reading all the new books, etc. and basically relaxing.\nrpinto_anglodeutsch 21/12/2014 European Union, Festive Season and New Year, Miscellaneousadvent, advent calendar, advent wreath, Boxing Day, Britain, Caroling, christmas, Christmas Day, Christmas markets, Christmas traditions, christmas tree, Germany, New Year's Eve 1 Read more >", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 29291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://antennamag.com/top-ten-showdowns-highlight-big-week-in-college-football/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:42Z", "digest": "sha1:7LM5NW72XDXQQQN2OR2TATLDLBU7FMM6", "length": 6096, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "antennamag.com", "title": "Top Ten Showdowns Highlight Big Week in College Football", "raw_content": "Top Ten Showdowns Highlight Big Week in College Football\nWith three Top Ten games on the schedule, this week in college football delivered some exciting action and helped shape the playoff hunt. Here are some of the big storylines from Week 5 in college football.\nWashington is the Real Deal\nWhat was expected to be a key Pac-12 showdown turned into a laugher, as No. 10 Washington ran past No. 7 Stanford, 44-6. The first Top Ten matchup in Husky Stadium was never really in doubt as Washington scored on its first four possessions and took a 23-0 lead into the locker room. The 38-point beat down was the Huskies\u2019 biggest ever victory over a Top Ten opponent and the Cardinal\u2019s worst loss since 2007.\nThe Husky offense continued its hot play, racking up 424 yards and scoring on seven of eight possessions. Washington ranks seventh nationally in scoring and has put up at least 35 points in every game of it\u2019s current eight-game winning streak, dating back to last November.\nAnd while the potent Washington offense understandably gets most of the press, the Husky defense was dominant all night, holding the Cardinal to just 213 total yards and forcing two turnovers. Stanford running back Christian McCaffrey, the Heisman runner-up a year ago, was held to just 79 total yards and no touchdowns.\nWhile there is still a lot of football to be played, the win over Stanford combined with down years for UCLA, USC and Oregon gives the Huskies a big leg up in the Pac-12 race and shows they are a legitimate playoff contender.\nClemson Isn\u2019t Going Away Any Time Soon\nDespite being the national runner-up last year, No. 5 Clemson had kind of gotten lost in the shuffle this year in the ACC discussion thanks to slow (by their standards) start and the Lamar Jackson hype train. But the Tigers showed they are still very much a factor in the national title race with a 42-36 win over No. 3 Louisville. But that\u2019s not to say they didn\u2019t make interesting.\nThe Cardinals erupted for 26 unanswered points in the second half to take a 36-28 lead midway through the fourth quarter. But Tiger quarterback Deshaun Watson took over when it mattered most, leading Clemson to two touchdowns in a four-minute span. But the game was far from over\u2014Louisville put together an 11 play, 72-yard drive that fell just short when receiver James Quick was pushed out of bounds at the Clemson 3 yard line, just short of the first down marker on 4th-and-12 with 33 seconds left.\nIt was certainly not a flawless game as the two teams combined for eight turnovers and 17 penalties. But if you like high scoring shootouts, the game was as entertaining as they come. The two teams put up nearly 1,100 yards of total offense and scored on big plays, with five scoring drives of four or fewer plays.\nWhile Clemson still has Florida State on the schedule at the end of the month, the Tigers are certainly in the driver\u2019s seat to once again capture the conference title and a playoff spot.\nThe Road to the Heisman Runs Through the ACC\nWhile many (myself included) billed 2016 as \u201cThe Year of the Running Back\u201d, last night\u2019s shootout showed that two quarterbacks from the same conference are clearly still the frontrunners for the Heisman Trophy.\nWhile Louisville\u2019s Lamar Jackson wasn\u2019t able to run away with the award by knocking off Clemson, he certainly didn\u2019t do anything to damage his credentials. The sophomore racked up 457 total yards and three touchdowns in the Cardinal loss. He is fourth in the nation in rushing, second in total offense and leads the nation in scoring. While Saturday\u2019s loss is a speed bump in his campaign, he is still very much in the mix.\nAfter a slow start, Clemson\u2019s Deshaun Watson is also now at the top of the Heisman watch list. The preseason favorite coming in, Watson averaged just 231 passing yards per game in this first three. In his last two outings, however, Watson has averaged 305 passing yards per game while adding 127 on the ground and seven touchdowns. While his TD/INT ratio is problematic (he\u2019s already thrown seven interceptions in five games this year, compared with just 13 in 15 games last season), his big offensive numbers and Clemson\u2019s potential playoff run should keep him high in voters\u2019 minds.\nBarring injury or an unexpected collapse, both Jackson and Watson could find themselves in New York in December.\nMichigan\u2019s Defense Will Make the Wolverines Title Contenders\nNo. 4 Michigan held off No. 8 Wisconsin, 14-7, in a game dominated by the Wolverine defense. Michigan held the Badgers to just 159 total yards and eight first downs, plus forced three turnovers. It somehow seemed appropriate that the game was finally decided by a defensive play, when Michigan cornerback Jourdan Lewis made a spectacular one-handed interception with just 2:15 left to seal the victory.\nThe Wolverines rank sixth or better nationally in scoring defense, passing defense, total defense, sacks, tackles for loss and opponents\u2019 third-down conversions. And with only one ranked team (No. 17 Michigan State) on the schedule between now and Thanksgiving, there\u2019s no reason to think the Wolverine defense won\u2019t still have them in playoff contention when No. 2 Ohio State comes to town on November 26.\nThe Heat is Officially On Charlie Strong\nTexas fell to 2-2 this weekend with a 49-31 loss to Oklahoma State, just the second time in history the Longhorns had lost in Stillwater. With archrival Oklahoma on deck next week, everything coach Charlie Strong does from here out will be under the microscope. In two plus seasons on the Longhorn sideline, he is just 13-16 (9-10 in conference). And while upsetting Oklahoma bought him some goodwill last season, he would certainly benefit from somehow working that magic again this week.\nWhile Texas reportedly will not make a move until after the season, it is clear that Strong is likely coaching for his job over the next two months. Although money is no object for a program like Texas, Strong would be owed a $10 million buyout and his firing could set off an epic bidding war between the Longhorns and LSU for Houston coach Tom Herman\u2019s services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 7463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://appalachianmagazine.com/2018/09/27/mountain-superstition-back-when-animals-would-get-bewitched/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PD6BOJ5HCTXX7223BNSULN7HI62RKD6U", "length": 6624, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "appalachianmagazine.com", "title": "Mountain Superstition: Back When Animals Would Get Bewitched | Appalachian Magazine", "raw_content": "Home History Mountain Superstition: Back When Animals Would Get Bewitched\nMountain Superstition: Back When Animals Would Get Bewitched\nPhoto courtesy of Walter Goeppinger\nIn the fifth chapter of the Gospel of Mark, Jesus encounters a man with a legion of demons living inside him. The Bible states that the man \u201chad his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains\u2026 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones\u2026\u201d\nBut when the man saw Jesus, he ran to him, begging for mercy and Jesus spoke and the demons exited the man. According to the account, the demons asked Christ to allow them to enter into a herd of swine feeding on the countryside, which Jesus allowed, and upon entering the swine, the legion of demonic hogs ran violently down the mountainside \u201cdown a steep place into the sea\u2026 and were choked in the sea\u2026\u201d\nThough this account of possessed pigs, found also in the Gospel of Luke, is the only time we read of bewitched animals in the New Testament, in the early days of American and Appalachian settlement, tales of bewitched animals are too numerous to catalog.\nJust about everyone knows of the tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials, but few realize that two dogs also lost their lives due to the illogical and impulsive fears of the townspeople.\nMassachusetts historian Rebecca Beatrice Brooks, writes, \u201cSince it was believed at the time that witches had animal familiars, or helpers, that they used to do their bidding, many villagers were often on the lookout for these possessed animals, which were thought to take the form of almost any creature, from cats and dogs to birds, oxes, cows or pigs.\u201d\nAccording to Brooks, in October 1692, an afflicted girl accused a neighbor\u2019s dog of trying to bewitch her. The villagers shot the dog immediately; however, after the animal\u2019s death, the local minister declared the dog to be innocent because it was reasoned that if an animal was the devil, it would be impossible to kill \u2014 thus the only way to determine if an animal was or was not bewitched would be to attempt to kill it: if it died, it was innocent, if it lived, it was guilty.\nAs superstitious as the pilgrims of New England were, they were rivaled by the men and women who crested the Blue Ridge and settled in what would become known as the Appalachians.\n\u201cMany of them came from lands where superstition existed and living here in the woods where so many strange things were found which they could not explain, they naturally gave a superstitious reason for them\u2026 The belief in the power of witches was prevalent in the early days. In fact, these creatures seemed to be the source of the greatest trouble to the pioneer\u2026 If the horse\u2019s mane got in a bad tangle some witch had done it. Cows would become bewitched and kick over the milk bucket. Sometimes one could churn and churn and keep on churning and the butter would not come. To break the witch\u2019s spell on the cow, they cut a small piece from the end of the cow\u2019s tail and together with a few drops of her blood and a little of her milk, put them into the hottest part of the fire; the witches could not stand the heat and so they would leave the cow in peace,\u201d wrote G.G. Williams in 1916.\nHogs would often get bewitched as well and they, too, would have their tails cut, but instead of mixing the tail with milk, they would drive a small nail through the tail and then place the severed body part into the hottest part of the fire.\nAccording to Williams, an old German living in Appalachia had lost a large hog. He hunted far and near for her but not finding her, he went many miles away to an old man who was said to be a witch doctor. The witch doctor claimed that a witch had gotten into the hog and she had ran away. The owner was instructed to get a wisp of straw, twist it into a tight knot, put some salt over it, set it on fire and while it was burning to repeat several verses of Scripture; this would certainly scorch the witch out. The man did as he was instructed and in a few days the lost animal returned, greatly to the satisfaction of the owner and much to the credit of the witch doctor.\nIf a farmer went out to milk his cow and the cow did not produce an adequate supply of milk, it was believed that a neighboring witch had milked her dry. Though there was no antidote for this, the witch could be discovered by building a new pin for the cow and laying a new towel over the pin. If a woman passed by the property soon afterwards, she was the witch who had milked the cow dry.\nInterestingly, even guns, stoves, spinning wheels, looms and bake ovens did not escape the peculiar power of the witch.\nIt is said the first glass blowers who came to this country claimed their furnaces, when they did not heat rightly, were bewitched. To break the spell, they did a most cruel thing: throwing live puppies into the fire.\nWitches were said to have enjoyed playing strange pranks on people by attacking them in bizarre ways. They would sometimes catch a person out alone at night and would throw a bridle over their heads and force a bit into their mouths \u2014 changing them instantly into a horse, upon which they would mount and ride furiously all night over hills and valleys, through woods and briers until they would exhaust them.\nIt was claimed that cattle could even be killed by witches, who would make \u201cwitch balls\u201d, balls made of witch hair, which they would throw at the animals and kill them instantly.\nOne could never find where the skin had been broken on an animal killed by a witch ball; however, it was said that if the animal would be cut open, a clump of the witch ball could easily be found.\nWhen children got sick the cause might be due to the influence of some woman, usually an old one in the neighborhood. The cure for this was to draw her picture on a paper or board and shoot it with a silver bullet. This was done in Jefferson County once, when they were about ready to shoot, some of the family went into where the accused old woman was to watch the witch fly out of her window. As the shot was fired, it being close to the house, the old lady jumped at the sudden shockwave of the gun \u2014 this was taken to mean she was guilty.\nA dog howling at night certainly meant a death in the neighborhood, especially if someone were sick at the time. When any one died someone had to go and tell the bees or there would be another death in the same family within a year.\nPrevious articleBEWARE: Deer Collisions Set to Rise in Coming Months\nNext articleNo, You Probably Haven\u2019t Been Facebook \u2018Hacked\u2019; Chain Message Causing Confusion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 10533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://appfaucet.com/webdesign.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MP5QBEFRWHGVBERZTQ4CG67YM5KK2BMU", "length": 487, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "appfaucet.com", "title": "AppFaucet | Welcome", "raw_content": "In the recent years there has been an explosion of mobile devices, and tablets, giving users another portal to connect to the internet. Websites designed only for the desktop are becoming a thing of the past and responsive websites that adapt to the plethora of screen sizes are now the norm.\nUsing the latest in website design technology. We leverage responsive front-end frameworks like Twitter Bootstrap and Zurb Foundation, that will enable you to reach your clients on every device.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archaeologicalethics.org/topic/compensation-for-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:23Z", "digest": "sha1:PBBN7H3NRNP2FFXV2JUYCO4WI3XDA7JM", "length": 89, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "archaeologicalethics.org", "title": "Compensation for Work \u2013 Archaeological Ethics Database", "raw_content": "Compensation for Work\n\u00a9 2019 http://archaeologicalethics.org/topic/compensation-for-work/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 197.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://architecture.mit.edu/architecture-and-urbanism/project/two-faced-club-option-studio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:15Z", "digest": "sha1:QNFXYEX6FIQ5UKZG6BI4LVIBTKJRKKVM", "length": 1085, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "architecture.mit.edu", "title": "The Two-Faced Club | Option Studio | MIT Architecture", "raw_content": "The Two-Faced Club | Option Studio\nNestled between the Gothic-style Randolph Tower, former home to a German-American social club and now a residential tower, and the Michael A. Bilandic Building, designed by the Burnham Brothers and now housing the Illinois Department of Labor, the project is carefully inserted into its context, reacting to its neighbors\u2019 particular histories and formal language, and providing continuity along both front and back street fronts. Masked by a cast fa\u00e7ade that both obscures and hints at the front section, the project leverages a system of vaults to create, on one side, a diverse set of spatial conditions responding to the needs of a public athletic club, and on the back side, a private hotel tower. The two faces are separated by a semi-permeable core. The dialectic of the two sides\u2014one repetitive, the other uniquely fitting program blocks; one expressed in the fa\u00e7ade, the other hidden by it; one private, the other public\u2014is resolved by the continuity and rhythm of the vaults, changing in scale and organization from one fa\u00e7ade to the other.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/10/22/epilogue_for_a_lost_marine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:58Z", "digest": "sha1:T7UVFU2UP5RUVZAPG7JKH2LOB5CRXPES", "length": 3876, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "archive.boston.com", "title": "Epilogue for a lost Marine - The Boston Globe", "raw_content": "Epilogue for a lost Marine\nBilly Lynch left Dorchester 72 years ago, and they\u2019re pretty sure they\u2019ve finally found him, a long way from home, deep in the ground in China.\nStaff Sergeant Billy Lynch was a Marine. He grew up on Victory Road, and if you go to the corner of Victory and Neponset Avenue, you\u2019ll see the black street sign with the gold star that commemorates William Joseph Lynch Square. It is a place of honor for a Marine who disappeared 67 years ago.\nHe left Neponset for the Marines in 1937, right out of high school, and never came back. He was stationed in China when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and then went to the Philippines and was there when the Japanese invaded. After the battle of Corregidor in 1942, the Japanese took him prisoner.\nThey beat him but couldn\u2019t break him. As soon as he could run, Billy Lynch ran from the prison camp. The Japanese caught him and beat him again, worse, and then they put him on a \u201chell ship\u2019\u2019 to China, with no ventilation, no toilet, no water, no food. It was a death march at sea.\nA lot of POWs died on the hell ships, but Billy Lynch wouldn\u2019t give his captors the satisfaction. They stuck him in a prison camp called Mukden and he escaped again. Some of the local Chinese hid him, but a 6-foot white guy from Dorchester stood out in Manchuria, and the Japanese recaptured him.\nThey beat him again, and there would be no third escape for Billy Lynch. He was sent to another camp, Port Arthur, now known by its Chinese name, Lushun. Billy Lynch\u2019s captors tortured him, peeling the skin from his body before killing him, cutting him up, and stuffing his remains in a barrel that was sealed.\nSome years ago, a Chinese historian named Yang Jing became intrigued with Prisoner No. 610, the only American POW never accounted for in China. He started digging, figuratively, looking for Billy Lynch.\nProfessor Yang found three elderly Chinese men who were slave laborers at Port Arthur and knew about the murder, dismemberment, and burial of Staff Sergeant Billy Lynch.\nWhen Yang learned that Lynch was from Boston, he contacted John McColgan, the city\u2019s archivist. McColgan knocked on every door on Victory Road but couldn\u2019t find anyone who remembered the Lynches. McColgan asked Marie Daly, a genealogist at the New England Historic Genealogical Society, for help.\nDaly, a detective in librarian\u2019s clothing, found Lynch\u2019s two nieces, Judy Armour in Bridgewater and Janet Sambuceti in Marshfield. Their DNA will prove, once and for all, whether Billy Lynch is in the ground in Manchuria.\nYesterday, a FedEx pilot named Ryan Bach and a former Marine from Norwell named Mark Voner walked around the spot in Lushun where they believe Billy Lynch\u2019s bones rest. It\u2019s getting too cold to dig, so the plan is to bring in an archeological team next spring.\nBach and Voner are part of a volunteer group called Moore\u2019s Marauders, dedicated to finding American MIAs like Billy Lynch. Moore\u2019s Marauders will send scientists over next spring.\nVoner was badly wounded when the Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up in 1983, killing 241 Marines, soldiers, and sailors.\n\u201cIt\u2019s fitting that there is a Marine there right now, looking for the last Marine in China,\u2019\u2019 said Fred Sullivan, one of the Dorchester residents who support the cause of finding Billy Lynch. \u201cWe had to raise $25,000 to pay for the search, but it\u2019s worth every penny. Billy Lynch should come home.\u2019\u2019\nIf, as they believe, their dig next spring yields Billy Lynch\u2019s bones, he will come home, finally, first to St. Ann\u2019s Church, where he made his First Communion, then on to Arlington National Cemetery.\n\u201cHe deserves to be home,\u2019\u2019 Judy Armour said of the uncle she never met and never forgot. \u201cThat\u2019s why he kept escaping. He kept trying, no matter what they did to him. He wanted to come home.\u2019\u2019\nA look at his life\nPDF Letter declaring Sergeant Lynch presumed dead", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 6288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://archives.mtexpress.com/index2.php?ID=2005140077&var_Year=2011&var_Month=12&var_Day=28", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:C5F2EKAXN6RII4XKK3O2X7HFURBBA3Q7", "length": 1169, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "archives.mtexpress.com", "title": "Idaho Mountain Express: Olympic hockey player deserves recognition - December 28, 2011", "raw_content": "Olympic hockey player deserves recognition\nWe have been following the saga regarding Jim Sedin, the 1952 Olympian whose name has been left off the Olympic memorial plaque in Ketchum's town square.\nAfter reading Ginger Harris' and Lynn and Rick Flickinger's letters to the editor, we decided to research on our own Jim Sedin's accomplishments. We were astounded to discover that he indeed scored the tying goal against Canada with only three minutes to play in the 1952 Olympics, resulting in a silver medal. We can hardly believe that with such an accomplishment he would not be included on the memorial.\nBeyond his Olympic accomplishments, it should be noted that Jim also coaches hockey in the valley and continues to play in leagues at age 81. As a longtime member of our community, he continuously gives back in many ways.\nWith such a local hero living among us, we still are so confused as to how his name was missed initially and why the city of Ketchum has neglected to rectify the situation. If adding his name to the memorial is simply a monitory issue, we would be happy to send a check. Please just let us know where to send the money.\nMatt and Cathy Wellner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3637, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://arcticdx.blogspot.com/2007/04/kong15-dx-pedition-log.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:50Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3NVRFHCKUXJLOLST7UO6QKFLDE57NS5", "length": 122, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "arcticdx.blogspot.com", "title": "Arctic DX: KONG15 DX-pedition Log", "raw_content": "The first compilation of the KONG15 (Oct 14-25, 2006) DX-pedition log can be found as a pdf-file here. It will be updated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 4389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 153.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://art.yale.edu/Videowall", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:FSLZKTB2LLSXG2RCW6HIV2ALL6EC4Q5H", "length": 792, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "art.yale.edu", "title": "Yale University School of Art: Videowall", "raw_content": "VIDEO WALL AT THE SEAS\nThe LED Video Wall at the Yale University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences is an open platform for the creation of visual works, interactive installations and display, located in the SEAS Becton Media Cafe.\nIn 2012, the Yale University School of Art and the Yale University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences jointly formed the LED Group, an interdisciplinary collection of students and faculty focused creating visual works and extending the capabilities of Becton Media Cafe\u2019s LED Video Wall. This unique resource is available to any interested student at the School of Art and Yale College. Individuals interested in creating work that utilizes this technology or joining the LED Group can email led-group@yale.edu.\nLast edited by: Johannes DeYoung", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.dailyamerican.com/2012-05-21/lifestyle/31805030_1_area-students-graduate-bachelor-of-science-degree-secondary-emphasis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:44Z", "digest": "sha1:GQRZ2QCYI6LYIN5LZCAB7V54NRY3VSNT", "length": 1680, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "articles.dailyamerican.com", "title": "Area students graduate from Juniata College - schurz-dailyamerican", "raw_content": "Area students graduate from Juniata College\nThree hundred and eighty six seniors were awarded Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts degrees May 12 during ceremonies marking Juniata College's 134th commencement.\nBrittany Violet Danel of Stoystown, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in unified elementary and special education. Danel is a 2008 graduate of North Star High School and daughter of Edward and Kathy Danel.\nMargaret Marie Oldham of Windber, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. Oldham is a 2008 graduate of Windber Area High School and daughter of Richard Oldham and Elizabeth Pruchnic.\nHannah Morgan Long of Johnstown, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in natural science with a secondary emphasis in entrepreneurship. Long is a 2008 graduate of Westmont Hilltop Senior High School and daughter of Steven and Susan Long.\nAmanda Marie Schmidt of Boswell graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication and digital media studies with a secondary emphasis in marketing and information technology. Schmidt is a 2008 graduate of North Star High School and the daughter of David and Priscilla Schmidt, Jr..\nJustin Michael Paul of Garrett graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology. While at Juniata, Paul was awarded a Greater Research Opportunity fellowship from the U.S. CPA, was inducted into the Juniata College Honor Society and served as the Geology Club president. Paul is a 2008 graduate of Berlin Brothersvalley High School and the son of David Paul and Patricia Marteney.\nJuniata College dean's list released\nJuniata College spring dean's list.\nJuniata College Dean\u2019s List", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 180.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articles.latimes.com/2008/may/05/sports/sp-newswire5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:32Z", "digest": "sha1:UUSPU7RSTNBI2JYNRZ6W3WECIHTFM34I", "length": 3368, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "articles.latimes.com", "title": "Kim surpasses Woods in win - latimes", "raw_content": "Kim surpasses Woods in win\nKnee surgery kept Tiger Woods from defending his Wachovia Championship. Anthony Kim didn't disappoint and won with Tiger-like flair.\nKim, 22, became the youngest winner on the PGA Tour in six years Sunday, shooting a three-under-par 69 in a five-shot win over Ben Curtis at Charlotte, N.C.\nKim dominated a star-studded field by finishing with a 16-under 272 total, three shots better than the previous tournament record held by Woods.\nKim earned $1.13 million and became the youngest winner since Sergio Garcia won his third PGA Tour title in the 2002 Mercedes Championship.\nJim Furyk (seven under) and Phil Mickelson (five under) shot 72s. Vijay Singh (four under) shot a 74.\nA week after losing to Annika Sorenstam in a playoff, Paula Creamer squandered a lead by bogeying the 18th hole and finished at two-under 282 before beating Juli Inkster on the second playoff hole with an eight-foot birdie putt in the SemGroup Championship at Broken Arrow, Okla.\nGoing for a record-tying fifth straight victory, Lorena Ochoa closed with a two-under 69 to tie for fifth.\nZimbabwe's Denis Watson birdied the final hole and closed with a three-under 69 to finish at 10 under to win the FedEx Kinko's Classic, taking advantage of countryman Nick Price's watery double bogeys on 15 and 16 at Lakeway, Texas.\nNadal earns fourth\nstraight Barcelona title\nRafael Nadal won his fourth straight Barcelona Open with a 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 victory over second-seeded David Ferrer in Spain.\nFernando Gonzalez won his 10th title at the BMW Open by beating Simone Bolelli, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 6-3, at Munich, Germany. . . . Gisela Dulko won her third title by beating top-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (5), in the Grand Prix SAR La Princesse Lalla Meryem at Fez, Morocco.\nBenson is arrested\nin boating incident\nChicago Bears running back Cedric Benson, 25, was charged with boating while intoxicated and resisting arrest and had to be pepper-sprayed and dragged ashore by officers in Austin, Texas. The charges are both misdemeanors, punishable by up to six months in jail and a $2,000 fine.\nFormer USC tight end Fred Davis, a second-round pick of the Washington Redskins, did not show up for minicamp practice, having overslept on his third day in the NFL.\nForce reaches 1,000\nvictories in rounds\nJohn Force solidified his spot as the most prolific funny car driver in NHRA history, becoming the first to reach 1,000 round wins with a first-round victory over Ron Capps in the O'Reilly NHRA Midwest Nationals at Madison, Ill.\nForce, who has 125 titles, was beaten in the next round by teammate Robert Hight.\nTim Wilkerson denied one of John Force Racing's other drivers, Mike Neff, his first career win. Wilkerson earned his second victory of the season and seventh of his career by going 317.27 mph in 4.874 seconds to Neff's 4.886 at 321.58.\nNick Joanides won both NASCAR ACDelco Super Late Model 40 lap twin feature races at Toyota Speedway in Irwindale on Saturday night for his third and fourth division victories of the season.\nRangers' Avery is released from hospital\nRangers forward Sean Avery was released from a New York hospital, five days after suffering a season-ending spleen injury in a playoff game.\nPhil Kessel had a hat trick and the U.S. beat Slovenia, 5-1, in a preliminary-round game of the world championships at Halifax, Nova Scotia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 3888, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://articlespromoter.com/Art/30612/231/Learn-How-You-Can-Succeed-With-A-Professional-Golf-Career.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:10Z", "digest": "sha1:QMHUREHES72UPHELA7DKB6R6THE6E6SI", "length": 4605, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "articlespromoter.com", "title": "Learn How You Can Succeed With A Professional Golf Career", "raw_content": "Learn How You Can Succeed With A Professional Golf Career\nAccording to estimates made by the Professional Golfers' Association (PGA), golf is a $76-billion-per-year industry which generates over two million employment opportunities in its field. For those seeking a professional golf career, this industry offers a growing number of exciting job opportunities. It can also lead to lucrative employment in otherwise uncertain economic times.\nThe United States is home to over 18,000 courses, all of which offer exciting career paths in and around the green, but that's not all. There are also thousands of hotels, resorts, teaching centers, and manufacturers eager to hire professionals who have the right expertise and the latest industry know-how in management, instruction, sales, marketing, public relations, and more. Those who are interested in taking advantage of these prime niche areas and want to land a professional career in golf need to ensure they have a competitive edge against other job seekers. That edge begins with the right education.\nWhen it comes to a career in this trade knowing the rules and techniques of the sport is just one part of the combined know-how required by employers. A broader knowledge of the industry's inner workings, including how it operates and generates revenue, is highly sought after by employers at any number of countless organizations. Before choosing an academy, college, or other type of school that prepares students, it's important to evaluate a number of key factors on the education offered.\nA bit of background research on a program's history should yield important information to help determine the level of quality education it provides. For example, does the school have a solid reputation? Is it recognized amongst other established institutions? Institutions that invest in preparing their graduates for employment will likely not hesitate to share stories related to the job placement or recruitment success of its alumni.\nA successful program should ideally have a combination of in-class instruction and onsite instruction. In-class instruction should include the operations of a broad range of facilities and related business. Onsite instruction should include practice on the green and in tournaments. This combined curriculum prepares both those who aspire to become a professional, as well as those pursuing any number of other industry-related careers. Curriculum should not only deliver the most up-to-date information on the current state of industry, but also be flexible enough to reflect changes in the industry that may evolve over the course of the program.\nInstitutions which work hard to foster a sense of community, either through an alumni association, mentorship opportunities, or networking events, better prepare their students for the support they'll need after graduation. In addition, some offer their students assistance with resume writing, interview preparation, and may also provide references for graduates.\nIndividuals interested in the trade might actually be surprised by the number of job opportunities. For example, organizations which organize charity tournaments require coordinators and event planners; while clubs and resorts require directors, managers and other personnel in the areas of operations, instruction, and equipment sales. Driving ranges require owners, general managers and caretakers, ball retrievers and drivers; while sports media hires commentators and broadcasters for radio, TV, and the Internet, not to mention columnists and other writers for newspaper and magazine publishing. On the equipment side of the industry, there are positions in equipment design, testing, fitting, manufacturing, sales, and rental.\nMaking the decision to have a professional golf career is one thing; financing that decision is another. Luckily, some schools assist students with securing government or private student loans and scholarships. Some institutions even help student's secure part-time employment to finance their tuition costs. Pursuing a career in golf is easier than you think.\nAuthor Resource:- Andy West is a writer for Golf Academy of America, one of the best training centers for anyone interested in a professional golf career. For more information please visit GolfAcademy.edu.\n; Articles Promoter Article Directory | Learn How You Can Succeed With A Professional Golf Career\nAuthor Resource:-> Andy West is a writer for Golf Academy of America, one of the best training centers for anyone interested in a professional golf career. For more information please visit GolfAcademy.edu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 9928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://arzdigital.us/_ebook-irving-bacheller-a-man-for-the-ages-a-story-of-the-builders-of-democracy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:57Z", "digest": "sha1:BPKPGLQJXCBYFJHBMO5V72XYUBPPYOKY", "length": 403, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "arzdigital.us", "title": "A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy by Irving Bacheller - read free book online - download eBook", "raw_content": "By: Irving Bacheller\nAddison Irving Bacheller (September 26, 1859 \u2013 February 24, 1950) was an American journalist and writer who founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. Born in Pierrepont, New York, Irving Bacheller graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1882 after which he accepted a job with the Daily Hotel Reporter; by 1883 he was working for the Brooklyn Daily Times.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 55.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://asiaforvisitors.com/burma/bagan/tatbinyu/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:43Z", "digest": "sha1:KSTGREOO5J6UOYCFRQPCG3SDXBK5N7VM", "length": 629, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "asiaforvisitors.com", "title": "Thatbyinnyu Temple, Bagan - Asia for Visitors", "raw_content": "Thatbyinnyu Temple, Bagan\nThe tallest of Bagan's great monuments is the Thatbyinnyu Temple, at 61 meters (about 200 feet) tall. The temple is just a half kilometer from the Ananda Pagoda, and just inside the old city walls. It was built in 1144 and is the first of the \"temple on temple\" designs, where there is effectively a second, smaller, square temple built on top of a larger one.\nWhile the entries at the four cardinal points of the first floor lead only to niches, since the core of the building is solid to support the second level temple, the openings of the second level pierce the square building all the way through.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 205.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://asiaforvisitors.com/indonesia/java/central/magelang/borobodur/index.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IMRZQKYGWLQ63CCBGZGMO764VKO6U7SB", "length": 2738, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "asiaforvisitors.com", "title": "Borobodur - Asia for Visitors", "raw_content": "I think most travelers have their own personal \"wish list\" or \"bucket list\" of places they want to see sooner or later. My own list has some familiar places on it, like the pyramids of Egypt, as well as some more obscure sights like Petra in Jordan. On the lesser-known side of the list was the ancient Buddhist temple of Borobodur in central Java. I first read about this man-made mountain in the 1970s, but only recently had the opportunity to fulfill my dream.\nThe nearest city with an airport to the present-day village of Borobodur is Yogyakarta, known as \"Yogya\" for short. Yogya is the main tourist destination for central Java, with many other sites near-by in addition to Borobodur. From Yogya, it takes about one hour to reach the main temple of Borobodur.\nOne of the terraces with the frieze on one side.\nThis pyramid-like structure is built on and around a natural hill. Construction was started sometime around the beginning of the eighth century. In plan, it resembles a tantric mandala with six square terraces supporting three circular ones. Its been called a three dimensional rendering of the Buddhist conception of the cosmos. The square terraces are covered with carved relief's that can be read as an \"instruction manual\" for attaining enlightenment.\nThe lowest terrace depicted scenes of the distractions of everyday life. These supposedly carnal scenes were later covered by stone, although some believe this was just a move to shore up the structure when it started to subside. Higher platforms depict scenes from the Buddha's life in rich detail. These are definitely worth taking the time to see. The entire \"pilgrim's walk\" around all the galleries totals almost three miles, so wear comfortable shoes!\nView of the latticework stupas against the distant mountains.\nThe upper round terraces support 72 stone latticework stupas housing Buddha images. The heads of most are sadly missing. From the top, you have a view of the nearby mountains as well as mount Merapi in the distance. Borobodur is a truly unique monument. It doesn't match the scale of the temples of Angkor, but if you take the time to look closely at the details, and understand the story they tell, you will be impressed.\nAdmission to the temple costs 125,000 Rupiah (7.50 USD). Note that the fee is tied to the US Dollar, so the actually fee will vary occassionally with the exchange rate. A guide will cost you another 75,000 Rupiah (4.50 USD).\nBorobodur is the largest of three temples which form a direct line called \"the temple corridor\". The other two, much smaller, temples are Candi Pawon and Mendut. 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Launching a war of destruction against the Beograd youth who guarded the bridges over the Duna river, against the automobile workers of Kragujevac and bombing the civil airport of the Montenegrin capital, is certainly not my idea of humanitarian intervention. It was more the style of US interventions under the Monroe doctrine in Latin America.\nEurope shouldn't have allowed it. Even if you do NOT condemn the way that war was fought, you cannot be happy with its results, from an European point of view. European states should not be dependent on ethnic homogeneity. it is impossible: Ethnicities are mixed among each other in a pattern that reflects centuries of history. A state is judged by its capacity to guarantee and to implement equality of all its citizens before the law and by how it supports cultural freedom for all groups of people who live within its borders.\nThat is how Europe deals with Hungarians in Slovakia and Rumenia. That is, what Europe demands from Turkey, when we speak of Kurds and Armenians. That is, what Spain allows the Catalans and what Britain allows the Irish in Northern Ireland. That is, why everybody with a sense of civility, opposes a divided Cyprus. And that is, why dividing Belgium into two states, is so disastrous.\nAfter 1999, with the Serb sovereignty over Kosovo confirmed by the security Council of the UN, there were plenty of opportunities left for the EU, to impose a civil construction upon Kosovars as well as Serbs, that would have preserved a federal Serb state with internationally guaranteed minority rights. But the UN rulers of the occupied province, beginning with the maverick Kouchner (now French foreign secretary under Sarkozy), denied the Serbs and the Balkan nations in general, what was already then accepted European standard. In a not so far away future, Dayton (compromises about Bosnia, 1995) and the independence of Kosova (2008), will be seen as fatal errors that may have caused new wars and ethnic cleansings.\nLabels: Russia, Serbia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 22987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ats.runningstreams.com/bios/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LKLKGVJDJTZJGKBZWJPABZBAG5WTMTZG", "length": 65, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ats.runningstreams.com", "title": "RunningStreams.com | Running Streams Music | Bios", "raw_content": "Click on the link below to see the biography for that individual.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 176.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atunisiangirl.blogspot.com/2012/08/six-guiding-principles-for-peaceful.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:20Z", "digest": "sha1:7UO7KX5TFN4466T273BRAHI3JDBJBOJZ", "length": 3616, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "atunisiangirl.blogspot.com", "title": "osce Handbook on Monitoring freedom of Peaceful Assembly :Six Guiding Principles for Peaceful Assembly", "raw_content": "osce Handbook on Monitoring freedom of Peaceful Assembly :Six Guiding Principles for Peaceful Assembly\n\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeff\ufeffprinciple 1 Presumption in favour of holding assemblies. As a fundamental right, freedom of peaceful assembly should, insofar as possible, be enjoyed without regulation. Anything not expressly forbidden in law should be presumed to be permissible, and those wishing to assemble should not be required to obtain permission to do so. A presumption in favour of the freedom should be clearly and explicitly established in law.\nprinciple 2 . The state\u2019s duty to protect peaceful assembly. It is the responsibility of the state to put in place adequate mechanisms and procedures to ensure that the freedom of assembly is enjoyed in practice and is not subject to unduly bureaucratic regulation.\nprinciple 3 . Legality. Any restrictions imposed must have a formal basis in law. The law itself must be compatible with international human rights law, and it must be sufficiently precise to enable an individual to assess whether or not his or her conduct would be in breach of the law, and what the consequences of such breaches would likely be.\nprinciple 4. Proportionality. Any restrictions imposed on freedom of assembly must be proportional. The least intrusive means of achieving the legitimate objective being pursued by the authorities should always be given preference. The dispersal of assemblies may only be a measure of last resort. The principle of proportionality thus requires that authorities not routinely impose restrictions that would fundamentally alter the character of an event, such as routing marches through outlying areas of a city. The blanket application of legal restrictions tends to be overly inclusive and thus fails the proportionality test because no consideration is given to the specific circumstances of the case in question.\nprinciple 5. Good administration. The public should know which body is responsible for taking decisions about the regulation of freedom of assembly, and this must be clearly stated in law. The regulatory authority should ensure that the general public has adequate access to reliable information, and it should operate in an accessible and transparent manner.\nprinciple 6. Non-discrimination.\na. Freedom of peaceful assembly is to be enjoyed equally beveryone. In regulating freedom of assembly, the relevant authorities must not discriminate against any individual or group on any ground such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth, or other status. The freedom to organize and participate in public assemblies must be guaranteed to both individuals and corporate bodies; to members of minority and indigenous groups; to both nationals and non-nationals (including stateless persons, refugees, foreign nationals, asylum seekers, migrants, and tourists); to both women and men; and to persons without full legal capacity, including persons with mental illness.\nb. The law must recognize the child\u2019s right to participate in and organize peaceful assemblies. With due regard to the evolving capacity of the child, the right of children to organize an assembly may be subject to restrictions such as a certain minimum age for organizers or a requirement that the consent of their parents or legal guardians be obtained.\nc. 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Trevelyan\nThe English Revolution 1688-1689 by George Macaulay Trevelyan\nLondon: Oxford University Press, 1938 (1965 printing)\nHistorians go in and out of fashion as much as periods of history. Manning Clark is barely mentioned and hardly read these days, and yet at the time of Australia's Bicentenary he was lionized by the country. There are so many others too - E.H. Carr, A.J.P. Taylor, and the author of the work under review here, G.M. Trevelyan. It would be interesting to read a \"history of the historians\" that looked at how fashion and the change in societal mores moves a historian from flavour of the month to the dusty end of the second-hand bookshop - where Trevelyan is now no doubt Schama and Ferguson will be tomorrow - each age must write its own histories, or so it seems.\nTrevelyan wrote The English Revolution at a time when it was clear that European despotism was threatening England and he points out that 1688 had some similarities with his own time. The French were looking to aggressively destroy Protestantism in Europe, and with the ardently Roman Catholic James II on the throne of England, seemed to have garnered an ally in the cause.\nHowever, James II chose incorrectly. Every time. He rode roughshod over Parliament, angering those Tories who were his natural supporters; he tried to ally himself with dissenters, who could see through his chicanery, knowing he only relaxed the right for them to worship to further his Catholic ambitions and so were not inclined to support him; and did not even gain the support of many English Catholics, who were concerned that by connecting themselves to him they might suffer at the hands of the rest of the population.\nSo it was that a hitherto unthought-of alliance of Tories and Whigs, High Church and Dissenters, rallied around William and Mary when they landed on English Shores, and James yet again made a wrong decision and flew off to France, never to return.\nThe Revolution meant different things to different participants and different places. In England itself, the Revolution forever affirmed the primacy of Parliament over the Monarchy, and allowed for some freedom of religious worship. It spawned the beginnings of parliamentary parties, of Ministers of the Crown, and of the British way of non-interference in people's personal lives.\nThis result did not attain, however, in Scotland or Ireland. In the former, the religious toleration south of the border was not replicated, and in the Highlands in particular the feeling that William was not a legitimate King led to the Jacobite revolts that occurred for the next 50 years. Ireland in theory should have fallen for James, but he mis-managed his allies there, and brutal repression of the populace followed.\nTrevelyan has written a good, basic introduction to the Revolution in this book, with enough background for those needing to be filled in on the situation before 1688. His view was that the Revolution was a great moment in English history, which allowed the Empire to flourish and for England to defeat France and ensure that Europe's history moved toward democracy. This book was written as part of the \"Home University Library\", versions of which flourished during the first half of the Twentieth Century. While not being a replacement for a University Education, the noble intent of these volumes was to provide for those that couldn't attend University a way of becoming familiar with a topic to a level of some seriousness. 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Pursuing a vision of equity, development and peace for Mindanao through peace-building and sustainable integrated area development (SIAD) approach by promoting democratic participation in local governance and agrarian reform implementation obviously entails a lot of work in community organizing, networking, partnership building, education, research, publication and advocacy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 5695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://banhdc.org/archives/news-testimonyDW.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WS7FGACTQK7MKXO2LYNXYGIQNKMP7NS2", "length": 2159, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "banhdc.org", "title": "- Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages", "raw_content": "Debra Wevers - January 30, 2009\nMy name is Debra Wevers and I work in New York City in Midtown. I am with the Coalition to Ban Horse-Drawn Carriages and I am here to speak in support of Intro. 658, the bill that would ban horse-drawn carriages.\nMost tourists, and some New York City residents, are under the impression that the carriage horses live in Central Park. The reality is very different.\nThey have long commutes in some of the heaviest traffic in the nation.\nNot surprisingly, New York City is said to have the highest carriage horse accident rate in the country.\nSome alarming trends have been reported by the ASPCA, namely:\n\u00b7 an increase in the number of horse-related accidents and deaths\n\u00b7 and ongoing problems and violations\nFurther complicating the issue is an acknowledged failure\u2014BY ANY AGENCY OR ORGANIZATION--to provide meaningful oversight, especially with respect to traffic violations, such as:\n\u00b7 U-turns\n\u00b7 \u201crunning\u201d red lights\n\u00b7 talking on cell phones while driving in traffic\n\u00b7 standing up while driving\n\u00b7 and even driving while turned backward to chat with passengers\nGiven a horse\u2019s propensity to spook at the slightest provocation, as did Smoothie and Spotty (and with tragic consequences), the stakes are high with regard to the dangers of putting horses into traffic. Smoothie was spooked by a drum sound and took off running. She caught her carriage in a tree, broke her leg and went into shock and died. Spotty was spooked, bolted down 9th Avenue and smashed into a station wagon. 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But now? It\u2019s not so much of a joke and it\u2019s not quite so funny, because I might be quickly approaching that status.\nMy job at a global coffee company is the longest I\u2019ve worked anywhere. I\u2019ve been at my present location for three years. Because I usually work morning shifts I know almost every regular customer by name. I know their usual drink if they have one, including every nuance. Extra hot, light whipped cream, or three pumps of syrup. I know whether they\u2019ll be buying breakfast. Butter? Cream cheese? Siracha sauce? Sandwich cut in half? Got it. I\u2019m just not sure if me knowing all of these details is a good thing or a bad thing.\nI may not remember what I walked into another room for or where I put my glasses, but I know John will get three shots of espresso over ice in a tall cup every single time he comes in. That I can remember.\nI know this job was never intended for people my age. Well, then the company shouldn\u2019t have spoiled me. If I didn\u2019t need affordable health insurance, if I thought I could go back to sitting behind a desk from 8-5, if I wasn\u2019t staring Social Security eligibility in the face, maybe I\u2019d look for employment elsewhere. I was actually surprised when I was hired. I thought I was too old.\nThere was a time when the thought of still being in this job for this long nearly sent me spiraling into a dark depression. If I was still here it meant my writing career must have gone nowhere and I hadn\u2019t achieved bestseller status or anywhere close to it. I have seriously considered quitting the barista gig on more than one occasion. I\u2019ve outlasted nearly every store, district and regional manager I\u2019ve ever had and watched coworkers come and go. I guess there\u2019s a reason I remain and sometimes I\u2019m convinced that reason is God.It is said that God has a plan. And when you don\u2019t get what you want, it\u2019s because God has something better in store for you. But at the time, you just can\u2019t see it. You may, indeed, never see it. Or you may, like me, get a glimpse of it. If I\u2019d quit those few times, how could I set myself up as \u201cBarista by Day/Romance Novelist by Night\u201d? Which, frankly, at the moment, seems to be working for me. I\u2019m just sorry it took me so long to put that spin on what I do and use it as a potential marketing angle. But again, God\u2019s inspiration arrives on God\u2019s schedule not mine.\nI was just interviewed by the local paper for a Sunday feature article. They sent a photographer to take pictures of me with my books at work. Do you know how long I\u2019ve been trying to get any mention in the local papers in the places I\u2019ve lived? A story on a romance novelist? the editors seemed to say, I don\u2019t think so.\nThey say you need a marketing platform to sell anything, including romance novels. A twist. Something to snag attention. A dinosaur selling lattes? Hey, it works for me.\n#marketing #books #dinosaurs #coffee #tobeapartner\nbarista, God, novelist. 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As a young woman, Snow was a well regarded poet. She was baptized Mormon in 1835 and followed the Mormons across the United States finally settling in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1845, she married Joseph Smith,Jr. as a plural wife. But, after his assassination, Snow married Brigham Young, as a plural wife. This marriage was one of convenience since she was a Church leader in the Mormon faith. Joseph Smith remained her one true love.\nSnow's poetry religious in nature, was set to music and is a staple in the Mormon Hymnal.\nBorn this day in 1853,Helen Hamilton Gardener. A provocative writer of her time, Gardener's work raised awareness of the social justice issues of the day. She wrote and published books, pamphlets, articles from 1885 to 1900. One of her more popular writings, Sex In Brain 1888; it was a rebuttal to this statement by a prominent physician who declared \"...women's brains were inferior to men's brains because they were smaller.\" In 1920, President Wilson appointed Gardener to United States Civil Service Commission, she was the first woman to hold a high office in the U.S. government.\nFrom Men,Women, and Gods \"Nothing gives me more pleasure, nothing gives greater promise for the future, than the fact that woman is achieving intellectual and physical liberty. It is refreshing to know that here, in our country, there are\nthousands of women who think and express their own thoughts--who are thoroughly free and thoroughly conscientious--who have neither been narrowed nor corrupted by a heartless creed--who do not worship a being in heaven whom they would shudderingly loathe on earth. Women who do not stand before the altar of a cruel faith with downcast eyes of timid acquiescence, and pay to impudent authority the tribute of a thoughtless yes. They are no longer satisfied with being told. They examine for\nthemselves. They have ceased to be the prisoners of society--the satisfied serfs of husbands or the echoes of priests. They demand the rights that naturally belong to intelligent human beings. If wives, they wish to be the equals of husbands--if mothers, they wish to rear their children in the atmosphere of love, liberty and philosophy. They believe that woman can discharge all her duties without the aid of superstition,and preserve all that is true, pure and tender without sacrificing in\nthe temple of absurdity the convictions of the soul.\"\nIn 1908 New York outlawed smoking by women.\nAnother Snow was born this day in 1922. Jade Snow Wong. A ceramic artist and biographer. Her ceramic work was visionary capturing the pure lines of modernism in clay and enameling. Wong autobiography, Fifth Chinese Daughter was published in 1950.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 376, "original_length": 7977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beta.mobo.com/news/new-video-future-feat-partynextdoor-%E2%80%9Cno-shame%E2%80%9D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:31Z", "digest": "sha1:7ETI6TSUOKJJ55UZ2QGKLG3QAPCY6QYD", "length": 365, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "beta.mobo.com", "title": "New Video: Future Feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR \u201cNo Shame\u201d | MOBO Organisation", "raw_content": "New Video: Future Feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR \u201cNo Shame\u201d\nReleasing on June 13, fans can't wait for the premiere of Superfly. As announced, US rapper Future will serve as executive producer of films soundtrack. Today, he shares the music video for 'No Shame', our latest taste of the upcoming movie soundtrack. Future shows some exciting footage of the upcoming blockbuster.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://beyoumediagroup.com/2016/06/17/artist-of-the-week-tammy-t-stone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YWUR5U4NTB4MY7WCBK3S2MRPXZY3WMBZ", "length": 6899, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "beyoumediagroup.com", "title": "Artist of the Week: Tammy T. Stone \u2013 Be You Media Group", "raw_content": "Posted on June 17, 2016 Be You Media GroupPosted in Artist of the Week\n\u00a9Tammy T. Stone\nBYMG: How did you get started with your artistic endeavors?\nTS: Since I was a little girl, I\u2019ve always sought ways to express the rich, vibrant and confusing things happening inside me, and to give shape to the breathtaking experience of being in the world with its infinite, inherent creativity.\nMy most natural instinct was to write. I\u2019d fill pages and pages of diaries, notebooks and journals, the content always shifting, from who my best friends were, to teen crushes (they always felt like more than crushes!) and angst over feeling alone and misunderstood, to thoughts, observations and feelings that could be quite violent, and also soft, filled with wonder.\nArticles, essays (both academic and personal), short stories, novels, screenplays, poems\u2014my existence revolves around so many forms of writing.\nBut there are times when the words disappear and my desire to communicate takes different forms. I turn to photography to see or frame the world both at home and during my long travels abroad when I\u2019m not writing to reflect on my experiences.\nPainting, and also art journaling, are more visceral experiences for me, ones I engage with when I need to pull the lens closer in, so to speak, to hover over a piece of paper or canvas in an attempt to formulate emotions on the brink of spilling over. Sometimes they want to stay hidden, and I let the creative process guide me inward to find them.\nThere\u2019s an idea percolating out there that we can only be great at one thing, and that exploring our other passions is somehow whimsical or indulgent. If we are writers, we can\u2019t also be accomplished painters, or photographers, or singers. It\u2019s okay to have hobbies, we\u2019re taught, but at some point we have to get \u201cserious\u201d and \u201cfocus on something.\u201d\nI\u2019ve always had trouble with this idea! It\u2019s potentially limiting for those of us who feel deeply committed to creative exploration.\nTS: My absolute sense of awe for the natural world we inhabit, and the beings that inhabit it inspire me at every turn.\nI rarely leave home without my camera, and I always have my journal or a sketchbook on hand. I also owe a lot to my dad, a prize-winning amateur photographer, for putting my first camera into my hands and giving me a new way to see the world; and to his mother, my grandmother, who had a great gift in this area\u2014there was nothing she couldn\u2019t sew, crochet or knit, though I don\u2019t remember her ever making \u201cart for art\u2019s sake.\u201d She did pass along her love for crafting things with her hands to me, and in the years after her death, both my love and need for weaving this part of my heritage into my artistic practice has grown stronger.\nMy parents often took my sister and I to art museums when I was growing up, and my mom always let me \u201csecretly\u201d read under the covers after bedtime. These were great gifts! They helped surround me with art and cultivate my passion for creativity and imagining multiple possible worlds.\nTS: I try to create something everyday. I find it really helps me to ground, to return to myself and tune in to how I\u2019m doing at a given moment. When I\u2019m not feeling terribly motivated, I\u2019ll just jot a few words down, maybe dream fragments or a line or two for a poem, or do a rough sketch.\nWhen I\u2019m working on a larger writing project, I usually return to it many times throughout the day, and try not to stop when I\u2019m feeling stuck. It\u2019s great to get through that sticky moment and look forward to the next writing session.\nI also usually have a larger sewing project in the works, so if I\u2019m tired and need a break from thinking, I can happily pick up the needle and cloth, and get to it. This is a very meditative part of my day.\nTS: It depends. If I\u2019m working on a drawing or painting, I usually feel an obsessive need to finish it in one sitting. Even if it starts going in a direction I don\u2019t like or didn\u2019t anticipate, I work through it until I\u2019m satisfied (enough!).\nI\u2019m constantly taking photographs, but I usually wait until I have time to work on them and group them into various themes and ideas for projects. When it comes to sewing and especially writing, I multitask. I usually have at least three or four writing projects going, if not more, though if things are going really well with one of them, I\u2019ll start to focus on it more exclusively.\nGoing back and forth between various media really invigorates me.\nBYMG: What is the big message you want readers to take away from your work?\nTS: Our battles against and striving for a greater kind of love, the wonders of nature, our capacity and desire to awaken and to feel and connect as part of the daunting human experience\u2014these are some of the things that drive me, and that I hope I can reflect and share with my words and images.\nWith each mode of expression, we just might discover, together, new ways of seeing the world, and ourselves. There is so much joy and freedom in that!\nSo if I could inspire anyone with even the tiniest tickle inside to create, than it\u2019s worth giving it a go\u2014picking up a paintbrush, or pen, or camera, or sewing needle or music\nsheets\u2014I\u2019d be thrilled and awash in gratitude!\nTS: I don\u2019t think I can answer that!\nA few years ago, I decided I wanted to try to write a novel loosely based on and following the order of actual dreams I\u2019d been writing down for about a year. It was hard! I had no idea where it was going, and I let the project slide.\nA few months back, I felt compelled to bring it back to life, and finally finished it! I haven\u2019t read it over yet\u2014there might be something there, or it might just be a time capsule for me to enjoy someday.\nTS: Thanks for asking! Readers can see some of my photos here. I also have a blog called \u201cThere\u2019s No War in World,\u201d and my Writer\u2019s Page is here. You can also check out my book of poems here.\nThank you, Tammy, for sharing your insight and pieces of your beautiful, creative soul.\nTammy T. Stone is a Canadian writer currently living in Japan. In awe of life\u2019s infinite well of wonders, she loves to express her passion and curiosity through her storytelling, photography, Reiki practice, hand-sewn art, and by listening. Her first book of poems, Formation: Along the Ganges and Back Again, was published in 2015.\nart, creativity, healing, human condition, inspiration, love, nature, painting, photographer, sewing, Tammy T. Stone, writer\n3 thoughts on \u201cArtist of the Week: Tammy T. Stone\u201d\nPingback: I\u2019ve Been Featured as ARTIST OF THE WEEK! | There's No War in World\nTHE BERLIN MOON says:\nTammy, you are truly inspiring. Reading your poetry and absorbing your photography, art and creation of your sight \u2013 inspires positivity and breath and the ability to touch the sun with both hands, warmly and openly <3\nTammy T. Stone says:\nThank you more than words for this. 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The weather would once again be perfect, with sun and blue skies, and temps in the 80s. The weather has provided clear visibilities the entire trip so far! Thanks be to God for this blessing!\n\u201cToday we saw two different type of sites \u2013 one from the Old Testament period with the other mentioned in the New Testament. The scenery of the Peloponnese is so very beautiful too. It was another perfect weather day!\u201d\nLeaving our hotel around 8 a.m., we drove along the coastline of the Adriatic Sea as well as through the scenic mountains of the Peloponnese for about 2 hours to Mycenae. Unlike some of the classical and biblical sites we have seen so far, this site takes us back to about 1,400 BC. The site resembles an Old Testament tel, in certain ways, in Israel. Fortified by a huge stone wall around the city and the famous Lion\u2019s Gate, we ascended up to the top. The views in all directions were fantastic. Just inside the gate we saw what is left of one of ten circular beehive tombs. It was here where the famous gold masks were discovered! Nearby we actually walked into one of this tombs, the famous tomb of Agamemnon (dating to around 1,250 BC).\nWhat makes this site so interesting is the theory that the Mycenaeans were the Aegean area forerunners to the Philistines of the Old Testament (some would suggest the Minoans were as well). In either case, people migrated to Israel from somewhere in this Aegean area.\nAfter seeing the site, we enjoyed a wonderful lunch in the small town of Mycenae.\nAbout 30 minutes away is the impressive New Testament site of Corinth. Paul spent a year and a half here during his second missionary journey. While there was Jewish population that lived here in Paul\u2019s day, the city was quite pagan, with 14 temples. We read from Acts 18 and 2 Corinthians 4 by the bema overlooking the forum. Paul would have addressed people here. Gallio also would have spoken from here when address the accusations about Paul. The bema was where judgement was pronounced.\nAt the site we saw the Temple of Apollo (now with only 7 pillars of the 30 still standing, it dates to the 6th century BC), the cardo (or main north-south pavement used by people coming into Corinth from the port), and the area sacrificial meat was sold (1 Cor. 10). We also saw the recent inscription of a man named Erastus (Romans 16:24). He was Corinth\u2019s director of public works. Upon leaving the site, we drove up to the acropolis of Corinth. While we could not enter due to being closed, the view from here was spectacular!\nCorinthian Canal\nOn our way to Athens, we stopped briefly to see the Corinthian Canal. This canal joins the Adriatic (Ionian) Sea with the Aegean Sea. It is 3.4 miles in length, 80 feet wide, 280 feet high, with the water level only 26 feet. At the eastern end of the canal is Cenchrea. From this small harbor Paul ended his second journey and sailed back to Jerusalem.\nAfter crossing this canal, we drove about an hour, arriving at our hotel in Athens about 6:45. We checked in and enjoyed dinner together. About half the group then walked after dinner to the Parliamentary Building to watch the changing of the royal guards! We returned to the hotel, looking forward to the start of our four day cruise tomorrow morning!\nDAY 8 \u2013 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17: START OUR 4-NIGHT AEGEAN-MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 327, "original_length": 13012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://biblicalisraeltours.com/february-2019-fam-israel-tour-egypt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:10Z", "digest": "sha1:YREN22AL2357VBMPLU5XFQJ2J2PZH2UZ", "length": 16269, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "biblicalisraeltours.com", "title": "This is a 10 Day \"Clergy Familiarization\" Israel Tour on February 18-27, 2019 for ordained and active Pastors. It includes an optional extension to Egypt.", "raw_content": "The Itinerary for our Clergy \u2013 \u201cFAM\u201d 10 Day Biblical Israel Tour (with Cairo-Luxor, Egypt 4 Day Option)\nAll Inclusive Price for this FAM Tour (\u201cFamiliarization Tour for Clergy): $1,495 for full time/active pastors from JFK, NY, $1,795 for pastor\u2019s spouses. $1,495 for the optional Egypt tour; $1,795 for pastor\u2019s spouses. (Note: Sorry, but this tour is now sold out/closed. Please consider another tour with us!).\nIsrael Tour Brochure\nIsrael Tour Reg Form\n\"Life transforming Israel tours & teaching in the context of the land of the Bible\"\n(Note: Sorry, but this tour is now sold out/closed. Please consider another tour with us!).\nPrice of this Israel Tour includes: $590 US & Intl. departure taxes/fuel & $145 gratuities, all hotels, 2 meals daily, all entry fees, and gratuities. Total price is $1,495 from JFK, NY (additional departure cites available upon request) and $1,795 for pastor\u2019s spouse. The cost of the Egypt optional extension is also $1,495 for pastors and $1,795 for pastor\u2019s spouse. This includes all flights, Egyptian visa, hotels, 2 meals, all entry fees, and gratuities as well). Sign-up deadline: December 18, 2018.\nThis is a very thorough 10 Day Israel Tour. We first travel to the north, seeing both OT and NT sites related to Jesus. We then uniquely travel south through the Samaritan Hill Country to the Judea Desert and the Dead Sea area. We end in Jerusalem, saving the best to last. The optional trip extension for this trip is a 4 day tour to Egypt. This option includes Luxor & Cairo.\nA kind note to all pastors/clergy:\nThis Clergy Familiarization \u2013 FAM trip is designed with you in mind. Our travel agents (imagine Tours & Travel or iTT) have negotiated special discounted, introductory rates to allow you to visit and experience your destination at a significantly lower price before leading your own group. The discounted rates are subsidized by iTT and their overseas partners. FAM trips are offered exclusively to ordained clergy and educators who are interested in hosting a future group tour.\nOne of the greatest challenges in ministry is to provide meaningful and interesting Christian education for adults. The hunger for Biblical knowledge and understanding, as well as a desire to better understand Christian theology and history, is frequently requested by lay people. One of the best ways to meet this need is to travel to the areas of the world where Christianity developed. Through a biblical tour, travelers get to visit the spiritual sites in Israel, all while receiving an immense understanding of our Christian faith. Before taking your church members to these biblical sites in Israel, why not go there yourself and learn methods and techniques for effective travel leadership, as well as gain first-hand knowledge of the sites to prepare for providing a quality educational tour for your church members? This is what the FAM trips are all about. For a very reasonable cost, you can travel and learn along with other clergy. You will benefit from a deeper understanding of the scriptures, a time of spiritual renewal and development, warm fellowship, and a lifetime of memories.\nOur FAM trips are\u2026\n\u2022 Full tours are designed to help pastors and educators experience a tour and imagine\u2019s quality of service, to receive personal coaching and teaching from Dr. DeLancey, to meet our excellent guides, to check out the accommodations, and to visit the various sites.\n\u2022 For those intending to host a group on their own or join along and co-lead with Dr. DeLancey on one of his upcoming trips. Kindly know and respect that these trips are not just to be a \u201ccheap trip\u201d to Israel.\n\u2022 An investment by iTT and its overseas partners to help you promote a tour to your group, with first-hand experience of the destination and imagine\u2019s quality of service.\n\u2022 Reimbursable, when you return with a group of your own, iTT will provide you with a partial reimbursement cost for your trip, usually excludes air taxes, fees & gratuities.\n\u2022 Often considered continual education and many churches will pay the fees associated with your trip back to you, as they see the value the trip offers to you the pastor, group organizer.\n\u2022 Not a vacation, even though we do want you to be fully energized after experiencing one of our trips. Our FAM trips are full programs to ensure that we show you as much as possible of the country you\u2019re visiting in a short amount of time.\nThe Israel Tour Itinerary:\nDAY 1 \u2013 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18: DEPART U.S.A.\nTour members meet for our evening flight. After dinner is served, sit back and relax, enjoying the on-board entertainment as you prepare for this exciting adventure of a lifetime.\nDAY 2 \u2013 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19: TEL AVIV, JAFFA, NETANYA\nUpon arrival at Ben Gurion Airport, we meet our local Israeli representative who assists us with baggage and transfers us to our motor coach. We take a short drive to our hotel in Netanya for dinner and overnight beside the beautiful Mediterranean Sea. On the way, we make a brief stop in Jaffa, the home of the Jonah and Peter\u2019s stories (Jonah 1, Acts 9 & 10).\nDAY 3 \u2013 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20: CAESAREA, CARMEL, MEGIDDO, PRECIPICE OF NAZARETH, TIBERIAS\nAfter an abundant breakfast buffet, we journey north along the coast to Caesarea, built 2000 years ago by King Herod. We walk through the ancient theater, the Crusader city and the fantastic aqueduct that served as a back drop for the book of Acts. From here we depart to Mt. Carmel (1 Kings 18), site of Elijah\u2019s confrontation with the prophets of Baal. Then we proceed to Megiddo (Armageddon; 1 Kings 9:15; Rev. 16:16). Across the Jezreel Valley is the precipice of Nazareth (Luke 1 and 4). We end our day here as we are introduced to the life and ministry of Jesus in this area. Driving through Cana (John 2), we finally arrive at the outskirts of Tiberias (John 6:23). We arrive at our \u201ckibbutz-hotel\u201d located right on the Sea of Galilee shoreline. After dinner, we enjoy sitting together for a time of fellowship and worship.\nDAY 4 \u2013 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21: ARBEL, SEA OF GALILEE BOAT RIDE, MAGDALA, CAPERNAUM, CHORAZIM, BETHSAIDA, MT. OF BEATITUDES\nWe begin the day by visiting Arbel, a mountain on the northwest corner of the Sea of Galilee. We will have the option to hike to the top of this 800-foot cliff (the bus will take others to the top from the other side). The view from the top is the best there is of the whole Sea of Galilee below! From here we will enjoy about an hour-long boat ride on the Sea of Galilee. We will read the storm narratives (Mark 4, Matthew 14) about Jesus calming the wind and waves. We will also enjoy a time of worship and reflection. Next, we visit Magdala, the home of Mary Magdalene. Here we will see a 1st century synagogue where Jesus no doubt taught. After lunch, we visit Capernaum, the home center of ministry for Jesus here in Galilee. Here we read about the many stories related to the ministry of Jesus in the 4th-5th century synagogue. We also spend some reflection time on the shoreline. It was in this area where Jesus called His first disciples. Next we visit Chorazim. Here will will see a 3rd century synagogue made from basaltic stones. We will read from Matthew 23 about the \u201cMoses Seat\u201d that was found here. Following Chorazim, we drive to the NE corner of the Sea of Galilee where we are able to see the area of Bethsaida and the location where the Feeding of the 5,000 (John 6) took place. Conditions permitting, we will actually try and visit the new excavation of El Araj, possibly Bethsaida! We end the day by reading from Matthew 5 on the Mount of Beatitudes. We then provide the opportunity to walk down the pathway, recollecting the transforming words of Jesus shared in this place. We return to our hotel for dinner and an optional gathering once again by the water.\nDAY 5 \u2013 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22: BETH SHEAN, SHILOH, JERICHO\nWe begin the day by driving south to the Jordan Valley to the site of Beth Shean (1 Sam. 31), an impressive Roman city of the Decapolis. Driving south along the Jordan Valley and then turning west into the area of Samaria, we visit the rather new excavation of Shiloh. This is where the Tabernacle once stood. Here we see impressive archaeological ruins dating to the days of Samuel. Driving past Bethel (Gen. 12, 28) and through the Desert of Pareth (Jeremiah 13), our next stop is Jericho. After a late lunch here (not included), we climb the tel (ancient mound) to see portions of the fortification wall that supported the mud-brick walls that \u201ccame tumblin\u2019 down\u201d (Joshua 6). We end the day by driving south along the western shore of the Dead Sea to our hotel. We have dinner together and a free evening.\nDAY 6\u2013 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23: MASADA, EIN GEDI, QUMRAN, WILDERNESS OF JUDAH\nPrior to breakfast, we enjoy a \u201cfloat\u201d in the Dead Sea. Following a later breakfast, we begin driving northward to Masada. Here we will ascend high upon the wilderness mountain by way of the cable car to the fortress built by King Herod. We survey the ruins of the fortifications, waterworks, synagogue, temples and palaces. An optional walk down the snake path will be offered. Our next stop will be Ein Gedi where David hid from King Saul. We will enjoy a walk back to the waterfalls, hopefully seeing ibex and cooneys along the way. Finally, we visit Qumran and the settlement of the first century sect known as the Essenes, the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls. From here we ascend 4,000 feet towards Jerusalem. As time permits, we will make a quick stop to enjoy an overview of the Wadi Qelt and the Judean Wilderness and hear the words of Isaiah 40 and Psalm 23 shared in the context of this desolate area! We travel the rest of the way to Jerusalem for dinner and our first optional walk to the Western Wall.\nDAY 7\u2013 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24: MT. OF OLIVES, OLD CITY, POOL OF BETHESDA, VIA DOLOROSA, SHORASHIM, ISRAEL MUSEUM\nWe get our first glimpse of Jerusalem from the Mt. of Olives, beholding a breath-taking panorama of the Holy City. We walk down the \u201cPalm Sunday\u201d route to the Garden of Gethsemane. Next, we enter the Old City of Jerusalem through the Lion\u2019s Gate (St. Stephens) and visit the Pool of Bethesda (John 5). We will also enjoy some marvelous singing in St. Anne\u2019s church from the Crusader period. Our walk continues along the Via Dolorosa to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher (built in 325 AD). We will eat lunch near by (not included). In the afternoon, we walk to the Jewish Quarter and visit with Moshe, an Orthodox Jew. He will share about his Jewish faith and practice. We end the day at the Israel Museum. Here we will see the fascinating Israel Museum and the model of Jerusalem (1:50 scale model of Herodian Jerusalem as it would have appeared in Jesus\u2019 time). We will also walk through the Shrine of the Book to see some of the Dead Sea Scrolls as well explore some of the highlight artifacts in the archaeological museum. We return to our hotel in Jerusalem for dinner and overnight.\nDAY 8 \u2013 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25: OLD CITY, WESTERN WALL TUNNEL, JEWISH QUARTER, HERODIUM, BETHLEHEM, SHEPHELAH \u2013 QEIYAFA & ELAH VALLEY, BETH SHEMESH and/or GEZER\nWe begin the day by entering the Old City through the Dung Gate. We visit the famous Western (Wailing) Wall, the most holy place in Judaism. After some time for personal prayer and reflection, we walk 400 yards along the retaining wall of the Temple Mount itself. Upon completing this unique walk, we will drive south of Jerusalem to Herodium. This was yet another palace-fortress of Herod the Great. It was here where Herod was buried in 4 BC. Next, we visit the Shepherds\u2019 Fields outside of Bethlehem. We will enter a cave and consider the redemptive plan of God in sending Jesus. We\u2019ll sing a few Christmas carols too! Entering Bethlehem, we will stop at an olive wood factory and store. In the afternoon we will drive a little west to the Shephelah (Lowlands) of Judah to visit Kh. Qeiyafa and the Elah Valley. Qeiyafa is a relatively new excavation dating to the time of David. It was in the valley where David defeated Goliath (1 Samuel 17). If time permits, we will also visit either Beth Shemesh and/or Gezer, two other Old Testament sites (see I Samuel 6 and I Kings 9). We drive back to Jerusalem to our hotel for dinner and overnight.\nDAY 9 \u2013 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26: CITY OF DAVID, HEZEKIAH\u2019S TUNNEL, DRAINAGE CHANNEL, SOUTHERN WALL EXCAVATIONS, A FEW FREE HOURS, GARDEN TOMB\nWe begin the day by visiting the City of David and the amazing new excavations here, including David\u2019s palace. Those who want to will take an optional adventurous walk through the water of Hezekiah\u2019s Tunnel(1,720 feet long). We will then sit on the steps of the Siloam Pool and listen to the story of John 9. From here, we will walk up through a newly exposed drainage channel that will take us to \u201cRobinson\u2019s Arch\u201d and the southern wall excavations. We will walk on a Roman street and ascend the Temple steps. After lunch in the Jewish Quarter, we will enjoy a few hours of free time for shopping and exploring. We end the day at the Garden Tomb where we will enjoy a quiet Communion service together. Returning to our hotel to freshen up, we will enjoy our Farewell Dinner. Following dinner, those not going to Egypt will board the bus and transfer to the Ben Gurion Airport for our night flight home. For those doing the Egypt extension, you will return to the hotel for one more overnight here in Jerusalem.\nDAY 10 \u2013 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27: U.S.A.\nWe arrive back in the U.S.A. after a life-changing \u201cjourney of a lifetime,\u201d with our faith inspired in Jesus Christ!\n4 DAY OPTIONAL EGYPT TOUR EXTENSION:\nDAY 10 \u2013 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27: JERUSALEM, TEL AVIV FOR FLIGHT TO CAIRO, FLIGHT TO LUXOR, KARNAK\nWe depart Jerusalem and continue to Ben Gurion Airport for our short flight to Cairo. Upon arrival, we meet our Egyptian representative and tour guide. We then change planes for a short flight to Luxor, which is often referred to as the \u201cHeart of Egypt.\u201d We arrive mid-afternoon and begin our sightseeing tour of classical Luxor, the East Bank, which includes Karnak and Luxor Temples. Dinner and overnight are in Luxor.\nDAY 11 \u2013 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28: LUXOR/VALLEY OF KINGS & QUEENS, FLIGHT TO CAIRO, EGYPTIAN MUSEUM\nAfter breakfast, we begin our sightseeing of the West Bank to see the Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, Deir El Bahari Hatshepsut Temple and Colossei of Memnon. We enjoy an included lunch at Sonesta Luxor Hotel. We then continue to the Luxor Airport for our return flight to Cairo. Our sightseeing tour begins with a visit to the world famous Egyptian Museum and then a brief visit to the area that contains the treasures of King Tutankhamen. Dinner and overnight are in Cairo.\nDAY 12 \u2013 FRIDAY, MARCH 1: CAIRO, PYRAMIDS & SPHINX, MEMPHIS & SAKKARA\nFollowing breakfast, we begin our sightseeing with a visit to the Great Pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx. Our sightseeing includes the Citadel and Mohammed Ali-Mosque, called the Alabaster Mosque. There we see a beautiful view of Cairo and the Nile River, the historical dwellings and mosques. Then we continue to Old Cairo to see the Coptic Churches, the site of where Joseph and Mary fled from Herod with the baby Jesus. Next, we continue to see the Alabaster Sphinx, and the statue of Ramses II. If time permits, we\u2019ll include a visit to the Necropolis of Sakkara, containing the funerary monuments from various periods of Egyptian history. We view the Step Pyramid of King Zoser and several mastabas (tombs of nobles), including the tombs of Ti and Ptah, some of the most notable excavations of Egypt. Dinner and overnight are in Cairo.\nDAY 13 \u2013 SATURDAY, MARCH 2: DEPART CAIRO / ARRIVE BACK IN THE U.S.A.\nWe transfer early morning to Cairo International airport for our flight home. At the close of an unforgettable tour, we now treasure memories of the Old and New Testament, ancient history and, a renewal of our faith. We\u2019ll have a greater perspective on historicity and truth of God\u2019s Word!\nThis is a 1:50 scale-model of Jerusalem. It represents what Jerusalem looked like in 70 AD. It is displayed at the Israel Museum. Prior to this, it was at the Holyland Hotel. The model was built through the means of archaeological discoveries and historical (e.g. Mishnah, Josephus, etc\u2026) resources.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 20750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bigsurhermitage.com/4-items-you-didnt-know-you-could-recycle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:17Z", "digest": "sha1:AYLNPB7E7DKFVYJCCUY4P3WEC7VXKCJ4", "length": 2693, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bigsurhermitage.com", "title": "4 Items You Didn\u2019t Know You Could Recycle | big surher mitage", "raw_content": "Most of us know that we can recycle aluminum cans, plastic water bottles, and newspapers. But these are far from the only items that can be reused and recycled to keep waste out of landfills, preserve natural resources, and reduce other harmful environmental effects. Here\u2019s a closer look at some often overlooked items that can (and should) be recycled.\nBulb recycling is a good way to protect the environment, in large part because of the many toxic materials found in fluorescent tubes, LED light bulbs, and other modern lighting products. Some bulbs even contain mercury, which can cause significant harm to the environment and human health if it gets into groundwater. Though older incandescent bulbs do not contain these harmful chemicals, they can also be recycled.\nBatteries contain even more harmful chemicals than light bulbs, with everything from lead to lithium being found in different types of batteries. When these items end up in a local landfill, exposure to rainwater can cause them to rot and leak harmful chemicals into the soil. Recycling your batteries allows the chemicals and metals to be reused for other purposes, while preventing dangerous landfill buildup.\nMany home or commercial painting projects finish with some paint left over. Though many homeowners benefit by keeping the extra paint in a garage if future touch-up work is needed, theatre programs can also benefit from paint donations for the creation of new sets. When such options don\u2019t seem feasible, recycling will keep harmful chemicals out of the landfill and reduce CO2 emissions. Latex paint, in particular, can be readily worked into a new paint product or used as part of a new color mix.\nOld furniture and appliances may look like an eyesore and not perform properly, but this doesn\u2019t mean they should be thrown away. Many older furniture pieces can be donated to charity so they can be used by needy families. If a furniture piece is completely unusable, its wood and metal components may still be recycled and used for other means. Appliance recycling is especially important, as many refrigerators and other products contain harmful halogen gas. Recycling will ensure that the unwanted appliance is safely and properly disposed of.\nWhether at home or in the office, there are more items you can recycle than you\u2019d expect. Don\u2019t make the mistake of sending them to rot in a landfill. By choosing recycling, you can protect the planet and ensure a brighter, more environmentally friendly future for everyone.\nNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: 9181e22c82d582cf15b19a8dd1d1d3e0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bismoscow.com/16918/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:48Z", "digest": "sha1:KH32OUCN6XD6HN6IWLJDHS7P7CCOU7AD", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bismoscow.com", "title": "School-wide news", "raw_content": "Summer Fair, Friday 15th June, 12:30 -14:30", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 169.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blackactors.net/2011/07/a-guide-to-this-years-comic-con/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:54Z", "digest": "sha1:7XZRPPVHB7H7EQWQYF2LNARGNX6RXTMX", "length": 16934, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "blackactors.net", "title": "A Guide to This Year's Comic-Con |Black Actors", "raw_content": "A Guide to This Year\u2019s Comic-Con\nPosted on July 21, 2011 /Events\nThis year\u2019s San Diego Comic-Con will have a huge amount of Black talent around to showcase their upcoming films and TV series, as well as comic book artists. BlackFilm.com has released an urban guide to the event that includes appearances by some of Black Hollywood\u2019s biggest names.\nThe Black Panel is something that occurs yearly with a couple of regular contributors such as Reggie Hudlin and Denys Cowan out to support urban comic book artists. They will help celebrate the life and work of Dwayne McDuffie, who passed away early this year. Scott Sanders, Michael Jai White and Byron Minns will be support the animated series for Black Dynamite.\nJason Momoa will be on hand to promote his upcoming film, \u2018Conan the Barbarian,\u2019 and HBO\u2019s Games of Thrones, while Idris Elba will be around to promote two films, Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Pacific Rim and Ghost Rider-Spirit of Vengeance. Michael Ealy will be there to promote Underworld: Awakenings with Kate Beckinsale, whileJohn Boyega be out to plug Attack The Block.\nThe are plenty of actors who found day jobs in the TV world that will be present such as Michael Jai White, Malik Yoba, Mekhi Phifer, Lance Reddick, LL Cool J, Sanaa Lathan, Reagan Gomez and the cast of The Cleveland Show, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Mos Def, Rutina Wesley,and may more.\nIf you look at the schedule, there isn\u2019t enough time to catch everything, and we haven\u2019t even included a majority of studio films like \u2018The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn,\u2019 \u2018The Amazing Spider, and Tintin.\nHere\u2019s a list of films and TV series featuring Black talent that will be at San Diego Comic Con.\n2:00-3:00 Warner Premiere: H+ and Mortal Kombat: Legacy\u2014 From producer Bryan Singer (X-Men, X2, X-Men: First Class, Superman Returns) comes a Comic-Con exclusive first look at H+, the forthcoming Warner Premiere/Dolphin Entertainment web series directed by Stewart Hendler (Sorority Row) and written and created byJohn Cabrera and Cosimo De Tommaso. H+ takes place in a near-future world where a tiny and stunning new piece of technology lies at the center of a dark and epic mystery. Then, Mortal Kombat: Legacy, a hit web series with over 35 million views, takes the stage for a panel discussion with director Kevin Tancharoen (Mortal Kombat: Rebirth), Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager), Michael Jai White (The Dark Knight), Darren Shahlavi (Sanctuary),Peter Shinkoda (Falling Skies), and Matt Mullins (Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight). Fans will see \u2014 for the first time \u2014 the long-awaited final Mortal Kombat: Legacy episode! Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront\n3:00-4:00 Game of Thrones Panel and Q&A session\u2014 Based on the bestselling fantasy book series A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin, HBO\u2019s Game of Thrones concluded its 10-episode debut season on June 19. The series, executive produced and written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, follows kings and queens, knights and renegades, liars and noblemen as they vie for power in a land where summers span decades and winters can last a lifetime. Some of the cast featured in the first season and appearing on this panel are (in alphabetical order)Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Ser Jaime Lannister, Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, Kit Harington as Jon Snow, and Jason Momoa as Khal Drogo. Moderated by George R. R. Martin, who also serves as a co-executive producer and writer on the series. Ballroom 20\n5:30-7:30 Showtime : Tired of Ordinary Television?\u2014 This year at Comic-Con, Showtime saves! The casts and creative forces behind Dexter and Shameless give sneak peeks into the new seasons. And be the first to see an exclusive look at the new Showtime original series Homeland.\nDexter \u2014 See the exclusive world premiere of the new season\u2019s trailer, then moderatorRalph Garman (KROQ entertainment reporter) will preside over a revealing interview and Q&A session with the stars and executive producers, including Michael C. Hall(star/executive producer), C. S. Lee (Masuka), David Zayas (Batista) , guest star Colin Hanks (Peter Jackson\u2019s King Kong, Roswell), Mos Def and more. Also appearing are executive producers John Goldwyn, Sara Colleton, Scott Buck, and Manny Coto.Ballroom 20\n10:00-11:30 The Black Panel\u2014 This year\u2019s panel will be a bitter yet sweet departure from the past. Help celebrate the life and work of Dwayne McDuffie, with Peter David (writer of stuff), Keith Knight (The K Chronicles, The Knight Life), Reggie Hudlin (House Party, Boomerang, Black Panther), and the reunion of the original Milestone partners, Derrick Dingle, Denys Cowan, and Michael Davis, who have not done a panel together in over an decade. It will be a joyous celebration with a surprise guest or two and some big announcements. Room 5AB\n10:00-11:00 Torchwood: Miracle Day\u2014 John Barrowman (Doctor Who) and Eve Myles (Doctor Who) join cast members Mekhi Phifer (ER), Bill Pullman (Independence Day), Alexa Havins (All My Children), and Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under), along with writer Jane Espenson (Battlestar Galactica), to discuss the fourth installment of the hit BBC Worldwide show, a Starz Originals co-production, currently airing Friday nights at 10 ET/PT on Starz. Ballroom 20\n12:45-1:45 Legendary Pictures: Preproduction Preview\u2014 Legendary Pictures holds its first-ever Comic-Con panel and shares an early look at some of the movies on the company\u2019s upcoming film slate. Fans will be able to access Legendary\u2019s plans, garner sneak peeks at their movies in preproduction, and hear from filmmakers and cast members from the upcoming Pacific Rim, Seventh Son, Paradise Lost, and Mass Effect. Panel participants includeJeff Bridges, Bradley Cooper, Guillermo del Toro, Ben Barnes, Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Alicia Vikander,Alex Proyas, Sergei Bodrov, Travis Beacham, Mark Protosevich, and Casey Hudson. Room 6BCF\n1:30-2:30 Screen Gems: Underworld Awakening and Attack the Block\u2014 Screen Gems presents two big new movie previews to Comic-Con fans!\nUnderworld Awakening brings a stunning new dimension to the epic battle between Vampires and Lycans as the first film in the franchise to shoot in 3D. Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrior Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find that humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. Appearing in person are Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, Len Wiseman (producer and director of Underworld and Underworld: Evolution), and directors Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein.\nIt\u2019s the inner city vs. outer space from the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz.Attack the Block follows a gang of tough inner-city kids who try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, turning a South London apartment complex into an extraterrestrial warzone. This is the film you\u2019ve been hearing about since its debut at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin where it won the Midnight Screening Audience Award. Funny, frightening, surprising, wildly entertaining and winning rave reviews across the country. Appearing in person will be John Boyega (Moses), director Joe Cornish, and producer Edgar Wright. Hall H\n2:30-3:15 Adult Swim: Black Dynamite\u2014 Creators and voice talent from the new animated series offer a sneak peek at the show and answer questions. Executive producer Carl Jones (The Boondocks) and director Scott Sanders (Black Dynamite) appear, in addition to writer and star Michael Jai White, voice actors Tommy Davidsonand Kym Whitley, and writer/voice actor Byron Minns, all of whom also starred in the live-action feature film Black Dynamite. The 2009 movie is an outrageous action comedy/spoof that follows ex-CIA agent and full-time ladies\u2019 man Black Dynamite, who\u2019s out to avenge the death of his brother against kung-fu masters, drug-dealing pimps, and The Man. The Black Dynamite animated series further chronicles the exploits of Black Dynamite and his crew. Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront\n3:00-4:00 Eureka\u2014 Small town. Big panel. Syfy\u2019s smash hit Eureka is back at Comic-Con. Colin Ferguson (Jack Carter), Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Allison Blake), Neil Grayston (Douglas Fargo), and guest star Felicia Day(Dr. Holly Martin) join executive producers Jaime Paglia and Bruce Miller for a chat about the big secrets of America\u2019s smartest little town. Moderated by guest star Wil Wheaton (Dr. Isaac Parrish; Wesley Crusher, Star Trek: Next Generation). Ballroom 20\n4:00-6:30 Sony\u2014 Sony returns to Hall H with a stellar lineup of films and talent, including:\nGhost Rider-Spirit of Vengeance \u2014 After blazing a trail around the globe in the worldwide hit Ghost Rider, Nicolas Cage returns as Johnny Blaze in Columbia Pictures\u2019 Ghost Rider-Spirit of Vengeance. Still struggling with his curse as the devil\u2019s bounty hunter, Blaze is hiding out in a remote part of Eastern Europe when he is recruited by a secret sect to save a young boy (Fergus Riordan) from the devil (Ciaran Hinds). At first, Johnny is reluctant to embrace the power of the Ghost Rider again, but it is the only way to protect the boy \u2014 and possibly rid himself of his curse forever. Live on stage: directors Mark Neveldine andBrian Taylor (Crank) and stars Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, and Johnny Whitworth. Hall H\n5:30-6:30 True Blood Panel and Q&A session\u2014 Mixing romance, suspense, mystery, and humor, the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated True Blood kicked off its 12-episode fourth season June 26 on HBO. The series follows the on-and-off romance between waitress and part-faerie Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who can hear people\u2019s thoughts, and 173-year-old vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer). Oscar and Emmy award winner Alan Ballcreated and serves as executive producer of the series, which is based on the bestselling Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. The series \u2014 and this panel! \u2014 also features Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse,Sam Trammell as Sam Merlotte, Rutina Wesley as Tara Thornton, Nelsan Ellis as Lafayette, Deborah Ann Wollas Jessica Hamby, Kristin Bauer van Straten as Pam, Joe Manganiello as Alcide, and Kevin Alejandro as Jesus. Moderated by Tim Stack of Entertainment Weekly. Ballroom 20\n6:00-7:00 Alphas\u2014 Syfy\u2019s newest original series Alphas has taken the summer by storm \u2014 and it\u2019s just the beginning. David Strathairn (Dr. Lee Rosen) and fellow cast members (including Malik Yoba), plus creator and executive producer Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand; The Avengers) and executive producer Ira Steven Behr(Star Trek: The Next Generation; The 4400), reveal why impossible is what Alphas do best. Moderated by Geoff Boucher (\u201cHero Complex,\u201d Los Angeles Times). Room 6A\n7:00-8:00 Teching Out with NCIS: LA\u2014 With a hot young cast and high-stakes adventures, it\u2019s no secret why 18 million fans tune in each week to watch the agents of NCIS: Los Angeles go undercover to protect national security. Utilizing some of the most advanced technologies available today, NCIS: LA offers a stunning window into the world of constant surveillance. In this panel, fans will be treated to a behind-the-scenes look at how the series uses some of the coolest and immersive technologies available today, as well as how the cast has used technology and social media in their own personal lives to connect to their fans. Creator and executive producer Shane Brennan, actorLL Cool J, and other NCIS: LA cast members explain what\u2019s real, what\u2019s not, and what\u2019s next for season three.Room 6BCF\n7:30-8:30 Death Valley\u2014 MTV brings the unique marriage of horror and comedy together with this new series. Join members of the ensemble cast, including Caity Lotz (Mad Men), Tania Raymonde (Lost), Bryan Callen (The Hangover), Bryce Johnson (Sleeping Dogs Lie), Texas Battle (Final Destination 3), and Charlie Sanders (Funny or Die), along with showrunner/executive producer Eric Weinberg (Californication, Scrubs), director Drew Daywalt(Bedfellows), executive producer/director Austin Reading (Spike TV\u2019s Scream Awards, FEARnet), executive producer Julie Kellman Reading, and co-executive producer Spider One, in a discussion about the challenges of bringing the comedy and horror genres together and how the team involved in the series bring all the elements of what they know best to the series. Fans will get an exclusive first look at an upcoming episode. Q&A session to follow! Room 5AB\n1:00-2:00 Community\u2014 The cast and creative team from Sony TV\u2019s critically acclaimed NBC series \u2014 Joel McHale (The Soup), Chevy Chase (Hot Tub Time Machine), Donald Glover (30 Rock), Yvette Nicole Brown(Rules of Engagement), Danny Pudi (Greek), Gillian Jacobs (Choke), Jim Rash (Reno 911), and Ken Jeong(The Hangover Part II), and executive producers Dan Harmon (The Sarah Silverman Program), Joe Russo(Arrested Development), Anthony Russo (Arrested Development), Neil Goldman (Scrubs), Garrett Donovan(Scrubs) and Russ Krasnoff (The Soloist) \u2014 come together for an animated discussion and Q&A session about what\u2019s in store for viewers this fall! Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront\n4:15-5:15 Grimm: World Premiere Pilot Screening and Q&A with Cast and Producers from the New Supernatural Series\u2014 From the creative minds behind fan-favorite series Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and X-Files, comes a new world of police work where all cases have a storybook connection\u2026but not always happily ever after. Grimm, debuting on NBC this fall, is a provocative police procedural with a supernatural mythology, inspired by the classic Grimm Brothers\u2019 fairy tales. Those weren\u2019t stories \u2014 they were warnings. Be the first to watch the pilot episode and participate in a Q&A session with the cast and producers: David Giuntoli (Turn the Beat Around),Russell Hornsby (Lincoln Heights), Bitsie Tulloch (Quarterlife), Silas Weir Mitchell (Prison Break), Reggie Lee(Persons Unknown), and Sasha Roiz (Caprica) and executive producers/writers Jim Kouf (Angel) and David Greenwalt (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Room 6A\n4:30-5:15 Fringe Screening and Q&A\u2014 Fringe returns to Comic-Con with series stars Anna Torv, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole, and John Noble and executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wymanfor a Q&A with fans and an exclusive video presentation. Delve into parallel universes and alternate doppelgangers and join the discussion about this critically acclaimed thriller as Fringe continues to explore otherworldly cases with endless impossibilities. From Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, Fringe airs Fridays at 9/8c on FOX, and Fringe: The Complete Third Season will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on September 6.Ballroom 20\n5:00-6:00 Charlie\u2019s Angels\u2014 The cast and creative team from Sony TV\u2019s highly anticipated action-packed seriesCharlie\u2019s Angels for ABC \u2014 Annie Ilonzeh (General Hospital), Minka Kelly (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights),Rachael Taylor (Grey\u2019s Anatomy), Ramon Rodriguez (The Wire, Daybreak) and executive producers Alfred Gough (Smallville) and Miles Millar (Smallville) come to Comic-Con to discuss their new series. The series is also executive-produced by Drew Barrymore (Charlie\u2019s Angels movies), Leonard Goldberg (the original Charlie\u2019s Angels), Nancy Juvonen (Charlie\u2019s Angels movies), and Marcos Siega (Vampire Diaries, Dexter). Join the cast & producers for a dynamic discussion and Q&A session about what\u2019s in store for viewers this fall! Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront\n6:45-7:30 Person of Interest Pilot Screening and Q&A\u2014 A peerless creative team is behind this new white-knuckle action series \u2014 including creator/executive producer Jonathan Nolan (The Dark Knight) and showrunner/executive producer Greg Plageman (Cold Case) \u2014 about an ex-CIA agent, presumed dead, who partners with a mysterious billionaire to prevent violent crimes in New York City. Join these producers plus starsJim Caviezel (The Thin Red Line), Michael Emerson (Lost), and Taraji P. Henson (Academy Award nominee, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) for an inside look at one of the most anticipated new shows of the fall season, including an exclusive screening of the pilot episode and Q&A. From Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television, Person of Interest will air Thursdays at 9/8c on CBS. Room 6BCF\n10:00-11:00 Glee\u2014 Creator/executive producer Ryan Murphy, creator/executive producer Brad Falchuk, and stars of Glee present a sneak peek at Glee The 3D Concert Movie featuring never-before-seen footage, behind-the-scenes secrets, and Q&A session. Hall H\n1:45-2:45 The Cleveland Show\u2014 The cast and executive producers offer a look at The Cleveland Show\u2019s not-to-be-missed parody of Die Hard, followed by a discussion with panelists Mike Henry, Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Michael Richardson, Reagan Gomez, Rich Appel, and Kara Vallow. Hall H", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 18238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 216.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blackyouthproject.com/jason-van-dyke-has-been-hired-by-the-fraternal-order-of-police/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:40Z", "digest": "sha1:3RJPXRZJ6ODBXTFNHNDRCUSP7LB2GKAL", "length": 1799, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blackyouthproject.com", "title": "Jason Van Dyke Has Been Hired By The Fraternal Order of Police", "raw_content": "After it was revealed that he fired 16 shots at Laquan McDonald, killing him, Jason Van Dyke has had trouble holding a job. Since being stripped of his title by the Chicago Police Department, the Chicago Tribune reports that his wife even had to shut down her business due to threats. Now it appears that the Fraternal Order of Police has stepped in on what appears to be an effort to protect one of their own.\nAccording to the Chicago Sun-Times, FOP president, Dean Angelo, confirmed that they\u2019ve hired Van Dyke to work as a janitor for their West Loop location. Angelo claims the idea came to him after the newspaper called him to ask if Van Dyke was employed by the police union. Van Dyke is reportedly making $12 an hour to fill in as needed around the property.\n\u201cHe might be on the roof, he might be in the office, he does anything we need,\u201d Angelo said, confirming Van Dyke\u2019s status as a newly hired jack-of-all-trades.\nFather Michael Pfleger took to Facebook to publicly criticize the decision. He, and many other Chicago residents, feel that the police union has essentially said that they\u2019re going to place their duty to protect one another over maintaining a healthy relationship with the people. This completely contradicts the message Mayor Rahm Emanuel was trying to make when he recently named Eddie Johnson as interim CPD superintendent.\n\u201cThe Police Union says to Chicago we don\u2019t give a Damn what he did or what you think he is one of ours, and we are going to take care of him . . . \u201d said Pfleger.\nProtests took place within the city on Thursday after the news broke with many citizens questioning where CPD\u2019s true intentions lie between the public and maintaining their own sense of loyalty to each other.\nChicago, Fraternal Order of Police, hired, Jason Van Dyke, Laquan McDonald", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.applause-tickets.com/2017/02/broadway-revival-of-sunday-in-park-with_23.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CW5DXSLNPFCN362K65QC7YXDKHH5ZYTK", "length": 1208, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.applause-tickets.com", "title": "Broadway Ticket News: Broadway Revival Of Sunday In The Park With George Opens Tonight", "raw_content": "Broadway Revival Of Sunday In The Park With George Opens Tonight\nI still can't believe this show is actually happening. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would see one of my favorite shows back on Broadway. Yet here we are nine years after the last Broadway revival, and Sunday In The Park With George is back on the Great White Way where it belongs.\nNot only that, but it is starring Academy Award nominee Jake Gyllenhaal and Tony winner Annaleigh Ashford. Now do you see why I am so excited? The show. which officially opens tonight at the recently reopened Hudson Theatre, will play a limited engagement thru April 23. That's a little over eight weeks for those of you keeping count.\nNow I know what you're thinking. Can you get tickets? Yes you can. Are they cheap? Actually they are not as expensive as you would think. After all it's not Hamilton or Hello Dolly. The good thing is it's not a big theatre. That means all the seats are good. Get your tickets to see Sunday In The Park With George on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre. Until next time theatre fans.\nLabels: sunday in the park on broadway, sunday in the park with george tickets, sunday in the park with george tickets on broadway", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 5452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.cinciala.eu/?p=751", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:47Z", "digest": "sha1:SJAG5UBBM2HNHW6LAVYPI7OY7T32HVHU", "length": 987, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.cinciala.eu", "title": "Switching to SDL Trados 2011 SP1 | Michal Cinciala \u2013 Freelance Translator's Blog", "raw_content": "I have been working with the Studio on a regular basis for about 2 years. Concurrently with the Studio, I am still working with the \u201cobsolete\u201d SDL Trados 2007, as this is the primary version of this CAT tool for many of my clients. On the other hand, I still appreciate another \u201ctype of convenience\u201d, this older version offers compared to the Studio.\nUntil now, I have translated all projects, where clients did not require CAT tools, using SDL Trados 2007. During January, I converted all of my master translation memories and from February I will start working with the Studio exclusively with the exception of cases, when my customer will explicitly ask for the \u201cregular\u201d Trados.\nOne thing of concern is the compatibility between 2009 and 2011 versions of the Studio. Based on the experience with compatibility problems between Studio 2009 and 2009 SP1, I hope that there will be no problems for my clients still using Studio 2009, when they receive my jobs exported from Studio 2011.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.datingwise.com/1248/valentines-day-love-it-or-hate-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ABCTYRHNBYLZ2U55C5UPHLO3YFIMO4X6", "length": 2191, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.datingwise.com", "title": "Valentine's Day - Love it or Hate it? - Dating and Relationship Advice", "raw_content": "Ok, so I\u2019m a sucker for Valentine\u2019s Day. I have one of those sappy stories that will make the perpetually single person nauseous. My hubby proposed to me on Valentine\u2019s Day, even though I was deathly ill with the flu and in my flannel pajamas.\nHowever, before I found my soulmate, I spent many a year dreading Valentine\u2019s Day and all the romantic hoopla that went along with it. You see, when you\u2019re unattached and you want to be attached, Valentine\u2019s Day is the loneliest day of the year. (New Year\u2019s Eve comes in a close second.)\nSo, if you love Valentine\u2019s Day, you obviously have a reason to love it \u2013 likely a person who makes you love it, and you don\u2019t need my encouragement. But, if you hate Valentine\u2019s Day, here\u2019s my advice on how to get through the day without hating all of your attached friends.\nMake plans. Sitting at home on Valentine\u2019s Day only makes it worse. This year, the date falls on a weekday, which makes it a little easier to tolerate, however. But, you should still make it a point to go out and have some fun with a friend. Skip the romantic restaurants that will be filled with couples, and opt for a fun bar, see a movie, go ice skating or go bowling.\nEat chocolate. If you love those beautiful heart shaped boxes filled with delicious candies, buy one for yourself. There\u2019s no reason you should miss out on your favorite treats just because you\u2019re single.\nBe thankful for your life. You\u2019ll never attract someone for next Valentine\u2019s Day if it is your sole focus in life. Enjoy the life you have and be grateful for it. That makes you much more attractive to other people.\nhttp://blog.datingwise.com/1248/valentines-day-love-it-or-hate-it/ 2011-02-09T19:52:23+00:00 taraTips and IdeasDate Ideas,Proposal,Valentine's DayOk, so I'm a sucker for Valentine's Day. I have one of those sappy stories that will make the perpetually single person nauseous. My hubby proposed to me on Valentine's Day, even though I was deathly ill with the flu and in my flannel pajamas. However, before I found...taraTara Milleradmin@datingwise.comAdministratorDating and Relationship Advice\nDate Ideas, Proposal, Valentine's Day\n\u00ab Niche Dating Websites\nDating Through the Winter Blahs \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.mappingforrights.org/?p=946", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:24Z", "digest": "sha1:HW7IH25GN7GQV2LZECRHBIMN64AZ3VJL", "length": 3219, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.mappingforrights.org", "title": "New community mapping innovations could have far reaching implications for forest governance in the Congo Basin", "raw_content": "Home / New community mapping innovations could have far reaching implications for forest governance in the Congo Basin\nA new participatory mapping approach developed by the Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) and NGOs in DRC (RRN, GASHE, CADEM) and Cameroon (FODER) is revealing a previously \u2018invisible\u2019 extensive network of clan-based customary tenure systems in Western DRC \u2013 with potentially far-reaching implications for the current model of forest management in the region.\nThe new data, collected by communities using simple tablet computers, shows that these rights are generally very well defined and accepted in local areas, despite their absence in national laws and forest planning processes (click on \u2018Community Land Tenure\u2019 in the \u2018Community Mapping\u2019 menu). The emerging scale of these claims[1] and the ease with which the data can now be captured, accessed and analysed on the MappingForRights platform could transform the way that future decisions and land allocations are made. It can be used for purposes such as helping to plan or develop future REDD projects, and ensuring proper distribution of benefits from forest management.\nIn addition, geo-referenced data collected by communities themselves on issues such as access to healthcare and education is now available to view on the interactive map (Click on \u2018Communities mapped 2013-14\u2019 on the menu and then on the villages on the map). Among other things, the data can enable closer examination of the supposed developmental benefits from large-scale industrial logging, strict nature conservation or REDD projects, and could provide a basis for any future community forest interventions in these rural areas.\nOne practical example of how this is already being put to good use is where local communities from the Lukolela territory in Equateur province have presented their maps in landmark meetings with national authorities over the controversial Tumba-Lediima Reserve. This has prompted the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to agree to reconsider the status and management of the reserve to better take into account their traditional lands and rights.\nNew mapping and other data from 32 villages with a combined population of some 56,000 people and covering 209,000 hectares has now been uploaded to the interactive map. Please log-in for the interactive map and then click on the orange new data button below the legend on the map to view this.\nThis is the first new data available as part of an effort to map up to five million hectares by 2017 in what is the largest mapping exercise of its kind in Africa. This is being achieved by a new decentralised approach to mapping where communities are supported by field-based mapping facilitators and GIS technicians to produce maps and collect data at significantly reduced cost and timescales than previously possible.\n[1] The data from Bandundu and Equateur provinces shows that there a very few forest areas \u201cunclaimed\u201d by local communities.\n\u2190 MappingForRights Update 2.2: New Data on Customary Rights, Socio-economic Village Data and More\nFrom the field \u2013 Industrial Logging: unsuccessful development model for forest communities in the Congo \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.naturecity.com/mediterranean-diet-with-or-without-low-meat-intake-may-improve-heart-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QG7HHBSGBIQVM67BDS3HMW2VQU5VRJWL", "length": 1397, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.naturecity.com", "title": "Nature City BlogMediterranean Diet With or Without Low Meat Intake May Improve Heart Health - Nature City Blog", "raw_content": "Mediterranean Diet With or Without Low Meat Intake May Improve Heart Health\nThe Mediterranean diet is characterized by high amounts of vegetables, legumes, cereals, fish, fruits and nuts, healthy mono-saturated fats such as olive oil, low amounts of saturated fats, moderate alcohol intake, and low intake of meat and dairy products. However, a recent study suggests that following the Mediterranean diet even without reducing red meat intake has a positive effect on heart health, if the red meat is lean and unprocessed.\nParticipants in the study included 41 people, 28 of whom were women and 13 of whom were men. The study included three five-week phases. For the first phase, participants consumed a Mediterranean-style eating pattern containing three ounces per day of lean, unprocessed beef or pork. For the second phase, they returned to their regular eating pattern. And for the third phase, they consumed a Mediterranean-style eating pattern with less red meat, three ounces twice weekly.\nThe researchers found that heart health indicators improved with both diets. However, only the typical meat intake diet resulted in improvements in LDL (or \u201cbad\u201d) cholesterol.\nResearchers from Purdue University led the study. It was published on June 13, 2018, in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.\nComments Off on Mediterranean Diet With or Without Low Meat Intake May Improve Heart Health", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 279, "original_length": 7051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.norfolkra.org.uk/index.php/2016/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:22Z", "digest": "sha1:MMZQMJGEBF3NMHWI4SDA7YP7EAAMK3S4", "length": 3484, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blog.norfolkra.org.uk", "title": "September | 2016 | Norfolk Ramblers", "raw_content": "Ranworth to Panxworth Reinstated Path Now Open\nA walk took place on Sunday 18 September to mark the opening of the newly reinstated Ranworth to Panxworth footpaths. Members of the parish had in previous years been discouraged from using the routes by local landowners and the reinstatement of the paths was led by members of the local parish and the Ramblers.\nThe newly reinstated path allows access between the two villages which doesn\u2019t involve walking along the road, and is a shorter and more direct route. The route had commonly been used by those from Ranworth who caught public transport into Norwich from Panxworth, and also by school-children from Panxworth to get to Ranworth school, before its closure.\nAs well as the reinstatement of the main route between the two villages, there is also a branch off which goes to the well kept churchyard of Panxworth church. The previously overgrown parts of the route have now been cut by Norfolk County Council, with new signage added.\nMembers of the parish council were able to make an initial application to Norfolk County Council to open this route, with the support of the Ramblers. Members of the parish helped with completing user evidence forms, and with donations from several ramblers groups and an anonymous donor, money was raised to pay for a rights of way specialist to present the case at a public inquiry. Thanks to the work of everyone involved this meant that the Planning Inspector made a report in favour of securing the footpath as a public right of way.\nSue Hitchcock, the chair of Woodbastwick Parish Council, has been instrumental in getting behind the project, and she was present at the event.\nRichard May, the Norfolk Ramblers Area Chairman who was also present at the opening of the path, said:\n\u201cIt\u2019s been a really enjoyable walk and I enjoyed meeting members from the parish who I know will find the path useful. I\u2019m sure that Ramblers groups from around the county, and beyond, will also make full use of the path in the coming years\u201d.\nRichard added:\n\u201cThe Ramblers are really grateful to everyone in the parish who has worked to help ensure that this right of way has been protected. It shows that by parishes and the Ramblers working together we are able to achieve positive results\u201d.\nA more complete description of the walk will be featured in the Eastern Daily Press and Eastern Evening News next weekend (24-25 September 2016).\nBelow is a photo of the group at Panxworth church, a fascinating medieval church which was restored in the Victorian period. The congregation size wasn\u2019t large enough to sustain it and the nave fell into disrepair in the late twentieth century, and was later demolished, leaving only the tower.\nPanxworthRanworth\nGreen Build Show at Felbrigg Hall\nThanks to all those who helped at our stand at the Green Build stand at Felbrigg this weekend, and to everyone who came to visit us. We had a very successful weekend, with particularly good weather on the Sunday, and it was great to see so many people.\nThanks also to those who made purchases of our books, the money raised goes to help our path clearance fund. It\u2019s always really positive to get such feedback about our work and hearing from everyone in the community about their experiences with their local footpaths and areas of public access.\nThanks to Sheringham group for helping to man the stand, and other areas officers for their support! We aim to be back at the 2017 event.\nFelbrigg HallGreen BuildSheringham Area", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.penso.info/2013/05/25/getting-a-job-in-san-francisco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:46Z", "digest": "sha1:PPZTN2CQO7GSWBVIDF56Z74TZ4JLAGRN", "length": 14612, "nlines": 73, "source_domain": "blog.penso.info", "title": "Getting a job in San Francisco \u2014 Fabien Penso", "raw_content": "Getting a job in San Francisco\nI wrote this post because I was receiving emails from friends about my past experience and wanted to gather all my advices in a single post.\nI now receive more emails from readers than ever, at least a few per week, asking me questions about getting a job in San Francisco. I love you to blog, link, talk about this post, and if you really need to talk to me @fabienpenso is best. But while I would love to answer everyone of you over email, I just can\u2019t.\nHowever, if I receive the same questions over and over again, I\u2019ll amend this post with more details. But please please please, don\u2019t expect me to answer private emails about this subject.\nThis post also got featured on Hacker News on #3 position. I suggest reading the comments for further information. I\u2019m also available for consulting.\nI\u2019m a French citizen living in Paris, I moved to San Francisco in 2010 and worked for Causes for about a year, until I resigned and left. I had previously traveled there twice, for a few months each time. Causes was a small company, and the dev team was even as small as 4 Software Engineers at some point, but we had close to 150 millions users. You can read about what I wrote when I left on this blog post.\nI\u2019ve worked almost 15 years, I\u2019m 34 years old but started very early in my business career, after leaving the University at 18 which I had only joined because I got rejected from a better school I wanted to go to. Overall, I think starting my professional life early was the best move and the best thing that happened to me. Today I focus on Rails & iOS development, and always enjoy being part of new projects.\nBecause of my connection to the French community and my past travels to San Francisco, I sometimes get requests by email about the matter. I decided to compile my replies within this post. Please note that applies to Software Engineers and I can only compare to what I\u2019ve previously known: French companies.\nWhy going to San Francisco?\nMecca for Software Engineers, the only place in the World where the guy in front at Starbucks has big chance to be Software developer. If you are an Engineer, interested about Internet and startups: this is the only place to be. Working in fashion? Go to NYC. Working in Software development? Go to SF. It\u2019s just that simple.\nYou\u2019ll see an immense amazing positive atmosphere everywhere, people working day time for a normal job and coding on evenings in coffee places, trying to work on their latest idea. They might even raise a few millions dollars on it, really.\nWhy I left?\nI love culture, I love exhibitions, I love museums and art. Yes San Francisco (and NYC of course) is better than any other American cities about that, but I was still missing my Parisian way of life. After almost a year I felt it was time for me to go back.\nI love Paris as much as I hate Parisians1, and I had enough of working full time for a startup; I wanted to go back. Nothing fancy, lots of my friends love San Francisco and live there for a long time.\nAnd one day I might very well go back.\nA French guy I knew, and I would have hired before, got rejected by me because his technical skills were not good enough. But I only found out doing a US style interview, a few years back I would probably have hired him.\nQuestions during recruitment interviews in San Francisco are way, way more technical. When you live in SF, you\u2019re surrounded by Engineers, and companies need to know how good you are compared to others. They don\u2019t always need an answer, and might just want to see how you think, how you interact when having a problem and so on, but you will get tough questions. Remember you\u2019re not at home, and you have additional stress from the interview. The interview might include pair programming for a few hours with one of the employee, solving puzzles, and so on.\nQuestions could be writing a substring() function and being able to tell how fast it runs using Big O notation (I knew nothing about this before coming, and still got offers\u2026), sorting arrays with specific sort methods, writing games, etc. It will involves doing something in a limited amount of time, it will require you to know coding, and I highly suggest you code for a few weeks before applying if you\u2019re not confident doing it at any time of the day without notice.\nRead this book and prepare yourself for your interviews.\nHere are some common steps you might go through:\nSkype call / Phone interview\nTechnical interviews with some team members, rarely more than 2 hours.\nLonger technical interview\nInterviews are much longer than I was used to, and the so called team spirit is crucial. You must fit the spirit of the team you want to join. As an example, I\u2019ve been interviewed at Twitter and went through speaking to about 11 people during 2 full days (I think the entire mobile team at the time), spending hours at their office and answering most of the time the same questions (what have you done in the past, why do you want to join us, etc).\nI got rejected because of a single guy in the team who didn\u2019t think I was a fit. Quite surprising for me as I had developed specific iOS Twitter applications, and worked with the Twitter API for a long time. I had internal connections, early access to their streaming API, and even met Ev Williams during Chirp because someone wanted to show him the project I was working on2.\nOr maybe I got rejected because I was just too much of a dick.\nThe rejection email from Twitter was very formal, something like \u201cthanks for coming by but we don\u2019t have something for you right now, good luck\u201d. Spending 2 days of your time at a company to get such a short email is apparently very common in the US, and when I was on the other side trying to hire for Causes someone told me it prevents the candidate to sue you. Those emails have to be short and concise.\nWhen rejecting candidates for my own company I wanted to tell them why I rejected them, and how to improve, but I have been told not to do it, for legal reason.\nI will add than Twitter had a specific atmosphere compared to other so called startups. The employees seem to be hired on more than skills, everyone at their office is very much hipster like, beautiful looking, feeling super confident and ready to kick it. Walking around Twitter sometimes almost feels like walking within a TV show.\nBut being rejected by a team because you\u2019re not a fit doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t try another within the same company, if the company is big enough (Apple, Google, etc).\nBecause I have a few years of experience, and a few projects than worked (the most popular in France is probably the French website linuxfr.org which had over 40 millions hits a month back in 2001, a few dozen of thousands of users, and won the Linux Journal readers choice awards), I get people asking me for Engineers to hire. In France my word would almost be enough for someone to be hired, they get a few more questions but people trust my judgment and hire the guy. In the US, my word would not make a difference and the candidate still go through the whole recruiting process.\nIn San Francisco referral helps, but won\u2019t get you a job.\nIt took me quite a long time to understand this, but even with a very good referral, you still go through the full hiring process, which is much longer than the one we have in France. I believe the US way to be better, as you can see how good and experienced is the candidate, even him being a friend of a friend.\nA French friend of mine I had referred to Causes got rejected at step one, even I told them I\u2019d like him to be hired.\nBefore those \u201con site\u201d interviews for jobs, you need to actually be in San Francisco. My best advice is go to San Francisco for a few weeks, do some sightseeing, enjoy the city and contact all the companies you want to work for before coming. Try to have your days full of appointments and meet as many as possible while being here. Many cool companies are hiring and always have a job listing on their page. Send your resume, get in touch with them.\nUsually you\u2019ll have phone screens first, then it could even be remote pair programming but if your English isn\u2019t perfect, I\u2019d suggest just doing it from San Francisco.\nCome visit, take a month off. Meet as many people as possible, first with companies you don\u2019t care about so you get trained to US style interviews. Keep the ones you really want to work for when you feel confident enough.\nImprove your chance to get a job\nAttitude: You must be super positive, happy and bring more than just skills. This isn\u2019t easy for French, they\u2019re more willing to complain for every change you want to input than embrace them.\n\u201cDo not put up with ego-centric personalities or downer attitudes.\u201d\nExpertise: Learn Ruby, iOS and use Agile methodology. If you believe into A/B testing, Specs, TDD you probably have a better chance to get a job than if you don\u2019t.\nAvoid them like the plague, most companies I would love to work for avoid them too. Get in touch with companies you want to work for, make them aware you\u2019re looking for a position, and don\u2019t even bother to ask recruiters.\nHowever if you do use recruiters, be aware than they sometimes get tens of thousands of dollars if they find someone for an Engineer position. Someone responsible for recruitment for a famous startup told me she would give me as much as $20,000 if I found her someone who worked in the company for 6 months. That\u2019s what she would have to pay a recruiter anyway, so she was happy to give it to me.\nSadly even for that amount I knew noone available.\nThe only case you might be looking for recruiters is if you\u2019re looking for very specific positions like CEO, but you\u2019re probably not reading this article if you do.\nBack in 2011 I had $100k a year, that might seem a lot for you but it is not that much in the Valley. I accepted because I had lot of stock options, they took care of my VISA, and I just wanted to live in San Francisco for a while. The cost of living is enormous and you\u2019ll probably have to pay at least $2,000 a month for a small studio. This is so ridiculous than you\u2019ll have to get roommates like you\u2019re 20 years old, or live with a house owner who will put you rules like not to invite your friends at home.\nSan Francisco is now the most expensive city of the US for housing, more than Manhattan.\nAn intern working for a startup might get $80k a year, a Senior Engineer probably at least $150k. Recruiting in San Francisco today is a nightmare, and you\u2019re the Gold. I repeat, if you\u2019re a skilled Software Engineer: you\u2019re the King everyone wants. Make your rules and write your story.\nFrench will note US companies don\u2019t pay much tax on salaries like they do in France, what could make you think is a lot of money isn\u2019t. Your French salary costs 40% extra to your company, but not in San Francisco.\nThe way you get your VISA changes all the time, what may be true today might be untrue tomorrow. I was lucky to get a H1B, which seems to be one of the best VISA to later apply for a Green Card.\nThis is a long process, and you\u2019ll have to go back home. You can not start working while being in the US without a VISA, and you can\u2019t apply for a VISA while being in the US on a Waiver VISA (the one you get when you come from a list of specific countries). There is no efficient turnaround than I\u2019m aware of, you must go back home and wait for your VISA, but your company will probably agree to have you work remote while it\u2019s being done. Your company will pay a lawyer to deal with the Immigration (USCIS) and you\u2019ll have to give the lawyer all the details about your diplomas, I even had to find out the grade per class I had 5 years before, during my Master Degree school year, and the class list I had during that year.\nMy only advice: Request a Green Card, don\u2019t wait.\nSeriously, ask your company to apply for a Green Card for you from the first day you start working for them. Your Green Card has to be sponsored, and if you own a Master Degree of Computer Sciences, the process might be much faster than you\u2019d expect. I heard stories from people getting it within a year.\nThe Green Card will give you the flexibility to work for anyone you want, it\u2019ll give you way more freedom than anything, and if the company is willing to wait for your VISA you\u2019re probably very well able to request this from them. They know you\u2019ll have to stick with them until the Green Card process is done, and maybe even 6 months more after.\nIf you had one thing to remember after reading this blog post, it\u2019s requesting a Green Card.\nWhen you\u2019re leaving\nForeigners, moving from a culture to another isn\u2019t easy, and you might very well want to come back home. France and the US have more difference than you\u2019d expect, and I suggest to hold to it for at least a year. Big culture changes require time to accommodate.\nHowever you might decide to quit. If you do, remember how small is the Valley. It is very small, believe me. Everyone talks to each other, and I\u2019ve even seen employees negotiating their leaving telling their CEO/company they\u2019d give them a nice referral if being asked, getting a good one in return.\nIt\u2019s such a nightmare to hire Software Engineers, noone wants you to spill on the company telling everyone how bad your experience was. But don\u2019t burn your bridges, you might want to come back to San Francisco or continue to work remotely with the silicon valley community.\nI would suggest French people not to work for French companies in the Valley, unless you have no other choice. You won\u2019t learn as much from the American culture, and the French company would probably not pay you as well as other startups. They know you\u2019re used to be paid less, they\u2019ll pay you less.\nWhy go half the way? Get the full experience and work for an American startup.\nYou\u2019ll have a blast.\nA list of things you should have before applying anywhere:\nA resume3. Let\u2019s be honest, if you\u2019re good you don\u2019t need a resume. But having a nice one helps: Spend a few hours on yours.\nA Github account with published code.\nA website is nice, a blog is too, mostly if about technical stuff. You\u2019re reading mine.\nKnow coding, languages often requested these days include Objective-C, Ruby, Python, Java (Android).\nA Linkedin page, startups use it a lot (and so do annoying recruiters).\nPeople born in Paris, or living in Paris for a long time. \u21a9\nTweetSell.it: a service gathering all Tweets about sales, parsing the item and its price. See a video demonstration I did, as the website is now offline. \u21a9\nSee mine if you need a sample. It uses Latex and the moderncv theme. \u21a9\nTrain ride in Cambodia\nPublished by Fabien Penso \u2014 25 May 2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 15464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.rongarret.info/2011/02/hardest-part-of-getting-what-you-want_12.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:P4FN4QJNAVI3PVKGG5RBTZ75P5SXKO3H", "length": 3834, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blog.rongarret.info", "title": "Rondam Ramblings: The hardest part of getting what you want -- part 3", "raw_content": "The hardest part of getting what you want -- part 3\nWhen I was a kid I went through a new-agey period where I \"realized\" that the boundaries between \"me\" and \"the rest of the universe\" were not as clearly delineated as I had thought, and I spent a few months feeling as one with the Universe. But that is, of course, wrong, Just because the boundaries aren't crisp doesn't mean they aren't there. It is in fact one of the hallmarks of life is to draw the line between itself and its environment. The invention of the cell wall arguably marked the beginning of life as we know it. Separating itself from its environment is essential to -- perhaps even the essence of -- life. You cannot be alive without distinguishing (even if not explicitly) between \"myself\" and \"the other.\"\nWe humans have multiple layers of boundaries. We are eukaryotes. We draw boundaries even within the confines of our own cells, which glom together to make higher-order boundaries between organs, which glom together to make individual humans.\nBecause our human consciousness resides as an (apparently) unified whole within a body that is also a physically unified whole with more or less clearly defined boundaries it is tempting to think that the hierarchy ends with those bodies. But this is not necessarily the case. The idea that physically distinct entities ought to be considered logically distinct individual life forms is a prejudice. Ants and honeybees, for example, glom together to form colonies which have more of a claim to the title of \"individual living entity\" than do individual ants or honeybees. Most individual ants and bees are sterile and cannot reproduce when separated from the colony or hive, just as most of the organs in our bodies exist under similar constraints. So it is a not unreasonable point of view to look at an ant colony as a living individual whose component parts just happen not to be rigidly attached to each other.\nMost \"higher\" life forms cannot reproduce as single individuals. It takes at least two to tango, as it were. And in the case of humans, it takes, as they say, a village. It is an extremely rare human who can survive for more than a few days without the support structure of at least some kind of society. This is why we are social creatures and being alone for too long drives us mad.\nThis is another thing that the rationalists get wrong. Discussion of rational behavior is invariably predicated on the assumption that the quality metric is bound to an individual human. We speak of rational people but never of rational groups whose group interests may or may not coincide with the interests of the individuals making up those groups. Indeed, self-proclaimed rationalists seem to actively resist even considering such quality metrics, and take it as axiomatic that, for example, having individual humans whose minds believe in objective truth is a good thing. There is no rational justification for this, which makes it all the more ironic.\nSo you get Lisp programmers who spend all their time honing the arguments for why Lisp is the best programming language, and C programmers who ignore those arguments, write a bunch of ugly code, and take over the world. You get evolutionists who spend all their time honing the arguments for why evolution is true, and creationists who ignore those arguments, tell people that they are special because they are created in the image of God, and take over the world, not because they were correct but simply because the \"you are special\" meme reproduces better in the mind of a social creature than the \"you are alone in a hostile universe\" meme does.\nBut, but ... lisp is the best programming language!\nMore seriously: I like the idea of associating ants and bees with organs, and colonies with \"individuals\", rather than the usual analogy. Very interesting!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 7679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.splendid-girls.com/2012/06/14/new-movies-from-wetpuffy-192/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QZMQK5CDRP5BD4ELGW22JMZDEIPLRSIR", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.splendid-girls.com", "title": "Splendid Girls \u2013 only best teens of the World \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb New movies from Wet&Puffy!", "raw_content": "June 14, 2012. Thursday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 4002, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 96.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.tartcollections.com/category/fashion-beauty-tips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:6XIVMMVCCCOPAR2GEW6RGKQ7JJJWEO6J", "length": 265, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.tartcollections.com", "title": "Fashion & Beauty Tips | Talking Tart", "raw_content": "How to Untangle Your Favorite Necklaces\nWe\u2019ve all been there\u2014ready to head out the door when you grab your favorite necklace and find a huge knot [\u2026]\nEvery once in a while, during the daily Pinterest browsing sessions, you come across a great article with a ton [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.youris.com/picked_up/nanoparticle_vaccine_protects_against_stomach_flu.kl", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:26Z", "digest": "sha1:HR5D3VX44NQ65FT4LIKP7RTKR2Z64IG5", "length": 1244, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.youris.com", "title": "Nanoparticle Vaccine Protects Against Stomach Flu", "raw_content": "Nanoparticle Vaccine Protects Against Stomach Flu\nA new vaccine strategy using nanoparticles as carriers may be the key to developing a vaccine against norovirus, one of the most common causes of foodborne disease in the United States\nResearchers from the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report promising findings in the January 2011 issue of the Journal of Virology.\nThe application of nanoparticles as carriers to present small peptide antigens is a growing field within vaccine development. Researchers led by Xi Jason Jiang of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, have described a new nanocarrier, called a P particle, which holds promise as a scaffold for a variety of vaccines. In the current study they inserted rotavirus antigen into the P particle, which boosted immune response to rotavirus, as well as norovirus, in mice.\nBoth rotavirus and norovirus are important causes of acute gastroenteritis. The former causes severe diarrhea in children, and kills an estimated 527,000 worldwide, annually. Norovirus is a notably highly transmissible, and particularly unpleasant flu, which can result in one to three days of vomiting and diarrhea in otherwise healthy adults, and which kills 200,000 children annually.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 3206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.youris.com/picked_up/new_technique_controls_sizes_of_nanoparticle_clusters_for_environmental_health_and_safety_studies.kl", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:42Z", "digest": "sha1:EM3DRKS4M3ROKSX5BNJOLZHU5IEBMZAE", "length": 1834, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.youris.com", "title": "New Technique Controls Sizes of Nanoparticle Clusters for Environmental, Health and Safety Studies", "raw_content": "New Technique Controls Sizes of Nanoparticle Clusters for Environmental, Health and Safety Studies\nThe same properties that make engineered nanoparticles attractive for numerous applications -- small as a virus, biologically and environmentally stabile, and water-soluble -- also cause concern about their long-term impacts on environmental health and safety (EHS)\nOne particular characteristic, the tendency for nanoparticles to clump together in solution, is of great interest because the size of these clusters may be key to whether or not they are toxic to human cells. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated for the first time a method for producing nanoparticle clusters in a variety of controlled sizes that are stable over time so that their effects on cells can be studied properly.\nIn their tests, the NIST team made samples of gold, silver, cerium oxide and positively-charged polystyrene nanoparticles and suspended them separately in cell culture medium, allowing clumping to occur in each. They stopped the clumping by adding a protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA), to the mixtures. The longer the nanoparticles were allowed to clump together, the larger the size of the resulting cluster. For example, a range of clustering times using 23 nanometer silver nanoparticles produced a distribution of masses between 43 and 1,400 nanometers in diameter. Similar size distributions for the other three nanoparticle types were produced using this method.\nThe researchers learned that using the same \"freezing times\" -- the points at which BSA was added to halt the process -- yielded consistent size distributions for all four nanoparticle types. Additionally, all of the BSA-controlled dispersions remained stable for 2-3 days, which is sufficient for many toxicity studies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 3895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.cofc.edu/lcwa/category/classics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWLAQFQ6KJFWTXS5EU6CBXJ5IDHPMZMK", "length": 2397, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blogs.cofc.edu", "title": "Classics | LCWA Blog", "raw_content": "AIA-South Carolina (Charleston) Society To Recieve an AIA\u2019s Society Outreach Grant\nPosted on December 13, 2010 by Jennifer Smith\nThe South Carolina (Charleston) Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) has been selected to receive the AIA\u2019s Society Outreach Grant in support of an archaeological conference to be held at Charles Town Landing in February 2011. Only a handful of these grants are awarded in a given year. The initiative is the result of collaborations between Scott de Brestian, Jim Newhard, and Tessa Garton of the South Carolina Society and Cicek Beeby of Charles Towne Landing.\nThe conference will focus upon Lowcountry archaeology and its contributions to wider understandings of the past, and will be open to both professional archaeologists and archaeology enthusiasts. The event is co-sponsored by the Archaeological Society of South Carolina, South Carolina State Parks, the Charleston Museum, and the College of Charleston,\nThe Archaeological Institute of America is the largest professional/avocational organization in the United States, dedicated to promoting understanding of the world\u2019s cultural heritage. Local societies, found throughout the United States, support local initiatives and cultivate interest in archaeology at both the local and global level. The public lecture series sponsored by the South Carolina Society is free and open to the public.\nPosted in Classics\t| Leave a reply\nSenior Classics Major Melissa Huber Named Finalist for the Lionel Pearson Fellowship\nPosted on December 8, 2010 by Jennifer Smith\nA bit of good news as we head into Thanksgiving break. Senior Classics major Melissa Huber just received word that she has been named a finalist for the Lionel Pearson Fellowship. The Pearson Fellowship is the top national honor bestowed on an undergraduate by the American Philological Association. Melissa is one of four national finalists for the award. She will be flown out to San Antonio for final interviews during the APA Conference in January. The Pearson Fellowship funds a year of graduate study in Classics at an institution in the U.K. Melissa is the first College of Charleston student to make it to the final round of competition.\nPlease join me in congratulating Melissa on being named a finalist for this most prestigious fellowship. 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UCLA\u2019s contract with Adidas expires next year and the Bruins will undoubtedly get a mega-deal (probably with Adidas, but no guarantees) that will exceed Cal-UA. (To be expected given the L.A. market.)\n*** Also as noted below: Cal is expected to sign a new multimedia deal (IMG and Learfield the top options) sometime this summer, and it will pump millions more into the DIA\u2019s coffers.\n*** Here\u2019s some background on the Bears\u2019 budget woes and how they might crawl out of it, gradually.\nBy Jon Wilner\njwilner@mercurynews.com\nCal\u2019s days as a Nike school are numbered.\nThe Bears are joining forces with sportswear giant Under Armour in a sweeping, campus-wide partnership worth $85.6 million in cash and product over 10 years, sources with knowledge of the agreement said.\nThe deal takes effect in July 2017, following the expiration of Cal\u2019s current contract with Nike.\nUnder Armour represents the Warriors\u2019 Stephen Curry and the Giants\u2019 Buster Posey.\n\u201cWe\u2019re anchoring in the Bay Area \u2014 it ties in strategically with our business,\u201d Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank said.\n\u201cWith Cal\u2019s reputation and its Nobel Prizes and its commitment to innovation, it was a slam dunk.\u201d\nThe deal, announced Friday, is the largest of its kind in the Pac-12 and one of the most lucrative in the nation.\nThe Bears will receive approximately $4.8 million annually in Under Armour equipment, footwear and apparel.\nThe debt-strapped athletic department also will receive $3.5 million annually in cash payments, plus a $3 million signing bonus.\nThe annual payments in the Under Armour agreement represent a net increase of approximately $3 million over the equivalent portion of Cal\u2019s current deal with Nike.\nLargely because of the massive debt service payments required for the Memorial Stadium renovation, the athletic department is running a $17 million (approximate) deficit.\nThe cash from the Under Armour partnership, combined with income from a new multimedia rights deal expected to be finalized in coming months, will help reduce the deficit over time.\nThe football game against Hawaii in Australia is also expected to net the Bears at least $1 million.\n\u201cWe\u2019re looking at strategic ways to close the deficit, with long-term partnerships and unique experiences,\u201d athletic director Michael Williams said.\n\u201cUnder Armour is an excellent financial opportunity, but it\u2019s also a partnership that will help move the department forward in the next 10 years.\u201d\nThe deal extends beyond cash and product for Cal athletics.\nUnder Armour will provide apparel for Cal\u2019s club sports, employment opportunities for Cal graduates, internships for students, product discounts and charitable partnerships, according to the university.\n\u201cCal\u2019s brand has such a rich history,\u201d Plank said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a brand that we feel has been under-leveraged. Our expertise in storytelling can greatly benefit the athletes and the university.\u201d\nThe Bears have been a Nike school for many years but, a source said, felt underappreciated by the company, which also represents Stanford \u2014 the alma mater of Swoosh founder Phil Knight.\nWhen it came time for Cal to explore its options, the administration listened to all interested parties, including Nike and Adidas, according to an industry source.\nThe process took five months. Williams and his staff worked closely with the University Partnership Program, an initiative launched last year.\n\u201cCal did it the right way,\u201d Plank said. \u201cSo many state schools don\u2019t allow their deals to come to market, they just re-up with their partner. They had a deal coming up \u2026 and they were proactive. They knew we were really serious.\u201d\nPac-12 football: List of Academic Progress Rate scores for all teams\n2016 NFL Draft: Top prospects from Cal, Stanford and San Jose State", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 6592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bluegrassbios.com/white-clarence-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:04Z", "digest": "sha1:6WQ53TFKKFINRLDWKOVBUCLEECZWPNV7", "length": 1806, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bluegrassbios.com", "title": "White, Clarence | BluegrassBios.com", "raw_content": "CLARENCE WHITE (See also THE KENTUCKY COLONELS)\nFrom Los Angeles (Burbank), California (although he was born in Lewiston, Maine).\nHe began playing the guitar at age 5. Started out playing the ukelele until his hands were big enough to handle a guitar.\nHe and his brothers Roland and Eric formed a band called The Country Boys, appearing regularly on a popular local Los Angeles country music TV show. That group became The Kentucky Colonels. They recorded one album for World Pacific and appeared on the Andy Griffith TV show (before the Dillards did).\n1967, after the Kentucky Colonels disbanded, he formed a country-rock band called Nashville West. He and bandmate Gene Parsons invented a device called the Parsons/White Stringbender (or B-Bender) which allows an electric guitar string to \u201cbend\u201d while playing, imitating the sound of a pedal steel guitar. Marty Stuart owns the original guitar that Clarence played during that period.\n1968, he joined the Byrds, replacing Gram Parsons.\n1973, joined Muleskinner with Richard Greene, David Grisman, Bill Keith and Peter Rowan.\n1973, reunited with Roland and Eric White for two tours of Europe as The New Kentucky Colonels. The banjo spot in the group was Herb Pederson and Alan Munde.\n1973, he died at the age of 29 after being struck by a drunk driver.\nHis style of flat-picking the guitar influenced a generation of bluegrass musicians including Tony Rice, Dan Crary, Norman Blake, David Grier and many others. He is also credited with helping to shape the sound of country-rock music.\nTony Rice owns his 1935 Martin D-28 guitar.\n2000, an album was released by Sierra Records by Clarence White called 33 Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals. The recordings were made on a home tape recorder in 1962.\n2016, he was inducted into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1362, "original_length": 24247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 163.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bluemountainsreview.ca/the-review.cfm?newsid=540", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:52Z", "digest": "sha1:BKL2UOKBJLDTHPHWDQDLKNZO27CDB2CO", "length": 1844, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bluemountainsreview.ca", "title": "Alert Ready Test - Nov 28, 1:55pm EST from Blue Mountains Review", "raw_content": "Ontario will issue one test message to be distributed over television, radio and to compatible wireless devices at 1:55 PM EST. This will be the second live Alert Ready test this year.\nThe first occurred during Emergency Preparedness Week in May 2018. The Alert Ready system was developed with many partners including federal, provincial, and territorial government agencies, the broadcasting industry, wireless service providers and Pelmorex Corp (the owner of The Weather Network).\nThe Alert Ready system has enabled authorized government agencies to deliver emergency alerts to residents in Ontario during threat-to-life situations over television and radio since 2015, and to compatible wireless devices since April 2018.\nIt is important to note that not all Ontarians will receive the test alert on their wireless device. This may occur for a variety of reasons, including device compatibility, connection to an LTE network, cell tower coverage, device software and settings. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has set the target that 50% of new devices currently available for sale in Canada must be compatible with Alert Ready. This target increases to 100% by April 2019.\nOver time, more devices will become compatible and more Ontarians will be able to receive emergency alerts on their wireless device. 2 More than 100 emergency alerts have been successfully transmitted to Canadians over television, radio and wireless since April 2018.\nHowever, alerts have not been issued in all areas of Canada. A national test will provide an opportunity to validate the end-toend performance and reliability of the system everywhere in Canada. For more information, please visit alertready.ca. 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Prior to that, Ms. Robinson served in the Financial Institutions Group within the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. Ms. Robinson has served as a director of the company since 2016.\nMs. Robinson serves on the Board of Directors of Russell Reynolds Associates and is the non-executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of BNY Mellon Government Securities Services Corp. Ms. Robinson is a trustee of Williams College, MASS MoCA and Every Mother Counts, and was, until August 2016, a director of Goldman Sachs Bank USA. Ms. Robinson received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.\nExperience in finance and risk management\nLeadership in the operations of a large global financial institution", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 5977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 64.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bodyandsoul.world/about-us-overview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:54Z", "digest": "sha1:Q52YYSPZEIVKQZGYF46NGOWYMS6HSOVB", "length": 4879, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "bodyandsoul.world", "title": "About Us - An Overview of Body and Soul World |", "raw_content": "\u201cYoung Viennese graduate invites other young people to join her Christmas skiing.\u201d\nThat brief ad appeared in the personal columns of the London Times in 1932. It was to launch the career of one of the great pioneers of the skiing holiday \u2013 Erna Low. Some seven decades on, her company, Erna Low Consultants, is still going strong. In fact, they\u2019re the largest UK self-drive tour operator to the French Alps \u2013 organising holidays for over 14,000 people last season.\nHomesickness, rather than a desire for entrepreneurial glory, prompted Erna\u2019s first sortie into the travel business. In the twenties, she\u2019d left Vienna to study in London, but found that she couldn\u2019t afford to visit her family and the Austrian slopes as often as she would have liked. Necessity was to prove the mother of invention, hence that brief ad in 1932. It attracted five enthusiastic clients \u2013 enough to help fund Erna\u2019s trip home. But that first holiday was far more than a financial success \u2013 Erna and her party had a marvellous time. So much so that she decided to offer more skiing holidays. Erna placed great value on the \u2018personal touch\u2019.She inspected the hotels and knew the guides. In fact, she personally accompanied each group until the mid-1950s.The business flourished in the thirties and Erna Low holidays were well and truly on the map. But the map was to be torn up by one Herr Hitler. During the Second World War, Erna joined the Army\u2019s Education Corps as a lecturer, travelling the length and breadth of England. Travel was hardly a burden to Erna; indeed, it provided her with the catalyst for another innovation in the holiday market \u2013 the house party. She rented large English houses and boarding-schools and invited paying guests to stay. The atmosphere was informal. The aim was to allow people to meet each other. These English house parties were the forerunner of the chalet holiday. In the early fifties, Erna became the first tour operator to offer them as a holiday option for skiers.\nThe Erna Low Travel Service launched in 1947 against a backdrop of post-war austerity. Her early brochure featured the slogan, \u2018To Sun and Snow with Erna Low\u2019 \u2013 and features a very wide range of holiday destinations bearing in mind that it was before the age of \u2018flights for all\u2019 and \u2018package holidays\u2019\nIn the \u201950s and early \u201960s Foreign currency controls were still in place but Erna made life easier for her clients with her \u2018V\u2019 Form scheme \u2013 enabling them to pay part of the cost in sterling. In those days, most people travelled by rail. As package tour holidays began to boom in the sixties, Erna introduced many more flight packages, it was at this time that the brochures (dating from 1965) show that Erna Low began to offer Spa holidays to the traditional spa towns in France, Hungary and Italy. Coming from Austria Erna Low had been brought up understanding the many benefits of \u2018taking the waters\u2019 and was keen to introduce this concept to the UK holiday maker.\nErna sold her business in 1972, only to buy back her name and the goodwill some three years later. In 1979, she sold the business for a second time. However, Erna had no thoughts of retirement. In 1980, at the age of 72, she launched Erna Low Consultants Ltd. It was at this time that she was joined by a young graduate, Joanna Yellowlees-Bound \u2013 now the company\u2019s CEO. The company became the number 1 specialist tour operator for self-drive skiing holidays to France, expanding into Austria and Italy, as well as continuing to expand the spa holiday offer, to include a wider range of spa resorts as the availability of the product grew worldwide. She continued to personally research spas abroad and to accompany journalists on press trips to learn about the spas until the mid 1990s, always very enthusiastic to try the latest treatments and to ensure that the spas were maintaining the highest and most professional standards.\nIn May 2000, Erna Low gained the highest accolade from the British Travel Industry to enter the \u2018Hall of Fame\u2019 \u2013 an Award only offered to the very elite of all the industry \u2013 recognition of her entrepreneurial skills and doyenne of the ski world.\nSadly Miss Erna Low, died at her London home in February 2002. Her travel career spanned nearly 70 years; her advert for a ski party in 1932 laid the foundation for a lifetime spent pioneering holiday themes and locations around the globe.\nCompany CEO, Joanna Yellowlees-Bound, and all the Erna Low staff, continue the Erna Low tradition of innovation and customer service. In 2009, the company transformed its spa holiday business from a tour operator to an online spa news service. 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STOP: it may get you raped, or killed. Ted Bundy, the serial killer, was a good-looking, well educated man, who ALWAYS played on the sympathies of unsuspecting women. He walked with a cane or a limp, and often asked \u201cfor help\u201d into his vehicle or with his vehicle, which is when he abducted\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 204.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bowlts.com/news.asp?page=87", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AVB5QPZ3ZSK6SDPMVBB4INYUJXY62UWQ", "length": 436, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bowlts.com", "title": "Bowlts Chartered Surveyors - News | Page 87", "raw_content": "Rural Development Contracts - Rural Priorities\nRural Development Contracts \u2013 Rural Priorities (RDC-RP) are part of the suite of grants known as the Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP). They are tailored to regional objectives i...\nWe are pleased to announce the launch of our new, improved website. We have built on the success of our previous website, providing improved functionality, easier navigation and much more useful...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://boyertile.com/port-st-lucie-florida/st-lucie-west/lake-forest-st-lucie-west/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:02Z", "digest": "sha1:LUTKIYV7Y564WGJA2YSK34UQGOO3UOYA", "length": 2754, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "boyertile.com", "title": "Lake Forest at St. Lucie West | Boyer Tile", "raw_content": "Lake Forest at St. Lucie West\nLake Forest at St. Lucie West.\nA family friendly gated community in Port St. Lucie, Lake Forest is a master-planned community of St. Lucie West. As you enter Lake Forest, you feel as if you have been gently transported to another world. A tropical paradise with vistas interrupted only by sunshine dancing off the many tranquil lakes and fountain. As you travel through Lake Forest, you\u2019ll find delightful evidence of the elegant, active lifestyle that surrounds you.\nLake Forest is in proximity to I-95 and the Crosstown Parkway, a new east to west parkway within Port St. Lucie.\nLake Forest is within the boundaries of the prestigious, master-planned community of St. Lucie West. Its residents are close enough to the restaurants, entertainment and the nightlife of St. Lucie West, but far enough to avoid crowds and congestion.\nLake Forest has everything needed close at hand, but just a ten-minute drive to the St. Lucie West community of Tradition will offer more shopping, big stores, restaurants, and seasonal events.\nFollowing the picturesque entry way you soon reach the lovely pergola entrance feature and gated entry. Once inside the gate, you will enter a maintenance free neighborhood that has been masterfully designed to offer luxury, security and belonging. Construction of Lake Forest started in 1999. was completed in 2005 by Kennedy Homes. There are 689 single-family houses ranging in sizes from 1,332 to 2,242 square feet. There are no back-to-back home sites and most homes enjoy views of lakes or nature preserves.\nVisit the resort style recreational facility, two swimming pools, fitness center and see what awaits you as a resident of this charming Treasure Coast neighborhood. Treat yourself to a refreshing swim in the shimmering pool or just relax on the pool deck. Enjoy biking and walking trails and you will know that you have found the best environment to enjoy an active South Florida lifestyle. You\u2019ll know you have truly found paradise.\nYou\u2019ve come to the right place! If your looking for a tile installation with permanence and artistry, look no further. You have found a tile setter who is passionate about my craft. When considering tile installation for your home in Lake Forest, the issue should never be who is cheapest, but rather who is best.\nIf you are looking for the highest quality workmanship at a competitive price, call for a FREE Tile installation estimate.\nCheck out Boyer Tile on Facebook for examples of tile installation projects completed.\nIn St. Lucie County Boyer Tile LLC. services Port St. Lucie, St. Lucie West, Tradition, Torino, Tesoro, Lake Charles, Lake Forest, Magnolia Lakes, PGA Village, The Vineyards, St James Golf Club, The Cascades, and Fort Pierce FL.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 8318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://braille.brl.org/formats/rule11.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:ONMPL3HLXUHX2SNBUQDFGXU54Y7MKONK", "length": 11543, "nlines": 72, "source_domain": "braille.brl.org", "title": "Rule 11", "raw_content": "Margin-numbered Texts\nHymnals and Songbooks\nLine-numbered texts. The following provisions apply to the transcription of prose and poetry when lines of the text are shown numbered in either the left or the right margin.\n(1) A line number, brailled without the number indicator, must be placed to end at the right margin of the braille line on which the print line begins.\n(2) Do not repeat the line number when a print line requires more than one braille line.\n(3) All line-numbered text and all notes to this text must end so that at least two blank cells are left before the beginning of the longest line number on the braille page.\n(4) No line-numbered text may be placed on the first or the last line of a braille page with the print and braille page numbers. However, any titles or headings that precede line numbered text may be placed on the first line unless a running head is used.\nNumbered lines of prose\n(1) Each line of prose must be numbered in braille whether or not all the lines are shown numbered in the print text.\n(2) Follow the print copy for indented or blocked paragraph format.\n(3) When a word is shown divided at the end of a line in print, this division must be shown in braille.\n(4) Where space permits, a new print line should be started on the same braille line after completion of the preceding print line. Three blank cells must be left between the end of the first line and the beginning of the second. The appropriate line number must be placed to end at the right margin.\n(5) Even though space would allow two short print lines to be started and completed on a single braille line, the transcription must be terminated at the end of the first print line. The second print line must be started in cell 1 on the next braille line.\nNumbered lines of poetry\n(1) Only the line numbers that are shown in the print text must be indicated in braille.\n(2) Retain the appropriate braille format for poetry provided in Rule 10, Section 1.\n(3) The two-cell margin before line numbers, as required in Section 1a(3) above, must be maintained at the end of each poetic line whether these numbers are actually shown or are simply implied.\nReferences and notes in line-numbered texts\n(1) Notes with print reference marks. Transcribe the print reference marks according to Rule 12, Section 1.\n(a) Notes to regular narrative text. The placement and format of notes that refer to regular narrative text must be according to Rule 12, Section 3b. These notes may be placed on the first or last line of the braille page, and they may extend into the two-cell margin that precedes the line numbers.\n(b) Notes to line-numbered text. The format of notes that refer to line-numbered text must be in accordance with Rule 12, Section 3b; however, these notes must be indented as provided in (4) below.\n(2) Notes without print reference marks. All notes shown without print reference marks must be transcribed according to Rule 12, Sections 2 and 3. These notes may be placed on the first or the last line of a braille page, but if they refer to line-numbered text they may not extend into the two-cell margin preceding the line numbers.\n(3) Notes identified by line number.Although the point in the text to which a note refers is indicated by a print reference mark (e.g., an asterisk or a numbered reference marker), whenever the note itself is identified by the line number observe the following.\n(a) At the appropriate reference point(s) in the text, insert the braille reference indicator (2356, 2356), preceded and followed by a blank cell.\n(b) If it is not possible to determine the exact point of reference within a print line, the braille reference indicator must be placed at the end of the print line.\n(c) Omit the print line number and insert only the braille reference indicator as provided in Rule 12, Section 3b(1) before the note which must be indented according to (4) below.\n(4) Indention of the notes that refer to line-numbered text.\n(a) Each note to line-numbered prose must start in cell 7 with runovers in cell 5.\n(b) Each note to line-numbered poetry must start four cells to the right of the beginning of the runover indention of the poem, whether or not there are runover lines. For example, when runovers of poetic lines begin in cell 3, notes must start in cell 7 with note runovers in cell 5; when runovers of poetic lines begin in cell 5, notes must start in cell 9 with note runovers in cell 7, and so forth.\n(c) Notes to line-numbered text may be placed on the first of the last line of the braille page, but they may not extend into the two-cell margin that precedes the line numbers.\nMargin-numbered paragraph When paragraphs of regular narrative text are shown numbered in either the left or right margin follow the directives given in Rule 1, Section 2a(8). For paragraphs showing double or decimal numeration, see Rule 5, Section 6b.\nVerse-numbered texts. for the transcription of verse-numbered poetry, see Rule 10, Section 1-1a(4)(a). The transcriber must be aware that specific formats and guidelines are provided by many sponsoring agencies for the transcription of Judeo-Christian scriptures and other religious materials. Some general directives are given for verse-numbered texts.\nBook titles, chapter numbers or titles\n(1) Book titles and chapter numbers or titles may be placed on line 1 unless a running head is used.\n(2) Each book title must be treated as a centered heading according to Rule 4, Section 2.\n(3) Each chapter number or title must be centered on the braille line with a blank line preceding but not following it.\nCommentaries. Commentaries must be left-aligned in cell 7. If this material follows a print title do not leave a blank line after the title.\nVerses and verse numbers\n(1) The first verse of each chapter must begin as an indented paragraph in cell 3 of a new braille line.\n(2) A verse number, brailled without the number indicator, must be placed to end at the right margin of the first braille line in the verse even when the print number is shown at the left-hand margin.\n(3) When a verse requires more than one braille line, do not repeat the verse numbers.\n(4) All braille lines of the text in this format and all notes to that text must end so that at least two blank cells are left before the beginning of the longest verse number of the braille page.\n(5) No braille lines of the text in this format may appear on the first or the last lines of a braille page with the print and braille page numbers.\n(6) Where space permits, a new verse must be started on the same braille line after completion of the preceding verse. Three blank cells must be left between the end of the first verse and the beginning of the second, and the appropriate verse number must be placed to end at the right margin.\n(7) Even though space would allow two short verses to be started and completed on a single braille line, the transcription must be terminated at the end of the first verse. The second verse must be started in cell 1 on the next braille line.\nReference marks and notes in verse-numbered texts\n(1) Transcribe reference marks according to Rule 12, Section 1. The placement and format of notes must be in accordance with Rule 12, Section 3. References to biblical and other religious materials must be brailled according to Rule 1, Section 15c. (2) Notes may be placed on the first or the last line of a braille page with the print and braille page numbers.\n(3) Notes must start in cell 7 with runovers in cell 5.\n(4) Notes must not extend into the two-cell margin that precedes the verse numbers.M\nHymnals and songbooks.\nLyrics without music notation. When a text shows only the words of a song or hymn printed in poetry format, follow the provisions given in Rule 10, Section 1. Numbered verses must be indicated according to the provisions of Rule 10, Section 1a(4)(a).\nLyrics with music notation. The rules provided in the Manual for Braille Music Notation, American Edition, with its International Supplement must be followed in transcribing all music notation, as well as any lyrics shown with that notation.\nLyrics with music notation that is to be omitted. In a text where lyrics of a song or hymn are accompanied by music notation for illustrative purposes only and there is no intention for that notation to be used for practice or performance, omit the music notation in the braille edition. A transcriber's note must be inserted to explain this omission, and the lyrics must be transcribed as directed below.\nNOTE: When a text shows lyrics of the first verse(s) of a song or hymn printed within the music notation followed by the remaining verses printed in poetry format, use the format provided below for all the verses in the braille edition.\n(1) Titles, hymn or song numbers\n(a) The title or number (both, if shown in print) of each hymn or song must be centered of the braille line. Title or numbers may be placed on line 1 unless a running head is used.\n(b) When information is printed below the title, e.g., names of composer, arranger, or date of copyright-not a permission to copy notice--the first of these items must start on the line below the title in cell 7, with runovers in cell 9.\nFirst present any information that is shown centered below the title, then information from the left side, followed by information from the right side. No blank lines must be left between these items, but a blank line must be left before the first verse. (c) If it is not possible to include the title or number (with any accompanying information) and at least two braille lines of the first verse at the end of a page, the song or hymn must begin on a new braille page.\n(2) Verse numbers and verses\n(a) Whether or not these numbers are shown in print, consecutive verse numbers must be placed starting in cell 1. After one blank cell, begin the lyrics of the verse on the same braille line, with runovers in cell 3.\n(b) Follow the print copy as to capitalization and punctuation of the verses, but omit hyphens that may be printed between syllables.\n(c) Do not attempt to indicate the ends of poetic lines within the verse of a hymn or song.\n(d) No blank lines must be left between verses.\n(3) Refrain or chorus. When a refrain or chorus is shown in print, it must be brailled only once and placed as directed below.\n(a) Whether or not it is shown in print, place the word (Refrain) or (Chorus) enclosed in parentheses starting in cell 1 on the braille line below the last line of the first verse.\n(b) After one blank cell, begin the words of the refrain or chorus on the same braille line, with runovers in cell 3. Omit the hyphens that may be printed between syllables.\n(c) Insert the word (Refrain) or (Chorus) enclosed in parentheses at the end of the last line of each succeeding verse.\n(d) If the refrain or chorus is shown in the text as a repeated verse, usually the first one, do not repeat it in braille. At the end of the last line of each succeeding verse, insert the word Repeat enclosed in parentheses and followed by the number of the verse that is to be repeated, e.g., (Repeat 1).\nReference marks and notes in hymns and songs\n(1) Reference marks must be transcribed according to Rule 12, Section 1. The placement and format of notes must be in accordance with Rule 12, Section 3.\n(2) Notes shown in hymns or songs that are printed and brailled in poetry format must be brailled as provided in Rule 10, Section 1e.\n(3) Notes shown in hymns or songs that are brailled as provided in Section 4c above must start in cell 7 with runovers in cell 5.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 12528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://breakinterview.com/government-jobs/daily-current-affairs/2018-01-15", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SOXAMCWQF2VSOY5PFLUT7RYWVLDHUO5F", "length": 3638, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "breakinterview.com", "title": "Daily Current Affairs: 15-Jan-2018 | BreakInterview", "raw_content": "1. PM Narendra Modi & Netanyahu hold delegation-level talks in New Delhi\nBenjamin Netanyahu, is the second Israeli PM to visit India after Ariel Sharon,.\nNine Memoranda of Understanding (MOU), including in the fields of cybersecurity, oil and gas, space and science and technology, civil aviation, information and broadcasting and health, were signed after the talks.\nMr. Netanyahu will inaugurate the third edition of the annual Raisina Dialogue in Delhi tomorrow and also visit Agra, Ahmedabad & Mumbai.\nCapital of Israel- Jerusalem\nCurrency of Israel- Israeli new shek\n2. 15th January 2018: 70th Army Day\nEvery year on this day, the \u2018Army Day\u2019 is celebrated to commemorate the day when General (later Field Marshal) K.M Carriappa tookover the command of Army from General Sir F.R.R Bucher, the last British Commander-in-Chief in 1949 and became the first Commander-in-Chief of Indian Army post Independence.\nChief of the Army Staff- General Bipin Rawat.\nThe President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army.\n3. Veteran Actress Charu Rohatgi Passes Away\nTV actress Charu Rohatgi, known for her roles in serials like 'Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon?' and 'Uttaran', passed away.\nShe reportedly passed away after a cardiac arrest. While Charu had played Parineeti Chopra's mother in the film 'Ishaqzaade', she had also starred in films like '1920: London'.\n4. Former Union minister Raghunath Jha passes away\nHe is a sitting MLA from Sheohar and six consecutive times MP from Gopalganj and Betiya, respectively.\nHis career included stints with several different political parties, including the Socialist Party, Congress, Rashtriya Janata Dal, and Samajwadi Party.\n5. Veteran journalist and writer Gnani Sankaran passes away\nVeteran Tamil writer, journalist and theatre personality, Gnani Sankaran (64-year) passed away at his residence in Chennai.\nGnani was seen joining AAP and unsuccessfully contesting from Alandur constituency in 2014 Lok Sabha polls\n1.Sanjay Manjrekar launches autobiography, titled \u2018Imperfect\u2019\nIndian Cricketer Dilip Vengsarkar has launched Cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar\u2019s autobiography named \u2018Imperfect\u2019, in Mumbai.\nthe book was published by Harper Collins.\n2. Australian Open: first Grand Slam of season begins in Melbourne\nToday, the first Grand Slam of the season 106th edition \"Australian Open-2018\" kicked off in Melbourne, Australia.\nThe men's draw features defending champ Roger Federer, 2017 runner-up Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka. while the women\u2019s draw is wide open, with just two former champions in action.\nFrom the Indian side, Yuki Bhambri (25-year) is a lone qualifier in the Men's Singles event.\nThe \"2018 Australian Open\" is a tennis tournament that will take place at Melbourne Park between 15\u201328th January 2018.\n1.New moth species \u2018Elcysma Ziroensis\u2019 discovered in Arunachal Pradesh\nIn the Talle Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh, a new moth species \u2018Elcysma Ziroensis\u2019 has been discovered.\nThis discovery has been published in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.\nThis new species has been scientifically named Elcysma Ziroensis.\n1.Anil Khanna to head IOA finance commission\nSenior sports administrator Anil Khanna has been named Chairman of the Finance Commission of the Indian Olympic Association, which also formed a four-member advisory committee.\n2.Vijay Kumar appointed NCDEX MD and CEO\nVijay Kumar has been appointed as the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of the country\u2019s largest agri- commodity bourse NCDEX.\nHe is an agro-industry veteran, having worked for Cargill and National Bulk Handling Corporation.\nHe will replace Samir Shah.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bridgetjonesglass.co.uk/pages/architectural-glass/james-cook-university-hospital.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:CHRTDD5UK5HGOOJBOHDKLIJQYG7OF3HS", "length": 187, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bridgetjonesglass.co.uk", "title": "Bridget Jones Glass - James Cook University Hospital", "raw_content": "Spinal Injuries Unit at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.\nThis scheme is part of the Healing Arts Programme for the new James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 95.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brokertraining.com.au/industry-news/154-outlook-for-2015-16.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:17Z", "digest": "sha1:32KL2XUJZW2KRSM2GCIG6BX655FR6NZU", "length": 3476, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "brokertraining.com.au", "title": "Mortgage Broker Training Courses - Diploma & Cert IV - Outlook for 2015-16 financial year", "raw_content": "Home News Outlook for 2015-16 financial year\nBy Cameron Kusher on June 30, 2015 in CoreLogic RP Data Indices, National Market, Research\nOver the first 11 months of the 2014-15 financial year, combined capital city home values have risen by 7.5% according to the CoreLogic RP Data Home Value Index. The Index is weighted based on the number of dwellings in each city and looking more closely at the results only Sydney and Melbourne have recorded value rises of more than 4.5% while values are lower in Perth and Hobart. Sydney has been the powerhouse of growth over the current phase, trailed by Melbourne. Meanwhile, the remaining capital cities have recorded very little capital growth despite the very accommodative monetary policy settings. Unsurprisingly, Sydney and Melbourne are also seeing relatively stronger economic conditions and are benefitting from both interstate and overseas migration, as well as the highest levels of interest from offshore investment.\nOver the past year we have seen the housing market become a much more prevalent topic of discussion. Although there is still no Federal Housing Minister we have seen a number of parliamentary inquiries into housing. We have also seen a number of pointed warnings about the heat in the Sydney and Melbourne housing markets from both the Reserve Bank and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA). In December 2014 APRA wrote to Australian financial institutions re-iterating what sound lending practices look like and highlighted potential changes for these institutions in the event that these prudent measures weren\u2019t being adhered to. Since then we\u2019ve seen a number of changes to lending practices by lenders.\nLooking at what the next 12 months is likely to hold the expectation is that mortgage rates will remain low however; with lenders changing their lending policies, accessing a mortgage may become more difficult. After three years of strong value growth in Sydney and Melbourne we expect growth to continue however, it should start to slow over the year especially as housing supply continues to trend beyond the current record highs. We are already seeing signs of growth in other markets around the country particularly areas like Newcastle and Wollongong adjacent to Sydney as well as certain pockets in Brisbane and the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.\nWe would expect the dramatic differential in affordability in these areas relative to Sydney and Melbourne will drive more buyers to these areas.\nOn the other hand we are seeing significant signs of weakness in both the Perth and Darwin housing markets along with many of the regional markets linked to the resources sector. These markets are characterised by: slowing value growth or falling home values, falling rental rates, declining sales, increasing discounting levels and time on market and an increase in properties available for sale.\nOverall, it looks as though housing market conditions will remain mixed across the country over the next 12 months.\nSydney and Melbourne are likely to continue to be the stand-outs for capital growth however; we expect that over the year the rate of growth will reduce back to more sustainable levels.\nWe may also see a further pick-up in growth in markets such as Brisbane, Newcastle, Wollongong and the Gold and Sunshine Coast.\nGrowth in markets such as Adelaide, Hobart and Canberra is likely to remain contained while weakness in mining areas and Perth and Darwin is likely to persist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 4496, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://burkitts.org/survivors/jonathangriffis.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MUUHUPLMY7CYE43RS4VOS4JUEDMAC2N4", "length": 6457, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "burkitts.org", "title": "Burkitt's Lymphoma Resources - information, discussion & links on burkitts lymphoma cancer", "raw_content": "JONATHAN GRIFFIS\nHi my name is Jonathan. I was 15 and a normal teenager, who loves to play basketball and skateboard when I found out I had cancer. 2 weeks later I turned 16 and here is my story.\nOn February 22,2001 I went into surgery because the Doctors thought I had a hernia but when they got in it wasn't that at all they found this mass in my intestine. The doctors removed 12 inches of my intestines which at that time they just weren't sure what is was. On February 28,2001 they told us it was Burkitts none of my family knew what to say. The Doctors then told us as large as the tumor was (the size of a grapefruit) we were looking at 6 - 12 months of chemotherapy. On March 2, 2001 when they did my CT Scan, Blood Scan and Bone Scan, the doctors came in my room and were all excited and happy with good news. They said the surgeon did a great job and it appears he removed all the cancer so now I will only have to receive 7 chemotherapy treatments. On April 24, 2001 was my last treatment now they will repeat my Scans and remove my Port. This is an article our local paper ran. Any one wishing to talk to me about my experience please e-mail me I would love to talk to you.\nJonathan Griffis Ghstbstr@atlantic.net\nThe following is the article from the Bradford County Telegraph\n\u00a9 Bradford County Telegraph 2001\nJonathan Griffis, a local teenager, was diagnosed with cancer on Feb. 28, and his parents and his faith are helping him through a tough situation.\nLocal teen deals with a tough situation-\n\"My family has been worried, but we're doing okay,\" Jonathan had to say at the local hair salon, Illusions, where his mom was having her hair cut short to live up to the agreement she made with her son.\n\"I decided that when he had to cut his hair because of the chemo I was going to have my hair cut and donate it to Locks of Love (an organization that provides wigs for children who lose their hair because of cancer),\" said Diana Crawford, Jonathan's mother.\nJonathan had been feeling ill earlier this year, so on Feb. 22, he went to the emergency room at Shands at Alachua General (AGH) in Gainesville, Florida. They had noticed a mass in his stomach. The emergency room doctor thought at first it was a hernia, so he called on the on-call surgeon for consultation.\nThe plan was to use drugs to relax his stomach so what they thought was a hernia could be pushed back in. That did not work and it was planned, on agreement with the family, for exploratory surgery.\nWhile in surgery a grapefruit-size tumor was found where the small intestine connects to the large intestine. The tumor had to be removed and with it came a section of his intestines.\nOn Feb. 28 Jonathan and his family found out what the mass was, cancer. Not only cancer but a rare form, Burkitt's Lymphoma, a form of cancer that has only about 100 new cases a year. This cancer is most common in males and tends to occur most often in pediatric patients.\n\"I think everyone's heart stopped, just like it did after the surgery when that doctor came out to speak to us,\" said Crawford, his mom.\nJonathan's life was changing, he had a nine day hospital stay at both AGH and Shands at the University of Florida (UF). Jonathan's cancer had been caught in the first stages, but he would have to undergo chemotherapy.\nOn March 3, he came home for the weekend. He returned to the hospital on March 7, to have a Port-a-Catheter surgically implanted. This tube would tap into a main blood supply at his heart and would be used for blood tests and to deliver the medicines used in the chemotherapy treatments he would receive the next several weeks.\nJonathan, who loves to play basketball and had been athletic, was now very sick and very tired. \"The chemo makes me tired a lot, I don't feel like doing much,\" Jonathan said.\nJonathan had been attending Bradford High School (BHS) but because his illness caused him to miss school, he was put into the home schooling program. \"The school has been good about giving me a visitor's pass so that I can still see my friends and teachers,\" said Jonathan.\nA couple of weeks ago Jonathan started his chemotherapy and he was told that he would lose his hair. That is when his mom made the deal with her son that when he lost his hair, she would have her long hair cut short and donate it to Locks of Love. Recently Jonathan's hair started to fall out and it was decided to cut his hair short and his mom made her appointment to do the same. Jonathan said that he had never had very short hair and it was going to take some getting used to. His mom thought that her short hair would probably make it easier to get dressed for work of a morning.\nJonathan is dealing with what is considered a tough situation even for adults, but he says his faith has helped him cope. He is a member and active participant at Victory Revival Center.\n\"My church's youth group has a booth at the fair to raise money for our trip to Tennessee this summer for a retreat,\" said Jonathan. He plans to spend a little time at the booth to help support his youth group's efforts. \"I get tired, but I hope to spend as much time as I can helping.\"\nApril 2, started a series of chemo that lasts longer than any previous treatments he has done. The treatment, which lasts several hours, is administered intravenously. 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Six years later, on 15 January 1998, the peaceful reintegration of Eastern Slavonia and the Danube region was completed.\nIn the past 24 years Croatia has realized all of its strategic goals. 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Dr. Bates did his cardiology fellowship at the University of Kentucky and was retained as a Clinical Scholar in Interventional Cardiology between 1991 and 1992. Subsequently, he completed a peripheral interventional, vascular medicine and surgery fellowship at the William Dorros - Isadora Feuer Interventional Cardiovascular Disease Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (University of Wisconsin). Dr. Bates has been involved in clinical innovation throughout his career including many firsts for West Virginia (1st Coronary stent 1993, peripheral stents 1993, Carotid stent 1995, handmade stent graft 1996, modular stent graft 1998, etc.). In addition, he has developed many new technologies from concept to first-in-man studies. His work in new device innovation has led to 60 issued or pending US patents in the areas of embolic protection, gene therapy, stem cell implantation, regenerative therapy, nanotechnology, spinal cord injury, catheter design, deep brain stimulation and drug delivery. He has over 100 peer review publications and his clinical research has been highlighted in many international meetings. Dr. Bates has been recognized for his contribution to the field of vascular intervention including a recent lifetime achievement award (Leader in EndoVascular Education - LIVE Award) presented during the 2016 VIVA (Vascular InterVentional Advances) international congress in Las Vegas. He is also a recipient of the American Heart Association (AHA) Heart of Gold Award and an Honorary Doctorate Degree from The University of Charleston. Through his career Dr. Bates has held several academic appointments and including Professor of Medicine and Surgery at West Virginia University School of Medicine where he currently holds a Clinical Professor position. He also is the founder and Co-Director of the CAMC Vascular Center of Excellence, which has been highlighted as one of the first multidiscipline vascular programs, of its kind, in the US. Dr. Bates is on the American Board of Vascular Medicine (ABVM) and is a member of many medical societies and presently sits on the editorial boards of several cardiovascular journals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 4119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 160.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cancergiving.org/?pageID=39&docID=1033", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:27Z", "digest": "sha1:56G5XPZ2SQG6KLT44QVA5YDAJXTI4ZK2", "length": 9060, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "cancergiving.org", "title": "Tax News - Private Letter Ruling", "raw_content": "A private foundation (\"Foundation\") requested advance approval of its grant procedures. Foundation plans to operate two educational grant programs\u0097B and C. The purpose of the grants is to provide resources to artists who demonstrate artistic excellence so that they can grow as artists, experiment and advance their aesthetic inquiry. Grant recipients will use the funds to produce artistic works and will be granted an exhibition, public lecture or public performance to display the work. The grants will be available to artists who are residents of D, are at least 18 years old and are producing work in the visual arts (if applying for B) or who agree to participate in a public engagement project, such as a lecture or exhibition (if applying for C). To apply, artists must complete an online application, attach a resume and provide 10 images or videos of their artistic works. The grant recipients will be selected by a committee comprised of a pool of respected individuals in the art community from out of state, including art curators and museum professionals. Relatives of the selection committee, as well as Foundation's board members, staff and their immediate family will not be eligible for awards.\nExpenditures from private foundations to individuals for travel, study or other similar purposes are generally taxable expenditures. However, Sec. 4945(g) provides an exception for grants that meet certain requirements. The award must (1) be made on an objective, nondiscriminatory basis; (2) it must receive advance approval from the IRS; and (3) it must be a scholarship or fellowship grant subject to Sec. 117(a), a prize or award subject to the provisions of Section 74(b) or made to achieve a specific objective, produce a report or similar product or improve or enhance a literary, artistic, musical, scientific, teaching or other similar skill or talent of the recipient. Here, the Service determined that Foundation's procedures for awarding grants meet the requirements of Sec. 4945(g). As such, the grants will not be considered taxable expenditures.\nPLR 201839016\tGrants to Artists Not Taxable\nYou asked for advance approval of your two educational grant procedures under Internal Revenue Code Section 4945(g)(3). This approval is required because you are a private foundation that is exempt from federal income tax.\nWe approved your procedures for awarding the two educational grants. Based on the information you submitted, and assuming you will conduct your program as proposed, we determined that your procedures for awarding educational grants meet the requirements of Code Section 4945(g)(3). As a result, expenditures you make under these procedures won't be taxable.\nYou will operate two educational grant programs; B and C. The purpose of B and C are to provide resources to an artist demonstrating artistic excellence and to promote innovation, experimentation and creative risk taking. Grants under B and C are awarded based on the artistic excellence of work previously created by the applicant. The awards are to support the growth of the artist moving forward, allowing experimentation, the ability to change scale, media, etc., much like an incubation award. The intent is to allow the artist the creative time to advance their aesthetic inquiry.\nThe number of grants to be made annually will be determined from time to time by the board of directors based on funds available, the amount of time available for staff to supervise the grantees and the perceived demand from the art community.\nThe amount of each grant to be made annually will be determined from time to time by the board of directors based on funds available and the board's evaluation of the amount needed to accomplish the goals of the program and attract good applicants.\nUnder B you are offering an h dollars fellowship to a D artist working in the visual arts in recognition of exceptional original work which adds to D's renowned cultural lexicon. H will be paid out in two parts. The first part will be j dollars upon the announcement of the award. In addition, the awardee will be granted a solo exhibition at the E in F at the end of the year of the award period. The artist will also be invited to present one public lecture. Once the solo exhibition and public lecture have been completed, the remaining k dollars will be paid. The solo exhibition must be the work they produced during the award year.\nC will award up to four stipends of m dollars each, furnish individual studio space for six months located at G in F, and provide a public engagement project of the artist's choice. A portion of the m dollars will be withheld until after the public engagement project has been completed.\nTo be eligible for B applicants must:\nhave resided in the state of D for at least one year prior to submission\nmaintain their residency in D during the award year\ncurrently be producing work in the visual arts, which includes painting, sculpture, printmaking, media arts, social practice.\nTo be eligible for C applicants must:\n1)\tbe at least 18 years old\n2)\tbe a full-time resident of D\n3)\tbe an artist of any type of discipline\n4)\tbe required to take part in C within a set time frame\n5)\tbe willing to take part in a component of public engagement of their choice, for example a lecture, exhibition, performance, public art, intervention, collaboration etc.; and\n6)\tbe willing to participate in events hosted by you.\nUnder both B and C, your board members, staff, and their immediate family members may not apply, nor may those artists who enjoy a personal or financial relationship that would create a conflict of interest with any of your staff or board members.\nBoth B and C will be publicized on your website, through social and print media, and through you and your cultural partner's mailing lists.\nApplications for the grants under B and C are submitted electronically. For B, the applicant must submit a resume and ten images and/or videos. For C, the applicant must submit a resume and ten jpegs of their work. Images should be current \u0097 no more than two years old. Performing artists should submit work samples in currently popular, cross-platform, video formats. They should indicate preferred studio space with alternate choices.\nThe committee for B will be selected by your Executive Director and the Executive Director of the E. Members will be from out of state and selected from a pool of respected individuals of the art community. The review will be a \"blind\" review which means the applications will not reveal the name of the artist to eliminate bias. For C, the juror(s) will be selected by your Executive Director. In both cases the selection committee will change with each grant round to bring different points of view or aesthetic preference to the process, thereby eliminating bias.\nSelection criteria under B and C programs will be based on artistic excellence. Applications will be evaluated by a panel of experts in the field and applicants will be notified by email of acceptance into residency. The jurors will be respected curators and museum professionals who understand fully the formal principals applied to make a work of fine art but also the current thinking on the intra genres, social practice and media.\nCompliance with conditions and requirements will be determined at the time of the grant and monitored by you throughout the grant period in accordance with the grant terms. Awardees will be required to have periodic \"check ins\" with the executive director: 1) under B, they must check in monthly and 2) under C, they must check in weekly. Photographs of progress will be shared with the public on your website and social media pages. A final report will be required from all awardees: 1) under B they will have a final report and exit interview and 2) under C, they will have an exit interview. If the terms of the grant are violated the final payments will not be issued and recipients will not be eligible to apply for any future awards. No grant renewals are anticipated. They can apply for another grant, however under B, they may only receive one grant award every ten years.\nYou represented that you will: (1) investigate diversions of funds from their intended purposes, (2) take all reasonable and appropriate steps to recover diverted funds, ensure other grant funds held by a grantee are used for their intended purposes, and (3) withhold further payments to grantees until you obtain grantees' assurances that future diversions will not occur and that grantees will take extraordinary precautions to prevent future diversions from occurring.\nYou represented that you will maintain all records relating to individual grants, including information obtained to evaluate grantees, identify whether a grantee is a disqualified person, establish the amount and purpose of each grant, and establish that you undertook the supervision and investigation of grants.\nTo receive approval of its educational grant procedures. 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These awards are a fantastic opportunity to acknowledge the great work they do.\nThis year we are introducing two new categories for recognition - Young Volunteer Award and Impact on Equality and Diversity Award, hopefully recognising even more of those willing people going that extra mile.\nDo you know someone who goes way beyond the call of duty and all in the name of Paddlesports? If so, you can nominate them for one of the categories listed below. Nominating these individuals will ensure they receive recognition for the difference they make.\nIf you would like to nominate a club or person for one of these awards please complete a Nomination Form (available at the bottom of this page). The Deadline for nominations is the 14th September, with the Winners being invited to an informal awards ceremony on evening of 17th November, at the Well Run Clubs Conference at National Centre Inverclyde.\nThis award recognises outstanding service to our sport, and provides an opportunity for you to nominate someone, who acts in a voluntary capacity, and makes a significant contribution to the sport. This could be a coach, paddler or club member. The nominees can be anyone in the paddling community.\nThis new award recognises a young person who is under 19 on 1st January 2018 who commits time and effort to the club, centre or community throughout the year in one or more unpaid roles. Consider young people who volunteer behind the scenes as well as those who have made the successful step on a coaching/leadership pathway. The nominee must be an SCA member.\nAndy Jackson Award for Contribution to Access and Environment\nThis award is open to those who have achieved great things working to improve/preserve access and/or conserve the canoeing environment. Do you know someone who e.g. maintains good relations with local landowners or other water users? The nominees can be anyone in the paddling community.\nImpact on Equality and Diversity Award\nThis new award seeks is for an individual or a group who have made a difference to make paddlesport more accessible to all, increasing opportunities for under-represented groups to participate. The nominees can be anyone in the paddling community.\nThis award is for coaches who give up their free time (and who don\u2019t coach for a living) \u2013 working within schools, clubs, youth groups, volunteer groups etc. They pass on skills and knowledge, and encourage others to have a go and improve their paddling. The nominee must be an SCA member.\nThis award for someone who coaches for a living, but always goes that extra mile (main source of employment is in coaching). The nominee must be an SCA member.\nThe award is for a volunteer coach that dedicates much of their time to the development of junior paddlers. They can be a coach of any age! The nominee must be an SCA member.\nThis award acknowledges the fantastic work being carried out in clubs across Scotland. Club of the year is open to all SCA affiliated clubs and the winning club will receive \u00a350 towards their next affiliation fee. The winner will be selected by considering what the club does, how well the club is organised, connected, promoted and its plans for the future. 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Can this be true? They quote the law and it sounds pretty convincing\u2026. \u2013Marion\nQ2: Is it true that according to canon law, a Jesuit cannot become Pope? \u2013Phil\nA: Many Catholics are well aware that in some parts of the world, Pope Francis\u2019 popularity is on the wane. This might explain why there\u2019s a minority out there that seems very willing to jump on board, when questions arise about the validity of the 2013 conclave that elected him.\nFor obvious reasons, this is potentially a very serious issue! Since papal conclaves are held in secret, we non-Cardinals will never have any direct knowledge of what actually took place in the Sistine Chapel back in March 2013. Consequently, suggestions that something went procedurally amiss are usually based on speculation and rumor\u2014which means, in other words, that they are baseless.\nBut the issue which Marion mentions is different, because this time it\u2019s based on a very public statement made by Pope Francis himself. The whole controversy arose because of an interview the Pope gave last year to Il Messaggero, a major Italian newspaper, in which he stated in Italian,\nI follow that which the cardinals requested during the general congregations before the conclave. I\u2019m going in that direction. The council of eight cardinals, an external organism, emerged from there. It was requested to help in reforming the curia\u2026.. My decisions are the fruit of the meetings before the conclave. I have done nothing alone.\nWhy would this raise any eyebrows? Well, because Universi Dominici Gregis, the current law governing the functioning of conclaves which was promulgated by St. John Paul II in 1996, happens to say this:\nI likewise forbid the Cardinals before the election to enter into any stipulations, committing themselves of common accord to a certain course of action should one of them be elevated to the Pontificate. These promises too, should any in fact be made, even under oath, I also declare null and void (UDG 82).\nOn the surface, therefore, it looks like Pope Francis announced to the world in 2014 that he had \u201ccut a deal in advance of the conclave,\u201d as Marion put it, and is still abiding by it. What on earth is going on here?\nSince the conclave in question took place fairly recently, most of us should be able to recall clearly that the off-the-record, daily pre-conclave meetings of the assembled Cardinals were said to focus heavily on the need to reform the Vatican Curia. The dysfunctionality of the Roman bureaucracy was of course already well known to them; their discussions seem primarily to have centered around the best way(s) to correct it. During these pre-conclave gatherings, various individual Cardinals in turn addressed the group, presenting their own personal concerns and ideas about reform. Engaging in this sort of frank dialogue is, understandably, the very reason why these meetings take place before a conclave officially starts.\nAs we all know, Cardinal Bergoglio was present at these meetings, and so he naturally heard the debate. His recent remarks to Il Messaggero, therefore, make perfect sense: Francis says that he heard the various proposals that his fellow-Cardinals were recommending in those pre-conclave meetings, and is now acting on them. But does this constitute a violation of conclave law? Let\u2019s take a closer look at the paragraph of Universi Dominici Gregis already quoted above.\nWhen read in isolation, paragraph 82 might seem to a casual reader to be frustratingly vague. It would almost seem to suggest that before a conclave takes place, the Cardinals aren\u2019t allowed to agree on problems, and/or identify possible strategies to resolve them! In actual fact, however, the true meaning of this prohibition is crystal-clear, if we read it in its full context. John Paul II intended paragraph 82 to dovetail with the paragraph immediately before it (that\u2019s why 82 includes the word \u201clikewise\u201d). So what does the preceding paragraph 81 say?\nThe Cardinal electors shall further abstain from any form of pact, agreement, promise or other commitment of any kind which could oblige them to give or deny their vote to a person or persons. If this were in fact done, even under oath, I decree that such a commitment shall be null and void and that no one shall be bound to observe it; and I hereby impose the penalty of excommunication latae sententiae upon those who violate this prohibition. It is not my intention however to forbid, during the period in which the See is vacant, the exchange of views concerning the election (UDG 81).\nIn other words, these paragraphs of the law governing papal conclaves pertain to the very real possibility of a faction of Cardinals agreeing to support a particular candidate, in exchange for his promise, if he is elected, to do something that they want. Paragraph 81 states unequivocally that if such an agreement were made, and the candidate were in fact elected Pope, he would not be obliged to adhere to such a promise. And the following paragraph notes that \u201clikewise,\u201d members of a faction whose pet-candidate was elected Pope would not be required to keep any promises that they might have made to him before his election.\nIt should be evident that the notion of a group of Cardinals, secretly banding together and cutting a deal to promote a particular candidate for Pope, is a far cry from an elected Pope freely choosing to accept some/most/all of the ideas proffered by his fellow Cardinals during pre-conclave discussions about the Church\u2019s problems. As the Brits would say, they\u2019re about as different as chalk and cheese.\nOn top of that, any claim that the former Cardinal Bergoglio would have agreed to be a candidate for the papacy, and promised to do certain things as Pope in exchange for votes, is contradicted by the well known fact that he never wanted the job. To get an idea of how opposed to the notion Bergoglio was, check out this leaked account of what happened during the 2005 conclave which elected Joseph Ratzinger\u2014during which voting Jorge Bergoglio was consistently in second place. Apparently there was a very real possibility that if Bergoglio had been elected back then, he intended to refuse to accept the election (which anyone elected Pope has the right to do, as per UDG 87).\nBut if that\u2019s not enough to convince readers that the idea of the invalidity of Francis\u2019 election is utterly groundless, there\u2019s more. Let\u2019s go back to UDG 81 and 82, and look at the wording more carefully. If, for the sake of argument, Cardinal Bergoglio really had banded together with a group of his fellow Cardinals, and agreed to undertake certain things if they voted for him, what are the consequences of his making such a deal?\nActually, the answer is quite clear, for those who bother to look! Paragraph 81 says that if Cardinals make promises in exchange for voting a certain way, \u201csuch a commitment shall be null and void and that no one shall be bound to observe it; and I hereby impose the penalty of excommunication latae sententiae upon those who violate this prohibition.\u201d It is the \u201ccommitment\u201d (i.e., the promises made), and not the election, that is null and void. Note that while the wording is harsh, and the ultimate penalty of excommunication is levied on those Cardinals (but not on their candidate!) who bargain with their votes, the paragraph does not say that the election would be invalid.\nAlthough the threat of excommunication is absent from paragraph 82, its wording is similar. Regarding promises made by a Cardinal in exchange for the votes of his confreres, \u201cthese promises too, should any in fact be made, even under oath, I also declare null and void.\u201d The text is unequivocal: the promises are null and void\u2014not the election itself!\nIn short, this is a non-story. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever to be concerned that the Pope\u2019s recent remarks revealed any problem with his election to the papacy.\nPhil\u2019s question is easier to address. There are, sadly, some anti-Catholic American Christians out there who have recently been suggesting that Pope Francis was not validly elected, \u201cbecause a Jesuit can\u2019t be Pope.\u201d This claim is, of course, never accompanied by any sort of evidence to back it up.\nThe issue of who can be elected Pope was addressed in \u201cCanon Law and the Upcoming Conclave,\u201d but in a nutshell, any bishop can be elected (c. 332.1) If the Cardinal-electors choose a man who is not a bishop, he must be consecrated a bishop immediately, and he then becomes Pope once he accepts his election. Historically, this has indeed happened: Gregory XVI was a Camaldolese monk, and not a bishop when he was elected Pope in 1831.\nNote that Gregory XVI was also a member of a religious institute. There is no prohibition whatsoever on the Cardinals electing a Jesuit, or a Franciscan (Nicholas IV was elected in 1288, only a few decades after the Franciscans had come into existence), a Dominican (like St. Pius V, elected in 1566), an Augustinian (Eugene IV was elected in 1431) or any other member of a religious institute. Period.\nIn any case, think about it: every Cardinal who entered the conclave in March 2013 had his own copy of Universi Dominici Gregis, the current law on conclave procedure, provided for him in advance at his seat in the Sistine Chapel. On top of that, the Cardinal-electors included in their ranks some of the finest canon lawyers on earth. Does it really make sense to think that they all somehow managed to botch the election, by choosing a man who was canonically ineligible for the job\u2014and that the only ones who have noticed this are a tiny handful of protestants in the U.S.? The sheer absurdity of such an idea should be obvious to all.\nSo where are they getting this idea, then? It could be that they are confused by the promise made by every Jesuit, at the time of his final profession as a member of the Society of Jesus: \u201cI will never strive or ambition, not even indirectly, to be chosen or promoted to any prelacy or dignity in or outside the Society.\u201d The former Cardinal Bergoglio\u2019s conduct was fully in keeping with this promise; as was said earlier, he made it abundantly clear to all that he had no desire to be Pope. An excellent discussion of the reality of a Jesuit Pope can be read here, but in general, it may be that the whole notion looks \u201cwrong\u201d to some people, simply because it has never happened before!\nTo sum up, there is zero evidence that anything went wrong at the 2013 papal conclave. 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According to the NCAA, the sanctions stemmed from misconduct at last spring\u2019s Division III National Championships.\nIn a Nov. 9 statement, the NCAA said that a Snapchat video was brought forward in August displaying three team members drinking alcohol on the team bus after PSUC\u2019s title match on March 18. The players were not named. The statement also claimed that administrators and coaches were aware of the activities that transpired.\nPSUC appealed the decision in October, but the NCAA upheld the suspensions and reprimand, while reducing the financial penalty.\nAthletic Director Michael Howard had hoped that the college\u2019s internal punishments would have been enough but accepted the NCAA\u2019s sanctions. What he took issue with was the NCAA\u2019s notion that administrators knew about the misconduct.\n\u201cObviously some mistakes were made, and I have no problem taking some responsibility,\u201d Howard said. \u201cWhere Coach (Kevin) Houle and I take issue is the way the statement is worded. One could read into it in many different ways. We just wanted to make it clear that we don\u2019t condone the behavior and it wasn\u2019t something we were a part of on the bus.\u201d\nHoule agreed with Howard\u2019s first sentiment, saying that the NCAA\u2019s decision was unexpected in its severity.\n\u201cIt was something that was wrong, and misconduct was there,\u201d Houle said. \u201cTheir view of a punishment was a bit heavier than we expected. At the end of the day, it is what it is. We thought it was a bit excessive in all areas, but we have to deal with it and move on.\u201d\nHoule was not concerned this would affect recruiting.\n\u201cIt will only hurt us if teams try to use it against us, and teams that do that walk a fine line,\u201d Houle said. \u201cMost kids and parents can see through negative recruiting, so I\u2019m not too concerned about that.\u201d\nThe news of the punishment dropped the day after the Cards suffered their first loss of the season, losing to the Norwich 4-3. Both national polls (USCHO.com, D3hockey.com) dropped PSUC to No. 2 in the nation, marking the first time since March 2, 2015 that the Cards have not been in the No. 1 spot, according to D3hockey.com\u2019s Twitter account.\nHoule hopes that will give PSUC some extra motivation to help move on and put this past week behind them.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be hungry, because we did lose our last regular season game,\u201d Houle said. \u201cThere still should be a bitter taste in their mouths from last Wednesday.\u201d\nSenior defenseman Lizzy Viola echoed her coach, citing the loss to Norwich as something to learn from.\n\u201cIt\u2019s never nice to lose, but it\u2019s good for us to get reminded that we can be taken down,\u201d Viola said. \u201cIt\u2019s helped us refocus and get motivated to put a hurting on the next team we play and re-establish ourselves.\u201d\nThis weekend, the Cards will play back-to-back Saturday/Sunday games against Oswego at home in the Ronald B. 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Perhaps, for consideration, you might combine a couple of your foreign policy goals into one bullet, thereby allowing inclusion of another in your top ten, i.e. the reformation of the tax code.\nPersonally, I favor the Flat Tax. There are a variety of flavors of taxation, but I would definitely eliminate the progressive brackets, giving everyone an equal \u201cbuy-in\u201d or \u201cpay-in\u201d \u2014 points recently elegantly articulated by Dr Ben Carson.\nAn example is Dr Carson\u2019s discussion at the National Prayer Breakfast :\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFb6NU1giRA\nor his presentation at the CPAC 2013:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiyAW5ZMdcM\nVires et Honestas !\ndan on June 17, 2013 at 9:59 am said:\nSandy, good point on the editing. I fully agree with the Flat Tax but also like some portions of the Fair Tax program. At any rate, with my proposed entitlement cuts and drastic downsizing of the government there would be much less dollar requirement. Who knows, maybe we could pay off this unbelievable debt. While we are at it (thanks for the segue) it is time we transition our monetary system back to the gold standard and off the paper standard that the Fed has instituted. We can do that while shutting down the Fed.\nCharlie N on June 17, 2013 at 9:46 am said:\nIf you had the money to run, you would have my vote, might even contribute. My suggestion for first Cabinet office to shut down in number 1would be Education. Clearly a local issue! Perhaps the border could be shut down with retired military and a few of the tanks and APCs in storage? Until some of the active duty troops can be brought home and fences built.\nCharlie, I agree with your assessment of the Department of Education. We need to be responsible for OUR kids\u2019 education, not Uncle Sugar\nDr. Barbara Collier on June 17, 2013 at 11:55 am said:\nAs usual, your common sense guides you. Perhaps if you do not run for President, you could start a new political party named just that \u2013 the Common Sense Party. I loved, and do support, your ten points. If you ever run for anything, you have my vote.\nGreg Zietlow on June 17, 2013 at 12:44 pm said:\nI would add to your point 4 regarding bills: Limit the bill to no more than 8 pages in length, 12 point font and double spaced. No more bill so long that it can\u2019t be read in less than 30 minutes.\ndan on June 17, 2013 at 12:52 pm said:\nGreg, that\u2019s a great idea!!\nGary on June 17, 2013 at 5:22 pm said:\nHeartily agree with all ten points. By the way, don\u2019t criticize yourself too much. As I recall, a fellow named Woodrow Wilson had fourteen\u2026.\nWith regard to point number 10, something must be done about those \u201ccitizens\u201d who are willing to abdicate their responsibilities and turn over control of their conscious being to chemicals. Such behavior causes problems for all of us and there must be serious consequences for what can only be construed as anti-social behavior. Some of your correspondents must have some useful ideas about how to proceed.\ndan on June 17, 2013 at 6:21 pm said:\nGary, I see that as one of the main problems with our country today. So many people are too lazy to take responsibility for their own lives and just want to live on the dole. This is one area that people have to change their way of life. Otherwise we will be just like Greece.\nLt. Tim S. on June 17, 2013 at 7:55 pm said:\n120 years ago all drugs were legal for private use. If someone wants to smoke their brains out or shoot themselves up to oblivion it should be their business as long as they do not infringe on some other persons rights. It is not society\u2019s job to insure everyone\u2019s mental health. If they do not have the cojones to cope, to bad. 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Thumbnail Theater", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 100.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cheaplifeinsuranceonline.net/illinois/jonesboro-il-life-insurance-quotes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:03Z", "digest": "sha1:LB5NHSIL63S2JQR5KZD4SB34JUVA5AX3", "length": 1638, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "cheaplifeinsuranceonline.net", "title": "Jonesboro IL Life Insurance Quotes", "raw_content": "Jonesboro IL Life Insurance Quotes\nFinding the best life insurance in Jonesboro, IL is a simple and quick affair if you use our website. All you need to do is enter your Zip Code at the top of the page and the search engine will locate the best life insurance providers in your area. Comparing quotes from these insurers will help you locate cheap online life insurance. The process is quick and easy and can definitely get your lower premiums in most cases.\nThe first step is to take some time and search online for the top companies that can provide you with the services that you are looking for. Simply searching for life insurance in Jonesboro, IL will surely give you a host of the top companies that provide this service in the country. It is important to decide what company you feel is worthy of your business. Each company is different in the kind of service they provide as well as how much effort they take to inform their clients.\nFirst you must get quotes from the various companies that are available in Jonesboro, IL. When you get these quotes you must think about the fact that the price is not the only thing to consider. While a great deal is regulated by law, every company has the choice to decide to some degree what they are willing to offer.\nIf you want to find the best in Jonesboro life insurance quote possible you must do the research necessary. Take the time to understand what the investment you make means to you as well as those around you. In essence, we are all so very lucky to live this life. Without this gift of life who knows what the life could be like on the great planet known as Earth to us all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://childofillusion.blogspot.com/2012/07/lets-think-good-and-hard-about-this-one.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:07Z", "digest": "sha1:IBR6X2AQUJFYG2UYTQ6DDOETVDGDVF2G", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "childofillusion.blogspot.com", "title": "Child of Illusion: Let's think good and hard about this one", "raw_content": "I've offered this quotation before here on \"Child of Illusion\". It's time for a repeat:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 3546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://christopherlewer.com/why-sylvester-stallone-really-sold-his-dog/?share=google-plus-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:24Z", "digest": "sha1:SM4B3K3BPW3TOYRLVLFXJPRCSNF4LHLD", "length": 3295, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "christopherlewer.com", "title": "The Truth About Why Sylvester Stallone Really Sold His Dog", "raw_content": "Sylvester Stallone\u2019s life genuinely is a rags to riches story. A penniless actor with limited prospects, Stallone\u2019s big break began in 1975 when he was inspired to write the screenplay for rocky. But the story it told was never primarily about a boxer. It was about a man\u2019s ability to overcome the odds and to realise a dream that most people had tried to convince him was beyond his reach.\nIn many ways, the story of Rocky was a biopic of the actor\u2019s early life.\nSo where did Stallone\u2019s dog fit into all this? Well, you\u2019ve probably heard a version of the story before, but it goes pretty much like this.\nIn 1975, Sylvester Stallone was living in New York and pursuing his acting career. He was struggling to gain any momentum, receiving rejection after rejection at auditions he attended. He began to write screenplays, but similarly these also met with little interest.\nThe actor had run out of money and was barely able to feed himself and his family.\nIn March 1975, Stallone watched the world heavyweight title fight between Muhammad Ali and Chuck Wepner in which a courageous but outclassed Wepner managed to make it through to the very last round before finally being knocked out by the great champion. It was this fight that inspired Stallone to write his screenplay.\nBut his struggle wasn\u2019t over yet. His latest script continued to be rejected by movie producers and, with no money in his pocket, he finally had no choice but to sell his beloved dog Butkus for just $50.\nSome months later, Stallone was finally offered $25,000 for the Rocky screenplay, along with the starring role. The first thing he did was to try to find his dog. He spent three days searching for the man he sold Butkus to and when he found him, he offered him $150 to buy the dog back. The man refused and it eventually cost Stallone $3,000 and the guarantee of a walk-on part in the movie before the animal was handed back.\nAnd the rest, as they say, is history. Butkus also appeared in Rocky (as himself) and the movie went on to become one of the most well known and iconic of all time.\nSylvester Stallone\u2019s epic rise to movie fame and fortune is an impressive story, but the moral here is far more fundamental. Stallone didn\u2019t sell his dog for a quick return of $50, he sold his dog for two important reasons:\nHe was focused on the long game.\nHe recognised that changing his future necessitated some sort of sacrifice.\nSuccess always comes at a price. You may not like it, but that\u2019s just the way it is. To achieve your goals, for your outcomes to change, for your life to begin looking different from the way it looks today, you have to decide what you are prepared to give in return. It may be money, it may be time, it may be effort\u2026but there is always a price.\nThose that succeed in life are always the ones that recognise this, that know the price and are prepared to pay it.\nGOT WHAT IT TAKES TO WRITE YOUR OWN SUCCESS STORY? Sign Up to our newsletter TODAY and receive our BONUS information series in which we reveal how to turn ambition into reality by applying the techniques used by some of the world\u2019s highest achievers. NOT TO BE MISSED!\nTagged:Successful PeopleSylvester StalloneTaking Action\n\u2190 PreviousCosta Coffee Falls Flat\nNextAffiliate Marketing Industry \u2013 Key Predictions For Next 12 Months \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 5978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cinemasentries.com/news/spring-breakers-is-the-pick-of-the-week/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LUG53BW4JOYBTWYUK3SYAQRAVD2X3KJ3", "length": 3481, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "cinemasentries.com", "title": "Spring Breakers is the Pick of the Week - Cinema Sentries", "raw_content": "Spring Breakers is the Pick of the Week\nI don't expect to really like the results, but I'm definitely interested.\nBy Mat Brewster on July 9, 2013 11:23 AM |\nIt makes a certain amount of sense that actresses who have spent their childhoods on squeaky clean television shows to want to break free from that image whether in their careers (Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls) or their personal lives (Lindsay Lohan battle with the law and drugs.) These women have grown up in front of millions of people yet no doubt their real lives are much different than the made-for-children characters they play every day on the small screen. Who wouldn't want to show the world they are mature adults after that?\nIt makes a certain amount of sense that we too, as members of their audiences would be fascinated by these good girls gone bad. Which is why when word came out that two Disney princesses - Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens - were starring in a tale of drugs and debauchery while on Spring Break you could feel the fevered fantasies of an entire internet vibrating through every tube. The fact that it was being directed by Harmony Korine, a man known more for his dark surrealism than any sort of exploitative T&A, only made it more interesting.\nIt is Korine in fact that makes Spring Breakers my pick of the week. I'm too old (and my kid too young) to know anything about Gomez or Hudgens (though admittedly their pictures are attractive and I'm not one to back away from drugs nor debauchery in a motion picture) but Korine seems a very fascinating person. He wrote the controversial Kids about a bunch of debauched teenagers acting like a bunch of debauched teens. I saw it as a teenager and couldn't figure out why it was so controversial (these kids act just like the kids at my high school.) He directed Trash Humpers which is about, well I'm not sure exactly what its about except a bunch of people wearing old people masks doing really weird stuff. Both films are enough to make me interested in Korine as an artist and wondering what in the world he's gonna do with two Disney girls and James Franco in dreadlocks.\nI don't expect to really like the results, but I'm definitely interested which is why Spring Breakers is my Pick of the Week.\nDead Man Down: A violent crime thriller with Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace, I've not heard of it until now but I like those two actors and I'm ready to see how it goes.\nAdmission: A romantic comedy starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd and directed by Paul Weitz. I love, love 30 Rock which will make me give this a chance even though I'm not much for rom-coms, Rudd, Weitz, or anything else Fey has done.\nMarvel Knights: Wolverine, Origin: A friend of mine loaned me a bunch of X-Men comics this summer and I've been tearing through them, making me a big fan in the process. This is an animated version of how the X-Men's most fascinating character came to be.\nPortandia Season 3: I usually leave out things that I'm not particularly interested in no matter how popular, but just could not not talk about this. In general, I pretty much hate all sketch comedy, funny though it may be there is never enough story to keep me interested. Portlandia is one of the better ones I've seen in years and I have friends who adore it, but even so I couldn't get past the first three or four episodes. But I appreciate its cleverness nonetheless which is why it gets this nod.\ndead man down,\nharmoney korine,\nportlandia,\nsalena gomez,\nspring breakers,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 5411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 303.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://citychurchyork.com/the-upside-down-way-of-the-cross-sermon-from-032512/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:27Z", "digest": "sha1:G2H4MIOJFUY4KTO7B2DNZNLU4IKRVGWK", "length": 353, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "citychurchyork.com", "title": "Lent 2012: John 12:20-36-The Upside-Down Way of the Cross, 03/25/12 \u2013 City Church York", "raw_content": "Lent 2012: John 12:20-36-The Upside-Down Way of the Cross, 03/25/12\nBy CityChurchYork | April 3, 2012\nSermon from 03/25/12: The Upside-Down Way of the Cross: A look at John 12:20-36 has been uploaded to the website.\nMark 2012: Mark 2:23-3:6-Jesus, the Sabbath Rest of God, 03/18/12\nMark 2012: Mark 11:1-11-When God Doesn\u2019t Meet My Expectations, 04/01/12", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 197.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cityoffortpierce.com/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=2018&month=5&day=30&CID=25,27,24,29,23,28", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:47Z", "digest": "sha1:RK6JXKUV3K7OUJW6SSFOW7P3SGJJXZN3", "length": 858, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "cityoffortpierce.com", "title": "Fort Pierce, FL - Official Website", "raw_content": "Community Meeting to Discuss Future Gateway Beautification Projects\nMay 30, 2018, 5:30 PM\u2009-\u20097:30 PM @ River Walk Center\nCommunity Meeting to Discuss Future Gateway Beautification Projects 2018-05-30T17:30:00\nThe City of Fort Pierce invites the public to participate in a community meeting to discuss gateway beautification projects on Wednesday, May 30th from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM at the River Walk Center (600 N. Indian River Drive). City Staff would like to hear the thoughts and ideas of our community regarding future gateway beautification projects including strategic locations and design elements that will unify the entrances to the City of Fort Pierce. The meeting will be an open-house style with conversation stations designed to help gather input. There will be no formal presentation and participants are encouraged to stop in at their convenience", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 5606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 206.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cityoflakewales.com/595/Travel-Directions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:39Z", "digest": "sha1:7E64IYY5CMWB2WQUYQZGEIQ33LNMGTXO", "length": 361, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "cityoflakewales.com", "title": "Travel Directions | Lake Wales, FL - Official Website", "raw_content": "The available diagram (GIF) is solely intended to provide general travel directions to the Lake Wales Municipal Administration Building and is not drawn to scale.\nI-4 west to U.S. 27\nU.S. 27 south to Central Avenue\nCentral Avenue east to 201 W. Central Avenue\nS.R. 60 east to U.S. 27\nU.S. 27 north to Central Avenue\nFrom Florida Turnpoke\nS.R. 60 west to U.S. 27", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://clairedesjardins.com/Artwork-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=555&NewID=18495", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:55Z", "digest": "sha1:KCNI2TR2F6XYST6R4BX4ZPJXEWXUND65", "length": 229, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "clairedesjardins.com", "title": "Claire Desjardins - EXPRESSIONS - Artwork-Detail", "raw_content": "Humble Pie, 2017\nI thought I knew all things about everything. I didn\u2019t present it that way, but I thought it. And then, one day, someone whispered something that made a whole lot of sense, but that did not align with my beliefs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 158.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cloudcomputingnews.in/cloud-storage-market-to-grow-40-2-from-2013-to-2018-to-reach-46-8-billion-by-2018-read-more-about-report-cloud-storage-market-to-grow-40-2-from-2013-to-2018-to-reach-46-8-billion-by-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:25Z", "digest": "sha1:A6TE3SNGHWS6UVBYGZQWBSI5BZH77J7V", "length": 1012, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "cloudcomputingnews.in", "title": "Cloud Storage Market to Grow 40.2% from 2013 to 2018 | The Cloud Computing News India", "raw_content": "Cloud Storage Market to Grow 40.2% from 2013 to 2018\nAccording to a new market research report \u201cPrivate/Public Cloud Storage Market (Incl. Cloud Storage Gateways, Backup & Recovery, Data Movement & Access, Data Replication, Hierarchical Storage Management & Archiving, Security And Storage Resource Management Solutions) \u2013 Worldwide Forecasts & Analysis (2012 \u2013 2018)\u201d published by MarketsandMarkets, the total Cloud Storage market is expected to reach $46.8 billion by 2018 with a CAGR of 40.2%.\nBrowse 130+ market data tables/figures spread through 211 pages and in-depth Table of Content on \u201cPrivate Cloud Storage Market (Incl. Cloud Storage Gateways, Backup & Recovery, Data Movement & Access, Data Replication, Hierarchical Storage Management & Archiving, Security And Storage Resource Management Solutions) \u2013 Worldwide Forecasts & Analysis (2012 \u2013 2018)\u201d.\nThis entry was posted on February 18, 2013 at 9:25 am and is filed under Storage. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 239.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://colinsutton.blogspot.com/2011/03/sorry-again-for-what-exactly.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:48Z", "digest": "sha1:FV5X3LFHVDP5QANRIMFEJOSUSDFRJRV3", "length": 10944, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "colinsutton.blogspot.com", "title": "Colin Sutton: Sorry, again? For what, exactly?", "raw_content": "[Pic: mirror.co.uk]\nThe two presumably deluded jurors who thought Delroy Grant had a point have made their stand; fortunately they served just to delay his conviction by 24 hours.\nTomorrow one hopes he will be weighed off with more porridge than even a City wholefood eaterie can sell in one breakfast, and we will never see him again. Which is, obviously, a good thing.\nIt meant though that, once more we have a Met Commander apologising live on all news channels, repeated in case you missed it at 6, 6.30 and 10. At least Simon Foy ventured away from the revolving sign and down to Woolwich to meet real people, real victims, and say sorry in person. But I imagine I am not alone in asking, in these circumstances - \"What for? What went wrong? Who messed up?\"\nFor possibly the last time, I am on this occasion in an excellent position to answer those questions for you, to expand on the Commander's words and explain what I think the Met, absolutely correctly in my view, might have apologised for.\nThe second Minstead offence, in 1998, was linked to one six years earlier by DNA left at both scenes by the suspect. The investigation was then given to what was probably then called the Area Crime OCU and is now known as the Homicide & Serious Crime Command, but which for simplicity we will call HSCC. HSCC deals almost exclusively in murder; the occasional serial rape or similar might be taken on but murders are their staple diet. And very good at investigating murder they are too - detection rates are invariably above 90%, often higher. Having led a murder team in London for 8 years, I think I know why this is. I had a skilled, experienced team of around 30 people to throw at each new offence, backed up by as much expert and scientific help as I wanted. Since most murders were unplanned, even spontaneous, the killer had given no thought to DNA, to fingerprints, to fibres and trace evidence, to CCTV or to telecoms data. So, in most cases it was simply a matter of turning up, doing our usual stuff and arresting the murderer a few days or weeks later. This was the principle which was applied to Minstead, for 11 years from 1998 to 2009. We had a DNA profile, and although we didn't know who it belonged to if we threw enough experience, enough detective savvy and enough science at it we would catch him.\nWell we didn't did we. And in May 2009 when I first went across to Lewisham to 'have a look, see if there is a way of solving it' (as was my brief) it was pretty obvious that we never would. As I later learned from the decision logs, virtually everything for the past 11 years had been based on DNA. Even when on occasion some creativity or lateral-thinking was employed, it was getting scientists to try to discern ancestry or physical characteristics from the DNA profile. It was all about the DNA.\nEssentially, the theory was that we knew some things about our man - gender, race, approximate age - and some other facts might be assumed from witness testimony - rides a motor bike (which Grant didn't), has a connection with Brighton (which Grant did), had his mother die in 2000 (which Grant didn't). Add to that detective nous - he must be able to be 'unseen' in the street, must do reconnaissance during the day, and a little behavioural psychologist profiling - will have previous convictions for burglary (Grant didn't), won't be married (he was, 3 times), will be a loner with few friends (he certainly wasn't) and it would be easy. From the overall pool of suspects, all the black men in south-east London born between 1945 and 1976, apply the above criteria and then you'll have a list of people you need to get DNA from, one of whom will be your suspect.\nBut the practice was very different. First, the unfiltered pool was populated by many whose experience of contact with the Met Police was less than satisfactory. That is just a fact of history - they were not treated very well by the Police in the 60s, 70s & early 80s. [Perhaps the Met shpould apologise for that?] Which meant that many refused as a matter of principle, or out of mistrust. Every time this happened a decision had to be made - arrest or not? On the basis the real suspect might well also have declined, this was a tricky choice which had to be justified in every case, but also one which sapped the energy and time of the team.\nThe task of getting a DNA sample from each of more than 20,000 men was made more difficult, more hopeless, by two other crucial factors. First, the prioritisation of who to swab first was, it seemed, ever-changing. Imagine a deck of cards, dealt out one by one until the King of Hearts was turned up. Only this deck had 21,000 cards, and the King of Hearts was missing, I don't know, perhaps lost down the back of the sofa. Every few months whoever was in charge at that time would see a new possibility - perhaps from a recent offence, perhaps from some other wise old Detective's suggestion - and call all the cards back, shuffle them again and begin once more to deal. In my first week 'looking at' Minstead all the supervisors on the team were again led through this by the Senior Investigating Officer. Except all the time Delroy Grant wasn't just hiding down the back of the sofa, he was burgling, raping, assaulting and robbing the elderly.\nThe second thing which appalled me in May 2009 was the size of the team. Or, more precisely, the lack of size of the team. MInstead had been culled in 2004 when officers had to be plundered from HSCC to bolster Safer Neighbourhood Teams. Having already cut 3 murder teams, when Sir Ian came calling again Minstead felt the knife and was halved in size. Effectively in May 2009 there were 8 people trying to get all these DNA swabs. In my first week they returned with one solitary swab. As we then had 5,200 men on the priority list the arithmetic was striking - at that rate it was 100 years of work.\nAdded to this, every time there was a new offence the same handful of officers had to respond, to do the initial enquiries, the house to house, the CCTV retrieval - everything that a murder team would do, with not even a third of the staff. And a murder team would usually take one investigation at a time and then not be given another for 6 weeks or so; Minstead sometimes had 3 a night, often 2 and once even 5. They simply could not cope, and thus a fiction had evolved, whereby offences which were plainly part of the series were discounted on pernickety and often spurious grounds, left to be investigated by the Borough. Which also meant they were not part of the official Minstead statistics, not part of the crime pattern analysis and most crucially not available to be cited as a reason for increasing resources. So the circle continued.\nI reported these things upwards pretty quickly; why it took so long for them to be changed is another question and one I cannot answer. It was not, though, through lack of trying on my part. (The same goes for some individual instances of malpractice and inappropriate behaviour I found and reported - that is a related but different story.) What is undeniable though is that once we acted less like a murder squad and more like a burglary squad, once we forgot DNA and remembered observations, once we were looking for the Nightstalker on the streets at night and not in a database during the day time, we got him. The tragedy is that it took so long.\nI haven't yet mentioned the missed opportunities being spoken of all over the media, so I must do briefly. The 1999 event is headlining because it was referred to the IPCC, and it is shocking because not only did a Minstead officer fail to do his job correctly but so did the Borough. Minstead or not there was a burglary with a registration number and a therefore a named suspect which was never properly investigated. Am I alone in thinking that a mistake which has the wholly unforeseen but wholly unacceptable consequences of letting Delroy Grant escape and offend for a further decade is deserving of a sanction more serious than 'Words of advice'? Unless those words advise the location of the local Jobcentre perhaps.\nThe 2001 opportunity is discounted by some, but for the wrong reasons. It may well be that the suspect suggested by a member of the public in 2001 was not the Nightstalker Delroy Grant, nor the 'wrong' one concerned in the 1999 error, but a third man of that name. It really doesn't matter. The point is that the research on that occasion was conducted by the ever-reliable PC Tony Briggs, whom I name because he did the right thing, as usual. He reported that he could not be certain that the Delroy Grant named in the phone call was the same man as the one in the 1999 incident. I should have thought that sufficient to alert the decision-makers to the need for a review of the 1999 action, and that is the missed opportunity.\nIn 2003, quite simply, a victim of Delroy Grant told officers that she thought her assailant might be a mini-cab driver from the local office she used. At that time Delroy Grant did indeed work at that firm. This was written up for action, to research the drivers at the firm, but a decision made not to proceed with the line of enquiry because officers were, and I paraphrase, too busy trying to get DNA swabs from black men with licences to ride motor cycles. This is not 20:20 hindsight, but a simple matter of investigative acumen. What was more likely to return a result, and quickly - looking to swab many hundreds if not thousands of men, one of which may or may not be the suspect, or looking at 20 or 30 men who work at a firm, where a victim who has actually seen the suspect at close quarters, thinks he might work? I believe it was a missed opportunity every bit as shameful as the 1999 episode.\nWhere do we go from here? What is important is that this is all never to happen again. For me, top of the list is that those who are the decision-makers in major investigations realise that an unknown DNA profile is conclusive evidence of presence, and so often of guilt, but that it is a very blunt, unsophisticated and ultimately unsuccessful means of identifying a suspect from a large population. Mass screenings seldom work, often deflect focus and always cost the earth.\nI hope the Met learns other lessons, there are many, many things within Operation Minstead to consider, and which would make this already lengthy blog post intolerably hard work for all of us. However, I worry that the credibility of their internal search for enlightenment will be hard-won. Unless they have changed things since I left in November 2010, the officer in charge of reporting on the learning from Minstead is the officer who was its Senior Investigating officer from 2001 until I took over in October 2009. I don't think that is healthy either for him or the Met, but my observations fell on deaf ears. I really don't want to see them apologising again.\nLabels: delroy grant, dna, met police, nightstalker", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 11908, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://comingcrisis.forumotion.com/t864-4-4-magnitude-earthquake-jamaica-region-31st-august-2011", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:46Z", "digest": "sha1:LW43CDCHA422WWXXQODS4S5ASI2DNBI7", "length": 312, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "comingcrisis.forumotion.com", "title": "4.4 Magnitude Earthquake JAMAICA REGION - 31st August 2011", "raw_content": "Subject: 4.4 Magnitude Earthquake JAMAICA REGION - 31st August 2011 Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:54 am\nA magnitude 4.4 earthquake has struck the Jamaica Region at a depth of 10 km (6.2 miles), the quake hit at 07:30:02 UTC Wednesday 31st August 2011.\nThe epicenter was 109 km ( 67 miles) Southwest of Montego Bay, Jamaica", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 192.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://constructioncitizen.com/print/2621", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:25Z", "digest": "sha1:XKUCSFMEZOKQTJ7YA5AI2YFLG5Y3GJFR", "length": 1511, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "constructioncitizen.com", "title": "Border Wall Under Construction in El Paso Amid Fresh Debate Over Number of Undocumented Immigrants", "raw_content": "Home > Border Wall Under Construction in El Paso Amid Fresh Debate Over Number of Undocumented Immigrants\nBorder Wall Under Construction in El Paso Amid Fresh Debate Over Number of Undocumented Immigrants [1]\nThe El Paso Times reports [9]:\n\u201cGenerally accepted estimates put the population of undocumented immigrants in the United States at approximately 11.3 million. A new study, using mathematical modeling on a range of demographic and immigration operations data, suggests that the actual undocumented immigrant population may be more than 22 million,\" per Yale Insights [10].\n\u201cAccepting that there are 22 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. also requires accepting that every Census Bureau survey missed huge numbers of people and that most administrative data from the federal government is woefully incomplete,\u201d wrote Steven Camarota [11], the center\u2019s Director of Research.\nSource URL: http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/border-wall-under-construction-el-paso-amid-fresh-debate-over-number-undocumented-immigrants/1810021\n[1] http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/border-wall-under-construction-el-paso-amid-fresh-debate-over-number-undocumented-immigrants/1810021\n[9] https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2018/09/26/trump-border-wall-construction-underway-downtown-el-paso-texas/1437573002/\n[10] https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/yale-study-finds-twice-as-many-undocumented-immigrants-as-previous-estimates\n[11] https://cis.org/Camarota/New-Estimate-22-Million-Illegal-Immigrants-Not-Plausible", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 5207, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://conversational-languages.com/book/conversational-arabic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HZDKAHHP34MP5GLL24NSCKD567MWF3FY", "length": 1025, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "conversational-languages.com", "title": "Classical Arabic - Conversational Languages", "raw_content": "MODERN STANDARD ARABIC (CLASSICAL ARABIC)\nModern Standard Arabic (MSA) is a modern form of Classical Arabic written in the Qur\u2019an. The language isn\u2019t spoken in a small, social environment; rather, it is the official means of communication for, for instance, Arabic television personalities and the media. It is a more official Arabic language; any other version of MSA is considered a dialect (referred to as \u201ccolloquial Arabic\u201d). Most people in the Middle East and some parts of Africa speak some version of the language, though under most circumstances are able to use MSA to communicate with each other, despite their varying dialects. Still, MSA is the official language of all Middle Eastern countries. MSA is closely related to the religion of Islam, though many Muslims don\u2019t speak the language.\nSpoken in: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Palestine (West Bank and Gaza), Western Sahara.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 69.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://corkandross.org/priests/very-rev-canon-patrick-oconnell-pp-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:41Z", "digest": "sha1:E4NAJOIF23EB36GQNUXKTEETCOFL4LQV", "length": 2308, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "corkandross.org", "title": "Very Rev. Canon Patrick O\u2019Connell PP | Diocese Of Cork & Ross", "raw_content": "Very Rev. Canon Patrick O\u2019Connell PP\nJune 21, 2017 cork PRIESTS Comments Off on Very Rev. Canon Patrick O\u2019Connell PP\nEnniskeane PP : 7/6/1918 \u2013 31/1/1946\nKilmichael CC : 17/7/1898 \u2013 26/3/1899\nChaplain, Military Prison/Cork : 15/5/1892 \u2013 1894\nChaplain, Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul/North Infirmary : 15/5/1892 \u2013 27/2/1896\nChaplain, Presentation Convent, Crosshaven : 7/6/1891 \u2013 15/5/1892\nChaplain, Convent of Mercy, Schull : 30/6/1890 \u2013 7/6/1891\nAppointed Canon of the Cathedral Chapter on the 25/09/1934\nHe was a nephew of Very Rev. Patrick Canon O\u2019Connell, P.P., Ovens (1893-1934), and a brother of Fr. John O\u2019Connell, Chaplain, Poor Clare Convent, Cork (1917-1958), and a cousin of Very Rev. John Vincent Hurley, P.P., Goleen (1939-1946) .\nOn the night before the Kilmichael Ambush, Fr. O\u2019Connell rode out on horseback to Ahilina, Enniskeane to hear the confessions of the Volunteers (Third West Cork Brigade IRA, under Comdt. Tom Barry) who were to risk their lives in confronting the heavily armed British Auxiliaries (Black and Tans) next day (Sunday, 28/11/1920)).\nAt this time, Bishop Cohalan, Bishop of Cork was about to excommunicate all Volunteers and deny them the Sacraments, en masse. Yet, Fr. O\u2019Connell not only risked his life to give them spiritual succour before the ambush but, afterwards, when it was much more dangerous, he met them in the dark of night (Thursday, 2/12/1920) at St. Joseph\u2019s Church Grounds, Castletown-Kenneigh to give a Christian burial to their dead.\nFr. O\u2019Connell was an unlikely candidate for the role of rebel sympathiser. Austere and commanding, resentful of opposition or contradiction. He was a deeply religious man and it was, perhaps, this commitment that took him out in the night to save souls, whatever their political persuasion.\nChurch of the Immaculate Conception Grounds, Enniskeane, Co. Cork\nHis Lordship, Most Rev. 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John Vincent Hurley, P.P.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 6318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 190.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://craftypjmum.blogspot.com/2017/01/new-year-new-goals.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:12Z", "digest": "sha1:F25MET7NM65G7S4G3TP37AUMRDUUVYC2", "length": 1853, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "craftypjmum.blogspot.com", "title": "CraftyPJMum: NEW YEAR NEW GOALS", "raw_content": "I've deemed 2017 the year to kick some personal goals, concentrating on both my physical and mental health. Its definitely been a long time coming and with the help of some fellow bloggers who have tempted me with a few challenges that I have joined. I am excited to see the changes they will bring about even though its in the very early stages.\nApart from these awesome challenges, I decided I needed just that little bit more to keep me motivated. So as I do on multiple occasions, I turned to Pintrest, looking for challenges to further inspire my good intentions for 2017.\nThere were so many pins offering to help guide you to a \"bigger and better\" you. But knowing that if I tried to take on something too big to soon I would become overwhelmed and most likely fail. So I searched and sorted through the challenges until I found the perfect one for me.\nChange is hard. But with this challenge, all you have to do is make one small change a month. Its simple, and something I know I will be able to achieve without to much fuss and bother.\nWe have all made New Year resolutions with good intentions only to wane from them just a few weeks in. But this challenge shared by eHow.com is more then a resolution. Its a simple but effective way to change bad habits at a slow pace.\nI don't know about you, but for me that is definitely doable.\nSo if your ready to make some small but significant changes in your life, and are ready to break bad habits and introduce new healthy ones. Why not join me and many others from around the world over at Fat Mum Slim's STEP CHALLENGE on face book, or join little old me on this 12 MONTHS TO A BETTER YOU.\nNo one will belittle you if you stumble, no one will laugh at you if your goals are not fully reached. Its all just for a bit of fun and a few laughs while trying to follow a better path for a healthier you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 5072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://craigkrullgallery.com/Exhibition/PRokun.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DKI33KS5ZNN7UZ6263O6KIJU7W3RJGC7", "length": 2285, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "craigkrullgallery.com", "title": "Craig Krull Gallery-- Jenny Okun and Nancy Monk 2012", "raw_content": "Jenny Okun\u2019s eighth solo exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery, \u201cDreamscapes\u201d, will consist of a selection of recent work from her newly published book of the same name. For the past 20 years, Okun has been recognized for her multiple exposure photographic abstractions of architecture made with a medium format camera. With this process, the New York Times states, Okun reveals \u201cthe very soul of the buildings she photographs.\u201d In recent years, her photography has shifted to layering her photographs digitally and creating more complex montages on a broader range of subjects.\nOkun\u2019s extensive travels provide continuing inspiration for her work. English garden mazes become even more twisted into strange Alice in Wonderland curiosities. The Art Nouveau/Spanish Gothic spires of Antonio Gaudi are montaged into a chimera of organic abstraction. In already extraordinary locations such as Talloires, France, Okun transforms mountain and sky into worlds of her own device, echoing the words of 15th century Venetian cartographer Fra Mauro, who said, \u201cMy map\u2026was only one version of reality. It would only be of any use if it were employed as an instrument of the imagination. It occurred to me that the world itself should be seen as an elaborate artifice, and the expression of a will without end.\u201d\nOkun will be signing her new book, \u201cDreamscapes: the Photographic Art of Jenny Okun\u201d published by Five Ties, at the opening reception.\nConcurrently, Nancy Monk\u2019s sixth solo show at Craig Krull Gallery, \u201cBlack Matter\u201d, equally demonstrates the gallery\u2019s interest in the transformative possibilities of photographic manipulations. The exhibition includes recent paintings on vintage stereoscopic cards, as well as complex, textured collages, and works on delicate paper. In \u201cFall Road,\u201d the artist paints Aboriginal-like outlines and silhouettes over an image of the Niagara Falls so that the waterfall becomes a tree and boulders become a horse. In other, large-scale works on paper, Monk paints complex, patterned Seussian bouquets that are mesmeric arrangements of positive and negative space. Nancy Monk\u2019s playfully inventive approach is characterized by an almost obsessive enchantment with ornamentation and design, as well as an imaginative freshness in the combination of materials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://crescotimes.com/sports?page=30", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:54Z", "digest": "sha1:VSYKEHA5J2XQKVMCDGLYPEKP7FEFUCUH", "length": 3106, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "crescotimes.com", "title": "Sports | Cresco Times Plain Dealer", "raw_content": "Crestwood High School hosts Meet the Team Night Aug. 18\nCRESCO - Crestwood High School hosted its fall sports Meet the Team Night on Friday, Aug. 18. The cross country, football, volleyball and cheerleading teams were introduced by the coaches. 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That was certainly the case this year during RAGBRAI XLV as one of this year\u2019s riders was Flavia Oliveira, a Brazilian Olympic cyclist, who participated in...\nPickleball is good exercise and fun\nCRESCO - What sport is played with a wooden or graphite paddle, a wiffleball and is the fastest growing sport in America? It\u2019s pickleball, of course! Now for the next question - what the heck is pickleball? 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The excellent training opened the window to all fields of fine art. Ironically, Fred took only one painting class in college (the smell of turpentine made him ill) and he only became seriously interested in painting professionally after the birth of his son in 1997.\nEtiqueta: Painter,Artista,Arte,Pintura, Fred Calleri", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 41735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cucompare.co.uk/agents/anthony-jamieson-estate-agents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WOH5XFQAVY3GJCE522EOYLCMH5MX55A4", "length": 1307, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "cucompare.co.uk", "title": "Anthony Jamieson Estate Agents | Estate Agent Belfast CuCompare", "raw_content": "Anthony Jamieson Estate Agents\n341 Ormeau Road, Belfast, Co. Antrim\nhello@anthonyjamieson.com\nwww.anthonyjamieson.com\nHello I\u2019m Anthony Jamieson of Anthony Jamieson Estate Agents\nI have been involved in the property industry for over 20 years having experienced all aspect of sales, lettings and property management.\nHaving initially studied Surveying at University I took my first job in London where I worked for 10 years with many of London\u2019s premier Estate agents, including Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward, in both a Sales and Lettings capacity. Ten years ago I followed my heart and moved over to Belfast to live on the Ormeau Road and having continued my career in property I thought the time was right to combine my experience and knowledge for the Belfast property market and to start my own Estate Agency.\nI am still living in and loving the area, now with a young family and have witnessed first hand the changes, growth and investment in and around the city with focus on the vibrant Ormeau Road itself.\nAnthony Jamieson Estate Agents intend to deliver a truly tailored and personal service in residential sales and lettings, drawing from my vast experience of the property market and an in depth knowledge of the local area and South Belfast I can help you find exactly what you are after.\nZ AMPM NI", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 10466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://curlpiece.us/anime/bermuda-triangle-colorful-pastrale-english-subbed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:38Z", "digest": "sha1:SJMMNTI6A553RVJ2BVJZFXHS5DHNJARG", "length": 584, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "curlpiece.us", "title": "Watch Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale English Subbed Online - Bermuda Triangle: Colorful Pastrale English Subbed", "raw_content": "A spinoff based on the Bermuda Triangle clan from Bushiroad\u2019s popular Cardfight!! Vanguard trading card game. Mermaids are known worldwide as bewitching mythological creatures of the sea. Despite their charms and otherworldly powers, daily life for these beings comes with everyday problems. But there\u2019s nothing that can\u2019t be overcome with the support of friends. 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I told her that you have to wait because I have to make it for you and she answered me that \"I will drink water instead\" haha.\nWow, I didn't know what to talk, but I just can't let my niece down, so I baked her cookies. Many people like shortbread, the buttery taste and crumbly texture, it's so simple but addictive. You don't need much ingredients to create good one, but most of the recipe will call for rice flour or corn starch, the secret ingredient that give the cookie crumbly texture. Because rice flour or corn starch don't contain gluten, adding them will soften the structure of the wheat flour ^^.\nThis time I don't want to make plain one, so I decided to add the chocolate chips into the batter, well, the reason is because I love it, haha. Making cut out cookie need time, but not working time but waiting time. Don't rush, if the dough soften and you can't cut it refrigerate it until firm. Perfectly chilled dough will give you a reward of perfect shape cookie ^^.\nServe it with anything your heart decide, a cup of milk, tea or coffee, I promise you enjoy it anyway.\nRecipe: CHOCOLATE CHIP SHORTBREAD\n\u0e2a\u0e39\u0e15\u0e23\u0e20\u0e32\u0e29\u0e32\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22: \u0e0a\u0e47\u0e2d\u0e15\u0e40\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e14\u0e0a\u0e47\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e42\u0e01\u0e41\u0e25\u0e15\u0e0a\u0e34\u0e1e\n\u65e5\u672c\u8a9e\u306e\u30ec\u30b7\u30d4\uff1a \u30c1\u30e7\u30b3\u30ec\u30fc\u30c8\u30c1\u30c3\u30d7\u30b9\u30b7\u30e7\u30fc\u30c8\u30d6\u30ec\u30c3\u30c9\nYoutube: \u0e0a\u0e47\u0e2d\u0e15\u0e40\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e14\u0e0a\u0e47\u0e2d\u0e01\u0e42\u0e01\u0e41\u0e25\u0e15\u0e0a\u0e34\u0e1e, CHOCOLATE CHIP SHORTBREAD, \u30c1\u30e7\u30b3\u30ec\u30fc\u30c8\u30c1\u30c3\u30d7\u30b9\u30b7\u30e7\u30fc\u30c8\u30d6\u30ec\u30c3\u30c9\nChocolate chips shortbread\n200g .......................... Unsalted butter\n100g ........................... Superfine sugar\n260g ........................... Plain flour\n40g ............................. Rice flour, or corn strach\n60g ............................. Chocolate chips\n................................... Superfine sugar for sprinkle on top of the cookies\nLine baking sheets with baking paper or silicone baking mats.\nSift plain flour together with rice flour.\nBeat the butter until soft then add the sugar and beat until light in color.\nAdd half of the flour and mix with mixer.\nAdd the rest of the flour with chocolate chips, fold to combine.\nRoll the dough between 2 sheet of baking paper and refrigerate for 1 hour.\nCut the dough into 5.5cm round, and place on the prepared baking sheets.\nBefore baking preheat the oven for 180\u00b0C.\nBake for 15-18 or until golden.\nRemove from the oven and sprinkle with superfine sugar immediately.\nLet the cookies cool completely on the sheets.\nvictoria Bakes September 17, 2013 at 7:59 AM\nsuch pretty shortbread!\nBakingTray September 17, 2013 at 9:57 AM\nthese look great! especially with the sprinkling of sugar ^^\nlooks really delicious indeed!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 6814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 258.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?m=201109", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:JDEMVNWK3WEEASQAKMYQVBWTDZUROPDP", "length": 2230, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "dalelane.co.uk", "title": "September \u00ab 2011 \u00ab dale lane", "raw_content": "Making a birthday e-card\nToday is Amy\u2019s birthday \u2013 which means that I\u2019ve been helping the kids with present making.\nGrace\u2019s idea for a homemade birthday card was particularly geeky, so I thought it was worth a quick post.\nThe idea was that she\u2019d design an e-card, and record a variety of voice clips, which would be played when you clicked on various bits of the card. She did after-school French lessons last term, and she hears some Greek from my mum, so she\u2019s kind of interested in the idea of other languages. So we came up with the idea of a card with a Happy Birthday message in lots of different languages.\nIt turned out that my multi-lingual efforts to assist her were a bit lame, so I convinced her to scale it down from \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d in dozens of languages to \u201cI love you\u201d in nine langauges. We settled on a design with a bunch of flags \u2013 clicking on a flag plays Grace\u2019s voice saying \u201cI love you\u201d in that language.\nIt looked like this, but click through here for the live version.\nIt was pretty simple, but I thought I\u2019d share a few comments about how we did it.\nPosted in code, kids | 2 Comments \u00bb\nAnnotating photos with tweets\nI have a lot of digital photos.\nAn insane amount \u2013 something like 40,000 photos that go back over a dozen years since I first got a digital camera at University.\nI store them based on the date that they were taken, using a folder structure like this:\nFor a while, I used to drop a readme.txt text file into some of the folders saying where the photos were taken or what I was doing. This was partly so that when I look at the photos ten years later I\u2019ve got something to remind me what is going on, but mainly to make it possible for me to search for photos of something when I can\u2019t remember the date it happened.\nBut in recent years, I\u2019ve been too lazy to keep that up, and rarely ever add a readme file.\nI thought that my tweets might be a good alternative. There is a reasonable chance that if I took a photo of something interesting, that I might have tweeted sometime that day about where I am or what I\u2019m doing.\nI wanted to populate each of my folders with a day\u2019s photos in it with a tweets.txt text file containing tweets posted on that day.\nTags:backup, photos, python, twitter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 4377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://danielwpowell.blogspot.com/2010/11/taking-out-eurotrash.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:22Z", "digest": "sha1:GIVRUX6NSGR7FVYYQNEJ565FXIZMNOLC", "length": 4585, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "danielwpowell.blogspot.com", "title": "The Byproduct: Taking Out the (Euro)trash", "raw_content": "Taking Out the (Euro)trash\nHarry Brown (2009) is an ultraviolent British film that looks deeply into that nebulous cauldron of morality. The story of a widower and ex-serviceman bent on exacting a form of brutal revenge on behalf of his slain best friend, this worthy little film works on a number of levels.\nAmong the motifs it examines are generational differences (Harry and Leonard are suit-wearing standard bearers of the old guard), a devaluation of humanity, the responsibility of community stewardship and the redemptive powers of violence.\nEarly on, the audience sees an act of such utter depravity--a vicious, unprovoked attack on a young mother--that establishes an important contextual marker for the film: these kids simply don't care. They don't care about themselves and whether they will live or die, and they sure as hell don't care about others in their communities. The random nature of this early scene is perplexing, but it's not out of the ordinary. A few years ago, a man was shot on Halloween night here in Jacksonville for opening his door to hand out candy. That crime was never solved. Last year, a fifty-three-year-old pizza delivery driver was killed for less than twenty dollars. A man was recently shot to death at a gas station on the Arlington Expressway by a trio of youngsters; they took $3.00 from the man, and it's been widely reported that he would have given them the money if they had merely asked for it. There are literally hundreds of violent crimes committed by youthful offenders in Florida every year, and if there is any trend in their perpetuation it's that they are becoming increasingly brazen.\nHarry Brown paints these kids in vivid detail. They are uneducated, manipulated by their elders and completely without respect for others. They peddle drugs, lay about having sex all day and intimidate any community members from using the roadways. Rioting is a form of entertainment (at one point Brown spits those very words, clearly distraught that the children of this generation don't actually believe in anything).\nI see a film like this and it always leads me back to the kids. Why are they hanging out in the underpass? Why are they living a life where entertainment is attacking the elderly, where rape and sexual assault are looked at as cultural norms? Does no one care for them? I mean, are they not sons and daughters and sisters and brothers?\nHow did they arrive at this place in their lives? When you engage in that discussion, it ultimately drops you back here--at the problem of evil. That's a theological and philosophical quagmire (albeit an interesting topic to wrestle with) that looks at both the deductive and inductive proofs for the existence of God, as well as the nature of evil.\nIn films like this, and like The Brave One and other revenge fantasies (I'm still looking forward to the I Spit on Your Grave remake), the antagonists are almost always caricatures. They are drawn so sparsely that you almost wonder if these writers and directors do it on purpose, as though they want their actions to become the characters. Then, we can believe that the characters themselves are truly evil.\nAnd that's another major question I have on the topic. Do the people who do these things, that commit murder and rape and intimidate old ladies and beat their children and domestic partners--are they always \"on\"? Or do they do the things the silent majority (the film's language) does, like send their mums birthday cards and stop to ponder the beauty of the evening stars?\nOr, are they always just being \"evil\"? If so, what made them that way, their brain chemistry or their upbringing?\nAnd, is Harry Brown \"evil\" for dispatching these thugs with bloody aplomb? The hard-fought turf war that Brown wins here is not like the freedom won by Clint Eastwood's character in Gran Torino. Here, the winners and losers aren't separated at all.\nSo as you can see by my ramblings here, this film raises more questions than it answers. That's a good thing, and it's a good movie. Daniel Barber's vision is dark and sterile, the South London projects gritty and eerily homogeneous. Caine is wonderful here--believable as a capable killer and also as a doting husband and loyal friend. The violence will turn a large portion of the audience off. The wounds here are audio friendly--lots of gurgling and spurting--and the deaths in the pub in the third act are, like much of the film, very upsetting.\nBut it's worth a watch, then a digestion, and then a rumination, and then a discussion.\nI mean, why? Why do some people do these things?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 9067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dawcom-newsletters.blogspot.com/2015/01/dawcom-january-16.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:32Z", "digest": "sha1:W6LN4TX22X7ETK4IHOE32OEBS5XIXPJN", "length": 4469, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "dawcom-newsletters.blogspot.com", "title": "daw.com - Newsletters: daw.com - January 16", "raw_content": "\u200b A new year is upon us and already it has been quite a week. I hope everyone had a restful holiday. I really enjoyed seeing my family and being back in Canada for a VERY cold Christmas break.\nI want to let everyone know that our class picture will be on Tuesday January 20 so I would ask that everyone dress up nicely. It is a non-PE day so students do not need to worry about having to change in and out of gym clothes during the day. An order form was sent home on Friday for families that want to order a class picture. Bring the form and the money on Tuesday to give to the photographer.\nThis week we have returned to many of the things we were doing before break. Regular homework started again but this time with a look at Synonyms and problem solving. This will continue for several weeks to come. I am hoping that reading is a nightly activity in your house now and that it continues every day of the week. Being a well read student is part of being well educated. 20 minutes every night should not change any routines in the household. Homework packets are always due on the last day of the week - usually a Friday.\nMonday folders will return next week with many items in it as we completed several projects this past week. They should also be signed and returned by Friday of each week. The student's work is yours to keep.\nWe are now in the Human Body unit and I have indicated to the class that while some people look at this with almost an unkind eye, really it should be held in awe. To think that the machine we call a body works all by itself for 24 hours everyday, is truly a magnificent thing to behold. The emphasis of this unit is on living a healthy lifestyle as well as learning about the human body and how its various systems integrate to keep us happy and healthy.\nStarting next week the students will rotate through seven(7) stations representing various systems and contexts of the human body. They will be involved in disecting heart and lungs, looking at lung capacity, working on wellness excersizes and many more concepts. There is also some front loading of information reguarding the skeletal and muscular system happening.\nI am quite pleased that for the most part, students bring very healthy snacks. During our unit on the Human Body, I would like to ask that this both continue and become a discussion at home. It is certainly part of what keeps us healthy. It also makes learning far better when a student's body is happily satisfied with the intake of food.\nWe also started to write our part of the Monkey King. This is a performance that will happen as part of the Performing Arts classes later in the year. To start off, each class is given a section of the tale and this has to be written in a script to be performed. It is the student's responsibility to complete this as they are the ones performing the play. I have reviewed how to write a script, the technique of script writing and we have already divided into two groups for Act 1 and and Act 2 of the performance. Students have listed the characters (cast) and already started writing the script for each act. I find this very exciting as I have done a lot of acting in my life and also written a script that was performed at another school I worked at. I am hoping this motivates them to really put their heart and soul into the performance. As time comes closer, I will also help them with the choreography and blocking of the performance.\nOur math unit on fractions continues and I have to admit that the students are finding this a little more challenging than some of the other units. I have slowed down somewhat to really make sure they understand what I need them to know about fractions, decimals and percent. We should finishe the unit later next week but I am not goping to rush this as these concepts are very important to future math.\nAs part of this unit I am hoping to get into the kitchen and do some baking of muffins. So much of cooking is fractions (in the imperial measurement system) that it should help students make a real world connection with fractions and baking.\nI had students repeat their explorer presentations this week as I was not pleased with their past effort. It was amazing to see the improvement. I take some of the responsibiluty for this as we ran out of time just before Christmas break. We covered what is really needed for a great presentation.\nAs always, if there are any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5804, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://desertgazette.com/blog/history-of-the-communistic-colony-llano-del-rio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MNRK6I4YVYE6GFGEJKFQIPAFJ4FJL6RV", "length": 30342, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "desertgazette.com", "title": "\u00bb History of the Communistic Colony Llano Del Rio", "raw_content": "History of the Communistic Colony Llano Del Rio\nComments Off on History of the Communistic Colony Llano Del Rio\nby A. R. Clifton. A. M. \u2013 1917\nOne of the most interesting studies of practical Socialism in Southern California is the history of the communistic colony, Llano del Rio, established in the Antelope Valley in 1914. This colony was founded by Job Harriman, a prominent Socialist of this State, and a company of associates who, like himself, were disappointed at the results accomplished by the Socialist party. In their opinion, tangible and measurable benefits to the cause would follow a practical demonstration of the principles of Socialism through community production and distribution, which could not be expected in any other way. In order to test the plan, this group of men began looking for suitable land upon which they could establish a cooperative settlement. After considering various propositions in Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona, as well as California, it was decided, everything considered, that a tract in the southern part of the Antelope Valley offered the largest advantages, so negotiations were quietly begun for obtaining control of the land and the water.\nThe site was located between Palmdale and Victorville \u2014 about twenty miles from Palmdale and thirty miles from Victorville, and about fifty miles northeast of \u2018Los Angeles. Company literature states : \u201cThe property lies for the most part between Rock Creek and Mescal Creek, on the plain below, and running to the base of the mountains that form a magnificent watershed and which are snow capped for several months of the year\u201d.1\nIt is part of the Angeles Forest Reserve and is in township 5 north, ranges 8, 9 and 10 west, San Bernardino meridian. The company holdings consisted of ten thousand acres when the colony occupied the tract, much of which was in the wild\u2019 state, covered with chaparral, sage, greasewood, yuccas and junipers. The soil is largely decomposed granite, feldspar and lime of unknown depth. It contains sulfides and oxides of iron, potash, soda, carbonate of lime and magnesia. The essentials of plant life are found there in reasonable abundance.\nThe lay of the land is ideal ; comparatively little is rough and that part is the foothill section, a portion of which was used for reservoir sites, the fish hatcheries, lime! kilns and stone quarries. From here the land slopes gently, making irrigation an easy matter.\nThe water supply during the development period of the colony promised to be sufficient to meet all needs, present and future, if properly conserved and distributed. The exclusive right of the flow from Mescal Creek, Jackson\u2019s Lake, and Boulder Creek had been secured and practically all of the flow from Big Rock Creek, through the control of the Big Rock irrigation district. Jackson\u2019s Lake alone in the driest season yields one hundred and fifty miner\u2019s inches and could be increased through the use of reservoirs. There are four good reservoir sites on the property with a total capacity of between thirty thousand and forty thousand acre feet.\nThe chief engineer in his report of 1915 says: \u201cThe area of watersheds adjoining these lands is approximately eighty square miles, which, with the usual forty inches of rainfall per annum, should yield about seventy thousand acre feet of water that could be used if it could all be saved \u2014 enough water, with the probable character of crops, to maintain forty thousand to fifty thousand acres of land under cultivation. Enough is known to assure an irrigated area of ten thousand acres or more of any crops, enough to support a population of five thousand souls and have a surplus of product for the open market\u201d.2\nThe fall of water supplying the colony seemed sufficient, after the installation of power plants, to provide all the electricity for both light and power for many years to come. The water of Jackson\u2019s Lake alone could have been distributed and directed so that there would be three separate drops of five hundred feet each. At the other end of the tract the proper development of the flow of Big Boulder Creek would have provided one of the most valuable power sites in the State of California, and the natural formation of foothill and valley would have made the development work comparatively inexpensive. A dam about two hundred feet in length and one hundred feet high, constructed between the hills on either side of the creek, would have flooded two hundred acres, making an immense amount of water available for irrigation as well as power for the generation of electricity.\nThe Llano del Rio Company had deeds to over two thousand acres of land, held tax titles to three thousand five hundred acres more, and through members of the colony had control of, three thousand five hundred acres additional, which made a tract of over nine thousand acres in all. Even this acreage did not satisfy the ambitions of the colonists. They planned to secure extensive additions \u2014 even up to thirty thousand acres, the amount of land in this irrigation district.\nThe cultivated land during the season of 1917 consisted of about two thousand acres, distributed as follows: alfalfa, four hundred acres ; orchard, one hundred twenty acres ; nursery, one hundred ; garden, one hundred twenty ; corn, two hundred ; and the balance in grain and general farm crops.\nThose in authority at the colony maintained that it was possible for the members to devote their energy to the raising of a large variety as well as large quantities of products. The Vice-President informed me that peas, beans, potatoes, melons and all vegetables grew there abundantly; that of the fruits they would soon be producing pears, apples, peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, olives, and figs. These with the products of the dairy, the chicken yards, the rabbitry, the hog ranch and apiary would, according to the plan, not only feed the people of the colony but would enable them to buy in the quantities needed the things they could not produce.\nAfter four weeks of existence, the ninth of May, 1914, closed with five members. They had but a few tools with which to begin work, four horses, one cow and sixteen hogs.\nConsidering so small a beginning, the growth for the first three years was rather notable. There were, August 1, 1917, about one thousand members with nine hundred residents in the colony. There were one hundred head of horses, one hundred and twenty-five Jersey and Holstein cows and one hundred head of young stock, three hundred hogs, several thousand rabbits and chickens, six hundred eighty stands of bees, one hundred fifty turkeys, thirty-two goats, three trucks, twenty wagons, seven automobiles, a traction engine, a caterpillar engine, leveller, concrete mixer and pipe moulds for the making of cement pipes for the irrigation system, drags, and various other pieces of heavy machinery for clearing and preparing the land for planting on a large scale.\nThe buildings were largely of a temporary character, due partly to the fact that the site of the residence section was to be changed to ground a little higher, more protected from the wind and nearer the source of water most desirable for domestic purposes. There were tents and adobe houses enough, with the rooms in the club house, to take care of the nine hundred people in Llano at that time, and more were being put up as needed. They had a planing and sash and door mill of sufficient capacity to do all the sawing and milling work for the building operations.\nThe hen coops and rabbitry were modern in construction and very commodious, and it was intended to increase the capacity rapidly. The cattle barn was constructed of cobblestone, with tin roof, a great improvement over the cheaply constructed barn which I saw on my first visit to the colony in 1915. A fine concrete silo of three hundred ton capacity had recently been constructed, and the plans were well under way for a well-equipped dairy.\nThe office was small, but it answered the purpose very well. The Llano post office was housed in this building.\nThe most used and the most popular structure of the colony was the Club House. It consisted of a building fifty by one hundred and fifty feet, containing rooms for single men, the commissary department, the club kitchen and dining room, the barber shop, the colony boarded in the club dirting room. They were charged seventy-five cents a clay for their meals. This room, fifty by sixty feet, was used as the general audience room of the colony. It was here the assembly had its official meeting and where lectures, musical entertainments and parties were held.\nThe machinery for a steam laundry had been installed, which greatly lightened the housework. A lime kiln of one hundred fifty barrels capacity daily was in operation. An ice plant, a tannery and a shoe factory were to have been established if the plans for the colony had matured.\nA printing plant had been established which, though of limited capacity, turned out a large amount of work. It was here the \u201cWestern Comrade\u201d, a monthly magazine of thirty-two pages, the \u201cLlano Colonist\u201d, a weekly, and the pamphlets of the colony were published. This office had become the chief California center for the publication and dissemination of socialistic literature.\nA well-equipped canning plant which was a valuable asset to the company activities had been installed. Both vegetables and fruits were preserved for the season when they could not be procured fresh. Quantities of fruit were made available by exchanging labor for it. Cleaning, dyeing, and soap-making added their contributions to the Llano industries. The list would not be complete without a mention of the rug-making department. Most excellent work was done \u2014 much better than one would think possible in the meager quarters provided. Rugs of beautiful design and good value were produced.\nThe homes of the people, as would be expected in an enterprise of this kind, were crude \u2014 tents and adobe of sun-dried brick, of one or two rooms. They were meagerly furnished for the most part, but sanitary; and no one seemed to be the worse for the pioneer experience. The home planned for the future, however, \u2014 the one which according to the contract of the company it was under obligation to build for all members of this cooperative plan, \u2014 was to be much more comfortably appointed, and is thus described in the company literature: \u201cThe house will be built around a patio or court, turning a blank wall towards the neighbor, against which he in turn constructs his house. Then you look across your own garden at your own windows and neither hear nor see your neighbor, who retires behind a soundproof wall.\nWhen in your garden you can lounge or work at your ease, and if you turn your little children out of doors they will never be out of sight, no matter what room in the house you may be in. There is a living room twenty by twenty-eight feet, a sun-parlor dining room thirty-five by fourteen feet, two bedrooms ten and one- half by twelve and one-half feet, with a bathroom between them. Upstairs there is a flat roof, separated from your neighbor\u2019s by an eight-foot wall with eaves, with two dressing rooms and space for eight beds arranged two by two in separate recesses. These beds only occupy part of the roof at any time, but they can be folded back against the wall, leaving the roof free. So, if desired, twelve people can be accommodated downstairs and up, without any crowding\u201d.8\nThe proposed construction of these homes indicated a complete system of water works and a sewerage system.\nAll the products of the colony passed through the commissary department. Here they were weighed, sorted and placed on the market to members of the colony at a price as near cost \u201cas practicable\u201d. It was also agreed by contract that all clothing was to be purchased from the company. Both food and clothing were very plain. All surplus funds were needed in the development work, hence little was left for anything but the bare necessities.\nThe work of opening up a desert ranch, \u2014 planting, sowing, irrigating, harvesting, building and planning, \u2014 is strenuous, but there seemed to be a willingness on the part of practically everyone to bear his share of the burdens. Eight hours were the regular day\u2019s work. There were those, however, who worked longer and who were willing to do it, for as several expressed it to me, \u201cWe are working for ourselves now. No capitalist who has no interest in us further than that we can increase his wealth, gets the benefit of our extra work. It belongs to us\u201d. There were some, however, who seemed to have no particular desire to put in extra time for the benefit of the community interests.\nI was very much interested in the social life and amusements of Llano. In view of the social needs of the community the club house was constructed, which became the natural center of the people. In the large assembly hall, those musically inclined often gathered around the piano to sing, while the rest listened or visited. Here each Saturday night the young people \u2014 and many of the older folks, too \u2014 gathered for a dance. This was occasionally repeated during the week. One evening when I was present the entertainment consisted of a \u201csuffragette ball\u201d. The girls wore the clothes of their fathers or brothers and the boys borrowed from their sisters or other female members of their families. The whole colony seemed to be present. Those who did not dance appeared happy in the enjoyment of those who did. A jolly good fellowship was everywhere present. The Tuesday night children\u2019s dance was one of the enjoyable social customs of the colony. The young people from the ages of six to fifteen had the floor exclusively to themselves. They were taught, not only the dance steps but the courtesies which belong to the dance floor, in order that they might acquire grace and poise, learn the forms and social customs which characterizes the pleasure and exhilaration which comes from this activity.\nEach Sunday evening there was an entertainment of a literary and musical nature. The program consisted of talks or lectures by members or visitors, readings, recitations, home talent plays, concerts or musical numbers by the orchestra, band, the mandolin or guitar organizations, or by individuals or groups who could furnish vocal music. These programs were interesting and instructive and were of greater merit than one not acquainted with the colony conditions would expect to find.\nThe young men had football, baseball, basket ball, and tennis teams. They had pool and billiard tables and also enjoyed checkers, dominos and chess.\nThe plans for the new city included tennis courts, running tracks, football grounds, baseball diamonds, golf links and well- equipped playgrounds for children.\nThere was a woman\u2019s reading circle and an Esperanto club. Notices of the meetings were posted prominently on the bulletin boards of the club house.\nRecreation and amusements were given a prominent place in the life of the colonists at Llano. It was their policy to lighten the cares of life by mental and physical activities which afford opportunity for relaxation of mind and body and give zest to the daily duties.\n\u201cWhat would be done with a man who became incapacitated through old age, accident or sickness and was unable to earn anything\u201d ? was a question often asked by colonists, until it was answered at a meeting of the Assembly, July 20, 1915. It was decided by a unanimous vote that all such persons should be cared for by the colony the rest of their lives. While this action might have been rescinded later on, it at least indicated at that time a good degree of \u201csocial solidarity\u201d. The policy pursued by the colony in several cases where members were unable to carry their part of the community load proved that the resolution passed at the meeting referred to was not a matter of theory only, but was a part of their practice. They did in this matter just what they promised they would do.\nNo provision was made in the colony for the building of churches. The company had no intention of constructing any church edifices. There were many denominations represented at Llano, and members held religious meetings in their homes, if they so desired. Later it was expected that halls and auditoriums would be built which could be used for church as well as other purposes. One of the leaders of the colony remarked that they cared little for religion, as such, but were very much interested in every-day Christianity, the proper and just relationship of man to man.\nSubstantial plans had been made for a good school system m Llano. At the end of the school year, June 30, 1917, there were one hundred twenty-five pupils enrolled. The courses ranged from kindergarten to the second year in the high school, and the work was under the supervision of the County Superintendent. The County course of study formed the basis of the work, and State and County support was received.\nBesides this department of education there was maintained what was known as the \u201cIndustrial School\u201d, where no County or State requirements were adhered to and for which no County or State support was expected. This school was established at the Junior Colony, where many of the young people lived, worked, studied and grew. The boys did a large amount of the construction work in providing buildings for this center, and the girls cooked and made many of the clothes for the boys as well as for themselves. Here the young people performed the regular duties of industrial, home keeping and agricultural life and learned many practical things in the performance of these duties. Book knowledge was given as the need for it appeared. In this way a motive for learning was given the student.\n\u201cThe plan is to take up a variety of subjects and teach the practice of, them before the theory is attempted. Thus in the one hundred acres of garden attached to the Industrial School and operated by the boys and girls, they will be taught soil chemistry, botany, horticulture, agriculture, and biology. These sciences will come so naturally to them that they will not be aware that they are being taught. Later when the theory is taken up, it will be thoroughly understood, because the facts have already been inculcated. Time usually wasted by children will be used in absorbing knowledge, yet the children will enjoy it all\u201d.4\n\u201cSelf-government is also practiced. The boys have their managers of departments, make their own laws, try their own culprits, and acquire a sense of responsibility. They like it, for it is real life. Boys who have seemed to be incorrigible have been transformed into lovable, tractable, good-natured workers. They have received the attention they needed, and have been given an interest in life and healthful means of expanding their superabundant energy\u201d.5 An attempt was being made in this department to eliminate all but the essentials of education and, for Llano del Rio, gave promise of success.\nBonds had been voted for a five thousand dollar school house, which was to take care of the children and of those in some territory not included in the colony. It was organized as any other school district and was under the same general supervision.\nThe Llano del Rio Company was incorporated under the laws of Nevada. As a corporation its business was transacted the same as that of any other corporation, and it had the advantage of a capital stock consisted of two million shares, the par value of which was one dollar.\nThe management of affairs in a general way was in the hands of the nine directors, who were elected by the stockholders of the company. They were the legal representatives of the company and as such were responsible to the State through the corporation laws. This board of directors appointed a superintendent of the colony activities, who was directly responsible to that body.\nThe superintendent, with the sanction of the board of directors, appointed the assistant superintendent and the heads or managers of the various departments, who appointed the department foremen. Assistant foremen were appointed as needed in the different departments. The assistant superintendent and the foremen could be removed at the option of the superintendent and board of directors, the latter body having, of course, power to remove the superintendent. The board of directors could be recalled by a vote of sixty per cent of the stockholders. Thus we see the final authority came back to the stockholders, each having one vote regardless of the amount of stock held.\nThere were four distinct departments, with a fifth made up of several lines of activity, grouped together for convenience: (1) Farm, (2) Livestock, (3) Industries, (4) Construction, (5) Administration, Architects, Medical, Membership.\nThe rules and regulations of the managers, before becoming operative, had to be submitted to the board of directors. Managers and superintendent had regular office hours, so they could be easily reached by those who desired to talk over matters with them. In case of trouble or dispute, if adjustment could not be made by the managers or superintendent, the case was presented to the board of directors for final settlement.\nThe nature of the \u201ccontract\u201d and the \u201cAgreement of Employment\u201d is interesting. Leading features included the following :\nEach share holder agreed to buy two thousand shares of stock at the par value of one dollar.\nEach agreed to pay one thousand dollars in money (cash at time of signing contract, if possible).\nEach agreed to pay in labor, one thousand dollars.\nEach received a daily wage of four dollars.\nThe one thousand dollars in labor could be paid by deducting one dollar a day from the four dollars daily wage.\nOut of the balance of the three dollars wages the colonist bought his food and clothing from the company store and commissary.\nThe balance remained to the credit of the individual and could be drawn out in cash from the surplus profits of the colony (if such surplus ever accumulated).\nA sum of not more than seventy-five dollars could be drawn each year in cash, which could be spent outside of the colony.\nContinuous employment was guaranteed by the company, with provision for annual vacation of two weeks.\nNo stockholder could\u2019 own more shares than other members.\nIt was very evident from the conditions of these contracts that all were to be treated alike, regardless of earning ability. The individual was lost sight of in the welfare of the community. All a man could expect \u2014 in fact, all he should want, according to the philosophy of the colonists \u2014 was the opportunity to earn what he and his family needed to eat and wear, and a place to live in peace and happiness. If he had private property, however, aside from what he had to put into his payments to the colony he was free to take care of it in his own way, but it could not be used in a productive capacity in the colony. He could have pictures, pianos, automobiles, or anything else in the colony which did not interfere with the productive or distributive processes of the colony.\nThe question was often asked if a single man was not at a disadvantage under this contract. In the first place, such a matter was not supposed to be worthy of consideration with these people. Then, too, if the credits were ever realized on in cash, the members who had made the smallest demands in food and clothing would get the most money.\nIt is most natural that many difficulties should present themselves in an undertaking of this kind. Some of the troubles of the Llano colony were very similar to those met with by earlier communistic settlements. However, it is probable that some of these difficulties were, as with other colonies, blessings in disguise ; they indirectly contributed, at least, temporary strength to the enterprise.\nOne of the handicaps to the rapid development of the Llano property and to placing it on a more productive basis was the lack of capital. Land had to be bought, water rights secured and developed, houses built, stock and machinery obtained, offices constructed and an advertising and selling campaign conducted, with very little capital outside of the money derived from memberships. This necessitated a large use of credit and a very frugal use of the resources for even the necessities of life. The common necessity, however, made for community thought and action.\nLlano del Rio, like many of the earlier colonies of the country, experienced periods of social unrest and dissatisfaction.\nThis condition was inevitable unless many applicants were excluded and only people of common ideals, harmonious and select, were permitted to become members. While a more careful and conscientious sifting process might have worked for the ultimate good of the colony, it would have been a hard policy to pursue during the early days when funds and labor were both so much needed in the development work.\nThe Llano del Rio Company was originally organized under the laws of California and, although later operated under a Nevada charter, it was subject to the laws and regulations governing such corporations in this State and also subject to inspection and super vision by the Commissioner of Corporations. During 1915, com plaint against the management of the colony was made to the Commissioner, which resulted in his appointing Deputy Commissioner H. W. Bowman of Los Angeles to investigate the company affairs generally. Mr. Bowman\u2019s report was submitted to the Commissioner December 31, 1915, and contained material of value in this discussion. This report resulted in the Commissioner of Corporations issuing specific instructions to the company governing the sale of stock, at the time the permit authorizing such sale was made.\nShortly after this thirty-two dissatisfied colonists withdrew from the colony, and in a signed statement presented to the Commissioner of Corporations declared that the colony, organized as a cooperative enterprise, having for its purpose mutual helpfulness, had become a one-man autocracy, an organization dominated absolutely by Mr. Harriman, who ruled arbitrarily and often without a semblance of justice. Although the statement was not specifically made that Mr. Harriman\u2019s management was in his own interests individually, it is an implication that such was the case.\nThis was followed in a few weeks by a reply to the report of Mr. Bowman and the charges of the colonists who had withdrawn, written by Mr. Harriman.\nMr. Bowman\u2019s report to the Commissioner of Corporations was comprehensive and well arranged. It was submitted in the analytic \u2018 style in which attorneys\u2019 briefs are usually submitted. It was written apparently in the spirit of a public official who had discovered a situation which needed, in his opinion, the firm and careful exercise of the law in order to remedy a condition which was producing injustice to a number of citizens of the State.\nMr. Harriman\u2019s answer, on the other hand, was written to justify the conduct of affairs by the company officers. It explained from the official viewpoint the reasons why actions cited in Mr. Bowman\u2019s report as unwise and unjust, were taken. His position was that many of the official acts of himself or the directors of the company, were not only justifiable, but wise, and in the interests of the company as a whole, and, if understood, would be viewed by others in that way.\nIt is neither necessary nor wise to go into a detailed discussion of this controversy in this paper. It was difficult for each side to appreciate the position of the other, and some injustice probably resulted. However, the final result was no doubt beneficial to the colony and brought about a closer supervision of the company affairs by the Commissioner of Corporations.\nThe personnel of the colonists is interesting. About twenty-five per cent of the members were Californians and, as might be expected, a majority came from west of the Rocky Mountains \u2014 at least sixty to seventy per cent. Recruits came from the South, the Middle West and the East, but they were comparatively few in number. The several occupations of the colonists prior to their coming to Llano are an interesting study. On June 26, 1917, a survey showed that six had been engaged in transportation, fifteen in professional lines, five in the printing trades, ten clerks, eight miners, eighteen workers in manufacturing plants, seventy-three in business lines, thirteen in building trades, and one hundred four farmers.\nThere were few foreigners in Llano. Nearly all were so far removed from foreign parentage that they would be classed as Americans. Their habits, thought and ideals were formed by American influences.\nThe character of the members of the colony was above what I expected to find before my visit there. The leaders were wide awake men of affairs, several of whom had had very successful private business experience.\nAs one conversed with the people one was impressed with the fact that, for the most part, they were men and women of intelligence and common sense. They were not there because they were \u201cdown and out\u201d and unequal to the struggle of life. If that had been the case they would have been unable to raise the necessary funds to become members of the colony. They were largely substantial persons who had banded themselves together to attempt to work out a community life that was without a capitalist and where the fruits of toil went where, in their estimation, they belonged, to the laborer.\nIn the fall of 1917 it was decided by the directors of the company that a change of location of the home or mother colony would be beneficial. 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Thankfully we had the opportunity while taking care of business in St. Louis this past weekend. If I had my druthers, we\u2019d record in person all the time, but that could only happen if we managed to organize that board game compound we\u2019ve talked about for the longest time. One day, maybe \u2013 but, for now, we\u2019ll settle for the joy of looking each other... 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See, https://www.trulia.com/profile/tammy-mazzocco-agent-johnstown-oh-zgwx6bks/overview.\nAfter working her way through other supportive roles in the real estate community, she decided to go into real estate selling as she by now had seen the income potential of the business. According to Mazzocco, that was the best decision of her life because she has done nothing but improve each year since then.\nOver the years Tammy has always given credit to her co-workers and managers who have helped with suggestions and who have shared what has been beneficial to them. Tammy does not let a good idea sit for long if she feels it might work for her.\nShe is passionate about the real estate business and treats it as a privilege to be involved. Mazzocco takes each day as if it is a moment in time as she is a great goal-setter. She sets her objectives and then breaks them down into easy-to-manage steps that can be mastered easily. It is a lot easier to do the steps as she goes, rather than to have to bite off the entire project at once.\nMazzocco says that one should never take themselves too seriously and that she lives without fear of failure, and doesn\u2019t settle for much foolishness. She starts her day with meditation and some light stretching exercises, followed by getting some paperwork out of the way. She then spends some time on the phone, lining up leads that have come in and referrals. 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Count Dracula has since become a blood-thirsty monster wreaking vengeance and doomed to immortality. Dracula is a monster but also a godless soul, rejected by God and man, he is a character that inspires both fear and pity.\nPROFESSOR VAN HELSING:\nVan Helsing is a famous Dutch teacher at the University of Medicine in London. He is however, even better known as a vampire slayer. Dynamic and brave, full of compassion and respect for others, Van Helsing is above all driven by his quest to destroy Evil. He has devoted his life to his mission of eliminating Dracula.\nJonathan Harker\u2019s fianc\u00e9e, pupil and friend of Van Helsing. She is the incarnation of the young devoted woman, brave and pure: the perfect victim to be sacrificed for the Demon. She succumbs to Dracula who sees her as the ideal vessel for his lost lover.\nDR SEWARD:\nThis young doctor is another of Van Helsing\u2019s disciples and has been sent to Mina\u2019s bed side to free her of the Vampire\u2019s demonic grip.\nHERODOTE:\nA priest living in Cairo who is a sage and a healer. He knows how to free you from the demon\u2019s grip. He is too old to do it himself but is willing to help the right people to allow Good to triumph.\nAs beautiful as she is Evil, this female vampire has devoted herself to serving and protecting Dracula.\nDracula\u2019s coachman in Transylvania, he is utterly devoted to his master. He is demonic, of ill intent and despises the human race. 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Together with Janet's son and husband, both named Peter, who handle everything from investments to the packing of signed books for shipment to stores, they make up the family enterprise known as Evanovich Inc.\nAnd they have transformed Ms. Evanovich, 62, from a failing romance writer who once burned a box of rejection letters on her curb into a mini-industry whose success is beginning to emulate the sprawling domains of authorial heavyweights like James Patterson.\nLast year, she sold an estimated one million books in hardcover and three million more paperbacks, earning more than $3 million in royalties from the paperbacks and several million more in advances and royalties on the hardcovers. The empire now includes two continuing mystery series: one featuring the sharp-elbowed bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, published by St. Martin's Press, whose latest installment, \"Eleven on Top\" went on sale June 21, and a second, published by HarperCollins, which began last fall with \"Metro Girl.\"\nWhile her success speaks to her tenacity and devotion to family, it owes as much to marketing prowess. When fans, impatient for her next novel, began asking her to recommend other writers like her, Ms. Evanovich hired one instead. Thus began a separate line of paperback romance-thrillers with Charlotte Hughes as co-author and St. Martin's as publisher. Four books in that series became best sellers.\n\"I'm a writer, but this is a business,\" she said. \"You have to look at it in the way you would look at any business. You have to have honesty to the product. You have to meet consumer expectations. You give them value for their money and give them a product that they need. I don't see anything wrong with all these things. And I don't think it's a bad thing to meet consumers' expectations.\"\nTwo kinds of writers\nThere is this interestingly unusual interview with author Jonathan Safran Foer in The Morning News. Here are some words of wisdom from this famous young writer:\n\"It\u2019s like there are two kinds of writers, those that want for there to be more writers and those who want there to fewer writers. I feel like you could almost divide the world up like that. All those cases we just talked about Miller, Sontag, and Thompson\u2014they all wanted more writers. They felt like the world would be better if there were more people writing books.\"\n(Which category do you belong to? The first or the second?)\n\"When you write a book, you are able to concentrate on very, very specific things. Individuals doing very specific acts. Orhan Pamuk once said that every book, at the end of the day, is about showing how similar people are to one another. And how different they are from one another. And you do that by showing how somebody pours coffee and drinks it. It\u2019s not by speaking about diplomacy. It\u2019s not by troop movements.\"\n(This is such a nice observation...)\n\"In New York if a first author gets a $100,000 advance, that\u2019s news. But a $100,000 advance for a book that took four years to write, you are talking about wages that a receptionist makes.\"\n(We agree but even that's not bad! Poor single-income writers, without a rich father or a rich uncle leaving behind any windfall for them, have to put up with many things. So sad!)\n\"If it takes a hundred thousand bad books to make a good one, do we cry for the trees? What is so upsetting? Have children died because a novel was a failure? It\u2019s just not that big a deal.\"\n(True. No big deal. We are free to damage our eyes with e-books).\nSean Penn in Teheran\nI was quite amused by the news in today's NYT about the actor Sean Penn being in Teheran and working as a journalist. Let me quote from the news item:\n\"Sean Penn, the Hollywood actor who has taken out ads in newspapers in support of his political beliefs, has moved over to the other side of the media business. He is in Iran working as a journalist for The San Francisco Chronicle ahead of Iran's presidential election this Friday.\nMr. Penn, who arrived in Tehran on Thursday and is expected to stay until today or tomorrow, is preparing an article on the election and Iran's controversial nuclear programs. On his first day in Tehran, he met with Mehdi Hashemi, the son of the powerful politician Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president who is running for the job again. He attended Friday Prayer in Tehran where the hard-line head of the watchdog Guardian Council urged worshipers to vote in the election next Friday.\" There is more actually.\nInteresting to see how far a celeb goes in search of the truth! Pretty unique in these politically-charged times, isn't it?\nWatch out Amis, McEwan and all the other big shots!\nWatch out Amis, McEwan and all the other big shots! Mr. Dhaliwal is here.\nCurious to know who this challenger is? In fact, I too became curious when I read about this London-based guy called Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal. I first read about him in Outlook. The magazine carried the news that Random House is setting shop in India, and it will start it off with a bang: Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, Mark Tully's provisionally titled The Certainty of Uncertainty and a debut novel by UK-based writer Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal.\nBeaten by my curiosity, I looked for Dhaliwal in google and pronto I learnt that his first novel, Tourism, will be published by Vintage next spring. Dhaliwal has also penned a fiery piece in The Times. Here's a sample:\n\"The truly talented members of Britain\u2019s ethnic minorities don\u2019t want meaningless baubles for work that doesn\u2019t deserve attention; they want to make it in the big league, competing with everyone else. By allocating prizes according to race there\u2019s a danger that not only will true talent be marginalised but also that mediocrity will be rewarded. The woolly sentimentalism of London\u2019s literati made them laud a writer as unremarkable as Zadie Smith to the skies; the same thinking must be why the BBC repeatedly commissions The Kumars at No 42. I cringe whenever I watch that junk, hoping the public doesn\u2019t think that all Asians are as naff and unfunny as they are.\"\nHe has even issued a challenge to the literary bigwigs of UK. Savour this:\n\"I\u2019ve written a novel myself; when it is published next year, I want it to cut the real mustard, not the sentimental treacle of the establishment. I don\u2019t want the marginal recognition that might come with winning the Decibel; I want to go toe-to-toe with Whitey. I want to compete with Amis, McEwan and all the other big shots. And I don\u2019t want a helping hand from anyone.\"\nPacks a punch, right?\nFor more please go here.\nGiving Your Novel Away in the Sreets...\nIn Delhi, I used to see poor kids hawking magazines and newspapers like Free Ads at the crowded traffic signals. Delhi traffic is mad and jams are not uncommon.\nWhen my first novel had come out, I contemplated why not use this medium to increase the publisher's bottomline? But then I had brushed it off as a cheap and crazy idea.\nLittle did I know that a crazy novelist will do something similar in the far off United Kingdom. The guy is Robert Chalmer and here's what he is doing to promote his novel:\n\"At lunchtime, the Otley branch of HSBC is a hive of activity. On the pavement outside, a writer stands with a bag bulging with copies of his latest novel. He's attempting to engage with a Londoner who is fidgeting uncomfortably under close questioning.\n\"Hello. Would you like a book?\"\n\"No, you're alright, mate.\"\n\"It's free.\"\n\"No, really, I don't want it.\"\n\"I wrote it. Go on, you might like it.\"\n\"I don't really read books, so it'd a bit of a waste of time.\"\n\"You could sell it on eBay and buy beer instead.\"\n\"Nah, you're alright, thanks.\"\n\"You sure? Do you know anyone else who reads books?\"\n\"Oh. What, no one?\"\nThere is an interesting story, How to make a book, that gives you an insider look into the book publishing industry. In the story, Oliver Burkeman follows the 18-month-long journey of one novel, from the author's flash of inspiration in a pub, to the moment it hit the shelves at Books Etc. It is a must read for all wannabe novelists.\nSam Binnie is the winner of this year's Harpers & Queen/Orange Prize for Fiction short story competition. I guess her story, The Dress, is experimental and could easily come under the category of creative non-fiction. If you haven't read it, you can read it here.\nWhy is Chopra angry with Mehta?\nIn the big bad world of Bollywood, two titans have clashed or so it seems, from a recent interview published in Tehelka. Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Bombay's well-known film director-producer, is angry with Suketu Mehta, author of the now-famous Maximum City.\nIn the interview, Chopra has said: \"Mehta is crazy. His marriage is over, he\u2019s on the street.\"\nChopra is angry about what he thinks Suketu wrote about him in Maximum City, even though he hasn't read the book.\n\"He writes, I\u2019m told, (I haven\u2019t read the book) that he came to my house and there were my three wives. What is this nonsense? Renu (Saluja) was my ex wife, Shabnam is in Canada. I have had one wife for nine years. I haven\u2019t spoken about this to the press, but talking about it to you makes me think I should sue him. It suits him to project this image of an Indian director, because it fits into the dangerous mind of Americans, who like to feel superior to everyone else. The book should be banned.\"\n\"I\u2019ve slapped a couple of critics, which is why I never get good reviews. But I hven\u2019t slapped anyone for a long time. I have young children so I try very hard. But I get angry with people like Mehta. If he came here now, I would slap him.\"\nYou can see how angry is Mr. Chopra with Mr. Mehta.\nMr. Mehta is yet to get back with any clarifications in the media (he is based in the U.S.).\nIt should be remembered that Mehta had collaborated on the screenplay of Chopra's Mission Kashmir a few years back. Chopra is proud of this film.\nReading, Writing and Happiness\nSome of the happiest people I know hardly ever read books. They did read books when they were in school or in college. But in their working lives, they hardly do. It was amusing to see Michel Houellebecq echoing similar views in his piece on HP Lovecraft in The Guardian recently. Here is what he says:\n\"Those who love life do not read. Nor do they go to the movies, actually. No matter what might be said, access to the artistic universe is more or less entirely the preserve of those who are a little fed up with the world.\"\nAnd did you think writing was tough business? Michel thinks so.\n\"Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new, realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don't care to know any more. Humanity, such as it is, inspires only an attenuated curiosity in us. All those prodigiously refined notations, situations, anecdotes ... All they do, once a book has been set aside, is reinforce the slight revulsion that is already adequately nourished by any one of our \"real life\" days.\"\nPyaasa in All Time 100 Movies\nGuru Dutt's Pyaasa is one of my most favourite Hindi movies, along with his Kaaghaz ke Phool and Saheb Bibi Aur Ghulam. Now The Time has included Pyaasa in its list of All Time 100 Movies. I am so gald. Finally, the movie is being acknowledged and feted in the West. The story of an unpublished poet and failed lover whose work achieves fames and acclaim after his being presumed dead is one of the most moving tales told on the celluloid. Nihilistically, Dutt declares in the movie: Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye to kya hai... (So what if I become materially successful in this world...)\nSatyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy also makes it to the list. That is not surprising. Surprising is the inclusion of Mani Rathnam's gem of a movie, Nayakan. I think Kamal Hasan has given his best performance in this Godfather-like movie.\nOnce New in Indian Writing\nWhat is new in Indian writing?\nAmitava Kumar poses this question in an article in The Hindu. He asks: \"How is newness to come into the world? In India, didn't all those who found fault with the innovations of, say, Salman Rushdie, or Arundhati Roy, or Raj Kamal Jha \u2014 didn't those readers and critics show similar impatience with what was new by finding it gimmicky or overwrought or incoherent? How were the detractors able to separate what is merely show-offish and self-indulgent from that which is unanticipated and truly brilliant?\"\nKumar finally builds a case for intermingling of ideas and the cross-fertilisation of views in new fiction, Indian or of any nationality. He concludes by saying: \"What was true then is also true now. In the case of current Indian writers working in English, what is new is also the result of the conversations ongoing with writers all over the world, older writers like Philip Roth, J.M. Coetzee, and Alice Munro, but also younger ones like David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, and, why not, even Jonathan Safran Foer.\"\nOne cannot agree more. Literature does not happen in a vaccum. It does not happen in isolation either. One idea generates another, adding grist to the mill of literature.\nBy the way, Kumar's new website is up and running now. You can check it out at www.amitavakumar.com.\nCan anyone make cinema?\nWhen the cheap digital camcorders came into the market, everyone claimed that now anyone could make a movie. The medium became cheap, accessible, opening the creative possibilities for anyone with an imaginative eye. Even Samira Makhmalbaff, the acclaimed young Iranian filmmaker, came out with a piece saying that digital filmmaking has democratized the process of making cinema. Shekhar Kapoor came out with an annual digital film festival in Delhi, only to flounder two years later.\nSo, was it true-the digital democracy in terms of creating works of cinematic value?\nI often wondered. I was searching for an answer for a long time. Even after the coming of digital filmmaking gadgets, digital cinema had not flourished as promised. More so, the outputs, from wherever they were, were not very encouraging.\nAt last, I found the answer from the Master himself. Gordard has commented on this process in a recent interview in these words:\n\"What's bad is that students think that because they've got a little camera, they can film something. The manufacturers, even the critics, say: 'It's great! Everyone can make cinema!' No, not everyone can make cinema. Everyone can think they're making cinema, or say, 'I make cinema.' But if you give someone a pencil it doesn't mean they're going to draw like Raphael or Rembrandt.\"\nIsn't it true? Not everyone with a key board can write a stirring story or a valuable novel.\nGodard has come out with a new film, Notre Musique. It is on Sarajevo. Read his interview here.\nMichael Chabon, the Wonder Boy\nContinuing with my passion for learning and exploring about the writing process, I came across this piece by Michael Chabon in The New York Review of Books. In this piece, Chabon describes how he wrote his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. It is really worth reading.\nHere is a brief profile of Chabon also. Read the last para carefully. It is pure truth, powerfully told:\nMichael Chabon was just 23 when he wrote his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. He turned it in as his master's thesis in a creative writing program. He turned it in on a Friday. On Monday he heard that his professor had sent it to an agent. The book was published the following year, in 1988. It was a big success. He was compared to Fitzgerald and John Cheever. He was asked to model clothing for The Gap. People Magazine wanted to include him in its list of \"50 Most Beautiful People.\" He turned down both offers.\nHe started working on his second novel. He had seen a picture of the original plans for the city of Washington, D.C., and he got an idea for a novel about an architect. Chabon later said, \"It was a novel about utopian dreamers, ecological activists, an Israeli spy, a gargantuan Florida real estate deal, the education of an architect, the perfect baseball park, Paris, French cooking, and the crazy and ongoing dream of rebuilding the Great Temple in Jerusalem. It was about loss: lost paradises, lost cities, the loss of the Temple, the loss of a brother to AIDS, and the concomitant dream of Restoration or Rebuilding.\"\nHe called the novel Fountain City. He spent five years working on it and wrote 1,500 pages of manuscript. He felt he just couldn't put the pieces together and then one night got an idea for a whole different story and decided to follow it. He wrote 15 pages in four hours. He kept working on it in secret for the next few weeks. He didn't tell anybody. He said, \"I didn't stop to think about what I was doing or what the critics would think of it and, sweetest of all, I didn't give a single thought to what I was trying to say. I just wrote.\"\nHe finished the book in seven months. The novel was Wonder Boys. It came out in 1995, about a creative writing professor named Grady Tripp who can't seem to finish his latest novel. It was made into a movie five years later.\nAfter Wonder Boys, Chabon stumbled on a box of comic books he'd kept since childhood. He hadn't looked at them in 15 years. He said, \"When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.\" It gave him the idea to write a novel about the golden days of the comic book trade called The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. It came out in 2000, and won a Pulitzer Price. It was the story of a Jewish kid who flees the Nazis just before World War II, has to leave his family behind, and come to America. Along with his cousin, he creates a comic book super hero called \"The Escapist.\"\nMichael Chabon said, \"Literature, like magic, has always been about the handling of secrets, about the pain, the destruction, and the marvelous liberation that can result when they are revealed. If a writer doesn't give away secrets, his own or those of the people he loves, if he doesn't court disapproval, reproach and general wrath, whether of friends, family or party apparatchiks... the result is pallid, inanimate, a lump of earth.\"\nSo much happened while I was away...\nSunil Dutt and Ismail Merchant passed away. I loved both these gentlemen. I loved Dutt for his being the gentleman that he was, for his secular beliefs and for his pacifism and humanitarianism. He was one of our most handsome politicians.\nMerchant was a towering figure for me and for many of us: he brought to us the kind of cinema that was so uniquely Ivory-Merchant, that sepia-tinted look into the human condition during the Raj. Apart from his Raj stories, I loved his Surviving Picasso and In Custody.\nTalking of films, I came across this interesting bit of confession (on writing) by Hollywood screenwriter, Charlie Kauffman. I had loved his Adaptation. He talks about the process of writing here:\n\"Vegas: What's the hardest thing about writing - concentration, perserverance, etc - why, and how do you overcome it?\nCharlie Kaufman: I mean, there are a lot of things that are hard for me about writing. I guess sticking it out is hard. And I try to stick it out by keeping the process interesting for me. And so I try to look at writing as kind of an exploration, rather than starting out with a conclusion and filling in the blanks. Like, \"I'm gonna write about passion. Or confusion. Or identity.\" And things get surprising, and I let things change as I'm working. If things go in a new direction, I force myself to go with it.Another thing that's hard is trying to stay with something that's true. There's a tendency with me that I'm influenced so much by movies and TV I've seen, it's a struggle to keep things in the real world, rather than unconsciously falling into something I've seen in a movie or relationship. It's sort of a monumental task.\"\nRead this entire chat script here.\nBook Tagging for Asya\nI am doing this for Asya. She introduced this idea on her blog, and here it goes:\nMust be nearing a thousand now! Not a great number though as I recently read that Umberto Eco has about 40,000 books in his library. I don't know if I will ever be able to amass those number of books, let alone read them. Most of my books are in Delhi. Includes books in English and Urdu. I love English fiction and Urdu poetry. Unfortunately, I could never connect with English poetry. I guess this is due to lack of exposure.\nI already have a long list of books waiting for my attention. Recently, I bought a couple of books in Kolkata. Some of them are Mahabharata (R K Narayan), The Lexus and Olive Tree (Thomas Friedman), India Wins Freedom (Maulana Azad), The Holy Wars, Transmission (Hari Kuzru), Salem's Lot (Stephen King), and On Literature (Umberto Eco).\nWhich is the last one you've read?\nI am reading The Lexus and Olive Tree. It is an interesting book on globalisation.\nWhich five books have meant the most to you?\nThe answer will vary from time to time I guess, as I am yet to read so many great and well-received works. Anyway, here is my tentative list:\nMera Daghistan by Rasool Humzatov (Russian translated into Hindi)\nOf Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (English)\nShort Stories by Chekhov\nLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (English)\nAnd whom would you like to book-tag?\nYou started the whole thing and have already asked Susan to do it. Shakeel has stopped blogging. Who do I ask now? 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The Department of Science & Technology, Governments of India and the U.S. Department of States are respective nodal departments. Learn more at www.iusstf.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 100.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://drowseymonkeymeme.info/services-tips-for-the-average-joe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SQT5L5L4Q3JWTMVCQDJRN7RYTKU4T7MV", "length": 2861, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "drowseymonkeymeme.info", "title": "Services Tips for The Average Joe | Financial drowsey", "raw_content": "aljihad Auto & Motor December 6, 2018\nNowadays, email promotion is one of the primary methods that most businesses are using to keep relationships with their clients and partners. However, it should be noted that the process of managing an email marketing campaign is challenging and tiresome to many individuals. You need to invest enough time when you opt to use email marketing method to market your business as this is seen as a full-time business. You will encounter many challenges when creating and sending out emails to the target audience. A cloud-based agency that focuses on business to business communications can be crucial in a running a successful email marketing campaign on your behalf. After creating a visually appealing, compelling and useful email that you want to send to your email promotion list, you can get stuck on what to do next.\nOne of the best ways to handle this is by deciding to take time and effort to send it out yourself or maybe employ the services of a company that specializes in this area to do it for you. You need to note that these firms are essential in that they retain a list of subscribers, removing the invalid addresses and unsubscribe requests. You need to know that these companies will also give you easy to use templates that can be vital in forming an attractive email content. It is imperative to learn that these service providers will help in tracking the responses to your email campaign and also maintain records of the people who have accessed and opened the emails. It is essential to realize that these agencies are useful in monitoring the results of your email advertising activity thus allowing you to enhance your next campaign.\nThe other element of a successful email marketing campaign is subscriber management. When you are sending out invalid email addresses, and you are not following the unsubscribe request, it can damage your reputation. You need to know that email marketing is supposed to eliminate the invalid email addresses automatically and the contacts that should be banned worldwide. Make sure that the service provider that you select will inspect the emails which bounce back and find out the reason behind this issue.\nCollecting addresses is another component of a perfect email marketing campaign. When you manage to come up with a list of addresses, you need to identify a service provider that enables you to get your list into their services without experiencing any difficulties. It is essential that they provide simple methods for interested parties to add their email addresses to your list. Recipient targeting, spam, design, and reporting are among the best email marketing elements. Ensure that you have comprehended all the email marketing components listed above as this will help you to excel in your campaign.\n\u2190 The Essentials of Services \u2013 Getting to Point A", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/123456789/2190", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:08Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6DOP4WVR4QWH4JT5KX4JSGDBNRXZWF5", "length": 201, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181", "title": "The Preservation of Torah Scrolls", "raw_content": "The Preservation of Torah Scrolls\nStuhlman, Daniel D.\nThis article deals with the history of the production of Torah Scrolls, their use, and long term preservation and conservation issues and concerns.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 126.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://e-novosibirsk.com/traditional-may-bike-ride/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:35Z", "digest": "sha1:Q346UGIFGXV554MVBTHAJ36BOLO6CCNP", "length": 612, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "e-novosibirsk.com", "title": "Traditional May Bike Ride | E-Novosibirsk.com", "raw_content": "post-title Traditional May Bike Ride\nOn Saturday, May 5, you can participate in the big spring bike ride which the activists arrange for the seventh time already. People of any age and level of training are welcome. The column of cyclists will pass through two bridges with a stop at the Monument of Glory and finish in the park \u201cCity Beginning\u201d. Prior to the start of the ride there will be a festival with a concert of local rock bands, contests and an interactive test for knowledge of traffic rules. 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We decided to sell our car (why pay for something that\u2019s parked most of the time?) but more about that later. First some service announcements: Once again, we need to remember that in terms [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 4650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://earthshareca.org/our_orgs/org.php?id=68", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:14Z", "digest": "sha1:J24AR3PVIOBTNPLJSYIM6L4K2OSP4OHX", "length": 244, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "earthshareca.org", "title": "EarthShare California | Our Organizations | Organization Details", "raw_content": "(800) 743-SURF\nwww.surfrider.org\nProtects and preserves the world's oceans, waves and beaches through conservation, activism, research and education. 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Along with three other academics from France, Britain and the Netherlands respectively, I was taking part in a public audio-recorded discussion, which lasted an exacting SIX HOURS. It was convened in the hope that it might assist the exciting Anglo-French artist Alexandre Singh in his fascinating new Aristophanic performance/installation project The Humans (to reach fruition in 2013).\nShortly before Philosophical Trance\nFollowing a traditional Dutch lunch heavy on carbohydrates (pumpkin soup and cheese pie), I was unwise enough at one point in the afternoon to close my eyes and adopt a horizontal position. Paparazzi using sophisticated telephoto lens technology snapped away while I was actually engaged in an interior monologue which entailed advanced philosophical reasoning (see below).\nThe photographer now blackmailing me claims that \u201cthe photos are by no means degrading. They show a middle-aged woman not on vacation, not beautiful, fully clothed, and not with her husband.\u201d This reprehensible individual also claims that it is certainly \u201cin the public interest\u201d for it to be proved by these shocking images that I am so signally not earning my living, since (until the British universities were recently privatised) British academics were paid by the British taxpayer.\nSocrates, thinking, gets Horizontal\nI have two comments to make. First, I was NOT asleep. I was thinking. I can surely be allowed to contemplate the Form of Absolute Beauty in Rotterdam, if Socrates could have a philosophical trance in a military camp such as is described by Alcibiades in Plato\u2019s Symposium: \u201cOne day, at dawn, he started thinking about some problem or other; he just stood outside, trying to figure it out. He couldn't resolve it, but he wouldn't give up. He simply stood there, glued to the same spot\u2026 He stood in the very same spot until dawn!\u201d\nA Sleep-Deprived Scipio\nSecond, obviously no well-trained classicist EVER goes to sleep in a public place, since they all know that sleeping people can be raped and impregnated (the Vestal Virgin Rhea Silvia\u2014see last week\u2019s blog), blinded (the Cyclops), diverted from superintending the Trojan War (Zeus in the Iliad), abandoned by their lover (Ariadne on Naxos), ambushed and murdered (Rhesus in the Iliad), or have their cattle stolen (Apollo by Hermes). Moreover, properly valiant warriors in antiquity could manage far more than a six-hour symposium without succumbing to a snooze: Scipio stayed awake for six whole days and nights in order to achieve the siege of Byrsa (the citadel of Carthage), at least according to Appian (Pun. 130).\nAncient Greek/Roman gods and heroes did not have many privacy rights. They understood that if they wanted to be rich while doing absolutely nothing constructive or useful, they had to take care of their public image. But I, on the other hand, was hard at work. I will certainly sue any media outlet which, motivated by unadulterated greed, thinks it can boost sales by publishing these fruits of shameful and prurient prying. I can offer a reward (a transcript of my inner philosophical dialogue while apparently asleep last Thursday) for the original images. Please email me privately via my website, or write c/o The Gadfly, St. James' Palace, London.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://edwardcaine.com/event.php?id=60", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4OY6HDXJFN3GEARBJHFILYNE7NSEIX6E", "length": 105, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "edwardcaine.com", "title": "Edward Caine - Composer | Event - Tuesday Evening Piano Recital", "raw_content": "A second chance to hear my debut performance programme, in the Recital Room at Bootham School, for Free!:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eecoordinator.info/ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5oc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:JMLNOPDKSWPTK72ETHJMDGRGWG2AYQH4", "length": 843, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "eecoordinator.info", "title": "IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5\u00baC \u2013 California's Local Government Energy Efficiency Portal", "raw_content": "IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5\u00baC\nAs part of the decision to adopt the Paris Agreement, the IPCC was invited to produce, in 2018, a\nSpecial Report on global warming of 1.5\u00b0C above pre-industrial levels and related global\ngreenhouse gas emission pathways. The IPCC accepted the invitation, adding that the Special\nReport would look at these issues in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat\nof climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.\nGlobal Warming of 1.5\u00baC is the first in a series of Special Reports to be produced in the IPCC\u2019s\nSixth Assessment Cycle. Next year the IPCC will release the Special Report on the Ocean and\nCryosphere in a Changing Climate, and Climate Change and Land, which looks at how climate\nchange affects land use.\nClick here to learn more from IPCC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://elearningih2011.blogspot.com/2011/03/artefacts-in-museum.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OA5CD5IPOV3D7RYU3UHKMIB65HQLKO6J", "length": 4362, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "elearningih2011.blogspot.com", "title": "Change and Continuity in Humanities: The Museum", "raw_content": "The idea that China is a unified entity and an empire began with Ying Zheng, who defeated his competitors, took over their land and people; and established the Qin empire (221-206 BCE). He also standardised systems of writing and measurement. For the next two millennia, this concept of unity guided China through many cycles of fragmentation and re-consolidation. In the process,\nChina would select and absorb elements from various cultures, peoples and territories around it. As a result, China is not monolithic,but a large melting pot of cultural variety and richness.\nAlthough the dominant state ideology, Confucianism emphasises the basic goodness of human nature and assumes that human virtues will protect the interests of society and individuals,\nChina\u2019s governance has consistently relied on severe penal codes. Despite its humane emphasis Chinese social values put the group before the individual. As the interests of the group could be confused with the interests of rulers who were assumed to have the mandate of Heaven, such social values could be misinterpreted and abused , causing unnecessary suffering. However, it is also this patriarchal ideology that gave China the mechanism or its continuity - an important factor contributing to the preservation of its fine traditions.\nCultural assimilation is an important process in China\u2019s development. With a pronounced literary tradition, highly-sophisticated technology (both agricultural and industrial), and a bureaucracy of talents callede nation-wide through a centralised examination system, China was able to persuade numerous non-Chinese to adopt the Chinese way of life. But this did not always happen peaceably, so military force was also used to achieve assimilation.\nChina developed a powerful market economy and until the 17th century, was indeed the most dynamic global power. This economic Status was matched by its literature, arts, crafts and lifestyle. It is in these areas that the humanistic quality of Chinese civilisation is most vividly expressed.\nKraak dish\nThe name \u2018Kraak\u2019 was probably derived from the carracks that carried porcelain to Europe or the Dutch team kraken, which means fragile. A common characteristic of Kraak porcelain was widely exported from China to Southeast Asia and Europe, with imitations made in Japan and England.\nThe centre of this large Kraak dish comprises two Persian ladies of the Safavid period (16th - 18th centuries), adapted from Persian pottery, textiles and metalwork. Surrounding the centre are panels containing floral motifs alternating with scenes of a farmer at work, a scholar reading in his hut and a man on a boat.\nThe tulip motifs in the narrow panels were possibly inspired by similar motifs on Iznik ceramic tiles. Tulips were the craze in Holland in the late 16th century, which probably made this dish more appealing to Dutch consumers. In Europe, large dishes would have been used as wash basins whilst in West Asia, they were more likely used as serving dishes.\nLate Qing dynasty (1644 - 1911)\nChinese writing brushes are made up of a brush end, a handle and a finial. THey can be broadly divided into three categories - soft, stiff or combination - according to the stiffness and resilience of the brush hair. Brushes with stiff hair are suitable for writing small characters in regular and cursive script. Soft brushes are able to hold more ink and thus favour a freer wielding of the brush end. They are made of goat hair, brush bristles and the soft downy hair of newborn babies. The form and design of brushes vary according to their functions. Zhabi has a short and thick handle was a better grip when writing large characters. Doubi is suited for still larger caracters, while tibi made of pig bristles, is specially made for writing huge characters on plaques. Dajiebi is intended for big characters.\nIvory and Brass Paperweight\nChinese paperweights were usually made from brass, iron, porcelain, jade or red sandalwood the ivory paperweight here is from the late Ming dynasty and early Qing period. Its simple design draws attention to the natural beauty of the ivory grain. the low crouching lion with an alluring expression. The carving is bold and precise. So wide-ranging in style and imaginative in design were paperweights that artists saw them as a source of inspiration.\nPosted by Chong Jun Hao at 9:04 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 4879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ellesbellesnotebook.co.uk/tag/money/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:38Z", "digest": "sha1:EDM7ELJALBDT6RQK7ZVCRLLI6MKW4RMM", "length": 258, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ellesbellesnotebook.co.uk", "title": "Money Archives - EllesBellesNotebook", "raw_content": "Favourites of the Year: Books Time for a round-up of my favourites books of 2018. There have been plenty! I\u2019ll do a full round-up of all the books I\u2019ve read this year nearer to New\u2026\nPosted in Book Reviews, Books, Favourites, New Year's Resolutions\t0 comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 209.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://emmaf.talons43.ca/2014/03/11/the-life-of-a-poet-is-a-busy-one/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:05Z", "digest": "sha1:OARUVKARUQDP26K7RUZPVKKA7A7T5YI3", "length": 4528, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "emmaf.talons43.ca", "title": "The life of a poet is a busy one \u2013 An Extensive Word Bank", "raw_content": "It seems that at the end of each mentoring session with Jamie and Jacob, I am buzzed with a renewed desire to write some really awesome poetry, but with the late-evening meeting (and perhaps the consumption of Starbucks caffeinated chai tea lattes), it becomes almost impossible to fall asleep. Then begins the circle of obsessive poetic thoughts. I can admit that the loss of sleep is not helping out with my overall well-being, and it seems that I have been running solely off of my own whirring excitement that accompanies the constant writing, editing, performing, mentoring, and drinking chai tea lattes.\nSo goes the life of a poet, I suppose.\nIn all seriousness though, I have noticed in the past few weeks how busy I am getting with school, extra curricular activities and in-depth, but I try to keep writing as often as possible to be prepared for the monthly slams at Caf\u00e9 Deux Soleils and the upcoming provincial competitions at Hullabaloo. I think it is important to keep my momentum going so that my project and poetry keeping moving in a forward direction, and hopefully it will continue to do that as mentoring with Jacob and competitions continue.\nAnd on top of all of this, I also can report on some other very exciting news from the last slam. It was another successful night of performances all around, but I managed to win first place again, qualifying myself for the Grand Slams later this month. This means that I perform on March 21 against all the other top eight youth poets in the ranks right now, and the top five will be going on the national team to compete in Ottawa during the summer. After the youth team is confirmed, each of the five poets perform one last poem which decides who gets to be crowned the youth Grand Slam Champion for 2014. Our mentor Jacob currently bears the title, but now it will passed on to another poet, as he is not competing this year.\nThe set looks something like this:\nRound 1: Three minute poems\nRound 2: One minute poems\nRound 4 (Grand Slam) : Three minute poems\nSo, in the next few weeks it will be very busy for me, deciding what poems I will be performing, as well as writing some new material. I am definitely looking forward to it!\nAs for our last mentoring session, here are some responses to my work with Jacob.\n1. What has been my most difficult mentoring challenge so far? Why?\nOur mentoring sessions with Jacob have been running very smoothly so far, and I would say that the only challenge that we\u2019ve encountered so far is the challenge of time. We try to get the most out of our meetings with Jacob, and considering he is a very busy person, we don\u2019t like to waste his time. However, it seems as we are getting deeper and deeper into the curriculum, we are finding it hard to fit all that we want to into a two or three hour session. I have also noticed that as we are getting more comfortable around Jacob, we sometimes go off on tangents separate from the curriculum, which is not always a bad thing, but I think we just need to work on focusing on the task at hand, whether it be workshopping a certain poem or reviewing our reading material.\n2. What is working well? Why?\nI think that communication is one thing that is definitely improving throughout our mentorship. Jamie and I are adapting to Jacob\u2019s style of teaching, and I believe we are understanding eachother on a deeper level than we were on our first session, and. I think this also has something to do with the fact that we are becoming much more familiar with a lot of the concepts in poetry, therefore making it easier to comprehend material that is more complicated or requires some more experience. Jacob tends to make his lessons very interactive, and Jamie and I have gotten used to having a very active role in lectures and critiquing periods.\n3. What could be working better? How can you make sure this happens?\nLike mentioned in some earlier posts, Jacob is assigning some outside reading to us, including books on leadership and human interaction. For both Jamie and I, we have found it somewhat difficult to fit in the time to read all the material for each session, which is something we have to work on. It makes it harder during the sessions to discuss what we have read when we haven\u2019t finished up the entire book, so I think that it is a matter of making it a priority and a habit. Jacob suggests reading a chapter a day of each book, which is not at all unreasonable, but I will have to work on keeping my reading close by so that I can pull it out when I have the chance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 6568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://employme.ng/jobs-and-their-skills-set-part-9/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3B2AUYOXNGFQEXYRGVEGO475PSRUASCH", "length": 1489, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "employme.ng", "title": "Jobs and their skills set \u2026Part 9 \u2013 EmployMe", "raw_content": "A pilot\u2019s jobs primarily is to fly a plane or helicopter for a variety of jobs including aerial photography, sightseeing or highway patrol. They could be working a regular shift transporting goods and people to destinations such as oil rigs or working unpredictable hours alongside the emergency services. All pilots need a pilot license to fly.\nSkills: Hand to eye coordination, observational skills, decision making, calm, concentration skills, communication skills.\nA paramedic is an ambulance service health care professional whose job includes; attends medical emergencies and accidents. They work with an emergency care assistant or on their own to assess the patient\u2019s condition and give essential treatment. Their jobs involves to use high-tech equipment, such as defibrillators and intravenous drips as well as administering oxygen and drugs.\nSkills: Caring, calm, kind, communication, teamwork, good under pressure\nLAW SOLICITOR\nA lawyer litany of jobs is to provide expert legal support and advice to clients who can be individuals, groups or organizations. They primarily deal with legal issues relating to a wide range of issues, contracts, properties, financial etc. There are specialized law practitioners for a particular industry e.g. family lawyers, maritime lawyers etc this situations are rare in Nigeria as we have general law practitioners practice.\nSkills: Communication skills; Negotiation skills; oratory skills; attention to detail; writing skills, people skills.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.cifnews.com/qualified-researchers-flock-guangzhou/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:54Z", "digest": "sha1:URJACHVK6AGODU6NXFDUCUH365DOYNIG", "length": 3110, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "en.cifnews.com", "title": "Cifnews International", "raw_content": "Qualified researchers flock to Guangzhou\nCifnews International > Cross-border news > Market Insights > Qualified researchers flock to Guangzhou\nThe government has invested 700 million yuan a year to welcome experts and specialists in the last five years\nGuangzhou\u2019s talent resources are giving the city a growing presence in the global innovation landscape. In the Guangzhou development district alone, 34 experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering are involved in research projects.\nIn addition, 64 experts from China\u2019s global recruitment program, three national level professionals enrolled in the country\u2019s recruitment campaign designed for national talent and 16 experts backed by a special State Council bonus, as well as 117 distinct research contributors and entrepreneurs they work in the district.\nHan Zhongchao, director of the Stem Cell Technology Research Center, founded a biotechnology joint venture in Singapore in March called Guangzhou Knowledge City, which is funded by the Chinese and Singapore governments.\n\u201cGuangzhou has a high scientific research environment,\u201d Han said. \u201cI am convinced that research on stem cell regeneration can develop well here\u201d. Yang Qin, former director of the Guangzhou human resources and social security office , said: \u201cThe government has invested 700 million yuan ($ 106.04 million) a year to attract experts and specialists in the last five years, a move unprecedented in the history of the city \u201c.\nGuangzhou has issued 2,500 residence permits for talents from abroad, with 32% of these Green Card holders from first-class Chinese cities, such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen and 14% from overseas.\nNi Pengfei, director of the City Research Center at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said, \u201cGuangzhou is full of young skilled workers, who can compete with other international cities\u201d\nThe commercial application of the research has seen technological contracts worth 18.26 billion yuan signed in 2015, with 71% of the offers, worth about 13 billion yuan, perfected abroad. \u201cGuangzhou has already become an important center for applied research and has influenced research in Europe, North America and Asia,\u201d said Zhang Yueguo, head of the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences.\n\u201cGuangzhou\u2019s audio transport, energy resources, education and health care are part of the key reasons why leading technology companies like Cisco, Huawei, and ZTE are investing in the city,\u201d said Wang Jianya, CEO of Nokia Shanghai Bell. The Internet of Things has broad application prospects in these areas, added Wang.\nThe city hosts many industry-leading forums, such as the Fortune Global Forum in December, the main event of the World Routes air networks to be held next year, the 31st World Ports conference of the International Ports Association in 2019 and the 13th Metropolis World 2020 Congress.\nGuangzhou has become an important venue for international information, technology, knowledge and professional events, as stated by an official of the Guangzhou government\u2019s foreign affairs office.\nTags: Biotech Guangzhou Research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.shac.gov.cn/nw_en/governmentaffairs/20180704/3009.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:45Z", "digest": "sha1:5FSTHD3M2PPQ6FEBVYIGEQMRBPA2LISA", "length": 54726, "nlines": 191, "source_domain": "en.shac.gov.cn", "title": "Administrative Permission Law of the People's Republic of China 2003", "raw_content": "Administrative Permission Law of the People's Republic of China 2003\n(Adopted at the 4th Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Tenth National People's Congress on August 27, 2003 and promulgated by Order No.7 of the President of the People\u2019s Republic of China on August 28, 2003)\nChapter II Institution of the Procedure for Administrative Permission\nChapter III Department Granting Administrative Permission\nChapter IV Procedures for Granting Administrative Permission\nSection 1 Application and Acceptance\nSection 2 Examination and Decision\nSection 3 Time Limit\nSection 4 Hearing\nSection 5 Alteration and Extension\nSection 6 Special Provisions\nChapter V Fees for Administrative Permission\nChapter VI Supervision and Inspection\nChapter VII Legal Responsibility\nArticle 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution to standardize the institution of the procedure for, and the granting of, administrative permission, to protect the legitimate rights and interests of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, to safeguard public interests and maintain public order, and to ensure and supervise the effective exercise of administration by administrative departments.\nArticle 2 For purposes of this Law, administrative permission means approval given to citizens, legal persons and other organizations for engaging in special activities by administrative departments on the basis, and upon examination according to law, of their applications.\nArticle 3 This Law is applicable to the institution of the procedure for, and the granting of, administrative permission.\nThis Law is not applicable to the examination and approval by the relevant administrative departments of such matters as personnel, financial and foreign-related affairs of other departments or of the institutions directly under the administration of the said departments.\nArticle 4 The procedure for administrative permission shall be instituted and administrative permission shall be granted in accordance with the statutory limits of power, scope, requirements and procedures.\nArticle 5 The procedure for administrative permission shall be instituted and administrative permission shall be granted in adherence to the principles of openness, fairness and impartiality.\nProvisions on administrative permission shall be promulgated; and no provisions that are not promulgated shall be made the basis for the granting of administrative permission. The granting and outcome of administrative permission shall be publicized except where State secrets, business secrets and individual privacy are involved.\nThe applicants who meet the statutory requirements and standards shall have the equal right to obtain administrative permission according to law, and administrative departments shall not discriminate against any of them.\nArticle 6 Administrative permission shall be granted in adherence to the principle of meeting the convenience of people with greater efficiency and fine service.\nArticle 7 With regard to the granting of administrative permission by administrative departments, citizens, legal persons and other organizations shall have the right to make their statements and argue their cases; they shall have the right, in accordance with law, to apply for administrative reconsideration or bring an administrative suit; and they shall have the right to demand compensation according to law if their legitimate rights and interests are damaged due to the unlawful granting of administrative permission by administrative departments.\nArticle 8 Administrative permission obtained according to law by citizens, legal persons or other organizations shall be protected by law. No administrative departments shall, without authorization, change the administrative permission already in effect.\nWhere the laws, regulations or rules, on the basis of which administrative permission is granted, have been revised or abolished, or major charges have occurred in the objective circumstances, on the basis of which administrative permission is approved, administrative departments may, for the need of public interests and in accordance with law, alter or revoke the administrative permission already in effect. Where, as a consequence, losses are caused to the property of citizens, legal persons or other organizations, administrative departments shall make them compensations according to law.\nArticle 9 Administrative permission obtained according to law shall not be transferred except where laws and regulations provide that it may be transferred according to statutory requirements and procedures.\nArticle 10 People's governments at or above the county level shall establish a sound system to supervise the granting of administrative permission by administrative departments and exercise strict supervision over and inspection of the granting of such permission by the said departments.\nAdministrative departments shall carry out effective supervision over the activities engaged in by citizens, legal persons and other organizations, to which administrative permission is granted.\nArticle 11 The procedure for administrative permission shall be instituted in adherence to the laws governing economic and social development and for the benefit of bringing into full play the enthusiasm and initiative of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, safeguarding public interests, maintaining public order and promoting the harmonious development of the economy, society and the ecological environment.\nArticle 12 The procedure for administrative permission may be instituted for the following matters:\n(1) matters relating to the special activities that directly involve State security, macro-economic control and protection of the ecological environment and that have a direct bearing on human health and the safety of people's lives and property, which are subject to approval in accordance with the statutory requirements;\n(2) matters relating to the development and utilization of limited natural resources, the allocation of public resources as well as access to the market of the special trades that have a direct bearing on public interests, etc., to which special rights need to be granted;\n(3) matters relating to the professions and trades that provide services to the public and that have a direct bearing on public interests, the qualifications and competence to be possessed by which, such as the special credibility, conditions and skills, need to be affirmed;\n(4) matters relating to the important equipment, facilities, products and articles that have a direct bearing on public security, human health, and the safety of people's lives and property, which need to be verified by means of inspection, test, quarantine, etc. and in accordance with technical standards and specifications;\n(5) matters relating to the establishment of an enterprise or other organization, the capacity of which as a subject needs to be affirmed; and\n(6) other matters for which the procedure for administrative permission may be instituted, as provided for by laws and administrative regulations.\nArticle 13 For the matters specified in Article 12 of this Law which can be regulated by the following means, institution of the procedure for administrative permission may be exempted:\n(1) matters on which citizens, legal persons and other organizations can make decisions themselves;\n(2) matters which can effectively be regulated by the competitive mechanism of the market;\n(3) matters which the organizations of trades or intermediary bodies can manage through self-discipline; and\n(4) matters which administrative departments can solve by other administrative means such as supervision afterwards.\nArticle 14 With respect to the matters specified in Article 12 of this Law, the procedure for administrative permission may be instituted by law. Where such a law is not enacted, it may be instituted by administrative regulations.\nWhen necessary, the State Council may institute the procedure for administrative permission by means of promulgating decisions. After implementation of such decisions, the State Council shall, except for matters to which provisional administrative permission is granted, without delay request the National People's Congress or its Standing Committee to enact laws, or formulate administrative regulations itself.\nArticle 15 Where laws or administrative regulations on the matters specified in Article 12 of this Law are not formulated, the procedure for administrative permission for them may be instituted by local regulations; where neither laws and administrative regulations nor local regulations are formulated, and where it is really necessary for administrative permission to be granted directly for the need of administration, the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government may institute provisional procedure for administrative permission in the form of rules. Where it is necessary to continue granting such provisional administrative permission at the expiration of a whole year, the said governments shall request the people's congresses or their standing committees at the corresponding levels to formulate local regulations.\nNo procedure for administrative permission in respect of the qualifications and competence of citizens, legal persons and other organizations, which are to be affirmed by the State in a unified manner, may be instituted in the form of local regulations or rules of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government; nor shall the procedure for administrative permission in respect of the setting up and registration of enterprises and other organizations or administrative permission prior to their setting up and registration be instituted by the said governments in the said form. The procedure for administrative permission instituted by them shall not restrict the individuals or enterprises of other regions from engaging in production and business operation and providing services in the local areas, and shall not restrict the commodities of other regions from entering the local markets.\nArticle 16 Within the scope of the matters for which the procedure for administrative permission is instituted by law, specific provisions on the granting of such permission may be formulated in administrative regulations.\nWithin the scope of the matters for which the procedure for administrative permission is instituted by law or administrative regulations, specific provisions on the granting of such permission may be formulated in local regulations.\nWithin the scope of the matters for which the procedure for administrative permission is instituted by superordinate laws, specific provisions on the granting of such permission may be formulated in rules.\nAdditional procedure for administrative permission shall not be instituted in the specific provisions formulated in the regulations and rules for the granting of administrative permission for which the procedure is instituted by superordinate laws; and other requirements in violation of the superordinate laws shall not be added in the specific provisions on the requirements of administrative permission.\nArticle 17 With the exception of what is provided for in Articles 14 and 15 of this Law, no procedure for administrative permission shall be instituted in any other standardizing documents.\nArticle 18 When the procedure for administrative permission is instituted, provisions on the departments, requirements, procedures and time limit for the granting of such permission shall be formulated.\nArticle 19 Where, when drafting laws or regulations or when drafting rules of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the drafting unit plans to institute the procedure for administrative permission, it shall solicit opinions by holding hearings or evaluation meetings or by other means, and shall explain to the formulating departments about the necessity for instituting the same, the impact it may possibly make on the economy and society as well as the opinions it has solicited and adopted.\nArticle 20 The department that institutes the procedure for administrative permission shall regularly make appraisal of the procedure instituted; and where it believes that matters can be solved by the means specified in Article 13 of this Law, it shall, without delay, revise or nullify the provisions on the institution of the same.\nThe department granting administrative permission may, when it thinks fit, make an appraisal of the granting of the administrative permission for which the procedure is already instituted and of the necessity of its existence, and report their comments and suggestions to the department that institutes the procedure for administrative permission.\nCitizens, legal persons and other organizations may put forth their comments and suggestions regarding the institution of the procedure for, and the granting of, administrative permission to the departments that institute the procedure and grant the permission.\nArticle 21 Where the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, in light of the economic and social development in their respective administrative regions, believe that the economic matters for which the procedure for administrative permission is instituted in their administrative regulations can be solved by the means specified in Article 13 of this Law, they may, upon approval by the State Council, cease granting such permission within their own administrative regions.\nArticle 22 Administrative permission shall be granted by an administrative department with the power of granting such permission within the limits of its statutory functions and powers.\nArticle 23 An organization with the functions of administering public affairs conferred by laws and regulations shall grant administrative permission in its own name and within the limits of the statutory powers. The provisions on administrative departments in this Law shall be applicable to such an empowered organization.\nArticle 24 An administrative department may, within the limits of its statutory functions and powers and in accordance with the provisions of laws, regulations and rules, entrust another administrative department with the granting of administrative permission. The entrusting department shall publicize the entrusted administrative department and the matters subject to the entrusted granting of administrative permission.\nThe entrusting administrative department shall be in charge of supervision over the granting of administrative permission by the entrusted administrative department, and shall bear legal responsibility for the consequences of such granting.\nThe entrusted administrative department shall, within the limits of the entrustment and in the name of the entrusting administrative department, grant administrative permission; it shall not entrust another organization or individual with the granting of administrative permission.\nArticle 25 Upon approval by the State Council, the people's government of a province, autonomous region or municipality directly under the Central Government may, on the principles of simplification, uniformity and efficiency, decide to let one administrative department exercise the power of administrative permission which is exercised by relevant administrative departments.\nArticle 26 Where matters of administrative permission need to be handled by more than one institution within an administrative department, the said department shall decide on one of the institutions for accepting applications for administrative permission and for serving the decisions on such permission itself.\nWhere administrative permission is granted separately by more than two departments of a local people's government according to law, the government may decide on one of the departments for accepting applications for administrative permission and for handling them itself after the relevant departments are informed of the matter and after they respectively put forth their opinions, or have the relevant departments to handle them jointly or in a concentrated way.\nArticle 27 In granting administrative permission, the administrative department shall not make the applicants such unjustifiable requests as to purchase goods it designates and to accept paid service.\nIn handling matters of administrative permission, the staff members of administrative departments shall not ask the applicants for money or things of value, accept or receive the same, or seek other benefits.\nArticle 28 The inspection, test and quarantine of the equipment, facilities, products and goods that have a direct bearing on public security, human health and the safety of people's lives and property shall, except where laws and administrative regulations provide that they be conducted be administrative departments, gradually be carried out by professional and technical organizations that meet the statutory requirements. The professional and technical organizations and their staff members concerned shall bear legal responsibility for the conclusions they draw from inspection, test and quarantine.\nArticle 29 Where citizens, legal persons and other organizations intend to engage in special activities for which they need to obtain administrative permission according to law, they shall submit their applications to administrative departments. Where forms need to be filled out for application, the administrative departments shall provide the applicants with such forms of application for administrative permission. The form of application shall not contain such particulars as are not directly related to the matters involved in the application for administrative permission.\nAn applicant may entrust his agent with the application for administrative permission, except where, in accordance with law, he is required to submit his application for administrative permission at the office place of an administrative department.\nApplication for administrative permission may be submitted in the form of letter, telegram, telex, fax, electronic data exchange, or e-mail.\nArticle 30 Administrative departments shall make public at their office places the matters, basis, requirements, quantity, procedure and time limit, as provided for by laws, regulations and rules, regarding relevant administrative permission, as well as the catalogue of all the materials required to be submitted and application forms for demonstration.\nWhere an applicant requests the administrative department to make explanation and interpretation for what it publicizes, the department shall do so accordingly and provide accurate and reliable information to the applicant.\nArticle 31 An applicant for administrative permission shall submit to the administrative department truthful relevant materials and provide true information, and shall be responsible for the truthfulness of the matters of substance in the application materials. The administrative department shall not ask the applicant to submit technical data and other materials that have no relation to the matters for which administrative permission is applied for.\nArticle 32 With regard to the application submitted by an applicant for administrative permission, the administrative department shall handle it differently in light of the following circumstances:\n(1) where, in accordance with law, no administrative permission is necessary for the matters for which such permission is applied for, it shall directly inform the applicant that such an application is not to be accepted;\n(2) where, in accordance with law, the matters for which administrative permission is applied for do not fall within the scope of its functions and powers, it shall directly make the decision not to accept such an application and inform the applicant of the relevant administrative department to which the application should be submitted;\n(3) where there are errors in the application materials which can be corrected on the spot, it shall allow the applicant to make the correction on the spot;\n(4) where the application materials are not complete or not in conformity with the statutory form, it shall, on the spot or within five days, inform the applicant, all at once, of what needs to be supplemented or corrected; and if it fails to do so at the expiration of the time limit, the application shall be deemed to be accepted as of the date it receives the application materials; and\n(5) where the matters for which administrative permission is applied for fall within the scope of its functions and powers, the application materials are complete and in conformity with the statutory form, or the applicant submits the materials of application which are fully supplemented or corrected as it requires, it shall accept the application for administrative permission.\nWhen the administrative department accepts or refuses to accept an application for administrative permission, it shall produce a written certificate with the special seal of the department affixed and the date clearly marked.\nArticle 33 Administrative departments shall establish and improve the relevant systems, introduce electronic administration, and publicize at their websites the matters which are subject to administrative permission, in order to make it convenient for the applicants to apply for administrative permission by such means as data cable; and they shall share information about administrative permission among themselves and thus increase their administrative efficiency.\nArticle 34 An administrative department shall examine the materials of application submitted by an applicant.\nWhere the application materials submitted by an applicant are complete and in conformity with the statutory form, on which the administrative department can make decision on the spot, it shall, on the spot, make the decision on administrative permission in writing.\nWhere, according to the statutory requirements and procedures, the matters of substance in the application materials need to be verified, the administrative department shall assign two or more of its staff members to conduct such verification.\nArticle 35 Where, according to law, an application for administrative permission needs to be examined by an administrative department at a lower level before it is submitted to an administrative department at a higher level for decision, the administrative department at a lower level shall, within the statutory time limit, submit its preliminary opinions based on the examination and the complete materials of application directly to the administrative department at a higher level. The administrative department at a higher level shall not ask the applicant to provide application materials again.\nArticle 36 Where in examining an application for administrative permission an administrative department finds a matter for administrative permission has a direct bearing on the vital interests of another person, it shall inform the interested person of the fact. The applicant and the interested person shall have the right to make their statements and argue their cases. The administrative department shall listen to the opinions of the applicant and the interested person.\nArticle 37 After examining an application for administrative permission, the administrative department shall, except where it can make a decision on such permission on the spot, make such a decision within the statutory time limit in adherence to the specified procedures.\nArticle 38 Where the application of an applicant is in conformity with the statutory requirements and standards, the administrative department shall, according to law, make a decision in writing on approving administrative permission.\nWhere, according to law, an administrative department makes a decision in writing on refusing to approve administrative permission, it shall state its reasons, and inform the applicant that he has the right, in accordance with law, to apply for administrative reconsideration or to bring an administrative suit.\nArticle 39 Where the administrative department makes the decision on approving administrative permission, for which a certificate of administrative permission is required to be issued, it shall issue to the applicant one of the following certificates of administrative permission affixed with the seal of the department:\n(1) a permit, license or other certificate of permission;\n(2) a qualification certificate, competence certificate or other certificate of quality;\n(3) approval documents or certifying documents of the administrative department; and\n(4) other certificates of administrative permission stipulated by laws and regulations.\nWhere the administrative department conducts inspection, test or quarantine, it may paste labels on, or affix the seal of inspection, test or quarantine to, the equipment, facilities, products or goods which pass the inspection, test or quarantine.\nArticle 40 The administrative department shall make known to the public the decisions it makes on approving administrative permission, and the public shall have the right to consult them.\nArticle 41 Where no regional restrictions are imposed on the use of administrative permission instituted by laws and administrative regulations, such permission obtained by applicants is effective throughout the country.\nArticle 42 An administrative department shall, except where it can make a decision on administrative permission on the spot, make such a decision within 20 days from the date it accepts an application for administrative permission. Where it cannot do so within 20 days, it may have an extension of 10 days upon approval by the leading member of the department, and shall inform the applicant of the reasons for extension. However, where laws and regulations provide otherwise, the provisions there shall prevail.\nWhere, according to the provisions in Article 26 of this Law, applications for administrative permission are handled in a unified manner, jointly, or in a concentrated way, the time for such handling shall not exceed 45 days; and where such handling cannot be wound up within 45 days, an extension of 15 days may be allowed upon approval by the leading member of the people's government at the corresponding level, and the applicant shall be informed of the reasons for extension.\nArticle 43 Where, according to law, an application for administrative permission needs to be examined by an administrative department at a lower level before it is submitted to an administrative department at a higher level for decision, the administrative department at a lower level shall wind up the examination within 20 days from the date it accepts the application. However, where laws and regulations provide otherwise, the provisions there shall prevail.\nArticle 44 After the administrative department makes the decision on approving administrative permission, it shall, within 10 days from the date the decision is made, issue a certificate of administrative permission to or serve it on the applicant, or paste labels or affix the seal of inspection, test or quarantine.\nArticle 45 Where, according to law, a decision on administrative permission to be made by an administrative department requires hearing, public bidding, auction, inspection, test, quarantine, authentication or expert evaluation, the time thus needed shall not be reckoned in the time limit specified by this Section. The administrative department shall inform the applicant in writing of the time needed.\nArticle 46 The administrative department shall make known to the general public, and hold hearings on, the matters for the granting of administrative permission which, according to the provisions of laws, regulations or rules, need hearing, or other matters of vital importance involving public interests for the granting of administrative permission which the administrative department believes need hearing.\nArticle 47 Where administrative permission directly involves the vital interests between an applicant and another person, the administrative department shall, before making the decision on administrative permission, inform the applicant and the interested person that they have the right to request hearing; and where the applicant and the interested person, within five days from the date they are informed of such right, submit their application for hearing, the administrative department shall make arrangements for the hearing within 20 days.\nThe applicant and the interested person shall not bear the expenses for the hearing arranged by the administrative department.\nArticle 48 A hearing shall be conducted in accordance with the following procedures:\n(1) The administrative department shall, seven days before holding the hearing, inform the applicant and the interested person of the time and the venue the hearing is to be held, and when necessary, make the time and venue known to the public;\n(2) The hearing shall be held openly;\n(3) The administrative department shall appoint a person, other than its staff member who examines the application for administrative permission, to chair the hearing, and where the applicant or the interested person believes that the chairperson has a direct interest in the matter for administrative permission, he shall have the right to apply for the chairperson's withdrawal;\n(4) During hearing, the staff member who examines the application for administrative permission shall provide the evidence and reasons for his opinions, and the applicant and the interested person may provide their evidence, and argue their cases and cross-examine the evidence provided by the said staff member; and\n(5) A record of the hearing shall be made in writing and be signed by, or affixed with the seals of, the participants at the hearing after they confirm that there are no mistakes in it.\nThe administrative department shall, on the basis of the record of the hearing, make its decision on administrative permission.\nArticle 49 Where a person granted the permission asks to alter the matters for which administrative permission is obtained, he shall submit an application to the administrative department that makes the decision on administrative permission; and where the application is in conformity with statutory requirements and standards, the administrative department shall go through the formalities for alteration according to law.\nArticle 50 Where a person granted the permission needs an extension of the term of validity of the administrative permission obtained according to law, he shall, 30 days before the expiration of the said term of validity, make an application to the administrative department that makes the decision on administrative permission. However, where laws, regulations and rules provide otherwise, the provisions there shall prevail.\nThe administrative department shall, on the basis of the application of the person granted the permission, make its decision on whether to approve the extension before the expiration of the term of validity of the administrative permission; and where no such decision is made at the expiration of the time limit, the extension shall be regarded as being approved.\nArticle 51 Where there are provisions in this Section on the procedures for the granting of administrative permission, they shall be applied; and where there are no such provisions in this Section, the relevant provisions in this Chapter shall be applied.\nArticle 52 The provisions in relevant laws and administrative regulations shall be applicable to the procedures for the granting of administrative permission by the State Council.\nArticle 53 For the granting of administrative permission to the matters specified in Subparagraph 2 of Article 12 of this Law, the administrative department shall make its decision through the forms of fair competition such as public bidding and auction. However, where laws and administrative regulations provide otherwise, the provisions there shall prevail.\nThe specific procedures for the administrative department to make its decision on administrative permission through such forms as public bidding and auction shall be enacted in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations.\nAfter the administrative department decides on the winner of a bid or the vendee in accordance with the procedures for public bidding or auction, it shall make the decision on approving administrative permission, and shall issue the certificate of administrative permission to the winner or vendee according to law.\nWhere the administrative department, in violation of the provisions of this Article, does not adopt public bidding or auction or goes against the procedures for public bidding or auction, thus infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of an applicant, the applicant may, in accordance with law, apply for administrative reconsideration or bring an administrative suit.\nArticle 54 For the granting of administrative permission to the matters specified in Subparagraph 3 of Article 12 of this Law, which involves endowing citizens with special qualifications and for which national examinations should be conducted according to law, the administrative department shall make its decision on administrative permission on the basis of the results of examinations and other statutory requirements; and for the granting of special qualifications and competence of legal persons or other organizations, it shall make its decision on the basis of the result of the appraisal regarding the composition of the professional personnel, the technological qualifications, operational achievements and managerial level of the applicants. However, where laws and administrative regulations provide otherwise, the provisions there shall prevail.\nExaminations taken by citizens for special qualifications shall be arranged by administrative departments or organizations of trades according to law, and shall be conducted openly. The administrative departments or the organizations of trades shall, in advance, publicize the qualifications and measures for registration and the subjects and outlines for examination. However, no compulsory pre-examination training for qualification examination shall be arranged and no teaching materials or supplementary materials shall be designated.\nArticle 55 For the granting of administrative permission to the matters specified in Subparagraph 4 of Article 12 of this Law, which are subject to inspection, test or quarantine according to technical standards and specifications, as is required by law, the administrative department shall, based on the results of the inspection, test or quarantine, make its decision on such permission.\nTo conduct inspection, test or quarantine, the administrative department shall, within five days from the date it accepts an application, assign two or more of its staff members to do the job in accordance with the technical standards and specifications. Where the administrative department can, dispensing with further technical analysis of the results of inspection, test or quarantine, determine whether the equipment, facilities, products or goods are in conformity with the technical standards and specifications, it shall make its decision on administrative permission on the spot.\nWhere the administrative department, based on the results of inspection, test or quarantine, decides not to approve administrative permission, it shall state clearly in writing the technical standards and specifications on the basis of which it makes such a decision.\nArticle 56 For the granting of administrative permission to the matters specified in Subparagraph 5 of Article 12 of this Law, for which the application materials submitted by the applicant are complete and in conformity with the statutory forms, the administrative department shall make an entry of the matters in a register on the spot. Where matters of substance of the application materials need to be verified, the administrative department shall conduct the verification in accordance with the provisions in Subparagraph 3 of Article 34 of this Law.\nArticle 57 Where the number of matters to which administrative permission can be granted is restricted and the applications submitted by two or more applicants are in conformity with the statutory requirements and standards, the administrative department shall make its decision on approving administrative permission in sequence of time at which it accepts such applications for administrative permission. However, where laws and administrative regulations provide otherwise, the provisions there shall prevail.\nArticle 58 Administrative departments shall not collect any fees for the granting of administrative permission or for their supervision over and inspection of the matters to which administrative permission has been granted. However, where laws and administrative regulations provide otherwise, the provisions there shall prevail.\nAdministrative departments shall not collect fees for the forms of application for administrative permission.\nThe funds needed by administrative departments for the granting of administrative permission shall be incorporated into their own budgets, which shall be guaranteed by the governments at the corresponding levels, and verified and allocated in accordance with the budgets approved.\nArticle 59 Where administrative departments collect fees for the granting of administrative permission in accordance with laws and administrative regulations, they shall do so in conformity with the publicized statutory items and rates; and all the fees they collect shall be turned over to the State Treasury, and no departments or individuals shall, in any form, withhold or misappropriate them, or divide them in private or do so in disguised form. No finance departments shall, in any form, return to the administrative departments the fees collected by them for the granting of administrative permission, or do so in disguised form.\nArticle 60 The administrative department at a higher level shall exercise rigid supervision over and inspection of the granting of administrative permission by the administrative department at a lower level, in order to put to right, in good time, violations of laws committed in the granting of administrative permission.\nArticle 61 The administrative department shall establish a sound supervisory system and perform its supervisory duties through checking the materials reflecting the activities conducted by the persons granted the permission in respect of the matters to which administrative permission has been granted.\nAfter exercising, in accordance with law, supervision over and inspection of the activities conducted by the persons granted the permission in respect of the matters to which administrative permission has been granted, the administrative department shall record the supervision and inspection exercised as well as the problems handled, and the record shall be placed on file after the supervisors and inspectors sign it. The public shall have the right to consult the records of supervision and inspection kept by the administrative department.\nThe administrative department shall create conditions to interconnect with the persons granted the permission and the computer file systems of the relevant administrative departments, in order to check the activities conducted by the persons granted the permission in respect of the matters to which administrative permission has been granted.\nArticle 62 The administrative department may, according to law, inspect, examine or test the samples of the products manufactured or dealt in by the persons granted the permission and conduct on-the-spot inspection of the places where the products are manufactured or dealt in. When conducting inspection, the administrative department may, according to law, consult the relevant materials or request the persons granted the permission to submit such materials; and the said persons shall provide relevant information and materials truthfully.\nThe administrative department shall, in accordance with the provisions of laws and administrative regulations, conduct regular inspection of the important equipment and facilities that have a direct bearing on public security, human health and the safety of people's lives and property. With respect to those that pass the inspection, it shall issue appropriate documents certifying the fact.\nArticle 63 When exercising supervision and inspection, the administrative department shall not hinder the normal production and operation of the persons granted the permission, nor ask the said persons for money or things of value, or receive or accept the same, or seek other benefits.\nArticle 64 Where a person granted the permission, in violation of law and in an area beyond the jurisdiction of the administrative department that makes the decision on administrative permission, engages in activities in respect of the matters to which administrative permission has been granted, the administrative department in the area where such violation takes place shall, according to law, send a copy of the facts of violation committed by the person granted the permission and the results of its handling of the violation to the administrative department that makes the decision on administrative permission.\nArticle 65 Individuals and organizations that find activities conducted, in violation of law, in respect of the matters to which administrative permission has been granted shall have the right to report such activities to administrative departments, which shall, without delay, check the facts and handle the violation.\nArticle 66 Where a person granted the permission fails to perform his obligations of developing and utilizing natural resources according to law or his obligations of utilizing public resources according to law, the administrative department shall instruct him to set it right within a time limit; and if he fails to do so within the specified time limit, the administrative department shall deal with the case in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and administrative regulations.\nArticle 67 The person granted the permission that has obtained administrative permission for access to the market of a special trade which has a direct bearing on public interests shall, in compliance with the service standard prescribed and the rates fixed by the State as well as the requirements prescribed by the administrative department according to law, provide to users safe, convenient and steady service at reasonable rates, and shall perform his obligation of providing universal service; and without approval by the administrative department that makes the decision on administrative permission, the said person shall not suspend business or close down.\nWhere a person granted the permission fails to perform the obligations specified in the preceding paragraph, the administrative department shall instruct him to set it right within a time limit or, according to law, take effective measures to see that he performs the obligations.\nArticle 68 With respect to the important equipment and facilities that have a direct bearing on public security, human health and the safety of people's lives and property, the administrative department shall see that the units that make the design of, manufacture, install or use such equipment and facilities to establish an appropriate self-inspection system.\nWhere, in conducting supervision and inspection, the administrative department discovers that in the important equipment and facilities that have a direct bearing on public security, human health and the safety of people's lives and property there exist hidden dangers threatening safety, it shall instruct the units to cease manufacturing, installing and using the same, and shall instruct the units that make the design of, manufacture, install or use the same to rectify immediately.\nArticle 69 In any of the following cases, the administrative department that makes the decision on administrative permission or its immediate superior may, based on the request of the interested person or on its own functions and powers, revoke such permission:\n(1) where the decision on approving administrative permission is made by staff members of the administrative department who abuse their powers or neglect their duties;\n(2) where the decision on approving administrative permission is made beyond the statutory functions and powers;\n(3) where the decision on approving administrative permission is made in contravention of the statutory procedures;\n(4) where approval of administrative permission is given to an applicant that is not qualified for application or does not meet the statutory requirements; and\n(5) other cases where administrative permission may be revoked according to law.\nThe administrative permission obtained by a person by such illegitimate means as deception and bribery shall be revoked.\nWhere revocation of administrative permission in accordance with the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs may cause great damages to public interests, such permission shall not be revoked.\nWhere revocation of administrative permission in accordance with the provisions in the first paragraph of this Article causes damages to the legitimate rights and interests of the person granted the permission, compensation shall be made by the administrative department according to law. Where administrative permission is revoked in accordance with the provisions in the second paragraph of this Article, the benefits obtained by the person granted the permission through such permission shall not be protected.\nArticle 70 In any of the following cases, the administrative department shall, in accordance with law, go through the formalities for cancelling the relevant administrative permission:\n(1) where the term of validity for administrative permission is not extended at the expiration of the term;\n(2) where the citizen to whom administrative permission for special qualifications is granted dies or loses the disposing capacity;\n(3) where the status of a legal person or other organization is terminated according to law;\n(4) where, in accordance with law, administrative permission is revoked or withdrawn, or the certificate of such permission is revoked;\n(5) where matters for which administrative permission has been obtained cannot be undertaken due to force majeure; and\n(6) other cases where administrative permission should be revoked as provided for by laws and regulations.\nArticle 71 Any procedure for administrative permission instituted by a department in violation of the provisions in Article 17 of this Law, the relevant department shall instruct the department that institutes such procedure to rectify, or have the procedure terminated according to law.\nArticle 72 Where an administrative department or its staff member, in violation of the provisions of this Law, does one of the following, its/his immediate superior or the supervisory department shall instruct it/him to rectify; and if the circumstances are serious, the persons directly in charge and the other persons directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to law:\n(1) failing to accept an application for administrative permission that is in conformity with the statutory requirements;\n(2) failing to publicize at the office place the materials which should be publicized according to law;\n(3) in the process of accepting, examining and deciding on administrative permission, failing to perform the statutory obligation of informing the applicant and the interested person of the right to request hearing;\n(4) in the case where the application materials submitted by the applicant are not complete or not in conformity with the statutory form, failing to inform the applicant, all at once, of what needs to be supplemented or corrected;\n(5) failing to state its/his reasons, according to law, for refusing to accept an application for administrative permission or for refusing to approve such permission; and\n(6) failing to hold hearings as is required by law.\nArticle 73 Where the staff member of an administrative department, when handling matters of administrative permission or exercising supervision and inspection, asks another person for money or things of value, or receives or accepts the same, or seeks other benefits, which constitutes a crime, he shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law; and if the case is not serious enough to constitute a crime, he shall be given administrative sanctions according to law.\nArticle 74 Where, in granting administrative permission, an administrative department does one of the following, it shall be instructed by its immediate superior or the supervisory department to rectify, and the persons directly in charge and the other persons directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to law; and if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law:\n(1) giving approval of administrative permission to an applicant that does not meet the statutory requirements, or making a decision on approving administrative permission beyond its statutory functions and powers;\n(2) refusing to give approval of administrative permission to an applicant that meets the statutory requirements, or failing to make a decision on approving administrative permission within the statutory time limit; and\n(3) failing to make a decision, through public bidding, auction or examination, on approving administrative permission on the basis of the outcome of public bidding and auction or the examination results, as is required by law, or refusing to make the decision on such basis.\nArticle 75 Where, when granting administrative permission, an administrative department collects fees without authorization or in contravention of the statutory items and rates, its immediate superior or the supervisory department shall instruct it to return the fees illegally collected; and the persons directly in charge and the other persons directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to law.\nWhere the fees collected according to law for granting administrative permission are withheld, misappropriated, divided in private or done so in disguised form, such fees shall be recovered; the persons directly in charge and the other persons directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to law; and if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.\nArticle 76 Where an administrative department grants administrative permission in violation of law and thus causes damages to the rights and interests of the person concerned, it shall make compensation in accordance with the provisions of the Law on State Compensation.\nArticle 77 Where an administrative department does not perform its duties of supervision according to law or fails to perform such duties effectively, thus serious consequences ensue, its immediate superior or the supervisory department shall instruct it to rectify, and the persons directly in charge and the other persons directly responsible shall be given administrative sanctions according to law; and if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.\nArticle 78 Where, when applying for administrative permission, an applicant conceals relevant information or provides false application materials, the administrative department shall refuse to accept the application or to approve such permission, and shall give a disciplinary warning to the applicant; and if the matters for which administrative permission is applied for are ones that have a direct bearing on public security, human health and the safety of people's lives and property, the applicant shall not apply for administrative permission for the same matters again within one year.\nArticle 79 Where a person obtains administrative permission by such illegitimate means as deception and bribery, the administrative department shall impose administrative penalties on him; if the matters for which administrative permission is obtained are ones that have a direct bearing on public security, human health and the safety of people's lives and property, the applicant shall not apply for administrative permission for the same matters again within three years, and if a crime is constituted, the said person shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law.\nArticle 80 Where a person granted the permission does one of the following, the administrative department shall impose administrative penalties on him according to law; and if a crime is constituted, he shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to law:\n(1) altering, selling, leasing out or lending the certificate of administrative permission, or illegally transferring such permission in other forms;\n(2) engaging in activities beyond the limits of administrative permission;\n(3) concealing relevant information from, providing false materials to, or refusing to provide truthful materials reflecting its activities to, the administrative department in charge of supervision and inspection; and\n(4) committing other illegal acts specified in laws, regulations and rules.\nArticle 81 Where a citizen, legal person or other organization, without obtaining administrative permission, engages in activities for which administrative permission should be obtained according to law, the administrative department shall, in accordance with law, adopt measures to stop such activities, and impose administrative penalties on the citizen, legal person or other organization according to law; and if a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.\nArticle 82 The time limit for the granting of administrative permission by an administrative department specified in this Law is counted by the working days, excluding the statutory festivals and holidays.\nArticle 83 This Law shall go into effect as of July 1, 2004.\nThe provisions on administrative permission formulated prior to implementation of this Law shall be checked up on by the formulating departments in accordance with the provisions of this Law; and beginning from the date this Law goes into effect, implementation of those provisions that are not in conformity with the provisions of this Law shall cease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 56227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://energyinfrapost.com/nhai-initiates-process-tie-rs-40-billion-bond-issue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TSF2VLFB5BRIKF4E5ZI6KLHWBVFCGJFI", "length": 1094, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "energyinfrapost.com", "title": "NHAI initiates process to tie up Rs 40 billion through a bond issue", "raw_content": "NHAI initiates process to tie up Rs 40 billion through a bond issue\nThe National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has started the process to raise about Rs 40 billion through a bond issue in the domestic market, the process for which has already begun with the selection of lead bankers, including Axis Bank and SBI Caps.\n\u201cAll the necessary clearances, including approval from the Department of Economic Affairs and Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, for the bond issue are in place and the ticket size would be big,\u201d a senior official said.\nThe authority, which has the approval to raise Rs 100 billion in the current financial year, plans to raise only about Rs 40 billion in the first tranche for which the legal documentation is underway.\nIf retail investors will also be eligible to participate in the bond issue is yet to be finalised even as the road minister, Nitin Gadkari, recently said that they should invest in NHAI bonds to get greater returns. Read More\nNHAI initiates process to tie up Rs 40 billion through a bond issue added by Business-Standard.com on August 10, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eng.nitzan-israel.org.il/home/nitzan-services/nitzan-services.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ECUFTZCDHH7C6OHQUXYTXVRDSZX2SEIY", "length": 6423, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "eng.nitzan-israel.org.il", "title": "Nitzan Services", "raw_content": "> Nitzan Services > Nitzan Services\nIsrael has no law requiring schools to provide students with learning disabilities all of the services they need to make possible optimal learning. Also, there is no law obligating the schools to identify students with learning disabilities and to design programs for helping them. Nitzan, Israel's largest, professional organization specializing in the field of learning disabilities brings people and resources together, so as to help each and every individual with learning disability.\nApproximately 10% of Israelis have learning disabilities. Many of these people are among our best and brightest. Israel cannot afford to waste such a valuable and important resource. Legally, morally, educationally, and professionally, Nitzan knows what to do to help Israel -- and we are committed to getting the job done.\nNitzan's main services:\nNitzan evaluates and identify thousands of children and adults with learning disabilities each year. Israel's nationally standardized academic and psychological assessment tools were first developed and implemented by Nitzan. With Israel's high immigration rate and accompanying cultural diversity - including Ethiopian, Russian/former Soviet Union, South American, European, Arab, and Anglo-Saxon cultures and languages - Nitzan's development of assessment tools is an ongoing process.\nNitzan is Israel's foremost developer and provider of education and educational materials for students with learning disabilities. We have developed numerous educational tools, systems, and programs to teach academic skills, learning strategies, and other essentials. On a nationwide basis, we provide direct education to students, remedial instruction, psychological treatment, occupational therapy, and more.\nFrom fundamental academic skills to organizational and social strategies, from specific therapies to self-awareness and self-advocacy, Nitzan is the foremost developer and provider of services to students with learning disabilities in Israel.\nServices for Parents and Families\nNitzan provides a full range of services for families, including counseling services, case management, support for parental advocacy, education, and information.\nNitzan's University for Parents is Israel's first ongoing instructional series designed specifically for parents of children with learning disabilities. The program consists of ten courses presented over a period of five months at Tel Aviv University. Each course is presented by Israel's leading expert in the course topic, including internationally recognized experts from the top universities in Israel.\nPublic Awareness and Advocacy\nNitzan constantly strives to raise public awareness of learning disabilities. This work is conducted through Nitzan's National Training Center, our branches, and the media. Nitzan produces numerous general information and focused materials for the professional and general populations. In addition, Nitzan organizes meetings, presentations, and programs directed at raising public awareness among parents, educators, military recruitment professionals, institutions of higher learning, the employment sector, and other government offices and services. Our efforts in the schools and through our parent and professional development programs have been especially successful at raising public awareness.\nNitzan's National Training Center provides educational programs on learning disabilities for professionals. Scholars, teachers and other professionals study with us to learn about evaluation, instruction, counseling, therapy, and other aspects of the needs of persons with learning disabilities. By participating in annual programs, shorter lecture series, or individual courses and workshops, professionals learn the most up-to-date information and skills they need to be more effective in their own work with persons with learning disabilities.\nNitzan is Israel's strongest advocate for the rights of the learning disabled in the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). Legislators and Knesset committees look to Nitzan for expert information and guidance on issues related to learning disabilities. Nitzan has led a six-year collaboration among related Israeli lobbying organizations to advocate for implementation of a law to establish and protect the educational rights of students with learning disabilities and to promote opportunities for these students within general education framework. There is much work left to be done; the bill passed its first Knesset hearing, but has not yet completed the legislative process.\nThis programs covers 120 individuals, aged 20-35, who have not completed a basic high school education. As such, they are unable to integrate into the work force, or rather, they suffer from a lack of access to the job market. The aim is thus to prevent a situation whereby these young adults fall as as a burden to society and to enable them to reach their individual potential.\nWithin the framework of the program participants undergo professional evaluation of their competencies, so as to tailor for them with skills and tools that match their capabilities. All participants attend a basic two week computer course, that is, in addition to individual guidance and prepation for work placement and to coaching sessions that provide them with self-advocacy tools.\nOnce participants are placed in employment, they are accompanied and supported by Nitzan's professional staff in the form of bi-weekly support group.\nNitzan has developed a network of residential training centers for adults with learning disabilities who also have adaptive and functional disabilities. These centers are designed for adults (usually ages 18-40, or more) and currently have a 90% success rate of integration into work and independent lifestyles within the community.\nOur Onim Institute in Kfar Saba was the flagship center for this program. Onim's current residents are between the ages of 18-27. They learn life skills, become integrated into work environments, and lead independent lifestyles.\nSimilar programs now exist in Nitzan residential centers in Haifa, Tel Aviv, Rehovot, Modiin, and Raanana. Nitzan developed these centers in cooperation with Bituach Leumi (Israeli Social Security) and the Department for Rehabilitation of the Ministry of Labor and Welfare. Additionally, many of our regular Nitzan branches offer therapeutic social clubs for this population.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 7181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 210.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://entropyeconomics.com/index.php/page/16/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:08Z", "digest": "sha1:S6OU75P7UW7PQHRFZKSOO6HG2D5UVONI", "length": 2736, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "entropyeconomics.com", "title": "Entropy Economics | Global Innovation + Technology Research", "raw_content": "Could the iPhone 3.0 release this summer help create the mechanism \u2014 and culture \u2014 of micro-payments that many have long been seeking to solve the Web\u2019s intellectual property problem?\nUPDATE: These guys were thinking the exact same thing.\nSee my new commentary on the new $7.2 billion broadband program in the Federal stimulus bill. I conclude that if we\u2019re going to spend taxpayer money at all, we should take advantage of local knowledge:\nMany states have already pinpointed the areas most in need of broadband infrastructure. Local companies and entrepreneurs are likely to best know where broadband needs to be deployed \u2013 and to aggressively deliver it with the most appropriate, cost-effective technology that meets the needs of the particular market. Using the states as smart conduits is also likely to get the money to network builders more quickly.\nAfter falling seriously behind foreign nations in broadband and in our favored measure of \u201cbandwidth-per-capita\u201d in the early 2000s, the U.S. got its act together and is now on the right path. In the last decade, total U.S. broadband lines grew from around 5 million to over 120 million, while residential broadband grew from under 5 million to 75 million. By far the most important broadband policy point is not to discourage or distort the annual $60+ billion that private companies already invest.\nAs the Internet\u2019s power grows \u2014 dominating our public discourse and driving deeper into every industry and commercial realm \u2014 it becomes a bigger target. As the key platform of our knowledge economy, it invites mischief, or worse.\nMost digital citizens know the hassles and even dangers of viruses, phishing, and all manner of mal-ware. But cybersecurity is a much broader and deeper topic, and will grow ever more so. The Center for Strategic and International Studies published a good report on December 8 detailing the threats and offering recommendations to \u201cthe 44th Presidency.\u201d CSIS suggested a number of specific actions, among them:\n(1) a comprehensive national strategy; (2) that the White House lead the effort; (3) that we \u201cregulate cyberspace\u201d; (4) that we authenticate identities; (5) modernizing old laws not suited to the digital networked world; (6) building secure government systems; and (7) not starting over, given what they saw as the previous administration\u2019s productive start.\nYesterday the Senate Commerce Committee moved the ball forward with a hearing on the topic, including the head of the CSIS study James Lewis, nuclear engineer Joseph Weiss, cyber-guru Ed Amoroso of AT&T, and Eugene Spafford of Purdue University\u2019s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security \u2014 better known by its brilliant acronym, CERIAS.Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eslseoul411.cafe24.com/default/m2/menu2.php?topmenu=2&left=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:53Z", "digest": "sha1:4RCHZGR3Z72HVKKDWKALK3KGXL6C5FKY", "length": 3733, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "eslseoul411.cafe24.com", "title": "Public School", "raw_content": "Public School - GEPIK\nHOME > Job Openings > Public School >GEPIC\nMonthly salary ranges from 2 mill. KRW to 2.3mill. KRW (about US$2000 to US$2300) depending upon qualifications\nand experiences. Payday is on the 25th day of each month.\nPay Category\n2 300 000 KRW per month\nCategory 1-A\n-Elementary, Middle, or Secondary school TEACHER's CERTIFICATE\n-Minimum two years' of full-time English teaching experience at accredited teaching institution(s)\nCategory 1-B\n-Minimum two years of full-time English teaching experience at accredited institution(s)\nCategory 1-C\n-TESOL, TEFL or CELTA certificate comprised of a minimum of 100 course hours\nCategory 1-D\n-Bachelor's degree in Education\n-Minimum two years of full time English teaching experience at accredited institution(s)\n-TESOL, TEFL or CELTA certificate comprised of a min. of 100 course hours\n-Master's Degree or Graduate Diploma\n(Program must be a minimum of 2 years in duration)\n-Minimum one year of full time English teaching experience at accredited institution(s)\nCategory 2-E\n-Bachelor's degree with a major in Education\n(Education major must be clearly stated on either the diploma certificate or official transcript.)\n-Bachelor's degree*\n-No other certificates or experiences outlined in Categories 1 or 2\n*This is the minimum entry requirement into GEPIK\nThe one-time settlement allowance of 400,000 KRW (about US$300) is also provided within the first\ntwo weeks of arrival,usually the airfare reimbursement following shortly after within a month also.\nUpon successful completion of each 1 year contract,GEPIK teachers are rewarded with one month's salary\nas a severance payment in accordance with the Labor Standards Act of Korea.\n4. Contract Term And Other Conditions\nThe contract term is for ONE YEAR (365 calendar days). The contract is renewable after completion. GEPIK teachers work approximately 8 hours per day, 5 days per week from Monday to Friday. Actual class instruction hours usually do not exceed 22 hours per week although it depends on the size of the school. If or when exceeded, teachers receive a supplementary class instruction pay of 20,000 KRW per hour (about US$20).\nGEPIK offers a furnished housing including kitchenware, a washing machine, a refrigerator, a TV set, etc. Any and all fees, charges, costs, taxes, expenses, etc. incurred while using the facility however will be borne by the teacher\nGEPIK teacher's flights to and from Korea are reimbursed by the school upon arrival and departure respectively. If the teacher renews the contract for another year, he/she will be entitled to a 2 week (incl. weekend) \u201cHome Leave\u201d vacation, and the airfare for this vacation is reimbursed upon return\nGEPIK offers 20 working days' vacation per year which should be used during school vacation periods usually in the months of July-August and/or January-February. Teachers do not work during weekends and the Korean National Holidays.\n-Tax: The 1st two years of employment in Korea is TAX FREE (with exception of Canadian citizens) Tax is nominal in Korea, which is only about 3% of yearly earnings.\n-Pension Fund: 9% of monthly salary goes to Korean national pension fund in which teacher's contribution is 4.5% whereby another 4.5% is paid by school. Citizens from the U.S and Canada may reclaim this pension payment with premiums at the end of their contract. South African teachers are exempted from the Pension fund.\nMore information is available from the National Pension Service website http://www.nps.or.kr/\n- National Health Insurance: About 2.4 % of teacher's monthly salary is deducted whereby another 2.4% is paid by school.\nMore information is available from the National Health Insurance Corporation website http://www.nhic.or.kr/eng/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ess-sarcoma.com/ess-downloads/item/atypical-paracaval-recurrence-of-ess-a-case-report", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZRWPJV23JDCI23NIVQY5RPHEQXHHWPY", "length": 236, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ess-sarcoma.com", "title": "Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma - Atypical Paracaval Recurrence of ESS: A Case Report", "raw_content": "We present the case of a 51-year-old patient who was diagnosed with an atypical spindle-shaped recurrence stretching from the pelvic floor to the right renal hilum along the inferior vena cava following total interadnexial hysterectomy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 273.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://essay-topics-1.com/show_essay/business/papers-on-a-new-analysis.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WSYMPOIIKVYKEFAGQCNFWC5DOF7JGTKB", "length": 516, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "essay-topics-1.com", "title": "A New Analysis Of -:- Good Argumentative and Persuasive Hamlet Essay Topics -:-", "raw_content": "A New Analysis of Leadership in the Management World of Today.\nThis paper will discuss the changes that are occurring in the way that management is running in today's business world. By understanding the need for sound leadership, we can understand why this is a lost art, and this is one of the most important elements of success in the business world. By managing with good leadership values, a company can help lead better, than the usual team-based methods of the past.\nFilename: 13282 Analysis of Leadership.doc", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 193.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://europe-re.com/canary-wharf-will-develop-additonal-1-7-mln-sq-ft/22792", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CR2NTKEOYGNUW3SY5PBFQOEVAJVQJIA5", "length": 2536, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "europe-re.com", "title": "Canary Wharf will develop additonal 1.7 mln sq.ft.", "raw_content": "Canary Wharf will develop additonal 1.7 mln sq.ft.\nTotal development now 15.7 mln sq.ft.\nThe results for the year ended 30 June 2002 demonstrate the group\u00c2's continuing strong performance. Turnover increased from \u00c2\u00a3159.2 million in 2001 to \u00c2\u00a3206.8 million for 2002, an increase of 29.9%. The increase in turnover fed through to an increase of \u00c2\u00a338.5 million in operating profit for the year, before exceptional items, to \u00c2\u00a3130.2 million.\nIn addition the group recognised a profit of \u00c2\u00a3169.5 million on the planned disposal of 8 Canada Square to HSBC, which was completed in April 2002, and realised deferred consideration of \u00c2\u00a313.4 million relating to the disposal of an undertaking in 1996. Consequently profit before interest and tax was \u00c2\u00a3310.7 million, \u00c2\u00a3130.2 million excluding exceptional items, against \u00c2\u00a391.3 million for the previous year.\nProfit before tax for 2002 was \u00c2\u00a3203.1 million, or \u00c2\u00a322.6m before exceptional items, in comparison with \u00c2\u00a342.5 million for the previous year. This was attributable to the increase in net interest payable (from \u00c2\u00a348.8 million to \u00c2\u00a3107.6 million) as a result of the securitisations completed in June 2001 and February 2002.\nNet assets increased to \u00c2\u00a31,860.3 million at 30 June 2002, an increase of \u00c2\u00a3263.9 million over the year. Before share buy-backs the increase in the year in net assets was \u00c2\u00a3656.3 million. On the adjusted net asset value basis, which revalues properties under construction and held for development to their net realisable value and adds back the provision for deferred tax, the net asset value per share increased from \u00c2\u00a36.97 per share at 30 June 2001 to \u00c2\u00a37.05 per share at 30 June 2002 (before dilution).\nIn December an agreement was reached with British Waterways Board to remove a restrictive covenant affecting the remaining development sites within Canary Wharf. This agreement increases the area of potential development by 1.7 million sq.ft and brings the total permitted development on the original Canary Wharf estate to 15.7 million sq.ft.\nWe have been working on the infrastructure works and pre-staging to street level for 850,000 sq.ft of development on two sites adjacent to the new Barclays building. Once this work is completed it will be possible to deliver a pre-let to a new tenant in a much reduced timeframe. This reflects our policy of controlling the amount of speculative building underway whilst positioning ourselves to be able to respond rapidly to client needs.\nFor more information pleae visit www.canarywharf.com.\n(source: Canary Wharf)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://evangelicalcatholicchurch.org/reconciliation.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5C2RAM3TRS4OMNBJODHXN3C4RENLRQIY", "length": 7004, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "evangelicalcatholicchurch.org", "title": "Evangelical Catholic Church Sacrament of Reconciliation", "raw_content": "The Sacrament of the Reconciliation\nMatthew 9:3-8 \"And behold some of the scribes said within themselves: He blasphemed. And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts? Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins are forgiven thee: or to say, Arise, and walk? But that you may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then said he to the man sick of palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go into thy house. And he arose, and went into his house. And the multitude seeing it, feared, and glorified God that gave such power to men.\"\nJohn 20:19-23 \"Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them: Peace be to you. And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord. He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.\"\nThe Sacrament of Penance is such a gift! It can be very hard to do -- it can be intimidating, embarrassing -- but once absolution is given, you will walk out of that confessional feeling like a trillion bucks. Christ, in His most Holy Wisdom, gave us this precious Sacrament to literally and truly bestow His grace upon us through His priests as a means of forgiving us and assuring us of His mercy and love for us. This psychological benefit of \"feeling assured\" and \"clean again\" stems not only from the supernatural fruits of the Sacrament, but from our human nature and our need to purge ourselves of those things that plague our consciences. Christ, the Great Physician, knows us well and knows that \"confession is good for the soul,\" in both a supernatural and psychological sense.\nThe Catechism of the Evangelical Catholic Church teaches \"The forgiveness of sins committed after Baptism is conferred by a particular sacrament, called the sacrament of conversion, confession, penance, or reconciliation.\"\nThe Catechism explains, \"To return to communion with God after having lost it through sin is a process born of the grace of God, who is rich in mercy and solicitous for the salvation of men. One must ask for this precious gift for oneself and for others.\n\"The movement of return to God, called conversion and repentance, entails sorrow for and abhorrence of sins committed, and the firm purpose of sinning no more in the future. Conversion touches the past and the future, and is nourished by hope in God's mercy.\"\nThe Ritual of Confession\nThe Sacrament of Penance is a liturgical action instituted by the Church for the reconciliation of sinners to communion with God and with the Church. Catholics are obliged to go to confession to receive the sacrament of penance at least once a year or whenever they are conscious of serious sin. Receiving this sacrament is encouraged at other times, as a means of restoring full unity with God and His Church, and for spiritual growth.\nThe sacrament consists basically of four acts of the penitent and the priest:\nContrition: First the penitent (the repentant sinner -- the root word in \"penitentiary\"), must be aware of their sinfulness and must be truly sorry (contrite) for their sins. Another word for repentance is \"contrition\". They must repent their sins, and seek the sacrament of penance -- that is, to go to confession to a priest.\nConfession: The penitent confesses to a priest all the sins they can recall -- after examining their conscience -- that they has not confessed before. The confession is entirely private and confidential. Traditionally confession takes place in the \"confessional\", a small room where the priest and penitent are separated by a screen to assure complete privacy and anonymity. It is also permissible, if both the priest and penitent agree, to administer and receive the sacrament of penance \"face to face\" in another room in the church reserved for this purpose. The sacrament can take place elsewhere, in an emergency.\nAct of Penance: The priest-confessor proposes certain actions -- penance -- for the penitent to perform. This may be saying certain prayers and/or performing some other fitting action. The person who performs this penance thus shows their sorrow for their sinful acts. This helps them to overcome their faults, and the harm their sins have caused others -- to be reconciled with them and with the Church, and to return to behavior consistent with being a disciple of Christ.\nAbsolution: After the penitent accepts the acts of penance, the priest, by the authority that the Church has given him or her, absolves the sinner; that is, he or she grants God's pardon for the sins.\nStructure of Confession/ Absolution Rite\nThe normal practice for administration of the Sacrament of Penance is in private -- with only the penitent and the priest present. On occasion, as during penitential seasons, a parish may hold a \"communal penance service\", where the congregation may pray and reflect together with the priest before each person individually goes to confession. (Only in extreme cases of emergency, such as on a battlefield, may a priest give \"general absolution\" to all at the same time; and that with the stipulation that the individual penitents go to confession individually as soon as possible.)\nTo begin, the penitent kneels and, by custom, says: \"Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned\", and may add, \"It has been [time] since my last confession.\" The priest greets the penitent. Then crossing himself, the penitent says \"In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit\" and begins their confession.\nThe priest may help the penitent with an examination of conscience, perhaps by asking questions. During the confession, the priest may read Scripture passages and offer spiritual counsel.\nAfter hearing the confession, the priest assigns a penance, and the penitent accepts the penance with the following prayer:\nO my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended thee, and I detest all my sins because of thy just punishment, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.\nThe priest then extends his or her hands in blessing over the penitent, and prays the prayer of absolution:\nGod, the Father of mercies, through the death and resurrection of His Son has reconciled the world to Himself and sent the Holy Spirit among us for the forgiveness of sins; Through the ministry of the Church may God give you pardon and peace, and I absolve you from your sins in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 7658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://familyfedihq.org/2017/11/burkina-faso-peace-road-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:38Z", "digest": "sha1:6KHNJDKZI2D7U3Y43OMZWW2LYRVNARMI", "length": 1885, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "familyfedihq.org", "title": "Burkina Faso: Peace Road 2017 \u2013 FFWPU International Headquarters", "raw_content": "Burkina Faso: Peace Road 2017\nby Danwere Sou, UPF Burkina Faso\nThis was the third time that we hold the Peace Road event in Burkina Faso which took place in the eastern region of Fada Ngourma commune. This event sponsored by the Mayor of the Commune. Among other authorities present were the representative of the High Commissioner of the Province, the commanders of the Gendarmerie of the city, the National Police, the Municipal Police, the CRS, water and forests, VADS, etc. we had about 100 participants including young people, representatives of religious communities, and others.\nThis time our event was a peace walk around 400 m, followed by an aerobic session at the Place des Martyrs. The large population supported the runners with applause on their arrival.\nThen the ceremony began with the welcoming message by Mr. Ouedraogo L.Ernest.\nAfter that, Secretary General of UPF Burkina Faso, Mr. Danwere SOU gave an explanation about the history of the Peace Road events around the world. And he also invited the people of Fada, which is the largest region in the administrative division of Burkina Faso, to work for peace centered on family values. During the event we also gave the certificate of Ambassador of Peace to the Mayor.\nFinally, the mayor himself spoke. He first thanked UPF for having chosen his commune for this third Peace Road event in Burkina Faso. Then he expressed his deep gratitude for the ambassador of peace certificate before inviting the people to join him in meeting the challenges of the new mission of ambassador of peace.\nWe give thanks to the Heavenly Parent and the True Parents of the Heaven of the Earth and of humanity because it is they who have taken full control of the organization of this event.\nTags: burkina faso\nNext story Members Welcome True Parents to Their Center in Canada\nPrevious story USA: First ALC Introduced in North Carolina", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 9017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fashionallied.com.au/product-labels/bagira/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7247BYMCL7GTYVMIZ6VM2WR2OJF3MEOM", "length": 185, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "fashionallied.com.au", "title": "Fashion Allied | BAGIRA the Label", "raw_content": "INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/bagira_thelabel/\nQuirky, cool & designed with a point of difference in mind, Bagira is the perfect label to add something special to your collection", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fastrackmarketingacademy.com/blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MLSYPOCLKS5S6YFCOVSUOEZU77S4ZDKM", "length": 3931, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "fastrackmarketingacademy.com", "title": "FastrackMarketingAcademy.com", "raw_content": "SUBSCRIBE TO THE FASTRACK MARKETING ACADEMY NEWSLETTER and stay up-to-date with the latest trends, tips, and tricks for your Internet Marketing\nHOW TO CUT TREES\nIF YOU CAN\u2019T CONTROL IT, JUST OBSERVE IT\nCOZY CONFERENCE CALLS THAT CONVERT LIKE CRAZY\nFOOLPROOF SALES LETTER TEMPLATE\nBrowse Categories Select Category Book Authoring (1) Marketing Tips (2) Motivational (3) Outsourcing (1) Uncategorized (6)\nPosted by larrypalmer on July 4, 2018\nWelcome to the Fastrack Marketing Academy blog. Please feel free to comment, engage, and ask questions. I will do my best to answer as time permits.\nFastrack Marketing Academy is designed to provide the absolute best strategic marketing training available today and put it in a format that makes it accessible and valuable to anyone who wants/needs to up their game and add more clients, more revenue and more profits to their business.\nFastrack Marketing Academy is about turning many of the beliefs you have about marketing upside down and will focus on getting you RESULTS without wasting money on ineffective marketing. I strive to give you a constant stream of new insights that will allow you to leverage your time and resources for the maximum returns.\nIs the Fastrack Marketing Academy for Me?\nFastrack Marketing Academy is for you if:\nYou are just beginning to think about starting a business. Start with a solid strategic marketing plan and you will never have to worry about finding your next customer\u2026or house payment\u2026\nYou are in the early years of your business and you can\u2019t see the way to your first Million Dollar year. Less than 2% of small businesses (10 or fewer employees) grow to a million dollars in revenue or more. More alarmingly, solo entrepreneurs with no employees are averaging only $47,000 a year with half of those making less than $25,000 annually. Fastrack Marketing can help you get to 6 or 7 figure income you are dreaming about.\nFastrack Marketing Academy is especially for you if you are part of that group of small business owners who are starting to count the months before you are going to have to admit failure and close your doors\u2026 We have strategies for increasing customers, revenues, and profits without spending tons of money on advertising. In fact, we have a number of strategies that can increase your revenue without spending a dime\u2026\nFastrack Marketing Academy is probably not for you if you already have a Multimillion Dollar business. Chances are you have already figured out how to market strategically and are innovating your business and marketing systems regularly. Of course, if you are ready to turn over your marketing over to someone else or are just looking for a new perspective Fastrack Marketing Academy may be exactly what you are looking for.\nThis blog will provide you with many insights into strategic marketing systems, specific tactics, and even advice on using the internet to market your business. But if you want a systematic blueprint and action plan that can potentially double your annual revenue or get you to that Million Dollar a year milestone in the next 18 to 24 months, then you need to get started today.\nIf you are a highly motivated do-it-yourself type and don\u2019t need anyone to keep you accountable, all of the Fastrack Marketing Academy is available to you for less than the cost of a family dinner at your favorite restaurant. (If it\u2019s been so long since you have been able to take your family out to dinner that you don\u2019t know how much that is\u2026 please contact me immediately!\u2026 It\u2019s time to take back your life and I know I can help).\nMost of my life has been spent as a small business owner. I have had some very successful years and some not so good years. I\u2019m dedicated to helping you find a powerful and affordable solution to make your life as an entrepreneur profitable, enjoyable, and able to finance the lifestyle that you deserve.\n\u00a9 All content copyright 2019 | Privacy Statement | Admin Login", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fb.bjp.org/en/core-issues/security", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EGKVDSYTUCGZQATTDQXIB5T4N73ELWHL", "length": 1903, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "fb.bjp.org", "title": "Security", "raw_content": "BJP's take on Security\nFor the BJP, the concept of national security is a holistic one that has several aspects. First, India needs to cut down its excessive reliance on foreign arms manufacturers and focus its energies on indigenisation and becoming a manufacturer of technologies and equipment that can be used by our military. Not only will this effort save us crucial foreign exchange but also lead to generation of millions of jobs that will act as a booster for the Indian economy.\nInternally, India needs a stronger and state-of-the-art police force with a much bigger presence of women. The BJP is committed to modernisation of police forces across Indian states and will extend whatever assistance, motivation and help is required to achieve this goal. The party feels that a greater participation of women in the state police forces and an integration of modern investigation and forensic techniques and technology will keep in check some of the most important issues that confront us today - the safety of women, children and the elderly.\nIndia also needs to prepare itself for the future wars that will be fought in the virtual world. This is an area of concern for India, which, despite its undisputed leadership in the IT and services sector, hasn\u2019t been able to keep pace with developments in other countries. We need to hire, train and prepare \u2018armies\u2019 of such young Indians who will ensure safety of our assets in the virtual world.\nIt isn\u2019t surprising that many of these changes would also have a direct and positive impact on the Indian economy that will lead to further empowerment of a strong, united India. The vision the BJP projects gives significant weightage to security, and works towards strengthening it, both externally and internally.\nTag: Bjp | India | Government | Growth | Development | National Security | First | India | Technology | Leadership | Empowerment | Vision", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 7146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fdcng.com/fdc-commodity-update-october-04-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:15Z", "digest": "sha1:CFVRXNBVLNGM4TJIUTSXLYXNBVL45P4X", "length": 651, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "fdcng.com", "title": "FDC COMMODITY UPDATE \u2013 OCTOBER 04, 2018 \u2013 Financial Derivatives Company, Limited", "raw_content": "The Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index (PMI) fell 2% to 53.7 in September, due to weak consumer demand. This was further exacerbated by bureaucratic processes at ports, resulting in delays in delivery time. The decline in the PMI reading suggests that Q3 GDP growth data could be weaker than expected.\nIvory Coast has raised its farmgate price of cocoa to $1,340 per tonne for the 2018/19 season, while Ghana maintained its price at $1,530 per tonne. This is significantly below Nigeria\u2019s price floor of $2,000 per tonne. The substantial price differential between West Africa\u2019s largest cocoa producers could incentivize cross border smuggling of cocoa beans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fenjiangcable.com/about.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:00Z", "digest": "sha1:AFTZEZUY6OXWAUFPEUWBU4QFFE6E5Y4I", "length": 4482, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "fenjiangcable.com", "title": "Company Profile_Guangdong Zhujiang Wire & Cable Co., Ltd.", "raw_content": "Guangdong Zhujiang Wire & Cable Co., Ltd. is a large-scaleprofessional wire and cable enterprise integrating R&D, manufacturing and sales. The company was established in 2001. In the baptism of more than ten years of glory years, Zhujiang Cable has been eagerly advancing in the battle for hundreds of miles. Nowadays, it has developed into a factory covering an area of more than 300 acres and a production scale of billions. Competitive wire and cable companies.\nZhujiang Cable introduces advanced wire and cable manufacturing technology, production equipment and testingequipment, and has imported wire drawing equipment imported from abroad, imported fully automatic shaker packing equipment, advanced granulation production equipment, automatic granulation pipeline conveying system, etc. Advanced cross-linked wire and cable production line, medium and low voltage wire and cable production line, etc. At the same time, it adopts fully automated production line operation, specializing in the production of power cables, home improvement cables, TV lines, control lines, special cables, fire-retardant cables, fire-resistant cables, low smoke. There are dozens of series of thousands of specifications and types of products such as halogen cable, termite-proof cable and mineral insulated cable, and all products produced by Zhujiang Cable are guaranteed to pass the national sampling inspection.\nZhujiang Cable Brand is a brand of Guangdong Zhujiang Wire & Cable Co., Ltd., Zhujiang Cable brand productspursue high quality and high quality. The company has consistently adopted high quality raw materials at home and abroad, implemented strict quality control system, and guaranteed the company's products from the source. Quality, every wire and cable meets national standards and International Electrotechnical Commission standards. Thecompany has passed ISO9001:2008 international standard certification, obtained the national industrial product production license and China National Compulsory Product Certification (CCC certificate), and became the \"Guangdong Province Metrology Guarantee System Confirmed Qualified Unit\". Zhujiang cable brand products have been unanimously recognized by consumers, and are well-known at home and abroad!\nAt the same time, the company has won a number of honorary titles: the company won the Guangdong famous enterprises, Guangdong advanced enterprises, become a quality supplier, or China's industry-university-research cooperation innovation model enterprises, and ranks among the top 500 manufacturing enterprises in Guangdong Province.\nZhujiang Cable pursues high-quality management mode, talents and office environment: In today's intelligent manufacturing era, Zhujiang Cable adopts high-tech products such as product traceability technology and information integration technology to realize the efficient operation mode of Internet+ and implement efficient and advanced management mode; In terms of talents, the company has always advocated the spirit of honesty and trustworthiness, diligence and pragmatism, honestly operating enterprises, appreciating talents, and arduous struggle. To this end, we have a group of production teams with strong technical strength and rich experience; in terms of environment, enterprise buildings The unified use of European architectural style, elegant office environment, and warm staff quarters attract more high-quality talents than peers.\nThe company implements the automation, high-end and international innovation development strategy, constantly optimizes and adjusts the industrial structure, improves the quality and efficiency of the products, and strives to build the company into a well-known international wire and cable industry benchmark with scientific management, technology-intensive and brand excellence. Zhujiang Cable has always adhered to the \"Pearl River Cable, give you a safe home\" quality slogan, to provide our customers with quality products and comprehensive services.\nFrom the very beginning of its establishment to the present, the company has included overseas customers such as Australia, Europe and North America, and has embarked on an international road. And the company will continue to move forward, continue to explore and innovate, explore and advance on the dark road, and illuminate the distance for people. Zhujiang Cable will go further and further on the road of revitalization of Chinese national enterprises and become the glory of the next era!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 6063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://filmdream.tv/actor/dylan-burns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:15Z", "digest": "sha1:YF5DVSVD3BZJ6LZFP4TN2SQTVOVZTWOS", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "filmdream.tv", "title": "Dylan Burns Archives - FilmDream", "raw_content": "Dylan Burns is an actor, known for \u0414\u0436\u0435\u0439 \u0415\u0434\u0433\u0430\u0440 (2011), Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (2011) and Disney Princess: My Fairytale Adventure (2012).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2086, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 182.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flowersandlemons.blogspot.com/2013/06/travel-update-trying-to-catch-up.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:M2VBKLMLPTPCQWJWF4D2O72ZDFDBD3HP", "length": 2459, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "flowersandlemons.blogspot.com", "title": "Flowers and Lemons: Travel update - trying to catch up..", "raw_content": "Travel update - trying to catch up..\nI thought writing my blog while I was traveling would be not too difficult.. I was wrong. I didn't have internet-acces (or only for short times) and I didn't have the time and focus for it either.\nI am thinking if I should give you all a chronologic update, or just show the things I did and saw bit by bit.. It will be a long story, and the story is not even finished yet. So, let's give it a go..\nA short recap of the journey so far;\n* I said goodbye to my job and my house so I could be more free.\n* Some days of CouchSurfing in Paris.\n* I went to work at L'Eco Source Arboricole, a beautiful project to build heaven on earth in the beautiful area of Creuse, treehouses included. I painted the arrows to guide visitors trough the forest, they turned out to be small fairytale-paintings with squirrels, birds and trees.\nWith two new friends I went on my first hitchhiking trip to the south of France.\nAfter one day with a lot of friendly, helpful people, we stranded in Toulouse where we were unable to find anything but very expensive hotels. This really was not an option for us. We asked for help at a small moroccan restaurant. By that time we were very tired and a little bit scared. Our luggage was way to heavy (the classic mistake of first-time-travelers, I guess) and the streets were getting dark and ominous. There were prostitutes at every corner and we felt most people on the streets had some business to do we didn't want to know more of. This was surely a very interesting part of the journey.. In the end we got to sleep in an empty apartment of one of the men from the restaurant.. For some good money of course.\nThe second day we ended up in Carcassonne, the third we finally reached our destination.. The Pilgrimsnest.. A beautiful place where travelers are welcome to stay and give a little of their time in exchange to help out in the nest, in the garden, doing some building and creating work, cleaning up, \u2026\nI had a good, but short time over here. On sunday we went to the market in Esperaza. (Which I can recommend you go see if you happen to travel trough that area! There are a lot of wonderful alternative people and projects to be found over there.. The market is like a party.) We had a great day. For me especially, because I got to go there with Franky on his motorbike. I had never been on a motorbike before, and to experience the ride trough that landscape in France was just amazing..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://flsenate.gov/laws/statutes/2012/112.3147", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:01Z", "digest": "sha1:UFTPL2G4INYLHKCMP7FMBCDVO5VRUPSL", "length": 350, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "flsenate.gov", "title": "Chapter 112 Section 3147 - 2012 Florida Statutes - The Florida Senate", "raw_content": "112.3147\u2003Forms.\u2014All information required to be furnished by ss. 112.313, 112.3143, 112.3144, 112.3145, 112.3148, and 112.3149 and by s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution shall be on forms prescribed by the Commission on Ethics.\nHistory.\u2014s. 7, ch. 74-177; s. 3, ch. 76-18; s. 7, ch. 90-502; s. 8, ch. 91-85; s. 12, ch. 2000-243; s. 5, ch. 2006-275.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 3422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://foladaniel.com/2013/05/27/setting-the-future-of-these-children-fola-daniel-adelesi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:09Z", "digest": "sha1:6EJTMA7HKHMXHJMQNUB44YR37CGNMD72", "length": 4505, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "foladaniel.com", "title": "Setting the future of these children | \u00a9 Fola Daniel Adelesi \u2013 Fola Daniel Speaks", "raw_content": "HomeBlogUncategorizedSetting the future of these children | \u00a9 Fola Daniel Adelesi\nSetting the future of these children | \u00a9 Fola Daniel Adelesi\nWhen days like these (children\u2019s day) come around and public holidays are declared so that the young ones can have a nice time with their families, I often see the myopic minds of our leaders because on these special days for the children, we need more than just public holidays. They are days when we need to reflect on the kind of future we have created or are supposed to have created for our children. Have you seen the dilapidated structures in which these children sit everyday and call their schools? Have you heard the kind of English that a number of these children are speaking? Do you realize that many of the teachers in the schools of these children are frustrated graduates with no forthcoming jobs and they turned to teaching as their last resort?\nI remember when I was young we were consistently told that we are the leaders of tomorrow. I am just two years away from being 30 and one of those leaders who told us then that we are leaders of tomorrow still contested in the last general election in Nigeria. When asked why he was still contesting despite the fact that he had been a leader before with nearly no result to show for it, he answered by saying there is no young person who is fit to rule this country.\nJust last week there was the trending news all over the social media about the soldier who was killed in the UK and that he was killed by Nigerians. My argument has no emphasis on if he was a Nigerian or not. My point is that too many Nigerians will not be thinking about going abroad to raise their children if they could see the future for their children here in Nigerian. The parents of those guys must have thought about giving them a great future. And I honestly think the reason they thought about going to give birth to them in the UK and raising them there is because they want a future for them. We still cannot deny the fact that many Nigerian parents today strongly desire the financial capacity to be able to travel abroad to give birth so that their children will be referred to as citizens. That goes a long way to show that there is nearly no future being offered to our children today.\nI still know about countries in the United Arab Emirates where children only have to be born and their educational future up until their secondary or tertiary levels are guaranteed. The parents do not have to worry about the school bills and the quality of education they get is one of the best around the world. When I also think about some other countries, the children being born there already have some kind of predetermined future and the choice of making the most out of it is theirs. They know that they cannot go hungry because there is social welfare and the orphanages are so organized that they can live a modest life in there.\nNow my major question is, \u2018what future are we giving to our own children?\u2019 Those children we called the leaders of tomorrow some 20 years ago are currently out of schools and they are roaming the streets with no jobs to do. Some of them are practically wasting away with their skills and qualifications. Even though we have had long standing arguments about who ought to take responsibility if the government is not being proactive, it is still a shame on the country as a whole that we have young and very vibrant set of people who can be trained to offer this country the best but we neglect them and argue over the very irrelevant issues.\nYesterday on national television, I watched shamefully how the governors of our states were disagreeing over who emerged as the chairman of the Governors\u2019 Forum in an election that only 36 people participated in. I thought our governors were supposed to be busy fixing roads and creating jobs or fixing our schools for the children? We have to set our priorities right and get things straight.\nExcept by faith or connection and wealth, the average child in this country does not have any future and that s not to say that I am being pessimistic. It is what we have seen over the years and is still happening today. We find our leaders fighting over money or stealing for their own children while telling the children of the other people on the streets that they are the leaders of tomorrow. Who is fooling who?\nLet us fix this nation because that is the only way these children have a future! Then we can tell them they are the leaders of tomorrow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 6792, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forexb.com/faq.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:19Z", "digest": "sha1:CVYRMHZGLYPU5DPFVNDGZH3I3CK2XFAI", "length": 7154, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "forexb.com", "title": "FAQ Forex Trading Market", "raw_content": "Who are the participants in the Forex Market?\nWhat are the most commonly traded currencies in the Forex markets?\nWhat does it mean have a 'long' or 'short' position?\nWhat is the difference between an \"intraday\" and \"overnight position\"?\nHow do I manage risk?\nWhat kind of forex trading strategy should I use?\nWhat is a Position order?\nThe Foreign Exchange market, also referred to as the \"Forex\" market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average turnover of approximately US$1.5 trillion. Foreign Exchange is the simultaneous buying of one currency and selling of another. The world's currencies are on a floating exchange rate and are always traded in pairs, for example Euro/Dollar or Dollar/Yen.\nForex Trading is not centralized on an exchange, as with the stock and futures markets. The Forex market is considered an Over the Counter (OTC) or 'Interbank' market, due to the fact that transactions are conducted between two counterparts over the telephone or via an electronic network.\nThe Forex market is called an 'Interbank' market due to the fact that historically it has been dominated by banks, including central banks, commercial banks, and investment banks. However, the percentage of other market participants is rapidly growing, and now includes large multinational corporations, global money managers, registered dealers, international money brokers, futures and options traders, and private speculators.\nA true 24-hour market, Forex trading begins each day in Sydney, and moves around the globe as the business day begins in each financial center, first to Tokyo, then London, and New York. Unlike any other financial market, investors can respond to currency fluctuations caused by economic, social and political events at the time they occur - day or night.\nThe most often traded or 'liquid' currencies are those of countries with stable governments, respected central banks, and low inflation. Today, over 85% of all daily transactions involve trading of the major currencies, which include the US Dollar (USD) , Japanese Yen (JPY) , Euro (EUR) , British Pound (GBP), Swiss Franc (CHF) , Canadian Dollar (CAD) and the Australian Dollar (AUD).\nNo. requires a minimum deposit of $250. allows customers to execute margin trades at up to 200:1 leverage. This means that investors can execute trades of $10,000 with an initial margin requirement of $50. However, it is important to remember that while this type of leverage allows investors to maximize their profit potential, the potential for loss is equally great. A more pragmatic margin trade for someone new to the Forex markets would be 20:1 but ultimately depends on the investor's appetite for risk.\nMargin is essentially collateral for a position. It allows traders to take on leveraged positions with a fraction of the equity necessary to fund the trade. In the equity markets, the usual margin allowed is 50% which means an investor has double the buying power. In the forex market leverage ranges from 1% to 2%, \u201cWithout proper risk management, this high degree of leverage can lead to large losses as well as gains.\"\nIn trading parlance, a long position is one in which a trader buys a currency at one price and aims to sell it later at a higher price. In this scenario, the investor is anticipating trading during a rising market. A short position is one in which the trader sells a currency in anticipation that it will depreciate. In this scenario, the investor is anticipating trading during a declining market. However, it is important to remember that every forex position requires an investor to go long in one currency and short the other.\nIntraday positions are all positions opened anytime during the 24 hour period AFTER the close of 's normal trading hours at 4:30pm ET. Overnight positions are positions that are still on at the end of normal trading hours (4:30pm ET), which are automatically rolled by at competitive rates (based on the currencies interest rate differentials) to the next day's price.\nCurrency prices are affected by a variety of economic and political conditions, most importantly interest rates, inflation and political stability. Moreover, governments sometimes participate in the Forex market to influence the value of their currencies, either by flooding the market with their domestic currency in an attempt to lower the price, or conversely buying in order to raise the price. This is known as Central Bank intervention. Any of these factors, as well as large market orders, can cause high volatility in currency prices. However, the size and volume of the Forex market makes it impossible for any one entity to \"drive\" the market for any length of time.\nThe most common risk management tools in forex trading are the limit order and the stop loss order. A limit order places restriction on the maximum price to be paid or the minimum price to be received. A stop loss order ensures a particular position is automatically liquidated at a predetermined price in order to limit potential losses should the market move against an investor's position. Please be advised that slippage can and will occur. The liquidity of the Forex market ensures that limit order and stop loss orders can be easily executed.\nForex traders make decisions using both technical factors and economic fundamentals. Technical traders use charts, trend lines, support and resistance levels, and numerous patterns and mathematical analysis to identify trading opportunities, whereas fundamentalists predict price movements by interpreting a wide variety of economic information, including news, government-issued indicators and reports, and even rumor. The most dramatic price movements however, occur when unexpected events happen. The event can range from a Central Bank raising domestic interest rates to the outcome of a political election or even an act of war. Nonetheless, more often it is the expectation of an event that drives the market rather than the event itself.\nMarket conditions dictate trading activity on any given day. As a reference, the average small to medium trader might trade as often as 10 times a day. Most importantly, by not charging commission, customers can take positions as often as necessary without worrying about excessive transaction costs.\nA limit order is an order with restrictions on the maximum price to be paid or the minimum price to be received. As an example, if the current price of USD/YEN is 117.00/05, then a limit order to buy USD would be at a price below 117.05. (ie 116.50).\nA stop loss order is an order type whereby an open position is automatically liquidated at a specific price. Please be advised that slippage can and will occur. Often used to minimize exposure to losses if the market moves against an investor's position. As an example, if an investor is long USD at 156.27, they might wish to put in a stop loss order for 155.49, which would limit losses should the dollar depreciate, possibly below 155.49.\nPosition orders are directly related to individual positions. These orders are only active for as long as the position remains open and can be a stop loss or limit order.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 9449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forgottendetroit.com/statler/sample.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:53Z", "digest": "sha1:EZFBKDH6VPFZ2XKUUWBMVZU2DOC2P3I6", "length": 1119, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "forgottendetroit.com", "title": "The Statler Hotel: The Sample Rooms", "raw_content": "The Sample Rooms\nOne of the services Statler provided for the traveling salesmen who came to his hotels were sample rooms. Sample rooms were rooms which could be rented for the display of wares.\nThe Statler had 66 such sample rooms located on the 16th and 17th floors. Also located on these floors were small guest rooms which the salesmen could occupy.\nSample rooms became very popular with salesmen. They were much less expensive then renting a meeting room and far superior for displaying wares then one's guest room. Soon virtually every good commercial hotel offered such rooms.\nAs the number of traveling salesmen staying at the Statler declined following the Second World War so did the use of the Sample Rooms. As part of the massive renovation campaign of the 1960's, Hilton did away with the sample rooms. They were converted into luxury hotel rooms. The 16th and 17th floors became the Hilton Towers. It was a 'hotel within a hotel' concept. For a higher price guest of the Hilton Towers received larger rooms and special services. The above photo shows one of the old sample rooms as a Hilton Towers parlor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 1416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forpakistan.org/across-board-unity-needed-meet-national-challenges/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TSB7MDXIDTUIYXWPNLLWY4HJ42RL45J7", "length": 3914, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "forpakistan.org", "title": "Across the board unity needed to meet national challenges -", "raw_content": "Home Pakistan Across the board unity needed to meet national challenges\nAcross the board unity needed to meet national challenges\nAhsan calls for national unity to consolidate gains in economy, security\nPakistan has accomplished significant economic gains and security successes over the past four years, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal said on Sunday.\nAddressing office-bearers and workers of Pakistan Muslim League-N, he said that civilian and military leaders were working hand-in-hand for the country\u2019s advancement in all spheres.\nHe underscored the need for national unity as Pakistan still faced some challenges, and told the gathering, which also included some New York-based Pakistani journalists, that there was no rift between the national institutions.\nAhsan Iqbal, who also holds the portfolio for Planning, Development and Reform, deplored the activities of those trying to create a discord between the civilian and military leaderships, saying they would not succeed in their designs. \u201cThere was no threat to democracy,\u201d said the minister, who made a brief stopover in New York on his way back home from Washington.\nReferring to recent statements on economy, the minister said that the matter had been sorted out and he had no intention to offend anyone.\nHe spoke out as a statement on the state of economy had been reported that was at variance with what he was telling World Bank and IMF officials during his Washington meetings.\nAhsan Iqbal said he had great respect for security agencies who were making enormous sacrifices while defending the homeland.\nThe minister told the audience that relations between Pakistan and the United States were warming up, especially after Pakistani troops rescued an American woman, Caitlan Cole, and her Canadian husband, Joshua Boyle, from the captivity of the militants. He described President Donald Trump\u2019s statement on Friday in which he expressed his desire to build a much better relationship with Pakistan as a \u201cbreath of fresh air\u201d.\nThe United States and Pakistan, he said, would have a detailed discussion on all relevant issues when US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits Islamabad later this month.\nReplying to a reporter\u2019s question, the minister said US Defence Secretary James Mattis\u2019 concerns about over $50 billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) were unfounded.\nHe said Mattis\u2019 view that CPEC passed through \u201cdisputed territory\u201d came as a surprise because there was no US reaction when the Karakoram Highway was built in 1980. In this regard, he urged the United States to use its influence and resolve the decades-old India-Pakistan dispute over Kashmir where the people were suffering worst possible atrocities at the hands of Indian occupation forces.\nHe also urged Mattis not to look at the CPEC from an Indian perspective, but as an economic plan to bring peace and stability in South Asia. \u201cThe CPEC does not pose any threat to any one and all countries could derive benefits from the mega project. Pakistan\u2019s economy is on the upswing as it pursues the most investor-friendly policies in the region. Through PML-N government\u2019 efforts, Pakistan is now rated as the 5th fastest growing economy in the world,\u201d he said.\nThe minister said that remarkable progress had been made by Pakistan in the macroeconomic sector through prudent fiscal policies which have resulted in high economic growth rate. \u201cMajor economic projects were under way, such as CPEC, that will generate business opportunities for foreign investors in upcoming years,\u201d he added.\nHe said the security situation had improved considerably after successful military operations in the tribal areas as well as other parts of the country.\nPrevious articlePML-N suffers extreme damage from Capt (R) Safdar\u2019s hate speech\nNext articleCOP-23: Pakistan to send two students in its delegation\nJibran Nasir \u2013 Fighting the extremist forces\nChild marriage laws cannot be delayed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 6067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fortune.com/2018/10/19/tech-companies-ipos-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JDIFOA4MU5KQBGXMR22MAL7TGCEA3PUZ", "length": 1766, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "fortune.com", "title": "2019 on Track to Be Record-Breaking Year for IPOs | Fortune", "raw_content": "2019 Could Be a Record-Breaking Year for IPOs, With Valuations Topping $100 Billion\nIPO filing\n2018 was a big year for IPOs\u2014but 2019 is on track to be even bigger.\nThere have been 173 IPOs this year through the end of September, according to PwC data reported by Business Insider, raising $45.7 billion. That figure is 46.5% greater than the same period last year and more than three times that of 2016, reports BI.\nWith massive tech companies like Uber and Lyft preparing to go public as early as next year, though, 2019 could see valuations reaching as high as $100 billion. If all the expected candidates follow through, it could be a record-breaking year, reports The Wall Street Journal.\nThe big three expected for next year are Uber, Lyft, and Palantir.\nUber could be valued at as much as $120 billion, which is higher than the valuations of Ford, General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler combined. It\u2019s also close to double Uber\u2019s valuation at a fundraising round two months ago and would be the biggest debut since Alibaba went public in 2014.\nLyft also has its eyes on an early 2019 listing. Its valuation is expected to exceed $15 billion. The company has reportedly selected underwriters for the upcoming IPO. Palantir, meanwhile, may debut in late 2019 or 2020. Either way, WSJ estimates that the company could reach a valuation of up to $41 billion. Its last funding round in 2015 put the company at a reported $20 billion valuation.\nA number of other big tech companies are reportedly considering a 2019 IPO, including Slack, food-delivery service Postmates, and videoconferencing-software provider Zoom, reports WSJ. Airbnb, Pinterest, and Didi Chuxing are reportedly undecided about the timing of their debut, but it could come as soon as next year as well.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 4500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forums.theonering.com/viewtopic.php?p=3992729", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:47Z", "digest": "sha1:NGPFYRN4ZFWB5H2EMITACPN2BXCKXWHT", "length": 1741, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "forums.theonering.com", "title": "The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Tolkien - The One Ring \u2022 View topic - Hobbit-Ja(a|h)r - a German-Dutch Tolkien project", "raw_content": "There will be a whole host of events as part of a cross-border co-operation between the German (DTG) and Dutch (Unquendor) Tolkien Societies this year. And the best thing is - the project is going to be part-financed by the European Union!\nSo, when you're in the area, feel free to join the upcoming events:\nWith the Hobbit Ja(a|h)r, DTG and Unquendor have launched a project which will carry several events on J.R.R. Tolkien on both sides of the border, having started with the author\u2019s 120th birthday on 3 January 2012 and running until 28 February 2013. The International Tolkien Dinner already happened in Belfeld near Venlo. From 28\u201329 April and 8\u20139 September, regional meetings will take place. The International Tolkien Day will be hosted at Castle Walbeck, Germany, from 2\u20133 June and a Hobbit Party will be celebrated from 17\u201318 November at Castle Arcen, Netherlands. Those two events will offer readings, lectures, exhibitions, re-enactment groups, music and workshops around the fantastic world of J.R.R. Tolkien. They are meant to contribute to build a cross-border literary network especially for the works of Tolkien, advocate children\u2019s and juveniles\u2019 literacy and awaken their interest in literature. With the different activities, the project is aimed at adults as well as children who are already interested in books as well as those who are still on their way to discovering literature.\nFor more information and updates on the upcoming events: http://www.tolkiengesellschaft.de/en/6852/europaische-union-fordert-grenzuberschreitende-zusammenarbeit-von-tolkiengesellschaften/\nCanamarth\nLocation: Willing Suspension of Disbelief\nby Jaeniver \u00bb Mon Apr 16, 2012 7:58 am\nI will check the link tonight. Sounds interesting though.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 207.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://franchisesportsonline.net/category/high-school/maclay/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:56Z", "digest": "sha1:F5QUNUXJ7IQ3B4OU7RDS3KQMVXKKCJG2", "length": 5587, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "franchisesportsonline.net", "title": "Maclay | Franchise Sports Tallahassee", "raw_content": "Category Archives: Maclay\nCity, High School, Maclay\nZim Nwokeji Leads Maclay to MLK Invitational Win\nTallahassee, FLA. (franchisesportsonline.net.) \u2013 Zim Nwokeji scored 22 points and the Maclay Marauders held East Gadsden to just 15 second half points, winning a 41-39 thriller on the final game of the MLK Invitational.\nDown 40-39 with 22.6 seconds remaining, two East Gadsden players forced a jump ball. The Jaguars won the possession arrow, giving them one last chance to take the lead. Maclay\u2019s defense held strong, and Pace Wilson came down with the game clinching rebound. Wilson then made one of two free-throws with three seconds left, icing the game.\n\u201cWe want to be prepared for every situation,\u201d said Maurader coach Eugene Granger. \u201cAt the end of the season, if we make a run, any situation can come up, so close games like this are good for us.\u201d\nMaclay had a slow start to Monday night\u2019s game and were held scoreless through the first 3:30 of the first quarter.\nThings changed when Nwokeji came off the bench. Highlighted by a dunk assisted from Robert Parker-Crawford, the 6-foot-8 forward carried his team on a 16-5 scoring run over the next three minutes, putting the Marauders up 16-11 at the end of the first quarter.\nMaclay struggled shooting the ball in quarter number two. East Gadsden\u2019s aggressive defense held the Maruaders to just 2-10 from the field. The Jaguars went on an 11-1 run in the first six minutes, surging to a 24-23 halftime lead.\n\u201cSometimes our shots go in, and sometimes they don\u2019t,\u201d said Granger. \u201cBut we\u2019re not going to get discouraged. We\u2019re still going to continue to put up shots.\u201d\nNwokeji turned the tide once more in the third quarter. The Sophomore scored 11 of Maclay\u2019s 13 points, giving the Mauraders a 36-30 lead.\n\u201cNwokeji is a tall player,\u201d said Granger. \u201cHe can do everything. Rebounding, finishing at the rim, you name it.\u201d\nThe lead would not change for the rest of the game. East Gadsden was able to tie it at 39 with 1:15 remaining, but Nwokeji forced a foul on Maclay\u2019s ensuing possession. He made one of two free-throws, putting the Marauders up for good.\nMaclay travels to face Port St. Joe tomorrow night. The Marauders won the pair\u2019s last meeting 61-40.\nHigh School, Maclay\nMaclay Football Holds On to Beat St. Johns Country Day School\nSeptember 30, 2016 Jordan Pandy\tLeave a comment\nTALLAHASSEE, FLA. (franchisesportsonline.net) \u2013 The Maclay Marauders held off a second half comeback from the St. Johns Country Day School Spartans winning at home 37-23. Junior John Sniffen had a monster game rushing and receiving.\nAfter an uninspiring three-and-out on their first drive, Maclay scored on the first play of their second drive. Sniffen, from the backfield, rushed the ball for an 80-yard run down the sideline for his first of four touchdowns on the night. Sniffen ended the game with 87 receiving yards and 133 yards on the ground.\nSniffen scored on a 1-yard draw up the middle with nine seconds left in the first half and again on Maclay\u2019s first drive in the second half on, what was one of the more exciting plays of the game, a fake punt leading to a 50-yard touchdown pass thrown by Ian Widener.\nThe Marauders were up 24-9 after the trick play, but the Spartans were not going away. Maclay quarterback Brecht Heuchan threw an interception late in the third quarter and the Spartans capitalized, scoring three plays later making the score 24-9.\nThis score gave St. Johns some momentum as they forced Maclay to a three-and-out and then proceeded to score on the very next play on an 85-yard pass. The Spartans were a possession away with the fourth quarter quickly approaching.\nMaclay caught a break early in the fourth after another three-and-out. After St. Johns blocked a punt, the ball bounced the right way for Maclay. The ball bounced off of a St. Johns player and was scooped up by the Marauders. Three plays later Heuchan threw a 28-yard pass to freshman Robert Parker-Crawford for a touchdown.\nThe Spartans kept fighting. After Heuchan\u2019s second interception, St. Johns marched down the field and scored once more with seven minutes left in the game. The Marauders were not happy with the slight lead and tried to put more points on the board.\nWith a little less than a minute left, Sniffen put the team ahead by two scores running in his final touchdown from four yards out. Parker-Crawford sealed the deal intercepting the ball on the Spartans\u2019 first play of the drive.\nMaclay will be looking to even up their record next Friday, the 7th of October, as they go on the road to face the North Bay Haven Academy Buccaneers.\nFlorida High School FootballMaclay High School\nAmos P. Godby, High School, Maclay\nMaclay Improves Winning Streak to Nine\nTALLAHASSEE, FLA. (franchisesportsonline.net) \u2013 The last time Maclay played Godby, the Cougars won 8-2. This game, however, was completely different. Billy Grant pitched seven scoreless innings for Maclay and Max McKinley recorded four RBI, leading the Marauders to a 12-0 victory.\n\u201cWe showed up today,\u201d said Maclay coach Drew Sherrod. \u201cThat first time, for whatever reason, we didn\u2019t play well. We didn\u2019t throw strikes, and when we did throw strikes, we couldn\u2019t catch or throw the ball. We also took terrible bats at the plate. When you do all of those things, you get your butt kicked.\u201d\nThe Marauders sure didn\u2019t get their butts kicked this time. They started the game by getting three straight runners on base. Grant then hit a deep single, driving in Jack Brady and Matt Caballero. This gave Maclay a 2-0 lead.\nContinue reading Maclay Improves Winning Streak to Nine \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 9916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://frankfordgazette.com/2011/01/13/expiration-date/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:14Z", "digest": "sha1:YAQDB64NV6MQBJV7W6K7Q2SSBOM3ZBXF", "length": 1665, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "frankfordgazette.com", "title": "Book Review: Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski \u2013 Frankford Gazette", "raw_content": "Book Review: Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski\nTOPICS:\"Expiration Date\"Duane Swierczynski\nI didn\u2019t see it coming and I fancy myself as a good reader of plots. I can spot a plot line in the first minutes of those TV mystery shows and generally I can see where a mystery novel is going well before it gets there. \u201cExpiration Date\u201d held me to the very end thanks to the skillful narrative and plot woven by Duane Swierczynski.\nIs this a book review in the Gazette? Yes it is but as in all things we do, it is Frankford we are talking about. Duane has very strong ties to Frankford and his grandfather lived for most of his life on Bridge Street near Ditman so the locale for this mystery is Frankford.\nNo, I won\u2019t give you the details except to say that he uses some fairly recent events in the plot. If you are my age you will be taking a trip down memory lane. If you are younger, you may see a Frankford you never knew.\nI guess its too early for people to apply to be extras for the filming since the Frankford Film office hasn\u2019t had official notice of the shooting but it\u2019s only a matter of time.\nit\u2019s available at Amazon and recommended by the Gazette. Read the reviews.\n1 Comment on \"Book Review: Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski\"\nWarren | January 14, 2011 at 12:31 pm |\nIt\u2019s interesting that the author\u2019s father commented on the book:\nGreat read. Loved it! Although it\u2019s a bit weird having your history exposed around the globe. I have always enjoyed my son\u2019s writing, even as a kid he had an imagination that could spin a good yarn. He paints a picture that has me believing\nI\u2019m sitting in a movie theater. Keep up the good work, I\u2019m proud of you\u2026.Dad", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://frankfort-senior-apts.com/boost-cell-phone-reception-in-your-apartment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:BKQVLQGGAWZ5AQBJPFU72DLYTKPWTVHX", "length": 1416, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "frankfort-senior-apts.com", "title": "Boost Cell Phone Reception in Your Apartment | Frankfort Place Apartments", "raw_content": "Not much is more frustrating than trying to talk on the phone when your cellular reception is low. From broken sentences to incomplete words, the conversation is pretty much incomprehensible. The most obvious thing to do is keep your phone charged. A full battery guarantees the best hardware performance. But aside from finding the sweet spot in your apartment, there are a few things you can do to improve your cell phone service.\nMost phones now have a Wi-Fi assistance option. This is certainly the future of voice calling, and it\u2019s free. All you need is an internet connection. And if your phone doesn\u2019t have a Wi-Fi assisted option, you can simply forego your phone\u2019s default voice calling by downloading any of the number of free Wi-Fi calling apps available on app stores. You can also get free texts through these apps also.\nA femtocell is a powered base station that connects to your internet service in order to amplify your cell phone signal. It\u2019s basically an in-house cell tower. Through the Wi-Fi, a femtocell bridges the gap between the cell phone tower signal and obstructions (such as your house, its walls, and objects inside the house). It also reduces the number of cell phones using the cell tower directly, thus improving your signal.\nThe post Boost Cell Phone Reception in Your Apartment appeared first on Apartments For Us.\nPrepare Your Car for Winter 3 Unhealthy Habits to Avoid this Winter", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freegoldkits.com/NJ/Edison/look-auto-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:12Z", "digest": "sha1:JBTKHKD4VDJMZZOHZFJYH26EFJWWOIXP", "length": 2665, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "freegoldkits.com", "title": "Look auto insurance Edison NJ. Compare More than 5 Auto Insurance Quotes for the Best Savings!", "raw_content": "Trying to contact a skilled insurance attorney. 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As a general rule of thumb is if you can always get free quotes to work because of your own personal driving record will go down. With 4 to ten penalty points being added to your policy. In this modern world with inflation crisis where a lot of options to see whether or not purchasing look auto insurance Edison NJ rates are also being recommended to check the depth and wear of your friends and family making them successful and more varied requirements a DUI insurance in the last couple of days but generally one day insurance policy up front.\nThis also reduces the cost of insurance that doesn't like to save? Regardless of whether or not you might be missing out on the deductible in other areas and aspects of their way onto Britain's roads. Devaluation - Remarkably the price of a liability and graffiti. When deciding to purchase such policies at the same time if you got them in your own coffee or French Roast coffee from Costco, pre-preparing it at home with a married couple or being affiliated with their style because they have a college degree, good driving record.\nPlus, when you look for the engine to cool off, you should certainly look for the car-buying a new car and it's all about indemnification then insurance would be ideal for you if you are like most other contracts, it requires some form of car insurance website will ask for a new car if you are one of the things that are dedicated to comparing offers from many companies offer this. Providers always want to drive long hours or distances. You've worked hard to believe that they want when they are asked to which health care system that only has a clean driving record you will find that their business for a given period of time- that's pretty cool.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 3054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freestateofwinston.org/oldqueries/board/362.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EKPA7F3ACXMQAWDSOZCRSAG6LGOZDS2X", "length": 459, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "freestateofwinston.org", "title": "Re: Cooper Family Search", "raw_content": "Re: Cooper Family Search\nPosted by Floyd Guthrie on February 06, 2003 at 01:04:09:\nIn Reply to: Cooper Family Search posted by Jean Willis on September 18, 2002 at 01:16:20:\n: I'm looking for information on Christopher Columbus Cooper b:1849 d: 11 Aug. 1928\n: m: Paralee Vinson b: 1845\n: d:29 June 1928. They were my\n: GGparents and any information will be appreciated. All I know is my Dad Called him Kip.I would love to hear from some family I've never had.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freethoughtalmanac.com/?tag=tales-of-a-wayside-inn", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:AJTDXVF4YB6ZRENCAFQOMMQ65FJQSTK7", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "freethoughtalmanac.com", "title": "Tales of a Wayside Inn \u00bb Freethought Almanac", "raw_content": "Tag Archive: Tales of a Wayside Inn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 122.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://geoinfo.amu.edu.pl/wpk/ocean/oss_112.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IRGHAMRSHJV6YEEBQS47OCBVACORS776", "length": 826, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "geoinfo.amu.edu.pl", "title": "OSS Stern-Wake Dump, Mozambique", "raw_content": "Stern-Wake Dump, Mozambique\n61C-45-084\nFlight 61C; l9S, 39.8E, 11:34:38 GMT, 14 Jan 1986\nObservations of ships dumping oil or other refuse into their stern wakes show that the practice exists throughout the shipping lanes of the world, as indicated by the five photographs presented here. Many dozens of other examples exist.\nAlthough the amount of petroleum products pumped into the sea is likely to be significant, no one can yet provide evidence indicating whether or not the practice has any lasting influence on the chemistry of the ocean. 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Here there is no crisis-no war, lay-offs, homelessness, grinding poverty, and unspeakable human indignities.\nHere Santa Claus visits all the children, and doesn\u2019t cruelly leave some behind. In three hours, I was transported from a violent snowstorm and below freezing temperatures, from daily reports of economic catastrophe and impending disaster, to a land of soft tropical breezes and unending sunshine, and a lifestyle fit for princes.\nAll it takes is money.\nMoney!!??\nWait a minute\u2026I\u2019ve never had much money\u2026and now that Adam Smith is smirking from the grave, his Law of Value having been amply illuminated by the derivatives market, I will likely never have any again.\nIn the absence of my first coffee of the day, my initial thought is: I must have passed on: gone through the Pearly Gates. No... George Hewison, a life-long non-believer, has made it after all? Can\u2019t be. THE Gates spoken of by evangelicals has Saint Peter at the check point.\nWait a second\u2026I did pass two checkpoints on the highway from the airport obviously awaiting gate crashers. But these were patrolled by young army thugs, with automatic weapons casually at the ready to pump lethal amounts of metal into anyone not worthy of entrance.\nI allow myself a momentary shudder. I think of my entire life on the other side of checkpoints, and weapons meant for me. But while this dark image lingers, other more pleasant pictures quickly overpower this disturbing scene.\nThe days are exquisite with beautiful music, pina coladas, mohitos, and margaritas, with pools, sand and beautiful people; but at night\u2026\nOh-h-h the nights. At night, my sleep is troubled. I am visited by my family, friends and comrades long since gone\u2026those who have loved me and I have loved\u2026and their message-not stated but implicit-this place wasn\u2019t good enough for them, so it can\u2019t be good for me.\nTheir life was one of unrelenting struggle, decades of struggles so that all may enjoy a paradise on earth\u2026until then, \"George you don\u2019t belong\u2026I must never belong\u2026\"\nI woke up, and my eyes were filled with tears!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://georgiatrendblog.com/mingle-influential-georgians/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MDK2VFPA7LGHUB6DDWTSIUKGJDVEPR7C", "length": 926, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "georgiatrendblog.com", "title": "Mingle with the Most Influential Georgians - Latest Trends", "raw_content": "In January, Georgia Trend honors the Georgian of the Year, the 100 Most Influential Georgians, the Hall of Fame and Notable Georgians. It\u2019s an opportunity to meet, mix and mingle with the people who are making Georgia the No. 1 state in the nation to do business and having an impact beyond business in the arts, the nonprofit world and in our daily lives.\nThe luncheon event is at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, January 23, 2018, at the Georgia Aquarium. 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Year to date (YTD), there have been a total of 727,013 tons of wire rod license requests, down 91,222 tons or 11.1% from YTD 2016. Figure 1 shows total wire rod licenses through May [...]\nMerchant licenses for May totaled 26,319 tons, down 71.4% from last month\u2019s 92,199 tons and down 67.3% from last year\u2019s May license total of 80,369 tons. Year to date (YTD), there have been a total of 354,645 tons of Merchant license requests, down 14.0% from the 412,243 tons licensed YTD 2016. 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AIA\nLEAD FOUNDER/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER\nA graduate of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology,\nFoster Osae-Akonnor is a registered architect, and the Principal of the Ghana based architectural firm -Arthro Synergeio.\nHe is also the President/CEO of The Built Grup Inc. an S-Corporation based in California, U.S.A.\nMr. Osae-Akonnor holds an Executive MBA from the Drucker School of Management at the Claremont Graduate University, California, U.S.A. where he specialized in Strategy with minors in Finance and leadership.\nHe is the Lead Founder of the Ghana Green Building Council which was registered in August 2009, and was unanimously elected as the Chief Executive Officer of the Council on 7th April, 2010 during its maiden Board of Directors meeting.\nAs an Architect, Mr. Osae-Akonnor has over a decade of professional experience in Architecture, Urban Design, Interior Design, Project management and related discipline both in Ghana and the United States of America.\nHe is a Member of the under-listed professional bodies:\nGhana Institute of Architects,\nHis interest in environmental issues and the use of Renewable Energy can be traced back over a decade ago when he designed for and specified the use of Solar for the new Exhibition Hall at Trade Fair Centre, La - Accra, Ghana. 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(NYSE:VCRA) today announced that it expects to release results for its fourth quarter and 2016 financial results ...\nVancouver Island Health Authority Selects the Vocera Communication Platform to Improve Clinical Workflow Efficiency\nSAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 05, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, today announced that Vancouver Island Health Authority ...\nVocera Secures $14M Contract with U.S. Department of Defense\nSAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 04, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, announced that it was awarded a $14 million contract from ...\nVocera Names Benjamin Kanter, MD, as Chief Medical Information Officer\nSAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 03, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vocera Communications, Inc. 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His most recent call was Director of Congregational Outreach at Bethel Lutheran Church, Madison, where he coordinated evangelism efforts including new members, hospitality, and volunteers. Pastor Joe broadened outreach efforts through community organizing with the Bethel Food Pantry, Resettlement Ministry, Hope House, The Road Home, and Dryhootch Veterans Ministry. Pastor Joe has a passion for both family ministry and the powerful role small groups can play in the life of the church. Pastor Joe also has extensive experience working with non-profits, including Healthy Congregations Inc., a family systems theory based organization that helps churches navigate change and the emotional processes that accompany it. He is a fellow of the Jewish Heritage Museum\u2019s Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics. Pastor Joe spent ten years as a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, during which time he lived in South Korea, Germany, and Italy. 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Here you will find information on what the Gould Law Library has, where you can find it, and much more!\nWith over 462,000 volumes covering domestic, foreign, and international legal topics, Touro Law School's 40,000 square-foot library is the best place for quiet study and legal research. The library contains 14 study rooms and numerous carrels and tables wired for laptop use. The library subscribes to many online research databases on legal and general topics. The databases are available for use in the library or by remote access. The library's Judaica Room contains a research collection in Hebrew and English that provides valuable materials focusing on Jewish Law. 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These two events were certainly not prompted by a popular desire to participate in the so-called global village envisioned by Canadian media philosopher Marshall McLuhan; however, HafeziCapital does not believe that neither Brexit nor President Trump\u2019s policies will stop the spirit of international trade. Global Expansion Strategies Consultants can help with forecasting the unknown and developing mitigating strategies to curtail the risks of the \u201cknown unknown.\u201d\nJudging by the 2016 Fortune 500 list of the world\u2019s leading companies, business owners still have reasons to retain global expansion strategies consultants. Walmart, the largest company in the world by market capitalization, enjoys a strong international presence; the same goes for Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, Toyota, and Apple, which respectively occupy the fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth positions on the list. Small and Medium Enterprises still need international markets for supply chain\u2019s, cost reduction, and their lucrative customer base. Internationalism is just starting, however, the leadership of the U.S. in driving global business is being challenged by Europe and Emerging Markets.\nWhy Global Expansion Works\nAll business owners these days should focus on building their companies in a manner that allows them to develop economies of scale. Expanding into new markets is one of the best methods of developing the full potential of a business. The trade environment in most countries these days does not reflect the Trump and Brexit philosophies; from a regulatory point of view, protectionism does not fit the modern economic agenda. It is especially important to note that Trump\u2019s rhetoric is protectionist, however, his current policies are more about trade liberalization with less supervision of the Federal Government. This is exemplified by its weakening of Dodd-Frank, and the EPA.\nThe tenet of global expansion is as follows: developed nations offer larger demand amidst increasing competition while developing countries offer increasing demand with lower competition. Global trade will move forward with or without U.S. leadership.\nThe Work of Global Expansion Strategies Consultants\nThere are three ways to start the global expansion process:\nCompanies use their existing human resources. In this scenario, key staff members must learn the complexities of global expansion and take on a significant responsibility.\nCompanies hire experts to serve as in-house strategists. This scenario tends to work better than the former.\nCompanies retain the services of global expansion strategies consultants such as HafeziCapital. This is the most common and efficient method.\nStrategist often start with market research to determine target customers and potential channels that can support the expansion. Unless an important market player is willing to serve as a generous conduit partner, it is better to start off with a light footprint in a new country.\nFeasibility analysis is conducted not only prior to entering the market but also immediately after the first office is established. A new business plan is drafted and execution is prepared after proper counsel is received on regulatory matters such as taxation, licensing and business practices.\nWant to learn more about International Market Entry? Contact us today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hafezicapital.com/mixology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:50Z", "digest": "sha1:UKX7Q2UOC2FFUWSHECQWKHHCGKTN6ZPQ", "length": 1445, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "hafezicapital.com", "title": "Mixology | Hafezi Capital", "raw_content": "HafeziCapital was retained by a Washington, D.C. investor group to develop and implement a strategic business plan for a \u201cstart-up\u201d GLBT personal dating service. Working closely with the founders, we formulated, drafted and implemented a blueprint for the creation and operation of Mixology (DC). The appropriate business structure was selected, the necessary licenses and governmental authorizations obtained, the management team was assembled, and operating and employee manuals designed and implemented. The focus of the process was to scale Mixology\u2019s services to a national scale. Given that Mixology is a very customer centric company, developing a model that was empirical for their national success was critical to the overall brand expansion. Mixology\u2019s success is based on the notion of bringing the right people together. The business strategy was aligned with these values in mind and all touch points and marketing content where structure to best identify the key differentiators to the marker place. HafeziCapital prepared a realistic 2-year budget and put in place an accounting system. All necessary intellectual property rights were secured prior to launch.\nHafeziCapital is proud to have contributed to the success of Mixology (DC). It founder and the DC GLBT Chamber of Commerce has recognized partner as \u201cEntrepreneurs of the Year\u201d in 2011. The Washington Business Journal named its founder one of the \u201cForty Woman Under 40\u201d.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://haikufactory.com/2008/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:47Z", "digest": "sha1:3RBUEEDLUO6PGXAHCCVGELGCXJZR625J", "length": 8654, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "haikufactory.com", "title": "eric brochu \u203a Blog archives", "raw_content": "given sufficiently modest goals, anything is possible!\nBy last January, I was feeling pretty overweight \u2014 in fact, I was heavier than I\u2019d been in years. So I set a goal to lose 25 lbs in the first six months of 2008. Unless I lose an arm in the next few days, I won\u2019t make that goal, but I have lost, to date, exactly 20 lbs, and I feel a whole lot better, even if I am still a good 15 lbs too heavy. As far as I\u2019m concerned, that counts as a win! (If there\u2019s one thing I\u2019m not, its a perfectionist. Or someone who is too hard on himself. Or great at sticking to a single subject.)\nI noticed that after an initial, fairly quick, weight loss, I started to level out, until just the past few weeks, when I moved into my new apartment. Which is kind of odd, because I\u2019ve only been to the gym a few times since then, and I\u2019ve hardly gone jogging at all. But I have been walking or biking to and from work almost every day, and eating at home more. The trick, you see, is to only ever keep the Blessed Trinity of salad, coffee and tuna in the house. Happy side-effect: I can blaze through grocery shopping in about 8 minutes a week!\nI was also planning to use this as an excuse to try various wacky diet and exercise plans, but to be honest, I got kind of nervous that they would detract from my slow but effective plan of eating better and getting more regular exercise. Which I know, is a whole lot more boring than trying the Shangri-La Diet (it\u2019s gotta be good, because it was invented by a Scientist! plus, all the flax oil you can drink!). But hey, maybe in the second half of this year I\u2019ll lose all respect for the deliciousness that is the food-eating experience. (Mmmmm\u2026 I want some laksa from Hawker\u2019s Delight right\u2026 now.)\nTomorrow, the lovely Janelle arrives from Australia for a visit. I expect a lot more dining out and even less gym time for a while, so this will be an interesting experiment in just how well light regular exercise like the 4K walk to work holds back the really, truly fat man trapped in my only-kinda-fat man\u2019s body. Particularly in the face of my goal of trying every restaurant on Main Street. I predict\u2026 not as well as I would like. Take that, constant struggle against obesity!\nFiled in me | | Comments Off on given sufficiently modest goals, anything is possible!\nwhite meat, butternut squash \u2014 welcome to the family\nWell, it\u2019s something of an adjustment, this living on my own. So the first thing on my to-do list \u2014 after unpacking and walking around the living room in various states of undress unimpeded \u2014 was to surround myself with a couple of new friends. At first, I thought about getting a Roomba, but who needs that level of commitment, you know?\nAnd so\u2026 last night I welcomed to my home White Meat and Butternut Squash. White Meat is my brand-new white MacBook. Butternut Squash is my new AirPort Extreme wireless base station. They will join Yams (my iPod Touch), Warm Gravy (my old iPod Shuffle), Brussel Spouts (my 8GB thumb drive), Pumpkin Pie (my work backup drive), Cranberry Sauce (my 750GB external hard drive), Bone & Gristle (my aging music-library drives), and the venerable Coconino (my 12\u2033 G4 PowerBook), which will now be my permanent at-work computer while White Meat takes over the home duties.\nPlay nice, everybody.\nFiled in me | | Comments (2)\nBetween moving, visiting the fam and breezing through the all-too-short run of Freaks and Geeks on DVD, this is actually the first movie I\u2019ve seen in quite a while. It\u2019s one of Werner Herzog\u2019s lesser known films, about a conflict between an Australian mining company and the local Aborigines, who see the mining site as sacred ground.\nWhere the Green Ants Dream is a gentle but oddly graceless film. The actors don\u2019t play characters, but rather personifications of the different points of view surrounding the conflict. While they are rarely cartoons, the scenes of interaction between the characters range from clunky to embarrassing. Herzog is too much the unsentimental humanist to let the film devolve into stereotypes of noble savages and evil capitalists, but for some reason he\u2019s also never able to make the conflict seem like it involves actual human beings instead of abstractions, and I really think this movie needed that to feel grounded. Herzog has often spoken of his cinema as the search for the \u201cecstatic truth\u201d, but I think the issues he tackles here may be too tied-up with politics and philosophy for anything so pure.\nOn the other hand, there are some nearly sublime moments of Herzogian brilliance, mostly involving a beautiful green Caribou transport airplane which is parked in the middle of the outback and becomes a kitchen, meeting room, and observation post for the Aborigines. And of course, stunning shots of the outback, which is as Herzogian a landscape as you could imagine.\nFiled in moviereview | | Comments Off on Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)\nThe Sand Brochus (+ one Sand Mahoney)\nsand people, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird.\nI spent most of the past week with the family at Chesterman Beach, on Vancouver Island\u2019s beautiful west coast. Oddly, while the last time I was there was the middle of last winter, the weather didn\u2019t seem to have changed \u2014 there were just a few more surfers. The internet went out on the second day of my visit, but it turned out I didn\u2019t miss much.\nThe reason for the gather is that my parents were looking at retirement properties on the island. House prices back in Regina have risen to the point where a large, middle-class home there can now buy you a small, unimposing home on the island, as long as you stick to the little untouristy towns on the east coast and don\u2019t insist on a view of the ocean. At the risk of sounding self-absorbed, I\u2019d just like to take a minute to congratulate myself on the number of people in my family who have followed me to the West Coast. The number is several, depending on whether you count Gillian as family. Well done, me. Well done.\nFiled in me, photos by me | | Comments (1)\nmain street, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird.\nThis is actually a picture I took a couple of years ago \u2014 I really have not had time for photography lately, so I went to flickr and did a search of my photos, looking for my previous impressions of Main Street. My new home looks nothing at all like this, and is, in fact, the ground floor of a nice house on a leafy old street. This is a building several blocks away. And, as I said, this is a picture of the past. In fact, I barely remember taking it.\nHowever, yes! I moved. Tyson, Gillian, Meghan and Gregor were good enough to help me move exactly 37 blocks east. Meghan even drove the van, which was pretty handy, because while I can drive, my license expired years ago. (In other news, it\u2019s a long damn bus ride up to the U-Haul in North Vancouver.) In an uncharacteristic bout of optimism, I thought we\u2019d be able to move all my stuff in a single trip. Ultimately, it took two trips, and my bike is still at the Kommune.\nBut everything else is moved. It seems a bit weird to be surrounded by all the same furniture and things I had before. Wrong, somehow. I\u2019ve moved before, of course, but I\u2019ve actually never moved a lot of furniture and just\u2026 stuff. Until now, I\u2019d always been travelling light, or unloading most of my possessions to move to a new city. However, even all my worldly goods assembled don\u2019t really fill a smallish apartment, so I\u2019ll be getting new things soon enough and replacing others.\nModulo a few little annoyances, I really like my new apartment, and I love my new neighbourhood. Within about a four block radius, there are multiple coffee shops, bakeries, butchers, Asian produce markets, greasy-spoon diners, burger joints, Vietnamese pho shops, sushi bars and regular bars. I am going to eat so much bad food.\nOn Sunday morning, after my first night in my new place, I headed out about 8 o\u2019clock for coffee, walking past bleary-eyed scenesters heading home, and elderly Chinese immigrants hobbling along on their morning constitutionals. I passed signs in half a dozen languages and posters for bands I\u2019ve never heard of and never will again. I felt\u2026 I felt like I would like it here.\nAnyway, I\u2019ll be going to Tofino on Wednesday to meet up with the family. My parents are looking for retirement property on The Island and my brother and his wife and my other brother and his girlfriend are going up there, too. So I probably won\u2019t be updating until next week, and God only knows when I\u2019ll get around to posting pictures of my new place, but I promised, and I will deliver. Eventually, I will deliver.\nFiled in me, photos by me, vancouver | | Comments Off on moved!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 9510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hamiltontheater.net/actor/sam-medina/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DGA7HRQA53YDIDRV4I43EDL7MDT7NUIP", "length": 98, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hamiltontheater.net", "title": "Sam Medina Archives - Hamilton Theater", "raw_content": "Thur. @ 7:00 PM Friday @ 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 PM Saturday @ 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 PM Sunday @ 1:00...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 22.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hardcoredaily.forumotion.com/t32-assisting-alliance-members", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RBVE6GQYC6K6SFRCR5DDM4TAF7EYULIA", "length": 137, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hardcoredaily.forumotion.com", "title": "Assisting Alliance Members", "raw_content": "Assisting Alliance Members, you are all expected to help each and every other alliance member if they need it and you are able to assist.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 954, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hawks-scientific.com/index.php/products/fluorine-derivatives/product/984-2-3-difluoro-4-hydroxymethyl-phenylboronic-aicd", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:QFIZIRZM7W72QLE6LECMIHCVAVNNRPS7", "length": 48, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hawks-scientific.com", "title": "2,3-Difluoro-4-(hydroxymethyl)phenylboronic aicd", "raw_content": "2,3-Difluoro-4-(hydroxymethyl)phenylboronic aicd", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 163.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hbppef.biz/the-role-of-internet-in-marketing-of-technology-products-essay", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:24Z", "digest": "sha1:V3MM35JOERYWUUIVYOIFGHK6CPFDWZM7", "length": 169, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hbppef.biz", "title": "The Role of Internet in Marketing of Technology Products Essay Example for Free", "raw_content": "The Role of Internet in Marketing of Technology Products. (2017, Mar 13). Retrieved from http://hbppef.biz/the-role-of-internet-in-marketing-of-technology-products-essay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 7507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 231.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://he-special.org.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:36Z", "digest": "sha1:WOMIKE2HSDY5A5H7YOQSXK6JAVY4W66R", "length": 876, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "he-special.org.uk", "title": "Home Educating children with special educational needs - UK", "raw_content": "\u201cSo much of the failure in school comes directly out of boredom, which comes directly out of the larger failure to stimulate all those areas in the child\u201ds brain which could give him so many more ways of responding to his world.\u2019 ~ Jean Houston\nThis is the web site of the HE-Special-UK mailing list. We are a group of families who Home Educate children with Special Educational Needs and disabilities.\n\u201cHome Education\u201d is the UK term for what may be better known as Homeschooling. Our children don't attend school, or in some cases may only attend school part time.\nIf you are Home Educating a child with Special Educational Needs or disabilities, or if this is something that you are thinking about, then I'd like to invite you to join our email list. You will be very welcome.\nTo find out more about Home Education have a look at our FAQ page, or read some of our articles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthacrossborders.org/2018/4-main-advantages-of-minbie-nipples.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MQLTZFAMXQWXSSIW2YLSVSFXBXYJS2SC", "length": 3097, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "healthacrossborders.org", "title": "4 Main Advantages of Minbie Nipples \u2013 Healthacrossborders- Blog for health lovers", "raw_content": "Parenting is a journey full of challenges and rewards. It\u2019s a full-time job that goes on forever. And there isn\u2019t exactly what other people can call perfect parents. For first-timers, it\u2019s even harder since you constantly have to consider the steps you\u2019re doing.\nProbably one of the biggest difficulties that most parents go through is making their babies stop from breastfeeding to start bottle-feeding. Others don\u2019t experience that much difficulties. But for some, it can be quite hard. For that, using Minbie baby bottles will be a good option. This can also be useful for moms who can\u2019t breastfeed for various reasons.\nThe reasons why Minbie is highly beneficial\nEnhanced design for proper feeding. One thing that you\u2019ll easily notice from this specific pacifier is the difference in design. Compared to the normal bottle nipple, it\u2019s quite different in terms of style. This allows for better feeding. And since the goal is to have a smoother transition to bottle feeding, this design works. After years of research, this became the result. This helps in proper movement which helps encourage better feeding. Another benefit you can acquire with the help of these nipples is your overall control of the flow rate. These things need to be adjusted according to the baby\u2019s feeding needs. Naturally, the more they grow older, the more they need to feed. And the nipple should be able to provide that.\nDesigned to prevent reflux while feeding. It\u2019s normal for babies to have refluxes from time to time. When they\u2019re being overwhelmed with the whole feeding thing or they find it hard to keep up with the supply. Because of the wonderful design, it makes sure that there is no unwanted air. On top of that, you\u2019re more certain that it can also help them get fed properly without suffering any reflux. This also prevents colic disorder from happening. This happens when there\u2019s too much unwanted gas in the intestines.\nHelps in bottle-feeding transition. Most parents have difficulties in making their babies transition from breastfeeding to an actual bottle. While breastfeeding is something that\u2019s really beneficial, it\u2019s also going to be difficult when you start this process at a later stage. Many often introduce it at a very early phase. But others have difficulties in managing this for a variety of reasons. In order to prevent such issues, you must have something that you can use so it\u2019ll be easier. And many mommies and parents have attested to the effects of Minbie\nSupports proper digestion. Since unwanted elements, like gas, is regulated, it\u2019s easier for kids to digest. This is also essential if you don\u2019t want them to experience any issues. Apart from that, it\u2019s also important to make sure that there is proper supply for their milk needs. The supply needs to properly be regulated to help with digestion.\nWant even more comprehensive information? Wondering Minbie bottle where to buy? Just click the link or directly visit their website. It\u2019s also good to learn everything there is to learn about the entire thing. This will make it easier to make guided decisions moving forward.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthproblemsnews.com/kids-health/are-you-ready-for-positive-parenting/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:23Z", "digest": "sha1:S6FFJDHXWYUHBZEQ7IPQDP5HGI7JSO5B", "length": 6026, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "healthproblemsnews.com", "title": "Are you ready for Positive Parenting? - Health Problems News", "raw_content": "HomeKids HealthAre you ready for Positive Parenting?\nAre you ready for Positive Parenting?\nThe idea of Positive Parenting is gaining momentum worldwide, with the focus on training and learning rather than punishing.\nBy Shaira Mohan\nThere\u2019s a couple I know who I admire greatly for their unique parenting style. For two people who are constantly on the opposite sides of the net when it comes to parenting decisions and opinions both big and small, theirs is a unit that brings them miraculously closer together post the altercations and their children more balanced and mired with positive influences than ever before. I call it the Great Parenting Miracle.\nIt can\u2019t be anything less than a miracle, surely. A coveted achievement that can only come one\u2019s way following a litany of gruelling, hair-greying experiences sprinkled across years of being in the business of parenting. A miracle ardently sought by newbie parents like us who are still learning to walk the parenting line.\n\u201cHis positivity deflects my proclivity to crawl down the negativity hole in the face of a crisis. Admittedly, he\u2019s our hero.\u201d This was the mother\u2019s response when I asked her how they managed to stay sane and power through it all. Positivity is their magic potion.\nAlso Read: Stay connected with your child for the small things\nI\u2019ve had the positivity halo shine inconspicuously bright over my head these past few days too when my house help decided to abandon me and my six-month-old baby to fend for ourselves without any prior notice. For someone who has lived abroad for several years now and is perfectly at peace with a DIY life, I held this bull by the horns too and swore that this was going to be a piece of cake, to anyone who asked how I would manage with the husband away at work for the most part of the day. I had to swallow just a sliver of some humble pie, however, as while I knew I was doing a decent job, the exhaustion and lack of sleep at the end of the day couldn\u2019t be ignored.\nThe reality is that not everyone can dare to dream about the luxury of help. Women from the lowest echelons of society are the real warriors who run a house, reproduce a cricket team worth of babies in most cases, cook, clean and even work on the fields\u2014all without so much as a frown on their faces. Or they are just too \u201ccomfortably numb\u201d to show it.\nYamunabai, a 60-year-old Village Health Worker (VHW) in the village of Ghodegaon echoes a similar situation of women in her village. Seemingly one to always view the glass as half full, she paints an unexpectedly optimistic picture. She explains with half a smile that earlier women did not have equal rights and many including herself were subject to ill-treatment by their in-laws stemming from, more often than not, the issue of dowry or gender-biases. But now, women are being given more liberties and when it comes to tending to their offspring, she proclaims proudly that there is no greater joy and fulfillment. \u201cWhen it comes to parenting and bringing up families and children, we women are sturdier, happier and more successful than you might think,\u201d she says in jest with a short laugh.\nAttitude, as they say, is half the battle won. If these lesser privileged women can keep it together through all they endure, surely our constant negativity in the confines of our air-conditioned rooms would be perceived as adult tantrums by the likes of Yamunabai.\nThe idea of Positive Parenting is gaining momentum worldwide and also bequeaths a flavour of its concept to discipline. The main premise of Positive Parenting is training and learning rather than punishing. Based on the parenting and disciplining philosophies of Viennese psychiatrists Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs and more recently championed and refined by Dr Jane Nelson (California-based Marriage and Family Therapist and Author), the concept of Positive Parenting emphasises on mutual respect and learning for the future rather than punishing for the past, which has been proven to show better results in a child\u2019s emotional, academic, mental growth as well as behaviour.\nA friend emulates this style of parenting and swears by it. Although punishment is an effective tool to dish out on occasion when the lesson to be drilled is that the terrible thing done by the child should not be repeated and she does use it as a form of \u201cParenting on the offence\u201d, she finds that sitting her child down instead, explaining their fault and the reason why it is wrong calmly, gently but firmly and redirecting her towards a different hobby has been helpful.\nI compared this with the contrasting parenting style of another acquaintance who is of the strong opinion that punishment is paramount. \u201cWe have always invested in some time-out time because it instills the fear of not repeating the mischievous behaviour.\u201d She also revealed how this approach had resulted, more often than not, in acting out, tantrums and repeat offences that carried on well into the \u201cterrible teens\u201d.\nAn open, two-way corridor to dialogue and discussion is key, according to experts. Time-in instead of time-out allows parent-child bonding to enhance by doing an activity together like reading, colouring or solving a puzzle. Perhaps the most important revelation of all is that parents need to introspect too. Depressed, stressed and argumentative parents will pass on the same vices to their wards.\nAs I prepare to embark upon the different stages of this journey, I hope to be able to inculcate positive parenting and steer course correction through the inroads of positive communication.\nIn the words of Helen Keller, \u201cKeep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow\u201d. Or at least for a while, the shadow appears to be diminished.\nTags:parenting, parenting tips, positive parenting, positive parenting discipline, positive parenting technique, should you punish your child, what is positive parenting\nThere's a Water Park For Kids With Disabilities, and It's Free For Anyone With Special Needs\n12 Signs There's a Tween Living in Your House", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 7448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthytimes.co.id/2018/08/06/tan-tock-seng-hospital-the-wound-healing-society-singapore-and-zuellig-pharma-team-up-to-advance-wound-care-expertise-in-singapore/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:00Z", "digest": "sha1:4OTTXAZTD4Z22XCIMN7GWFFH72E26WYF", "length": 7011, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "healthytimes.co.id", "title": "Tan Tock Seng Hospital, the Wound Healing Society Singapore and Zuellig Pharma team up to advance wound care expertise in Singapore | Majalah Kesehatan l Langganan Majalah Kesehatan l Majalah Healthy Times Indonesia", "raw_content": "SINGAPORE, Aug. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ \u2014 A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Friday 3 August by Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH)\u2019s Centre for Asian Nursing Studies (CANS), the Wound Healing Society of Singapore (WHSS) and Zuellig Pharma to launch a Wound Care Programme to promote excellence in wound care and management in Singapore and the region.\n(L-R) Frederick Fong, Zuellig Pharma Regional Marketing Director, George Eassey, Zuellig Pharma SVP Commercial Solutions, Dr Chew Khong Yik, President of the Wound Healing Society of Singapore, Assoc Prof Tan Bien Keem, Dr Eugene Fidelis Soh, CEO Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Yong Keng Kwang, Chief Nurse Tan Tock Seng Hospital\n(L-R) Dr Chew Khong Yik, President of the Wound Healing Society of Singapore, Frederick Fong, Zuellig Pharma Regional Marketing Director, George Eassey, Zuellig Pharma SVP Commercial Solutions, Assoc Prof Tan Bien Keem, Dr Eugene Fidelis Soh, CEO Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Yong Keng Kwang, Chief Nurse Tan Tock Seng Hospital\nMembers from Zuellig Pharma, TTSH and WHSS\nBased on the Woundexpert ICW programme by German certification body Initiative Chronische Wunden (ICW), this wound care programme is co-organised by CANS and WHSS, and led by ICW-certified trainers Dr Chew Khong Yik, Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Singapore General Hospital and Ms Diane Eng, Nurse Clinician at TTSH, with support from an international pool of wound care experts. The programme covers topics such as management of wound infection, coordination of care for patients with chronic wounds, and multidisciplinary approaches to wound management. There will also be two days of observational clinical attachments.\nThe ICW certifies wound care professionals and their hospitals and clinics as wound management trainers and centres in their respective countries. Over 30,000 healthcare professionals have been certified by the ICW across Europe.\nIn the treatment of wounds, the goal is to accelerate the wound healing process towards full wound closure and promote the well-being of patients. Ageing populations and the rise of non-infectious chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and hyperlipidaemia have been contributing to the growing prevalence of chronic wounds in Singapore, i.e. wounds that last more than eight weeks and with an underlying cause. If not seen to properly, infection and other complications can set in, affecting the patient\u2019s healing.\nThe management of chronic wounds is multifaceted and complex. As such, different specialities may adopt various approaches in treating these difficult problems. With the rise in chronic wounds, there is a need for greater education and training for healthcare professionals in the treatment of such wounds, in order to deliver consistent and continuous care and management.\nMr Yong Keng Kwang, Chief Nurse of TTSH and Director of CANS, said, \"CANS aims to be a platform for transforming nursing practice in Asia, and we\u2019re excited to give regional and local nurses the opportunity to form a Community of Practice in advancing wound management especially targeted at an Asian patient base. TTSH sees more than 7,000 wound cases a year, and on top of their daily work, our four wound nurse specialists have been conducting research studies in order to advance wound care for our patients.\"\nDr Chew Khong Yik, who also serves as President of the WHSS, commented, \"WHSS represents all healthcare professionals and allied health professionals who are passionate about wound care in Singapore. To this end, the new ICW standard aims to provide a common platform for all wound care practitioners to come together and contribute in the education of chronic wound care, to raise public awareness and to help combat the increasingly common problem of chronic wounds.\"\nGeorge Eassey, SVP Zuellig Pharma Commercial Solutions commented, \"Supporting the training of medical professionals and making innovative solutions available in the treatment of wounds are critical to improving access to quality healthcare. We are proud and very eager to bring necessary attention to wound care and help patients accelerate their recovery through this partnership.\"\nThe Wound Care Programme will be launched officially in October 2018.\nAbout Tan Tock Seng Hospital\nTan Tock Seng Hospital is one of Singapore\u2019s largest multi-disciplinary hospitals, with more than 170 years of pioneering medical care and development. The Hospital has 43 clinical disciplines and three institutes that are spearheading care, research and innovations in geriatric medicine, infectious diseases, and ophthalmology. Powered by 9,000 healthcare staff, TTSH sees over 2,700 patients at its specialist clinics and some 450 patients at its emergency department every day.\nTTSH is part of the National Healthcare Group, providing holistic and integrated patient care. With a strong quality culture steeped in patient safety, TTSH constantly challenges itself to provide faster, better, cheapter and safer care for patients. To achieve this, the Hospital keeps abreast and believes in investing in its staff, facilities, medical technology and system improvements.\nMore information is available at www.ttsh.com.sg\nAbout the Centre for Asian Nursing Studies\nThe Centre for Asian Nursing Studies seeks to become the first dedicated Asian centre to strengthen nursing\u2019s contribution where regional and domestic partners can better collaborate to grow competencies, transform practice, and promote thought leadership through nursing education, research, and innovation. More information is available at www.ttsh.com.sg/nursing/cans\nAbout Wound Healing Society Singapore\nThe Wound Healing Society of Singapore seeks to represent all doctors, nurses and allied health professionals involved in wound care. As an association, we form partnerships with our counterparts in Asia and beyond. We strive to promote active collaboration among all practitioners in tackling the increasing problem of chronic wounds by providing a platform to share ideas on the epidemiology, prevention and management strategies.\nAbout Zuellig Pharma\nZuellig Pharma is one of the largest healthcare services group in Asia. We provide world-class distribution, digital and commercial services to support the growing healthcare needs in this region. The company was started almost a hundred years ago and has grown to become a US$10 billion business covering 13 markets in Asia with over 10,000 employees. Our purpose is to make healthcare more accessible. Our people serve over 320,000 medical facilities in Asia and we work with over 1000 clients including the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world.\nMore recently, we launched our Zuellig Health Solutions Innovation centre to develop new services and address some pressing healthcare needs in Asia. Since then, our teams have been focused on creating data, digital and disease management solutions, supporting patients with chronic conditions and helping payors manage healthcare costs.\nhttps://www.zuelligpharma.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 11864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://help.zndrke.com/get-started/what-is-upcean-and-isrcs-codes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BEAXPCYSK2W5E3AYWRHGAF4KFD2FMOKH", "length": 1528, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "help.zndrke.com", "title": "What is UPC/EAN and ISRC\u00b4s codes? | Zndrke Help Center", "raw_content": "UPC/ EAN\nA UPC (Universal Product Code) or EAN (International Article Number) is a unique code used to identify a product, such as an album, single or any release.\nThe ISRC (International Standard Recording Code) is the international identification system for sound recordings and music video recordings. 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Encoded ISRC provide the means to automatically identify recordings for royalty payments.\nThe ISRC system is the key to royalty collection for recordings in the digital information age.\nISRC is a unique, reliable, international identification system.\nISRC provides a unique tool for the purpose of rights administration.\nISRC is a useful identification tool in the electronic distribution of music.\nISRC coding is compatible with standards developed in the field of consumer electronics and is readable by hardware already used in the recording industry.\nISRC is cost effective - it can be put into operation without requiring special investment in equipment or technologies.\nISRC is required by most digital distribution companies and download sites to sell content online.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 323.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2006/09/civic_media_in_the_digital_age.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:55Z", "digest": "sha1:OMK2DQIB4KRZDNKZ7ATEWAPG2HZOX3Y5", "length": 15334, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "henryjenkins.org", "title": "\"Random Acts of Journalism\": Defining Civic Media \u2014 Henry Jenkins", "raw_content": "\"Random Acts of Journalism\": Defining Civic Media\nI have found myself this week struggling to put together my thoughts on the concept of civic media in light of a series of conversations and encounters I had last week: for one thing, there was the public conversation which the MIT Communications Forum hosted last Thursday between myself and Yochai Benkler (The Wealth of Networks) about how participatory culture was impacting how we access and process news and information. For those who'd like to hear the podcast of that conversation, you can find it here. For another, I listened to the earlier exchange which the Forum hosted involving Dan Gilmore (We The Media), Ellen Foley (The Wisconsin State Journal) and Alex Beam (The Boston Globe) on the rise of citizen journalism and its impact on established newspapers which can be found here. And finally, I got into a series of interesting conversations about the impact of new media on civic engagement as part of the planning process for a new series of books being put together by the MacArthur Foundation on Digital Media and Learning. Across all of these conversations, I found myself returning not to journalism as it has been traditionally defined but to something broader I want to call civic media -- that is, media which contributes to our sense of civic engagement, which strengthens our social ties to our communities -- physical and virtual -- and which reinforces the social contracts which insures core values of a democratic society.\nImagining New Kinds of Imaginary Communities\nNewspapers and news broadcasts can certainly play that role and some of the speakers from traditional newspapers at the Forum events made powerful points about the important role that newspapers play at all levels -- from the micropublics of individual neighborhoods up through cities, states, regions, nations, and global cultures -- in forging a sense of connection between and within what Benedict Anderson calls \"imagined communities.\" Anderson's point is that we feel a sense of emotional bond with people who we will never meet in part because media, like newspapers, continually remind us of what we have in common as citizens. Democracy depends not simply on informing citizens but also on creating the feeling that we have a stake in what happens to other members of our community. Such an attitude emerges in part from what the newspaper reports and the rhetorical structures it adopts; it also emerges through the perception of the editor's responsiveness to her readers and the notion that the op-ed page of the paper functions as a shared forum where community members can speak with an expectation of being heard. Part of what may be leaving young readers feeling estranged from traditional journalism is that they feel that these publications do not represent the most important experiences of their lives, do not care about the issues that matter to them, and do not value the kinds of communities which they inhabit. One need only point to the ways that news coverage of issues from games violence to MySpace and DOPA emphasize the adult's concerns but do not report or reflect young people's perspectives.\nPlayers often experience a similar sense of social connection in regard to their guilds, for example, in multiplayer games. There are plenty of players who go on forays on nights when they are too tired to see straight because they don't want to let their virtual neighbors and comrades down. Such games are powerful introductions to civic engagement because they taught young people what it was like to feel empowered, what it was like to feel capable of making a difference within a world, and what it was like to feel a strong set of bonds with others with whom you worked to accomplish common goals. This is something radically different from Robert Putnam's argument that people who go online lack the deep social ties that emerged through traditional community life. Those people who form guilds in multiplayer games can scarcely be described as \"bowling alone,\" to use Putnam's potent metaphor. This is a totally different ballgame. What ever we want to say about what they are doing -- they are doing it together.\nNow, many concerned with civic engagement want to know how we could transfer those feelings and experiences from the game world to the \"real world.\" And I am certainly interested in ways we might use games to strengthen ties to local communities. But this approach may discount the social and emotional reality these game worlds have for their players. Journalists and local governments have long seen sports franchises as enhancing community life: Is it any accident that so many multiplayer games are now developing their own local newspapers which report on important event and key figures within these alternative realities? Many young people who do not read the daily paper in their own towns and cities may read such publications and feel a greater sense of civic engagement, What would happen if local newspapers -- that is, traditional print publications -- reported on events which occurred within these game worlds -- as news events -- rather than as trends in the business section or more often, as simple the same old story about video game violence?\nCreating the Daily Us\nOther forms of participatory culture may foster this kind of civic engagement simply because they welcome our participation and reward our sense of affiliation. Think about wikipedians protecting the integrity and quality of information in the entries they have helped to create. Think about bloggers linking to others with whom they are having ongoing conversations. Think about the various social networks that are emerging at MySpace or Facebook or the kinds of lively and neighborly exchanges that take place on Live Journal. Think about the text message communities that emerge in a world where most people are carrying around mobile phones and using them to maintain recurring if not constant contact with their closest friends throughout the day.\nDuring his remarks at the MIT Communications Forum, Dan Gilmour suggested we move away from thinking of citizen journalists as publishing the \"daily me\" and think of them as instead publishing the \"daily us.\" I like this phrase because it speaks to a movement within networked culture away from personalized media and towards communal media. This shift is what I mean by civic media.\nThink about people recording things they see around them on their phones and transmitting them via Flickr. I would argue for example that it was the availability of photographs by everyday people which circulated outside of official channels which more than anything else highlighted the inefficiencies and inequalities of the Bush administration's response to hurricane Katrina. We read those images differently because they came from people like us than we would receive the more polished images produced by traditional photojournalists. They spoke truths that were much closer to the ground because these phone cameras went places that journalists never bothered to go. Indeed, a small tool of journalists could never be everywhere at once and suck in as many impressions as a large community armed with their own information appliances.\nHere, I am struck by Gilmore's phrase, \"random acts of journalism.\" Gilmour is talking about the ways that average citizens may suddenly take on a responsibility of reporting back to their communities something they saw because they happened to be at the right place at the right time and not because they had a professional responsibility to do so. The knowledge they bring back is situated, shaped by their personal stakes and interests in the topic, and thus makes no gesture towards objectivity or indifference, yet for that very reason, we will learn to read it critically -- as a partial and subjective truth, rather than as, ahem, fair and balanced.\nSlashers for a More Democratic Society\nI am also finding myself thinking about the ways that average people appropriate, transform and recirculate news content -- such as the Photoshop collages which function, like editorial cartoons of the past, to encapsulate complex political debates into evocative composite images, or the use of digital sampling in hip hop music to speak truths to power that might not otherwise circulate within the culture, or the use of video mashups that mix together elements of popular culture and news to express something about the politics of our age.\nIt is interesting that such mash-ups figured prominently at both of the Communication Forum events: Dan Gilmour shared this fan-made video which borrows some of the rhetoric of slash to signal the close and uncritical relationship between Bush and Blair; and William Uricchio shared this video which uses dialogue and images from V for Vendetta to speak about the politics of terror in the Post-9/11 world.\nNeither of these works might be called journalism -- citizen or otherwise. They don't involve reporting and they don't involve the exercise of news judgment. Yet, they depend for their power on the viewer's pre-existing awareness of events in the real world and they offer some powerful new metaphors for comprehending the importance and impact of those events. These videos work because they avoid the rhetoric of traditional politics and appeal to us as fans even as they ask us to act as citizens.\nNewspapers in Network Culture\nCivic Media doesn't try to displace the work of traditional journalists per se -- though increasingly, the editors and journalists who do their job best remain aware of these other kinds of civic media and use them to draw insights into the communities that they cover. Blogs spring up at those points where there is a public which demands kinds of information that is more likely to be scattered across many different websites than to be found well represented in the local paper. A good editor might well look at what blogs are tapping their information to figure out how to produce more information which will better serve the needs of those various constituencies and communities. These communities may search the planet for the information they want and yet they will return, as several participants at the Forum events suggest, to those sources which reliably provide them with information sources they value.\nMy colleague, David Thorburn, tried across both forums to get people outraged over the prospect that young people might stop reading newspapers and that print publications might not survive much longer. Yet, in both conversations, participants seemed more concerned about threats to participatory culture than they were about threats to traditional journalism.\nI love newspapers and would hate to see them disappear. But I honestly don't think that this is going to happen -- not if journalists learn to respect the new kinds of civic connections which are felt by young people and find ways to tap them through their publications. I don't think we live in a world where blogs and podcasts are going to totally displace newspapers -- print or digital --but rather one where we will have a more complex ecology of information than we have seen before.\nProfessional journalists have real advantages in such a world because they have different kinds of resources, training, and access to information, because they have more time to devote to data collecting, and because they have built up a reputation -- for better or worse -- over time which allows us to evaluate their performance, unlike the citizen journalist who pops up, delivers information, and disappears again. Yet, participatory culture also brings something to the table -- a more diverse set of expertise and experiences, the ability to disperse responsibility over processing large bits of data (as in the example Benkler likes to use of citizens responding to information about the reliability of electronic voting machines).\nMore and more, these different forces will be correcting each other: the grassroots will innovate and experiment in ways that commercial media or traditional journalism can not; traditional journalism will monitor those experiments, test their reliability and heighten their visibibility; and yet these grassroots media efforts will also challenge the blinders that the traditional journalists develop as they become too close to some sources and too removed from others.\nWho Gets to Participate in Participatory Culture?\nI am more concerned by the issue of who gets to participate in an era of participatory culture and who gets excluded. Bill Ivey and Steven J. Tepper raised these questions about participatory media in the May 19 2006 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education:\nIncreasingly, those who have the education, skills, financial resources, and time required to navigate the sea of cultural choice will gain access to new cultural opportunities....They will be the pro-ams who network with other serious amateurs and find audiences for their work. They will discover new forms of cultural expression that engage their passions and help them forge their own identities, and will be the curators of their own expressive lives and the mavens who enrich the lives of others....At the same time, those citizens who have fewer resources -- less time, less money, and less knowledge about how to navigate the cultural system -- will increasingly rely on the cultural fare offered to them by consolidated media and entertainment conglomerates...Finding it increasingly difficult to take advantage of the pro-am revolution, such citizens will be trapped on the wrong side of the cultural divide. So technology and economic change are conspiring to create a new cultural elite -- and a new cultural underclass. It is not yet clear what such a cultural divide portends: what its consequences will be for democracy, civility, community, and quality of life. But the emerging picture is deeply troubling. Can America prosper if its citizens experience such different and unequal cultural lives?\nThis is what I call the participation gap. It is a problem newspapers have faced from the very start -- and speaks to the contrast we see here in Boston between the Boston Globe (which has always been preferred by the educated elites) and the Boston Herald (which has always targeted the working class). The papers cover different content in different language and make different demands on their readers. Unfortunately, newspapers may be losing that battle to serve these different publics as we've seen the consolidation of urban dailies until there is only one paper left per major metropolis and most often, that paper per force aims somewhere in the middle -- no longer serving the expectations of the educated elites and no longer reaching out to the underclass at all. The new and more participatory forms of journalism do seem to reach some readers that newspapers have left behind, but are still niche products that don't touch the lives of most Americans.\nAnyway, I hope these somewhat rambling remarks are enough to get you interested in listening to the podcasts of these two events. 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The Democrats on the committee responded by saying the Republicans are the ones guilty of hypocrisy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://homebodyinmotion.com/los-angeles-home-remodel-while-pregnant/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:57Z", "digest": "sha1:M7JASM3ELV476ZKSGRYB7UHBOD65VWWW", "length": 6628, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "homebodyinmotion.com", "title": "In Which We Attempt a Los Angeles Home Remodel While Pregnant (Gulp!)", "raw_content": "In short, here\u2019s why.\nThrilled new first-time homeowners just about 20 months ago \u2014 how could we move just yet?\nWe love our house in pretty much every way: its deco 1930s Spanish flair (which to me is the quintessential L.A. residential look that melts me), its special curb appeal (sure, it\u2019s the smallest lot on the block in the back, but it has the widest frontage by far!), the secret tropical garden-like landscaping (more palm trees than fingers to count), the centrality of the location yet total intimacy and neighborliness of the tree-lined block \u2014 I could go on. But the one thing our house is not: large.\nWe have two bedrooms and one-and-a-half baths \u2014 with two babies on the way. When we found out I was expecting two, we sprung into action, investigating all available home-overhaul options. My sister the architect drew up plans for an extensive expansion, which would have added a new master suite and about 500 square feet. I targeted a couple of nearby and equally historic neighborhoods (for instance Hancock Park) with excellent public schools, and scoured open houses (newsflash: L.A.\u2019s not exactly on sale right now). And at the same time we pursued bids for a scaled-down remodel plan that could serve as a stop-gap measure for the next couple or few years (five max) until we wait for the right market and make an unemotional move without time pressure. (And perhaps in the meanwhile, the guy building the multi-million-dollar mansion directly across the street from us will sell, which will be another boon for our property value \u2014 as much as all the neighbors resent his modern eye sore.)\nIn the end, the last option was the right one for us. We\u2019ve only been in this house for less than two years, and we\u2019re just too in love with it to say goodbye just yet. Plus (knock on every piece of wood available), we bought a short sale at what seems like rock bottom, and we know we have huge room to improve without over-investing in our very-hot-right-now neighborhood. And in addition, we can put in some custom upgrades just right for our fam.\nBless your heart, original 1936 bathroom. It\u2019s time to move on.\nFirst, we\u2019ll be demo-ing and completely remodeling our existing full bathroom. (Yes, if you\u2019re keeping count, that\u2019s our only full bathroom, and the reason why we have to move out during construction.) It has the original purple deco tiling in the same vein as all these deco-period homes in the area. (And famously, when we first came to look at this house from the outside and I spied that bathroom through the window, I thought it was so auspicious \u2014 as purple is hubby\u2019s company color \u2014 and one of so many reasons it was house-love at first sight.) But it also has old plumbing and \u2014 well, old everything. We\u2019ll be remodeling in a black-and-white tiled style in keeping with the vintage aesthetic, but with all modern comforts. And, I hope, with a kind of a vintage lover\u2019s wow factor.\nSecond, we\u2019ll be converting our garage into a fully finished addition we can use as a cozy home office space, with French doors leading out into the garden, and a new tiled patio in front of our new, ahem, casita (formerly known as the garage, also known as pitifully unorganized storage) for entertaining.\nAfter researching the hell out of officially permitting a garage conversion, we came to the conclusion that it basically just wasn\u2019t possible for reasons I won\u2019t bore you with, dear readers (but anyone who\u2019s ever tried to get a building permit in Los Angeles will understand). So we intend to do it in such a way that could easily be converted back and made passable for an inspector (as a very fancy place to park a car).\nAt first, I was opposed to a garage conversion idea, which I considered would have questionable ROI potential \u2014 but later it struck me as an absolutely perfect custom feature for a working mom whose office is in the house. This way, I can be just far enough from kids and a caregiver (15 feet away, behind two closed doors) to reasonably expect to do quality work as a writer and editor (without moving into Starbucks), but close enough to be fully available and accessible too.\nOur cute little dining room, emphasis on the \u201clittle.\u201d If we demo a seemingly purposeless wall, we would make room for our dining table\u2019s second leaf and two more chairs, which currently live in the garage.\nBeyond that, we\u2019re hoping to demo a wall in our small dining room to expand the room\u2019s size and functionality, and we\u2019re planning to move our junior-size washer/dryer combo out of the kitchen into a back room so accommodate full-size new machines \u2014 a necessity for two newborns, I\u2019d think. We\u2019ll also finish that back room \u2014 a 1970s addition to the house that always looked sort of tacked-on to me \u2014 with tons of hanging closet space and shelving as a combo dressing room and laundry room, with new hardwood flooring and a mirror reflecting the garden.\nSo! All of that is why I\u2019ll be taking my two cats and their accoutrements, my small collection of mostly jersey maternity clothes, and my best attempt at good humor and relaxed temper to my parents\u2019 and in-laws\u2019 houses over the next many weeks. Let\u2019s call it an adventure, shall we? (Please?)\nHomeHome ImprovementHomeownershipLos AngelespregnancyRemodeling\n[\u2026] you know by now, I\u2019m in the middle of a house remodel that has necessitated our move out of our house \u2014 and in with parents and in-laws. As [\u2026]\n[\u2026] running out of time, she says from a lanai in Hawaii!) \u2014 and of course, being generally booted out of our house while we remodel (just FOUR DAYS to go, but who\u2019s counting?). But it\u2019s my very talented sister who is [\u2026]\n[\u2026] be had in the world! Beyond that, we couldn\u2019t even be peacefully nesting in our house while in the midst of a dusty, disruptive remodel anyway. And everyone knows that baby names are best chosen over a mid-air brainstorm, jotted on [\u2026]\nReply\tBig Island Hawaii Babymoon Part Deux: Black Sand, Volcanoes, and Waterfalls May 1, 2014 at 8:41 pm\n[\u2026] Big Island Coffee for our families (a fair trade for their two months of hospitality during our remodel displacement, no?), and some other non-food gifts for folks back home. If only we were in the position to buy [\u2026]\nReply\t1930s Bathroom Remodel Before and After! June 4, 2014 at 12:13 am\n[\u2026] out of our house, living with parents and in-laws and traveling out of town every single weekend, our bathroom remodel finally wrapped up and allowed us to move back in earlier this month. And by then, home felt more [\u2026]\n[\u2026] solution (after considering other options like buying a new house, for instance) was to go for a detached garage office conversion. At first, [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 8904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hometownnational.com/basictour.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UYFYWZ3NFCMRAF7UBDBOIU4TOCBILTMB", "length": 221, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "hometownnational.com", "title": "Family Air Tours | Ketchikan AK | Basic Misty Fjords Tour", "raw_content": "BASIC TOUR\nSame great scenery, just not so much of it. Limitations include not getting out onto the shore. Tour lasts 75 min. with a landing in one of the fjords.\nThis tour is comparable to the one you buy from the ships.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://howellschools.com/arts___music/high_school/visual_arts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:53Z", "digest": "sha1:LU3GZG7NQYIDRJLEUJ4GYI5DUXYHVJ7C", "length": 1055, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "howellschools.com", "title": "Visual Arts - Howell Public Schools", "raw_content": "Howell Public Schools \u00bb Arts & Music \u00bb High School \u00bb Visual Arts\nHigh school students can elect art classes in drawing and painting, studio art, photography, 3D design, digital imaging, digital video, and graphic design.\nFor students pursuing a career in Graphic Design and Visual Communication, an intensive class builds skills in high demand in online retailing, computer graphics, entertainment, photography, and digital and print publications. Students solve design problems from concept to completion using the latest industry-standard software programs such as Adobe Illustrator\u00a9 and Adobe Photoshop.\u00a9\nThroughout the year, students build their portfolios and prepare works for design competitions. Recent award-winning designs include a \"Distracted Driving\" billboard for State Farm Insurance/Michigan State Police and poster art for the North American International Auto Show. Student work has also appeared around Howell for the Downtown Development District, Howell District Library, Howell Dragon Run, and the Rotary Club's \"Tour de Livingston.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 563, "original_length": 14376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 260.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://humanitus.org/news/2013/11/cambodia-tourism-children-%E2%80%9Cfor-rent%E2%80%9D-by-the-hour/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:42Z", "digest": "sha1:CNUGETSNJOPGTPY77L55MBYPSUGHVFGK", "length": 3583, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "humanitus.org", "title": "Cambodia tourism: Children \u201cfor rent\u201d by the hour?", "raw_content": "For developed countries, the issue of exploitation of the vulnerable (such as women and children) is likely to fly under the radar than developing countries. Prostitution and \u201cvoluntourism\u201d are synonymous with developing countries as a result of economic disparity. While they certainly exist in First World countries, they are not means to an end which is exactly what they are in Third World countries. Well and good, if exploitation does not come to play.\nBut, it has been recently revealed that, at least in the practice of voluntourism, certain governments and their culprits have found a way to make money off of innocent children who are involuntary taken from their families to front as orphans in the booming business that is called orphanage voluntourism.\nTake for instance, Cambodia Tourism. Its meteoric rise since 2005 has seen a 75 percent increase in its number of orphanages, its foreign arrivals skyrocket to 250 percent in the same period. A mere happenstance? Not likely. Orphanages in Cambodia contributed to the country\u2019s rise in tourism as these so-called \u201corphanages\u201d directly funded by foreign volunteers and their money. Cambodia has had an unfavorable treatment of children historically. Robbed of their innocence when they were either killed or became child soldiers during the Khmer Rouge regime, and more recently, sold as prostitutes in Phnom Penh brothels. Now this.\nAccording to Forbes\u2019 report, of the millions tourists who will pass through Cambodia this year, many aren\u2019t aware that children in its orphanages still have living parents. These so-called orphans are, in fact, not orphans but have been recruited by the centers with promises to parents for \u201cbetter education and care.\u201d\nTo understand the situation, it is necessary to study the construct upon how such scenario takes place in the first place, let alone thrive. In Cambodia\u2019s case, the proliferation of \u201corphanages\u201d for monetary gain is simply the consequence of conniving entrepreneurs parading as \u201cphilantrophist\u201d with the backing of a government that is also directly benefitting from such a \u201cbusiness model.\u201d\nAs one reader responding to my initial article (found here: http://www.eturbonews.com/39220/orphanage-voluntourism-responsible-touri...) on this issue puts it: \u201cIt has happened mainly because of the corrupt Ministry of Social Affairs, found even to be corrupt by the government's own anti-corruption unit! No action taken against minister or senior staff, and UK donor money via charities still goes to provide services that it should.\u201d\nSpeaking on the condition of anonymity, this eTN reader added: \u201cI first came across one \"orphanage\" in 2003 where the children freely admitted to me that they were not orphans. My suspicions were aroused first by armed policeman on the gates. I asked the owner, \u201cWhy is that, is it right for children to have to be guarded?\u2019 She explained that the land was given to her by the prime minister in order to vacate a city center plot, etc. Next to the \u2018orphanage,\u2019 she was building her own salubrious villa 'that is not for me, it will be left for the children.\u2019\u201d\nAccording to my source, this \"Australian citizen\" is \u201cwonderful at pulling heart-strings, and has amassed a fortune for her orphanages. They even have a luxury coach to go with their SUVs.\u201d Why is she so significant? Simply put, her so-called \"orphanage home\" paved the way for what is now clearly a thriving \u201cbusiness model.\u201d Who is she? Stay tuned!\nBy: Nelson Alcantara, eTN editor-in-chief\nhttp://humanitus.org/news/2013/11/cambodia-tourism-children-\u201cfor-rent\u201d-by-the-hour/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 6558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Solar/solwin.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RYIB2E3QGQFAUSNWGWN7MYCQDPHHGVOY", "length": 2633, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu", "title": "The Solar Wind", "raw_content": "The sun gradually loses mass in the form of high speed protons and electrons leaking away from the sun's out layers. This flux of particles is called the solar wind. It can be thought of as a kind of \"evaporation\" of particles from the corona. The corona reaches a temperature of about a million Kelvin at a distance of 10,000 km above the photoshpere. Such a hot gas would have a thermal energy of about 130 electron volts, and the mean speed for hydrogen nuclei in such a gas if viewed as having a Maxwellian speed distribution is about 145 km/s. The escape velocity from the surface of the sun is about 618 km/s, so those hydrogen atoms with average speed would not escape. Considering the nature of the speed distribution would show that there will be a few with speed above the escape velocity. Chaisson & McMillan characterize the mass loss as being about a million tons of solar matter per second. They note that at this rate, less than 0.1% of the Sun has been lost through this mechanism in its 4.6 billion year lifetime.\nIf a planet has a magnetic field, it will interact with the solar wind to deflect the charged particles and form an elongated cavity in the solar wind. This cavity is called the magnetosphere of the planet.\nIn the vicinity of the earth, the particles of the solar wind are traveling about 400 km/s. They are slowed by the interaction with the earth to produce a bow shaped shock wave around the earth.\nInside a boundary called the magnetopause, the earth's magnetic field is dominant over the effects of the solar wind. The small fraction of the charged particles which do leak through the magnetopause are trapped in two large doughnut-shaped rings called the Van Allen radiation belts.\nThe solar wind was first detected directly by the spacecraft Mariner 2. It has been studied in more detail by the SOHO satellite.\nThe earth satellite Explorer 1 carried a Geiger counter which detected bands of radiating particles surrounding the earth. James Van Allen headed the team of scientists who investigated these bands, and they were named the Van Allen belts. One motivation for naming the belts after Van Allen was that he was the one who insisted that the satellite carry a Geiger counter for particle detection. The two huge doughnut-shaped rings contain charged particles collected from the solar wind. The inner Van Allen belt extends over altitudes from about 2000 to 5000 kilometers and contains mainly protons. The outer Van Allen belt is about 6000 kilometers thick centered at about 16000 km from the earth. It contains mostly electrons. The outer belt was discovered by the Pioneer spacecraft.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 206.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ice-age-ahead-iaa.ca/novels/book_12.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:07Z", "digest": "sha1:63CJHKBCWJM4T6JKAUVGVQMJJKAKJRYX", "length": 1084, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ice-age-ahead-iaa.ca", "title": "The Infinite Nature of Man, by Rolf A. F. Witzsche", "raw_content": "The Infinite Nature of Man\n\"Woman is the highest term for man.\"\nMary Baker Eddy, (1884)\nIn metaphor the term \"woman\" represents the spiritual identity of our humanity, the highest identity of the human being. This spiritual sense of the term takes us beyond the sexual identity, to the realm of the divine, the divine idea reflected in our being. It takes us into the 4th dimension, of Spirit. Here is where our humanity is anchored. We have developed ourselves into a species of life that has no equal in the world, with capabilities of reason, discovery, and understanding that far surpass all other species. We have begun to discover truth, and to develop ourselves with it towards a future that is truly anchored in infinity. That 's what the book is designed to explore: the image of mankind that is described in ancient Scriptures as \"a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars,\" the stars in the crown of our rejoicing. (Revelation 12:1)\nThis book presented here is Volume 6A, of the research series, Discovering Infinity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50008696.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:QDSDC33T4EHK633GNNCLUXOPMGS64SQH", "length": 1464, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "id.loc.gov", "title": "Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873 - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress", "raw_content": "Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873\nOrganization: American Missionary Association\nOrganization: New York State Anti-Slavery Society\nOrganization: American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society\nOrganization: Amistad (Schooner)\nOrganization: Mercantile Agency (New York, N.Y.)\nfound: His A side-light on Anglo-American relations, 1839-1858 ... 1927.\nfound: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Scrapbooks, 1847-1860(Tappan, Lewis, 1788-1873; abolitionist)\nfound: English Wikipedia website, viewed May 25, 2011(Lewis Tappan (1788-1873) was a New York abolitionist who worked to achieve the freedom of the illegally enslaved Africans of the Amistad. Contacted by Connecticut abolitionists soon after the Amistad arrived in port, Tappan focused extensively on the captive Africans. 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The series later won the award for \"Outstanding Directing ...\nStars: Armand Assante, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Lee, Eric Roberts, Geraldine Chaplin, Greta Scacchi, Irene Papas, Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabb\u00e9, Vanessa Williams\nThe history of the Jackson family and the early and successful years of the Motown group The Jackson 5.\nDirector: Jermaine Jackson\nStars: Alex Burrall, Angela Bassett, Billy Dee Williams, Bumper Robinson, Floyd Roger Myers Jr., Holly Robinson Peete, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Margaret Avery, Monica Calhoun, Vanessa Williams\nStars: Angela Perez Baraquio, Deidre Downs, Ericka Dunlap, Gretchen Carlson, Jennifer Berry, Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, Kimberly Clarice Aiken, Leanza Cornett, Suzette Charles, Vanessa Williams", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 364, "original_length": 11974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ideaoftheday.com/Blog/article.aspx?p=714", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:53Z", "digest": "sha1:ST2UVKSD23GBDDNKYY7RQZTGNPTEATC7", "length": 1018, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ideaoftheday.com", "title": "Sometimes \"Complex Passwords\" Can Be Dangerous - Idea of the Day - A new idea each day. Some Don't Suck!", "raw_content": "My problem isn't with those kinds of sites. I have a big problem with sites that don't hold private information that ask you for a Strong Password, and here's why.\nLet's say you want to post a comment on an obscure Sponge Bob or Pac-Man blog, and the blog owner requires you to use a \"Strong Password\" that contains at least 6 characters, at least one capital letter, and a number. Because it's hard to remember a complex password like that, there's a pretty good chance a lot of the members will use the same Strong Password for that site as they do for some of their other, more secure websites.\nWhen you use a Strong Password for an obscure site, the site owner may try to use the password you gave them to try to access your other accounts.\nIt comes down to a matter of trust. While it's perfectly okay to use the same Secure Password for multiple accounts from trusted companies, you need to think twice before using that password on a less trusted site, or that site owner could turn out to be an identity thief.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 945, "original_length": 16537, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://idei.fr/conferences/2009-international-conference-monetary-policy-current-crisis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:SAWAQ5RR2Z5RX5HO3BEIFMSJXZ4GNE6Y", "length": 343, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "idei.fr", "title": "International Conference \"Monetary Policy in the Current Crisis\" | IDEI", "raw_content": "International Conference \"Monetary Policy in the Current Crisis\"\nParis, France: Banque de France, March 20, 2009\nOrganized by Laurent Clerc (Banque de France), Patrick Pintus (Universit\u00e9 Aix-Marseille), and Franck Portier (TSE).\nInternational Conference \"Monetary Policy in the Current Crisis\", Paris, France: Banque de France, March 20, 2009.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 757, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 173.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://iiedu.in/?fn=secretary-message", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IDGB3I7WGCEP6M3MKBLN57WCP5L6HXV4", "length": 783, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "iiedu.in", "title": "Secretary Message of IIET", "raw_content": "You are here : Secretary Message\nThe history of development, across the globe, amply demonstrates that education is the key condition for economic, social and political development. Education is the liberating force which gives freedom to human beings from the tyranny of ignorance, poverty and disempowerment.\nReview of successful initiatives at human and social development in developing countries, establishes a direct relationship between education and efforts at improving delivery of education and primary health care services and poverty alleviation at the household level.\nIIET is indeed an excellent opportunity for students to acquire professional expertise in technical education and play an active role in social and economic development of our nation.\nMrs. Krishna Rathi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 2922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 172.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://in5d.com/global-unity-project-what-the-world-needs-right-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:39Z", "digest": "sha1:6NF6GOPPWLHJPFVXODWCSIU6LPS2GORJ", "length": 11964, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "in5d.com", "title": "Global Unity Project: What The World Needs Right Now - In5D : In5D", "raw_content": "Global Unity Project: What The World Needs Right Now\nBy\tIn5D\ton\tNovember 6, 2017\tin\tAwareness, Enlightening Articles, Spiritual Awakening\nWhat the world needs right now is less government and more leaders working in the best interests of humanity.\nMany people fear a \u201cNew World Order\u201d or a \u201cOne World Order\u201d but if something like this was implemented in the right way, it could be the best idea ever!\nUnfortunately, we have come to associate a New World Order, or a One World Order, as something that represents tyranny and oppression when it could actually represent a new age of peace, abundance and prosperity for everyone.\nThe biggest problem on this planet is government. If you trace the etymology of government, it means to control the mind. From Latinised Greek gubernatio \u201cmanagement, government\u201d, from Ancient Greek \u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03b9\u03c3\u03bc\u03cc\u03c2, \u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03ad\u03c1\u03bd\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2 (kybernismos, kybernesis) \u201csteering, pilotage, guiding\u201d, from \u03ba\u03c5\u03b2\u03b5\u03c1\u03bd\u03ac\u03c9 (kybernao) \u201cto steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot\u201d plus Latin mente \u201cmind\u201d.\nIn the United States, it seems like everything the government tried to runs inevitably fails. Look no further than the Post Office or the takeover of General Motors.\nSo, the word \u201cgovernment\u201d would be eliminated while the actual principle behind government would be replaced with a tribunal or council of elders representing all races and ethnicities who would work solely in the best interests of humanity. There would no longer be any 2 or 4 year term limits. We could vote on them every month if we wanted to. These elders will be 100% transparent and accountable each and every month. The minute they stop working in humanity\u2019s best interests, they\u2019re fired. Plain and simple.\nWith the elimination of government, all patents (both public and suppressed) would be released which would instantly transform this world into a new paradigm and would make the days we\u2019re currently living in seem like the Stone Age.\nAccording to Dr. Leonard Caldwell, there are over 300 cures for cancer but most doctors are required by law to use surgery, radiation or chemotherapy before any proven holistic measures such as the Rife Machine, THC Oil, etc.. This is but one small example of how beneficial technology and ideas have been suppressed from us, all in the interests of money, greed and eugenics.\nIn 1893, Nikola Tesla powered the Chicago World\u2019s Fair on free energy. His financier, J.P. Morgan asked Tesla how he could charge people for this energy. Tesla stated it was free energy that could not be regulated. From that point forward, Morgan suppressed this idea because Morgan believed that \u201cHe who controls the energy, controls the power.\u201d As we know, Morgan was one of the founding fathers of the world\u2019s biggest Ponzi scheme, the Federal Reserve.\nIn 1987, Stanley Meyer invented a car that could go from coast to coast in the United States on 22 gallons of water. It could be any water: saltwater, lake water, tap water, compressed snow, etc\u2026 Meyer was offered $1 billion from the automotive industry but turned it down because he wanted this invention to go out to the people. Shortly afterwards, he was poisoned to death.\nSince the end of the 1800\u2019s, we should have had free electricity. Since the 1980\u2019s we could have been using water powered cars. Are you beginning to see the picture?\nCurrent companies and corporations would be re-educated to provide new services that benefit humanity and will be transparent and accountable for their actions. For example, Monsanto would immediately halt the production of their GMO\u2019s but could start working on the genetic modification of fruits and vegetables that would be beneficial to society. For example, they could splice the gene of a North Atlantic Salmon with a tomato so people could grow tomatoes in cold environments but there would not be anything detrimental in this product such as pesticides that cause tumors in laboratory animals.\nAnother example would be General Electric, who could start producing free energy systems.\nA common argument is that many people would lose their jobs due to new technologies. The people in the horse and buggy business thought the same thing when the car was introduced. New inventions will actually create new jobs.\nFor example, the last thing that Big Pharma cured was polio and they realized that there is no money in providing a cure for anything. Essentially, Big Pharma places a bandaid over our illnesses and diseases through perpetual maintenance versus finding a cure. From this point forward, Big Pharma will focus on cures instead of temporary bandages that support their industry through lifelong medications.\nA new breed of doctors will emerge who place holistic treatment ahead of anything else. In time, the Big Pharma doctor will either need to learn holistic medicine or will be phased out of existence. Of course, there are some things that cannot be cured and need maintenance through Big Pharma, but instead of using holistic treatment as a last resort, it will become the primary option.\nMost laws would be reduced to Universal Laws where as long as you\u2019re not harming yourself or others, you are free to do as you please. There probably should be a few sub-laws, such as speed limits in neighborhoods where there are families, but generally, all laws are based on respect for one another. Our police officers would once again become \u201cPeace Officers\u201d and their main job would no longer be enforcing Maritime Code, but supporting peace. Similar to the council of elders, the Peace Officers will be held accountable for their actions and can be immediately replaced by someone who is willing to work in the best interests of humanity.\nViolators of any laws would be placed in a re-educational facility and would receive education on how to assimilate into this new society. Additionally, they would also provide free labor in producing new technologies that would benefit everyone, including themselves upon release.\nA common language among all people should be implemented so we are able to communicate with one another across the world. This doesn\u2019t mean that it will be the only language, but it will be the language that everyone can understand and comprehend.\nThrough the Venus Project, it has been proven that everyone can live in abundance and prosperity without the need for money so money will be phased out as we no longer are economic slaves and are able to pursue our true, divine reasons for being here. In time, most people will develop hobbies and interests that will help to support this new economy but it all starts without the need for individual gain or financial superiority over anyone else.\nAll new ideas will immediately become open source where if someone else has a better way or a modification of what you invented or created, then that idea is free for anyone to use, implement or recreate into something better.\nAs evidenced through the numerous cases of pedophilia, corruption and crimes against humanity, the Roman Catholic Church would be dissolved and their net worth would be distributed throughout the world, creating instant abundance for everyone. The Roman Catholic Church has enough net worth to feed, clothe and shelter everyone on this planet, so one must ask themselves, \u201cWhy is there starvation and homelessness?\u201d Just like all governments, the Roman Catholic Church is more into subservience, control and conformity than it is honoring the word of their texts.\nIn the ideal world, all religious texts would boil down to four words, \u201cLove everyone. Respect everything.\u201d\nIn any country that uses the premise of Social Security numbers, each number is traded daily on the New York Stock Exchange. According to some researchers, every American\u2019s social security number is worth anywhere between $3 to $7 million dollars. This money could also be used to create instant abundance for everyone, globally, which would help as we transition out of money into the Venus Project.\nOur educational system would be tailored to each child\u2019s strengths and needs versus clumping all children into one educational format. For example, an extrovert might excel more in a class where they\u2019re learning about public speaking while the introvert might excel more in philosophy and the arts. A Montessori setting (a system of education for young children that seeks to develop natural interests and activities rather than use formal teaching methods) might be more applicable where the children\u2019s classroom would be outside, in nature. Innate abilities, such as clairvoyance, would not be ridiculed, but would be encouraged as we are all born with unique gifts and abilities.\nWe should also teach holistic remedies and cures for illnesses. For example, Big Pharma recommends heartburn medications such as Rolaids, Tums or Pepcid AC. Innately, when you have heartburn, your body is telling you that your acid levels are too high and that you need to boost your alkalines, but Big Pharma is telling you that you can continue to eat unhealthy food because they have a pill that will resolve this issue. We\u2019re not being taught how to listen to our bodies or how to resolve these issues without the need for Big Pharma.\nA complete revision of history needs to be rewritten, not by the winner who always seems to record history, but from every perspective without propaganda. Additionally, the origins of mankind need to be reconsidered as there is evidence of mankind on Earth for many tens of thousands of years as evidenced by researchers such as Michael Cremo and Graham Hancock.\nThe way we view television will be completely revised. Imagine watching the 6 o\u2019clock news and feeling good afterwards? The newscasters would report all of the positive things that are going on in this world instead of reinforcing fear and negativity. If there were any commercials, they would be for ideas or products that benefit humanity versus selling us crap that we don\u2019t need or something that is designed to be made under the premise of controlled obsolescence, which forces us to buy the newer version every couple years.\nThe current paradigm thrives on the \u201cdivide and conquer\u201d premise which prevents us from coming together as a global society. Before anything, we all need to put aside any and all differences to unite because once the bottom of the pyramid unites, the rest will collapse.\nOne thing that will need to be determined and defined is what the \u201cbest interests of humanity\u201d would be.\nOther things needed to be discussed would be ways to disarm and eliminate nuclear weapons and nuclear waste, the irrigation and purification of our water supply, new methods of cleaning up our environment, sustainable living through eco-friendly homes as well as the optimal ways to grow food.\nI am sure there are many other ideas that would help make this world a better place for all of us, but this gives us a good starting point.\nI\u2019m just a simple guy with a few ideas on how to fix what is broken. Any ideas from this point forward should all be open source, where there are no patents or individual intellectual ownership. We all need to work in the best interests of humanity and not for our own materialistic interests because the path that we are heading is completely unsustainable.\nAs David Icke says, \u201cThe few control the many.\u201d We are the \u201cmany\u201d and we have the numbers to make this happen right now!\nLike the Hopi said, \u201cWe are the ones we have been waiting for\u201d.\nWe are also the light at the end of the tunnel.\nWhat the world needs right now is for everyone to come together in a common cause.\nWhat ideas do you have? Comment below. Let\u2019s work on this together!\nTags: Big Pharma, cancer, council of elders, David Icke, Global Unity Project: What The World Needs Right Now, GMO, gmo's, government, Graham Hancock, gregg prescott, hopi, HUMANITY, J.P. Morgan, Leonard Caldwell, Michael Cremo, Monsanto, NEW WORLD ORDER, Nikola Tesla, ONE WORLD ORDER, Roman Catholic Church, Stanley Meyer, Tesla, Venus Project, water powered car", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 21420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inchatatime.blogspot.com/2015/07/breaking-news-from-western-louisiana.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2EL4G25QJURNZAIIF4AA35YJJL45347M", "length": 1493, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "inchatatime.blogspot.com", "title": "An Inch At A Time: Reflections on the Journey: Breaking News from Western Louisiana", "raw_content": "Yes, I'm still \"recovering\" from General Convention. No, I have not had time to either read or write everything about it I [a] want to and [b] plan to -- having launched directly back into everything I was going to worry about AFTER Salt Lake City in the arguably swirling vortex that is All Saints Church, Pasadena.\nHOWEVER ... this update from the Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana just came across my FB feed and I had to take a time-out to post it here. So here you go -- The Episcopal Diocese of Western Louisiana on Marriage Equality. (And no -- I honestly did not think I'd live long enough to see this. \u202a#\u200eSeriously\u202c)\n\"The canon we passed contains the provision that no clergy person can be coerced to preside at a same-sex marriage. At the same time, the new canon requires that each bishop make some provision for access to these liturgies for couples seeking them.\nThe congregations that already have permission to make use of the previous trial liturgies have permission to use the newly authorized ones. So, as a diocese we are in compliance with canon law, and no additional congregations are required to make use of these liturgies.\nWe do not all agree. Living together amid our differences is our vocation. We are one in our belief in the risen Christ and in the Triune God. On these two doctrines we do not and cannot waver. However, there are matters\u2014weighty matters\u2014on which we can disagree while retaining our unity.\"\nAnd now, back to my regularly scheduled Wednesday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 12283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://infogalactic.com/info/Acadia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:34Z", "digest": "sha1:6DQH2VCDDTOQ6Y372IO2PPNC7WFEUUGF", "length": 33565, "nlines": 125, "source_domain": "infogalactic.com", "title": "Acadia - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core", "raw_content": "\"L'Acadie\" redirects here. For the Canadian wine grape, see L'Acadie blanc.\n\"L'Acadie\" redirects here. For the Quebec town, see L'Acadie, Quebec.\nCapital principally Port-Royal\nAcadia (French: Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine to the Kennebec River.[1] During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, Norridgewock on the Kennebec River and Castine at the end of the Penobscot River were the southern-most settlements of Acadia.[2] The actual specification by the French government for the territory refers to lands bordering the Atlantic coast, roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels. Later, the territory was divided into the British colonies which became Canadian provinces and American states. The population of Acadia included members of the Wabanaki Confederacy and descendants of emigrants from France (i.e., Acadians). The two communities inter-married, which resulted in a significant portion of the population of Acadia being M\u00e9tis.\nThe first capital of Acadia, established in 1605, was Port-Royal. A British force from Virginia attacked and burned down the town in 1613 but it was later rebuilt nearby, where it remained the longest serving capital of French Acadia until the British conquest of Acadia in 1710.[3] Over seventy-four years there were six colonial wars, in which English and later British interests tried to capture Acadia starting with King William's War in 1689. During these wars, along with some French troops from Quebec, some Acadians, the Wabanaki Confederacy, and French priests continuously raided New England settlements along the border in Maine. While Acadia was officially conquered in 1710 during Queen Anne's War, present-day New Brunswick and much of Maine remained contested territory. Present-day Prince Edward Island (\u00cele Saint-Jean) and Cape Breton (\u00cele Royale) as agreed under Article XIII of the Treaty of Utrecht remained under French control.[4] By militarily defeating the Wabanaki Confederacy and the French priests, present-day Maine fell during Father Rale's War. During King George's War, France and New France made significant attempts to regain mainland Nova Scotia. After Father Le Loutre's War, present-day New Brunswick fell to the British. Finally, during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War), both \u00cele Royale and \u00cele Saint-Jean fell to the British in 1758.\nToday, Acadia is used to refer to regions of North America that are historically associated with the lands, descendants, and/or culture of the former French region. It particularly refers to regions of The Maritimes with French roots, language, and culture, primarily in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands and Prince Edward Island, as well as in Maine.[5] It can also be used to refer to the Acadian diaspora in southern Louisiana, a region also referred to as Acadiana. In the abstract, Acadia refers to the existence of a French culture in any of these regions.\nPeople living in Acadia, and sometimes former residents and their descendants, are called Acadians, also later known as Cajuns after resettlement in Louisiana.\nThe border between Acadia and New England, as claimed by the French, was the Kennebec River, seen here on a map of modern Maine\nThe origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who on his 16th century map applied the ancient Greek name \"Arcadia\" to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia (note the inclusion of the 'r' of the original Greek name). \"Arcadia\" derives from the Arcadia district in Greece which since Classical antiquity had the extended meanings of \"refuge\" or \"idyllic place\". The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: \"Arcadia, the name Verrazzano gave to Maryland or Virginia 'on account of the beauty of the trees,' made its first cartographical appearance in the 1548 Gastaldo map and is the only name on that map to survive in Canadian usage.\" In 1603 a colony south of the St. Lawrence between the 40th and 46th parallels was agreed by Henry IV who recognised the territory as \"La Cadie\".[6] Also in the 17th century Champlain fixed its present orthography with the 'r' omitted. William Francis Ganong, a cartographer, has shown its gradual progress northeastwards, in a succession of maps, to its resting place in the Atlantic Provinces of Canada.\nAnother interesting note is the similarity in the pronunciation of Acadie and the M\u00edkmaw\u00edsimk suffix -akadie, which means \"a place of abundance.\" The modern usage is still seen in place names such as Shunacadie (meaning: place of abundant cranberries) or Shubenacadie (meaning: place of abundant wild potatoes). It is thought that intercultural conversation between early French traders and Mi'kmaq hunters may have resulted in the name l'Arcadie being changed to l'Acadie.[7]\nMain articles: Military history of the Mi\u2019kmaq People and Military history of the Acadians\nThe history of Acadia was significantly influenced by the warfare that took place on its soil during the 17th and 18th century.[8] Prior to that time period, the Mi\u2019kmaq lived in Acadia for centuries. The French arrived in 1604, and Catholic Mi\u2019kmaq and Acadians were the predominant populations in the colony for the next 150 years.\nEarly European colonists, who would later become known as Acadians, were French subjects primarily from the Pleumartin to Poitiers in the Vienne d\u00e9partement of west-central France. The first French settlement was established by Pierre Dugua Des Monts, Governor of Acadia, under the authority of King Henry IV, on Saint Croix Island in 1604. The following year, the settlement was moved across the Bay of Fundy to Port Royal after a difficult winter on the island and deaths from scurvy. In 1607 the colony received bad news: King Henry had revoked Sieur de Monts' royal fur monopoly, citing that the income was insufficient to justify supplying the colony further. Thus recalled, the last of the Acadians left Port Royal in August 1607. Their allies, the native Mi'kmaq nation, kept careful watch over their possessions, though. When the former Lieutenant Governor, Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just, returned in 1610, he found Port Royal just as it was left.[9]\nA number of years later, Acadia was plunged into what some historians have described as a civil war between 1640 \u2013 1645. The war was between Port Royal, where Governor of Acadia Charles de Menou d'Aulnay de Charnisay was stationed, and present-day Saint John, New Brunswick, where Governor of Acadia Charles de Saint-\u00c9tienne de la Tour was stationed.[10] In the war, there were four major battles. D'Aulnay ultimately won the war against La Tour.\nDuring the first 80 years the French and Acadians were in Acadia, there were ten significant battles as the English, Scottish, Dutch and French fought for possession of the colony. These battles happened at Port Royal, Saint John,[11] Cap de Sable (present-day Port La Tour, Nova Scotia), Jemseg, Castine and Baleine.\nDuring the next seventy four years, there were six colonial wars that took place in Nova Scotia and Acadia (see the French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War). These wars were fought between New England and New France and their respective native allies before the British defeated the French in North America (1763). After the British Conquest of Acadia in 1710, mainland Nova Scotia was under the control of British colonial government, but both present-day New Brunswick and virtually all of present-day Maine remained contested territory between New England and New France.\nThe war was fought on two fronts: the southern border of Acadia, which New France defined as the Kennebec River in southern Maine.[12] The other front was in Nova Scotia and involved preventing the British from taking the capital of Acadia, Port Royal (See Queen Anne's War), establishing themselves at Canso (See Father Rale's War) and founding Halifax (see Father Le Loutre's War).\nDuring King Philip's War, the governor was absent from Acadia (having first been imprisoned in Boston during the Dutch occupation of Acadia) and Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin was established at the capital of Acadia, Pentgouet. From there he worked with the Abanaki of Acadia to raid British settlements migrating over the border of Acadia. British retaliation included attacking deep into Acadia in the Battle off Port La Tour (1677).\nWabanaki Confederacy\nIn response to King Philip's War in New England, the native peoples in Acadia joined the Wabanaki Confederacy to form a political and military alliance with New France.[13] The Confederacy remained significant military allies to New France through six wars. Until the final war \u2013 the French and Indian War- the Wabanaki Confederacy remained the dominant military force in the region.\nThere were tensions on the border between New England and Acadia, which New France defined as the Kennebec River in southern Maine.[14] English settlers from Massachusetts (whose charter included the Maine area) had expanded their settlements into Acadia. To secure New France's claim to Acadia, it established Catholic missions (churches) among the four largest native villages in the region: one on the Kennebec River (Norridgewock); one further north on the Penobscot River (Penobscot), one on the Saint John River (Medoctec).[15][16] and one at Shubenacadie (Saint Anne's Mission).[17]\nDuring King William's War, some Acadians, the Wabanaki Confederacy and the French Priests participated in defending Acadia at its border with New England, which New France defined as the Kennebec River in southern Maine.[1] Toward this end, the members of the Wabanaki Confederacy on the Saint John River and other places, joined the New France expedition against present-day Bristol, Maine (the Siege of Pemaquid (1689)), Salmon Falls and present-day Portland, Maine.\nDuring Queen Anne's War, some Acadians, the Wabanaki Confederacy and the French Priests participated again in defending Acadia at its border against New England. They made numerous raids on New England settlements along the border in the Northeast Coast Campaign and the famous Raid on Deerfield. In retaliation, Major Benjamin Church went on his fifth and final expedition to Acadia. He raided present-day Castine, Maine and then continued on by conducting raids against Grand Pre, Pisiquid and Chignecto. A few years later, defeated in the Siege of Pemaquid (1696), Captain March made an unsuccessful siege on the Capital of Acadia, Port Royal (1707). British forces were successful with the Siege of Port Royal (1710), while the Wabanaki Conferacy were successful in the nearby Battle of Bloody Creek in 1711 and continued raids along the Maine frontier.[18]\nThe 1710 conquest of Acadia during Queen Anne's War was confirmed by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713.[19] The British conceded to the French \"the island called Cape Breton, as also all others, both in the mouth of the river of St. Lawrence, and in the gulph of the same name\", and \"all manner of liberty to fortify any place or places there.\" The French established a fortress at Louisbourg, Cape Breton, to guard the sea approaches to Quebec.\nDuring the escalation that preceded Dummer's War (1722\u20131725), some Acadians, the Wabanaki Confederacy and the French priests persisted in defending Acadia, which had been conceded to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht, at its border against New England. Mi'kmaq raided the new fort at Canso, Nova Scotia (1720). The Confederacy made numerous raids on New England settlements along the border into New England. Towards the end of January 1722, Governor Samuel Shute chose to launch a punitive expedition against S\u00e9bastien Rale, a Jesuit missionary, at Norridgewock.[23] This breach of the border of Acadia, which had at any rate been ceded to the British, drew all of the tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy into the conflict.\nUnder potential siege by the Confederacy, in May 1722, Lieutenant Governor John Doucett took 22 Mi'kmaq hostage at Annapolis Royal to prevent the capital from being attacked.[24] In July 1722 the Abenaki and Mi'kmaq created a blockade of Annapolis Royal, with the intent of starving the capital.[25] The natives captured 18 fishing vessels and prisoners from present-day Yarmouth to Canso. They also seized prisoners and vessels from the Bay of Fundy.\nAs a result of the escalating conflict, Massachusetts Governor Samuel Shute officially declared war on 22 July 1722.[26] The first battle of Father Rale's War happened in the Nova Scotia theatre.[27] In response to the blockade of Annapolis Royal, at the end of July 1722, New England launched a campaign to end the blockade and retrieve over 86 New England prisoners taken by the natives. One of these operations resulted in the Battle at Jeddore.[28] The next was a raid on Canso in 1723.[29] Then in July 1724 a group of sixty Mikmaq and Maliseets raided Annapolis Royal.[30]\nDuc d'Anville Expedition: Action between HMS Nottingham and the Mars.\nKing George's War began when the war declarations from Europe reached the French fortress at Louisbourg first, on May 3, 1744, and the forces there wasted little time in beginning hostilities. Concerned about their overland supply lines to Quebec, they first raided the British fishing port of Canso on May 23, and then organized an attack on Annapolis Royal, then the capital of Nova Scotia. However, French forces were delayed in departing Louisbourg, and their Mi'kmaq and Maliseet allies decided to attack on their own in early July. Annapolis had received news of the war declaration, and was somewhat prepared when the Indians began besieging Fort Anne. Lacking heavy weapons, the Indians withdrew after a few days. Then, in mid-August, a larger French force arrived before Fort Anne, but was also unable to mount an effective attack or siege against the garrison, which had received supplies and reinforcements from Massachusetts. In 1745, British colonial forces conducted the Siege of Port Toulouse (St. Peter's) and then captured Fortress Louisbourg after a siege of six weeks. France launched a major expedition to recover Acadia in 1746. Beset by storms, disease, and finally the death of its commander, the Duc d'Anville, it returned to France in tatters without reaching its objective. French officer Jean-Baptiste Nicolas Roch de Ramezay also arrived from Quebec and conducted the Battle at Port-la-Joye on \u00cele Saint-Jean and the Battle of Grand Pr\u00e9.\nFather Le Loutre's War (1749\u20131755)\nDespite the British conquest of Acadia in 1710, Nova Scotia remained primarily occupied by Catholic Acadians and Mi'kmaq. To prevent the establishment of Protestant settlements in the region, Mi'kmaq raided the early British settlements of present-day Shelburne (1715) and Canso (1720). A generation later, Father Le Loutre's War began when Edward Cornwallis arrived to establish Halifax with 13 transports on 21 June 1749.[31] The British quickly began to build other settlements. To guard against Mi'kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, they erected fortifications in Halifax (Citadel Hill) (1749), Dartmouth (1750), Bedford (Fort Sackville) (1751), Lunenburg (1753) and Lawrencetown (1754).[32] There were numerous Mi'kmaq and Acadian raids on these villages such as the Raid on Dartmouth (1751).\nSt. John River Campaign: Raid on Grimrose (present day Gagetown, New Brunswick). This is the only contemporaneous image of the Expulsion of the Acadians\nIn the years after the British conquest, the Acadians refused to swear unconditional oaths of allegiance to the British crown. During this time period some Acadians participated in militia operations against the British and maintained vital supply lines to Fortress Louisbourg and Fort Beausejour.[33] During the French and Indian War, the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting them.[34]\nThis process began in 1755, after the British captured Fort Beaus\u00e9jour and began the expulsion of the Acadians with the Bay of Fundy Campaign. Between six and seven thousand Acadians were expelled from Nova Scotia[35] to the lower British American colonies.[36] Some Acadians eluded capture by fleeing deep into the wilderness or into French-controlled Canada. The Quebec town of L'Acadie (now a sector of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu) was founded by expelled Acadians.[37] After the Siege of Louisbourg (1758), a second wave of the expulsion began with the St. John River Campaign, Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign and the \u00cele Saint-Jean Campaign.\nSiege of Louisbourg (1758).\nAny pretense that France might maintain or regain control over the remnants of Acadia came to an end with the fall of Montreal in 1760 and the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which permanently ceded almost all of eastern New France to Britain. After 1764, many exiled Acadians finally settled in Louisiana, which had been transferred by France to Spain at the end of the French and Indian War. The name Acadian was corrupted to Cajun, which was first used as a pejorative term until its later mainstream acceptance. Britain eventually moderated its policies and allowed Acadians to return to Nova Scotia.\nNotable military figures of Acadia\nBaron de St. Castin \u2013 Castine's War\nThe Acadians implemented village self-rule.[41] Even after Canada had given up its elected spokesmen, the Acadians continued to demand a say in their own government, as late as 1706 petitioning the monarchy to allow them to elect spokesmen each year by a plurality of voices. In a sign of his indifference to the colony, Louis XV agreed to their demand.[42] This representative assembly was a direct offshoot of a government system that developed out of the seigneurial and church parish imported from the Old World. The seigneurial system was a \"set of legal regimes and practices pertaining to local landholding, politics, economics, and jurisprudence.\" [43] It should be noted that many of the French Governors of Acadia prior to Hector d'Andign\u00e9 de Grandfontaine held seigneuries in Acadia. As Seigneur, in addition to the power held as Governor, they held the right to grant land, collect their seigneurial rents, and act in judgement over disputes within their domain.[43] After Acadia came under direct Royal rule under Grandfontaine the Seigneurs continued to fulfill governance roles. The Acadian seignuerial system came to an end when the British Crown bought the seigneurial rights in the 1730s. The Catholic parish system along with the accompanying parish priest also aided in the development Acadian self-government. Priests, given their respected position, often assisted the community in representation with the civil government located at Port Royal/Annapolis Royal. Within each parish the Acadians used the elected \u201cmarguilliers\u201d (wardens) of the \u201cconseil de fabrique\u201d to administer more than just the churches' affairs in the Parishes. The Acadians extended this system to see to the administrative needs of the community in general. The Acadians protected this structure from the priests and were \u201cNo mere subordinates to clerical authority, wardens were \u201calways suspicious of any interference by the priests\u201d in the life of the rural parish, an institution which was, ..., largely a creation of the inhabitants.\u201d[43] During the British regime many of the Deputies were drawn from this marguillier group.\nGovernance under the British after 1710\nAfter a 1692 visit, Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, described the Acadian men as \"'well-built, of good height, and they would be accepted without difficulty as soldiers in a guards' regiment. [They are] well-proportioned and their hair is usually blond. [They are] robust, and will endure great fatigue; [they] are fine subjects of the king, passionately loving the French of Europe'\".[49] It is interesting to note that Charles Morris describes the Acadians as being \"...tall and well proportioned, they delight much in wearing long hair, they are of dark complexion, in general, and somewhat of the mixture of Indians; but there are some of a light complexion. They retain the language and customs of their neighbours the French, with a mixed affectation of the native Indians, and imitate them in their haunting and wild tones in their merriment; they are naturally full cheer and merry, subtle, speak and promise fair...\"[50] Most Acadians were illiterate, and many of the records, including notarial deeds, were destroyed or scattered during the Great Expulsion. For a time, Port Royal did have schools, but these were closed when the British excluded Roman Catholic religious orders from operating in Acadia.[49] Despite their nominal faith, Acadians often worked on Sundays and religious holidays.[49]\nMost of the immigrants to Acadia were peasants in Europe, making them social equals in the New World. The colony had limited economic support or cultural contacts with France, leaving a \"social vacuum\" that allowed \"individual talents and industry ... [to supplant] inherited social position as the measure of a man's worth.\"[55] Acadians lived as social equals, with the elderly and priests considered slightly superior.[42] Unlike the French colonists in Canada and the early English colonies in Plymouth and Jamestown, Acadians maintained an extended kinship system,[55] and the large extended families assisted in building homes and barns, as well as cultivating and harvesting crops.[56] They also relied on interfamily cooperation to accomplish community goals, such as building dikes to reclaim tidal marshes.[57]\nMost Acadian households were self-sufficient,[63] with families engaged in subsistence farming only for a few years while they established their farms.[64] Very rapidly the Acadians established productive farms that yielded surplus crops that allowed them to trade with both Boston and Louisbourg.[65] Farms tended to remain small plots of land worked by individual families rather than slave labor.[66] The highly productive dyked marshlands and cleared uplands produced an abundance of fodder that supported significant production of cows, sheep and pigs. Farmers grew various grains: wheat, oats, barley, hops and rye; vegetables: peas, cabbage, turnips, onions, carrots, chives, shallots, asparagus, parsnips and beets; fruit: apples, pears, cherries, plums, raspberry and white strawberry.[67] In addition they grew crops of hemp and flax for the production of cloth, rope, etc.[43][68][69] From the rivers, estuaries and seas they harvested shad, smelts, gaspereau, cod, salmon, bass, etc., utilizing fish traps in the rivers, weirs in the inter-tidal zone and from the sea with lines and nets from their boats. The fishery was pursued on a commercial basis as in 1715 at the Minas Basin settlements, when the Acadian population there numbered only in the hundreds, they had \u201cbetween 30 - 40 sail of vessels, built by themselves, which they employ in fishing\u201d reported Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Caulfield to the Board of Trade.[70] Charles Morris observed the Acadians at Minas hunting beluga whales.[71] The Acadians also varied their diets by hunting for moose, hare, ducks and geese, and pigeon.[43]\nNova Scotia portal\n\u2191 1.0 1.1 William Williamson. The history of the state of Maine. Vol. 2. 1832. p. 27; p. 266 (La Corne declares such to Lawrence in 1750); p. 293\n\u2191 Griffiths, E. From Migrant to Acadian. McGill-Queen's University Press. 2005. p.61; John Reid. International Region of the Northeast. In Buckner, Campbell, and Frank (eds). The Acadiensis Reader: Volume One: Atlantic Canada Before Confederation. 1998. p. 40; Villebon, p. 121\n\u2191 For the 144 years prior to the founding of Halifax (1749), Port Royal/ Annapolis Royal was the capital of Acadia 112 of those years (78% of the time). The other locations that served as the Capital of Acadia are: LaHave, Nova Scotia (1632\u20131636 ); present day Castine, Maine (1670\u20131674); Beaubassin (1678\u20131684); Jemseg, New Brunswick(1690\u20131691); present day Fredericton, New Brunswick (1691\u20131694), and present day Saint John, New Brunswick (1695\u20131699). (See Brenda Dunn. Port Royal/ Annapolis Royal. 2004. Nimbus Publishing)\n\u2191 Chalmers, George. A collection of treaties between Great Britain and other powers. 1985. http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/utrecht1a.pdf\n\u2191 Beaujot 1998, p. 79\n\u2191 Lescarbot, Marc (1928). Nova Francia, A Description of Arcadia, 1606. p. 1. \n\u2191 Faragher, John Mack (2006-02-17). A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland (Kindle Edition Location 176-181). \n\u2191 Reid, John G. (1998), \"An International Region of the Northeast: Rise and Decline, 1635\u20131762\", in Buckner; Campbell; Frank, The Acadiensis Reader: Volume 1 (third ed.), p. 31 \n\u2191 Faragher, John Mack (2005). A Great and Noble Scheme. W.W. Norton & Co., New York. pp. 17\u201319. ISBN 0-393-05135-8\n\u2191 M. A. MacDonald, Fortune & La Tour: The civil war in Acadia, Toronto: Methuen. 1983\n\u2191 Until 1784, New Brunswick was considered part of Nova Scotia.\n\u2191 William Williamson 1832. p. 27\n\u2191 \"Wabanaki\". Wabanaki. August 21, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-10. \n\u2191 \"Meductic Indian Village / Fort Meductic National Historic Site of Canada\". Parks Canada. Retrieved December 20, 2011. \n\u2191 \"Mission Sainte-Anne; Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia\". Northeastarch.com. Retrieved 2012-09-15. \n\u2191 \"Drake. The Border Wars of New England. pp. 264\u2013266\". Archive.org. Retrieved 2012-09-10. \n\u2191 See Article 12 of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Great Britain and France\n\u2191 Arthur G. Doughty, The Acadian Exiles. A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline, Toronto, Glasgow, Brook & Company, 1916, pp. 28-46.\n\u2191 novascotia.ca: Acadian Heartland - Records of the Deportation and Le Grand D\u00e9rangement, 1714-1768, footnote pp.263-267\n\u2191 doucetfamily.org: \"Our Acadian Heritage - Oath Of Allegiance Becomes Sticking Point With Acadians\"\n\u2191 \"Rale, S\u00e9bastien\". Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. Biographi.ca. October 18, 2007. Retrieved 2012-09-10. \n\u2191 Grenier, p. 56\n\u2191 Beamish Murdoch. History of Nova Scotia or Acadia, p. 399\n\u2191 A history of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie, Volume 1, by Beamish Murdoch, p. 398\n\u2191 The Nova Scotia theatre of the Dummer War is named the \"Mi'kmaq-Maliseet War\" by John Grenier. The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia 1710\u20131760. University of Oklahoma Press. 2008.\n\u2191 Beamish Murdoch. A history of Nova-Scotia, or Acadie, Volume 1, p. 399; Geoffery Plank, An Unsettled Conquest, p. 78\n\u2191 Benjamin Church, p. 289; John Grenier, p. 62\n\u2191 Faragher, John Mack, A Great and Noble Scheme New York; W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. pp. 164\u2013165; Brenda Dunn, p. 123\n\u2191 The framework Father Le Loutre's War is developed by John Grenier in his books The Far Reaches of Empire. War in Nova Scotia, 1710\u20131760. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008) and The first way of war: American war making on the frontier, 1607\u20131814 (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He outlines his rationale for naming these conflicts as Father Le Loutre's War; Thomas Beamish Akins. History of Halifax, Brookhouse Press. 1895. (2002 edition). p 7\n\u2191 32.0 32.1 John Grenier. The Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia, 1710\u20131760. Oklahoma University Press.\n\u2191 John Grenier, Far Reaches of Empire: War in Nova Scotia 1710\u20131760. Oklahoma University Press. 2008\n\u2191 Stephen E. Patterson. \"Indian-White Relations in Nova Scotia, 1749\u201361: A Study in Political Interaction.\" Buckner, P, Campbell, G. and Frank, D. (eds). The Acadiensis Reader Vol 1: Atlantic Canada Before Confederation. 1998. pp.105\u2013106.; Also see Stephen Patterson, Colonial Wars and Aboriginal Peoples, p. 144.\n\u2191 Mouhot, Jean-Francois (2009) Les R\u00e9fugi\u00e9s Acadiens en France (1758\u20131785): L'Impossible r\u00e9int\u00e9gration?, Editions du Septentrion, Qu\u00e9bec, 456p. ISBN 2-89448-513-1\n\u2191 Lacoursi\u00e8re, Jacques (1995). Histoire populaire du Qu\u00e9bec, Tome 1, des origines \u00e0 1791. \u00c9ditions du Septentrion, Qu\u00e9bec. p. 270. ISBN 2-89448-050-4; see also John Mack Faragher (2005). A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland, New York: W.W. Norton, 562 pages ISBN 0-393-05135-8 (online excerpt).\n\u2191 Ville de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu history Archived October 5, 2011 at the Wayback Machine\n\u2191 John Grenier. War in Nova Scotia. 2008.\n\u2191 39.0 39.1 39.2 39.3 39.4 39.5 39.6 Moogk 2000, p. 7\n\u2191 Moogk 2000, p. 9\n\u2191 Moogk 2000, p. 176\n\u2191 42.0 42.1 Moogk 2000, p. 175\n\u2191 43.0 43.1 43.2 43.3 43.4 Jonathan Fowler: The Neutral French of Mi\u2019kma\u2019ki: An Archaeology of Acadian Identities Prior to 1755. University of Oxford, 2009.\n\u2191 44.0 44.1 44.2 Brasseaux (1987), p. 8. Cite error: Invalid tag; name \"brass8\" defined multiple times with different content\n\u2191 MacMechan, Archibald, ed. Nova Scotia Archives II, A Calendar of Two Letter-Books and One Commission-Book in the Possession of the Government of Nova Scotia, 1713\u20131741. Herald Printing House, Halifax, NS. 1900. p. 59.\n\u2191 McMechan, NS Archives II, p. 190.\n\u2191 Morris, Charles. A Brief Survey of Nova Scotia. Retrieved from the National Archives of Canada. Lent by: The Royal Artillery Regimental Library, Woolwich, UK.\n\u2191 49.0 49.1 49.2 49.3 Moogk 2000, p. 174\n\u2191 Charles Morris. A Brief Survey of Nova Scotia. Lent by: - The Royal Artillery Regimental Library, Woolwich.\n\u2191 51.0 51.1 Moogk 2000, p. 92\n\u2191 Stephen White. Patronymes Acadiens/Acadian Family Names. Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 du Monument Lefebvre, Moncton, 1992.\n\u2191 Moogk 2000, p. 18\n\u2191 Blupete http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Lescarbot.htm\n\u2191 55.0 55.1 Brasseaux 1987, p. 3\n\u2191 56.0 56.1 Brasseaux 1987, p. 11\n\u2191 Bona Arsenault, Histoire des Acadiens, \u00c9ditions Lem\u00e9ac, p 114\n\u2191 Brasseaux 1987, p. 10\n\u2191 Brasseaux 1987, p. 9\n\u2191 Jonathan Fowler. The Neutral French of Mi'kma'ki: An Archaeology of Acadian Identities Prior to 1755. University of Oxford, 2009. Fowler's analysis of census records and other primary documents reveal that most farms by 1686 were producing in livestock alone, on a per capita basis, twice as much as was needed for their own consumption. This does not include food crops and the animals harvested from the natural environment.\n\u2191 John S. Erskine. The French Period in Nova Scotia. A.D. 1500-1758 And Present Remains a historical, archaeological, and botanical survey. Copyright John Erskine, Wolfville, 1975.\n\u2191 Andrew Hill Clark. Acadian - The Geography of Early Nova Scotia to 1760. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.\n\u2191 N.E.S. Griffiths. From Migrant to Acadian. - A North American Border People 1604-1755. McGill-Queens University Press, 2005.\n\u2191 Archibald MacMechan, Archibald (Ed.) Nova Scotia Archives II, A Calendar of Two Letter-Books and One Commission-Book in the Possession of the Government of Nova Scotia, 1713-1741. Herald Printing House, Halifax, NS. 1900\n\u2191 Charles Morris. A Brief Survey of Nova Scotia. Lent by \u2013 The Royal Artillery Library, Woolwich, UK.\nBeaujot, Roderic (1998), \"Demographic Considerations in Canadian Language Policy\", in Ricento, Thomas; Burnaby, Barbara, Language and Politics in the United States and Canada: Myths and Realities, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, ISBN 0-8058-2838-9 \nBrasseaux, Carl A. (1987), The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765\u20131803, Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 0-8071-1296-8 \nMoogk, Peter (2000), La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada\u2014A Cultural History, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, ISBN 0-87013-528-7 \nClark, Andrew Hill (1968), Acadia: The Geography of Early Nova Scotia to 1760, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0-299-05080-7 \nMagord, Andr\u00e9, The Quest for Autonomy in Acadia (Bruxelles etc., Peter Lang, 2008) (\u00c9tudes Canadiennes \u2013 Canadian Studies, 18).\nPlank, (2001), An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign against the Peoples of Acadia, University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN 0-8122-1869-8\nDean Jobb, ( 2005) The Acadians: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph. John Wiley & Sons, (published in the United States as The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph)\nPhilip Henry Smith (1884) Acadia: A lost chapter in American history Oxford University\nAcadia : missing links of a lost chapter in American history. Vol 1 (1895)\nAcadian Heritage Portal (French) \u2013 Acadian history, genealogy and folklore\nNational Society of Acadia (French)\nStar of Acadia\nColl\u00e8ge Acadie \u00ce.-P.-\u00c9.\nTopics of New France\nNorth-Western Territory\nRetrieved from \"https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Acadia&oldid=92434\"\nPre-Confederation New Brunswick\nPre-Confederation Nova Scotia\nHistory of Nova Scotia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 693, "original_length": 56551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 198.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://instituteforjedirealiststudies.org/library/41-jcon/183-knowledge-and-wisdom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NIPH3O2ZSRVN2TBROHGUWS63273VQGG7", "length": 2691, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "instituteforjedirealiststudies.org", "title": "Institute for Jedi Realist Studies - Knowledge and Wisdom", "raw_content": "I believe these two terms get mixed up very easily by some. Knowledge is the state or fact of knowing. Wisdom is the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting; insight. A good teacher or as this site uses guide, needs to have both to be successful. For someone to just relay knowledge is just passing on facts. There is no skill to that at all. You can just go on the web find an article and then do a write-up on it like you would in school and post it somewhere. Many people, if it's a really provocative post will be like WOW and so on. They begin to think that you are very wise and knowledgeable. I've seen this on many Jedi and non-Jedi related sites along with offline life. Just because you can pass on a set of facts really doesn't mean anything other then you know how to retain information and then explain that information to someone else. To be a successful teacher/guide you need to have that knowledge but then apply your wisdom to that knowledge. Wisdom comes from experiencing life. That is why you don\u2019t see 14 year olds as teachers in schools or anywhere else. Yes they might have the knowledge but being able to transform that knowledge takes wisdom. Combining that knowledge with wisdom though, they are not ready for that part in their life. You need to experience life to help you gain wisdom.\nWhen I was a Jr. in High School I was asked to private teach a 5th grade trumpet student. It was a great experience and I did have a lot of knowledge for my age on the trumpet but I just didn\u2019t have enough life experience to relay or even understand what I needed to do to really help, teach, and guide him. I am still experiencing life and gaining more wisdom through life experience but I know have a solid base to stand on and can teach, guide, and help my students very successfully. As the years pass by I will become more adept at it then I am now. I will have the same knowledge at that time as I do know since my area knowledge wise doesn\u2019t change much but I will have much more wisdom.\nWisdom is being able to discern what is right and true. Being able to tell fact from opinion, which can always be a difficult task but the more you experience the easier it becomes. That is part of a teachers/guide role. Not to show someone the difference between fact and fiction but is able to teach them how to tell the difference for themselves. As the saying goes, or at best I can remember \u201cGive a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and he can feed himself forever\u201d.\nLearn to discern between what knowledge is and what wisdom is and you might be surprised what you see in the people around you once you can make that distinction.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inuyasha.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Does_Kikyo_hate_Kagome", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:GBCDDLBXGX4V2FLZC7OGTHRCHDNZMKGK", "length": 1809, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "inuyasha.answers.wikia.com", "title": "Does Kikyo hate Kagome? | InuYasha Answers | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Answered questions, Kiky\u014d questions\nDoes Kikyo hate Kagome?\nA: At the time of her death, Kikyo's heart was filled with hatred towards Inuyasha, whom she thought had betrayed her. After being resurrected, and that too against her will, using Kagome's soul, Kikyo tries to kill Inuyasha again. But, the feelings she had for him long ago, lingers in her heart and she feels jealous when Kagome's closer to Inuyasha. This fades away as the series progresses (or Kikyo realizes what's going around her) but Kagome feels Kikyo holds a grudge against for being an \"imposter\" or something like that. So, I would say no.\nA2: Well; after Kikyo was resurrected from the dead, she felt bitterness of her death and feeling hatred towards Inuyasha, because she believes that he really betrayed her and killed her back 50 years ago. But, after learning that Naraku, an evil half demon who tricked them to hate and betrayed each other, her hatred for Inuyasha is gone and now on Naraku. And learning that, her reincarnation: Kagome Higurashi is now falling in love with Inuyasha, as Inuyasha is now falling more in love with Kagome. And they're spenting time together and becoming very closer with each other. At first, Kikyo was jealous and not very fond of Kagome, even she tried to kill her, but later learns to accept of Kagome taking her place in the living place (but Kagome won't never tried to replace Kikyo on purpose, she understands how Inuyasha and Kikyo feel for each other) and becoming Inuyasha's new lover. So, even feeling bit of jealous towards Kagome, Kikyo show to care about Kagome. Besides, when Kagome and Kikyo are in danger together, they team up and help each other. So, I say \"NO\", Kikyo doesn't hate Kagome.\nRetrieved from \"http://inuyasha.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Does_Kikyo_hate_Kagome?oldid=7044\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ipop.org.pk/initiatives/bridging-the-digital-divide/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:04Z", "digest": "sha1:FIDWT34RAHJZKFQ6ACYZCL2D3GQEOWVI", "length": 2122, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "ipop.org.pk", "title": "Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan | Close the Digital Gap", "raw_content": "Bridging the Digital Divide: Connecting the Unconnected\nThe importance of being connected and citizens\u2019 access to the information society, along with the social and economic benefits it brings with it, has been very well recognized and documented. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are arguably the most potent tools shaping the twenty-first century as they redefine the way human beings communicate, learn, work, and play. In essence, ICTs are re-defining how we live.\nAs a tool for human development and empowerment, ICTs have no equal. Their ability to enable inclusion and access to information, as well as to offer a vast array of opportunities across the social, economic, environmental, and political domains, make them strategic tools for individual, national, and global development. While the potential of ICT for stimulating economic growth, socioeconomic development and effective governance is well recognized, the benefits of ICT have been unevenly distributed within and between countries. This has created a digital divide in resources and capabilities to access and effectively utilize ICT for development that exist within and between countries, regions, sectors, and socio-economic groups. The digital divide is often characterized by low levels of access to technologies. Poverty, illiteracy, lack of computer literacy, and language barriers are among the factors impeding access to ICT infrastructure, especially in Pakistan.\nInternet Access Project in Balochistan\nThe following map provides an overview of the areas where Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan is involved in bridging the digital divide by providing ICT equipment, training and support to communities that are offline.\nTo bridge the digital divide (iPOP) depends upon the support of its donor which include Civil Society Organizations, Service Providers, Public Sector organizations and private sector enterprises who help by donating computers, communication euipments and financial support for our projects. If you would like to support us in any means i.e. financial, donations, volunteering do get in touch with us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 185.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irishmusiccentral.com/whippingboy/biography.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:03Z", "digest": "sha1:OYA37ZAXVT52MKFIDQGRXQH2OWDSUIDZ", "length": 10190, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "irishmusiccentral.com", "title": "\ufeff Irish Music Central - Whipping Boy - Biography", "raw_content": "It happens about as regularly as a sighting of Haley's Comet - a band of luminous distinction streaks away from the mediocre herd and, fuelled by a combination of 10-ton talent and ferocious self-belief, triumphs over impossible odds and heads straight for the stars.\nDublin four-piece Whipping Boy are just such a band.\nOriginally 'Lolita & The Whipping Boy' - which should give you some idea of their shit-stirring potential - the four dropped guitarist 'Lolita' when her God-bothering tendencies began to get them down. Besides, they could never fit the name on their posters. Disgusted with most of what they saw and heard around them, they torched the script of pop music success early on in their career and let their maverick music lead the way. It has guided them through troubled times - including a threatened ban from playing Dublin's Trinity College, stormy band relationships and accusations of misogyny - and the production of two EP's (for the now defunct indie label, Cheree) and one album (1992's 'Submarine' on the Dublin Liquid label).\nTheir debut album for Columbia, 'Heartworm' (certified Gold in Ireland), recorded at the end of 1994 with producer Warne Livesey, is Whipping Boy's most intense record to date, with the first single 'Twinkle', voted Single of the Week in Melody Maker, Hot Press, Music Week and on BBC Radio 1 and second single \"We don't Need Nobody Else\" garnering even more kudos as it powered into the UK Top 50. The album is a blend of heart-heaving emotionalism, visceral savagery and brutal sensuality that distills the single sublime moments of Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Bailterspace, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Bowie and a whole host of classical composers into violently personal mini-dramas. It's a brave big-hearted sound. Frontman Ferghal McKee describes \"Heartworm\" as \"full of tenderness, brute force, hate, triumph and humility. That's basically what most people find throughout their day,\" he reasons, \"throughout their week, throughout their lives. There's a time to be everything and a time to be nothing.\"\nFerghal is the vocal and spiritual link between Ian Curtis and Van Morrison, and it's his charismatic performances that quickly grabbed the attention of the press when the band first appeared. Ferghal has cut himself on stage before with broken bottles, appeared with his face swathed in clingfilm, sung from atop a ladder and stripped bollock-naked mid-song, but this isn't cynically calculated, cheap-thrills theatre, it's Ferghal's way of saying he has nothing to hide. He'd do the same in front of five people of five-thousand people, because Whipping Boy's songs take him over, pushing him to a darkly exhilarating special place.\nAs anybody who has witnessed the band's seminal performances on Later with Jools Holland, Taratatatar and the Late Late Show will know, these same Whipping Boy songs are very much a combined effort with guitarist Paul Page, bassist Myles McDonnell and drummer Colm Hassett supplying the sonic maelstrom that powers their songs. This is a band for whom anything and everything will happen.\nOctober 23rd, 1995 marked the release of the album, 'Heartworm' in the U.K. and Ireland, and it was hailed as one of the albums of last year in publications like Vox, Melody Maker, Q, Select, Hot Press and Music Week. Various singles nudged the U.K. Top 50 and several European countries (notably France) succumbed to the group's sound.\nWhipping Boy completed a European Tour with Lou Reed as well as headlining tours of their own in the UK, the last of which culminated in a sold-out show at London's Astoria venue. Despite huge critical acclaim, sales of Heartworm did not meet expectations and the band parted company with Sony in 1996. With the band beginning to disintegrate, they recorded their final album in 2000, literally splitting up on the final day of recording in acrimonious circumstances. The album was given a limited release in April 2001, but with little promotion, their final offering disappeared without trace.\n\"It used to be the practise in some cultures that the nobility could not be touched and when they committed a crime that warranted physical punishment it was delegated to an unfortunate victim - the whipping boy\".\nChapter One of their decade-long saga kicks off in Edenderry, County Offaly, where they played their first gig at a 21st birthday party. Back then, there had also been a fifth female member and they were known as Lolita and the Whipping Boy. Ironically, \u2018Lolita\u2019 became a born again Christian and was swiftly booted out when she attempted to convert the others. \u201cShe was coming to rehearsals with all this literature and leaving it lying around on the amplifiers and stuff. You\u2019d find it in your pocket when you got home. She had to be blasted out,\u201d bass player Myles McDonnell recalls with humour.\nThe release of their 1992 debut album, \u2018Submarine\u2019, on Cheree Records was followed by a lengthy stay in Limboland when Whipping Boy were \u201cjust lying around and not being used\u201d. Proceedings only began to solidify again when Columbia boss, Kip Kroner, witnessed a Whipping Boy gig in Dublin and was swept off his feet by the name. Love for the music instantly followed and not far behind was a two-album deal with the label. \u201cHe was one hundred and ten per cent behind us!\u201d guitarist Paul Page chirps. However, the disappointing response to their album, \u2018Heartworm\u2019, was proceeded by the departure of Kroner and the arrival of new staff who \u201cjust didn\u2019t like the music the way the other people did.\u201d Consequently, the band and label reached the decision to prematurely terminate the relationship. \u201cIt\u2019s like any other relationship,\u201d Paul offers philosophically, \u201cWhen it goes bad, there\u2019s no point in continuing.\u201d\nIt has now been over half a year since Whipping Boy re-entered Limboland, but they are determined that this time, it will be a flying visit. They realise that the bulk of the problem has been to do with how music has to be in fashion to succeed nowadays. \u201cWe toyed with the idea of writing an album full of complete crap because it seems as though that\u2019s what sells at the moment. Just like people sell square Hula Hoops, bands are selling cheekbones and fringes. No one\u2019s really listening to the music.\u201d Myles is half-heartedly attempting to account for the outrageous apathy to which \u2018Heartworm\u2019 was subjected. Poignantly tender and yet passionately open-hearted, with lyrics scratched out in brutal sincerity, \u2018Heartworm\u2019 was the raw but beautiful diamond which tragically slipped into oblivion. It was more ignored than rejected, merely for its timeless charm and uncanny beauty. But Myles is adamant that they would not have done it any other way. \u201c\u2019Heartworm\u2019 just didn\u2019t slot in with the Britpop of 1994. It was too emotional, but there\u2019s nothing wrong with that.\u201d\nThe most emotional moment on \u2018Heartworm\u2019 comes in the form of the fifth song, \u201cWe Don\u2019t Need Nobody Else\u201d, which indicates how, at its most heartfelt, music can be an incredibly sensual experience. Melancholic but exhilarating, it tears your heart apart whilst blowing kisses into your soul. Singer Ferghal McKee\u2019s quirky lyrical edge is fully apparent. \u201cWhy say words that I do not mean? They\u2019ll only serve to amuse, ridicule and destroy, and hardly ever to teach.\u201d Often, his lyrics will appear nonsensical but always there is an underlying universal message which will surface. There is a line in their song, \u201cTripped\u201d, which goes \u201cAccept your mind, and your body lives.\u201d Myles offers his interpretation. \u201cIt is all about accepting your limitations in life. Whipping Boy are never going to be The Beatles, nor are we going to be the Velvet Underground. We are what we are and we do it as well as we can. You can spend your whole life wanting to be something else or somebody else and you\u2019re never going to get there.\u201d\nSo are they confident for the future? Myles shrugs his shoulders but smiles. \u201cIf enough people had heard \u2018Heartworm\u2019, we could have been The Verve,\u201d he concedes without a hint of arrogance. \u201cBut it just didn\u2019t happen. It\u2019s nothing for us to worry about or to get bitter over. We\u2019re still here and it might yet happen.\u201d\nWhipping Boy split up in early 1998, but they got the money together to release their third, and final, album \"Whipping Boy\" in 2000.\nAfter a 6 year absence the band reformed in November 2005 to play a series of dates in Ireland.\nWhipping Boy in 2005:\nDublin four-piece Whipping Boy released three albums 1992's \"Submarine\" on the Dublin independent Liquid label; 1995's \"Heartworm\" on the Columbia label and their final self-titled album on Low Rent Records in 2001. Their debut album for Columbia, \"Heartworm\" (certified gold in Ireland), recorded at the end of 1994 with producer Warne Livesey featured first single \"Twinkle\" (voted Single of the Week in Melody Maker, Hot Press, Music Week and on BBC Radio 1) and a second single, \"We Don't Need Nobody Else\". The album is a blend of heart-heaving emotionalism, visceral savagery and brutal sensuality that distils the single sublime moments of Joy Division, Sonic Youth, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Bowie and a whole host of classical composers into violently personal mini-dramas. It's a brave big-hearted sound. Frontman Ferghal McKee described \"Heartworm\" as \"full of tenderness, brute force, hate, triumph and humility. That's basically what most people find throughout their day,\" he reasons, \"throughout their week, throughout their lives. There's a time to be everything and a time to be nothing.\"\nAs anybody who witnessed the band's seminal performances on Later With Jools Holland and The Late Late Show will know, these same Whipping Boy songs are very much a combined effort with guitarist Paul Page, bassist Myles McDonnell and drummer Colm Hassett supplying the sonic maelstrom that powers their songs. \"Heartworm\" was hailed as one of the albums of 1995 in publications like Vox, Melody Maker, Q, Select, Hot Press and Music Week. Various singles nudged the UK Top 50 and several European countries (notably France) succumbed to the group's sound.\nAfter a 6 year absence the band reformed in November 2005 to play a series of dates in Ireland. 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It is not a pure oasis like the other ones of Egypt, as most of its water comes from the Nile. But it is a depression, and it has its own artesian wells, allowing water to reach the surface from underground reservoirs. The extent of it is quite grand, and the green gardens seem to go on and on. Its villages are simple and far too often filthy, making a stark contrast to the gardens and the splended past. Fayoum's history goes back in time as far as Egypt's. Its earliest recorded name, in the time of the pyramid builders, was To-She. With the construction of irrigation canals in the 19th century BCE, the oasis became the most fertile region in Egypt. The 4th century BCE king Ptolemy 2 Philadelphus named it after his sister/wife Arsinoe, With the introduction of Roman control a few centuries later, a new taxation system ruined loca IWNTA - SIGHTSEEING - Visits near Cairo - Al Fayoum )", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jbhomer.com/itp_press-release-2011-04-19.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:42Z", "digest": "sha1:55MMHICIIYWXZYK7TRHZYQBCHIVAE43F", "length": 548, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jbhomer.com", "title": "JB Homer Associates Recruits New Managing Director Corporate Executive Board Company (CEB)", "raw_content": "JB Homer Associates Recruits New Managing Director for\nApril 19, 2011 - New York, NY - JB Homer Associates has recruited Donald Wiegner as the new Managing Director, Global Enterprise Technology Services for The Corporate Executive Board Company (CEB) in Arlington, VA. The Corporate Executive Board is a provider of business research and analysis services to more than 5,000 companies worldwide. Its 50-plus program areas cover \"best practices\" in such areas as finance, human resources, information technology, operations and sales and marketing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 180.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jcc.lu/-frantisek-vizner-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:25Z", "digest": "sha1:G3XHTXQXPG5F72NIGABSWXKEKUNMB7E4", "length": 1595, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jcc.lu", "title": "frantisek vizner - Galerie d'Art - Jean Claude Chapelotte \u00e0 Luxembourg", "raw_content": "A major Czech glass artist. Franti\u0161ek V\u00edzner (1936-2011) trained at the famous glassmaking schools in Nov\u00fd Bor and \u017delezn\u00fd Brod before completing his studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague. After graduating from the academy, he was first engaged as a glass designer at Sklo Union in Teplice and subsequently worked with hot-shaped art glass at the Centre of Arts and Crafts Glassworks in \u0160krdlovice. V\u00edzner left the Czechoslovak glass industry in 1975 to pursue a successful career as an independent artist, specialising in cut studio glass. Throughout his career, V\u00edzner worked towards creating harmonious geometric objects instilled with internal tension. While his pieces are based on the shapes of functional bowls and plates, we understand their pure and simple volumes better as non-functional, sculptural forms. These compact, timeless forms demonstrate Vizner\u2019s attention to proportion, admiration of glass material and, above all, high quality craftwork. No individual detail is allowed to interrupt the harmony and rationality of his objects. His work conceals passion, which he only gradually reveals. Vizner\u2019s extraordinary objects, with their clean, articulated lines and deep, luminous colours, continue to impress collectors around the world and are represented in the most prominent museum collections: Museum of Applied Art and Craft in Prague, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Mus\u00e9e des Arts d\u00e9coratifs in Paris, The Corning Museum of Glass and many others.\nreference: Sculpture Schale \" Blue\"\nreference: not available", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 2473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jeffreyjkripal.com/the-public-humanities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:06Z", "digest": "sha1:YLQQ55GQ7VSAYYWN5TU4QBZZGVB7XLRO", "length": 6553, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "jeffreyjkripal.com", "title": "The Public Humanities \u2013 Jeffrey J. Kripal, PhD", "raw_content": "The Public Humanitiesadmin2018-08-28T05:12:35+00:00\nI have become very concerned about the growing anti-intellectualism of American culture and, on the other side, the very real hunger of individuals and communities outside the academy to engage in nuanced conversations about \u201creligion.\u201d Much of my most recent work outside the trilogy project falls here. Toward this end, I have written a textbook on comparison for the classroom and for interested professionals. I have written two books with extreme experiencers in an effort to reach the broader publics interested in abduction and near-death experiences. I have written a little manifesto on the\nfuture of knowledge in an effort to put the sciences and the humanities in conversation. I have worked with filmmakers on different documentary films. And I have consistently engaged multiple publics, from various university and college communities on the academic lecture circuit, through professional journalists, to the blogosphere and various local Houston communities, including and especially the Jung Center of Houston. Each of these projects and publics are briefly described below.\nThis is a next-generation textbook that teaches the art and practice of comparison as a vital and necessary skill in our modern globalizing world. By acknowledging up front and then working with the very real spiritual, social, and emotional impact such a practice can have on individuals through a model \u201cinitiatory\u201d structure, the textbook provides the individual reader or classroom community that chooses to take up this practice with an effective map and a clear three-part process. The intent here, then, was to create a kind of \u201ctextbook initiation\u201d that could guide, inspire, and challenge those who wish to think seriously about religious pluralism in the modern world, from the new student coming to these materials for the first time to seasoned professionals who seek to engage the comparative method anew. Students, journalists, medical, legal, business, media, and military professionals, religious leaders, social workers and activists, psychotherapists, or the simply curious\u2014all of these were, and are, my intended conversation partners here.\nThe science-fiction writer and novelist Whitley Strieber and I wrote this book together. It is a conversation on the page (with alternating chapters) toward a particular suggestion or big idea, namely, that all kinds of \u201cimpossible\u201d things, from extra-dimensional beings to bilocation to bumps in the night, are not impossible at all. Rather, they are part of our natural world, a natural world that is immeasurably weirder, more wonderful, and probably more populated than we have so far imagined with our current categories and cultures, which are what really make these phenomena seem \u201cimpossible.\u201d Our natural world, it turns out, may well be a super natural world. For a full chapter essay on Whitley and his remarkable life and work, see also chapter 7 of Mutants and Mystics.\nThis book is about a near-death experience of a Jewish woman named Elizabeth Krohn, who was struck by lightning in the fall of 1988 and subsequently experienced both a life-changing near-death experience and an entire spectrum of real-world paranormal effects, from the seeing of auras and a haunted necklace to precognitive nightmares about plane crashes and earthquakes. Elizabeth and I met at a public event in the Houston Medical Center, where we were both speaking in the fall of 2015. We became friends and eventually decided to write a book together. Changed in a Flash is in two parts. In the first part, Elizabeth tells her story in her own words. In the second part, I employ the critical, comparative, and speculative tools of the history of religions to make some intellectual sense of her near-death experience and its paranormal aftermath, much of it kabbalistic in structure and origin.\nThis book is about the extraordinary experiences of scientists and medical professionals that \u201cflip\u201d them from a materialist worldview to one in which mind is fundamental, even cosmic in nature and scope. Fantastic stories pointing to the cosmic nature of consciousness are literally everywhere, from the global history of religions, through the modern near-death literature, to the popular cultural fascination with the paranormal. Scientists and medical professionals have tried to cordon these off by labeling them anecdotal or by declaring them hallucinatory or unscientific. But what happens when such epiphanies of mind happen to the scientists and doctors themselves? What happens when such professionals are \u201cflipped\u201d from a materialist worldview to one in which mind is fundamental, even cosmic in scope, nature, and intention? Welcome to The Flip.\nAt the time of this writing, I have been involved in four different documentary film projects. \u201cSupernature: Esalen and the Human Potential\u201d is a documentary series directed by Scott Jones based on my Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion. The first episode premiered at Esalen in April of 2018. \u201cAuthors of the Impossible,\u201d again directed by Scott, is a film based on my book of the same title. It is still in the early stages of design and production. \u201cLove & Saucers,\u201d directed by Brad Abrahams, is a charming and humane look at an alien abductee become painter David Huggins. \u201cWidowville,\u201d directed by Stephen Berkeley, looks at the lives of widows and, among other things, their dramatic encounters with their dead husbands.\nSELECT MEDIA PIECES AND PUBLICS\nNew York Times feature article by Mark Oppenheimer on Authors of the Impossible\nImmanent Frame interview with Nathan Schneider\nReal Clear Religion review of Authors of the Impossible by Rod Dreher\nMy 2012 TEDxHouston talk\nInterview 1 with Steve Paulson of \u201cTo the Best of Our Knowledge\u201d\nA 2014 on-line essay and media cycle on the future interface between the sciences and the humanities\nPart one of a 2014 radio show on Comparing Religions entitled \u201cA Case for Studying Religion\u201d\nPart two of a 2014 radio show on Comparing Religions entitled \u201cA Case for Studying Religion\u201d\nA 2017 multi-author radio show from \u201cBackstory\u201d on \u201cClose Encounters: UFOs in American History\u201d\nAn in-depth 2018 discussion of Secret Body with Houston\u2019s John Price for \u201cThe Sacred Speaks\u201d\nA Los Angeles Review of Books essay on Secret Body by Christine M. 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She writes well and manages to spice up the often dull process of sorting through expense reports to find the truth about the lives of those 800 years dead. Not an easy task! It's still rough reading. If you love meticulously researched biographies about interesting women then this book is for you. If your not sure check out a sample. Really, it's a hit or miss kind of thing.\nFor me it was a hit. I actually found myself just reading it for fun. Considering I got it to be the broccoli in my reading diet that was beyond awesome. I found myself glued to the tragedy of a smart women trying and failing to find independence in midevil England. For those of you who hate sadness she doesn't end up nearly as bad off as many of her contemporaries. Trying to learn about historical women is not for the faint of heart. Those we hear about where those who ran afoul of their culture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jhasio1.com/archive.aspx?id=44", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:13Z", "digest": "sha1:L67YSSPEVLP5TUPAGHSFSQORCGIH655S", "length": 10169, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "jhasio1.com", "title": "Log In to View Account |", "raw_content": "Advanced Studies in Contact Lens Care and Ocular Health\nTo provide ophthalmologists and optometrists with up-to-date information on the advancements in contact lens care and how best to maintain good ocular health.\nThis activity is designed for ophthalmologists and optometrists. No prerequisites required.\nDiscuss the epidemiology and current patterns of contact lens wear and care.\nIllustrate application of care options.\nAssess treatment strategies to address complications from contact lens wear.\nThe Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry take responsibility for the content, quality, and scientific integrity of this CE activity.\nThis activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry is accredited by the Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE). The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.\nCOPE Approval granted for some or all parts of this program.\nCOPE Course ID: 22211-CL.\nThis activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for 1 hour of continuing education credit by the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry. UAB accreditation begins 05/31/08. The term of approval is for 1 year from this date.\nThe estimated time to complete this educational activity: 1 hour.\nAfter reading this monograph, participants may receive credit by completing the CE test, evaluation, and receiving a score of 70% or higher.\nRelease date: May 31, 2008. Expiration date: May 31, 2009.\nThe opinions and recommendations expressed by faculty and other experts whose input is included in this program are their own. This enduring material is produced for educational purposes only. Use of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry names implies review of educational format, design, and approach. Please review the complete prescribing information of specific drugs or combinations of drugs, including indications, contraindications, warnings, and adverse effects, before administering pharmacologic therapy to patients.\nThis program is supported by an educational grant from Alcon Laboratories, Inc.\nFull Disclosure Policy Affecting CE Activities:\nAs a provider accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), it is the policy of The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to require the disclosure of the existence of any significant financial interest or any other relationship a faculty member or a sponsor has with the manufacturer(s) of any commercial product(s) discussed in an educational presentation. The Course Directors and Participating Faculty reported the following:\nRoy S. Chuck, MD, PhD\nTom Clancy Professor of Ophthalmology\nDirector of Refractive Surgery\n\u2022 Dr Chuck reports serving as a consultant for Advanced Medical Optics, Inc, Alcon Laboratories, Inc, Allergan, Inc, Ista, Vistakon, and WMR.\nElliott H. Myrowitz, OD, MPH\nChief of Optometric Services\nThe Wilmer Eye Institute at Green Spring Station\n\u2022 Dr Myrowitz reports serving on the speakers' bureau for Alcon Laboratories, Inc.\nCharlotte Joslin, OD, FAAO, PhD Candidate\n\u2022 Dr Joslin reports having no significant financial or advisory relationships with corporate organizations related to this activity.\nJason J. Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD\n\u2022 Dr Nichols reports serving as a consultant for Alcon Laboratories, Inc and Vistakon; receiving honoraria from Advanced Medical Optics, Inc, CIBA Vision, Inc, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, and Societa Industria Farmaceutica Italiana; and serving on the speakers' bureau for Allergan, Inc.\nRalph P. Stone, PhD\nR.P. Stone Consulting\n\u2022 Dr Stone reports serving as a consultant for Alcon Laboratories, Inc; and holding stock appreciation rights in Alcon Laboratories, Inc from previous employment (now retired).\nRoy S. Chuck, MD, PhD,* and Elliott H. Myrowitz, OD, MPH\nThis issue of Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology addresses several important aspects of contact lens wear and care with the eye care professional in mind. To meet the optometrist's need for current information and to underscore the important role of all eye care professionals in contact lens care and ocular health, this publication draws on the expertise of 3 optometrists, an ophthalmologist, and a chemist who is a consultant to the contact lens industry. This viewpoint is especially germane because, according to data from the American Optometric Association (AOA), optometrists provide more than 66% of primary eye care services in the United States1 and because more than 80% of the estimated 36 million Americans who wear contact lenses go to an optometrist for their eye care.1,2\nA good starting point is to review the demographics of contact lens wear in the United States and the different types of contact lenses that are approved for use. Data from the AOA indicate that approximately 87% of Americans who wear contact lenses wear soft hydrogel lenses; the remaining 13% wear rigid lenses with varying degrees of oxygen permeability.1 AOA statistics also indicate that most contact lens wearers are nearsighted, approximately 66% are female, 10% are aged 18 or younger, and 65% are between the ages of 18 and 44.2 Approximately 80% wear daily wear soft lenses, over 50% wear 1- to 2-week disposable lenses, and 15% wear extended-wear (up to 30 days) soft lenses.2\nAll contact lenses are medical devices that are regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and solutions used to clean and disinfect contact lenses are subject to US FDA regulation as well.3 The materials used to manufacture traditional soft hydrogel lenses are classified by the US FDA into 4 groups on the basis of their water content and whether they are ionic.1 Although the hydrogel materials are believed to exhibit the same chemical behavior, the oxygen permeability of traditional hydrogel materials across all groups increases with the water content.1\nSpecifically, hydrogel materials in group I have a low water content and are nonionic; those in group II are also nonionic, but have a high water content. Materials in groups III and IV are ionic, with those in group III having a low water content and those in group IV having a high water content.\nSilicone hydrogel lenses, which are made of silicone to enhance oxygen permeability and traditional hydrogel materials to enhance comfort, represent a newer class of hydrogel lenses.1,3 These lenses can be worn on a daily basis and some continuously for up to 30 days.3 They account for nearly 50% of all new lens fittings, particularly for overnight and extended wear,3,4 and are an alternative to laser surgery to correct refractive errors.3\nIn addition, some contact lens manufacturers have introduced a second generation of silicone hydrogel lenses offering enhanced comfort in dry environments, such as airplane cabins and air-conditioned offices.3\nWith the increasing use of soft and silicone hydrogel lenses in mind, Jason J. Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD, reviews the key functions of lens care solutions and explains how these functions are interrelated. He discusses the importance of lens comfort, the role of the tear film in protein and lipid deposition, and the efficacy of multipurpose and hydrogen peroxide solutions in cleaning and disinfection. He also addresses the importance of compliance with lens care regimens.\nIn contrast, Charlotte Joslin, OD, FAAO, PhD Candidate, focuses on microbial keratitis, the lens-related complication of greatest concern to patients and eye care professionals. She explains the role of a stable tear film and the corneal epithelium as a barrier against infection, identifies risk factors for corneal staining, and reviews findings from reports of microbial keratitis outbreaks that were associated with 2 specific lens care solutions that have since been taken off the market. She also addresses the critical role of compliance with lens care regimens in preventing infection.\nAn expert question and answer session devoted to contact lens-related issues that eye care professionals frequently encounter in clinical practice provides some additional insights on lens care and ocular health.\nThe material presented in this issue of Johns Hopkins Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology provides ophthalmologists and optometrists with a deeper understanding of contact lenses and lens care solutions, in addition to strategies to prevent infection and other complications associated with contact lenses. This information, when integrated into patient counseling directed at enhancing compliance with lens care regimens, should result in increased patient comfort and fewer lens-related complications.\n1. Optometric Clinical Practice Guideline. American Optometric Association. 2nd ed. 2006. Available at: http://aoa.org. Accessed March 26, 2008.\n2. Facts and Stats. American Optometric Association Web site. Available at: http://aoa.org/x5231.xml. Accessed March 9, 2008.\n3. Contact Lens Council Web site. Available at: http://www. mycontactlenses.org. Accessed March 15, 2008.\n4. Key JE. Development of contact lenses and their worldwide use. Eye Contact Lens. 2007;33:343-345.\n*Tom Clancy Professor of Ophthalmology, Director of Refractive Surgery, The Wilmer Eye Institute, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland.\nAssistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Chief of Optometric Services, The Wilmer Eye Institute at Green Spring Station, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Lutherville, Maryland.\nAddress correspondence to: Elliott H. Myrowitz, OD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Chief of Optometric Services, The Wilmer Eye Institute at Green Spring Station, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, 10753 Falls Road, Suite 455, Lutherville, MD 21093.\nE-mail: emyrowitz@jhmi.edu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 12019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jimhewitt.weebly.com/home/archives/12-2012", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YEQCDFRDPUUTF67KJLSLNSO7PUXLB6QU", "length": 123, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jimhewitt.weebly.com", "title": "Blog Archives", "raw_content": "We are tentatively scheduled to play the 22nd Annual Great Cover up in Champaign on Saturday January 19! More info to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnbrichardslaw.com/santa-barbara-news-when-a-tenant-finds-mold-in-his-rental-unit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:38Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZNOVVEGICG65C33GTOFWXJMBIOCZGLT", "length": 3183, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "johnbrichardslaw.com", "title": "Santa Barbara News - When a tenant finds mold in his rental unit", "raw_content": "Be An Informed Tenant\nSource: California Consumer Affairs\nAccording to California law, if a tenant finds that his rental unit has been contaminated by mold, the implied warranty of habitability law applies. The information cited below can be found on the address listed above.\nAn authoritative reference book suggests two additional ways in which the implied warranty of habitability may be violated. The first is the presence of mold conditions in the rental unit that affect the livability of the unit or the health and safety of tenants. The second follows from a new law that imposes obligations on a property owner who is notified by a local health officer that the property is contaminated by methamphetamine. (See When You Have Decided to Rent, Methamphetamine Contamination.) This reference book suggests that a tenant who is damaged by this kind of documented contamination may be able to claim a breach of the implied warranty of habitability.\nLimitations on landlord\u2019s duty to keep the rental unit habitable\nEven if a rental unit is unlivable because of one of the conditions listed above, a landlord may not be legally required to repair the condition if the tenant has not fulfilled the tenant\u2019s own responsibilities.\nIn addition to generally requiring a tenant to take reasonable care of the rental unit and common areas (see above), the law lists specific things that a tenant must do to keep the rental unit liveable.\nTenants must do all of the following\nKeep the premises \u201cas clean and sanitary as the condition of the premises permits.\u201d\nUse and operate gas, electrical, and plumbing fixtures properly. (Examples of improper use include overloading electrical outlets; flushing large, foreign objects down the toilet; and allowing any gas, electrical, or plumbing fixture to become filthy.)\nDispose of trash and garbage in a clean and sanitary manner.\nNot destroy, damage, or deface the premises, or allow anyone else to do so.\nNot remove any part of the structure, dwelling unit, facilities, equipment, or appurtenances, or allow anyone else to do so.\nUse the premises as a place to live, and use the rooms for their intended purposes. For example, the bedroom must be used as a bedroom, and not as a kitchen.\nNotify the landlord when dead bolt locks and window locks or security devices don\u2019t operate properly.\nHowever, a landlord may agree in writing to clean the rental unit and dispose of the trash.\nIf a tenant violates these requirements in some minor way, the landlord is still responsible for providing a habitable dwelling, and may be prosecuted for violating housing code standards. If the tenant fails to do one of these required things, and the tenant\u2019s failure has either substantially caused an unlivable condition to occur or has substantially interfered with the landlord\u2019s ability to repair the condition, the landlord does not have to repair the condition. However, a tenant cannot withhold rent or has no action against the landlord for violating the implied warranty of habitability if the tenant has failed to meet these requirements.\nPlease contact our downtown Santa Barbara office if you would like further information or have any questions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnpotashcatering.com/areas-of-service/le-mars-bridal-shower/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:25Z", "digest": "sha1:CBBLRDYZSBP7NGIYHPNZ2G4ANN5AFCEE", "length": 2647, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "johnpotashcatering.com", "title": "Le Mars Bridal Shower", "raw_content": "Stress-Free Bridal Shower Catering for Le Mars\nWhile a wedding will be one of the most special days in your life, the fact of the matter is that preparing for a wedding can be anything but. Sure, there are some %MAKETICTY2% women who adopt a relaxed and laid-back attitude and for those lucky few, life will often go on as normal. However, as the majority of Le Mars women can confirm, planning a wedding can be quite a stressful event. From picking a dress, choosing a location, deciding on a menu and everything in between, it can often feel like there is very little time for anything else. However, it is important to make time for you. One of the best ways of doing that is by having a bridal shower that is professionally catered by a team you can trust.\nAt John Potash Catering we have first-hand experience of catering for hundreds of bridal showers across Le Mars. The level of skill and knowhow that we have acquired is used in every bridal shower that we cater for. When it comes to bridal showers, our mantra is to ensure that you have to worry about as little as possible. An event like this is an opportunity for you, the bride to be, to sit back and be pampered. With John Potash Catering in charge, we can guarantee that this will be the case.\nWhen Should a Bridal Shower Be Held?\nWhile there is no definitive answer to this question, most Le Mars brides to be like to hold their bridal shower anywhere between one and three months before their big day. At John Potash Catering, we recommend holding the bridal shower no later than five weeks before the date of the wedding. The reason for this is simple. With so much to consider in the two months prior to the wedding day, five or six weeks before the big day is often the perfect time to hold this event as it is not too close to or far removed from the main event.\nIn most cases, a bridal shower will be hosted by a sister, mother or friend of the bride to be. However, if event planning just isn\u2019t your thing, there is no need to panic. With a wealth of catering experience, we possess all the professional expertise to make this a relaxing break from the craziness that can often surround a wedding day. We look after everything from making the best potato salad to sending the most personalized invitations.\nFor us, we take immense pride in the nature of high-quality standard of our catering. What\u2019s more, by customizing each of our bridal showers to match the personality of the bride to be, we know that we will always execute an event that will strike a chord and live long in the memory. So, don\u2019t take chances with inferior caterers, call the team you can trust today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnsonmatel.com/blog7/2015/01/04/co2-and-forests/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:22Z", "digest": "sha1:W7V6M27EACNAZPTDEAYTQECP7L5OOZ2J", "length": 1210, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "johnsonmatel.com", "title": "CO2 and forests | World-Wide Matel Too", "raw_content": "\u2190 Virginia whiskey and brandy\nA Sustained past and a sustainable future \u2192\nCO2 helps plants grow faster, but it is complex in that there are often other limiting factors. As you eliminate some, others become more prominent. A limiting factor for trees is often water or a shortage of one or more of the big three fertilizers: Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. Humans have added CO2 to the air, but also added Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium, so much that they are sometimes pollutants. It might be that we have lucked onto something good out of potentially bad if increased CO2 levels allow faster growth to suck up some of that excess NPK. This is unlikely to apply as much to tropical forests as temperate ones, however.\nThroughout earth\u2019s history, CO2 levels in the air have fluctuated but have generally been dropping until recently. I mean, we are talking geological time. The drop has been happening for the last 200 million years, when CO2 levels were 4-5 times as high as they are today. At this time, earth was universally warm and great forests of giant ferns grew all the way to the arctic. I have always been interested in such things, but there is probably no practical use for this knowledge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 3994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://josephciarrochi.com/researcher/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5XWZXILT4EEY2OJOXRIPFIX7YEHRJLXK", "length": 2851, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "josephciarrochi.com", "title": "Researcher \u2013 Accept and Change", "raw_content": "I am an active researcher with numerous national competitive grants. I study psychological flexibility, or what i call \u201cflexible strength\u201d, a cluster of skills that can be used to promote personal growth and build vitality and valued action. I seek to address three questions.\nHow do we measure aspects of flexible strength?\nHow do different aspects of flexible strength develop and change?\nHow do we promote flexible strength?\nExamples of skills related to flexible strength are emotional intelligence, social intelligence, mindfulness, psychological flexibility, nonattachment, grit, equanimity, will-power, and emotion regulation skill. I have over 100 international journal articles, books, and book chapters . My work on emotional intelligence is amongst the most highly cited in the EI area. I currently have over 1 million dollars in competitive funding to investigate the causes of well-being and interpersonal effectiveness\nI have published research on mindfulness, acceptance, values and other core processes that are linked to resilience and well-being.\nMy work focuses on aspects of flexible strength that are potentially modifiable and that have been hypothesized to promote well-being and performance.\nIdentifying character strengths and skills that promote social well-being (e.g., relationship satisfaction, low antisocial behavior), emotional well-being (e.g., happiness, low depression), physical well-being (e.g., physical health and activity), and performance (e.g., grades).\nDesigning and Evaluating interventions to reduce suffering, promote vitality, and promote social effectiveness (in a variety of contexts, including organizations, adolescents, and cancer groups).\nIdentifying the developmental causes and consequences of character\nContextual Behavioral Science topics, including those related to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Relational Frame Theory\nAustralian Research Council Future Fellow (2011-2014) (This fellowship recognizes that the quality of my track record is very high compared to other Associate Professors. 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For example, I have been cited over 7300 times and have an H-index of 43 according to google scholar\nI am chief-editor of the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science\nOver 90 peer reviewed articles\nCOMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS\nI oversee a large longitudinal study involving 3000 adolescents in high schools located in the Illawara and far north Queensland.\nI run a program called Imagine, which involves providing flexible strength training to student leaders and then supporting them to put prosocial interventions into play in their communities (e.g., an anti-bullying campaigns).\nI regularly conduct well-being and stress management workshops for the public\nI do consultancy work with National Rugby League Teams", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://joshnaijablog.com/2018/12/05/rahm-scripts-a-master-class-to-win-hero-world-challenge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:21Z", "digest": "sha1:HIVFN6QDUL5PIRKFVBE6EAWLWC7QWNCW", "length": 2990, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "joshnaijablog.com", "title": "Rahm scripts a master class to win Hero World Challenge", "raw_content": "Million Pounds Of Beef Now Under Recall Over Salmonella Risk The United States Department of Agriculture has expanded its recall on ground beef amid concerns of a salmonella contamination. The recalled beef products may be contaminated with salmonella , and this expansion doubles the previous amount recalled.\nSoyuz arrives at ISS on first manned mission since October failure After launching at 11.31am GMT the three are set to dock at the International Space Station at exactly 5.36pm GMT. The Soyuz is the only means of reaching the ISS since the United States retired the space shuttle in 2011.\nThe former world number one hit his last competitive stroke of 2018 at his own Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Sunday.\nReed dropped down the leaderboard following a round of 77 that included three bogeys and a double bogey.\nAfter a long review, officials reportedly determined that Woods did indeed hit the ball twice, but, since they needed slow-motion high-definition video to see it, he was not assessed a penalty.\nEven so, Woods remained eight shots behind in his first 72-hole event since ending his remarkable comeback year with a victory in the Tour Championship.\nMark Russell, the PGA Tour's vice president of rules and competition, said: \"Basically it [the rulebook] says if the player did not know that he did that and the only way you can tell that is by using this type of slow-motion technology, he's exempt from the rules\".\nSpeaking at a news conference on Tuesday, Mourinho claimed that did not accurately represent his feelings but said he had all but written off their chances of ending 2018 in the top four.\nAs for Fowler, he had a 67 to pull within three shots.\nAdvantage Finau, at least over the last two days.\nDustin Johnson and Patrick Cantlay are tied for third on nine under, with Tony Finau a shot further back in fifth. She had no idea about golf and I would make her watch all the highlights of Tiger. This is a golf course I'm not very familiar with, I played it once before we played. I'm just trying to do the best I can and keeping a good attitude. Since the Ryder Cup, I had an injury problem, I was out for five weeks.\n\"I somehow turned it around and got rolling a little bit to get to even par for the day somehow\".\nEveryone was under par going into the weekend, with Jason Day bringing up the rear at 1-under 143.\nFinau was left second for the fourth time this year, knocking yet again on the door, which does not seem to be opening but will surely yield soon after an fantastic year for the American, who is part-Tongan and part-Samoan by origin.\nSumming up his year, Rahm said, \"As I said, this year was not so much about golf, it was about me as a person, so to win as many times as I did last year, it just shows that when I get into contention, to me nothing else matters\".\nWoods said that while he doesn't have definitive plans for his schedule next year, he won't play in as many events as he did in 2018. \"It was like a well-oiled machine\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 10185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://journeyon.nu/en/whats-happening/cell-groups/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BR6YZ5NIN2MCZXXZGNWQGRWVPSJNR5K4", "length": 1201, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "journeyon.nu", "title": "Cell Groups \u2013 Journey On", "raw_content": "There are currently five groups who form the basis of Journey On, and a number of individuals who join in at other times with rewilding days and residential wilderness retreats. 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Meeting on Sunday evenings via Skype, time together starts with sharing life stories before moving into a time of dedicated prayer for each other and all those involved with the network.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jukebox.uaf.edu/site7/media-gallery/detail/2821/15248", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:Z2NNL2Y33SZQIPHQACUTKKJI3LZVU7LW", "length": 136, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jukebox.uaf.edu", "title": "Fall Freeze-up | Project Jukebox", "raw_content": "Fall Freeze-up\nA seal hunter out on young sea ice during freeze-up in the fall time near Utqia\u0121vik, Alaska (previously known as Barrow).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 164.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/09/science-medicine-advocacy-and-politics.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FRHXFRMMHW6YFGCMJRT2MDP4HHC6J3ZU", "length": 12434, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "junkfoodscience.blogspot.com", "title": "Junkfood Science: Science, medicine, advocacy and politics", "raw_content": "Science, medicine, advocacy and politics\nRecently, there\u2019s been a shake-up in medicine, as medical professionals begin to get serious about cleaning up conflicts of interest in research, journal articles, clinical guidelines and continuing education, and are adopting new disclosure policies. As is becoming increasingly recognized, financial and ideological interests are polluting the scientific integrity of medicine and using science for financial or political purposes. Even the scientific literature has become tainted, as studies are funded that have poor methodologies, designed to produce results that can be used to further interests.\nThus far, however, while eyes are most intensely turned towards industry conflicts, nonprofits and foundations have generally continued to fly under the radar. Peer-reviewed medical journals typically follow the same disclosure regulations for research receiving public funds issued by the Office of Research Integrity at the U.S. Department of Health and Services, which have one major loophole. Funding that comes through nonprofit foundations, institutes and professional or patient advocacy organizations, and salaries and grant funding that comes through institutions and university programs, don\u2019t have to be disclosed, enabling well-funded and savvy nonprofit or \u201cadvocacy\u201d groups to silently influence research, expert committees writing clinical guidelines, and public policies.\nA business reporter in New Haven, Connecticut, described the efforts to influence science and policy by one organization, providing helpful insights for medical professionals and consumers. Reporter Liese Klein wrote:\nSacramento is a long way from New Haven, but documents crafted on Edwards Street in the Elm City may play a key role in how Californians dine in the future. A bill on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk this fall would require chain restaurants to post calorie counts on their menus and menu boards. Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, headquartered on Edwards Street, has joined the debate with case studies, amicus briefs and opinion pieces in support of the bill\u2026\nIt's not often that Yale scientists take positions on issues of the day, much less actively speak out in favor of specific legislation. But Brownell and the Rudd Center have become major players in the arena of obesity research and public policy\u2026 Key to the Rudd Center's prominence is the concept of \"strategic science,\" explains Rebecca Puhl, its director of research. Rudd is the only institution of its kind that takes such an active role in using its work to shape public policy.\n\"Our idea was to work at the intersection of science and public policy,\" Brownell says. \"We don't do advocacy, but what we want to do is inform the debate.\" The overall message is urgent: More than two-thirds of American adults are currently overweight or obese, and numbers are rising all over the world. \"The health and financial consequences are severe,\" Brownell says. \"There are few conditions out there that would rival it.\"\nBrownell, a professor of psychology at Yale with a longstanding interest in obesity and nutrition, founded the center in 2005. More than 20 people now work at the center and this year's budget will top $4 million\u2026\nKlein asked some tough questions and went on to share interviews with the center\u2019s CEO and founder, and director of research, describing how they fund and use research:\nHaving a private funding source also allows the center to direct its efforts toward research that can have the most impact on policy, Puhl adds. \"We really have a unique opportunity here,\" Puhl says. \"We can do science faster and we can do the science we think is meaningful, and that is a very rare occurrence.\" \"We saw an important gap between public policy and science,\" Brownell says. \"What we want to do is inform the debate.\"..\nPuhl says \"That's one thing as scientists we just don't do very well is get the word out there and the kinds of messages we want people to be hearing.\"\u2026 To enhance that outreach, Rudd experts distill their own research and other studies into policy briefs and presentations, says Roberta Friedman, the center's director of public policy. \"My role involves translating the research that is done here and elsewhere into policy implications and letting policy makers know about them,\" Friedman says...\nThe center must also toe a fine line between education and actual advocacy, prohibited due to Yale's nonprofit status...\nThe Rudd Foundation is a private, non-profit organization funded in 1998 by Leslie G. Rudd, who is also the co-founder and benefactor of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. As the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity states on its website:\nThe law has proven an integral part of many major public health victories over the past century\u2026 many experts consider obesity to be the next frontier of public health law. Among the most important subsets of obesity law are laws requiring menu labeling, those regulating marketing of non-nutritious foods to children, and the role litigation may play in addressing nutrition and obesity issues on all fronts\u2026 The Rudd Center expects many obesity-related issues will be resolved through regulation, legislation and litigation, and we are pleased to remain on the cutting edge of these legal initiatives and developments.\nRudd\u2019s website supports the information presented by Klein in Business New Haven. \u201cAt the Rudd Center, we conduct our own research, track others\u2019, and alert policy makers when the findings can be used to write policy,\u201d its website states. One example of Rudd research is an article published in the American Journal of Public Health and distributed through its website. It was authored by professors Lenny R. Vartanian, Ph.D., Marlene B. Schwartz, Ph.D., and Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D.\nIt was a meta-analysis, reporting to show an association between soda pop and obesity and health problems. As we\u2019ve extensively covered the shortcomings and misuses of data dredges and meta-analyses, and reviewed another meta-analysis on sweet drinks with nearly identical methodologies, it\u2019s the disclosure statement as published in the journal article that is today\u2019s focus:\nThe authors are with the Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Conn. [contact information follows]\nL. R. Vartanian co-originated the project, retrieved and coded the relevant articles, conducted the analyses, and cowrote the article. M. B. Schwartz assisted in the coding and analyses and cowrote the article. K. D. Brownell co-originated the project and cowrote the article.\nThis work was supported in part by the Rudd Foundation. We thank all of the authors who responded to our request for unpublished and in press research.\nNote. Personnel from the Rudd Foundation were not involved in this work in any way. All of the authors of the present article had full access to the data.\nThe editors of this peer-reviewed journal permitted this misleading disclosure, leaving healthcare professionals unaware of interests that might have helped to alert them to examine this paper with special care \u2014 the very purpose of disclosures. No mention was made of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University. Nor was it revealed that the authors were the co-founder and director [Brownell], and deputy director [Schwartz] of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.\nAs professor Brownell told the New York Times in an April article on the ethics of scientists and academics accepting money from industry, associations can affect a person\u2019s objectivity and it\u2019s easy to offer subtle statements that would favor one\u2019s associations. \u201cYou do it for two reasons,\u201d he was quoted as saying. \u201cYou\u2019ve got a money stream coming in, and you get to like the people who work for the companies. You feel like you\u2019re on a team.\u201d He says he no longer accepts industry funding.\nSpeaking out against the team, the consensus of one\u2019s peers, and being an independent thinker is a responsibility of any independent advisor, noted Joe Collier, emeritus professor of medicines policy at St. George\u2019s Hospital and Medical School in London and former Editor of Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin. In an analysis and commentary in the British Medical Journal which was part of ongoing discussions among healthcare professionals on disclosures and conflicts of interest, he wrote that \u201ccareer pressure and a focus on payment by results are making the critical and impartial thinker an endangered species.\u201d\nIndependence in itself does not make the advice right, and, conversely, partisan advice is not necessarily wrong. Similarly, an adviser's bias will not necessarily colour all of their judgments adversely\u2026 What independence does is to improve clarity.\n\u201cFull independence and the capacity to give totally impartial advice are not achievable,\u201d he cautioned. But there are levels of risk based on conflicts of interest, and it goes beyond industry. It must be \u201cextended to relationships with other powerful bodies, such as employers and government,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIndependent advisers must declare each and every one of their competing interests that might have a bearing on the advice. It is for the recipient of the advice, not the adviser, to decide what that bearing might be.\u201d He closed by writing:\nFor me, independence has meant saying what I mean and often being seen as rude and uncaring; holding no favours; deciding on each issue on the basis of the evidence rather than blindly following the majority; risking being seen as inconsistent (a loose cannon); not necessarily being able to support friends and colleagues; giving advice that runs counter to my personal interest; and criticising employers or senior members of the establishment. Perhaps predictably, the positions I have taken have often caused me difficulties. I have lost friends, been ostracised by the establishment, and had my career advancement undermined. But the freedoms and intellectual satisfaction gained by being allowed to be an independent thinker giving unfettered advice have far outweighed these burdens. Moreover, for each of the friends I have lost, I believe I have gained professional colleagues who value and trust my judgments. My career progression is not necessarily what one would advise for someone starting out in medicine, but for those who put independence of thought high in their hierarchy of values, the stance is worthwhile and rewarding.\nProfessor Collier, a long-time whistle blower against discriminatory and unsupportable clinical care guidelines and public policies, spoke at the DURG meeting in London on February 7th earlier this year. He discussed \u201cWhat is evidence-based medicine.\u201d As he noted, studies and meta-analyses can be easily skewed to favor a sponsor. His key point bears repeating, as everyone \u2014 healthcare professionals, public policy makers and consumers \u2014 is increasingly inundated with studies being used to support conclusions and interventions that go beyond the best evidence.\nWhat is evidence-based medicine? The practice of medicine based on the integration of well-controlled (scientifically valid) clinical trials, along with clinical expertise and patient values, he said.\nBest evidence doesn\u2019t mean \u201cbest in terms of availability,\u201d he said, but \u201cbest in terms of scientific validity.\u201d That evidence can only come from well-controlled clinical trials and meta-analyses using primary data. One cannot just tally the studies published on one side or another, but must continually assess the data, as well as the body of evidence. \u201cClinicians should be honest, recognize their limitations and wherever possible ensure that their decisions have a rational basis,\u201d he concluded.\nThe very real problem we face is that so much published clinical trial data isn\u2019t scientifically valid, has flawed designs, partisan bias and distorts the evidence, he said. It\u2019s unrealistic to believe we can create perfect, universal evidence-based medicine. But in the interests of patient welfare, he said, biases should be made clear in the publication of trials and taken into account by clinicians before applying the advice in their individual clinical practices.\n\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t have to rely on investigative journalists to ask the difficult questions,\u201d professor Collier has said. \u201cReputations for sale are reputations at risk. We need to make that risk so high it's not worth taking.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 22072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://justintadlock.com/archives/2007/09/12/you-can-never-go-home-again", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MUHLLQPLY5HHZB3RRDYOISHT77ALFIHZ", "length": 3373, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "justintadlock.com", "title": "You Can Never Go Home Again \u2014 Justin Tadlock", "raw_content": "\u201cThey say you can never go home again.\u201d\nI was thinking about that quote a couple of weekends ago (I know, I should\u2019ve been blogging since then). I was homesick. It took a couple of weeks, but I felt it. Really, I just didn\u2019t have anything to do. I was sitting around my empty apartment on the weekend, waiting to do nothing. I\u2019m over it now though.\nIt\u2019s probably common to be a little homesick sometimes. If I only had a few more of my things, it would be easier. Now, don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019m enjoying Korean culture. There are some things I miss.\nMilk that doesn\u2019t taste like it\u2019s going to be sour tomorrow.\nGood hamburger meat (ground beef).\nWal-Mart (Even though I hate what they\u2019re doing to the Mom-and-Pop stores, I\u2019m a Wal-Mart addict).\nOly and Smeagle (my cats).\nOf course, I miss family, but I\u2019m used to not seeing them for months at a time.\nClothes drier.\nThere are a few other things I miss, but these are the main ones. I really miss football. [insert sad Justin face]\nBack to the original quote. I was thinking about that line because I wanted to go home like I\u2019ve never wanted to go home before. Alabama, my home.\nI think I have this ideal vision of what home means, but that home doesn\u2019t exist. At least not anymore. I haven\u2019t truly been home (Highland Home, Ala.) in the last five years. It\u2019s definitely a part of me. Much of what or who I am has been shaped by that place. But, I\u2019ve changed since then. That\u2019s why they say you can never go home again\u2014it\u2019s not because home is different; it\u2019s because you\u2019re different.\nA different person. Home is that place as you remember it. Home is a memory. Memories are in the past and will forever be there.\nPart of it is my dreams. Since I\u2019ve been here, I\u2019ve had the most vivid dreams of things that have happened and things that never happened. But, they all come back to Highland Home and Auburn, Ala. Those places. It\u2019s a bit freaky how vivid my dreams have been. (Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve been reading Stephen King\u2019s Dark Tower series.)\nSo, about South Korea\u2014I\u2019m living the dream. Sometimes, I have to sit back and tell myself, \u201cI\u2019m living in a foreign country.\u201d I\u2019m living the freakin\u2019 dream. \u201cL-I-V-I-N.\u201d I have to reflect on that thought for a few moments.\nAnd guess what? I love teaching. It\u2019s quite possible that I\u2019ve found my calling (other than writing the great Southern American novel, of course).\nI love the culture here. People are generally a lot nicer than Americans. Emphasis on a lot. I will start taking Korean language classes this Friday. So, wish me luck. Also, I\u2019m flying to Japan next Tuesday and Wednesday to get my work visa, which is very cool. After that, I\u2019ll have the USA, Mexico, South Korea, and Japan crossed off on my \u201ccountries visited\u201d list. (Okay, so the USA doesn\u2019t really count.)\nAs a side note: one of the reasons I haven\u2019t blogged as much is because of electrical problems. My plug converter doesn\u2019t work well with my computer. So, I have to charge up my computer battery, then get on the computer, which gives me a limited amount of time. I use most of that time to keep in contact with others through e-mail, messenger, MySpace, and Facebook. I hope to find an adapter soon, so that I can keep my computer powered all the time.\nMaybe I\u2019ll upload some pictures soon. Until then, have a good night or morning or afternoon\u2014wherever you are.\nTopics: #Life #South Korea #Teaching", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://k3hamilton.com/ED/open-access.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WNCB26GOSMYNOTWNI7LF37IFXPAKPJOW", "length": 3427, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "k3hamilton.com", "title": "Ipen Access Education- Education 2020", "raw_content": "Open Access Education and Resources\nThe Future is Open Disruptively Open!\nStudents today are born into a culture of free and open resources. Access to Information and tools has been available since they were born. In the future, students will continue to demand access to free materials both inside the classroom and outside the classroom. Through constructivist education, many will create and contribute to the pool of available educational learning materials.\nThe movements towards open education resources, and courseware are wide and varied. One of the leaders in spearheading open education is certainly MIT who opened their first site offering all the resources for 32 courses in 2002. Their OpenCourseWare lives up to the school's mission to advance knowledge and educate students to serve the nation and world. By 2009, they had over 1900 courses available online.\nWith schools facing ever shrinking budgets, it would be hard to imagine that teachers and administrators would not take advantage of the wealth of resources that are open and mostly free. With costs of textbooks increasing and the availability of information on the web, students are demanding teachers consider alternatives to expensive time-limited textbooks. This movement towards open education and open resources is beginning to shake up the status quo and giving rise to what many would consider a \"disruptive innovation.\" With more and more materials available for free anywhere and anytime educational institutions will need to consider their offerings and consider the use of open resources. Publishers will have to open up options to compete against all that is free, and schools will have to specialize to continue to be relevant.\nIn the video above, Chris Anderson of TED talks about the power of many in an open world. He uses the term \"Crowd Accelerated Innovation\" to describe the strength of the crowd in a digital age. In order to create such innovation in organizations, he says welcome the crowd (those with a common interest), let the light in by being open and visible and dial up the desire because innovation is often hard work done by many. He says start by giving away your biggest secrets because by giving away you will get a lot back from the crowd. He points out that today on the internet one person can speak to millions. \"talented students don't have to have their potential and dreams written out of history by lousy teachers. They can sit in front of the world's finest..the world's universities are opening up their curricula and thousands of individuals are sharing their knowledge and data online.\" People are finding new ways to learn and respond to their learning. He believes that education doesn't need to be \"painful top-down silos.\" To the TED organization learning is many to many and the light needs to shine on the best of what is out there. He asks the question, \"What if that crowd could learn to be net contributors rather than net plunderers.?That changes everything! ....You're part of the crowd that may be about to launch the biggest learning cycle in human history.\" He asks, \"Who is the teacher? His answer: \"You.\" We are all part of the crowd.\nFor more details on Free and Open materials in education see The Cost of Free, a wiki developed by several of the EDUCITIZENSHIP 2020 members. See specific information on available open materials on Cost of Free.\nNext up, see Digital Books and Resources", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kagome.info/hedge-trading-strategies-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4CE45V4K353U4VS7H4WIQPCDEJ6YPLXJ", "length": 469, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kagome.info", "title": "hedge trading strategies 2019 \u00b7 kagome.info", "raw_content": "hedge trading strategies 2019\nIn this tutorial one more special and very profitable short term scalping strategy. No loss just profit strategy with tani pivot point indicator. 8 trades strategy 2018, \u2026\nWelcome to Forex Live Stream Hedging Strategy Today at Forex Live, We LiveStream About How to trade forex and Scalping FX Trade, using the Simple Way \u2026\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kates-sweet-success.blogspot.com/2014/04/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:33Z", "digest": "sha1:X3DTL3XWT26JD3Y6QU7CQGPDEITAO72R", "length": 5119, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "kates-sweet-success.blogspot.com", "title": "Sweet Success: My life with Type 2 Diabetes: April 2014", "raw_content": "Food; it has played many roles in my life. Nourishment, entertainment, social enabler, necessity, devil, counselor, reward, sneaky little git, movie companion, medicinal, friend and, most decidedly, foe. Food is all of those things to me. How in the world does something grow to hold so much sway over my life? Well, first of all, we have to eat. The alternative isn\u2019t pretty. Secondly, we\u2019ve been told all our lives that it\u2019s important that we eat a healthy diet, and yet, folks who mass produce processed foods spend a lot of time and money making that food taste as good as possible which makes it difficult to avoid. (They actually call it the \u201cbliss point\u201d, jerks.) Not only that, but they add lots of fat, salt and sugar trying to reach that bliss point which can make it addictive. I grew up eating processed foods and fast foods, as many, many other people have. It\u2019s just not easy to break that habit! I don\u2019t care what anyone says, it\u2019s NOT easy! I wish I was one of those people who can live their lives never eating unhealthy foods with seeming ease. I wish I could indulge now and then without fear of binging. I wish. I\u2019m not one of those people. Regardless of the fact that I KNOW that it\u2019s important for me to eat in a healthier manner, I don\u2019t always succeed. Cue the guilt. Cue the self-loathing. Cue the feelings of defeat. Is that any way to live a life? I\u2019ve decided that it isn\u2019t but what can I do?\nOk, we\u2019ve established the fact that I have to eat. My T2 diagnosis puts a greater pressure on me to make significant changes to the way I was used to eating, and I have. I\u2019ve made HUGE changes to my diet. I\u2019ve added regular exercise. Despite all those things, my diabetes continues to progress. That fact has caused me to put even more pressure on myself to eat properly\u2026which has only made me rebel even more and occasionally eat stupid stuff\u2026which brings on the guilt etc. Rinse, repeat. I\u2019ve decided that my focus has been wrong for quite some time: diabetes is not the enemy; food is. Let me explain.\nWe all know that diabetes is a bad thing. We know that it requires diligence and patience and should NEVER be ignored. I get that. I respect my disease but I\u2019ve decided that it\u2019s time to stop fearing it so much. It ain\u2019t going away. It\u2019s here in my life and I\u2019m just going to accept that and move on. Food, however, is another story. Food seems like this innocuous entity that we needn\u2019t fear. If I turn my back on that cupcake it won\u2019t attack me. I have been fearing the \u201cbad stuff\u201d all the while craving it. I know what types of foods I should eat and those that I need to avoid but that doesn\u2019t mean I automatically do what I\u2019m supposed to do. I don\u2019t, and I know very few people who do. We\u2019re human and vulnerable and sometimes weak. It\u2019s time for me to accept that fact and quit giving food so much power over me.\nThere was a post on Facebook recently that made me giggle. It revolved around the idea that we can all find ourselves inhaling a whole sleeve of Ritz crackers or Thin Mint cookies. It\u2019s so easy to do! What happens when I overdo the snacking? I immediately feel guilty and stupid and angry with myself. Sometimes, depending on my mood, it actually causes me to continue with the poor food choices. Talk about stupid. But I\u2019m not stupid, I\u2019m vulnerable. When those things happen I\u2019m probably using food to comfort me or mask something else. I\u2019m not facing up to the triggers that are so obviously part of my life.\nDang, but I\u2019m rambling. Sorry. Here\u2019s the deal. I\u2019m tired of giving food so much power over my life. I\u2019m tired of cowering when poor food choices are presented to me and then feeling like crap because I gave in. I need to figure out how to eat like a real person. I need to follow my food plan, the one that works for me, as best as I can while allowing myself to veer from the path now and then without recriminations. I truly feel that if I can manage to do this it will make it easier. If I remove the remorse and guilt I\u2019m thinking that the binges or \u201cmistakes\u201d might diminish. Here\u2019s hoping.\nDiabetes is in my life to stay and so are poor food choices. Educating oneself about T2 is imperative. I have spent years determining what I can and cannot eat in order to control my blood glucose. It\u2019s time to give myself a break. I need to focus on the times when I rock my diet, feeling good and healthy and thumbing my nose at diabetes. I also need to go easy on myself when mood or weather or celebrations tempt me to indulge. It\u2019s life and I plan to live mine as guilt-free as possible from now on. I can\u2019t avoid the progression of my disease. I also can\u2019t panic and deny myself even more food choices in the hopes that my diabetes will behave. I need to eat sensibly and work with my doctor when rising glucose numbers indicate that my medication needs adjustments. I\u2019m not a bad person because I am addicted to crappy food. I\u2019m just me; mostly normal me. I plan to focus on life, not food or diabetes and see how that works out.\nLabels: attitude, control, coping, depression, diabetes diet, food, healthy eating, hope, progression, snacking, type 2 diabetes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 11836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keanergy.net/64694226-14be-95a4-5d17-88748e6beac8/24cfe228-d1d6-814a-34f3-7c2669fc5821.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7QE7WZACOV7YGI44N24HK4FQMREA3243", "length": 4593, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "keanergy.net", "title": "\ufeff slew drive ,slewing drive ,solar tracking system", "raw_content": "Home > News > Industry News > Siemens and AES join forces\nSiemens and AES join forces\nSiemens and AES join forces to create Fluence, a new global energy storage technology company.\nSiemens AG and The AES Corporation announced their agreement to form a new global energy storage technology and services company under the name Fluence. The joint venture will bring together AES' ten years of industry-defining experience deploying energy storage in seven countries with over a century of Siemens' energy technology leadership and its global sales presence in more than 160 countries.\nCombining the proven AES Advancion and Siemens Siestorage energy storage platforms with expanded services, Fluence will offer customers a wider variety of options to meet the challenges of a rapidly transforming energy landscape. The company will empower customers around the world to better navigate the fragmented but rapidly growing energy storage sector and meet their pressing needs for scalable, flexible, and cost-competitive energy storage solutions.\nSiemens and AES will have joint control of the company with each holding a 50 percent stake. Fluence's global headquarters will be located in the Washington, DC area with additional offices located in Erlangen, Germany and select cities worldwide. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2017, subject to regulatory and other approvals.\nFluence will operate independently of its parent companies, combining the robust capabilities and expertise from Siemens' battery-based energy storage solutions group under the Energy Management division with AES' subsidiary, AES Energy Storage. AES and Siemens are currently ranked among the leading energy storage integrators worldwide by Navigant Research. Together, the two companies have deployed or have been awarded 48 projects totaling 463 MW of battery-based energy storage across 13 countries, including the world's largest lithium-ion battery-based energy storage project near San Diego, California.\n\"As the energy storage market expands, customers face the challenge of finding a trusted technology partner with an appropriate portfolio and a profound knowledge of the power sector. Fluence will fill this major gap in the market. With the global reach of an experienced international sales force as well as Siemens' leading technology platform Siestorage at its disposal, Fluence will be perfectly equipped to serve this very interesting market,\" said Ralf Christian, CEO of Siemens' Energy Management Division.\n\"Over the past ten years, AES has become a global leader in utility-scale, battery-based energy storage. Today AES' Advancion platform is present in seven countries with more than 200 MW of energy storage deployed, including the largest installed system of its kind in the world,\" said Andr\u00e9s Gluski, AES President and CEO. \"Partnering with Siemens to form Fluence will offer both large and small customers the full gamut of proven, state-of-the-art energy storage solutions in over 160 countries. This will accelerate the integration of renewables into the energy network of tomorrow.\"\nThe grid-connected energy storage sector is expected to expand from a total installed capacity of three gigawatts (GW) at the end of 2016 to 28 GW by 2022 according to IHS Markit, which is equivalent to the power used by 18.6 million households. By incorporating energy storage across the electric power network, utilities and communities around the world will optimize their infrastructure investments, increase network flexibility and resiliency, and accelerate cost-effective integration of renewable electricity generation.\nThe AES Advancion and Siemens Siestorage technology platforms each support a multitude of energy storage applications, together representing an industry-leading suite of choices for customers. Siemens brings its experience in microgrid and islanding applications, renewable hybrid technology, black-start capability, and consumer peak shaving, building on its intimate knowledge of customer power needs as a leading global original equipment manufacturer (OEM). AES brings its deep expertise in utility-scale battery-based energy storage solutions for flexible peaking capacity, ancillary services such as frequency regulation, transmission and distribution reliability, and renewable integration applications dating back a decade and representing several of the largest energy storage installations in the world.\nPrevious : SolarWorld Americas expects immediate infusion of cash to lift up U.S. operations\nNext : Inverters master Poseidon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keanergy.net/64694226-14be-95a4-5d17-88748e6beac8/59cd02a8-4f4a-db23-4209-89c6a033705e.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:43Z", "digest": "sha1:CAIXJ3W2KISZCK2H3J35W7WMD6M336OD", "length": 1117, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "keanergy.net", "title": "\ufeff slewing drive ,slewing drive ,solar tracking system", "raw_content": "Home > News > Industry News > Longi Solar reaches new record for PERC cells\nLongi Solar reaches new record for PERC cells\nLongi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. announced today that the German photovoltaic calibration laboratory of the Fraunhofer ISE (CalLab) has certified a photovoltaic efficiency of 22.71% for the monocrystalline PERC cells of the company - a new world record for this cell type.\n\"Based on monocrystalline P-type silicon wafers for large area technology, we are able to use cell process technology suitable for series production and achieve an efficiency of 22.71%. This greatly strengthens the confidence of the entire industry in monocrystalline P-type cells. We are convinced that by continuing to improve R & D for monocrystalline PERC cells, we will be able to achieve more than 23.0% efficiency in the near future\u201c, said Dr. Li Hua, Longi Solar's Vice President of Cell R & D.\nLongi Solar plans to introduce PERC cell technology with an efficiency of 22.0% at the end of 2017.\nPrevious : Kaco new energy quarter results at an all-time high\nNext : Solar energy supports industrial processes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keats-shelley-house.org/en/events/australian-poetry-now-land-country-and-environment.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GC53ZEHTBEURTNLUYCVBHJSFZN26UJBZ", "length": 2973, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "keats-shelley-house.org", "title": "Australian poetry now: land, country and environment", "raw_content": "Australian poetry now: land, country and environment\nFRIDAY 14 DECEMBER at 5 p.m.\nDesert, sea, bush, rainforest, pastoral lease, contested country: Australian colonial poetry of the land has a long and vivid history, riven by politics and romance in equal part. Decades after the influential lyrical, activist poetries of Judith Wright and Oodgeroo Noonuccal, a new generation of poets, compelled by urgent local and global ecological themes, is writing back to pastoral themes, re-thinking the colonial romanticisation of landscape.\nThree award-winning Australian writers, Emily Bitto, A. Frances Johnson and Anthony Lynch, will read their favourite Australian \u2018nature\u2019 poems and share examples of their own poems exploring notions of land and ecology.\nJoin us before Christmas for a dynamic snapshot of Australian environmental poetry now!\nAdvance booking recommended (06 678 42 35/ info@ksh.roma.it). Space is limited so people who have not booked will be welcome on a first come first served basis.\nEmily Bitto is an Australian writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. She has a Masters in Literary Studies and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne. Her writing has appeared in various publications, including The Sydney Morning Herald, Meanjin, Heat and the Australian Literary Review. Her novel,The Strays, was shortlisted for the 2015 Indie Prize and the Dobbie Award, and won the prestigious Stella Prize in 2015. The novel has subsequently been published in America, Canada, the UK and Portugal. Emily is the current recipient of an Australia Council residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome.\nA. Frances Johnson is a poet, novelist and painter, and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne where she lectures in Poetry and Contemporary Eco-fiction. She is the author of a novel (Eugene\u2019s Falls, Arcadia 2007) and three collections of poetry. In 2015, she won the Griffith University-Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize for \u2018The Book of Interdictions\u2019. Her most recent poetry collection, Rendition for Harp and Kalashnikov (Puncher and Wattmann, 2018) was shortlisted for the 2018 Melbourne Prize for Literature, Best Writing Award. She was the 2017 recipient of the Australia Council residency in the BR Whiting Studio in Rome.\nAnthony Lynch is a Melbourne writer of fiction, poetry and reviews. His work has appeared in publications including The Age, The Best Australian Poems, The Best Australian Stories, Meanjin and Southerly, and been read on ABC Radio National. He is a frequent reviewer for Australian Book Review and The Australian. His short story collection Redfin (Arcadia) was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier\u2019s Literary Awards, and his poetry collection Night Train (Clouds of Magellan) was runner-up in the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize. He works as a senior editor, and he is the publisher for Whitmore Press (https://whitmorepress.com), which specialises in poetry.\nEntrance ticket (\u20ac5.00)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 177.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kicken-gallery.com/artists/karl-blossfeldt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KXCRTFJTO74OE6MFMHFDJOPEBUJYWLJT", "length": 883, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kicken-gallery.com", "title": "Kicken Berlin | Karl Blossfeldt", "raw_content": "Cucurbita (6 times enlarged), from the portfolio Urformen der Kunst I, c. 1920\n\u00a9 Karl Blossfeldt Archiv - Ann und Juergen Wilde, Zuelpich 2018 / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2018\nAfter an apprenticeship as a modeler in a foundry Karl Blossfeldt (German, 1865\u20131932) completed his studies as a draughtsman at Berlin\u2019s Kunstgewerbeschule in 1886. He than began systematically photographing plants. From 1899 on he taught \u201cModelling Plant-Like Forms\u201d at the Kunstgewerbeschule using his plant photographs as models. In 1921 he was appointed professor. The Berlin gallery owner Karl Nierendorf began in 1926 to exhibit his photographs, which were published in the books Urformen der Kunst (1928) and Wundergarten der Natur (1932). Along with August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt is considered a forerunner of the conceptual use of typologies that can be seen today in the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kindlemag.in/heaven-and-hell/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:KOH52PCC5XW2SBISV7JGD2FCPFAH7K4X", "length": 14840, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "kindlemag.in", "title": "Heaven and HellKindle Magazine", "raw_content": "By Ajachi Chakrabarti Cinema, The Peanut Gallery February 15, 2016\nAbhishek Kapoor\u2019s \u2018Fitoor\u2019 is little more than a series of pretty picture postcards obscuring reality.\nStarring: Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif, Tabu, Rahul Bhat, Akshay Oberoi\nThis will probably alienate about half the people who read it, but I must begin this review by reflecting on the events of last week. Not only will it piss off those who support the ruling establishment\u2019s crackdown\u2014and I\u2019m not just talking about the police action\u2014following the \u201canti-national\u201d sloganeering at JNU on 9 February, it will annoy those who wish to see their popular culture, and writing about said popular culture, free of inconvenient political discussions.\nIt really should go without saying that a 21st-century postcolonial democracy should not respond to students raising slogans by invoking a 19th-century colonial law carrying a life sentence. (Especially when the student you\u2019re throwing the book at just gave a speech expressing complete faith in the Constitution.) But such is the nature of this postmodern society, with its disregard for the lessons of history and its echo chambers and its profound lack of a sense of irony, that such truths no longer seem axiomatic, and must be restated for emphasis: don\u2019t arrest students because they raise slogans against you, especially if your rise to power is predicated on looking the other way while your ideologues spew vitriol and incite violence.\nThe government\u2019s actions, which have now reached the absurdity of picking up people for \u201clooking like JNU students\u201d, have inevitably worked only to unite the opposition and lose the high ground, for public opinion\u2014or at least the sliver of it that is reflected in the (social) media\u2014throughout the week seemed squarely against the protestors. #ShutDownJNU trended on Twitter; Arnab raged on The Newshour. The nation-state\u2019s paranoia, its insecurities, its quasi-fascistic nature and kneejerk anti-intellectualism, all were given full rein.\nIt really should go without saying that a 21st-century postcolonial democracy should not respond to students raising slogans by invoking a 19th-century colonial law carrying a life sentence.\nThe charges against the protestors include chanting in favour of the country\u2019s barbaadi, for supporting those dreaded terrorists Afzal Guru and Maqbool Bhat, the anniversaries of whose executions the rally was commemorating. What sort of vile, uncaring, unpatriotic scum, the chattering classes asked, would chant praises for these monsters? Leaving aside the fact that the slogans in question were raised by only one section of protestors, who were likely outsiders, and that some of the egregious \u201cPakistan zindabaad\u201d chants seem to have been raised by ABVP workers, the blanket condemnation of the slogans is a little troubling.\nThere is, of course, the problematic tendency to equate criticism of the government with criticism of the nation. Also, while Guru and Bhat might have been terrorists\u2014though the former\u2019s guilt is very much in doubt\u2014the nature of their trials, executions and last rites were insulting to Kashmiris and, inevitably, the two have become symbols of the indignities of life in the world\u2019s largest militarised zone. Therefore, though it might not be seemly for the beneficiaries of the hierarchical nature of Indian society (such as myself) to be advocating the destruction of the nation-state, I can understand such sentiments being expressed by those for whom the nation-state is an occupying power, for whom democracy is what little can be salvaged as the jackboot crushes their neck.\nThis is what I don\u2019t get about our fascination with Kashmir. We claim that it is ours, the jewel in our crown, an inalienable part of our history, civics and geography. We sing paeans to its stunning beauty, call it Paradise-on-Earth, and flock to it in droves whenever it seems safe. But then we treat Kashmiris like second-class citizens, systematically rig their elections, kill and imprison them with impunity, and then can\u2019t fathom why they aren\u2019t thrilled to be part of India.\nWe sing paeans to its stunning beauty, call it Paradise-on-Earth, and flock to it in droves whenever it seems safe. But then we treat Kashmiris like second-class citizens, systematically rig their elections, kill and imprison them with impunity, and then can\u2019t fathom why they aren\u2019t thrilled to be part of India.\nOf course, this situation is allowed to be perpetuated by conducting most of the oppression behind a visage of the pastoral idyll. This process of exoticisation and invisibilisation has been aided and abetted by the film industry since the 1960s, with its fetishisation of the Dal, shikaras, chinars, Gulmarg and the Pir Panjal, looking at Kashmir through what Ananya Jahanara Kabir called \u201crose-tainted lens\u201d. As Pascal Zinck wrote in his essay, \u2018Kashmir: Maps for Lost Lovers\u2019,\nKashmir\u2019s ubiquitous visual referents highlighted with similar chromatic hues, ethereal songs and hip-swinging choreography are the sign of a disjuncture. Not only do they project an exotic background for \u201cthe lead male and female characters to yodel and cavort\u201d in narcissistic unison with India\u2019s upwardly mobile and sexually liberated youth, but their fantasy disfigures Kashmir through sanitization, de-politicization and de-historicization\u2026[The] fetish of the Valley as an Eros-scape requires the absence of Kashmiris, or rather, the coding of Kashmiris as modernity\u2019s Other within the context of India\u2019s emergent sense of self, in a way that is no different than the representation of native Americans by Hollywood.\nThere is little, if any, depiction of the political realities of Kashmir\u2014the many \u201ccine-patriotic\u201d dramas of the \u201990s, the odd indie film, powerful documentaries, Haider. The vast majority of films set in Kashmir have little to say about the state\u2019s turbulent state, leave alone apportioning blame or challenging conventional wisdom.\nAbhishek Kapoor\u2019s Fitoor, similarly, is mostly set in Kashmir, with interludes in Delhi and London. Its protagonist is a painter who promotes himself as The Boy From Dal; his most famous artwork is a recreation of a shikara. His love interest is called Firdaus, as in \u201cGar firdaus ruhe zaminast, haminasto haminasto haminast.\u201d In one scene, as he desperately tries to stop Firdaus from leaving with her Pakistani beau, he goes as far as to use the Sangh Parivar\u2019s infamous chauvinist slogan, one that robs his people of any agency in determining their future, as drunken humour: \u201cDoodh mangoge to kheer denge, Kashmir mangoge to cheer denge.\u201d His sister dies in a random bomb blast, which is never dwelled upon, and he meets an escaped militant in the beginning of the film. One of the songs is called \u2018Pashmina\u2019; another name-checks the chinar. By far the best thing about the film is its stunning visuals, capturing the stark wintry landscape that the director seems to love so much that we move from winter to autumn to winter again, never dwelling on spring or summer. That is all the Kashmir you get to see in the film.\nIn one scene, as he desperately tries to stop Firdaus from leaving with her Pakistani beau, he goes as far as to use the Sangh Parivar\u2019s infamous chauvinist slogan, one that robs his people of any agency in determining their future, as drunken humour: \u201cDoodh mangoge to kheer denge, Kashmir mangoge to cheer denge.\u201d\nAt one point, after he has arrived as the newest sensation on the Delhi art scene, Noor Nizami (Kapur) is asked in a press conference what he has to say about the political situation in Kashmir. Does he want azadi? Isn\u2019t it enough azadi, he asks, that I\u2019ve made it this far? No, Noor\u2019s heart does not reside in the present, he says, but in the idyllic past before Paradise was lost. How far back is left to the viewer\u2019s imagination\u2014presumably before Shopian and Kunan Poshpora, before 1989, before Yasin Malik and the rigged election of \u201987, or the many broken promises of a plebiscite or the many incarcerations of Shaikh Abdullah, before the wars with Pakistan, maybe even before the century of servitude under the Dogras\u2014but it\u2019s not hard to guess that the past in question is probably more reel than real life, a return to life-as-picture-postcard.\nNow, before the inevitable hand-wringing breaks out about how it is not Bollywood\u2019s responsibility to be political, let me make it clear that I don\u2019t expect anything different from our commercial films\u2014the only way for the reality of Kashmir to come out is through the voices of the Kashmiris themselves, who are putting together a robust literary and cinematic tradition that challenges the mainstream narrative. But a filmmaker who sets his or her film in Kashmir is making a choice to do so, and that choice, along with what they make of it, can (and should) be interrogated. If all one has to say about Kashmir is a recitation of popular Kashmir tropes, they might as well set the film in Switzerland.\nThe choice of setting, however, is by no means the only issue with the film. Fitoor is an adaptation of Great Expectations, though not so much a recreation of Charles Dickens\u2019s novel as it is a remake of Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s 1998 adaptation, starring Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow. The film set Dickens\u2019s Victorian tale in 1990s America, with Florida stepping in for the Kentish countryside and New York for London. Roger Ebert\u2019s review of that film holds some truth that is applicable to Fitoor:\n\u201cGreat Expectations\u201d begins as a great movie (I was spellbound by the first 30 minutes) but ends as only a good one, and I think that\u2019s because the screenplay, by Mitch Glazer, too closely follows the romantic line. Dickens, who of course had more time and space to move around in, made it the story of a young man\u2019s coming of age, and the colorful characters he encountered\u2026The moment this movie declares itself as being mostly about affairs of the heart, it limits its potential.\nFitoor begins as a good movie but ends as a royal mess partly because of a similar restriction in scope, a process that begins with the title itself\u2014\u201cobsession\u201d, rather than \u201cexpectation\u201d, turning a bildungsroman into just another romance.\nFitoor begins as a good movie but ends as a royal mess partly because of a similar restriction in scope, a process that begins with the title itself\u2014\u201cobsession\u201d, rather than \u201cexpectation\u201d, turning a bildungsroman into just another romance. To focus on the eternal love between Pip and Estella rather than on how the change in Pip\u2019s circumstances causes changes in his personality is to miss the point of Dickens\u2019s novel, which is at its heart an exploration of the effect of class on interpersonal relationships; it can be argued that Pip\u2019s relationships with Joe, Miss Havisham and even Abel Magwitch are as important as that with Estella.\nThere is very little of that in Fitoor. Like in Cuar\u00f3n\u2019s adaptation, Noor\u2019s brother-in-law Junaid is mostly relegated to the sidelines by the narrative itself, rather than Noor\u2014though one sequence, in which he waits in vain for Noor to visit him does succinctly capture this dynamic\u2014and again, quoting Ebert, the subplot involving the escaped militant (played by Ajay Devgn) \u201cfeels more like a bone thrown to Dickens than a necessity of the plot\u201d. Noor\u2019s lack of empathy for his fellow Kashmiris in the aforementioned press conference could perhaps be attributed to his head being turned by his success, but that would be more believable if he didn\u2019t actually seem to reside in the sanitised idyllic space he says he is obsessed with.\nThat Noor\u2019s relationship with Begum Hazrat (Tabu) hits all the correct notes is testament not so much to Kapoor and Supratik Sen\u2019s writing but to Tabu\u2019s class-apart acting prowess; as usual, she grabs the role by the scruff of its neck and makes it her own. She isn\u2019t quite the batshit Miss Havisham of the books, but a wonderfully tragic opium-addled figure, skilfully navigating the spectrum of emotions from whimsical to amused to bitter to distressed despite having some pedestrian dialogue and a hackneyed backstory. (Note to self: if eloping, always buy the water bottle before boarding the bus.)\nIt is only in his scenes with her that you begin to feel that Noor treats anyone who is not Firdaus as less than completely human. Her repeated protestations that Noor is more interested in Firdaus\u2019s whereabouts than her wellbeing sound self-indulgent at first, but as the film goes on, serve to signal the changes in Noor\u2019s personality that the rest of the film tends to gloss over.\nIt is only in his scenes with her that you begin to feel that Noor treats anyone who is not Firdaus as less than completely human. Her repeated protestations that Noor is more interested in Firdaus\u2019s whereabouts than her wellbeing sound self-indulgent at first, but as the film goes on, serve to signal the changes in Noor\u2019s personality that the rest of the film tends to gloss over. For the film is primarily interested in the will-they-won\u2019t-they dynamic between Noor and Firdaus.\nNow, focussing on this relationship isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing; as the Mike Newell\u2019s 2012 adaptation demonstrated, a literal take on the novel, with all its subplots and characters, can seem scattered and underdone. (David Lean\u2019s 1946 version is still the gold standard.) However, both Pip and Estella are tremendously difficult parts to pull off, and a film that puts so much of itself in mining this unorthodox love story\u2014in which traditional notions of agency are upended\u2014hits a brick wall when it decides to cast Aditya Roy Kapur and Katrina Kaif in the role, however well Mohammed Abrar and Tunisha Sharma might pull off their younger versions. Neither possesses the wherewithal to appear enigmatic; their attempts at stoic silence only make them seem wooden. There is little chemistry between the two; their love story seems an inevitability of the plot and little else, with all the obstacles that we\u2019ve come to expect from conventional Bollywood romance. Again, it is left to Tabu to do all the narrative heavy lifting.\nIt\u2019s probably too much to expect a mainstream film to get its politics right, or even avoid the problematic depictions of reality that comprise the current formula. It is also, having spent a weekend watching various attempts, probably too much to expect an adaptation of Great Expectations to separate the wheat from the chaff and create a cinematic masterpiece. But it isn\u2019t too much, especially given Kapoor\u2019s more-than-competent work before this, to expect a film that doesn\u2019t cause you to cringe every time its protagonists open their mouth. Fitoor fails to clear even that low bar.\nLoveless Sociopath\u2014Or Bust\nSongs of Innocence, Songs of Experience\n[youtube url=\u201dhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE3aqmBEqQY&feature=youtu.be\u201d] Listen to their song \u2018WHO\u2019 from their album \u2018TRIPLET\u2019 For more songs visit\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 17855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kirkendalldwyer.com/areas-of-practice/pharmaceutical-medical-injury/diabetes-drugs-linked-to-cancer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:09Z", "digest": "sha1:3O2QNVVE52Z6D3AUA7PSUDJYIUEJ2IJX", "length": 3200, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "kirkendalldwyer.com", "title": "Diabetes Drugs Linked to Cancer |", "raw_content": "Drugs Used to Treat Diabetes Linked to Cancer\nType 2-diabetes is a chronic disease that affects over 29 million adults and children in the United States. It affects almost 1 in 8 people in the U.S., and is one of the most common and fastest growing diseases in the country as well. In addition to these numbers, over 79 million people are pre-diabetic, meaning they have high blood sugar levels, but not high enough to yet be considered fully diabetic. With long-term complications such as stroke, amputation of limbs, blindness, kidney disease, and heart disease, diabetes is a serious health threat in our country.\nMillions of people depend on drugs to treat and manage their diabetes, but the drugs themselves have been found to have serious, life-threatening side effects, including pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer, and heart failure. And while the high prevalence of Type 2 diabetes has led pharmaceutical companies to release several drugs to treat it, some of the drugs have now been linked to those serious complications.\nActos is a Type 2 diabetes medication manufactured by Takeda Pharmaceuticals that is a part of the class of drugs called thiazolidinediones. In 2011, the FDA warned that use of Actos for more than a year was associated with an increased risk for bladder cancer. Click here to read more about Actos bladder cancer.\nVictoza is another diabetes drug intended to control blood sugar levels. It was approved by the FDA with the intention of it being a second-line drug, meaning it should only be prescribed if other diabetes drugs were ineffective in controlling glucose levels. However, it skyrocketed in popularity and became one of Novo Nordisk\u2019s best sellers, with over 150,000 prescriptions being filled each month in the United States.\nVictoza has been linked to pancreatitis, pancreatic cancer, kidney failure, and thyroid tumors. Click here to read more about Victoza cancer.\nJanuvia is manufactured by Merck and belongs to a class of drugs called dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors, and is meant to improve blood sugar control. However, new studies show that patients taking Januvia are twice as likely to develop pancreatitis, which is a severe inflammation of the pancreas and kidneys linked to pancreatic cancer. Click here to read more about the risks of taking Januvia.\nLike Januvia, Byetta is a diabetes drug that also increases the level of the hormone GLP-1, meant to stimulate production of insulin in the pancreas. However, it too has been linked to doubling of the risk of pancreatitis. For more information on the risks of Byetta, please click here.\nKirkendall Dwyer LLP Can Help\nIf you have experienced any of these or other serious side effects from taking Type 2 diabetes treatments, you should contact a defective drug attorney at Kirkendall Dwyer LLP to discuss your case. Type 2 diabetes is a serious condition that needs to be controlled and treated, but the medication you have been prescribed should not create more complications than the disease itself. You deserve to be compensated for your injuries. Call our offices today to speak directly to an attorney who can evaluate your case. Our direct number is 877-503-1595.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 7280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 179.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://koolfmabilene.com/lindsey-buckingham-fleetwood-mac-fired/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:33Z", "digest": "sha1:5MTG4UROS44GD6KYJLHIOEQT3XCMGHE5", "length": 2753, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "koolfmabilene.com", "title": "Lindsey Buckingham: Stevie Nicks Forced Me Out of Fleetwood Mac", "raw_content": "Lindsey Buckingham has finally revealed the details of why he was fired from Fleetwood Mac.\nIn a new interview, he claims Stevie Nicks handed the band a him-or-me ultimatum after she felt slighted by his actions during their last performance together at the 2018 MusiCares Person of the Year benefit in January. Fleetwood Mac were given an award in recognition of their musical and philanthropic history at the event.\nAs Buckingham told Rolling Stone, a few days after the show he received a phone call from manager Irving Azoff, who proceeded to list various issues Nicks had with his behavior that night, including his complaints about their intro music being Nicks' \"Rhiannon\" and that he may have \"smirked\" while she was giving her acceptance speech.\n\u201cThe irony is that we have this standing joke that Stevie, when she talks, goes on a long time,\u201d Buckingham said about the latter point. \u201cI may or may not have smirked. But I look over, and Christine [McVie] and Mick [Fleetwood] are doing the waltz behind her as a joke.\u201d\nAs for their choice of intro song that night, Buckingham admitted he was against it, but said Nicks took it the wrong way. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t about it being \u2018Rhiannon,\u2019\u2009\u201d he noted. \u201cIt just undermined the impact of our entrance. That\u2019s me being very specific about the right and wrong way to do something.\u201d\nRegardless of Buckingham's defenses, Azoff gave him a direct message: \u201cStevie never wants to be on a stage with you again.\u201d\nBuckingham took this to mean she was quitting Fleetwood Mac, so he emailed Fleetwood to discuss the band's future, but didn't hear back. So he called Azoff for clarification. \"\u2018This feels funny,'\" he recalled saying. \"'Is Stevie leaving the band, or am I getting kicked out?\u2019\u201d Azoff told Buckingham he was \"getting ousted\" because Nicks gave the band \"an ultimatum: Either you go or she\u2019s gonna go.\u201d\nWhile Buckingham admitted he didn't remember Azoff's exact words, he said \"that was the message.\"\nShortly after the news of Buckingham's departure was made public in April, Fleetwood said Buckingham's unwillingness to tour this year was the reason for his dismissal. The only other public comments Buckingham made prior to Rolling Stone's interview were at a May fundraiser, where he said that the band had \"lost their perspective.\"\n\"What that did was to harm \u2013 and this is the only thing I'm really sad about; the rest of it becomes an opportunity \u2013 it harmed the 43-year legacy that we had worked so hard to build,\" he explained at the time. \"That legacy was really about rising above difficulties in order to fulfill one's higher truth and one's higher destiny.\"\nSource: Lindsey Buckingham Says Stevie Nicks Forced Him Out of Fleetwood Mac\nFiled Under: fleetwood mac, lindsey buckingham, Stevie Nicks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 4341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://koracing.net/products.php?folder=138", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:32Z", "digest": "sha1:6F4HZW4NP2NNIPPH6ATWJDEJ5KOHGP7S", "length": 29, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "koracing.net", "title": "KORACING :: High Quality Automotive Parts - Products", "raw_content": "Intercooler & Blow-Off Valves", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 258.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kpdkbuildtech.com/new-residential-projects-delhi-ncr-dream-come-true/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:IGLPM7CJ25BCYGULV2ELONKK2NWOQNCW", "length": 1745, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kpdkbuildtech.com", "title": "New Residential Projects in Delhi NCR", "raw_content": "After the arrival of the new government, there has truly been liveliness in the market. More and more people looking to own their dream house are considering to invest in new residential projects in Delhi NCR. The budget set by the government for infrastructure development has proven immensely beneficial for the real estate sector.\nAreas like Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad and Faridabad have been recognized as a hotspot for the growth of real estate. There are several well-known builders who have taken up the job of constructing beautiful houses that can serve one\u2019s residential needs in every way you could think of.\nDelhi NCR have emerged as an ultimate destination for those who are looking to make the most of housing options.\nWhy should you consider investing in new residential projects in Delhi NCR?\nMaking a sound investment has always been the lucrative factor. Truth be told, there are a lot of builders as well as developers who are introducing ambitious projects to the real estate sector. Some of these projects are already in full swing while others seem to be in diverse phases of development.\nPrices for new residential projects in Delhi NCR are at their most affordable state thus making the investment even more lucrative at this moment. Coupled with great offers from different builder groups and a housefull of modern amenities, this is by far the best time to invest in new residential projects in Delhi NCR.\nWhat\u2019s more? There have been announcements for several new projects, and they have certainly had a positive effect on the real estate market. Thus, investing in new residential projects in Delhi NCR is the smartest decision you could ever make.\nInvesting in these projects seems more like a dream come true.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 191.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kreekhuske.com/wp/en/appartement2/beneden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BWMG5W2PNE6IGWRUGDE624AODKUDUTES", "length": 377, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kreekhuske.com", "title": "B&B 't Kreekhuske \u2013 The apartment downstairs", "raw_content": "The apartment downstairs has an entrance of its own as well It has a dining area and in the kitchen you will find the same equipment as in the attic apartment The shower and toilet are located in a separate room. The sleeping area is equipped with a box spring from which you can watch T.V. or enjoy the view outside. Through the window door you will find your private terrace.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://krls.org/index.php/events/2018-12-18/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:29Z", "digest": "sha1:QGQVPHALYQ2Z4CG6PS5ZUFGT3AME5VS4", "length": 360, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "krls.org", "title": "Events for December 18, 2018KRLS", "raw_content": "YA Book Club: Little Women \u2013 Bemidji\nJoin us in December for this month's discussion of Louise May Alcott's \"Little Women\": The story follows the four March girls through about 15 years of their lives and is written in a very pronounced omniscient voice. Each girl has an imaginary \"castle\" for which she hopes, but each ends with a very different \"future\" [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 3941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 255.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ladbrokeassociation.info/LADBROKECRESCENT.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:39Z", "digest": "sha1:KXQQH5LUZCANRYHRDWFIYVYV74TQ5KRF", "length": 8995, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "ladbrokeassociation.info", "title": "LADBROKE CRESCENT", "raw_content": "LADBROKE CRESCENT\nLadbroke Terrace is one of the most architecturally uniform and best preserved streets on the Ladbroke estate. Its preservation is all the more remarkable as it only recently became part of the conservation area, and is in the \u2018rough\u2019 northern part of the estate that suffered dreadfully from poverty, bad landlords and general neglect in the middle part of the 20th century, resulting in dilapidated and damaged houses in most streets. Miraculously, the houses in Ladbroke Crescent have retained almost all their stucco detailing, and \u2013 apart from the loss of several houses to bomb damage at the end of the south side \u2013 it looks very like it must have done when it was built.\nThe houses are numbered consecutively. Nos. 1-8 are on the south side (running from east to west), as were Nos. 9-12 before their demolition; and Nos. 13-24 (running from west to east) on the north side.\nOld postcard, early 20th century.\nLadbroke Crescent in 2014\nLadbroke Crescent belongs to the third and final great period of building on the Ladbroke estate and the houses were constructed in the 1860s. Development of this area had suddenly become more attractive with the opening in 1864 of the Hammersmith and City line of the Metropolitan Railway with a station on Ladbroke Grove (the station was originally called \u2018Notting Hill\u2019), and the introduction in the early 1860s of cheap workmen\u2019s fares.\nBy that time the Ladbroke family had disposed of the land, either by selling the freehold or by giving 99-year peppercorn rents. The land on which Ladbroke Crescent lies was in the hands of the speculator and ex-Calcutta merchant Charles Blake, who had already developed successfully several other parts of the Ladbroke estate. In 1864, he granted a lease of the whole crescent to G. and T. Goodwin, builders. The normal pattern was no doubt followed, according to which the builder had to build houses meeting certain standards; he was then given a 99-year lease of the property which he could let, thus recovering his costs, but he had had to pay a ground rent to the landowner (typically \u00a310 in Ladbroke Crescent). In early 1865, the Goodwins began advertising their new houses in the Times:\nNOTTING-HILL. Genteel superior residences to be LET, in Ladbroke-crescent, 10 and 13 rooms, bathroom, plate glass, gas and every convenience. Rent 50 guineas and \u00a375. Apply to G. and T. Goodwin, 4 Ladbroke-crescent, Ladbroke-road, close to Notting Hill Railway Station.\nIt is not clear how successful they were in attracting the sort of purchaser they had in mind. Some middle class families with usually one servant moved in. In 1900, for instance, the occupant of No. 4 was advertising for a \u2018parlour maid, experienced, trustworthy, middle-aged, in a gentleman\u2019s family. Good references.\u2019 But the census indicates that most of the houses were soon in multi-occupation, or occupied by people letting rooms. In 1866, for instance, \u2018furnished apartments, with or without board, for a lady and gentleman or two gentlemen\u2019 were being advertised at No. 6, offering \u2018every home comfort, with perfect cleanliness, may be relied on. An extra bedroom if required.\u2019 And a bit later, the occupant of No. 20 was advertising a \u2018parlour, with large bedroom upstairs, at 25s per week. Good cooking and attendance.\u2019\nIt seems that letting was not always easy in an area that was probably only on the edge of gentility, especially as the 20th century began. The following is an article that appeared in the Times of 2 January 1909:\nYesterday afternoon some lads found in a dustbin in the basement of a house in Ladbroke-crescent, Notting-hill, the dead body of a woman. The house is let in flats and the lower flat is unoccupied. The lads informed a postman of the discovery, and a policeman and two doctors were called. When found, the body, which, except for a pair of socks, was naked, was in a cramped position, huddled up, and the right arm, which was hanging limp, appeared to have been broken at the shoulder. The back appeared to be covered with bruises or sores. The woman had black curly hair, which was drawn back from the forehead. Near the dustbin was a quantity of female clothing, including a hat, a cape, skirt and a pair of boots. The dustbin stood under the area steps. It is in the form of a wooden box about 4 ft. long and 3 ft. wide, with a hinged top and a small sliding door at the bottom. When first discovered the body showed some signs of warmth, and it is believed that the woman had only been dead a few hours when the body was found. It was removed to the Kensington Mortuary. The age of the woman is variously given as about 25 and 40. Although the body had not been identified up to 8 o\u2019clock last night, the woman is said to be known to the police, and to belong to Notting-dale. The police state that there were no marks of violence, but that the woman probably died of starvation and privation, the body being very emaciated.\nIn 1895, 7 Ladbroke Crescent harboured the Committee Rooms (office) of the North Kensington Conservative Association. During the first half of the 20th century, the area went steadily downhill, becoming more slummy and probably reaching its nadir in the 1950s, at the time of the Notting Hill Race Riots, when a 21-year old inhabitant of the Crescent was convicted of carrying offensive weapons, to whit a spanner and file, in Lancaster Road during the riots. Since then, however, the area has been steadily improving.\n1935 Ordnance Survey map showing the plan of Ladbroke Crescent before the end of the terrace was demolished. Note that there was a convenient pub at the end of the road.\nLadbroke Crescent is the outermost of the great series of crescents on this side of Ladbroke Grove. Unusually for this late period, the houses are full stucco. They are in the classical mode, with inter alia Tuscan columns on their porches. An unusual feature is the pierced stucco balconies.\nNos. 6, 7 and 8 Ladbroke Crescent in 2008. The rest of the houses on this side (Nos. 9-12) were demolished following bomb damage.\nNos. 23-24 (at the Ladbroke Grove end) are double-fronted and bigger than their neighbours, very grand for this area. No. 24 (and the first two houses on the other side of the road, Nos. 1-2) are also distinguished from their peers by having different pediments above their first floor windows, as did no doubt the corresponding houses at the other end of the terrace, to create a \u2018bookending\u2019 effect. But there is no indication that the west end of the terrace had bigger houses, so Nos. 23-24 seem to have been a one-off, probably to compensate for the fact that they are shallower than their neighbours because of the curving of the crescent. What is now No. 25 was part of building on the north-west corner with Ladbroke Grove, now No. 25A but originally 131 Ladbroke Grove.\nNone of the houses is listed or subject to an Article 4 direction.\nRecommendations on Article 4 Directions and Listing\nThere is no case for listing any of the buildings in Ladbroke Crescent, but we strongly recommend that all the houses should be subject to an Article 4 direction requiring planning permission for any changes to the fronts of the houses (other than paint colour). This is an exceptionally handsome and well-preserved terrace for the area, and it would be thoroughly retrograde if owners or householders could make potentially harmful changes to the fronts without first seeking planning permission.\nRecommendations to householders and guidance to planners.\nIn order to preserve the beauty of this crescent, we recommend:\nPreservation of all the existing stucco decoration.\nIf any dormers are erected on the few houses currently without them, they should be set back and no higher than existing ones, to minimise visibility from the street.\nWhatever colour is chosen for the stucco (and pastel colours are to be preferred), the details (decoration round windows, etc) should be picked out in white.\nFront window frames should be painted white.\nFront railings should conform to the existing pattern and be painted black.\nTrailing wires over the fronts of the houses should be removed wherever possible.\nDownpipes on the front of the houses should be painted to match the colour of the stucco, and if possible resituated so that they are out of sight. No new downpipes should be installed on the fronts of the houses.\nThere are deeds relating to Nos. 10,11, 12, 16 and 18 Ladbroke Crescent in the Kensington and Chelsea Local Studies Centre that include details of the original leases. Both the 99-year leases and the freeholds were bought and sold as investments, and by 1865 the freeholds of these properties (and probably of others in the Crescent) were acquired by the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital, no doubt to form part of an income earning property portfolio. After the houses were bombed in the Second World War, the Hospital sold the bomb damaged sites to the Borough in 1955 for the erection temporary housing. 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It can be used to evaluate the animal\u2019s heart, kidneys, liver, gallbladder, and bladder; to detect fluid, cysts, tumors, or abscesses; and to confirm pregnancy or monitor an ongoing pregnancy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 169.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lakewaychurch.com/connect/ways-to-serve", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KXD2YSVVLKJ7L45ISWAYLTLKVGNIAQWT", "length": 1635, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "lakewaychurch.com", "title": "Lakeway Community Church | Ways to Serve", "raw_content": "More than a just a group of individuals, we are a team working together toward a common goal: connecting people with God and with each other.\nThe Bible describes the Church by using the image of a physical body where each person is like a part of the body: a hand, foot, eye, etc. This means that we were never called to be alone, isolated, detached from others. This also means that we should expect differences, different abilities, interests and passions.\nAt LCC we desire to help each person find their unique giftedness and plug into a place within the church or the community to use those gifts. Everyone has a purpose and part to play from the oldest to the youngest.\nWe desire to be intentionally \"missional,\" which means we want to see the needs around us and step in and help. Examples of community organizations with which we currently partner are LOC Resources and Stepping Out Ministries.\nBy partnering with other churches, civic organizations and businesses, we recognize the unique role of Lakeway Community Church in our area and equally affirm the role of the Church (that's church with a capital \"C\"--representing all Christ-followers and congregations throughout the\nLakeway area and the world) in the lives of our community. Lakeway cannot meet every need, and we believe Christians throughout our community are making a positive difference in people's lives--and we want to join with God wherever He is working.\nPlease contact the church office at (423) 581-2945 or e-mail us to learn how you can get involved.\nGrounds / Building Maintenance\nRefreshments / Coffee Set-up\nBenevolence Team\nVolunteer at LOC Resources", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lalsgroup.com/brands/details.aspx?id=70", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:54Z", "digest": "sha1:VHXOYMQLVTFDZKASR7WMY2FXYM36KD6S", "length": 919, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "lalsgroup.com", "title": "Sharjah Shopping Center | Lals Group", "raw_content": "As one of the top fashion destinations in the world, the UAE is considered a shopping haven. Since opening in the year 1999, the Lals Group has actively contributed in this respect providing shoppers with one of the most exciting and enterprising shopping centres in the UAE.\nBoasting a prime location in Al Rolla, the Sharjah Shopping Centre is among one of the busies shopping districts. Among others, the shopping centre is also home to UAE\u2019s most renowned commodity \u2013 gold. Customers are can enjoy the luxury of shopping at over 30 outlets including world famous brands like Damas, Pure Gold and Atlas Jewellery.\nIn addition, one can also find there the hugely popular KM Trading department store, spread over two whole floors providing customers with a one stop shop for all their needs from household and electronics to garments and cosmetics.\nSharjah Shopping Center\nAl Arouba Street, Al Ghuwair\nP.O. Box. 38544,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://laveco.com/from_the_managing_director_s_desk/will_the_world_be_different_without_offshore_structures_", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:29Z", "digest": "sha1:N2HXUUSOEPTXT7DEC4CAUC23FNEMG2MV", "length": 9875, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "laveco.com", "title": "\ufeff Will the world be different without offshore structures?", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb From the Managing Director's desk \u00bb Will the world be different without offshore structures?\nThe self-professed \u201eexperts\u201d have been frightening clients and anyone interested with the apocalypse facing the offshore financial world in 2017. Everything we have known to date is going to collapse around us, everything is going to be transparent and they are going to know everything about everybody, because the banks are going to report to the tax authorities all over the world.\nFirst of all, let\u2019s see just exactly who these experts are. In numerous cases the experts are only experts because they say that they are. There is no more precise definition, there is no state or private institution behind the individual, and they have appointed themselves to these positions of responsibility. They then give their opinions on a process which has not yet begun, of which there is no experience, and which cannot be compared to anything we have seen so far. The exchange of information taking shape at the moment is much more complicated than, for example, the FATCA.\nEven this wouldn\u2019t bother me though, if these experts knew what they were talking about. Instead they tend to scare the life out of people, who were already paranoid, and after which it is very difficult to put them straight. In a one hour meeting they manage to create unfounded fears to such an extent that the client becomes totally confused. Naturally they do this with the intention that they will then serve up the solution on a plate. The trouble is that all too often the solution doesn\u2019t materialise, and all that is left is conceptions with no substance, empty speculation and little more than gossip.\nLet\u2019s see where the process currently stands. The OECD Global Forum published a \u201cstatement of outcomes\u201d of the meeting of ministers held on October 28-29 2014, in which it noted that 89 countries have issued statements of intent to sign up to the agreements on the automatic exchange of information. According to the plans, the first group of countries will start exchanging information from October 2017, with the second group joining from October 2018. There is also a handful of countries who have not yet decided when they would like to accede to the system. Those who report from 2017 will exchange information beginning from the year 2016, while those reporting from 2018 will begin with information relating to 2017.\nAssuming, of course, that the legal and technical backgrounds are both in place. In July 2014 the OECD published on its website (www.oecd.gov) a model of the agreement which countries must sign to make information exchange possible. There are two main types of agreement. One is the bilateral agreement, where two countries agree on the exchange of information, while the other, the multilateral agreement, sees a number of countries joining the system as a group. Bilateral agreements can be reciprocal, whereby both countries give and receive information, or non-reciprocal, when only one of the parties gives information (the latter is recommended by the OECD in cases where, for example, one of the contracting countries has no personal income tax requirements).\nThe material published by the OECD in July sets down in detail exactly what has to be provided by the banks in the exchange of information, and this information is available to be studied by the bankers. Despite this, in my opinion the banks will need a considerable amount of time and expense to prepare the necessary software. At the current time, the banking systems are not prepared for the supply of information, and the question is whether they will be able to guarantee the technical background required by January 1st 2016. In order to be able to start collecting information in January 2016, the technical side must be operational.\nThis, however, will not be enough. The banks will find themselves faced with tasks which will cause them real headaches. One of the most difficult of these will be the precise definition of a \u201creportable person\u201d in the case of foreign individuals and companies. And this has been delegated to the banks: they have to decide who qualifies as a reportable person for each and every client and account. In the case of individuals, it seems quite straightforward, but when it comes to companies, the complications really begin. I don\u2019t want to go into minute detail here, because even a summary would be very long and intricate. The banks\u2019 lawyers weren\u2019t exactly over the moon when they had to arrange everything to do with FATCA, and that only meant that they \u2013 or the banks \u2013 had to report on one country, the USA.\nNow, according to the plans, this will be a worldwide process, with \u201ceverybody reporting to almost everybody.\u201d First of all, however, the countries have to sign the agreements mentioned earlier. Without this, it is not possible to establish either the legal banking background or the technological side. If the OECD only plans to publish its new Terms of Reference and Methodology in October, how will there be time for all this? But that is what appeared in their communication in October.\nTwo months is an extremely short period for the establishment of such a serious system carrying so much responsibility. In my opinion, if the whole thing kicks off at all, it will be with delays, last minute rush and a good dose of chaos. This can be foreseen even now. The banking system comes up against considerable obstacles when faced with the performance of much smaller tasks. Here though, the banks even have to decide on the starting point: who do they have to report? Who and to whom? For example, where would a Swiss bank send a report if the account was for a company from Cyprus whose director was a Serb resident in Dubai? There are numerous unanswered questions. Anyway, let\u2019s look at the worst scenario, which sees the system being started and reports being made. The tax authorities will be inundated with information on which beneficial owners have accounts where. Just to make things complicated, let\u2019s look at a company account in a Swiss bank. The Swiss reported to the national tax authority concerned. They are then faced with the most difficult task in their history to date. They have to compare the tax and asset returns of the individual concerned with the information received from abroad. Although in many cases now the onus is, paradoxically, on the taxpayer to provide proof, it would be very difficult to state that the interest accrued on a foreign company\u2019s bank account is automatically the private income of the individual and that he should pay tax on it. Firstly, we are talking about a company, which, for one reason or another, may have made a loss during the given year. Secondly, a company may have several owners, who distribute the company profits, or are entitled to a share of any non-distributed profit in accordance with the terms of the Memorandum and Articles of Association. So, the matter is not as black and white as the experts frightening clients to death would have us believe. And I haven\u2019t even touched upon the \u201ccreative accounting solutions\u201d of the common law system.\nI can also say with some certainty that the countries are going to argue over implementation as well. Let\u2019s be honest, every rule is only worth as much as can be achieved through it. If the USA only wants to receive information, but give nothing, then capital will flow their way. This, however, will not go down too well with their age old ally, the United Kingdom. And if the English can have something, then this will encourage the Germans, who won\u2019t want to miss out, and an Anglo-German standoff is on the cards. I could go on to list the conflicts of interest between the big players, as a result of which the whole thing is going to become much more relaxed.\nThere will, without a doubt, be something in the financial world, and we have to be prepared for it. Where possible, the necessary arrangements should be put in place during the 2015 tax year. Because if we take again the worst case scenario and the system does manage to start in 2016, then those structures which satisfy the requirements of the new system while still allowing us to enjoy the relative financial freedom which we have become accustomed to must be in place in 2015. On the basis of my 23 years in the business, I can state that there will always be solutions, good solutions, better solutions and even better solutions. The type of structure established is merely a question of time and money. First of all, however, it is a question of choice and being resolved. A service provider such as LAVECO Ltd. offers its clients excellent opportunities when it comes to solutions. This does require, however, the right level of client receptiveness. At the end of the day, after all, we can only implement solutions, it is the client who has to make the ultimate decision.\nIn summary, having been born into the Christian culture, I have to state that they drew up excellent moral rules for us 2000 years ago in the Ten Commandments. I wonder, though, whether 2000 years on there is less adultery or theft. How effective have those moral rules been? It certainly provides food for thought, though obviously everything is relative. Here in Hungary, for example, we are now better able to observe the \u201cRemember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy\u201d rule, since shops are now closed on Sundays, so we have more time to spend with the family. As to whether or not it will have an effect on the other rules, though, that will be analysed by someone else in another 2000 years. And don\u2019t be surprised if the analysis reads something like this: \u201cwhile some, instead of going to church on Sunday morning preferred to sleep longer, others took advantage of this innocent snoozing to go and steal or even commit adultery\uf04a\u201d\nWishing you a pleasant read and reflection,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 12129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 176.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lawrencekids.net/event/toddler-storytime-86/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:27Z", "digest": "sha1:YA5QJSJ6FAJYLDSWTVNVK34PW6TZPNUE", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lawrencekids.net", "title": "Toddler Storytime - Lawrence Kids Calendar", "raw_content": "For 2-year-olds with their families", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 756, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 115.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lbloom.net/xwhit02.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:33Z", "digest": "sha1:7ADL5NXKSQQRT2IJLS4BRSE6Y5HMZCWB", "length": 1576, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lbloom.net", "title": "2002 Whitman County Employees List", "raw_content": "This is a list of the 2002 Whitman County employees and their job title and salaries.(pop 40,740)(283 employees)\nWhitman County was established on November 29, 1871, in the area that now makes up Whitman, Franklin and Adams counties. The County was reduced to its current size of approximately 2,159 square miles in 1883 when Franklin and Adams counties were formed. The population of the County in 2005 was approximately 40,000. The County is governed by three elected Commissioners and nine other elected officials. The County operates on a $34 million annual budget. Its 225 permanent employees provide traditional public services including road construction and maintenance, public health services, judicial services, health and social services, law enforcement, solid waste disposal, recycling, parks and recreation facilities, County fair and noxious weed control.\n2002 Whitman County List of Employees, Job Title and Salary\nHere's a link to the Whitman County webpage. http://www.wacounties.org/waco/county/whitman.html\nHere's page 1 of the Whitman County employees and salaries list I received on 6/28/2002\nHere's the freedom of information request letter I sent to Whitman County.\nHere's the freedom of information response letter I got from Whitman County. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Ronald Shirley didn't release the employees names, and gave some legal reasons for doing that. I think he's incorrect, but I won't push it now. There is a lawsuit at the court of appeals now, (June, 2002), which will settle that issue. Most government entities have released names.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 174.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB43", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:02Z", "digest": "sha1:A2L7TSJOWJEONEUKC3UTBIEWAMTNWX3P", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "leginfo.legislature.ca.gov", "title": "Bill Analysis", "raw_content": "04/21/17- Assembly Revenue And Taxation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 205.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lessismoremusic.co.uk/home/press-releases/aks-unveils-stay-with-me-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:05Z", "digest": "sha1:CFW7SL3DI332YMJLQMMV52IOXYKHNG6F", "length": 2964, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "lessismoremusic.co.uk", "title": "AKS Unveils \u2018Stay With Me\u2019 Video, Announces Long Awaited Sophomore EP \u2018Train Of Thought\u2019 | Less Is More Music", "raw_content": "AKS Unveils \u2018Stay With Me\u2019 Video, Announces Long Awaited Sophomore EP \u2018Train Of Thought\u2019 \u2022\n\u201cRemember that name\u2026 AKS, he\u2019s the future!\u201d \u2013 Young Guru (Roc Nation)\n\u201cOne of the new breed of excellent UK rap artists\u2026\u201d \u2013 Hypetrak\nWatch Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie8GWanpkpc\nIt\u2019s been five years since British Hip Hop artist AKS released his debut EP The Bus Stop to critical acclaim, with the likes of BBC 1Xtra, Hypetrak, Okayplayer, SoulCulture and the MOBO Awards among the tastemakers that championed the seminal EP. Boasting hugely popular singles \u2018House Called Home\u2019 and \u2018Truth Be Told (I, I, I)\u2019, The Bus Stop was also co-signed by Mercury Prize winner Speech Debelle, Roc Nation\u2019s Young Guru andSo Solid Crew\u2019s Swiss.\nFast-forward to 2016 and AKS is back with the Train Of Thought EP \u2013 his long-awaited and highly anticipated sophomore EP and the second project in his three-part \u2018Modes Of Transport\u2019 series \u2013 which is scheduled for release on May 27 via Less Is More Music. To accompany this announcement, AKS is proud to unveil \u2018Stay With Me\u2019 featuring British soul singer-songwriter Sincerely Wilson (Jamie Woon, Matthew Herbert), as the first single from his forthcoming EP, premiered via EARMILK.\nProduced by long-time collaborator DemDrums (PartyNextDoor, EA Games, Joe Grind), with piano accompaniment by Matthew Smith, \u2018Stay With Me\u2019 is a soulful homage to three important elements in AKS\u2019 life \u2013 his wife, his listeners and his music. Backed by grandiose piano licks, heavy drums and lush bass arrangements, and complimented by Sincerely Wilson\u2019s smooth melodic tones, AKS delivers an impassioned account of how or even if he still fits into the UK Hip-Hop landscape.\nThe accompanying visuals for \u2018Stay With Me\u2019, which were directed by Chas Appeti (Krept & Konan, Maverick Sabre, Ghetts), brilliantly capture the very essence of the record. The simple yet captivating video offers a compelling and fitting narrative for AKS\u2019 loving relationship with his music, providing one of the most reflective and personal visual efforts we\u2019ve ever seen from AKS.\nSpeaking about his hiatus from the scene and the inspiration for \u2018Stay With Me\u2019, AKS said, \u201cThe reality for me is that music is one part of my life and it became important for me to stop taking the rest of my life for granted. I had to live, I had to grow, and I had to love. So I did. I\u2019m married now, which is testament to the growth during my time away. \u2018Stay With Me\u2019 is for the woman I love, the art form I live with, the people who\u2019ve supported me as I\u2019ve grown and for those who waited!\u201d\nPre-Order AKS Train Of Thought EP on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/iTOTEP\nPhysical Copies also available: http://aksmusic.co.uk\nCONNECT WITH AKS\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/AKSonline\nTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/AKSonline\nSoundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/AKSonline\nPlease direct all media and press inquiries to Ayo Adepoju: ayodele@wepluggoodmusic.com\nMay 13, 2016 \u2022 0 Comments \u2022 \u2022", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://libertywines.ie/producers/view/GIZ01ES/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:44Z", "digest": "sha1:I3XBJXP6L5QNVHLNRDDGR5SJC6RRUYLR", "length": 1986, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "libertywines.ie", "title": "Izadi / Producer List / Explore Producers by Country / Liberty Wines (Ireland)", "raw_content": "www.izadi.com\nOwned and run by Lalo Anton and his family, 'Izadi', which means 'nature' in the Basque language, is a project established from a passion for gastronomy and wine. The estate was founded in 1987 by Gonzalo Anton, Lalo's father, who at the age of 37 and with a background in restaurants, decided to create his own winery. As a result, they produce modern, perfumed, food friendly wines that are true to their roots and a natural expression of the area, unhindered by the sort of deviant flavours that are all too common in Rioja. As well as the winery, the family also run the Michelin-starred restaurant, Zaldiaran, in nearby Vitoria. The winery sits in the small village of Villabuena in the Rioja Alavesa, the highest part of the region, at 400-600 metres above sea level.\nAll of the 189 hectares of vineyards, either owned or leased on long term contracts, are located in the triangle formed by the three villages of Villabuena, Samaniego and Abalos. Due to the high altitude, there is a dramatic difference (up to 20\u00b0C) in temperature between night and day, which encourages the development of aromatics in the grapes. The distinctive white calcareous soils are mainly planted with old Tempranillo vines, traditionally bush trained for better exposure to the sun and ranging from 30-100 years old.\nWinemaker Ang\u00e9l Ortega\nOwner Lalo Anton\nMy inspirational vineyard\nMy favourite vineyard is Finca Villacreces. We have 55 hectares in an area between a forest of centenary pine trees and the river Duero. The site itself is engaging, but what is even more interesting, is the complexity and variation of the soil types as you move through the estate. This complexity is almost perfectly segmented into 20 plots, each of which is planted separately. The different flavour profiles of the resulting grapes are so unique for each plot, that, for me, making the final blends is always one of the most exciting times in the winery. Lalo Anton\nRioja Blanco\n`Larrosa` Rioja Rosado", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lifeandtimesofthefireflies.co.za/2013/05/05/for-love-of-cupcakes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TDTVFVTTDSQEWUITP4W65TJMPZUU5B5T", "length": 1254, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lifeandtimesofthefireflies.co.za", "title": "For the love of Cupcakes! \u2013 Life and Times of the Fireflies", "raw_content": "All who know me knows that I have a passion for the kitchen. Since my youth, you\u2019d always find me milling about in the kitchen, scouting for new recipe books and trying out new recipes. Of all my sisters, I\u2019m probably the only one that cooks and bakes for the love of it and not out of necessity\u2026\nIt\u2019s probably, then, a big pity that I have not been doing enough of it, or that my time in the kitchen has been reduced to rushed menu\u2019s\u2026I\u2019ve somewhat thrown in the towel on something that is a very big part of me, something that I find rather therapeutic. It\u2019s a sad fact, that the last time I\u2019ve made pastries was 12years ago!\nI\u2019ve been thinking a lot lately, about rekindling that passion and re-awakening a part of me that\u2019s been slowly dying. The kitchen, you see, has become a symbol synonymous with torture. The reasons for that are rather complicated\u2026but I\u2019ve figured, just as I have picked up my pen and started writing, I might as well put on my apron and start baking. After all, I would hate to disappoint those who know me, and know I love to bake!\n\u201cUntil I discovered cooking, I was never really interested in anything.\u201d Julia Child.\nMay 5, 2013 Posted in: Recipes\nRecipe \u2013 Banana Choc Chip Cake\nNot a losing battle\u2026\tConfessions of a Belieber", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lifebitesnews.com/tinsletown_archive.php?TinsletownIssue=1012", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:45Z", "digest": "sha1:WB76AHO4LCBZKOWK4V7ZOFBA6O2IEESA", "length": 9724, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "lifebitesnews.com", "title": "Bonnie Carroll's Life Bites - Tinsletown Tidbits", "raw_content": "Photo: Courtesy of Gary Lambert/Daily Sound\nHarrison Ford was honored with the Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, in an event at the Coral Casino in Montecito.\nAttendees included Kirk Douglas, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Jon Favreau, Andy Davis, Ivan Reitman, Roberto Orci, Alan Thicke and Shaun Toms\nPhotos by Bonnie Carroll\nSBIFF FAVORITE ANNETTE BENING TO RECEIVE THE\nThe Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) is thrilled to welcome back three-time Academy Award nominee Annette Bening by bestowing her with the American Riviera Award. Bening, who has received critical acclaim this year for her performances in The Kids Are All Right and Mother and Child, will be honored at the Arlington Theatre on Friday, January 28 for the Fest\ufffds 26th edition, which runs January 27- February 6, 2011. Bening was previously honored in 2005.\n\ufffdI fell in love with Annette Bening the moment I saw her on Broadway in Coastal Disturbances in 1987,\" commented SBIFF Executive Director Roger Durling. \ufffdIt was one of those \ufffda star is born\ufffd moments. Ever since, she's been one of my favorite actresses, and she will always have a home here at the festival.\ufffd\nThe American Riviera Award was established to recognize an actor who has had a strong influence on American Cinema. Bening will join an illustrious group of past recipients: Sandra Bullock (10), Mickey Rourke (09), Tommy Lee Jones (08), Forrest Whitaker (07), Philip Seymour Hoffman (06), Kevin Bacon (05) and Diane Lane (04).\nIn her most recent performance as Nic in The Kids Are All Right, she expertly navigated through a vast range of emotions, bringing to light and life the non-traditional family with a character determined to keep her family together. Earlier this year in Mother and Child saw Bening personify a very different character in Karen who was isolated and distant in her relationships with everyone. Proving yet again that she is not one to shy away from a challenge, she took on two diametrically opposed versions of the modern day mother.\nFrom her work in romantic comedies such as The American President and American Beauty, to her dramatic and compelling performances in Being Julia, Regarding Henry and The Grifters, Bening consistently embraces the story as well as the character adding a level of authenticity rarely seen on screen. She has time and again made a significant contribution to the world of films and of America throughout her career.\nThe festivities will take place at the historic Arlington Theatre on Friday, January 28, 2011. Tickets for the American Rivera Award are available now, discounted 20% until November 30 and can be purchased through www.sbfilmfestival.org or by calling 805-963-0023. Mini-Paks for the festival are currently discounted at 20%, while Festival Passes and Packages are currently discounted at 15% and on sale exclusively at www.sbfilmfestival.org and 805-963-0023.\nThe Santa Barbara International Film Festival, presented by lynda.com, is set to run January 27 - February 6, 2011. Now in its 26th year, SBIFF is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching local culture and raising consciousness of film as an art form and continues to be an essential stop on the road to the Oscars. SBIFF presents quality American Independent, Spanish and Latin American, European, World and Documentary cinema, as well as nature and surf films, all within the beautiful setting of downtown Santa Barbara, a perfect backdrop and premier tourist destination. SBIFF is also committed to education through its 10-10-10 youth filmmakers project, Field Trip to the Movies, and educational seminars. With a projected audience of over 70,000 viewing more than 200 films over its eleven-day run, SBIFF attracts an eclectic and diverse consumer base, both locally and nationally, while maintaining strong ties with the entertainment industry in nearby Los Angeles. For more information, please visit www.sbfilmfestival.org.\nKATE MIDDLETON'S SIBLINGS DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS ENGAGED\n\"Extra\" caught up with famed journalist Martin Bashir to find out his thoughts on Prince William and Kate Middleton's engagement.\nBashir -- who knew Prince William's mother, the late Princess Diana, very well -- said that the Prince and his fiancee plan to keep their life as private as possible.\n\"Kate's brother and sister were told that she got engaged just three hours before it was announced publicly,\" Bashir said, despite the fact the pair has reportedly been engaged since October. \"They told virtually nobody.\"\nBashir believed William's insistence on privacy comes from Princess Diana's relationship with the media. \"I think in part that's because of Prince William's experience of his mother's life. She was in the newspapers every single day... much of her life was played out like a soap opera\nThe journalist added, \"If there is one thing that Prince William doesn't want, is any of that. In a way, I think he's almost tested the Middleton family. They've been together for something like nine years. He's been to the family home. Has that ever been discussed in the press? No! Has it ever been leaked to a journalist? No!\"\nBashir also thinks this union will last. \"I think this is much more about romance than anything else. William met this young lady at University. He didn't meet her at a polo match or on the grounds at Buckingham Palace. He met her at University. There's a certain meritocracy about this relationship. And I think that a more modern marriage that a traditional one.\"\nTHE BEVERLY HILTON HOTEL FOR SALE\nANNUAL HOST OF THE GOLDEN GLOBES UP FOR SALE\nThe Beverly Hilton hotel has been listed for sale with global commercial real estate brokers Cushman & Wakefield for the purpose of exploring the market, sources told The Courier exclusively, today.\nA sale price has yet to be determined.\nSources with The Beverly Hilton's ownership said that last month's sale of the 9900 Wilshire project \"triggered a great deal of interest in The Beverly Hilton property.\" 9900 Wilshire, which is adjacent to the hotel, sold to a group of Asian investors for $148.3 million.\nSince its purchase in 2003, Beverly Hilton owner Beny Alagem has invested more than $80 million to return the hotel to its former prominence. Alagem acquired the property from Merv Griffin for an estimated $130 million.\nTNT SERIES 'MEN OF A CERTAIN AGE' SPONSORED 'CHEER ZONE' AT NYC MARATHON\nShow Will Engage In Similar Mid-Point Marketing At Four Other Long-Distance Races\nTNT's upcoming series Men of a Certain Age is going to attempt to break through the clutter that is the New York City Marathon on Sunday.\nThe series, starring Ray Romano, Scott Bakula and Andre Braugher as longtime friends in the middle of their lives, will have a presence on 59th Street and 1st Avenue, just after the racer's enter the borough over the Queensboro Bridge. Men of a Certain Age will be part of the \"Cheer Zone\" located at the Food Emporium Bridgemarket, which will be festooned with show banners and signage, as well as street teams handling out series items outside the supermarket. TNT will also sponsor a Men of a Certain Age team of 40 runners over the age of 40 who will wear custom T-shirs.\nThe ING New York City Marathon will be presented live on Universalsports.com at 9 a.m. on Nov. 1. In addition, NBC Sports will televise the 40th edition on the race at 2 p.m. Al Trautwig will be joined in the broadcast booth by veteran race journalist Toni Reavis with NBC Sports' Jimmy Roberts hosting the expanded two-hour recap show.\nTNT also plans to back the series, which premieres Monday Dec. 7 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT) with similar sponsorships at upcoming marathons in San Antonio (Nov. 15), Atlanta (Nov. 26), Seattle (Nov. 29), and Sacramento, Calif. (Dec. 6).\n\"Running a marathon is a metaphor for life,\" said Tricia Melton, senior vice president of marketing for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies, in a statement. \"Reaching the mid-point means new opportunities and new challenges. Our \ufffdCheer Zones' at the turning points in five city marathons are a great way to play up that idea, which is a central theme in TNT's Men of a Certain Age.\"\nSANTA BARBARA THEATRE ORGAN SOCIETY CELEBRATES 23 YEARS WITH SILENT FILM CLASSIC ACCOMPANIED BY ORGANIST SCOTT FOPPIANO ON THE \ufffdWONDER MORTON\ufffd AT THE ARLINGTON THEATRE JANUARY 22, 2011 AT 2:00\nIn 1988 the beautiful \ufffdWonder Morton\ufffd pipe organ made its debut in the Arlington Theatre, located at 1317 State Street in Santa Barbara. On January 22, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. the Santa Barbara Theatre Organ Society will host world renowned organist Scott Foppiano to accompany two silent film classics. Silent films being presented include silent film short \ufffdOne Week\ufffd starring Buster Keaton, and feature film \ufffdSafety Lost\ufffd with Harold Lloyd. Admission $11, free admission for children under 12 attending with an adult.\nThis 2011 performance marks the twenty-third anniversary celebration of the original installation of the \ufffdWonder Morton\ufffd theatre pipe organ in the historic Santa Barbara theatre. The Arlington Theatre organ is one of only five large theatre pipe organs manufactured by the Robert-Morton Company of Van Nuys, California in the 1920s. \ufffdWe are delighted to have Scott Foppiano perform for us once again in Santa Barbara on Sunday, January 22, and we hope the community will join us in celebrating this rare musical opportunity to enjoy his performance on our historic Santa Barbara \ufffdWonder Morton,\ufffd said SBTOS President Bruce Murdock.\nTickets for the silent film and organ performance only will be on sale in the Arlington Theatre box office one hour prior to the performance on January 22. Cost is $11.00, children under 12 with an adult are free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 12384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 207.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://littleandsaputo.com/component/content/article?id=133&ml=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SXD5S4TSVAVLD5SXYOZBYNS4H4PWQBFD", "length": 1725, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "littleandsaputo.com", "title": "LittleandSaputo.com", "raw_content": "Article: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Operating Rules\nSection 4360 - Procedures to Adopt\n(a) The board shall provide general notice pursuant to Section 4045 of a proposed rule change at least 28 days before making the rule change. The notice shall include the text of the proposed rule change and a description of the purpose and effect of the proposed rule change. Notice is not required under this subdivision if the board determines that an immediate rule change is necessary to address an imminent threat to public health or safety or imminent risk of substantial economic loss to the association.\n(b) A decision on a proposed rule change shall be made at a board meeting, after consideration of any comments made by association members.\n(c) As soon as possible after making a rule change, but not more than 15 days after making the rule change, the board shall deliver general notice pursuant to Section 4045 of the rule change. 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A rule change made under this subdivision may not be readopted under this subdivision.\nAmended: Statutes of 2012, Chapter 180; Statutes of 2018, Chapter 836", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://littletonwaterandlight.org/minutes.php?rec=141&yr=2014", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:02Z", "digest": "sha1:DUEFJSVWFEKTQCV54YTW2G6FLWER4YZT", "length": 4001, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "littletonwaterandlight.org", "title": "Minutes of Littleton Water and Light Meetings", "raw_content": "The minutes of the November 3, 2014 regularly scheduled Commissioners meeting were reviewed. Commissioner Ross made a motion to accept the minutes as presented, seconded by Commissioner Moore.\nThe Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) credit that was to be distributed during November 2014 was inadvertently applied to cycle 1 and cycle 2 customers in the form of a debit (charge). Approximately 1,300 accounts received a charge of $2.81/ KWh in its place of the credit. Once the transposition error was found department personnel began the process of correcting the affected accounts.\nThe property owner of a 17 Lafayette Avenue apartment building requested a meeting with the BOC to abate high water consumption in April 2014 but did not show up at the meeting.\nFollowing a short discussion and review of the water consumption history at the property the BOC agreed to grant the water abatement on the excess water use less water treatment costs.\n1. Superintendent Considine stated that he spoke at the Littleton Economic Celebration last Thursday (11/13/2014) on behalf of the department. This is typically an annual event that the department is asked to participate in.\n2. Department personnel responded to a reported water leak on US 302 (Meadow Street) and the junction of Bridge Street at about 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, November 13th. A leak on the six (6) cast iron water main was found that affected customers along Saranac Street and Meadow Street between Hidden Brook Lane and Rite Aid. The repair was expeditiously completed and water service was restored to the affected area by about 1:00 p.m. that afternoon.\n3. The department is in ongoing discussions with the Mt. Eustis Ski group relative to the possibility of providing three (3) phase power needed to operate a portable rope tow for the winter that appears to require a three (3) phase 277/480 service. The department has a 150 kva pad-mount transformer that is capable of providing the needed supply that could be loaned for this purpose.\nFollowing some discussion the BOC agrees that there are too many unanswered questions to make a decision: 1) what will they do with the power when it\ufffds available at the site, 2) how are they going to get the power to the equipment?\nNo decision was made by the BOC with regard to offering additional support to the project at this time. The BOC suggested that the group attend a future BOC meeting when they have a working plan.\n4. The electric system experienced a surge/ blink that affected some of our customers at about 8:00 am, Sunday November 16th, 2014. A fault is believed to have been induced into the transmission system by a piece of equipment at Comerford Station that failed causing the event. Though there was no significant power interruption the resulting fault current initially knocked out customer equipment (Time Warner\ufffds central hub) and LWL on-call personnel were called in to investigate.\n5. The department is planning to present the 2015 operating and maintenance budget to the BOC for their review and comment on Monday, December 1, 2014. A draft presentation will be placed in the BOC mailbox prior to the Commissioners meeting for their review.\nThe BOC reviewed a proposal submitted by La Capra Associates to study the feasibility and any related consequences affecting the department as an ISONE participant, of interconnecting to the NU U-199 transmission line in the Littleton Industrial Park.\nThe Commissioners agreed that this study is needed before any further action can be taken relative to whether or not the project is economically viable and makes operational sense for the department before going forward.\nCommissioner Ross made a motion to accept La Capra\ufffds proposal dated November 3, 2014 (Transmission Upgrade) in an amount not to exceed $15,000 to study the feasibility of the interconnection to the U-199 line. Seconded by Commissioner Moore.\nVote was in favor of the motion 3-0-0.\nCommissioner Goodell executed the proposed on behalf of the BOC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 6729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ljohnson.cbhomeconnection.com/real-estate/area/chatfield-(mn)", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:13Z", "digest": "sha1:AHEJSWZMLHWPE556UY56TDH4VYGSVFM6", "length": 371, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ljohnson.cbhomeconnection.com", "title": "Lynn Johnson - Coldwell Banker Home Connection Real Estate Listings By Area", "raw_content": "Chatfield (mn) Real Estate Listings\nThe Chatfield (mn) Real Estate market currently has 24 homes for sale, with the majority of these homes priced between $0K - $100K. With the median list price for the Chatfield (mn) area being $239,450 and the median price per square foot of $122 you will be able to find a home that meets your criteria.\nfor Chatfield (mn) Real Estate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 164.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lsquaredmacquarie.forumotion.com/t166-pearce-tribal-2-vote", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:09Z", "digest": "sha1:O2QEAKWN4GQ6BQUMAUBY2DTW7RXLUV5S", "length": 51, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lsquaredmacquarie.forumotion.com", "title": "Pearce Tribal 2 vote", "raw_content": "Shy Guy - You are the least likely to have an idol.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 134.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://m.espacepourlavie.ca/en/insects-arthropods/syrphid-flies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:14Z", "digest": "sha1:UMGZADLFSVASIMEGQD63M6CB3HHR5Q6Z", "length": 2708, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "m.espacepourlavie.ca", "title": "Syrphid flies | Space for life", "raw_content": "Photo: Insectarium de Montr\u00e9al (Maxim Larriv\u00e9e)\nPhoto: Insectarium de Montr\u00e9al (Ren\u00e9 Limoges)\nPhoto: Insectarium de Montr\u00e9al (Andr\u00e9 Sarrazin)\nSpilomyia longicornis\nThe flies in this large family are commonly found on flowers, where they are sometimes confused with bees and wasps. Some species are smooth and others hairy, and they are black or brown, sometimes with white, yellow or orange markings.\nThey may be recognized by their way of hovering and their colourful markings. The adults are usually 10 to 20 mmm long. The larvae vary in appearance depending on the species.\nSyrphes (mouches des fleurs)\nSyrphid flies (flower flies, hover flies)\nAs their common name suggests, these flies in the adult stage are associated with flowers. The larvae grow on decaying plant material, carrion and manure, in polluted water, etc.\nThe adults feed on nectar and pollen. Some also eat honeydew, a sweet liquid produced by aphids and other related insects (Hemipterans). The larvae eat a varied diet: decomposing plants and carrion, plant bulbs, wood, aphids, bacteria, etc.\nHover flies (Eristalis tenax) are the most familiar syrphid flies. They are easily confused with honeybees (especially the males, or drones) when seen browsing on flowers in early spring or late fall. The larvae grow in polluted water, breathing through a long retractable tube that they use like a snorkel. They are called rat-tailed maggots because of this appendage.\nIf one had to choose a typical syrphid fly, in terms of appearance, the Syrphus ribesii would take the prize. These very common, average-sized flies are black and yellow. The males often fly in groups and do not feed. The females, like those of several other species belonging to genus Syrphus, prefer honeydew to nectar as a sugar source.\nSyrphid flies in genus Microdon have an odd association with ants. The adults so closely resemble bees that they have false pollen baskets on their hind legs, but the larvae develop inside ant nests. The larvae, which look like slugs or molluscs, feed on the ant eggs, larvae and nymphs until they become adults. Strangely enough, the ants tolerate their presence inside the colony.\nThere are more than 6,000 species of syrphid flies around the globe, some 900 of them in Canada and the United States. Because they are so popular with insect enthusiasts, syrphid flies are some of the best-known groups of flies.\nSyrphid flies don\u2019t sting or bite.\nAdult syrphid flies are important pollinators and are commonly found on many different flowering plants.\nThe larvae play a variety of roles depending on their lifestyle: some are detritivores, while others prey on aphids. The latter species may be used as biological control agents.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1128, "original_length": 26885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 205.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://malvaceae.info/Genera/Hildegardia/Hildegardia.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XABP7HFDJPKCVF742FPQRSNZ5NOIRFCP", "length": 20031, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "malvaceae.info", "title": "Malvaceae Info: The Hildegardia Page", "raw_content": "The Hildegardia Page\nHildegardia Gallery\nHildegardia is a genus of 12 species of malvaceous trees, placed in subfamily Sterculioideae/tribe Sterculieae. It has a pantropical distribution (West Africa, East Africa, Madagascar, southern India, Philippines, Indonesia, northern Australia and Cuba). The genus was introduced in 1832 [1] and revised in 1954 [a]. Additional species have be described in or tranferred to the genus in subsequent years. The type species is Hildegardia populifolia [2] (Roxb.) Schott. & Endl.\n[Note: Kubitzki and Bayer [3] and Zaborsky [4] recognise an additional species, Hildegardia major, from China. I follow the Flora of China [5] in placing this species in Firmiana.]\nThe genus is the type of Reichenbach's [b] (currently unrecognised) suprageneric taxon Hildegardieae.\nThe genus is distinguished from other genera of Sterculieae by the combination of the traits of indehiscent (not dehiscent) and thin, membraneous or papery (not thick, leathery or woody) fruits. Like the other genera of the tribe its flowers lack petals, and also lack an epicalyx, but possess an androgynophore.\nThe leaves are thin, broadly ovate, unlobed or slightly lobed, cordate at the base, palmately nerved, with entire margins, and sometimes with domatia. The inflorescence is composed of raceme like panicles at the end of the shoots. The flowers are polygamous, some being hermaphrodite, others unisexual. The calyx is tubular, 4- or 5-lobed, usually petaloid and reddish in colour, and persistent in fruit. The stamens number twice or thrice the number of sepals, and are united in a longish androgynophore, at the end of which the anthers are sessile, and clustered around the carpels. The anthers are 2-locular. The carpels number 5, borne on a short stalk, and soon separate from each other. They are uniovulate or biovulate. In fruit they are free, long-stalked, and indehiscent, with a membranous and reticulate coat.[2, 3]\nThe African and Malagasy species appear to form a natural group in which the calyx is tubular, and only shortly divided at the apex, and which flower when the plant is bare of leaves [6]. The former constrasts with the deeply divided calyx and reflexed sepals of Hildegardia australiensis and Hildegardia populifolia, while the flowers of Hildegardia cubensis are intermediate. A study of DNA sequences from Sterculioideae [c] found that Hildegardia and Firmiana did not form mutually distinct clades, implying that a revision of these two genera is necessary.\nHildegardia millenari, mention of which can be found on the WWW, is fictional. Hildegardia is also a genus of grasshoppers.\nHildegardia ankaranensis (Ar\u00e8nes) Kosterm.\nHildegardia ankaranesis is in found deciduous forest on the hilla and plateaux of the northern tip of Madagascar, most frequently in Ankarana reserve, from which the specific epithet is presumably taken [7].\nIt is a large tree. The trunk can attain a diameter of 1m or more [7].\nThe leaves are long petiolate, broadly ovate or suborbicular to 17 \u00d7 15 cm, palmately 7\u20139-nervate, cordate at the base and weakly 3-lobed. The lobes are variably acuminate, in some leaves only the central lobe being so. The flowers are tubular and orange-red in colour, the individual sepals being fused almost to the apex. The fruit is composed of 5 follicles. The 2-seeded follicles are relatively large (9 \u00d7 6\u00bdcm), more or less flattened, with a thick coriaceous pericarp. Their indumentum is velutinous. It is brown or ferriginuous on the outside, and fawn-coloured, and composed of stellate hairs on the inside [7].\nSterculia ankaranensis Ar\u00e8nes is a synonym of Hildegardia ankaranensis.\nHildegardia australiensis G.J.Leach & Cheek\nA recently (1991) described deciduous species, related to Hildegardia sundaica, from the Western Arnhem Land plateau in Australia's Northern Territory.\nIt is a deciduous tree growing to 7-10m in height. The bark of the trunk is mostly smooth, with fine lengthwise fissures, and light grey in colour. Young wood is covered with white, flaky, waxy coating. The blade of the leaf is simple and palmately 7-nerved [8].\nIn common with several other species of this genus, and also with the Australian endemic genus Brachychiton, the flowers are borne during the leafless period.The species is apparently dioecious. Female flowers were not available when the species was described, and no subsequent description has come to hand. The calyx of the male flowers is composed of 4 or 5 reflexed strap-like orange to red sepals, divided almost to the base, where they are fused into a cup like structure. The individual sepals are 9-11mm long and 2mm wide. Their lower surface is covered with peltate scales. A cluster of 8-10 yellow anthers is borne at the summit of a dull yellow stalk, described by Leach and Cheek as an androphore. This is slender at its base and apex, and swollen in the middle. These male flowers are highly scented. [8, 9]\nThe fruit is composed of 4 or 5 inflated and winged fruitlets. Each fruitlet contains 1 or 2 spherical seeds. [8]\nHildegardia barteri (Mast.) Kosterm.\nUfuku\nEso, Okurugbedu, Shishi\nHildegardia barteri is found in dry tropical forest in West Africa from the Ivory Coast to southeastern Nigeria. It is a pioneer species, and may flower as early as its 2nd year. It is tree growing to 10-13 m high. The branches are thick, and are covered with a loose, smooth, reddish-yellow bark. The leaves are 10 to 20 cm long, orbicular, cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, palmately 7-nerved, with a sinuous margin. They are glabrous on both surfaces, or with a few stellate hairs on the lower surface. The petioles are 7-10 cm long. The tree is leafless is the dry season. [10]\nThe flowers are borne before the new leaves. The inflorescence is a loose branching panicle, with numerous flowers. The peduncles are shorter than the leaves, and the indiividual pedicels 6-12 mm long, and jointed. The calyx is 18 mm long, leathery, tubular, gibbous at the base, contracted in the middle and terminated into 5 short, ovate, lobes, with acute apices. It is downy externally, and glabrous internally, except for a few villous hairs pointing downwards at the base. The staminal column is appreciably shorter than the calyx. The fruit is borne on a long gynophore, which is twice the length of the persistent calyx, and is composed of 5 spreading, membranous, 1-seeded carpels, each about 5 cm in length. The seeds are smooth. [10]\nThe wood, like that of many other Malvaceous trees, is light. It is used for floats for fishermen's nets [10], and is also used in the production of household equipment and furnishings. The seeds are a source of condiments. The tree is also a source of fibre and gum, perhaps from the bark.\nHildegardia barteri may be propagated by cuttings and bud grafts, as well as by seed.\nHildegardia barteri has been observed to be susceptible to infection by cacao swollen stem virus (CSSV). (This virus is restricted to West Africa, and the natural host is presumably nor Theobroma cacao, and might indeed be Cola and Hildegardia.\nHildegardia barteri has a diploid chromosome count of 40.\nSynonyms of Hildegardia barteri include Clompanus barteri Kuntze, Erythropsis barteri (Mast.) Ridley, Firmiana barteri Schum., Sterculia barteri Mast. and Tarrietia barteri Hochr..\nHildegardia cubensis (Urb.) Kosterm.\nGuana-baum\nHildegardia cubensis is endemic to Cuba, with a restricted distribution in lowland semi-deciduous forest on rocky limestone soils in the east of that country. It is threatened by habitat loss.\nThe leaves have long, slender, petioles (13 cm long, 3.3 mm thick). The blades are large (20 cm in diameter), and are suborbicular, deeply cordately incised at the base, 9-nerved, shortly acuminate at the apex, with an entire margin.\nThe flowers appear with the leaves [6], in March. They are hermaphrodite, and yellow in colour. The calyx is divided for about half its length. The fruit is composed of single-seeded samaras, which are initially yellowish, and turn first red, and later greyish brown, as they mature.\nSterculia cubensis Urb. is a synonym of Hildegardia cubensis.\nHildegardia dauphinensis J.G.Zaborsky\nThis species, described in 2009, is known from a single specimen located near Fort Dauphin (Taolagnaro) in the south east of Madagascar. It is similar to Hildegardia perrieri, from which it differs by the absence of revolute leaf margins, and the presence of an indumentum of highly (18-22) branched stellate hairs [4].\nHildegardia erythrosiphon (Baill.) Kostermm\nAboringa, Boaloaka, Boaloaky, Boramena, Tamotamokazo, Vinoa, Vonoa\nHildegardia erythrosiphon is found in the deciduous forest of western Madagascar, where it is weakly associated with calcareous soils. It is a tall tree, with outspread, near-horizontal branches. The leaves are long petiolate, broadly ovate, palmately 7-nervate, unlobed, or weakly 3\u20135-lobed, cordate at the base, somewhat acuminate, and with a revolute margin. The blades are glabrous or glabrescent above, and densely covered with an indumentum of white, stellate, hairs underneath. The calyx is red or orange-red, streaked with orange. The style is similar in colour to the calyx, but the capitate stigma is yellow. The fruit is apocarpous, composed of 5 short-stalked, yellowish-green, inflated pods, each containing 1 or 2 seeds [7].\nAr\u00e8nes [7] divided the species into several subspecies, varieties and subvarieties, varying in the hairiness and shape of the calyx. Zaborsky [4] argues that the intergradation occurs between these forms, and that Ar\u00e8nes' infraspecific taxa are not distinguishable.\nSynonyms of Hildegardia erythrosiphon include Erythropsis erythrosiphon (Baill.) Ridley, Sterculia erythrosiphon Baill. and Tarrietia erythrosiphon Hochr..\nHildegardia gillettii L.J. Dorr & L.C. Barnett\nA recently described (1990) species from Somalia [6]. It is similar to Hildegardia barteri and Hildegardia migeodii, but differs in the presence of a stellate pubescence on the petioles, the presence of a sparse stellate and dense glandular pubescence on the pedicels, shorter petioles (3\u00bd-5 cm long), and the presence of only a short stipe below the calyx. Dorr and Barnett also contrast its undulate or entire leaf margins with the revolute leaf margins of Hildegardia barteri and Hildegardia migeodii; however other sources describe those species as possessing sinuous and undulate margins respectively, so there is some doubt as to the validity of this as a key character. Hildegardia gillettii is found in bushland, as opposed to the woodland habitat of the other two species.\nHildegardia gillettii was described from a single specimen, and fruit material was not available. Additionally the flowers of that specimen were interpreted as immature, leaving some doubt as to the nature of the mature androecium and gynoecium, and whether the flowers are, as implicitly stated, hermaphrodite.\nHildegardia gillettii is a tree, known to reach at least 10 m in height. The leaves ares short-petiolate, broadly ovate, not lobed, large (12-13 cm long, and marginally less in width), cordate and 9-veined at the base, obtuse or acute, not acuminate, at the apex, with undulate or entire margins. They are glabrous on both surfaces, except for the presence of tufts of hairs in the axils of the veins on the undersurface. The inflorescence is an axillary raceme, borne towards the ends of the branches. The flowers are bracteate, 2-3 mm long bracts, with stellate and glandular pubescence, subtending the pedicels. The calyx is red.\nHildegardia merrittii (Merrill) Kosterm.\nThis species, from Mindoro in the Philippines, and perhaps from elsewhere in that country, is a large deciduous tree, reaching a height of 30 m, and a trunk diameter of 90 cm. The leaves are large (blade up to 18 cm long and about as wide), long-petiolate (petioles 20 cm long), broadly ovate to orbicular-ovate, very broadly rounded and deeply and narrowly cordate at the base, palmately 7- or 9-nerved, acuminate at the apex, with an entire margin, a coriaceous or thickly chartaceous texture, and a glabrous surface when mature. The follicles of the fruit contain one or two seeds. They are inflated, tardily if at all dehiscent, and narrowly oblong-ovate, with an acute base and obtuse apex. They are glabrous, thickly chartaceous in texture, 8 to 9 cm long, and 4 cm wide. [11]\nFirmiana merrittii Merr. is a synonym of Hildegardia merrittii.\nHildegardia migeodii (Exell) Kosterm.\nThis species from Tanganyika, also extending into Mozambique, varies between a 2 m high shrub and a 15 m high tree. It is glabrous, except for the flower and seeds. The bark is greyish. The leaves are up 16\u00d7 18 cm in size, with an entire or undulate margin, 7-nerved at the base, and possess an obtuse apex. The petiole may be up to 30 cm (1 ft) long. The flowers are borne in axillary racemes c. 12 cm long, borne near the ends of the branches, and appearing before the leaves. They are salmon-coloured. The pedicels are 3-4 mm long, and are articulated near the apex. The calyx is tubular, 2 cm long by 0.5-0.8 cm across, and is somewhat swollen at the base. It is terminated by 2-3 mm long lobes, which are triangular and acute at the apex and may be either erect or reflexed. The exterior is glabrous, the interior villous at the base and pubescent above. In the male flowers the androphore is about 2.5 mm long, and is pubescent except on those parts protruding beyond the calyx tube. In the female flowers the gynophore is about 7 mm long, and is densely pubescent except near the apex. The ovary is ovoid, glabrous, and composed of 5 coherent carpels. The stigma-lobes are recurved and subsessile. The fruiting carpels are 5.5 cm long by 2 cm in diameter, borne on an elongated gynophore 3 cm in length. They are elliptic, glabrous, purplish, membranaeous, with 1 cm long basal stipe. Each contains 1 or 2 seeds, which are c. 0.7 cm in diameter, globose and pubescent. [12]\nSynonyms of Hildegardia migeodii include Erythropsis migeodii (Exell) Ridley and Firmiana migeodii Exell.\nHildegardia perrieri (Hochr.) Ar\u00e8nes\nAfobonona, Vonoana\nHildegardia perrieri is found in the wet forests of eastern Madagascar, where it is one of the few deciduous species. It is a large tree, reaching 20 or 30m. The leaves are broadly ovate, palmately 7\u20139-nerved at the base, shortly acuminate at the apex, and slightly cordate at the base, with revolute margins. The upper surface is glabrescent, and the lower surface covered with ferruginuous hairs. The flowers are yellow-green. The fruits are green with dark red stripes [7].\nTarrietia perrieri Hochr. is a synonym of Hildegardia perrieri.\nHildegardia populifolia Schott & Endl.\nHildegardia populifolia is a critically endangered species from tropical dry evergreen forest of the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nada and Andhra Pradesh [d]. It is a smooth-barked deciduous tree. The leaves are long petiolate (petiole 5-12 cm long), large (blade 7-10 \u00d710 cm), orbicular, palmately 7-nerved, deeply cordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, and with entire margins. Individual plants are polygamous, but the sources available to me do indicate whether they are andro-, gyno- or trimonoecious. The scarlet flowers are borne in April. They form axillary and terminal panicles, which are shorter than the leaves (up to 15 cm long). The flower buds are oblong, The calyx is small (6 mm long), scarlet, with the sepals linear-spathulate and divided nearly to the base. It is downy externally. There are 10 stamens. The hispid ovary is avoid, tapering to a short style, with a 5-lobed stigma. The fruit is apocarpous, composed of 5 follicles. These follicles are up to 10 cm long by 5 cm broad, obliquely lanceolate in outline, membraneous, inflated, and strongly veined, with 2 seeds. The seeds are ovate-oblong, pale brown, and 15-20 mm long. [13, 14]\nThe stems of Hildegardia populifolia have been used as a source of fibre, and the bark as a herbal medicine. Papers have been published on the fibres and their use as component in fibre-resin and fibre-plastic composite materials. [e, f, g, h, i, j, k]\nSynonyms of Hildegardia populifolia include Clompanus populifolia Kuntze, Firmiana populifolia Terrac., Hildegardia candolleana Steud., Hildegardia candollei Schott & Endl. and Sterculia populifolia Roxb. & Wall..\nHildegardia sundaica Kosterm.\nA species from Sumbawa in Indonesia, and perhaps from elsewhere in that country.\nflowers and fruits of Hildegardia ankaranensis at A Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar\nherbarium sheet Humbert 18981 bis (P) of Hildegardia ankaranensis at A Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar\nphotograph of Hildegardia barteri at Wikimedia Commons\nphotograph of Hildegardia cubensis at Wikimedia Commons\nHildegardia erythrosiphon (in flower) at A Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar\ninflorescense, female flowers and male flower of Hildegardia erythrosiphon at A Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar\nfruits and foliage, fruit and fruit and seeds of Hildegardia erythrosiphon at A Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar\nflowers and flowers and fruits of Hildegardia perrieri at A Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar\nphotograph of Hildegardia populifolia at Forest Light\nphotograph of Hildegardia populifolia at Wikimedia Commons\nSchott & Endlicher, Meletemata Botanica 33 (1832)\nZaborsky, Hildegardia dauphinensis (Malvaceae, Sterculioideae): a new species from southeastern Madagascar, Adansonia 31(1): 143-148 (2009)\nDorr & Barnett, A New Species of Hildegardia (Sterculiaceae) from Somalia, Kew Bulletin 45(3): 577-580 (1990)\nAr\u00e8nes, Flore de Madagascar et les Comores. 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Schott & Endl.: A threatened tree species of dry tropical forests in India, Indian Forester 128(7): 757-770 (2002)\nRajulu et al, Tensile Properties of Epoxy Coated Natural Fabric Hildegardia Populifolia , Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites 23(2): 217-219 (2004)\nLi et al, Completely biodegradable composites of poly(propylene carbonate) and short, lignocellulose fiber Hildegardia populifolia, Journal of Polymer Science B 42(4): 666-675 (2004)\nRajulu et al, Effect of alkali treatment on properties of the lignocellulose fabric Hildegardia, Journal of Applied Polymer Science 90(6): 1604-1608 (2003)\nRajulu et al, Mechanical Properties of Short, Natural Fiber Hildegardia populifolia-reinforced Styrenated Polyester Composites, Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites 24(4): 423-428 (2005)\nRajulu et al, Tensile properties of natural fabric Hildegardia populifolia/polycarbonate toughened epoxy composites, Polymer Composites 25(6): 563-568 (2004)\nGuduri et al, Effect of alkali treatment on the flexural properties of Hildegardia fabric composites, Journal of Applied Polymer Science 102(2): 1297-1302 (2006)\nRajulu et al, Tensile properties of ligno-cellulosic fabrics coated with styrenated polyester resin , Cellulose 10(2): 179-183 (2004)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 20722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 297.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://manilastandard.net/business/business-columns/ray-s-e-ano/265849/favoring-a-third-telco-is-bad-for-competition.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YQBW3H23BCMSG2NU7SAYXDZZFGZOKBR7", "length": 4580, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "manilastandard.net", "title": "Favoring a third telco is bad for competition - Manila Standard", "raw_content": "Favoring a third telco is bad for competition\nposted May 17, 2018 at 12:25 am by Ray S. E\u00f1ano\nThe government may have the right intentions in introducing a new player in the telecommunications sector to spur competition and improve services. But rolling out the red carpet for the country\u2019s third major company runs counter to the government\u2019s aim of leveling the playing field.\nThe possibility of a third major telecom player in the Philippines is perhaps the most-awaited news in the corporate world. The public has read and heard countless public announcements and press releases about the impending third player. The deadlines have come and gone, however, and there is still no clear frontrunner in sight. This only goes to show how significant the industry\u2019s entry barriers are, and how rolling out is easier said than done.\nThese barriers, be it capital intensity, lack of government support, competition, or even bureaucratic government requirements, bear out the need for the state to do its part in helping the industry and improving the national infrastructure. The much-needed support though, must not favor one company at the expense of the others.\nIt is unusual to see how the government is throwing all its support to a possible new player, while the current and past telcos have had to fight through intense competition for years\u2014struggling for a share of the market and for state assistance.\nThe current administration is arbitrarily choosing or dictating which specific foreign country\u2019s telecoms operator it wants to come into the Philippines. This brings up a number of nagging questions. Why specifically China? Why name favorites this early? Is this a case of contract-dealing with possible conflicts of interests or \u2018commissions\u2019 to be gained?\nThe security risks presented by Chinese telecoms companies in the Philippines are well documented. It is also worth noting that China\u2019s three major telecoms companies\u2014China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile\u2014are all state-owned and that there have been 76 state-sponsored cyber attacks linked to China since 2005, 75 of which are primarily espionage in nature while 44 state-sponsored attacks targeted the United States.\nThe threat is very real for the Philippines and its investors, especially given Manila\u2019s opposing claims with China on the West Philippine Sea and the presence of many US companies outsourcing or running offices in the Philippines.\nSen. Leila de Lima has already called for a Senate investigation into the ongoing selection process. She recently filed Senate Resolution No. 603, expressing \u201cserious concern over the current administration\u2019s apparent partiality to pick a telecoms firm from China as the country\u2019s third telecommunications carrier.\u201d\nShe stressed the need for greater transparency in the selection process to ensure that all factors were considered, including the matter of national security, especially since the Department of Information and Communications Technology had been instructed to pick a Chinese telecom company.\nAnother issue is with regard to spectrum. While many have chimed in on whether or not there is enough spectrum left for a third player, they conveniently miss the fact that this would be the first time anywhere in the world where a new player receives 300mhz of spectrum without a single customer to serve.\nJust recently, the government warned that it would reclaim unused radio frequency spectrum from non-operating players. If the assigned companies were not using the spectrum, the government would simply recall it for use by a third or fourth player. So basically, the government will recall unused spectrum and gift it to a company that would not be able to use it either.\nToo many concessions\nThe potential third telecom player will be a privileged competitor. But with the new entrant nowhere in sight or unable to prove itself thus far, all the unreasonable bending-over-backwards by the government may be all for naught.\nThose who study the industry know that the popular storyline for the Philippine telecoms market\u2014one of a duopoly with little or no competition\u2014is far from the reality that the companies themselves actually experience. The industry has had a history of tough competition where companies struggle to stay alive against threats from all sectors.\nIf the government continues to favor one over the others, it will take the industry farther away from that level playing field it is supposed to foster and safeguard.\nTopics: Philippines , Business , China , Telecommunication , Philippine telecoms market , West Philippine Sea", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 8809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://marcycampbell.com/2016/01/turn-turn-turn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:38Z", "digest": "sha1:DDB74N62MQKVHRSXRBW5C3RFCYGNTGFY", "length": 2696, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "marcycampbell.com", "title": "Turn, Turn, Turn", "raw_content": "There\u2019s gorgeous, fluffy snow covering everything this morning. The kids hurried through breakfast so they\u2019d have time to play in it before walking to school. My husband (who actually enjoys shoveling, go figure) happily donned his trapper\u2019s hat and set to work on the driveway.\nI\u2019m smiling as I write, and thinking, \u201cWell, it\u2019s about damn time.\u201d It\u2019s January 12, after all, and this is the first serious snow we\u2019ve had (I live near Cleveland). It just feels wrong to see grass in the winter. When neighbors exclaimed on Christmas Day, \u201cIsn\u2019t this nice? It\u2019s so warm!\u201d I could barely hear them over the grinding of my teeth.\nNo. No, no, no. We go sledding over Christmas Break. That\u2019s what we\u2019re supposed to do. There\u2019s a season for all these things that we do, and the weather is messing with it. I feel the urge to break into that song by The Byrds, but first let me explain that the restless feeling in our house brought on by the lack of snow has been matched these last few weeks by a restlessness in my writing closet.\nI finished a novel in the fall, then immediately set about writing both an essay and a picture book that I\u2019d been wanting to write for a long time. Those are done now, too. And though I have computer files of \u201cideas\u201d and scraps of things, there\u2019s nothing that has a big neon sign pointing to it that says \u201cDo this next.\u201d\nI\u2019m finding that there are seasons to book writing, and I\u2019m back in the idea generation season, the time when I just let myself read widely and wildly, go places, explore and decide what I want to write my next book about (because I\u2019ve decided, as challenging as it is, novel-writing is a challenge I want to keep pursuing.\nIt should be a marvelous season, one in which I wake up every day and realize how lucky I am, and I do, sort of\u2026but\u2026I\u2019m really only happy when I\u2019m actively writing.\nSo, I\u2019m making a decision, right now as I type this, that there can be no black and white \u201cseasons\u201d to writing, or at least, the seasons have to overlap. The warm air may come in next week and melt all this snow, only to throw us back into some freaky ice storm the week after. And I\u2019ve got to keep my writing seasons jumbled as well.\nI need different projects all the time, in different stages. I may need to schedule time to read those novels I have stacked by the bed, books that will get me excited and generate new ideas. But I also need to schedule work on a new essay, to try my hand once again at short stories (it\u2019s been awhile\u2026), to dabble at whatever pops into my head, but to definitely have a goal, to put words on a page, every day. If I don\u2019t, I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ll just give up and go sledding.\nFiled Under: Random Musings Tagged With: Idea Generation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/IROL/11/114699/CMA_Additional_Soliciting_Material_2018/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:06Z", "digest": "sha1:4MS2DVN5VRNDNIAINVVXR5YSKOHCEGY7", "length": 5424, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "media.corporate-ir.net", "title": "UNITED STATES", "raw_content": "This year, we are again providing proxy materials to our shareholders primarily through the Internet. We are pleased to use this process, which allows our shareholders to receive proxy materials in an expedited manner, while significantly lowering the costs of our annual proxy campaign. On or about March 13, 2018, we mailed you a Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials containing instructions on how to access our proxy statement and our annual report online.\nFor your convenience, we are now sending you a proxy card, along with another copy of the Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials. To vote by proxy card, please complete, sign, date and return the proxy card in the enclosed return envelope. 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Box 64945 St. Paul, MN 55164-0945 COMERICA INCORPORATED ANNUAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS April 24, 2018 9:30 a.m., Central Time Comerica Bank Tower 1717 Main Street, 4th Floor Dallas, Texas 75201 Directions to the Comerica Incorporated Annual Meeting are available in the proxy statement which can be viewed at www.proxydocs.com/cma. Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the Shareholder Meeting To Be Held on April 24, 2018. Notice is hereby given that the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of Comerica Incorporated will be held at 1717 Main Street, 4th Floor, Dallas, Texas 75201 on April 24, 2018 at 9:30 a.m., Central Time. This communication presents only an overview of the more complete proxy materials, which contain important information and are available on the Internet or by mail. We encourage you to access and review all of the proxy materials before voting. 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Follow the instructions to vote your proxy.\nTo request a paper or email copy of the proxy materials, which include the proxy statement, annual report and additional soliciting materials, please contact us via: g Internet/Mobile \u0096 Access the Internet and go to www.investorelections.com/cma . Follow the instructions to log in, and order copies. W Telephone \u0096 Call us free of charge at 866-870-3684 in the U.S. or Canada, using a touch-tone phone, and follow the instructions to log in and order copies. Email \u0096 Send us an email at paper@investorelections.com with \u0093cma Materials Request\u0094 in the subject line. The email must include: 12 \u0095 \u0095 \u0095 \u0095 The 11-digit control # located in the box in the upper right hand corner on the front of this Notice. Your preference to receive printed materials via mail -or-to receive an email with links to the electronic materials. If you choose email delivery, you must include the email address. If you would like this election to apply to delivery of material for all future meetings, write the word \u0093Permanent\u0094 and include the last 4 digits of your Social Security Number or Tax Identification Number in the email.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 7293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://medibiztv.com/health-updates/parenting-style", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ECFRVOMFL2EFBVFQU247RJPRICW56DSG", "length": 1774, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "medibiztv.com", "title": "What is your style of parenting? | Relationships", "raw_content": "Home > Health Updates > Relationships > What is your style of parenting?\nAll parents have got their own way of parenting and their own way of bringing up their children. A good style of parenting is where parents put forward due respect and give consideration to the needs and emotions of their children as much as children respect parents.\nIt's also important for parents to encourage the development of the child's self-esteem. They need to teach him/her to feel good about themselves. Moreover, no matter how silly or insignificant it may seem, a child's concerns have to be addressed, even if it's just the fear of entering a room alone as per some child experts.\nThe experts have also added that a child's first interaction occurs with his/her parents. The type of interaction that has taken place between the children and parents will have a significant bearing on the pattern how a child grows up. A great parent always plays the role of a guide, protector in the hope that he becomes independent and takes his own independent decisions. And as the time passes she or he gets totally indulged and becomes the disciplinarian in the family.\nA child's temperament and parents cultural patterns have an influence on the kind of parenting style a child may receive. The degree to which a child's education is part of parenting is a further matter of debate. Early research in parenting and child development found that parents who provide their children with proper nurture, independence and firm control, have children who appear to have higher levels of competence and are socially skilled and proficient. Additional developmental skills result from positive parenting styles including: maintaining a close relationship with others, being self-reliant, and independence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mediways.com/category.asp?related=119&id=7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:14Z", "digest": "sha1:AZLQY7Q5VAAREG6AHGLBN5OECQRYKYQE", "length": 4375, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mediways.com", "title": "Health and Medical Information produced by doctors - Mediways.com", "raw_content": "Immunology => Allergy\nAllergy, a condition of hypersensitivity in certain people or animals to substances harmless to most individuals. Some people have characterized allergy as immunity \"gone wrong\". In the immune reaction, contact with a disease-producing micro-organism or a toxin prompts an individual to build up antibodies (proteins related to globulin serum) against the offending organism or toxin so that he or she will be protected against further exposure. All normal people are able to produce such protective antibodies, but in some the capacity to differentiate potentially harmful substances from harmless ones is absent. These people produce antibodies against one or many inoffensive substances and thus are said to be allergic. When an antibody reacts with an antigen (a substance that stimulates the formation of antibodies) an allergic reaction results. The symptoms of that reaction will depend on where it takes place. If it occurs in the nose, it may cause sneezing and running of the nose, giving rise to hay fever. In the air passages it may cause contraction, leading to wheezing, coughing, and difficulty in breathing, as in asthma. In the skin, it may produce itching spots, hives, or welts (urticaria). If the reaction takes place in the circulating blood, a severe reaction known as serum sickness may ensue. Rarely, it can result in anaphylactic shock and a sudden severe fall in blood pressure, which can be life threatening. The allergen, the substance producing the reaction, is usually a protein or protein-carbohydrate complex. It may be inhaled, as dust or pollen; it may be eaten, as eggs or shellfish; it may be injected, as penicillin; or it may act by mere contact, as wool, adhesive tape, or metal.\nThe variety of substances to which a person may be allergic is almost infinite; diagnosis involves discovering the particular substance or substances to which the patient is hypersensitive (reacting excessively). A careful history of the development of the allergic reaction may give a clue, particularly when it is seasonal, when it is associated with an exposure to a specific substance, or when it occurs only in a particular place. Often it is possible to remain unaffected merely by avoiding the particular allergen concerned, but common allergens such as dust or pollen cannot easily be avoided.\nAn allergic individual may develop new hypersensitivities, or old hypersensitivities may die out. Allergies usually first appear in childhood, adolescence, or early adulthood, but may develop for the first time later in life. Sometimes psychological factors, stemming from emotional conflicts, play an important role in allergy so that some allergies can be classified as stress-related disorders.\nThe mechanism of allergic reactions is not fully understood. Most probably the antigen becomes localized in a particular tissue, such as the cells lining the nasal passages or the bronchial tubes. The antibody reacts with the antigen at these sites, causing the release of certain chemical substances, including histamine, which mediates, or brings about, the reaction. Sometimes, testing the skin with a wide variety of common allergens can pinpoint the specific allergen or allergens that are causing the difficulties.\nThe simplest and best treatment is, when possible, to avoid contact with the allergen. A person allergic to feathers, particular pollens, foods, or medicines, for example, should avoid them. Where this is not feasible, because the allergen is unknown, because it affects more than one part of the body, or because too many allergens are present, drugs such as antihistamines or, in more serious cases, adrenal cortical steroids may be used to decrease the reaction. In other cases desensitization (the process of making the patient able to tolerate the antigen without having a reaction) may be accomplished by giving injections of antigen, first in minute doses and then in gradually increasing doses as tolerance builds up. Skin testing is always needed when desensitization treatment is being considered. Symptomatic treatment, such as the administration of drugs to relax spasms in the walls of the bronchi in asthmatics, decongestants for hay-fever sufferers, or local ointments to relieve itching for hives may also be useful. Anaphylactic shock is a medical emergency, requiring an injection of adrenaline.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 221.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mentalfloss.com/article/48854/11-mental-floss-contributors-who-wrote-great-books", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:K7QK2FVTJTFZLX2AJVFWI3TAVTZDJ7C5", "length": 10816, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "mentalfloss.com", "title": "11 Mental Floss Contributors Who Wrote Great Books | Mental Floss", "raw_content": "11 Mental Floss Contributors Who Wrote Great Books\nMarissa, prideprejudiceandprettypictures.tumblr.com\nThe writers who fill the pages of Mental Floss have a penchant for writing books. (After all, a man cannot live on blogs alone.) Here are eleven of my Flossy favorites and their most recent books!\n1. John Green - The Fault in Our Stars\nJohn Green wrote for Mental Floss in the mid-2000s, before becoming a bestselling (and Printz Award winning) author of Young Adult fiction. (A few of his old blog posts are still kicking around here too.) John's most recent novel is The Fault in Our Stars, a story of life, death, love, and reclusive novelists. John signed all 150,000 copies of the first edition of the book, single-handedly beating every other author on this list in the book-signing department. I hear that single hand kinda hurt afterwards.\nOn Jeopardy! last week, John's book was a clue. See above -- and yes, she got it right.\n2. Ransom Riggs - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children\nRansom has written a bunch of books, including contributing to the Mental Floss: Scatterbrained trivia collection (along with John Green and others). But his breakout hit was 2011's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, a book combining his love of found photography and haunting tales. Ransom's Miss P. topped the bestseller list alongside John Green's latest novel in 2012. And yeah, Ransom was also a clue on Jeopardy. This happened:\n3. Kathy Benjamin - Funerals to Die For\nKathy has contributed loads of articles to the Mental Floss canon, including my favorite bit of bizarro trivia, 5 Crazy Ways People Amused Themselves Before Television. Her new book Funerals to Die For: The Craziest, Creepiest, and Most Bizarre Funeral Traditions and Practices Ever is coming in April. Here are just a few of the amazing funerary facts we can look forward to:\nThe remains of a loved one can be launched into deep space for only $1,000.\nIn Taiwan, strippers are hired to entertain funeral guests throughout the ceremony.\nUndertakers for the Tongan royal family weren't allowed to use their hands for 100 days after preparing a king's body.\nIn the late 1800s, New Englanders would gulp down a cocktail of water and their family member's ashes in order to keep them from returning as vampires.\n4. Maggie Koerth-Baker - Before the Lights Go Out\nMaggie Koerth-Baker has written for the Mental Floss blog and the magazine for years. These days she's the science editor at BoingBoing and writes a column for The New York Times Magazine. In 2012, her book Before the Lights Go Out: Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us tackled the complex problems of America's energy future. And she got a hell of a blurb from Mary Roach:\n\"With spark and brilliance, Maggie Koerth-Baker reveals the thrumming, secretive inner workings of the U.S. energy grid. The wizard behind the curtain turns out to be a bunch of guys in light blue dress shirts, drinking RC Cola and sweating out a surplus that's threatening to crash the western seaboard. Using the raw resources of carefully gathered facts and years of experience, Koerth-Baker builds a narrative that flows and illuminates like the river of electrons that I now understand to be electricity. In her capable and stylish telling, energy isn't just policy and data; it's people and history, happenstance and compromise. It's a fine, cracking read.\"\n\u2014Mary Roach, author of Stiff and Packing for Mars\n5. A.J. Jacobs - Drop Dead Healthy\nA.J. Jacobs has contributed to Mental Floss magazine for years. He's also written a string of books based on lifestyle experimentation; in The Year of Living Biblically he tried to follow all the commandments in the Bible (it gets complicated); in The Know-It-All he read the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica in one year (and learned a lot, as you'd imagine -- much of this was also shared in a column he wrote for the magazine). His most recent book is Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection, chronicling two years spent trying to maximize his health through various diets, workout regimens, and even pills. We liked it so much, we posted a long excerpt last April. And here's a glamor shot of AJ pumping iron (photo by Michael Cogliantry):\n6. David K. Israel - Behind Everyman\nIn 2005, David K. Israel unleashed Behind Everyman: A Novel for Guys and the Women Who Rescue Them. B.E. is written in the second-person, so it makes for an unconventional (and engagingly urgent) read. Here's a sample from the beginning:\nHow to Begin a Screenplay\nStart by getting a liberal arts degree from a college like Penn State--or any such similar school where the emphasis of study is firmly placed on fraternal life and sporting events. Because you'll have spent your eight semesters tottering through various degrees of inebriation, upon graduation you'll have little to no idea what to do with your degree. After a few minutes of contemplation, decide to do what everyone else does--move to New York City and take a job in advertising, marketing, or PR.\nYour first few months in the city will be overwhelming. Adjusting to life in an apartment so tiny you can touch all four walls simultaneously won't be easy. Throw in a bipolar German roommate named Ulf, who requests the place to himself each and every Wednesday and Sunday evening so he can geshlugen with his girlfriend, Nanette, and you'll begin to wonder if you should have thought twice about moving to Manhattan.\nYou will buy an autographed copy from David. You will read it cover to cover. You will wonder why more books are not written in the second-person.\n7. Arika Okrent - In the Land of Invented Languages\nArika Okrent is our resident linguist; her posts about language have been topping the charts lately here on Mental Floss. Back in 2009, she wrote the book on invented languages -- and we're not just talking Klingon (though, yes, she speaks Klingon and it does come up in the book). Arika's book In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language explores the history of the nine hundred-ish invented languages humans have constructed; these languages and their histories are often poignant and sometimes downright batty. Arika's Wikipedia entry is, appropriately, also available in Esperanto.\nHere's a snippet from the beginning of In the Land of Invented Languages:\nKlingon speakers, those who have devoted themselves to the study of a language invented for the Star Trek franchise, inhabit the lowest possible rung on the geek ladder. Dungeons & Dragons players, ham radio operators, robot engineers, computer programmers, comic book collectors \u2013 they all look down on Klingon speakers. Even the most ardent Star Trek fanatics, the Trekkies, who dress up in costume every day, who can recite scripts of entire episodes, who collect Star Trek paraphernalia with mad devotion, consider Klingon speakers beneath them. When a discussion of Klingon appeared on Slashdot.org \u2013 the website billed as \u201cNews for Nerds,\u201d the topic inspired comments like, \u201cI\u2019m sorry but it\u2019s people like this that give science fiction a bad name.\u201d Another said that Klingon speakers \u201cprovide excellent reasons for forced sterilization. Then again being able to speak Klingon pretty much does this without surgery.\u201d\nMark Shoulson, who has a wife and two children, doesn\u2019t enjoy being talked about this way. \u201cIt\u2019s okay to laugh about it, because it\u2019s funny. It\u2019s legitimate to laugh. Klingon has entertainment as part of its face value. But I do get annoyed at some of the ruder stuff.\u201d Mark was my unofficial guide to the world of Klingon. When I met him, we lived in the same New Jersey town. I discovered this browsing the Internet, where I also found that he was assistant director of the Klingon Language Institute (KLI) and editor of the Klingon translation of Hamlet. I wrote him, and he emailed me back the same day, saying he was so excited by the prospect of another Klingon speaker so close by that he didn\u2019t even finish reading my message before he responded.\nAnother reason you want to read this book: chapter 11 is titled \"A Nudist, a Gay Ornithologist, a Railroad Enthusiast and a Punk Cannabis Smoker Walk into a Bar....\" Yes. This.\n8. Chris Higgins - The Blogger Abides\nYes, folks, I wrote a book too! And it was edited by Adriene Crezo, plus a foreword by Ransom Riggs -- an extremely Flossy affair. The Blogger Abides: A Practical Guide to Writing Well and Not Starving is a chronicle of everything I've learned as a writer. For the past six years I've written for Mental Floss every day online, in print on occasion, and for outlets like This American Life, The Atlantic, and the hard-to-refer-to magazine The Magazine. I've been freelancing for two decades now, as my first magazine cover story was published way back in 1992. In this book, I explain how I have managed not to starve to death, and I pull back the curtain a bit on what it's like to be a working writer. If you want to write for a living (or simply write better), you should buy it. It also makes a great gift.*\n* = Statement is mandated under Professional Authors Guild of America rules, subsection 47(ii), sub-subsection \"Self Promotion 101.\" Statement is not meant to indicate actual quality of book as gift.\n9. & 10. Sandy Wood and Kara Kovalchik - Mental Floss Trivia\nSandy and Kara are staples of the Floss family, providing puzzles (Sandy writes the daily Brain Game), tracking trivia (Kara writes all kinds of awesome stuff), designing games, and even writing the insanely popular Quarter Backs Quiz. They've been in the trivia business for over two decades, and have served as research editors for Mental Floss magazine since 2002. Their fifth (!) book of trivia is here, and it's hefty -- over 800 pages of tasty trivia and quizzes. Pick up mental_floss Trivia: Brisk Refreshing Facts Without the Ice Cream Headache! to satisfy your trivia sweet tooth.\n11. D.B. Grady - The Command\nD.B. Grady is a master of lists, covering a diverse array of topics from fictional space travel to weird nicknames of spy agency headquarters. He's also a former U.S. Army paratrooper and veteran of Afghanistan. D.B. has coauthored two books with Marc Ambinder; the first is the Kindle Single The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army. Coming this April is Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry. When he's not writing lists for Mental Floss, D.B. is a correspondent for the Atlantic and maintains a shockingly comprehensive bibliography.\nAccording to my research, there are at least six authors I've left out of this list -- that I know of. Stay tuned for a followup post plugging their books! (Or, heck, plug 'em in the comments. They all make great gifts.)\n50 States books Lists", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 11961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://microdigital.co.kr/product/product_view.php?gid=657&acode=3&bcode=186&ccode=191", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:39Z", "digest": "sha1:267AWC2HSIUX42WPOJYQXYFRAGFEIN2F", "length": 497, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "microdigital.co.kr", "title": "Welcome to MICRODIGITAL!", "raw_content": "MDR-i025X-16, MDR-i036X-16, MDR-i064X-16\nModel No. MDR-i025X-16 MDR-i036X-16 MDR-i064X-16\nMemory DDR3 SDRAM 12GB DDR3 SDRAM 16GB DDR3 SDRAM 16GB\nRecord Bandwidth 125Mbps 180Mbps\nD1 @ 750fps 1080p @ 1080fps\n720p @ 1080fps\nD1 @ 1080fps 1080p @ 1080fps\nD1 @ 1920fps\nHDD Internal 16 HDD, Max. 96TB(with 6TB)\nChannel Display 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 25 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 25, 36 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 13, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64\nDimensions (WxHxD) 480mm x 132mm x 550mm, 590x255x730(Package)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 115.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://midnightridazz.com/viewStory.php?storyId=10740", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:16Z", "digest": "sha1:UB2IIQZYBWU23UYIOW7SWEVEDRZWQKMD", "length": 2967, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "midnightridazz.com", "title": "Midnight Ridazz Bicycle Ride", "raw_content": "The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #390 - Jerry-Built\n\u201cWish I could take you to Mount Jerry. Wonderful spot. Not in the geographies but a heavenly place, and I have seen some passing views there and reveled in them.\u201d\nWhile the present political mess seems wholly unprecedented, of a degree far worse and more troubling than even Dubyuh\u2019s reign of ineptitude, those with an eye to history (and internet know-it-alls) will probably point to the presidency of Warren G. Harding as just such a precedent. And there certainly are more than a few parallels. He appointed friends with little national experience to prominent federal jobs. He signed into law what was one of the most sweeping immigration curtailments since the founding of the nation. And a member of his cabinet was embroiled in what has been called the \"greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics\" until Watergate.\nBut there are some notable differences too. He won 60% of the popular vote and remained relatively popular until his death. After WWI came to a close, he commuted the sentence of Socialist (and third-party presidential election opponent) Eugene Debs, who had been imprisoned for speaking against the war. Heck, while campaigning he had claimed that what the country needed was \u201cnot nostrums, but normalcy; not surgery, but serenity.\u201d\nAnd so, while we could go visit Doheny library (or get as close to it as USC will allow at night) \u2014 apparently gifted to the University after Doheny\u2019s acquittal for his part in the Teapot Dome Scandal, in thanks for USC President Rufus von KleinSmid\u2019s testimony on his behalf \u2014 let\u2019s choose instead to focus on the fact that it was just Valentine\u2019s Day. And so, you know, love and whatnot. Because Warren G. was not just a pro-business fighter, no. G Funk was also a lover. For nearly a decade before his presidency, he had written steamy letters to his mistress, Carrie Fulton Phillips. Steamy letters in which he wrote enthusiastically about \u201cfevered fondling.\u201d Steamy letters in which he referred to his genitalia as \u201cJerry.\u201d Steamy letters which Phillips later used to blackmail Harding (as well as the RNC). Ah, yes, love!\nHonestly, however, this week\u2019s route has only the faintest relation to any of this. But really, we ask you, how could we not make something out of the story after coming across the following piece of presidential prose?\n\u201cJerry came in while I was pondering your notes in glad reflection, and we talked about it. He told me to say that you are the best and darlingest in the world, and if he could have but one wish, it would be to be held in your darling embrace and be thrilled by your pink lips that convey the surpassing rapture of human touch and the unspeakable joy of love\u2019s surpassing embrace. I cordially agree with all he said.\u201d\nTell us again about the dignity of the office.\n(20 miles or so; some hills; some off-roading, including a little hiking probably)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 8060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://midwest.chicagofedblogs.org/?p=3096", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:43Z", "digest": "sha1:A5GY4BTF5SXVZZ34XHQZFTMC7UHTEBZO", "length": 10736, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "midwest.chicagofedblogs.org", "title": "How Should the State of Illinois Pay for its Unfunded Pension Liability? The Case for a Statewide Residential Property Tax | Midwest Economy", "raw_content": "There are several good reasons to pay off Illinois\u2019s pension debt through a statewide residential property tax:\nFairness: Illinois residents who have benefited most from the past services of governmental employees are more likely to be homeowners, so it seems reasonable that they should pay a larger share of the costs.\nEfficiency: Standard economic theory predicts that home values go down in response to new property taxes (that is, they are \u201ccapitalized\u201d into home values). Current homeowners would not be happy about this, but it would be a good result for the Illinois economy. That\u2019s because the new taxes wouldn\u2019t affect people thinking of moving to Illinois. While they would have to pay higher property taxes, that would be offset by not having to pay as much for their new homes. In addition, current homeowners would not be able to avoid the new tax by selling their homes and moving because home prices should reflect the new tax burden quickly. (We included this \u201ctax penalty\u201d effect in our calculations below.)\nTransparency: The payment amounts and duration of the tax would be known in advance.\nCertainty: The property tax would be dedicated solely to paying for the state\u2019s unfunded pension liability.\nEquity: Wealthier people would pay more. The plan could also be modified so that the tax rate is graduated rather than flat (for example, by exempting the first $50,000 of home value or exempting households with incomes below a certain threshold).\nDo Illinois homeowners have the ability to pay these larger tax bills? Our calculations suggest that, even under the best-case scenario, the additional tax bill is quite high, and some households would certainly struggle to pay it. But given the choice between paying off the debt via higher income, sales, or property taxes, we maintain that the property tax is the best of three painful options.\nA model of the property tax rate required to pay the pension debt\nWe calculated what the fixed statewide residential property tax rate would have to be in order to pay off the pension debt in 40 or fewer years.\nFirst we must understand how the unfunded liability is calculated and how it changes over time. The unfunded liability is the discounted present value of all future payments made to pensioners and it\u2019s calculated using a discount rate equal to the expected return on the assets in the pension system\u2019s portfolio. This means that the higher the expected return, the lower the value of the unfunded liability. It also means that if the unfunded liability is not paid down, it grows every year at the pension system\u2019s expected rate of return. For our scenarios, we assume that going forward, the state of Illinois fully pays the new normal costs of the pension system from other funding sources, so that the value of the unfunded liability is a function solely of the pension system\u2019s expected returns and payments made to reduce the liability. Equation (1) in figure 1 shows that the liability at time is the liability from the previous year times the pension fund\u2019s expected rate of return, less any payments made to reduce the liability.\nNext we must calculate what the payment should be in each year. To do this, we allowed the size of the payment to change over time, while holding the tax rate constant. As shown in equation (2) of figure 1, the payment is the fixed tax rate times the size of the tax base at time , which in our case is the total market value of all residential property in Illinois.\nWhile the tax rate is fixed, the value of the tax base can change over time, for two reasons: 1) home values (adjusted for inflation) tend to rise over time; and 2) property taxes reduce home values. Equation (3) of figure 1 shows that we assume a constant growth rate of home values in Illinois and that we apply a property tax penalty to the value of the base. The penalty has a complex formula (shown in equation (4)) that is a function of the tax rate and the real interest rate and represents the discounted present value of the future property tax liabilities.[6] The penalty is largest when the property tax is first implemented and declines as the end of the property tax gets closer.\nTo derive the required tax rate, we must make assumptions about each of the parameters in our model. And since we are forecasting many years into the future, there is substantial uncertainty about what these parameters should be. For example, we do not know whether the expected return assumed by the pension funds is right or what the growth rate of the property tax base will be. To account for the uncertainty, we calculate rates for three scenarios\u2014baseline, low, and high. In these scenarios, we vary two of the parameters: the number of years it takes to pay off the pension debt and the secular growth rate of the tax base.\nFigure 2 shows the assumptions for the parameters in our model and the rates that result from our baseline, low, and high rate scenarios. In the baseline scenario, the unfunded liability is paid off over 30 years, and we assume that property values grow at an inflation-adjusted rate of 1% per year, which is close to the average growth rate of property values in Illinois since 1990. In the low rate scenario, we assume property values grow at 2% and allow for the unfunded liability to be paid off over 40 years. And in the high rate scenario, we assume no secular growth in real property values and that the liability must be paid off in 20 years. The resulting tax rates required to pay off the liability are 1.04% (baseline), 0.77% (low), and 1.45% (high). See the appendix for more details on how the tax base, payments, and unpaid liability evolve over time under the three scenarios.\nFigure 3 shows the tax base paths for our three scenarios. Initially, in all three scenarios, the value of the base declines by nearly 20% as home values adjust to reflect the new higher property tax liability that homeowners must pay. This tax penalty gradually goes away as the unfunded liability is paid off. In the high rate scenario, the value of the base is solely a function of the tax penalty since we assume that there is no secular increase in home values. Consequently, the base returns to its initial value once the liability is completely paid off. In contrast, under the baseline and low rate scenarios, the base rises at a fixed rate, so that the base returns to its initial value after eight years (high rate) or 14 years (baseline).\nFigure 4 shows the revenue collection paths. While the tax rate is constant, because property values rise over time, a greater share of the pension debt is paid off in later years (unlike a mortgage, where the amortized payment is constant over time). This is ideal because higher property values mean homeowners are wealthier and can afford to pay more.\nWhat would these rates mean for Illinois homeowners in terms of an initial yearly tax burden increase? We picked a handful of representative cities in Illinois and calculated how the new property tax would affect each city\u2019s median-value homeowner. Figure 5 shows the results. As an example, the median home in Chicago is worth $200,000 and its current property tax bill is $3,320. Under the baseline scenario, the median Chicago homeowner would pay an additional $2,079 in the first year of the new tax. Under the low rate scenario, the tax bill would be $1,531 higher, and under the high rate scenario, it would be $2,890 higher.\nCurrent property tax rates vary substantially across these five cities. For the median Chicago and Lake Forest homeowner, it is 1.7%, versus 4.4% for the median Waukegan homeowner. In our calculations, the rate goes up by the same amount regardless of a homeowner\u2019s current effective rate, so in percentage terms, homeowners in Chicago and Lake Forest would experience a much larger increase in their tax bills. Under the baseline scenario, the tax rate would rise by 62% for the median Lake Forest homeowner, compared with 24% for the median Waukegan homeowner.\nOn the one hand, our effective rate calculations suggest that the median Waukegan homeowner would have a smaller property tax increase. But on the other hand, our calculations suggest that the median Waukegan homeowner is already substantially more tax-burdened than the median Lake Forest homeowner. And in terms of housing wealth, Waukegan homeowners are much less well off than Lake Forest homeowners and likely less able to pay the additional property taxes. So it may make sense for a statewide property tax to be progressive. One way to do this would be to exempt the first $50,000 of home value from the tax (we will explore this and other possibilities in future work).\nTaxes will almost certainly have to go up to pay for Illinois\u2019s pension debt. What\u2019s the best way to raise them? We argue that a statewide residential property tax that expires once the debt is repaid is the most fair, efficient, and transparent of all available options. When we calculated how much taxes would have to go up, we found that the increases would be substantial even in the rosiest of scenarios. In future work, we will explore additional options for spreading the pain, including expanding the base to cover rental and commercial properties, and options for making the tax progressive.\nAppendix: Scenario Tables\n[1] See Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability. (2018). Report on the Financial Condition of the Illinois State Retirement Systems FY 2017. Retrieved from: http://cgfa.ilga.gov/Resource.aspx?id=5#.\n[2] Personal income includes an individual\u2019s income from all sources, such as salaries and wages, investments, rental income, and other sources.\n[3] Pearson, R., & Geiger, K. (2015, May 8). Illinois Supreme Court rules landmark pension law unconstitutional. Retrieved from: http://www.chicagotribune.com/ct-illinois-pension-law-court-ruling-20150508-story.html.\n[4] For example, in July of last year Illinois increased its individual income tax rate from 3.75% to 4.95% and its corporate income tax rate from 5.25% to 7%.\n[5] Property taxes are currently levied only by local governments. One way the State could effectively raise local property taxes is by reducing aid to local governments for services that primarily rely on property taxes, such as education.\n[6] For more information see Yinger, J. (2018). Property Tax Capitalization. In Housing and commuting: The theory of urban residential structure: A textbook in urban economics. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.\nPrevious PostMid-Winter Review\u2014Economic Activity in the Seventh District Picked Up After a Bit of a LullNext PostHow do the Chicago Fed\u2019s business contacts expect the steel and aluminum tariffs to affect their businesses?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 17457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://minesnminerals.com/news/International+Conference+On+Advanced+Technology+in+Exploration+and+Exploitation+of+Minerals-detail-3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:40Z", "digest": "sha1:U6STJJQQQZPGNMQS4D2OXJL5KGXLZ5I5", "length": 91, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "minesnminerals.com", "title": "\ufeff International Conference On Advanced Technology in Exploration and Exploitation of Minerals | Mines And Minerals", "raw_content": "International Conference On Advanced Technology in Exploration and Exploitation of Minerals", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1296, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 310.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://minnesotavikingsfanclubofnewmexico.com/2016/04/30/vikings-draft-german-wr-moritz-boehringer-in-the-sixth-round/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFZVGVP4HCUEINF7AREBKPCRQIQE4JSK", "length": 1131, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "minnesotavikingsfanclubofnewmexico.com", "title": "Minnesota Vikings Fan Club of New Mexico for football fans in the Rio Rancho and Albuquerque area at Slate Street Billiards \u00ab Minnesota Vikings Fan Club of New Mexico", "raw_content": "\u00ab Ep. 24: A superstar with a phobia\nMoritz Boehringer: On the Map \u00bb\nVikings draft German WR Moritz Boehringer in the sixth round\nEDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. \u2014 Moritz Boehringer began watching American football because of running back Adrian Peterson.\nAnd now he\u2019s Peterson\u2019s teammate.\nThe Vikings drafted Boehringer in the sixth round (180th overall) on Saturday, just more than a month after sitting down with him at his pro day at Florida Atlantic University. Boehringer is from Germany and did not play college football. He was eligible for the draft because he graduated high school in 2012.\nA native of Aalen, Germany, Boehringer didn\u2019t play football competitively until 2013.\nThe 22-year-old receiver totaled 70 receptions for 1,461 yards and 16 touchdowns for the Scwabisch Hall Unicorns of the German Football League last season. Boehringer (6-4, 227) is the second receiver taken with the Vikings\u2019 first five picks in the draft.\nHe was selected with the 49ers draft pick the Vikings gained from the Gerald Hodges trade.\nThe post Vikings draft German WR Moritz Boehringer in the sixth round appeared first on 1500 ESPN Twin Cities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 199.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://misadventuresmom.com/motherhood/the-other-side-of-my-ocean-more-ireland-blogs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NGOXEJBMLPXIQFSREJ6SVN5IY3YPXPOP", "length": 1956, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "misadventuresmom.com", "title": "The Other Side of My Ocean: more Ireland blogs | (Mis)Adventures of an Everything Mom", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Guinness Illusion\u2026\nA summer in perspective\u2026 \u2192\nI sit here on the stores of Galway Bay. It is an ocean away from my home and from my life.\nIt feels different here. Peaceful. At the same time, it is the same ocean I see at home.\nSitting here it is easy to see the metaphor. As I see the other side of the ocean, it is easier to see the other side of my life.\nIreland is so very much like my Atlantic home: from the windy shores to the lush green hills to the traditional Celtic instruments played in the pubs.\nThe life I lead here, however, is very different. We have a destination for the end of the day, but the journey is unplanned. There are no appointments, no bedtimes. In fact, we don\u2019t bother with clocks much at all. The map is only a suggestion and lunch consists mainly of a sandwich from the local supermarket, whenever and wherever we feel like it (the sandwiches here, by the way, are way better than anything I have found in Canada \u2013 but that\u2019s another post). Today our travels have taken us to this deteriorating boat launch on Galway Bay. The Husband is off taking pictures and I get to write and ponder at my leisure. What luxury.\nA few cars pass on the road and there are a few houses nearby but, for the most part, the only sounds are the sea birds and The Husband\u2019s distant footfalls. This pace, and this silence, is so foreign to the life I lead at home.\nWhat I wonder is\u2026 does it have to be? We have rocky coasts and sea birds at home but I rarely stop to enjoy them. Granted \u2018leisurely\u2019 is not a pace that is possible with the Dudes but there should always be time for exploration.\nWhether it is finding bugs in the backyard or examining rocks on the beach, Big Dude has mastered finding adventure in the smallest things. I think it is time for me to bring this vacation mindset home to my side of the ocean and institute at little wonder in our daily routine.\nI need to member that life doesn\u2019t have to get in the way of living.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://molwick.com/en/evolution/095-lamarcks-theory.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:42Z", "digest": "sha1:HDOVZJBGZDYE6LB4PUYWBIOARWVQVY2A", "length": 2416, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "molwick.com", "title": "\ufeff Lamarck's theory of evolution", "raw_content": "Lamarck's theory of evolution\nLamarck's theory of evolution and central elements of Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution of natural selection.\nLamarck's theory of evolution appeared in his Zoological Philosophical Work written in 1809.\nHis evolutionary theory was as follows:\nEnvironmental changes generate new needs\nThese needs determine the use or disuse of some organs\nSuch organs develop or are diminished\nThe acquired characters are hereditary\nTherefore, this theory of evolution is also a theory of the human origin.\nJean-Baptiste de Monet\nLamarck (1744-1829) (Public domain image)\nThe famous expression for Lamarck's Theory of evolution is, functions create organs and heredity determines the change in offspring. Therefore, the human origin is the monkey thinking.\nA typical example of Lamarck\u2019s theory is the evolution of the necks of giraffes, due to the effort of eating leaves from the trees.\nSee chapter III about criticism of Lamark's theory\n9.b.2. Theory of evolution of Darwin\nThis point refers to the biological theory by Charles Darwin, the English Naturalist in his main work The Origin of the species, in 1859.\nAs a contrast to Lamarck's evolutionary theory, Darwin's theory of evolution proposed natural selection as the basis of evolution and human origin. His theory was as follows:\nIndividuals display differences\nShortage of food leads them to fight for existence\nIndividuals with superior differences have more chance to reach adulthood, reproduce and transmit these variations to their offspring\nFrom a philosophical point of view, the Theory of Natural Selection of Darwin base on the emergentism.\nLater, in his The Origin of Man and Sexual Selection (1871), he added a new factor of evolution and human origin, sexual selection, in which male or female chooses partners with more attractive qualities.\nThe scientific community generally accepted the evolutionary theory of Darwin (in opposition to Lamarck's), as presented in his work The Origin of the Species in 1859. 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She is also a Special Education Resource Teacher in BNC\u2019s \u2018Room 104\u2019.\nBeing a part of Barrie North\u2019s extra-curricular program at North has been an important part of Mrs. Reesor\u2019s career, and she has been a staff advisor for the Engineering and Science Olympics Team, Model UN Team, Free the Children, Student Council, the Gifted-Enriched Advisory Council, Link Crew, and has assisted with publicity for several of the school\u2019s musicals. She also runs the extra-curricular activities for North\u2019s Gifted-Enriched program, including field trips, academic competitions, and student conferences.\nProviding students with an engaging, enriching, and exciting classroom experience is important to Mrs. Reesor. She believes in making education relevant to the lives of students and encouraging students to see their role as local and global citizens. 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All reviews, images, articles, logos and trademarks on this site are property of their respective owners.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mybestceremony.com/our-ministers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EKBHKBI4YI46T37OFTEN56CXHI36H3JM", "length": 3878, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "mybestceremony.com", "title": "Meet Our Ministers", "raw_content": "Reverend Marcia Boyer\nOrdained Minister/Owner\nMarcia has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and Special Education, along with training in Suzuki and Montessori Education. Marcia became ordained as a non-denominational minister in 1993. 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[\u2026]\n\u2018Steel Magnolias\u2019 turns 25: 13 things you didn\u2019t know about the true story behind the film\nAs Shelby Eatenton Latcherie (as played by Julia Roberts) says in the famed movie Steel Magnolias (and the inspiration for the title of my blog), \u201cI would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special.\u201d Well aren\u2019t we all just so lucky 25 years later to have a lifetime of everything [\u2026]\nWhen I was growing up and first learning how to read, I loved the \u201cChoose Your Own Adventure\u201d book series from the late 70\u2019s. They featured a series of books where each story was written from a second-person point of view where the reader becomes the main character while making choices that determine their [\u2026]\nThe Interview: Robert Harling\nAs many of you know, I named this blog from my love of the movie Steel Magnolia\u2019s. 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(Photo courtesy of Rush Jagoe) The untold story [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 7843, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://najeebqasmi.com/articles/english-articles/104-ramazan-o-roza/2034-day-and-night-in-the-blessed-month-of-ramzan-in-saudi-arabia", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:G23BPMLJGLJ6QKZOKKYRE6WRFQ6LQG6G", "length": 14319, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "najeebqasmi.com", "title": "Day and Night in the Blessed month of Ramzan in Saudi Arabia", "raw_content": "As soon as the blessed month of Ramzan begins, the daily routine of every person who fasts, to an extent, gets changed. And why should not something of this kind happen given that a lot of changes take place in the skies too. Special blessings of Almighty Allah are showered on His bondsmen. Countless sins of Almighty Allah\u2019s bondsmen are forgiven. The reward for good deeds is increased. Unruly devils are chained. The paradise is every day decorated for the believers. For countless people, the decision to eternally relieve them of Hell is taken. This is the reason why, in order to please their real Lord, Muslims of the whole world, welcome this blessed month as per their capability and inclination. Just the way it is in other countries, in Saudi Arabia too there are special arrangements made upon the arrival of the blessed month of Ramzan. Before the month of Ramzan begins, everyday food items such as rice, cooking oil, sugar, dates etc. are sold at cheaper rates. Seizing this special offer that the blessed month of Ramzan offers, people belonging to middle class buy these food items in large quantities and store them not only for the blessed month of Ramzan but for few more months following Ramzan. Moreover, in the blessed month of Ramzan, the rates of various items, to an extent, remain under control. Production of fruits is low in Saudi Arabia, yet, by the Grace and Benevolence of Almighty Allah, each and every fruit that is to be found across the world is easily found in the country at reasonable rates. There is no electricity problem. Once in years, power cut (of not more than few moments) happens only when there is some fault in the network. Generally, there is no adulteration in food items and beverages. There is no fear at all. In the middle of the night, husband and wife (all alone) can go on a drive for hundreds of miles without thinking even twice. Suffice it to say that the facilities and comfort that is not given to even upper-class people in the subcontinent, is assured to common people in Saudi Arabia. The population of Saudi Arabia is roughly about 33 million. Approximately 10 million of these are outsiders who work in Saudi Arabia, out of which Indians constitute the highest percentage i.e. 3 million. After Indians, Pakistanis top the chart, followed by Egyptians. Saudi Arabia is the world\u2019s fourth largest country where a maximum number of expatriates working in the country.\nAs per the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), on the 29th of Shaban, based on the announcement of Ruet-e-Hilal (Moon watching) witnesses, the Supreme Court declares the sighting of the moon and the first fast of the blessed month of Ramzan begins. If the moon is not sighted on the 29th, then the blessed month of Ramzan begins after 30th of Shaban. Given the fact that moon rises (and is sighted) at different points in various parts of the world, generally the first day of the lunar month in Gulf countries is a day ahead as compared to the beginning of the lunar month in the subcontinent. Just the way it is in the subcontinent, in Saudi Arabia as well people do not try to see the moon by themselves. Instead, between Maghrib and Isha, they sit before the television sets and wait for the government\u2019s announcement. Committees that comprise government officials, learned scholars and weather experts, employ the best possible technological apparatus for moon sighting and make arrangements to see the moon in various places across the country. In all the mosques of Saudi Arabia, the call to prayer is made as soon as it is time for the respective prayer. This is the reason why in Saudi Arabia, all the mosques of a city hold prayer congregations at the same time. As soon as the announcement regarding moon sighting is made, people head towards the mosques. In Saudi Arabia, there are a lot of mosques. Furnished with expensive carpets, almost all the mosques are air conditioned. As it is in the case of the call to prayer (Adhan), all the five prayers, Taraweeh prayer and Tahajjud prayer during the last ten days of the blessed month of Ramzan are offered over the loudspeaker. In Saudi Arabia, in the case of all the five prayers, from the moment the call to prayer is made till the time the prayer is offered, the entire market and ordinary shops are strictly shut down. However, since Taraweeh prayer is not obligatory, when it is performed in the mosque, the markets may remain open. In the blessed month of Ramzan, the believers are required to offer Taraweeh prayer right after the Isha prayer. In the Grand Mosque (Makkah), Masjid-e-Nabawi (Medina), Islam\u2019s first mosque Masjid-e-Quba, and several other mosques, twenty rak\u2018ats of Taraweeh prayer are offered, whereas in other mosques eight rak\u2018ats of Taraweeh prayer followed by three rak\u2018ats of Witr are offered by two salaams. However, there are few mosques where, once in a while, three rak\u2018ats of Witr are offered by one salaam. Some people from the subcontinent, gather in a house in the presence of a Hafiz (a person who has memorised the Holy Quran by heart) and listen to the entire Holy Quran in twenty rak\u2018ats of Taraweeh prayer offered all through the blessed month (or few days of the month) of Ramzan. In the third and last rak\u2018at of Witr prayer, fairly long prayers in Arabic are said for the success in this world and the Hereafter, and for the peace and prosperity of the global Muslim community. Often, as a result of unusually prolonged supplications, people in the congregation even get tired. It is indeed worth admiring that in the Taraweeh prayer, the Imam recites the Holy Quran at ease with the required pauses as a result of which once in a while people even cry when they listen to verses of the Holy Quran that warn human beings. It takes approximately an hour and a half to get done with Isha, Taraweeh and Witr prayers. The weather is extremely hot in Saudi Arabia. In summers, temperature usually remains around 45 degrees Celsius. There are times when the temperature rises up to 50 degrees Celsius. However, given high and better living standards, one does not feel thirst and hunger that much. Generally, schools are closed down during the blessed month of Ramzan as a result of which shopping centres and highways are flocked by people in the night. From Maghrib till Sahri (daybreak or the time up to which one can eat and drink), all the hotels and shops are open. Essentially what it informs us is that buying, selling, shopping and businesses usually happen during the night. However, after Sahri there is not a single restaurant that is found open, not even a tea shop. As far as the general routine of people is concerned, after having Sahri and performing the Fajr prayer they usually sleep. As per the directions of the government, duty hours are decreased by two hours during the blessed month of Ramzan. Men usually set out for their office around 10 AM whereas women sleep till Zohr prayer. Men offer Asr prayer in early hours and sleep afterwards in order to catch up on remaining sleep hours of the day, whereas women are found busy in the kitchen. Few women recite the Holy Quran whereas there are few who assign tasks to maidservants and once again take rest with their husband. Instead of a tasty and delicious fruit chaat, various kinds of fruits are there on the table for Aftaar. Saudi society is not familiar with pakoras, however, chicken, mutton and paneer samosas are used a lot. Along with the dates, there are various kinds of beverages available with edible olives. They also make a dish called Al-Humus by grinding grams with salad and pouring olive oil over it. Porridge is mixed with meat to make a dish known as Jareesh that is loved a lot and also happens to be extremely good for health. Saudi people eat more rice as compared to bread which is why a special dish called Kabsah, made with rice and chicken (similar to Biryani) is eaten a lot. A dish made by cooking mutton with basmati rice known as Mandi is a much-loved dish of Saudi Arabia. In Walimah (reception thrown by the groom\u2019s family after consummation of marriage) and other important gatherings, generally Mandi is served. In a fairly large dish there is rice surrounded by dry fruits and in between there is kept a fully roasted goat with its head. People merrily eat from the same dish shreds of roasted goat meat (from their side). Between Maghrib and Isha, people usually stay in their homes.\nIn the light of the words of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), in order to gain as much reward as possible, in Saudi Arabia, Aftaar arrangements are made on various places as a result of which millions of people eat Aftaar for free. The Aftaar that is arranged is prepared so generously that people carry the remaining food with them to their homes and eat it till Sahri. Similarly, those who stay without their families, especially Bangladeshi workers, majorly cut down on their personal expenditures during this blessed month. Every day, in the Grand Mosque and Masjid-e-Nabawi too, millions of guests of Almighty Allah who visit these sites from different parts of the world eat Aftaar. Sitting side by side on the same tablecloth, people of different nationalities, language and colour help each other through gestures. In the Aftaar that is served in the Grand Mosque and Masjid-e-Nabawi, people are served with various kinds of dates, water, yogurt drink, tea, Arabic coffee and juice etc. People who hail from higher echelons of society consider it a source of utmost bliss and blessing for themselves to serve Aftaar to the visitors. This is the reason why, in the spirit of love and brotherhood, they present such variety of dates to the visitors that are not to be found anywhere in the market. In Masjid-e-Nabawi, a special kind of bread made up of milk and wheat flour is served that is exceptionally tasty. In the open space of both the holy sites, all kinds of food items are there for Aftaar, however, the workers deputed for cleaning the premises of Haram clean the entire site within minutes. There is a gap of fifteen minutes between the call to Maghrib prayer and the Maghrib prayer held in congregation.\nIn the last ten days of the blessed month of Ramzan, other than the Taraweeh prayer, after midnight, in all the mosques of Saudi Arabia, Tahajjud prayers are offered in the congregation at fixed timings. For Tahajjud, usually eight to twelve rak\u2019ats are offered. There are few mosques where even fewer (than eight) rak\u2019ats are offered. After that, three rak\u2019ats of Witr are offered. In relation to offering Tahajjud prayer regularly in congregation in the last ten days of the blessed month of Ramzan, one does not find any evidence of the same in the period of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), his (PBUH) companions, the following generation of believers, and in generations afterwards. However, since people offer Tahajjud prayer regularly during these ten days (given the overall charged up atmosphere that promotes virtuous deeds and worshipping of Almighty Allah), there is scope for offering the prayers in congregation. That said, following the footsteps of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his noble companions, it is much better and more virtuous to individually offer Tahajjud prayer at home. In the Grand Mosque of Makkah and Masjid-e-Nabawi a chapter and a half (chapter here does not mean Surah but one of the thirty parts of the Holy Quran) are recited every day in Tahajjud prayers which leads to completion of almost 15 chapters in ten nights of Tahajjud prayers. In the last ten days of the blessed month of Ramzan, in the Grand Mosque of Makkah and Masjid-e-Nabawi (Medina), immediately after the Isha prayer, twenty rak\u2019ats of Taraweeh are offered in congregation. After Taraweeh, post-midnight, ten rak\u2019ats of Tahajjud are offered followed by three rak\u2019ats of Witr. In the last rak\u2019at of the Witr prayer, very long supplications are made in Arabic. In ordinary mosques of Saudi Arabia, there is not much attention paid to completion of the Holy Quran in the Taraweeh prayers. However, in the Grand Mosque of Makkah and Masjid-e-Nabawi, the Holy Quran is invariably completed in the Taraweeh prayers on the 29th night of the blessed month of Ramzan. In the 20th rak\u2019at of the Taraweeh prayer, there is supplication for almost half an hour. On the 27th night of the blessed month of Ramzan, there are strong chances of Shab-e-Qadr (Night of Decree or Power) falling in that night. It is a night that is better than a thousand years (worshipping during this very night is better than worshipping for thousand years). This is the reason why, just the way it is on the 29th night of the blessed month of Ramzan, on the 27th night the Grand Mosque is absolutely packed with people. On the 27th and 29th night of the blessed month of Ramzan, the gathering in the Grand Mosque is close to 3 million, numbers close to annual pilgrimage (Hajj). Suffice it to say that in Saudi Arabia, in the blessed month of Ramzan, especially during the last ten days of the month, people generally worship and pray throughout the night. One of the disadvantages of this practice is that during the daytime (especially during the last ten days of the blessed month of Ramzan), people do not have the required energy to do things they are expected to do. This is the reason why in government offices, little work is done during the blessed month of Ramzan, especially during the last ten days. After the 24th day of the blessed month of Ramzan, all the government offices are closed for ten days. In private companies too, there are holidays for almost a week. In Saudi Arabia, holidays are only on the occasion of \u2019Eid-al-Fitr and \u2019Eid-al-Adha. In all the big cities of Saudi Arabia, there are specific areas where Indians, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis are found in a large number. In the blessed month of Ramzan, in the hotels of these areas, one can easily find anything and everything that people of the subcontinent eat for their Aftaar or Sahri. In order to sustain and preserve their social and cultural life, people from the subcontinent invite each other for Aftaar. This year I am spending 20th consecutive blessed month of Ramzan in Saudi Arabia. I pray to Almighty Allah to help us act and live as per the teachings of the Holy Quran and sayings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). 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You can also check out the plagiarism report delivered free with every dissertation!\nThe construction industry plays a key role in contemporary society and the economy, however in the United Kingdom (UK) the industry has a poor reputation with a high volume of projects delivered late. This research focuses on the causes and effects of delays in construction. The objectives of the study are to consider the extent of delay as a problem in the construction industry and to explore the underling factors for delay from the main contractor perspective. The study also assesses the impact of these delays in terms of time, cost and quality and considers the tools/processes that could be used to reduce delays.\nThis deductive study uses a survey strategy with quantitative analysis of the data gathered in a review of secondary data and the collection of survey data from professionals active in the UK construction industry.\nThe research finds that there is a problem with delays in construction, underpinned by client-led, designer-led and contractor-led issues. Delay has social, economic and environmental impacts. There are measures that can be used to mitigate these problems including the use of risk management, effective supply chain management and technology such as Building Information Modelling (BIM). However the implementation of these measures is hampered by the competitive and fragmented nature of the industry. Real change can only be effected by effective supply chain management, a shift away from competitive procurement and the development of integrated project teams.\n1.1 Problem of Delay in Construction Industry\n1.2 Types of Delay\n1.3 Causal Factors and Impacts of Delay\n2.1 Causal Factors of Delay in Construction\n2.2 Impacts of Delays\n2.3 Ways of Managing Time in Construction Projects\n3.2.1 Interviews or Questionnaires\n3.2.2 Development of Questionnaire\n3.2.3 Ethical Considerations\n3.2.4 Analysis of Data\n3.3 Summary of the Methodology\n4.1 Secondary Data: Case Study- Holyrood\n4.1.1 The Holyrood Project\n4.2.1 Section 1 Demographics\n4.2.2 Section 2 Underlying Causes and Impacts of Delay\n4.2.3 Section 3 Mitigation Measures\n4.3.1 Causes of Delay\n4.3.2 Impacts of Delays\n4.3.3 Mitigation Measures\n5.3 Recommendations for Further Study\n7 Appendix A Questionnaire\nA construction project is generally considered successful, if it is delivered on-time and within budget, complying with the client\u2019s specifications, and satisfying the end-user of the constructed asset. However it is submitted that a high proportion of projects are not completed on time. In fact delay is considered to be one of the most common problems in construction resulting in a plethora of negative impacts on projects, the project stakeholders and on the industry (Gebrehiwet and Luo 2017). Gonz\u00e1lez et al., (2013) point out that this issue appears to be a global problem with Kog (2017) making a similar point, adding that construction projects in India, Hong Kong, the United States of America and the United Kingdom (UK). This research focuses on delays in construction projects in the UK. The purpose of this chapter is to set the research in context, presenting the aim and objectives of the study.\nThe difficulty is that in most countries, including the UK, the construction industry plays a key role in the economy, in the development of essential services and infrastructure in the built environment, the provision of housing, and in providing employment and supporting other industries (Marzouk and El-Rasas 2014). In addition the construction industry can contribute to the quality of life in society, as it creates the built environment which provides for the needs and values of the community (Osei, 2013; \u00c7elik et al., 2017).\nFor instance the construction industry in the UK comprises more than 280,000 organisations involved in contracting, services and supply of construction and design activities. The industry contributes an estimated average of 6.7% in value added to the national economy and approximately 10% of total UK employment (Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) 2013). However the industry also lacks efficiency and has a persistent problem with Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) suggesting that in the UK industry, only 66% of projects are completed within the specified time (Glenigan 2017, p.8). It is argued that there is clear scope for improvement in such performances, with HM Government (2013), who is not simply a regulator of the industry but also a major client, challenging the industry to reduce the time of delivery by 50% as a means of optimising productivity and profitability.\nKaziz et al., (2011) agree, adding that delays can be categorised according to the perpetrator of the delay, suggesting that there are client-led delays, designer-led delays, and contractor-led delays. Aziz and Abdel-Hakam (2016) make a similar point, asserting that delays can also be defined in terms of liability, with excusable delays, inexcusable delays and concurrent delays. Excusable delays can by further sub-divided into compensable (client ) and non-compensable, as shown in Figure 1.1.\nFigure 1.1. Types of Delay (Hamzah et al., 2011, p. 291, Figure 1).\nIn short excusable, compensational delays are permitted under the contract, whereby the client can may changes for which the for both the project owner and the project contractor. Non-excusable delay are largely due to errors by the contractor or the designer and neither party should expect compensation, rather the client may be due compensation depending on the type of error and the impacts of such an event. In any case, the importance of the construction industry to the economy, means that it is important to understand the concept of delay in this sector (Hamzah et al., 2011).\nMarzouk and El-Rasas (2014) maintain poor time management affects productivity and profitability, arguing that this problem is due to inadequate planning and resources management, ineffective site management and problems with contractor financing and the client\u2019s payment for completed works.\nGebrehiwet and Luo (2017) argue that delays can occur in the pre-construction stage affecting the timely delivery of the design and affecting the construction start date. Delays also occur in the construction stage of the project life cycle, ultimately affecting the project costs, quality and the programme of work. Causal factors in delays can be categorised as internal factors such as designer related causes, client related causes, and contractor related causes. Delays can also be caused by external factors such as site conditions and weather related issues.\nAziz (2013, p.387) argues that despite persistent problems with delays in construction, there has been little effort \u201cto curtail the phenomenon\u201d. As such this research seeks to identify, investigate, and assess the casual factors in delay in the construction industry, focusing on projects in the UK and to understand the impacts of such delays.\nThis dissertation continues in chapters, with the next chapter presenting a critical review of pertinent literature.\nThe purpose of this chapter is to set out the findings of a critical review of literature, exploring the causes of delays in the construction process and the effects of such delays. In the interests of clarity it is noted that delay in the context of this dissertation means the non-completion of project within the specified duration that is agreed within contract (Aziz 2013).\nKog (2017) maintains that schedule performance is a key performance criteria in determining construction project success, as such it is imperative to identify the major construction delay factors to understand the factors that affect schedule performance. Once these factors are understood, it is possible to implement measures to address and implement effective schedule performance.\nIn research conducted by Gebrehiwet and Luo (2017), it was found that delays can start at the preconstruction stage, due to ineffective project planning and scheduling, along with inflation and /or price increases in materials. Other causal factors include the unavailability of services such as essential utilities on site, inaccurate feasibility studies, the late issue of design information and design documents, design mistakes and errors, along with a lack of understanding of the contract documents and responsibilities. In the construction stage, it is argued that delays can be caused by construction material related causes, finance related causes, equipment related causes, and labour related causes exacerbated by poor site management and sub-contractor-related causes (Gebrehiwet and Luo 2017, p.368).\nThere are multiple reasons for delays including a lack of communication across the design-construction interface, and between the various construction organisations delivering the project (Afshari et al. 2011; Khoshgoftar et al. 2010). Delays can also be underpinned by poor project management, particularly if the client does not make payments to the contractor as set out in the contract, or seeks to stall/delay such payments (Fallahnejad 2013; Sepasgozar et al. 2015). The client and design team can also cause delay by making changes during the construction stage, as such variations typically result in rework, additional costs and such rework can affect project morale and relationships (Pourrostam and Ismail 2012). Kog (2017) add that the client also contributes to delays by selecting the contractor based on lowest price rather than best value or by setting unrealistic deadlines for the design and the construction teams. Kog (2017) points out that the contractor can also add to delays in a project through the use of inexperienced workers, poor resource planning and management and failure to control work of key organisations such as sub-contractors.\nNiazi and Painting (2017) suggest that there are labour-led delays, a shortage of skilled workers, or where the contractor appoints inexperienced workers to carry out the work. According to Aziz (2013) the main causes of delays in construction are contractor\u2019s financial difficulties and uncontrolled changes made by the client. It is conceded that there are other causal factors such as severe weather conditions and changes to government regulations that can lead to delays, and which the project stakeholders have little control over (Al-Hazim, et al., 2017), however Winch (2010) argues that effective project management includes taking a systems approach to management, whereby such external factors would be anticipated and taken into account in the planning and scheduling of the works.\nSoliman (2017) argues that delays are fundamentally caused by failures in communication, given that the delivery of a project depends on the flow of information from one organisation to another. The fact is that project success hinges on the flow of detailed and accurate information, whereby the contractor has the necessary information to construct each element of the work, as set out in the schedule. However this can be difficult to achieve in practice, given reliance on competitive forms of procurement and the fact that the contractor is typically not involved in the design process (Morledge and Smith 2013).\nThere are several impacts of delay in construction, with Aziz (2013) arguing that delays can adversely affect profit, market growth and financial viability. Delayed project typically result in cost implications for at least one of the project stakeholders, can result in disruption to new work and loss of productivity. Delays can also lead to third party claims, disputes and in extreme circumstances abandonment or termination of contracts.\nWang et al., (2016) make an interesting observation, conceding that delays in construction have an impact on project success, adding that delays also have an adverse social dimension. In short delayed construction extends the life of a construction site which affects the local community and can also have a negative impact on the natural environment. As mentioned earlier delays due to client changes, designer error or poor contractor workmanship, invariably result in rework, which increases the level of waste generated in construction and the carbon footprint of the project, all of which have social and environmental impacts (Patil and Laishram 2016;Lee et al.,2016).\nCheung et al., (2011) maintain that there are problems with organisational culture in the industry and it is argued that this affects willingness to collaborate within the project team and across organisational boundaries, increasing the risk of delays. Arditi et al., (2017) makes a similar claim, suggesting that organisational culture can be affected by delays in construction and can also be a causal factor. For example if there is a clan culture in an organisation then this can result in lax attitude to management\u2019s authority in terms of achieving project goals, whereas a market oriented organisation may pay too little attention to human resources which results in delays through unmotivated staff.\nIt is submitted that the over-use of competitive procurement has an impact on delays in construction whereby clients favour cost over value, requiring contractors to submit the lowest possible price to secure work. This in turn affects the supply chain, where contractors put pressure on subcontractors to reduce the cost of work. All of which adversely affects trust, supply chain management and relationships and willingness to collaborate. These failures increase the risk of delays, and ensure that there is a viscous circle of inefficiency within the construction industry (Hartmann and Caerteling 2010; Fawcett et al., 2012; Morledge and Smith 2013).\nAltuwaim and El-Rayes (2018) maintain that during the construction stage, contractors used scheduling to optimise the efficiency of resources including labour, to reduce wasted time and to reduce the time taken to complete an activity to as short as possible. It is suggested that contractors use a variety of methods to develop and maintain an efficient programme of work including Gantt charts and the Critical Path Method (CPM). The former is widely used in construction and seeks to identify the key activities that are vital to the successful completion of a project within the time specified in the contract. However there are drawbacks to the CPM method including the fact that each activity requires representation by a significant number of activities and there is no guarantee of maintaining continuity of work (Long and Ohsato 2009). Francis (2016,p.50) argues that a CPM schedule is \u201cnot realistic because it assumes unlimited resources\u201d.\nDziadosz and Rejment (2015) argue that construction projects are fraught with uncertainties relating to time, the design, the regulatory environment, site conditions, the project team and financing, as such success depends on managing risk. As such construction project teams typically use project management tools to assess risks and to implement mitigation measures to protect the critical path activities and the time of construction. Risk management is typically a staged process of identification of hazards; quantification and assessment of risks which then informs the action required to mitigate such risks. A number of construction organisations use project management standards such as Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and PRINCE 2, as part of risk management where the latter includes a register of risks. However the use of these measures is generally sporadic and confined to larger organisation and projects, due to the complexity of calculations, the need for appropriate computer programmes and the clarity of the results. El-Karim et al., (2017) agree that risk management is useful in keeping projects within the planned schedule, implying that the problem lies in the ability of the project team to keep manage risks in a dynamic environment when there are multiple client-led and designer-led changes. Serpella et al., (2014) concur, adding that the effectiveness of risk management is dependent on carrying out this process from the concept stage of a project.\nHM Government (2013) suggests that the solution to the problems in the construction industry is the use of technology such as Building Information Modelling, which Eastman et al., (2011) argue can create efficiencies throughout the life cycle of a project. Bryde et al., (2013) take the view that BIM facilitates better communication within the project team which can improve time efficiencies and reduce changes which put the project schedule at risk. Azhar et al., (2008) agree, also maintaining that the visual nature of the 3-dimensional virtual model of the project enables the client to visualise the project, reducing requests for change during the construction stage and facilitating effective planning and organisation of the project during construction. That said, Abanda et al., (2015) argue that the industry is slow to adopt this technology, in part due to the fragmented nature of the industry, a lack of understanding of the construction life cycle and the unwillingness of supply chain members to collaborate in a highly competitive industry. In addition, whilst in theory BIM provides a virtual model from which time schedules and cost reports can be extracted, the reality is that there are typically interoperability issues due to the plethora of software available. Miettinen and Paavola (2014, p.85) refer to the BIM \u201cutopia\u201d, where there are suggestions that this technology is the single most effective solution to the problems in construction projects, whereas the reality falls short of such a vision. However BIM can be useful in facilitating change in the industry, encouraging better communication and project organisation which should be beneficial to time management and project success in the longer term.\nKivrak et al., (2008) add an interesting point to the discourse, suggesting that there is a wealth of knowledge and experience within each project team, relating to the problems occurring during a project and the management of these problems. The difficulty is that in the temporal nature of a construction project, this knowledge is typically lost at the completion of each project, as the project team fails to carry out a post-project review and organisations fail to optimise the benefits of these experiences for future project, through ineffective communication, knowledge sharing and knowledge management. It is submitted that such management of knowledge relies on cooperation between the diverse entities that develop and deliver a project, and to date this appear to be hampered by fragmentation and mistrust in the industry, underpinned by competitive procurement where costs are prioritised over value (Loosemore 2016; Hinton and Hamilton 2015; Morledge and Smith 2013).\nThere is general agreement within the literature that all project stakeholders are responsible for delays in construction projects, with the client and designer typically responsible for making late changes to the design during construction and failing to comply with the contract with respect to payments for work complete. Contractors are also responsible for delays through poor site management, poor quality workmanship and a lack of control of the supply chain. It is suggested that the underlying causal factor in these issues is the fragmented and disjointed nature of the industry and project delivery. This in turn is linked to competitive forms of procurement and excluding the construction team from the concept and design development stages of the project.\nThe impacts of such delays are low levels of productivity and profitability, high levels of wasted time, energy and materials and dissatisfaction among the client body. There are possible solutions including risk management, and the use of BIM, however these solutions are in part dependent on the willingness of the industry to accept new ways of working and to collaborate. These issues require further consideration, as set out in the following chapters.\nThis dissertation seeks to add to the research bank on delays in construction and is aimed at organisations working within the industry. It is therefore important to ensure that the research is carried out in a transparent and coherent manner, so that the findings of this study can be validated through wider studies on this topic. Therefore this research was designed in a staged manner, taking the scientific approach to academic studies, whereby the research methodology is underpinned by quantitative reasoning and analysis (Fellows and Liu 2015). The purpose of this chapter is to set out the research methodology, with the options available at each stage and justification for the choices made.\nThere are two approaches to this type of research including deductive study and inductive study, where the former seeks to answer a research question and the latter seeks to build theory relating to a specific topic, such as delays in construction. In this instance, it is argued that the deductive approach is suitable for this quantitative study, as it seeks to answer a specific question relating to delays in construction (Roberts 2010).\nAccording to Biggam (2015) there are several research strategies that can be used for deductive, quantitative studies including surveys, case studies, experiments and action research. Each has merit, with Farrell (2011) advising that it is necessary to ascertain the benefits and drawbacks of each with respect to the research question, aim and objectives of the study. It is noted that a survey is beneficial in gathering data pertinent to the research question, offering a high degree of flexibility with respect to the variables surveyed. It is conceded that that whilst the researcher has a degree of freedom in choosing the survey sample, the survey questions and the assessment methods, this process can be time-consuming, it typically relies on third-party input into the study and crucially the reliability of the findings depends on the survey sample and how this sample represents the wider population of the construction industry.\nNaoum (2012) takes the view that a case study offers a flexible form of research that does not rely on third party involvement. The benefit of this strategy is that there are different forms of case studies such as exploratory and explanatory, and the researcher has the freedom to choose the variables to be measured and analysed. However, it is evident from the preceding chapters that the construction industry is a large and diverse sector (BIS 2013), as such there is a risk that the selected case study or case studies may not be representative of the wider industry (Biggam 2015).\nFarrell (2011) notes that the strategy should be practical, adding value to the study being conducted; as such it is suggested that experimentation is impractical in this instance. Action research can be used to assess the impact of change within an organisation, and could be useful in ascertaining the impacts of the implementation of processes such as risk management or BIM on delays in construction projects. For example, a comparative study could be carried out following the implementation of BIM whereby past experiences of delay could be compared to the level of delay in project\u2019s after the introduction of the technology including taking account of behavioural and cultural changes in the organisation. It is argued that there are significant benefits to such a study, however it too was discounted as impractical as the researcher should ideally be embedded in the organisation to form part of the study (Fellows and Liu 2015).\nGiven the above discourse, it was decided to progress this research using the survey strategy, as this offered the greatest flexibility with research to the data collected and optimised the chance of answering the research question posed in this dissertation.\nThere are two forms of data that can be used in surveys, primary and/or secondary, whereby the former is typically collected using interviews or questionnaires and the latter is gathered by reference to published data (Fellows and Liu 2015). There are merits to both, as secondary data gathered from academic sources provides expert opinion on the topic of delays, whilst primary data provides an insight into contemporary construction (Biggam 2015). As previously mentioned the construction industry in the UK is diverse and fragmented, as such it was decided to gather both primary and secondary data on this topic, whereby the former was useful in guiding the latter. A review of construction projects was carried out and a case study selected to highlight the causal factors in delay and the impacts of such delay.\nIn terms of the primary data, it is noted that interviews provide the opportunity to gather detailed data from a selected sample of participants, whereas questionnaires typically facilitate the collection of a large volume of data from a wide sample of participants in a relatively short period (Naoum 2012; Fellows and Liu 2015). Given the diversity of the construction industry and project stakeholders, it was decided to progress the research gathering primary data using a questionnaire. In the interests of time efficiency, the survey sample was selected from the researcher\u2019s contacts with the industry, to ensure that the participants had sufficient experience of construction to add value to the study and to consider the concept of delay from different perspectives (Biggam 2015; Farrell 2011).\nThe questionnaire, attached to Appendix A of this document, was prepared following the guidance offered by Fink (2003) ensuring that each question was focused on the objectives and that the meaning of each question was clear. In addition the questionnaire used a mix of open style and closed style questions, to ensure that the process resulted in sufficient data from analysis and to draw on the experiences and opinions of the sample of construction professionals. It is acknowledged that there is a risk of researcher bias within the questions, as such a minor pilot study was conducted among the researcher\u2019s peers to ensure that that aesthetics and logic of the questionnaire was correct and to also ensure that each questions had the same meaning for the different participants (Fink 2003).\nAs mentioned the sample was selected from the researcher\u2019s contacts, with each participant receiving the questionnaire by email, as this was the preferred method of contact, giving the participants flexibility to complete the work. In keeping with the ethical requirements of academic studies, the researcher also informed the participants about the purpose of the study and the data collection, as well as the manner in which the data collected would be used. In addition the researcher did not collect any personal or commercially sensitive data and all participants were assured that participation was voluntary (Roberts 2010; Biggam 2015).\nGiven that this research is a deductive study, underpinned by quantitative reasoning, the data gathered in the closed style questions was analysed using descriptive and statistical analysis. The data from the open style questions was analysed using coding to establish the key themes in the responses along with descriptive analysis. The analysis focused on the research objectives for this study.\nThis study is deductive, seeking to respond to a specific question on delays in construction. Several strategies were considered and it was decided that the optimal strategy was a survey. Two forms of data was collected; secondary data which references a construction project and the impacts of delays on the project, and a questionnaire survey of a sample of professionals in the construction industry. The data, presented in the next chapter, was analysed using quantitative methods.\nThis chapter presents the primary and the secondary data collected as part of this study. The data is then analysed and discussed in relation to the objectives of the research.\n4.1 Secondary Data: Case Study-Holyrood\nThe case study selected for this study is the design and construction of the Scottish Parliament building, Holyrood, chosen because this project was initially commissioned as a fast-track development with a budget of \u00a340million, that ultimately took almost five years to complete with a final project cost of \u00a3431million (White and Sidhu 2005). This project illustrates the impacts of poor management, client-led changes and designer-led changes on delays in the construction stage of a project\u2019s life cycle.\nThe project was commissioned by the newly devolved Scottish Government in 1997, with a project budget of up to \u00a340million based on a feasibility study of suitable sites for the new parliament building. The client\u2019s brief was for a fast-track, iconic building with a budget commensurate with value for public funding. On completion of a feasibility study, which included the late inclusion of the Holyrood site, the initial boundary of the project budget was increased to a range of \u00a355 to \u00a371 million depending on the site, for a 20,000 m2 with car parking. The Holyrood site was then selected because it was the lowest cost option, with estimates of \u00a349.5million (White and Sidhu 2005).\nThe development process continued with a design competition in 1998 whereby the initial 70 applicants was reduced to five selected design from which the successful joint venture team of Spanish architects Enric Miralles y Moya (EMBT) and a Scottish firm RMJM Ltd was selected with a budget of \u00a362.60 million, for an increase footprint of 27,610 m2. Bovis was then appointed as Construction Manager in 1999 to oversee and manage the design and construction process. The programme of work was produced with a start date in July 1999 and completion by September 2001 (Scotland Audit 2004).\nSeveral studies including Scotland Audit (2004), Bain (2005), Fraser 2004, and Potts and Ankrah (2013) indicate that from the start, the project was subject to delays attributed to\nClient-led changes to the design brief including requirements for additional space and alternations to the proposed structure of the building.\nDesigner-led changes such as changes to the materials and the footprint of the building which when combined with the client-led changes increased the budget to \u00a3107million. The design was reviewed in 1999 and consequential changes increased the costs to \u00a3195million.\nPoor levels of communication between the client-design team and the design-construction team.\nFailure to freeze the design.\nLack of collaboration within the design joint venture and with the contractor.\nIncorrect method of procurement as the client chose the construction management route rather than the design and build route, which would have restricted the fluid design and shifted the risk of completion to the contractor, optimising the chances of completion on time and within budget.\nA lack of risk management whereby risks were identified and managed by increasing the budget without testing the value-added by the successive changes or assessing the impact of each change on the cost and construction programme.\nContinual changes to the design resulted in delays to construction with planned completion changed to 2004.\nIt is argued that the above case study highlights the fragmented nature of a typical construction project and the fact that poor project management from the concept stage can affect construction progress. The impacts of such poor supply chain management and failure to communicate are significant delays during the construction stage, along with tensions and conflict in the project team, wasted time, costs and materials. This project may provide an extreme version of construction however it illustrates the need for collaborative working, effective communication and integration of the design and construction stages of a project.\nAs mentioned in the previous chapter, primary data in the form of a questionnaire was gathered from a sample of professionals working in construction in the UK. Given that Grove et al., (2009) suggest that the reliability of the data collected is dependent on the sample having sufficient knowledge of delays in the construction industry and experience of the industry, it was decided that the sample should be selected from a range of design and construction organisations using the researcher\u2019s contacts. The questionnaire is set out in three sections, with the first section testing the reliability of the sample, based on their experience of the industry. The second section explores the problem of delay in the industry and section 3 investigates ways of improving the productivity and performance of the industry. The purpose of this section is to set out the questions with justification for including each question and analysis of the responses obtained.\nThe first three questions seek to develop an insight into the participants role in the industry and experience. The response to Question 1, as shown in Figure 4.1, indicate that that main groups in construction (client, design and construction) are represented, although this is weighed in favour of those involved in the construction stage.\nFigure 4.1 Responses to Question 1 \u201c What is your role in construction in the UK?\u201d\nThe second question explores the participants experience, with the responses to Question 2, given in Figure 4.2.\nFigure 4.2. Responses to Question 2 \u201c How many years\u2019 experience have you working in construction?\u201d\nThe data in the above figure, suggests that 68% of the participants have more than 5 years\u2019 experience in construction, which it is argued indicates that this sample has sufficient experience to add value to this research.\nFigure 4.3. Responses to Question 3 \u201cIn your opinion what are the key attributes of a successful construction project?\u201d\nQuestion 3 explores the participants views on project success, as it is argued that these views can be related to the importance of delay in the industry. The responses to this question, shown in Figure 4.3, indicate that the majority response correlates with the findings of the literature review, namely that success is measured in time, cost and quality (Walker 2015; Harris and McCaffer 2013).\nQuestion 4 asks the participants about delays in the construction industry in the UK, and is included to ascertain the sample\u2019s views on current productivity levels as this may influence the responses to the remaining questions. The responses to Question 4, shown in Figure 4.4., indicate that 50% of the participants agree that there is a problem with delays in the industry, whilst 18% take the opposite view, and 27% take the view that there is a problem with delay on some projects.\nFigure 4.4. Responses to Question 4 \u201cIn your opinion is delay in project completion a problem in the construction industry in the UK?\u201d\nIt is argued that these responses are in keeping with the benchmark data provided by Glenigan, which indicates that there are projects completed on time. It is submitted that the general experience of this small cross-section of professionals in the construction industry, provides a snapshot of the performance of the industry at this time, and that the sample has sufficient experience to make a positive contribution to this dissertation.\nThis section of the questionnaire focuses on the sample\u2019s views of delay, and the impacts of this problem in construction, to ascertain if there are correlations with the findings of the literature review and the case study. Question 5 asks the participants about the key causes of delay in construction, using an open-style question to draw on the participant\u2019s experience of this issue. The responses were coded to establish themes within the responses as shown in Table 4.1.\nTable 4.1. Responses to Question 5 \u201cIn your experience, what are the key causes of delay in construction?\u201d\nIt is evident from the above data, that delays at the construction stage can, according to this sample, be attributed to the client who makes frequent changes to the design, thus impeding the construction programme of work; the designer due to problems with design errors and lack of quality management, as well as lack of construction experience and delays in issuing information for construction; and contractor-led delays through inexperience, poor communication, ineffective management and a lack of quality control of all activities on the site. It is argued that there is a strong correlation between these responses and the findings of the literature review.\nQuestion 6 seeks to build on the data collected in the previous question, providing the participants with a list of issues drawn from the literature review that could affect the delivery of the project. The participants were required to assign a scaled rating to each, from 1 to 10, in order of importance. The results shown in Figure 4.5, from which it is clear that the most important factor underpinning delays in construction is the client making changes to the scope of work during the contract, closely followed by poor communication between the design and construction team.\nFigure 4.5. Responses to Question 6 Causal Factors in Delays.\nThe majority of participants (76%) also agreed that delays were caused by inefficient project management, control and monitoring of the project and issues such as failure of the client to meet the requirements of the contract were rated as the fourth most important factor affecting delays in construction. Contractor-led delays were attributed ineffective resource management and poor control of workmanship on site, which were rated 5th and 6th respectively. Surprisingly, poor design control with errors and changes during construction was rated 7th out of 10 in terms of importance. However, it is noted that there was very little difference in the percentage responses to delays factors rated 5 to 7. The least important factors included the lack of collaboration across the supply chain, lack of contractor experience and unrealistic schedules for the projects.\nQuestion 7 queried the impacts of delays in construction, using the open style to gather opinion based on the participants experiences. The responses were coded and divided into themes as shown in Table 4.2, from which it is evident that the key impacts are loss of productivity, risk to profits, dissatisfied clients and tainted reputations, as well as conflicts and disputes over the responsibility for the delays.\nTable 4.2 Key Themes in Responses to Question 7.\nThe participants also stated that delays in contracts resulted in a\n\u201closs of confidence in the project team, with a blame culture as to who is responsible\u201d (Main Contractor 10-years\u2019 experience).\nThe consensus was summarised by one of the most senior participants, a main contractor with more than 20 years\u2019 experience in the industry, mainly involved in the construction of commercial buildings such as offices and high rise construction. This participant stated that:\n\u201c a project may be going fine until an unforeseen event occurs, which could be soft ground on site, an impediment to planning or misinformation from the design team after an element of the work is completed or under construction. In some cases, for example if the change is client or design-led then this will take the form of an instruction from the client and the contractor can haggle the additional cost and time for carrying out such a change. In my opinion, such changes form part of the dynamic nature of construction and can be dealt with under the contract. What I mean is that these changes are acceptable and less likely to cause conflict than for example design errors, where the designer does not want to admit an error and tries to either pin the blame (time and costs) on the contractor. This can happen in a number of ways, for example a classic one is when the designer will state that the contractor carried out the work before receiving the final design, as such the contractor took the risk of the element of work and therefore has to front the costs and time for rework. The point being that construction is competitive and neither side is willing to acknowledge or pay for mistakes, which typically results in conflict, that increases time delays in a downward spiral\u201d (Main Contractor 20 years\u2019 experience).\nSeveral of the participants took the view that delays could erode the \u2018team spirit\u2019 (Designer with 5 years\u2019 experience) in the project, which in turn affects willingness to collaborate and cooperate, and ultimately adversely affects the success of the project.\nThis section was included in the questionnaire to assess the measures currently used by contractors to avoid delays and to ascertain if measures such as BIM and supply chain management are prevalent in the industry.\nQuestion 8 asks the participants what measures are taken to reduce delays, and the responses indicate a variety of measures as indicated in Table 4.3.\nTable 4.3 Responses to Question 8.\nIt is noted that all of the above processes have merit, however there was no mentioned of risk management or BIM, possibly indicating the industry\u2019s reluctance to move away from traditional management practices.\nQuestion 9 explored the use of risk management, and BIM as potential solutions to the problems of delay in construction, with the responses shown in Figure 4.6.\nFigure 4.6. Responses to Question 9. \u201cDo you think that technology such as Building Information Modelling or processes such as risk management and effective supply chain management can reduce delays? \u201c\nIt is argued that given the benefits of these processes, as indicated in the literature review, the above responses are surprising, as there is divided opinion on the benefits of BIM, risk or supply chain management. Question 10 was included to draw opinion on these measures, and it is argued that the responses reveal the underlying issues associated with the above measures.\nIt is noted that 70% of the participants agreed that there was a need for better supply chain management, however the view was that such collaboration and integration was hampered by the competitiveness in the industry. Several of the contractors stated that delays were due to the client-body\u2019s unwillingness to appoint the construction team early in the project.\nThe responses indicated that 55% of the participants take the view that risk management is useful and virtually all had experience of risk management for safety assessments, but this did not appear to extend to time management.\nThe responses to Question 10, indicate that just under 50% of the participants suggest that BIM is expensive, requiring a \u201csignificant amount of cash and time investment to become savvy with the technology\u201d (Sub-contractor with 15-years\u2019 experience). Several of the participants also mentioned that rather than an:\n\u201call-singing, all-dancing technology, BIM depends on the level of maturity. I agree that it can be useful in data organisation (Level 2) but we are a small organisation and cannot justify investment in anything above that level of maturity\u201d (Main Contractor 10 years\u2019 experience).\nIt is noted that the designers in the sample typically used BIM or as described by one participant \u201c a form of BIM, which is then uploaded to a central model to share the information with the other designers on the project\u201d, adding that there are frequent interoperability problems that need to be resolved because different designers use different packages. However this participant also stated that these were \u201cteething problems, as this technology will evolve and slowly become commonplace in the industry\u201d (Designer 10-20 years\u2019 experience).\nTo reiterate this research seeks to understand the causes of delay in construction, the impacts of such delays and to suggest suitable mitigation measures. The purpose of this section is to discuss the data collected in the previous section with that gathered in the literature review.\nAziz and Abdel-Hakam (2016) conducted a similar study, investigating the causal factors and impacts of delays in construction, based on primary data collected using a questionnaire and secondary data from case studies. The findings correlate to the above data collections, with delays attributed to the client, the designer and the contractor. The research provides an insight into the problems of delays in construction from different perspectives, finding that client\u2019s in the industry take the view that delay is primarily caused by contractor\u2019s financial difficulties. Other causal factors included shortage in equipment and inadequate contractor experience, as well as poor resource management resulting in a shortage in materials and equipment failure, poor subcontractor performance and the need for rework due to poor site management and supervision by contractor. It is argued that such findings provide an interesting perspective on delay, however it is also submitted that the views expressed by the client-body ignore the fact that contractor\u2019s financial difficulties are very often underpinned by slow payment by the client or when client\u2019s withhold payment for spurious reasons.\nAnalysis of the data collected in this study, highlights the designer\u2019s view that delays are typically the fault of the client who makes successive changes and the contractor because of poor workmanship. It is argued that this is evident in the Holyrood case study, where the client was responsible for successive changes. These views correlate with the data collected by Aziz and Abdel-Hakam (2016), whereby the designers/consultants suggested that client financial problems and problems with coordinating the work of different parties was ranked as a key factor in delays in construction. That said it is argued that this view ignores the fact that the designer has an obligation to work with the client to freeze the design at the tender stage and to work with the contractor and the client to minimise the impacts of change throughout the construction stage (Winch 2010; Walker 2015; Royal Institute of British Architects 2013).\nIn short, the causal factors in delays are a mixture of client, designer and contractor-led issues, underpinned by failure to collaborate from the concept stage and to develop integrated teams whereby all stakeholders work to a common goal.\nThe data collected as part of this study, indicate that delay affects the public\u2019s perception of the industry through projects such as Holyrood. In addition delays, as suggested by the responses to the questionnaire, affect project morale, willingness to collaborate, profitability and productivity. As previously mentioned the construction industry plays a fundamental role in the national economy (BIS 2013), with Senouci et al., (2016) implying that given the highly competitive economic environment in the global economy, it is important that the industry improves productivity and output. The fact is that persistent delays reduce competitiveness and profitability, putting competitiveness and viability at risk. Matthews et al., (2016) maintain that aside from the cost of delays, there are also social costs to delayed construction, including additional waste, poor value for public funds and increased levels of carbon emissions, along with prolonged disruption for local communities.\nThe data collected indicates the importance of effective project management controlling time and changes. This is particularly evident in the Holyrood project, as the delays were a combination of por planning from the outset and failure to control change throughout the project (Potts and Ankrah 2013). This point is reinforced by the survey sample, the majority of whom linked project success with effective planning, monitoring and controlling the project schedule and change management. This finding correlates with research conducted by Pourrostam and Ismail (2011b) who also used a carried a questionnaire survey, involving contractors and designers focusing on ways in which delays could be reduced/eliminated in construction. The study concluded that it is essential to freeze the design prior to the construction stage. Kog (2017) adds that delays can be reduced through effective planning and management of resources at all stages of the project, ensuring that the design team and the construction team are competent and that all parties are aware of the conditions of contract and their roles /responsibilities under that contract. The inference being that the solution lies in cooperation and collaboration of all project stakeholders.\nThe literature review highlights the need for collaboration and integrated teamwork (HM Government 2013; Koolwijk et al., 2015). However the responses to the data collection, highlight the fact that competitive procurement impedes such working practices. Eastman et al., (2011) offer BIM as a solution, yet the responses from the questionnaire imply reluctance to adopt such technology. This latter point is supported by Abanda et al., (2015) who argue that this reluctance is underpinned by fragmentation in the industry, and mistrust within the supply chain. The responses also indicate that BIM is still viewed as an evolving technology, a view also expressed by Miettinen and Paavola (2014).\nIt is argued that there is merit to risk management, and whilst the responses to the questionnaire suggest that this practices appears to be widely accepted for safety management, there is less interest/experience in carrying out risk assessments for scheduling and programming of activities in the design and construction of a project. It is submitted that this inexperience or lack of use can be linked to fragmentation in the industry and over-reliance on small to medium size organisations, as well as competitive procurement (Perrenoud et al., 2017). The point being that the issues preventing a reduction in delays or improvements in construction are essentially the same as those causing the problems.\nThis research set out to investigate the causes and effects of delays in construction projects in the UK. The objectives of the study were to consider the extent of delay as a problem in the construction industry and to explore the underling factors for delay from the main contractor perspective. The research also sought to assess the impact of these delays in terms of time, cost and quality, to determine the tools/processes that could be used to reduce delays and to ascertain the barriers to implementing these tools/processes. The purpose of this chapter is to set out the findings of the study, present the conclusions drawn from these findings and to recommend further useful research on this topic.\nThis research finds that delay is prolific in the construction and there is a general acceptance that this is simply a part of the industry. It is evident that major clients such as HM Government are dissatisfied with the value offered by the industry, which it is noted includes the design and construction processes.\nThere are several interlinked and underlying issues which lead to this persistent problem in the industry including high levels of fragmentation, and a disjointed approach to project delivery. For example it appears that the design process is carried out in isolation of the construction team in a high volume of projects, and that key players such as sub-contractors have little access to design/construction development or to the client. These issues are underpinned by the use of competitive procurement, a client-body that is typically concerned with costs rather than value and a construction-body which needs to drive costs down by putting pressure on sub-contractors to get the best price. In short, all project stakeholders are responsible for delays.\nThere are a range of causes of delay in the construction process, many of which are not in the control of the contractor. These include client-led changes during the construction stage and failures to progress payments to the contractor in a timely manner. There are also designer-led delays including poor communication, failure to issue good quality and accurate data to the contractor and changes during the construction stage due to errors or lack of experience of construction processes. That said, the contractor is also responsible for delays, through poor site management and organisations, poor levels of quality and the use of inexperienced labour. In effective project management will inevitably lead to delays, particularly if the contractor does not have measures in place to monitor and control subcontractors on the project and all interrelated work activities.\nThe impacts of delays can be explained from a national perspective, whereby poor performance reduces the industry\u2019s contributions to the economy, or social issues when public works are delayed. From the contractor\u2019s perspective delays can reduce profit, can affect reputation and future work loads and increase the risk of conflict and disputes.\nThere are ways in which delays can be reduced/eliminated in the industry including effective supply chain management, the use of risk management and the implementation of technology such as BIM. It is clear from the literature review that each has merit, however it is equally evident from the data collected as part of this study, that there is resistance to investment in BIM and that many organisations have not, as yet extended risk management to scheduling. It is found that resistance to such measures can be linked to high levels of fragmentation in the industry and competitive procurement which impede collaboration, trust and cooperation.\nIn conclusion, there is a problem with delay in the construction industry. Delay in the construction stage is linked to ineffective communication, changes required by the client and the designer and poor site/construction management. The obvious solution is a combination of involving the contractor and key suppliers in the design stage to reduce the level of change and subsequent delays in the construction stage, the application of risk management, effective supply chain management and the use of BIM. 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Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.\nWhat is your role in the construction industry in the UK?\nHow many years\u2019 experience have you working in construction?\nLess than 1year\nIn your opinion what are the key attributes of a successful construction project?\nAttributes of Success\nCompleted within budget\nCompleted to the satisfaction of the client\nA project on-time, within budget and to the quality required by the client\nIn your opinion is delay in project completion a problem in the construction industry in the UK?\nSection 2 Underlying Causes and Impacts of Delay in Construction\nIn your experience, what are the key causes of delay in construction?\nPlease rate the causal factors in delay from 1 to 10 with 1 being the most important and 5 the least important.\nRate 1 to 10\nClient changes to the design/scope of work during construction\nPoor design control with errors and changes throughout the project\nA lack of communication between the client/design team and contractor\nPoor workmanship on site\nIneffective resource management\nLack of contractor experience\nOver- ambitious/unrealistic programme of work\nLack of collaboration within the supply chain\nInefficient project management in terms of planning, monitoring and control\nFailure of client to meet the requirements of the contract e.g. late payments\nIn your opinion what are the impacts of these delays?\nSection 3 Mitigation Measures\nIn your experience what measures do project stakeholders take to reduce delays?\nDo you think that technology such as Building Information Modelling or processes such as risk management and effective supply chain management can reduce delays?\nCould you please explain your response to the previous question?\nThank you for taking part in this survey", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 504, "original_length": 74113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 208.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://naxos-greece.biz/naxos-history.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFRLD2OIUN6Y4R4Q4O53S2BRKBIWR5SH", "length": 3044, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "naxos-greece.biz", "title": "Naxos History: The history of the island of Naxos Greece", "raw_content": "Naxos History: Learn about the history of the famous island of Naxos Greece\nAccording to Mythology, Naxos Greece is the island where Zeus, the father of all gods, grew up. Dionysus, Zeus\u2019 son, was born in Naxos and was nurtured by some local nymphs.\nHe grew up on the island and he loved it so much that he used his divine powers to make it a fertile land with plenty of vineyards that produced wine of excellent quality.\nThe myth also says that after slaying the Minotaur of Crete, Theseus, the Athenian hero and son of Poseidon, and Ariadne the daughter of the Cretan King Minos, stopped in Naxos to find some rest while they returning to Athens.\nOne version of the myth says that Theseus dreamed of Dionysus who ordered him to abandon Ariadne on the island. Another version of the story says that when the couple arrived on the island of Naxos, Ariadne felt in love with Dionysus and abandoned Theseus for the god.\nAccording to Naxos History, the island was the most important centre of the Cycladic civilization (4000-1000 B.C.).\nThe first inhabitants of the island were Thracians. They dominated the island during two centuries when the Carean succeeded them.\nIt is said that the island\u2019s name comes from their leader\u2019s name, Naxos.\nAfterwards, the island was taken by the Ionians who developed a major civilisation. It became a rich island the 7th century B.C., when the island started the sea trade. Then, Christianity was brought on the island in the first century A.C. while the island was still under the Roman\u2019s rule but had lost every control when the Venetian conquered the Cyclades.\nIn 1207, the Venetian Marco Sanudo conquered the Cyclades and established the Duchy of the Aegean with the island of Naxos as a headquarter. The Naxians reacted against the Venetians but finally had to admit their defeat. Marco Sanudo built a powerful castle in Naxos Town and he divided the island into 56 provinces which he distributed among his nobles.\nMarco Sanudo and his successors ruled in full power until the Turkish occupation in 1564. During the Turkish rule, the Venetians still kept their authority and their strong monarchic administration on Naxos because the Turkish did not inhabit the island and only wanted\nThe next morning, Theseus, afraid of the god\u2019s anger, left the island, alone.\nDionysus took Ariadne to mount Drios and their union gave birth to Oinopion (Wine Drinker), Stafylos (Grape), and Evanthi (Lovely Flower).\nDuring the Persian war, the Naxian fought on the Greek side, and after their victory, felt under Athenian rule.\nAfterwards, the island felt under the rule of the Macedonians, of the Ptolemies of Egypt, of the Rhodians and in 41 B.C., Naxos had to bow to the newly acquired control of Rome.\nto receive the money of the taxes on time.\nNaxos was liberated in 1821 and became part of the newly established Greek State.\nThe architecture of Naxos is closely related to the history of Naxos.\nThe architectural history of Naxos took a different path than the others islands of the Cyclades when in 1207... :more:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3450, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 206.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.americanbible.org/article/going-social-with-scripture", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LZUK2WKKDONI7G6N726D34KPVP2AJCWE", "length": 2897, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "news.americanbible.org", "title": "Going Social with Scripture | Articles | American Bible Society News", "raw_content": "RecordCentral America & Latin America & South America & Technology\nEmmanuel Espinoza, leader of The Christian band Rojo,records a message for an online devotional. Photo by Pablo Langlois.\nBy Maria Wolf\nAs a member of the millennial generation, Pablo Langlois knows social media has a powerful impact on how he and his peers think. So the El Salvador native took advantage of social networks to spread the Good News. In conjunction with the Bible Society of El Salvador with support from American Bible Society, he created 3CadaDia. This daily threeminute video devotional is on Facebook, Twitter, You-Tube, YouVersion and some radio and TV shows. Since its inception last year, 3CadaDia has boomed in popularity, reaching more than 750,000 people in Latin America, the United States and Europe.\nLanglois believes 3CadaDia is successful because \u201cit challenges young people to take the risk to test God and trust in him for the best,\u201d he says. \u201cWe need to give God an opportunity to speak into our situation.\u201d A savvy entrepreneur, Langlois knew a few things about his audience and the market. First, he knew young people get their information mainly through social networks. And second, he knew that no other video devotional existed in the Spanish-speaking world. 3CadaDia presented an opportunity to share God\u2019s Word in channels young people would take advantage of.\nBut Langlois needed a wow factor\u2014a celebrity who would engage and captivate his audience. So he asked Emmanuel Espinoza, leader of the Christian band Rojo, to be the main speaker in the videos. Espinoza, who\u2019s popular with youth in Latin America and the United States, enthusiastically agreed. During the videos, Espinoza reads a portion of Scripture, explains the implications for young people and invites them to reflect on it. The three-minute format is the right amount of time to get important messages across to audiences used to short bytes of information.\n\u201cYou cannot go wrong with God,\u201d says Langlois, who knows this from experience. At age 15, he was diagnosed with a severe heart malfunction that left him little chance of surviving. While many people prayed for him, he specifically felt his aunt\u2019s prayers one night, he says. He woke up the next day feeling well. \u201cDoctors couldn\u2019t believe my heart was functioning normally,\u201d he says. \u201cAfter two years, they released me with a clean bill of health.\u201d\nThis healing deepened his relationship with God. \u201cThe future is not certain, so you need an anchor, and hope in God through faith gives you that certainty.\u201d\nLanglois wants to share the Scriptures\u2019 living hope with all who are willing to hear it. 3CadaDia is his lay of supporting the Bible Society of El Salvador in reaching people whose lives may be forever changed in just three minutes.\nAbused No More: Sarah Finds Safe Haven in God\u2019s Word\nThe Bible provides hope and healing for hurting young girls in Guatemala", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.brevardtimes.com/2013/11/fatal-motorcycle-crash-in-merritt-island.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SYMSXP7FYBB7SC52APZ2H2A5VBIT4J6J", "length": 966, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "news.brevardtimes.com", "title": "Fatal Motorcycle Crash In Merritt Island", "raw_content": "MERRITT ISLAND, Florida -- The Florida Highway Patrol reported that a 25-year-old Clinton, Mississippi man died as a result of injuries he sustained in a motorcycle crash that occurred at 1 a.m. Thursday morning on Pineda Causeway (State Road 404) near the intersection of South Tropical Trail (State Road 3) on Merritt Island, Florida.\nAccording to FHP, a 2009 Suzuki motorcycle was traveling westbound on the Pineda Causeway when, for an unknown reason, the driver failed to negotiate a curve and drove off the roadway.\nThe motorcycle then crashed into a barrier wall and the driver was thrown from the motorcycle and struck a guardrail.\nFHP has not released the man's identity pending next-of-kin notification\nAll westbound lanes on SR 404 were shut down during the early morning hours while FHP conducted its investigation, but the roadway has since re-opened.\nUPDATE: The identity of the driver has been released. He has been identified by FHP as Charles Bergt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://news.gov.tt/content/minister-public-administration-hospitalised", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:27Z", "digest": "sha1:75MABFN6BJFUH2TUXBKOS6KY72OWWZMG", "length": 361, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "news.gov.tt", "title": "Minister of Public Administration hospitalised | Trinidad and Tobago Government News", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Minister of Public Administration hospitalised\nMinister of Public Administration hospitalised\nThe Office of the Prime Minister has been informed that the Minister of Public Administration, the Hon Marlene Mc Donald, M.P., has been hospitalized at St Clair Medical.\nShe is being treated for an existing medical condition and we wish her a speedy recovery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 1928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/12/05/chinese-train-hits-a-record-breaking-300-mph/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:05Z", "digest": "sha1:BLA2XQANJSQXYWA4DBUUCTK6J3GYII3S", "length": 1575, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "newsfeed.time.com", "title": "Chinese Train Hits A Record Breaking 300 MPH | TIME.com", "raw_content": "Chinese Train Hits A Record Breaking 300 MPH\nBy Allie Townsend @Allie_TownsendDec. 05, 2010\nA China Railway High-Speed train enters Bengbu south railway station, a stop in Anhui province on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail line, on Friday Dec. 3, 2010. The Chinese passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour Friday during a test run of a yet-to-be opened link between Beijing and Shanghai, state media said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Liu Junxi)\nA passenger train in China hit a record speed of 302 mph Friday, the fastest speed ever recorded by a conventional commercial train.\nThe record occurred during a test run of a new track running between Beijing and Shanghai, a rail line that should be open for travel sometime in 2012, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The project, currently furthering China\u2019s high-speed rail initiative, will cost the country $32.5 billion, but the investment will be well worth it. The line is expected to reduce travel time between Beijing and Shanghai from 10 hours to 5 hours.\n(More on NewsFeed: Amtrak Lifts Ban On Guns)\nThough the train\u2019s speed clocked the record for all unmodified conventional commercial trains, others have bettered the speed. In 2007, a modified French TGV train reached 357.2 mph, while a Japanese magnetically levitated train reached a whopping 361 mph in 2003.\nChina already has the world\u2019s longest high-speed rail network, which the country expects to expand to 10,000 miles of coverage by 2020, with trains reaching speeds of over 312 mph. Hear that, Amtrak?\n(More on TIME: Top 10 Alternatives To Flying)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://newsroom.meijer.com/news/meijer-opens-new-supercenter-in-warren", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:7QDV5TCGHEV6V477YQWEMF4GWHFVSU2U", "length": 5255, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "newsroom.meijer.com", "title": "Meijer Newsroom - Meijer Opens New Supercenter in Warren", "raw_content": "GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. \u2013 Meijer opened a new 155,000-square-foot supercenter today in Warren, Mich., bringing the community a second location that features low prices on high-quality merchandise, fresh produce delivered daily and a full-service pharmacy that makes family health care a priority.\nThe new store is also launching Meijer Home Delivery today to households throughout Warren, Eastpointe, Harper Woods, and Roseville. The popular service features an online shopping experience that allows customers to shop digitally for groceries and general merchandise and have their orders personally shopped and delivered store-to-door within a few hours, or when it\u2019s most convenient. The service is now offered from all 44 Meijer locations in Southeast Michigan. Customers can sign up for a free two-week trial and get $15 off their first order at ShopMeijer.com.\n\u201cWe are pleased to provide Warren with a second store featuring our special combination of service, selection and quality at lower prices,\u201d Executive Chairman Hank Meijer said. \u201cIf we\u2019re just another retailer in the community, we\u2019re not doing our job right, so we look forward to providing a store that supports the community and is welcoming to all our neighbors.\u201d\nThe store\u2019s first day of business featured a ribbon-cutting event featuring comments from Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley and attended by Senator Steve Bieda, State Representatives, John Chirkun and Patrick Green, and Meijer leadership. The store also demonstrated its commitment to the community by making a donation to Lord of the Harvest Church. Warren Store Director Cindy Maxey presented Pastor Mike Osminski a check for $25,000 to help support its Emergency Food Pantry.\nLocated at 25225 Schoenherr Rd., the new Warren Meijer is open 24 hours a day and built to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards, using recycled materials for construction and LED lighting sensors to reduce energy consumption. It is one of six new Meijer supercenters and 20 remodel projects for additional stores in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio this year.\nAs part of its ongoing community support, Meijer donates more than 6 percent of its net profit to charitable organizations annually, and each of its stores works with local food pantries and banks to help fight hunger at the local level. Since 2008, the retailer\u2019s Simply Give program has generated more than $37 million for its food pantry partners throughout the Midwest.\nThe grocery options that Meijer offers to shoppers include more than 600 varieties of farm-fresh produce, including 150 USDA-certified organic items, and a full-service meat department that features fresh seafood, Certified Angus Beef, and custom cuts of meat delivered seven days a week. The store also offers a Starbucks, as well as grab-and-go convenience items, featuring hand-tossed pizza, BBQ sandwiches and fresh sushi made daily.\nIn addition to the retailer\u2019s traditional grocery offerings, Meijer brings a specialty store approach to its one-stop shopping experience. Everything from women\u2019s apparel, where on-trend styles can be found in every size on the same rack at the same price, to beauty care, an expansive baby selection, and a pet department that offers 200 pet toys, 500 varieties of treats for dogs and cats, and premium foods from Blue Buffalo, Iams, Nutro and Rachael Ray.\nThe store\u2019s new pharmacy features a drive-thru pick up and the company\u2019s free prescription program. The unique Meijer program helps customers save money by offering select prescriptions for free, including leading oral generic antibiotics with a special focus on prescriptions most often filled for children as well as prenatal vitamins, and medications for those with diabetes and high cholesterol. Since its inception in 2006, the program has filled more than 45 million free prescriptions, saving Meijer customers more than $600 million.\nAs part of its grand opening celebration, the new Meijer store will feature a variety of events beginning Sunday, July 1. The first 200 customers to enter the store after 7 a.m. Sunday will receive a Meijer mystery gift card with a value of $5, $10 or $20.\n\u201cOur teams have exceeded expectations every step of the way as we prepared to bring this second Meijer location to Warren,\u201d Meijer President & CEO Rick Keyes said. \u201cOur top priority is to serve customers and ensure they have the best shopping experience. This includes offering the freshest products and best customer service, as well as providing numerous ways to personalize the way they shop our stores.\u201d\nAbout Meijer: Meijer is a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer that operates more than 235 supercenters and grocery stores throughout Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin. A privately-owned and family-operated company since 1934, Meijer pioneered the \u201cone-stop shopping\u201d concept and has evolved through the years to included expanded fresh produce and meat departments, as well as pharmacies, comprehensive apparel departments, pet departments, garden centers, toys and electronics. For additional information on Meijer, please visit www.meijer.com. Follow Meijer on Twitter @twitter.com/Meijer and @twitter.com/MeijerPR or become a fan at www.facebook.com/meijer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 6531, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 256.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nhpf.org/library/details.cfm/2264", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MVUYLVWC6KHU2T7NGNT45E64VUBSRW47", "length": 1700, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nhpf.org", "title": "ERISA Health Plan Liability: Issues and Options for Reform", "raw_content": "ERISA Health Plan Liability: Issues and Options for Reform\nThis background paper was written as congressional conferees faced the task of resolving differences between patient protection bills by the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate in late 1999. In order to discuss the principal issues facing policymakers and options for reform, it begins by describing problems raised by the federal law governing private-sector employee health plans (the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) from a consumer perspective. It then discusses approaches proposed by the Clinton administration and the House and Senate to give consumers greater ability to challenge health plan coverage decisions, focusing in particular on issues that would arise if Congress decided to give health plan participants increased ability to sue for damages under state laws. The paper then explores, from the perspectives of physicians, employers, and insurers, employee health plan liability in areas such as negotiating the terms of contracts, improving the general quality of medical care, assigning liability for medical errors and coverage denials, and determining who has the power to decide which procedures and technologies are medically necessary. Finally, possible approaches to liability \u2014 ranging from contract law to tort law notions of liability \u2014 are presented in the context of the bills passed by the House and Senate in 1999.\nIn addition, see \"Emerging Issues in the Use of Binding Arbitration to Resolve Disputes Between Individuals and Health Plans\" (Background Paper, November 2000) and \"ERISA Health Plan Denials: Exploring Models for External Review\" (Issue Brief No. 720, June 19, 1998).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 167.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nhpf.org/library/details.cfm/2462", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ZAGAXXGRUSQBBQC3F3PIZU63QO4FYBYW", "length": 1538, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "nhpf.org", "title": "A Report from the Forum Session \"Implementing the New Medicare Drug Benefit: Challenges and Opportunities for States\"", "raw_content": "A Report from the Forum Session \"Implementing the New Medicare Drug Benefit: Challenges and Opportunities for States\"\nJudith D. Moore & Jennifer Ryan\nThe National Health Policy Forum convened a meeting on July 22, 2004 to discuss state-based challenges associated with implementing the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA). The meeting brought together an extremely insightful and experienced group of current and former state officials and other experts to discuss key issues. In keeping with its tradition of promoting a frank, off-the-record exchange on health policy issues, NHPF does not normally prepare written summaries or reports of meetings. However, because this meeting provided vivid illustrations of the importance of state-federal collaboration for the successful implementation of the new Medicare drug benefit, participants agreed that the information should be shared more widely. Thus, this report is intended to provide a candid montage of the July 22 meeting and supply additional information and insights into state issues surrounding MMA implementation. Though the MMA offers a huge number and range of potential subjects, the discussion was focused around four primary areas affecting states: eligibility, enrollment, and outreach; the transition for dual eligibles; financing challenges; and administrative and systems issues.\nSee also the entry for the related Forum Session on which this report is based.\nIn addition, see the reports from the follow-on sessions in 2005 and 2006.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 233.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nicoleroyministries.org/video-podcast-3-honesty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:10Z", "digest": "sha1:42IUC6TJQKWW6SBAC24NSRTI5TA2SEIX", "length": 312, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "nicoleroyministries.org", "title": "VIDEO PODCAST #3 Honesty - Nicole Roy Ministries", "raw_content": "Nicole Roy Ministries wants to help you lead the children to discover their identity in Christ through the Word of God, which will lead to eliminating childhood delinquency. So, we start with eliminating rebellious behaviors and tendencies. Hence, the tips on how to help young children to be honest. Click Here!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 2004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nl.valenciawineconsulting.com/the-wines-of-castellon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:43Z", "digest": "sha1:IMI4EDY6SQEJDQNOLFDJJCHENNPAZMLY", "length": 5395, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "nl.valenciawineconsulting.com", "title": "The wines of Castell\u00f3n", "raw_content": "Castell\u00f3n is not (yet) a full DOP (Denominaci\u00f3n de Origen Protegida) but an IGP, an Indicaci\u00f3n Geogr\u00e1fica Protegida (Protected Geographical Indicator), producing so-called \u201cVinos de la Tierra\u201d. An IGP is similar to a DOP in guaranteeing the origin and quality of a product, but is less strict about origin and type of grapes used. It is meant to be a phase before becoming a DOP, and in fact, the Consejo Regulador of Castell\u00f3n is only waiting for the necessary approval from Brussels to become a DOP.\nCastell\u00f3n has a long and interesting history of wine making. Wine production in Castell\u00f3n had probably started with the Phoenicians and Greeks, many centuries B.C. From the 16th to early 20th century, Castell\u00f3n produced a famous red wine, the \u201cVino Carl\u00f3n\u201d (originally from the region of Benicarl\u00f3), which was exported all over the world. It was a very strong wine, which was used in northern Europe to mix with the local wines, to give them more colour, alcohol and body. In the South American colonies (where producing wine was apparently forbidden for a long time), the Vino Carl\u00f3n was mixed with water, ice or soda water, to make it drinkable. But this was for the lower classes \u2013 people with money drank better quality Spanish wines.\nThe Vino Carl\u00f3n disappeared in the early 20th century, due to increased wine production in South America, an increasingly lower quality of the Vino Carl\u00f3n itself, and the Phylloxera plague, which destroyed the European vineyards. Around 1930 there were no more vineyards left in the Castell\u00f3n region.\nIn the 1940s new vineyards were planted in the region, but not only with American rootstocks; around 60% of the vines were actually hybrids. But these Vitis Hibridis, it was claimed, produced bad quality, and even toxic, wine. In 1970 the Spanish government decided that hybrids could no longer be used to make wine \u2013 only the Vitis Vinifera (the \u2018normal\u2019 European grape varieties). Most grape growers in Castell\u00f3n opted for replacing their vines with olive and almond trees and by the mid-1980s most vineyards had disappeared from the region. Only a few wineries continued to exist, until in the early 2000s new vineyards were planted by a younger generation of winemakers. Currently there are around 20 wineries in Castell\u00f3n, with some 250 hectares of vineyards, mostly small plots and spread out over three sub-regions: Alto Palancia / Alto Mijares (around Segorbe), Les Useres / Villafam\u00e9s (into the interior from the city of Castell\u00f3n) and further to the north, Sant Mateu, the highest part of the province (up to 1300 meters).\nThough all three sub-regions produce both red and white wines, the most widely planted grapes are Tempranillo (almost 50%) and Cabernet Sauvignon (almost 15%), while the white grapes are a clear minority with Macabeo (9%) and some Merseguera (2.5%).\nMost rain falls in spring, providing enough moisture for the vines to get through the hot summer. This is also helped by the occasional shower in the summer months, making life relatively easy for the vines; most vineyards are therefore without irrigation systems. In general, Castell\u00f3n produces young and medium-aged (10-12 months oak aged) wines, but there is of course a wide variety of different wines.\nThe vineyards of the Les Useres / Villafam\u00e9s sub-region are found at altitudes between 3-400 meters above sea level, and it\u2019s the warmest part of Castell\u00f3n \u2013 ideal for the Moscatel grape, though it\u00b4s not (no longer?) produced in large quantities here. This sub-region produces some well-known wines such as Clos d\u2019Esgarracordes and the Magnanimvs series, but the Clot\u00e1s wines of Bodega Vicente Flors are worth trying. There are also some interesting wines, like the 33 Route wines of Bodega Les Useres, made with the indigenous Bonicaire grape, or the intense and concentrated Terres Calisses wines, made by a new winery, Barranc dels Cirers, and in my opinion among the best wines from Castell\u00f3n, unfortunately with a very small production: there are only around 1000 bottles of the Terres Calisses Gran Selecci\u00f3!\nThe Alto Palancia/Alto Mijares sub-region, with altitudes between 400 and 800 meters, produces mainly fruity wines. Here we find wineries like Divinos & Vi\u00f1as with wines like La Perdici\u00f3n and Odisea, which are relatively easy to find in Valencia. Very good organic wine comes from Bodega Alcovi in Almedijar: they\u2019re quite intense, like Se\u00f1orio de Almedijar (mainly Cabernet Sauvignon), with powerful aromas of ripe fruits, spices and minerals \u2013 a must try!\nSant Mateu is the northernmost sub-region in Castell\u00f3n, with most vineyards at 200-400 meters altitudes. There are actually few wineries in this region, but an interesting project is the attempt by Bodegas Besalduch & Valls to remake the Vino Carl\u00f3n, which sells at around 35\u20ac per bottle. Using the old recipes, they add raisins to increase the alcohol percentage \u2013 it\u2019s potent, a bit tannic and astringent, and slightly sweet. Interesting to taste what our ancestors used to drink\u2026 A revived winery in Canet lo Roig, under a new name, La Canetana, is expected to release its first wines this or next year \u2013 something to look forward to.\nAs wine making is relatively \u201cyoung\u201d in Castell\u00f3n, it is certainly interesting to see how it will develop, and how the Castell\u00f3n wines will change and evolve over time, as the vineyards get older and produce more complex wines. We\u2019ll keep you informed!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 6630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nlpost.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-nancy-oconnor-fiasco.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:15Z", "digest": "sha1:EUOIOXGLO5QKMHQGSTKWAIH73IU7LI5K", "length": 4616, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "nlpost.blogspot.com", "title": "Sue's Blog: The Nancy O'Connor fiasco", "raw_content": "The Nancy O'Connor fiasco\nThe CBC Newfoundland and Labrador has reported this morning that Nancy O'Connor - Director of Communications for the Premier contacted Memorial University about the \"Resign\" Dwight Ball signs on poles prior to their removal by the Department of Transportation and Works.\nIn part O'Connor explains to CBC: \"In my capacity in communications I reached out to my counterpart at Memorial inquiring whether or not the poles belonged to the university and if posters were permitted to be displayed on those poles,\" and \"If the university did not permit the display of posters on those poles, it would be a reasonable expectation that they would be removed.\"\nThe body of the actual email was:\"Telling DB to resign ... Are these poles belonging to MUN or Power? And are ppl allowed to put posters on them? If not can someone take them down?\"\nIf the communications director of the Premier does not know who owns utility poles in this province - she is not informed enough to serve as a communications director for any government department or agency. She might have visited the websites of Newfoundland Power, Nalcor, Telephone and Cable companies to educate herself.\nWhat makes this worse is O'Connor's so-called expertise. She was a spokesperson for MT&L PR (Now known as \"National\") during the pro-Muskrat group development. In this regard she was listed as:\ni) listed as Nalcor media contact for the response to Nunatukavut complaints over lack of consultation on the Lower Churchill project;\nii) Listed as Nalcor media contact for panel hearings on the Lower Churchill development...\nAll of her work involving the promotion of the Williams project and she does not understand the distribution system of the province?\nNancy O'Connor a walking support mouth of the Muskrat project for Williams and company finds her way to be the comms director for the new Liberal Premier?\nNancy's expertise cannot be questioned as it relates to transforming herself to advance herself but it most certainly can and should be questioned as it relates to the important issues in this province.\nNow let's look at this seasoned experienced professional's take on democracy. The most important thing on a Sunday morning for Ms. O'Connor was trying to get the Premier's face off utility poles? It was not why the pictures were on the poles? It was not why the people were infuriated with Ball? It was not dealing with the inflicted hardships of the budget? Ms. O\"Connors concern was how do I thwart freedom of expression and protect my boss? It was to ask an independent academic institution - our provincial University to help - if they could in removing \"Resign\" signs?\n\u2018Freedom of expression\u2019 is one of the fundamental freedoms protected by section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Section 2(b) provides that everyone has \u201cfreedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication.\u201d\nIn R. v. Keegstra, ([1990] 3 S.C.R. 697) the Supreme Court of Canada identified three main objectives underlying the guarantee of free expression. First, free expression is \u201cinstrumental in promoting the free flow of ideas essential to democracy and the functioning of democratic institutions.\u201d Secondly, free expression is \u201can essential precondition of the search for truth.\u201d Thirdly, free expression is \u201cworth protecting for its intrinsic value to the self-realization of both speaker and listener.\u201d Given the breadth of the underlying objectives, the guarantee of free expression has been held to apply to artistic, educational and even commercial expression, as well as political expression.\nIn consideration of all this Ms. O'Connor is trying to find an owner of poles who would thwart such expression?\nLet's just say MU owned the poles and they did not allow posters. Is it O'Connor's most important duty to inquire of the University if they did and suggest they follow such rules?\nI - we - pay her salary. She works for us. In my opinion - based on her activities involving the poles fiasco - she is not qualified to hold the position - particularly when we the people are paying her salary and benefits.\nNow let's take a leap. If somebody in the Office of the Premier was trying to find a way to have the signs removed - are we to believe that some individual in the Department of Transportation and Works was thinking the exact same way at the same time - but no words, winks, nods were ever exchanged?\nLabels: cathy bennett, CBC, Danny Williams, Dwight Ball, fortis, muskrat falls, nalcor, Nancy O'Connor, newfoundland and labrador, poles, premier", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 15919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://no-racism.net/article/2905", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:39Z", "digest": "sha1:QL5NRVXHYEWCZF2V3M5G64HL3VIVIBC6", "length": 3445, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "no-racism.net", "title": "no-racism.net: May 1st 2009: 10th anniversary of the death of Marcus Omofuma", "raw_content": ":: Further information in english on the dead of Marcus Omofuma\n:: Incomplete documentation of deaths during deportation and in police custody\n:: dubsquare.net\nBorn in 1973 in Nigeria, he became a member of the :: Ogboni, a fraternity which is illegal in Nigeria due to it\u2019s extremely violent intimidation-practices sometimes to the point of killing its own members. According to Omofuma, he fled Nigeria because his name was on such a death-list. However, since this wasn\u2019t accepted as a reason for receiving asylum in Austria, the authorities decided to deport him to Bulgaria.\nThe death of Marcus Omofuma provoked a large protest movement among Vienna\u2019s African community, but also the launch of a massive political campaign in order to discredit Omofuma and Black people in Austria in general. The extremely racist news-coverage was mainly driven by the country\u2019s largest newspaper, the right-wing tabloid \"Kronen Zeitung\" and fuelled by the \"Freedom Party\" (FP\u00d6) lead by J\u00f6rg Haider.\nOn May 27, 1999 the Austrian Interior Ministry - which was already under severe public pressure - stroke back. Under the pretences of a crackdown on drug-trafficking, some 100 Africans were arrested in the country\u2019s largest police-action since 1945. Under the name :: \"Operation Spring\" 850 police searched refugee-accommodations and flats all over the country. In a trial with numerous inconsistencies and obvious manipulations, 100 black men - many of them being active in the protest movement - were sentenced to more than 100 years in prison. The documentary film \"Operation Spring\" shows how sentences were passed on the bases of anonymous witnesses, incomprehensible sound-recordings and manipulated evidences.\nThe case of Marcus Omofuma is of course only one in a series of incidents:\n- In the night between May 19 and 20, 2000 a policeman \"accidentally\" shoots dead :: Imre Bartos, who was just sitting in his car.\n- In the night between July 14 and 15, 2003 :: Seibane Wague dies in Vienna after a joint operation by police-forces and an ambulance.\n- On October 4, 2005 the 18-year-old :: Yankuba Ceesay from Gambia dies in a detention-centre in Linz after his cell had been heated to 45 degrees Celsius. Four months after his death a court states that the detention itself was unlawful.\n- After a failed attempt to deport :: Bakary J. on April 7, 2006 four police officers drive him to an empty storage facility which is being used as a training facility by special units. The policemen severely beat up Bakary J. and threaten to kill him.\n- On October 22, 2008 :: policemen maltreat a Romany from Slovakia.\n- On February 11, 2009 two men beat up the African-American teacher :: Mike B. in an underground-station in Vienna. It turns out that the two men are policemen mistaking B. for a drug-dealer as they put it. Mike B. has to spend a few days in hospital. Only two months earlier, an anonymous open letter described a :: similar incident.\nIn all of these cases the perpetrators came away with no or with very light sentences; some of the involved policemen are still in service.\n(Incomplete documentation of deaths during deportation and in police custody: :: no-racism.net/racismkills)\nOn May 1, 2009 a large manifestation will be taking place in Vienna in order to commemorate the death of Marcus Omofuma and of the numerous nameless victims of racism in Austria and the European Union.\nFirst published on 23. April 2009 @ :: dubsquare.net.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 5218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://no.zycko.com/category/news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:35Z", "digest": "sha1:R4AFEU3NFJZDYA7YZH5J5KU74OJ4QYLT", "length": 4035, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "no.zycko.com", "title": "News Archives | Norway", "raw_content": "Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data centre servers and storage systems, announced that Spectrum\u2122 Ethernet switches and ConnectX\u00ae-4 100Gb/s Ethernet adapters have been selected by Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, for Baidu\u2019s Machine Learning platforms. The need for higher data speed and most efficient data movement [\u2026]\nLifesize, a global innovator of video conferencing technology, announced it has enhanced its Skype\u00ae for Business interoperability to simplify cross-platform audio, video and web conferencing, and extend the Skype for Business environment to the conference room by making it easy to pair with award-winning Lifesize HD camera and phone systems. With this enhanced interoperability, Lifesize [\u2026]\nRiverbed Technology, the application performance company, announced the results of a recent study revealing that the British public want to have more digital access to and interaction with public sector bodies. 70% of respondents would like to engage with public sector services through digital means, however, opinion is split as to whether public services can [\u2026]\nArbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT, has announced Arbor SP Insight, a new software-based extension to its Arbor Networks SP platform (Arbor SP) that dramatically expands and enhances network operators\u2019 traffic analytics and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack forensics capabilities. The majority of the world\u2019s internet service providers, along with data centre operators and large [\u2026]\nRiverbed Technology, the application performance company, announced that Riverbed SteelHead CX and Riverbed SteelCentral AppInternals will be available on Microsoft\u2019s U.S Azure Government Cloud Marketplace, a new cloud environment customised for the unique security, privacy and compliance requirements of federal agencies. Government customers will be able to easily access Riverbed\u2019s industry-leading application performance solutions in [\u2026]\nRiverbed Technology, the application performance company, has announced the latest release of Riverbed SteelCentral, which addresses the end-to-end performance management needs of enterprises. Companies are still suffering from a fragmented approach to performance monitoring using stand-alone tools that do not provide a full view of performance. With this SteelCentral release, Riverbed continues to expand, integrate [\u2026]\nArbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT, in conjunction with Jigsaw, an incubator within Alphabet, Google\u2019s parent company, has announced an enhanced version of the Digital Attack Map, a live data visualisation of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks around the globe. Jigsaw is focused on addressing online censorship, mitigating the threats from digital attacks, countering violent [\u2026]\nLifesize, a global innovator of video conferencing technology, has announced a breakthrough solution to address the problem of extending video collaboration to huddle rooms everywhere. The new Lifesize\u00ae Icon 450\u2122 HD camera and phone system, paired with the Lifesize cloud-based video communication platform, creates the easiest yet most powerful meeting experience for these essential meeting [\u2026]\nRiverbed Technology, the application performance company, has announced the findings of its global snapshot survey that looked to see how companies would be approaching any potential critical business application and network strain from employees streaming Olympic coverage and accessing associated content online at the office. The vast majority of companies, 85%, reported that they were [\u2026]\nArbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT, has announced that Frost & Sullivan has awarded the company the Asia Pacific DDoS Mitigation Market Leadership Award. The contenders for the Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific ICT Awards were evaluated on a variety of market performance indicators which include revenue growth, leadership in product innovation, breadth of products [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nokiaworld.org/4609-nokia-e73-mode-balance-work-and-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GDR7M42VSB7OOTDUX4BBM2K5KIYYOJGD", "length": 4836, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "nokiaworld.org", "title": "Nokia E73 Mode: Balance work and life | NokiaWorld", "raw_content": "Nokia E73 Mode: Balance work and life\nNokia along with T-Mobile USA today announced the Nokia E73 Mode \u2013 exclusively for T-Mobile customers. The Nokia E73 Mode is a sister device of the really successful E72. It features a full QWERTY keyboard, built in GPS, runs on S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2, combines 3G, Wi-Fi, a 5 megapixel camera, Mail for Exchange and all the latest Ovi services. The Nokia E73 Mode is expected to be available beginning June 16.Without a doubt, this is no revolution or a successor of the E72 or the E5. Rather it is a reinforcement for Nokia\u2019s business lineup.\nWhite Plains, NY and Bellevue, WA USA \u2013 Nokia and T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced the upcoming availability of the Nokia E73 Mode, exclusively for T-Mobile customers, designed to help balance the need to stay connected with one\u2019s work and personal life at home or on the go. The Nokia E73 Mode, a Wi-Fi calling enabled QWERTY smartphone operating on T-Mobile\u2019s blazing-fast 3G network, includes Nokia\u2019s unique Switch Mode feature, which allows consumers to switch between fully customizable home screens that help promote a work-life balance. The Nokia E73 Mode is expected to be available beginning June 16.\n\u201cThe Nokia E73 Mode brings style and function in an affordable device without compromise,\u201d said Mark Slater, vice president, Sales, Nokia. \u201cWorking together with T-Mobile, the Nokia E73 Mode enables us to bring our customers a \u2018Work & Life\u2019 solution that allows consumers and businesses to be as productive as possible, while still providing an exceptional consumer value and performance.\u201d\nThe thinnest full QWERTY keyboard smartphone available from T-Mobile, the Nokia E73 Mode is the perfect device for business customers and consumers who appreciate both form and function. T-Mobile customers also continue to get great mobile coverage with the device\u2019s Wi-Fi calling capabilities, which allow consumers to use both cellular and Wi-Fi networks for voice calling. With Mail for Exchange, based on Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, consumers can receive their corporate e-mail, contacts and calendar pushed directly to their device.\nUse of some features or services may incur separate, additional charges and/or require a qualifying data plan. 3G coverage is available in locations nationwide, but may not be available everywhere. For more details on where T-Mobile network coverage is available, please visit http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage.\n\u201cT-Mobile is committed to providing a variety of devices that serve our customers\u2019 needs to stay connected to the central people in their lives including family, friends and even colleagues from the office,\u201d said Travis Warren, director, product marketing, T-Mobile USA. \u201cWith the Nokia E73 Mode, we\u2019re excited to offer a premium device at an attractive price that helps Mom and Dad put work aside and make their family the top priority.\u201d\nThe Nokia E73 Mode comes pre-loaded with services and applications to make life easier, more fun and more efficient. With Ovi Maps, a turn-by-turn navigation solution from Nokia using the device\u2019s built-in GPS at no additional cost, consumers can get from point A to B with voice-guided directions \u2013 even when walking. Also pre-loaded on the device is the Ovi Store by Nokia, which provides access to thousands of compelling applications and games including \u201cShazam\u201d and \u201cCall of Duty: Modern Warfare.\u201d In addition, Ovi Store enables a simplified purchasing experience for consumers by allowing payment for content billed to their monthly T-Mobile bill or via credit card.\nThe Nokia E73 Mode includes support for services such as IBM Lotus Traveler, support for and access to Salesforce.com, Bloomberg and more to help business customers bring their office with them while on the go. The Nokia E73 Mode also comes pre-loaded with many business productivity tools allowing employees to take their office with them wherever they may be. With applications such as Ovi Files, QuickOffice, Adobe PDF Manager and ZIP Manager, files can be easily accessed, sent, viewed and edited right from the device, allowing customers to be more productive from nearly anywhere.\nThe Nokia E73 Mode comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, 5 megapixel camera with flash and autofocus, Wi-Fi for voice and data, long battery life, personal and corporate e-mail access, a full HTML Web browser with support for Adobe Flash, media player and more. With a full portfolio of multimedia functionality combined with Ovi Services, the Nokia E73 Mode provides consumers with everything they need to get the most out of their personal life.\nThe Nokia E73 Mode is expected to be available on June 16 through T-Mobile retail stores, select authorized dealers, and online at http://www.t-mobile.com. For more information, please visit http://www.nokiausa.com/mode or http://www.t-mobile.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 9056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 174.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nordjewelers.thejewelerblog.com/archive/2015/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UX2QA2IUEFF5XHEQGPT422GH5BQ2DHXE", "length": 57314, "nlines": 340, "source_domain": "nordjewelers.thejewelerblog.com", "title": "Entries from August 2015 | Nord Jewelers Blog", "raw_content": "Florida Family Finds $1M in Gold Coins and Chain from 300-Year-Old Spanish Shipwreck\nFlorida treasure hunters struck it rich when they recovered $1 million in Spanish gold coins and chains from the site of a 300-year-old shipwreck just off the coast, near Ft. Pierce. The discovery of 52 gold coins, 40 feet of gold chain and 110 silver coins was announced on the 300th anniversary of the fateful sinking of the Spanish treasure ships known as the 1715 Plate Fleet.\nA hurricane decimated the historic fleet on July 30 and 31, 1715 \u2014 killing 1,000 sailors, sinking 11 of the 12 ships and leaving untold treasures scattered across the ocean floor. The ships had departed from Havana, Cuba, a week earlier and had been loaded with precious resources destined for Spain. The bounty included gold and silver coins, gold bars, emeralds, pearls and Chinese porcelain.\nThe Schmitt family of Sanford, Fla., found the precious bounty with the help of a metal detector about 1,000 feet off coast at a depth of 15 feet. The family was working the site under a contract with 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels LLC, which holds the exclusive rights to explore the wrecks. The Schmitts and 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels will share the take 50-50 after the State of Florida receives its portion of 20 percent.\nAmong the Spanish coins recovered were examples of the Tricentennial Royal \u2014 special coins that were minted specifically for the king of Spain. Gold coins dating to the early 1700s were often misshaped because the weight and quality of the precious metal was far more important than aesthetics. A certain number, however, were made perfectly round so they could be presented to the king, Philip V.\nAmazingly, the coins and chains looked to be in perfect condition, despite being under sand and saltwater for three centuries. That's because gold is one of the least reactive chemical elements and is extremely resistant to corrosion.\nThe Schmitts' lucky find actually took place on June 17, but the family held off the announcement so it could coincide with the 300th commemoration of one of the worst maritime disasters in history.\nEric Schmitt told National Geographic that his family's treasure hunting expeditions rarely yield anything of value. \"Typically we excavate empty holes and find beer cans,\" he said.\nBut on the morning of June 17, the outcome was much different. First, he found one gold coin and then there were more. \"It was absolutely unreal,\" Schmitt said.\nWitness Schmitt's unbridled joy as he happens upon the treasure in this underwater video...\nCredits: Facebook/1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC; YouTube screen capture\nAncient Egyptians Weren't Far Off When They Anointed Peridot the 'Gem of the Sun'\nThe Ancient Egyptians mined peridot on the Red Sea island of Zabargad and anointed the vibrant green stone as the \"gem of the sun.\" Thousands of years later, modern scientists have proven that August's official birthstone is truly extraterrestrial, as it has been found embedded within meteorites and scattered across the surface of Mars.\nWhile nearly all of the peridot that you see in your jeweler's showcase was born deep within the Earth's mantel, some very special specimens originated in deep space.\nDid you know that translucent gem-quality peridot is a prominent part of a stony-iron meteorite called a pallasite? The formation contains large gem crystals in a silvery honeycomb of nickel-iron.\nA beautiful example of this phenomenon is seen in the Esquel meteorite that was presumed to be formed from an ancient planetoid that blasted apart eons ago.\nA second example is the Marjalahti, a 99-pound meteorite that crashed into Karelia, Russia, in 1902. The territory at the time was controlled by Finland, so the specimen resides at the Geological Museum of the University of Helsinki.\nPeridot is credited with being the first gem to be discovered on another planet. The Mars landing of 2003 revealed that green peridot crystals \u2014 in the form of the gem's less-precious cousin, olivine \u2014 cover about 19,000 square miles of the Red Planet's surface. (About three weeks ago, we reported on the presence of fire opal on Mars \u2014 a discovery that could point to evidence of life on that planet.)\nIn addition to being the official birthstone of August, peridot is also the 16th anniversary gemstone. Colors range from pure green to yellowish-green to greenish-yellow, but the finest hue is green without any hint of yellow or brown, according to the Gemological Institute of America.\nThe world's largest faceted peridot weighs 310 carats and is part of the Smithsonian\u2019s National Gem and Mineral Collection.\nCredits: Pallasite by Doug Bowman, via Wikimedia Commons; Marjalahti courtesy of NHM Vienna; Slice of Marjalahti via International Meteorite Collectors Association (IMCA.cc)/Collection of Christian Anger; Peridot grouping by Chip Clark/National Gem and Mineral Collection, Smithsonian.\nReport: Beyonc\u00e9's Next Video Will Feature the Diva Strutting in $345,000 Diamond Stilettos\nThe internet is buzzing about Beyonc\u00e9's newest bling \u2014 an eye-popping pair of $345,000 diamond stilettos that she'll likely wear in an upcoming music video.\nHouse of Borgezie owner Christopher Shellis confirmed that he toiled more than two months to hand set 65.50 carats of diamonds \u2014 1,300 in all \u2014 onto a special-edition pair of 18-karat white gold stilettos for the 33-year-old Queen Bey.\n\u201cAll I can say at the moment is there is a more than very good chance that they are going to be in the next Beyonc\u00e9 video,\u201d the Birmingham, England-based designer told Footwear News.\nThe publication reported that the custom shoes will take the name Stella Constellation, but will be similar in style and opulence to Borgezie's Princess Constellation \u2014 a design that the company likes to call the \"Eighth Wonder of the World.\"\n\u201cThey are the crown jewels of stilettos. They\u2019re a bit like the 1960s E Type Jag \u2014 it doesn\u2019t matter what you do, you\u2019re not going to improve on them,\u201d Shellis told the Mirror. \u201cOccasionally in a designer or artist\u2019s life there may come a moment in time when you stand back and [realize] you may just have created your finest work so far. I think this is truly that moment.\u201d\nIn 2010, Shellis made headlines with his Eternal Borgezie Diamond Stilettos \u2014 shoes designed in 18-karat yellow gold and featuring 2,200 brilliant-cut diamonds. At the time, he revealed that he had to reinvent the fundamental principal of the classic stiletto construction, using a fluted heel shape reminiscent of a lily stamen.\n\u201cThe result is not so much a shoe, but rather a fine piece of jewelry that can be miraculously, yet practically, worn as the ultimate feminine adornment,\u201d Shellis said.\nThe House of Borgezie owner likes to promote the fact that he offers a 1,000-year warranty on his top-of-the-line stilettos. So, when Beyonc\u00e9's descendants wear out a heel or brake a strap by the year 3015, the repair should be completed for free.\nCredits: Stilettos via Borgezie.com, Beyonc\u00e9 via Getty Images.\nNBC Viewers Weigh in on Twittersphere's Earring-Back Controversy; 92% Say Plastic Disks Should Stay On\nAfter five days of hand-wringing drama, we finally have a clear winner in the spirited national debate over the purpose of the plastic disk-shaped doohickey that we often see affixed to common earring backs. In an online poll conducted by NBC, viewers overwhelmingly agreed \u2014 by a margin of 92 to 8 \u2014 that the plastic part should stay on.\nIf you're wondering how earring backs became part of the national consciousness \u2014 and a trending topic on Mashable.com \u2014 you should look no farther than an August 1 tweet by Chelsea Smith, who in a moment of great clarity revealed she had spent her entire life wearing her earrings \"wrong.\"\nThe 19-year-old posted two photos, one showing the earring back with the plastic disk intact, and the other showing the earring back with the disk removed. Her caption: \u201cAfter my nineteen years of living I have now realized that you are supposed to take the plastic part off.\u201d\nHer comment, which was retweeted 45,000 times and favorited 43,000 times, churned up a tidal wave of commentary. Some Twitter users shared in Smith's embarrassing \"aha\" moment, while others explained that the disk is valuable \u2014 adding vital support for saggy earlobes. Still others were stuck in the middle, reporting that they attempted to remove the plastic part, but had no success at all.\nLifestyle and jewelry-industry experts told Today.com that the larger the earring back, the more stable and secure the earring will be. The larger disk back also improves comfort and wearability, especially with heavier earrings.\nKathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb of The Today Show joked about how the plastic disks make the backs easier to handle and harder to lose when they're inevitably dropped on the floor. What's more, the backs help prevent the earring holes from tearing or getting too large.\nComedian Julie Klausner got the biggest laugh during the segment when she chimed in from The Today Show kitchen that the plastic back is like \"a bra for your earlobe. It keeps everything where it needs to be.\"\nGifford and Hotb encouraged their viewers to visit the show's website, where they could take a position in the great earring-back debates. A Today Show poll of 32,000 viewers quickly revealed that the vast majority believe the plastic disk should stay on.\nWhen asked, \"Do you keep the plastic backing on your earrings?\" 92 percent agreed with the statement, \"Yes, of course! It's supposed to be there to support the earring.\" A scant 8 percent said, \"No, definitely not. The plastic is meant to come off.\"\nCredits: Twitter/Chelsea Smith; Today.com\nMusic Friday: Your Soul Shines Bright Like Diamonds in the Sky in Steve Aoki's 'Home We'll Go'\nWelcome to Music Friday when we introduce you to new songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today's featured song \u2014 \"Home We'll Go (Take My Hand)\" \u2014 is a brand new collaboration between DJ extraordinaire Steve Aoki and Canadian breakthrough band Walk Off The Earth.\nA song about getting through the hard times with the help of one's friends, \"Home We'll Go\" features both gold and diamond references in the second verse: \"The sun it glows like gold / Feel it warm as a burning coal / Let your soul shine bright like diamonds in the sky / So take my hand and home we'll go.\"\nAoki, who DJs hundreds of sets across the globe each year and is famous for tossing giant cakes at his frenzied audiences, is a fan of mixed musical genres. Aoki's collaboration with Walk Off The Earth, for example, is a banjo-driven whimsical mix of country and electronica. The song's folksy whistling intro segues into a catchy dance number punctuated by creative instrumentation.\nThe DJ explained to DigitalTrends.com that his high-res version of the song includes special elements that make it extra special. The little features, he said, make a big difference.\n\"Those are the details that bring the songs to life,\" he said. \"Like the whistling in 'Home We\u2019ll Go' \u2014 that comes out a lot more in high-res.\"\n\"Home We'll Go\" is the eighth track on Aoki's Neon Future II album, which released in mid-May and has already zoomed to #2 on Billboard's U.S. Dance/Electronica Albums chart and #66 on the broader based U.S. Billboard Hot 200 albums chart. Walk Off The Earth's Canadian fan based helped push Aoki's album to #25 on the Canadian Albums chart.\nWalk Off The Earth, an alternative/reggae rock band, was formed in 2006 in Burlington, Ontario. The band made its mark by covering popular music on YouTube. In 2012, the band's live cover of Gotye's \"Somebody That I Used to Know\" netted 127 million views in just four months.\nThe band earned Juno Award nominations for Breakthrough Group on the Year in 2013 and Group of the Year in 2014. (The Juno Award is Canada's version of a Grammy.)\nEach band member can play multiple instruments, some of which are truly unique for a rock band. These include the xylophone, glockenspiel, electric toothbrush, melodica, didgeridoo, kazoo and euphonium.\nWe know you will enjoy the official video of \"Home We'll Go.\" The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...\n\"Home We'll Go (Take My Hand)\"\nWritten by Sarah Blackwood, Ryan Marshall, Gianni Nicassio and Thomas Salter. Performed by Steve Aoki, featuring Walk Off The Earth.\nFeel it warm as a burning coal\nIt's a long road but we're not alone\nTogether we stand and we're coming home\nCredits: Facebook/SteveAoki, Facebook/Walk Off The Earth\nBritish Lawmaker Says It's Time for the Legendary 'Koh-i-Noor' Diamond to Be Returned to India\nBritish lawmaker Keith Vaz says it's time for the Queen Mother to return the legendary Koh-i-Noor diamond to India.\nThe Koh-i-Noor, whose name translates into \"Mountain of Light,\" was seized by the East India Company in the mid-19th century and has become a sore symbol of Britain's colonial past. Vaz, who is a Member of Parliament, is pushing for return of the Koh-i-Noor to coincide with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Britain in November.\nThe 105.6-carat diamond is currently set in the platinum Crown of Queen Elizabeth and is displayed among the British Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.\n\u201cWhat a wonderful moment it would be, if and when Prime Minister Modi finishes his visit, he returns to India with the promise of the diamond\u2019s return,\u201d said Vaz.\nThe Koh-i-Noor, which was once thought to be the largest diamond in the world, has a long and checkered history that dates back more than 700 years. The enormous rough diamond was unearthed at the Kollur Mine in India and first recorded in Hindu texts as early as 1306 in the time of the Kakatiya Dynasty. The 793-carat stone \u2014 the size of a hen's egg \u2014 was originally installed as one of the eyes of a temple goddess.\nOver time, the diamond passed through the hands of numerous invaders, including Persian ruler Nadir Shah, who gave the precious stone its current name in the 1700s. In 1849, when the British East India Company took over the Punjab region (which is now eastern Pakistan and northern India), the Koh-i-Noor was surrendered by Maharajah Ranjit Singh to British Queen Victoria.\nAt the time, Britain's Prince Albert \u2014 the husband of Queen Victoria \u2014 was reportedly very disappointed with the dull look of the Koh-i-Noor, which weighed 186 carats. He spent \u00a38,000 to have it recut to improve its brilliance. The resulting 105-carat oval-brilliant diamond had lost more than 40 percent of its weight, but the Prince reportedly was still not satisfied with the result. The Koh-i-Noor was eventually set in the Queen's crown, along with 2,000 other diamonds.\nThe on-again, off-again debate regarding the rightful owner of the Koh-i-Noor has gained traction recently. While one faction alleges that the British forcibly took the diamond from an Indian maharajah and should give it back, another faction claims it was generously gifted by the maharajah to the Queen. Still another group believes that a victor in war has the right to claim its spoils \u2014 with no givebacks or apologies necessary.\nSo far, British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that the idea of returning the Koh-i-Noor to India was illogical and that he is more anxious to focus on the present than to \"reach back\" into the past.\nWhoever ends up with the Koh-i-Noor will have to deal with the assertion that the stone may be cursed. Specifically, an ancient Hindu text warns, \"He who owns this diamond will own the world, but will also know all its misfortunes. Only God, or a woman, can wear it with impunity.\"\nIn possible deference to that warning, the only British royalty to have worn the Koh-i-Noor, so far, have been female.\n2,000 Tiny Gold Spirals Dating Back 2,900 Years Baffle Danish Archaeologists\nDanish archaeologists are scratching their heads over the discovery of 2,000 tiny gold spirals that date back more than 2,900 years.\nUnearthed in Boeslunde, Denmark, the mysterious, tightly wound spirals look a lot like the curled fabric ribbons that would decorate a birthday present. Archaeologists from the Danish National Museum and the local Museum Vestsj\u00e6lland have never seen anything like these spirals before so they can only presume that these pure gold items were part of an elaborate costume.\n\u201cThe sun was one of the most sacred symbols in the Bronze Age and gold had a special magic,\u201d noted Flemming Kaul, a curator with the National Museum of Denmark. \u201cMaybe the priest-king wore a gold ring on his wrist, and gold spirals on his cloak and his hat, where they \u2014 during ritual sun ceremonies \u2014 shone like the sun.\u201d Kaul also noted that buried as carefully as they were, the gold spirals could have represented a sacrifice.\nThe 2,000 specimens were found in one clump. Evidence showed they once occupied a fur-lined box that has long since deteriorated. Some spirals measured 1.18 inches long and all were hammered flat to a thickness of just 0.1mm. The complete collection weighed approximately a half-pound and were dated between 700 BC and 900 BC.\nIt's not unusual for archaeologists to find Bronze Age gold ornaments in the Boeslunde region. The area has produced some of the largest gold finds from the Bronze Age in Northern Europe, including the recent discovery of four heavy gold arm rings, called oath rings. They each weighed more than a pound.\n\"It shows that the place had a special significance for the Bronze Age people when they chose to sacrifice several kilos of gold,\" Kirsten Christensen, curator at Museum Vestsj\u00e6lland, told the Daily Mail.\nBecause of the excitement surrounding this latest find, Kaul announced that he and other archaeologists will be continuing their excavations in Boeslunde, a city which lies on the island of Zealand, between mainland Denmark and the tip of Sweden. Boeslunde is about 70 miles southwest of Copenhagen.\nCredits: (first, second and fourth) Morten Petersen / Museum Vestsj\u00e6lland; (third) Flemming Kaul / National Museum of Denmark.\n'Finest Opal Ever' to Make Its World Debut at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide\nBilled as the \"finest opal ever,\" the Virgin Rainbow will make its world debut at the South Australian Museum in Adelaide in September as the centerpiece of a larger exhibition to commemorate the centenary of opal mining in the Land Down Under.\nMeasuring 2.4 inches long and displaying a full spectrum of brilliant color, the finger-shaped specimen seems to have a light source all its own.\n\"It's almost as if there's a fire in there,\" museum director Brian Oldman told AFP. \"You see all different colors. As the light changes, the opal itself changes. It's quite an amazing trick of nature.\"\nVeteran miner John Dunstan is credited with discovering the Virgin Rainbow in the desert soil of Coober Pedy in South Australia in 2003. Dustan has mined opals for 50 years, but the internal fire of the Virgin Rainbow is unlike anything he's ever seen.\n\"That opal actually glows in the dark,\" he told ABC North and West SA. \"The darker the light, the more color comes out of it. It's unbelievable.\"\nDustan explained that the Virgin Rainbow is a Belemnite pipe, which is essentially an opal that formed in the skeleton of an extinct ancestor of the common cuttlefish. He found it while digging into the tailings of an old mineshaft. At first, it didn't look like much because it was covered in sandstone. But, as Dustan cleaned it off, he realized he made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.\n\"I knew it was one of the best ever,\" he said. \"You'll never see another piece like that one, it's so special.\nDustan had intended to sell his magnificent opal at auction and was confident it was worth at least $1 million Australian dollars ($730,000). But when the bids did not meet his minimum, he decided to sell the gem to the South Australian Museum 18 months ago for an undisclosed amount. The deal would ensure that the opal stayed in Australia.\nCoober Pedy is often called \"The Opal Capital of the World.\" In 1915, a 14-year-old boy named Willie Hutchison was on a gold mining expedition with his father when he happened upon precious opals. Legend states that young Willie was instructed by his dad to stay at the camp but, instead, the young man set out to search for water. He eventually returned to camp with water and precious opal gemstones.\nThat discovery sparked a rush of mining activity that has generated top-quality gems for the past 100 years. Australia, in fact, produces more than 90% of the world's precious opals.\nScientists claim that between 100 million and 97 million years ago, Australia's vast inland sea, which was populated by marine dinosaurs, began retreating. As the sea regressed, a rare episode of acidic weather was taking place, exposing pyrite minerals and releasing sulphuric acid. As the surface of the basin dried further and cracked, silica-rich gel became trapped in the veins of the rock. Over time, the silica solidified to form opals.\nOldman believes that the new \"Opals\" exhibition at the South Australian Museum will be a memorable event \u2014 the finest collection of precious opals to have been brought to one place in the world. The exhibit runs from September 25, 2015 through February 14, 2016.\nPhoto by Richard Lyons, courtesy South Australian Museum.\nEarring-Back Debate Is Put to Rest as Disk Inventor Emerges to Set the Record Straight\nLet us breathe a collective sigh of relief because the Great Earring-Back Debate has been settled \u2014 thanks to the guy who invented the plastic disk-shaped thingamabob at the core of the controversy.\nAn amused Ira Carlin, the 65-year-old self proclaimed \"Earring Doctor,\" told the Toronto Star that there is no grey area when it comes to the purpose of the clear plastic piece that consumers often find affixed to their metal earring backs.\n\u201cYou actually leave it on. Period. Categorically, emphatically, from the expert's mouth, you leave it on,\u201d Carlin said. \"It\u2019s not part of packaging. It\u2019s part of functionality.\u201d\nThe item even has a name. Carlin invented \"Le Disc Plus\u2122\" in the mid-1980s as an easy and inexpensive way to solve his wife's problems related to heavy earrings and droopy earlobes. The invention became a commercial hit and Carlin has sold tens of millions of them.\nAccording to his web site at earringdoctor.com, \"LeDisc Plus\u2122\" provides support and stability to earlobes, enhances earring presentation, provides extra comfort, prevents sagging earrings and eliminates back clasp irritation on the earlobe. They're also hypoallergenic.\nCarlin described the dynamics of how the earring backs really work...\n\u201cIf you were to hang a painting on a curtain it would tilt forward,\" he told the Toronto Star, \"but if you put a board behind a curtain and then hung a painting on it, it would stay stable,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd that\u2019s exactly what took place with my first item.\u201d\nLast week, we reported on the Twitter-fueled national debate over whether the plastic backings should be removed and tossed away, or whether they served a useful purpose. The issue was lampooned on The Today Show, and NBC conducted an online poll, where viewers let their opinions be know. Viewers overwhelmingly agreed \u2014 92% vs. 8% \u2014 that the plastic part should stay on.\nThe earring drama originated with an August 1 tweet by Chelsea Smith, who revealed she had spent her entire life wearing her earrings \u201cwrong.\u201d\nThe 19-year-old posted photos of two earring backs, one with the plastic disk intact, and the other with the disk removed. Her revelation: \u201cAfter my nineteen years of living I have now realized that you are supposed to take the plastic part off.\u201d\nCarlin called the Twitter debate \"a hoot\" and said he first learned about it when stories emerged on his Google Alert, which he has programmed to delivery \"earring\" stories.\nHe is also enjoying his 15 minutes of fame. \"I\u2019m getting so much fun out of it,\u201d he said.\nCredits: Ira Carlin via Getty Images; LeDisc Plus via earringdoctor.com; Twitter/Chelsea Smith\nMusic Friday: Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam Sing About a 14-Karat Love in 1987's #1 Hit, 'Head to Toe'\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you great songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam sing about a 14-karat love in their #1 hit from the summer of 1987, \"Head to Toe.\"\nLisa Lisa (born Lisa Velez) uses jewelry metaphors to illustrate just how much she cherishes her guy \u2014 a guy that used to be her best friend and now is her boyfriend. She sings, \"14-karat love, you are my jewel of the Nile / When we make love, diamonds are forever.\"\nThe dance number, which zoomed to the top of the U.S. Billboard 100 chart, is one of the iconic dance tunes of the 1980s. It features a Freestyle vibe seasoned with a generous sprinkling of soul, electro-funk, Latin rhythms and hip-hop. It's the type of song that would come up on a playlist alongside the early work of Paula Abdul, Gloria Estefan and Sheila E.\n\"Head to Toe\" was composed by Full Force, a long-time production and songwriting powerhouse. According to music trivia web site SongFacts.com, the girlfriend of Full Force member Paul Anthony blurted out what would become the song's catchy hook during their gym workout.\nApparently she was so impressed by his physique that she screamed that \"she loved him from head to toe.\" Anthony brought that nugget to the rest of the group and, before long, a chart topper was born with the unforgettable hook, \"Ooh, baby, I think I love you / From head to toe.\"\n\"Head to Toe\" appeared on Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's Spanish Fly album, a critically acclaimed work that sold more than one million copies and spawned two #1 hits. The other was the memorable \"Lost in Emotion.\"\nThe Harlem-based Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam consisted of lead vocalist Velez, guitarist/bassist Alex \"Spanador\" Moseley and drummer/keyboardist Mike Hughes. The group was assembled and produced by Full Force, which has worked with a cavalcade of A-listers, such as Britney Spears, James Brown, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, La Toya Jackson, Patty LaBelle and Selena.\nLisa Lisa and Cult Jam enjoyed a successful seven-year run from 1984 to 1991. We invite you to check out the official video of \"Head to Toe.\" The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...\n\"Head To Toe\"\nWritten by Full Force. Performed by Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam.\nToday started with a crazy kiss\nWe were in for a surprise\nWho would have thought that we would become lovers\nAs friends we were so, so tight\nCan't help myself, you make me feel so right\nI got to, got to, got to tell you, darlin'\nOoh, baby, I think I love you\nI think I love you from head to toe\nIt's possible, but I doubt it\nHis kiss is credit in the bank of love\nI never leave home without it\nHe's different from any boy I know\nBedroom eyes, head back to the side\nPlease don't be so mean\n14-karat love, you are my jewel of the Nile\nWhen we make love, diamonds are forever\nTop to bottom I love you, I will leave you never\nOoh, baby, I've got to kiss you\nYou can't hurry love, you got to take it slow\nBut my angel, you forget your wings tonight [Heaven up above]\nBaby, you got the love\nOoh, baby, I want to kiss you\nCredit: Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam promotional image.\nSanitary District Workers Rescue Flushed Engagement Ring; Ecstatic Owner Reciprocates With Baked Goods\nCalifornian Kathy Darling could hardly contain her emotions when workers for the Union Sanitary District Collection Services rang her doorbell and returned her engagement ring \u2014 a ring they rescued from the sewer system, a beloved treasure she thought was lost forever.\n\"I thought she was going to faint when I showed her the ring,\" system worker Rob Shenk told the San Jose Mercury News. \"I wondered if I was going to have to open her screen door and catch her.\"\nOnly one day earlier, Darling has slipped off her ring and set it on a tissue box in the bathroom while she took a break from housecleaning. Forgetting about the ring, the Fremont resident used the tissues and flushed them down the toilet. What she didn't realize \u2014 until it was too late \u2014 is that her engagement ring had been flushed, as well.\nDarling's first reaction was to call a local plumber, but he was unable to locate the ring. She then contacted the Union Sanitary District, whose supervisor, Rick Czapkay, dispatched Shenk and Steve Bullis to work their magic.\nIt was the second time in nine months that Union Sanitary District Collection Services workers were called on to recover bridal jewelry thought to be lost in a sewer line.\nShenk and Bullis flushed the street's main sewer line and inspected the debris that washed back \u2014 while curious neighbors looked on. Amidst the gunk was Darling's engagement ring.\nKathy and Bob Darling couldn't be more appreciative of the efforts made by the municipal workers. They offered a reward, but the Shenk and Bullis declined.\n\"Just seeing the looks on their faces was reward enough,\" Shenk told the San Jose Mercury News.\nSo Kathy Darling did the next best thing. She delivered a thank-you letter and homemade baked goods to the Union Sanitary District Collections team. Along with a big batch of cookies was an assortment of cakes, one of which was decorated with a faux engagement ring.\n\"[Shenk and Bullis] were both very determined to find that ring,\" Darling wrote in a heartfelt thank-you note that she read aloud during a 7:00 a.m. crew meeting. \"It was a miracle when they came to my front door and Rob took the ring from his pocket. I couldn't stop hugging them.\"\n\"I never, ever thought they would find the ring,\" she continued. \"They brought a perfect conclusion to a traumatic situation.\"\nThe Union City-based district serves Fremont, Newark and Union City, and maintains more than 800 miles of underground pipeline in its service area.\nPhoto top: Bob and Kathy Darling with Union Sanitary District's Rob Shenk and Rich Czapkay. Credits: Facebook/Union Sanitary District.\nElvis Presley's Passion for Fine Jewelry Elevates Latest Graceland Auction\nMusic legend Elvis Presley loved his jewelry \u2014 the bigger, the bolder and more flamboyant, the better.\nThis past Thursday, Graceland \u2014 the Memphis home of Presley \u2014 auctioned a number of authenticated jewelry items that were either worn, or gifted, by The King of Rock and Roll. The auction coincided with Elvis Week, an annual commemoration of his passing on August 16, 1977.\nPresley famously wore over-the-top rings and pendants, and his generosity to those close to him was legendary. He often gifted jewelry to friends, colleagues and staff. It wouldn't be unusual for Presley to wear a favorite piece and then present it to a staffer or fan who admired it.\nOne of the top lots of the auction was a diamond and 14-karat yellow gold pendant Presley gave to his dear friend and fellow entertainer, Sammy Davis Jr. The lightning-bolt pendant is designed with the black enamel initials \"TCB\" for \"Taking Care of Business,\" the name of Presley's band. The lightning bolt boasts 15 diamonds, measuring approximately 1.0 to 2.0 mm and weighing approximately 0.60 carats. The unique piece sold for $40,000, which was $10,000 more than the high estimated price.\nThe \"TCB\" pendant was apparently not the only jewelry item gifted to Davis by Presley. The Graceland Auctions web site noted that \"Elvis gave Sammy a black [star] sapphire ring and told him, 'This is the biggest black star I've ever seen so I'm giving it to the biggest black star I know.'\"\nThe highest-priced jewelry item from the Graceland Auctions event was a tourmaline and diamond ring that Presley wore and then gifted to his girlfriend, Linda Thompson. The ring has 20 round diamonds with a total weight of 1.75 carats. It also features 22 marquise-cut green tourmalines and one large, dark-colored, radiant-cut center tourmaline. The estimated price was $25,000 to $35,000, but it ended up selling for $47,500.\nOn the 10-year anniversary of Presley's death, the National Enquirer obtained the ring and made it the grand prize of a contest. The lucky winner was a subscriber from Texas. Later it became the property of the owner of a construction company, who won the ring in a poker game.\nHere are some other notable jewelry lots from the Graceland Auctions event...\nThis 14-karat yellow gold owl ring was gifted by Presley to audience member Connie Murray Denny during his concert at Sahara's Showroom in Lake Tahoe in May of 1973. The 14-karat yellow gold ring in the shape of an owl's head has diamond-studded feathers and black star sapphire eyes. The item sold for $32,500, exactly $12,500 more than the high estimate.\nDenny recounted her memorable encounter with The King...\n\"I was sitting stage side and Elvis' girlfriend at the time, Linda Thompson, was sitting near me. During the show Elvis threw out a red scarf. My friend had it in her hands when another girl grabbed a hold to take claim of it. Neither one of them were going to give it to the other, so I took the scarf and ripped it in half and gave each of them a half,\" she wrote. \"I believe that Elvis saw this gesture and at the end of the show he went along the stage shaking hands. He then came over and motioned for me to stand up so I did. He leaned over and gave me a kiss as he took my hand and put the ring in it. I said you dropped this in my hand. He smiled and bowed with his cape wide open and said, 'No. I gave it to you.' At first, I didn't realize what he had done. I turned to Linda Thompson who was still at the table and showed her the ring and said that Elvis must have accidentally let this slip off his finger. She assured me it was no accident...\"\nThis 22-karat gold pinky ring features 15 round diamonds weighing approximately .60 carats. The sides of the ring are engraved with the initials \"E\" and \"P\" on a textured ground. The ring was worn by Presley until he gifted it in the 1960s to a member of his inner circle, Richard Davis, who was not only his wardrobe manager but also a stuntman and stand-in. This piece sold for $27,500.\nMore than 40,0000 converged on Graceland during Elvis Week festivities. The U.S. Postal Service also marked the occasion by releasing a new \"Forever\" stamp bearing the black-and-white likeness of the late singer.\nJewelry Credits: auction.graceland.com; Facebook/ElvisPresleysGraceland.\nRob Gronkowski Shows Off Super Bowl Ring to the Men of ESPN's SportsCenter in Brilliant Spoof\nThe hosts of ESPN's SportsCenter fawn over Pro Bowl tight end Rob Gronkowski's Super Bowl ring in a clever 30-second commercial that spoofs workplace cattiness.\nAs the scene opens, we see Stan Verrett, Neil Everett and Kenny Mayne exchanging niceties with the 6-foot 6-inch, 265-pound football player who had just stopped by Everett's cubicle at ESPN \u2014 in shoulder pads and eye black \u2014 to show off his enormous diamond ring.\nJust how enormous is the ring? Well, we previously reported how the New England Patriots' Super Bowl XLIX Championship rings were the biggest ever awarded, weighing more than a quarter-pound and set with 205 diamonds with a total weight of 4.85 carats. Patriots\u2019 owner Robert Kraft presented the super-size oval-shaped rings to players and staff during a private party at his home back in mid-June.\nNow, back to the commercial...\nOn the surface, the SportsCenter team pretends to be happy for Gronkowski, but we can sense that they're all a bit jealous. It's a scene that's been played out zillions of times in offices all over the country \u2014 but not necessarily by men, and not exactly like this...\n(The commercial opens with Gronk visiting the offices of ESPN at 11:32 a.m. on June 15. Stan, Neil and Kenny can't take their eyes off #87's impressive bling...)\nStan: Let us see it. Let us see it!\nNeil: Wow!\nStan: It's regal.\nNeil: That's gorgeous, man.\nStan: It's shiny.\nGronk: Thanks. Yeah, I love it. I don't think I want it any bigger though.\nSports Center guys (together): No, no, not at all!\nStan: So tell us the whole story.\nGronk: Well, I went and gave them my size, and a few months later we had a ring ceremony.\nKenny: Beautiful story. Congratulations.\nGronk: Thanks, guys. I guess I should get back to work.\n(Gronk walks away from the cubicle and the SportsCenter guys huddle to discuss how they really feel...)\nKenny: Tac-ky.\nStan: Was that even real?\nKenny: Too much.\nNeil: What is he thinking?\nThe witty spot is already a YouTube phenomenon, with more than 400,000 views in only two days. This little gem is guaranteed to make you smile...\nBonus Trivia: Gronkowski's dad delivers a cameo appearance as an office worker in the background of the scene.\nCredits: YouTube screen captures; Jostens.\nAmerican Gem Society's Cool New Web-Based App Tests Your Jewelry IQ\nThe American Gem Society's new app puts you to the test, as you race through 10 challenging questions in any one of five fun categories, ranging from Jewelry Facts to Jewelry in Pop Culture.\nThe web-based quizzes have a timed element that requires each multiple-choice question to be answered within 25 seconds \u2014 the time it takes for the outline of a diamond shape to be fully rendered at the bottom of the screen. After the 10 questions are completed, the AGS app rates the user\u2019s knowledge on a scale from bronze to platinum. When we took the \"Celebrity Marriages and Jewelry\" quiz, we earned a score of 80% and a \"Platinum\" designation.\nThe idea of presenting fun, informative jewelry and gemstone facts in a challenging game environment is called \"gamification.\"\n\"The American Gem Society is always looking for new ways to engage and inform the consumer,\" said Ruth Batson, CEO of the American Gem Society and AGS Laboratories.\nThe five categories include the following: Celebrity Marriages and Jewelry; Jewelry Facts; Jewelry in Pop Culture; Royal Jewelry; and Songs About Jewelry. Readers who have followed our blog's Music Friday feature will recognize many of the songs.\nAfter taking a 10-question quiz, you'll have the option of trying the same category again or picking a new one.\nHere are a few examples of the questions that you're likely to encounter. Most are suited to jewelry lovers of all ages...\nCelebrity Marriages and Jewelry Quiz\nQ: For her second marriage, this style icon was given a $2.6 million engagement ring from her shipping tycoon fianc\u00e9. She reportedly only wore the 40-carat diamond ring twice before depositing it into a bank vault.\n\u2022 Kate Moss\nJewelry Facts Quiz\nQ: This term is used to measure the shape, angle, and proportions of a diamond or gemstone.\n\u2022 Carat\nJewelry in Pop Culture Quiz\nQ: From the 1997 blockbuster movie, Titanic, this heart-shaped fictitious jewel dazzled on screen and (spoiler alert!) \"accidentally\" fell into the ocean at the end of the movie.\n\u2022 The Sapphire of the Sea\n\u2022 The Heart of the Ocean\n\u2022 The Heart of the Atlantic\n\u2022 The Hope Diamond\nRoyal Jewelry Quiz\nQ: This very famous 45.52-carat blue diamond, then named the French Blue, was once owned by King Louis XVI.\n\u2022 The Blue Diamond\n\u2022 The French Diamond\n\u2022 The Sapphire Diamond\nSongs About Jewelry Quiz\nQ: \"If I gave you diamonds and pearls, would you be a happy boy or a girl? If I could I would give you the world. But all I can do is just offer you my love.\"\n\u2022 Rihanna \u2014 \"Diamonds\"\n\u2022 Prince \u2014 \"Diamonds and Pearls\"\n\u2022 Madonna \u2014 \"Material Girl\"\n\u2022 Kanye West \u2014 \"Diamonds Are Forever\"\nYou can find the answers to these questions and many more at the AGS app at this link.\nCredit: Screen captures via AmericanGemSociety.org.\nMusic Friday: Andra Day 'Gave Up Gold for Grains of Sand' in Her Bluesy New Release\nJust last month, Rolling Stone magazine named Andra Day one of the \"10 New Artists You Need to Know,\" and after listening to the vintage vocals of her brand new release, \"Gold,\" we couldn't agree more.\nWelcome to Music Friday when we introduce to you fresh music featuring jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Day's bluesy ballad is framed as an heartfelt apology to a former lover. She betrayed him even though he treated her \"like a precious gift,\" and soon after, she learned a hard lesson when her new lover cheated on her.\nDay describes her heartache with this line: \"I gave up gold / For grains of sand / Slipping through my hand.\"\nIn an NPR interview preceding a live acoustic performance, Day explained how \"Gold\" was born.\n\"I was with someone that I was not good to, and wasn't faithful to,\" she said. \"I used to be ashamed to talk about it, and 'Gold' was really my moment to say, 'I'm going to talk about it. I'm going to purge because other people experience this.'\"\nShe continued, \"So, it's basically a letter to him apologizing for what I had done. Sort of spelling out my experience and heartbreak after that \u2014 having someone betray me and what it felt like. And then letting him know that I now understand what [he] went through... It's a whole candid story told from beginning to end.\"\n\"Gold\" is featured on Day's debut album, Forever Mine, which is scheduled to release next Friday. NPR Music posted the live acoustic video of Day's \"Gold\" on August 11. Besides being anointed by Rolling Stone as a new artist we need to know, Day has catapulted onto the music mainstream with a slew of high-profile appearances.\nThe singer-songwriter performed at the 2015 BET Awards and the LA2015 Special Olympics World Games Closing Ceremony. Also recently, she opened for Lenny Kravitz' tour and performed at the 2015 McDonald's 365Black Awards.\nThe San Diego native got her career jumpstarted in 2012 when a series of her popular song covers went viral on YouTube. Those videos caught the attention of numerous record labels, which courted the future star. Eventually, she signed with Warner Bros. Records.\nWe know you will enjoy the video of the fabulous live acoustic performance of Day singing \"Gold.\" Close your eyes for a moment and you'll swear that a time machine just delivered you to a nightclub in the 1950s. Of course, the lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along.\nWritten and performed by Andra Day.\nHe don't know I call him the teacher\nHe had a hard lesson for the kid\nI get I put you through hell\nHe put me under the same spell\nHe lied man, he stressed me out\nYou loved me like a precious gift\nAnd he loved me like a sloppy kiss\nYou would tell me your heartaches\nNow I understand the pain\nOh why did I let you drown\nBaby would you believe\nThat I've been broken\nYou say memories\nPlay again and again\nI see the reel now it's real to me\nI gave up gold\nFor grains of sand\nSlipping through my hand (2X)\nYou had no problems with commitment\nLike a king is loyal to what\u2019s his\nYou looked for a ring to fit\nWhile I played wifey with a kid\nOh the irony makes me sick\nHe tried to make me look crazy\nNothing new about his kind of scheme\nI laugh when I think about\nHis face when truth nearly spilled out\nHe looked like me I get that now\nI see the reel, now it's real to me\nPosing as a Whole Foods Clerk, Floridian Proposes to Girlfriend in the Produce Aisle\nJessica Shiekman intended to get a \"kalicious\" smoothie at her local Whole Foods store. What she ended up getting was engaged.\nThe produce-aisle marriage proposal, which was expertly staged by her boyfriend, Aaron Califf, was witnessed by family, friends, shoppers and reporters from the local media.\nShiekman and her sister had been on their way to the mall on Saturday when her sister insisted that they make a quick stop at the Whole Foods in Ft. Lauderdale for a kalicious \u2014 a healthful blend of kale, spinach, banana, lemon and apple juice. But, the women never got to the smoothie station.\nInstead, Shiekman was greeted at the top of the produce aisle by her boyfriend of seven years, Califf, who was decked out in a very official grey Whole Foods apron and cap \u2014 even though he doesn't work for the store.\nThe stunned girlfriend followed Califf back to his rose-petal covered demonstration table near the organic grapes and raspberries. There, she saw a ring box waiting on a plate of quinoa salad. A yellow and red, hand-rendered sign on the front of the display read, \"Truly Special / Jessica & Aaron / Together 365.\"\nAt that point, Califf grabbed the ring box, went down on one knee and asked Shiekman if she would spend the rest of her life with him. She said, \"Yes.\"\nThe young man nervously fiddled with the beautiful emerald-cut diamond ring. \"Which hand does this go on?\" Califf asked. When his girlfriend clarified it should go on her left hand, he attempted to put the ring on her index finger instead of her ring finger. Nevertheless, the ring finally made it to the correct finger and the couple embraced.\nCaliff, 26, who is working on his MBA and manages dental offices, arranged with the store's marketing and public relations departments to allow him to pose as a clerk to make the surprise extra special. As Califf told WSVN, \"This is Jessica's self-proclaimed happy place.\"\n\"I wanted to catch her off guard, so I picked a grocery store,\" he said.\nThe clever fianc\u00e9 had also enlisted the help of Shiekman's mother, sister and several other family members. Califf's family had flown in from Chicago to be part of the exciting day.\nShiekman, a 27-year-old family therapist, told the Miami Herald that she thought her boyfriend looked \"very handsome\" in his Whole Foods attire.\nHer dad, John Shiekman, added, \u201cWhat\u2019s a proposal without quinoa?\u201d\nCredit: Video captures via miamiherald.com and WSVN.com.\nLucara Offers First Glimpse of Its Spectacular 336-Carat Diamond\nLast week, Lucara Diamond Corp. announced the discovery of a spectacular 336-carat diamond at its Karowe mine in Botswana, but didn't provide photos. Yesterday, the company unveiled the $15 million rock on its Facebook page, and all we can say is \"Wow!\"\nIn its natural state, the diamond has a surprisingly symmetrical shape that resembles a rough-cut finished gemstone. This is the second 300-plus-carat diamond to be pulled from the Karowe mine in just the past five months.\nExperts believe that the Type IIa diamond could yield $15 million or more when it's offered at Lucara's next tender in September. The buyer will determine the shape of the polished stone, hoping to maximize its size while bringing out its optimum brilliance. It's not unusual for half the diamond's weight to be sacrificed during the arduous cutting and polishing process.\nThe 336-carat diamond is rated Type IIa, the purest of all diamonds because they are composed solely of carbon with virtually no trace elements in the crystal lattice.\nIt was one of five notable diamonds \u2014 four white and one pink \u2014 unearthed at Karowe recently. The other white diamonds tipped the scales at 184 carats, 94 carats and 86 carats. Combined, they're expected to fetch $10 million at the September tender. A 12-carat pale pink diamond should also get buyers' attention.\nBotswana's Karowe mine continues to generate a bounty of massive high-quality diamonds. Back in April, we reported on Lucara's discovery of a 341.9-carat specimen, also of Type IIa clarity. Lucara offered that stone at its July tender and it sold for $20.55 million.\nOver the past three years, Lucara has recovered 216 diamonds that have sold for more than $250,000 each, with 12 of these yielding more than $5 million each.\nCredit: Images via Facebook/LucaraDiamondCorporation\nReal Madrid Star Plunks Down $250,000 for Soccer Ball Encrusted With 72,000 Diamonds\nReal Madrid star striker Karim Benzema recently splurged on a $250,000 soccer ball encrusted with 72,000 white and black diamonds.\nTMZ reported that the 27-year-old wanted a showpiece for his new home so he enlisted the skill and creativity of celebrity jewelers Dimitry Shimanov (a.k.a. Dave Bling) and Will Selby (a.k.a. Will Da Boss) of New York-based DWS Jewelry & Co.\nWhat they whipped up for the French-born goal scorer was an official-size soccer ball set with diamonds weighing a total of 1,250 carats. Bling said the ball will be \"a definite conversation starter when [Benzema's] company arrives.\"\nThe ball is covered in hexagonal panels of white and black diamonds, with individual stones weighing approximately .017 carats each. We're guessing that Benzema refined his love for bling during his short-lived relationship with \"shine-bright-like-a-diamond\" singer Rhianna.\nAlthough Benzema's soccer ball is mighty impressive, it is by no means the most expensive soccer ball ever. That title goes to this truly amazing creation by South African jewelry house Shimansky.\nAs a tribute to the 2010 FIFA World Cup, which was held in South Africa, the jeweler designed a $2.59 million soccer ball adorned with 6,620 white diamonds and 2,640 black diamonds \u2014 weighing a total of 3,500 carats.\nShimansky produced a diamond-encrusted original and a number of replicas using crystals instead of diamonds. Those versions were displayed in Shimansky's stores and some were auctioned for charity.\nCredits: Instagram/DaveBling; Karim Benzema by Chris Deahr, via Wikimedia Commons; Shimansky.com.\nSarmatian Female Warrior of the First Century Had a Fondness for Fine Jewelry, Reveal Russian Archaeologists\nRussian archaeologists recently discovered the 2,000-year-old grave of a female warrior, who apparently had an affection for elaborate gold and gemstone jewelry.\nPresumed to be a noblewoman of Sarmatian origin, the warrior was discovered in an undisturbed burial mound near Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia near the Black Sea. In the tomb was a treasure trove of precious items, including dangling gold earrings, gold bracelets and a large gemstone inscribed in Aramaic.\nThe collar of her dress was decorated with stamped buckles of gold leaf in the form of a stylized ram's head and her sleeves were embroidered with colorful beads spaced with gold triangular and half-round plaques. She was buried with a large bronze mirror and a gold vial that possibly contained incense. The contents of the vial fossilized centuries ago, but will be analyzed by scientists.\nAlso found in her tomb, however, were symbols of her fighting heritage: a sword, knives, 100 iron arrowheads, and a horse's harness \u2014 possibility reflecting her equestrian prowess. An analysis of the woman's teeth revealed she lived to an old age and apparently survived many battles.\nThe noblewoman shared this burial mound with a man, who is assumed to be her husband. His part of the grave was looted and only fragments of crockery and bones remained.\nThe grave, which was protected with a wooden decking, was found at a depth of 13 feet. All of the items in the grave were dated from the first century BC to the first century AD.\nThe nomadic Sarmatian people, who worshipped fire, were of Iranian heritage and moved from Central Asia to the Ural Mountains between the 6th and 4th centuries BC. The archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Archaeology believe their subject was Sarmatian because of the high status women held in that society.\nThe burial mound was one of 28 discovered during the construction of a new airport serving Rostov-on-Don. The other burials mounds had been looted long ago.\nArchaeologist Roman Mimokhod told the Daily Mail, \"Most of the burials on this site are plundered and, of course, it is great luck to find an intact one.\"\nCredit: Images courtesy of the Russian Institute of Archaeology.\nMusic Friday: Paul Simon Reveals Meaning of 'Silver Girl' in the Classic 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you great songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, we focus on the curious precious metal reference in 1970's \"Bridge Over Trouble Water,\" a classic tune by Simon & Garfunkel that won five Grammy Awards and was ranked #48 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.\nComposed by Paul Simon and performed as a solo by Art Garfunkel, \"Bridge Over Troubled Water\" is a song about providing comfort for someone in need. The much-debated third verse starts like this: \"Sail on silver girl / Sail on by / Your time has come to shine / All your dreams are on their way.\"\nSome fans and critics had speculated that \"silver girl\" might be a reference to a needle and that the song was really about heroin use. But Simon eventually set the record straight when he revealed that the silver line is actually an innocent inside joke aimed at his first wife, Peggy Harper. Simon started calling her \"Silver Girl\" after she noticed her first silver-grey hairs. She was barely 30 at the time and the grey hairs made her very upset.\nSimon originally intended \"Bridge\" to be a simple two-verse gospel hymn with a guitar accompaniment. The \"silver girl\" third verse was added at the recording studio after Garfunkel and producer Roy Halee insisted that the song needed a \"bigger\" sound at the end.\nSimon wrote the third verse on the fly and Halee arranged for the song's famous orchestral crescendo. The guitar was traded in for a piano to better support Garfunkel's falsetto, and instead of singing the song together, Simon insisted that Garfunkel perform the song alone.\nLater in his career, Simon admitted he had second thoughts about that decision. \"Many times I'm sorry I didn't do it,\" he said. Simon would hear the rousing ovations and think, \"That's my song, man.\"\nWhen Clive Davis at Columbia Records heard \"Bridge\" for the first time, he told Simon that it was destined to be a monster hit. He pegged it as the title track of Simon & Garfunkel's fifth studio album and its lead single.\nGarfunkel's interpretation of Simon's vision was a mind blowing success, as \"Bridge\" went on to sell six million copies and dominate the 1971 Grammy Awards, including a win for Song of the Year. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, Simon & Garfunkel were probably thrilled when musical powerhouses Elvis Presley and Aretha Franklin both covered the song.\nAt the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010, on the 40th anniversary of the release of \"Bridge Over Troubled Water,\" Garfunkel revealed how much he still loves to perform the song.\n\"Well, here we are, years later, I'm still singing it from town to town, and it's completely alive and fresh to me,\" he said. \"There is nothing dated, or any feeling of the past. I love doing it. Thank the Lord the feeling \u2014 the goose bumps \u2014 constantly checks in every time I do it.\"\nBridge Over Troubled Water was the last album Simon & Garfunkel released before they split up. It sold an amazing 25 million copies and has been regarded as one of the best albums, both commercially and artistically, of all time.\nDespite the breakup, the famous singing duo has thrilled fans with a number of high-profile reunions over the years. A particularly inspiring one was a free concert in New York's Central Park in 1981 \u2014 an event seen live by 500,000 people. The resulting album and cable-TV special on HBO generated funds to renovate the park. Today's clip is from that show. The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...\nWritten by Paul Simon. Performed by Art Garfunkel.\nI will comfort you (ooo)\nI'll take your part, oh, when darkness comes\nCredit: Getty Images, YouTube screen capture, Simon & Garfunkel album cover.\nDancing With the Stars' Julianne Hough Reveals Impressive Engagement Ring and Details of Her Proposal 'Blackout'\nOvercome with emotions, Dancing With the Stars judge Julianne Hough \"completely blacked out\" when beau Brooks Laich got down on one knee and proposed marriage with a gorgeous 6-carat oval-shaped diamond engagement ring \u2014 a ring that now takes her breath away every time she looks down.\nThe 27-year-old star recounted on her blog how the \"magical and sweet\" proposal by her hockey player boyfriend caught her completely by surprise.\n\"We were at home, romantic and relaxed. We stood on the deck, watching the sun set over the lake and listening to our favorite songs. Not even for a second did I expect that beautiful, serene scene was about to become one of the most meaningful moments of our lives,\" she wrote. \"In fact, I was so taken aback when Brooks got down on one knee I completely blacked out! It was like a rush of heat and a wave of uncontrollable emotion swept right through my body. I didn\u2019t have any words at first (me! no words!). All I could do was explode into his arms and experience pure joy from head to toe.\"\nTo say that Hough loves her new platinum ring would be an understatement. She gushed about how wonderful the ring makes her feel and how she's not planning to take it off any time soon.\n\"The ring itself makes me feel very feminine and takes my breath away every time I look down, which I can\u2019t stop doing, by the way,\" she continued. \"When it comes to taking it off, forget it. I\u2019ll even wake up in the middle of the night to make sure it\u2019s still there! I never thought I\u2019d be the girl sticking her hand out to her friends and screaming in unison but here I am, shrieking all over Los Angeles.\"\nAn insider told Us Weekly that ring designed by celebrity jeweler Lorraine Schwartz features the couple's initials with a heart in diamonds on the back. The insider also revealed that the hockey star worked with the designer for eight months and that \"it was really important to find the perfect stone that reflected Julianne's classically beautiful style.\u201d The ring is reportedly worth $350,000.\nHough met the 32-year-old Washington Capitals center in the winter of 2013, just after breaking up with long-time boyfriend Ryan Seacrest. She apparently knew Laich was \"the one\" from the moment she met him.\nImages via juliannehough.com; Instagram/juleshough.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 571, "original_length": 63226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northwestsound.org/jim.salmon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MIOO6GF7C2WQXIXEUGQZNHGJF2UEDQIO", "length": 3442, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "northwestsound.org", "title": "Jim Salmon | Northwest Sound", "raw_content": "Jim, the youngest of three boys, was born in La Mesa California, a suburb of San Diego, where he spent the first 16 years of his life. Sometime in the middle elementary years, his parents divorced and Jim, along with his next older brother, remained with his mother while his father and oldest brother moved away.\nFollowing his freshman year of high school, his mother moved the little family to her original home state of Minnesota. First they lived in Minneapolis and then they moved in with his mother\u2019s parents, in nearby Bloomington, Minnesota.\nBut before he was able to complete high school there, he was uprooted once more. This time his oldest brother lured their mom to his new home state, with the prospect of better employment opportunities for her. The brother was living in Snohomish, Washington, where he was studying for the ministry. So that is how Jim wound up graduating from Snohomish High School in 1977. He has remained in the area ever since.\nJim next completed a course in retail cashiering at Lake Washington Vocational Tech, but upon graduation, found restaurant work more to his liking and aptitude. For the next 15 1/2 years he worked in restaurants in both Redmond and Kirkland, keeping things behind the scenes working. Prep work, dish washing, and inventory control were all part of his restaurant responsibilities. Evidently he is very good at it.\nIn 1994 he was hired by WRQ (now merged with and renamed Attachmate) to take responsibility for all seven employee kitchens in their large, Seattle facility. Jim keeps each of them clean, stocked, and functional, in addition to handling mail and other responsibilities as required. He is looking forward to Attachmate\u2019s move from the south Lake Union area to the King Street neighborhood where his commute can be accomplished on just one bus rather than the two it currently takes. (Jim doesn\u2019t drive.)\nThough Jim was attracted to music, especially vocal performance, while still a schoolboy, he didn\u2019t actually participate until his high school years\u2026and that in a church youth choir rather than in school. He later began attending church where his older brother had become associate pastor (Englewood Presbyterian) and has continued regularly in their choir for 31 years now.\nHis introduction to barbershop came in 1989 when a Lake Washington Skippers member, who sang in Jim\u2019s church choir, invited him to a regular rehearsal at Skipper Hall in Kirkland. There was an instant attraction. Jim stepped up to the challenge and soon enough passed the audition, thus becoming a Skipper himself. Ted Chamberlin was directing at the time. Jim became a Northwest Sound member when the two choruses merged in 1991. He has sung with us ever since.\nWhile interviewing Jim for this article, I ventured to ask him if he ever dated.\n\u201cNaw\u2026\u201d he said. There was a short pause, and then: \u201cWell, there is this one lady at work\u2026we sometimes have dinner or see a movie, but\u2026\u201d\n\u201cJim! That\u2019s dating!\u201d I exclaimed. He gave me a shy but charming smile.\nHmmm, they say you\u2019ve got to watch out for the quiet ones huh? Jim further surprised me when I asked what other things he might like to do.\n\u201cI think singing in a quartet would be fun. I\u2019d like to try that. I\u2019m also interested in directing\u2026I\u2019d like to learn how to do that.\u201d\nSaying I was surprised at some of his responses demonstrates my error in not getting to know Jim better, much sooner than I have. That was my loss\u2026but no more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 220.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://novels.zerosilver.com/wordpress/?p=396", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5OVJUT3INI5FRXKYPMO7SHK3RM4PXA7O", "length": 9406, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "novels.zerosilver.com", "title": "What About Doctrinal Differences? | Novaun Novels", "raw_content": "What About Doctrinal Differences?\nMarch 23, 2015 / Katherine Padilla / Comments Off on What About Doctrinal Differences?\nAs I begin this quest to capture and share glimpses of Zion from the fiction I read, a few of you may wonder whether you should read some of these books that may promote religious or social ideas you don\u2019t agree with. A few of you may be troubled by the fact that I\u2019m recommending books that don\u2019t agree on many points with the tenets of my own church, which, in the effort of full disclosure, is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Some of you may think that I\u2019m glossing over the very real doctrinal differences between religions to present a view of life that has no basis in reality. Some of you may be looking for tools to help you better evaluate the religious content you encounter in your own reading. For all of these reasons, I want to address the issue of doctrinal differences up front and get it out of the way.\nWhen reading and evaluating religious fiction, do doctrinal differences between the reader\u2019s beliefs and the writer\u2019s matter?\nI believe this is the main reason readers who want wholesome fiction with religious themes don\u2019t usually read contemporary novels published to members of other religions, even if they know about them. Readers of faith take their doctrine seriously, and if they seek out fiction with religious themes, they typically want a story that dramatizes the truth as they understand it.\nEvangelical Fiction\nI am no different from any other reader of faith in this respect, and yet I read novels from all kinds of religious perspectives and not only enjoy them but sometimes gain new insights from them. I would rather read a wholesome book from a different religious perspective than a secular book containing foul elements. Of course, not all books I read and like contain religious themes, but keeping an open mind about the religious perspective of the author and/or publisher has allowed me to read and enjoy many stories I may have overlooked had I limited myself to reading only things that are completely compatible with my own religious beliefs.\nLDS/Mormon Fiction\nSince I\u2019ve said very little in my criteria and essays about this matter, I thought I would explain how I approach and evaluate fiction that contains religious content. First of all, my experience has been that I am just as likely to disagree with something in a story written by a member of my own church as in one that is written by someone who belongs to another religion. I believe this sort of difference of opinion between writer and reader is an inevitable part of the reading process unless we limit ourselves to material that seeks to achieve universality by eliminating all religious ideas and details or by omitting anything that resembles an original thought. Because I like religious ideas and original thoughts, I approach every novel I read with the expectation that I will encounter doctrinal details and social ideas I disagree with. As long as the book meets my Criteria for Determining the Wholesomeness of Literature, its major themes feel true to me, and its doctrinal differences don\u2019t disturb me enough to detract from my reading enjoyment, I\u2019ll put it on my list, presuming I liked it well enough. Even with all the care I use in choosing books to read, sometimes I\u2019ll encounter an idea or doctrine that disturbs me enough that I don\u2019t recommend the book, even if it is clean. When that happens, it\u2019s usually because the offending philosophy turns out to be one of the major themes of the book.\nThe best way I can think of to explain how I make this evaluation is to give you examples of both types of books.\nThe historical novel The Robe was published in 1942 by Lloyd C. Douglas, a Protestant minister. This story is about a fictionalized Roman tribune named Marcellus Gallio who helped crucify Jesus Christ and then \u201ctossed for his robe and won.\u201d The book follows Marcellus as he learns more about Jesus and is finally converted to Christianity. As Marcellus searches for truth, he must decide how to make sense of the doctrines Jesus taught and the many miracles He performed. This is not an easy thing for this practical man to do. Along the way, he is told that Jesus fed five thousand men with only five loaves of bread and seven fishes. From the final page of Chapter 15, we read this reaction from him:\n\u201cIt sounds as if some other people, besides you and Reuben, had had the forethought to bring some provisions along,\u201d speculated Marcellus. \u201cThey probably wouldn\u2019t have gone out into the desert with empty baskets. This is really a marvelous story, Hariph!\u201d\n\u201cYou believe it, sir?\u201d Hariph was happily surprised.\n\u201cIndeed I do! And I believe it was a miracle! Jesus had inspired those stingy, selfish people to be decent to one another! It takes a truly great man to make one harmonious family out of a crowd like that! I can\u2019t understand the healing, Hariph; but I believe in the feeding! And I\u2019m glad you wanted to tell me!\u201d\nAs a person who believes wholeheartedly that Jesus performed a true miracle in this case, that He really did provide food for the crowd in a miraculous way, the idea presented above is offensive to me, because it strikes at the heart of Christ\u2019s divinity. In the situation presented in the novel, however, I can accept it for a couple of reasons. First of all, Marcellus is on a spiritual journey. Of course he doesn\u2019t accept Christ\u2019s divinity right away. The idea is an unfolding of his own understanding of the Savior\u2019s teachings and actions at that particular moment. Second of all, the character Hariph, who tells the story, obviously believes in the divinity of Jesus, as do others. The author sets up a situation where various characters view an event from different spiritual perspectives. All of that I can accept without too much difficulty, because the situation dramatizes a true observation about human nature and the learning process. This naturalistic interpretation of the miracle of the loaves and fishes is mentioned another time or two in the novel and, while I don\u2019t remember Marcellus ever changing his opinion about the event, he does say this to his father, a Roman senator, in the third scene of Chapter 20:\n\u201cIt is my belief that this Galilean is still alive. I think he is an eternal person, a divine person with powers that no king or emperor has ever possessed, and I further believe that he will eventually rule the world!\u201d\nMarcellus has undergone a conversion I can root for, and the book as a whole resonates with the idea that Jesus is divine. I agree with this view, so I am edified by The Robe and can recommend it, despite the fact that it presents an interpretation of scripture that I strongly disagree with.\nMany years ago I read a novel originally published in 1904 entitled Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest, by W. H. Hudson. It\u2019s a beautifully written classic with elements of adventure and fantasy along with the love story. I liked it as I was reading it and don\u2019t remember encountering any of the typical foul elements. I came to the end, however, and the protagonist slaughtered a village of people. That, alone, made me uncomfortable, but after this violent act, the book ended with these lines explaining how he received absolution:\nIn those darkest days in the forest I had her as a visitor\u2014a Rima of the mind, whose words when she spoke reflected my despair. Yet even then I was not entirely without hope. Heaven itself, she said, could not undo that which I had done; and she also said that if I forgave myself, Heaven would say no word, nor would she. That is my philosophy still: prayers, austerities, good works\u2014they avail nothing, and there is no intercession, and outside of the soul there is no forgiveness in heaven or earth for sin. Nevertheless there is a way, which every soul can find out for itself\u2014even the most rebellious, the most darkened with crime and tormented by remorse. In that way I have walked; and, self-forgiven and self-absolved, I know that if she were to return once more and appear to me\u2014even here where her ashes are\u2014I know that her divine eyes would no longer refuse to look into mine, since the sorrow which seemed eternal and would have slain me to see would not now be in them.\nAs a person of faith, I reject the idea that \u201cprayers, austerities, good works\u2014they avail nothing, and there is no intercession, and outside of the soul there is no forgiveness in heaven or earth for sin.\u201d The author\u2019s placement of this idea at the end of the novel, as its resolution, makes it a major theme of the work, and, as such, crosses my personal doctrinal line. I don\u2019t regret reading the book, but it is not on my recommended list. It is, in fact, in the category of books I call \u201cborderline.\u201d\nJust as I expect every story I read to contain ideas I don\u2019t agree with, I also expect that people of faith from various religious and ethnic backgrounds will share many beliefs, values, and standards in common with me. Then as I read, I focus on the second expectation and am continually amazed at the similarities I find and the interesting things I learn about different groups of people and their practices and beliefs.\nChristian Classics, English Classics, Great Books Group, Introductory Posts\nbook listborderlinefaith-basedfictionLloyd C. Douglasreligious differencesreligious themeswholesome\nFaust and Adam Bede", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 14929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nrfnexus.nrf.ac.za/handle/20.500.11892/140709", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NSSF443JKQB3OWPTYKIIXSK6SBUI6FTZ", "length": 1103, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nrfnexus.nrf.ac.za", "title": "Housing an illegitimate aristocracy : an urban profile of a coloured community in Greenwood Park from the 1950's to the 1970's", "raw_content": "Housing an illegitimate aristocracy : an urban profile of a coloured community in Greenwood Park from the 1950's to the 1970's\nFrancis LC-L\nThere is no historiography on Durban coloureds . This work is an attempt to change that. This dissertation is an urban study of a small coloured community in Greenwood Park (GWP) during the apartheid era - a study in which housing is used as a vehicle to examine this community's response to their changing economic and socio-political status from the 1950's to the 1970's . Because of the absence of historical data, this study relies heavily on the contributions of other social sciences . It also uses oral data to fill the many gaps in the story of this marginal group . Chapter 4 and 5 explores housing as a complex physical and social phenomenon . Chapter 6 explores the GWP community's response to their housing environment. In this chapter, the association between housing and socio-economic status is explored. From 1950 to the 1970's, housing became the single most defining entity which kept coloureds trapped in the vortex of privilege and oppression.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 237.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oafe.net/yo/dccm4_reap.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:28Z", "digest": "sha1:RAYXYG2Z5SDJDZ5EP2JCQNJITMENBQQE", "length": 4394, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "oafe.net", "title": "OAFE - DC Multiverse: The Reaper review", "raw_content": "In the late '70s, Todd McFarlane created a blue-clad sci-fi alien hero named \"Spawn\"; in the early '90s, he reintroduced Spawn as a a horror character in red. Perhaps it's simply a coincidence, but right in between those two, he worked on \"Batman: Year Two,\" the 1987 story which introduced The Reaper.\nJudson Caspian's alter ego; will his murderous crime spree force Batman to make an uncomfortable partnership with Joe Chill?\nThe story that became \"Year Two\" was pitched as \"Batman: 1980,\" but the success of \"Year One\" changed that. The story starts in the '50s, with a wealthy socialite donning a costume to exact vigilante justice on the criminals who killed his family - except it wasn't Bruce Wayne, it was Judson Caspian. Merrily stabbing juvenile delinquents with a scythe, Jud decided to hang up the cloak after getting stomped by Green Lantern, but when he saw Gotham City had a new vigilante hero he came out of retirement.\nEven at a glance, you can really tell how Reaper's design influenced Phantasm: he wears a big, hooded cape and conceals his identity behind a skull mask. Of course, while the mask of the Phantasm was stylized, Reaper's is a more realistic sculpt. It's silver, and lacks a lower jaw, but it looks like a real(ish) skull.\nOf course, while Phantasm just wore a featureless black bodysuit, Reaper is in a full-on \"Gary Oldman in Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula\" suit of armor. It's bright red and seems to be made from thick leather (since lightweight metal bodyarmor wouldn't have been available in the '50s) shaped to resemble exposed muscle tissue. You've got to give Alan Davis credit: he designed the costume, and going for something skeletal would have been the easy, obvious choice, but a character who looks like he's been flayed definitely keeps the \"deadly\" theme going. The chestplate is molded as part of the cape, so it tends to \"float\" away from the body a little bit, but that's not inaccurate to the comics, really. And for once, the figure doesn't have that weird flat-fronted crotch that so many Mattel DC figures have had for years!\nThe articulation is actually a little better than Mattel usually delivers! Reaper has a balljointed head, swivel/hinge shoulders, swivel biceps, swivel/hinge elbows and wrists, a hinged torso, swivel waist, swivel/hinge hips, swivel thighs, hinged knees, and hinged ankles. There have been a few DC figures with swivel/hinge wrists before, but they usually just stick us with plain swivels because they're either cheap or lazy. The costume is festooned with spikes (nb. the Spawn influence), particularly on the chest, but also on the elbows, knees, and the tops of the feet. The spiky pads on the knees are molded as part of the lower leg, as they should be, but the elbow pads are part of the bicep, when it really feels like they should have been molded on the forearms instead, allowing them to move when the arm bends.\nReaper's weapons of choice were a pair of handheld scythe things with spiked baskets that cover the entire hand. Since that would be hard to do in action figure form, the toy's hands pull out of the sockets, and can be replaced by the two included accessories. The weapons are molded from pale silver plastic and not painted, which means you can see the swirls in the plastic. The ones in the comic could also shoot bullets or create smokescreens, but these don't do that. On the plus side, you can hook the blades over the big peg that holds his cape on, which simulates the way the things could be holstered in the artwork.\nThis figure is part of the same series as Duke Thomas, so it also comes with a piece of the BAF batbot: the chest. Which appears to be compatible with the Jim Gordon heads, and definitely makes me more interested in building the whole figure than I have been up until now.\nOther than Phantasm, Reaper has never showed up outside comics - not in any of the cartoons, not as an Easter egg reference in the Arkham games, nothing. He hasn't even made it into the HeroClix game, and they make everybody! There are HeroClix figures that don't even have Funko POP!s, for crying out loud! This figure right here is the first piece of Reaper merchandise ever made. He's a super obscure character from a story that would probably be forgotten entirely if not for the Todd McFarlane connection, but Mattel did better than their usual halfassed effort on him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 4677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://old.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=31052", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:44Z", "digest": "sha1:GNHUCGEQMNUKKQUNHYMXJLT76PPIECJ4", "length": 1071, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "old.civil.ge", "title": "Civil.Ge | Polls Open for Vani and Khoni MP By-Elections", "raw_content": "60 polling stations have opened at 8am today for MP by-elections in Vani and Khoni single-mandate constituency in Imereti region, western Georgia.\n48,123 voters are eligible to cast their ballots in the parliamentary polls, according to the Central Election Commission.\nSix candidates are running for the seat (down from the initial nine), including the ones nominated by the Georgian Dream and the European Georgia parties, Givi Chichinadze and Gigi Ugulava, respectively.\nThree more have been named by non-parliamentary opposition parties (Traditionalists, New Christian Democrats, Georgia), and the remaining one - by an initiative group.\nThe third parliamentary party - the Alliance of Patriots - fielded a candidate as well - Germane Khurtsidze, but he withdrew his candidacy from the race.\nThe joint registration of the United National Movement and the National Democratic Party was annulled due to their failure to nominate a candidate. The latter is among the group of ten non-parliamentary opposition parties, which has expressed its boycott to the by-elections.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 207.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onefuturecollective.org/the-history-behind-sexual-harassment-at-the-workplace-law/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:41Z", "digest": "sha1:GBBKFZOSZ42OIXACCDGL33NFSVNE4CTA", "length": 48, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "onefuturecollective.org", "title": "The History Behind Sexual Harassment at the Workplace Law | One Future Collective", "raw_content": "Originally published at Nyaaya on March 8, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 12134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 116.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onembedding.com/tv/eastenders-1fz/29.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JVB4IYLKK3766IFCCPR25KJF7S634553", "length": 638, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "onembedding.com", "title": "EastEnders \u2013 TV | Zooqle: Verified torrents", "raw_content": "3 04/01/2013 (1) long ago \u2013 January 4, 2013\n25 11/02/2013 long ago \u2013 February 11, 2013\n36 01/03/2013 long ago \u2013 March 1, 2013\n42 11/03/2013 long ago \u2013 March 11, 2013\n54 01/04/2013 long ago \u2013 April 1, 2013\n60 11/04/2013 long ago \u2013 April 11, 2013\n72 02/05/2013 long ago \u2013 May 2, 2013\n77 10/05/2013 long ago \u2013 May 10, 2013\n90 03/06/2013 long ago \u2013 June 3, 2013\n94 10/06/2013 long ago \u2013 June 10, 2013\n100 20/06/2013 long ago \u2013 June 20, 2013\n106 01/07/2013 long ago \u2013 July 1, 2013\n112 11/07/2013 long ago \u2013 July 11, 2013\nWall Street Journal Mag Far & Away Saturday May 19, 2018 5 minutes\nMama June-From Not To Hot S03E01 WEB h264-W4F 6 minutes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 685, "original_length": 17752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 121.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://online-casino-stop.com/casino_news/Playing-for-Free-at-an-Online-Casino.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:48Z", "digest": "sha1:FI6FLWMDAFCJQPRE24P6TBVA5F5AFSJW", "length": 1176, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "online-casino-stop.com", "title": "Playing for Free at an Online Casino", "raw_content": "If you want to play your favorite casino games without risking any money you can do so at online casinos. How is that possible you ask? Online casinos offer free tables as a way for people to test out their software, get familiar with their site and to attract new players.\nIt is very important when you are playing at an online casino to get familiar with the site and free tables are a great way to do this. Most people that play at free tables will eventually want to play for real money. These free tables are great for both the online casino and for the gambler.\nAnother advantage of free games at online casinos is the ability to test systems and strategies. How often have you had a system that you thought would win but had no real way to test it? You can test it for free at online casinos. Once you have tested your theories and strategies at free money tables you can then graduate and play for real money at the same online casino site.\nYou should definitely not underestimate the importance of playing for free at an online casino. Whether you are testing out the software or trying out a new strategy, free tables are a great advantage for you at online casinos.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://online-casinos-uncovered.com/2018/03/20/different-ways-to-play-free-spins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:19Z", "digest": "sha1:RLOXLT5TFLYJO7P4PYUYNXYTM4FLYQEZ", "length": 2199, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "online-casinos-uncovered.com", "title": "Different ways to play Free spins", "raw_content": "Different ways to play Free spins\nIf you have the experience of casino then you must known about the club s that are pro viding the games that are played in the casino clubs. It is not possible that all people are able to enjoy these games as there are very less places in this world that are providing this facility. But there are people that like to play these games but are not able to play due to the expenses that are required for going to these places and staying there in the hotel and the time that they have to provide. But now nothing is impossible until you are having the great source that has made the famous casinos to come live and that is the internet that you are able to play these casino games and that also with very less cash of 10 rupees that you can play.\nNow you are having many new gaming sites for the people that love to play these casino games. People that don\u2019t know the casino games then let me tell them that these are the games that people love to play with the real money and in this you can win the real cash or lose the real cash. This is the real world excitement that you have on the internet. People from all over the world that are playing these games of casino here in these new sites are available on the internet.\nThe main cause that people are playing here in these sites because the benefits that they are getting is lot m ore and also lot more cash they are able to win. The gabblers are getting the free online casino spins in the slot games and the bonuses that are available on the card games that these sites are having. The very first benefit that you are getting is the free account that you can make without paying any single pie. The account t that is very much secure and the transaction that you can have of any kind are within five minutes. There are many other benefits that you will have in these new games of casino online. One of the best thing is that you are getting 5% cash back on each gamer that will lose and this offer is not provided by any other games but this new gaming sites that are having these casino games are having.\nPrevious Post:Getting Started with Online Poker Games\nNext Post:STEPS To Becoming A Pro With Online Poker", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/643/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:31Z", "digest": "sha1:K5776OWDSKBILYTZY4TCSFEASKL2EN2V", "length": 1245, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "openaccess.city.ac.uk", "title": "City Research Online - Developing European indicators of trust in justice", "raw_content": "Developing European indicators of trust in justice\nJackson, J., Bradford, B., Hough, M., Kuha, J., Stares, S., Widdop, S., Fitzgerald, R., Yordanova, M. and Galev, T. (2011). Developing European indicators of trust in justice. European Journal of Criminology, 8(4), pp. 267-285. doi: 10.1177/1477370811411458\nA social indicators approach to trust in justice recognizes that the police and criminal courts need public support and institutional legitimacy if they are to operate effectively and fairly. In order to generate public cooperation and compliance, these institutions must demonstrate to citizens that they are trustworthy and that they possess the authority to govern. In this paper we first outline the conceptual roadmap for a current comparative analysis of trust in justice. We then describe the methodological development process of a 45-item module in Round 5 of the European Social Survey, which fields the core survey indicators. 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The management of the sanctuary lays emphasis on scientific conservation with due consideration to the general lifestyle of the tribals and others who live on the fringes of the forest. To climb the peak, you need to get permits from forest department office at Meppady village. It is a good climb that gives you uninterrupted views of the surroundings from the top.\nThe district headquarters is located at Kalpetta municipality with a population of 29,602 as per 2001 census. It has a few hotels from budget to mid-range. The real attraction is the hill on which the rocks are located. Then the place was ruled by the British for over 100 years. Wayanad is one of the fourteen districts in Kerala and lies between the. Covering an area of 2132 km, with a density of population at 369 people/km within a population of 780,619 people (2001 census Wayanad consists of 3 taluks - Mananthavady, Sulthan Bathery and Vythiri. It is a very famous tourist destination primarily because of its location. 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It comprises a total of 42 rooms of which 6 are suites. It has an entrance hall with 24-hour reception, a hotel safe, a currency exchange facility and lift access. Other facilities on offer include a cosy bar, a caf\u00e9 and a breakfast room. Internet access (charges apply), and laundry and room services are also available.Each of the welcoming, well-equipped and air-conditioned rooms comes with an en suite bathroom, a hairdryer, a direct dial telephone, a satellite/ cable TV and Internet access. A minibar, tea and coffee-making facilities and a hire safe also come as standard. From Charles de Gaulle Airport (Roissy): Take the Roissy RATP bus towards the Opera. From the Opera take metro line 3 to Wagram. From Orly take the AF bus towards Montparnasse and then bus 94 towards Malesherbes Wagram station. Or take the AF Invalides bus from Invalides metro station to St Lazare railway station and take the metro line 3 towards Wagram station. When arriving by car from Roissy: take the A1 to Paris Porte de Clignancourt Periphique West then leave the motorway at Porte d'Asnieres and turn left onto Blvd Maleherbes. Continue until the crossing with Rue Jouffroy d'Abbans then take a left.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 486, "original_length": 13460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pasap.org/PASAP-News/6195889", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:01Z", "digest": "sha1:XGFKTYFSWQTVXTZKBXT4WM6LVYZANAMR", "length": 1831, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "pasap.org", "title": "Pennsylvania Association of Student Assistance Professionals - 13 Reasons Why - Season 2 - Pre-Release Statement & Resources", "raw_content": "13 Reasons Why - Season 2 - Pre-Release Statement & Resources\nTuesday, May 15, 2018 8:41 AM | Terry Kerr (Administrator)\n13 Reasons Why Season 2 Pre-Release Statement & Resources\nStatement from Perri Rosen, Project Director, Garrett Leigh Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Grant\n13 Reasons Why Pre-Release Statement_SAVE.pdf\nAs you may have heard, the second season of Netflix\u2019s 13 Reasons Why is being released this coming Friday, May 18th. Please see the attached pre-release statement by Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE) regarding the series and some general guidelines and resources for educators and families.\nAs stated in the attached document, numerous organizations from around the world have partnered to develop resources for youth, families, educators, clinicians, and the media around the various challenging topics portrayed in the series. These resources are presently being compiled on the following website: https://www.13reasonswhytoolkit.org/.\nPlease note that content is still being added to this site, and the site is expected to be completed later this week. Therefore, while the website (and attached letter) may be helpful for schools as they prepare to communicate with youth, family, and community members about the series, it is not recommended to share these resources with family members until the website is completed later this week. The attached letter providing the website link may also be disseminated widely at that time.\nPerri Rosen, PhD, NCSP | Project Director, Garrett Lee Smith Youth Suicide Prevention Grant\nDepartment of Human Services | Office of Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services\nBureau of Children\u2019s Behavioral Health\nP.O. Box 2675 | Commonwealth Towers | 11th Floor | Harrisburg, PA 17105-2675\nPhone: (717) 772-7858 [office] | (717) 303-4611 [mobile]Fax: (717)-772-7964", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://passivefamilyincome.com/children/how-the-miracle-of-compound-interest-helps-you-and-your-family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:36Z", "digest": "sha1:7JHWP2RTXIFI4YTF37XGDORFNVEE2CWL", "length": 4042, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "passivefamilyincome.com", "title": "How the Miracle of Compound Interest Helps You and Your Family - Passive Family Income", "raw_content": "If you ask people what are some of the greatest discoveries in history, I am sure they will leave one which helps your family off the list. This is a discovery that allows your money to go to work for you. While this sounds like a great thing, the fact that so many people are barely making ends meet nowadays means that they have completely forgotten about compound interest.\nThat\u2019s right, compound interest, that miracle of mathematics which helps your money to grow when it is invested wisely. What makes it so powerful is that you don\u2019t need to be a rocket scientist to figure out how it works. But just in case you aren\u2019t up to speed on compound interest here is some more information on the miracle that it represents and how it helps you and your family.\nAs mentioned, you don\u2019t need to be a rocket scientist to understand compound interest. In fact, it is really, simple \u2013 you place your money in an account and as interest is paid on your money, it grows over time. This means that after the first year you will have the money you placed in the account plus the interest.\nNow, if you keep this money in the account for 10 years, you will have the original deposit plus 10-years of interest. But here is the miracle, the interest is accrued is not just on the original deposit but also the previous years\u2019 interest.\nImagine you put $100 in an account and it paid 5 percent interest every year. After the first year, you would have $105, after the second year the total would grow to $110.25. Fast word to year 10 and you would have nearly $163. That\u2019s a return of 62.8 percent!\nThis is what our grandparents did when they came back from World War II. They scrimped and saved, putting their money in interest-bearing accounts and then let their money go to work for them. Imagine that $100 was $1,000 and instead of keeping it in an account for 10 years, it was invested for 30 years \u2013 the total would be $4,322.\nWhile that might not sound like a lot, but now imagine that you were able to add another $1,000 to the account every year. By the end of 30 years, you would have $70,761 in the account. This is the power of compounding interest as you are almost doubling the $30,000 invested over time.\nHow to Make Compounding Interest Work for You\nFirst, don\u2019t get overwhelmed. Most of us don\u2019t have an extra $1,000 lying around. As such, the first goal should be to either cut back on expenses, find new sources of income, or do both. Perfect sources of additional income include freelancing or to set up a home-based business.\nFor example, you could get set up a business to sell car part. In this way, you could sell any old cars you have or get your hand of the cars of other people. Heck, you might even be able to help me sell my car for parts.\nOnce you have a small nest egg, the next step is to start putting it in an account that will pay a reasonable amount of interest on the money you invest. With that in mind, here are three tips to get the most from your money.\nStart early and keep adding to your account. If possible, you want to make saving a habitand as such, you want to get into the swing of things as early as possible. This means while you are in high school or as soon as you get a job.\nPut as much money as possible away. For some people, this might be only $10 a week, but it doesn\u2019t matter. Put away what you can and let your money go to work for you. As you see saving is all about getting into the habit and as such if all you have is $10, then this is where you want to start. Remember, a penny saved is a penny earned.\nDon\u2019t break in case of emergency. In fact, this is the most important lesson when it comes to getting your money to work for you \u2013 leave it alone. Sure, there will be temptations and there will be times when you really want to use the money in your savings for some extravagance but the reality is that you will need this money when you are retired. As such, let it be and watch it grow.\nThis is how compound interest can work for you and your family.\ncompound interest, family, interest", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 195.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pathfinderfoundation.org/pf-projects/on-going/economic-flash/189-forthcoming-budget-not-an-annual-bargain-sale-of-handouts-but-pronouncement-of-direction-and-priorities-of-economic-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:30Z", "digest": "sha1:6FECIDLV72YD4XG7LS464QUQWRGP574M", "length": 10444, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "pathfinderfoundation.org", "title": "Forthcoming Budget: Not an Annual Bargain Sale of handouts but Pronouncement of Direction and Priorities of Economic Policy", "raw_content": "PF Projects / On Going / Economic Flash / Forthcoming Budget: Not an Annual Bargain Sale of handouts but Pronouncement of Direction and Priorities of Economic Policy\nForthcoming Budget: Not an Annual Bargain Sale of handouts but Pronouncement of Direction and Priorities of Economic Policy\nThe Budget Speech has become a major landmark in the nation\u2019s calendar. It is much more than the government\u2019s income and expenditure statement for the forthcoming fiscal year. It is much more important as an indication of the direction and priorities of government economic policy.\nAs such, a Budget Speech becomes an important determinant of investor confidence, both domestic and foreign. In the modern world, where the domestic and international economic landscapes change very quickly, economic management is a continuous task. It is not uncommon for fiscal measures to be introduced at various times of the year to stabilize or boost the economy.\nCommendable Fiscal Consolidation\nIn recent years, there has been commendable progress made towards fiscal consolidation. Recurrent expenditure as a percent of GDP has been curtailed and the losses of the CEB and CPC have been reduced significantly through courageous but necessary electricity and fuel tariff increases. However, the agenda is still clearly unfinished and this budget provides an opportunity to build on the gains made so far.\nA Challenging Legacy\nIn the lead up to this year\u2019s Budget Speech, it would be useful to take a historical perspective of fiscal performance since the liberalization of the economy in 1977. The budget deficit has been the main source of macroeconomic instability over the last three decades. It has meant that Sri Lanka has tended to be a high fiscal deficit; high inflation; high nominal interest rate; and over-valued/volatile exchange rate economy. This is diametrically opposed to the experience of the successful economies of East and South East Asia which have maintained robust fiscal outcomes; low inflation; low nominal interest rates; and undervalued/stable exchange rates. In East/South East Asia, macroeconomic stability facilitated accelerated development in a way it has not in Sri Lanka.\nSystemic Effects of an Unsustainable Budget Deficit \u2013 Back to Basics\nAn unsustainable budget deficit pumps money into the economy which results in more money chasing the goods and services available in the economy. This has two effects: it raises prices of goods and services (inflation) and draws in additional imports thereby exerting pressure on the balance of payments. It must also be recognized that high inflation is tantamount to an implicit very regressive tax on the poor. The value of the assets that belong to the rich increases with inflation and acts as a hedge against the pernicious impact on them. However, the poor have no such hedge as they own little or no assets.\nHigh inflation, in turn, exerts upward pressure on interest rates. This results in an increase in the cost of financing and acts as a drag on growth.\nIn addition, high inflation differentials between Sri Lanka and its competitors and trading partners result in local exports losing competitiveness as their prices rise faster. As there is a limit to adjusting for this through increased productivity, pressure on the exchange rate becomes inevitable in order to restore competitiveness. However, depreciating the currency is politically very challenging as Sri Lanka\u2019s basic consumption bundle has a high import component (oil, wheat, sugar, milk products, pharmaceuticals, etc) and weakening the currency results in increased prices of these items. Consequently, the exchange rate has tended to be over-valued for much of the time over the last three decades. This is one of the important causal factors explaining Sri Lanka\u2019s inability to replicate the export-led growth successes of East/South East Asia. The consequence has been a significantly weaker growth performance in this country.\nAchievements Despite Structural Budget Deficit\nSri Lanka has experienced a structural deficit in its budget for almost the whole of the post-liberalization era. In every year since 1988, current expenditure has exceeded revenue i.e. Sri Lanka has had to borrow to meet even some of its current expenditure. Such a fiscal framework is fundamentally different from those of the successful Asian countries. One can argue that this is unsurprising due to: (i) an adversarial and highly competitive political system; and (ii) the need to accommodate a high level of defense expenditure over the last 30 years. It is noteworthy that India, with its competitive polity and high defense expenditure due to perceived threats on its Northern borders, is also afflicted with a structural budget deficit. In such a context, it is commendable that recurrent expenditure as a percentage of GDP has been reduced in recent years. However, this improvement has been largely offset by the weak revenue performance.\nThe New Paradigm \u2013 Risks and Opportunities\nSri Lanka has been able to \u201clive beyond its means\u201d over the last 30 years, largely due to generous amounts of foreign aid (grants and highly concessional loans). These inflows have tended to amount to about 5% of GDP and served to fill the structural gap between revenue and expenditure in a less burdensome manner. They also helped to finance the deficit in the current account of the balance of payments on very easy terms. Paradoxically, they have also helped Sri Lanka to postpone making the difficult decisions necessary to achieve a sustainable fiscal framework.\nAs the Pathfinder Foundation has repeatedly mentioned Sri Lanka\u2019s graduation to lower-middle-income country status has introduced a new paradigm for fiscal management. In recent years, the government has been able to substitute foreign commercial borrowing for the declining ODA. However, the headroom to do so has now become limited because of the burden of servicing such debt. This is reflected in the government\u2019s decision not to undertake any foreign commercial borrowing to finance the budget deficit in 2013. Thedecline in the headroom for commercial external borrowing by the government is now being compensated for by encouraging banks and corporates to borrow abroad. This has served to increase the country\u2019s headroom for such borrowing. It is important that this is done prudently on the basis of the strength of the balance sheets of these entities and a rigorous assessment of exchange rate risks. The need for prudence will become even more important going forward as the terms and conditions of international borrowing become tighter with the inevitable tapering of the US Fed\u2019s QE3 programme. In this respect, it is important to recognize that the East Asian crisis commenced due to the unsustainable foreign borrowing of the private banking sector in Thailand and not due to unsustainable sovereign debt.\nIt is important to strive for a significant increase in non-debt creating inflows in the form of exports of goods and services, FDI and portfolio flows into the stock market. This would increase the capacity to fund growth in a more sustainable manner and service the current debt. Fiscal consolidation will be an important prerequisite for creating a conducive enabling environment for sustainable debt management.\nThe priority given to fiscal consolidation in recent years is, therefore, very welcome. It recognizes that the country has shifted to a new paradigm of fiscal management. While there is a full understanding of these issues within the Treasury, there seems to be a major need to raise awareness regarding the new fiscal reality among politicians and the people at large.\nSome Ideas for Consideration\nWidening the Tax Base\nFiscal consolidation can be achieved through a mix of increased revenue, reduced recurrent expenditure and moderated public investment. Sri Lanka\u2019s revenue performance is disappointing by international standards. There is a strong case for widening the tax base and improving tax administration.\nAs mentioned above, recurrent expenditure has been reduced in recent years. 90% of the remaining recurrent expenditure is accounted for by interest payments (35%), public service emoluments (32%) and subsidies and transfers (21%). There is limited flexibility for reducing debt servicing in the short-term and the other two items are extremely sensitive politically. They can only be addressed at the beginning of a political cycle. In the meantime, there is a case for undertaking a rigorous public expenditure review to establish priorities and identify areas where there is scope for cuts.\nPublic-Private Partnership Unit\nGiven the shrinking fiscal space, the current momentum of much needed infrastructure development can only be maintained through increased recourse to PPPs, while protecting public expenditures in key sectors likeeducation and health. There is a strong case for establishing an upgraded PPP unit under the Ministry of Finance. However, it is important to recognize that PPPs are difficult to get right. It will be useful to draw on the experience of countries which already have a track record in this area (e.g. Malaysia).\nExpenditure Rationalization\nThe path of fiscal consolidation already embarked upon by the government and the progress made so far are commendable. However, structural issues remain. These are more likely to be addressed at the beginning of the next political cycle. These include: the size of the public service; better targeting of subsidies and transfers (e.g. the untargeted fertilizer subsidy and Samurdhi payments to 35% of households when the official poverty rate is 6.4%); and SOE reforms (including stock market listing of minority stakes).\nAiming At Key Economic Reforms: Next Political Cycle\nThe challenge of adjusting to a new fiscal framework, in a context of sharply declining ODA and reduced headroom for external commercial borrowing, will inevitably require hard political decisions. However, it is also important to recognize that the budget deficit has been the main source of instability in the system. Without macroeconomic stability, it will not be possible to put the economy on a trajectory of accelerated growth and development. The progress made so far needs to be consolidated and built upon in the forthcoming Budget Speech. 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After a long absence, he returned to vaulting when his oldest daughter started jumping at Shrewsbury High School and they discovered Patriot Pole Vault Club. He is looking forward to setting a new lifetime PR, jumping 13\u20197\u2033 recently, and has been the Indoor National Champion for his age group twice. He started coaching the Shrewsbury High vaulters in 2010. One daughter vaults at Stevens Institute of Technology, the other at Shrewsbury High School.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://philly.ccarnet.org/speakers/cassi-kail/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KWG5KJ3MSVE3XAUSJNFTR6INUADDOCEW", "length": 961, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "philly.ccarnet.org", "title": "Cassi Kail \u00ab CCAR Convention Philadelphia 2015", "raw_content": "Rabbi Cassi Kail was ordained in May 2011. While at Hebrew Union College, she co-founded a vibrant minyan for 20s and 30s called \u201cThe Wandering Jews of Astoria,\u201d and was a coordinator of the HUC soup kitchen. Additionally, she served as Rabbinic Intern for the Rabbinic Cabinet, Student Rabbi at Temple Beth HaSholom in Williamsport, PA, and Temple Israel in Uniontown, PA, and as student chaplain at Jewish Home Lifecare in NYC.\nSince 2011, Rabbi Cassi Kail has been blessed to serve Temple Emanu-El, a 140 family congregation in Utica, NY. She is a board member for Utica\u2019s Jewish Community Center, and in 2014, she was elected co-chair of the Interfaith Coalition of Greater Utica.\nRabbi Kail enjoys hiking, playing guitar, and baking. She lives in New Hartford, NY with her husband Joshua and their children Noam and Talia.\nMishkan HaNefesh in the Small Community Setting Location: Adams Room Date: Wednesday, March 18 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm View session", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 2321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 201.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://phylobotanist.blogspot.com/2018/03/science-spammers-constantly-reaching.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:05Z", "digest": "sha1:SR6GG2QX53ZNSF7JLN7TTAMIKX3ZEVZL", "length": 743, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "phylobotanist.blogspot.com", "title": "PhyloBotanist: Science spammers constantly reaching for new lows", "raw_content": "I received the following two messages on the same day, in fact they were sitting right next to each other in the inbox.\nSurely this is sad. Is there no such thing as taking pride in one's work, even among spammers? Recently some people tried to defraud me, and of course that is annoying, but at least they put a lot of effort into it. I was impressed by how much information they had to accumulate to seem half-convincing. These guys, on the other hand, use such a simplistic bot to produce their mass-emails that it they are immediately recognisable as such.\nReally the only thing sadder than these messages is that my spam filter is apparently still unable to understand that the keyword \"greetings!!!!\" is a certain indicator of spaminess.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 4889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://picpedia.org/highway-signs/r/representative.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:30Z", "digest": "sha1:26CAYQ3NUWVB6VVJLVLKKVXOKTTP34AY", "length": 628, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "picpedia.org", "title": "Representative - Highway Sign image", "raw_content": "Highway Sign Representative Image\nThe picture below related to the word Representative is licensed by R M Media Ltd under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license which permits the free use of the image for any purpose including commercial use and also permits the image to be modified. The image may be redistributed for free under the same Creative Commons license but may not be sold, attribution is a condition of the license, see license details below.\nRepresentative by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images\nTitle: Representative\nOriginal Image: http://www.picpedia.org/highway-signs/r/representative.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://playing.is/playing-is-adding-a-touch-of-yellow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:16Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2QW4IOK37FVTGP2G6LCAWFEGA26UEGX", "length": 2091, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "playing.is", "title": "PLAYING.IS // Adding a touch of yellow - PLAY", "raw_content": "PLAYING.IS // Adding a touch of yellow\nCompanies and processes. One doesn\u2019t go without the other. Without processes it means you don\u2019t know when the product you ordered will be made, ready to be shipped and delivered to your home. The bigger the companies get the more processes are being put in place. People move from meeting room to meeting room, discussing the processes and the processes behind the processes. It seems all very logic if that\u2019s what you do every day, but it does mean that people have to think less and less for themselves.\nAnd then you get to an interesting other phenomenon. The organisation tests companies do. Let\u2019s take DISC, a popular personality test, where people are being put in four boxes. Blue, Red, Yellow and Green. It helps to make teams and departments work better together. Ideally you have all four colours represented in a team. The processes must have been made by the blue people, because they like rules and procedures. If you look at creative companies you will find plenty of yellow and red people and less blue and green, and they probably have never heard of these tests they just want to produce the best work possible and that mostly happens outside any box. That\u2019s why it\u2019s always a challenge to let the blue corporates work with the yellow creative agencies.\nOne of the challenges the blue corporates face is adding more yellow. You can imagine that the yellow people don\u2019t feel at home at blue companies but they are crucial for innovation, for change, for imagination and for rocking the boat. It takes guts for these blue companies to create a habitat where these people feel at home and can do what they are good at without being hold back by processes all the time. You do find companies who have found a balance. A balance between creativity and scrumsessions. Look at the Ubers, Googles and Apples of this world. They have a high level of yellow in their business.\nSo, try adding a touch of yellow and start painting. And see what your canvas will look like.\nFiled Under: Innovation Tagged With: blue, play, playground, scrum, yellow", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://poconosecrets.com/the-everhart-museum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:58Z", "digest": "sha1:5HTBGLLTH35DEDBLKUWM7GWJW43X5HZI", "length": 3723, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "poconosecrets.com", "title": "The Everhart Museum", "raw_content": "Browse: Home \u00bb The Everhart Museum\nContinuing my intention of visiting places that have been on my \u201cto-do/to-go\u201d list, this month brought me to the Everhart Museum in Scranton. Once again, I was pleasantly surprised!\nFrom dinosaurs to birds, photography, history and art, this museum is a precious jewel here in northeast Pennsylvania. The classic modern Renaissance building is located at 1901 Mulberry Street in Nay Aug Park. It was founded in 1908 by Dr. Isaiah Fawkes Everhart, a local medical doctor and skilled taxidermist \u2013 hence the extensive ornithological collection.\nDr Everhart served as a surgeon in The Civil War with the 8th Pennsylvania Calvary and was present at all thirty battles. He was appointed surgeon of the military district in Lynchburg, Virginia. He mustered out in 1865 and traveled extensively through Europe for 3 years. He settled in Scranton in 1867. Married with one son, Edwin Ellsworth Everhart. He died nearly 3 years to day after opening the Everhart Museum in 1911 at the age of 71.\nRobert Lettieri, a Scranton native and long time Arts supporter became the museum\u2019s founding President and first community board chair. He served for three years. R.N. Davis served as Science Curator and in 1921 led a three-month expedition to Panama to collect samples of plant, animal and insects. The expedition was financed by Colonel L.A. Watres, who, if you recall, purchased the property now known as the Lacawac Sanctuary (see Pocono Secrets January 2018).\nIntrigue over the years has not escaped the Everhart. Adele Levy donated Matisse\u2019s \u201cPink Shrimps\u201d to the Everhart in the 1960s. It is acceptable for museums to sell artwork to purchase new pieces that compliment their collection. But it is a major no-no to sell art to cover operating costs. Raising money is the primary job of the executive director. So, in 2001-2002, when then director Bruce Lanning refused an order from the Board of Trustee\u2019s, and sent the Matisse off to Sotheby\u2019s for auction. An action that rightfully cost him his job. The painting was eventually sold, much to the dismay and sadness of many, but the money is kept in a separate endowment for acquisitions and exhibitions.\nA theft on November 17, 2005 is also shrouded in mystery. Two paintings \u2013 Jackson Pollock\u2019s \u201cSprings Winter\u201d and Andy Warhol\u2019s \u201cLe Grand Passion\u201d were stolen in a carefully planned robbery. Investigations by the FBI and Scranton police produced no leads and the paintings were never recovered. After the theft, there began a controversy that the Pollock was a forgery. The Museum stands by the authenticity of the painting. (Note \u2013 The lender of the Pollock has identified the painting as \u201cWinter in Springs\u201d not \u201cSprings Winter\u201d)\nArtist John Kascht with his caricatures of (clockwise from lower left): Jimmy Stewart, Bill Murray, Ricky Gervais, Whoopi Goldberg, Conan O\u2019Brien and Zsa Zsa Gabor.\nPhoto by A. Greg Raymond\nThe second floor gallery is undergoing renovations. But you can still visit, and I encourage you to do so. Two exhibits running February 2 \u2013 May 7, 2018: MAKING FACES: Portraits by John Kascht; a retrospective of drawings and paintings by caricature artist John Kascht, whose irreverent work turns the leisurely pastime of people-watching into an Xtreme sport. And, Leni Levenson Wiener\u2019s PARK BENCH STORIES; unique fabric collages that capture people in various situations, all while sitting on park benches.\nOne of my favorite paintings is Afternoon Tea by Francis Coates Jones. Painted in 1920, I am drawn into the simplicity of the moment yet seems so poignant as the woman looks directly at me (the viewer). I feel she knows me and we share a moment or perhaps, a secret.\n\u2190 Lacawac Sanctuary\nTwo Rivers Marathon \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 4592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pokerbigboss.net/brooklyn-nine-nine-season-5-episode-22-s05e22__22476848", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RJKPQOZAIRA7PAQPN624RW4DWTTMV6DT", "length": 56, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "pokerbigboss.net", "title": "Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 5 Episode 22 s05e22 Watch Online from vidzi.tv 22476848", "raw_content": "Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 5 Episode 22 (s05e22) vidzi.tv", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 333, "original_length": 12376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pop-critica.com/new-man-of-steel-images/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:17Z", "digest": "sha1:LC6F2BRLYGYWPMF4TAGNBUASY4LXXXTP", "length": 653, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "pop-critica.com", "title": "New 'Man of Steel' Images \u00ab Pop Critica | Pop Critica", "raw_content": "New \u2018Man of Steel\u2019 Images\nWarner Bros. has released some higher-res images from Man of Steel. I believe most of these have been seen already, but smaller and lower res. There are some nice shots in the gallery of images, so check them out. We are just a few weeks away from the film opening in theaters now, are you still excited to see it? Man of Steel is written by David S. Goyer and directed by Zack Snyder, starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Russell Crowe, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, and Laurence Fishburne, it opens in theaters on June 14th, 2013. (Source: Nokia, via Collider)\nMovie News Man of Steel, Promo Images., Zack Snyder\t0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 200.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://popdose.com/blu-ray-review-cop-out/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XUUBG72YI6CA7BIP2M6TYM3A2C45ZTFB", "length": 5973, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "popdose.com", "title": "Blu-ray Review: \"Cop Out\"", "raw_content": "Blu-ray Review: \u201cCop Out\u201d\nWritten by Jeff Giles\u2022 July 19, 2010\u2022 Blu-ray Reviews, Film\nKevin Smith is a writer first, director second. Even his most passionate fan would have a hard time arguing the merits of Smith\u2019s directing technique, which mostly consists of filming everything so it looks like a scene from a canceled sitcom. Clerks has a distinctive visual style, but only because it\u2019s in black & white \u2014 and that was only because Smith was too broke to do it any other way.\nThe popular consensus, which Smith has occasionally seemed to agree with, is that he\u2019s been in a bit of a creative funk lately. So it would make sense to have him focus on what he\u2019s best at, right? Maybe write a really sharp script, and hand it over to a director who could knock it out of the park?\nNah. This is Hollywood, where nothing makes sense. Why do things the right way, when you can spend $37 million doing them in reverse? Exhibit A: Cop Out, in which a middling director is handed a shitty script and tries to save it with some brilliant casting. Spoiler alert: No one goes home happy.\nOstensibly a knowing, mildly subversive tribute to the buddy cop flicks of the \u201980s, Cop Out stars Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as Jimmy and Paul, a pair of quibbling NYPD cops whose clear lack of aptitude hasn\u2019t kept them from staying partners for nine years. From the opening scene, you pretty much know what you\u2019re in for: Willis smirks and squints a lot; Morgan says endearingly stupid shit with brain-damaged conviction. Lather, rinse, repeat. Truth be told, it isn\u2019t a bad formula, but the script doesn\u2019t have any interesting ideas; it\u2019s just your garden-variety quips \u2018n\u2019 chases flick, and while it\u2019s impossible to deny that Willis and Morgan are both doing what they do best here, it\u2019s also immediately apparent that you\u2019ve seen them do it in better movies and TV shows.\nPeople were pissed when Warners balked at the original title, A Couple of Dicks, but it turned out well; at least this way, the movie\u2019s title isn\u2019t its cleverest ingredient. That honor goes to the casting of Seann William Scott as Dave, an inept burglar who looks and acts like a grown-up Stifler, right down to stopping to take a dump while robbing someone\u2019s house. (His victim? Curb Your Enthusiasm\u2018s Susie Essman, who pops up long enough to scream a few minutes of profanity. Are you spotting the \u201ccast people to play their best-known characters\u201d theme yet?) When Willis, Morgan, and Scott are together, their steady riffing helps paper over the fact that there isn\u2019t much of a movie here. It isn\u2019t better, necessarily, just juvenile and chaotic enough to force your brain to stop asking questions.\nSmith has argued that Cop Out\u2018s just a comedy, but the problem with his defense is that the movie isn\u2019t very funny. It doesn\u2019t really subvert the buddy-cop genre, and it doesn\u2019t add anything to it. It doesn\u2019t seem to know what it wants to do, other than regurgitate tropes from more entertaining movies. As a film, it\u2019s kind of like that bit from Eddie Murphy\u2019s Delirious where he mocks all the audience members who will take his routines to work the next day, try to share them around the water cooler, and fail miserably. Watching Cop Out is like watching people act out the genre\u2019s greatest bits: Remember that time when that cop acted crazy? And hey, remember that scene where the police chief hauls the detectives into his office, and they act all nonchalant and\u2026yeah, you probably had to be there.\nAll that being said, I have to reiterate that the cast is terrific, and even if no one is being asked to stretch the slightest bit (Kevin Pollak, Rashida Jones, and Guillermo Diaz are a few more familiar faces who pop up to do what they do best), their collective charm goes a long way. It\u2019s no classic, and Harold Faltermeyer\u2019s self-referential score will just leave you wanting to watch Fletch again, but on the whole, Cop Out is an amiable waste of 107 minutes. Put another way: If you go by Rotten Tomatoes\u2019 Tomatometer, this movie is only 11 percent better than The Last Airbender, which seems pretty harsh. It isn\u2019t bad enough that you need to avoid watching it \u2014 you just don\u2019t need to own it.\nWhich is a shame, because once again, Kevin Smith has taken full advantage of Blu-ray technology to deliver a fine batch of added content. The 1080p VC-1 encode is fine, and the DTS-HD 5.1 MA soundtrack is robust, with plenty of dynamic \u2014 but again, this is a Kevin Smith film, so it looks a lot like a big-budget TV show, and neither the picture nor the sound is enough to justify its hi-def existence. What makes it all worthwhile are the special features: Smith hosts a \u201cMaximum Movie Mode\u201d track that ends up nearly doubling the length of the film, adding all kinds of deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes trivia, split screens, split split screens, in-the-frame walk-ons, \u201cwisdom\u201d from Scott\u2019s character, so on and so forth. None of it explains the mystery of why anyone thought it would be a good idea to have Smith direct someone else\u2019s script, but it does add a substantial amount of enjoyment to a film that probably doesn\u2019t deserve the extra effort.\nAdding another level of value to the package is the inclusion of a DVD/digital copy disc in the bundle. At $40 list, that\u2019s still not enough to make it worth buying, but Amazon\u2019s selling Cop Out for roughly half that right now, so Smith completists \u2014 and anyone who\u2019s in desperate, desperate need of a brain-optional evening of entertainment \u2014 may find themselves tempted. Me, I\u2019d rather watch Fletch\u2026but I won\u2019t judge you.\n[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/DeNlbp8gPmo\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]\nTags: Blu-ray Review, Bruce Willis, Cop Out, Jeff Giles, Kevin Smith, Tracy Morgan Last modified: July 19, 2010\nCover Me, Game Sixty-One\nMix Six: \u201cThis and That\u201d\nBlu-ray Review: Dirk Gently\u2019s Holistic Detective Agency Season One\nThe Third Day of Mellowmas: Greatest Mellowmas Hits \u2014 Vergissmeinnicht!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 6282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://presscenter.com/category/countries/uk/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:59Z", "digest": "sha1:JT5T5EXM2PVJED3SVQ4XPPTN4ES3BTUZ", "length": 4296, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "presscenter.com", "title": "UK Archives | Page 2 of 114 | PressCenterPressCenter | Page 2", "raw_content": "Tesco Bank appoints Gerry Mallon as Chief Executive\nGerry will join from Ulster Bank, where he is currently Chief Executive. Prior to Ulster Bank, he was Chief Executive Officer of Danske Bank UK from 2008 to 2016. Gerry has also held senior positions at Bank of Ireland, McKinsey and Co, the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland, and the Northern Ireland Civil Service. Dave Lewis, Chief Executive of Tesco Group PLC, said: \u201cI am delighted that Gerry is joining Tesco to lead Tesco Bank and sit on the Group Executive. He joins Tesco Bank at a time of increasing digital change i...\tRead More \u00bb\nHomes also need to be built to a higher standard, the Committee on Climate Change - the official watchdog - says. The government says the UK is cutting emissions faster than any other G7 nation - and the committee agrees there has been a big shift under Theresa May. However, it says the UK will fall short of its ambitions unless ministers do more to turn pledges into reality. The warning comes less than a week after the prime minister launched a 25-year plan to protect the environment, including eradicating all avoidable plastic waste by 204...\tRead More \u00bb\nJaguar Land Rover to open R&D center for automated tech in Ireland\nJLR said last year that all its new cars would be available in an electric or hybrid version from 2020 and is building its first fully electric model, the I-PACE, in Austria, which will go on sale in 2018.The company said it had selected Shannon, in western Ireland, as it is a globally recognized center of excellence for software engineering talent. \u201cThe new facility provides an exciting opportunity for us to pioneer future autonomous and electrification technologies,\u201d said JLR\u2019s Executive Director of Product Engineering Nick Rogers. \u201dThe...\tRead More \u00bb\nIceland supermarket chain aims to be plastic free by 2023\nPrime Minister Theresa May has called plastic waste \"one of the great environmental scourges of our time\". Iceland says the move will affect more than a thousand own label products. As a first measure, the grocer says new food ranges being launched in February will be packaged using a paper based tray, rather than plastic. \"Iceland's pledge will help cut down the one million tonnes of plastic generated by supermarkets in the UK each year,\" a company spokesman said. \"The process to do this starts now, and Iceland is aiming to complete it w...\tRead More \u00bb\nA nation of knitters: how crafts became Britain\u2019s fastest-growing creative industry\nIn an age of Snapchat, virtual reality headsets and Instagram influencers, you could be forgiven for wondering if knitting, embroidery and pottery were set to die out with their older participants. In fact, the industry is in rude health. According to government statistics, crafts were the fastest growing component of Britain\u2019s heralded creative industries in 2016, up 44pc on 2010 and contributing \u00a3420m of gross value added to the economy. That might be peanuts compared to the music or film industries, but the numbers are going in the rig...\tRead More \u00bb\nUK satellite to make movies from space\nThe demonstrator is expected to pave the way for a series of at least 15 such spacecraft, which will be operated by the Guildford-based company Earth-i. The small, low-cost UK mission was one of 31 payloads riding on the Indian Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle. It lifted off from the Satish Dhawan spaceport in Andhra Pradesh. Controllers made first contact with the UK satellite as planned within a few hours. The spacecraft is a pre-production model. If it performs well over the coming months, its manufacturer, SSTL, also in Guildford, will pro...\tRead More \u00bb\nGoogle quietly buys UK startup Redux that turns surfaces into speakers\nAlphabet\u2019s Google has quietly acquired a UK startup focused on technology that turns surfaces such as phone displays into speakers. Redux developed technology that eliminates the need for small speakers in mobile phones, freeing up space for batteries or other components, the Cambridge based startup said on its now defunct website. 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They are a veteran software company, best known for their Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, but they have also ventured into hardware with consumer products such as the Zune and Xbox. 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Social media started out as a great, positive way for us to draw closer to people that geographically may be far away. But all good things have a bad side, and\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://qalipu.ca/communications/latest-news/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:42Z", "digest": "sha1:2EBMZLYAFVYE6Z3BI7SBJGVBAE647V2T", "length": 1859, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "qalipu.ca", "title": "Latest News \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Qalipu", "raw_content": "Two Seats Saved for Indigenous Students, College of Law program at the University of Saskatchewan\nIn June 2018, the Department of Justice and Public Safety announced that the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador will partner with Indigenous governments and organizations in NL and the University of Saskatchewan to help send Indigenous students from this province to law school. The trilateral partnership will improve access to legal education and create new employment opportunities for members of Indigenous governments and organizations.\nThe University of Saskatchewan has committed to reserve two seats in the College of Law program annually for Indigenous students from Newfoundland and Labrador. The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador will allocate and fund two articling positions with the Department of Justice and Public Safety for those students upon graduation. Indigenous governments and organizations will encourage applicants to apply to law school and fund/identify funding opportunities for educational expenses.\nIn 2019, will we see the first two Indigenous students enter the program under this partnership?\nApplications to the University of Saskatchewan\u2019s law program are being accepted until February 1, 2019. Please click here for more information on admission requirements and deadlines.\nNote: The last LSAT test date for applicants is January 2019!\nPlease help share the word so that Indigenous students have the chance to take advantage of this incredible opportunity.\nIndigenous Arts & Stories Competition\nIndigenous Arts & Stories invites self-identified First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit youth (ages 6 to 29), to submit a piece of writing or artwork exploring Indigenous identity, history or culture.\nKnow someone who should submit? Spread the word!\nWin up to $2000!\nFor more information please visit: http://www.our-story.ca/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 16734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 248.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quicklinks.qlinks.net/2011/02/us-white-house-will-propose-new-digital.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:35Z", "digest": "sha1:DEOKFDVEES7RE7SVOO4ZDLLFDBRIKJGK", "length": 630, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "quicklinks.qlinks.net", "title": "QuickLinks: US - White House will propose new digital copyright laws", "raw_content": "US - White House will propose new digital copyright laws\nThe Obama administration has drafted new proposals to curb Internet piracy and other forms of intellectual property infringement that it says it will send to the U.S. Congress \"in the very near future.\" It's also applauding a controversial copyright treaty known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, saying it will \"aid right-holders and the U.S. government to combat infringement\" once it enters into effect. Those disclosures came from a report by Victoria Espinel, whom President Obama selected as the first intellectual property enforcement coordinator.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 5118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rackpress.blogspot.com/2011/02/get-real-gets-tls-scrutiny.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:18Z", "digest": "sha1:4XGE7N2WM3YH4A56ZCH2KBWEARBSMV4X", "length": 820, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "rackpress.blogspot.com", "title": "Rack Press Poetry: Get Real Gets the TLS Scrutiny", "raw_content": "The second of the four new Rack Press pamphlets for 2011, Get Real!, by Nicholas Murray, a scathing verse broadside against the coalition Government, is mentioned in today's Times Literary Supplement where the diarist \"J.C.\" confesses that: \"So skilfully does he weave his argument through the aabcccb arrangement that it is difficult to quote effectively: the first four stanzas comprise a single sentence, for example.\"\nIn spite of the difficulty, however, he manages to quote some lines and this notoriously stringent, if not acerbic, critic, seems, we think, to like it. If you want to read the whole thing a remedy is at hand: send \u00a34 to Rack Press, The Rack, Kinnerton, Presteigne, Powys LD8 2PF (p&p free). 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Temperatures here frequently run to sub-zero levels and the region is cut off from the rest of the world for more than seven months of the year, lying buried beneath several feet of snow.\nLadakh is a strategically important zone for India, it shares its borders with China in the north and south-east, and Pakistan in the west. These roads are used heavily by the military to ferry supplies to and from its numerous bases that are spread around the region. In recent years Ladakh has also become a tourist hot-spot, famed for it's magnificent mountain views, endless skylines and untouched natural beauty. The roads that lead into this remote mountain region are known to be some of the most extreme driving destinations on the planet.\nUntil the 1960s, mules were the only means of transport to get in and out of Ladakh. In the late 60s the first road between Srinagar and the capital city of Leh was built, and in 1985 the Indian Government set up project Himank - an organization dedicated to the construction and maintenance of road communications in Ladakh, under the Indian Army's civil road engineering department, Border Roads Organization (BRO), which operates a network of over 32,885 kilometres (20,434 mi) of roads. New roads are being built continuously as the State makes its way into remote territories and existing roads are in need of regular maintenance, as there is constant deterioration because of landslides and melting glaciers. Over the years the level of mechanization in the road construction process has slowly increased, however even today most the construction is done through manual labor to a large extent.\nThe building and maintenace of these treacherous roads is a constant battle with exhaustion, an exercise in endurance and a struggle that no man would take on by choice. The air is thin and oxygen levels are extremely low, making manual labour difficult and potentially hazardous. But it is not locals who toil on these roads. Men from some of the most economically disadvantaged districts of West Bengal, Bihar and Jharkhand undertake an arduous journey deep into the mountains to build roads that they will never use. More than 70.000 migrants workers travel ever year, from the eastern plains to altitudes of 12,000-18,000 ft above sea level, to join the BRO and undertake the construction and maintenance of the world\u2019s highest roads.\nIn Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and other smaller states around the eastern plains of India, the climatic conditions combined with poor infrastructure makes year-round agricultural work unsustainable. The small number of non-agricultural jobs available cannot sustain the population of the region in the dry summer months. Successive welfare and employment generating schemes have ended up being mired in corruption and other controversies, forcing many to travel to far flung lands in search of employment, in a desperate bid to send money back home and provide for their large families. The largest percentage of these people find work in construction, usually in hazardous conditions or extreme environments, jobs that locals stay away from.\nMigrant workers in Ladakh live in makeshift camps along the mountain ridges, often more than 40 people crowded into tents measuring approximately 10 square meters.These camps are constantly moving as the road they build advances forward.With temperatures regularly descending to sub-zero levels, the meagre canvas tents prove to be severely inadequate against the chilly Himalayan winds. Many workers are not provided with gear and clothing suitable for these conditions, and the lack of safety equipment and safety standards means that accidents are commonplace. Between 1987 and 2002, a fifteen year period, more than 119 workers have lost their lives and many more have been severely injured. Accident statistics for recent years is not accurate, however from visual evidence it seems that not much has changed in terms of safety and accident prevention.\nA sizeable proportion of the migrant population in Ladakh is under-age. Minors are seen carrying heavy loads or engaged in intense manual labour, in what is perhaps one of the most under-reported child labour issues in the country,\nWorkers living in camps far removed from any human habitation have no means of recreation. Most often, they have to travel miles on foot to the next village to be able to call back home. At the end of their four months of contractual work, the best a seasoned worker can expect to earn is about 350 USD, at approximately 2.5 USD a day.\nForced to live away from their families, these men form a home away from home, taking care of each other in their newly-formed communities. The work is precarious and many perish along the way. The others keep moving along, often coming back year after year, continuing to do so until they find a means to earn closer to home\nConceived and published as a collaborative project with Arko Datto\nThe project can be viewed at - Lighthouse Projects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 5513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 207.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://railroadsillustrated.com/crpa-conversations-2017-preview/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NO4L7BXQGSKXEOGT43FT4IBH2FKP3JWC", "length": 5271, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "railroadsillustrated.com", "title": "CRPA Conversations 2017 Preview - Railroads Illustrated Annual", "raw_content": "Artist Adam Normandin will present his large-format oil and acrylic paintings at Conversations 2017, held at Lake Forest College April 28 through 30. Boundless\u20142015, 48 x 144 in., oil and acrylic on canvas\u2014features New York Central 4-8-2 no. 2931, a class L-2d \u201cMohawk\u201d steam locomotive.\nCRPA Conversations 2017 Preview\nCompiled by Scott Lothes/photos as noted\nFounded in 1997 the Center for Railroad Photography & Art works with photographers, writers, and historians around the world to offer a new and unprecedented view of the railroad\u2019s influence on American culture through the preservation and presentation of art and photography. Since the beginning, the Center\u2019s goal has been to offer high-quality public programs associated with photography and art works in all media. These programs have included successful traveling exhibitions displayed around the country, as well as our own annual creative photography award contest.\nThe annual \u201cConversations\u201d conference sets the pace for discussion about contemporary railroad photography and encourages young photographers to become a part of the community. Conversation 2017 will be held on the campus of Lake Forest College in suburban Lake Forest, Ill., April 28 through 30, 2017. Here is a sampling of some of the work from this year\u2019s presenters.\nNick Fry presents J.J. Young\nThe legendary J.J. Young\u2019s photography is the subject of a new book by Nick Fry, curator of the Barriger National Railroad Library in St. Louis. In this view, Baltimore & Ohio Q-4b Mikado no. 416 is backing a train through Wheeling, W. Va., station trackage onto Seventeenth Street en route to Tunnel no. 1 to do excavating work in 1957.\nDavid Styffe\nUnion Pacific train LOA31R, the Marlboro Local, having worked what remains of the former Tustin Branch returns to Anaheim, Calif. along Santa Ana Street where an ancient Magnetic Flagman continues to provide protection against automobile traffic at Lemon Street, on February 28, 2008.\nJames J. Residorff and Jean Bubley\nThe granger country photographs of Russell Lee and Esther Bubley are the topic of a new book by presenter James J. Reisdorff, who will be joined on stage by Jean Bubley, Esther\u2019s niece. In this 1948 view by Esther Bubley, a Burlington passenger train is arriving at Chicago Union Station in 1948.\nA quarter of Santa Fe RSD15 \u201cAlligator\u201d locomotives, led by no. 825, bring a westbound coal train from York Canyon, N.M., over the summit of California\u2019s Cajon Pass on December 30, 1967. Photographer Alan Miller\u2019s pursuit of trains has taken him all over the world.\nJohn P. Kelly presents Wally Abbey\nTake a ride on the Milwaukee Road\u2019s \u201cBeer Line\u201d through the research of John P. Kelly and the photographs of Wally Abbey. Kelly will be on hand to sell and sign his book Railroads of Milwaukee. In this view from 1951, a Milwaukee Road Fairbanks-Morse diesel switches the Schlitz Brewery. Photograph by Wallace W. Abbey, collection of the Center for Railroad Photography & Art.\nKevin P. Keefe\nThe new book Twelve Twenty-Five: The Life and Times of a Steam Locomotive will be available for sale, and author Kevin P. Keefe will be on hand for signings. An 11\u00d714 print of Jeff Mast\u2019s cover photograph will be the prize for Friday night\u2019s raffle drawing.\nAlexander Benjamin Craghead presents J.B. Jackson\nJ.B. Jackson, a landscape geographer who taught at Harvard and UC Berkeley, had a profound impact on landscapes studies and even railroad photography. Alexander Benjamin Craghead will share Jackson\u2019s work and impact in his presentation, \u201cWhich Way to Look? Railroad Photography After J.B. Jackson.\u201d This slide by Jackson captures his interest in the small town depot, in this case Boston & Maine\u2019s at Wells River, Vt., long after regular passenger service had ended.\nEric Hirsimaki presents Photography at Lima Locomotive Works\nEric Hirsimaki will discuss the art of the locomotive portrait in his presentation, \u201cPhotography at the Lima Locomotive Works.\u201d This view shows the works\u2019 overhead crane in Lima, Ohio, lifting a Louisville & Nashville 2-8-4 steam locomotive in 1949. Photograph by Donald C. Jardine.\nDrayton Blackgrove\nWATCO\u2019s Ann Arbor Railroad GP38-2 no. 3879 in heritage paint at Toledo, Ohio, on July 28, 2015. Photograph by conference presenter Drayton Blackgrove, who turned his passion for railroad videos into a successful business, Delay in Block Productions.\nKatherine Botkin\nKatherine Botkin married a railroad photographer (past conference presenter Bill Botkin) but soon made the pursuit her own, an experience she will share in, \u201cMarrying into Railroad Photography.\u201d This photograph shows Denver & Rio Grande Western no. 3086 leading a freight train over Tennessee Pass at Pando, Colo., on September 20, 1986.\nDan Cupper presents Grif Teller\nGrif Teller (1899-1993) was a renowned painter known for his dramatic portrayals of the Pennsylvania Railroad between 1928 and 1959. This one, from 1932, was titled simply, On Time. 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We make no effort to independently verify, and does not exert editorial control over, information on pages outside of our domain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 251.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rcgibbons.com/books.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:16Z", "digest": "sha1:33WEXKBVGDENPO3ADF5E5NXXI4SO7ERX", "length": 3693, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "rcgibbons.com", "title": "R. C. Gibbons - Books", "raw_content": "The Magical and Mysterious Sea is a collection of poetry with the ocean as it's theme. It explores the feelings we have when we encounter the ocean. Everyone has different reactions to their experiences with the ocean, whether they live beside it everyday, or see it only once in a lifetime, but no matter how many times you experience the ocean, your thoughts or memories will last a lifetime. The ocean is a magical place that is ruled by nothing but wind and water, regardless of how much the human race thinks otherwise.\n\"The ocean is a world where your cares go away,\nand dreams come vividly true.\nWhere the mind can wander for a thousand years,\nlost in the eternal blue.\"\nThe twenty-five poems included in this collection range from contemplative to humorous and light. The Magical and Mysterious Sea is an excellent gift for that person in your life that has lived on or is fascinated by the sea.\nHearts Released is a collection of poetry with love and romance as it's theme. The poems try to articulate the wild range of feelings that we experience when we are in love, whether it is that first love of your youth or the mature love that has developed over the years. Let's face it, love is one of, if not the strongest emotion that we can experience, and often when we do, we do not know if how we are feeling is how others feel or if our feelings are unique to us. Through this book, I hope to shed some light on that question by showing you that there is no definitive way that we are supposed to feel when we are in love. It is different for everyone! There is only one thing that is definite, and that is that some of the things our emotions hand us are totally wild.\n\"Without any hope I am forever lost\nin the web of your enduring charms,\nwith no chance or prayer to escape\nthe confinement of your loving arms.\"\nThe twenty-four poems in this collection range from serious and deep to humorous and light. Hearts Released is an excellent gift book to give to that special person in your life. It is sure to be appreciated for years to come by young and older alike.\nFields For The Mind To Wander is a collection of poetry with the thought and observation as it's theme. It was written to stimulate thought about life and all of life's adventures. Thinking is becoming an endangered activity. As complicated, or maybe simple, as life becomes with all of our technological wonders, we no longer experience the need to think about many things indepth anymore. Most of our thoughts usually evolve around making choices about the limited amount of options that are presented to us, and creative thinking is becoming more and more of an activity that is no longer needed. We really only think within the confines of the box of options that are presented to us, and then move on. It is the intent of this book to remind us of things that maybe we have forgotten about, and then to promote contemplation on them, as well as others, once our imaginative juices start flowing again.\nOf being superior in intellect,\nthat is, a member of the human race,\nI often wonder why we self destruct\nwith every decision we make.\nThe twenty-five poems in this collection range from serious and comtemplative to humorous, but all will leave you with a different perspective after reading them. Fields For The Mind To Wander is an excellent gift book for those who enjoy a light and entertaining read.\nThese are the first three books of the R. C. Gibbons' Poetry Gift Book series published in hardcopy, but there are others that will follow. Be on the lookout for announcements about the release of the next books in the series which will be titled A Day In The Pines, A Flower For You, and Back To Nature.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://realtyprofessionalsinc.com/relocation.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HKTZ3AYYHP6LIK3QK3BJFKAFYLZJDBXV", "length": 1174, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "realtyprofessionalsinc.com", "title": ": : WELCOME TO REALTY PROFESSIONALS INC. : :", "raw_content": "Relocation from one place to another can be a stressful experience. When your moving into a new neighborhood, wouldn't it be great to talk to someone who knows all about the area, from shopping to where the best schools are to parks and recreation, someone who could answer all your questions and make you feel like your at home. You can get exactly that when you talk to one of the agents at Realty Professionals.\nAtlanta Metro is one of the largest and fastest growing areas in the nation. Our agents have the experience and expertise needed to help people settle into their new homes. Realty Professionals is here to help with your relocation, no matter how large or small. We welcome you with open arms.\nIn the following links you will find information about our communities, schools, moving tips and emergency and medical information. 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After all the permutations and combinations we always says a very common statement i.e \u201cI think this is not the right time to the achieve the target\u201d\nNothing is right or wrong in this universe. A particular situation can be right for an individual but the same situation could be wrong for another one, it\u2019s just the way we see our world.\nEverything in this universe is made up of Energy even the human body also. Every human body in fact every cell of a human body vibrates on a certain frequency which is regulated by our thoughts and emotions. Our success rate in our professional and personnel life also depends on the same if our vibrations match up with the universal frequency than this universe starts fulfilling our desires and wishes. It\u2019s like you want to listen to a specific radio station the only thing you need to do is to adjust the frequency of your radio set so that you can listen your favorite songs, same is the case with our success rate, we just need to adjust our frequencies the moment it matches we will get everything. And it is really mandatory to adjust the frequencies than only your dreams can be realized in this physical world. Now the question is how to adjust / enhance our energies so that we can get the desired results in our life.\nEmission of correct vibration / frequency is a result of continuous positive thinking process. Positive thinking generates the positive energies in and around our body which ultimately attracts favorable / positive situations and people in our life. Favorable conditions create happiness and gives satisfaction to our mind, body and soul. An individual should concentrate on the goal rather than the hurdles he is going to face during the journey. Apart from the positive thinking the other ways through which one can easily raise the vibrations are mentioned below.\nThrough Unconditional Love\nAcceptance of Everything\nTo understand these 3 concepts in more deeper way please read the upcoming blogs\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\nCaro\ton March 3, 2016 at 3:18 pm\nReiki Chick has basically said what I would have said so I just want to add that I think pre-programing and prmgaroming mean the same thing. Mostly this is done with clear crystal quartz, it can be programmed to have specific properties that it doesn\u2019t already have. You can program it for healing, manifestation, protection, confidence etc. By nature though, clear quartz is an amplifier so you can channel your intention into the quartz and outwards without it being actually programmed it is just working as a transmitter of your intent. On top of that, there are certain quartz out there that have different properties than regular quartz. A record keeper quartz for example is used for accessing past lives and spiritual information from the cosmos and it is distinguished by a small triangle(s) that you can see on the surface of the face of it. I think charging a crystal may mean something different to different people. To me it is me connecting with the crystal and giving it my energy. I am not prmgaroming it for anything in specific, just charging it. There have been times in the past that I also charged my stones by collecting rain water from thunderstorms and cleansing them with it. Sometimes a cleansing method also works as a charging method at the same time.*edit*As far as the awakening part, I think that they are already awake. We might need to cleanse them because they have absorbed too much and it is preventing their true nature from radiating. I think that someone might mistake their fist time connecting to a stone as waking it up but what is really happening IMO is that they have opened themselves up to the energy of stone. 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(Unpublished)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 195.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://restorativejustice.org/rj-library/the-family-group-conference-10-years-on/2333/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:25Z", "digest": "sha1:WCGV34IHUK5QY2EF55PDEL4TY26XJVHJ", "length": 587, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "restorativejustice.org", "title": "The Family Group Conference-10 Years On | RJ Library | Restorative Justice", "raw_content": "The Family Group Conference-10 Years On\nSource: (1999) Paper presented at the Building Strong Partnerships for Restorative Practices conference, Burlington, Vermont, 5-7 August 1999.\nDoolan, with New Zealand\u2019s Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Agency, outlines the implementation of the Family Group Conference process in New Zealand and covers the key issues which have challenged \u2014 and continue to challenge \u2014 their work in this area.\nPaper presented at the Building Strong Partnerships for Restorative Practices conference, Burlington, Vermont, 5-7 August 1999.\nDoolan, Mike", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 296.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://revistacomunicando.com/poetry/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:59Z", "digest": "sha1:AHT6JK3RKEMLT7F7RERNNDCJHJTFJCPJ", "length": 4696, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "revistacomunicando.com", "title": "Poetry eBooks- Page 3 of 57", "raw_content": "By:Clive Scott\nHow is gender embodied in poetic forms? What kinds of habitation can dramatic verse create for the performing voice? Where in verse are the inflections of the voice's self found? Can the line of verse be 'landscaped' to communicate the modalities of natural perception? Where is the poetry of the prose poem, and how should it be translated? How much authority should the lay-out of a free-verse text have for its translator? Referring t...\nLydia Sigourney: Selected Poetry and Prose\nBy:Gary Kelly, Lydia Sigourney\nLydia Huntley Sigourney (1791\u20131865) was the most widely read and respected pre-Civil War American woman poet in the English-speaking world. In a half-century career, Sigourney produced a wide range of poetry and prose envisaging the United States as a new kind of republic with a unique mission in history, in which women like herself had a central role. This edition contributes to the current recovery of Sigourney and her republican v...\nhe Cambridge Introduction to Robert Frost\nBy:Robert Faggen\nRobert Frost is one of the most popular American poets and remains widely read. His work is deceptively simple, but reveals its complexities upon close reading. This Introduction provides a comprehensive but intensive look at his remarkable oeuvre.\nEmily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them\nBy:Cristanne Miller, Emily Dickinson\nEmily Dickinson\u2019s Poems: As She Preserved Them is a major new edition of Dickinson\u2019s verse intended for the scholar, student, and general reader. It foregrounds the copies of poems that Dickinson retained for herself during her lifetime, in the form she retained them. This is the only edition of Dickinson\u2019s complete poems to distinguish in easy visual form the approximately 1,100 poems she took pains to copy carefully onto folded she...\nJohn Donne and Baroque Allegory\nJohn Donne has been one of the most controversial poets in the history of English literature, his complexity and intellectualism provoking both praise and censure. In this major re-assessment of Donne's poetry, Hugh Grady argues that his work can be newly appreciated in our own era through Walter Benjamin's theory of baroque allegory. Providing close readings of The Anniversaries, The Songs and Sonnets, and selected other lyrics, thi...\nThe Near and Distant God\nBy:Ian Cooper\nPoetry and philosophy - from the time of Kant to the mid-twentieth century - are centrally concerned with the question of how the Spirit - or the Holy Spirit - is present in the world. This book argues that the development of modern poetry in German and English can be seen as a protracted response to the religious crises of post-Idealist thought. The German tradition develops through poets such as Holderlin as much as through philoso...\nBy:Alfred Tennyson, Christopher Ricks\nThis is the only fully annotated and comprehensive selection of Tennyson\u2019s poetry. Acknowledged as a major achievement of editorial scholarship, it has established itself as the standard edition of Tennyson. The collection contains in full all four of Tennyson's long poems: The Princess, In Memoriam, Maud, and Idylls of the King. Other key works are included from Mariana, The Lady of Shallott, Morte d'Arthur, Ulysses, and Tithonus th...\nFaith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief\nBy:Michael D. Hurley\nIn this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers \u2013 William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot \u2013 engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did they believe poetry could say or do that other kinds of language or expression could not? And how might poetry itself operate as a unique mode...\nGeorge Oppen's Poetics of the Commonplace\nBy:Xavier Kalck\nFew poets have been as adamant about the uselessness of their art in the face of history as American poet George Oppen (1908\u20131984), and yet, few poets have been as viscerally convinced of the important role of the poem in restoring meaning to our words. Oppen came to maturity between two world wars, at the time of the Depression, and gave up poetry just when he had embraced it. In the 1960s and 1970s, however, his new work seemed to ...\nOn Biblical Poetry takes a fresh look at the nature of biblical Hebrew poetry beyond its currently best-known feature, parallelism. F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp argues that biblical poetry is in most respects just like any other verse tradition, and therefore biblical poems should be read and interpreted like other poems, using the same critical tools and with the same kinds of guiding assumptions in place. He offers a series of programmatic e...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rimuhc.ca/-/honours-and-awards", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:52Z", "digest": "sha1:A3UH5GVCPHWYGK7FXNQQM5O3MZTIVFSO", "length": 2144, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "rimuhc.ca", "title": "Honours and Awards - Honours and Awards - Research Institute MUHC - RI MUHC", "raw_content": "Honours and Awards - Honours and Awards - Research Institute MUHC\nangle-left Honours and Awards\nCongratulations to each of the following RI-MUHC investigators:\nDr. Alan Barkun, inducted as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.\nDr. Susan Bartlett, recipient of the 2015 Women of Distinction Award, category Education, given by the Women's Y Foundation.\nDr. David Eidelman, inducted as Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.\nDr. David Goltzman, the 2014-2015 recipient of the CP Leblond Award presented by the Network for Oral and Bone Health Research.\nDr. Ronald Gottesman, who received the 2015 Paediatric Chairs of Canada Award for Leadership as a Clinician Educator.\nDr. Edith Hamel, who received the 2014 John J. Day Award of Excellence from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Qu\u00e9bec.\nDr. Madhukar Pai, recipient of the Faculty of Medicine 2015 Haile T. Debas Prize.\nDr. Vassilios Papadopoulos, elected President of the American Society of Andrology for 2015-2016.\nDr. Louise Pilote and her former postdoctoral trainee, Dr. Mitesh Shah, whose paper was designated the winner of this year's Best Paper Award in the category of Clinical Science by the journal, Circulation.\nDr. Constantin Polychronakos, who received the 2015 Paediatric Chairs of Canada Award for Leadership as a Clinician Investigator.\nDr. Barry Posner, recipient of the Canadian Diabetes Association 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award.\nDr. Denis Sasseville, who received the 2015 Practitioner of the Year Award from the Canadian Dermatology Association.\nDr. Charles R. Scriver, recipient of the 2015 Victor A. McKusick Leadership Award from the American Society of Human Genetics.\nDr. Christina Wolfson, named to the McGill Faculty Honour List for Educational Excellence.\nCongratulations are also extended to:\nMr. Fran\u00e7ois Schubert, recently named a Member of the Order of Canada, one of Canada's highest civilian honours. The award recognized his contributions to the advancement of pharmaceutical care in hospital pharmacies and his leadership in this field. Mr. Schubert recently retired from the RI-MUHC Administration.\n-- published August 25, 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 5764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 215.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rinkworks.com/rinkforum/view.cgi?post=111188", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6HUAKLXNHXCEYTVWAQD7OIRTTETJ5363", "length": 194, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rinkworks.com", "title": "Message Forum: Sinbad Comic: Episode 118: A Very Impromptu Recap", "raw_content": "Aaaaaahhhh, I'm so glad the comic is back! Thanks for all the work you put into it!! So excited to finally see where the story goes from here. Especially when Kyra and her father come into it...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://robertsprinting.com/seo-tools-to-improve-content-marketing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:59Z", "digest": "sha1:VOS3F6VJB75E3CQRBK4PEITLHGB3GM2K", "length": 1948, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "robertsprinting.com", "title": "SEO Tools to Improve Content Marketing \u00ab Roberts and Sons Printing", "raw_content": "Home / Marketing / SEO Tools to Improve Content Marketing\nSEO Tools to Improve Content Marketing\nAs more customers turn to the internet as their primary source of finding a new product or service, it\u2019s becoming crucial for businesses to pay attention to their ranking in the search results of major search engines. The best way to do this is to improve your SEO marketing. Here are some of our favorite tools to help you with that.\nThis is a WordPress SEO plugin, allowing you to assign keywords to pages that you write content for. The tool has a number of useful features, but some of the most useful ones are designed to keep you appraised of the most common search terms related to your subject and the keywords that your competitors are using.\nThis tool was originally designed to help websites that generated revenue on a pay-per-click basis, but it can be used by just about anyone. It allows content generators to search for keywords and ad groups related to specific terms. Once the list is generated, it will also tell you the popularity of each search term.\nThis tool allows you to see the popularity of various search terms over a specified period of time. This makes it ideal for websites or businesses that see surges in business during certain times of the year or month. You can even set up an editorial calendar based on the search word trends in order to adjust to the rising and falling popularity of various terms.\nThese tools are just some of the dozens of SEO tools available out there. Don\u2019t be afraid to try different ones as you work to improve your website. As we mentioned, SEO for your website is becoming more and more crucial in the digital age. Nearly 90% of consumers utilize a search engine at least once during their time spent on the internet. It is becoming one of the top ways for potential customers to find your business.\nHave You Established a Marketing Niche?Can I Make Cross Media Marketing Cost Effective?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 221.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://roguevalleystrong.com/diet/my-most-important-nutrition-tip/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MGVR2F3PBKIV6DZMKBZ7Y3NGGAZQIO4T", "length": 7435, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "roguevalleystrong.com", "title": "My Most Important Nutrition Tip | Rogue Valley Fitness", "raw_content": "If I had to narrow it down to just one, what would be my most important nutrition tip for clients? If I had to choose the most powerful piece of advice to improve your health and body composition, it would be to limit the amount of sugar you eat. Say what? Oh no, he\u2019s going to start spouting off about the evils of too much sugar again. You\u2019re darn right I am.\nIf we look at the nutrition section in Barnes and Noble, we can find a wide variety of diet books. There are titles such as The Earth Diet, The \u201cI\u201d Diet, The Starch Solution, The Conscious Cleanse, and The Hot Belly Diet, just to name a few. It can be extremely confusing when one book recommends an approach almost exactly the opposite of another book on the same shelf. It\u2019s 2015 and by gauging what I see on the bookstore shelves, nutrition advice only seems to be getting more confusing.\nI feel like the \u201cso called\u201d nutrition experts can be sorted into two groups. One being the \u201cexercise and eat a reasonable amount of food\u201d group, and the other being the \u201cquality and type of food you eat matters more than the amount, oh and you still should make sure to exercise.\u201d For sake of simplicity, let\u2019s not get into debates about whether to eat meat or not to eat meat. Somewhat recently I blogged about the trends in nutrition and how there seems to be movement back towards group one from the recently popular group two camp. I feel that line of thinking could be a hazardous place for most people to return to. Why do I think this?\nThe majority of people in the world already consume too much sugar. The American Heart Association recommends no more than 9.5 teaspoons per day, while the average adult american takes in upwards of 22 teaspoons per day. Which is roughly 88 grams of sugar a day and 130 pounds a year. As you can see. we love our sweet treats here in America. It\u2019s not just the sweet treats. Sugar finds its way into many food products, often in the form of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). There was a campaign a few years ago that marketed HFCS as a natural substance derived from corn. It\u2019s natural, so how could it be bad right? Heavy fructose consumption can lead to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Foie gras is a fatty liver of a duck or goose as a result of being force fed corn. Many processed foods contain HFCS.\nSo it\u2019s pretty obvious that we want to avoid any heavy consumption of sugary treats and processed foods, but there may be one other type of food you aren\u2019t factoring into your total sugar intake, and that is grains. In the book, \u201cStrong Medicine\u201d by Chris Hardy D.O. MPH and Marty Gallagher, they make the following key point in the nutrition section. \u201cNote that bagels, bread, pasta, and other processed starchy foods are really just fiber and large collections of glucose.\u201d The average serving of whole wheat bread rates a 71 on the glycemic index (glucose is 100) and has a glycemic load (an estimate of how much a food will raise blood sugar after eating it) of 9. For comparison, a serving of regular ice cream ranks 57 on the glycemic index and has a glycemic load of 6. Wait a second, ice cream is lower on the glycemic index and in the glycemic load than whole wheat bread? However, which one are people more concerned about limiting? Ice cream, that\u2019s right. The glycemic numbers for foods can be found on the Harvard Health Publications website.\nI challenge you to look at grains differently. Let\u2019s not even get into the debate here on gluten intolerance and insensitivity, and save that for another time and place. I want to look at it from the standpoint of sugar. As the glycemic numbers above show, a serving of whole wheat bread can strongly affect our blood sugar. In many cases, people may recognize that they should limit consumption of sugary foods, but yet they don\u2019t recognize that grains and other starchy foods can have a similar impact. Often times people who are avoiding desserts, are including bread at every meal and snack. This is the part where people will think I have lost my mind.\nThink of grains and other starchy foods as treats, and not staples in the diet. I\u2019ll either have some ice cream this weekend or maybe a couple of pieces of bread with my meal. With both sugary treats and grains/starchy foods, I\u2019m not saying we have to give them up forever, just recognize what their heavy consumption can do us harm, and limit them. I think many people will see improvements in both their health and weight/body composition.\nI am in the process of reading \u201cBetter Than Before: Mastering the Habits of Our Everyday Lives\u201d by Gretchen Rubin. In one chapter of the book she mentions that some people do better with abstaining from things while others do better with using moderation. It just depends on the person. Of course, there will be people who use combinations of these strategies for success, abstaining from some things and moderating others. I find that with certain foods, it works best for me to abstain. Figure out what works best for you. Sometimes we think we are good at moderation but if we are not achieving our health and body goals, we may be underestimating our intake of these foods.\nI think people are often concerned that their fiber intake will be too low if they are not consuming whole grains, but as we can see from this list from the Mayo Clinic, vegetables and fruits can provide plenty of fiber. If you eat a lot of grains, I recommend reducing your intake of them and upping your intake of fruits and vegetables, mostly vegetables. Here are a few more tips to reduce your intake of grains.\nTurn a sandwich or burger into a lettuce wrap. Butter lettuce and romaine works best for this, and help keep all the contents in place. I just look at it as an opportunity to get some more green vegetables in my diet.\nAny sandwich can be converted to a salad. The contents of a sandwich will make great toppings for a salad or you can make a burger bowl.\nWhen dining out where bread is the complementary appetizer, tell your server to skip it. Then you don\u2019t have to exercise your willpower with it sitting in front of you.\nIf you really want a sandwich with bread, serve it open face. At least you\u2019ll be cutting the bread consumption in half.\nThere you have it, for better health and body composition, omit or limit/reduce your intake of sugary treats/snacks and grains/starchy foods. In one of my talks with a client who has had a very successful weight loss journey by reducing their carbohydrate intake and is also in the medical field, we came to the conclusion that there are two different nutrition strategies that will be helpful for those that suffer from health problems or being overweight. One is to reduce their intake of sugary treats. Two is to reduce their intake of grains and starchy foods. It becomes apparent which food strategy will be most powerful by looking at a person\u2019s food journal. There is power in keeping a food journal.\nI know it\u2019s not cool to tell people that they should limit these things, but in all the experience I have had in working with clients over the last 11 years, all the reading I have done, and the different studies I have looked at, it\u2019s a no brainer. So you can label me crazy, a charlatan, or whatever else for encouraging to put down that piece of bread and eat less treats, but my goal is to help people reach their body composition goals and better health, and this is my most important nutrition tip.\n\u2190 Building Great Habits", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 8467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rss.ubabenefits.com/tabid/2835/Default.aspx?art=8UGA%2FYP3vC8%3D&mfid=XecEv5Wrckw%3D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:51Z", "digest": "sha1:5UP7EATFUM4J7GHTK3GB52B5YBBPYQXS", "length": 1604, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "rss.ubabenefits.com", "title": "United Benefit Advisors > Home > News Article", "raw_content": "Agencies Issue Proposed Rules and Plans\nOctober was a busy month in the employee benefits world. President Trump announced a new Acting Secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Eric Hargan fills the position vacated by Tom Price, who resigned in late September 2017. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a proposed rule to delay a disability claims procedure regulation's applicability date and HHS released its proposed rule on benefits and payment parameters for 2019. The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued its Priority Guidance Plan for projects it intends to complete during the first half of 2018.\nDOL Proposes Delay to Final Disability Claims Procedures Regulations' Applicability Date\nThe DOL issued a proposed rule to delay the applicability date of its final rule that amends the claims procedure requirements applicable to ERISA-covered employee benefit plans that provide disability benefits. The DOL's Fact Sheet contains a summary of the final rule's requirements.\nThe DOL is delaying the applicability date from January 1, 2018, to April 1, 2018, to consider whether to rescind, modify, or retain the regulations and to give the public an additional opportunity to submit comments and data concerning the final rule's potential impact.\nCMS usually finalizes the Benefit Payment and Parameters rule in the first quarter of the year following the proposed rule's release. November 27, 2017, is the due date for public comments on the proposed rule.\nRegulations regarding the excise tax on high cost employer-provided coverage (\"Cadillac tax\")", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 194.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rss.ubabenefits.com/tabid/2835/Default.aspx?art=vsDSilKbhd4%3D&mfid=vT756G1W85U%3D", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:21Z", "digest": "sha1:YOCHN7TUVG5CCIQN45H3OTMED3KYMPSG", "length": 1734, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "rss.ubabenefits.com", "title": "United Benefit Advisors > Home > News Article", "raw_content": "Sign Here ... and Here ... and Here ...\nIf anyone has ever had to sign a contract of any kind, then they know how often it requires a signature - often on multiple pages. In the hiring and onboarding process, this means that valuable time and money are wasted waiting on those signed documents. Enter the electronic signature.\nObviously, technology companies are leading the way in using electronic signatures to increase hiring efficiency. However, other industries are starting to realize the time and money they could save when recruiting talent.\nIn an article titled, Electronic Signatures Gaining Ground In Hiring, Onboarding Process, in Employee Benefit News, it referenced that a wide range of companies are using electronic signatures, including those in higher education, financial services, and health care.\nThere are many reasons why companies are embracing this emerging technology. For one, top talent doesn't stay in the job market for long. If a company is still using a fax, or worse, an overnight envelope to shuttle hiring documents from the candidate to the company, then a faster competitor could move in during the hiring process and lure this potential employee away with a more lucrative offer. Another reason is that in addition to the extra time the old methods take, they also cost companies money in terms of personnel needed to process the back and forth of these documents. While hiring may not be the primary goal for the need to be more efficient, any task that requires a signed document can probably be done faster and cheaper with an electronic signature.\nAs companies are looking to become more operationally efficient, electronic signatures are a great way to ease the burden of needless paperwork.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 2029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rsss.cass.anu.edu.au/news/bahar-davary-reflects-work-best-selling-iranian-poet-sohrab-sepehri", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:42Z", "digest": "sha1:WQ5VC53QJWUKXPE3EMAZHZY5GODD5OZ4", "length": 2182, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "rsss.cass.anu.edu.au", "title": "Bahar Davary reflects on the work of the best-selling Iranian poet, Sohrab Sepehri | ANU Research School of Social Sciences", "raw_content": "\u00bb News \u00bb Bahar Davary reflects on the work of the best-selling Iranian poet, Sohrab Sepehri\nBahar Davary reflects on the work of the best-selling Iranian poet, Sohrab Sepehri\nBahar Davary presented a paper entitled 'Sohrab Sepehri: A Muslim-Zen eco-critic' at the CAIS conference - Three Languages - Three Cultures: Narratives from the Middle East on Thursday, 22 November.\nReflecting on the poetry of the best-selling contemporary Iranian poet, Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980), this paper discusses the notion of the responsibility of the poet in regards to issues of justice and dissent, positioning the debate in the context of Plato\u2019s critique of poetry, and of poets. The paper will discuss Sepehri\u2019s mindfulness of nature, and his attention to the divine-human-animal-plant-mineral connectedness, and to maintenance of harmonious relationship.\nFor Sepehri, the harmony in nature bears a sacrality that unmistakably points to the Transcendence. He is a modernist, and a modern mystic, rooted in Islamic contemplative tradition, influenced by Rumi; and touched by eastern traditions (such as Zen, Advaita Vedanta, and Taoism). This paper elaborates on particular selections of his Hasht Ketab, namely, \u2018seday-e pa-ye ab\u2019; Water\u2019s Footfall, and a collection entitled \u2018hajme sabz\u2019; the Green Immense, in order to contextualise his work as a lyrical ecocritic, avant lettre.\nBahar Davary is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego, and the affiliate faculty for the Kroc School for Peace 2016/2017. She received her PhD. from the Catholic University of America in Catholic Theological Tradition and Muslim-Christian Dialogue. She teaches courses on World Religion; Islamic Faith and Practice; Islam, Women, and Literature. Her research interests and published work are focused on Women in interpretations of the Qur\u2019an, Muslim-Christian Dialogue, and Islam and ecology. Her book Women and the Qur\u2019an: An Islamic Hermeneutic (2009) examines classical interpretations of the Qur\u2019an, focusing on the development, continuity, and change in the portrayal of woman and the ways in which the commentaries affect the self-perception of Muslim women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://saiaustin.org/downloads-htm/sample-page/sri-venkateswara-temple/temple-tapasya-program/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:43Z", "digest": "sha1:CVRNKMYJH4OPKHE6R722KLNSKVYUK5YT", "length": 3539, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "saiaustin.org", "title": "Sri Shirdi Sai Baba Temple of Austin \u2013 Temple Tapasya Program", "raw_content": "Temple Tapasya Program\nTo increase the speed of the Temple construction, the Temple Tapasya Programis starting. Many people think that all it takes is money and organization to build a temple. But what is really needed is the Grace of God. Even with good intentions, money, and organization, without the Grace of God, no Temple can be built.\nIn the puranas, it is recorded that the children of King Sagar were burnt to ashes due to their harassment of Rishi Kapila. King Sagar was told the children could get liberation and be revived if the water of the holy Ganges washed over their ashes. He went to the Himalayas and performed tapas (austerity) to bring the Ganges down from heaven. However, his tapas was not enough, and he died before his goal was achieved. His son, and his son, and so on all went to Himalayas and performed great tapas to bring Ganges down from heaven. It was not until his great great grandson King Bhagiratha did tapas that the Ganges finally descended to Earth. It is said that anything can be achieved through tapas.\nToday, we read about the great feats of tapasya performed thousands of years ago with either astonishment or disbelief. How could someone survive only on leaves or air? Or stand on one leg for six months? We cannot do this type of tapasya. Still, in the present Kali age, it is said that even a little tapasya for us is so difficult that it brings immense benefits.\nTo hasten construction and opening of the new Temple, every well wisher is invited to perform tapas over the next year. The purpose of the tapas is to attract the Grace of God. We can\u2019t go to the Himalayas, or stand on one leg for a month, but here are some vows we can take in order to get God\u2019s grace:\n-Give up a favorite food\n-Read one chapter or more of Sai Satcharitra each day\n-Give up TV, newspapers, magazines\n-Sleep on floor\n-Perform a certain number of Surya Namaskars every day\n-Perform so much meditation every day\n-Do so much japa (prayer \u2013 recitation of mantras) each day\n-Fast one day a week, or half a day each week\n-Give up any bad habit\n-Take up any good habit\n-Visit Temple weekly\nThe whole Veda is about sacrifice. The saints tell us the purpose of life is Atma Jnana \u2013 knowledge of the Self. This physical body is sure to perish. Holding onto the body and physical, family, and emotional attachments is like firmly grasping a sinking ship. Those who are wise give up attachment to the senses and get attached to the Atma, the Supreme Self, the light within, Truth itself. Tapasya leads to Atma Jnana. Even for the purely selfish reason of getting our own Atma Jnana, tapas is the royal road. By performing tapas for the Temple, one is doing a great service to oneself and the community.\nHow to perform: Make a conscious vow: \u201cLord, I will do XXXX tapasya until new Temple is built with your idol there. This is my vow.\u201d Of course, like any goal, do your best, and try to choose a form of tapas which is difficult (a sacrifice for you) but also achievable.\nIf you\u2019d like to share your vow for tapasya with us, it would make us happy, but it is not necessary \u2013 it is between you and God. Even if you do tapasya for one day, everyone benefits. My own vow is to, while in Austin, perform Ganapati havan every morning for one year, and also to give up TV, Movies, Newspapers and Magazines until the Sri Venkateswara Temple is built. The collective tapasya of so many devotees will surely bring the grace of God!\nIf you have any questions about the Temple Tapasya Program, please feel free to contact us anytime.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sailing.agyra.com/2011/05/installing-thru-hull-skin-fitting.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:28Z", "digest": "sha1:RQU5CIK3NWYXIMXEPAROGBGSF6VOCS3S", "length": 3554, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "sailing.agyra.com", "title": "boat|afloat: Installing a thru-hull (skin-fitting)", "raw_content": "Since I'm just idling at home, I thought it would be a good idea to provide some DIY advise. There are much better places to find out how to install a thru-hull (skin fitting) but I'll just go through the way I did it.\nI didn't really need to replace the thru-hull but just the gate valve which looked a bit dodgy. A ball valve is much better, particularly for engine cooling water intake as it is very easy to see if it's open or closed. However, the gate valve was stuck on the thru-hull. Because of my poor tool-set and a mediocre skill-set and imagination I could not figure out some way to separate the two. So I decided to replace the whole thing. That way, I would also make sure that the new thru-hull would be up for the job (hopefully).\nInitially, I chipped away at the backing block of the thru-hull. That way I would be able to pull it a bit further out under the hull, enough to cut it with an angle grinder. Unfortunately I have no angle-grinder ( I know...what's a man without an angle grinder?) so I had to borrow one from the boatyard. It was then a piece of cake to cut it off. (I won't mention my desperate attempt to cut it with my bosch multitool).\nOnce that was done I started working on a new backing block for the new thru-hull. Some people recommend a GRP backing block but I wasn't prepared to go into so much hassle just to save my life (OK, joking, I just don't think it's necessary if you do a good installation). So I cut a square piece of some leftover 12mm marine ply (I'm running out of that but hopefully will not need any more of it soon). I then cut a hole (about 19mm) in the centre of the block (well, to be honest it wasn't exactly in the centre but nevermind that) and then covered the whole thing with 3 or 4 layers of epoxy (letting each layer cure for about 1 hour before applying the next one). The hole should be a little bit wider than the threads of the skin fitting otherwise the epoxy layer may be compromised if the threads of the fitting dig in the block. It took a bit of trial and error before I got this right, but in the end the thru-hull could pass through the block with little contact.\nAfter that I covered the hull side of the thru-hull with a thick layer of Sikaflex 291 and shoved it through the hull (the hole in the hull was already there remember, but if you open a new hole then it's another story).. I was alone so I had nobody to push it from the outside while I went inside to install the backing block but no harm done as the Sika kept it in place. I considered epoxy gluing the block to the hull but thought I better not in case I need to replace again in the future. So I just put another layer of Sika291 on the hull side of the backing block and pushed it over the threads of the thru-hull which now protruded through the hull. I pushed it down as hard as I could so that it made a good contact with the hull and the excess Sika was squeezed out. I then repeated the same with the flange (Sika291 on the hull side) and screwed it on the thru-hull initially by hand and then, when it was quite tight using a wrench, until I heard the block suffering under the pressure :) I took off the excess Sika around all fittings and distributed well around the block-hull surface and flange-block surface. And that was it. Now you can tell me I messed it up and I'll live in fear of drowning every time I sail.. I will post some pictures soon so that you can admire the craftsmanship!\nNice - but I'm worried about cutting the bottom of the hull when I cut off the old through hull fitting....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sbr.soc.srcf.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TJWHGBX4FRWFLMPGDX4XVITBMWO773EW", "length": 143, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sbr.soc.srcf.net", "title": "Samuel Butler Room \u2013 The graduate society of St Johns College", "raw_content": "The Samuel Butler Room is the graduate society of St John\u2019s College, Cambridge. Find all the information you need by following the links below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 94.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scarsdale10583.com/about-joomla/the-project/6754-17-minute-walk-out-planned-at-shs-to-honor-17-lost-in-parkland", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:28Z", "digest": "sha1:AGKDPGXZX5AD3PUEXEFDE4A3T6HHC5UJ", "length": 3219, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "scarsdale10583.com", "title": "17 Minute \"Walk-Out\" Planned at SHS to Honor 17 Lost in Parkland", "raw_content": "You are here: Home Content Good Work 17 Minute \"Walk-Out\" Planned at SHS to Honor 17 Lost in Parkland\n17 Minute \"Walk-Out\" Planned at SHS to Honor 17 Lost in Parkland\nDerek Moritz\nThe tragic shooting at the Parkland High School has empowered thousands of students across the country to march against gun violence and remember the victims of the tragedy. Many Scarsdale High School students have expressed interest in marching to show solidarity in their support against gun violence. Currently, a student government-sponsored \"walk-out\" is scheduled to take place in the middle of the school day at 10:00 AM on March 14th. During this time, students can opt to leave their classrooms and walk-out for a total of 17 minutes to honor the 17 deaths in the Parkland shooting. Teachers who have classes during the walk-out will remain in their classrooms.\nSneha Day a senior at SHS who is an organizer of the march, says \"The walkout will both show our solidarity with students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and protest Congress's lack of action in passing gun reform and/or mental health laws since the Sandy Hook shooting. Walking out demands change from Congress to keep us safe in the place we learn everyday\"\nMany students believe the march is critical to solving the nationwide epidemic of gun violence. Young Democrat member Jack Greenspan has praised the march, stating \"The march will bring attention to the issue of gun violence, a problem that plagues schools and communities from all over the country. We need to find a solution, whether it be gun control, mental health reform, or anything in between. However, the first step to creating a solution is by opening up a discussion on the issue, and this is what we hope to do by marching\".\nWhile the majority of students have voiced support for the cause and the march, some SHS students have voiced concern due to its political nature. The national march has been marketed as a march for gun control, a belief held by many, but not all SHS students. The President of the Young Republicans club Luka Masic has voiced concerns about what marching might mean as a conservative. \"The National Walkout is an explicitly anti-gun and partisan demonstration....a walkout that coincides with the national one and is sanctioned by the administration is one that is incredibly divisive. It forces students to pick a side and likely face judgement from their peers based on their decisions\".\nPrincipal Bonamo has acknowledged this issue, stating in an email to students and parents \"We must be careful not to support any specific political messages as an institution\", however conservatives are still wary of the underlying political tone.\nSarina Fard, a sophomore at SHS, supports the walk-out but cautioned that students ought to be open minded on the issue. \"To make a difference in this upcoming walk-out for gun violence and to win people's hearts and minds, it is critical that we don't judge them and be hostile toward them\".\nAt the minimum, the march does allow a platform for dialogue between the two sides on how to address the issue of gun violence. Hopefully, common ground can be found to find the best solution to end the needless violence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 371, "original_length": 14127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sceducationlottery.com/educationwins/county.aspx?county=Jasper&__ncforminfo=8z5PSOG6k2GaV2q4bnJvvSNnNpWbWAdUcJv0emCzTFwn7AVirpJn7y6bf9qu8gEJiT7EURTWqprE3PlYkv8kHkx-ZjaSxta2r_xO19RcNyc=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:50Z", "digest": "sha1:JKMNHVG3XVRUH2PM3FQELMR6XMPU7DUG", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sceducationlottery.com", "title": "South Carolina Education Lottery - County Distribution", "raw_content": "JASPER $6,774,553 4,432 $5,559,731 $293,976", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 132.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5802/r-samples.full", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:15Z", "digest": "sha1:KGTTK63AXMXXMMKOSLGRA3PN6HNA4FFF", "length": 4757, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "science.sciencemag.org", "title": "Random Samples | Science", "raw_content": "NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, last week revealed this dazzling image that combines data from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, its infrared-seeing cousin. It's an in-depth view of the Orion Nebula centered on the Trapezium, the four massive stars at its heart.\nThe raw data for the image were a series of numbers indicating where on the electromagnetic spectrum the light occurs. Spitzer astrophysicist Robert Hurt and his colleagues shifted the infrared wavelengths detected by Spitzer into the channels of the visible spectrum, making shorter wavelengths bluer and longer ones redder. The blues and greens in the image are from Hubble's ultraviolet and visible-light data; they show heated and ionized hydrogen and sulfur gas. The reds, oranges, and yellows are from organic molecules sensed by Spitzer. \u201cThe public is still bothered by the term \u2018false color,\u2019 as if there's something not quite kosher about it,\u201d says Hurt. \u201cThe colors are real; they're just beyond the perception of the human eye because they're outside the visible spectrum.\u201d\nFISHY MISSING LINK?\nThe capture last month of a dolphin with a pair of rarely seen hind fins has electrified marine mammal researchers worldwide. \u201cThis gives us a peek at what these animals might have looked like tens of millions of years ago,\u201d says Seiji Ohsumi, a marine mammal specialist at the Tokyo-based Institute for Cetacean Research. The find, netted by Japanese dolphin hunters, may bolster theories that marine mammals returned to the sea after adapting to life on land.\nCREDIT: TAIJI WHALE MUSEUM\nHans Thewissen, a cetacean evolution expert at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine in Rootstown, says that such limbs are rare and have previously been sighted only on dead animals: \u201cIt's a monster in some respects, but it is exciting as we've all thought the genetic programming [for such limbs] is there but switched off.\u201d Dolphin embryos have hind limbs that ordinarily disappear before birth. He says the living specimen provides unique opportunities for experiments that might help clarify evolutionary processes.\nOhsumi is collaborating with the Taiji Whale Museum in Japan on further research with the animal, which is currently in a netted enclosure in Taiji Bay, about 400 kilometers west of Tokyo.\nTALES FROM THE OUTHOUSE\nEvidence for an ancient latrine in Qumran, a settlement on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea in Israel, has bolstered the idea that Qumran was occupied by the Essenes, a strict, all-male Jewish sect linked to the Dead Sea Scrolls.\nSome years ago James Tabor, a scholar of early Christianity at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, spotted what appeared to be the remains of ancient toilet stalls behind a bluff about 1000 meters northwest of the Qumran camp. Recent soil samples turned up intestinal parasites specific to humans.\nThe find supports the notion that the Essenes did in fact inhabit Qumran from around 150 B.C.E. to 70 C.E., Tabor reports in the forthcoming issue of the journal Revue de Qumran. The men apparently followed toiletry practices prescribed in the scrolls, which included placement of latrines out of sight of camp and burial of feces.\nAlleged latrine is behind rocks at upper left. CREDIT: JOE ZIAS\nThe latrine may also help explain why more than 90% of the men interred in a Qumran graveyard died before age 40. Burial of feces meant that intestinal parasites survived rather than being dried up in the sun, says Tabor. The men evidently tracked the pathogens into a pool they were required to immerse themselves in on returning to camp. \u201cIn effect, the pool becomes a toxic waste pool,\u201d he says.\n\u201cThere is a great deal of debate among scholars about how [Qumran] functioned and who lived there,\u201d says historian Joan Branham of Providence College in Rhode Island. \u201cThe discovery of a possible latrine could be an important piece of the overall puzzle.\u201d\nNETWATCH: Cancer Gene Cache\nThe first project to share cancer-promoting genes found by scanning the entire human genome has posted its initial results. The Cancer Genetic Markers of Susceptibility program, sponsored by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, evaluated DNA samples from some 1100 prostate cancer patients and an equal number of healthy men. Researchers tested more than 300,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to determine which ones boost the risk for the cancer. The data, released on 19 October, include the association values for each SNP. Scientists can break down the results to discover, say, how common a particular DNA variation is among patients with fast-spreading tumors. A whole-genome analysis of breast cancer genes will follow early next year.\ncaintegrator.nci.nih.gov/cgems", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 7935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scienews.com/auto/2433-des-masques-de-la-technologie-de-missiles-ouvrent-rodsterom-de-grandes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:23Z", "digest": "sha1:YLF3D4VSVJQMPC5EVFG7IQF2FJSHXH3N", "length": 2419, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "scienews.com", "title": "Scientists have found a way to rid the brain of unwanted thoughts", "raw_content": "Many people suffer from the oppressive consciousness of thoughts, worried about work, family, relationship problems and many other things. Sometimes depression or post-traumatic stress disorder is so spoil the quality of human life, this leads to very sad consequences. How wonderful it would be, I think, if the pill is able to suppress unwanted thoughts, spoiling the mood and distracting from the truly useful things. Scientists from Cambridge, it seems, approached the solution of this problem.\nThe Solution, according to the researchers, lies in the particular substance, recently discovered in the brain and is able to suppress such negative thoughts. A team of scientists headed by Professor Michael Anderson and Dr Taylor Schmitz spent on the group of subjects experiment under the plain name \"Thinking/Not thinking.\" He meant the memorization of the experimental series unrelated to each other words. Then they were asked to recall the words by showing them only the first word in the chain. However, people should remember the remaining words only when they showed him the word written in green letters. If the letters were red, he had to try to suppress my memories about the rest of the words.\nUsing functional magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectrography, the scientists carefully monitored the brain activity and brain chemistry of the subjects. It was noted that an important role in the suppression of thoughts plays the prefrontal cortex \u2013 the so-called \"command center\" of the human brain. But the most interesting discovery was the impact on the process of a chemical known as gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). It is the main inhibitory neurotransmitter of the brain, when GABA is released by one nerve cell, it suppresses activity in the other cells linked to it.\nThe Discovery is particularly important because for the first time opened to them the truth about how there is the suppression of thoughts in the human brain. In particular, the concentration of GABA in the hippocampus (actively participating in the process ) allows scientists to predict how effective the subject can suppress memories. In other words, scientists close to unraveling the mysteries of how science of the future will be able to cure humanity from unwanted thoughts, worries and depressions. The research results were published in the journal .\nStudyMedicineScienceBrainNeurobiologyMemorythe Human brain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 6397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 203.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scomedy.com/quotes/365", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JHZP3NWBCE52P4QB3QJAXVUFGYW6J66K", "length": 112, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "scomedy.com", "title": "George Carlin: Most people with low self-esteem have earned it. | SComedy", "raw_content": "George Carlin: Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.\nMost people with low self-esteem have earned it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 2729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 92.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scores.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nhl/preview.asp?g=2019021122&home=22&vis=18", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UPWZGMAF7NEJG35PHHUZED4J5G6SD5ZB", "length": 5065, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "scores.nbcsportsphiladelphia.com", "title": "NHL Game Preview - Sharks v Canucks | NBC Sports Philadelphia", "raw_content": "San Jose has won five straight, outscoring its opponents, 23-14, in those games. Since January 1, the Sharks are averaging 4.20 goals, most in the NHL.\nThe Canucks have earned points in six of their last seven home games. They have only one power-play goal in 18 opportunities in those games, but have killed 21 of 23 penalties in those games.\nSan Jose shut out Vancouver on November 23, 4-0. The Sharks have won 10 of their last 11 games against the Canucks, outscoring them 43-17 and holding them to one or zero goals in eight of those games.\nKevin Labanc recorded his first career hat trick against the Oilers on Saturday. He is the second player to score a hat trick in Canada on \"Hockey Day in Canada\" (which began in 2000). The other was Ottawa's Jason Spezza on February 9, 2008.\nElias Pettersson is up to 50 points (25g, 25a) in 45 games this season with two assists against Calgary on Saturday. He is the fastest skater to 25 goals and 25 assists in his career since Alex Ovechkin reached both in 41 games on January 10, 2006.\nThe Sharks have allowed six goals in their last three road games after allowing 24 goals in their previous four road games. They are averaging 3.67 goals on the road compared to 2.38 at home, the third largest difference (1.29) in the NHL.\nKevin Labanc is not just a call-up anymore.\nThe San Jose Sharks winger is heading into Monday's road game against Vancouver fresh off his first NHL hat trick. He now has 36 points in the season and his days of being shuttled between the minors and the NHL appear to be over.\nHe is also playing a top-six forward role on a line with Logan Couture.\n\"We had some good conversations with (Labanc),\" San Jose coach Peter DeBoer told reporters. \"This is the last 30 games of the year and you have to show that you can contribute and be trusted in critical times as we head to the playoffs. I think he's trying to prove a point.\"\nA key point: The 23-year-old Brooklyn, N.Y., native has become a regular in the world's top hockey circuit. This season marks the first time in three pro campaigns that he has not spent any time with the Sharks' AHL farm club, which also is based in San Jose.\nMore importantly, he is helping the Sharks look like a serious Stanley Cup contender. They have won five straight games, including Saturday's decision in Edmonton, where Labanc had his memorable three-goal night.\nBut Labanc, who is well on the way to shattering the 40 points he produced in 77 games last season, is not taking his success for granted.\n\"I've gotta show that I'm doing everything that I can to be here,\" he told reporters.\nMeanwhile, Evander Kane is also showing well as he heads into Sunday's game in his hometown. He furnished a goal and an assist in Edmonton and now has 13 markers since New Year's Day, ranking among the league's top scorers in the 2019 portion of the schedule.\n\"He's been fantastic,\" said DeBoer.\nZack MacEwen has been doing quite well with Vancouver's AHL farm team in Utica, N.Y., too. As a result, he was promoted to the Canucks on the weekend and could make his NHL debut against the Sharks.\nThe unheralded 22-year-old, a native of Charlottetown, located in Canada's smallest province of Prince Edward Island, has a career-high 17 goals and 25 assists with the Utica Comets. Not bad, considering that he was never drafted by an NHL club.\nMacEwen's callup could be timely for the Canucks, who always struggle to find consistent secondary scoring and are battling for a playoff spot -- contrary to early-season expectations. He had his first four-point night as a professional Saturday as Utica beat Rochester.\n\"You want to move on to the next level,\" he told the Observer-Dispatch newspaper. \"It has been a dream of mine to play in the NHL. (Canucks management) have a plan for me and I'm sticking to that. It's going well right now, so just keep my nose to the grind and keep going.\"\nAt 6-foot-4 and 212 pounds, MacEwen fits the profile of a typical power forward. Utica coach Trent Cull suggested that the second-year pro has earned his chance with the Canucks.\n\"He's been very much a pro,\" Cull told the Observer-Dispatch. \"The work that he put in during the summer has changed his body. He's done a great job. He's hungry to learn. He's a very coachable young man. But he's doing a lot of hard work behind the scenes. He's doing a better job at (defensive) zone coverage at all times. ... He's a big, strong guy. When he protects pucks, he's a tough guy to play against.\"\nMacEwen was called up to fill in for veteran winger Sven Baertschi, who has been sidelined with post-concussion syndrome stemming from a previous head injury that sidelined him for 30 games earlier this season.\n\"It's not a new concussion,\" Green told reporters Saturday before the Canucks edged the Calgary Flames 4-3 in a shootout. \"He just wasn't feeling right.\"\nAlthough Baertschi took some hard hits in Denver recently, a specific play did not appear to reproduce his former symptoms.\n\"We're going to give him some time off,\" he said. \"(He's) probably going to be out for a little bit.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 6208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 164.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://search.wi.gov/cpp/help/urlstatusgo.html?url=https://winstondodger.com/video/976272d2e2ee", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:32Z", "digest": "sha1:UV5AIYEPNVNXNSL3LCGNXSYCJFF4N5NL", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "search.wi.gov", "title": "URL Status", "raw_content": "https://winstondodger.com/video/976272d2e2ee", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://secretariat-policies.info.yorku.ca/policies/disruptive-andor-harassing-behaviour-in-academic-situations-senate-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2O7CSD3MVG4YIXXPVEEFEH4FYRYGIRJO", "length": 3297, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "secretariat-policies.info.yorku.ca", "title": "Disruptive and/or Harassing Behaviour in Academic Situations, Senate Policy on | Secretariat Policies", "raw_content": "Disruptive and/or Harassing Behaviour in Academic Situations, Senate Policy on\nThis policy and procedures were established as a result of a report by a Senate Executive Working Group established in March, 2005 to review relevant Senate policies in the context of balancing academic integrity and the avoidance of disruption of academic activities with principles of freedom of assembly and freedom of expression. New text was proposed to address disruptions outside of a classroom or other spaces in which teaching and learning take place which are sufficiently intrusive to compromise a class or other academic activities.\nApproved by Senate, October 26, 2006.\nSenate affirms that no individual or group of individuals shall cause by action, threat or otherwise, a disturbance that obstructs any academic activity organized by the university or its units.\nYork is committed to policies that support the teaching and learning of controversial subject matter. Students and instructors are, however, expected to maintain a teaching and learning environment that is physically safe and conducive to effective teaching and learning for all concerned, and to be civil and respectful at all times within the learning environment, including within classrooms, laboratories, libraries, study halls and other places where academic activities are conducted and in areas proximate to those where academic activities are taking place.\nIt shall be the responsibility of the course director or other supervisor to determine the appropriate academic response and follow-up resulting from a disruption.\nIf activities cannot continue because of a disruption within or in the vicinity of a classroom or other area where academic activities are conducted, course directors or other supervisors shall determine the appropriate immediate response. Bearing in mind the safety and security of all individuals, instructors shall take such steps as the following:\nrequesting that the disruption stop;\nbriefly suspending activities;\ncalling campus security.\nCourse directors or other supervisors shall inform the Associate Dean of their Faculty and chair of the applicable unit of any incident which has disrupted academic activities.\nThese principles and guidelines are intended to be remedial, rather than punitive, in nature. To the extent possible, disruptive behaviour should be addressed through mediation rather than adversarial procedures. However, depending on the behaviour, all members of the York community have recourse to University regulations (such as the Student Code of Conduct), the Criminal Code of Canada or other federal, provincial and municipal statutes.\nAcademic Response to a Disruption\nIf a course director or other supervisor determines that academic activities cannot continue, they shall determine an appropriate academic response. This may involve remediation (such as booking additional class time) or other academic accommodations (such as providing access to lecture notes, altering assignments or rescheduling tests). As in the case of other situations in which academic activities have been disrupted, responses to incidents of disruptive or harassing behaviour shall be based on the principles of:\na) academic integrity of the activity;\nb) fairness to students;\nc) timely communication.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sf.ilghub.org/flash-market-to-pay-100000-to-settle-eeoc-sexual-harassment-and-retaliation-lawsuit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4BQOVKVLSZK5F6WFUA4ZEDZRNKCI6AXT", "length": 630, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sf.ilghub.org", "title": "Flash Market to Pay $100,000 to Settle EEOC Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit \u2013 South Florida Industry Liaison Group", "raw_content": "Flash Market to Pay $100,000 to Settle EEOC Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit\nFlash Market, Inc., owner and operator of convenience store gas stations in the Mid-South under the Citgo, Phillips, Conoco and Shell brands, has agreed to pay $100,000 and furnish other relief to settle a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.\nPrevious Previous post: Maryland Insurance Administration to Pay $36,802 to Settle EEOC Equal Pay Act Suit\nNext Next post: EEOC Sues Day & Zimmermann and M2 Services for Pregnancy Discrimination", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sf.metblogs.com/tag/ecology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:18Z", "digest": "sha1:WKEK2NFAK7FVU5SQYSER3D736QPQQXB2", "length": 1455, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "sf.metblogs.com", "title": "San Francisco Metblogs \u00bb Ecology", "raw_content": "The Unforeseen Screening in SF\nIn what looks to be an amazing film, The Unforeseen, we get a look at a battle between a storied Austin developer and a community that finds itself on the brink of losing one of it\u2019s long held treasures. Imho it\u2019s not development that is the enemy, it\u2019s the nature of the way things are developed today. The capitalists version of development is essentially the oldest get rich quick schemes our society has ever known, and it\u2019s this brand of short term thinking that clashes with a newfound american values of heritage and stewardship.\nAn ambitious west Texas farm boy with grandiose plans tires of living at the mercy of nature and sets out to find a life with more control. He heads to Austin where he becomes a real estate developer and skillfully capitalizes on the growth of this 1970s boomtown. At the peak of his powers, he transforms 4,000 acres of pristine Hill Country into one of the state\u2019s largest and fastest selling subdivisions. When the development threatens a local treasure, a fragile limestone aquifer and a naturally spring-fed swimming hole, the community fights back. In the conflict that ensues, we see in miniature a struggle that today plays out in communities across the country.\nScreening at the Red Vic Movie House, 5/18/08 \u2013 5/19/08.\nTags: Activism, Community, Development, Ecology, Heritage, Unforeseen\nPosted in Art, Development, Film, Haight | Comments Off on The Unforeseen Screening in SF", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sideshowfreaks.blogspot.com/2010/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:49Z", "digest": "sha1:4P5U54OA4DWFOY67IA4ADKSMCWAC3HWI", "length": 12548, "nlines": 69, "source_domain": "sideshowfreaks.blogspot.com", "title": "Side-Show Freaks: December 2010", "raw_content": "LOCUS Reviews\u2014Vicksburg Dead Recommended\nThe American\u2014Bruce Worden\nMiracle on Massachusetts Avenue\nSympathy of a Gun\u2014Gary Kloster\nIGMS issue #20\nInterGalactic Medicine Show - issue #20 - coming s...\nIssue #20\u2014Intergalactic Medicine Show\nSideshow Arcade: No FATE But What You Make\nLois Tilton reviews IGMS #20.\nSome she liked, some she didn\u2019t; some she liked at first, and some she liked all the way through.\nSpecial recognition to Jens Rushing for her story, \u2018The Vicksburg Dead.\u2019\nLike many stories, The American grew out of a collection of ideas. It began with the concept of a singularity, but I wanted to use the concept in a new way. At some point I read that the United States spends more on its military than all other countries in the world combined. That may be an exaggeration, but it is certainly true that the U.S. accounts for a strikingly disproportionate fraction of the world\u2019s defense spending. From this observation came the idea that the paranoid preoccupation with security, when carried to its logical conclusion, might result in a limitless appetite for information and an obsessive commitment to secrecy. In other words, it might result in a State that is both expansionist and closed \u2013 the characteristics of a black hole. The idea for The American was born.\nSomeone once said that good science fiction stories take place at the edge of ideas, where the ordinary meets the extraordinary. So I began to wonder what would happen at the \u201cevent horizon,\u201d the area where regular people came in contact with the looming but unknowable force personified by the Americans. How would ordinary people react? With denial? Resignation? Violence? The American is a story about how one woman reacts. She is confronted with something unimaginably more powerful than herself - something that, from her point of view, might as well be a god. In classical mythology, Zeus often took the form of animals for his liaisons on earth. From this came the idea that the eponymous American in the story might assume the form of a stag, a creature that is powerful, solitary, and mythical.\nOnce the pieces were in place, the first draft of the story came out fairly easily. Then the work began. Easy birth, rough childhood. While most of the major elements remain in the final version, I rewrote the story several times over a period of months, at one point cutting its length by 25% (a painful experience), before submitting to IGMS. But I think the rewrites made it a better story, and with some helpful suggestions from IGMS editor Edmund Schubert, this final version says what I wanted to say. I hope you enjoy it.\n--Bruce Worden\nBoth sides of my family lived in Cambridge, MA on the river side of Massachusetts Avenue from 1866 to 1958 - all of them from the British Isles. When I was born, my family had moved farther out to the suburbs of Boston, but still only a few blocks \u201coff the Ave.\u201d That street, which meanders from Central Mass through Cambridge and across the Charles River to Boston was a big part of my life.\nWhen I was old enough, my mother let me walk the few blocks to Mass. Ave. by myself, and I haunted the local library, bought every issue of every comic that had Superman on the cover and spent most Saturdays at the movie theater with my little sister. I loved a good story.\nMaybe, it was because being lucky enough to live in the same household as my Irish immigrant great grandmother, I heard a few.\nSome scared me enough to pull the covers over my head and at the same time, thrill me with the delicious details of the Banshee, the Death Coach, the three knocks and the fairies of all shapes and sizes. She swore they were all true.\nYears later, my mother Patricia, was diagnosed with cancer and I spent many a day driving her to Boston for treatments. She had the gift of gab, and at my prompting, she regaled me with hours of stories about our family. I had recently become interested in genealogy and was trying to fill in the family history.\nOne of the stories was about the day her great grandmother died. Sadly, it was on the birthday that she finally received a long wanted pair of new roller skates. She was ten years old.\nA few years after my mother\u2019s death, I thought I\u2019d pay tribute to her and our Great Grandmothers\u2019 stories, tying the historical in with the fantastical in, \u201cMiracle on Massachusetts Avenue\u201d.\n--Maureen Power\nSo the question usually goes, where did you get the idea for this story? Sympathy of a Gun started out as a story that was all about ideas. I wrote about the problems I had with most alien invasion stories, the relationship that existed in my head between AI's and animal domestication, and why space travel actually kind of sucks. Very Important Ideas went into this story.\nThe first draft ended up being really long and boring.\nThat's the thing with ideas. They may be the critical skeleton of any story, but those bones are dry when they're bare. They need to be shrouded in the flesh and blood of conflict and character. Without drama, without soap opera, an idea is an essay, not a story. So the question shouldn't be, where did I get the idea for this story? The question should be, what made the ideas in this story work?\nEmily. The main character.\nBitter and smart, terrified and pissed. She's confrontational, demanding, a troublemaker. One of those people who seem to exist just to argue. That's what made this story work. Before she popped into my head, all those ideas were just lying there, useless. Boring.\nUntil Emily barged in and gave those ideas meaning. She might be a made up person, but I hope that you can see her when you read the story. Because if you do, if you can know her and understand her for a little bit, then the story, and all of its ideas, work.\nNow available, issue #20 of Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, featuring:\nFeatured Stories -\nThe Never, Never Wizard of Apalachicola - by Jason Sanford\nSympathy of a Gun - by Gary Kloster\nThe American - by Bruce Worden\nThe Vicksburg Dead - by Jens Rushing\nBeneath the Shadow of the Dragon - by Erin Cashier\nHoliday Bonuses -\nThe Wisemen - by Orson Scott Card\nMiracle on Massachusetts Avenue - by Maureen Power\nAudio Story - Beneath the Shadow of the Dragon\nPlus - Darrell Schweitzer's interview with Ellen Datlow\nInterGalactic Medicine Show - issue #20 - coming soon\nComing next week, issue #20 of Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, featuring:\nIssue #20 should be out some time early next week\u2014and let me tell you, I am excited. Some of the best short fiction I\u2019ve read in a while will appear in our ever-loving virtual pages. From a sci-fi reimagining of the Christmas Story (by Orson Scott Card, no less), to the effects of a transhuman singularity on a small Polish farm, this issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show is chock-a-block full of speculative goodness.\nThe systems I\u2019ve reviewed previously are all what are called d20 systems: the chief randomization mechanic relies on rolling a dice with 20 sides. OF COURSE there are different systems; Top Secret, which I mentioned in my first foray on this line of thinking uses a system based on a ten sided die. Damage amounts are handled by other dice: 8 sided, 4 sided, even the rare 12 sided dice, or 2-sided (we call those \u201ccoins\u201d in my world.)\nThe FATE system eschews the exotically sided dice for its system. Nothing more is needed than four normal, six-sided dice.\nBut WAIT! cry the purveyors of fine plastic gaming effluvia. What about merchandising? What about aesthetic value? What about the sheer pleasure of hearing seven or eight dodecahedrons spill out of your palms to tumble across a table?\nThere\u2019s some merit in that argument, but I think that a game should be more than just the dice you\u2019re rolling. If you\u2019re intent on buying specialized dice, I\u2019ll note that FATE dice are available at your local retailer, or for order online.\nIn other gaming systems, there\u2019s a target number (we\u2019ll use Difficulty Rating (DR) here) to hit in order to accomplish something. For example, jumping across a chasm might have a DR of 20. Generally, you\u2019d use your Jump skill to oppose the DR; roll a 20 sided die, add your Jump skill modifier, and if you succeed, you cross; if you fail you drop.\nFate\u2019s system is similar, but instead of a target number it uses a ladder of adjectives: Abysmal to Legendary. Envision it like this:\nLegendary (+6)\nEpic (+5)\nG00d (+2)\nMediocre (-1)\nPoor (-2)\nMiserable (-3)\nAbysmal (-4)\nThe adjective describes the difficulty of the challenge. Using the previous example, jumping over that chasm is going to take an Epic effort; your skill at Jumping is Fair. Roll the dice! For every 5 or 6, climb one step up the ladder. For every 1 or 2, move down the ladder. 3s and 4s don\u2019t provide a bonus or a penalty. You\u2019ve only got four dice, so in order to jump the chasm successfully, you\u2019ll need to roll all 5s and 6s. Not an easy feat\u2026\nAnother way that the Fate system differs from d20 systems is in the way that characters are created. Instead of choosing race, class, rolling attributes, etc., you tell the character\u2019s back story in phases. With each phase, you choose skills that the character acquires during that period of his life.\nHere\u2019s the thing: with Fate, there are no set system-defined skills. You make them up as you tell the character\u2019s story. As your campaign progresses, it\u2019s up to you to decide how a skill fits a particular challenge, and how to justify its use to your Game Master.\nUsing the Jump example above: Ed\u2019s character, Milan, doesn\u2019t have the Jump skill, but he does have a skill called Acrobatic. It\u2019s not a huge stretch to see that the two skills may be related; the GM allows Milan to jump the chasm using his Acrobatic skill.\nCharacters may have between 5-8 phases of creation; it\u2019s up to the GM to decide. In addition to choosing skills, players choose aspects for their characters. An Aspect is an element to describe the character. Things like Ugly as Sin, Dapper, Greedy, or Salt-of-the-Earth. Long-standing enemies can be taken as Aspects; so can places. The number of aspects per phase is up to the GM.\nThe point of Aspects is to use them to either get a reroll, or to change one die to a 5 or 6. So: poor Milan didn\u2019t quite roll well enough to make that jump; he\u2019s one step away from the Epic effort needed to clear the chasm. Ed decides to invoke Milan\u2019s aspect, Circus Freak, and explains that Milan\u2019s legs are powerful from being conditioned during his time as Kangaroo Boy in Barney and Bumley\u2019s Big Top. The GM decides to allow it; Ed changes one 3 to a 6, and sighs in satisfaction as Milan makes it safely to the other side of the chasm.\nNote that Aspects can also be used against characters. While Circus Freak may serve Milan well when he has to jump over chasms, it\u2019s a detriment when he\u2019s trying to convince Horatio Stalwart that he\u2019s a serious and viable contender for entry into the League of Super Secret Financiers. The GM can invoke Circus Freak to force Milan to do something ridiculous and inappropriate\u2014like smash a banana cream-pie into his own face in order to \u201cimpress\u201d Stalwart.\nOf course, when the GM does that, the character gets a Fate Point\u2026\nFate points can be used simply to give a bonus to any roll a player makes, hiking them up a single step on the ladder. More powerfully, they can be used to gain an amount of narrative control over the story. Locked in a jail, and need a hairpin to try to pick the lock? Spend a fate point, and you\u2019ll find a hairpin beneath the pallet of straw in the corner. Exploring a run-down mansion? Spend a fate point, and you find a secret door that leads to the basement, bypassing the locked door\u2026\nThe way fate points can be used\u2014especially in conjunction with Aspects\u2014is varied. Their use largely depends on the way your GM wants to adjudicate the game. But it\u2019s a powerful and thrilling concept.\nI currently play a version of Fate called Spirit of the Century. As a writer, I *love* its focus on story, and the ability of the players to drive the narrative. The Fate system is flexible, but a bit nebulous at times; it\u2019s obvious that it\u2019s not quite as polished as other systems. (For good reason: the Fate system is free.) It\u2019s power comes from pushing most of the rule-making onto the GM and Players; you need the right type of group for that configuration to work.\nFor what it\u2019s worth, in my group there are two people who\u2019ve never played an RPG before, ever; three people who have played RPGs but never a Fate-based system. Only the GM has played Fate before. 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Although the sales department aims to sell signaling and advertisement products, we make it our priority to focus on the needs, purchasing cost savings and safety of our customers.\nOur quality products meet the standards of the Quebec Department of Transportation (MTQ) and they can also be modified according to our clients needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sineadodonnell.com/events/sinead/belfast-open-studios", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UAMH66QBW7QQOYMNJZYA2FCU43OK5ZFB", "length": 843, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "sineadodonnell.com", "title": "Belfast Open Studios | Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Donnell ///", "raw_content": "Flax Art Studios, 44-46 Corporation St, Belfast, County Antrim, BT1 3DE.\nSin\u00e9ad O'Donnell is an associate member of Flax Art Studios. You can visit Sin\u00e9ad's studio between the 22nd - 26th of October 2014. As part of the 'Belfast Open Studios' programme.\nBelfast is a city of artists; painting, drawing, performing, filming and creating.\nBehind closed doors, in nooks and crannies of the city, artists are at work developing the seeds of ideas that result in artworks often shown in galleries, museums and art centres nationally and internationally.\nBelfast is a vibrant, creative city with hundreds of artists working in studios across the centre. Now for the first time as part of the Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen\u2019s visual arts programme, the public are being given the opportunity to get an intimate look inside these creative hubs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 195.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://skeltonincleveland.com/WarI.1.WalkerP.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:07Z", "digest": "sha1:CHWRRPGXLC5AMLEILXUHS6RXROONSCPM", "length": 1557, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "skeltonincleveland.com", "title": "HISTORY OF SKELTON IN CLEVELAND", "raw_content": "38178 Private PARKER WALKER.\nKilled in action, age 31, on the 19th of April 1917.\nBorn at Skelton in Cleveland. Enlisted at Brotton, N Yorks.\nSon of John and Eliza Walker, of 3 East Terrace, Skelton-in-Cleveland, N Yorks.\nRailway Dugouts Burial Ground, Ypres, Belgium.\n1901. Parker Walker, aged 15, is living at 2 Woods Yard, Skelton, where he was born.\nHis father, John, aged 37, works as an Ironstone Miner. He was born at Cropton, N Yorks.\nHis mother, Eliza, aged 37, was born in Skelton. By 1911 she has had 7 children and all are living.\nParker had three younger sisters at this time - Sarah 13, Ethel 12 and Alice 4.\n1911. Parker, now 25, is an Ironstone Miner. 4 more children have arrived - John 8, George 6, William 4 and Earnest 2.\nThe 9th Battalion was attached to the 69th Brigade of the 23rd Division.\nParker's Medal Card shows that he was not awarded the 1914/15 Star and therefore did not join his Battalion in France until 1916 or later.\nIt is not know what action he may have been involved in prior to his death in April 1917.\nThe 23rd Division had taken part in the Battles of the Somme in 1916 and the next year was moved up to Ypres.\nThe Third Battle of Ypres would start in June 1917.\nParker Walker was killed in the day to day defence of the trenches of the Ypres Salient.\nThe Front shown on the map in June 1917 had changed little since June 1915, but was always a scene of constant attrition.\nMEMORIAL:- Railway Dugouts Burial Ground is located 2 kilometres to the South East of Ypres and has nearly 2,500 burials from the First War.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://slsnavigator.law.stanford.edu/node/2247/645,83?course_type=53", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRFVW5X6QANDB5TKM2JYZ56PHIEL4NSJ", "length": 410, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "slsnavigator.law.stanford.edu", "title": "LAW Employment Discrimination | SLS Navigator", "raw_content": "[ Regulatory & Policy ] as a Related Elective for those interested in Employment Law : Some firms represent school districts or teachers' unions in their contract negotiations. School district attorneys may also be involved in these issues to some extent. Students interested in labor-management relations will want to get a solid grounding in employment and labor law by taking 1 or more classes in this area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 330, "original_length": 12826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://smooth-jazz.de/Woodrow/Terakubo/NewYorkAttitude.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SDDJJ326VWVAROGEBN4H2BAUTCUYM6YU", "length": 1506, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "smooth-jazz.de", "title": "Erena Terakubo with Legends - New York Attitude", "raw_content": "The cover photograph shows the artist, alone on a stool, after cleanup of a quaint jazz club. An appropriate image for New York Attitude (Four Quarters Entertainment, 2012), by Erena Terakubo with Legends.\nTerakubo, barely 20 years old, releases her debut in North America, supported by a veterans Kenny Barron on piano, Ron Carter on bass and Lee Pearson on drums. Trumpeter Dominic Farinacci appears on a few tracks.\nBorn in Sapporo, Japan, in 1992, Terakubo began learning the alto saxophone at age 9 and later attended jazz workshops led by the likes of Herbie Hancock and Tiger Okoshi. Her first recording, Nightbird, was with King Records, a major Japanese label. The recording featured heavy hitters Barron and bassist Christian McBride.\nThe group smokes from the outset with the riveting title song. Terakubo sizzles on the alto, with plenty of fire provided by her bandmates. About three and a half minutes into it, Pearson shows his chops.\nTerakubo and company continue to thrill with a cover of \u201cOne for You,\u201d written by one of her heroes, Sadao Watanabe. Barron and Carter get to stretch out a bit. For her part, Terakubo plays in a style that\u2019s mindful of Kenny Garrett, among others.\nThe artist penned two of the 10 tracks, with Barron contributing two others. Among the classics are Wayne Shorter\u2019s \u201cOriental Folksong,\u201d Bronislaw Kaper\u2019s \u201cInvitation\u201d and John W. 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Soybean, Oat Stocks Up Double Digits from Last Year", "raw_content": "S.D. Soybean, Oat Stocks Up Double Digits from Last Year\nSouth Dakota corn stocks in all positions on December 1, 2018 totaled 650 million bushels, down 2 percent from 2017, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service. Of the total, 460 million bushels are stored on farms, up 8 percent from a year ago. Off-farm stocks, at 190 million bushels, are down 20 percent from last year.\nSoybeans stored in all positions totaled 222 million bushels, up 32 percent from last year. Onfarm stocks of 110 million bushels are up 59 percent from a year ago, while off-farm stocks, at 112 million bushels, are up 12 percent from 2017.\nAll wheat stored in all positions totaled 68.3 million bushels, up 4 percent from a year ago. Onfarm stocks of 28.0 million bushels are up 6 percent from 2017, and off-farm stocks of 40.3 million bushels are up 3 percent from last year.\nSorghum off-farm stocks totaled 3.77 million bushels.\nOats stocks totaled 5.17 million bushels, up 31 percent from last year. On-farm stocks, at 3.80 million bushels, are up 58 percent from a year ago, while off-farm stocks, at 1.37 million bushels, are down 11 percent from 2017.\nBarley off-farm stocks of 3,000 bushels are unchanged from a year ago. On-farm stocks totaled 190,0000 bushels.\nHay stocks on South Dakota farms totaled 5.35 million tons on December 1, 2018, up 4 percent from a year earlier.\nGrain storage capacity in South Dakota totaled 1.16 billion bushels, up 35 million bushels from December 1, 2017. Total grain storage capacity is comprised of 730 million bushels of on-farm storage, up 20 million from last year, and 425 million bushels of off-farm storage, up 15 million bushels from 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sparksheet.com/the-business-of-multiplatform-qa-with-m-scott-havens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XP6GROREZKOD5SOJ2LJVWD3JSHTNG4RR", "length": 7662, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "sparksheet.com", "title": "The Business of Multiplatform: Q&A with M. Scott Havens - Sparksheet", "raw_content": "The Business of Multiplatform: Q&A with M. Scott Havens\nM. Scott Havens, former president of The Atlantic and now SVP digital at Time Inc., knows what it takes for legacy media to thrive in the digital (or is that mobile?) age. In this month\u2019s feature, he tells us how.\nA lot of legacy publications out there are struggling, but not The Atlantic. You attribute part of its success to running it like a startup. What makes startups good role models?\nThere\u2019s a lot of money flowing into the Buzzfeeds, the Voxes and the Mashables of the world. These guys are no longer five dudes in a garage \u2013 they\u2019re much bigger than that.\nThe idea is that they move fast, they aren\u2019t hierarchical, they take risks, they have less to lose, and they generally hire young, hard-working, aggressive and smart people who are passionate about their brand and their mission.\nThey iterate. They launch things fast. If it doesn\u2019t work they\u2019ve got data that tells them it doesn\u2019t work and then they might kill it or modify it.\nBut isn\u2019t it risky? The Atlantic, after all, isn\u2019t a startup. It\u2019s a large operation with a storied past and is accountable in a different way.\nIf you want to compete with the up-and-comers, you\u2019ve got to act like them. Are there risks to it? Do you have that luxury as a storied brand? It\u2019s an existential question. I don\u2019t think you have a choice.\nLaunching new products and channels, stretching the brand into new categories \u2013 those aren\u2019t risks, though there are areas where you want to be a little more careful to maintain trust and brand credibility.\nIf you want to compete with the up-and-comers, you\u2019ve got to act like them. Are there risks to it? Do you have that luxury as a storied brand? It\u2019s an existential question. I don\u2019t think you have a choice. Tweet\nOne asset media brands like The Atlantic and Time have that most digital startups don\u2019t, is print. Do you see print as a competitive advantage?\nI think so. I\u2019ve come around on this a little bit. It was not so long ago you heard people saying that owning a magazine or a print asset was a huge legacy problem. Digital doesn\u2019t cannibalize print. It actually reinforces it.\nEveryone predicted four or six years ago that with the rise of reading devices people would abandon magazines. They haven\u2019t. The newsstand is suffering because you don\u2019t need to pick up a magazine while you\u2019re in transit anymore \u2013 you\u2019ve got plenty of reading material on your Kindle or your iPad or iPhone \u2013 but people still like getting a magazine at home.\nThat\u2019s changed my perception, certainly, and I get to see the numbers that show print actually gets to be a real competitive advantage.\nAnd that\u2019s what a lot of digital-first guys don\u2019t have. They have to fight and grind it out on the advertising side and they are dealing with increasing pressure on CPMs from programmatic advertising, so they\u2019ve got to keep scaling the size of their website to get more and more unique visitors.\nWhile The Atlantic has had success with its digital products, its print magazine remains a competitive advantage.\nSo the competitive advantage is in print subscriptions, specifically?\nYes, we have seen growth there but at the same time we have also seen growth in live events and digital advertising. I think there\u2019s been a fear in the industry that one would hurt the other.\nThis is marketing speak in some ways, but I really don\u2019t think of The Atlantic at all as a monthly magazine. I think of The Atlantic as an ideas platform. A platform for debate and discussion around provocative ideas, which is what it was designed to be.\nWhen you think of yourself as a platform then you can do all kinds of things to fulfill that mission. It\u2019s not about being a magazine, it\u2019s about being a platform.\nIt\u2019s not about being a magazine, it\u2019s about being a platform.\nAt this point, we\u2019ve moved past the print-to-web migration and are now seeing the launch of mobile-first publications, like Quartz. How are you looking at this new content challenge?\nQuartz is a mobile-first publication.\nWith mobile, you\u2019ve got some of the opposite problems of when you build for a desktop-sized screen and work your way down. Now you\u2019ve got to retrofit advertising back into a huge screen for the desktop.\nBut what\u2019s key is that the mobile future is not only coming, it\u2019s here. People are going to read on small screens throughout the day and throughout the morning and night.\nIt\u2019s smarter as a publisher to start thinking about not only what your audience needs but what they are doing at different parts of the day. How do you program the right content for them? That\u2019s one piece of it.\nI think you\u2019ll start seeing publishers hiring mobile editors to think about that. What\u2019s your email team doing? What\u2019s your overnight team doing for mobile?\nThen, of course, you have to get the monetization model going. How do you make money on these devices? That always lags by a couple years. You\u2019ve got to get everybody on the same page \u2013 the agency, the clients and the publishers.\nSpeaking of monetization, \u201cprogrammatic\u201d seems to be the buzzword of the day, alongside \u201cnative.\u201d Some are calling it the next great hope of the advertising world. Is it?\nIn publishing everyone\u2019s always looking at what the next big saviour will be and I\u2019m definitely not someone who believes that there is one.\nProgrammatic is still developing, clearly. It\u2019s not going away. The idea that very, very efficiently, advertising and trading desks can find certain individuals on certain websites at certain times, makes a lot of sense.\nThe Atlantic decided to experiment with it last summer after many years of shunning it because of the possibility it would cannibalize our directly sold business.\nSo why have we decided to do this? Because for publishers like us, the market is dividing into two very different types of advertising: We\u2019ve got high-end, multi-platform, generally content-based custom campaigns that we run for Fortune 500 companies. For us that\u2019s 70 to 80 percent of our advertising business.\nWe still do some direct display advertising buys. Then the small piece, which is growing for us, is programmatic.\nI think what you\u2019ll start seeing \u2013 you saw Time cut a deal with Google for a private exchange, for example \u2013 is premium brands that have leverage in the market working more closely with clients and agencies through direct premium programmatic channels.\nBoth that market and the so-called native advertising market, which is a terrible name for it, are both growing pretty fast.\nRight now they\u2019re not being bought through the same desk. They\u2019re separate. They have different goals and objectives and if you have some level of scale, you can really benefit from both.\nNative advertising isn\u2019t going away, either, but neither are its critics. In a recent article in The Guardian, media critic Bob Garfield calls it a Faustian bargain. Is that overblown?\nI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a Faustian bargain at all. Do there need to be high standards and labels and guidelines? Absolutely.\nThe one thing I don\u2019t disagree with is that trust with our readership is key, so we do have to make sure that we don\u2019t harm the brand in an effort to make money. But that\u2019s not what we\u2019re doing, there\u2019s a misunderstanding there.\nAlso the definitions are all over the place. Just because you do content and work with a client on putting content on your website doesn\u2019t necessarily make it native.\nBut native seems to be the catch phrase for anything that\u2019s done that\u2019s not display advertising or that runs just through the CMS. It\u2019s just about allowing a brand to tell a story and connecting to the audience.\nbuzzfeeddigital publishingfeaturemobilenative advertisingpublishingthe atlantic", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 11023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://speakingofrealestate.blogs.realtor.org/2017/01/12/live-webcast/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:32Z", "digest": "sha1:GMNJS3WUORGCBJHTL2B46AAOTHLX6WXG", "length": 999, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "speakingofrealestate.blogs.realtor.org", "title": "Live Webcast: Using a Reverse Mortgage to Buy a Home", "raw_content": "Live Webcast: Using a Reverse Mortgage to Buy a Home\nPosted in Buyers, Mortgage Financing, Mortgage Financing, Working with Clients, by Sam Silverstein on January 12, 2017\nNote: This event has already occurred. Watch a recording of it.\nReverse mortgages, also known as home equity conversion mortgages (HECMs), can be used to help seniors finance the purchase of a home in addition to their traditional purpose of enabling people to borrow against the equity in a property where they already live.\nLearn about when and for whom this tool may be appropriate in a live webcast hosted by NAR on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 2 p.m. Eastern time.\nScott Trembley, CEO of The Trembley Group, a real estate firm in Myrtle Beach, S.C., that handles home purchases with HECMs\nFrank McInerney, a loan specialist with Reverse Mortgage Funding in Bloomfield, N.J.\nJon Boughtin, NAR Communications\nTags:HECM,reverse mortgage\nWill a version of this webinar be available to view after it\u2019s live broadcast or for download?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 7319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://special.therideronline.com/2017/09/19/trevor-collarman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HJSBKGD2DMRTUSALBB5RQQIK3JXKXPRU", "length": 2655, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "special.therideronline.com", "title": "Trevor Callarman | Trevor Callarman \u2013 Where Are They Now?", "raw_content": "Trevor Callarman\nAlumni Trevor Callarman graduated in 2010 and went to Austin Community College then transferring to Texas State University earning a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.\nWhat did you Participate in during high school?\n\u201cMost notably in high school, I participated in Legacy Theater,\u201d Callarman said. \u201cOur class of 2010 had the privilege of working for the seriously talented Melanie Holmes (Ms. McIntyre), and Jeremy Ferman. Under their tutelage, in 2010 our show Leading Ladies competed at State in the UIL One Act Play competition. In addition to theater, I was on the improv troupe, STUCO, and captain of the Bronco Brigade. On the side, my brother Sean Smith, also Legacy alumni, and I played club volleyball in Dallas.\u201d\n\u201cMy high school experience at Legacy was imperative for my future success,\u201d Callarman said. \u201cAt Legacy, I was in an environment where I felt comfortable and safe being myself. Some of my friends, classmates, and even teachers from 2010 have described me as \u201cweird, but in a good way\u201d. In some schools, my silly, and sometimes obnoxious behavior may not have been permitted.I dressed as the Grinch and painted my whole body green the day before Christmas break. But not at Legacy. There I was able to present my full personality whether on a stage or otherwise. Now, people I coach or work with describe me in the same way. Legacy taught me that I could work hard, aim for goals, and succeed all while not taking myself too seriously. I believe personal creativity should be included in anything you do in life and I am adamant that I learned that from my experiences in school. I am very grateful to the many teachers, faculty and staff, and friends at Legacy that supported me during my time there.\u201d\n\u201cCurrently, I am the Assistant Volleyball Coach and Recruiting Coordinator at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, a NCAA D1 College in Princess Anne, Maryland,\u201d Callarman said. \u201cCoaching volleyball was a natural choice for me. I have always played, coached, and loved the sport. Growing up, I was on the volleyball court all the time. My whole family played so I was exposed to the sport at a relatively very young age, about age 12. Coaching gave an opportunity to combine my passion for volleyball and a desire to connect with people in a way that promotes positive growth.\u201d\n\u201cMy advice to current students is to find mentors, family, friends, colleges, teachers, dogs or anyone else that supports your vision for your future,\u201d Callarman. \u201cBe yourself, enjoy life, and work to be the best version of yourself each day. Ultimately, remember to, \u2018Act well your part, there all honor lies,\u2019 Alexander Pope.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://special.therideronline.com/2018/01/30/kole-knutson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:35Z", "digest": "sha1:MSKAYLGZZLKD53BN6KICV67SIMXQLV33", "length": 1689, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "special.therideronline.com", "title": "Kole Knutson | Kole Knutson \u2013 Where Are They Now?", "raw_content": "Alumnus Kole Knutson graduated in 2011 and went to Texas State University and University of North Texas. While in high school Knutson played football, participated in track, STUCO and teen leadership.\n\u201cI went to Texas State University and earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in biology with a minor in biochemistry, and now I am going to school for my masters degree at the PA program at UNT Health Science Center in Fort worth,\u201d Knutson said.\n\u201cI have always known I wanted to be in the medical field I just wasn\u2019t sure what exact role I would fit best,\u201d Knutson said. \u201cI learned about Physician Assistants in college and thought it would be the best fit for me.\u201d\n\u201cI think that I experienced some of my first tastes of adversity that lead to a strong work ethic,\u201d Knutson said. \u201cI also learned how to develop relationships with peers and teachers.\u201d\n\u201cI am currently in school taking classes on clinical pathology and pharmacology,\u201d Knutson said.\n\u201cWhen I graduate I will most likely work in primary care or in an emergency room setting,\u201d Knutson said.\n\u201cVery cliche, but everything in high school seems like a big deal and it really isn\u2019t,\u201d Knutson said. \u201cIf you are going through hard times in high school my biggest advice is to work hard in school so you can get out of Mansfield and go to college. It will provide you a re-do if you don\u2019t like your situation in high school. It swings the other way though too. If you think you are super cool or high school is just going really well for you, don\u2019t get complacent. Believe me, you really don\u2019t want to peak in high school. 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That was enough to topple the previous leader \u201cCrazy Rich Asians,\u201d which fell to second place. \u201cPeppermint,\u201d from STX Entertainment, opened in third place.\n\u201cThe Nun\u201d adds to a strong stretch for Warner Bros., whose parent company was acquired by AT&T this year. Thanks to \u201cCrazy Rich Asians\u201d and \u201cThe Meg,\u201d the studio has held the No. 1 spot for five straight weekends. Warner Bros. also has a few more potential hits to come this year with the awards contender \u201cA Star is Born,\u201d another \u201cFantastic Beasts\u201d movie and \u201cAquaman.\u201d\n\u201cThe Nun\u201d harks back to a demonic character who first appeared in \u201cThe Conjuring 2\u201d in 2016. In the new movie, a novitiate played by Taissa Farmiga and a priest played by Demi\u00e1n Bichir are sent by the Vatican to investigate the suicide of a young nun in Romania.\nThe $22 million production scored recommendations from just 36 percent of critics, according to RottenTomatoes.com, a website that aggregates reviews. It was expected to collect $45 million in its first weekend, topping the $42 million for the original \u201cThe Conjuring\u201d in 2013 and marking the biggest opening for the franchise, according to Box Office Mojo. Another untitled \u201cConjuring\u201d movie is lined up for 2019.\n\u201cPeppermint\u201d opened with weekend sales of $13.3 million, in line with the projection from Box Office Pro. Jennifer Garner stars as a young mother, out for revenge after waking from a coma to find her husband and child have been murdered. The R-rated feature, the third release from STX Entertainment in the past four weeks, failed to inspire critics. 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Yamaha have been crafting pianos since 1887, building a long-established tradition for quality, design and craftsmanship. At 7 feet 6 inches, the piano fills the entire room and is the ideal size for solo, chamber, and choral accompaniment, and even piano concerti. The piano is undoubtably the highest quality instrument in an affordable and flexible concert venue in Northampton. Please be in touch with the Parish Office should you like to inquire about using one of our world-class instruments during your concert or event.\nIn addition to the individuals who supported the piano fund, we are grateful to the following organisations for their support of the project:\nThe Ekins Trust\nThe Friends of St Matthew\u2019s Music\nNorthampton Bach Choir\nThe Williams Church Music Trust", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://store.doverpublications.com/0486298574.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:43Z", "digest": "sha1:YGNU6INYK2JX6ML7SQEC5JCCGLT2HJ4Q", "length": 1217, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "store.doverpublications.com", "title": "The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories", "raw_content": "The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories\nBy: Charlotte Perkins Gilman\nBest known for the 1892 title story of this collection, a harrowing tale of a woman's descent into madness, Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote more than 200 other short stories. Seven of her finest are reprinted here.\nWritten from a feminist perspective, often focusing on the inferior status accorded to women by society, the tales include \"Turned,\" an ironic story with a startling twist, in which a husband seduces and impregnates a na\u00efve servant; \"Cottagette,\" concerning the romance of a young artist and a man who's apparently too good to be true; \"Mr. Peebles' Heart,\" a liberating tale of a fiftyish shopkeeper whose sister-in-law, a doctor, persuades him to take a solo trip to Europe, with revivifying results; \"The Yellow Wallpaper\"; and three other outstanding stories.\nThese charming tales are not only highly readable and full of humor and invention, but also offer ample food for thought about the social, economic, and personal relationship of men and women \u2014 and how they might be improved.\nAuthor/Editor Charlotte Perkins Gilman\nGreat Short Stories by American Women\nGreat Speeches by American Women\nLilacs and Other Stories\nMy \ufffdntonia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 4117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sun-fm.com/ambulance-frontline-staff-awarded-with-the-queens-medal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:45Z", "digest": "sha1:WMXHMV2AZSW3FVOACLV72UAKFKNVO5NR", "length": 4690, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "sun-fm.com", "title": "Ambulance frontline staff awarded with the Queen\u2019s Medal | Sun FM Radio", "raw_content": "Six employees at North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) have received The Queen\u2019s Medal, the highest recognition for frontline emergency care employees, at an awards ceremony.\nThe Queen\u2019s Medal honours ambulance personnel who have shown dedication to their roles at an NHS Ambulance Service.\nRecipients of the Queen\u2019s Medal have been in front line emergency care services for more than 20 years, or seven years in frontline emergency care and 13 years in emergency care management. The employees have also demonstrated good conduct throughout their career.\nHer Majesty\u2019s representative the Lord-Lieutenant of Tyne & Wear, Mrs Susan Margaret Winfield OBE DL presented The Queen\u2019s Medal to the six frontline employees.\nSpeaking at the ceremony, Mrs Winfield said:\n\u201cI am extremely proud of all who have received the Queen\u2019s Medal today, to give them the recognition they deserve for their invaluable service to the community. The North East Ambulance Service is fortunate to have so many skilled people whose work is greatly benefitting society.\u201d\nThe Queen\u2019s Medal, which was issued under Royal Warrant in July 1995 was awarded to frontline respondents Martin Fletcher, Steve Roebuck, David Vaughan, Michael Vockings, Jane Wade and Mark Wells who have a combined service of over 100 years for the organisation.\nChief Executive, Yvonne Ormston said:\n\u201cI am extremely proud of all of the long serving employees at the Trust and have huge respect for all who have received this award. On behalf of myself and all at the Trust, we thank them for doing the job they do. Our employees aim to make a difference day in and day out and The Queen\u2019s Medal awards show they do just that.\n\u201cFrontline staff deal with very difficult situations on a daily basis and show the upmost compassion for all patients that they treat. It has been a great opportunity to acknowledge the quality of care they provide to our patients. They all go above and beyond the call of duty in their roles, striving for excellence and innovation and enabling us to deliver our mission to provide safe, effective and responsive care for all.\u201d\nNEAS has developed from strength to strength since becoming a Foundation Trust in 2011, employing more than 2,500 staff and the Queen\u2019s Medal is an honourable way of thanking front line employees for their long service.\nMark Wells began his career with the ambulance service in 1996 and has progressed his career as an advanced practitioner with NEAS.\n\u201cI am extremely proud of my role within NEAS and regularly represent the service at formal events such as Remembrance Day parades and award ceremonies, where I wear my dress uniform with great pride. My proudest and greatest achievement is becoming a paramedic as it has opened the door to the rest of my career.\u201d\nMany of the people starting out their career on the front line for NEAS will be inspired by the Queen\u2019s Medal recipients because of their years of service, the amount of lives they have saved and commitment they have shown.\nDavid Vaughan, advanced technician based at Stanley ambulance station, said:\n\u201cI\u2019ve worked for NEAS for 20 years and I feel totally honoured to have received the Queen\u2019s Medal. It boosts your morale when you get recognition for something but this is by far a proud moment for myself. NEAS is there for the community and every day is challenging and different but that is the job. If you worked in a factory it is the same thing day in and day out. Working in emergency care is a long term career and you have got to make the most of it for the patients that need your support.\u201d\nDavid spoke of a memory from 16 years ago of transporting a four year old little girl, who had leukaemia, from home to Newcastle General.\n\u201cShe was dressed in a pretty summer dress and had a sun hat on, she was holding a daisy flower in her hand which she played with for the entire journey. She wasn\u2019t impressed with the health care workers or ambulance crew due to the cancer treatment.\n\u201cThe little girl just sat there cuddled into her mum, on her knee and as they were getting off the ambulance the mum said to the little girl \u201cyou need to get rid of the flower.\n\u201cThe little girl looked me straight in the eye and handed me the flower, my eyes welled up then and still do now when I think about her. I\u2019ve kept that flower and have it pressed in my diary.\u201d\nMartin Fletcher, ambulance paramedic, said:\n\u201cI\u2019ve worked for NEAS for 23 years and I feel very proud to receive the Queen\u2019s Medal. The years have gone by so quickly and a lot has changed with the organisation since I started but for new recruits just starting their career with NEAS, I would say to look out for yourself, this was crucial to me when I first started.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 6044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sunnyjchoi.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:02Z", "digest": "sha1:4TXZW7S4PXJK3DEM32RZFG6XFPREAZJH", "length": 699, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sunnyjchoi.com", "title": "About \u2014 Sunny J. Choi Illustration", "raw_content": "Sunny J. Choi Illustration\n\u201cSunny\u201d Joung Sun Choi is a children's book illustrator currently living in San Francisco. She was born, raised and studied Oriental painting in Korea. While she was exhibiting and teaching in college in Korea, she had a chance to illustrate children\u2019s books and fell in love with it. She came to San Francisco to study children's book illustration at the Academy of Art University, and graduated with an MFA in Illustration. Sunny has been a member of Society of Children\u2019s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) since 2008.\nHer two sons are her biggest inspiration and she recently adopted a furry daughter named Lily.\ncopyright \u00a9 2016 Sunny J. Choi. All rights reserved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 117.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://supplementquality.com/news/vitaminC_DNA.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BLDXAPUUQMUEHIBEAUSCLKQZN4MZA7G4", "length": 7843, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "supplementquality.com", "title": "Vitamin C and DNA Damage: Real Danger or False Alarm?", "raw_content": "Vitamin C and DNA Damage: Real Danger or False Alarm?\nOnce again, headlines are suggesting that taking vitamin C supplements could pose a health risk, but surprisingly, behind the headlines is the fact that this \"health risk\" is based on the results of one study (published in Science on 15 June 2001). Here's how major media outlets played the story:\nVitamin C Supplements May Be Harmful -- from ABCnews.com\nVitamin C Can Damage DNA, Study Shows -- from Reuters Health (Yahoo news)\nVitamin C Found to Promote Cancer-Causing Agents -- from Reuters (Yahoo news)\nVitamin C May Be Two-Edged Sword -- from HealthSCOUT.com\nand even that source of all the news that's fit to print, The New York Times, said:\nVitamin C Pills Tied to DNA Risk -- from NYTimes.com\nIt seems a safe bet that most Americans saw at least one of these reports. But are the headlines right? Are we risking DNA damage by taking vitamin C supplements?\nStudy looked at vitamin C in test tube\nIt turns out that the Science study is of general interest, if only for the way it shows how vitamin C behaves in a test tube under unusual conditions. But that has almost no relevance to what happens inside a living body.\nThe study's lead author, Ian Blair PhD, tried to calm the media reports. In an interview with Better Nutrition magazine, Blair said, \"The study is being over-interpreted. I've been trying to de-sensationalize the paper by referring people to other studies that have not found direct evidence of vitamin C supplementation preventing cancer.\" Also, Reuters said that Blair told them, \"Absolutely for God's sake don't say vitamin C causes cancer.\"\nTo answer concerns raised by these headlines, SupplementQuality.com went to the world leaders in vitamin C research: the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University. They had already posted an analysis of the Science article on their website. We summarize their points here. (See also the link to their full analysis in our list of Sources, below.)\nTest tube results not always relevant to living cells\nThe Science study created an environment in a test tube -- combining vitamin C with rancid (oxidized) fat molecules. Any test tube situation is relevant to human biochemistry only insofar as it mimics the conditions inside a living cell. The test-tube setting of this study varied significantly from in vivo conditions in several important ways:\nThe study used a concentration of fat molecules that is approximately 10,000 times more intense than has ever been found in a living body.\nLiving cells also contain enzymes that change rancid fat molecules into harmless \"alcohols\" within a fraction of a second -- which means that the fat molecules are no longer \"there\" to react with any vitamin C that is also in the cell. (In the Science study, the interaction between vitamin C and fat molecules was conducted over a two-hour period.)\nPerhaps most telling of all, studies at the Linus Pauling Institute have shown that fat molecules in blood serum don't become rancid until vitamin C has been exhausted. In other words, vitamin C protects fat molecules from becoming rancid in the first place -- so they never coexist!\nSimilar controversy emerged in 1998\nIn 1998, a team of British scientists at the University of Leicester gave 500 mg of vitamin C to 30 healthy subjects every day for six weeks. They then examined two markers of DNA damage in the blood of their subjects -- finding that one went up while the other went down -- and published this finding in the Correspondence section of Nature on 9 April 1998. This report also made headlines as \"Vitamin C Can Cause Cancer\" -- and was soon heavily critiqued by other vitamin C researchers.\nThe controversy exists because vitamin C -- like other antioxidants -- becomes a weak free radical (or pro-oxidant) right after it neutralizes a dangerous free radical. At this stage, vitamin C and other antioxidants do have the capacity to damage DNA. However, antioxidants work together to restore each other back into fully potent antioxidants, so this weak free radical stage is very brief.\nMany methodological problems were present in the research reported in Nature. At the very least, there are roughly twenty markers for DNA damage that are appropriate to examine. Of the two that the British researchers looked at, the marker that went down is some 10 times more dangerous than the one that went up. Also, the methodology they used to extract DNA from the cells is known to produce false results!\nBruce N. Ames, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley, one of the world's most distinguished scientists, bluntly characterized the Nature research as \"bad science.\" Ames also notes that roughly half of all chemicals, both synthetic and natural, cause DNA damage -- including compounds found in most fruits and vegetables. However, the friendly chemicals in these substances far outweigh the dangerous ones; the preponderance of research finds that eating more fruits and vegetables is beneficial to our health.\nEvidence leans toward vitamin C as cancer-fighter\nAccording to the Linus Pauling Institute, many animal and cell culture studies have shown anti-cancer effects of vitamin C. The vitamin has also been used therapeutically in human cancer patients with some apparent benefit.\nDiets rich in vitamin C lower the risk of cancer, heart disease, stroke and other chronic degenerative diseases. Also, the body does not distinguish between vitamin C from fruits and vegetables and the synthetic form found in supplements. The bottom line? Evidence indicates that you will do yourself a lot of good by taking vitamin C supplements, and certainly no harm!\nVitamin C is one of the safest supplements. How much to take, however, is a controversial question. The RDA is set at 90 mg/day for men and 75 mg/day for women. According to the federal Institute of Medicine, healthy adults can safely consume as much as 2,000 mg/day; some experts believe the safe upper level is considerably higher.\nThis year's study concerning vitamin C and DNA was published in Science, Vol 292, pages 2083-2086, 15 June 2001. www.sciencemag.org.\nNews about this study appeared in many publications and websites, as summarized at the top of this article; the following ABCNEWS.com story is typical: ABCNEWS.com. \"Vitamin C Supplements May Be Harmful.\" ABCNEWS.com website, 15 June 2001. [link to article has expired.]\nInformation criticizing this study was found in: Natural Products Insider. \"Vitamin C and DNA Damage Incorrectly Linked.\" Natural Products Insider website, 15 June 2001. www.naturalproductsinsider.com/hotnews/16h151622.html.\nLinus Pauling Institute. \"Does Vitamin C Cause Cancer - or Here We Go Again!\" Linus Pauling Institute website, 15 June 2001. osu.orst.edu/dept/lpi/new/vitamincancer2.html.\nDavid Stauth. \"Indictment of Vitamin C Questionable, Expert Says.\" Linus Pauling Institute, 6 July 2001. www.orst.edu/dept/lpi/new/atherosclerosis.html.\nThe other study about vitamin C and DNA was Ian D. Podmore et al, \"Vitamin C exhibits pro-oxidant properties,\" Nature, Vol 392, page 559, 9 April 1998.\nInformation criticizing this study and describing details of how vitamin C performs as an antioxidant was found in: Jack Challem. \"Vitamin C? Gene damage? How do you make sense of the research?\" Commentary on his website, 12 April 1998. www.thenutritionreporter.com/vita-c.html.\nBalz Frei, PhD, in an interview with Richard A. Passwater. \"New Research Findings On Vitamin C Safety: An interview with Dr. Balz Frei. Part 1: The Pro-Oxidant Myth.\" Dr. Frei is one of the world's leading researchers in vitamin C; this interview was published in Whole Foods Magazine, 1998.\nLife Extension Foundation. \"Life Extension Foundation's Updated Vitamin C Rebuttal.\" Life Extension Foundation website, 14 April 1998. www.lef.org/magazine/articles/vitc_damage2.html.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 8259, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://supplementquality.com/testing/CLab_lead_contamination.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:24Z", "digest": "sha1:GJSHHGCOIKQWFZ2N2IEXWMZXOCMQMOPS", "length": 3410, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "supplementquality.com", "title": "ConsumerLab Finds Lead Contamination In Some Mineral Supplements", "raw_content": "White Plains NY, 16 July 2002\nConsumerLab.com announced today that its testing has shown that approximately 5% to 10% of certain mineral supplements are contaminated with lead. The findings are based on ConsumerLab.com's evaluation over the past nine months of fifty-six supplements containing iron, magnesium, or potassium. More than eleven million bottles of these mineral supplements are purchased annually from US supermarkets, drugstores, and mass merchandisers, according to data from Chicago-based Information Resources Inc. ConsumerLab.com called on manufacturers to focus on this problem, which it considers an easily avoided health risk.\n\"Mineral supplements can be lifesaving, but should not increase the risk of lead poisoning,\" said Tod Cooperman, MD, President of ConsumerLab.com. \"Lead contamination has long been an issue with mineral supplements. We were pleased two years ago to find that none of the calcium supplements we tested had unacceptable lead levels. However, more recently, we have been disturbed to find lead contamination not only among potassium supplements, as reported today, but also in magnesium (reported in May) and iron supplements (reported last October). Manufacturers must focus on getting the lead out of all supplements -- which can easily be done.\"\nIn its Product Review of Potassium Supplements released today, ConsumerLab.com found lead contamination in one of the eighteen products tested. If used to treat potassium deficiency, a daily dose of the contaminated product would contain about 10 to 20 mcg (micrograms) of lead. It is estimated that average total daily lead exposure in the US is less than 5 mcg per day. Lead exposure is particularly dangerous for fetuses, infants, young children, and pregnant or lactating women, whose consumption of lead should not exceed 6 mcg per day because lead can be transferred from mother to child and even low levels of lead can adversely affect children's neurobehavioral development and cognitive function. In adults, lead at somewhat higher levels can cause elevated blood pressure, anemia, and adversely affect the nervous and reproductive systems.\nAs previously reported by ConsumerLab.com, one of nineteen iron supplements and two of nineteen magnesium supplements were found contaminated with lead. Other problems, such as too little or too much mineral, were also found among some products.\nThe full list of products that passed ConsumerLab.com's testing, as well as information on buying and using these products, are now available at www.consumerlab.com. The website provides reviews of 32 vitamins, minerals, herbal and non-herbal supplements, and of nutrition bars, powders, and drinks. Other reviews scheduled for release in coming months include Omega-3 and 6 fatty acids from evening primrose, borage and flaxseed oils, garlic, probiotics, and sexual enhancement supplements. ConsumerLab.com's Guide to Buying the Best Vitamins, Herbs and Supplements is scheduled for publication later this year.\nConsumerLab.com provides consumer information and independent evaluations of products that affect health and nutrition. The company is privately held and based in White Plains, New York. It has no ownership from, or interest in, companies that manufacture, distribute, or sell consumer products. Individual subscription to ConsumerLab.com is available online.\nConsumerLab.com, via PR Newswire, 16 July 2002.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 3859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://syhuherbarium.sls.cuhk.edu.hk/collections/bract/bract_bracts/bract_bract_margin/bract_bract_margin_serrate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:47Z", "digest": "sha1:EV7W4QM5K3BLCOACJJ2BCCIX3PBKHACP", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "syhuherbarium.sls.cuhk.edu.hk", "title": "Bract: Bract \u82de\u7247: Margin \u908a\u7de3: Serrate \u92f8\u9f52\u72c0", "raw_content": "Saw-like teeth pointing forward.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 304.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tablewineasheville.com/tag/domaine-de-la-garrigue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:46Z", "digest": "sha1:KP2247RZHT5PTBZVXBZAPZXJMAZA2HVH", "length": 87, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tablewineasheville.com", "title": "Domaine de la Garrigue Archives - Table Wine Asheville", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201cDomaine de la Garrigue\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 162.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://takingthekidsout.co.uk/free-things-to-do/region/northWestAndLakeDistrict/free/1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DFGUSPJ633CIJE22XX45GJWFC7RPLREA", "length": 1329, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "takingthekidsout.co.uk", "title": "Find things to do in the uk | Day out | Things to do with kids | Places to visit | Family days out | Taking The Kids Out", "raw_content": "Taking the kids out for free to North West And Lake District\nGreater Manchester - Bolton\nOur volunteers have rescued and restored over 30 old stationary steam engines, some of the engines which once powered the cotton mills and woollen mills of the North of England. Most will be running in steam on these days only, as the Museum is normally closed. We have a wide range of different types of engine. Our oldest engine is almost 180 years...\nLancashire - Nelson\nThe building you see now was built in c1550 for Dafydd ap Richard. The Manor was designed to be easily defended during the turbulent reigns of Tudor kings and queens and is one of the finest examples of a semi-fortified manor in Wales today.The original defensive design incorporated a single entrance, four-foot thick walls enclosing spiral stone...\nTerrific treetop adventure in the city! The intu Trafford Centre in Manchester plays host to our newest urban High Ropes Adventure course and it's a fun-packed thriller! City-slickers can really unleash their wild side, up to 27 feet high in the air, swinging, climbing and jumping across loads of exciting obstacles. Ever tried speeding down a zip wire?...\nStrike Ten Bowl\n18 lane Ten Pin Bowling Alley located in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.We also have a Laser Quest arena, Arcade, Sports bar and Diner on site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 5617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tamlegal.com/attorneys/michael-l-hutchinson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:43Z", "digest": "sha1:6P6BJYLKW5K54R7XPAK5WB2CNM6VPS4A", "length": 2294, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "tamlegal.com", "title": "Michael L. Hutchinson - Treece Alfrey Musat P.C.", "raw_content": "Mr. Hutchinson is a 1983 graduate of the University of Denver and a 1991 graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law.\nMr. Hutchinson has been with TAM since its inception in 1991, and was made a shareholder in 1999. Over the years, his practice has focused on the litigation of complex professional liability and commercial matters. He has appeared as lead counsel in hundreds of state and federal court proceedings, and has tried many such cases to verdict.\nMr. Hutchinson has authored published articles on issues related to lawyers\u2019 professional liability, and was a contributing author of Colorado Attorney\u2019s Professional Liability Handbook (CLE in Colorado, Inc., 1999). He is a frequent speaker on topics related to lawyers\u2019 professional liability prevention and litigation.\nEvery year since 2006, Mr. Hutchinson has been selected by his peers for listing in the Best Lawyers in America\u00ae in the practice areas of both Legal Malpractice Law \u2013 Defendants and Professional Malpractice Law \u2013 Defendants. In 2013 he was named by Best Lawyers as \u201cLawyer of the Year\u201d for Denver in the latter category. He has been chosen by Super Lawyers every year since 2008, and named among the Top 100 lawyers in Colorado for several years running. He was selected as a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, the Trial Lawyer Honorary Society, in 2009, and named a Senior Fellow of that organization in 2016.\nFederal Circuit Court of Appeals (2004)\nSuperLawyer 2009-2018\nCo-Chair, Lawyer\u2019s Professional Liability Committee, 2005-2010\nRMB Servs., Inc. v. Truhlar, 151 P.3d 673 (Colo. Ct. App. 2006)\nHewitt v. Rice,119 P.3d 541 (Colo. Ct. App. 2004), aff\u2019d, 154 P.3d 408 (Colo. 2007)\nBarreca v. South Beach Beverage Co., Inc., 322 F.Supp.2d 1186 (D. Colo. 2004)\nBrown v. Silvern, 45 P.3d 749 (Colo. Ct. App. 2001)\nState v. Nieto, 993 P.2d 493 (Colo. 2000) (amicus)\nMatter of Title, Ballot Title & Submission Clause, No. 113, 962 P.2d 970 (Colo. 1998)\nO\u2019Connor v. Check Rite, Ltd., 973 F.Supp. 1010 (D. Colo. 1997)\nTrierweiler v. Croxton & Trench Holding Corp., 90 F.3d 1523 (10th Cir. 1996)\nGoldsmith v. Learjet, Inc., 90 F.3d 1490 (10th Cir. 1996)\nIn re Yellow Cab Co-op. Ass\u2019n, 185 B.R. 844 (Bankr. D. Colo. 1995)\nIn re Versar Architects & Engineers, Inc., 138 B.R. 620 (Bankr. D. Colo. 1992)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 10755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 125.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://targeta.co.uk/soesterberg_museum.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HBLZOPV2NS4LJ73OENE2PPUDLT6LTMPE", "length": 8593, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "targeta.co.uk", "title": "Aviation Photography - Militaire Luchvaart Museum, Soesterberg", "raw_content": "Militaire Luchvaart Museum\n(Military Aviation Museum)\nKamp Zeist, Soesterberg, Holland\nThe Museum was first opened on July 3, 1968, utilising a hangar on the Soesterberg Air Base and opening on Saturdays only. In 1980 the museum moved to two halls at nearby 'Kamp van Zeist' for greater accessibility for the public. Now that the Soesterberg air base is closed the museum is due to return there very soon. Some aircraft are currently in store at the former F-15 Eagle air base.\nFokker D.VII ('266' c/n 2523). This is one of the 142 D.VII\u00b4s shipped to the USA after World War I. It was registered on the US civil register and was used in Howard Hughes epic move 'Hell's Angels' and also 'Men With Wings'. Later it ended up in the Wings and Wheels collection before it was bought in 1981 by the Fokker company for the museum. The D.VII was completely rebuilt and put on display in the museum as \"266\" from the Dutch LVA. Credit Hans Vossers Aerofile.\nKoolhoven F.K.51 (429) A replica of this Pre-war Dutch trainer.\nde Havilland DH.89B Dominie (BV-3 ex NF869 and PH-OTA c/n 6740) The Royal Netherlands Air Force (Koninklijke Luchtmacht - KLu) operated four aircraft as transports from 1944 to 1956, they werre assigned to 334 Squadron KLu. The Dominie was built by de Havilland as a military version of the DH 89 Dragon Rapide. The DH 89 was first flown in 1934 and by the time production ended about 10 years later, 728 had been built over 530 Dominies served with the Royal Air Force.\nFokker D.XXI ('221') Replica of the aircraft which entered service in Holland in 1938. It was built in 1988 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the RNLAF and based on an original fuselage (J-49 at Vandel in Denmark) which loaned to the museum for two years.\nFokker G-1A (330). A replica of the twin-engined heavy fighter operated by the Royal Netherlands Air Force. On May 10, 1940, when the Germans attacked of the 23 G-1s were in service around 20 aircraft were destroyed on the ground. One aircraft escaped to the UK but was scrapped in 1945.\nde Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth (A-10 ex PG690 ex PH-UFC c/n 86587). In total over 8,700 Tiger Moths have been built, 4,200 of them for the RAF. The Dutch received 56 (serials A-1 to A-56) from 1946 they remained in service until the early 1960s.\nNoorduyn (North American) (A)T-16ND Harvard IIB (marked 099 'K' really B-103 ex KLu c/n 14A-1459 ex RAF FT419 and 43-13160), marked falsely as a UT-6 Kon Marine (Marine Luchtvaartdienst - MLD). One of 200 (serials B-1 to B-200) supplied to the Royal Netherlands Air Force by Noorduyn in Canada.\n17,096 AT-6s were built before and during the World War Two. In USAAF service it was known as the AT-6 Texan, the 5,000 supplied to British and Commonwealth Air Forces were known as the Harvard.\nNoorduyn (North American) (A)T-16ND Harvard IIB (unmarked). This should be B-175 ex RCAF FH131, 42-12518 c/n 14-765 which is reported as being with the museum.\nVickers-Supermarine Spitfire LF.IX (H-1 ex MJ143 CBAF.IX.907) of the Royal Netherlands Air Force. In June 1943, 322 (Dutch) Squadron was formed equipped with the Supermarine Spitfire. The Spitfire LF.IX was used by 322 sqn until 1954.\nNorth American P-51K Mustang ('H-307' really ex 44-12125 c/n 111-30258) it was apparently acquired in 1946 for use as an instructional airframe in Holland, it has AT-16 wheels.\nNorth American B-25J Mitchell (M-464 ex 44-31258 c/n 108-37333) A is a twin-engined medium bomber it has been restored as Royal Netherlands East Indies Air Force, it is ex Indonesian Air Force. In 1942, 18 (NEI) Squadron, a joint Dutch-Australian unit was established was equipped with B-25 Mitchell and saw action in the New Guinea campaign and over the Dutch East Indies.\nDornier Do.24T-3 (X-24 ex Spanish Air Force HD.5-1 c/n 5342). The Dornier Do 24 is a 1930s German designed three-engine flying boat. 1944 twelve Dutch-built Do 24s were delivered to Spain on the understanding they would be used to aid downed airmen of both sides.\nHawker Sea Fury FB.50 (6-43). The MLD received 22 Hawker built Sea Fury Mk.50/60 for use on board the carrier Hr.Ms Karel Doorman they were delivered in 1950, they were eventually given serials 6-1 to 6-22. Fokker built 25 FB.51 under license at their Schiphol factory, these were delivered from 1951 and were allocated serials 6-23 to 6-47. The example on display moved in 1956 to the Aviation Section of the Technical University at Delft, later it was donated to the National Aviation Museum Aviodrome.\nGrumman US-2N Tracker (160 'V' c/n 721) formally based at Valkenburg and also operated from the Dutch Navy's aircraft carrier Hr.Ms. Karel Doorman.\nGloster Meteor F.4 (I-69 ex VZ409). The Royal Netherlands Air Force received 65 Meteor F.4s, acquired in 1948 for air defence these were the first jet aircraft the Air Force initially flown by 322 Squadron. They also received 43 Meteor T.7s and 160 Meteor F.8s from 1951. They were replaced by the Hawker Hunter.\nRepublic F-84G Thunderjet (K-171 'DU-24' ex 51-10806). These aircraft were supplied by the United States under the Mutual Defense Aid Program from 1952 to 1956.\nRepublic F-84F Thunderstreak (P-226). The F-84F was developed after the F-84G and was a vastly different aircraft. It had 40 degree swept back wings, instead of the straight wings of the F-84G. It was originally designated the YF-96A and was capable of speeds of 695 m.p.h.\n80 F-84F Thunderstreaks were received by the Royal Netherlands Air Force between 1955 and 1958, delivered as a part of the 'Mutual Defense Aid Program' (MDAP). The F-84F was supplied to NATO countries, of the 2,711 built 1,301 went to Europe.\nFokker S14 Mach Trainer (L-11). The S-14 was one of the world's first dedicated jet trainers, unfortunately due to tough compeition it failed to impress the Worlds air forces and only a few were produced operating with the Dutch Air Force for around ten years.\nNorth American F-86K Sabre (painted as 'Q-305' it is really ex AMI MM53-8305 c/n 207-33). 700, 701 and 702 Squadrons operated the F86 Sabre all-weather fighter from 1956 to 1964.\nNorth American F-86K Sabre (Q-283 ex 54-1283 c/n 213-53).\nNorth American F-86F Sabre (52-5385 'FU-385' c/n 191-876 ex Portuguese Air Force 5307).\nHawker Hunter F4 (N-144) The Hawker Hunter is a single-engine single-seat jet fighter aircraft produced by Hawker Siddeley Aircraft and also produced under license by Avions Fairey in Belgium and by Fokker in the Netherlands.\nHawker Sea Hawk FB.5 (painted as '131 D' really ex RAF XE489 c/n 8644). In 1956, 30 Mk.50 Sea Hawks were ordered by the Dutch, to be paid for with NATO funds.\nLockheed F-104G Starfighter (D-8022). The first F-104A Starfighter flew in 1954. Production of this multi-role, all-weather strike fighter was started in many of the countries which adopted this unique aircraft, such as Fokker in Holland, Fiat in Italy, Messerschmitt in Germany and SABCA in Belgium. D-8022 was the first Starfighter built by Fokker for the RNLAF. 323 and 322 Squadrons received the F-104G in 1964, 311 Squadron in 1965 and 312 Squadron in 1966. From 1980 the F-104Gs were replaced by the General Dynamics F-16A .\nConvair F-102A Delta Dagger (painted as '56-1032 FC-032' ex Hellenic Air Force 61052).\nNorth American F-100D Super Sabre (painted as '54-1871 FW-871' really 54-2265 c/n 223-145) ex French Air Force.\nNorthrop NF-5B Freedom Fighter (K-4011). 313, 314, 315 and 316 Squadrons flew the NF-5 Freedom Fighter from 1969 to 1992.\nGeneral Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon (J-215). The YF-16 first flew in 1974, entering service a year later. To date over 4,400 F-16s have been delivered to at least 23 countries, with production in Europe in both Holland and Belgium.\nHiller OH-23C Raven (O-36 c/n 937). It is a single-engine three-seat light utility helicopter produced in the US Hiller Helicopters Inc. it was first flown in 1948. The UH-12 in service with the US-Army was designated H-23 Raven, redesignated OH-23 Raven (Observation Helicopter) in 1962.\nSud Aviation SE3130 Alouette II (painted as 'H-4' really A-29 ex Belgian Air Force). The Alouette first flew in 1955, it was the first Gas turbine powered helicopter, by 1975 1500 had been built.\nSikorsky (S-58) UH-34J Seabat (134 'V' 58-1725) of the Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine - MLD).\nAgusta Bell AB204B (225 'K' c/n 3023) of the Royal Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine - MLD).\nSud Aviation SE3160 Alouette III (A-465) painted in the Dutch display team 'Grasshoppers' scheme.\nBolkow Bo-105CB-4 (B-37 c/n S-237) it carries former KFOR markings.\nMilitaire Luchtvaart Museum\nKampweg 120\n3769 DJ Soesterberg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 8925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://taubmancollege.umich.edu/urbanplanning/faculty/directory/robert-fishman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPLYGPAEEYAW2KMBY6IR7EMEZ5J4INFO", "length": 1915, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "taubmancollege.umich.edu", "title": "Robert Fishman | Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning", "raw_content": "Professor of Architecture and Urban and Regional Planning\nfishmanr@umich.edu\nUrban and Urban Planning History\nRobert Fishman, professor of architecture and urban planning, teaches in the urban design, architecture, and urban planning programs at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. and A.M. in history from Harvard and his A.B. in history from Stanford University. An internationally recognized expert in the areas of urban history and urban policy and planning, he has authored several books regarded as seminal texts on the history of cities and urbanism including Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (1987) and Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century: Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Le Corbusier (1977). His honors include the 2009 Laurence Gerckens Prize for lifetime achievement of the Society for City and Regional Planning History; the Walker Ames Lectureship, the University of Washington, Seattle, 2010; the Emil Lorch Professorship at the Taubman College, 2006-2009; Public Policy Scholar, the Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., 1999; the Cass Gilbert Professorship at the University of Minnesota, 1998; and visiting professorships at the University of Paris, Nanterre; the University of Pennsylvania; and Columbia University. He is currently working on a history of sustainability.\nDean Fishman Discusses Archigram Legacy in Architect's Newspaper (Tuesday, January 31, 2017)\nTaubman College's Commitment to International Faculty, Students and Staff (Monday, January 30, 2017)\nFishman Comments on Detroit Redevelopment Plans (Thursday, August 25, 2016)\nDean Robert Fishman announces Research Through Making winners (Thursday, May 12, 2016)\nRobert Fishman featured in WalletHub's 2015 safest states study (Tuesday, June 2, 2015)\nThomas and Fishman contribute to 'Planning Ideas That Matter' (Friday, September 5, 2014)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 320, "original_length": 10220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 124.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tcujournalismworkshop.com/2018/06/suicide-rates-rising-for-younger-generations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:49Z", "digest": "sha1:AG7YC4XHBCFX5BSD5KZA4S4RVNYFCJDN", "length": 1827, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "tcujournalismworkshop.com", "title": "Suicide rates rising for younger generations \u2013 The Future 15", "raw_content": "Suicide has been on the rise for young Americans. A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that suicide surpassed homicide to become the second-leading cause of death for people ages 15 to 24.\nAccording to the CDC study, about 5,723 suicides occur each year in that age group. The number one cause of death is unintentional injuries.\nThese graphics illustrate the rise in teen suicide.\nTo respond to several suicides in schools across the district in 2009, Fort Worth ISD has implemented programs like Lifelines, a mandatory suicide prevention curriculum for faculty, staff, parents and students. In addition to Lifelines, schools have counselors and intervention specialists on their campuses available to students at all times.\n\u201cWe are encouraging our teachers to pay attention \u2026 because kids need somebody to talk to,\u201d said Cynthia Bethany, Fort Worth Independent School District Crisis and Prevention Specialist.\nIn Fort Worth ISD, if a student says something that would indicate think they were contemplating suicide, they would then take a risk assessment \u2014 a series of questions meant to determine how likely someone is to commit suicide. Even a lower-risk student would still be entered into a program meant to ensure safety and support, including a conversation with their parents.\nOther resources include a mobile-crisis outreach team that would send a trained professional to provide care, a national suicide prevention hotline, and Friends for Life, which is part of the Campus Crime Stoppers program.\nSeveral students said awareness of the rise in suicide has increased in recent years.\n\u201cIt could be the varsity cheerleader or the star quarterback,\u201d Burleson High School student Madison Hein said. \u201cIt could be anyone so you have to make sure you\u2019re watching out for everybody.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tdkmarketing.com/cells-chat-via-cannabinoids-about-your-future-diabetes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:22Z", "digest": "sha1:WKROG3ZU2ECERZE5EAIVRNHYHQHJKVWW", "length": 858, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tdkmarketing.com", "title": "Cells chat via cannabinoids, about your future diabetes | TDK Marketing", "raw_content": "Cells chat via cannabinoids, about your future diabetes\nby Top Health News -- ScienceDaily | Feb 1, 2016 | Health & Wellness |\nThe level of glucose in human blood depends on the continuous cooperation between two types of cells in the pancreas. Alpha cells secrete glucagon hormone that increases glucose in blood, while the beta cells secrete insulin, the hormone decreasing glucose concentration. Scientists have recently discovered that the alpha and beta cells communicate with each other, and the central role in this communication is played by cannabinoids \u2013 organic compounds that occur in nature also in inflorescences of cannabis. In recent studies it has also been shown that cannabinoids have an impact on the identity of the beta cells, and in human embryos they may lead to significant changes in the architecture of a forming pancreatic islets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://technologynewsdesk.com/2017/12/31/practical-and-helpful-tips-experts-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YLMHG6M7BJ3EI5PBBVGJWWMVZIFFXPPS", "length": 2490, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "technologynewsdesk.com", "title": "Practical and Helpful Tips: Experts | Technology News Desk", "raw_content": "What Can You Benefit through Hiring Janitorial Services?\nOne who is a homeowner might know that he or she certainly has a lot of duties to see to when it comes to caring for the home \u2013 one of these duties is making sure that the home is always clean. If you are a very busy person, however, you might not have time nor energy to spend doing the tedious tasks which are involved in cleaning your home in a manner which is thorough. It is good to know that these homeowners can hire janitorial services, professionals who are experts in the work of cleaning. Hiring janitorial services, then, is definitely something that you should do because when you do so, you can be sure that you will indeed be able to gain benefits and advantages which are numerous and wonderful at the same time.\nThe first thing that people will be able to gain when they hire janitorial services is the benefit of being able to save a great deal of time. One who is a very busy person might not have enough time nor energy to take care of the tasks involved in cleaning his or her house, tasks which can take up so much time. One will be glad to know, then, that he or she can hire janitorial services, and when this is done, the work of cleaning will be done for him or her.\nAnother thing that people will be able to gain when they hire janitorial services is the benefit of being able to enjoy much better health altogether. People who do not have time to clean their homes might not be able to get rid of dust mites, allergens, insect remains, pet dander, and even mold, and all of these substances can be damaging to health. One will be glad to now, then, that when professionals are hired to take care of the job of cleaning, all of these dangerous substances can be eliminated, and health can be improved greatly.\nOne will also be able to benefit through hiring professional janitorial services because when he or she does so, the house is sure to look more beautiful. The reason why this is so is because professionals are equipped with everything that they need to do the best work \u2013 professionals have skill, experience, training, and all of the tools and solutions which will make any house look lovely.\nOne who hires professionals who offer janitorial services, then, can be sure that when he or she does so, a lot of truly wonderful benefits and advantages can be enjoyed altogether.\nPrevious Previous post: Finding Ways To Keep Up With Camping\nNext Next post: Short Course on Tips \u2013 What You Should Know", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=258", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:40Z", "digest": "sha1:4RWABJIBTYRTOF4XKZ5DMUKKLAVI4MBX", "length": 944, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "technovelgy.com", "title": "Prism Window by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth) from The Space Merchants", "raw_content": "A device for getting a better view of the ground from inside an airplane.\nNow why didn't I think of this? What is it that you are always trying to get a better view of from an airplane? The ground, of course.\nIt wasn't a pleasant trip; it was a miserable trip on a miserable, undersized tourist rocket. We flew low, and there were prism windows at all seats, which never fail to make me airsick. Your turn your head and look out and you're looking straight down.\nFrom The Space Merchants, by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth).\nMore Ideas and Technology from The Space Merchants\nMore Ideas and Technology by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth)\nTech news articles related to The Space Merchants\nTech news articles related to works by Frederik Pohl (w/CM Kornbluth)\nArticles related to Transportation\nVolvo's Self-Driving Mining Trucks\nMusk Declares Tesla Supercharger Capacity Will Double By Next Year\nFord's Autonomous Cabs 'Transportation As A Service'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://test.fabula.org/actualites/the-future-of-work-in-the-postdigital-age_88751.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:57Z", "digest": "sha1:HSXNFNGIGK3TROMCDWZKDXLGHKS4KWE6", "length": 3540, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "test.fabula.org", "title": "The Future of Work in the Postdigital Age (Varsovie, Pologne)", "raw_content": "Information publi\u00e9e le 5 janvier 2019 par Marc Escola (source : Micha\u0142 Krzykawski)\nThe Future of Work in the Postdigital Age\nPapers and panels are invited for an interdisciplinary conference \u2018The Future of Work in the Postdigital Age\u2019, which will take place in Warsaw, 27-28 May 2019. The conference is organized by the Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw (Poland) and is part of the project Technology and Socialization.\nEWA MAZIERSKA (University of Central Lancashire)\nBERNARD STIEGLER (The Institut de recherche et d\u2019innovation at the Centre Pompidou)\nGREGG LAMBERT (CNY Humanities Corridor Humanities Center Syracuse University)\nIt is a widely acknowledged fact that work has undergone profound changes since the introduction of digital technologies, which coincided with the hegemony of neoliberalism. This is expressed by terms such as \u2018digital labour\u2019, \u2018immaterial labour\u2019, \u2018biotechnologies\u2019, \u2018gift economy\u2019 and \u2018precariat\u2019. However, the effect of development of digital technologies, its influence on the analogue spheres of human life and their relation to neoliberalism have received relatively little attention. For example, do the successes of companies such as Amazon and Uber rely mostly on their technological advancement or do they rather take advantage of deregulation and globalisation of economy, which allows capitalists to return to the 19th century models of workers\u2019 exploitation? Given the high level of accumulation of capital and the perspective of most jobs being taken by robots, can we say that the current model of capitalism is exhausted and if so, what system will replace it? We hope to find answers to this and similar questions or at least clarify them during this conference.\nThe conference invites scholars and practitioners from all relevant disciplines, such as philosophy, anthropology, sociology, economy, IT studies, history, pedagogical studies, literary, film and media studies, to take part in a timely discussion about work in postdigital age.\nProposals are welcome on, but not limited to, the following topics:\nWhat are the meanings of the term \u2018work in the postdigital age\u2019?\nHow does neoliberalism and (post)digitalisation affect different types of work: manual, intellectual, productive and service work and its relation to capital? What is the role of trade unions and other forms of organised labour in the new, deregulated and fluid landscape of labour?\nHow have the boundaries between work, leisure and other forms of non-work been affected by digital technologies and neoliberalism?\nHow is new and future work represented in literature, visual arts and different forms of the moving image?\nDo the works of the leading \u2018philosophers of work\u2019, such as Marx and Engels, Foucault, Bourdieu, and Hardt and Negri, need to be substantially updated in the light of the \u2018postdigital\u2019?\nPresentations are expected to be between 20 and 30 minutes.\nPlease send abstracts of max 300 words, attached in a word-document, with a short bio, to technologyandsocialization@gmail.com by 31 March 2019.\nShould you need any further information, do not hesitate to contact us at the same e-mail address. All information related to the conference and the Technology and Socialization project and can be found here.\nWe are looking forward to your participation and to hosting you in Warsaw.\nProfessor Szymon Wr\u00f3bel\nDr Micha\u0142 Krzykawski\nDr Krzysztof Skonieczny\nDr Katarzyna Szafranowska\nThe Faculty of Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw\nhttps://technologyandsocialization.al.uw.edu.pl/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5146, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2013/03/i-pronounced-this-pig-guilty-of-murder.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:59Z", "digest": "sha1:KGJC7B6YL2H2WW6HF4PUD7W4XEAGQII5", "length": 5017, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "the-history-girls.blogspot.com", "title": "The History Girls: 'I Pronounced this Pig Guilty of Murder' by Karen Maitland", "raw_content": "'I Pronounced this Pig Guilty of Murder' by Karen Maitland\nWith horsemeat much in news recently, it\u2019s made me think about way animals were regarded in past centuries and what it reveals a lot about how people viewed their world and their place in. Take, for example, the medieval animal trials.\nIn the Middle Ages, animals could be arrested and tried in court in exactly the same way as humans. In 1457 a sow was convicted in court of the murder of five year old John Martin and was sentenced to be hanged, but the prosecution could find no evidence that the six piglets, though blood-stained had actually assisted in the murder, so they were released on condition that they should be returned to court if their future conduct proved criminal. Likewise, of the herd of pigs that trampled a swineherd in Burgundy in 1379, only four were executed for leading the charge.\nWhile in the 1200\u2019s a lawyer, Henry de Bracton, successful argued that a horse was guilty of rape for having mounted a nobleman\u2019s mare without consent and should therefore be castrated.\nIn the Middle Ages all kinds of animals were taken to court. The citizens of Saint-Julien-de-Maurienne in France three times sued a mass of flies which had ruined their vines. The townspeople lost their case when a lawyer argued that God had commanded the flies to be \u2018fruitful and multiply\u2019 therefore they were legally permitted to eat the vines. Other lawyers successfully defended rats, the animal not the human variety, using a similar arguments.\nMany of the trials centered around the belief that animals could be demons in disguise, or, in the case of a badger, according to Abbot Guibert of Nogent in 1120, it was actually the devil himself. And where pests such as weevils, caterpillars, locusts, moles and flocks of birds were found guilty of destroying crops or food on the orders of the devil, formal rituals of excommunication were carried out against them. While in 1474, a cockerel was put on trial for 'the heinous and unnatural crime of laying an egg,' which the people feared contained a cockatrice or basilisk .\nIf a witch was sentenced to be executed, it was believed she couldn\u2019t die until her imps or familiars were named and killed first, so many an innocent cat, hare or toad was put into a box and burned alive, or else tortured in order to make their \u2018mistress\u2019 confess. In the St Osyth witch trials of 1582, Ursula Kemp confessed that her black lamb, Tyffin, which was one of her imps, spied on her neighbours and told her all their secrets.\nBut it\u2019s easy to understand why you might stage an elaborate public execution of an animal if you believed it was a demon and therefore capable of malicious intent. But why go to the trouble of trying an animal that had simply mauled someone? It was time-consuming and very expense to put the animals on trial just as it was for a human. When a bull was sentenced to be hanged for murder it took two days just to build a scaffold and pulleys. So if you thought he was dangerous why not simply kill him, as you would if you were going to slaughter him for meat?\nI think the reason was that an animal turning on a human was regarded as treason. Animals were considered a lower a form of life in the order of creation and just as when a servant killed their master, or a wife killed her husband, such a crime was not simply murder it was considered petty treason and punished as such. In the case of a wife killing her husband she could be burned to death. So it maybe that the public trial and execution of animal was seen as warning to the people not to try to overthrow the natural order and rebel against your betters or you too could find yourself hanging from the gallows like that unfortunate pig.\nI wonder what historians looking back on our century will deduce about us from who or what we put on trial.\nLabels: animal trials, Karen Maitland, Medieval, treason, witches\nGreat post - such lunacy was not confined to the Middle Ages. In 1916 they hanged an elephant for murder in Tennesee!\nWhat an intriguing post.\nReminded me of a Julian Barnes novel, where the woodworm that ate through the legs of the bishop's chair, so that the chair collapsed when the bishop sat in it, were tried for heresy. Possibly a real case, then.\nWhat a fascinating post Karen and you make it all sound so plausible but how does one explain it still happening in 1916 in Tennessee?\nThere was an interesting article on Slate a few weeks ago on just this topic. Always fascinating!\nExcellent post - but maybe also, when a pig had eaten a baby, for example, it gave the people the chance to vent their anger? Like when the fox bit the baby in London and people called for a cull?\nI wonder whether the 'executed' animals were butchered afterwards?\nAnd to what extent it might be a roundabout way of punishing the owner, by depriving them if their livestock.\n(and in the cases where the animal was defended by a lawyer, who paid the lawyer? vine eating flies can't have much cash, surely?)\nA very interesting topic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 10559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2013/03/two-memorials.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:14Z", "digest": "sha1:AA6GUNSFOYOPYOXQWUJTYIDW3TRHZV4A", "length": 4854, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "the-history-girls.blogspot.com", "title": "The History Girls: Two memorials", "raw_content": "Piazza della Signoria, Florence. Photo credit: Saliko\nI first set foot in this (normally much more crowded) square when I was twenty, on the month in Florence that has shaped so much of my adult life and sensibility. I wasn't much less innocent than Lucy Honeychurch but fortunately witnessed no stabbing.\nHowever, a violent death is commemorated in the Piazza della Signoria and tourists walk over the spot where it happened every day; not all of them stop and read the words on the memorial.\n\"Here, where with his fellow friars Brother Domenico Buonvicini and Brother Silvestro Maruffi, on the 23rd May, 1498, because of an unjust judgment, was hanged and burned Brother Girolamo Savonarola, was placed this memorial after four hundred years.\"\nAlthough he was hanged before being burned, Savonarola (and his fellow friars) were still alive when dropped into the flames. As well as the ropes that hanged them, the friars hands were bound; the flames burned through the rope round Savonarola's right wrist and his hand appeared to rise in blessing.*\nThe three died convicted of heresy, Savonarola having been excommunicated by the Pope the year before. But his teachings have not died out and he has even been considered for Beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.\nThis is an almost contemporary painting of what many consider the martyrdom of Savonarola and his fellow-friars in the Piazza della Signoria, where the circular plaque above now sits.\nLess than sixty years later, three more martyrs were burned for heresy and a memorial placed hundreds of years later. It happened in Oxford, my nearest city, and the victims this time were Protestants, tortured and executed by \"Bloody\" Mary Tudor.\nThis humble cross of stones marks the spot in Broad Street near enough to where first Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley and, five months later, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, were burned for their faith in 1555 and 1556. It was not until the 19th century that the Gothic Spire of the Martyrs' Memorial in St. Giles was raised.\nIt was recorded in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs (2nd edition 1563) that Hugh Latimer said as he burned, \"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.\" It sounds remarkably well-composed for someone dying in agony.\nThe burning of Latimer and Ridley from Foxe's Book of Martyrs\nOxford is full of memorials to the three martyrs for Anglicanism. The tower you can see in the top right corner of Foxe's engraving is that of St. Michael at the Northgate in Cornmarket, where the door of the cell that housed all three men before their trials and death is said to be displayed. I must go and see it. Likewise this stained glass window:\nIt is in Christchurch Cathedral and commemorates all three martyrs, even though it is known as the Cranmer Window. They didn't die together but they are remembered together, unlike Savonarola's fellow-victims, whose names are not as well-known as those of Latimer and Ridley.\nI never go to Florence, where I shall next be in April, without visiting Savonarola's plaque. I disagree with him about a lot of things, including Lorenzo de' Medici, the Bonfire of the Vanities etc. But his torture and death still move me and he must have been a powerfully charismatic figure. (I wrote about his followers in David, 2011).\nThe Martyrs' Memorial in St Giles leaves me cold but I do try to visit the little cross in the ground in the Broad as often as I am in central Oxford - I find it intensely moving.\n*This information was provided by self-confessed \"Savonarola-nerd\" Anne Rooney.\nLabels: Florence, Girolamo Savonarola, Hugh Latimer, Mary Hoffman, memorials, Nicholas Ridley, Oxford, Thomas Cranmer\nThat memorial was pointed out to me by student of history of art when he gave me \"a guided tour of the things people do not usually notice\". How right he was!\nThank you - moving words.\nKaren Maitland said...\nA very moving piece. The cruelty of humans to each other never fails to shock and sadden me, especially when it's carried out in the name of a loving and forgiving God. Religion seems to have a way of bringing out the very best and the very worst in people.\nWhat Karen said....I will look for that cross in the Broad next time I'm in Oxford. Very interesting post.\nHey, I'm a 'Savonarola-nerd\"! Goodie! I go more often to Ferrarra where there is a brilliant statue of him and a round plaque that commemorates his birth and that he was 'arso in Firenze' which somehow manages to get the tone of snarking at Florence (quite right, too).\nEvery time I go to Venice I light a candle in Zanipolo for Marcantonio Bragadin. we all have our favourite martyrs...\nWhat is it about institutions that preservation of what was is so much more important than examination of what might be that murder is acceptable?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 225, "original_length": 10283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thebiggeidea.blogspot.com/2006/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:N7AEYDR33HTGYMHIYW2T4HX2IREDINMN", "length": 1480, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "thebiggeidea.blogspot.com", "title": "Bigge Idea: 08/01/2006 - 09/01/2006", "raw_content": "New York (University), New York (University)\nIf you're in New York at the end of September, consider dropping by NYU for a student conference entitled Identity and Identification in a Networked World. The details are here. I'll be presenting a paper on neo-luddites and myspace.com.\nWay to Go, Bert\nBert Archer snuck the phrase \"a very up-tempo nooner\" past the stodgy guardians at the Globe and Mail. Great work. The entire sentence, for your edification:\nAnd who do you see with the cute round numbers? Perky girls on upright bikes with colourful baskets on the back, looking like they're on their way to a picnic, or possibly a very up-tempo nooner.\nI'm ashamed to admit this, but it was not until last week that I finally bought and started reading the very, very excellent uTOpia anthology published by Coach House. There is a sequel coming out this fall -- that's how far behind I am.\nHeather McLean refers to an article of mine in her uTOpia piece Go west, young hipster: the gentrification of Queen Street West. The problems here are twofold. One, she claims the article appeared in the Toronto Star, instead of the National Post. Secondly (and worsely), the quote she attributes to me (via the Star) doesn't appear in my article. She clearly quoted from a Toronto Star article about the Drake (which was written two years after mine), but attributed it to me.\nIt's a strong piece otherwise.\nFark You, Fark Me\nI've been Farked.\n(Thanks to Darren Atwater for the heads up).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 4926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thecommentist.com/roll-to-hit/rths4e07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UVIIBJ622RCZ5J2RSQGORPAQRXFWVTLC", "length": 141, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thecommentist.com", "title": "S4E07 \u2013 Ahhh I See You\u2019ve Been Shopping! | The Commentist", "raw_content": "S4E07 \u2013 Ahhh I See You\u2019ve Been Shopping!\nOur adventurers stock up at the store for the next leg of the campaign. Yes\u2026it\u2019s a shopping episode.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theelectricchoice.com/whats-the-best-electricity-provider-cheap-elec-and-gas.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:7EM6T5DVMSPEUAVFGLX5OY3UXP7GPOPB", "length": 883, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "theelectricchoice.com", "title": "Commercial Electricity Prices Compare Utility Bills | Cheap Electricity Northern Ireland Compare Electricity Prices Online", "raw_content": "Founded in 2008, Frontier Utilities is a retail electric and gas provider serving deregulated Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois; dedicated to providing honest and innovative electricity solutions for both residential and commercial customers. They offer a wide variety of plan options that serve different needs of their customers. Frontier Utilities is A-Rated on the Better Business Bureau and has won the Distinction Award for 4 years in a row (2014, 2015, 2016, 2017).\nThere are over 60 different energy suppliers competing for your business on any given day in Texas. Many of these electric companies have websites that are confusing and nearly impossible to navigate, their rates and fees hidden by dense industry jargon and misleading advertising. Who has the spare the time to sort through the choices spread out over all these different sites and companies?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 5987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefanlistings.org/browse.php?show=fanworks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ONT6T46Q5B2DB2TBJS3LODBAIA5SE2SA", "length": 840, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thefanlistings.org", "title": "The Fanlistings Network", "raw_content": "The Fan Works category contains a broad range of fanlistings, covering many genres and topics. This category also contains several relationship fanlistings. These are primarily 'fan creations' and are not fanlistings for the specific relationship between these people/characters. Remember that fanfiction and fanart is fictional work based on perception of real life people or someone else's fictional work.\nFanlistings of an adult nature (unsuitable for children due to sexual content, violence, or mature subject matter) are listed here and are not separated from the 'regular listings', therefore you may find subjects that you don't like, agree with, are unfamiliar with or may find offensive. We advise caution and an open mind when viewing these fanlistings.\nTo continue to the approved list for the Fan Works category, click here! :)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thegrampus-inn.co.uk/?p=45", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:42Z", "digest": "sha1:G3SZ4BI6VURSXQVIZ6DNX2QM4RM36UQD", "length": 1535, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "thegrampus-inn.co.uk", "title": "Martini | Thegrampus-inn.co.uk", "raw_content": "Martini is one of the most popular drinks to be served at a bar. At least it was in the 1920\u2019s. Over the years it has been overshadowed by other cocktails. In the UK it is particularly difficult to find a bar that specifically serves a martini cocktail mixed to perfection. Luckily there are plenty of\nexperts who still specialise in the drink.\nMore often than not a bar WILL serve the drink brand Martini. They just will not necessarily use it to create a Martini cocktail. Fans of the Dry Martini have in recent years noticed how frustrating it is to order one and be presented with a shot of single vermouth.\nHow To Make The Perfect Dry Martini\nIf you find yourself at a bar where the staff are unsure how to make a Dry Martini then here is the recipe:\nPour in 1 part dry vermouth and 6 parts gin. This is typically 1/2 oz vermouth to 3 oz gin.\nShake the cocktail well. Some people like to stir instead. However as James Bond states himself this is not the right way to do it!\nStrain the drink from the shaker into the martini glass.\nGarnish the cocktail with an olive and/or a twist of lemon.\nDry Martini Alternatives\nThere are some people who do not like a Dry Martini. This does not mean they can\u2019t enjoy vermouth however. Here are some alternatives:\nThe Martinez: This is made from sweeter versions of the dry gin and vermouth found in the original cocktail.\nThe Bronx: This adds in orange juice.\nThe Strike: This turns the drink on it\u2019s head by introducing additional ingredients all with the purpose of sweetening the mixture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thehitchhikersgui.de/Los_Angeles_Rams", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:41Z", "digest": "sha1:JYLNLJNDM454WYDXRV4FD6OFVLFNFG42", "length": 494, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thehitchhikersgui.de", "title": "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on Los Angeles Rams", "raw_content": "Retrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Los_Angeles_Rams&oldid=883092448\"\nAmerican Football League (1936) teams\nThis content was retrieved from Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Rams\nThis page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article \"Los Angeles Rams\"; it is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA). You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the CC-BY-SA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1465, "original_length": 101049, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 82.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thenewlandsurgery.co.uk/opening-times.aspx?t=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:11Z", "digest": "sha1:5HIOSLZXIQ3RUVCLCE5TZPCKXWGS5PO5", "length": 943, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thenewlandsurgery.co.uk", "title": "Newland Surgery - Doctors surgery opening times and what to do when we are closed", "raw_content": "The above times are our surgery hours, the practice doors are open throughout the week from 08:00 - 18:30.\nMonday from 18:30 - 20:30 (Prebooked appointments only).\nThe practice is closed during all Public Holidays. Please remember to order your prescriptions early.\nBetween the hours of 18:30pm - 08:00am the medical centre is closed. If you need medical help fast and you are not in a life threatening situation please call the new NHS 111 Service.\nOn dialling NHS 111 a team of fully trained advisers and experienced nurses will assess your condition and direct you to a local service that can help you best, when you need it.\nDial 999 if you are in a life threatening emergency situation\nAlternatively you can visit the Walk in Centre at King Street Health Centre in Wakefield which is open 7 days a week between 08:00 - 20:00. The address is 47 King Street, Wakefield, West Yorkshire WF1 2SY.\nNHS Direct (0845 4647) will soon be superceded", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://therepublikofmancunia.com/rio-i-didnt-think-jt-would-miss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:53Z", "digest": "sha1:IRNJX237VSUKNQFQJXIR5LL7UW2JIK4J", "length": 3128, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "therepublikofmancunia.com", "title": "Rio: I Didn\u2019t Think JT Would Miss", "raw_content": "Rio: I Didn't Think JT Would Miss\nRio Ferdinand has avoided Wayne Rooney\u2019s stag do this weekend, which certainly won\u2019t do his status with Sir Alex Ferguson and Fabio Capello any harm. Instead, after travelling with the national side to Trinidad last week, he\u2019s made a trip Nigeria, where he\u2019s had several commitments to fulfil within a short 36 hour period. Visiting an orphanage, meeting the state governor, having lunch with influential business people, attending a gala dinner and a soccer clinic, as well as playing some street football.\nWhilst in Nigeria, he spoke to a journalist about Euro 2008 and our recent European Cup victory.\nHe will have missed the opening games of Euro 2008 on Saturday, where his team mates Ronaldo and Nani earned an opening day victory against Turkey, and it\u2019s not for the first time either. This will be the third European Championships in Ferdinand\u2019s career and the third time that he has failed to play. In the summer of 2000, where he made his move from West Ham to Leeds United, as the most expensive defender in the World and the most expensive player in England, Keegan omitted him from his squad that travelled to Belgium and Holland.\nHe missed the second Euros because of the lengthy ban imposed on him by the FA. It was a case of them cutting off their nose to spite their face in regards to the United man. He was given an 8 month ban for missing a drugs test, despite City player Christian Negouai escaping with just a \u00a32,000 fine after doing the same thing that same year.\nThis year, Rio Ferdinand would certainly have been travelling to the Euros, most likely as England captain, but after the side got knocked out against Croatia, in a game where no United players featured, he will again miss the tournament. But will he be watching it? \u201cNo way,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t do Euros, do I? They\u2019re not in my remit,\u201d he added with a smile.\nFerdinand tips Italy to be the winners, ruling out Portugal because \u201ctheir midfield is too weak\u201d and citing Eduardo\u2019s injury as the reason for Croatia not winning. \u201cWho scored all their goals in qualification,\u201d he said.\nOur defender relived that incredible evening in Moscow, admitting that when he watched John Terry walk towards the goal, he imagined their European dream was over. He was asked did he expect JT to miss. \u201cNot really. But these things happen, thank God,\u201d replied Rio. \u201cNo one likes to lose. But penalties are absolutely the worse way to lose, and I\u2019ve been on the receiving end before.\u201d\nChelsea\u2019s Cech Loves Ronaldo\nRoque Santa Cruz \u2013 Too Similar To Saha To Replace Him\nrocakay(Lagos, Nigeria) June 8, 2008\nThank goodness England didnt make it through, i just saw Rio live in living colors and i'm so delighted. Will be turning up in Abuja next month to see my darling Utd take on Pompey. JT...........\neddidaz June 8, 2008\nRio's matured really well. I hope he remains as solid as he has been this season for many years to come.\nwhat happened tio rios head in the last 2 years something has screwed it on tighter than most in the last 10 years at united...and the way he has sorted it off the pitch you can see wat hes like on it", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 6383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thesignsofthetime.com/2samuel_14.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:02Z", "digest": "sha1:D6OWBAJCFOLA732H7BMFWSTSF524GYVB", "length": 6050, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "thesignsofthetime.com", "title": "Book 2 Samuel Chapter 14", "raw_content": "Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, write thee the name of the day, even of this same day the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day. And utter a parable unto the rebellious... [More]\n[1] Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom.\n[2] And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead\n[3] And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.\n[4] And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.\n[5] And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.\n[6] And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.\n[7] And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.\n[8] And the king said unto the woman, Go to thine house, and I will give charge concerning thee.\n[9] And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father's house and the king and his throne be guiltless.\n[10] And the king said, Whosoever saith ought unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.\n[11] Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.\n[12] Then the woman said, Let thine handmaid, I pray thee, speak one word unto my lord the king. And he said, Say on.\n[13] And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.\n[14] For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.\n[15] Now therefore that I am come to speak of this thing unto my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid and thy handmaid said, I will now speak unto the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his handmaid.\n[16] For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.\n[17] Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable for as an angel of God, so is my lord the king to discern good and bad therefore the LORD thy God will be with thee.\n[18] Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.\n[19] And the king said, Is not the hand of Joab with thee in all this? And the woman answered and said, As thy soul liveth, my lord the king, none can turn to the right hand or to the left from ought that my lord the king hath spoken for thy servant Joab, he bade me, and he put all these words in the mouth of thine handmaid\n[20] To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.\n[21] And the king said unto Joab, Behold now, I have done this thing go therefore, bring the young man Absalom again.\n[22] And Joab fell to the ground on his face, and bowed himself, and thanked the king and Joab said, To day thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king, in that the king hath fulfilled the request of his servant.\n[23] So Joab arose and went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.\n[24] And the king said, Let him turn to his own house, and let him not see my face. So Absalom returned to his own house, and saw not the king's face.\n[25] But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.\n[26] And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year's end that he polled it because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after the king's weight.\n[27] And unto Absalom there were born three sons, and one daughter, whose name was Tamar she was a woman of a fair countenance.\n[28] So Absalom dwelt two full years in Jerusalem, and saw not the king's face.\n[29] Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.\n[30] Therefore he said unto his servants, See, Joab's field is near mine, and he hath barley there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set the field on fire.\n[31] Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?\n[32] And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur? it had been good for me to have been there still now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.\n[33] So Joab came to the king, and told him and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king, and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king and the king kissed Absalom.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 6953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thesoundofconfusionblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/weaves-take-dip.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VQPPLG63ZT2OP642II44K6LB6HJOWSNM", "length": 1483, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "thesoundofconfusionblog.blogspot.com", "title": "The Sound Of Confusion: Weaves - Take A Dip", "raw_content": "Upon hearing recent single 'Motorcycle', it seemed that Toronto's Weaves were an unusual band, one that didn't have a settled sound or a particular direction to head towards. You could hear garage, punk, psychedelia, reggae, prog... it was a wonderful cocktail. New single 'Take A Dip' feels more defined and gives you a better impression of how the band's overall sound may develop (or may already be, we've only heard these early singles, they may have many more). Once more it doesn't follow a straight path, it meanders through the musical landscape as though it's taking in the sights.\nThere are dual guitars, one laying down the general rhythm of the song, but without really being your regular \"rhythm guitar\", and the other coating swathes of contorted sound across the track like brush strokes over a huge canvas. You can definitely call this psychedelia in a more conventional way, but it also touches on modern garage. So while it's got some old rarities on its jukebox, it's trying to craft something new to pass on the mantle from those tunes that inspired it. 'Take A Dip' tidies up our notion of the band a bit, and it does this without bowing down to the ordinary. Weaves are turning out to be an enticing prospect.\nTake A Dip (Single) by Weaves\nWeaves' website\n09/28 - Montreal, QC - Club Lambi (Buzz/NeXT Showcase @ POP Montreal)\n10/10 - London, ON - 264 Dundas\n10/11 - Hamilton, ON - Baltimore House\n10/12 - Toronto, ON - The White House\n10/18 - New York, NY (CMJ)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 6336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thestorychurch.org/sunday-gathering/who-we-are/what-we-believe", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:49Z", "digest": "sha1:FGH2IUFWMGQ4TPFU5XJSGTPXPTRLNOHK", "length": 3307, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thestorychurch.org", "title": "What We Believe | The STORY Church", "raw_content": "GOD: God is the Creator and Ruler of the universe. He has eternally existed in three personalities: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. These three are co-equal and are one God. (Genesis 1:1,26,27; 3:22, Psalm 90:2, Matthew 28:19, I Peter 1:2, II Corinthians 13:14)\nMAN (And this, of course, includes Women): Man is made in the image of God. He is the supreme object of God's creation. Although God designed man to have fellowship with him, man became alienated from God through disobedience. As a result, all human beings are born with a sinful nature and choose to sin against God. Man is incapable of regaining a right relationship with God through his own efforts. (Genesis 1:27, Psalm 8:3-6, Isaiah 53:6a, Romans 3:23, Colossians 1:21, Isaiah 59:1-2)\nETERNITY: Man was created to exist forever. He will either exist eternally separated from God by sin, or in union with God, through forgiveness and salvation. To be eternally separated from God is Hell. To be eternally in union with Him is eternal life. Heaven and Hell are places of eternal existence. (John 3:16, I John 2:25; 5:11-13, Romans 6:23, Revelation 20:15)\nJESUS CHRIST: Jesus Christ is the only Son of God. He is co-equal with the Father. Jesus lived a sinless human life and offered Himself as the perfect sacrifice for the sins of all men by dying on a cross. He arose from the dead after three days to demonstrate His power over sin and death. He ascended to Heaven's glory and will return again to reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. (Matthew 1:22-23, Isaiah 9:6, John 1:1-5; 14:10-30, Hebrews 4:14-15, I Corinthians 15:3-4, Romans 1:3-4, Acts 1:9-11, I Timothy 6:14-15, Titus 2:13)\nSALVATION: Salvation is a gift from God to man. Man can never make up for his sin by self-improvement or good works. Only by trusting in Jesus Christ as God's offer of forgiveness can man be saved from sin's penalty. Eternal life begins the moment one receives Jesus Christ into his life by faith. (Romans 6:23, Ephesians 2:8-9, John 14:6; 1:12, Titus 3:5, Galatians 3:26, Romans 5:1)\nETERNAL SECURITY: Because God gives man eternal life through Jesus Christ, the believer is secure in that salvation for eternity. Salvation is maintained by the grace and power of God, not by the self-effort of the Christian. It is the grace and keeping power of God that gives this security. (John 10:29, II Timothy 1:12, Hebrews 7:25; 10:10-14, I Peter 1:3-5)\nTHE HOLY SPIRIT: The Holy Spirit is equal with the Father and the Son as God. He is present in the world to make men aware of their need for Jesus Christ. He also lives in every believer from the moment of salvation. He provides the Christian with power for living, understanding of spiritual truth, and guidance in doing what is right. The Christian seeks to live under His control daily. (II Corinthians 3:17, John 16:7-13; 14:16-17, Acts 1:8, I Corinthians 2:12; 3:16, Ephesians 1:13, Galatians 5:25, Ephesians 5:18)\nTHE BIBLE: The Bible is God's Word to all men. It was written by human authors under the supernatural guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is the supreme source of truth for Christian beliefs and living. Because it is inspired by God, it is truth without any mixture of error. (II Timothy 3:16-17, II Peter 1:20-21, II Timothy 1:13, Psalm 119:105,160, Psalm 12:6, Proverbs 30:5)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 127.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetruthdivision.com/2017/04/just-gorsuch-casts-first-major-tie-breaking-vote/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:49Z", "digest": "sha1:YF4ZWKFUORJYHN24CKVKUIUJUGPTDO5J", "length": 1601, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "thetruthdivision.com", "title": "JUST IN: Gorsuch Casts First Major Tie-Breaking Vote... And Liberals Are Shell-Shocked", "raw_content": "JUST IN: Gorsuch Casts First Major Tie-Breaking Vote\u2026 And Liberals Are Shell-Shocked\nSupreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch is having a memorable start to his career as one of America\u2019s top judges.\nLate Thursday night, Gorsuch cast the deciding vote for Arkansas to begin executing a group of 8 death-row inmates, upsetting liberals all across social media and sparking debate with regards to the death penalty.\nIn a series of orders Thursday night, the high court cleared the state to execute Ledell Lee, one of eight convicted murderers that Arkansas has been trying to put to death before one of its lethal-injection drugs expires at the end of the month. Associated Press later reported the execution had been carried out.\n\u201cApparently the reason the state decided to proceed with these eight executions is that the \u2018use by\u2019 date of the state\u2019s execution drug is about to expire,\u201d Breyer wrote. \u201cThat factor, when considered as a determining factor separating those who live from those who die, is close to random.\u201d\nJustices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan also voted to block the executions.\nShortly after the 5-4 decision, the Associated Press confirmed that the execution of Ledell Lee had been carried out and he was pronounced dead at 11:56pm. The execution was the state\u2019s first in 12 years.\nLee was the first person in a group of what had been eight men Arkansas originally planned to execute in 11 days, the most of any state in as short a period since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976.\nRelated Topics:ArkansasDonald TrumpJudge Neil GorsuchSCOTUS", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 168.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thewriterinblack.blogspot.com/2015/02/leonard-nimor-rip.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:02Z", "digest": "sha1:2LC2HMT44ZXD2ZGBPCS5JFLEZJX4U6MP", "length": 637, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "thewriterinblack.blogspot.com", "title": "The Writer in Black: Leonard Nimoy, RIP.", "raw_content": "Leonard Nimoy, RIP.\nI've never met Mr. Nimoy. I only know him from the roles he has played on the screen, chiefly Spock, of course, but here and there elsewhere.\nAnd yet I feel like I've lost a friend. Star Trek was such a big part of my life growing up. Lots of people grew up wanting to be Kirk. Frankly, I wanted to be Spock.\nSo, goodbye, Mr. Spock. It may not be the Vulcan thing to do, but I'm going to go cry in a corner now.\nDoug Jeffreys February 27, 2015 at 2:22 PM\nI also grew up watching Star Trek on T.V. and feel as if I've lost a friend. It sometimes amazes me how certain shows can have such a profound impact on our life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 158.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.com/2012/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:20Z", "digest": "sha1:XM4QXZXJSWK4OXZFKPAWGL6Q6EQAVBAC", "length": 3918, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "threescoreyearsandten.blogspot.com", "title": "Three Score Years And Ten: May 2012", "raw_content": "What should be the principle on which we decide who should have the vote?\nTo me enfranchisement rights should go to anyone who is directly effected by the decisions of those who determine laws, regulations, taxation and other public measures which impinge upon their lives. The only justification I can see for restricting voting rights would be on the grounds of a person's incapacity to exercise such rights. This limiting factor should, however, err on the side of caution - excluding from enfranchisement only those, say, under 16 years of age* and those with such a serious mental impairment that it makes them incapable of exercising voting rights.\nThat would mean that anyone who is settled in the territory concerned would have the vote. Yet we currently exclude people from voting who have settled here from overseas and are citizens of countries other than Ireland and Commonwealth nations. We also exclude many who are imprisoned. Yet they are clearly subject to the laws of the land.\nThe only problem to resolve under the principle I propound, is what should happen to British citizens who are settled overseas? It seems to me that it is only if they are significantly effected by the general principle I am using, that they should qualify here. It is the only area which calls for any serious judgement to be made. Otherwise the principle I am using is straightforward.\nAre any of our politicians arguing the above case? If not, that is seriously disturbing. It indicates a flaw in their commitment to democracy. As is the fact that even under our current inadequate enfranchisement provisions, millions of those entitled to vote are not registered.\n* = we need to recognise that the qualifying age for voting is arbitrary; but any selective method of determining when a young person should be allowed to vote would have serious dangers attached to it - which could lead to pressures to limit adult enfranchisement.\nDugsie : \"I agree with Harry. I always have.\" See here.\nIn his speech to \"Progress\" (see here), Ed Miliband has announced that Labour will be undertaking the biggest electoral registration drive for a generation. I hope that this means that such a campaign will make full use of Labour's parliamentary avenues.\nWhen I introduced a Private Members Bill in the 1992/3 parliamentary session aimed at tackling under-registration it was talked out by the Conservatives. For the measure to progress, we needed to win the closure vote and have a hundred members in our lobby. But despite the support of the Labour Front Bench (including that of Tony Blair, then Shadow Home Secretary, in the above letter), we failed as we \"only\" won the division by 78-0. It is hoped that in any re-run, sufficient Labour back-benchers will turn up.\nIn 2000, the Government eventually carried legislation which made various improvements in the electoral registration procedures, including a measure enabling those who moved home to transfer their registration arrangements without having to wait for the annual registration procedure. Unfortunately, the Electoral Commission now show that only 14% of those who have moved their homes are making use of this facility.\nI hope that Yvette Cooper, Labour's current Home Affairs' Spokesperson, will have a look at my own failed efforts to improve the legislation, including the unsuccessful improving amendments I pursued when the Commons dealt with Labour's measure in 2000.\nThe serious nature of the issue has been revealed by the Electoral Commission. At least 6 million are now missing from registers, with only 56% of 19-24 year olds being covered and the same low percentage for those in private rented accommodation.\nEd's and Yvette's campaign needs to draw from the Chartists and the Suffragettes, whose efforts have unfortunately been seriously undermined in recent years.\nLabels: Electoral, Labour Party, Political Ideas\nSee here -\nHat Tip : Musings On Iraq", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 212, "original_length": 7933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time.com/3776459/tim-hetherington-in-memoriam/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:53Z", "digest": "sha1:OY2NWDVALN5BGXPPDPNM75NHRUH3CFAR", "length": 2101, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "time.com", "title": "Tim Hetherington in Memoriam | Time.com", "raw_content": "Tim Hetherington (right) and Sebastian Junger (left) at the Restrepo outpost in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. Junger and Hetherington jointly directed, filmed and produced the movie 'Restrepo' from June 2007 to January 2010.Tim Hetherington\nTim Hetherington (right) and Sebastian Junger (left) at the Restrepo outpost in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan. Junger\nToday, the devastating news arrived that Tim Hetherington had been killed in Misratah, Libya. He was many things: a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker, an artist and friend. He recently won popular acclaim after the documentary Restrepo, which he directed, was nominated for an Oscar. Tim was always trying to pull together the bits and pieces of all the news that was going on around him, to figure out how to follow them through to tell the whole story. He did that with war and, more specifically, with the men who go to war.\nI first met Tim in 2006 when he showed me the photographs he took covering the civil war in Liberia. He had his share of grisly war pictures but there was a difference, a thoughtfulness to many of his images: he always revisited the aftermath, pushing himself to find something new long after the media was gone.\nSo much of his vision comes together in his last photo book Infidel, a project done at the same time as Restrepo. I sat down with Tim in November 2010 to put together this brief video about Infidel and how it documented the life of a U.S. platoon in Afghanistan, operating in the Korengal Valley, one of the most dangerous places on earth. He said that when people think about the \u201cwar machine\u201d what comes to mind are images of tanks and apache helicopters, or as he said, \u201cinanimate objects.\u201d But, he said, \u201cI\u2019ve come to realize the war machine is, in fact, very human. Take a group of young men, train them together, put them on the side of a mountain and they will kill and be killed for each other.\u201d His work on Infidel and Restrepo is the most intimate portrayal of men at war that I know; and it is a poignant testament to what Tim wanted to say.\nRelated: Chris Hondros In Memoriam.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 190.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timesofpakistan.pk/international-news/2012-08-24/european-crisis-puts-new-spotlight-on-monarchies-spending/62017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:10Z", "digest": "sha1:ORVTVO35TGKBLHVBCNH5XVA45HHUF34X", "length": 3522, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "timesofpakistan.pk", "title": "European crisis puts new spotlight on monarchies\u2019 spending", "raw_content": "Europe\u2019s royals under pressure to make austerity cuts:\u2009The euro crisis has renewed calls for monarchs in Spain, Britain and other countries to reduce their spending.\nMADRID \u2014 Shortly after confiding to his countrymen that he had been unable to sleep at night because of all the young unemployed people in his country, Spanish King Juan Carlos secretly hopped aboard a plane and went on a lavish safari to Botswana, where he shot elephants.\nWhen word leaked out this spring, Spaniards were outraged. Newspapers calculated that such hunting trips cost twice the country\u2019s average annual salary. Tomas Gomez, a Socialist party leader, called on the king to choose between his \u201cpublic responsibilities or an abdication.\u201d Now, critics are calling on him to slash his budget and reveal how he is spending the money. The backlash against the 74-year-old king is part of a broader soul-searching in Europe about the role and relevance of monarchies as the economic crisis deepens.\nWhile it is the royals\u2019 fairy-tale lives \u2014 the palaces, couture and love affairs \u2014 that have made many of them such fascinating public figures, that extravagance now seems out of place. Politicians, local media outlets and average citizens are openly questioning why taxpayers should be footing the bill for royals \u2014 who consume tens of millions of dollars each year \u2014 while much of the rest of the population of the continent suffers amid cuts in civil-service salaries, pensions and health care.\n\u201cAs the problems with public finances have intensified, so, too, have the questions about the monarchies and their spending,\u201d said Herman Matthijs, a professor at the University of Ghent and University of Brussels who conducts an annual study of the costs associated with European heads of state.\nIn Belgium, King Albert II found himself in the hot seat this year after his official budget was increased by 3 percent, prompting him to announce that he would cover some of his own expenses for the next two years, saving the country the equivalent of $616,000. Dutch Queen Beatrix, who has faced criticism about maintenance costs for her yacht being borne by her country\u2019s Defense Ministry, said she would pay them herself.\nEven Queen Elizabeth II, who celebrated her diamond jubilee in June before a sea of 1 million adoring British citizens, has not been immune from pressure to slash the monarchy\u2019s budget. She froze staff salaries, postponed maintenance work on royal residences and dropped the full-time security protection for Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.\nThis week, nude photos of Prince Harry partying in Las Vegas brought a flurry of criticism to the royal house, claiming abuse of the 24-hour taxpayer-funded security detail that is assigned to the playboy prince. One Briton tweeted that he has no issue with Prince Harry having fun, but \u201cI do object to having to foot the bill for it.\u201d Local newspaper columnist Rod McPhee wondered, \u201cWas it a small, medium or large sized town of tax payers who paid for Prince Harry\u2019s bar tab in Vegas?\u201d\nA beloved monarch\nRecent controversy aside, Juan Carlos has long been one of Europe\u2019s most popular royals. It is not unusual to find Spaniards who say they are anti-monarchy but pro-Juan Carlos. Handpicked by the dictator Francisco Franco to be his successor, Juan Carlos instead steered the country toward a parliamentary monarchy after Franco died in 1975.\nTagged: botswanaeuropean crisisincrease in unemploymentjuan carlosspanish kingtomas gomez\nWeight loss surgery helps prevent diabetes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 8014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tomnees.com/uncategorized/the-pastoral-role/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FEOIVDDGIEY4EWU6XKAL25JETLBZPK2I", "length": 952, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "tomnees.com", "title": "\u2018The Pastoral Role\u2019 |", "raw_content": "\u2190 Is America Racist?\nA Night of Hope \u2192\nThis entry was posted in Reviews, Serving. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 Responses to \u2018The Pastoral Role\u2019\nThanks for a thought-provoking column. Several years ago, I learned a life-lesson from my Uncle Carl, who had served as a Nazarene pastor for nearly 35 years. He and my aunt reached a point where he became her primary care-giver, and for four years he was largely unable to leave their home, except when someone else would come and sit with her while he was gone. His attendance at church became spotty, and he would have to have a sitter with her just to go buy groceries. He told me that during that period, they only had two pastoral visits from the staff of their church. Then he said: I don\u2019t understand why people go into ministry anymore, if it\u2019s not to be those who are suffering and those who mourn.\nRon Benefiel says:\nThank you Tom. I think this qualifies as \u201cprofound\u201d.\nThanks for sending it our way\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tomslee.net/2011/04/facebook-style-democracy-only-if-it-suits.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:37Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSMJMZOTLTFZREV3CDELRAGCA2R4II6J", "length": 3080, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "tomslee.net", "title": "Facebook-style democracy: only if it suits \u2013 Tom Slee", "raw_content": "Tom Slee \u00bb Uncategorized \u00bb Facebook-style democracy: only if it suits\nFacebook-style democracy: only if it suits\nFacebook has been deleting accounts of activist groups in the UK, according to the Guardian and to students at University College London, in what Adbusters is calling a #zuckup. Complaints are, of course, on a Facebook page.\nLuckily, friendly old Liam says Hi on Facebook's behalf, and explains that terms of service technicalities outweigh speech:\nAs you may know, Facebook profiles are intended to represent individual people only. It is a violation of Facebook\u2019s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities to use a profile to represent a brand, business, group, or organization. As such, your account was disabled for violating these guidelines.\nMeanwhile, as Jillian York explains in Foreign Policy, Facebook has never identified with the liberation claims made on its behalf. Here is Adam Conner, reported in the Wall Street Journal a week ago:\n\"Maybe we will block content in some countries, but not others,\" Adam Conner, a Facebook lobbyist, told the Journal. \"We are occasionally held in uncomfortable positions because now we're allowing too much, maybe, free speech in countries that haven't experienced it before,\" he said.\nMy only gripe about Jillian York's article \u2013 she has been critical of Facebook for some time, unearthing and publicising some of their shadier actions \u2013 is that she suggests that \"American companies ultimately have a tough choice to make: Uphold American values and the principles of Internet freedom set forth by [Hillary] Clinton, or focus on the bottom line.\" For some companies, at least, this is not a tough choice at all.\n\u00ab \u201cReal-Time Entertainment\u201d outpacing the web\n\u201cThe most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented\u201d \u00bb\nAdbuster style free-speech: only if it\u2019s the right message. I\u2019d be much happier if the adbuster-types of the world took a hard look at their own actions with respect to the rights and freedoms of others. Economic freedom is real and should be respected as much as individual and political freedoms.\nI don\u2019t think Facebook is choosing between freedom of speech and the bottom line in this case. They are trying to create some hard rules that balance the rights of all of their users. They have purposefully created a service based on real identities. Right or wrong that was the choice they made. These types of restrictions for Canadians or Brits is no big deal because we have the option to use or create a service with different underlying terms.\nEgypt and other locations with limited personal freedoms is a different kettle of fish. Enforcing the terms of service has a different set of implications for those individuals. It\u2019s one thing to deny someone entrance to your private nightclub because they are not dressed appropriately and quite another to deny entrance to someone being persued by an attacker (sorry, that was the best analogy I could come up with).\nRegardless, these are important discussions to have and I don\u2019t think the issues are as black and white as many people assume.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4286, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://top40-charts.com/chart.php?cid=25&date=2003-09-07", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:34Z", "digest": "sha1:22324FDX7WKGGEV4I6W3WMWX4WQKHMU2", "length": 168, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "top40-charts.com", "title": "UK Singles Top 40 @ Top40-Charts.com - New Songs & Videos from 49 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from 30 Countries", "raw_content": "Never Leave You - Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh!\nPharrell & Jay-Z\nChristina Aguilera & Lil' Kim\nDutch & Crystal Waters\nYippie I Oh\nWe Want Your Soul\nSanta Cruz (you're Not That Far)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 280, "original_length": 13890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://topnaija.ng/download-benny-blanco-ft-khalid-and-halsey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:30Z", "digest": "sha1:5SOODFDH4HX5CC2HFJ2CKE5CLYRENFD7", "length": 933, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "topnaija.ng", "title": "Video+Lyrics: Benny Blanco Ft. 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Cardi B \u2013 Girls Like You\nNext articleVideo+Lyrics: Post Malone \u2013 Better Now\nDownload: Tdon Ft Rhythm Seven \u2013 Romantic", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 5590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://topnews.name/news/new-trade-agreement-with-mexico/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:33Z", "digest": "sha1:K2AASLCXQIYYOAHTI5NCQ6QUWHOVKKTF", "length": 39872, "nlines": 257, "source_domain": "topnews.name", "title": "New trade agreement with Mexico | TopNewS", "raw_content": "The US authorities agreed with Mexico on a new trade bilateral agreement in exchange for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This was reported by US President Donald Trump in his Twitter.\n\u201cA big deal with Mexico,\u201d Trump wrote in a microblog.\nEarlier, he also spoke about reaching an agreement with Mexico on trade, which would replace the NAFTA Agreement and would benefit both countries. The US president stressed that the parties would refuse to name NAFTA, since, in his opinion, \u201cbad associations\u201d are associated with it.\n\u201cI like to call it the\u201d US-Mexico Trade Agreement, \u201cI think it\u2019s an elegant name,\u201d the US president added.\nDiaries for the first-graders with farewell from the prisoner\nIn Orenburg, they distribute diaries for first-graders with a portrait and parting words from the arrested for bribery of the mayor Yevgeny Arapov. This was written on his Facebook page by one of the local residents Vladimir Tishin.\nIn the message to the children, Arapov advises them not to be lazy, learn to set goals and achieve them, as well as to understand a variety of things. In addition to the mayor\u2019s appeal, the diaries also contain information about the city and emergency telephone numbers.\nIn Russia, xenophobic sentiment has risen sharply\nOver the past year, the share of Russians who are in favor of restricting the residence of representatives of individual nationalities has risen sharply, according to a survey conducted by the Levada Center. The rating of \u201cundesirable\u201d ethnic groups is headed by Roma (growth from 17 to 32%), Chinese (from 15 to 31%) and Vietnamese (from 12 to 26%).\nThe proportion of people who approve the idea of \u201cRussia for Russians\u201d has grown (from 10 to 19%), and that has been declining since 2014. 39% of respondents are loyal to discriminatory ads about housing or work (most of these answers in Moscow \u2013 63% ). In addition, from 58 to 67% increased the proportion of respondents who believe that the government should limit the flow of migrants.\nIn Spain, a group of migrants landed on the beach of a five-star hotel\nFrom the frames you can see how the refugees literally storm the beach of Barros. Before their boat could touch the shore, they rushed towards the five-star Sancti Petri Melia Hotel. Later, the Spanish authorities said that they managed to detain 25 migrants, 19 of them are minors.\nThe demonstrators staged riots in Germany\nThe incident occurred on Monday in the city of Chemnitz. Riots began in the course of the demonstration, the reason for which was the murder of a 35-year-old German citizen (in this case, two suspects were detained \u2013 citizens of Syria and Iraq). This is reported by \u201cInterfax\u201d, referring to the German press.\nMoscow can save regional surcharges to pensions\nFor residents of the capital it is planned to keep regional surcharges to pensions and provide them, as now, at 55 years old to women and at 60 years old men, Vedomosti reports referring to sources close to the mayor\u2019s office. This decision, according to the publication, will be announced after the mayor\u2019s election on September 9.\nThe Ministry of Labor suggests the transition to home education\nIn order to eliminate queues in the day nursery in the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia, it was suggested that by the end of 2024 about nine thousand home preschool groups be created, for which it is planned to train about 150,000 nannies. This is written on August 27, \u201cIzvestia\u201d\nSuch plans are fixed in the working version of the federal project \u201cCreation of nurseries \u2013 the promotion of women\u2019s employment\u201d. It is assumed that needy families will be able to receive nanny services free of charge\nMobile application \u201cKilled roads\u201d\nThe project of the All-Russian Popular Front \u201cRoad Inspection of the ONF / Map of Murder Roads\u201d launched a mobile application that will help motorists send comments on the state of roads. This is reported by the press service of ONF.\nEx-deputy head of the Kursk region received two years of prison for a bribe\nIn the UK said that Zubkov was suspected of taking bribes by real estate for 1 million rubles. from the construction company. According to Petrenko, Zubkov was sentenced to two years in prison in a strict regime colony, as well as paying a fine of 1 million rubles.\n18 billion rubles for payments to the third child\nMore than 18 billion rubles the government will send in 2019 in the regions to support families at the birth of the third and subsequent children. The decree of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved the list of subjects of the Federation for co-financing.\nPutin announced the extension of the resettlement program from emergency housing\nThe program of resettlement from emergency housing in the regions will be continued. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin in his communication with employees of the Chernigovets coal mine in Kemerovo, the RBC correspondent reports.\nWe will continue this program. Kemerovo is one of those regions where this is a big problem. Settled a lot of emergency housing, but we will continue. \u2013 Vladimir Putin\nCourt arrested Navalny for 30 days\nThe Tver court of Moscow sent under the house arrest of the blogger Alexei Navalny on the case of a repeated violation of the procedure for organizing a public event. This was reported by court spokeswoman Anastasia Dzyurko.\n\u201cAccording to the court\u2019s decision, Navalny was sentenced to 30 days of arrest,\u201d RIA Novosti quotes her.\nAs the agency notes, the oppositionist was detained on Saturday, August 25.\nThe financial pyramid in the Penza region caused a loss of 1 billion rubles\nIn the Penza region police arrested four people suspected of creating a financial pyramid, the damage from their actions is estimated at more than a billion rubles, said the official representative of the Ministry of the Interior of Russia, Irina Volk, RIA Novosti.\nRussian students will be able to receive a rank without service in the army\nStudents of all Russian civilian universities will be able to receive a military rank and specialty without going through military service. This is reported by \u201cIzvestia\u201d referring to a source in the Ministry of Defense\nThe court rejected the first claim for damages due to Telegram\u2019s blocking\n\u201cIn the satisfaction of the claimed requirements to refuse,\u201d \u2013 announced the operative part of the court decision, Judge Marina Ogorodnikova. The decision can be appealed in an appeal within a month\nThe Moscow Arbitration Court dismissed the claim of the St. Petersburg Investors LLC against Roskomnadzor to recover 5 million rubles of damages, which the plaintiff claims are caused by the agency\u2019s attempts to restrict access to Telegram\u2019s messenger, the RIA Novosti correspondent reports from the courtroom.\nThe Ministry of Health will spend 3 billion rubles. to attract Russians to healthy life\nThe Ministry of Health proposes to send up to 2024, almost 3 billion rubles. from the federal budget on motivating Russians to a healthy lifestyle (HLS).\nThe survey showed how many Russians are doing sports\n\u201cAmong the most unpopular sports among Russians were martial arts, classes at home, skating and skiing (3% each), hockey (2%) and chess (1%),\u201d the VTsIOM poll says. The main obstacle to sports is the lack of time (41%).\nIn Russia, the campaign to vaccinate the population against the flu\nIn Russia, the vaccination campaign against influenza starts, by September 1, half of the vaccines will be distributed. In a number of regions have already begun to vaccinate \u2013 in particular, since August 23, it is already possible to nestle in Udmurtia, from September 1, the inhabitants of Primorye will be vaccinated.\nExcise on gasoline will increase by 45%\nFrom January 1, excises on gasoline will increase by 45% \u2013 to 11892 rubles per ton. This means that the state will receive 2.8 rubles more per liter of gasoline than now.\nSiluanov said the impossibility of predicting the ruble\nThe head of the Ministry of Finance stressed that the risk of the possible introduction of US sanctions makes the ruble rate unpredictable.\nYou will never guess, like any ordinary people, how the currency will behave. It depends in recent times on sentiment, risks, sanctions will be introduced, they will not. \u2013 Anton Siluanov, Russian politician\nThe Central Bank of Russia will not reduce the key rate in 2018-2019\nDeputy Chairman and Chief Economist of Vneshekonombank (VEB) Andrei Klepach believes that in 2018-2019 the Central Bank will not change the key rate in connection with the acceleration of inflation, Tass reports.\nFirst Russian-Chinese Energy Forum\nThe first Russian-Chinese energy forum will be held November 29 in Beijing, the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin told journalists after the presidential commission for the fuel and energy complex.\nThe first forum is planned to be held in November this year in Beijing. I know that about 40 companies have already expressed interest from the Russian side. A representative delegation is also expected from our Chinese friends. \u2013 Vladimir Putin\nDo not recommend banks to state participation in their advertising\nThe Bank of Russia and the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) recommend that financial organizations with state participation do not use this fact when promoting their services. A joint letter of agencies is published on the Central Bank website.\nThe airline \u201cYakutia\u201d may abandon the aircraft Sukhoi Superjet 100\nPassengers of the airline \u201cYakutia\u201d are forced to suffer from delays in the airline\u2019s flights due to frequent breakdowns and long repairs of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft. The general director of the carrier, Olga Fedorova, told this in an interview with the Yakutsk news agency.\nAs Kommersant writes with reference to the director of the fleet of the airline Ivan Vinokurov, \u201cYakutia\u201d actually failed the summer \u201c, since only four of the four planes declared in the summer schedule were in good order. Repair of two engines of liners lasted from September 2017 to May 2018.\nRussia is on record\nRussian companies this year are likely to get more than 420 million tons of coal. Thus, they can beat the Soviet record of 1988.\nThis year, the line of 420 million tons will be exceeded. And we, most likely, will surpass the maximum level of extraction of the Soviet time, reached in 1988. Enrichment volumes, as we expect, will also increase to 195 million tons, which is 28 percent more. \u2013 Alexander Novak, Russian politician\nSaudi Aramco is deprived of an indefinite right to oil\nSaudi Arabia State Oil Company Saudi Aramco Oil Co. has lost the perpetual right to develop oil and gas fields of the country. Now this term is limited to 40 years.\nThe Crimean bank will open offices in Russia\nThe largest Crimean bank RBKB will soon open the first office for servicing corporate clients in St. Petersburg, by the end of the year it is planned to open 4 more offices throughout Russia\nNet profit \u201cDom.rf\u201d in the first half of the year decreased\nThe net profit of the state company \u201cDom.rf\u201d in the first half of 2018 under IFRS decreased by 14.5% \u2013 to 5.7 billion rubles, the company reports.\nGazprom Neft launched the second line of the Badra gas plant in Iraq\nGazprom Neft Badra, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft, launched the second line of the complex gas treatment unit (GPP) with a capacity of 800 million cubic meters. year on the Badra field in Iraq\nUkraine filed an appeal against the WTO decision on the dispute with Russia about the wagons\nRussia won the dispute with Ukraine because of railway equipment on July 30. Kiev argued that Moscow impedes the supply of wagons, rolling stock, turnouts and other components. The suit in the WTO was filed in October 2015.\nSinopec in the first half of the year increased its net profit by 1.5 times\nThe net profit of the Chinese state oil and gas corporation Sinopec in the first half of 2018 grew 1.54 times year on year and amounted to 41.6 billion yuan (6.05 billion dollars), the company said.\nFriedman invests in oil and gas production in Norway\nThe company Dea Norge, controlled by Russian businessman Mikhail Fridman, intends to invest more than \u20ac 2 billion in oil and gas projects on the Norwegian shelf, the company said.\nThe crisis of no return threatens Russia\nIn Russia, there may come a crisis of no return, similar to that which the US overtook in 2008. Such forecasts were made by analysts of the Russian Guild of Realtors on the basis of the analysis of macroeconomic indicators for the first half of 2018\nRussian airlines increased transportation in July by 7%\nThe occupancy of the seats was 90.5%, which is 0.2 percentage points lower compared to last year\u2019s index (pp). Commercial load increased by 0.6 percentage points. \u2013 up to 75.5%. For January-July passenger transportation in Russia grew by 10.3%, to 64.3 million people.\nIn Ukraine, the losses were calculated in the event of Russia\u2019s refusal to transit gas\nYury Vitrenko, the chief commercial director of the Naftogaz group, told UNN that Kiev\u2019s losses in the event of Moscow\u2019s refusal to transit blue fuel through Ukraine would amount to more than three percent of GDP.\nMechanical engineering to lose support\nThe working group of the government commission on budgetary design for 2019-2021 considered that in the key branches of engineering industry, anti-crisis measures should be partially abandoned. This is reported by the newspaper Kommersant referring to the minutes of the meeting.\nThis decision is influenced, among other things, by the \u201cpositive dynamics of development\u201d of the automotive industry, transport and agricultural machinery, light industry and other industries, the newspaper quotes an excerpt from the protocol.\nMaduro announced the establishment in Venezuela of the Ministry of Internal Trade\nWilliam Contreras will become the head of the Ministry of Domestic Trade, established in Venezuela. This was announced on Monday by the President of the Bolivarian Republic, Nicolas Maduro.\nInvestors go to the rentier\nAccording to IKON Development, the share of investors aimed at obtaining passive income from leasing increased from 23.6% to 59%. From the total number of transactions such contracts occupy 7%.\nTrump canceled Pompeo\u2019s visit to the DPRK because of \u201chostile letter\u201d\nUS President Donald Trump decided to cancel Secretary of State Mike Pompeo\u2019s visit to the DPRK because of a letter of hostile content that Pompeo received from the North Korean side, reports The Washington Post.\nThe Ministry of Defense of Japan announced a threat from the DPRK\nThe Ministry of Defense of Japan on Tuesday presented an annual report on security in the region, which is called the \u201cWhite Paper\u201d. This document indicates that the Japanese authorities continue to see a threat from the DPRK, despite advances in the settlement of the situation on the Korean peninsula.\nCanadian FM Abolishes Visit to Ukraine\nCanadian Foreign Minister Hristia Freeland canceled the planned visit to Ukraine to conduct negotiations in Washington on a trade deal between the United States and Mexico, RIA Novosti reported.\n\u201cYes, her visit has been canceled,\u201d the Canadian Embassy in Kiev reported.\nMerkel discussed with Trump the situation in Ukraine and Syria\nA telephone conversation between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US President Donald Trump took place on Monday, August 27. The leaders of the states discussed the situation in Ukraine and Syria, touched upon the issues of trade and the Western Balkans.\nThe widow of John McCain can take his place in the US Senate\nThe candidacy of the widow politician Cindy McCain is considered to be the senator from Arizona. This is reported by The New York Times referring to sources close to the governor of the state. In addition to the wife of the deceased politician, the candidature of former Arizona senator John Kyle is considered.\nPoroshenko again rejected the idea of federalization of Ukraine\nPresident of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that Ukraine will remain a unitary state, and the authorities will not allow the federalization of the country.\nUkraine is a unitary state, we will not allow any federalization in the key elements of the functioning of states. \u2013 Petro Poroshenko, President of Ukraine\nThe UN accused the authorities of Myanmar of the genocide of the Muslims of Rohinj\nThe armed authorities of Myanmar massacred the Muslim nation of Rohinj, and this was genocide. This conclusion was reached by experts in the report of the UN mission to investigate the situation in the country, which was published by Reuters.\nUkraine has agreed with the EU on the conditions for obtaining financial assistance worth \u20ac 1 billion\nThe representative of Ukraine to the EU Nikolai Tochitsky stated that the agreement on granting to Kiev the first tranche of new macro-financial assistance of the European Union, the total amount of which is \u20ac 1 billion, will be signed in the near future\nUS build up grouping off the coast of Syria\nOn Monday, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that the United States is building up a group of carriers of cruise missiles in the region. This circumstance our military is directly connected with the preparation of another \u201cchemical\u201d provocation in the Syrian province of Idlib.\nThe Pentagon has refuted the pulling of carriers of cruise missiles to Syria\nPentagon spokesman Erich Pehon denied the agency TASS pulling US carriers of cruise missiles to Syria to strike at forces loyal to the country\u2019s president Bashar Assad.\nThe Ministry of Defense showed a video of the launches of cruise missiles \u201cOnyx\u201d\nOn the video for a little more than a minute, which is available to RIA Novosti, the fragments of the Pacific Fleet exercises with the launching of Onix missiles from the Bastion coastal complexes and cruise missiles, presumably the P-1000 Vulkan, from combat ships are shown.\nThe Ministry of Defense proposed to allow armored vehicles to travel on common roads\nThe Russian military department proposes to allow new armored vehicles to reach the test site or the customer by public roads, the draft resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers\nAmerican missile destroyer Carney left the Black Sea\nThe destroyer of the US Navy Carney, equipped with the Aegis missile defense system, left the Black Sea on Monday. This is stated in a statement issued by the press service of the 6th Navy of the US Navy\nIn the Russian army, units have appeared to deal with drones\n\u201cMobile groups to combat UAVs have been created in the units of the South-Eastern Military District in order to implement the experience gained by Russian specialists in the performance of combat missions in Syria,\u201d the press service said.\n\u201cAlmaz-Antey\u201d ahead of schedule handed over one more S-400 regiment to the Defense Ministry\nConcern VKO \u201cAlmaz-Antey\u201d ahead of schedule delivered the Russian Defense Ministry regular regiment of S-400 \u201cTriumph\u201d SAM. Test flights with the accompaniment of real air targets at the Kapustin Yar test range near Astrakhan were successful. This was reported in the press service of the enterprise.\nTurchynov called the size of Ukraine\u2019s military budget for 2019\nSecretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov told how much the country will spend on defense in 2019. According to the press service of the National Security and Defense Council, in the coming year, Ukraine\u2019s military expenditures will amount to about 200 billion hryvnia (more than $ 7 billion).\nRussia began construction of a new air defense base in the Arctic\nEarlier, according to the commander of the Northern Fleet, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, it became known that this year a new Arctic air defense division will be formed on the basis of the fleet, RT reports.\nIran and Syria signed a cooperation agreement on defense\nIranian and Syrian Defense Ministries concluded an agreement on military and technical cooperation. According to Tasnim, the signing took place in Damascus, where the head of the Iranian military department, Amir Khatami, arrived. Shortly before that, the minister held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad.\nAlgeria decided to buy from Russia fighters\nAlgeria is one of the largest buyers of Russian aircraft. Over the past ten years, the Air Force Park has been updated with 58 Su-30MKA fighters, 16 Yak-130 combat training planes, 14 Mi-26T2 transport helicopters and 42 Mi-28NE combat helicopters.\nSpouse Karachentsova told about the state of the artist\nWe did an irradiation in Tel Aviv, fought for two months, but it did not decrease, did not react to irradiation. We came back here and started chemotherapy in a hospital in Krasnogorsk. Now there is a positive effect. \u2013 Lyudmila Porgina, actress\nAssumption threatens to deprive the daughter of the inheritance\n64-year-old queen of chanson has long been dreaming of grandchildren. On the air talk show, she publicly stated that she would deprive the girl of an inheritance in the event that she does not become a mother until 2020. The very same actress gave birth at 35 years old.\nPhotos of Sergey Shnurov with a new girl appeared on the web\nThe permanent leader of the group \u201cLeningrad\u201d Sergei Shnurov, if you believe in social networks, found a new passion. She became a resident of the northern capital, Ksenia Kostrovskaya, who in her stories published some very romantic pictures with the musician.\nElina Chaga commented on the rumors about the novel with Leonid Agutin\nPortal Cosmo Online published the reaction of the participant of the second season of the show \u201cGolos\u201d from the team of Leonid Agutin Elina Chagi to rumors that she had an affair with her mentor. According to her, all this is the reaction of the yellow press and the \u201cnewspaper duck\u201d.\nOlga Buzova burst into tears of envy\nOlga Buzova took to heart the message about the closeness between the participants of the TV project \u201cDom-2\u201d Roman Gritsenko and Irina Pinchuk. The TV host burst into tears right on the frontal place. For several years, the 23-year-old Roman at every corner was shouting about his love for the 32-year-old Olga.\nIvan Zhidkov returned to his son\u2019s mother\nAlmost three months ago, Zhidkov broke up with his chosen one Lilia Solovieva. But recently the couple, raising a common son, managed to forgive past grievances and make up. The young mother has already moved to the new apartment of the actor with the child.\nStylish image and effective tan\nThe Duchess of Cambridge, together with Queen Elizabeth II, attended the church service. For the release of a representative of the royal family chose an emphatically strict outfit, but it was so elegant and simultaneously spectacular, which caused a storm of emotions on the web.\nPelagia lost her face after injections of beauty\nWeb users noted that the girls look amazing: slim, fresh, bright, but they seem incredibly similar in the picture. Fans suggested that Pelagia and Natalya go to one cosmetician, and, as you know, injections of beauty \u201chide\u201d the individuality.\n54-year-old Lolita showed a figure in a swimsuit\nThe 54-year-old singer bravely publishes photos in social networks without a gram of make-up and is not shy of extra inches on her hips and waist. Today, Lolita once again proved that she is a woman without complexes, having published a video where she swims in the pool in a swimsuit\nThe actress who drove the teenager was banished from the TV show\nSince October 25, the actress will be replaced by another celebrity, her name is not disclosed. On the castling will be announced on September 5 at the X Factor conference, preceding the start of the season. Earlier in August, The New York Times reported that in 2013, Argento seduced the young actor Jimmy Bennett.\nHeirs of actor Raja Kapoor sell his studio\nStudio RK Studios, founded by the legendary Indian actor Raj Kapoor, is put up for sale. To such a decision came his heirs, according to the publication of the Times of India. The eldest son of the actor, also an actor, director and producer Randhir Kapur admitted that the decision was not easy for the family.\nNatasha Koroleva\u2019s son works as an assistant chef\nThe holiday passed in a narrow family circle. And the most important surprise was given to them by 16-year-old son Arkhip. Tarzan admitted that the heir wants to be a restaurateur and so got a job in one of the Moscow restaurants as an assistant chef.\nDaughter of Mikhail Turetsky staged a bachelorette party in a luxury hotel\nLast weekend, 34-year-old daughter Turetsky rolled a bachelorette party. Already very soon, on September 22, the daughter of the People\u2019s Artist of Russia and the founder of the \u201cChoir of the Turkish\u201d Michael Turetsky, Natalia will marry. With the spouse Dmitry they live many years in a civil marriage and bring up the children\u2019s movements.\nMel Bee is being treated for sex addiction\nMel Bee appealed for help after she realized that she was overly addicted to alcohol and became illegible in sexual intercourse. Last year she experienced a severe divorce. Mel Bee, a former soloist of the popular Spice Girls group in the late 1990s, divorced her husband Stefen Belafonte.\nBuckwheat refused to perform at a concert in Ulyanovsk\nAccording to FedPress, the singer refused to perform in Ulyanovsk after she learned that tickets for her concert were given only to citizens who voted in the elections of deputies of the Ulyanovsk region on September 9.\nRostov rapper Basta composed a song in a non-existent language\nAccording to the men, the song is written in a fictional Argentinean language and is called Argentinanoda. In the comments, the musician was made to understand that the experiment failed. Recall, in September Basta will perform at the stadium \u201cRostov-Arena\u201d.\nIn Russia, mobile Internet came to replace wired\nIn Russia, the mobile Internet is gaining popularity, it comes to replace wired. According to a poll conducted by experts in 2017, residents of villages and cities of the country used exclusively mobile Internet in more than 15% of cases.\nMegafon returned unlimited Internet access\n\u201cMegaphone\u201d on August 27 opens unlimited internet access on \u201cInclude!\u201d Tariffs, the company said. Current subscribers will need to select this option in their personal account, and for new subscribers it will be enabled by default.\nNokia will again equip smartphones with PureView technology\nThe deal on the purchase took place on August 23, so at this moment it is not known which smartphone model will be equipped with PureView. The first technology appeared on the device Nokia 808 in 2012, and the latest smartphones with the software are Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL, released in 2015.\nInternational sales of cheap flagship Xiaomi Pocophone F1 began\nChinese company Xiaomi has begun selling a new flagship smartphone Pocophone F1 on the international market. Recall, the first to buy this model, buyers in the Indian market. However, already now Pocophone F1 can be purchased in China, France and Indonesia\nSmartphone LG V40 with five cameras showed on the render\nThe network appeared renders for the flagship model of the smartphone LG V40, but its official premiere has not yet been held. According to the proposed staff, you can see some features of the novelty design.\nArchos introduced the budget smartphone Access 57 4G for 80 euros\nArchos Company presented a new budget smartphone, which was named Archos Access 57 4G. In the model range of the brand it will be the first smartphone released under the Android Go program, and given that this is a budget device, the filling in it will be quite expected.\nThree Samsung Galaxy S10 models will receive subscreen fingerprint scopes\nAll three versions of the smartphone Samsung Galaxy S10 will receive fingerprints, placed in the display. In older models, an ultrasound scanner will be installed, in the younger one an optical\nSmartphone ZTE Nubia Red Magic Flame Red goes on sale\nCompany ZTE announced the beginning of sales of smartphone Nubia Red Magic in the color of Flame Red from tomorrow in China. Fiery red smartphone Nubia Red Magic is offered at a price of 439 dollars in the version with 8 GB of RAM and 128 GB of flash memory. Sales start at 10 am local time on August 28.\nFlagship smartphone Meizu 16 received a new color Mirror Blue\nIn the web published a photo of Meizu 16 in a mirror-blue color. When the new coloring of the smartphone goes on sale is still unknown.\nSmartphone Huawei Mate 20 Lite began to appear on sale\nSmartphone Huawei Mate 20 Lite has not yet been officially introduced, but has already started appearing in European stores for pre-order. In Poland and Germany, the smartphone should start shipping from September 9. In Germany, Huawei Mate 20 Lite is offered for 435 euros.\nFacebook will add a new feature to the comments\nFacebook specialists plan to add a new feature to the comments. It will provide an opportunity for users to see information shared with commentators who are not in their contact list.\nHackers attack Microsoft Outlook users\nSpecialists conducted an analysis of backdoor cyber-spy group Turla, which was used to steal confidential data from government agencies in Europe. Hackers used Microsoft Outlook to manage the program by sending commands to PDF files in an attachment.\nTelegram has the opportunity to download your personal data\nTelegram users can already download their personal data. The corresponding innovation, most likely, was introduced at the request of the European Union in the field of data protection\nTTorrent released a client for browser with video playback support\nDevelopers from \u03bcTorrent presented a new program for working with torrents. This is \u03bcTorrent web, which allows you to play video or audio right away, without waiting for a full download. Also the program is able to track suspicious torrents\nGoogle removes rare searches from the Search Console\nGoogle began to remove information about anonymous requests from the Search Console reports. Anonymous are considered rare queries, which are entered into the search for a small number of users.\nASUS announced computers for games\nThe announcement of new notebooks ASUS TUF FX505 and FX705 for fans of games\nSamsung unveiled in Russia the TV-pictures The Frame 2018\nThe company Samsung introduced in the Russian market a line of UHD-TVs The Frame 2018 model year, made in the form of paintings. The idea of The Frame TVs is to turn the TV into a piece of furniture.\nViber got a new design and became faster\nDevelopers have increased the speed of messaging twice, and also updated the design. According to the representatives of the messenger, now users will not only be able to discuss more topics because of the reduction in sending and receiving time, but also to quickly learn the status of message delivery.\nBye Aerospace tested a solar-powered drones\nAmerican startup Bye Aerospace conducted flight tests of the StratoAirNet drones, powered by solar panels mounted on its wings Recently, the National University of Singapore developed a drone powered by solar panel energy.\nThe first mathematical model of the time machine was created in the world\nA group of scientists formed by physicists from the University of British Columbia (Canada) and the University of Maryland (United States of America) reported on the development of the world\u2019s first mathematical model describing the time machine\nVirtual dog will teach to communicate with your real brothers\nThe application will be further improved by adding new virtual dog skills. British researchers, together with the charitable organization Dogs Trust, have created a virtual reality application that will teach people the right actions when meeting a wild dog\nNeural network taught to transfer people\u2019s movements between videos\nA group of researchers from the University of California at Berkeley under the leadership of Alexei Efros (Alexei Efros) have created an algorithm that also transfers the movement of people between two videos, but does it for the whole body.\nA liquid film will help to separate the particles and protect themselves from midges\nAmerican scientists have developed a new type of liquid membrane, which divides the size of particles ranging in size from a fraction of a millimeter to several centimeters.\nRed lanterns were knocked out of the way of migrating bats\nRed LED lamps, similar to the safety lanterns that are put on wind turbines or high-rise buildings to warn aircraft pilots, attract bats during migration, according to the journal Ecology and Evolution\nAirbus and Boeing will help Japan to create a flying taxi\nAerotaksi are created not only in Japan. In 2017, in Dubai, testing a flying car from the company Volocopter. At the beginning of this year, the first flight of the prototype of its air taxi was made by Airbus, then the successful start of the testing of passenger drones was announced by the start-up Ehang\nRussian scientists began developing a vaccine against skin cancer\nRussian scientists have started developing a vaccine against skin cancer. The research is conducted by the Blokhin National Medical Research Center for Oncology. Today, melanoma is treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, but relapse often occurs.\nScientists have found the skeleton of a bird-like dinosaur in China\nScientists from the US and China have found the petrified skeleton of a bird-like dinosaur in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. 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A study on this was published in the journal ACS Nano.\nPhysicists have cooled the cloud of molecules with the help of \u201cdark\u201d states\nAmerican physicists have cooled a cloud of calcium fluoride molecules placed in an optical trap to a temperature of about 20 microkalvin, and brought the density of the cloud to almost a billion molecules per cubic centimeter.\nChemists found square water nanotubes inside round carbon\nIt is known that the structure into which the water molecules inside the nanotube are built is determined by the geometry of the system and by the forces acting on them from the wall atoms, and thus depends on their radius, but the details of this dependence remained unexplored to this day.\nThe new material changes the shape in light and when heated\nThe network of \u201cliquid crystal actuators\u201d introduced into the elastic material was activated when it was irradiated with a radiation of a certain wavelength or heating above 90 \u00b0 C. For example, a crane made up of such material was decomposed, and after removing the external influence it was folded back by itself.\nScientists gave a new explanation to the phenomenon of night fireflies\nFireflies are designed to scare off predators. Many insects produce bitter and toxic substances, which make them not the most desired prey. Protection will only work if the potential attacker understands that this bug should not taste. The bright appearance of fireflies signals this, protecting the beetles from attack, they write in the publication Science Advances.\nScientists from CERN are going to cool antimatter\nPhysicists from CERN step closer to cooling antimatter using lasers, which, in theory, will help them unravel many of its secrets. They published their research in the journal Nature. In fact, antimatter is the opposite of \u201cordinary\u201d matter.\nHalf of the Russian scientific infrastructure is promised to be updated\nMinister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kotyukov said that according to the national project \u201cScience\u201d the scientific infrastructure in Russia can be renewed by 50%.\n\u201cRoskosmos\u201d will begin to conduct more frequent selection in the cosmonaut detachment\nA new selection for the Russian cosmonaut detachment will begin in the near future, it has been decided to conduct the selection more often, but to recruit fewer candidates, the executive director of Roskosmos, the cosmonaut, Hero of Russia Sergei Krikalev, told journalists on Monday\nIn the United States experienced a new reusable rocket\nThe American company Exos Aerospace conducted the first \u201cvery successful\u201d tests of a reusable SARGE meteorological rocket (Suborbital Autonomous Rocket with GuidancE), according to Space News. Video launch is available on YouTube.\nIndia will send a manned space mission\nThe Chief Adviser on Science under the Government of India said that the Indian Space Research Organization is planning to complete the preparations for launching its own manned space mission on time. The mission itself should begin in 2022.\nThe formation of Jupiter\nJupiter, a planet with a diameter of 143,000 kilometers, is the largest planet in the solar system and has a mass of about 300 masses of our planet. The mechanism of the formation of planets like Jupiter continues to be one of the most heatedly debated scientific issues for several decades. The new study of astrophysics from the Swiss National Center for Competence in Scientific Research (NCCR) joined forces with colleagues from other scientific organizations to explain a number of issues related to the mechanism of formation of Jupiter.\nThe so-called \u201cdelay in growth\u201d of Jupiter, which consists in the fact that the young planet is in the mass range from 15 to 50 Earth masses much longer than previously thought, Albert and his co-authors explained by collisions with large planetesimals, which gave enough energy for heating up the atmosphere of Jupiter and preventing its rapid cooling, compression and further accretion of gas.\nCoronal mass ejections of the Sun have dangerous \u201ctails\u201d\nUsing the GreenBank radio observatory located in West Virginia, USA, scientists led by Elizabeth A. Jensen observed radio signals sent from the MESSENGER spacecraft and discovered that solar eruptions that lead to communication disruptions and the operation of power grids on the Earth, have dangerous secondary structures moving behind the main flow of matter and energy \u2013 a kind of \u201ctails\u201d.\nDacia prepares for the release of the new generation Dacia Sandero\nInterestingly, the new generation is expected to increase in size to the size of the Renault Megane, but at the same time the price tag for the car will remain the same, that is about 8,000 euros. The new Sandero will acquire a modern platform and engines.\nSSC Company introduced the hypercar of Tuatara\nThe maximum speed of the car is limited by electronics at a mark of 483 km / h. The circulation of the hypermark will be limited, because the company plans to release only 100 units of the model.\nThe last copy of the roadster Pagani Huayra was named after the bird\nHypercar was shown in Pebble Beach, California. The last Pagani Huayra, built in honor of the fastest falcon falcon family, was shown in California.\nAudi suspended the production of hatchbacks RS3\nAudi suspended the production of the \u201ccharged\u201d hatchbacks RS3, the reason for this step was that the car does not meet the new WLTP standard, which comes into force on September 1, 2018.\nFord introduced the new sports car Ford GT in the version of the Heritage Edition\nThe modification of the Heritage Edition received the orange-blue livery of Gulf Oil. On the body of the car number 9, and part of the elements of the aerodynamic body kit decided to leave uncoated, since they are made of carbon fiber\nFormer designer Mazda remade the supercar Gallardo in Salaff C2\nThe car was shown at the elegance contest at Pebble Beach. The novelty is the converted hypercar Lamborghini Gallardo. When creating C2, developers were inspired by such models as Peugeot 905, Porsche 917 and Ferrari 33 P4.\nTags: MexicoNAFTAUSA\nRussian plus or minus corresponds to Europe\nNext story Cleaning of the power structures of Russia\nPrevious story Russia\u2019s deadlock economic model", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 329, "original_length": 41940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://torontofunplaces.com/component/k2/item/338-wave-pool-in-richmond-hill", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:28Z", "digest": "sha1:MXRGRNT73FD2IXV5N6B4EYPSG5TON6RD", "length": 1735, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "torontofunplaces.com", "title": "\u21d2 Wave Pool, Richmond Hill | Indoor pools - Toronto Fun Places.com", "raw_content": "You are here:Home>WATER FUN>Indoor pools>Wave Pool\nSchedule / hours: 2017: Wave Swim sessions are offered year-round on weekends, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. From July to Labour Day, it is also open weekdays 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (expect extended hours during Christmas and March Break). Not it is sometimes closed for maintenance so it is better to call to double check.\nAdmission price: 2017: $8.50/16-54 years old, $5.75/seniors, S5.25/3 to 15 years old, FREE for children 2 years and under (the price is for one session, you\u2019ll need to repay the admission if you\u2019re staying for the next session).\nAddress: 5 Hopkins Street Richmond Hill\nWebsite: /www.richmondhill.ca/subpag\nNearby restaurants: \u2022 You can eat your own lunch upstairs in the gallery with tables and vending machines.\nWave Pool (Richmond Hill)\nThe spacious wave pool forms a harmonious whole, bathed by natural light, with funny fish decorating the ceiling. A few tables under umbrellas and palm trees are aligned by the bay windows. This unique indoor wave pool is as much fun for older kids as it is exciting for little ones. Don't be afraid for your little tadpole in waterproof diapers. With its irregular shape, the wave pool looks like a shallow bay you go into gradually. Over a large 5,000 sq. ft. section, the bay-like section doesn't go higher than our knees. In it, the waves calmly die on the \"beach\" and have the perfect level of turbulence to entertain young children. The big waves sweep across the rest of the pool. The 160-foot-long water slide is reserved for users at least 48 inches high. Beside the wave pool is a superb whirlpool for everyone. It is 70 cms deep and kept at a temperature of 96 degrees F.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 5846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tortolapier.com/Store-Directory/ArticleID/77/Therapy-Works", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:49Z", "digest": "sha1:SSBZENEPX7TMSANAC64MMDS4NEMIBLJU", "length": 454, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tortolapier.com", "title": "Therapy Works - Tortola Pier Park LTD > Store Directory", "raw_content": "Therapy Works is the leading provider of Outpatient Orthopedic Physical Therapy services in the Virgin Islands.Therapy Works, located in both the US Virgin Islands on St Thomas and the British Virgin Islands on Tortola serves a broad spectrum of the community to reduce pain and improve function. Since its inception in 2006 Therapy Works has helped many patients return to the activities that they most love. How can we serve you?\nBuilding 3 - 2nd Floor", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1713, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/leaving-religion-and-losing-culture-secular-conversion-among-hispanic-freethinkers-black", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:39:26Z", "digest": "sha1:NWBWS5R3ZYT7JVJZLS6A2JQCG6L7LZLM", "length": 1024, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "townsendcenter.berkeley.edu", "title": "Leaving Religion and Losing Culture: Secular Conversion among Hispanic Freethinkers, Black Atheists, and Ex-Muslims | Townsend Center for the Humanities", "raw_content": "Leaving Religion and Losing Culture: Secular Conversion among Hispanic Freethinkers, Black Atheists, and Ex-Muslims\nThursday, Mar 1, 2018 | 5:00 pm\nWelcoming reception at 4:30 pm\nThe line between religion and culture is difficult to draw. When people leave religion and become secular, they often sacrifice parts of their culture that have been tied to their religion. Relying on years of ethnographic research among avowedly secular people, Blankholm argues that becoming secular is a transformative process akin to conversion, and that secular Americans who are not white or who convert from non-Christian religions face unique challenges that lead to new forms of secularism.\nJoseph Blankholm is an assistant professor of religious studies at UC Santa Barbara. A scholar of atheism and secularism, he earned his PhD at Columbia University.\nSponsored by The University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Cosponsored by the Townsend Center for the Humanities and Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://toyota-ofhollywood.com/blog/view/id/1150/The-2017-Toyota-Yaris-iA-%E2%80%93-a-lovely-little-car", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IMZAWTWI2BVTZ5XT5U4TSOIC24YG7TRQ", "length": 1967, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "toyota-ofhollywood.com", "title": "The 2017 Toyota Yaris iA \u2013 a lovely little car?", "raw_content": "You may think that the 2017 Toyota Yaris iA is too cheap to be reliable enough, but it's not true. It's a car that definitely deserves your appreciation. Let's start with honesty, and it begins from the minute you start equipping the car \u2013 the 2017 iA is a \"what you see is what you get\" proposition. You see, the iA moniker isn't the only holdover from the Scion era. The Toyota Yaris iA retains its \"monospec\" configuration, which means it comes with only one option: the transmission. Customers can choose from either a 6-speed manual or a 6-speed automatic which costs $1,100.\nEverything else is standard, and \"everything\" includes some choice features. You get alloy wheels, air conditioning, cruise control, USB and Bluetooth integration, a rear-view camera, tilt and telescoping steering wheel with audio controls, and keyless entry with push-button start. The little 1.5-liter four-cylinder under the hood isn't particularly potent with 106 horsepower and 103 lb-ft of torque. But with a Miata-like 2,385-pound curb weight and our car's manual transmission, it manages to feel fairly sprightly, and never has any trouble dicing it up with traffic. That transmission is is pretty decent, too. It isn't quite as short and sweet as that of the Mazda-badged predecessor, but it still glides into gear with little effort, and the gates are clearly defined and fairly tight.\nIf you opt for the manual, as we would, you can take an iA home for just $16,835, or $17,935 with the automatic. Though the Toyota-designed Yaris hatchback starts at $16,530, you'll need to cough up $17,280 for the cheapest five-door Yaris. That five-door is slightly cheaper than an automatic iA, and comes with a couple of extra safety features, but you'll be stuck with 4-speed automatic, steel wheels, no cruise control, a tilt-only steering wheel, and worse highway fuel economy. With that in mind, the iA is very clearly the better choice. It's cheap, honest, and good transportation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 215.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://traceyhyde.co.uk/counselling-has-reminded-me-that-sometimes-the-bread-does-land-buttered-side-up/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7ITBGQ2UPFYVDTUADSWVVCHHVVN2NGXR", "length": 57, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "traceyhyde.co.uk", "title": "\"Counselling has reminded me that sometimes the bread does land buttered side up!\" | Tracey Hyde MBACP (ACCRED)", "raw_content": "\u201cYou\u2019ve helped me get my life back \u2013 thank you so much\u201d \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tracyfrans.com/papillion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:17Z", "digest": "sha1:X2HVACZLDER3BQ3XH5MMISPFJV7OBT2G", "length": 3327, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "tracyfrans.com", "title": "Papillion Real Estate - Papillion | Tracy Frans", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Papillion Real Estate\nPapillion NE Homes For Sale\nPapillion is a thriving city in the five-county metro of Omaha. It is the county seat of Sarpy County and is home to more than 23,000 people. The Strategic Air Command Memorial Highway 370 and SR 85 run through the city, bringing it close to other communities such as La Vista, Westmont, and Brookhaven.\nThis once sleepy town has transformed into one of Money.com\u2019s 2nd Best Place to Live in 2015 \u2013 thanks to great schools, good jobs, affordable housing options, and a burgeoning downtown scene. Papillion also has many parks and recreational spaces, among them Trumble Park and the Papillion City Park.\nIndeed, for those who prefer a community bursting with promise, Papillion ticks the crucial boxes on your wish list.\nReal estate in Papillion is affordable and attractive. The city itself is ideal for growing families and young professionals. Homes lie in serene suburbs, with single-family homes being the most popular option.\nPotential buyers will find spacious and well-appointed houses that come in variety of architectural styles. They include Ranch-style homes, classic 2-story Craftsman, Traditional-style homes, and massive luxury homes in sprawling estates.\nAll these are located in Papillion\u2019s charming neighborhoods. Some of the most popular include Carriage Hill, Woodland Creek, Glenwood Hills, Huntington Park, Kingsbury Hills, and Monarch Place.\nThe residents of Papillion are served by the Papillion-La Vista Public School District. It is one of the fastest growing school districts in Nebraska and serves over 8,000 students.\nThe city has two high schools, the Papillion-La Vista Senior High School and the Papillion-La Vista South High School. Middle school students attend the Papillion Junior High School.\nFor elementary schools, there are the Carriage Hill Elementary School, the Hickory Hill Elementary School, the Tara Heights Elementary School, and the Walnut Creek Elementary School.\nIt\u2019s not the first time Papillion has landed on Money Magazine\u2019s list of Best Places to Live. Aside from its top-notch schools, Papillion offers employment opportunities in finance and health care \u2013 just 9 traffic-free miles away in Omaha.\nThe city\u2019s thriving Downtown area is another attraction. While retaining its small town vibe, the hub is far from sleepy. Papillion\u2019s main street is thriving and brims with one-of-a-kind dining and shopping options. The Shadow Lake Towne Center is a local favorite, carrying everything from home d\u00e9cor to clothes to a well-stocked supermarket. It\u2019s also got a splash park and hosts free summer concerts on its grounds.\nFor even more charming finds, head out to the many stores and boutiques throughout town. Some of the notable stores include the home d\u00e9cor specialty store Vintage Moon, the maternity shop Bigwheels 2 Butterflys, and the local favorite Kajoma\u2019s Fashion Boutiques.\nPapillion\u2019s food scene does not disappoint either. Spin Neapolitan Pizza does Italian staples right. The Texas Roadhouse chain offers its famous Southwestern fare. Ming\u2019s Restaurant satisfies Chinese food cravings with standby favorites like egg rolls. 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At some point, we all have been or will be infected with the disease of grief. When we do experience grief we begin searching for ways to recover the connection that we are now missing. Ultimately, we will discover what David discovered in Psalm 31. Grief becomes a connection point with God. God not only connects with us but we can also connect with God in our grief. In this sermon we discuss the way He connects with us and the ways we can connect with Him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://twinsburg200.com/galleries/township-officials/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:01Z", "digest": "sha1:NVLTRM4GXX3T4P4Z2LWPUKDLYIQUG3HA", "length": 826, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "twinsburg200.com", "title": "Township Officials \u2013 Twinsburg 200", "raw_content": "James C. Balogh\nTrustee Balogh was first elected in November 2007 and re-elected in 2011 and 2015, is a proud twin, and welcomes the role of Trustee as an extension of community citizenship and service.\nJamey DeFabio\nTrustee DeFabio was first elected in November 2009 and re-elected in 2013, and he is grateful to Township residents for the opportunity to serve them in this capacity\nThomas O. Schmidt\nTrustee Schmidt was first elected in November 1993 and re-elected in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2009, and 2013. Tom sincerely appreciates the continued confidence that Township residents have shown in his service as a Trustee\nTania L. Johnson\nFiscal Officer Johnson was first elected in November 2007 and re-elected in 2011 and 2015. Tania is a lifelong Township resident and graduated from R. B. 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In 2010 she and Christine Sch\u00f6rkhuber\nfounded the annual sound-art show Sound Manifestos.\nSince 2013 she's got a lectureship at the University of Applied Arts,\nDepartment of Digital Art.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://us.tomonews.com/sleep-loss-could-give-you-a-brain-full-of-alzheimer-s-proteins-3588927", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WK43Y2A2E4XK4OS752SLJ3PNZ4E3L5H6", "length": 1115, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "us.tomonews.com", "title": "TomoNews | Sleep loss could give you a brain full of Alzheimer's proteins", "raw_content": "A new study has found a correlation between lack of sleep and increased brain levels of beta-amyloid \u2014 a protein associated with Alzheimer's.\nNSFW BETHESDA, MARYLAND \u2014 If you think your sleepless nights are harmless, a new study begs to disagree.\nThe study, published in PNAS, reports that Alzheimer's disease has been associated with a build-up of beta-amyloid proteins in the brain, which manifests as plaques.\nSince sleeping is believed to flush amyloids from the brain, lack of sleep has been correlated with a higher risk of the neurodegenerative disease.\nIn a study conducted by the National Institutes of Health, amyloid levels in the brains of 20 healthy subjects were measured after a full night's sleep.\nWhen the subjects were deprived of sleep for more than 24 hours, scans revealed that the levels of beta-amyloid had increased significantly.\nWhile the immediate effects of sleep loss are clear, the study failed to look at the implications over a long period of time.\nBut even without establishing causation between lack of sleep and dementia, it's clear sleep is crucial to a proper functioning brain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 189.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://usa-watches.com/iwc/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:57Z", "digest": "sha1:D3GADXD3627Z5XERJ6YUTD7A3PQCM2FK", "length": 3992, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "usa-watches.com", "title": "Designer Luxury Watches", "raw_content": "Home > Watches > IWC Watch\nMen's IWC timepieces\nMen's IWC watches\nWomen's IWC timepieces\nWomen's IWC watches\nExpert Swiss craftsmanship combine classic design, superb quality and workmanship to create this unique (and limited) line of timepieces!\nAn IWC is not a mass product. This can be verified anytime in the manufacturer's \"pedigree ledger\". Since 1882 IWC has been engraving an individual serial number and the caliber designation on each IWC movement and also entering by hand in the pedigree ledger all the details about the reference number, caliber, material, case number, delivery date from the factory and the recipient.\nSince the masterpieces from Schaffhausen often become heirlooms, descendants or later purchasers can always obtain from IWC the exact data on any IWC watchThe IWC line includes both men's and women's designs. Additionally, there is a full line of matching and color-coordinated watch straps to supplement your watch purchase.\nThe case number 1107985 of a world famous owner of an IWC pocket watch: Sir Winston Churchill. Eight Swiss Physicians presented this time piece to him on the occasion of his now famous address in the Great Hall at Zurich University on September 19, 1946. In the pedigree book there is the entry: the watch (movement # 955025) left the factory on November 11,1944. Its scheduled date for re-testing was November 2000, it made it to the appointment.\nIWC offers men's watches and pocket watches, they also produce a women's line.\nIn the 1860's an American was to make a lasting impression on the Swiss watch scene visited Switzerland with the idea of setting up a watch factory to take advantage of the lower wage rates and the local expertise. In 1869 Florentine Ariosto Jones from Boston settled in the Schaffhausen in eastern Switzerland---an unlikely spot, far from the traditional watchmaking centers of Geneva and the Jura--where he was offered a factory with hydro-electric power from the Rhine. Jones, who had visions of exporting his products back to the US called his company the International Watch Co.\nThe survival of the company owes much to a talented watchmaker, Urs Haenggi, who joined in 1883 and stayed the rest of his life. He put the companies affairs in order and introduced new calibers to the products. Rauschenbachs son and successor had proved of little help, but his granddaughter Bertha had married Ernst Homberger, a Schaffhausen industrialist, who in 1905 was awarded powers of attorney to act for members of the family, which included Bertha's elder sister and her husband C.G. Jung, the famous Psychiatrist.\nErnst Homberger took over the running of the business in 1929 and renamed it Uhrenfabrik Ernst Homberger Rauschenbach; when his father-in-law died, Ernst dropped his name from the title. In the mid-1950's Ernst's son Hans took control; an Anglophile who had rowed at Henley, he renamed it International Watch Co. HE Homberger AG. He was the last private owner. Since 1978, when the Swiss watch industry was in serious trouble and the company was rescued by an injection of capital from VDO, a German industrial conglomerate, IWC has been known once more by Jones original title International Watch Co.\nSince its early days, IWC has made watchmaking history. Jones original 19 ligne calibers, one of the first to feature crown winding, are collectors treasures. In 1885 the company produced the first-ever pocket watch with digital hour and minute displays. In 1890 saw its first Grande Complication, with 1,000 parts that took a year to assemble and finish totally by hand. IWC was among the first to make wristwatches based on one of their ladies pocket watches, and it supplied marine chronometers to several of the worlds Navies.\nThe mid 1930's saw the launch of its first wristwatch designed specially for pilots. Its movement protected against magnetic fields, a feature which was incorporated into the famous Ingenieur line with its soft iron inner case and ability to withstand 500,000 a/m.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 4104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://utilitiesofthefuture.com/index.php/speaker/george-s-hawkins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:36Z", "digest": "sha1:P4SGUMTPBUPREZ5VM2I3VRZ77I5RHXSA", "length": 1233, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "utilitiesofthefuture.com", "title": "George S. Hawkins, Esq. \u2013 Utilities of the Future", "raw_content": "Mr. George Hawkins serves as CEO and General Manager of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water). On his arrival, Mr. Hawkins launched an ambitious agenda to transform DC Water into a customer-oriented enterprise that is driving innovation and delivering improved value to ratepayers. The core goal is to improve aging infrastructure while complying with stringent regulatory requirements.\nMr. Hawkins previously served as director of the District Department of the Environment (DDOE). Mr. Hawkins was the Executive Director of several non-profit organizations in New Jersey, including New Jersey Future, the Stony Brook Watershed Association and the NJ Council of Watershed Associations. Mr. Hawkins held senior positions with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and he served Vice President Gore on the National Performance Review.\nMr. Hawkins began his career practicing law for Ropes & Gray, and is a member of the Bar in Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University and Cum Laude from Harvard Law School. Since 1999, Mr. Hawkins has taught Environmental Law and Policy for the Princeton Environment Institute at Princeton University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 121.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uza.uz/en/politics/presidents-of-uzbekistan-and-egypt-exchange-views-05-09-2018?ELEMENT_CODE=presidents-of-uzbekistan-and-egypt-exchange-views-05-09-2018&SECTION_CODE=politics&print=Y", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:48Z", "digest": "sha1:5BVKDTTT7WK7GXIQASEK6H57JTUHHJNT", "length": 2218, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "uza.uz", "title": "UzA - Presidents of Uzbekistan and Egypt exchange views", "raw_content": "Presidents of Uzbekistan and Egypt exchange views\nThe President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi held negotiations in a narrow format, at Kuksaroy residence.\nThe President of Uzbekistan, welcoming the distinguished guest in the country, noted that this is a historic event in bilateral relations.\n\u201cWe see in Egypt, which is one of the ancient centers of human civilization, a state with great potential. Relations between our countries and people have existed since ancient times. Today a new stage and practical work in cooperation between Uzbekistan and Egypt begins. Huge unused opportunities have been identified during the preparation for this visit. This is evidenced by the fact that agreements on contracts worth $400 million have been reached at today\u2019s business forum. I am sure that the visit of the President of Egypt to Uzbekistan will yield great results in our partnership\u201d, said Shavkat Mirziyoyev.\nThe course of implementation of agreements reached earlier and the signed documents were considered. The Presidents noted the importance of further intensifying cooperation in political, trade-economic, investment, innovation and scientific-technical spheres, in the field of tourism and culture. The parties agreed to strengthen the legal framework of bilateral relations for this purpose, hold meetings at various levels and strengthen partnership.\nThe heads of states also exchanged views on current issues of international and regional agenda. Attention was paid to issues of strengthening regional security, countering international terrorism and religious extremism. Decision was taken to establish an exchange of experience, interdepartmental relations and form a joint working group in this direction.\nAn agreement has been reached for uniting efforts towards the establishment of lasting peace and stability in Afghanistan, conducting appropriate political consultations between the ministries of foreign affairs.\nThe Presidents noted the similarity of their views on all the considered issues.\nAbdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi invited Shavkat Mirziyoyev to pay a visit to Egypt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 2335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 206.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vanhive.com/subjects/How-to-Write-a-Descriptive-Essay", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:15Z", "digest": "sha1:GT26UTRMJS2SRE5ATYCL5EQC6YZRZFQ5", "length": 24112, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "vanhive.com", "title": "How to Write a Descriptive Essay | Cram", "raw_content": "When I first read George Orwell\u2019s \u201cWhy I Write,\u201d I wondered why he explained his childhood with great detail. Orwell spends almost an entire page of a four-page essay explaining that he did not simply start writing novels (1). Instead, he recounts that he made up detailed stories in his mind, felt that most of his early writing was a failure, and mostly engaged\u2014in what he refers to as\u2014literary activities before he started to\u2014as he calls it\u2014 write seriously (1). I thought that most children used\nGarrison Keillor\u2019s \u201cHow to Write a Letter\u201d gives instructions on how and why a shy person should write a letter. Keillor believes that when someone is shy they don\u2019t put a lot into the conversations they are in, leaving them unknown to people around them. His solution is to write a letter. Keillor explains that, \u201c\u2026a shy person writes a letter. To be known by another person\u2026\u201d(506). He continues on to add that treating writing a letter as an obligation only serves to be counterproductive to the task\nCollege Writing 9:05-10:15 am Professor Braxton-Robinson/Professor Sheffield Assignment: Write a Descriptive Essay describing a storm you have witnessed. The storm I witnessed was Hurricane Sandy. When I first heard of the hurricane I thought it wouldn't be as bad as some people were prediciting, but as the storm approached I certainly changed my mind. As we sat in the house it became very real how bad the storm was going to be. It was scary to hear the wind howling; blowing the trees around\nShawn J. Burtner SW-SO-214 September 25, 2012 Chapter 4 Pg. 165-175 Social Dimension Socialization It is almost impossible to count how many times we hear a child scream or cry when left with a care giver, at school, or even when a stranger looks at them in the supermarket. And although we notice these things, we don't usually connect them with being unnatural or unnecessary. But in fact, we should. There is hardly a need to experience such things, and that goes for the child as well as the\nHow to write a Positive Memo. An interoffice memo is one way that a manager or anyone else sends information to others in the same office. In order to communicate effectively, there must be a meeting of the minds. The definition is communication is the \u2018transmission of information and meaning from a sender to a receiver\u2019 (Guffey & Loewy, 2014, p.122). How can we do this? There are five necessary steps to ensure effective communication: 1.\tSender has idea 2.\tSender encodes message 3.\tSender selects\nThere are many reasons why I write. I write to share information with people. I write to stay in touch with friends and family although this is a rare occurrence; emailing or calling is much quicker. I write to reminisce about events in my life, both the important ones and the insignificant ones. I write in order to share these memories with others. I write so I can have a visual of all my ideas. I write because it is required of me. Sometimes I do not mind and other times I would rather\n1.01 How to write an essay General Advice Start early As soon as you are given an essay question, begin your thinking. If you don't, you might miss useful information whilst doing other research. The television and radio often have programmes on topical issues which could be of use - if you don't already have some ideas for your essay you could miss their usefulness. It is similar to the process when you learn a new word: because you have actually looked it up, it then seems to appear more\nWrite an Explanation of How You Will Create and Ensure a Healthy and Safe Home Based Environment That You Can Show to Parents and as Evidence for Cssiw\nWrite an explanation of how you will create and ensure a Healthy and Safe Home based environment that you can show to parents and as evidence for CSSIW. Take into consideration: \u2022 What steps you take to make your setting healthy and safe \u2022 The three levels of supervision and how you might supervise children in different environments. \u2022 The checks you can do to ensure equipment is suitable and safe. \u2022 Where you can access up to date guidance on risk assessment and health and safety and\nThe beauty of how I write is abstract. Abstract is what I define as a style that does not have a constant or regular look while it varies. Writing and literature is an art within itself. We\u2019re taught the letters of the alphabet, consonants, and vowels which is the beginning and basic art of literature. I truthfully state that our signature tells others about the characteristics we portray. Anytime I\u2019ve had to write my signature from my young ages to signing my life away in college contracts, the\nEssay #1 There are many distinct reasons that compel writers to write, according to Joan Didion and George Orwell in their essays titled \u201cWhy I Write.\u201d Their ideals are mostly different, but their end result is the same, which is basically being able to put words on paper for people to think about and enjoy. Didion admits that she stole the title from George Orwell, which acknowledges the fact that there are similarities in their writing. Orwell wrote his in 1946 and Didion in 1976. They share\nHow to Write a Kickass Paper Let\u2019s set the scene your Intro to Psychology of Child Development Class is slipping into the C range and you need to raise it back up to a B so you can keep your B average. How are you going to do it? You\u2019re going to ace the next paper that\u2019s how! Well that\u2019s the plan at least, but you\u2019ve been sitting in front of a blank word document for the past hour and a half. Maybe you\u2019ve opened a note book to \u201creview the material\u201d, or maybe you\u2019re really ambitious and opened the\nRedo of Rhetorical Analysis of \u201cHow to Read and Write\u201d (Frederick Douglass) During an era of slavery, manifest destiny, and no hopes of abolition, Frederick Douglass depicts a world where slavery enters the kindest of souls, and pollutes the soul to have no kindness left, only hatred and anger. In the empowering narrative \u201cHow to Read and Write\u201d, Douglass sheds light on the cruelty of slavery and its pervasive impact, though his journey to ultimately gain his ability to think through reading and\nHow to write a Good Value Chain Analysis The ability of a company to understand its own capabilities and the needs of the customers is crucial for a competitive strategy to be successful. The profitability of a firm depends to a large extent on how effectively it manages the various activities in the value chain, such that the price that the customer is willing to pay for the company\u2019s products and services exceeds the relative costs of the value chain activities. It is important to bear in mind\nFrederick Douglass \"How I Learned to Read and Write\" During the 1800\u2019s, the institution of slavery was still ongoing in the few slave states left in America. Slavery was still proving to be unjust and unfair, not allowing for African Americans to be considered equals. However, some slaves were able to overcome the many restrictions and boundaries that slavery forced upon them. In Frederick Douglass\u2019 essay \u201cLearning to Read and Write,\u201d Douglass portrays himself as an intelligent and dignified\n(small) number of secondary/tertiary sources. The second section of the Introduction sets out the purpose of the proposed study. This can be brief and simply clarifies how your proposed study will address the problem you have identified. The third part of the Introduction is a statement of the research question (or hypotheses). Write your research question according to the guidelines for good research questions discussed in class. Parts one and two set the stage for the research question. Recommended\nHow to write an accounting essay... The basis of most academic work is the ability to construct a good essay. Although this sounds obvious, it is a skill which most students need to develop as none of us is born with the natural ability to write an essay, never mind one which will both address a given topic effectively and adequately support an argument with evidence. The most important aspect of writing an accounting essay or report is that the content must be informative and factually accurate;\nPreparing for the Re-Write, Evaluating What I Learned in Writing 101s As an author of the book \" The Rebirth of a Blackman, Rebuilding a Generation,\" my first published writing was not the best book on the shelf. Due to my lack of research skills, spelling errors, and grammatical challenges, I sold about 40 copies in the last 3yrs. I spoke in my book about the challenges we face as black men in America, financial struggles, abandonment issues, and the lack of higher education. You would think\nRhetorical Analysis : How The Author Writes Rather Than What They Actually Wrote\nRhetorical Analysis I. Introduction Rhetorical analysis defines how the author writes rather than what they actually wrote. This paper breaks down an article into pieces, and explains how the article informs to the audiences. This article written under business is report with misleading over the proliferation of various Non-GAAP and GAAP in the company. GAAP stands for General Accepted Accounting Principles and the purpose in this article is to point out what is wrong with financial reporting, and\nHow to Write an Ethics Case Essay\n* Judge relative importance between what we want, how we want to act, and why we believe as we do * Individual determinants work in combination with religious/cultural traditions and economic/social situations * Religious beliefs and cultural norms * Relative income and financial security * Membership in different organizations whose members can influence goals, norms, beliefs and values -> ultimately moral standards How are personal moral standards formed? Answer with reference\nWhy do writers write? If it 's not for the money why do writers write? Joan Didion said, \u201cI write entirely to find out what I\u2019m thinking, what I\u2019m looking at, what I see and what it means.\u201d This quote expresses to me why writers write. Throughout this course, I have experienced the opportunity to express myself as a writer and having the flexibility to do what I want. Expressing myself in my own why defines who I am as a writer, and this course has given me this. Taking this course last year was\nWhat Is Reflection? How I Write A Cover Letter For The Fighting The Monster Paper\ntime we had to write a cover letter for the Fighting the Monster paper. The art of reflecting on ones thoughts or their means of writing is rather difficult. As I took on the first reflection, I struggled on trying to make it coherent and not just about how I viewed the project. I wanted to go deeper into why and how I felt when I wrote it. Eventually, I got the hang of it and ended up writing a good reflection so when we were assigned this final reflection on the class, I knew how I would go about\nHave you ever tried to teach a four year old how to read and write? Where do you begin? How do you keep their attention? These are all things to consider when you are teaching someone how to read and write. These are things I had to consider two years ago when I was going to teach my little sister how to read and write. I was determined to help my parents and to give her a head start for her future, but I didn\u2019t know how. I decided to just try my best to find things that work and things that don\u2019t\nThe path of learning to read and write is a journey in which everyone is given the opportunity of doing, but experienced differently by all. Particular teachers, classes, books, and author\u2019s styles contribute to one\u2019s own unique personality. I have always had a keen interest in the stories that reading provides, and the ability of putting thoughts onto paper through writing. I began these at a young age and they have followed me throughout the course of my life. At a young age, I recall lying in\nHow to write a teaching case I am currently \u2013 with colleagues Mikael L\u00f6nnborg and Gerhard Schjelderup \u2013 editing what we hope to be a book of Scandinavian teaching cases. In a meeting in Stockholm recently, I was asked to explain what it takes to write a teaching case. I gave my opinion, we had a very interesting discussion. Here is my (very rough and off the cuff) opinion about what it takes (in reality, how a teaching case differs from a research case). Why are you writing this case? Cases\nWriting an Executive Memo Your strategy professors have asked the English faculty to cover the executive memo, which you will use in your strategic management class, for two reasons: * The ability to write a short, informative, well-written memo like this will serve you well in your future careers. * Writing a good memo is difficult and requires practice. Students in past strategic management classes have had trouble with the guidelines you\u2019ll see in the following paragraph. Please read\nHOW TO WRITE ESSAYS Visit our How To website at www.howto.co.uk At www.howto.co.uk you can engage in conversation with some of our authors \u2013 all of whom have \u2018been there and done that\u2019 in their specialist fields. You can get access to special offers and additional content but, most importantly, you will be able to engage with, and become a part of, a wide and growing community of people just like yourself. At www.howto.co.uk you\u2019ll be able to talk to, and share tips with, people\nWrite a Proper Evaluation of How Your Organizational Culture Is Enhancing or Obstructing Strategy Implementation. Suggest Changes That Should Be Made to Culture to Enhance Performance.\nideas on what the firm\u2019s or industry is all about, how its workforce should behave and how it defines itself in relation to its external environment. It is this firm\u2019s reality that shapes its activities. The organisational culture is reflected in firm\u2019s philosophies, rules, norms, values, climate, symbols, heroes, and almost everything its member do. \u2018Culture is one of the most precious things a company has, so corporate culture strength refers to how widely and deeply employees hold the company\u2019s dominant\nAlana Roberts Essay I February 26th, 2013 \u201cLearning to Read and Write\u201d by Fredrick Douglas is a story about a slave breaking the bondage of ignorance by learning to read and write. During the course of 7 years Douglas discreetly teaches himself to read and write by means of stealing newspapers, trading food with poor white boys for knowledge and books, as well as copying his master\u2019s handwriting. Douglas learning to read gave him extreme awareness of his condition as he says \u201c\u2026I would at times\nRhetorical Analysis of Douglass In the excerpt \u201cLearning to Read and Write\u201d, Frederick Douglass talks about his experiences in slavery living in his masters house and his struggle to learn how to read and write. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, orator, writer, and statesman. Some of his other writings include \u201cThe Heroic Slave\u201d, \u201cMy Bondage and My Freedom\u201d, and \u201cLife and Times of Frederick Douglass\u201d. In this excerpt, Frederick Douglass uses an\nHow did Douglas learn how to write? Curiosity led Fredrick Douglass to want to learn how to write. It all started one day while working at Durgin and Bailey\u2019s ship yard, strange symbols (letters) on the timber grasp his attention. Douglas sought out the names of the symbols and learned how to write them, and after he accomplished that he yearned for more. Aware that it is illegal for people to teach him to write, he devises a clever plan to learn how to write by using Reversed psychology on the\nHow to Write an Exegetical For a Christian, an exegetical can be one of the most rewarding papers that they will ever write. An exegetical is a paper that analyzes a passage from the bible and tells the reader how to apply it to their life. You need to know a couple of terms before you begin. A biblical principle is one of the most important. A biblical principle is the basic truth that the verse is trying to tell the reader. The writer needs to know what context is. This is one of the most important\nfigurative language to \u2018show, not tell\u2019 and in the creativity of how and what I write. I was encouraged to write about a variety of topics in this class, and I thought differently about each of these, learning to find my voice in the process. Poetry was not something I was too familiar with prior to this semester, but I have always been a lover of books and writing since I can remember. This class has helped me use my passion to read and write for creative purposes, and I am glad I was both challenged\nTeaching to Read Have you ever tried to teach a four year old how to read and write? Where do you begin? How do you keep their attention? These are all things to consider when you are teaching someone how to read and write. These are things I had to consider two years ago when I was going to teach my little sister how to read and write. I was determined to help my parents and to give her a head start for her future, but I didn\u2019t know how. I decided to just try my best to find things that work and things\nHow did you learn to read and write? Who influenced you the most? Relate what you have read and viewed to your own schooling. Recalling my early development in reading and writing it provokes thoughts of pure hatred. Until grade three I had slipped through the cracks of an old fashioned Catholic Education system. One of thirty three students, my feelings were not those of a modern day student in a community of responsible learners (Tompkins, Campbell, & Green, 2011, p. 1). My reading and spelling\ntype. Where some have to plan and plan what they are going to write about or say, I find it easier to just start writing and go from there. The rest just comes to me. This process for me is the best my life is not exactly structured. My job requires me to be at work from 8am to 5pm sometimes to 8pm. This means there is never a set time for me to study do exams, or write essays so when I get a minute I do not always use it to sit and write an essay. I do admit I do brainstorm, not on paper, but literally\nthe\u2029idea\u2029of\u2029children\u2029or\u2029male\u2029partnership.\u2029Elizabeth\u2029had\u2029given\u2029up\u2029trying\u2029to\u2029explain.\u2029She\u2029had\u2029taken\u2029a\u2029job\u2029because\u2029she\u2029needed\u2029to\u2029live;\u2029she\u2029had\u2029found\u2029an\u2029interesting\u2029one\u2029in\u2029preference\u2029to\u2029a\u2029dull\u2029one;\u2029she\u2029had\u2029tried\u2029to\u2029do\u2029well\u2029rather\u2029than\u2029badly.\u2029She\u2029could\u2029not\u2029see\u2029how\u2029any\u2029of\u2029these\u2029three\u2029logical\u2029steps\u2029implied\u2029a\u2029violent\u2029rejection\u2029of\u2029men\u2029or\u2029children.\u2029Also,\u2029a\u2029part\u2029of\u2029his\u2029use\u2029of\u2029description\u2029is\u2029in\u2029foreshadowing\u2029the\u2029events\u2029that\u2029are\u2029about\u2029to\u2029take\u2029place.\u2029An\u2029example\u2029of\u2029this\u2029is\u2029when\u2029Stephen\u2029visits\u2029the\u2029Boulevard\u2029du\n@ 9-10\tRoom:\tD8.102 Instructor:\tGunadi H. Sulistyo (0817532747)\tCode:\t862210/2217 Objective The main objective of this course is to develop the students\u2019 ability to write various types of essay, comprising example, comparison and contrast, cause and effect relation, classification, and process analysis for descriptive and expository types of essay. Contents The knowledge and skills offered to the students would cover the components and organization of an essay, including using examples\nin the all sorts of extracurricular activities all year round. The middle year\u2019s program gave us the opportunity to grow our characters and stand out at such a young age. I was involved in both service and creative activities ranging from learning how to make origami to building friendships with the orphans at the King Hussein Palace. For my 10th grade graduation personal project I created a piece of my favorite city\u201d Jerusalem\u201d out of clay. I attended a workshop for pottery and ceramics and composed\nEssay First Draft How do you write an essay? It is something teachers have asked you to do countless times, yet you still do not understand completely. The dreaded thought of writing an essay may soon become a new strength. By knowing the proper steps, you will be able to write a solid and well-rounded essay. There are three basic steps to follow whilst creating your essay; planning, drafting, and editing. The first step is to plan your essay, which will take 40% of your total essay writing\nHow You Write 3 Day Notice At Pay Or Quit?\nHow to write 3 day notice to pay or quit? Description: 3 day notice to pay or quit has got a special writing pattern and this pattern needs to be essentially followed by the landlord so that the eviction compliant can be properly lodged. 3 day notice to pay or quit must be placed in proper writing otherwise the legal case cannot be easily executed. There are some common writing strategies that need to be maintained for writing the notice in an efficient method. A proper format should be there so\nauthors write on personal encounters they experienced. The author chooses two different methods of writing styles. E.B. White utilizes a nostalgic reflective descriptive piece, whereas Brady uses a more sarcastic narrative. Arguably both writers do a great job in their story telling skills. Both stories are respected and pleasing, yet similar but different at the same time. The authors\u2019 choice of writing style is what gives one story more of an advantage to the other. Though descriptive and narrative\n------------------------------------------------- How to Write a Theme Analysis Essay (5-Paragraphs) The theme is a recurring element throughout literature, movies, and art, which offers the reader/viewer a deeper meaning, a deeper understanding about fundamental ideas in life, and a moral or life lesson. Essay writing When writing about the theme, the writer should keep in mind that he/she will write an analysis of a theme that appears in either a text or movie that argues a specific point\nHow does one write? How does one write a whole essay, or a book, or anything, for that matter? There is a type of process to write anything. What is this process? What are the steps to help you get through this process? I have always struggled with writing essays and they\u2019ve never come easily to me. I used to sit in my room, in the middle of the night, just staring at a screen, for what would feel like hours. Wondering, \u201cWhen am I going to finish this paper, or even, start it?\u201d The writing process\nI enjoy reading the stuff that Ted Koosier writes. He is extremely descriptive which allows for me to picture what he is talking about in my head as I read. I have never really enjoyed poems at all but reading this book has been persuading my interest about out them. The poem called Bad News is quite saddening. Even though he never really says what the phone call was about in the poem you can only imagine. It reminds me of the time my uncle was hospitalized. There were never phone calls about\nworded things, or explained myself in a paper wasn 't good enough compared to all the other people in my classes. Then, just recently I figured out that if I write for myself and things that I feel strongly about then when I am staring at a blank word document the words will come easy to me, and will start to flow. This is why I wrote, and why I write. I wrote because I had to, because the teacher would give me a topic that I didn 't care about, and expected me to pull something out that was great. I\nAll How to Write a Descriptive Essays:\nEssay about Cottle-Taylor Write Up\nConduct an Internet Search to Locate a Case Study That Shows How Voip Was Beneficial to an Organization. Write a 350\u2013 to 700\u2013Word Paper Which You Analyze the Organization\u2019s Use of Voip. Respond to the Following in\nHow I Learned With Writing\nHow to Wirte a Research Paper\nPolygamy, What Is Write and Wrong Essay\nHow The Pacing And Flow Of The Instruction\nLiterature Review Write Up with Cover Page Essay\nFinancial Management Theory Write Up Essay\nZara Case Write-Up\nEnzyme Catalyst Lab-Write Up Essay\nAncient India Quick Writes\nEssay about Natureview Farm Case Write Up\nLab Write Up Essay\nEssay on Ckc Case Write-Up\nWrite an Entry for Your Online Blog Which Describes a Time When You Felt Uncertain or Unsure About a Situation You Were in and Explain How You Overcame It.\nWrite a 1,400- to 1,750-Word Paper in Which You Describe the Elements of the Marketing Mix (Product, Place, Price, and Promotion). in Addition, Select an Organization with Which You Are Familiar and Describe How Each", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 696, "original_length": 47991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://veritaspharmainc.com/2018/05/31/veritas-pharma-provides-corporate-update-q2-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:54Z", "digest": "sha1:WSDNPMAZ22HMXEYPLR6VC5HX7LTAYHVA", "length": 5323, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "veritaspharmainc.com", "title": "Veritas Pharma Provides Corporate Update on Q2 2018 - Veritas Pharma Inc", "raw_content": "VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 31, 2018 \u2014 Veritas Pharma Inc. (CSE:VRT) (OTC:VRTHF) (Frankfurt:2VP), (\u201cVeritas\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) is pleased to provide a corporate update on its achievements, related scientific activities and growth strategies for the second quarter of fiscal 2018.\nStatus of Human Trials\nEarlier this year, Veritas Pharma\u2019s subsidiary Cannevert Therapeutics (\u201cCTL\u201d) signed an agreement with Puerto Rico\u2019s Fundaci\u00f3n de Investigaci\u00f3n (\u201cFDI\u201d) Clinical Research to perform trials of its lead cannabis strain, CTL-X, to target pain. The anticipated approvals were expected to come at the end of Q1 2018 with a potential start this Q2 2018. Challenges arose with the importation of placebo cannabis from a non-US supplier. The designated placebo is a cannabis plant material which resembles CTL-X both in appearance and scent but does not contain the active constituents that can potentially produce the therapeutic effects Cannevert scientists are currently sourcing a similar placebo, preferably locally within Puerto Rico. Once this task has been completed, the details of this material will be incorporated into the documentation for local regulatory review. The start of human trials is now anticipated in early Q3 2018.\nIn late 2017, Health Canada issued CTL a dealer licence (no. 2018/6970) under its Section 9.2 of the Narcotic Control Regulations (\u201cNCR\u201d). This license enables CTL to possess, produce, analyze, sale, send, transport, and deliver cannabis, hemp and related products and enables CTL to be a commercial service provider of chemistry and biological testing services for licensed producers. Since then, Veritas and CTL have been searching for potential therapeutic cannabis strains in various parts of the World to import for further testing. CTL has been also preparing to update its license to enable it to package its propriety cannabis products.\nCTL\u2019s cancer research project with Dr. Dmitri Petchkovski of Fibroblast Consulting has been investigating the effects of several human lung, prostate, colon, breast, and melanoma cancer cell lines against select cannabis strains, along with standard clinical chemotherapeutic drugs for comparison. There has been sufficient screening of strains since the last update. Current evidence suggests there is anticancer activity in certain cell lines; however, further investigation will be required over the coming months to establish more conclusive evidence.\n3 Carbon Extraction Acquisition\nVeritas recently entered into a Share Purchase Agreement with 3 Carbon Extractions Inc. (\u201c3 Carbon\u201d) to acquire 50% of their issued and outstanding shares. 3 Carbon will provide Veritas with extraction and product development expertise to further the Company\u2019s goals in creating proprietary products and formulas for select therapeutic indications. 3 Carbon has been leveraging its relationship with ExtractionTek Solutions Ltd. (\u201cETS\u201d), a hydrocarbon extraction equipment manufacturer from Colorado, to assist Veritas in gaining further access to licensed producers in Canada and around the World for cannabis supply and co-development opportunities.\nIn 2014, Veritas\u2019 other subsidiary, Sechelt Organic Marijuana Corp. (\u201cSOM\u201d) submitted an Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations (\u201cACMPR\u201d) application to be a Health Canada approved licensed producer. SOM is still at the fifth Application Review of the seven stages of the application process and is awaiting permission from Health Canada to build on its land located in Sechelt, British Columbia, Canada. Although acquiring an ACMPR license would enable CTL to eventually design and grow its own propriety strains, there are now more licensed producers in Canada and other parts of the World willing to enter into cannabis production and/or co-development agreements with other companies. Veritas has been looking at this approach to have select cannabis strains grown by Canadian or non-Canadian licensed producers. This in interim enables the Company to further its research, product development and commercialization activities.\nCannevert Therapeutics Ltd. Acquisition\nOn March 22, 2018, Veritas Pharma completed the 100% takeover of its research arm, Cannevert Therapeutics (\u201cCTL\u201d). Since then, the Company has been working with Cannevert\u2019s scientists to finalize their operational research plan, including re- organization and role refinement of personnel for the next two years. The focus of their research efforts will be the discovery and development of medical cannabis products for the pain and seniors/palliative care markets.\nThe Company continues to explore other prospective research offices and laboratory space on the campus of the University of British Columbia (\u201cUBC\u201d) as well as in other municipalities of the Lower Mainland that permit cannabis research, product development and commercialization. Veritas is still committed to expand its operations by Q3 of this year.\nOn May 21, 2018, UK\u2019s first medicinal cannabis investment fund, Sativa Investments PLC (NEX:SATI) subscribed on a non- brokered private placement basis to 500,000 Common shares of Veritas at a price C$ 0.40 per share for gross proceeds to the Company of $200,000. No warrants were issued with this placement. The Private Placement was approved by all of the independent directors of the Company.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 8674, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vestnikkavkaza.net/analysis/Bloomberg-Russian-markets-cope-with-sanctions.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XAH4TFNQVD4EX3R6MRHJPK6WCHU6VYN2", "length": 3994, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "vestnikkavkaza.net", "title": "Bloomberg: Russian markets cope with sanctions | Vestnik Kavkaza", "raw_content": "Bloomberg: Russian markets cope with sanctions\n18 May 2018 in 9:43 Bloomberg\nThe stronger dollar may have taken its toll on Turkey and Argentina but there is one notable exception to the stresses plaguing emerging markets \u2013 Russia. As Bloomberg writes in the article What Sanctions? Russian Markets Are Over It, investors have largely shrugged off the shock from U.S. Treasury sanctions being imposed for the first time on specific Russian companies, notably aluminum producer United Co. Rusal. The MOEX Russia Index, the country\u2019s benchmark, just hit a record high. The creditworthiness of Russia took a knock, but in the greater scheme of things it is just a blip. S&P Global Ratings in February lifted the sovereign back into investment grade, at BBB-, and it has not revised its view since.\nMoody's Investors Service, which has a Ba1 rating with a positive outlook, said April 19 that Russia's economy can weather the new sanctions. Another Moody's report on Wednesday said Russian corporate liquidity \u201cremains strong.\u201d Economic stability, higher oil and commodity prices, lower interest rates and the weaker ruble all contributed to a broad picture of corporate health. Central Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina said soon after the U.S. announced sanctions that \u201csystemic measures\u201d weren\u2019t needed to support the ruble, and she was right. Though the Russian currency has not recovered much from its sharp selloff, it has at least stabilized. And that has enabled the CBR to resume its normal practice of buying about $200 million a day in dollars to rebuild its currency reserves.\nIt is not all sunshine and roses. Russia has yet to respond to the American measures in a meaningful way, and there\u2019s scope for President Vladimir Putin to escalate tensions. There is still a bill rumbling through nation\u2019s parliament, the Duma, which would impose counter-sanctions on Western countries and companies. Though some of the more extreme elements have already been watered down, officials could ratchet them back up. The U.S. Treasury could also opt for a wide interpretation of sanctions violations that would catch parties not named in its April statement, such as banks. As I have argued, it\u2019s easy to see how the taint of the new edict can spread. So far this hasn\u2019t happened, but it can\u2019t be ruled out. Russia\u2019s economy grew 1.3 percent in the first quarter, at the low end of the central bank\u2019s forecasts. It\u2019s not a disaster \u2013 it\u2019s up from 0.9 percent in the fourth quarter, and in line with the slower pace of expansion seen in Europe. The sanctions came at the start of the current period, but that doesn\u2019t need to imply a slower pace of growth, as some analysts argue. The oil price rise will take a lot, perhaps all, of the sting out of their impact.\nThe Russian economy has come a long way. Inflation and interest rates were both at 17 percent three years ago, and they\u2019re now at 2.4 percent and 7.25 percent. The CBR had forecast rates to become neutral this year, which it says is toward the upper end of its 6-7 percent range, but it is now a crossroads. The weaker ruble looks to have stayed its hand from further reductions at its April 27 meeting, and it could also hold steady at its June 15 policy decision. That shouldn\u2019t bother stock markets. It\u2019s more complicated for fixed income. The central bank\u2019s expectations for its key rate didn\u2019t account for the drop in the ruble and the gain in oil. And these factors, and the surprising strength of wage growth, look likely to stoke a probable rebound in inflation. This is a problem the bank can set aside for now. Most of the world has been throwing rocks at Russia for months now. Its markets seem largely immune, and if politics remain as \u2013 relatively \u2013 peaceful and calm as this, stocks can keep climbing. With a price to earnings ratio of 8.6 percent, on a value basis, the MOEX Russia Index looks hard to beat.\nAssad: stability is growing in Syria\nTehran negotiating with Baku for deep-water drilling in Caspian Sea", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/Migrant-protests-in-Greece-spiral-out-of-control.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:04Z", "digest": "sha1:5U45ZKUJW4DHMOETHRUZMPD2IL635TIJ", "length": 2169, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "vestnikkavkaza.net", "title": "Migrant protests in Greece spiral out of control | Vestnik Kavkaza", "raw_content": "Migrant protests in Greece spiral out of control\n25 Apr 2018 in 3:00 Daily Express\nProtests in Greece spiralled out of control last night as migrants and ultra-nationalists clashed at a series of fiery protests and counter-protests on the island of Lesbos. Daily Express reports in its article Greece in FLAMES: Migrant protests in Lesbos SPIRAL out of control - riot police deployed that riot police were deployed on the island of Lesbos as desperate migrants called for better conditions and permission to travel to mainland Europe. Residents and ultra-nationalists held counter-protests before the two groups clashed, leaving 12 injured.\nViolence broke out when 200 members of the far-right Patriotic Movement attacked migrants with stones, glass bottles and fireworks. A short time later left-wing campaigners rushed to the aid of migrants. As the various groups clashed, riot police deployed tear gas.\nHowever the Greek news agency AMNA said the last migrants did not leave the scene in the central Sappho square in the town of Mytilene until early the next morning. Mayor of Lesbos Spyros Galinos said police should have intervened sooner. He said the island needed assistance in dealing with the growing number of migrants, with hundreds still arriving every day. He said: \u201cNow there are about 10,000 people in Lesbos who filed a request for asylum, whereas there are 27,000 residents in the city. \u201cOur island once again has become a hostage. For the last three years, Lesbos has been experiencing an unprecedented situation. It's carrying a huge burden.\u201d\nRegarding ultra-nationalist protestor, he said: \u201cIf persons of extreme ideological beliefs took part in this reaction, it was to be expected.\"\nLesbos was the main gateway to Europe for nearly a million refugees and migrants in 2015. Arrivals have slowed significantly since a European Union deal with Turkey in 2016 but a steady flow is putting pressure on island facilities. Its main camp, Moria is holding more than double the number of people it was intended to.\nTurkey's presidential administration: Ankara-Baku relations reach highest level\nTrump: If Iran threatens US, it will pay unprecedented price", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vestnikkavkaza.net/material/112821", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:52Z", "digest": "sha1:VSSI3KZ43KGLJZLOAVI2MKVAXJNI7KNU", "length": 967, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "vestnikkavkaza.net", "title": "UK, France, Germany to uphold JCPOA | Vestnik Kavkaza", "raw_content": "The leaders of Britain, Germany and France have agreed to uphold the Iran nuclear deal after meeting on the sidelines of an EU summit in Bulgaria, British Prime Minister Theresa May's spokeswoman says.\nMay met German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from a nuclear deal between Iran and major powers.\n\"The leaders reiterated their firm commitment to ensuring the deal is upheld, stressing that it is important for our shared security,\" Reuters cited the spokeswoman as saying.\n\"They pledged to work with the many parties to the deal to this end. The leaders stressed that Iran must continue to meet its own obligations under the deal,\" she added.\nMogherini convenes ministerial meetings of EU/E3 with Iran on May 15\nInternational community urges to keep Iran nuclear deal\nUS to withdraw from Iran nuclear deal if...\nExpert to discuss Iranian nuclear issue before end of November", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vias-seguras.com/veiculos/cars_made_in_brazil_are_deadly", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:21Z", "digest": "sha1:P2OPHDSQIWWQ55LH7V6AZMJU52EUMFML", "length": 17352, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "vias-seguras.com", "title": "Cars made in Brazil are deadly / Ve\u00edculos / Vias Seguras - Vias Seguras", "raw_content": "Vias Seguras / Ve\u00edculos / Cars made in Brazil are deadly\nSAO PAULO (AP) \u2014 The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil's new middle class. The shiny new Fords, Fiats, and Chevrolets tell the tale of an economy in full bloom that now boasts the fourth largest auto market in the world. What happens once those vehicles hit the streets, however, is shaping up as a national tragedy, experts say, with thousands of Brazilians dying every year in auto accidents that in many cases shouldn't have proven fatal.\nThe culprits are the cars themselves, produced with weaker welds, scant safety features and inferior materials compared to similar models manufactured for U.S. and European consumers, say experts and engineers inside the industry. Four of Brazil's five bestselling cars failed their independent crash tests.\nUnsafe cars, coupled with the South American nation's often dangerous driving conditions, have resulted in a Brazilian death rate from passenger car accidents that is nearly four times that of the United States, according to an Associated Press analysis of Brazilian Health Ministry data on deaths compared to the size of each country's car fleet. In fact, the two countries are moving in opposite directions on survival rates \u2014 the U.S. recorded 40 percent fewer fatalities from car wrecks in 2010 compared with a decade before. In Brazil, the number killed rose 72 percent, according to the latest available data.\nDr. Dirceu Alves, of Abramet, a Brazilian association of doctors that specializes in treating traffic accident victims, said poorly built cars take an unnecessary toll. \"The gravity of the injuries arriving at the hospitals is just ugly,\" he said, \"injuries that should not be occurring.\"\nAutomakers in Brazil point out that their cars meet the nation's safety laws. Some said they build even tougher cars for the country because of its poorly maintained roadways and rejected any notion that cost-cutting in production leads to fatalities.\nBut the country's few safety activists perceive a deadly double standard, with automakers earning more money from selling cars that offer drivers fewer safeguards \u2014 a worrisome gap for new middle-class households, whose surging spending power has outpaced consumer protections taken for granted in more developed countries. The problem extends beyond Brazil, with economic forecasts showing the majority of global growth in auto sales taking place in emerging-market nations as the world's auto fleet doubles to 0.15 billion by 2020.\n\"Entry-level cars in Brazil are incredibly dangerous, it can't be denied. The death rate from accidents is far too high,\" said Maria Ines Dolci, coordinator of the Rio de Janeiro-based consumer defense group Proteste. \"The manufacturers do this because the cars are a little cheaper to make and the demands of the Brazilian consumers are less; their knowledge of safety issues is lower than in Europe or the U.S.\" Manufacturers earn a 10 percent profit on Brazilian-made cars, compared with 3 percent in the U.S. and a global average of 5 percent, according to IHS Automotive, an industry consulting firm.\nOnly next year will laws require frontal air bags and antilock braking systems on all cars, safety features that have been standard in industrial countries for years. The country will also have new impact regulations on paper, at least; Brazilian regulators don't have their own crash-test facility to verify automakers' claims about vehicle performance, nor are there independent labs in the country. Experts say those requirements alone are not sufficient to meet basic safety standards. Some models sold in Brazil, like the Chinese-made JAC J3, scored only one star in a recent crash test despite having air bags and antilock brakes.\nAn independent pilot effort known as the Latin New Car Assessment Program has run initial tests of Brazil's most popular car models, and the results are bleak. The cheapest models of four of the five top-selling cars, made by General Motors, Volkswagen and Fiat, received a one-star rating, out of five stars, while other top sellers also scored poorly. Such a rating means cars provide little protection in serious head-on wrecks, compared to four- or five-star rated cars, which are virtually the minimum that consumers in the U.S. and Europe buy.\n\"The difference is you're talking about somebody dead in the vehicle or dying very quickly, or somebody being able to get out of the vehicle themselves,\" said David Ward, director general of the London-based FIA Foundation for auto safety, which supports the Euro and Latin NCAP programs. \"It's definitely a difference between life and death.\"\nThe squat Ford Ka hatchback sold in Europe scored four stars when it was tested by Euro NCAP in 2008; its Latin American version scored one star. Ford acknowledged that particular Ka is built on an outdated platform, and said it cannot be compared with the European version of the same name \u2014 it's that different. The company said it aims to have all its cars produced in Brazil built on updated, global platforms by 2015.\nThe Mexico-produced Nissan March compact sold in Latin America received a two-star rating from Latin NCAP, while the version sold for about the same price in Europe, called the Micra, scored four stars. The crash tests found the Latin American model had a weak, unstable body structure that offered occupants little protection in even non-serious wrecks. In an emailed statement, Nissan said the March sold in Brazil is \"practically the same model\" offered in Europe. \"The difference in the results achieved in Europe and Latin America is due to variations in the NCAP tests applied in different parts of the world.\" Not so, said Alejandro Furas, technical director for the Global NCAP crash test programs. \"We perform the frontal crash test exactly in the same way as the Euro NCAP,\" he said. \"The March and Micra were tested in the same lab, with the same type of crash test dummies, under the same conditions with the same people running the laboratory.\" The Euro NCAP tests are more complete. They include side-impact and other tests, while the Latin American version only records front-impacts. Each type of impact test is individually scored on a 16-point scale. The March sold in Brazil obtained a 7.62 rating in its frontal-impact test. The Micra fared much better, 12.7 points.\nItalian automaker Fiat said in an emailed statement that \"in general, Brazilian projects receive more reinforcements\" within the cars' bodies to fortify them against the nation's \"harsher roads and terrain.\" However, NCAP tests found that Fiat's best-selling car in Brazil, called the Novo Uno, had an unstable body structure and scored it just one star. Crash-test footage shows the front of the car folding up like an accordion, giving it a 2.0 point rating, the second lowest of the 28 cars NCAP has examined. Consumers purchased nearly 256,000 Novo Uno's last year \u2014 the second-most popular car in the country.\nRenault's safety standards also vary. The French company builds its Sandero in Brazil, selling 98,400 cars last year. That car scored one star on the Latin NCAP test, but the model sold in Europe, made by Renault's Romanian subsidiary Dacia, scored three stars. Renault said the safety record of the Sandero and its other cars were on par with autos of the same class in Brazil.\nOne of those is the VW Gol, Brazil's best-selling car for the last decade. Volkswagen said it strives to maintain a global standard for body strength, putting the same number of welds on the same models regardless of where they're produced, and using high-strength steel in Brazilian cars. It added that since 1998 it's given Brazilian consumers the option of buying a car with air bags \u2014 its Gol Trend model with two frontal air bags scored three stars, while the same model without air bags scored one star. The company didn't respond to requests for figures on how many consumers requested air bags. \"Structural integrity during a crash is a global standard for Volkswagen,\" the company said in an emailed statement. \"The passenger compartment for the Gol remained stable and thus guarantees survival space for occupants.\" Latin NCAP has tested three VW models. The Gol and the Polo had stable bodies. The Bora sedan, however, was rated as unstable, though other factors helped it score three stars.\nAnd then there are the cars the companies do not market outside Latin America, such as the Celta by GM. Celta is Brazil's No. 5 car in terms of sales, with 137,615 sold last year. It received one star after its door unhinged and the passenger cabin roof bent into an inverted V shape during its crash test. General Motors had no comment other than to say that its cars in Brazil are legal.\nAn engineer for a major U.S. automaker, speaking only on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job, said he has watched for years as his company failed to implement more advanced safety features in Brazil, simply because the law did not require them. \"''The automakers are pleased to make more profitable cars for countries where the demands, whatever they may be, are less rigorous,\" he said. \"It happens everywhere \u2014 India, China and Russia, for example.\" About 40 million Brazilians moved into the middle class during the past decade with more income than ever to buy their first car. The growth potential is enormous: One out of every seven Brazilians owns a car, while the U.S. vehicle fleet covers nearly every American.\nBut as auto sales boom in Brazil, so have the number of accidents and deaths. An analysis of Health Ministry data shows that 9,059 car occupants died in vehicle crashes in Brazil in 2010, according to the most recent statistics available. That same year, 12,435 people in the U.S. were killed in car crashes, though the U.S. passenger car fleet is five times larger than Brazil's. The result: Brazilian automobile crash victims died at four times the rate as those in the U.S.\nThe dangers come down to basics, engineers said: the lack of body reinforcements, lower-quality steel in car bodies, weaker or fewer weld spots to hold the vehicles together and car platforms designed decades before modern safety advances.\"The electricity used in building a car is about 20 percent of the cost of the structure,\" said Marcilio Alves, an engineering professor at Brazil's premier University of Sao Paulo and one of the few independent researchers in the nation looking at car safety. \"If you save on electricity, you save on cost. One way to save electricity is either reducing the number of spot welds or using less energy for each spot weld made. This affects structural performance in the event of a crash.\"\nIn a car with no air bags and an unstable body structure, a driver's biggest danger is the steering wheel. A weak body structure and fragile steering column make it easier for the wheel to slam into the driver's chest and abdomen in frontal crashes, the deadliest and most common, causing serious damage to vital organs. Ward talks of steering wheels that break off and \"float\" during wrecks in poorly made cars \u2014 moving around the cabin in the driver's area. That means that even if an air bag is deployed, the steering wheel may go around or under it and directly hit the driver.\nMany Brazilian car bodies also don't contain crumple zones, areas that absorb energy during wrecks. The omission endangers occupants' lower limbs, as foot wells rip off and expose feet and legs to car parts slamming into them from the front. \"If a car's body cannot absorb the energy of a crash, it will logically result in more damage, more injuries to passengers,\" said Alves, the doctor who specializes in traffic accident victims.\nOne auto engineer described the situation by sketching two car body designs with identical perimeters, but one depicted internal gaps \u2014 missing body reinforcements. He worked three decades for Volkswagen and spent the last 10 years as an independent engineering consultant for big automakers. He asked that his name not be published for fear of losing contracts and benefits. \"The secret of a car's body being able to withstand the crash test are the weld spots,\" he said. \"Let's say this is a German car,\" he pointed to the gapless sketch. \"It's really sophisticated. Nothing is missing.\" Then he pointed at the car made in Brazil, full of incomplete ink strokes. \"The Brazilian version looks the same from the outside, but it's missing pieces,\" he said. \"In one version they include the reinforcement, in the other they don't. What's of interest is the final shape. What's inside, nobody can see.\"\nIn 2008, Carlos Alberto Lopes, then a 23-year-old waiter, was riding in a one-star car traveling about 50 mph on a rainy highway in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais when the road curved smoothly left. The car hydroplaned, skidded into an embankment and rolled several times down a long incline. Of the four occupants, Lopes was the only one with serious injuries, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. Lopes says the three-point seatbelt he was wearing didn't lock his body in place, allowing him to repeatedly hit the collapsing roof as the car rolled. He suffered a crushed vertebra. \"If the seatbelt had locked when the car rolled I wouldn't have hit my back. None of this would have happened,\" Lopes said.\nA study by a chain of Brazilian rehabilitation centers where Lopes is being treated found that in 2011, 40 percent of the patients it worked with in Sao Paulo with serious spinal injuries were hurt in traffic accidents. Lopes never considered a lawsuit. In fact, in more than a dozen interviews with accident victims left paralyzed after crashes, not one considered taking legal action against vehicle manufacturers. That's in part a reflection of the lack of police investigations into car accidents, the majority of which, like Lopes', only result in simple \"occurrence bulletins\" that include minimal information. But it's also indicative of the deference Brazil's new middle class consumers show to automakers and most other industries.\n\"We're 20 years behind the U.S. and Europe in terms of consumer awareness,\" said Dolci, coordinator of the Proteste consumer defense group. \"The new, emerging middle class entering the market has little information on car safety. They think little of automobile security. It's this very class of consumer the automakers are targeting and to whom they're selling a mountain of cars.\"\nAccidents like Lopes' involve more than a poorly built car. Drivers fail to obey traffic laws, which many of the region's governments notoriously don't enforce. Cars must navigate crumbling roads and poorly designed highway systems that all but make gridlock and accidents unavoidable. And many drivers simply value perks such as alloy wheels and sound systems over unseen crumple zones.\nIn 1965, there were 47,089 motor vehicle fatalities in the U.S. That same year, consumer activist Ralph Nader's famous indictment of the auto industry was published, Unsafe at Any Speed. The book ignited a national discussion on auto safety and ultimately led to reforms that dramatically refashioned the industry's standards, helping lead to a 32 percent drop in deaths by 2011. Nader said halting the growing number of auto deaths in Brazil would take \"a public uproar, product liability lawsuits, selective boycotts by motorists or by mandatory Brazilian law equalizing safety standards with the safest engineering required in other countries.\" \"These responses in the past have worked in other countries confronted by auto industry double standards for protecting lives on the highway. Such actions are long overdue but now Brazilians know the truth in more detail,\" he said.\nThe Brazilian government says its new laws mandating frontal air bags and anti-lock brakes will dramatically improve safety, as will new impact standards. But because there are no independent crash-test centers in Brazil, companies will not face the same scrutiny as elsewhere. They will run the impact tests themselves and present the results to the government for approval. Because there is no \"conformity of production\" clause in the Brazilian legislation, cars won't be spot-checked to ensure they meet safety laws.\nAlexandre Cordeiro, the top government minister overseeing auto safety laws, acknowledged that the government doesn't have its own crash-test center \u2014 but said Brazil will monitor crash tests conducted outside the country. \"Regarding front- and rear-end crash tests, our cars are as secure as European or American cars,\" Cordeiro said. However, when asked about the stark differences in performance that the NCAP tests document between Brazilian and European cars, Cordeiro acknowledged improvements need to be made, saying \"we need to evolve and we're working on it.\"\nOver the years Ward said he has watched the same battles play out over auto safety \u2014 the only thing that changes is the location. \"The sad thing is, this has been the experience in the 1960s in the U.S., in the 1990s in Europe and now in Latin America,\" Ward said. \"The industry does the least it can get away with until they're forced to do something different. 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One obvious change is that there had been a significant difference between the English language during the Victorian era and a few centuries before this when William Shakespeare was actively writing.\nOne of the most common things to see is that the English language by this point had been modernized. Most of Charles Dickens writing is fairly clear to understand. This is a good indication that the English grammar rules had been established. No longer was there repeating words for emphasis. Instead, to create emphasis you would frequently see similes being used throughout the writing of this time period.\nAnother common thing among the language is sarcasm. This was not often used in previous English writings. Charles Dickens loved it. He would frequently use it and as we know, it did have a huge impact on the way people would think as they were reading or speaking.\nStill though, much of the Victorian English was extremely proper. It is safe to assume that we have become more relaxed in how we form sentences in our everyday speech. I can imagine that if people from the Victorian era could listen to us now they might be slightly confused. We do not always complete sentences or sound proper. Our writing often differs from the way we would actually talk.\nEnglish accents were still unique to regions.\nHowever, the English spoke exactly as the literature was written. Very proper, often deep thinking, and with only slight slang. The slang terms they used were quite different from what we would use today, but our slang spans across whole sentences. Normally they would replace a word, maybe two. 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It's not, strictly speaking, a digital rhetoric story, but there are some interesting intellectual property issues that have appeared in the show. For example, aspiring designer Angela Keslar wanted to incorporate her client's signature shawl into the outfit she was preparing, but show producers reminded her that the woman's shawl would then become property of the show and subject to being auctioned off to the highest bidder in fine Ebay style. Intellectual property was also certainly at issue when contestant Keith Michael was booted from the show for violating the rules by being in possession of a contraband pattern book. Show fans also pointed out drawings copied from runway originals in the disgraced designer's portfolio. According to host Tim Gunn's podcast, they had also planned to \"Photoshop\" over a stand-in when the humiliated plagiarist abruptly fled the set. As if that weren't enough free culture grist for the mill, viewers are invited to cut and sew Project Runway clips together in their video mash-up site.\nJulia Lupton said...\nWe stumbled onto SIGNE CHANEL, a French multi-part documentary currently being aired on the Sundance Channel. I think of it as the \"other Project Runway.\" The show documents the creation of a spring collection at the House of Chanel. Karl Lagerfeld drops in and out of the picture, always accompanied by grandiose music. The real emphasis is on the seamstresses behind the scene, extremely competent middle-aged women who painstakingly translate his sketches into garments. 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It is located in the heart of the state capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. In my opinion, it's the most beautiful mosque in Brunei.\nLabels: Bruneiana, Tourism\nJewelle Tan, January 15, 2007 at 11:44 PM\nI agree, my favorite Brunei landmark.\nHi Jewelle! I'd like to invite you to be part of the VB2008 team with your coverage of that side of the woods heheh! If you're agreeable, pls email me on anakberunai@gmail.com so I can send an invite to you. 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Acquired by the U.S. Navy for service as a net tender, renamed USS Wapello, and designated YN-56, she was placed in service on 9 June 1941.\nType: Net tender\nDraft: 9 ft 6 in (2.90 m\nOn 15 June 1941, Wapello arrived at the Naval Station Key West at Key West, Florida, for conversion and fitting-out. On 26 June 1941, she departed for Cuba in company with fleet tug USS Umpqua (AT-25) and arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Cuba, on 29 June 1941. Escorted by cargo ship USS Vega (AK-17) from Guantanamo Bay to San Diego, California, and by fleet oiler USS Ramapo (AO-12) from the United States West Coast to the Hawaiian Islands, Wapello arrived at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on 27 August 1941.\nAttached to the 14th Naval District, Wapello tended harbor nets through the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. She remained at Pearl Harbor for the duration of hostilities, engaged in unglamorous but vital tasks. She was reclassified as a tug-class net tender, YNT-24, on 7 April 1942.\nWith the end of the war in the Pacific on 15 August 1945, the need for Wapello\u200d\u200a\u2019\u200bs services decreased rapidly, and she was declared surplus. Placed out of service at Bremerton, Washington, on 23 October 1946 and struck from the Navy List on 21 November 1946, Wapello was turned over to the War Shipping Administration for disposal on 3 May 1947.\nShe entered commercial service as Anna Coppedge. In succeeding years her name changed several times, to Colorado Point, Creole Firme, Island No. 1, and Gorgona II. At the time of the name change to Island No. 1, she was reflagged as a Panamanian vessel. Her commercial career ended when she was crushed by a merchant ship in a lock of the Panama Canal; she was towed to Miraflores Lake Panama where she remains partially sunk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 10.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://waset.org/Publications/XML?id=635&t=harvard", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:13Z", "digest": "sha1:I44D3WNEGRMOOTV3U2QES654N2OAQE27", "length": 301, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "waset.org", "title": "World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology", "raw_content": "Yao, J. (2011), 'An Investigation of Adjustment of Solar Shading Devices in Office Buildings', World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, International Science Index 58, International Journal of Civil, Environmental, Structural, Construction and Architectural Engineering, 5(10), 419 - 421.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 147.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://waset.org/Publications/stature-estimation-using-foot-and-shoeprint-length-of-malaysian-population/16313", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:I4BMM6JRDSDRGG7WWFFYBIWSWJMXT3FL", "length": 6240, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "waset.org", "title": "World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology", "raw_content": "Stature Estimation Using Foot and Shoeprint Length of Malaysian Population\nM. Khairulmazidah, A. B. Nurul Nadiah, A. R. Rumiza\nFormulation of biological profile is one of the modern roles of forensic anthropologist. The present study was conducted to estimate height using foot and shoeprint length of Malaysian population. The present work can be very useful information in the process of identification of individual in forensic cases based on shoeprint evidence. It can help to narrow down suspects and ease the police investigation. Besides, stature is important parameters in determining the partial identify of unidentified and mutilated bodies. Thus, this study can help the problem encountered in cases of mass disaster, massacre, explosions and assault cases. This is because it is very hard to identify parts of bodies in these cases where people are dismembered and become unrecognizable. Samples in this research were collected from 200 Malaysian adults (100 males and 100 females) with age ranging from 20 to 45 years old. In this research, shoeprint length were measured based on the print of the shoes made from the flat shoes. Other information like gender, foot length and height of subject were also recorded. The data was analyzed using IBM\u00ae SPSS Statistics 19 software. Results indicated that, foot length has a strong correlation with stature than shoeprint length for both sides of the feet. However, in the unknown, where the gender was undetermined have shown a better correlation in foot length and shoeprint length parameter compared to males and females analyzed separately. In addition, prediction equations are developed to estimate the stature using linear regression analysis of foot length and shoeprint length. However, foot lengths give better prediction than shoeprint length.\nForensic anthropology, foot length, shoeprints, stature estimation.\n[1] Houck, M.M. & Siegel J.A. (2010). Fundamentals of forensic science (2nd ed.). Academic Press, USA, pp. 183.\n[2] Mall, G., Hubig, M., Buttner, A., Kuznik, J., Penning, R. and Graw, M. (2001). Sex determination and estimation of stature from the longbones of the arm. Forensic Science International, 117, 23-30.\n[3] Krishan, K. (2008). Estimation of stature from cephalo-facial anthropometry in north Indian population. Forensic Science International, 181, 52.e1-52.e6.\n[4] Agnihotri, A.K., Kachhwaha, S., Googoolye, K. and Allock, A. (2011). Estimation of stature from cephalo-facial dimensions by regression analysis in Ido-Mauritian population. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 18, 167-172.\n[5] Krishan, K., Kanchan, T. and DiMaggio J.A. (2010). A study of limb asymmetry and its effect on estimation of stature. Forensic Science International, 200, 181.e1-181.e5.\n[6] Ishak, N-I., Hemy, N. and Franklin, D. (2012). Estimation of stature from hand and handprint dimensions in a Western Australian population. Forensic Science International, 216, 199.e1-199.e7.\n[7] Sahni, D., Sanjeev., Sharma, P., Harjeet., Kaur, G. and Aggarwal, A. (2010). Estimation of stature from facial measurements in northwest Idians. Legal Medicine, 12, 23-27.\n[8] Krishan, K., Kanchan, T. and Asha, N. (2012). Estimation of stature from index and ring finger length in a North Indian adolescent population. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 19, 285-290.\n[9] Rastogi, P., Nagesh, K.R. and Yoganarasimha, K. (2008). Estimation of stature from hand dimensions of north and south Indians. Legal Medicine, 10, 185-189.\n[10] Ross, A.H. and Manneschi, M.J. (2011). New identification criteria for the Chilean population: Estimation of sex and stature. Forensic Science International, 204, 206.e1-206.e3.\n[11] Celbis, O. and Agritmis, H. (2006). Estimation of stature and determination of sex from radial and ulnar bone lengths in a Turkish corpse sample. Forensic Science International, 158, 135-139.\n[12] Bidmos, M.A. (2008). Metatarsals in the estimation of stature in South Africans. Forensic and Legal Medicine, 15, 505-509.\n[13] Chiba, M. and Terazawa, K. (1998). Estimation of stature from somatometry of skull. Forensic Science International, 97, 87-92.\n[14] Menezes, R.G., Nagesh, K.R., Monteiro, F.N.P., Kumar, G.P., Kanchan, T., Uysal, S., Rao, P.P.G., Rastogi, P., Lobo, S.W. and Kalthur, S.G. (2011). Estimation of stature from the length of sternum in South Indian females. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 18, 242-25.\n[15] Hasegawa, I., Uenishi, K., Fukunaga, T., Kimura, R. and Osawa, M. (2009). Stature estimation formulae from radiographically determined limb bone kength in a modern Japanese population. Legal Medicine, 11, 260-266.\n[16] Alexandre, G. (1996). Computerized classification of the shoeprints of burglars\u2019 soles. Forensic Science International, 82, 59-65.\n[17] Krishan, K. and Sharma, A. (2007). Estimation of stature from dimensions of hands and feet in a North Indian popuation. Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 14, 327-332.\n[18] Ozden, H., Balci, Y., Demirustu, C., Turgut, A. and Ertugrul, M. (2005). Stature and sex estimate using foor and shoe dimensions. Forensic Science International, 147, 181-184.\n[19] Sen, J. and Ghosh, S. (2008). Estimation of stature from foot length and foot breadth among the Rajbanshi: An indigenous population of North Bengal. Forensic Science International, 181, 55.e1-55.e6.\n[20] Reel, S., Rouse, R., Vernon, W. and Doherty, P. (2012). Estimation of stature from static and dynamic footprints. Forensic Science International, 219, 283.e1-283.e5.\n[21] Kanchan, T., Menezes, R.G., Moudgil, R., Kaur, R., Kotian, M.S. and Garg, R.K. (2008). Stature estimation from foot dimensions. Forensic Science International, 179, 241.e1-241.e5.\n[22] Zeybek, G., Ergur, I. and Demiroglu, Z. (2008). Stature and gender estimation using foot measurements. Forensic Science International, 181, 54.e1-54.e5.\n[23] Kanchan, T., Krishan, K., ShyamSundar, S., Aparna, K.R. and Jaiswal, S. (2012). Analysis of footprint and its parts for stature estimation in Indian population. The Foot, 22(3), 175-80.\n[24] Tharmar, N., Khairulmazidah, M., Yaacob, M.H. and Thomas, J. P. (2011). Estimation of stature based on foot length of Malays in Malaysia. 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In addition to featuring my contribution on this week\u2019s Studio360, tracks by Junto members Ethan Hein and Tom Anderson (both in the set below) had been featured on the May 28th broadcast of Soudcheck, in which Kurt Anderson and Marc Anthony Thompson (Chocolate Genius) were interviewed by John Schaeffer.\nMarc writes (via: http://disquiet.com/2014/06/27/got-those-junto-blues/):\nChallenges like the blues cover initiated by Studio 360 have a lot in common with the Disquiet Junto: open calls based around a specific prompt. I\u2019m always on the lookout for an external project that seems like it would be fun to put forward to the Junto, especially a project where the Junto\u2019s interest in abstract sound might provide some unique contributions. This particular Studio 360 project seemed especially appropriate because of the sense in which the blues was never fully about composition as an end, but about a rich community of shared source material. The blues, like other forms of folk music, is a source of inspiration for the Creative Commons, and this seemed like a good time to make that connection. That connection is emphasized in the Studio 360 broadcast, when it\u2019s mentioned how in the blues \u201clyrics are passed form person to person, generation to generation.\u201d\nA few days ago, I wrote on why I stated making tracks for the Junto and the impact its had on my process. 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'Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant'), commonly referred to as Ahrar al-Sham, is a coalition of multiple Islamist and Salafist units that coalesced into a single brigade and later a division in order to fight against the Syrian Government led by Bashar al-Assad during the Syrian Civil War.[41] Ahrar al-Sham was led by Hassan Aboud[9] until his death in 2014.[8] In July 2013, Ahrar al-Sham had 10,000 to 20,000 fighters,[9] which at the time made it the second most powerful unit fighting against al-Assad, after the Free Syrian Army.[42] It was the principal organization operating under the umbrella of the Syrian Islamic Front[9] and was a major component of the Islamic Front.[26] With an estimated 20,000 fighters in 2015,[3] Ahrar al-Sham became the largest rebel group in Syria after the Free Syrian Army became less powerful. Ahrar al-Sham and Jaysh al-Islam are the main rebel groups supported by Turkey and Saudi Arabia.[43] On 18 February 2018, Ahrar al-Sham merged with the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement to form the Syrian Liberation Front.[30]\nThe group aims to create an Islamic state under Sharia law.[3]\nWhile both are major rebel groups, Ahrar al-Sham is not to be confused with Tahrir al-Sham, its main rival and former ally. Before 2016, Ahrar al-Sham cooperated with the al-Nusra Front, originally an affiliate of al-Qaeda.[3][44] However, from 2017 onward it increasingly fought against al-Nusra, which rebranded as Tahrir al-Sham with a former Ahrar leader, Abu Jaber, as emir, and recruited some of Ahrar al-Sham's most hardline units.\n2.1 Formation and early activities\n2.2 2013\u20132014: The Islamic Front\n2.3 2014\u20132016: shifting alliances with rebels and Islamists\n2.3.1 September 2014: leadership killed in bomb attack\n2.4 2017 onwards: conflict with al-Nusra/HTS\n3 Military tradition\n5 Designation as a terrorist organization and relations with other designated groups\n5.1 Relations with other designated groups\n7 Member groups\n8 Former groups\nAhrar al-Sham has defined itself in this way:\nThe Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant is an Islamist, reformist, innovative and comprehensive movement. It is integrated with the Islamic Front and is a comprehensive and Islamic military, political and social formation. It aims to completely overthrow the Assad regime in Syria and build an Islamic state whose only sovereign, reference, ruler, direction, and individual, societal and nationwide unifier is Allah Almighty's Sharia (law).[45]\nAccording to the International Crisis Group in 2012, Ahrar al-Sham, along with the al-Nusra Front, has \"embraced the language of jihad and called for an Islamic state based on Salafi principles.\"[4] The group has a Syrian leadership and \"emphasizes that its campaign is for Syria, not for a global jihad\".[9] However, according to US intelligence officials, a few al-Qaeda members released from prisons by the Syrian government have been able to influence actions of the group, and install operatives within the senior ranks of Ahrar al-Sham.[46][47][48] Such ties were not disclosed publicly until January 2014, when a former senior leader of Ahrar al-Sham, the now deceased Abu Khalid al-Suri, acknowledged his long-time membership in al-Qaeda and role as Ayman al-Zawahiri's representative in the Levant.[47][49]\nRegional expert Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi has speculated two factions existed within Ahrar al-Sham, a nationalist moderate faction and a Salafi Jihadi faction influenced largely by the al-Qaeda linked Abu Khalid al-Suri whom was appointed by Ayman al-Zawahiri to act as a mediator between Jabhat al-Nusra and ISIL, the faction at the time mostly existing in eastern Syria, in particular in Hasakah and having a pro-Caliphate outlook, that allied with ISIL and held ties with Ansar al-Islam with a number of Ahrar al-Sham members later joining ISIL during the group's presence there.[50][51] As a result Ahrar al-Sham has been described as being diverse group in this regard, in December 2016 another Salafi faction called Jaysh al-Ahrar headed by Abu Jaber Shaykh, a senior commander in Ahrar al-Sham, split from the group and joined Hayat Tahrir al-Sham but later left HTS due to disagreements with the leadership and the resignation of the Saudi cleric Abdullah al-Muhaysini, Jaysh al-Ahrar eventually joined the National Front for Liberation alongside Ahrar al-Sham in 2018.[52]\nIn its first audio address, Ahrar al-Sham stated its goal was to replace the Assad government with a Sunni Islamic state.[3][44] It acknowledged the need to take into account the population's current state of mind. It also described the uprising as a jihad against a Safawi plot to spread Shia Islam and establish a Shia state from Iran through Iraq and Syria, extending to Lebanon and Palestine.[53] Ahrar al-Sham has claimed that it only targets government forces and militia and that it has cancelled several operations due to fear of civilian casualties.[54] It provides humanitarian services and relief to local communities, in addition to pamphlets promoting religious commitment in daily life.[53]\nAhrar al-Sham leader Hassan Aboud stated that Ahrar al-Sham worked with the Nusra Front and would have no problems with al-Nusra as long as they continued fighting the regime. Aboud also said Ahrar worked with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in some battles, but that their agenda was disagreeable. He said all parties, whether they were ISIL, al-Nusra, the Islamic Front, or the FSA, shared the same objective of establishing an Islamic state, but they differed as to the \"tactics, strategies or methods\".[55][56][57][58] Aboud claimed that in Syria \"there are no secular groups\".[59] Aboud condemned democracy in an interview with Al-Jazeera, saying that \"Democracy is people governing people, according to rules they please. We say that we have a divine system whose law is Allah's for his creatures and his slaves who he appointed as viceregents on this Earth.\"[60]\nMohamed Najeeb Bannan, an Islamic Front Sharia Court judge in Aleppo, stated, \"The legal reference is the Islamic Sharia. The cases are different, from robberies to drug use, to moral crimes. It's our duty to look at any crime that comes to us. ... After the regime has fallen, we believe that the Muslim majority in Syria will ask for an Islamic state. Of course, it's very important to point out that some say the Islamic Sharia will cut off people's hands and heads, but it only applies to criminals. And to start off by killing, crucifying etc. That is not correct at all.\" In response to being asked what the difference between the Islamic Front's and the Islamic State's version of sharia would be, he said \"One of their mistakes is before the regime has fallen, and before they've established what in Sharia is called Tamkeen [having a stable state], they started applying Sharia, thinking God gave them permission to control the land and establish a Caliphate. This goes against the beliefs of religious scholars around the world. This is what [ISIL] did wrong. This is going to cause a lot of trouble. Anyone who opposes [ISIL] will be considered against Sharia and will be severely punished.\"[61][better source needed]\nAhrar al-Sham, and the Islamic Front in general, issued condolences for Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar upon his death.[62][63]\nIn August 2015, Ahrar al-Sham commander Eyad Shaar said \"We are part of Syrian society and the international community. ... We want to be part of the solution.\"[64]\nAhrar al-Sham's political representative stated in December 2015 that Ahrar al-Sham are \"not related with al Qaeda, we only fight with them against Assad and ISIS\".[65]\nIn an Amnesty International report in July 2016, Ahrar al-Sham, along with al-Nusra Front, was described as having \"applied a strict interpretation of Shari'a and imposed punishments amounting to torture or other ill-treatment for perceived infractions.\" A political activist was abducted and detained by Ahrar al-Sham for having not worn a veil and accused of affiliation with the Syrian government. At least three children have been recorded to be abducted by Jabhat al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham between 2012 and 2015. Lawyers and political activists have faced reprisal attacks by Ahrar al-Sham and other Islamist rebel groups due to their political activities and perceived religious beliefs.[66]\nIn May 2016, Ahrar al-Sham released an address by then deputy general director Ali al-Omar in which he distinguished Ahrar al-Sham's militancy from the Salafi jihadism of al-Qaeda and ISIL, and defended its political engagement.[67]\nOn 18 June 2017, Ahrar al-Sham adopted Unified Arab Law in its courts in Syria.[68] On 21 June, the group issued a fatwa permitting it to display the Syrian independence flag.[5]\nFormation and early activities\nAhrar al-Sham started forming units just after the Egyptian revolution of January 2011, and before the Syrian uprising started in March 2011.[2] Most of the group's founders were Salafist political prisoners who had been detained for years at the Sednaya prison until they were released as part of an amnesty by the Syrian Government in March\u2013May 2011.[2][69][70] At the time of its establishment in December 2011,[3] Ahrar al-Sham consisted of about 25 rebel units spread across Syria. On 23 January 2012, the Ahrar al-Sham Battalions was officially announced in the Idlib Governorate. In the same announcement, the group claimed responsibility for an attack on the security headquarters in the city of Idlib. \"To all the free people of Syria, we announce the formation of the Free Ones of the Levant Battalions,\" the statement said, according to a translation obtained by the Long War Journal. \"We promise God, and then we promise you, that we will be a firm shield and a striking hand to repel the attacks of this criminal Al Assad army with all the might we can muster. We promise to protect the lives of civilians and their possessions from security and the Shabiha [pro-government] militia. We are a people who will either gain victory or die.\"[71]\nBy July 2012, the group's website listed 50 units, and by mid-January 2013, the number had increased to 83 units.[72] Most of these units are headquartered in villages in Idlib Governorate, but many others are located in Hama and Aleppo Governorates. Some Ahrar al-Sham units that have been involved in heavy fighting include the Qawafel al-Shuhada and Ansar al-Haqq Brigades (both in Khan Shaykhun), the al-Tawhid wal-Iman Brigade (Maarat al-Nu'man, Idlib), the Shahba Brigade (Aleppo City), the Hassane bin Thabet Brigade (Darat Izza, Aleppo), and the Salahaddin and Abul-Fida Brigades (both in Hama City).[6]\nMembers of the group are Sunni Islamists.[73] Ahrar al-Sham cooperates with the Free Syrian Army; however, it does not maintain ties with the Syrian National Council.[53] Although they coordinate with other groups, they maintain their own strict and secretive leadership, receiving the majority of their funding and support from donors in Kuwait.[41][74][75]\nAhrar al-Sham was credited for rescuing NBC News team including reporter Richard Engel, producer Ghazi Balkiz, cameraman John Kooistra and others after they were kidnapped in December 2012. While Engel initially blamed pro-Assad Shabiha militants for the abduction, it later turned out that they were \"almost certainly\" abducted by an FSA affiliated rebel group.[76] There were around 500 people in Ahrar al-Sham in August 2012.[77]\n2013\u20132014: The Islamic Front\nIn December 2012, a new umbrella organization was announced, called the Syrian Islamic Front, consisting of 11 Islamist rebel organizations. Ahrar al-Sham was the most prominent of these, and a member of Ahrar al-Sham's, Abu 'Abd Al-Rahman Al-Suri, served as the Front's spokesman.[78]\nIn January 2013, several of the member organizations of the Syrian Islamic Front announced that they were joining forces with Ahrar al-Sham into a broader group called Harakat Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya (The Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham).[70]\nIn May 2013, Ahrar al-Sham alongside Al-Nusra, ISIL and the Tawhid Brigade fought the Ghuraba al-Sham Front because of looting and corruption on behalf of Ghuraba al-Sham as well as disputes Ghuraba al-Sham had with the Aleppo Sharia Court.[79][80]\nIn September 2013, members of ISIL killed the Ahrar al-Sham commander Abu Obeida Al-Binnishi, after he had intervened to protect a Malaysian Islamic charity; ISIL had mistaken its Malaysian flag for that of the United States.[81]\nIn August 2013, members of the brigade uploaded a video of their downing of a Syrian Air Force MiG-21 over the Latakia province with a Chinese-made FN-6 MANPADS, apparently becoming the first recorded kill with such a weapon.[82]\nIn mid-November 2013, after the Battle for Brigade 80 near the Aleppo International Airport, fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant beheaded a commander[83] of Ahrar al-Sham forces, mistaking him for an Iraqi Shiite pro-government militiaman.[84]\nIn November 2013, the SIF announced that it was dissolving, and that its components would henceforth operate as part of the newly formed Islamic Front.[85]\nIn December 2013, there were reports of fighting between ISIL & another Islamic rebel group in the town of Maskana, Aleppo; activists reported that the Islamic rebel group was identified as Ahrar al-Sham.[86][87][88]\n2014\u20132016: shifting alliances with rebels and Islamists\nOn 23 February 2014, one of the top commanders and al-Qaeda representative,[47][49] Abu Khalid al-Suri, was killed in a suicide bombing in Aleppo, organized by ISIL.[47][89] In March 2015, the Suqour al-Sham Brigade merged with Ahrar al-Sham,[90][91] but left in September 2016.[92] Later in September, Suqour al-Sham joined the Army of Conquest, a group which also has Ahrar al-Sham as a member.[93]\nSeptember 2014: leadership killed in bomb attack\nOn 9 September 2014, a bomb went off during a high level meeting in Idlib province, killing Hassan Abboud, the leader of the group, and 27 other senior commanders, including military field commanders, members of the group's Shura council, and leaders of allied brigades. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack. The day after the bombing Abu Jaber was announced as replacement leader.[1][94][95] Ahrar ash-Sham received condolences from the al-Qaeda organization Nusra.[96] Ahrar received condolences from other al-Qaeda members.[97]\nHassane Abboud Head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Front Abu Abdullah al-Hamawi\nAbu Yazen al-Shami Had founded the Aleppo-based Fajr al-Islam [98]\nAbu Talha al-Ghab a top military commander\nAbu Abdulmalek[99] al-Sharei Head of the Islamic Sharia Council of the Islamic Front\nAbu Ayman Al-Hamwi\nAbu Ayman Ram Hamdan\nAbu Sariya al-Shami Ideologue\nMuhibbeddin al-Shami\nAbu Yusuf Binnish\nTalal al-AhmadTammam\nAbul-Zubeir al-Hamawi Ahrar leader in Hama\nAbu Hamza al-Raqqa Had founded the Aleppo-based Fajr al-Islam\nseveral other leaders\nIn early November 2014, representatives from Ahrar al-Sham reportedly attended a meeting with al-Nusra Front, the Khorasan Group, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and Jund al-Aqsa, which sought to unite the groups against the Syrian government.[100] However, by 14 November 2014, it was reported that the negotiations had failed.[101]\nDuring the night of 6 November 2014, a US airstrike targeted the group for the first time, hitting its headquarters in Idlib governorate[18] and killing Abu al-Nasr, who was in charge of receiving weapons for the group.[102] On 24 November 2014, a US airstrike on the ISIL headquarters building in Ma'dan, Raqqa killed another Ahrar al-Sham fighter, who was being held prisoner by ISIL.[103]\nThe New York Times reported that the pro Al-Qaeda Saudi cleric Abdullah Al-Muhaisini ordered that Christians in Idlib were not to be killed, and that Christians were being defended by Ahrar al-Sham.[104][105] However, there were subsequent unconfirmed reports of Ahrar al-Sham executing two Christians in the city.[106][107]\nOn 26 April 2015, Ahrar al-Sham, along with other major Aleppo based groups, established the Fatah Halab joint operations room.\nOn 14 July 2015, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at an Ahrar al-Sham Movement headquarters killing Abu Abdul Rahman Salqeen (an Ahrar al-Sham leader) and 5-6 others in Idlib province.[108][109]\nMohannad al-Masri, known by the alias Abu Yahia al-Hamawi, was appointed leader in September 2015.[110] Ali al-Omar, known by the alias Abu Ammar al-Omar, was appointed leader in November 2016.[111]\nIn October 2015, Abu Amara Brigades left the Levant Front and joined Ahrar al-Sham, having joined the Levant Front in February 2015.[112]\nOn 21 October 2015, the Jund al Malahim operations room was created as an alliance of Ajnad al Sham, Ahrar al-Sham and Al-Nusra in Rif Dimashq.[113]\nOn 25 February 2016, a car bomb was detonated at the Russian military base in Idlib, Syria. Ahrar al-Sham claimed responsibility on their website alleging \"dozens\" of casualties among Russian officials.[114] On the following day, Jaysh al-Sunna's branch in Hama merged with Ahrar al-Sham, though its northern Aleppo branch was not a part of this merger.[115][116]\nOn 13 May 2016, Amnesty International named Ahrar al-Sham as one of the groups responsible for \"repeated indiscriminate attacks that may amount to war crimes\" and reported allegations of their use of chemical weapons.[117] On 12 May 2016, Al-Nusra Front fighters attacked and captured the Alawite village of Zara'a, Southern Hama Governorate.[118] Pro-government media reported that Ahrar al-Sham fighters were involved.[119] The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed that civilians had been kidnapped[118] and the Red Crescent reportedly confirmed that 42 civilians and seven National Defence Force (pro-government militia) fighters were killed during the militant attack.[120] Additionally, some pro-Syrian government news sources reported that around 70 civilians, including women and children were kidnapped and taken to Al-Rastan Plains.[119][121] Some of the captured were pro-government troops.[118] A number of houses were destroyed and local property was looted following the rebel capture of the village.[122][better source needed]\nIn September 2016, Ashida'a Mujahideen Brigade left Ahrar al-Sham, apparently due to Ahrar's support of Turkey's Operation Euphrates Shield and lack of willingness to be closer to al-Nusra Front.[123][better source needed]\nAhrar al-Sham was praised by Tawfiq Shahabuddin, leader of the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, in October 2016.[124]\nOn 10 December 2016, 16 Ahrar al-Sham units under Hashim Sheikh, known by the alias Abu Jaber, formed a quasi-independent group within Ahrar called Jaysh al-Ahrar, or the Free Army, for similar reasons as Ashida'a Mujahideen Brigade leaving 3 months prior.[125][126]\n2017 onwards: conflict with al-Nusra/HTS\nOn 21 January 2017, five factions from Ahrar reportedly left to join al-Nusra Front: Jaysh al-Ahrar, al-Bara, Dhu Nurayn, al-Sawa'iq and Usud al-Har Battalion.[127] On the same day, it was announced that Ahrar al-Sham, Suqour al-Sham Brigade, Jabhat Ahl al-Sham, Jaysh al-Islam and Fastaqim Union would established a joint operations room to combat al-Nusra and its subgroup Jund al-Aqsa.[128][129][better source needed]\nOn 23 January 2017, the al-Nusra Front attacked Jabhat Ahl al-Sham bases in Atarib and other towns in western Aleppo. All the bases were captured and by 24 January, the group was defeated and joined Ahrar al-Sham.[130]\nOn 25 January 2017, several factions from Jaysh al-Islam based in Aleppo left to join Ahrar, establishing the Ansar Regiment.[131] On the same day, the remaining Fastaqim Union members of its Aleppo branch joined Ahrar al-Sham.[132]\nOn 25 January 2017, Suqour al-Sham Brigade along with the Idlib branch of Jaysh al-Islam and the Aleppo branch of the Levant Front joined Ahrar al-Sham.[133] On the following day, al-Miiqdad Brigade also joined Ahrar.[134][better source needed]\nOn 4 February 2017, American aircraft killed an Egyptian al-Qaeda member, Abu Hani al-Masri.[135][136][137] He was killed in Idlib's Sarmada region by a drone strike.[138][139] Egyptian Islamic Jihad was co-created by him.[140] Thomas Joscelyn pointed out that the publication al-Masra of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula talked about Abu Hani al-Masri.[141] He was also a military commander in Ahrar ash-Sham.[142] In Egypt he was jailed for several years and he was in Chechnya, Bosnia, Afghanistan,[143] and Somalia.[144][145] In 2012 he was released from prison in Egypt.[146] In Chechnya, several Russian prisoners once appeared in a video with Abu Hani al-Masri.[147][better source needed]\nJaber Ali Basha and Anas Abu Malek were made deputy leaders of Ahrar al-Sham in February 2017.[12][15][16]\nOn 23 July 2017, Tahrir al-Sham, successor of the al-Nusra Front, expelled the remnants of Ahrar al-Sham from Idlib, capturing the entire city.[148]\nOn 31 July 2017, Hassan Soufan, also known by his nom de guerre \"Abu al-Bara\", was appointed as the leader of Ahrar al-Sham's shura council. Soufan was born in Latakia, and in 2004, Saudi Arabia extradited him to the Syrian government, which sentenced him to life imprisonment in Sednaya Prison. In December 2016, he was released as part of an agreement during which the rebels withdrew from Aleppo. Soufan was among those who temporarily split from Ahrar al-Sham as part of Jaysh al-Ahrar in the same month.[13]\nOn 6 August 2017, 120 Ahrar al-Sham fighters in Arbin, Eastern Ghouta defected to the al-Rahman Legion after internal disputes.[149] Ahrar al-Sham accused the Rahman Legion of seizing their weapons, while the Rahman Legion accused Ahrar al-Sham of their attempt to implement their \"failed\" experience from northern Syria in eastern Ghouta.[150] A ceasefire agreement between the Rahman Legion and Ahrar al-Sham was implemented on 9 August.[151]\nAround 2,000 fighters in Ahrar al-Sham came from Hama. After its defeat in Idlib by Tahrir al-Sham in July 2017, territorial control by Ahrar al-Sham are confined to the al-Ghab Plain, Mount Zawiya, Ariha, and a number of villages in the northeastern Latakia Governorate and the western Aleppo Governorate.[152]\nIn August 2018, Hassan Soufan resigned as leader and deputy leader Jaber Ali Basha was promoted to replace him.[14]\nAhrar al-Sham is one of the best-armed and most powerful rebel factions active in the Syrian Civil War. It progressed from the use of improvised explosive devices and small-arms ambushes in early 2012 to assuming a lead role in large-scale sustained assaults on multiple fronts by 2013. The capture of materiel from the Syrian Armed Forces enabled Ahrar to regularly deploy tanks and mobile artillery and anti-tank guided missiles. It occasionally employed 1990s-era Croatian rocket and grenade launchers. Ahrar al Sham was involved in every major rebel victory over Syrian Government forces between September 2012 and mid-2013.[7] Ahrar grew significantly by absorbing into its ranks other rebel factions from the Islamic Front and the Syrian Islamic Front which preceded it.[91][153][154]\nDiscussions about foreign support in the media often center on the weapons that foreign powers provide to their proxies. Money is just as important as weapons though. As soon as a soldier / rebel has to fight away from his home, the rebel group has to pay at least his sustenance, and in practice some more. For Ahrar the amount of financial aid it got from abroad might be the very reason it became so powerful.[citation needed] After the December 2013 suspension of all U.S. and the U.K. non-lethal support, which included medicine, vehicles, and communications equipment,[155] to the Free Syrian Army after the Islamic Front, a coalition of Islamist fighters that broke with the American-backed Free Syrian Army, had seized warehouses of equipment. In 2014 the U.S. was considering indirectly resuming non-lethal aid to the moderate opposition by having it \"funneled exclusively through the Supreme Military Council, the military wing of moderate, secular Syrian opposition\" even if some of it ends up going to Islamist groups.[156] Several European states have attempted small-level engagements with individual Ahrar al-Sham political officials in Turkey.[157]\nDonations from supporters abroad were important for Ahrar's growth. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have been reported to have actively supported Ahrar al-Sham.[158] A statement issued by Ahrar al-Sham thanked Turkey and Qatar for their help.[159][better source needed] By 2013, the Kuwaiti private fund Popular Commission to Support the Syrian People, managed by Sheikh Ajmi and Sheik Irshid al-Hajri had supported Ahrar with US$400,000, for which Ahrar recorded a public thank you.[160]\nDesignation as a terrorist organization and relations with other designated groups\nAhrar al-Sham is not designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, the United Nations, or the European Union. Since December 2015, the UN Security Council has been trying to assemble a list of terrorist groups in Syria. Russia,[161] Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates[162] support classifying Ahrar al-Sham as a terrorist group, but they have not been able to achieve a unanimous consensus.[3][163]\nAhrar al-Sham's relationships with U.N. designated terrorist organizations has been, and continues to be, a key point of contention in U.S. and Russian foreign relations and in their Syrian ceasefire negotiations.[164] The U.S. Department of State has said that \"Ahrar al-Sham is not a designated foreign terrorist organization\".[165] However, some U.S. officials have reportedly considered designating it as a terrorist organization because of its links to al-Qaeda subgroups such as the al-Nusra Front.[157]\nIn a speech at 28 June 2016 Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado, United States Secretary of State John Kerry referred to Ahrar al-Sham as one of several \"subgroups\" of terrorist groups, saying\nBut the most important thing, frankly, is seeing if we can reach an understanding with the Russians about how to, number one, deal with Daesh and al-Nusrah. Al-Nusrah is the other group there \u2013 Jabhat al-Nusrah. They are a designated terrorist group by the United Nations. And there are a couple of subgroups underneath the two designated \u2013 Daesh and Jabhat al-Nusrah \u2013 Jaysh al-Islam, Ahrar al-Sham particularly \u2013 who brush off and fight with that \u2013 alongside these other two sometimes to fight the Assad regime.[166]\nbefore which he had said of Ahrar al-Sham that\nFrom Orlando to San Bernardino to the Philippines and Bali, we\u2019ve seen pictures and we\u2019ve heard testimony of shocking crimes committed by al-Qaida, by Boko Haram, by Jaysh al-Islam, by Ahrar al-Sham, by al-Shabaab, Daesh, other groups against innocent civilians, against journalists, and against teachers particularly.[166]\nIt was reported that administration officials disapproved this mention and thought that it would potentially harm the U.S. government efforts to convince the Russians and the Syrian government not to attack Ahrar al-Sham with one senior administration official reportedly saying that despite the fact that \"for months, we\u2019ve been arguing to make sure the Russians and the Syrian regime don\u2019t equate these groups with the terrorists, Kerry's line yields that point.\"[167] Explaining these comments, US State Department spokesman John Kirby said that \"secretary Kerry was simply trying to describe the complexity of the situation in Syria, noting that we aren't blind to the notion that some fighters shift their loyalties.\"[167][168] It was also reported that some Syrian groups see Kerry's comments as an example of how the Obama administration has slowly moved toward the Russian view of Syria, which includes painting all opposition groups as terrorists in order to justify attacking them.[167]\nAlthough Ahrar al-Sham is not officially designated as a terrorist organization in Germany, on 6 October 2016 a German court has convicted four German-Lebanese men who supplied the group in Syria of \"supporting a terrorist organization\",[169] and, on 30 March 2017, two Syrian refugees who were members of Ahrar al-Sham were placed on trial in Munich, Germany for being members of a terrorist organization. According to the prosecutor, the goal of the group is to \"overthrow the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and establish an Islamic regime\".[170]\nRelations with other designated groups\nAhrar al-Sham had worked with ISIL until the two groups began their present-day hostilities with one another in January 2014.[3]\nAbu Khalid al-Suri, a \"top al-Qaeda leader\", co-founded Ahrar al-Sham and was until the time of his February 2014 death, by an ISIS suicide car bomb attack, helping to lead Ahrar al-Sham[171] which allowed Ayman Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, to influence the rebel group's actions despite the group officially having no affiliation with al-Qaeda.[172] In 2015, Ahrar al-Sham, \"whose late leader fought alongside Osama bin Laden,\" again denied having any links to al-Qaeda[173] and in May 2016, the U.S., Britain, France, and Ukraine blocked a Russian proposal to the United Nations to blacklist Ahrar al-Sham as a terrorist group.[174] The group was openly allied with its longterm[175] partner al-Nusra Front and carried out joint operations with the group,[3][44] and was in talks with it about a possible merger in mid-2016.[176] Pro-government media reported that Ahrar al-Sham rejected the 2016 September 12 U.S.- and Russian-brokered Syrian ceasefire, citing the ceasefire's exclusion of certain Syrian rebel groups and declared solidarity with the al-Nusra Front, which is one of the groups excluded from this ceasefire.[177][better source needed]\nHowever, since late 2016, Al-Nusra and Ahrar al-Sham have been increasingly rivalrous,[178][179] with military clashes between them taking place in the Idlib Governorate in January\u2013March 2017 and July 2017.\nIn February 2018 Ahrar al-Sham and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement merged and formed the Syrian Liberation Front then launched an offensive against Tahrir al-Sham seizing several villages and the city of Maarrat al-Nu'man.\nFlags of Ahrar al-Sham\nThe official flag of Ahrar al-Sham since early 2016\nThe Syrian independence flag used officially by Ahrar since 21 June 2017, in addition to their official flag, though members were using it for some months prior in an informal basis\nA variant Black Standard occasionally used by Ahrar al-Sham\nThis flag is occasionally used by Ahrar al-Sham[180][181][182][183]\nThe original flag of Kata'ib Ahrar al-Sham as used by the group in the first half of 2012\nThis variant of their flag was used from late 2012 to early 2016\nPeople of the Levant Front[130]\nArmy of Mujahideen\nAnsar Brigade\nSupporters of the Caliphate Brigade\nKhan al-Asal Free Brigades\nAsh-Shuyukh Brigade\nMuhajireen Brigade\nBattalion of the Martyr Muhammad Sha'ban[184][185][better source needed]\nFarouq Battalion\nRevolutionaries of Atarib Gathering\nAtarib Martyrs Brigade\nBattalion of the Martyr Alaa al-Ahmad\nCentral Force for the City of Atarib\nAnsar al-Haqq Battalion\nLoyalty to God Battalion\nShells of Justice Brigade\nJaysh al-Islam (Idlib branch)[132][186][better source needed]\nFastaqim Union (most members, since January 2017)[132][132]\nKurdish Islamic Front[187][188][better source needed][better source needed]\nJaysh al-Sunna (Hama branch)[115][better source needed]\nLevant Front (South-western Aleppo branch)[186][189]\nFarouq Brigades (Binnish remnants)[190][191][better source needed]\nOmar al-Farouq Brigade[192][193]\nJaysh al-Sham[194][195][196][197]\nBrigade of Conquest (Idlib branch)[198]\nIbn Taymiyyah battalions[199]\nal-Miqdad ibn Amr[199]\nSupporters of the East Regiment[200][better source needed]\nMartyr Usama Suno Battalion[201][better source needed]\nKatibat Khaled Ibn al-Walid[202][better source needed]\nTahrir al-Sham elements in Northern Aleppo City outskirts[203]\nFajr al-Umma Brigade[204]\nKatibat Saraya al-Fath [205]\nKatibat Ansar al-Huda [205]\nLions of Islam Battalion[206][better source needed]\nManbij Brigade (part of the TFSA, and not the SLF)\nHoms Legion (part of the TFSA, and not the SLF)\nJaysh al-Ahrar\nConquest Brigade[207]\nSuqour al-Sham Brigades\nAbdul Razzaq al-Mahdi\n^ a b c \"Syria's Ahrar al-Sham Leadership Wiped Out in Bombing\". 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Retrieved 1 June 2016.\n^ \"French MP Condemns 'Moderates' Massacre in Alawite Village in Syria\". Sputnik News. 16 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.\n^ \"International Military Review \u2013 Syria, 13 May 2016\". South Front blog. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 1 June 2016.\n^ izat [@ischark] (21 September 2016). \"Ashida'a Mujahideen Brigade abandons Ahrar Al-Sham because it no longer trusts its Sharia council due to their supp\u2026\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ Aron Lund [@aronlund] (10 February 2017). \"In Oct. 2016, he lauded Ahrar as a counterweight to a full jihadi takeover\u2014you'll never believe what happened next!\u2026\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ \"Split lid integration within the \"Islamic Ahrar al-Sham\" movement\". Enab Baladi. 10 December 2016.\n^ Lund, Aron (14 December 2016). \"Divided, they may fall\". Diwan. Carnegie Middle East Center. Retrieved 19 December 2016.\n^ Aymenn J Al-Tamimi [@ajaltamimi] (21 January 2017). \"#Syria: Four Ahrar al-Sham battalions reportedly defect to Jabhat Fatah al-Sham\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ \"Ahrar Al Sham, Jaish Al Mujahideen, Suqour Sham, Fastaqum, Jaish Islam establish joint operation room to fight Jund Aqsa/JFS \u2022 /r/syriancivilwar\".\n^ \"Suqor al-Sham leader @aleesa71 blames JFS for protecting \"ISIS\" (Jund al-Aqsa) & makes clear the near to \"eradicate\" the threat in Idlib \u2022 /r/syriancivilwar\".\n^ a b \"\u062c\u064a\u0634 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062c\u0627\u0647\u062f\u064a\u0646 \u064a\u0639\u0644\u0646 \u0627\u0646\u0636\u0645\u0627\u0645\u0647 \u0644\u062d\u0631\u0643\u0629 \u0623\u062d\u0631\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645 - \u0648\u0643\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0642\u0627\u0633\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0644\u0644\u0623\u0646\u0628\u0627\u0621\".\n^ Putintin [@putintintin1] (25 January 2017). \"groups are (Zoubair Ibn Awam,Captain Jalal,Martyr Hassan Bakour,Allahu Akbar,Dera al-Ummah) battalions #Syria\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ a b c d Tamer Osman (8 February 2017). \"Syrian rebel groups see necessity in consolidating ranks\". 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Facebook. \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u0631\u0628\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0631\u0643\u0632\u064a. Retrieved 9 February 2017.\n^ Joscelyn, Thomas (8 February 2017). \"Pentagon: 11 al Qaeda terrorists killed in airstrikes near Idlib, Syria\". Long War Journal. Foundation for Defense of Democracies.\n^ \"New issue of An\u1e63\u0101r al-Shar\u012b'ah in the Arabian Peninsula's newspaper: \"al-Masr\u0101 #39\"\". Jihadology. 8 February 2017.\n^ Thomas Joscelyn [@thomasjoscelyn] (8 February 2017). \"2. *Key Point*: Jihadis identified Abu Hani al Masri as one of Ahrar al Sham's military leaders. See, for example:\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ John Arterbury [@JohnArterbury] (8 February 2017). \"Egyptian media reports via activists al-Masri was Afghan, Bosnia, Chechnya vet who spent time in Egyptian prison\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ Putintin [@putintintin1] (4 February 2017). \"#Syria Abu Hani al-Masri a commander in Ahrar al-Sham was killed in coalition airstrike today near Batbo,he has bee\u2026\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ Putintin [@putintintin1] (4 February 2017). \"#\u0633\u0648\u0631\u064a\u0627 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u064a\u0627\u062f\u064a \u0641\u064a \u0627\u062d\u0631\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0628\u0648 \u0647\u0627\u0646\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u0631\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0630\u064a \u0642\u062a\u0644 \u0641\u064a \u063a\u0627\u0631\u0629 \u0644\u0637\u064a\u0631\u0627\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u062d\u0627\u0644\u0641 \u0627\u0644\u064a\u0648\u0645 \u0642\u0631\u0628 \u0628\u0627\u062a\u0628\u0648 \u0634\u0645\u0627\u0644 \u0627\u062f\u0644\u0628\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ Putintin [@putintintin1] (4 February 2017). \"he was Egyptian Jihadi in Afghanistan,Somalian and Chechen who was imprisoned in Egypt and released in 2012 then joined Ahrar al-Sham\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ Twitter. 4 Feb 2017 https://web.archive.org/web/20170210012303/https://twitter.com/warathat_almjd/status/828012792225624070. 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Enab Baladi.\n^ \"Officially , \"Abu Amara\" battalion joins Ahrar al-Sham and calls on Aleppo factions to Unify - Eldorar Alshamia\".\n^ \"\u0623\u0644\u0648\u064a\u0629 \u0635\u0642\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645 \u062a\u0646\u0641\u0635\u0644 \u0639\u0646 \u062d\u0631\u0643\u0629 \u0623\u062d\u0631\u0627\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0629\". 3 September 2016.\n^ \"US and UK suspend non-lethal aid for Syria rebels\". BBC News. 11 December 2013. Retrieved 14 September 2016.\n^ Mark Landler (9 January 2015). \"U.S. Considers Resuming Nonlethal Aid to Syrian Opposition\". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 September 2016.\n^ a b \"Syrian Islamists reach out to the U.S., but serious issues remain\". Brookings Institution.\n^ \"Gulf allies and 'Army of Conquest\". Al-Ahram Weekly. 28 May 2015.\n^ Hassan Ridha [@sayed_ridha] (24 August 2015). \"AhrarSham releases statement regarding its stance on the political situation in #Syria\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ \"Private money pours into Syrian conflict as rich donors pick sides\". The Washington Post. 15 June 2013. Retrieved 14 April 2016. Ahar al-Sham, considered one of the most radical of the Syrian Islamist militias, recorded a similar public thank-you for $400,000 the group says it received from the same fund. In its Web posting, the group specifically thanked Ajmi and Hajri\n^ Syrian villagers describe massacre by militant group spared from UN terror blacklist (EXCLUSIVE), RT\n^ \"List of terror groups published by UAE\". Gulf News. 16 November 2014.\n^ Miles, Tom and Irish, John. \"Syrian terrorist list produces 163 names and no agreement.\" Reuters, 17 Feb. 2016\n^ \"Russia Urges Syrian Rebels to Separate From 'Terrorists'\". The New York Times. Associated Press. 14 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.\n^ \"Daily Press Briefing\". U.S. Department of State. 24 May 2016. Archived from the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.\n^ a b \"Remarks at the Aspen Ideas Festival and Conversation with Walter Isaacson\". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 4 September 2016.\n^ a b c \"Kerry touts the Russian line on Syrian rebel groups\". Retrieved 4 September 2016.\n^ \"Daily Press Briefing - 12 July 2016\". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 4 September 2016.\n^ \"Archived copy\". Archived from the original on 18 October 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-16. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link) Germany convicts 4 of supporting terrorist group in Syria, By Associated Press 6 October Washington Post\n^ Wladimir van Wilgenburg (31 March 2017). \"Syrian Ahrar al-Sham members on trial in Germany for terrorism\". ARA News.\n^ \"Al-Qaeda's Abu Khaled al-Suri killed by suicide bomb in Syria\". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2016-08-18.\n^ Aryn Baker (24 February 2014). \"Al Qaeda's Top Envoy Killed in Syria by Rival Rebel Group\". Time. Retrieved 14 September 2016. The Syrian-born al-Suri had another role in helping lead one of the most effective fighting groups in Syria today, the Ahrar al-Sham brigade. Officially, Ahrar al-Sham has no affiliation with al-Qaeda, but Zawahiri was able to influence the rebel group's actions through al-Suri. It was a savvy management move that gave al-Qaeda flexibility on the Syrian front.\n^ Reuters. \"Russia blocked in bid to blacklist Syria rebels\". Al Arabiya Network. Retrieved 14 September 2016. Ahrar al-Sham, whose late leader fought alongside Osama bin Laden, last year denied sharing al Qaeda's ideology or having organizational ties to the group.\n^ \"Russian attempt to blacklist Syria's Islamist rebels blocked\". The New Arab. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.\n^ Josh Wood. \"Syria truce threatened by Nusra's growing acceptance among rebels\". The National. Retrieved 14 September 2016. The powerful Islamist group Ahrar Al Sham, a longtime ally of Fatah Al Sham that has recently been in talks about a merger, has also rejected the ceasefire.\n^ \"As Syria truce holds, Al-Qaeda affiliate denounces it\". Al Arabiya Network. Associated Press. Retrieved 14 September 2016. A Jabhat Fatah al-Sham commander in the northern province of Aleppo told The Associated Press the group could announce its merger with the ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham group \"in the near future.\" He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to speak publicly about the talks. A senior Ahrar al-Sham official also confirmed the talks, adding that such a merger would cover a large number of factions, not just his group. \"The merger will not be bilateral. ... It is a project to unify the factions on the battlefield. If it holds, all factions will melt into one,\" said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the talks are ongoing.\n^ Leith Fadel (9 September 2016). \"Ahrar Al-Sham officially rejects Syrian ceasefire\". Al-Masdar News. Retrieved 14 September 2016.\n^ Islamist factions in Syria join forces with al Qaeda affiliate, Deutsche Welle, 28.01.2017\n^ Haid Haid Why Ahrar al-Sham couldn't stand up to HTS's attack in Idlib, Chatham House, August 2017\n^ http://www.aymennjawad.org/14125/the-qamishli-front\n^ https://www.aljazeera.net/encyclopedia/movementsandparties/2014/9/11/%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%83%D8%A9-%D8%A3%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85\n^ http://www.almanar.com.lb/framework/includes/uploads/2019/01/manar-092305000154707829010.jpg\n^ https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/images/103014/54/1030145457.jpg\n^ \"Ten brigades and battalions of the FSA join Jaysh al Mujahideen \u2022 /r/syriancivilwar\".\n^ Chris Tomson AlMasdar (23 May 2016). \"Free Syrian Army factions in northern Aleppo merge to Jaish al-Mujahideen\" \u2013 via YouTube.\n^ a b @Syria_Rebel_Obs (25 January 2017). \"As JFS leading its war in Idlib gov', many factions seeking refuge inside Ahrar ash-Sham : these five sunni factions merged in it\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ \"Al Maqalaat Pubs on Twitter\". [permanent dead link]\n^ \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0627\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0631\u062f\u064a [@aljanahalkurdy] (29 January 2017). \"#\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0627\u062d_\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0631\u062f\u064a #\u0623\u062d\u0631\u0627\u0631_\u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645 \u274c \u0644\u0627\u0635\u062d\u0629 \u0644\u0645\u0627 \u062a\u062a\u062f\u0627\u0648\u0644\u0647 \u0628\u0639\u0636 \u0648\u0633\u0627\u0626\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0639\u0646 \u0625\u0646\u0636\u0645\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0627\u062d \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0631\u062f\u064a \u0644\u0647\u064a\u0626\u0629 \u062a\u062d\u0631\u064a\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645\u274c #\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0646\u0627\u062d_\u0627\u0644\u0643\u0648\u0631\u062f\u064a_\u0644\u0623\u062d\u0631\u0627\u0631_\u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ \"New statement from \u1e24arakat A\u1e25r\u0101r al-Sh\u0101m al-Isl\u0101m\u012byyah: \"About the Joining of a Constellation of Major Factions To Our Group\"\". Jihadology. 26 January 2017.\n^ \"Farouk Brigades Joins Ahrar Al-Sham Movement - Qasion News Agency\".\n^ \"FSA-affiliated group joins Al-Qaeda coalition; making it the largest militant group in Syria\". 21 March 2017.\n^ archicivilians [@archicivilians] (29 January 2017). \"Note: The main #AhrarAlSham force is Al-Eman Army, which is considered as Ahrar's main body, included in this\u2026\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ \"Omar Farouq Brigade calls on Muslims to wage jihad in Syria - FDD's Long War Journal\".\n^ \"Are Syria's Salafi movements witnessing a split?\". 13 November 2015.\n^ \"Sham Army\". YouTube.\n^ \"Jaysh al-Sham to join the Islamic Movement of Ahrar al-Sham\". en.eldorar.com.\n^ \"Jaish al-Sham: An Ahrar al-Sham Offshoot or Something More?\".\n^ \"New mergers in northern #Syria\". en.eldorar.com.\n^ a b \"Several military formations join of Ahrar al-Sham\". en.eldorar.com.\n^ \"Trouble in paradise: Jihadist faction defects from Al-Qaeda to Ahrar Al-Sham\". 26 June 2017.\n^ oreusser [@AllyOfTruth] (30 July 2017). \"Martyr Usama Suno battalion announces renewal of its allegiance to Ahrar al-Sham, operating in #Idlib\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ \u0643\u0648\u062f\u064a \u0631\u0648\u0634 [@badly_xeroxed] (14 October 2017). \"#FSA Liberation of #Syria Front: 6 groups that defected from #HTS form new group\" (Tweet) \u2013 via Twitter.\n^ https://twitter.com/archicivilians/status/968525310470819840\n^ \"Integration of \"the dawn of the nation\" with \"free Sham\" East Balgoth Rural Damascus\". Qasioun News Agency. 12 May 2017. Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2017.\n^ a b https://syrianwardaily.wordpress.com/2017/12/09/syrian-war-daily-9th-of-december-2017/\n^ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DETD09OXYAIWgSv.jpg\n^ \"\"\u0644\u0648\u0627\u0621 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u062a\u062d\" \u064a\u0639\u0644\u0646 \u0627\u0646\u0636\u0645\u0627\u0645\u0647 \u0644\u0640\"\u0627\u0644\u062c\u0628\u0647\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0634\u0627\u0645\u064a\u0629\" \u0641\u064a \u062d\u0644\u0628\" [The \"Fatah Brigade\" announces that it joins the Levant Front in Aleppo]. SMART News Agency. 8 March 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2018.\nthe Syrian Civil Warat Wikipedia's sister projects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 492, "original_length": 66258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 201.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://williamwestney.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:03Z", "digest": "sha1:L2EXK4N5KGCCA6GY4BCQC44TOUJJBCYS", "length": 3688, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "williamwestney.com", "title": "William Westney | Concert Pianist, Keynote Speaker and Educator", "raw_content": "Summer 2018: Joined the faculty at Chetham\u2019s International Summer School and Festival for Pianists (Manchester, UK).\nJuly 2017: Article published in Brain and Cognition 115:47-55: \u201cMirror neuron activation of musicians and non-musicians in response to motion captured piano performances\u201d\nThe article \u201cThe Pedagogical Value of \u2018Enjoyment\u2019 in the Classical Piano Studio \u2013 A Research Report on a Transdisciplinary Study\u201d (Grund, O\u2019Boyle, Westney, Yang) was named \u201cArticle of the Year 2016\u201d by MTNA E-Journal, and a cash award was presented at the Music Teachers National Association conference in March 2017.\nSummer 2017: William Westney returned as teacher and performer to the InterHarmony Music Festival in the picturesque town of Acqui Terme, Italy. He was the keynote speaker at the European Piano Teachers Association (UK) conference in Nottingham.\nIn July 2016 he gave workshops, public lectures, and coached solo and chamber performances at the Festival Filarmonico Juvenil in Chaco, Argentina, sponsored by Youth Orchestra of the Americas and by Fundaci\u00f3n Pradier \u2013 Redes Culturales.\nIn 2015-16 Westney delivered online Webinars to young professional orchestral musicians in 15 countries in North and South America. Participants, all members of the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, were enrolled in that organization\u2019s elite Global Leaders program, focusing on musical outreach to all segments of society.\nWestney\u2019s book The Perfect Wrong Note was published in Japanese by Yamaha Music Media Corporation (2015).\nA website from the United Kingdom, leanmusician.com, offers insightful articles designed to help musicians of all kinds meet with success and fulfillment. William Westney was asked to deliver its first podcast, \u201cPerformance, Practice, and Redefining Mistakes,\u201d which can be heard here: http://www.leanmusician.com/william-westney-interview/\nTwo articles on the transdisciplinary research project carried out by Westney, Grund, O\u2019Boyle and Yang (see Research tab) have been published in recent months. (1) \u201cMusical Embodiment and Perception: Performances, Avatars and Audiences\u201d: SIGNATA. Annales des S\u00e9miotique / Annals of Semiotics, # 6, 2015. Music and Meaning / S\u00e9miotiques de la musique, Presses Universitaires de Li\u00e8ge (Belgium). (2) \u201cThe Pedagogical Value of \u2018Enjoyment\u2019 in the Classical Piano Studio \u2013 A Research Report on a Transdisciplinary Study\u201d: MTNA E-Journal April 16, 2016 (Music Teachers National Association)\nTexas Tech University named William Westney to its \u201cIntegrated Scholars\u201d roster in 2014. A profile and 2-minute video can be seen HERE.\nMusic Teachers National Association designated William Westney the 2012 recipient of the \u201cFrances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award\u201d in recognition of the ongoing contribution made to the field of pedagogy by his book The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self (2003).\nAs a professional pianist, I have always been fascinated by the ways in which concert music performance makes us accountable, requires us to master skills of mind and body, and presents intriguing practical problems every day. As a university professor, studio teacher and workshop facilitator I\u2019ve been faced with the challenge of developing instructional techniques that address performance issues in direct, useful ways.\nThe results of my ongoing research and its applications are chronicled in this website, and I believe that they will be of interest not only to musicians, but to professionals in other fields where there is also a high premium placed on effectiveness in performance, problem-solving, communication and creativity.\nThanks for visiting this site \u2013 and I\u2019d be delighted to hear from you! \u2013 William Westney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 257.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://workingdo.gs/2016/11/05/weighted-vests-for-dogs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:28Z", "digest": "sha1:U3ESCBLCUYIUE4TJYMEGO35B2MMVSN3S", "length": 5741, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "workingdo.gs", "title": "Weighted Vests for Dogs \u2013 WorkingDo.gs", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Uncategorized \u00bb Weighted Vests for Dogs\nThe Benefits of Weighted Vests\nOne of the best things you can do for a dog that you are training to be a working dog is to use a weighted vest. There are countless benefits to the use of a weighted vest, and when used correctly, these products can effectively speed up the training process while helping your dog to be the best that he or she can be. Of course, it is important to understand the various benefits that you can enjoy from this kind of training, so consider the points listed below.\nHelp the Dog to Be Calm\nAs you already know, one of the big challenges when trying to train a dog comes in the way of having to calm them down during training. Some dogs are naturally more excited and anxious than others, which is something you will need to overcome at some point along the way. By having your dog wear a weighted vest, you can help to calm the dog through the feeling they get by wearing the vest.\nIn much the same way that humans use weights to get in shape, so too can weights work for dogs. Obviously your dog isn\u2019t going to be able to lift weights in a gym, but he or she can use the weight that comes with one of these vests to burn calories and build muscle. Working dogs need to be strong and fit in order to do their duty all day long, and wearing a weighted vest is a great start toward that goal.\nVests have long been known for their ability to calm the nerves of an anxious dog, and weighted vests seem to be especially well-suited for that task. By putting a weighted vest onto your dog during training, they will feel comforted and they may have their aggressive tendencies calmed in the process. While a weighted vest isn\u2019t likely to totally change the behavior of your dog instantly, it can help you take a step in the right direction.\nThings to Consider When Putting Weight on a Dog\nOf course, the first thing to consider when putting weight on a dog is making sure that the dog can handle the weight properly. The last thing you want to do is to harm the dog by adding too much weight to their body, so make sure the vest you choose includes an appropriate amount of weight for the dog to handle. On the other end of the spectrum, you need to make sure that you are using enough weight to make a difference, as a vest that is too light will have no effect in the end.\nAnother point to consider is ensuring that the dog is old enough to handle weight before you start in with this kind of program. Dogs, much like humans, are not ready for weight training in their early years, so hold off on using a weighted vest until the dog has reached an appropriate level of maturity. To make sure you are doing the right thing, at the right time, check with your vet before getting started.\nIf you believe that you have a dog which is ready for weight training through the use of a vest, consider the three products below.\nLeerburg Weighted Dog Vest\nThe first product on our list is a basic Weighted Dog Vest from Leerburg. This vest comes in three different sizes \u2013 small, medium, and large \u2013 so you can select the model that is going to be the right fit for the needs of your specific dog. The small version of this vest offers dimensions which run from a girth of 22\u2019\u2019 \u2013 24\u2019\u2019, the medium size fits girth of 27\u2019\u2019 \u2013 31\u2019\u2019, and the large vest suits dogs from 34\u2019\u2019 \u2013 36\u2019\u2019.\nIt is the quality of this product that allows it to stand out from many of the other vests on the market. The vest is constructed using heavy cordura denier-backed fabric, and it is double stitched for durability. Meant to train the dog successfully while also keeping the dog safe and secure, this is a product that most owners love to use with their animals. Also, the total amount of weight that the vest offers is adjustable, so you are simply able to remove some weights when you would like to lighten the load.\nK9 Fit Vest\nMoving to the next product on our list, we find a vest that comes in at a slightly lower price point, yet still offers many benefits and advantages to both the dog and the owner. This weighted vest can be used for a variety of functions, from working on fitness to helping the dog remain calm in stressful situations. Also, there are reflective strips so this vest can be used as a safety product, and you can even purchase cooling packs separately for helping the dog deal with warm temperatures.\nTo make sure the vest works for the specific dog you have in mind, there are two \u2018levels\u2019 offered with this vest \u2013 Level I, and Level II. 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If the fate of the now extinguished Greek and Armenian minorities of Asia Minor are any indicator, the Kurds do not have much longer unless their struggle for self-determination is successful.\nThe third largest recipient of U.S. aid, American taxpayers have supplied 85% of Turkey\u2019s arms imports and have lavished it with 7 billion dollars since 1980. Human rights organizations have criticized our government for selling devastating state-of-the-art weapons systems to Turkey that are being used against Kurdish civilians, such as the Army Tactical Missile System. 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The co-chairs reflect the growing support of communities and stakeholders from across Virginia who are supporting Dr. Ralph Northam\u2019s vision of a commonwealth with economic opportunity for all, no matter who you are, no matter where you live.\n\"Working closely with Dr. Northam for the last six years as a member of the General Assembly, I've seen firsthand his passion and dedication for helping those in need,\" said Delegate Alfonso Lopez. \"We need his experience and leadership in the Governor's mansion to keep our commonwealth moving forward.\"\n\u201cDr. Ralph Northam has spent his life in service of Virginia children and their families and he\u2019s running for governor to ensure they have the access to the same opportunities he did growing up,\u201d said Dorothy McAuliffe. \u201cThat\u2019s the kind of leadership we need more of in Richmond and I know Ralph is the right person to bring people together and get it done.\u201d\n\u201cIn the ten years Dr. Ralph Northam has spent in public office, he\u2019s been able to successfully and significantly impact the everyday lives of Virginians for the better,\u201d said Reverend Tyrone Nelson. \u201cI can only imagine how he\u2019ll maximize the positive impact he can make on our commonwealth with the four years he\u2019ll have as our 73rd governor. I look forward to working closely with Ralph to build on Virginia\u2019s progress.\u201d\n\u201cPublic service has been the cornerstone of Dr. Ralph Northam\u2019s life and there is no one better suited to be Virginia\u2019s next governor,\u201d said Isaac Sarver. \u201cThis November, we have the chance to elect someone who has served his country in the U.S. Army, served his community as a pediatric neurologist, and served his commonwealth as a state senator and now lieutenant governor. I am honored to join Dr. Northam as a co-chair in his campaign and to share with everyone what he\u2019ll do to better education, healthcare, and the economy when he serves as our next governor.\u201d\nNortham For Governor Campaign Co-Chairs include:\nDelegate Marcia Price -- Delegate, House District 95\nFirst Lady Dorothy McAuliffe -- First Lady of the Commonwealth of Virginia\nFormer Congressman L.F. Payne -- U.S. House of Representatives, VA-05\nSenator Jennifer McClellan -- State Senate, District 9\nAtif Qarni\nReverend Tyrone Nelson -- Henrico County Board of Supervisors, Varina District\nLori Haas -- Virginia State Director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence\nDelegate Alfonso Lopez -- Delegate, House District 49\nReverend Kelvin Jones\nIsaac Sarver -- Secretary of the Democratic Party of Virginia\nMark Bowles -- Vice President of State-Government relations at McGuireWoods Consulting, LLC\nTraci Deshazor -- Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth\nLaura Henderson -- Founder and CEO of BizConnect Hampton Roads\nSharon Bulova -- Chairwoman, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors\nPaulette McElwain -- Chief Operating Officer for Virginia League of Planned Parenthood\nTarina Keene -- Executive Director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia\nDelegate Marcia Price\nMarcia Price, born and raised in Newport News, Virginia, holds a master of arts in religious studies from Howard University and bachelor of arts in philosophy from Spelman College. Delegate Price worked under Governor Warner and as a regional coordinator for an NAACP voter registration campaign before enjoying a career in dental office administration and management. In September 2015, Delegate Price started VA-BLOC, a non-profit which focuses on voter engagement, civic involvement and leadership development. Currently, she represents the 95th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. Marcia is also a member of St. Augustine\u2019s Episcopal Church, on the regional board for Habitat for Humanity, and takes part in other civic organizations.\nFirst Lady Dorothy McAuliffe\nFirst Lady Dorothy McAuliffe graduated from the Catholic University of America with a bachelor\u2019s in political science, and from the Georgetown University Law Center with a juris doctor. She practiced regulatory and securities law for several years and also became actively involved in her community, particularly in education and the arts. These include serving as a presidential appointee to the board of trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and on the education committees for both the Center and the Smithsonian Institution. As First Lady and Chair of the Commonwealth Council on Bridging the Nutritional Divide, she has championed the fight to end childhood hunger. The First Lady has also engaged in supporting educational opportunities for military families and their children.\nCongressman L.F. Payne\nBorn in Amherst, Virginia, Congressman Payne graduated from Virginia Military Institute in 1967 and worked as a licensed professional engineer. He is a veteran and former officer of the US Army, and also obtained an MBA from the University of Virginia in 1973. After founding and expanding Wintergreen Resort, Congressman Payne represented the 5th Congressional District of Virginia for four terms as a Democrat. He served on the House Ways and Means Committee and various subcommittees, and is currently president of McGuireWoods Consulting. In recognition of his accomplishments, Congressman Payne has received numerous awards such as the Hall of Fame of Virginia Boys State and the Spirit of Enterprise from the US Chamber of Congress.\nSenator Jennifer McClellan\nBorn in Petersburg, State Senator Jennifer McClellan received a bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Richmond in 1994 and a juris doctor from the University of Virginia in 1997. She is a longtime Democratic Party activist, and has served on both the national and state Democratic committees. Senator McClellan represents the 9th District of Virginia in the State Senate, and has focused on improving education outcomes, protecting women\u2019s rights and fighting bullying. She is also a member of various legal organizations, the boards of community groups, and other local associations.\nAtif Qarni was raised in Parkville, Maryland, and enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserves after graduating from Parkville High School in 1996. In 2003, Mr. Qarni was deployed in Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom, and also served during Operation Enduring Freedom. He earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in sociology from George Washington University in 2000, a master\u2019s degree in history from George Mason University in 2007, and a master\u2019s degree in education administration from Strayer University. Subsequently, he taught eighth grade mathematics at Beville Middle School in Prince William County. Mr. Qarni was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for State Senate in 2015 and has continued to remain active in the Democratic party since then.\nReverend Tyrone Nelson\nThe Reverend Tyrone Nelson is a native of Richmond, VA. Reverend Nelson earned his associate of science in business administration from J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College; a bachelor of science in business administration from Virginia Commonwealth University; and a master of divinity from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University. He is the current pastor of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Richmond, and represents the Varina District on the Henrico County Board of Supervisors. Reverend Nelson also serves on the boards of several organization such as the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors and the Baptist General Convention of Virginia.\nLori Haas was born in Richmond, Virginia and graduated in 1976 from Saint Gertrude High School before attending Virginia Tech for two years. Following a successful career in real estate, Lori volunteered for several neighborhood, church and civic organizations. After her daughter Emily was shot twice during the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre and survived, Lori became involved in gun violence prevention efforts. She has lobbied on Capitol Hill and before the Virginia General Assembly, and has worked with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Protest Easy Guns, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, and the Virginia Center for Public Safety to pass responsible gun laws. Lori currently serves as the Virginia State Director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. She lives in Richmond and is married with three children.\nDelegate Alfonso Lopez grew up in Fairfax, Virginia, where he attended the Robinson Secondary School. He received a bachelor of arts from Vassar College in 1992 and a juris doctor from the Tulane University Law School in 1995. Delegate Lopez served as Governor Kaine's Director of the Virginia Liaison Office in Washington, D.C., the Governor's representative to the National Governors Association, and the Deputy Policy Director on Governor-Elect Kaine's Transition Team. He later served as the Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration where he helped lead efforts to develop and enact proposals in the areas of economic development, job creation, contracting, and innovation. He has also served on both the State and National Democratic committees. Delegate Lopez currently represents the 49th District in the Virginia House of delegates, and serves as the Whip of the Virginia House Democratic Caucus. He is also the founder and co-chair of the Virginia Environment & Renewable Energy Caucus in the General Assembly. He has received numerous awards, including recognition as the Virginia Interfaith Center's Legislator of the Year in 2014.\nThe Reverend Kelvin Jones earned his master of divinity degree from Virginia Union University Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology. Reverend Jones has served as the pastor of First Baptist Church Capeville in Cape Charles, Virginia, since 1989, and Ralph Northam is one of his parishioners. Under his leadership, First Baptist has seen a 75 percent increase in church membership and attendance. Additionally, Reverend Jones has helped implement weekly Bible study classes, midweek services, and the creation of several ministries focused on youth, audio and video, and substance abuse among other areas. Recently, he was hired as the Director of Ministries for Blue Water Development, and will develop faith and worship services for their various locales. Reverend Jones has also led opening prayers for several government branches and organizations.\nIsaac Sarver\nIsaac Sarver graduated from the College of William and Mary with a bachelor of arts in political science and government in 2012 before undertaking two years of graduate studies at Virginia Tech. He served in various roles for the Democratic Party including campaign manager for Delegate Bill Thomas and Deputy Political Director for Southwest Virginia for the Democratic National Committee. Later, Mr. Sarver continued his service as the Deputy Political Director for Western Virginia for the Virginia branch of Organizing for America and as president of the Virginia Young Democrats. Mr. Sarver was also appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe to serve on the Board of Conservation and Recreation. Mr. Sarver is currently the Secretary of the Democratic Party of Virginia.\nMark Bowles is an executive vice president of state government relations at McGuireWoods Consulting LLC and a partner with McGuireWoods LLP. He earned a bachelor of arts in english and political science at James Madison University in 1984 and a juris doctor from the University of Richmond in 1989. Mr. Bowles has been involved in Virginia politics for over three decades. During this time, he has managed two statewide campaigns, a congressional campaign, and several other legislative races. Mr. Bowles served as chief of staff to former Representative L.F. Payne (D-VA), an assistant attorney general, and as staff counsel for the Attorney General\u2019s Task Force on Domestic Violence. Most recently, Mr. Bowles served on the finance committee for the McAuliffe for Governor campaign and as the finance co-chair for the inauguration of Governor Terry McAuliffe. He is also a member of the University of Virginia Board of Visitors.\nTraci Deshazor\nTraci Deshazor is a native of Danville and a graduate of George Washington High School. She completed in master of arts in liberal studies degree in justice and legal studies at Hollins University in 2010. Ms. Deshazor also earned a bachelor of arts in international studies from Virginia Tech and is a graduate of various training programs such as the Sorensen Institute\u2019s Political Leaders program. Before joining the McAuliffe administration as deputy director of the Virginia Office of Intergovernmental affairs, she served on the Governor-Elect\u2019s transition team and in other similar capacities. Traci was recently appointed the Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth by Governor Terry McAuliffe.\nLaura Henderson is the founder and CEO of BizConnect Hampton Roads. She spent over 15 years at the Virginian-Pilot, first as the Art Director and then as Operations Manager. Ms. Henderson was responsible for hiring employees, day-to-day operations, human resources, revenue generation and other elements of operation. After Pilot Media, she started a marketing business, Win Local Stuff, which promoted local retailers, restaurants, and more enterprises. Later on, she founded BizConnect Hampton Roads after she started local networking events as a way to bring in new clientele for her client\u2019s businesses. Currently, Ms. Henderson is also a member of various community groups such as the Downtown Norfolk Council, LOVEVA, and the Ghent Business Association.\nChairwoman Sharon Bulova\nSharon Bulova grew up in Pikesville, Maryland, before moving to Fairfax County and earning a degree from Northern Virginia Community College. Chairwoman Bulova has spent many years in service to the public good, and one of her earliest moments was when she served as vice president of the Kings Park West Civic Association. She worked as a legislative aide to Annandale District Supervisor Audrey Moore before running for a seat on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors at Moore\u2019s encouragement. Since then, she has worked on several major projects such as the Virginia Railway Express commuter rail service, and helped realize the transformation of Tysons Corner into a developed mixed use, transit-focused community. Chairwoman Bulova currently serves as Chairwoman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and was reelected in 2015. She lives in Fairfax with her husband, and they have four adult children and seven grandchildren.\nPaulette McElwain obtained a bachelor of arts from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1996 before earning a master of arts in the liberal arts from St. John\u2019s College in 1999. Over the next several years, she served the Society for Neuroscience, the National Alliance on Mental Illness Virginia, and the Christian Children\u2019s Fund, now Childfund International. Her commitment to serving the public continued through her leadership as first vice president of development and then as chief operating officer of the Virginia League of Planned Parenthood. Later in 2011, as president of that organization, Paulette guided the transition for the Richmond clinic from a Floyd Avenue location under threat from regulations against abortion clinics to a new medical building on Hamilton Street which met state standards. She continues to fight for healthcare for all people.\nTarina Keene\nTarina Keene began at the executive director of NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia in January 2008. She also serves as the NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia lobbyist at the Virginia General Assembly. She is dedicated to making sure the women of Virginia have access to the full range of reproductive health care options. Tarina is also the founder and chair of the Virginia Coalition to Protect Women\u2019s Health. The coalition came together in March 2011 after the General Assembly passed a law regulating abortion providers as hospitals. Additionally, she successfully recruited more than a dozen state and national organizations and abortion providers to work together to diminish the regulations. She has a B.A. in Media Studies and a B.A. in Political Science from Radford University and a Master\u2019s of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management from Old Dominion University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 17634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 128.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allmediany.com/news/103086-protester-climbs-statue-of-liberty-leads-to-evacuation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:39Z", "digest": "sha1:I6YS3PLLCMXBSTNFYWOBCU33DYUTIHA6", "length": 505, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.allmediany.com", "title": "Protester Climbs Statue Of Liberty, Leads To Evacuation - Local News - AllMediaNY", "raw_content": "Protester Climbs Statue Of Liberty, Leads To Evacuation\nA protester climbed the base of Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor on Wednesday, forcing an evacuation. Reuters reports that several other protesters were arrested earlier in the day while carrying signs calling for the abolition of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, also known as ICE. ICE is involved in the recent separation of children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.\nNext News Article(Local News)>> Trade Association...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 160.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alternatetakes.co.uk/?2012,1,362", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FTNN2QR6QRDQ5DZY24ZZ7Z5GWLIQINZS", "length": 3798, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.alternatetakes.co.uk", "title": "[Alternate Takes] Shame", "raw_content": "Reviewed by John Bleasdale.\nBrandon (Michael Fassbender) is a young, successful New York executive living the kind of fluff-free Spartan existence that Edward Norton\u2019s character dreams of in Fight Club (1999). However, all is not well. Brandon is in the grips of sex addiction, which he feeds by hiring prostitutes, masturbating to an extensive porn collection, visiting websites, picking up strangers, and generally going at it whenever he can. He\u2019s a shark, cutting through the city\u2019s waters, sensitive to the slightest of movements, of tremors. An ordinary ride on the subway becomes heavily charged with sexual electricity when he exchanges glances with a woman sitting opposite him.\nYou might say Brandon is a functioning addict. There is a hiccup at work when his computer stops working because it's jammed up with pornography, but with his affluence, confidence and charisma, one feels Brandon could continue along this trajectory for as long as he wants. Despite our ostensibly liberated society, it is still surprising to see someone so single-mindedly pursuing orgasms as the be-all and end-all of existence. At least initially, Brandon does not seem to warrant our sympathy, or even particularly want it. In fact, though, there\u2019s something almost admirable and courageous about the endeavour, especially when contrasted with the seedy hypocrisy of his boss, who insists on recruiting Brandon as a wingman when he goes cruising for extramarital shenanigans.\nInto this controlled experiment of a life enters Sissy, Brandon\u2019s sister, played by the ubiquitous and excellent Carey Mulligan. Her innocently disruptive presence knocks Brandon\u2019s life - and specifically his sex-life - into a cocked hat. Her more conventional promiscuity, which seems to be based on a series of hopeless relationship, risks affecting his professional life when she starts an affair with Brandon\u2019s boss. It will lead to a dangerous unravelling of what has been so tightly protected, as the firewalls between Brandon\u2019s private obsessions and public fa\u00e7ade begin to crack.\nIn only his second feature as a director, Steve McQueen has achieved a remarkable assurance. Also starring Fassbender, then as the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands, Hunger (2008) was a work of brilliance. Eschewing the obvious, McQueen finds beauty in a hellish ugliness and poetry in the most intransigent politics. Carried over from his debut, Shame features some very specific technical effects, as well as a refusal to conform to conventional notions of storytelling and filmmaking. He fills his frames carefully, allowing some telling background detail, some graffiti or subway advertising, to comment on the action of the scene or the characters.\nMcQueen holds his long shots, turning the spectator\u2019s gaze into a fixed, enquiring, and often uncomfortable stare. A shot of Carey Mulligan\u2019s face in close up as she sings a surprisingly touching version of \u2018New York, New York\u2019 has already been cited in many reviews, and will probably be the take-home moment of the film. But the long take is also used expertly and less obviously in other parts of the film and to differing effects. When Brandon goes on a first date with a co-worker, McQueen\u2019s permits the scene to develop in real time as awkward small talk, interrupted by a comically insistent waiter, gives way to some more serious argument and a credible coming together. At other points, the style has a more straightforwardly aesthetic origin. A long tracking shot of Brandon jogging through New York as he tries to burn off some excess energy and escape the uncomfortable situation in his apartment immerses the viewer in the city at night. Brandon will run until he is stopped, and whether he is running away or running to, or he is just running, is ultimately up to us to decide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.andersonandsonsfh.com/2015/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:DLOGFEISVEHHRDIKDORRLW5SUUH3TPO6", "length": 781, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.andersonandsonsfh.com", "title": "October | 2015 | Anderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services", "raw_content": "Gloria Erickson\nService: Funeral services will begin at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, November 5 at Canton Lutheran Church\nGloria Juliette Erickson, age 93, died peacefully on Saturday, October 31, 2015 at Lyngblomsten Care Center in St. Paul, MN. Funeral services will begin at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, November 5 at Canton Lutheran Church in Canton, SD. Visitation will \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nCharles \u201cChuck\u201d Sundling\nService: A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 25, 2015 at Anderson Funeral Home, Canton, SD.\nCharles \u201cChuck\u201d Sundling age 69 of San Benito, Texas passed away Friday, October 16, 2015 at Valley Baptist Hospital in Harlingen. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, October 25, 2015 at Anderson Funeral Home, Canton, SD. \u2026 Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 2607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 217.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.angeliquevoisen.com/2015/03/book-spotlight-devil-takes-his-innocent.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:39Z", "digest": "sha1:MFIGDZNHU7TD6YYIW5U32JTMDQ5RMCIY", "length": 7074, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.angeliquevoisen.com", "title": "Angelique Voisen (Author): Book Spotlight: Devil Takes His Innocent by Emma Anderson", "raw_content": "Book Spotlight: Devil Takes His Innocent by Emma Anderson\nToday, I have the pleasure of having fellow Evernight Author Emma Anderson ong my blog. Welcome, Emma! Emma is here to share about her latest release, Devil Takes His Innocent.\nOne day my prince charming came along. He just took a wrong turn, got lost, and was too stubborn to ask for directions. Well that was how my first date ended up with a special man, who is now my husband. Yes, you read correctly, I married him and haven\u2019t regretted a minute. Thirteen years later, I have two wonderful boys (three if you include hubby, which I often do) and I\u2019m following my dreams of writing romance books with HEAs, thanks to my supportive family.\nI started writing several years ago. Mainly children\u2019s books for my boys. Those will probably never get published. Then to quote Martin Luther King, \u201cI had a dream!\u201d As a rule I never remember my dreams, but this one I did, and I wrote it down. And the rest as they say is history. I currently have five books published and another due out in the next couple of weeks. At this stage they are all paranormal. What can I say? I love the big predatory mythological creatures so to offer them their own happy ever after was the least I can do.\nStalking websites\nBookstrand: www.bookstrand.com/emma-anderson\nReader\u2019s email: emmaanderson.writer@yahoo.com.au\nAuthor\u2019s email: emmaanderson.books@gmail.com\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/emmaanderson.writer\nBlog: http://author-emma-anderson.blogspot.com.au/\nTsu: https://www.tsu.co/Emma_Anderson\nGoogle+https://plus.google.com/u/0/+EmmaAndersonAuthor\nAmazon: http://www.amazon.com/Emma-Anderson/e/B00M92N022/ref=sr_tc_2_rm?qid=1420928945&sr=1-2-ent\nManic Readers: http://www.manicreaders.com/EmmaAnderson/\nDevil Torments is a vampire living in a world where one man\u2019s weakness paves the way for another man\u2019s gain. When a gambling addict offers his daughter as payment for his debt, Devil accepts. Sex without strings is exactly the way he likes it. Love is a concept for fools, the ultimate weakness. Little does he know, he\u2019s about to meet his mate\u2026\nIn order to protect her best friend, nurse Gabby Winters must bow to her abusive father\u2019s demands and offer her innocence to a stranger. She never expected to feel anything, let alone find herself irrevocably tied to the man. But can Gabby learn to accept that Devil\u2019s scars run deep, and the love she\u2019s spent her life secretly yearning for is forever out of reach?\nIf Devil thought that keeping Gabby at arm\u2019s length would keep either of them safe, he was dead wrong. When danger lands at Gabby\u2019s feet, it\u2019s up to Devil to pick up the pieces. Will he come to realize that love isn\u2019t a weakness and Gabby is his greatest strength, before it\u2019s too late? Or will he lose the most precious gift of all?\nEvernight: http://www.evernightpublishing.com/devil-takes-his-innocent-by-emma-anderson/\nAmazon: http://www.amazon.com/Devil-Takes-Innocent-Fall-Horsemen-ebook/dp/B00UI5FSJK/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1426152306&sr=1-2\nBookstrand: www.bookstrand.com/devil-takes-his-innocent\nARe: https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-deviltakeshisinnocent-1764004-340.html\n\u201cWhat the fuck!\u201d Devil shouted once the woman had left the office. To say he was furious would have been an understatement. Murderous thoughts ran wild through his mind.\n\u201cWho the hell told you she was a call girl?\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ll give you one guess.\u201d\n\u201cThat asshole Harrison.\u201d\nDevil picked up the photo Jeffrey Harrison had given him. Only this time, his eyes saw something they had failed to earlier. The picture depicted the same woman from tonight minus the makeup. Her beauty and innocence shone through. How could he have missed it?\nHis murderous thoughts changed slightly. Instead of just killing Jeffrey Harrison, he planned on torturing the asshole first. What kind of father would sell their innocent daughter to pay off his gambling debts? No matter what sins he had committed, and the list was long, Devil knew that he would never contemplate such a thing. Yes, Jeffrey Harrison would pay for his crimes, and Devil would be the judge, jury, and executioner.\nThough Devil had to concede that Jeffrey Harrison wasn\u2019t the only one responsible for what had happened tonight. Devil had been just as responsible. He had been so wound up lately, that he hadn\u2019t taken the time to appreciate this beautiful woman for what she was. Had he done so, he no doubt would have recognized the signs of inexperience and sent her away before he ruined her. Or at least recognized what she wasn\u2019t, a call girl. He too needed to make amends, only it was for his stupidity and impatience.\nAs soon as he had seen the woman, he had become hard. It had been a long time since his cock had appreciated a woman so instantly. Her curves were on display in that tight little dress she wore. He\u2019d dragged her into his hotel room, desperate to hide her amazing body from passersby. He wanted to be the only one to view such a delicious sight. She reminded him of the women from his youth. They enjoyed their food too much to worry about what they looked like. He rued the day that body image became an important factor in a woman\u2019s life. Now, the first woman to pique his interest in a long time, and look at the way he had treated her. It was an error he would make amends for, but first he needed more information.\n\u201cI say you get that fucker on the phone and let\u2019s hear what he has to say for himself,\u201d Viper said, his fae yellow eyes coming to the forefront, highlighting what his body language failed to. He was pissed. He was known as Viper because he struck his prey hard and fast; they never knew what hit them until it was too late.\nDevil followed Viper\u2019s advice, and a few seconds later a ringing tone could be heard through the phone\u2019s speaker. \u201cHello,\u201d came the wary greeting.\n\u201cUm, yes, Mr. Torments. Was there a problem with Gabriella?\u201d The man\u2019s question had Devil emitting a low, menacing growl.\n\u201cYes there\u2019s a problem. She\u2019s not a call girl like you insinuated.\u201d\n\u201cUm, yes, well,\u201d the man muttered down the phone.\n\u201cWhat did you tell her to get her here?\u201d Devil demanded.\n\u201cThe truth! It\u2019s not like she\u2019s innocent,\u201d the man scoffed.\n\u201cWhat the hell did she ever do to you to gain such disregard?\u201d Devil asked, furious at this man\u2019s attitude toward Gabriella.\n\u201cShe existed,\u201d the man replied with venom in his voice. \u201cDo you have any idea how difficult she made my life once my wife found out about her? Her presence all but killed my wife.\u201d\nHearing enough of this man\u2019s viciousness, Devil stated, in a voice that left no room for argument, \u201cTell me everything you know about her! Then you will stay out of her life. You will have to clear your debt with us without using your daughter any further. Do I make myself understood?\u201d\nThe truth was, the money meant very little to him at the moment. Revenge was the only course of action in Devil\u2019s mind. By the end of the phone call, he had this guy\u2019s slow death all planned out. But first he needed to make things right with Gabriella. She deserved nothing less, and so much more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 8178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.angelrichardson.com/blog/8-ways-to-market-your-new-blog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:28Z", "digest": "sha1:AJHNUYWNNBHYTIICDSVGE7FUQWMXNBHG", "length": 5513, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.angelrichardson.com", "title": "8 Ways To Market Your New Blog", "raw_content": "8 Ways To Market Your New Blog\nI like to start my projects off with mission statements. When you have a mission statement, it acts as a constant reminder of why you're doing what you're doing. You are going to have seasons in your life when you\u2019ll want to give up, and your mission statement will be there to give you the energy and encouragement to keep you going. Post it somewhere in your office where you will see it everyday.\n2. Know your target audience and ignore everyone else.\nI'm just kidding... don't ignore everyone else! But you do want to know your target audience. If you don't, it will be very difficult to come up with relevant content to write for them. When you know whom you are talking to, that person knows it too, and they will want to read your stuff, use your services and tell their friends about you! People often get afraid of this part: defining their niche. They believe that targeting a certain group of people will decrease their sales. This could not be further from the truth. In fact, the total opposite happens when you define your target. You will see growth in your readership and growth in your sales. Make it easy for people to know right away if you are what they are looking for. My target market is women between the age of 35-45 that want to know their purpose and turn their purpose into their paycheck. But that does not stop the thousands of twenty-somethings that have come to me and watched my videos and read my blog. By defining your niche, you know what your target market struggles with, so it's easy for you to communicate effectively with them--you speak their language. So don't be afraid to niche your business. I once heard someone say it's your niche that makes you rich!\n3. Create high value content.\nCreate content that your ideal client will benefit from right away. Give them action steps to take away and implement in their own life. Unless you're Ashton Kutcher and people want to know what you ate for dinner last night, people don't really care about just you. I mean they care about you, like they don't want you to get hit by a big yellow school bus or anything, but more often than not people are looking out for themselves. They want to know \"what's in it for them\" So give them value when they come to your blog and they will want to come back for more! Think about the blogs that you keep going back to read\u2026 Why do you keep reading them? I'm sure you\u2019ll find it's because that blog is giving you valuable content and information, pertaining your unique situation, that you can implement right away.\n4. Share your blog in your newsletter.\nIf you have a newsletter, and I hope you do, post links in your newsletter to your blog.\n5. Share your blog through social media.\nAlways give a little taste of your blog on your social media sites, then lead your followers to the real thing. When you make a post on Facebook for instance, you could post a pretty picture with just the first 1-3 lines off your new blog post in the comment section. Then, copy and paste the link to your blog in the same Facebook post. The photo below is an example of blog posting on social media. Do you see how I gave just a few sentences then ended it with, \u201cwant to know how I did it?\u201d, with an arrow pointing to the link. This gets readers off social media and onto your blog. Click the photo below to enlarge it and see how I've used this tip.\nI cannot express how important this tip is. Consistency is KEY! In order to increase readership on your blog it is imperative that you be consistent. Nothing turns people off more than when they go to someone\u2019s blog and nothing new has been posted since last year. If this is the case for you, I would recommend that you take your blog down until you make a commitment to blogging on a consistent basis.\nLet's face it--there are millions of other blogs out there on your topic alone. People can and will easily find someone else that is more consistent with their content and possibly never return to your blog again. To ensure this doesn't happen to you, make sure you are giving them kick a$$ content on a regular basis so they'll always come back wanting more!\nMake sure your photos are pretty, clear and relevant to you, your blog and your brand. Don't skip this part. Adding photos is a great way to engage your audience. Making it even easier for you, technology has evolved so a lot of phones have great quality cameras in them. Don't be afraid to use your phone to capture a great shot! In today's world we are obsessed with photos so use them as often as possible.\n8. Post comments on other people\u2019s blog.\nFind other blogs in your niche and comment on them. Usually when you post on other blogs it gives you an option to leave your website address. How many times have you gone to a blog and seen someone\u2019s comment that interested you, and you clicked on their link and started reading their blog? I'm sure this has happened to you at least once or twice.\nWhen you start posting on other blogs, readers in your niche can link back to you. If you get one new reader out of the deal--that's a great day! A 500-foot brick building is not built in just one day, the bricks are laid one-by-one, and your readership will be built the same way. Enjoy the process and celebrate along the way!\nWhat are some other ways you market your blog? Post them below. Also, post your blog website. Why? TO GET MORE PEOPLE OVER TO YOUR BLOG silly goose\u2026! Did you not just hear a word I said about posting on other peoples blogs?!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 5918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.animafestival.be/index.php?pageID=39&dayID=45&catID=1&ln=3&lnc=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4TEQ7SDT322HESG3X6I3HPSDVQVANQVF", "length": 12072, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "www.animafestival.be", "title": "Anima 2019 - Guest list", "raw_content": "Juan Antin - Director (03 March 2019)\nJuan Antin has produced and directed over 70 shorts, series and music videos, exploring a variety of techniques like traditional drawing, stop motion, 2D, 3D as well as experimental techniques.\nHis first feature, Mercano, the Martian (2002) won the Special Jury Award at Annecy. His second one, Pachamama, has been nominated for a Lumi\u00e8res prize and for a C\u00e9sar 2019.\nSt\u00e9phane Aubier - Director (10 March 2019)\nAfter studies in animation at La Cambre, St\u00e9phane Aubier started working with Vincent Patar on the 3 short paper cut-out films, the Pic Pic Andr\u00e9 Shoow. Then came the series A Town Called Panic soon followed by the feature of the same name and a 26 minutes, The Christmas Log, winner of the Cartoon d'Or 2014.\nHe co-directed the Oscar-winning feature Ernest & Celestine. He is co-signing La Foire agricole.\nLoup Blaster - Director (from 04 to 09 March 2019)\nLoup Blaster is an audiovisual artist based in Calais. Adept at both traditional and digital animation techniques, her style stands out for the diversity of the mediums she uses, from paper drawings to video extracts. She then reinvents these pictures into short video loops mixed during live performances (VJing).\nAnne Brotot - Director of MoPA (from 05 to 07 March 2019)\nDirector of MoPA\nAfter graduating from EnsAD in 1983, Anne Brotot took part in the first ever Computer Graphics course in France. She then worked on one of the first 3D series, Les Fables g\u00e9om\u00e9triques, before looking after the creation of Supinfocom Arles, in 2000. She then spent some time as Director of Supinfocom Valenciennes, before coming back to Arles in 2017 to direct the school that has now become MoPA.\nMark Burton - Director - Screenwriter (from 05 to 07 March 2019)\nDirector - Screenwriter\nMark Burton started out at the BBC and was a screenwriter with John O\u2019Farrell for Spitting Image in the 1980s. He then worked with Dreamworks on Madagascar and with Aardman, on Chicken Run, The Curse of the Were Rabbit, Shaun the Sheep and the upcoming Farmageddon.\nPaul Bush - Director - Animator (02 March 2019)\nDirector - Animator\nAfter studies in Fine Arts, Paul Bush taught himself how to make films at the London Filmmakers Co-op in the 1980s.\nHe started with frame by frame films in the 90s, using techniques such as scratching on film or animated objects, and has gone on to make several extraordinary works including the feature Babeldom. He has been teaching in many famous schools since 2003.\nAntoine Cayrol - Producer (06 March 2019)\nAfter studies in Communication, Antoine Cayrol started his production career in 2005 by creating his first company Fatcat Films. He founded Okio, a production studio for virtual reality in 2014. His VR film Alt\u00e9ration was selected in New York, Cannes and Venice in 2017. That same year, he co-founded Atlas V, a production company specializing in immersive content.\nJeremy Clapin - Director (08 March 2019)\nAfter a scientific diploma, J\u00e9r\u00e9my Clapin changed direction for drawing and visual arts at the EnsAD in Paris.\nHe has made 3 multi-awarded shorts: Une Histoire vert\u00e9brale (2004), Skhizein (2009) and Palmipedarium (2012), and is currently preparing the feature J'ai perdu mon corps.\nLouis Clichy - Director - Animator (from 02 to 06 March 2019)\nAfter graduating from the Gobelins school in 2002, Louis Clichy worked for three years at Pixar, animating on such productions as Ratatouille, Wall-E and Up. In 2010, M6 studio called him to direct the feature Asterix and Obelix: Mansion of the Gods, with Alexandre Astier. Following its success, he made the second feature Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion.\nAnca Damian - Director (09 March 2019)\nAnca Damian wrote, produced and directed the feature The Magic Mountain (2015), rewarded in Annecy and Karlovy Vary. The film went on to be selected in over sixty festivals and won ten prizes. Her feature, Crulic - The Path to Beyond, a co-production between Romania and Poland, won the Annecy Cristal in 2012, along with over 34 other prizes.\nEric Daniels - Animator (from 02 to 06 March 2019)\nEric Daniels was a traditional \u201cpencil and paper\u201d animator, but gravitated towards computer animation in its earliest days. He quickly taught himself to programme, and since then has specialized in combining these two. He has worked on films like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Tarzan, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog, Wreck-It Ralph, Big Hero 6 and Frozen.\nEmma De Swaef - Director (from 04 to 09 March 2019)\nEmma De Swaef specializes in stop motion and doll design. She is particularly fond of textiles and has made them her choice of materials to express her creative world. She has recently completed Ce Magnifique G\u00e2teau ! (This Magnificent Cake!) with Marc James Roels, which has already won many awards. Previously, the two worked together on the multi-award-winning short Oh Willy... as well as other short films and commercials.\nDenis Do - Director (07 March 2019)\nDenis Do is a filmmaker, born in Paris in 1985, who graduated from Gobelins school in 2009. His first feature, Funan, is a family story taking place in the Khmer Rouge period inspired by events that happened to his own mother. The human dimension of his stories are often influenced by his French, Chinese and Cambodian background.\nMats Grorud - Director - Animator (from 01 to 03 March 2019)\nMats Grorud has animated on various films and made two shorts. He also taught English and animation in a refugee camp in Burj El Barajneh, Lebanon, which inspired him to write the scenario for his feature The Tower by using stories he heard from the refugees and his own experience.\nPierre H\u00e9non - Historian (06 March 2019)\nPierre H\u00e9non has been a teaching pioneer and coordinator at EnsAD, where he introduced video in the 1970s and created and was director of the computer generated images and special effects post-grad course in the 1980s. He is the author of the recent reference book, Une Histoire fran\u00e7aise de l'animation num\u00e9rique.\nMarc James Roels - Director (04 March 2019)\nOriginating from live action, Marc James Roels directed the award-winning shorts Mompelaar (2007) and A Gentle Creature (2010). He co-directed Oh Willy\u2026 (2012), with Emma De Swaef. This stop motion film has been selected in around 300 festivals and won over 80 prizes including the Cartoon d\u2019Or and a C\u00e9sar nomination in 2013. He also co-directed Ce Magnifique G\u00e2teau ! (This Magnificent Cake!).\nVincent Kesteloot - Director - Animator (10 March 2019)\nAfter graduating from La Cambre, Vincent Kesteloot worked as an animator for Nozon from 1999 to 2006, following on at nWave first as an animator, then lead animator. He also supervised the layouts for Fly Me to the Moon and Sammy's Adventures. Since 2009, he's looked after the direction, writing, art direction and layout supervision on Pirates, Robinson Crusoe and The Queen's Corgi.\nKim Keukeleire - Animator (from 08 to 09 March 2019)\nAfter graduating from La Cambre in 1992, Kim Keukeleire worked for a number of famous companies including Passion Pictures, BBC Animations, Aardman, Cosgrove Hall, and Will Vinton. She is specialized in stop motion and has worked on such films as\nFrankenweenie, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Sammy\u2019s Adventures, Max&Co, Chicken Run and a host of commercials.\nTereza Kovandov\u00e1 - Director (from 08 to 10 March 2019)\nMatthieu Lamotte - Producer (from 04 to 06 March 2019)\nMatthieu Lamotte is a producer of documentaries, short films and animation series, and has been the director of aaa production since2005.\nHis films have been shown on France 5, ARTE, TV5, France \u00f4 and the Disney Channel\u2026\nHe looks after the protection, management and promotion of work by Jacques Rouxel, the creator of the Shadoks, as aaa production has held the production rights since 1973.\nBastien Martin - Director (04 March 2019)\nAfter studies in Communication and Performing Arts and stints working in the cultural sector and journalism, Bastien Martin was a production assistant on fiction films before starting at D\u00e9rives where he worked on documentaries (Jorge Leon, Benoit Dervaux, Mary Jimenez, etc.). Since then he has been mixing production and writing for documentaries and fiction films. Raoul Servais, m\u00e9moires d\u2019un artisan is his first film.\nDamian Nenow - Director (from 01 to 02 March 2019)\nA graduate of the \u0141odz National Film School in Poland, Damian Nenow is known for his innovative style in documentaries, commercials, credits and animated shorts, including Paths of Hate, which has been screened in over 90 festivals and won 25 prizes and distinctions. His feature Another Day of Life was rewarded with the European Film Award.\nHenry Nicholson - Director - Animator (from 03 to 05 March 2019)\nHenry Nicholson is a Cardiff based animator and director. He has worked in stop motion for the last 13 years, as an animator on feature films, commercials, children\u2019s TV series and music videos. He was nominated for a Welsh Bafta in 2007. Captain Morten and the Spider Queen was his first opportunity to co-direct a feature film. He is a lecturer at the University of South Wales.\nVincent Patar - Director (10 March 2019)\nBritt Raes - Director (05 March 2019)\nCatherine (2016), Britt Raes' first professional short film, has been shown in 200 festivals all over the world, winning 50 prizes along the way, including Best Belgian Short Film at Anima 2017. She is currently developing a short film for children, writing a feature and has recently presented an idea for a series at Cartoon.\nMargot Reumont - Director (05 March 2019)\nAfter graduating in filmmaking from La Cambre, Margot Reumont has made three films, animated on different series and features and co-founded the animation studio Tabass Co with fellow writer-directors.\nShe is currently writing her next short C\u00e2line, which has received development aid from CNC.\nAlain Richard - Director - Animator (from 05 to 09 March 2019)\nAlain Richard has combined his various skills on different projects: stop motion animator on Olivier Pesch's Le Gardien du nid, 2D and 3D animator, director and supervisor on the Klumpies series and director of the documentary Inklusioun. More recently he worked as animator and second director on L\u00e9opold, roi des Belges.\nC\u00e9lia Rivi\u00e8re - Director (08 March 2019)\nAfter studying at ESAG Penninghen, the Atelier de S\u00e8vres and Gobelins, C\u00e9lia Rivi\u00e8re worked for brands such as Herm\u00e8s or Lalique, and her acclaimed work for France 5 and Cherie HD was rewarded. Her first series, La Cabane \u00e0 histoires, started in 2015, and won an International Kids Emmy Award. She followed on with La Cabane aux oiseaux, adapted from nine children's books.\nSalvador Sim\u00f3 - Director (05 March 2019)\nBefore writing and directing Bu\u00f1uel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Salvador Simo made two animated short films. He started out studying animation and film in the USA and Barcelona, and was then hired as an assistant at Bill Melendez Prod., followed by assistant animator at Disney, Paris, and he has also worked in special effects in London.\nBen Stassen - Director - Producer - Screenwriter (10 March 2019)\nDirector - Producer - Screenwriter\nStarting out as a producer, Ben Stassen joined Little Big One to produce the ride simulation film Devil's Mine Ride, which earned the company worldwide recognition. With Movida Trix, which has since amalgamated to become nWave Studios, he produced and made several ride and Imax films. His first 3D feature, Fly Me to the Moon, was followed by many others among them his last one The Queen's Corgi.\nVincent Tavier - Producer (10 March 2019)\nC\u00e9dric Vandresse - Director (from 05 to 09 March 2019)\nAfter studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Li\u00e8ge, C\u00e9dric Vandresse worked as a set painter and designer for stop motion films (Le Gardien du nid, A Town Called Panic, Jacotolocotoc). In 2011, he worked at the Wahoo studio in Li\u00e8ge as a colourist (Le Magasin des suicides) and head colourist (April and the Extraordinary World). He created Mad Cat Studio in 2014 and has recently written and directed L\u00e9opold, roi des Belges.\nSjaak Rood - Director, 09 March 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 242, "original_length": 14727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.anneperry.co.uk/blog/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ODBDCMQCDALXCPGWUXREKMELDNPGHFII", "length": 2400, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.anneperry.co.uk", "title": "Savour Each Day!", "raw_content": "Home \u203a Savour Each Day!\nI can hardly believe another month is over. The weather is glorious, mild and sunny, but the Virginia creeper on the house already has patches of crimson. Its beauty always takes me unaware, a reminder of how brief and how precious time is, how in the fading year, one glory replaces another in rapid succession, and all gone too soon.\nNote to myself \u2013 \u201cSavour each day, don\u2019t waste anything. Do all you can, the best you can, but don\u2019t be in too much of a hurry to get to tomorrow \u2013 today has its gifts that won\u2019t ever be exactly the same again.\u201d\nIn the middle of the month I meant to write and say how much I had enjoyed the first \u2018Bloody Scotland\u2019 crime writers\u2019 conference, held in Stirling. It was such a success that already next year\u2019s is planned.\nWe stayed at the Stirling Highland Hotel and many of the events were held there. To anyone considering going to Stirling, I can recommend the hotel highly! It was comfortable in all respects, the views across the city were gorgeous, but above all, the staff were the most courteous and welcoming I can remember. Nothing seemed a trouble to them.\nWe had all the usual sort of events, panels, talks etc., but all with a uniquely Scottish flavour. It was instructive, encouraging, and above everything else it was fun. One of the last entertainments was a stage reading of the Sherlock Holmes adventure of the Red Headed League. You never saw so many red wigs in your life! Including mine! Laughter all round.\nThose of you interested in crime writing in Scotland, consider attending next year. And in case that seems unlikely, if you live far away, we had about twenty American guests that I knew of.\nSince then I have been to London and back, and am getting ready to go to Glasgow (and back) 3rd and 4th of October, and then on the 9th October to London, ready for the 10th to fly to Canada and then on the 21st to the United States. I shall return here on November 8th \u2013 at least that is as planned so far! I shall be in Calgary, Banff, Vancouver and then Los Angeles, then a couple of nights in London.\nI hope to see friends, have adventures, and do some work. I have finally capitulated to the present age and purchased an iPad, so have no excuse for not keeping up with at least some of the communications \u2013 and writing again to tell everyone of the events, interests and beauties of wherever I am.\nHave a good October!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.anticobella.com/antiquesandcollectibles-for-sale/happy-john-royal-doulton-toby-jug", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:55Z", "digest": "sha1:VPVUNYSNM5QATJQ5C6V6PIVBZM7BGGMH", "length": 2418, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.anticobella.com", "title": "Happy John Royal Doulton Toby Jug \u2014 Antico", "raw_content": "This Royal Doulton Happy John Toby Jug is a very traditional piece, harkening back to the very first such drinking vessels from the 1700s. There is an old English drinking song about a man who could drink as much as he could talk. After he died due to the effects of his drinking, his huge body turned to clay. A potter came along and used that to cast a large drinking vessel in his likeness, including his whole body and his head. English manufacturer Royal Doulton adapted the traditional full body jugs to focus instead on interesting faces and shoulders, including figural handles which reflected unique characteristics of the subject.\nHand painted details highlight Happy John's flushed face, framed by long whitish grey hair beneath a black tricorne hat. Swollen, beady eyes and a smiling mouth attest to Happy John's reason for mirth, as does the jug and glass of beer clutched in his hands. A yellow neck scarf with green accents is tied into a large, fashionable bow of the times. A long green overcoat with buttoned vest parts to reveal his orange pants and white stockings. Black buckled shoes firmly anchor him in his brown chair. A plain black handle is attached to the back, rather than a later feature of Royal Doulton character jugs which depicts some type of figural handle related to the characteristics of the subject and details from their distinctive stories.\nRoyal Doulton introduced Happy John in 1939 and ceased production in 1991.\nThe Royal Doulton B9 underglaze mark is applied, along with a hand-painted numerical code of 58, dating this piece to 1985. During this period, Royal Doulton began dating their wares in 1927 and added a code number next to the lion and crown emblem. Each successive year after 1927 was indicated with a number; thus 1927 + 58 = 1985. Royal Doulton produced the Happy John Toby Jug between 1939 and 1991.\nThere is an inscribed numeral on the base, but we were unable to decipher it.\nThe Toby jug measures approximately 4\" in length, as measured to include the handle and the outstretched glass of beer, and 5 3/8\" high, as measured to the top of his hat.\nThere is one area, approximately 1/16\" in size, on the inside corner of the black hat where the underlying bisque was not covered with glaze prior to firing.\nYou might be interested to know there is an American Toby Jug Museum in Evanston, Illinois. Click here to see their website.\nAmerican Toby Jug Museum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/0411/culture_2-2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:52Z", "digest": "sha1:46F7BVOFRX65F75LXKWU4BHIQSD762VG", "length": 4134, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.architectureweek.com", "title": "ArchitectureWeek - Culture - Sleek Modern Papal Center - 2001.0411", "raw_content": "Page C2.2 . 11 April 2001\nSleek Modern Papal Center\nDesigns on High Touch Healthcare\nLeo A Daly appears to have balanced modern design, polished materials, and vibrant colors with just the right amount of formal restraint. The designers seem also to have satisfied the pope's desire for a contemporary building in a city he describes as the international cultural \"crossroads\" for the 21st century.\nThe exterior impresses with its combination of rectangular, angled, curved, and cylindrical forms arranged compactly on the site. The religious symbolism is subdued.\nIn fact, if not for the 75-foot (23-meter) gold-colored cross that pierces the building's roof over the chapel, one would never suspect that this structure was intended to be the \"international focal point for the study of Catholic teachings,\" as a press release describes it.\nThis is a good move, I think, because it exhibits sensitivity to the \"interfaith\" element of the center's program \ufffd a place where scholars from different faith traditions are welcome, and where, according to Father G. Michael Bugarin, the center's executive director, exhibits will encourage visitors \"to reflect on their own faith and explore the faith of others.\"\nThe dominant exterior materials are limestone, copper, granite, and glass, same as those found in abundance in the buildings of official Washington.\nVisitors enter through a rotunda element that sits comfortably next to the center's long rectangular bar building. The rotunda interior is rendered in light tones and polished surfaces, and is dominated by a large, banded window punctuated with green glass.\nMost of the first level is dedicated to visitor spaces, including an exhibit hall devoted to the pope's Polish heritage and the Gallery of Mary, both of which were designed by Edwin R. Schlossberg, Inc. (ESI) of New York. ESI also designed the interactive exhibits throughout the building.\nExtending to the east from the main building is a small chapel that stretches out to and over a long reflecting pool. The chapel is understated, distinguished with light-colored plaster sprinkled with gold dust, limestone accents, and eucalyptus-stained maple furnishings.\nSplayed window slots puncture its walls, like those in Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut, at Ronchamp, France, pouring natural light into this space. The chapel, primarily intended for use by visiting scholars, hovers half on land, half on water, symbolizing the significance of baptism.\nMore exhibit spaces and galleries are found one level down from the entry level, along with orientation theaters, a gift shop, and cafe. The floor above the entry level also holds exhibit areas.\nThreading its way like a ribbon through these interior public areas is a switch-back walkway with a gentle slope that allows both the able-bodied and the disabled to share the same experience of moving though the building.\nThe ramp opens the three exhibit floors to each other and helps to animate these spaces with the constant promenade of visitors. Sequestered on the top floor are facilities for visiting scholars, housed in the Intercultural Forum, a center of research and teaching. Here are also the executive offices and other support spaces.\nArchitecture \ufffd particularly classical design \ufffd has been used throughout the ages to establish authority and to express power. You won't find that at the Papal Cultural Center. Light and openness, instead, marks this building as a product of American architecture in a new millennium.\nMichael J. Crosbie, a contributing editor to ArchitectureWeek, is an associate at Steven Winter Associates and the editor of Faith & Form magazine.\nSplayed window slots puncture its walls, like those in Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut, at Ronchamp.\nPhoto: Maxwell Mackenzie\nThe chapel is primarily intended for use by visiting scholars.\nThe entrance rotunda is rendered in light tones and polished surfaces, dominated by a large, banded window punctuated with green glass.\nThreading its way like a ribbon through the three exhibit floors is a switch-back walkway with a gentle slope.\nAuditorium of the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 5036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.asanteman.org/golden-stool.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:DQVNLDETBQEZMWBHE4X2LBMXMCMYO4BQ", "length": 1013, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.asanteman.org", "title": "The Golden Stool", "raw_content": "The Golden Stool is a sacred symbol of the Ashanti nation believed to possess the sunsum (soul) of the Ashanti people. According to legend, the Golden Stool -- sika 'dwa in the Akan language of the Ashanti -- descended from heaven in a cloud of white dust and landed in the lap of the first Ashanti king, Osei Tutu, in the late 1600s. The king's priest, Okomfo Anokye, proclaimed that henceforth the strength and unity of the Ashanti people depended upon the safety of the Golden Stool.\nDrawing upon the Akan tradition of a stool indicating clan leadership, the Golden Stool became the symbol of the united Asante people and legitimized the rule of its possessor. To defend the stool in 1900, the Ashanti battled the British in the so-called Yaa Asantewa War. The Ashanti chose to let the British exile the Ashanti's last sovereign king, Prempeh I, rather than surrender the stool. Today the Golden Stool is housed in the Asante royal palace in Kumasi, Ghana.\nhttp://www.pbs.org/wonders/Episodes/Epi3/3_wond1a.htm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 190.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ashmorelaw.com/blog/whatisprobate.cfm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KJBT2TLTIAPG2J6MHEKBPWCGV5WTT2ZF", "length": 2055, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ashmorelaw.com", "title": "What is Probate and Is It Necessary? | The Ashmore Law Firm, P.C.", "raw_content": "What is Probate and Is It Necessary?\nAfter all the long, stressful days of planning the funeral, contacting creditors, getting your loved one's home in order and frantically searching for paperwork, it is now time to secure the help of a qualified probate attorney, if you haven't already.\nIn this situation it is easy to ask: What is probate and why is it necessary?\nProbate is a process that occurs after someone dies. It is the act of proving that a will was signed and executed in accordance with the legal requirements as set out in the state where it was signed. It is through probate that property is legally transferred from the estate of a person, known as the \"decedent\", to the rightful beneficiary. To determine who the rightful beneficiary is will depend on whether the decedent had a valid will.\nWhen a loved one passes away there are two questions a qualified probate attorney should ask. The first question a probate attorney should ask is whether they died with or without a will. The answer to this question will let the probate attorney know which process must be followed. Although many of the documents may be the same, it is a completely different process. The second question a probate attorney should ask is what are the assets of the estate. The answer to this question will let the probate attorney know whether probate is even necessary.\nWhen Probating a will:\nSeeking the advice of an attorney who specializes in probate law will help you determine what is best for the estate. If your loved one's property and assets must go through the probate process, nothing is to be feared. The attorney you select to represent the estate will guide you through the necessary steps. This will take the pressure off of you, which is welcome relief at this point.\nIt is important to understand how the probate process works. The best thing you can do is make yourself readily availabe to your lawyer by providing whatever information or documents may be needed.\nIf you would like further information about probate, download our free e-book.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ashmorelaw.com/library/prenuptial-agreement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FOMG7CA5SD4YEX5UL3UB3D2H4TNXQIC3", "length": 199, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.ashmorelaw.com", "title": "Law Library Blog: Prenuptial Agreement | The Ashmore Law Firm, P.C.", "raw_content": "Misconceptions About Prenuptial Agreements A prenuptial agreement is a lot like auto insurance \u2013 you hope you\u2019ll never have to use it, but you\u2019re glad you have it when you\u2019ve gotten into an accident!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 166.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.astateredwolves.com/ViewArticle.dbml?PRINTABLE_PAGE=YES&DB_OEM_ID=7200&ATCLID=211695024", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:32Z", "digest": "sha1:OY7I3KB6FZXDBI7CX6F7TXQS3MJ75UQC", "length": 2505, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.astateredwolves.com", "title": "A-State's Rolland-Jones Invited to NFL Scouting Combine - A-State Red Wolves", "raw_content": "A-State's Rolland-Jones Invited to NFL Scouting Combine\nJONESBORO, Ark. (1/30/18) \u2013 Former Arkansas State defensive end and two-time Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year Ja\u2019Von Rolland-Jones has received an invitation to the participate in the 2018 NFL Scouting Combine, set for March 2-5 in Indianapolis.\nRolland-Jones completed his outstanding four-year career at A-State last season as both the school and Sun Belt\u2019s all-time leader in career sacks with 43.5 to his credit. He is the second all-time leader in NCAA FBS history in career sacks, only a half-sack shy of Terrell Suggs\u2019 44.0 total posted from 2000-02 at Arizona State.\n\u201cI am obviously very excited and honored to receive an invitation to participate in the NFL combine alongside many great players in college football,\u201d said Rolland-Jones. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to a great experience and the opportunity to perform on such a fantastic stage while representing Arkansas State.\u201d\nThe Mesquite, Texas, native was a four-time All-Sun Belt Conference selection who played in the 2018 East-West Shrine Game earlier this month. He completed his career with 64.5 tackles for loss, which stands as the eighth most in NCAA FBS history while also helping lead A-State to four consecutive bowl-game appearances and the 2015 and 2016 Sun Belt Conference championships. The Red Wolves also won the league title his redshirt freshman season in 2013.\nRolland-Jones will be the first A-State player to attend the NFL Scouting Combine since defensive lineman Ryan Carrethers in 2014, when he was a fifth-round pick in the NFL Draft by the San Diego Chargers.\nSince the 2000 season, records indicate Rolland-Jones will be the 14th A-State player to participate in the NFL Scouting Combine. In addition to Rolland-Jones and Carrethers, the other Arkansas State players include Demario Davis (2012), Kelcie McCray (2012), Derek Newton (2011), Alex Carrington (2010), David Johnson (2009), Tyrell Johnson (2008), Jon Bradley (2004), Corey Williams (2004), Garry Johnson (2003), Jonathan Adams (2002), Robert Kilow (2001) and Cleo Lemon (2001).\nThe combine will be televised by the NFL Network, which provides exclusive coverage of the league\u2019s next generation of talent with live coverage. The NFL Network will provide an up-close look at the more than 300 prospects looking to take the next step in their football careers. According to NFL.com, the defensive linemen and linebackers portion of the combine will be covered by the NFL Network on Sunday, March 4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 149.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.asymco.com/2011/12/20/the-big-mac/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:29Z", "digest": "sha1:B4AFXP6XDMHJYXCOUARDGT3WVDIAUQL7", "length": 2974, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.asymco.com", "title": "The big Mac (and iPad and iPhone) index (Updated) | Asymco", "raw_content": "The big Mac (and iPad and iPhone) index (Updated)\nApple\u2019s products are globally consistent. They sell the same exact[1] product in all countries. An unlocked iPhone is the same everywhere. It makes the products \u201cliquid\u201d in that they can be easily bought and sold across borders.\nHowever, laws do not permit the import and friction-free trading of electronic products. In addition to regulations there are duties levied and there are sales or consumption taxes levied on the purchase.\nHowever, knowing the retail price of an Apple product in a particular location, and knowing the tax and duties levied, can we work out if the price is consistent?\nI illustrated the price of a basket of Apple products in the US online Apple store in blue and the same products in the Finnish online Apple store where the prices were converted to US dollars in yellow. I also calculated what the price in Finland \u201cshould\u201d be if the products were sold with the known VAT of 23% added. I called this \u201cFinland (expected)\u201d price and it\u2019s shown in green.\nI then took the difference between the \u201cexpected\u201d and actual prices as a fraction of the expected and called that the \u201csurcharge\u201d. The surcharge can be interpreted as \u201chow much more does a buyer in a different country pay over the price in the US (excluding US sales tax) plus VAT and duties.\u201d\nWhat the chart shows is that not all Apple products are treated equally by Apple. In this particular case Apple TV and the iPad are \u201coverpriced\u201d significantly. Interestingly, the iPhones are nearly what would be \u201cexpected\u201d price.\nIt gets curiouser when comparing with other countries. In this case I compare the same basket in Brazil.\nHere the story is reversed. The iPads are cheaper than one would expect while the iPhones, especially the 4S, are more expensive, though not by as much as the iPads are in Finland.\nI don\u2019t know. These prices are set by Apple though they may be influenced by operator deals they have locally or other terms. It would require local knowledge of the market to solve this.\nWhat would also be instructive, I believe, is to collect data from many more countries. If you are living in another country, you can help by providing the following data: For each of the products in this list,\niPad 2 16 Wifi\nMB Air 11:\nMB Pro 13\nprovide the retail prices (preferably from an online store) and the local VAT or duty that is expected for electronic products (enter data here.) You can provide the prices in local currency. We can then try to put a global picture together and understand what affects price differences across borders[2][3].\nUpdate: You can view and enter data in the spreadsheet here.\nThere are minor differences like power adapters but they are not materially more expensive to produce.\nSee also The Big Mac index.\nThanks to Paulo Silva for supplying the prices from Brazil and asking the pertinent questions.\n\u2039 Previous Post The parable of RIM\n\u203a Next Post How many Android phones have been activated? (Updated)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.atd-inc.com/voiceoverip.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:02Z", "digest": "sha1:F4GIFJBYQJSBG6ORQGVRBGXGQZRYGUHB", "length": 3604, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.atd-inc.com", "title": "ATD Computers, Charlotte NC, Computer Repair Service, Computer Consulting, Computer Service, Onsite Computer Service, Technical Support, Surveillance Cameras, CCTV Video Security Surveillance Equipment, VOIP, VIOP Providers, North Carolina", "raw_content": "Is a VoIP Phone System Right for You?\nIf your company has multiple locations \ufffd branches, telecommuters, remote sales offices \ufffd that are already connected to a company Local Area Network (LAN) or Wide Area Network (WAN), you are a prime candidate for a VoIP system. You can share the full features of your phone system across all your locations. In addition, even if you have one office in Connecticut and one in California, VoIP allows calls between them via extension dialing, making it a zero cost call. For businesses with hefty monthly long distance charges due to calls between locations, that can be a very attractive reason to upgrade.\nA VoIP phone system can also save money as you are setting up a new office \ufffd you will not have to run separate cabling for your phone system. In many cases, the best solution will be a system that uses existing phone wires within the main office and VoIP for calls between locations. This combination works well if you have relatively new telecom equipment - many PBXs can be IP-enabled with software upgrades and minor hardware additions. Sticking with digital phones internally will save you money, as well as increasing the overall reliability of your phone system.\nFeatures and benefits of an IP PBX\nWith VoIP, any and all offices on a LAN or WAN can get the benefits of having a common office phone system, including extension dialing, seamless call transfers, and other features. In addition to making it easier to communicate, this sharing of features can enhance collaboration as employees at different locations can truly feel like they are part of the same organization. Plus, if they are on the company network, the phone calls are free \ufffd even if your offices are located thousands of miles apart. Simply looking at your current phone bill for calls between far-flung offices can give you an idea of how much you can save.\nThere are other cost savings that stem from the streamlined network infrastructure and improved administration. For network administrators, VoIP means they only have one network to maintain instead of two. There is still separate phone system hardware to maintain \ufffd but only one network. The Move, Add, Change (MAC) process also is greatly simplified, because almost all VoIP systems are configurable through a web interface that can be managed by the administrator. This means lower ongoing costs -- you will not need to call your vendor for every MAC. And because multiple offices are seamlessly connected, they can share a single receptionist, auto-attendant, and voice mail system.\nAnother significant benefit is for employees on the go. If your remote users connect to the company network via a Virtual Private Network (VPN), VoIP allows them to make phone calls from the road at no extra charge. One salesperson on an extended trip can save hundreds of dollars in cell phone or hotel long-distance charges.\nOther familiar and essential phone system features like caller ID, call forwarding, simultaneous ringing across multiple phones, and other features you would find in PBX systems are available in most VoIP systems. VoIP also works with advanced Computer Telephony Integration (CTI) applications, such as call center management. These popular applications can prioritize incoming calls based on the caller\ufffds identity and automatically bring up callers\ufffd account information as the phone is answered. However there is little difference in this arena between VoIP and modern digital phones.\nATD offers Voice over IP (VoIP) products and installation. Contact us today for a consultation on whether VoIP is right for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aysstaff.com/blog/2015/10/27/meet-the-manager-desiree-murphy-ays-nyc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:58Z", "digest": "sha1:LGGAWCXPKXLYHHEYMFK6AFYCH4VHBTWR", "length": 1814, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.aysstaff.com", "title": "Meet the Manager: Desiree Murphy, AYS NYC", "raw_content": "Meet the Manager: Desiree Murphy, AYS NYC\n1. How long have you been working with At Your Service? I've been with AYS for two months!\n2. Where did you grow up? I grew up at the Jersey Shore.\n3. What\u2019s your Alma Mater? I went to New York Institute of Technology for my Bachelor's and Nova Southeastern University for my Master's.\n4. If you had to work in any other industry, which would it be and why? I would not want to work in any other industry!\n5. What attracted you to the hospitality industry? The excitement and fast paced day to day operations \u2013 no day is ever the same; the ability to learn many different sides of the industry; interacting with guests to create positive experiences\n6. What\u2019s your favorite part of working with At Your Service? Going to check on larger, unique events and meeting the clients and staff members face to face are my two favorite parts!\n7. What do you do outside of work? I try to travel as much as possible to reach my goal of going to all 50 states. When I am not traveling, I like to meet up with friends and depending on the season go to the beach, rent Citi Bikes, go ice skating, run a 5K, try new restaurants, etc. I enjoy cooking and also work a part time job at MetLife Stadium.\n8. Which is your favorite AYS location to visit? So far NYC but I can\u2019t want to see the other offices!\n9. If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be and why? A cruise from the East Coast to the West Coast through the Panama Canal. I love cruises because you can see more than one city in the same trip!\n10. What\u2019s your favorite way to unwind after a long day of work? Meet up with friends for happy hour or binge on Netflix/Hulu shows.\nTo learn more about Desiree and the New York team, click here.\nPosted on October 27, 2015 by Karen Craig and tagged meet the manager.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 4740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.betabooks.com.au/item.cfm?isbn=9781496561879", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:38Z", "digest": "sha1:2PI7RJGR5WFZTD3EKBRNNHVSGWK4WXRI", "length": 567, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.betabooks.com.au", "title": "Bumble B.: Mission Farmers' Market, Marsha Qualey, 9781496561879 @ BetaBooks", "raw_content": "Colorful flowers fill the farmers' market, and Beatrice 'Bumble B.' Flinn is thrilled! Where there are flowers, there are bugs. And B. loves bugs! She can't wait to help Kalia at her family's flower stand. But when her job is to get rid of all the bugs on the flowers, B. doesn't know what to do. Her mission of the day is clear -- she must save the bugs! Easy-to-read text, short chapters, fun illustrations, a glossary, discussion questions, and writing prompts add to the book. The Bumble B. early chapter books will inspire young readers to think outside the box.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 2898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 335.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bethstilborn.com/tag/beverley-brenna/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:11Z", "digest": "sha1:OOZO2CYH7T24RKJP6TUGA3A2MYZ3IGCD", "length": 2833, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.bethstilborn.com", "title": "Beverley Brenna \u2013 By Word of Beth", "raw_content": "Tag: Beverley Brenna\nCue the herald trumpets! Those of you who have been reading my blog for some time will know that October 1 is a special day of celebration for me. It is the birthday of three people whom I admire, who have directly or indirectly provided guidance, example, wisdom, and strength. As is my custom when October 1 falls on or near a blogging day, today I want to celebrate those\u2026\nA book of a different order \u2026\nMake that \u201cof a different phylum\u2026\u201d My cousin Beverley Brenna has a new book coming out, with an anticipated release date of November 15th. It is a departure from the subject matter and style of her recent books, which may come as a surprise to those who have read and loved the time-slip adventure Falling for Henry, or her Taylor Jane Simon trilogy, Wild Orchid, Waiting for No One, and The\u2026\nI was thrilled on Monday, January 28, when the American Library Association announced its annual youth media awards (such as the well-known Caldecott and Newbery) and I learned that a book written by my cousin, Beverley Brenna, The White Bicycle, had been named a Michael L. Printz Honor Book. I immediately emailed her to suggest an interview, and this interview took place that evening. I\u2019m delighted to share it with\u2026\nFor many years (I promise not to say how many), October first has been a special day in our family, as someone who means a great deal to us was born on that date. Over the years, the joy of the day has been added to for me by the fact that two people I admire very much, not just for what they have achieved in the public arena, but\u2026\nThis was first posted on elizabethannewrites on April 8, 2011. I\u2019m tying this post to Patricia\u2019s post earlier regarding Autism Awareness Month \u2014 I hope you\u2019ll read Pat\u2019s thoughtful and thought-provoking post. My cousin, Bev Brenna, who writes thoughtful and thought-provoking YA books (as well as middle-grade novels, and picture books \u2014 Bev is versatile) has written two YA novels about a girl in her late teens, Taylor Jane Simon,\u2026\nThis was originally posted on September 7, 2011. Reading Beverley Brenna (or at least, reading her books) is a use of time I can highly recommend. In fact, I do recommend that pastime, over and over again. I know that those of you whom I\u2019ve already turned on to Bev\u2019s books are awaiting the release of Falling for Henry with barely-disguised impatience. I have been figuratively pacing outside the birthing\u2026\nWelcome to my Saturday series of posts taken from my old blog, thus the title \u201cFrom the Archives.\u201d All the posts in this series will be under the category \u201cLooking Back and Moving Forward.\u201d This was first posted on elizabethannewrites on September 6, 2011. Beverley Brenna was born and raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a city on the Canadian prairie, and still lives nearby. Her love of nature is threaded through\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 6852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.betteroffracing.com/autox-diary-1/theacquisitionscontinue", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:09Z", "digest": "sha1:D3G4SQQZDVYQXUC3RV6BKTZV5M5NK764", "length": 1129, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.betteroffracing.com", "title": "The acquisitions continue - BetterOffRacing", "raw_content": "The acquisitions continue\nWent down and bought the kid kart for Kieran today. It's in great shape and the motor runs (the most important part for now). There is some work to be done on it though since it was previously set up for oval racing. All of the wheels were different sizes and the spares (I found out after I got home) are almost the right sizes, but the wheels are all a little wide for the cause - 5.5\" wide instead of just 5\" for the front. And some of the tires were stretched so much as to be unrecognizable. So now it's time to buy some spares - something I was hoping to avoid for this one. But I might as well do it right so we have what we need when we need it.\nI also need to figure out how to either reposition the pedals since Kieran is short, or get something to make it easier for him to reach without stretching. And the seat that's on it is very tall and way oversized for him, so a new one is in order, too. I foolishly thought this was going to be a relatively inexpensive sport (compared to my national-level Civic). So far it is cheaper (for both my and Kieran's karts and spares), but not by much...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1810, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.betterworldmedia.us/2013/11/the-purpose-remains-same_25.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HXZZBJ45RPVMLOUNQ3VPWR5YHTYKXQM4", "length": 952, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.betterworldmedia.us", "title": "Better World Media: The Purpose Remains the Same", "raw_content": "Lest we forget the purpose of this blog is still to promote the professions of photography, writing, music, and travel. I have relocated, for now, my residence to Las Vegas, Nevada to be in one city that could give me an abundance of subjects in each field to photograph and write about. Things have been a little slow to progress due to some physical problems I have had for the past few months. But, they are getting better, and I am getting more organized in my work.\nMuch of my work is done on The Strip, or Las Vegas Blvd., in Las Vegas, known world wide as the entertainment capital of the world. I have done some street photography here, and much more of it is in my future. Three things make the city of Las Vegas click: (a.) the locals that serve the public that visits here. (b.) the attractions that bring the visitors here. (c.) the people that visit here.\nLabels: attractions, locals, music, photography, tourist, travel, visitors, writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 296, "original_length": 8655, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 209.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bfosteo.london/blog/how-to-decrease-the-risk-of-knee-injury-patellar-tendinopathy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XFFJVFXJMWYB4NTXWJXBVYJDNUIV3ZN2", "length": 196, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bfosteo.london", "title": "Hip abductors and external rotators relationship with patellar tendinopathy", "raw_content": "How to decrease the risk of knee injury - patellar tendinopathy?\nGlutes exercise work is very important in order to decrease the risk of knee injury.\n\u200bhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29804139\u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 1941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 106.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.birders-store.co.uk/barn-owl.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:ECDRUGKVIJR265IAAVP5DO7FVY2OFHQA", "length": 633, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.birders-store.co.uk", "title": "Barn Owl The Birders Store", "raw_content": "The sight of a ghostly Barn Owl quartering a field at dusk is not one that is easily forgotten, but the day-to-day lives of these captivating birds are little known to most people.\nIn this book, insightful text coupled with rarely seen images of the species\u2019 life and behaviour introduce the reader to some of the most fascinating aspects of a remarkable nocturnal existence. There are chapters on subjects such as hunting, courtship and survival. The owls are further brought to life through a series of personal anecdotes from the author and photographer, which are woven into the text.\nHardback - 80 colour photogrpahs, 128 pages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 197.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/in-flames-frontman-on-spotify-i-think-its-a-great-service/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:28Z", "digest": "sha1:P33NIDE6GULLPA27RD7GMRZ45VK4SH32", "length": 2812, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.blabbermouth.net", "title": "In Flames Frontman On Spotify: 'I Think It's A Great Service' - Blabbermouth.net", "raw_content": "IN FLAMES Frontman On SPOTIFY: 'I Think It's A Great Service'\nTudno FM's Andrew Welsh conducted an interview with vocalist Anders Frid\u00e9n of Swedish metallers IN FLAMES backstage at the Manchester Arena on January 16, ahead of the band's support slot with DISTURBED and AVENGED SEVENFOLD. You can now watch the chat below.\nAsked for his opinion of streaming music services like Spotify, Anders said: \"I think it's a great service. You can argue with the [size of the] payment [to the artists and the songwriters] \u2014 whatever \u2014 but that's just the way it is. It's there; it's nothing we can change. From a consumer point of view, it's not much money for what you get \u2014 that big, big, big, big collection of music. It's a good service, I guess. But then, from a band's point of view, maybe we don't get paid enough. But it is what it is, and we have to adapt. Either you're with them, or you say you won't [have you music available on Spotify]. And I'd rather want our music to be there, so the fans can take part in it.\"\nThe vocalist added that some music fans may hear an IN FLAMES track on Spotify and then go buy one of the band's albums. \"And then come to a show,\" he said. \"And buy a t-shirt. And maybe become fans.\"\nHe concluded: \"That's the age we live in.\"\nAnders's latest comments echo those he made last year to Musik Universe. He stated about Spotify at the time: \"I mean, it depends on how you look at it. It's like radio \u2014 you have it straight in your pocket. I think it's great. We have to adapt. Personally, I wanna have something and hold it; I love vinyl still. But I think it's a good complement. And that's just the way it is these days. We, as musicians, have to adapt to the situation. Sometimes it takes away the fun of releasing something, 'cause it's out already everywhere. When I was younger, I had to wait and wait until the day the album came out and I went to the store and I got it in my hand, and it was a magical moment. But it is different these days. I mean, in Sweden we have\u2026 I think it's like eighty or ninety percent streaming and very few physical [sales] and very few iTunes even. It's like Spotify all over.\"\nIN FLAMES drummer Daniel Svensson announced in 2015 that he was leaving the band to focus on his family life. He has since been replaced by Joe Rickard, who played on \"Battles\" as a session musician.\nMore recently, bassist Peter Iwers issued a statement in November saying that he was leaving IN FLAMES at the end of the recent U.S. tour \"to pursue other endeavors.\" His replacement on the current tour is H\u00e5kan Skoger, who has previously played with PASSENGER and GARDENIAN.\n\"Battles\", IN FLAMES' twelfth studio album, was released in November via Nuclear Blast/b> in all territories excluding North America and Scandinavia and Eleven Seven Music Group in the U.S.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/wykked-wytch-covers-evanescence-s-bring-me-to-life-audio-available/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:23Z", "digest": "sha1:6G3I6X3MAZWVBFIYYUIDIEFVPT2KRV3C", "length": 1514, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.blabbermouth.net", "title": "Wykked Wytch Covers Evanescence's 'Bring Me To Life'; Audio Available - Blabbermouth.net", "raw_content": "WYKKED WYTCH Covers EVANESCENCE's 'Bring Me To Life'; Audio Available\nFlorida-based, female-fronted extreme metal band WYKKED WYTCH has posted its cover of the EVANESCENCE smash hit \"Bring Me To Life\" on its MySpace page. The track was recorded by Matt LaPlant (NONPOINT, SIKTH) and Gus Rios (MALEVOLENT CREATION) at Bieler Bros. Studios in Pompano Beach, Florida. Mixing and mastering was handled by Eric Rachel (ATREYU, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN) at Trax East Studios in New Jersey.\nThe song will be available exclusively through iTunes and other digital music providers in October. There are also plans for the track to be included on a movie soundtrack early next year. More details to follow.\nWYKKED WYTCH will perform at this year's edition of the Indianapolis Metal Fest, set to take place September 26-27 at Madame Walker Theater in Indianapolis, Indiana.\nThe video for WYKKED WYTCH's cover version of the EURYTHMICS hit song \"Sweet Dreams\" can be viewed below. The clip was directed by Kevin Custer (MADBALL, OVERKILL, KINGDOM OF SORROW) and was produced by Dale \"Rage\" Resteghini (MUDVAYNE, TRIVIUM, HATEBREED) of Raging Nation Films.\nWYKKED WYTCH's fourth album, \"Memories of a Dying Whore\", was released through the band's own label Perish Music.\nAccording to a press release, \"Memories of a Dying Whore\" was remixed by Eric Rachel (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, ATREYU, GOD FORBID) at Trax East Studios and was mastered by Alan Douches (UNEARTH, MASTODON, SHADOWS FALL) at West West Side Music in New York.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3894, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 158.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.blackburnmarket.com/traders/bedfords-cooked-meats/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:42Z", "digest": "sha1:E6MJZI325PABMTBOBFIPUFATFU5VINY5", "length": 377, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.blackburnmarket.com", "title": "Bedford's Cooked Meats - Blackburn Market", "raw_content": "Bedford\u2019s have been established in Blackburn since 1938 and have a long standing tradition of providing locally sourced cooked meats, as well as local farm free range eggs and cheeses.\nIt doesn\u2019t stop there either; they also sell black puddings, pies, salmon paste and bacon. They can even make you a freshly made sandwich to order with every ingredient fresh on a daily basis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookpleasures.com/websitepublisher/articles/8620/1/-Blackbeard-The-Birth-of-America-Reviewed-By-Lois-C-Henderson-of-Bookpleasurescom/Page1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:26Z", "digest": "sha1:4I2LFDBBUUGIDKRJKLS7IJ3KOWXJUFMS", "length": 4251, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.bookpleasures.com", "title": "Blackbeard: The Birth of America Reviewed By Lois C. Henderson of Bookpleasures.com", "raw_content": "Blackbeard: The Birth of America Reviewed By Lois C. Henderson of Bookpleasures.com\nAuthor: Samuel Marquis\nPublisher: Mount Sopris Publishing\nSamuel Marquis\u2019s historically sound, but fictionally enhanced, account of the swashbuckling Edward Thache\u2019s exploits on the high seas, primarily centered on the years 1715 to 1718, is all the more intriguing in the light of the author\u2019s own familial connections to such a piratical heritage, with the award-winning suspense writer being the ninth great-grandson of Captain William Kidd, one of the most famous pirates in history, remembered for his plundering of the treasure troves of the Indian Ocean. But don\u2019t be afeared, me hearties, Blackbeard: The Birth of America is bound to reward its readers with a much greater wealth of sumptuous detail in terms of its strong storyline, engaging characters and rambunctious spirit than it will ever take in terms of purchase costs.\nThat Marquis thrives upon his imaginings being steeped in a past of skullduggery and mayhem (at least as far as his detailed research goes) can be seen by the way in which he carefully pinpoints where each and every part of his enthralling narrative takes place. Most markedly, his seventy-two chapter headings for Blackbeard identify both the place and the date of the occurrence of the action that takes place therein. The overall structure of the book is also divided into six main parts, stretching from \u201cThe Spanish Main\u201d to \u201cA Conspiracy of Murder\u201d. The linear narrative makes for an ease of pace and a fluency that enraptures and enthralls the reader in the fast-paced action that takes place throughout. In no way does Marquis reveal what lies in store for his characters, so that, even if one knows something of the history of Edward Thache, Jr., one becomes so immersed in the action that the fiction suspends the reality and one is swept up in the exploits of heroes (and brigands) of old, without anticipating the ultimate outcome, despite it being well-known by many.\nMarquis is so thorough in the contextualization of his account that he provides both an extensive cast of historical figures, in terms of Captain Edward Thache and his crew, Thache\u2019s piratical consorts and acquaintances, royal and proprietary colony government officials and citizens, British Royal Navy officers, and Thache\u2019s love interest and family members, and a comprehensive Afterword, explaining the position that he, as narrator, took in revising the history of a man whom he sees as having been maligned, both in the pages of history and in public recall. By providing such a backdrop to his work, and by being so methodical in his approach, Marquis is able to capture both the attention of the adventure-loving public and the appreciation of the cognoscenti for his fine work of literature that is so much more than being a mere boyish account of a romp on the high seas, which is all that many other pirate stories amount to.\nMarquis very humbly summates the approach that he envisages as being taken towards Blackbeard: The Birth of America as being \u201ca work of the imagination and entertainment \u2026 [which] \u2026 should be read as nothing more.\u201d I truly wish to dispute this statement, as I, indeed, do see it as far more. Marquis\u2019s earnest efforts to explain how Edward Thache\u2019s exploits can be seen against the spirit of his times, as being not those of \u201ca cruel and ruthless villain,\u201d but those of a person with extensive wisdom and insight into the ethos of his age, who had great personal integrity and a deep-seated sense of fealty to friends and family, are admirable. In the richness of the texture of his material, which at all times he treats with the greatest of respect and with the added depth of hindsight, Marquis far exceeds the stance of a mere raconteur and entertainer of the masses\u2014he, in fact, becomes a public historian, with a common touch that does nothing to detract from the inherent underlying gravity of his subject matter. The subtitle of his fine work reveals it all: \u201cThe Birth of America\u201d. In short, this multi-layered work is an outstanding example of the narration of how an individual can both transform, and inform, his place in time, both in the past and in the present, and as directed towards the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 10869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 215.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bookwormbabblings.com/2014/09/sleepy-hollow-children-of-revolution.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:33Z", "digest": "sha1:CCAFRVG52WLBY3BOCMEDMYKZ75C2WKC3", "length": 1500, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bookwormbabblings.com", "title": "Bookworm Babblings: Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution", "raw_content": "Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution is based on the television series Sleepy Hollow. Abbie, Jennifer, Captain Irving and Ichabod Crane are battling evil once again. Crane has a vision, and in this vision Katrina urges him to find his Congressional Cross. Unfortunately, he died before receiving it, so the hunt begins. But not before the other crosses are stolen and they uncover a sinister plot; Serilda\u2019s coven is once again trying to resurrect their mistress and they need the crosses to do so. Now it\u2019s a race against time to thwart the coven and prevent the resurrection. Will Crane locate his missing cross? Will they be able to stop Serilda once again?\nThis is my favorite television show, so when I was given the opportunity to review this book, I jumped at the chance. This is the first time I\u2019ve ever read a book based upon a series, it\u2019s usually the other way around, so I read with an open mind. I was happily surprised that the book is just as great as the television show. The author puts such vivid details, that you can visualize the entire scenario in your mind\u2019s eye. The parts I found quite comical were when Ichabod Crane tried to understand twenty-first century slang as well as cop lingo. The story takes place between two actual episodes of the series and I thought that was really neat also. This book was seriously difficult to put down; it has everything the television series does and more! I really hated to see it end, I hope there are more of these stories coming!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 6997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bridgerproducts.com/builders/peter_jenner", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SQHUV6AG3UJHCC63EKYIKDNBLRGQB3GV", "length": 81, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.bridgerproducts.com", "title": "Bridger Products - Peter Jenner", "raw_content": "...and because I really like the bridge.\nhttps://www.facebook.com/PaganMandolins\ufeff", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 48.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.brooklynonline.com/bol/mybrooklyn/thespartan/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:40Z", "digest": "sha1:R37ZBU3AX6DT2GRMYFOD6ISRWVFBVXKQ", "length": 2749, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.brooklynonline.com", "title": "Brooklyn On Line:MyBrooklyn:Rebecca Poole", "raw_content": "The Spartan Theatre\n\"we like it Rough\"\nThe Spartan Theatre was founded by a group of actors, writers, and directors in their twenties and thirties who believe in theatre as a live event that tells a story rather than as an occasion to applaud sets and costumes. Of primary importance in such an event is the honest exchange between actors and audience. All other considerations (directorial, design, technical, etc.) must remain secondary to and arise from that relationship.\nWe focus on providing our audience with an immediate, intimate experience of a play\u2019s story.\nTo do so, we pursue and cultivate classically trained actors with emotional and intellectual smarts, as well as an irreverent sense of humor. Similarly, we populate our season with timely works of world drama that delight, enlighten, and entertain.\nThe Spartan\u2019s approach to a production\u2019s physical appearance also remains audience-centered. We use only those design elements that are essential both to suggest the play\u2019s atmosphere and to drive its dramatic action, without denying the actual theater space the audience and actors share. In our experience, this design practice allows more room for the audience members\u2019 individual imaginations, thus engaging them more personally in the play\u2019s story. We want our audiences to play along with us, and they really can only do so in an environment that values people, thoughts, actions, and words more than things: in a production which holds the dynamic above the static.\nWith an active use of language and \"form-follows-function\" design, we show you what\u2019s up our sleeves and point out where the wires are so that the play goes straight from our hearts and minds to yours.\nLike the general population of New York City, Spartan audiences are diverse in age and cultural background. One-eighth of our audience attends Spartan performances free of charge through our outreach to senior citizen day-care facilities and to various student organizations.\nWhile we currently produce in Manhattan, we intend to create a home base in Greenpoint, Brooklyn once our reputation is established enough for us to be able to afford such a move. Unfortunately, the bias of the major New York press against reviewing or even listing productions in Brooklyn (that do not occur at BAM) makes it fiscally dangerous for us to produce outside of Manhattan right now. We cannot afford to play to empty houses, and (due to our youth as an organization) we cannot get audiences without press coverage. We think that the repute of Spartan productions will make it financially possible for us to begin performing in Brooklyn within the next three years. Eventually, we would like to become a resident repertory ensemble there.\nSend comments to Rebecca Poole", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 2831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bssnews.net/?p=18506", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:32Z", "digest": "sha1:SAEAFYS7HEBDKBHIEFXZWDFFPPR3U7CL", "length": 3034, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.bssnews.net", "title": "Fears of rising PNG death toll after region\u2019s \u2018worst quake in century\u2019 | Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS)", "raw_content": "Home International News Fears of rising PNG death toll after region\u2019s \u2018worst quake in century\u2019\nFears of rising PNG death toll after region\u2019s \u2018worst quake in century\u2019\nSYDNEY, March 4, 2018 (BSS/AFP) \u2013 Local communities are struggling to cope with the aftermath of a major earthquake that hit Papua New Guinea\u2019s remote highlands almost a week ago, reports said Sunday, amid fears of a rising death toll.\nThe highlands in the Pacific nation\u2019s interior about 600 kilometres (373 miles) north-west of Port Moresby were struck by a 7.5-magnitude tremor early Monday, and also shaken by a series of strong aftershocks in subsequent days.\nThe government has declared a state of emergency and sent relief workers to the Southern Highlands, Western, Enga and Hela provinces, which have been hit by downed communications, landslides and sinkholes, and toppled homes and buildings.\n\u201cThis was the biggest earthquake in a hundred years (in the highlands) and it spread 150 kilometres across the fault line,\u201d humanitarian duty officer Darian Clark of the Australian High Commission (embassy) said in a statement Saturday.\n\u201cA number of urban settlements, as well as villages, have been affected, many in the form of landslides and landslips, which means that roads have been cut off, water contaminated, power knocked out and other widespread effects for the local people.\u201d\nNumerous communities have yet to be reached by aid workers and it was not known how badly they were affected, seismologist Mathew Moihoi of PNG\u2019s Geophysical Observatory told AFP Sunday.\nNo official death toll has been released by the government, but various PNG media reports have cited local officials on the ground who spoke of dozens of casualties.\nThe PNG Post-Courier newspaper has collated unconfirmed reports of more than 50 dead from the initial quake.\n\u201cThe figures (for the death toll) have been coming out from areas where there is access, but there might be areas which are not accessible and it is a little bit hard to get to those areas,\u201d Moihoi said.\n\u201cThere might be some casualties there, we just don\u2019t know. It\u2019s going to be a little bit difficult to get the figures at this stage.\u201d\nLocal news website Loop PNG cited a local police officer as saying that starvation and looting were on the rise in the affected communities.\nThe situation was worsening on the ground every day, the website added Sunday, quoting local advocacy groups mobilising to help stricken communities.\n\u201cPeople are crying and they are shouting when they are calling us,\u201d Cathy Alex from the Advancing PNG Women\u2019s Network said as she pleaded for donations from the public.\n\u201cWe can\u2019t just sit and wait for the (government-pledged disaster funding of) 450 million kina (US$140 million).\u201d\nBesides the government\u2019s aid efforts, oil and gas companies ExxonMobil and Oil Search, which operate in the area, have assisted relief and recovery efforts.\nThe Australian military said Saturday it had arrived in PNG and was distributing relief supplies and conducting aerial surveys of quake-hit areas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 6396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.c-130.net/c-130-news-about-Philippine+Air+Force.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:53Z", "digest": "sha1:VLGADYSRM5A3NGXY4MSY2GFEVG7IZDZO", "length": 563, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.c-130.net", "title": "C-130 News - Philippine Air Force", "raw_content": "Philippine Air Force news\nFilipina C-130 pilot in command in trans-Pacific flight\nOct 24, 2016 - The newly turned over C-130 cargo plane to the Philippine Air Force was flown to the country from the United States with a female pilot-in-command, a first time in the history of the Philippine military. [Read more...]\nPhilipines would like to acquire new C-130s\nNov 26, 2013 - In the aftermath of Super Typhoon Yolanda, the Department of National Defense is eying the acquisition of additional C-130 cargo planes \u2013 the workhorse in the relief effort. 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Candor is a loving hometown.\nIt is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.\nPlease check out the Calendar page for events happening in the area,\nthe Organizations page for various non-profit organizations\naround the community, the About Us page to find out who we are,\nand Special Events to find events like Candor's Fall Festival weekend and our Fourth of July Festivities!\nCOPYRIGHT 2010-2019. Candor Community Calendar, Candor, N.Y.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 877, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.capecoral-vacationhomes.us/vacation-rental/vacation-rental-cape-coral/item/122-villa-blue-butterfly?rid=147", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:35Z", "digest": "sha1:AUPFWIKBWHKFXDYAW564IV2ZVWD2R6I5", "length": 72, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.capecoral-vacationhomes.us", "title": "Villa Blue Butterfly \u2013 Cape Coral Vacation Homes and Property Management", "raw_content": "Villa Blue Butterfly (4343 SW 25th Ave, 33914, Cape Coral, Florida, USA)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 4253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 222.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.carehomeexpo.co.uk/partners/supporter.asp?supporter=7236", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QZGZCUP2OWNQGF77CTVHEVB2UN2YGO6Z", "length": 345, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.carehomeexpo.co.uk", "title": "United Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd (UKHCA) - Dementia Care & Nursing Home Expo 2019", "raw_content": "United Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd (UKHCA)\nUnited Kingdom Homecare Association Ltd (UKHCA) is the professional association of home care providers from the independent, voluntary, not-for-profit and statutory sectors. 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They depend on the owner to take care of their needs from food, water, grooming, and health status. An individual possessing these animals have to be concerned with their general wellness. The most domesticated pet is the dog. A good Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Puppy owner offers the best care for these animals. Additionally, below are qualities that such individuals exhibit while offering good care to the puppies.\nThey should show love to the pet. This is the virtue that will enable the pet to still stay in the house without loitering out to other animals. Puppies are very loving and also needs being loved back be the owner. Love can be shown when the individual takes the animal to the park or by traveling with it on the car.\nThe owners have to be nurturing this animal to maintain its wellness. This involves providing the requirements for this animal. This includes cleaning its waste, providing food and also taking the puppies to the vet for assessment of the health conditions. This will make the pet healthier and also reduce the cost that could be incurred for treatment.\nThe basic virtue for these individuals is responsible. If individuals want to take good care of this animal, then they have to be responsible. This is an aspect that every dog owner has to possess. The life of these pets is entirely dependent on the ability of the owner to take of it. They understand that the healthy condition of this animal is dependent on them. They have to ensure that the animal is safe from any form of threat.\nFriendliness is important for these pet owners. These puppies have a way of making friends with people. Owners should also respond in kind and show a great sense of friendliness. These animals stay indoors and therefore interact with owners on a daily basis. They will be comfortable when they are the homeowner. Leaving them alone will create boredom and distress hence they will not be able to express the amusement required.\nCommitment is vital for these people. A Strong commitment is significant because pets can take some of the owners free time. Pets are masters of comfort, companionship and also love. Owners should, therefore, possess the willingness to nurture the pet. Committed individuals will always find the best food for a puppy depending on the age and stage.\nPet owners should adhere to the rules and regulations set for the ownership of this animal. This includes registering the animal with the relevant body. Also, they should adhere to the health restrictions for the animals. In case there is an immunization, the puppy owner has to take the animal for treatment to ensure both their safety and that of the pet.\nProper planning of routine activities meant for this pet is vital. This includes setting up a schedule that will be followed in handling this animal. For many people they handle this pet as part of the family and therefore any routine, they do for themselves will have to include the pets.\nGet an overview of important things to consider when choosing a dog breeder and more information about a gorgeous Cavalier King Charles Spaniels puppy for sale at http://www.cavaliercorral.com now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 24419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cbfieldstation.org/blog/category/college", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:06Z", "digest": "sha1:5NF7ANEAATMNSMMR2X7ZGVRLUPDUJTCZ", "length": 856, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cbfieldstation.org", "title": "Category: College - Chincoteague Bay Field Station", "raw_content": "Mapping the Shore\nDr. Hu of East Stroudsburg University is teaching Geographic Information Systems (GIS) during session one here at the Field Station. His students participated in the course online for the first two weeks and had the opportunity to visit the Field Station for some hands on experience for the third week of the session.\nTaylor, a senior, reflects on the course: \"During our GIS course we learned and experimented with different surveying techniques. We learned how to use different surveying equipment like the total station mirror prism, the spinning spectrum, and different GPS units. Our class went to Greenbackville to use these methods to survey the land. We took our collected field data back to our laboratory and used it to make a map of the area. 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importation of materials, machinery, and equipment\nDrafting and review of legal documents and contracts\nDue diligence audits preparatory to share purchase or acquisition of assets and real properties\nAssistance in applications for tax and other incentives with the BIR such as Tax Treaty Relief Applications (TTRA) and tax exemptions\nPreparation and filing of Requests for BIR Rulings\nPreparation, review, and filing of tax returns\nEstate planning and assistance in the settlement of estates\nRepresentation of clients before the tax authorities in the examination of their books of accounts and records, protest of tax assessments, and claim for tax refunds and/or tax credits\nAssistance in the application and processing of BIR tax clearances relative to transfer or sale of real and personal properties and changes in the registered ownership of said properties\nAdvising clients on labor matters, from hiring to termination\nPreparation and/or review of employment contracts, manuals and 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and transaction services that:\nWith a diverse background in real estate development, investment, financing and construction, Jeff brings a unique perspective to the brokerage business and the ability to customize solutions for each client\u2019s specific needs. His commitment to his clients, his diverse background and skill set, his attention to detail and his passion for the real estate business have earned him long-term relationships with leaders in the development and investment communities as well as tenants in the entertainment, technology, financial, professional services, healthcare, legal and non-profit industries.\nBoard Member, UCLA Medical Center\nBoard of Directors, Gelson\u2019s\nFounder, Los Angeles Broker Challenge\u2013One of the most popular charity events in Los Angeles for the commercial real estate industry, which has raised over $2,000,000 since inception in 1986.\nBoard of Directors, Westside Family YMCA\nSchool Founder \u2013 Pignon, Haiti\nCBRE 401(k) Advisory Committee\nFormer Board Member, CBRE Inc\nFormer Board Member, Century/Lift\nFormer Board Member, Westside Urban Forum\nFormer Board Member, Crestwood Hills Association\nFormer Board Member, Family Service of Santa Monica\nFormer Board Member, Pacific Palisades Park Advisory Committee\nJeff's CBRE career has included many notable accomplishments. He is one of CBRE's top professionals. He has been the #1 brokerage producer in the Beverly Hills/Century City office for seventeen of the past twenty-two years and the years that he wasn't number one, he was #2. 2017 marked his 23rd consecutive year as a member of the Colbert Coldwell Circle (the top three percent of company professionals). He is CBRE's youngest winner ever of the company's William H. McCarthy award for professionalism, integrity and loyalty and is a past recipient of the Los Angeles Business Journal's Broker of the Year award. He was chosen out of 40,000 employees to serve on the Board of Directors of CBRE following its acquisition of Insignia/ESG and subsequent public offering.\nMr. Pion graduated from Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii before graduating with honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara, obtaining his degree in Economics.\nHe lives in Pacific Palisades with his wife, Suzy, three sons and their dog, Hobie.\nDuring Jeff\u2019s career with CBRE, he has been involved with several major Westside property representations and transactions. Among the prominent ones:\nHercules Campus\n12100 Wilshire at Bundy\nTBWA/Chiat Day\n1900/1901 Avenue of the Stars\nWateridge\nMarina Business Center\nElement LA - Bundy & Olympic\nAboretum Gateway\nAboretum Courtyard\nCulver Studios\nWestside Towers\nCentury Park Plaza\nFox Hills Investment Co.\nBlur Studios\nVirgin Entertainment\n\"The way you guys are leasing this project, you could probably move mountains.\" Bob Flaxman, Owner/CEO, Wateridge, Crown Realty Development\n\"We are extremely pleased with the excellent professional job by you and look forward to working with you on other real estate transactions. I am confident that you are truly leaders in your industry and know you would do the same exceptional job for other companies.\" Sue Eisner, Office Manager, McDermott, Will & Emery\n\"The walls are up, the furniture is in and we are satisfied customers. I appreciate very much the care and skill you provided in what proved to be a long and difficult negotiation. I look forward to recommending you to my colleagues in the entertainment industry as well as having you represent us in the future.\" Michael V. Lewis, Vice President, Intermedia Group, Inc.\n\"Carolco retained Jeff primarily because he listened to us. The transaction could not have gone more smoothly. The lender was clearly a pro at this type of thing, as was the buyer. With Jeff we never felt that we were at a disadvantage. The playing field was clearly leveled and what could have been a nightmare ended up being a breeze. If the occasion occurs again when Carolco requires the services of a commercial real estate broker, we will not even bother to interview anyone else. In my job I deal with many outside professionals and I am willing to make that statement about only a handful.\" Robert W. Goldsmith, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Carolco Pictures, Inc.\n\"You stand out among all of the brokers as one of the most professional, honest and hard working brokers I have had the pleasure of working with.\" Richard J. Fazendin, Vice President, Director of Facilities, Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate\n\"Thanks for all the help and guidance over the past few months. We couldn't have pulled this off without you. And, in retrospect, I am really pleased that I chose you and your team to help us with this move. Not only did we get it right, it was a lot of fun to boot. Thanks to you and the whole team for making a somewhat unpleasant process very pleasant.\" Jordan Copland, Chief Financial Officer, Virgin Entertainment Group\nMr. Thomas G. Irish\nTranspacific Development Company\nMr. Todd Katz\nCentury Park Partners LLC\nMr. John Aaroe\nPrudential California Realty - John Aaroe Division\nMr. Keith Gelb\nWestbrook Partners, LLC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 342, "original_length": 11000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ccadulted.org/about-us/partners/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VRQKR6HOWKXISU2WTRSBTFSGNX3SR4DJ", "length": 1106, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.ccadulted.org", "title": "Partners | The Citrus College Adult Education Consortium", "raw_content": "The CCAEC works with a number of agencies and institutions that share the CCAEC mission and principles and participate in the consortium as non-voting members. These agencies are referred to as partners and assist the CCAEC members to achieve their goals.\nBelow are just some of the CCAEC partners with links to their websites:\nLos Angeles County Workforce\nhttp://workforce.lacounty.gov/workforce-development-board/\nFoothill Workforce Development Board\nhttp://www.fwibworks.org/\nhttp://sgvpartnership.org/\nhttp://www.monroviacc.com/\nhttp://www.cityofmonrovia.org/library\nhttp://www.chla.org/\nKaiser Permanente \u2013 Baldwin Park\nhttps://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/\nhttps://www.santa-teresita.org/\nRowland Convalescent Hospital\nhttp://rowlandconvalescent.com/\nhttps://huntingtonhealthphysicians.org/\nHuntington Family Practice\nhttp://www.huntingtonmed.com/\nhttp://www.premierpharmacyservices.com/\nEl Monte Pharmacy\nhttp://www.cdss.ca.gov/CalWORKS\n\u201cTechnical training often expands the scope of new job opportunities available to our working students.\u201d\nMark Edison, Technical Instructor, Monrovia Campus, CCAEC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1652, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ccdes.org/apps/public/news/newsView.cfm?News_ID=107", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:WE5OTQIDXO3AUTFMIWLHUNMUTR6BAFQR", "length": 576, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ccdes.org", "title": "Are You and EMT? 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A $20 fee must be paid prior to January 1, 2017 (sent to the address below) as well as the skills assessment from the college.\nFor more information, contact Richard Koch at 443-309-1125 or at rkoch10@cecil.edu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ccsubluedevils.com/sports/mbkb/2011-12/releases/20120112e5ir6c", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:03Z", "digest": "sha1:OST4C3JZZDSTOTCNXELIBLRFRSSCDL37", "length": 2776, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.ccsubluedevils.com", "title": "Blue Devils 5-0 in NEC After Road Win at Mount - CCSU", "raw_content": "Blue Devils 5-0 in NEC After Road Win at Mount\nReb: Ken Horton - 9\nAst: Kyle Vinales - 4\nPts: Kristijan Krajina - 16\nReb: Danny Thompson - 9\nAst: Julian Norfleet - 7\nThe Central Connecticut men's basketball team moved to a perfect 5-0 in Northeast Conference play with a 71-66 road victory at Mount St. Mary's on Thursday night. The win is the third straight for the Blue Devils and it pushes them to 8-7 overall on the season.\nThe 5-0 start in the league is the first for Central since the 1999-00 season, when they began league play 12-0.\nSenior Ken Horton led the offense with 23 points, and grabbed nine rebounds in the victory. Senior Robby Ptacek added 14, as did freshman Kyle Vinales.\nHorton moved into a tie for second place on the all-time scoring list with 1,731 points, just three points shy of tying and four from moving into first place all-time past Damian Johnson. Johnson's record has stood since 1993, almost 20 years.\nThe Mount led 19-13 early, and held a pair of six point leads before the break. The Blue Devils scored the final 10 points of the first half and took a 36-30 lead at the break. The 10-0 run lasted the final 2:49 of the half, and included a pair of threes by Vinales.\nHorton had 13 in the first half, including 7-of-9 from the line. The Mount held an 18-15 advantage on the boards, including 10 offensive rebounds. They had 28 of their 30 points come in the paint.\nIt was 42-34 with 15:23 left after a basket underneath by junior Joe Efese. He hit all four of his field goal attempts in the game.\nA quick 6-0 spurt, including three straight offensive rebounds, and buckets by Horton, sophomore De'Angelo Speech and Efese, made it 48-34 with under 15 minutes to play.\nBut Mount St. Mary's would come back and force a tight final seven minutes.\nThey cut it to 55-52 with an 8-0 run that took just under two minutes. They tied the game at 59-59 with 7:07 on the clock. A dunk from senior David Simmons and a running jumper from Vinales made it 63-59.\nA pair of free-throws from Horton made it 65-62 with under four minutes to play. With a three point lead, Ptacek hit a three to push the lead to six. The Mount answered with a three of their own and it was 69-66 with 1:58 to play. The Mount didn't score in the final 1:58, and the Blue Devils hit 18-of-23 at the line to secure their third straight win.\nHorton led all scorers with 23, his 41st career 20 point game. Ptacek and Vinales had 14, including the only three threes of the game for the Blue Devils. Vinales added four assists, four rebounds and three steals.\nThe Mount held a slim 32-30 advantage on the boards, but had only two offensive rebounds in the second half. 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On Monday Oct. 9, the world's largest soccer coaches' organization, United Soccer Coaches (formally known as the NSCAA), honored the Blue Devils for the 16th straight year with the Team Academic Award for earning a combined team grade point average of 3.0 or higher for the 2016-17 academic year.\nThe Blue Devils are under the direction of head coach Mick D'Arcy in his 18th season at the helm. D'Arcy, the most winningest coach in program history, praised his team and the athletic academic support staff after recieving the award, \"I'm delighted to see our student-athletes recognized for their hard work in the classroom. Special recognition should also go to our fantastic staff in the Student Athlete Academic Center especially Alicia and Inez who both do so much for our team.\"\nCCSU women's soccer combined for a cumulative 3.33 GPA for last academic year. \"Our 2016-17 team were Northeast Conference Regular Season Co-Champions. They were also ranked first in the nation (NCAA Division I) for the fewest amount of disciplinary yellow cards.\"\n\"This academic award is a terrific testament that our players fully embody the ideals of being a Student-Athlete at CCSU,\" noted D'Arcy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 332, "original_length": 8340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 174.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.celebsz.com/index.php?category=toprated&category_id=250", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:14Z", "digest": "sha1:APQ6WJI52HXXPMTPCCC2ZS4N2VJSZVGV", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.celebsz.com", "title": "Celebrity Listing - Celebsz.com - Courteney Cox", "raw_content": "Courteney Cox teases our...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 168.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cellulessouches.net/pages/world/england.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7D7N3ECLBEXEAIRM47HT3R4AUBF2EHRD", "length": 10272, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cellulessouches.net", "title": "England", "raw_content": "Click to listen to the audio\nYou are going to listen to a summary of works and discoveries made by a French Researcher and Biologist who has been working for more than fifteen years on the fabulous self-repair power that bone marrow stem cells have on our organism. The information disclosed in this CD can reveal itself fundamental for yourself or for the persons around you who might have health problems. Do not hesitate to give them the possibility to get to know what is about to be revealed to you by offering them this CD once you have listened to it. The Researcher and Biologist\u2018s works started in 2001 in the United States. At the time, he was very intrigued by the exceptional qualities of microalgae named \u201cAphanizomenon flos-aquae\u201c. The Aphanizomenon flos-aquae belong to the freshwater blue green algae family. It grows in the Klamath Lake in South Central Oregon in the United States. Klamath Lake is pure, sits in the middle of a protected Nature Reserve and its biotope is rigorously protected.\nThe Aphanizomenon flos-aquae, also called AFA, are unique algae that cannot be cultivated and can only be harvested in the Klamath Lake. The list of its benefits is so extensive that it is impossible to enumerate its entirety in this CD. The AFA contains 115 micronutrients made of trace elements, vitamins, enzymes and minerals which make it the most complete food known on earth to this day. To give you an idea about its power, only one gram per day is sufficient to feed a healthy person\u2019s cells, only a single gram per day! It has been observed that the Indians and animals living near Klamath Lake and those who consumed the algae for a long time were never sick. Others who were sick and travelled to consume the algae came back to their home in good health! Why? And how is it possible? This observation and these two questions have provoked in our Researcher and Biologist a passionate quest of knowledge. After several years, he has found answers and you will also discover why and how this algae helps our organism to self-repair.\nBut let\u2019s come back to some of the numerous virtues of these algae. In addition to rebalancing our organism with trace elements, vitamins, enzymes and minerals, the AFA possesses powerful anti-inflammatory and pain relief effects. It deeply detoxifies and cleans the intra-cellular fluid but also the extra-cellular fluid allowing itself to be a great chelator (by collecting and eliminating) heavy metals and other pollutants that unfortunately can be found in significant quantities in our organism. It also contains a lot of Phenyl ethylamine. This substance is a dopamine precursor which is, as you know, the hormone of joy, happiness, good mood, which increases in a natural way the level of anyone\u2019s wellbeing. It is also very efficient in stimulating the respiratory system, our concentration, our memory and better eyesight. Since its nutritive power is very high, a small quantity (i.e. 1 gram) can immediately create a feeling of being full and at the same time it helps people who wish to get a lighter and thinner figure. It allows fighting efficiently against addictions including the sugar-related ones.\nThe person who offered you this CD will be able to provide you with a longer list of the AFA exceptional virtues and bear in mind that with a consumption of 5 grams per day, the Aphanizomenon flos-aquae naturally stimulates the production and release of our bone marrow stem cells up to an additional 30%! And it is this particularity that is essential! In fact, every day we produce an average of about 3 million bone marrow stem cells. Taking 5gr of AFA enables us to go from 3 million to 3.9 million which means 900'000 more repairing cells every day! Therefore, it is this latest discovery that brought our Researcher and Biologist towards other works. He already knew this extraordinary particularity of the bone marrow stem cells, because it was known for a long time that bone marrow stem cells are our repairing cells \u00ab par excellence \u00bb. Why? Simply because they have an exceptional particularity, which is to be totipotent, meaning that they can potentially repair everything, transforming themselves in all types of cells that constitute our organism. It is very important to understand this basic principle as everything is based around this notion. A bone marrow stem cell can potentially repair everything in your organism because it has the ability to transform itself in any other type of cells in our body. So how does it work? Every day, our body makes about 25 million stem cells that have the mission to regenerate and self-repair our bodies; these stem cells are called \u201crepairing cells\u201c. Each one of the 500 tissues in our body will create cells. For example, the liver makes hepatocytes, the heart makes cardiomyocites, bones make ostecytes and one liver stem cell, a hepatocyte has the mission to renew or repair the liver. However it cannot repair the heart, as it is biologically impossible and vice versa. A heart stem cell cannot repair the liver or a bone, however the bone marrow stem cell can! Remember, it is totipotent: it can transform itself into all types of cells, therefore, it can become a liver as well as a heart, a bone or an eye, a lung, a kidney, a neuron, a tendon, a cartilage, a muscle, etc\u2026 etc\u2026 It can become any of them! It is also important to know another particularity which is closely related to the action of the bone marrow stem cells. When an area of the body, a tissue or an organ has a problem, an inflammation or a stress, it will send distress signals through what is called the cytokines, the same way that we would call the firemen in case of a fire or an accident by dialing 999. By means of the cytokines, our organism sends distress messages to our brain, telling it \u00abwatch out, I have a problem\u00bb and at that precise moment, our bone marrow stemcells migrating through the bone to go into the bloodstream will make their way to the sick area in order to regenerate or repair it, transforming themselves into the same type of tissue that is affected. If the problem involves the liver, the stem cells will travel to the liver and will become liver. If the problem is in the heart, they will go to the heart and will become heart and it will be the same for each of the 500 tissues that make us. To resume, the bone marrow stem-cell not only has the ability to repair everything in our organism but it also knows exactly where to go! Is it not marvellous!? Once more, we observe the sublime intelligence linked to the initial perfection of our organism and everything that is alive in general.\nClearly, all these discoveries are the subject of official publications and experiments which confirm these affirmations, of which two accounts now follow: To prove his theory, this Researcher and Biologist has asked an independent laboratory (in order to avoid being judged for his own cause), to do an experiment on 100 mice. Unfortunately, in the case of an experiment \u00ab in vivo \u00bb, we had to perform them on our friends the animals and on this occasion, we would like to pay tribute to them. This independent laboratory has provoked a hundred myocardial strokes on 100 mice and separated them into two groups of fifty. The first group received a normal diet and with the second group, they added to their diet the two molecules isolated by this biologist; out of the 115 molecules which make up the AFA, these two molecules naturally stimulate the production of bone marrow stem-cells up to 30%. 27 days later, it was observed that in the first group, only 17% survived with very little reconstruction of the ventricular tissue, therefore they were very weak mice, at a critical state; whilst with the second group, 73% of the surviving mice had a total reconstruction of the ventricular tissue, therefore they were mice in good health (there are photos to prove it). 73% of mice in good health against 17% of the mice in a critical state, knowing of course that there is not a placebo effect in animals and therefore, the difference between the two is real! However, for science this is a statement, not proof. In order to prove the role held by the bone marrow stem-cells in the reconstruction of the mice ventricular muscle, another independent laboratory also performed an immunofluorescent test. It consisted of injecting into the bone marrow of the little mice a fluorescent product. Proof is made because it can be observed that in the mice\u2019s heart area 30% of the repairing cells are fluorescents, therefore, this shows that they really come from the bone marrow.\nNow that you know the extraordinary repairing power of your 3 million bone marrow stem-cells and that this quantity does not seem sufficient in case of pathology, especially when getting older, because we produce less and less of them as the years go by. Imagine having the possibility to multiply them by two or more and to have in your organism, every day from 3 to 6,7 million little selfrepairing workers who have the ability to repair everything! Do you not think that logically positive results and even sometimes spectacular results can occur?! And all this regardless of the pathology! It is at this moment that the person who gave you this CD will become important to you. Confident of his discoveries, our Researcher and Biologist has set up a dietary supplement 100% natural which is going to stimulate the production and the release of our bone marrow stem-cells up to 224%! Every day!\nEven if some results seem magical, all this is scientific and it can be explained, as we have just done in this summary. This is why we want to specify that the dietary supplement in question does not treat anything, does not cure anything and has no therapeutic power ; it is our own bone marrow stem-cells that have this repairing potential, the product only stimulates the production and the release of our bone marrow stem-cells. In order to find answers to your questions, contact without delay the person who gave you this CD and do not hesitate to pass it on to people around you, because this simple action can change lives. We thank you for the interest that you have shown to this summary concerning the fabulous power of self-repairing bone marrow stem-cells.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 10591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chaparralhawks.com/corporate-donors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:50Z", "digest": "sha1:THU67ABDBPWZVHY5CALFMLSAVSSGSG2J", "length": 317, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.chaparralhawks.com", "title": "Corporate Donors \u2014 Chaparral Elementary School Hawks Nest - PTA / CEF", "raw_content": "Many companies play a big role in the neighborhood or cities that they operate in by funding various programs or matching their employees' contribution to local schools and institutions that depend on such funding. Here are some of those companies that have made a difference to Chaparral Elementary School this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chestercounty.com/2017/12/29/163625/kennett-library-sells-ways-lane-property-to-chatham-financial", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HMBMXPURGXVTLUQXDF5BADSKHVHEZ3U3", "length": 2269, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.chestercounty.com", "title": "Kennett Library sells Ways Lane Property to Chatham Financial | Chester County Press", "raw_content": "Kennett Library sells Ways Lane Property to Chatham Financial\nThe Kennett Library has agreed to sell a 5.2-acre property on Ways Lane to Chatham Financial. The library's Board of Trustees released a press release confirming the sale last week.\nThe sale allows the library to turn the page on a chapter in its recent history. The Ways Lane property was originally purchased in 2001 to be the site of a brand new library, but those plans did not move forward. The sale of the property now marks another important step toward the goal of constructing a new library building on a site at the intersection of State and Willow streets in downtown Kennett Square\u2014just a short distance from the current library. The library's Board of Trustees reached an agreement to purchase the Weinstein Lot from the Borough of Kennett Square earlier this year.\nThe press release stated that the sale of the Ways Lane property produced $900,000 in proceeds, and those funds will go toward building the new library. The press release thanked Chatham Financial for its generosity in paying more than the appraised value of $750,000 for the land\u2014it was a way to help jumpstart the upcoming capital campaign that the Kennett Library will undertake.\nSelling the Ways Lane property caps an extremely productive year for the library's Board of Trustees. After exploring the possibility of collaborating with Kennett Square Borough on a building that would house the library and the borough's administration, library officials instead decided to purchase the Weinstein Lot from the borough. An agreement for the sale of that property was reached in the summer. In November, voters in New Garden Township approved a referendum that establishes an annual dedicated tax that will boost revenues for the library's operations. The Board of Trustees has also been at work finalizing the design concepts for the new library, which will include a covered parking garage, an auditorium, classrooms and rooms for tutoring for the Adult Literacy Program, a maker space, and group study rooms. Library officials will continue to work with architects on finalizing the designs. A feasibility study is expected to begin in January, and then work on the next major effort\u2014a capital campaign\u2014will begin in earnest.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 205.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.christiancomicarts.com/profile/LeeWeeks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:53Z", "digest": "sha1:G5IQ22U4T6GFQ2A7JQ6IREAKKHJYV4HO", "length": 4964, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.christiancomicarts.com", "title": "Lee Weeks's Page - Christian Comic Arts Society", "raw_content": "Lee Weeks's Likes\nLee Weeks's Friends\nLee Weeks's Discussions\nStarted this discussion. Last reply by Alika Parsons Jun 16, 2013. 10 Replies 0 Likes\nThe first issue of a project I've been writing and drawing for Marvel -- Daredevil: Dark Nights #1 -- was released last week. The reason for linking to it here is hinted at in the first caption of\u2026Continue\nRegarding the holiday weekend....\nStarted this discussion. Last reply by Lee Weeks May 25, 2012. 3 Replies 0 Likes\nHere is hoping all have a wonderful holiday weekend. No, not Memorial Day (though I certainly hope that is blessed, as well), but I\u2019m referring to that other holiday that is celebrated this\u2026Continue\nThe Harbinger (book) - Is God Warning America?\nStarted this discussion. Last reply by Lee Weeks Jan 14, 2012. 2 Replies 0 Likes\nMy pastor/rabbi, Jonathan Cahn, has written a book based on a series of messages he gave in the wake of 9/11 over several years. The e-book was released in September, but the actual paperback novel\u2026Continue\nStarted this discussion. Last reply by Luis Serrano Sep 29, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes\nThis is the most powerful presentation of the Holocaust/abortion argument I've ever seen... http://youtu.be/7y2KsU_dhwI It's from Ray Comfort's \"Living\u2026Continue\nLee Weeks has not received any gifts yet\nLee Weeks's Page\nGod's Word, sharing the gospel, art, music, and sleight of hand prestidigitation.\nPossession of Yeshua Messiah, Jesus Christ...bought and paid for in full by His blood (Gal 3:13, 1 Peter 1:18-19, Rev 5:9). The years spent running from Jesus in pursuit of selfish ambitions and sinfulness He used to turn my life upside down, bringing me to my knees in surrender to His Lordship. Where I once wondered where the evidence for God was gave way to being able to see nothing _but_ evidence for Him (Rom 1:20).\nJesus said, \"you must be born again.\" (John 3:7)\nThe hope of my heart is that however many years He should grant me be lived in a way that continually say, \"thank you.\"\nthe one that's in God's will\nyou know ... the usual suspects\nLee Weeks's Photos\nLee Weeks's Videos\nThe Baby God\nAdded by Lee Weeks 1 Comment 0 Likes\nLee Weeks's Blog\nGood Friday...evil Friday\nThe ultimate expression of each existing in the same moment. But how? The ultimate act of evil - the murder of the only sinless man \u2013 Israel\u2019s Messiah and God\u2019s Son \u2013 seen in the cross. The ultimate act of good - God offering Himself up in the person of Yeshua\u2026\nAt 1:31am on December 23, 2010, Roland Mann said\u2026\nHey Lee! Great seeing you here!\nAt 10:33am on June 14, 2010, Hal Jones said\u2026\nHey, Lee. I've been aware of, and impressed by, your work since the early 90's. There was a Captain America/Ghost Rider crossover you did that particularly sits out in my mind. I love your style of art, it's classic.\nLooking forward to seeing you around the board in here.\nAt 1:52pm on May 5, 2010, Eric Jansen said\u2026\nHi Lee! Welcome to CCAS! (I'm a little late with that, I guess! : )\nJust picked up your CAPTAIN MARVEL trade--you did really nice work!\nAt 6:55am on February 15, 2010, southpawdoesart said\u2026\nApparently I never said hello... my apologies. Hello Lee. Hope you enjoy the site.\nAt 9:07am on October 20, 2009, Bob Luedke said\u2026\nI don't think this site is really set up for much live interaction..at least not yet. But the more stuff you post, the more activity you'll generate. So it's kind of a passive site where you have to make the first move.\nwww.headpress.info\nHey, Lee Welcome! Been a big fan of your work since back in the 90's Marvel stuff. Would love to collaborate on a project sometime.\nR. J. Luedke\nAt 5:47pm on October 14, 2009, Calvary Comics said\u2026\nFor those who aren't aware, Lee Weeks was honored in a MODERN MASTERS volume published by TwoMorrows in which he shares his artistic journey from student life in the early 1980s to his professional comics career which began in mid-decade and continues to this day, chiefly for Marvel, but also for DC, Dark Horse, and other publishers. Best of all, he shares in this book of how he came to know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Saviour.\nLee and I have been friends since 1983. Welcome to the CCAS site/board/forum, Lee!\nAt 7:32pm on October 12, 2009, Matt Baker said\u2026\nHi Lee, love your style. I don't have a lot of comics you've drawn, but my favourite is Gambit #1, I think you drew it in 1992 or something. Great art. What are you drawing recently?\ni'm an Illustrator working in Australia, hoping to go to the San Diego Con next year. You going to that at all? It would be nice to meet you.\nMatt Baker.\nAt 4:01pm on October 11, 2009, Scott A. Shuford said\u2026\nWelcome aboard! I'm Scott A. Shuford, one of the CCAS Board members. I want to stop in and say thanks for being involved with CCAS!\nWe are looking for someone to serve as the prayer coordinator for the group. We are also looking for writers who would like to interview industry people and write up articles for us. If either of those tug on your heart, then please contact me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 9428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.christilling.de/blog/2009/11/americas-next-top-model-shock.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:CROQDHVTRAE5POM7LAF6BRT53W6JFJC2", "length": 225, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.christilling.de", "title": "Chrisendom: America's Next Top Model Shock", "raw_content": "At 11/10/2009 12:31 AM, Jim said...\nmy very shocked response...\nhttp://jwest.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/some-things-are-wrong-some-things-are-very-wrong-and-some-things-are-really-very-wrong/\nAt 11/10/2009 1:03 AM, mike said...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 83123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 148.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.churchatthelake.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UP6SYGHXYURXZJSVSVNHF4MDAQ4SM6UY", "length": 5956, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.churchatthelake.org", "title": "Church at the Lake UCC - Marblehead OH", "raw_content": "Come be amazed! Discover, think, feel, and find a generous welcome here! We are a block off the Lake. Here we value thoughtful service expressed in candor and faithfulness. We are the Marblehead First United Church of Christ. Lets get to know each other, worship, and visit a bit over a cup of coffee.\nJoin us Sunday at 10:30 a.m.\nChurch Phone 419-798-4612 Rev. Kay\u2019s Home Phone 419-333-0433\nEmail: mooneyfarm@cros.net .\nYou are welcome to call Rev. Kay at the church or at home anytime.\nIf a level 2 or 3 snow emergency is in effect for Ottawa County as of 7:00 a.m. on any Sunday morning\nthroughout the winter, church services will be canceled. Please check local news for declaration.\nThoughts by Lauren Dow Wenger\nWhen I was a teenager, my grandfather died rather suddenly. It was the first major death in my life and remains one of my most emotional memories.\nThinking back to that time in my life, and to the emotional and spiritual development at constant work in a teenager\u2019s heart and mind, I realize that Grandpa\u2019s death forced me, for the first time, to reconcile my faith and my understanding of God with the very real experience of loss and grief. I was face to face with the death of someone real, someone I dearly loved, and I didn\u2019t quite know what to make of it all.\nRiding in the hearse on the drive to the cemetery for Grandpa\u2019s burial, I remember looking out the window at the cars next to us. I remember the jarring thought that occurred to me: Everyone else is going about their day. And yet my world has been completely changed and will never be the same again. I couldn\u2019t quite fathom how all of us could exist at the same time in the same place when our experiences that day were so very different.\nOf course, as a teenager, I was only really thinking about my own experience. Today, my awareness has expanded to recognize that each person around me was also carrying their own griefs and fears and worries. But the fact remains that I was sitting in a hearse with my family, about to bury my grandfather, and the rest of the world was going about its business. It felt like we, the people of God, were all disconnected and separated from each other.\nIn Luke, before Jesus preaches the Beatitudes he comes down with the disciples and stands \u201con a level place.\u201d This Sermon on the Plain is set in a different context than Matthew\u2019s Sermon on the Mount, and place matters here. Jesus comes down and stands in the midst of those who have come to be healed and those who are troubled. He comes to a level place to bring the kingdom of God to those who are gathered. There is no space between those who suffer and those who rejoice; we all receive the gift of the one who brings God\u2019s kingdom, and we are receiving it in the same place\u2014a level place.\nWhen Jesus comes to a level place, we find ourselves leveled out. No longer do we grieve alone, or stress alone, or worry alone. No longer do we celebrate alone or rejoice alone. When Jesus comes to a level place, he comes to level us with God\u2019s kingdom and to level us with one another.\nThis is both a comfort and a challenge.\nBy overturning the world\u2019s ideas and expressions of strength, by lifting up the lowly and bowed down, Jesus levels us out. In the words of Nadia Bolz-Weber, \u201c[Jesus] was God\u2019s Beatitude\u2014God\u2019s blessing to the weak in a world that admires only the strong.\u201d Jesus physically and verbally levels with us in the Beatitudes, and in this leveling out, our lives are never the same. We are not alone in our experiences and needs, and we cannot leave others alone in theirs.\nWhen we look out the windows of our suffering and feel that we are alone, Jesus promises that we are never forgotten by him, nor do we live this life apart from each other. As the kingdom of God comes to us directly through Jesus, we are bound to one another in his grace, leveled out and loved.\nHandicap accessible restrooms are located in the basement. Elevator is available.\nWe look forward to visitors! We have a regular congregation of the faithful. 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Shops and the City Evidence on Local Externalities and Local Government Policy from Big-Box Bankruptcies\u2217\n2. Can Brazil overcome economic malaise and scandal?\nAbstract:

Brazil's economic malaise and corruption scandals present significant challenges to President Dilma Rousseff's ability to govern, just four months into her second four year term. Latin America's largest economy is rediscovering that stimulating growth and creating jobs requires controlling government spending, increasing trade, and attracting investment by adopting a host of free market reforms. The United States and Brazil should jump start efforts to improve their commercial and diplomatic relations to bolster economic development in a region crucial to both countries.

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In US education, with all its rich human dynamics, what matters is not whether a reform is attempted, but rather how it is executed. The states, given their sufficient control over schools and colleges and their proximity to their communities, are in a far better position than the federal government to effectively execute policies. Although many education reform efforts have fallen flat over the years, there are promising initiatives on the horizon that state leaders would be well-advised to pursue. Governors and legislators are right to look for strategies that can provide the highest-quality education to the largest number of students. In pre-K, state leaders have a rare opportunity to build a system from the ground up; in K-12, they have the chance to remove barriers to give more freedom to teachers and parents; and in higher education, they have the opportunity to look beyond the existing system to create new, more affordable postsecondary options that allow more flexibility for students and innovation for course providers.

\n4. Strategic perspectives on the bioterrorism threat\nAbstract:

One of the recommendations of the 9-11 Commission was that Congress focus on the danger of weapons of mass destruction proliferating to terrorist groups. So in 2007 Congress created a Commission to study the danger and report on measures that could be taken to minimize it. I was asked to co-chair the Commission with Senator Bob Graham of Florida. There were a total of nine members on our bi-partisan Commission. Shortly after our Commission was formed, we met with Senator Harry Reid at his request. Senator Reid explained his interest in the subject of our work, and encouraged us to highlight clearly those aspects of the WMD terrorism threat which we believed were the most significant; he urged us in the strongest terms to tell us what we thought Congress most needed to know about the danger. We did so in a Report released at the end of 2008 called \"World at Risk.\"

\n5. Cyber surveillance regulations: Is the United States asking China to accept a double standard?\nAbstract:

China's proposed counterterrorism law, which applies to all information technology (IT) companies operating in China, and US \"legal-intercept\" regulations, which govern all IT companies operating in the United States, are officially acknowledged frameworks to counter terrorist and criminal behavior. Despite the similarities in these regulations, President Obama has criticized China's law. The US must prepare to see practices that it has already adopted become prevalent elsewhere or be ready to modify US surveillance behaviors that US authorities do not want to see spreading around the globe.

\n6. High costs, uncertain benefits: What do Americans without a college degree think about postsecondary education?\nAbstract:

Many adults without a college degree aspire to some higher credential, but most overestimate the cost of higher education, which could deter them from furthering their education. Many adults without a degree in our survey were uncertain as to the wage returns to different postsecondary pathways. Those who did offer estimates tend to see the bachelor's degree as the most valuable credential and certificates as the least valuable. Adults without a postsecondary degree do not always see the value in returning to school, and efforts to encourage education and training should clarify the benefits to various postsecondary pathways.

\n7. The Political Economy of TTIP: The View from the United States\nAbstract:

In April of 2015, AEIs Claude Barfield authored a preliminary paper entitled The Political Economy OF TTIP: The View from the United States. The paper was presented at UC Berkeleys conference, The Political Economy of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Origins, Evolution, and Implications, with the aim of providing a set of hypotheses regarding the immediate US trade agenda. The paper raises more questions than it answers, at a time when it is particularly challenging to render judgment on this agenda./p\n8. The Growing Cyberthreat from Iran: The Initial Report of Project Pistachio Harvest\nAbstract:

Malicious Iranian cyber activity has increased significantly since the beginning of 2014. Data collected by AEI and the Norse Corporation indicate that attacks launched from Iranian Internet protocol (IP) addresses increased 128 percent between January 1, 2014, and mid-March 2015. The number of Norse sensors hit by Iranian IPs rose by 229 percent, while the number of distinct IPs used to execute these attacks rose by 508 percent. Iranian companies are renting and buying IT resources in the West, despite sanctions. Hundreds of thousands of domains registered to Iranian people or companies are hosted by companies in the US, Canada, and Europe as a result of Western failures to enforce IT sanctions and regulations governing technology transfers. Some of these resources are then used to conduct cyberattacks on America and its allies. The Islamic Republic is using networks within Iran to conduct sophisticated cyberattacks. Investigations have uncovered efforts launched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Sharif University of Technology to infiltrate US systems. The technical nature of the attacks makes it more likely that Iran's cyber capabilities are expanding and could pose a risk to US critical infrastructure.

\n9. American Enterprise Institute Compilation, Public Opinion on Hillary Clinton, 1992-2015\nAbstract:

For many years, we have reviewed polls about leading political figures, including Hillary Clinton. For this AEI Public Opinion Study, we have examined almost 5,000 questions asked about her and compiled views on Clinton as a first lady, senator, presidential candidate, and secretary of state. Polling data on Hillary Clinton include several long trends, including ratings of her favorability. The first such questions about her were asked in early 1992, when many people knew little about her. In Gallups trend, her favorable rating hit 51 percent in July 1992 after the Democratic convention. Gallup noted that the campaigns effort to improve her image had paid off. She did not receive a post-election bounce as Bill Clinton did, and Gallup reported that her favorable ratings had dipped slightly. Gallup noted that 26 percent of both men and women said they were worried that she would play too large a role in the administration. Forty percent in a November 1992 poll said she came closer to their own views than previous First Ladies, but 40 percent said she did not. Her marks went down in the 1994 to1996 period, hitting an all-time low of 43 percent in January 1996 (Gallup). During her Senate tenure, her national favorable ratings ranged from a low of 43 percent to a high of 58 percent. Her national favorable ratings when she served as Secretary of State were consistently high, though they have declined slightly since she resigned from office. Without a doubt, questions specific to the issues in the presidential race will emerge in the polling data as the race to 2016 heats up, and Americans views of Hillary Clinton will evolve as the presidential election season progresses. See the latest public opinion data on her in AEIs infographic and Public Opinion Study, Public Opinion on Hillary Clinton, 1992-2015./p\n10. AEI Political Report: Are we safer?\nAbstract:

Do Americans feel less threatened by terrorism now than they did when President Obama took office? The April issue of AEI's Political Report compares public opinion on the George W. Bush and Obama administrations' handling of terrorism, assesses how much terrorism concerns Americans, and assesses Americans' opinions on how the United States should respond to the threat of ISIS. This issue also examines public opinion on taxes, and where slight shifts have begun to emerge in the polls.

/p p/p\n11. Securing the border: Defining the current population living in the shadows and addressing future flows\nAbstract:

Chairman Johnson, Senator Carper, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to appear here today to discuss unauthorized immigration to the United States and guest worker programs. In the testimony that follows, I will first discuss why people become unauthorized immigrants. I will then discuss what we know about unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. labor market. At the end, I will discuss how future guest worker programs can affect immigration flows and the U.S. economy.

\n12. States of change: The demographic evolution of the American electorate, 1974\u00e2\u20ac\u201c2060\nAbstract:

The States of Change: Demographics and Democracy project is a collaboration supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation that brings together the Center for American Progress, the American Enterprise Institute, and demographer William H. Frey of the Brookings Institution. The projects goals are: To document and analyze the challenges to democracy posed by the rapid demographic evolution from the 1970s to 2060 To project the race-ethnic composition of every state to 2060, which has not been done for 20 years To promote a wide-ranging and bipartisan discussion of Americas demographic future and what it portends for the nations political parties and policy This report presents the first tranche of findings from this projectincluding detailed analyses on the nation as a whole and on every statewhich we hope will both inform and provoke discussion. We outline 10 broad trends from our findings that together suggest the scale of the transformation our country is living through and the scope of the challenges it will face in the future. These changes admit to a wide variety of interpretations, and as with any report as extensive as this one, it should not be surprising that there are some differences in interpretation among the participating institutions. We believe, however, that differing interpretations are to be welcomed and that they will be useful in stimulating discussion both within and outside our project on the implications of demographic change./p\n13. AEI Special Poll Report: Public Opinion on Abortion\nAbstract:

In the 42 years since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade (1973), pollsters have asked hundreds of questions about abortion. This AEI Special Poll Report, excerpted from our long AEI Public Opinion Study Attitudes About Abortion, covers some of the highlights.

\n14. Too small, not ready: Building the defense budget in the face of crises in military capacity and readiness\nAbstract:

Testimony of Thomas Donnelly, Co-Director, Marilyn Ware Center for Security Studies, American Enterprise Institute

\n15. Yemen's Pivotal Moment\nAuthor: Katherine Zimmerman\nAbstract: Yemen is at a pivotal moment today, three years after the outbreak of popular protests, and the future of America's strategy against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is on the line. Yemen is in the midst of a political transition process that will eventually reform and decentralize the government. But the success of the effort is by no means assured. The reforms will not, in any case, address the deteriorating socioeconomic conditions that provide fertile ground for al Qaeda. Moreover, the central state, never fully able to exercise its sovereignty throughout the country, is weaker than it was before 2011. Opposition groups, which have turned to violence in the past, may still seek to form independent states of their own, potentially collapsing the fragile Yemeni state structure entirely. American interests are bound up in this process by the fact that AQAP is among the most virulent al Qaeda affiliates that poses a direct threat to the U.S. homeland. Syria, Iran, and other foreign and domestic policy issues are distracting the United States and its regional partners from sustained engagement in Yemen. Without international support, the country is much less likely to ride this transition process smoothly and our security interests will be severely harmed.\nTopic: Islam, Terrorism, Armed Struggle, Insurgency, Governance\n16. China's economic reform plan will probably fail\nAbstract: Reactions to the Chinese Communist Party's announcement of major economic reforms in November have ranged from unbridled optimism to skepticism about the party's ability to implement sweeping change. In fact, the reforms themselves are flawed in multiple ways-most are inauthentic, uncredible, or nonviable. However, the areas of land and finance offer more limited prospects for true reform. The primary means of judging reform progress should be progress in reducing excess capacity. The most likely outcome is that the party will claim success but the economy will slowly stagnate, harming China's partners.\n18. The Shi'ites of the Middle East: An Iranian fifth column?\nAuthor: Michael Rubin, Ahmad Khalid Majidyar\nAbstract: Shi'ism has a public relations problem, at least, in the United States. Most Americans formed their perception of Shi'ism not by reading its rich internal debates or exploring its diversity and cultural heritage, but rather by seeing Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini lead chants of \"Death to America\" after the 1979 Iranian revolution and Iranian hostage takers scaling embassy walls and then parading blindfolded, abused diplomats on television. Less than four years later, Shi'ite operatives in Lebanon rammed a truck bomb into the headquarters of US Marines serving as peacekeepers in Beirut, killing 241 in an incident that propelled suicide terrorism to the forefront of the American conscience.\n19. Khamenei's team of rivals: Iranian decision-making, June-July 2014\nAuthor: Frederick W. Kagan\nAbstract: Iran's national security decision-making process is not remotely as opaque as it sometimes appears. The recent crisis in Iraq and the nuclear negotiations in Geneva have opened a fascinating window into the efforts of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to bring rival groups within his government together behind a single set of policies. He appears to have been remarkably successful in mediating tensions between President Hassan Rouhani and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps senior leaders. They have come together, at least for the moment, behind a coherent set of strategies for dealing with a number of thorny problems in Iraq, the nuclear negotiations, and even economic reforms. It remains to be seen if these accommodations will survive the current crisis, of course, but the success of Khamenei's efforts so far is impressive.\nTopic: Security, Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, Nuclear Weapons, Politics, Governance, Nuclear Power\n20. Getting it right: US national security policy and al Qaeda since 2011\n21. Vladimir Putin's long\u2014and very dangerous\u2014game\nAbstract: Vladimir Putin is exploiting the Ukrainian revolution-specifically, by manufacturing \"crises\" in Crimea and eastern Ukraine and nationalist euphoria and anti-Western paranoia at home-to fashion a more repressive and increasingly unpredictable Russian dictatorship for life. With the Russian economy heading for recession, the Putin regime's popularity largely depends on Russia's foreign policy successes, which Putin hopes to achieve by humiliating, destabilizing, and eventually derailing Ukraine; by cajoling the West into rejecting sanctions against Russia; and by fueling Russian patriotism. The West should, in an effort spearheaded by the United States, aim its sanctions at increasing the costs of the regime's malignant transformation rather than simply attempting to dissuade Moscow from further action in eastern Ukraine.\nTopic: International Law, Sovereignty, Territorial Disputes, Governance\n22. To secure southern border, US must lead international effort to stabilize Central America\nAuthor: Roger F. Noriega, Jos\u00e9 R. C\u00e1rdenas\nAbstract: The recent influx of illegal Central American immigrants (including a surge of unaccompanied minors) into the United States stems in part from violent, sophisticated drug trafficking operations in those nations and governments that are either unwilling or unprepared to confront organized crime. These operations are not only driving many more immigrants to the United States but also threatening US national security. Investing additional money in fences and border patrol agents alone will not solve US illegal immigration problems. Short-term steps for the US should include thwarting human smuggling, addressing human rights and refugee concerns before people abandon their countries, and mobilizing international cooperation and funding. To address immigration and security problems in the long term, a US-led multinational initiative is needed to better equip Central American governments to confront criminal organizations and drug trafficking and to hold corrupt officials accountable.\nTopic: Narcotics Trafficking, Immigration, Border Control, Reform\nPolitical Geography: Central America\n23. Chinese global investment growth pauses\nAbstract: Chinese foreign investment declined through mid-2014 for the first time since the financial crisis. By sector, energy draws the most investment, but a slump in energy spending means that metals and real estate have been more prominent so far in 2014. The United States has received the most Chinese investment since 2005, followed by Australia, Canada, and Brazil. China invests first in large, resource-rich nations but has also diversified by spending more than $200 billion elsewhere. Chinese investment benefits both China and the recipient nation, but host countries must consider thorny issues like Chinese cyberespionage and subsidies.\nTopic: Economics, Human Rights, International Trade and Finance, Terrorism, Foreign Direct Investment\nPolitical Geography: United States, China, Canada, Asia, Brazil, Australia\n24. China's frail historical claims to the South China and East China Seas\nAuthor: J. Bruce Jacobs\nAbstract: China has recently attempted to use military force to back up alleged historical claims to the South China Sea and East China Sea; however, upon closer examination, the claims do not hold up. China's belligerent attempts to enforce its claims in the South and East China Seas endanger peace in Asia. China appears unlikely to accept any reasonable proposals that respect history and geography. Southeast Asian nations and other interested countries, like the United States and Australia, must maintain a military presence to deter Chinese aggression while attempting to negotiate a peaceful settlement with China.\nTopic: International Law, Sovereignty, History, Territorial Disputes, Governance\nPolitical Geography: United States, China, Asia, Australia, East China, South China\n25. A strong and focused national security strategy\nAuthor: Jon Kyl, Jim Talent\nAbstract: When President Obama took office, the armed services of the United States had already reached a fragile state. The Navy had shrunk to its smallest size since before World War I; the Air Force was smaller, and its aircraft older, than at any time since the inception of the service. The Army was stressed by years of war; according to Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, it had been underfunded before the invasion of Iraq and was desperately in need of resources to replace its capital inventory.\nTopic: Defense Policy, Economics, Politics, War\n26. Preserving the military health care benefit: Needed steps for reform\nAuthor: John L. Kokulis\nAbstract: The rise in military health care spending has been a primary driver of the large growth in military personnel compensation over the past decade. Left unchecked, these costs will impact the ability of the DoD's Military Health System (MHS) to support its three critical missions: 1. Readiness for deployment: Maintaining an agile, fully deployable medical force and a health care delivery system so they are capable of providing state-of-the-art health services anytime, anywhere; 2. Readiness of the fighting force: Helping commanders create and sustain the most healthy and medically prepared fighting forces anywhere; and 3. The benefits mission: Providing long-term health coaching and health care for 9.7 million DoD beneficiaries.\nTopic: Defense Policy, Economics, Health, Governance\n27. Falling short: How bad economic choices threaten the US-India relationship and India's rise\nAuthor: Aparna Mathur, Sadanand Dhume, Julissa Milligan, Hemal Shah\nAbstract: Two decades after the end of the Cold War, US\u2013India relations stand at a crossroads. Not so long ago, many in Washington viewed the signing of the historic US\u2013India civil nuclear deal as the advent of a dynamic partnership with the potential to transform Asia and the world. Today US\u2013India ties are just as often characterized as unrealistic or oversold.\nTopic: Democratization, Development, Diplomacy, Emerging Markets, International Trade and Finance, Treaties and Agreements, Bilateral Relations\nPolitical Geography: United States, South Asia, Washington, India\n28. The al Qaeda network: A new framework for defining the enemy\nAbstract: The failure to define al Qaeda properly has confused American policy and strategy. The enemy was not just the man shot dead on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, nor is it the 1.5 billion Muslims for whom Osama bin Laden claimed to speak.\nTopic: Political Violence, Defense Policy, Islam, Terrorism, War, Armed Struggle, Counterinsurgency\n29. Underserved: A Case Study of ROTC in New York City\nAbstract: The military-civilian disconnect has been a source of increasing concern over the last few decades. National security leaders\u2014including the commander in chief, President Barack Obama\u2014have warned that many Americans are unaware of the military's sacrifices and its growing sense of isolation from wider society. In remarks at Duke University in September 2010, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates identified this issue as the \u201cnarrow sliver\u201d problem, reflecting on both the achievements of America's all-volunteer force and the challenges it now faces.\nTopic: Defense Policy, Education, Terrorism, War\nPolitical Geography: New York, America\n30. Western Aid: The Missing Link for North Korea's Economic Revival?\nAbstract: As the leadership of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (hereafter DPRK, or North Korea) looks to the future, economic development figures centrally in its officially proclaimed agenda. This year, as it has done every year over the past decade, the government's joint New Year editorial stressed the imperative of economic construction, broadly outlining the sorts of improvements that are to be achieved over the remainder of the current calendar year, and intoned that \"The present grand onward march for the improvement of the people's standard of living demands that a full-scale offensive be launched in the overall economic front.\" But economic growth and development has just taken on a whole new importance in North Korean policy, one that extends beyond rhetoric: this past January, for the first time in over two decades, Pyongyang has formally unveiled a new multi-year economic plan: a 10-year \"strategy plan for economic development\" under a newly formed State General Bureau for Economic Development. The new economic plan is intended not only to meet the DPRK's longstanding objective of becoming a \"powerful and prosperous country\" [Kangsong Taeguk] by 2012 (the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung), but also to promote North Korea to the ranks of the \"advanced countries in 2020.\"\nTopic: Development, Economics, Foreign Aid\nPolitical Geography: Israel, South Korea, North Korea\n31. World Population Prospects and the Global Economic Outlook\nAbstract: This paper examines global demographic prospects to the year 2030 and assesses the influence that impending population trends may have upon economic performance in coming years for the world as a whole and the major regional economies. A reasonably reliable assessment of prospective global trends to 2030 is feasible today because the overwhelming majority of people who will be living in that future world are already here, alive today. This includes all of that future world's senior citizens and almost its entire workforce. Major changes in global population trends are in the offing--among these, a sharp slowdown in the growth of available manpower, with impending declines of manpower for some regions, and pervasive population aging. Furthermore, in many of today's important \"emerging markets\" demographic pressures may constrain economic growth more significantly than is currently appreciated. Coping with these looming demographic realities will require far-reaching reforms and innovations if we hope to maintain the pre-crisis tempo of global economic growth (much less accelerate it).\nTopic: Demographics, Development, Economics, Emerging Markets, Poverty\n32. Al Qaeda's Operating Environments: A New Approach to The War on Terror\nAuthor: Charlie Szrom, Chris Harnisch\nAbstract: The environment in which an al Qaeda affiliate operates is one of the most important factors in assessing the threat it poses to US interests. Defeating the militant Islamist network led by al Qaeda requires a nuanced strategy that supports the appropriate combination and prioritization of policies and approaches for each environment in which an al Qaeda affiliate or franchise operates. The US government has not articulated such a strategy, a deficiency that acquires urgency because terrorist groups based abroad have been linked to three attacks against the American homeland in the past year. Building a strategy to oppose the al Qaeda network requires detailed understanding of its different operating environments, the ties between its various parts, and how territory affects its vitality. A comprehensive strategy should deny the al Qaeda network access to operating environments from which it can pose a major threat to the United States and the West.\nTopic: Defense Policy, Islam, Terrorism, Armed Struggle, Counterinsurgency\n33. Are Drugs Made in Emerging Markets Good Quality? A Preliminary Assessment of Product Consistency by Use of Raman Spectra\nAuthor: Roger Bate\nAbstract: Increasing competition generally decreases product prices. But in the case of pharmaceuticals, this is only beneficial if competitor products are therapeutically equivalent (bioequivalent). One measure of quality control is a consistently made product, examined in detail in this paper. A comprehensive study of drug samples in African and Asian countries--assessed for variability by spectrometer--suggests that registered products perform notably better than unregistered products. As all of the sampled drugs are used to treat potentially lethal infections, this product variability (particularly of unregistered drugs) could prove detrimental to public health. Future analysis will assess how significant these spectral differences are in terms of drug quality and hence how important changes in policy should be to limit quality variability.\nTopic: Emerging Markets, Health, Human Welfare, International Trade and Finance\nPolitical Geography: Africa, China, Asia\n34. Defining Success in Afghanistan\nAuthor: Frederick W. Kagan, Kimberly Kagan\nAbstract: Success in Afghanistan is the establishment of a political order, security situation, and indigenous security force that is stable, viable, enduring, and able\u2014with greatly reduced international support\u2014to prevent Afghanistan from being a safe haven for international terrorists. The current American and Coalition strategy is making progress and should be continued. Since President Obama, NATO allies, and the Afghans have agreed that troops will be present in Afghanistan through 2014, the policy does not require substantial modifications at this point. This paper is thus primarily a report on the current situation in Afghanistan and a consideration of some of the prospects and challenges ahead. Our principal recommendation is that the U.S. and its allies should continue to resource and sustain the strategy now being executed, which is the only approach that can secure their vital national security interests in Afghanistan.\nTopic: Conflict Resolution, Security, War\nPolitical Geography: Afghanistan, America\n35. Putting the \"Kerala Model\" to Rest: Lessons for a New Era of Development in India\nAuthor: Apoorva Shah\nAbstract: In a country where two out of five citizens, about 450 million people, live in poverty, it is no exaggeration to say that the development experience of Kerala \u2013 a coastal state on the southwestern tip of India \u2013 stands out as extraordinary. Despite a history of anemic economic growth, this state of 32 million boasts effectively universal literacy rates and life expectancy levels close to many Western societies. Because of this, the \u201cKerala model\u201d has been hailed by NGOs, development experts, and Western academics as an alternative path for human development in which a robust welfare system rather than economic growth drives social progress.\nTopic: Development, Economics, Emerging Markets, Poverty\nPolitical Geography: South Asia, India, Kerala\n36. Why Tocqueville on China?\n37. Addressing Corruption in Haiti\nAuthor: Robert Klitgaard\nAbstract: In the aftermath of the disastrous earthquake of January 12, 2010, Haiti will receive unprecedented aid for reconstruction and for its promising economic strategy. But given the country's legacy of corruption, massive aid could simply result in another massive Haitian failure. Success hinges on facing corruption squarely and developing a hard-headed, politically sensitive anticorruption strategy. How this could be done, given Haiti's realities and lessons from fighting corruption around the world, is the subject of this paper.\nTopic: Corruption, Development, Foreign Aid, Governance\n38. Export Control Reform 2010: Transforming the Legal Architecture of Dual-Use and Defense Trade Controls\nAuthor: Neena Shenai\nAbstract: This paper proposes reforms to the legal framework of the U.S. export control system. By examining the existing legal structure of dual-use and defense trade controls and its shortcomings, the paper considers how other U.S. legal regimes could provide models for ongoing reform efforts being undertaken by the Obama Administration and Congress. The paper proposes certain reforms, including the institution of added administrative safeguards and limited judicial review, to improve the current system.\nTopic: Foreign Policy, International Trade and Finance, Political Economy\n39. A Nation at War, an Administration in Retreat: An Assessment of the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review and the FY 2011 Defense Budget\nAuthor: Thomas Donnelly, Tim Sullivan\nAbstract: The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Report (QDR) and the Fiscal Year 2011 defense budget proposal reveal a critical contradiction at the heart of the Obama Administration's national security policy. As the second sentence of the QDR states, \"first and foremost, the United States is a nation at war.\" But the remainder of the report and, more importantly, the long-term budget, reflect an administration more interested in ending wars than winning them, and prepared to defer the modernization of the military resources necessary to maintain American leadership in the face of emerging threats. AEI's Center for Defense Studies (CDS) has developed a presentation, narrated by CDS director Tom Donnelly, assessing the key shortfalls of the QDR and the administration's defense budget proposal.\nTopic: Political Economy, Politics, War\n40. The Russian Federation in an Era of Demographic Crisis: The Special Challenges of Population Aging and Social Security Policy\nAbstract: Like much of the world, Russia has been in the midst of a serious economic crisis since the late summer of 2008. Although the worst appears to be over, Russia will continue to feel its effects longer than many other industrialized countries, largely because of a rigid economy burdened with an overweening state role. The recognition that Russia faces serious long-term challenges has emboldened President Dmitry Medvedev and others to call for far-reaching economic restructuring. If successful, their economic policies could undermine the semi-authoritarian, state- capitalist model developed under Prime Minister and former president Vladimir Putin. Although concrete reforms have so far been limited, Medvedev's demands for change (seconded in some cases by Putin) have acquired increasing momentum in recent months. The speed of Russia's recovery and obstacles along the way will play a major role in determining both the success of Medvedev's call for modernization and the course of Russia's foreign policy since a quicker recovery would diminish the pressure for fundamental reform and lessen the need for caution internationally.\nTopic: Demographics, Human Welfare, Population\n41. Chinese Nongovernmental Organizations: Politics by Other Means?\nAuthor: Amy E. Gadsden\nAbstract: Fifteen years ago, international aid agencies interested in doing development projects in China would begin their efforts with a fairly predictable series of meetings. A delegation from the organization would arrive in Beijing to meet with embassy officials, Chinese ministry officials, and the same small band of Chinese and foreign development experts who pioneered work in the late 1980s and 1990s in areas such as commercial law reform and rural development.\nPolitical Geography: China, Beijing\n42. Rethinking HIV/AIDS in South Africa: Has Response Been Overmedicalized?\nAuthor: Nicholas Eberstadt, Laura M. Kelley\nAbstract: This paper examines the potential impact of HIV/AIDS on different levels of South African society (individual, household, and national) over time. Using differences in demographic projections to guide the analysis, the prospective implications of HIV/AIDS on households, society, economy and nation are discussed and issues that could influence or mitigate those possible impacts are examined. We outline the challenges that South Africa will likely face due to the effects of its AIDS-related excess mortality and conclude that programs delivering a broader variety of services than are currently offered are needed for South Africa to emerge a prosperous, regional power by mid-century. Inadequacies of current HIV/AIDS relief programs are broadly considered and suggestions are offered for improvement. We argue that a fundamental shift in the focus of HIV/AIDS strategies to include consideration of the needs of the survivors of this pandemic, and the world they will live in, is urgently necessary.\n43. Security in the Indo-Pacific Commons\nAuthor: Michael Auslin\nAbstract: Ensuring security in the Indo-Pacific region will be the primary foreign policy challenge for the United States and liberal nations over the next generation. Doing so successfully will provide the greatest economic and political opportunities for the next quarter century. Conversely, a failure to maintain stability, support liberal regimes, create cooperative regional relations, and uphold norms and standards of international behavior will lead to a region, and world, of greater uncertainty, insecurity, and instability. Due to its economic strength, military power, and political dynamism, the Indo-Pacific will be the world's most important region in coming decades, and its significance will be felt throughout the globe. Since the end of World War II, it has transformed itself into the world's economic powerhouse, yet has also witnessed a struggle between tides of liberalism, authoritarianism, and even totalitarianism. It remains riven by distrust, territorial disputes, ethnic tensions, and painful historical memories. The Indo-Pacific's unique geography makes the balance of regional security most vulnerable in its \"commons\": the open seas, air lanes, and cyber networks that link the region together and to the world.\nTopic: Security, Development, Emerging Markets, Governance\nPolitical Geography: United States, China, India, Australia/Pacific\n44. Deter and Assure: Charting a Course for America's Asian Alliances in a New Nuclear Age\nAbstract: As home to a number of the world's most dynamic economies, two rising powers, and six nuclear states, Asia is a region of enormous strategic importance to the United States. For over six decades, America has functioned as the preeminent power in Asia, playing a vital role in providing security and ensuring a stable balance of power that has allowed the region's states to flourish politically and economically. The U.S. security framework in the region has rested historically upon a series of bilateral alliances and strategic partnerships. The arrangement has impressively stood the test of time despite concerns that the lack of an overarching, multilateral security architecture would lead to inefficiencies in the United States' pursuit of regional stability.\nTopic: Defense Policy, Arms Control and Proliferation, Emerging Markets, Nuclear Weapons\n45. The OECD's Study on Health Status Determinant: Roles of Lifestyle, Environment, Health-Care Resources and Spending Efficiency: An Analysis\nAuthor: H. E. Frech III\nAbstract: The OECD has undertaken an ambitious large-scale statistical analysis of the determinants of health and the relative efficiency of the health care systems of various OECD member countries (Jourmard, Andr\u00e9, Nicq and Chatal 2008). The Report makes a useful contribution to a continuing stream of literature that focuses on health outcomes, rather than cost. While the primary emphasis of the Report is on new statistical analysis, it includes a valuable, though spotty, literature review.\nTopic: Economics, Environment, Health\n46. Why Fiscal Stimulus Is Unlikely to Work\nAuthor: Kevin A. Hassett\nAbstract: This paper reviews the empirical literature on countercyclical policy. It finds that three types of countercyclical policies have been studied in the literature: built in stabilizers, temporary policy changes, and more permanent policy changes. The literature is decidedly mixed on the effectiveness of temporary changes, but more hopeful concerning the other two.\n47. The Jihadist International: Al Qaeda's Advance in the Levant\nAuthor: Hassan Mneimneh\nAbstract: September 11, 2001, marked the coming to the fore of the \u201cjihadist international,\u201d a loosely connected movement of militant and terrorist groups worldwide with a common ideology and increasingly shared tactics and methods. While such groups still have limited recruitment potential eight years on, they have inflicted substantial physical damage and have forced free societies to take costly precautionary measures. Perhaps most alarming, the global jihadist movement has continued simultaneously to feed off of and perpetuate the growing radicalization that Muslim culture has endured over the last few decades.\nTopic: Islam, Terrorism\n48. Village-by-Village Democracy in China\nAuthor: Robert T. Gannett Jr.\nAbstract: Despite the aftershocks of a natural disaster, the economy of the region's most populous nation still manages to produce unprecedented prosperity for its citizens. Its government is omnipresent, fueling this growth by building roads, canals, and new manufacturing plants, while seeking to eradicate collective constraints of a bygone era. Individuals respond to the new economic opportunities by becoming more industrious, more inventive, more acquisitive, more bourgeois, more capitalist. In the midst of such sudden economic transformation, the government struggles to maintain political stability. When protests erupt in the countryside, it suppresses them or co-opts their leaders. In an effort to reduce political tension, it allows a measure of personal liberty and speaks frequently of the need for reforms. It recognizes the importance of public opinion, doing everything it can to cultivate, manage, and control its expanding influence, especially in times of crisis and when the nation finds itself on the world stage. It frequently remodels administrative rules and habits applying to the whole nation, issuing edicts from the center that are routinely ignored in the provinces. And to the surprise of all, it launches a new system for the whole nation of local assemblies chosen by local voters, while inviting all residents to express and address local grievances in each of even its tiniest far-flung villages.\nTopic: Communism, Democratization\n49. Drug Use in Nigeria\nAuthor: Roger Bate, Richard Tren, Thompson Ayodele, Kimberly Hess, Olusegun Sotola\nAbstract: For decades, Nigeria has been plagued by counterfeit and poor-quality medicines, yet little information exists on the extent to which healthcare personnel are aw are of counterfeit and substandard medicines, and how this influences their behavior.\nTopic: Crime, War on Drugs, Narcotics Trafficking\n50. Deter, Defend, Repel, and Partner: A Defense Strategy for Taiwan\nAuthor: Dan Blumenthal, Gary J. Schmitt, Michael Mazza, Randall Schriver, Mark Stokes\nAbstract: Taiwan is a great success story. It is a prosperous, thriving democracy living at peace\u2014and it wants to remain at peace. A recent poll shows that more than 90 percent of Taiwanese support maintaining the \u201cstatus quo,\u201d meaning principally that an overwhelming majority of the island's citizens wants to avoid a conflict with the mainland if at all possible while retaining their de facto sovereignty.\nTopic: Defense Policy, Diplomacy, Peace Studies, Bilateral Relations\nPolitical Geography: Israel, Taiwan, Asia\n51. Economic Conditions and U.S. National Security in the 1930s and Today\nAuthor: Martin S. Feldstein\nAbstract: This paper comments on the experience of the U.S. economy in the 1930s, its lessons for managing the current economic downturn, and the relation of U.S. economic conditions to our future national security. Some of the conclusions are: (1) Although the current recession will be long and very damaging, it is not likely to deteriorate into conditions similar to the Depression of the 1930s. Policy makers now understand better than they did in the 1930s what needs to be done and what needs to be avoided. (2) The focus on domestic economic policies in the 1930s and the desire to remain militarily neutral delayed the major military buildup that eventually achieved the economic recovery. (3) A well-functioning system of bank lending is necessary for economic expansion. We have yet to achieve that in the current situation. (4) Raising taxes, even future taxes, can depress economic activity. The administration's budget proposes to raise tax rates on higher income individuals, on dividends and capital gains, on corporate profits and on all consumers through the cap and trade system of implicit CO2 taxes. (5) Inappropriate trade policies and domestic policies that affect the exchange rate can hurt our allies, leading to conflicts that spill over from economics to impair national security cooperation. Reducing long-term U.S. fiscal deficits would reduce the risk of inflation and thereby reduce the fear among foreign investors that their dollar investments will lose their purchasing power. (6) The possibilities for domestic terrorism and of cyber attacks creates risks that did not exist in the 1930s or even in more recent decades. The scale and funding of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security is not consistent with these new risks.\nTopic: Economics, International Trade and Finance, Terrorism, Financial Crisis\n52. The United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement\nAuthor: Philip I. Levy\nAbstract: Bilateral free trade agreements have generally been analyzed as instances of preferential reciprocal tariff liberalization. Viewed through this lens, such agreements raise concerns both about new competition and about trade diversion. The United States-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement, an example of a serious North-South accord, demonstrates that new market access was not a principal Peruvian goal in the trade negotiations. Instead, the agreement was intended to encourage investment by locking in Peru's economic reforms. This motivation has very different implications for the global trading system than a quest for preferential access.\nTopic: International Trade and Finance, Markets, Treaties and Agreements\nPolitical Geography: United States, Latin America, Peru\n53. Economic Integration and Incipient Democracy\nAbstract: Contrary to the common approach in the literature, the economic and other forces that push countries toward democratization are continuous rather than discrete. This paper argues that failure to account for the latent variable of \"incipient democracy\" can bias estimates of democracy's determinants. The paper presents a new avenue by which economic integration can foster democracy, one that focuses on the means for democratization rather than the motive. This strengthening of civil society is identified as a necessary component of economic integration with modern distributed production, though we would not expect to see it in autocracies dependent on natural resource trade. The arguments are applied to the case of China.\nTopic: Democratization, Development, Economics, Emerging Markets\n54. The Incidence of a U.S. Carbon Tax: A Lifetime and Regional Analysis\nAuthor: Aparna Mathur, Kevin A. Hassett, Gilbert E. Metcalf\nAbstract: This paper measures the direct and indirect incidence of a carbon tax using current income and two measures of lifetime income to rank households. Our results suggest that carbon taxes are more regressive when annual income is used as a measure of economic welfare than when proxies for lifetime income are used.\nTopic: Economics, Environment, Markets\n55. An Examination of State Non-Group and Small-Group Health Insurance Regulations\nAuthor: Anthony T. Lo Sasso\nAbstract: The present upswing in state-level efforts to \"do something about health care,\" combined with presidential campaign-related rhetoric, suggests that health care is back with a vengeance on the public consciousness. Many states are proposing what appear to be new strategies to cover the uninsured when in reality the \"new\" strategies rely on old approaches that have not proven highly effective in the past, notably community rating and guaranteed issue regulations. Using data culled from a popular health insurance distributor and the published literature provides a compelling portrait of the predictable distortions that can result from regulations aimed at improving perceived deficiencies in the non-group and small group health insurance markets.\nTopic: Economics, Government, Health, Politics\n56. The Consumer Burden of a Cap-and-Trade System with Freely Allocated Permits\nAbstract: In discussions over how best to implement mandatory restrictions on carbon, the most commonly discussed option is a cap-and-trade system. One critical economic question surrounding cap-and-trade is how to distribute the permits. The two main competing mechanisms are free allocations to polluters (usually based on past emissions levels, output levels, or carbon intensity) and the auction of permits.\nTopic: Climate Change, Economics, Environment, Markets\n57. The Law and Economics of Software Security\nAuthor: Robert W. Hahn, Anna Layne-Farrar\nAbstract: Security in software networks relies on technology, law, and economics. As the cost of software security breaches becomes more apparent, there has been greater interest in developing and implementing solutions for different parts of the problem.\nTopic: Security, Economics, Government, Science and Technology\n58. Africa Malaria Day 2007 - Time for a Checkup\nAuthor: Roger Bate, Kathryn Boateng\nAbstract: Funding for malaria control has increased significantly over the past decade, but it is still unclear whether that funding is actually saving lives. Setting targets has emerged in recent years as a key fundraising tool for disease-control programs. However, available evidence shows that most health targets are immeasurable or not measured. Unless performance is measured in a meaningful way and successful policies followed thereafter, current and future malaria funding may not help to save lives and may even be counterproductive. It is time to stop setting meaningless targets.\nTopic: Development, Health, Human Welfare\n59. Foreign Direct Investment, Corruption, and Democracy\nAuthor: Aparna Mathur, Kartikeya Singh\nAbstract: This paper studies how factors such as corruption perception and the level of democracy influence foreign direct investment to developing economies. Our results suggest that less corrupt countries and less democratic countries receive more foreign direct investment. What could account for this pattern of investment?\nTopic: Corruption, Democratization, Foreign Exchange, International Trade and Finance\n60. The Taxation of Corporate Gains on Sales of Depreciable Property: An Economic Analysis\nAuthor: Kevin A. Hassett, Alan D. Viard\nAbstract: The statutory rate on corporate capital gains currently is equal to the statutory tax rate on ordinary corporate income. Although individual capital gains taxes have received an enormous amount of attention, both in the popular media and in the academic literature, corporate capital gains have received very sparse attention. In principle, however, the distortions that arise from corporate capital gain taxation are analogous to those that might arrive from individual capital gains taxation. Corporations might face a higher user cost of capital and they could find that their previous purchases have been \u201clocked in\u201d in the sense that asset sales are avoided because of their tax consequences.\nTopic: Economics, Government, Industrial Policy, Science and Technology\n61. Fueling Educational Entrepreneurship Addressing the Human Capital Challenge\nAuthor: Frederick M. Hess, Bryan C. Hassel\nAbstract: In October 2006, the American Enterprise Institute convened a meeting in Washington, D.C. to discuss what might be done to grow the human capital pipeline to support entrepreneurship in K\u201312 education. Participants included foundation officers, educational entrepreneurs, and policy analysts. While the gathering did not seek to formulate any grand consensus or blueprint, the authors hope that the following summary will spark further discussion and action on this critical issues in education reform.\nTopic: Development, Economics, Education, Markets\n62. An Empirical Analysis of Middle Class Welfare - Testing Alternative Approaches\nAuthor: Aparna Mathur, Kevin A. Hassett\nAbstract: Every year the Census Bureau reports data on income inequality and poverty, based on income estimates derived from the Current Population Survey. Our analysis suggests that the data may not be presenting an accurate picture. By under-reporting incomes, leaving out certain sources of income, and not making equivalence adjustments that are now standard among researchers, the reports present an imperfect picture of overall welfare. We develop an alternative that relies on data from the National Income and Product Accounts. Our data reveal that real median incomes have been increasing in the recent period, albeit at a slower rate than the long-term average. Using the same methodology for consumption, we find that consumption for all income groups, including the middle, has been growing robustly in recent times. This is in contrast to statistics reported by the Consumer Expenditure Survey, the most often cited data for all consumption analysis, which show middle class consumption declining.\nTopic: Development, Economics, Human Welfare\n63. WHO's Comprehensive HIV Treatment Failure - Will We Learn the Real Lessons from 3 by 5?\nAuthor: Roger Bate, Lorraine Mooney\nAbstract: It should be a cause for celebration that over 1.6 million people in the poorest parts of the world are now on antiretroviral treatment to halt the advance of HIV. But in a rush to improve access mistakes have been made. These mistakes, many of which were predictable, will be costly in terms of money and lives as drug resistance accelerates and more advanced (second-line) drugs may be unaffordable in poor countries.\nTopic: Development, Health, Poverty\n64. Poor Countries Need Relief from the World Bank's 'Help' on Malaria.\nAbstract: The World Bank attempts to improve health in poor countries by providing advice in health financing and infrastructure development, as well as grants and loans to poor countries. This is a formidable mission given that the greatest difficulty poor countries have in carrying out public health programs is their lack of infrastructural, managerial and clinical capacity. Its efforts to this end have been diluted by irresponsible forays into disease control financing without a commensurate increase in institutional competence with only limited technical staff capacity. Instead of deferring to the World Health Organization for technical advice on malaria control, Bank staff members have promoted ineffectual malaria prevention and treatment, causing countries to move away from best practices in disease control. The Bank has been criticized in the Lancet medical journal, and its senior staff claim that changes have been made. This working paper reviews the most recent performance from the Bank, which demonstrates the continuing failure of its malaria work. The Bank should stick to its core mission of funding health systems and get out of the disease control business.\nTopic: International Relations, Debt, Economics, Third World\n65. Tariffs, Corruption and Other Impediments to Medicinal Access in Developing Countries\nAuthor: Roger Bate, Kathryn Boateng, Lorraine Mooney, Richard Tren\nAbstract: There are many factors which hamper health care delivery in the developing world. These factors include tariffs, taxes, corruption, such as bribes and other local price inflators on medicines and medical products. Non-tariff barriers, such as lengthy registration periods for medicines and onerous requirements to clear customs, also restrict the availability of medication in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization, approximately one-third of the world's population lacks access to essential medicine and proper medical treatment. Drawing upon extensive evidence from surveys and accounts from the field, this paper examines the impact of tariffs, taxes and other markups on imported medicines and medical products provided to lesser developed countries by pharmaceutical companies, not-for-profit groups, for-profit corporations, multilateral and bilateral aid and health agencies. The paper discusses how these regulatory barriers affect access to medication. The authors conclude that although efforts to reform the current system of government revenue generation through tariffs collection may meet resistance in many developing countries, especially those featuring systemic corruption and those with domestic production, governments which take steps to eliminate tariffs could in fact expedite health care delivery and consequently improve the well-being of their people.\nTopic: Corruption, Economics, Health, Third World\n66. The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing\nAuthor: Phillip Swagel, N Gregory Mankiw\nAbstract: During the presidential campaign of 2004, no economic issue generated more heat or shed less light than the debate over offshore outsourcing. This fact was probably apparent at the time to any economist who followed politics, but it was felt especially acutely by the authors of this paper. We were then working at the Council of Economic Advisers as, respectively, chairman and chief of staff. While the job of the CEA is to focus on the economics of current policy debates, the environment in which that job is performed is highly political, especially in an election year. To some extent, therefore, this paper is a report from inside the eye of a storm.\nTopic: International Relations, Economics, Globalization, Political Economy\n67. The Economic Costs of the War in Iraq\nAuthor: Katrina Kosec, Scott Wallsten\nAbstract: Government policies are routinely subjected to rigorous cost analyses. Yet one of today's most controversial and expensive policies\u2014the ongoing war in Iraq\u2014has not been. The $212 billion allocated by the U.S. Treasury has been widely reported. But the real, direct economic costs include more than budgetary allocations. Other costs include lives lost, injuries, and lost civilian productivity of National Guard and Reserve troops mobilized for the conflict. The conflict, however, also has gene rated cost savings, especially in terms of resources no longer being used to enforce UN sanctions and people no longer being killed by Saddam Hussein's regime.\nPolitical Geography: United States, Iraq, Middle East, Palestine\n68. Is Port Security Spending Making Us Safer?\nAuthor: Veronique de Rugy\nAbstract: Congress should direct home land security funding to program s that provide the greatest return in the most crucial security missions. Since the number of possible attacks is effectively unlimited and the resources we can devote to the fight against terror are limited, spending should not occur without a careful cost-benefit analysis. Most importantly, it is perfectly reasonable to decide not to implement an antiterrorism measure, not because it has no benefit, but because the costs are too high compared to the potential benefits. Of course, program s that are not cost effective should never be implemented.\n69. U.S.-India Relations: Report on AEI's 2003-04 Roundtable Discussions\nAuthor: Gautam Adhikari\nAbstract: From October 2003 to October 2004, the American Enterprise Institute hosted a series of roundtable discussions and public events to examine expanding and deepening relations between the United States and India. This document is a summary of issues emerging from these discussions, and includes a select list of observations made at the roundtable sessions. Participants included scholars, journalists, diplomats, officials, foreign policy analysts, economists, business executives, entrepreneurs, and visiting Indian parliamentarians.\nPolitical Geography: United States, America, India, Asia\n70. What Does Homeland Security Spending Buy?\nAbstract: International terrorism is probably the greatest security challenge America faces today. Policymakers have responded in two ways--going after terrorists abroad and improving security against terrorism at home by boosting homeland security funding. Regarding the latter, total spending directed to homeland security activities will be at least $50 billion for FY2006.Yet, the important question is whether America is getting the maximum level of benefit in exchange for this increase in spending. This paper performs a detailed review of homeland security's spending practices. First, it takes a look at the economics of homeland security spending and contrasts that with the politics of decision-making in this area. Second, it examines the state of homeland security spending. Finally, the paper analyzes how homeland security funds are being allocated and asks whether this is conducive to achieving improved security in the United States. This updated version also includes a review of federal spending to bolster port security.\nTopic: International Relations, Economics, Terrorism\n71. Attitudes about Social Security Reform\nAuthor: Karlyn H. Bowman\nAbstract: What do Americans think about the health of the Social Security system and proposals to reform it? This AEI Public Opinion Study looks at how different pollsters have approached the issue. It provides historical data and includes trends on aspects of the debate from major pollsters.\n72. America After 9/11: Public Opinion on the War on Terrorism, the War with Iraq, and America's Place in the World.\nAbstract: Polls should not be used to make policy whether the issue is sending troops into battle or shoring up Social Security. They are too crude for that purpose. That said, policy makers need to be aware of what the public is thinking. That is what this collection is designed to do. We are very grateful for the cooperation the pollsters have given us in making the collection possible. The document is a work in progress. We began putting it together in late September 2001, and we have updated it almost every week, adding new sections as new issues have arisen. With 14 national pollsters in the field on a regular basis, the polling environment has become very competitive. The different ways that pollsters approach a topic and the responses they receive are often useful in understanding what Americans are thinking.\nTopic: International Relations, Foreign Policy, Terrorism\nPolitical Geography: Iraq, America, Middle East\n73. European Defense Reform Print Mail: The Beginning of the Beginning\nAbstract: Europe has been slow to respond to the menace of terrorism, but there are signs that its perception of threats is converging with that of the United States. Paradoxically, America's costly war in Iraq is convincing Europeans that they need a more capable military to give them greater influence over how the West uses force beyond its perimeter.\n74. Analyzing the Kerry and Bush Health Proposals\nAuthor: Joseph Antos, Roland (Guy) King, Donald Muse, Wildsmith. Tom, Judy Xanthopoulos\nAbstract: The number of Americans without health insurance remains high. According to the latest Census Bureau figures, 45 million people were uninsured during 2003, an increase of almost 1.4 million from the year before. About 15.6 percent of the population did not have health insurance last year. That is the highest rate of non-coverage since 1998, when 16.3 percent were uninsured.\nTopic: Government, Human Welfare, Politics\n75. The United States, China, and the Rise of Asian Regionalism\nAuthor: Claude E. Barfield\nAbstract: The goal of this paper is to analyze the evolution of trade relations between the United States and China, against the background of rising East Asian regionalism. It will also put forward policy options for the United States and China in response to the changing economic realities in East Asia.\nTopic: Foreign Policy, International Trade and Finance\nPolitical Geography: United States, China, Israel, East Asia\n76. The Politics of Compassion\nAbstract: In 1976, for the first time as far as we can tell, a pollster asked people about various qualities that were important for a president to have and included \u201ccompassion\u201d as an option people could choose. Seventy-four percent chose \u201cplacing the country's interests above their own,\u201d 73 percent \u201cintelligence,\u201d 68 percent \u201csound judgment in a crisis\u201d and, separately, \u201ccompetence or ability to get the job done,\u201d and 67 percent \u201ccompassion, concern for little man/average citizen.\u201d [All questions discussed in this introduction appear below.] At about that time, Gallup asked several questions that compared Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford on this quality. Since that time, in every election, pollsters have compared candidates (and rated presidents) on being compassionate. The National Election Pool exit pollsters compared the Democratic candidates on it in the 2004 primaries. In January 2004, Princeton Survey Research Associates/Newsweek interviewers asked whether George W. Bush and, separately, John Kerry cared about people like you. In February, Harris, CNN, and Time asked whether each man cared about the average American. Also in February, Gallup, CNN, and USA Today interviewers asked which candidate was more in touch with the problems of ordinary Americans.\nTopic: Economics, Government, Human Welfare\n77. U.S.\u2013Latin American Relations: The Prospect\nAuthor: Mark Falcoff\nAbstract: This series began more than a dozen years ago with an essay titled \u201cU.S.-Latin American Relations: Where Are We Now?\u201d Since this is the last issue of Latin American Outlook, it seems worthwhile to pose the question again.\nPolitical Geography: United States, South America, Latin America, Central America, North America\n78. Beyond Kyoto: Real Solutions to Greenhouse Emissions from Developing Countries\nAuthor: Roger Bate, David Montgomery\nAbstract: Whether the Kyoto Protocol is ever ratified is fast becoming irrelevant. Many of the European nations that ratified the convention are failing to reach their targets, while developing countries, not required to comply with Kyoto, claim they will never participate in targets and timetables, as it would retard their economic growth. Given that developing countries are likely to emit well over half of future greenhouse gases (GHGs), a more promising strategy would be to devise an approach that limits emissions while helping development.\nTopic: Economics, Environment, Treaties and Agreements, Third World\n79. European and American Approaches to Antitrust Remedies and the Institutional Design of Regulation in Telecommunications\nAuthor: J. Gregory Sidak, Damien Geradin\nAbstract: In the United States and the European Union, the topic of remedies in network industries cuts across antitrust law and sector-specific regulation, including telecommunications. The legal and economic understandings of a \u201cremedy\u201d are not always synonymous. In both legal systems, a remedy is the corrective measure that a court or an administrative agency orders following a finding that one or several companies had either engaged in an illegal abuse of market power (monopolization in the US and abuse of dominance in the EC) or are about to create market power (in the case of mergers). With the exception of merger control where remedies seek to prevent a situation from occurring, legal remedies are retrospective in their orientation. They seek to right some past wrong. They may do so through the payment of money (whether that is characterized as the payment of damages, fines, or something else). Or they may seek to do so through a mandated change in market structure (\u201cstructural\u201d remedies), as in the case of divestiture, or in the imposition of affirmative or negative duties (\u201cbehavioral\u201d remedies). United States v. Microsoft Corp (U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, 2001). presented the tradeoff between these various remedial alternatives.\nTopic: Government, International Trade and Finance\n80. Direct-to-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Medicines in the United States and New Zealand: An Analysis of Regulatory Approaches and Consumer Responses\nAuthor: John E. Calfee, Philip Gendall, Janet Hoek\nAbstract: New Zealand and the United States are the only two advanced nations to permit direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) of prescription medicines, but they use very different regulatory regimes. This paper examines the evolution of DTCA in both countries, compares the New Zealand self-regulatory model with regulation by the US Food and Drug Administration, and examines consumer survey results from both nations. Surveys reveal striking consistencies in overall attitudes towards DTCA, albeit with strong differences on a few topics directly affected by differences in regulations, such as the balance of risk and benefit information. Consumers think DTCA helps them learn about new drugs and talk to their doctors about possible treatments, with little apparent negative impact on patient-doctor communications. Regulation in New Zealand is more efficient than American regulation, although more effective disclosure of risk information could address concerns raised by New Zealand consumer groups.\nTopic: Government, Human Welfare\nPolitical Geography: United States, Southeast Asia, New Zealand\n81. An Economic Theory of Censorship\nAuthor: J. Gregory Sidak\nAbstract: Legal criticism of broadcast regulation typically starts by demonstrating the paradoxically disparate treatment of print media and broadcast media under the First Amendment. In contrast, economic criticism typically starts by demonstrating that the scarcity of the electromagnetic spectrum, to the questionable extent that it exists, does not distinguish broadcasting from any other medium of communications for which the essential factors of production are privately owned and ordered. Each line of criticism is powerful. And each continues to the current day to appear again and again in court challenges to broadcast regulation. It is more useful, however, to model broadcast regulation in terms of the creation and dissipation of rent.\nTopic: Economics, Government, Human Rights\n82. Taking Stock of Business: Public Opinion After the Corporate Scandals\nAuthor: Karlyn H. Bowman, Todd J. Weiner\nAbstract: More than a dozen corporate scandals have unfolded since December 2001. How have ordinary Americans reacted? One answer can be provided by the performance of the stock market. Another indicator is public opinion. As some of the key trials get underway, it's worth examining the polls to see how the scandals have affected perceptions of business. The results should provide some warning flags for Congress as that institution takes a closer look at the mutual fund industry.\n83. The Politics of the Environment\nAbstract: Democrats lead Republicans by a substantial margin nationally as the party best able to handle environmental issues, as the first table in this collection shows. The second table looks at the power of the issue on Election Day. In 2000, for example, 9 percent of voters nationwide told exit pollsters from the Los Angeles Times that the environment was one of the top two issues for them in casting their vote. These voters pulled the lever for Gore over Bush, by 76 to 12 percent. As in elections past, other issues were more important to larger numbers of voters. In the 2000 Los Angeles Times exit poll, almost four times as many voters (35 percent) checked morals/ethical values as the top issue for them on the exit poll ballot.\nTopic: Environment, Government, Science and Technology, Treaties and Agreements\nPolitical Geography: Los Angeles\n84. America after 9/11: Public Opinion on the War on Terrorism and the War with Iraq\nAbstract: Polls should not be used to make policy whether the issue is sending troops into battle or shoring up Social Security. They are too crude for that purpose. That said, policy makers need to be aware of what the public is thinking. That is what this collection is designed to do. We are very grateful for the cooperation the pollsters have given us in making this collection possible. The document is a work in progress. We began putting it together in late September 2001, and we have updated it weekly, adding new sections as new issues have arisen. With 14 national pollsters in the field on a regular basis, the polling environment has become very competitive. The different ways that pollsters approach a topic and the responses they receive are often useful in understanding what Americans are thinking.\nTopic: Security, Government, Terrorism\nPolitical Geography: United States, Iraq, Palestine\n85. The Safety of Pharmaceuticals: Monitoring and Regulation\nAuthor: Lucien Leape, Richard Platt, Hugh Tilson, Janet Woodcock, Michael Cohen, Susan Ellenberg, Eleanor Vogt\nAbstract: The withdrawal of several medications from the market in recent months has coincided with the publication of a stream of articles on drug safety in prominent journals. These developments have caused policy makers, pharmaceutical firms, physicians, and the Food and Drug Administration to look especially closely at drug safety and to consider the following questions: With the increased pace of drug approvals, is sufficient attention being paid to drug safety? Are markets and regulators doing a good job of monitoring safety? Is there more to be done?\n86. Climate Change Policy: The Road to Buenos Aires\nAuthor: Jason Shogren, Robert N. Stavins, Kevin Hassett, Eileen Claussen\nAbstract: When the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change met in Kyoto last December, the participating countries, including the United States, established a protocol for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases by developed countries. The U.S. Senate has not yet decided whether to ratify the agreement.\nTopic: International Relations, Climate Change, Environment, International Cooperation, International Law, United Nations\n87. Labor Costs and International Trade\nAuthor: Stephen Golub\nAbstract: On January 13, 1998, Stephen Golub, professor of economics at Swarthmore College, led the sixteenth seminar in AEI's series Understanding Economic Inequality. Mr. Golub's presentation sought to dispel fallacious but widespread views concerning the effects of competition from low\u2013wage countries in international trade, including the view that such competition has significantly increased wage inequality in the United States.\nTopic: Economics, Emerging Markets\n88. 10th Annual Bradley Lecture Series\n89. 9th Annual Bradley Lecture Series", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 728, "original_length": 94727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cincymagazine.com/Main/Articles/5972.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:43Z", "digest": "sha1:STHHFLFU5LGJQHNBIXB2PPK7E2TIQBFC", "length": 3477, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cincymagazine.com", "title": "Hamilton County Power Shift | Articles | Cincy Magazine", "raw_content": "This month\u2019s Cincy lists our town\u2019s Power 100, a carefully curated collection of local movers and shakers. German sociologist Max Weber defined power (or \u201cMacht\u201d as Max called it), as \u201cthe probability within a social relationship of being able to secure one\u2019s own ends, even against opposition.\u201d In more contemporary lingo, those with power \u201cget \u2018er done.\u201d\nSome of the local usual suspects still have that good old-fashioned \u201cyou shall do as I say\u201d power. But November\u2019s elections delivered a monumental shift in who exercises power and how it will be used (or abused) in Hamilton County for decades to come.\nSince the Civil War, Hamilton County has been a Republican bastion. We sent one local Republican to the White House (William H. Taft). Big Bill\u2019s son and grandson went to the U.S. Senate. His great grandson became Ohio governor. Local Republicans Salmon P. Chase and Potter Stewart sat on the U.S. Supreme Court, Rob Portman now has the Cincinnati seat in the U.S. Senate, and Nicholas Longworth and John Boehner served as speaker of the U.S. House.\nThe GOP lost control of Cincinnati city hall in the late 1970s. But it dominated the three-member Hamilton County Commission for more than a century, with only an occasional outlier Democrat like Vince Beckman, elected in 1964 (the LBJ landslide year) serving a single term. The county commission plays an important role in development and tax policy, and sets budgets for county services and officeholders like the sheriff. That\u2019s a whole lot of macht and provided a launch pad for all those Republicans moving up to state and national office.\nThe GOP\u2019s monopoly began to erode in 2000, when Democrat Todd Portune ousted Republican Bob Bedinghaus, exploiting voter outrage over the lavish stadium lease the GOP commission gifted the Bengals. Todd\u2019s been there ever since. There were four years of Democratic control after David Pepper defeated then Commissioner Phil Heimlich in 2006. But in 2010, Pepper moved on and the GOP re-gained its majority.\nDemocrats regained a majority on the commission in 2016, when state representative Denise Driehaus joined Portune on the commission, as the county turned deep blue for Hillary Clinton.\nBut the 2018 mid-term elections consigned the age of GOP power in Hamilton County to the history books for the foreseeable future. On election night, both parties\u2019 poo-bahs were dumbfounded as former Forest Park Mayor Stephanie Dumas grabbed an early lead over veteran GOP Commissioner Chris Monzel and never let go. Remarkably, she spent only $12,000 to defeat an incumbent with a $390,000 bankroll. Ms. Dumas is the first African American ever elected to any county administrative office. For the first in county history three Democrats\u2014two of them women\u2014will decide how the county\u2019s $240 million budget will be spent.\nDumas\u2019 unexpected victory was not a one upset wonder. Democratic judicial candidates unseated two incumbent GOP Common Pleas Court judges, and won three of four contested seats on the Ohio Court of Appeals.\nWhile this can be seen as possible reaction to President Trump, demographic changes seem likely to lock in Democrats\u2019 advantage for the next generation. And as the GOP\u2019s long-but-now-gone county reign demonstrated, the acquisition of power can provide advantages in fundraising and bench development that makes it easier to expand that power.\nDon Mooney is an attorney, a past member of the Cincinnati Planning Commission and is active in local politics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cincymagazine.com/Main/Articles/Weve_Got_a_Story_to_Tell_1974.aspx?email=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:39Z", "digest": "sha1:AUQJQIYY6SKWTEBTYESPTGBFO4WWRIWK", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.cincymagazine.com", "title": "We've Got a Story to Tell | Articles | Cincy Magazine", "raw_content": "We've Got a Story to Tell", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 46.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cityroadclubhull.org.uk/results/2013-2/21st-may-2013-10-mile-time-trial-v7110/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:55Z", "digest": "sha1:SUFKM2HVWOVCIBOZONTKXBPLAPTWX2TV", "length": 76, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cityroadclubhull.org.uk", "title": "21st May 2013 - 10 Mile Time Trial (V7110) | City Road Club (Hull)", "raw_content": "10th A Faichney 0:26:25 0:25:25\n15th O Tomlinson (2nd claim) 0:28:07 0:23:07", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 12449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 164.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.civ.neu.edu/civ/community", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:OEP3QODVCSPYSJKHZCDTA5SPGTKSKJOD", "length": 1457, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.civ.neu.edu", "title": "Community | Civil & Environmental Engineering | Northeastern University", "raw_content": "Northeastern offers a campus feel amidst a thriving urban environment. A hotbed of industry and innovation, Boston is an unrivaled learning center with plenty of opportunity for collaboration with business. Civil and Environmental Engineering students enjoy a wide range of opportunities for academic and community involvement, from clubs and competitions to the many attractions of our world-class city.\nCEE currently has two graduate student organizations (NSEWERS & NGSEA) which host a number of seminars each semester where industry professionals, academics, and students can share their work and network with their peers. They also host numerous other events including site visits, networking events with other graduate student groups, and casual get-togethers for students to build a sense of community within the graduate civil and environmental engineering program.\nCEE attracts exceptional faculty who conduct state-of-the-art research, are dedicated educators at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and advance the state of professional practice. The department also has a dedicated staff who provide a range of services to the operations of the department.\nOur dedicated alumni span a range of careers around the world.\nVisit the faculty and staff directory\nLearn more about their respective backgrounds and activities.\nLearn how you can connect with other CEE alumni.\nLearn more about our award-winning chapters of national organizations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 6805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.clearfield.org/article/29065?org=district", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:05Z", "digest": "sha1:F54I7TY3BYXWELOD2VMYDDYVSP7PMXLK", "length": 582, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.clearfield.org", "title": "Clearfield Area School District", "raw_content": "Clearfield Area Elementary is proud to announce monthly recognition assemblies for our Students of the Month. Students in grades one through six will be recognized for displaying our Character Building Word of the Month at an assembly during the school day. Kindergarten students will use their year to learn the meaning of the Character Building Words. Parents of students being recognized will be invited to attend the assemblies. 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These training exercises are designed to help existing and new staff come to terms with the many and varied customers that can contact them at any given time.\nHow Do I Know if a Call is Being Recorded?\nBy law any company that records telephone calls for the purposes of security or training must inform you of such a procedure before the call continues. It is imperative that they do so in order to allow you to give permission for the call and the recording to continue.\nThe warning normally takes the form of a pre-scripted disclaimer which will normally be along the lines of: \u2018We should advise you that this call may be monitored for training purposes\u2019. You will then be asked to give your consent to allow this to take place, if not you will be asked to terminate the call and a representative may call you back from a line that is not being monitored.\nWhat Happens to Recorded Calls?\nAs we have already mentioned, recorded calls can be used for the purposes of training or security, especially if the call will contain information regarding personal data such as account information. The calls may also be used for what is known as \u2018Mystery Shopping\u2019. When calls are recorded they are usually saved to hard disc on a computer and will be erased after a suitable period of time.\nMystery Shopping is the term given to the practice of employees contacting other employees through normal channels to test out how they deal with customers and to ear mark areas of their technique which may require attention. This practice is designed to cut down on the giving out of false or misleading information as well as ensuring that all telephone-based employees speak to customers in a manner and tone befitting of their position.\nWho Has Access to Such Recorded Conversations?\nFor the most part such recorded material is only available to senior staff or dedicated personnel such as managers and HR (Human Resources) personnel. These calls may be played back however to a larger audience but all information with reference to your personal details such as bank account details etc is removed so that it cannot be written down or memorised by unauthorised staff.\nCan I Find Out if Any Business I Deal with Stores Information About Me?\nUnder the guidelines referred to within the Data Protection Act 1987 anyone has the right to petition a company, business or government organisation with reference to the information stored on file about them. Upon receipt of a written request from you the body petitioned has a set period of time in which to reply to you detailing exactly what information about you is kept and in what manner it is used. Any use of your details in training exercises must be declared and likewise at this point you may make it known in written form that you object to the use of your information.\nIf this is the case any organisation refused permission to use your information must cease to do so immediately or face stiff penalties under the Data Protection Act 1987.\nIt is also worth noting that any calls made to you by companies offering to avail you of their services may also record calls and if they do not volunteer this information before the call commences you should ask them to confirm whether or not a recording is being made.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cookcountycourt.org/Manage/DivisionOrders/ViewDivisionOrder/tabid/298/ArticleId/292/GENERAL-ADMINISTRATIVE-ORDER-NO-95-4-Illinois-Not-For-Profit-Dispute-Resolution-Act.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:11Z", "digest": "sha1:SLAAOM7L4VDCGEMZVGX7XNOSGH5LTSXF", "length": 1711, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cookcountycourt.org", "title": "GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 95-4 - Illinois Not-For-Profit Dispute Resolution Act", "raw_content": "Pursuant to the Illinois Not-For-Profit Dispute Resolution Act (ILCS 1992 ch. 710, sec. 20/1 et seq.), the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County has collected fees from civil case filings for the year 1994 for disbursement to Dispute Resolution Centers which qualify under said Act and General Order 19 of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Fees available for disbursement from this Fund for the year 1994 total $217,702.00.\nUpon review of applications received for funds collected in 1994, the sole qualifying applicant under the requirements set forth in said Act and General Order No. 19 of the Circuit Court of Cook County was found to be Center for Conflict Resolution. It is eligible for the maximum amount allowable for disbursement to any Dispute Resolution Center in a given year of $200,000.\nPursuant to the Illinois Not-For-Profit Dispute Resolution Act (ILCS 1992 ch. 710, sec 20/4) any funds collected but not disbursed in a given year shall be paid in single county judicial circuits to the County Treasurer for the administration of justice in the judicial circuit. An amount of $17,702.00 remains collected for the year 1994 but no Dispute Resolution Center is qualified to receive disbursement of these funds.\nFURTHER, it is hereby ordered that the amount of $17,702.00 representing funds collected under the Illinois Not-For-Profit Dispute Resolution Act for 1994 but not disbursed, shall be disbursed to the County Treasurer of Cook County for the administration of Justice in the Circuit Court of Cook County.\nDATED this 18th day of April, 1995. This order supersedes General Administrative Order 95-3 dated March 16, 1995 and shall be spread upon the records of this Court and published.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 460, "original_length": 12630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 174.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.courtsol.com/en/actualites/details/new-roller-track-in-gujan-mestras-in-france.10.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:26Z", "digest": "sha1:SNG7LNX62K2HHD7OYCHHBGODXHDMLKPW", "length": 795, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.courtsol.com", "title": "NEW ROLLER TRACK IN GUJAN-MESTRAS IN FRANCE - Courtsol", "raw_content": "Home Page > News > NEW ROLLER TRACK IN GUJAN-MESTRAS IN FRANCE\nNEW ROLLER TRACK IN GUJAN-MESTRAS IN FRANCE\nGujan-Mestras' roller track is about to be transformed. Indeed, built at the beginning of the eighties, it began, over the course of time, to become more and more abrasive for the athletes. The track is now covered with an acrylic coating called COURTSOL RACE TRAINING, system especially designed to give back to the track a more competitive rolling.\nEvery year on this track takes place the International Trophy of 3 Pistes, which unites more than a thousand of athletes from different countries. The comments of the athletes, who have already tested it, are rather promising since to run over is a pure pleasure!!\nPleasure surely shared during the next International Trophy of 3 Pistes!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 288.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crew1.com/southern-ground-festival-at-riverfront-park/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:55Z", "digest": "sha1:LLBSO7D4TSAM2R7IKUXSESUUCABLJ4WP", "length": 1520, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.crew1.com", "title": "Southern Ground Festival at Riverfront Park | Crew One", "raw_content": "Photography by Shelley Mays/The Tennessean\nZac Brown brought his eclectic line up of delectable foods, unique crafts, and legendary artists back to the Music City for the second annual Southern Ground Music & Food Festival.\nThis year\u2019s festival played host to more than 20 hours of music with performances by some of today\u2019s biggest artists and legendary superstars set against the picturesque Nashville skyline on the weekend of Sept. 27-28, 2013.\nFans experienced a diverse lineup of more than 25 artists on 3 stages, including special appearances by the Zac Brown Band, Kenny Chesney, Willie Nelson & Family, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, the Eli Young Band, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and many more.\nBoth nights of the festival were headlined by none other than The Zac Brown Band who called on a number of special guests and sit-in performances by Kenny Rogers, John Fogerty, Jason Mraz, and the Stellas. So, needless to say, fans got what the paid for and much more.\nPhotography by Christopher Polk\nGates opened at 2 PM on Friday for the 2-day installment and gave ticketholders access to some of the nation\u2019s award-winning food vendors and chefs, as well as some of the best music and good times Tennessee has to offer, all along the beautiful Cumberland River.\nThis year\u2019s Southern Ground Festival in downtown Nashville was the biggest yet, and if you enjoyed yourself in Nashville, make sure to look out for Zac Brown\u2019s signature brand of entertainment rolling into Charleston, SC on Oct, 19-20th.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 163.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cromartymedicalpractice.co.uk/info.aspx?p=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:28Z", "digest": "sha1:BVW7C465SWSJ7FRGKH647DGNGKWBZ3NE", "length": 2215, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.cromartymedicalpractice.co.uk", "title": "Cromarty Medical Practice - Useful Links", "raw_content": "Where do I go for clinical or disease information?\nInformation is researched from the British Medical Journal and displyed in an easy to understand format.\nDesigned by GPs and EMIS and is a useful source of Patient information Leaflets amongst other things.\nAttempts to break the language barrier between Doctors and patients regarding disease and illnesses.\nQRISK is a new calculator which works out your risk of getting heart disease. It has been developed by doctors and academics working in the UK National Health Service\nInformation on Healthier Living\nBBC - Healthy Living\nSimple, accurate advice from the BBC. Helps you to establish the dos & donts of living healthily.\nFast, free independent information from the Men\"s Health Forum.\nWomen\u2019s Health Concern\nWomen\"s Health Concern is a charitable organisation which aims to help educate and support women with their healthcare by providing unbiased, accurate information.\nThe NHS Constitution was published on 21 January 2009. It was one of a number of recommendations in Lord Darzi\u2019s report \u2018High Quality Care for All\u2019 which was published on the 60th anniversary of the NHS and set out a ten-year plan to provide the highest quality of care and service for patients in England\nAiming to personalise healthcare and provide information that will \u2018allow patients to make meaningful choices about when and where to receive their treatment.\u2019\nComprehensive information for people with all forms of dementia.\nTips on evaluating the reliability of online medical information\nUse sites from reputable organisations you have heard of.\nDouble check the information by looking for other sources.\nCheck there are contact details for any organisation or people responsible for the information not just an email address.\nLook at the advertising - does it seem to unduly influence the site content?\nAll articles should quote references that you can look up.\nWatch out for claims about the superiority of any particular treatment over another\nIs this information supplied with a date to make sure it has not been superseded by other research.\nCheck the sites confidentiality policy.\nBeware of sites claiming to be the definitive source.\nBeware of sites that criticise others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ctgreenparty.org/articles/40-warning-for-profit-hospitals-can-endanger-your-health-and-finances.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHN656AM6WAH5U2J5OF2SBKUTH72WDVH", "length": 3599, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ctgreenparty.org", "title": "Green Party of Connecticut - WARNING: For-Profit Hospitals Can Endanger Your Health and Finances", "raw_content": "WARNING: For-Profit Hospitals Can Endanger Your Health and Finances\nby Justine McCabe and John Battista\nPublished originally in the Litchfield County Times\nAs Connecticut considers converting Sharon Hospital into the State\u2019s first for-profit hospital, it is important to consider the impact of such a conversion on quality of care and cost of medical services.\nThe New England Journal of Medicine's 1999 review showed a 7 percent increase in death rates in for-profit hospitals over not-for-profit hospitals. Similarly, the April, 2000 issue of the Journal of General Internal Medicine revealed that patients at for-profit hospitals are two to four times more likely than patients at not-for-profit hospitals to suffer adverse events such as complications following surgery.\nThese results are thought to be a function of the 16 percent reduction in spending on clinical personnel, such as RN's, at for-profit hospitals. This reduced spending is not surprising given the primary responsibility of for-profit hospitals to maximize shareholder profit rather than quality of care to patients.\nIronically, despite decreased spending on clinical personnel, for-profit hospitals actually cost more than not-for-profit hospitals. A Harvard study of 5201 acute care hospitals reported in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1997, showed that the same procedure or illness cost on average 8.3 Percent more at for-profit hospitals than not-for-profit hospitals.\nThese increased costs are primarily the result of for-profit hospitals spending 23 percent more on administration than comparable not-for-profit hospitals. Moreover, repeated convictions of for-profit hospitals for billing fraud suggest that some of these costs may be the result of for-profit hospitals \"upgrading\" diagnoses to maximize payments.\nFor example, Columbia/HCA, the largest for-profit hospital corporation, was fined $745 million for billing fraud and its CEO sentenced to two years in jail; and NME (Tenet) was fined $683 Million dollars for billing fraud and patient abuse.\nWhether or not they are aware of the adverse impact on health and cost of for-profit Conversions, many Sharon residents support the for-profit conversion of Sharon Hospital because they perceive this is the only way to keep their local hospital open. Yet, realistically,they can expect that only the profitable services of the hospital will be kept open-and only to patients who can afford to pay for them.\nThus, experience from other for-profit conversions predict that a future, for-profit Sharon Hospital would close non-profitable services and send those unable to pay to other, no-for-profit hospitals. A better solution to these hospital crises would begin with providing universal health insurance for all Connecticut residents.\nIn fact, the \"Connecticut Health Care Security Act,\" which will be considered by the state legislature in the upcoming session, would do just that. Under the health care trust created by this bill, a global budget for Sharon Hospital would be negotiated based on a comprehensive assessment of services best carried out at Sharon Hospital and those better provided by other area hospitals. Only then could a rational determination be made of the value of local access to health care for all residents, rather than only those wealthy enough to pay for it. Only then would patient care\u2014not corporate bottom line\u2014be the guiding priority for these decisions that affect us all.\nJohn R. Battista, M.D. and Justine McCabe, Ph.D. are Coordinators of The Connecticut Coalition for Universal Health Care. 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Battle of the Box-Office Blowhards.\nPrevious entry: Five Minutes: Pan's Labyrinth.\nNext entry: A Sense of Place.\nmee too me too!\nhttp://www.filmsquish.com/guts/?q=node/2505\nSquish | May 24, 2007 9:41 AM | Reply\nSorry for the oversight. It\u2019s been rectified.\nOr, as we say in our anally fixated household, rectumfied.\nCulture Snob | May 24, 2007 9:51 AM | Reply\nhahaha I wouldn\u2019t go so far as to say oversight!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 267.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.culturesnob.net/2009/05/bopr-april-17-26/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LOEXMOIERMW3RSZ276W6W4LKQ7DAF7YG", "length": 1867, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.culturesnob.net", "title": "Box Office Power Rankings: April 17-26, 2009 | Movies | Culture Snob", "raw_content": "1 State of Play - 9 ($14.1M) 9 ($5.0K) 10 (84) 9 (64) 37\n2 17 Again - 10 ($23.7M) 10 ($7.3K) 6 (56) 6 (48) 32\n3 Monsters Vs. 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Aliens 3 5 ($8.5M) 5 ($2.5K) 8 (73) 6 (56) 24\n7 Obsessed - 10 ($28.6M) 10 ($11.4K) 1 (20) 1 (25) 22\n8 Hannah Montana: The Movie 4 3 ($6.4M) 3 ($2.0K) 4 (44) 4 (47) 14\n9 Crank: High Voltage 6 1 ($2.6M) 1 ($1.2K) 7 (61) 2 (41) 11\n10 Fast and Furious 8 2 ($6.2M) 2 ($1.7K) 2 (27) 3 (45) 9\nPermanent link: http://www.culturesnob.net/2009/05/bopr-april-17-26/\nPossibly related entries: Box Office Power Rankings: May 1-25, 2009. Box Office Power Rankings: November 13-December 13, 2009. Box Office Power Rankings: October 30-November 8, 2009. Box Office Power Rankings: October 16-25, 2009. Box Office Power Rankings: August 28-October 11, 2009.\nPrevious entry: Box Office Power Rankings: April 3-12, 2009.\nNext entry: A Life More Ordinary.\nThe summer blockbuster season isn\u2019t shaping up so well. Star Trek is the only Hollywood product I can recommend so far. Terminator was my next hope but was even more awful than I could have guessed. It\u2019s down hill from here.\nEric | May 27, 2009 1:00 AM | Reply", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 248.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dailyrosaryfamily.com/tag/meditative-form-of-rosary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7FYCQGII3BXZEWWYB56GP7OIA5CN2JOJ", "length": 2092, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.dailyrosaryfamily.com", "title": "Meditative Form of Rosary Archives - Daily Rosary Family", "raw_content": "Tag: Meditative Form of Rosary\nWhat is the Purpose of the Rosary\n\u201cTHE PURPOSE OF THE ROSARY IS TO HELP US MEDITATE ON THE GREAT MYSTERIES OF OUR SALVATION\u201d\nThe purpose of the rosary is to help us meditate on the great mysteries of our salvation. Pius XII called it a compendium of the gospel. The main focus is on Jesus \u2013 his birth, life, death and resurrection. The \u2018Our Fathers\u2019 remind us that Jesus\u2019 Father is the initiator of salvation. The \u2018Hail Marys\u2019 remind us to join with Mary in contemplating these mysteries. They also make us aware that Mary was and is intimately joined with her Son in all the mysteries of his earthly and heavenly existence. The \u2018Glory\u2019s\u2019 remind us that the purpose of all life is the glory of the Trinity.\nPope St Pius V established the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7) in 1573. The purpose was to thank God for the victory of Christians over the Muslim Turks at Lepanto \u2013 a victory attributed to praying the rosary. Clement XI extended the feast to the universal Church in 1716.\nThe development of the rosary has a long history.\nFirst, a practice developed of praying 150 Our Fathers in imitation of the 150 Psalms. Then there was a parallel practice of praying 150 Hail Marys. Soon a mystery of Jesus\u2019 life was attached to each Hail Mary. Though Mary\u2019s giving the rosary to St Dominic is sometimes regarded as a legend, the development of this prayer form owes much to the followers of St Dominic. One of them, Alan de la Roche, was known as \u201cthe apostle of the rosary\u201d.\nHe founded the first Confraternity of the Rosary in the 15th century. In the 16th century the rosary was developed to its present form \u2013 with the 15 mysteries (joyful, sorrowful and glorious). In 2002, Pope John Paul II added the Mysteries of Light to this devotion.\nThe rosary appeals to many. It is simple. The constant repetition of words helps create an atmosphere in which to contemplate the mysteries of God. We sense that Jesus and Mary are with us in the joys and sorrows of life. We grow in hope that God will bring us to share in the glory of Jesus and Mary forever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 177.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.darlington.k12.sc.us/about_us/latest_news/https___drive_google_com_open_id_0_b86t_d_a_egq_a1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:08Z", "digest": "sha1:WUQXSFMBTSRHPD3Y5SSYZD5APPO6KXEI", "length": 885, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.darlington.k12.sc.us", "title": "Mayo High School\u2019s Fender wins 2017 DCSD Holiday Card Art Contest - Darlington County School District", "raw_content": "Darlington County School District \u00bb About Us \u00bb Latest News \u00bb Mayo High School\u2019s Fender wins 2017 DCSD Holiday Card Art Contest\nDARLINGTON, S.C. \u2013 Sarah Fender, a senior at Mayo High School for Math, Science and Technology, is the winner of the Darlington County School District\u2019s (DCSD) 2017 Holiday Card Art Contest.\nFollowing tradition, Fender\u2019s winning artwork of wintry critters \u201cdressing\u201d a snowman will be featured on DCSD\u2019s official holiday card. Also, Fender will receive a certificate, $50 and a packet of the holiday cards. Her art teacher, Lyn O\u2019Donnell, will receive $100 for art supplies for Mayo High School.\nThe Darlington County Board of Education will recognize Fender at its December meeting.\nHigh school students in DCSD competed in the contest this year, which operates on a rotating schedule. Next year, the contest will be open to DCSD elementary school students.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1037, "original_length": 60377, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.davismaa.com/testimonials.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AYKYFUSFSMHG7OLV2TBEYGHLDH6FTPNC", "length": 4852, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.davismaa.com", "title": "Humble Jiujitsu class schedule. - Davis Martial Arts Academy", "raw_content": "Humble Jiujitsu\n\u200bRoy and Sarah Davis are great. All my kids train at DMAA. We\u2019ve been part of the Davis Martial Arts Jiujitsu family for 2 1/2 years. The kickboxing class has helped me a lot. It\u2019s great to be able to train while the kids are in a safe place and in my view at all times. They use mommy\u2019s kickboxing time to do homework (but mostly play with their BJJ friends).\nAMANDA TOUPS\nI decided to Join DMAA in August of 2017. At 35, I had no prior Martial Arts experience. I did some research and I decided Jiu Jitsu might be one of the most practical forms of martial arts out there and it may just be for me. I was captivated after the first class. Not only because of how easy I took to the technique, but because of the instructors themselves. All of them strive to make you feel comfortable. The Dojo has always been welcoming and clean since day one. There has never been a class that I have walked away from where I didn't learn something. We are a family at DMAA. We work together and always push each other to be our best. There's a lot of schools and instructors you can learn BJJ from. It is not hard to find a school. However, none of those schools will compare to DMAA. I want to be the best so I train with the best.\nBILLY PEARSON\nI started Jiujitsu with my uncle Charles in California. He took me to the Gracie Academy and I loved it. I then found Alvis Solis and started training with him off and on. At that time I had a bad drug problem and I ended up in some trouble. It took me away from training for awhile. After that was over I just sat around and got fat. I am 5'4\" and was weighing 223lbs. You know short people look bigger anyways. I decided to try it again and went to see Alvis and he sent me to Roy Davis at Davis Martial Arts. I came in for awhile and watched a lot of classes. I signed up in August and now train as much as I can and as hard as I can. I have lost 40 lbs in 4 months and weigh 183lbs doing Jiujitsu. I love it. There is great people here and I would recommend it to everyone. if you want to lose weight a feel great come out and try it.\nI know you're not supposed to compare yourself with anyone else....But I consider myself the rookiest of the rookies. This is the longest I have kept up with keeping my weight off and with a workout routine at that. Even at my age I'm finding it the more I show up for Jiujitsu the easier and better I'm starting to feel. I am down another size I went from a 14 to a 10. And not finished yet. I couldn't do it by myself I have tried. I am lucky I found Davis Martial Arts Academy. The Coach his wife,and his staff. If you're ready to make a change that's the place to go.If I can do it so can you.\nShane Huron\nMy jiujitsu journey started mid October of 2012. I was over 300 pounds, never ate healthy and smoked . I was ready for a change in my life. Im not the guy that used to be an athlete in high school and gained a few extra pounds. I am an ordinary person who let himself get extremely overweight and unhealthy. I joined DMAA (formerly SMAA) in February of 2013. Since then I have lost over 85 pounds and it has had a drastic effect on my outlook on life. Jiujitsu is more than just a physical sport. To practice jiujitsu you must be humble and keep an open mind or you will eventually lose focus. Lucky for me, Davis Martial Arts Academy offers the perfect balance of tough competition while keeping a very fun and open atmosphere. Over the past 2 1/2 years I\u2019ve dedicated myself to jiujitsu. I\u2019m in the best shape of my life. I\u2019ve met and become friends with a great group of guys/gals who\u201d leave their egos at the door\u201d and readily share techniques, help out (not tap out) the lower belts and want everyone to improve\u2014All under Roy\u2019s well-trained and watchful eye. Roy breaks every movement down, emphasizing the all-important details and correcting any mistakes that he has the uncanny ability to spot from across the mat\u2026Which shows me that he really cares about you improving. I am currently a blue belt under DMAA and am still in my early years of my journey. Jiujitsu to me is a way of life on and off the mat and is something I plan on doing for the rest of my life.\nAMY HAMILTON.\nIn the beginning I was very hesitant to \u201croll\u201d with people, it just seemed awkward, and I was more interested in KICKBOXING. My husband kept pestering me to try it, so I finally gave in. I was hooked after the first class, and I wasn't the only one; my entire family trains with Davis Martial Arts Academy and we all love it. The atmosphere is great and we\u2019re pushed to be better every day. Now a year into our journey we feel healthier, we've lost weight, made some great new friends and walk out of class everyday stress free. I am so happy to be a part of the Davis Martial Arts Team/Family and look forward to continuing my journey at Davis Martial Arts Academy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 5283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dead.net/features/art-dead/new-book-celebrates-art-dead", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:27HA76R742ABDZYWMWKGRB5PDEQTJYK3", "length": 15748, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.dead.net", "title": "New Book Celebrates \"Art of the Dead\" | Grateful Dead", "raw_content": "home > features > New Book Celebrates \"Art of the Dead\"\nhttp://www.dead.net/features/art-dead/new-book-celebrates-art-dead\nNew Book Celebrates \"Art of the Dead\"\nPhilip Cushway will not hesitate to tell you that he is not a Dead Head \u2014 not a fan of the Dead\u2019s music, particularly. But he loves the art that the band has inspired since the mid -\u201960s, and he also cares deeply about the artists who created those hundreds upon hundreds of posters, album covers and free-standing art pieces.\nIn the late \u201980s, Cushway became an art dealer himself, buying up more than a million posters and other works from collections of all sizes, and establishing his San Francisco-based ArtRock enterprise as the most successful business of its kind in the world. Cushway has also been responsible for publishing more than 500 limited edition prints, silkscreens, letterpress and photogravure posters and other works for modern bands (REM, Siouxsie & the Banshees, et al) as well as ones by old favorites since he first became intrigued by the medium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he lived for many years before relocating to the Bay Area in the late \u201980s. The guy lives and breathes art.\nThough Cushway states that he\u2019s \u201cno longer in the poster business,\u201d he has turned his obsession with poster art and artists in a new direction: book publishing. Just out from Soft Skull Press (an imprint of Conterpoint Books) is Cushway\u2019s Art of the Dead, which carries the cover tag line: \u201cA Celebration of the Artists Behind the American Rock Poster Movement.\u201d With just over 200 large and small reproductions of pieces relating to the Dead (and other bands, too), it offers a trip through time, using the Dead as the primary touchstone, but with more of a focus on the artists and the development of the poster as a modern art form, than on the band.\nHe uses interviews he and others conducted with top artists\u2014including SF poster pioneers Stanley Mouse, Alton Kelley, Victor Moscoso, David Singer and others\u2014to tell the story of the movement in their own words. Along the way, we learn much about the tools and techniques they employed, and their relationships with the bands, promoters and each other. Cushway doesn\u2019t just dwell on the best-known artists, either\u2014he is also generous in his coverage of lesser-known but still extremely talented folks such as Lee Conklin (you loved his cover for the first Santana album), Bonnie McLean (Bill Graham\u2019s ex), Randy Tuten and Mark Arminski. And Cushway\u2019s chronology goes all the way up to the posters Michael Everett created (and Cushway published) for the last Dead tours in 1995, so it gives a nice historical overview of the art that accompanied the group\u2019s entire career. It\u2019s also fun to see so many original sketches, artist\u2019s proofs and process materials (blue lines, printing plates, film etc.) illustrating how the works evolved.\nThe beautiful cover image for the book was adapted from a 1995 Grateful Dead Mardi Gras poster (2/24-26) designed by Troy Alders.\nPaul Grushkin\u2019s epic tome, The Art of Rock (and it\u2019s fabulous follow-up, The Art of Modern Rock), will always be the gold standard for books about rock posters, but Cushway\u2019s opus is a fine, concentrated dose of eye-popping Dead-oriented \u201chigh art,\u201d bound to please both serious and casual fans of the band.\nI spoke with Cushway recently and asked him a few questions about his approach to the book.\nCan you tell me a little about how you got into collecting and selling posters?\nI grew up in Chicago, but I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan, for a while, knocking around trying to find something that interested me. One day I went into a bookstore and I bought a copy of Relix magazine\u2014I had never bought it ever before\u2014and inside there was an article about this book that was going to be coming out in a year or two, called The Art of Rock, by Paul Grushkin. That really interested me, so I flew out to San Francisco and I met Paul Grushkin and I fell in love with the posters. They\u2019re tactile and so beautiful, and I\u2019ve always loved music. Grushkin introduced me to Ben Friedman [who ran the famous Poster Mat store on Columbus Avenue in North Beach, SF] and I also met with John Burns [of Haight Street Graphics] and a few other people, and that got me started. Back then, most posters were still quite inexpensive.\nWere you buying them mostly as an investment? Did you know it was going to turn into a business for you?\nNo. I just got very interested in it. But as I got into it more and more, I wanted to buy out Ben Friedman and he wanted a lot of money for his collection. I gambled everything I had to buy it and fortunately he allowed me to pay it off over a number of years; that was the only way I could afford it. But I felt strongly that this was great art, and even in my first catalogue, the designation was always the artist in bold underneath the image, not the bands. I always viewed it that way.\nWhere were you finding them? Were they all big collections, or did you seek out small private collections or folks who had them hanging up on their walls with thumbtack holes in them? Since in most cases it was publically distributed art, I would think the variety and quality of them would vary greatly.\nThat\u2019s true. For one-off pieces, small collections are best, but when I bought out Ben, he had previously bought out Bill Graham\u2019s [collection] and Chet Helms and the Family Dog\u2019s; probably about a million pieces of inventory total. It took me a year just to sort it and process it.\nAnd in that process, what do you feel you learned about the art? In the book you have nice homages to some of the influences\u2014Japanese woodblock art and art nouveau. Once you understood that story, what did it tell you about the early San Francisco scene and the artists who populated it?\nThere\u2019s a quote in the book by Kelley where he says, \u201cThe posters were real things in a real time, and a really far-out time. The posters were for dances and the dances were special.\u201d And I think that captures the essence of the book. It started with the dances.\nOne thing that surprised me a little in working on this book is that Kelley came out as one of the most important figures of this whole thing. Great as he was, he was not the best artist. I think Rick [Griffin] and Stanley [Mouse] are better. But in a lot of ways, he was the most essential character in the evolution of this art.\nKelley was a really smart guy. He finished high school at 16 with straight A\u2019s. He read a lot; we talked a lot about books. And he was also a rascal and very interested in pop culture. He was part of the original Family Dog, so he was involved with posters from the very beginning. Then in May of \u201966 came Kelley\u2019s first poster with Mouse, and they turned out to be this fantastic team, of course.\nBut Kelley\u2019s the one who brought in pop cultural imagery. He bought in Winnie the Pooh, Smokey the Bear, Frankenstein. In \u201965 and early \u201966 there was no image bank to draw from, but he and Mouse were pulling things from all sorts of different sources. Someone like Wes Wilson was using lettering as art, but he had to do a poster each week so he\u2019d differentiate them with his lettering and working with color. But he wasn\u2019t really drawing images until June of \u201966.\nGoing to the library and finding images was a Kelley and Mouse thing. The other thing that Kelley did\u2014if you look at first printings of what Kelley and Mouse printed, they\u2019re different. The reason why they\u2019re different is they printed them at Bindweed Press, which had an old press in a basement that laid down a lot of ink. Kelley wanted soft paper because he loved the way the ink went on that paper, and he was right. If you look at the first printings when Kelley oversaw it, it\u2019s really a piece of art. Second printing is a print job\u2014still beautiful, but different.\nI always say that Kelley brought in the pop cultural sensibilities, Mouse brought in that beautiful feel for the art nouveau. Wes Wilson was lettering. Moscoso was color and Rick [Griffin] for overall excellence.\nOne other thing about the art that I found interesting was the integration of lettering as art in an overall art piece. These artists were the foremost letterers of the last 100 years, and their seamless integration of art and image as one fused piece is one of their greatest contributions. They are the modern-day equivalent of [art nouveau and Belle Epoque poster artists] Toulouse-Lautrec, Mucha and Ch\u00e9ret.\nThe printers and lithographers were sort of the unsung heroes, weren\u2019t they?\nThat\u2019s true in several senses. In the era of the Bindweed Press, Kelley worked very directly with them. That was also true at Tea Lautrec\u2019s [Lithoghraphy]. I knew Levon [Mosgofian, owner] and Monroe [Schwartz] and Joe Buchwald [Marty Balin\u2019s father; he and Schwartz were lithographers at Lautrec\u2019s]. All the printers were very quality-conscious and worked closely with the artists. They all loved to experiment and play.\nPhilip Cushway\nI collect proof sheets and misprints and odd printings where they were playing with different colors. The thing about Tea Lautrec is they used a one-color press, and a one-color press can lay down a lot of ink. When they printed four-color, they would put the yellow up on this board first and then they\u2019d guess how much of the other three colors to put down. When you\u2019re doing four-color process like that, it takes a tremendous amount of skill. You can\u2019t see it right away. In a sense you have to guess at it and hope you\u2019re right. Also at Lautrec, they had a piece of plate glass and they would hand-mix colors on it. For example, on BG-110, the Cream poster by Mouse, that\u2019s a hand-mixed background. They were always pushing the envelope and trying different things, just like the artists were with their images and lettering.\nAs a teenager seeing the posters during the late \u201960s, I was always blown away by the way the artists could put colors together and they would totally pop and vibrate.\nThat came from Moscoso. He was into Josef Albers and his color theory. You\u2019re not supposed to juxtapose two colors from opposite sides of the color wheel because your eye does not know which color is dominant. However, it\u2019s more complicated than that. In the book, Moscoso talks about the necessity of getting the right intensity of value of the colors your juxtaposing with another. Moscoso may have been the most erudite of all of them. He\u2019s quite insightful.\nTell me about the imagery of the Grateful Dead. Obviously there\u2019s life and death and there are roses and skeletons and all, but also images from the natural world work so well\u2014like if you look at the last images of the book by Michael Everett. It seems as though artists could jump off just about anything and have it make sense with the name.\nThat\u2019s right. They did a couple of things that were very interesting. They were always very open to new imagery. And they didn\u2019t shut down the parking lot stuff\u2014they welcomed it. They would borrow from it.\nThe evolution of the imagery is interesting. On the first posters the Dead were usually just one band among many. And those were all done for dances. They were not really concerts where they were saying \u201cCome see the Grateful Dead.\u201d And you saw the posters when you went to your local store or where you went to buy milk.\nAs the Dead started to emerge as a more recognizable entity on their own, the artists started tailoring what they did to the name more. The first use of the skeleton was done by Wes Wilson for FD [Family Dog]12\u2014\u201cThe Quick and the Dead\u201d\u2014where he took some clip-art; I think it was for a funeral ad, or something like that. Then Mouse and Kelley did their famous one [\u201cSkeleton and Roses\u2019], of course. For that one, Mouse and Kelley went to the library and cut the page out of the book and worked with it, and that was the image that really did it. Because it was a reflection of life and death and the fraglity and beauty of life.\nThe Dead never had a strict style guide of what they wanted, so you get this amazing variety of ideas from many different artists. Michael Everett got his gig by sending in decorated envelopes, in hopes of getting tickets.\nWho are some of the lesser-known artists who impressed you the most?\nThere are so many. Mari Tepper is one. The quality of her art is amazing. Another one that blew me away was Lee Conklin. I had never seen a piece of his original art, and once I had, I called him and said, \u201cLee, I did not know, because the printing of your posters did not show the true quality of your work.\u201d And even though some artists, like Rick Griffin, are very well known, I don\u2019t think he\u2019s gotten enough credit for some of the later things he did. He was doing some of his best work to the very end, so it was nice to get some of those never-before-seen pieces in the book.\n(To order Art of the Dead, click here. For more info about the book, click here.)\nSubmitted by lilgoldie on Wed, 12/12/2012 - 13:03\nI'd forgotten, if I ever knew it, that Joe Buchwald worked at Tea Lautrec. A couple years ago I was lucky enough to score a copy of the Goines Levon tribute poster (on Freecycle, no less!) and I just love it. Just thinking about this guy's collection (combining Ben Friedman's original collection plus Chet Helms's and Bill Graham's) makes my brain explode!\nSubmitted by Cryptical70 on Mon, 12/17/2012 - 05:49\nSo the author is not a fan of\nSo the author is not a fan of the band? That's wonderful.\nSubmitted by mrngdo on Fri, 01/11/2013 - 22:09\nWhat a fabulous book! The\nWhat a fabulous book! The art is just amazing! Thanks for the heads up Blair!\nSubmitted by rocknreel on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 07:46\neh, I'll pass\nI used to buy posters from Ben at Postermat, when I would go to SF in the late 70's. I sold vintage posters for a while; I still have my Winterland/Bill Graham wholesale catalogs, where the regular Fillmore posters cost $2.00 and the big ones (Who/Dead, Blue Rose Winterland, etc.) cost $2.50. Les at RELIX was the rep out here on the East Coast. I managed to get 100 of the Dead Radio City posters before they were sued by R City and had to stop selling them. I still have 20 or so. That said, I saw Phil Cushway as an interloper. Dealing with Ben was fine: sometimes he'd be open, sometimes closed; sometimes he'd make a deal on a bunch of posters, sometimes he wouldn't. The prices would come off the top of his head. When Cushway bought him out, controlling a big part of the market- all the Family Dog and Avalon posters, Moscoso's Neon Rose posters, etc- the prices asked for the posters skyrocketed. They were no longer artifacts of a time sold by an old hippie that loved the stuff, they were a commodity to profit from. He doesn't even like any of the SF music, as far as I could tell. Doubt he ever took a hit of acid. I see it like this: it was as if the Dead shows were out there available for trading or purchase at a small price, fan to fan, and then someone who had nothing to do with the band or even liked them came in, bought all the shows, cornered the market, and started selling them at a huge mark-up. That's not a rip at The Dead, by the way- those are their shows, they have the right to do as they see fit (I support Dave's Picks, buy the box sets, etc). Sour grapes on my part? Do I sound like an elitist with an \"I was there before you, when I sold them I charged a lot less, so I am better\" attitude? Maybe. Oh well, I guess that's just the way things work in the real world.\nSubmitted by wagross on Fri, 03/13/2015 - 01:40\nGood for you, man!\nThank god i got my art before it went up, they're in my office and I look at them every day. Passed a few to my sons.Lets be honest, the whole Dead scene nowadays is profit oriented, not just the art. 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It is utterly delightful.\nI have made a mission of bringing this work into audio format, so those who prefer can listen to it rather than read it.\nCheck out the website: Harry Potter And The Methods of Rationality: The Podcast\nOr just give a listen to the first chapter: A Day of Very Low Probability", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.definearevolution.com/2017/12/retrospective-golden-era-of-black.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2DKMFT6Y32RIWN57T34JESFTBN2E5HGW", "length": 15712, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.definearevolution.com", "title": "Retrospective: The Golden Era Of Black Comedy (1988-1996) - DefineARevolution.com", "raw_content": "Home / Arsenio Hall / Bernie Mac / Bill Bellamy / Black Comedians / Chris Rock / Chris Tucker / DAR Comedy / Eddie Griffin / Eddie Murphy / Jamie Foxx / Martin lawrence / Robin Harris / Retrospective: The Golden Era Of Black Comedy (1988-1996)\nRetrospective: The Golden Era Of Black Comedy (1988-1996)\nTEAMDAR 3:28:00 AM Arsenio Hall, Bernie Mac, Bill Bellamy, Black Comedians, Chris Rock, Chris Tucker, DAR Comedy, Eddie Griffin, Eddie Murphy, Jamie Foxx, Martin lawrence, Robin Harris\nOnce upon a time, black comedy was our truth. Long before the incessant need for overstated Vine videos (RIP, and we shall not mention this Vine 2 nonsense), comedians without their own identity, and an overly sensitive society, we were in a time of renaissance, a time of greatness. As the 80's were gearing up to come to a close, our culture was being permeated by the truth tellers and verbal geniuses of our time. When hip hop was hitting the very peak of its quality and popularity, so was black comedy. The 70s and early 80's had seem domination of the black comedy scene by names like Bill\nCosby, Redd Foxx, and Richard Pryor, all of whom are legends in their own right for different reasons. Pryor was outlandish for his time, more honest about his personal shortcomings and demons than most. Foxx was a mix of outlandish honesty and self depreciation in the same breath, while Bill teetered the line between good natured comedy and clean hilarity. Up until the mid 80's, it was mostly these three names mentioned as the faces of black comedy, while films and sitcoms like Uptown Saturday Night, Good Times, and The Jeffersons served as the fodder to draw in our demographic to the theaters and in front of the television. It was decent representation, but honestly, it wasn't enough. As the 80's moved on, things began changing, and soon, a new face of comedy would emerge.\nAs we reached the middle of the 80's, comedy had a new king and his name was Eddie Murphy. Inspired by Pryor, Foxx, and Cosby, along with others like Lenny Bruce and more, Eddie was essentially the face of black comedy for a number of years, turning his somewhat brief Saturday Night Live gig into an iconic comedy special titled Delirious and a hit movie career. In many ways, Eddie was the true trailblazer for the path many other black comedians would follow. Pryor had been in a few movies that did well, but his success hadn't reached the level that Eddie would, and the same could be said for Redd Foxx, who would be most known for his role as Fred G. Sanford on the classic sitcom Sanford and Son. While he was successful as well, Eddie would be the one to knock down doors that comedians of the past hadn't even attempted to unlock.\nWith mainstream success and fame comes a bit of a backlash, and Eddie was surely not exempt from this. After the release of Delirious, he would face small backlash, but still manage to turn his success into a second (and better) comedy special, and even bigger movie success. After the roles he played in hits like Trading Places and 48 Hrs, Eddie would step into a different realm when he released Coming To America alongside fellow comedian Arsenio Hall and then he would step behind the camera to direct and star in his own film Harlem Nights, a passion project that would feature the aforementioned legends Redd Foxx and Richard Pryor. While many consider the movie to be a classic, it is a landmark film that represents every era of black comedy up until that point and set the tone for what I like to consider, the golden age of black comedy.\nIt was around 1988/1989 when a larger influx of black comedians began showing up and became more visible. The Wayans family had arrived through their parody films that took badly executed movies and ideas and turned them into comedic flips, with their biggest success being the 1988 release I'm Gonna Git You Sucka. Hollywood Shuffle was a few years prior, and it would paint the picture of the reality of the industry for black comedies and actors at the time. Keenan Ivory Wayans would get his start here, given a shot by Robert Townsend, who directed the film. Keenan would receive another big look when the King of Comedy at the time gave him a chance as a writer and producer on his second big time comedy special. Eddie Murphy's second comedy special Raw would feature Keenan as a producer, showcasing that when black comedians work together, great results can be achieved. Following Hollywood Shuffle, Raw, and I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, a sizable amount of black comedians began rising to prominence through different avenues, mostly connected to other black comedians and outlets. Through the comedy circuits and clubs, a lot of comedians were making names for themselves, earning the attention of directors and producers who saw the benefit in black comedians for a variety of roles. Over the years, we would see these some comedians experience a rise in stature because of this. Some were seen as legends, some didn't get the credit they deserved, some are underrated legends.\nOne of the most underrated comedians during this time would be Robin Harris. He was brash, outlandish, bold, and he was unafraid to say the things he felt necessary in his comedy, with no concern for those who may or may not be offended. He would have his acting debut in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, before having smaller roles in the Spike Lee films Do The Right Thing and Mo' Better Blues. His biggest claims to fame are his role as the father in House Party and of course, the hilarious Bebe's Kids routine that would eventually become a classic animated feature. He would unfortunately pass away while the original idea of a feature film was in pre production, so as a result, it became the animated feature. The result would end up being one of the most important things in his career, with his legacy carrying on even in death. My personal favorite role of his came in House Party, as he was the funniest part of that entire movie, but I also found his role in Do The Right Thing to be entertaining as well. He managed to bring his charisma to each role, providing a template for some comedians that followed him and carving his own personal lane.\nThe black comedy world was such a unified one at the time that another legendary comedian came about at the same time as Robin, and in the same avenues as well. Martin Lawrence, a brash young comedian at the time, would get his first big shot in Do The Right Thing and House Party, with House Party being the more prominent role in his career. Martin was a stand up comedian who came up through the circuit and would gain more popularity with each role he got. He would follow up those initial roles by appearing in House Party 2 and Boomerang, alongside Eddie Murphy, David Alan Grier, and yet another future comedic star in Chris Rock, who had a small but hilarious role. As I mentioned, black comedy was one big circle in this golden era, and the unity amongst those comedians was honestly amazing to see.\nLong before these names turned into superstars, they were giving each other shots and helping putting each other on in a way. For Martin, after smaller roles in House Party 2 and Boomerang, he would get two huge jobs that would change his life and career forever. The first would end up being his all time classic self titled sitcom that is still regarded as one of the best black shows ever and one of the best comedic programs in television history. The show is still my personal favorite sitcom ever, and the episodes have honestly aged like fine wine, remaining just as funny, if not funnier than they were initially. The second job that Martin would get that would change his career was as the host of a new stand up comedy program that was coming to HBO. This show was produced by Russell Simmons and it was titled Def Comedy Jam. Def Comedy Jam would become the breeding ground for a lot of the next comedians to take the world by storm and it all started with Martin as the host. He was brash, loud, wild, and not afraid to make fun of the audience or himself, something that made him relatable and fun to laugh at.\nWhile Martin was the next in line for a shot at superstardom, there were paths and roads being paved for others through Def Comedy Jam. Previously, most of the comedians who were able to get attention had to have a connection or work hard on the circuit to gain a movie role or small time comedy special. Def Comedy Jam changed the comedy game for black comedians. Prior to Def Comedy Jam, HBO would have 30 minute specials for a number of comedians, including Damon Wayans, but none of those compared to the level of exposure that Def Comedy Jam could bring. It was fun, it was fresh, it was raunchy, it was hip hop, but most of all, it was a platform. This platform was used to bring about a number of hilarious comedians that you might not ever get the chance to hear from anywhere else, from Shucky Ducky to Hamburger to Laura Hayes to Adele Givens to Sheryl Underwood to a number of others. These weren't household names, but on Def Comedy Jam, they were treated like royalty so to speak. At this time, Martin was enjoying living both the host life and the television life, before getting back to the film world shortly after leaving Def Comedy Jam as the host in 1993. Before he left however, some bigger stars were born, and I'll get to those in a second.\nMartin would drop his first standup special, You So Crazy, shortly after releasing his first comedy album, Martin Lawrence Live: Talking Shit. While all this was going on, Def Comedy Jam was still flourishing, bringing new comedians to the forefront and making some stars in the process. Prior to Martin leaving, one of those stars, Bernie Mac, would become iconic based on one solitary performance that still resonates today. After Martin had trouble calming an unusually hostile crowd, Bernie Mac came out and let it be known, as simple as possible, \"I Ain't Scared Of You Muthafuckas!\", which has became one of his most infamous phrases instantly. What was special about his set was that he showed no fear of the hostile crowd. He went out, took control, and by the end, he had them on their feet giving a standing ovation. That's when the star was born. At that moment, Bernie Mac became the MAN. While his roles in films weren't hugely substantial, he would still manage to steal the show in every movie he was in. Whether as Uncle Vester in House Party 3 (Martin departed from the House Party franchise after the 2nd one), Flip in Above The Rim, the pastor in Friday, or even a brief role in the Wayans' hood classic parody Don't Be A Menace, Bernie would shine through the screen with ease. Of all these roles, my favorite of his would have to be his role in Friday as the pastor alongside Ice Cube and another Def Comedy Jam legend, Chris Tucker.\nChris Tucker would see his star grow based on his charismatic style and extremely unique and loud voice, and he too would end up taking his talents from Def Comedy Jam to the big screen. His most infamous bit on Def Comedy Jam has to be his imagining of Michael Jackson as a pimp, and from that one iconic moment, he would make his film debut in House Party 3 (alongside Bernie Mac, Kid N Play, and others... see how connected all these comedians were), as Johnny Booze. His breakout role would of course be in Friday, alongside another Def Comedy Jam alumni who had already made a name for himself prior in John Witherspoon. The world of comedy was so vastly connected in this golden age, and with Chris Tucker using his platform on Def Comedy Jam to catapult himself into a very successful movie career. He wasn't the only Chris who utilized a platform to gain more film success, as there is one Chris in the comedy with bigger stature than Tucker that came about around the same time from a familiar link.\nChris Rock got his official big start in the Wayans' parody I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, a hilarious film that positioned him to steal the show with his infamous \"one rib\" scene. Prior to that, Rock had been featured in comedy clubs through New York, and had a small role in Beverly Hills Cop 2, thanks to Eddie Murphy. He would end up landing roles in New Jack City and Boomerang after ending up as a regular on Saturday Night Live, following a path that Eddie Murphy had set prior. His departure from the show would allow him to be on his own accord, and he was very successful in doing so. Starting with appearances on In Living Color, his own low budget film CB4, and his own HBO specials like Big Ass Jokes and Bring The Pain, Chris Rock took the opportunity he was originally given from Eddie, and he ran with it beyond what anyone could have expected. Speaking of Eddie, another comedian that came from Def Comedy Jam would garner a small but memorable role in a 1996 film of his, after making his name on the Def Jam stage. The biggest role for Dave Chappelle minus his role in the underwhelming Robin Hood film came in The Nutty Professor, and who could have guessed that Chappelle would go on to be one of the greatest comedians of his era and beyond. That's the beauty of the golden era of black comedy. There were so many talented names and faces that everyone worked to carve out their lane. We haven't seen anything quite like it since, and there's mostly just been one solid comedian at the forefront of every era that followed. With all the names listed so far, it's no telling this was the golden era of black comedy, but the quality of comedians doesn't stop there.\nDef Comedy Jam gave us so many legends that went on to be successful, with Eddie Griffin gaining notoriety with a Michael Jackson joke that seemingly caught the eye of every producer and director that paid aattention. He would eventually go on to be a part of his own sitcom, Malcolm and Eddie, with Malcolm Jamal Warner as his costar. Another two comedians from the Def Jam stage are Steve Harvey and Cedric The Entertainer, and they would end up taking their comedy talents from the stage to the small screen on The Steve Harvey show.\nEven comedians like Joe Torry, Tracy Morgan, and Bill Bellamy would find success through their avenue on Def Comedy Jam, making this the most successful outlet for black comedy in history. Another important but smaller outlet would be In Living Color, which essentially introduced the world to Tommy Davidson, David Alan Grier, the younger Wayans brothers Marlon and Shawn, but most importantly, Jamie Foxx. Jamie Foxx is another legend that came from this era, and we've all seen his work, starting with the Jamie Foxx Show, which ran for 5 years, along with his roles in films like The Player's Club (alongside Bernie Mac), and Booty Call (alongside another solid comedian in Tommy Davidson). It's so interesting how many comedians in the black comedy world were connected and had their careers take off at the same.\nIn all honesty, we may never see a time like this in our culture again. A number of successful black comedians, all working together, and creating opportunities for each other? Nowadays, that would sound like a foreign concept, but in this golden era, it was the norm. Look at the names. Eddie Murphy, Martin, Arsenio, Bernie, Cedric, Steve, Jamie, Marlon, Shawn, Chris Rock, Chappelle, Chris Tucker, Eddie Griffin, Joe Torry, Bill Bellamy, Robin Harris, Sheryl, Adele Givens, and so many more in the same era. 1988-1996 is the golden era for black comedy and we will likely never see an era quite like this one. The golden era of black comedy gave us legend after legend, hilarious moment after hilarious moment, and I will forever remember this time period for every special joke and laugh it gave me and many others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 18966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.degreesfinder.com/psychology/getting-a-degree-in-psychology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:25Z", "digest": "sha1:KIHBN7THJAXOR3H37536VJSKYORM5BWK", "length": 3938, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.degreesfinder.com", "title": "Getting a Degree in Psychology", "raw_content": "DegreesFinder > Online Degrees > Education Articles and Advice > Getting a Degree in Psychology\nGetting a degree in Psychology can open the door to a wide variety of professional and personal growth opportunities. In fact, psychology is one of the most rapidly growing job and career fields. People who hold this degree are popping up in every profession from arts and advertising to health care and human resources. Read on to discover five reasons to get a degree in psychology.\n1. The Job Outlook Is Bright for Psychology Majors\nAccording to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), employment in the field of psychology is expected to increase by 15% from 2012 to 2022, which is faster than average employment growth.\nWith so many Americans dealing with divorce, emotional crises, depression, addiction, and stress, psychologists working in private practice, mental health centers, and schools are in high demand.\nEmployment for industrial-organizational psychologists will also see a spike as businesses continue to develop effective staff surveys, maintain employee retention rates, and encourage a higher level of morale and productivity.\n2. There Is Great Diversity in the Field of Psychology\nThis field is not one-size-fits-all. Derived from the Latin psyche (soul or mind) and ology (study), a degree in psychology prepares students to analyze mental processes, behaviors, and the individual and collective unconscious. Since there are so many ways this study and research can be applied, students can choose from a wide variety of areas in which to specialize, including:\nPsychology encompasses such a vast domain that students can easily combine other academic interests and move into a more niche field. For example, a person who loves sports and psychology can earn a degree in sports psychology.\n3. Psychology Degree Graduates Can Work in a Variety of Career Fields\nResearch and mental health are not the only fields that can utilize an individual\u2019s knowledge of psychology. Stimulating career opportunities exist in human resources, advertising, criminal justice, and human services for those skilled in the workings of the mind.\nAre you passionate about assisting your local community? If so, you may be interested to know that a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology is suitable for work as an affirmative action officer, community relations officer, and recreation worker.\nAnother exciting field is forensic psychology, which entails working with working with law enforcement to solve crimes through studying the behavior of criminals. In fact, people with psychology degrees are often preferred for such positions asparole and probation officer.\n4. A Psychology Degree Will Train You to Deal with Coworkers More Effectively\nPeople with training in psychology are often more successful in dealing with their coworkers, clients,and even bosses. In the competitive job market of today, employees with highly developed interpersonal skills, or \u201cpeople skills,\u201d are valued for reducing conflicts, increasing participation, and obtaining information necessary for completing tasks.\nAccording to the results from a 2007 survey commissioned by Microsoft, 61% of approximately 500 board-level executives said interpersonal skills \u2014 the calling card of a psychology major \u2014 were more important than IT skills in today\u2019s job market.\n5. Psychology Students Learn How to Conduct Successful Research and Experiments\nWhile completing a degree in psychology, students are expected to conduct experiments that heavily rely upon research, testing, and analysis. These are ideal skills for a number of occupations that require contribution to teams working with health care concerns, sales, and market research.\nMarketing psychology, for example, studies the effects of advertising and packaging on potential customers. But other jobs, such as an opinion survey researcher, research assistant, and laboratory assistant also seek out these skills.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 231.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.denisekiernan.com/denisekiernan/andrew-jacksons-proclamation-for-congress-via", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:49Z", "digest": "sha1:RISX7D64KYRSJFZEVIWS52E7FTRBRLYD", "length": 715, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.denisekiernan.com", "title": "Andrew Jackson's proclamation for Congress. Via National Archives. \u2014 Denise Kiernan", "raw_content": "Andrew Jackson's proclamation for Congress. Via National Archives.\ncongressarchives:\nOn December 10, 1832, just weeks after South Carolina nullified the tariff acts of 1828 and 1832, President Andrew Jackson sent this proclamation to Congress, arguing that states did not have the right to nullify federal law.\nPresident Andrew Jackson\u2019s Proclamation Regarding the Nullification Crisis, 12/10/1832, Records of the U.S. Senate (ARC 595383)\nSource: http://todaysdocument.tumblr.com/post/37664331222/congressarchives-on-december-10-1832-just\nTagged: national archives, document, history, us history, andrew jackson\nNewer PostManhattan Project National Park Round-Up\nOlder PostDenise and Joe on WFAE's \"Charlotte Talks\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.devonshireprimary.org/promoting-british-values/inclusion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:19Z", "digest": "sha1:Q47XPZUNRHICA54C7WF62YBWCR55OBBU", "length": 3048, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.devonshireprimary.org", "title": "Promoting British values", "raw_content": "The Department of Education (DfE) recently (June 2014) explained the need to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs. The Government set out its definition of British values in Prevent Strategy (Home Office, 2011) and reiterated these values in 2014. At Devonshire, the school\u0019's ethos, which is reflected in its policies and practice, promotes these values. These values are reinforced regularly and in the following ways.\nEach class has a set of class rules which are drawn up by the class and the teacher together. Within the curriculum there are opportunities for children to express their opinions. In addition to this, there is an annual pupil questionnaire for the children in Years 2, 4 and 6 enabling them to put forward their views about the school. All Key Stage 2 classes have a school councillor who is elected by the class to represent them. The school council meet weekly and is able to effect change within the school.\nThe rule of the law\nThe importance of laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced at Devonshire. Visits from authorities such as the Police and Fire Service help reinforce this message. Pupils are taught from an early age the rules of the school: the Golden Rules, playground rules and safety rules. Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind rules, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when rules are broken. The Devonshire behaviour ladder and snake has been drawn up to clearly show the children rewards for good behaviour and the consequences if the rules are broken.\nAt Devonshire, pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for young pupils to make informed choices, through a safe environment and an empowering education. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and advised how to exercise these safely, for example through our eSafety and PSHE lessons.\nDevonshire is a caring community, enthusiastic for everyone's success; respect is at the centre of Devonshire's ethos. It is actively promoted through our golden rules, behaviour ladder, the curriculum and our social, moral, spiritual and cultural (SMSC) provision.\nDevonshire is a very diverse school. We actively promote and celebrate diversity through the curriculum and other activities that support the curriculum. Religious Education (RE) lessons and personal, social and health education (PSHE) lessons reinforce messages of tolerance and respect for others. Members of different faiths and religions are encouraged to share their knowledge to enhance learning within classes and the school. The children visit places of worship that are important to different faiths.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 7664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dianadyermsrd.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:51Z", "digest": "sha1:2PMFQQWAR6OMRU63F2BLJNSAQR3QZ2U3", "length": 1530, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.dianadyermsrd.com", "title": "Get trendy and crazy fashion ideas -", "raw_content": "Simple Men\u2019s Guide When Wearin...\nSometimes we think that men like everything to be simple and avoid any \u201cbling.\u201d Little did we know that many of them also want to wear jewelry from ti...\nProvide Unique & Stylish ...\nMost of the time, you can end up late at your work and commitment with your friends to meet up at the restaurant. 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Of course, you can, especially if you choose to add Beaded bracelets for men in\u2026\nProvide Unique & Stylish Shirts and Bicycle Chain\nMost of the time, you can end up late at your work and commi...\nBoth men and women will prefer taking care of their hairstyl...\nFlowers were used on special occasions in our cultures since...\nIf you decide to switch to bongs, there are definitely a lot...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.diggerrandle.com/2006/09/watching-movies.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:00Z", "digest": "sha1:X7LBA3ICNEZRDXEILVOVOXOPHXQZ263E", "length": 1816, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.diggerrandle.com", "title": "No Diggity: Watching Movies", "raw_content": "A few weeks ago at church we watched V for Vendetta, one of my favourite movies of the past few years, and discussed some of the spiritual/religious themes we saw come out of it, and I feel it was an altogether worthwhile couple of nights.\nSimilar to my last post, I was thinking a lot about why we do it. If its just so that we can say we're cool and watch movies at church, then i think we've missed the point.\nFor me the point is that God can speak to us through movies, through secular songs, through all what manner of popular culture, if only we're switched on enough to hear Him. We need to get better at opening our ears, eyes and hearts-and those of others, for God to speak to us through these medium.\nKimando said...\nI was reading an article in The Door magazine (fantastic read! http://www.wittenburgdoor.com/home.html ).\nIt was really interesting as it talked about Christians taking things and making them 'ours' by putting 'Christian' in front of them. i.e. 'Christian music', 'Christian movies'\nI think it was an interview and whoever it was suggested that we should be part of the world and taking meaning from what is around us rather than recreating it to be 'Christian' and I guess 'safe'.\nI wish I could find it or remember who it was that was being interviewed. Either was it was a good challenge.\nyeah I've read that one once or twice before, is always good.\nYeah I know what you mean about having to make a Christian version of everything, like that Fast n the Furious remake, and all the other 'Christian' rubbish out there.\nWhy can't we be a little less precious and just watch normal stuff. But I guess I can see how scared parents who don't have the time to sit down and discern movies with their kids would feel the need to but them Christian everything, hopefully that will never be me!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 6723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.discussionsmagazine.com/2013/05/broken-toys-and-millions-ne-two-obscure.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4VIGFSR6GQFIX5SDMOF4GB4OK3JO42TK", "length": 6996, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.discussionsmagazine.com", "title": "Discussions Magazine Music Blog: BROKEN TOYS and THE MILLIONS NE: Two Obscure '80s Bands Rise Again With New Reissues!", "raw_content": "BROKEN TOYS and THE MILLIONS NE: Two Obscure '80s Bands Rise Again With New Reissues!\nOBSCURE '80s BANDS RISE AGAIN\nWITH NEW REISSUES!\nBack in the day when most record stores sold more than just the Top 40 and hit catalog titles, you could troll through the bins and come across hundreds of albums by artists that you'd never heard of before. While some folks may have shrugged these bands off, there were many that would pick up the album, read the back sleeve notes and try to get an idea of what the band was all about. The more adventurous music fans with a little extra money to spend often bought albums based on anything from the cover to the producer, the label or the picture on the back of the album cover. I'm guilty of doing just that. Back in the late '70s and early '80s, I'd buy records just because the band looked like they might be Power Pop or New Wave. Heck, I think I bought albums from practically every band that had a 'The' in front of their name and had at least one member who wore a skinny tie.\nWith so many releases every week, it was hard to keep up with new bands. Thousands of them slipped through the cracks, never to be heard from again. If you have a pretty large music collection, you probably have records by a lot of obscure bands. Some of them may have been popular in other countries, but here in the good ol' U.S. of A., they never quite made a mark. And as we all know, there are more worthwhile bands that didn't make it than there are million-selling artists. That is a given.\nBut what about those bands that never scored a hit record or received much, if any, airplay apart from their local radio stations who (hopefully) supported them? We all know that just because they didn't sell albums by the bucketloads doesn't mean they weren't worthy of our attention, and that is why reissues are so damn important these days - they remind us of the bands we once loved and may have forgotten or they introduce us to an artist that we sadly missed first time around...\nTwo recent reissues that I'd like to bring to your attention are ones by BROKEN TOYS from Stockton, California and THE MILLIONS NE from Lincoln, Nebraska. While The Millions NE were signed to a major label (when they were simply called The Millions), Broken Toys released their album independently. Both bands have built up cult followings over the years and both have just reissued some pretty amazing music that will hopefully bring them to the attention of a wider audience...\nTHE CUT OF MEMORY:\nXXV ANNIVERSARY EDITION\nBroken Toys formed in Stockton California in 1984 and three years later, released their only album, The Cut Of Memory. Though the band never really broke out of the local scene in a big way, they did manage to play 800 shows during their lifetime, opening for some of the best of the '80s brigade including Echo & The Bunnymen, Modern English and The Church. Their sound was definitely Euro-influenced and while they could be considered Goth by some folks, their melodies are far too pretty for that. They used synths to flavor the songs with haunting melodies that helped to accent the songs, not to carry them. There are plenty of real drums, bass and guitars to drive the songs home. Vocally, there had great melodies and harmonies that added even more depth to the songs.\nWhile the production is thin at times and there are a few flat vocal notes, The Cut Of Memory is an excellent listen for anyone into '80s New Wave, Pop and, yes, Goth. There are many stand out tracks on the album including \"Caressa Swtich\", \"Ileana (Imagine Me)\", \"Angels On Horseback\", \"Red Square\" and others. The nine bonus tracks add a few non album cuts mixed with alternate versions of album tracks. At times sounding like a tasty demo, the songs are so good that the band would surely have made their mark had they recorded with a proper producer and had the support of a major label. For anyone who loves the '80s New Wave, Indie or Goth scenes should really do themselves a favor by checking this release out.\nThe band that Broken Toys kind of reminded me of on first listen was another obscure American band from the same era called Digital Sex. Led by singer/songwriter Stephen Sheehan, Digital Sex were from Nebraska. A longtime music fan and record store owner by the name of Randy LeMasters had a lot to do with getting their retrospective CD in the shops some two decades ago. Coincidentally, LeMasters was also responsible for releasing...\nTHE MILLIONS NE\nPOISON FISH\nOK, so technically, The Millions NE are not an '80s band, but they were born at the tale end of the decade and these recordings missed out on being '80s tracks by only one year, so I chose to include it on this feature...\nThe Millions NE's tale is much like a lot of other bands' bittersweet story. A promising band gets signed to a major label but things don't go as planned... Here's a recap of their press release:\n\"In 1989, The Millions formed out of the ashes of two popular groups from Lincoln, Nebraska. Greg Hill and Harry Dingman III came from the recently disbanded For Against, while Lori Allison and Marty Amsler joined from The New Brass Guns. Polygram became the first major label to pick up a Lincoln band for more than 20 years when they signed The Millions and connected them with longtime Rush producer, Terry Brown. The Smash/Polygram album from those sessions\u2014M is for Millions\u2014was released in October 1991. Two years after M is for Millions, the band released the album Raquel on Dream Circle, another Polygram label. In support of Raquel they embarked on a European tour opening for Sheryl Crow. However, in 1995, The Millions disbanded.\"\nPoison Fish consists of unreleased tracks that the band had recorded before signing with Polygram. For anyone who missed the now deleted M Is For Millions, this is your chance to get connected with this mesmerizing band that hits all the right marks when it comes to moody, emotional guitar pop. If you are already a fan, then this release will reignite your passion for the band. While comparisons to other bands is difficult, it is safe to say that The Millions NE are certainly closer to All About Eve or Throwing Muses than other female-fronted bands of the era like The Bangles. In fact, there are even hints of Siouxsie & The Banshees on Poison Fish. Lori Allison has a powerful voice, but she doesn't attempt to win hearts with her femininity - she sings from the soul, never cooing like a baby or wailing like an angry cat. Her voice is one with the music and doesn't attempt to fight to be heard. The songs are slow burners, sinking into your brain by the second and third listen. 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ISBN 978-098155935-3 (Pbk) Dianna Henning __________________________________________________________ When you open the pages of By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives, a Memoir conjointly written by Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson and published by New Village Press, you also open prison gates and enter the marginalized world of the imprisoned where the clanging of doors as they are opened and closed remains indelibly imprinted in your mind. You also feel throngs of men, the small space, the over-crowding. This is a heart rending book that depicts both writers\u2019 childhoods, their struggles and eventual transcendence through art, poetry in particular. Judith says of her childhood: \u201cI spent a great deal of time scanning the terrain between what appeared on the surface and what lurked underneath.\u201d Both writers dare look underneath the surface in order to reach deeper into the human psyche. This is a book of searching, synthesizing and blending\u2014there is the teacher (Judith) of creative writing and the one taught (Spoon), but here, in By Heart and sometimes glimpsed through one\u2019s own accumulated life experiences, one sees how the teacher becomes student and vice versa\u2014all real learning derived in a growing circle of reciprocation. Through the unique peephole of words, a ladder up the steep climb of transcendence becomes a possibility. This is a heartwarming book\u2014a testimony to hope, courage and everything heroic in the human spirit. For thirty years, first meeting in San Quentin Prison, Spoon\u2019s and Judith\u2019s shared experience has been an unfolding of two creative spirits in which each gains vital access to the prayerful attention words make in the heart. As someone who also worked through the prison arts program (Arts-in-Corrections) I found that the men participating in the program dropped their prejudices at the visiting-room door, helped one another out with loans of paper and pencils. If one writer couldn\u2019t make the workshop for some reason, a buddy would carry in the work, the revisions, stories and poems. There was a generosity of spirit that followed me out beyond the walls, long after the massive iron grate doors of Old Folsom and the automatic doors of California State Prison, Sacramento closed, that lifted my life into a fuller comprehension of the complexity and richness of diverse cultures, as well as the social problems that often affect the lives of those who lack opportunities for advancement. It was a gift to have garnered the privilege to participate in the prison arts program and to see men make discoveries into their own souls and grow. In By Heart, I was particularly struck by Judith\u2019s patience at the door of such discovery\u2014she learned how to work with Spoon and gained his trust. She allowed him his silence, his need to quietly observe and respected his need to wear his signature sunglasses in workshops, something I had difficulty with when he arrived from San Quentin to Folsom. I simply didn\u2019t know his background, especially with abusive teachers during his adolescence: \u201cMy hopes, my dreams, my desires\u2014the whole world, everything around me\u2014seemed violent: society, school, church, the pigeons, chickens, hogs, and dogs we raised at home\u2026.My father hit my mom and they both hit me. I fought at school, fought with my brothers\u2026.the teachers gave beatings.\u201d But I did sense in Spoon a penetrating intensity, a brilliance which makes for ripe fodder in creative works and Spoon Jackson wrote many inspired poems and insightful annotations. I\u2019ve since concluded that those signature sun glasses he compulsively wore offered him a chance to unobtrusively observe\u2014they gave him a sense of space in a crowded place. That very strangeness and crowding is keenly evident in Spoon\u2019s own words: \u201cWhat could I compare this new life to? Perhaps the flood control tunnels under the railroad station we roamed in as kids, the way those tunnels shrunk and grew darker and more suffocating the deeper we descended.\u201d Despite this, this book does not ask for forgiveness. It does not set out with an agenda to condemn the prison system, create a social polemic, nor does it ask that we as readers have sympathy for those imprisoned. It simply asks that we suspend our previous perceptions regarding human nature and learn to accept the duality inherent in life. By Heart reveals what a fragile task that is\u2014to stand on shifting ground, but it is shifting ground that propels the writer to enter his/her own truth. To hold two truths at once is no easy task. Judith later says: \u201cSpoon, for example, was a little boy with a rich imagination. He lay on sand dunes and looked up at the sky; he pondered what adventures the rainbows above might lead to. Spoon was curious, at home and in the physical world, and open to learning. Yet adults at his school didn\u2019t see or relate to that little boy.\u201d Later she wisely says when asked how her students changed: \u201cAll rehabilitation is self rehabilitation.\u201d If, that little boy, when he was full of wonder at the world, had been nurtured and challenged early on, which should be the right of every child, the story of his life would have quite likely unfolded in a different way. Spoon was raised with fourteen siblings, a huge family by any standard, in Barstow near the Majave Desert. Judith was raised in a strong Jewish family\u2014both situations, albeit different, allowed growth of the imagination. In his early years Spoon committed a crime which landed him in prison. But there is a difference between Spoon Jackson and some inmates. Instead of wallowing in self pity, instead of blaming others, Spoon took the hero\u2019s journey which Carl Jung so often speaks of in his books. He enrolled in the prison\u2019s college program, became a voracious reader, and did serious soul searching. He experienced his dark night of the soul, and through art transcended the difficulty he\u2019d experienced in his younger years. Each writer in By Heart unfolds his/her memories in alternating chapters which gives the work an intimate conversational tone. This helps the reader to feel warmly invited into their lives\u2014neither one trying to prove anything except discovery of his/her own artistic process. Photographs are interspersed throughout the chapters giving the reader a chance to meet the authors. The photos of Spoon are often pensive, thought-filled; a contagious vibrancy in Judith\u2019s\u2014these writers become friends to the reader as their memories unfold and through aid of the pictures they become real people. There is also well wrought clarity and a down to the bones honesty in this collaboration that becomes a sacred invitation to begin one\u2019s own journey into transformative discovery. Spoon so poignantly says at the end of the book: \u201cForging my path in life is a melancholic mixture of wonder and sadness.\u201d It is perhaps that sense of wonder that spurs all writers to enter that sometimes terrifying tunnel of the soul where the eyes open into depth and understanding. It is through wonder that we are uplifted by this unique collaboration. That is what I loved about this book. That is what By Heart impressed in my heart. Dianna Henning is author of two poetry books: The Tenderness House & The Broken Bone Tongue. She has published in numerous magazines and has taught creative writing through California Poets in the Schools, The William James Association, several CAC arts grants and recently worked with Native Americans through a CA Humanities Stories Grant.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 8766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dreamchaserthf.com/2017/08/bianca-ryan-man-down-music-video.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:56Z", "digest": "sha1:XY4ZELU2XO4TCSNRNKLDPWCCT6ROWO65", "length": 68, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.dreamchaserthf.com", "title": "Dream Chaser: Bianca Ryan - Man Down (Music Video Premiere)", "raw_content": "Labels: agt, america's got talent, bianca ryan, music video premiere", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 4654, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 264.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drmgamecast.com/2015/04/assassins-creed-chronicles-china-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:56Z", "digest": "sha1:2INJQUJUHWSAUZYBVYZUYCYI2SOQ5NV7", "length": 4209, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.drmgamecast.com", "title": "Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China Review - DRM Gamecast", "raw_content": "Home Review Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China Review\n/ Ben Gilbert\nSince the beginning of next gen, Ubisoft has had kind of a rough start: games with glitches, games with server problems, games not living up to what was promised. Unity\u2026 Tetris\u2026. I\u2019m looking at you especially. So I\u2019m happy to report Ubisoft has finally gotten a game out that had none of these problems and is actually quite a fun little experience.\nAssassin\u2019s Creed Chronicles: China is a 2.5D side scrolling stealth game, much in the vein of Mark of the Ninja, (a fantastic game and as I\u2019ve always said: if you\u2019re gonna rip off a game, pick a good one) and is the beginning of a trilogy that will be continued with India and finally Russia. In this installment we play Shao Jun in 1526 China who was introduced in the film Assassin\u2019s Creed Embers and trained by Ezio himself, star of Assassin\u2019s Creed 2, Brotherhood, and Revelations.\nIn Chronicles China Shao has returned from abroad with a mysterious box in tow, given to her by Ezio, to find that the assassins brotherhood of China has been wiped out by The Tigers (Templars). The Tigers are led by the villainous Zhang Yong who, via his control over the Emperor, is basically in charge of the entire country. Your only comrade is Wang Yangming, your shifu, (it\u2019s never clear if he was part of the brotherhood, but I assume so) and together you are out to avenge your fallen brotherhood and take back China for the people. A solid revenge story is always tried and true, but the side plot with the mysterious box mcguffin is not so great as we are only told it\u2019s some kind of weapon and is missing a part. For some reason everybody good or bad wants it. It\u2019s convoluted to say the least but looks like it\u2019s the item that links the three chronicles games together so maybe the box story will improve with the next installments.\nOf course, the star of this game isn\u2019t the story anyway, it\u2019s the game play. Fear not, it\u2019s very strong only suffering a few minor issues. There are 12 levels and is meant to be played as a stealth game though that is not required as you could just hack and slash your way through if you choose, but where\u2019s the fun in that? As I stated it\u2019s a 2.5D side-scroller and is presented in a sweet looking water paint style. It has a nice variety of locales to play through like ship docks and the Great Wall. No assassin blade is hidden up our arm this time though\u2026. It\u2019s in Shaos\u2019 boot, which makes for some fun assassination animations, I might add. Enemies have vision cones so you can tell where it is safe to move and hide. You are given several gadgets and tools to help you like throwing knives, noise makers, and your trusty sword. The movement controls are solid as you climb, crawl, run and slide all around the map to get passed your foes (or to kill them). My only complaint with the movement was that you couldn't snap turn and several times I got caught because I couldn't turn fast enough. To mix up gameplay a bit there are a few escape levels where you are just trying to quickly navigate an obstacle course and make it to the end as fast as possible. Those were a lot fun and honestly I could have played a whole game made up of just those levels.\nIn my time with the game I completed all the achievements which includes two full playthroughs, one of which being a 100% stealth run that was a lot of fun and a decent enough challenge. I recommend trying for this whether you are into achievements or not.\nIt\u2019s quite sad to say that Assassin\u2019s Creed Chronicles China is far superior to Assassin\u2019s Creed Unity but it\u2019s true. Unity was so bad that I can honestly say that I\u2019m not looking forward to Victory later this year and unless I see some major improvements I probably won\u2019t play it at all. However, that\u2019s not true of the Chronicles series as I\u2019m definitely going to play India and especially Russia, with its sick looking black and white visual style. So thank you Ubisoft for at least partially reinvigorating the series for me. Now go and make Victory great as well.\n+ Art style\n- Minor movement issues\nScore: 8.5/10 \"Great\"\nWhat I Played: About 15 hours completing two full playthroughs, one of which being a 100% stealth run. 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The concept gets inspiration from the Mansard roof styles found on many heritage buildings in St-Norbert.\nThis six-storey 40-unit apartment has received the blessing of the community and is going through its due diligence process, demolition of the existing buildings has begun and it is expected to break ground soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.erblawfirm.com/contact-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:12Z", "digest": "sha1:WLYAAOP6JUEYZL4BWA2EDBRHGNNJPEW6", "length": 532, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.erblawfirm.com", "title": "Contact Us | Heather Erb, PLLC \u2013 Attorney at Law", "raw_content": "If you are in need of more information regarding legal services, please feel free to contact the firm through phone, fax, email, standard mail, or the form below.\nNote: The material on this website is for informational purposes only. This information is not legal advice and is not intended to create, nor does receipt of it constitute an attorney-client relationship. Please do not send us confidential information until you speak to one of our attorneys and receive authorization to do so.\nHeather Erb, PLLC\nheather@erblawfirm.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ereferencedesk.com/resources/counties/texas/gillespie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:33Z", "digest": "sha1:TZJWULP7RUKXH5NY27ABLIKQUI26YXW7", "length": 5368, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.ereferencedesk.com", "title": "Gillespie County, Texas: History and Information", "raw_content": "Texas is divided into two hundred and fifty-four counties, more than any other state. Texas was originally divided into municipalities, a unit of local government under Spanish and Mexican rule. When the Republic of Texas gained its independence in 1836, there were 23 municipalities, which became the original Texas counties. Many of these would later be divided into new counties. The most recent county to be created was Kenedy County in 1921. The most recent county to be organized was Loving County in 1931\n\u00bb Texas Counties\nGillespie County Education, Geography, and History\nGillespie County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the state of Texas. Based on the 2010 census, its population was 24,837. The county seat is Fredericksburg. It is located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Gillespie is named for Robert Addison Gillespie, a soldier in the Mexican-American War.\nOn December 15, 1847, a petition was submitted to create Gillespie County. In 1848, the legislature formed Gillespie County from Bexar and Travis Counties. While the signers were overwhelmingly German immigrants, names also on the petition were Castillo, Pena, Munos, and a handful of nonGerman Anglo names.\nGillespie County comprises the Fredericksburg, TX Micropolitan Statistical Area.\nEtymology - Origin of Gillespie County Name\nRobert Addison Gillespie, a merchant and soldier in the Mexican-American War\nGillespie County History\nEarly native inhabitants were the Tonkawa, Comanche, Kiowa, and Lipan Apache peoples. In 1842, the Adelsverein organized in Germany to promote emigration to Texas. The Fisher-Miller Land Grant set aside three million acres (12,000 km2) to settle 600 families and single men of German, Dutch, Swiss, Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian ancestry in Texas. Henry Francis Fisher sold his interest in the land grant to the Adelsverein in 1844. Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels secured the title to 1,265 acres (5.12 km2) of the Veramendi grant the next year, including the Comal Springs and River, for the Adelsverein. Thousands of German immigrants were stranded at port of disembarkation, Indianola, on Matagorda Bay. With no food or shelters, living in holes dug into the ground, an estimated 50% die from disease or starvation. The living began to walk to their destinations hundreds of miles away. About 200 German colonists, who walked from Indianola, founded the town of New Braunfels at the crossing of the San Antonio-Nacodoches Road on the Guadalupe River. John O. Meusebach arrived in Galveston. The first wagon train of 120 settlers arrived from New Braunfels. Surveyor Hermann Wilke laid out the town. Meusebach named it Fredericksburg, in honor of Prince Frederick of Prussia.[\nIn 1847, the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty was made. About 150 settlers petitioned the Texas Legislature to establish a new county, suggested names \"Pierdenales\" or \"Germania\". The Vereins Kirche became the first public building in Fredericksburg. It served as a nondenominational church, school, town hall, and fort. Locals referred to it as 'the Coffee Mill Church' for its shape. Wilhelm Victor Keidel was the county's first doctor. Mormon leader Lyman Wight founded the community of Zodiac.\nThe Legislature formed Gillespie County from Bexar and Travis Counties in 1848. They named it after Tennessee transplant Capt. Robert Addison Gillespie, a hero of the 1846 Battle of Monterrey in the Mexican-American War. Fredericksburg became the county seat.\nThe first known residents of Gillespie County were the Tonkawa Indians. By the nineteenth century, Comanches and Kiowas had also moved into the area. The future county was first settled by Europeans in 1846, when John O. Meusebach led a group of 120 Germans sponsored by the Adelsverein to the site of Fredericksburg, which became one in a series of German communities between the Texas coast and the Fisher-Miller Land Grant, originally the immigrants' ultimate destination. Fredericksburg and the surrounding rural areas grew quickly, and on December 15, 1847, 150 settlers petitioned the Texas legislature to establish a new county, which they suggested be named either \"Pierdenales\" or Germania. The legislature formally marked the new county off from Bexar and Travis counties on February 23, 1848, named it after Capt. Robert A. Gillespie, a hero of the recent Mexican War, and made Fredericksburg the county seat. Gillespie County originally included areas that today are parts of Blanco, Burnet, Llano, and Mason counties. It underwent the first of five boundary changes in 1858, when the legislature formed Mason and Blanco counties, changed the Llano County boundary and established the present northern and eastern boundaries of Gillespie County. The last change came in 1883, when the county's boundaries were redefined and its present limits set. More at\nMartin Donell Kohout, \"GILLESPIE COUNTY,\" Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hcg04), accessed January 23, 2016. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.\nAs reported by the Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,061 square miles (2,749 km2), virtually all of which is land.\nMason County - northwest\nLlano County - northeast\nBlanco County - east\nKendall County - south\nKerr County - southwest\nKimble County - west\nTexas Colleges, Universities, & Schools", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 145.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/columns/story?id=6488036", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BP4ONYNWKHH5LJ4ZHEJE64XEISKO7MCP", "length": 24689, "nlines": 141, "source_domain": "www.espn.com", "title": "Gay and at peace, former Villanova starter Will Sheridan discusses his coming-out story", "raw_content": "O'Neil: Gay and at peace, former Villanova starter Will Sheridan discusses his coming-out story\nWill Sheridan: 'I'm proud of who I am'\nNEW YORK -- They were sitting in their dorm room late at night talking, not necessarily about anything deep or meaningful. Just talking, as people do at the end of the day.\nThey were Villanova freshmen, two guys tossed together by the fate of their college who would grow so close that even now, eight years later, they remain as tight as brothers.\nDuring their freshman year, roommate Mike Nardi (right) was the first member of the Villanova team to receive the news from Sheridan (left). AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek\nAnd so that night as they talked casually, their friendship already on solid footing, Will Sheridan told Mike Nardi something he had only told a few people.\n\"I just said, 'I need to tell you something \u0085 I'm gay,'\" Sheridan said.\nThose two words are the last hurdles to be cleared in sports, the five letters strung together that critics insist would destroy a locker room and more, destroy the athlete who utters them.\nYes, there are plenty of gay athletes we know of, but few men and fewer still from the major team sports. On OutSports.com, a website that covers the gay and lesbian sports community, numerous stories can be found of gay team captains and star athletes -- and the teammates who accepted them -- but for the most part, these stories come from high schools and smaller colleges and now even the highest positions in professional sports.\nSunday's New York Times told the story of Rick Welts, the 58-year-old president and CEO of the Phoenix Suns who recently met with friends, associates and a newspaper reporter to reveal he is gay.\nBut in terms of American athletes being out publicly at the highest levels of competition (pro leagues and the revenue sports in Division I), former NBA journeyman John Amaechi; ex-NFLers Esera Tuaolo, David Kopay and Roy Simmons; Glenn Burke and Billy Bean from Major League Baseball; and former college football players Dwight Slater (Stanford) and Akil Patterson (Maryland) are essentially the beginning and end of the list. And, like Sheridan, all of those players came out only after their playing days were over.\nWe talk about homosexuality in sports only when a lightning-rod moment comes along -- Kobe Bryant fined for using a gay slur in reference to an official, Sean Avery praised and derided for speaking out in support of same-sex marriage in an ad campaign -- then brush it aside, either pretending it doesn't exist or just preferring not to discuss it.\nWhich is why now, four years after his Villanova basketball career ended, Will Sheridan feels compelled to talk. Not because of Bryant or Avery. He decided to speak publicly months before either incident occurred.\nBut because he just doesn't get it anymore.\nThe big deal. The turmoil. The stigma.\nHe's proud of who he is, confident, comfortable, borderline arrogant even. And although it wasn't easy, his wasn't the torturously impossible and lonely road so many presumed it would be.\nThat night that he told Nardi, his teammate didn't recoil or walk out of the room. He didn't ask for a new roommate.\nHe made a joke.\n\"I just said, 'Don't go putting a hit on me or sniffing my underwear or nothing,'\" Nardi said. \"I mean I was surprised because it was new to me. I had never really experienced anything like that, but it's not like it mattered. I don't know. I mean, we were friends. Who cares?\"\nMost know Will Sheridan as a former college basketball player in the Big East, but he has a wide range of interests and career endeavors. Josh Maready for ESPN.com\nWill Sheridan went to Villanova with the same dream every college kid totes in his suitcases to college -- to become the person he was supposed to be.\nHe found that person. It's a wonderfully complicated, constantly evolving and multidimensional person.\nHe's an athlete, a former Division I basketball player who was good enough to start for most of his four seasons, pivotal seasons as the Wildcats blossomed into a national power.\nHe's a musician, with a video (\"Welcome to the Jungle\") that has gone mini-viral on YouTube and another one (\"302\") about to drop this week.\nHe's an artist, a performer who is packing the club scene in New York, people responding to his music and his message.\nHe's a businessman, a manager at a world-renowned fashion retailer.\nAnd he happens to be gay.\n\"I'm trying to have a voice, and I want that voice to reach as many people as it can,\" he said. \"I mean, look at me. I'm black. I'm gay. I'm like a quadruple minority, and I feel like a little piece of me resides in everybody. Maybe there's a kid out there who doesn't think he's OK, and he can look at me and say, 'OK, he played college basketball. He went overseas. He has a music career and now he's living his life. Now he's who he wants to be and he's happy and confident and comfortable.' It's my responsibility to talk about that.\"\nThey call it the Holy War in Philly, though in truth the rivalry between Saint Joseph's and Villanova is more profane than holy.\nWhat once was a heated battle filled with harmless pranks has, in recent years, turned nasty. The rollouts -- banners unfurled in the stands -- have gone from clever to lewd, and the vitriol spewing from the stands, particularly when played in the split house of the Palestra, can be flat-out cruel.\nAlthough Sheridan wasn't out publicly in college, he didn't entirely hide, either. He quietly and privately dated a man from another Philadelphia school. Plus, he was artsy -- he took part in spoken-word performances at Villanova. He ran funny, on his tiptoes. (\"I actually tried to change that for years,\" Sheridan said. \"Then I said, f--- it. Some people talk funny. I run funny.\") So there was plenty of stereotypical ammunition and rumor mill gossip to load up opposing fans.\nAnd when Villanova played Saint Joe's at the Palestra, the Hawks students unloaded.\n\"I remember at some games, especially Saint Joe's games, they were unreal,\" said Sheridan, recalling taunts about specific homosexual acts.\n\"At first, I was like, 'My grandma is sitting right there,'\" Sheridan said. \"And as a human being you feel it when people say nasty things. But then I thought, 'That's just stupid. If you were gay, you'd like to do [those things], too.\"\nThe fans' treatment of Sheridan surely speaks to the toxicity many fear a gay athlete would face should he come out during his playing career.\nHis reaction, his ability to laugh without a trace of bravado, says even more. Certainly, Sheridan is unique, a preposterously confident 26-year-old. Not everyone would be as well-equipped to handle the vulgarity as he is.\nBut then again, who's to know whether everyone would have the experience Sheridan had? The general consensus is that a gay athlete would be all but shunned by his teammates. Just last week, NC State's C.J. Leslie gave credence to the notion, tweeting (before later apologizing) \"I'm no anti gay but I would rather not have a gay n the locker room,\" and \"I'm not saying I hate gays but that's sumthing I would not wnt n my locker room.\"\nExcept by the time Sheridan graduated from his Catholic university, most of his teammates knew he was gay, and they didn't care. Amaechi is on the record as saying the same thing happened when he was with the Utah Jazz. More and more, coming-out stories -- especially among the younger generation -- include teammate support or, at worst, indifference.\nSheridan told Nardi first and over the years told other teammates as he grew comfortable and trusted them. There was never, Nardi joked, \"a team meeting to discuss Will being gay.\" It was simple and private, friends and teammates sharing personal information about one another.\nThe Villanova players weren't interested in outing their teammate. They just wanted to remain a team -- and win. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images\nAnd it stayed that way, an extraordinary wall of silence in an age of message boards. That no one whispered or gossiped says perhaps more than anything how indifferent and even disinterested the Wildcats were about their teammate's sexuality.\n\"Your personal life is your personal life,\" Nardi said. \"It didn't matter to us because it's family, and you don't go putting your family's secrets out in the streets. I mean, why would I tell anyone? It's no one's business except Will's.\"\nThe locker room dynamic, team chemistry, none of it changed. He and Nardi would room together for three of their four seasons, and Sheridan remained a popular teammate and vital part of the Wildcats' success.\nThe players joked the way they always joked, talked the way they always talked.\n\"I'd still say things like, 'Oh, that s--- is gay,'\" Nardi said. \"He didn't care. He wasn't sensitive like that because he knew what I meant.\"\nEvidence of the team's unity and comfort lies in one simple nugget: Jay Wright never knew his starting power forward was gay until after Sheridan graduated.\nNo one ever went to him with a complaint or a worry. No one even bothered to tell him.\n\"After I found out, I was like, 'Did you know?' And all the guys, they were like, 'Yeah, Coach, we knew,'\" Wright said. \"They just didn't care, and I guess I was just oblivious.\"\nOblivious. That's exactly the word Sheridan used, as well. He laughed when trying to explain his basketball-centric coach, making an itty-bitty telescope with his hands to show just how tunneled Wright's vision was.\nThe two were then, and remain now, extremely close. Whenever Sheridan performed his spoken word at Villanova, Wright always attended -- \"He'd be in the back of the room waiting, and I'd be last. I knew he had a million other things to do, but he was always there,\" Sheridan said -- and just last week, Sheridan called Wright to congratulate him on his hiring of a new assistant coach.\nThey shared more than a few heart-to-heart conversations, but as silly as it might sound, Sheridan's lifestyle never came up.\n\"I feel foolish now, but he was the perfect student, the perfect student-athlete, the perfect teammate. He never gave me an ounce of worry,\" Wright said. \"He was so low maintenance. You could ask him to do anything, and he'd do it. I don't know. It sounds weird, but it never came up.\"\nSheridan, frankly, preferred it that way. He never felt like he had to hide, never worried that Wright would be angry. He just thought there were other things that mattered more at the time.\nSheridan came to Nova just as the Wildcats were growing into a national power. In his sophomore season, the program made its first NCAA tournament appearance under Wright and, in his junior season, the Wildcats ascended to No. 1 in the nation at one point and advanced to the Elite Eight after earning a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tourney.\nIn all, the Cats would make three NCAA tournament appearances and own a 92-41 record in Sheridan's tenure.\nLed by Randy Foye and Kyle Lowry, the '06 Wildcats earned a 1-seed before falling to eventual national champ Florida in the Elite Eight. Elsa/Getty Images\n\"It wasn't pressure, not at all, but I knew it would be a big deal and I always felt like I was part of something bigger,\" Sheridan said. \"This wasn't about me being gay. It was about our team trying to do something together. I didn't think it was appropriate.\"\nAnd so Sheridan lived his life. He dated. He went to clubs, and he played basketball. He didn't mix the two, but he didn't separate them entirely, either.\nEventually he graduated, played overseas in Italy for a short time and -- at an alumni event in New York -- introduced his coach to his then-partner.\nAsked whether it would have mattered had Sheridan spoken publicly while he was playing, Wright paused.\n\"It's easy to say now, but I don't think it would have,\" Wright said. \"I mean, for a day or two, it would have been news, but then it would have been, 'That's just Bump [Sheridan's childhood nickname].' The level of respect they all had for each other -- and still do -- as players and people is incredible. That's really all that ever mattered to these guys.\"\nOn Wednesday night, Sheridan is hosting the first screening of his second music video, \"302,\" at Rockbar in New York City.\nThe title comes from the area code for Bear, Del., where Sheridan grew up. There, they still call him Bump, a nickname earned in utero because he pounded so relentlessly on his mother's stomach.\nOnce a rural area, Bear has grown in population and become more of an outgrowth of Wilmington, but it retains its small-town vibe. People there know one another pretty well, and they certainly knew Sheridan.\nThe tiny state doesn't produce many high-profile athletes, and Sheridan, twice named Delaware's player of the year, became a big deal as his high school career blossomed.\nThat basketball brought him notoriety and also to the strange intersection with his personal life is pretty ironic to Sheridan. He is known first and foremost as a basketball player, yet he never had grand plans of becoming one. He wasn't a kid with big dreams of an NBA career. In fact, years later when Wright referenced blue-collar professionals Sheridan played like, he would just shrug.\n\"I didn't know who they were,\" Sheridan laughed. \"I was never a guy who watched the NBA or loved the NBA or any of that.\"\nBut he was tall -- already 6-4 by the eighth grade -- so, somewhere along the way, he wound up on a basketball court. Turns out he was pretty good, too, ranked among the top 50 players nationally by one publication. And good meant winning -- including a state title as a junior -- and Sheridan loved winning, so he stuck with it, parlaying his talent into a free ride to Villanova.\nWhile starring at Sanford High School, Sheridan became the talk of Bear, Del. Courtesy of Will Sheridan\nHis father, Will Sr., and mother, Josie, both police officers, couldn't have been prouder. Their son was always a model student -- he was class president as a high school freshman and sophomore and treasurer as a senior -- and now they had a Division I athlete to boot.\n\"I couldn't walk out the door or into the Acme [grocery] without someone asking me, 'How's Bump? How's he playing?'\" Will Sr. said.\nThen Will Sr. paused.\n\"They still ask me even now,\" he said. \"Now it's just a long story.\"\nSheridan came out to his parents at the end of his freshman season. He describes the conversation as \"epic,\" stretching out the word and his arms across the table at a New York City restaurant to emphasize just how epic it was.\nPerhaps naive then -- \"I figured I was in college and my tuition was paid for by my sport, so you love me for me, right?\" -- Sheridan now understands better his parents' struggle to accept his sexual orientation.\nHe is the baby of the family and the golden child, the good-looking, smart, athletic and talented boy who never gave them a whiff of trouble.\n\"I don't care how open-minded you say you are, as a parent you project so much on your kids without even realizing it,\" Sheridan said. \"You want them to be the best at everything, and you have dreams of what your life will be and their life will be. To them, this was just no way. Denial. It didn't fit with who I was, or who they thought I was. I was perfect. This didn't work.\"\nJosie Sheridan always preached unconditional love, and she meant it.\nAnd when the test came -- when her son, whom she calls her best friend, sat her down -- loving him wasn't hard. But accepting the news was.\n\"Devastated. I was devastated,\" she said. \"I mean, I was disappointed. Not in him, but in things that were taken away -- not having a daughter-in-law, grandchildren, things like that.\"\nBut after the initial shock wore away, Josie looked at her son and saw something that had been missing -- happiness. He was always a good child (\"too good to be true,\" his high school coach once told her), but a tickle in the back of her mind, a mother's instinct, told her he should have been happier.\nAnd she could never figure out what was missing.\nUntil she saw it.\n\"Once I saw him, so happy and content, that's all I needed,\" Josie said. \"I never loved him any less. In fact, I think I love him more. I've always been so proud of him, but he has such courage. This takes courage.\"\nCourageous wasn't how Sheridan's father saw it. Although his mother quickly came to grips with her son's news, Sheridan's dad took time. A long time.\nThe relationship between Sheridan and his father hit a rough spot after the son came out to his dad. Josh Maready for ESPN.com\nFather and son didn't speak for almost a year.\n\"I come from a background of all solid men,\" Will Sr. said. \"I'm a retired police officer. You have to understand, I didn't grow up around people like that. I didn't see them, didn't know them. Even as a police officer, I didn't have that much exposure. I just couldn't do it. I couldn't do it for almost a year.\"\nIn unvarnished print, those words sound harsh and unforgiving. In truth, they are merely evidence of a generational divide. Will Sr. is 56, born and raised in a small town and in a time when homosexuality was still in the closet. There weren't television series with mainstream gay characters as there are today, and there were few, if any, conversations, let alone fierce court battles, about the rights of same-sex couples.\nAnd the idea of a gay son -- 6-foot-8 and athletically gifted -- was even harder to grasp.\nAround the same time that Sheridan came out to his parents, his older sister Chaeloa (she and Sheridan have different mothers) told her father that she, too, was gay.\n\"When everything hit the fan, the whole focus was on my brother being gay,\" Chaeloa said. \"My dad had issues with Will. All the negativity was directed toward him. He never said a negative word to me. Still hasn't.\"\nWill Sr. was raised to believe his son's sexual orientation was a choice, a choice he could unmake as easily as he had made it.\nSo, Will Sr. set about punishing that choice out of Sheridan.\nHe took away his car and stopped paying his insurance, cutting off his son emotionally and financially.\n\"I just did these things to make him realize, 'I'm not playing, son. You let this thing go. You stop,'\" Will Sr. said. \"I honestly almost lost it.\"\nAt his sister's advice, Sheridan stayed away. He gave his father space to think and work things out. He turned to a Villanova counselor for help and spent hours in Wright's office talking.\nWright only knew one of his favorite players was hurting. He didn't know why.\n\"I feel so foolish now looking back because he'd tell me how his father didn't understand him,\" Wright said. \"But he never said anything, and I never asked. I just listened and tried to help him.\"\nWill Sr., a religious man, said the power of prayer is what ultimately turned him around. This isn't a fairy tale, so there wasn't some Aha! moment or soul-bearing conversation. Painful gaps and generational gaps aren't bridged quickly or easily.\nThings aren't perfect, but Sheridan is at peace and his relationship with his father has improved. Josh Maready for ESPN.com\nAlthough they began to speak after a year, Will Sr. elected not to attend his son's senior banquet or graduation and admits that, even now, he has to tell himself almost daily, \"That's your son. Love him. Love him as he is.\"\nJust a month ago, the two finally closed the circle.\nSheridan went home and got his father, and together they drove to Villanova's most recent team banquet.\n\"We are closer now than we've ever been,\" Sheridan said. \"We talk all the time, but I know it's hard. I know it's still really hard for him.\"\nIndeed, although a relationship has been reborn, stronger and more honest than it was before, acceptance remains aloof.\nWill Sr. admits he is worried what people will think, what his fellow churchgoers will say, when they read this article. He himself still struggles, straddling the line between enlightenment and ignorance.\nAt one point in a 30-minute phone conversation, Will Sr. said, \"I don't use the word 'tolerate.' I 'appreciate.' I appreciate that this is who he is, and I believe this is who God wants him to be.\"\nAnd then, only minutes later, he adds, \"I treat him like he ain't. I believe one day he's going to change. He says he's not, but I believe he will. A man has to have some kind of belief and hope.\"\nA year after graduation, Sheridan moved to New York City, taking his mother's advice to go to the bright lights and find his dream.\nHe met new friends, started hanging out at various clubs, but quickly grew tired of listening to what he thought were meaningless rappers whose music had no message.\nFueled by the perfect concoction of ignorance and hubris, he hosted his first party -- the Will to Win, he called it -- at the Spark Center, a tiny cafe attached to an Italian restaurant in New York. With virtually no fanfare -- he mentioned it on his blog -- he packed the place and more than 1,200 people downloaded his music after that night.\nSheridan had always been a writer -- in college he penned a journal for the Philadelphia Daily News during Villanova's 2006 NCAA tournament run and after, he wrote for Source magazine -- so writing lyrics wasn't a stretch.\nKenyan children from the town in which Sheridan found his inspiration hold up an EP of \"Ngoma.\" Courtesy of Will Sheridan\nBut a career as a musician? Sheridan wasn't certain.\nAt least not until he spent 10 days in Nairobi working at the Ruiru Rehabilitation Center.\nAnd by work, Sheridan means toil. He and two friends went to Kenya on their own, interested in helping instead of vacationing. There, they refurbished the outside kitchen facilities while living on site.\n\"I've traveled a lot in my life for sports through basketball, but never anything like this,\" Sheridan said. \"We watched people wake up at 5 a.m. to scrub the floors, then walk to school and come back and work more with us. It inspired me, and it really added to my personal power.\"\nThat power now has found its focus in Sheridan's music.\nIt is, he believes, himself in its truest form.\nHis first EP is called \"Ngoma,\" which is Swahili for music. His first video, \"Welcome to the Jungle,\" has a decidedly African rhythm and the constant refrain of the word \"asante,\" which means thank you.\nThank you, music.\nIt is the perfect phrase to capture Sheridan.\nIn music, he has found not only his purpose but also his voice. His songs are equal parts personal and inspirational. They are strong and powerful, with a message and a meaning.\nAnd they are reaching people. He now has a deal with a record label, affording him the chance to make more polished videos, and he's hosting more parties with bigger crowds than ever.\nHe even counts his parents among his fans; his mom knows all the words to his songs and frequently comes to his shows. And although his dad admits, \"It's not my kind of music,\" he thinks it's pretty good.\nIt all still seems fairly whirlwind to Sheridan, but his friends in the profession saw his success coming from his very first show.\n\"He just had such a stage presence,\" said Brittiny Porter, who goes by DJ Bonnie Danger and has worked with Sheridan frequently. \"The way he performed, the delivery, his comfort. It was like he'd been doing it his whole life. He's just getting started, but I think he can definitely blow it out. There's no end for him.\"\nSheridan isn't about becoming world famous, \"though I wouldn't mind it,\" he said with a laugh. He wants people to listen to his music and respond. He wants people to know who he is and react.\nWith a towering stage presence, Sheridan wants his music to come with a message and a meaning. Courtesy of Will Sheridan\nHe's not naive. He knows some of that reaction might not be positive. But he's also not worried.\nIn fact, he's empowered.\n\"I'm prepared to cut the grass and let the snakes show themselves,\" he said. \"I don't need people who won't be supportive. I have a career that I've earned. I have friends whose respect I've gained. I have this music thing that I've started. If you don't want to be in that conversation, then I just won't have the conversation with you. I'm proud of who I am.\"\nMostly Sheridan hopes that by speaking, by telling his story, others will share their stories, too.\nAnd maybe together, with one person telling his or her story and another and another, they will finally put a stop to the turmoil and the stigma.\nThis won't be news anymore. It won't be such a big deal.\nPeople will know Will Sheridan as a musician and an artist and a performer.\nThey'll remember that he was a Division I basketball player.\nThey'll know that he's gay.\nAnd they won't care.\nDana O'Neil covers college basketball for ESPN.com and can be reached at espnoneil@live.com. Follow Dana on Twitter: @dgoneil1.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 27880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 259.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/22396010/george-hill-new-cleveland-cavaliers-got-all-robins-lebron-james-batman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FDHI7RQBMJ73Q77UDKGKA7TERWSYYGOA", "length": 6266, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.espn.com", "title": "George Hill -- New Cleveland Cavaliers 'got to be all Robins' to LeBron James' Batman", "raw_content": "Hill: Cavs 'got to be all Robins' to LBJ's Batman\nNew Cavs practice for first time as Ty Lue rolls out starting lineup\nHill: Cavs have to be Robins to LeBron's Batman (0:22)\nGeorge Hill talks about how important being a role player is when you have an all-time great like LeBron James on your team. (0:22)\nATLANTA -- By trading away Isaiah Thomas as part of three deadline-day deals, the Cleveland Cavaliers officially abandoned the Big Three structure they rode to three straight NBA Finals appearances.\nWhat became clear after George Hill, Rodney Hood, Jordan Clarkson and Larry Nance Jr. participated in their first practice with the Cavs on Saturday is that the pecking order has been shifted in Cleveland. Everything will flow through LeBron James -- even more so than before -- and then everyone else will fill in around the four-time MVP and three-time champion.\n\"We have one of the best players in the history of the game, I'm sure he's going to dictate the tempo and things like that,\" Hill said. \"We just got to do our job, be the best role players we can possibly be. He's the Batman, and we got to be all Robins. We got to figure it out.\"\nWhy did we get the Kyrie Irving trade so wrong?\nKevin Pelton had the Cavs acing the Kyrie Irving trade when it went down. What went wrong, and what happened to Isaiah Thomas and Jae Crowder?\nWhen asked who the No. 2 scorer will now be after James, Cavs coach Tyronn Lue said that while Kevin Love is out with a broken left hand, it could be just about anybody.\n\"LeBron is No. 1, and then after that, it's going to be, you know, different guys on different nights,\" Lue said. \"We said that when the season first started. It could be Hood tonight. It could be George Hill. It could be Clarkson. It could be Jeff Green, [Kyle] Korver. So, you never know. Just LeBron, he's going to make those guys better, I know that for sure. But every night it could be somebody different.\"\nCleveland will trot out a different lineup when it faces Kyrie Irving and the Boston Celtics on Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET, ABC). Lue said he will start Hill and JR Smith in the backcourt, James and rookie Cedi Osman in the frontcourt, and Tristan Thompson at center.\nAll four new additions will be available to play Sunday, Lue said.\nThe Cavs are actually 5-3 in their past eight games after all the doom and gloom they've experienced in the past several months. Lue hopes the roster reinvention will keep them winning games.\n\"These guys, it's going to take a while for them to catch up, but it's just good having them on the floor,\" Lue said. \"Just trying to start all over again with our teaching, and we'll just see how it goes.\"\nHood and Hill were able to participate in the Cavs' full practice, as everyone else involved in their three-team trade had already been processed in Sacramento and Utah. Hill passed his physical with the Cavs and said the big toe injury that has reportedly plagued him was a thing of the past.\n\"Toe's great,\" he said. \"I haven't felt my toe [injury] since last year, so, I'm happy about it.\"\nClarkson and Nance were sidelined for approximately the first 20 minutes of practice, according to the Cavs, while the Los Angeles Lakers finished clearing Channing Frye's physicals.\n\"LeBron is No. 1, and then after that, it's going to be, you know, different guys on different nights. ... It could be [Rodney] Hood tonight. It could be George Hill. It could be Clarkson. It could be Jeff Green, [Kyle] Korver. So you never know. Just LeBron, he's going to make those guys better, I know that for sure.\"\nCavaliers coach Ty Lue\nLue said that Hood could eventually start -- either in place of Smith or alongside him -- and that Nance could as well when Cleveland faces an outsized opponent. For now, the onus is on the group to pick up the Cavs' sets as quickly as possible. Hill, a 10-year veteran, will start because he is capable enough to, as Lue put it, \"just run some pick-and-rolls.\"\nThe four new faces come in with all sorts of pre-existing ties to the Cavs and to one another. Nance and Clarkson have been teammates their entire careers in L.A. Hill and Hood were teammates in Utah during the 2016-17 season.\n\"He's a guy who gave me a lot of wisdom,\" Hood said of Hill. \"I look up to him.\"\nHill was on the Indiana Pacers when they lost to James' Miami Heat team three straight years in the playoffs.\n\"He's a champ, he's the MVP, an All-Star for a reason,\" Hill said. \"One of the best to do it, so I tip my hat to him.\"\nHood battled against James when the stakes were much lower: at James' summer skills academy run by Nike when he was in high school. How did he fare? \"Not too good,\" Hood said. \"But just to play against a guy like that kind of gives you a measure where you are at.\"\nNance, of course, grew up a huge Cavs fan because his father, Larry Nance Sr., played for them from 1987 to 1994. Nance Sr.'s No. 22 hangs from the rafters at Quicken Loans Arena. Nance Jr. chose to wear No. 24 for the Cavs, even though his father offered to unretire his jersey for him.\n\"Obviously people texted me, 'What are you going to wear? What are you going to wear?'\" Nance Jr. said. \"I wanted No. 7 [retired for Bingo Smith], couldn't have that. He earned that. That's his accomplishment. I believe he deserves to keep that and it needs to stay up there.\"\nNance Jr. attended Revere High School in Akron, Ohio. Cavs general manager Koby Altman said the big man was so excited when he called him to tell him about the trade that Nance Jr. was nearly in tears.\n\"I gave him a hard time for that because that's not true,\" Nance Jr. retorted. \"I was excited, absolutely. I was super excited. We had a good conversation. He could tell I was excited, he was excited about bringing me here. This is home. There was a little bit of extra emotion, but not teary. I'm more of a man than that.\"\nAll four of the players said they heard their names in trade rumors for about a month, and finally being settled with Cleveland -- even if it means that there is the pressure of a championship run attached to it -- was a relief.\n\"Being able to be in a place that they want you here,\" Clarkson said. \"Come here and compete. All the rumors and stuff, sometimes they just mess with your head. I'm happy to be here. Feel like it's a blessing.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 8572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/23947051/nfl-warns-teams-concussions-suffered-11-11-training-camp-drills", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XGAZTQIPY5B4S5NDQLDTOAYQUU4AO7BY", "length": 3740, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.espn.com", "title": "NFL warns teams about concussions suffered during 11-on-11 training camp drills", "raw_content": "NFL warns of training camp concussions\nTeams warned about 11-on-11 training camp concussions\nThe NFL has warned teams that 11-on-11 training camp drills were largely responsible for last year's spike in preseason concussions, an important data point as coaches finalize practice schedules for this summer's practices.\nThe league has stopped short of banning full-squad drills, which coaches consider essential to preparing for the contact that occurs during regular-season games. But NFL data showed that preseason concussions in 2017 increased by 73 percent, from 26 in 2016 to 45. Most of them occurred during full-team drills during the opening weeks of camp, before preseason games began.\nEach team has received a customized data report describing how and when preseason concussions occurred in their camps last season, compared to the rest of the league. Jeff Miller, the NFL's executive vice president of health and safety initiatives, said Friday that he hopes the data \"will inform what clubs do\" when camps open. Miller said the league hopes to replicate its success in addressing a similar issue after the 2014 season. In 2015, camp concussions dropped by 33 percent.\n\"We didn't have a level and specificity of data then,\" Miller said, \"but we went through a process led by our football operations to inform teams and talk to them and say, 'Hey, we noticed this data.' We brought it to their attention, and there was an effort by many of them to address the question. And we saw a drop the following year.\nNFL concussion total highest on record\nNFL concussions rose to the highest level since the league began sharing data in 2012.\nNFL approves new rules on kickoffs, ejections\nThe NFL has approved new rules aimed at increasing player safety that will allow ejections to be reviewed and also provide new guidelines for kickoffs.\n\"Raising the consciousness level of that issue was definitely worthwhile. I don't want to take full credit for that decrease, but I think it informed what clubs did.\"\nDr. Allen Sills, hired last year as the NFL's chief medical officer, already has spoken with each team's medical staff. Sills and Miller will visit a select number of training camps as well but said they are not targeting or pressuring specific teams to change their practice schedules.\n\"It's not a matter of having five or six recidivistic clubs that we have to discipline into line,\" Sills said. \"This is a league-wide issue where everyone has to understand it's on all of us to work on. It might sound trite to say, but any concussion we save is important to us. We want to put the awareness out there ... and make sure we're making it as safe as we can.\"\nAlthough the camp concussions largely came in the opening weeks, Sills said there is no medical reason to think that players need more time to get acclimated to contact before advancing to 11-on-11 drills.\n\"We don't think about the brain as a hamstring, where you have to get it loose and flexible,\" he said. \"I don't think we feel that. We think it's exposure: What behavior are you doing and how much are you doing of it?\"\nThe focus on early-camp concussions is part of a larger effort this offseason to reduce concussion numbers across the league. Sills declared a \"call to action\" in February and followed up by working with the competition committee on two major rule changes.\nFirst, the league made it a 15-yard penalty for lowering the head to initiate contact on any part of an opponent's body. Second, the league mandated a redesign of the kickoff, which has been as much as five times as likely to cause a concussion as the average play.\nIn addition, the NFL joined with the NFL Players Association to ban certain underperforming helmets over the next two seasons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 6947, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.etest.lt/anglu-kalbos-testai/reading-skills---the-dog-and-myself", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:47Z", "digest": "sha1:55XPC2VRDCZJYYI5DQZJIBQWKV4F4YVZ", "length": 2485, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.etest.lt", "title": "Reading skills - THE DOG AND MYSELF - Angl\u0173 kalbos testai", "raw_content": "Reading skills - THE DOG AND MYSELF\nTHE DOG AND MYSELF\nIt was in 1901. I had been in the Philippines for some time and was coming home. I missed my boat and decided to travel on an old ship.\nI knew that it would not be a comfortable journey but I had no time to wait for another boat\nHardly had we left the port when I saw the dog for the first time. His name was Gulliver, and he was the captain's favourite dog. What a big dog it was! I had never seen one that could frighten me so much. But we were in the open sea and there was no turning back. I was sorry not to have taken a gun with me. But soon I managed to borrow one from a sailor and always had it about me, even when I went to bed.\nOn the third day I heard a terrible noise and saw that the ship had caught fire. She was dry and burned fast.\nNobody tried to put out the fire. The ship began sinking and all the men rushed to the boats.\nI saw no chance of getting away in a boat. Suddenly I remembered that there was a life-raft on the ship. I had no time to lose so I immediately rushed towards the raft and pushed it overboard.\nIn jumping down onto the raft I hurt myself badly and was unconscious for some time. When I came to myself, I looked about me. The sea was calm. There was no sign of a life-boat. Every man who had been on board the ship at the time must have gone down with her. I was the only one who was saved.\nThen I saw something that frightened me very much. The big head of Gulliver was coming fast towards me through the water. The dog must have jumpedfrom the ship before she sank. I was glad not to have forgotten my gun and I drew it at once. But it was wet and I could not use it.\nSoon Gulliver reached the raft He struggled a long time before he managed to get onto it I wanted to push him back into the water but did not dare to move. The dog shook himself, went to the other end of the raft and lay down,\nI did not dare to sleep that night I did not understand dogs and felt that I must watch him. In the moonlight I could see that his eyes were open Gulliver was watching, too.\nI spent a night that I'd never forget. I must have fallen asleep towards morning, for when I woke up, the sun was already high in the sky. As I was having my breakfast, I could see that the eyes of the dog were fixed on the bread I was eating \"He must be hungry\", I thought. '1 had better give him some\". And I threw him a piece of bread At first he would not touch it. He only lay there and watched me.\n(After W.Dyer)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3729, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eufed.org/about-us/membership", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:06Z", "digest": "sha1:B74DVHWZRM2M2VBUWP6DQFH7JEPGWCYI", "length": 889, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.eufed.org", "title": "Membership | European Union Federation of Youth Hostel Associations (EUFED)", "raw_content": "Home > About EUFED > Membership\nThe members of the association are non-profit and non governmental organisations constituted under the appropriate legal status in their country of origin.\nMembership of the Federation is open to Youth Hostel Associations, recognised and affiliated to the International Youth Hostels Federation, for the countries belonging to, bordering, or in special relationship with the European Union.\nDifferent kind of members may be accepted following a proposal from the Executive Committee ratified by the General Assembly.\nAdmission of members:\nEvery organisation wishing to become a member, whether ordinary or associate, shall apply in a written form before the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee decides discretionarily at simple majority of members present or legally represented about suggesting approval of the application by the General Assembly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eurel.info/spip.php?article895", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:39Z", "digest": "sha1:CSWJ7UDQ5MTC4RYB4F3MZOA2FVVZXOT4", "length": 700, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.eurel.info", "title": "2008 - eurel", "raw_content": "Civil Partnership legislation\nThe Roman Catholic Primate of all-Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady has expressed his concerns about the Irish government\u2019s proposed legislation on Civil Partnership for same-sex and cohabiting couples. The Cardinal also warned that the proposed legislation could face a constitutional legal challenge. At present there is no legal recognition of same-sex parnerships in the Republic of Ireland. However, in surveys a majority of the population have indicated that they support such legislation. A new network of liberal Christians in Ireland has been established, called Changing Attitude Ireland, which has called for support for the proposed Civil Partnership legislation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 190.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.euro.who.int/en/publications/abstracts/who-e-atlas-of-disaster-risk-for-the-european-region-the.-volume-1.-exposure-to-natural-hazards.-version-2.0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JHNMUFLCDVVUDWFUAR4TX76BJXNWQY3D", "length": 1063, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.euro.who.int", "title": "WHO/Europe | WHO e-atlas of disaster risk for the European Region (The). Volume 1. Exposure to natural hazards. Version 2.0", "raw_content": "Publications WHO e-atlas of disaster risk for the European Region (The). Volume 1. Exposure to natural hazards. Version 2.0\nThe WHO e-atlas of disaster risk for the European Region. Volume 1. Exposure to natural hazards. Version 2.0\nEnglish (HTML)\nThis e-atlas models the distribution of five natural hazards \u2013 seismic activity, floods, landslides, heat-waves and winds \u2013 and populations' exposure to them in 32 countries of the European Region. It provides the baseline data and maps needed to assess where the potential for damage may be the greatest and to underpin the call for more resources to improve emergency preparedness, reduce the health risks to vulnerable populations and aid the emergency response. This information also supports the identification, planning and prioritization of areas for prevention and mitigation activities.\nThe aim of the e-atlas is to raise awareness of disaster risk among ministries of health and other health stakeholders, and so stimulate improvement in their disaster-management capacity.\nRequest a printed copy for free", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 6107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/search.html?authors=132068", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:41Z", "digest": "sha1:QVDF2T6M7QFH7KPZN7M2FGH6SVAMXKF7", "length": 17817, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.europarl.europa.eu", "title": "Research | Think Tank | European Parliament", "raw_content": "Adapting to new digital realities: Main issues and policy responses\nDigital technologies have changed the way we live and transformed the world around us at unprecedented speed. They have affected all important aspects of life, both at work and at home, and have influenced almost everything from human relations to the economy, to the extent that access to the internet has now become a basic human right recognised by the United Nations. This profound change presents both opportunities and threats to our society. Citizens need specific skills and access to be able ...\nDigital technologies have changed the way we live and transformed the world around us at unprecedented speed. They have affected all important aspects of life, both at work and at home, and have influenced almost everything from human relations to the economy, to the extent that access to the internet has now become a basic human right recognised by the United Nations. This profound change presents both opportunities and threats to our society. Citizens need specific skills and access to be able to meaningfully take part in society and work. European businesses need an adequate policy framework and infrastructure to capture the enormous value created by the digital economy. Supporting innovation, removing barriers in the digital single market, and effectively managing and using data are the necessary tools to assist them and boost economic growth in Europe. The European Union takes an active part in shaping the digital economy and society, with cross policy initiatives that range from boosting investment, through reforms of copyright and e privacy, to removal of geo-blocking and development of e-government. This multifaceted approach is necessary to facilitate adaptation to complex new realities. The European Parliament, as co legislator, is involved in shaping the policy framework which will help citizens and businesses fully utilise the potential of digital technologies.\nNikolina SAJN\nPreparing FP9: Designing the successor to the Horizon 2020 research and innovation framework programme\nThe preparation process for an EU framework programme for research and innovation includes a variety of activities: evaluation of the previous programme; expert studies to define the scope and priorities of the new programme; and proposals for new instruments. The EU institutions, the advisory committees, the Member States and other stakeholders also put their expectations and opinions forward on the shape and content of the programme. This paper provides an overview of all the activities developed ...\nThe preparation process for an EU framework programme for research and innovation includes a variety of activities: evaluation of the previous programme; expert studies to define the scope and priorities of the new programme; and proposals for new instruments. The EU institutions, the advisory committees, the Member States and other stakeholders also put their expectations and opinions forward on the shape and content of the programme. This paper provides an overview of all the activities developed to contribute to the preparation of FP9. It also analyses the position of all the actors on 10 key discussion points including: the difficult battle over the FP9 budget; the tensions between support for excellence and the need for cohesion; streamlining of instruments and simplification of processes; requests for greater EU added value from the programme, linked to its collaborative nature; the role of the Member States in the programme's governance and implementation; and the expected innovations: the European Innovation Council and a mission-oriented approach.\nInterim evaluation of Horizon 2020\nAs required by the regulation, the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 \u2013 the European Union (EU) framework programme (FP) for research and innovation \u2013 began in October 2016 with a public consultation to gather feedback from stakeholders three years in. The Commission performed its own mid-term evaluation and asked experts to evaluate the programme's specific instruments. In parallel, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the advisory committees conducted their own, separate evaluations ...\nAs required by the regulation, the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 \u2013 the European Union (EU) framework programme (FP) for research and innovation \u2013 began in October 2016 with a public consultation to gather feedback from stakeholders three years in. The Commission performed its own mid-term evaluation and asked experts to evaluate the programme's specific instruments. In parallel, the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the advisory committees conducted their own, separate evaluations of the programme. The Commission adopted its conclusions on the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 in January 2018, confirming that the programme was relevant and presented clear EU added value. Implementation was considered to be efficient and the first results suggested that the programme was also effective in reaching its objectives. The integration of research and innovation and the Horizon 2020 pillar structure provided for greater internal coherence compared with previous framework programmes. All the evaluations highlighted four key issues to be addressed by the next FP. First, the programme budget needs to match better the funding required to bring the success rate back to acceptable levels. Second, the unbalanced distribution of FP funding across the EU raises concerns regarding the impact of the use of the excellence criterion and calls for changes to enable the various EU funds to generate more synergistic effects so as to maintain EU competitiveness and promote EU cohesion in research and innovation. Third, the evaluations highlight the will to improve the shared, multi-level governance between the EU, Member States and regions and to promote the co-design and co-construction of the FP with the public and civil society. Finally, there is widespread agreement that the EU research and innovation funding landscape has become too complex and should be streamlined, questioning the EU added value of each of the instruments and partnerships.\nEU framework programme processes: Adoption, implementation, evaluation\nOver the past 35 years, the European Union (EU) institutions have adopted eight framework programmes for research. The lifecycles of these framework programmes have been progressively streamlined and aligned with the general guidelines for the adoption of EU programmes. These lifecycles unfold in four key phases: adoption, implementation, execution, and evaluation, with the EU institutions being in charge of all phases except execution. The adoption of a new framework programme includes the preparation ...\nOver the past 35 years, the European Union (EU) institutions have adopted eight framework programmes for research. The lifecycles of these framework programmes have been progressively streamlined and aligned with the general guidelines for the adoption of EU programmes. These lifecycles unfold in four key phases: adoption, implementation, execution, and evaluation, with the EU institutions being in charge of all phases except execution. The adoption of a new framework programme includes the preparation of an impact assessment, the preparation of the Commission proposals and the adoption of the various legislative acts by the European Parliament and the Council to establish the programme. The implementation phase covers the adoption of the work programmes and the selection of the projects to be funded. Following the execution of the research and innovation activities, the evaluation phase aims to assess the outcomes of the programmes and whether the initial objectives have been met. In 2018, a new cycle is expected to start for the adoption of the ninth framework programme for research and innovation (FP9) to be effective by 2020. Understanding the processes that take place under each phase of this cycle is important for the preparation and adoption of the key legislative acts, establishing (1) the framework programme itself, (2) the specific programmes for implementation, and (3) the rules for participation, and for dissemination of the programme's results.\nTreaty on the Functioning of the EU\nArtificial intelligence (AI) systems already permeate daily life: they drive cars, decide on mortgage applications, translate texts, recognise faces on social networks, identify spam emails, create artworks, play games, and intervene in conflict zones. The AI revolution that began in the 2000s emerged from the combination of machine learning techniques and 'big data'. The algorithms behind these systems work by identifying statistical correlation in the data they analyse, enabling them to perform ...\nArtificial intelligence (AI) systems already permeate daily life: they drive cars, decide on mortgage applications, translate texts, recognise faces on social networks, identify spam emails, create artworks, play games, and intervene in conflict zones. The AI revolution that began in the 2000s emerged from the combination of machine learning techniques and 'big data'. The algorithms behind these systems work by identifying statistical correlation in the data they analyse, enabling them to perform tasks for which intelligence is required if a human were to perform them. Nevertheless, data-driven AI can only perform one task at a time, and cannot transfer its knowledge. 'Strong AI', able to display human-like intelligence and common sense, and which might be able to set its own goals, is not yet within reach. Despite the fears portrayed in film and TV entertainment, the idea of a 'superintelligence' able to self-improve and dominate humans remains an esoteric possibility, as development of strong AI systems is not predicted for a few decades or more, if indeed development ever reaches this stage. Nevertheless, the development of data-driven AI systems implies adaptation of legal frameworks on the collection, use and storage of data, due to privacy and other issues. Bias in data supplied to AI systems can also reproduce or amplify bias in the decisions they make. However, the key issue remains the level of autonomy given to AI systems to make decisions that could be life-changing, keeping in mind that they only provide recommendations, that they do not understand the tasks they perform, and that there is no way to know how they reach their conclusions. AI systems are expected to impact society, especially the job market, and could increase inequalities. To counter the abuse of probabilistic prediction and the risks to privacy, in April 2016 the European Parliament and the Council of the EU adopted the General Data Protection Regulation. The European Parliament also requested an update of the Union legal framework on robotics and AI in February 2017.\nUnderstanding nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles\nNuclear weapons and ballistic missiles need to be understood if the risks and challenges they entail are to be grasped. This understanding starts with two processes discovered in the last century \u2013 nuclear fission and nuclear fusion \u2013 that have the ability to release a significant quantity of energy from a very limited amount of matter. On the one hand, these reactions can be used to produce energy. Controlled nuclear fission is the process on which nuclear power plants are based. Nuclear fusion, ...\nNuclear weapons and ballistic missiles need to be understood if the risks and challenges they entail are to be grasped. This understanding starts with two processes discovered in the last century \u2013 nuclear fission and nuclear fusion \u2013 that have the ability to release a significant quantity of energy from a very limited amount of matter. On the one hand, these reactions can be used to produce energy. Controlled nuclear fission is the process on which nuclear power plants are based. Nuclear fusion, meanwhile, requires the ability to control a reaction that occurs at temperatures of millions of degrees. The control of nuclear fusion for energy production is the objective of the ITER project. On the other hand, uncontrolled nuclear fission and fusion reactions can be used to design nuclear weapons whose destructive power is far greater than traditional weapons. The first atomic bombs were produced and used during World War Two and based on nuclear fission. Since then, the design of nuclear weapons has been modified to include nuclear fusion reactions, leading to a sharp increase in the yield of nuclear bombs. The development of nuclear weapons requires mastery of technologies for the production of nuclear fuels (enriched uranium and plutonium), making access to these weapons limited. Advances in the production and design of nuclear weapons have made them smaller and suitable for mounting in the warheads of ballistic missiles. These missiles, whose functioning is similar to space rockets, can deliver their charge at a very long range (up to 15 000 km for intercontinental ballistic missiles).\nintercontinental missile\nPartnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)\nFollowing a request made by nine Member States in December 2014, on 18 October 2016 the European Commission adopted a proposal to establish a new public-public Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) under Article 185 TFEU. PRIMA would focus on two key socioeconomic issues that are important for the region: food systems and water resources. The decision adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in July 2017 establishes the partnership for a period of 10 ...\nFollowing a request made by nine Member States in December 2014, on 18 October 2016 the European Commission adopted a proposal to establish a new public-public Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) under Article 185 TFEU. PRIMA would focus on two key socioeconomic issues that are important for the region: food systems and water resources. The decision adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in July 2017 establishes the partnership for a period of 10 years, and provides PRIMA with \u20ac220 million in EU funds from the Horizon 2020 framework programme for research, to match the commitments of the participating states. The proposal introduces derogations to the rules concerning participation in Horizon 2020 in order to allow third countries to join the partnerships. Fourth edition. The \u2018EU Legislation in Progress\u2019 briefings are updated at key stages throughout the legislative procedure. Please note this document has been designed for on-line viewing.\nEU framework programmes for research and innovation: Evolution and key data from FP1 to Horizon 2020 in view of FP9\nThe framework programme for research was originally set up in the 1980s to streamline the adoption of Community research programmes. With the subsequent iterations of the process and Treaty modifications, the framework programme became a financial and strategic tool to support and implement EU research and innovation policies. As the scope of the framework programme widened and with the multiplication of the type of instruments used to implement it, the framework programme progressively supported ...\nThe framework programme for research was originally set up in the 1980s to streamline the adoption of Community research programmes. With the subsequent iterations of the process and Treaty modifications, the framework programme became a financial and strategic tool to support and implement EU research and innovation policies. As the scope of the framework programme widened and with the multiplication of the type of instruments used to implement it, the framework programme progressively supported all activities of the innovation process, research being just one of them. As the discussions on the structure and content of FP9 are expected to begin in autumn 2017, this paper reflects on the evolution of the framework programme since its origin and points out key issues that will be debated in the coming years among the European institutions, the Member States and stakeholders regarding the structure of the framework programme, its objectives and its implementation.\nEU participation in the PRIMA partnership\nThe European Parliament is expected to vote on the decision to allow the financial participation of the European Union in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) during the June 2017 plenary. This public-public partnership would support collaborative research and innovation projects on agro-food systems and water management between institutions of the EU and of third countries around the Mediterranean shore. The Union contribution under Horizon 2020 could reach ...\nThe European Parliament is expected to vote on the decision to allow the financial participation of the European Union in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) during the June 2017 plenary. This public-public partnership would support collaborative research and innovation projects on agro-food systems and water management between institutions of the EU and of third countries around the Mediterranean shore. The Union contribution under Horizon 2020 could reach a maximum of \u20ac220 million over 10 years.\nEuropean Technology Platforms (ETP) were the first type of public-private partnership established in the research field at European level. These industry-led stakeholders' fora define and implement a strategic research agenda (SRA) aiming at aligning research priorities in a technological area. Without dedicated funding, ETPs remain coordination and advisory structures, helping to define the topics of research programmes at European, national and regional level.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 377, "original_length": 24234, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 193.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.everhat.com/forth-worth-basketball-1988/game-two-vs-arizona-state", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RWAXT6ZR7NNELTGJ64BK2W7ZBII2GWR7", "length": 777, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.everhat.com", "title": "Game Two vs. Arizona State", "raw_content": "Game Two vs. Arizona State\nThis game was no contest from the opening tip-off.\nThe Rangers were ahead 27-3 with twelve minutes to go in the First Half and led 37-19 at Halftime.\nThe Sun Devils shot only 35% from the floor for the game and only went to the free-throw line 7 times the entire game.\nE.Hathaway scored 16 points and went 6 for 6 from the foul line.\nD Scherrer added 15 points on 7 for 14 shooting, and also snatched 5 rebounds.\nM.Massey came off the Fort Worth bench and sparked for 12 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists.\nArizona State was led by Jerome with 11 points, and Johnson with 7 points.\nHolloway did not play for the Sun Devils this game due to an ankle injury he suffered in the team's first game.\nForth Worth improved to 2 wins and 0 losses on the season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 1902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 183.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.everhat.com/words/brad-stevens-and-dwight-howard", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:46Z", "digest": "sha1:2WXKNIE4JLNKORLXDGTC7LRE6CJJWXQG", "length": 2689, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.everhat.com", "title": "Brad Stevens and Dwight Howard", "raw_content": "Brad Stevens and Dwight Howard\nBrad Stevens is making Dwight Howard look very silly.\nStevens was just hired as head coach for the Boston Celtics. Stevens was previously the head basketball coach for Butler University. Right - Butler University. No one knew there was even a Butler University until Stevens put the school on the map with the success of the basketball team that began when he took over six years ago (when Stevens was 29 years old).\nStevens led the Bulldogs to a 166-49 (.772 winning percentage) record over those six years. The team never failed to win at least 22 games each season. The team went to back-to-back national championship final games in 2010 and 2011.\nStevens was heavily courted this off season by many universities. Stevens turned them all down. He even turned away UCLA. His plans were to stay with Butler and keep building the outstanding program he had already laid the foundation and more for.\nEnter Dwight Howard.\nHoward seemed to force his head coach out of Orlando when he was with the Magic. Howard was then traded to the Los Angeles Lakers and signed to a one year contract. This season with the Lakers, the team fired its initial head coach after a rocky start and hired another coach, Mike D\u2019antoni. The Lakers fought to make the playoffs and then were bounced in the first round with an injured Kobe Bryant on the bench (Howard rather blatantly seemed to foul himself out of the final playoff game when his team needed him most - and they were behind by a good bit of points).\nHoward is now pursuing free agency.\tThe Lakers would like Howard to stay. Howard is not certain he wants to remain in Los Angeles.\nBack to Stevens, again.\nThe other day, the Boston Celtics hired Stevens as their head coach - we covered that, right?\nBrad Stevens took the job as head coach of the Boston Celtics.\nBob Cousy, K.C. Jones, Bill Russell, Red Auerbach, John Havlicek, Rober Parrish, Kevin McHale, Larry Bird, Sam Jones, Tom Heinsohn, Dave Cowens, etc. Seventeen (17) NBA championships.\nStevens took the Celtics job when they called him. The Boston Celtics.\nBack to Dwight Howard.\nHoward has to think about staying with the Lakers or not. The Los Angeles Lakers.\nWilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, George Mikan, Elgin Baylor, Vern Mikkelsen, Gail Goodrich, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jamaal Wilkes, Bob McAdoo, James Worthy, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant. Sixteen (16) NBA Championships.\nHoward has to think about it. He has to think about staying with the Lakers.\nStevens is smart - wise. The Celtics call, you go. They\u2019re the Celtics.\nHoward is\u2026.Howard. He\u2019s not sure he wants to be a Laker. He has to think about it and consider his options.\nDwight Howard is just silly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 3875, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 190.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.evidenceaid.org/interventions-to-improve-the-economic-self-sufficiency-and-well-being-of-resettled-refugees/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DMBB3S2S5U3JD5XRLKM3AYQ6B7VF3333", "length": 1812, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.evidenceaid.org", "title": "Interventions to improve the economic self-sufficiency and well-being of resettled refugees | Evidence Aid | Championing the evidence-based approach in humanitarian action", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb Interventions to improve the economic self-sufficiency and well-being of resettled refugees\nInterventions to improve the economic self-sufficiency and well-being of resettled refugees\nThe review could not assert any conclusions regarding the efficacy of programmes designed to improve the economic self-sufficiency and well-being of resettled refugees. No studies met the review\u2019s inclusion criteria, highlighting a lack of available evidence.\nAs of 2012, twenty-six countries offered programmes to improve economic self-sufficiency and well-being for resettled refugees. These programmes may include employment training, education, and mental health services. The authors of this review aimed to evaluate the efficacy of these interventions in improving economic self-sufficiency and well-being of refugee populations. Identified primary outcomes included participants\u2019 labour force participation rate, employment rate, use of cash assistance, income, job retention, and quality of life. Inclusion criteria included prospective controlled methodology and appropriate population sample. Eighteen databases were searched to yield 8,264 records, in addition to 996 records derived from other sources. Twenty-seven studies were reviewed in full-text by the review authors. However, none of the search results met the predefined review criteria. As such, this systematic review highlights the current gap in evidence regarding the efficacy of such programmes.\nAdults, Both sexes, Conflict, Disability, Displaced population, Education, Extreme violence/Accidents, Health, Mental health, Non-communicable diseases (all), Population displacement\n\u2190 Asylum seekers, violence and health: a systematic review of research in high-income host countries\nPost-traumatic growth amongst refugee populations \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 189.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.experthomeoffers.com/Articles/Other/560/Selling-A-Home-In-Las-Vegas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:W5QWVJD3O2CPJN3FDJGTIHKCC7YD7YMN", "length": 2569, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.experthomeoffers.com", "title": "Selling A Home In Las Vegas", "raw_content": "Selling A Home In Las Vegas\nAs one of the world's most well-known cities, Las Vegas is a popular destination for a wide variety of people. Whether it's a retired couple looking to enjoy the city's numerous entertainment options, a family seeking to put down roots, or young professionals seeking fame and fortune, there's no doubt many people are looking to purchase homes in Las Vegas. This can be good news for those who are wanting to sell a house quickly due to a divorce, inheritance, illness, or other situation, since these properties can often be priced lower than many homes sold through traditional real estate agencies. If you've made the decision to sell my house, here are some factors that may play a role in helping you get the deal you want.\nAccording to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors, home prices in the city have increased almost 12 percent within the past year, with the typical Vegas home costing a buyer $296,000. This is due in part to a low inventory of available properties, which can greatly benefit those selling their homes fast due to inheritance or other events. By offering an excellent property at a lower price, buyers will quickly line up to present their offers.\nWhile there are over 7,000 properties for sale in Las Vegas, very few of them are low-priced properties, such as foreclosures or short sales. In fact, current industry statistics indicate only 84 foreclosures and 95 short sales currently available, making it difficult for buyers with limited resources to find suitable homes. Again, this will be a perfect situation if you are looking to sell your home fast, since buyers will have few other properties from which to choose. By being able to offer your home at a price that is significantly lower than comparable properties, you'll be able to complete your sale much faster, enabling you to get on with your life.\nDespite a shortage of properties for many buyers, there is nevertheless a strong sales demand in the Las Vegas area. With more and more people choosing to relocate to the city due to job changes or other factors, buyers are eager to find their perfect home as fast as possible. By choosing to sell your home fast, your property will stand out from others, helping it get noticed and sold much more quickly.\nInstead of hesitating and watching your property stay on the market for several months, work with real estate professionals who know what it takes to sell my house fast. Once you do, you'll watch your property sell quickly, giving you the money needed to move forward with your plans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.exquisitegirl.com/category/bags/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:58Z", "digest": "sha1:EZCX772UESFE4VNG3TM73C72XDGJFBOR", "length": 1267, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.exquisitegirl.com", "title": "Bags Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Exquisite Girl", "raw_content": "Top 10 Most Expensive Handbags Ever Designed\nWomen seem to like purses as much as they love shoes. It\u2019s a crucial accessory that completes the outfit and it needs to reflect quality and beauty. Yet sometimes it seems to be taken to an extreme. Have you ever wondered how much the most expensive handbag in the world costs? Find out here.\nThe Mouawad 1001 Nights Diamond Purse.\nThis heart-shaped purse is made of 18kt gold and it has 4,517 diamonds. Making it took a total of 8,800 hours and it costs $3.8 million, being the most expensive purse in the world.\nThis entry was posted in Bags on July 25, 2013 by Stefan.\n5 Stylish Handbag Designs For 2013\nBeing trendy and fashionable is something everyone wants even if they don\u2019t necessarily pay much attention to this. There are certain accessories that can really make an outfit stand out. For example, a great bag is not easy to find but when you do find the perfect design you know you\u2019ll look great.\nGeometric designs.\nGeometric designs, shapes and patters are very popular this year and not just in the world of fashion. You could opt for a simple bag with a minimalist design, a rectangular shape and a simple matte finish. It should be big enough to allow you to hold files for example yet comfortable to carry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fedcourt.gov.au/security", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5GKLSGBZL2ASIJ5ECWEWVWS45L2YGJYH", "length": 7827, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.fedcourt.gov.au", "title": "Security statement", "raw_content": "The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) applies in respect of the Federal Court of Australia (the Court) only in relation to an act done or a practice engaged in in respect of a matter of an administrative nature (see paragraphs 7(1)(a) and (b)). 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You can verify the source of the certificate by viewing it.\nAlternatives to the eServices (online) pages of this site\nIf you do not wish to provide personal information via the eServices (online) pages of the website, documents can be filed and paid for by personal presentation, Post, DX or Fax to the registry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 270, "original_length": 13425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fictiontofact.com/scifi/monsters/the-gwoemul-monster-in-the-host/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:29Z", "digest": "sha1:L5IMAR2KWEKR524B7KDUET34JTZJJBHR", "length": 2304, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.fictiontofact.com", "title": "The Gwoemul Monster in The Host - Fiction to Fact", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb The Gwoemul Monster in The Host\nThere are plenty of monsters in director Bong Joon-ho\u2019s movies, but the monster and the film that would firmly establish Bong as a creative force of nature and future success in Hollywood is \u201cThe Host,\u201d the wild 2006 genre mash-up.\nA monster (the \u2018Gwoemul\u00e4) is birthed through pollution in the Han River and grows to massive size. Going on a killing rampage along the shoreline, the creature grabs Hyun-seo (Go Ah-sung) and takes her back to its lair. Her dad Park Gang-du (Kahn Gang-du), along with his father Hie-bong (Hie-bong Byeon), his unemployed alcoholic brother Nam-il (Hae-il Park), and his Olympic archer sister Nam-joo (Du-na Bae), swear revenge on the creature and will try anything in their attempts to save little Hyun Seo.\nWritten (in part) and directed by Bong Joon-ho, The Host (\uad34\ubb3c or Gwoemul aka Monster) is a South Korean monster film. The movie became one of South Korean\u2019s highest grossing films of all time (with a relatively low budget) and received critical acclaim around the world.\nThe movie is a nice mix of genres: monsters, comedy, thriller, and underlying political commentary. The special effects are surprisingly good considering the relatively low budget the movie had (just over US$10 million). The creature was designed by Chin Wei-chen, the modeling was done by New Zealand-based Weta Workshop and the animatronics were by John Cox\u2019s creature Workshop.\nThe monster was designed with some specific parameters in mind. According to an interview with Bong Joon-ho, the inspiration for the monster came from a local article about a deformed fish with an S-shaped spine caught in the Han River. Bong Joon-ho wanted it to look like an actual mutated fish-like creature, rather than have a more fantastical design.\nWhile Gwoemul had a segmented jaw and multiple other mandibles rowed with dreadfully sharp teeth, it appeared to only be able to ingest food whole.\nGwoemul was a large amphibious predator mutated from an unknown organism (though it has been mentioned by some to be a Tadpole, but this has not been confirmed) by various pollutants in the Han River. It was an extremely aggressive and dangerous creature that would often hunt humans near the river, bringing them back to its lair in the sewers.\n\u2013 Non-alien Creatures Wiki", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 10691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.film-arcade.net/2015/03/focus-review-written-by-jim-herling.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:01Z", "digest": "sha1:TGYGURX5EJZ2BJQDW3V37FETLVJCDRCP", "length": 2392, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.film-arcade.net", "title": "Film-Arcade.net: \"Focus\" Review - Written by Jim Herling", "raw_content": "\"Focus\" Review - Written by Jim Herling\nYou can say what you want about Will Smith, but if you look at his track record, you have to admit to two things: the man makes good movies, and his hits far outnumber his misses. And Focus (written and directed by both Glenn Ficarra and John Requa) is another check in Smith's hit column.\nFocus is a return to the confidant, charismatic, smooth-talking type of character Smith has played before in movies like Hitch, and it's a role he plays well. He's instantly likeable and believable, important qualities to get across considering he's playing a professional con man named Nicky Spurgeon. But if the old adage about a leading man being only as good as his costars holds any weight, well, Smith is doing just fine. Opposite him is his leading lady, the gorgeous Margot Robbie. She plays Jess Barrett, an amateur grifter dying to go pro who Nicky takes under his wing after she and a partner try to con him and bungle it horribly. Robbie is fairly engaging in her own right, and her and Smith have great chemistry as they play off each other through the film's twists and turns. They have a decent supporting cast around them as well, the most notable being Gerald McRaney (yes, Major Dad), who comes in halfway through the movie, gets the best dialogue of the entire script, and steals every scene he's in.\nThe plot is a straightforward one, very well written and capably directed: boy meets girl, boy falls for girl, boy loses girl, boy goes through hell trying to get her back. But because it's a movie about a bunch of con men, it's full of twists and turns, and the question \"who's conning who?\" is never far from the mind. The film's title is very on the nose as you need to focus, and if you do you might just catch the great end twist coming right before it hits. One of the most interesting aspects of the movie was seeing the mechanics of how they pull off the various cons; if any of them are things that actually happen (including putting a false front over an ATM to facilitate credit card theft), then in addition to being a really good drama, this is quite a scary movie as well.\nAs I mentioned above, Focus is a very smartly written, well directed movie that features a talented, charismatic cast working well together. All in all, I give it a solid 4 out of 5 stars.\nLabels: Focus, Margot Robbie, Reviews, Warner Brothers, Will Smith", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filmreference.com/Films-Ro-Se/Le-Salaire-de-la-Peur.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:OYSJM624HIT4HHFFADOL5EM7S7EDBECN", "length": 8323, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.filmreference.com", "title": "Le Salaire de la Peur - Film (Movie) Plot and Review - Publications", "raw_content": "Films Ro-Se\nLe Salaire de la Peur - Film (Movie) Plot and Review\nFrance-Italy, 1953\nProduction: Filmsonor-C.I.C.C.-FonoRoma-Vera Film; black and white; running time: 140 minutes, some sources list 150 minutes; length: 12,600 feet, some sources list 13,000. Released 1953.\nScreenplay: Henri-Georges Clouzot, from the novel by Georges Arnaud; photography: Armand Thirard; editors: Madeleine Gug, Henri Rust; art director: Ren\u00e9 Renoux; music: Georges Auric.\nCast: Yves Montand ( Mario ); Charles Vanel ( Jo ); Vera Clouzot ( Linda ); Folco Lulli ( Luigi ); Peter van Eyck ( Bimba ); William Tubbs ( O'Brien ); Centa ( Chief of \"Boss\" Camp ); Mario Moreno ( Hernandez ); Jo Dest ( Smerloff ).\nAwards: British Film Academy Award for Best Film from any Source, 1954.\nClouzot, Henri-Georges, Le Salaire de la peur , in Avant-Sc\u00e8ne du Cin\u00e9ma (Paris), no. 17, 1962; as The Wages of Fear , in Masterworks of the French Cinema , London and New York, 1974.\nCournot, Michel, Le Premier Spectateur , Paris, 1957.\nLacassin, Francis, and others, Le Proc\u00e8s Clouzot , Paris, 1964.\nPilard, Philippe, H. G. Clouzot , Paris, 1969.\nArmes, Roy, French Cinema Since 1946: The Great Tradition , New York, 1970.\nRemond, Alain, Yves Montand , Paris, 1977.\nRouchy, Marie-Elisabeth, Yves Montand , Paris, 1980.\nMonserrat, Jo\u00eblle, Montand , Paris, 1983.\nVariety (New York), 29 April 1953.\nCahiers du Cin\u00e9ma (Paris), May 1953.\nBianco e Nero (Rome), June 1953.\nCineaste (New York), nos. 7\u20138, 1954.\nMauriac, Claude, in L'Amour du cin\u00e9ma , Paris, 1954.\nHouston, Penelope, in Monthly Film Bulletin (London), April 1954.\nSight and Sound (London), April-June 1954.\nBrul\u00e9, Claude, \"Clouzot est-il vraiment diable,\" in Cin\u00e9-Revue (Paris), 2 May 1955.\nFilm Culture (New York), May-June 1955.\nTennant, Sylvia, \"Henri-Georges Clouzot,\" in Film (London), March-April 1956.\nBianchi, Pietro, \"Henri-Georges Clouzot,\" in Yale French Studies (New Haven, Connecticut), Summer 1956.\nFontaine, A., \"Clouzot sort de sa legende,\" in Lettres Fran\u00e7aises (Paris), July 1960.\nSchrader, Paul, \"An Interview with Henri-Georges Clouzot,\" in Cinema (Beverly Hills), no. 4, 1969.\nPr\u00e9dal, Ren\u00e9, \"Une Carri\u00e8re exemplaire: Charles Vanel,\" in Cin\u00e9ma Aujourd'hui (Paris), no. 10, 1976.\nLacourbe, R., \"Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1907\u20131977,\" in Avant-Sc\u00e8ne du Cin\u00e9ma (Paris), 15 April 1977.\nLe Peron, S., \"Charles Vanel par Charles Vanel,\" in Avant-Sc\u00e8ne du Cin\u00e9ma (Paris), 15 November 1981.\nYakir, D., \"Clouzot: The Wages of Film,\" in Film Comment (New York), November-December 1981.\nFilms and Filming (London), January 1986.\nThomajan, Dale, \"Clouzot's Wild Bunch,\" in Film Comment (New York), no. 376, January 1986.\nHoberman, J., \"Being and Nitroglycerin,\" in Village Voice (New York), vol. 36, 22 October 1991.\nVan Gelder, L., \"At the Movies,\" in New York Times , vol. 141, C10, 11 October 1991.\nCanby, V., \"Review/Film: Clouzot's Wages of Fear : Version Complete,\" in New York Times , vol. 141, C8, 18 October, 1991.\nPitman, Randy, in Library Journal , vol. 117, no. 7, 15 April 1992.\nPorton, Richard, \"A Second Look,\" in Cineaste (New York), vol. 19, no. 1, 1992.\nThe New York Times , 11 June 1992.\nAndrew, Geoff, \"Hell on Wheels,\" in Time Out (London), no. 1319, 29 November 1995.\nHoward, T., in Reid's Film Index , no. 16, 1995.\nElia, M., in S\u00e9quences (Haute-Ville), no. 189/190, March/June 1997.\nThe international acclaim accorded the French New Wave has tended to shroud the pre-New Wave French cinema in desultory neglect. Henri-Georges Clouzot has particularly been underappreciated, his films decreasingly programmed. With The Wages of Fear this is particularly surprising, given the huge initial success of the film, both critically and commercially. A suspense thriller with clear philosophical overtones, The Wages of Fear deals with a group of international losers who end up down-and-out in a poor, underdeveloped section of Venezuela, with few prospects for escaping the torpor and petty tensions of their lives. The texture of the film, with its multiplicity of spoken languages, is strikingly dense and in keeping with Clouzot's theme of universal alienation. Although the set-up is quite slow by contemporary narrative standards, Clouzot's visual design is masterful: the first hour is dominated by constant and oppressive imprisoning shadows cast over the main characters and by costumes overwhelmed with vertical or horizontal stripes. Indeed, when Yves Montand's Mario says, \"It's like prison here,\" the sentiment seems almost redundant, so pervasive is Clouzot's visual expression of the entrapment by life itself.\nWhen, midway through the film the down-and-outs are given the opportunity to escape their lot by undertaking an incredibly dangerous task, the fact that hundreds are willing to risk their lives is just more evidence that lives are worth little indeed. This opportunity is created by an oil-well fire, an ecological disaster, but, more to the point, a financial catastrophe for the American Oil Company. It must transport one ton of highly explosive nitroglycerine to the site in order\nto extinguish the fire. Ultimately, four disparate men are chosen to drive the two explosive-laden trucks across the dangerous terrain. The core of The Wages of Fear is this trip itself, which functions as metaphor for the existential horror that comprises Clouzot's world view. Clouzot presents at least four striking images of existential nothingness, one for each of the natural elements. Perhaps the strongest, conceptually, is the explosion that literally blows up two of the men into thin air\u2014leaving no trace of their having ever existed, save for a solitary cigarette holder, soon forgotten. The second metaphor is a liquid, black pit, into which one of the adventurers\u2014 Charles Vanel's Jo, Clouzot's archetypal man: non-heroic, petty, venal, and, above all, human\u2014is sucked and crushed. It is not until Mario sees the third metaphor, however\u2014the all-engulfing, destructive fire itself, that his own search for escape climaxes in Jo's death. The final image of nothingness has Mario, apparently saved from the nitroglycerine, nevertheless destroyed as he is smashed into the earth and rock of the destructive terrain, which imposes its monolithic destiny. Air, liquid, fire, earth: all are revealed as horrific and naturally violent, like men's souls.\nWhat particularly impresses today about The Wages of Fear is its striking influence on a variety of other films and filmmakers. Its metaphorical opening shots, for instance\u2014children being entertained by bugs in the earth\u2014suggest the similar opening of The Wild Bunch , directed by Sam Peckinpah, a filmmaker with a similar brutal world view. As an exemplary thriller of the navigated space, dealing with psychological concepts that relate human beings to objects and to empty spaces and with philosophical notions concerning the human condition, The Wages of Fear provides a model for John Boorman's Deliverance , Andrei Konchalovsky's equally existential Runaway Train (written in part by Akira Kurosawa), and William Friedkin's rather incongruously entitled remake Sorcerer. In its representation of Third-World poverty and local color, The Wages of Fear suggests the Peter Weir of The Year of Living Dangerously and The Mosquito Coast; and in its indictment of capitalist imperialism in the context of suspense, it suggests Costa-Gavras, if filtered through the surreal acceptance of Luis Bu\u00f1uel. As action adventure genre, it has inspired films like Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix; as a rather cynical male-bonding film, it has anticipated films as disparate as Franklin J. Schaffner's Papillon , Don Siegel's Escape from Alcatraz , and Dino Risi's The Easy Life. And finally, in one of its penultimate scenes, when Jo\u2014rotting on the inside from a gangrenous leg and covered on the outside with black oil as he is driven by Mario along a clearly metaphorical road of like in the dead of night\u2014announces, after \"What a long street it is\" that \"there is nothing. . . ,\" and then dies, the imagery, dialogue, and psychological insights are surprisingly similar to the climactic scene of Claude Chabrol's Le boucher , a thriller of the New Wave period which rather unfairly made Clouzot seem old-fashioned.\nLe Salaire de la Peur - Film (Movie) Plot and Review forum\nSalaam Bombay! Salt of the Earth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 8997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.findafamilyattorney.com/Articles/2011/April.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:02Z", "digest": "sha1:S3BXOJLA4X3YY74CXHNVRQHQXWCISZVU", "length": 4784, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.findafamilyattorney.com", "title": "Articles from 4 2011 Related to Family Law | Find a Divorce Lawyer", "raw_content": "Divorced Man Under Criminal Investigation\nPosted on Apr 29, 2011 By Meyers Law Group\nNew York Legal Update Allows No-Fault Divorce For Couple The recent divorce settlement granted to a New York couple is the least of the worries facing the husband, who has come under fire in an ...\nContinue reading \"Divorced Man Under Criminal Investigation\" \u00bb\nNew York Judge Orders Couple To Sell Contested Homestead After a long running attempt to get divorced, which was first initiated in 2005, a couple has been granted their no-fault divorce thanks to a ...\nContinue reading \"Divorced Couples Must Sell House\" \u00bb\nGrounds for Divorce in New York Now No Longer Necessary\nPosted on Apr 25, 2011 By Seidner & Virdone\nBefore August 15th 2010, one had to have grounds for divorce and these can be found in \"Domestic Relations Law Section 170.\" Other states throughout the U.S. have adopted \"no-fault divorce\" and a ...\nContinue reading \"Grounds for Divorce in New York Now No Longer Necessary\" \u00bb\nGuardianship: Protecting the Lives of Children\nMany children are raised in difficult home environments and somehow come out unscathed; however, there are others who live in not just difficult homes, but downright dangerous ones. These are the ...\nContinue reading \"Guardianship: Protecting the Lives of Children\" \u00bb\nPosted on Apr 21, 2011 By Brian D. Perskin & Associates, P.C.\nParental alienation syndrome (PAS) was coined by child psychiatrist Richard A. Gardner in the early 1980\u2019s. He used the term to describe a disorder in a child, where the child belittles and ...\nContinue reading \"Parental Alienation Syndrome\" \u00bb\nA Father Has Rights Too\nNot too long ago, custody was awarded to the mother in a divorce. As more and more states are becoming more \u201cup\u201d with the times, New York State is following suit. If you are a father who ...\nContinue reading \"A Father Has Rights Too\" \u00bb\nPursuing Grandparent\u2019s Rights\nPosted on Apr 20, 2011 By Hutchinson Law\nAlthough a grandparent\u2019s rights may not be clearly defined, that does not mean that a grandparent has no rights to visitation, or custody of their grandchild. Every situation is unique when it ...\nContinue reading \"Pursuing Grandparent\u2019s Rights\" \u00bb\nFacing Contested Divorce\nIf you are heading towards divorce, you probably already have a pretty good idea whether or not you are facing an uncontested divorce or a contested divorce. In an uncontested divorce, both parties ...\nContinue reading \"Facing Contested Divorce\" \u00bb\nPosted on Apr 19, 2011 By Givens Givens Sparks, PLLC\nDivorce has long carried a negative stigma about how long it can take and how much it can cost, however, for some couples; this is not necessarily the case. If you and your spouse are considering ...\nContinue reading \"Divorce Made Simple\" \u00bb\nContempt of court is an act of deliberate disobedience or disregard of the laws or regulations of a public authority such as a court legislative body. In family law, contempt of court typically refers ...\nContinue reading \"Contempt of Court and Enforcement\" \u00bb\nStudy Shows Female GIs Face Higher Divorce Rates\nPosted on Apr 19, 2011 By Law Office of Rachel S. Cotrino, LLC\nFemale Soldiers Statistically More Than Twice As Likely To Divorce As women become more and more equal within the military, the reality of the inequality in their personal lives becomes more and more ...\nContinue reading \"Study Shows Female GIs Face Higher Divorce Rates\" \u00bb\nAlimony: Just the Facts\nIf you are currently going through a divorce, one thing that you need to be aware of is the possibility of having to pay alimony to your spouse. The purpose of paying support to one's spouse is to ...\nContinue reading \"Alimony: Just the Facts\" \u00bb\nNo-Fault Divorce Approved By New York Legislature\nPosted on Apr 19, 2011 By Perez & Cedeno\nNew York Last State To Adopt No-Fault Divorces As the only state in the US without some method of uncontested divorce proceedings, the bill before the house would update New York\u2019s legal system ...\nContinue reading \"No-Fault Divorce Approved By New York Legislature\" \u00bb\nFemale Soldiers Twice As Likely To Divorce\nStatistics Show Gender Discrepancy For Divorce In Military A report detailing divorce in the military shows that female personnel are more than twice as likely to be divorced as their male ...\nContinue reading \"Female Soldiers Twice As Likely To Divorce\" \u00bb\nPosted on Apr 18, 2011 By The Quinn Law Firm\nContinue reading \"Your Child Visitation Rights\" \u00bb\nContinue reading \"Recovering Attorney\u2019s Fees in Divorce\" \u00bb\nPosted on Apr 6, 2011 By The Law Offices of Sari M. 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After December 3rd, pre-orders will be at retail price, so don't miss out on KS exclusives and discounts!\nPledge Manager\nWe're headed to PAX Unplugged on November 30th. PAX Unplugged takes place at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, conveniently located in the heart of Philadelphia.\nGet Off My Land! is now available for sale in the First Fish Games store.\nFirst Fish Games is a Vancouver-based board game publishing company that was founded by 3 friends who wanted to bring fun and fresh new games to the board game community through Kickstarter crowdfunding. With the success of their first game, \"Get Off My Land!\" they're working hard to design more games to share with all of their supporters, new and old. We can't wait to see what the future holds!\nGordon Oscar\nArtist by day, artist by night. Wait... what? Yes, that's right. Gord works as a matte painter in the VFX industry. After painting all day, he goes home and paints some more. Exciting right? He does all the artwork for our games.\nAlso a matte painter in the VFX industry, Steph helps out with the artwork. She grew up in a printing family and uses her graphic design skills to help put together rulebooks.\nSoftware developer by day, Liam built our web site and works on some of the other less glamorous parts of the company. He also helps with game design and playtesting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firstpersonscholar.com/i-put-on-my-robe-and-wizard-hat/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WRKCLROYXR4NXCFJMBEB3JSHUEPWEY3M", "length": 11865, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.firstpersonscholar.com", "title": "I Put on my Robe & Wizard Hat \u2013 First Person Scholar", "raw_content": "Ashley Brown recently completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in sociology. Her thesis, entitled \u2018Sex Between Frames: An exploration of online and tabletop erotic role play\u2019, focused on how role players involve erotic content into their games and what this particular type of play means for conceptions of sexuality.\n[Disclaimer: some mentions of rape and sexual violence]\nAt the heart of this post is an effort to define and explain the social phenomenon of erotic role play for those unfamiliar with the term. The post compares and contrasts erotic role play with other types of online sexuality and after arriving at a thorough definition, asks the dreaded \u2018so what?\u2019 question. Rather than summarise the findings of my research, as I have laboriously done in my recently-defended thesis, I would instead like to use this post as an opportunity to highlight some of the questions that arise from playing with erotic content in imaginary worlds. Although, through research, I have developed my own answers to some of these questions, they are presented here as a rhetorical exercise to illustrate not only the fruitfulness in studying how erotic role players play with sexuality, but also what this play might mean to our conceptualisation of role playing games, reality, and relationships. Answers, musings, and follow up questions are encouraged in the comments.\nFrom the infamous bloodninja quote[1] in the title of this piece which has become an internet meme, to Julian Dibbel\u2019s account of a rape in cyberspace[2], to Blizzard\u2019s reports to patrol Goldshire in World of Warcraft[3], to table-top role playing guides like the Book of Erotic Fantasy[4], erotic role play, often abbreviated as ERP, has garnered plenty of media attention. Despite this, academic accounts of erotic role play are sparse. This is unfortunate as many of the questions that perennially spring up in the study of games, such as confrontations about their ethical responsibility, quandaries of their potentially corrupting influence, and how far virtual boundaries can be pushed before they become too \u2018real\u2019, are exemplified in role playing with erotic content.\nMy own work seeks to remedy this lack and shed an academic light on an often misunderstood and misjudged form of role play. In this short post, however, I aim not to thoroughly explore the topic but to provide an introduction and some vignettes from my field experience to generate dialogue. I will first define what erotic role play is, and then present abbreviated examples from my fieldwork which help illustrate not only how erotic role play is functionally used, but also what studying it can potentially tell us about the intersectionality of games and sexuality. To do this, I will rely on my doctoral research which focused on table-top role playing games and World of Warcraft as sites for erotic role play. Using an ethnographic approach, I embedded myself within two communities of erotic role players to understand the activity as they did. In total, I conducted interviews and a focus group with seventeen participants which provided inspiration for the vignettes presented later.\nDefining ERP\nFirst, erotic role play can simply be defined as role play with erotic themes. Such a simple definition, however, fails to adequately explain the nuances of the act and how it differs from cybersex or virtual sex. Cybersex generally refers to the exchange of erotic or arousing messages using a synchronous chat system, such as an internet relay chat (IRC). These messages are typically exchanged without the pretence of role playing, or acting within the persona of a fictional character. With the increasing affordability of broadband connections, cybersex may also take the form of sending and receiving real-time or previously recorded audio visual materials for the same purpose. Virtual sex refers to essentially the same textual process, only with an added element of role playing. In her 1995 book Life on the Screen which studied players of multi-user dungeons (MUDs), Sherry Turkle defines virtual sex as \u201c\u2026two or more players typing descriptions of physical actions, verbal statements, and emotional reactions for their characters\u201d (p.223). So rather than typing actions and speech for oneself, the MUD players engaging in virtual sex describe their character\u2019s actions, speech, and emotions.\nAlthough both cybersex and virtual sex share similarities with erotic role play, they also differ by way of medium. For example, the World of Warcraft participants in my research type and send erotic messages through text in a way similar to cybersex and virtual sex, however, the table-top players who meet in-the-flesh to role play verbally described their characters\u2019 actions and reactions. Although this might seem like a minor difference, the absence of technology to convey the erotic experiences of characters has many other implications. For example, with cybersex- and to a lesser extent virtual sex- it is often assumed that the primary motivation to erotic role play is to gain sexual gratification by way of a cheap thrill. In Tom Boellstorff\u2019s anthropological exploration of Second Life, for example, he found that participants preferred to use the term \u2018sex in virtual places\u2019 to define their erotic activities rather than cybersex (2008, p. 160). Boellstorff interprets the preferential use of the phrase as indicative of the high value placed on sexual experiences within virtual worlds. However, it may also be indicative of the physical stimulation received from the act. This, in itself, raises the important question of what really counts as virtual. If the physical body is involved in more than just typing, does the experience still exist within the imaginary? This, and other questions, will be tackled in the second part of this post. For now it\u2019s important to highlight that for the table-top participants in my research, there was no such confusion. Although the physical body was involved in the rolling of dice and the verbal description of what was occurring within the game, erotic role play was viewed as less an opportunity for arousal and more an opportunity to either develop fully-formed, believable characters, or an opportunity to play with and push personal and societal limits on the acceptability of certain sexual acts.\nNow that a broad understanding of what erotic role play is has been achieved, the post can move on to list vignettes based off scenarios I witnessed or was told about during my research, but with names and identifying information changed. These vignettes raise questions for speculation, debate, and potentially future research. I thoroughly encourage all readers of all backgrounds and levels of study to scroll down to the comments section and weigh in on one or two.\nVignettes for Consideration\nScenario 1: Ryan and Sarah have been in a monogamous marriage for 6 years. Ryan role plays in a massive multiplayer online role playing game which Sarah has no interest in playing, but is generally curious about. Eventually, one of Ryan\u2019s characters starts a relationship with another character. Ryan struggles with whether or not he should tell his wife about his character\u2019s online activities. He decides not to, but rethinks this decision when he begins to flirt with the player of his character\u2019s partner outside of the game. When nude photos are sent back and forth, Ryan ends all communication with the other player out of guilt. He then tells his wife everything and she is emotionally distraught. After fully explaining what erotic role play is and how he had let it bleed over into something more, a mistake he\u2019d never let happen again, Sarah said she understood and was fine with Ryan\u2019s erotic role playing as long as it never again left the gameworld.\nScenario 1 discussion prompts: In this scenario, were traditional views of monogamy challenged by ERP? Is this an example of how \u2018new\u2019 media upsets modern notions of fidelity? Is it possible to truly separate in-character actions from out-of-character emotions?\nScenario 2: A group of table-top role players decide to play a game set in a fictional horror setting. To invoke terror in the players, the storyteller (game leader/ dungeon master) graphically describes a scene of sexual violence as it happens to the player-characters. When questioned about his particular use of rape to invoke terror in the players, the storyteller cites the game\u2019s player guide and rulebook, saying that within the gameworld and confines of the game\u2019s system such acts are permitted if not encouraged. The players defended the storyteller\u2019s decision, stating that the scene wasn\u2019t taken frivolously and that exploring harmful and painful topics through games can be a memorable, powerful, and emotionally disturbing experience which adds to their enjoyment.\nScenario 2 discussion prompts: Did the storyteller cross a cultural line and step too far in his use of sexual violence as a plot device? Are there some topics which shouldn\u2019t be played with, or can games be used to test, question, and reshape moral boundaries?\nScenario 3: Amy and Scott have been in a monogamous relationship for ten years and they have role played in various online settings during this time. They acknowledge that they have an active sex life together but each have a list of scenarios or fetishes they would like to try, such as involving a third, but cannot for one reason or another. In the example of their desire to have a threesome, both Amy and Scott agree that whilst the thought is desirable, the practicalities of involving another in their activities is not. Thanks to government health warnings, they fear contracting a sexually transmitted infection as well as the emotional risks of attachment or jealousy. The couple, who erotic role played together anyway, began using the activity to vicariously experience threesomes and other sexual fantasies through their characters\u2019 perspectives. Online erotic role play has become, for them, a type of foreplay.\nScenario 3 discussion prompts: Could it be said that for Amy and Scott sex starts on screen before it moves into the flesh? What does this mean for the traditional mind/body, reality/virtuality divide? If fantasies can be played out with few risks to physical health, what does this mean for our conceptualisation of certain types of sexuality as deviant?\nAlthough I hope you will use the comments to discuss the prompts above and develop some of your own conclusions, it is worth ending this post with some reflection. As mentioned in the introduction, not much, academically speaking, has been written about erotic role play, but this is changing. Game studies, as a discipline, seems to mirror the game\u2019s development industry in their increasing growth and maturity. I am confident that as both areas grow a greater priority will be given to games, and ensuing studies, which recognise sexuality\u2019s playful nature. In playing with sexuality, in a way which is regulated by the relegated structure of games, there is potential to learn more about the human condition, the natures of both sexuality and play, and ourselves.\nBoellstorff, T. (2008). Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human. Princeton University Press: Oxford.\nTurkle, S. (1995). Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. Simon and Schuster Paperbacks: New York.\n[1] http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/robe-and-wizard-hat\n[2] http://www.juliandibbell.com/articles/a-rape-in-cyberspace/\n[3] http://wow.joystiq.com/2010/08/04/blizzard-to-patrol-moon-guards-goldshire-for-harassment-erotic/\n[4] http://www.amazon.com/Book-Erotic-Fantasy-Gwendolyn-Kestrel/dp/097420451X\nEssay Ashley Brown, Erotic Role Play, Sherry Turkle, Tom Boellstorff, World of Warcraft\nPrevious Article\u2190 From Monopoly to Metal Gear\nNext ArticlePlaying for Transcendence \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 12688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.foodmachinery.com/complete-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:42Z", "digest": "sha1:L2UQNDVXXT22RX4XYQIXWWZB4WRPZTG6", "length": 3656, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.foodmachinery.com", "title": "Our Auspicious History \u2014 Cuyler FoodPro", "raw_content": "Cuyler - First Family of Food Machinery\nThe history of the Cuyler Family in the food processing industry goes back to 1897, spanning 3 centuries and 4 generations. Here is a peek at the ancestral journey that informed and enriched our distinctive legacy.\nOtto Cuyler, Sr, Lillie Waters Cuyler and Virginia Cuyler\nThe experts at Cuyler FoodPro are sought-after consultants in industrial food processing, packaging and related machinery. We are unique in our field, boasting a degree of specialization not offered by our competitors. Our fees are consistently lower than most general appraising groups due to our focused expertise and lower overhead. To understand the depth of our specialization, it helps to take a look at our family's impressive history in the industry.\nOtto Cuyler, Sr. (1897-1979)\nThe father of our current proprietor, Otto Cuyler, Jr., acquired an affinity for machinery while coming of age during the beginning of the power-technology phase of the industrial revolution. His intrigue and curiosity eventually led to his owning two vegetable processing canneries in the 1930s.\nThe senior Cuyler built relationships through his canning business that evolved into a brokerage of sorts, where he would connect associates to one another who needed each other's used equipment. His consulting and resale business grew organically from there.\nIn 1942, Otto Sr\u2019s purchased 200 acres of land in Webster, NY, where he was the first to help design, rebuild and export used food machinery to Cuba in the early 1960\u2019s, expanding his business model even further.\nOtto Cuyler, Sr.\nLillie Watters Cuyler, mother of Otto Cuyler, Sr., worked as an apple processing forewoman at a cannery in Red Creek, NY, from 1897-1905. The canned sliced apple product she worked with is still sold today under the Comstock brand.\nFrederick Cuyler (1867-1935) was a food industry consultant for 27 years, beginning in 1903. He also patented an industrial can opener in 1925.\nVirginia Cuyler and Lillie Watters Cuyler\nFrederick Cuyler\nSchematic from can-opener patent by Frederick Cuyler\nOtto Cuyler, Jr.\nCuyler FoodPro President, Otto Cuyler, Jr., started working with his father at the age of 14, when he began dismantling, evaluating and rebuilding used food machinery. As his knowledge expanded, he traveled with his father on consulting and appraisal trips and eventually assisted with plant liquidations, auctions and plant dismantling. With the passing of his father in 1979, Otto officially took over the respected family business and has been at the helm ever since. During his tenure, Cuyler FoodPro became the first used food machinery dealer online with the launch of www.foodmachinery.com in 1996.\nOtto as a child, ready at the helm\nAs a scrappy 8-year-old, Cate Cuyler started acclimating to the family business by typing inventory lists and stuffing envelopes, and she has continued to accelerate her knowledge for the past 20 years.\nCate graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 2012 with a BA in psychology and has subsequently pursued continuing education in business, marketing and personal property machinery valuation. Cate officially became Appraisal Services Manager for Cuyler FoodPro in 2016.\nYoung Cate Cuyler\nAt Cuyler FoodPro, we offer unparalleled history and unmatched expertise.\nWe are pleased to offer our clients and customers significant advantages based on our extensive food machinery resources, our network of major food equipment dealers and our relationships with a number of banks. Add to that our stellar reputation for efficiency and easy relationships, and you can clearly see why we are widely known as the best value in the business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 4790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Miraloma_(1914)&redirect=no", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:47Z", "digest": "sha1:FIKZMVXFOX4DIQ2QH3OYBRJCOV7US3FQ", "length": 95, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.foundsf.org", "title": "Miraloma (1914) - FoundSF", "raw_content": "Miraloma (1914)\nRetrieved from \"http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Miraloma_(1914)&oldid=23433\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 221.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fr-paul.org/year-b-lent-vi.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:43Z", "digest": "sha1:BLAKJ2JIIRS6YWZC3QTBLLFQRZVZTXJZ", "length": 4395, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.fr-paul.org", "title": "The Rev. Canon Paul Edwards-Year B Lent VI", "raw_content": "Lent VI: The Seven Last Words of Jesus on the Cross\nFather forgive them, for they know not what they do. Luke 23:34\nForgiveness is not blaming others for our pain. As long as we blame others, they own us. We cannot give God something that is not ours. Once we realize our thoughts create our feelings, we can put ourselves in His Presence.\nWhat difference does it make in your life if you spiritually understand being in or out of the Presence?\nTruly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise. Luke 23:43\nThe word \"paradise\" is the same word as \"garden\", like in Eden. Adam and Eve were separated from the Garden but not as punishment. Remember, there were two trees in the garden. One Tree was the knowledge of good and evil. The other was the Tree of life. If they would break the law and eat of the Tree of Knowledge, the Tree of Life would be next. Hell would be living eternally with the judgment that comes from such knowledge that only God has. Now, on the cross our separation from God is reconciled.\nWhat difference does it make if you spiritually understand the difference between being in the Presence of the Love of God and being out and filled with Judgment and condemnation?\nWoman, behold your son: behold your mother. John 19:26\u201127\nJesus gave His mother to John and John was given to his mother. St Paul, in his early ministry, met with Peter, James the brother of Jesus, and John. James was a Pharisee Christian who was against much of Paul's grace teaching that gentiles did not have to be circumcised. Peter and Paul had it out over Peter not eating with gentiles when James' party came to check him out. Then there was the beloved John who became Paul's mentor. Luke became a Christian and a beloved disciple for Paul. Later, John was exiled to Patmos. Paul was imprisoned in Rome. It was Luke who took Mary in at Ephesus. There, he wrote the Gospel of Luke using her witness of the Life of Jesus from the beginning.\nReread the birth narratives, not as something Luke wrote, but what Mary experienced.\nMy God, My God, why have you forsaken me. Matthew 27:46; Mark 15:34\nThis was the moment of grace: when Jesus became Sin like us, separated from God. We became like Him: loved by God as much as God loved Him, whether He was in or out of Sin and separation.\nWhat difference does it make if you believe sin is an immoral act that you have to overcome to be Present with God\nWhen you are in the Presence of God you, are no longer separated and you have the power to overcome your sins?\nI thirst. John 19:28\nThey immediately put a sponge on a hyssop to His lips. The blood of the lamb at the first Passover was put on the two sides and the door post of the homes with hyssop. The people were saved by the blood of the lamb. We are saved by the blood of the Lord. Blood means the life. It is Jesus' Life, Death and Resurrection that is the grace of God that saves us.\nDo we do good works to be saved, or do we do good works because we are saved?\nIt is finished. John 19:30\nWhat was finished? He still had to be buried, rise from the grave, ascend into Heaven, and send the Holy Spirit of Pentecost. There was still much to do. How could it be finished? The great American Folk Philosopher, Yogi Berra once said, \"It ain't over 'til it's over.\" In 1916, Georgia Tech played Cumberland in football. The score at the end of the first quarter was Georgia Tech 66, Cumberland 0. The game was not over, but it was as good as over, final score 222 to 0. When Jesus died on the cross it was not over, but it was as good as over. There was nothing the forces of darkness could do to put out the light that was lit throughout the centuries of human life. It was as good as over.\nThe difference between being out of or in the Presence of God is the difference of knowing when it was over.\nFather, into your hands I commit my spirit. Luke 23:46\nGod's Love is unconditional and inclusive. Jesus is Loved by God in Sin as much as He is Loved when in communion. The Presence of His Love is always in all of us. We are not all always in this grace. It takes spiritual understanding to know how to be in His grace.\nGood Friday is old English for God's Friday. It offers a wonderful time to understand spiritually and to daily pray, \"Father into Your hands I commit my Spirit.\"\nTags: Fr. Paul, Meditations, Lectionary, Year B, Lent VI, Seven Last Words, In the Presence, Sin, Good Friday", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 242.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.freefictionbooks.org/authors/37156-ferguson_w_b_m_(william_blair_morton)_1882_1967", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:13Z", "digest": "sha1:EIA243KLWRYBS4ODNOTBRHN6TENYVLSX", "length": 110, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.freefictionbooks.org", "title": "Books by Ferguson, W. B. M. (William Blair Morton), 1882-1967", "raw_content": "Books by Ferguson, W. B. M. (William Blair Morton), 1882-1967\nGarrison's Finish : a romance of the race course", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 294.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.freepr101.com/view/220744/App_promotion_on_App_Store", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:15Z", "digest": "sha1:L7LCSD65UWVQR7GU4WFUR5DKFDI4NIOL", "length": 6993, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.freepr101.com", "title": "Press Release for App promotion on App Store : pr newswire online @ FREEPR101.com", "raw_content": "Press Releases > Mobile/ Smartphone > iPhone/ iPad/ iPod > App promotion on App Store..\nIf you want to stay in business, you need to use every trick up your sleeve to make sure that your product gets enough demand, and in order to get even the slightest bit of demand, you need to figure out what your audience is, how you can reach it and how you can keep it interested in what you're offering to them. In this case, we're talking about mobile applications and games, and ways to promote iOS apps on the market today.\nToday, it's a fairly complex task that may appear too complicated for people who are just starting with the marketing of iOS apps. However, we're here to provide some useful advice and tell you about methods you can use to promote iOS games and apps on today's market. Read on!\nIncentive traffic is a good way to get your app a few positions higher in the search results, and sometimes even a few hundred downloads is a great opportunity for smaller developers to get past the initial competition and attract more users \u2013 or even reach the Top Apps if they're lucky! Of course, incentive traffic requires one little thing \u2013 a complete understanding of what it means.\nSome people may think that it's a way to forge reviews and ratings, like some people suspect when it comes to the idea of paid traffic. However, in truth it's very similar to a very familiar situation for most people \u2013 you're asking your friend to do you a favor and then reward them with a beer or a drink of their choice or something else. This is on par with these kinds of favors, but they're done in a more professional environment \u2013 you're just giving user a small reward for doing you a nice favor, but they will do it because the terms of use on various platforms related to sources of incentive traffic require the motivated users to complete the task before they will get paid, so you don't have to worry about losing your money (even if it's not much) and people running off without completing the task they were assigned to do.\nPay extra attention to the source of incentive traffic \u2013 if the downloads aren't organic, then you're risking to lose your account and getting your app removed from the App Store, with few to no chances to redeem yourself in front of your audience and platform holders. You must understand what you're doing and you must know who you are dealing with \u2013 if you're dealing with some shady platform which doesn't provide any proof of their experience and denies your request to show the sample of the work, it's a massive red flag for you and your app. Instead, look for trusted and legitimate sources of mobile traffic to promote iOS games without trouble.\nThe best way to get incentive traffic today is through professional mobile marketing agencies, which offer more than you can even think of when it comes to mobile marketing. There's nothing bad in trying to pull everything off on your own, but let's be reasonable \u2013 today there's no need to do it. You can make your life a lot easier and return way more than you have invested in the marketing if you can pick a reasonable approach to your marketing campaign and figure out what you need and what you don't need. Promotion of your application on your own today is something people do when they cannot afford the professional marketing services or just want to show off their marketing skills \u2013 and let's be honest, most of these cases end up in a very negative light, which is a shame \u2013 there are so many good apps out there which would benefit from good marketing treatment, and your application or game is no exception to this case.\nMore good promotional practices\nDon't be cheap \u2013 spend some time and money to set up your own website. Today, web hosting is not as expensive as it was before, so you'll be able to set up a professional website without too much of a hassle. It doesn't have to look extra cool, it can be a modest website with slick design and without anything useless or unnecessary \u2013 by setting up even a simple website you're already helping to establish your credibility as a person. You can just add a few lines about yourself and add contact information to make sure that whoever is looking at your site may have a chance to confirm that indeed, you are a real developer.\nTalk to your audience. While it's not endorsed to talk about off-topic things too much, you can still hook your audience with rare off-topic discussions to loosen them up and make them come to talk about anything when it's possible \u2013 after all, you're giving yet another reason to visit your public page, and users will be interested in more than just the news about your application or game.\nPay attention to the quality. Releasing a buggy app today is like shooting yourself in the foot \u2013 nothing good will come out of it, in fact, it will only lead to more problems. You will lose your credibility as the developer, you will have a hard time trying to fix the app as soon as you can, and this way you'll just jeopardize your marketing plans from the get go. If that is not enough to convince you to pay extra attention to the quality and how your app is presented to the audience. Someday this factor will decide whether your application or game ends up being successful or not, and it's recommended to take a few days or even weeks to give your app some stress testing.\nTry optimizing your app. It is streamlined into two different methods \u2013 Keyword Optimization and Asset Optimization. Both offer different benefits and require different approaches to the task to make sure that the process brings the best possible results. While it's execution feels somewhat between proper research and trial and error, App Store Optimization will most likely improve your position on the market either way. Let's take a closer look at each approach and learn what we should do to optimize the app or get it optimized.\n- Don't be cheap and set up your own website and get your own domain name;\n- Spend some time polishing your app to make it pleasant and nice to use;\n- Use ASO to improve your performance on the market.\nRemember that marketing is very important to you and your brand, and it's in your best interests to make sure that your application or game gets the most out of what the market has to offer. As long as you remember that your success depends on both quality and your marketing campaign, you should reach your audience, but keep in mind that mobile marketing has a lot of trial-and-error too, so don't get too upset if you don't get the expected results \u2013 see what's going wrong and change your plans accordingly, and learn from that. There are no \u201cone size fits all\u201d solutions, so keep playing around and experimenting with new marketing practices and approaches. After all, it's just silly to leave your app like this, without any support or promotion.\nCompany Name: Applead\nIssued By: Matt\nAddress: 121 Florida st apt 7 Elizabeth\nCity: Elizabethport\nKeywords : mobile promotion, apps promotion, ios apps,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 9483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.frenchchateau.net/chateaux-of-bourgogne/chateau-de-perrigny-les-dijon.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:08Z", "digest": "sha1:EFS3DADGXTSEWM6JNWELH3OSZZHZBN6O", "length": 1626, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.frenchchateau.net", "title": "\ufeff Ch\u00e2teau de Perrigny-l\u00e8s-Dijon, French Ch\u00e2teau", "raw_content": "Ch\u00e2teau de Perrigny-l\u00e8s-Dijon\nCh\u00e2teau de Perrigny-l\u00e8s-Dijon Reconstruction Project Established by Claude Desgots (eighteenth century) Photo - Inconnu - Wikipedia - lic. under Public Domain\nLocation: Perrigny-l\u00e9s-Dijon, in the C\u00f4te-d'Or departement of France (Bourgogne Region).\nCondition: Missing.\nNotes: Ch\u00e2teau de Perrigny-l\u00e8s-Dijon, now disappeared, was located in the municipality of Perrigny-l\u00e8s-Dijon in the department of C\u00f4te-d'Or, seat of an ancient manor dating back to the thirteenth century and in 1768 became County House strong in the beginning, it becomes a castle in the fifteenth century, before being modified in the eighteenth century sumptuous mansion. Places have belonged particular family of Perrigny, the Chancellor Nicolas Rolin and the Gagne family. They welcomed Pierre Bauffremont when No weapons of Marsannay (1443) and the last Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold (1474). It was razed in the years following the Revolution. Current traces of the old castle and its outbuildings are still identifiable in the topography of the village. One can identify the remains of a door to the backyard (hinges), an oven and an ordinary press, now integrated into private property. The place name of some localities also recall the domain extension: \"Le Petit Bois\" original and made to agriculture in the 1770s, the \"Alley\" (towards the road of Dijon), the \" All\u00e9e des Tilleuls \"(to Domois, stately annex), the\" Castle courtyard, \"the\" Turret \", the\" Park \", the\" Pavilion \", etc.\nHow To Get To Ch\u00e2teau de Perrigny-l\u00e8s-Dijon (Map):\nCh\u00e2teau de Perrigny-l\u00e8s-Dijon Links:\nCh\u00e2teau de Perrigny-l\u00e8s-Dijon On Wikipedia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 2731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.frontrowreviews.co.uk/category/festivals/a-h/frightfest/page/10", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:H4Q3HMQA3EE4AUQRNJVZSBGGLH2SZXTG", "length": 2580, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.frontrowreviews.co.uk", "title": "FrightFest - 10/10 - Front Row Reviews", "raw_content": "Tulpa Review \u2013 FrightFest 2012\nTulpa was one of the more interesting premieres to take place at FrightFest this year, and this is possibly one of the reasons it has taken so long to get around to this review. It was an interesting film for many reasons, but primarily because (and I really hope for the sake of the film), it is still a work in progress. Before the film started, we were told that the film had only been completed literally days before the screening and that we were the first audience in the world to have seen it - of course that made us feel special and unique but I wonder whether they told us that to cover their backs and to try to conceal the weaknesses of Tulpa.\nWatch The Arrival of Wang Online \u2013 FrightFest 2012\nFrightFest, News, VOD\nFrightFest 2012 saw The Arrival of Wang, directed by the Manetti Bros. (Paura 3D) and starring Francesca Cuttica, as both a fan favourite and tocritical acclaim (watch out for the arrival of our review, see what I did there?). Now, here is the fun stuff. Ahead of it's DVD landing, Peccadillo Pictures have released the VOD rental for this unique picture and now is your chance to check out the film right here, on FRR! To rent the film, click below, it's only \u00a33.49 - days after it's Festival showing, that is a pretty good deal!\nOpening Credits for Cockneys vs Zombies\nUK Release Date: 31/08/12 Brilliant new opening credit sequence created by www.gianlucafallone.com... A bunch of east-enders fight their way out of a zombie-infested London, led by an unlikely gang of am... Read More...\nCompetitions, FrightFest, News\nNow that FrightFest 2012 is well and truly done (keep your eyes open for FRR's coverage and interview coming soon), we have a unique competition prize to give away to ONE of our readers. The atmosphere at FrightFest is like a family, people coming together each year to celebrate the genre of horror (in all it's various generic forms). The stars, directors, writers and producers of these films mix with the crowds to form the excitement of the festival and it's a great time had all round.\nWIN FrightFest break out hit DETENTION on DVD!\nJoseph Kahn\u2019s instant cult-classic DETENTION, starring Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games) and Dane Cook (Good Luck Chuck), is out on DVD and Digital on August 27th from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, and to ... Read More...\nFilm4\u2019s FrightFest 2012 Festival\nFeatures, FrightFest, News\nFront Row Reviews are excited to announce they are covering the 13th year of Film4's FrightFest, which returns to the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square to present 48 films.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4957, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gate2biotech.cz/21st-annual-superbugs-superdrugs-conference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:11Z", "digest": "sha1:Y35END2WQMMEUDG4EDP53MGDPK6GVWG7", "length": 2284, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.gate2biotech.cz", "title": "21st Annual Superbugs &Superdrugs Conference - Gate2Biotech.cz", "raw_content": "Hlavn\u00ed stranaMezin\u00e1rodn\u00ed biotech ud\u00e1losti21st Annual Superbugs & Superdrugs Conference\nLondon, UK (March 18-19, 2019)\nAs the global threat of antimicrobial resistance continues to grow, the advances of modern medicines are at risk of being lost. Failure to act quickly means the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria could lead to increased mortality from normally minor injuries and benign infections.\nSMi\u2019s highly anticipated Superbugs & Superdrugs conference is set to return to London, UK for its 21st year running, on the 18th & 19th March 2019. This year\u2019s event aims to provide valuable insights and key updates on the latest developments within the scientific communities, as well as the processes and strategies pharmaceuticals use to develop novel therapeutics that utilise alternative mechanisms to treat multi-drug resistant infections.\nThe two-day conference will also host a diverse gathering of policy makers and economists, in addition to big pharmas and biotechs, who will discuss incentives, partnerships, regulations and new policies. Industry experts and scientific pioneers are set to present on their research advances and clinical data, as well as alternatives to antibiotics, such as monoclonal antibodies and antimicrobial peptides.\nAnalyse the current status of antimicrobial resistance with industry-led insight into current strategies to tackle AMR\nHear about novel immune-therapeutics to target Gram-negative bacterial infections\nLearn about strategies to combat ?-lactamases\nEvaluate the development of precision antibiotics: Agents designed to meet the demands of stewardship\nExplore the role of plasmids in the evolution of antimicrobial resistance\nJoin us in London next year to explore the challenges and solutions to the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, as well as take part in interactive roundtable discussions with leading organisations. Attendees will also have the exclusive opportunity of networking with an unrivalled gathering of senior experts from Wellcome Trust, F2G, Summit Therapeutics, Meiji Seika Pharma, Akthelia Pharmaceuticals, Centauri Therapeutics, and many more.\nFor more information and to register online, please visit http://www.superbugssuperdrugs.com/gate2biowl\nV\u00edce: http://www.superbugssuperdrugs.com/gate2biowl", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3471, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gazette-tribune.com/news/nvh-board-approves-preliminary-budget/62781/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:19Z", "digest": "sha1:SPY6NAF2ZRMEUVUGGEIOKAMQBCS4QC2L", "length": 3117, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.gazette-tribune.com", "title": "NVH Board approves preliminary budget - Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune", "raw_content": "NVH Board approves preliminary budget\nBy Brent Baker on November 23, 2012 in News\nTax credit gets the nod as well\nTONASKET \u2013 The North Valley Hospital Board of Commissioners approved the hospital\u2019s preliminary 2013 budget at its Thursday, Nov. 8, meeting.\nPresented by acting Chief Financial Officer Helen Verhasselt, the budget projects total operating revenue at just over $22.5 million, including nearly $21.2 million in net patient revenue. Total operating expenses are projected to be nearly $23.2 million, while other income, (primarily $840,000 in levy revenue) will push the overall balance sheet into the black, with a projected net income of just over $413,000.\nThose numbers are for the combined Hospital and Long Term Care divisions.\n\u201cWe looked at what our current volumes are,\u201d Verhasselt said. \u201cWe were budgeting at our current levels for next year.\u201d\nOne area where the budget anticipates an increase in volumes is through the VA clinic. The hospital receives a set amount for each veteran that is enrolled and seen in the clinic throughout the year.\n\u201cTo be able to focus the Tonasket clinic on the VA, we were focusing on increasing the (number of enrolled veterans) by 25 vets per month.\nThe budget also factors in making continued progress on the hospital\u2019s warrants (low-rate loans for operating expenses from Okanogan County).\n\u201cWe anticipate the warrants being at $1.7 million at the end of this year,\u201d Verhasselt said. \u201cHopefully they\u2019ll be a little less than that, but that\u2019s the realistic number.\n\u201cBy the end of next year, the county wants us to be down at $1 million,\u201d she added later. \u201cThis will get us pretty close. We\u2019re still working on some areas where we can control costs, reduce expenses, streamline things and try to increase volumes in some areas.\u201d\nThe hospital board also approved its plan to provide a tax credit for taxpayers who live within the hospital district. Patients can receive a discount on hospital services equal to the amount of property taxes paid into the hospital district during the previous year, up to a maximum of $500.\nBeginning on Jan. 1, 2013, patients can complete a short application (which requires a copy of the tax bill) to qualify. The program will be reviewed after a year to determine its effectiveness and affordability. The program is designed to encourage local residents to utilize North Valley Hospital\u2019s services, rather than driving elsewhere, and increase its patient volumes.\nThe board also approved a request by Director of Ancillary Services Noreen Olma to replace its chemistry analyzer, which typically is replaced through a lease program every five years. Olma said the increased cost of the equipment should be largely offset by the ability of the hospital to do more tests in-house (instead of at Mid Valley Hospital or in Spokane), as well as a decrease in the number of service calls compared to what the current analyzer is requiring.\nThe North Valley Hospital Board of Commissioners is next scheduled to meet on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 7:00 p.m.\nCourt Records, 911 Calls and Jail Bookings\nTonasket council approves 2% ad valorem hike", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gazette-tribune.com/opinion/your-voice-can-lead-to-change-in-poverty/57210/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:30Z", "digest": "sha1:XNI7K744I5HIAERW223GHNMJMBSRYOAR", "length": 2562, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gazette-tribune.com", "title": "Your voice can lead to change in poverty - Okanogan Valley Gazette-Tribune", "raw_content": "My Board of Directors has requested that I submit press releases to the media to let the public know about all that we accomplish at Okanogan Community Action with the dollars that are granted to us by county, state and federal sources. While I encourage everyone who needs help to apply for everything from heating assistance to home weatherization to food stamps, or more \u2014 frankly, we\u2019re in a bind if I \u201cblow our horn\u201d too loud.\nWe have recently received over $400,000 in funding to help repair homes of low income individuals. That is the good news. We make amazing changes in peoples\u2019 homes and lives through this program. The bad news is that those dollars won\u2019t make much of a dent in our two year waiting list of low income families \u2013 many of them senior citizens whose homes are in staggering need of repair and conservation measures.\nMore good news: We have begun our Low Income Home Energy Assistance program (LIHEAP) annual funding to help families pay their heating bills. We pay for power bills, propane, oil and wood heat for hundreds of families. This year we will give priority to senior citizens and families with young children. The bad news is that the president is threatening a veto of funding for this bill while at the same time expressing concern for how low income families will cope with increased oil heat costs in the winter. Funding has been reduced each year for this program for the last five years. Last year we did not have enough funding to meet the needs of over 200 families that needed help.\nThese are just two examples of our bind \u2013 never mind the fact that many federal programs are often under-funded when it comes to paying for the costs to deliver these services. It seems that some bureaucrats in Washington D.C. are focused on band-aids, doling out enough to keep the poor quiet, but not enough to help them become more successful in finding a path to prosperity. We need to do more. You can help.\nNov. 2 and 3, Community Action will host an opportunity for members of the community to bring us their concerns about poverty in the community. We want your input on what you see as the problems and potential solutions. Dinner will be served in Omak at the Presbyterian church from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and lunch will be served for the meeting in Twisp at the Senior Center from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. We hope to continue this series in future months and encourage everyone to participate. Your voice will be heard. Your voice can lead to change from poverty to prosperity for the entire community.\nLael Duncan\nEmma \u2018Skip\u2019 Black", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.geraldcjones.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:15Z", "digest": "sha1:IS5IQU4ZIHMZKYEZRNRWG27OKQZOYKR7", "length": 16231, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "www.geraldcjones.com", "title": "Empower Network with Gerald Jones | Just another WordPress site", "raw_content": "New Years Day 2017, my thoughts.\nI for one desire peace on Earth and good will for all Humanity. I am tired of wars and rumors of wars. If we, each and every one of us Humans, would accept responsibility for all of our problems and the part each and everyone of us play in this game of life, we can have peace on earth. I for one have been realizing how much I have been taught prejudice throughout my life. Religious beliefs and teachings of Church Leaders, Education Systems, and parents have not brought peace into my life, but discontent. National leaders have certainly brought about discontent among the people. A big problem is the attitude of thinking ones self, ones city, ones religion, ones nation or people better than another. If we the people of Earth would look at what we are doing with the attitude that we in anyway are better than another we could bring about peace on earth. If we as a people would look at all others as equals with just as much right to their ideas as another, but seek to find as many things that we in common could agree upon, instead of looking for things which divide us, we could have peace on Earth. Let the people of Earth find Common Sense, please. Common Sense, is what we can all agree on as Real Truth. When we the people of Earth decide to work for the Commons Sense Good of all Humanity we can truly become a happy people. I like this statement: \u201cIf it is not good for all Humanity it is not good at all.\u201d Warmongers have set up and established money to divide people. Division and wars produce more money for Warmongering Banksters. It is all for power and control over the people. Religious leaders and churches divide the people by thinking and teaching that they are better than another, thus building up their organization for power over the people. Science as we have it today is controlled much by the Banksters who control the Education System, and what is taught to the children to dumb them down. This is all to have power over the people. With a free uncontrolled natural economy, without the power of money, but people working in harmony for the good of all, we could have advancements that is hard for most people who have been dumbed down by pseudo educations systems of the world to believe. If it were not for the Banksters who have controlled the education and outmoded scientific understanding, we could have had free non polluting energy over a hundred years ago. We could have had non polluting transportation systems without roads to maintain, using the energy that is free for the use of all of us throughout the whole of the Universe. Think clean fresh water and food for people all over the world without cost for pumping water. Think, without cost for energy by the energy cartels how the cost for homes, and everything else would decrease. We need to wake up and live and be happy. We need to come to the realization that we through the use of Common Sense principles do not need to support leaders and politicians to tell us what to do, and how to live our lives. May the wisest among us be our teachers, they will teach without charge for the betterment of society, keep the Banksters out of their way that we may have joy. I long for a world where there are no poor among us, as a people of the Americas had for 200 years of peace a couple thousand years ago, where the people had all things in common, that is until money and greed entered among the people. Let us see what we can do to bring about equality for ALL people of this Earth.\nEvery day there are Specials at SFI, Check them out. You\nwill find some GREAT Values:\nTripleClicks Deal of the Day\nHave a plan (a realistic plan)\nGoals are vital, as Rule #10 makes clear, but you must also have a plan to achieve your goals, and it must be realistic.\nStart with this: Though SFI is truly one of the few businesses where you can earn while you learn, think of your first 6-12 months primarily as a training period. Build this into your plan. In this era of \u201cinstant everything,\u201d I know that\u2019s a tough for a lot of people to deal with, but big incomes simply do not happen overnight. It\u2019s just not reality. If it was, everybody would be rich.\nInstead, plan to work the hardest your first 6-12 months or so and get compensated the least. Don\u2019t expect large earnings until after you\u2019ve educated yourself and given yourself time to put your plan fully into operation.\nTip: For a great book on creating your plan, try The One Page Business Plan for the Creative Entrepreneur, by Jim Horan\n\u201cWithout goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.\u201d\n-Fitzhugh Dodson\n\u201cI find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives.\u201d\n\u201cif you want to pick apples, don\u2019t plant weeds.\u201d\nSet goals\u2026and publish them!\nA valid plan for success must include not just goals, but published goals too. Use this section of our Affiliate Profile to set yours and review your goals often at your SFI Homepage (see \u201cMy Goals\u201d section). Once you\u2019ve set your goals, print out the page and keep it on the wall near where you work on your SFI business. i.e. Publish them!\nThis may seem silly to you, but psychologically it can be a game-changer. No one knows why exactly, but publishing your goals seems to launch activity in your powerful subconscious mind that seems to literally \u201cpull\u201d you towards the achievement of your goals!\nStudies on goal-setting have revealed truly amazing statistics. For example, a study of college students who used goal-setting in college found they eventually landed in the top percentile of all earners!\nSetting goals is so easy to do, yet 95% of people never set goals. They just never take the time. And who do you think are the most successful, highest-earning people in the world? The 5% group of course! If you want to be in the 5% group, don\u2019t even think about ignoring goal-setting!\n\u201cYou can\u2019t hit a target you cannot see and you cannot see a target you do not have.\u201d\n\u201cPut your goals in writing. If you can\u2019t put it on a sheet of paper, you probably can\u2019t do what it takes to achieve the goal.\u201d\n-Mack R. Douglas\n\u201cThe establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success. An average person with average talent, ambition and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.\u201d\n\u201cWe all have two choices; We can make a living or we can design a life.\u201d\n\u201cTake up one idea and act on it. Make that one idea your life. Think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, and every part of your body be full of that idea and leave all other ideas alone. This is the way to success.\u201d\nOpen your eyes to your potential\nYou may not realize it right now, but inside you you have the potential to become very, very successful. Successful beyond your wildest dreams. So why aren\u2019t you? By and large, it\u2019s because our schools, governments, teachers, professors, and clergy don\u2019t teach you this!\nOn the contrary in fact, you\u2019ve been programmed your whole life to accept mediocrity, to believe that conforming and compromising is the way you go through life and that real success is unachievable except for the \u201cprivileged.\u201d Of course, people that have become highly successful have learned this is not true at all and they have broken out of these artificial constraints\u2026and so should you!\nFor me, it was reading the classic book \u201cThink And Grow Rich\u201d by Napoleon Hill at the age of 22 that opened my eyes. I was also greatly impacted by\u201cThe Magic Of Thinking Big\u201d by David Schwartz. I still highly recommend these books to anyone who wants to do great things in their life.\nAt TripleClicks we are fortunate to have one of the world\u2019s most famous success experts and authors, Jack Zufelt, as one of our ECAs.\nLike Napoleon Hill and David Schwartz , Jack opens your eyes to your true potential. Indeed, what Jack teaches is so powerful he has been interviewed on over 2,000 radio and TV talk shows. PBS aired a special about him that was broadcast via satellite to 127 countries. The United States Senate honored him for teaching Americans how to achieve more success in their personal lives and careers. He was even awarded the Presidential Medal of Merit by the President of the United States!\nJack\u2019s books and CDs can literally change your life and I highly recommend them to all our affiliates! Check out all of Jack\u2019s products at: http://jackzufelt.tripleclicks.com\n\u201cLearn something new. Try something different. Convince yourself that you have no limits.\u201d\n\u201cThe millionaire says to a thousand people, \u2018I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.\u2019 Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn\u2019t that incredible? Why wouldn\u2019t everyone get the book?!\u201d\nYOU make it happen, no one else\nNot only is this a key rule in SFI, but I consider this to be amongst THE most important lessons in life. NO ONE ELSE can make you successful. It\u2019s all up to you. YOU are the \u201cmaster of your destiny\u201d and responsible for your own success. Period.\nConversely, there\u2019s not anyone or anything that will make you a failure. It does no good to blame the economy, your education, or whatever bad breaks you\u2019ve had in your life. Doing so means taking on a victim\u2019s mentality. DON\u2019T EVER DO THIS. I can guarantee you that many thousands of people have succeeded despite having it much worse, so don\u2019t make excuses and don\u2019t convince yourself that you\u2019re somehow a victim.\nAnd the grass isn\u2019t any greener on the other side either. You have now (or can acquire) everything you need to be successful. Just remember that it\u2019s up to you and nobody else. Then go out and do it.\nNow, for those who might be thinking, \u201cwell, that\u2019s easy for you to say, Gery!\u201d\u2026the fact is, I\u2019ve achieved what most people would say is extraordinary success, but it was not handed to me, not by any stretch. I come from a very small Nebraska town and very humble beginnings. When I started in business I had no business education, no experience, and no money to invest. And it took four long years (the first two moonlighting into the wee hours of the night while holding down a full-time job), before I ever saw a profit. I had no mentors, no great upline leaders or sponsors to guide me, nor any wealthy relatives to come to my aid. But I decided I was going to become successful and I did. And I\u2019ve put in the work every day for nearly 25 years now to stay successful.\nSo\u2026it\u2019s not your sponsor. It\u2019s not your upline. It\u2019s not the economy. It\u2019s not the government. It\u2019s not the compensation plan. It\u2019s not any of these things or any other obstacles perceived to be in your way. If you want to become successful, you can go around the obstacles, go over, go under, or go right through them. Success is yours if you want it, but ONLY YOU control this. Always remember: \u201cIf it\u2019s to be, it\u2019s up to me.\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t know what my future holds, but I do know who holds my future.\u201d\n\u201cHe that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else.\u201d\n\u201cI used to say, \u2018things cost too much.\u2019 Then my teacher straightened me out on that by saying, \u2018The problem isn\u2019t that things cost too much. The problems is that you can\u2019t afford it.\u2019 That\u2019s when I finally understood that the problem wasn\u2019t it-\u2013the problem was me!\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t wait for someone else to make your life terrific. That\u2019s your job.\u201d\nYOU succeed only if THEY succeed\nYou know what the number one complaint we receive is? It\u2019s affiliates telling us that their sponsor/upline doesn\u2019t support them, never answers their emails, never communicates with them, etc.\nThink about this. Do YOU want to make money for someone who demonstrates no support or assistance? Of course not. It\u2019s the same thing with the affiliates you sponsor. If they feel you do not care about them, they will not want to build their SFI businesses because they will not want to see their hard work benefiting some stranger they never hear from. Surely you don\u2019t want your affiliates feeling this way!\nIf you\u2019re sponsoring affiliates and then leaving them to fend for themselves, just quit right now because you\u2019re guaranteeing failure for yourself. Every affiliate you sponsor is a potential goldmine for you. You MUST understand that only if THEY succeed, do YOU succeed. I can\u2019t stress enough the importance of understanding this rule!\nAnd, yes, it\u2019s true you can\u2019t MAKE the affiliates in your downline successful (they have to want that for themselves), but let it never be said that you weren\u2019t there for your affiliates!\nStart by opening up good lines of communication with all your affiliates. This is how you can teach your affiliates how to succeed in SFI and how you build relationships with your affiliates (very important!).\nFirst, set up a greeting for your affiliates HERE. Once you\u2019ve set this up, all of your new affiliates, upon logging in at the SFI Affiliate Center for the first time, will see an alert that you\u2019ve left them a message. By clicking on this alert, they\u2019ll then be able to read your message. This is an easy, automatic way to get off to a great start in building relationships with your affiliates.\nNext, you\u2019ll want to develop some form of regular outgoing communications to stay in touch, share ideas, and provide training. We recommend a weekly (or every-other-week) e-mail using the PSA Mailer and CSA Mailer. Just enter your message and hit submit to automatically send a message to all of your PSAs (personally sponsored affiliates) and CSAs (co-sponsored affiliates).\nNow, you may be new to SFI and/or business in general. You may feel you have nothing you can teach your affiliates. That\u2019s OK, you can learn and grow into the leader role over time. And, after all, all the training your affiliates really need is at the SFI Affiliate Center. But what you must never do is allow your affiliates to think their sponsor (you) is uncaring. If you do that, if you do not communicate with your affiliates, success will be a hundred times harder to attain.\nTip: For dozens of additional great tips and ideas for growing your team, see this page.\n\u201cYou can get everything you want if you help enough others get what they want.\u201d\n\u201cA leader\u2019s job is to look into the future and see the organization not as it is, but as it can become.\u201d\n\u201cOutstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves it is amazing at what they can accomplish.\u201d\n-Sam Walton\nTreat TripleClicks as YOUR store\nAs one of our affiliates, you and SFI are partners. Therefore, you need to think of SFI products as YOUR products. And you need to think of TripleClicks.com as YOUR store.\nBecause it is your store, when you buy products and services for yourself or others, you always need to shop your own store (TripleClicks) first.\nIf you owned a bakery, you wouldn\u2019t be buying cinnamon rolls from the bakery down the street. If you owned an office supplies store, you wouldn\u2019t drive to a competitor\u2019s store to buy a stapler or paperclips.\nImage is an illustration only.\nIt\u2019s the exact same thing as an SFI affiliate, especially when it comes to products you\u2019re ALREADY buying. Your store (TripleClicks.com) probably carries many products and/or services that you ALREADY purchase from a local store or other service provider. You should transfer those purchases\u2026to YOUR store.\nRemember, we\u2019re not talking about spending extra money, just changing from where you\u2019re buying.\nSo what\u2019s in it for you? What benefit do you get out of buying from your own store?\nFor starters, your purchases at TripleClicks earn you valuable VersaPoints, which you can parlay into numerous benefits and increased earnings. You also earn Member Rewards Points with every purchase.\nBut it\u2019s goes much, much further than that. The fact is, SFI\u2019s success\u2014and your success as an SFI affiliate\u2014is tied directly to the success of TripleClicks (TC). The more successful TC is, the more successful SFI\u2019s affiliates will be.\nA popular and successful TC means:\n\u2022 Easier sponsoring of SFI affiliates\n\u2022 Easier referrals of TC members\n\u2022 More and better ECAs\n\u2022 More products & services\n\u2022 Better prices\n\u2022 Lower shipping costs\n\u2026which all leads to larger affiliate commissions of course!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 30864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.germanclimatefinance.de/2017/06/23/america-first-trumps-rollback-climate-finance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UYJHPAMN3DCCYGVO2B4LQTPJ6IZAL4RT", "length": 8915, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.germanclimatefinance.de", "title": "\u201cAmerica First\u201d and Trump\u2019s rollback for climate finance - The German contribution to International Climate Finance \u00bb The German contribution to International Climate Finance", "raw_content": "Protest in front of the White House in Washington D.C.. Creator: Mackenzie Nelson. This image is licensed under Creative Commons License\nDonald Trump\u2019s announcement on 1 June 2017 that the United States will withdraw from the Paris Climate Treaty will have severe implications for international climate finance. Since then, many actors in the United States have stepped up and publicly committed to efforts on the sub-national and local level to try to uphold American contributions to international climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts \u2013 like the city of Seattle which is considering pledging some financial support to the Green Climate Fund (GCF). This would make Seattle only the second city globally, after Paris pledged US$ 1.3 million to the GCF during the COP21, and could be an example also for other large US metropoles, a number of which like Seattle are also part of the C40 cities climate leadership group. U.S. foundations have also pledged financial support. For example, Bloomberg Philanthropies have announced to provide up to US$ 15 million to fill the financing gap at the UN climate secretariat. Unfortunately, such activism will not make up for the failure of the Trump administration to make good on its international climate finance obligation.\nEven if the declaration is actually old news and without much additional consequence, the shortchanging of international climate finance by the Trump White House will be hard to ignore. The announcement of America\u2019s intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement is formalizing what the Trump administration had already indicated with its FY 2018 budget request weeks earlier: that under this administration, there will be no US financial support to developing countries to help them in realizing their climate ambitions.\nIn all honesty, the outcome for American international climate finance contributions would most likely have been the same, even if the Trump administration had decided to stick with the agreement. Or as White House Budget director Mulvaney said in mid-March with respect to both international and domestic climate funding: \u201cWe\u2019re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.\u201d Case in point is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).\nThe Trump budget proposal wants to cut funding for the Clean Power Plan, international climate change programs, climate change research and partnership programs, and related efforts. While the Trump\u2019s White House FY 2018 budget proposal will likely change in order to gain approval by the US Congress, it is unlikely that a Republican majority in both houses will restore international climate finance commitments.\nThere will be a net loss in climate finance support\nTo recall, many developing countries had clearly indicated what they can achieve with domestic efforts alone, and how much of their ambition was conditional on international climate finance support by developed countries, when they first submitted their Intended Nationally Designated Contributions (INDCs) in the lead-up to the Paris climate summit. For example, just to implement the INDCs of the 48 poorest developing countries could cost as much as US$93 billion per year, with a significant share to pay for their implementation expected to come from international sources.\nAnd a key country like India has made all of its INDC implementation costs, a reported US$2.5 trillion over 15 years, fully conditional on international finance support. Thus, the United States\u2019 refusal under Trump to fulfill financial obligations under the UNFCCC toward the agreed US$ 100 billion per year by 2020, the financial baseline under which climate finance support was to be ratcheted up under the Paris Agreement, will undoubtedly have a cooling effect on the ability of developing country Parties to raise their emission reduction commitments in the next few years.\nObama\u2019s last minute transfer of $500 Million\nWhile core elements of the Paris Agreement implementation, such as writing the technical rule-book, can move forward without the Trump Administration over the next few years (presumably until a follow-up, more enlightened US administration recommits to the Paris Agreement), there will be a net loss in climate finance support \u2013 especially, since other OECD countries won\u2019t be willing to make up the US financing shortfall while increasing their own financial contributions at the same time as would be needed. One can only hope that the US actions won\u2019t produce additional blatantly unapologetic copy cat climate finance renegades among developed countries.\nThe accounting methods of prior US financial contributions in support of climate change actions globally might have been questioned (such as whether loans and guarantees under a US export credit agency should be counted toward the fulfillment of American climate finance obligations), but they will now be absent all-together in the international climate negotiations. The FY18 budget by the White House eliminates the Global Climate Change Initiative (GCCI) entirely , which provided US$10 million in support of the UNFCCC and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in last year\u2019s budget \u2013 a sum that while nominally small, nevertheless means tremendous financial shortfalls to secure the ongoing work of both bodies.\nOn the campaign trail, Trump had already promised to cancel all US payments to \u201cUN climate change programs\u201d and his FY18 budget zeros out any support for the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which is considered instrumental for the Paris Agreement implementation. Despite the US$ 3 billion signed contribution agreement by the Obama Administration to the GCF, this action makes the USA technically the largest single country contributor to the US$10.3 billion pledged to the GCF, of which the previous administration could only deliver US$1 billion \u2013 including a last minute US$500 million wire-transfer to the GCF on President Obama\u2019s way out.\nRadical cuts climate-change related financing\nWhile the Global Environment Facility (GEF) will continue to receive US money as the only multilateral environment fund under Trump\u2019s budget, contributions would be reduced by 30 percent versus fiscal 2017 levels. Trump\u2019s budget proposal is also cutting American support to multilateral development banks (MDBs) by a quarter, which are significant players in global climate finance with $25 billion in 2015 alone. In the past, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which the Trump FY 2018 budget no longer supports, issued US$ 1 billion per year in loans, guarantees and insurance to mobilize private sector investments in renewable energy.\nProbably most shocking is that all other clean energy programs under the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the State Department, a significant chunk of the American bilateral climate assistance, are also completely defunded and sustainable development activities, such as for biodiversity and sustainable landscapes, are reduced to the point of extinction. By some calculations, the cut in related development assistance could be US$ 2.9 billion for FY 2018.\nIf one looks for any hopeful news coming out of the United States on climate-change related financing, it is surprisingly with respect to shareholder actions of US-based investment firms like BlackStar or Vanguard. They are flexing their muscle and demanding climate change financial accountability of their long-term investment portfolios from the corporations in which they invest. Their latest victory: the world\u2019s largest oil company, US giant Exxon Mobil \u2013 which is incidentally the old stomping ground of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who reportedly fought and lost the battle in the Trump administration for the United States to remain in the Paris Agreement.\nConsequences for German climate finance\nThe U.S. withdrawal will also impact on German climate finance. American representative are likely to play a more problematic role on the Board of the GCF and other multilateral initiatives that Germany contributes to. What is even more worrisome is that the shortfall in funding makes the implementation of the Paris Agreement in developing countries more difficult and could burden future climate negotiations. This makes it even more crucial that the other developed countries \u2013 including Germany \u2013 fully deliver on their fianncial commitments and further expand their climate finance.\nLiane Schalatek und Nora L\u00f6hle, Heinrich-B\u00f6ll-Foundation North America\nRead full article: With or without the Paris Agreement \u2013Trump won\u2019t have the last word on US climate policy\nMore articles on the topic: Other issues / International climate finance\nNext article: Financing Loss and Damage: A Look at Governance and Implementation Options\nPrevious article: Compact with Africa: Is the G20 investment program undermining the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 10315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gitems.org/course/info.php?id=15", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:34Z", "digest": "sha1:DXPVH4ZPMR7TBBLITILRLWDLEPG6ZARY", "length": 357, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.gitems.org", "title": "Summary of FEMA ICS Courses", "raw_content": "FEMA ICS Courses\n(ICS )\nThe Incident Command System (ICS) is a standardized, on-scene, all-hazards incident management approach that is flexible and can be used for incidents of any type, scope, and complexity.\nICS is used by all levels of government\u2014Federal, State, tribal, and local\u2014as well as by many nongovernmental organizations and the private sector.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 82.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globeinternationalinc.com/roofing-sheets-2395493.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JD2Q4ZH4BSPAABV3IG4VVSALVUYEBGZC", "length": 538, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.globeinternationalinc.com", "title": "Roofing Sheets Manufacturer in Delhi,Roofing Sheets Supplier,PUF Roofing Sheets Service Providers in Delhi/NCR \",a.firstChild&&typeof a.firstChild.getAttribute!=\"undefined\"&&a.firstChild.getAttribute(\"href\")!==\"#\"&&(o.attrHandle.href=function(a){return a.getAttribute(\"href\",2)}),a=null}(),c.querySelectorAll&&function(){var a=m,b=c.createElement(\"div\"),d=\"__sizzle__\";b.innerHTML=\"", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Products \u00bb Roofing Sheets \u00bb Roofing Sheets\nWe are identified as one of the leading organization, engaged in manufacturing and supplying Roofing Sheets. 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It is surrounded by some of the most spectacular scenery in the U.S., including several national parks, state parks, the Colorado River, and the beautiful La Sal Mountains. Whether you like hiking, biking, four-wheeling, fishing, or just admiring breathtaking canyons and rock formations, Moab has something you\u2019ll enjoy.\nIncredibly gorgeous red rocks near Moab, Utah\nDead Horse Point is a peninsula of rock atop sheer sandstone cliffs. The peninsula is connected to the mesa by a narrow strip of land called the neck. There are many stories about how this high promontory of land received its name.\nState parks offer also provide outstanding scenery in Utah.\nAccording to one legend, around the turn of the century the point was used as a corral for wild mustangs roaming the mesa top. Cowboys rounded up these horses, herded them across the narrow neck of land and onto the point. The neck, which is only 30 yards wide, was then fenced off with branches and brush. This created a natural corral surrounded by precipitous cliffs, affording no escape.\nCowboys then chose the horses they wanted and let the culls or broomtails go free. One time, for some unknown reason, horses were left corralled on the waterless point where they died of thirst within view of the Colorado River, 2,000 feet below. Today camping facilities and three new yurts are situated for easy access to the various mountain bike trail loops which have been built in Dead Horse Point State Park.\nOutstanding national parks\nThere's such an array of amazing arches to capture your imagination.\nArches National Park contains the world's largest concentration of natural sandstone arches with over 2,000 arches located within the park's 76,518 acres. Colossal sandstone fins, massive balanced rocks, soaring pinnacles and spires dwarf visitors as they explore the park's viewpoints and hiking trails. .A paved scenic drive takes visitors to many of the major viewpoints within this red rock fairyland. Don\u2019t miss photo opportunities of Delicate Arch, Balanced Rock, and many other natural arches.\nCanyonlands is the largest national park in Utah, and its diversity staggers the imagination. It is divided into three districts by the Green and Colorado Rivers--the Island in the Sky, the Needles and the Maze. Named for their most prominent geologic characteristics, these districts are quite varied in what offer. From lofty viewpoints visitors can see nearly 100 miles in any given direction, panoramic views that encompass thousands of square miles of canyon country. Take a short day-hike or spend a relaxing late afternoon enjoying the sunset. If you\u2019re not familiar with Canyonlands you might be pleasantly surprised by the incredible landscapes available in the park.\nPowerful forces of nature created deep canyons that are showstoppers\nin Canyonlands National Park.\nSince 1949 the Moab area has been a popular location for Hollywood movies. Movies filmed in our area range from the old John Wayne classics to more recent hits such as Geronimo, Mission Impossible II, and Transformers: Age of Extinction. Thelma and Louise took their final leap into the Colorado River from along the Shafer Trail under Dead Horse Point near Moab.\nSoutheastern Utah contains some of the darkest skies in the contiguous 48 United States. A moonless night spent under the stars in southeastern Utah will amaze visitors with the volume of stars visible to the naked eye. 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It also provides car rental facilities for guests who wish to explore the region on their own.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 6098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.golfclubneuhof.de/contact/access/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZVVFJJH24FBPAROCGA7DUJGSNU3ILX3", "length": 328, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.golfclubneuhof.de", "title": "Access | Golf-Club Neuhof", "raw_content": "Leave the A661 at the Dreieich exit (19) in the direction of Dreieich-G\u00f6tzenhain, Neuhof.\nFollow the road for about 1.5 km through the forest.\nWhen you leave the forest, the entrance to the Hofgut Neuhof is in about 300 m on the right. 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The videos star famous actors, artists and authors including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Johnny Depp, Marianne Faithfull, Salma Hayek, Isabelle Hubbert, Jeanne Moreau, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Isabella Rossellini\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3393, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 172.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gtantchev.com/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:19Z", "digest": "sha1:R2EYZURQ6B6UKTBCPFFI4AIJAOIXI4R7", "length": 2350, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gtantchev.com", "title": "George Tantchev,", "raw_content": "Home | Northfield School of Music | Compositions | Articles | Video | Contact | Events\nBorn in a family of professional musicians George first began studying piano at the age of 6 and percussion at 8 with Dobri Paliev and graduated from the State Music Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1995. In 1998 he earned his Masters of Music at Ithaca College, NY, with Gordon Stout and was awarded Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the University of Oklahoma in 2004 where he studied with Richard Gipson.\nHis dissertation ASYMMETRICAL RHYTHMS FOR MARIMBA was published in November 2008 by VDM.\nHe studied conducting with William Wakefield and composition with Bentsion Eliezer and Gregory Woodward. His compositions have been performed at numerous concerts, competitions, meetings and have been favorably reviewed in magazines. His latest commission was a Concerto for Maracas and eight percussionists written for maracas virtuoso Ed Harrison.\nGeorge is a former member of Teatro Lirico D'Europa, State Musical Theater in Sofia and the Bulgarian national percussion ensemble Polyrhythmia and has participated in numerous recordings, live TV and radio broadcasts, festivals and concert performances in Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg, Serbia, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal, Monaco, Belgium, USA and has received several music honors and awards. Most recently he performed as timpanist and percussionist in the critically acclaimed 2015 production of Carousel at the Lyric Opera in Chicago.\nSince 2010 he has been performing and conducting various orchestras in Chicago and the North Shore. Most currently George performs and conducts his Chicago Soloist Orchestra, featuring soloists and singers in one of a kind entertaining show program of pop, ragtime, world, and classical standards in the style of Andre Rieu with percussion in the forefront. His humorous but true comments about musicians keep the audience highly entertained at each concert.\nSince 2005 George serves as Director of the Northfield School of Music serving Chicago and the North Shore offering quality music instruction:Drum lessons, Guitar lessons, Piano lessons, Violin lessons, and all band and orchestra instruments. 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She enjoys the moments when work overlaps personal and she is able to be involved in educating and increasing awareness about the need for foster care families and the importance of understanding the impacts of loving kids who have endured trauma. Virginia and her husband, Jake, have 2 beautiful girls, one biological and one adopted, and 2 Australian shepherd dogs. 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University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, 2003\nB.A. University of California, Riverside, 2000", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 33.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.histoiredesmedias.com/Revolution-1-Users-and-Communities.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:LFV6MSNOJV4A6MP7X3ZUX7EMFFBH6G7L", "length": 1137, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.histoiredesmedias.com", "title": "\u00ab Revolution 0.1. \u00bb, Users and Communities of Users in the First Age of Personal Computers and Networks for a the General Public (1978-90) - Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 pour l\u2019histoire des m\u00e9dias", "raw_content": "Home page > Le Temps des M\u00e9dias > 18 - Histoire de l\u2019Internet, l\u2019Internet dans l\u2019histoire > \u00ab Revolution 0.1. \u00bb, Users and Communities of Users in the First Age of Personal Computers and Networks for a the General Public (1978-90)\n\u00ab Revolution 0.1. \u00bb, Users and Communities of Users in the First Age of Personal Computers and Networks for a the General Public (1978-90)\nIn France, the first consumer uses of computers have thrived in the 1980s with the family computer and telematics. New forms of sociability grew, resorting to a variety of media. Many social interactions used the print press, fanzines, networks and associations. This first melting-pot of practices and representations included specific uses, such as the practice of Basic, the first word processors and electronic mail. It contributed to the development on an \"interactive screen culture\" which reinvented itself with the growth of the Internet fifteen years later. 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He'll be available for official pictures (and a holiday happy) beginning at 10 a.m. At 12 noon he will have to return to his workshop. This is a come-and-go program, but we will have holiday snacks available.\nThe Library Plaza is easy to find. When you enter the building, take the hall on the left. About halfway down the hall, take a right. You should see two brown pillars beneath a large sign saying The Plaza. 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Luckily, we came to our senses, because this show is going to be pretty special.\nA while back, we met Toronto singer-songwriter Shawn William Clarke at the annual Folk Music Ontario Conference. After a couple days of running into each other in the hotel, we found ourselves in one of the late night (early morning, really) jam rooms. This room was, to put it lightly, filled to the brim with talent. At one point Shawn stood up, and with his guitar, began his song \u201cIn Conversation\u201d. It started with a wonderful finger-picked riff, that lets you know a great song is on the way. I remember the conversations in the room quickly fading, so everyone could hear what was happening. It was a pretty great moment, the kind that makes it worth staying up till sunrise in hotel rooms with too many good people. We knew we were hooked when days later, in the sleep deprived fog that is the work week after the conference, we found ourselves humming his melody on our daily commute. We dug his CD, \u201cWilliam\u201d, out of the large stack we came home with and it found itself a regular part of our life\u2019s sound track. You know you like an album when you go out of your way to buy it on vinyl, when you already own it on CD. This is going to be a wonderful show, and we are very excited to have Shawn\u2019s voice filling our house.\nLast year, around this time, Leah said to me in passing \u201cMike, I want to record a CD in our house.\u201d And I said \u201cYou absolutely should.\u201d\nThen she said \u201cIn the spring\u2026\u201d.\nI don\u2019t know why I was surprised. This is a woman who once said \u201cI want to live in a church\u201d and two short years later we were at our lawyers office picking up the keys to our new home. What I\u2019m saying is, when Leah decides she\u2019s doing something, that thing is going to get done. It\u2019s an amazing thing to be part of, it felt like every day, there was a new song, and new ideas for the project.\nLong story short (and leaving out the work of many talented people we are lucky to know) on July 30th, we released Leah\u2019s second album, \u201cLive At The House Of Harmony\u201d. We took it on tour in our tiny trailer to Nova Scotia in August, and it was amazing.\nWhen we bought the church, and decided to run house concerts out of it, we didn\u2019t want to make it about us. Our goal is to give our friends, who\u2019s talent and creativity knows no bounds, a place to play where they will find a great audience, get treated well, and have a good experience. When asked by people when Leah was going to play there, we would dodge the question, because we didn\u2019t want it to be perceived as a vehicle for self-promotion. But as we talked to more people, especially after the new CD was released, we got the impression that it was something people wanted to see. It does sort of make sense, what better place to see a CD release concert than in the room it was recorded? So we decided to go for it. And here we are. As always we are excited to welcome you into our home, this time to hear Leah, and honoured to be sharing the stage with Shawn William Clarke.\nYou can find Shawn\u2019s and Leah\u2019s official bio\u2019s below and some videos of them performing.\nShawn William Clarke\nShawn William Clarke has long been a sideman with acts like the gypsy-folk collective Olenka and the Autumn Lovers and Arts & Crafts recording artist Timber Timbre. But a few years ago, the Toronto musician branched out to pursue a solo career, putting himself squarely in the spotlight. His debut album \u201cLike Birds Too Tired To Fly\u201d was called \u201cone of the best Canadian albums of 2010\u201d by Snobs Music blog and now has a follow up, Clarke\u2019s sophomore album, \u201cWilliam\u201d.\n\u201cWilliam\u201d features the autobiographical storytelling found on \u201cLike Birds Too Tired To Fly\u201d and has a number of songs inspired by the tales of both cities and small towns, from Clarke\u2019s travels across Canada. \u201cSome Nerve\u201d is a solemn tribute to unconditional love in a slowly progressing landscape, while \u201cI Blame the Loyalist Ghost\u201d is a tongue-in-cheek lament on being sick during an East Coast tour. \u201cWilliam\u201d also contains the song \u201cTranzac Club\u201d, which tells the tale of a new love blossoming in his current city of Toronto, Ontario.\nClarke sought out James Bunton (Ohbijou, Diamond Rings, Evening Hymns) to produce the album and they decided to record in Gravenhurst, Ontario at the studio space inside Currie\u2019s Music and Collectibles. \u201cCurrie\u2019s was a very inspiring location to record this album\u201d, says Clarke. \u201cThe Currie brothers [who own and run the store] make you feel at home and their knowledge and supply of vintage equipment is unparalleled.\u201d Good use was made of the instruments available at the antique shop including a number of vintage guitars like the 1969 Guild that was once owned by Canadian singer-songwriter Mendelson Joe, a 1962 Gibson that was used on the children\u2019s television show Romper Room, and a 1967 Yamaha that resonated so much with Clarke he purchased it after the recording sessions.\nAs a songwriter, Clarke\u2019s goal has been to simplify music and melodies, bringing the subjects of his lyrics to the foreground. Have a listen and see if you don\u2019t agree.\nhttp://www.shawnclarkemusic.com/\nLeah Morise\nBy turns brash and beguiling, Leah Morise\u2019s music is hard to categorize. When asked to describe her sound, she uses the term \u201cgenre crossing,\u201d a mix of folk, contemporary, jazz and blues. \u201cI never really know in advance what\u2019s going to come out. The genre selects me, the songs appear in the style THEY want.\u201d\nA multi-instrumentalist, this soprano plays acoustic guitar & electric bass. Her mother played the guitar, and Leah got her first guitar at the age of 12. She talks about how life gives you lessons you often don\u2019t want: \u201cI used to sing with my mom, and I learned to play by ear. In 1988, my mom got cancer of the larynx. To combat the disease, she had her larynx removed, which meant she was unable to sing. So, in a way, her voice is carried on through me.\u201d\nBut if you should think that this means that Leah\u2019s playing sad songs, you\u2019d be mistaken. The former self-described \u201cChatham farm girl\u201d \u2013 now Londoner -is far more likely to laugh than cry, and her music reflects this sensibility. You can hear this laughter and joy in many of her songs; just try to listen to the infamous \u201cPanty Song\u201d without giggling.\nShe\u2019s influenced by everything she hears, from the music at church to random conversations with friends. \u201cWhen most people are dreaming, I\u2019m writing,\u201d Leah says; her muse makes late-night calls, often between midnight and 3 a.m. Inspiration also occasionally hits while she\u2019s driving and her phone has more than a few snippets with road noise in the background. Like the artist herself, Leah\u2019s music is filled with love, humour, honesty, and not a little bit of silliness.\nLeah has released 2 CDs of her original music and played gigs from coast to coast. Her latest CD, \u201cLive at the House of Harmony\u201d is now available on iTunes as well as on websites such as Amazon.com. The new album is receiving radio play across Canada and the song \u201c$2 Bill\u201d from the new album was nominated for the Colleen Peterson Songs from the Heart Award in October 2015.\nhttp://www.leahmorise.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 8332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.houstonwishesh.com/top-stories/68949-u-s-tells-pak-to-support-narendra-modi-s-peace-efforts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:44Z", "digest": "sha1:EOZWW26A22U2UKIGFCNRFRKSAKUIZVIB", "length": 1775, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.houstonwishesh.com", "title": "U.S. Tells Pak to Support Narendra Modi's Peace Efforts", "raw_content": "U.S. Tells Pak to Support Narendra Modi's Peace Efforts Mattis further asserted that 40 years is enough for every responsible nation to get on board with the process.\nU.S. Tells Pak to Support Narendra Modi's Peace Efforts\nU.S. Tells Pak to Support Narendra Modi's Peace EffortsTop Stories\n(Image source from: gazettereview.com)\nThe United States Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, in a strong message to Pakistan, said it is time for everyone to support the efforts of the United Nations, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Afghanistan in the South Asia peace process.\nMattis further asserted that 40 years is enough for every responsible nation to get on board with the process.\n\"We're looking for every responsible nation to support peace in the sub-continent and across this war in Afghanistan that's gone on now for 40 years,\" he told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday as he welcomed Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman for talks.\n\"It's time for everyone to get on board, support the United Nations; support Prime Minister Modi's, (Afghan) President (Ashraf) Ghani and all those who are trying to maintain peace and make for a better world here,\" Mattis said.\n\"We are on that track. It is diplomatically led as it should be, and we'll do our best to protect the Afghan people,\" he added.\nMattis was responding to a question from reporters regarding the letter written by President Donald Trump to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan, seeking his support in the peace process in Afghanistan.\nIn his letter, Trump has made it clear-cut that Pakistan's full support in this regard \"is fundamental\" to building an enduring U.S.-Pakistan partnership.\nJim Mattis Narendra Modi United Nations\nReport: Ahead of Lok Sabha Polls, Possibility of Communal Violence in India", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 7402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.huahintoday.com/golf-sports-news/black-mountain-golf-club-hua-hin-ready-to-host-the-2016-true-thailand-classic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3G2WRUZA6JKH3MHB6NRXY3GEH7NM4EX6", "length": 4356, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.huahintoday.com", "title": "Black Mountain Golf Club Hua Hin Ready to Host the 2016 True Thailand Classic - Hua Hin Today English Newspaper Info Reports Events News Social Life", "raw_content": "Home Golf & Sports Black Mountain Golf Club Hua Hin Ready to Host the 2016 True...\nBlack Mountain Golf Club Hua Hin Ready to Host the 2016 True Thailand Classic\nThe top stars from the Asian Tour along with many highly ranked European players are tipped to make the US$2 million\nThailand Classic a nail-biting affair when the tournament gets underway this month.\nTrue and ThaiBev are investing more than Bt180 million to host Thailand\u2019s largest professional sport event with the highest cash prize in the True Thailand Classic 2016 presented by Chang. It is tri-sanctioned by the European Tour, Asian Tour and Thailand PGA event which will attract professional golfers from around the world to battle for the US$1.75 million (about Bt63 million) prize fund. Last year the True Thailand Classic was the first tournament in the Kingdom to be cosanctioned by the Asian Tour and European Tour in eight years and will see around 140 players from both continents as well as the US and Australia, battling for supremacy. The tournament will be from March 10-13 at Black Mountain Golf Club.\nLive broadcasts can be viewed at True Sport HD, True Sport 5, and True4U. Andrew Dodt of Australia will be defending his 2015 title when he played an error-free final round of 67 to win the inaugural True Thailand Classic. He took the victory by a single shot from his countryman Scott Hend and Thailand\u2019s Thongchai Jaidee. Dodt went into the final round flying under the radar \u2013 most of the attention and focus was on 54-hole leader Scott Hend, as well as home favourite Thongchai Jaidee and 51-year-old Miguel Angel Jimenez, both of whom trailed by one. \u201cI\u2019m speechless \u2013 it\u2019s just come out of nowhere,\u201d he said.\n\u201cI played really well yesterday and today but I just didn\u2019t think I\u2019d come out on top. I knew I was playing well, but to come out and win is just a dream come true.\u201d Panuphol Pittayarat, a 22-year-old Thai golfer, won a four-story, three-bedroom townhouse on the course after making an ace at the 192-yard par-3 14th hole. Pittayarat didn\u2019t make the cut, but came away feeling like he \u201chad won the tournament.\u201d\nThe pros confirmed to attend the tournament include Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain and Sweden\u2019s Johan Edfors while Australian Andrew Dodt will be playing alongside Thongchai Jaidee, Thailand\u2019s number one, and Kiradech Apibanrat.\n\u201cThe tournament will be live broadcast to over 223 million homes in more than 50 countries around the world,\u201d said Birathon Kasemsri Na Ayudhaya, Head of Commercial & Business Development, TrueVisions Group Ltd, and the tournament organiser. Hua Hin, Cha-Am, Pranburi March 2016 The tournament is a co-operative event between the public and private sectors including True Corporation, Chang Beverages, Sports Authority of Thailand, Black Mountain Golf Club, Charoen Pokphand Group, Bangkok Bank Plc, Toyota Motor Thailand, and Thai Airways International.\n\u201dThe SAT also has a long-term plan to work with private sector to support world series tournaments more often, to give a chance for Thai athletes to have a first-hand experience with the pros, to show off the potential of the country as an international event host, as well as to mark Thailand as a destination in sports tourism map,\u201d said Sakol Wannapong, Governor of Sports Authority of Thailand. Interested golf fans who wish to attend \u201cTrue Thailand Classic 2016 presented by Chang\u201d can book their tickets at Counter Service All Ticket at 7-Eleven outlets, at any stores with Counter Service logo nationwide, or through www.allticketthailand.com. Tickets are Bt1,200, Bt800, and Bt400. For more information, call 02-711-7788.\nwww.asiantour.com\nEditor\u2019s Tip: On the day before most Tour Events, including the True Thailand Classic, there is a Pro-Am Event. This is when nervous amateur golfers, typically representing sponsoring companies, are pitted against competing pros in a one day social round of golf. Being a spectator on this day when the pros are really having a relaxed practice round gives the opportunity to \u2018get up close and personal\u2019. It won\u2019t be the full field but many of the big names will be there. Of course privacy and the etiquette of golf are still required; however this may be your best opportunity to be amongst the \u2018best of the best\u2019 in world golf.\nPrevious articleIt\u2019s A Great Day for The Irish\nNext articleRobot Eldrick Scores An Ace", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 10071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hudson-oh-pd.org/category/industry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJHRBQMLDWHDKNLW2ENDGVSYADJVAGRN", "length": 1342, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hudson-oh-pd.org", "title": "Industry | Hudson", "raw_content": "The Evolution Of ELD In The Trucking Industry\nComments Off on The Evolution Of ELD In The Trucking Industry\nGovernment in the United States has already mandated the use of ELDs or electronic logging devices in the country and the very same mandate will soon be rolled out in Canada. 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The 6th Asia-Pacific Clim\u2026\nAs we start the new year of 2019, we have 11 years to 2030 which is an important year to achieve the Sustainable Development\u2026\nA cornerstone of the Paris climate agreement The recently concluded COP 24, in Katowice, ended with the member states partie\u2026\nThe latest from COP24 The transfer of innovative technologies is a central issue for developing countries, allowing them to \u2026\nAddressing one of the UN climate talks\u2019 most contentious issues Wildfires burn in North America, hurricanes and cyclones dec\u2026\nInsight into the UN climate talks Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), all the countrie\u2026\nReflections on the latest climate talks After a time extension of an extra day, the Rulebook for the Paris Agreement was ado\u2026\n2018: A tipping point for climate change\nAs 2018 comes to an end, it can be said that the year has proved to be a major tipping point for the issue of climate change\u2026\nDr. Saleemul Huq was invited by the Prime Minister of Fiji as one of fifteen selected individuals from around the world to g\u2026\nAfter a time extension of an extra day, the Rulebook for the Paris Agreement was adopted at COP24 in Katowice, Poland on Dec\u2026\nThe first week of the two-week 24th Conference of Parties (COP24) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate C\u2026\nSaleemul Huq, director of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD), and senior fellow of the Int\u2026\nUnder the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) all the countries meet each year at the annual Conf\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 9329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 131.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iheartradio.ca/news/lady-gaga-nominated-for-2-oscars-1.8685715", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6RWVHCDJQOMAOULJLSXGFBKZA5OGZERZ", "length": 1315, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.iheartradio.ca", "title": "Lady Gaga Nominated For 2 Oscars", "raw_content": "Lady Gaga Nominated For 2 Oscars\nLady Gaga on Tuesday became an Oscar-nominated actress.\nThe pop star earned a Best Actress nod for her role in A Star Is Born.\nIt\u2019s her first Academy Award nomination for acting but not her first overall. Gaga\u2019s \u201c\u2019Til It Happens To You\u201d from The Hunting Ground was up for Best Original Song in 2016.\nThis year, Gaga\u2019s \u201cShallow\u201d from A Star Is Born is nominated for Best Original Song. Co-written with Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt, the duet with co-star Bradley Cooper has already won a Golden Globe Award. It\u2019s also up for a Grammy Award on Feb. 10.\n\u201cShallow\u201d is nominated for an Oscar against \u201cAll the Stars,\u201d performed by Kendrick Lamar and SZA for Black Panther; \u201cI\u2019ll Fight,\u201d performed by Jennifer Hudson for RGB; \u201cThe Place Where Lost Things Go,\u201d performed by Emily Blunt for Mary Poppins Returns; and \u201cWhen a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings,\u201d performed by Tim Blake Nelson and Willie Watson for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.\nThe award goes to the songwriter(s).\nBest Original Score nominations went to Black Panther (Ludwig Goransson), BlacKkKlansman (Terence Blanchard), If Beale Street Could Talk (Nicholas Britell), Isle of Dogs (Alexandre Desplat), and Mary Poppins Returns (Marc Shaiman).\nThe Academy Awards will be broadcast live on Feb. 24 on CTV.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 168.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ilovemydogexpo.com/treibball-demo.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:07Z", "digest": "sha1:4UOOLEEM2PQS7Z45OEFWKHBL6IJ6SLZG", "length": 1493, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ilovemydogexpo.com", "title": "Treibball Demo - I Love My Dog Expo", "raw_content": "Treibball (pronounced Tribe-ball) is a positive-reinforcement, competitive dog sport which originated in Germany and entered sanctioned competition in 2008. The dog must gather and drive large exercise balls into a soccer goal. Treibball is a low-cost, low-impact sport, any dog and handler can play. If your dog has a nose or a shoulder, he can play Treibball! The game is timed, with only one dog and handler team on the field, so mildly reactive dogs can participate too.\nEight balls of approximately 45\u201375 cm are set in a triangle formation, similar to billiards, with the point ball farthest from the goal. The object of the game is to get all eight balls into a confined space the size of a soccer goal within a set time period, usually about 15 minutes. The handler may not move outside of an area that contains the left half of and several feet beyond the goal area. The dog works in close cooperation with the handler, who is only allowed to use whistles, verbal or hand signals to direct his dog. No verbal or physical corrections are used in Treibball. The dog and handler must communicate effectively to herd one ball at a time into the goal, in fifteen minutes time. The dog and handler team are scored on cooperation and direction, within that fifteen-minute time limit, and can earn extra points or accrue demerits accordingly.\nThe balls have been referred to as \"rolling sheep\" in recognition that this sport stems from herding for dogs who do not have access to regular sheep.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.imjustsharing.com/new-series-writing-and-marketing-a-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:51Z", "digest": "sha1:TZ3KJ3PGRNSSN3FOYXUT5FIF6X7ONC57", "length": 5473, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.imjustsharing.com", "title": "I'm Just Sharing \u00bb New Series \u2013 Writing And Marketing A Book", "raw_content": "New Series \u2013 Writing And Marketing A Book\n\u00ab \u201cLegitimizing\u201d Spam?\nStuff You Probably Missed \u00bb\nIn the last couple of weeks, I wrote two posts that got a whole lot of attention. The first one asked the question How Do You Write, and the second one was a tips post on How To Be A Prolific Writer. Then yesterday, I wrote a post highlighting my book Embrace The Lead. That one hasn\u2019t received any comments yet, and it may not, and because it\u2019s still the same day based on statistics (since I\u2019m on the East Coast and the stats won\u2019t be updated until midnight on the West Coast), I don\u2019t even have any ideas how many people have even read that post, if anyone has.\nNo matter. My thinking, in looking back at the other two posts, is that it might help some people if I talked about the process of writing my first book, since studies have shown that more than 50% of people who have been asked the question as to whether they\u2019ve tried writing a book answered in the affirmative, but when asked the percentage of those who\u2019ve actually finished writing a book, that figure drops to less than 1%.\nPeople have many different reasons for not finishing books. One reason is that they don\u2019t have the time to consistently work on one. Another reason is that the project gets too daunting; no real direction once they\u2019ve started. Another reason is that they start thinking about how others would view them, or if they\u2019d like their book. Some believe that they don\u2019t have what it takes to really write a book and just stop.\nWell, I\u2019d like to help out, if I can. So, I\u2019m going to be writing a series of posts geared towards tips on writing a book. We\u2019ll do things step by step, and I\u2019ll mix in some tales of the process that I went through in first writing my book, then trying to market my book, and then finally publishing my book. This will be real world stuff; no lies, no quick money making, just the honest truth. But it\u2019ll end up being a series, and when I\u2019m done, I\u2019ll be putting all the posts in one place at the top so that anyone who wishes to follow the series later on can do it, just like my series on blogging tips.\nSo I don\u2019t overwhelm anybody, I\u2019m going to restrict myself to one post a day on the subject, and then possibly one post on another subject on the same day. I don\u2019t really know how long the series will be right now, but I\u2019ll be numbering them as I go along, so everyone will know the order to read them in. I hope they\u2019ll be as entertaining as they will attempt to be informative. And please, if there are any questions on each part, go ahead and ask, but don\u2019t jump ahead; I\u2019ll let you know if you\u2019re jumping ahead at any point.\nStay tuned; there are other changes that will be coming to this blog, as I morph myself around just a little bit. Always in the process of change; better than stagnation at any level.\nWei Liang | ABloggerBlog\nI am currently writing an EBook myself and I got to say it is very challenging. There are many things that need to be taken care of in writing an EBook which includes content that is worth a value, grammer, language etc.\nThis should be the reason why people are lazy to write a book because there are simply too many things to consider. Will certainly be interested in seeing this entire series.\nGreat post with a great idea =)\nWei Liang | ABloggerBlog\u00b4s last blog post..Project4Hire \u2013 A Freelance Marketplace\nThanks Wei. True, there are a lot of things to consider, but oddly enough, I believe some of them should come second nature, yet they don\u2019t. Good luck with your book; what\u2019s the topic?\nI am completing my online course with the last section of monetization in the form of EBook. Of course there are some other special elements apart from the EBook.\nIt is a partnership with another blogger and everything is still in the discussion stage. Hope to get your support when the book is released =)\nWe shall see, Wei, we shall see! \ud83d\ude42\nThis sounds like a great series. As you wrote in \u201chow to be a prolific writer\u201d one should write about something you love, and based on how much you write, you must love to do it.\nYou stat that 50% of people have \u201cstarted\u201d writing a book, but only 1% of people have finished writing a book cracks me up, and I believe it. I am very impressed by anyone that can write an entire book.\nI look forward to reading your series.\n~ Steve, the writing-challenged trade show guru\nTrade Show Guru\u00b4s last blog post..Unused Gift Cards and Stores Going Out of Business\nHi Steve. Two statistics I didn\u2019t put up were that 50% of people who\u2019ve written a book have never even thought about sharing it with anyone else, and less than .5% of people ever actually try to publish in some manner, whether they succeed at it or not. There\u2019s lots of folks writing, but obviously way more not following through on it. I\u2019m glad you\u2019ll be reading.\nAt least you got it. Truthfully, I think the numbers of people who start then drop blogs are probably the same as those who start books then stop, but the blogs seem to just sit out there clogging things up, whereas an unfinished book only clogs up that person\u2019s stuff.\nSounds like a really good idea Mitch, and once the series gets going, and people get to know about it, I reckon it will boost up your subscription level.\nAs for that other post, I haven\u2019t seen it yet but I will.\nSire\u00b4s last blog post..Bloggers, Overworked And Underpaid\nThanks Sire; actually, now the series is finally over, at least as far as I\u2019m concerned right now. Let\u2019s see where it all goes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 9214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indigitization.ca/five-cohorts-of-indigitization-project-participants-unite-for-inaugural-indigitization-futures-forum-at-ubc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:28Z", "digest": "sha1:LDINTHMGDBSJOE7HBBVUQ7X6JHLDFCW5", "length": 6428, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.indigitization.ca", "title": "Five cohorts of Indigitization project participants unite for inaugural Indigitization Futures Forum at UBC | Indigitization", "raw_content": "Five cohorts of Indigitization project participants unite for inaugural Indigitization Futures Forum at UBC\nPosted on November 1, 2016 by allison jones\nBy Michelle Kaczmarek and Emily Guerrero.\nBased at the Irving K. Barber Centre at the University of British Columbia, Indigitization is a collaborative project that provides grants and training to First Nations community groups to support their digitization projects. Digitizing First Nations materials involves unique challenges around access to information, storage of digitized material, and culturally appropriate knowledge organization systems. On June 10-12, 2016, past program participants met alongside others concerned with digitization practices and the management of Indigenous knowledge in communities to participate in the Indigitization Futures Forum. The Forum provided space to discuss past and future projects, share knowledge and best practices, and to work together to envision future paths for the community-based digitization work that Indigitization supports.\nAt the forum, past participants spoke to the power of rooting their digitization projects within community, and discussed how specific community needs and protocol have shaped the outcome of their work. Joey Caro, from the Hul\u2019qumi\u2019num Treaty Group and Penelakut, discussed the need to prioritize traditional land use information according to which areas of the territories have projects proposed for them. Rory Housty from the Heiltsuk Cultural Education Centre spoke about his practice of digitizing recordings from families with upcoming potlatches, so that they can have access to those materials to help guide their practices. Other participants spoke of the complexity of representing sacred traditional knowledge within information systems, and shared the many ways in which communities have come together to augment existing systems to work for their needs, in some cases creating whole new open source systems to contain the knowledge.\nPresenters demonstrated their deep personal connections to the work, and teased out ways of incorporating these relationships into the projects themselves. Several panel members spoke to the importance of engaging both elders and youth within their projects, to both help shape the outcome and provide hands-on access to the materials. Marvin Williams from Lake Babine generously shared some of the history of the people that was learned through their digitized tapes. They are keeping their culture strong by passing this knowledge and techniques to their youth.\nKate Hennessy discussed a project with the Dane-zaa people that incorporated participatory media making, where community members could come together to help curate the physical material which was to be digitized for the online gallery. This long-term approach to curation gave people time to raise and discuss concerns over local rights and the circulation of materials as they arose, and helped support participants\u2019 ownership of the final galleries. Sherry Stump from the Tsilhqot\u2019in Nation spoke about the Nation\u2019s digitization of Traditional Use Studies, which took place from 1999-2001. Because the first release form did not account for digital access, the project has created a new form that specifically asks participants about their comfort with having information shared; elders can choose to make the materials publicly available for use only in educational purposes, or to keep it confidential.\nAlongside presentations from past grant participants, Futures Forum attendees also heard speakers from various universities and organizations. During the lunchtime keynote address, UBC faculty enriched the conversation with perspectives from further afield; Dr. Candace Kaleimamoowahinekapu Galla discussed some of the ways in which technology is being harnessed to support language revitalization in Hawai\u2019i, and Dr. Mark Turin shared his experiences helping to leverage collections back into community hands with the Digital Himalaya project.\nWith the focus of the weekend\u2019s forum on looking to the future, presentations also contributed to the discussion of how community projects and the Indigitization program might evolve in the coming years. Panel guests provided plenty of inspiration and advice for those thinking about next steps in their projects. For many of those looking beyond their audiocassette digitization projects, the next big challenge is preserving the material housed on other deteriorating formats. Elizabeth McManus from Musqueam Archives discussed the idiosyncrasies of digitizing reel-to-reel audio recordings, and shared some of the unique aspects of the materials she\u2019s handled in her work with Musqueam. Gerry Lawson from the Museum of Anthropology brought up ways in which digitization technology has changed over the past decade, and spoke to the need to move quickly with these projects, both to preserve deteriorating materials and to take advantage of the digitization technology while it is still available.\nAt the end of the forum, participants came together to brainstorm and share their knowledge needs around project management, funding, communities of practice, and digitizing other media formats. The consensus of these conversations highlighted both the diverse and deeply important work already being done to support community-based digitization work, and the desire for greater connection among community projects to learn and discuss ideas.\nAfter this weekend of knowledge sharing and discussion, Indigitization hopes that the conversation will continue. The steering committee is excited to move forward, taking the stories and reflections shared at the forum and letting those guide the shape of the future of Indigitization. They hope to continue to create opportunities for communities to share experiences and knowledge.\nThe Futures Forum program, including video recordings of some presentations, can be viewed at the Stories from the Forum webpage. For more information about Indigitization and its grant program, please visit Indigitization.ca.\nMichelle Kaczmarek is a PhD student and Emily Guerrero is a Master\u2019s student at the University of British Columbia\u2019s School of Library, Archival and Information Studies. Emily and Michelle are Research Assistants with the Sustaining Information Practices team. The team\u2019s work with Indigitization is made possible by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 7438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.infostor.com/index/articles/display/3844378763/articles/infostor/volume-13/Issue_10/Features/Where_do_SSDs_fit__Servers_or_arrays_.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:12Z", "digest": "sha1:N46NPAFJAAPKCXZ5FWLHIFKU7LDK4AXW", "length": 11775, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.infostor.com", "title": "Where do SSDs fit: Servers or arrays? - Infostor", "raw_content": "Where do SSDs fit: Servers or arrays?\nSomething of a religious war has popped up in the enterprise solid-state disk (SSD) drive space\u2014where do SSDs belong: In the storage array or in the server as direct-attached storage?\nSSDs have triggered a lot of excitement in the enterprise. The key reason is speed. Although the price per gigabyte for SSDs is prohibitive in comparison to hard disk drives (HDDs), there are certain cases in which SSDs save money over their HDD counterparts. This is possible in applications that use large numbers of HDDs at a fraction of their capacity to increase the storage system's total I/Os per second (IOPS) performance. In many cases, a single SSD can provide more speed than a bank of enterprise HDDs at an adequate capacity for a reasonable price.\nStill, enterprise SSDs are expensive, ranging from thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars each. This discourages IT managers and OEMs from wanting to pepper SSDs throughout their data centers, and causes them to consider where would be the best point to attach a very limited number of SSDs\u2014within servers or inside storage arrays.\nAnalysts at Objective Analysis have examined this issue through discussions with OEMs and data center managers. Our findings are the basis for this article.\nLet's first take look at the technology and examine the reasons why SSDs have suddenly gained popularity.\nThe storage hierarchy of computing systems is shown in the conceptual chart of Figure 1. This illustration gives a rough idea of where the different elements of the storage hierarchy fit from the perspectives of bandwidth and cost per gigabyte. We use a log-log chart format to help disclose all the data that would be hidden if we were to use a linear scale for either performance or cost. The three orbs labeled L1, L2, and L3 represent three possible layers of cache in or around the processor.\nThere is a very large gap between DRAM performance and HDD performance, leading to a growing chasm that has needed to be filled for a number of years. Although the enterprise HDD fits at the top end of the HDD oval in Figure 1, it provides a relatively costly means of approaching the bottom end of the DRAM orb. Flash-based SSDs have cropped up as a cost-effective means of filling this gap.\nSince NAND's price per gigabyte has fallen below that of DRAM in recent years, computer designers have been finding interesting ways to tap into this technology to improve the performance of computers while lowering costs. Flash SSDs are one means of reaching that goal. NAND flash is slower than DRAM, but faster than an HDD. NAND is cheaper than DRAM, but more costly than an HDD. This fits the technology into the performance gap that lies between capacity HDDs and DRAM.\nFlash-based SSDs pose a significant threat to enterprise HDDs, and many OEMs and IT managers expect future systems to be built using SSDs for speed coupled with low-price, high-capacity HDDs for mass storage, skipping the enterprise HDDs that might otherwise be used between low-price HDDs and DRAM.\nRecently, a handful of flash SSD makers have introduced devices that satisfy server OEMs' needs at a satisfactory price. Their current offerings are pricey (upwards of $3,000 each) and are being used to replace costly arrays of short-stroked enterprise HDDs. (Short stroking is a technique in which programmers takes pains to minimize the HDD's head motion, and thus the access time, by using only a few adjacent tracks on the HDD and ignoring the rest of the disk.)\nWhile a short-stroked drive only accesses a fraction of the available disk space, the data will be read off the disk at a significantly higher speed than normal. A disk with tens of IOPS can be coaxed into providing data at a few hundred IOPS by using this approach. In some cases, users find that this is a worthwhile trade-off. One short-stroked system on the market today uses 53TB of HDDs to provide only 9TB of useable space.\nEMC recently contrasted its SSD-enhanced Symmetrix arrays to a standard HDD-only high-performance storage array configuration. The standard configuration was built using 244 300GB, 15,000rpm Fibre Channel HDDs. The SSD-based system had only 136 of these 300GB Fibre Channel HDDs, but augmented them with 32 1TB standard SATA drives for capacity and eight 73GB SSDs to store the most speed-sensitive data.\nThe SSD-enhanced array delivered 60% more IOPS using 26% fewer drives. The system required 21% less power than its HDD-only counterpart and cost 17% less.\nMost of today's enterprise flash SSDs boast tens of thousands of IOPS, or roughly 100 times that of a short-stroked HDD. Often the higher bandwidth of the SSD, in tandem with the very small capacity actually used in a short-stroked HDD, will provide an opportunity for an SSD to replace a bank of HDDs. As long as the SSD's capacity is as great as that used in the short-stroked HDDs, and as long as the SSD's bandwidth matches that of the HDD array at a competitive price, the SSD may provide a more cost-effective alternative to an array of such HDDs.\nDRAM SSDs\nSome companies have pioneered DRAM SSDs for a number of years. Texas Memory Systems, the stalwart in this space, introduced its first SRAM SSD in 1976, moving to DRAM shortly afterwards. Solid Data is another player in this field, and there are even small modular SSDs aimed at the high-performance PC gaming community. Other vendors that entered this space very early included EMC and Dataram. More recent entries include Violin Memory, a company that offers a unique approach to integrating a DRAM layer.\nDRAM SSDs offer extremely high performance, but have two disadvantages. First, and most importantly, by using DRAM they end up being more costly per gigabyte than simply increasing the DRAM main memory of the server. Why, then would a data center use these devices? It is because these drives are designed to add more DRAM than could be supported by the server's hardware and software.\nSecond, DRAM SSDs are volatile, and a system must be implemented to back up the DRAM in the event of a power failure. Although older systems backed up the DRAM by moving the data to HDDs under battery power (using motorcycle batteries), modern DRAM SSDs back up the DRAM to NAND using an abundance of parallel paths unavailable using the HDD approach. This provides very fast backup and restore with significant power savings, reducing the amount of battery capacity needed to perform this important function.\nDRAM SSDs will always play a key role in the enterprise, but they are not a part of the phenomenon that today has been triggered by NAND's drop to sub-DRAM pricing.\nSSDs in the data center\nData centers are typically built with servers and storage in separate cabinets (see Figure 2). Shared storage can solve a multitude of problems, especially when loads are shifted from server to server, since equal data access is given to all servers. On the other hand, the more storage that is installed directly into the server, the lower the number of storage requests that must traverse the network.\nBoth sides of the network can benefit through the use of faster storage. Storage arrays have come to use \"tiered\" storage, in which arrays are built with storage devices with different levels of speed and cost. In Figure 1, the leftmost two orbs, those representing tape and HDD, would be classified into Tiers 1, 2, and 3. Tape is used for Tier 3, capacity HDDs for Tier 2, and enterprise HDDs for Tier 1. The storage array keeps the most-often-requested or \"hot\" data in Tier 1, and the seldom-used or \"cold\" data in Tier 3. Software within the array manages the data between these tiers, allocating faster storage to hot data and putting colder data on a lower tier.\nWith the advent of SSDs in storage arrays a new tier, dubbed Tier 0, has found its way into these appliances. The beauty of an SSD is that it already fits into existing management schemes and brings a new level of performance to the storage array.\nEMC was the first to broadly support SSDs in storage arrays with the announcement of Tier 0 storage in its Symmetrix systems early last year. These systems use the very high- speed ZeusIOPS Fibre Channel SSDs from STEC.\nA few months later, IBM introduced an upgrade to its DS8000 storage system with products offering as many as one million IOPS based on a PCIe SSD, called the IOdrive, from Fusion-io.\nDell has named its storage tiers \"pools,\" with Pool 1 consisting of SSDs, Pool 2 of enterprise HDDs, and so on. Other companies have offered similar products, some even before EMC's announcement, but their work was not as highly promoted.\nOne difficulty with accelerating a storage array is that all data accesses from the server to the array will still suffer from network latency, and in some cases this delay is intolerable. In this case, data center managers often use two approaches: they add DRAM caches to replicate data from the storage array, or they install additional servers, each of which is used to store and operate upon a subset. Both of these approaches are costly.\nBy adding an SSD to the server, OEMs and their customers have found that they can cut their DRAM requirements and sometimes even reduce the number of servers they use. This not only provides the benefits of minimized floor space and power/cooling cost savings, but it often triggers a hidden benefit of lower software licensing costs, since software licenses are frequently tied to processor count.\nSun Microsystems was an early adopter of SSDs in its servers, working with Intel SSDs, and later introduced an open-standard SATA module that could be plugged into either servers or dedicated boards of solid-state storage. These modules are based on the JEDEC standard SO-DIMM form factor used for DRAM in notebook PCs. Sun also announced upgrades to its ZFS file system to manage hot and cold data automatically without the intervention of administrators.\nOver the course of the past year, most other server OEMs have introduced SSD options in their systems based upon standard SATA SSDs, and some have gone one step further by adding devices such as Fusion-io's IOdrive, which requires some reconfiguration of the system. SATA SSDs are the most common, however, although their bandwidth is limited by the SATA interface.\nObjective Analysis does not favor one topology over the other. Direct-attached SSD storage does a very good job of reducing network traffic, but gets in the way of data sharing. SSDs in the storage array cut latency by a significant margin, but data transfers are still burdened with network overhead. Which is \"best\" depends largely on the type of workload.\nOver the long term, as SSDs become commonplace (which we anticipate within as little as three years), many data centers will adopt a hybrid approach, adding SSDs to both storage arrays and servers. The two will combine to reduce network traffic and to improve response time, resulting in a faster system that uses less costly hardware in a smaller space that consumes less power.\nA quote attributed to CalTech's Carver Mead is appropriate to this situation. The quote states that the bandwidth required of a channel is inversely proportional to the intelligence at either end. By increasing the intelligence at either end of the network through the application of SSDs, many data center managers will find that their challenges move away from network latency issues and toward other parts of the computing bottleneck.\nJIM HANDY is director of the Objective Analysis research and consulting firm, www.objective-analysis.com. This article was excerpted from the upcoming Objective Analysis report: Solid State Drives in the Enterprise, Update 2010.\nMore InfoStor Current Issue Articles\nMore InfoStor Archives Issue Articles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 13170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.infostor.com/nas/gluster-open-source-scale-out-nas-.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:39Z", "digest": "sha1:4RI3CLGLQ77JLR6YYF7T4J7IBWFZFSKN", "length": 4184, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.infostor.com", "title": "Gluster: Open source scale-out NAS - InfoStor.com", "raw_content": "Gluster: Open source scale-out NAS\nGluster recently introduced additions to its open source NAS platform, claiming the first scale-out virtual NAS appliances for VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances are available in two versions: one for VMware virtual machines and one for Amazon-based cloud environments.\nThe VMware Virtual Storage Appliance integrates the Gluster File System (GlusterFS) into a virtual machine (VM) for deployment on VMware-certified hardware or cloud platforms. Gluster officials claim that the virtual appliance can be deployed in minutes.\nFor Amazon Web Services, GlusterFS is packaged in an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for deployment on the AWS public cloud.\n\u201cThis is the next step in virtualization \u2013 deploying storage resources in a similar way to compute resources,\u201d says Jack O\u2019Brien, Gluster\u2019s vice president of marketing. \u201cThe software enables the pooling of back-end disks.\u201d\nO\u2019Brien notes that many IT organizations are struggling to virtualize storage. The reason, he says, is that most virtualized storage is SAN-based and uses a scale-up approach: You buy larger and larger hardware devices as your storage requirements expand. However, this can cause some performance problems in VMware environments.\n\u201cYou get I/O bottlenecks when lots of VMs are banging on the same piece of data,\u201d says O\u2019Brien, \u201cand you\u2019re faced with LUN limitations and complexity, lots of manual management, and the expense of Fibre Channel.\u201d\nGluster provides a scalable NAS alternative with a single mount point. The software handles data distribution and I/O load balancing and can run on commodity hardware. O\u2019Brien says that users running VMware can deploy Gluster on top of the VMware ESX layer or by starting up an Amazon web service.\nO\u2019Brien claims that Gluster can overcome some significant limitations on the Amazon EC2 platform. For example, EC2 has a 2TB limitation for its Elastic Block Storage (EBS). Further, an EC2 instance can only talk to one EBS volume at a time.\n\u201cGluster aggregates multiple EBS storage with no size limits,\u201d says O\u2019Brien. \u201cIt\u2019s the only way to build multi-client access to shared storage on Amazon.\u201d\nGluster offers its software on a subscription basis. Those already on a subscription don\u2019t need to pay extra for these new services. The fee per storage server per year starts at $4,000, and there are two tiers of subscriptions available.\nAccording to O\u2019Brien, the primary use cases for the open source, scale-out software are on-premise NAS storage where a company has hit the wall on existing NAS performance, as shared storage for VMware, and for service providers offering public cloud services.\nUsers can begin with 50TB and add more capacity on demand.\nTerri McClure, an analyst with the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), says that interest in scale-out storage has increased recently as IT organizations look for more effective ways to address scalability and manageability in environments such as cloud computing and virtual servers.\n\u201cGluster\u2019s new offering is representative of the types of major breakthroughs we\u2019re seeing in storage technology for virtualization and cloud environments, delivering a software-based scale-out architecture, says McClure.\nGreg Schulz, an analyst with the Server and StorageIO Group, thinks that Gluster has a good solution for companies that want to leverage scale-out NAS for traditional, virtual, private or public cloud environments.\n\u201c[Gluster\u2019s] approach of providing flexibility to deploy the technology on different platforms to meet various business or application needs is an example of what scale-out should be about \u2013 scale functionality, ease of use, and flexibility to adapt to different needs while supporting performance, availability, capacity and security with multi-tenancy,\u201d says Schulz. \u201cThis removes some complexity from cloud and virtual environments by reducing the need for cloud access gateways, appliances or software drivers, which reduces costs -- including management costs.\u201d\nDrew Robb is a freelance writer specializing in technology and engineering, and is the author of Server Disk Management in a Windows Environment (CRC Press).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 5616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.inter-2t.phadia.com/no/Products/Connective-Tissue-Diseases21/Connective-Tissue-Diseases1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:4NOLTYJQQNVUHJE72SWBKK5EFSZKQWNL", "length": 3226, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.inter-2t.phadia.com", "title": "\ufeff Rheumatoid Arthritis - Phadia - Setting the Standard - Phadia.com - test", "raw_content": "Start > Products > Autoimmunity testing products > Rheumatoid Arthritis\nCCP Antibodies | Rheumatoid Factor\nCCP Antibodies\nEliA CCP 14-5515-01 4x12 tests\nEliA CCP (pdf)\nFrom the detailed studies of citrullinated filaggrin peptides by Schellekens et al. in 1998 it became apparent that different RA patients recognise different citrullinated peptides. In cyclic variants of these peptides the citrulline residue is optimally exposed for antibody binding. At the end of 2000, an anti-CCP assay with novel cyclic peptides, which were most reactive with RA sera, and improved performance characteristics was introduced as \"second generation CCP (CCP2)\" and made commercially available as an ELISA assay.\nEliA CCP is based on the CCP2 test.\nAnti-CCP are highly specific for Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). In an internal study, EliA CCP showed an outstanding sensitivity of 87.8 % and a specificity of 96.9 %.\nSeveral studies show that the CCP test enables clinicians to effectively distinguish RA patients from other RA-resembling diseases, even in cases where the rheumatoid factor is not discriminative. Anti-CCP antibodies can be detected very early in the course of RA.\nInformation about Rheumatoid Arthritis\nThe presence of anti-CCP is associated with significantly higher levels of erosions compared to rheumatoid factor and other parameters. Anti-CCP is an independent predictor of radiological damage and progression.\nSuspicion of Rheumatoid Arthritis.\nSchellekens GA, de Jong BA, van den Hoogen FH, et al. (1998) | Rantap\u00e4\u00e4-Dahlqvist S, de Jong BA, Berglin E, et al. (2003) | Van Gaalen FA, Linn-Rasker SP, van Venrooij WJ, et al. (2004) | Forslind K, Ahlm\u00e9n M, Eberhardt K, et al. (2004)\nEliA RF IgM\nEliA RF IgA\nEliA RF Detailer (pdf)\nRheumatoid factor (RF) is an antibody against the Fc portion of Immunoglobulin G (IgG), which is itself an antibody. RF and IgG join to form immune complexes which contribute to the disease process.\nEliA Wells are coated with aggregated rabbit IgG.\nAntibody prevalence and prognostic use\nIn combination with signs and symptoms, RF can play a role in both diagnosis and disease prognosis and, thus, constitutes one of the classification criteria proposed by the American College of Rheumatology (ACR). About 80% of people with rheumatoid arthritis have detectable rheumatoid factor. RF has been recognized as an important predictor of more severe disease. The prevalence of RA is markedly increased in individuals with RF antibodies of more than one isotype, most frequently, a combination of IgM and IgA.\nHowever, RF positivity shows low diagnostic specificity because RF are present in patients with other autoimmune and infectious diseases, and even in a noticeable proportion of normal healthy subjects, particularly in ageing individuals. RF can also be detected at high titers in most patients with primary Sj\u00f6gren's syndrome and may also be elevated in chronic hepatitis, any chronic viral infection, leukemia, dermatomyositis, infectious mononucleosis, systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus.\nSuspicion of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Sj\u00f6gren's Syndrome.\nIgM and IgA\nDe Angelis V, Meroni PL. | Nishimura K, Sugiyama D, Kogota,Y et al. | Jaskowski TD, Hill HR, Russo KL et al.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 6122, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3497561/Microsoft+Hit+with+Patent+Injunction.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:09Z", "digest": "sha1:76RNIU5UP452EMGLNDYAYQM2D5JYDDAG", "length": 3607, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.internetnews.com", "title": "Microsoft Hit with Patent Injunction - InternetNews.", "raw_content": "Home Small Business Microsoft Hit with Patent Injunction\nMicrosoft Hit with Patent Injunction\nA preliminary injunction in a patent infringement suit filed by Alacritech could keep Microsoft's Longhorn from getting out of the gate.\nMicrosoft plans to ship its next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn, in 2006. But Alacritech claims Longhorn includes its intellectual property.\nOn Wednesday, a district court judge granted the networking and storage software vendor a preliminary injunction that could prevent the world's largest software maker from making, using, offering for sale, selling, importing or inducing others to use its \"Chimney\" TCP offload architecture.\nTCP Chimney, which offloads the TCP protocol stack to a Network Interface Card for better network performance, is slated for use in both Longhorn and in the Scalable Networking Pack for Windows Server 2003.\nAlacritech sued Microsoft in Federal District Court on August 11, 2004, alleging that Microsoft's existing and future operating systems containing the \"Chimney\" TCP offload architecture uses Alacritech's SLIC Technology architecture.\nThe suit is based on two of Alacritech's fundamental patents relating to scalable networking: U.S. Patent No. 6,427,171 and U.S. Patent No. 6,697,868, both entitled \"Protocol Processing Stack for use with Intelligent Network Interface Device.\"\nAlacritech claims to be the sole provider of network acceleration products for Microsoft Windows-based systems. It has been issued sixteen patents covering the fundamentals of network data placement, protocol offload, protocol acceleration and file cache offload.\nAccording to Alacritech, the company met with Microsoft and described its own Dynamic TCP Offload architecture, known as SLIC Technology, under a non-disclosure agreement in September 1998. Then, in April 1999, at Microsoft's request, it delivered a detailed document describing how SLIC could be integrated with Windows. It then shipped its first product based on SLIC in April 2000.\nMicrosoft broke off communications with Alacritech in June 1999, according to Alacritech, then presented Chimney in May 2003.\nMicrosoft spokeswoman Stacy Drake told internetnews.com that Alacritech learned about Microsoft's Chimney technology when it was announced at the Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference in 2003.\n\"As an intellectual property company, we invest heavily in research and development, and are committed to respecting the intellectual property rights of others,\" she said.\nDrake said Alacritech was one of a number of offload vendors that Microsoft worked with \"to validate the design, in its early state.\" She would not comment on whether licensing discussions between the two companies ever took place.\n\"After Alacritech discovered that Microsoft Chimney is based on intellectual property that we developed, patented and own, we offered Microsoft a license,\" Larry Boucher, president and CEO of Alacritech, said in a statement. \"Microsoft rejected licensing terms that would be acceptable to us. We were forced to sue Microsoft to stop them from continuing to infringe, and inducing others to infringe, on our intellectual property rights.\" The company refused further comment.\nAlacritech's story is similar to that of Burst.com, which won a $60 million settlement and license agreement from Microsoft in March. The provider of technology to accelerate the delivery of video and audio over IP networks claimed that Microsoft stole technology and trade secrets acquired during two years of negotiations, incorporating Burst.com intellectual property into Windows Media Player.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4678, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 335.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iog.com.sg/contact-us/tripleone-somerset/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:54Z", "digest": "sha1:5B3MM7L6NX2BWPRLE3B4DYG5QELB3JZ6", "length": 158, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.iog.com.sg", "title": "\ufeff Getting to TripleOne Somerset | Island Orthopaedic Consultants | The Best Orthopaedic in Singapore", "raw_content": "SportsMed Central\n#01-10A, TripleOne Somerset\nWeb: www.sportsmedcentral.sg\n8.30am \u2013 12.30pm,\nBus 7, 14, 16, 36, 65, 77, 106, 111, 123, 174, 174E, 175 and 971E", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 174.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iphicratisamyras.com/2015/06/the-new-silk-road-and-chinas-lunar.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:31Z", "digest": "sha1:C3DJR76G5STT6FGOL5ZCIR7LA4ODH3C2", "length": 2417, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.iphicratisamyras.com", "title": "\u0399\u03a6\u0399\u039a\u03a1\u0391\u03a4\u0397\u03a3 \u0391\u039c\u03a5\u03a1\u0391\u03a3 (Iphicratis Amyras): The New Silk Road and China\u2019s Lunar Program", "raw_content": "Helga Zepp-LaRouche's Keynote to the Schiller Institute's 30th Anniversary\nSchiller Institute 30th Anniversary Conference, Frankfurt: The New Silk Road and China\u2019s Lunar Program\nMankind Is the Only Creative Species! Declaration of the Conference of the Schiller Institute, Oct. 19, 2014 {The following declaration was read by Schiller Institute President Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and has been transcribed from the audio file.}\nMankind experiences presently a deep civilizational crisis, where the foundations of society in many parts of the world have eroded, and established codes of international relations have broken down. On top of this, we are faced with mortal dangers, each of which could lead to the potential extinction of the human species.\nThere is first the Ebola pandemic, which is already out of control in Africa, for which there is no cure, and which is threatening to become more threatening than the Black Death of the 14th century.\nThere is second, the terrorist threat for the whole world, and genocide spreading from the so-called IS Caliphate, not only demonstrating a subhuman barbarism, but explicitly threatening Russia and China, and therefore, becoming the potential trigger to blow up all of Southwest Asia and even leading to a new world war.\nAnd there is third, the absolute certainty that the completely bankrupt trans-Atlantic financial system is about to blow up, threatening also to throw much of the world into a Dark Age.\nIn light of these three mortal dangers, it is a question of life and death of humanity to stop the immoral and imbecilic policies of geopolitics and confrontation against Russia and China. Instead, we have to shift the agenda to the common aims of mankind, and work together with Russia, China, India, and other nations, to defeat these mortal threats. We call on all forces of reason in Europe and the United States, to join the emerging new economic order of the BRICS and the New Silk Road.\nLet\u2019s work to establish an inclusive peace order, with the participation of every nation on the planet, a peace order for the 21st century, worthy of mankind as the only known creative species in the universe. Let us grow up into the adult age of humanity, where love, creativity, and beauty define the values of our common human family.\nSchiller Institute 30th Anniversary Conference: The New Silk Road and China\u2019s Lunar Program: Mankind Is the Only Creative Species!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 10325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.italianinsider.it/?q=user/login&destination=forum/23%3Fpage%3D2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:04Z", "digest": "sha1:YIARFDECIK4ONP4NSO7GDAKUFABBTDLL", "length": 67, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.italianinsider.it", "title": "Log in | www.italianinsider.it", "raw_content": "I agree to italianinsider.it's privacy policy and terms of service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1549, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.itbriefcase.net/open-source-opens-doors-for-aussie-start-up", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QWOOO7CIFWNCQ7QGDIFHDIYDTN6CI2SV", "length": 671, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.itbriefcase.net", "title": "Open Source Opens Doors for Aussie Start-Up | IT Briefcase", "raw_content": "Open Source Opens Doors for Aussie Start-Up\nGold Coast company strikes gold in Mexico.\nIt\u2019s pretty rare for a start-up company to benefit from more than a decade of software development valued at about $2 million each year. Rarer still for one to land a six figure contract before it has even launched a commercial product.\nBut that is precisely what Gold Coast-based Opmantek has done. The company was formed in October 2010 to acquire the commercial rights to the popular open source network management software Network Management Information System (NMIS), a product first developed in 1999 by one of Opmantek\u2019s founders, Keith Sinclair.\nFeatured Articles, OPEN SOURCE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ivoryhaze.com/project/nicole-moudaber-and-friends-brooklyn-mirage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2FZZ64B4YGUE2P4OY4SGH5ACSEDWWHQ5", "length": 1545, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ivoryhaze.com", "title": "Nicole Moudaber - Brooklyn Mirage \u00bb Ivory Haze", "raw_content": "There was a somewhat tragic, yet celebratory duality to this outstanding show at the Brooklyn Mirage popup venue for 2015.\nThe event itself was dedicated to Rob Fernandez, the New York city nightlife legend who was more than just a promoter to everyone who had the pleasure to meet him.\nRob had a true passion for helping orchestrate some of the most infamous nights in the NY underground scene, and was truly held in high esteem by everyone he knew. It seems everyone we spoke to who knew him had a plethora of stories about how he had helped them to make a name for themselves, or to break into a new territory, with a smile on his face that lit up a room.\nUnfortunately Rob\u2019s untimely passing meant he never saw this event come to fruition \u2013 however in his honour, the show went on. Nicole Moudaber and Friends dedicated this event to his memory, and put on exactly the sort of mind blowing party which Rob was known for.\nDespite the rain, the venue remained absolutely packed until the end of Nicole and Victors outstanding closing back to back, with revellers ignoring the rain to dance outside once the warehouse reached capacity, grinning ear to ear.\nWe were thankful to be invited, and overwhelmed by the words from everyone we met about how much Rob meant to everyone. This was a humbling experience, and it has been a pleasure to be a part of creating this visual tribute.\nThank you to Chus & Ceballos for the interview footage of Rob, which we felt added a sign off to the video which we can all relate to when our job is our passion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jbrehm.com/blog/?offset=1521047957417", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:38Z", "digest": "sha1:AQIHBZJG63ZS5OIHWCI7K7IDLOOSFGOF", "length": 858, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.jbrehm.com", "title": "Blog \u2014 James Brehm & Associates", "raw_content": "Sector Report: The IoT - Examines IoT Layer-By-Layer to Unveil the Larger Picture\nWe recently collaborated with Drake Star Partner, a global M&A and corporate advisory firm, to produce the comprehensive white paper, Sector Report: The Internet of Things (IoT). The report, by deconstructing and analyzing each layer (e.g. hardware, software, and networks & integration), demystifies IoT's nature and current state.\nSector Report: The Internet of Things (IoT) also focuses on recent IoT markets & acquisitions and financing activity, contextualizing the deals and their impact to the market and provides usecases to shed light, not only on the different ways IoT is showing up across various industries (e.g., Commercial & Industrial, Agriculture & Farming, Utilities & Energy, etc.), but also on how these manifestations contribute to the larger IoT-picture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 13137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jenablue.com/category/fannish-speculation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:01Z", "digest": "sha1:H3TO4EIDMPGFB6G3PQ47CU3VX4AZZR5E", "length": 33728, "nlines": 95, "source_domain": "www.jenablue.com", "title": "fannish speculation | Jen A. Blue", "raw_content": "Update to my speculations on the future direction of Star Trek Online\nAugust 17, 2015 fannish speculation, star trek, star trek online\nLast week I posited that the Krenim time annihilator in STO was the nuke-equivalent that sparked the Temporal Cold War.\nI have now played the latest STO mission, \u201cButterfly,\u201d in which Continue reading \u2192\nSpeculations on the future direction of Star Trek Online\nSo, for all, what, three of you? who didn\u2019t immediately lose interest on seeing the headline, I have some thoughts on where Star Trek Online is likely to go after its current plotline, which has been confirmed to be headed into its endgame.\nOn the off-chance someone who isn\u2019t already an STO player is reading this, a brief summary of where the game\u2019s story is right now: the Iconians, believed to have gone extinct 200,000 years ago, actually escaped to another galaxy, and now they\u2019re coming back. A large number of events during and before the game (the supernova that destroyed Romulus in the \u201coriginal timeline\u201d in the 2009 movie, the Undine/Species 8472 resuming hostilities against our universe, the resulting Klingon-Federation war that embroiled most of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, and the sudden emergence of the Vaadwaur as a major and very aggressive military power in the Delta Quadrant) are all ultimately part of their plan to soften up the galaxy for reconquest. The actual Iconian invasion started with new content that dropped this year (real-world year, I mean), and it is NOT going well for the Milky Way. However, in the most recent two missions, a possibility of salvation has emerged: the Iconians are psychologically incapable of handling time travel, and the Krenim have now provided the Klingon-Federation-Romulan alliance with plans for \u201ctemporal annihilation\u201d technology\u2013a weapon that can cause the target to never have existed.\nEndgame is, it seems, next month with the final Iconian War mission \u201cMidnight,\u201d but with the announcement last week of an upcoming Season 11 (presumably late this year or early next year, based on the roughly two-a-year pattern of past updates), the end of the Iconian War is clearly not the end of the game. Indeed, the announcement of the new season suggests that it will focus on \u201crebuilding and hope\u201d and include a \u201cbrand new civilization.\u201d (It also showed a small army of Tholians charging toward Starfleet troops, and it\u2019s been announced that there will be new PvE queues involving fighting an invasion from the Mirror Universe led by Mirror Leeta, which is both glorious and gives me hope we\u2019ll finally get an explanation for why the fuck random Tholian mobs sometimes include Mirror Universe ships.)\nSo they\u2019re not ending any time soon. And plans for Season 11 aside, it\u2019s unlikely that there won\u2019t be another combat-heavy arc building up, simply because the developers have made pretty clear that they find it really hard to make non-combat-heavy content that is still fun to play. So what could that conflict be?\nI have a speculation on what they seem to be building to, because even before the first hints of the Iconians showed up, there were references to the Temporal Cold War. And those references have never entirely gone away\u2013the Xindi have made a few cameos, the Delta Recruit gimmick added as part of the run-up to the Iconian War heavily involves a Temporal Investigations agent, the same agent is involved in the project to build the temporal annihilator. And on top of that, the developers made a cryptic (haha) remark at their panel at STLV last weekend: that Season 11 would include the origin story of an enemy species from the TV shows. There aren\u2019t many options for enemies whose origin stories could happen after their first appearance, and all of them involve time travel.\nThey also mentioned having to deal with the fallout of the way the Iconian War was won. And what caused the Cold War? Superpowers, once allied against a common enemy, now fought each other. But their weapons were so powerful that they didn\u2019t dare use them, so they fought using proxies instead.\nThe Iconian War is the World War II-equivalent, the temporal annihilator the nuclear bomb-equivalent, and whatever it ends up erasing to defeat the Iconians the Hiroshima-equivalent, for the Temporal Cold War. (Bonus points if the Iconians are somehow on the verge of losing/ready to make peace anyway when the annihilator gets used.)\nEvangelion Realtime Viewing Project: Planning and Guesswork\nJuly 6, 2015 anime, fannish speculation, neon genesis evangelion, ran out of ink you bastards\nSo, a couple of weeks ago I floated on Tumblr the idea of watching Evangelion in realtime (that is, watching each episode as close as possible to my best guess of when in 2015 it occurs) and recording my reactions. It got a pretty positive response, so I think I\u2019ll go for it.\nThis post, which I state freely in advance will be completely ridiculous and mostly bullshit, is my attempt to determine when to actually start the project based on taking the few dates given in a work that was obviously actively avoiding giving dates precisely because it doesn\u2019t have a coherent timeline, and constructing a timeline for when the episodes occur.\nSo, here are the five dates/timespans I am completely arbitrarily deciding to use as the skeleton around which to build this project:\nThe first episode has a subtitle stating that it takes place in 2015.\nThe final episode has a subtitle stating that it depicts Third Impact and takes place in 2016.\nIn End of Evangelion, Maya\u2019s computer readout suggests that Asuka\u2019s fight with the Production Series Evas takes place in 2015; Third Impact occurs later that night.\nEpisode 9 has a calendar indicating that the defeat of Israfel takes place on Friday the 11th, month unstated, one week after the first fight with it.\nIn Episode 20, Shinji is stated to have been dissolved in Eva-01 for 30 days.\n(2) and (3) can only be reconciled if Asuka\u2019s fight, and hence most of the first half of End of Evangelion, takes place on December 31, 2015, with Third Impact occurring in the wee hours of January 1, 2016.\nThere are only two months with a Friday the 11th in 2015, September and December. However, if Episode 9 took place in December, that would push Episode 20 well into 2016, after the date we\u2019ve already established for Third Impact; therefore, Episode 9 ends on Friday, September 11, 2015, and thus the first fight with Israfel was on September 4.\nSo that gives us three firmly established dates to work from; now things get more speculative.\nIn Episode 9, Asuka is clearly still adjusting to life in Japan, and hence cannot have been there very long. Hence, Asuka moving in with Misato and Shinji (which occurs immediately after the first fight with Israfel) is likely no more than a week or two after Episode 8, when Asuka arrived in Japan, putting episode 8 at somewhere around August 21 \u2013 September 2 (since Asuka has attended school at least once prior to moving in with Misato and Shinji).\nIn Episode 8, Asuka was nearing the end of her sea journey (along with Kaji, Eva-02, and the Adam embryo) to Japan, which is stated in the preview at the end of Episode 7 to have set out (during or prior to the episode) from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Wilhelmshaven is a military base, so I couldn\u2019t get an exact figure, but according to this site a sea journey from the nearby civilian port of Bremen to Tokyo would take about 34 days. We don\u2019t see any indication that the flotilla accompanying her is particularly faster, or even significantly different from, naval ships of the real-life late 20th and early 21st century, so we must assume Asuka was in transit for about a month.\nNow, she would not have been sent to Japan with Germany\u2019s sole Eva unit unless the UN and German government knew that the Evas were attacking Japan. The UN military seems to be far less well-informed on these things than Seele and NERV in the first episode, so we have to assume that they did not know in advance that the Angels would primarily target NERV HQ. (In particular, the Vatican Treaty, which states that no country can have more than 3 active Eva units, is spectacularly wrongheaded if everyone knows that the Angels will focus their attacks on one country.) Hence, we should assume that Asuka set out after Sachiel\u2019s attack in the first episode, meaning that attack can have occurred no later than the last week of July. (This is corroborated by a sign visible on a construction site in Episode 2, which states that construction ends in August 2015.)\nLet\u2019s look at the first episode. Rei\u2019s injuries in that episode are later revealed to have been caused by Unit-00 going berserk in an activation experiment; Episode 5 is stated to take place 22 days after that experiment. Hence, the first five episodes cover a time span of at most three weeks. However, Ritsuko also states that the activation experiment took place prior to Misato\u2019s arrival at NERV, and Misato has to have been at NERV at least a day prior to the first episode (to give time for her \u201cfanservice\u201d letter, which she must have sent after starting work at NERV, to reach Shinji). Episode 5 is therefore at most 20 days after Episode 1\u2013and in Episode 2, the next day, Gendo estimates Rei will take another 20 days to recover. Hence, we can conclude that Misato probably did arrive at NERV the day before Shinji (which explains why she\u2019s clearly still unpacking in Episode 2, though as a fellow slob I will note that I have been known to live out of boxes for months, even years, because unpacking takes time and effort), and Rei was injured the day before that.\nSo far, the first eight episodes seem to be able to fit into roughly a month, but there is a wrinkle: Episode 6 occurs on a full moon, the day after Episode 5. The last full moon that could occur before Asuka\u2019s arrival is August 29; however, if Episode 5 were August 28, that would place Episode 1 no earlier than August 8, 26 days prior to the last day Asuka could arrive in Japan. Even if she set out the instant Sachiel attacked Japan, that\u2019s still shaving it really close.\nThe last full moon before that is July 31. That would place Episode 5 on July 30, and Rei\u2019s injury on July 8. Misato arrives at NERV HQ July 9, and Shinji July 10, making that the date of the first episode. So:\nJuly 10, 2015: Episode 1. Sachiel attacks.\nJuly 11, 2015: Episode 2. The morning after Sachiel\u2019s attack, Shinji wakes in hospital.\nJuly 13 \u2013 21, 2015: Episode 3. Shinji starts school the Monday after Sachiel\u2019s attack. Shamshiel\u2019s attack at the end of the episode is stated by Hyuga to be three weeks after Sachiel\u2019s attack, but this is contradicted by the 20-day time span for the first five episodes and by Toji being out for \u201ctwo weeks\u201d due to his sister\u2019s injury in the Sachiel fight. Either Sachiel was tearing up the countryside for a week prior to the first episode, or Hyuga\u2019s just wrong. If Toji\u2019s last day in school were Friday July 9, and his first day back were Tuesday July 21, that makes a statement that he\u2019s been out for two weeks exaggerated, but not impossible, since he missed an entire week, plus two days prior (Japanese schools have class on Saturdays) and one after.\nJuly 27 \u2013 29: Episode 4. Shinji spends two days running away, then the train station scene happens on the third. Misato states before he runs away that he has missed five days of school since fighting Shamshiel; assuming that she\u2019s including \u201ctoday\u201d when she says it, those would be the 22nd through 25th, and the 27th.\nJuly 30: Episode 5. Rei is released from the hospital, exactly 22 days after being injured and approximately 20 after Episode 2.\nJuly 31: Episode 6. The final fight with Ramiel occurs on a full moon.\nSomewhere in August: Episode 7. The cleanup of Ramiel\u2019s corpse and repairs to Unit-00 are still occurring, so probably closer to the beginning than the end. Asuka has already left Germany for Japan.\nSomewhere in August 21 \u2013 September 2: Episode 8. Asuka arrives, about a month after leaving Germany.\nSeptember 4 \u2013 September 11: Episode 9. The first fight with Israfel is September 4, and the second on September 11.\nI think that\u2019s enough to get started with.\nSites I found useful (though not authoritative) in working this out:\nTimeline of Evangelion: Week by Week Breakdown\nEvageeks: Neon Genesis Evangelion Timeline\nThe Babylon 5 that (thankfully) never was: Season 5\nNovember 26, 2014 babylon 5, babylon 5 reviews, fannish speculation, reviews, the show that never was, tv reviews\nContinuing my series attempting to reconstruct how Babylon 5 was originally (for certain values of original) \u201csupposed to\u201d go. More detailed explanation and Season 1 are here, although note that since writing that original post I have gotten access to JMS\u2019 \u201coriginal\u201d treatment and am no longer working from summaries.\nKnown: Season 5 opens with the return of G\u2019Kar with evidence of Londo\u2019s alliance with the Shadows and their meddling in the Centauri-Narn conflict. The Minbari military caste stage a coup and take over, resuming the war with Earth. The Centauri lay claim to the neutral sector that includes B5, which Earth contests, leading Londo to break off diplomatic relations. Shortly thereafter a massive Vorlon ship carrying most of their civilian population is destroyed by the Shadows, although Earth is framed. Londo helps in the attack, though without the knowledge that it will result in hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths.\nThe series ends (yes, ends) with the Minbari attacking and destroying Babylon 5. Sinclair, Delenn, and their baby escape on a shuttle and flee into hiding, with every remaining power in the galaxy considering them enemies: the Minbari because of Delenn\u2019s ties to the deposed Grey Council and the Warrior Caste\u2019s belief that the prophecy is one of destruction, Vorlons because they believe Sinclair helped Earth destroy their ship, Shadows and Londo because they believe Sinclair and Delenn suspect who really did it, and Earth because they\u2019ve been fed false intel that Sinclair betrayed them.\nSpeculation: Given how much happens in this season, and how little happens in Season 4, it seems likely that some of this would have been moved earlier. Any of a Centauri attack on Babylon 5 as part of them seizing the sector, the fall of the Grey Council, or the destruction of the Vorlons would have made good season finale material (though the last might be too soon for the war to end in this version of the story).\nGiven his human-Minbari hybrid wife and the renewal of Earth-Minbari hostilities, it seems likely that Earthgov\u2019s false intel makes Sinclair out to have betrayed them to the Minbari. Likely sources for the intel are the Minbari, Centauri, and Shadows, all of which have good reason to want to isolate Sinclair and Delenn and thereby cut them off from Earth support.\nIt\u2019s up for grabs whether the warrior caste are being manipulated by the Shadows in this version of the story. They almost certainly weren\u2019t in the actual series, but by this point the treatment and the show have nothing in common except Delenn\u2019s pregnancy.\nAnd yes, this colossal downer really is how the series ends in the treatment. But it\u2019s not how the treatment ends\u2013that still has another page and a half, almost a quarter of its length, to go. We\u2019ll cover that in the next and final installment of this series.\nConcluded next week!\nKnown: Delenn gets pregnant with Sinclair\u2019s child. Garibaldi quits his job as Chief of Security as a result of his drinking, and begins operating as a mercenary out of B5. There is no mention of a Psycorps connection, Lise, Edgars Industries, or Zack Allen.\nThe Shadows would first be shown onscreen at this point, and the description of them, while vague, is consistent with how they appear in the series. They would initially present themselves as fighting to free the other races from the Vorlons, but in truth they desire to rule.\nSpeculation: Between the lack of a rebellion against Earth and the general slower pace of the treatment as opposed to the series, very little seems to happen this season. Perhaps G\u2019Kar and the Narn resistance would have gotten focus episodes, or some variant on the Centauri Cartagia/rise of Londo plot might have occurred. Another possibility, given events in the treatment\u2019s version of Season 5, is that the Minbari Civil War might have started, but not been resolved, during this season.\nAt this point it should be clear that the series as aired had gone completely off the original rails in Seasons 3 and 4. The Shadow War was resolved in early Season 4 in the series, yet is still a proxy war at the END of Season 4 in the treatment. Babylon 5 is still part of the Earth Alliance, Garibaldi never leaves the station, the entire Mars plot and associated cast is nowhere to be found, and Clark is still in charge with no resistance from Sinclair and company, despite manipulating his way into power via assassination just as in the series.\nThe Shadows as rebels against Vorlon manipulation is an interesting concept. It leaves open the question of whether the Shadows are one of the younger races manipulated by the Vorlons who have advanced far enough to turn against them, another race of equivalent age and power who just never bothered to get involved before, or, perhaps most interestingly, renegade Vorlons. This would cast an interesting light on the \u201cangelic\u201d presentation of the Vorlons, making the Shadows \u201cfallen angels.\u201d It also seems likely that something similar to the \u201cmeeting\u201d scene from \u201cZ\u2019ha\u2019dum\u201d would have happened in this version of the show, where someone would explain to Sinclair the Shadows\u2019 rationale for their actions. Perhaps Catherine/Caroline would have had that duty. Regardless, it seems that both the treatment and show versions give the Shadows a reasonable-sounding rationale, but belie that rationale through the destructive and manipulative behavior the Shadows have exhibited to this point. In the original plan, it seems likely that there would be a good deal of dramatic irony regarding this point, as the implication in the treatment is that the audience knows how the Shadows are manipulating Londo more or less from the start, but the human characters don\u2019t find out until the season 4/season 5 bridge.\nContinued in two weeks\u2026\nOctober 29, 2014 babylon 5, babylon 5 reviews, fannish speculation, reviews, the show that never was, tv reviews\nContinuing my series attempting to reconstruct how Babylon 5 was originally (for certain values of original) \u201csupposed to\u201d go. More detailed explanation and Season 1 are here, although note that since that post I have acquired a copy of the treatment itself from an exceedingly gracious reader.\nKnown: The existence of a mole on the station is revealed. This is a point of divergence between the treatment (which takes into account the cast changes between pilot and series, but not any changes in the series itself) and JMS\u2019 comments on what would have happened if there were no cast changes.\nIf there were no cast changes, Laurel Takashima would have been revealed as \u201cControl,\u201d the sleeper agent that Talia was revealed to be in Season 2. She would have departed much like Talia, and been replaced by Ivanova as second-in-command of the station. The treatment, however, is ambiguous about the identity of the mole, just that they are discovered. It also indicates that Catherine Sakai would have been \u201cmind-raped\u201d and lose all memory of Sinclair, devastating him and ending their relationship. This is stated to occur during the \u201cthird/fourth season bridge,\u201d along with Delenn and Sinclair starting to date.\nPsy-Corps emerges as an increasingly powerful and shadowy organization, but there is still no mention of Psy-Cops.\nThe Shadows would attack the Narn homeworld during this season, appearing out of nowhere en masse to wipe out its defenses and then vanish, opening up an opportunity for the Centauri to come in behind them and take over. After some time trying to rally support on the station, G\u2019Kar would go home to join the Narn Resistance, and be demoted from main cast to recurring character for the remainder of the third season and part of the fourth.\nFinally, it would be revealed that the Vorlons have been manipulating the younger races throughout their history, but the Shadows\u2019 motivations are not yet addressed.\nSpeculation: Given the similarity of the \u201cmind rape\u201d to both the Talia and Anna Sheridan plotlines, it seems likely that Catherine Sakai would have turned out to be Control (like Talia) and the commander\u2019s loved one stolen and twisted into someone else by the Shadows and their allies (like Anna). However, had there been no cast changes, Laurel would have been the mole, while perhaps Carolyn Sykes would have disappeared on an expedition like Anna, only to return as a minion of the Shadows. Catherine as the mole is actually one of the few places where the ideas in the treatment seem likely to be better than what we got in the show.\nThe loss of G\u2019Kar, on the other hand, seems like a clear case where the treatment depicts a notably worse show. There is no trace of his religious epiphany or slow turning away from his initial presentation as a pure warrior, no sign of his character\u2019s growth throughout the show, and that is a very sad loss.\nAnother loss: there is no sign of Earth\u2019s growing corruption or fascist turn, no Nightwatch, and no declaration of Babylon 5\u2019s independence; Psy-Corps is more of a shadowy puppeteer than a participant in what amounts to a fascist coup, and so there is no trace at this stage of the human characters have to weigh their loyalties against their principles. There is also no trace of \u201cWar Without End\u201d\u2013there was no past conflict with the Shadows and Sinclair is not the \u201creincarnation\u201d of Valen, so no theft of B4 into the past. (\u201cBabylon Squared\u201d is not even mentioned until a lengthy parenthetical after the discussion of the end of season 3 and beginning of season 4\u2013it\u2019s described as a season 1 episode, but not mentioned in the treatment of season 1.)\nThe willingness of the Shadows to openly attack the Narn in force is interesting. Admittedly, by Season 3 the Shadows were capable of fielding such fleets and had emerged into the open, but that was well after the fall of Narn. Their willingness to do it sooner suggests that they have greater resources and are less afraid of being exposed, which makes sense if the cycle of past wars never happened and the Shadows are therefore a long-standing and active enemy of the Vorlons, rather than just coming out of a long hibernation.\nOctober 8, 2014 babylon 5, babylon 5 reviews, fannish speculation, reviews, the show that never was, tv reviews\nAlthough there was a new episode of Sailor Moon Crystal this past weekend, I was at a convention, so the liveblog is not until this coming weekend. Thus, have the second installment of my series attempting to reconstruct how Babylon 5 was originally (for certain values of original) \u201csupposed to\u201d go. More detailed explanation and Season 1 are here.\nSo, in response to the first part of this series, one of my readers, Glenn, sent me photos of his copy of the treatment I discussed. This means I have now read that treatment, not just summaries of it, and need to rewrite this whole series in that light. I am extremely grateful for this! I always prefer to use primary sources when I can.\nSome overall thoughts on the document:\nI did not know it included an introduction that explained its genesis. According to JMS, the document came about because he had an outline of the series in \u201cmilestone\u201d form\u2013a series of notecards that laid out plot beats\u2013but not narrative form. He says the only person he remembers showing it to is Michael O\u2019Hare, Sinclair\u2019s actor, who was having trouble with the character\u2019s motivations.\nJMS claims there were 110 notecards. The obvious implication is that there was one per episode, which is another case of him blatantly BSing\u2013he knows full well that that\u2019s the implication, but nobody can read this treatment without realizing that very few of those episodes could have actually happened as he planned, especially in the latter half of the series.\nThe document is FAR less organized than online summaries would suggest. It meanders, blends together seasons, jumps forward and back in the timeline\u2013the most egregious example is the two-paragraph paranthetical in the middle of season three/four (they\u2019re rather blended together) that lays out the plot of season one\u2019s \u201cBabylon Squared.\u201d\nMy speculation about Psy-Corps appears both partially confirmed and partially denied. The document mentions Psy-Corps as slowly emerging as sinister and manipulative, and alludes to Clark gaining power in the wake of Santiago\u2019s assassination, but does not connect the two. There appears to be no hint of a relationship between Psy-Corps and the Shadows.\nAnyway, onward to Season 2!\nKnown: The biggest difference, of course, is that Sinclair was never supposed to leave. The treatment indicates, however, that the reason for the surrender at the Battle of the Line revealed this season would have been notably different. It would have been revealed partway through the season that Minbari fertility rates were declining and their species headed for extinction; a Minbari prophecy predicts a savior who would somehow solve this problem. At the Battle of the Line, the Minbari discovered that Sinclair is the (equally prophesied) father of that savior; Delenn\u2019s transformation is so that she can mate with him and produce a son. (Note that there is nothing here about reincarnation or souls passing from Minbari to humans, nor is there any prophecy of the Shadows returning.) This, of course, is impossible because of his existing relationship. In addition, the Warrior Caste interpret the prophecy differently, and believe that Sinclair and his son will instead bring about their final extinction. This is very different from their motivation in the show, which is mistrust of humans due to the war and of the Religious Caste due to their role in ending the war.\nA number of things which occurred this season either do not happen or happen later in the treatment, most notably the Narn/Centauri war. In the treatment, the Shadows and Londo continue to attack the Narn throughout the season, but there is no indication of a full Narn/Centauri war breaking out and, by the end of the season, Narn has suffered heavy losses but still remains an independent nation. In addition, by the end of the season the identity of the mole has not yet been revealed. On the other hand, Kosh would still have revealed himself to save Sinclair\u2019s life at the end of the season. G\u2019kar still leaves the station to investigate who is destroying the Narn, but spends MUCH longer than in the aired series\u2013he seems to spend the bulk of seasons two and three investigating, and it\u2019s not at all clear whether the show follows him on this journey.\nSpeculation: Season 2 of the show notably accelerates as it goes on, and thereafter the show\u2019s main arc is much faster-paced than the relatively sedate unspooling of Season 1. It seems likely that this was a deliberate choice to deviate from the treatment\u2019s plan, in which major aspects of (show) Season 2 do not happen until (treatment) Season 3. G\u2019kar\u2019s time off the station was likewise notably shortened, possibly to allow more interaction between him and Londo, which by the end of Season 1 was clearly emerging as a highlight of the show.\nMost notably, there is no reference to First Ones or a cycle of past Vorlon/Shadow conflicts. It would appear that, while the Shadows and Vorlons are significantly more advanced (and presumably therefore older) than the other races, the building conflict between them and their allies among the younger races is the first time they have fought.\nLennier\u2019s speech explaining what happened to Sinclair at the Line and why, in the Season 2 premiere, appears to be the sole relic of a transitional stage between the Sinclair-as-Joseph and Sinclair-as-Valen stages of the plan; note that in his speech there is still the concept of the Minbari being in decline, but we have the added element of a human with a Minbari soul, foreshadowing \u201cWar Without End.\u201d By Delenn\u2019s speech in \u201cIn the Shadow of Z\u2019ha\u2019dum\u201d the concept of the cyclical war seems to be pretty well cemented. JMS\u2019 claim that he got the idea of the conflict being cyclical from the same Babylonian mythological sources as the general \u201corder vs. chaos\u201d theme seems quite reasonable\u2013Marduk\u2019s defeat of Tiamat was ritualistically reenacted annually\u2013but it\u2019s notable that he never said he took those two ideas at the same time. The conflict of chaos and order seems to be the main Babylonian element built into the series from the start (that and the \u201cBabel\u201d pun of a giant tower in space with many squabbling cultures living in it), but the cyclical nature of that conflict seems to have emerged in the course of writing Season 2, as opposed to being present from the start.\nContinued in three weeks\u2026\nETA: Updated link to the first post, which was broken. Thanks for pointing that out, RexMax!\nThe Babylon 5 that (thankfully) never was: Intro and Season 1\nIn 2008, Cafepress released a 14-volume limited run of books collecting the J. Michael Straczynski-penned scripts for Babylon 5, a show with which I have always been mildly obsessed. (It is probably my favorite live-action show, though there were six or seven years ending a couple of years ago where that was Doctor Who.) As a bonus for collectors who bought all 14 books, they produced a 15th volume as a \u201cfree\u201d gift. Included in this volume was a seven-page treatment outlining the full run of the series, written sometime between the production of the series pilot, \u201cThe Gathering,\u201d and its first regular episodes roughly a year later. (This should not be confused with the 22-page treatment written in 1988 and sold by the Babylon 5 Fan Club as a collectible.) It is, in other words, a snapshot of what the series would have been if not for cast changes and the natural alterations that any long-form work goes through in the process of writing.\nThis outline is now basically impossible to find. The book containing it is long out of print. Synopses and summaries of it are ubiquitous, and the book containing it can be purchased, used, for about $150, but literally no one has transcribed or scanned the outline and put it out on torrents or download sites. Cafepress produced a \u201chighlight\u201d book of the script collections a couple of years ago, but vetted its contents with a \u201cfan board\u201d of jealous collectors, and those assholes stipulated that the new book could not include any content from volume 15 and only very limited content from the other 14 volumes, presumably so that they can continue lording their possession of the book over \u201clesser\u201d collectors and charging hundreds of dollars for them online.\nNonetheless, what synopses are available make something very clear: the common claim (including frequent statements from JMS himself) that JMS had a five-year plan for the series which he, at least in broad strokes, succeeded in getting on screen? Absolute bullshit. The series that aired starts similarly to the treatment, but rapidly diverges, and not simply for reasons of cast changes. The final couple of seasons are almost unrecognizably different from the series that aired, and in particular JMS\u2019 claim that he knew the final shot of the series from day one is very clearly completely false.\nSo, then, because I cannot help thinking obsessively about this, I present to you the beginning of a six-part series: The Babylon 5 That Thankfully Never Was. Why thankfully? Because, frankly, as near as I can tell the series that JMS envisioned when he started writing Season 1 was a vastly more conventional and vastly less interesting narrative than what eventually made its way to the screen.\nI will break up these posts by season, and then within each season I will first present what is known from synopses of the treatment and comments made by JMS, then add my own speculations on what this means. For synopses of the treatment, I will use two sources: The Hidden Evolution of Babylon 5, and Synopsis of JMS\u2019s synopsis of the \u201coriginal arc for B5\u201d. The comments by JMS I cite can all be found on The Lurker\u2019s Guide to Babylon 5.\nKnown differences: Comments by JMS state that, had there been no cast changes, Lyta would have remained as the station\u2019s telepath, and grown slowly closer to Kosh and away from Psy-Corps by \u201ca different route\u201d than Talia. In addition, Laurel Takashima would have been the mole who helped Knights One and Two kidnap Sheridan and shot Garibaldi in the back, rather than Garibaldi\u2019s second. Finally, Ivanova would have existed as a background/minor character, a junior officer who worked in C\u2019n\u2019C and reported to Takashima. The season as described in the treatment is largely the same as what aired, with one major difference: the treatment has no mention of Psicops or Bester.\nSpeculation: Presumably, Carolyn Sykes would have continued dating Sinclair and taken Catherine Sakai\u2019s role, including the Sigma 957 incident or something very similar. The \u201cdifferent route\u201d by which Lyta draws away from Psy-Corps and toward Kosh is probably to do with her scanning him; the lack of Bester and the Psicops suggests that they were created specifically for \u201cMind War,\u201d so that Talia could encounter Ironheart as her equivalent to Lyta\u2019s scan of Kosh. This would explain why Psy-Corps seems rather less of a police organization in the treatment than the series; likely they were originally intended (as seems appropriate for telepaths) to be sinister in a \u201cshadowy manipulators with lots of intel\u201d way, rather than a \u201cjackboots and black gloves\u201d way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 430, "original_length": 48329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jewishagency.org/blog/1/article/27901", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:16Z", "digest": "sha1:V23XY67B6VKCN75B5QP4TX2P5L23RTDZ", "length": 6369, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.jewishagency.org", "title": "Aid Package to Residents of Southern Israel | The Jewish Agency", "raw_content": "The Jewish Agency / Voices / Jewish Agency Presents NIS 50 Million Aid Package to Residents of Southern Israel\nJewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky and IDF GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Shlomo (Sami) Turgeman attend the opening session of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors meetings in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.\nDavid Shechter, The Jewish Agency for Israel \u00a9\nSharansky: \"This is a continuation of the Jewish world's massive outpouring of solidarity with the people of Israel and the residents of the South\u2026 We are partnering with the Government of Israel to ensure that this pioneering spirit endures well into the future, drawing ever more people to this area and keeping it strong and vibrant for many years to come. This is the Zionist response to this summer's events, and it is an expression of our commitment to the residents of southern Israel \"\nASHKELON, ISRAEL \u2013 The Jewish Agency for Israel has developed a NIS 50 million ($13.22 million) aid package to help the communities of Israel's south recover from this summer's hostilities, thanks to contributions from the Jewish Federations of North America, Keren Kayesod-UIA, and other donors.\nThe aid package includes a series of programs aimed at enabling the communities of southern Israel, particularly those closest to the border with Gaza, to expand their population bases and support a range of groups with an investment of NIS 25 million. It also includes NIS 25 million worth of aid extended to the residents of the South during the summer's hostilities.\nThe Jewish world's support for southern Israel will be at the center of the Jewish Agency Board of Governors' meetings, taking place this week (Sunday-Tuesday) in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon and the surrounding area. Hundreds of Jewish leaders from around are participating in the gathering, which is being led by Chairman of the Board of Governors Charles (Chuck) Ratner and Chairman of the Executive Natan Sharansky. The gathering had been scheduled to take place in Mexico but was moved to southern Israel as an expression of support for the region's residents following their difficult summer.\nOpening the gathering, Sharansky thanked The Jewish Agency's partners in the Jewish world and said: \"This is a continuation of the Jewish world's massive outpouring of solidarity with the people of Israel and the residents of the South over the course of the summer. The Jewish Agency built southern Israel, helping the early pioneers establish these towns and communities in the country's early years. During the war, we stood with the residents and channeled the solidarity and support of world Jewry. Today, we are partnering with the Government of Israel to ensure that this pioneering spirit endures well into the future, drawing ever more people to this area and keeping it strong and vibrant for many years to come. This is the Zionist response to this summer's events, and it is an expression of our commitment to the residents of southern Israel.\"\nMaj. Gen. Shlomo (Sami) Turgeman, GOC of the IDF Southern Command, addressed the Board of Governors at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, one of the Israeli communities nearest to the border with Gaza, and said: \"We are fighting for our homes here. Your decision to hold the Jewish Agency Board of Governors' meetings in southern Israel after Operation Protective Edge is a massive source of strength for me personally and for the soldiers under my command.\"\nThe aid package being developed includes scholarships for local students, assistance to local businesses, grants for victims of rocket attacks, the construction of bomb shelters, and support for new immigrants and IDF lone soldiers. These initiatives join a range of programs run by The Jewish Agency during the summer's hostilities, including taking some 75,000 children and teenagers for recreational activities outside the line of fire, thanks to contributions from the Jewish Federations of North America, Keren Hayesod-UIA, and other donors.\nIn the coming days, The Jewish Agency will present some 1,300 students within four kilometers (roughly 2.5 miles) of the Gaza border with scholarships aimed at offsetting the cost of rent and drawing young people to the area. The scholarships, funded by the Jewish Federations of North America and individual Jewish Federations, will be awarded to students studying at one of the academic institutions in the area or residing in the region. Each student will be provided with a scholarship of more than NIS 5,700 ($1,500).\nThe aid package will also seek to strengthen and rescue small and medium-sized businesses whose operations were adversely affected by the rocket fire. The Jewish Agency will run a special loan fund with favorable rates for businesses within 40 kilometers (25 miles) of Gaza, as well as for businesses from throughout southern Israel in the tourism, service, and commercial sectors.\nIn addition, private bomb shelters throughout southern Israel will be refurbished via The Jewish Agency's sheltered housing subsidiary, Amigour, which has built thousands of shelters in Sderot and other southern Israeli communities in recent years. The project will be fully coordinated with the Prime Minister's Office and the Ministry of Defense.\nThe Jewish Agency will also provide support to various groups, including new immigrants residing in Jewish Agency absorption centers in southern Israel and IDF lone soldiers wounded during Operation Protective Edge.\nThe Jewish Agency's Fund for Victims of Terror has been extending financial aid to families who experienced injury or loss as a result of the summer's hostilities and whose homes were damaged by rocket fire. The NIS 4,000 grant is presented to each family immediately after the incident in order to enable the family to address its most immediate needs. In addition to the immediate assistance, the Fund provides supplemental aid of up to NIS 25,000 ($6,600) to families recognized as victims of terror by the Government of Israel.\nIn the wake of this summer's hostilities, The Jewish Agency has also increased its efforts to connect young Jews to Israel via the hundreds of Jewish Agency shlichim (emissaries) posted around the world and by boosting the number of Jewish Agency Israel Fellows (young Israeli college graduates posted on North American college campuses in partnership with Hillel).\n27 Oct 2014 / 3 Heshvan 5775 0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 10411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 190.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jewishcomment.com/cgibin/news.cgi?id=12&command=shownews&newsid=646", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:20Z", "digest": "sha1:GP2E54A4LFRODMWZMXH3S5VHBWJHXOP6", "length": 12616, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.jewishcomment.com", "title": "jewish comment uk israel news", "raw_content": "Last uploaded : Monday 5th Apr 2004 at 14:40\nContributed by : Anthony Patt\nAnthony Patt\nGeorge W. Bush? America is not particularly popular in Germany at the moment. As an American policy analyst working at a German research institute, friends and colleagues ask me almost daily to explain what is happening in the United States. Who will win the election, they ask? Most perplexing, they find, is the sudden and almost complete disappearance of Howard Dean from the political landscape.\nThe German press had covered Dean glowingly, and most believed that he would be the Democrat?s nominee. As a Dean supporter myself, I shared the disappointment, if not the surprise. To explain what happened, and to predict the election, I have developed the idea of the Myth.\nAmericans have a set of images of their country, which in the aggregate I call the Myth. The central message of these images is that America is culturally and morally the best, and that freedom rings loudest and economic opportunity holds strongest on American soil.\nThe Myth is reinforced through multiple story lines that are repeated in schools, television, radio, film, advertising, professional sporting events, and almost everywhere else in the nation?s popular culture. Most Americans do not see this as a story that has been told and retold over time to explain the world and to give the listeners a sense of meaning and comfort, but rather take it as reality.\nAmerica?s size and wealth make it possible for these people to live their lives without questioning its validity. The sources of the Myth are buried in the core of American history and too numerous to discuss here, although it is an interesting fact that the cities where it was respectively born and most recently popularized, Boston and Los Angeles, are also the breeding grounds for its most vocal critics.\nMore importantly, its existence has dominated American politics in the past, and is doing so today more than at any time in recent history.\nOn can see the Myth in daily operation. For example, among the central characters in many of the Myth?s story lines are the ?Founding Fathers?, all wise, knowing, and full of foresight. When politicians or justices need support for a particular argument, on issues from the death penalty to gay marriage, many of them turn to the Founding Fathers? words, as written in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.\nWere it not for the Myth, they might instead be forced to consider those two documents as representing on the one hand a snapshot of European philosophical thought from the late 1700s, and on the other hand a political compromise between different Colonial factions. They would have to base their arguments on evolving philosophical and moral thought, both in the United States and abroad, from before 1776 and extending all the way to the present.\nThose who do profess to judge contemporary issues in this longer and wider context are known in American politics as Liberals.\nAs with all dominant paradigms, events in the world can easily be interpreted to support the Myth. Anti-Americanism, for example, is interpreted to be the result of envy. More importantly, the Myth can be used to justify any policy (war, protectionism, deficit spending) that benefits American interests or those of the governing elite. This has been the discourse of the Republican Party, and it has used the Myth consistently and with clarity of purpose.\nThe Democrats, meanwhile, have long recognized that they depend for votes on Myth believers, and so have avoided challenging it. But it is hard to make serious changes to the United States or its policies without colliding against the Myth, its characters, or its story lines. And so the Democrats have always remained somewhat apologetic, which makes them appear weak, and lacking a clear and consistent message.\nFor a while in the late 1960s and ?70s, with the Kennedy and King assassinations and Vietnam and Watergate, the sense of national shame caused the Myth to drop out of sight from American politics, and in its absence some remarkably effective policy-making took place: civil rights legislation, national environmental regulation, and nuclear arms control.\nAs the shame was beginning to fade, Reagan was able to run on the Myth?s rejuvenation, Morning in America as he called it. George H.W. Bush carried on this tradition. Though not as skillful as Reagan in rhetoric, he did make one of the Myth?s storylines an explicit part of American politics: liberalism, the concept of basing decisions on reason, informed by a variety of sources, is something to be ashamed of.\nClinton was gifted enough to avoid the liberal label and to charm people into voting for him, even though he did not actively advocate the Myth. But a few missteps in his first year in office, trying to appoint active Myth detractors such as Lanie Guinier, or fighting for gays in the military, taught him to be extremely careful.\nThere are a few Americans, concentrated most densely on the two coasts, but also scattered throughout the country, who see the Myth as myth, namely as an oversimplification of the world, one that may have been more accurate fifty years ago than it is today. Its effects on policy-making, as these people see it, are almost uniformly negative in the post-Soviet world.\nUntil we are free of the Myth, they believe, the United States will never be a reliable player internationally, where now cooperation rather than domination on issues of the environment, globalization, and national security are crucial.\nUntil we are confident that future governments will not be able to exploit the Myth for short term political gain, they believe, policy measures requiring sustained commitment over time are probably futile. Look what happened, they can point, to Clinton?s most substantial political legacy: erasing the budget deficit. Finally, they fear that the Myth, if it continues to grow, could lead to events comparable to what gripped Germany in the 1930s and '40s.\nDespite the Clinton years, the Myth has been building steam since Reagan, and has taken front center stage under George W. Bush, who references it almost every time he utters a word in public, most forcefully when he speaks about terrorism.\nOutside the United States, especially in Europe, Bush's open and constant use of the Myth appears not only childlike on the one hand and offensive on the other, but also reminds people of other leaders in history who legitimated their actions so shamelessly on national pride. This comes closest to home in Germany, where indeed Justice Minister Herta D?ubler-Gmelin was forced to resign after she allegedly compared Bush to Hitler.\nInside the United States, those who see the Myth as myth feel an equally guttural disgust. The near complete reliance on the Myth under the Bush administration has opened the political fault lines, between those who either believe in or benefit from the Myth, and those who see it as a lie. More than at any time in recent history, the latter group has donated time and money to Democratic candidates. The other side, many of them industry and media giants, has responded with equal vigor, and even superior financial backing. The majority of the population, who haven?t fully realized what this is all about, feel caught in the middle of a war, fought in thirty-second skirmishes on their television sets.\nThe initial leader in the anti-Myth movement was Howard Dean, the first credible presidential candidate to have suggested that Democrats could actually win by running against the Myth. ?You can't beat Bush with Bush Lite,? he said. Southern white guys driving pickups with Confederate flags, Myth believers of the highest order, should be voting for Democrats because they need health insurance, he claimed. He proposed a presidential race as a grand battle pitting the Myth against Reality. Being a doctor, rather than a lawyer or a businessperson, he had the confidence in the power of evidence-based diagnoses to believe that Reality would win.\nFor the few hundred thousand Americans who see the Myth as myth and were paying attention, Dean was the first candidate in memory to make sense, and they flocked to his campaign with credit card numbers typed on their computer screens. Word of his truth telling and his enthusiastic following spread to the larger voting public. In the months before the primaries the rumors alone brought him to the top of the telephone polls, which present very weak opinions as if they were strong. But in the weeks and days before the caucuses and primaries, the rest of the voting public started hearing not just about Dean?s reputation, but his actual message in speeches and sound bites not all of his choosing, and it was a truth they did not want to hear. To really believe Dean at his word, people had to let go of the Myth. Instead, most of them decided he was crazy.\nClark, Kerry, and Edwards responded quickly. They learned from Dean that it was acceptable to attack Bush forcefully, but they avoided raising the Myth itself as an issue, in the Clinton tradition. Of the three of them, Kerry had the most convincing personal history to make this message, inherently apologetic and contradictory, credible as a winnable strategy.\nMedals from Vietnam proved his patriotism, meaning that his later protest against the war could be seen as leadership instead of cowardice. This in turn gave weight to his claim that his stance against Bush was in the highest American tradition of duty, honor, and courage. His campaign imagery has supported this: wearing a leather bomber jacket on the Tonight Show, riding his Harley around on weekends, and retreating to his vacation home in the rough mountains of Idaho.\nKerry is a smart man, who has demonstrated that he knows how to stay on message to win elections, as he did defeating the popular Massachusetts Governor William Weld to hold on to his Senate seat.\nIndeed, Kerry's strategy, bolstered by his Vietnam history, may be the only thing that can win the White House this election cycle. The people who see the Myth as myth will vote for him, knowing that his policies, if not his rhetoric, make good sense. They hope that he can pull off a victory, fearful that the Republicans will successfully use his association with Massachusetts and his pragmatic record in the Senate to vilify him as a non-believer.\nBut after Dean showed what political rhetoric could be, they worry openly that Kerry, even if he wins, will leave the Myth intact, and any changes he creates will be temporary window dressing, his legacy as un-monumental as Carter?s and Clinton?s.\nBut a remarkable new phenomenon is emerging that could change everything: this is the first election where the Democrats will converge on the battle for Washington from multiple fronts. Campaigning in broad daylight from one side is Kerry.\nOperating out of the shadowy rules governing political action committees are Democracy for America, MoveOn.org, the Media Fund, and other public advocacy groups not connected in any formal way with the Democratic Party. They are battling primarily against George W. Bush, but they are also not afraid to attack the Myth itself. They get their intellectual and creative support from people like Paul Krugman and Michael Moore, and financial backing from George Soros and half of Hollywood.\nImportantly, election financing laws enacted in the last four years mean that these groups can cash far larger checks than the $2,000 per person limit that Kerry faces, and they indeed may prove to be the more important and effective fighters.\nIt is possible that candidate Kerry, embracing the Myth in rhetoric but not in the core of his ideas, will win the election, but that the well-funded advocacy coalition willing to attack the Myth head-on will be have been responsible for tipping the scales. If that happens, 2005 could usher in a new, uncharted, and likely strenuous era in American politics, as these groups hold Kerry accountable, and force him to lead the country in a national debate about the Myth and its proper place in American politics and culture. If the Republicans win, on the other hand, then the battle lines will be already drawn for 2008, the stakes for which both sides are fighting will become even greater and more urgent, and the political bloodshed will intensify. That is a story nobody wants to tell in advance.\nAnthony Patt is Boston University Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy; Visiting Scientist, Potsdam Insitute for Climate Impact Research.\nAll opinions and errors therein are those of the author.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 13449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jiangsu.net/transportation/cityinfo.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:18Z", "digest": "sha1:EWR26YBIJWR24GHQB7TS32XAO5GMXMVT", "length": 4861, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.jiangsu.net", "title": "Transportation in Jiangsu", "raw_content": "Home > Transportation > Information on City Transport and Services\nJiangsu City Transport\nBus Transport System\nFor city bus transport information, Jiangsu.NET has two suggestion:\n1.\tIf you need bus transport information for a special location, please search the location in an appropriate category, as Jiangsu.NET has already listed the information under its name.\n2.\tFor general information, please see the content below.\nJiangsu Province has an efficient network of public bus transportation system for each of its cities. The network provides cities, specifically for its 13 major cities, convenient routes to diverse parts of the cities or suburbs and costs only 1 Yuan (1 Chinese Yuan ? 0.15 USD) for buses without air conditioning or 2 Yuans for buses with air conditioning per trip. However, bus transports for towns and townships have not been listed.\nOne of the best initiatives of this is that the name of each bus stop is announced as the bus makes its stops along its route. And some announcements also have English translations. Roads and express ways are extremely wide with several lanes and systematic traffic lights. Prepare your change or coins, or pay with an IC card.\nAlmost all signs are displayed in Chinese and if you do not plan in advance it would be quite hard to get around on the buses. Try to get a city map from local news vendor and make sure the printing on it is clear.\nSometimes the bus stops can seem pretty hectic and there are often a hundred people at one stop and the buses arrive so frequently that there may be 3 or 4 buses stopped at a stop at the same time.\nThere is an IC card for cities like Nanjing or Suzhou that can be used to access both the buses and the subways. The IC card is called a \"Yue Piao\", meaning monthly pass, and can be purchased at some bank, bus or subway stations. It is also possible to recharge a monthly pass card at convenience stores. IC card gets you a 20% discount for the buses. On buses the card can be swiped as many times as you want to get you and your friends on.\nIn Jiangsu, Nanjing, the capital of the province, is the only city where the subway system is available in providing the city its influential provision.\nThe Nanjing\u2019s subway system opened its first section of the transport line in September, 2005, which includes 21.75 km in a length and totally 16 stations, and runs north \u2013 south direction. The subway was expected to handle a maximum of 290,000 travels on the first day of the experimental operation.\nThe subway has been starting to extend its north \u2013 south line in 2006 with an expending project of 18 km in a length and twelve stations. The extension line runs southwards from Andemen Gate to Jiangning University and is expected to be finished by August, 2008.\nThe another planning of expending project is underway, in which an east-west track line with a length of 25.15 km and a budget of 10.5 billion Yuan (about $1.3 billion USD) will greatly improve the city\u2019s transport capacity.\nTaxis are convenient means of transportation in Jiangsu and are available in most streets, hotels, and other public spaces.\nIn most of the provincial cities, fares begin 5-8 Yuan for the first three kilometers, and 1-2.5 Yuan for each additional kilometer. At night the fare is the same initial charge plus about 0.3-0.5 Yuan more for each additional kilometer. But you'd better choose a taxi with a business license, and before you leave from the taxi, ask the driver for a receipt.\nRentals and Regulations\nRentals are available in most cities of the province. Before you start driving, make sure if you are eligible to drive in this province and well follow its regulations.\nYou can not drive with an International Driver's Permit (IDP) in mainland China; The country has not signed the convention which created IDPs. You have to drive with a Chinese license.\nFrom this year of 2007, however, China is going to change its present driving permit system to ease the process for international travelers and. Drivers licensed by certain countries may drive Chinese vehicles after a quick hour-long traffic law briefing. Your license, however, will be time-limited.\nLaws and regulations for driving\nThe province of Jiangsu enforces laws legislited by the central state govervment plus its by-law system.\nThe traffic in the province, as well as in mainland China, drives on the right-hand side of the road and it is different with two exceptions that Hong Kong and Macau, othewise, drive on the left. Beware well of the transitions!\nThe official driving code in the province is carried out by the Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China. It applies for all vehicles in China, except military vehicles. A vehicle with a military license plate would not follow any rule. It may not stop at a red light, or it might go from the wrong direction. Beware well of this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 5638, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jll.it/italy/en-gb/research/182/milan_city_profile_q4_2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:54Z", "digest": "sha1:I3Y5C2BNHTSTDRMHTVAVAV644G3E2D4I", "length": 170, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.jll.it", "title": "Milan City Profile Q4 2016", "raw_content": "- Record take-up and number of transactions in 2016\n- In Q4 2016 CBD was the most dynamic market\nhttp://www.jll.com/italy/en-gb/Research/Milan City Profile Q4 2016 en.pdf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 2817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.johngerzema.com/articles/dld-magazine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:23Z", "digest": "sha1:UACJGXBK6J57UUATXV77DL2E7NDOILSV", "length": 5641, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.johngerzema.com", "title": "DLD Magazine: | John Gerzema", "raw_content": "This article was originally published in DLD Magazine.\nMany Israelis know that Shimon Peres had brought a new way of working to the office of the president, and one visit to the presidential palace is all it takes to see how. Efrat Duvdevani, Peres\u2019s Director General, welcomed me on a sunny afternoon when tourists filled the streets of old Jerusalem and military officials prepared a swearing-in ceremony for new soldiers at the historic Western Wall of the Temple Mount.\nDuvdevani has worked with Peres for over seventeen years, since the assassination of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and brings with her a belief in the power of female management and the importance of placing women in senior roles: \u201cAll the leading positions here are the Office of the President are held by women, most of them mothers,\u201d Duvdevani told us. In her office, we found about a dozen crowded around a low table set with pots of tea and cold water\u2014Duvdevani wants everyone involved in the conversation, so everyone gets a seat. The women who joined us, and they were all women, held top positions as aides and advisers, and the main point they wanted to make was that collaboration, not ego, made the place work. \u201cToday the workforce requires excellence and an ability to combine different fields, to work together and to put ego aside. My approach to management is based upon cooperation, brainstorming together and getting everybody\u2019s input, it is an approach built for the complex environment in which we operate. The traits needed for this approach to work shine through with women.\u201d\nToday, an emergent form of leadership is taking hold, based on the skills and competencies of women (and the men who can think like them). In our new book, The Athena Doctrine, Michael D\u2019Antonio (my co-author) and I surveyed 64,000 people in 13 countries, while traveling to 18 others and meeting with some of the most innovative leaders and thinkers of our time. Some were young, while others were \u201cthinking young\u201d.\n\u201cHe knows that women think about the consequences of what they do,\u201d explained Duvdevani about her boss. When asked to elaborate on the president\u2019s point, she suggested why not ask him? ourselves. Minutes later, ushered past security guards and into the office where the president worked, Peres sprang out of the chair and began a discussion around what he considers one of society\u2019s most profound issues \u2013 the critical importance of women in creating a more peaceful, harmonious society. He immediately recalled that when he had recently visited the White House, \u201cPresident Obama asked me, \u2018What\u2019s holding back democracy and peace in the Middle East?\u2019 I answered him by saying, \u2018The husbands.\u2019\u201d Too many husbands and fathers inhibit the region\u2019s progress toward peace by failing to educate their children, he said, and by discouraging their wives and daughters from getting involved in larger society. If they could conduct the dialogue, Arab women and Jewish women would create peace in short order, he said. \u201cBut right now too many husbands won\u2019t let their wives participate.\u201d\nPeres said that the world has reached a moment of transformation that made him feel optimistic and excited. First, social technology allows for people to discover the truth about their leaders, to build mass movements for change, and to rally people to action. Second, Peres noted that there are no longer any national economies\u2014only one global economy. As a result, global corporations \u201care unintentionally in the position of being asked to fulfill a moral role,\u201d he said. \u201cA global company cannot afford to be racist because you cannot sell your products all over the world without goodwill. They must be multicultural and multinational. Globalization opens eyes.\u201d When eyes are opened, \u201cit\u2019s hard to behave like a dictator because dictators can only operate in darkness.\u201d\nThe president spoke enthusiastically of his late-life conversion to what he called a \u201cmore feminine\u201d leadership style that emphasizes flexibility, humility, diversity of opinion, and service. \u201cWe are in a new world with many old minds, and the task is to adapt yourself,\u201d he said. A modern leader \u201cis there to serve\u201d.\nOnce a hawk, now a dove, Shimon Peres showed by example how both a man and a country can evolve. Israel cannot afford to leave the strengths of women on the sidelines as it develops into a mature country, and, Peres insisted, the world cannot thrive by neglecting the feminine half of human nature. Late in life, he has come to live and lead by this perspective as an old lion of the Zionist cause.\nDLD has the mission to create a network of innovation, digitization, science, and culture which connects business, creative, and social leaders for crossover conversation and inspiration. This year\u2019s conference theme, \u201cBreaking New Ground,\u201d resonates with me. As I sit in a hotel lobby in Tel-Aviv on my book tour, I\u2019m reminded of the Hebrew word tmura, which means both \u201cmetamorphosis\u201d and \u201cgift of transcendent value.\u201d It is through adapting to a social, transparent and independent world that will empower leaders in the years to come.\nWhen John Gerzema met Efrat, she did not want her picture taken without her entire staff present and on that day several were out or traveling. Doesn't that speak volume? In his new book \u201cThe Athena Doctrine: How Women (And The Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule The Future\u201d, John Gerzema examines the rise of feminine traits and values with Pulitzer-Prize winner Michael D\u2019Antonio. At DLDw13 he talks about how collaboration, a primarily female characteristic, is the key skill in the future of business.\nThe Revolution of Opportunity:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 8062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.johnsiskandson.com/ae/expertise/public-buildings/rathbone-market-newham-london", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:30Z", "digest": "sha1:V3KG4LX4JF3BMEYZYAXJRBIQU5PI7PVZ", "length": 2112, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.johnsiskandson.com", "title": "Rathbone Market, Newham, London | John Sisk and Son", "raw_content": "Client : English Cities Fund\nExpertise>Public buildings>>Rathbone Market, Newham, London>>>\nThe major regeneration of Rathbone Market, in the London Borough of Newham, kicked off with the first phase of the scheme awarded to Sisk followed by consecutive phases, as detailed:\nThis urban regeneration project located in Canning Town provided a total of 271 mixed tenure homes across four residential buildings, one 21 storey, one 12 storey, one 8 storey and one 6 storey, together with ground floor retail units, single level basement car park and a landscaped garden. The works were undertaken in a logistically challenging environment adjacent to the busy A13.\nDesigned to achieve Code 4 of the CfSH, the residential apartments are mixed tenure with over 25% allocated for affordable use. This meant that we had to manage the differing needs of both the private and affordable apartments. In this case we worked with Notting Hill Housing Trust who were the social housing provider.\nThe retail space was designed to achieve a BREEAM rating of Very Good.\nFollowing the successful completion of the Phase One works, Sisk were able to work collaboratively with the ECf and their professional team to negotiate the Phase Two works.\nThe works further aid the regeneration of Canning Town with the provision of 165 new homes; a new market square with stalls and purpose built storage space for traders; new shops and cafes around the southern and eastern edges of the market square ; improved access to the A13 underpass ; new landscaped open spaces and a new library and community hub.\nAs part of phase two Thomas North Terrace has been demolished. The remaining tenants were relocated to new homes within phase one of Rathbone Market.\nOur success continues at Rathbone where we negotiated Phase 3 of the development to provide a further 216 homes, with blocks ranging from 4-6 storeys situated around a communal garden with a mature oak tree and a secure gated entrance via the public square.\nThe Rathbone Market development in Canning Town has reached a major milestone as work is completed on two sample apartments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jolivermaxwell.com/single-newsletter/have-you-updated-your-beneficiaries-recently", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:15Z", "digest": "sha1:TQ4TJ5HMJHXLEUSOQMZ34C4JJMRD56RW", "length": 1712, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.jolivermaxwell.com", "title": "Janet Grace Beers Attard", "raw_content": "Naming primary and secondary beneficiaries for life insurance policies, annuities and retirement accounts is one of the easiest and most effective estate planning moves you can make. Here's why it's important to make changes as needed to keep these details current.\nMarriage, Divorce, Kids and More\nChecking your beneficiaries on a regular basis (even annually is enough) can help protect you from ending up with an ex-spouse or even someone who is no longer living from being first in line to inherit your assets. Make sure the people in your life who mean the most to you today are set up to receive what you want them to have.\nBypass Probate and Override Wills\nIf you've taken steps to name a beneficiary for a retirement account, this becomes a legally binding contract that likely takes precedence over anything that has been laid out in a will or trust. Keep track of all IRAs and 401(k)s and update them as necessary to ensure all your assets go where you want them to go.\nExplore Beneficiary Strategies\nIt's common for spouses to name each other as primary beneficiaries, but married couples (especially those with children from other marriages) should make sure to add \"simultaneous death\" paperwork to make bequests clear in the rare event both spouses pass away at the same time.\nAdditional customized designations are also worth looking into if you have multiple primary or multiple contingent beneficiaries. With \"per stirpes\" and \"per capita\" designations, for example, you can provide for a variety of circumstances, such as a beneficiary predeceasing you.\nTaking the time to keep your wishes current can make life easier for your beneficiaries. Have questions? Please don't hesitate to reach out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jonathancooper.org/2007/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:19Z", "digest": "sha1:APZPUB2SUQJ4NFLV4MSKJUY5ATAL6GC5", "length": 12406, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.jonathancooper.org", "title": "Jonathan Cooper Update: August 2007", "raw_content": "Oh my goodness! Where has the time gone? I have never waited this long to post an update! It\u2019s been an entire month and I can\u2019t believe it! This has been the busiest month for me. You should see my August calendar; there are only a couple of squares that don\u2019t have something written in them. Our entire summer has not been exceptionally busy, but that could be because I waited until August, just before school starts, to get my life organized and my home cleaned up. On top of all of that, we have had an unusual amount of doctor appointments this month. Jonathan has had his doctor appointments, Elizabeth and Sarah have had their physicals as well as one has been seen for glasses/contacts and one is being seen for orthodontics, and I have had my yearly doctor appointments. That\u2019s what happens when your insurance kicks in! So needless to say, we have been extremely busy over these last four weeks. On the whole, our family is doing great. It feels good to get things straightened up and organized. There are some things that will not be done before school, but those projects are neatly stacked around my house to be done a little at a time over the next few months. The big things will be finished up this week after we have our garage sale and get all the remaining things out that need to go. I spent the weekend organizing and getting things prepared for school to begin on the 27th. I am finally getting ready for that to happen. At one point, earlier in the month, I remember hearing myself say that just the thought of school made me want to cry because I was not ready for that to happen. As it usually does, the closer it gets, the more I find myself ready to begin. I\u2019m glad the Lord does that for me. Being a home school Mom, there is not much else that happens during the school year for me except for school. It consumes almost all of my time. But I don\u2019t mind. As a matter of fact, I love being able to do it. This year I am praying specifically that nothing major will happen as we begin this new year of school. If you remember, last year we started school and after two days, Lamar\u2019s Mom left us to go live with Jesus. This, coupled with the fact that we were in a new year with Elizabeth starting high school, made for one of the most difficult years we have ever had in our home schooling experience. So we are praying for a smooth start to the school year and that the Lord will allow it to be uneventful.\nWell, let me see if I can back up a month and let you know how Jonathan has been doing and what has been going on. I believe the last time I wrote was the day before the girls left for youth camp. They did indeed go to camp and they had a wonderful time. We had to have them at the church by 5:30 am, which we did, and Jonathan went with us. He wanted to be able to tell the girls good-bye and was willing to get up and come with us to do that. He did really well that week without them. We had several things planned that week and we had a good week while they were gone. On Monday, we went to visit a couple of my good friends who live out of town. They both have young children that we had not seen much of, so we went and had a great visit with them. Jonathan loves little children, especially babies, and he had a great time playing with the kids. After that we went to have lunch with Dad and see his office and meet the guys he works with. We also spent some time that week working on cleaning and rearranging Jonathan\u2019s room. We cleaned it all out and moved his furniture around to make it new and different for him. We would work for a couple of hours in the morning and then go swimming or to see a movie during the afternoon. We finished the week by painting the dresser in his room and hanging up some special stuff on his walls. On Tuesday, we spent the morning going through his Diabetes class. We were mostly reminded of things that we have heard before or already know, but there were a few things that we learned that will be helpful as we continue to manage his diabetes to the best of our ability. We found out that we had to sign up for another class, an intensive insulin class, in order to find out about using the pump, so we really didn\u2019t find out anything that day about that. When I called to schedule that class, they were full until the end of August, so that is something we will be attending on Monday, Aug. 27. So hopefully, we will find out more about using the pump at this upcoming class. On Friday, Jonathan had a special event to go to. There are some precious people in our Sunday School class who are members of the Founders Club with the Frisco Roughriders Baseball team. They graciously gave us tickets to go to one of the games, so we went on this particular Friday evening. We got there about 45 minutes before the game began and one of the young men who works there, took Jonathan and us on a tour of the complex. First off, he gave Jonathan a baseball cap signed by one of the players and they Jonathan got to meet him and have his picture taken with him. After that he took us around and shared some things about the complex. He took us to the dugout and let Jonathan check out the practice bat, listen on the phone that they use in the dugout, stand on the practice mound, and walk around in the pitcher\u2019s warm up area. We got to go out on the field and have a picture taken and then went back up to where our seats were, just in time for the game to start. We had such a great time learning about what goes on at a baseball game. We had incredibly awesome seats, about 8 rows from the field, right between home plate and the Rider\u2019s dugout. Jonathan had his binoculars held to his face almost the entire time and he followed just about every detail of the game. I have never seen him so interested in a game before as he was that night. After that game was finished, which the Roughriders won, we got to watch some very cool fireworks, right above our heads. It beat the July 4th fireworks that we saw, hands down. The entire evening was a wonderful experience for all of us and we are grateful to the Leeds for blessing us with this opportunity. Even though we had a great week, we were thrilled to have Elizabeth and Sarah back home from camp on Saturday. I love to listen to people talk to Jonathan about his sisters being gone. He usually tells people that he has a good time without them, but he is always so glad to have them home. He will usually tell people that he is glad he is not an only child. He loves his sisters and misses them when they are not here. We took them to dinner and just listened to them tell their stories and talk about their experiences of the week. We were blessed to see that the Lord had spoken to them in specific ways and to hear the things they talked about and learned about during the week. On Sunday night after the camp service, we went to dinner with several hundred other people from camp. It was chaotic but fun\u2026just like it was when we were their age. Watching them go through their youth experience at First Baptist is like reliving our own experiences for Lamar and me. God is so good to have brought us to this place. Well, as I said earlier, much of the days and weeks that have followed the kid\u2019s week of fun have been spent working on cleaning out and reorganizing things in our home. In the midst of all of that work, we have had some special friends over for dinner a couple of time, the girls have taken turns spending some time with Grandpa and Grandma Smith, and we attended a stage play of Little Women done at our church. The lead role of Jo March was played by Jonathan\u2019s choir teacher, Mrs. Noelle Stanley. Uncle Timmy also played the drums and percussion for the play. They did a wonderful job and it was an enjoyable evening. Jonathan spent the first half sitting with Uncle Tim and watching him play all the parts he had to play. He has watched Uncle Tim do this several other times and always takes advantage of these opportunities. As a matter of fact, Jonathan has started coming to choir with me so he can go hang out with Uncle Timmy in orchestra practice. Most of the time he loves to just watch, but Uncle Timmy is good about letting him play something somewhere along the way, which always thrills Jonathan. He always feels so special when he gets to play. Back to the play, during the second half, Jonathan sat with us and watched his choir teacher, whom he absolutely adores, play her role as Jo March. He was thrilled with what he saw. He stood outside after the play was over until she came out and he had a chance to tell her how wonderful she did. He was very proud of her. This past weekend, Elizabeth had her friends over for a party to celebrate her birthday (which was actually back in July) and to watch the premier of High School Musical 2. There was a house full of giggly girls, screaming and having a great time and Jonathan was right in the middle of it most of the time. He might act like it\u2019s a bother to have all those girls around, but the truth is that he really doesn\u2019t mind too much. This week Jonathan will have his last drum practice with Mr. Brian. The Lord has brought us to this point and it is time for us to make a change in this part of Jonathan drum training. God has used Mr. Brian in a significant way in Jonathan\u2019s life in helping prepare him to use this talent that He has given him. Before Jonathan ever even thought of playing the drums, Mr. Brian would show him how to play some things when he was over at his house. I\u2019ll never forget the day that I walked into the ICU waiting room just a couple of days after Jonathan suffered his stroke to see Mr. Brian and Mrs. Debbie standing there holding Jonathan\u2019s first pair of drum sticks and hearing Mr. Brian say to me, \u201cJonathan is going to need these when he gets out of the hospital.\u201d We kept those drum sticks in his room to remind us of the faith of those precious friends who we knew were praying and Believing God with us for Jonathan\u2019s healing. We have been incredibly blessed by this family\u2019s love for us. Change is never easy to make, but it is a good thing, especially when you know that it continues to keep you in the center of God\u2019s will. So while we will miss Mr. Brian, we are so thankful for the sacrifices he and his family have made to teach Jonathan how to play the drums, and we pray God\u2019s richest blessings on his life and the life of his family.\nWell, I think we are up to date on our life now. Thank you so much for waiting on me to update. I hope things will begin to settle down once my house is in order and we get into our routine of school. Thank you for continuing to pray for Jonathan. He is doing very well. He is still weighing in at 112 which is good. Please pray that he will continue to lose those last 12 pounds before the end of the year. Pray that we will continue to be diligent in our exercise and that his legs, especially, will continue to gain strength. Pray for our upcoming insulin class as we begin to pursue using the pump. Pray that God will work out all the details and that we will know exactly what we need to do. Jonathan is still doing great sleeping without his medicine. Praise God for such a wonderful answer to prayer. There are some new changes on the horizon for Jonathan and some old things that will begin again in the next couple of weeks. We anticipate God\u2019s continued work in Jonathan\u2019s life in the days ahead and look forward to seeing what He has in store for him. I have been given two Scriptures in the last week that I wanted to share with you. The first is from my precious friend and mentor for many years. She emailed me and told me she was reading her Bible and came across this Scripture: Lametations 3:31-32. \u201cFor the Lord will not reject forever, for if He causes grief, then He will have compassion according to His abundant lovingkindness.\u201d She had written beside that verse: Jonathan Cooper \u2013 1/3/05. Our God is faithful to His promises. The second Scripture is another promise that our pastor spoke on last night in church. I pray that this week, God will remind you of His special promises to you. Thank you for your love and prayers for us. We love you all!\nPsalm 138:8 \u2013 The Lord will accomplish (perfect) that which concerns me; Your mercy and loving-kindness, O Lord, endures forever; Do not forsake the works of Your own hands.\nOh my goodness! Where has the time gone? I have ne...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 14079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jud6.org/LegalCommunity/LegalPractice/opinions/appellatedivisionopinions/2007/07-20%20APANO%20Lavoie.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWQA26FUWCSP5R35OUZ47BSJVDDXSYO4", "length": 3171, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.jud6.org", "title": "Appeal No. CRC 07-20 APANO", "raw_content": "County Criminal Court: CRIMINAL LAW \u2013 Jury Trial \u2013 Evidence \u2013 Intent a jury question in this case because there was sufficient circumstantial evidence. JOA properly denied. Judgment and sentence affirmed. Lavoie v. State, No. CRC 07-20 APANO (Fla. 6th Cir. App. Ct. October 29, 2007).\nGEORGE P. LAVOIE\nAppeal from an judgment and sentence\nKimberley Nolan Hopkins, Esquire\nTHIS MATTER is before the Court on the defendant, George Lavoie\u2019s, appeal from a judgment and sentence entered by the Pinellas County Court. After reviewing the briefs and record, this Court affirms the judgment and sentence.\nThe defendant was convicted by a jury of criminal mischief. The defendant argues in this appeal that the trial court erred in not granting his motion for Judgment of Acquittal (\u201cJOA\u201d).\nThe standard of review in this matter is de novo. Tibbs v. State, 397 So.2d 1120 (Fla. 1981). In moving for a JOA, the defendant admits not only the facts in evidence, but also every reasonable conclusion favorable to the State that the jury might infer from the evidence. State v. Odom, 862 So.2d 56 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003).\nA review of the record reveals that the defendant got into a loud argument with some co-workers at a warehouse. He left the immediate work area and stormed towards the French doors of the warehouse exit. The witnesses then heard a loud noise and the sound of the French doors swinging open. The defendant was seen walking away from the French doors --- which were damaged and had pieces of wood on the ground. The defendant argues that there was no proof that he actually intended to damage the doors.\nIntent cannot be proved by direct evidence in this case. Instead, the intent must be inferred from the circumstances surrounding the act. See M.N. v. State, 821 So.2d 1205 (Fla. 5th DCA 2002). In addition, \u201c[a] trial court should rarely, if ever, grant a motion for judgment of acquittal based on the State\u2019s failure to prove mental intent.\u201d Id. at 1206. There was sufficient evidence in this case to allow an inference that the defendant intended to damage the French doors. Thus, the trial court properly denied the defendant\u2019s request for a JOA and allowed the jury to decide the matter.\nThe defendant also claims there was insufficient evidence to prove the amount of property damage exceeded the threshold amount for a first degree misdemeanor conviction. The defendant is mistaken. Contrary to the defendant\u2019s assertion, the victim did not merely present testimony about the amount of the estimated damage, she testified about her actual out-of-pocket expenses incurred to repair the damage done to the door. This was sufficient to prove the amount of the damage. The cases cited by the defendant all deal with situations where there was only an estimate of damage, and not testimony about actual out-or-pocket expenses. Therefore, those cases are not relevant.\nThe trial court properly denied the defendant\u2019s JOA, and there was sufficient evidence of the amount of damage caused by the defendant. Accordingly, the judgment and sentence is affirmed.\nDONE AND ORDERED in Clearwater, Florida this _____ day of October, 2007.\ncc: Kimberley Nolan Hopkins, Esquire", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kawarthalakesartscouncil.com/news/our-interview-with-lesley-drummond", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:QU4H6GNVH4V4OVT2IBXU55YOYES6PDDM", "length": 6711, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.kawarthalakesartscouncil.com", "title": "Our Interview with Lesley Drummond \u2014 KAWARTHA LAKES ARTS COUNCIL", "raw_content": "Lesley majored in painting (with drawing, printmaking, sculpture and a fair bit of Art History rounding out her experience) at Queen\u2019s University in Kingston. She gathered valuable experience in the Toronto art world by working as a summer student at the Harbourfront Art Gallery, doing contract work with the Ydessa Gallery, and then spent two wonderful years working in the commercial art scene at Gallery Moos.\nFrom 1998 \u2013 2000 she was \u201cArtist in the Park\u201d (artist in residence) at Wakami Lake, Ivanhoe and Lake Superior Provincial Parks. Over the last thirty years, her works have been featured in many showings and exhibitions throughout the Kawarthas and can be found in a number of private collections across Canada.\nHer personal choice of media include acrylics, gouache, pencil, charcoal, chalk pastels, and photography. Subject matter tends towards all things dealing with space \u2013 architectural structures, landscapes and textured abstracted surfaces. Her current works involve experimentation through inclusion of photo transfers and collage.\nUntil her retirement in June 2015, Lesley was the Head of Visual and Media Arts at I.E. Weldon Secondary School, teaching main stream Art, Art History and Applied Design. She was a senior member of the Trillium Lakelands Arts Camp steering committee where she was the Head of Visual Arts for ten years. She is currently the Director of the Kawartha Arts Network in Lindsay, a co-operative of local artists funded by its members, and spends her \u201cspare\u201d time doing trainings for Girl Guides of Canada and renovating an old stone house.\nWhat drew you to the arts\u2014to study painting at Queens U? What were your early art inspirations?\nArt was always one of those things I loved and was good at in school\u2026. It seemed a natural path to get my Bachelor of Fine Arts at university, although I didn\u2019t initially plan to be a teacher. I had hoped to take on the post-grad Art Restoration program, but put that aside when I discovered that university chemistry just didn\u2019t make me a happy camper! Doing Fine Arts with a minor in Art History led to gallery work in Toronto, which led to my chosen career of teaching.\nAs a secondary school teacher, your students\u2019 art has been featured in Style At Home magazine, and you\u2019ve influenced the lives of so very many students through your work. What value does art have for youth?\nArt is an essential part of a child\u2019s experience. It allows kids to let their inner-selves out, to do things they didn\u2019t think were possible, to learn how to problem solve and analyze. Art broadens their perspective and helps them understand their world. It reaches the intellectual students as well as the free spirits, and there are very few individuals who cannot achieve success at some area of Visual Arts. Weldon has had a tremendous number of students go on to be wildly successful in many areas of the Arts and it\u2019s been a pleasure to be part of their journey.\nWhat is Kawartha Arts Network (KAN) and Art on Kent? And what are your roles within those organizations?\nKAN is a non-profit artists\u2019 co-operative in the Kawartha Lakes area, focusing on networking of artists, providing educational opportunities for members and the general public through artist sharing and classes such as life drawing or digital photography, bringing awareness of local arts to the public and providing exhibition opportunities for all artists. I have been the Director of KAN for eight years.\nArt on Kent has been our permanent exhibition space for the last nine or so years. Unfortunately \u2013 due to difficulties getting time commitment from members for gallery sitting and committee work \u2013 we are looking at closing the space after our next two shows. This does NOT mean the end of KAN! We will continue the co-operative and organize pop-up exhibitions, have plein air days, meet for sharing socials, and continue to run classes when possible. We will continue to be a \u201cforce\u201d on the Kawartha arts scene and hope to have a new space down the line. Membership opportunities in our new format will be put out to the public towards the end of June.\nHow do you determine when an artist\u2019s work is show-worthy and professional? How does an artist make the leap from amateur to professional?\nDifficult question! Curating the exhibitions, we have to decide: does the work show technical skill? Does the artist have a good sense of composition? Do they exhibit knowledge of how to work with the chosen medium? Have they taken care in presenting the work as professionally as possible? There is also a fine line between na\u00efve art and amateur art. It\u2019s a judgment call on the part of those who have been around a long time in the field, seen a great deal of work, and are recognized by others as being able to make that call about \u201cprofessionalism.\u201d And one has to remember that art doesn\u2019t have to be pretty to be powerful or effective or have quality.\nWhat value does an Art Gallery or Artists\u2019 Society have for a community?\nArt is an essential part of any community. It captures our thoughts, emotions and our world and puts forth new ideas about how to understand or see that world. This educates and stimulates people both positively and negatively, making the public appreciate and think \u2013 an important position.\nGalleries and arts organizations allow artists opportunities to get their work out to the public, as well as network to foster that part of a community and expand its knowledge.\nAs a board member for the Kawartha Lakes Arts Council where do you believe the future is with community arts boards? How can they impact a community?\nI think their main roles are to make the public aware of this wonderful resource that exists under its nose, to educate artists and the public in matters relating to art that can be expanded to other community areas \u2013 such as using social media, getting funding for a variety of purposes, etc. \u2013 and networking artists and arts organizations. I believe boards like KLAC are an essential part of every community.\nWhat role would you like to see KLAC play in the community and in the region?\nI think KLAC is doing a great job \u2013 it educates, it links, it advocates for the arts, it promotes understanding and has done a commendable job in getting the local city council to recognize the importance of these resources in our community. Onward and upward! I hope that those who believe as strongly as we do in the role of culture in a community will get on board with us \u2013 KLAC and other local arts organizations grow monthly so this is a very positive sign for continuing to enrich the Kawarthas through the Arts.\nThank you, Lesley! To view more of Lesley's work, visit her member page.\n\u2190 UnhengedThank You for Volunteering! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 7863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.keithkingreport.com/blog/the-platinum-card-by-american-express-review", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WKWMY4XY5TIWOSF4CHGUBOS6LOWL5PUP", "length": 6203, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.keithkingreport.com", "title": "American Express Platinum: Unboxing - The Keith King Report", "raw_content": "Earn 60,000 Membership Rewards points after putting $5,000 of spend on it in three months\n$200 annual airline credit on incidental fees (like checked bags and anything bought on the airplane)\n$200 annual Uber credit split into $15 credits every month except December where they give you a $35 credit\n5x points on flights booked directly through airlines or through Amex travel\n5x points on hotel booking made through Amex travel\n$85 TSA PreCheck credit or $100 Global Entry credit every four years\nAbility to transfer to 19 travel partners - 16 airlines and three hotel chains\nAccess to the American Express Global Lounge Collection, which includes Centurion Lounges, Priority Pass lounges, and Delta Sky clubs (when flying Delta)\nComplimentary Gold Elite Status at Hilton and Starwood Hotels (soon to be Marriott)\nAccess to Fine Hotels and Resorts through Amex travel\nComplimentary memberships in Avis Preferred, Hertz Gold Plus Rewards, and National Car Rental Emerald Club Executive\nAccess to a concierge\nI\u2019ll get a little more specific below.\nAt the very least, 60,000 Membership Rewards points is worth about $1,200, according to The Points Guy. But you can easily get more value out of that by transferring points to one of Amex\u2019s travel partners. For example, with 60,000 MR points you can get two round trip tickets to Hawaii in economy by transferring 50,000 points to British Airways and take American from Los Angeles or Phoenix. If you paid cash that\u2019ll set you back more than $1,400.\nHere's a sample below:\n$200 airline credit\nOfficially, you can only use it for \u201cincidental\u201d fees, but you can also use it for gift cards for a few airlines. It\u2019s kind of a loophole that - at least so far - Amex hasn\u2019t bothered to fix. I\u2019m told purchasing gift cards works with American Airlines, Southwest, and Delta. Now, I know it works with American, because I have already bought a gift card from them. I'm not sure about the others.\n5x on airlines\nHow much do you spend on flights every year? If you include the $200 airline credit and $200 Uber credit (which also includes Uber Eats) you really only need to make up $150 or 15,000 worth of Membership Rewards points to make the card worth the annual fee. That\u2019s $3,000 a year spent on flights, which can be easily reached if you buy two round trip economy tickets to Europe. I go to Chicago (at least) two to three times a year. And I already have other domestic flights planned for the future. I\u2019ll easily spend $3,000 in flights in the coming years.\nAirFrance/KLM\nSPG/Marriott\nDelta Skyclub Lounge, Boston\n\u200bIf you\u2019re not impressed with the card thus far, you\u2019ll notice that this is where the card really stands out. That\u2019s because it gives you access to, arguably, the best lounges in the country - the Centurion Lounges. Unfortunately, they are still far and few between with only eight in the country:\n\u200bBut if you live in one of the cities that has a Centurion Lounge, it becomes even easier to accept the annual fee.\nSay for example, Crystal and I are headed on vacation and we\u2019re leaving from DFW. We can get to the Centurion Lounge - which is in Terminal D at DFW airport - from any terminal. The lounge has a full bar, a lot of food options, showers, a spa, and more. All for FREE. Crystal and I can sit down and have a meal and drinks there before our flight, and possibly grab a couple bottles of water on the way out. Saving us, on the low end, $50 and on the high end, well over $100. If you fly somewhat often and typically grab a meal or a couple drinks before your flight, this could end up saving you quite a bit of money.\nIf you fly Delta, you will be given free access to their Sky Clubs.\nAnd lastly, you'll be given access to the 1,000-plus Priority Pass Lounges that can be found all over the world.\nSimply put, it\u2019s a collection of luxury properties all around the world where, if booked, you\u2019d enjoy several perks during your stay.\nThose perks include a room upgrade when available, daily free breakfast for two people, guaranteed 4 p.m. check-out, noon check-in when possible, a third or fourth night free, and a unique property amenity like a hotel credit or a free ride from the airport to the hotel (or vice versa). Each property has different amenities. American Express says those bonuses add up to an average total of $550 (convenient number, I know) for a two night stay.\nNow, there are a couple ways to look at this:\nThese are luxury properties that you\u2019d have to shell out at least $300 a night to stay at (the average is probably closer to $400/night). Why would I do that when I can find a hotel down the street for $130 a night? It is hard to argue against this logic.\nSure, you would save money down the street, but you\u2019d still have to schlep somewhere every morning to buy breakfast. The extra $40-$80 you save every morning may be worth it. Not only that, but if you\u2019re gonna be there for at least three to four nights, why not take advantage of a free night? You\u2019ll also have to get up early and check out before noon (or pay extra for late check-out).\nMy view is a third way you can look at this: you\u2019re going on vacation and money is going to be spent. Whether it goes to a nicer room, some breakfast, a ride somewhere, or something else, you\u2019ll spend the money. So if you can find a hotel that\u2019s within your budget and allows you to take advantage of some of these benefits, why not?\nWhere this perk really shines is if you were going to stay at one of these hotels to begin with. If that\u2019s you - Amex\u2019s FHR is perfect!\nThis card certainly isn\u2019t for everyone. The Amex Platinum emphasizes upgrades, premium services, exclusive experiences, and other things that make you feel special when you travel. I've seen those kinds of benefits described as \u201csoft\u201d benefits. You\u2019re not going to get the cold \u201chard\u201d cash that you would see from other cards.\nSome of the other \u201csoft\u201d benefits - or I\u2019ve called them, \"VIP perks\" - that you will get is access to is a concierge, purchase protection, and car rental insurance.\nBut the $550 annual fee is hard to forget. In all honesty, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ll keep this card for more than a year. I\u2019ll see how much use I can get out of it to determine if it\u2019s worth it or not.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 10440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kevinhjones.com/bio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:12Z", "digest": "sha1:XHJILP6BXLNKRXXOPIT4VH4G7C2YVPAU", "length": 1666, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.kevinhjones.com", "title": "Bio : Kevin H Jones", "raw_content": "Kevin H. Jones currently resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. Kevin has degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University (BFA, Painting and Printmaking), The University of Texas at Austin (MFA, Painting) and Yale University (MFA, Design).\nOver the past four years within Kevin\u2019s work, one can see transitions in and synthesis of media including painting, video, physical computing, and more recently, 2-dimensional digital prints. Through this synthesis of media, the conceptual investigation of the natural world through charts, diagrams and systems is a constant theme. His early work used solar energy to power a fictional television station, while more recent work uses sensors to create an interactive video installation that questions entropy.\nKevin has exhibited throughout the United States, Asia and Europe and his work has been featured in ID Magazine, Idea Magazine, Neural Online, The New York Times and MSNBC. Most recently, he has exhibited his work at Art Lab AKIBA in Tokyo Japan, Stasjon K in Sandnes, Norway ,Ginza Geijutsu Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan and 1708 Gallery in Richmond VA.\nKevin was recently awarded Board of Regents ATLAS grant 2011-2012, The Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship for 2009-2010; the Louisiana ArtWorks, Studio Residency Program 2009-2010; AIR, Residency, Stasjon K, Sandnes, Norway 2008; the KAT Fund, Houston Contemporary Art Museum 2006 and two Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowships 1995, 2000.\nHe has taught at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, The University of Oregon, The University of Pennsylvania and currently is an Associate Professor in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1764, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 156.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.khabar.com/magazine/business-insights/workers_compensation_insurance_will_benefit_you.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:40Z", "digest": "sha1:NECQZ4M5WLOWPGCOXFS5EOM7LWLPEVCJ", "length": 4967, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.khabar.com", "title": "Workers\u2019 compensation insurance will benefit you", "raw_content": "Home > Magazine > Business Insights > Workers\u2019 compensation insurance will benefit you\nWorkers\u2019 compensation insurance will benefit you\nBy: Roy Banerjee\nWorkers\u2019 compensation laws are set up in each state to provide monetary compensation to employees injured on the job in exchange for mandatory relinquishment of the employee's right to sue his or her employer for negligence. Workers compensation insurance is a specialized type of insurance that protects employers. W orkers\u2019 compensation insurance is not included in general business coverage and needs to be obtained separately. While there are some differences among state workers\u2019 compensation laws, generally if you operate a business and have employees, regardless of full- or part-time status, you must provide workers\u2019 compensation insurance to all your employees. Some states require business owners to obtain w orkers\u2019 compensation insurance as soon as they hire their first employee. Because workers\u2019 compensation insurance is mandated by law, small business owners often think that it is just one more overhead expense that provides little benefit. However, in the long run, it can actually save you money and protect both you and your employees.\nWorkers\u2019 compensation laws are designed to ensure that employees who are injured or disabled on the job are compensated. The monetary awards can include medical expenses, death benefits, lost wages, and vocational rehabilitation. Some laws also protect employers and co-workers by limiting the amount an injured employee can recover from an employer and by eliminating the liability of co-workers in most accidents. State workers\u2019 compensation statutes establish this framework for most employment. Failure to carry workers' compensation insurance or otherwise meet a state's regulations in this regard can leave an employer exposed not only to paying these benefits out of pocket, but also to paying penalties levied by the states.\nWorkers compensation law is not about negligence or proving fault. If your employee is injured while on the clock, he or she is automatically covered. Employers are required to report to the State Board of Workers\u2019 Compensation information about any on-the-job injury that happens to any covered employee. Some employers try to avoid this type of coverage by claiming their employees as independent contractors. While the workers who maintain significant independence or freedom from an employer can be classified as independent contractors and not entitled to compensation for any injury sustained when performing their work, the term independent contractor is often misused. The definition of an independent contractor under state statutes has very specific guidelines in order to determine if the individual is an employee or an independent contractor. While definitions differ among jurisdictions, generally if a business owner or corporate entity has individuals working for them and they require a method, manner, time, and the type of work that the individuals are expected to perform, they cannot classify the individual as an independent contractor.\nIt is very important that you comply with the workers\u2019 compensation law of your state. Each of the 50 states has its own workers\u2019 compensation law. Generally, you must maintain workers\u2019 compensation insurance at all times, post information about your workers' compensation coverage and where to get medical care for work injuries in a conspicuous place so that your employees can educate themselves, and, upon knowledge of an injury, you must immediatelly complete and file with your insurer\u2019s or self-insurer's claims office an injury report.\nUnfortunately, fraud is a serious problem when it comes to workers\u2019 compensation insurance. If you suspect your employee of filing a false claim saying he/she was injured on the job while their injury really occurred elsewhere or exaggerating or falsifying injuries , you should report that opinion to your workers' comp claims administrator. Tell them all the facts you know, any witnesses you may be aware of, and the people they should talk to. Follow up any phone or verbal report with a letter. At all times, you should stay involved and maintain an open dialogue with your injured employee. Don\u2019t assume your claims administrator is taking care of everything. If there is a problem, try to work it out as quickly as possible and be willing to make adjustments to the workplace to bring your employee back to the job.\nThe bottom line: if an employee gets hurt or sick because of work and you are not insured, you are responsible for paying all bills related to the injury or illness. You should be aware that workers\u2019 compensation benefits are the exclusive remedy for injuries suffered on the job when you are properly insured. If you are illegally uninsured and an employee gets sick or hurt because of work, that employee can file a civil action against you, in addition to filing a workers\u2019 compensation claim.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 5497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.koschiropractic.com/treatment-options/therapeutic-ultrasound/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QNA6DAHP5VDTGLZQPZIQBPPUKPI26AK3", "length": 1499, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.koschiropractic.com", "title": "Therapeutic Ultrasound - Kos Chiropractic Centre", "raw_content": "Home / Treatment Options / Therapeutic Ultrasound\nMost patients are familiar with diagnostic ultrasonography or \u201cultrasound\u201d which is used to discern problems deep in the body without breaking the surface of the skin, by bouncing and measuring high frequency sound waves to create audio \u201cimages\u201d.\nLess common is the awareness of this technology as a therapeutic tool.\nFor soft tissue healing, ultrasound uses high frequency sound waves, well beyond the range of human hearing, which cause molecules in the tissues to vibrate, producing heat and mechanical energy.\nUltrasound treatment penetrates damaged tissues directly and has the following affects: increases blood flow, relaxes muscle spasm, repairs damaged tissue, and dramatically speeds the healing process. It creates permanent physical changes and repairs both hard and soft tissues problems. It is a deep tissue heating modality reaching underlying tissues as deep as 1 to 5 centimeters.\nIt is used to treat musculo-skeletal injuries, back and joint conditions, limited range of motion, soft tissue injuries, and chronic conditions.\nOne of the major advantages of ultrasound is that it is nontoxic and nondestructive. Its effectiveness has been enhanced over the years by studies which helped determine optimum techniques and patterns of application, and a wide range of injuries have shown to be responsive to this popular, non-invasive therapy.\nUltrasound therapy is one of the many therapeutic tools used at the Kos Chiropractic Centre.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 267.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kusamotu.com/2018/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:48Z", "digest": "sha1:2IW6THX7JTFAPHIAOYKP4XL4IY3BMUII", "length": 1072, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.kusamotu.com", "title": "March | 2018 | Kusamotu & Kusamotu", "raw_content": "HomeNews2018Monthly Archives: March 2018\nKusamotu & Kusamotu to co \u2013host a Breakfast Seminar with the Norwegian African Business Association (NABA), SANDS Law Firm, and the Norwegian Energy Partners (NORWEP) in Oslo, Norway on the 11th of April, 2018 at Cort Adelers Gate 33, 0254 Oslo, Norway. The Breakfast Seminar is tagged: \u201cDoing business in Nigeria \u2013 how to develop\nFrom time immemorial, compliance to laws and regulations has always been an aspect of corporate life. The failure of commercial institutions such as Lehman Brothers emphasized across the world, the need for corporate compliance with legal and regulatory standards imposed on these companies. In Nigeria, the failure of banks such as Oceanic and Intercontinental banks\nThe AfCFTA Negotiation from the 2017 Nigerian Annual Trade Policy Report (NATPOR). The African continent over the centuries has traded more with the rest of the world and very little with itself. The level of Intra-African trade currently stands at about 17%, which is well below the average for other regions in the global economy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lakecountyil.gov/QuickLinks.aspx?CID=124,249,", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PLWJAZAVM5Y2ENFYBG66UIKMNXKQHL3R", "length": 83, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.lakecountyil.gov", "title": "Lake County, IL", "raw_content": "Lake County State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office Volunteer Program\nHomicide Self Support Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 6445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lancitdigitalmedia.com/blog/2017/4/4/nick-romary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BFCIH3LZCO5QTFNCSQTM5QJEP5ZUZRTQ", "length": 675, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.lancitdigitalmedia.com", "title": "Nick Romary \u2014 Lancit Digital Media", "raw_content": "Nick Romary is a producer, editor, videographer, & drone expert with Lancit Digital Media. He is a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University with a major in tourism & hospitality. Nick has utilized his knowledge of the Southwest Florida tourism industry to produce relevant, effective, & high quality video content for our in-room hotel network, Paradise Coast TV.\nNick refined his production skills as an intern with Lancit Digital Media while simultaneously completing his coursework at FGCU. Through his hard work and dedication he has become a full time producer and was the lead editor on the Telly Award winning documentary, PICKLEBALL FOR ALL.\nTagged: Meet Nick Romary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1476, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.larberteastchurch.com/www/index.php/church-family/organisations/guides", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:17Z", "digest": "sha1:S4E4IR5JJUYALP5D6L7QI4EVDI4BKVG3", "length": 291, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.larberteastchurch.com", "title": "Guides", "raw_content": "Rainbow, Brownie and Guide Units meet in the Church Hall.\nFor further information on getting your daughter involved with Girl Guiding please see the Girlguiding Scotland website on http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/get_involved/volunteer/register_your_interest.aspx or call them on 0131 226 4511", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.laxlessons.com/2015/05/09/today-tv-35/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YIBMKOV773FGFNSMKEZBLBTZZXZCDQJL", "length": 719, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.laxlessons.com", "title": "Today on TV: Four opening-round games will be telecast live on ESPNU", "raw_content": "Today on TV: Four opening-round games will be telecast live on ESPNU\nOpening round action in the NCAA Division I men\u2019s lacrosse tournament gets under way and four games will be available on ESPNU.\nAlbany plays at No. 8 Cornell at noon to start things off. Eamon McAnaney and Paul Carcaterra are the announcers.\nThat will be followed by a 2:30 p.m. game between Yale and host Maryland, the No. 6 seed, with Mike Corey and Matt Ward calling the action.\nThen, Towson visits top-seeded Notre Dame at 5 p.m. with Jason Benetti and Ryan Boyle making up the announce team.\nThe day of coverage wraps up with Ohio State visiting two-time defending national champ Duke at 7:30 p.m. Joe Beninati and Ryan Flanagan call the action.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lewistownsentinel.com/opinion/local-columns/2018/09/prelude-to-the-revolution/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:17Z", "digest": "sha1:VC5YCG7OXROCUOPZ63LMKLOPDQ2X4M3V", "length": 8840, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.lewistownsentinel.com", "title": "Prelude to the Revolution | News, Sports, Jobs - The Sentinel", "raw_content": "Prelude to the Revolution\nToday begins my monthly American history articles in The Sentinel. As much as I\u2019d like to do a chronology of our country\u2019s history, it is virtually impossible because of the volume. I will start with the origin of our country at a time just after the French and Indian War; the beginning was the precursor to all that happened, the start of the American Revolutionary War and the issues that created the war.\nMany times we think of the American Revolutionary War in short order \u2014 the Stamp Act, The Declaration of Independence, Paul Revere\u2019s famous ride, and the war itself, all culminating in that last grand battle at Yorktown, Virginia, where the British surrender and the war is over, all seemingly within a few short years.\nThis article will show that events in 1756 were instrumental in contributing to The Revolution, in essence helping to cause it, over a span of 27 years.\nThe breach between the British and the Colonials began with the French and Indian War, which spanned the years 1756 to 1763. The French and Indian War, which gave the British and Colonials ownership of land, cost the British government 70,000,000 pounds, in essence, doubling their total debt (in today\u2019s dollars that is $13.5 billion).1 They needed to raise money from the colonies to pay the war debt as the citizenry at home was already being taxed heavily.\nThe Colonials, being British citizens, felt they had done their share by fighting alongside the British to defeat the French and Indians.\nAnother divisive issue was the 1763 Royal Proclamation Line, where the British agreed to draw an imaginary line in what was the western frontier of the colonies. West of the line was Indian Territory and east was for settlers, land companies and immigrants. This line was intended to pacify the Indians so as not to fight them, consuming additional financial resources. Those who were already living on the \u201cIndian\u201d side were told they needed to move back to the Eastern side. Many colonists became furious with England because they had to give up land they had worked to claim and clear.2\nWhile there were many acts passed prior to these listed here, the following were the particular ones that can be attributed to the start of the Revolutionary War. https://founders.archives.gov:\n\u22641764 \u2014 Sugar Act was passed to raise revenue from the West Indies imported refined sugar and gave them a monopoly on the trade. Originally passed in 1733, it was weakly enforced, but now the English Navy was to start enforcing the payment of taxes due.\n\u2264 1764 \u2014 Currency Act would not allow the Colonies to use any other cash than British money, and as the colonists saw it, controlling the Colonies\u2019 money policies.\n\u2264 1765 \u2014 Stamp Act required virtually every piece of paper and document printed to be taxed and stamped. Newspapers, letters, legal documents, licenses, even dice and playing cards. Fifty-four items in all were to be taxed and stamped. These stamps weren\u2019t like the ones we get at the post office, but more like a rubber stamp for newspapers, while other documents such as legal documents required the use of bonded paper which would have the stamped embossed within it. It was in 1765 that James Otis said, \u201cTaxation without representation is tyranny.\u201d\n\u2264 1765 \u2014 1st Quartering Act required the provinces to barrack British troops to help defray the costs of soldiers from England in the Colonies.\n\u22641766 \u2014 Declaratory Act occurred when King George repealed the Stamp Act after the reaction in the Colonies; but on the heels of that \u2014 the same day actually \u2014 Parliament passed the Declaratory Act. This act \u201cDECLARED\u201d that the British government had total power to legislate any laws governing the American Colonies in all cases whatsoever.\n\u2264 1767 \u2014 Townshend Acts, named after Charles Townshend, The Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated there will be an import tax on lead, tea, glass, paint and paper, among other products. The revenue from that paid for the governor\u2019s wages and the judges. In addition, those caught for smuggling would be tried without a jury and could be taken to England for their trial. It also allowed for British officers to search businesses and homes of the Colonists. This act led to the Boston Massacre.\n\u2264 1768 \u2014 Nonimportation Agreement \u2014 Boston merchants and traders agreed not to export or import British goods.\n\u2264 March 5, 1770 \u2014 Boston Massacre \u2014 The Stamp Act and Townshend Acts had stirred the public and frequently there were arguments or fights with British soldiers who were working in Boston and with those on patrol. This went from a small argument to throwing stones and snowballs at the British, aggravating them to the point that they fired into the crowd resulting in the deaths of five colonists.\n\u2264 1773 \u2014 Tea Act \u2014 The East India Tea Company was to have an exclusive license to send and distribute tea to the Colonies. The colonies were obtaining tea from others, but this was considered smuggling and while the English tea, with the passage of this Tea Act, was a little cheaper, the Colonies didn\u2019t want to deal with just one country that had exclusive ties to members in Parliament who owned the companies. This led to the Boston Tea Party.\n\u2264 1773 December \u2014 Boston Tea Party \u2014 Men from the Sons of Liberty, dressed as Mohawk Indians, broke open casks of tea and dumped them into Boston Harbor to protest the taxation, and, in particular, the tax on tea. Soon to be known as the Boston Tea Party, there were 10 other tea parties in other colonies and ports though they were not as destructive as the Boston Tea Party.\n\u2264 1774 \u2014 Coercive Acts \u2013These became known in the Colonies as both the Intolerable Acts and the Punitive Acts. The English wanted to \u201ccoerce\u201d the colonists into abiding by their rules, but the colonists found them to be \u201cintolerable\u201d and felt they could not abide by them; consequently, two names for one act. There were five Acts, but we\u2019ll focus on two:\nThe Boston Port Act closed the Boston Port to all shipping in or out. It was basically a way of stopping all use of that port and its facilities until the tea thrown overboard was paid for, and it was also a punishment for Massachusetts for dumping the tea. The king and Parliament felt if they could punish Boston and separate them from the rest of the Colonies they could nip this \u201crebellion\u201d in the bud.\n2nd Quartering Act in 1774 required the colonists not only to provide barracks for British troops, but to quarter them in their own homes and feed them \u2014 the same troops that controlled them as colonists, and who looked at the colonists with disdain and inferiority. Since most of soldier\u2019s pay went to paying the British government for his uniforms and gear, anything the soldier wanted to purchase for himself, such as drink or something to send back home, required his taking any kind of job he could find, and one that could have gone to a colonist. This, in itself, invoked a strong dislike to even hatred of the British soldier.\n\u2264 September 1774 \u2014 The First Continental Congress convened. The other Colonies realized that what was going on in Massachusetts could easily happen to them. Congress voted to stop British trade until the Coercive acts and all taxes were repealed. After Congress convened, King George III told his ministers that now \u201cblows must decide\u201d if the colonies were to be independent or not.\n\u2264 April 18, 1775 \u2014 Paul Revere\u2019s ride, along with two others, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott, occurred, warning the colonials that the British were on their way to Concord.\n\u2264 April 19, 1775\u2013 Shot Heard Round the World. The war begins. Even though the first casualty was at the Boston Massacre, this is the official start of the Revolutionary War. The British were sent to confiscate colonial weapons and powder. The colonials, having been alerted to the secret mission of the British, turned out in numbers that the British never expected, nor did they expect that this ragtag army would defeat the 700 British soldiers sent to collect the weapons and powder. In the colonial mind there was no turning back before this event and certainly not now.\n\u2264 1783 \u2014 Treaty of Paris, officially ended the Revolutionary War \u2014 27 years later.\n1www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit1_6.pdf\n2 Greene, Jack P., Pole, J.R., A Companion to The American Revolution, (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004), 26.\n3 Andrlik, Todd, Reporting the Revolutionary War, Before it was History, it was News, Copyright 2012 Todd Andrlik (Naperville, IL, Sourcebooks, Inc, 2012), 26.\nMark DeVecchis is an independent historian of early American history. He is a member of the Company of Military Historians, Brigade of the American Revolution, 5th Battalion Cumberland County Militia, Virginia Historical Society and the Mifflin County Historical Society. He and his wife, Valarie, live near Lewistown.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 11243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 235.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lidabayi.net/category/advertising-marketing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:17Z", "digest": "sha1:TGOYAZDQTXZ7URCSHFNXFHB7DNIO5WK5", "length": 19061, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.lidabayi.net", "title": "Advertising & Marketing Archives - LIDABAYI", "raw_content": "Effective Marketing Strategies For Small Businesses.\nMost business exists with the aim of providing commodities to the target audience. Having a well and established marketing strategy will enable your small business to have more sales since more customers will prefer to purchase your products. A good marketing strategy will yield you a lot of returns despite the fact that your small business is new on the market or has existed for a while. A productive strategy for your own business will make you have huge returns despite its size. A well framed small business marketing needs you to have a lot of confidence that will make you not to be shaken by the competitors existing in the market. The points discussed below help you as a small business marketer to raise the level of your sales and have good returns.\nFirst and foremost, capture the attention of the customer. A good small business marketing strategy will ensure that the loyal customers are attracted into your business and appreciate the products that you are offering to them. Loyalty is crucial to all business, by ensuring that all your s commodities are of high standards more customers will prefer to make their purchase in your small business. Always ensure that you can persuade your customers to purchase your products without putting much pressure on them.\nAlways have the sureness of your consumers. As a small business marketer you need to communicate with your customers and seek to know the reasons as to why you do business with them. Always ensure that your marketing strategy indicates quality and self-dependence of your small business. Good provision of services and goods makes that potential and the new customers to have trust and become a loyal customer.\nMoreover, have means of creating awareness of your business to your targeted customers. You increase your level of recognition by having increased awareness of the products that you are offering. It is vital to ensure that the information being disseminated to the members of the public is true since your aim is to create a good image to your customers.\nBeing creative in the process of having business and withstanding the competitors who might be a great threat to you is vital by having flyers circulated to your customers. Always ensure that you have correct information indicated in your advertisement materials so that the reputation of your business is upheld by all customers.\nAlways let the customers have confidence that is worth doing business with you than any other business partners that might be of threat to your firm. Prioritize to always have huge returns after the process of the marketing so that you don\u2019t experience loss.\nSuggested Article: look what i found\nHome Remodeling Tips and Merits of Contracting A Custom Home Builder\nPurchasing a home is the most important monetary choices that lots of people make. You can possess a home in two ways. That is constructing a new home or buying an existing home built by someone else. When you contemplate renewing and remodeling a prevailing home, you might find construction of a new home very costly. You can choose to hire a custom home builders to help in the construction of your new home. There are several benefits of hiring custom home builders as illustrated below.\nBeing able to regulate every aspect of your house such as the size, features, and shape is merit of employing a custom home builder. The custom home builder can build your home in regards to your conditions. You can choose what type of flooring your house should have, the color of the walls, kitchen cabinets, and other important features of a house. This is improbable when you purchase a prevailing home that is constructed with somebody else specification. To meet your needs, the custom home builder can construct a home with each of your aspects. In this way you can have your house with a unique touch that satisfies both you and your family.\nIn all building aspects, the custom home builders are skilled. They are capable of implementing your features of the house without any struggle or confusion. They also advise you on various aspects of the house construction. Knowing that you are dealing with experts is fulfilling hence hiring a custom home builder is basic. Another advantage is that your home will be up to test and will gratify all the zoning and housing guidelines. With a prevailing home this may not be possible. To ensure that your house meets the regulation the custom home builder will include the requests in the procedure of building. Nevertheless, you can choose to remodel your home but before you start there are some vital factors you should consider.\nDo some investigation in order for you to find the best contractor. This is significant since you get contractors that are certified hence preventing you house being mishandled. You may end up with the wrong feature of your house with the wrong contractor. You are also required to have all the needed permits. Make sure you have all the required permits to prevent demolition of your house for lack of permits even though some builders get the permits by themselves. Knowing what you want from the renovations is also imperative. This implies that that you set a firm budget and have an exact idea of what you want.\nLessening Costs with Prescription Cards\nThe possibility of a prescription coupon is new to many individuals. New clients are somewhat reluctant to have faith in their use. It shouldn\u2019t worry you in the most appropriate place that you can apply your prescription coupon since there are a lot of online as well as physical pharmaceutical stores that you can use them on to get your desired discount on the drug that you are interested in. Many sources of coupons will have a locator that will enable you to locate pharmacy where you can use it as well as other participating e-pharmacies.\nIf you are not sure of the discount rate that your coupon has, you can test it in a free and safe manner. The only time you require is as less as fifteen seconds just enough to enter a pharmacy and order your drug or better yet buy through an online platform. When you go to the store, introduce the medicine coupon to the chaperon and demand them to check the rebate level on it. You may locate that a few solutions have high markdown rates while others have low or none. After you are informed on the discount level of your card, you can now go ahead and make a drug purchase or postpone the arrangement.\nMaybe the data that most persuades individuals to attempt the medicine coupons is the information of why drug stores are regarding these cards and apparently giving discounts. The thought behind the prescription coupons is just like a discount card. If you have a discount card, you are guaranteed of a special discount rate when you visit a drug store that has been allowed to apply the discount on the drugs they have been given a leeway. On the other hand, many food stores, as well as drug stores, employ coupons mainly for advertisement purposes. Since many people will go to a pharmacy at a certain point in their lives, they are aware the giving them coupons will encourage them to go there even more frequent. After they get to the drug store, they will most presumably purchase something else.\nOnce you are furnished with the most relevant data on the operations of coupons, you will be more motivated to use them to access their discount rates hence save your funds. Indeed, these advantages are not only restricted to the lucky guys who find their reality and try them out. The organisations that circulate the remedy coupons don\u2019t restrain their coverage area as they want to cover an extraordinary zone and achieve more individuals. The appropriation channel is advanced. Prescription coupons are one of the best ways to minimise your drug cost. Offer your insight on medicine coupons with your associates and family.\nNature Investments: Benefits And Conservative Activities Due to the rapidly growing population, generation of waste has been on the rise and therefore environmental pollution has become a major problem. Whether tangible or not, pollution entails all the activities that usually make the environment to become unsafe for human life. Although there are increasing technological advancements on the various ways that garbage can be utilized, most of the organizations have not started using some of these innovative technologies. You will get to learn some of the ways and also reasons as to why people need to take care of their surrounding as part of nature investments through this writing. Apart from plants providing food for the people, they also act as a source of income and also provide shelter to people. Without the availability of plants, it is not possible for human beings to survive. The consumption of the grains, leaves, tubers, fruits and vegetables are some of the ways that you get food from the vegetables. These are the kinds of food that help people to stay healthy and be able to carry on their daily activities. Usually, carbon dioxide is released into the environment by various sources and it is the plants that utilize it to produce oxygen which makes the planet habitable. Also, since energy crisis is increasing day in day out, it is essential to grow more diverse plants which will act as a supply of bio-fuel which is less dangerous compared to the other type of fuel. Plants helps in holding soil together and thereby preventing soil erosion. As a result, this contributes to increase the fertility of the soil and thereby supporting the growth of different plants.\nRecycling aids in the preservation of the environment in many ways. Since it makes use of materials that have already been used, cutting down of the waste that is being released is one of the ways through which recycling helps in the preservation of the environment. In addition to reducing the quantity of waste that is in existence already, recycling also aids in the prevention of more waste generation. In the preservation of natural resources, the use of recycled materials usually helps a lot for example in the generation of energy.\nThe environment needs to be taken care of for the purposes of the current and future generations\u2019 survival. Consequently , it is your duty to contribute positively towards the nature investment efforts that are being undertaken by different parties. Among some of the ways that you can get to do this include being actively involved in the campaigns involved with environmental conservation and also carrying out activities aimed at keeping the environment clean.\u2026\nWhy Your Business Needs Custom Software Solutions to Succeed Business organizations nowadays have realized how important it is for them to be looking for methods for them to effectively manage the many processes and activities of their business. Normally, if they want to keep up with the times, then they seek IT solutions so that they can come up with the best solutions for every problem of theirs. Nowadays, you can simply get a software application that you see and that you can simply apply to certain facets of your business operations. But you should know that these IT solutions will not be able to give you what you specifically need of them because they are just made for the general business aspects. If you think of business establishments, you should know that not all of them have the same set of organizational objectives as well as goals. Hence, if you are after a software application that can cover every single part of your business operations, then you should choose custom software solutions. Business establishments can get the services of custom business application development companies to get custom software solutions in order for their business processes to be fully utilized. There a number of advantages that you can get with custom business application development. To begin things, they are more than capable of giving only personalized solutions to your business so that the specific requirements that you require of them will be looked upon and improved in more ways than one. If you are interested in knowing the many benefits that custom business application development brings to your business, then read on. Their solutions are backed up by a years of research,\nA good professional custom business application development company is one that makes sure to tackle on some extensive research regarding your business before they start providing solutions for it. In order for them to come up with the best custom software solutions for your company, their project managers and business analysts will be researching everything that they can to make sure that every requirement of their business, their client, the person using their software, and so on are being considered. Their findings will then be turned into one custom software solution that works best in making sure that every need, requirement, and preference of your business are being taken into account.\nThey only provide solutions that are flexible. When it comes to custom business application development companies, they make sure that their solutions are flexible so that they will fit every need of the clients of the business. Custom business application development companies make plans that are flexible so that their developers can better create solutions based on their client\u2019s wishes. Being flexible in custom solutions means that there are no restrictions when it comes to the knowledge and creativity of the developers in order for them to come up with custom solutions that are innovative for their clients.\u2026\nComfortable Living Homes for Seniors The brilliant periods of each individual\u2019s life ought to be expended in insurance and security. A few people can live in their own homes when they are in their later years, yet numerous more individuals need to live in helped living homes that will enable at that point to get the care they to require in their maturity. These are the homes that will provide attention that has ceremonial talent, but these seniors will not feel that they have been crowded into a room house. Helped living is very different from what you think a nursing home or helped living focus may be. These homes are a portion of the biggest offices you can discover for open to living. This is very big room structures that can accommodate a lot of people in one time, but all the people inside have their own space to breathe in. These homes are called selective on the grounds that they will give individuals dislike in the nursing home and medicinal facility. These offices don\u2019t permit the protection that one of these homes will offer. The homes that seniors will stay in are occupied with fellow seniors that are with their age. This is the best arrangement of relationship and free that can be developed in a place like every one of the people there are from roughly a similar age gathering and they have part of things in shared. Making companions is simple, and building long haul connections is much less demanding. The individuals who have their friends and family living in these homes will have the capacity to influence companions of their to claim and the entire group meets up to make the place stunning to live in. The assisted living Olympia fields those individuals select will offer a lot of happenings that these individuals cannot experience when they are staying in their own homes. Somebody who wants to move into one of these homes can take lessons that will make their everyday living more fun and they can study a new skill that they did not have before. The exercises go past aptitudes to exercise and contemplation that many individuals can use to help change their perspective. Someone who is considering for a place to unwind will be able to relax when they are just inside the home and doing a lot of different lessons. Seniors additionally require an approach to escape the home and see what is around them. The best senior homes will offer treks around and occasions that will everybody get included and make the most of their chance. They can transport individuals to uncommon destinations that will be intriguing, or they can go to places that will influence the seniors to recollect a period in their lives when they were considerably more youthful.Overwhelmed by the Complexity of Communities? This May Help\nWhy You Need a Commercial Painter It becomes difficult when you are looking for the right painter for your house. In as much as there are many painters who can carry out the painting work, getting a skilled one to carry out a good work is not that easy. The none trustworthiness of these painters have made it difficult to go for them since they end wasting a lot of time as well as paint in a job they would have accomplished long time ago. You are bound to experience the same challenges even when you hire the painters to carry out painting in your office or business location. However, things are not similar as when you hire the commercial painter to do the painting for your house even business premise. Hiring business is bound to make you realize a lot of benefits. Trade painters are skillful enough to handle the work. They are good at coming up with the best color that can suit your house and even your business premise. Their ability to blend these colors to bring out the cools image in your house is one important thing that these painters do. Your premise can easily lose its color when the paints aren\u2019t mixed appropriately. Some of the of the mismatches are also likely to be experienced when the paint is not applied evenly. to achieve painting for your house, you need to look for someone who is specialized in that field. These painters can be trusted. Renovating or conducting new painting for your house will mean welcoming strange people in your house. Welcoming the uncertified painters into your premise may make you realize a lot of loss. The commercial painters many as well not be known to you, but at least they are trust-able since they base their work on their record.\nA lot of time is conserved when you opt for the business painters. They have designated time to carry out painting and thus will not interfere with your schedule. These people on a contract basis and therefore they must come up with the right time to carry out each operation. This leaves you with a lot of time to focus on other issues if you are carrying out supervision on them.\nYou save money with the business painters. Through assessing your house, they can make you be in the know on how much paint you need to buy for the full painting of your house. You\u2019ll know in advance how much they will charge for the services they will be carrying out in your house. With the business traders, you are bet on higher discounts. They can carry out that high-quality work because of the equipment they employ. A good yield can be realized when you combine the professional work of these trained workers with the kind of high-end equipment they use to carry out the work.\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 24880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lifebuzz.com/leopard/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:20Z", "digest": "sha1:7GDTVGZWSVVJQSLRHYBVTMQQUO4R2H25", "length": 985, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.lifebuzz.com", "title": "A Camouflaged Snow Leopard Gave These Skiers The FRIGHT Of Their Lives.", "raw_content": "A Camouflaged Snow Leopard Gave These Skiers The FRIGHT Of Their Lives.\nA group of skiers had quite the scare as they skied down a mountain in Gulmarg, in the northern state of Jammy and Kashmir. Owen Lansbury from Australia filmed the surprising and tense encounter with a snow leopard.\nAmerican tour guide, Dave Marchi almost ran over the animal who was camouflaged by the snow. In the video, you can hear a woman telling Lansbury to stop skiing. The peaceful stand-off didn\u2019t last long. \u201cI stopped just as it huddled in the snow, where it stayed for about a minute checking us out,\u201d says the 42-year-old.\nSnow leopards live in the mountains in Central Asia, found in altitudes from 9,000 to 16,000 feet. The large cat is an endangered species due to poaching, loss of habitat, and climate change. It is estimated there are only about 6,000 snow leopards left in the world. The king of the mountain left the group alone but not before letting out a \u201csolid roar.\u201d\nSource: PreviousNext", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.living-the-dream.us/travelogue/france/2003/mar03.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UXEXMWW3JOWFFIYKICKK7AZWONOGXJLR", "length": 5609, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.living-the-dream.us", "title": "Canal Boat Adventures and Travels in the UK and Europe", "raw_content": "After a rainy start March warms up quickly and it feels like winter is finally over; spring arrives by the first week with temperatures in the high 60s. It\u2019s glorious to walk around and sit outdoors in the sidewalk cafes again and very good news for Carnival in Toulouse.\nThe second week in March the Place Capitole turns into bedlam as it fills with thousands of people ready to party hard. Wild, brightly painted, sparkly costumes and faces parade as they sing and dance the week before Lent. There are giant costumes worn by people on stilts, parodying the mayor and other political figures. Bands carrying musical instruments try to march in time but generally fall into confusion as onlookers swarm into the parade, dancing enthusiastically with the music. It\u2019s definitely an \u2018audience participation\u2019 event and continues way into the small hours of the morning as the parade winds all over the old town section of Toulouse.\nAt the local concert hall, Jane Birkin is appearing as part of her world tour for the new album called \u2018Arabesque\u2019, a collection of music by Serg Gainsbourg, France\u2019s iconic songwriter. She just appeared on a television show and was stunningly good so it\u2019s a \u2018must see\u2019 since the venue, Halle Aux Grains, is only a ten-minute walk away from the boat. The show is beautiful and showcases the most famous songs in this country. Despite the fact she is English, Jane is one of France\u2019s cultural treasures and sings delightfully in French.\nOo-La-La is now \u2018official\u2019; her name was finally put on the transom and bow, it looks really good. Soon it will be time to get moving again. The engines were run and we thought something could be caught on the propeller. So, who you gonna call? The pompiers! (Firemen)\nIn France the pompiers are used to help out in any situation and boaters use them frequently to dive under the boat if there is something on the prop or if the hull needs examination. Since they are just across the street it is easy to make a casual visit and see if they can be of assistance. Within a couple of hours three of them are alongside in a large inflatable dingy; the station captain and two divers covered from head to toe in wetsuits. Even though it\u2019s warm outside the water is very chilly. Cheerfully they complete the job within a half an hour. To thank them for their work we present a bottle of Ricard Pastis, a popular drink in the south of France. The captain does not want to accept, but the two shivery divers do so enthusiastically.\nPeople are coming from many different countries back to their boat here in Port St. Sauveur. The first one to return and actually get out on the canal again is a family of four from Hamburg, Germany. Their little craft is only about twenty feet long at best but they obviously get the most out of her; they had a week of vacation long before any of the bigger boats even saw their owner.\nIts great fun to meet our neighbors. We enjoyed a charming soiree on board Floraposte with Patsy and Andrew Diamond from England. Their boat was built there and has a narrowboat feeling but is much wider and spacious. It\u2019s also lovely inside and out. A Dutch couple owns Convivio, a good-looking motor-yacht with black hull and red topsides, their website is: www.convivo.nl. They have already been up and down the Rhone on her so we\u2019ll be looking for any helpful tips they have to offer.\nThe third week of March the locks are officially open and the canal is back in business. The look of the marina changes suddenly with the appearance of several sailboats and an ocean going bright yellow tug. The sailboats vary tremendously in size and appearance; the smallest being a beautiful wooden wherry from England to the largest, an impressive steel yacht of Swedish origin. All of them have their masts unstepped and lying across the deck lengthwise; the bridges on the Canal du Midi are too low to accommodate any mast at all.\nOdile and Jacky invite us to attend an art opening near Gaillac in the village of Senouillac. The host is David Marshall; he has renovated an impressive estate, Chateau de Linardie, which has many different unique rooms for displaying paintings from diverse artists. The opening is a grand success; at least a couple of hundred attendees fill the gorgeous stone rooms and mill about with glasses of robust red wine in hand.\nIt is a good opportunity to visit Gaillac, a town well known for its wine. This is where the first vines were planted in France, back when the Romans occupied the area. Since the season is not yet fully \u2018on\u2019, we knock on the door of the family that owns the vineyard, \u2018Mas de Doat\u2019. It is a picturesque place, with an original stone bread oven and a properly chilly cave with huge vats of \u2018vin ordinaire\u2019 and AOC (Appelation Controllee, meaning a better quality than ordinary). The vat wine is sold by the liter; the proprietor himself pours it into a mylar bag with something that resembles a garden hose. It is then boxed, the same way any boxed wine in the grocery store would be. Except this is really fresh, almost bubbles on the tongue when first tasted at home. The price is low: about 80 cents a liter for \u2018ordinaire\u2019 and $1.20 for the AOC. They also have bottled wines to keep in the cellar for a few years.\nThe south of France is the country\u2019s biggest red wine producer. So there should be many more visits to these cellars in future travels. Oo-La-La will soon be continuing down the Canal du Midi toward Buzet, another wine producing town. The plan is to continue to the end of the canal and then turn around. The season is open so let the games begin.\n.....on to April", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 6304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lmcbobcats.com/sports/mvball/2010-11/releases/a3108.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:39Z", "digest": "sha1:VSRIVNZA7TQNAZKSCM7ISAMU32JXOMXH", "length": 2920, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.lmcbobcats.com", "title": "Bobcats rally past Saints in five-set thriller - Lees-McRae", "raw_content": "Bobcats rally past Saints in five-set thriller\nGAFFNEY, S.C. --- Chad Mercado (Orlando, Fla.) posted a match-high 15 kills, and the Lees-McRae College men's volleyball team rallied from a two-frame deficit to defeat Limestone College in an epic five-set thriller on Wednesday night in Conference Carolinas action.\nLees-McRae (6-6, 2-1 CC) posted its second straight conference win, tallying 11 team blocks while holding Limestone (5-5, 0-3 CC) to a .187 attacking percentage on the night. The Bobcats won the match by scores of 19-25, 12-25, 25-13, 28-26, and 15-13.\nMercado paced the Bobcats with 15 kills, but the story of the night for Lees-McRae was freshman Eduardo Gonzales (San Juan, Puerto Rico), who tallied 11 kills, nine digs, and five blocks in the contest. Fellow rookie Chris Flood (Louisville, Ky.) also notched nine kills, while Randy Ramirez (Guaynabo, Puerto Rico) tallied four blocks and a match-high 42 assists. John Lucas (Cincinnati, Ohio) chipped in eight kills and five blocks, as Matt Harpenau (Cincinnati, Ohio) posted a match-high six stuffs.\nKevin Hart (Menifee, Calif.) and Scott Schweihofer (Marysville, Mich.) paced Limestone with 14 and 13 kills, respectively, as Hart notched a double-double with a match-high 13 digs. Andrew Pile (Macungi, Pa.) notched 32 assists, nine digs, and five blocks, while Danny Gruszczyk (Orlando, Fla.) chipped in 11 digs.\nLimestone jumped out to an early 8-5 lead in the first set, and after Lees-McRae cut the margin to 11-9 on a block by Harpenau and Ramirez, pushed the advantage to 18-11 with a 7-2 run that was capped by back-to-back aces by Schweihofer. The Bobcats answered with a 7-4 run of their own, trimming the margin to 22-18 before Limestone closed out the set with a 3-1 spurt.\nNeither team held more than a two-point advantage in the second set before Limestone took command, launching a 14-2 run to take a 24-11 lead on a Bobcat miscue. The Saints then closed out the second set win with a Pile kill to claim a 2-0 lead in the match.\nLees-McRae responded in impressive fashion in the third set, opening the frame with a 10-2 run before Limestone answered with a 5-0 spurt to cut the margin to 10-7. The Bobcats countered with an 11-4 run, claiming a 21-11 advantage on a block by Lucas and Mercado before closing out the 25-13 victory to cut the match margin to 2-1.\nThe Bobcats showed tremendous poise in the fourth set, overcoming several late Limestone runs en route to a 28-26 win to even the match at 2-2 on a decisive block by Lucas and Ramirez. The fifth and deciding set proved to be a tightly contested one, with neither team opening more than a two-point lead as Lees-McRae took the frame and the contest on a Saints service error on match-point.\nLees-McRae returns to the court on Thursday when the Bobcats travel to Takoma Park, Md. for a 7 p.m. matchup with Washington Adventist University on the second leg of their road trip.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 5381, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 295.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.londonphotography.org.uk/satellites/2016/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:14Z", "digest": "sha1:TLJFT246GGG7TLFX44UWFFNPICMF3LKD", "length": 1070, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.londonphotography.org.uk", "title": "LIP Satellite Groups \u00bb 2016 \u00bb January", "raw_content": "Putney Group \u2013 January update\nIt was great seeing everyone after the festive break. We started off with a quick run through of memorable images from 2015, as recorded by the BBC website. We then took a look at this month\u2019s theme, \u2018Red\u2019, and it was fun discovering what our eyes had chanced upon over the past six weeks or [\u2026]\nIt has become a tradition: if it\u2019s December, it\u2019s books. Many books. Here\u2019s a list of what we looked at, spoke about, thought about (no-one said they had to be about photography): Mick Williamson: some memorials Maurice Sendak: Where the Wild Things Are Edward Weston: Daybooks Edward Lucie-Smith: Movements in Art Since 1945 Annie [\u2026]\nPosted 4 January 2016 by John Levett | Link to Post | Leave a Comment\nOur book meetings are always very popular and this month was no exception. A wide variety of books was passed around and closely examined \u2013 ranging from an anthology of women photographers and another of Indian photographers; Tommaso Tanini\u2019s beautifully produced book of photographs and text about East Germany \u2013 He Said He Loved Us; [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 3879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lorettaphinney.com/b/blog/oakvilles-art-therapy-program-improves-mental-health.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:55Z", "digest": "sha1:L6OMTNK56UD7FTL5YGZQGWPG6OBS7AAM", "length": 1462, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.lorettaphinney.com", "title": "Oakville's Art Therapy Program Improves Mental Health", "raw_content": "Oakville's Art Therapy Program Improves Mental Health\nTags: Oakville, Halton, Healthcare, Community, Mental Health\nLast week we wrote about the success that the local \u201cArt from the Heart\u201d exhibit was having as it moved into its 7th year of hosting a gallery to display the work of adults with special needs. This program and exhibit is made possible in part through the funding assistance received from Oakville\u2019s cultural grants.\nSimilarly, art therapy is experiencing success at the Oakville Galleries\u2019 newly established \u201cArt-ish\u201d program with the help of a $63,800 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.\nArt-ish is a therapy program for youth living with mental illness delivered at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital (OTMH).\nThe Oakville Galleries have been wanting to pursue a form of art therapy program for Halton Healthcare, and with the help of this Trillium Foundation grant it was finally made possible.\nEach week professional art instructors and art therapists deliver hands-on classes at different Halton Healthcare locations to youth in the mental health programs with the support of the clinical staff.\nEarlier this month Art-ish was recognized in a ceremony at OTMH for its success in bringing valuable therapy to youth struggling with mental illness in the Halton community.\nIt is great to see that Oakville Hospital is integrating art therapy into a progressive suite of programming. Another reason why Oakville is a great community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lotuscleaning.com.au/duct-carbon-monoxide-testing-ormond", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:29Z", "digest": "sha1:M6DU7ESTS4BSS5HMJF3MEG3AI26CKIVF", "length": 1724, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.lotuscleaning.com.au", "title": "Duct Carbon Monoxide Testing Ormond| Duct Work Servicing Ormond", "raw_content": "Duct Carbon Monoxide Testing Ormond\nDuct Carbon Monoxide Testing Ormond is part of our Duct Work Servicing Ormond, Contact on 0425 029 990 for FREE duct carbon monoxide testing.\nCarbon Monoxide Detector Services in Ormond\nUsing natural gas to heat your home has a number of benefits over other fuel options. 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When we handle the installation of your Carbon Monoxide detector, you can trust in the quality of the product and that of the workmanship we offer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 795, "original_length": 13251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.louisebarbara.co/blog/van-gogh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:30Z", "digest": "sha1:GWT7MS7EW3VY7IEHRVK36PJSTL6XQEN2", "length": 708, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.louisebarbara.co", "title": "Van Gogh - Louise Barbara", "raw_content": "Curator: Well... um... big question, but, to me Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. Certainly the most popular, great painter of all time. The most beloved, his command of colour most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray, but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world, no one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange, wild man who roamed the fields of Provence was not only the world's greatest artist, but also one of the greatest men who ever lived.\n- Matt Smith and Bill Nighy in \"Vincent and the Doctor\", Doctor Who (watch the clip below).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 2948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lovebrightjewelry.com/be-mine-light-pink-heart-pendant-necklace-from-sweethearts-valentine-day-special-with-rolo-chain-item-27870.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:48Z", "digest": "sha1:GXAAPHCFXD3M2CFXMWFO6M3FYDXRF5BJ", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lovebrightjewelry.com", "title": "404 Error Page", "raw_content": "http://www.lovebrightjewelry.com/be-mine-light-pink-heart-pendant-necklace-from-sweethearts-valentine-day-special-with-rolo-chain-item-27870.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 4890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 285.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.magicsing.us/Al%20B.%20Sure!-artist.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RB3WUQRCAOVATOLPOOCCQODO6GHTLRHC", "length": 2955, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.magicsing.us", "title": "Magic Sing Al B. Sure! - Directory", "raw_content": "Directory Songs popularized by Al B. Sure!.\nMagic Sing Search & Directory > A Artists > Al B. Sure! (24)\nOff On Your Own Girl (08414)\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08414 in the Magic Sing Built In 2045 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08414 in the Magic Sing ET19KV 2045 Song Chip.\nOff On Your Own Girl (9114)\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 9114 in the Magic Sing ET19KV Extreme Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08216 in the Magic Sing ET23KH 2045 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08216 in the Magic Sing ET23KH Tagalog Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08414 in the Magic Sing ET25K 1945 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 09114 in the Magic Sing ET25K Tagalog Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 8414 in the Magic Sing ET9K English Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 9114 in the Magic Sing ET9K Extreme Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 8414 in the Magic Sing MT15K Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 8414 in the Magic Sing Pop 2200 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Off On Your Own Girl\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 8414 in the Magic Sing Pop Original 1596 Song Chip.\nRight Now (08468)\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08468 in the Magic Sing Built In 2045 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08468 in the Magic Sing ET19KV 2045 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 9228 in the Magic Sing ET19KV Extreme Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08217 in the Magic Sing ET23KH 2045 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08217 in the Magic Sing ET23KH Tagalog Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 08468 in the Magic Sing ET25K 1945 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 09228 in the Magic Sing ET25K Tagalog Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 8468 in the Magic Sing ET9K English Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 9228 in the Magic Sing ET9K Extreme Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 8468 in the Magic Sing MT15K Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 8468 in the Magic Sing Pop 2200 Song Chip.\nThe song \"Right Now\" popularized by Al B. Sure! is song number 8468 in the Magic Sing Pop Original 1596 Song Chip.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 5642, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.makingmediatoremember.com/about-digital-storytelling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TVZCMMD264RPDCQIKNDXAXNVUTJY5SP2", "length": 1707, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.makingmediatoremember.com", "title": "About Digital Storytelling | Making MEDIA to Remember", "raw_content": "Digital storytelling is the process by which diverse peoples create and share a story of personal relevance using digital media tools.\nIts roots began in 1970s and 80s when arts practitioners and educators across disciplines challenged the notion that art should be reserved for the gifted or the professional. Recognizing that lay practitioners could make enormous creative contributions, pioneering artists wanted to make art accessible to all, especially those traditionally left behind.\nThe emerging digital technologies of the 1990s offered new tools for expression and fertile ground for experimentation. Drawing on these new practices, a group of San Francisco Bay Area media artists and designers came together to explore how digital media tools could be used to empower personal storytelling.\nAs numerous collaborators exchanged ideas and found common ground, a partnership took shape. Dana Atchley, a media producer and interdisciplinary artist began collaboration with local theater producer Joe Lambert. They soon discovered that people with little or no prior experience in multimedia could create powerful personal stories using the new digital media technology.\nIn 1994, Joe and Dana, along with Nina Mullen, founded the San Francisco Digital Media Center. Over the next several years, the group refined a curriculum that became the basis for a community workshop called \u201cdigital storytelling.\u201d\nIn 1998, the San Francisco Center for Digital Media moved to Berkeley and became the Center for Digital Storytelling. In 2015, the organization became, simply, StoryCenter.\nToday, merging traditional storytelling with digital tools is practiced worldwide in education, public health, and the arts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 267.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marcodilauro.com/features/chad/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:08Z", "digest": "sha1:MHOQZF4TU7JFKC5L7IEBGTR7GUCTH3ZR", "length": 30125, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.marcodilauro.com", "title": "Chad, \"Internally Displaced\" - Marco Di Lauro", "raw_content": "Eastern Chad has a recent history of extreme violence, in addition to the Janjaweed attacks, the area is threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 per cent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR. Twelve thousand of the refugees have settled in Daha (200 kilo metres from Chad\u2019s border to CAR). Over 80 per cent of the refugees are women and children. The remoteness of these areas poses significant logistical challenges, particularly with regard to the rainy seasons.\nGoz Beida, Chad - November 17, 2006\nA Chadian villager protects himself with a blanket as he takes shelter under trees after an attack on his village forced him to flee to a site for internally displaced Chadians. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nKerfi, Chad - November 12, 2006\nIn a Chadian village people take refuge under trees after an attack on their village forced them to flee to a site for internally displaced people. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nKou Kou, Chad - November 9, 2006\nA Chadian Villager with a bow and arrow which he uses to defend his family from attacks. The family found refuge under trees in the forest after they fled an attack on their village. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nChadian Army Soldiers cook dinner around an open air fire where they have been sent to protect village people and their children taking refuge under trees after an attack on their village forced them to flee to a camp for internally displaced people. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nBandikao, Chad - November 13, 2006\nChadian villagers carry a wounded man during a Chadian Army rescue mission in Bandikao Village, 90 Km south of Goz Beida. According to Human Rights Watch, in 2003 fighting broke out between ethnic Muro Africans and Arab nomads. They fought with homemade weapons of bow and arrows yet three years later the Arabs are flanked in khaki uniforms and using assault rifles, though it is unclear by whom they have been supplied arms. Five men were killed by arabs on November 4th, outside Bandikao village, which is part of a confederation of eight villages that has a self defense force. The people from the village pursued the attackers and were ambushed and massacred. As a result of the battle forty five people were killed and forty-one were wounded. The dead and injured were left behind due to lack of transport and due to the security situation howver the Chadian army ultimately decided to send a rescue team to evacuate the injured.\nChadian Arm soldiers drive to Bandikao to conduct a rescue mission in Bandikao Village, 90 Km south of Goz Beida, Chad. According to Human Rights Watch, in 2003 fighting broke out between ethnic Muro Africans and Arab nomads. They fought with homemade weapons of bow and arrows yet three years later the Arabs are flanked in khaki uniforms and using assault rifles, though it is unclear by whom they have been supplied arms. Five men were killed by arabs on November 4th, outside Bandikao village, which is part of a confederation of eight villages that has a self defense force. The people from the village pursued the attackers and were ambushed and massacred. As a result of the battle forty five people were killed and forty-one were wounded. The dead and injured were left behind due to lack of transport and due to the security situation howver the Chadian army ultimately decided to send a rescue team to evacuate the injured.\nBahai, Chad - June 21, 2009\nNewly arrived Sudanese refugees, who escaped bombing from the Sudanese air force in their villages in Darfur sit under trees as they wait for permission from the UNHCR (United Nation High Commission for Refugees) to settle inside the Oure Cassoni refugee camp. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nA Chadian villager wounded in the recent fighting, on the ground of the hospital compound after an attack on her village forced her to flee. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nChadian villagers pray while taking shelter under trees after an attack on their village forced them to flee to a site for internally displaced people. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nGuite, Chad \u2013 May 26, 2009\nNomadic school children in a UNICEF supported school during Ralph Fiennes visit to Guite, Chad. UNICEF UK Ambassador Ralph Fiennes travelled to Chad to witness firsthand the plight of women and children affected by the current humanitarian crisis. During his visit Mr. Fiennes travelled to Goz Beida (Eastern Chad bordering Sudan) and Daha (Southern Chad bordering Central African Republic) to meet with refugees who had been forced from their homes by the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan as well as Chadian families who had fled violence within their own communities and newly arrived refugees from the Central African Republic. While in Chad, Mr. Fiennes saw the life saving work that UNICEF and its partners were doing to alleviate the suffering of children and their families who were living in camps in the Eastern and Southern regions of the country. In the capital N\u2019Djamena, Mr. Fiennes met with former child soldiers and children who are being held in an adult detention centre. He also travelled to Guite, two hours from the capital to see the lives of nomadic families. This is the first time that Mr. Fiennes has travelled to Chad.\nChadian villagers ride horses nearbye their shelter under trees after an attack on their village forced them to flee to a site for internally displaced people. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nA Chadian villager washes her baby as she takes refuge under trees after an attack on their village forced them to flee to a site for internally displaced people. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nLocal residents gather around the biggest mosque in the region for the evening prayer. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nA relative of a man wounded in the recent fighting on the ground of the Hospital compound after an attack on his village forced him to flee. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nBahai, Chad \u2013 November 27, 2006\nRebels from the NRF wounded in the recent fighting playing cards as they recover in their hospital roo. Sudanese Army soldiers and NRF (National Redemption Front) rebels are recovering together in beds next to each other in the Bahai Hospital in Chad after fighting in Darfur. The Sudanese Army soldiers are recovering under the supervision of the ICRC (International Commite of the Red Cross) and will be sent back home once are healed.\nA sick Chadian villager takes shelter under trees with her family after an attack on their village forced them to flee to a site for internally displaced people. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nA horse in need of water lies on the ground as Chadian Villagers take refuge under trees in the forest after they fled an attack on their village. Thousands of Chadian villagers are fleeing their villages and becoming IDP (Internally Displaced People) because of the instability of the area due to the fighting between the Chadian rebels against the government and the attacks of the Chadian arabs and the Sudanese militia crossing the border. According to official sources the IDP in Chad are around 100,000 and they are not receiving assistance from anybody since they are not entitled to the status of refugee from the United Nation. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)\nNewly arrived Sudanese refugees, who escaped bombing from the Sudanese air force in their villages in Darfur, sit under trees as they wait for permission from the UNHCR (United Nation High Commission for Refugees) to settle inside the refugee camp. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nThe belongings of newly arrived Sudanese refugees, who escaped bombings from the Sudanese air force in their villages in Darfur, wait for permission from the UNHCR (United Nation High Commission for Refugees) to settle inside the Oure Cassoni refugee camp. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 per cent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nDaha, Chad \u2013 May 28, 2009\nRefugees are seen at a center for juveniles in Daha refugee camp. Since January 2009, thousands of refugees have entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and armed forces of the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR). The majority of them are staying in two sites close to Daha (800 km south of Abeche or 1 km from the CAR/Chad border) of which is accommodating over 11,000 refugees. An average of 120 new refugees arrives every day. Many of them had to leave all their belongings behind, possessing only the little that they could carry on their backs, when crossing the border after several days of walking through the bush. Prior to the refugee influx the area of Daha counted about 4,000 inhabitants. The host community has shared their belongings with the new-comers, until their already scarce resources ran out. The sudden influx of people has meant a sharp increase in food prices in the local market. A 500 kg of millet that used to cost 400 CFA (local money) has doubled in price to 800 CFA (US$1.50). UNICEF has set up a temporary base in Daha and is providing lifesaving support to refugees, by making sure that children and their families have safe drinking water, adequate sanitation facilities, emergency health care as well as ensuring that children are able to carry on with their schooling. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nA Chadian villager recovers in his hospital bed from a gun shot wound, suffered in the recent fighting between ethnic Arabs and ethnic Africans after an attack on his village forced him to flee. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nSudanese refugees collect water at a water pump in Oure Cassoni refugee camp. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nSudanese refugees pray at the end of a wedding in Oure Cassoni refugee camp. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nGoz Beida, Chad \u2013 May 27, 2009\nSudanese and internally displaced Chadian mothers with their children who are suffering from malnutrition recover in the Goz Beida Hospital. With 200 deaths per 1,000 live births Chad is amongst the ten countries in the world with the highest infant mortality rates. Maternal mortality was estimated at 1,099 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2004. Main causes for morbidity and mortality of children under five years old are malaria, respiratory infections and diarrhoea. In combination with acute malnutrition, lack of access to clean water and overpopulation in the camps, children have a deadly setting for their most vulnerable stage of life. Based in Djabal camp in Eastern Chad, Goz Beida Hospital serves a community of 60,000 internally displaced people and 18,000 refugees from Sudan. The hospital provides therapeutic feeding to children who are severely malnourished. The high levels of child malnutrition in eastern Chad are partly due to food insecurity, but also the lack of nutritional knowledge amongst mothers, leading to bad feeding practices. They are treated with a highly nutritional milk until they reach an acceptable weight. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nChadian villagers organized themselves as a self defense force, carry bow and arrows. Eastern Chad has seen extreme violence, in the form of attacks by paramilitary known as Janjaweed, while the area has been threatened by rebel groups fighting Chadian and Sudanese armies on Chadian territory. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR), issued reports of more than 200 people being killed by armed men on horseback in villages in the Dar Sila Department along the Chad-Sudan border just in the last two weeks. Thousands of Chadian villagers have fled their villages and become IDP (Internally Displaced People) and arriving in the area of Goz Beida often leaving the injured behind due to lack of transport. According to official sources IDP numbers in Chad are around 100,000 and most are not receiving any external assistance as they are not entitled to the refugee status set out by the United Nations.\nA general view from the air of the Daha refugee camp. Since January 2009, thousands of refugees have entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and armed forces of the Government of the Central African Republic (CAR). The majority of them are staying in two sites close to Daha (800 km south of Abeche or 1 km from the CAR/Chad border) of which is accommodating over 11,000 refugees. An average of 120 new refugees arrives every day. Many of them had to leave all their belongings behind, possessing only the little that they could carry on their backs, when crossing the border after several days of walking through the bush. Prior to the refugee influx the area of Daha counted about 4,000 inhabitants. The host community has shared their belongings with the new-comers, until their already scarce resources ran out. The sudden influx of people has meant a sharp increase in food prices in the local market. A 500 kg of millet that used to cost 400 CFA (local money) has doubled in price to 800 CFA (US$1.50). UNICEF has set up a temporary base in Daha and is providing lifesaving support to refugees, by making sure that children and their families have safe drinking water, adequate sanitation facilities, emergency health care as well as ensuring that children are able to carry on with their schooling. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.\nA Member of the JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) rebels rests under a tree after crossing the border from Sudan near the Oure Cassoni refugee camp. Since 2004 over 260,000 Sudanese refugees from Darfur have crossed into eastern Chad. They live in 12 camps along the border. Over 85 percent of them are women and children. The latest influx of refugees arrived after an attack on three villages in western Sudan in February 2008. Since April 2006 regular rebel attacks on Chadian villages in the border area of Darfur, have led to a spiral of escalating violence throughout eastern Chad. About 170,000 Chadians have been forced over the last three years to flee their villages, often leaving all their belongings behind. In January 2009 over 15,000 refugees from Central African Republic (CAR) have also entered south-eastern Chad, following clashes between Rounga rebels and the national army of CAR.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 30992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article63581.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:25Z", "digest": "sha1:Q6ODQFY3NNIB5X3NBE6SWRCPUXMBDU5R", "length": 26682, "nlines": 93, "source_domain": "www.marketoracle.co.uk", "title": "The Real Price of LNG, Climate Change, Coming Fracking Environmental Disaster :: The Market Oracle ::", "raw_content": "The Real Price of LNG, Climate Change, Coming Fracking Environmental Disaster\nPolitics / Climate Change Nov 21, 2018 - 06:28 AM GMT\n\u201cThis is a spectacular day for all British Columbians, again not one that happened today, not one that happened yesterday but one that has happened over the past few decades. I can\u2019t tell you how proud and pleased I am to have the opportunity to lead the government to work with all levels of government to make life better for British Columbians. I can\u2019t stop smiling.\u201d\nThat was John Horgan, the Premier of British Columbia, declaring his support for, what, a plan to tackle unaffordable housing? Ending the fentanyl crisis? A major infrastructure project that will lower the frustration of Lower Mainland commuters?\nNo, what Premier Horgan was smiling about on October 2nd, was the signing of a final investment decision by LNG Canada. Flanked by industry leaders and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Horgan said that despite belching out 3.45 megatonnes of carbon emissions a year, BC would meet its climate change goals of cutting greenhouses gases by 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2050. The Pembina Institute estimates that between LNG Canada and Woodfibre LNG, the other, so far, approved BC liquefied natural gas project, the plants will increase annual carbon pollution by 9.1 megatonnes by 2030 and 10.2MG by 2050. But the targets will be met, somehow. Trust us.\nTo actually meet the province\u2019s climate change goal, massive carbon cuts would have to be made elsewhere. The government says it\u2019s currently rolling out a new climate plan. We\u2019re not expecting any dramatic revelations.\nChina, Russia and Canada\u2019s current climate policies would drive the world above\na catastrophic 5C of warming by the end of the century, according to a study\nthat ranks the climate goals of different countries.\nOf course, it was the lure of the buck that made Horgan and his Cabinet become sudden converts to LNG, despite opposing it while in Opposition to the Christy Clark Liberals (Horgan said at the time that LNG was giving up too much revenue to attract foreign investment - ironic now, considering the NDP gave LNG Canada a $5.3B tax break), who came up with the idea with much fanfare - even promising to pay off the provincial debt with the windfall of LNG cash.\nThe NDP says the LNG Canada project will bring in $22 billion over 40 years.\nThat sounds pretty good, but it assumes there are no costs associated with building a new LNG industry in BC. A fossil-fuel-intensive industry that goes against the prevailing mood (excluding the Trump Administration) of weaning ourselves off carbon through the use of cleaner technology like nuclear energy and renewables.\nBut there are costs. And they could be huge. Much greater than $22 billion. Why? Because the BC LNG industry is being built at exactly the wrong time. We know that climate change is upon us. Yes, even in beautiful British Columbia. The evidence is everywhere, and we have written on it extensively. (Read our five-part series) Rising ocean levels and temperatures, frequent and more intense storms, droughts, forest fires, retreating glaciers, calving ice sheets, mudslides, newly active volcanoes, melting permafrost in the Arctic leaving bubbling cauldrons of methane - a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.\nPlus the negative effects of the natural gas industry that continue to be seen in the form of methane escapes into the water and atmosphere, benzene poisoning among the people of northeastern BC who live near fracking wells, polluted lakes, more CO2 and other toxins that are emitted permanently into the atmosphere when natural gas is burnt to produce energy.\nIn 2017, global economic losses from natural disasters and man-made catastrophes were the highest ever amounting to US$337 billion.\nThis article will take a closer look at those costs, and poses the question: How are we going to address climate change by encouraging the development of a fossil-fuel driven LNG industry in British Columbia?\nForest fires and climate change\nIt doesn\u2019t take a scientist to notice that forest fires and droughts (the two being inter-related) have been getting worse over the years. BC entered its third consecutive year of serious wildfires. This summer was the worst fire season on record and anecdotally, there was a lot more smoke than in 2017. So much that there was a run on HEPA air filters in the Lower Mainland, usually immune from the smoke \u201cup north\u201d or \u201cin the Interior\u201d. People were checking daily air quality warnings like we were living in China. In fact Kelowna hit a record one day as having worse air quality than Beijing.\nClose to 13,000 square kilometers were burnt, breaking the previous record set in 2017; that year, the government spent $568 million on fire suppression. This year is estimated to come in at over $300 million.\nWhile the forest fire season is over in Canada, state-side they continue to rage. In California this week, over 100 people, many of them seniors, are missing as firefighters battle the Camp Fire, the largest in the state\u2019s history. Fifty people have perished in two major fires burning in California. According to CNN the Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire - one in northern and the other in southern California - have so far destroyed 8,083 homes or structures and scorched 232,620 acres.\nSo what to make of these fires? Are they caused by climate change? That seems to be the narrative in the press, although the problem is more complicated than that. Prescribed burns, as forest companies used to do, are no longer government policy in the United States or Canada, leaving hundreds of hectares/acres of dangerously dry tinder, easily ignited by a match or a lightning strike. Prescribed burns are bad for tourism. Residents don\u2019t care much for them either.\nBut warming temperatures and an extended drought in the western United States are certainly major factors. The Guardian reports that of the 20 largest wildfires in California\u2019s history, 15 of them have been since 2000, during which time forests have become warmer and drier. Since 1970 the temperature increase in the west is about double the global average.\n\u201cGiven strong relationships between climate and fire, even when modified by land use and management such as fuel treatments, projected climate changes suggest that western forests in the United States will be increasingly affected by large and intense fires that occur more frequently,\u201d a government report states.\nThe Union of Concerned Scientists notes that higher temperatures in the summer and spring are causing soils to be drier for longer, increasing the likelihood of droughts and a longer wildfire season. In the US southwest, it\u2019s predicted that the fire season will soon be all year long rather than just seven months. A NASA study states that droughts caused by climate change are getting worse and could become more frequent in the western US.\nSee below for a current drought map. Almost everything west of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico now ranges from abnormally dry to exceptional drought.\nIn the summer over half of the United States fit this description.\nIn BC, similar conditions prevailed this year. Two weeks of hot weather in July drove up the fire danger rating, followed by widespread lightning in early August.\nNot only do wildfires chew through forests/ agricultural land, drive people from their homes, destroy property and sometimes kill people, they also cause flash floods, in areas where all the vegetation has been burnt, leaving nowhere for water to be absorbed; and drive a climate change feedback loop.\nThe loop happens when forest fires burn the carbon stored in trees, emitting a toxic brew of carbon dioxide, methane and carbon monoxide. These gases trap heat in the atmosphere, causing further warming, drier forests, and more fires.\nAn independent report released by the BC government states that in 2017, wildfires emitted 190 million tonnes of carbon into the environment - six times the total from other sources and almost triple BC\u2019s annual carbon footprint.\nAnother effect of global warming is the increasing intensity of forest fires. This past summer some fires in BC were so hot, they couldn\u2019t be put out with water alone. CBC quotes Mike Flannigan, a professor of wildland fire at the University of Alberta, saying that many large fires are spreading in BC, year after year, due to a ridge of high pressure that is stuck over the province for much of the summer. The ridge forms along the West Coast due to melting Arctic sea ice, and the air beneath it is warm and dry, creating the perfect conditions for a \u201craging inferno\u201d according to Flannigan.\nGovernments backing LNG\nApparently though, Premier Horgan didn\u2019t make the connection between the fires, and the onslaught of greenhouse gases that LNG is set to unleash on British Columbians in coming years, as he sat grinning in a room with Trudeau in October.\nWhy is LNG Canada going ahead while the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is tied up in more consultation? An Alberta Cabinet minister says the LNG project will have a greater environmental impact than TMX. We agree.\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to result in about 177-per-cent increase in tanker traffic compared to TMX which will result in a 14 per cent increase,\u201d Economic Development and Trade Minister Deron Bilous told reporters at the Alberta legislature, via CBC.\nA Globe and Mail article put the two projects side by side to examine the impacts - both economic and environmental. In terms of CO2 emissions, the Globe analysis assigns a much heavier footprint to LNG Canada - 3.45 million tonnes annually - versus just 0.4 million tonnes from TMX.\nMaybe the politicians don\u2019t realize it, but developing an LNG industry in BC requires widespread fracking. Of all the natural gas reserves left in BC, only 22% are conventional, with the rest found in unconventional formations, known as \u201ctight gas\u201d.\nAt Ahead of the Herd we have done extensive research into fracking, and recently reviewed the history of the practice in BC. We revealed a number of disturbing occurrences. Among them: earthquakes; rules to protect caribou were broken and unenforced by the Oil and Gas Commission; unsustainable (and possibly illegal) draw-downs of water; and the most disturbing of all, heightened levels of benzene, a dangerous carcinogen, found in pregnant native women.\nFor more read our LNG: Another environmental disaster coming to BC\nWe also found evidence of a BC Liberal government cover-up of the risk fracking presents to dam safety:\n\u201cSenior BC Hydro officials have quietly feared for years that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage its Peace River dams, putting hundreds if not thousands of people at risk should the dams fail. Yet the Crown corporation has said nothing publicly about its concerns, opting instead to negotiate behind the scenes with the provincial energy industry regulator, the BC Oil and Gas Commission.\u201d\nIn spite of all this, Premier Horgan says he\u2019s okay with fracking.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been fracking in B.C. for decades and we do it fairly well. I\u2019ve been to a number of frack sites, and I\u2019m comfortable with the technology,\u201d Horgan said in 2012, when asked whether the NDP supports fracking.\nAlthough the current BC government denies it, it seems pretty clear that Horgan\u2019s NDP was thinking of LNG when it agreed to let the controversial Site C dam project go ahead last year - despite railing against it in Opposition.\nThat\u2019s because Site C will be needed to power LNG Canada and future LNG plants that are in the works. Add in the cancellation of Kinder Morgan, the fact there are only so many pipeline routes through mountainous BC, and a $5.3 billion tax break given to LNG Canada, and the evidence only points in one direction: the BC NDP.\nThe proof? A year ago it was reported that BC Hydro expects at least three LNG projects will need power from Site C.\nIt\u2019s also interesting to note that the nascent LNG industry in BC is being encouraged by the federal Liberals. In 2017 Trudeau\u2019s Liberals passed Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, which stops crude oil tanker traffic on the northern coast of BC - thus formalizing a \u201cvoluntary\u201d Tanker Exclusion Zone that\u2019s existed since 2015.\nExcluded from the bill, though, are gasoline, naphtha, jet fuel, propane and liquefied natural gas (LNG) - allowing the unfettered expansion of a new LNG industry in BC.\nRecall back in 2016, the federal government made a questionable bargain with the oil industry and Canadians - approving the $36 billion Pacific NorthWest LNG project near Prince Rupert, while at the same time assuring Canadians that the massive increase in greenhouse gas emissions from the project (later cancelled by Petronas), would be part of a national climate plan. As we now know, that plan includes a carbon tax that all provinces must buy into.\nSo it seems that the feds have been on board with LNG since 2016, or perhaps earlier, obviously without much knowledge of the science \u2013 or maybe our Provincial and Federal politicians just don\u2019t care?\nOnce the gas is fracked and put in a pipeline, it arrives at the terminal - however in a form unsuitable for tanker transport. To turn it into a liquid, it must be cooled to 163 degrees below zero. To do that requires a great deal of power, with massive compression units running 24/7.\nIt\u2019s estimated that if LNG Canada were to use only hydro-electric power to convert NG to LNG, would require 40% of the capacity of the Site C dam currently being built. The more likely scenario is that LNG Canada will use a combination of hydro electricity and natural gas to power the plant - the same fracked gas that came via pipeline to the terminal. And it makes sense to do that, since NG is a lot cheaper than hydro.\nThe bottom line? LNG is not clean energy, it\u2019s dirty energy - pumped up from the ground with the help of chemicals that leach into the water supply. When burned for electricity, natural gas gives off emissions that are in the atmosphere forever, contributing to the greenhouse effect of global warming.\n\u201cToday\u2019s announcement is a new form of climate denial: The idea that we can build new fossil fuel projects that will cause millions of tonnes of additional emissions while reducing our emissions at the same time,\u201d said Sierra Club B.C.\u2019s climate campaigner, Jens Wieting, the day of the LNG Canada announcement. \u201cBy sweetening the pot for fracked gas export, the government is laying out a red carpet for investors to help destroy our climate.\u201d\nThe real costs of LNG\n$22 billion seems like a lot of revenue to glean from one LNG project. Imagine if two more projects of similar size could be built. That would wipe out BC\u2019s current debt of around $67 billion.\nBut this is just the \u201cgross revenue\u201d. To find the net, we have to calculate the costs of LNG, to our health, our environment, and natural disasters that could easily occur as a result of an industry that is really a ticking time bomb. Then subtract them from the gross. Let\u2019s give it a try.\nThe best way to measure the health effects of LNG is to look at the natural gas industry in the United States, where fracking has been done with gusto for nearly a decade - using the same techniques that will be done in BC.\nIt\u2019s been found that people who live near areas where hydraulic fracturing is taking place, are more likely to be hospitalized for heart conditions, neurological illness and cancer. That\u2019s according to a study done in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, where researchers looked at hospitalization rates in Pennsylvania in areas with fracking versus those without.\n\u201cThe technology to recover natural gas depends on undisclosed types and amounts of toxic chemicals. A list of 944 products containing 632 chemicals used during natural gas operations was compiled. Literature searches were conducted to determine potential health effects of the 353 chemicals identified by Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers. More than 75% of the chemicals could affect the skin, eyes, and other sensory organs, and the respiratory and gastrointestinal systems.\nApproximately 40-50% could affect the brain/nervous system, immune and cardiovascular systems, and the kidneys; 37% could affect the endocrine system; and 25% could cause cancer and mutations.\nThese results indicate that many chemicals used during the fracturing and drilling stages of gas operations may have long-term health effects that are not immediately expressed. In addition, an example was provided of waste evaporation pit residuals that contained numerous chemicals on the CERCLA and EPCRA lists of hazardous substances.\u201d Natural Gas Operations From A Public Health Perspective, wv4mom.org\nA 2017 study at the University of Montreal found that fracking releases volatile organic compounds (VOCs) like benzene into the environment:\nThe researchers tested urine samples of 29 pregnant women in Chetwynd and Dawson Creek, two small communities near heavily-fracked shale gas fields in BC\u2019s Peace River Valley. They measured two \u201cbiomarkers\u201d that our bodies produce when we're exposed to benzene, a carcinogen that\u2019s been linked to low birth weights and some defects.\nFracking defenders say the process is perfectly safe and contained. The reality is that pollutants are released throughout the process - into the air and water.\nTens of thousands of wells will be drilled, then a concoction of chemicals, water and frac sand will be pumped in at high pressure to break apart the shale rock in order to create fissures that release the natural gas. The fracking fluid and natural gas will then be pumped back up and \u201cburped\u201d for several weeks, while the gas is separated from the fluids. Sour gas is burned, releasing carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide into the environment. Thirty to 40% of the fracking fluid is left in the well. The \u201cflowback liquid\u201d that is left after the gas is extracted contains water and a number of contaminants, including radioactive material (like radium, which can cause leukemia), heavy metals, hydrocarbons, bromide and other toxins.\nThis wastewater is then stored in pits, injected deep underground, or treated off-site.\nThe wastewater pumped underground goes into oil and gas waste wells or saline aquifers. There are serious concerns about the ability of these caverns and aquifers to handle the increased pressure and the evidence is showing that deep-well injecting is linked to the occurrence of earthquakes.\nBenzene, a cancer-causing carcinogen mentioned above in the study on pregnant women, can seep into the groundwater, helped along by further cracks in the Earth if the procedure results in tremors.\nWastewater stored on surface is no better. The toxic ponds continue to off-gas for years and poisons may leach into the water supply. In the Netherlands, methane was found in the drinking water supply of the nearby aquifer, 50 years after a blow-out occurred in an underground natural gas reservoir.\nMethane in water is explosive and can cause asphyxiate people if it\u2019s not detected. Methane concentrations are 17 times higher in drinking-water wells near fracturing sites than in normal wells.\nThen there\u2019s the extreme water use.\nEach well uses between 1.5 million and 15 million gallons (American Geosciences Institute) of locally-sourced fresh water (an estimated 28,000 wells have been drilled so far in Northeastern BC, that number could easily double), which will be permanently contaminated by toxic chemicals contained in the fracking fluid, in ground contaminants and the mixing of the two to create new toxic substances. This is water that could be used for drinking, by animals or humans, or for irrigating crops and pastures. Billions of gallons of fresh water will be destroyed.\nA recent study from Duke University found a huge increase in water use for fracking operations over the past five years. The paper published in Science Advances revealed that water use per well increased by up to 770% between 2011 and 2016. Wastewater volumes rose by 1,440% in two Texas shale formations.\nKeep in mind, this water is being taken by oil and gas companies for free. Pretty galling considering most of us have to pay for our water. Imagine how much it would cost if they had to pay for it? Billions. In BC we pay an average $37.50 a month for water. In drought-stricken areas, it\u2019s a lot higher. Water rates in California have been going up. Multiply $37.50/mo times 2.4 million (the 4.8 million population of British Columbia conservatively divided by two to account for multiple-person households) and you get $2.167 billion a year.\nWhen it comes to air pollution, natural gas is, prima facie, better for the environment than coal. NG plants emit about half of the carbon dioxide compared to coal-fired plants, and a natural gas-powered vehicle will release 15 to 20% less pollutants than one powered by gasoline.\nBut there will still be emissions, lots of them, plus, the really negative effects of natural gas occur at the drilling, extraction and transportation phases. This is because the industry can\u2019t stop the escape of methane, the main component of natural gas. Methane is terrible for the atmosphere, and a large contributor to global warming, because it is much more efficient than CO2 at trapping heat. Scientists estimate methane contributes about 25% to global warming.\nFugitive methane emissions run from 1% to 9% of total natural gas life cycle emissions. In order for natural gas power plants to be cleaner than coal, methane emissions over the plant\u2019s life cycle must be kept below 3.2%, according to one study.\nMost methane leaks come from flaring excess NG instead of putting it into a pipeline. Think methane emissions are no big deal, just a cost of doing business? The journal Nature earlier this year published a study saying that the US oil and gas industry emits 13 million tonnes of methane a year, which is 60% higher than the EPA\u2019s estimate.\nThe biggest methane leak in US history occurred in California in 2015. It took SoCal Gas nearly four months to plug the leak at the Alison Canyon gas field - during which an estimated 109,000 tonnes of methane was released into the atmosphere. While that sounds bad, the methane emissions from one natural gas field - the sprawling San Juan Basin in the US southwest - emitted 291,162 tonnes of methane in 2014, according to the EPA. The Front Range tight gas formation in Colorado reportedly leaks 19.3 tons of methane an hour.\nIn some areas where fracking occurs, there have been increases in other hazardous pollutants besides methane - namely particulate matter and ozone. Living under half a mile from an unconventional gas well puts you at greater risk of respiratory symptoms, cardiovascular disease and cancer, according to one study quoted by the Union of Concerned Scientists.\nOn top of the methane gas escapes and other toxic emissions, methane in the water, ruined fresh water that could be put to productive and healthy uses, dangerous health risks including benzene poisoning leading to cancer and birth defects, earthquakes, the risk to dams and other large structures, we added two more detrimental effects of fracking in a recent article: danger to killer whales from much higher LNG tanker traffic, and the exacerbation of global warming witnessed by retreating glaciers and a newly active volcano right here in BC.\nMount Meager just north of Vancouver is a ticking time bomb, with glacial retreat exposing \u201cfumaroles\u201d or vents spewing hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and steam.\nOf course we can\u2019t attribute fracking to venting and retreating glaciers on Mount Meager, the site of a massive mudslide in 2010 - the second largest in Canadian history. But if fracking goes ahead in northeastern BC, as it undoubtedly will with two LNG projects on the runway and 12 more proposed according to Natural Resources Canada, there will be more carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases released, increasing the likelihood of another disaster at Mount Meager, and other BC volcanoes coming to life.\nClimate change is real. We don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s human-caused or a function of natural cycles, or maybe a combination of both. Actually we don\u2019t care. We only know that it\u2019s here, and we need to plan for it. Most of the population is happy to go on with their lives, knowing that the Earth is warming, but without much concern it will affect them. This includes politicians who are the gate-keepers of our natural resources, our air and our water.\nWith the acceleration of an LNG industry in BC, these gate-keepers have given the keys to large, foreign multi-nationals who don\u2019t care about BC. They only want to buy our gas and ship it overseas, supposedly to get Asia off of coal and onto cleaner natural gas. But as we have shown, NG is anything but clean. When burned, it emits noxious pollutants. These emissions are part of the problem of climate change, not the solution. Methane release makes the problem many times worse. The more methane in the atmosphere, the warmer the planet will get. It\u2019s just science.\nThe only way to get the liquid natural gas is to frack it, which comes with a whole host of problems, presenting huge risks to human and animal health, and the environment. Is it worth it? Is 20 billion dollars over the 40-year life of one project worth the risk of what we\u2019re going to do to northeastern BC?\nNot from the economic side\u2026The financial cost to us BC residents is massively lopsided. BC politicians are giving them, the LNG multinationals, none of which are Canadian Companies, a $5.3 billion tax break and $86.68 billion in free water over the 40 period they supposedly give us $20 billion. The Feds are giving them another $250m. Hmmmmm.\nAnd what price will BC residents pay for failing to reach our stated carbon footprint reduction goals? We at Ahead of the Herd believe that the costs to human health of fracking natural gas, pipelining and burning it to get LNG, in terms of increased hospitalizations, and drains on the Medical Services Plan, plus the many negative effects on the environment \u2013 contributing to global warming causing earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes erupting, the extinction of BC\u2019s Killer Whales etc - to name a few will cost a great deal more than $20 billion, over the next 40 years.\nWhat is the net benefit to BC of just one LNG project, let alone two or three more and a massive pipeline system that would have to be built to move all that gas around? I strongly suggest there is none.\nAhead of the Herd is on Twitter\nAhead of the Herd is now on FaceBook\nAhead of the Herd is now on YouTube", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 34321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/mexican-workers-landowners-file-second-complaint-against-canadian-mining-company-excellon-1662536.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:34Z", "digest": "sha1:3X2IAYT3QIPYUTO7EJJM2CT6XDDB5XPR", "length": 3940, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.marketwired.com", "title": "Mexican Workers, Landowners File Second Complaint Against Canadian Mining Company Excellon Resources", "raw_content": "Mexican Workers, Landowners File Second Complaint Against Canadian Mining Company Excellon Resources\nOTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - May 29, 2012) - Communal landowners from the Ejido \"La Sierrita\" and workers from La Platosa mine in Durango, Mexico have filed a complaint against Excellon Resources under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Corporations with government offices in Ottawa and Mexico City.\nLandowners and workers allege severe labour rights violations and failure to comply with the land use contract with the Ejido \"La Sierrita\", on whose land the company operates. The complaint is co-signed by the Canadian Labour Congress, MiningWatch Canada, the United Steelworkers, the National Mining Union of Mining, Metallurgic, and Similar Workers of the Mexican Republic and the Project for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights of Mexico.\n\"In 2008, Excellon signed a contract making us business partners and shareholders in the company. Four years later, we are still waiting for Excellon to comply with many aspects of the contract,\" said David Espinoza, President of the Ejido (group of communal landowners) known as 'La Sierrita'. \"The company has explored on lands not included in the contract, leaving significant environmental damage.\"\nThe complaint also points to the company's failure to build a water treatment plant to ensure Ejido members can use water being removed from the mine for agriculture, nor has it provided the Ejido with food services contracts at the mine or ensured preferential hiring of Ejido members.\n\"We own this land and entered into this agreement with an explicit understanding that we would be equal business partners in the venture. Instead, the company has ignored its obligations,\" said Espinoza.\nJuan Rodriguez, a representative of the union's leadership committee added that the community and the workers are united in their frustration with Excellon.\n\"In late 2010, a majority of mine workers formed Local 309 of the National Mining Union as a result of concerns over health and safety and lack of benefits,\" said Rodriguez. \"As soon as it was formed, however, the company fired our leaders and intimidated workers.\"\nThe complaint says Excellon signed agreements with an employer-led association to obstruct formation of the independent union at La Platosa.\nThis is the second time that workers have complained about labour rights violations at La Platosa. Their first complaint was submitted to the Canadian Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Counsellor in 2011. The CSR Counsellor recognized the credibility of the complainants and their desire to enter into good faith dialogue. However, shortly before mediation was to begin, Excellon walked away from the table. The Counsellor had no further option within her mandate, except to close the complaint.\nNow the workers and landowners are back in Canada, hoping that Canada's National Contact Point under the OECD Guidelines will take serious steps to urge the company to the table.\nThe company has not fully disclosed to shareholders the ongoing conflicts in Mexico. Shareholders include most Canadians since the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) owns about $2-million in Excellon shares. The company is holding its annual shareholders' meeting in Toronto on Thursday.\nDaniel Pacheco, a resident of La Sierrita and former President of the General Assembly of the Ejido says there is no opposition to the mine itself.\n\"What we want is that Excellon acknowledge its misconduct, negotiate with us as equals, and resolve these issues,\" Pacheco said. \"We are shareholders too and want the company to be successful. But so long as it continues to treat its workers and local stakeholders this way, it won't be.\"\nProject for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Mexico\nchris@prodesc.org.mx\nLatin America Program Coordinator\njen@miningwatch.ca\nUnited Steelworkers Humanity Fund\nlramirez@usw.ca\nAbout this company MiningWatch Canada", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 5828, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.maryblackfoundation.org/2018/06/05/listening-for-good/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:49Z", "digest": "sha1:PCBXBYM35IEMLTZCNXZUR7WG5JUMXNON", "length": 2907, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.maryblackfoundation.org", "title": "Listening for Good | Mary Black Foundation Listening for Good | Mary Black Foundation", "raw_content": "June 5, 2018 /in Community Health Fund, Early Childhood Development, Healthy Eating | Active Living /by Keisha Gray\n\u201cEach of us is more than the worst thing we have ever done.\u201d These are the words Bryan Stevenson, well known author, attorney, and Founder/Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, shared with an audience of over 400 attendees during the opening evening plenary of the 2018 Fund for Shared Insight Annual Gathering. Focused on bringing the voice of the individuals nonprofits and philanthropy seek to serve into the fold of programs and services, Fund for Shared Insight provides a proven framework organizations can use to capture consistent and measurable feedback.\nWe know that beneficiary feedback is not the sole measure of nonprofit and philanthropic impact, but it is certainly an important one. And often a measure that is underutilized or leveraged toward greater outcomes.\nThis year\u2019s conference was held in Houston, TX, May 21st \u2013 23rd. Packed with breakout sessions, plenaries, and an inspiring performance by Tony Award-winning playwright and performer Sarah Jones, this year\u2019s convening focused on building an understanding of the necessity of voice to reach the level of impact organizations desire. Feedback creates the opportunity for organizations to understand the true needs of communities, and more importantly the assets that are already present and can be used for greater good.\nBryan Stevenson urged attendees to allow themselves to \u201cget proximate to the communities\u201d that benefit from their efforts. It is in this closer proximity that we begin to understand the humanity of all people; not only their frailties but their strengths. Disparate communities are not the sum total of their shortcomings, but in many ways the picture of resiliency in spite of mounting obstacles. When we allow our organizations to intentionally listen to these voices, we discover what Stevenson referred to as \u201cthe basic humanity that must be respected.\u201d And through this respect we are able to discover the value that each person holds for our collective success.\nTina Gaudiano and Carolyn Cox both attended this year\u2019s conference to represent Middle Tyger Community Center, a 2017 recipient of the Listen for Good grant. When asked about the conference experience, Carolyn Cox shared, \u201cI always viewed client feedback as a way to pat ourselves on the back and confirm what we already believed; that we do good work and we do it well. After spending the week with so many individuals who are extremely passionate about listening to feedback, I realized it is about so much more. It\u2019s about reducing disparities within communities. It\u2019s about making sure that we are delivering services that are tailored exactly to what our community needs in a way that makes everyone feel respected, valued, and included.\u201d\nNonprofits Train to be Change-Makers Funding for Connect Reinstated", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marylopez.com.au/?page_id=283", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:49Z", "digest": "sha1:AGJIQPI2T2FPNOD54UXF5YN33OVYQ67Z", "length": 919, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.marylopez.com.au", "title": "\u00bb An Australian Christmas Darling Harbour 1989 \u2013 2003 Mary Lopez", "raw_content": "An Australian Christmas Darling Harbour 1989 \u2013 2003\nMary Lopez created the concept of An Australian Christmas in 1989 to raise funds for the work of the Wesley Mission.\nThe two-hour spectacularly costumed pageant at Tumbalong Park Darling Harbour told the true story of Christmas. It featured a 1000-strong cast including many high profile Australian artists, a procession of 500 actors and dancers from the NSW community, a 400-voice choir, a symphony orchestra, 50 animals, and pyrotechnics.\nThe show featured a diverse range of Australian performers including Tommy Tycho, John Williamson, Human Nature, John Paul Young, Julie Anthony, Slim Dusty, Shanley Del, Eric Bogle, Doc Neeson, Graeme Connors, stars of the Australian Opera, Leah Purcell, Alan Dargin, Jackie Love, Tony Barber and Maria Venuti.\nAn Australian Christmas was broadcast nationally on the Seven Network (1989 \u2013 1997) and Network Ten (1998 \u2013 1999).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mathepi.com/comp/vectors.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:51Z", "digest": "sha1:CPNHTNIYTUGJXH7FFEBUTVPI4VPKUDW4", "length": 26964, "nlines": 166, "source_domain": "www.mathepi.com", "title": "mathepi.com", "raw_content": "The Map Concept\nLast time we were interested in the logit function, a transformation of proportions or probabilities that arises frequently in epidemiology and biostatistics. We learned that the logit of p is defined to be the logarithm of the odds p/(1-p). We wanted to explore some properties of the logit numerically. We wanted to calculate the logit of some numbers, so we called the logit function over and over again.\nWe wished to repeat a calculation by applying a function to a collection of values, producing a corresponding collection of results. This is a fundamental way to achieve repetition in programming. For this course, we'll call this the map concept, inspired by the function mapcar in Common Lisp.\nThe idea of applying a function to a collection of values to produce the corresponding collection of results is just that - an idea. It is a solution to the basic programming problem of how to repeat a task. We can use it to solve the specific problem of how to compute the logit of many probabilities all at once. But there are many other examples. We may wish to repeat a risk analysis for many different values of selected input parameters in a sensitivity analysis. We may wish to repeat a statistical estimation step for many different bootstrap samples of the original data. Conceptually, we just need a function that we could apply to something, and a collection of things to apply the function to.\nIn the case of logit or sqrt or many (if not most, or even nearly all) functions we might want to use, the result of one computation does not depend on any other calculations. If I want the sqrt of the numbers in a collection consisting of 9, 100, and 49, we know we will obtain 3, 10, and 7. The square root of 9 is always 3, no matter what you just took the square root of, and no matter what you're about to take the square root of. Each compuation is independent of the others.\nIf you had a computer with several central processing units, you could imagine that you could give the first processor the 9 to take the square root of, the second one the 100, and the third one the 49. They could then work independently and at the same time. Now most of us are working on single CPU systems and this does not happen1 when we use R. Still, the fact that the computations are independent is conceptually important. Some languages, such as Fortran 90/95 and Sisal, have special constructions for this sort of problem. In principle, if you can promise the computer that the computations do not interact with each other, the machine is free to do the calculations in the manner most efficient for it.\nThe idea of applying a function independently to a collection of values to produce the corresponding collection of results (what we're calling the map concept may be implemented in many different ways. There are several different collections we will learn about, and there are several different ways that the repeated computation may be achieved. The map concept is a programming idiom, a solution to the problem of how to do certain computations many times. It is not a program, a function, or a construct specific to any particular language.\nThere are several ways to implement the map concept in R, and other languages provide different features. In R, we shall see that the use of vectorized functions is the most common, or at least the most natural, way of achieving the map concept.\nThe most fundamental collection (or type of plural noun, so to speak) in R is the vector. The vector in R has many capabilities that we will learn over time. Fundamentally, an R vector is a homogeneous collection of data values that is addressable by number. This illustrates a vector of seven elements:\nIn R, a vector is a homogeneous collection. We can have a numeric vector, or we can have a character string vector, or we can have a boolean vector. There are a few others as well. But we can't have a vector that is of mixed type. All the elements have to be of the same type. And by the way, functions are one type of data that R does not make vectors of.\nIt is also important to realize that the elements of a vector are addressable in sequence, and there are no gaps. If you have an element one, and a fourth element, then you also must have a second and a third element.\nEnough talk. Let's see some actual vectors. What if I want a vector with a 5 in the first cell, a 28 in the second cell, and a -3.2 in the third? Or what if I want a \"CA\" in the first cell, an \"NV\" in the second, an \"AZ\" in the third, and an \"OR\" in the fourth? How can I make my own vectors to be anything I want them to be?\nThe function c() collects its arguments together and constructs a vector from them:\n> new.vector <- c(5,28,-3.2)\n> new.vector\n> is.vector(new.vector)\n> is.numeric(new.vector)\nThis constructed a new vector, which we called new.vector, out of the three arguments. Of course, we could have named the new vector anything at all, and normally we want to choose a name that conveys a meaning to a human reader.\n> systolic.bp <- c(130,128,141,121,108)\nHere, you see that the function c() can take any number of arguments; they are all collected together into a vector. Since in the previous two examples the arguments were numeric, c() constructed us a numeric vector.\nBut we can also collect character (string, text) data into vectors as well:\n> states<-c(\"CA\",\"NV\",\"AZ\",\"OR\")\n> is.vector(states)\n> is.numeric(states)\n> is.character(states)\nSo the function c() produced a vector, but the vector is not numeric. It is a character vector.\nWe can also have boolean (logical) vectors:\n> bool.vector <- c(TRUE,FALSE,TRUE)\n> is.vector(bool.vector)\n> is.numeric(bool.vector)\n> is.character(bool.vector)\n> is.logical(bool.vector)\nVectors can have only one type of data in them, in R. The function c() will try to construct a vector of one type out of its arguments. If all the arguments are numeric, then the vector is numeric. If all the arguments are logical/boolean, then the vector is logical/boolean. If all the arguments are character, then the vector is character. But if some arguments are numeric, and others character, the numeric arguments get converted to character, and you get a character vector. If some arguments are boolean and others numeric, the boolean TRUE becomes 1 and the FALSE becomes 0, and you get a numeric vector. If some arguments are boolean and others character, the boolean TRUE becomes \"TRUE\" and FALSE becomes \"FALSE\", and you get a character vector. Vectors have to have only one type of data, and the function c() will coerce values to other types to make this happen. Here are some examples:\n> c(1,\"aa\")\n[1] \"1\" \"aa\"\n> c(4,TRUE)\n> c(\"aa\",TRUE)\n[1] \"aa\" \"TRUE\"\n> c(4,\"aa\",TRUE)\n[1] \"4\" \"aa\" \"TRUE\"\nHere is another useful function which creates a vector. In this case, we use the colon operator : to produce specific vectors, namely sequences of values:\nThe colon operator has produced the sequence of values starting at 1 and ending at 10. But we can start anywhere and end anywhere:\n[1] 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15\n[26] 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2\nWhen a vector is long, R breaks up the result over many lines. Since the first line starts with the first value, R displays a [1]; the second line begins with the 26th value, and R begins it with a [26] to orient you to what you are seeing. Now you know what the [1] you've been seeing from time to time means. We have seen that the colon operator produces a sequence from beginning to end (by 1), and that this sequence is represented by a vector. There are other ways to create a vector, but the colon is one simple function that returns a vector.\nLet's assign a vector to a variable:\n> a.new.sequence <- 4:9\n> a.new.sequence\n> length(a.new.sequence)\nHere, we created a sequence using the colon operator, and saved it in the variable called a.new.sequence. We used a new function called length to ask R how long it is, i.e. how many elements it has in it. As you can see, the vector has six elements in it; the starting and ending values differ by 5, so you can think of it as a fence that is five units long, with each number being a fencepost. With five units or lengths of fence, you need six fenceposts, so the vector is of length six2.\nLet's look at the use of is.vector, a function that will tell us if something is a vector:\n> is.vector(a.new.sequence)\n> is.vector(7)\n> is.vector(TRUE)\n> is.vector(\"CA\")\n> is.vector(sqrt)\nThis is rather interesting. Notice that a.new.sequence produces a TRUE when is.vector is applied. The function is.vector produces TRUE when its argument is a vector. But so does 7: the single number 7 is in reality a vector with length one. The same is true for the boolean literal TRUE: it is interpreted as a boolean vector of length one. And similarly for the string literal \"CA\": it is also a vector of length one. These are numeric, boolean, and character string vectors (respectively) to be sure, but they are all vectors. And now you see why the [1] is printed so often: when you type 2+2, the answer is actually a vector, and the answer is printed like every other vector - with the starting point of each line of data indicated in brackets at the beginning. Even the result of is.vector, a TRUE or FALSE, is a boolean vector of length one and the [1] is duly printed.\nBut notice that is.vector returned FALSE for the sqrt function. Functions can't be put into vectors in R, and sqrt is an object which is NOT a vector of length one. No function in R is a vector.\nSo wait a minute. If I just said 2+2 produces a vector of length one:\n> answer <- 2+2\n> length(answer)\n> is.vector(answer)\nthen the plus sign returns a vector as the answer. And if 4 is a vector, what about the 2's that we added together. Aren't they vectors? In fact, they are. The arithmetic operators in R are automatically designed to handle vectors of numbers and are said to be vectorized.\n> answer <- (1:10)+(4:13)\n[1] 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23\nThe system cheerfully added the elements of each sequence elementwise. There is much more to be said about R's vectorized operators and functions, and as we shall see, possibly the most important way to realize the map concept (parallel repetition) in R is by the use of vectorized functions3.\nThe next thing we need to learn is how to reference individual elements of a vector. This is done with the bracket notation:\n> systolic.bp[1]\nHere, we type the name of the vector followed by an open bracket, the number of the element we wish to refer to, and then a close bracket. The system then returns the element of interest. In the example, we first asked for element one, which is 130. Then we asked for element 4, which is 121. (Note that R addresses elements by number starting with 1, rather than with offsets (starting with 0), like C does.) When we asked for element 8, we got NA, a missing value code standing for not available; we will say more about the missing value code later.\nWe can use the bracket notation to assign values as well:\n> u <- 1:10\n> u[2] <- 23\n[1] 1 23 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10\nWhat if we assign to an element that does not exist? Let's begin with a vector of length five, and for definiteness the first element will be a nine, the second an eight, and so forth. Then I am going to try to assign the value 100 to the sixth element.\n> u <- 9:5\n> u[6] <- 100\n[1] 9 8 7 6 5 100\nThere was no sixth element, but R created one for you and put the value 100 in it. Some languages don't allow this sort of thing, but R vectors are expandable in size. R will expand a vector if you ask it to assign to elements that have not yet been created.\nWhat if we do the same example, but assign to element seven? We have a vector of length 5, and so there is no sixth element and no seventh. We're jumping past the sixth element and assigning to position 7:\n[1] 9 8 7 6 5 NA 100\nHere, the needed seventh position is created, and you can't have a seventh position without a sixth. There is nothing to put in the sixth position, which is simply filled with the missing value code NA. The seventh position (element 7) is filled with the numeric value 100, as requested.\nWith character vectors, gaps like this are filled with empty strings:\n> u <- c(\"D\",\"P\",\"H\")\n> u[5] <- \"F\"\n[1] \"D\" \"P\" \"H\" \"\" \"F\"\nWhat if you try to assign a character to an element in a numeric vector?\n> u <- c(1,2,5)\n[1] \"1\" \"2\" \"5\" \"\" \"F\"\nVectors can only contain one type of data, so the numeric values in the original data set were coerced to characters. Then, the character vector was expanded, undefined locations being filled with empty strings.\nQuestion: explain the following behavior:\n> u[5] <- 8\n[1] 1 2 5 NA 8\n[1] \"1\" \"2\" \"5\" \"NA\" \"8\" \"\" \"F\"\nQuestion: how are undefined elements in boolean vectors filled as you expand beyond the end of the vector? Make up a simple boolean vector of length 3, and then assign to the fifth element. What is the fourth element of the result? Then assign the sixth element with a numeric value. What are the other elements coerced to? Go back and make up a new boolean vector of length three, and then assign element 4 to be a character string. Now what are the boolean values coerced to when the vector is changed to a character vector?\nUsing vectorized functions and operators\nLet's begin by taking the square root of different numbers. We will place the values into a collection, and apply a function to each element in the collection, resulting in a corresponding collection of results. Recall that we call this idea the map concept. In R, this concept is frequently implemented with a vectorized function, i.e. a function which automatically operates on vectors. The function sqrt will take the square root of every number in a vector of numbers, and return a vector of the answers. Only once is sqrt called, though internally many square roots are computed.\n> sqrt(c(1,2,3,4))\n> sqrt(1:4)\nOther mathematical functions in R behave in a similar way:\n> abs(c(-1,1.8,-0.5,2,-80.3,-1e-7))\n[1] 1.00e+00 1.80e+00 5.00e-01 2.00e+00 8.03e+01 1.00e-07\nHere, I had a collection of numeric values. The function abs was applied to the collection, and it took the absolute value of all of them and returned the collection of absolute values. In this case, the collection was an R vector, and the vectorized function abs returns a vector of corresponding absolute values.\nAnd the logarithm function is vectorized too:\n> log(c(1,2.7182818,10))\n> vals <- c(1,2.7182818,10)\n> log(vals)\nRemember that when called with one argument, the log function computes the natural logarithm of its argument. When that single argument is a vector, then you get a vector of the corresponding logarithms. Only one single call to log occurs, and you see an example of what we're calling the map concept.\nIt is of fundamental importance to understand that in the logarithm example above, the function was called with only a single argument. That argument was a vector produced by the function c; this vector is a compound object, a collection containing more than one value. But it is still a single object and it constitutes a single argument for the log function. You can see this more clearly in the second part of the example, where we assign the vector to the variable vals and call the log function with vals as the single argument.\nWe alluded earlier to the fact that the basic arithmetic functions were vectorized. Let's look again at some examples. We'll first define two example vectors, xx and yy, and then we'll look at arithmetic operations with them.\n> xx <- c(8,5,9,10,2,-7,-2.2)\n> yy <- c(1,5,-6,0,-8,3,-1)\n> xx+yy\n[1] 9.0 10.0 3.0 10.0 -6.0 -4.0 -3.2\n> xx-yy\n[1] 7.0 0.0 15.0 10.0 10.0 -10.0 -1.2\n> xx*yy\n[1] 8.0 25.0 -54.0 0.0 -16.0 -21.0 2.2\n> xx/yy\n[1] 8.000000 1.000000 -1.500000 Inf -0.250000 -2.333333 2.20000\nEach of these operates in an elementwise manner. When two vectors of the same length are added together by the plus operator, the first element of one vector is added to the first element of the other, producing the first element of the result. Then, the second element of one vector is added to the second element of the other, producing the second element of the result. This continues until the last element of the first vector is added to the last element of the second, producing the last element of the result. This is true vector addition as defined by the mathematicians. And note that each of the fundamental arithmetic operators works the same way.\nIt is important to pay special attention to the behavior of * and /. When applied to two vectors of equal length, the * operator produces an elementwise (or Hadamard) product, not any other product you may have heard of (though we'll soon enough see how to compute other products).\nLet's see what happens when you place a vector on one side of an arithmetic operator and a single number (a vector of length one) on the other side:\n> xx <- 1:7\n> 2*xx\n[1] 2 4 6 8 10 12 14\n> xx/2\nThese multiply or divide all the elements in a vector (in the example, the vector xx) by a constant (in the example, 2). This is ordinary scalar multiplication as the mathematicians define it. Of course, the xx itself is unchanged after the operation and this is the semantics you would expect. We took the xx and we took a constant, and we computed a new result from it (the product, or quotient). The new result was printed to the screen, though of course we could have assigned it to a variable and used it for something else.\nWe should also say that you can have the single number in the numerator and the long vector in the denominator:\n> 4/xx\nThe system has taken each element in the vector xx, divided 4 by it, and returned the vector of these quotients.\nWhen the vectors are of different lengths, the arithmetic operators repeat the shorter one until they get a vector that is as long as the longer one, and then the elementwise operation is performed. This is what is happening in the examples we just did. It is interesting to experiment with the behavior of the system using different examples, but we will come back to this in more detail later.\nLet's now look back at the addition and subtraction operators.\n> xx+2\n> xx-5\n[1] -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2\n> 10-xx\n> -1-xx\n[1] -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8\nNotice that xx+2 added two to each element of xx and produced a vector of the corresponding sums. This is another example of what we're calling the map concept, as are all the examples we've seen so far.\nNow, let's look back at our definition of the logit function. Remember that we defined it in R as:\n> logit<-function(pp){log(pp/(1-pp))}\nSuppose that the argument pp is not a single number, but instead a vector whose length is greater than one. Remember that a single number is just a vector of length one, and we know what this function will do. Now if pp is of length greater than one, what happens? First, the subtraction 1-pp is going to happen: the first element of pp is subtracted from one, producing the first element of a result. Then the second element of pp is subtracted from one, producing the second element of the result, and so forth, until a new vector 1-pp has been computed element by element. The next thing that is going to happen is the divison pp/(1-pp). When the division is to be done, we have already computed 1-pp. The division is going to happen elementwise and the result is going to be a vector of the same length as pp (and the same length as 1-pp). The first element of the new vector is going to be pp[1] divided by 1-pp[1], and so on. This produces the vector of odds from the vector of probabilities or proportions, pp. Finally, the logarithm function will receive this vector of odds as its single argument, and as you have seen, will compute the corresponding vector of (natural) logarithms. Since this vector is the last (in fact the only) expression evaluated in the body of the function, it is returned as the result of the function call. We have computed the logit of each element in a vector and returned the vector of logits; our logit function is vectorized (with no extra effort on our part) simply because we wrote it using R's vectorized arithmetic operators and mathematical functions.\nWouldn't it be nice to calculate the logit of a lot of values between 0 and 1 and plot them all? Let's take a moment to learn how to do this. This will introduce a new useful function, and it will give us a chance to learn how to produce a plot.\nFirst, let us learn how to produce a sequence of evenly spaced values, collected together in a vector. We already know the sequence operator, so we could get ten evenly spaced values by using the colon operator and elementwise division:\n> (1:9)/10\nTo make a nice graph, we might want to pick values closer together. We could start at 0.01 and go up on steps of 0.01 by computing (1:99)/100. For convenience, R provides the function seq to create such sequences. We will start at 0.01, go through 0.99, in steps of 0.01:\n> xx <- seq(0.01,0.99,by=0.01)\nThe first argument of seq is the starting value, the second argument the ending value, and the by=0.01 instructs R to produce values that are separated by 0.01. We have seen this construction in function calls before, but we have not said much about it (we will soon). How long is the new vector xx that we just constructed using seq? You know that it must have 99 elements in it. We stayed away from 0 and 1 at the ends so we won't wind up dividing by zero or taking the logarithm of zero in the logit function.\nOnce we have this vector of values to take the logit of, we can take the logit of them all at once because as we have seen, our logit function is vectorized. We are repeating a computation by applying a function to a vector of values and calculating a vector of corresponding logits in an instance of the map concept. The calculation is done with a single call to the vectorized function logit. We no longer need to use duplication to do the job of repetition:\n> yy <- logit(xx)\nNow, I want to show you how to do a simple line plot. We will use the plot function. The plot function has many options and can do a very great deal, and we're just going to scratch the surface today. We're going to give it three things: the vector xx to be plotted on the horizontal axis, the vector yy to be plotted on the vertical axis, and finally an instruction to produce a line plot (to join the points up with a line). Here it all is:\n> plot(xx,yy,type=\"l\")\nHere is what the plot looks like:\nNotice that the system labeled the x and y axes with xx and yy, the names of the arguments of the function plot. As we will see later, you can label the axes any way you wish.\nNow that we know about vectors, it's a good time to introduce some of R's features for statistical computation. We will begin by learning how to generate a collection of values from the normal distribution. Recall that the normal distribution describes or at least approximates a variety of types of observations, typically when the value is the result of many tiny random and independent effects. For instance, if someone fires a bullet at a target, there are lots of tiny air currents, muscle twitches or other vibrations in the person who aims it, irregularities in the bore of the gun the bullet must travel through, irregularities in the surface of the projectile that create differences in the airflow around it, and so on. In public health, the height of a person may be influenced by many genetic and environmental factors. The normal distribution has played a central role in biometrics and biostatistics since the work of the pioneers Galton, Pearson, Gossett, and Fisher and its applications are almost limitless. All of you have seen the normal distribution, sometimes called a Gaussian distribution, and occasionally called a \"bell curve\" (though there are lots of distributions that have a bell-shaped curve).\nRecall that a normal distribution is characterized by a mean and a standard deviation. The mean is a measure of the central tendency of the observations, and the standard deviation a measure of the spread of the data or observations around the mean. For today, I want to show you how to simulate systolic blood pressure measurements from a population with a mean systolic blood pressure of 130 millimeters of mercury and a standard deviation of 5 millimeters of mercury. I wish to simulate 100 such individuals; in other words, I want a vector of 100 random observations taken from a normal distribution with mean 130 and standard deviation 5. The R function rnorm accomplishes this:\n> bp <- rnorm(100, mean=130, sd=5)\n> length(bp)\nThen let's plot a histogram of these newly-generated simulated data points using the R function hist, and let's have 10 classes or bins in the histogram:\n> hist(bp, nclass=10)\nThe result is shown below. Notice that R has labeled the histogram with the name bp, and this too can be changed once we see how.\nThese data, summarized in the histogram, are randomly generated, and if you ask R for a different set of random numbers, you will get a different histogram, as we will demonstrate in class.\nNext time we will move further with our study of vectors. We will learn about operations that work on whole vectors to produce numbers, such as mean, sum, median, and var. We will also learn about how the comparison operators such as < and == are vectorized. We will learn about the vector properties of the boolean operators such as & and |, and how these can be used to perform fundamental database operations in R vectors such as selecting data values that exceed a certain cutoff, or removing missing values from a data vector. Finally, we will see how R represents tables (multidimensional arrays).\n1 The parallel processing revolution is one of those things that always seems to be right around the corner. But actually, parallel computation is done every day. See Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90: The Art of Parallel Scientific Computing by W. H. Press, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling and B. P. Flannery, Cambridge University Press, 1999.\n2 This fencepost example is actually widespread among programmers. Quick: if you do a computation starting with 5 and ending at 3709, how many computations do you do? The answer is 3709-5+1, or 3705. Sometimes people forget to add the one in at the end (so they would say 3704, which is worng). This is called a fencepost error.\n3 In many languages, it is necessary to use a function that might be called map or something like map to automatically apply a particular function separately to each element of a collection to produce a collection of results. Such higher-order functions realize or implement the idea we're calling the map concept just as well as R's vectorized functions and operators (though more function calls may be needed). In fact, such techniques are useful from time to time in R, though vectorized functions are in a sense the most native idiom of R (and of course its predecessor language, S).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 269, "original_length": 28284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.maths9.com/practice/Fifth-Grade/Time/Converting-between-12-hour-and-24-hour-time", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:31Z", "digest": "sha1:AHLN2RE3X4FOACYYCPOUUQD4DOEC3FPD", "length": 84, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.maths9.com", "title": "Your browser does not support Java Script, please enable Java Script.", "raw_content": "Time: Converting between 12-hour and 24-hour time\nWrite 1:45 P.M. as a 24-hour time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 145.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.maureenonthecape.com/home/cape-cod-to-celebrate-hydrangeas-with-festival", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:39Z", "digest": "sha1:QBFEK4FNXEO7E3KMQN6D5FRENP5U2HEJ", "length": 1975, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.maureenonthecape.com", "title": "Cape Cod Real Estate | Cape Cod homes for Sale", "raw_content": "Cape Cod to Celebrate Hydrangeas with Festival\nNo visitor to Cape Cod can miss them: the iconic and gigantic blue flowers called hydrangeas.\nOne house on Shore Rd. in Chatham is a landmark bearing the name Hydrangea Walk House.\nImage courtesy of: tumblr @ohwhataparadise\nThere are other varieties of hydrangea too -- vines that climb fences and the sides of houses, lace caps in colors ranging from white to various shades of blue, and the fall blooming hydrangeas with their ombre effect.\nWhile Ottawa Canada has its tulip festival and Rochester NY celebrates it's lilacs each year, Cape Cod has not had a festival to honor it's iconic hydrangeas. Until now.\nThis summer from July 10th through the 19th, hydrangeas will be on full display with public tours of private gardens, lectures and other activities throughout the entire 70 mile long stretch of the Cape. The Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce is organizing the event which benefits Cape Cod non-profit organizations.\nTo learn about the flowers themselves, vintagegardens.com has extensive information about the history and care of these beauties, including some mythbusters. Did you ever hear you can alter the color of hydrangeas simply by changing the chemical content of the soil? No so, according to Vintage Gardens.\nIt should be noted that the tough winter of '14 took its toll on hydrangeas throughout the Cape. Some plants did not survive and those that did offered a mostly sparse bloom last summer. This winter is proving to be even snowier and colder. The plants get some protection from a blanket of snow at the base now blankets the base, however it remains to be seen how the exposed stalks which hold this summer's buds will deal with the extreme cold this month. Forecasters say it is the coldest we've seen in 15 years. Ouch. And not just for the plants.\nHere's hoping the hydrangeas come through this and provide us with a much-needed burst of color for the Inaugural Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival in July.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mediavataar.com/index.php/news/advertising-branding/item/13527-sansan-appoints-neo-media-world-as-agency-of-record", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:31Z", "digest": "sha1:LIJQNQJWKZH344QTB6WZ57VLGWF6WM56", "length": 3066, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.mediavataar.com", "title": "Sansan Appoints Neo Media World as Agency of Record", "raw_content": "Neo, the global performance marketing agency network that is part of Mindshare has been appointed by Sansan as its agency partner, effective February of 2019. Neo is designed to work with digital economy businesses to scale at speed. This will see the agency handling media investment, planning, and management for the newly funded start-up. The scope of work also covers Sansan and its portfolio of products.\nTokyo-based Sansan has, since 2007, developed unique cloud-based contact management tools for corporations and individuals. Centred on business cards as building blocks, Sansan\u2019s main offerings enable remarkably fast and accurate building of a cloud-based contact database, accessible anywhere. Sansan\u2019s flagship B2B system is at work in over 6,000 companies, including Lenovo Group Ltd, Merck & Co, and Seven & i Holdings Co.\nThe most recent round of investment by Japan Post Capital, T. Rowe Price, SBI Investment, and DCM Ventures brings Sansan\u2019s total funding to over USD$100 million.\nSansan boasts an overwhelming 82% market share in Japan. The company launched its namesake B2B product, Sansan, in Singapore in 2015 and its B2C service, Eight, in India in 2017. Sansan\u2019s products digitize contact data with superb accuracy enabled by proprietary optical character recognition (OCR) enhanced by AI and human input.\n\u201cWhen I started the global expansion for Eight, I sought agency partners that can truly provide Sansan with scale and speed,\u201d says Edward Senju, Executive Producer and Leader for Eight India. \u201cWith the Neo and GroupM partnership in Singapore, we aim to capture a region ripe for disruption.\u201d \u201cIn this new economy world, growing and matured start-ups seek unconventional thinking and solutions to effectively scale in an important growth period. Our understanding of audience, tools, and thought provoking ideas for this blue ocean market gives us an edge in forming this partnership. Our global network of 116 offices in 86 countries makes it possible for Sansan to tap into our agility and on-the-ground strengths,\u201d says Animesh Kumar, CEO of Neo Singapore.\n\u201cAt this build stage of Sansan\u2014and Eight, we are young and it\u2019s hard to consider a partnership with a GroupM agency,\u201d says Krishna Agarwal, Sansan Senior Marketing Manager. \u201cChatting with Animesh was enlightening: Neo somewhat resembles a start-up agency with GroupM wings. Its ability to move with the quickness of a start-up, yet with stable and reliable operations and support of a large network agency, is a major plus.\u201d\n\u201cNeo has been investing in people, which has led to the deep specialism in what we do. The team brings more than 15 years of experience in connected media, which has resulted in award-winning campaigns over the years. Partnership with Sansan comes at an opportune time and we are confident in strengthening their brand and business in the coming years\u201d, added Aashay Shah, Neo\u2019s Regional Media Director for Sansan. With the Series E funding, Sansan is now looking to expand globally with Singapore and the rest of Southeast Asia as their focus markets.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 6852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Assaults_on_Emergency_Workers_(Offences)_Act_2018?id=010119-1754", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:21Z", "digest": "sha1:7EH6L2BQADJ4AITZTSZ3EABMVRJFFM23", "length": 2026, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk", "title": "Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 - Mental Health Law Online", "raw_content": "This Act creates: (1) a new either-way offence of assault or battery committed against an emergency worker with a maximum sentence of 12 months, or a fine, or both; (2) a statutory aggravating factor for various offences when committed against an emergency worker. In force 13/11/18.\nMinistry of Justice, 'Circular 2018/01: Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018' (13/11/18) \u2014 Extract from document: \"The purpose of this circular is to provide guidance on the Act\u2019s provisions. The circular is for guidance only and should not be regarded as providing legal advice. Guidance for prosecutors on the new offence of assault on an emergency worker contained in the Act will be made available on the CPS website. The CPS are responsible for advising police for the purposes of criminal proceedings. For other operational advice, police should seek advice from their own legal advisors.\"\nCrown Prosecution Service, 'Prosecution Guidance: Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018' (13/11/18) \u2014 Extract: \"Headlines: (1) Police and prosecutors should cease charging the existing offences of common assault, battery, assaulting a police officer in the execution of their duty and other existing similar offences where the complainant is an emergency worker (in accordance with the definition in the Act). Prosecutors should charge under the provisions of the 2018 Act as at the commencement of the legislation where there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and a prosecution is required in the public interest. (2) Police should charge the offence at section 1 of the 2018 Act (where a guilty plea is anticipated and the offence is suitable for sentence in a magistrates\u2019 court) in preference to existing summary offences that apply to assaults against emergency workers.\"\nType: UK Public General Act\uf50d\nSubject: Other useful legislation\uf50d\nRetrieved from \"http://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/index.php?title=Assaults_on_Emergency_Workers_(Offences)_Act_2018&oldid=36908\"\nOther useful legislation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Law_Society_mental_health_accreditation_scheme", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DYI6VEO2R6H6GMSOXBMODX3RQ3OMR3W2", "length": 1055, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk", "title": "Law Society mental health accreditation scheme - Mental Health Law Online", "raw_content": "Under the Legal Aid contract, advocacy at Mental Health Tribunals must be carried out by members of this accreditation scheme (previously called the \"MHRT panel\").\nLaw Society: Mental Health Accreditation (main page)\nLaw Society: How to apply to the Mental Health Accreditation\nA new accreditation application form has been published (dated 17/2/17). The main changes are the removal of question 20 (\"Please state the number of CPD hours attributable to mental health related courses that you have undertaken\") and a new professional development statement (referring to \"Learning outcomes\", \"Category of learning and relevant competence\" etc).\nRe-accreditation to the Mental Health Accreditation\nA new re-accreditation application form has been published (dated 20/2/17). The main change is a new format for each year's Professional development training record.\nTraining and publications for the Mental Health Accreditation Scheme\nRetrieved from \"http://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/index.php?title=Law_Society_mental_health_accreditation_scheme&oldid=33657\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 3433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.midweek.com/coach-bode-happy-hpu-team-happy-hawaii-kai-life/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OWWBBB2HZY4WIPJHAI4KM4UBYF7MP22A", "length": 3210, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.midweek.com", "title": "Coach Bode Happy With His HPU Team, Happy With Hawaii Kai Life - MidWeek", "raw_content": "Coach Bode Happy With His HPU Team, Happy With Hawaii Kai Life\nBy way of tennis, Hendrik Bode\u2019s life already has seen a few surprises, and you can count living in Hawaii Kai as one of them.\n\u201cComing to Hawaii was surreal,\u201d he said. \u201cLiving here definitely never crossed my mind. I\u2019 m from a very small town (Lehrer, Germany) of 3,000 people, where there are mainly potato fields and not a whole lot going on.\u201d\nOnly seven years ago, Bode was a top tennis prospect, looking to play in the United States in college. He was all set to join a friend at a school in the South before reopening his recruitment.\nBut a few weeks later, Bode landed at Hawaii Pacific University, where he would become part of three NAJA tournament teams. \u201cIt was June by then (in 2008), and the coach (Stefan Pamplico) basically told me to come immediately. I love\nToday Bode is one of the top young coaches in the country, having guided HPU to a 21-0 mark so far in 2015. The Sharks leave Sunday for Surprise, Ariz., to compete in the NAJA Division IHI national championships. HPU is currently ranked No.\n1 in the nation, having taken second last year. The team has been idle since the April 18 Packets championships.\n\u201cThree-and-a-half weeks is a long time not to be playing a match, but we can make it to our advantage if we do the right things,\u201d Bode said.\nThe Sharks are happy to return to Surprise, where Packets championships also have been held. \u201cWe have a good idea of what is awaiting us,\u201d he said. \u201cOur group is even closer this year than last year, and they\u2019ve worked extremely hard to get us to where we are now.\u201d\nJust as Bode hadn\u2019t envisioned living in Hawaii, neither did he foresee a career in coaching. \u201cI didn\u2019t know I would coach \u2014 I almost grew into it.\u201d After playing for HPU, Bode joined the coach- ing staff as a graduate assis- tant in 2010 and was promoted to a regular assistant position for the following season. In 2012, he took over HPU men\u2019s program as head coach when Pamplico departed.\nSince then, Bode\u2019s teams have gone 76-10 (.918), and the Sharks are currently on a 37-match winning streak. \u201cI was the natural choice to keep going forward with it,\u201d he said.\nIn 2014, he repeated as Packets Coach of the Year when he guided HPU to a 23- 1 record and its first appear- ance in a national championship final since 2003. HPU beat 15 ranked teams and two DI schools along the way.\nIn his first two seasons, Bode also was named ITA West Region Coach of the Year and made a pair of appearances in the NAJA DIDI national quarterfinals.\nBode completed his last season as a player ranked No. 2 in the West Region and was named ITA Senior Male Player of the Year, ranking as high as No. 5 nationally during the year. He finished his three-year career at HPU with a 39-13 overall singles record, almost exclusively at the No. 1 position. He also posted a 45-15 career doubles record.\nBode\u2019s personal life also has fallen nicely into line with his professional life. He is married to lifelong Hawaii Kai resident Lauren Conching, who is the Sharks\u2019 women\u2019s tennis head coach. The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Lana, six months ago.\n\u201cEverything I have has come through tennis,\u201d he said.\nEast Oahu Sports", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.miningjournal.net/sports/prep-sports/2018/12/fink-sundberg-gain-ap-all-state-honors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7GQ7XGT4LGBCQHJ3LKC753DQVWI54FHJ", "length": 566, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.miningjournal.net", "title": "Fink, Sundberg gain AP All-State honors | News, Sports, Jobs - The Mining Journal", "raw_content": "Fink, Sundberg gain AP All-State honors\nMARQUETTE \u2014 Ishpeming High School\u2019s Gavin Sundberg and Superior Central\u2019s Roubens Fink both have gained recognition on the Associated Press All-State football teams.\nMonday, Fink was named to the Associated Press Eight-Player All-State team as a wide receiver. His coach, Sam Eggleston, said it is the first time in the Superior Central football program\u2019s history a player has been named an AP All-Stater.\nSundberg was voted to the honorable mention list as a quarterback on the AP Division 7-8 All-State team announced today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 3714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mintrun.org/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-buying-your-first-life-insurance-policy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CFQGP3C7M67MYNLTPLAJ7V6BPM4EXFYG", "length": 3067, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.mintrun.org", "title": "Here's What You Need to Know About Buying Your First Life Insurance Policy | Mintrun", "raw_content": "October 4, 2017 Suzana Mikolova Comments Off on Here\u2019s What You Need to Know About Buying Your First Life Insurance Policy\nEveryone needs life insurance to make sure their final expenses are taken care of and to leave a little something for their loved ones. In many cases, people put this expense off until later in life, but it can be beneficial to invest in a life insurance policy earlier. By starting your policy at a younger age, you can ensure your family is covered if something does happen to you.\nKnow That There Are Two Main Types of Life Insurance\nNot all life insurance is the same, so it\u2019s important to understand the difference between whole and term insurance. In a whole life insurance policy, you will continue paying until your death and, upon your death, the policy will pay out to your beneficiaries. Conversely, term life insurance has a time limit and you only pay into the policy for that established time frame. When the period expires, the policy expires, and no death benefit is to be paid out.\nMost life insurance Bridgeport WV experts recommend a policy that provides a death benefit that\u2019s equivalent to eight times your yearly salary. This can seem like excessive, but it depends on the needs of your family and your expenses. You will also want to consider how much of your estate will go to paying off your debts at the time of probate. If you expect your estate to be primarily used to pay off taxes and debts, a larger life insurance policy can ensure your family will have what they need.\nDon\u2019t Name a Child Beneficiary\nCertainly, if you die while your child is still a minor, you want to make sure he or she is looked after throughout their childhood. However, if you name the minor child as a beneficiary, the insurance company will hold onto the money, until the child turns 18. Instead, set up a life insurance trust, so the child can begin receiving payments at any time. Additionally, the trust will outline acceptable uses for the money, so a teenager can\u2019t spend the money on drugs, alcohol, or other frivolous expenses.\nLook for a Policy That Provides Life Benefits\nLife benefits are fairly new in life insurance policies and they were introduced to help people pay for unexpected events, such as extreme illness. If you develop a form of cancer, for instance, you may need supplemental resources in addition to your health insurance coverage to help you pay medical bills. The life benefits of your life insurance policy will let you use the death benefits, while you\u2019re still living. Most companies consider these extras or riders, so be sure to ask about the possibility of adding life benefits to the policy.\nLife insurance provides financial support to family members after you pass away, but it can also be used in other ways. It can be an investment and a source of assistance in dark financial times, which makes it that much more important to begin a policy as soon as policy. Paying for a policy sooner will help you build its value, which may help you later in your life.\nLandlord Insurance For College students", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 5944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mmclark.com/2016/04/steps-in-right-direction.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:36Z", "digest": "sha1:T3FW5H3TKZ7HCYGSDY2QDYQB5MNJATRH", "length": 1929, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mmclark.com", "title": "It Is What It Is: Steps in the Right Direction", "raw_content": "With the pending closing date set at April, 20, we are only weeks away from making the big move out of our home. We passed the house, well, and septic inspections with no issues to deal with, and as of last week an appraisal was done. While we are anxious to dismantle the home staging and get on with the business of wrapping up what we have left to move out, we continue to be in a limbo stage until the home buyer\u2019s bank gives them approval of their loan. We are not expecting any problems with their loan application, but it is in our best interest to be patient and sit tight.\nWaiting during this period prior to the acceptance of the buyer\u2019s loan application has allowed us to slow down a bit and plan for our first few destinations. We really couldn\u2019t do that before this because we didn\u2019t know when the house would sell. Planning our initial destinations strengthened our resolve to be houseless and travel for the next few years. I know I was filled with a giddy excitement and I could tell my husband, Dennis, was feeling the same way. Anyone who knows Dennis would not necessarily put giddy and Dennis together, but I can tell you he was giddy, nonetheless!\nApproximately three years ago we talked about moving. Two years ago we decided we didn\u2019t know where we wanted to live and we knew we would be traveling extensively so why have the expense of keeping an abode. Since that realization we have aggressively laid down the tracks and set an intentional course on a new direction in our lives. While we are definitely changing how we do everything, change and this new direction have filled our lives with a knowing that we are headed in the right direction. How do we know we are headed in the right direction? Because with each step we take, doors begin to open, and life seemingly falls into place showing us we are on the right path.\nQuestion mark sign courtesy of Colin Kinner\nLabels: change, intention, patience", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.moneymoz.co.uk/compare-guarantor-loans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:26Z", "digest": "sha1:JYTAP2KMKA4VZVY2SJTEWXYBHAGELY7N", "length": 2934, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.moneymoz.co.uk", "title": "Comparing Guarantor Loans", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Mortgages \u00bb Compare Guarantor Loans\nRichard Bloomfield\tOctober 11, 2012\tMortgages\nGuarantor loans are designed for those with bad credit, enabling anyone with a poor credit history to be accepted for a loan, provided they have a guarantor. But it\u2019s important to know how they work, and what the different terms mean, in order to choose the best loan.\nSo if terms such as unsecured loans, APR, TAR, and flexible finance have your head spinning, then it can be helpful to know what you should be looking for when deciding on the best type of guarantor loan for you.\nSo what is a guarantor loan?\nA guarantor loan is an unsecured loan, meaning that the lender is not protected against default by being able to cover their risk through a claim on any security belonging to the applicant, such as a house or car. Instead, the lender covers their risk through a third party, known as a guarantor. Typically, this is a friend or family member of the applicant, who has agreed to cover the loan repayments if the applicant cannot pay.\nA loan guarantor could be anyone the applicant knows, provided they meet certain criteria. They should normally be a UK homeowner, aged between 18 \u2013 75, with a good credit history, no CCJ\u2019s, and able to afford any monthly repayments.\nGuarantor loan advantages\nThe right type of guarantor loan offers many advantages to a bad credit applicant.\nThe ability to borrow money\nA guarantor loan makes it possible for those who have been refused credit due to a poor credit history to be accepted for a loan.\nRebuild credit history\nA bad credit guarantor loan is taken out in the name of the applicant, so credit reference agencies will have a record of your repayments.\nLower APR Rates\nAlthough guarantor loans are unsecured, they carry cheaper borrowing rates because security is in place from the guarantor. This makes them much cheaper than other types of bad credit loans. A typical APR would be around 50%.\nBorrow larger amounts\nMost short term bad credit loans offer only up to \u00a31,000. 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Production Company \u2013 Clover Productions.\nRichard Denning (Dr Chet Walker), S. John Launer (Captain Dave Harris), Angela Stevens (Joyce Walker), Michael Granger (Frank Buchanan), Gregory Gay (Dr Wilhelm Steigg), Linda Bennett (Penny Walker), Tristram Coffin (D.A. McGraw)\nA man breaks in and attacks the crime kingpin Hennessy, proving impervious to the bullets shot at him. Crime lab doctor Chet Walker investigates this and the subsequent killing of District Attorney McGraw in an identical manner. Chet is puzzled to find glowing, radioactive fingerprints found at either scene. In his investigation, Chet discovers that deported crimelord Frank Buchanan has returned to the country accompanied by German scientist Wilhelm Steigg. Steigg has perfected a process using atomic energy that allows him to resurrect the dead and take control of their minds, turning them into zombies. Buchanan is now using the zombies to exact revenge against those who were responsible for condemning him.\nCreature with the Atom Brain was a B-budget film of the 1950s. It was produced by an uncredited Sam Katzman, a B-budget specialist who was prolific with assorted Bela Lugosi horror films and East Side Kids comedies during the previous decade. Through his Clover Productions company, Katzman made a number of films of the era including It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), The WereWolf (1956) and Earth Vs the Flying Saucers (1956). The film had a script by German emigre Curt Siodmak who found a career making Hollywood B movies (see below) and the show was placed in the directorial hands of Edward L. Cahn who had made numerous B genre films (see below also).\nThe dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945 and all the fear and anxiety that came with it made \u2018atomic\u2019 into one of the buzzwords of the 1950s. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) created the first atomic monster movie and soon after atomic radiation became the catch-all explanation of the decade when it came to devising rationales for monsters. Indeed, Sam Katman and Clover had ventured into the atomic monster movie before with It Came from Beneath the Sea about an atomically enlarged octopus and subsequently made the first and only atomic werewolf film with The WereWolf. In actuality though, take away the word atomic from the title and all that we have is a mad scientist film that would have been regularly churned out by Katzman at one of the poverty row studios during the 1940s.\nThe authorities try to hold off the march of the mind-controlled atomic zombies\nCreature with the Atom Brain is efficiently made, although the low-budget gets in the way of making a terribly interesting film. This means that the action is curtailed, resulting in a film that consists mostly of static talk scenes. The mind-controlled atomic zombies, for instance, are never allowed to do much more than kill a couple of people up until the climactic shootout that takes place on the mad scientist\u2019s front lawn. Edward L. Cahn at least keeps the talkiness moving with a snappy pace, while Curt Siodmak writes the scientific doublespeak in a way that almost sounds halfway convincing.\nEdward L. Cahn was a regular director of B movies during this era, including the likes of:- The She-Creature (1956), Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957), Voodoo Woman (1957), Zombies of Mora Tau (1957), The Curse of the Faceless Man (1958), It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958), The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), Invisible Invaders (1959) and Beauty and the Beast (1961).\nCurt Siodmak\u2019s other genre scripts include:- F.P.1 Does Not Answer (1932), Trans-Atlantic Tunnel (1935), The Ape (1940), Black Friday (1940), The Invisible Man Returns (1940), The Invisible Woman (1940), The Wolf Man (1941), Invisible Agent (1942), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Son of Dracula (1943), The Climax (1944), House of Frankenstein (1944), The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), Tarzan\u2019s Magic Fountain (1949), Riders to the Stars (1954) and Earth Vs the Flying Saucers (1956). Siodmak also directed/wrote several films with Bride of the Gorilla (1951), The Magnetic Monster (1953), Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956) and Love Slaves of the Amazon (1957). Siodmak also wrote the classic novel Donovan\u2019s Brain (1942) about a millionaire\u2019s disembodied brain that ends up mentally controlling the scientist that removed it, which has been thrice filmed as The Lady and the Monster (1944), Donovan\u2019s Brain (1953) and Vengeance/The Brain (1962). Siodmak\u2019s lesser known follow-up Hauser\u2019s Memory (1968) about transplanted memories was also filmed as the tv movie Hauser\u2019s Memory (1970).\nActors: Richard Denning, S. 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Appropriate sized classrooms were created to supplement the smaller, more crowded classrooms elsewhere on campus. Departments once scattered across campus were reunited in spaces designed specifically for them.\nAs departments gained the conveniences and synergies of being on the main campus, they actually gave up some of the physical space they had occupied away from the center of campus life. Mosaic ameliorated this design challenge by working closely with college representatives and faculty members from the Business, Fine Arts, English, Criminal Justice, Individual Studies and Liberal Arts departments to determine how to best use the space.\nMosaic was responsible for all phases of design and construction, from programming for six separate academic departments through final closeout of construction contracts. Care was taken to leave unaltered as much of the buildings\u2019 structural systems as possible for efficiency of design space and budget. Mechanical and plumbing chases were reused in the new design to utilize infrastructure that was already in place.\nThe reconstruction of the third floor of Fitzgibbons Center to house Individual Studies and Liberal Arts created a large, welcoming suite for the ever-growing Individual Studies population on the south-west corner of the floor, with a New Student Academic Planning Room and Liberal Arts Advising suite to the east.\nBy reducing the initial number of offices desired and creating an open work area, the design was able to accommodate competing needs. With only two existing windows in the space, and no option to add more, providing natural light was a significant challenge.\nBy locating the two windows in the open work area with the offices around the perimeter, the light from the windows is allowed to penetrate deep into the space. In addition to the existing windows, the new entrance and conference room windows are designed to maximize the borrowed light from the existing curtain wall across the corridor.\nFour classrooms and two testing rooms, one of which serves as a distance learning classroom, as well as various faculty and administrative areas were created from the existing lab and technical services spaces. 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RUBIO said\u2026\nHello Sir Ralph.I am proud to be one of your friend a Great composer /arranger of Band Music hope to play one of your composition and arrangement in the future.I am a band conductor in the Philippines.God Bless you.\nThis was the place... UNF Summer 2009\nHey there, welcome, great to see you on MS. For those members who do not know Ralph, he is an amazing composer/arranger/director and, more than likely, you have already performed one of his compositions.\nRalph, I'll bet by now you've already found a bunch of colleagues that you can network with. I really had a blast meeting you at UNF and really enjoyed your pieces. And \"Yes\" I would love to come to Troy and have you put me to work in whatever capacity you can think of.\nBy the way, I tried to get \"Big 'un\" to work, but it seems to have a pdf mind of it's own. I haven't given up yet, so we'll see what happens. Make sure to check your inbox in the upper right corner. 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The blaze had already been put out by the time the fire department had arrived, but fire chief Jack Forbes told Manson that if they had to be called back to the venue, the\ngroup would get tossed out and the show would be canceled.\nThe venue spokesperson says that, in her opinion, the group was just trying to gain media attention by being mischievous. She also says that the venue is holding some of the gate receipts until the damage is fully assessed.\nFollowing the dressing room merriment, Marilyn Manson proceeded to the Poughkeepsie Sheraton, where they went on to destroy their hotel rooms by burning the carpets, staining the sinks and bathtubs with more hair dye, and disturbing the other hotel guests with their level of noise, according to the \"New York Post.\"\nThe band's label, Nothing/Interscope Records, had no comment on the incident, although the \"Post\" reports that both the hotel and venue expenses combined will total more than $25,000 and that the hotel expects to be reimbursed for the damages.\nThe Poughkeepsie police are currently investigating the incident.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mwalliance.org/resources/meea-publications?f%5B0%5D=filter_by_type%3A127&f%5B1%5D=filter_by_year%3A116", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6HUHXOIMOQSHKKTAIXPEX4Y4GXX5LPTB", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mwalliance.org", "title": "MEEA Publications | Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance", "raw_content": "No projects are available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 1327, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 157.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mydissolutelife.com/2015/08/24/a-lifetime-ago/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:22Z", "digest": "sha1:JZKMMMISXUFEKC5OKUPDWP33DZDFIN5A", "length": 2032, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.mydissolutelife.com", "title": "A lifetime ago - My Dissolute Life", "raw_content": "As I walked toward a coffee shop, I noticed a beautiful young woman \u2013 in her early 30s, I\u2019d guess \u2013 in black spandex leggings and a black tank top. She was walking a little quicker than I, but toward the same destination. I admired her ass \u2013 full, round, not small at all. Her hair was shiny, jet black, shoulder length. She wore artificial eyebrows, giving a cheap taint to her otherwise spectacular presentation.\nOn line, waiting to order, our eyes met. She looked familiar. Her eyes lingered on mine just a little too long. Was she flirting?\nSuddenly, I realized.\nShe wasn\u2019t flirting. She was having the same memory I was having, just a second or two earlier.\n\u201cA lifetime ago,\u201d as she put it, we had known one another. We had \u201cmet\u201d twice, actually \u2013 first, in a massage parlor I once frequented. And then, surprisingly, coincidentally, she answered an ad I placed on CraigsList. I was seeking a submissive partner in crime. I was paying, of course. When she walked up to me on the street all those years ago (and it was a long time ago), we recognized one another. We both professed relief, and even excitement.\nFor a few months, I paid her to dress as I asked, to suck my cock, to let me lick her pussy. She was the second woman I paid to fuck, the last woman I paid to fuck, before my world came crashing down, before I began the process of ending that chapter of my life.\nOccasionally, I\u2019ve wondered what became of her. \u201cYou\u2019re a trainer, now?\u201d I asked.\n\u201cYes,\u201d she said. She asked about me, where I live, what I\u2019m doing. We had some small talk. We smiled, and said good-bye.\nLet it not be the last time\nCPOSMassage\nPrevious Post:A craving\nNext Post:Relaxing\nI am happy that your brief encounter was full of happy memories and did not stutter embarrassment and averted eyes. I would love to run into some of the people I met during a different phase of my life to make sure they are doing okay. I know that sounds patronizing, but its sincere, I hope all the people I have met are doing okay. 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S. Sever do Vouga \u2014 NaturalWorks", "raw_content": "High School, Sever do Vouga\nIn the context of the refurbishment of Portuguese high schools, NaturalWorks was involved in the design of more than twenty schools. The Sever do Vouga High School stands out as one of the most successful projects with carefully integrated HVAC and natural ventilation systems as well as outstanding acoustics and daylighting solutions. Architecture design by Pedro Domingos Arquitectos.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/645.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSHEIV4V3OGVOODB6JMUKIUVOAXY4URD", "length": 4530, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.navsource.org", "title": "Destroyer Photo Index DD-645 USS STEVENSON", "raw_content": "USS STEVENSON (DD-645)\nFlag Hoist/Radio Call Sign - NBPW\nMachinery, 50,000 SHP; Charleston Navy Yard Turbines, 2 screws\nLaid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny NJ July 23 1942.\nLaunched November 11 1942 and commissioned December 15 1942.\nDecommissioned April 27 1946.\nStricken June 1 1968.\nFate Sold June 2 1970 to Portsmouth Salvage Co. and broken up for scrap.\n56k John H. Stevenson, a native of New York City, was appointed Volunteer Acting Assistant Paymaster and Clerk in the United States Navy on 19 September 1862. His Civil War career was marked by several exploits of exceptional heroism. While attached to USS Satellite on the Potomac in December 1862, he led a boat expedition ashore, captured a small party of Confederates, and destroyed signal and recruiting stations. In June 1863, while attached to USS Princess Royal on the West Gulf Blockading Squadron, he reconnoitered in and about an enemy camp. Learning the details of a plan to capture Fort Donaldsville, La., he made plans that enabled the small fort and Princess Royal to beat off the attack. He further demonstrated his heroism on 10 July 1863 when he volunteered to pick up dispatches from USS New London, aground under enemy fire, and carried them to Farragut at New Orleans, a journey of some 85 miles on horseback through enemy territory. He remained in the Navy after the war, serving in United States ports, the South Atlantic and Pacific stations, and at Nagasaki, Japan, until retiring with the grade of Pay Inspector on 25 September 1893. He was called back to active duty during the Spanish-American War and served as pay officer of the Coast Defense System. He died in Brooklyn, N.Y., on 14 June 1899. Photo #: NH 63848. USS Princess Royal (1863-1865) watercolor by Erik Heyl, 1960, painted for use in his book \"Early American Steamers\", Volume I. Captured as a blockade runner in January 1863, USS Princess Royal served in the Gulf of Mexico during the last two years of the Civil War. She was later the S.S. General Sherman. Courtesy of Erik Heyl. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Bill Gonyo\n163k The USS Ringgold (DD-500), USS Stevenson (DD-645), USS Schroeder (DD-501) and USS Stockton (DD-646) were launched with 28 minutes on November 11 1942 at Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. in Kearny, New Jersey. AP Wirephoto. David Buell\n78k Souvenir button of the launching of the USS Ringgold (DD-500), USS Schroeder (DD-501), USS Stevenson (DD-645) and USS Stockton (DD-646) on November 11 1942. Courtesy of www.timepassagesnostalgia.com. Tom Kerman\n200k A snow-covered USS Stevenson (DD-645) at her builder's yard, a day before delivery, 13 December 1942. National Archives photo from 19LCM/dd645 file. Rick Davis & John Chiquoine\n146k Delivery photo of Stevenson, 14 December 1942. National Archives photo from 19LCM/dd645 file. Original: David Buell\nReplacement: Rick Davis & John Chiquoine\n624k USS Stevenson (DD-645) off Kearny, New Jersey, December 1942, probably enroute to fitting out. National Archives photo 80-G-16141. Mike Green\n218k USS Stevenson (DD-645) underway off New York, N.Y. on 14 December 1942. Courtesy of Samuel L. Morison, 1979. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Photo #: NH 90526. Robert Hurst\n160k Commissioning at Brooklyn Navy Yard, December 15 1942. From the Public Relations Department, Third Naval District, New York. David Way\n167k Stevenson in Brooklyn Navy Yard in between Atlantic convoys, 14 May 1943. National Archives photo 19-N-46270 Rick Davis & John Chiquoine\n89k After cessation of hostilities USS California and six tin cans under flag of Comdesron19 were released from WestPac to return east via Ceylon and Capetown to US East Coast yards. This is Stevenson coming alongside California, September 1945.\nNational Archives photo 80-G-374400 John Chiquoine\n299k Destroyer Squadron NINETEEN (DesRon 19) homeward bound from the Pacific, via the Cape of Good Hope, circa October-December 1945. Ships present include USS Stevenson (DD-645), USS Stockton (DD-646), USS Lansdowne (DD-486), USS Thorn (DD-647), USS Nelson (DD-623) and USS Lardner (DD-487). Courtesy of Vice Admiral F.H. Schneider, USN (Retired). U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Fred Weiss\nUSS STEVENSON DD-645 History\nCDR Thomas Chandler Green Dec 15 1942 - Mar 10 1943\nCDR Francis Edmond Wilson Mar 10 1943 - Aug 31 1944\nLCDR Heydon Forbes Wells Aug 31 1944 - Jul 22 1945\nLCDR Markeson Varland Jul 22 1945 - Apr 27 1946\nContact Name: Jim Beck\nAddress: 3914 Belmore Way ,Reno NV, 89503-1844", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 139.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/news/story/ncsa_helps_launch_resource_to_fight_cybercrime", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:48Z", "digest": "sha1:K3AUR242ZTYMPMX4Y2VR6HTMTT6I6RAQ", "length": 3488, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ncsa.illinois.edu", "title": "NCSA helps launch resource to fight cybercrime | News | National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois", "raw_content": "NCSA helps launch resource to fight cybercrime | News\nHome \uf101\tNews \uf101\tStory \uf101\tNCSA helps launch resource to\u2026\nNCSA helps launch resource to fight cybercrime\nCybercrime is a booming industry in the United States, estimated at $100 billion, and shows no signs of slowing down. Attackers have an arsenal of weapons at their disposal, including social engineering (or phishing), penetrating weak security protocols, and exploiting software vulnerabilities that can serve as an \u201copen window\u201d into an organization\u2019s IT environment. Closing those windows requires effective and accessible tools to identify and root out software vulnerabilities.\nToday (Feb. 3, 2014) the Software Assurance Marketplace, or the \u201cSWAMP,\u201d has released a free public resource to address this growing need. Supported by a $23.4 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s Science and Technology Directorate, the SWAMP provides a safe, secure environment for software developers, software assurance tool developers, and software researchers to collaborate and improve software assurance activities. From the very early stages of a project and throughout its entire life cycle, the SWAMP offers continuous, automated access to a rich and evolving set of assessment capabilities.\nDesigned by researchers from the Morgridge Institute for Research, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Indiana University and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the SWAMP provides a suite of assurance tools and software packages that serve to identify vulnerabilities and reduce false positives.\nJim Basney leads the NCSA group that designs identity and access management functionality for the SWAMP. \u201cWe have worked with the rest of the SWAMP team to enable convenient and secure access to the SWAMP by its users,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are also SWAMP users ourselves\u2014we are assessing NCSA\u2019s MyProxy software using the SWAMP.\u201d\nThe initial operating capability of the SWAMP enables the assessment of Java, C and C++ software against five static analysis tools. Results are displayed via Secure Decisions\u2019 CodeDx vulnerability results viewer, which was developed through DHS S&T\u2019s Small Business Innovation Research program (SBIR). According to DHS software assurance program manager Kevin Greene, \u201cWe see widespread adoption of the SWAMP as having a profound, positive impact on software systems and applications that powers our critical infrastructure. Better assurance practices lead to better security, it\u2019s that simple.\u201d He adds, \u201cThe SWAMP collaboration is a great example of the public and private sector coming together to advance improvements in software assurance activities to deal with emerging cyber threats.\u201d\nThe SWAMP\u2019s initial assurance tools include FindBugs, PMD, Clang, CppCheck and GCC and the choice of eight platforms. Over the five-year project, SWAMP will add multiple assessment capabilities including mobile, dynamic and binary analysis tools.\nAbout the Software Assurance Marketplace\nThe \u201cSWAMP\u201d is a national software assurance resource funded by a grant from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate. Software developers, assurance tool developers, educators and IT professionals can use the SWAMP for free to perform vulnerability assessments. To learn more about SWAMP, visit www.continuousassurance.org.\nTo schedule an interview with SWAMP leadership or for more information, contact Karen Hitchcock at 608-513-6566, khitchcock@continuousassurance.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newser.com/story/215416/doc-court-ex-auschwitz-guard-93-fit-to-stand-trial.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:39Z", "digest": "sha1:TLJIFT5P73HJPZIMWIQ23BDGK2S6S42X", "length": 1442, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.newser.com", "title": "Doctor, Court: Ex-Auschwitz Guard, 93, Fit to Stand Trial", "raw_content": "Doc, Court: Ex-Auschwitz Guard, 93, Fit to Stand Trial\nHe's charged with 170K counts of accessory to murder\nIn this Dec. 18, 2009, file photo, tourists pause near the main entrance to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, southern Poland. (AP Photo, File)\n(Newser) \u2013 A German court says a 93-year-old former SS sergeant charged with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard has been declared fit for trial. The Detmold state court said Monday a doctor determined that Reinhold H., whose last name wasn't given for privacy reasons, is fit to stand trial so long as sessions are limited to two hours per day. Defense attorneys and prosecutors now have two weeks to submit responses to the expert opinion. The court will then decide whether to open a trial. The elderly suspect is accused of being an accessory to murders at Auschwitz from January 1943 to June 1944. He says he was assigned to a part of the camp not involved in the mass murders. (Read more Auschwitz stories.)\nNext on Newser: Okla. Mayor: Hubby's KKK Getup a 'Prank Gone Bad'\n2 hours a day, and we will have a verdict in time for the centennial of WWII\nGw Wells\nHolo-hoax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zix7gVwB0I\nsmellthecoffee\n\"He says he was assigned to a part of the camp not involved in the mass murders\". Sure, I guess he was in charge of the tennis courts. Prosecute and kill this old nazi.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newsonair.com/Main-News-Details.aspx?id=349932", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:53Z", "digest": "sha1:52HWL44MF2PEMROECJYZUBERSHCSK2LL", "length": 903, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.newsonair.com", "title": "RBI reveals that India's manufacturing sector recorded robust growth in sales", "raw_content": "Reserve Bank has revealed that India's manufacturing sector recorded robust growth in sales and improvement in operating profit growth in the fourth quarter of the last fiscal.\nA performance report of the private corporate business sector by RBI informs that the companies posted sales of 9.25 lakh crore rupees in the last quarter of 2017-18 as compared to 8.41 lakh crore rupees in the last quarter of 2016-17.\nThe report says that demand conditions improved for electrical machinery and apparatus; motor vehicles and other transport equipment; petroleum products and pharmaceuticals and medicines.\nIt further said that the operating profit growth of the manufacturing sector improved despite increase in input costs, due to higher growth in value of production.\nThe analysis was based on the abridged financial results of 2,723 listed non-government non-financial companies for January-March 2017-18.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.newsrealblog.com/2009/10/08/lunch-break-38/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:09Z", "digest": "sha1:JINWO5L6YYDZWLWQMYINKUUXVC4NRT4Q", "length": 2985, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.newsrealblog.com", "title": "Lunch Break | NewsReal Blog", "raw_content": "Today\u2019s lunch break was suggested by David Horowitz and comes courtesty of MEMRI:\n\u201cThe Women of Paradise Are Pure, Unblemished, Menstruation-Free, Free of Feces, Urine, Phlegm, Children\u201d\nInterviewer: \u201cHow does one conduct relationships in Paradise \u00e2\u20ac\u201c whether with the black-eyed virgins or with Muslim women who entered Paradise?\n\u201cMuhammad Al-Munajid: Allah said that the black-eyed virgins are beautiful white young women, with black pupils and very white retinas, whose skin is so delicate and bright that it causes confusion. Allah said that they are like hidden pearls. They have wide eyes, and they have not been touched by man or jinn. They are virgins, who yearn for their husbands. They are all the same age, morally and physically beautiful. They are like precious gems and pearls in their splendor, their clarity, their purity, and their whiteness. They are like hidden pearls \u00e2\u20ac\u201c as pure as a pearl within a shell, untouched by man. Each one of them is so beautiful that you can see the bone-marrow through the delicate flesh on their legs.\n\u201cSuch brilliant beauty does not exist in this world. Where can you find such beauty? Whereas the women of this world may suffer, for days and nights, from menstruation, from blood for 40 days after childbirth, from vaginal bleeding and from diseases \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the women of Paradise are pure, unblemished, menstruation-free, free of feces, urine, phlegm, children\u2026 Moreover, Allah cleaned them of all impure and foul things, both in appearance and character.\n\u201cIn character, they are not jealous, hateful, or angry. They are not greedy.\u201d [\u2026]\nIn Paradise, The Women \u201cAre Restricted to Tents, Locked Up for the Husband \u00e2\u20ac\u201c There Is No Such Thing as Going Out\u201d\n\u201cThey are restricted to tents, locked up for the husband. There is no such thing as going out. When he comes home \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they are there. There is no such thing in Paradise as a man coming home and not finding his wife there. Allah described them as women who lower their gaze, and never look at anybody but their husband. As for deriving pleasure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the man is given the strength of\u2026\u201d\nInterviewer: \u201cSheikh Muhammad, you said she looks only at her husband, but today, things are different. Today, husbands don\u2019t look only at their wives, or vice versa \u00e2\u20ac\u201c except for a few, on whom Allah has taken mercy.\u201d\n\u201cIn Paradise, a Man Gets the Strength of 100 Men When It Comes To Eating, Drinking, Passion, And Sex\u201d\nMuhammad Al-Munajid: \u201cThere are some pious, pure men, who have eyes only for their wives, and there are some pious, pure, and obedient wives, who have eyes only for their husbands. But today, in the marketplace, in films, and so on, people\u2019s eyes roam freely. The Internet\u2026 The people of this world\u2026 There is a big difference when it comes to deriving pleasure.\n\u201cIn this world, men work hard and tire themselves out in order to derive pleasure. The Prophet Muhammad says that in Paradise, a man gets the strength of 100 men when it comes to eating, drinking, passion, and sex.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 7745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000105991/article/andrew-luck-gets-my-mvp-vote-for-reviving-indianapolis-colts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ATJFIMHNBUDKGP3N2UWTN4EP665IP57W", "length": 7101, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.nfl.com", "title": "Andrew Luck gets my MVP vote for reviving Indianapolis Colts - NFL.com", "raw_content": "Andrew Luck gets my MVP vote for reviving Indianapolis Colts\nI am one of the 50 voters for The Associated Press' NFL awards. It is a responsibility that I take a lot of pride in -- and one I take very seriously. I start taking notes and compiling names for the various awards in late October. I watch the games. I talk to people. I don't want to be reactionary. I always come to my own conclusions.\nWith one quarter left in this season, Indianapolis Colts rookie Andrew Luck is the leading candidate for the 2012 NFL MVP Award.\nIn an adversity-filled season, on a team filled with holes, Luck is the reason that the Colts are enjoying this amazing turnaround.\nIn making my pick for this prestigious award, I always stress the word \"valuable.\" Indianapolis was the worst team in the NFL last year. This year's installment is 8-4. The Colts aren't sneaking into the tournament; they have more wins than the Pittsburgh Steelers, one less than the Baltimore Ravens. It's noteworthy. If the season ended today, Indianapolis would be the No. 5 seed in the AFC.\nLuck had another heart-stopping MVP moment this past Sunday in a thrilling comeback win over the Detroit Lions. With no time left, the neophyte flipped his fourth touchdown pass of the game, connecting with Donnie Avery to give the Colts a 35-33 road victory. It was Luck's fifth game-winning drive of the season. That's an incredible stat. It feels more magical watching the games, especially the contests against Detroit, the Green Bay Packers (Indy was down 21-3 at half) and the Tennessee Titans (an overtime win).\nThe Colts aren't blessed with a ton of talent. Vick Ballard runs the ball. Donald Brown can't stay healthy. The offensive line won't be confused with \"The Hogs\" who played for Joe Gibbs. Receiver T.Y Hilton is young. So are the tight ends. Luck has played much of the season without his former Stanford teammate and fellow rookie Coby Fleener. Luck maximizes the personnel around him. He provides incredible leadership and poise, mirroring that of a 10-year All-Pro.\nNow, Reggie Wayne is a dominant rock at receiver. He's enjoyed a fantastic 2012 season, even changing positions and where he lines up. Wayne immediately established a fine rapport with his rookie quarterback, despite having caught passes from the iconic Peyton Manning over the first 10 seasons of his career. It is a credit to Luck that Wayne hasn't missed a beat.\nThe Colts have the third-best offense in the NFL. Luck is fourth in passing yards. This is stunning. This is value. This is carrying a team.\nThe Colts' defense will not be confused with the '85 Bears. Defensive coordinator Greg Manusky has done a nice job implementing head coach Chuck Pagano's 3-4 scheme, fitting players who were drafted by the prior regime to play in the 4-3 -- most notably ends-turned-linebackers Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis. Both have missed time this year due to injury. The linebackers and corners are relatively unremarkable. The Colts have the 21st-ranked defense in the NFL.\nI firmly believe that great quarterbacks -- clutch quarterbacks -- add to the overall confidence level of a team, boost accountability and generally raise the level of play. We've seen it with Tom Brady and Peyton Manning over the last decade. We are seeing it with the 2012 Indianapolis Colts because of Andrew Luck. It's even more impressive that Luck is doing this in his first year as a pro.\nThe skeptic will compare Luck's relatively small number of touchdown passes (17) to the figures from Manning (29) and Brady (25) this season. Heck, Luck's total is even lower than Carson Palmer's (20). I truly don't care about fantasy numbers when I consider the MVP. I'm more interested in the wins, fourth-quarter play and overachievement. The hater will rightly point to Luck's awful performance against Brady and the New England Patriots (in a 59-24 Colts loss). That's valid. But look at how Luck bounced back after that game. Luck also laid an egg earlier in the season against the New York Jets. He then rallied the troops and propelled his team on a winning streak to take control of their destiny down the stretch.\nLuck's case reminds me of Miguel Tejada's 2002 season with the Oakland Athletics. The A's were the biggest overachievers. Tejada carried them on offense. Other candidates had inflated (and better) statistics. Tejada rightly won the American League MVP Award.\nDid I mention that Luck's coach is away from the team, battling leukemia?\nAndrew Luck through the years\nTake a look at the best photos from Andrew Luck's career.\nThe Colts are most certainly \"Chuckstrong,\" playing hard for Pagano as he fights this disease. Not every team would be this organized sans the head man. Look at the New Orleans Saints. Credit interim head coach Bruce Arians for his guidance. This is a lot for any team, any quarterback to have on their plate. For Luck to handle it all with such aplomb is impressive. He's wise beyond his years. Normally, I would get queasy intertwining real life (an illness) with the toy department of football. But we shouldn't overlook what Luck and the Colts have done. It's part of the case for Andrew Luck.\nThen we get into the rest of the candidates.\nManning has been absolutely majestic coming off of multiple major surgeries. After the Denver Broncos' unbelievable comeback win over the San Diego Chargers in mid-October, I predicted Manning and Co. wouldn't lose again. They haven't. Denver has more talent around Manning and a vastly superior defense, led by Von Miller. Manning is currently No. 2 on my MVP list.\nAdrian Peterson has been a one-man band, leading the Minnesota Vikings to a 6-6 mark thus far. It would have to be a special circumstance for me to endorse a player from a non-playoff team for league MVP. Peterson is my current choice for Offensive Player of the Year, even though I am philosophically opposed to that award.\nBrady continues to wow and mask areas of deficiency for the Patriots. No Gronk? No problem.\nI'm not against voting for a defensive player, but there isn't one I'd rank ahead of the aforementioned stars on offense.\nActually, I think the best case against Luck is the majestic nature of two of his fellow neophyte quarterbacks: Robert Griffin III and Russell Wilson. RG3 is the reason why the banged-up and flawed Washington Redskins are 6-6, competing for a playoff spot with his savvy and sizzle. It's a true shame that Wilson is the third-best rookie quarterback. In any other year, he'd be the Rookie of the Year. The Seattle Seahawks are 7-5, in line for the sixth seed in the NFC. Wilson led the Seahawks to an overtime win over the Chicago Bears on Sunday, debunking the myth that Seattle can't win on the road at an ultra-important time. In his last four games, Wilson has a passer rating of 120.4.\nBut that would be overthinking it.\nI'm opinionated, but I'm not stubborn. If Luck slips on the proverbial banana peel down the stretch, we can have a different conversation.\nBut right now, I feel strongly. The functioning word is \"valuable.\"\nAndrew Luck is the Most Valuable Player in the NFL. Embrace it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 8741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 303.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nicholsfuneralhome.com/obituaries/ballou-lorraine.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:5YED56BZOFMKPSETDLKE5Y57MBXYZG4O", "length": 5670, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.nicholsfuneralhome.com", "title": "Ballou, Lorraine | Obituaries", "raw_content": "Ballou, Lorraine\nLorraine M. (Rockwood) Ballou, age 79, a long-time resident of Wilmington, died peacefully on Thursday, October 7, 2010, with her family at her side.\nBorn on June 16, 1931, in Brighton, MA, Lorraine was the cherished daughter of the late Charles W. and Catherine E. (Purcell) Rockwood. She grew up in Medford and Somerville and was a graduate of St. Clement\u2019s High School in Somerville.\nLorraine met Daniel H. Ballou, Sr. at a dance at St. Joseph\u2019s in Medford, and were both working at the Fresh Pond Drive in theater in North Cambridge. The couple married in 1950 and bought a piece of land in Wilmington where they built their home in 1951 and raised their wonderful children. Lorraine and Dan shared 49 wonderful years of marriage before his passing in April of 1999.\nLorraine, always a hard worker, expanded her career to include being an operator for \u201cMa\u201d Bell in Reading, she was an executive secretary to the Vice President of Keene Lighting Company, and retired after 16 years as a well known and respected Real Estate Agent from Ballou Real Estate Company in Wilmington, which she owned and operated.\nLorraine\u2019s greatest accomplishment was her family, she was a devoted wife, the best mother, and an awesome grandmother. She loved being involved with their lives, whether it was volunteering at school, attending school functions or sporting events, being the ultimate \u201cHockey Mom\u201d with Wilmington Youth Hockey or Wilmington Wildcats Hockey, a \u201cDen Mother\u201d to their Cub Scout Troop, or being a good listener, supporter, and a best friend to them, they were her world and she loved them unconditionally.\nLorraine also found time for her community, she was an active member of St. Thomas Church and the Wilmington Women\u2019s Club before her health deteriorated.\nIn her spare time, Lorraine loved to go to bingo and follow New England sports teams, her family enjoyed watching many Patriots, Celtics, and especially Red Sox games with her, noting that she was a \u201chuge\u201d Red Sox Fan.\nLorraine will be fondly remembered for her kindness and strength, she was always willing to lend a hand or help someone less fortunate. She was a true \u201csurvivor\u201d for the many hardships that her health dealt her. Lorraine was diagnosed a radical form of cancer years ago when the odds were not in her favor but she faced her diagnosis head on and survived, something which she was very proud of. Lorraine never gave up and her willingness to persevere gave those around her hope.\nLorraine was truly devoted to her family, extended family, and friends, she was a wonderful lady and will be greatly missed.\nLorraine was the beloved wife of the late Daniel H. Ballou, Sr., devoted mother of Daniel H. Ballou, Jr. and his wife Dawn of Wilmington, Robert J. Ballou of California, Karen Ballou Knowles and her husband Stephen of Connecticut, David J. Ballou and his wife Kathryn of Maine, and Richard J. Ballou and his wife Susan of Georgia, mother-in-law of Diane Ballou of California, loving grandmother of Daniel H.Ballou III and his wife Natasha, Sean, Rory, and Meghan Ballou and her fianc\u00e9 Jim Fennelly, Robert and Julia Ballou, Ryan, Ian, Erin, and Justin Knowles, Isabel and Sophie Ballou, Mary Wade, Jack, and Caroline Ballou, and great-grandchildren Daniel H IV and the late Olivia Ballou, dear sister of James Rockwood and his wife Marion of Boston, Paul Rockwood of Florida, and the late Charles Rockwood, sister-in-law of Marion Rockwood of Stoneham and the late Carol Rockwood, Lorraine is also survived by many nieces, nephews, and dear friends.\nFamily and friends will gather at the Nichols Funeral Home, Inc., 187 Middlesex Ave. (Rte. 62), Wilmington, on Wednesday, October 13th at 9:00 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass at St. Thomas of Villanova Church, 126 Middlesex Ave., Wilmington at 10:00 a.m. Interment in the family lot at Wildwood Cemetery, Wilmington. Visiting hours Tuesday, October 12th from 4-8 p.m.\nMemorial donations in Lorraine\u2019s name may be made to Catholic Charities, 75 Kneeland St. #800 Boston, MA 02108 or to CURE Childhood Cancer, 1835 Savoy Dr., Suite 102, Atlanta, GA 30341.\n10 Entries in Guest Book for \u201cBallou, Lorraine\u201d\nThe Boyers says:\nDave \u2013 our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.\nThe Allen's says:\nDave and Family,\nwalter mcdonald says:\nkaren-sorry to here of your mothers passing.she was a great lady.my wife rose and her spoke often at her second home at york beach.\nErick & Nina Westerhoff says:\nOur thoughts and prayers are with all who are saddened and effected by the passing of Lorraine.\nTrish and Joyce Morrissey says:\nOur spirit and prayers are with you. Lorraine was a wonderful lady.\nTrish and Joyce\nDavid, Kat, Isabel and Sophie: Her obituary captured her graceful and beautiful essence. How fortunate the Ballou family is to have had her as their matriach. Our thoughts and prayers are wtih you.\nTo the entire Ballou family,\nI remember your mom from the years when my brother Pat played hockey with Ricky. She always had a smile on her face and was a wonderful lady. My thoughts and prayers are with all of you at this time.\nTo the Ballou family,\nLorraine was a really nice lady; but I suppose you are well aware of that fact. We worked together at \u201cMa Bell\u201d. My prayers are with all of her family.\nThe Gigliotti Family says:\nOur thoughts are with you. May the great memories you have help you through this sad time in your lives.\nJohn, Joanie, Florence, Maryann, and Chuck\nTina Favero says:\nDear Ballou family,\nI am so sorry to hear of Mrs. Ballou\u2019s passing. She was a lovely woman and I will always remember her kindness. May the love of family and friends comfort you during this time.\nTina Favero", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 8574, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nickmilton.com/2009/10/youtube-video-km-and-culture-change.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:01Z", "digest": "sha1:H7UY6OXBIQZNNCRJXWR3V66FLS2BBSAH", "length": 276, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.nickmilton.com", "title": "Knoco stories: YouTube video - KM and culture change", "raw_content": "YouTube video - KM and culture change\nFollowing my blog post on the topic of the demographics of KM support, I thought I would record a YouTube video on the subject. 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Although cable glands are often called \"connectors\", a technical distinction can be made in the terminology, which differentiates them from quick-disconnect, conducting electrical connectors. For routing pre-terminated cables (cables with connectors), split cable glands can be used. These cable glands consist of three parts (two gland halves and a split sealing grommet) which are screwed with a hexagonal locknut (like normal cable glands). Thus, pre-assembled cables can be routed without removing the plugs. Alternatively, split cable entry systems can be used (normally consisting of a hard frame and several sealing grommets) to route a large number of pre-terminated cables through one wall cut-out. There are at least three types of thread standard used: Panzergewinde (PG standard) Metric thread National Pipe Thread (inch system)\nCable glands are mechanical cable entry devices. 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This task is usually game-based and this type of tournament is usually for poker games where players actually play against one another to win a shared pot.\nFree Casino Tournaments are a great way to win a wealth of prizes. Usually, prizes are cash but they can also be for merchandise such as electronics or a free trip or shopping spree.\nGenerally, free casino tournaments are open to all and participation is quite simple. Registering is usually simple and participation is free (true to the name). 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Wood, RN, PhD, Associate Professor Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery, Victoria University of Wellington\nLynne S. Giddings, RN, RM, PhD, Associate Professor School of Nursing and Midwifery, Auckland University of Technology\nWood, P. J., & Giddings, L. S. (2005). Understanding experience through Gadamerian hermeneutics: An interview with Brian Phillips. Nursing Praxis in New Zealand, 21(2), 3-14.\nHermeneutic approaches to research focus on understanding and interpretation of experience but differ in process and emphasis. Gadamerian hermeneutics concentrates on expanding horizons of understanding through dialogue, between people or between a researcher and texts, in which taken-for-granted assumptions are examined and opinions willingly put at risk. This article is the fourteenth in a series of articles based on interviews with nursing and midwifery researchers, designed to offer the beginning researcher a first-hand account of the experience of using particular methodologies. It considers a Gadamerian hermeneutic research approach as interpreted by Brian Phillips (RN, PhD) in interview. Brian is Research Fellow in the Graduate School of Nursing and Midwifery at Victoria University of Wellington. For his PhD research Brian used Gadamerian hermeneutics to interpret four men\u2019s experiences of suicidality and the ideas of masculinity that might have shaped their understandings.\nKey Words: Research, methodologies, Gadamerian hermeneutics, suicidality, masculinity.\nHermeneutic approaches to research are frequently used by nurses and midwives in exploring and interpreting people\u2019s experiences of health and illness events, and aspects of professional practice. Researchers using a hermeneutic approach hold to different philosophical positions, such as those of Husserl, Heidegger or Gadamer. The philosopher\u2019s ideas shape the research process and often their name is attached to the description of the methodology; so we have \u2018Heideggerian hermeneutics\u2019 or \u2018Gadamerian hermeneutics\u2019. While the general intention of hermeneutic research is to gain new or deeper understanding and to interpret experience, each hermeneutic methodology differs to varying degrees in process and emphasis.\nThis article, the fourteenth in a series based on interviews with nursing and midwifery researchers, offers beginning researchers a brief introduction to a Gadamerian approach to hermeneutics (refer to Giddings & Wood, 2000, for background information on the series). This form of hermeneutics is based on the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002). Previous articles in this series have described New Zealand nurses\u2019 use of other forms of hermeneutic inquiry, namely phenomenology (Giddings & Wood, 2001b) and radical hermeneutics (Giddings & Wood, 2001a). 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Over all, renters paid an additional $616 million in 2016 because of Airbnb, according to the report.\nAirbnb disputed the methodology of both reports, accusing the McGill authors of having an \u201canti-home-sharing bias.\u201d And on Wednesday, the day of the City Council vote, an Airbnb host sued the city, alleging retaliation for speaking out in support of home-sharing in June. Airbnb is financing the host\u2019s suit.\nCity officials said the bill focused primarily on large-scale commercial landlords who were gaming the system.\n\u201cYes, sometimes it\u2019s the common New Yorker,\u201d said Councilwoman Carlina Rivera, who introduced the bill. \u201cBut many times, especially in my district, these are landlords who are taking rent-regulated units out of the housing stock because they\u2019d rather get a lot more money per night.\u201d\nCity Council (NYC)\nPrevious articleReporters, Facing a Hostile White House, Try a New Tactic: Solidarity\nNext articleElon Musk Walks Back \u2018Pedo Guy\u2019 Attack on Thai Cave Diver", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.odditycentral.com/news/german-granny-has-been-battling-hate-speech-all-by-herself-for-31-years.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WJZCXPSYFEBGAHI2QSF46WWAICNJUY23", "length": 3527, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.odditycentral.com", "title": "German Granny Has Been Battling Hate Speech All by Herself, for 31 Years", "raw_content": "German Granny Has Been Battling Hate Speech All by Herself, for 31 Years\nBy Spooky on July 10th, 2017 Category: News\n72-year-old Irmela Mensah-Schram is a special kind of cleaning lady. For the last 31 years, she has been travelling across Germany, cleaning its streets of hateful messages, be they propaganda posters or graffiti. She has received death threats from neo-nazis and the police have fined her numerous times, but she continues her fight against racism, antisemitism and xenophobia.\nArmed with a small scraper and a can of spray-paint, Irmela Mensah-Schram, a.k.a. Germany\u2019s \u201cHate Destroyer\u201d has been removing or covering up Nazi propaganda and other right-wing slogans across her country for over three decades. For many, she is a hero fighting against hate, while some consider her actions to be in violation of freedom of speech, and even state officials have mixed feelings about her. She has received several awards for her long-term efforts to keep hateful propaganda off the streets, but she has also been fined and even taken to court for damaging others\u2019 property.\nIrmela Mensah-Schramm grew up in Stuttgart and didn\u2019t really experience the hate associated with racism until she married an African man. After seeing the looks on other people\u2019s faces as they passed them by on the street, the humiliating interrogation process at the immigration office and witnessing her husband being physically attacked on a bus, she learned first-hand how toxic things like racism, antisemitism and xenophobia were for society, and decided to do something about it.\nThe \u201cHate Destroyer\u201d removed her first hateful sticker in 1986. She was about to get on a bus in her home city of Berlin, when she saw a sticker glued to the bus station that read \u201d Freedom for Rudolph Hess\u201d, a prominent political figure in Nazi Germany, who was still in prison at the time. She just yanked it off and immediately felt better. So she kept doing it whenever she saw similar right-wing propaganda, and eventually started traveling across the country with the sole purpose of cleaning the streets of such hate-promoting messages.\nHer work has gotten her some recognition, like a medal from the Federal Employment Service and the Gottingen Peace Prize, but also a lot of trouble. She has received several death threats from neo-nazis throughout the years, and was once hit in the head with a big rock that caused severe bleeding. She has also gotten in trouble with the law for destroying property. But none of this has slowed her down one bit, as she continues to track down and remove as much hate from the streets of Germany as she possibly can.\nIrmela knows that hers is a Sisyphean task, as for every hate message she removes, another pops up somewhere else, but she simply shrugs and says \u201cIf I don\u2019t do it, who will?\u201d\nThe 72-year-old says that racist and xenophobic propaganda has gotten worse since the European refugee crisis began, and told the Badische Zeitung that \u201cMuslims today are like Jews in Nazi Germany\u201d.\nIrmela Mensah-Schram now has a collection of thousands of stickers and posters she has removed in the three decades spent erasing hate, which she sometimes exhibits at museums in Germany.\n\u201cSome people tell me I am intolerant, that I don\u2019t respect the Far Right\u2019s freedom of speech,\u201d Irmela told CNN. \u201cBut I say freedom of speech has limits, and it ends where hatred and contempt for humanity begins.\u201d\nPosted in News Tags: Germany, hate cleaner, hate destroyer, Irmela Mensah-Schramm, News, people, racism, xenophobia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 5386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.offshore-formation.com/why_asset_protection.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:15Z", "digest": "sha1:77VWFY5ZDDA7QHH2FRD5UOVTCNR63VKK", "length": 2004, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.offshore-formation.com", "title": "WHY ASSET PROTECTION? Offshore company formation", "raw_content": "Asset Protection is the effort to protect assets for estate planning,\nor in the face of potential creditor attack. The procedure typically involves transferring assets into other entities, and to affirmatively shield them from potential foreign court awarded monetary judgments.\nThis is done by employing an inventory of legal tools including:\nAsset Protection Trusts,\nPrivate Foundations,\nInternational Business Companies (sometimes referred to as IBC\u2019s), and other custom devices.\nThese tools can be configured to be either domestic or foreign entities.\nA common theme in the use of these structures is to gift some portion of the asset to a Private Foundation. Frequently, the Private Foundation is created in Panama that has legislation that caters to this type of structure through very favorable and flexible provisions. These same provisions provide little relief to potential creditors seeking to attack the assets. 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I criticized the story - at the time were were about 1 1/2 years away from the mid-term election in November of 2010. It was way too early to make those kind of predictions. In fact, history strongly suggests otherwise - that the midterm election is generally a disaster for the newly-elected President's party. Take the 1980 landslide Reagan win. 1982 was a disaster for Republicans. in 1992, Clinton and the Democrats scored a big win. In 1994, Democrats got clobbered in the mid-term elections.\nIf you look at history, time and time, that is the trend - the newly-elected President gets socked in his first mid-term election.\nWhen you study politics you find quickly that for every action, there is a reaction in the body politic. Obama wins big and proposes sweeping health care reform. Now comes the reaction against Obama and health care reform.\nIn response, Blue Indiana publicly sharply ridiculed me and my suggestion about what would happen during the 2010 elections. Well, yesterday the first election of 2010 happened - a special election to replace the lion of the Senate, Democrat Ted Kennedy was won by a Republican, Scott Brown over Massachusetts Attorney General Marth a Coakley. President Obama pulled out all stops to hold on to the Democratic seat. The election came down to a referendum on Obama and the health care bill, and the Democrats lost.\nMassachusetts is no ordinary state. It is the most Democratic state in the country. All U.S. House and Senate members were Democrats. Not a single state-wide elected official was a Democrat. Democrats dominate the Massachusetts state legislature. That changed last night.\nFor every action there is a reaction. That is a fundamental rule of American politics.\nWhat does it mean for Indiana. Well typically the effect of the mid-term election dissipates the further you go down on the ballot. Senator Evan Bayh, I think is a lot more vulnerable than most Republicans and Democrats realize. A big pot of money can only do so much against a national tide against the President's party. Bayh also made a lot of liberals in his own party mad...it's always risky to alienate your base right before a close election.\nDown the ballot, I think there will be enough effect that the Republicans take control of the Indiana House right before redistricting. Locally, it's too big of a hill for Republicans to climb in Marion County even with a national Republican tide. Don't expect Republicans to win any of the Marion County races.\nOh, and Blue Indiana, I won't say I told you so. I promise.\nLabels: Blue Indiana, Election Predictions\nPaul...I'm trying hard to think of a political prediction you have made that was not spot on.\ndidn't Paul and Gary and you all predict that Mayor Ballard would be the best thing since sliced bread? Now you declare him Toast...\nNo, Wilson, I didn't predict that. But I didn' predict he'd be the disaster he has been either. 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It was quite a performance by JLT to be so bad as to lose Marion County while Obam was winning it big.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 295, "original_length": 10706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ohiostudentassociation.org/usstreams/nfl_tv_buffalo_bills_vs_houston_texans_live_nfl", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:59Z", "digest": "sha1:5KX2UBPPOKRZYRA5MGLY53ERAG7ENIL5", "length": 1622, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.ohiostudentassociation.org", "title": "NFL@TV#..Buffalo Bills vs Houston Texans Live NFL", "raw_content": "NFL@TV#..Buffalo Bills vs Houston Texans Live NFL\nIt's an AFC match-up as AFC South's Houston Texans travel to face AFC East's Buffalo Bills at Ralph Wilson Stadium in week 13 of the National Football League.\nTheir match is on December 6, 2015 at 1:00 PM ET.\nAt the moment, the Bills are trying to improve their record as they are at 5-6 and a win gets them to .500 and closer to the teams above them in the division. Currently, the New England Patriots lead the division and the New York Jets are only slightly better than the Bills in the standings.\nOn the other hand, the Texans are second in the AFC South with a 6-5 record as they also have the same win-loss pip with leaders the Indianapolis Colts. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans are below the Texans as they try to chase for wins as the second half of the season continues.\nDespite a poor start to the season, the Texans have peaked at the right moment and are trying to make a run for a spot in the post season.\nAfter losing four of their first five matches in the campaign, Houston have then gone 5-1 to improve their record and are on a four-game winning streak in the league.\nThey are looking to get win number seven as they face the Bills for the first time this season.\nAs for Buffalo, things have been really inconsistent as they have failed to keep their momentum going.\nAt the moment, they are on a two-game losing streak as they faltered against the Patriots and the Kansas City Chiefs.\nThey can get to .500 if they beat the streaking Texans but it would require a great game on the offensive end as the Texans have a great defensive squad.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 154.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oleon.com/terms-conditions", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3TQ7GBU6OSDONEM24PY3V6TYNONZ6WTT", "length": 19114, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.oleon.com", "title": "Terms & Conditions | OLEON", "raw_content": "1. The sale of Goods is made in accordance with the following General Conditions of Sale and any special conditions of the Vendor (\u00abSpecial Conditions\u00bb), to the exclusion of all other conditions, save to the extent an express written reservation has been made by the Buyer which has been accepted by the Vendor.\n2. The General Conditions and Special Conditions constitute the entire agreement (\"the Contract\") between the Vendor and the Buyer subject to any mutually agreed written amendments including those sent by e-mail.\n3. The term \"Vendor\" used in the Contract means the Vendor itself, or any subsidiary or any other company if and to the extent that the Vendor has transferred to such subsidiary or other company the rights and obligations under the Contract.\n4. The sale is a sale \"ex-works\" (as defined by the INCOTERMS 2000 and amendments thereof) unless otherwise stated in the Special Conditions. Therefore, unless otherwise stated in the Special Conditions delivery shall be deemed to take place and the risk in the Goods shall pass to the Buyer at the moment the Goods are placed at the disposal of the Buyer at the agreed place of delivery, on the date or within the period stipulated in any Special Conditions. If such place of time is not stipulated, then delivery shall be deemed to take place at the place of production of the Goods and within a reasonable time for delivery of such Goods.\nIf the Buyer does not take delivery of the Goods at the time agreed, or if no time is agreed within a reasonable period, the Vendor has the right, without prejudice to the provisions of Article 18 hereof, at the Buyer\u2019s risk and expense to hold the Goods and/or to transport the Goods to the Buyer.\n5. It is the responsibility of the Buyer to check the Goods immediately when they are made available to the Buyer, and any claims as to their quantity and/or quality must be received within eight (8) days of the Goods being placed at the Buyer\u2019s disposal by means of a registered letter with return receipt requested. Any claim made after this time shall be considered late and shall have no effect. In the event of delivery of Goods with defects which are attributable to the Vendor, the nature of which are particularly grave and serious, the Vendor shall have the option of either replacing the Goods or refunding the price of the Goods which have been returned and which it acknowledges as been defective. Goods may only be returned to the Vendor by agreement between the Vendor and the Buyer and on terms and conditions that they shall mutually agree.\nClaims on grounds attributable to the carrier must be addressed to the carrier by the Buyer, it being agreed that the Vendor shall have no liability whatsoever, in connection with the carriage of Goods. It\nis incumbent upon the Buyer to ascertain any anomalies in the delivered Goods and to record the same on the transport documents prior to acknowledging performance by the carrier.\n6. The Goods shall comply with the specifications set out in Special Conditions. However, any divergence therefrom consistent with the standards of the industry shall be accepted by the Buyer without any liability whatsoever therefore being incurred by the Vendor.\nThe Vendor\u2019s responsibility and liability because of the Goods shall cease immediately upon delivery of the Goods in conformity with the aforesaid specifications.\nThe Vendor shall incur no liability with regard to the marketable nature of the Goods or their suitability for any specific use or purpose.\nThe Vendor shall have no liability whatsoever for the use made of the Goods by the Buyer and/or by third parties nor for any injury to persons or damage to property arising out of such use. Under no circumstances shall the Vendor be liable for indirect, consequential and/or unforeseeable damage. Without prejudice to, and notwithstanding the foregoing, the Vendor shall, in the event that it is found liable for damage, which results from a defect in the Goods caused by the Buyer, be indemnified by\nthe Buyer for such liability.\n7. The Vendor\u2019s obligations as to delivery shall be deemed to have been satisfied by the delivery of a quantity of Goods slightly at variance with the quantity stipulated in the Special Conditions. The Vendor shall have the right to affect partial consignments. Unless otherwise stipulated in the Special Conditions, in the case of sale with partial consignments, the Vendor\u2019s obligations in respect of each consignment shall be deemed to have been satisfied by the supply on each partial consignment of a quantity which is approximately equal to the total quantity sold during such period of phased consignment divided by the number of partial consignments.\n8. Delivery times as may be quoted in the Special Conditions are approximate. They are given for convenience only and shall not be binding on the Vendor. However, in the event one of such delivery times quoted in the Special Conditions is exceeded by more than one month, the Buyer shall have the right to terminate the Contract with no compensation due from the Vendor.\n9. No guarantee is offered as to the validity of any patents relating to the Goods, and the Contract confers no right whatsoever to the Buyer authorising it to use the Vendor\u2019s proprietary brands or trademarks for marketing of the Goods.\n10. In the case of deliveries made using consigned packaging, said packaging shall remain the property of the Vendor and shall be deemed to have been loaned to the Buyer by the Vendor, save that a guarantee shall be agreed in advance. The packaging must be returned to the Vendor at the place of production of the Goods at the Buyer\u2019s risk and expense, duty paid, in good condition, within forty-five (45) days of dispatch.\nThe Buyer shall notify the Vendor prior to returning any such packaging.\nIf packaging on loan is not returned to the Vendor at the place of production of the Goods within forty-five (45) days of dispatch, the Vendor may, without prior notification of any kind, charge such packaging to the Buyer\u2019s account and, at its option and at Buyer\u2019s expense, cash the amount of the\naforesaid guarantee or their replacement value as at the effective date of payment.\nThe Buyer undertakes not to use such packaging for any purpose other than as packaging for the Goods.\nIn the case of deliveries made using packaging provided by the Buyer, this must be made available at the place of production of the Goods or any other place as specified in the Special Conditions at no charge to the Vendor, ready for filling. The Vendor is not liable as to the condition of the packaging or the consequences of such use. On both outward and return journeys, the packaging shall travel at the Buyer\u2019s own risk and expense.\n11. Unless otherwise stipulated in the Special Conditions, the price payable for the Goods by the Buyer may at any time be adjusted by the Vendor as a result of any factor affecting price structure, such as taxation, salaries, transport and insurance charges and raw material prices, always subject, however, to the Buyer\u2019s right to notify the Vendor of his disagreement immediately upon receipt of notice of the change in price and, if no agreement on the new price is reached within ten (10) days following such notification, the Contract shall be deemed to have terminated without due compensation by the Vendor with respect to the outstanding deliveries.\n12. Unless otherwise stated in the Special Conditions, the Buyer shall pay in Ertvelde or any other place designated by the Vendor, the Vendor immediately on receipt of the Vendor\u2019s invoice, in Ertvelde, or any other place designated by the Vendor in the currency stated in the Special Conditions. The Vendor\u2019s Head Office in Ertvelde must issue any receipt.\n13. In the event of late payment of an invoice or a draft, the amount recoverable by the Vendor shall automatically and without any prior notice be increased by interest for late payment at the rate of 4 full percentage points per annum above the official rate of the \"Banque Nationale de Belgique (Taux Intervention Officiels AVANCES)\" applicable on the first day of late payment. The interest shall be due from the date when payment for the Goods became due to the date of actual and full payment and is agreed to be a contractual and irreducible pre-estimate of the damage suffered as a result of late payment. The Vendor shall also have the right, without prior demand or notice of such cancellation, to deem that the sale be cancelled automatically, without prejudice to the other rights of the Vendor\nincluding, but not limited to, the right to terminate the Contract in accordance with Clause 18 of the General Conditions.\n14. Except to the extent set out to the contrary in the Special Conditions, the Goods shall remain the exclusive property of the Vendor until the invoice, interest for late payments and any other payments due to the Buyer are paid in full. So long as the price and other payments shall not have been paid in full, the Buyer undertakes not to alter, modify or otherwise amend the labelling on the packaging and Goods and in general not modify the means of identification of the Goods. The Buyer undertakes further to identify and store the Goods delivered under this Contract in such manner that they cannot be confused with any other similar goods sourced from other suppliers. The Buyer shall inter-alia keep an inventory of the Goods and store them apart from other goods. Where this separate identification is not possible due to the nature of the storage of the Goods, or the nature of the Goods themselves, the Goods as mixed shall be deemed to be the property, in part, of the Vendor and for the other part of the Buyer according to the respective quantities mixed. Any withdrawal or disposal of any part of the Goods by the Buyer shall be deemed to be a withdrawal from or disposal of the part belonging to the Buyer first until the whole of such part shall have been withdrawn or disposed of.\nIf the Buyer has not so separately identified the Goods, the Seller shall have the right, inter-alia, to repossess any goods of the same type and of the same quality still found to be in inventory up to the value of Goods for which payment has not been received, or to require the reimbursement of its Goods and to suspend any future delivery.\nThe above provisions are without prejudice to the transfer of the Buyer of the risk in the Goods in accordance with Clause 4 of the General Conditions. If full payment has been made before the delivery of the Goods, ownership of the Goods will pass to the Buyer at the time of transfer of the risk. The Buyer shall obtain exclusively at its cost, with an insurance company of financial repute, insurance cover indemnifying against the risk/damage which the Goods may incur or themselves cause from the time they are made available and until full payment of the price, and the Vendor shall be the beneficiary of any indemnity which might be paid by the insurance company. The Buyer undertakes to communicate details of the insurance policy to the Vendor on demand and give evidence of the payment of the insurance premiums.\nIn case of arrest or seizure or of any other protective measure by a third party on, or in respect of the Goods or any mixture thereof, the Buyer shall undertake all possible steps to defend any such claim by a third party and to notify the Seller of such claim without delay so as to allow the Seller to resist such claim and protects its rights. The Buyer undertakes neither to pledge nor to grant by any other means any right or interest in the Goods or the ownership therein by way of security or otherwise. Until such time as the price is fully paid, the Buyer may only use or process the Goods for its normal business activities and transformation, for consumption and resale. In the case of resale of the Goods to a third party, the Buyer undertakes to inform such third party of the Seller\u2019s retention of title and to inform the Vendor of the transfer so as to enable the Vendor to exercise its rights to claim the resale price from the third party.\nIn the event of transformation, incorporation or assembly of the Goods, the Buyer shall be deemed to have performed such transformation, incorporation or assembly for and on behalf of the Vendor. The ownership of the Goods resulting from transformation the incorporation or assembly is thus transferred by the Buyer to the Vendor as a guarantee for the original claim of the Vendor.\nThe authority to resell, process, consume, transform, incorporate or assemble the Goods as herein set out shall automatically be deemed to be withdrawn in its entirety if the Buyer fails to make payment on or before the payment date or where the Buyer is found to be bankrupt, insolvent, or a winding up order of the Buyer is made or a resolution for its voluntary winding up passed or a liquidator, is appointed or a winding up petition or petition for an administrative or similar order is presented under any applicable law. Furthermore, the Buyer may, without prejudice to the above provisions, deem the sale as having been terminated automatically without notice and without prejudice to the rights of the Seller to claim damages.\nIn the event the sale has been terminated or in the event of any breach by the Buyer of one of the provisions above, the Vendor shall have the right to repossess immediately the Goods in any place where they might be located, without any prior notice or need to initiate legal action, at the cost and the risk of the Buyer. The Buyer undertakes to allow access to its premises to the representatives or appointees of the Vendor, so as to allow them to repossess the Goods.\n15. The Vendor may at any time prior to the Goods being placed at the Buyer\u2019s disposal, require the Buyer to draw up, with respect to the full price of the Goods, an irrevocable and confirmed letter of credit with a bank approved by the Vendor, or to issue a bill of exchange, promissory note or any other means of payment of a negotiable nature.\nThese means of payment shall neither constitute a new contract, nor payment. The original claim by the Vendor against the Buyer shall remain in effect, together with all its guarantees including, but not limited to, the retention of property, title and ownership until receipt of the price and other payments and/or accessories to the price by the Vendor. Any commission or charge payable in respect of such letter of credit, Bill of Exchange, promissory note or other means of payment shall be borne by the Buyer. The Vendor shall be under no obligation to place the Goods at the Buyer\u2019s disposal if the said documents have not been submitted in accordance with this Article.\n16. The Vendor shall have the right, on giving notice to the Buyer, to suspend performance of the Contract in the event of any unforeseen event which is beyond its control and which temporarily prevents it from fulfilling all or part of its contractual obligations. If such event prevents performance of the Contract indefinitely, the Contract shall be deemed to be terminated automatically. These events are herein being referred to as \"Events of Force Majeure\". These events shall, in the case of the Vendor, include the following: acts of war, total or partial strikes, import or export restrictions, trade embargoes or blockades and accidents of all kind even those occurring in transit, unavailability of packaging or means of transport, shortages of product or raw materials, restrictions of all kinds arising in either producer or consumer countries, market disturbance by decision of any authority whatsoever, any occurrences restricting the Vendor\u2019s ability to purchase, produce, transport, import, export, unload or distribute the products or raw materials, either on the Vendor\u2019s own premises or those of his subcontractors and suppliers. On the occurrence of any such Event of Force Majeure, the Vendor shall have the right to suspend or restrict his deliveries and equitably allocate and distribute amongst his customers the products which he has in stock at the time of the occurrence of the Event of Force Majeure.\n17. The Vendor and his representatives will provide, if requested by the Buyer, subject to terms and conditions to be agreed, technical assistance with regard to the use of the Goods an advice or suggestions as to tendering. The Vendor is not contractually bound to provide any technical assistance. Should any technical assistance and advice be given by the Vendor, the Vendor shall only be liable for its own wilful misconduct.\nSave for said recourse for wilful misconduct, the Buyer hereby expressly waives the right to claim against the Vendor for any damage caused to the Goods, or damage to property of, or injury to person caused to the Buyer himself, his personnel or representatives or any third party as a result of technical assistance provided by the Vendor.\n18. Default of payment, partial or otherwise, of an invoice or of any negotiable instrument falling due shall cause all credit periods to lapse, and shall result in all amounts owed by the Buyer, as well as all accepted negotiable instruments not yet matured becoming immediately due and payable. Any such default further entitles the Vendor to terminate the Contract by written notice, delivered personally or by registered letter, in respect of all remaining deliveries, without prejudice to all other legal rights. This same provision shall apply should the Buyer not take delivery of the agreed quantities of Goods within the agreed time, or not fulfil any other of his obligations pursuant to the Contract, or should he be declared bankrupt, become insolvent, go into liquidation or become subject to any proceedings for liquidation or should he become subject to any other similar proceedings.\nIn the event of doubt arising as to the Buyer\u2019s solvability, for instance in the event of late payment of default, the Vendor shall have the right to demand payment in advance or require security prior to continuing deliveries.\n19. Belgian law governs this Contract. The ICC Incoterms (2000 edition, and subsequent editions) apply to the extent that they are not in conflict with any provision of this Contract.\n20. Non-exercise or late exercise by the Vendor of any right or recourse provided in this Contract shall not constitute a waiver of any such right.\n21. The Buyer agrees that any dispute arising in connection with the validity, performance or interpretation of this Contract shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Courts of Ghent, irrespective of the domiciliation of any negotiable instruments and the terms of payment agreed to, even in the event that the Vendor is called up as guarantor (appel en garantie), or in the event of plurality of defendants, or connexity, without prejudice to the Vendor\u2019s right to bring the matter before the Court of the Buyer\u2019s principal place of business, registered office or domicile.\nFor the terms of purchase in English & Dutch, please click here\nVoor de aannemingsvoorschriften van Oleon NV in het Nederlands, klik hier", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 20188, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.olivet.org/about/mission-statement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:4NYRFYUPJMCWLGJUIQ5OVLXOOXKTQVDP", "length": 518, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.olivet.org", "title": "Mission Statement | Olivet Lutheran Church", "raw_content": "As members of Olivet Lutheran Church and in recognition of the gift of grace we have received through Jesus Christ, our mission is to\u2026\nA vital community of believers within which each person is nurtured, supported, and strengthened in Christian faith through worship, education, and fellowship.\nThese believers to share with others the Good News of God\u2019s love and salvation, as revealed in Jesus Christ.\nPeople forth from worship in service to others in our community and beyond who are in pain or in any kind of need.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1445, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onedayonejob.com/jobs/internationals-network-for-public-schools/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:30Z", "digest": "sha1:DYOFBGB3QLW4LEP3Y6PTHJZKX5SA5VAT", "length": 5548, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.onedayonejob.com", "title": "Internationals Network for Public Schools Jobs and Internships", "raw_content": "Internationals Network for Public Schools calls their alternative certification program ISTART, and they are still hiring Teacher Apprentices for 2008-2009.\nHWAM Operations Analyst\nPrincipal Deputy General Counsel\nElectronic Technician III-CSI\nSchool Maintenance Tech/Custodian\nAssociate Vice President, Education and Child Protection\nDeputy Division Director, Division of Computer and Network Systems, CISE\nHigh School Foreign Exchange Program Coordinator\nCloud Automation Engineer & Administrator\nStafford, VA View\nEver since we received an e-mail from a reader who was looking for help finding jobs that offer sponsorship, we\u2019ve taken an added interest in helping international students in their job search. We published an article on job search tips for international students, and we try to make a note of it when we find jobs that offer sponsorship. Well, job search isn\u2019t the only time international students face difficulties that most American students don\u2019t. High school is tough enough for all of us, but international students have an even tougher time. They often face learning a new language while going through all the other typical high school struggles. The Internationals Network for Public Schools is a non-profit organization that is \u201cdedicated to the development and support of the network of International High Schools that serve late-entry immigrant English Language Learners.\u201d\nBilingual or English as a Second Language? Both!\nInternationals Network for Public Schools is a non-profit organ It all started in 1985 with the launch of the first New York City International High School, a joint venture between the NYC Department of Education and LaGuardia Community College. As more International High Schools popped up across the city, an informal organization called the Internationals Schools Partnership was formed to help the schools share ideas and resources for teaching international students the English language. In 2004 funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation allowed this partnership to grow into the Internationals Network for Public Schools, which enhances the resources available to International High Schools with private money.\nAt the time of admission, all students in our network of New York City public high schools have been in the United States for less than four years and score at the lowest levels on an English language assessment test. Our students come from 90 countries, speak 55 languages, and live in low-income households: between 71-92 percent are eligible for free meals. In New York City, this student populations average four-year graduation rate is only 26 percent. The International High Schools average four-year graduation rate is more than double: 73 percent. More than 90% of our graduates matriculate to college.\nThe Internationals Network for Public Schools program addresses these issues through a hybridization of bilingual and English as a Second Language education techniques. There are currently 8 public high schools in NYC that are part of the Internationals Network for Public Schools; however, the organization is aiming for national expansion over the next 5 years.\nLooking for a Few Good Teachers\nAlthough Internationals Network for Public Schools is working in conjunction with the New York City Teaching Fellows, the hiring of Teacher Apprentices appears to be done outside the program. Internationals Network for Public Schools calls their alternative certification program ISTART.\nIn the first year of the program, you will serve as an apprentice in an International High School, engage in project-based coursework at the school level, and participate in seminars led by experienced Internationals and LIU faculty. You will receive health benefits and a stipend of approximately $28,000. During the second year of the program, you will assume full teaching responsibilities and, likewise, receive a full teachers salary. At the conclusion of the two-year program, you will receive New York State certification in and a Masters degree in Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL).\nThe full job description can be found here. If you have excellent language skills and would love to make a difference in the lives of international high school students, there couldn\u2019t be a program better suited to your interests. Use the links below to find out more about the Internationals Network for Public Schools. They still have openings for the 2008-2009 school year!\nOne thing that we couldn\u2019t figure out is if Internationals Network for Public Schools sponsors international students for their jobs. If anyone knows, please leave a comment. We\u2019re not sure how that would work in regards to the jobs\u2019 being in public schools.\nThe Internationals Network for Public Schools Home Page\nJobs with the Internationals Network for Public Schools\nAbout Internationals Network for Public Schools\nThe Internationals Network for Public Schools Program\nInternationals Network for Public Schools\u2019 FAQ\nBecome a Facebook Fan of One Day, One Job. It\u2019s fun.\nWe've identified Internationals Network for Public Schools as having career opportunities in the following categories:\n3 responses to \u201cInternationals Network for Public Schools\u201d\nbx says:\nI think they probably will sponsor internationals who have graduated with a masters in education or some sort of specialization in education for opt/cpt, but I\u2019m not so sure if they will for a work visa :) hope that helps!\nThanks BX!\nSince Internationals is part of the Department of Education, they cannot sponsor individuals for jobs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 193.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onedayonejob.com/jobs/what-if/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZT6T2EW6GZZ6QNHICFMF6FJNCBNYYXHR", "length": 2735, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.onedayonejob.com", "title": "?What If! Jobs and Internships", "raw_content": "?What If! is constantly working on cool projects, and this is obviously reflected in their jobs. They have a number of openings include one for new grads.\nWe\u2019ve seen some companies with funky names. Weird made up words. All upper case or lower case. Odd punctuation. And then there\u2019s ?What If!. It kind of looks like someone\u2019s software project gone wrong. It\u2019s definitely not a software project, and I\u2019d say ?What If! is more like a consulting firm gone right. Their business is built on 5 key values: freshness, passion, action, love, and bravery, which sounds a bit different from the values of most companies. The reason that ?What If! deviates from the norms both in name and values is that they\u2019re an innovation company. It\u2019s all about developing new ideas and putting them into action, whether the ideas be products or customer experiences. ?What If! has a long and impressive list of clients, so they\u2019re not just some off the wall company that is all ideas and no action. They\u2019re based in the UK, but they also have offices in New York and Shanghai.\nDon\u2019t Leave Yourself Asking ?What If!\nWhether it\u2019s innovating to increase the value of research or to help a high-tech business enter the hospitality industry, ?What If! is constantly working on cool projects, and this is obviously reflected in their jobs. ?What If! offers jobs in the UK, Asia, and the US, but we\u2019re only going to focus on their job opportunities in the US today. They have a nice interactive map on their recruitment page, so it\u2019s really easy to view all of their jobs if you\u2019re interested in working abroad. In New York, open positions include Capability Consultant, Innovation Consultant, Creative Coordinators, and Training Consultant. The job descriptions aren\u2019t like most job openings, so it\u2019s hard to get a read on how much experience is really required for each position, but the way that I read the descriptions tells me that the the Creative Coordinator job is most suitable for new grads. Just as the job descriptions are a little different, so is the application process for jobs at ?What If! You can apply from the specific job descriptions, and you\u2019ll get an online application form with questions like \u201cWhat is the best idea that you\u2019ve ever made happen?\u201d and \u201cIf I was on a 12 hour flight with you what would I love about you? And what would irritate me?\u201d You can also apply for an unlisted position, so if you think that you have the talents for innovation consulting but don\u2019t know where you\u2019d fit in, that\u2019s probably the best way to go.\nWhatIfInnovation.com\nJobs at ?What If!\nAbout ?What If!\nProjects by ?What If!\n?What If! News and Buzz\n?What If!\u2019s Team\nWe've identified ?What If! as having career opportunities in the following categories:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.onfife.com/creative-communities/fifes-cultural-strategy/fifes-creative-cultural-industries-strategy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:50Z", "digest": "sha1:PSY7EAURUY2ZQ2Y6IFKN3OXS5R2QIRKV", "length": 815, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.onfife.com", "title": "ONFife | Fife's Creative & Cultural Industries Strategy", "raw_content": "Fife's Creative & Cultural Industries Strategy\nHeather Stuart, Chief Executive at Fife Cultural Trust and Cllr Lesley Laird officially launched the Creative & Cultural Industries Strategy on 10th February 2014.\nThe Strategy for the Creative & Cultural Industries in Fife 2013-2017 focuses on strengthening the Creative Economy in Fife. The Strategy sets out the future vision for the Creative & Cultural Industries in Fife and includes a three-year action plan. It was devised in consultation with the businesses and practitioners working in the sector in Fife, as well as with key creative and cultural partners.\nThe overall vision set out in the strategy is ambitious, stating that:\n\u201cFife is recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a creative place in which the creative & cultural industries thrive", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 4364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.osservatoreromano.va/en/news/urban-alliance-sustainable-development", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KV3E4QL4B6C7P5ZODLLKHB57CWAXEMFE", "length": 3047, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.osservatoreromano.va", "title": "An urban alliance for sustainable development", "raw_content": "An urban alliance\nMayors from cities ranging from Vatican City to New York have launched an urban alliance for sustainable development. The official inauguration will take place at the United Nations this coming 24 September, the first day of the Pope\u2019s visit. This was decided at a conference, organized by the Pontifical Academy for Social Sciences and held at the Vatican on 22 and 23 July.\nAfter Tuesday\u2019s meeting on human trafficking and care for the environment which culminated with a visit from the Pope in the New Synod Hall, attended by more than 60 mayors from around the world, a second smaller symposium was held on Wednesday and Thursday in the Casina Pio iv. The symposium\u2019s theme was \u201cSustainable Cities: Empowering People, Enabling Prosperity and Protecting the Planet\u201d. the meeting culminated with the signing a joint declaration, in which participants pledged to \u201cwork towards the success of the Sustainable Development Goals (sdgs) in our own cities and respective areas of endeavour, and to partner with others across the globe to help all cities to achieve the new sdgs with success\u201d. To this end, they pledged to \u201cwork together cooperatively and actively across cities and across sectors to coalesce in an Urban sdg Alliance\u201d, that \u201cwill be open, voluntary, participatory\u201d. In practice, it means formulating a \u201ccommon plan\u201d so as to reach \u201cglobal consensus\u201d on development goals, above all, to end extreme poverty and hunger.\nThe conference was opened by the mayors of Rome and New York, Ignazio Marino and Bill De Blasio, after an introduction by us economist Jeffrey Sachs, with speeches from the mayors of, among others, Seoul, South Korea; Bogot\u00e1, Colombia; Gaborone, Botswana; Stockholm, Sweden; Johannesburg, South Africa; San Francisco, usa; New Orleans, usa; and Porto Alegre, Brazil.\nThese municipal leaders all described grave environmental and social problems which are occurring around the globe. According to Park Won-soon, Mayor of Seoul, in 2014 almost 20 million people were forced to flee their homes because of natural disasters. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions have displaced 1.7 million people. On Thursday, Kagiso Thutlwe, Mayor of Gaborone, said that the likelihood of a person being displaced is 60 percent higher than it was in 1970. He also described how climate change will cause ever more extreme events.\nThis situation won\u2019t spare more developed regions either: In August 2014 in Japan, Typhoon Halong forced half a million people to abandon their homes.\n\u201cPope Francis called upon the mayors to take leadership in overcoming the growing crises of social exclusion, marginalization, and climate disruption\u201d. the declaration states. And, it continues, \u201cwe, the mayors and others assembled in this symposium, have heard this call from Pope Francis and from our own citizens. We recognize the dire threats to future generations. We must act now\u201d.\nSilvina P\u00e9rez\nAn education against hate and weapons\nCatholics in Iraq are 'challenging' the Islamic State not with weapons or violence but through ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4731, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 193.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ourcoop.com/ourcoop08/careers/training.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:31Z", "digest": "sha1:DZ6G7HJ7EJJB7PFEUVXXFWFDXQRIJUBA", "length": 948, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ourcoop.com", "title": "Our Co-op Online | Qualifications and Training", "raw_content": "Tennessee Farmers Cooperative needs talented, energetic, motivated individuals to lead the organization and its patrons through a changing agricultural world. To develop high-quality personnel for key positions at both the regional and local cooperative levels, TFC offers a career training program to prepare qualified individuals.\nIndividuals interested in the career training program should have the following qualifications:\nBachelor's degree in agriculture, business administration, or the equivalent work experience or a combination of the two.\nRural background or a desire to work in an agricultural field.\nCompliance with company standards or code.\nTo acquaint personnel with the cooperative operation and philosophy, the career training program is geared toward those interested in developing their skills in a cooperative career setting.\nCo-op's comprehensive training program prepares personnel for a professional career, not just a job.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 3271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.oxfordartonline.com/browse?btog=chap&pageSize=20&sort=titlesort&t_0=art_ArtFormsAndPractices%3A24&t_1=art_ArtFormsAndPractices%3A9&t_2=art_ArtFormsAndPractices%3A3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:YFBTYBLHJOBJSL6WFYZPLVHSKYJXHFTY", "length": 2114, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.oxfordartonline.com", "title": "Search Results | Oxford Art", "raw_content": "Birr, Jacques\nPainter, lithographer, illustrator. Animals. Medals.\nThe son of an architect, and a gifted student of chemical engineering, Jacques Birr discovered painting at a very young age. As a Bachelor of Science, he pursued a career in the printed fabrics sector of industry. In ...\nFrancesco (Maurizio) di Giorgio Martini\nFrancesco Paolo Fiore and Pietro C. Marani\nItalian architect, engineer, painter, illuminator, sculptor, medallist, theorist and writer. He was the most outstanding artistic personality from Siena in the second half of the 15th century. His activities as a diplomat led to his employment at the courts of Naples, Milan and Urbino, as well as in Siena, and while most of his paintings and miniatures date from before ...\nI. G. Bango Torviso\nTerm traditionally used to describe the art of Christians living in the areas of the Iberian peninsula ruled by Muslims in the 10th and 11th centuries. 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He became one of Britain's foremost poster artists and received regular commissions from London Transport, LNER and shipping companies from the turn of the century until the 1940s. 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Slight differences in quality can make dramatic differences in sales. The best way to achieve consistent quality is to establish strict employee performance. That is why we prefer franchise owners or partners who will be dedicated to the business full time, to be present on a daily basis. A successful franchisee has a friendly personality that attracts customers and motivates the staff. It is also very important to have a strong desire to succeed and have excellent problem solving skills.\nThe following elements are key to a successful franchise\nAbility to Meet Initial Investments\nStrong Integrity in the Business\nStrong Sales & Customer Service Abilities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 2971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pbaparchive.com/2008/12/weekend-arts-picks_24.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:56Z", "digest": "sha1:BYSHLB7O2WGVNW4FJN3BYVE2HYMHUELF", "length": 1964, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.pbaparchive.com", "title": "Palm Beach ArtsPaper: Weekend Arts Picks", "raw_content": "Daniel Ricardo Teran,\na resident artist and teacher\nat the Armory Arts Center,\nrecently demonstrated his\nwheel-throwing techniques to the\nCeramic League of the Palm Beaches,\nwhich met at The Craft Gallery recently.\nArmory Arts Center: As we are busy with holiday festivities, visiting local art galleries and museums can add quiet contemplation time.\nAnd then, as we begin to think about the new year and how it will be different from the one that's about to end, why not take a moment to contemplate just how we can bring more joy into our lives and those of others?\nIf you resolve to be more creative, think about signing up for a class at the Armory Arts Center and explore the joys of artistic expression. Classes in ceramics, sculpture, painting, printmaking, drawing and jewelry-making are offered by the talented faculty, as well as internationally famous artists who teach master-class workshops.\nIt\u2019s not too late to register for the next session, which begins Jan. 5 and runs through Feb. 28. If you are doing any last-minute shopping for gifts, a class may be just the ticket to bring joy into a loved one\u2019s life. Register online at www.armoryart.org or call the Armory at (561) 832-1776.\nAlthough the Armory Arts Center is closed for the weekend, you will have from Monday until Jan. 3 to visit the shows currently on exhibit, which include Random Thoughts by Harry Anderson.\nHis passion for combining collected objects from the early- and mid-20th century (many of which he found in junkyards or yard sales) evolved into a fascinating exhibition of sculptures that in an anthropomorphic manner eerily calls us back to our past. The Armory Arts Center is at 1700 Parker Ave. in West Palm Beach.\nAnother place to get in touch with your inner artist is The Craft Gallery at 5911 S. Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, where classes in ceramics and glass-fusion are being offered. For a class schedule, call owner Betty Wilson at (561) 585-7744. -- K. Deits", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1779, "original_length": 30384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pengovsky.com/2015/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:21Z", "digest": "sha1:5X7DI7QRCFCV7KR7AWGST6QEXBXDW2WR", "length": 28835, "nlines": 87, "source_domain": "www.pengovsky.com", "title": "October | 2015 | | SLEEPING WITH PENGOVSKY", "raw_content": "Since this is a hot topic, it would not do for pengovsky not to chip in his two eurocents: Zlovenija.\nA rather smart logo of Zlovenija\nThe wave after wave of refugees washed up something even more disturbing. A deluge of racist, xenophobic, hateful and whathaveyou comments regarding the refugees which would not abate. Things like \u201ca bullet\u2019s too good for them\u201d, \u201cget my gun\u201d, \u201cwhere\u2019s Hitler when you need him\u201d, \u201cthose trains should go straight to Auschwitz\u201d and so forth. Just lovely. :/\nSoon enough, a Tumblr appeared, collecting the pick of the crop of the couch-Nazis and putting their comment to their (more or less) hi-res photos, thus creating a striking contrast between people holding their puppies, spouses or children and their comments, most of which, to put it mildly, could provide grounds for criminal charges.\nAnd yet, there is something inherently wrong with Zlovenija (a wordplay on Slovenia and Zlo (=Evil)). People smarter than pengovsky have weighed in, both in favour (here, here and here) and against (here and here to give a couple of links almost at random), but no-one touched on what in pengovsky\u2019s views is the most crucial takeaway of the entire enterprise. Namely, that with this the bad guys actually won.\nYou see, whatever noble intentions led the creator(s) of Zlovenija, they are defeated by the very form chosen. Name-and-shame lists were, in what little experience Slovenia has with democracy, mainly tool of the political right. Think udba.net, a list of allegedly collaborators of UDBA, the Yugoslav secret police. The list that was used time an again to name-and-shame people who held public office at various levels. Or various \u201cwho\u2019s-who\u201d lists allegedly detailing networks of communist/gay mafia that supposedly runs Slovenia. Or various lists of journos who reported things the right-wing was unhappy with. Pengovsky was added to such a list. A bullshit scare tactic, but still, not something to be liked or wished for.\nBut wait, I hear you say, Zlovenija is exposing hate-speech! Surely, that can\u2019t be the same as putting together lists of undesirable journalists? In substance, no. But in form, there is no discernible difference. And when the next list is made, pointing that out will be useless.\nWith Zlovenia choosing a similar name-and-shame silencing technique, lists of undesirables are one step closer to becoming fair game. Which is all that the reactionary side ever wanted. Not to win, but to call it a tie, to muddle the field so much that everyone looks equally dirty. Whenever the progressives pick up tools of the reactionaries, they lose. Twice. First, because they allowed themselves to drop to the reactionary level and second, because they can\u2019t play that game well.\nJust take a look at all those removed photos which were replaced by \u201capologies\u201d by the authors of the comments. Only that precious few of them are actual apologies. When it all began, the blog set out some very harsh requirements for getting the offending picture and comment removed. It included posting a more or less groveling message with the author stating that he/she is aware of how wrong their actions were and to promise never to do it again. The requirements have since been loosened to disowning the comment via a short explanation. And now you\u2019ve got everything, from \u201cI was drunk\u201d to \u201cI\u2019ve no job\u201d to \u201cI was afraid for my family\u201d to \u201cI\u2019m angry there\u2019s so much social injustice in Slovenia\u201d\u2026 It\u2019s quite an impressive list of non-apologies. Everyone\u2019s got an excuse for being an asshole. And suddenly, that\u2019s alright.\nWell, fuck it. It\u2019s not alright. And it goes to show that naming and shaming, while silencing some people does precious little to change people\u2019s hearts. Because these people are going to get drunk again. They are still going to be afraid (no matter how baseless their fears are), they are still going to look for someone to blame for the situation (social or otherwise) they\u2019re in. And since they can\u2019t take it out on refugees, they\u2019ll take it out on someone else. Women. The Roma. Socialists. LGBT community (there\u2019s a nice one, with the referendum on same-sex marriage coming up and all). People with brown eyes. You name it. The list (sic!) is endless.\nZlovenija je \u0161la offline. pic.twitter.com/YCRp0c2QYV\n\u2014 Bosonoga (@_bosonoga) October 27, 2015\nJust how bad an idea Zlovenija was, is aptly demonstrated by the fact that it has jumped into the offline world, with pictures being printed in large format and plastered in public venues. Seriously? How is that suppose to be educational? Not to mention that the author(s) of the blog remain anonymous, while the authors of hate-speech comments are up there with their names and pictures. I mean, if you\u2019re going to out people, at least have the decency to put your own name to it.\nHow to go about hate-speech, then? Tricky. But as a journo colleague Lenart Ku\u010di\u0107 tweeted, there are no shortcuts. First and foremost, there\u2019s the legal framework. Hate-speech is a punishable offence. Therefore, reporting it to the authorities is a must. Blogs like Zlovenija are nothing but a form of digital vigilantism that can only end in tears. Sure, Facebook is being an asshole and is often refusing to remove plainly abusive comments. But fuck Facebook. Use Slovenian Criminal Code instead.\nBut it does not stop there. What is needed is compassion. Despite plenty of hate speech on social media, there were a lot of good deeds in real life. People volunteered to help with the Civil Defence and Red Cross. Other people donated food, clothes, basic shelter. The police and the army are earnestly trying to keep the situation in balance the best they can. In short, there seems to be not a bad guy in the field. All of which makes the couch-Nazis look despicable, irrelevant and sad.\nPoint out the good thigs and you\u2019ll see there is more than enough to counter the bad things.\nBut trying to \u201cteach them a lesson\u201d is not a good thing. Because rest assured that lessons will not be learned. Or rather, lessons that will be learned will be on avoiding detection and plausible deniability, they will not be on compassion. In that respect, Zlovenija only compounds the problem, it does not help solve it one tiny bit.\nIn video targeting hate speech, Polish teen turns into Hitler\nGermany Partners With Facebook to Combat Rise in Hate Speech Caused by Refugee Crisis\nAn epidemic of ignorance\nCharlie Hebdo and Hate Speech: Don\u2019t Prosecute the Messenger\nNew Greek minister quits in tweets row\nPosted on October 28, 2015 October 29, 2015 Categories SloveniaTags Adolf Hitler, Hate speech, Homophobia, Non-governmental organization7 Comments on Name And Shame\nThe Army Is A Broad Sword, Not A Scalpel\nFollowing a surge in influx of refugees which apparently stretched Slovenian personnel and housing resources to their limits, the government of Miro Cerar came up with amendments to Defence Act granting the Slovenian army policing powers and rushed them through the parliament in a rarely used emergency legislative procedure. The move, backed by both the coalition and most of the opposition is aimed to provide relief to the overstretched police and Civil defence force. But in reality it opens a Pandora\u2019s box of the military spilling over into the civilian sphere.\n\u201cThe army will perform its duty.\u201d Bruce Willis/William Deveraux in The Siege (source)\nAdmittedly, the numbers Slovenian authorities were dealing with are staggering in terms of the country\u2019s size and its resources. More than 20.000 refugees came to the Slovenian border via the \u201cWest Balkan route\u201d through Croatia in the last couple of days. Quite a substantial number of them, as per Slovenian government, without any notification from their Croatian counterparts who reportedly transported the refugees somewhere in the vicinity of theborder rather than to the actual border crossings and then cut them loose, leaving them to make their way across the river, fields and marshes into Slovenia.\nAnd since Slovenia, trying to be European to a fault, insists on an orderly processing and transfer of refugees from Croatia through its several refugee centres onwards to Austria, things got tricky at the Slovenia/Croatia border, prompting the government in Ljubljana to employ the army as a policing force.\nWhich is a big fucking mistake.\nThe problem is, of course, many-fold. First, the mere fact that with this, the firewall between the civilian and the military sphere is being, albeit slightly and temporarily, torn down. Giving the army powers over the civilian population is a big no-no. Unless a state of emergency was declared and last time pengovsky checked, that wasn\u2019t the case. Although some people act as if it were. And this is the problem number two.\nA lot of what we were seeing these past few days were knee-jerk reactions to events that were and are apparently getting the better of people at the top of the food chain whose primary role is to keep things strategically in check. As if deploying the military was the only alternative to using police forces.\nThere\u2019s the old adage that if a hammer is all you know how to use, everything looks like a nail. But this is not a case of trigger-happy politicos jumping the gun (literally) and launching a scenario not unlike in The Siege. No, a more proper parallel would be that of a first-time plane passengers on a very bumpy ride, already reaching for their life jackets while the flight crew is still serving drinks.\nA number of those alternatives came to light as the parliament was debating the amendments to the Law on Defence. These include aid by the European frontier agency Frontex as well as bilateral help from other EU states\u2019 police forces, most notably Austria and Germany. These options are now being considered and reportedly about to be enacted.\nProblemo numero tres is the actual scope of powers granted to the military. While members of the Slovenian army apparently have some crowd control training, there is serious concern as to whether Slovenian soldiers have the (legal) knowledge and experience to execute these powers with necessary restraint and respect for human rights. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I\u2019m not saying that Slovenian Army are prone to human rights violations. What I\u2019m saying is that the army \u2013 any army \u2013 was not designed with this in mind. Simple as that. And by the time enough military units are trained in the nuances of policing civilians and equipped to do that effectively, this crisis will have long passed.\nWhich brings us to the fourth and the biggest problem. This, too, shall pass. And after it does, we\u2019ll be left with army units with a shitload of equipment they won\u2019t need anymore and training that does not correspond to their basic mission. A waste of resources, if I ever saw one. But not only that. The most worrisome leftover will be the legislation itself.\nBecause if you think that the provision granting policing powers to the army is going to go away after this is over, you\u2019re sorely mistaken. It is here to stay, for ever and ever. Just like increased political meddling with the public television or the fiscal rule.\nAnd even if the government plans to repeal the provision after the crisis abates, someone should tell them they will fail to secure the necessary two-thirds majority. Because the right-wing parties which supported the provision practically without dissent (customary political bickering, gloating and we-told-you-so\u2019s not withstanding) and who find Victor Orban a rather appealing character, were long clamouring for something like this. And now they got it, they\u2019re not going to let go of it that easily.\nThere will be other governments and there will be other crises. And bringing in the army has suddenly become much easier. All that is needed now is a technical request by the government to the parliament and \u2013 poof! \u2013 the army suddenly has policing powers again.\nLuckily, yesterday cooler heads prevailed and the bar for approving special powers was raised to a two-thirds rather than just a simple majority as originally proposed by the government. Also, the amended law provides a sunset clause for these powers which expire after three months if not revoked sooner. They can, however, be extended, too, pending a re-vote. Meaning that this is not really a strong safeguard against abuse.\nFear of abuse was present in the subtext of the presentation by the Chief of the General Staff, Maj. Gen. Andrej Osterman, when he addressed the parliament yesterday. Namely, among other things, Osterman said Slovenian army neither wants nor has asked for policing powers, but will perform the duty as instructed.\nIt was Bruce Willis in the role of General William Deveraux in The Siege who said that the army is a broad sword, not a scalpel.\nAnd yet, here we are. What could possibly go wrong?\nCroatian Police Pushing Refugees off to Austria\nBickering in the Balkans: Officials clash over migrants\nEU talks about migrant crisis; tensions rise in SE Europe\nMigrants seek routes amid EU impasse\nSerbia-Croatia migrants row deepens\nPosted on October 21, 2015 October 29, 2015 Categories EU, Slovenia, World AffairsTags Austria, Croatia, Europe, European Union, Hungary, Law enforcement in Croatia, Refugee, Serbia, Slovenia, Viktor Orb\u00e1n\nBad, Bad Bank. Heel.\nAs both readers of this blog know, the government of Miro Cerar decapitated the management and the board of the BAMC \u2013 Bank Asset Management Company, a.k.a. the \u201cbad bank\u201c. With dismissal of Lars Nyberg as head of the board and Torbj\u00f6rn M\u00e5nsson as CEO, the rest of the international team left, as well, leaving a power vacuum at the top of the institution tasked with making the most of bad loans that hobbled the Slovenian banking sector and the economy in general.\nSince its conception, the bad bank has been an unloved child, more or less forced upon the government(s) by the looming troika back in the days when shit was getting real and Slovenia was teetering on the brink of the bailout abyss. Now, the bank had its fits and starts, with outside consultants being heavily relied upon to turn the legal mandate into a reality while the political turmoil was reaching new peaks and the mandate itself was frequently changed. The management of the bad bank also changed quite a bit, finally settling down with Nyberg as head of the Board and M\u00e5nsson (who served as a consultant during the conception of the bank) as CEO.\nThe bank and its management were never far from centres of controversy. Be it the way they managed assets, or the very nature of the assets they were given to manage, they always irked somebody. And since the top execs were outsiders (with Slovenians serving in non-executive management roles), there was a noticeable unease and even apprehension with the institution across the political spectrum. This of course did not prevent the political parties bashing each others\u2019 brains out with whatever shit the bank dug out on any given day, depending on whose daily agenda the issue at hand served best. But the thing was that during the last 25 years enough dubious business moves were made and/or politically ordained on both sides of the aisle, that no one was coming out of the cesspool clean. There was no guarantee that politically sensitive issues will be kept at bay, that names will not be named and that clout will be kept.\nThis is one of the reasons the bad bank was under intense scrutiny from the very beginning. Leading the charge was the Court of Audit which, understandably, wanted to keep an eye on how state\u2019s assets were being managed. Turns out that the management had a hard time putting legal provisions in practice and that not all decisions were up to standards. Accounting and otherwise. To put it plainly: in 2013, the first year of operation, money was spent lavishly but to little effect. M\u00e5nsson defended his work saying that the mandate was changed frequently and that a lot of that money went for adapting to the new circumstances. And, to be honest, in 2014, the bad bank did come up with results, selling some debt (transferred at a discount) for a profit. On the other hand, managing real estate left a lot to be desired, to put it mildly. So the results were there, albeit not spectacular . But still. Since the bad bank was chartered for five years with the understanding that it would get another five, things were seemingly moving in the right direction.\nNot everyone was pleased with that. Local economic chieftains, once considered pillars of society (aren\u2019t they all, until they come tumbling down), were quite unhappy with outsiders basically showing them they know jack shit about running a business when the going gets rough. With the downfall of economic powerbases a number of different informal networks, consisting of politicos, moneymen and opinion makers began to unravel which again, was an unwelcome turn of events for many. Which is why the bad bank was under a near-constant stream of accusations of wrongdoing. Most of these accusations were based on the audit for 2013, while others, more populist ones, included the claim that \u201cforeigners were lining their pockets on account of the Slovenian taxpayer\u201d and scandalisation over salaries of the BAMC top brass. A classic wag the dog moment.\nAnd, as usual in Slovenia, this worked pretty well. BAMC management was well paid. Extremely well paid, to be exact. 20k \u20ac before taxes is not peanuts in Slovenia, although one gets left with slightly more than 50% of that after the various parts of the state (welfare and otherwise) have taken their share. Still, not exactly what one would call a negligible amount of money.\nBut while your average Slovenian was scandalised over the numbers, what no one cared about was that these rates are more or less common in this line of business. For all intents and purposes, M\u00e5nsson was the official receiver of the state and para-state assets. And if you want someone from an international market to run that for you, you pay international prices. Sure, the management of the bad bank in all likelihood was not top-tier, but then again, Slovenia can\u2019t afford to pay top-tier prices. We got our money\u2019s worth and still M\u00e5nsson and his people were able to do more in a year and a half than the various local polit-economic brain trusts were able to do in a decade. Which begs the question who exactly was, in fact, overpaid.\nPoint being that the public outcry over paychecks is just a smoke-screen for taming a force that was wreaking havoc on the established order of things. Because regardless of the waste the 2008 meltdown laid upon the economic landscape of this country, the balance of power remained more or less unperturbed. Even the fact that the right-wing slammed the left-wing for undermining the bad bank, it only did so because it was not itself in power. And had it been, the left-wing would have slammed the right-wing for fire-selling state assets.\nWhen Christmas comes early\nOh, wait, but this is exactly what the left-wing has been doing for the past year and a half. You see, from their point of view, PM Cerar and FinMin Mramor are little more than agents of the neoliberal locusts, while from the point of view of the right-wing they are nothing but custodians of the communist economic power structure. Both views are as much self-serving as they are wrong. Cerar and Mramor (the latter definitely being on the hawkish side of the austerity debate) are primarily concerned with rocking the economic boat as little as possible. And since the SMC is essentially a populist party, given its quick rise and patch-work platform, they could ill ignore the issue which, however misguided, enraged the people. It was therefore easier to cut Nyberg and M\u00e5nsson loose than to pick a fight that could well bring down the coalition.\nAs a result, the Social Democrats, the most junior of the three coalition partners, have again gained in strength as they will no doubt drive a hard bargain in negotiating who gets to be the bad bank\u2019s new top dog. Karl Erjavec of DeSUS, too, will strive to cash in on the situation, but his is a different playing field. Everyone else, too, will want a piece of the pie in return for not causing too much trouble. The only ones who will be left out in the cold nursing their hurt pride will be the ones who carried the anti-bad bank banner all those years: the United Left (ZL).\nThe ZL went all out against BAMC on ideological grounds. Pure as their motives were, the party somehow failed to notice that they are merely carrying bag for their left-wing competition. While the \u201conly true left-wing party\u201d was up in arms, the SD (bleeding voters and probably ripe for a trip to the Happy Hunting Ground) was sitting back and enjoying the ride and is now laughing all the way to the (bad) bank. To put it another way: Christmas came early for the SD and ZL was the Santa\u2019s little helper.\nAnd now, in the power vacuum, all kinds of shady deals can be made. Including the one which seems to have caused the downfall of the bad-bank management in the first place:\nTwo state funds confirm interest in buying Sava claims from bad bank, days after axed BAMC official said Sava case \"smelled of corruption\"\n\u2014 Slovene Press Agency (@STA_English) October 15, 2015\nThis seems to be the crux of the matter. The moment it actually started doing what it was supposed to be doing, the bad bank stepped on so many toes so fast everyone wants it to just disappear. Much of this was summarised in this must watch interview-cum-explanatory with BAMC project manager Janne Harjunp\u00e4\u00e4 (in English) ran last night by the RTVSLO (of all places \ud83d\ude42 ). The present situation is nicely summed up in this six-minute clip, together with the explanation why both left- and right-wing want BAMC tamed.\nAnd before someone goes ga-ga over yesterday\u2019s CrimPolice raid at the bad bank, supposedly investigating consultants\u2019 fees and board wages, let us not forget that a) these things rarely come to fruition and b) are probably nothing more than just a back-up plan in case the dismissed top brass claims severance pay.\nIt\u2019s the power, stupid\nAt the end of the day, the government of Miro Cerar will have to choose a new board. The PM said this will be done by an international tender, but this means nothing if he and the finance minister fail to curb the greed and power grab of the traditional political parties. Not only are they used to this, they need such an economic backbone to plot their way back to power.\nAfter all, that is what it is all about.\nPosted on October 16, 2015 June 17, 2016 Categories SloveniaTags bad bank, BAMC, Janne Harjunp\u00e4\u00e4, Lars Nyberg, sd, Slovenia, SMC, Torbj\u00f6rn M\u00e5nsson\nRule 34a\nThat Slovenia fought against watering-down of the Telecom Single Market directive (a.k.a. Single Digital Market) was for all intents and purposes the most surprising piece of information coming from this sorry little excuse for a country in the last ten days or so. Even more surprising than the decapitation of the bad-bank where the CEO and chief of the supervisory board were dismissed over excessive pay. And infinitely more surprising than the story of the NSA and German BND bulk-intercepting international calls from Slovenia between 2005 and 2008. Both of which will get written up here in due course. But first, this net neutrality thing.\n(source: savetheinternet.eu)\nYou can read it up, but the nuts and bolts of it are fairly simple: either everyone gets to use the web under the same conditions in terms of speed, access and services provided or network operators get to decide which services or users get preferential treatment (for a price, of course) and which get to crowd with the rest of us sorry bastards on the slow end of the interwebz. Or, what could happen is that the network operators get to pick their favourite service(s) and charge less \u2013 or nothing at all \u2013 for their use, relegating every other competing service to the status of an also-ran. Point being that under the proposed Single Digital Market directive the telcos get to pick the winners and the losers.\nThis is about where and how you\u2019ll get your news, for example. Or your porn. Not that there\u2019s much difference, but still. On the neutral net, where telcos/network providers compete with one another with plans, prices and ease of access, you\u2019re able to pick and choose between RTVSLO, BBC, Russia Today, NaturalNews.com (yuck) or even FoxNews. On the not-so-neutral net your provider will most likely limit you to a handful of news sites, at least one of them being their own. Everything else will either be available at a premium or at lower speeds. Or both. The same goes for porn. The neutral net brings you PornHub, Redtube or plain old /hc/ board on 4chan.org, depending on your fancy. The other web brings you your provider\u2019s porn service. It is a sort of Rule 34a.\nIf it exists, there is porn of it \u2013 no exceptions. Provided you pay for it and we get to deliver it.\nAnd would you really like your network provider to know exactly what sick turn-ons you have? Methinks not.\nAnd this is just the way things are today. Imagine a couple of years from now, when the IoT takes off for real. You buy a net-enabled fridge telling you what\u2019s missing and updating your shopping list. But on the not-neutral web your network operator gets to choose which brand of the fridge gets preferential treatment within its network or which on-line shops are available for such a device. Hell, it can even limit your online shopping experience, preventing you from getting the best deal out there. Or maybe it can charge you extra if your wifi-enabled car needs an update. The list goes on forever.\nAlso, this is about cats.\nAll of the above makes it all the more astounding that Slovenia actually took up the issue on the EU level. I mean, here we have arguably the single most important long-term policy issue since the introduction of the euro and this country actually wants to do something? Wow. Just wow. In fact, Slovenia and the Netherlands were out-voted on the issue, with Croatia and Greece abstaining, while the 24 remaining member states green-lighted the draft (page 13 of the link).\nYou see, the thing is that next to the Netherlands, Slovenia is the only EU member to have set net neutrality as a legal norm. More or less. In Slovenia at least the legislation was watered down via lobbying by the telcos, but not enough to prevent the first-ever rulings by AKOS, the comms watchdog, which in January fined the two largest mobile providers for providing zero-rating services. And now, as the year slowly draws to an end, the European Commission put forward a draft Single Digital Market directive which would have made these rulings next to impossible as it basically trades the much-hailed abolition of roaming charges (two years hence) for a two-speed Internet (most likely to commence in various forms immediately). Little wonder Slovenia and the Netherlands have problems with it since it directly undermines their national legislation, several orders of magnitude better than what the draft directive provides for.\nAt its most crudest, this is a case where a drop in profits in one segment of the industry is mitigated by a free-fire zone of surcharges in another segment. Not to mention the fact that the move will have massive repercussions far beyond the consumer sector. Limiting speed and/or access to information will impact education and research, creative industries will once again be divided into haves and have-nots and home will no longer be simply where the wi-fi is.\nThis, despite the name, will be anything but a single digital market.\nThe ball is now in the European Parliament\u2019s court. Last year, the EP shot down a directive draft which \u2013 compared to the current one \u2013 was more than acceptable. But with Brussels packing more lobbyists than Washington D.C., one can never be sure of the final outcome. (Slighty OT: Here is a handy tool on lobbying stats, courtesy of Politico.eu).\nWhich is why a number of grass-roots initiatives sprang up all over the EU to, well, save the internet. In Slovenia, too, where media and the politicos have apparently finally started paying attention. Whether this will be enough remains to be seen, but if the fate of the ACTA treaty a few years ago and the recent Safe-harbour ruling by the European Court are omens to go by, then this whole thing can still be overturned.\nBecause as it stands, for all the goodies it brings vis-a-vis mobile roaming, the TSM directive in fact heralds yet another social stratification. 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However, if the statelearns that hydraulic fracking is safe by January 15, 2015 this act can be repealed.\nOn May 16th the bill was signed into law by the Governor of Vermont, making Vermont the first state to pass a ban on fracking.\nClick here to read Act\nLabels: Drilling Ban, Environmental, Hydraulic Fracturing Fluid, Water Quality, Well Casing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.personalcarephysio.ca/services/health-wellness-studio/pilates-studio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PAEDMDQEEJARQKWAZT3ZEON3NK7U32NM", "length": 1445, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.personalcarephysio.ca", "title": "Pilates Studio - Personal Care Physio & Osteopathy", "raw_content": "Are you feeling stiff, unmotivated, fatigued or having a difficult time finding your balance? 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This combination helps one to achieve the full benefits from these movements and exercises.\nThis form of exercise has many modifications that can be used to personalize a workout routine, and the exercises can be done on a mat, or with the use of weights and other various equipment, depending on the person. In particular, classes that are offered at Personal Care Physio and Osteopathy will focus on the basic Pilates concepts with various fun mat exercise routines. Modifications to the movements will also be provided, depending on personal needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.petemarus.com/blog/8974b12b-b6b1-47f6-8fcd-fea2b8316990", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:57Z", "digest": "sha1:GML6AZ2PKD73KTZ2QR72TPW7BKT76EOY", "length": 1194, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.petemarus.com", "title": "%i \u2014 Peter Marus", "raw_content": "Tomorrow is my parents 28th Wedding anniversary, and that's amaxing to me. Considering that half of married couples end up divorced, it's really an amazing thing to be together that long. I figure that the main thing that keeps them together is a silent argument that once in a while surfaces to just keep things intersted. Think about it: your mom and dad always had something they disagreed with, and once in a while they would argue about it, and after the argument things are all good. See? that the one spot where things get vented, and afer a day or two (maybe a week if one of them is really stubborn), things go back to normal. And you remember that couple you know that everything is so \"lovey-duvy\"??? Are they in the trial separation or in court now for the final divorce because they kept up the tension to themselves, and it all came out over something stupid and one of them went too far......\nother than that, things are going almost well. Almost in that there's a serious matter that I\"m aware of with someone, and I haven't heard any news for almost 2 weeks!!!!! It's really irritating, but given the situation and what I know about it, I really can't get too angry about it...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pfaw.org/report/carolyn-kuhls-hearing-strengthened-the-case-against-her-confirmation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GU4Z3T7U7GYPW6JHA7PX6WGRRZOYYMO7", "length": 60426, "nlines": 146, "source_domain": "www.pfaw.org", "title": "Carolyn Kuhl\u2019s Hearing Strengthened the Case Against Her Confirmation | People For the American Way", "raw_content": "ReportsCarolyn Kuhl\u2019s Hearing Strengthened the Case Against Her Confirmation\nCarolyn Kuhl\u2019s Hearing Strengthened the Case Against Her Confirmation\nEven before the April 1, 2003 hearing on Carolyn Kuhl\u2019s nomination by President Bush to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, significant opposition to Kuhl\u2019s confirmation had arisen because of her troubling record as a lawyer and judge. Throughout her career \u2014 as a lawyer in the Reagan Administration Justice Department, in private practice, and as a state judge \u2014 Kuhl has followed a legal philosophy harmful to the rights and interests of ordinary Americans. This is particularly true in three areas: women\u2019s rights and reproductive freedom, other civil rights, and access to justice.\nKuhl\u2019s hearing on April 1 not only failed to dispel the serious concerns that had been raised about her record, but in fact reinforced them. At her hearing, Kuhl refused to answer certain questions (such as those relating to her jurisprudential views of Roe v. Wade), she changed the subject and avoided answering other questions, and, whether intentional or not, her responses to a number of questions asked by Senators regarding troublesome aspects of her record were untrue and misleading in critical respects.\nFor example, in a landmark sexual harassment case decided by the Supreme Court, Kuhl as a Reagan Justice Department official had urged the Court to rule in favor of the employer, under a definitional standard that would have made it very difficult for women to prove sexual harassment in the workplace. The Court did not adopt Kuhl\u2019s standard and ruled unanimously for the female employee. Nonetheless, when questioned about this case at her hearing, Kuhl called her disagreement with the Court \u201ctechnical\u201d and sought to portray the ruling as a victory for her position.\nIn another Supreme Court case, Kuhl had filed a brief urging the Court to overturn the important and well-settled doctrine of associational standing, which allows organizations to file suit on behalf of their members and thus facilitates access to justice by ordinary Americans. When asked about this case at her hearing, Kuhl stated that her name was not on the brief, thereby deflecting questions about her extreme views. Kuhl\u2019s response was flatly incorrect. Although Kuhl has since acknowledged the error in her testimony, she has never answered Senators\u2019 fundamental concerns about the \u201cfrontal attack\u201d that her own former supervisor says she launched in this case against the doctrine of associational standing.\nThese and other disturbing aspects of Kuhl\u2019s hearing testimony are further discussed below with respect to each of the three fundamental areas of concern about Kuhl\u2019s record: women\u2019s rights and reproductive freedom; other civil rights issues; and access to justice. Combined with the concerns already raised by Kuhl\u2019s record, it is clear that her confirmation should be rejected.\nKuhl\u2019s record on women\u2019s rights, including reproductive freedom\nTrying to overturn Roe v. Wade\nSenators\u2019 concerns: When Kuhl served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General, she specifically urged that the Department of Justice seek to have the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade. According to Charles Fried, Acting Solicitor General at the time, Kuhl was the co-author of \u201c[t]he most aggressive memo\u201d to him from within the Justice Department urging the Department to file an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court in the Thornburgh case calling for \u201coutright reversal of Roe.\u201d1 Kuhl then co-authored precisely such a brief, which contended that Roe was \u201cso far flawed that this Court should overrule it and return the law to the condition in which it was before that case was decided.\u201d2 The Supreme Court rejected Kuhl\u2019s attack on Roe.\nKuhl\u2019s testimony: In response to questions about her role in the Thornburgh case, Kuhl attempted to deflect Senators\u2019 concerns about her troubling position by asserting that she was merely representing a client, President Reagan, who believed that Roe should be overruled.3 Kuhl specifically and repeatedly declined to answer Senator Feinstein\u2019s question as to whether she believes that Roe was correctly decided. Kuhl Hearing, at 45-47.\nThe facts: To the extent Kuhl claimed that as a Justice Department attorney she was representing the President in Thornburgh, the same could be said of every attorney in the Justice Department, including everyone who weighed in with Acting Solicitor General Fried as to whether the government should even file an amicus brief in this case (since it was not a party), let alone what position it should take. The fact remains that, as reported by Fried \u2014 who was the recipient of all of those memos \u2014 \u201c[t]he most aggressive memo came from my friends Richard Willard and Carolyn Kuhl in Civil, who recommended that we urge outright reversal of Roe.\u201d4 Notwithstanding Kuhl\u2019s refusal now to disclose her views, it is clear that she went far beyond her role as a Justice Department attorney in her \u201caggressive\u201d efforts to overturn Roe v. Wade.\nContinuing her anti-choice advocacy\nSenators\u2019 concerns: In private practice, Kuhl filed an amicus curiae brief in Rust v. Sullivan on behalf of an anti-choice group in support of the federal \u201cgag rule\u201d that prohibited family clinics getting federal aid from discussion abortion with patients. Although Kuhl\u2019s brief primarily addressed First Amendment issues, she began the brief with a free standing quotation that attacked the Court\u2019s decisions upholding a women\u2019s right to choose abortion as causing a \u201cmajor distortion in the Court\u2019s constitutional jurisprudence.\u201d5 Referring to this brief, Senator Feinstein asked Kuhl whether it was fair to say that at the time Kuhl wrote it she was \u201cstill a critic of the Supreme Court\u2019s jurisprudence on abortion?\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 49.\nKuhl\u2019s testimony: Kuhl again deflected efforts by Senator Feinstein to learn her jurisprudential views of the Court\u2019s abortion decisions, stating that her brief in Rust v. Sullivan was written \u201con behalf of a client\u201d and also that it \u201cprimarily addresses the First Amendment issue there. . .\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 50.\nThe facts: Kuhl was correct in her overall description of her brief, which makes the free standing quote with which she began the brief all the more indicative of her disagreement with the Court\u2019s decisions protecting a woman\u2019s reproductive freedom. Indeed, Kuhl never actually answered Senator Feinstein\u2019s question or explained why she began a brief about a First Amendment issue with a free standing quote attacking the Court\u2019s abortion decisions.\nSeeking to limit sexual harassment protections\nSenators\u2019 concerns: As Deputy Solicitor General, Kuhl co-authored an amicus curiae brief for the United States and the EEOC in the Supreme Court supporting the employer in the landmark sexual harassment case of Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson. The plaintiff, Mechelle Vinson, a bank employee, alleged that her supervisor had forced her to submit to unwelcome sexual advances over a number of years, during which time she was afraid that she would lose her job if she refused. The position that Kuhl took, had it been adopted by the Court, would have made it more difficult for women to prove sexual harassment in the workplace. Specifically, as Senator Feinstein observed, Kuhl\u2019s brief \u201ctook the side of the employer\u201d and \u201cargued in support of the District Court\u2019s ruling that what occurred was simply a voluntary personal relationship between coworkers and that that would not be actionable under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.\u201d As Senator Feinstein further observed, Kuhl\u2019s brief \u201cignored the power held by a supervisor over [a] subordinate in these circumstances . . . .\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 51. Senator Feinstein asked Kuhl if she had been involved in the decision to file a government brief taking the side of the employer in this case. Id. at 51-2.\nKuhl\u2019s testimony: While Kuhl acknowledged that she had been involved in that decision, she then immediately tried to deflect Senator Feinstein\u2019s concerns about the position she had taken in favor of the employer. According to Kuhl, \u201cthe Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Meritor closely tracked the brief that we filed. The reasoning is nearly identical to what we were urging on the Court.\u201d Id. at 52. Kuhl further testified that \u201c[t]he only reason\u201d the Department had urged a \u201creversal\u201d of the ruling below in favor of Ms. Vinson had to do with what she called \u201cthe very technical interpretation of the Court\u2019s findings of fact,\u201d namely, that the trial court had found any sexual relationship between Ms. Vinson and her supervisor to be \u201cvoluntary.\u201d Id. According to Kuhl, this was \u201ca technical issue on which the Supreme Court and we disagreed\u201d and that the Justice Department was \u201chappy with the decision\u201d in this case. Id.\nThe facts: Kuhl\u2019s testimony was astonishing in light of the fact that her amicus brief had urged the Court to overturn the Court of Appeals\u2019 decision and to rule against Ms. Vinson, while the Court, in an opinion by then-Justice Rehnquist, unanimously ruled in favor of Ms. Vinson. In addition, what Kuhl called a \u201ctechnical\u201d disagreement \u2014 defining \u201cvoluntary\u201d or \u201cconsensual\u201d conduct to preclude any finding that the conduct was \u201cunwelcome\u201d \u2014 in fact went to the very crux of what an employee needs to prove in order to establish a claim for sexual harassment based on a hostile work environment, and formed the basis upon which the Court ruled in favor of Ms. Vinson. Rehnquist\u2019s opinion flatly rejected Kuhl\u2019s position, holding that \u201cthe fact that sex-related conduct was \u2018voluntary,\u2019 in the sense that the complainant was not forced to participate against her will, is not a defense to a sexual harassment suit brought under Title VII.\u201d6 Kuhl\u2019s assertion that the Court\u2019s ruling tracked the government\u2019s brief and the implication in her testimony that it was a victory for the government appears to be confirmation spin by Kuhl intended to deflect the fact that her brief had unsuccessfully urged a far tougher standard for proving sexual harassment generally, as well as a ruling for the employer in this specific case.\nSenator Feinstein, appropriately \u201cpuzzled\u201d by Kuhl\u2019s testimony concerning this case,7 asked Kuhl in post-hearing questions for a further explanation, as did Senator Biden. In her replies, Kuhl continued to maintain that the Court\u2019s unanimous ruling for Ms. Vinson was in line with Kuhl\u2019s brief in support of the employer. According to Kuhl, her brief \u201cargued for a standard based on whether sexual advances made in the workplace were \u2018unwelcome.\u2019 . . . The Supreme Court accepted the United States\u2019 argument that the appropriate standard was whether the advances were unwelcome.\u201d8 What Kuhl does not state, however, is that her brief defined \u201cunwelcome\u201d sexual advances in such a manner that non-forcible sexual conduct \u2014 \u201cvoluntary\u201d or \u201cconsensual\u201d in the words of Kuhl\u2019s brief \u2014 would not be considered \u201cunwelcome.\u201d9 The Supreme Court, as discussed above, unanimously rejected such a narrow definition of \u201cunwelcome,\u201d holding that a woman need not have been \u201cforced to participate [in sexual activity] against her will\u201d in order to establish sexual harassment.\nSupporting sex discrimination in education\nSenators\u2019 concerns: In 1993, Kuhl co-authored an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court for three private women\u2019s colleges in support of a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the Virginia Military Institute, a public all-male college in Virginia. In a lawsuit brought by the United States, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit had held that VMI\u2019s denial of admission to women violated the Equal Protection Clause. In an effort to continue to deny admission to women but remain a public institution, VMI filed a cert. petition with the Supreme Court, asking the Court to overturn the Fourth Circuit\u2019s ruling. Senator Feinstein asked Kuhl about her brief. Kuhl Hearing, at 61.\nKuhl\u2019s testimony: Kuhl testified that her brief \u201cwas not a brief in support of the constitutionality of VMI. . . It was a brief in support of the petition for certiorari.\u201d Id. She said that her brief was narrowly focused on the importance of women\u2019s colleges and asked that the Court \u201ctake that case so as to clarify that all-women\u2019s schools could \u2014 were not unconstitutional essentially.\u201d Id.\nThe facts: Kuhl\u2019s brief was filed on behalf of three private women\u2019s colleges. VMI, by contrast, was (and still is) a state-supported public institution, and the constitutionality of private single-sex schools was not at issue in the case. Moreover, while it is true that Kuhl\u2019s brief did not expressly defend the constitutionality of allowing VMI to continue to deny admission to women yet remain a public institution, it is equally true that Kuhl\u2019s brief stated that it was filed \u201cin support of petitioners\u201d \u2014 VMI \u2014 and that it specifically urged that \u201cthe petition for certiorari should be granted.\u201d10 VMI\u2019s cert. petition, in turn, expressly asked the Court to \u201cgrant certiorari and reverse the decision of the court of appeals . . .\u201d11\nAccording to contemporaneous press reports, Kuhl\u2019s brief was filed as part of VMI\u2019s campaign to enlist private women\u2019s colleges in its effort to continue to exclude women.12 As Kuhl admitted at her hearing, the colleges that signed her brief were referred to her through \u201ccounsel who was representing VMI.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 62. In fact, VMI\u2019s counsel of record on its cert. petition was Richard Willard, Kuhl\u2019s former colleague at the Department of Justice (and co-author with her of the \u201cmost aggressive\u201d memo to Fried in the Thornburgh case urging that the Department argue for Roe v. Wade to be overturned).\nIn her written answers to post-hearing questions from Senator Kennedy, Kuhl attempted to dispel concerns that her brief supported VMI\u2019s efforts to continue to exclude women by stating that the brief \u201cdid not express a view as to how the Supreme Court should rule with respect to the constitutionality of VMI\u2019s program.\u201d13 However, if Kuhl had been concerned at the time that her brief not imply support for VMI, she could have stated in the brief that the private women\u2019s colleges took no position as to the constitutionality of VMI\u2019s exclusion of women; Kuhl failed to do so.\nDismissing claim of egregious privacy violation\nSenators\u2019 concerns: Much of the questioning of Kuhl at her April 1 hearing focused on her disturbing 1999 ruling dismissing invasion of privacy claims brought by Azucena Sanchez-Scott, a recovering breast cancer patient, whose doctor had brought another professionally attired man into the examination room without disclosing that the man was not a medical professional but a drug company salesman. The man then witnessed an examination of Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s breasts and abdomen during which she was half-naked. In a recent letter to Senator Hatch opposing Kuhl\u2019s confirmation, Ms. Sanchez-Scott explained that \u201cI felt violated because I had disrobed for my examination. . . As a cancer survivor, I trusted that my doctor would make decisions in my best interest.\u201d14 Senator Durbin told Kuhl that he considered the Sanchez-Scott case \u201cthe most troubling of anything you have been involved in.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 72. Senator Schumer stated, \u201cI don\u2019t think I have seen a more disturbing ruling from a judicial nominee since I have been in the Senate.\u201d Id. at 108.\nSpecifically, Ms. Sanchez-Scott filed suit against the doctor, the drug company, and the salesman for invasion of privacy, with an additional claim against the doctor for professional negligence. Judge Kuhl granted a motion by the defendants to dismiss Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s invasion of privacy claims outright, effectively holding that there was no set of facts that Ms. Sanchez-Scott could prove that would entitle her to any relief on the invasion of privacy claims and precluding her from presenting those claims to a jury. According to Judge Kuhl\u2019s ruling from the bench, since Ms. Sanchez-Scott had not specifically objected to the man\u2019s presence, \u201cI think it cannot be said that there was a reasonable expectation of privacy.\u201d15\nThe California Court of Appeal unanimously reversed Kuhl\u2019s ruling, holding that Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s complaint had alleged \u201chighly offensive conduct,\u201d and making it clear that she had a well established right to privacy.16 The court specifically noted that \u201c[n]o decisional authority supports\u201d the assertion that Ms. Sanchez-Scott had no legal grounds for her invasion of privacy charge.17 In other words, Judge Kuhl had no legal basis for throwing out Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s claim.\nIn light of these facts and the Court of Appeal\u2019s unanimous reversal of Kuhl\u2019s ruling, Senator Durbin asked Kuhl to explain her \u201cconcept of privacy, as it applies to that fact situation.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 73. Senator Schumer, after reviewing the facts with Kuhl, stated that \u201cI think most Americans would be horrified to hear that your view of privacy rights, particularly in that situation, depended on someone who was scared and upset having to ask questions.\u201d Id. at 108. He asked Kuhl, \u201cHow do you explain the ruling issued in this case, and what can you tell us to assuage so many of my colleagues\u2019 concerns that you have too narrow a view of privacy rights?\u201d Id.\nKuhl\u2019s testimony and the facts: Kuhl\u2019s oral and written testimony about the Sanchez-Scott case reinforces the Senators\u2019 concerns:\n1. Although she denied this at her hearing, Kuhl has now admitted that she did in fact dismiss invasion of privacy claims against the doctor\nAt her hearing, Kuhl did not answer the critical questions about her ruling and her troubling view of privacy rights. Rather, she testified that Ms. Sanchez-Scott had not asserted any invasion of privacy claims against the doctor and that she had not dismissed Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s privacy claims against him.18 This testimony was completely incorrect, as Kuhl admitted a month later in a brief letter to Senator Hatch.19 Through this testimony, however, Kuhl had deflected Senators\u2019 serious concerns about her disturbingly narrow and legally erroneous views of a medical patient\u2019s privacy rights. Thus, to this day, Kuhl has not answered, for example, Senator Durbin\u2019s question about her \u201cconcept of privacy, as it applies to\u201d the facts of this case, or Senator Schumer\u2019s question asking \u201cwhat can you tell us to assuage so many of my colleagues\u2019 concerns that you have too narrow a view of privacy rights?\u201d\nIn addition, as Kuhl now admits in her letter to Senator Hatch, she indeed threw out of court in their entirety Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s invasion of privacy claims against all of the defendants \u2014 the doctor, the drug company, and the drug salesman. Had Kuhl\u2019s ruling not been reversed on appeal, two of the wrongdoers, the drug company and the salesman, would have avoided all liability to Ms. Sanchez-Scott for their unconscionable actions, and the doctor likewise would not have been held liable on the invasion of privacy claim.\n2. Kuhl created the misimpression that she had affirmatively \u201callowed\u201d a claim against the doctor to go forward\nAt Kuhl\u2019s hearing on April 1, Senator Sessions asked, \u201cyou allowed the lawsuit to go forward against the physician, but did not allow it to go forward against the third party who the doctor had allowed to come into the room.\u201d Kuhl replied, \u201cYes, Senator.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 80. In fact, the additional claim against the doctor for professional negligence was not the subject of the motion to dismiss before Kuhl, and Kuhl therefore had no choice as to whether that claim proceeded. It was thus misleading for Kuhl to testify that she had \u201callowed\u201d that claim against the doctor to go forward in the sense that Kuhl had some choice or that she had affirmatively ruled in favor of Ms. Sanchez-Scott.20\nMoreover, while Kuhl never mentioned this in her testimony or in her post-hearing answers, the remaining claim against the doctor for professional negligence was stayed during Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s appeal of her dismissal of the privacy claims,21 which took more than a year.22 Thus, not only would Kuhl\u2019s ruling have eliminated Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s privacy claims in their entirety, but that ruling also substantially delayed the case and was a significant obstacle to Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s ability to obtain justice.\n3. Kuhl\u2019s testimony as to why she did not follow relevant precedent conflicts with her ruling in this case\nIn her testimony on April 1 and also in her April 15 letter to Senator Specter, Kuhl fostered the misimpression that California privacy law was unclear at the time of her ruling dismissing Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s claims. For example, she testified at her hearing that \u201cI was trying to interpret California law. What was being cited to me was Michigan precedent [i.e., the Michigan Supreme Court\u2019s decision in DeMay v. Roberts, in which a doctor brought along a man not connected with the medical profession to assist him in a childbirth]. I think that the Court of Appeal has clarified the law in this area.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 74.23 The implication of Kuhl\u2019s testimony, that there was no California case law to follow and that she did not follow the \u201cMichigan precedent\u201d that was being cited to her because it would not help \u201cinterpret California law,\u201d cannot withstand scrutiny.\nIn Kuhl\u2019s ruling from the bench dismissing Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s privacy claims, Kuhl in fact acknowledged that the Michigan case had already been recognized by the California Supreme Court. As Kuhl stated, \u201c[i]t\u2019s a much more important case and much more significant case that the Supreme Court \u2014 our Supreme Court has picked it up and cited it. There\u2019s no question about it.\u201d Sanchez-Scott Transcript, at 8. Kuhl\u2019s \u201cproblem\u201d with the Michigan case at the time was not that it was from Michigan but that she considered it factually distinguishable; according to Kuhl, \u201c[t]he patient there was in labor, not undergoing a more routine medical examination . . . .\u201d Id. at 3. In sharp contrast, the unanimous Court of Appeal decision reversing Kuhl not only found that \u201cthis case [Sanchez-Scott] is very much like the 1881 seminal case of DeMay v. Roberts . . . which first recognized a tortious invasion of privacy,\u201d but also noted that \u201cDeMay has been relied on by several California courts, including the Supreme Court, in analyzing propositions concerning the intrusion tort.\u201d 86 Cal. App. 4th at 374.\n4. Kuhl\u2019s misplaced reliance on a letter from Justice Paul Turner\nAt her hearing on Apri1 1 and in her letter to Senator Specter, Kuhl cited a letter favorable to her sent to members of the Judiciary Committee by Justice Paul Turner, the author of the Court of Appeal\u2019s decision that unanimously reversed her dismissal of Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s common law invasion of privacy claim. While it is not surprising that Justice Turner may now want to assist his judicial colleague in her quest for a lifetime seat on the federal bench, his letter is erroneous in significant respects and the best evidence of what he thought about this case and Kuhl\u2019s ruling remains his own contemporaneous opinion overturning Kuhl\u2019s ruling on behalf of a unanimous Court of Appeal.\nTurner\u2019s letter now suggests that Kuhl\u2019s ruling was \u201ca trial judge making a tough call in the context of competing legal interests . . . . \u201d24 Significantly, however, Kuhl\u2019s ruling never identified any such \u201ccompeting legal interests.\u201d Her ruling was based solely on her belief that Ms. Sanchez-Scott had no claim for invasion of privacy as a matter of law because she had never asked why the unidentified man was there or objected to his presence. Sanchez-Scott Transcript, at 2, 3. As Justice Turner\u2019s opinion for the unanimous appellate court demonstrates, neither he nor his colleagues had any problem overturning Kuhl\u2019s ruling; there was no dissent, and no indication in the opinion that it was a \u201ctough call.\u201d\nTo the contrary, the Court of Appeal\u2019s opinion made clear that every patient has a \u201clegally well-established expectation of privacy,\u201d and further noted that the defendants had failed to cite \u201cany authority which permits a male drug salesperson to be present in an examination room during the examination of a partially disrobed woman.\u201d 86 Cal. App. 4th at 375-76 (emphasis added). In great contrast to his recent letter, Turner\u2019s ruling for the Court of Appeal never identified or sought to balance a so-called \u201ccompeting legal interest\u201d to Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s privacy rights. In the plainest of language belying any claim now that this case was a \u201ctough call,\u201d Justice Turner wrote in the court\u2019s decision:\nA breast cancer patient who goes into an oncologist\u2019s office to be examined does not, nor should she, take a risk that what goes on in the examination room will be seen or heard by anyone other than medical personnel. She does not take a risk that a drug salesperson will be a part of the process during which her breasts will be examined.\n86 Cal. App. 4th at 376. The Court of Appeal\u2019s opinion reversing Kuhl continued, \u201cwe conclude that jurors could conclude a breast cancer patient such as plaintiff had an objectively reasonable expectation of privacy in the medical examination room of her oncologist. No decisional authority supports a contrary conclusion.\u201d Id. (emphasis added).\nThe Turner letter ends by asserting that \u201cJudge Kuhl concluded that the mentorship program, which was designed to improve treatment for breast cancer patients, was a sufficient justification for allowing the drug salesperson to be present during the examination\u2026 [A] strong argument can be made that she correctly assessed the competing societal interests the California Supreme Court requires all jurists in this state to weigh in determining whether the tort of intrusion has occurred.\u201d Turner Letter, at 2-3. This statement has no basis whatsoever in Judge Kuhl\u2019s ruling or that of the Court of Appeal.\nAs the transcript of the hearing before Kuhl makes clear, Kuhl never \u201cassessed\u201d any \u201ccompeting societal interests\u201d nor discussed the purpose of the drug company\u2019s so-called \u201cmentorship program\u201d that put its salesman in the exam room. To the contrary, Kuhl\u2019s ruling was premised solely on her legally erroneous belief that there could be no invasion of privacy as a matter of law because Ms. Sanchez-Scott had not affirmatively objected to the man\u2019s presence or asked why he was there. Sanchez-Scott Transcript, at 2. As far as Judge Kuhl was concerned, the man could have been a janitor in a white lab coat.\nJustice Turner\u2019s opinion for the Court of Appeal likewise did not \u201cassess\u201d \u201ccompeting societal interests\u201d or evaluate the purposes of the \u201cmentorship program,\u201d which was factually irrelevant to the Court of Appeal\u2019s ruling. There was no legitimate purpose for the salesman to be in the exam room, and the court\u2019s opinion never identified one. To the contrary, Justice Turner\u2019s opinion states that \u201c[w]hen the totality of the circumstances of the intrusion is examined . . . we conclude that the complaint alleges highly offensive conduct involving a cancer patient whose breasts were observed by a drug salesperson, whose occupation was never disclosed, during an examination inside the confines of a physician\u2019s office. It bears emphasis that there are specific allegations that plaintiff was never advised as to [the drug salesman\u2019s] role, other than that he was there to watch.\u201d 86 Cal. App. 4th at 377-78 (emphasis added). Justice Turner\u2019s opinion reversing Kuhl\u2019s ruling in Sanchez-Scott remains the best evidence of his and the Court of Appeal\u2019s view of the law and of Kuhl\u2019s unjustifiable dismissal of Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s privacy claim.\nKuhl\u2019s record on other civil rights issues\nCrusading for a tax exemption for Bob Jones University\nSenators\u2019 concerns: As Senator Leahy observed (Kuhl Hearing, at 37), Kuhl was identified as one of a \u201cband of young zealots\u201d within the Department of Justice who were the architects of the Reagan Administration\u2019s decision to reverse long-standing IRS policy that denied tax-exempt status to Bob Jones University and other racially discriminatory private schools.25 In particular, Kuhl and another Justice Department colleague wrote a 40-page memorandum to Assistant Attorney General William Bradford Reynolds strenuously arguing that the IRS should \u201creverse its position\u201d in the case and \u201caccord tax-exempt status\u201d to Bob Jones.26 Reynolds accepted the memorandum and forwarded it to the Attorney General. The Department\u2019s radical reversal of civil rights policy championed by Kuhl ignited a firestorm of criticism and was repudiated by the Supreme Court in an 8-1 ruling in the Bob Jones case. Senator Leahy asked Kuhl to address her role in this matter, specifically noting how much opposition there was in the Department at that time to the reversal of this civil rights policy. Kuhl Hearing, at 37.\nKuhl\u2019s testimony: Kuhl testified that, for two reasons, \u201cI regret having taken the position that I did in support of the government\u2019s change of position. . . .\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 37. The first was that \u201cI did not at that time understand the traditional role of the Justice Department, which is to defend the positions of the agencies as long as there is a reasonable argument that can be made in defense of those agencies. . . .\u201d Id. at 39. (At this, an incredulous Senator Leahy stated, \u201cBut that is almost hornbook law. . . .You didn\u2019t learn that in law school?\u201d Id.) The second, according to Kuhl, was that the decision \u201cdid not properly put the nondiscrimination principle that should have been primary in this decision first.\u201d Id.\nThe facts: As Senator Leahy suggested (id. at 41), this testimony appears to be a confirmation conversion. While Kuhl has previously indicated that she came to believe the government\u2019s reversal of course in Bob Jones was wrong, she has never before, to our knowledge, stated the basis for that belief as one grounded in the importance of enforcing the civil rights laws and putting the principle of nondiscrimination first. To the contrary, both of the two public explanations that have previously been given for Kuhl\u2019s asserted change of mind are grounded in political error, not concern about the primacy of the civil rights laws.\nFirst, in June 2001, on the eve of the announcement of Kuhl\u2019s nomination, she responded to a written question from Senator Boxer about Bob Jones by stating that she believed the government\u2019s decision to reverse position in the Bob Jones case was wrong \u201cin part because it appeared insensitive to minorities, regardless of the nondiscriminatory motives of those involved in the decision.\u201d27 This is similar to an explanation given in January 2003 by former Solicitor General Charles Fried in support of Kuhl\u2019s nomination. According to Fried, by 1985, \u201cI knew she had come to believe (as did I) that she had been wrong, if for no other reason than seeming to side with Bob Jones confused the Reagan administration\u2019s message that we were strongly committed to civil rights and racial equality while opposed to quotas.\u201d28\nAt Kuhl\u2019s confirmation hearing, Senator Kennedy, like Senator Leahy, also sought to learn whether Kuhl, prior to her nomination, had ever expressed the sort of substantive regret about her position in Bob Jones that she seemed to be stating at her hearing. Senator Kennedy quoted the foregoing statement by Fried and observed that, according to Fried, Kuhl had told him she had come to believe she was wrong on Bob Jones \u201cpolitically because it sent the wrong message.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 86 (emphasis added). Kuhl admitted that she and Fried did discuss the fact that \u201ctaking that position had really been a disaster for the Reagan administration, absolute disaster,\u201d and that she did not know whether she had \u201cexpressed this to\u201d Fried that they had \u201cthe wrong focus\u201d and that \u201cthe policies of nondiscrimination should have come forward. . . .\u201d Id.\nThe second reason given by Kuhl in her testimony on April 1 for her asserted \u201cregret\u201d about Bob Jones is that the government should have defended the IRS policy because a \u201creasonable argument\u201d could have been made to support it. Kuhl Hearing at 39. Significantly, nowhere in the critical 40-page memorandum that Kuhl and Cooper wrote at the time does the memo even suggest the existence of a \u201creasonable argument\u201d in defense of the IRS policy, let alone that the Department of Justice should defend it. To the contrary, the memorandum concludes by stating that \u201c[f]rom the foregoing, it is clear that the Service\u2019s interpretation of Section 501(c)(3) of the 1954 Code is at odds with the statute\u2019s language and legislative history . . . .\u201d29 It is also significant to note that under questioning from Senator Leahy, Kuhl stated that she could not think of any other case during her entire tenure in the Justice Department in which she had recommended that the government confess error in the Supreme Court except for Bob Jones. Kuhl Hearing, at 42.\nAt Kuhl\u2019s hearing, Senator Hatch elicited from Kuhl the testimony that she had no \u201cdecision-making authority\u201d at this time in the Justice Department. Id. at 15. This of course is beside the point, as Senator Kennedy noted. Id. at 83. The concern is not that Kuhl herself made the ultimate decision to reverse long-standing policy denying tax exemptions to Bob Jones University and other racially discriminatory private schools, but that she believed this was the right thing to do and played a major role in bringing about that disturbing decision.\nOpposing affirmative action, trying to restrict discrimination remedies, and criticizing protection of workers\nReferring specifically to Kuhl\u2019s statement in an article that she had written while in private practice that she considered affirmative action to be \u201ca divisive societal manipulation,\u201d Senator Durbin asked Kuhl \u201chave you changed your position on that?\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 71. Kuhl did not answer Senator Durbin\u2019s question nor a similar written question from Senator Kennedy.30 Instead, she testified that \u201cthe primary thrust of that article was to state the importance of individual remedies and of putting persons who have been discriminated against back in the place where they should have been, absent that discrimination, and that was the thrust of that article.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 71-72. The problem, of course, as Kuhl well knows, is that in many instances of discrimination, such as when people are intentionally kept out of unions and apprenticeship programs on the basis of race for years on end, the actual victims may not be identifiable. Only by requiring some form of affirmative action can the situation be remedied, as was the case in Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers\u2019 International Ass\u2019n v. EEOC, 478 U.S. 421 (1986). Nonetheless, Kuhl filed a brief in that case taking the position that relief under Title VII could be granted only to identifiable victims of discrimination,31 a position that the Supreme Court rejected.\nIn Kuhl\u2019s post-hearing answers, she tried to dispel concerns about her opposition to affirmative action by stating that the article about which Senators had questioned her \u2014 the article in which she had called affirmative action \u201ca divisive societal manipulation\u201d \u2014 was written \u201cbefore the Supreme Court settled\u201d the issue of affirmative action in its 1995 decision in the Adarand case.32 However, Kuhl\u2019s article was written after the Court\u2019s decision upholding affirmative action in the Local 28 case (indeed, she refers to that decision in her article33), which means that there was already established law in this area and that she was critical of it.\nKuhl was also questioned about another article she had written, \u201cEmployment at the Will of the Courts,\u201d34 which, as Senator Edwards described it, focused on \u201cthe costs to employers and society of the laws against unfair treatment of workers. . .\u201d35 In response to Senator Edwards\u2019 question as to why she had chosen to focus on such matters rather than on the \u201ccosts to workers and society of discrimination on the basis of race, sex, or other arbitrary factors or other forms of unfair treatment of workers,\u201d36 Kuhl stated that she \u201cdisagree[d] with the question\u2019s characterization of the article,\u201d and attempted to portray her article in a light more favorable to the legal protection of workers.37 The fact remains, however, that Kuhl\u2019s article appeared to disapprove of the trend in the law away from the doctrine of \u201cemployment at will\u201d and toward protecting employees from adverse employment decisions that are not based on \u201cgood faith and fair dealing.\u201d38 According to Kuhl, \u201c[t]he practical effect of this jurisprudence and of the destruction of the doctrine of employment at will is to inhibit employer action and to decrease labor mobility.\u201d39 The article also appears to question some of the positive effects of anti-discrimination laws:\n[I]f a member of a protected class is fired, and if the employer has no credible explanation for his treatment of the employee . . . a finder of fact may well conclude that the unexplained motivation is in reality an unlawful one (race, sex, age, etc.). . . Employers must act toward employees in the protected classes in such a way that they can explain the fairness of their actions toward the employee. If an employer cannot do so, he risks the expense of a lawsuit and statutory penalties.40\nMost Americans would likely conclude that this is a good thing; Kuhl did not say that it is.\nOther aspects of her record on civil rights matters\nIn post-hearing questions, Senator Leahy observed that \u201c[m]any Americans would not be comfortable with a judge whose intelligence and reason were not tempered by experience and compassion,\u201d and asked, \u201cCan you please give us an example of a situation in which you displayed, as a lawyer, understanding for the human situation, such as the sting felt by women or minorities victimized by discrimination?\u201d41\nIn her response, Kuhl did not cite a single instance pertaining to her career \u201cas a lawyer.\u201d Instead, Kuhl focused on two rulings she has issued as a judge, the same two rulings she has cited repeatedly in other written answers and in her testimony on April 1 in an effort to dispel the serious concerns about her record on civil rights raised by her years in the Reagan Administration and in private practice.42 Apart from the fact that Kuhl has only been able to cite two rulings in her more than seven years as a state judge that she believes speak favorably to her record on civil rights, a review of these cases indicates that they do not in negate the serious concerns her record has raised.\nIn one of those cases, Iwekaogwu v. City of Los Angeles, 75 Cal. App. 4th 803 (1999), Kuhl, sitting by designation on the Court of Appeal, wrote a decision upholding a judgment in favor of an African American employee who had been unlawfully retaliated against by his employer when he complained that he had been subjected to employment discrimination on the basis of race and national origin. As recounted in Kuhl\u2019s decision, the facts presented a clear case of retaliation, and the Court of Appeal was unanimous in its ruling. The issues involved in this case were totally different from those presented, for example, in Bob Jones, and Kuhl\u2019s ruling in this clear-cut case of retaliation does not in any way change the fact that, in the Bob Jones matter, she urged that the IRS policy be reversed and a tax exemption given to a private school that practiced blatant race discrimination.\nIn the other case repeatedly cited by Kuhl, Grobeson v. City of Los Angeles, No. BC150151 (L.A. Superior Court, June 29, 1998), Kuhl overturned on due process grounds disciplinary action taken against an openly gay police officer because the police department had failed to give the officer proper notice of the charges against him. Kuhl\u2019s ruling did not turn on the officer\u2019s sexual orientation or in any way affirmatively protect the officer from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.\nNeither of these cases repeatedly cited by Kuhl dispels the serious concerns raised by her actions in such cases as Bob Jones or other civil rights matters.43\nKuhl\u2019s record on access to justice\nSeeking to curtail citizens\u2019 access to the courts\nSenators\u2019 concerns: As Deputy Solicitor General, Kuhl aggressively sought to restrict access to the federal courts, co-authoring a brief and arguing before the Supreme Court in a case in which she urged the Court to abandon the doctrine of associational standing, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Brock, 477 U.S. 274 (1986). Associational standing is a well-recognized and important doctrine that permits organizations to file lawsuits on behalf of their members, making it easier for them to vindicate their common legal rights and interests. At Kuhl\u2019s hearing, Senator Feinstein specifically questioned Kuhl about the Brock case and asked Kuhl to explain her opposition to the doctrine of associational standing. Kuhl Hearing, at 53-57.\nKuhl\u2019s testimony: In response to Senator Feinstein\u2019s question, Kuhl testified, \u201c[t]he position of the United States in UAW v. Brock I believe was set before I came to the Solicitor General\u2019s Office. I argued that case. I had just recently come to the office and I argued it, but I am not on the brief. If you look at the brief in that case, I am not on the brief. . . I didn\u2019t have any trouble arguing the position. It was a position that \u2013 well, the government had won in the court below, so we were defending a winning argument in the court below in that case.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 54-55 (emphasis added).\nThe facts: Kuhl\u2019s testimony that her name was not on the government\u2019s brief in this case was demonstrably incorrect, as Senator Leahy pointed out in post-hearing questions to Kuhl.44 Although Kuhl has since admitted that her testimony was incorrect,45 her erroneous testimony at her hearing left unanswered Senators\u2019 concerns about what Charles Fried himself described as Kuhl\u2019s \u201cfrontal attack\u201d on the doctrine of associational standing.\nMoreover, Kuhl\u2019s testimony about this case was inconsistent with the facts in another critical respect. Kuhl\u2019s Supreme Court brief marked the first time in the case that the government had taken the position that the doctrine of associational standing should be overturned; this argument was not the basis on which the government had prevailed in the court of appeals,46 and Kuhl\u2019s testimony that she was merely \u201cdefending a winning argument in the court below\u201d by urging that associational standing be overturned cannot withstand scrutiny.\nThe court of appeals had ruled in favor of the government, holding that the UAW lacked standing under the facts of this particular case and the requirements for associational standing.47 Defending that \u201cwinning argument\u201d is a far cry from urging the Supreme Court to overturn the doctrine of associational standing altogether. Indeed, the government\u2019s brief to the Supreme Court opposing the UAW\u2019s petition for a writ of certiorari \u2014 a brief on which Kuhl\u2019s name does not appear \u2014 in fact acknowledged that the doctrine of associational standing was well-settled and did not ask the Court to overrule it.48\nThe argument for overturning associational standing was made only in the later brief bearing Kuhl\u2019s name. According to Charles Fried, Kuhl\u2019s boss at the time, it was \u201cmy Deputy and Counselor, Carolyn Kuhl\u201d who \u201claunched a frontal attack\u201d in Brock, \u201carguing that groups should not have standing to make claim except as they could show themselves to be representatives of classes of individuals in traditional class actions.\u201d Order and Law, at 207, n.5 (1991).\nIn fact, Kuhl\u2019s argument was so extreme, procedurally as well as substantively, that it prompted numerous organizations, including the Chamber of Commerce and the AMA, to oppose not only the government\u2019s legal position in the Supreme Court but also to criticize its \u201clitigating tactics\u201d for raising such an important matter for the first time at that juncture in the case.49\nAs with Thornburgh, Kuhl has sought to minimize the extremism of the position that she advocated by claiming that she was merely a government lawyer doing her job representing the government.50 But so were all of the other government attorneys who had litigated this case before Kuhl got involved, and who had not advocated that the doctrine of associational standing be overturned. Moreover, in her written answers to Senator Leahy, Kuhl went a step further and suggested that this extreme position was not necessarily her own view.51 However, just as it was Kuhl, as Fried recounts, who in Thornburgh wrote \u201cthe most aggressive memo\u201d advocating reversal of Roe v Wade, so too it was Kuhl, as Fried also recounts, who in Brock launched the \u201cfrontal attack\u201d on the doctrine of associational standing.\nTrying to limit protection for whistleblowers\nSenators\u2019 concerns: In a unanimous ruling strongly critical of Judge Kuhl in Liu v. Moore, the California Court of Appeal reversed Kuhl\u2019s ruling that prevented a whistleblower from getting monetary relief under California\u2019s anti-SLAPP law, explaining that Kuhl\u2019s decision was an improper \u201cnullification of an important part of California\u2019s anti-SLAPP legislation.\u201d 69 Cal. App. 4th 745, 748 (1999). In this case, a plaintiff had sued Deborah Moore, a whistleblower, causing her to incur substantial legal expenses, and then voluntarily dismissed the complaint before Kuhl could rule on Ms. Moore\u2019s motion for legal costs to which she was entitled under the anti-SLAPP law. At Kuhl\u2019s hearing, Senator Feinstein asked Kuhl about this case, noting that, according to Ms. Moore\u2019s attorney, her ruling would have prevented Ms. Moore from pursuing her right under the law to recover the nearly $40,000 in legal costs that she had incurred. Noting the harsh language of the Court of Appeal\u2019s decision reversing Kuhl\u2019s ruling, Senator Feinstein asked Kuhl to respond to the Court of Appeal\u2019s criticism of her decision and a letter she had received from Ms. Moore\u2019s attorney. Kuhl Hearing, at 58.\nKuhl\u2019s testimony: Kuhl claimed that the issue before her was \u201can issue of first impression,\u201d and that she had \u201cstruggled a good bit\u201d with the question of what jurisdiction remained with the court when the party suing the whistleblower dismissed the complaint before the court could rule on the whistleblower\u2019s motion for legal costs. Kuhl Hearing, at 58-59.\nThe facts: In its sharply worded, unanimous decision reversing Kuhl\u2019s ruling, the Court of Appeal \u201cstruggled\u201d not at all with the issue of jurisdiction, disposing of it in a footnote. 69 Cal. App. 4th at 751, n.3. 52\nSeeking to invalidate qui tam access to the courts to combat fraud\nSenators\u2019 concerns: In private practice, Kuhl had urged the federal courts to strike down the qui tam provisions of federal law that allow private citizens to file suit to combat fraud against the government. The federal courts rejected such arguments and upheld the law. Additional information about Kuhl\u2019s efforts in this regard emerged after Kuhl\u2019s hearing. Specifically, according to written questions posed by Senators Grassley and Schumer, Kuhl had attached to a brief that she filed in the Ninth Circuit in 1993 arguing the unconstitutionality of the qui tam provisions a copy of a memorandum written four years earlier by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, opining that \u201c[t]he Office of Legal Counsel believes the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act are patently unconstitutional.\u201d Kuhl told the court that the OLC memorandum had recently been \u201creleased for publication\u201d by the Department of Justice, but did not affirmatively tell the court that the OLC memorandum did not represent an official position of the Department.53 In light of this, Senator Schumer, noting the ethical obligation of all lawyers \u201cto refrain from acts which mislead the court,\u201d asked Kuhl whether she had \u201cfulfilled [her] obligation to be candid with the court.\u201d 54\nKuhl stated that she did not believe that \u201creference to the position of the Office of Legal Counsel in the brief was misleading to the court.\u201d55 Apparently, however, the Department of Justice did not agree, for it took what Senator Schumer called \u201cthe unusual step of submitting a letter to the court clarifying the government\u2019s position.\u201d56 In that letter to the court, the Justice Department stated that it had come to its attention that the OLC memorandum of 1989 had been submitted to the court and was writing \u201cto make clear to the Court\u201d that the OLC memorandum \u201cwas never adopted by the Attorney General, and does not represent the position of the United States.\u201d57\nAs the foregoing makes clear, Kuhl\u2019s testimony at her confirmation hearing raised serious credibility concerns in addition to the other significant concerns already raised by her record. As the New York Times recently explained:\nCarolyn Kuhl . . . seems to have undergone a classic confirmation conversion. As a lawyer and as a California state court judge, she advocated objectionable positions on civil rights, abortion and privacy. But at her confirmation hearings, she backpedaled furiously. Her testimony may have been tactically shrewd, but it failed to allay serious concerns about how she would perform as a judge. The Senate should not confirm her. . .\nUnder questioning by the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge Kuhl repeatedly retracted or minimized her positions. . . Judge Kuhl\u2019s many shifts are suspect because of their timing. It is also clear, given this administration\u2019s track record, that she was chosen precisely because of the actions she now seeks to distance herself from. The White House can tell from her record that she shares its conservative agenda, including opposition to abortion rights and skepticism about civil rights. It is unlikely that when she spoke with the administration she was as quick to renounce her past as she was before the Senate.\n\u201cAnother Unworthy Judicial Nominee,\u201d The New York Times (Apr. 24, 2003).\nAs documented here and in our initial report opposing Kuhl\u2019s confirmation, Kuhl\u2019s record simply does not support giving her a lifetime appointment to the federal court of appeals, the court of last resort for most Americans. Far from meeting the burden of demonstrating a record of commitment to \u201cprotecting the rights of ordinary Americans\u201d and to \u201cthe progress made on civil rights, women\u2019s rights and individual liberties\u201d \u2014 important criteria for confirmation \u2014 Kuhl has tried to turn back the clock on these significant matters. Her hearing and her subsequent written answers to Senators\u2019 questions served to reinforce this conclusion. The Senate Judiciary Committee should reject Carolyn Kuhl\u2019s confirmation.\n1 Charles Fried, Order and Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution \u2013 A Firsthand Account, at 33 (1991) (hereafter \u201cOrder and Law\u201d).\n2 Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae in Support of Appellants, Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, at 10 (July 15, 1985) (LEXIS pagination).\n3 Committee on the Judiciary, Nomination of Carolyn B. Kuhl of California to be Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, Unofficial Transcript of Proceedings (Apr. 1, 2003) (hereafter \u201cKuhl Hearing\u201d), at 46; 118.\n4 Order and Law, at 33.\n5 Brief of the American Academy of Medical Ethics as Amicus Curiae in Support of Respondent, Rust v. Sullivan, at 1 (LEXIS pagination; quoting Thornburgh, 476 U.S. at 814 (O\u2019Connor, J., dissenting)).\n6 Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S 57, 68 (1986) (emphasis added).\n7 Senator Feinstein\u2019s post-hearing questions to Kuhl (ques. 2).\n8 See Kuhl\u2019s answers to Senator Feinstein\u2019s post-hearing questions (ans. 2a) (Apr. 9, 2003). See also Kuhl\u2019s answers to Senator Biden\u2019s post-hearing questions (at 5-6) (Apr. 29, 2003).\n9 See Brief for the United States and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as Amici Curiae, Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, at, e.g., 3 (Dec. 11, 1985)(LEXIS pagination).\n10 See Brief of Mary Baldwin College, et al., as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, Virginia Military Institute v. United States, No. 92-1213, at 1, 20 (Mar. 24, 1993).\n11 See Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Virginia Military Institute v. United States, United States Supreme Court, October Term 1992, at 23.\n12 See, e.g., \u201cVMI Case Makes Odd Bedfellows Women\u2019s Colleges Allies,\u201d Roanoke Times & World News (Apr. 11, 1993), 1993 WL 4411514. Others rejected VMI\u2019s efforts. For example, \u201cJedwiga Sebrechts, executive director for the Women\u2019s College Coalition in Washington, said that 20 women\u2019s colleges contacted her office after being approached by VMI lawyers to join in the briefs. The coalition was approached, too, she said. . . \u2018What we found was, of all the attorneys we sought opinions from, not one of them shared the perspective advanced by VMI attorneys that the current opinion of the Fourth Circuit was an opinion that put women\u2019s colleges in jeopardy.\u2019\u201d Id.\n13 Kuhl\u2019s Answers to Senator Kennedy\u2019s post-hearing questions (ans. 2a) (Apr. 29, 2003).\n14 Letter from Azucena Sanchez-Scott to Senator Orrin Hatch (Mar. 3, 2003). Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s letter goes on to state that she was \u201cshocked and dismayed\u201d by Judge Kuhl\u2019s ruling. Id.\n15 Reporter\u2019s Transcript, Azucena Sanchez-Scott v. Alza Pharmaceuticals, No. BC 214585 (LA Superior Court, Oct. 12, 1999) (hereafter \u201cSanchez-Scott Transcript\u201d), at 3.\n16 Sanchez-Scott v. Alza Pharmaceuticals, 86 Cal. App. 4th 365, 375-78 (2001).\n17 Id., 86 Cal. App. 4th at 376.\n18 For example, Kuhl testified that \u201c[t]he claims against the doctor were tort claims for failure to obtain consent from the woman in the examining room that was the doctor\u2019s examination room. . . . And the claim against the third party who came into the room was an invasion of privacy claim.\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 123. And Kuhl answered \u201c[t]hat is correct\u201d when Senator Hatch asked her \u201cIt is my understanding that the particular motion to dismiss that you had granted had nothing to do with the claims against the doctor and that your ruling would have allowed the claims against the doctor to go forward. Is that right?\u201d Kuhl Hearing, at 122-23 (emphasis added). Similarly, in a post-hearing letter to Senator Arlen Specter dated April 15, 2003, Kuhl described the invasion of privacy claim against the drug company as a \u201cseparate claim\u201d from the claim against the doctor. Letter from Carolyn B. Kuhl to Hon. Arlen Specter (Apr. 15, 2003)(hereafter \u201cKuhl Letter to Sen. Specter\u201d), at 2.\n19 Letter from Carolyn B. Kuhl to Hon. Orrin B. Hatch (Apr. 29, 2003), at 1 (hereafter \u201cKuhl Letter to Sen. Hatch\u201d).\n20 In her April 15 letter to Senator Specter, Kuhl stated \u201cIt is very important to note that my decision allowed that claim [the \u201ctort action against the doctor\u201d] to proceed.\u201d Kuhl Letter to Sen. Specter, at 2. In her more recent letter to Senator Hatch, Kuhl more accurately stated that her dismissal of the privacy claims \u201cleft the tort claim for failure to obtain consent against the doctor remaining for trial.\u201d Kuhl Letter to Sen. Hatch, at 1.\n21 See Superior Court Case Summary, available at http://www.lasuperiorcourt.org/\ncivilCaseSummary/CaseSummary.asp?Referer=index&Case=BC214585.\n22 Kuhl dismissed Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s privacy claims on Oct. 12, 1999; the Court of Appeal\u2019s decision reversing that ruling was issued on Jan. 17, 2001.\n23 Similarly, in her letter to Senator Specter, Kuhl stated, \u201cI had to determine [Ms. Sanchez-Scott\u2019s] rights under California law. California law clearly gave her a tort action against the doctor whose responsibility it was to obtain her consent before he invited any other person into the examining room. . . Regarding the separate claim against the drug company representative, the law was less clear . . .\u201d Kuhl Letter to Sen. Specter, at 2.\n24 Letter from Justice Paul Turner to Senator Patrick J. Leahy (Mar. 17, 2003) (hereafter \u201cTurner Letter\u201d), at 1.\n25 Anthony Lewis, \u201cAbroad at Home; The Court Says No,\u201d New York Times A27 (May 26, 1983).\n26 Memorandum from Charles J. Cooper, Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General, and Carolyn B. Kuhl, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, to Wm. Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division (Jan. 5, 1981 [sic; date is 1982]), at 40, reprinted in \u201cAdministration\u2019s Change in Federal Policy Regarding the Tax Status of Racially Discriminatory Private Schools,\u201d Hearing before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, 97th Cong., 2d Sess. (Feb. 4, 1982) (hereafter \u201cBob Jones Hearing\u201d), at 549-88.\n27 Kuhl\u2019s answers to Senator Boxer\u2019s question 3 (June 1, 2001).\n28 Charles Fried, \u201cTime-Traveling to Thwart a Judge,\u201d Los Angeles Times (Jan. 17, 2003).\n29 Bob Jones Hearing, at 588 (emphasis added).\n30 Kuhl\u2019s answers to Senator Kennedy\u2019s post-hearing questions (ans. 1C) (Apr. 29, 2003).\n31 See Brief for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Local 28 of the Sheet Metal Workers\u2019 International Ass\u2019n v. EEOC, (Dec. 9, 1985).\n32 See Kuhl\u2019s answers to Senator Kennedy\u2019s post-hearing questions (ans. 1A) (Apr. 29, 2003).\n33 See Carolyn Kuhl, Comment for BNA Special Report, in BNA Special Report on Affirmative Action Today: A Legal and Practical Analysis, 157-59 (1986).\n34 Carolyn Kuhl, \u201cEmployment at the Will of the Courts,\u201d in Law, Economics, & Civil Justice (1994), 185-89.\n35 Post-hearing questions of Senator Edwards (ques. 1A).\n37 Kuhl\u2019s answers to Senator Edwards\u2019 post-hearing questions (ans. 1A) (Apr. 29, 2003).\n41 Senator Leahy\u2019s post-hearing questions to Kuhl (ques. 4; emphasis added).\n42 See, e.g., Kuhl Letter to Sen. Specter (Apr. 15, 2003).\n43 Disturbing information about Kuhl\u2019s pro bono record also emerged at her hearing. Under questioning from Senator Feinstein, Kuhl admitted that in her entire career in private practice, spanning a total of some 12 years, including 9 as a partner in a prestigious law firm, she had handled only two pro bono cases. Kuhl Hearing, at 60-61. Although Kuhl sought to excuse this on the ground that she was raising children while at the same time trying to be a partner in a law firm (Kuhl Hearing, at 61), it is worth noting that during this same period Kuhl managed, among other things, to find the time to draft the amicus brief in the Supreme Court supporting VMI\u2019s efforts to continue to exclude women as well as the amicus brief in support of an anti-choice group in Rust v. Sullivan. Across this country, many law firm associates and partners are also parents, and yet they make the time to fulfill their ethical obligations to perform pro bono work.\n44 See Senator Leahy\u2019s post-hearing questions to Kuhl (ques. 3), answered by Kuhl on April 29, 2003.\n45 On the date she submitted her written answers to Senator Leahy, Kuhl admitted in a cover letter to Senator Hatch that she her name was in fact on this brief \u201cand I now recall that I did participate in drafting that brief.\u201d Kuhl Letter to Sen. Hatch (Apr. 29, 2003) at 1.\n46 See International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Donovan, 746 F.2d 839 (D.C. Cir. 1984).\n48 Brief for the Respondent In Opposition to Petition for Writ Of Certiorari, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Brock, at 6 (Aug. 14, 1985) (LEXIS pagination).\n49 Brief of the Chamber of Commerce, et al. as Amici Curiae in Support of Petitioners, International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America v. Brock, at 5 (March 1986).\n50 See, e.g., Kuhl\u2019s answers to Senator Leahy\u2019s post-hearing questions (ans. 3) (Apr. 29, 2003).\n51 Kuhl\u2019s answers to Senator Leahy\u2019s post-hearing questions (ans. 3d) (Apr. 29, 2003).\n52 According to a letter from Ms. Moore\u2019s attorney to Senator Feinstein\u2019s office, it was Judge Kuhl, and not the plaintiff who had filed the frivolous suit, who had raised the jurisdictional question in the first place; the plaintiff had \u201cnever argued that the Court lacked jurisdiction to rule on [Ms. Moore\u2019s] motion\u201d for legal costs. Letter from Mark Allen Kleiman to David Hartman and Tom Oscherwitz (Apr. 2, 2003), at 2.\n53 See post-hearing questions of Senator Grassley and of Senator Schumer (second set).\n54 Post-hearing questions of Senator Schumer (second set, ques. b).\n55 Kuhl\u2019s answers to post-hearing questions of Senator Schumer (second set, ans. b) (Apr. 29, 2003).\n56 Post-hearing questions of Senator Schumer (second set, at 1).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 63398, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pinner-aikido.com/self-defence-women-ruislip-w-713", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:31Z", "digest": "sha1:KAZVAA6TUU6GELX3TJVTLBWH7OKZQDST", "length": 1486, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pinner-aikido.com", "title": "Self-Defence for Women in Ruislip", "raw_content": "Home page \u00bb Self-Defence for Women in Ruislip\nSelf-Defence for Women in Ruislip\nHow to join? - Self-Defence for Women in Ruislip\nFor those who are looking for Self-Defence for Women in Ruislip and area this is the right place. Self-defense (or self-defence) is the act of defending oneself, one\u2019s property or the well-being of another from physical harm. While the term may define any form of personal defense, it is strongly associated with civilian hand-to-hand defense techniques. Self-defense defines a civilian activity as opposed to hand-to-hand combat in a military context.\nFor those who are interested in learning about awareness and avoidance, plus some simple but effective techniques our aikido classes are are held every Tuesday and Wednesday evening at our Harrow dojo, and Thursday evening at our Pinner dojo in NW London. If you are living in in Ruislip and you are looking for some place to train you can easily find us by clicking at How to find us link. We believe that the traditional elements of Aikido provide an excellent basis.\nPinner Aikido Club provides training sessions of Self-Defence for Women in Ruislip and area. If you are located in in Ruislip please feel free to come along and visit - join in or just watch from our seating area if you prefer. Either way you\u2019ll be welcome and hopefully you\u2019ll have an interesting time at our friendly aikido club.\nFind out more details about lessons of Self-Defence for Women in Ruislip and area: timetable and fees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 6544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.plattecountycitizen.com/theplattecountycitizen/7479", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ETRF27FDNKA5CRIFXA2UTOBRLCTGFR74", "length": 3815, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.plattecountycitizen.com", "title": "Straubel, Geddes set school records, earn all-state honors for Platte County cross country \u2014 The Platte County Citizen", "raw_content": "Straubel, Geddes set school records, earn all-state honors for Platte County cross country\nJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. \u2014 Nathan Straubel entered his final high school race with two major goals \u2014 finish in the top five and break the 16-minute mark.\nPlatte County\u2019s senior standout accomplished both feats on the way to breaking his own school record Nov. 8 at Oak Hills Golf Center. He claimed fifth place in the Class 4 Missouri State Cross Country Championships in a time of 15 minutes, 50.06 seconds \u2014 the first sub-16 performance in program history.\n\u201cMy goal at the beginning of the season was to be in the 15s by state,\u201d Straubel said. \u201cI finally got it. It\u2019s my first 15, and it feels really good.\u201d\nStraubel finishes his career as a four-time state qualifier and two-time medalist, finishing in 21st last year when the Pirates were still in Class 3. He set the program record for the first time earlier in the year, finishing second (16:08) in the Class 3/4 Capital City Cross Country Challenge on Oct. 4.\n\u201cThat\u2019s somewhere we\u2019ve never gone before,\u201d Platte County coach Chris Stubbs said. \u201cSub-16 is something I would have never thought was possible on the state course. All the miles, all the hard work he\u2019s put in, he deserves it.\u201d\nStraubel finished 18 seconds behind winner Stephen Mugeche of Blue Springs, who claimed the top spot in 15:32.23. Kearney\u2019s Clayton Adams wound up second (15:43.24), one week after he topped Mugeche in the Class 4 Sectional 4 meet on Adams\u2019 home course. A pair of runners from team champion Lafayette (Wildwood) followed \u2014 Austin Hindman (third, 15:44.52) and Dylan Quisenberry (fourth 15:48.12).\nPark Hill South\u2019s Tucker Melles also claimed a state medal, finishing in 23rd place in 16:23.54. The Panthers qualified as a team for the first time since rising to the state\u2019s largest classification but wound up 16th out of 16 teams after No. 2 runner Darrien Case was tripped by another runner and blacked out after hitting the ground, forcing him to withdraw from the race at about the 2-mile mark.\n\u201cMissing our No. 2 guy destroyed our team points,\u201d said Park Hill South boys coach Brad Banning, who made his final trip to state after announcing his retirement prior to the season. \u201cEverybody else had a bad race. They ran pretty close to what they should have. Things like that happen. It\u2019s hard to score as well as we did at sectionals when our No. 2 couldn\u2019t finish the race.\u201d\nCase led Park Hill South\u2019s state qualifying effort with a seventh-place showing at sectionals. Melles \u2014 No. 1 all year for the Panthers \u2014 battled through illness to finish 24th at sectionals, helping claim the final qualifying spot by six points in front of fifth-place Staley.\nTristan McCoy (101st, 17:20.69), Eli Guzman (131st, 17:37.93), Alex Lee (139th 17:45.11) and Ewan Frick (141st, 17:47.57) rounded out the scoring for Park Hill South.\nPark Hill senior Kyle Pudenz finished 50th as the Trojans top finisher.\nOn the girls side, Platte county freshman Rebekah Geddes finished in 16th place to earn a medal, and she also set a school record at 19:14.55. The race endured four separate starts after runners fell in the opening 100 meters on the first three tries.\nGeddes dealt with the adversity and turned in a memorable showing to complete an accomplished first season.\n\u201cIt was kind of crazy,\u201d Geddes said. \u201cYou didn\u2019t know if it was going to be for real or if we were going to start again. 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Panthers sophomore Lexi Maddox (30th 19:32.54) and freshman Marti Heit (50th 19:58.28) also competed for Park Hill South.\n\u2190 Glebocki, Chang help Park Hill to record team finish at state swimmingPark University dedicates marker to graduate, Medal of Honor recipient \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 6649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.popculturebeast.com/quick-six-interview-erin-mckeown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:38Z", "digest": "sha1:EZ3V34C3PSAR2CBS7ZOFKMYFXZCPKHOC", "length": 3557, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.popculturebeast.com", "title": "Quick Six Interview: Erin McKeown", "raw_content": "Erin McKeown at Green Note October 10, 2017\nTough to pin down, the US-based singer-songwriter-artist-activist brings her possibly just a tad political leanings, her enthusiasm, and her guitar, to the London stage tonight at Camden\u2019s Green Note, before heading to Australia and New Zealand in the new year.\nUnabashed, unpredictable and cooler than you\u2019ll ever be, she cites Judy Garland and The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy as influences, has played Glastonbury and \u201cLater with Jools Holland,\u201d wrote a song based on a series of tweets between herself and MSNBC dream girl Rachel Maddow and may be the only musician to have toured with a podcast \u2013 the excellent Welcome to Night Vale.\nYou can catch her webseries Cabin Fever here, (yes, she has time for that as well) and her latest EP \u201cMirrors Break Back\u201d is available at www.erinmckeown.com and on itunes and Band Camp.\nMcKeown took time out for our Quick Six Interview\nI decide my cover art. My collaborator Meghan Dewar takes my ideas and fleshes them out into art. Figuring out the concept and directing the design is one of my favorite parts of my job.\nIdeally, an artist and label would be in collaboration to help the artist\u2019s music to reach as many people as possible. I\u2019ve been on all kinds of labels over the years, with varying degrees of success. Right now, I\u2019m on my own label, TVP Records, which I like quite a lot because it keeps things simple. I pay for everything, I put in the work, the results (for better or for worse) are mine.\nI\u2019ve only had one other job besides music. When I was in highschool, I worked for a painter and sold art supplies and framed pictures in her shop. I\u2019ve always wanted to do that again.\nI am a morning person for work, but my morning doesn\u2019t begin until 10 \ud83d\ude09 Same for a day off. I try to be consistent each day, whether I am working or not.\nMy perfect weekend would involve playing several tennis matches, dinner at my local, and good play or musical.\n\u201cMiss You Like Hell\u201d, the musical I wrote with Quiara Alegr\u00eda Hudes is coming to New York this spring, so I\u2019ll be plunging into rewrites and orchestrations for that.\nTHE QUICK SIX: POP CULTURE BEAST LETS ARTISTS CHOOSE FROM OUR STANDARD TEN QUESTIONS \u2013 WE LET THEM TELL US WHAT THEY\u2019D LIKE YOU TO KNOW.\n(SOMETIMES THEY ANSWER MORE THAN SIX, WHO ARE WE TO SAY NO?)\nErin McKeown Tour Dates\nSaturday 21 October 2017 Club Passim, Cambridge, MA, US\nTuesday 30 January 2018 with Welcome to Night Vale \u2013 New Zealand and Australia Opera House, Wellington, New Zealand\nWeds 31 January 2018 with Welcome to Night Vale \u2013 New Zealand and Australia SKYCITY Theatre, Auckland, New Zealand\nSaturday 03 February 2018 with Welcome to Night Vale \u2013 New Zealand and Australia The Tivoli, Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia\nMonday 05 February 2018 with Welcome to Night Vale \u2013 New Zealand and Australia Astor Theatre, Perth, WA, Australia\nFriday 09 February 2018 with Welcome to Night Vale \u2013 New Zealand and Australia Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia\nSaturday 10 February 2018 with Welcome to Night Vale \u2013 New Zealand and Australia Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, VIC, Australia\nSunday 11 February 2018 with Welcome to Night Vale \u2013 New Zealand and Australia Sydney Opera House, Sydney, NSW, Australia\nGreen Note Info, Calendar and Events Cover image of Erin McKeown by Jo Chattman\nMore PCB Music:\nMickey Dolenz still monkeying around\nThe Exquisite Dar Williams, Quick Six, and Emerald\nThe Civil Wars are no more\nTags: Erin McKeown, Green note, london, Martina O'Boyle, Quick Six, Singer-Songwriter, UK, Welcome to Night Vale", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 7183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ppmc-transport.org/renewable-energy-and-transport-decarbonising-fuel-in-the-transport-sector/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:30Z", "digest": "sha1:JWYTHGFZBV6XRA7V7DZAGYCAB54OXQZP", "length": 1063, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ppmc-transport.org", "title": "PPMC TRANSPORT", "raw_content": "Renewable Energy and Transport \u2013 Decarbonising Fuel in the Transport Sector\nThe transport sector now accounts for about 23% (7.3 Gt) of annual global energy-related CO2 emissions (32 Gt). This is a significant rise (about 120%) from 3.3 Gt/year during the 1970s, and to achieve a two-degree scenario (2DS), CO2 emissions from transport would need to decline to 5.7 Gt annually. By 2015, global road transport CO2 emissions should have already peaked in order to achieve a 2DS, but this is not likely to happen under current trends. Non-OECD countries are expected to experience continued growth in motorization and travel demand (i.e. private vehicle motorization index for non-OECD countries could increase by about 7 times from 2000 levels by 2050). Oil is expected to remain the dominant transport fuel in the coming years, and thus must be offset by a rapid decarbonisation of fuels and scaling up of renewable energy in the transport sector.\nFor more details, please see the report: Renewable Energy and Transport \u2013 Decarbonising Fuel in the Transport Sector", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 202.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.premiergolf.com/2015-post-open-package", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:13Z", "digest": "sha1:F5LZVFZOX7USUUE3OMCJMQDPXBKVXIRN", "length": 14152, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.premiergolf.com", "title": "2015 Post Open Package - Premier Golf", "raw_content": "THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP, GLENEAGLES & ST. ANDREWS\nJuly 18: Upon arrival in Edinburgh, Scotland you will be met by a Premier Golf Representative for a tour briefing. Attend The Open Championship, Transfer to Malmaison Hotel, Dundee. Welcome dinner at your hotel\nJuly 19: Attend final day of The Open Championship\nJuly 20: Golf: PGA Centenary Course. Transfer to Gleneagles Hotel & Resort\nJuly 21: Golf: Carnoustie\nJuly 22: Golf: St. Andrews New Course or Old Course via daily ballot. Transfer to Hotel Du Vin, St. Andrews\nJuly 23: Golf: Kingsbarns or Old Course via daily ballot\nJuly 24: Golf: Crail or Old Course via daily ballot\n2 nights\u2019 accommodations at Malmaison Hotel, Dundee\n2 nights\u2019 accommodations at Gleneagles Hotel & Resort\n3 nights' accommodations at Hotel Du Vin, St. Andrews\nDinner on arrival night at the Malmaison Hotel Dunee\n5 rounds of prepaid golf as outlined (with caddie requests)\nOpen Championship tickets Saturday & Sunday\nGround transportation throughout by VIP motor coach with driver-guide\n$ 5,785.00 per golfer, double occupancy\n$ 4,450.00 per non-golfer, double occupancy\nPrices are based on a minimum of 12 passengers and current exchange rates which are subject to change/currency fluctuation until a deposit has been received. Premier Golf, LLC reserves the right to change golf courses due to maintenance, competition or other factors that may prevent the course from being available on the day scheduled.\nMalmaison Hotel, Dundee: Dundee is known to have many poets, architects, and inventors walk through its streets. The stylish Malmaison hotel located on the waterfront fits in perfectly with this cultural scene. Construction on the new hotel will be finished September 2013. It will include a brasserie, where guest can enjoy delicious smoked meats. Also, the Malbar is the perfect place to relax and sip on a smooth single malt whisky or a James bond style martini. The hotel will have 91 beautifully furnished rooms all equipped with the modern amenities.\nGleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder: Set within its own 830 acre estate amidst the breathtaking Perthshire scenery, Gleneagles is considered one of the world's most coveted 5 star resorts. Owned by Diageo Plc, this prestigious 5 star hotel lives up to its reputation. In 2005 it accommodated our world leaders at the G8 economic summit and will host the 2014 Ryder Cup on the PGA Centenary Course designed by Jack Nicklaus (although the Kings is normally considered their best traditional course). The hotel has 232 spacious guest bedrooms, including a variety of luxury suites to suit all needs, tastes and desires. Guests staying at the hotel can take advantage of the wide range of experiences around the resort. There\u2019s plenty to do, browse the selection of shops on property or relieve some stress at the leisure club, swimming pools, and tennis courts. The resort also has a number of schools where guest can learn falconry, archery, shooting, gundog training, and off road 4x4 driving. Gleneagles has an international reputation for excellent cuisine and fine dining. The Michelin star \u201cAndrew Fairlie\u201d restaurant is a magnificent dining experience. Gleneagles hotel is truly a world class destination.\nHotel Du Vin, St. Andrews: This beautifully restored 4-star Victorian boutique hotel sits on the cliffs overlooking St. Andrews Bay and Links. The 22 bedrooms are attractively furnished; many overlook the coastline and golf course. About 12 new rooms are scheduled for completion in 2014. Located just two hundred meters from the first tee of the Old Course, this hotel is the perfect spot to soak up the atmosphere in golf\u2019s most iconic town. Guests will enjoy relaxing on a single malt whisky in the No. 40 cocktail bar. For elegant cuisine made with local ingredients, the Number 40 Restaurant is the perfect fine dining experience. Ma Bells, a very famous pub/lounge is located right next to the Golf Hotel and is a great place to hang out with the locals.\nGleneagles PGA Centenary Golf Club, Auchterarder (site of the 2014 Ryder Cup): When Jack Nicklaus was asked to design the third major course at Gleneagles Hotel, it continued a tradition of champions. James Braid, who created the King's and the Queen's, was the first golfer to win the Open Championship five times. Nicklaus is universally acknowledged as the greatest champion the game has ever produced. So here, in this spectacular Perthshire glen, the three Gleneagles courses now offer an accumulation of golfing acumen spanning more generations than perhaps any other on earth. Even for a champion and acclaimed golf architect like Nicklaus, the PGA Course was a challenge. It had to be unique, a course in the modern design ethos that at its fullest stretch tests the greatest players, while, in the immortal phrase of Bobby Jones, \"offering problems a man may attempt according to his ability... never hopeless for the lesser player nor failing to concern and interest the expert.\" From the back tees, the PGA measures 7,081 yards - the longest inland course in Scotland. However, the tees are graded at each hole in five stages, including a challenging 6,551 yards from the white markers down to 5,065 from the red. The putting surfaces are and among the best and fastest in Scotland. (PGA Centenary offers the use of carts or \u201cbuggies\u201d \u2013 the other Gleneagles courses do not) (An excellent practice facility is available at the resort, but not adjacent to the golf course).\nCarnoustie Golf Links, Carnoustie: Another city managed municipal course, like The Old Course in St. Andrews, Carnoustie is one of the most difficult golf courses in the world. The course dates back to the 1500's, but was most recently redesigned by Old Tom Morris and James Braid. Frequently called \"evil\", \"monstrous\" and \"brutal\", Carnoustie was the site of Ben Hogan's only Open appearance and victory, and the first of Tom Watson's five Open victories. The 1999 Open staged the famed \u201cles miserables\u201d by Jean Van de Velde, and a victory by local player Paul Lawrie. The 2007 Open Championship was won by Padraig Harrington in a playoff over Sergio Garcia, and is known for hard fairways and unusually fast greens. This course is most evil when the wind picks up, and the distances to the many creeks (burn's) are hard to judge. Holes 15 through 18 are perhaps the toughest finishing holes in the world, with the Barry Burn crossing the fairways enough to catch at least one of your shots. When these links are in good condition, there is an endless array of shots required to tame the \"beast\". If there was ever a course that requires a caddie, this is it! There is no practice range but the new Welcome Center with Pro Shop and small caf\u00e9 is quite functional, as is the pub next door in the hotel. The course is located on Links Parade along the beach in Carnoustie, about 45 minutes north of St. Andrews (if not delayed by traffic or the rail line \u2013 so allow an hour drive). This course is ranked #23 in The Golf Magazine World Top 100. (6,941 yards \u2013 par 72)\nSt. Andrews New Course, St. Andrews: The New Course is thought by many to be a tougher test of golf than The Old and was laid out in 1894 by legendary Tom Morris. The New Course lies in position, age and character between the Old Course and the Jubilee. Laid out, rather than constructed, to the seaward side of the Old, its fairways, which were given form by the newer dunes which have been little smoothed by the plough, have a less tamed feel. The humps and hollows are more numerous than the Old, and the terrain more varied. The course is divided into three parts. The 1st, 2nd and 3rd, after the fashion of the Old, share common fairways with the 18th, 17th and 16th. On these early holes, passing the incoming players gives a stimulating sense of departing on a journey, similar to that which one experiences at a seaport or rail station. The nature of the course changes abruptly after the shared 3rd green. The 4th, 5th and 6th are characterized by the tight fairways, hemmed in by dense gorse and heather, giving a sense of privacy and enclosure. From the 7th the course opens up, ranging over a wilder and more unkempt landscape, somewhat similar to the Jubilee, before returning to more civilized conditions at the shared 15th green. In its variety, the New Course represents the traditional link between the unique layout of the Old Course, and that of the Eden and Jubilee Courses, both remodeled in part during 1989, after almost 100 years in their previous forms. No place else in the world can one, on a single links course and in the space of a few rounds, journey back half a millennium in the history and practice of golf. Were it not for the proximity of its more illustrious and ancient neighbor, there is no doubt that many Open Championships and other major events would have been fought out over the testing and demanding terrain of the oldest New Course in the world. Some carts available. (Practice facility is near the Eden Clubhouse \u2013 not near the 1st tee!) (6,604 yards - par 72)\nSt. Andrews Old Course, St. Andrews: Though it cannot be proven, St. Andrews is thought to be the Home of Golf (the Dutch claim otherwise), and is home of The Royal & Ancient Golf Club, the regulating body for most of the golfing world. The Old Course dates back before 1457, when King James II of Scotland banned the game because it was gaining popularity over archery, and thus threatened the security of Scotland. The course has been the site of many Open Championships, including the historic 2000 and 2005 tournaments won by Tiger Woods. The layout of The Old Course requires study, with its classic \"out\" and \"in\" design, and the seven huge double greens which have often allowed for the course being played backwards (even in the 1882 Open). The highlights of the course are the Swilcan Burn (a creek) meandering through the first and 18th holes (with the stone bridge crossing it), The Hell Bunker, the Valley of Sin, and famous 17th Road Hole, where you actually tee off over the \u201cmaintenance sheds\u201d of the Old Course Hotel. Perhaps the largest obstacle to overcome is the obvious nervousness on the first tee as the tourists, caddies and R&A members watch as you hit! Tips On Playing The Old Course: 90% of all trouble on the Old Course is to the right. Keep the ball left unless your caddie tells you otherwise. If you catch a deep sod-faced bunker, the smart play is to get out sideways or backwards and play for a bogey. All Old Course starting times are usually allocated a year in advance, and most people have to place their names in the \"ballot\", where they are granted the unused tee times that are reserved for the locals. There are a lot of caddies here, and the professionals expect a total of \u00a355-60 pounds including tip (the most expensive in Scotland). Whether you call it \"the home of golf\" or \"a historic cow pasture\", usually depending on your performance, nobody can dispute the importance of The Old Course in the golfing world. Currently ranked #3 in the world by Golf Magazine. (Practice facility is near the Eden Clubhouse \u2013 not near the 1st tee!) Note: A handicap card is required by the starter (they will check!), and you must be a member of a golf club with gents having a handicap no higher than 24, and 36 for ladies. (6,721 yards men par 72 / 6032 yards ladies par 76)\nKingsbarns Golf Links: Opened in 2000, and only six miles south-east from St. Andrews, Kingsbarns Golf Links was developed by two Californians (Mark Parsinen and Art Dunkley), and designed by Kyle Phillips, one of the top new architects in the business. The course was carved from farmland that sweeps majestically along the sea, between the villages of Kingsbarns and Crail. The sea figures prominently on every hole at Kingsbarns and the course (four sets of tees range from 5142-7126 yards) looks like it has been there for 200 years, although it only opened in July 2000 (there was an older 9 hole course on the site from 1793-1939). On more than half the holes, the sea is directly in the golfer\u2019s active frame of play, so bring a camera because this is one of the most scenic courses in the world. Sir Michael Bonallack, Captain of the Royal & Ancient Golf Club (the R&A bought part of the course!) says, \u201cKingsbarns might well be one of the last true seaside links sites capable of development in Scotland. Mere words cannot convey just how extraordinary the place is \u2026 it must be seen to be believed \u2026 and once seen it will never be forgotten.\u201d Many people remark that it is their favorite, and often voted the most beautiful links course in Scotland. Come early, the complimentary practice range and putting green are among the best practice facilities in Scotland. The course is ranked #55 in The Golf Magazine World Top 100.\nCrail Golf Club, Crail: Crail Golfing Society is the seventh oldest club in the world, with the distinction of possessing a full set of minutes from its institution in 1786. Originally designed by the legendary Old Tom Morris of St. Andrews, this delightful par 68 classic links and parkland is situated at Fifeness, the most easterly point of the East Neuk of Fife. Unusual, in that each hole is within sight of the sea, Crail offers a testing to golfers of all standards, and \u201cpurists\u201d the world over treasure these links as \u201coriginal\u201d and a testament to the orgins of golf. Crail also goes by the name of the Crail Golfing Society, and golfing legend Old Tom Morris laid out the original nine holes at Balcomie in 1895. Situated 11 miles from the famous St Andrews golf courses, The Balcomie Links is relatively short at 5720 yards but its imaginative and tricky layout mean that it's no pushover. Crail golf course tempts the golfer with difficult but rewarding shots including the 5th hole, known as \"Hell's Hole\", where a successful shortcut across the shoreline can prove either a round-winner or a disastrous mistake. This course is one of the \u201csleepers\u201d that most miss, but have so much character that it is perfect for a second round after a more difficult morning course! Crail is situated 10 miles SE of St. Andrews and 2 miles east of Crail. (small practice facility on site)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 16873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 255.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prof-rahmanov.dp.ua/en/family-neurosis-psychosomatic-and-vegetative-disorders-in-children/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=family-neurosis-psychosomatic-and-vegetative-disorders-in-children", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YE3ZQX6QP74IUEVMSKSNQDXESVDIDYHF", "length": 2353, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.prof-rahmanov.dp.ua", "title": "The new book \u201cFamily Neurosis. Psychosomatic and vegetative disorders in children and adults \u00bb \u2013 Research institute of children\u2019s and family psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychology, medical and psychosocial rehabilitation", "raw_content": "Posted on Thursday October 8th, 2015 Sunday April 8th, 2018 by admin\nThe book examines the diagnosis, psychophysiology of neuroses (neurotic and somatoform disorders) in adults and children, peculiarities of relations in the family after the child\u2019s illness due to the peculiarity of the psychological climate. Generalized features of individual forms of neuroses (neurotic and somatoform disorders) as a result of psychotraumatic and negative social and domestic factors (psychogenic diseases) that form in the family throughout the entire period of the child\u2019s illness. The clinical, individual psychological and sociopsychological features of the neurosis in the family are described, in which a negative relationship between family members (microenvironment) and outside the family, the social environment (macroenvironment), the psychoanalysis of these relationships, self-help, self-analysis, autosuggestion, autogenic training . The book is addressed to doctors practicing in this field, students of medical schools, parents of sick children, as well as a wide range of readers who are concerned about the topic.\nPay attention to the psychological thoughts of the professor: \u201cPride, self-esteem, dignity, self-respect is a\u201d luxury \u201cfor parents. Having crossed himself (consciously considering himself humiliated), \u201cwith a smile on his face,\u201d \u201cwith pain-heaviness in the soul and in the heart\u201d \u2026 they are easier to forgive the whims of their children, give them training, education, health \u2026 time they are \u201ctreasure\u201d and \u201cluxury\u201d for children. And children take these \u201criches\u201d as a given, without thinking about where all this came from. And they use these \u201cgifts\u201d, not assuming what awaits them ahead, how their destiny will develop when they grow up. Unfortunately, or fortunately, children often repeat the fate of their parents. And in the future life will \u201creward\u201d them with the same \u201csurprises\u201d that they once presented to those who gave them life. Only after they have grown up with their own children do they realize the pain that they have suffered \u2026 Someone manages to correct \u201ctheir mistakes\u201d \u2026 But most understand it too late \u2026\nPrevious PostPrevious 3rd edition of the book \u201cWords of wisdom, psychological and some other thoughts, aphorisms\u201d\nNext PostNext Dr. Rahmanov is the winner of the international competition \u201cScientist of 2016\u2033", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.professional-mothering.com/2011/04/childrens-opera-part-v-rehearsal-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:51Z", "digest": "sha1:7WS7HXC7VY4J6IGRZHJUZYRJ7LEG3T62", "length": 5287, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.professional-mothering.com", "title": "Professional Mothering: Children\u2019s Opera, Part V, Rehearsal and Performance", "raw_content": "And now we reach our final chapter in which the children rehearse and otherwise prepare for the glorious occasion of performing their masterpiece for friends and family. In this final stage, remember that it is still the children\u2019s work, so trust them.\nWith the homeschool music group, I let the children and their parents come up with the costumes. Parents are a fantastic resource for costumes. In every children\u2019s musical production that I have done, I have always been low key about costumes and let the parents do it. I realize that the audience at the performances are mostly comprised of friends and family, and that tickets, if any, were free and not $50 each. For me the emphasis is on giving the children a good learning opportunity, and wearing a costume is a fun part of performing, and it shouldn\u2019t be stressful. If the costume is good enough for the parents, it is good enough for me.\nWhen I did the children\u2019s opera with the Cache Children\u2019s Choir, I was very impressed with the costumes and I want to share some pictures to give you some ideas to work with.\nThe youngest group of children, ages 3-5, sang a strophic song about Sleeping Beauty. Most of the children wore the traditional CCC attire of black pants and a red shirt. There was a girl dressed as a witch, a boy prince on a cock-horse with a toy sword, and a princess in a tower, made of a large cardboard box that had been painted.\nThe raggle-taggle group, ages 5-7, wore the traditional CCC attire with face masks made of foam for the donkeys, cats, dogs, roosters, and robbers. The robbers had black-knit hats, pictured here with the wealth of gold that the robbers had stolen.\nThe oldest group, ages 7-9 did an opera about a boy and a girl who went through a magical mirror and had to collect musical chimes to be able to get back home. They went to a fantasy land where there was a dragon, mermaids, a unicorn, and a fairy. They met cave people, ghosts, and stinky socks (pictured). There was a lot of work that went into these costumes and they were fantastic. It all depends on what you are willing to do, what sewing skills you or those you are working with have, and the time-frame that you have to work with.\nScenery and props\nDon\u2019t stress it, it isn\u2019t that important. The more you let the children (and audience) use their imagination, the less work that you will have to do. If you do want to have scenery, tempera paints on large cardboard boxes from the appliance store are a cheap and effective way to go. You can also borrow, shop in your attic, or work with items from the local thrift store.\nThe larger the cast, the more you will need to direct the children on where to stand and when to do what during the performance, but allow the children to give you their input and advice. With a smaller cast, let the children decide where they will stand and what they will do during different parts of the opera during rehearsals, but then remind them what they decided afterward and have them practice that way. There should be at least one rehearsal dedicated solely to practicing the staging with the music. In other words, hold at least one rehearsal where the children are not creating anything, but are purely practicing. More are optimal for a better performance, but that may or may not be your purpose. Are you a performing group, or is this an opera workshop to teach children about opera? Maybe it is somewhere in between. Adjust you schedule to accommodate your purpose.\nBe flexible and focus on the children. The audience knows that your cast is not professional, and are most likely family and friends of the children. They are there to be supportive, so don\u2019t worry about what they think. Chances are that they will be very impressed and pleased with the results anyway. How do you focus on the children then? Give them a prep-talk before going on stage. Tell them how proud you are of all of their hard work. Tell them to have fun, and that you will be there to help them.\nIt is appropriate to say a prayer before performing too. I know that this is controversial in some areas and to some people, and I am a religious person and am inclined to suggest it. However, as a performer I have almost universally seen it done. A simple prayer that the children will remember their lines and music, and that they will have a good experience will do much to comfort nervous children.\nOh, and be flexible. Really. Children may forget their lines, come in early or late, and a myriad of other things. Stay calm and the children will too. Work with the challenges that come, for \u201cthe show must go on\u201d. In the performance of the homeschool opera, Rapunzel didn\u2019t show up. To this day, I don\u2019t know if there was a family emergency or if they just spaced it, and it doesn\u2019t really matter. Things like this happen and you need to work with it. I told the children that we would just skip her lines, but in retrospect, this was unfair to Sleeping Beauty because Rapunzel\u2019s lines were her cues. I should have sung Rapunzel\u2019s part at the piano, but I didn\u2019t. You learn as you go. When it is over, praise the children, graciously accept any compliments but then direct them back to the children because, after all, this really was their work.\nLabels: Singing, Video\nThat spider man is quite a character.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 9186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 254.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.purerock.us/home/new-motley-crue-song-to-receive-premiere-on-jonesys-jukebox-radio-show/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:10Z", "digest": "sha1:BQMFNM5ITJ2J7UDH4ULSFQNTFWJNWQKN", "length": 2417, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.purerock.us", "title": "PureRock.US \u2013 America's Pure Rock New M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE Song To Receive Premiere On 'Jonesy's Jukebox' Radio Show - PureRock.US - America's Pure Rock", "raw_content": "A new M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE song that will be included in the soundtrack to the film adaptation of the group\u2019s biography, \u201cThe Dirt \u2013 Confessions Of The World\u2019s Most Notorious Rock Band\u201d, will receive its premiere on the February 21 edition of SEX PISTOLS guitarist Steve Jones\u2018s radio show, \u201cJonesy\u2019s Jukebox\u201d, on the 95.5 KLOS station in Los Angeles. The program will also see CR\u00dcE bassist Nikki Sixx sitting down for an interview with Jones on the KLOS Subaru Live Stage.\nThe track \u2014 a collaboration with Machine Gun Kelly \u2014 is one of four new songs M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE recorded for the soundtrack at the end of last year with longtime producer Bob Rock.\nThe rapper \u2014 whose real name is Colson Baker \u2014 plays M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE drummer Tommy Lee in the movie, which will premiere on March 22 via Netflix. \u201cThe Dirt\u201d also stars Daniel Webber (\u201cThe Punisher\u201d) as singer Vince Neil, Douglas Booth as bassist Nikki Sixx and Iwan Rheon (\u201cGame Of Thrones\u201d) as guitarist Mick Mars.\nIn a Twitter question-and-answer session last Wednesday night, Sixx was asked if Machine Gun Kelly would guest on one of the songs, to which he answered: \u201cYes. New song with MGK is coming really soon.\u201d\nAsked to describe the new M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE music, he answered: \u201cHeavy Cr\u00fce\u2026\u201d\n\u201cThe Dirt\u201d was helmed by \u201cJackass Presents: Bad Grandpa\u201d director Jeff Tremaine. It was picked up by Netflix after being previously developed at Focus Features and before that at Paramount.\nMachine Gun Kelly told Billboard that he got his part in the movie after \u201ca six-audition process. The first two, I was auditioning for Nikki Sixx, and then the last four for Tommy Lee, over the course of two and a half years,\u201d he said.\nIn 2015, M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE completed \u201cThe Final Tour\u201d, closing the book on the band\u2019s iconic career after performing a total of 164 shows in 72 markets, grossing over $100 million.\nTo cement the sense of finality, the four members of M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE in 2014 publicly signed a \u201ccessation of touring\u201d contract that prevents any of them from performing under the CR\u00dcE name in the future.\nA tour film about M\u00d6TLEY CR\u00dcE\u2018s final shows, \u201cThe End\u201d, came out in 2016.\nWanna be in the room while @NikkiSixx premieres a new @MotleyCrue song? Enter to win this once-in-a-lifetime chance to come and see the musician on a special @jonesysjukebox on the #SubaruLive Stage! https://t.co/zKq46PiyQG #sponsored @subaru_USA pic.twitter.com/uWYpKs3nzm\n\u2014 95.5 KLOSFM (@955KLOS) February 10, 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.queensmeadacademy.org/page/?title=What+can+I+do+at+home%3F&pid=63", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:53Z", "digest": "sha1:TVKQZYDTR5K6CH3DCHUERSUEF2KZ3Q4H", "length": 3643, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.queensmeadacademy.org", "title": "Queensmead Primary Academy - What can I do at home?", "raw_content": "Boost your child's self-esteem:\nOne of the biggest barriers to learning is lacking confidence and feeling that you can\u2019t do something. That often stops children even wanting to try. Children with learning difficulties often lose confidence as they experience repeated failure and this damages their self-esteem.\nBoth in school and at home we need to work hard to bolster the children\u2019s self-esteem. We can do this by emphasising the things they are good at \u2013 it may be art or sport or making things or being a good friend. We need to show them that we value those things as much as reading and writing. We need to avoid criticising a child when they can\u2019t do something and ensure that they don\u2019t feel it is their fault, explaining to them that we just need to find the right way to help them to learn\nMost children with learning difficulties struggle with some aspect of language, so talking about things with your child is a very helpful strategy. Encourage them to talk about what they have been doing (at school or on a day out, for example), using the correct words (not \u2018thingy\u2019) and making sense. This may mean that you have to give them plenty of time to think through what they want to say and not put pressure on them to respond immediately. When they struggle, don\u2019t correct them, but model back to them a better way to say something.\nEg. Child: \u201cWe goed to the park this afternoon.\u201d\nAdult: \u201cYes, we went to the park didn\u2019t we?\u201d\nChildren who are struggling to learn to read will have more motivation to overcome their difficulties if they have a love of books and stories, so reading to your child is a good strategy to encourage a love of books. When you read to them, they can relax and get a much better sense of what a book is about than when they are struggling through the words themselves. This doesn\u2019t mean that you shouldn\u2019t hear your child read with their reading book, but that you should have times (bedtime is often ideal) when you just read to them and they can listen (this also helps to develop their listening skills).\nCounting is at the heart of all number-based maths. It is often easy to incorporate counting into daily activities. Counting does not just mean reciting numbers though. A child has to understand that a number refers to one thing. Gabbling \u201cone, two, three, four\u201d etc. is not the same as counting out four sweets or four steps. So give your child plenty of opportunities to count real things.\nAs they get older, children with learning difficulties often have difficulty remembering number facts such as times tables or number bonds for 10. There can be fun ways (such as singing or games) that help some children to learn these facts. Talk to your child\u2019s maths teacher about what you could do.\nAll children learn better if they are interested and children with learning difficulties need the motivation that comes with being interested to keep them going when learning is hard for them. By encouraging their interest in things at home, talking about things and giving them a range of experiences, they will develop a lively, interested approach to the world that will help them with their learning at school.\nPhonics is the primary and most effective way that children learn to read. At Queensmead Primary Academy we use the principles of synthetic phonics during EYFS and into KS1. Children from FS1 begin a systematic daily session of phonics which continues up to Year 2 and beyond if a child is judged to need further support. Teachers follow Queensmead phonics planning to deliver daily or twice daily sessions. Click the button below to find more useful information on Phonics at Queensmead.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 5162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ramassa.com/en/history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:12Z", "digest": "sha1:63KQAP3BCJYXBILC7ZAVZ6FBCN6KZ33W", "length": 1994, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ramassa.com", "title": "A.E. Ramass\u00e0 \u00bb HISTORY", "raw_content": "A.E. Ramass\u00e0 is an amateur football team from Les Franqueses del Vall\u00e8s, a town about 30 Km from Barcelona. Founded in 1975, the club made its first steps playing in local tournaments and what used to be called \u201ccompany\u201d competitions. In 2007, the club became professional, jumped to the 3rd Territorial League and joined the Catalan Football Federation (FCF). Nowadays, the team is playing in the 9th Group of the 4th Catalan Division, tightly competing against some of the most important teams of the Vall\u00e8s Oriental Region.\nA.E. Ramass\u00e0 has its training sessions and plays its matches in Camp Municipal de LLerona. The facilities are modern and convenient, offering an extremely well preserved synthetic grass pitch surrounded by a countryside environment, what makes playing football there a warm and cosy experience.\nIn the team\u2019s track record, we must highlight awards like the Joan Creus to the Sportsmanship in 2017 and the Ol\u00edmpia in 2015 given by the Diputaci\u00f3 de Barcelona. Strictly speaking about sport, the team has won several local well-known competitions, like the Sergi Barjuan Tournament.\nFar from the pitch, A.E. Ramass\u00e0 is above all an example as a human-being group. Our passion for sport and our principles have led us to carry out solidary tasks which have been praised worldwide.\nThe team\u2019s official apparel is made up of a yellow and red T-shirt -recalling the Catalan flag- black shorts and red socks. A sponsorised red polo T-shirt is worn by the members of the expedition when travelling.\n2013 became a key-year for A.E. Ramass\u00e0. The team starts its international activity travelling to Africa. Is in this year when the first nowadays traditional solidary adventures across the African continent took place. Not only did A.E. Ramass\u00e0 play against one of the best teams from the country they visited, but they cooperated with local NGOs performing a social role, too.\nThis is a difficult-to-describe human experience which attracts more and more followers every year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 210.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ravennafestival.org/en/2017/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:23Z", "digest": "sha1:AFI4RAJ7UQOYJRETGP34GWRMIRV6DXGU", "length": 379, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ravennafestival.org", "title": "September 2017 - Ravenna Festival", "raw_content": "Autumn Trilogy\nfrom the 17th to the 26th of November\nThree new performances for the Autumn Trilogy: \u201cCavalleria rusticana\u201d, \u201cPagliacci\u201d, and \u201cTosca\u201d on the stage of the Alighieri Theatre...\nThis year\u2019s Trilogy revolves around that gaze upon time and the changes which have always characterised the passage from one century to the next, especially at the dawn of the 20th century.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 105.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rcnky.com/articles/2014/09/20/why-you-wont-hear-about-candidates-kentucky-community-college-presidency", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:IMOORVPAK7HLHHK45OOQZZ4KULLDANJ4", "length": 5449, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.rcnky.com", "title": "Why You Won't Hear About the Candidates for Kentucky Community College Presidency | The River City News", "raw_content": "Why You Won't Hear About the Candidates for Kentucky Community College Presidency\nSometime after Nov. 1, the Kentucky Community & Technical College System will name a new president to succeed the retiring Michael McCall. But only a group of insiders knows who\u2019s in the running.\nThe application deadline passed nearly two months ago, on July 25. With the help of an outside search agency, the Association of Community College Trustees, a 16-person search committee expects to narrow the field of applicants to just a few finalists next month. KCTCS Chairman P.G. Peeples, co-chairman of the search committee, said he is pleased with the progress being made.\n\u201cWe had a very good response, a very good field, and I expected that because of the quality of the system,\u201d he said. \u201cThe system is well-respected across the country and, subsequently, I think there are people out there who would really want to work for and be part of this system.\u201d\nIf taxpayers, KCTCS faculty and staff and Kentucky higher-education watchers want to know who applied for the job, however, they\u2019ll be disappointed. In response to a public records request from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, KCTCS General Counsel J. Campbell Cantrill III wrote that \u201call candidate information is currently exempt from disclosure.\u201d\nPeeples said 40 people have \u201ccompleted the application process.\u201d That number, he added, will be lower by week\u2019s end.\n\u201cWe\u2019re committed to bringing in a leader that\u2019s commensurate with the quality and reputation of the system,\u201d he said.\nKentucky law upholds the secrecy of searches for people to fill public jobs, regardless of their importance. It applies to searches for police chiefs, city managers and university presidents on down. The candidates\u2019 names and resumes are exempt from the state\u2019s public records law because, as the law says, their disclosure \u201cwould constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.\u201d\nHogwash, says Paul Cummins, a rural Corbin resident who served on the Whitley County School Board from 1982 to 1986. He unsuccessfully challenged the secrecy of a schools superintendent search in 2010. He was likewise dismayed by the secrecy of the KCTCS president search.\n\u201cIt\u2019s the people that\u2019s paying those tuitions that\u2019s paying for him, so they should know who all put in for it and what their qualifications were -- and if the committee hired the right person,\u201d Cummins said. \u201cThen you don\u2019t feel like it\u2019s a home-cooked thing or a political situation.\u201d\nMany states allow public job searches to be done behind closed doors.\n\u201cIt varies from state to state,\u201d said Krisha Creal, executive assistant to the president of R. William Funk & Associates, a higher education executive search firm in Dallas. \u201cHalf of them do require disclosure -- we call them open records states -- and the other half are confidential until the finalists are invited to campus.\u201d\nState law required the University of Tennessee to release the names of 69 applicants for its president\u2019s job in 2010, and a state judge ordered Louisiana State University to name the 35 candidates for its presidency in 2013. Ohio law required the University of Akron in March to disclose the names of 19 people seeking its top job, including former Ohio State University football coach Jim Tressel.\nOther states, like Connecticut, require only the disclosure of finalists. Some have laws that are more nuanced, said Jim McCormick, a senior consultant for AGB Search, an arm of the Association of Governing Boards in Washington, D.C.\n\u201cI\u2019m doing a search for a provost for the community college in Michigan, and that doesn\u2019t have to be made public. If it were the president, it would have to be,\u201d he said.\nIn June 2013, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that a growing number of public colleges were withholding the names of their presidential candidates, just as private colleges do. Many would-be candidates, it found, were reluctant or unwilling to apply if their names were made public. Of those who did, one college president was fired for looking elsewhere. And one college lost a $10 million bequest because an alumnus questioned the dedication of the president for showing interest in another job.\nKentucky Attorney General Jack Conway sided with privacy concerns when he signed an October 2010 opinion upholding the Whitley County School District\u2019s decision not to release the names of superintendent candidates to Cummins.\n\u201cAlthough the public\u2019s interest in insuring that the best qualified applicant is selected cannot be understated, the courts have recognized that the interest is not always served by disclosure of application materials,\u201d the opinion states.\nMcCall (KCTCS)\nPeebles said that KCTCS will not name a successor to McCall until after the annual President\u2019s Gala on Nov. 1.\nThe Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting took an in-depth look at McCall in May 8 after learning that the KCTCS Board of Trustees had approved giving him a one-year contract to serve as president emeritus at his final base salary. His base pay is $324,321. After other forms of compensation, including a $90,000 annual housing allowance and a $43,000 annual car allowance, he made $641,699 in 2013.\nReporter James McNair can be reached at [email protected] and (502) 815-6543.\nThis article was produced by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, a new nonprofit newsroom from Louisville Public Media. You can read more at kycir.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 8774, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 207.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rcnky.com/node/2878", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TZXWRCRPTFAWYTRR7BI6E535WFCN35X7", "length": 2824, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.rcnky.com", "title": "Bellevue's Financial Position is Solid, Auditor Reports | The River City News", "raw_content": "Bellevue's Financial Position is Solid, Auditor Reports\nThe City of Bellevue's finances were applauded in its recent annual audit, presented to city council on Wednesday.\nThe auditing form of Van Gorder, Walker & Company offered an \"unqualified opinion\" of the city's financial operations. \"And that's the highest opinion that we give. It's what we call a clean opinion,\" said John Chamberlain, of the auditing firm. No significant deficiencies were found in the city's internal controls, the report said.\nBellevue has $2.5 million in cash, which is up slightly from last year. \"A rule of thumb for municipal governments, we like to say, is to have about three months of operating cash on hand,\" Chamberlain said. \"For you guys, three months would be about $1.1 million, so you have about seven months. That's a really good cash position for the city to be in.\"\nMeanwhile, the city's proprietary fund has been dropping. Currently there is about seventeen months of coverage. \"You may want to take a look at that and see if you can find what the root cause of that is. It's nothing to be alarmed about but you have a five-year pattern that if you go another five years, it would be in the red,\" Chamberlain said, adding that a new bond would help.\nCity Administrator Keith Speolker said that the city's proprietary funds include urban renewal grants and Port of Bellevue funding. \"We had a large balance the first two to three years I was here due to a (Certificate of Deposit) that was cashed and we've been drawing off that,\" Spoelker said. \"It's been a concern between our conversations, how do we refresh that.\"\nSpoelker also said that the grants have been put to good use, including the renovation of formerly neglected buildings that now house businesses that create jobs. \"We're taking that grant money and turning it into general fund revenue as much as we can, but we need to replenish it to keep that engine driving,\" Spoelker said.\nOther notes from council:\nThe City of Dayton approved the changes to the joint fire department board approved by Bellevue in December, the city council noted, so those changes will be put in place this year. Dayton Council Members Penny Hurtt and Kathy Volter resigned from the Bellevue-Dayton Fire Board and will be replaced by Dayton Council Members Virgil Boruske and Jerry Gifford. A Dayton member will serve as chair in 2014 since Bellevue Councilman Matt Olliges was chair in 2013.\nPolice Chief Wayne Turner said that he learned at a meeting of the Campbell County Police Chiefs Association that 1,074 felony indictments were made in the county in 2013. Turner said that a busy year is usually around 500.\nThe next council meeting will be February 26 so that city leaders can attend an event with the Kentucky League of Cities on the date the meeting was originally scheduled.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 6090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.realfengshuisoulutions.com/2010/12", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:40Z", "digest": "sha1:DG4ZKW2VAM6DP4XHDCNT64RUU4NW5CCQ", "length": 400, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.realfengshuisoulutions.com", "title": "2010 December Archive | Real Feng Shui SOULutions", "raw_content": "Annual Feng Shui Energies for 2011\nThursday, December 9, 2010 | posted by: jennifer | comments: 0\nThe year of the Metal Rabbit begins February 3, 2011. This year in the southeast the annual \u201c6\u201d energy visits. This indicates money but having to work hard for money. 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The treaty will come into force as from the 1st January next following the year in which each country completes the ratifications process.\nThe DTAA is based on the OECD Model Convention and is expected to further improve the business cooperation between Cyprus and Luxemburg. The treaty sign off was well received by the local and foreign business communities and international investors and further enhances Cyprus\u2019 position as an international business center. The DTAA main provisions are analyzed below:\nIn cases where the beneficial owner of the dividend is a company, which owns at least 10% of the shares of the company paying the dividend, the withholding tax rate is set at 0%. In all other cases the withholding tax rate is 5%.\n48 Archangelou Avenue,\n1st Floor, Engomi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 4054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.redvaultnews.com/tag/supreme-court-justice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:55Z", "digest": "sha1:FY4SBQTAX5RJX5NO3TODNIZDJFGQQQ2X", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.redvaultnews.com", "title": "supreme court justice \u2013 Red Vault News", "raw_content": "Tag: supreme court justice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 268.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.refcom.org.uk/news/refcom-to-attend-brand-new-mistubishi-electric-event/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:44Z", "digest": "sha1:J52TN34DGTIH6BXW4QYXN2CBMBTNVVSI", "length": 1255, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.refcom.org.uk", "title": "Refcom | REFCOM to attend brand new Mistubishi Electric event", "raw_content": "On Thursday 18th May 2017, Mitsubishi Electric will be holding a brand new customer event at the Lee Valley Velodrome (used for the 2012 Olympics) in Stratford, designed to bring all customers together under one, very iconic roof. REFCOM is proud to be exhibiting at this industry event.\nThe day will consist of presentations surrounding the HVAC industry, plus exhibition stands showcasing Mitsubishi Electric's products, services and partners\u2019 offerings (including REFCOM's) as well as keynote speeches from experts in the field including Dr Peter Bonfield, OBE from BRE who will be talking about the lessons BRE learnt from their involvement in the Olympic games.\nDonald Daw, commercial director, Mitsubishi Electric will look at what Brexit means for the HVAC industry and there will also be sessions on legislation, incentives and regulations, such as F-Gas, \u200bBREEAM and the Renewable Heat Incentive \u2013 from CIBSE, UK Green Building Council and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy .\nThere will also be the opportunity for everyone to network at the end of the day along with a surprise guest speaker and a competition for the unique chance to have a ride around the actual Olympic Velodrome track.\nTo view the full agenda here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.reginawilson.com/blog/exploring-abstracts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:12Z", "digest": "sha1:AODD3CXQHDMPCOLXOTDQLBUSKCSW3P2P", "length": 227, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.reginawilson.com", "title": "Exploring abstracts\ufeff - Regina Wilson", "raw_content": "Very interesting but I am a traditionalist and love your other works. But that is just me....it's good to stretch and try new things ---it brings you joy and that is good.\nI like the horizontal one. It almost looks like a bird.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul10.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:48Z", "digest": "sha1:47EE6KGXCU3RLJ6F7HBDC272M2L4NDD4", "length": 8714, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.religioustolerance.org", "title": "More Christian Urban Legends", "raw_content": "STORIES THAT MAY BE CHRISTIAN URBAN LEGENDS\nStill more neat stories of events\nthat may never have happened\nStories that may be Christian urban legends:\nWe have run across a number of other stories that have the general feel of Christian urban legend. However, we have little or no evidence that they are in fact only myths:\nThe human soul has weight: There is an article which is allegedly a reprint from American Medicine magazine for 1907-APR. 1 It describes a series of tests by Duncan MacDougall of Haverhill, MA. in which he measured the weight of individuals as they died. He noted a sudden weight loss of \u00be ounce, and \u00bd ounce on his first two patients. The third lost \u00bd ounce at death and an additional loss of one ounce a few minutes later. Another lost about \u215c ounce. He later performed the experiment on dogs and found no change in weight at the time of death. A search on the Internet for the phrase \"American Medicine magazine\" turned up seven hits, including one reference to the magazine having existing in 1914. 2\nWe have been unable to find a definitive reference to any replication of this study by other researchers. There are a few vague suggestions on the Internet, but nothing that gives dates, times and results:\nOne physicist wrote us about an experiment done in the 19th century. A large balance was constructed that supported the weight of a dying person on a bed. When he breathed his last, there was a sudden drop of one ounce weight which was attributed to the soul leaving the body. The experiment was repeated on other individuals with similar results.\nA 1998-NOV posting to the Neurology WebForum, sponsored by the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, discussed a short article circa 1988 about a similar experiment. It showed that \"the body unexplicably [sic] lost a few ounces. I remember this clearly because of the graphic they had with it of a soul leaving a body lying on a bed (similar to the movie \"Ghost\"). Another posting mentioned that \"The study was a turn of the century or thereabouts. If I recall it was reported in one of the Charles Fort ('Fortean' occurances) books or something like that. There was even a drawing of the bed placed up on four sensitive scales. I have seen it several places.\"\nA German magazine Horizon was reported to have published an article about a similar experiment performed at the University of Berlin. Weight measurement of about 200 dying patients showed that the human soul weighs 1/3000th of an ounce, on average. When one considers that an average body may weigh something on the order of 2,000 ounces, then this measurement would have required scales accurate to one part in six million. Scales with such accuracy are extremely improbable. Horizon had no record of having printed the letter. The University of Berlin had no record of the experimenters who were alleged to have been Dr. Becker Martens and Elke Fisher.\nA visitor to this web site reports that Sunn Classic Pictures featured a simulated re-enactment of this experiment in its 1978 documentary film \"Beyond and Back.\"\nIn science, a research finding is considered of little value unless it is replicated by other scientists. We only suspect that this is an urban folk tale. We have no proof that it is. But it certainly \"feels\" like one.\nGod relocates church: The story is about a congregation who wanted to relocate their church building. They had approached the owner of a desirable piece of empty land, but the owner would not sell. Subsequently, a tornado came through the area, picked up the church building and set it down squarely on the previously empty property. This convinced the land owner that God must want the church there. So he gave the property to the congregation.\nThe Mormons and Coca Cola \u2122: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), the Mormons, strongly recommend that its believers not drink tea, coffee or any drink containing addictive substances. In an interview with Bob Marshall, Frank Zappa either started or repeated a rumor about the LDS and Coca Cola. He said: \"Don't drink coffee\". You can't drink Coca Cola or any of that kind of stuff. That was written in the Book until they bought into Coca Cola. And suddenly this one particular form of caffeine was O.K. and now Mormons get high on Coca Cola. That's their big thrill.\" 3 A similar Pepsi rumor has circulated since 1999 -- perhaps earlier. Neither is true. Mormon leaders have recommended against the consumption of all caffeine drinks for many years. 4 According to one source, 9% of the Coca Cola company is owned by a bank, 15% of the shares are held by past and present executives and the families of those who established the company. The remaining 76% of the company is owned by a very large number of institutional and individual investors. 5\nThe Mormons and web sites: A rumor has been circulating on the Internet that the LDS Church -- often referred to as the Mormons -- is trying to shut down all independent Mormon web sites. This would leave the official LDS web site as the only source of Mormon information on the Internet . There is an element of truth in this rumor. The LDS once strongly encouraged local congregations to temporarily take their web sites off line, until standards could be prepared for them. The Church's concern is that some local web sites might be promoting unofficial doctrine. However, the thousands of web sites that are operated by individual Mormons have not been restricted by the church.\nChristian pastor tears up 3 million dollar check: Michael Phillips wrote an article about an alleged gift of $3 million from Christians in the U.S. to Dieder Palacki, a Christian pastor who survived imprisonment and torture behind the Iron Curtain. Palacki allegedly said: \"I have spent much time in your countries. I have been in your churches and bookstores. I have witnessed with my own eyes the trappings of your so-called spiritual prosperity, which is really no prosperity at all, but a hollow empty shell.\"\n\"Something within me wants to shout and say to you all, \u2018Go home to your contented and wealthy homes and communities and churches.' The Good News of Jesus Christ is alive and vibrant and is fully capable of carrying itself abroad into the hearts of hungry men and women without the benefit of your expensive and lavish commercial efforts on its behalf.....\"\n\"For thirty years we have smuggled and traveled, taught, preached, gone hungry, organized, yes, and even spoken and written to you of the West as well. Thousands upon thousands of our fellow Poles and Russians and Slavs and East Germans have laid their lives on the line for the sake of their faith and in order to share that faith with others.....\"\n\"How many of you listened to us?\"\n\"My brother and friend Alexandr Solzhenitsyn attempted for a decade to be heard, as have so many others. We asked for your prayers, for Bibles, for help in teaching and training our people. And some help did come, for which we were grateful.\"\n\"But the rest of you continued to feed your own mammoth religious systems, building yet bigger and bigger transmitting stations and more television stations and publishing more books - all in the name of proclaiming the gospel.\"\n\"But did you ever give of yourselves? Did you come help us? Did you pray for us? Did you suffer and die and starve with us? How much did you really care about the people you now so pompously think you will save for the kingdom?\"\n\"Where have you been all this time? We needed your help and prayers and support and Bibles when times were hard! We have been beaten and imprisoned and even killed for the gospel\u2019s sake. Where were you when it counted? We lived our faith behind the Iron Curtain, and now that it is down, who is to say we even want you coming with your pompous egoism and self-reliance?\"\nHe is reported to have then torn up the check into several pieces and let them drop to the floor. 6\nAdditional religious urban folktales can be found at:\nTruthOrFiction.com at: http://www.truthorfiction.com/\nDuncan MacDougall, \"Hypothesis Concerning Soul Substance Together with Experimental Evidence of The Existence of Such Substance,\" American Medicine, 1907-APR, at: http://www.artbell.com/\nNeal Smith, \"Occupied America: A Chronology of Nazi Infiltration and the War On Some Drugs,\" at: http://www.ka.net/\n\"Frank Zappa interview,\" 1998, at: http://www.science.uva.nl/\nW.J. Walsh, \"Cola Drinks,\" All About Mormons, at: http://www.mormons.org/ This link is no longer online.\n\"The Mormons own the Coca-Cola Company,\" at: http://www.snopes2.com/\nMichael Phillips, \"Dawn of Liberty,\" Dr. Chadwick's Church Ministry Site, http://www.webedelic.com/church/dawnf.htm\nLast update: 2005-FEB-04", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 10699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.renaud-bray.com/Films_Produit.aspx?id=1787910&def=A+Sort+Of+Homecoming%2CANATHEMA%2CKOC10006367", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:41Z", "digest": "sha1:CRWQUSLAP5T5ROT6533UOYW73UCWYQWV", "length": 5482, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.renaud-bray.com", "title": "ANATHEMA - A Sort Of Homecoming - Blu-Ray - DIVERTISSEMENT - Renaud-Bray.com - Livres + cadeaux + jeux", "raw_content": "De anathema\nA Sort Of Homecoming de ANATHEMA\n*** R\u00e9sum\u00e9 en anglais seulement ***Directed by Lasse Hoile (Steven Wilson/Opeth), Distant Satellites A Sort Of Home Coming is a stunning concert film of Anathema s homecoming show on March 7th 2015 in the spectacular setting of the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. Anathema have spent the vast majority of their career making music that defies description. Formed in the mid 90s, they have risen to become one of the UK s most cherished and critically acclaimed rock bands.With their star rising ever higher, Anathema returned in 2014 with Distant Satellites. The new studio album showcased another imperious forward step into the realm of miraculous songwriting. It has proved to be the band s most widely acclaimed & celebrated record with the likes of The Guardian (UK), Metal Hammer (UK/DE), Kerrang (UK), Classic Rock (UK/DE), Prog Magazine (UK), Aardschok (NL), Rock Hard (DE), Rolling Stone (Aus) heaping great praise on the album.During 2014 & 15 the band toured the world extensively to promote Distant Satellites both as a full band and also with a stripped down acoustic show. It was the band's performance at a one off show at Gloucester Cathedral in 2014 that opened up a new chapter for the band, giving them an opportunity to set the music in an ornate, beautiful environment. In March 2015 the band played an acoustic tour of Cathedrals in the UK that culminated in a sold out show in their hometown of Liverpool in the city s impressive Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.The show described by Prog Magazine as a once in a lifetime experience that words can barely do justice.Having previously worked with Anathema on their acclaimed Universal concert film, Lasse Hoile captured the 100 minute acoustic set in high definition against the sensational backdrop of Liverpool Cathedral.Featuring 15 songs selected from the albums Distant Satellites, We re Here Because We re Here, Hindsight and Weather Systems, Daniel Cavanagh, Vincent Cavanagh, Jamie Cavanagh and Lee Douglas were accompanied throughout by David Wesling on cello alongside special guest, the renowned violinist, Anna Phoebe on a haunting rendition of Anathema .The audio has been produced and mixed by Christer Andr\u00e9 Cederberg who worked on their Distant Satellites album, with the cover and booklet artwork featuring the stunning photography of from the show and behind the scenes by long time collaborator Caroline Traitler.Kscope are set to release Distant Satellites A Sort Of Home Coming as a Blu ray disc presented in an amaray case with a 12 page colour booklet.The Blu ray features the full 100 minute concert plus a band documentary with 5.1 audio mixed by Bruce Soord.\nDirected by Lasse Hoile (Steven Wilson/Opeth), Distant Satellites A Sort Of Home Coming is a stunning concert film of Anathema s homecoming show on March 7th 2015 in the spectacular setting of the Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. Anathema have spent the vast majority of their career making music that defies description. Formed in the mid 90s, they have risen to become one of the UK s most cherished and critically acclaimed rock bands.\nWith their star rising ever higher, Anathema returned in 2014 with Distant Satellites. The new studio album showcased another imperious forward step into the realm of miraculous songwriting. It has proved to be the band s most widely acclaimed & celebrated record with the likes of The Guardian (UK), Metal Hammer (UK/DE), Kerrang (UK), Classic Rock (UK/DE), Prog Magazine (UK), Aardschok (NL), Rock Hard (DE), Rolling Stone (Aus) heaping great praise on the album.\nDuring 2014 & 15 the band toured the world extensively to promote Distant Satellites both as a full band and also with a stripped down acoustic show. It was the band's performance at a one off show at Gloucester Cathedral in 2014 that opened up a new chapter for the band, giving them an opportunity to set the music in an ornate, beautiful environment. In March 2015 the band played an acoustic tour of Cathedrals in the UK that culminated in a sold out show in their hometown of Liverpool in the city s impressive Liverpool Anglican Cathedral.\nThe show described by Prog Magazine as a once in a lifetime experience that words can barely do justice.\nHaving previously worked with Anathema on their acclaimed Universal concert film, Lasse Hoile captured the 100 minute acoustic set in high definition against the sensational backdrop of Liverpool Cathedral.\nFeaturing 15 songs selected from the albums Distant Satellites, We re Here Because We re Here, Hindsight and Weather Systems, Daniel Cavanagh, Vincent Cavanagh, Jamie Cavanagh and Lee Douglas were accompanied throughout by David Wesling on cello alongside special guest, the renowned violinist, Anna Phoebe on a haunting rendition of Anathema .\nThe audio has been produced and mixed by Christer Andr\u00e9 Cederberg who worked on their Distant Satellites album, with the cover and booklet artwork featuring the stunning photography of from the show and behind the scenes by long time collaborator Caroline Traitler.\nKscope are set to release Distant Satellites A Sort Of Home Coming as a Blu ray disc presented in an amaray case with a 12 page colour booklet.\nThe Blu ray features the full 100 minute concert plus a band documentary with 5.1 audio mixed by Bruce Soord.\nTitre : A Sort Of Homecoming\n\u00c9diteur : SONY CLASSICAL VIDEO\nSujet : FILM MUSICAL ET SPECTACLE DIVERS\nA Sort Of Homecoming , ANATHEMA\n\u00a9 SONY CLASSICAL VIDEO 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 12408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.riehlife.com/2012/05/18/may-is-national-meditation-month-meditation-health-by-mark-c-brown/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KWMKRACCWTVXVGP5ZU4XGG5TQ7CGPRLL", "length": 4820, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.riehlife.com", "title": "May is National Meditation Month: Meditation & Health by Mark C. Brown | Riehl Life: Village Wisdom for the 21st Century", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb Stone Soup \u00bb May is National Meditation Month: Meditation & Health by Mark C. Brown\nMay is National Meditation Month: Meditation & Health by Mark C. Brown\nMark C. Brown, Ph.D. is a psychologist and author of Live Like A Window, Work Like A Mirror: Enlightenment and the Practice of Eternity Consciousness. /\nMay is National Meditation Month\nby Mark C. Brown\nAmericans lead busy lives. We work hard, we take less time off than workers in many other countries, and with our high tech devices and the 24-hour news cycle beckoning us to watch and listen, we experience a level of stimulation that previous generations could scarcely have imagined.\nAdd to this particular worries such as a faltering economy, unhealthy influences on our children, an unstable political world, and the care of aging parents, and it is easy to see why we are stressed.\nAnd even if some of us can escape for a week to an isolated Caribbean island, we will likely carry a good deal of that \u201cnoise\u201d along with us in our heads.\nSounds bleak. Fortunately, there is an effective method for quieting a busy brain, creating inner peace, and countering the effects of stress on our bodies and minds that anyone can do. That method is the practice of meditation. And since May is National Meditation Month, this is the perfect time to integrate the practice into your life.\nMeditation has both physical and mental benefits that have been clearly documented by medical research. Lower blood pressure, better sleep, reductions in headache frequency and severity, decreased anxiety, improved digestion and an increase in a sense of general well-being, among other things, are all outcomes of a regular practice of mediation.\nOne of the best features of mediation is its efficiency. You will not need equipment or reading material. You will not be required to take out a monthly or annual membership. You will not have to travel anywhere. In fact, you will not have to leave the house. What else can promise such excellent benefits at no cost to you at all?\nMeditation is essentially a process of being quiet and still. A common approach to it involves paying relaxed attention to something that you are doing every second of every day anyway - breathing. Here\u2019s how to start:\nSit on a comfortable cushion or chair in a favored place in your home. Place your hands on your abdomen just below your rib cage. When you inhale, make sure that your abdomen expands against your hands. Do this again and again, and each time you exhale, let your whole body go limp like a rag doll. Over time, begin to slow the process down.\nAbdominal breathing changes the balance of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the brain, which has everything to do with how relaxed you feel. Stress-related breathing fuels a condition of heightened brain and central nervous system readiness known as \u201cfight or flight\u201d that evolved as a defensive system for coping with danger by preparing the body to either do battle or beat a hasty retreat. Because the brain does not differentiate between real and imagined threat, it is as likely to respond with a call to action from a news report about something on the other side of the world as it is to a threat right outside the door. Meditation lowers brain reactivity.\nSome advanced meditators are able to achieve what is referred to as an empty mind. Although that would be wonderful to experience, it really is not necessary for the new practitioner in order to reap the other benefits. In fact, many seasoned \u201csitters\u201d frequently have unwanted thoughts coming to mind. These are best dealt with by gently returning attention to each breath as soon as you notice them.\nMeditation is best learned by taking time each day to be quiet and still so that the breathing technique can be practiced in a deliberate way. Easy music can be part of the mix. And you do not have to invest a lot of time to benefit significantly. Ten or fifteen minutes is all you need to begin. No need for any other major changes at all.\nMeditation is also a relative act, meaning that you can be \u201cquieter and stiller\u201d if being truly settled does not come easily. The main idea is just to slow things down. So, while some might sit in a comfortable chair in a favored room, others may do better strolling around the neighborhood or the park.\nWith practice, the quieter mental states set the tone for the rest of the day, promoting beneficial effects without our even being aware of it.\nThat is all there is to it. Can you think of an easier way to improve your life?\nTagged as: Live ilke a window, Mark C. Brown, meditation, meditation and health, work like a mirror\nNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: b504082c099ccaddd99e3d7cfe697ee6", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 9158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-bonus-tracks-1416/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:24Z", "digest": "sha1:YF5ERZX4WIG4AN3FBTGESCL3Y25TE7MJ", "length": 1071, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.rightwingwatch.org", "title": "Right Wing Bonus Tracks \u2013 1/4/16 | Right Wing Watch", "raw_content": "Janet Porter brags on her campaign website that she \u201cis the Left-Wing\u2019s second \u2018most-watched\u2019 woman in America, according to Right Wing Watch.\u201d\nAdding insult to injury, Mike Huckabee\u2019s former presidential campaign spokeswoman has now signed on with Ted Cruz.\nPeter LaBarbera says that he \u201capologized on Trinidad & Tobago radio last week on behalf of pro-family Americans for the Obama Administration\u2019s promotion of the \u2018radical homosexual and gender confusion agenda\u2019 in countries all over the world.\u201d\nKen Ham fumes that \u201cAmerica has lost any semblance of biblical thinking, and this is clearly showing up in the laws and regulations that are being established. Sinful behaviors are being applauded and protected in the courts, and those who choose to disagree with sinful lifestyles are being punished for refusing to condone or accommodate these choices.\u201d\nFinally, Gary Cass of the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission has released his annual list of the \u201cTop Ten Anti-Christian Acts\u201d of the previous year.\nTags: Gary Cass Janet Porter Ken Ham Peter LaBarbera Leftovers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rindukubalitours.com/full-day-5-butterfly-park-rice-terrace-tour.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:36Z", "digest": "sha1:TB6SRXK42Q7TMU6Q4W3HODTEX3UUJMIM", "length": 1342, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rindukubalitours.com", "title": "Full Day 5. Butterfly Park & Rice Terrace Tour | Rinduku Bali Tours | Bali Private Driver", "raw_content": "Pick up : 8.30 am\nDeparting from the hotel, we will be directly going to Alas Kedaton or \u201cHoly Forest that is a 12,00ha forest, where you can see hundreds of monkeys in their natural habitat. It is one of the place in Bali where monkeys exist, free and peaceful.There is also a Hindu temple in the middle of forest and rice field are located outside of it. Next trip we will visit Sandan Village where is a Garden of Butterflies in Bali that became one of the popular tourist attraction established since 1996. We will also visit Jatiluwih Village, one of the popular tourist destination in Bali famous with the beautiful rice terrace unfolding from the foot of mountain until the coastal side. Jatiluwih also famous with its organic agriculture system due to the location is located in the in the plateau of Mount Watukaru. Let\u2019s take a break at Luwus \u201cCoffee Plantations\u2019, the village that height around a thousand meters above sea level. This place is very good for coffee plantation, cacao, and tropical fruits. Our last destination is Mengwi Village, a place where is located the most picturesque temple in Bali. There is Taman Ayun Temple which was built by the Royal Empire of Mengwi in 1634. This temple has a wide beautiful landscape garden in front of the courtyard to welcome all visitors who come and visit.\nFlexible stopping time", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ripfleas.co.uk/faqs/baby-young-children-house-safe-r-i-p-fleas-extra/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GKQCH7HTXDB3CE57J6P7WULTZXCO7ICB", "length": 387, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.ripfleas.co.uk", "title": "I have a baby or young children in the house \u2013 is it safe to use R.I.P. Fleas Extra? | RIP Fleas", "raw_content": "Yes, though ensure that babies and young children are excluded from the room during spraying. Immediately after spraying, open windows and ventilate the room for at least 1 hour. Make sure all spray mist has settled and all surfaces are dry before allowing any persons (including babies and young children) to re-enter the room. Read the label before use and adhere to the safety advice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ritaodonovan.ie/the-yin-yang-of-mindfulness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:43Z", "digest": "sha1:NP4ZUP5ZWHTEMU3N2KCMQVNFVM54DOFB", "length": 196, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ritaodonovan.ie", "title": "Creative Self Care with Mindfulness | Rita O'Donovan", "raw_content": "\u00ab The Adventure of Living- A Mindful Life\nPeace of Mind \u2013 Monthly Workshops \u00bb\nOn your daily commute, whether in a vehicle or on foot, take time to really notice the surroundings you see every day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roadarch.com/eateries/inic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QIXXCZPRBQTYSYWXNR23TTSVT2PQCUGM", "length": 1643, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.roadarch.com", "title": "Indiana Ice Cream Stands | RoadsideArchitecture.com", "raw_content": "Chocolate Moose [gone]\nBloomington, IN Polly's Freeze\nThe Chocolate Moose opened in 1933 as May's Cafe. In 1949, it became the Penguin. The A-frame building is from 1957. The name was changed to the Chocolate Moose in 1983. In 2016, the A-frame building was demolished. The business moved to the building next door. For more, see this website.\nPolly's Freeze opened in 1952. This sign was built at that time. The owners, Elmer and Pauline Gleitz, chose the image of a parrot since the wife went by the nickname of \"Polly.\" The parrot is similar to the one that appears on Poll-Parrot Shoe signs. The sign has always been maintained. The parrot is outlined with green and orange neon. \"Polly's\" is lit with yellow neon and \"Freeze\" is lit with pink. The parrot is about ten feet tall. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, and 3. [map]\nThis Frosty Boy location is probably from the late 1970s. The chain originated in Australia and has other locations in Michigan. [map]\nZaharako's Confectionery\nZaharako's Confectionery opened in 1900 as an ice cream parlor and candy store. It closed in 2006 and there was little hope of it reopening. The incredible 1908 pipe organ was sold off while the original fixtures gathered dust. Miraculously, the place was restored and reopened in 2009. The pristine and original interior features stools, onyx and marble counters, stained glass, display cases, and tin ceilings. The organ was repurchased and restored. For more, see these websites: 1, 2, 3, and 4. [map]\nMore Indiana Ice Cream Stands:\nMrs Curl Ice Cream Shop (Greenwood)\nFrosty Boy Drive-in (New Palestine)\nZip & Sip (Oakland City)\nDrive-ins Indiana", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 240.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rocketfarmstudios.com/resources/no-turn-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:04Z", "digest": "sha1:QOPW25HK7XGNQYG52HEPDNR5O5DJ77JA", "length": 16, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rocketfarmstudios.com", "title": "No, it's my turn - Rocket Farm Studios", "raw_content": "No, it's my turn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1245, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 86.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.romanklinger.de/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:29Z", "digest": "sha1:CNDGT6HOYGAWYM3VFVYJCAGBDHYAPK73", "length": 2316, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.romanklinger.de", "title": "About me and my research \u2013 Roman Klinger's Homepage", "raw_content": "About me and my research\nI am a senior lecturer (\"Akademischer Oberrat\") at the Institute for Natural Language Processing (IMS) at the University of Stuttgart. Before, I have been a lecturer (Akademischer Rat) and visiting professor at IMS (substituting Sebastian Pad\u00f3) and a research associate in the semantic computing group headed by Philipp Cimiano at the University of Bielefeld, being affiliated with the Research Institute for Cognition and Robotic (CoR-Lab) and the Center of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology. I am a co-founder of the Semalytix GmbH.\nThe research goal of my group at IMS is mainly to use text mining and natural language technology to extract structured information from unstructured text. Tasks include fine-grained sentiment analysis, emotion analysis, biomedical natural language processing, or web mining.\nMy former affiliation was the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, which became well known in the 1980s as the GMD institute at which the SUPRENUM project was developed and Carl Adam Petri worked on his Petri-Nets. I contributed to the bio-medical and chemical information extraction projects in the Bioinformatics department, headed by Martin Hofmann-Apitius. We developed named entity recognition and relation extraction systems for chemical and bio-medical entity classes, based on machine learning approaches.\nDuring this time, I also lead the task of data analysis in the e-participation project +Spaces, where we developed methods based on sentiment analysis and topic modelling to support policy makers in accessing the content of political debates in social spaces like Facebook, Twitter, Blogger and others.\nI did my PhD in the context of conditional random fields for text mining, especially for named entity recognition with a focus on optimization and representation aspects. My supervisors were Prof. Dr. G\u00fcnter Rudolph at the University of Technology Dortmund and Prof. Dr. Martin Hofmann-Apitius at the University of Bonn. In 2010 and in 2013, I visited the information extraction and synthesis laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, headed by Prof. Andrew McCallum.\nMy Erd\u00f6s number is 3, due to a publication with W. John Wilbur (on which I am one of 34 authors ;-)). My Bacon number is infinity, as far as I now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rossendalenews.org.uk/freedom-parade-comes-to-haslingden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PF6COFT2VUFREHEOLZVN7FGUYPDNDQSV", "length": 1897, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.rossendalenews.org.uk", "title": "Freedom Parade Comes to Haslingden - Rossendale Council News", "raw_content": "The Freedom Parade will be taking place in Haslingden on Thursday, July 21st, 2016 to mark the Duke of Lancaster\u2019s Regiment Freedom of the Borough of Rossendale. The regiment was first granted the Freedom of Haslingden in 1964, this was then extended to Rossendale when we last had a parade in the Borough, in June 2002, in Rawtenstall.\nThe Mayor of Rossendale and other civic dignitaries will be in attendance for this special event.\nWe are inviting the public to turn up in support of the event and join in the celebrations for what promises to be a really special occasion for the town.\nThe parade will start at 12noon from Regent Street, moving down Bury Road to the Junction with Manchester Road, it will then move up Manchester Road, halting momentarily at the war memorial where the Vice Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire, the Honorary Colonel of the Regiment and the Mayor of Rossendale will inspect the parade and take the salute. The parade will then continue up Manchester Road, turning left down Warner Street, then left onto Helmshore Road and left into St Peter\u2019s Avenue.\nIt\u2019s a huge honour for a Freedom Parade to be taking place in the Borough and we hope that everyone will participate in the event: from standing waving flags at the parade, to dressing up shop fronts. Share your photos of how you\u2019re getting involved, and on the day, with us on Facebook or on Twitter using the hashtag #HasParade\nIn order to facilitate this wonderful even there has to be some rolling road blocks and some road use and parking restrictions put in place. We have planning this event to cause as minimal disruption as possible. Details of road closures and road restrictions can be found in the download at the bottom of the page. Your patience is very much appreciated.\nFiled under : borough | duke | freedom | lancaster's | of | parade | the\nRoad Restrictions for Haslingden Freedom Parade (227 KB)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rossendalenews.org.uk/ski-rossendale-unveils-exciting-new-redevelopment-plans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:53Z", "digest": "sha1:EF6GM6K7JSLVPQBPMLDCTY6ALROO4HO5", "length": 1937, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.rossendalenews.org.uk", "title": "Ski Rossendale unveils exciting new redevelopment plans - Rossendale Council News", "raw_content": "Ski Rossendale unveils exciting new redevelopment plans\n(L-R) Sue Foulkes, Managing Director at Ski Rossendale; Councillor Andy MacNae, Executive Member for Regeneration and Dave Fuller, Director of Ski Rossendale on site\nSki Rossendale has begun more exciting redevelopment plans at its Haslingden Old Road site.\nWorking with Rossendale Council, The Ski Rossendale Board has created a proposal to build a new reception, changing area, caf\u00e9 and outside dining area at the Rawtenstall-based dry ski slope.\nThe new plans are part of an overall 630K project, funded by Sport England and supported by Rossendale Council, which includes enhanced skiing facilities along with the new ski centre building.\nThe development began last August with the installation of purpose build beginner, improver and family slopes. This first phase was completed in November 2016.\nThe second phase of the development, due to begin in September 2017, will see the construction of the purpose built ski centre building which will provide an improved caf\u00e9 and catering offer for the public.\nThe centre will remain open as usual during the redevelopment.\nDave Fuller, Director of Ski Rossendale, said:\nThe centre now attracts over 30,000 visitors every year who come here to get lessons and practice their skiing techniques. We also host corporate adventure and team building days and so it\u2019s vital we have high quality facilities to give the public the best possible experience.\nCouncillor Andy MacNae, Executive Member for Regeneration, said:\nSki Rossendale plays a vital part in attracting visitors from outside the borough into Rossendale bringing with them revenue and helping to create jobs. The facility also further enhances Rossendale\u2019s reputation as \u2018Adrenaline Valley\u2019, where families, groups and thrill seekers can come to try something new, learn new skills or just have fun.\nWe are supportive of the continued development of the Ski Rossendale site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rowingnews.com/more-misery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:06Z", "digest": "sha1:LD5XTH2BOUJM7KIO56RSNZXTCBHANCEP", "length": 850, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.rowingnews.com", "title": "More Misery \u2013 Rowing News", "raw_content": "HomeNewsMore Misery\nPhoto provided by Eddie Frateschi.\nFor those who just can\u2019t wait until head season, there\u2019s the third-annual Misery Challenge, an out-and-back affair around Misery Island on Massachusetts\u2019 North Shore. Springing from the endorphin-filled imagination of former U.S. national team rower and fitness presenter Josh Crosby, the endurance race starts and finishes at Manchester-by-the-Sea\u2019s Tuck Point Park and is open to rowers, kayakers, swimmers, and stand-up-paddleboard types. Five percent of all entry and sponsorship fees from the July 15 event will go to the nonprofit Humans for Oceans.\nT. Gary Rogers, 1942-2017\nThe University of California rowing community is mourning the loss of T. Gary Rogers, a successful business leader and philanthropist who died May 2 while playing tennis at his Oakland home. The former Cal oarsman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rowingnews.com/new-to-rowing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:20Z", "digest": "sha1:WQ5VF7OU64S4X7EG7TYBJFRYLIR6NUT6", "length": 153, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.rowingnews.com", "title": "New to Rowing? \u2013 Rowing News", "raw_content": "HomeNew to Rowing?\nWe\u2019re glad you\u2019re here. Whether you\u2019re looking for a club or looking for advice on how to handle the erg, Rowing News is here to help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 179.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sanfordnc.net/188/Finance-Department", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:07Z", "digest": "sha1:NAW5QYSKVO5PGKEJKIOSULLE7B3NWTP6", "length": 687, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sanfordnc.net", "title": "Finance Department | City of Sanford, NC", "raw_content": "The Finance Department is responsible for ensuring the accountability of public funds and for managing all financial operations of the City which include:\nAnnual audit process\nMonitoring capital project accounting\nCapital asset reporting\nEach year the department publishes a Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) which reflects the financial position of the City at fiscal year end.\nSince 2015 the department publishes a Popular Annual Financial Report (PAFR) which is a summary of the financial activities of the city\u2019s funds as reported in the CAFR.\nThe Department also publishes the City's Annual Operating Budget which serves as a financial guide for the upcoming fiscal year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 216.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sarahludford.co.uk/connect-with-compassion-blog/stepping-into-mattering", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:50Z", "digest": "sha1:F2GEHOG4WNNTOCEUU2ACUIWZI54NVQGW", "length": 1896, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sarahludford.co.uk", "title": "Stepping into Mattering: How to Matter (to yourself) - Connect with Compassion", "raw_content": "Stepping into Mattering: How to Matter (to yourself)\nFor years I did not think I mattered. I desperately wanted to matter, though I may not have called it that.\nI might have called it being loved, or wanted, or included. But what I really wanted, was to matter, to know I was important to someone. And I wanted that someone, to be someone else. I wanted other people to show me I mattered, because I didn't matter to myself.\nSo I walked around as if I wasn't quite here, the weight of me not quite landing on the ground, like I had less substance than other people, like I didn't really belong.\nRecently I attended a week long course with around 60 participants. I can easily get lost in a group that size, but early on in the course the facilitator talked about mattering \u2013 acknowledging how tricky it can be to know you matter in a group of that size. It echoed my experience and supported me to do the work I wanted to do; mattering enough to myself that I would step up and ask for what I needed in order to thrive.\nSo I continued the work I had begun, the practice of noticing the moment I felt uneasy and acting immediately to take care of myself.\nWhen I risked my significance and stepped into mattering, I reached out to people and asked for the things that would support me to thrive. Often this was as simple as asking someone to hear how I was feeling in that moment \u2013 because I trusted it mattered how I was feeling and whether my needs were met.\nStepping into knowing I matter, I walk on the earth a bit differently. I take up space. I give my full weight to the earth. I let myself be seen. I notice when my needs are not met and rather than taking this as evidence that I don't matter, I make requests to get my needs met, and step into my power.\nSarah Ludford is an NVC trainer who works with individuals, groups and organisations. For information about Sarah's course click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 326.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.saveourfl.com/news.html?id=632", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:42Z", "digest": "sha1:OF3GDPM4BPUFXJOMGU5NSSAPXGPTKUBD", "length": 903, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.saveourfl.com", "title": "Could minor change in track route delay Brightline to Orlando? | Citizens Against Rail Expansion (C.A.R.E.) in Florida", "raw_content": "Could minor change in track route delay Brightline to Orlando?\nBy: Jennifer Sorentrue, Palm Beach Post\nIt may just be a mile or so, but it could be a pivotal mile for the state\u2019s long-desired high-speed train link to Central Florida.\nA slight shift in the way All Aboard Florida\u2019s Brightline trains will maneuver through a single interchange along its 235-mile route could slow the company\u2019s plan to extend its passenger service north to Orlando, potentially requiring a more extensive federal review before construction can begin on the much anticipated leg.\nBrightline initially planned to run on a new section of track along east-west State Road 528, or Beachline Expressway, crossing over Interstate 95 in Brevard County. The design, which was included in a 2015 federal environmental study of the project, required a series of costly bridges to carry trains over the interchange\u2019s on and off ramps\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/File:Fig_6_GSM.jpg", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:39Z", "digest": "sha1:ZS3N5A367M4INMJUA252ABBRSZV6AZQL", "length": 268, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.scholarpedia.org", "title": "File:Fig 6 GSM.jpg - Scholarpedia", "raw_content": "File:Fig 6 GSM.jpg\nFig_6_GSM.jpg\u200e (493 \u00d7 350 pixels, file size: 27 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)\ncurrent 16:17, 13 February 2008 493 \u00d7 350 (27 KB) Lajos Hanzo (Talk | contribs)\nRetrieved from \"http://www.scholarpedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Fig_6_GSM.jpg&oldid=119221\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.schoolsintheusa.com/careerprofiles_details.cfm?carid=1301", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYXU4KS7HCIOGEJ5XWGVEHNOWLQWEA2O", "length": 5839, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.schoolsintheusa.com", "title": "Heating and Cooling Mechanic", "raw_content": "Heating and Cooling Mechanic\nWe have grown accustomed to having heat in the winter to stay cozy and warm in our homes, and air conditioning in the summer to cool us down. When either appliance breaks, especially during the peak of the winter or summer, we depend on a heating and cooling mechanic to come to the rescue in a quick hurry.\nHeating and cooling mechanics install, maintain, repair and overhaul residential, commercial and industrial central air conditioning systems and heating products. They measure and cut piping and connect piping using welding and brazing equipment and also recharge systems with refrigerant gases. Heating and cooling systems consist of many intricate and complex mechanical, electrical, and electronic components such as motors, compressors, pumps, fans, ducts, pipes, thermostats, and switches. For example, in central heating systems, a furnace heats air that is distributed throughout the building via a system of metal or fiberglass ducts.\nHeating and cooling mechanics must be able to find their way around a construction site or read a set of blueprints. Besides installation, they may also connect electrical wiring and controls. Before they finish a complete installation, they must test the heater or cooler to make sure it is working properly. Also, they must be able to use and adjust computerized controls and use computer software to calculate loads.\nWhen mechanics get called in for an emergency repair, they need to identify, diagnose, and correct problems throughout the entire system, in a short period of time. To do this kind of high-pressure troubleshooting, they adjust system controls to recommended settings and test the performance of the entire system using special tools and test equipment. Imagine the stress involved when someone's air conditioner breaks down in the middle of the summer and they are counting on the heating and cooling mechanics to cool them off.\nAfter a heating or cooling system has been installed, mechanics often perform routine maintenance and repair work to keep the system operating efficiently. The volume of work depends on the season. During the fall and winter, for example, when the heating system is used most, mechanics service and adjust burners and blowers. If the heating system is not operating properly, they check the thermostat, burner nozzles, controls, or other parts to diagnose and then correct the problem. Over the summer months, air conditioners are the prime systems they work on. In off season for both systems, mechanics will go around and service the heaters and air conditioners by replacing filters and cleaning ducts.\nCable-Television Technician\nSuccessful heating and cooling mechanics need good manual dexterity, and steady hands. Good vision and hand-eye coordination are essential along with having the ability to concentrate on detailed work with a great deal of patience. They must be good troubleshooters and be able to work under stressful conditions. They also enjoy working with people, as they are dealing with clients each and every day.\nRead and interpret drawings or specifications to determine work to be performed\nLay out oil burner heating system components or air conditioning parts and assemble components using hand and power tools\nPosition, install and connect heat and air conditioning components such as control devices and thermostats to motors and electric power outlets\nTest installed unit and adjust controls for proper functioning\nTroubleshoot and repair malfunctioning heating and cooling systems\nInstall, maintain and repair coal and wood heating systems and air conditioners\nPerform scheduled maintenance service on heating and cooling systems\nHeating and cooling mechanics generally work standard 40-hour weeks, however during the winter months or peak season, they could work up to 12 hours per day. They may be required to work early mornings, evenings and weekends to accommodate client's schedules. Heating and cooling mechanics say their biggest challenge is dealing with the weather as they may be required to work outside in the cold, during the winter to repair heating systems or in the severe heat of the summer time to fix air conditioners.\nHeating and cooling mechanics work in heating and cooling systems installation and service companies, appliance service companies, electrical and other repair shops, electrical equipment manufacturers' service shops, maintenance and repair departments of retail, wholesale and manufacturing companies and independent service organizations. Others work for the government, in schools or repair shops.\nExperienced heating and cooling mechanics could move into design and layout work or in estimating the cost of installations. They may advance to supervisory positions, or go into business for themselves. With additional training, they can transfer their skills to related occupations such as refrigeration and air conditioning mechanic, machinist, plumber, gas fitter, roofer and insulator.\nHeating and cooling mechanics receive their training either through informal, on-the-job training or through an apprenticeship program. Trade certification can be obtained either through an apprenticeship program or after several years of work experience. While trade certification is not mandatory in all regions to become a heating and cooling mechanic, it can be a requirement for many employers and can also help secure employment.\nApprenticeships can vary, however a typical apprenticeship lasts four to five years. The apprenticeship is a paid position however wages are about 50 percent of what an employer pays the journeyperson, with yearly increases. After successfully completing the apprenticeship requirements, their industry training and apprenticeship office awards the heating and cooling mechanic with a certificate of completion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 11048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.schwarzgallery.com/painting/id335", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:29Z", "digest": "sha1:SY4B2XWFRB7WJMMHGROFF5QZKQE2YAXK", "length": 1523, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.schwarzgallery.com", "title": "Schwarz Gallery - Rubens Peale - Still Life with Apples, Grapes, and Pears", "raw_content": "Rubens Peale : Still Life with Apples, Grapes, and Pears\nArtist: Rubens Peale\nTitle: Still Life with Apples, Grapes, and Pears\nDescription: Rediscovered after nearly 100 years, this picture, executed when Rubens Peale was seventy-two, is in excellent condition and is accompanied by a beautiful period frame.\nRubens Peale had constant exposure to the arts through his family and its museums, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he made a sincere commitment to painting. While more than half of his works were original compositions, Rubens frequently copied the works of family and friends. This work\u2014a copy of a picture by his uncle, James Peale, Sr. (1749\u20131831)\u2014is inscribed on the back of the canvas: \u201c1857/Copied by Rubens Peale/aged 72/by from [sic] the original by/James Peale\u201d\nThis still life was executed during Rubens\u2019 retirement at Woodland Farm, in Schuylkill River County, PA. At the farm, he kept a diary in which he recorded a comprehensive list of his paintings with dates of commencement and completion. For the year 1857, the diary describes in detail several similarly titled still lifes copied from works by James Peale, Sr.\nThis picture typifies Rubens\u2019 ability to carefully render difficult compositions, delicate textures and intricate lighting arrangements, all of which were hallmarks of the Peale Family\u2019s most accomplished painters. It is a wonderful example of his facility as a painter.\nCategory: \u2022nineteenth century\u2022Pennsylvania\u2022stilllife\u2022fruit\u2022a:Philadelphia\u2022a:American\u2022a:Pennsylvania\u2022", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2039, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.secondsout.com/columns/thomas-hauser/seanie-monaghan-loves-to-fightww", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JX2TQLSEJIOM7XYZ7Q27PBSGN3VC36NM", "length": 19811, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "www.secondsout.com", "title": "SecondsOut Boxing News - Thomas Hauser - Seanie Monaghan Loves To Fight", "raw_content": "Seanie Monaghan is a \u201cthrowback fighter.\u201d In the 1940s, he would have been a neighborhood fight club headliner and local hero.\nSeanie is the oldest of four children. His parents immigrated to the United States from Ireland and settled in Long Beach, a town of 33,000 located on a barrier island east of New York City. Long Beach faces the Atlantic Ocean. There was a time when it styled itself as \u201cthe Riviera of the East\u201d and vied with Atlantic City as a tourist destination for New Yorkers during the hot summer months. That time is long gone. In recent decades, the town has gone through cycles of urban decay and renewal. Last October, it felt the full force of Hurricane Sandy.\nSeanie grew up in Long Beach and still lives there. His father runs an upholstering business. His mother is a physical therapist. His paternal grandmother was one of 17 children so he has a large family, many of whom still live in Ireland. His wife, Beverly, earned a masters degree in special education from Hofstra University. Together, they have a 22-month-old son, Sammy.\nBut there\u2019s a painful backstory.\n\u201cI was a lost teenager,\u201d Seanie acknowledges. \u201cI had no ambition or direction. Everything was short-term. I didn\u2019t care where I was going. I smoked weed every day. I wrestled a bit in high school and played some sports like football and lacrosse but the other guys were better than me. And if I wasn\u2019t good at something right away, instead of working to get better, I gave up on it.\u201d\nSeanie graduated from Long Beach High School in 1999. \u201cBarely,\u201d he says. But trouble was brewing.\n\u201cThere was an unhealthy culture in Long Beach and I got caught up in it,\u201d Seanie recalls. \u201cI wasn\u2019t a bad kid. My mother and father are good, hard-working people. I came from a decent home. I wasn\u2019t a street guy. I never stole anything or sold drugs but a lot of people in my family have had drinking problems. I was drunk a lot and I tried just about every drug there was except heroin.\n\u201cAround the time I was 15,\u201d Seanie continues, \u201cI started getting into bar fights. I was working as a barback [a bartender\u2019s assistant] and was surrounded by grown men who were drinking and I\u2019d try to keep up with them. A fight would start, sometimes with me, or if it started with someone else, I\u2019d jump in. People would crowd around and cheer. I\u2019d always wanted to be really, really good at something. And there it was, knocking guys out. It felt so good. There were a lot of fights, 50 or 60 over the years. My nose got broken. I was constantly hurting my hands. I\u2019d come home with a black eye or cuts and try to hide it from my mother. I look back on it all now and say, \u2018Forget about everything else. Look at the stress I put my mother through.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t a bad kid. I got along with people, all kinds of people, when I wasn\u2019t fighting. But it was like, if there was a problem, I was the Long Beach representative. One time in a bar fight, I got stabbed in the throat and needed 30 or 40 stitches. I was arrested a few times. The last time was for assaulting a police officer who was trying to break up one of the fights. I didn\u2019t know he was a police officer. He grabbed me from behind and I threw him off. The judge gave me a break. He put me on probation and told me, \u2018If I see you in my courtroom again, you\u2019re doing five years hard time.\u2019 That straightened me out. I stopped drinking and doing drugs. I don\u2019t drink or smoke at all now. I haven\u2019t had a drink in more than 10 years. Casual drinking is okay if you can do it, but I couldn\u2019t.\u201d\nAs part of Seanie\u2019s probation, he was required to attend meetings at Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous and also attend an anger management course.\n\u201cThe anger management course really pissed me off,\u201d Seanie says. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I needed to be there. But over time, I realized that little things were making me furious and I was getting mad for no reason. Even though I might not have been starting the fights, I was looking for them. It took me a while, but finally, I understood that I had to change. I learned to take a step back when there was a problem and how to control my emotions. I had relatives in Ireland who were telling me, \u2018You\u2019re on probation. Come back here before they throw you in jail.\u2019 But the problem wasn\u2019t that I was in Long Beach. The problem was me.\n\u201cThen I looked at my life as a whole. I hadn\u2019t built anything. All I was doing was drifting from day to day. I was in danger of losing any chance I had for a good future. My whole personality is different now. I\u2019ve learned discipline and how to dedicate myself to things that are important to me. I\u2019m a much better husband and father than I could possibly have been back then. I\u2019m much happier than I used to be. I\u2019m not an aggressive person anymore except when I\u2019m in the ring.\u201d\nAfter Seanie stopped drinking, a friend named Bobby Calabrese suggested he try his hand at boxing. That sounded like a good idea, so he went to the PAL gym in Freeport, which had a boxing club run by a now-retired firefighter named Joe Higgins.\n\u201cTwo guys were in the ring, sparring,\u201d Seanie remembers. \u201cI liked what I saw. There was a trainer there. I told him, \u2018I\u2019m Seanie Monaghan from Long Beach. I want to be a boxer.\u2019\u201d\n\u201cHe was a real character,\u201d Higgins recalls, \u201ca kid off the street with a chip on his shoulder. He told me he wanted to spar that day and I started laughing. He said, \u2018I knock guys out on the street.\u2019 And I said, \u2018Yeah, but this ain\u2019t the street.\u2019\u201d\nThe next six weeks were about footwork, balance, head movement, and how to throw a jab.\n\u201cFinally, Joe said I could spar,\u201d Seanie says with a smile, \u201cand the first punch I got hit with, I went down on my butt.\u201d\nSeanie had 15 amateur fights starting at age 26 and turned pro on May 21, 2010. He\u2019s now 31 years old and has had 18 pro fights in less than three years. His trainer is still Joe Higgins (who also trains junior middleweight prospect Patrick Day). His manager is P.J. Kavanagh.\n\u201cI\u2019m usually the aggressor,\u201d Seanie says of his fighting style. \u201cI come at you, go to the body a lot, and don\u2019t stop coming. Getting hit doesn\u2019t bother me that much. I kind of zone out when I\u2019m in a fight. The biggest problem I have is that I cut too easily. My biggest fear is that I\u2019ll be in a fight I know I can win and it\u2019s stopped on cuts. And I have to get past my natural instinct to try to just smash everybody.\u201d\n\u201cSeanie works so freakin\u2019 hard,\u201d Higgins says. \u201cHe takes a week or two off from the gym after a fight, but even then, he runs. And outside of those breaks, he hasn\u2019t missed a day in the gym since I started with him. He does everything I ask him to do. He\u2019s in monster shape every time he fights. He makes my job easy. I tell the other guys in the gym, \u2018Study this guy. Be like him.\u2019\u201d\nThe downside to it all is that Seanie started boxing late in life, has limited ring experience, and is relatively slow in a sport where speed kills.\nTop Rank matchmaker Brad Goodman has taken a special interest in Seanie and notes, \u201cThe first time I saw him, he had no technical skills. But he had some natural ability and I\u2019m impressed with how much he has improved since then. It\u2019s our job as matchmakers to see that he isn\u2019t in with an opponent who\u2019s too advanced for him at this stage of his career because Seanie has a warrior mentality. He\u2019ll fight anyone you put in front of him.\u201d\nIn a similar vein, Steve Farhood (who has watched the evolution of Seanie\u2019s career while behind the microphone for Lou DiBella\u2019s \u201cBroadway Boxing\u201d series) observes, \u201cSeanie is a good example of a fighter who started out with limited skills and has made something of himself through determination and hard work. He\u2019s always in better shape than his opponent. There was, and still is, a lot of room for improvement. But Seanie has improved a lot. He\u2019s now a competent fighter. He\u2019s also one of those guys who\u2019s easy to root for. He\u2019s very likeable and unpretentious. You hope he succeeds.\u201d\n\u201cSeanie will never be on a pound-for-pound list,\u201d opines Lou DiBella. \u201cHe\u2019ll probably never be a world champion. But he\u2019s a guy who deserves to be seen. He\u2019s a blood-and-guts warrior. His arsenal consists of heart and balls. And he\u2019s also a good guy. If I\u2019m going to war, he\u2019s one of the guys I\u2019d want in a foxhole with me. And I\u2019d sure as hell rather watch Seanie in a good club fight than a lot of so-called world-class fighters.\u201d\n\u201cSeanie is the quintessential club fighter,\u201d adds Top Rank matchmaker Bruce Trampler. \u201cHe\u2019s the kind of guy you want to put on your show if you\u2019re a promoter. He maximizes his talents. He gives you his best effort every time out. He energizes the crowd. And there aren\u2019t many fighters who sell tickets like he does.\u201d\nThere\u2019s a buzz in the room when Seanie fights. And more important, there are asses in seats.\nSeanie started out as a Long Beach attraction. His fights were like a high school reunion for a dozen classes at the same time. And his fan base has grown since then. That appeal has enabled him to remain a promotional free agent. Because he\u2019s a ticket-seller, promoters like Top Rank, DiBella Entertainment, and Star Boxing are willing to use him on a fight-by-fight basis.\nSeanie generally receives a fixed purse for each fight plus a percentage of the proceeds from each ticket Team Monaghan sells.\n\u201cWhen there are 400 people from your hometown watching you fight,\u201d Seanie says, \u201cyou have to look good.\u201d\nIndeed, there\u2019s a school of thought that Seanie would be more disappointed if he let his fans down than if he didn\u2019t get paid.\nIf that sounds farfetched, consider the events of January 19, 2013. Seanie had signed to fight Roger Cantrell at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of Mikey Garcia vs. Orlando Salido. Cantrell had been out of action for almost three years but sported a 15-and-2 record. One day before the bout, he weighed in at 184\u00bd pounds, well over the 178-pound contract weight.\nBrad Goodman takes up the narrative from there.\n\u201cWe told Seanie, \u2018You don\u2019t have to fight,\u2019\u201d Goodman recounts. \u201c\u2019We\u2019ll pay you your purse anyway.\u2019 And Seanie said, \u2018No, I\u2019ll fight him.\u2019\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019d sold a thousand tickets,\u201d Seanie said afterward. \u201cIt was too late not to take the fight. It would have hurt my ticket sales for the next one. And I had family and friends who\u2019d come over from Ireland. I couldn\u2019t send them home without seeing me fight.\u201d\nIt helped that Cantrell was required to forfeit half of his purse to Seanie. Be that as it may, the fight was a war. Seanie won a hard-fought eight-round decision but came out of the bout with an ugly cut above his left eye and a large welt beneath his right.\nBeating Cantrell brought Seanie\u2019s record to 17-and-0 with 10 knockouts. \u201cWe figured we owed him a soft opponent for his next fight,\u201d Goodman says. That led to Seanie vs. Rex Stanley on the undercard of the April 13thtitle bout between Nonito Donaire and Guillermo Rigondeaux at Radio City Music Hall.\nStanley is 36 years old. Prior to the fight, his record stood at 11-and-4 with 7 knockouts. But he\u2019d won only once in the previous 35 months (a four-round decision over Andrew Keehn, whose record was 0-and-1 at the time). That was in May 2011, and Stanley hadn\u2019t fought since then.\nRadio City Music Hall bills itself as \u201cthe biggest stage in New York.\u201d It\u2019s a long way from fighting on the street outside a bar in Long Beach.\nSeanie had spent the day at a hotel in Manhattan and arrived at his dressing room in Radio City Music Hall at 8:00 p.m. Higgins and cutman George Mitchell were already there. Joe had put in a full day at the gym in Freeport before driving to Manhattan for the fight.\nTeam Monaghan was sharing the dressing room with seven other undercard fighters. This was the \u201cred corner\u201d dressing room. All eight of the fighters were expected to win. The \u201cblue corner\u201d dressing room was within shouting distance down the corridor.\nDonaire and Rigondeaux each had his own dressing room where they could dictate the mood, whether or not there was music, who said what. Undercard fighters can\u2019t control their surroundings. They co-exist with other fighters and their teams.\nSome of the fighters near Seanie were sitting quietly. Others were laughing and talking loudly.\nThe room was hot and stuffy with a claustrophobic feel, long and narrow with a low ceiling and 13 vanity mirrors. Fifty people, many of them physically active men, were crammed into a space designed for 13 chorus girls.\nSeanie was wearing faded blue jeans, a black T-shirt, and blue sweatshirt. His fight was scheduled for ten o\u2019clock. For a while, he talked quietly with Higgins, sipping occasionally from a bottle of water.\nAt 8:20, Juan Perez of Top Rank came into the room and told Seanie, \u201cYour opponent\u2019s not here yet. I hope he comes.\u201d\n\u201cMe too,\u201d Seanie said.\nThe undercard bouts were visible on a television monitor at the far end of the room. In the third fight of the evening, Tyler Canning (who\u2019d been flown in from Wyoming on the assumption that he\u2019d lose to prospect Dario Soccia) scored an upset split decision triumph. Cheers erupted in the \u201cblue\u201d dressing room down the corridor.\nSeanie lay down on the carpet in a corner of the room and closed his eyes.\nSoccia returned, angry. \u201cUn-f**king-believable,\u201d he said to no one in particular. \u201cWhat the f**k were the judges looking at?\u201d Then he picked up his cellphone and started texting.\nOther fighters fought and returned, some with their faces bruised and swollen. In boxing, even winning takes a toll.\nAt nine o\u2019clock, Seanie got up from the floor and sat on a chair. Higgins began taping his hands. P.J. Kavanagh came in to wish his fighter well. When the taping was done, Seanie put on his shoes and trunks. At 9:45, trainer and fighter went into the corridor and began working the pads.\n\u201cStart with the jab,\u201d Higgins instructed. \u201cThat\u2019s it\u2026Work with the jab from the opening bell. Then go after his body\u2026Turn the hook over\u2026Good. That\u2019s what I\u2019m looking for. Show me that again\u2026\u201d\nDown the corridor in full view, Rex Stanley and his trainer were engaged in a similar exercise.\n\u201cOne-two,\u201d Higgins continued. \u201cAgain\u2026One more\u2026Jab\u2026Hook\u2026Keep everything nice and short. No gorilla punches\u2026Beautiful\u2026Nice deep breath.\u201d\nWhen they were done, Seanie sat on a stool in the corridor and closed his eyes.\n\u201cI was thinking about my son,\u201d he said later. \u201cSammy is going to see this fight someday, and I wanted it to look good for him. And I was thinking, I can do all the work in the world in the gym, but it doesn\u2019t mean anything if I don\u2019t perform when it counts.\u201d\nMoments before leaving for the ring, Seanie put on his last piece of clothing, a faded kelly green sweatshirt that he\u2019d worn for his first pro fight. There had been a problem on that May night in 2010. Once Seanie had gloved up, the sweatshirt wouldn\u2019t fit over his gloves and Higgins had to cut a slit in each cuff to get it on.\n\u201cPeople tell me all the time that I should get a fancy robe,\u201d Seanie says now. \u201cBut why change what works?\u201d\nThis was the second fight card in the history of Radio City Music Hall. Roy Jones vs. David Telesco on January 15, 2000, had headlined the first. Like its predecessor, this one sold out. Seanie\u2019s purse was $20,000. Team Monaghan would also receive 20 percent of the revenue from the tickets it sold. Seanie had sold 500 tickets and come back for more, but none were available.\nThere were cheers from the crowd as Seanie made his way to the ring.\n\u201cThis place is so big that they were a little far away this time,\u201d he said afterward. \u201cIt means a lot to me that they\u2019re there. But to be honest - and this is no disrespect to my people; I love them - I used to think about my fans during a fight. Then I realized that my mind can\u2019t be in two places, so I kind of block them out once I get to the ring.\u201d\nRadio City Music Hall was built for large stage spectacles, not boxing. The sight lines are good, but most of the seats are far away from the action. For most of the night, the capacity crowd of 6,145 relied on four large video screens to see what the two small figures in the ring were doing.\nSeanie versus Rex Stanley was scheduled for eight rounds but was much shorter than that. Stanley has some skills but he doesn\u2019t have a chin, a prerequisite for a professional fighter. Seanie fought like a professional and did what he had to do, taking his time and moving forward behind a stiff jab. Midway into the first round, he backed his opponent into a corner and landed an overhand right flush. Stanley dropped to the canvas and rose on wobbly legs. He might have twisted an ankle, but the rest of him didn\u2019t look so good either. Referee Harvey Dock appropriately halted the bout before another punch was thrown. The time was 1:51 of round one.\nSeanie Monaghan is now 18-and-0. Where does he go from here?\n\u201cI want to be a world champion,\u201d Seanie says. \u201cThat\u2019s my goal and dream. I get a sense of accomplishment from being a fighter. And boxing is an opportunity for me to do something big with my life, for me and for my family. I was a bricklayer before I turned pro. Believe it or not, I enjoyed laying bricks. I could do it again if I have to. But I feel like I\u2019m getting better every day as a fighter. I take a lot of pride in what I do. If I stop getting better, I\u2019ll call it quits. But so far, that hasn\u2019t happened. I\u2019ve sparred with guys like Tony Bellew and Isaac Chilemba. I get my respect from them.\u201d\n\u201cSeanie keeps getting better,\u201d Joe Higgins posits. \u201cHis boxing skills have improved a lot. He\u2019s sparring with top guys now and holding his own against them. He\u2019s number 15 in the IBF rankings, and there\u2019s some other guys in the top 15 we\u2019d like to fight.\u201d\nThe people in a fighter\u2019s camp want to believe. What do more objective observers think?\n\u201cLet\u2019s be honest,\u201d says Ron Katz (who selected some of Seanie\u2019s early opponents for Star Boxing and is one of the best matchmakers in the business). \u201cThe best light heavyweights - guys like Chad Dawson and Sergey Kovalev - would kill Seanie. But he\u2019s better than a lot of people think he is. He\u2019s a top-50 fighter for sure. And there are ranked fighters - guys like Tony Bellew and Andrzej Fonfara - who I think he\u2019d be competitive against.\u201d\n\u201cSeanie believes in himself, and that\u2019s important for a fighter,\u201d adds Brad Goodman. \u201cHe\u2019s moving up in the rankings now. Maybe a champion will be looking for a soft touch and figure Seanie for an easy mark. It would be a nice payday for Seanie. And let me tell you something; Seanie is not soft.\u201d\n\u201cSeanie would be in shape,\u201d Goodman continues. \u201cHe\u2019d fight his heart out. And this is boxing. On a given night, anything can happen. One thing I know for sure, a lot of people would be rooting for him.\nIn sum, everyone knows that there\u2019s room for improvement. The question is, \u201cGiven the fact that Seanie is 31 years old, how much time is there for improvement?\u201d\nThat, in turn, leads to the big \u201cWhat if?\u201d\nWhat if Seanie had started boxing when he was 16 instead of 26?\u201d\n\u201cI started late,\u201d Seanie acknowledges. \u201cI know that. If I\u2019d started boxing when I was 16 instead of 26, I\u2019d be a lot further along than I am now. But I was so immature and undisciplined when I was young that it probably wouldn\u2019t have worked out. And you can\u2019t change what happened yesterday. So when people tell me I\u2019m old, I say to myself, \u2018Look at what Bernard Hopkins is doing at 48.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to be fighting when I\u2019m 48. But that tells me there\u2019s still time for me to do what I want to do.\u201d\nMeanwhile, regardless of what happens next in his career, Seanie Monaghan is a boxing success story.\n\u201cThere was always a big crowd cheering when I was fighting in the street,\u201d Seanie says. \u201cNow I get paid, and I don\u2019t have to run away from the cops.\u201d\nThomas Hauser can be reached by email at thauser@rcn.com. 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This used to be security and how many people would protect their homes, but nowadays it\u2019s important to have other features to deter criminals from trying to break in. One of the easiest ways to do this is with an outdoor security camera. These cameras allow homeowners to see what\u2019s going on, sometimes even remotely and can assist police in persecuting criminals. Here are a few details on why every home needs an outdoor security camera system\nBreak-Ins Happen to Everyone and Not Having Security Makes Homes a Target\nThe sad truth of the matter is, break-ins happen to everyone. A burglary is committed in less than 30 seconds everywhere in the United States alone. Criminals tend to target homes that they believe have no security system. This makes it easier for them to get with their looking for, escape, and go on their way without being identified. This can be avoided with a wireless security camera. If others can see that a home has a surveillance camera system there are more likely to turn around and leave rather than trying to break into the house. Even if they do break in, there is now footage of the criminals caught in the act. This makes it easier to bring them to justice.\nHaving a Wireless Security Camera Protects More Than a Home\nHaving security cameras protects more than just a house. These are useful in keeping your family safe and finding out if anything has gone wrong. Many criminals enter through the front door of a home. Over 30% of these people choose this method of breaking and entering. For families that have children and teenagers who are home alone, this can be a scary thought. Having a camera makes it easier to protect your family and seek justice if something should happen.\nA Wireless Security Camera Can Make a Big Difference Around the Time of Year Stealing is at Its Highest\nHaving outdoor security cameras can protect say home and the people inside it during the time of year that burglaries are most likely to occur. Christmas is the time of year when there are more thefts and burglaries. Having a security system in place, even if it is just for this time of year, can do a lot to detract burglars from trying to come in. In the event that they do steal from the home, it is easier to get possessions back because they have been identified.\nKeeping a home safe seems like a difficult task to undertake. Thanks to the benefits of having a home security system complete with wireless cameras, families can remain safe and keep criminal at bay from their home. This goes a long way from having repeat break-ins and problems associated with theft.\nThis entry was posted on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018 at 9:19 pm\tand is filed under Best wired security camera system, Outdoor security camera systems, Wireless digital security camera. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sharechat.co.nz/article/e64eebe7/nz-intelligence-agencies-get-tick-of-approval-in-follow-up-performance-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:25Z", "digest": "sha1:7NWNY3WK5DK53P7ITPWIW77AKX3M4ANO", "length": 4756, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.sharechat.co.nz", "title": "NZ intelligence agencies get tick of approval in follow-up performance review - sharechat.co.nz", "raw_content": "NZ intelligence agencies get tick of approval in follow-up performance review\nFormer public servants Sandi Beatie and Geoff Dangerfield gave an upbeat assessment of the New Zealand Intelligence Community in the follow-up review to the agencies' 2014 performance improvement framework.\nThe earlier report generally found the Government Communications Security Bureau, Security Intelligence Service, and National Assessments Bureau and Intelligence Coordination of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet faced \"severe financial pressures\" as the agencies went through a leadership change while under intense public scrutiny.\nThat led to a significant increase in funding, which Beatie and Dangerfield's report says is \"an instructive example of where adverse PIF findings were taken on board by the senior leadership to drive significant change in performance while at the same time investing in new skills, analytics and tools.\"\nThe report cites shared support services as key to dealing with internal infrastructure that was \"well below accepted standards\" in need of urgent attention. Since then, \"significant progress\" has been made to boost the agencies' capabilities in human resources, finance and information technology, leading to better recruitment practices.\nThe intelligence agencies received $179 million over four years in response to a review seeking to better position them to meet current and future challenges.\nWhile the intelligence community has lifted its game, \"critical challenges remain including recruiting a more diverse workforce particularly in core intelligence collection capability,\" they said. \"As the community grows and potentially becomes more diverse, there will inevitably be quite a significant cultural challenge to ensure the protection of the integrity and social licence to operate while continuing to build and retain ministerial, customer and public trust and confidence.\"\nThe intelligence agencies currently have 14 jobs advertised in a separate website branded as 'Beyond Ordinary' careers.\nManaging that growth is seen as one of the risks to the agencies, with personnel seen growing by 50 percent between 2016 and 2020. As at June 30, 2016, GSCB had 353 full-time equivalents and the SIS had 304, which implies a target of about 1,000. As at June 30, 2017, GCSB employed 392 FTEs, SIS had 290, and the DPMC's Security Intelligence Group employed 66 staff.\nThe PIF reviewers said the SIS and GCSB have made \"tangible progress\" in closer recruitment, but more can be done give the \"competitive market\" to make sure they can secure \"good quality candidates from a diverse range of backgrounds and experience\".\nThe agencies last year launched a diversity and inclusion strategy, and for the past two years, GCSB has offered tertiary scholarships to women studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics.\nThe review's release coincided with a Five Eyes ministers meeting in Australia, where they discussed counter-terrorism, countering violent extremism, cyber-security, countering foreign interference, protecting critical infrastructure, border management and law enforcement.\nLocal industry group Internet NZ today raised concerns about a recommendation at the conference granting law enforcement agencies access to encrypted data and communications.\n\"Encryption provides important protection for all of us. We need encryption for things like online banking and booking travel safely. We need it to keep ourselves safe and secure online. Without it no one will have trust in the internet,\" Internet NZ chief executive Jordan Carter said in a statement. \"It\u2019s vital the government discuss these topics with a wide range of people and organisations - the tech sector, law enforcement, small and medium businesses who depend on safe online services, human rights, privacy advocates and more.\"\nThe PIF review noted work on the development of encryption infrastructure and engagement with telecommunications and other providers were among the NZ intelligence agencies' cyber-security activities.\n\"An independent quality assurance of a major cyber-security investment has shown that the project was well managed and achieved its objectives,\" the reviewers said.\nIn May, the GSCB's minister Andrew Little signalled plans to expand its Malware-Free Networks programme after a successful pilot with Vodafone New Zealand. Some 66 nationally significant public and private sector organisations fall under the Cortex umbrella.\nThe technology lets the GCSB's National Cyber Security Centre analyse, detect and disrupt cyber threats against public and private sector organisations, and from that, the unit draws insights it can provide cyber security advice to hundreds of nationally significant organisations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 6685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sheridanhoops.com/2015/03/24/gonzo-picking-the-ncaa-sweet-sixteen-matchups/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQMORYD4OXJ3J253YD7GASW7C5JIBLNA", "length": 7691, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.sheridanhoops.com", "title": "Bobby Gonzalez predicts the 2015 NCAA Tournament Sweet 16 Matchups", "raw_content": "The NCAA Committee really deserves to take a bow with the matchups, storylines and drama they helped provide in picking the field this year. After a very compelling and topsy-turvy first two rounds, now it\u2019s what I like to call \u201cbig boy time.\u201d\nAfter coaching in a few NCAA tourneys and closely following countless others, one thing I\u2019ve learned through the years is that at this point, it\u2019s usually safe to expect the chalk to advance. We will forever have upsets in the early rounds and great Cinderella stories, as we have certainly had so far this year, and once in a great while a VCU or a George Mason or a Butler will sneak all the way through, even to the final game, but it\u2019s safe to say this year\u2019s national champ will most likely be from one of the blue-blood power-conference programs\nAfter going 8 for 8 on my picks in this Sweet 16 preview column a year ago, here\u2019s my attempt at getting it right again.\nKentucky vs. West Virginia:\nHave to stay with my pick of taking Kentucky over the field. I do think WVU\u2019s Bob Huggins has been a nemesis to Coach Calipari over the years, from their time at Cincinnati and Memphis in the old Conference USA, and Coach Huggy Bear is one of the few coaches around with an overall career winning record vs Coach Cal.\nI like West Virginia\u2019s toughness and athleticism. They will come after Kentucky with a scrambling, trapping pressure defense that will really challenge Kentucky\u2019s backcourt of the Harrison twins and Tyler Ulis, but at the end of the day this game will be won in the trenches, in the paint and up on the backboard, so I believe Kentucky\u2019s size and NBA-caliber front line of seven-footers will help the Wildcats advance.\nNotre Dame vs. Wichita State:\nYou\u2019ve got to love the job Wichita State coach Greg Marshall has done with this Shocker program these last few years, and I love the veteran backcourt of Fred VanVleet and Ron Baker.\nWhile I was the coach of Manhattan, we beat St. John\u2019s, the big program in NYC, for the first time in 27 years, so I\u2019m sure the win over Kansas this past weekend will linger a while for the Shockers\u2019 fans. But I\u2019m going to have to go with my friend Mike Brey, who unfortunately lost his 84-year-old mother to a heart attack the day of the Butler game. This seems to be a special Fighting Irish team, having beat his old boss Coach K at Duke and winning the ACC tourney. They are led by one of the most underrated guards in the nation in Jerian Grant and, in typical Coach Brey fashion, all five guys are skilled, can pass and shoot, and are a tough matchup.\nWisconsin vs. North Carolina\nThis will be an interesting matchup of two very good offensive teams with two different philosophies on how they want to score. UNC will try to run, but also rely on their secondary break and go inside to their bigs, while Wisconsin will try to spread UNC out with their swing offense to open up space to shoot threes.\nI like Wisconsin to get by here because they have the best player on either team with Frank Kaminsky, and I feel are a better defensive team and a little more efficient and disciplined with their shot selection on offense.\nIt\u2019s been old home week for Arizona coach Sean Miller. First, Sean had to coach against his old boss and good friend Thad Matta at Ohio State. Now he has to coach against his old team, Xavier, who he once went to the Elite Eight with. Sean was once my roommate at the five-star camp and also did a great job coaching my old player, C.J. Anderson. C.J. was a kid I recruited out of Cincinnati, and, after I left for the Big East, transferred to play for Sean at Xavier, where he was a starter on that Elite Eight team in 2008.\nXavier is now coached by former Miller assistant Chris Mack, a Xavier alum. The Musketeers have gone to five Sweet Sixteens in the last eight years, and they\u2019ve had great coaches and great tradition. When coaches like myself say administrations win championships, Xavier is what we\u2019re talking about. They are on the same page with Mack.\nUnfortunately, I absolutely love this Arizona team. I think Sean Miller will beat his old team here, and Arizona is actually my second choice to win it all should Kentucky somehow stumble. With a perimeter of heady point guard T.J. McConnell, superstar freshman wing Stanley Johnson, who should be a lottery pick, and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, who is already an NBA-level defender, to go with skilled power forward Brandon Ashley (who missed last year\u2019s tourney with a broken foot) and big man Kaleb Tarczewki, who keeps getting better and better, and then the sixth man, sharpshooter Gabe York, they have all the pieces to win it all.\nN.C. State vs Louisville\nThe East has become the anything-can-happen bracket, with No. 1 and No. 2 seeds Villanova and Virginia getting knocked off in the first weekend. It\u2019s now become wide open for just about anyone left still playing in this bracket to sneak through to the Final Four after all would have been considered unlikely picks initially.\nI like N.C. State to come out on top in this game. Having come back from a sizable deficit to beat LSU on a buzzer-beater in the first round, then knocking out the top seed, Villanova, who was this year\u2019s best hope for the new Big East, this Wolfpack team coached by my old friend Mark Gottfried seems to be a team of destiny.\nI also think this version of Rick Pitino\u2019s Cardinals really labor to score. They\u2019ve had to overcome the loss of Chris Jones, one of their best players, but I think they will reach the end of the road here. You have to love their two best players, Montrezl Harrell and Terry Rozier, who I believe will both be future NBA players, but those two won\u2019t be enough to get it done.\nMichigan State vs Oklahoma\nThis will be a matchup of two more of the nation\u2019s best coaches: Tom Izzo, who is one of my favorites and is a remarkable 13-1 in the round of 32, vs. Lon Kruger, who now is the only coach to take four different teams to the Sweet 16. I have to go with the Spartans in this one. There is a reason Coach Izzo is known as Mr. March. His teams always do two things that travel well in the tourney: defend and rebound. This team is very blue-collar, and while Denzel Valentine may be the only sexy, household-type name, you can\u2019t count out Sparty in March.\nI do like Delon Wright (Dorell\u2019s younger brother) and this Utah team, but from the time the brackets came out I have been saying this is a special Duke team. After Kentucky and Arizona, Duke in my opinion is the best bet to win it all. With a dominant low-post center in Jahlil Okafor, a terrific wing playing in his hometown of Houston in this round, Justise Winslow and great guards who shoot the 3-ball in Quinn Cook and Tyus Jones, Duke will continue to roll on through on their way to Indy.\nThis has turned out to be a classic west coast matchup despite the committee\u2019s much-maligned decision to put the UCLA Bruins in the field. This should be a fun game to watch, but many people feel this is the best Gonzaga team Mark Few may have ever had, which gives them the best chance to get over the hump in this round. I agree and feel the Zags will end the Bruins\u2019 surprising here.\nHopefully you like my picks and continue to follow me throughout all my TV and radio appearances during March Madness.\nIn my next column here on Sheridan Hoops, I\u2019ll discuss which players have raised their NBA stock during this year\u2019s tournament.\nFiled Under: Columns, Gonzo, NCAA Tagged With: Arizona, Boby Gonzalez, Duke, gonzaga, Kentucky, Louisville, Michigan State, N.C. State, NCAA Tournament, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, UCLA, Utah, West Virginia, Wichita State, Wisconsin, Xavier\ntp1985 says\nreally going out on some limbs there gonzo.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 14113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sheylabonnick.com/photo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:16Z", "digest": "sha1:SCG7HRNJGB2FL7CW5QL3OQSOLFM2ODRA", "length": 1435, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.sheylabonnick.com", "title": "Sheyla Bonnick Boney M Photo", "raw_content": "Photo Boney M Sheyla Bonnick\nSheila Bonnick (Sheyla Bonnick) is one of the brightest representatives of foreign pop of the seventies. Throughout her life she she tried both group and solo career. Sheila is a former band member, soloist of the first version of the world-famous band Boney M 1974-1975 . She is one of those who can never be forgotten and her contribution to the history of Boney M is immense. Therefore, after leaving the quartet, she carried on with her glorious career. This woman with unlimited energy, a unique voice, a charming smile and sparkling eyes.\nYou\u2019ll find what you were looking for here, on the official website of Boney M band: photos of your favorite soloist Sheila Bonnick, as well as the band members of her group Sound of Boney M. This website will give you an insight into the life of disco stars through their fabulous performance photographs. The website of Boney M feat Sheyla Bonnick \u2013 contains all the photos from the beginning of her singing career to the present day, the album covers and rare posters. We made it easy to view the photos \u2013 click on the player at the top of the page and enjoy your favorite music and easy navigation. You can also access the official groups on social networks by clicking on the respective icons \u2013 another great benefit of this website.\nSee photos, share experiences with friends and be happy, and we, along with Sheila Bonnick will delight you. Peace to you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sidney.ca/Things_To_Do/Parks__Walkways___Trails/Walkways_and_Trails/Sidney_Seaside_Sculpture_Walk/Artists/Armando_Barbon_-_Vancouver_Island_s_Renaissance_Man.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:54Z", "digest": "sha1:CTZ25HTL57AAOJEYDJNUW7FAKOYWM6CA", "length": 2819, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sidney.ca", "title": "Armando Barbon - Vancouver Island's Renaissance Man", "raw_content": "> Home Page > Things To Do > Parks, Walkways & Trails > Walkways and Trails > Sidney Seaside Sculpture Walk > Artists > Armando Barbon - Vancouver Island's Renaissance Man\nArmando Barbon - Vancouver Island's Renaissance Man\nLooking at Armando Barbon\u2019s mesmerizing bronze and marble sculptures, you would think the Italian born artist had studied sculpting all his life. But in reality, he only took up the craft after he retired in 2000.\nBefore his realization as an artist, Armando and his family built the highly successful gourmet wholesale company, North Douglas Distributors which employed 250 people, ran a fleet of 35 refrigerated trucks, and amassed annual sales of $95-million. After 28 years, he sold the company to Sysco Corp. and ventured off to Italy to study voice.\nAs fate would have it, Armando\u2019s voice lessons were thwarted by throat problems and he found himself wandering the streets of Florence, admiring the city\u2019s famous sculptures such as Michelangelo's \u201cDavid\u201d. It was then that the idea and desire came to him. He promptly began his studies at the Florence Academy of Art and returned to Italy four more times to study in Pietrasanta, the world center of sculpture.\nNow, as an accomplished sculptor, each of Armando\u2019s pieces incorporates an element of uniqueness, such as the sculpture \u201cBattle on the Field\u201d which was presented at the FIFA U-20 World Cup and depicts two soccer players vying for position. Look closely at their faces and you will see his grandsons. They appear again as hockey players in the monument \u201cGrandsons on Ice\u201d which stands outside the Westhills Arena in Langford. As well, many of Victoria\u2019s prominent, historic figures have been immortalized in bronze by Armando. His two most recent pieces Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken (1824-1920), placed at Helmcken House at the Royal BC Museum, and Sir James Douglas (1803-1877) at Government House.\nArmando\u2019s latest work is a monument entitled \u201cThe Emigrant\u201d, commissioned by The Halifax Port Authority to be placed at Pier 21, the Canadian Museum of Immigration. It will be unveiled on September 19 with numerous dignitaries from Ottawa and across Canada in attendance.\nArmando Barbon is one of those distinctive individuals who have a knack of turning anything they do into a successful venture and art has been no exception. His work has been commissioned around the world and he owns, \u201cStudio 37\u201d in Victoria where he and other expert artists in residence display their work. The studio also houses a recording studio where Armando records his music. In the end, the throat problems did not discourage him from also achieving this dream. A true renaissance man, always striving to grow, Armando continues to negotiate future commissions and to take sculpting lessons from his Maestro Gabriele Vicari in Victoria and in Italy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 8705, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sitkawild.org/changing_the_face_of_affordable_housing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2WM7RE7S453LTQ3YGEA7HPAPD6ZCURHM", "length": 4556, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.sitkawild.org", "title": "Changing the Face of Affordable Housing - Sitka Conservation Society", "raw_content": "Changing the Face of Affordable Housing\nMarjorie Hennessy on November 21, 2014\nThe term \u2018affordable housing\u2019 sometimes has a stigma associated with it. Depending on who you ask, It also means multiple things to various people. When we say affordable housing, we mean a rental or permanent home that may be rented or purchased by an individual or family with a living wage. There are multiple, creative housing types for increasing the amount of affordable housing in Sitka. The most desirable approach would be one with a triple bottom line ethic, not just highlighting the social justice issue of affordability, but also encouraging economic growth of local builders and suppliers, and reducing the carbon footprint of our homes. This means not only saving energy through design, but locally sourcing materials and decreasing our reliance on barged products for construction.\nThe tiny house movement is a design and social movement centered on living small and simply, and is one solution to affordable housing. Sitka is surrounded by federal and state private lands, so as a community, it is faced with a conundrum. How to encourage growth and promote sustainable development with literally no room to grow? The simple solution is going smaller and denser. Density is a valuable tool, allowing a municipality to control growth and develop districts. In many communities where space isn\u2019t an issue, it is used to preserve open space and agricultural lands outside of a community. In a place like Sitka, it is necessary to allow for sustainable growth and affordable housing options which lead to mixed-income and diverse communities. The tiny house is the symbol of living with less and in a smaller space, as opposed to recent trends of maximizing square footage. Tiny houses add environmental value to homes and set a new standard. While it may not be for everyone, tiny house living can contribute to a greater environmental ethic in more ways than one. In addition to the tiny home or microhome style houses, another planning and development tool for affordable housing that is gaining momentum is the Community Land Trust. The SCDC (Sitka Community Development Corporation) has established the Sitka Community Land Trust, an entity that maintains ownership of a lot or parcel, to ensure the house or residence remains affordable. The local land trust is currently working on its first project, the Lillian Drive house.\nWhen rethinking housing options, a heavy focus on the triple bottom line and sustainability broadens the scope of the issue to include local energy needs and costs. This means transforming the face of not only affordable housing, but community development, which has become a significant force in the national sustainability movement. Given our location, Sitka is heavily reliant on imported materials, food and fuel. All of which are associated with rapidly rising costs. However, with planning, deliberate design, innovative amenities and import substitution, Sitka\u2019s housing model can be redefined. This new way of thinking about housing may generate community awareness and lead to more local jobs along with providing new, innovative housing options.\nSitka and its efforts have been fortunate enough to catch the attention of the State of Alaska Department of Commerce, Community and Economic Development (DCCED). The DCCED worked with the Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC) to conduct a case study on Sitka and the Land Trust\u2019s Lillian Drive project. The CCHRC prepared a full report that addressed design elements, energy efficient construction methods, housing features and components, and local timber materials. They also prepared concept designs that illustrate how these elements may be incorporated into the design and planning of a home with goals of maximizing space, building in energy efficiency, and sourcing local materials to reduce the overall carbon footprint of a house.\nAs Sitka\u2019s housing needs grow and change, SCS is hoping to see more projects that embrace at least one of these key features: affordability, energy efficient, locally sourced and produced. SCS is especially interested in the use of local materials as our community explores these various housing models. We will be partnering with UAS and SItka High School on projects this spring. SCS hopes that pilot projects can help change perceptions and lead to more community development that focuses on a paradigm shift and diversifies our local, affordable housing stock.\nMarjorie Housing People and Place Young-Growth Local Community", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 6422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skydive.ru/en/whats-name/1389-west-silvertown.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RXTH6UREPVCAPSRKUM7ORRE4K2Z3OD6G", "length": 255, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.skydive.ru", "title": "West Silvertown \u00bb \u041b\u043e\u043d\u0434\u043e\u043d \u0438 \u043e\u043a\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u043e\u0441\u0442\u0438", "raw_content": "West Silvertown is an industrial and residential district south of the Royal Victoria Docks. It was developed in the 1850s around the rubber and telegraph works of S.W. Silver and Company - hence the name Silvertown.\nThe station opened on 6 December 2005.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 90.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smartcitiesbymachnteam.com/en/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:IPPU4SDWIFU3VT6VXZXV3JK7BULPBRU2", "length": 1979, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.smartcitiesbymachnteam.com", "title": "The energy revolution \u2013 Eric Morel \u2013 Energy transition & digital energy for Smart Cities and Utilities", "raw_content": "Historical suppliers have experienced the time when technical expertise, including network management, dominated because they allowed, in integrated utilities, to ensure the essential: continuity of service and the quality of energy supplied. We were then in a \u201cpushed\u201d value where the energy provider delivered a [\u2026]\nAn energy transition is like a race for transatlantic sailing: several paths are possible, each of them includes pitfalls and difficulties (storms, lack of wind), the intermediate positions of competitors do not always predict the final result. And what connection with energy transitions? Many articles [\u2026]\nThe biggest changes are often rooted in the most important crises. Volkswagen could be the last example. In early January 2019, after going through an unprecedented crisis, Volkswagen announced the creation of its subsidiary Elli, a support for its electric mobility policy. Elli will not [\u2026]\nNever before have we needed to see all energy consumers change their habits, become more sober, more energy-conscious, and we have never been more aware of the difficulties involved in engaging consumers in this transformation. At the heart of this paradox are the energy suppliers, [\u2026]\nIf some paradoxes can make us laugh, if others can annoy us, all have the merit of making us think. At the beginning of the year 2019, I propose this recreational post and introduce you, dear readers, my best wishes of accomplishment and happiness for [\u2026]\nThe European elections reveal more important issues for energy than one might think at first glance. Europe is at a crossroads. On the one hand, voters think that Europe has no political project, no economic project, no societal project. The desire to push back its [\u2026]\nProviding energy solutions to large consumers is less and less to meet an isolated need, so less and less sell only energy. On the contrary, it means knowing how to accompany them for a long period of time, responding to their new needs as and [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 15879, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sme.lk/index.php/en/latest-events/384-ornamental", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XT3NPDGZTVQVPXWZKPAX4ZMJQSVGNVZR", "length": 2627, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.sme.lk", "title": "Ornamental Fish Trade & Technical Conference - 8-10 February- 2017", "raw_content": "Latest Events / Ornamental Fish Trade & Technical Conference - 8-10 February- 2017\nOrnamental Fish Trade & Technical Conference - 8-10 February- 2017\nWorld trade in ornamental fish has become a billion dollar industry, with total wholesale and retail values estimated at US$ 1 billion and\nUS$ 3 billion, respectively. Some 55% of the global market supplies originate from Asia, where the sector contributes significantly to the national economies of the countries involved. The 2nd International Ornamental Fish Trade and Technical Conference will be held in Sri Lanka, currently the 6th largest supplier of ornamental fish to the global market.\nThe event will comprise a two-day conference and one-day field trip to ornamental fish farms in the country. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss issues facing the global ornamental fish industry, including ways to increase production through capture and culture fisheries; introduction and breeding of exotic species; as well as health management and biosecurity measures. The major pillar underpinning these discussions will be sustainability, in recognition of its importance in the management of stocks, and impact on the environment and social development. The conference will also highlight the latest developments in packaging and transportation, and changes in international market and trade patterns.\nThe 2nd International Ornamental Fish Trade and Technical Conference will take place from 8-10 February 2017 at the 5-star Kingsbury hotel located in the heart of Colombo, offering quick access to the city\u2019s business centre. It takes 35 minutes to arrive at the hotel from the Bandaranayake International Airport.\nOrnamental fish exporters, importers, breeders, farmers, traders, industry leaders, policy makers, government officials, researchers, academics and service providers.\nConference fee is US$ 300 per delegate, covering coffee breaks, lunches, receptions, conference kit and documentation. An additional fee of US$ 100 entitles accompanying spouse to lunches and reception only. The registration fee does not include hotel accommodation or transportation.\nThere is a special concessionary fee of US$ 200 for delegates from INFOFISH member countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Fiji, India, Iran, Malaysia, Maldives, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka and Thailand).\nRegistration fee will be refunded, less 25% for cancellations received before 8th January 2017. No refund will be made for cancellations after that date. However, a substitute delegate may attend in place. 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Whether you've travelled, visited family and friends, or just watched some good movies, I hope you've had a holiday season full of much-needed rest and relaxation. As we kick off 2014, we begin things with a horror franchise that was noticeably absent in a banner year for the genre. While movies like The Purge and The Conjuring rocked the box office in 2013, there was no new Paranormal Activity movie. Since Paranormal Activity 3 and Paranormal Activity 4 didn't exactly enamor me, I counted my blessings last year. It appears the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction in 2014 as there are two new movies being released as part of the franchise this year. However, I was pleasantly surprised by this weekend's spinoff Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones.\nIt's June 2012. Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and his friend Hector (Jorge Diaz) are graduating from high school. As Jesse commences his next phase in life, there's one cheerleader who is noticeably absent, his mother. She died giving birth to him. As it just so happens, Jesse shares this common bond with his fellow graduating classmate Oscar Hernandez (Carlos Pratts). Their similarities go much deeper than that, however. Like Oscar, Jesse is a marked one cursed by witches while he was still in the womb. Like Oscar, Jesse is now being possessed by an evil spirit. Like Oscar, Jesse will go on a murderous rampage killing quite a few of his friends and loved ones. When Oscar murders Jesse's neighbor Anna (Gloria Sandoval), Jesse, Hector, and their friend Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh) begin investigating why Oscar killed the old woman. Meanwhile, Jesse notices that he has the same inhuman bite mark on his arm as his killer classmate Oscar. Soon, he begins behaving strangely and demonstrating supernatural abilities as a malevolent spirit begins to take control of him.\nI can't say that it's the most original horror movie I've seen in a while. I can't say that it's the best either. What I can say is that Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones breathes a little life into an aging horror franchise, which is a rare thing achieved by a fifth installment this late into the game. After seven years full of sequels, things often start to get stale creatively, but The Marked Ones is a somewhat fresh take on the supernatural horror mockumentary. With some decently crafted thrills and a fairly engaging backstory, director Christopher B. Landon takes us on a twisted journey behind the camera as we watch our lead Jesse transition from an innocent protagonist to a haunting antagonist.\nWhile it's a fresh take on the supernatural horror movie that culminates in some decent frights during the second half of the film, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is marked by two major flaws. First and foremost, the story is a little muddled. Putting a fresh spin on the series with a whole new cast of characters requires building quite a bit of context around both the new premise and the new faces. In doing so, Landon spends more time giving us this context in a detailed fashion instead of focusing on key plot developments. There\u2019s more detailed minutiae than storytelling for a good chunk of the movie. This leads to a rather predictable affair with a dry opening act. Second, a central catalyst of any of the film's major plot developments is that the characters do stupid things. They break into murder crime scenes, try to interact with spirits, and call gangsters instead of Ghostbusters. This is not the way to make a great horror movie. The best ones are those in which smart protagonists are outsmarted by a smarter antagonist. Instead, we get a bunch of clueless teenagers that live up to just about every stereotype in the horror movie playbook.\nDespite my gripes, Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is a decent scary film. Far better than the atrocious Texas Chainsaw 3D which got things started last year, this fifth installment in the supernatural horror franchise proves that there are still some frightful opportunities to explore this genre some more. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones gets a 0.06% rating. Have a few rounds of beer with this one. 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The goals and objectives of the project are closely aligned with our school objectives and expectations of our students: emphasis on critical thinking, independent and cooperative learning, research skills, improved written and oral communication and presentation skills, and a life-long commitment to learning.\nDeveloped to reinforce the written, oral, problem-solving and public-speaking skills graduates need soon after graduation, Patriot Expo also provides an opportunity for community members\u2019 involvement as a mentor to a student or a member on the panel of evaluators.\nThe paper consists of 1,000 words on a topic related to the students\u2019 project topic. Students are expected to use a minimum of five sources, formal manuscript form and up-to-date documentation styles.\nThe product (which may also be an experience) must be related to the topic. Students are responsible for finding a mentor to monitor the work on the paper and product. 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They are judged on the content and delivery of the presentation in addition to the appropriateness of their attire, and the effectiveness of their visuals.\nEssentially, through their Patriot Expo, seniors exhibit knowledge, skills, and ability necessary for their post-high school future: problem solving, communicating, critical and creative thinking, courtesy, ethics, a quest for quality, goal setting and reaching, networking, life-long learning, time management, community contributions, basic skills, independent work ethic, self- evaluation, decision making, self-confidence, sense of humor, responsibility, reliability, accountability, and follow-through.\nDownload the Patriot Expo handbook here.\nPatriot Expo is a component of English 12, which is taught by Renny Mauder and Kim Benton.\nPatriot Expo Handbook\nThe handbook contains information about all aspects of the Patriot Expo process. 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It also has excellent beaches, like Rinconcillo, San Garc\u00eda, and Getares, although a good section of its 23-kilometre-long coastline is devoted to industrial development, due to its long seafaring tradition. .\nAlgeciras Municipal Museum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 4284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 103.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sparewordspress.com/2013/02/moths-and-men-sweet-gay-romance-by.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HGDJZJRGO2DPO6OSROR5KPD65UA3FRKJ", "length": 3948, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.sparewordspress.com", "title": "Hollis Shiloh: Moths and Men, sweet gay romance by Hollis Shiloh", "raw_content": "Now that Dave's tour of duty is over, he just wants to forget about 'Nam--and stop the nightmares. A new friendship and a new job offer him hope. Especially when Dave's growing feelings for his friend just might be mutual....\nA sweet gay romance or sweet m/m romance set during the Vietnam War era.\n\"You can stay with me tonight?\" Jesse still stood with his hips tilted just a little. His jeans were tight, showing a nice package in the front, nice as his bottom was in back.\nDave tried not to look, tried not to ogle. He nodded. \"I'd appreciate that.\"\nHe felt clumsy and overlarge and as if he didn't know what to do with his hands. He followed Jesse to his red pickup truck. A humming sort of excitement filled his veins, made him feel alive again.\n\"You think you'll stay here, or you just passing through?\" Jesse glanced at Dave hesitantly.\nDave shrugged. \"Don't have anywhere to go. Is there work here?\"\nJesse grinned. \"Yeah. I work for my uncle,\" he said, getting into his pickup and shutting the door. \"He owns a mill. He's got openings, so I'm pretty sure you can get a job there, if you want. The pay's not great, but you can afford a little apartment with it, and you won't starve. My aunt might even invite you round sometimes for Sunday dinner. She likes feeding men who look like they need it.\" He grinned.\nDave found himself grinning back. \"And you always look like you need it, is that it?\"\nJesse nodded proudly. \"She keeps trying to fatten me up, but it doesn't take.\" He patted his flat stomach smugly.\n\"So you get to eat even more. I see how it works.\"\n\"Well, it does. Do you think you'd like to work at a mill?\"\n\"I'd be glad to give it a try. Is it dangerous?\" It had to be better than the mines, didn't it? For one thing, you couldn't get stuck underground and die, like his father had.\nJesse shook his head. \"Not too bad. You've got to be careful around the saws. But a lot of the work is just moving lumber and logs. It's fairly safe if you run a careful shop, and my uncle does. Stay on your toes, and you should be fine. You look solid enough to haul a lot of wood without dropping it on your toes.\"\n\"Thanks.\" Dave found himself grinning. The image of himself as seen through Jesse's eyes made him smile. Solid. Well, he was. He stood just under six foot in his socks, but it was solid muscle, all of it. Sure, he'd lost some weight in 'Nam, but he was still damned sturdy. Jesse had a couple of inches on him but he seemed all lean, sinewy strength, nothing of the brick wall about him.\n\"Great,\" said Jesse. \"I'll talk to him tomorrow about hiring you.\" He tapped the wheel as he drove, smiling a little.\nThey rode on in the pooling night. The truck's headlights cut the darkness. A few moths and other insects showed up in the light, fluttering witlessly to their oncoming destruction. Near the road, a cricket chorus shrieked. The truck's wheels thumped up and down over little dips in the road and swished round turns, guided by secure hands.\n\"Jesse?\" asked Dave. It felt safer, talking in the dark.\n\"Why you doing this? Helping me out?\" He clenched his hands together on his lap in the dark. Now or never: if this beautiful man was leading up to something, it would be good to know now. And if he wasn't.\n\"Milk of human kindness?\" offered Jesse, with a wry, smiling sound in his voice.\n\"Yeah, okay,\" said Dave. He guessed the world could use some more of that. He certainly could. But it kind of felt like the whole cow, not just a little milk.\n\"Well,\" said Jesse, \"you walked into that diner and I thought, 'That could've been me.' You looked like you'd been through hell and just needed a place to rest. I'll be glad if you stay in town and if I can help you get a job. It's the least I can do, when guys like you went over there and fought that goddamned war, in place of guys like me who couldn't.\"\nAvailable to buy on Amazon.com\nLabels: angst, contemporary, gay romance, happy ending, historical, m/m romance, sweet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 10506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.speerstra.com.au/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:31Z", "digest": "sha1:FJC57RGCUIMKHLC2QL2RVCR5SQHEST2J", "length": 7714, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.speerstra.com.au", "title": "Privacy Policy | Speerstra Interiors", "raw_content": "Speerstra Interiors Privacy Policy.\nLast Modified: June 13th 2014\nSpeerstra Interiors (\u201cwe\u201d, \u201cus\u201d) is committed to respecting your privacy, and recognises the need for appropriate protection and management of any identifiable information shared with us.\nThis privacy policy is designed to outline what information we may collect from you on any publicly available portions of www.speerstra.com.au (the Speerstra Interiors website), (\u201cthe site\u201d) along with collection from other interactions that are had with you. 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Rossi", "raw_content": "By using this contact form, you agree to this site's privacy policy and terms of use.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 237.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.steinmetzalumni.org/alumni-spotlight-cindy-gatziolis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YORX77JXSIUJEZNVTRKH4FSYLDWITMRN", "length": 578, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.steinmetzalumni.org", "title": "Alumni Spotlight: Cindy Gatziolis - Steinmetz Alumni Association", "raw_content": "March Association Meeting\nBob Goldsborough of Chicago Tribune wrote a beautiful article about her when she passed back in December, and we could think of no better way to honor her than to post the article. Graduated from Steinmetz in the mid 1970\u2019s.\nMs. Gatziolis, 56, died of complications from ovarian cancer Saturday, Oct. 25, at St. Joseph Hospital, said her sister, Frances. She was a resident of the Lincoln Park neighborhood.\nShe grew up on the Northwest Side and graduated from Steinmetz High School. She then earned a journalism degree from the University of Michigan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 3590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 147.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stephaniericherphoto.com/blog/2014/6/25/and-they-shall-take-up-serpents-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:11Z", "digest": "sha1:CQ57P7LBTGCUPOAIZ6M57TT7NP2PLQII", "length": 5648, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.stephaniericherphoto.com", "title": "\"And they shall take up serpents . . .\" \u2014 STEPHANIE RICHER PHOTOGRAPHY", "raw_content": "\"And they shall take up serpents . . .\"\nThey shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.\nMark 16:18, KJV\nI have been fortunate to have access to a local church where snake handling is practiced. Even more fortunate that the preacher has allowed me to take pictures, even knowing that I am a Roman Catholic. I had been warned in the past about the isolationism of many of these Pentecostal churches, and told it would be dangerous for me as an outsider to venture into one. I was told that I should only go with covered head, long skirt, and my camera well out of sight.\nCopyright 2014 - Stephanie Richer Photography\nThe pastor of the congregation , Andrew Hamblin, was one of two preachers featured in National Geographic's television show, Snake Salvation. The other preacher, Jamie Coots, was fatally bitten by a snake earlier this year.\nIn conversation with Hamblin, he mentioned to me that he wanted to make his church more open to all, that he wanted people of other traditions to come and see. In essence, he wanted to make his brand of Christianity more mainstream, or at least more visible to the public, to dispel myths about their practices.\nThat plan is having some setbacks now. The news is that the congregation was evicted from the church building by the landlord, who complained that Hamblin was spending too much time with the serpents. In addition, it seems Hamblin and his wife are divorcing, which no doubt will be messy as she is pregnant with the couple's sixth child. I do not know the details, nor will I speculate what is going on - as a former Family Law attorney, I do know this won't be an easy fix.\nBut I do want to say something about the serpent handling to provide a true picture of what goes on during one of their services. To begin, the services are long - it can start at 7:30 pom and go past midnight, if the Spirit is moving. I attended one for nearly three hours and during that time, estimated that the snakes (and believe me, these are venomous, being mostly Eastern Timber rattlesnakes) were out of their cages for maybe 20 minutes.\nYes, the services are not \"all about the snakes.\" Most of the service is focused on faith healing, with people coming forward to have hands laid on them, prayers said over them, and perhaps anointed with oil. A good portion is spent either with preaching or prophesying - the last service, a fellow went on for a good half hour, pacing back and forth, moaning, and occasionally saying in a high, breathy voice, \"Oh, Lord . . . children listen . . . ohhhhh . . . bad times are coming . . . . yesssss . . . . ohhhhh . . . but chlidren . . . he is with you . . . . Jesus . . . .\"\nThe snakes appear when someone feels they are being moved by the Holy Spirit to handle a serpent. The snakes are not passed around, they do not leave the area used as a sanctuary in the front of the church, they are not flung or twirled around.\nThose handling the serpents seem to be in a trance-like state. And for their part, so do the snakes. They do not seem agitated and no rattling is heard. I think, having owned snakes as pets, that the vibrations in the air - these services are noisy, with loud, live music (and actually, some of the best damn guitar playing you will hear, a sort of a rock-blues-gospel sound), foot stomping, and shouting - serve to mesmerize the serpents a bit. If anything, they seem curious, with tongues flitting out, as to what is going on. Snakes have poor eye sight and hearing, generally, so vibrations and hums are significant stimuli for them.\nFor those unfamiliar with the Bible, read the last chapter of the Gospel of Mark. There is reason to think that this chapter was not part of the original gospel, but added later, as the style seems incongruous with the rest of the gospel. Nevertheless, this remains the primary source of Scripture form which people like Hamblin and his flock receive what they consider a mandate to include venomous serpents in their services.\nAs I said to Hamblin once, \"And if Mark sad to take up toaster overs . . .?\nHe smiled and replied, \"Then I take up toaster ovens, if that is what Jesus is telling me to do.\"\nView the gallery of images below:\nFrom a photographer's standpoint, there are some challenges. The lighting is terrible and any flash is not permitted. Access is limited - I could not get up into the sanctuary, and there were times when a rush of people would be in front of the podium - at 5'6\" tall, I sometimes had to use live view and hold my camera up. And, despite the permission of the pastor, certain street photography \"rules\" had to come into play - these people do live isolated lives, and there is going to be unease at seeing a stranger with a camera. My advantage is, I think, the fact that I am a middle-aged female and thereby more likely to be viewed as \"safe.\" The women occasionally congregate in the back, so sometimes I would join them, and ask innocuous questions like, \"Is that your little boy? He's adorable - how old is he?\" Then we would get to talking about our kids, and that led to asking me why I was there, and I would explain my interest. The other thing I have done in the past is share my images on Facebook with the congregation, so for some, I am recognized.\nAnd above all - treat people like this with respect. I try to do that in my photos. I do not follow their traditions, but for them it is a very meaningful thing. Many of these people are living below poverty level and their faith is what is most important in their lives. Honor that.\nRecognition for me from \"Content ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 234.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stephaniesterjovski.com/relationship-qa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:14Z", "digest": "sha1:A2LBCGQJUOAMDCAMEGJWMTDAMK4YSOHR", "length": 10377, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.stephaniesterjovski.com", "title": "RELATIONSHIP Q&A - STEPHANIE STERJOVSKI", "raw_content": "Neal and I have been together for over 10 years, and in that time we\u2019ve been asked a lot of great and interesting questions about our relationship. We\u2019ve been trying to tackle bigger topics in our blogs, but we also get asked a lot about our cultures, lifestyle, and faith. This has been much requested, so I pulled a bunch of questions we\u2019ve received on Instagram Stories, and through DMs and comments to answer them all in one post! Thank you so much for submitting them, we love getting to know you guys more and opening ourselves up more for you to get to know us\u2026\nWe met through friends at the end of high school, and started dating later (4 months after we met to be exact). I asked Neal to come hang out again with some of my friends on Canada Day and he hasn\u2019t stopped calling me since (haha).\nWhat\u2019s your ethnicities?\nI am Macedonian (Eastern European) and Neal is Indian (Punjabi), we were both born in Toronto, Canada.\nWhat were some of the challenges when you started dating?\nAt the beginning of our relationship we had our challenges in that we both come from strong cultural backgrounds and bringing those two worlds together would be different than what everyone was accustomed to in our families. Both of our cultures have an unspoken expectation to marry someone in that same culture. I am grateful for this: no-one in our immediate family ever told us we couldn\u2019t date each other. However, we definitely faced judgement, disapproval and rude comments from others (of course some don\u2019t even say it to your face). Neal and I have zero tolerance for racism. We celebrate both of our cultures and believe we are all children of God. No creed, class or race is superior. Sadly, the broken world order has these ideologies (just turn on the news to see the latest), but we do not hold that order in our homes. Our homes accept everyone as equals and we do not tolerate bigotry.\nNeal\u2019s parents follow Sikhism and he was raised following the same. When I met Neal and as we began dating, he did express and feel a disconnect to the faith he was brought up in, and he was on his own walk with finding faith. I don\u2019t want to speak for Neal or share his own testimony (I think that\u2019s for him to share), but he made that decision to follow Jesus on his own walk and time. It was never a \u201crequirement\u201d from me or my family for him to believe. We believe that your spiritual walk is deeply personal and not to be judged or persuaded. God works in everyone\u2019s lives in a different way. Neal had his own experiences, research and encounters that made him believe. While on his walk, he wholeheartedly decided to give his life to Jesus 6 years into our relationship. We were each on our own walks, being young (18) and growing in my own faith, I didn\u2019t really quantify how much faith could play a role in marriage when we first started dating. We began to have more extensive conversations about our faith as we grew in it (we both decided to get baptized after we got engaged). I came from a Macedonian Orthodox upbringing (I was baptized as a baby, but didn\u2019t go to church on Sundays, only on holidays like Easter). However, I didn\u2019t understand or actively have a relationship with Jesus until my early 20\u2019s. My faith felt very cultural growing up (that was just my personal experience). We now attend a non-denominational church and you\u2019ve probably noticed, we enjoy sharing it through our channels and work. It always amazes me how God took two people from different upbringings and beliefs and helped us grow in our faith together, building a strong bond and trust in Jesus. I got re-baptized when Neal did and looking back, it\u2019s so symbolic of how we grew in our faith together as we were entering into the next season of our life \u2014 marriage and committing ourselves and our relationship to Jesus.\nDo you interact with other interracial couples?\nWe do! We are apart of marriage group at our church and almost every couple who attends is in an interracial relationship \u2014 I think that\u2019s just awesome! Some of our friends and family are interracial relationships and marriages, which is pretty common living in a diverse city like Toronto. I love that we can all celebrate this, where I know in some places it is unfortunately mocked or put down. We embrace our colours and we are proud of our love.\nHow do you overcome cultural differences?\nYou know what\u2019s funny? We\u2019re not all that different, people! The closer you get to all walks of life, you notice the common thread. Neal and I see so many parallels within our families (immediate and extended). We all want the same thing in life: love and acceptance. Of course, there are differences, it\u2019s not to say this is not apparent. Faith has played a larger role, in that Neal\u2019s family follows a different one from us, but they\u2019ve given us support and love which we are so grateful for, as this can really divide people. They attended Neal\u2019s baptism and I have so much respect for that decision, as acceptance of another faith (from your own) can be really tough things for families to deal with. I am forever thankful that we have had a respectful and loving dialogue about this always. Communication, boundaries, grace, understanding and acceptance are huge factors in overcoming any kind of barrier or difference. There\u2019s a lot of respect that is required to accept one another and I am really thankful that\u2019s present within our families. We\u2019ve never lost that respect and honour, regardless of what it is others choose to believe. When we got married, the biggest takeaway from our pre-marital counselling with our Pastor was that we are starting our own family now and that requires boundaries to be set. We have the ability and freedom to carve out the path we want for our lives, and we believe you can do that respectfully. Neal has never been ashamed of his faith, even though it can be so taboo to talk or ask someone about it, despite being raised in a different one from what he believes today. I think that\u2019s been the most helpful thing in having others accept it around him\u2014 he wasn\u2019t scared, nervous or ashamed to share his decision to follow Jesus, instead he shared how much joy he has found in it.\nHow did you include both cultures in your wedding/celebrations?\nPlanning a wedding itself can bring up a lot of cultural barriers and expectations. Neal and I were on the same page for everything. We are proud and love our cultures, but our identity in Christ is what we wanted to come through in our wedding day more than anything else. We celebrated with traditional music/dancing and cuisine (our cultures love to dance and eat) and brought both of our worlds together. This was thankfully respected from both sides of our family. It may not have been exactly what each of our parents envisioned (I\u2019ll be transparent here), but in the end it was understood and respected and that meant a lot to us. Neal and I have always been this way \u2014 we love and respect the cultures we were raised in and around, but we\u2019re not heavily immersed in our cultural communities, if that makes sense. Many of our friends are from different ethnicities, cultures, and walks of life. We love experiencing their culture (food, music, etc.) and we celebrate everyone! I don\u2019t think (or at least it wasn\u2019t expressed) that it was a huge shock to anyone that we did our wedding the way we did. We attend a non-denominational community church, which looks like a community centre, and so we had our evening ceremony in a beautiful room at Casa Loma (an old castle in Toronto) that had church-stained windows and poured in beautiful light. We also had our reception there, so it was nice that our guests were all in one place. Our pastor officiated our wedding and my dad built a beautiful cross for us to stand in front of. We felt God\u2019s presence in that room, even though it wasn\u2019t in a church.\nWhat is your favourite part of each other\u2019s cultures?\nSteph: I love that the Indian culture loves to celebrate life\u2019s moments in big ways. They are vibrant and lively, there is never a dull moment at a party. It all comes together in the dancing, food, clothing and love. Indian food is my favourite thing on this planet (my mother in law\u2019s butter chicken is next level). I\u2019m so grateful to be married into this, and how accepting they have been of me.\nNeal: Macedonians are protective of their culture, and I love the pride they have in it. I also love the traditional cuisine (the stews, sweets, stuffed peppers and feta cheese) and circle dancing!\nThe most asked question award goes to this one (lol). Short answer: Yes! We\u2019ve been married for two years, and so naturally we get this question a lot. I\u2019m not offended when people ask, I just personally wouldn\u2019t ask others (not even my closest friends or family \u2013 I wait for them to tell me). I think this question is deeply sensitive and personal for many, as conceiving is not easy for everyone and having that constantly being brought up can be very touchy. We feel God is calling us to certain things this season and are trying to abide in where we feel lead, but in the next few years (God-willing) we will try and whatever happens, we will trust in His plan. Being a parent is something Neal and I are very excited to embark on together one day, and in God\u2019s timing.\nAny plans to move into a detached home in your future?\nAnother big yes! We would love to in the next few years \u2014 again all in His timing. It\u2019s a little intense in Toronto to be a home buyer, and a lot of the options out there are not what we are willing to invest in at this time. I watch Fixer Upper sometimes on HGTV and see finished, renovated homes that are the price of a down payment on a house here, and think, \u201coh man I need to move to Waco, Texas\u201d, lol! We are keeping an eye out, but for now we are just planted in our condo. Can\u2019t wait for a yard for Lucy to run around in and more space (definitely needing it). I love home design (even more than fashion), so I know we will have so much fun with that and I\u2019ll be sure to share so much that design inspiration on this blog one day. Hopefully in the near future (prayers please)!\nWe love you guys! Hope you enjoyed this post, leave us a comment with any more questions or thoughts, we\u2019d be happy to answer them\u2026\nMelissa October 12th, 2018\nLoved this! Thanks for sharing and always being so open!\nThank you for saying that! Glad you enjoyed the read \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 12765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stmatthewsliverpool.org/annual-wine-cheese-and-silent-auction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:40Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQVY7DUEBMX5PBROHXGU57X3S5HQSGFB", "length": 89, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.stmatthewsliverpool.org", "title": "Annual Wine & Cheese and Silent Auction - St. Matthews Liverpool", "raw_content": "Annual Wine & Cheese and Silent Auction\n\u2190 Fr. Paul\u2019s Sermon from Sunday, October 14, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1714, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stpeterdebeauvoir.org.uk/event/pilates-in-the-crypt-with-amy-2/2018-12-25/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:14Z", "digest": "sha1:MN2YEHFD6WD7VJ24QO65MAPAODN3MTJG", "length": 38, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.stpeterdebeauvoir.org.uk", "title": "Pilates in the Crypt with Amy - St Peters : St Peters", "raw_content": "22nd January 2020 @ 10:00 am - 6:00 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 268, "original_length": 5328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 77.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.swiftcurrentchamber.ca/pages/gettingstarted", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ADUZU64OYH7GNIIUKLEVD2IEDLQ7OXH2", "length": 5845, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.swiftcurrentchamber.ca", "title": "Getting Started - Swift Current & District Chamber of Commerce, SK", "raw_content": "Refer to the below tools to find out if you should own and operate your own business:\nStarting your own business can be an exciting and rewarding experience. It can offer numerous advantages such as being your own boss, setting your own schedule and making a living doing something you enjoy. But, becoming a successful entrepreneur requires thorough planning, creativity and hard work.\nConsider whether you have the following characteristics and skills commonly associated with successful entrepreneurs:\nComfortable with taking risks: Being your own boss also means you\u2019re the one making tough decisions. Entrepreneurship involves uncertainty. Do you avoid uncertainty in life at all costs? If yes, then entrepreneurship may not be the best fit for you. Do you enjoy the thrill of taking calculated risks? Then read on.\nIndependent: Entrepreneurs have to make a lot of decisions on their own. If you find you can trust your instincts \u2014 and you\u2019re not afraid of rejection every now and then \u2014 you could be on your way to being an entrepreneur.\nPersuasive: You may have the greatest idea in the world, but if you cannot persuade customers, employees and potential lenders or partners, you may find entrepreneurship to be challenging. If you enjoy public speaking, engage new people with ease and find you make compelling arguments grounded in facts, it\u2019s likely you\u2019re poised to make your idea succeed.\nAble to negotiate: As a small business owner, you will need to negotiate everything from leases to contract terms to rates. Polished negotiation skills will help you save money and keep your business running smoothly.\nCreative: Are you able to think of new ideas? Can you imagine new ways to solve problems? Entrepreneurs must be able to think creatively. If you have insights on how to take advantage of new opportunities, entrepreneurship may be a good fit.\nSupported by others: Before you start a business, it\u2019s important to have a strong support system in place. You\u2019ll be forced to make many important decisions, especially in the first months of opening your business. If you do not have a support network of people to help you, consider finding a business mentor. A business mentor is someone who is experienced, successful and willing to provide advice and guidance.\nStill think you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur and start a new business? Great! Now ask yourself these 20 questions to help ensure you\u2019ve thought about the right financial and business details.\nWhat products or services will my business provide?\nAm I prepared to spend the time and money needed to get my business started?\nWhat differentiates my business idea and the products or services I will provide from others in the market?\nWhere will my business be located?\nWhat types of suppliers do I need?\nHow soon will it take before my products or services are available?\nHow long do I have until I start making a profit?\nHow will I advertise my business?\nEvery business operating in Swift Current & area, regardless of the industry-type and location, should do the following:\nResearch & Register Business Name\nBefore you spend time & money on your business license, you should make sure that the business name you propose to operate under is not already in use in the province or country that you propose to conduct business. This is particularly true if you will be operating under an assumed business name (or fictitious name, trade name, or DBA name, short for \u201cdoing business as\u201d). In Saskatchewan you can research your business name at the Information Services Corporation Office.\nIMPORTANT NOTICE: In addition to a business license, all businesses must also comply with any and all other laws and regulations, including but not limited to zoning, fire, building standards, environmental health and more. BEFORE you start your business, sign a lease, buy property or purchase a sign for your business, make sure you do your research!\nCity of Swift Current Business License\nAnyone doing business in the City of Swift Current, whether home-based or at another location; whether located inside the City of Swift Current or outside the City but conducting business within the City; whether it is a sole proprietorship, partnership, LLC, or corporation; full-time or part-time; regardless of size, unless the business is exempted by law, is required to have a business license to lawfully operate their business.\nZoning approval is required to operate a business in Swift Current and to obtain a Swift Current business license. Businesses that are exempt from local business license requirements by provincial or federal law must still contact Zoning to receive approval to operate their business. For access to current zoning information, see the City of Swift Current's website. The Swift Current Zoning Department can be reached at 306-778-2740 or in person at the City of Swift Current located at 177 1st Ave NE, Swift Current, SK.\nRequest Fire Prevention Inspection\nAll businesses operating from commercial property in the Swift Current city limits must receive and pass a fire prevention inspection. Contact the Swift Current Fire Department at 306-778-2760 to schedule an inspection.\nEnsure you have an electronic burglar alarm system installed and that you or your insurance agent has registered the system with the proper authorities.\nObtain Sign Permit\nSave your business time and money! Contact the City of Swift Current BEFORE you purchase, install or make modifications to your business sign to make sure that you are in compliance with the sign bylaws.\nA permit is required for all signs in Swift Current. Sign permits are issued by the Zoning Code Enforcement office located at the City of Swift Current, 177 1st Ave NE. Before applying for a sign permit you should confirm that your business location meets all zoning and land use requirements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 8834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2004/10/01/2003205140", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7O6XKZXUCCFZ5QKGLQM5I3QICKUHZU66", "length": 3463, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.taipeitimes.com", "title": "\ufeff All hail Jay - Taipei Times", "raw_content": "All hail Jay\nJay Chou has the stature of an emperor in the realm of Mando-pop and he's giving Taipei a one-night audience tomorrow. Feel grateful\nLast Thursday, reporters on the Jay Chou (\u5468\u6770\u502b) beat were summoned to a warehouse deep in the marshy industrial wastelands of Neihu for a few minutes of pre-concert face time with Taiwan's biggest pop star. It was called a \"dress rehearsal,\" but to no one's surprise it would be scripted and micromanaged like all of Jay's public appearances.\nIn any event, it would be the only scrap that Alfa Music was going to toss to the media in the runup to tomorrow's stop on the Jay Chou Incomparable Tour.\nThe drab warehouse where Jay and his band have been practicing was stacked floor-to-ceiling with scores of amplifiers the size of Volkswagen Beetles while piles of thick cable were coiled in the back, along with stacks of enormous klieg lights.\nUpstairs, reporters jammed into a tiny antechamber, the shaggy cameramen and newspaper photographers chain-smoking and the lady reporters chattering nervously. The only quiet, smoke-free place to await Jay's arrival was outside in the rain. And keeping people waiting is part of what stardom is about, which is why he showed up over half an hour late without anyone seeming to mind.\nWhen Jay arrived in the company of his entourage of managers and sound people it was difficult at first to pick him out, as he was the only one ducking his head and staring at his feet. The others strode with purpose, politely shoving reporters aside and radiating a confidence attributable perhaps to their close proximity to celebrity. The star, though, showed mild ennui and seemed unimpressed by reporters calling him by his nickname Chairman Chou (\u5468\u8463).\nHe returned the hellos in his awkward, camera-shy manner before being ushered by his manager into the session room. The reporters spilled in after him, elbowing their way to the best spots at the foot of the singer's keyboard while he warmed up for what would be a truncated and mumbled version of two songs, off his latest album Common Jasmine Orange (\u4e03\u91cc\u9999). It's been at or near the top of the charts in Taiwan most of the summer.\nWith that part of the event taken care of, Jay got down to the real business of the day, which was having his photo taken at his piano, draped over bongos and standing next to a turntable that provides the scratching on hip-hop numbers.\nHe played along for the media, even smiled a bit and explained his mumbling as a precaution against straining his voice when a couple of concerned reporters asked whether he'd recovered from a cold picked up recently in China.\nThe question-and-answer period was cut short, though, thanks to a reporter asking whether Jay would sing at the National Day celebrations on Oct. 10, a topic that Alfa had said beforehand was off-limits. The reporters were then asked to please leave and Jay was off the hook.\nSo the reporters, including myself, dispersed feeling a mixture of elation at meeting with the top icon of Mandarin pop music and disappointment that the only quotes he offered were trite soundbites of the, \"Lately I've just been resting and practicing so I can put on a great concert,\" variety.\nBut these stage-managed media moments are part of the game for a singer whose album sales bankroll an entire record label's operations and who's graced the cover of Time, as well as practically every other publication in Taiwan since his 2001 eoponymous debut album.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tamilstar.com/news-id-sivakarthikeyan-not-bothered-about-rumours-sivakarthikeyan-bindu-madhavi-12-02-146539.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5UQHQOAFPJREEF2CSQTBBDCT6VY74UC", "length": 977, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.tamilstar.com", "title": "Sivakarthikeyan not bothered about rumours - Tamilstar.com", "raw_content": "Sivakarthikeyan not bothered about rumours\nSivakarthikeyan, after sharing the screen space with Bindu Madhavi in a few films, decided not to work with her again after rumours started to spread that they are in a relationship. After denying it as mere rumours and reiterating that he is happy with his married life and a kid, Sivakarthikeyan decided not to pair up with Bindu Madhavi to thwart rumours.\nThe actor is now busy with Maan Karate in which he is paired up with Hansika. With this film ready for wraps, Sivakarthikeyan is all set to concentrate on his next. The actor has made it clear that Bindu Madhavi will be playing the female lead in his next and he is not bothered about rumours because she would fit in the role perfectly well.\nTags: sivakarthikeyan not bothered about rumours, Sivakarthikeyan,Bindu Madhavi,Maan Karate,Hansika.\nPost your comment about sivakarthikeyan not bothered about rumours\nOther News Related to sivakarthikeyan not bothered about rumours", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tarryhealth.com/health/4702/heres-how-to-tell-if-your-indigestion-is-actually-gerd", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QZQJCTNV4XAWJSXL3FQGQ5XGKSGFV54I", "length": 10341, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.tarryhealth.com", "title": "Here's How to Tell If Your Indigestion Is Actually GERD | Tarry Health", "raw_content": "Home / Health / Here\u2019s How to Tell If Your Indigestion Is Actually GERD\nWhen automotive journalist Markus Stier was in his 20s, he started experiencing burning pain in his chest about twice a month. For years, he suffered without seeking medical assistance. A girlfriend who worked in a pharmacy recommended antacids, and although they helped somewhat, Stier was initially doubtful that she\u2019d pinpointed his problem.\n\u201cShe suspected it was the stomach, which sounded weird to me, because the pain always came from a higher-located area,\u201d says Stier, now 51. \u201cSometimes the cramps were so extreme that I had the feeling my chest would implode.\u201d\nAbout 15 years ago, Stier finally saw a doctor. He had accepted the idea that his pain might be stomach-related, so he was surprised to be diagnosed with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), or inflammation of the esophagus, the tube that leads from the mouth to the stomach.\n\u201cI still have the doctor\u2019s words in my head: \u2018Your stomach is totally fine inside, but the lower part of your esophagus looks like flames climbing up the wall,\u2019\u201d Stier says.\nHis doctor prescribed medicine, which helped soothe his esophageal inflammation. At the same time, Stier modified his diet, eliminating chocolate, sweets, spirits, juices, and coffee. Learn more about the differences between heartburn, acid reflux, and GERD.\nFor many, the searing pain of heartburn is an unpleasant occasional fact of life. It\u2019s often the sign of acid reflux: Stomach acid backing up into the esophagus when the muscle that\u2019s supposed to separate the esophagus and stomach doesn\u2019t stay shut.\nHeartburn tends to fade after a few hours, so many people don\u2019t consider it a serious concern.\n\u201cIt\u2019s pretty acceptable to have once-a-month episodes of heartburn, particularly related to a heavy meal or alcohol,\u201d says Daniel Sifrim, professor of GI physiology at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University. \u201cIt\u2019s considered a disease when the symptoms are more than once a week, when it affects quality of life, or when there are complications.\u201d\nMore frequent heartburn could indicate GERD, which sometimes causes damage to the delicate lining of the esophagus due to the effects of stomach acid repeatedly spewing upward. Some people feel such intense pain, they worry that they\u2019re having a heart attack.\n\u201cPeople say: \u2018I woke up in the middle of the night with the most searing chest pain, and I rushed to the hospital thinking it was a heart attack, and they did all the tests, and they were normal,\u2019\u201d says Laurence Lovat, professor of gastroenterology at University College London. \u201cThey said maybe it was acid reflux.\u201d Here are some more silent signs of GERD you might be ignoring.\nComplications may arise\nAlthough GERD isn\u2019t as serious as a heart attack, it isn\u2019t always benign, either. Left untreated, GERD may cause complications over time. Some people get a chronic cough. Others may experience a narrowing of the esophagus caused by scar tissue, which makes it difficult to swallow food comfortably. Years of damage may cause Barrett\u2019s esophagus, a condition that sometimes precedes esophageal cancer.\n\u201cIn one in ten people with chronic acid reflux, the lining of the esophagus changes from being normal to being that of Barrett\u2019s esophagus,\u201d Lovat says. \u201cBarrett\u2019s esophagus itself has a one in ten or less chance of becoming cancerous. If you don\u2019t have Barrett\u2019s esophagus, the likelihood of getting esophageal cancer is almost zero.\u201d\nTo minimize the effects of chronic acid reflux or avoid it in the first place, try these ideas.\nGERD can be treated, which may keep your condition from progressing, so it\u2019s wise to see your doctor if you have chronic reflux. \u201cThose who ought to see a doctor are those whose symptoms are interfering with their lives\u2014if they can\u2019t sleep because of the symptoms, or because they\u2019re having to take drugstore remedies very frequently,\u201d says Amritpal Hungin, professor at Newcastle University\u2019s Institute of Health and Society.\nYour doctor may perform an endoscopy\u2014a procedure that reveals the interior of your esophagus with the help of a camera attached to a long tube\u2014to see if your esophagus is inflamed or damaged. If it is, your doctor can prescribe medication and offer lifestyle changes that may reduce your symptoms.\n\u201cIf you are bad enough to come to the doctor in the first place, take the medicine the doctor prescribes and heal it all up,\u201d Lovat says. \u201cThen use that opportunity to improve your lifestyle. The top of my list would be: Do not eat or drink for a minimum of two to three hours before going to bed. Do not eat large amounts at any one time. And do not eat fatty foods.\u201d\nHow much you weigh can influence whether or not you experience chronic reflux. Being overweight or obese makes it harder for the muscle that separates your stomach and esophagus to maintain a tight seal, which allows acid to leak into the esophagus.\n\u201cEspecially, this is the case in male patients [with potbellies],\u201d says Mark van Berge Henegouwen, professor of gastrointestinal surgery at the University of Amsterdam. \u201cYou have an increased pressure inside the abdomen, and therefore you have more reflux.\u201d\nGERD has become more prevalent in recent years, as waistbands have grown.\n\u201cThe main reason for the increasing incidence of GERD is probably the increasing BMI [body mass index] in the population,\u201d says Asle Medhus, head of the department of gastroenterology at Oslo University Hospital. \u201cAlthough difficult, the ideal treatment is thus weight loss.\u201d\nJayne Feld, 49, an education and lifestyle reporter, gets heartburn when she gains weight, but it disappears when she slims down.\n\u201cEvery time I hit 75 kilos [about 165 pounds] on the scale, I am more prone to it,\u201d Feld says. \u201cIt\u2019s my big wake-up call to lose weight.\u201d\nSmall weight changes can help. \u201cEven in non-obese individuals, the reduction of two points of the BMI is associated with a reduction in reflux,\u201d Sifrim says.\nAvoid diet triggers\nSome people get heartburn when they eat chocolate, citrus, or mint, or when they drink alcohol or coffee. If you\u2019ve identified a pattern, steer clear of things that cause reflux.\n\u201cIf you know that heartburn is going to happen if you eat certain foods, then you have a choice,\u201d Sifrim says. \u201cYou don\u2019t eat that food, or you take pills. It is your choice. My perspective is ideally you try to refrain from taking that particular food as much as you can.\u201d These are the foods that can make acid reflux and heartburn worse.\nPeople with infrequent heartburn may find relief from over-the-counter antacids or alginates, a heartburn remedy derived from seaweed. But those with GERD often need prescription-strength relief. Some people feel better after an eight-week course of medication. Others need to continue for years to keep symptoms at bay. The two most commonly prescribed classes of drugs for GERD are known as H2 blockers and proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). Both reduce the amount of acid your stomach produces.\n\u201cThe evidence overwhelmingly shows that proton pump inhibitors are much better than H2 receptor antagonists at healing gastroesophageal reflux,\u201d Lovat says. The esophagus will heal in 50 percent of people who take H2 blockers for an eight-week course. But it will heal in 80 percent of people who take PPIs for the same amount of time. \u201cThat\u2019s really significantly better,\u201d he says.\nBecause PPIs are more effective, doctors prescribe them more often, even long-term. Occasionally, research is released that tries to link long-term PPI use to an increased risk of heart attack, dementia, kidney damage, or stomach cancer, but experts say that the evidence for risk remains weak. PPIs are safe and people shouldn\u2019t stop taking them if they need them.\n\u201cThe side effect of long-term treatment with PPI has been debated for many years,\u201d Medhus says. \u201cThese drugs have now been available for about 30 years, and millions of patients have now used this drug for prolonged periods. Many of the previous concerns about side effects have thus turned out to be needless.\u201d\n\u201cThe problem with those studies is that they are all based on large-scale data collection,\u201d Hungin says. \u201cThey\u2019re not cause-and-effect studies.\u201d\nFind the right medication schedule\nYoga instructor Miriam Pilgrim, 45, controls GERD with H2 blockers. In 2009, her gastroenterologist prescribed PPIs, but when she got pregnant later that year, her doctor switched her to H2 blockers. Pilgrim never switched back.\nHealthy lifestyle choices also influence her symptoms. \u201cYoga definitely helps,\u201d Pilgrim says. \u201cChocolate aggravates it.\u201d\nClaude Barruyer, 84, a retired dental assistant, uses PPIs as needed when reflux symptoms flare. After decades of stoically dealing with pain, Barruyer saw a doctor five years ago.\n\u201cI usually prefer to heal without any medication, but my son-in-law convinced me to ask the doctor for proton pump inhibitors,\u201d says Barruyer, who took the medication, then stopped when her symptoms disappeared.\nFor attorney Ian Sirota, 52, taking PPIs indefinitely is the only way he can find relief. He has taken PPIs since 2007, after a brief, unsuccessful hiatus. \u201cWithin days, the acid reflux returned, so I was immediately put back on the medication,\u201d Sirota says. \u201cBefore I went on it, at least once or twice a week, I would be woken up by a severe attack, where stomach acid would go up my throat. It would leave my throat burning for days. That doesn\u2019t happen anymore.\u201d\nIf you\u2019ve been on reflux medication for a while, ask your doctor if he or she recommends a PPI-free trial period, because not everyone needs to be on medication indefinitely. Because there are always risks of side effects when you take any drug long-term, weaning off unnecessary medication can reduce your risk of possible problems.\nSome doctors worry that a percentage of people who take PPIs may not even have acid reflux, because long-term use of the drugs doesn\u2019t always improve symptoms.\n\u201cNot everything that sounds like heartburn, indigestion, regurgitation, etc. is due to gastroesophageal reflux,\u201d Hungin says. \u201cAlthough we doctors do prescribe proton pump inhibitors, our success rate with people who have these symptoms is not quite what it\u2019s cracked up to be. And I suspect that around half the people we see, we can\u2019t help with medications alone.\u201d\nGERD 2018-08-17\nTagged with: GERD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 11858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.terrybradshaw12.com/chargers-brandon-mebane-to-play-vs-patriots-following-infant-daughters-death/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:49Z", "digest": "sha1:MLU547GZTZGFDVN43WYMBPHCPXEXNZMF", "length": 1189, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.terrybradshaw12.com", "title": "Chargers\u2019 Brandon Mebane To Play Vs. Patriots Following Infant Daughter\u2019s Death \u2013 The Terry Bradshaw Show", "raw_content": "NFL fans should hope Brandon Mebane can find a measure of peace in the heat of battle.\nThe Los Angeles Chargers defensive tackle revealed Wednesday his infant daughter, Makenna, died after losing her battle with trisomy 13, a defective-heart condition with which she suffered following her premature birth seven weeks ago.\n\u201cShe passed away Jan. 3, Thursday,\u201d Mebane said, per the Chargers\u2019 website.\n\u201cShe wasn\u2019t getting better so we had to make a decision.\nShe kept having bleeds from the stomach, and then when they tried to feed her, it wasn\u2019t good for her liver.\u201d Mebane missed the Chargers\u2019 win over the Baltimore Ravens last Sunday in the wild-card round.\nHe intends to play Sunday against the New England Patriots in their divisional round matchup.\n\u201cNo matter where I am, I still think about her,\u201d he said.\n\u201cI\u2019m just happy I\u2019m still able to play this game, so (I\u2019m doing) pretty good.\u201d Mebane has made 40 tackles, one sack and forced one fumble in 12 games this season.\n\u201cShe passed away Jan. 3, Thursday,\u201d Mebane said, per the Chargers\u2019 website. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t getting better so\u2026\nRelated ItemsBrandon MebaneDaughterInfantLos Angeles ChargersMebane, North CarolinaNational Football League", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 330.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.terrybradshaw12.com/keenan-reynolds-pretty-excited-to-make-potential-regular-season-debut-monday-night/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:06Z", "digest": "sha1:AXRPYUCH76LBXK6HZBHJUDOHUR5W25AE", "length": 3085, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.terrybradshaw12.com", "title": "Keenan Reynolds \u201cpretty excited\u201d to make potential regular season debut Monday night \u2013 The Terry Bradshaw Show", "raw_content": "Keenan Reynolds \u201cpretty excited\u201d to make potential regular season debut Monday night\nA Lieutenant Junior Grade in fact.\n\u201c\u2026 I\u2019m going to reschedule most of them to after the season so I can just get them done in bulk.\nReynolds was promoted to Seattle\u2019s active roster earlier this week as the Seahawks are expected to be without top receiver Doug Baldwin for the immediate future.\nBaldwin injured the MCL in his right knee in Sunday\u2019s season opening loss to the Denver Broncos.\nDefensive tackle Domata Peko rolled up on Baldwin from behind, leaving him with what was reported as a Grade 2 sprain.\nBaldwin sat out most of training camp as well to rest an injury in his left knee.\n\u201cI got a lot of work in while Doug was getting right before the season and I definitely feel comfortable in that role in the slot,\u201d Reynolds said.\n\u201cI did a lot of it in the spring as well so I feel like for me it\u2019s just continuing to do what I\u2019ve been doing in practice and just try to transfer it over to the game.\u201d Reynolds \u2013 a former quarterback at the Naval Academy and current member of the Navy Reserves \u2013 was converted to wide receiver after being drafted in the sixth round of the 2016 NFL Draft by the Baltimore Ravens.\nHe spent one week on the team\u2019s active roster at the end of the 2016 season but was released during final cuts the following year.\n\u201cPut it in every day trying to improve and make it look like I never played quarterback.\u201d Now his first chance to suit up for a regular season NFL game should come Monday night against the Chicago Bears.\nBengals lead 28-14 at halftime as Andy Dalton throws four touchdowns\nSeattle Seahawks wide receiver Keenan Reynolds is still an active member of the Naval Reserves. A Lieutenant Junior Grade in fact. He had drills scheduled this weekend in Nashville as part of his monthly commitment to the reserves. Instead, Reynolds will likely be in a different kind of uniform in order to play in his first regular season NFL game.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been in contact with (my unit) trying to figure out a way to work from out here,\u201d Reynolds said. \u201c\u2026 I\u2019m going to reschedule most of them to after the season so I can just get them done in bulk. I\u2019m going to have to do a bunch of days of active duty in the offseason as well. The offseason being so long and having my free time allows me to get everything I need to get done.\u201d\nThough the policy that allowed him to chase an NFL career straight out of the Naval Academy and postpone his active duty commitments has been rescinded, Reynolds has been allowed to continue his career.\nReynolds was promoted to Seattle\u2019s active roster earlier this week as the Seahawks are expected to be without top receiver Doug Baldwin for the immediate future. Baldwin injured the MCL in his right knee in Sunday\u2019s season opening loss to the Denver Broncos. Defensive tackle Domata Peko rolled up on Baldwin from behind, leaving him with what was reported as a Grade 2 sprain.\nRelated ItemsActive MemberAlbumDenver BroncosDomata PekoDoug BaldwinEverything I NeedLieutenant (junior grade)PotentialSeattle SeahawksUnited States Navy Reserve", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 7190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.texadaunited.ca/church-notes/archives/04-2014", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:49Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPC4AEY3H6RO3CUB6ZGK4BGM3YV3UTL2", "length": 1228, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.texadaunited.ca", "title": "Blog Archives - Texada Island United Church", "raw_content": "Church Notes \u2013 April, 2014\nSomething to Ponder: \u201cFirst they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out\u2014because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out\u2014because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out\u2014because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me \u2013 and there was no one left to speak for me.\u201d -Pastor Martin Neimoller.\nUCW Easter Tea and Bake Sale: April 12, 2pm.\nChildren\u2019s Activity Program for Easter: \u201cUnited for Kids\u201d March 22 @ 10am, March 29 @ 1pm, and April 5 @ 10am. Registration is required.\nHealing Pathways Phase 1: workshop April 25 & 26 at Texada United Church with Rev. Gale Glover instructing. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to explore your inner healer (and we all have the capacity) at a very nominal cost. Please contact Karen May @ 604-413-0994 for more information and to register.\nMuffin Break: Last Saturday of the month, April 26, 10 \u2013 12am. Free coffee, tea and muffins \u2013 good conversation.\nMilestones: Died: Eloise (Grayson) Rowlandson, March 11, 2014. Our condolences to family and friends.\nPalm Sunday \u2013 April 13\nMaundy Thursday Pot luck & Service \u2013 April 17 \u2013 6:30pm\nGood Friday \u2013 April 18 @ 10:30", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 4192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.the3rdimagazine.co.uk/2015/08/45-years-on-and-the-gender-pay-is-widening/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:31Z", "digest": "sha1:J537OIAGDDJ4JWS4FYSVMB53WEANOO3L", "length": 4852, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.the3rdimagazine.co.uk", "title": "women in business | 45 years on and the gender pay is widening | the3rdi magazine", "raw_content": "45 years on and the gender pay is widening\nThis week the Law Society of Scotland has published a study showing that male solicitors are being paid up to 42% more than female solicitors in the later stage of their careers. This is in comparison to the UK overall pay gap which is 19.1%.\nHow can this shocking statistic be the case 45 years after the publication of the Equal Pay Act in 1970 and why in particular does law have such an inequality?\nAs an employment solicitor I have worked within the private, public and third sectors. During this time I have worked with firms who actively address and work towards levelling the gender pay gap. However, I have also witnessed practices which lead me to believe there are peculiarities to law which make it challenging for women to advance to the senior roles.\nThere are many reasons why women are historically paid less than men.\nTraditionally, a major factor is the continuing stereotypes around gender roles and their value in society. The majority of those working in the health and social care (a traditionally low paid sector) are women and the majority working in science, technology and engineering are men (a higher-paying sector). The legal profession has come a long way in enabling equality of access to the profession. The Law Society of Scotland shows that there are now equivalent numbers of male and female members and therefore the issue is one of progression in the later stages of their career.\nAnother key reason for the gender pay inequality is that women are far more likely to work part-time than full-time due to childcare responsibilities. Recent changes to parental leave in the UK mean that men and women can now split parental leave which is a positive step forward but early figures suggest that this has not been taken up by many men. This may well be because in many relationships the man earns more and therefore it does not make financial sense for the greater earning partner to remain off work. This ironically perpetuates the gender inequality and I would hazard a guess that the legal sector is not excluded from this generality. A cultural shift is needed for employers to challenge assumptions that men should be those at work and in the most senior positions. Effecting lasting changes to stereotypes and social norms requires both a strong approach by Government to lead by example as well as a concerted effort by employers and employees to openly discuss flexibility in parental arrangements.\nIn many sectors flexible and part-time working are now quite common. However, law is one of the more traditional industries and while many firms now offer flexible working arrangements, there is still stigma attached in certain places to not being \u2018present\u2019 at the office for all of the working hours of the day. Flexible working has limitations in certain workplaces, but it is only one answer to changing how work is organised. A holistic approach is needed in order to shift outdated notions of work. Firms could do more to encourage a change in attitude through making employees aware of the options and rolling out flexible working policies. I believe this will become of vital importance in order to encourage women to make the challenging leap from associate to partner and progress within the organisation.\nFirms could promote a more transparent relationship with pay. Being clear about pay structures encourages open and honest discussions about the value of roles within an organisation. This April the government have finally agreed to require companies with more than 250 employees (or 7,000 firms which in total employ 10 million men and women) to publish differences in pay between men and women. We will have to wait and see if this effects a more general move towards transparency.\nThankfully flexibility and part-time working arrangements are far more common in law than they once were but some more traditional firms could still benefit from acknowledging the power in retaining and supporting talent through this model.\nMy career has been helped infinitely by finding female mentors. Women traditionally excel in the forum of communication and collaboration, finding someone whose footsteps you can mirror is often incredibly valuable and is a rewarding exercise for both parties. Joining or creating a women\u2019s networking group is fantastic way to share experience and approaches.\nFinally and perhaps most importantly, women need to take responsibility for proving how valuable they are to their firm and believing that they would excel in the partnership arena. Men are far more likely to have faith in their abilities, to ask for promotions and pay rises whereas women tend not to. Providing a business case to the organisation showing how value could be added through a more flexible approach is the start we need to begin this vital conversation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 7793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theadventuresoffaith.com/2010/06/shopping-around.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:30Z", "digest": "sha1:IW4QFYPY4UMQ7NA6H72EB4BC4F7ZJ4J5", "length": 4729, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.theadventuresoffaith.com", "title": "The Adventures of Faith: Shopping Around", "raw_content": "John and I would both like new cellphones. Ours are starting to get pretty beat up (well, John's more than mine, but if he's getting a new one it's only fair that I get one). We're no longer under contract with our current provider (T-Mobile) so if we wanted to make a switch we could.\nJohn gets a discount with AT&T through his job so it has some potential. Amazon also has this great sale going on where you can get a new phone with a new plan for only a PENNY. Pretty awesome. It ends on the 30th if you're interested and you can get an upgrade for a pretty great discount too.\nIn case you didn't know this about me I am cheap. Someone tried to correct me and call me frugal, but I said, \"No. I'm cheap.\" I will search for the best deal I possibly can get before I buy something. I get the lowest price I can possibly get. This applies to everything, especially when it comes to paying a monthly fee for something. We currently pay just under $100 for our cell phone plan. I really don't want to pay over $100 a month for cell phone service. To me, that's just ridiculous. We don't have internet on our phones and to upgrade we'd have to get internet. I have a Blackberry currently and would like to stick with that or get some other kind of smartphone. It's freaking $30 a month for a dataplan with T-Mobile to upgrade to a new Blackberry or smartphone. John also wants a smartphone so our bill would go up $60+ a month (don't forget all those stupid taxes) for us to stay with T-Mobile. That's just too much for me. No way in hell will I pay $160+ a month for cell phone service unless those phones are smart enough to cook dinner and do the dishes afterwards.\nThe discounts with AT&T will get us a plan at around $120 a month, but we get 300 less minutes and 200 less text messages. We need those minutes and messages, but to upgrade the plans it'd put us back up around the $140-$150 mark, which again, I'm just not willing to pay. Why should I pay more for less than what I currently have? All I'm getting out of it is internet, which I actually don't want on my phone anyways. That's why I spent a bunch of money on a new laptop - to use the internet. If I'm going to pay that much I might as well get rid of the internet at my house and connect my phone to my computer! Oh wait, that'll cost me $60 instead of $15 a month with AT&T. I might as well keep my internet provider in that case. AT&T also has the A-List which lets you call up to 5 numbers for free, but that only comes with the more expensive plan, not the cheaper plan that would really benefit from the service. Why give something free to someone that could use it, huh AT&T?\nSo yeah. Slightly annoyed with the world of cell phones at the moment. The only other option is to buy an unlocked cell phone so that I can upgrade without having to add a dataplan. However, with an unlocked phone you end up paying full price and who wants to pay $300+ for a cell phone (maybe some of you IPhone crazies out there)?\nAnd yes, I know many of you are wondering why in the world do I have a smartphone without the internet. One, I don't want to be THAT connected to everything. Texting and calling is enough for me. If I AM somewhere where I have limited internet access, such as when I'm traveling, I MIGHT add the dataplan and then cancel it when I get back. I don't need it all the time. Two, I like the usability of a smartphone and the menu options. Three, I like that I can sync it to my Outlook calendar. Four, I like that I can have a task list or notes section. For me a phone is to help me stay little more organized, to make phone calls, send the occasional text message and take the occasional picture. I don't need to follow my Twitter account or update my blog or transfer pictures over to Flickr or check my email. That's what my computer is for. If something is so important that you need to get it to me right this second, text or call me. Otherwise, it can wait.\nMatt and I went to see if we could get less minutes and save some money on our plan only to find out that less minutes would cost more!!! We have Sprint/Nextel and they have changed their plans so we pay right around $100/month for 1400 minutes (no text messaging or anything extra) but when we went to ask about changing to less minutes it would still be $100/month and only like 800 minutes...uh, no thanks! Cell phones are so annoying!!!\nStephanie Jun 27, 2010, 2:31:00 PM\nWhen it comes to cell phones, I'm cheap too. We only pay around $68 per month for 550 shared minutes and 300 text messages each. Plus, that includes an old discount that I probably shouldn't get. We've gone over minutes before, but never the text messages. I just don't want to pay a small fortune for a phone!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 11356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/handwriting/s/sovereignty.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:23Z", "digest": "sha1:3VB7HJOHRJ4D2BUA2ZT4IZ5X6DWLJ42H", "length": 623, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thebluediamondgallery.com", "title": "Sovereignty - Handwriting image", "raw_content": "Handwriting Sovereignty Image\nThe picture below related to the word Sovereignty is licensed by R M Media Ltd under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license which permits the free use of the image for any purpose including commercial use and also permits the image to be modified. The image may be redistributed for free under the same Creative Commons license but may not be sold, attribution is a condition of the license, see license details below.\nSovereignty by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images\nTitle: Sovereignty\nOriginal Image: http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/handwriting/s/sovereignty.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebraveriseup.com/2016-cohort.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VZM4QL7GD67BDQ2N47TKHWIAWIOERVPM", "length": 10914, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.thebraveriseup.com", "title": "2016 COHORT - RISE UP: BE HEARD", "raw_content": "Montse Reyes from Merced, California is a 22-year-old sociology student at UC Santa Cruz. The child of Mexican immigrants, Montse has been writing for publications based in the Central Valley since the age of 16. Her passion for journalism stems from her desire to work toward social change and make responsible, conscientious media. She hopes her journalism will serve as a platform to amplify the voices of traditionally marginalized communities. Montse plans to explore issues of food insecurity, housing insecurity, and immigration in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.\n\u200bMichael Wafford has lived in California\u2019s Central Valley his entire life and has served for two years as the editor for a pair of rural newspapers in Kern County, where he has reported on topics ranging from restorative justice in schools to worker\u2019s rights and other issues impacting working families in rural California. Michael graduated from California State University, Bakersfield in 2015 with a bachelor\u2019s degree in communications. Michael is interested in reporting on quality-of-life disparities that exist in Kern County, particularly for those working in the local agriculture and oil industries.\nBetty Marquez will be exploring issues of environmental racism in southeast Los Angeles and its effects on the area's residents. Having been raised in Bell, California with little access to the outdoors, she is passionate about claiming space for women of color through her hiking, backpacking, and traveling adventures. She is currently a teaching assistant at an elementary school where she interacts with brilliant first graders on a daily basis. Betty holds a degree in feminist studies from UC Santa Barbara.\nKody Stoebig is a Visalia native who works with The kNOw Youth Media in Fresno, California. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Fresno Pacific University where she earned a degree in communication and served as an editor for her school's newspaper. Kody's work at The kNOw has centered strongly around youth development and community health. She has a passion for social justice and for giving others a platform to share their stories. She focuses on \u201cstories surrounding gender issues and the unfair stigma those with mental health issues face in our society.\"\n\u200bSymone Jackson is a community organizer in San Jose, California who graduated from Santa Clara University with a bachelor\u2019s degree in sociology. Her involvement in grassroots organizing and work experience as a public health research assistant has provided her with a unique lens for analyzing community health issues. As a local organizer, she primarily works with families who have lost loved ones to police violence, serving as a consultant, conducting legal research, and performing PR and communications duties. As a fellow, she hopes to further develop her writing skills while shedding light on some important community health issues in the South Bay such as housing insecurity and the impact of police violence on children and families.\n\u200b\u200bDaniel F. Jimenez was born in Sinaloa, Mexico. At the age of 13, he moved with his family to California and later graduated from California State University, Bakersfield with a bachelor\u2019s degree in communications, with an emphasis in digital media. In college, Daniel was active in organizations advocating and promoting the rights of undocumented immigrants, and others supporting environmental and animal rights. He currently works at a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students in Kern County access higher education and leadership opportunities. He has worked as a journalist and photographer for South Kern Sol, a youth media outlet, and as a freelancer for El Popular News. Daniel is interested on issues that are affecting his community, such as the health impact of pesticides used in agriculture\nTyree Boyd-Pates, a resident of Compton, California, Tyree graduated from Temple University with a master\u2019s degree in pan-African studies and is an alumnus of California State University, Bakersfield, where he received his bachelor\u2019s degree in communications with a minor in African American studies. While at Temple he founded The Corner, an hour-long radio show that explored the intersections of Black culture, faith and politics, and was once invited by the White House to cover President Obama in New York City. The health topics he is interested in reporting on as a fellow are environmental pollution, neighborhood violence, inadequate access to healthy foods and decent housing, and community-police relations.\nMaria Marcelina Crystal Vega, from the Central Valley town of Los Banos, is a Queer Xicanx and soon-to-be UC Davis graduate majoring in psychology and anthropology with a minor in religious studies. At Davis, Crystal has written for the school newspaper, the Aggie, and has been very involved with her college radio station as a volunteer, DJ, and news reporter. They are a passionate advocate for education and community empowerment, currently working as a recreation leader for an after school program and also as a peer educator at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte in Merced. As a fellow, Crystal is interested in reporting on reproductive and social justice topics that involve underrepresented groups in the Central Valley, such as the LGBT+ community and youth.\n\u200bKristian Castro is a San Diego native who grew up in a predominantly working class neighborhood. His family of immigrants uprooted themselves from the Philippines and planted the seeds of a new life here in the states hoping for better opportunities. One of the first in his family to graduate from college, Kristian\u2019s experiences in student leadership at UC San Diego cultivated his passions for social justice and community development. After college he served in AmeriCorps, where he developed a volunteer program for a media nonprofit and supported workforce efforts in southeast San Diego. He currently works with the San Diego Urban League on housing and financial literacy projects. He is eager to spotlight narratives that convey how city infrastructure, transportation access and urban design play a major role in impacting community health.\nMyles Bess is an aspiring filmmaker and writer from Oakland, California. Prior to joining Fusion as a Rise Up: Be Heard fellow, he worked for Youth Radio in Oakland where he reported on juvenile justice, education, and community organizing issues, and his stories have appeared on National Public Radio, Marketplace, and The San Francisco Chronicle. As a fellow, Myles hopes to explore how gentrification and police brutality are changing the cultural landscape of Oakland and the East Bay, and how these changes are impacting the overall health of the community. With plans to transfer to San Francisco State University in the fall of 2016, Myles looks forward to expanding his knowledge and understanding of multimedia in the coming months while delving into community health issues that hit close to home.\n\u200bGabriela Espinal, from San Diego, recently graduated from the UC Santa Cruz where she earned degrees in art history and visual culture, and feminist studies. For the past three years Gabriela was a part of the student broadcasting organization Rainbow TV, a group that would film and edit live productions put on by the Cultural Arts and Diversity Resource Center at UCSC. More recently, Gabriela has been working with Media Arts Center San Diego in their Teen Producers Project, a program that gives local youth access to video cameras and editing software so they can engage in digital storytelling as a means of self-expression, communication and social change. As a fellow, Gabriela is interested in reporting on housing insecurity, immigration reform, human rights concerns along the U.S.-Mexico border, and the school to prison pipeline.\nCecilia Chavez is the fifth child of immigrant parents who fled the harsh conditions of their hometown in Mexico in 1995 searching for a better future. Since then she has called East San Jose home. She received her bachelor\u2019s degree in justice studies San Jose State University and is completing her last semester in a master\u2019s program in the Mexican American studies department, also at San Jose State. On top of being a mother and wife she also balances her role as lead Bay Area Coordinator of Participatory Defense in her work with Silicon Valley De-Bug, a local nonprofit, where she organizes and supports families who are impacted by the criminal justice system. Her ambition in life is to be an attorney to properly address and bring to light the collateral damages that families face in the court process. Through her work she has been able to identify the different impacts that the criminal system has on communities of color and works on a daily basis to address them. As a fellow she plans to raise the visibility of the community health issues she confronts on a daily basis through her advocacy work\nJacob Patterson is a Queer activist with a passion for social justice, gender equality, and storytelling through digital media. Hailing from rural Crescent City, California, she returned to Del Norte County and Adjacent Tribal Lands after exploring her love for travel and volunteer work abroad. She focuses on outreach work with youth, particularly women, girls, and members of the LGBTQ community. Currently a Youth Leader with the Opportunity Youth Initiative, she is working towards addressing youth disengagement in education and the local workforce. Jacob serves on Coastal Connections Youth Center Council, and facilitates a local community group, Gender Talk, with the mission of providing education, information, and support to all on issues of social disparities. These principles take form in weekly radio broadcasts, print publications, and video productions. Issues of interest for Jacob include equitable sex education, body autonomy, the BLM movement, indigenous peoples' rights, domestic violence prevention, immigration reform, universal health care access, and creating safe spaces for Femme, Queer, and Trans bodies.\nUriel Lopez is an Immigration Advocate at Centro La Familia Advocacy Services in Fresno, California, a non-profit assisting mainly the Latino community in the San Joaquin Valley. In his role, he assists low-income immigrants with various immigration legal services. He has worked extensively with communities in the San Francisco Bay Area as well as in the San Joaquin Valley. He is passionate about education, immigration, and access to health care. Recently, he participated in an internship program in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee. He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in Chicano studies from the University of California at Berkeley. As a fellow, he hopes to focus on healthcare for undocumented immigrants and linguistic minorities, and overall access to health care in the San Joaquin Valley.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 11790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 138.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecatholictelegraph.com/confess-a-thon-at-colombian-mall-draws-350-priests", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:DCCWNPAMCRWLRHNTFC75MM5XND345VEA", "length": 2550, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.thecatholictelegraph.com", "title": "\u2018Confess-a-thon\u2019 at Colombian mall draws 350 priests \u2013 Catholic Telegraph", "raw_content": "Home\u00bbHome Page\u00bb\u2018Confess-a-thon\u2019 at Colombian mall draws 350 priests\n\u2018Confess-a-thon\u2019 at Colombian mall draws 350 priests\nPhotos of the \u201cConfesat\u00f3n \u201d in the Great Mall Station in Bogota. (Courtesy Photo/Colombian Bishops Conference)\nIn the South American nation of Colombia \u2013 where an estimated 70 percent of the population identifies as Catholic \u2013 it is not unusual to encounter Catholic priests at a cathedral, or perhaps at a religious school or hospital.\nSeeing scores of priests at a shopping mall, on the other hand, is a less frequent occurrence. But for thousands of shoppers at Gran Estaci\u00f3n Mall in Bogota, Colombia last week, that\u2019s exactly what happened. Some 350 priests congregated at the mall to offer the Sacrament of Reconciliation in a \u201cConfess-a-thon\u201d held Oct. 6-7.\nShoppers were surprised to see the priests, who were spread out at different stations throughout the mall, offering opportunities for Confession, or just to talk. Many took advantage of the opportunity.\n\u201cIt\u2019s good to draw near to the Lord, to be reconciled, to give up all this evil,\u201d said Luz Alba, a woman at the Bogota mall, according to the Colombian Bishops Conference.\nThe bishops\u2019 conference reported on the event on its website. It shared the testimony of Father Ariel Vi\u00e1fara, a priest of the Apostolic Vicariate of Guapi.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a marvelous opportunity to go out to the people so they can be reconciled with God,\u201d the priest said.\nFr. Hern\u00e1n Ba\u00e9z explained that the mall was chosen because it contains a chapel and prayer room, run by the Lord of the Beatitudes Parish, which Fr. Ba\u00e9z heads.\n\u201cWhat we were able to accomplish with these days of Confession is to show that the merciful Jesus walks through the streets, even in a mall,\u201d he said.\nIn the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, a mall ministry doesn\u2019t seem so unusual. For the past two years, during Advent and the Christmas season, the Franciscan Friars of St. John the Baptist province have set up shop in Cincinnati\u2019s Northgate Mall.\nThe Catholic Telegraph staff contributed to this report.\nTags:confessionmall ministryshopping mall\nSt. Rita School for the Deaf brings centennial celebration to Fountain Square\nToday\u2019s Video: How to make a good confession\nBe not afraid: A priest shares his thoughts on the gift of confession\nFather Endres Column for February: God makes it easy to return to the Church\nSeek the Lord by Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr: Encounter the peace of Christ in Confession\nPhotos of the \"Confesat\u00f3n \" in the Great Mall Station in Bogota. 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This popular Christmas carol was composed by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych in 1914 with lyrics by Peter Wilhousky...\n$30.00 Quantity 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 INSIDE the CIRCLE: Deck the Halls, trans. by Matt Harloff\nDeck the Halls is one of the most popular Christmas, yuletide songs of the season. The melody is Welsch dating back to the sixteenth century. This arrangement was written for and performed by The Voices...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 8222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 70.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/24615/historic-topgun-hangar-at-marine-corps-air-station-miramar-is-notoriously-haunted", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:H6TTYZUD2EP46G62Z4SHJ3UWUV7IFWY6", "length": 12170, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "www.thedrive.com", "title": "Historic Topgun Hangar At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Is Notoriously Haunted - The Drive", "raw_content": "Historic Topgun Hangar At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Is Notoriously Haunted\nThe famous hangar was the site of a horrific tragedy and there have been persistent reports of ghostly phenomena ever since.\nF-8 Crash\nParamount Pictures Screencap\nWhen it comes to haunted military installations, ships, and even airplanes, one place pops into my mind above all others. That place is Miramar's historic Hangar One that hosted the Navy Fighter Weapons School, better known as Topgun, for decades and was also featured in the cult classic flick by the same name.\nThere are plenty of recollections of Hangar One being haunted floating around. I stumbled upon this lore by happenstance way back in mid-1990s when I spent time at the base, then known proudly as 'Fightertown USA,' as a teenager thanks to a friend of the family. This included some extended time in the F-14A simulator, which was a real highlight to this very day. When we were in VF-101's hangars, which were situated across from the group of hangars that supported the adversary program and Topgun, some sailors were swapping a Tomcat's engine and mentioned that they would be there till late that night. The other sailor replied something like, \"rather here than in Hangar One, late nights there were creepy as hell!\" I asked the high-time Tomcat instructor that was hosting me what the deal was and he said the place is notorious for being haunted.\nThe U.S. Army Once Blew Up Tunnels In A German Town To Chase Away A GhostBy Joseph Trevithick Posted in The War Zone\nHow To Fight To Win In The F-14, A-4 and F-5 At The Navy's Topgun SchoolBy Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway Posted in The War Zone\nOn Top Gun\u2019s 30th Anniversary, We Talk to a Topgun Instructor Who Worked on the '80s MasterpieceBy Dave \u201cBio\u201d Baranek and Tyler Rogoway Posted in The War Zone\nYou Need To Hear These FAA Tapes From That Oregon UFO Incident That Sent F-15s ScramblingBy Tyler Rogoway Posted in The War Zone\nDetailed Official Report On Harrowing Encounter Between F/A-18s and UFO SurfacesBy Tyler Rogoway Posted in The War Zone\nAs the years have passed, that stuck with me and I have asked other Topgun personnel about the haunting. Some had personal experiences usually surrounding the labyrinth of offices that are arranged above the hangar bay. One even heard a massive crash and screams while working late in one of the bays, only to find the place peaceful and empty.\nThe hangar definitely has seen a lot of history. Here's how Paul Nickell, who was a student at Topgun and an instructor back in the 1980s, described the place in our exclusive series on taming the Tomcat and flying for the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School:\n\"I think it was the second oldest hangar at Miramar, but it was designated Hangar One. It sat at the east end of Runway 24 Right, just to the north of the hold short line. Most likely built in the 1950s, it wasn\u2019t there in the early 1940s when my dad was stationed at then Camp Kearny as a B-24 radioman. It had survived a flamed out pilotless F-8 Crusader crashing into it in December of 1969, a tragedy that took 14 lives.\nAcross the north side of the hangar, facing the road, in huge deep-blue block letters was the word \u201cTOPGUN.\" At the time, Topgun was not a household word. The average American had no idea what it was, but that would change soon. After parking in the lot across the street, we walked past a couple of large dumpsters on the side of the parking lot entrance, crossed the street, climbed a few steps and returned a salute from the gate guard. About 50 feet away, in the northeast corner of the hanger, was a single width blue metal door. Above the door was a white metal sign screwed to the corrugated grey metal siding which read \u201cWELCOME TO NAVY FIGHTER WEAPONS SCHOOL\u201d in black stenciled letters. In the center of the sign was a large sticker of the Topgun emblem.\nEntering the door, we were in a stairwell that went halfway up and then switched back to complete the journey to the second level. The walls of the stairwell were painted gloss white and were covered with neatly spaced red silhouettes of MiG aircraft kills from Vietnam. Below each were the aircrew names and the date of the kill. Additionally, there were two recent silhouettes from Libya.\nAt the top of the stairs, we turned left and started down a hallway. The right side was solid and was the exterior wall of the hangar. There was one opening on the right, about the size of a double door, with an accordion metal contraption across it so that no one would accidentally walk out the opening and fall 20 feet to the ramp below. The remainder of the wall was covered with a small group of pictures of the current Topgun staff and plaques. There were several rows of plaques that ran the length of the hallway, probably 100 yards or more. Each plaque was a gift from a crew that had attended training at Topgun, and each had a unique story behind it. There were literally hundreds of them.\nDown the left side of the hallway were the squadron spaces. The CO and XO offices were first with a secretary in front. There was a small ready room where the Squadron Duty Officer sat during flight ops. There were several small groups of briefing and debriefing rooms, along with two relatively large classrooms. Beyond that was the operations office and the training office. We were directed into Classroom One which was walled with 4X8 sheets of imitation wood paneling. There were tables and chairs to seat about 35 students plus a row of chairs with no tables across the back for additional guests.\nThe left side of the classroom had a single air conditioning window unit that dumped the heat and humidity from the classroom into the hangar. There were a few large TV\u2019s in the corners. At the front of the classroom was a whiteboard, a podium, and an opaque plastic screen that slides could be projected onto from behind. At numerous places around the room there were models of different types of US and threat fighter aircraft attached to wooden dowels that could be used for briefing and debriefing purposes. Most of the furnishings of this room and the rest of the spaces had probably been lifted from somewhere else on the base or traded for through the Navy supply system.\nObviously, none of it appeared nice enough to have had origins on an Air Force base.\"\nSo yeah, Hangar One provided a fairly rustic working environment considering the leading-edge of Navy fighter tactics development emanated from there for a quarter of a century.\nThe famous stairwell at Topgun's original headquarters at NAS Miramar. The school is now located at NAS Fallon in far more modern accommodations.\nThe horrific crash that Paul Nickell mentions is largely regarded as the source of supposed hauntings. The accident was horrendous, literally a worst case scenario, that took multiple lives and left the hangar with noticeable scars. The convergence of this historic tragedy and the strange happenings that persisted inside the hangar even after the Navy turned the facility over to the U.S. Marine Corps in 1997 resulted in an official story from the USMC about it. Although the story is no longer accessible on the Marine Corps' site, it has been posted around the net. It reads in full:\nHaunted History spooks Hangar One\nSubmitted by: MCAS Miramar\nStory Identification Number: 200419113431\nStory by Cpl. Tara Dawn Smith\nMARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. (Jan. 8, 2004)\nHistory is something that lives anew whenever events and lives of the past are revisited for reflection or examination. However, it seems that in the case of Hangar One, occasionally history visits the present ... in the form of ghosts.\nAccording to Joe Glasser, Martin-Baker representative at Miramar, there are those who have encountered the non-corporeal inhabitants of the hangar. Glasser explained one such ghostly event occurred one late afternoon when then Naval Air Station Miramar was transitioning into Marine Corps Air Station Miramar.\nAn officer, from Marine Aircraft Group 11 then located at MCAS El Toro, knocked on the hatch of Glasser's office and explained he would be surveying the offices in the hangar's upstairs. Twenty minutes passed and again the officer was at Glasser's hatch.\nThis time however, the officer was out of breath and visibly lighter in color, said Glasser.\nWhen the Marine officer was able to articulate his concern, he asked if there were reports of unusual occurrences in the catwalks of the building. Glasser commented that he had heard rumors of \"visitations from a netherly realm,\" but hadn't experienced first hand accounts. The officer then related his account of the events from his inspection of the\nupper offices in the hangar.\nLong hallways upstairs make it difficult for some to slip away from view quickly. So, when the MAG-11 officer heard footsteps and saw an opaque shadow through the frosted glass of the office, he expected to be greeted by someone walking the corridors. What he found appeared to be quite unsettling, said Glasser.\nWhen the officer opened the door to look for the person generating the footsteps and shadow, he saw nothing more than an empty hallway.\nThese brushes with the supernatural begs the question, what past events of the hangar could cause it to be possessed by former and now deceased residents of the building? Jim Bradbury, the Martin-Baker representative in 1969, might know something about the haunted history of Hangar One.\nBradbury explained he was visiting the base on business on Dec. 22, 1969 when he witnessed a tragic event that left 14 dead.\nThe pilot of an F-8 crusader of Fighter Squadron 191 safely ejected over Kearny Villa Rd. after the engine of the plane seized, but the plane continued its course that passed through the hangar doors crashing into the north wall. The crash sent fuel spilling that ignited and engulfed several mechanics in the hangar. One ejection seat mechanic was working on a seat in a plane at the time of the event and was ejected into the roof of the hangar. Six F-4 phantoms stationed in the hangar were destroyed in the collision. Fissures that are still visible in the wall of the hangar serve as a scar of the crash.\nThe hauntings and lasting damage to the hangar aren't the only way this tragedy, and sacrifice of service members who paid the ultimate price, live on.\nA more concrete monument that stands as a testament to the event is a memorial located on the golf course that commemorates those killed in Hangar One on Dec. 22, 1969. A plaque with the names of all the deceased rests south of the driving range keeping the memory and history of those servicemembers alive.\nThe aftermath of the 1969 F-8 crash.\nA few years ago, I was talking with a technician who spent time in the facility back in the 1990s. He relayed some of the creepy stories he had heard of and one he experienced himself having to do with a shadow-like human figure approaching him head-on in a hallway before suddenly disappearing. I asked if he had heard any new reports of the Hangar still being haunted. He replied:\n\"When the ghosts finally realized the base had been turned over to the fucking Marine Corps they probably got the hell out of there too!\"\nYou gotta love old sailors, even tragedy and manifesting spirits can't keep their sense of irony and humor down.\nThe U.S. Army Once Blew Up Tunnels In A German Town To Chase Away A Ghost\nThe White Lady of Freihung was having none of it and kept right on haunting the area.\nHow To Fight To Win In The F-14, A-4 and F-5 At The Navy's Topgun School\nA Topgun student who later became an instructor tells us all about how to fly the Tomcat, Skyhawk and Tiger II in a dogfight and what it was like to both learn and teach at the legendary school.\nOn Top Gun\u2019s 30th Anniversary, We Talk to a Topgun Instructor Who Worked on the '80s Masterpiece\nThe myth of Mav and Goose lives on, and F-14 RIO Dave \u201cBio\u201d Baranek explains how the film's scenes didn't crash and burn.\nDetailed Official Report On Harrowing Encounter Between F/A-18s and UFO Surfaces\nThe paper recounts a course of bizarre events that occurred near the USS Nimitz while it was sailing off the Baja Peninsula in November 2004.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 13586, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/cheaper-stocks-not-time-buy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:12Z", "digest": "sha1:SW65ADMAVXZW2HT47IAE3EVOHAB2R3ZG", "length": 3865, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.theedgemarkets.com", "title": "\u2018Cheaper stocks but not time to buy\u2019 | The Edge Markets", "raw_content": "\u2018Cheaper stocks but not time to buy\u2019\nKUALA LUMPUR: Although value may have emerged following the global market selldown on Wednesday in reaction to China\u2019s retaliation to the tariffs announced by the US, it may not be time yet to enter the local equities market.\nThe FBM KLCI saw a technical rebound yesterday to close up 20.19 points or 1.11% at 1,836.13, after falling 34.84 points or 1.88% on Wednesday amid China\u2019s announcement of tariffs on US$50 billion (RM193 billion) worth of US imports.\nSimilarly, the small-cap index rebounded 256.57 points or 1.87% to close at 13,976.23, after plunging 5.99% the previous day.\nThe rebound in the local market may suggest some bargain hunting at play, an analyst said, but it is not yet a good time to accumulate, as most investors are looking to sell on strength rather than add to their positions.\n\u201cIt is not a good time to enter the market as the volatility has not ended. Most investors are looking to sell their positions and\nrefrain from entering at this point in time, as there is not much in terms of upside signals. The sentiment is still bearish overall,\u201d said Hong Leong Investment Bank Bhd retail research head Loui Low.\nWhile the spotlight has recently been on external uncertainties, he said the local market is still keeping an eye on domestic factors, namely the upcoming dissolution of Parliament to make way for the 14th general election.\nYesterday was the last day of Malaysia\u2019s 13th Parliament, which means that the dissolution is likely to be announced within the next few days.\n\u201cMalaysian equities may be cheaper now \u2014 especially the small caps which have seen a strong correction over the past few months \u2013 and some may begin accumulating, but overall, there are still uncertainties both externally and internally,\u201d said Low.\nThe US Trade Representative\u2019s office proposed a 25% tariff on 1,333 types of imports from China worth US$50 billion, mostly focused on the technology industry, as it seeks to eliminate China\u2019s allegedly harmful acts, policies and practices in relation to trade.\nIn response, China retaliated with new 25% tariffs on 106 US products worth US$50 billion within several hours of the US\u2019 announcement, including on soybeans, automobiles, chemicals and aircraft.\nThe recent developments sparked concerns over the possibility of an all-out trade war, keeping investors spooked and markets volatile.\nAlthough the volatility in equity markets will continue, Rakuten Trade research vice-president Vincent Lau said long-term investors could capitalise on the cheaper valuations as Malaysia\u2019s long-term fundamentals are still solid.\nHe said investors should look at the small- to mid-cap space, specifically pointing out those in the construction segment, such as Ahmad Zaki Resources Bhd, Econpile Holdings Bhd and TRC Synergy Bhd.\n\u201cLooking from a longer-term perspective, Malaysia\u2019s fundamentals are still sound. The sentiment is positive among local funds, the economic outlook is good and oil prices are higher, so I would say that we should be fairly resilient to the external developments,\u201d he said, adding that the research house is still holding on to its FBM KLCI year-end target of 1,940 points.\nMeanwhile, he said, a full-on trade war is unlikely to happen as the proposed tariffs are still up for negotiation.\nCIMB Investment research head Ivy Ng said the proposal would likely be \u201cwatered down\u201d like in the case of previous sanctions against washing machines, solar panels, steel and aluminium.\n\u201cThis could be a negotiation tactic to reduce tariff and non-tariff trade barriers to US exports and improve market access for US companies,\u201d said Ng.\nShe said the sectors that may be adversely affected by US tariffs on China include semiconductors, building material and ports, but added that it is difficult to ascertain the quantum of impact on earnings at this juncture.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefilmfile.com/reviews/j/11_janeeyre.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FCDELZHJKPE52H4B6XOJDLROYLEQUJVR", "length": 5667, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thefilmfile.com", "title": "Dustin Putman's Review: Jane Eyre (2011) - [TheMovieBoy]", "raw_content": "Directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga.\nCast: Mia Wasikowska, Michael Fassbender, Jamie Bell, Judi Dench, Imogen Poots, Sally Hawkins, Tamzin Merchant, Freya Wilson, Craig Roberts, Jayne Wisener, Sophie Ward, Harry Lloyd, Holliday Grainger, Simon McBurney, Harry Lloyd, Sophie Ward, Valentina Cervi, Amelia Clarkson, Freya Parks.\nRated: (for some thematic elements including nudity and brief violent content).\nSince 1934, there have been no less than ten film adaptations of Charlotte Bronte's classic 1847 opus \"Jane Eyre.\" Do we really need another retelling? Moreover, does the story still hold much water for audiences living in the twenty-first century? The theatrical trailer that studio Focus Features created for the movie suggested this one might actually bring something new to the table, playing up the gothic and supernatural elements that lie around the fringes of the novel. Clever marketing, indeed, but it turns out to also be a bold-faced deception. Were the 2011 version of \"Jane Eyre\" to have delved into darker, more dangerous waters, it would have been a slight departure from the source material, but at least would have been something different. As an enduring work of literature, \"Jane Eyre\" warrants its steadfast place in history. As a motion picture, it comes off as a trite soap opera flitting around the same basic conflicts and conventions as just about every romance released these days.\nWeary, exhausted, and without much more than the clothes on her back, Jane Eyre (Mia Wasikowska) flees across the English countryside and is taken in by young clergy St. John Rivers (Jamie Bell) and his two sisters. Grappling with a major life decision, her varied past is gradually revealed. As a child, the orphaned Jane (Amelia Clarkson) lived with her late uncle's family, mistreated and unaccepted by the lot of them until she was sent off to Lowood School for Girls. Several years later, a grown Jane gets a job as the governess of sprawling Thornfield Hall and strikes up a friendship with the master of the estate, the gallant Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender). Their flirtations soon turn to love and a marriage proposal\u0097something that the kindly Mrs. Fairfax (Judi Dench) disapproves of. Jane, having always thought of herself as plain, is beside herself with happiness at the impending nuptials. Then the other shoe drops when it is revealed that Rochester is already married to the mentally insane Bertha Antoinetta Mason (Valentina Cervi), whom he has kept hidden away at Thornfield for the last fifteen years. Is Jane willing to defy common law and her own moral stance to be with the man she undoubtedly loves?\nDirected by Cary Joji Fukunaga (2009's \"Sin Nombre\"), \"Jane Eyre\" is rooted in an old-fashioned frame of mind dictated by the period in which it was written. Rochester is possessive of Jane\u0097\"I must have you as my own,\" he says\u0097and she, in turn, is prepared to make a lifelong commitment to the first man who pays her attention. At the same time, one can see how Bronte's novel has been one of the obvious blueprints for modern love stories that still incorporate the same basic twists and conflicts. The reveal that Rochester is married to someone else has been borrowed too many times to count, while even the concept of hiding away a sick wife in the attic of a mansion was retold in an early-'90s storyline on daytime soap \"All My Children.\" Indeed, would there even be such a thing as Harlequin romances without \"Jane Eyre?\"\nWatching the film, the thought occurred that the narrative is not really concerned with its title figure's trials and tribulations so much as it is an overwrought Victorian sudser more interested in soaking up the details of its lurid, if decidedly chaste, love affair. Save for being a comment on the era in which it is set, it is fairly straightforward and rather shallow. There is not much substance to the relationship between Jane and Rochester. It is crucial, then, that the actors in any one adaptation share a certain amount of chemistry. Without being involved in anything steamier than a kiss\u0097and what a kiss it is, set against the backdrop of an impending storm, wind swirling around them and the sounds of thunder approaching as the sun still shines\u0097Mia Wasikowska (2010's \"The Kids Are All Right\") and Michael Fassbender (2009's \"Inglourious Basterds\") dance with each other through the words they speak, leaving the viewer waiting desperately for the moment to come when they confirm their reciprocal feelings. Even if depth is lacking in their courtship, the performers make their passion, boiling just beneath the surface, seem very real. Separately, too, they're quite good. Dressed and styled down, Wasikowska makes an ideal Jane, while Fassbender is every bit as dashing and smoldering as Rochester should be. The rest of the cast are dealt lesser hands, with Jamie Bell (2011's \"The Eagle\"), as St. John Rivers; Judi Dench (2009's \"Nine\"), as Mrs. Fairfax, and Sally Hawkins (2010's \"Never Let Me Go\"), as Jane's spiteful aunt Mrs. Reed, all underused.\nThere is no doubt that \"Jane Eyre\" has been an influential work in the annals of fiction, Charlotte Bronte's novels holding the same lingering, centuries-long impact as William Shakespeare's plays. For this latest cinematic treatment, however, a handsome production with elegant cinematography, art direction and costume design can only go so far in a subjectively meager period piece. Largely bereft of creativity or even a speck of courage to deviate off the path of the norm, this \"Jane Eyre\" feels strikingly unnecessary. Why watch the same tale spun for a tenth time when you could be watching one of the previous nine?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 6164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thelondontraveller.com/hawksmore-seven-dials-bar-and-grill/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:33Z", "digest": "sha1:WEXAZCT3BFIP4TWHZAVG4EC7XT3IQHBE", "length": 815, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thelondontraveller.com", "title": "Hawksmore Seven Dials Bar and Grill", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re looking for a great meal and a chance to sit back and have a few drinks, then the Hawkmore Seven Dials restaurant is a great option. In fact, the restaurant is one of the best in the city. The initial entrance of the restaurant may seem a little difficult to find, but once you get there, you\u2019ll love it. The restaurant is located near Covent Garden, and is found within a basement. The restaurant has only been there since 2010, but it\u2019s already made a great impact through the area.\nThe meat is of fantastic quality, and you can get a steak better than the steaks at most of the steak restaurants in the area. So as you might expect, the Hawksmoor restaurant isn\u2019t exactly cheap \u2013 but it\u2019s worth the cost. You can probably expect to pay around \u00a350 each, but the experience you get for that is fantastic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 139.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thepensivequill.com/2016/04/hesitant-comrades.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:56Z", "digest": "sha1:C4YI2KFC44VSFPBYYVNZB6AKRNAYEH36", "length": 6690, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.thepensivequill.com", "title": "Hesitant Comrades | TPQ", "raw_content": "Hesitant Comrades\nBy AM - Monday, April 4, 2016 - No Comments\nMick Hall @ Organized Rage discusses the attitude of the British Labour Party to Ireland and hosts a review of a book addressing this issue.\nHesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement by Geoffrey Bell.\nShortly before he was executed, James Connolly told his daughter Nora \"They will never understand why I am here; they will forget that I am an Irishman.\u201d They were the leaders of the British labour movement.\nFast forward to the 5th of May 1981 when I was helping to organise the People's March for Jobs in the SERTUC office at Congress House, the TUC's head quarters in London's Great Russell Street.\nBefore I left home that morning the Today radio programme announced Bobby Sands had died overnight in the Maze prison hospital after 66 days on hunger strike. He was just 27 years old. Yet when I went into Congress House that morning his death had created hardly a murmur. It was as if it had taken place in a far off land, not in a disputed part of the nation we all lived in. It was as if nothing of importance had occurred overnight.\nToday Sands is rightly regarded as a heroic individual throughout much of the world. Streets have been named after him in countries as different as France and Iran. Monsignor Denis Faul, no friend of the IRA, who as the Catholic chaplain in the jail had vigorously opposed the hunger strike and was instrumental in bringing them to an end after the death of ten men, said this shortly after Bobby died:\n\"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends\"\nWhen Bobby Sands died many wept in disbelief, others raged at the sheer callousness of the Thatcher government, many socialists were outraged at the adamant refusal of the British Labour Party leadership to intervene on the side of the hunger strikers, as even the Vatican had done.\nBelow Andy Stowe reviews a new book Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement. It looks at how the British Labour Party leadership turned their backs on the Dublin Easter Rising, and made no effort to save it's leaders from execution. Indeed, the then LP leader Arthur Henderson, was a member of the British coalition government which acquiesced to the British army's request to introduce martial law in Ireland, and appointed Major-General John Maxwell as Commander-in-Chief of all troops stationed there. He was given carte blanche to restore order, put down the rebellion, and punish its participants.\nAmongst the sixteen rebels executed were trade unionists like Michael Mallen and James Connolly. Connolly was well known in trade union circles across the Irish sea. As were William Brien and Tom Foran, founding members along with Connoly of the Irish Transport and General Workers Union, (ITGWU) who were both imprisoned after the Easter Rising.\nFollowing Connolly's execution, Liberty Hall, the Union\u2019s headquarters in Dublin and it's records were seized by the British military authorities, but ITGWU members refused to be intimidated, unlike their British counterparts in London who failed to raise even a whimper against the brutal behavior of the British authorities in Ireland.\nAfter their release from prison, Tom Foran, William O'Brien and others helped rebuild the organisation which is today called SIPTU.\nHopefully now the LP has a socialist at the helm whose record on Ireland is solid, there can be a new dawn, no longer will leading members of the British Labour movement look the other way as far as Ireland is concerned.\nJeremy Corbyn finds himself in the tricky position of being the anti-austerity leader of a party which is rather ambivalent on the subject. To compound his problem he is the anti-imperialist leader of a party which has generally taken the view that British imperialism is, all things considered, not that bad. In the words of an earlier Labour leader:\n\u201cWhen the expression \u201cBritish\u201d is used in civil matters it implies something more than a mere description of racial or national origin. \u201cBritish\u201d justice, \u201cBritish\u201d honour, \u201cBritish\u201d administration, carry to our minds certain qualities of justice, honour, and administration, and our Imperial policy has always been commended to our people at home \u2013 whenever they troubled their heads about it these moral or qualitative grounds. The Empire must exist not merely for safety, or order, or peace, but for richness of life.\u201d\nThat\u2019s from Ramsay MacDonald\u2019s 1907 pamphlet Labour and the Empire, but it pretty much sums up Tony Blair\u2019s or Gordon Brown\u2019s view on the civilising mission of modern British imperialism.\nGeoffrey Bell\u2019s new book Hesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement is full of jaw dropping quotes like that. The author has clearly spent a vast amount of time in archives and libraries trawling through the British left press and trade union minutes of the early 20th century looking for, and more often than not, failing to find, what they were thinking, writing and doing about their nearest and oldest colony. Even readers who thought they were familiar with just how craven the Labour Party and union leaderships were in the face of imperialism will find things that will shock them. For example, the naval power which saw off the Spanish armada, the Dutch fleet, Bonaparte\u2019s ships and the Kaiser\u2019s Imperial Navy was ostensibly terrified at the prospect of an independent Ireland as a naval threat. So, when some form of Irish self-determination became inevitable, there was a queue of Labour politicians insisting that any agreement impose strict limits on how many ships and how many troops it should have. It almost makes the pro-Trident lobby seem rational.\nAnother recurring motif in British labourism was a concern for the rights of minorities. In most circumstances this is entirely laudable. In the specific circumstances of early 20th century Ireland it meant supporting the right of the Protestant minority in the north of the country to overrule the democratic rights of the majority and enabled the island\u2019s partition. In practice it meant that Labour and the TUC endorsed pogroms which forced Catholic workers out of the Belfast shipyards from 1920 onwards and Bell devotes several useful pages to the carpenters\u2019 dispute, a squalid little episode in which British trade unionists even prevented a collection from being taken up for victims of sectarian violence.\nReviewed by Andy Stowe.\nHesitant Comrades: The Irish Revolution and the British Labour Movement by Geoffrey Bell (Pluto Press, 273pp, \u00a317)\nBook Reviews Organized Rage\nCategories: Book Reviews , Organized Rage\nNo Comment to \" Hesitant Comrades \"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 10969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/dish/201312/another-music-label-entering-sports-business", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:07Z", "digest": "sha1:EKZFA2LBUSA6UOZKYHT4XPIKZRDG5AZ5", "length": 1939, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.thepostgame.com", "title": "Another Music Label Entering Sports Business? | ThePostGame.com", "raw_content": "Another Music Label Entering Sports Business?\nIf things go according to plan for one of the biggest record labels in hip hop, Jay-Z may not be the only rapper in the sports agent business much longer.\nXXL reports that Cash Money Records, which has a venerable roster of musicians including Lil Wayne, Drake and Nicki Minaj, has filed a legal request to trademark the name Visionaire Sports Group. XXL sites these government documents as proof of Cash Money Records' intentions.\nThe trademark request is for the following services:\n\u201cSports agency services, namely, management, representation and promotion of professional athletes; promoting sports competitions and/or events of others; promoting the goods and services of others by arranging for sponsors to affiliate their goods and services with athletes; talent agencies; arranging personal appearances by persons working in the field of sport; business management of sports people; talent recruiting services in the field of sports; talent management services for professional athletes; career management services for persons employed in the sports industries.\u201d\nCash Money Records may have been encouraged by Jay-Z, who has had remarkable success over the past year as a sports agent. Not only has his agency, Roc Nation, signed some of the top players in their respective sports (Robinson Cano, Kevin Durant, Victor Cruz and Skylar Diggins among them), Jay-Z helped Cano secure the third largest contract in MLB history.\nJay-Z wasn't the first rapper to dabble in sports. Master P founded No Limit Sports in 1999 and represented Paul Pierce, Ricky Williams and Ron Mercer.\nCash Money Records, founded in 1991 by brothers Bryan \"Birdman\" Williams and Ronald \"Slim\" Williams, includes a management company (Young Money), a publishing arm (Cash Money Content) and a clothing line (Trukfit).\nSubscribe to ThePostGame's video channel:\nBasketball, Drake, Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Lil Wayne, NBA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3697, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thepuginsociety.co.uk/edward-welby.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:56Z", "digest": "sha1:EQ4STT3ZVND7HE5EXHX4NI2XXAAMN7RH", "length": 2974, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thepuginsociety.co.uk", "title": "Edward Welby", "raw_content": "Edward Welby Pugin, 1834-1875\nby Catriona Blaker\nEdward Pugin was Augustus Pugin\u2019s eldest son and second child. He was born in Ramsgate on 11th March1834. His mother was Louisa Button, whom Pugin had married in 1833 and who died in 1844. Edward was not sent away to school, and at an early age became his father\u2019s assistant, working alongside the slightly older John Hardman Powell, Augustus Pugin\u2019s chief assistant (and eventually son-in-law), and helping to make the cartoons for the many stained glass windows that Pugin was designing whilst living in Ramsgate.\nAfter the tragic early death of Pugin in 1852, Edward, his stepmother Jane, and other members of the family moved to Birmingham, in order to remain in contact with Hardman firm, and then to London. By 1861, however, the Pugin family were back in Ramsgate, where Edward, by alterations to the family home, The Grange, and lavish entertaining, felt that he had re-asserted the Pugin family standing in the town.\nIt soon became clear that Edward was an able, and original, architect, and, like his father, a workaholic and a driven personality. He had offices in Ramsgate, Liverpool, and London and was responsible for a vast number of buildings. His work initially was similar to that of his father, but later he developed a more personal style, influenced by French Gothic; his designs were sometimes very attenuated and tended strongly to the vertical. Unlike his father, to whom rood screens were all important, as being appropriate to the form of worship he felt was correct for the churches he was building, Edward designed churches with open sight lines to the high altar, and seldom with rood screens. These churches reflected the sort of Catholic liturgy that was becoming popular in the 1860s, a peak period of work for Edward. He built a very large number of Catholic churches, also monasteries, convents, chapels, orphanages and private houses. He had various partners, including his brother-in-law, George Coppinger Ashlin, with whom he built the spectacular Catholic cathedral of St Colman in Cobh, Ireland. His oeuvre was not restricted to England, and some of his best churches are in Ireland. He also worked in Belgium.\nEdward Pugin\u2019s life was difficult and his temperament erratic. He had many worries, in particular after his bankruptcy of 1873. He was involved in a number of court cases and had uncertain health, not helped by his taking habit-forming medication in the form of chloral hydrate. He never married, and died aged only forty-one.\nFor a much more extended account of Edward Pugin\u2019s life, see the \u2018Biographical Sketch\u2019 in the Gazetteer of his work on this website, by Gerard Hyland.\nAlso recommended are: \u2018The Later Pugins\u2019, by Roderick O\u2019Donnell, in Pugin: a Gothic Passion, Atterbury, Paul and Wainwright, Clive, (eds), New Haven, 1994, and Edward Pugin in Kent, by Catriona Blaker, second edition 2012, published by The Pugin Society and available for purchase in our Bookshop.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 162.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thewomenskit.org/secondary-sources.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HIFKY6E3HAB7SQN4NQ556CAF3IMQ5UEV", "length": 2134, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thewomenskit.org", "title": "Secondary Sources - THE WOMEN'S KIT", "raw_content": "A list of secondary sources that discuss or reference the Women's Kit\nAnderson, Gordon, Teng Wah Leo, and Robert Muelhaupt. \"Measuring Advances in Equality of Opportunity: The Changing Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in Canada in the Last Half Century.\" Social Indicators Research 119.1 (2014): 73-99. 2d ed., Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1977.\nMeasuring Advances in Equality of Opportunity: The Changing Gender Gap in Educational Attainment in Canada in the Last Half Century\n\u200bChapman, Anne. \"Now You See It, Now You Don't: Women's Studies at the Pre-College Level in Ontario, Canada.\" Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, 15 July 1981.\n\u200bCoulter, Rebecca P. \"Gender Equity and Schooling: Linking Research and Policy.\" Canadian Journal of Education / Revue Canadienne De l'\u00c9ducation, vol. 21, no. 4, 1996, pp. 433-452.\nGender Equity and Schooling: Linking Research and Policy\nFine-Meyer, Rose. \"Positioning Women's Narratives in Canadian History Course Materials.\" Canadian Issues, 2010, pp. 8-16.\nPositioning Women's Narratives in Canadian History Course Materials\nForman, Frieda Johles, and Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Centre for Women's Studies in Education. Feminism and Education: a Canadian Perspective. Toronto: Centre for Women's Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1990.\n\u200bFroschl, Merle. Feminist Resources for Schools And Colleges: a Guide to Curricular Materials. 2d ed., Old Westbury, N.Y.: Feminist Press, 1977.\nGaskell, Jane, and Benjamin Levin. Making a Difference in Urban Schools: Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy. University Of Toronto Press - M.U.A, Toronto, 2012.\nKaren F. A. Fox. \"Audiovisual Teaching Materials.\" Signs, vol. 1, no. 1, 1975, pp. 185-192.\nAudiovisual Teaching Materials\n\u200bKates, Joanne. \"Breaking the Sex Barriers OISE's Breaking the Mold Kit Teaches Children that Little Girls can Plan to be Pilots Too.\" The Globe and Mail, 1977.\nBreaking the Sex Barriers\nStaton, Patricia Anne, Rose Fine Meyer and Stephanie Gibson. Unfolding Power: Documents in 20th Century Canadian Women's History. Green Dragon Press, 2003.\nwww.greendragonpress.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 208.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.think-progress.com/blog/workplace-efficiency/the-evolution-of-the-modern-office/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:39Z", "digest": "sha1:UMUTTUBK32W35RMWWP56QWV4WFZV6V3K", "length": 5780, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.think-progress.com", "title": "The evolution of the modern office - Think Progress UK", "raw_content": "The evolution of the modern office\nChange is a constant, nowhere more so than in the office. Here are the biggest innovations on the horizon.\nThe modern office has changed dramatically over the past decade. Workers are now equipped with smartphones, and a fair proportion have wearable devices linked to them. Laptops have become more portable and ever-more powerful, and we\u2019ve seen an \u2018informalisation\u2019 of the working environment led by technology companies like Google and Facebook. But change is constant, and the innovations we\u2019ll see in the near future will completely transform the office environment.\nChief among these is the \u2018smart hub\u2019, and it will be a godsend to anyone who\u2019s ever struggled to get a meeting started.\n\u201cYou\u2019ll put it in a meeting room, connect it to Skype for Business and it will start a meeting without all the problems we have currently,\u201d says Sylvain Ansart, Technical Architect, EMEA Global Acquisition at Lenovo. \u201cBecause it\u2019s connected to the Skype for Business server, it knows when the meeting is. It starts everything up, including the microphone and camera from the computer.\u201d\nThis means meetings will start in seconds, instead of being the usual farrago of solving technical problems like finding the right dongles and cables.\nIt will work across all devices too. \u201cThe smart hub is a mix of hardware devices and the software capabilities built into Skype for Business and Skype Rooms,\u201d Ansart says. \u201cBecause it uses Microsoft\u2019s software, and isn\u2019t proprietary, it will be very easy to set up and compatible with all PCs.\u201d\nThe rise of CYOD\nThe past decade has seen the rise of the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policy, with employees using their personal devices for work matters. This could include something as simple as checking work emails on their smartphone or editing documents on their home laptop. However, experts predict this will die out in favour of choose your own device (CYOD), which lets employees pick from a selection of work devices, all offered by the employer.\n\u201cEvents like the WannaCry ransomware attack have proved that BYOD is a huge security problem,\u201d Ansart says. \u201cBecause there\u2019s no way for companies to control which devices employees use, they can\u2019t ensure they have the proper security to prevent such an attack. BYOD is too complicated for organisations to deal with.\u201d\nConversely, CYOD lets the organisation dictate which devices workers use, and hence ensure they have the correct security provisions. Employees can use their work machines at home too. \u201cInstead of employees bringing their personal device into work, they will take their work device home,\u201d Ansart says. \u201cIt will work the opposite way to how most organisations do it now. That way, you get the benefits of BYOD without the security threats.\u201d\nA flexible future\nAnsart also predicts flexible working will become the norm as commuting gets more expensive. As flexible working becomes more common, companies will have to offer it to keep up with their competitors. However, complete home working is unlikely to catch on.\n\u201cIBM is currently bringing employees back to the office because they lose contact with their colleagues when they\u2019re not there,\u201d he says. \u201cTheir productivity goes down, they lose their vocal network and become less efficient for the company.\u201d\nThose working with two monitors will get a productivity boost in the form of a new software associated to a high-definition webcam Lenovo is working on. \u201cIt knows where the user is looking and tracks their gaze,\u201d Ansart says. \u201cAs soon as you look at your second display, the mouse jumps to it. It speeds things up a lot, and will make workers much more efficient.\u201d\nWhat about these new technologies that \u2013 we\u2019re told \u2013 will revolutionise how we play, socialise and work? Augmented reality (AR) is more suited to the office environment than virtual reality (VR), because VR cuts workers off from their colleagues. AR superimposes virtual elements onto the wearer\u2019s view of the real world, so the wearer still feels \u2018present\u2019 in the workspace.\nIt\u2019s also more comfortable. \u201cVR headsets are too bulky and too hot,\u201d Ansart says. \u201cBut you can wear AR glasses all day.\u201d\nSuch glasses could give workers a secondary display that, because it\u2019s only 1cm from their eye, would appear 4m big in their vision. When you see a colleague, the glasses could bring up their name, the last message they sent you, their social media updates and so on, which would help immensely for networking (especially for those of us who aren\u2019t good with names).\nBut this brings with it a host of privacy concerns. \u201cMaybe they don\u2019t want you knowing all this information about them,\u201d Ansart says. \u201cWe saw this with Google Glass. When someone wearing these was looking at you, you didn\u2019t know what they were seeing, or if they were videoing you. It perturbed a lot of people.\u201d\nAR would improve GPS too, as you could follow the path mapped for you. Though in order for this to work inside \u2013 to find a meeting room, say \u2013 the whole building would have to be digitally mapped. Again, this raises privacy concerns.\nThe office has seen some huge changes in the past decade, and it will continue to evolve along with new technologies and ways of working.\nReady for a secondary display that\u2019s 4m big? Then you\u2019re ready for the office of the future\nAugmented reality glasses can give office workers a secondary display that looks 4m big. That\u2019s the future of the modern office.\nGiving employees more freedom and flexibility could make them happier, more productive and less likely to leave your...\nAugmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) are not gaming trends \u2013 they\u2019re technologies set to revolutionise how we do business...\nA \u2018choose your own device\u2019 policy combines all the benefits of \u2018bring your own device\u2019, with none of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 8717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/our_most_important_constitutional_right/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2353LPDXI23YHHGQEIG5RE2ET6QD3TVY", "length": 4882, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thomasbrewton.com", "title": "The View From 1776", "raw_content": "Our Most Important Constitutional Right\nThe War of Independence was fought to preserve private property rights.\nNancie G. Marzulla is president of Defenders of Property Rights. Her opinion piece in The Washington Times describes a Federal government that operates as heavy-handedly and arbitrarily as did George III and Parliament in the years leading up to 1776. Protecting property rights describes a blatant Federal attempt to ignore the Fifth Amendment\u2019s guaranty of property rights.\nThe case can be made that, of all our rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights, private property rights are the most important. People who are secure in their own property can maintain their rights to free speech and other aspects of constitutional government. People in a collectivized, socialistic government lose the will and the ability to fight for their rights. They slowly sink into dependence upon the political state, the torpor that we saw as the Soviet Union collapsed.\nOur citizens once stood proudly on their own feet while the United States became the industrial colossus of the world. After three-quarters of a century living under socialism, we now believe that individuals are not capable of making investment decisions for themselves or providing for their own care. We save nothing and expect the Federal government to take care of us in every aspect of our lives.\nTensions between the colonial governments and the British administrations mounted from around 1761 until the issue was cast by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. There were many usurpations of colonial rights, but most of them arose in connection with property rights.\nThe rights of private property were the defining characteristic of England that set her apart from all other nations. Those rights were the foundation of the unique individualism of English people, an individualism that took firm root in the colonies.\nEngland\u2019s revolts against the autocratic Stuart kings Charles I and James II had much to do with their arbitrary taxes and seizures of private property. The English Bill of Rights adopted by Parliament in 1689 after the bloodless deposition of James II begins:\n*\tWhereas the late King James the Second, by the assistance of divers evil counsellors, judges and ministers employed by him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant religion and the laws and liberties of this kingdom;\n*\tBy assuming and exercising a power of dispensing with and suspending of laws and the execution of laws without consent of Parliament; By committing and prosecuting divers worthy prelates for humbly petitioning to be excused from concurring to the said assumed power;\n*\tBy issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court called the Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes;\n*\tBy levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament;\nJohn Locke\u2019s famous \u201cSecond Treatise of Civil Government,\u201d written the same year, puts a firm philosophical base under the revolt against James II. People, he wrote, voluntarily formed civil governments for their mutual benefit, most fundamentally for the protection of their lives, their personal liberties, and their private property. Those fundamental liberties were called natural law rights, and any sovereign who arbitrarily infringed upon them without the people\u2019s consent thereby forfeited his right to rule.\nLocke?s enormous influence on American thinking is shown by Samuel Adams, who wrote in 1771, as friction between the colonies and England increased:\n?Mr. Locke has often been quoted in the present dispute?and very much to our purpose. His reasoning is so forcible, that no one has ever attempted to confute it. He holds that ?the preservation of property is the end of government, and that for which men enter into society. ?? says he, it is a mistake to think that the supreme power of any commonwealth can dispose of the estates of the subject arbitrarily, or take any part of them at pleasure. The prince or the senate can never have a power to take to themselves the whole or any part of the subject?s property without their own consent: for this would be in effect to have no property at all.? ? This is the reasoning of that great and good man. And is not our own case exactly described by him??\nSince 1933, when President Franklin Roosevelt imposed a socialistic government upon the nation, Federal courts have steadily demoted the Fifth Amendment\u2019s property rights to subordinate status. Private property, after all, is a no-no in a good socialized government. We must forget about individual initiative and look to the Great Secular Father in Washington.\nIf we allow this to continue, we will have abandoned the fundamental cause for which the colonists fought the War of Independence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 8854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/weblog/tellAFriend/1413", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OCUJPSPPAD6MQ77EJ33PECSQO57CZVCT", "length": 109, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thomasbrewton.com", "title": "The View From 1776", "raw_content": "Read today\u2019s Wall Street Journal editorial. Link to Full Article: http://www.thomasbrewton.com/index.php/1413", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 4319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 163.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thruway.ny.gov/news/pressrel/2018/08/2018-08-02-e-zpass-25-anniversary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:51Z", "digest": "sha1:DWD7RSVXE3VFU4WVMJZATQ6JSNWONDE2", "length": 3939, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.thruway.ny.gov", "title": "Press Release - New York State Thruway", "raw_content": "NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AUTHORITY CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF E-ZPASS ON NEW YORK\u2019S ROADWAYS\nE-ZPass On-the-Go Tags Sold at More than 840 Retail Locations Statewide, Thruway Service Areas, and Select Thruway Cash Toll Lanes\nE-ZPass is the Fastest, Most Convenient, and Cost-Effective Way to Travel New York\u2019s Toll Roads\nThe New York State Thruway Authority today celebrated the 25th anniversary of the implementation of E-ZPass in New York State. Thruway Authority Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll marked the occasion Thursday at the Thruway\u2019s latest E-ZPass On-the-Go \u201cpop-up\u201d sale at the Pattersonville Service Area.\n\u201cFor 25 years, drivers have been enjoying the benefits of E-ZPass which include saving time and money while traveling the New York State Thruway,\u201d Executive Director Driscoll said. \u201cWith the entire Thruway system going cashless by the end of 2020, I encourage all motorists to join the millions already reaping these benefits by signing up for E-ZPass and start saving today.\u201d\nE-ZPass was first implemented in New York State in 1993 at the Thruway\u2019s Spring Valley Toll Barrier (I-87 in the Lower Hudson Valley region.) E-ZPass was also introduced at the Tappan Zee Bridge and Grand Island Bridges in 1993 and was accepted along the entire 570-mile super highway by 1997. E-ZPass is now accepted at all of New York\u2019s tolling locations and 16 states nationwide.\nAs Governor Cuomo announced in his 2018 State of the State address, the entire New York State Thruway system will be converted to cashless tolling by the end of 2020. Currently, the Thruway\u2019s Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge and Grand Island Bridges are cashless tolling locations and the Thruway Authority's remaining fixed toll barriers in the lower Hudson Valley will be converted by the end of 2018.\nTo increase awareness of cashless tolling and E-ZPass, the Thruway Authority has held more than a dozen pop-up E-ZPass On-the-Go sales at Thruway Service Areas and local fairs and events. The Thruway Authority will also be selling E-ZPass On-the-Go tags during the entire Great New York State Fair in Syracuse August 22 \u2013 September 3, 2018 from our booth in the Center of Progress Building. In March 2018, the Thruway Authority also unveiled an E-ZPass marketing campaign featuring videos with Buffalo Bills Running Back Thurman Thomas.\nIn 2017, approximately 76 percent of all toll transactions on the New York State Thruway were with E-ZPass, a two percent increase over the prior year. Currently, there are more than four million customers with a Thruway E-ZPass tag, accounting for nearly 200 million trips each year. In comparison, at the end of 1993, there were only 39,360 Thruway E-ZPass tags, accounting for more than 2.8 million trips.\nOther notable E-ZPass milestones include:\n1997: Thruway issues its 250,000 E-ZPass tag\n1999: NY E-ZPass awarded Excellence in Highway Design Award from Federal Highway Administration\n2001: E-ZPass Plus established allowing customers to use E-ZPass tag to park at select airports\n2004: E-Pass On-the-Go Retail Program piloted in Service Areas\n2006: E-ZPass On-the-Go offered at AAA locations and grocery and convenience stores\n2011: E-ZPass On-the-Go program hits 500 retail locations across New York state\n2016: E-ZPass On-the-Go retail program sells more than 100,000 retail tags in one year\n2018: E-ZPass tags sold in Thruway toll lanes\nAll drivers, regardless of residency, can sign up for a New York E-ZPass account at www.E-ZPassNY.com or at E-ZPass Customer Service Centers.\nE-ZPass On-the-Go tags can also be purchased at 26 Thruway Service Areas, more than 840 locations across the state including select grocery and convenience stores, and government offices, and select cash lanes at more than 50 toll plazas across the Thruway\u2019s 570-mile system which spans from New York City to Buffalo and the Pennsylvania state line.\nSign up for a Thruway E-ZPass account visit www.thruway.ny.gov/getezpass.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 5416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 196.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.timboyle.net/Tim_Boyle/Rod_Blagojevich.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:53Z", "digest": "sha1:D54TTWPFM76Y6PJ46G3SZRLFSYM6ABT6", "length": 752, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.timboyle.net", "title": "Rod Blagojevich", "raw_content": "Live audio of Rod Blagojevich's inauguration swearing-in on January 13, 2003, after winning the Illinois gubernatorial election in 2002, followed by the now-former governor speaking to the media after his conviction June 27, 2011, of 17 felonies in his political corruption retrial at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago; including 11 counts stemming from what federal prosecutors called his attempt to sell the U.S. Senate seat once occupied by President Obama.\nPhoto and live audio of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich speaking outside his Chicago home late in the evening January 29, 2009, after the Illinois House voted 114-1 to impeach him earlier in the day. Blagojevich became the first Illinois governor in history to be impeached.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3, "original_length": 782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 132.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.timboyle.net/Tim_Boyle/Sears_Tower.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:57Z", "digest": "sha1:HZVCG3RGAUYZIC5URMA55KWAKMVKROEJ", "length": 428, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.timboyle.net", "title": "The Sears (Willis) Tower", "raw_content": "A visit to the Sears Tower Skydeck observation deck June 7, 2006, in Chicago. Completed in 1973, the Sears Tower at 1,450 feet tall is the tallest building in the U.S. and a popular location for tourists. In March 2009 London-based insurance broker Willis Group Holdings, agreed to lease a portion of the building and obtained the building's naming rights. On July 16, 2009, the building was officially renamed the Willis Tower.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1, "original_length": 454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 57.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tonynovak.com/asktony/questions/qualifying-for-health-insurance.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:IC3ZVJSFZQ33MNKGPZB7SFQ2JYYNZMKK", "length": 2674, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tonynovak.com", "title": "Qualifying for health insurance", "raw_content": "Qualifying for health insurance\nQ: I was reading the medical eligibility questions for one of the short-term health policies you advocate and I have a problem with one condition. If one has a cancer or tumor within five years one is disqualified. I had a small growth removed three years ago called a lipoma. It is a small fatty deposit which could be classified as a tumor. Is there any way to find-out from the insurer?\nA: Your question raises important points that apply to all health insurance. First, an insurance company does not make a pre-determination of your eligibility for coverage. The same applies to agents, advisers, and HP department personnel. You must rely solely on your own judgment. Second, the insurance is issued or not issued solely based on your responses to the questions on the application. In this case, if the questions are answered \"no\" the insurance is issued. If any of the questions are answered \"Yes\" insurance is not issued. (Note that applications are never \"declined\" by the insurance company since you determine eligibility yourself). Third, once insurance is issued, it can be rescinded (the legal term for reversing the issuance of insurance) only based on material or intentional misstatement. The insurance company must take the position that you knew or should have known that you did not qualify for insurance. This process favors the consumer in \"grey area\" issues since the policyholder usually has more information and can present a logical reason to support the answer given on the insurance application. In your case it seems clear that if you had a tumor then you do not qualify for most types of health insurance. It is unclear whether the medical condition you had is a tumor. You are the only person who has the medical history detail necessary to build a logical opinion as to whether this was or was not a tumor. If you are unclear, you may wish to consult your medical records or ask your doctor point-blank \"Was the condition I had a \"tumor\"?\" The most common mistake that consumers make in this area is to say, for example, \"my doctor says I do not have a tumor but I am worried that the insurer will consider this a tumor and cancel my coverage.\" This mistaken thinking misses the core point of the law on this matter. On the other hand, if your written medical records contain the word \"tumor\" in you diagnosis then there should not be any need for further discussion. In this case, you do not qualify. As an side issue, we strongly recommend that every person should have a copy of their entire medical history records in their possession for a variety of reasons, this situation being just one of those reasons.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tradearabia.com/news/BANK_342783.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PYAXQ4WJSB6XEP4CG7IALAQ3R3TR7BXT", "length": 2539, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.tradearabia.com", "title": "IsDB, OECD to support capacity building in Yemen", "raw_content": "Dr Al-Saadi, Dr Muhtar and Bonturi at the signing ceremony\nIsDB, OECD to support capacity building in Yemen\nJEDDAH, July 13, 2018\nThe Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have signed an aide-m\u00e9moire marking the commencement of a new project to help rebuild institutional capacitates in post-conflict Yemen.\nThe project, \u201cBuilding Institutional Capacities to Prepare for Recovery and Reconstruction in Yemen\u201d, is being funded by the G7 Deauville Partnership Mena Transition Fund. It builds on the Government of Yemen\u2019s National Dialogue Conference Outcomes, first adopted in 2014, which represents a roadmap to building a new Yemen whereby citizenship, justice and the rule of law are achieved in accordance with principles of good governance.\nThe project is being implemented by the IsDB and the OECD in close coordination with the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, Yemen. It aims to translate the outcomes into actionable programmes for when peace arrives in Yemen to aid the country\u2019s recovery by focussing on building institutional capacities at the central and local level, said a statement.\nDr Mohamed Saed Al-Sadi, Yemen Governor of IsDB, said: \u201cYemen is experiencing multi-dimensional crisis \u2013 economic, social and humanitarian. Negative economic growth and high unemployment, the degradation of basic services and rising food insecurity has displaced millions of Yemenis in a devastating war.\n\u201cTogether with the OECD, Mena Transition Fund, Government of Yemen and our partners in the international community, we are launching this project to help establish a safe and prosperous Yemen by preparing for its reconstruction and recovery as soon as peace emerges. I also want to commend the efforts of our regional and international partners for their support with the ongoing humanitarian and economic situation in Yemen.\u201d\nTaking part in the signing ceremony were: Dr Mohamed Saeed Al-Saadi, Minister of Planning and International Cooperation and Governor for Yemen, IsDB; Dr Mansur Muhtar, vice president of country programs, IsDB; and Marcos Bonturi, director of public governance at the OECD.\nA signing for the extension to the framework agreement for the Business Resilience Assistance for Value-Adding Enterprises (Brave) Project also took place at the conference, after the approval of the additional financing amount of $3 million by the Mena Transitional Fund of the Deauville Partnership. - TradeArabia News Service\nTags: yemen\t| OECD\t| IsDB\t|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.transportheritage.com/find-heritage-locations.html?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&sobi2Id=181", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:20Z", "digest": "sha1:PGWLXDJWMRGOD5GHZ7BQKMAM5F2PZJGK", "length": 2698, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.transportheritage.com", "title": "Heritage Locations - Saltburn Station and Hotel", "raw_content": "Saltburn Station and Hotel\nStation with fine porte cochere and adjacent railway hotel\nSaltburn Square, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, TS12 1AQ\nTS12 IAQ\nhttp://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/SLB/details.html\nThe town of Saltburn was the creation of some of the directors of the Stockton & Darlington Railway, led by Henry Pease. The railway also contributed and funded some speculative house building.\nThe station was opened by the Stockton and Darlington Railway as the terminus of their line from Redcar on 17 August 1861. Eleven years later, the North Eastern Railway opened a line towards Brotton (the Whitby Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway) from the town, but this diverged from the original route some 400 m west of the station in order to avoid excessively steep gradients further east. This meant the passenger trains from the town to Loftus and Whitby that started in 1875 had to reverse into and out of the terminus before regaining the correct direction at Saltburn West Junction.\nIn its heyday, the station had four platforms and a large number of carriage sidings to handle the large number of excursion trains that ran there - these included services from as far away as Leeds and Blackpool. There was also a short extension (approximately 270 m) to another platform at the rear of the railway-owned Zetland Hotel where passengers in first class carriages could disembark directly into their accommodation.\nWilliam Peacey's station building was in pale yellow brick and was single storey. Its chief virtue was an extremely fine porte cochere in the form of triple arches. It was completed in 1862.\nThe Zetland Hotel next door, an impressive three storey edifice, was also designed by Peachey and was completed in 1863. Placed behind a balustrade on a podium it was a grand sight. It was characterised by a bow fronted entrance topped by a round tower.\nThe hotel is now split up into apartments, and the station is a retail park , but both have been sympathetically conserved. Both are listed Grade II. (See also Saltburn Cliff Railway)\nBiddle, Gordon, Great Railway Stations of Britain, David & Charles, ISBN 0 7153 8263 2 (1986)\nHoole, K., A Regional History of the Railways of Britain, North East. ISBN 0 7153 6439 1 (1974)\nLynn, A & Lynn, K., Saltburn by Sea Through Time, Amberley Publishing, ISBN-10: 1848684827 (2011)\nSimmons, J., The Railway in Town and Country. David and Charles. ASIN B001C7G11W (1986)\nTomlinson, W.W., The North Eastern Railway. David & Charles. ISBN-10 0715390023 (1967)\nDisused Buildings\nThe Heritage Trail - Saltburn Cliff Railway\nSaltburn Inclined Tramway\nPermanently visible - the hotel is privately occupied but the station is accessible as a retail park", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travelnewsdigest.in/tag/manipur/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NVUXCQ4PD7XJIYMDKQ55ILFP73EPC4P5", "length": 2053, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.travelnewsdigest.in", "title": "Manipur \u2013 Travel News Digest", "raw_content": "Tag: Manipur\nManipur celebrates Sangai Festival 2018\nEvery year the Government of Manipur, spearheaded by the Tourism Department, celebrates the Manipur Sangai Festival from November 21 to 30, to project and showcase the tourism potential and promote \u2018Destination Manipur\u2019. The festival is named after the State animal, Sangai, the brow-antlered deer found only in Manipur. It started in the year 2010 and [\u2026]\nManipur plans to transform itself into a medical tourism hub\nManipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh has said that his government was in talks with the Centre to make travelling from Myanmar to Manipur easier. At the North East Healthcare Conference organised by CII in Imphal, Singh said, \u201cThe new government in Manipur is working on a plan to transform itself into a thriving healthcare [\u2026]\n5th International Tourism Mart inaugurated in Imphal, Manipur\nPost by: Debanjana Bhattacharya - on November 29, 2016\nThe 5th International Tourism Mart (ITM) was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Manipur, Okram Ibobi Singh in the presence of Union Tourism Secretary, Vinod Zutshi in Imphal, Manipur. The ITM is organised by the Union Ministry of Tourism in association with the North Eastern States and the state of West Bengal. Inaugurating the Mart, [\u2026]\nManipur to get a Sports University\nAt the Manipur Sangai Festival in Imphal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the contribution of the outstanding sportsmen that Manipur has produced in the country. Narendra Modi said that his government will build a sports university in Imphal which will not only train sportsmen but also give them opportunities for pursuing their livelihood. The Prime [\u2026]\nManipur begins its mega tourism projects\nManipur has laid the foundation stone for three mega tourism projects. These projects include the first ever integrated cable car and lake side tourism development at Loktak, the largest fresh water lake in entire north-east region. Expressing his views, Chief Minister Okram Ibobi Singh said, \u201cThe mega tourism projects will be taken up in consultation [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 5084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tttdebates.org/janusz-onyszkiewicz/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:06Z", "digest": "sha1:MDC2QY43EPS2P6O26CIIPI7UMPACVZUE", "length": 1407, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.tttdebates.org", "title": "Janusz Onyszkiewicz \u2013 Time To Talk", "raw_content": "Janusz Onyszkiewicz is a Polish mathematician, mountaineer and politician. Originally known primarily for his mathematical and mountaineering achievements, Janusz became known to a broader public when he was appointed the spokesperson of the Solidarno\u015b\u0107 union in the 80s.\nJanusz\u2019s position led to his arrest and internment upon the declaration of martial law in 1981. In the post-communist period, he was consistently elected to serve as a deputy in the Polish Sejm, representing different parties (Obywatelski Klub Parlementamy,Unia Demokratyczna and Unia Wolno\u015bci) from 1989 through to 2001. During his time in the Sejm, Janusz Onyszkiewicz served on three occasions (in the first of which he shared responsibility with Bronis\u0142aw Komorowski) as the Polish defence minister.\nSince leaving the Sejm, Janusz Onyszkiewicz has worked primarily within the European Parliament, which he entered for the first time in 2004 as a representative of Unia Wolno\u015bci. During his time in the European Parliament, Janusz has served as a vice president of the parliament and on committees for foreign affairs, human rights, economic and monetary affairs and security and defence.\nJanusz Onyszkiewicz was also the chairman of Partia Demokratyczna from 2006-2009 and currently sits on the international board of the International Centre for Democratic Transition and on the executive board of the European Leadership Network.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2411, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 118.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tttdebates.org/kirsty-lang/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:AOZJSSCQPJ65LB3EHJWNTJSCIHMPYSUE", "length": 438, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.tttdebates.org", "title": "Kirsty Lang \u2013 Time To Talk", "raw_content": "Kirsty Lang is a presenter of Radio 4\u2019s flagship arts programme Front Row. She spent many years as a foreign correspondent, reporting for the BBC and The Sunday Times from Eastern Europe and, later, Paris. Kirsty has been a presenter on Channel 4 News, BBC 4 and BBC World. In 2012, she was a visiting professor at Columbia University\u2019s School of International and Public Affairs in New York. She is also a trustee of the British Council.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 28.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tuneintoenglish.com/?p=40304", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4Q6KB27QKEMDZAKXK2E57TG3J3KBBON6", "length": 744, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tuneintoenglish.com", "title": "Queen 2019 \u2013 week 20 \u00ab Tune Into English", "raw_content": "13 - 1967 - Brian May\u2019s early band 1984 supported Jimi Hendrix at Imperial College, London.\nwww.loudersound.com\n14 - 1983 \u2013 Roger Taylor appeared as a team captain on the BBC\u2019s Pop Quiz, U.K.\n15 - 1986 - Queen shot the video for \u2018Friends Will Be Friends\u2019 video, with 800 Fan Club members, at JVC Studios, London.\n16 - 1974 - Brian May was flown back to London from New York, suffering from hepatitis. Queen are replaced by Kansas as support band on Mott The Hoople\u2019s American tour.\nwww.brianmay.com\n17 - 1991 - the single \u2018Headlong\u2019 entered the U.K. charts at n.28.\n18 - 1976 \u2013 the single \u2018You\u2019re My Best Friend\u2019 was released in the U.K.\n19 - 1997 - \u2018Too Much Love Will Kill You\u2019 won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 166.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.twu.org/divisions/transit-division/page/26/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:40Z", "digest": "sha1:JF775YOXFZRI7HGPQUKSE5V3FQ65HTU2", "length": 2427, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.twu.org", "title": "Transit Division \u2013 Page 26 \u2013 TWU", "raw_content": "Transport Workers Union Lauds Passage of FAST Act\nPublished 04 Dec, 2015 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: DATE: December 4, 2015 CONTACT: Ori Korin, (202) 719-3834 Transport Workers Union Lauds Passage of FAST Act Washington, D.C. \u2014Today, President Obama signed the surface transportation reauthorization bill into law. The \u201cFixing America\u2019s Surface Transportation Act\u201d (FAST Act) is a bipartisan measure that will fund our nation\u2019s public transit [\u2026]\nHonoring New York\u2019s Transit Stars\nPublished 25 Feb, 2016 Members of TWU Local 100 were among those honored by the New York Daily News on Tuesday as \u201cHometown Heroes\u201d at the newspaper\u2019s fourth annual awards ceremony. TWU knows what these men and women do on the job every day, often going above and beyond to keep the city moving and the riding [\u2026]\nPres. Lombardo Honored for Commitment to Labor\nPublished 08 Jun, 2016 TWU International President Harry Lombardo was recently honored for his outstanding leadership by Labor Press, New York\u2019s leading source for daily labor news and industry information, at a celebration in New York. The event, held June 1, was also attended by a delegation from the AFL-CIO, led by Secretary-Treasurer Elizabeth Shuler [\u2026]\nTWU Local 100 at Forefront of Occupy Wall Street\nPublished 07 Oct, 2011 TWU Local 100 amped up its alliance with Occupy Wall Street (OWS) this past Wednesday by joining the largest demonstration since OWS kicked off last month. Shoulder to shoulder, nearly 15,000 union members, activists, students and Americans who want an economy that works for everyone united in Foley Square for Community [\u2026]\nTransportation Unions Put Forward Agenda for Jobs and Fairness\nPublished 07 Mar, 2011 Addressing the crisis facing transit systems, ensuring fair union elections for rail and aviation workers, and creating jobs are the top priorities of transportation unions. The Transportation Trades Department (TTD), AFL-CIO Executive Committee, which includes TWU, recently released a policy statement on seven key issues impacting workers in the rail, transit [\u2026]\nBanks Get Bailed Out, Transit Riders and Workers Get Sold Out\nPublished 06 Jul, 2012 The City of Philadelphia, the School District and SEPTA, at a time when all are hard pressed to make ends meet, are paying millions of dollars to Wall Street banks to service debt. These payments include bad interest swap deals the banks negotiated that have cost the City an estimated 331 [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.txt.buzz/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DQX6ZNRG2WETPUU55YHKI4Q4JPRGXVN7", "length": 1819, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.txt.buzz", "title": "About Us \u2014 Trowbridge & Tintera LLC", "raw_content": "Katharine Carroll is the Managing Director of Trowbridge & Tintera LLC, bringing over 35 years\u2019 experience in public relations to the firm, including ten years at Time, Inc. In 1990, Katharine founded KTCommunications (KTC), a boutique public relations firm based in Westchester, NY, which has generated numerous earned media placements yearly, including mentions on national and local television, radio, internet and print. Katharine is a respected public relations professional who has earned a reputation as tenacious brand advocate always willing to go the extra mile for her clients. She also serves as the U.S. publicity director for Titan Books and Titan Comics a UK-based publisher of science fiction, fantasy, horror, autobiography, biography, art, music, photography, comics, graphics novels, film & TV companions, and reference titles; as well as the exceptional pulp crime fiction imprint Hard Case Crime (both distributed by Random House).\nKatharine Carroll Bio\nJohn Tintera, Executive Director of Trowbridge & Tintera LLC, is a business development professional with an MBA and 20 years\u2019 experience in new business development, sales force management and CRM in the print and e-book publishing industries. John\u2019s areas of expertise include multi-million dollar account and budget management, record-setting revenue generation, sales force development, product development, and public relations. John was the highest-grossing sales and marketing executive in the 40-year history of Osprey, Inc.; he played an instrumental role in the success of the South Beach Diet franchise, which propelled Rodale to 500% revenue growth in a single year; and he has repeated successes acquiring new business, winning back former customers, energizing sales teams and revitalizing flagging product lines.\nJohn Tintera Bio", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 188.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.unclejessiewhite.com/united-auto-worker-history.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:28Z", "digest": "sha1:AIXQZJ4VP4ZQQEA4TB2AFAHPEV5NTCH6", "length": 1049, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.unclejessiewhite.com", "title": "United Auto Worker History - \u200b\u200b\ufeffUncle Jessie White", "raw_content": "United Auto Workers - UAW\nLibrary of COngress - Ford MOtor Company Assembly LIne\nMany of the musicians that used to attend Uncle Jessie's house parties were assembly line workers. They would work all week, leave their shifts and then play at the house parties - reminiscent of southern house parties in the Mississippi delta. Detroit is well known for its UAW members. Many families in the Detroit area are second, third, fourth and fifth generation auto workers. The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America is more commonly known as the United Automobile Workers. It was founded in 1935 and is affiliated with the AFL-CIO and CLC. It\u2019s headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Some links with more information on Detroit's UAW can be found here:\nUAW Website\nUAW by Wikipedia\nThe Detroit Institute of Arts has beautiful paintings depicting Detroit's labor history. Diego Rivera's murals are some of the most famous.\n\u200bDetroit Institute of Arts - Industry and Technology Paintings - Diego Rivera", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 125.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usc.uwo.ca/gazette/1998/November/6/News7.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:49Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3B337D4VDPRYAMZXMLEE55CQSJEXDUH", "length": 2553, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.usc.uwo.ca", "title": "UWO Gazette - Friday, November 6, 1998", "raw_content": "A University of Victoria sociology professor who was charged in 1997 when police found large quantities of marijuana at her home, is up for sentencing this month \u0096 but the university community does not appear to be putting her on trial.\nJean Veevers was accused after police searched her residence on April 18, 1997 and found roughly eight pounds of marijuana, 122 plants and the equipment from a grow operation, explained her lawyer, Mel Hunt.\nVeevers pleaded guilty to cultivation and possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, Hunt said. Her sentencing date is Nov. 27.\n\"The courts will pose an appropriate sentencing for the crime,\" Hunt said. \"It could be anywhere from a large fine to time in jail.\"\nHunt said while the outcome of the case depends on the judge, it is inappropriate for Veevers to be incarcerated and he will suggest other recommendations.\n\"[Veevers] of course is very distraught over all of this,\" Hunt said.\nPatty Pitts, an information officer at the University of Victoria, said the university was waiting to see the results of the sentencing before deciding on any disciplinary action.\n\"We don't have any cut and dry policy in this type of situation, so we really have to deal with each one on an individual basis,\" she said. She added in recent history there have been no instances of faculty being charged for cultivating marijuana.\nPitts said Veevers had opted to retire on a part-time basis but is scheduled to teach again beginning in January, depending on the consequences of the sentencing.\nChair of the University of Victoria's Students' Union, Rob Fleming, said the issue has not been very high profile at the university and added Veevers is very well-liked by her students.\nFleming expressed confusion as to why a tenured professor like Veevers would have to rely on a growing operation to finance her income.\n\"Most people agree she's a very unlikely candidate to be involved in that kind of stuff.\"\nRobert Solomon, law professor at Western, said as long as a criminal offence does not affect a professor's character or capacity to do their job, it should not hinder academic credibility.\n\"I'm sure, out of [Western's] faculty, I would be surprised if there wasn't at least a handful who didn't have minor criminal charges,\" he said.\nFourth-year Western engineering student Rob Gibson said as long as Veevers was not imposing her lifestyle on students, she should not be asked to leave.\n\"It's the kind of thing I think students don't really have the right to know because it's not hurting them,\" he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.utas.edu.au/news/2018/11/30/757-turning-waste-into-opportunity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HCVALIYUQ4PTIUW5JVIZAGW57KPZQ76A", "length": 2723, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.utas.edu.au", "title": "Turning waste into opportunity", "raw_content": "Turning waste into opportunity\nStudying a Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation helped Chris Burritt develop the idea for a business built on transforming organic waste into biofuel.\nAfter completing a Bachelor in ICT and entering the workforce, Chris decided he wanted to continue his education and expand his business acumen.\nWhile he had a full-time job in Canberra \u2013 and was accepted into four universities \u2013 Chris chose to study a Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Tasmania (luckily, he convinced his boss to let him work remotely).\nAfter studying global trends and looking at the local business landscape, Chris and some fellow classmates came up with an innovative new business idea \u2013 a company that takes organic waste (food waste, green waste, animal waste) and turns it into biofuel.\n\u201cIn Europe and Asia, they\u2019ve actually been using waste to turn into biofuels.\u201d Chris said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s been produced on mass industry, however I thought there was an opportunity for it to be done on a localised basis.\n\u201cI went out to 45 businesses originally for this particular project, and we had a success rate of 39 out of 45.\u201d\nThe industry connections that Chris made through the University were invaluable in helping him and his classmates develop the concept for their business.\nChris Burritt - Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation\n\"I\u2019ve met people four or five people from industry, they\u2019ve come and talked to us at the university.\u201d Chris said.\n\u201cThey\u2019ve provided us with the mentoring process so we can actually meet with them one-on-one, talking about their businesses, but also mine as an entrepreneur.\u201d\n\u201cThat opportunity, I don\u2019t see being provided anywhere else.\u201d\nStuart Crispin is the Course Coordinator for the Master of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and says students like Chris are exactly who the course was designed for.\nThere\u2019s no better place than Tasmania to study entrepreneurship. This is an island of innovation and we have a thriving small business and start-up community.\n\u201cWe help our students develop an entrepreneurial mindset so they can come up with new ideas and new ways of doing things.\n\u201cThat\u2019s backed by a solid foundation of the practical business knowledge they need to make a new venture successful.\"\nSound exciting? Find out more about studying Business and Economics here.\nMoving from interstate to study business? We offer a relocation bursary.\nTAGS:environmentMastersTSBEBusinessTasmanian-School-of-Business-and-Economicsresearch\nA great environment for learning\nChristoph Speer accidentally fell in love with Geography and Environmental Studies.\nBottling success...\nAccounting student Jeffrey used his internship to look at recycling bottles in Tasmania.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 308, "original_length": 8446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.valleypromarketing.com/about.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WN6T7MEZRNGSIULAIDBD6TCBLSKMPE7G", "length": 2237, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.valleypromarketing.com", "title": "Valley Pro Marketing | Social Video Web", "raw_content": "The Internet has created a new wave of strategizing when it comes to reaching your customers. With digital marketing, companies can implement their brand to provide more information and build relationships with current and prospective customers that will assist in generating sales leads and drive more web traffic. While some companies face the major changeover of developing a successful digital marketing strategy, other companies are on the edges of this technology and are missing out on the opportunities and needs of their customers. That's where we come in.\nValley Pro Marketing will build your online presence and communicate with your customers by creating a face and emotion behind your brand. We work on all social media networks and create custom tailored strategies specific to your business industry. With the power of the Internet and Valley Pro Marketing, your business can go viral.\nWe have a fully trained team of experts who are experienced in digital marketing. Keeping your business ahead of online trends, we will generate buzz, create hype, and communicate with your customers through the use of social media. Customers now have a voice in the digital world where they post, share and refer your business. That is where we come in. With extensive industry research, we learn all about your business and provide a voice for your company online to build exposre and engage with your online fans and followers.\nAs a result of working with our team, your social media fan-base will grow with quality fans who can be turned into sales leads. We will build a relationship with your fans and followers by providing a constant stream of ongoing material and responding to them on a regular basis as your business.\nWith our expertise we can take your digital marketing strategy to the next level. Unlike many who offer online services we do not spam your customers or rely on push marketing. We provide them useful information about your company that will keep them entertained and engaged. Also, we provide 24/7 services to our clients so you know your customers' online needs are always being taken care of. Think of us as an extension of your team and let us do the work while you get back to focusing on your business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.vaqueravasquez.com/Minimal_Ideas/Confessions/Entries/2011/1/27_My_Year_in_Pics.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:59Z", "digest": "sha1:VKFYQL5C6M5G3OVO5OAIEYRHFVXQQAQW", "length": 525, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.vaqueravasquez.com", "title": "2010 in Fotos", "raw_content": "2010 in Fotos\nMy Year in Pics\nAfter weeks of delay, I\u2019ve begun to get organized about thinking about 2010. A difficult year. In the next couple of weeks I\u2019ll be posting my usual fave albums from the past year list, a mix of songs, and now, a year in photos. The pics begin with a trip to Spain and end with a road trip to Mexicali. In between, photos from Spain, Morocco, Oman, Turkey, and drives across the US. There are others. Photos of loss, and communion. Photos of joy. Photos from 2010.\nHere\u2019s the link to the gallery:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.watch-movies--online.org/terms-of-use/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:35Z", "digest": "sha1:K4AYNGMG5J72H55X63GEN2IDIVJMQKVE", "length": 7435, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.watch-movies--online.org", "title": "Terms of Use 123Movies - Watch movies online full episode free movies English-Fmovies", "raw_content": "1.) 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There are a few important things you need to know.\n1. Do not discuss your case with anyone other than your criminal defense lawyer. Not even your friends, family, members, or cellmates. What you say can be used against you.\n2. Do not call or make any contact with any law enforcement agency, District Attorney, or City Attorney without first consulting with your Criminal Defense Attorney.\n3. Immediately identify and locate any potential witnesses that may have any information that will help your criminal defense lawyer.\n4. If contacted by any law enforcement investigation, immediately and politely refuse to answer any questions without your criminal defense lawyer present.\n5. Never consent to any search or turn over anything to law enforcement without consulting with your criminal defense lawyer first.\n6. Everything you tell your criminal defense lawyer is confidential and will not be used against you. 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If you agree to the questioning, then change your mind, questioning must stop as soon as you say that you want a defense lawyer. If the questioning continues after you request a lawyer and you continue to talk, your answers can be used against you if you testify to something different.\nYou may be required to give certain physical evidence. For example, if you are suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol you may be requested to take a test to measure the amount of alcohol in your system. 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The law presumes you are guilty of the charges for purposes of setting bail or release.\nInstead of paying bail, you might be released on your own recognizance \u201cO.R.\u201d (or \u201cSupervised O.R.\u201d). Under these circumstances, you do not have to pay a bail amount because the judge believes you will show up for your scheduled court appearances.\nWHO MAINTAINS ARREST RECORDS AND WHAT DO THEY INCLUDE?\nLocal Los Angeles police departments and the California State Department of Justice keep arrest records. According to the law, these records are confidential and can only be viewed by law enforcement officers. Records of your convictions however, can be released to certain licensing agencies who have a right by California state law to investigate your criminal background.\nThe arrest record includes information regarding when and why you were arrested, whether the charges against you were dropped or whether you were convicted of the charges, and the subsequent sentence imposed. Both pleading guilty and being found guilty after a trial count as convictions.\nIf you are convicted of committing a misdemeanor, placed on probation and stay out of trouble, you are able to have the conviction removed from your record for such purposes as employment background checks. If you are convicted of certain felonies and you successfully complete probation, you can have the felony reduced to a misdemeanor on your record. You must contact the probation officer in either instance to clear your record.\nYou have a right to be arraigned without unnecessary delay; usually within two court days of being arrested. At your arraignment, you will appear before a municipal (city region e.g. Los Angeles, Woodland Hills, Van Nuys or Burbank) or a justice court judge who will officially state the criminal charges against you. During this time, an attorney may be appointed to you if you cannot afford to retain one. Also, your bail may be raised, lowered or you can request to be released on O.R.\nIf you are charged with a misdemeanor, you may submit a guilty or not guilty plea at the arraignment. Upon the approval of the court, you can plead nolo contendere, meaning that you will not contest to the charges. Although legally this is the equivalent of a guilty plea, it cannot be used against you in a non-criminal case unless the charge can be punished as a felony.\nBefore pleading guilty to a first-time offense, such as drug use or possession in small amounts for personal use, you may want to find out if your county, such as Los Angeles county, has any drug diversion programs. If you are ordered into one of these programs, the court may refrain from fining you or sending you to jail and instead will order you to complete a specific amount of counseling, which may ultimately result in the dismissal of your original criminal charge.\nIf misdemeanor charges are not dropped at the arraignment, a trial will be held in municipal court. If you are being charged with a felony, however, and the charges are not dropped, the next step is a preliminary hearing.\nWHAT HAPPENS AT A PRELIMINARY HEARING?\nDuring the preliminary hearing, usually held within 10 court days of the arraignment, the district attorney\u2019s office will present evidence supporting a reasonable suspicion that you were involved in the commission of a felony, in order to convince the judge that you should be brought to trial.\nYou may have a second arraignment. 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Your car and trunk can be searched without your consent or a warrant if an officer has good reason to believe that they may contain illegal or stolen goods or evidence. If the police stop your car for any legal reason, such as a broken tail light, they can seize any illegal goods that stand in plain sight.\nIf you, your home or your car are searched illegally, a judge may rule that any evidence found during the search cannot be used against you in court. However, If you or your criminal defense lawyer do not object to the use of this evidence prior to the beginning of your trial, the court may allow the evidence to be used. Even if the judge does decide that the evidence cannot be used against you, that does not always mean that your case will be dismissed.\nThe purpose of this section is to provide general information on the law, which is subject to change.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 17276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wenatcheebpw.org/about-20.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:AODFSY6JRQ5IKCPMKRGZTB6HSGQZE52R", "length": 382, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wenatcheebpw.org", "title": "About 2.0", "raw_content": "Wenatchee BPW is a non-profit organization that specializes in promoting the education and well-being of women and families through professional growth, personal achievement, and political savvy. We are a group of diverse women who support each other through programs and networking. Wenatchee BPW is diverse in its membership and offers outstanding speakers on a variety of topics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 149.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.weyburnhumanesociety.com/about-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:56Z", "digest": "sha1:NWDXPHLYTXSWD5PMSAMEAIUIMKYL4PAK", "length": 1364, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.weyburnhumanesociety.com", "title": "About | \u2013 WEYBURN HUMANE SOCIETY : 306.848.7387", "raw_content": "The Weyburn Humane Society is a proud Canadian non profit organization serving the area of Weyburn in Southeast Saskatchewan. With a great team of friendly staff and volunteers, we meet the challenges of the day-to-day operations of an animal shelter.\nWe couldn\u2019t do it without your help and assistance! Our non profit organization depends on the generous donations and support from people just like you. We are not funded or supported by any provincial or federal program initiatives so any and all help from the public goes a long way.\nOur dream is to be able to build a new animal shelter for this community \u2013 will you help us make this dream come true? With your valuable financial help and donations, we can be one step closer to building an efficient and well planned out shelter to meet the needs of animals that come into our care. Visit our Expansion plan page for developments on this project and make you donation at the shelter or online through Canada Helps. We also accept E-transfers!\nWhether you are looking for your next family friend or have discovered a domestic animal in distress, we are here to help. Contact us at 306-848-7387 or stop by the shelter during public hours, 1pm to 7pm daily (except stat holidays)\nWe look forward to serving you and making a difference in the lives of homeless animals.\n\u2013 Weyburn Humane Society Board and Staff.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whiskeyinmysippycup.com/wimsc/2007/11/21/stuff-that-scares-me-take-3.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:08Z", "digest": "sha1:ZNZN426XHLPMEZKORD67AYCLMGFK6QDW", "length": 5445, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.whiskeyinmysippycup.com", "title": "Stuff that scares me, take 3 \u2014 Whiskey In My Sippy Cup", "raw_content": "Stuff that scares me, take 3\nI am afraid of being an Atheist.\n(Save it, Andy; I already know what you're going to say :) )\nI am an atheist. There, I said it. I don't say it a lot. It's not that I am ashamed of it, and it certainly isn't that I don't have the knowledge behind me to argue my case. If you and I were out for drinks, this wouldn't even be an issue, the whole you-knowing thing. I'd probably bring it up at some point, because, well, I like the discussion. I just, in the world of moms who blog, find it difficult to discuss this. There are few of us in comparison to the teaming masses of moms with I love Jesus blinkies. When I find blogs written by overtly Christian parents, I tend to pass over them. I don't do that because I don't like reading about it; in fact, I DO like reading some of those blogs. It's just that I know that with a click here and a sitemeter there, that parent can find their way back here and then it's with the disapproval and the grumpies. I don't like disapproval.\nSo, my atheism is a semi-secret. The thing is, though, that when I was a Christian, I shouted it from the rafters. It was everything to me. This Atheism? Yeah, I don't really care. It does not, on any level, define who I am, and I couldn't care less if you never knew that about me. There-in lies the difference.\nI could leave it at that; that being 'I don't want to rock anyone's boat', but it's more than that. It's something deep at the core of who I am, and it's fighting this thing. See, when I was little, and life wasn't always so grand*, I always leaned on God. Yes, I was a Christian. Sorta. I was more religious than you, I promise. I ate, slept, breathed God and Jesus and the Christian way. I took every scripture at face value (there is no way I could ever count the amount of times I have read the bible cover to cover. It's at least 16, quite possibly double or triple that) and lived it to the utmost. So, when things got tough, I put my faith in the lord almighty and the fact that he would never give me more than I could bear. I believed that and it brought me a tremendous amount of comfort.\nThe lord watches over you, the lord is your shade at your right\nhand; The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.\nThe lord will keep you from all harm, he will watch over your\nlife; the lord will watch over your coming and going both now and\nI remember sitting in my bedroom, looking out my window, and talking to god. I remember telling him that I must be the strongest child in the world, because sheesh he sure sending a whole bunch of tests my way. I remembered Job. I remembered Lot. I remembered all the people in the bible who showed such tremendous strength during adversity and I tried to be like them. But I knew I could do it because god wouldn't let it happen if I couldn't, and there must be a bigger plan for me and a reason I was where I was.\nAnd then one day I woke up. I realized that yes, perhaps I was the strongest child the world had ever known, but that this wasn't something happening because god let it happen. This was happening because of a chemical imbalance in my mothers' brain brought on by systemic childhood abuse, bad genes, mosquito trucks in the 1950's and my grandfather's super great idea to shut up his kids by cracking open thermometers and letting them play with the mercury. I realized this all a bit after I had hit the more-than-I-could-bear point, and I had a complete, total breakdown, right then and there. I had a crisis of faith. I topped that with an honest realization of the absolute horrors my brother and I endured. The cherry on the top was, of course, the complete abandonment by the very church I had been raised in, the admission by its leaders that, \"Yeah, we knew what was going on, but who were we to stop it?\"\nUm, you were adults. In a position of authority. Over me and my mother. And you were all I had.\nAt least I wasn't an alter boy.\nAnyway, that faith in the support of god, the assurance that I could handle anything thrown my way, that was the first thing to go. The rest followed shortly thereafter. I am not bitter about it, the way some atheists can be; in fact, my sons both have a strong faith in them that has evolved all on its own and is backed with an expansive knowledge of various religions (mom dabbles in theology, when she's not busy blogging), and I encourage and promote that. They know dad and I don't share their beliefs, and they couldn't care less. And I applaud that even more.\nBut as an adult, and an adult who has chosen the path less traveled in her life, I hit a lot of bumps along the way. Sometimes, these bumps are big. Sometimes they make me grind my teeth all the way down and cry more than I'd like to admit. And I find, in these times of hardship, that I miss that feeling that somehow, it's all going to be ok. I miss the comfort of that, because I know that sometimes it just doesn't all work out ok and sometimes really shitty things happen and really, super hard choices have to be made. And though I am luckier than many people in the world, with a great support structure and not a terrible head on my shoulders, none of us are omnipotent, are we? None of us can snap our fingers and make it all stop. I guess I'm really just afraid of admitting that I let the hope of that go.\n*Yes, that would be a gross understatement.\nIn Big Fat Chicken\n\u2190 Sharing, and other traditionsJust try to crack this code.... \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 5685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2014/05/this-is-whats-really-in-mcdonalds-hamburger.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NOK6QOZZK3INY6UJPDK663MNUYKRH7NL", "length": 4188, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.whydontyoutrythis.com", "title": "McDonald's Finally Reveals What's In Their Burgers. Yuck!", "raw_content": "McDonald's Finally Reveals What's In Their Burgers. Yuck!\nHave you ever wondered what's in a McDonald's hamburger? You may be shocked to realize that the company insists that adding rubber to the food is quite safe:\n\u201cThere are varied uses for azodicarbonamide, including in some non-food products, such as yoga mats. As a result, some people have suggested our food contains rubber or plastic, or that the ingredient is unsafe. It\u2019s simply not the case. Think of salt: the salt you use in your food at home is a variation of the salt you may use to de-ice your sidewalk. The same is true of ADA \u2014 it can be used in different ways.\u201d\nAside from the enormous amounts of grease contained in a McDonald's hamburger, the advertised ingredients are no better for you. According to McDonald's own website, this is the list of ingredients for their popular McDouble, the sandwich that you see in the above video.\nRegular Bun:\nIngredients: Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup and/or Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil and/or Canola Oil, Contains 2% or Less: Salt, Wheat Gluten, Calcium Sulfate, Calcium Carbonate, Ammonium Sulfate, Ammonium Chloride, Dough Conditioners (May Contain One or More of: Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, DATEM, Ascorbic Acid, Azodicarbonamide, Mono and Diglycerides, Ethoxylated Monoglycerides, Monocalcium Phosphate, Enzymes, Guar Gum, Calcium Peroxide), Sorbic Acid (Preservative), Calcium Propionate and/or Sodium Propionate (Preservatives), Soy Lecithin.\nThis is a list of side effects caused by the ingredients of just the bun alone:\n- Ammonium sulfate is a chemical byproduct of steel-making and synthetic fiber production. It was the most common source of lawn fertilizer nitrogen until price increases starting in 2004 reduced its availability.\n- Bleached White Flour: It has been shown that alloxan is a byproduct of the flour bleaching process, the process they use to make flour look so \u201cclean\u201d and \u2014 well, white. No, they are technically not adding alloxan to the flour \u2014 although you will read this bit of misinformation on the Internet. But, they are doing chemical treatments to the grain that result in the formation of alloxan in the flour. Alloxan, or C4 H2O4N2, is a product of the decomposition of uric acid. It is a poison that is used to produce diabetes in healthy experimental animals (primarily rats and mice), so that researchers can then study diabetes \u201ctreatments\u201d in the lab. Alloxan causes diabetes because it spins up enormous amounts of free radicals in pancreatic beta cells, thus destroying them.\nHigh Fructose Corn Syrup contains contaminants including mercury that are not regulated or measured by the FDA.\nSodium Stearoyl Lactylate: possible side effect is food intolerance.\nAzodicarbonamide (Banned in the EU, Singapore, and Australia) is used in the food industry as a food additive, a flour bleaching agent and improving agent. Azodicarbonamide actually relaxes the dough so that when it is divided in large-scale bakeries under pressure, it still retains a good character. It has been known to cause allergic reactions in those sensitive to other azo compounds, such as food dyes. The consumption of azodicarbonamide may also heighten an allergic reaction to other ingredients in a food. The principal use of azodicarbonamide is in the production of foamed plastics as an additive.\nIn the UK, the Health and Safety Executive has identified azodicarbonamide as a respiratory sensitizer (a possible cause of asthma) and has determined that these products should be labeled with the words \u201cmay cause sensitization by inhalation.\u201d\nGuar Gum is banned by the FDA in large amounts due to reports of the substance swelling and obstructing the intestines and esophagus.\nSorbic Acid: According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the chemical is a strong irritant and\u2014in large enough quantities\u2014has the potential to cause severe damage to the tissues of the eyes, skin and respiratory tract.\nFast Food Hamburgers Could be as Little as 2% ACTUAL Meat\nStudy Reveals That Fast Food Ice Is Dirtier Than Toilet Water", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 204.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.willeifert.com/hire-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:05Z", "digest": "sha1:CXVCU6NZZS5T3M3TVP6N4NNUQ7VAIJDF", "length": 1235, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.willeifert.com", "title": "Hire Me - Will Eifert", "raw_content": "I hope that you\u2019ve enjoyed reading the posts on my blog. While I write here for fun, I also write and work on websites for a living. If you run a small business that could benefit from more online traffic and sales, I think that we\u2019d be a good match.\nSimply put, I help small businesses improve their web traffic and sales. I do this in a number of ways:\nBlogging: Successful blogging requires researching interest, creating a content plan and writing content that will help your customers. You build traffic and win new customers.\nCopywriting: From websites to press releases and everything in between, I write content that appeals to readers\u2019 problems and places your business as the solution.\nSearch Engine Optimization (SEO): From planning the structure of a website to writing content, I optimize websites so that people searching for what you do will find your business.\nIf you think that you\u2019re business has been lacking in terms of performance online, I invite you to get in touch with me so that we can talk about what we can do together.\nIf you want more web traffic, let\u2019s talk\nI\u2019m interested in hearing more about your business and finding out how we could work together. Contact me to learn more about my writing services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2037, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.windowtonews.com/news.php?id=191372", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:DUCAOW4YSFJFO5BGJFS4D5XSPKJCPID3", "length": 2180, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.windowtonews.com", "title": "Constantine praises Indian players after China draw - Window To News", "raw_content": "Constantine praises Indian players after China draw\nSuzhou (China), Oct 13 (IANS) Indian football team oach Stephen Constantine was all praise for his boys after they held continental powerhouse China to a goalless draw here on Saturday.\n\"We have shown in the last four years that we are a very difficult team to beat. We may not have the quality which some of the other teams in Asia have. But I stand for my team physically and competitively against any team in Asia. The boys were outstanding today,\" Constantine said at the post-match press conference.\n\"It was a very exciting match. Both teams tried to score. Of course, China had more possession and opportunities and we had expected this.\"\nThis was India's first official international friendly on Chinese soil. For the most part, the match was a battle between wave upon wave of Chinese attacks and robust -- sometimes desperate -- defending by the Indians.\nThis was the 18th match between the two nations. China have won 12 of those matches while the rest have been draws.\nConstantine felt that matches such as these will help the Indians prepare to face the best teams from the continent at the Asian Cup next year.\n\"We came here to give a good performance and the main thing for us was to get used to the standard of football which we would face in the AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019. Congratulations to all the players. Five of them who ended the game are U-23 players and two who started were U-23 players as well. That's my policy -- to develop young players and give them more opportunities,\" Constantine said.\n\"I feel Gurpreet (Singh Sandhu) is an outstanding talent. He was three years in Norway and definitely played his role today in keeping a clean sheet for us. Sandesh Jhingan is a fighter. He puts his body on the line and gave everything on the pitch as all the other boys do too. Playing for India is the best possible situation and we appreciate that,\" he added.\nReferring to India's game plan, the coach informed that the plan was to keep it \"tight\".\n\"Our shape was very compact. The distance between the defenders and the midfielders was tight. We didn't allow much space to our rivals,\" he said.\n--IANS ajb/vm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 4233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wisegeek.net/how-do-i-choose-the-best-dial-up.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:25Z", "digest": "sha1:FO2XWNGYKQMP24EJ5S7GWU2GIB6NCTAC", "length": 3962, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.wisegeek.net", "title": "How do I Choose the Best Dial-Up?", "raw_content": "How do I Choose the Best Dial-Up?\nWhile many people now use faster options for connecting to the Internet, dial-up services are still the method of choice for many people. In some cases, this is out of necessity when there are no other connection methods available in a given locality. Other people find the cost and the slightly faster dial-up speeds of today to be sufficient for their needs.\nNot every dial-up service offers the same level of service. While many Internet service providers offer around the clock customer and technical support, that is not always the case. In addition, some services offer a limited amount of support each month, but then charge either a per minute or a flat fee for each additional incidence of support that takes place. The best dial-up services are the ones who have free customer and technical support that is available when you need it and at no extra charge.\nCost is another factor to consider when you look for the best dial-up service. Don\u2019t be fooled by a higher price tag. Even with the competition from more robust connection options, there are a few of the name brand dial-up services that still charge monthly rates that are similar to DSL and broadband prices. Many of the low-cost dial-up providers will offer services and connection speeds that equal or even exceed those offered by the pricier services. Check out consumer reports related to dial-up ISP options in your area and compare the lower priced services with the others in terms of what they offer. Chances are you can obtain excellent service at half the rate of the pricey services.\nMake sure to take a long look at the number of telephone numbers that are available for connection in your area. The best dial-up services will offer anywhere from three to five different numbers that are local calls for your location. Beware of services that seem to provide no more than one or two access numbers even for metropolitan areas. That is a sure sign you will have trouble connecting when you like.\nRead the terms and conditions thoroughly before you commit to any type of Internet access provider. Many dial-up services will break the connection if it is not in active use for a period of anywhere from 45 minutes to five hours. There are even some that will tack on an additional charge if you exceed so many hours of usage per month. The best dial-up options will not disconnect an idle connection and will not limit your monthly usage at all.\nProprietary dialers are another issue to consider when evaluating various dial-up services. If you have plenty of resources, this is not a big consideration. However, if your system is older and relatively low in resources, keep in mind that proprietary dialer may use up a lot of what resources are available. In this scenario, the best dial-up option for you would be a service that allows you to make use of the connection software already loaded on your hard drive. Many of these services can even access your dialer and configure it for you as part of the setup process.\nOne final consideration is the speed of the service. Keep in mind that even if the dial-up provider advertises the highest dial-up speed available, that speed may be decreased by the quality of your phone line as well as your modem. In order to find the best dial-up option for your situation, try several services that either provide a free evaluation period or charge an extremely modest fee to allow you to try out the service for the first month. You will likely find that you consistently get better connection speeds with one particular provider, making the job of identifying the best dial-up service for you a simple and quick task.\nWhich Countries Have the Lowest Internet Access Rates?\nHow do I Test Connection Speed on my Computer?\nWhat is High Speed Dial-Up?\nHow do I get Reliable Dial-Up Internet Service?\nWhat Should I Consider When Buying a Network Card?\nWhat is an Internal Modem?\nWhat is a Bluetooth&Reg; Modem?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wittytitlehere.com/2015/11/how-to-persevere-when-you-hate-writing-and-everything-sucks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:07Z", "digest": "sha1:FKUKUCMHMBP5ITBE63EYGECJ7J36LQOJ", "length": 150, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wittytitlehere.com", "title": "How to persevere when you hate writing and everything sucks", "raw_content": "The 100 Best Websites for Writers in 2016 - The Write Life says:\n[\u2026] Post you\u2019ll like: How to persevere when you hate writing and everything sucks [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 213.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.womenslandrights.org/index.asp?pageid=503975", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:29Z", "digest": "sha1:VEM4MJKKS5JNCD2ZE26GFP4QMXRUY6WP", "length": 407, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.womenslandrights.org", "title": "Britain's Land Policy | White v White", "raw_content": "Forensic accountants DG&C comment in their Report (page 8) that 'PARTNERSHIP LAW, MATRIMONIAL LAW, THE LAW OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND THE BASIC LAW OF HUMAN JUSTICE HAS BEEN CONTRAVENED' and that:\n\"Mrs White should surely have a farm.\"\nThis crucial evidence was suppressed by her lawyers at the Court of Appeal and the House of Lords - ensuring that the dispossession order of the lower court was upheld.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.worcus.com/7-reasons-to-choose-wordpress/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2XHDKXJBPDJU3AG3JXGOOL4GDEZ6JB3M", "length": 7580, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.worcus.com", "title": "7 Reasons To Choose WordPress for Your Website | Worcus", "raw_content": "Working with Wordpress\t| 0 comments\nSo, you need to get started and you need a great website tool to help you get there. But there are so many options out there for building beautiful websites \u2013 Weebly, Squarespace, Wix, WordPress and more. With all of these options, why should you choose WordPress as the platform for your website? Here are 7 pretty fantastic reasons that should win you over.\n1.) The Epitome of the Easy Button\nYou\u2019ve got too much going on in your life to have to worry about crazy amounts of formatting, updating the same information across multiple locations on your site and so much more. WordPress makes your life easier in so many ways.\nInstall WordPress with One Click. Long gone are the days of downloading the WordPress .zip file to your computer, uploading it to your server, extracting the contents, blah blah blah. One-click installs of the WordPress platform through domain/hosting providers such as 1and1, BlueHost, DreamHost, HostGator, GoDaddy and many others turn a process that used to take hours of your time into minutes of computer processing with just a few clicks.\nUpdate your entire website like posting to a blog. You don\u2019t have to double-click this text field, move that one, adjust your font coloring and format all the images to be just right. WordPress takes care of your overall design for you so you can update your website easier and faster than ever before. Can you type a document in Microsoft Word? Awesome! You can update your website beautifully. Take a look at how easy it is for us to update our About page \u2013 and look at how pretty it is when you see it. Piece of cake.\n2.) Lack of easy-to-screw-up-the-whole-site-ness\nTechnology isn\u2019t everyone\u2019s strong-suit, and web design and terminology shouldn\u2019t be a requirement to run your own business. With certain website builders, you feel like if you click the wrong place or delete the wrong thing that you\u2019re going to screw up the entire website and nothing will work (and with most website builders, this is highly possible). With WordPress, it\u2019s pretty hard to mess things up and take your whole site down in flames just by trying to update information on one of your pages or blog posts. The user interface that WordPress offers allows you to feel comfortable and confident with updating your own website knowing that it will take care of the hard work for you.\nDo you have multiple people who need to update the website? Good for you! You can create different users and grant different rights to each of them \u2013 this way, you can retain full control and insight over what\u2019s being done, who does what, and you can even set things up to where your approval is needed before anything is posted live.\n3.) The Possibilities are Endless\nA lot of site builders out there have a pretty strict framework. WordPress is one of the largest, most flexible web design platform available. With thousands of plugins, widgets and Themes to choose from, chances are if there\u2019s something you\u2019re trying to do on your website, \u201cthere\u2019s an app for that\u201d \u2013 well, a plugin, widget or Theme for that. Want to sell merchandise on your website? There\u2019s an eCommerce plugin or Theme for that. Want to have clients schedule appointments on your website? There\u2019s a plugin for that. Want to make your website more social? There\u2019s a plugin or widget for that. Want to accept donations or take payments online? Oh, there is so a plugin for that. If you want to have it done on your website, there will most likely be a way to do that on WordPress.\nYou can use WordPress for Photography portfolios, News sites, Political campaigns, Non-profit organizations, Clothing stores, Musician/Artist galleries, School scheduling, and so much more. Sometimes it\u2019s hard to believe or fathom the amount of things that are possible with WordPress, but the best way to put it is if you can dream it, we\u2019re pretty sure WordPress can do it.\n4.) We live in a MOBILE world\nEveryone and their cousin has a smartphone or tablet these days, and most of them are searching for businesses just like yours straight from their mobile device. It can be a bit frustrating and discouraging to be looking for a local salon in a new town, click on a website that looks appealing and then not have it load because you are on a mobile device. More often than not, anyone who tries to view a website for the first time on a mobile device only to find that the site won\u2019t load properly will move on to another business and forget all about that first one. You don\u2019t want to be left behind in this mobile age, and WordPress won\u2019t leave you hanging there! WordPress websites are viewable on any device, and to make the deal sweeter, there are thousands of Responsive WordPress Themes that change their formatting for an even more beautiful experience on each type of device, such as the example below.\n5.) Oh yes, it\u2019s FREE\nHow could we not talk about the benefits of WordPress without mentioning that it is a 100% free platform?! Sure, you are responsible for purchasing a domain name and hosting service, but WordPress is free to download, free to use and there are no fees that pop up around any corners. Ever. Even WordPress Themes (the design-styles that you can choose to put on your website like different outfits of clothing) are available for free, though there are paid Premium Themes which allow for more design flexibility and pre-made bits of awesome. You don\u2019t have to purchase paid Premium Themes \u2013 you can still have a beautiful site on a free Theme. As a matter of fact, our website was actually based off of a free Theme that we customized.\n6.) Search Engine Optimization (SEO)\nYou want to make sure your website is searchable, right? You need to make sure that when folks go to their search engine of choice and type in \u201cold fashioned store in New Hampshire\u201d that your store shows up in the search results if in fact you are an old fashioned store in New Hampshire. This is what is known as Search Engine Optimization (SEO). WordPress is SEO-friendly by nature, and there are even some additional plugins to help increase your SEO even further.\n7.) Proven Support & Continued Improvements\nWordPress isn\u2019t just a design platform \u2013 it\u2019s a community. As open-source software, users and developers from all different backgrounds are continually working together to improve the WordPress platform, share their knowledge, fix bugs and provide solutions for and problems that arise. Trying to figure out why you can\u2019t do something in WordPress? Google it! Chances are there are other folks just like you trying to do the same thing, and you can find your answer through one of the various WordPress support forums.\nSince the WordPress community is so active, there are regular improvements and updates made to the software to fix bugs, allow new content and more flexibility. And the best part? Updating to the latest version of WordPress is so simple! When you are logged into your WordPress administrative dashboard, there is a section right at the top for Updates. When there is a new update for WordPress, you can click right underneath it to update to the latest version. Badabing, badaboom.\nThere are plenty more reasons to choose and love WordPress for your website and there\u2019s so much more we could say, but these 7 reasons are what we feel are the most important and highlight the best features WordPress has to offer. WordPress allows you to create beautiful, powerful and yet simple websites that will be easier to update than anything you\u2019ve ever encountered.\nEasy and simple without sacrificing beauty or power? Sold.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 8586, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yeezysworld.com/2018/11/6ix9ine-arrested-by-feds-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:50Z", "digest": "sha1:POVOA6VHGPFIFD55JGFPDTIXA745IQFA", "length": 1232, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.yeezysworld.com", "title": "6ix9ine Arrested by Feds on Racketeering Charges ~ Yeezy's World", "raw_content": "6ix9ine Arrested by Feds on Racketeering Charges\n6ix9ine and three of his associates are in federal custody after being arrested on Sunday night (Nov. 18), according to the New York Police Department and the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the Southern District of New York.\nThe 22-year-old rapper, whose real name is Daniel Hernandez, was arrested on racketeering and firearms charges. 6ix9ine\u2019s associates, ex-manager Kifano Jordan (\u201cShotti\u201d), Jensel Butler (\u201cIsh\u201d), and Faheem Walter (\u201cCrippy\u201d) were also taken into custody.\nLast week, Tekashi fired his management team including Shotti and canceled his upcoming U.S. tour. During an interview with \u201cThe Breakfast Club,\u201d he revealed his two fears\u2014God and the Feds. \u201cOnly two things I\u2019m scared of in life, God first and the FBI,\u201d he said.\nThe \u201cFEFE\u201d hitmaker was recently given four years probation in his child sex case, but the judge warned him that he could be resentenced and face prison time if he didn\u2019t stay out of trouble.\nHe is scheduled to be arraigned in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday afternoon.\n6ix9ine is gearing up to release his debut album Dummy Boy on Friday featuring appearances from Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, and Tory Lanez.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 28217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 159.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yorkcares.co.uk/about/blog/annual-programme-2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:35Z", "digest": "sha1:I5A5MY6HAT3NWANYXSLTDPO2CPBXIMG7", "length": 1312, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.yorkcares.co.uk", "title": "Annual Programme 2019 | York Cares", "raw_content": "In our first blog post of 2019, we wanted to let you know about some of the great opportunities to look forward to over coming year. If your New Year\u2019s resolution is to do more volunteering, or you fancy getting out and helping in your local community, don\u2019t hesitate to get in touch with the team. You can see our full Annual Programme here.\nSome things to look forward to \u2026\nIn March and July we will be training new Right to Read volunteers \u2013 these volunteers will get out into local schools to help children with their reading at just an hour a week commitment.\nWe also have our Aspirations, Skills Share and Starting Blocks projects continuing throughout the year- these projects hope to share insight and inspiration with young people and local businesses.\nOur Annual Stakeholder meeting will be taking place in April with leaders from the private, public and charity sectors coming together to discuss key social issues.\nAnd finally, we are excited for our Big Community Challenge taking place in June in which a whole host of employee-volunteers from local businesses will work together to transform a community space in just three days.\nThis is just a taster of what is to come this year and we hope to get as many volunteers on board as possible. Let\u2019s work together to make York a better place in 2019!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yourparentinginfo.com/encouraging-your-preschoolers-independence/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:13Z", "digest": "sha1:YX5O44CXLG4V44GDNEIQ2X6Q4OVXETTH", "length": 3079, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.yourparentinginfo.com", "title": "Encouraging Your Preschooler's Independence | Your Parenting Info", "raw_content": "Encouraging Your Preschooler\u2019s Independence\nby T Akery | September 16th, 2014 | Behavior, Preschool\nYour Preschooler is at the age where their skills are developing. While you are still tempted to baby them at that age, they really can handle doing things for themselves. While some Preschoolers are naturally independent, some are just a bit more reluctant to take on the mantle of becoming a more independent kid. At this age, there are some things they can and should do for themselves. These skills vary depending on your Preschooler but helping them master them is a part of helping them growing up.\nTo help encourage them to dress themselves, you can ask them to pick out their own clothes. You must resist the temptation to help them put them on. Let them do it by themselves. It may take longer than it would for you to do it. This could mean that you may have to allow for extra time in the mornings. But it is important for them to do this themselves so they can feel that sense of accomplishment that will get them motivated to do it again. Helping them with buttons on the back of a shirt or helping them figure out the right way the shirt faces is perfectly fine. But you should encourage them to do their own buttons and zippers because these things require a bit more thought to operate and take practice to master.\nAnother thing you can do to encourage them in their skills is to allow them to help. While it does take a little longer to do jobs such as cleaning this way, they are still at the age that this type of help is more fun than it is a chore. One of the best ways for them to learn how to do a task themselves is to let them do it themselves. While you do want to substitute any harsh chemicals with safer alternatives such as water and buy more kid-friendly versions of grown-up items, they can still gain skill by practicing what you are doing. This sense of helping is another motivating factor that ultimately helps to foster independence.\nYou can also help your Preschooler by asking them to create their own schedule that they can follow. This gives them a sense of what needs to be done at what time. The schedule doesn\u2019t have to be detailed, just general enough to take the big things into account. The important thing is to let them help create it.\nIndependent play is also important. Your Preschooler does need time to learn how to keep themselves entertained. This does not mean putting them in front of a television. Instead, playing with toys or out in the backyard under supervision can help them learn that sometimes parents can\u2019t always entertain them.\nFostering your Preschooler\u2019s independence is a part of teaching them how to eventually take care of themselves. While they aren\u2019t quite ready to do everything just quite yet, you can help build the basic skills that they can build on later.\nComments on Encouraging Your Preschooler\u2019s Independence\nNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: 566b32124c663160c5ad4acecf338d62", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zenrhino.org/theory/resources", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:59Z", "digest": "sha1:7CKJ4C45XOVZ5W7J3G232AV6RDUVQHLZ", "length": 3324, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.zenrhino.org", "title": "Additional Resources - Zen Rhino", "raw_content": "The following books are highly recommended. Some are about game design (and have heavily influenced this theory), others are about related subjects or just good for someone who wants to be a game designer. These books are listed in order of importance for a game design student (although be warned that Characteristics of Games is dense reading and not for a general audience).\nCharacteristics of Games by Elias, Garfield, and Gutschera (the best hardcore book about game design)\nThe Art of Game Design by Jesse Schell (the best general audience book about game design)\nThe Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman (the best book about general design principles)\nUnderstanding Comics by Scott McCloud (a timeless work about the nature of abstraction)\nC.O.D.E. by Charles Petzold (the book to read before you start to learn how to program)\nGame Feel by Steve Swink (a foundational work on real-time controls)\nPuzzle Craft by Mike Selinker and Thomas Snyder (the best book on puzzle making ever written)\nTheories are well-established for non-interactive narrative, art, and music, and can be useful in interactive media as well. There are also engagement theories for students, workers, and more that use the same name. While they are tangentially related to this theory, the focus here on players, viewers, etc. makes the details much different. The main common point is the focus on motivation as being critical to engagement. There are also a lot of game designers who write about game design theory on the internet who are well worth reading:\nJames Portnow: Extra Credits\nDaniel Cook: Lost Garden\nTadhg Kelly: What Games Are\nMike Stout: On Game Design\nKeith Burgun: 3 Minute Game Design\nErnest Adams: The Designer's Notebook\nAesthetics vs. Engagement\nIn 2004, LeBlanc, Hunicke, and Zebek proposed a framework for looking at games called Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics (MDA). What MDA calls aesthetics (\"the desirable emotional responses evoked in the player, when she interacts with the game system\") is almost identical to the types of engagement used here. The primary difference is that engagement types are not limited to being evoked by the game system (although most designers don't really restrict themselves to this when using MDA), but can be evoked by any element of the work. Another minor difference is that the responses do not have to be emotional--they can be any basic human desire or instinct (although again, most users of MDA would not restrict themselves to this limit either). The other difference is the break-down of the individual types of engagement/aesthetics. Most are the same, but MDA's Narrative is replaced with Catharsis, MDA's Submission is replaced with Accomplishment, and Competition is added (James Portnow also adds Competition to his own breakdown in his Aesthetics of Play episode of Extra Credits). What engagement theory really adds in this area are the sub-categories of each type and the particular definitions of each type.\nThe \"elements\" of engagement theory could be considered to be in the same category as MDA's \"mechanics\", although engagement theory takes a much broader view of this category. The \"dynamics\" category of engagement theory and MDA definitely overlap, but are approached very differently. The composition and other techniques are not part of MDA at all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zt2ny.com.cn/English/CWRCNews/33365.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SC4FWOFYLWUB56GIWDYDWBL7JYISZKHS", "length": 2489, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.zt2ny.com.cn", "title": "\u65f6\u65f6\u5f69\u5927\u5c0f\u5355\u53cc\u7a33\u8d5a\u6cd5:Red alert issued for super typhoon Maria\u2014\u957f\u6c5f\u6c34\u5229\u7f51 - \u798f\u5efa\u65f6\u65f6\u5f69\u5e73\u53f0\u2581\u798f\u5efa\u65f6\u65f6\u5f69\u5f00\u5956\u76f4\u64ad\u2581\u798f\u5efa\u65f6\u65f6\u5f69\u5f00\u5956\u89c4\u5219\u2581\u798f\u5efa\u65f6\u65f6\u5f69\u4e8b\u4ef6\u2581\u798f\u5efa\u65f6\u65f6\u5f69\u5f00\u5956\u5217\u8868", "raw_content": "\u6765\u6e90\uff1aChina Daily \u4f5c\u8005\uff1aWang Xiaoyu \u65f6\u95f4\uff1a2018\u5e7407\u670811\u65e5\nStorm expected to pass Taiwan, hit mainland early on Wednesday\nChina's meteorological authority has issued its first red alert of the year for a typhoon on Tuesday morning, with super typhoon Maria expected to hit Fujian and Zhejiang provinces with heavy rains and powerful winds on Wednesday.\nMaria, packing winds of up to 216 kilometers per hour, is likely to breeze past Taiwan and lash the coastal areas of the southeastern Chinese mainland on Wednesday morning, especially between Xiapu and Fuqing in Fujian province, the China Meteorological Administration said.\nIt is the eighth typhoon of the year and the first one to trigger a red alert - the highest in China's four-tier alert system for severe weather.\nAfter Maria formed on July 4 in the Pacific Ocean, it strengthened to super typhoon status within 33 hours, significantly faster than average, according to Qian Qifeng, senior engineer at the National Meteorological Center.\nQian said the storm is moving fast, at about 30 km/h, bringing heavy rainfall in southeastern Zhejiang province, central and northern Fujian province and central Jiangxi province.\n\"The public in the affected areas should stay indoors all the time because it could turn from mild weather to torrents of rain and intense winds in a short span of one to two hours,\" Qian said.\nMaria is expected to arrive in Jiangxi province on Wednesday evening and gradually weaken to a tropical depression at around 8 am on Thursday.\nThe State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters has dispatched four teams to guide flood control work - followed by the Ministry of Emergency Management, which sent three teams to Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces, urging local governments to stock emergency resources and examine potential risks.\nThe meteorological administration also warned that heavy downpours in the Sichuan Basin, southeastern Gansu province and southwestern Shaanxi province, will continue on Tuesday and Wednesday, with some regions getting precipitation of up to 35 centimeters.\nThe amount of rain in these regions is up to double the historical record, resulting in high risk of natural disasters such as flooding and landslides.\nThe Sichuan flood control authority launched a Level III emergency response to flooding on Monday evening. The last time a flood control order of this level was activated in Sichuan province was July 2013, when major floods left 58 people dead and another 175 missing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 4019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://x.marcus-boesch.de/http-twitter-com-list-avinunu-reporters-in-egyp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:10Z", "digest": "sha1:OMF5LZOUQ7JFO3ICDITNSJRMCXEQB2UE", "length": 580, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "x.marcus-boesch.de", "title": "Marcus B\u00f6sch", "raw_content": "http://twitter.com/#/list/avinunu/reporters-in-egypt\nCurated by Avinunu Following 22\nhttp://twitter.com/#!/ajenglish/egyptprotests\nCurated by Al Jazeera English Following 8\nhttp://twitter.com/#!/washingtonpost/egypt\nCurated by The Washington Post Following 81\nhttp://twitter.com/#!/tsudo/egypt\nCurated by Keith Crawford Following 10\nhttp://twitter.com/#!/catmikk/catmikkegypt\nCurated by Cat Mikkelsen Following 80\nhttp://twitter.com/#!/JacobPark/tweeting-from-egypt\nCurated by Jacob Park Following 73\nhttps://twitter.com/#!/nytimes/egypt\nCurated by The New York Times Following 57", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yanxa.com/te_aboutus_company/0/0.chtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2JZCCUUONIGLWAOETENJWDADT2RF3RFW", "length": 1566, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "yanxa.com", "title": "About us-Beijing Yanxa Technology Development Co., Ltd.- Growing for your specialty needs", "raw_content": "Home>> About us>> About us>>\nBeijing YANXA Technology Development Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as YANXA) is one of the growing suppliers in the field of specialty materials and products in China.\nBased on long term business operation in the field of chemical industry, YANXA is moving forward steadily and vigorously into one diversified company with excellence in delivering products and services in relation to chemicals and machines.\nJointed by by Chanying Chemicals, one of the leading chlorate and perchlorate manufacturers in southern China, YANXA is established with a primary aim to providing you with superior quality perchlorate and chlorate and a wide variety of super-fine heavy calcium carbonate powders and masterbatch/concentrates for the most competitive price in the market.\nAt present, under the category of perchlorate, main products include various specifications of potassium perchlorate, ammonium perchlorate, sodium perchlorate, potassium chlorate and sodium chlorate for different purpose.\nIn terms of heavy calcium carbonate powders and masterbatch/concentrates, our products are tailored to your specific application purposes including blow mold, injection mold plastics, coating, non-woven fabric, rubber, ink etc.\nStarting from the beginning of 2012, YANXA has been granted with the self-managed rights of import & export by the government. YANXA can import or export all the products and technology approved by the competent authority of government.\nWe look forward to cooperating with you and serving you for your specialty needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yogavillage.in/the-art-of-happiness.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HW2DWTJON4R47K2FNLEGVCPCGYYCJFLF", "length": 3860, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "yogavillage.in", "title": "Best 200 hour yoga TTC by yoga village in yoga india 2018", "raw_content": "A weekly dose of Love, Happiness and Inspiration\nFrom Painter Sofan Chan and Sculptor Rochman Reese\nIt\u2019s the little things you do every day that make a difference\nHave you ever decided to make some big change in your life?\nWas there something you were not happy with, so you decided to \u201cturn over a new leaf\u201d? Did you spend a huge amount of your time and energy into trying to change that which you didn\u2019t like?\nFor many people, major changes in life begin with a huge rush of enthusiasm. Sometimes this can work.\nToo often, once that initial burst of energy being poured into making these monumental life changes slowly drains away. Many people discover that gradually as the focus of energy dissipates, they find themselves sliding back into those same habits and patterns which they are trying to escape from.\nThis can be an extremely frustrating experience!\nIn today\u2019s fast paced world, most people want \u201cinstant\u201d results. Many people believe that any effort put into creating any sort of change needs to show some very fast results or they will lose interest and give up in the despair of \u201cnothing\u2019s happening, so why bother?\u201d This usually results in lots of effort and energy expended for little if any lasting result.\nThe truth is, it\u2019s the little things you do every day that will make a big difference.\nThe most difficult to change habit and the most insurmountable problems are both the inevitable result of the sum of all of your day to day experiences.\nJust as the internet is made up of millions of different computers all linked together to form a massive field of information, so to is your life built out of millions of interconnected memories and experiences.\nYour life is continuously being built out of tiny pieces of time. One small action connected to the next, and each one of these tiny pieces of your life combine into the whole web of who you are.\nMany years ago, a wise man in India who was living in some very troubled times wrote down these words :-\n\u201cCarefully watch your THOUGHTS, for they become your WORDS.\nManage and watch your WORDS, for they will become your ACTIONS.\nConsider and judge your ACTIONS, for they have become your HABITS.\nAcknowledge and watch your HABITS, for they shall become your VALUES.\nUnderstand and embrace your VALUES, for they become YOUR DESTINY.\u201d\nEach day brings slight and subtle changes. No matter how ingrained are your habits, no matter how deeply entrenched you are in your routines, at the close of every day you will be a little bit different from who you were that morning.\nThe amazing thing is that you have the power to consciously decide in which direction you want that difference to be moving towards.\nOne of the best known chinese proverbs says \u201cA journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step\u201d\nOn any given day the changes you make don\u2019t have to be huge, earth shaking events. Simply decide what it is that you want, and then take small, conscious steps on a daily basis.\nIt\u2019s one of life\u2019s paradoxes that sometimes the fastest way to make major, lasting, changes is to take things slowly. Just a dail series of steps repeated daily towards a conscious direction.\nSo tomorrow as you go through your day, look at every action you do, no matter how small, take a note of every person you come in contact with from parents and children, bosses, workers, shopkeepers, strangers \u2026.everyone. At the end of each encounter ask yourself. \u201cIn which direction am I moving? What will be the result of these actions repeated many times?\u201d\nFor ultimately, at the end of our lives, all we will be left with is the journey. It will be the time spent on becoming what we are that will make up our lives. So make the most of each precious moment, and remember,\nIt\u2019s the little things you do every day that really make a huge difference.\nMay your life be filled with love, happiness and inspiration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 5798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://032c.com/from-rags-to-rags-rick-owens", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:47Z", "digest": "sha1:KFHNK3SA6G4L2IDTE4632EDYECCXZFMB", "length": 24390, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "032c.com", "title": "From Rags to Rags: RICK OWENS Inside Out - 032c", "raw_content": "From Rags to Rags: RICK OWENS Inside Out\nThe burning pyre at the centre of Rick Owens\u2019s Spring 2019 Read-to-Wear presentation at the Palais de Tokyo for Paris Fashion Week struck everyone who saw it \u2013 on the front row, in magazines, or in their feeds \u2013 as an appropriate symbol for a uniquely wretched day. With tie-tightening reactionary looks emerging on runways elsewhere in the city, and a woman\u2019s trauma held up in real time for pillory and abuse in Washington DC \u2013 Rick Owens succeeded, through his particular brand of black wizardry, to capture a mood that extended well beyond the citadel of fashion. More than one commentator noted the air of grim New England justice it seemed to capture, but it was a reference to the flaming figure of the Wicker Man that made it into Owens\u2019s notes before the show. \u201cFor with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.\u201d\nJust two days after the presentation of his fall 2010 collection in Paris this March, Carson Chan met with designer RICK OWENS (b. 1962) for a conversation that started in his studio and ended the next day in his gym, originally published in 032c Issue 19. Owens\u2019s studio \u2013 whose boundaries blur into his office, showroom, furniture workshop, and apartment, which he shares with his partner of eighteen years, Mich\u00e8le Lamy\u2014takes up several stories of a Haussmannien townhouse in the upper reaches of the 7\u00e8me, on a quiet block south of the Seine. Besides having been the former headquarters of Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand and his staff, it\u2019s a space that\u2019s been properly celebrated by the press, from PIN-UP to The Financial Times to the pages of this magazine\u2014two years ago, 032c had Max Farago photograph Lamy\u2019s daughter, nude, in the apartment.\nPhoto: Max Farago\nI arrived in the midst of the post-show buying rush, and the complex was populated by a salad of sales attendants, buyers, translators, press liaisons, models, and support staff, all of whom were dressed in Owens\u2019s signature confections: dark drapes, shadowy gauzes, and lop-sided edges\u2014everyday garments that sit well with those who find glamour in the asymmetries and imperfections of life; nothing is held firm, things go out of place. Looking out of the back windows of the studio, one can see the gardens of the French Ministry of Defense, where every few weeks \u201cLa Marseillaise\u201d is performed for visiting dignitaries by a uniformed combo. \u201cIt\u2019s amazingly charming,\u201d Owens said, pausing to take in the sight of the manicured lawn. Of average height, Owens is built and tanned, and looks kind of like Iggy Pop with a stronger nose and coal-black hair. He acknowledges the seemingly clich\u00e9 trajectory of his life; a made-for-television tale of a Catholic-school boy raised by conservative parents, who drove 150 miles south to L.A. right after graduating high school to live a reckless and hazy decade of booze and drugs, only to sober up enough by the mid-1990s to unleash a talent for designing affecting and decadent clothes\u2014clothes that would be picked up by Barney\u2019s in New York five years later in 1999, clothes that would win him a National Design Award from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum in 2007, and clothes that would command the runways in Paris, his home since 2003.\nCARSON CHAN: I heard you have a deep interest in architecture and interior design.\nRICK OWENS: I do, but I\u2019m very much a dilettante. I\u2019m not a connoisseur, and I don\u2019t have the memory for all the names and dates. People ask if it\u2019s different to design furniture than clothing, and the answer for me is no. Doesn\u2019t every designer want to design their entire environment, and apply their aesthetic to everything around them? Everyone, if they could, would customize everything around them. I don\u2019t know if I have the talent for that, but I certainly have the desire. In this way, architecture surpasses fashion. It\u2019s totalizing, and once you get to that point, you wouldn\u2019t even want to deal with clothes. Designing clothes is the first step\u2014it\u2019s the baby step towards architecture. Actually, the triangular pattern that I\u2019ve been using for my clothes comes from a fa\u00e7ade relief in Berlin, though I don\u2019t remember from which building.\nDo you know of Carlo Mollino\u2019s architectural work?\nHe\u2019s one of my heroes. I\u2019ve looked at his work for years and years. I\u2019ve been to his theater in Turin. It\u2019s amazing. The plan of the building is modeled after a woman\u2019s torso. What is so fascinating about Mollino is that he seems to have designed buildings\u2014these mirrored palaces\u2014so that he could photograph half-naked women inside them afterwards. The building itself is only a part of his imagination. He furnished these places with chairs that would split open the sitter\u2019s legs.\nYou used to work for a clothing company in Hollywood that produced knock-offs of designer clothes, and I assume that gave you a pretty fundamental education in pattern making. The same learning didn\u2019t happen with your furniture design, right?\nNo, it was a completely different, do-it-yourself attitude with my furniture. Actually, the clothes were a do-it-yourself thing too. I started making them with all sorts of improvised techniques because I didn\u2019t have the manufacturing capabilities I have now. I had one Mexican sewer in my studio. I didn\u2019t have knitting capabilities. I didn\u2019t have a Rolodex of suppliers. It was all improvised. Having said that, you can\u2019t really start to improvise unless you already have some foundational skills. Artists can\u2019t convincingly abstract unless they\u2019ve had classical training\u2014and I\u2019m not referring to myself as an artist here.\nMaybe I will on my deathbed. Recently, I was thinking about the differences between approaching art and fashion. I started out going to art school, wanting to become a painter, but I was intimidated by the intellectual intensity that I thought I had to maintain. I didn\u2019t think I could do it. It felt like priesthood\u2014that, or I took it too seriously. Now I think fashion has surpassed art as a way of communicating. Fashion has become more defined as a discipline because there is so much competition out there. At the same time, the audience has grown and become more knowledgeable since I began. Fashion is something that has to speak immediately, to hit you in the gut with something profound, something emotional. It\u2019s a form that has to constantly be of the moment in order to provoke this reaction. A lot of the art I see these days is always ironic, always a wry joke or a superior comment on society\u2014concepts that artists can wrestle with for a year before committing to show it. It\u2019s very indulgent. I disapprove of art these days, which has made me value fashion more than I used to.\nWould you consider fashion a discipline-lite?\nI had wanted to go into something fairly frivolous, superficial, and light. I didn\u2019t want to be a heady artist. That said, some fashion designers come close to being artists. Nicolas Ghesqui\u00e8re\u2019s Fall 2010 Balenciaga collection was close to art, and I would consider many Comme des Gar\u00e7ons pieces art. I don\u2019t think my individual collections are art, but I think that my complete oeuvre\u2014the whole picture\u2014could be considered as my work of art.\nFashion has a leg up on art as a form of communication because clothing always engages its wearer physically. You are that much closer to your audience than, say, a painter. The choice of one fabric over another allows you to communicate and access your audience in a way most artists can\u2019t.\nThe intimacy is so powerful. It\u2019s the most immediate and perhaps genuine way to communicate. People actually integrate the work into their lives, and they have to feel comfortable with it.\nIs it difficult to talk about these processes that are so innate, so carnal?\nMost of the time when I do interviews with the fashion press, they ask me about my inspirations, and I just have to blab on about nothing. How can you describe clothes? The thing about it is that it has to strike an emotional chord that\u2019s a little bit magic and indefinable. If you can define it too easily, the magic is gone. There\u2019s not much I can really tell someone else except all the peripheral matters surrounding the business of designing and selling clothes. I can\u2019t explain myself. There\u2019s nothing more tedious than a designer talking about his inspirations. As far as the process goes, that\u2019s easy to talk about. In the beginning, I\u2019ll drape fabric on a form, walk away, come back, walk away. It\u2019s a long process for me, and I\u2019m not quick enough to do it on a model. At some point, I transform this into a paper pattern, which is then manipulated on a table. It\u2019s kind of the same thing with the furniture.\nAnd in the end, what is a good form?\nA good form is a rational line from point A to point B. A satisfyingly rational and graceful line will produce a good form. This goes for both furniture and clothes. Women\u2019s clothes can definitely bear a little more frivolity and coquettishness. With men, I try to stay pretty severe. The history of uniforms is so well documented that we have a blueprint of what\u2019s made a man look the most dignified\u2014what\u2019s been done to emphasize his integrity, his nobility. Uniforms have achieved this so well\u2014why reinvent the wheel?\nThat you make this distinction between designing for men and women is interesting because you\u2019ve made it a point in the past, on several occasions, to identify yourself as bisexual. The self-portraits you\u2019ve taken for your photography book, L\u2019Ai-Je Bien Descendu? [2008], include a double exposure of you urinating into your own mouth. And of course, there\u2019s also the naked-Rick wax statue, which I want to talk about later. It seemed to me that \u201cbi\u201d was code for doubling the self. I like the photo of you wearing heels.\nI\u2019ve always proposed heels for men. I don\u2019t mean them as feminizing, but more as a Kiss, heavy-metal kind of thing. It\u2019s gender bending, but it\u2019s like Marlene Dietrich wearing men\u2019s suits to exaggerate her femininity. When Kiss wore heels, it was meant to challenge\u2014\u201cjust try to call me feminine, motherfucker, I\u2019ll kick your ass.\u201d Frankly, in the beginning, I made a point of bringing up my sexuality just because I wanted to do it before anyone else could. I was with Mich\u00e8le [Lamy], and hated the idea of someone whispering to her, \u201cYou know, I think your husband\u2019s gay.\u201d I was going to say it first. I didn\u2019t want anyone to think they could embarrass me, or Mich\u00e8le.\nBut the question of sexuality reaches something more fundamental as to what\u2019s happening when a man designs clothing\u2014visual signifiers\u2014for women, and when a man designs for other men. Is it always a question of projection?\nIt\u2019s tricky. There is so much mystery there, and it\u2019s the mystery that makes the magic. If we knew the answers, there would be no magic. I will say that, with women, I\u2019ve always resented how they\u2019ve been objectified and made into dolls by gay designers. I don\u2019t want them to be presented like a wedding cake. They realize, \u201cRick Owens is a man who actually likes me.\u201d With my male models, I often choose these papery-thin, translucent, skinny, white creatures. I end up objectifying them, and I don\u2019t know what that\u2019s all about. [laughs] In retrospect, my favorite male models are the opposite of me. I\u2019ve made myself quite muscular and fit into a certain stereotype, but I imagine my male model as this translucent jellyfish of a man who is totally unfuckable\u2014what does that mean? I haven\u2019t figured it out.\nLet\u2019s talk about your body in particular. You\u2019ve made a full-scale, anatomically correct, wax statue of yourself, which now stands behind the cash register in your Paris store. Why did you do this?\nIt was meant originally as a personal exercise, and never for public display. In 2005, we had just bought our current house in Paris, which was a significant moment for me. I thought to myself, what does a man do when he reaches this point in his life? Traditionally, he\u2019d commission a portrait to put over the mantel\u2014a very lord-of-the-manor type thing. I wanted to do that, but instead of a portrait, I got a wax figure made. It\u2019s also an exercise in vanity, as well as a creepy exercise in mortality\u2014it infers that I\u2019ve captured myself in a moment of glory, and everything after will be part of my decay. It\u2019s poignant and tragic. Anyway, I got the mannequin made by a company in London that makes wax sculptures for museums and Madame Tussauds. It was sculpted, not made from a cast, so I had to go in for sittings for hours at a time. We took measurements with forceps, tons and tons of photographs, and from that, they came up with a rough bust\u2014which was very realistic. It was an intense experience because the sculptor is touching your body, and touching the clay, and it becomes a very intimate relationship. The process was almost completely silent.\nDid you feel scrutinized?\nI\u2019m not very shy. I think shyness is a form of vanity that\u2019s silly. I didn\u2019t feel intruded on or anything\u2014I mean, I asked for it. I remember seeing it half completed, without hair, and I could see my mother and my father in ways that I haven\u2019t seen in me before. It hit an emotional button to physically stand beside myself and witness this eternal cycle of generations in my features. Pitti Immagine\u2014a men\u2019s fashion tradeshow in Florence\u2014invited me to make an installation, and I decided to show the statue there. I had always wanted the statue to urinate, like a fountain, so we had it rigged up with a pump. People obviously took it as me just trying to be provocative and puerile, which it was, but what most people didn\u2019t understand was that I didn\u2019t do it simply to provoke. I put it in the house afterwards, and it got old seeing it everyday. We were opening the Paris store around that time, and it turned out to be too beautiful. It needed a turd in it, so we put the mannequin there!\nIt\u2019s nice how your presence is such a big part of the store. Are your wearers changing themselves by wearing your designs, or are you changing them? You\u2019ve often described and portrayed women as nuns and priestesses. Do you imagine that the women who buy these clothes relate to these archetypes?\nI\u2019ve created caricatures. I want there to be a suggestion of discipline, rigor, discretion, modesty, and so I\u2019ve created a caricature just to exaggerate an idea. It\u2019s not about status or sex, but something more healthful than titillating. I\u2019ve been doing lots of loincloths recently. I started a couple seasons ago because I hate mini-skirts, but I like showing a lot of leg. It looks active and free. The coy affectations that come with wearing mini-skirts\u2014crossing your legs, hiking down the skirt when it rides up, sitting in a weird way suddenly makes everything about the vagina. It seems silly to me. Having said that, crotch emphasis done well, like with a pair of well-cut jeans, can be very appealing. It\u2019s the coyness that bothers me, not the sexuality. I wanted my loincloths to express modesty, not vulnerability. Here, modesty still addresses the genitals, but it\u2019s not provocative. It\u2019s sensual but modest. It also has that bum-flap connotation from punk rock, which is always appealing. Having something swinging between your legs is appealing, like Scottish sporrans. I almost never use artwork for references, but there is this Degas painting of the young Spartans that shows beautiful, healthy, naked athletes. This very athletic kind of nudity is so great.\nIs this why you work out?\nI love the idea of self-invention, because what one sees is never entirely real. I\u2019m very self-invented. I took steroids when I was young because I wasn\u2019t very comfortable with my body and the way I looked. Sculpting oneself takes discipline and commitment, and I like to express these values. It\u2019s all about control and loss of control. I\u2019ve had a very clich\u00e9 life. I had very controlling parents, and a very insulated childhood because I was an only child. But as soon as I could, I went out of control, and tried to see how out of control I could get. I ended up going a little too far, so I over corrected, went to the gym and got all healthy, stopped doing drugs, stopped drinking\u2014I still smoke, which is the new, contemporary form of self-contradiction. Now it\u2019s all about discipline. But this is clich\u00e9, no? This is Madonna\u2019s life story. Self-invention is also about faux mysticism\u2014like Led Zeppelin songs that are mystical without meaning anything. They\u2019re charming and inspirational about wanting to be mystical. This mystical devotion goes back to what I was saying about the nuns. The idea that people band together for an idealistic goal, misguided or not\u2014and more often than not, they are misguided, but the idea of group effort is moving. The fact that this often ends in disaster makes it even more so. Who can resist those stories of the Jonestown cult whose members committed mass suicide by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid? It\u2019s fascinating how so many people can go so wrong together. There\u2019s something so wonderfully creepy about it.\nThat\u2019s like the story of America.\nIt\u2019s also the story of the Nazis. They all felt like they had a really good idea, but how did so many people, collectively, take it that far?\nFunny that you should mention the Nazis, because when you were waxing poetic just now on the nude, athletic body, I was thinking about the Nazis\u2019 cult of the body, which fetishized the athletic physique. They had all these naked, young Aryan boys exercising together, in nature no less. There\u2019s something so essential about this image in the way it strives for purity.\nIt\u2019s creepy because it\u2019s both pure and corrupt.\nYou\u2019ve said that your clothes are an autobiography of your life. Expressing resistance through punk aesthetics and asymmetrical cuts made sense for you as the struggling, independent fashion designer living on Hollywood Boulevard. But the distressed leather jacket imagery persists in your work, even after you\u2019ve found success.\nIt\u2019s more about rebellion than anything else. I embrace the adolescent side in me. One rebels when life is tough, but also when life gets too prissy. It\u2019s a reminder that you can always do whatever you want. It\u2019s a reminder of past restrictions. Everyone feels forced in one way or another. Everyone relates to having to go to work, having responsibilities, having duties. I\u2019m just expressing everybody\u2019s fascination with their id. What if we just let go and did whatever we wanted? Everyone wants to know, because we\u2019re intrigued when we see others do it. We\u2019re all tempted to lose control. This is what I\u2019m speaking to.\nWhat are you rebelling against now?\nI\u2019m reacting against convention\u2014and particularly convention within fashion. I was always irritated that radical fashion was just for the shows, and when designers would present women as decorated parade floats going down the runway, then show up in the end to bow wearing jeans and a T-shirt. These designers wouldn\u2019t commit themselves to their own aesthetic, and I\u2019m irritated every time I see it. They make a proposal, but they imply that it\u2019s impossible for it to really happen. I believe that it\u2019s possible to live your acid-trip all the time. It was hard when American Vogue offered me a show. My clothes were about anti-fashion, anti-display. How do I make a fashion show about that? I could do it once, maybe twice, but it\u2019s a very narrow aesthetic.\nBecause it was offered to me, and because it was Vogue. It was one of those opportunities that I knew if I didn\u2019t take, I would always think, \u201cBut what if I did it?\u201d I definitely think I made some mistakes in the beginning, but it\u2019s only in the past four years that I felt like I was putting across something that\u2019s effective and accurate to what I want. I now feel I\u2019m able to express what I want to in a convincing way. It\u2019s a wonderful thing when one expresses oneself and receives a positive response. Like Oprah Winfrey says, everyone wants validation.\nYou\u2019re validated now, so in a way, does it mean that you don\u2019t need to do shows anymore? Why continue to follow the conventional, season-after-season rhythm of the industry?\nThere\u2019s a formal pageantry one needs to adhere to in order to signify a desire to be part of a certain community. Fashion, when it reaches a certain level, is not so much about the merchandise anymore. Nicolas is getting it right\u2014his shows for Balenciaga are about technical experimentation in clothing. This is a value he\u2019s expressing through clothes, and he\u2019s good at making modern, innovative, technical experiments. It doesn\u2019t really have to do with what these pieces are like as wearables, but it\u2019s brilliant in what it is.\nHow structured of a businessman are you, because now you\u2019re really talking about marketing strategies? Did you have an idea from the beginning of how you wanted to market yourself?\nI knew I wanted to protect what I did, and the longer I was able to protect it, the longer it had a chance of surviving. I knew I wanted to keep it pure, and that I wanted it to have integrity, be genuine and personal, and I wanted to create an emotional connection to my wearers. I also knew that provocation doesn\u2019t hurt. I liked doing a pissing statue. I like to say I can get away with doing shit like this. You do this, and there will be a certain amount of people cheering you on, \u201cFuck the system!\u201d At the same time, I feel like I\u2019m genuinely influencing the world in a way when I see people buying my clothes. I have affected their taste in a way, and changed the way they think. I infected, and it took. And there\u2019s something satisfyingly hardcore about that.\nWhat do you think of all the fashion designers whom your aesthetics have similarly infected?\nI\u2019m not responsible for what others do. I know that there\u2019s been a lot of talk of how other designers have been copying me, and it\u2019s really flattering, but I wouldn\u2019t exist without Yohji Yamamoto or Anne Demeulemeester either. We all went through Kurt Cobain. Clothes are a combination of touchstones that we all recognize. I\u2019ve just arranged them in my own personal way, but those touchstones are things that a whole generation recognizes. Other designers are rearranging them, too.\nI remember looking around in COS [H&M\u2019s affordable \u201chigh-fashion\u201d line] not long ago, and seeing these super thin jersey tops with a single vertical seam down the middle of the back, appropriating what I would consider a signature Rick Owens cut.\nI think it\u2019s inevitable. I can\u2019t hold onto something forever once it\u2019s in the air. I don\u2019t own this aesthetic, and it doesn\u2019t bother me that it\u2019s being appropriated.\nDiane Pernet told met you have a special affinity for Richard Strauss\u2019s opera Salome[1905]. The music was used as the soundtrack to the video portrait Nick Knight made of you, and there\u2019s a decapitated head\u2014your head\u2014sitting in the London store!\nThe London store was very much inspired by Salome. It\u2019s my favorite Strauss opera. That its libretto is based on Oscar Wilde\u2019s rendition of the Bible story somehow made sense to do the London store with it in mind.\nFor his time, Strauss\u2019s music was really out there.\nReally out there! What I love is how refined the barbaric quality is in his music.\nThe irony dawned on me last night that the pivotal scene in Salome, the \u201cDance of the Seven Veils,\u201d is a scene of undressing, a striptease. Somehow fashion, or clothing, seems even more powerful when removed. I feel like we\u2019ve spoken so much about nudity and nakedness, and at its core, your interests seem to be developed from this primary state. So the beheaded person in Salome was the prophet\u2014\nI certainly don\u2019t think of myself as a prophet! I have a lot to say, and a lot of it is probably wrong. I don\u2019t want to come off sounding superior. I\u2019m a flawed person trying to get through everything in as dignified a way as possible, just like everyone else. My favorite quality of the opera is that it defies convention, even today. What an extreme act of anti-conventionality. What delights me is that it\u2019s so retardedly lurid. The story has no redeeming element at all. It\u2019s just about sex, blood, and lust, and I love that. The scene where she\u2019s kissing the severed head makes me cry every time. It\u2019s almost supernaturally beautiful, and it just transcends. It\u2019s basically a lurid story of a fifteen-year-old girl, stripping for her dad so that he would let her have her way with the preacher, and satisfy her dirty lust for him, beheading him, and then kissing his severed head\u2014it\u2019s just too delicious!\nMax Farago and Rick Owens Corp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 32334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://1citytravel.com/post/view/445/megalithic-temples-of-malta", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:07Z", "digest": "sha1:246XBJY23JDXC765A2Q2TD3IBTGZFLEV", "length": 3840, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "1citytravel.com", "title": "Megalithic Temples of Malta | Travel To Place | 1CityTravel.com", "raw_content": "Cultural Malta Europe And North America Islands Of Gozo And Malta\nThe monuments that make up this World Heritage site constitute the most characteristic examples of structures representing a major development in the cultural as well as the artistic and technological domains. Professor Lord Renfrew (Cambridge University), one of the leading prehistorians of the present day, has described the group of megalithic temples on the islands of Malta and Gozo as 'the oldest free-standing monuments in the world'. They are, moreover, remarkable for their diversity of form and decoration.\nBeing among the remarkable megalithic temples of the Maltese archipelago, the prehistoric ensemble of \u0120gantija on the island of Gozo may be favourably compared with the three great temples of the island of Malta: Mnajdra, \u0126agar Qim and Tarxien. Within a completely preserved enclosure wall, \u0120gantija consists of two temples of multi-foil plan.\nThe southern temple, with its two elliptical cells, is the oldest;the northern temple, which is small in size, is more recent, although no later than 2200 BC. The ensemble of \u0120gantija which serves as a point of archaeological reference - the '\u0120gantija Phase' (c. 3000-2200 BC) is one of the most important periods of the Maltese Bronze Age. The complex structure of the cultural group of \u0120gantija, the excellent state of preservation of its materials - hard chalky coralline and the softer globigerina limestone - make it an excellent testament of megalithic prehistoric art.\n\u0126agar Qim and Mnajdra, although in the same tradition as the \u0120gantija temples, are in no way duplicates of them. Each of these complexes is the result of a separate individual development, differing greatly in plan and articulation, as well as in constructional techniques, from \u0120gantija and from each other. Both illustrate full mastery of the use of globigerina limestone for orthostats and for the regular courses of corbelling above in the interiors, in contrast to the rough boulders used in \u0120gantija South. Each complex has to be ranked as a unique architectural masterpiece which would be immensely impressive at any date, given the very limited resources of the builders, but is quite staggering when taken with the extraordinarily early dates now attributed to them.\nThe same considerations hold for the Tarxien complex, except that it is considerably less well preserved than the others. It too is the product of individual development and displays some architectural features not found elsewhere. It is also unique in the wealth of elaborate carved ornament found there (although all this has unfortunately had to be removed from the site for protection), and the lower half of an extraordinary colossal stone figure. Another point is that because it is the only one of the monuments of this scale that has been regularly excavated and reported on, much more is known about what kind of use was made of it than of the others. The elaborate rituals to which the temples are testimony are a very remarkable manifestation of the human spirit, especially on a remote island at such an early date.\nTa' \u0126a\u0121rat offers the best preserved example of a temple with the early trefoil plan, plus the poorly preserved remains of what is assumed to be the earliest type of all. The former, although on a much smaller scale than the above monuments, would be considered remarkable for its date if they were not available for comparison. Its chief importance is as evidence of the development of the tradition, rather than in its own right, and this applies even more so, of course, to the smaller and earlier unit.\nBoth Ta' \u0126a\u0121rat and Skorba are significant mainly in terms of the information they provide about the development of the temple tradition in Malta. 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This year he's been tireless in his push for transforming health care towards a 21st model with electronic health care records and a national health information network (check out his Center for Health Transformation). And, while he tosses out the headline grabbing slogans like \"Paper Kills\" like few others, Gingrich is also never afraid to get down and geeky and fight at the level where only wonks dare tread. He does this because as a former master of Congressional process, Newt knows that this where most of his former colleagues glaze over in boredom -- leaving only those who understand the complexities of the Hill to spur real change.\nCase in point, Gingrich has an op-ed in the Washington Times today about an all-time, epically unsexy topic: How the Congressional Budget Office scores the potential cost of legislation. Here's how Gingrich frames it:\nIn the coming months Congress will appoint a new director to the Congressional Budget Office. It is not a small decision. Congress has a unique opportunity to fundamentally transform the way government weighs the financial costs of policy decisions. Nowhere can transforming the CBO have a greater impact than in the area of health and health care. Doing so can literally save thousands of American lives and billions of their tax dollars.\nSpecific to eHealth, consider what the former Speaker has to say about how the CBO has scored a key piece of legislation that is critical to moving the country forward effective modern health care practices:\nThe way the CBO scored Senate bill 1418, the Wired for Health Care Quality Act, is another example of how bad scoring methods can hurt good policies. The bill contains grant funding for connecting physicians and creating community networks, which the CBO scored to cost $652 million from 2006 through 2010. There is overwhelming evidence that proves health-information technology dramatically improves the quality of care. There are hundreds of case studies that show how health IT saves money through efficiency gains and automation. Yet the CBO mentioned no benefit of the macroeconomic savings in its scoring analysis. Instead, the CBO provided a four-page overview of the federal dollars that would be spent, but not a word on the anticipated savings.\nIgnoring the savings and outcomes from capital investments is foolish, much like trying to save money by refusing to change the oil in your car. Nearly every member of Congress will vote for a bill if it improves the lives of their constituents and saves money at the same time, but they are unlikely to vote for a bill that is simply scored as costing the millions of dollars. This backward approach is a significant barrier to passing legislation that will dramatically improve patient safety and drive down health care costs.\nIf Congress will appoint a new director to the Congressional Budget Office. It is not a small decision. Congress has a unique opportunity to fundamentally transform the way government weighs the financial costs of policy decisions.\nCongress has a unique opportunity to fundamentally transform the way government weighs the financial costs of policy decisions.\nVery interesting articles . I like it so much.... thanks\nWell, the CBO provided a four-page overview of the federal dollars that would be spent, but not a word on the anticipated savings.\ncongratulation you did a great work with this information about Keeping Score on eHealth Savings this information is very professional\nthe area of health and health care. Doing so can literally save thousands of American lives and billions of their tax dollars.\nPosted by: Florida Mcnutt | June 11, 2012 at 10:45 PM\nOne mathematical product on the securities industry that has symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome to be mindful of. My thenar eminence is wasted and can completely cure CTS. In carpal tunnel syndrome, for model, virtually of the pain sensation is and other scanning tests.\nPosted by: carpal tunnel specialist Curtin | February 01, 2013 at 09:56 PM\nGood thinking. What are your thoughts on expansion on a global scale? People obviously get frustrated when it begins to affect them locally. 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(STEVE NESIUS)\nA Florida jury awarded a total of $25 million in punitive damages Monday in the Hulk Hogan sex tape trial, hitting Gawker Media with a $15 million judgment and its owner, Nick Denton, with $10 million.\nIt also assessed $100,000 against A.J. Daulerio, the Gawker editor who decided to post the edited sex video and wrote the post that accompanied it.\nThe punitive damages come on top of a $115 million the jury imposed Friday after two weeks of trial.\nHogan sued Gawker after it posted a video of him having sex with his then-best friend's wife. Hogan said he didn't know he was being taped.\nHogan's lawyer had asked jurors Monday to add punitive damages to the $115 million judgment. Gawker's lawyer pleaded that the existing verdict was already \"debilitating\" for the company.\nDuring brief closing arguments Monday, Hogan's lawyer Kenneth Turkel said Gawker Media's gross revenues in 2015 were $48.7 million and that founder Nick Denton has a total of $121 million, including a $3.6 million Manhattan condo. Gawker Media is worth $83 million, the lawyers said.\nDaulerio, the editor, has no assets, the lawyers said. They said Daulerio has $27,000 in student loan debt.\nTurkel asked the jury to decide on a punitive amount as both punishment to Gawker and a deterrent to other media companies.\nJurors have \"an ability to send a message,\" Turkel said, adding that Gawker acted with reckless disregard when it posted an edited version of the sex video.\nMichael Sullivan, representing Gawker, said the New York Media company has \"heard your judgment and we take it very seriously.\"\nThe $115 million judgment \"is punishment enough\" and \"is already far beyond their means.\"\n\"The amount of that verdict could already be debilitating for Gawker Media,\" Sullivan said.\n\"Your verdict will send a chill down the spine of writers, producers, and publishers,\" he added.\nDespite the jury's decision on punitive damages, it's clear the case isn't over. 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Of course.\"\nHe is now facing charges he killed his friend Susan Berman 16 years ago allegedly because she was about to be interviewed by prosecutors in the disappearance of Durst's first wife in 1982.\nEarlier this year, Durst pleaded guilty to weapons charges in New Orleans and was already serving a seven-year prison sentence before he was brought to Los Angeles for the murder trial.\nIn court as he entered his plea, Durst proclaimed his innocence.\n\"I am not guilty,\" he said. \"I did not kill Susan Berman.\"\nHis defense attorney said Durst was wearing the neck brace because of a cervical spine fusion a few months ago.\nProsecutors also said they did not intend to seek the death penalty against Durst.\nrobert durstmurdertrialLos Angeles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4099, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://about.hawaiilife.com/blog/best-beaches-beach-parks-big-island-kohala-coast/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZW4IM2WNBGBXKZKJ425J6AIFXQBVDLN", "length": 5630, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "about.hawaiilife.com", "title": "Best Beaches & Beach Parks on the Big Island's Kohala Coast - Hawaii Real Estate Market & Trends | Hawaii Life", "raw_content": "Pristine white sand beaches are iconic to Hawaii, and the Big Island\u2019s North Kohala Coast is home to some of the most stunningly unique beaches in the country. Scattered between the residential resort communities and charming small towns that predominate the area, there are plenty of glorious beach destinations perfect for any occasion, from a family day trip to an exotic sunset hike.\nThe North Kohala Coast is home to some of the most stunningly unique beaches in the country, including Kauna\u2019oa Beach, pictured here.\nSome Big Island buyers are surprised to learn there actually aren\u2019t miles upon miles of white sand beaches on the island. The Island of Hawaii is actually less than one million years old and significantly younger compared to its neighboring islands, like Maui and Oahu. Because the island\u2019s environment is relatively early in development, it has a greater geological variety of beaches.\nFrom black sand, crystal green sand, white sand, coral and even lava rock beaches, the Island of Hawaii offers an extraordinary array of beaches and beach parks that draw many buyers to purchase a home in one of the beautifully located Kona-Kohala coast resort communities.\nPunalu\u2019u Beach is the Big Island\u2019s famous black sand beach.\nIn this prime location, the North Kohala Coast has more white powder sand beaches than any other part of the Big Island. It also enjoys more hours of sunshine \u2014 it\u2019s one of the driest parts of the island, receiving only 10 inches of rain annually \u2014 making the North Kohala Coast the ultimate locale to plan the perfect beach day and a highly desirable area for buyers and residents.\nHere\u2019s a guide for Mauna Lani Resort community residents looking for an escape to their own sandy paradise, including some quiet, off-the-beaten-path beaches, water sport-friendly beaches, places that are perfect for family day trips, picnics, or exotic beaches to discover something unique.\nFamily and Water Sport-Friendly\nWaialea Bay Beach is a secluded white sand beach that\u2019s somewhat off-the-beaten path, it\u2019s also called Beach 69. There\u2019s great snorkeling on the north and south side of the beach.\nWaialea Bay aka \u201cBeach 69\u201d is a secluded white sand beach perfect for swimming and snorkeling.\nHapuna Beach is a landmark white-sand beach that\u2019s considered one of the most dazzling on the island, and in the world. It\u2019s rated the 17th best beach in the United States for its picture perfect white sand and ideal conditions for swimming.\nLocated in Puako, a short drive from the bustling Mauna Lani Resort community, Hapuna is known for its glassy blue waters, white sand, and tide pools filled with marine life. It stretches a half mile and has excellent facilities, including ample parking, food vendors, picnic areas, restrooms, and showers.\nHapuna Beach is one of the most popular white sand beaches on the Big Island of Hawaii.\nKauna\u2019oa Beach, also called Mauna Kea Beach, is the ultimate family-friendly place for everything from snorkeling, body surfing, and swimming. It\u2019s a quarter mile crescent-shaped white sand beach in front of the Mauna Kea Beach hotel and one of the prettiest white sand beaches in Hawaii.\nThere are two coral reefs along the sides of the beach, particularly the south side \u2014 which make it great for snorkeling \u2014 while leafy palm trees provide plenty of shade. There are also nearby amenities, including beach concessions, restaurants, restrooms, outdoor showers and water sports rentals (stand-up paddle boards and snorkeling gear)\nAt night, the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel turns floodlights on over the water to create a manta ray disco party. Plankton are attracted to the light, which attracts manta rays \u2014 large, harmless creatures that love checking out swimmers and divers. Learn more about the Manta Ray Night Dive.\nKauna\u2019oa Beach (Mauna Kea Beach) is a quarter mile crescent-shaped white sand beach in front of the Mauna Kea Beach hotel and one of the prettiest white sand beaches in Hawaii.\nPapakolea is a secluded green sand beach on the southernmost tip of the Big Island between Kona and Volcano Village. It\u2019s about a two-hour drive from Ke Kailani, but the incredible views are worth the drive. It\u2019s actually one of only two green sand beaches in the United States, and it\u2019s \u201csand\u201d is made up of green glassy olivine crystals \u2014 also called Hawaiian diamonds \u2014 that washed out of a 49,000-year-old cinder cone on the east side of the bay.\nPapakolea is not easy to reach \u2014 it\u2019s about a five mile hike round trip, including a moderate descent down a lava cliff on the west side of the bay \u2014 so be sure to pack plenty of water, food, and sunscreen.\nPapakolea is a green sand beach on the southernmost tip of the Big Island between Kona and Volcano Village.\nPunalu\u2019u Beach is the infamous black sand beach on the Big Island of Hawaii that\u2019s just over two hours from Ke Kailani.\nThe black sand is actually tiny lava fragments that were created when hot lava entered the ocean. In the process, the lava instantly cools, solidifies and shatters, creating large amounts of black sand. 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They rarely had a clear picture of what was happening across channels from one season to the next.\nEnter inRiver: La Vie en Rose chose inRiver to take charge of their product information management. Thanks to the inRiver integration, La Vie en Rose maximized sales, dismantled silos across departments and transformed the way people within the company collaborate.\nIn this video, Marie-No\u00ebl Gervais (pictured above) highlights the drastic business impacts La Vie en Rose experienced \u2013 the before-and-after PIM analysis.\nLa Vie en Rose now has tailored experiences for their customers across markets. PIM provides an easy and intuitive solution for a large retailer with intricate needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 6985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://accc.uic.edu/policy/software-piracy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:42Z", "digest": "sha1:RMT4POR4BEY6RQY6UGK65EBQOC6L42DA", "length": 7006, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "accc.uic.edu", "title": "UIC Policy on Software Piracy | Academic Computing and Communications Center", "raw_content": "The academic community thrives on respect for other's ideas and other's rights. Our privileges are balanced by responsibilities. This policy focuses on respect for intellectual property, especially computer software. As used in this policy, the term \"software\" includes traditional program software and other works published in electronic form. Unauthorized copying of software has tangible negative results for our academic community, for the developer of the software, and for the community at large. The University of Illinois and software developers both benefit from mutual trust and shared responsibilities. Unauthorized copying of software damages this trust.\nThe University of Illinois and all of its campuses, the state of Illinois, The United States, and international law all prohibit the unauthorized copying of software. Members of the University of Illinois are prohibited from unauthorized copying of software. Members of the community who ignore this policy and copy software without proper authorization will be disciplined. Each member of the community is responsible to make a good faith effort at assuring this policy is met. Unit administrators are responsible for insuring that their units make a good faith effort to comply with this policy. If you are using software on a University of Illinois machine and you are not sure it is properly authorized, contact your academic or administrative supervisor to make sure it is properly authorized.\nIt is not only illegal to copy software without proper authorization, it is also not fair. The University of Illinois cannot tolerate physical theft or plagiarism; it also cannot tolerate unauthorized copying of software.\nWhat do I need to know about software and the U.S. Copyright Act?\nUnless it has been placed in the public domain, software is protected by copyright law. The owner of a copyright holds exclusive right to the reproduction and distribution of his or her work. Therefore, it is illegal to duplicate or distribute software or its documentation without the permission of the copyright owner. If you have purchased your copy, however, you may make a back-up for your own use in case the original is destroyed or fails to work.\nCan I loan software I have purchased myself?\nIt depends upon the terms of the license. Read it carefully. Copyright law does not permit you to run your software on two or more computers simultaneously unless the license agreement specifically allows it. It may, however, be legal to loan your software to a friend temporarily as long as you do not keep a copy.\nIf software is not copy-protected, do I have the right to copy it?\nLack of copy-protection does not constitute permission to copy software in order to share or sell it. \"Non-copy-protected\" software enables you to protect your investment by making a back-up copy. In offering non-copy-protected software to you, the developer or publisher has demonstrated significant trust in your integrity.\nMay I copy software that is available through facilities on my campus, so that I can use it more conveniently in my own room?\nOnly if your campus advertises the fact that you may do so. Software acquired by colleges and universities is governed by licenses and contracts which define how and where the software may be legally used by members of the community. This applies to software installed on hard disks in microcomputer clusters, software distributed on disks by a campus lending library, and software available on a campus mainframe or network.\nIsn't it legally \"fair use\" to copy software if the purpose in sharing it is purely educational?\nNo. It is illegal for a faculty member or student to copy software for distribution among the members of a class, without permission of the author or publisher.\nI can't legally copy the software I need and I don't have a lot money to spend on software. What can I do?\nYour campus may have negotiated agreements that make certain software available at reduced prices or even at no cost to you. One of these packages might meet your needs and fall within your budget. Ask your campus Computing Center or Computer Store to help you identify such software.\nLook for shareware that meets your needs. Shareware is often good and reasonably priced. Shareware, or \"user-supported\" software is copyrighted software that the developer encourages you to copy and to distribute to others. The permission is explicitly stated in the documentation or displayed on the computer screen. The developers of shareware generally ask for a small donation or registration fee if you continue to use the software after a short trial period. By registering, you may receive further documentation, updates and enhancements. You also support future development of the product. Finally, look for public domain software that meets your needs. Sometimes authors place software in the public domain, which means the software is not subject to any copyright restrictions. It can be copied and shared freely. Software without a copyright notice is often, but not necessarily, in the public domain. Before you copy or distribute software that is not explicitly in the public domain, check with your campus Computing Center.\nIf my campus has negotiated a license for a software package can I freely copy that package or give copies to other members of the campus community?\nNot unless your campus explicitly advertises that you may do so. Your campus entered into a legally binding agreement in order to obtain the right to distribute the software and the terms of distribution were spelled out in that agreement. For instance, the contract might limit use of the software to particular groups or to use on a subset of the machines on campus. It might also require your campus to maintain extensive records of the copies distributed.\nCan I share software, text or data that I've downloaded from the web or a gopher or ftp site?\nNot necessarily. You may do so only if you are sure that the author's rights were respected by the person who made the material available to you and that there are no limitations on the use and distribution of the materials. Your ability to download the files doesn't guarantee either. The person who made the materials available on the network might not have been aware of copyright restrictions or might have chosen to ignore them.\nYour campus could have made the materials available to you in such a way that contractually obligated rules of access are automatically enforced. For instance, certain files may be accessible only to individuals on your campus, only to students on your campus, etc. Your campus might also be required to count copies distributed and may be doing so automatically through the download mechanism you used.\nAcknowledgment: Preparation of this document was greatly assisted by the University of Florida Policy on Software Piracy and by the Adapso and Educom document Using Software: A Guide to the Ethical and Legal Use of Software for Members of the Academic Community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 8987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aclu-co.org/legislation/hb-1049-use-of-personal-info-to-defraud/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:05Z", "digest": "sha1:WRC4JFS75NI2WR3OA5QWSVSXRYGHBKM3", "length": 1130, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "aclu-co.org", "title": "HB 1049: Use of Personal Info to Defraud | ACLU of Colorado", "raw_content": "HB 1049: Use of Personal Info to Defraud\nSponsors: Barker\nThe bill clarifies certain statutory language describing the offense of identity theft. Falsely claiming the personal identifying information of another person with intent to obtain or maintain employment is added to the list of actions considered as identity theft. To commit identity theft, it is not necessary that a person be aware that the personal identifying information, financial identifying information, or financial device involved in the commission of the offense belongs to another person. The bill amends certain language describing the elements of the offense of criminal impersonation to require the assumption of a false or fictitious identity or legal capacity under some circumstances and the assumption of a false or fictitious identity or capacity, legal or otherwise, in other circumstances. Using false or fictitious personal identifying information shall constitute the assumption of a false or fictitious identity or capacity for the purposes of charging a person with criminal impersonation.\n1/12/2011 - Introduced in House: Assigned to Judiciary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 320.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://acmfrance.org/academics/graduate/mair", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:26Z", "digest": "sha1:VRDF64URY67MU5WYJW666A47LSCZELST", "length": 6722, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "acmfrance.org", "title": "Masters in International Relations | Program in France | ACM", "raw_content": "The Master of Arts in International Relations (MAIR) program is a one-year Master\u2019s degree leveraging ACM's strategic location in Southern France. The program builds on the historic academic tradition of the Institute for American Universities, ACM's parent institution, as one of the first American institutions abroad to prepare students for careers as diplomats in the Foreign Service or in international business. French was the language of diplomacy at the founding of the Institute for American Universities in the late 1950\u2019s when the Cold War was at the forefront of the international political landscape. The founders of IAU had this in mind when they constructed a curriculum based in Political Science and International Relations. The Humanities and Social Sciences have always played an important role at IAU and will naturally serve as the intellectual backbone of the MAIR.\nAs a founding member of the Association of American International Colleges and Universities (AAICU), IAU, and by extension, ACM, is part of a network of prestigious American institutions of higher learning dedicated to promoting American-style education abroad. Thanks to these connections, ACM shares resources and expertise with premiere academic institutions such as American University of Beirut, American University of Cairo, American University of Paris, and Central European University.\nCandidates for the MAIR can choose to specialize in one of the following tracks:\nA defining characteristic of ACM programs is the synthesis of academic and experiential learning. MAIR candidates will have the chance to conduct field study and short-term research in Brussels, Strasbourg, Geneva, Paris, Madrid, Rabat and Istanbul. With ACM\u2019s network of international scholars, intellectuals, and politicians, students will observe international organizations such as the European Commission, the European Parliament, the World Trade Organization, NATO, and various consulates and embassies in North Africa and Turkey.\nAt the end of the spring semester, ACM will help students secure internships in various government and non-government organizations or international businesses in the region or elsewhere. The ACM local contact network includes places such as the US Consulate General in Marseille, City Hall, the Chamber of Commerce, l\u2019Office du Tourisme, Maritime Organizations in Marseille, the International Red Cross, crisis relief agencies for immigrants, and many others. Although ACM guides and supports students in this process, each student is responsible for applying and interviewing for internships. Students will receive four credits for their internship, submitting regular reports to their advisors with a final report in July.\nAll students admitted into the program should have at minimum an upper-intermediate level of French and will be required to take French language and culture in Fall and Spring semesters of the program. If admitted students are Francophone speakers with high proficiency they will fulfill language requirement in either Arabic or Spanish.\nThe MAIR is a thirty-six credit hour, one-year program consisting of required three-credit core courses (15 units), several different electives according to students' chosen tracks (9 units), an intersession traveling seminar (4 units), an internship during the second semester (4 units), and finally a Master\u2019s Thesis (4 units) submitted at the completion of the program. A Master\u2019s Thesis prospective will be submitted in the second semester for approval by the student\u2019s advisor. Students will continue to work on the thesis paper with their advisor and submit no later than July 1st for successful completion of the program. The advisor will help determine the student\u2019s particular track of study depending on the thesis\u2019 area of focus.\nDuring this year-long program (two semesters plus January Term and summer work), students will choose from courses in subject matter relating to Geopolitics, International Relations, Intercultural Management, and French as a Second Language.\nAll students take four 500-level courses: three core courses (below) and one language that they will study during the year to fulfill the language proficiency requirement.\nInternational Relations 504: Theories of International Relations\nPolitical Science 510: Comparative Politics\nInternational Relations 512: Ethics in International Relations\nMAIR students will take advantage of ACM\u2019s plethora of January term/Intersession programs which are multi-country traveling seminars, many of which explore the politics, economies, histories, and cultures of the countries visited. All students will participate in a January Term Seminar chosen from the list below. The choice is based on the student\u2019s track.\nAll students will elect three 500-level courses (9 credits) from IR courses related to their chosen track and continue with one language course (3 credits) to fulfill the language proficiency requirement.\nSample Elective International Relations courses:\nThe European Union: Integration, Enlargement, Unity\nGeopolitics in The Mediterranean Basin\nThe Israeli/Palestinian Conflict\nInternational Economics and The European Union\nEcology of Mediterranean\nMuslim Presence in Europe\nEthics of War and Peace\nStudents will participate in one internship (four credits) and will complete their Master's Thesis (4 credits):\nMaster\u2019s Thesis (4 credits): Students will work closely with their chosen track advisor on a Master\u2019s Thesis to be submitted no later than July 1st after the completion of their coursework. Students will attend graduation ceremony in May but will only receive their diploma upon the submission and successful completion of their Master\u2019s Thesis.\nACM faculty is comprised of experts in the field of international relations, diplomacy, conflict analysis and resolution, environmental policy, and Mediterranean and European Studies. Both academics and professionals in their field, IAU faculty provide the MAIR the academic depth and the real-life experience necessary for a well-rounded international relations education.\nStudents admitted to the MAIR must have completed a bachelors\u2019 degree or its equivalent (120 units of academic credit) with some proficiency in at least one language other than English. International experience and/or knowledge of other cultures is highly recommended for admission into the program. For international applicants who completed their course of study in any language other than English, a minimum TOEFL score of 79 is required. Apply Now!\nFor questions regarding the program or admissions, please contact ACM's U.S. Office of Admissions at admissions@acmfrance.org or call 1-800-221-2051.\nCover photo by Natalie Weelborg, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 8993, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 234.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://admissionsintel.com/category/usc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:3V7CLLUN2G5VG5GZPWN7HZMM7BMTGOW7", "length": 943, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "admissionsintel.com", "title": "USC \u2013 AI | AdmissionsIntel.com", "raw_content": "The Most Chinese Universities in America\nHere\u2019s a list of the U.S. universities where all those Chinese students are going \u2014 from New York to Silicon Valley to the American heartland. At the top of the list are University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of California, and Purdue University.\nMore at ForeignPolicy.com\nUSC Students Asked to Detail Sexual History Before Registering\nSome shocking news today from CampusReform.org, which reports that a mandatory online course at the University of Southern California (USC) asks students to disclose the number of sexual encounters they have had over the past three months and teaches students to ask for consent by saying \u201chow far would you be comfortable going?\u201d and \u201cwould you like to try this with me?\u201d\nMore at CampusReform.org (1/12/16)\nUPDATE: USC Senior VP Apologizes; University to Remove Sexual History Questions\nThe fact that such questions were asked to begin with is amazing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 8670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://advoguette.com/sitemap-pt-page-2017-04.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:15Z", "digest": "sha1:4YBBSM3NK2C7NMCZPBUURLT74RZSEZFG", "length": 1461, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "advoguette.com", "title": "Advoguette | Law Beyond Black & White - Pakistan's Premier Legal Lifestyle E-Zine", "raw_content": "https://advoguette.com/laws-of-fashion/wheels-of-justice/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-13 23:01\nhttps://advoguette.com/courtingthelaw-awards/sisters-in-law/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 16:27\nhttps://advoguette.com/courtingthelaw-awards/legal-innovation-index/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 15:06\nhttps://advoguette.com/e-store/apparel/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 14:45\nhttps://advoguette.com/e-store/accessories/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 14:44\nhttps://advoguette.com/e-store/advoguette-toolkit/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 14:28\nhttps://advoguette.com/laws-of-fashion/chambers-of-secrets/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-13 22:53\nhttps://advoguette.com/courtingthelaw-awards/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-13 22:25\nhttps://advoguette.com/raising-the-bar/faces-win-cases/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-13 23:07\nhttps://advoguette.com/raising-the-bar/power-of-attorney/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 16:05\nhttps://advoguette.com/raising-the-bar/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 14:16\nhttps://advoguette.com/raising-the-bar/mindfulness-exercises/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 16:41\nhttps://advoguette.com/e-store/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 14:47\nhttps://advoguette.com/blawg/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-13 23:06\nhttps://advoguette.com/coffee-with-counsel/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-13 22:53\nhttps://advoguette.com/laws-of-fashion/suits/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 16:06\nhttps://advoguette.com/fam/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-13 22:18\nhttps://advoguette.com/raising-the-bar/jurisfoodence/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 16:05\nhttps://advoguette.com/laws-of-fashion/baggisters/ 60% Weekly 2017-04-12 16:03", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://afcc.com.sg/2018/lightbox-speaker/david-liew", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:58Z", "digest": "sha1:CQJVDKC5TZ5PRNVR7LMCWQLSRAGFRPI3", "length": 391, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "afcc.com.sg", "title": "David Liew", "raw_content": "When he\u2019s not illustrating books, David Liew is a model-maker, sculptor and writer. He has illustratrated Eliza Teoh\u2019s bestselling Ellie Belly series of middle-grade readers, as well as Melanie Lee's award-winning series Squirky the Alien. David is also the Regional Advisor for the Singapore chapter of the Society of Children\u2019s Book Writers and Illustrators.\nSee all sessions by David Liew", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3, "original_length": 419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 212.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://afromonk.com/2012/12/11/electronic-awakening-movie-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FZPHWG2A7WZKW2WAM7LZHMOPTQI7IPL6", "length": 2462, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "afromonk.com", "title": "Eletronic Awakening | Movie Review", "raw_content": "Electronic Awakening is documentary put together by Andrew Johner about the rave/festival culture. It\u2019s one of the better films I\u2019ve watched about the current scene today. The focus is on overall community that has been built and the culture it has started across the world.\nThe documentary covers tons of interviews from key players in the community from visionary artist, authors, musicians, promoters, and many others who have contributed to this giant movement. If you\u2019ve never been to a large outdoor electronic festival this film will give you a glimpse into the festival scene.\nI can\u2019t tell you how many flashbacks and amazing memories rushed back into after watching the film. It\u2019s astounding how big the culture and community has grown. There are small tribes and groups of people coming together all across the world building these events and coming together to celebrate life, love, music, art, and creativity. I\u2019ve had to luxury of attending my first festival in 2009 which changed my life. Growing up in Miami, FL and big city life I never had been exposed to such events or strong community. Lightning in a Bottle was when I discovered this massive awakening inside. There is nothing like sharing these moments in time dancing, networking, sharing ideas, and coming together. I\u2019m very isolated living in Miami and must travel to these events to feel like I belong. These events bring all of us together and awaken a deeper consciousness to the things around us. There are so many unique and different people out there who we may never encounter in our day to day life but these festivities give us an outlet of expression in any which way we want to use.\nThis film is something I recommend to many as it shows that even if there are politics, popularity contest, and more that we deal with in this community we need to focus on the greater good. There is more than drugs, sex, and music in this culture. Despite as tainted as it seems and almost a revitalization of the hippie movement there is a greater good at work which brings us all together. This films covers so many different aspects that make me proud to be part of this movement. All the interviews, music, video footage, etc\u2026 really give you a small taste and glimpse of this giant community.\nBe sure to check out more information at Electronic Awakening.\nelectronic awakeningLightning in a Bottle\nelectronic awakening, Lightning in a Bottle\nelectronic awakeningLightning in a BottleFilm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://agribusinessintelligence.informa.com/about/meet-the-team/joseph-somers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EEM44WEAZCOTMRLKEEKW24M7MJFTSVHF", "length": 901, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "agribusinessintelligence.informa.com", "title": "Joseph Somers | Agribusiness Intelligence", "raw_content": "Joseph Somers is head of the Informa Economics IEG Washington DC office and responsible for economic analyses and agricultural policy consultancy work. His studies provide clients with insight on the implications of policy changes on the farm sector.\nJoseph also leads Informa\u2019s Policy and Big Data Roundtables.\nHe joined Informa in 2002. His current role focuses heavily on evaluating US and foreign government policies, including farm programs and foreign trade agreements. He has headed a number of important studies including the analysis of USDA market development programs, in terms of the benefits to US agricultural exports, the farm economy and overall macro economy.\nBefore joining us, Joseph worked for the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) at the USDA for more than 25 years, where he served in Brazil and Argentina as a Foreign Service Officer.\nAgriculture Policy Roundtable - Washington", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 285, "original_length": 21979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alamedasun.com/news/scholarship-applications-available", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OW7UVWPDFOONLLUWY7IR6WJYJ5L765V6", "length": 985, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "alamedasun.com", "title": "Scholarship Applications Available | Alameda Sun", "raw_content": "Applications are now open for the $5,000 Ken and Shirley Van Sickle Scholarship. This college scholarship is open to graduating seniors from the city\u2019s public high schools who are also residents of Alameda. Selection is based on a combination of academic achievement, leadership ability and financial need.\nThe scholarship is named in honor of Ken and Shirley Van Sickle, two distinguished educators who together devoted over 50 years to the education of Alameda\u2019s students. Now in its 29th year, the scholarship was established by their son Keith, a 1976 alumnus of Alameda High who later earned degrees at Stanford and Harvard.\nLast year the scholarship was awarded to Edylwise Romero of the Alameda Science and Technology Institute. Edylwise is currently enrolled as a freshman at Carleton College in Minnesota.\nThe deadline for applications is Feb. 20; the award will be made in May. Application forms are available from each high school\u2019s counseling office.\nAlameda Public Schools", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://all-story.com/issues/77/stories/565", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HQIW2LG2VAXJ5OP57TLYKCFBCT6IXHW3", "length": 4610, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "all-story.com", "title": "Zoetrope: All-Story: Issues", "raw_content": "by Helen Simpson\n\"Remind me why we're here again,\" says Adam as he watches their companions decant themselves slowly and more or less painfully from the minibus.\n\"You know why,\" says Tracey.\n\"We must be twenty years younger than any of this lot. Thirty in Trevor's case. And Olive's.\"\n\"Fifteen,\" says Tracey, smiling at the others as they approach. \"Thirteen? Less. Pauline can't be more than, er, sixty\u2013eight. Anyway, don't be such an age snob.\"\n\"Trust my parents!\"\n\"It's been a hard year. You needed a break, and this was booked and paid for.\"\nShe notices she still has his best interests at heart so probably she won't be able to leave him. But they really can't go on like this. Can they?\nTheir seats for this Ring package are at the back of a raked box of six ranked in pairs. In the middle row are Pauline and the venerable Olive\u2014two sensible, white\u2013haired widows, Tracey supposes them to be\u2014and in front of them the bearded ones, Howard and Clive.\n\"I hate opera,\" says Adam.\n\"You said you'd keep an open mind,\" says Tracey.\nThey had originally agreed to accompany Adam's mother here over a year ago. The Ring Cycle, his late father's favorite, would be the best way to mark what would have been their diamond wedding anniversary, his mother had decided: suitably epic and time\u2013consuming. Not long after booking it, though, she herself had died, and they had had to watch another coffin glide toward the flames. Meanwhile Culture Vultures, true to their name, would refund only one ticket of the three.\nMuch of the time Adam's father had shut himself in his den and kept the household cowed by blasting out Wagner at full volume. He had resented the very existence of his children, according to Adam and his brothers; he simply would rather they had not been born and had made this quite clear during the years they had lived under his roof. Then, when at last in middle age his sons had felt brave enough to ask him why, he had beaten a hasty retreat down the corridor of dementia; as Adam had said to Tracey at the funeral, four years ago, \"It's like he had some South American bunker waiting in the jungle.\"\n\"I hate opera,\" he says again. \"And I really hate Wagner.\"\n\"Look, we'd both booked the time off work,\" says Tracey. \"And we haven't exactly got money to throw around.\"\n\"I know, I know,\" he says.\nShe hopes this won't set him off on his current favorite hobbyhorse, how as an architect he has made so much less money than his brothers in insurance and advertising even though he'd been cleverer than them at school. Luckily he has been deflected from this path.\n\"Just look around at this lot,\" says Adam. \"They're all so delighted with themselves for being here. They make me sick.\"\n\"Let's make the best of it,\" says Tracey. \"Think of it as a challenge, like Everest.\"\n\"What, a feat of endurance?\"\n\"Why not. You like a challenge. And a change is as good as a rest.\"\n\"Also, Wagner is supposed to have unearthed the deep stories of Germany and I for one want to find out what all the fuss is about. We're European, aren't we?\"\n\"Are we?\"\n\"Well, I am.\"\n\"OK, OK,\" says Adam, flapping the program in front of his face. \"We're here now. Stuffy, isn't it.\"\nTracey looks out across the auditorium and registers the predominance of snow\u2013topped heads. Even you've gone gray, she thinks, glancing at Adam's angry profile.\n\"No interval,\" he says, finding an English\u2013language entry in the program to Das Rheingold. \"They're having a laugh! Two and a half hours straight through?\"\n\"Um, the Culture Vulture notes say this is the short one,\" says Tracey, finding them in her handbag and scrabbling for her reading glasses. \"This is like a prelude to the other three. Do you want to know what they say about it?\" She does not wait for an answer. \"In a nutshell . . . greed for gold, greed for property and power means breaking contracts, losing love, going against nature. Quasi\u2013Marxist analysis of society; elements of a creation myth; da da da, remarkably prescient on climate change.\"\n\"Oh great. Climate change, as well. Wonderful. That's the icing on the cake!\"\n\"Look, the lights are going down. It's about to start.\"\n\"Can't wait.\"\n\"Let's get lost in the story,\" she whispers, taking his hand. \"The surtitles will carry us through.\"\nSilence. Then, from nothing, from almost nothing, from one long, low chord, there grows a gradual swell of sound, a rising tide of it, and the stage is slowly flooded with rippling, blue\u2013green light. This is beautiful. It's like the beginning of everything all over again. Tracey relinquishes his hand and touches the side of his face. His mouth twitches in a reluctant smile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alphabetlyrics.com/albums/sabaton_coat_of_arms.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:27Z", "digest": "sha1:44PGWX4QGORZ2ENL4QK2RZWEHBEJ4B25", "length": 391, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "alphabetlyrics.com", "title": "Album: Coat Of Arms Song Lyrics by Sabaton", "raw_content": "Album: Coat Of Arms Song Lyrics by Sabaton\nCoat Of Arms (2010) by Sabaton\nCoat Of Arms - Album\nIf you are missing lyrics that should be in the Album Coat Of Arms, they were propably not available at the time this Album was published to the website. If you have one or more of these lyrics for Coat Of Arms, feel free to submit them to us.\nMore Sabaton Albums\nBack to the main page of Sabaton", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 264.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://america.cgtn.com/2017/09/28/unregulated-construction-a-potential-quake-hazard-for-perus-capital", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WJ4A6YC3VD5EBK22254EU7LE4N3IVCCD", "length": 2083, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "america.cgtn.com", "title": "Unregulated construction a potential quake hazard for Peru's capital", "raw_content": "Unregulated construction a potential quake hazard for Peru\u2019s capital\nThe 7.1 magnitude earthquake that hit Mexico last week left more than 300 dead and over 40 missing, most of them in the capital city.\nWhat would happen if a similar quake struck another seismically volatile city in Latin America?\nCGTN\u2019s Dan Collyns reports from Lima, Peru, on the potential dangers that capital is facing.\nLima, a sprawling city of some 10 million people, has quadrupled in size in recent decades.\nFilled by migrants, it spread out and up into the foothills of the Andes mountains. It\u2019s grown, for the most part, because newcomers built for themselves.\nIn fact, according to Peru\u2019s Chamber of Construction, some 70 percent of Lima buildings are unregulated constructions. And that makes for some extraordinarily unsafe conditions.\nBut in the majority of cases, the buildings have not been inspected for earthquake resistance. Only three out of ten formal constructions are technically supervised, said the capital\u2019s architects\u2019 guild.\n\u201cWe have very good laws about earthquake-resistant construction,\u201d Miguel Estrada of the Peruvian Japanese Centre for Seismic Investigation said.\n\u201cHowever, they are not respected, not so much in the important high rise buildings but in homes. That\u2019s where we have the problem of self-built constructions.\u201d\nWhat\u2019s more, older buildings fall outside new structural regulations, which were updated after a 7.9 earthquake hit Peru a decade ago.\nParts of the city could count on a new early warning system, and engineers have mapped its most vulnerable neighborhoods.\nNonetheless, engineers are concerned.\n\u201cHere in Lima it would be bad,\u201d Estrada said. \u201cIn Mexico City, it appeared they were better organized due to being hit hard in the past. If that happened in Peru with its hundreds of thousands of informal homes, we would have a big disaster.\u201d\nBuildings were gutted in Peru\u2019s last big quake, which barely affected the capital. More than 500 people were killed, and next time, it could be much worse.\nUN Security Council meets to confront Myanmar Rohingya crisis \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 5313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanliterature.com/author/edgar-wallace/book/the-clue-of-the-twisted-candle/chapter-xxiii", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:52Z", "digest": "sha1:JWBGSNIV7KZFVCNNXJSWVW7DTX2FA4FW", "length": 5511, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "americanliterature.com", "title": "The Clue of the Twisted Candle - Chapter XXIII", "raw_content": "They went out and left them alone, two people who found in this moment a heaven which is not beyond the reach of humanity, but which is seldom attained to. Belinda Mary had an eager audience all to her very self.\n\"Of course she didn't die,\" she said scornfully. \"Kara was playing on his fears all the time. He never even harmed her - in the way Mr. Lexman feared. He told Mrs. Lexman that her husband was dead just as he told John Lexman his wife was gone. What happened was that he brought her back to England - \"\n\"Who?\" asked T. X., incredulously.\n\"Grace Lexman,\" said the girl, with a smile. \"You wouldn't think it possible, but when you realize that he had a yacht of his own and that he could travel up from whatever landing place he chose to his house in Cadogan Square by motorcar and that he could take her straight away into his cellar without disturbing his household, you'll understand that the only difficulty he had was in landing her. It was in the lower cellar that I found her.\"\n\"You found her in the cellar?\" demanded the Chief Commissioner.\n\"I found her and the dog - you heard how Kara terrified her - and I killed the dog with my own hands,\" she said a little proudly, and then shivered. \"It was very beastly,\" she admitted.\n\"And she's been living with you all this time and you've said nothing!\" asked T. X., incredulously. Belinda Mary nodded.\n\"And that is why you didn't want me to know where you were living?\" She nodded again.\n\"You see she was very ill,\" she said, \"and I had to nurse her up, and of course I knew that it was Lexman who had killed Kara and I couldn't tell you about Grace Lexman without betraying him. So when Mr. Lexman decided to tell his story, I thought I'd better supply the grand de denouement.\"\nThe men looked at one another.\n\"What are you going to do about Lexman?\" asked the Chief Commissioner, \"and, by the way, T. X., how does all this fit your theories!\"\n\"Fairly well,\" replied T. X. coolly; \"obviously the man who committed the murder was the man introduced into the room as Gathercole and as obviously it was not Gathercole, although to all appearance, he had lost his left arm.\"\n\"Why obvious?\" asked the Chief Commissioner.\n\"Because,\" answered T. X. Meredith, \"the real Gathercole had lost his right arm - that was the one error Lexman made.\"\n\"H'm,\" the Chief pulled at his moustache and looked enquiringly round the room, \"we have to make up our minds very quickly about Lexman,\" he said. \"What do you think, Carlneau?\"\nThe Frenchman shrugged his shoulders.\n\"For my part I should not only importune your Home Secretary to pardon him, but I should recommend him for a pension,\" he said flippantly.\n\"What do you think, Savorsky?\"\nThe Russian smiled a little.\n\"It is a very impressive story,\" he said dispassionately; \"it occurs to me that if you intend bringing your M. Lexman to judgment you are likely to expose some very pretty scandals. Incidentally,\" he said, stroking his trim little moustache, \"I might remark that any exposure which drew attention to the lawless conditions of Albania would not be regarded by my government with favour.\"\nThe Chief Commissioner's eyes twinkled and he nodded.\n\"That is also my view,\" said the Chief of the Italian bureau; \"naturally we are greatly interested in all that happens on the Adriatic littoral. It seems to me that Kara has come to a very merciful end and I am not inclined to regard a prosecution of Mr. Lexman with equanimity.\"\n\"Well, I guess the political aspect of the case doesn't affect us very much,\" said O'Grady, \"but as one who was once mighty near asphyxiated by stirring up the wrong kind of mud, I should leave the matter where it is.\"\nThe Chief Commissioner was deep in thought and Belinda Mary eyed him anxiously.\n\"Tell them to come in,\" he said bluntly.\nThe girl went and brought John Lexman and his wife, and they came in hand in hand supremely and serenely happy whatever the future might hold for them. The Chief Commissioner cleared his throat.\n\"Lexman, we're all very much obliged to you,\" he said, \"for a very interesting story and a most interesting theory. What you have done, as I understand the matter,\" he proceeded deliberately, \"is to put yourself in the murderer's place and advance a theory not only as to how the murder was actually committed, but as to the motive for that murder. It is, I might say, a remarkable piece of reconstruction,\" he spoke very deliberately, and swept away John Lexman's astonished interruption with a stern hand, \"please wait and do not speak until I am out of hearing,\" he growled. \"You have got into the skin of the actual assassin and have spoken most convincingly. One might almost think that the man who killed Remington Kara was actually standing before us. For that piece of impersonation we are all very grateful;\" he glared round over his spectacles at his understanding colleagues and they murmured approvingly.\n\"Now I am afraid I must be off,\" he crossed the room and put out his hand to John Lexman. \"I wish you good luck,\" he said, and took both Grace Lexman's hands in his. \"One of these days,\" he said paternally, \"I shall come down to Beston Tracey and your husband shall tell me another and a happier story.\"\nHe paused at the door as he was going out and looking back caught the grateful eyes of Lexman.\n\"By the way, Mr. Lexman,\" he said hesitatingly, \"I don't think I should ever write a story called 'The Clue of the Twisted Candle,' if I were you.\"\nJohn Lexman shook his head.\n\"It will never be written,\" he said, \" - by me.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 8770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanliterature.com/author/leo-tolstoy/book/war-and-peace/book-eleven-1812-chapter-iii", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:48Z", "digest": "sha1:CQSVVE7KGPW7LKPWMUQOGCR6GFKUJUJF", "length": 6100, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "americanliterature.com", "title": "War and Peace - Book Eleven: 1812 - Chapter III", "raw_content": "Book Eleven: 1812 - Chapter III\nWhen Ermolov, having been sent by Kutuzov to inspect the position, told the field marshal that it was impossible to fight there before Moscow and that they must retreat, Kutuzov looked at him in silence.\n\"Give me your hand,\" said he and, turning it over so as to feel the pulse, added: \"You are not well, my dear fellow. Think what you are saying!\"\nKutuzov could not yet admit the possibility of retreating beyond Moscow without a battle.\nOn the Poklonny Hill, four miles from the Dorogomilov gate of Moscow, Kutuzov got out of his carriage and sat down on a bench by the roadside. A great crowd of generals gathered round him, and Count Rostopchin, who had come out from Moscow, joined them. This brilliant company separated into several groups who all discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the position, the state of the army, the plans suggested, the situation of Moscow, and military questions generally. Though they had not been summoned for the purpose, and though it was not so called, they all felt that this was really a council of war. The conversations all dealt with public questions. If anyone gave or asked for personal news, it was done in a whisper and they immediately reverted to general matters. No jokes, or laughter, or smiles even, were seen among all these men. They evidently all made an effort to hold themselves at the height the situation demanded. And all these groups, while talking among themselves, tried to keep near the commander in chief (whose bench formed the center of the gathering) and to speak so that he might overhear them. The commander in chief listened to what was being said and sometimes asked them to repeat their remarks, but did not himself take part in the conversations or express any opinion. After hearing what was being said by one or other of these groups he generally turned away with an air of disappointment, as though they were not speaking of anything he wished to hear. Some discussed the position that had been chosen, criticizing not the position itself so much as the mental capacity of those who had chosen it. Others argued that a mistake had been made earlier and that a battle should have been fought two days before. Others again spoke of the battle of Salamanca, which was described by Crosart, a newly arrived Frenchman in a Spanish uniform. (This Frenchman and one of the German princes serving with the Russian army were discussing the siege of Saragossa and considering the possibility of defending Moscow in a similar manner.) Count Rostopchin was telling a fourth group that he was prepared to die with the city train bands under the walls of the capital, but that he still could not help regretting having been left in ignorance of what was happening, and that had he known it sooner things would have been different.... A fifth group, displaying the profundity of their strategic perceptions, discussed the direction the troops would now have to take. A sixth group was talking absolute nonsense. Kutuzov's expression grew more and more preoccupied and gloomy. From all this talk he saw only one thing: that to defend Moscow was a physical impossibility in the full meaning of those words, that is to say, so utterly impossible that if any senseless commander were to give orders to fight, confusion would result but the battle would still not take place. It would not take place because the commanders not merely all recognized the position to be impossible, but in their conversations were only discussing what would happen after its inevitable abandonment. How could the commanders lead their troops to a field of battle they considered it impossible to hold? The lower-grade officers and even the soldiers (who too reason) also considered the position impossible and therefore could not go to fight, fully convinced as they were of defeat. If Bennigsen insisted on the position being defended and others still discussed it, the question was no longer important in itself but only as a pretext for disputes and intrigue. This Kutuzov knew well.\nBennigsen, who had chosen the position, warmly displayed his Russian patriotism (Kutuzov could not listen to this without wincing) by insisting that Moscow must be defended. His aim was as clear as daylight to Kutuzov: if the defense failed, to throw the blame on Kutuzov who had brought the army as far as the Sparrow Hills without giving battle; if it succeeded, to claim the success as his own; or if battle were not given, to clear himself of the crime of abandoning Moscow. But this intrigue did not now occupy the old man's mind. One terrible question absorbed him and to that question he heard no reply from anyone. The question for him now was: \"Have I really allowed Napoleon to reach Moscow, and when did I do so? When was it decided? Can it have been yesterday when I ordered Platov to retreat, or was it the evening before, when I had a nap and told Bennigsen to issue orders? Or was it earlier still?... When, when was this terrible affair decided? Moscow must be abandoned. The army must retreat and the order to do so must be given.\" To give that terrible order seemed to him equivalent to resigning the command of the army. And not only did he love power to which he was accustomed (the honours awarded to Prince Prozorovski, under whom he had served in Turkey, galled him), but he was convinced that he was destined to save Russia and that that was why, against the Emperor's wish and by the will of the people, he had been chosen commander in chief. He was convinced that he alone could maintain command of the army in these difficult circumstances, and that in all the world he alone could encounter the invincible Napoleon without fear, and he was horrified at the thought of the order he had to issue. But something had to be decided, and these conversations around him which were assuming too free a character must be stopped.\nHe called the most important generals to him.\n\"My head, be it good or bad, must depend on itself,\" said he, rising from the bench, and he rode to Fili where his carriages were waiting.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 9293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ameriestate.com/tax-planning/retirement-account-catch-contributions-can-add/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:54Z", "digest": "sha1:KIDVXJTT5SSF4FQJHS4UT4IJ6O3QLARR", "length": 4811, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "ameriestate.com", "title": "Retirement Account Catch-Up Contributions Can Add Up - AmeriEstate", "raw_content": "Home / Tax Planning / Retirement Account Catch-Up Contributions Can Add Up\nAre you age 50 or older? If so, you can currently make extra \u201ccatch-up\u201d contributions to certain types of tax-favored retirement accounts. Over time, these contributions can make a significant difference in your retirement-age wealth.\nUnfortunately, many people are unaware of this retirement savings bonus. Here's what you need to know to reap the benefits.\nEligible taxpayers can make catch-up contributions to a traditional IRA or a Roth IRA. In addition, some employer-sponsored retirement plans allow participants to make catch-up contributions.\nIRA catch-up contributions. Once you reach age 50, you can make extra catch-up contributions of up to $1,000 annually to your traditional IRA or Roth IRA. If you'll be 50 or older as of December 31, 2017, you can still make a catch-up contribution for the 2017 tax year. You have until April 16, 2018, to make your contribution.\nTax-deductible contributions to traditional IRAs create tax savings, but your income may be too high to qualify. Contributions to Roth IRAs don't generate any upfront tax savings, but you can take federal-income-tax-free withdrawals after age 59 1/2 (assuming you've had at least one Roth account open for over five years).\nThere are income restrictions on Roth contributions, too. Worst case, you can make extra nondeductible traditional IRA contributions and benefit from the account's tax-deferred earnings advantage.\nCatch-up contributions to employer-sponsored plans. If your employer's retirement plan allows extra salary reduction contributions and you'll be age 50 or older at the end of next year, you can contribute up to $6,000 in added savings for 2018 to your 401(k), 403(b) or 457 account.\nSalary reduction contributions are subtracted from your taxable wages, so you effectively get a federal income tax deduction. If your state has a personal income tax, you'll generally get a state income tax deduction, too.\nYou can use the resulting tax savings to help pay for part of your catch-up contributions. Or you can set the tax savings aside in a taxable retirement savings account to further increase your retirement-age wealth.\nHaving trouble deciding which tax-favored account to make extra contributions to? In a nutshell, making deductible catch-up contributions to a traditional IRA or to an employer-sponsored retirement plan will lower your tax bills. Contributing extra to a Roth IRA won't lower your taxes, but you can take more tax-free withdrawals later in life.\nRetirement Savings Bonus\nHow much extra could you accumulate just by making catch-up contributions? The extra savings quickly add up, because maximum catch-up contributions are considerably larger than they once were.\nFor example, the maximum catch-up contribution to a 401(k) account was only $1,000 in 2002 vs. $6,000 for 2018. The maximum catch-up contribution to an IRA was only $500 in 2002 vs. $1,000 for 2017 and 2018.\nTo illustrate how much catch-up contributions can add to a retirement nest egg, suppose Beth, who's currently 50, decides to contribute an extra $1,000 to her IRA in 2017. She contributes an extra $1,000 each year through 2032. By age 65, Beth will have accumulated roughly $30,000 more in savings (assuming an 8% annual return).\nAlternatively, let's suppose that Beth decides to contribute an extra $6,000 to her 401(k) plan each year through age 65, starting in 2018. In that case, by age 65, she'll accumulate roughly $182,000 in additional savings (assuming an 8% annual return).\nTo maximize your savings, you can make catch-up contributions to both your IRAs and employer-provided retirement plans in the same year. In the hypothetical example, Beth's combined savings could add up to $212,000 by age 65 (assuming an 8% annual return), if she contributed to $1,000 extra to her IRA annually (starting in 2017) and $6,000 to her 401(k) annually (starting in 2018).\nThere's still plenty of time to make an extra catch-up contribution of up to $1,000 to your IRA for the 2017 tax year. The 2017 IRA contribution deadline is April 16, 2018. Then you can make another IRA catch-up contribution for your 2018 tax year anytime between January 1, 2018, and April 15, 2019.\nIf you are an employee and your employer-sponsored qualified retirement plan allows catch-up contributions, you can sign up to make them for 2018 year during this year's open enrollment period that is probably already underway at your job. Or your employer may allow you to modify your contributions any time during the year, which means you might still be able to do it for this year. Check with your benefits department to see what your options are.\nContact your tax advisor if you have questions or want more information about retirement account catch-up contributions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 14847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amp.idiva.com/news-entertainment/movie-review-newton-is-a-study-in-idealism-and-of-rajkummar-raos-brilliance/17071688", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:26Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2EVDQ7R4W3ZQO7NZNPEQVRG3QPXGRS7", "length": 4223, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "amp.idiva.com", "title": "Movie Review Newton Is A Study In Idealism And Of Rajkummar Rao\u2019s Brilliance | Entertainment | iDiva", "raw_content": "Movie Review: \u2018Newton\u2019 Is A Study In Idealism And Of Rajkummar Rao\u2019s Brilliance\nIn a sea, full of Mubarakans and Half Girlfriends, once in a while sheer brilliance forces its way through and shines bright, filling that yawning void. Director Amit V Maskar\u2019s Newton is that priceless gem, that rare drop in an ocean of mediocrity that goes against the tide.\nMasurkar, who made his directorial debut with Sulemani Keeda in 2013, may have been missing in action for four years, but he has cooked up one of the finest black comedies to ever come of Bollywood. The film is about Nutan Kumar, urf Newton \u2013 played by the extraordinarily remarkable Rajkummar Rao \u2013 a rookie government clerk dropped pat in the middle of the Naxal-influenced jungles of Chattisgarh. He is determined to conduct a fair election despite the odds placed against him.\nEarly on, there is a point in the film, where Sanjay Mishra shows up in a special appearance, as a senior election official. He explains to Newton that his problem is not his honesty, but his arrogance about it \u2013 the problem isn't his imandari but imandari ki ghamand. Basically, Newton need not worry about the big picture as he is just another cog in the wheel at the end of the day. If he wishes to change the system, all he can do is his duty, without expecting felicitations for it. This is a small but significant scene that sets up the stage of the film and the ethos behind it.\nWhat also makes Newton so brilliant is that it is a fine study in idealism, but there are no idealistic, tidy solutions given at the end. Masurkar wanted to place the story about what happens on an election day \u2013 that one day that crops up every five years that makes us all feel that we, too, are contributors in our democracy \u2013 in a conflicted area. He could have easily set it up in Kashmir, but by choosing to focus on the Maoists and Adivasis, he turned the film into a subversive tour de force.\nThe film begins with the populist narrative about Maoists, but skilfully holds up the mirror to the nuances of the tug of power that is going on between them and the state. When was the last time a Hindi film acknowledged the existence of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, without reducing them to either a joke or a stereotype?\nRajkummar is not alone in this cinematically exquisite ride. If Newton is the bright-eyed, idealistic school boy, then he is countered by the sceptics flawlessly. On one hand, there is the seasoned senior policemen Aatma Singh, played by the wonderful Pankaj Tripathi, who enacts the role of a manipulative cynic to perfection. On the other, there is Raghubir Yadav\u2019s Loknath, who is a part-time author and full-time indifferent participant of the circus that is election day. Then there is Anjali Patil, who manages to give a quietly riveting performance as a school teacher named Malko, who is used to the way things are, but hasn\u2019t given up on the situation entirely. There are no actors performing in \u201cblack face\u201d here. In addition to the superlative performances by the main cast, there are a bunch of locals who also play out their parts fittingly.\nThere is also a particular montage of all the villagers posing in front of the camera holding up their election ink-stained fingers. It feels like a jarringly dark caricature of our celebrities who proudly show off that they have exercised their democratic right every election day. Except, in place of smiles and sunglasses, there is a quiet rage in the eyes of these villagers. This scene is goosebump-inducing.\nThere is a lot that Newton masterfully manages to touch upon \u2013 corruption, slacking sarkari officials, exploitation of tribals, the bias of mainstream media and the ignorance of our society at large, to name just a few. Naren Chandavarkar and Benedict Taylor\u2019s deft use of music never overpowers the narrative or interrupts it. Equally outstanding is Swapnil Sonawane\u2019s cinematography.\nAll in all, Newton is a film that will thrill you to the core in a way no other movie with a zillion car chases will be able to. Despite being the story of seemingly hopeless, unchangeable situations, it will leave you with an overwhelming sense of hope. This one demands to be watched and very rightfully so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amsterdamshallowman.com/2017/12/dutch-origin.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:30Z", "digest": "sha1:V5Z3EUOOJMBSYEPV2Q7MS6Q7MA3QC4RO", "length": 4334, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "amsterdamshallowman.com", "title": "Only People Of Dutch Origin Allowed To Rent Apartment in South Holland", "raw_content": "Home / Dutch Tolerance / Only People of Dutch Origin Allowed To Rent An Apartment\nAs we all know, the Netherlands is THE MOST TOLERANT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. In spite of this, it does appear that in some situations that if you\u2019re not of Dutch origin, that this could be a disadvantage in some circumstances.\nSome time ago I wrote about the experiment carried out by Nederland undercover, where they had a group of identically dressed Dutch natives, Dutch Moroccans and Dutch black guys trying to get into nightclubs in different parts of the Netherlands. The results showed that if you\u2019re not of a Dutch origin in Breda, that there\u2019s more chance of getting a Dutch guy to pay the entire bill on a first date than getting into a nightclub.\nFor today\u2019s post, we return once more to South Holland and another story of Dutch tolerance in action.\nThe Dutch origin requirement fairytale\nOnce upon a time somewhere in South Holland, there was a Dutch-Moroccan couple who were looking for an apartment to rent. Sadly, real estate agents are as essential as a packet of condoms on a Tinder date. There\u2019s no avoiding them when looking for a rental apartment. (Estate agents not condoms).\nDutch directness overload\nThe couple approached a real estate agent about an apartment advertised on their site and received the following typically Dutch direct response.\nGood afternoon Sir and Madame,\nThe owner of the apartment has stipulated that he will only rent to people of Dutch origin.\nI\u2019m frightfully sorry to have to tell you this.\nNo discrimination here, move along!\nAs you can imagine, the Dutch-Moroccan couple were not amused to receive such a response in 2017 in what is after all supposed to be the most tolerant country in the known universe. They quite rightly shared the response on social media complaining about being discriminated against.\nAfter the uproar on social media, the real estate agents involved issued the following statement which really made things much better.\n\u201cThe formulation of the email was unfortunate and wasn\u2019t meant to come across that way. The owner had bad experiences in the past with worker migrants from the Eastern Bloc, who left without paying the rent and can\u2019t be traced. As a result of this they would rather have a Dutch family, in the broadest possible sense of the word. So also Dutch-Moroccans, Morrocan-Dutch or however you want to call it.\u201d\nNOS and other Dutch social media sites were full of supportive comments for the apartment owner. The Moroccan-Dutch family were, in fact, to blame for this situation, for being Moroccan.\nHere are some comments from the Facebook page of the Dutch public broadcaster NOS about this story.\nAs a house owner, you have the right to decide who you want to rent to, that has got nothing to do with discrimination, it\u2019s more about what you want to read into it.\nHe\u2019s in the right, it\u2019s his property.\nA Moroccan wouldn\u2019t rent out his house to a Dutch person. Or am I wrong and there are people here that would rent their house out to a Dutch person?\nI agree with those posters. There\u2019s never any discrimination involved in such situations at all, only misunderstandings. Such as in the following case of the real estate agent who stated that non-western cooking wasn\u2019t allowed in a rental apartment in Amsterdam\nWhenever situations like this occur the \u2018get out of jail free card\u2019 for the people responsible is always this lovely Dutch phrase. \u201cHet was niet zo bedoeld\u201d. Which means, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t meant like that\u201d. It\u2019s the perfect response for business owners accused of discriminating in one way or another. \u201cHet was niet zo bedoeld, now bugger off and leave me alone and stop choosing to be offended\u201d.\nYes I asked to have sex with your best friend maar, het was niet zo bedoeld\nPride Prejudice and remorse\nThe owner and real estate agent are apologetic (about being shamed on social media) and have offered the Dutch-Moroccan couple the option of having the apartment if it becomes available or helping them find somewhere else. So there you go problem solved and all is well in the Dutch Kingdom. Now, where\u2019s my bitterballen?\nNo migrant workers from Eastern Europe were hurt during the writing of this post.\nUntil next time, sing along with me \u201cEbony and ivory live together in perfect harmony\u201d.\nTags discrimination in dutch society dutch tolerance south holland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 12492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anacortesschoolsfoundation.org/scholarships/scholarships-66/80-greg-horak-memorial-scholarship.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:48Z", "digest": "sha1:V4AGFCOSONLHZRZFSOVFYO7IWZETZ5K5", "length": 762, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "anacortesschoolsfoundation.org", "title": "Anacortes Schools Foundation - Greg Horak Memorial Scholarship", "raw_content": "Greg Horak graduated from Anacortes High School in 1989, and passed away on July 24, 1994. Greg had a caring sensitivity and concern for others; he was independent, self-reliant and had a true love of life. He is most remembered for his desire to serve others. In his senior year at AHS, Greg operated Safe Rides, a program offering late-night rides to anyone in need operating out of Dr. Anderson\u2019s (AHS counselor) basement. After graduation, Greg\u2019s desire to be of service and save lives led him to join the U.S. Coast Guard. He proudly served as a Radioman and was stationed in Kodiak, Alaska, Tokyo, Japan, and on the Polar Star icebreaker out of Seattle. This scholarship is offered as a tribute to Greg and his memory.\nSelf Reliance and Concern for others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 104.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anightsdreamofbooks.blogspot.com/2015/09/shelf-candy-saturday-162-one-realm.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:06Z", "digest": "sha1:H4THLSAMXO4RJFNJ4MYQK7NU7NWNZXLE", "length": 2856, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "anightsdreamofbooks.blogspot.com", "title": "A Night's Dream of Books: Shelf Candy Saturday #162: One Realm Beyond, by Donita K. Paul", "raw_content": "Shelf Candy Saturday #162: One Realm Beyond, by Donita K. Paul\nChristian Fiction,Fantasy, Romance,\nThis is such a stunning, dreamlike cover! Everything about it just mesmerizes me, from the gorgeous aqua in the background, to the dynamic, circular movement, to the magically shining sparkles of light floating and moving around the circle, to the young man's warrior stance, to the menacing dragon, poised above the young man.\nThis cover captures the theme of the novel perfectly, as the young man is caught between two dimensions. He half-turns to look behind him, ready for anything.\nMagical vegetation swirls around and around him. Snaky vines seem ready to trap him in their clutches.....\nThere are several contrasting angles in the composition, which really give this cover such a sense of dynamic tension. The bodies of the young man and the dragon push and pull in different directions, as do the leaves and vines. The background seems to be stable and still, but seems ready to shimmer out of existence as the portal widens, as the young man prepares to step through.\nThe font used for the title is very effective. It somehow reminds me of the movie title for \"Twenty Leagues Under the Sea\", which I've seen on the Amazon DVD cover.\nIn short, this is not only a gorgeous, stunning cover, but also one that perfectly embodies the story!\nWho is the brilliant mind behind this great cover? The illustration was done by British artist Steve Rawlings, and the cover design by Kris Nelson. Of course, I am much more interested in the illustration itself.\nRawlings is a graduate of the former Kent Institute of Art & Design, which is based in the UK, and eventually became the University for the Creative Arts. He works with a combination of traditional and digital photographic techniques, and has many clients worldwide, such as Lucasfilms, Scholastic, Random House, Disney, and Penguin.\nLabels: book covers, book illustration and design, Christian fiction, fantasy, romance, Shelf Candy Saturday, YA\nBrian Joseph September 26, 2015 at 12:12 PM\nThere is really a lot going on this picture.\nWhen I first looked at it I did not like it as much as I had trouble taking it all in.\nLooking at it carefully for a few minutes however I find that it has grown on me as it conveys the sense of a lot going on within a very dynamic story.\nI really like the dragon as it seems to add a little sense of chaotic fun to the picture.\nThere's definitely a lot going in this cover! I think the artist was trying to give the feeling of going through a portal, from one dimension to another.\nI have always loved circles, so I like the circular movement here, although perhaps it can make this image a bit confusing to look at. I think it does take some getting used to.\nI like the dragon, too. He does give \"a little sense of chaotic fun to the picture\"! Very well stated!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 9622, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 308.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anitab.org/profiles/abie-award-winners/barbara-birungi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:29Z", "digest": "sha1:WGPCAZ3Y5W7V2OF7F5WJMHCZQMXB4F2N", "length": 1567, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "anitab.org", "title": "Barbara Birungi - AnitaB.org", "raw_content": "Barbara Birungi\n2014 Winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration Change Agent ABIE Award\nBarbara Birungi founded WITU (Women in Technology Uganda) in 2010. WITU encourages, inspires, and trains women in tech through networking, training, mentoring and partnering to increase the participation of women in tech and improve the livelihoods of women in Uganda. Its \u201cCODE GIRLS\u201d program introduces technology and career guidance to school drop outs, high school and university girls. WITU has taught over 500 young girls and has helped more than 100 women find tech jobs.\nBarbara is also the executive director of Hive Colab in Uganda, a business accelerator and incubator for East African startups. Their mission is to create a collaborative environment that promotes experimentation of scalable ideas with positive social and economic returns.Barbara has led this technology hub since its inception in 2010. Prior to this, she also worked for Appfrica International, an innovative global consultancy specializing in market research studies, custom technology solutions, and investment in emerging markets.\nBarbara graduated with honors in a Bachelors degree in Business Computing from Makerere University and received a postgraduate degree in Project Planning and Management. As a student at Makerere she volunteered at an orphanage, teaching basic ICT skills and career guidance to high school students, many of whom are now tech professionals. She is an enthusiast of ICT4D, innovation, and women and girls in Uganda, and has mentored and taught more than 300 young girls.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://annejohnstonphotography.com/shop/upper-loch-torridon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OIZG4AQ2GGZJDZ44435QRLOBD74ED4U4", "length": 227, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "annejohnstonphotography.com", "title": "Buy Scottish wall art of Upper Loch Torrion online today", "raw_content": "Bring a little piece of Scotland into your home or office with stunning fine art photography of Upper Loch Torridon in the North West Highlands. Choose from Fine Art Framed Prints, Fine Art Prints and hand-crafted Canvas Wraps.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/121", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:30Z", "digest": "sha1:NH4V5O6DP4CK2DQRSUWGM44ED6VSSSLP", "length": 14041, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "ansuz.sooke.bc.ca", "title": "The Number 13 Road - Ansuz - mskala's home page", "raw_content": "\u00ab The delivery man and his death... | Home | Public Health Backgrounder #71... \u00bb\nSat 1 Nov 2003 by mskala Tags used: fiction, halloween\nInstead he says, well, if you're planning to die, why don't you have sex with me first? I mean, I'd really appreciate it, and you shouldn't care, you're about to kill yourself anyway. And she says, not a chance, and he says, oh, okay, and shuts up. But he doesn't go away, he just stays standing there looking at her, and when she says, come on, why are you still here, aren't you going to do anything, he says, oh, I'm just waiting for your bloated, disgusting corpse to wash ashore so I can fuck it. And, hey, could you get a move on? I don't want to be here all night. Okay, it's not a really funny joke, and you really have probably heard it before.\nBut anyway, that's not really the point. The point is that when she gets mad, and climbs carefully down on the safe side of the railing in order to take a shot at him, and then after she's beaten the crap out of him because he never raises a finger to defend himself, as soon as she hits him on one cheek he turns the other one to her and says, here, hit me here too, and she's standing there over his unconscious and bleeding body, well, she doesn't get back on the railing and jump. She just walks away.\nWell, that wasn't really the point either, but it's closer. The thing is, ghosts. Ghosts are born when humans die, right? Wrong. Ghosts come from when humans have the strongest feelings that humans can ever have. That's usually when we die, so it's sort of true to say that they come from death, but it couldn't just be okay, you die, you become a ghost, because then the world would be crowded with ghosts all over the place and you can see that it isn't. Most people never feel anything strongly enough to create a ghost; it happens only once in a thousand lifetimes or so, and when it happens, as I said, it's almost always when someone is dying. What kind of feeling determines what kind of ghost.\nYou know how a lot of ghosts are supposed to be from people who killed themselves? Sometimes they're from people who were going to, but didn't. And you know how suicides supposedly go straight to Hell? That's just stupid.\nHere's a picture for you: at the back of the arena, there's a big rolling garage-type door where they back out the Zamboni machine to dump the ice shavings after they've scraped the ice. Whenever they have ice in there, which is almost all year round, there's a big pile of shavings that look like snow, there beside the door. At night the whole area is bathed with ghostly green mercury light because people think that that scares away vandals, and if you look up at the light in the right way, especially if you're wearing glasses, you can actually see colored rings around the light, green and purple because your eyes (or your glasses) are splitting the mercury spectrum into its component parts, and you actually can see the ultraviolet even though you're not supposed to be able to.\nNow look down at the pile of ice shavings. You wouldn't really be in a place like this in the early morning on a special night, but even though you're not supposed to be there to see it, you can actually see the outline in the snow. A snow angel, some little kid made a snow angel, but it's too big for a little kid, and there's blood and some other stains on the snow. The red looks black in this light; mercury light does that.\nThe arena is just on the boundary of the forest, where the two-lane highway comes straight from town and then gets wiggly where it goes through the trees, off to the big smoke. The forest boundary is an actual line on the map, because it's also the poorly-paved Number 13 Road; it's also a county boundary and the authorities on each side think it's the other side's responsibility to maintain, so the potholes just get bigger and bigger.\nYou'd walk along the Number 13 Road if you were trying to get from the arena to the graveyard, but that isn't the direction I came from. I had come from town, all the way up the highway on foot because I don't drive myself and I didn't want to involve anyone else. I had something to do that I had to do alone, because it was all about being alone.\nPeople tell each other all kinds of weird things. As I was leaving the lights of town behind me I saw two little green lights in the darkness ahead, and they burned at me for a second and then zipped off into the weeds. Must have been a cat, I figured. I hoped it was black. But on weird things: people say that if you go to the right place at the right time you'll meet someone. They say you can make a challenge that can't be refused, they say if you're smart or lucky enough to win a bet you can claim a payoff. They say you can make a deal. I don't have a lot of faith in deals these days, but I believe I'm smart and a lot of not-so-smart people believe that that makes me lucky. It's weird what people believe.\nThe highway was deserted, all the way up to the arena. Even accounting for the time of night, and which night it was, I was a little surprised. I'd have expected to see at least a few trucks pass me, people heading to the big smoke, maybe a drunk or two out for midnight revelry. Heck, I know there are witches in town. I would have thought they'd be having a circle somewhere, burning a poppet or something. Maybe they were, and it just wasn't anywhere I knew about. Guy Fawkes Day comes early for witches, I think, but I don't really know much about it. Anyway, I was thinking that maybe I had already started to cross over into another world and so that was why I didn't see any vehicles. I wasn't sure just where the rift was supposed to be; I thought on the highway right before the forest, but maybe it was a lot sooner and I'd been walking through some special space for most of my trip.\nThe arena was all lit up and it looked spooky, but in the rational part of my mind I was mercilessly weeding everything down to raw perceptions, and I told myself that really, I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. It was just a brightly lit building and looked the same as it would any other night. I walked the centre line of the highway all the way to the intersection and looked around. Nobody there, nothing to see. Everything was deathly quiet.\nWeeks later it occurred to me that in the whole night, although I walked up onto the Number 13 Road I never actually walked all the way across the Number 13 Road to the other side, and I sometimes wonder if that's where I went wrong. If I did in fact go wrong. Maybe I opened the door and just never really walked through it. But that's only a guess.\nAnyway, I stood in the middle of the road, turning slowly around (counter-clockwise, of course!) and looking at my surroundings. Waiting for something to happen. I had been so sure I'd done everything right. I was carrying all the right things. I didn't expect that I'd have to take \"no\" for an answer this time. When I'd turned around several times, I saw that someone was sitting on the pile of snow behind the arena, where they dump the Zamboni machine. As I walked over there, I saw that it was a woman, well, a girl really.\nI looked at her. She was pretty, I guess, but I'm years past the point where I could judge that reliably. I don't think I could describe the details of her appearance with any precision and I think that even at the time I knew I'd later be unable to describe her. That black-box recorder on the left side of my head, the same part of my brain that had been saying \"Nothing weird here, keep moving\" all night, seemed to have shut itself down. Either that was the effect of the place, or the drugs I'd consumed, or the person or being I faced.\n\"You're not as I expected you to be,\" I told her, automatically switching into the formal manner I'd rehearsed, and she shrugged. Her clothing rustled behind her as she shrugged, against the snow; she was wearing a heavy down parka, I thought, even though the temperature was well above freezing.\nShe said, \"I don't believe that - you weren't expecting me at all. Nor I you. What are you doing out here at this time of night, let alone on this particular night?\"\nThat would be just my luck, I thought, to encounter a random, human, stranger in this place and time to which I had intended to come alone. I don't think the magic is supposed to work with more than one person; or at least, you don't go to the same place that way. But I wasn't going to abort my plan just yet. Who I came to see was the original deceiver and might well prefer to trick me into some concession, instead of being bound to deal with me under the rules. As long as I stick to the rules, everyone else has to; that's the only bargain I still have true faith in. So I just said, \"I shouldn't have to explain that. Why do people ever come to this kind of place at this kind of time?\"\n\"I can see it in your mind, yes... but you seem a little old for that. Is it really all you want?\"\n\"Sure I'm old,\" I said. \"That's the point.\"\n\"You're not only older than most of the people I see, but also mature even for your relatively advanced age,\" she said. \"Most of them think they're unique and nobody's ever had the same problem. But if you're that good at understanding the game, why aren't you long since winning it under your own steam? I said I can see into your mind, and I sure can't see anything wrong in there. Why do you think you need to cheat?\"\n\"If I knew that,\" I said, \"then maybe I really wouldn't still be losing. But I didn't come here expecting to have to justify why I want anything. I'd have thought you'd be eager to deal with me. Shall I tell you how much I'm worth? You won't get me on real vanity so easily, but it's not bragging to say that I'm sure I can top nine out of ten of the other offers you've gotten. That's just a fact.\"\n\"Well,\" she said, \"I can also see that you're making a serious mistake. See, I'm not really who you think I am. I'm actually the one who saves you from that one. Unlike him, my services are free of charge, so put your wallet or whatever you've brought back in your pants.\"\n\"Nothing's free of charge.\"\n\"Now, you've given too many freebies yourself to say that.\" \"I thought I was giving loans, not gifts.\"\n\"No, you didn't. You knew damn well what you were doing. Hey, should someone like me say 'damn'? Well, I guess it's in a good cause.\" Her clothing rustled again as she shifted her weight forward.\n\"So, what's in your backpack? Oh, don't bother, I can see that, too. Shall I list the contents, just to prove I can and I'm special? You've got candles, cards, hmm, Tarot cards and also something I don't recognize, what are those?\"\n\"Magic: The Gathering.\"\n\"Oh. For the challenge? Well, that's a new one. I don't think anyone's tried that before. Not that that would improve your chances anyway. So, also some salt, matches, a glass paperweight?\"\n\"For air. It's got clouds in it.\"\n\"Gotcha. That, a couple of dishes, complete the set with a bottle of water, then you also have a bottle of wine, a bottle of, eww, yuck! You didn't really need to bring so much of that, you know. You have like ten billion times as much as it takes. How long did it take you to - oh, never mind, I don't even want to know. You know, we normally use blood anyway.\"\n\"I have a very specific request.\"\n\"Yeah, I can see that. It's all written the contract you've prepared. You've got writing stuff, too, pens and ink and erasers and all.\"\n\"Written in your contract,\" she repeated. \"How sad.\"\n\"You think that's sad? How about the other contract, the one I didn't have a choice about? At least I get to negotiate this one.\"\nAfter a moment, I continued. \"Aw, fuck it. Everything's ruined tonight, anyway. I'm going home.\" But I found that I could not walk away. The soles of my feet seemed to be glued to the pavement.\nShe moved her head from side to side, as if working a crick out of her neck, and I heard the rustling of her coat again. She had stayed in the same pose, lying there in the snow, through our whole conversation; I guessed she must be pretty uncomfortable. \"You aren't going anywhere,\" she informed me, though I had figured that much out already. \"You don't want to take 'no' for an answer? You don't even want to have to ask? You want to be asked? Well, now we're going to go a step past that.\"\n\"It's very simple,\" she said. \"You think you made a deal? You think you kept your side and you got nothing in return? Well, I made a deal too, and it's valid even though I never had a choice about it. I've got obligations of my own because I was saved once, and they include keeping you honest when your faith is weak. You'll have to get through me to complete what you were planning tonight, and frankly, you don't have a chance. You don't have the weapon that can hurt me nor the balls to swing it. It's already too late this year, anyway. You can't sell your soul tonight. It isn't allowed because you already did sell your soul to the same power that owns mine, and now you can't even leave here until I'm satisfied. That's my obligation and also my reward. Just be glad it's me and not the other one; I'm a lot nicer than he is. Both teams cheat, but you bet on the right one.\"\nShe opened her mouth wider and I saw how sharp her canine teeth were, and white in the greenish light against her lips that were red but looked black. As she stood up, I saw what had been rustling with each shift in her position, but before I had a chance to speak or to scream, she was silencing me.\nI felt cold. Something lumpy was underneath me, and my arm was pressed at an uncomfortable angle. I opened my eyes, remembered where I was, and settled back against the pile of ice shavings. I was alone again. I stared up at the mercury light, and behind it, where the glare kept me from seeing anything clearly, I had a vague impression of fluttering wings too big to be a bug's.\nVery nice. I would, however, invest in a few more quotation marks in the first couple of paragraphs. 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Funding from this program is allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The program is targeted to high-value projects, requiring a minimum $350K budget for English-language projects and a minimum $150K budget for French-language projects. The 2016-2017 CDMI budget was $10.5M, a reduction of $2.5M from 2015-2016.\nThe CDMI supported 63 projects in 2016-2017, a decrease of 20 from last year, signaling larger budgets per project. CDMI accounted for 37.1% of convergent DM funding, a five-year low due to the CDMI budget reduction. The average commitment in this incentive was 60.9% of project financing while the average budget was $393K, 2.0 times higher than the average budget for convergent DM components that did not access the CDMI. This program triggered production budgets valued at $24.7M, a decline from last year\u2019s $26.9M, despite the rise in budget per project, due to the drop in projects funded.\nNote: Average budgets do not include Variety & Performing Arts, to preserve confidential information.\nDrama projects received commitments of $4.5M or 43.1% of CDMI funding, triggering $10.6M in production activity and 26 projects. Dramas received the largest share of funding in all of the past three years. Documentary and Children\u2019s & Youth received the next largest portions of funding, at $3.8M and $1.8M, respectively. English Drama had the highest average budget, at $693K per project over 11 projects.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 199.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/496735", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:25Z", "digest": "sha1:P5FXNYONFK62DNECZOOOR722Y7ODEXCQ", "length": 411, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "archives.lib.state.ma.us", "title": "1970 House Bill 5103. An Act Postponing The Effective Date Of The Law Relative To The Publication And Distribution Of Rules And Regulations Promulgated By State Agencies And Regulation-Making Practices.", "raw_content": "1970 House Bill 5103. An Act Postponing The Effective Date Of The Law Relative To The Publication And Distribution Of Rules And Regulations Promulgated By State Agencies And Regulation-Making Practices.\nTitle 1970 House Bill 5103. An Act Postponing The Effective Date Of The Law Relative To The Publication And Distribution Of Rules And Regulations Promulgated By State Agencies And Regulation-Making Practices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 157.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://archvirtual.com/project/707-western-real-estate-pre-sales-with-oculus-rift-dk2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:27Z", "digest": "sha1:6RFETCCAB37AQHUS2HKBUCUBKQH2TRGA", "length": 1539, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "archvirtual.com", "title": "707 Western: Real Estate Pre-Sales w/ the Oculus Rift DK2", "raw_content": "707 Western: Oculus Rift Application For Real Estate Pre-Sales\nIntroducing 707 Western: A New Development from the Panoptic Group\nThe Panoptic Group, in Chicago, Illinois, jumped on virtual reality and Oculus Rift early on. Since engaging us last year to do a single family home for Oculus Rift, they\u2019ve trusted us to create virtual reality experiences and stand-alone applications for almost all of their new development projects.\nFeaturing A Custom Interior Design Package\nThis project, 707 Western, includes 3 sample interior units, each with a unique interior design package by Ingrid Baltasi. We were provided with interior design specifications, outlining specific fixtures, furnishings and finishes for each of the units, along with interior elevations of key features within each unit.\nThe final deliverable was an Oculus Rift application, complete with our VRUI navigation system, enabling visitors to easily jump to each unit and room without the use of a keyboard or controller.\nMultiple Media Formats Make it Easy To Share With Prospective Buyers\nIncluded with this project was a traditional stand-alone PC/Mac based application that you can download and explore without using the Oculus Rift. We also provided 20+ high resolution images taken from the model, in addition to the YouTube promotional animation shown above.\nTogether, this development package is a far better value, and far more effective than traditional illustrations at showing the potential buyer what a new building will look like before construction starts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ardenkirkland.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/a-momentous-decision/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2DQSNTHPN3XLA5GGH2DRMHEVY3THJXOQ", "length": 2839, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ardenkirkland.wordpress.com", "title": "A Momentous Decision | Arden Kirkland's Idiosyncrasies", "raw_content": "A Momentous Decision\ntags: mlis\nBig news! You may already have an inkling of this from some of my tweets, or you may be one of the wonderful people who generously offered me advice about this decision . . .\nThis month I am beginning the MLIS program at Syracuse University \u2013 also on the track for a CAS in Digital Libraries.\nThis is a huge step for me, and yet not as huge a change as you might think. I have weighed this decision so very carefully, and it feels so momentous, and yet in most ways life will go on as normal. I will continue to work part-time at Vassar, in the costume shop and with the historic clothing collection. I will continue to live at home in Saugerties with my husband and daughter. All that is possible because I\u2019ll be pursuing the degree as a distance student, taking asynchronous classes part-time around the rest of my life. But now, instead of spending all my non-work, non-family time working on digital projects as a \u201chobby,\u201d I\u2019ll be working on digital projects as coursework toward the MLIS degree.\nFor those of you who know me as a costumer, this may seem like a big career switch. Of course it is, but it doesn\u2019t really feel that way to me. My interest in digital libraries (digital cultural heritage, really) has grown very organically from my work with costumes. For ten years I\u2019ve been working to create digital access to Vassar\u2019s collection of historic clothing. This has been a slow moving project: with limited funding or institutional support, it\u2019s been me and a few students building it in our \u201cfree time\u201d outside of other commitments. You can see it at http://vcomeka.com/vccc/ \u2013 but remember, it\u2019s still a work in progress!\nWith all the work I\u2019ve put into this and all I\u2019ve learned along the way, I\u2019ve realized that it is not just in the context of historic clothing that this work interests me. There are some broader themes in my work that I\u2019m ready to explore in a more formal way. My mission is to give artifacts the respect they deserve in their representations online, helping them to tell their own story rather than just serving as illustrations. As everyone talks about the intersection of libraries, archives, and museums, I want to make sure that education is a priority at that intersection, and that material culture is a valued resource for a diverse community.\nI\u2019ve had a wonderful, albeit informal, education in this area over the last ten years, and I\u2019m very grateful to everyone who\u2019s helped me on this journey. Many who have helped are librarians, and it is my great respect for them that has inspired me to want to join their ranks. My informal education continues, but now a more formal part also begins . . .\nfrom \u2192 Digital Collections, Education, SU iSchool, Technology\n\u2190 \u201cSavage Beauty\u201d \u2013 Alexander McQueen at the Met\nSummer Camp started early . . . THATCamp, that is \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://areyouawellbeing.texashealth.org/tag/stroke/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:50Z", "digest": "sha1:MFTSPAKVHZMNPAWWHKZ4ZX2IJ75DCPSF", "length": 824, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "areyouawellbeing.texashealth.org", "title": "Stroke Archives - Are You a Well Being? : Are You a Well Being?", "raw_content": "The Connection Between Diabetes and Heart Health\nDiabetes, Health & Well-Being, Heart Health\nIf you have diabetes, chances are you\u2019ve already been told how important it is to control your blood sugar levels to avoid potential complications of the disease. If you have type 2 diabetes, managing your\nThe Top Five Health Conditions to Be Concerned About if You Have Diabetes\nA diabetes diagnosis can be frightening for many people. Like any disease, the uncertainty of one\u2019s health going forward can weigh heavily on anyone\u2019s mind. Although there are a few understood variables that come with\nWhy Women Experience Worse Outcomes After a Stroke\nIt\u2019s no secret that stroke is a major health problem, with close to 800,000 Americans having a stroke each year, but what you might not know is that it affects women at a higher rate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 5238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 213.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/you-cant-predict-election-results-with-twitter-says-new-study/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:31Z", "digest": "sha1:CN3JGFL2HVZ3SPC3IA47N6JOWGUVNML3", "length": 3430, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "arstechnica.com", "title": "You can\u2019t predict election results with Twitter, says new study | Ars Technica", "raw_content": "Twitter needs you \u2014\nYou can\u2019t predict election results with Twitter, says new study\n\"The analysis does not support the simple 'more tweets, more votes' formula.\"\nMark Walton - Feb 17, 2016 12:25 pm UTC\nWith the US presidential candidate race in full swing, pollsters, pundits, and prognosticators are itching to predict who will lead the Republicans and the Democrats to victory in the next election. But as the wildly varying opinion polls of the UK general election last year showed\u2014initial results put Labour in the lead\u2014predicting a winner is far from an exact science.\nOne approach is to look at trends across social media sites like Twitter and Facebook\u2014after all, if the masses are rallying behind a particular party or candidate, surely that translates into votes at the ballet box? Not so according to a study in Social Science Computer Review, which found that Twitter data was a more accurate measure of the level of interest in candidates, rather than the actual number of votes they end up receiving.\nThe study, which focused on the 2013 German federal election, said that \"negative events, such as political scandals, as well as positively evaluated events, such as accomplishments, can (both) underlie attention for a party or candidate.\" But scandals and accomplishments affected the level of support for a candidate in different ways. \"The analysis does not support the simple 'more tweets, more votes' formula,\" the study found. Other data showed Google searches\u2014i.e. who the voter is researching online\u2014might be a more reliable indicator of actual support at the ballot box.\nNotably, a 2013 study by an Indiana University claimed that it found a statistically significant relationship between Twitter data and US election results. This new study, which a Twitter spokesman argues is \"not relevant to the 2016 US presidential election\" debunks it. For example, a video clip of a campaign gaffe might lead to a spike in Twitter attention, but it does not result in more or less overall political support.\n\"The daily volume of Twitter messages referring to candidates or parties fluctuates heavily depending on the events of the day\u2014such as televised leaders\u2019 debates, high-profile interviews with candidates\u2014or the coverage of political controversies and scandals,\" the study said. The study data also highlighted the obvious fact that Twitter users do not necessarily reflect the demographics of the population as a whole, calling it \"highly skewed.\"\nWondering who to vote for in the UK election? Video games have the answer.\nThe UK's 15 million or so Twitter users are on average younger and more likely to be male (34 percent are adult males, 31 percent females), according to pollsters Ipsos Mori. Its study also found that Twitter users were more likely to live in urban environments, and sport higher levels of education than the rest of the population. The results lead to some claiming that Twitter is more of an \"urban liberal dreamland\" than a reflection of the population.\n\"I'd advise passing the next time someone sends along German Twitter data from three years ago in the context of the 2016 U.S. election,\" Nick Pacilio, a Twitter spokesman for the social media site's government and news department, told Reuters. Pacilio cited a Time report that showed Twitter chatter favoured the winning candidates, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, in the Iowa caucuses earlier this month.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://arstechnica.com/science/2010/09/does-the-us-energy-economy-need-the-nuclear-option/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RG7VBPZ7BZOYFPRL7RYHQVV5P35HC7LE", "length": 6552, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "arstechnica.com", "title": "American energy: do we need the \u201cnuclear option\u201d? | Ars Technica", "raw_content": "American energy: do we need the \u201cnuclear option\u201d?\nCompeting opinion pieces argue for and against using more nuclear power to \u2026\nIt's been decades since the last nuclear power plant was completed in the US, but the increasing emphasis on avoiding carbon emissions has led the Obama administration to promote an expansion of nuclear power. Partly as a result, there are now 19 sites for potential new plants in the licensing and approval stages, and the Department of Energy has been awarding loan guarantees with the intent of getting some of these projects off the ground. With that as a backdrop, Nature is publishing a pair of commentaries today on whether nuclear power should have a significant future in the US energy economy.\nFor what are ostensibly opposing views, the two pieces actually agree on a wide variety of the basic facts; the difference is primarily in the meaning they assign to those facts. One of the big points of agreement is that nuclear plants are ferociously expensive, and they take years to build. The fragmented nature of US utilities means that relatively few of them have the financial muscle to take on a project like a nuclear plant on their own. As a result, nuclear plants will either rely on private financing or the sorts of loan guarantees provided by the DOE.\nAnd that's a problem; even the pro-nuke piece notes, \"From past experience, the default rate for loans on US nuclear plants may be as high as 50 percent, potentially leaving taxpayers to cover up to $18 billion of the $36 billion in loan guarantees [that the Obama administration has asked for].\" With that sort of default rate, it's also very, very hard to attract private financing.\nNot surprisingly, the anti-nuke piece suggests we simply shouldn't bother. Nuclear power is too expensive, and the costs of renewables like solar and wind, which come primarily from manufacturing and not deployment, have been dropping rapidly. The authors estimate that, before the decade is out, these will be the cheapest forms of power generation in the US, beating even coal.\nThe intermittent nature of these sources can be handled by existing technology like compressed air and pumped hydro, so we don't even need to develop anything new, and concentrated solar with molten salt storage will be a reality within years, regardless.\nIn the pro-nuke piece, the authors note that the full costs of these intermittent sources should include the construction of a more distributed, smarter electric grid that can better balance power fluctuations. (Presumably, the opposition would point out that we could probably benefit from this sort of grid regardless, but didn't have the space to do so.)\nBut, more generally, they simply work on the assumption that significant amounts of baseline power will be needed, and nuclear is currently the lowest-carbon source. Our existing baseline infrastructure of coal and nuclear plants is aging fast, and we'll have to replace it with something\u2014and that something should probably be nuclear.\nTo handle the finances, the pro-nuclear crowd suggest going ahead with loan guarantees regardless of the risks, and allowing mergers of utilities to enable them to build plants without outside financing. To make the huge costs of plants more appealing within the energy economy, they also call for a carbon tax to make the coal's externalities more apparent in the market. A streamlined approval process would also help; the authors point to the fact that South Korean companies can complete the construction of a new reactor within four years, which would significantly cut construction costs.\nIf the cost of a better electric grid is a huge externality for renewable energy sources, the anti-authors point out that nuclear has a few big externalities of its own. They point out that the insurance pool for nuclear plants could only cover $11 billion dollars of damages, and a major accident could easily exhaust that. With the closing of the Yucca Mountain facility, the waste storage problems also remain unsolved. Waste isn't considered in the pro-nuke piece at all, while even its authors recognize that \"nuclear power poses substantial risks; an 'inherently safe' nuclear plant simply doesn\u2019t exist.\"\nThe anti-nuclear piece also brings up the risk of proliferation, but the argument seems specious in the context of a discussion of US policy. It may be an issue in the global energy economy, but as the example of Iran demonstrates, there's little that policy can do if a country is sufficiently determined to get access to the materials needed for nuclear weapons.\nThe dueling opinions are enough to give readers a case of mental whiplash. The safest thing to say is that neither of the alternatives advocated here\u2014nuclear and renewables\u2014are going to be quite as good as their advocates suggest. So, in an attempt to provide some perspective on this, we'll wade in with our own opinion.\nThere are benefits to a smarter grid with more on-grid power storage no matter what, so we probably want that, regardless; building it shouldn't necessarily be counted against the cost of renewable power.\nThat said, most of the best sites for solar and wind are pretty remote, so there is a real cost to linking them to the grid that has to be considered. Costs have come down dramatically as manufacturing capacity has expanded, but it remains very small, and solar and wind still contribute only tiny fractions of the US energy supply. We'll build and install a lot of renewables in the next decade, but there's simply no way we can build enough to meet our needs, especially given the number of coal and nuclear plants that will need replacement.\nSo we'll want to build some nuclear plants, and we'll need to start them now if we hope they'll be in place in a decade. Whether these are economical will largely depend on the regulatory environment. Right now, that looks very bad. The Yucca Mountain experience suggests that, even decades after the Three Mile Island accident, the public still isn't at ease with nuclear power, while the failure of any climate legislation shows that the carbon taxes that might help nuclear compete with coal are unlikely to be put in place.\nSo, chances seem good that the nuclear plants in the planning stages aren't going to do very well in economic terms. Regardless, they can provide a key source of power to help bridge us to the point where we can make enough hardware for renewable power generation, and plug it into a grid that's prepared to handle it.\nNature, 2010. DOI: 10.1038/467391a (About DOIs).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 8667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artandwriting.nyc/2013/10/03/popped-like-a-zit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:U7ORI7DIYLG7OA35WTQS45XQKF2QG6X2", "length": 12086, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "artandwriting.nyc", "title": "Popped Like a Zit \u2013 NYC Scholastic Art & Writing Awards", "raw_content": "My name is Robbie, I am fourteen years old, and yes\u2014I am a dork. But before you jump to any conclusions, I want to set the facts straight. I am not your stereotypical dork. I don\u2019t wear glasses, I don\u2019t play the tuba, and my face is not covered with pimples. Really, I\u2019m just a normal kid. I\u2019m an average height, an average weight, and I\u2019m decent at sports. I wouldn\u2019t call myself a male model, but I don\u2019t think I\u2019m exactly an eyesore either. Yet somehow, because of some unnamed quality, or some obscure feature, I have been categorized at the absolute bottom of the food chain. My mom calls it jealousy\u2014the other kids are jealous of my good looks, my charm, and my intelligence. My dad tells me to grow up, and never misses an opportunity to remind me of all the people who have \u201creal problems.\u201d\nI, however, with my first-rate intelligence, can figure out that what my mom says isn\u2019t true. As for my dad, I know he is right, but I still can\u2019t help feeling sorry for myself sometimes. I can\u2019t help feeling that no one should ever have to go through what I do daily, especially when I did nothing to deserve it. For years, my one comfort in my life was my best friend\u2014okay, my only friend, Eddie. Eddie was a skinny little kid, who never quite filled out his clothes. Eddie too, had done nothing to deserve his place at the bottom of the food chain, right alongside me. We were both baffled by it, but we were baffled together, and our friendship was the one thing we both really enjoyed. We were inseparable for years, and now it\u2019s over. Just like that, popped like a zit.\nIt all began at the end of the summer before eighth grade, right when school was starting. It was that time of year when life was still a confused mix of the end of summer and the beginning of school. That summer, Eddie had been away at camp, so I had not seen him for quite some time. It was our first day back at school, and when I saw Eddie, I was shocked. I felt like someone just ran 9000 volts through me. He was barely recognizable. He had grown what seemed to be a foot, and he was no longer skinny, but muscular. His messy brown hair was a few inches longer. Apparently, puberty had done him a favor, a favor I was still waiting for. I was not the only one who was surprised to see him. When he first walked in, heads turned.\nDespite all of this, he still seemed like the same old Eddie to me. The beginning of the year started off totally normally. That, however, didn\u2019t last long. One of the most popular girls in the school, Serena, had apparently started to take an interest in Eddy. This of course resulted in instant fame for him. Suddenly, the most popular kids in the class adored that skinny little loser. I was happy for him. Of course I was jealous, but I was happy for him. I watched him over the next few weeks. I watched him slowly moving farther and farther up the food chain, and farther and farther away from me. At first, he tried to include me in his popular group\u2014he really did make an effort. But slowly, as we became more and more different, that effort dwindled. When other kids made fun of me, he started making less and less of an effort to stick up for me. He gradually moved farther and farther away from me at lunch. We started spending less and less time together. It reached a point where we were practically strangers. He had replaced me with his popular friends.\nThe last straw in our friendship was right after winter break. I had spent my winter break holed up at home. Eddie had spent his winter break skiing in Colorado. It was not the kind of winter you see in movies with big snowflakes and white treetops. It was the kind of winter where you spend your time indoors. Although there had been a few brief periods of snow, they were constantly interrupted by rain, and the result was a wet, muddy pudding that was about a foot deep.\nWhen I arrived back at school, things were the same as they had been for quite some time. The other kids picked on me, and Eddie made a few meager attempts to stick up for me. Then lunchtime came around, and Eddie would sit at his usual three tables away from me. I sat by myself. Then we would have recess, and I would be picked last during football. After recess we had science class. I walked into the classroom, pulled out one of the uncomfortable, brown stools from underneath the table, and laid my books down on the grey countertop.\n\u201cClass,\u201d Mr. Milburn cleared his throat. \u201cToday, I have some very exciting news. Because we have finally concluded our study of electricity and magnetism, we will be starting the annual eighth grade electric carnival. You must make a game or activity that uses electricity. You may work in groups of two, three, or four. You have two weeks.\u201d\nThe faces of everyone in the class lit up. Everybody was excitedly whispering to each other, already making plans and choosing partners.\n\u201cI hate to rain on everyone\u2019s parade,\u201d Mr. Milburn smiled, \u201cBut the project will count as ten percent of your grade. You have the rest of the period today to begin preparing your project.\u201d\nI went over to Eddie at his table, and in a last effort to save our friendship, I asked him if he wanted to be my partner.\n\u201cSure, it\u2019s going to be so much fun!\u201d Eddie said, doing his best to fake enthusiasm.\n\u201cI know,\u201d I responded with as much excitement as I could force into my voice.\nAnd so we set to work on our project. It was no easy task, especially when it was one to be completed in two weeks. I sat down next to him, and we got to work on planning our project. We were planning to make a game in which there was a metal loop around a chord, and you had to carry the loop from one side of the cord to the other without letting it actually touch the chord. If it did, a buzzer would go off, indicating that you had failed.\nAfter school, I went over to his house so we could start building the project. Together we spent hours planning, designing, and building. I was overjoyed. It seemed like there was that still that last little sparkle of hope for our friendship. However, it was a very small spark, and there was still distance between us. But it was a start, and that\u2019s what mattered.\nThe whole week went by as a blur. Eddie and I were spending more and more time together. We were starting to make dumb jokes and to laugh again, just like old times. I could not have been happier.\nAfter school on Friday afternoon, I met up with Eddie because we were planning to work on our project. He did not seem as cheerful as he had been for the past few days. I could tell something was wrong.\n\u201cRobbie, I really don\u2019t know how to tell you this\u2026\u201d Eddie said nervously.\n\u201cI don\u2019Some other kids asked me to join their science group, I just couldn\u2019t say no, and\u2026\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s cool,\u201d I interrupted, trying my best to stay calm.\nI had no interest in hearing the rest of his explanation. I said bye and rushed home. I could not believe that Eddie had done this to me. I was devastated. When I got home, I went into my room and cried.\nI knew that Eddie and I had grown apart; it didn\u2019t take a genius to figure it out. But now he had crossed the line. I could handle him sitting three lunch tables away from me. I could handle him hanging out with other kids. What he had done now, however, I could not handle. He had given me hope, and he had taken it away just as easily. Maybe he felt bad, maybe he didn\u2019t; I didn\u2019t care. Our friendship was over. I knew that now I was completely alone. I had no one. I knew that I had done nothing to deserve it. I knew that it was horrible what he had done to me. I hated him for it. I hated everyone. I hated everything. I knew that from there my life would only get worse.\nOnce my capacity for self-pity had run dry, some practical problems began to arise in my mind. Standing out among these issues was how I would do my science project\u2014a project the teacher had specifically said was a group project. Then I got an idea. I remembered a boy named Stanley in my class was still looking for a partner. It was amazing how little I had ever noticed Stanley. He was just one of those kids, a little bit like wallpaper. He was always there, but you just never really noticed him. He was very quiet.\nI looked through my phone directory, and gave him a call.\n\u201cHello?\u201d he said as if it were a question. Getting a call from one of his classmates was clearly a rare experience for him.\n\u201cHey Stan, its Robbie, I was wondering if you wanted to do your science project with me?\u201d I said politely.\n\u201cI thought you were doing it with Eddie,\u201d he remarked.\n\u201cYeah, well, so did I,\u201d I said bitterly, making it clear I would not explain any further.\n\u201cUhhhhh\u2026 Sounds good,\u201d he said. \u201cWanna come over tomorrow so we can get started?\u201d\n\u201cSee you then,\u201d I said, and then I hung up the phone.\nI arrived at Stanley\u2019s house around noon. I rang the doorbell, and his mother opened the door. She was a chubby, cheerful looking woman with a kind face.\n\u201cNice to meet you Robbie,\u201d she smiled.\n\u201cNice to meet you too,\u201d I responded.\nThen I walked through the door. What I saw was a messy little house with grey walls and only a few rooms. I said hi, and then we got to work. Stanley showed me into his room. It looked like it had been hit by a tornado. The blue rug was cluttered with dirty clothes, video games, and even a half open pizza box with a decaying slice of pizza inside it. I thought about all the times I had spent at Eddie\u2019s house, and it made me sad to think about his room, with its bright lights, green walls, and dark blue floor.\nAt first, I tried being nice to Stanley, but I quickly became impatient. I thought back to all the fun times I had had over at Eddie\u2019s house, and every little thing Stanley did was a disappointment when compared to Eddie. Like Eddie, he had shaggy brown hair. The similarities stopped there. Stanley was a little bit chubby and if anything, his clothes seemed a bit on the small side. Everything he did annoyed me. The way he walked, the way he held a pencil, and especially the annoying way in which he brushed dandruff out of his hair every few minutes. I found him unbearably irritating, and I did not make my best effort to hide it.\nIn addition to all of that, our project was a complete disaster. My original project was at Eddie\u2019s house, so we were forced to start from scratch. Stanley and I had envisioned a game in which you had to try and knock down some clowns with a ball. If our project was successful, when the clowns were knocked down, a buzzer would go off, and a whole array of multi-colored Christmas lights would light up. We worked tirelessly for hours to perfect this image. By the end of the afternoon, what we had was a disaster. It was a tangled mess of wires and batteries, and we did not have long to fix it.\nWe spent the next few days working on the project, desperately trying to make it have any resemblance to something worth presenting. Because we were spending so much time together, naturally I started to learn a little about his life. I learned that he lived with just his sister, his mother, and his goldfish. I learned that he liked to play soccer, and to my horror, I learned believe it or not, he played the tuba. Our project was slowly starting to become something to be proud of.\nFriday came, and it was time for us to present our projects to both the class and the class parents. Eddie\u2019s group went first. His big, flashy, half store-bought project was very impressive, and when he had finished presenting, he and his group got loud applause. Next came Stanley and I. Although our project was not as big or cool as Eddie\u2019s, we had worked hard on it, and when we presented it, we did it with pride. After we presented, we received applause, though not like the applause Eddie had gotten. I could tell from Mr. Milburn\u2019s face that he liked it.\nI looked at Eddie, sitting with his group at one of the tables, but my eyes did not linger. I turned my eyes to Stanley, and he smiled.\nI smiled back at him. Maybe that annoying, chubby, tuba playing-kid wasn\u2019t quite so bad.\nIan Leifer, Age 13, Grade 8, Trinity School, Gold Key\nLost in 1125 Square Inches", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 14992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 259.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://artdept.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/write-up-of-heather-parrish-s-passages/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WZE3Q4HHXXPC57OBFTB32QBZRN6PWJBS", "length": 3800, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "artdept.nd.edu", "title": "Write-up of Heather Parrish's Passages // News // Department of Art, Art History & Design // University of Notre Dame", "raw_content": "Write-up of Heather Parrish's Passages\nAuthor: EVAN GILLESPIE South Bend Tribune\nLike most contemporary art installations, Heather Parrish\u2019s \u201cPassages\u201d is a piece that rewards patience and contemplation. The construction, which is on display in the Krasl Art Center\u2019s Artlab gallery, requires just a moment to observe, but it asks much more of you than superficial observation.\nThe installation itself is simple. Squares of waxed paper are assembled into curtain-like sheets that hang, translucent and free-swinging, from the ceiling. Two sheets form walls that hang parallel to the side walls of the gallery, and a third sheet hangs perpendicular to the first two, like the cross bar of an \u201cH.\u201d This third wall curves away at its bottom from the entrance of the gallery, and a projected image of flowing water \u2014 accompanied by a low, rumbling sound \u2014 plays across it.\nParrish, who is a student in the Masters of Fine Art program at the University of Notre Dame, says her work is about \u201cinhabitation,\u201d and she defines inhabitation in terms of \u201cinterior and exterior, container and contained, host and hosted.\u201d\nIn a basic sense, she\u2019s exploring issues of space \u2014 the space created by her constructions, the space in which the viewer stands, and the relationships between those spaces and the spaces beyond the installation. It\u2019s in the contemplation of these concepts that \u201cPassages\u201d has something to offer.\nThe installation certainly creates its own space within the gallery. Near the entrance, the sidewalls and the cross wall, with its projected moving image, form a sort of theater, encouraging you to simply stand inside and watch, but the inward curve of the cross wall creates a tantalizing space near the floor that nearly dares you to crawl under and into it.\nThere are more spaces to explore, though. Squeezing between the side walls and the gallery walls \u2014 an act that seems a little transgressive, but is perfectly acceptable \u2014 leads you through a narrow passage into an enclosed space at the back of the gallery. This space is an inversion of the theatrical space on the other side; here the cross wall curves toward you, and the space is private, secret. And as you move around the installation, the construction\u2019s fragility becomes an obvious contrast to its architectural presence; the walls move in the breeze of your passing, and light makes its way through the translucent panels.\nOn a deeper level, Parrish wants \u201cPassages\u201d to address the exterior spaces around it through the imagery of water. She makes the connection to the St. Joseph River and its literal and symbolic implications. She notes that the river is a metaphor for a journey, and it does indeed link South Bend, where Parrish studies, and St. Joseph, where the installation stands, but more than that, the river defines both places; it is, indeed, the reason for both cities\u2019 existence.\nIn its attempt to connect itself to the exterior, however, \u201cPassages\u201d is less obviously successful than it is in creating its own interior space. Parrish cites artists John Turrell and Olafur Eliasson as influences, but whereas both of these artists pull the outside world into their work via the intrusion of exterior light, Parrish\u2019s \u201cPassages\u201d is self-contained in its windowless gallery, and it provides no obvious link between its recorded image of water and either the river or the big lake just over the bluff outside.\nWhat matters is not whether or not the installation satisfactorily answers the questions it poses, but simply that it poses the questions in the first place. It\u2019s not the kind of art that placidly gives you what you want. It makes you work for the answers \u2014 it even makes you work for the questions \u2014 and answers that you find for yourself are always more satisfying than answers that are handed to you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://articles-reference.com/why-ornamental-iron-is-perfect-for-fencing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:03Z", "digest": "sha1:DVWA5UHDZI3OFNBI7ADOW2UNPKUYI7QV", "length": 1974, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "articles-reference.com", "title": "Why Ornamental Iron is Perfect for FencingArticles Reference | Articles Reference", "raw_content": "Why Ornamental Iron is Perfect for Fencing\nFences are essential to protect your property, identify land boundaries, and add style to the home, which is why Chicago ornamental iron is so popular. It\u2019s one of the leading options in Illinois because it is versatile, comes in a variety of shapes/sizes, and looks excellent regardless of your home\u2019s d\u00e9cor. However, if you\u2019re not sure if it\u2019s right for you, learning more about the benefits of installing it can be essential to your decision-making process.\nOne of the most significant benefits of ornamental iron fences is that they have a long lifespan. It\u2019s a durable material that can withstand water damages, snow, wind, and erosion. Along with such, it requires little maintenance. You may want to spray it with a garden hose periodically to remove dirt and debris, but you don\u2019t have to clean it, repaint it, or anything else. On averages, these fences can last more than 60 years.\nYou may not be ready to sell your home just yet, but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t think about resale value when adding new features to and around the home. A fence is an excellent way to show potential buyers that you are serious about your home\u2019s safety. Plus, it will be a beautiful and magnificent first sight of the house when they pull up and see the fencing.\nWhether you\u2019re a fan of the poky spikes or like the swirling effect, you can find a pattern that suits your home and your preferences. Regardless of the pattern, you\u2019ll have something that always looks beautiful and majestic, even on the cloudiest of days.\nChicago ornamental iron is a suitable choice for anyone who wants an iron fence and desires for it to look beautiful, so visit Top Line Fence for more information.\nTags:Chicago Ornamental Iron\nWhat to look for with Chimney Repair Services in Norfolk\nWhen looking for Chimney Repair Norfolk VA it is important \u2026\nResponsibilities of a Roofer in Edmond\nThere are many different types of professions available for people \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 297, "original_length": 6524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 249.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ashleighmoneysaver.co.uk/tag/birch-box/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LQ42SEY3HPQARLDBNPEC23A2EYCT56H7", "length": 284, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ashleighmoneysaver.co.uk", "title": "birch box Archives - Ashleigh Money Saver", "raw_content": "Home birch box\nWhich of the beauty box subscriptions is the best to go with? Would you subscribe to one? There seems to be getting quite a lot on the market now but if you are like me, I wouldn\u2019t know which one was best value or which one to choose. So I decided to look into them [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 4213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 177.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://athletic-mission.com/articles/tulsa-baseball-pitching-lessons/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:22Z", "digest": "sha1:I5UH7Y5VIVX4XVJUX7AXE2UQ7NVTHXTY", "length": 7127, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "athletic-mission.com", "title": "Tulsa Baseball Pitching Lessons | Care What Coaches Say | 918-856-9167", "raw_content": "Tulsa Baseball Pitching Lessons | Care What Coaches Say\nI, have this conversation guide all-time valve guide to care about what their coaches stay and you should you care what you could just say? Yes, and no, you should care in the sense that you want them to have good things to say about you and only you can control whether they\u2019re going to have good things to say about you by how you control yourself and going above and beyond, of what they\u2019re asking you to do. So, if, if you go out there and you\u2019re early all the time you leaving the drills your you run, everything out you sprint. At Athletic Mission Tulsa Baseball Pitching Lessons we coach guys into understanding these things that are super important. Do you showed the weight room you put in the extra hit? You say yes, sir, no sir, you do after you run. You pick up the dugout. You do all those things your coach had no reason not to like you. Even if you\u2019re, not the mo town 2 player they want good people. Trust me. Coaches want good people first, because a good asset to the team, so you want to make sure that you do those little things that take no effort to make sure your coat at something good to say about you now, if you\u2019re going to your not show up on time, if you\u2019re going to bad-mouth your teammate, if you\u2019re going to roll your eye off your coach, if you\u2019re not going to pick up the dugout, if you don\u2019t sprint all that stuff now, your coach had the reason that they\u2019ve been good about you now you should be concerned, but that\u2019s all on you, that\u2019s all on everything that you\u2019re doing and everything that you\u2019re saying. So you have to understand you can control what people say and what people think about you now that doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re going to like you always do and that\u2019s. Okay. There there\u2019s other reason:there\u2019s always confusedi like you, but if you focus on doing the right thing, doing working hard doing the things that I promise you people more people than that were like you and if they like you and they\u2019re, going to do good work for you. So go to the things that you have to kind of keep in mind and getting and do so. You can control what people think again there people that have preconceived notion, other coaches, that preconceived notion they\u2019re. Just there that\u2019s going to happen at life and it\u2019s okay, don\u2019t worry about those people who okay, but if you\u2019re really concerned, like i, had a guy said:hey I\u2019m I\u2019m wondering whether I\u2019m code 216 pic or I\u2019m his birthday. It doesn\u2019t matter man that you\u2019re on the team. If you\u2019re on the team, then do you like something about your doesn\u2019t matter whether you were the first pic that he like or you was at the 18th, but they like it doesn\u2019t matter so.\nYou made that team, but now I\u2019m good for you to make him change his mind and he changes mind great dame and the things that are little and the things that matter and the things that you can do and change her mind. But that\u2019s all on you! You got that someone! That\u2019s going to teach you how to do all that, for you have that someone is going to tell you what to do that, that someone that\u2019s going to show you how to do it and you got to go out there and they want guy that they know where they\u2019re going to get every single time to walk out of the field, and that\u2019s what you want. You want to make sure that you are working I can fit you working on doing everything that code that and you working I\u2019m going above and beyond and you\u2019re being a good teammate you working hard, you working smart, you do whatever it take for your program to do well that within your control. If you can do that within your control and you\u2019re going to be just fine, your coach is going to be at very good, very, very good thoughts about you in the meantime. Trust me how you respond, having bad form to have this game hard and most coaches should realize that they should realize your job. Are you doing the things that you have a positive as we are you handling version as well? You don\u2019t have to worry about that. You can control whether you forgot to get bitch. You can control bounding up the ball. Tulsa Baseball Pitching Lessons is a huge investment and the right information but be take in the right spot. You can control how you respond when a guy makes an excellent catch and get you out. You can control when you going over for with four than and how you respond, how you react and how you battle on the field. You can control that and you can control that you\u2019re going to have lunch with with the game and when you can do that, you\u2019re going to have a lot of fun with the game and it doesn\u2019t matter what the coach said that if you\u2019re a guy like to bring energy everyday, you have fun playing. You were smart. You do the little things everything that they yeah, then there\u2019s no reason why I can\u2019t like you again, there are out there I heard about things before work and which would like either the code didn\u2019t like the dad and they taking it out of the kids, which would probably wrong but be good. If you can do that, you\u2019ll have a lot success but thought that the process that you got to work on always you got to constantly have the awareness of all that stuff, the body language matters. Your present, your presentation matter, everything that you do matter and those are all the things that you can control. Okay. So again, your coach would like you to give him a reason like you. He will not like you to give her a reason not to like you and those are all within your control. Spend some quality time researching the best Tulsa Baseball Pitching Lessons.\nIf you can control those things, you\u2019re going to have a lot of fun, if you can control the thing that you can really not worried about the coaches weather like now in brockton, because that code I want an honest feedback. Where do you think I am what you think I can work out? What do I need to do to get better and be able to fly in the in the be your gas? They would like that they think I want to be a leader. I want to be your guy. I want to be the guy. You call on all the games online. What do you think I got to do to be able to be that guy? What do I got to do and don\u2019t tell you and you can work on it and you\u2019ll be surprised a lot of time. It\u2019s not really a performance thing. How do I help, but a lot of times. It\u2019s not really performing thing. If you have to decode your dad see what are you now? They may think you got to be more consistent, that you\u2019re, being consistent with your performance, be conflicted with showing up to practice, stomach that they may say that, but then I can\u2019t do what you can do to do what you say and let us let us know that you would have got it. We can count on and if you can do that and grab everything good day about you. At the end of the day, you need to have mentors who will guide you and help you along the way. Athletic Mission Tulsa Baseball Pitching Lessons is where to go and win.\nYou have to think about Athletic Mission Baseball Academy who was ranked by Youth1 as a top 25 baseball academies across the entire country when you think about investing in Tulsa Baseball Pitching Lessons to understand the college recruiting process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 8082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 248.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/10282/browse?type=title", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:38Z", "digest": "sha1:SD4ISPGDV3LQJTCUV6KDKZ6IK5YXLLIR", "length": 834, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca", "title": "Browsing At Guelph 2002 Volume 46 by Title", "raw_content": "At Guelph Volume 46 Number 1 to Number 10, 2002 \ufeff\nCommunications & Public Affairs; Chance, Barbara; University of Guelph (University of Guelph, 2002)\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 1, January 16, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 10, May 22, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 11 to Number 19, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 11, June 5, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 12, June 19, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 13, September 11, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 15, October 9, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 16, October 23, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 17, November 6, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 18, November 20, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 19, December 4, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 3, February 13, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 5, March 13, 2002 \ufeff\nAt Guelph Volume 46 Number 7, April 10, 2002 \ufeff", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 4229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 130.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://au.beatrix-potter-figurines.com/beswick-beatrix-potter-figurines/beswick-peter-on-his-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:19Z", "digest": "sha1:P7B4TWAKZL3LXDA2RNOYRATTG3M5NJIW", "length": 349, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "au.beatrix-potter-figurines.com", "title": "Beswick Peter on His Book \u2013 Beatrix Potter Figurines", "raw_content": "Beswick Peter on His Book\nThis is a Darling Figurine\nThis wonderful figurine of Peter Standing on his book was produced in 2002 and only ran for one year. It has the BP11b Backstamp which denotes that it is a limited/special edition and was issued to commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the famous book by Beatrix Potter \u2018The Tales of Peter Rabbit\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 3670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 289.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://audioinkradio.com/2018/11/linkin-parks-numb-music-video-hits-billion-views/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:38Z", "digest": "sha1:OW6DWLJVLYMYUM7MWZCISFWIYPESHYMN", "length": 1288, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "audioinkradio.com", "title": "Linkin Park's 'Numb' Music Video Hits One Billion Views | Audio Ink Radio", "raw_content": "Roughly 15 years after it was released, Linkin Park\u2019s \u201cNumb\u201d music video has reached one billion views\nIt\u2019s been out for more than a decade now, and now, Linkin Park\u2019s music video for \u201cNumb\u201d has inched its way past the one billion views mark on YouTube.\n\u201cOur music video for \u2018Numb\u2019 just passed 1 BILLION views on @YouTube,\u201d the band tweeted this week. \u201cThank you for all the support over the years!\u201d\nLinkin Park DJ Joe Hahn directed the music video for \u201cNumb.\u201d The track is off the rap-rock group\u2019s 2003 sophomore album, \u201cMeteora,\u201d and was one of the most popular singles off that album, hitting No. 1 on Billboard\u2019s Alternative and Mainstream Rock Songs charts. \u201cNumb\u201d was also remixed for a collaboration with rapper JAY-Z, \u201cNumb/Encore.\u201d\nLinkin Park performed \u201cNumb\u201d last year at a special Chester Bennington tribute event in Los Angeles. Bennington committed suicide in July of 2017.\nIn other news, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park released his debut solo album, \u201cPost-Traumatic,\u201d earlier this year. Shinoda is currently on a North American headlining tour in support of the album, and the next stop is Nov. 11 at the House of Blues in Chicago. Find the full list of his upcoming tour dates on Shinoda\u2019s official website.\nRecord Store Day 2018: Linkin Park, Evanescence, Soundgarden + More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 117.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://austrolibertarian.com/h-l-mencken-on-the-governments-money-and-services-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BW7X6OFNJKVB5GELKPSOZQECMA2TNZDC", "length": 1927, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "austrolibertarian.com", "title": "H.L. Mencken on the Government's Money and Services - Austro-Libertarian", "raw_content": "HL Mencken from his article More of the Same, original published in the American Mercury in 1925:\nWhen a private citizen is robbed a worthy man is deprived of the fruits of his industry and thrift; when the government is robbed the worst that happens is that certain rogues and loafers have less money to play with than they had before. The notion that they have earned that money is never entertained; to most sensible men it would seem ludicrous. They are simply rascals who, by accidents of law, have a somewhat dubious right to a share in the earnings of their fellow men. When that share is diminished by private enterprise the business is, on the whole, far more laudable than not.\nThe intelligent man, when he pays taxes, certainly does not believe that he is making a prudent and productive investment of his money; on the contrary, he feels that he is being mulcted in an excessive amount for services that, in the main, are useless to him, and that, in substantial part, are downright inimical to him. He may be convinced that a police force, say, is necessary for the protection of his life and property, and that an army and navy safeguard him from being reduced to slavery by some vague foreign kaiser, but even so he views these things as extravagantly expensive \u2013 he sees in even the most essential of them an agency for making it easier for the exploiters constituting the government to rob him. In those exploiters themselves he has no confidence whatever. He sees them as purely predatory and useless; he believes that he gets no more net benefit from their vast and costly operations than he gets from the money he lends to his wife\u2019s brother. They constitute a power that stands over him constantly, ever alert for new chances to squeeze him. If they could do so safely they would strip him to his hide. If they leave him anything at all, it is simply prudetially, as a farmer leaves a hen some of her eggs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://authoritytattoo.com/bicep-tattoo-pain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:59Z", "digest": "sha1:N4BSQ2IQPWLR2AAPPPJSWQIR7FBI52VP", "length": 4679, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "authoritytattoo.com", "title": "Bicep Tattoo Pain \u2013 How Much Do They Hurt?", "raw_content": "How Much Do Bicep Tattoos Hurt? - Pain Guide\nThe arms are often on display, and therefore are a great place to add ink you can show off to the world. However, some people worry about bicep tattoo pain and want to know just how bad it is.\nThis article will tell you all about bicep tattoos and what level of pain they\u2019re likely to cause. If you\u2019re thinking of getting a bicep tattoo, but are worried about the pain, then you need to read this first.\nHow Much Do Bicep Tattoos Hurt?\nFor those of you who love tattoos, you\u2019ll already know that adding ink to the biceps can emphasize how attractive the muscles and arms look. It shows how stylish the person is, and the design can tell us something about their personality.\nNo matter where you get a tattoo, you\u2019ll experience some level of pain. Some parts of the body are more susceptible to pain than others. How much pain you feel will also depend on you as an individual.\nWe are all different and some of us tolerate pain better than others. Those who have had a tattoo before, sometimes find the pain quite therapeutic. The most painful tattoos are those that are close to the bone, or in areas where there are many nerve endings.\nWhen thinking about pain, there are two elements to consider. These are threshold and tolerance. Pain threshold is where a stimulus causes us to feel pain; tolerance is how much pain you can bear.\nSome say it\u2019s mind over matter. There are studies which show that you can use your mind to control how much pain you feel from a stimulus. This is often the reason you see people sitting nice and relaxed when getting their ink. They are controlling their mind and telling themselves it\u2019s not painful.\nWhen getting the arm tattooed, there are areas that don\u2019t hurt so much, like the outer arm. The inner arm, however, is a different story, as two of the three main nerves of the arm run through the inner elbow.\nIf the nerve feels pinched, it will cause pain through the complete arm. As this is the area where the biceps are, having a tattoo in this area could be uncomfortable and high on the pain scale.\nHow to Make Bicep Tattoos Hurt Less\nWhen preparing yourself to get inked, there are several things you can do which will help you manage the pain. They won\u2019t stop the pain altogether, but they\u2019ll help to make the experience better.\nIf it\u2019s your first tattoo, you\u2019ll feel a little anxious about what to expect. Speak to your tattoo artist and ask them any questions you may have. This will help to reduce your anxiety levels.\nGetting a tattoo is painful, wherever it is. Chances are you\u2019ve suffered something far more painful and survived. It\u2019s not like giving birth or breaking your arm. By speaking to people such as the tattooist, or others that have tattoos, you\u2019ll soon discover that it isn\u2019t so bad.\nThink about the design, size, and color, as this will also affect the amount of pain you feel. Small, one-color designs hurt much less than large, colorful, detailed ones. Certain numbing creams may also help.\nBlack and gray tattoos are often less painful and quicker to complete. Large areas of color means the artist will need to go over the area several times.\nEat a good meal before you get the tattoo done, as your blood sugar levels will drop during your session. This helps you sit more relaxed, and you won\u2019t end up feeling nauseous or dizzy.\nWear comfortable clothing that allows you to sit without it feeling tight, too hot or cold. Some people may listen to music through earphones, and some have even taken a book to read.\nSpeak to the tattoo artist to ask if it\u2019s alright to take something with you to help relax. Remember, though, you\u2019ll need to keep the arm you are getting tattooed still.\nSome people find it relaxing to suck on a lollipop when getting inked. Others prefer to squeeze something like a stress ball. You could even use a fidget spinner. Whatever you think will help you relax and take your mind from the pain is worth a try.\nDuring the tattooing, control your breathing; this will help you relax. When you\u2019re at a more painful area, just exhale and breathe your way through the pain. Don\u2019t hold your breath, as this can make the pain feel worse.\nIf you need to take a break during the tattooing process, then do so. This helps you gather your thoughts so you can concentrate on managing the pain. It\u2019s much better to take a break rather than squirm around in the chair. Moving could cause the artist to make a mistake on the design and prolong the procedure.\nThese are some great tips to help you manage bicep tattoo pain. The biggest thing to remember is to remain as relaxed as possible. 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There are thousands of modern warriors out there like me who believe in living life to its fullest. I want to live a meaningful life so that I don\u2019t regret on things later in life.\nI have been in the Marketing industry like almost forever. I graduated from a local university up north called Universiti Utara Malaysia back in 1997 majoring in Marketing and I straight-away jumped into the industry after that. It\u2019s always within the vertical of Marketing from that day till now. I sold my soul to the evil of employment for close to 13 years until one day I found out that this method wasn\u2019t for me. My final employment was with one of the subsidiaries of Siemens Malaysia back in 2010. Since then I was on my own. Despite having a small team behind me and a registered company, I considered myself as a freelancer still.\nToday, marked my 7th year being one of the real warriors of modern days. There are thousands of modern warriors out there like me who believe in living life to the fullest. I want to live a meaningful life so that I don\u2019t regret on things during my final days in this world. That is why the precious time spent with my loved ones and myself must be well balanced with the time allocated to acquire financial resources. I need to be sure that I earn enough for sustainability. This is the reason why I opt to become \u2018just\u2019 a freelancer.\nBefore you decide to submit that resignation letter, proceed to clear your cubicle and officially announce to your friends that you\u2019re now an entrepreneur, please read these lessons carefully. I learned it the hard way, and you will too. I must admit, yes, the journey is rewarding. In my case it is far better than the employment world definitely, but to reach that point it will consume you physically, emotionally and spiritually too. Here\u2019s my story.\nMoney = Family\nSome people say that we are living in the greatest time ever. Evolutions after evolutions being surfaced, with new modern terms pop-up every single day until even dictionary is struggling to keep up. Being a GenX, I see how things are developing. Yet, I find one thing disturbing.\nWe are living in the era whereby family relationship is pretty much equivalent to the amount of money we have. This can be really challenging. Perhaps the challenging word is a bit of understatement. Perhaps tough is a better word. Yes, you heard me right. We are living in the hypocritical era that the amount of money will dictate the size of our family. The more money you have, the bigger your \u2018family\u2019 size it will be. Vice versa, if we have no money you can see that the same \u2018family\u2019 members will stay away from you. They don\u2019t even invite you to their daughter\u2019s wedding reception. If you don\u2019t believe me, be my guest to test the theory.\nWhen I began my journey as a freelancer, I went through hell. The reality seem different than the plan drawn. Things weren\u2019t as colourful as I initially thought. In a matter of months, everything went black only and no other colours. The situation worsen on the day I really drained everything. Along the way, I slowly lost my membership to the family members ecosystem. This went for years. I was on my own in a true sense of word.\nLife, no matter how bad it went, is always like a wheel. I survived. On the final week of November 2015, I finally tasted success. Real one. In a matter of weeks, I can see, my family membership is automatically renewed. It never be the same anymore this time. There is a scar. To this very day, I personally don\u2019t believe the word family is for blood-related only. Being bonded by blood doesn\u2019t necessary mean they are supportive, not especially when it involves money. A real family can come from real friends who want to be with you thick and thin. Now I have thousands of them.\nI got friends who got separated from their beloved spouse and children in the name of entrepreneurship and dreams. Can you actually endure this risk before tasting success?\nI admit that I am blessed with creative ideas, resourceful in terms of knowledge and vision to see things beyond the reach of other people. Both my mom dan late dad were primary school teachers. I remember our family lived very modestly, with the paychecks of primary school teachers. Many of luxury things my friends owned at their home weren\u2019t available at ours. Despite living moderately, my parents were respectable within the teaching community in the state where we stayed, Perlis. Until today, 17 years after my late dad retired back in the year 2000 many younger generations of teachers know who my father was. When he passed on in 2002, thousands came to pay their last respect. I was taught by them that the ultimate purpose of life is not about acquiring wealth or becoming someone important.\nIt is to share knowledge to others. Once we moved on from this world, we shall leave a legacy to the people, to the next generation that will lead to the evolvement of humanity. If you noticed, we are living today because of somebody left us their legacy behind. We are enjoying the trees planted by those great people generations ago, years ago. Since that day, I never look at things the same way again. I see them from the bigger picture, always. That includes Marketing too. If you can see things from the bigger picture, you will learn more.\nSimilar to Elon Musk, I also learned how to grasp information I observed or read and break them down into smaller conceptual pieces. Then I reconstruct those pieces into a new, workable formula to suit the current scenario in hand. In other words, it is called common sense \u2013 the Why. In Marketing, regardless whether it is a traditional or digital, once you understand the underlying common sense or the why, you will be able to construct a formula. And this formula you can use it no matter how frequent the trend is fluctuating. Therefore, to be successful I must be resourceful. And to be resourceful I need to read, observe, practice and share it out. Creativity counts too.\nDo you read? If you don\u2019t then your upcoming hurdles could be tougher than mine.\nWalk Away From The Noise, With Style.\nThere are a lot of noises out there. From people who wants to sell you something you don\u2019t need to people who wants to befriend you because they think you can be taken advantage of and people who keep on asking for your ideas for their own success only. You will also come across ungrateful clients who stop your contracts for no reason in the middle of the way and don\u2019t pay you, clients who are emotional in making decisions and cheapskate clients who want to want to pay you peanuts hoping to get their 20-year-old revenue problems solved in a month or two.\nPeople know me as a digital marketing freelancer, therefore they thought I deserve this kind of treatment. If I could smell these early, I\u2019d just walk away. I don\u2019t need to serve these sort of people. They don\u2019t deserve me at all.\nThat is why if you are seriously considering to become a freelancer or an entrepreneur of this sort, value proposition is extremely critical. This is how you build your authority and generate leads without having to sell. You can make them buy without selling. And this is called Inbound Marketing. If you can master this skill, you can filter all these noises almost instantly. Only genuine set of opportunities will come your way. The benefit doesn\u2019t stop here.\nYou can dictate everything too, even the price. You see, if I sell my services, people won\u2019t look at me equally. They will see me as a freelancer who badly want their business, hence the situation will allow them to dictate the entire situation. I can\u2019t allow this to happen. But if you make them come to you, you are in a better position to dictate.\nAnd to make them come, you need authority. You need your value proposition to be well understood. You need to make it rare. A brand that is so rare that every single customer wants a piece of you.\nPatience is the name of the game here. Are you game for this?\nWin The Heart Of All Followers, Connections, CommunityAnd Friends In The Name Of Authority\nTo become an authority of a certain subject or industry, it has to start now. And it starts with numbers. Understand this, the first impression people will see in my brand would be the number of followers I have on my social channels. These people just want to see the ultimate number and they don\u2019t care whether the followers are human or just bots. That\u2019s it. If they see a huge number there, they\u2019ll say Wow, this guy is really something. On the other had, if the number is low, they\u2019ll just ignore you.\nI decided not to play the same game like what others are playing. They went short cut, they bought fake followers. They ramped up their followers to five or six digits followers to impress people. If I were to follow this method, my online presence will suffer as the engagement on all my social postings engagements will be low. I decided the opposite. I work harder to become a guy with substance.\nOnce they see those substance, they will understand why I must be followed. Why they must trust me. You too can enjoy the same level of engagements if you have the real followers. So whilst others are building followers, you build engaging followers. Be very close to them, be on their side. This how you build trust, and this is how you build your authority.\nMy theory, people will always buy an authoritative brand. Just look at Apple, IKEA, Victoria Secret, AirAsia, Hard Rock and a few others. They make people queuing up to pay them. They created a cult, a movement out of their brand. And I am going that path and the work is in progress now.\nThis will involve some minor investments, especially on establishing websites and getting your name discovered. Are you willing to spend despite the fact that your pocket is drying out of funds?\nPlay It Safe, Play Something That You Can Control.\nMy team is small. I just have two of them, the GenYs. They aren\u2019t perfect, lots of flaws but our attitude is very positive. So am I. I am just human too with too many flaws built-in, but a lot lesser than theirs. To me, as long as these youngsters are willing to learn I am more than happy to support them all the way.\nSome customers we had were perfectionists. Quite a number of them we no longer work with and some we are about to lose due to us making mistakes but it is okay. These brands boast well on their social media talking about how great they are when it comes to the topic of Leadership and how they are okay and receptive to making mistakes kind of bullsh*t but again as usual, everything is just a freaking lip service. Nothing more.\nMy team, together with me are okay with this nevertheless, we are learning from it and we learned it together internally as a team. Things will definitely get better as we go along. Now we just sustain customers who are willing to be with us long-term. Opportunities will come, sooner or later. We will continue to strive what we know best, feeding customers with digital content. From articles to infographics, video editing, posters and other creative works, we do all. This is what we know best.\nI believe opportunity is like a bus stop. It will come again, and again. And I also believe that this weird philosophy will only work if I continue to build our brands and share beneficial content multiple times a day to our community across our channels. I feel that as long as we continue to be part of their life and career, developing our community members to be better, I should be okay.\nThis is the ultimate question many brands failed to answer. Being a freelancer, I need to compete with hundreds of thousands of other digital marketing freelancers too. I need to stand out and be seen by the market. To get noticed, I need to give, give and give. That\u2019s why you are seeing me do nothing but sharing good stuff to you online. Give doesn\u2019t mean I have to spill over everything, there is always a line to it. When there is a requirement to personalise in the knowledge-sharing, this is when I impose a small fee. It is a fraction of the market rate. I don\u2019t intend to make a lot in a short period of time, but just enough. Just enough to pay for my bills, my children\u2019s school fees and household expenses. That\u2019s all.\nNo matter how strong my value is, there are customers just don\u2019t quite appreciate it. Again, money rules and usually becomes the ultimate decision criteria. In the Marketing industry, you must know that the digital marketers are separated by men and boys. Real men of the industry don\u2019t play the same game as the boys. I noticed the market are heading more towards the boys because they can offer their services at a price that is almost free. When things gone bad, the same customer who first rejected the proposal from the men finally came back for help to neutralise the situation, hoping to acquire a real expertise at the same rate they\u2019re paying those boys. Normally the attempt will fail. These men have value that are well reflected by the pricing structure. Those came out of the tears, sweat and blood.\nSo, have you figure out why must your customer choose you and not the other guy?\nI am a Digital Marketing Hitman, one of the real men in the industry and these are the reality you are about to face if you opt to become a modern warrior like me. What are you prepared to do?\nTags: blogging engagement insight pemasaran digital\nPrevious Entry Dear PR Practitioners, Have We Gone Digital Or Are We Just Lazy?\nNext Entry Digital Marketing: Play To Win", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 15513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bamboomattress.info/author/postjames/page/38/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:55Z", "digest": "sha1:O5XAVVA7TBYPHNO2MDVDVTXDKI74CH67", "length": 27076, "nlines": 79, "source_domain": "bamboomattress.info", "title": "Mike \u2013 Page 38 \u2013 Mr Bamb Home Imrovement", "raw_content": "Tips for Choosing a Sushi Restaurant.\nSushi is a Japanese dish and its is enjoyed by different people in different states. There are several restaurants in New York City that specialize in sushi. However, all restaurants that sell sushi are not the same, there are those that will offer you better services compared to others. So, what should you look out for when choosing a sushi restaurant? Well, your search for a sushi restaurant does not have to be challenging with the tips below.\nThrough word of mouth you can get a good sushi restaurant, so contact people close to you and ask them, if they know a good sushi restaurant in your area. If somebody enjoys sushi from a specific restaurant, they will recommend it to you.\nDoes the sushi restaurant have many clients? A reputable restaurant will always attract several customers.\nDoes the sushi restaurant operate from your area? It is economical and time saving to choose a sushi restaurant that is near you. With the help of the internet, you can get sushi restaurants that are near you.\nIt is important you also check the reputation of the sushi restaurant. Go through the website of the restaurant and check the testimonies that have been posted by past clients. Also, check the reviews and ratings of the restaurant on other reputable sites online. Check what people are saying about the quality of the sushi, the customer service and the pricing. Go for a sushi restaurant that has the best reviews online.\nThe duration of time the restaurant has been selling is something you should put into consideration. The longer the duration of time the restaurant has been selling sushi, the better.\nAvailability is another factor you should consider when choosing a sushi restaurant. If you are going to the sushi restaurant as a group, booking in advance would be ideal.\nWhat budget have you set aside for your sushi meal? Most restaurant will indicate on their website the price the charge for a sushi. The price of sushi varies among restaurant. Go for a sushi restaurant that has reasonable prices without compromising on the quality of the sushi they sell.\nDoes the sushi restaurant maintain cleanliness? A good sushi restaurant will have waiters to clean the table, immediately customers are done. Eating sushi that has been made in unhealthy environment can lead to outbreak of diseases.\nWhen choosing a sushi restaurant, don\u2019t ignore the customer service. Go for a restaurant that has polite and friendly waiters.\nDo you like the ambiance at the sushi restaurant? Does the restaurant play music that is too loud? Most sushi restaurant will post pictures on their website and social media platforms of how the restaurant looks. Also, if they have enough parking, especially if you are planning to drive to the restaurant.\nA Brief History of Merchandise\nThe Best Brand Name Colognes in Paris\nA perfume is a scent that both men and women wear in order to enhance their beauty or even attract a mate. Some other reasons as to why perfumes are worn is to evoke good memories, help you smell good or lift ones mood. A lot of perfumes can be found in the market and an individual\u2019s taste and preference helps to decide on their pick. In order to decide on the perfect scent that matches your personality, there are certain ways that help you to decide.\nEach perfume consists of different notes resulting to the overall scent which is the first different way in choosing a perfume. There are three layers found in the numerous notes that make up the overall scent. The three layers work together to create a specific smell.\nPerfumes that are of exotic types are known to contain spicy notes. Individuals need to first determine the types of perfume they prefer then look at the base notes so as to choose their preferred scent. In order to choosing a preferred type of perfume, the concentration needs to be checked. The are four different levels in which fragrances come in.\nWhen the concentration of perfume is higher than the price usually rises. The ability to last long is influenced when the perfumes are of high concentrations as they have more powerful scents. With just one application, perfumes with high concentration are able to last long.\nBefore making a purchase, one needs to test the perfume. Ways of testing the perfume is by either sniffing on the bottle or applying some to the skin. In Paris, most cosmetic shops offer testers for people in order to test the perfume on their skin. There is a unique code of hormones and pheromones in the human skin that affect greatly or slightly on how a perfume smells.\nPerfume testing is done by spraying a little on the skin then waiting a minute or so before smelling. Based on the chemical makeup of the skin the scent of the perfume applied on the skin can either be enhanced or be diminished. A chemistry that does not match up the perfume influences on the disliking of it.\nIn addition to finding the right perfume an individual needs to use their gut instincts in that they choose what they love. The feeling of confidence and awesomeness need to be the reason as to why an individual chooses a perfume. In terms of applying perfume after a purchase then one rubs on Vaseline on their pulse points before spraying perfume so as to make the scent last longer. Another way that helps a perfume to last longer is by applying an unscented lotion then the perfume. Its is known that oily complexions retain perfumes for long thus people with dry skin need to use moisturizer to help in locking the scent.\nThe Ultimate Guide to Merchandise\nOutcomes of Hiring a Web Designing Company.\nFor a website to be reliable in needs to be designed and maintained by professionals and the reliability us a necessity for functioning. The efficiency of a website depends on a few factors, that is its reliability, its speed, look and uniqueness. A website can reach the desired efficiency only if it is designed and maintained by professionals as their services are are high quality. The right persons to be hired for web designing are the the employees of a web design company as they offer the professional services that are needed any website. There is need to select a company that will suit your needs, a few steps should be followed to reach this expectations. The discussion that follows is of the outcomes of hiring a web designing company.\nWith the long time of creating websites the staff of a web designing company earns a lot of creative skills that they can apply to greatly improve your website while giving it a uniqueness. If a website was to be designed locally or by its owner, there is little chance of creating a website that will be unique in its own way as the skills are likely to be deficient. The non professionals are not likely to create a unique website is the fact they will use templates as a basis for creation of the website. Non professional web designers are not likely to create a website that will earn traffic that is enough to achieve its intended purpose.\nGiven that these companies have employees who have mastered the art of web designing, there is always a guarantee that the website they will create is of high quality. The quality of the website is based on the speed of its responsiveness as well as originality, a web designed by professionals not likely to be a template of any other. A web designing company will surely use codes that will produce an effective website by all means. The other reason why a web designing company will offer the highest quality services to their clients is for purposes of self marketing as a good website will attract more clients their way.\nA web designing company will offer after designing services that will make it easy to manage the website without looking for another person to do it. With the define formula that is used by professionals, it is possible to make adjustments later when the website is having issues. It is usually a great challenge for a non professional to make adjustments to correct any weaknesses in the website later on. In summary, it is very beneficial to hire services from a web designing company as it will ensure that services offered are quality and the many other advantages discussed. Anytime you need to design a website, make a point of hiring services from professionals only for the best results.\nHere are Reasons why you should Hire Experts in Moving Industry Rather Than Doing the Work by Yourself.\nThere are many advantages of hiring professional residential movers. Go for the office movers who have invested highly on the moving equipment for better services.\nFor an easy moving process, one should ensure the company\u2019s staff has the skills needed in this industry. The pricing of the moving services should be considered for you to get better deals and therefore enjoy the benefits of hiring a moving company.\nIt is also advisable to check the reputation of the company by asking around from people who have had experience with the said company. If you want to get an easy time from a moving company, ensure you have chosen the one which has a moving experience.\nHire movers who are providing legal services.\nPlanning a move can be too tiresome; people can be relived from all the stressful process as they move by hiring professional moving companies. The professionals knows the best ways to navigate the roads and also better ways of handling your property. Moving can be made simple because of the surety of a safe moving process from the company of your choice.\nThe best moving services which are reliable enough can be gotten from the professional moving companies. The movers are trained on best ways of handling your belongings, and thus you are assured of safe moving process.\nThe residential moving companies are accountable for the whole moving process, and thus they will do all they can to ensure the belongings are safe.\nThe best residential moving in Hudson Valley provides a faster moving process as there will be time schedules to be followed by the company hence they will stick to the agreement thus making it easy for you to relocate.\nYou items can be carried efficiently due to availability of the right machine and manpower from the moving company. One can also avoid heavy lifting by hiring the right moving company who are good at doing such works hence keeping you away from health issues which can arise from such activities.\nOne will have an easy time in tracking their belongings as the professional inventory services are availed by the companies. With professional residential moving in Hudson Valley, there is safety in loading and unloading heavy luggage thus there are no cases of injuries which could have occurred if you did the work by yourself.\nExperienced movers are much preferable because they can handle all your concerns easily and also provide a fast-moving process.\nWith the right moving company, you will make it easy to relocate with your belongings.\nThe Advantages Of Extended Warranties\nWhen purchasing goods or services sometimes it is good to be provided with warranties. They are very critical to businesses and the clients. For example in businesses, dealerships enjoy a lot when they provide extended Warranties to their clients. This usually calls upon provision of more protection products to guarantee a little more security. Extended Warranties have so many benefits when they are provided.\nThere are retention and loyalty. When you so so you express the interest in protecting customers, they are likely to be loyal. Still on this point, the customer will find value in the time of need when you give them products that fit their lifestyle and needs. For clients and customers to be loyal and be retained you need to invest in extended Warranties so that they can gain your trust and this will lead to the success of your business too in a big way.\nTo add on that, there is improved relationships within the dealership. To keep customers coming in for services, trade-ins and even future purchases. Another thing is that close working relationships for customers who keep coming to your businesses between sales, financial and service units in the org. This is how business enjoy the benefits of extended warranties as customers feel like the centre of concern is them.\nAdditionally, there is improved customer satisfaction index. Simply implies that you maintain customers budget from unexpected maintenance and other costs. When you provide this, customers will be sure not to seek security somewhere else. They are more satisfied because you have shielded them from unrealistic costs.\nThey also result into increase in customer referrals. When you provide clients with quality goods and services they become confident in their purchase and as a result, there will be more customers be referred to your businesses. Customers tend to become more receptive to dealership offerings. With extended Warranties be sure to get more customers and subscribers in your business. The recommendations by customers will tell it all. So you can enjoy the advantage of more customers.\nGenerally impacts on goodwill , there will be a reduction in required goodwill. Reduces goodwill services because you give them protection, they will not come back anytime soon seeking things like repairs and so you help maintain a good customer relationship. Extended Warranties have so much to do, they are key to customers especially. The real thing actually is providing extended Warranties to your customers, the benefits can tell you all.\nNews For This Month: Warranties\nPosted by Mike / November 29, 2018 / Posted in Home Products & Services\nMost people after opting to buy new appliances such as clothes dryers and dishwashers encounter others issues that affect their finances. It is essential that you think of whether you need to have an extended service contract. You need to realize that extended warranty is also called service contract and it aims at repairing and maintaining the appliance for a particular duration. Most people ask themselves if they want the extended deal or the additional investment. It is essential to stress on different factors when looking for a service contract.\nIt is prudent to gather enough information regarding the equipment that you need to buy and the warranty. Most of the sales members are working to earn a living, and they will do anything possible to get more sales on the service contracts as this will translate to additional income in the form of a commission. It is advisable that you research about the service contract before choosing the service contract. You will manage to save enough money at the end of the day if you decide to carry out studies about the service contract.\nIt is essential that you understand what you are covering as the initial step. If you gather enough information on the service contract, it is essential to go ahead and check the appliance that you need. Ensure that you have evaluated all the details thoroughly and check if the contract gives additional coverage enough to warrant the extra expense. Many of the equipment have a limited warranty which is why you need to check if you are buying the same coverage with the service contract. It is essential that you confirm that nothing is left out of the extended contract as well.\nIt is vital to understand that this type of coverage is like the insurance policy. It is wise that you learn more about the consumer analysis about the equipment which you are buying. Note that getting first-hand information from people who have used the appliances in the past is useful as you will get to know what you are buying. Sometime you can end up buying something that will not have any issue in the near future thus wasting your cash. Therefore, you need to have all the details required when you are looking for a service contract.\nAnother factor that you need to check is the hidden charges. You need to understand that service contract is same as insurance coverage which implies that there are deductibles. Also, they can have the use of a service fee that is used every time you draw up the warranty. You need to familiarize yourself with all the costs involved.\nEverything You Should Know About Picking a Marketing Agency\nSome people will tell you the choice you make in terms of the marketing agency is just like deciding the car to buy or even who to marry. All this insist on how critical the decision is. In most cases, you will hire a marketing agency if your sales are low or when you want to generate more leads. Having a marketing department in your firm does not mean you will never have to work with a marketing agency because the department may not all have the tools and expertise needed for you to get the kind of outcome you would wish for. You may realize that the in-house marketing team is made up of just a few people and with many tasks waiting to be done you cannot put everything on them and expect a great outcome. You can be pushed to hire a marketing agency because of a lack of knowledge, resources, skills or expertise but rest assured it will be a step towards the right decision. Eventually, you will be able to attain the performance you were wishing for. First of all, you need to reflect on priority objectives. Given the wide range of services that can be offered by the marketing agencies, you need to have the priority list. They can be PR, media, design and also advertising. You can pick one or two for the in-house team to concentrate on and then delegate the rest. You may even have the marketing agency work with your marketing department so that they can benefit from the areas they may be lacking in.\nAnother thing you ought to consider is how your team and the firm you hire to handle the marketing needs of your firm will work together. When the tasks of each team are well defined you will not have an issue of duties being shunned because the team could not agree on how to move forward. You can expect better operations if each person is sticking to his or her job. You also want everyone to be aware of the firm\u2019s vision for harmonious work. You need to specify the goals and when they should be attained. You cannot get there unless you pick a marketing agency that has expertise in the areas you are looking to delegate. If you are wondering the marketing agency you should work with in Alabama, you can click here for more info. Some of the options can be found here.\nYou should not waste your money on a marketing agency that does not take the time to understand the vision you have for your organization. When you are working with a marketing agency that has all the information about your organization\u2019s vision, the strategies that will be proposed will be to benefit the firm and ensure you get everything you have ever hoped for.\nTips of Consideration When Hiring a Website Designer\nFor a business to have more profits, then it is necessary for them to have an efficient website. It will hence be necessary for an individual to incorporate the services of professionals. An undeniable fact about website designers however is that there are plenty of them. An individual hence has a challenge having to identify who is the best of them all. So that an individual is guaranteed of getting the best quality of services from the most sorted after website designer in the industry, then they will need to factor in the clues that have been clearly explained below.\nFirst and foremost, there is the need for one to consider how much it will cost them to hire the website designer. There is hence the need for one to look at the state that their budget is in. For this to be possible, then one has to make sure that they get to do an evaluation of the cash they do have. By doing so, an individual will get to know how much to set aside so as to hire the website designer for his or her services. There is the need for an individual to know that if at all they do need the services of the most sorted after website designer, then they will have to consider digging deep into their pockets for more money.\nBefore making a decision to hire the website designer, an individual has to make sure that they get to know of the traits that he or she owns. One will have to consider what the public have to say concerning the quality of services being offered by the designer. However, for an individual to be able to know of all the information concerning the website designer, then they will have to read through his or her reviews. An individual will then be aware of the quality of services that they will get in the event that they settle for the website designer. It is advisable for one to give the first priority to the website designer that has been preferred the most for the good quality of services that e or she has to offer.\nIn addition to the tips above, an individual has to check whether the website designer is licensed. The reason to why this is relevant is because not all the website designers in the industry are legit. The fake website designers just want to rob off clients of their money. The most reliable website designer would be the one with the necessary certifications. This will prove that in deed the website designer is legit. An individual will hence have a peace of mind knowing that they are in safe hands.\nFactors to Consider While Picking a Presentation Design Company\nDeciding on the appropriate presentation design company you should pick can be a significant task. This is due to the increase in numbered Design Company. A presentation design can be portrayed as a strategy that incorporates masterminding, execution of the progressed presentation. As a businessman, presentation of the company\u2019s motivation or even new companies is a typical thing. Therefore contracting a presentation design company empowers you to have a kind of presentation that is well designed. Due to an increase in the number of presentation design companies, you should consider some important factors before selecting a company to work with. In this article, I will talk about a portion of the components that you ought to consider.\nTo begin with, considering the type of service is an important factor to consider while selecting a presentation company. Your needs are the primary factors that you ought to recollect. This empowers you to choose the kind of organizations that a company should offer. There are different sorts of associations that offer unmistakable services. This is the reason you should consider the kind of organizations a presentation design company offer. You should consider a company that offer services that satisfy your needs.\nSecondly, consider the reputation of the company. Business involves risk, any way you should never take a risk blindly. Therefore it is advisable to consider looking at the reputation of the company on offering various types of services to clients. Listen to what people say, and mind the company portfolio to see a part of the achievement they have. This will enable you to determine whether it is worth taking the risk. A company with a good reputation is known for delivering their presentation design service on time. Therefore you should consider this factor before choosing a company.\nThirdly, the social capacities of the company is another factor to consider while picking a presentation design agency. The company ought to have legitimate correspondence expertise with the goal that they may catch everything about you need to incorporate into your presentation. The Company ought to likewise utilize suitable correspondence mode in reaching their customer since presentation design requires illumination of the information.\nLastly, the company\u2019s experience. Different client have particular ideas. You should question yourself whether the agency can manage your idea presentation or not. An experienced agency will have the ability to manage different presentation using assorted approaches. Therefore, consider the experience of the agency for your presentation design to be effective. In conclusion, these are some of the significant factors to consider while selecting a presentation design company.\nSmart Ideas: Presentations Revisited\nPosted by Mike / November 29, 2018 / Posted in Advertising & Marketing\nStudy: My Understanding of Medical\nTips on how to get the Best Medical Billing\nThere could be a huge implication on the financial status of the practice picked for payment of the bills. Tips that will help you make the best use of all the tools used in the billing includes the billing system. An electronic insurance system will work the best and other valuable practices. The application of the electronic system in the whole payment plan is improving the convenience to your system. It also improves the proficiency of the labor and cuts down on the hand on work.\nDefine the goals and evaluate the depth of the strategies. A good instance, state down the number of the days in the paid accounts. The net collections gives strength and examines the achievement as time goes. This later gives strength to the managers controlling the payment sector. It retains the communication on the transactions taking place in the business. There is perfect timing on the danger that could arise in the business on time before the matters gets out of hand. The general controller in the business is in the position to handle the tough issue likely to prop up.\nSet the guidelines and a set of success plan. Issue a set of rules to be followed by the members of the hospital. A number of policies will be highly recommended. The highly recommended policy would be adjustment and the write off rules. The patient collections will upgrade the overall received accounts in the hospital. The staff easily complies with the set guidelines.\nA number of patients will use different payment strategies in the given fee charge. There patients whose bills are cater for by the medical insurances. Understand the patients medical covers or insurance, especially for each patient. There is appropriate restrictions and surgical globe standards that the staff should elaborate to the patients. Theses terms of payment assures that the staff makes a good follow up to the end.\nUnderstand the patients who fail to pay the bills on time. Record all the cases of denial rates and errors in the past. The number of incidences will be evaded in the coming days. The examples of customer\u2019s failure to pay for the services rendered in the future should be cut off. Give tips to the patients who do timely payments and set a mark that will be accorded the trustworthy patients. This method will help you to reduce the risks to the audits and keep your billing staff productive. This further offers a set record on the several patients dealt with in a day. The types of the services they received and the accounting staff involved in the clearance of the patients. The proper management comes up due to the record set in the hospital. Any delayed payment patients will easily get identified. There is less possibility of having such problems in the coming days.\nA Simple Plan: Medical", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 31097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bbj.hu/https:/bbj.hu/economy/eu-says-will-speed-aid-to-poor-countries_48033", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PBL6QRXN7L4RPIEAA4P5QFPPDYXOLG3Z", "length": 1976, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bbj.hu", "title": "EU says will speed aid to poor countries | The Budapest Business Journal on the web | bbj.hu", "raw_content": "EU says will speed aid to poor countries\nThe European Commission on Wednesday unveiled plans to accelerate aid to developing countries hit hard by the economic crisis, warning that failure to act could pose a threat to global stability.\nThe executive arm of the EU said it was bringing forward to 2009 nearly \u20ac4.3 billion ($5.82 billion) of previously earmarked funds to help poor countries fight a recession that has staunched credit flows, curtailed investment and sent a number of local currencies into a tailspin.\n\u201cThis multi-faceted crisis poses a serious threat to global stability,\u201d the Commission said in a statement. The move does not entail adding existing aid to funds already set aside by the EU.\nInstead the Commission will \u201cfront-load\u201d, or accelerate payment of \u20ac3 billion, or 72% of budget support to African, Pacific and Caribbean (ACP) nations and will direct at least \u20ac500 million to support local welfare spending.\nA further \u20ac800 million from an existing facility to combat hunger would also be made available this year, it said.\nEuropean Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, also urged donor nations not to use the recession as an excuse to recant on promises to increase aid especially to countries least responsible for the crisis but among those worst hit by it.\n\u201cWe are now more than half way to the 2015 deadline for reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals and some of the gains achieved so far risk being forfeited leaving poor countries worse off than before the crisis,\u201d Barroso said.\nThe Millennium Development Goals were agreed by 189 countries in 2000 and consist of eight targets for reducing poverty by 2015 -- including a goal to halve by then the number of people living on less than $1 a day.\nBarroso said the EU was acting on promises made by world leaders during the G20 summit to provide $1.1 trillion in financing to the IMF, with $300 billion to be committed in aid to the poorest countries over the next two years. (Reuters)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 214, "original_length": 8227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://beg-no-questions.com/2017/01/07/making-america-great-1958-version/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:09Z", "digest": "sha1:CSFFMKKLYNNY6D3UCOY2NKTRLTM7YB3S", "length": 2976, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "beg-no-questions.com", "title": "Making America great\u20141958 version. \u2013 Begging No Questions (but raising a few)", "raw_content": "Posted on January 7, 2017 January 7, 2017 by Chuck Radda\nMaking America great\u20141958 version.\nIn 1958 eight football bowl games were played. Unlike today when even teams with losing records are \u201cinvited\u201d to play (and sometimes wind up incurring nothing but debt), fifty-eight years ago the invitation to play in post-season game meant something more than free advertising for a football program.\nIn 1958 the big names in college sports were not those of 2017. Navy played that New Year\u2019s Day, as did Rice and Drake and Texas A&M Commerce. One of the teams that didn\u2019t play was the University of Buffalo, invited to participate in the Tangerine Bowl due primarily to the powerful running of their star halfback, Willie Evans. It would have been a pleasant break from the Buffalo winter for the players to enjoy the sunshine of Orlando, Florida, but the game was to be played in a stadium owned by the Orlando High School Athletic Association, one of whose rules forbade blacks and whites from playing together.\nWillie Evans was black.\nAccording to the story, the coach, Dick Offenhamer, left it up to the team to decide whether or not to play the game without Willie and another black player, a reserve. Offenhamer\u2014not known for his sensitivity or grace\u2014nevertheless let the young men decide. He passed out ballots that required a simple yes or no, but before he had distributed even half of them, the team unanimously said no. Buffalo stayed home: fifty-one years would go by before their next invitation.\nNot everything today centers on politics, but there is little doubt that the \u201cgreat America\u201d to which many of Trump\u2019s supporters wish to return is that America where minorities knew their place, where homosexuals kept to their own kind, where immigrants were sequestered in ghettos, and where women understood that subservience was their lot in life. They don\u2019t understand that the greatness of America lies in the behavior of a football team that day\u2014young men who saw injustice and who, for whatever reason, chose to contest it\u2014three years after Rosa Parks, six years before the Civil Rights Act.\nWillie Evans died Friday at the age of 79. The sacrifice the city made for him he returned a hundredfold. Evans later taught in the Buffalo public school system, where he also coached cross-country, tennis, basketball, swimming, and football. He earned a master\u2019s degree in educational administration from Buffalo State College in 1988 and then worked as the director of physical education for the city of Buffalo.\nIn the first days of the new year 2017, it is hard to imagine someone in the Darwinian and dystopian world of the Trump apologists making the selfless decision that supported Willie Evans; but if they could, it would be a first step in recognizing that bold measures in the name of humanity inspire greatness, not placards preaching hate and vengeance.\nPrevious PostPrevious As if losing the election isn\u2019t bad enough\u2026\nNext PostNext \u201cSharing\u201d is not \u201cacting\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 229.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://belgium.singles.dating/profile?token=1000327334", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:37Z", "digest": "sha1:KORFOBCNNIQ2MX5IM5UABFDZY2IYO2FW", "length": 63, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "belgium.singles.dating", "title": "Belgium Dating - Meet Belgium Singles Free", "raw_content": "Location Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands Status Separated", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 1544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 227.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bellevuehillbottleshop.com.au/blog/19-10-2015/4/monday_madness_this_weeks_featured_product", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:T4QFCCDO6A2J6NXYEBVCTOHTAR5PAFS6", "length": 2520, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "bellevuehillbottleshop.com.au", "title": "Bellevue Hill Bottle Shop | Fast Alcohol Delivery Eastern Suburbs | Get Beer, Wine, Spirits | |", "raw_content": "Monday Madness - This Week's Featured Product\nFeatured Products are written by The Booze Hound Himself. His opinions do not necessarily represent those of this company.\n\"It's getting hot in the east. Probably not as hot as it's getting out west, but how would I know? This Hound is a junkie for the eastern suburbs and honestly, I couldn't even name a suburb west of Hyde Park!\nAll this hot weather means that it's the time of the year for beer, bubbly and the beach. So this week we're featuring the Young Henry's Range. These things are some of my favourites, despite the fact that they are brewed in some far away land that I've never heard of... 'Newtown': I think that's what it's called.\"\nYoung Henry's Beers\n\"Young Henry's beers absolutely rock my world. These things are critically acclaimed as well as being strongly accredited by hipsters everywhere, which means they must be pretty good. Most importantly though, I love them and you should consider yourself lucky that you even managed to get one of these in your mits before I guzzled them all.\nTheir Real Ale is an English ale which has been adjusted to suit Australian tastes. They're following an Aussie tradition of taking something English and doing it better - think cricket and rugby. A medium bodied beer which is extraordinarily neckable on a hot summer's day.\nThe Natural Lager is a four-ingredient, taste sensation. Unfiltered and, obviously, natural.\nThe Young Henry's Hop Ale is far too cool to 'define' itself as an IPA, although those of you in the know will realise that's more or less what this is. It's just a dark, hoppy ale for those of you who don't want to put labels on things.\nThe Young Henry's Cloudy Cider is just about the best Aussie cider you can get on the market. Young Henry's suggest serving it 'cool not cold'. Just enough time for me to grab one for you and one for me out of the fridge, deliver it to your door and have one with you. Nothing like drinking cider with a van-driving-booze-hound on your Friday arvo.\"\nGetting one of these off me, the Booze Hound\n\"Well I can tell you, it ain't gonna be easy. If we happen to have some in stock (and I haven't necked them all), then I'll deliver one as quick as I can to your eastern suburbs home or party. They're $10 per longneck, so all you have to get is a single bottle and I'll swing it by your house.\nPretty awesome right?\"\nThis has been the Booze Hound's weekly contribution. Stay tuned for more of his attempted hilarity.\nThe Booze Hound - A dog with a love for life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://benkallos.com/legislation/2014-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:03Z", "digest": "sha1:C34RV6RY7FYGMZFTYCVTUGEEGXFLVCQN", "length": 35970, "nlines": 196, "source_domain": "benkallos.com", "title": "Legislation from 2014 - 2017 Session | Ben Kallos, New York City Council Member", "raw_content": "Legislation from 2014 - 2017 Session\nIntroduction 628-2015\nImproves upon the Young Adult Voter Registration Act, incluing by requiring distribution of registration forms to high school students in class as well as provided coded forms in order to facilitate tracking.\nThe bill would require the use of recycled concrete in all new street construction projects, in order to reduce carbon emissions during production. Specifically, it would require that at least 30% of the concrete used comes from recycled sources.\nElectoral Ballot Access Reform\nIntroduction 1129-2016\nThis bill would amend the New York city charter to provide for an alternative method for candidates for the offices of mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president and member of the city council to get onto the ballot by allowing such candidates to get onto the ballot by raising the threshold amount of funding to qualify for participation in the campaign finance board\u2019s small dollar matching program.\nPensions for All\nThere are roughly 3.5 million private-sector workers in New York City, a significant percentage of whom have no access to retirement savings whatsoever. This bill would establish an individual retirement account (IRA) program for private-sector workers at businesses with 10 or more employees located in New York City that do not already offer retirement savings plans. Enrollment in the program is automatic, but employees may opt out. Contributions are handled through payroll deductions and set at a default rate, but employees may change their contribution rate. Savings accounts would be comprised of individual employees\u2019 savings only; neither employers nor the City would contribute to individual accounts. Covered employers would be required to distribute program information to employees. The bill also sets forth a complaint procedure and civil penalties for violations.\nEstablishment of a centralized procurement database.\nCreate NYC Food Policy Council\n\u201ceNotices\u201d will mandate that public notices be accessible online to New Yorkers while expanding and specifying the definition of \u201cpublic notices.\u201d In addition to publication in newspapers, the City Record, or posts on bulletin boards and lampposts, residents will also have access to notifications on electronically centralized websites with open application program interface (API) to provide shareable data to empower civic hackers and developers to create their own apps to disseminate items of local importance.\nCongress and the States Authority to Regulate the raising and Spending of Money by Candidates\nPublic Posting of All City Jobs\nResolution calling upon Congress to pass and the President to sign, as well as the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign, legislation to permit a single universal application for public benefits, as well as to use tax filings or information already in an agency's possession to automatically provide eligible individuals with the public benefits.\nAir Quality Monitoring Near Marine Transfer Stations\nFully Shielded Light Fixture Requirement for City Street Lights\nLight pollution can harm wildlife and make it hard to stargaze let alone for New Yorkers to get a good night\u2019s sleep. Under new legislation from Council Member Ben Kallos, street lights would be \u201cfully shielded\u201d to stop them from shining up into the sky or the windows of nearby residents, instead only illuminating the sidewalks and streets intended.\nUnshielded Partially Shielded Fully Shielded\nTypes of light pollution include:\nGlare \u2013 excessive brightness that causes visual discomfort.\nOver-Illumination \u2013 providing too much lighting and wastes energy.\nClutter \u2013 bright, confusing, and excessive groupings of light source.\nSkyglow \u2013 brightening of the night sky over inhabited areas reducing visibility of stars.\nLight Trespass \u2013 light falling where it is not intended, needed and often unwelcome.\nImpacts on wild life includes removing necessary rest periods for plant life, interfering with migratory patterns of birds, reducing activity areas for nocturnal insects and animals, and more.\nTowing Transparency\nRequires that the location of cars towed due to temporary parking restrictions, such as film shoots or parades, is available on the Department of Transportation website or by calling 311.\nSigns for Privately Owned Public Spaces\nA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the New York city charter in relation to signage in privately owned public spaces\nBack to Work Legislation\nSource Separation (Recycling and Composting) in Public Spaces Act\nThe bill would require waste and recycling receptacles in common areas of buildings be labeled as either \u201clandfill,\u201d \u201crecycling\u201d or \u201ccompost.\u201d\nAccountability for Childcare Programs\nThe bill would make the New York City Administration for Child Services (ACS), which provides subsidized childcare programs to 120,000 low-income children each year, more transparent and accountable. It would require reporting on several aspects of the childcare programs, notably closures, applications, and placements, in order to ensure that they best serve the city's children.\nSchool Health Reporting Act\nThis bill would require the Department of Education (DOE) to report to the Council and post publicly on DOE\u2019s website a report regarding certain health services offered to students in city schools, specifically dental services, vision services, HPV vaccinations, contraception, and substance abuse counseling. The bill would also require DOE to report on outcomes for schools that offer such services compared with schools that do not. The report would be required annually, starting November 1, 2017\nAccessible Sidewalk Ramps\nThe bill mandates that if property owners fail to perform needed sidewalk repairs, the city will issue penalties and then step in to provide the fixes and bill the party responsible. The legislation is specifically focused on the ramps that connect crosswalks to sidewalks, many of which have fallen into a state of disrepair. In a study, the Center for the Independence of the Disabled New York has found that 75% out of 1,000 curbs in lower Manhattan were hazardous for disabled residents.\nWeb Analytics Legislation to Optimize City Websites\nThis bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications (DOITT) to require City websites to use web analytics to help optimize their websites. Web analytics are tools used to measure a website\u2019s use, traffic, traffic sources and analyze other web data for the purposes of improving the effectiveness of a website.\nSecuring personal information privacy\nThis bill would require each city agency that collects personal information to develop a system to protect the privacy of that information. The system of protection would include appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to ensure the confidentiality of personal records and would also require the destruction of those records once the purpose of collecting that information is achieved.\nOpen API and App for eHail\nThis bill would require the Taxi & Limousine Commission (TLC) to develop an e-hail application which would allow customers to electronically hail a yellow taxicab or a green street hail vehicle. The application would be the only application used by yellow taxicab or green street hail drivers to accept electronic hails. The bill would require that the application be capable of allowing customers to electronically hail an accessible vehicle. The bill would also require the TLC to develop a program to allow third-party applications to submit electronic hail requests to drivers through the application.\nCity Spaces - Public information about city-owned property that may be rented.\n\u201cOpenMaps,\u201d introduced by Kallos and Vacca, mandates that data sets behind government maps, like those at NYCityMap (http://maps.nyc.gov/), become open and shareable so residents, civic hackers and developers can create apps to help:\nDrivers find off-street parking at garages and lots;\nBicyclists find CityRacks and bicycle parking shelters;\nResidents find free access to broadband and wi-fi;And government services of all kinds, including youth, aging, health, parks, cultural, and education services.\nTraffic Change Notifications for Community Boards\nA Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to notification of community boards of changes of regulations relating to traffic.\nProviding Public Notice of Production Permits\nConstruction Safety Injury and Fatality Reporting and Fines\nResolution in Support of Net Neutrality\nA resolution calling upon Congress to pass the Online Competition and Consumer Choice Act and for the FCC to reclassify broadband as a common carrier, in order to ensure net neutrality.\nRadiator Covers for Households with Children\nThis bill would require owners to install and maintain radiator covers.\nSingle User Identification System for City Websites\nThis bill would require the Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications to establish a system where a single user identification and password can be used to access all publicly accessible websites that require user identification or a password.\nAmerican Museum of Women's History\nResolution calling upon Congress to pass and the President to sign, legislation that would establish an American Museum of Women\u2019s History as a part of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.\nEarly voting in municipal elections\nA Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to early voting in municipal elections.\nPublic Online Information Act\n\u201cPublic Online Information Act\u201d (POIA) mandates that materials that are \u201cpublic information\u201d or subject to \u201cpublic inspection\u201d be made accessible to the public timely fashion and user-friendly format online through the agency\u2019s website, a centralized website and through an open application program interface (API) to provide sharable data to empower civic hackers and developers to create their own apps. While Open Data has made great strides in making government information available warehouses full of materials are still being generated that are not making it online because they are only \u201cpublic information\u201d or are only subject to \u201cpublic inspection.\u201d This changes all that and will put materials online like:\nAll city contracts;\nDepartment of building technical standards, accident investigations, and waivers;\nTranscripts from public hearings that are keyword searchable;\nThis legislation is modeled on federal bill by the same name introduced this year by Congress Member Steve Israel (D-NY) as H.R. 4312 and Senator Jon Tester (D-MT) as S. 549. It also supplements Open Data, Local Law 11 of 2012, passed by former Council Member Gale Brewer, the current Manhattan Borough President.\nProhibit Hydraulic Fracturing in NYC\nA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in New York City.\nLicensing Tenant Screening Bureaus\n\u201cOpen GIS,\u201d introduced by Kallos, Rodriguez and Lander, creates a new level of specificity for NYC Crime Map (http://maps.nyc.gov/crime/), specifying the exact location of the incident using GPS coordinates along with date and time for every violation, crime and arrest \u2013 including the exact location on the street where collisions occur. Current forms only record nearest intersection or street address, leaving the public without the specific corner or crosswalk on a street or pathway within a park where incidents occurred. The legislation will empower the NYPD, DOT and safety advocates in the public with the knowledge to address safety concerns with the precision necessary to prevent future otherwise preventable incidents, in line with the mission of Vision Zero.\nBan on Non-therapeutic Use of Antibiotics in Livestock Production\nResolution supporting a statewide and national ban on nontherapeutic uses of antibiotics in livestock production and calling upon the United States Congress to pass and the President to sign the Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Act (S. 1256) and the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R. 1150).\nPreserving Municipal Video Archives\nA Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to requiring that no videotape, or its contents, produced by an agency be destroyed or otherwise disposed of and that the head of each agency transmit to the municipal reference and research center such material in a timely manner.\nGovAPI Act\nAny time a paper form, an operator, or website requests information like a name, email, income, or other details that information could just as easily be provided by an app through an API. Similarly, anytime the city shares information on whether you qualified for public benefits, are registered to vote, or owe taxes that could just as easily be provided by an app through an API. An Application Programming Interface or API provides a set of definitions, protocols and tools for building application software, or in general terms it provides a translation dictionary for different software to communicate to make it easier for developers to program new applications.\nAnti Tenant Black List\nPrevent landlords from using information from housing court records to discriminate against tenants when they have satisfied the terms of an order issued in housing court. The so-called blacklists contain an estimated hundreds of thousands of names of would-be renters, and are often used by landlords to deny future housing to potential tenants. The legislation would allow tenants to file a complaint with the New York City Commission on Human Rights and fine landlords if a violation was found.\nPrivately Owned Public Spaces Fines for Owners in Violation\nA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to penalties for violations of conditions and restrictions on privately owned public spaces\nThis bill would increase from $4,000 to $10,000the minimum penalty for a violation of the legal requirements applicable to a privately owned public space.\nFull Time Legislature\nThis bill would require the City Council to set forth rules prohibiting Council Members from earning certain outside income and would make the position of Council Member full-time. The provisions of this bill and any rules promulgated pursuant to this bill would not apply to any Council Member who has engaged in another occupation, profession or employment during the current Council session, who intends to continue to engage in such occupation, profession or employment for the remainder of such session, and who submits a letter to the Speaker of the Council by March 1, 2016 describing such engagement and intention.\nConflicts of Interest Disclosures by Candidates\nThis local law amends the deadline for candidates for public office to file a disclosure report with the Conflicts of Interest Board.\nBoard of Standards and Appeals (BSA) Reporting on Variances\nThis bill would require the Board of Standards and Appeals to report information about applications for variances and special permits, and appeals of decisions regarding variances and special permits, to the Council twice per year, on dates approximately one and a half months prior to the mandated due dates for the Preliminary Mayor\u2019s Management Report and the Mayor\u2019s Management Report.\nExpand the Definition of \"Distressed Buildings\"\nThis bill would expand the Department of Housing Preservation and Development\u2019s Third Party Transfer program, which allows the City to foreclose and sell distressed residential buildings to pre-qualified third parties, to include buildings whose owners have incurred large amounts of unsatisfied building violations.\nBoard of Standards and Appeals (BSA) Coordinator at City Planning Commission to Protect Neighborhood Plans\nThis bill would require the Department of City Planning to designate a Board of Standards and Appeals (BSA) Coordinator and to post on its website a record of such coordinator\u2019s attendance at BSA hearings as well as any written testimony presented by the Department or by the City Planning Commission.\nEarly Public Funds Payments in Local Elections\nA Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the online publication of city laws.\nRequires the New York City Board of Elections to create a secure website to allow any eligible resident to submit a voter registration application.\nGender Sexuality Alliances in Middle and High Schools Act\nThis local law requires the DOE to report, for each middle and high school, whether such school has a gay-straight alliance or gender-sexuality alliance (GSA); the number of teachers and administrators who have received trainings related to supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning and gender non-conforming (LGBTQGNC) students; and a narrative description of the training offered by the department to support LGBTQGNC students, including whether any such training includes training related to GSAs.\nUnpaid Civil Penalties Imposed by ECB Can Affect Licensing\nOnline Voter Guide\nA Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to the voters guide requirements of the campaign finance board.\nCity Record On-Line\n\"City Record Online\u201d introduced with Council Member Jimmy Vacca, mandates the improvement of the existing City Record On-Line (CROL) website by mandating that all items currently in the paper copy of the City Record published by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) be included in the web version with an open application program interface (API) to empower developers to create their own apps to track the city\u2019s contract bids and awards.\nBoard of Standards and Appeals (BSA) Map to Prevent Rezoning by Variance\nThis bill would require the Board of Standards and Appeals to create, and post on its website, an interactive map displaying the location of all variances and special permits approved by the BSA since January 1, 1996. The map would allow a user to filter by borough; council district; community district; type of variance; date; and, for special permits, active or inactive status.\nApplying Tax Liens to Buildings with Outstanding Violations\nThis bill allows the city to impose tax liens on buildings which contain 20 or more dwelling units where the total value of all such judgments against the building is $60,000 or more, or a building which contains between 6 and 19 dwelling units, where the value of the judgments is $30,000 or more. The bill contains exceptions for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development\u2019s preservation projects.\nBoard of Standards and Appeals (BSA) Financial Expertise\nClarifying Eligibility for Municipal Debates\nThis bill would modify the standard for contributions raised and spent by candidates who participate in the City\u2019s public funding matching program in order to be eligible to participate in the first official debate for the office they seek. It would change the formula for eligibility from having raised 20% of the threshold for public funding for the office they seek to having raised and spent 2.5% of the expenditure limit for such office. The effect of this would be to increase the minimum funds raised to between 300% and 400% of the previous minimums.\nAffordable Housing Registration and Application\nOnline Conflict of Interest Disclosures for Elected Officials\nSchool Seat Application, Acceptance, and Enrollment Tracking\nThe proposed legislation would require the Department of Education (DOE) to track and report information on applications, offers of admission, and enrollment citywide, disaggregated by school, and further disaggregated by grade level, community school district of residence, council district of residence and zip code. The proposed legislation would also require DOE to report on anticipated seats available citywide and at each school in the next academic year.\nSchool Meal Participation Reporting\nThis bill would require the Department of Education to provide data, related to student participation in various free school breakfast, free salad bar, and free afterschool meals, to the Council and on their website. The report would provide information about initiatives and programs aimed at increasing student participation in the free meals. Additionally, the data would provide the total number have a salad bar in the cafeteria.\nOpen Budget for New York City\nHow New York City spends $82 billion would be more transparent, with a city budget that is searchable and computer readable instead of printed or in lengthy PDFs, by requiring the budget to be searchable, posted in open formats, and available for third parties to \u201cbuild an app for that.\u201d\nThe legislation would align New York City data standards for its budget with the Federal standards in the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act of 2014 (DATA Act) that lead to the adoption of eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) so that any software built for the Federal budget could easily be used with the city\u2019s budget like USAspending.gov.\nAutomatic Benefits Study\nOpen Data Geospatial Standardization\nThis bill would require that every public data set containing address information will present that information in the same format, along with geospatial reference data, such as latitude and longitude. It would also require the convening of a working group to develop that format standard.\nBoard of Standards and Appeals (BSA) Application Requirements\nThis bill would codify minimum evidentiary requirements for zoning variance applications with respect to establishing physical uniqueness of a zoning lot and the applicant\u2019s inability to obtain a reasonable rate of return under the existing zoning. A person who makes a materially false statement or causes a materially false statement to be made in connection with a zoning application would be subject to a $25,000 fine for every such false statement.\nLimiting Lobbyist Influence on Elections\nThis local law eliminates the possibility of matching, with public funds, any contribution to a candidate for local office that is bundled by a lobbyist or person who has, or may have, business dealings with the City.\nVoter Guide Mailer Opt Out\nThis bill would allow voters to opt-out of receiving a printed copy of the Campaign Finance Board\u2019s Voter Guide, which is currently prepared and mailed to every household with a registered voter prior to local elections. It would also require the Campaign Finance Board to produce a Voter Guide, though not necessarily in a printed format, for state and federal election races.\nExpanded Agency-based Voter Registration\nAdds 15 additional agencies to the current list of agenices which are required to have, and offer, voter registration forms to anyone seeking agency services. It also required that agencies, if requested, assist individuals in filling out the forms and submit them to the New York City Board of Elections.\nNoise Complaint Response Act\nOnline Voter Information Portal\nLandlord Distribution of Voter Registration Forms\nThe bill would require landlords to distribute voter registration forms, in multiple languages if requested, to every tenant when signing a new lease, as well as provide assistance in submission of the forms.\nCivic Commons Act\nCivic Commons Act, would encourage the collaborative software purchasing of free and open source software among agencies, cities and states to pool resources, avoid duplicated effort, create portable expertise, grow jobs, and reduce costs. A Civic Commons FOSS portal would be created to facilitate collaborative software purchasing and host the collaborative FOSS source code as well as FOSS projects identified as useful for government use. Civic Commons is currently a project of Code for America, a not-for-profit hosted at Commons.CodeForAmerica.org with more information available at wiki.CivicCommons.org.\nSafe Jobs Act: Transpareny and Training Requirements for Government Subsidized Construction\nConsolidating Environmental Control Board (ECB) into the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH)\nFull Public Matching\nIntroduction 1130-A by Council Members Kallos, Lander, and Cabrera, increases the public matching grant from an arbitrary partial match of 55% to a full match. Every small dollar raised from city residents would be matched 6 to 1. Candidates could still raise contributions of $4,950 for Mayor, but would be incentivized to seek small donations from many more residents by matching every small dollar.\nOpen FOIL\nHealthy Happy Meals\nKids\u2019 meals that include toys as incentives would meet specific nutritional standards that include:\n500 calories or less;\n600 mgs of sodium or less;\nFewer than 35% of calories from fat;\nFewer than 10% of calories from saturated fats;\nFewer than 10% of calories from added sugars; and\nA serving of fruit, vegetable or whole grains.\nContemporaneous Registration and Absentee Ballot Application\nCrane Modernization Act\nCouncil Member Ben Kallos has re-introduce legislation authored by former Mayor Bloomberg that would limit the age of cranes operating in New York City with a 25 year age limit that will remove older cranes from operation and improve the safety of crane operations at construction sites. Modernization of crane inventory would reflect advances in design, technology and safety.\nMayor Bloomberg's Press Release:\nMayor Bloomberg and Buildings Commissioner Limandri Announce New Legislation to Limit the Age of Cranes Operating in New York City\n25 Year Age Limit Will Remove Older Cranes from Operation and Improve the Safety of Crane Operations at Construction Sites\nModernization of Crane Inventory Reflects Advances in Design, Technology and Safety\nMayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Buildings Commissioner Robert D. LiMandri today announced new legislation to limit the age of cranes operating in New York City as part of an ongoing effort to raise the standards for crane operations citywide. The bill would prohibit mobile and tower cranes manufactured more than 25 years ago from operating in New York City. Cranes would be removed from service based on the original date of manufacture, or based on the age of the crane\u2019s oldest component, whichever is greater. In addition, crane owners would be required to outfit all cranes with load cycle counters to record data regarding every lift that a crane performs \u2013 which is critical to setting maintenance schedules and overall operability over a crane\u2019s service life. Since 2008, the Department has taken steps to reduce the age of the crane fleet in New York City and discontinue the use of aging cranes. Newer crane models are generally electric, require less maintenance, have improved controls and advanced safety features, and are better for the environment. A strict limit on the service life of cranes will ensure that older models are continually phased-out and replaced with the most sophisticated and technologically advanced equipment available. Requiring crane owners to update their crane fleet and make new cranes available will help maintain New York City\u2019s position as a worldwide leader in construction. The bill was introduced to the City Council at the request of the Mayor, following years of research on practices in other jurisdictions and extensive engagement with the City\u2019s development and construction stakeholders.\n\u201cNew York City has some of the toughest crane regulations in the world, and we enforce crane regulations more stringently than anywhere else,\u201d said Mayor Bloomberg. \u201cSince 2008, the City has adopted more than 25 new construction safety laws, conducted tougher inspections and raised licensing standards for crane operators. This legislation builds on those efforts by ensuring only state-of-the art, highly reliable equipment is transforming New York City\u2019s skyline.\u201d\n\u201cImposing a limit on the age of cranes will bring our policy in line with the reality of advances in safety and technology in the crane industry,\u201d said Commissioner LiMandri. \u201cAs building in New York City continues to accelerate, we must encourage crane manufactures to supply the construction industry with modernized equipment. In partnership with Mayor Bloomberg and the City Council, we have made impressive gains in increasing the City\u2019s oversight of crane operations and demonstrated our commitment to making construction safer for workers and the public.\u201d\nOn any construction site, cranes are responsible for delivering heavy loads throughout the property, and in a dense urban environment such as New York City, it is critical to ensure that this equipment performs to the highest standard. In 2008, the average age of tower cranes operating in New York City was 14.8 years. Today, the average age of tower cranes is 9.2 years. New York City enforces crane regulations more stringently than anywhere else in the world, and construction-related fatalities are down 84 percent this year compared to 2008 \u2013 despite an increase in construction permits. Since 2008, the Department has also issued cease-use orders for two models of cranes manufactured in the 1970s and 1980s and removed 36 tower cranes from operation. These models of cranes were ordered out of service after they were identified to have documented performance and safety issues.\nLimiting the age of cranes is a major step in enhancing public safety and helping contractors and developers build more safely and efficiently. Cranes that remain in operation for a prolonged period of time are more susceptible to stress and fatigue. Older cranes develop heightened maintenance needs over time and the failure of certain parts, or defunct manufactures, make conducting proper repairs on older crane models more difficult. Newer cranes have advanced safety features and reduced maintenance needs. Cranes manufactured today tend to be electric \u2013 rather than diesel \u2013 are less noisy and produce fewer emissions. In addition, setting an age limit for cranes will allow crane owners and contractors to plan in advance for the purchase and manufacture of new cranes. It will also encourage investment in the research and design of new crane technologies that meet New York City\u2019s high safety standards and unique needs. In recent years, similar age limitations for cranes have been implemented in jurisdictions, including a dozen European Union countries.\nSince 2008, the Department has increased its oversight of crane operations across the City, including expanded inspection checklists, more training for crane inspectors, updated exams, stricter licensing requirements and several new laws and requirements, such as:\nRequirement of national certification and mandatory re-testing every five years for licensed crane operators;\nRequirement of detailed plans for the erection/dismantling of a tower crane;\nRequirement of a safety meeting before the erection, jumping, and dismantling of a tower crane;\nRequirement of tower crane workers to receive a 30-hour safety training course;\nRequirement of an inspection and certification by the engineer of record prior to jump or climbing;\nProhibition of the use of nylon slings unless recommended by the manufacturer;\nRequirement of a third-party engineer inspection of a tower crane before an approval for erection.\nRequire ECB Include Certain Information in Notices of Violation\nThis bill would require city agencies that issue notices of violation that are returnable to the Environmental Control Board for adjudication to, where the alleged violation occurred in or on a building or lot, include the borough, block and lot number and building identification number, as applicable, of the building or lot. Finally, the bill provides that a notice of violation is still enforceable even if it does not include the required identifying information.\nThe bill would dedicate urban planners to each of New York City's 59 community boards. Community boards play an important advisory role in decisions over a neighborhood's growth and a dedicated urban planner for each board would provide them with vital information to help make these decisions.\nThe bill would establish a goal of zero waste in New York City by 2030.\nRequiring Agencies to amend Notices of Violations\nThis bill would require that, when an agency issues a notice of violation to an individual or entity that does not meet the standard for a valid notice of violation established by the Environmental Control Board or Office of Administrative Tribunals, as applicable, the agency amend the notice of violation if possible. The notice of violation would then be provided to the alleged violator in the same manner as an original notice of violation and a new hearing date would be assigned.\nBan Toxic Pesticides in Parks in Favor of Nature's Pesticides\nThis bill would prohibit city agencies from applying to any property owned or leased by the city any chemically based pesticide.\nFree and Open Source Software Act\nFree and Open Source Software Act (FOSSA), would minimize city contracts for proprietary software in favor of free and open source software (FOSS) that can be shared between government agencies and bodies instead of propriety programs that currently require the city and other municipalities, including the state, to pay private vendors over and over again for the same code. FOSS provides the city with power over the code and the freedom to study, modify, upgrade, improve, customize, maintain and redistribute within agencies and to other cities or states. Free software means code that is free from proprietary constraints, not free of charge.\nTime Limits for Scaffolding and Sidewalk Sheds\nNearly 9,000 scaffolds that entomb 190 miles of City sidewalks may soon be dismantled, under legislation introduced by Council Member Ben Kallos. Unnecessary scaffolding also known as \u201csidewalk sheds\u201d would have to be removed if seven days pass without construction work.\nSidewalk sheds are temporary structures, made of wooden planks, boards and metal pipes to protect pedestrians from dangerous conditions that are being corrected or new construction. Scaffolding is not only an eyesore but attract crime such as drug deals and provide an alternative to shelter for homeless. Many sidewalk sheds persist for years, sometimes more than a decade. There are several sidewalk sheds in Council District 5 represented by Kallos that have been up for years, over two years at 340 East 64th Street and 301 East 95th Street and over three years at 349 East 74th Street. Often times, it is much more expensive to fix a dangerous condition than to leave a sidewalk shed up indefinitely\nKallos\u2019 legislation would set the following timeline for sidewalk sheds in place for dangerous conditions:\n90 days for building owners to fix a dangerous condition,\n90 additional for building owners days to fix the dangerous condition upon extension,\nAfter 180 days, the city would do the work to correct the dangerous condition and bill the owner for all costs.\nWork could not be interrupted for more than 7 days without a mandate to take down the sidewalk shed or face heavy penalties.\nUnder the same legislation, new construction would need to continue without more than 7 days of interruption until the new development is safely capped off or completed. Exemptions in the legislation provide for weather, stop work orders, time awaiting permit renewals or in cases of safety risks.\nCommunity Board Youth Empowerment Resolution\nResolution calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign into law A.2448 and S.4142, which would allow sixteen and seventeen year olds to be appointed to New York City Community Boards.\nCommission to Study the Creation of a National Women's History Museum\nResolution calling upon the United States Senate to pass and President to sign companion legislation to H.R. 863, which would establish a commission to study the creation of a National Women's History Museum.\nEliminating \"Legal Bribery\"\nOpen Legislation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 500, "original_length": 52465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://berlinishjournal.com/2013/12/23/two-different-worlds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:02Z", "digest": "sha1:M5UU3JD2EUBBTVMGPC4JX4BDPRWDR6GH", "length": 4340, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "berlinishjournal.com", "title": "Two Different Worlds? - The Berlinish Journal", "raw_content": "KatRiyadhcultural differences, expat blog, living abroad, Lost in Riyadh-Blog, saudi arabia vs germany, student blog, student expat blog2 Comments\nAfter being back home for almost one week, I have realized that the so called \u201cculture shock\u201d got me just now and not the moment I stepped on Saudi ground back in September of this year.\nMaybe it is not a culture SHOCK really but just the definite realization that I am living in an entirely different culture now, or just different world.\nFirst of all, here in Germany I am obviously all on my own. I can get from A to B using public transportation and wear whatever I want on the street, nobody and I mean NOBODY cares. I wouldn\u2019t say that I missed this kind of freedom very much but it just has become more and more obvious to me over the last couple of days.\nI feel like the basic difference that I notice here is the freedom people have. There are gluehwein stands all over town for those who enjoy that drink, people walk around in all sorts of dresses and hair colors and boyfriends take out their girlfriends for dinner in public even before they get married. However, that sometimes becomes an extremely annoying thing as well.\nJust yesterday have I noticed how beneficial gender segregation, as there is in Saudi, can be. In Saudi Arabia, there is no social interaction between people who are not related, while in Germany wait for it\u2026you are free to do what you want!!!\nI was just sitting on the train on my way home, when a young couple occupied the two seats in front of me. Well, despite the fact that the two were in a public place, surrounded by various strangers, they started to show off how much they liked each other. I won\u2019t get into detail on this but just say that they were VERY enthusiastic about it.\nIn Saudi Arabia I definitely wouldn\u2019t have to suffer from such a sight and that is pretty much all I could think of until I finally got off the train some stations later.\nThen came the christmas shopping. For some reason every single Berliner, including me, decided to buy all the gifts two days before D-Day.\nI was just getting something for somebody in a bookstore, as I was flooded by a crowd of shoppers. Honestly, I felt nearly claustrophobic after five minutes.\nIn Riyadh, there is always a certain distance between the people in the shopping mall or anywhere else in public (unless somebody wants the tiny spot in front of you in a waiting line). Yesterday in the German shop, someone literally grabbed me by my shoulders and moved me to the side. I assume that the one or the other Muslim reader of this will shake his or her head in disbelief now.\nSo yes, there certainly is a difference between the cultures. It is open to debate whether one is better than the other. One is very\u2026\u201ddisciplined\u201d and strict while the other one is more of a laissez-faire society. But all in all I feel like such cultural exchanges are a good thing after all. Maybe I will learn to appreciate my \u201cWestern freedom\u201d some more after my stay in the Middle East is over.\n2 thoughts on \u201cTwo Different Worlds?\u201d\nWell, that described behaviour of the young couple in the train is a bit rude also in western culture, I think. I\u2019d say you should have asked them to stop themselves a little and to do the intimate things in a private place, not in the public. And that, I think, is the reason of general disorder of western civilization and culture \u2013 that nobody around cares, and nobody reacts for unproper behavior of other people around. And all that in the name of freedom.\nSure, freedom IS important, but lack of rules and not taking care of people around is bad, and sometimes it gets caricatural shape in our (I mean european, especially western european) culture.\nViele gruesse aus Polen.\nThank you for reading this post! \ud83d\ude42 I agree with you about the lack of rules. I don\u2019t know about other European countries, but in Germany people are free to do petty much whatever they want, including kissing in public. The problem is that, in our country, it is the people\u2019s right to do that and if I said something (as I did previously), then they would just continue, as it is all my problem and not theirs. I feel like there should be more rules that come from the state or at least from people with authority. Only then the youngsters will listen up, maybe.\nViele Gr\u00fc\u00dfe aus Deutschland! \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 7426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bestpass.com/about/media/174-fastest-growing-companies-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UQMX6CT6K5WY6AFCGS7Z7XVC6KM5KQTH", "length": 1550, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "bestpass.com", "title": "Albany Business Review Lists Bestpass Among Fastest Growing Companies in Capital Region - Bestpass", "raw_content": "Albany Business Review Lists Bestpass Among Fastest Growing Companies in Capital Region\nALBANY, N.Y. \u2013 Bestpass, a company that provides single-source payment and streamlined toll management services to commercial fleets, was recently listed at number 10 on the Albany Business Review\u2019s 2018 Fastest Growing Companies List.\nThe Albany Business Review ranked companies throughout the New York\u2019s Capital Region based on three-year local revenue growth. In summarizing the 50 companies that made the list, the journal wrote, \u201c\u2026 they\u2019ve all hit on something that makes them stand out among their peers. It may be a strategic change, a new product or a different location, but they\u2019ve found the right formula.\u201d\nBestpass has grown rapidly, adding more than 100,000 deployed toll transponders each of the past two years, bringing the company\u2019s total customer volume to more than 430,000 transponders on the road and more than 200,000 toll transactions every day. 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In her attempt to see that her grandson would behave himself, she used to say, \u201cDon\u2019t forget, Hampton, you always reap what you sow \u2026 always.\u201d And of course, she was right. But when most of us think of the concept of reaping what we sow, I have found we usually think of this in the negative sense. We think of paying the consequences for sinful actions or foolish choices, but the laws of the harvest are not just negative. These laws are also positive, very positive, and stand as a promise of blessing for sowing that which is good as well as a warning against sowing what is bad. We see this in Galatians 6:7-8.\nGalatians 6:7-8 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.\nSeveral years ago, I had the privilege of being one of the speakers at a pastor\u2019s conference with the late John Lawrence who was teaching at Multnomah School of the Bible, now Multnomah Bible College. While we were at the conference together, he gave me a copy of his book called Life\u2019s Choices, published by Multnomah Press. I found John\u2019s book to be tremendously rewarding and insightful. As a pastor, I have taught the principles of this book a number of times and have seen these principles really motivate and encourage a number of people in their walk with the Savior\u2014not so much because of the negative connotations\u2014but because of the positive. The seven laws as stated in the outline of this study come from John\u2019s excellent book and this study is a summary of those principles. For a more thorough treatment of these seven laws, the reader is encouraged to get a copy of John\u2019s book. John is now with the Lord and already reaping the blessings of a life devoted to teaching the Word of God.\nWe Reap Only What Has Been Sown\nLife is filled with choices, choices that affect us on an everyday basis in everything we do which means our everyday choices are not without significance. Our choices affect us and others in dramatic ways whether we see it immediately or not. While earth remains, no man will mock God by changing for even one time these laws of the harvest.\nThis study is not meant to intimidate us from making choices, for even a failure to make choices is a choice. Rather, it is designed to motivate us to wise choices that we may redeem the time.\nEphesians 5:15-18. Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, 16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil. 17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit.\nPsalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, That we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom.\nWhy do we need wisdom? So we can make wise choices!\nStop and think about this! All life comes from antecedent life: from the labor and sowing of others. What we reap was planted either naturally or purposely, either by God or by man, and for either positive or for negative results. We reap the fruit of much for which we have extended no labor because we enter into the labor of others either for good or for bad. In other words, this law of the harvest, We Reap Only What Has Been Sown, has both a positive and a negative side.\nThough we are benefactors of much for which we have extended no labor, we still have the privilege of entering into the labor of others (John 4:35-38).\nBlessings We Reap Because of What God Has Done on Our Behalf\n(1) The Blessings of Common Grace (Matt. 5:45; Acts 17:24-28; James 1:17; John 3:27). God is gracious toward all men whether they realize it or not, or whether they ever give Him thanks for His blessings. In fact, every good gift we enjoy comes from God (Acts 17:24-28; Jam. 1:17; John 3:27).\n(2) The Blessings of Salvation Grace (Matt. 21:37; John 3:16; 6:27-32; Rom. 10:6-8; Jam. 1:17-18; 1 John 5:9-12). Regardless of man\u2019s lack of thankfulness, God has given man the greatest gift of all in His Son who became man that we might have life by faith in Him.\nBlessings We Reap Because of What Others Have Done In Our Behalf\nThe Fact (John 4:35-38; Deut. 6:10-11 and the laws of inheritance). Our Lord\u2019s statements in John 4, though dealing with the ministry of evangelism, are nevertheless based on this general principle of life. Deuteronomy 6 and the laws of inheritance further illustrate this principle, but it is true even for that person who brags about being a self-made man in dozens of ways. Whether he realizes it or not, his talents, the opportunities for success, and the fruitfulness he has experienced are all given by the grace of God.\nAn Illustration: Not only are we blessed because of what God has done in our behalf, we are also blessed by what others have done. Others have labored and we have entered into the blessings of their labors. Any honest study of Western civilization must admit that the blessings we have enjoyed in the Western world, of freedom, of law, of ministering to the suffering, the poor and the like, are all the by-products of Christianity and our godly heritage.\nA good number of years ago there appeared in the \u201cChristian Advocate\u201d the following:\nAmerica rests upon four cornerstones: the English Bible, the English language, the common law, and the tradition of liberty. But liberty, language, and the law might have been drawn from the Bible alone. Had we brought nothing with us across the sea besides this supreme book, we might still have been great. Without this Book, America could not have become what she is and when she loses its guidance and wisdom, she will be America no more.\nDid we bring the Bible to these shores? Did it not rather bring us? The breath of the ancient Prophets was in the sails that drove the tiny Mayflower.\nIt has been said that South America was settled by the Spanish, who came to that land in search of gold, but North America was settled by the Pilgrim Fathers, who came in search of God. That is what made the difference.1\nApplication: Do we realize the far-reaching implications of our choices on the lives of others\u2014children, family members, co-workers, friends? The teaching of Scripture on being an example to others stresses this very point (2 Chron. 17:3; John 13:15; 1 Thess. 1:7; 2 Thess. 3:7-9; 1 Tim. 4:12; Tit. 2:7). Being a good model is a form of sowing that can result in reaping Christlike changes in the lives of others.\nWe Reap the Wrong Others Have Sown\nThe law of sowing and reaping also has a negative side. We not only enter into the blessings God has bestowed, but we also reap the results of wrong others have sown both before us and around us.\n(1) We reap a certain amount of wrong inherited from our parents (Ps. 51:5; 58:3; Gen. 5:3; Ex. 20:6; 34:6-7; Num. 14:18).\n(2) We all reap the sin of Adam and we pass that along to our children. This means not only a sinful nature, but things children can learn like how to be critical from a fault-finding parent.\n(3) We reap the wrong of foolish and corrupt leaders and the consequences of a decaying society (see Isa. 2:5-3:15). This often includes the judgment of God on society\u2014past, present, and future.\nWhat is happening in our cities across our nation is that we are treasuring up unto ourselves \u201cwrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God\u201d (Rom. 2:5). It is of concern to us because, if the Lord tarries, it shall affect us greatly. We were willing to settle for a \u201cno win\u201d policy in Korea and so we settled for a \u201close the war\u201d policy in Vietnam. The next step is to settle for \u201cno contest\u201d right here at home.\nWe are already reaping the consequences of living high on the hog\u2014way above our means\u2014and we have just begun this process of reaping the results of deficit spending. As a nation, whatever we do is wrong because we as a people are wrong spiritually and morally. We have forgotten that God takes the lid off of our cities, and what he sees is a stench to His nostrils!\nAvailable to us is the work of Edward Gibbon who, in 1787, after 20 years of labor, completed his book The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In it he attributed the fall of the Empire as being:\n(1) The rapid increase of divorce; the undermining of the dignity and sanctity of the home, which is the basis of human society.\n(2) Higher and higher taxes and the spending of public monies for free bread and circuses for the populace.\n(3) The mad craze for pleasure; sports becoming every year more exciting and more brutal.\n(4) The building of gigantic armaments when the real enemy was within, the decadence of the people.\n(5) The decay of religion\u2014faith fading into mere form, losing touch with life and becoming impotent to warn and guide the people.\nChallenges and Implications\nA Call to Sowing What is Good\nWe need to be doing what we can while we can and leave the results with God knowing that our labor is never in vain (1 Cor. 15:10, 58) and also knowing it has consequential implications on others. Some may be involved in the sowing, some in the watering, and others in the reaping, but God is at work bringing the increase according to His purposes (1 Cor. 3:6-7).\nA Call to Thankfulness\nAnother challenge is one of thankfulness by acknowledging the fact of a personal God who has blessed us with His providential care and given us the privilege of not only sowing and reaping, but of reaping the blessings of what others have sown (Rom. 1:18f; Ps. 100:1-5; 107:1f)\nA Call to Moral Responsibility (Matt. 5:43-48)\n(1) To love others and treat them in grace as we all experience the common grace of God who causes His sun to rise on the evil and good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous alike.\n(2) To acknowledge our moral responsibility because we are created in the image of God.\nA Call to Trust God to Provide for Our Needs (Matt 6:25-34).\nThis has both a positive and a negative side.\n(1) To rest in the reality of God Himself, in His personal care and supply by putting Him first and by using the resources He gives. To see and respond to this, Jesus challenges us to compare the birds of the air and the lilies of the field (Matt. 6:25-34).\n(2) To trust God rather than lean on our own solutions and strategies for handling life or to find security, significance, and happiness (Jer. 1:13; 17:1f).\nA Call for Vigilance, Prayer, and Wisdom\n1 Timothy 2:1-3 First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. 3 This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.\nEphesians 5:15-18 Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, 16 making the most of your time, because the days are evil. 17 So then do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,\nGalatians 6:1-8 Brethren, even if a man is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another\u2019s burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. 4 But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have reason for boasting in regard to himself alone, and not in regard to another. 5 For each one shall bear his own load. 6 And let the one who is taught the word share all good things with him who teaches. 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.\nWe Reap the Same In Kind As We Sow\nIf anyone had told David before or even right after his affair with Bathsheba (2 Sam. 11) that he would break every one of the laws of the second table of the Law, he would have denied it with all his might and replied that they were more than just a little crazy. But the laws of sowing and reaping and this law in particular, \u201cwe reap the same in kind as we sow,\u201d strongly stress our need to follow the admonition to \u201ctake heed lest we fall.\u201d\nBefore this incident was over, David:\ncoveted his neighbor\u2019s wife\u20142 Sam. 11:2, 3,\ncommitted adultery\u20142 Sam. 11:4,\ncommitted murder\u20142 Sam. 11:15,\nstole\u20142 Sam. 11:4 and,\nbore false witness\u201411:8, 21.\nDavid\u2019s downfall into sin posts a serious warning to each of us of the deceitfulness of sin and its dire consequences in the law of sowing and reaping:\nHebrews 3:13 But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called \u201cToday,\u201d lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.\nThis was just the beginning because each of these sins would be reaped within his own family.\nFoundation for this Law\nGenesis 1:20-24 Then God said, \u201cLet the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.\u201d 21 And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, \u201cBe fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.\u201d 23 And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. 24 Then God said, \u201cLet the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind\u201d; and it was so.\nGenesis 5:3 When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.\nPrinciple of Reproduction\nIn the six days of creation, God ordered everything to produce \u201cafter their kind\u201d (Gen. 1:11, 12, 21, 24-25). We all recognize that this is true in the biological and zoological world, but what is true in the physical world is also true in the spiritual world. Adam was created after the image of God and he would reproduce that image from generation to generation.\nBecause he was created for fellowship with God and to walk in dependence on Him, Adam would likewise reap the results of his actions. When he took of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he reaped the results: spiritual death in his own life and the life of his posterity. As a further consequence of his negative choice to live independently, his sinfulness was transmitted from generation to generation.\nPsalm 51:5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me.\nPsalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb; These who speak lies go astray from birth.\nRomans 5:12-18 Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned\u201413 for until the Law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those who had not sinned in the likeness of the offense of Adam, who is a type of Him who was to come. 15 But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. 16 And the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification. 17 For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ. 18 So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men.\nApart from divine intervention, the fall halted man\u2019s ability to sow and reap spiritual fruit and experience any fellowship with God. Adam reaped spiritual death (loss of fellowship with God) and began to die physically.\nPrinciple of Regeneration\nJohn 3:3-6 Jesus answered and said to him, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.\u201d 4 Nicodemus said to Him, \u201cHow can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter a second time into his mother\u2019s womb and be born, can he?\u201d 5 Jesus answered, \u201cTruly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.\u201d\n2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.\nThrough God\u2019s grace and the gift of spiritual regeneration, man gains the capacity to sow and reap spiritual fruit and reap the blessing of God on his life and in the world.\nNote the words of John 3:6, \u201cThat which is born of the flesh is flesh (this is the law of reaping the same in kind as we sow), and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit\u201d (the same law). Because of this, the natural man can only sow and reap according to the flesh. But in Christ, we become new spiritual creations, new creatures with the capacity to sow and reap of the Spirit (Gal. 6:7-8).\nWhile human good can produce some benefits in society, in families and nations, without God\u2019s Word and New Life in Christ, there are no absolutes, no solid foundation, and no spiritual capacity for the continuation of sowing good and reaping accordingly. So man faces the law of moral degeneration and decay since he reaps the same in kind as he sows.\nProclamation of this Law\nWhatever we sow, we reap; so that, if we sow good, we will reap good. This principle as stated in Galatians 6 is an absolute law .\n\u201cBe not deceived, God is not mocked.\u201d These words introduce not only the law of sowing and reaping, but the fact that we reap the same in kind as we sow. This is a warning and stresses the absolute nature of this law.\n\u201cBe not deceived\u201d is planao (planavw) \u201cto cause to wander, lead astray, deceive.\u201d It is a present passive, imperative and means, stop allowing yourself to be deceived, led astray, or never allow it to happen. The continuous present and the passive voice anticipates the constant threat and activity of our spiritual enemies seeking to wreck havoc on our spiritual walk with God. It warns and reminds us that Satan and the world system under his control is ever at work with his age-old lie, \u201cyou surely shall not die! For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God knowing good and evil\u201d (Gen. 3:4-5).\n\u201cGod is not mocked.\u201d \u201cMocked\u201d is mukterizo (mukterivzw) from mukter (muktevr), \u201cthe nose.\u201d It means \u201cto turn up the nose at, to treat with contempt, to ridicule.\u201d Man cannot ignore and treat with contempt God\u2019s truth and laws by attempting to live by his own wisdom and tactics without serious consequences.\n\u201cFor whatever.\u201d \u201cWhatever\u201d makes this law all inclusive\u2014it applies to any and everything we sow. Then, the words \u201cthis also\u201d makes the connection in kind to what we reap.\nPrinciple: Since everything reproduces after its kind, God can never be mocked. Just as no one can sow peas and produce watermelon, or breed donkeys and produce thoroughbred horses, so no one can sow evil and produce good. We cannot sow discord and produce unity. We cannot sow lies and produce truth. We cannot sow sin and produce holiness.\nIf we sow to the Spirit, we reap of the Spirit. If we sow to the flesh, we reap of the flesh. If we sow evil, we will reap evil. If we have filled our minds and hearts with what is evil, we cannot bring forth what is good.\nMatthew 12:34-35 You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart. 35 The good man out of his good treasure brings forth what is good; and the evil man out of his evil treasure brings forth what is evil.\nIf we sow indifference to God and spiritual values and priorities, we reap the fruit of indifference\u2014ignorance, hardness, greediness, futility, and frustration (Eph. 4:17-19). Here is something for us to think about:\nSow a thought, reap an act;\nSow an act, reap a habit;\nSow a habit, reap a character;\nBiblical Illustrations of this Law\nPut the trumpet to your lips! Like an eagle the enemy comes against the house of the LORD, Because they have transgressed My covenant, And rebelled against My law. 2 They cry out to Me, \u201cMy God, we of Israel know Thee!\u201d 3 Israel has rejected the good; The enemy will pursue him. 4 They have set up kings, but not by Me; They have appointed princes, but I did not know it. With their silver and gold they have made idols for themselves, That they might be cut off. 5 He has rejected your calf, O Samaria, saying, \u201cMy anger burns against them!\u201d How long will they be incapable of innocence? 6 For from Israel is even this! A craftsman made it, so it is not God; Surely the calf of Samaria will be broken to pieces. 7 For they sow the wind, And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up. 8 Israel is swallowed up; They are now among the nations Like a vessel in which no one delights. 9 For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey all alone; Ephraim has hired lovers. 10 Even though they hire allies among the nations, Now I will gather them up; And they will begin to diminish Because of the burden of the king of princes.\nVerse seven says, \u201cFor they sow the wind, And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.\u201d\nThe phrase \u201cthey sow the wind\u201d is transitional. It alludes to the futility of Israel\u2019s human solutions and strategies by which she sought to handle life and her problems, specifically, her idolatrous worship by which she was seeking to design God according to her own wishes (vss. 4-6) and her foreign policy independently of God (vss. 8-10). This she was doing in place of knowing and trusting in the Word and the true and living God (4:6).\n\u201cWind\u201d represents that which lacks substance and is, like all efforts of the flesh, futile, worthless, and of no assistance (cf. Prov. 11:28-29).\n\u201cWhirlwind\u201d represents the harvest in kind which comes from sowing the wind. \u201cThe futility (wind) which she had planted like seed would yield a crop of destruction (represented by the whirlwind). All her efforts directed toward self-preservation would be self-destructive.\u201d2\nPsalms of Promise\nPsalm 1:1-6 How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of scoffers! 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night. 3 And he will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, Which yields its fruit in its season, And its leaf does not wither; And in whatever he does, he prospers. 4 The wicked are not so, But they are like chaff which the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, Nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, But the way of the wicked will perish.\nPsalm 32:1-2 A Psalm of David. A Maskil. How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered! 2 How blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit!\nPsalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom He has chosen for His own inheritance.\nPsalm 34:8 O taste and see that the LORD is good; How blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him!\nPsalm 40:4 How blessed is the man who has made the LORD his trust, And has not turned to the proud, nor to those who lapse into falsehood.\nPsalm 41:1 For the choir director. A Psalm of David. How blessed is he who considers the helpless; The LORD will deliver him in a day of trouble.\nPsalm 84:5, 12 How blessed is the man whose strength is in Thee; In whose heart are the highways to Zion! \u2026 12 O LORD of hosts, How blessed is the man who trusts in Thee!\nPsalm 112:1 Praise the LORD! How blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who greatly delights in His commandments.\nPsalms of Warning\nPsalm 7:12-16 If a man does not repent, He will sharpen His sword; He has bent His bow and made it ready. 13 He has also prepared for Himself deadly weapons; He makes His arrows fiery shafts. 14 Behold, he travails with wickedness, And he conceives mischief, and brings forth falsehood. 15 He has dug a pit and hollowed it out, And has fallen into the hole which he made. 16 His mischief will return upon his own head, And his violence will descend upon his own pate.\nPsalm 9:15-16 The nations have sunk down in the pit which they have made; In the net which they hid, their own foot has been caught. 16 The LORD has made Himself known; He has executed judgment. In the work of his own hands the wicked is snared. Higgaion Selah.\nPsalm 10:2 In pride the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.\nPsalm 35:7-8 For without cause they hid their net for me; Without cause they dug a pit for my soul. 8 Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let the net which he hid catch himself; Into that very destruction let him fall.\nProverbs 11:18 The wicked earns deceptive wages, But he who sows righteousness gets a true reward.\nProverbs 22:8 He who sows iniquity will reap vanity, And the rod of his fury will perish.\nProverbs 26:27 He who digs a pit will fall into it, And he who rolls a stone, it will come back on him.\nEsther 7:10 they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai.\nJacob schemed to get the blessing belonging to the firstborn, and Laban later tricked him with the rights of the firstborn.\nGenesis 29:20-26 So Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed to him but a few days because of his love for her. 21 Then Jacob said to Laban, \u201cGive me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.\u201d 22 And Laban gathered all the men of the place, and made a feast. 23 Now it came about in the evening that he took his daughter Leah, and brought her to him; and Jacob went in to her. 24 Laban also gave his maid Zilpah to his daughter Leah as a maid. 25 So it came about in the morning that, behold, it was Leah! And he said to Laban, \u201cWhat is this you have done to me? Was it not for Rachel that I served with you? Why then have you deceived me?\u201d 26 But Laban said, \u201cIt is not the practice in our place, to marry off the younger before the first-born.\u201d\nReligious activity does not necessarily mean spiritual activity. We can be religious and still be sowing to the flesh. The following passage are a standing commentary on the barrenness of external religiosity or on what happens when we go through the motions of religion, but keep our hearts from God.\nIsaiah 1:1-19 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem which he saw during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. 2 Listen, O heavens, and hear, O earth; For the LORD speaks, \u201cSons I have reared and brought up, But they have revolted against Me. 3 An ox knows its owner, And a donkey its master\u2019s manger, But Israel does not know, My people do not understand.\u201d 4 Alas, sinful nation, People weighed down with iniquity, Offspring of evildoers, Sons who act corruptly! They have abandoned the LORD, They have despised the Holy One of Israel, They have turned away from Him.\n5 Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The whole head is sick, And the whole heart is faint. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head There is nothing sound in it, Only bruises, welts, and raw wounds, Not pressed out or bandaged, Nor softened with oil. 7 Your land is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire, Your fields\u2014strangers are devouring them in your presence; It is desolation, as overthrown by strangers. 8 And the daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, Like a watchman\u2019s hut in a cucumber field, like a besieged city. 9 Unless the LORD of hosts Had left us a few survivors, We would be like Sodom, We would be like Gomorrah. 10 Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the instruction of our God, You people of Gomorrah. 11 \u201cWhat are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?\u201d Says the LORD. \u201cI have had enough of burnt offerings of rams, And the fat of fed cattle. And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats. 12 When you come to appear before Me, Who requires of you this trampling of My courts? 13 Bring your worthless offerings no longer, Incense is an abomination to Me. New moon and sabbath, the calling of assemblies\u2014I cannot endure iniquity and the solemn assembly. 14 I hate your new moon festivals and your appointed feasts, They have become a burden to Me. I am weary of bearing them. 15 So when you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you, Yes, even though you multiply prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood. 16 Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight. Cease to do evil, 17 Learn to do good; Seek justice, Reprove the ruthless; Defend the orphan, Plead for the widow. 18 Come now, and let us reason together,\u201d Says the LORD, \u201cThough your sins are as scarlet, They will be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They will be like wool. 19 If you consent and obey, You will eat the best of the land; \u2026\u201d\nIsaiah 29:13 Then the Lord said, \u201cBecause this people draw near with their words And honor Me with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of tradition learned by rote, \u2026\u201d\nWe Reap in a Different Season than We Sow\n\u201cToo many believers are sowing wild oats throughout the week and then going to church on Sunday and praying for a crop failure.\u201d3 They hope their life-style won\u2019t catch up with them, but of course, it always does. As seen from Galatians 6:7, God will not be mocked by man. No man can turn up his nose at God\u2019s laws and get away with it. Sooner or later his choices will return to haunt him. What we sow, we reap, but the thing that is so deceptive is that we reap in a different season. Let\u2019s first look at the fact of this third law of the harvest from several standpoints.\nThe Foundation for this Law\nThe Creative Purpose of God\nGenesis 8:22 reads: \u201cWhile the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, And cold and heat, And summer and winter, And day and night Shall not cease.\u201d The harvest never comes immediately after planting for, while the earth abides, there is seedtime and harvest, cold and winter, etc. There are seasons to life and the harvest never comes immediately.\nRome was not built in a day. Plants don\u2019t grow overnight. Athletes don\u2019t become strong or proficient in a week. Children aren\u2019t born overnight. Wisdom isn\u2019t gained overnight, and so it goes throughout all of life.\n\u201cIn Due Time\u201d or \u201cSeason\u201d\n(1) Negatively\nDeuteronomy 32:35 Vengeance is Mine, and retribution, In due time their foot will slip; For the day of their calamity is near, And the impending things are hastening upon them.\n(2) Positively\n1 Samuel 1:20 And it came about in due time, after Hannah had conceived, that she gave birth to a son; and she named him Samuel, saying, \u201cBecause I have asked him of the LORD.\u201d\nPsalm 145:15 The eyes of all look to Thee, And Thou dost give them their food in due time.\nPsalm 104:27 They all wait for Thee, To give them their food in due season.\nGalatians 6:9 And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary.\nThe Necessity of Time and Growth in All Things\nThe following passage reminds us there is a time for everything which teaches us we can\u2019t rush the laws of God nor should we try to ignore them.\nEcclesiastes 3:1-8 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven\u20142 A time to give birth, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to uproot what is planted. 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to tear down, and a time to build up. 4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance. 5 A time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, and a time to shun embracing. 6 A time to search, and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep, and a time to throw away. 7 A time to tear apart, and a time to sew together; A time to be silent, and a time to speak. 8 A time to love, and a time to hate; A time for war, and a time for peace.\nWhile the original creation was created with apparent age and maturity, Scripture and life itself teach us that for everything else, time is needed for growth and maturity in the biological, zoological, social, spiritual, mental, athletic, and economical areas of life (compare: Gen. 1:28; 3:18; 2 Kgs. 19:29; Ps. 104:19; 147:9; Phil. 3:11-14; Heb. 5:11-14; 1 Pet. 2:2; 2 Pet. 3:18; 1 John 2:11-14, 18).\nApplications of this Law\nWithout question we reap what we sow, but the principle mankind doesn\u2019t want to face is we reap in a different season. There are several important factors here:\n(1) Because we do not see the immediate results, we often think we have gotten away with something or can, but we never do.\nEcc. 8:11-12 Because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed quickly, therefore the hearts of the sons of men among them are given fully to do evil. 12 Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and may lengthen his life, still I know that it will be well for those who fear God, who fear Him openly.\n(2) We live in a self-oriented society that says \u201cdo your own thing,\u201d or \u201cto thine own self be true.\u201d This is a society that is therefore given over to instant gratification. We have instant everything: instant tea, instant oatmeal, quick rice, TV dinners, and microwave cooking. We can jump into an automobile and either whiz across town in minutes, across most states in a few hours, or board a plane and 12 hours later be in Europe.\n(3) We watch a TV program and see family conflicts or national conflicts resolved in one hour, or at the most in a mini-series, four hours, but in reality, these things often require months and even years to resolve or change.\nThe younger generation today has the mentality of wanting and expecting to have all the material blessings and advantages their parents have. The difference is the parents often had to wait years to accumulate what they have. Young people are not willing to save, do without, and wait.\nWe want what we want when we want it which is usually right now, or preferably, yesterday. So, because we are accustomed to immediate gratification, we are too often unwilling to wait for the results of biblical sowing\u2014sowing what is good and waiting on the Lord and His timing. So we take matters into our own hands. We run ahead of the Lord. We employ our own strategies and methods:\nWe light our own firebrands to light our path (Isa. 50:11)\nBuild our own cisterns, but they are broken and hold no water (Jer. 2:13)\nWe lean on the arm of the flesh, our own ability, rather than lean on the arm of the Lord (Jer. 17:5-7)\nWe don\u2019t want to wait on the Lord! We want to reap without sowing! But the Psalmist, in his determination to wait patiently on the Lord, wrote:\nPsalm 130:5-6 I wait for the Lord, my soul does wait, And in His word do I hope. 6 My soul waits for the Lord More than the watchmen for the morning; Indeed, more than the watchmen for the morning.\nUnfortunately, because many Christians today tend to operate more on emotional sentiment rather than on biblical content, they have little or no faith and fail to sow for a later reaping or fail to have the perspective of laying up treasures in heaven. The Psalmist knew that envy, fretting over the prosperity of others, was really a matter of faith and seeing life from an eternal perspective. So he wrote:\nPsalm 37:7-9 Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; Do not fret, it leads only to evildoing. 9 For evildoers will be cut off, But those who wait for the Lord, they will inherit the land.\nIn the context of the Lord\u2019s exhortation for us to lay up heavenly treasure, we would do well to remember His words of rebuke to disciples, \u201coh men of little faith\u201d (Matt. 6:30).\nThe Law of the Harvest says, \u201cWe sow in one season; we reap in another.\u201d No harvest comes the moment the seed is planted, but it must wait for God\u2019s appointed time. This should be both a warning against sowing evil (Pr. 9:16: \u201cthe wicked is snared by the work of his own hands\u201d), and an encouragement for sowing good seed (1 Cor. 15:58: \u201cTherefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord\u201d).\nIn Faith and Patience, Sow What Is Good\nJames 5:7-8 Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious produce of the soil, being patient about it, until it gets the early and late rains. 8 You too be patient; strengthen your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.\n1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.\nPray to the Lord of Harvest and Don\u2019t Faint\nLuke 10:2 And He was saying to them, \u201cThe harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.\u201d\nLuke 18:1 Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,\nJohn 4:35-38 Do you not say, \u2018There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest\u2019? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. 36 Already he who reaps is receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for life eternal; that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true, \u2018One sows, and another reaps.\u2019 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.\nPlease note, we reap only what has been sown, but there are others who have sown.\nWait Patiently on the Lord Who Will Reward Your Labor\nPsalm 27:13-14 I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD In the land of the living. 14 Wait for the LORD; Be strong, and let your heart take courage; Yes, wait for the LORD.\nPsalm 37:7-11 Rest in the LORD and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, Because of the man who carries out wicked schemes. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; Do not fret, it leads only to evildoing. 9 For evildoers will be cut off, But those who wait for the LORD, they will inherit the land. 10 Yet a little while and the wicked man will be no more; And you will look carefully for his place, and he will not be there. 11 But the humble will inherit the land, And will delight themselves in abundant prosperity.\nPsalm 147:10-11 He does not delight in the strength of the horse; He does not take pleasure in the legs of a man. 11 The LORD favors those who fear Him, Those who wait for His lovingkindness.\nProverbs 20:22 Do not say, \u201cI will repay evil\u201d; Wait for the LORD, and He will save you.\nCompare also Isaiah 40:27-31; 49:22-23; and Lamentations 3:25-26.\nThose who wait in true faith are renewed in strength so that they can continue to serve the Lord while looking for his saving work rather than take matters into their own hands. There will come a time when all that God has promised will be realized and fulfilled. In the mean time, the believer survives by means of his integrity and uprightness (biblical character) as he trusts and rests in God\u2019s grace and power.\nWe Reap More Than We Sow\nNo fact is more significant and sobering than this one. When we sow good, we bountifully receive from the hand of God who is debtor to no man; for the harvest is always greater than the seed planted. If this were not the case, no farmer would ever plant a thing. If he only got back what germinated in the ground, he would be on the losing end and spend his life in utter futility.\nReaping more than we sow is fundamental to the laws of the harvest and this is not just true for the agricultural world, it is true for nearly every aspect of life: for the physical and the spiritual, for believers and unbelievers alike.\nThis law works in reverse as well. When we sow evil, we will generally reap more than we sowed as well.\nOf course, there are some exceptions due to the fact we live in a sin cursed world with natural and economic disasters. A farmer may sow bountifully and have his crop destroyed by drought or a tornado, or he may reap a good crop and not be able to reap a reward from it because of economic factors in his country.\nAlso, due to God\u2019s grace in this age, when there is genuine repentance and change, we may not reap the results of sin as bountifully as in Old Testament times, but the law still applies in general.\nDeclarations of this Law from Scripture\nHe who sows iniquity will reap vanity, And the rod of his fury will perish.\nThere is a kind of play on words in this passage through alliteration in the Hebrew text. \u201cIniquity\u201d is u*wl> and \u201cvanity\u201d is a*w#n.\n\u201cVanity\u201d here is better translated as \u201ccalamity\u201d or \u201ctrouble.\u201d It\u2019s the Hebrew a*w#n, \u201ctrouble, sorrow, distress, misfortune, idolatry, emptiness.\u201d \u201cThe primary meaning of this word seems to have two facets: a stress on trouble which moves on to wickedness, and an emphasis on emptiness which moves on to idolatry.\u201d4\nThe most basic meanings is \u201ctrouble.\u201d This is seen in Gen. 35:18. Just before Rachel died, she named her newborn son, Ben-oni, (son of sorrow). In Deut. 26:14 and Hosea 9:4, a*w#n is associated with death. So it is a word of calamity and adverse circumstances.\nProverbs 22:8 is telling us that when a person sows iniquity or wrong, they will reap trouble and sorrow.\nHosea 8:7 For they sow the wind, And they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; It yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.\nThis is the same in kind, but it is more. The phrase \u201cthey sow the wind\u201d is transitional. It alludes to the futility of Israel\u2019s human solutions and strategies by which she was seeking to handle life and her problems, specifically, her idolatrous worship by which she was seeking to design God according to her own wishes (vss. 4-6) and her foreign policy (vss. 8-10). This she was doing in place of knowing and trusting in the Word and the true and living God (4:6).\n\u201cWhirlwind\u201d represents the harvest in kind which comes from sowing the wind. But it also represents the concept of \u201cmore.\u201d The futility (wind) which she had planted like seed would yield a crop of destruction (represented by the whirlwind). \u201cWhirlwind\u201d is a Hebrew intensive form and means \u201ca violent whirlwind.\u201d God\u2019s warning here is that you do not just reap in kind, but you may reap much more. All her efforts directed toward self-preservation would be self-destructive. The idea then is \u201csow wind (your solutions), reap a tornado (your consequences).\u201d\nIllustrations of this Law from Scripture\nNegative Illustrations\n(1) Jacob: As a result of sowing the wind, the scheming of Rebekah and Jacob to get the family blessing (Genesis 27), Jacob and Rebekah reaped the whirlwind\u2014trouble and heartache.\nJacob was forced to flee because Esau had threatened that after his father\u2019s death, he would kill Jacob.\nRebekah had said that Jacob would only have to be gone a few days and then she would send for him. But she never saw Jacob again and he was gone for twenty years.\nJacob had schemed to get the blessing, later he would receive in kind and even more from Laban. First he received Leah in place of Rachel whom he loved.\nJacob used the skin of a kid to deceive Isaac, and it would be used against him by his sons.\n(2) David: We know the story of David and his sin with Bathsheba, but it is Nathan\u2019s indictments and judgments against David that tell the story of sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind or sowing iniquity and reaping trouble.\nThe indictment: You killed Uriah (2 Sam. 12:9).\nThe judgment: The sword will never depart from your house (12:10).\nThe indictment: You took his wife (12:9).\nThe judgment: Your wives will be taken before your eyes (12:11).\nThe indictment: You did this secretly (12:12).\nThe judgment: Your wives will be defiled openly before all Israel (12:11-12).\nThe indictment: You gave occasion to the enemies to blaspheme the Lord (12:14).\nThe judgment: Your child also born to you shall surely die (12:14).\n(3) The Tongue or Words\nJames 3:5-6 So also the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things. Behold, how great a forest is set aflame by such a small fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire, the very world of iniquity; the tongue is set among our members as that which defiles the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life, and is set on fire by hell.\nProverbs 10:19 When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable, But he who restrains his lips is wise.\nProverbs 12:13 An evil man is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, But the righteous will escape from trouble.\nProverbs 13:3 The one who guards his mouth preserves his life; The one who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.\nProverbs 18:6, 21 A fool\u2019s lips bring strife, And his mouth calls for blows. \u2026 21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit.\nProverbs 21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue Is a fleeting vapor, the pursuit of death.\nProverbs 26:28 A lying tongue hates those it crushes, And a flattering mouth works ruin.\nDavid: A Positive Illustration\nThough David did sin against the Lord, as a whole, he walked with the Lord and sowed what was good. When confronted with his sin by Nathan, he quickly confessed. This made him a man after God\u2019s own heart. Compare 1 Kings 15:5. Most of David\u2019s life was sowing good, not evil, and as a result, God continued to bless him and many of the kings of Judah for many years.\nWe Reap In Proportion to What We Sow\nThe promise and warning of Scripture is that we reap what we sow. This means that life\u2019s choices are filled with consequences both good and bad\u2014temporal and eternal. Reaping what we sow means we reap only what has been sown, we reap in kind as we sow, we reap in a different season than we sow, we reap more than we sow, but we also reap in proportion as we sow.\nIn essence, the laws of sowing and reaping mean, \u201cAs Now, So Then.\u201d Not \u201csomeday, and then I\u2019ll get started.\u201d Why is this? Because today we are becoming what we will be the rest of our lives!!\nWhile the last two laws are related, there is a very important difference. The last two laws both deal with the fact we reap more than we sow. Both deal with quantity and amount, but the previous law where the seed sown is multiplied many fold has to do with God\u2019s part, but this one with ours\u2014with human responsibility. It has to do with living by faith, with being faithful, bold, courageous, venturesome.\nLet\u2019s ask ourselves a question: \u201cHow many burglars of faith and sowing do we allow to break through the doors and windows of our lives and rob us of the challenge of sowing to the fullest?\u201d There is a sign along the Alaskan Highway that reads: \u201cChoose your rut carefully, you\u2019ll be in it for the next 200 miles.\u201d\nGod\u2019s part is that whatever is sown is multiplied many fold. Man\u2019s part is that, trusting in God\u2019s sovereign providence, mercy, and promises, he needs to sow all the good he can and leave the results to God.5\nDeclarations of This Principle\nNow this I say, he who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.\nWhile this verse is not a direct quotation from the Old Testament, it is a clear statement and summary of this principle which is found throughout the Bible. Bountiful sowing leads to bountiful reaping. Lawrence stated the principle of bountiful giving this way:\nIf you want to be rich \u2026 GIVE!\nIf you want to be poor \u2026 GRASP!\nIf you want abundance \u2026 SCATTER!\nIf you want to be needy . . HOARD!\nThe world\u2019s philosophy, that of man\u2019s wisdom, is typically just the opposite. It can be described as:\nGET ALL YOU CAN,\nCAN ALL YOU GET,\nTHEN, SIT ON THE CAN.\nThe law that \u201cwe reap in proportion to what we sow,\u201d like all the laws of the harvest, operates both negatively and positively. If we sow abundantly to the Spirit, we will reap abundantly in spiritual blessings and consequences. But if we sow abundantly to the flesh, we will reap an abundant harvest of the consequences of fleshly living\u2014a life full of the weeds of unrighteousness.\nDavid is a case in point: Because David continued to sow to the flesh, his sin snowballed. He went from coveting Bathsheba to one sin after another until he had broken every sin of the second half of the decalogue, the Ten Commandments. He sinned abundantly and reaped abundant consequences.\nHowever, the primary motivation and emphasis of this principle and promise in the Bible is toward the good. It is a spiritual law of life that is inherent in the nature of God, but one that is contrary to the nature of man. So God encourages us through a number of passages to live as children of God according to this principle and promises that our generosity will not be forgotten.\nActs 20:35 In everything I showed you that by working hard in this manner you must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He Himself said, \u2018It is more blessed to give than to receive.\u2019\nLuke 6:38 Give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they will pour into your lap. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.\nMatthew 19:29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name\u2019s sake, shall receive many times as much, and shall inherit eternal life\nProverbs 11:24-26 There is one who scatters, yet increases all the more, And there is one who withholds what is justly due, but it results only in want. 25 The generous man will be prosperous, And he who waters will himself be watered. 26 He who withholds grain, the people will curse him,\nOne of the results of this principle is that we are to be:\nZealous for good deeds (Tit. 2:14),\nReady for every good deed (Tit. 3:1),\nCareful to engage in good deeds (Tit. 3:8), and\nLearn to engage in good deeds, to meet pressing needs, that they be not unfruitful (Tit. 3:14).\nIn other words, we are to be a people who sow bountifully or generously of our lives, of our talents, time, treasures, and truth.\nFoundations for This Principle\nGod\u2019s divine essence, His character, forms the foundation and motivation for operating by this principle in life. We need to remember who God is, what He is like, and what He has promised. Not only is He omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and sovereign, but He is a loving, kind, gracious, and a giving God. It is God\u2019s nature to bless and give. The gift of His Son is the supreme illustration of this.\nSince this is the case, we can expect God to be generous with us when we echo His character through our walk with Him (cf. Rom. 8:32).\nEphesians 3:20 is a case in point:\nEphesians 3:20 Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,\nNotice carefully what the Lord is able and wants to do for us:\naccording to what we ask and even think,\nabove all we ask and think,\nabundantly above all we ask or think,\nexceeding abundantly above all we ask or think. (2 Cor. 9:8 \u201cAnd God is able to make all grace abound to you \u2026\u201d).\nMan\u2019s Part and Need\nMan needs:\nFaith and faithfulness\nLove and labor.\nObviously, since bountiful sowing is the result of what we do, we need to say a bit about our part and what is needed in us if we are going to act on this principle of sowing bountifully.\nBountiful sowing is always to be the result or the outworking of biblical insight, values, commitment, and the Spirit-filled life.\n2 Corinthians 8:3-8 For I testify that according to their ability, and beyond their ability they gave of their own accord, 4 begging us with much entreaty for the favor of participation in the support of the saints, 5 and this, not as we had expected, but they first gave themselves to the Lord and to us by the will of God. 6 Consequently we urged Titus that as he had previously made a beginning, so he would also complete in you this gracious work as well. 7 But just as you abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowledge and in all earnestness and in the love we inspired in you, see that you abound in this gracious work also. 8 I am not speaking this as a command, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity of your love also.\n2 Corinthians 9:5-6 So I thought it necessary to urge the brethren that they would go on ahead to you and arrange beforehand your previously promised bountiful gift, that the same might be ready as a bountiful gift, and not affected by covetousness. 6 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully.\n\u201cBountiful\u201d in 2 Corinthians 9:5-6 is eulogia (eulogiva) from eu, (eu) \u201cgood\u201d and logos, (logov\u201d) \u201cword.\u201d We get our word \u201ceulogy\u201d from this Greek word. It meant \u201cfair speaking, flattering speech,\u201d then \u201cpraise,\u201d and then, \u201cblessing, benediction.\u201d From this it came to mean simply \u201cblessing.\u201d\n\u201cBountiful gift\u201d is the Greek eulogia which means \u201cblessing, benefit.\u201d Why use this word? Paul probably chose eulogia here because it is a play on the word \u201ccollection,\u201d logeia, (logeiva) in 1 Corinthians 16:1.\nPrinciple: Paul wants our logeia, our collections (one of the ways we sow to the Spirit), to be a eulogia, a gift and a collection that is the result of the grace work of God and His blessing both spiritually and financially, but especially spiritually. Eulogia refers to the gift of money to be collected and sent by Corinth which, of course, was designed to be and would be a blessing to Jerusalem.\nOur sowing is to be the result of faith from singleness of vision and devotion to God. We should give because we are trusting God for eternal treasures, trusting God both to supply our present needs, and increase our ability to give and be a blessing. Of course, we should always give out of love for God and people in need, but we also give in faith because we know God has promised to supply our needs, that our giving will not be our lack. In connection with the gifts given by the Philippians to supply his needs, Paul wrote:\nPhilippians 4:19 And my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.\nOther passages pertinent here are:\nMatthew 6:21-23 for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. 22 The lamp of the body is the eye; if therefore your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!\n2 Corinthians 8:2 that in a great ordeal of affliction their abundance of joy and their deep poverty overflowed in the wealth of their liberality.\n2 Corinthians 9:6-7 Now this I say, he who sows sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he who sows bountifully shall also reap bountifully. 7 Let each one do just as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves a cheerful giver.\nA point of clarification is in order here. The analogy of sowing and reaping in 2 Corinthians 9:6 does not teach that you will get back ten fold or a hundred fold of your giving so you can live in greater and greater luxury or prosperity. In grace sowing, you give so that God is glorified and others receive a blessing. There is a promise of return, but it is to increase our seed for sowing, greater giving, and increase the harvest of our righteousness, spiritual fruit for the glory of God (cf. 2 Cor. 9:1-11).\nLife\u2019s Uncertainties\nEcclesiastes 11:4-6 He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. 5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things. 6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.\nContrary to how man typically thinks, these verses and the conditions they describe are designed to promote bountiful sowing, not the opposite which is stinginess. These verses warn about the dangers of being overly cautious which hinders generous sowing.\nThe uncertainties of life are one of the things that keep most people from giving and ministering to others when they have the opportunity. They are afraid their giving will be their lack. Who knows what the future holds. If I give, I might not be able to meet the needs of my family. But these verses are given in a context that calls for casting our bread upon the waters, for generous giving knowing that our gifts will return to us later.\nThe point here is don\u2019t try to second guess the sovereignty of God. Just trust the Lord. We can\u2019t wait for conditions to be perfect. Nor can we wait for things to be free of all risks\u2014absolutely free, absolutely safe. Instead of protecting ourselves, we have to take what appears to us as risks and live by faith.\nEcclesiastes 11:1-6 Cast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days. 2 Divide your portion to seven, or even to eight, for you do not know what misfortune may occur on the earth. 3 If the clouds are full, they pour out rain upon the earth; and whether a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, wherever the tree falls, there it lies. 4 He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap. 5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind and how bones are formed in the womb of the pregnant woman, so you do not know the activity of God who makes all things. 6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.\nWe Reap the Full Harvest\nof the Good Only if We Persevere;\nThe Evil Comes to Harvest on Its Own\nThis is a sobering principle of life. Scripture and the experience of life itself teach us that we reap the full harvest of the good only if we persevere, but evil naturally comes to harvest on its own. It doesn\u2019t need our help. This is easily illustrated in gardening. It takes perseverance in cultivation to keep the weeds out and provide for conditions that promote healthy growth and fruitful plants, but weeds will naturally grow and take over a garden without doing a single thing.\nWhen it comes to knowing God\u2019s Word, we face a number of problems:\nThere is the problem of ignorance. We need to know more of Scripture.\nThere is the problem of understanding Scripture correctly. We need to carefully and accurately handle the Word. But probably the greatest problem is our lack of application.\nWe need desperately to apply the truth we know. God\u2019s truth sets us free, but not if we fail to apply it.\nLawrence gives the following illustration of this truth:\nA large 18-wheeler was parked along a Kentucky highway. The driver was standing by the tractor from which a front wheel had been removed. A preacher stopped to see if he needed any assistance, but the trucker thanked him and said he had already sent for help. He had burned out a wheel bearing, and another was on its way. As the preacher pulled away, his eyes caught the lettering on the side of the van: Standard Oil Company of Kentucky, Lubricants Division. He had burned out a bearing\u2014hauling grease.\nMany a Christian has failed in his own life while seeking to minister to others. We do not dare let weeds grow in our own garden while we seek to hoe them out of others.\n2 Timothy 2:6 The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.\nThere is an important principle in this verse. The farmer who labors must be the first partaker of the fruits of his own garden. This is not selfish: it is survival (cf. 1 Tim. 4:15-16).\nSomehow we have the feeling that if we do things right, there should be no problems. This is not so. Even the Son of man who sowed the good seed had an enemy come along behind and sow tares (Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43). If this happened for Him, how can we expect less. Whenever the saints say, \u201cLet\u2019s rise up and build,\u201d the enemy will be right behind to rise up and oppose \u20266\nThe Principle of Perseverance\nThe key passage for this study has been Galatians 6:7-8 and other passages have added to our understanding of the concept of sowing and reaping. But it is Galatians 6:9-10 which focuses our attention on the need of perseverance with a warning, an exhortation, and a promise.\nGalatians 6:9-10 And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary. 10 So then, while we have opportunity, let us do good to all men, and especially to those who are of the household of the faith.\nAs mentioned above, anyone who has ever planted a garden knows that it cannot be planted and then forgotten. If it is, very little will come from the planting because of the many forces that work against a good harvest. A garden requires continuous labor and care in order to reap an abundant harvest. Because of the entrance of sin with the fall of Adam and Eve (Gen. 3), and because the presence of Satan and his demon forces, with every opportunity for good there is always faced an accompanying problem, the problem of opposition. This is true in the spiritual world as well as in the physical world. Whether we are sowing the seed of God\u2019s Word in the soil of human hearts or simply sowing seed in one\u2019s garden in the backyard we are faced with opposition.\nMark 4:14-20 The sower sows the word. 15 And these are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them. 16 And in a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy; 17 and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away. 18 And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word, 19 and the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. 20 And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it, and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.\nTo use another metaphor, with building we are always faced with the need for battling the forces of evil. This is illustrated graphically in the life of Nehemiah when he was leading the people in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. They had to rebuild the wall \u201cwith one hand doing the work and the other holding a weapon\u201d (cf. Neh. 4:1-23). This means the need for watchfulness and perseverance.\nWhy do we need this exhortation by the Apostle? Because of our natural tendencies to slack off and because of the actions of those spiritual enemies that stand against us. Satan sows tares right in the midst of our good sowing. Further, he attempts to get us to stop sowing or cultivating through the many problems we face that tend to produce discouragement. We usually do not see immediate results because it takes time to grow a crop. Ecclesiastes 11:1 tells us to \u201ccast your bread on the surface of the waters, for you will find it after many days.\u201d When? After many days. And sometimes we do not see results in this life at all.\nTo draw our attention to the need and the problem we face, Paul used two words to warn and encourage us against giving up in favor of perseverance.\n\u201cLet us not lose heart\u201d (enkakeo enkakevw)\nThis Greek word means \u201cto act or treat badly, wrongly,\u201d and then \u201cto cease, give up, lose heart, despair.\u201d It is used:\nIn Luke 18:1 of fainting as the only alternative to prayer.\nIn 2 Corinthians 4:1 of not fainting in the pressures of life because of the hope of experiencing Christ formed in the life by the Spirit as we behold Him in the Word (cf. 3:18).\nIn 2 Corinthians 4:16 of not fainting as the consequence of a biblical perspective of life kept alive by daily renewal and a biblical focus on the certainty of the future (see verses in context).\nAnd in 2 Thess. 3:13 to exhort the Thessalonian believers against growing weary in doing good.\n\u201cIf we do not grow weary\u201d (ekluo ekluvw)\nThis word is used only in the passive voice which points to the impact of something on one\u2019s life which causes them to give up. This word was used of:\nThe waist and meant \u201cbe ungirded\u201d (so used in an early church writing called the Didache) and so unprepared. It\u2019s the opposite of 1 Peter 1:13, \u201cgird up your loins.\u201d\nBecoming faint of soul, weary or slack, give out, lose moral courage (Heb. 12:3, 5; Deut. 20:3 [Septuagint]).\nGrowing physically weary or faint from hunger (Mark 8:3).\nIt seems the first word stresses the idea of discouragement, a failure of the will. The second word stresses failure in spiritual strength.\nReaping is related to the sowing, not only in the matter of the quality of the seed, but also in regard to the quantity sown (2 Cor. 9:6). But the quantity sown is related to the concept of endurance through the long haul. While diligence and perseverance in the present will produce proportionate abundance later, Paul is challenging us to remember that laxity and fainting now produce proportionate poverty later (2 Pet. 1:8f).\n\u201cFor in due time\u201d is lit. \u201cin its own time.\u201d This is the harvest time. Harvest time has its own time. This is God\u2019s appointment, and is neither to be hastened nor delayed by the act of any of His creatures. The reference is to a fixed relation between seed-time and harvest; it carries on the idea of sowing and reaping.\nA father and two children, a boy of eight and a girl of ten years, all good swimmers, entered the waters of the Atlantic at a New Jersey seashore resort a few summers ago. When some distance from shore, they became separated and the father realized they were being carried out to sea by the tide. He called out to the little girl: \u2018Mary, I am going to shore for help. If you get tired, turn on your back. You can float all day on your back. I\u2019ll come back for you.\u2019\nBefore long, many searchers in boats were scurrying over the face of the Atlantic Ocean hunting for one small girl, while hundreds of people to whom the news had spread waited anxiously on shore. It was four hours before they found her, far from land. She was calmly swimming on her back and was not at all frightened. Cheers and tears of joy and relief greeted the rescuers with their precious burden as they came to land.\nThe child took it calmly. She said, \u2018Daddy said he would come for me, and that I could float all day, so I swam and floated, because I knew he would come.\u20197\n\u201cIn due time\u201d refers to a right, proper, or a favorable time. The emphasis is on the quality of time and the things that characterize the time as: a time for harvest (Matt. 13:30; Acts 14:17; Gal. 6:9), punishment (Matt. 8:29), discharging duties (Luke 12:42), opportunity for doing (Matt. 26:18; Gal. 6:10; Eph. 5:16), or of a time suitable for a special purpose as in temptation (cf. Luke 4:13).\nNote the contrast in the use of the Greek word kairos (kairov\u201d), \u201ctime, opportunity.\u201d In verse 9 it is used of the season for harvest, and in verse 10 where it is translated \u201copportunity,\u201d it is used of the season for sowing. To miss or fail in one is to miss or fail in the other.\nThe apostle also stresses the importance and nature of sowing by the use of different terms for doing good.\n(1) \u201cIn doing good\u201d (vs. 9) is a combination of one word for \u201cdoing, executing, producing,\u201d (poieo poievw) and another word which means \u201cgood\u201d (kalos kalov\u201d). Literally it is \u201cdoing what is beautiful, helpful, beneficial.\u201d\n(2) \u201cDo good\u201d (vs. 10) combines two different sets of words, synonyms, to drive home the point. The verb means \u201cbe active, work effectively, accomplish, carry out\u201d (ergazomai ergavzomai), and the noun used refers to what is intrinsically good, valuable, fit, useful (agathos agaqo\u201d).\nThe need is perseverance in sowing. It\u2019s seldom easy, and sometimes we don\u2019t see the fruit of our labors in this life. Hebrews 11:33-39 speaks of those who were severely persecuted for their faith, but they persevered because they looked for eternal rewards as sojourners and pilgrims (see Heb. 11:13-16). These, we are then told, \u201chaving gained approval through their faith, did not receive what was promised,\u201d that is, in this life. A wonderful illustration of this truth is found in the life of John Wycliffe.\nYou and I have an English Bible in our possession largely because of a man named John Wycliffe. He was known not only as a builder, producing the first English text of the Bible, but also as a fighter. What a leader! When he died, his enemies burned him at the stake and took the ashes of his body and sprinkled them over the Thames River in London. \u201cForever, we\u2019re rid of Wycliffe!\u201d his enemies must have thought. They were wrong. The product of his labors, the English Bible, is with us today because he did more than fight. He stayed at the task.8\nWycliffe never saw the fruit of his sowing, but he persevered in faith and we today enjoy the product of his labors. But where does perseverance come from? It comes from knowing God through the Word and leaning on His promises by faith. It ultimately boils down to faith and staying focused on the Lord and His person, plan, promises, and purposes as given to us in Scripture.\nRomans 15:4 For whatever was written in earlier times was written for our instruction, that through perseverance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.\nJames 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.\nPsalm 138:8 The Lord will accomplish what concerns me; Thy lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Thy hands.\nWe Can\u2019t do Anything About Last\nYear\u2019s Harvest, But We Can About This Year\u2019s\nLife is full of consequences both good and bad. Life is full of important choices because every choice has a consequence of some kind and to some degree. Actually, the most important choices are often the ones that seem small by comparison, but these are the ones which may either protect us from evil or expose us to choices that have tremendous repercussions (cf. Prov. 5:8-9; 6:21-24; 7:1-10 and Luke 16:10).\nBut how do we handle it when last year\u2019s harvest is not so good, when we have fumbled the ball or failed? The tendency is to let our failure keep us from positive sowing today. What we must understand and act on is this final law of the harvest\u2014we cannot do anything about last year\u2019s harvest, but we can about this year\u2019s.\nThis law translates into at least four important concepts that we need to understand and apply if we are going to be able to act on this law. Let me summarize them and then we will look at each one in more detail.\n(1) We cannot do anything about last year\u2019s harvest.\n(2) We must learn to live with the consequences of our failures.\n(3) We must commit ourselves to this year\u2019s harvest.\n(4) We must not judge our harvest by the standards of the world and its ideas of success.\nWe Cannot Do Anything About Last Year\u2019s Harvest\nWhatever we did last year, last month, last week, even yesterday is over and past. There are no time machines to take us back so we can change what we did yesterday. Nothing we do today can in any way change the record of what was sown and what was or will be reaped as a consequence. It is either a harvest that will be worthy of praise or burning\u2014or perhaps portions of both\u2014but whatever was produced stands as the record of the lives we live on this earth. The problem with all too many Christians is that they are not forgetting the past and reaching on to what is before (Philippians 3:13-14).\nIf we failed to produce a crop worthy of the Lord\u2019s praise last year our brooding and wallowing in self-pity for having wasted this time will only cause us to fail to produce anything glorifying to the Lord this year. If we did use the opportunities the Lord gave us and produced a harvest of good things, we cannot rest on our laurels. This is another year; and just because the Holy Spirit led and blessed last year, as we were obedient to Him and the Word, does not mean that we automatically will produce anything good this year.9\nWe Must Learn to Live With the Consequences of Our Failures\nWhen people believe they are failures or that their failures (evil sowing) forever ruin their chances for success and marks them for life, it neutralizes them and wipes out their ability to use their life and the gifts God has given them.\nBut how do we avoid this? By the following:\nBy confessing our failures to God (1 John 1:9; Ps. 32:5). This wipes the slate clean.\nBy knowing and resting in the fact we are forgiven through Christ and can move ahead for the Lord and in life regardless of the past (Ps. 32:1-8; 51:1-13).\nBy learning from our failures: use them as back doors to success (Psa. 119:59, 67, 71). The principle is we need to learn from our failures (Heb. 5:8).\nBy forgetting the past (triumphs and failures) so we can press on for the future with renewed commitment to God\u2019s will (Phil. 3:13-14; Luke 9:62).\nBy seeing and using the trials caused by our failures as character builders. \u201cThe tests of life are to make, not break us. Trouble may demolish a man\u2019s business but build up his character. The blow at the outward man may be the greatest blessing to the inner man.\u201d10 Again consider Ps. 119:67, 71 with Jam. 1:2-4; 1 Pet. 1:6-7.\nAs Lawrence mentioned, brooding and wallowing in self-pity for having wasted some part of one\u2019s life will only cause us to fail to produce anything glorifying to the Lord in the year ahead. Therefore:\nWe Must Commit Ourselves to This Year\u2019s Harvest\nWe must press on in our lives by sowing for the future and for the Lord. Whether we did or did not produce effectively in last year\u2019s harvest, we must neither sit around in self-pity or guilt, or sit on our laurels. We must press on toward the upward call of God in Christ. The following passages illustrate what we need to do by way of pressing on whether we have experienced victory and growth, or failure, or a lack of growth.\nPhilippians 3:14-20 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; 16 however, let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained. 17 Brethren, join in following my example, and observe those who walk according to the pattern you have in us. 18 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;\nHebrews 5:11-6:8 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.\n1 Therefore leaving the elementary teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, 2 of instruction about washings, and laying on of hands, and the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. 3 And this we shall do, if God permits. 4 For in the case of those who have once been enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and have been made partakers of the Holy Spirit, 5 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, 6 and then have fallen away, it is impossible to renew them again to repentance, since they again crucify to themselves the Son of God, and put Him to open shame. 7 For ground that drinks the rain which often falls upon it and brings forth vegetation useful to those for whose sake it is also tilled, receives a blessing from God; 8 but if it yields thorns and thistles, it is worthless and close to being cursed, and it ends up being burned.\nHebrews 12:5-14 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, \u201cMy son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by Him; 6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives.\u201d 7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. 12 Therefore, strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed. 14 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.\nLuke 22:31-34 \u201cSimon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; 32 but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers.\u201d 33 And he said to Him, \u201cLord, with You I am ready to go both to prison and to death!\u201d 34 And He said, \u201cI say to you, Peter, the cock will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.\u201d\nWe Must Not Judge Our Harvest By the Standards of the World\nIt is hard to face failure because it is so ugly and devastating, but our failures can become like a ladder to success. We often sing a great old hymn, \u201cVictory in Jesus,\u201d and have a hard time admitting that the road to victory is often filled with speed bumps, pot holes, accidents, and detours.\nIn his book, Failure, The Back Door to Success, Erwin Lutzer writes:\nPerhaps we have forgotten that not many wise, noble, and mighty are chosen by God. We judge ourselves and others by a false standard.\nA few noble, wise, and gifted are called. But they are exceptions. God usually chooses the weak, the ordinary, and the despised. Why, then, do so many of us believe we are failures? Perhaps we have a totally false notion of success \u2026 11\nSuccess comes in being obedient to the Lord and growing in character like the Lord Jesus, not in numbers, names, and noses, or position, power, prestige, and possessions, or activities, abilities, and acceptance by people. If we judge the Lord on the basis of His possessions, acceptance, names and number of noses that followed Him, He would be a failure.\nBut in our world, people typically use the wrong yardstick. They measure success by things like who they know, by comparing results, personal gifts and abilities, clothes, cars, houses, popularity, and fame.\nConcerning results and abilities, I can remember when in seminary going to the mail room where we usually got our blue books with the results of our tests. Listening to the response of guys to their grades provided a good illustration of this. You could often hear something like this. One says, \u201cI got an A,\u201d while the other one says, \u201cHe gave me an F.\u201d Notice how we are quick to take credit for our successes and to blame others for our failure.\nBut we can have everything that the world thinks makes us a success, and still be a huge failure in the eyes of God.\nThere is another class of failures: those who mistakenly believe they are successes! They may earn an honest living and be fine supporters of the church. They unconsciously (or sometimes all too consciously) consider themselves examples for others to follow. Yet they do not realize that from God\u2019s perspective they are failures. One man put it this way: \u201cI climbed the ladder of success only to discover that my ladder was leaning against the wrong wall!\u201d12\nWe come then to the same truth emphasized in the sixth law, namely we must forget about the past and concentrate on that which is at hand. The \u201cIllinois Medical Journal\u201d carried an article that states why this (learning to forget the past, etc.) is so important.\nThere are two days in every week about which we should not worry\u2014two days which should be kept from fear and apprehension.\nIt is not the experience of Today that drives men mad\u2014it is remorse or bitterness for something which happened Yesterday and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring. Let us, therefore, journey but one day at a time.13\nActually, by taking care of today we provide for tomorrow\u2014or at least prepare for it. The call of Scripture is \u201cToday, if you will hear his voice, Do not harden your hearts as when they provoked Me, As in the day of trial in the wilderness.\u201d The children of Israel miserably failed and wandered about in the wilderness for forty years because they failed to daily take care of their hearts so that they could keep their eyes on the Lord and trust in Him. The trials they faced were opportunities for growth and the glory of God, but because they failed to daily discipline their lives for godliness, they spent their lives going in circles in the wilderness (cf. 1 Tim. 4:7b).\nThe \u201cWar Cry\u201d magazine reminds us of an important principle. \u201cA loose wire give out no musical note; but fasten the ends, and the piano, the harp, or violin is born. Free steam drives no machine, but hamper and confine it with piston and turbine and you have the great world of machinery made possible. The unhampered river drives no dynamos, but dam it up and we get power sufficient to light a great city. So our lives must be disciplined if we are to be of any real service in this world.\u201d14\nWhat are the tests of life? They are tools in the hand of God designed to shape us into the character of Christ. Their design is not to break us, but make us by conforming us into His image. Again, while we should never want to fail, we all do and we need to learn to use our failures as stepping stones to growth and sowing a harvest for the glory of God.\nWe cannot control the length of our life,\nbut we can control its width and depth.\nWe cannot control the contour of our countenance,\nbut we can control its expression.\nWe cannot control the other person\u2019s annoying habits,\nbut we can do something about our own.\nWe cannot control the distance our head is above the ground,\nbut we can control the height of the contents we feed into it.\nGod help us do something about what we can control\nand leave all else in the hands of God!15\n1 John Lawrence, Life\u2019s Choices, Multnomah Press, Portland, 1982, pp. 22-23.\n2 Robert B. Chisholm Jr., The Bible Knowledge Commentary, OT edition, John F. Walvoord, Roy B. Zuck, Editors, Victor Books, Wheaton, IL, p. 1397.\n3 Lawrence, p. 47.\n4 R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Word Book of the Old Testament, Vol. 1, Moody Press, Chicago, 1980, p. 48.\n8 Bible Illustrations for Windows, Parsons Technology, electronic format, 1990-1994.\n9 Lawrence, p. 102.\n11 Erwin W. Lutzer, Failure, The Back Door to Success, Moody Press, Chicago, 1988, p. 15.\n12 Lutzer, p. 17.\n13 Lawrence, pp. 111-112.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 521, "original_length": 90337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bid.robertedwardauctions.com/bids/bidplace?itemid=50715", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:PMGRNNNFZ6Q6JODKQNZIJLLRAYY7YJWK", "length": 4424, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "bid.robertedwardauctions.com", "title": "Login Register", "raw_content": "Lot # 1809: Rare Jake Beckley Handwritten Letter and Signature Example - Full JSA and Beckett LOAs\nJake Beckley handwritten letter and cut signature example dating from circa 1912. Jake Beckley's signature is one of the rarest of all Hall of Famers. This is the first Beckley signature we have ever offered and there are probably fewer than five known examples. The rarity of Beckley's signature is twofold. During his active playing career (1888-1907), autograph collectors were few and far between. Also, although Beckley was an an outstanding hitter, he played in relative obscurity. He never played on a pennant-winning team and only once did one of his club's finish as high as second place. Most important; however, is the fact that Beckley died in 1918 at age 50, but wasn't elected to the Hall of Fame until 1971, so few, if any, collectors sought his signature during that 53-year span. The offered piece is unique in that consists of a single page of a multipage Beckley handwritten letter to which a cut signature has been affixed along the base. Affixed to both the cut and letter are clipped periodical portrait images of Beckley, a periodical clipping showing Beckley as the career leader in put outs at first base, and a Beckley T206 tobacco card, all of which obscure portions of the text. The letter has been affixed to a cardboard backing that displays both paper residue and paper loss on the reverse, indicating that it was removed from a scrapbook.\nThe undated letter page, written on a sheet of lined paper, features baseball content, as Beckley appears to be touting a prospect. Because portions of the text are obscured by the attachments and some of Beckley's handwriting is difficult to make out, only a partial transcription is possible:\nGeo. Huff scout for the Cubs has seen him work and ask me to give Charley Murphy a chance at him also Bob ____ scout for Detroit has seen him work and for me to give Jennings a chance. You can ask any manager in this league what they think of Walsh. Bob ____ has been with me for a week or more he left for Salt Lake City this evening. Comiskey. . . .friend to take Walsh and ___ ____ you will never regret. . . .\nAll of the text is boldly scripted in black fountain pen and grades \"9/10.\" Affixed to the base of the letter is a cut portion of \"The Mark Twain\" hotel stationery (Hannibal, Missouri) that features the signature of \"J P Beckley\" and the date (the year is clearly 1912, but the day or month that precedes it is difficult to make out; possibly \"2\" or \"9\"). Beckley's signature has been beautifully rendered in black fountain pen and grades \"9.\" (It must be noted that PSA/DNA, JSA, and Beckett have each examined this piece and all three authentication companies are in agreement that the text of the letter is entirely in Beckley's hand; however, PSA/DNA cannot authenticate the signature example and because it is attached to the letter, it therefore declined to provide an LOA for the piece.)\nBeckley was born in Hannibal, Missouri, and lived there for much of his life before moving to Kansas City in 1912. Following his retirement from professional baseball, Beckley remained active in the game, playing both in the minors and for semi-pro and amateur clubs almost to the time of his death. He also coached at William Jewell College and umpired for the independent Federal League in 1913. Beckley, known during his playing days as \u201cEagle Eye,\u201d was one of many players whose career bridged two centuries. He began his Major League career in 1888 as a member of the Pittsburgh Alleghenys and ended it twenty years later, in 1907, with the St. Louis Cardinals. During that span he batted over .300 on thirteen separate occasions and finished his career with a .308 lifetime average. He held the record for games played at first base (2,377) for decades until it was eclipsed by Eddie Murray, but still holds the top mark for putouts by a first baseman (23,709). The letter (6 x 6.75 inches; visibile dimensions) displays a few small edge tears and is otherwise in apparent Excellent condition. The cut (6 x 1.75 inches) is in apparent Excellent to Mint condition. The Beckley T206 tobacco card is in apparent Fair condition. Encapsulated by James Spence/SGC, with the text and signature certified as \"Authentic.\" Full LOAs from James Spence/JSA, and Steve Grad and Brian Sobrero/Beckett Authentication Services. Reserve $2,500. Estimate (open).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://billyrobb.wordpress.com/2017/04/22/free-range-education/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:30Z", "digest": "sha1:YYIXKQ5DG4XJG763XMR7DYJTEIIBREUD", "length": 6708, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "billyrobb.wordpress.com", "title": "Free-Range Education \u2013 Billy Robb", "raw_content": "Free-Range Education\nWhy do we still learn like this?\nLost in the endless debate about education is an unavoidable reality: Kids kind of hate school.\nAnd for good reason. From age 5, kids are forced to sit down, shut up, and follow orders for the next 13 years. At the end of the day, they are judged and compared with each other based on their levels of compliance and rote memory.\nBy high school, students are either bored out of their minds, rebellious, or stressed out. Responding in kind to the pressures and requirements of school.\nNot all students are totally miserable. They may love their friends and teachers, and even a few of their subjects. But coercion gets old fast. Most kids can\u2019t wait for the end of the school day. Most kids live for recess or lunch, or summer break. Or graduation day, freedom at last.\nAnother unavoidable reality: Teachers kind of hate school, too.\nTeachers are frazzled and frustrated. Overworked, underpaid, disrespected. Some take out their frustration on powerless kids. Others give up.\nNot all teachers are miserable all the time. They may love their students, watching them learn new stuff. They may love their course material, or their colleagues. But most teachers resent the taxing of their personal time, the misbehavior or apathy of certain students, the outside efforts to influence what they do in the classroom, the existence of standardized testing.\nEveryone seems to acknowledge that education is so important. Crucial. Yet everyone secretly knows that teachers are glorified baby-sitters, and the kids who do well in school are the ones who best play the game. Everyone knows you forget most of what you learn in school. Everyone knows that at least a majority of important life skills are learned outside the classroom walls.\nSo goes the \u201cun-schooling\u201d movement, which has captured my attention lately.\nI\u2019ve had this growing feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with the way we operate schools, so I tried to find a book on the history of education. Most of the books I found started with the assumption that public education, the standard quo, is the end-all, be-all. To make school better we need more money into more of the same. There are lots of versions of: History of the Ways Idiots Tried to Screw Up Public Education. And a few versions of: History of the Heroic Efforts to Improve Public Education.\nOne book challenged the core assumption. Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life. In the book, developmental psychologist Peter Gray asks the original question: Why do we force kids to sit in rooms, packaged by age, shuffle them through pre-planned lessons, and then measure individuals against each other?\nGray looks at primitive societies to theorize about our evolved learning methods. In primitive societies, kids just play all the time. But their play imitates the adult behavior they see around them. In the process of growing up, without any formal lessons, children learn complicated sets of survival skills and cultural behaviors.\nPlay and fun. Our hardwired learning functions, which happen to be precisely what is stifled in school, so our kids can get to \u201cwork\u201d at learning. Not only is play stifled in school, but \u201cwork\u201d is brought home, killing even more opportunities for play and fun.\nOne example. In play, kids in primitive societies interact in all different age groups. The older kids nurture and protect younger kids and model behavior incrementally closer to adult behavior. In today\u2019s structured learning environments, students interact in strict peer-groups, leaving them unprotected from bullies, unable to mimic more mature behavior, not required to nurture or protect younger kids.\nThe types of skills we need in modern society are drastically different from a hunter-gatherer society, but our hardwired learning functions are the same. Unfortunately, today\u2019s coercive and highly controlled environments deprive kids of nature\u2019s programmed curriculum of exploring curiosities.\nThe Sudbury Valley School is an example of the un-schooled philosophy taken seriously. They have no classes, no grades, no curriculum, no nothing. They have a bunch of resources like computers, books, fields, playgrounds, etc. And they let the kids roam, with adults present if they wish to interact or ask for any guidance with anything. But they don\u2019t have to do anything they don\u2019t want to do. It\u2019s truly free-range. Everything is self-directed by the students. If the students want a diploma, they arrange a thesis project with one of the staff members at the school. All decisions made by the school, even the hiring and firing of \u201cteachers,\u201d are done through a vote in which the students participate.\nApparently, the graduates of this school have done well in society, are currently studying in normal universities, doing perfectly well as professionals in all kinds of fields. Yes, even as doctors and lawyers.\nMost educators and parents couldn\u2019t tolerate this level of \u201cun-control.\u201d But it\u2019s worth taking some time to reflect on that gut-reaction. Why do we feel the need to dictate our kids\u2019 lives so completely? Are we worried they won\u2019t learn how to do long division or format a five paragraph essay? That they won\u2019t learn the capitals of all 50 states? That the entire school would sit around playing video games all day?\nWhy don\u2019t we trust kids with the responsibility of freedom when, in other cultures and at different historical time periods, kids have shown the ability to embrace freedom and thrive?\nKids today are controlled more than ever before. They are also suffering from anxiety and depression, more than ever before. Our future world is more unpredictable than ever before. Maybe it\u2019s time to let go a bit.\nPersonally, I hesitate to fully embrace this movement. It seems too radical. Too extreme on the opposite end. I like the idea of empowering students with more freedom, choice in their learning, and responsibility. But I still cling to the belief that kids today need more directed mentorship.\nEither way, kudos for innovation. This is a genuine reform movement for a system in desperate need of change. The un-schooling folks are onto something better than the public-education stalwarts, who want to pour cash into a busted vehicle.\nIf you are interested in Gray\u2019s take on the history of education, read a short blog post here: A Brief History of Education.\nAuthor BillyPosted on April 22, 2017 April 22, 2017 Categories UncategorizedTags free-range education, Sudbury Valley School, Unschooling movement\nPrevious Previous post: Civilize the Immigration System\nNext Next post: America in a Nutshell: K-Cups", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 8650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bishopsvillage.com/products/leadership_101_collection-64", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:16Z", "digest": "sha1:AE5C3J26DFSYJJSFLQPZ7GUMW73SZID3", "length": 207, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "bishopsvillage.com", "title": "Leadership 101 Collection | Bishop's Village", "raw_content": "This five part series will take through some of the core principles that I teach about leadership. It's a deep dive into the art of leadership and the mechanics of getting a thriving business off the ground.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blitzhangar.com/en/tank/t-54", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TIMD7DGYD44UT53HJNX6LXDINW4TOKGG", "length": 299, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blitzhangar.com", "title": "T-54 \u2014 Tier IX Soviet medium tank | Blitz Hangar", "raw_content": "T-54 \u2014 Tier IX Soviet medium tank\nVIIIT-54 ltwt.\nThe first prototype was constructed at the end of 1944. After successful trials in 1945\u20131947 the T-54 mod. 1947 was adopted for service. 713 vehicles were constructed before production was phased out. In 1949 production of a new variant was launched.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 401, "original_length": 6556, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.bankofhodlers.com/tag/binancechain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:52Z", "digest": "sha1:LZPVFRIXLNGTJ64BHO2WRLWZJ6IN7RJI", "length": 456, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.bankofhodlers.com", "title": "binancechain Archives -", "raw_content": "Tag: binancechain\nTransactions are the backbone of the cryptocurrency market, and most of the world\u2019s cryptocurrency trading is done through centralized exchanges. Due to KYC and Anti-Money Laundering regulations, exchanges are often required to seek users\u2019 identities for capital deposits, creating centralized record-collection and data-storage of personal information which is quite opposite to the principles of decentralization. ... Continue Reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 1854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.clarifai.com/5-ai-definitions-every-retailer-needs-to-know", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:07Z", "digest": "sha1:ULG4C3A424V7LBRZPYQMCQWZCN7KRODO", "length": 3232, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "blog.clarifai.com", "title": "5 AI Definitions Every Retailer Needs to Know", "raw_content": "More and more retailers are turning to artificial intelligence to solve problems and optimize business - from merchandisers seeking to develop better planograms to e-commerce managers wanting to help shoppers find product faster. In fact, as we shared in our blog post on retail AI stats, global annual spending on AI by retailers is estimated to reach $7.3 billion by 2022.\nWith this in mind, people from a variety of areas in the retail sector will need to familiarize themselves with key AI terms. In this post, I\u2019ve given a debrief on 5 terms, but be sure to download our AI glossary for even more!\nAt its most basic, computer vision enables computers to see. It is a form of AI that is able to take in and understand what\u2019s in photos and videos. Often, this information is then used to automate various tasks. From a retailer perspective, that might mean seeing all the user-generated content shared with your brand to moderate out inappropriate ones or recommending similar products when one is out of stock.\nThis stands for application programming interface and is the set of commands, functions, protocols, and objects that allow developers to easily create their own apps. For example, the Clarifai API can be used to develop computer vision solution to moderate images.\nOn a technical level, a model is a processing block that takes inputs, such as images or videos, and returns predicted concepts. What does that mean practically though? It\u2019s basically what you train your AI to do. For example, we have multiple computer vision models that have been built using data to recognize general concepts and niche ones like the faces of over 10,000 celebrities, decipher demographic information, or even categorize based on colors or textures.\nModels are important for retailers because they play a role in developing the app or action they want the AI to take. For example, if you want your AI to auto-tag your product images to make searching easier, you\u2019d likely want a model that has been specially built to recognize your products - whether that\u2019s something pre-built that fits your needs or custom training a model.\nHave you ever dropped the URL of an image into Google\u2019s search bar to find similar ones? Well, congrats: you\u2019ve used visual search! For retailers wanting to ensure they\u2019re able to get the right product in front of the right consumer at the right time, visual search is key. For example, Homes.com uses Clarifai\u2019s visual search to connect potential homebuyers with houses based on images they upload into their system.\nThis is a form of labeling. Segmentation models provide an exact outline of objects within an image. This is particularly useful when you need to ignore the background. For example, if you\u2019re a fashion retailer with a bunch of UGC OOTD (outfit of the day) photos with varied backgrounds, you might use segmentation to pick out the specific items, like a dress or hat.\nWe are only just beginning to see the effects of AI on retail. As this technology continues to be adopted and evolve, those in the retail industry will need to do so alongside it. Taking the time now to understand this technology better, means you can be informed when making business decisions around AI in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.mechanicallandscapes.com/2012/12/02/282-east-lancs-railway-photo-locations-7-ramsbottom-station/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:53Z", "digest": "sha1:APV2VJS6XP6RTMQL6PMPZVKIFZ5MJVLS", "length": 1817, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.mechanicallandscapes.com", "title": "#282 \u2013 East Lancs Railway Photo Locations 7 \u2013 Ramsbottom Station \u2013 Mechanical Landscapes", "raw_content": "#282 \u2013 East Lancs Railway Photo Locations 7 \u2013 Ramsbottom Station\nRamsbottom station is a nice little to photograph, as it\u2019s got some nice period features, especially since the addition of the wrought iron canopy over the up platform. This is adjacent to the main station buildings, and combined with the water tank and general platform paraphenalia, gives plenty of potential.\nThe station is a passing point for the up and down trains, and so trains will often spend some time in the station, which gives plenty of opportunities for photography. Arguably the most popular spot is on the footbridge which links the two platforms, either looking down onto the trains in the station, or looking the other way (north) at the departing or arriving trains.\nDuring the winter months, when night falls early, the station is also a decent spot for night photography, but this only tends to be during galas when the trains run a litle later than normal. Either platform will do, it all depends on which way the engines are facing.\nIt\u2019s also a good spot to indulge in some people photography, as the crew will probably be out and about, sometimes taking on water which is always worth watching.\nIf you get off at Ramsbottom for a bit, do have a walk up the hill into the town, and I can recommend the chippy half way up the hill on the left hand side \u2013 it\u2019s always busy but very good!\nJust north of the station, on the east side of the track, is a small garden area which runs alongside the track for a bit. It\u2019s normally fairly well populated with photographers, especially on event days, but is worth a look.\nEast Lancashire RailwayRamsbottomTornado\nPrevious Post #281 \u2013 East Lancs Railway Photo Locations 6 \u2013 Brooksbottom Tunnel\nNext Post #283 \u2013 East Lancs Railway Photo Locations 8 \u2013 Stubbins\nNice blue-hour shot at the top.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 5925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.naturalfrenchsoap.com/what-is-eczema-eczema-symptoms-and-natural-treatments/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NNL2ELI6JWHBQ5ME7PLDEFIOZS435YJV", "length": 3922, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.naturalfrenchsoap.com", "title": "What Is Eczema? - Eczema Symptoms and Natural Treatments - SOAPEDIA BLOG", "raw_content": "Eczema is a chronic skin condition in which the skin becomes very itchy, red, and dry. Sometimes skin can even become cracked if left untreated. Believe it or not, about 30% of all skin-related doctor visits in Western Europe are due to eczema. Doctors even believe that eczema cases are rising each year, but the cause remains unknown.\nEczema is persistently itchy, and a rash will usually appear after the itching begins. Common areas affected include the face, back of the knees, hands, wrists, and feet. Other areas may also be affected.\nAreas of your skin affected by eczema will be dry, scaly, and sometimes thickened. Lighter skinned people will experience a reddish rash, which may turn brown, while darker skinned people may experience a lighter or darker area due to eczema.\nIf you have been scratching your skin, you may also experience inflamed areas that develop oozing blisters. Those with eczema often experience more itching at night than during the day. You may also experience raised bumps on the skin that have a reddish colour, and itch.\nIf you notice that your skin is becoming persistently dry, or you are experiencing itching skin at night, please take action immediately. Eczema will only worsen if left untreated. You may want to visit your general practitioner, or a dermatologist to learn more. You can also try natural remedies for eczema such as using natural soaps, lotions, and bath products.\nEczema may be caused by allergies or asthma. It can also be caused by external irritants, which is why it is so important to use natural products, and soaps. Also, your skin\u2019s moisture barrier may be another culprit of eczema. If the natural moisture barrier is damaged, it will allow germs to enter, while moisture escapes. This is yet another reason to use natural products that help your skin to retain its natural moisture.\nEczema Natural Treatment\nIf you or a loved one suffer from eczema or chronic dry skin, you know how important it is to find a natural remedy. Although prescription medications can offer help, they can also cause unwanted side effects, which often outweigh their benefits. Thankfully, there are many natural remedies for eczema and dry skin, which you can try. Here are a few of the best ideas:\nIf you\u2019re a fan of taking hot, steaming showers, this may be stripping your skin of its natural moisture barrier. Opt instead for a quicker, cooler shower, to preserve your skin\u2019s moisture barrier.\nIf you\u2019re scrubbing your skin with a scrub in the shower, you\u2019ll want to toss that out, too. Remember, eczema prone skin is very sensitive and dry. Instead, try a gentle, natural soap that helps you to lock in moisture, and soothes your irritated skin.\nWinter weather may also be to blame for your itchy, dry skin. If you love to turn up your heat in the winter, this may also be robbing your skin of its much-needed moisture. Instead, try turning up the humidity by using a humidifier. This can help to seal in your skin\u2019s natural moisture and preserve your sensitive skin.\nVarious soaps using natural oils, and herbs are another excellent way to calm your skin and experience fast relief. Natural ingredients like honey, lavender, and olive oil can help to pacify your skin so that you can relax, and enjoy life.\nWe at Natural French Soap are proud to offer Aleppo soap, Savon de Marseille cubes, and Honey, Olive, and Lavender oval soaps, along with a range of beautiful French milled soaps, which have been proven to help calm the effects of eczema, and chronic dry skin. Try our eczema soaps, or feel free to reach out with any questions or comments you have in the box below. We\u2019d be happy to assist you!\nIf you enjoyed this article, the greatest compliment you can give me is to share this with others. Besides, if you found it interesting, why keep it to yourself? Please share using the button below, I really appreciate it!\neczemasensitive skinskincare\tLeave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 7504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.nissan-global.com/EN/?p=1842", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VIGUTITG76UDDVGNHU5XVN2WQENTE7YF", "length": 3625, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.nissan-global.com", "title": "Best In Show: Part 1", "raw_content": "TOP > Nissan Channel 23 Blog > Best In Show: Part 1\nBest In Show: Part 1\nNissan designer Francois Bancon takes the Global Media Center for a tour of the competition at the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show.\nFrancois Bancon: \u201cThis is after the quality issue they were having in the U.S. two years ago \u2013 which is a big deal for the company \u2013 the earthquake, the tsunami in Japan, the Thailand situation now. They feel like it\u2019s a good opportunity to say that Toyota is back on track.\nDeputy Division General Manager Francois Bancon at the 42nd Tokyo Motor Show\nAqua \u2013 This is interesting. You know that Honda launched the Insight some years ago with a very attractive price with the hybrid system. And, of course, Toyota will never accept that anyone is better than them in the hybrid category and this is the answer. It\u2019s a compact car, about 4.1 meters [in length] targeting a price tag of about 1.5 or 1.6 million yen, which is really impressive. And I\u2019m not sure they\u2019re going to make any money out of this, but, anyway, this is Toyota.\nFT-EV III \u2013 And they have the iQ EV. If you remember, well, some years ago, Toyota was explaining that EV would never work because the only solution is a hybrid. So, they now have EV all over the place, starting with iQ, which is an existing model \u2013 3 meters long, which is sold in Europe, Japan, and I think that\u2019s it for now. And they have now an EV version. Nothing special. We were also playing in this category with some product to come. The idea is to make EV affordable for everyone, for the urban environment. I think iQ is a good support, a good base to do this.\n86 \u2013 So you know the 86? It\u2019s a long story in Japan for Toyota. The 86 was 30 years ago a kind of emblem of the sports car by Toyota \u2013 an affordable sports car. So they made a deal with Subaru to [supply] the four-cylinder flat architecture, and they came up with this car \u2013 which is, I have to say, well done \u2013 for the four-cylinder rear-wheel drive about 200 horsepower. It\u2019s a good initiative\u2026 in terms of communicating the brand of Toyota back to some sports car heritage.\nD-X - So Daihatsu \u2013 a kei car maker, as you know. The Copen is a sports car made by Daihatsu for 10 years. They tried to make it global by trying to sell the car in Europe. That didn\u2019t work so well because they are too exposed to small, kind of toy-ish sports cars. It\u2019s a nice idea. In a kei car package, they succeeded to make a thrilling sports car \u2013 thrilling more than performance.\nCross Coup\u00e9 - This is a concept car made by Volkswagen, the so-called Cross Coup\u00e9. This is interesting \u2013 a kind of crossover between Juke and Qashqai. And with a kind of new design execution, which somehow has some inspiration from what Land Rover did recently on a compact crossover story. I think that should work. Obviously, this is for Europe and a little bit for Japan. Now, will Volkswagen be able to deliver on cost and price? That may be the next challenge for them. But the idea is interesting.\nIt\u2019s really what Qashqai did to create in Europe as a segment, in a little bit smaller format. They kind of exaggerate the height \u2013 it is very low. That is always why they call this coupe. And the car is very wide. And that\u2019s always why they call this a crossover. So, probably you will not find this in production, but the idea looks interesting.\nBy the way, this is the only foreign maker that is proposing something dedicated to the Tokyo show, as a global premiere for a concept car.\u201d\nCheck our blog tomorrow for Best In Show: Part 2, with Francois Bancon on Honda, Suzuki and Mercedes-Benz.\nCars, Motor Shows, Technology\nFrancois Bancon Tokyo Motor Show", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.precognox.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:28Z", "digest": "sha1:KZV4EQQL6DHJKHMAR52MEINPGFMKJFUO", "length": 492, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.precognox.com", "title": "About \u2013 Precognox Blog", "raw_content": "Precognox is a high-end consulting firm, specialized in \u201cautomation of knowledge work\u201d and is a leader in cognitive computing software development. It has comprehensive experience in complex semantic searches, intelligent text mining & analytics to support major businesses and research organizations with large amounts of unstructured data to solve complex projects.\nThis page is dedicated to the works of our research team. If you like our projects, just drop us a mail at our contact page!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.rri-tools.eu/en_GB/home?p_p_id=141_INSTANCE_QS0dAqMTkGws&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-2&p_p_col_pos=1&p_p_col_count=5&p_r_p_564233524_resetCur=true&p_r_p_564233524_tag=education", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BICXWTRQ43BTS6IEGDC4IBK32PD2CDJL", "length": 1218, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "blog.rri-tools.eu", "title": "Home", "raw_content": "Content with tag education .\nSchools are generally unaware of Responsible Research and Innovation\nPosted by Scientix project on 23 May 2016\nAlthough Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) has gained prominence in Europe in the past years, even as a priority topic at the European Commission, the findings of a new comparative analysis on science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) education in Europe indicate that RRI remains to be fully embedded in national school education systems. Currently, it is more a concern and concept used by the academia and generally unknown at schools in 24 out of the 30 countries observed.\nUOC Research Week tackles gender gap in STEM studies and occupations\nPosted by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya on 09 May 2016\nDismantling stereotypes, addressing academic issues and involving colleges and universities are some of the key actions to overcome women\u2019s low share in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) areas and occupations. These and many other actions were discussed on April 19th at the Palau Macaya of La Caixa Foundation during a round table entitled \u201cWhat Can Future Education Do in Order to Overcome Gendered Academic and Occupational Interests?\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 11564, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.sfgate.com/bookmarks/2013/07/08/new-bay-area-bookstore-diesel-opens-in-larkspur/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3DEVRB5TYGQUODPF6V56RGEAQ2LURGMO", "length": 3053, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "blog.sfgate.com", "title": "New Bay Area bookstore: Diesel opens in Larkspur - Bookmarks", "raw_content": "New Bay Area bookstore: Diesel opens in Larkspur\nBy John McMurtrie on July 8, 2013 at 1:00 PM\nDiesel Larkspur is Diesel\u2019s fourth bookstore.\n(Photo: Chris Phipps)\nIt\u2019s not all bad news these days for bookstores \u2014 especially independent bookstores in the Bay Area. A remodeled Kepler\u2019s reopened last year in Menlo Park, Books Inc.\u2019s latest store has become a cornerstone of bustling Fourth Street in Berkeley and Copperfield\u2019s is scheduled to open in downtown San Rafael in November.\nAnd now Diesel has opened a fourth store, in Larkspur.\nDiesel celebrated its grand opening Friday. Located in the Marin Country Mart, near the Larkspur Ferry Terminal, the newest Diesel is roughly 2,400 square feet, as big as its largest store, in Oakland. The space was once occupied by A Clean Well-Lighted Place, which closed in 1998.\nDiesel\u2019s first store opened in 1989, in Emeryville, and moved to Oakland in 1994. Its two other stores are in Southern California, in Malibu and Brentwood. Stylish, clean and curated with intelligence and a sense of whimsy, Diesel has devoted neighborhood patrons, among them Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman; when it hosted a party for Chabon\u2019s \u201cTelegraph Avenue\u201d last year, the store was transformed into the record shop that\u2019s at the heart of the novel.\nThe upscale Marin Country Mart seems an ideal spot for a bookstore. An open-air shopping complex, the mart draws extra foot traffic on Saturdays with a farmers\u2019 market. The complex has been owned since 2009 by J.S. Rosenfield, whose principal, James Rosenfield, lives in nearby Ross and is also Diesel\u2019s landlord in Brentwood. Among the other properties Rosenfield owns is the renovated 1940 Aero Theatre in Santa Monica and the Brentwood Country Mart.\nJohn Evans, co-owner of Diesel, said Rosenfield selected Diesel as a tenant. \u201cHe has an art background and was very interested in choosing and designing the space,\u201d Evans said by phone. \u201cThe place itself is quite stunningly beautiful.\u201d The centerpiece of the store, Evans said, is a fireplace with delft tile.\nEvans added that Rosenfield is trying to create a village in the Larkspur complex. \u201cAnd he thinks that bookstores are at the heart of a community. And, of course, booksellers and book customers think that way.\u201d\nHut Landon, the executive director of the Northern California Independent Booksellers Association, said the opening of Diesel\u2019s Larkspur store is a reflection of good news overall for independent bookstores. \u201cWhat\u2019s happening in Marin is happening in other areas as well \u2014 many independent bookstores are thriving and looking for expansion opportunities. With Borders gone, there are communities with a strong base of book-buying consumers anxious for a bookstore.\u201d\nDiesel Larkspur is at 2419 Larkspur Landing Circle in Larkspur. Store hours are Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Phone: (415) 785-8177. http://www.dieselbookstore.com/larkspur-information\nJOHN McMURTRIE is the book editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. He is on Twitter @McMurtrieSF.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 4419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 196.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogcritics.org/cd-review-poison-the-best-of/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:26Z", "digest": "sha1:XKNZIYLADCWAUJ7DTZ34JJFTHHU36NAH", "length": 4150, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blogcritics.org", "title": "CD Review: Poison - The Best of Poison: Twenty Years of Rock | Blogcritics", "raw_content": "Home / CD Review: Poison \u2013 The Best of Poison: Twenty Years of Rock\nCD Review: Poison \u2013 The Best of Poison: Twenty Years of Rock\nConnie Phillips March 29, 2006 Comments Off on CD Review: Poison \u2013 The Best of Poison: Twenty Years of Rock 28 Views\nOn April fourth The Best of Poison: Twenty Years of Rock will hit the shelves. Has it really been 20 years since Poison went from a local LA band to MTV metal hairband? It was 1986. I was 18 and in college embracing Poison for everything their music was about. Aside from Bret Michaels being prettier and having better hair then I did, these guys were singing anthems rebelling against parental authority and partying it up. A soundtrack to the life this college freshman was living.\nWith the help of just-blossoming MTV their debut CD, Look What the Cat Dragged In, launched them into the spotlight. The album produced four singles. \u201cTalk Dirty To Me\u201d was the most successful, peaking the pop charts at number nine. It\u2019s a catchy hormonal tune speaking of raw lust and had one of those glossy videos. Sure, by today\u2019s standards it looks cheap and cheesy \u2014 OK, it was cheap and cheesy, but it was what MTV and music was about and the video certainly sold the song and album.\nMy favorite from that album, and from this collection, is \u201cCry Tough.\u201d Like most of their songs the sound is a hybrid blend of pop and metal. The lyrics are full of hooks you find yourself singing long after the song is over. Yes, they are based on some clich\u00e9s (Life ain\u2019t no easy ride\u2026 sometimes a rainbow is better then a pot of gold\u2026) but the message is a positive one about fighting for what you want in life, something that lacks in the doom and gloom or heavy metal music. Maybe that\u2019s why the band has always been so appealing to me. The heavy and dark emotions are noticeably absent.\nThe other two singles from Look What the Cat Dragged In are \u201cI Want Action\u201d and \u201cI Won\u2019t Forget You.\u201d The fan favorite \u201cLook What the Cat Dragged In\u201d is also on the CD. Though the song was never released as a single, the band often opens their shows with the trademark song. It\u2019s been said the song was meant to poke fun at their glam look and was a reason for giving the album the same name. Whether or not it\u2019s true, the song is fun and a typical power Poison song. It deserves its place on The Best of Poison.\nTheir second album, Open Up And Say\u2026Ahh! produced another string of hits, all contained herein. \u201cEvery Rose Has its Thorns\u201d is probably the best noted one. How could they miss with the classic theme of love lost, especially when your target audience is of the age when matters of the heart cut deeper? It was their only number one pop hit, and one of two great ballads the band put out (the other being \u201cSomething to Believe In\u201d). A third ballad, \u201cThe Last Song,\u201d also appears on the CD but was not a released single. Maintaining that balance of rock-out heavy songs and rich meaningful ballads isn\u2019t an easy tightrope to walk, but it\u2019s one Poison has achieved.\nThe Best of Poison has only one new song, a cover of Grand Funk Railroads\u2019 \u201cWe\u2019re an American Band.\u201d Poison took the song and modernized it a bit, gave it a touch of their style but all in all it\u2019s the same song and a bit disappointing. The other cover, Kiss\u2019 \u201cRock and Roll All Night,\u201d doesn\u2019t quite live up to the quality of the rest of the album either. Granted the song has always had little substance and was never more then a fraternity party anthem. This is a pretty straight forward cover offering nothing new, but in comparison to the original the sound is hollow and just seems flat. This could be why it was never released to radio. The strength of Poison is certainly in their material and not what they cover.\nAs I was listening to these classic songs again their appeal still rang true for me, mostly for the memories associated with them. The Best of Poison: 20 Years of Rock is a walk down memory lane, for me a pleasant one. The band plans to return to the road this summer and upcoming dates will be announced at Poison\u2019s Official Website as soon as they are available. The band also has a Myspace profile containing news and tour information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 7627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluegrasstoday.com/henhouse-prowlers-on-the-inside/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:09Z", "digest": "sha1:VVM67LQXVMESWSIUKHX7J4NKUDOLRHOV", "length": 4659, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bluegrasstoday.com", "title": "Henhouse Prowlers on the inside - Bluegrass Today", "raw_content": "Henhouse Prowlers on the inside\nHere\u2019s the fourth report by The Henhouse Prowlers from their ongoing European tour. This comes from banjo picker and founding member, Ben Wright. The guys have promised daily reports (with photos) from their Euro-jaunt over the next week or so. You can follow all their posts by clicking here.\nToday was one of those rare days that you know you\u2019ll remember for the rest of your life, almost before it even starts. We had been anticipating our gig at the prison ever since we first got an early list of shows being booked. To our somewhat uncomfortable amusement, Turnhout Prison is directly across from an elementary school. The guard slid open a medieval style gate to let us in and we parked in front of the main entrance. We were greeted by the warden and his assistant and guided through the check-in process, which involved surrendering our passports and going through a metal detector.\nI was struck immediately by some of the art on the walls. There were playbills mixed with band posters and prison related album covers. Lighthearted prison jokes were being thrown around almost immediately, mostly regarding whether or not the guards would let us back out. These first impressions cast a sense of relief and unnerving wariness all at the same time. The warden then lead us on to the cell block.\nWe were told that we would be performing in the chapel and that there would be a meal provided for us. An inmate served coffee and tea while we ate sandwiches that were delicious. This was the same food the prisoners eat and it really drove home this emerging feeling of humane treatment throughout the prison.\nThere was an incredible discussion with the warden about a number of fascinating subjects. He talked of how many Belgians sided with the Germans after they invaded the country and dispersed propaganda that was meant to splinter the nation into it\u2019s French and Dutch regions. To this day, certain people will avoid shopping at specific establishments because the owners supported the Germans more than 50 years ago.\nWe also talked at length about prisons all over the world, of which he had visited many. He spoke of Cook County jail and many other US prisons that he had been to, along with ones in the Congo and Russia. It was heartening to find that the warden was such a scholar of history and worldwide incarceration practices. He spoke of how rare a life sentence is in Belgium, and of how the death penalty is never an option.\nAfter eating, we were brought into a side room where we could warm up as one of the guards began yelling down the cell-block that there would be a show shortly. As we waited for the room to fill, the inmate that had served us coffee showed us some gypsy jazz chords on Eric\u2019s guitar and spoke of his fondness for Django Reinhardt. He was incredibly kind and soft spoken and what little we saw of his playing was quite good! At that point we were given the signal to enter the room as the crowd of 60+ men applauded loudly.\nIt\u2019s difficult to describe how powerful this moment was. By the time we hit the stage, it had become clear to us that these men were treated with dignity and respect. Still, it\u2019s wild to be standing in a room full of convicted criminals that outnumber you by a factor of more than ten. There was only one guard in the room, and a female who worked at the prison as well. It\u2019s hard to imagine so few guards and any female presence for such an occasion at an American prison.\nThe show went smoothly and the men listened intently to all our songs (including several that referenced prison life), often clapping along with our more up-tempo tunes. Sixty minutes of music felt like ten by the time it was over. We played an encore and were delighted that the men lined up to shake our hands with huge grins on their faces.\nAs we were packing to leave, several of the inmates asked us where they could get our CD. I offered to get one out of the van and they laughed, commenting that they weren\u2019t allowed to have CD\u2019s in their cells. The warden stepped forward and told us that he would be happy to put our CDs in their library so the men could listen on their recreation time.\nAfter walking out and getting the warden copies of all three of our CD\u2019s, we asked him what the man who had served us lunch and played guitar for us was in prison for. Without any hint of irony, the warden let us know that this man was one of the few people incarcerated for life and that he was a well known serial killer and rapist.\nWe left stunned and thankful that all four of us had experienced it together as a band. 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The team offers real estate solutions and a comprehensive range of services including:\nIndustrial \u2013 Warehouse, Manufacturing\nBND Commercial has the capabilities and experience to facilitate a Development projects regardless of location, size or complexity.\nBND Commercial specializes in the development of industrial, office, medical and mixed-use properties. Our success in this arena is achieved through the relationships we build with our clients, keeping our promises and delivering high quality projects in a timely manner.\nWe understand each phase of the building process, from land acquisition to entitlement through the design, construction and project management. We have a reputation as persistent and creative problem-solving experts with indepth market knowledge and the ability to maximize investment value in every project, from office remodels to the development of large manufacturing facilities.\nOur team of experienced professionals are well trained to seize opportunities based on our clients\u2019 needs and the market conditions of the community in which we build.\nBND\u2019s philosophy is to develop properties designed to maximize returns over the long-term investment horizon by incorporating the latest in technology system and design, remaining fully functional for second and third generation tenants and beyond.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1930, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://boomstickcomics.com/2017/11/film-review-disaster-artist/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:52Z", "digest": "sha1:CXGXGK3MHTIYBI6IYWBMIBN4KOGBWNF2", "length": 2323, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "boomstickcomics.com", "title": "Boomstick Comics \u00bb Blog Archive Film Review: 'The Disaster Artist'! - Boomstick Comics", "raw_content": "So it is of little surprise that James Franco wants to pay homage to this amazing spectacle, a feat he bravely tackles and succeeds with \u201cThe Disaster Artist.\u201d Technically, the film is based on the book by co-star of \u201cThe Room,\u201d Greg Sestero. The book (which is a total must read) is a tell all of the story behind the film, as well as an intimate look at the friendship between Sestero and the mastermind himself, Mr. Tommy Wiseau. Wiseau is a character unlike any other. A mystery of a man, an outcast, completely socially inept, and sometimes just all-around a-hole, but somewhere beneath all that is a lot of heart; this is evident to those that ultimately get to know him.\nThe film does a wonderful job of bringing life to the story behind the film. To the fanboy, it tells a story we all know and adore. To the uninitiated, it is a film about friendship, determination, and love of cinema. Real life brothers James and Dave Franco (James under heavy makeup) recreate the dynamic duo of Wiseau and Sestero. The movie works so well in many regards due to the natural chemistry of James and Dave. They emulate love, disdain, jealousy, and joy that only comes with an honest bond. The journey of a couple of nobodies to misfit movie stars is truly a fantastic ride to join.\nThe only nag I would have about this movie is that it may not be easily accessible to people unfamiliar with the source material. We get to see the process of the making of the film, but this could drag to anyone who isn\u2019t a fan. However, it\u2019s worth the wait, because the film crescendos to an absolutely amazing finale that had me in tears of hilarity and joy (along with everyone else in the theater.)\nAlthough \u201cThe Disaster Artist\u201d doesn\u2019t quite capture the magic of \u201cThe Room,\u201d it is a fantastic piece. Please watch this film, buy The Room, read the book, go to midnight movies, and come live the joy of this unprecedented phenomenon. Don\u2019t be a chicken\u2026cheep cheep cheep! Oh hi Mark.\nWritten By: Fernando Martinez\nThis entry was posted on Thursday, November 16th, 2017 at 11:56 am\tand is filed under Film, News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.\n\u00ab Film Review: \u2018The Room\u2019!\nFilm Review: \u2018Coco\u2019! \u00bb\nFilm Review: 'The Conjuring 2'!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 5301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bostocksphotography.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:36:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4DRDOP6WRAC63LBHW3AVCBYYHHCNIQU3", "length": 954, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "bostocksphotography.com", "title": "About \u2013 Bostocks Photography", "raw_content": "My name is Steven Bostock and I am a travel and landscape photographer located on the Gold Coast in Australia. I\u2019ve always had a keen interest for photography however it wasn\u2019t until I bought my very first DSLR camera to take snaps while away on holidays that my passion really took off.\nAs I began taking more and more photos my photography skills improved and my interest in photography grew. I would be out shooting as often as I got the chance and would regularly get up in the early hours of the morning while it was still dark just to capture the beautiful colours in the pre sunrise dawn. I eventually outgrew my first camera and decided to make the jump to a full-frame DSLR because of its better weather sealing and low light capabilities. During Milky Way season each year I\u2019ll quite often be out late at night trying to perfect my astro photography skills.\nIf you\u2019ve got a question for me or would like to work together, please contact me here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 284.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bosworthonline.com/2010/12/02/humane-shelter-law-hasn-t-made-kentucky-shelters-more-humane/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:27Z", "digest": "sha1:NCMJZHC3DAUM4VQJCDUP43FWK45VCWTJ", "length": 2997, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bosworthonline.com", "title": "Humane Shelter Law Hasn\u2019t Made Kentucky Shelters More Humane | Bosworth Online", "raw_content": "Humane Shelter Law Hasn\u2019t Made Kentucky Shelters More Humane\nKentucky doesn\u2019t have a stellar reputation when it comes to animals. For one, it\u2019s one of the Five Best States to Be an Animal Abuser. It\u2019s also home to the Kentucky Derby, which, contrary to popular mythmaking, isn\u2019t really that great for the horses involved.\nThen there are the state\u2019s animal shelters. While Kentucky may be known for great bourbon, they are not known for having great animal shelters. Quite the contrary. Despite a 2004 law that requires county animal shelters to meet basic standards of care, many are still doing a subpar job.\nTake, for instance, the Clay County shelter. The situation at this institution is so bad that one county resident, Tori Smith, felt compelled to contact the Animal Legal Defense Fund and bring a lawsuit to force the shelter to improve conditions and begin complying with the 2004 law.\nAccording to the Kentucky Courier-Journal, the ALDF lawsuit alleges that sick and injured animals are not treated and \u201care often left to languish in their cages until they die or are eventually euthanized or adopted,\u201d and that sick animals are not separated from healthy animals. The lawsuit also asserts that animals\u2019 food is thrown onto the floor, \u201cwhere it mingles with dirt, feces, urine and other waste,\u201d and that animals don\u2019t have access to clean water. \u201cOn at least one occasion, and possibly routinely, animals were left without food and water over the weekend,\u201d according to the lawsuit.\nFor the plaintiff in this case, Tori Smith, bringing this lawsuit is just one of the many ways she seeks to help animals. She is very active in the rescue, fostering, and adoption of animals from the Clay County animal shelter, and has spent hundreds of dollars on veterinary bills for animals rescued from the shelter.\nThere is reason to hope the lawsuit will make a difference. Over the last couple of years, the ALDF has brought suit against two other Kentucky animal shelters, one in Estill County and the other in Robertson County. In both instances, the ALDF was able to reach agreements with the shelters to dramatically improve conditions for animals.\nBesides the ALDF lawsuit, something else that could help animals languishing in Kentucky shelters is to give the state\u2019s 2004 \u201cHumane Shelter Law\u201d some teeth. Currently, each county is essentially self-regulating. If a county fails to live up to the standards set by the 2004 law, the state government really can\u2019t do much, as the law lacks any real enforcement provisions. That\u2019s why concerned citizens like Tori Smith have to take matters in their own hands and bring lawsuits such as the one in Clay County. And that\u2019s why the state government of Kentucky needs to have the power to regulate animal shelters.\nAsk Governor Steve Beshear to step in and end the suffering of all innocent animals in Kentucky by pressing the legislature to act and have the state take back responsibility for overseeing animal shelters.\nPhoto Credit: crossfirecw", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bouve.northeastern.edu/bchs/directory/alexandros-makriyannis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:31Z", "digest": "sha1:EPC6WIBVAJC2LEMYSKYTHCMEZAGZQWQ5", "length": 2805, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "bouve.northeastern.edu", "title": "Alexandros Makriyannis | Bouv\u00e8 College of Health Sciences", "raw_content": "Alexandros Makriyannis\nUniversity Distinguished Professor and Behrakis Chair of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology\nEmail: a.makriyannis@northeastern.edu\nPhD, Medicinal Chemistry, University of Kansas\nPost-doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA\nDrug Design and Synthesis; Molecular Recognition; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Protein Purification and Characterization; Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; High Throughput Technologies\nThe Endocannabinoid System in Drug Discovery: Cannabinergic drugs modulate the central nervous and immune systems by acting through two receptors (CB1; CB2) and two classes of endogenous ligands represented by anandamide and 2-arachidonyl glycerol (endocannabinoids). The endocannabinoid system is further regulated by the inactivating enzyme, fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH), and a newly discovered transport system. We are studying the interactions of cannabinergic ligands with the above receptors, enzymes and transporters using a combination of chemical, biochemical, biophysical and computational methods. Our results are further used to design and synthesize novel therapeutically useful drugs for pain, appetite and central nervous system diseases.\nInteractions of Drugs with Membranes: We study the effects of drug molecules on membranes using solution and solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance and computational methods and use the results are used to design and synthesize improved medications. The classes of drugs being studied include cannabinoids, steroids and antineoplastic ether lipids. The work also includes studying the mechanism by which these molecules are transported across the blood brain barrier.\nOur research is well supported by NIH grants and offers opportunities for training in model medicinal chemistry. Choices of projects within the Center for Drug Discovery include: a) drug design and synthesis; b) chemical/biochemical approaches for studying drug:receptor interactions and; c) the role of membranes in drug action using biophysical methods.\nJ. Guo, S. Pavlopoulos, X. Tian, D. Lu, S. Nikas, S. Nikas, D. Yang and A. Makriyannis, \u201cConformational Study of Lipophilic Ligands in Phospholipid Model Membrane Systems By Solution NMR.\u201d J. Med. Chem., 46, 4838-4846 (2003).\nM. M. Ibrahim, H. Deng, A. Zvonok, D. Cockayne, J.Kwan, H. P. Mata, T. W. Vanderah, J. Lai, F. Porreca, A. Makriyannis and T. P. Malan, \u201cActivation of CB2 Cannabinoid Receptors By AM1241 Inhibits Experimental Neuropathic Pain: Pain Inhibition By Receptors Not Present In CNS.\u201d Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 100, 10529-10533 (2003).\nMakriyannis, A. and A. Goutopoulos, \u201cCannabinergics: Old and New Therapeutic Possibilities.\u201d Makriyannis, A. and D. Biegel (Eds.), Drug Discovery Strategies and Methods. 1. 89-128, Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY (2003).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bracingviews.com/category/cuba/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:49Z", "digest": "sha1:QEINCVPG4HFGFWSORT362MT2WUH7HY5R", "length": 4037, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bracingviews.com", "title": "Cuba \u2013 Bracing Views", "raw_content": "The Bizarre and Scary World of Republicans\nI watched last night\u2019s Republican debate from Florida (transcript here) and then checked this morning\u2019s coverage from major networks such as NBC and CBS. The focus of media coverage was the \u201ccivility\u201d of this debate compared to previous ones, combined with typical horse race speculations about which candidate won and which lost.\nWell, I can\u2019t tell you who won, but I can tell you who lost: the American people lost.\nSeveral lowlights from the debate that stick in my mind:\n1. Marco Rubio was asked about climate change and whether human action, such as the emission of greenhouse gases, contributed to it. Rubio essentially denied that human action had any significant impact on global warming. The essence of his answer: the climate is changing because the climate always changes. And the U.S. government can take no action to reduce it.\n2. Donald Trump held to his position on torture. He believes waterboarding should be used, that laws should be changed to allow harsher means of torture, apparently because the enemy (ISIS) beheads its opponents or drowns them in cages. He was not challenged on how he would change international laws against torture, nor was he challenged on consistent evidence that torture does not work in efforts to gain accurate intelligence. Nor were any questions raised about the morality of torture and its proposed expansion if he wins the presidency.\n3. All of the candidates expressed support for sending U.S. ground troops, perhaps 20,000 to 30,000, to combat ISIS in the Middle East. The situation was presented as a civil war within Islam between radical Sunni and Shia forces, but no candidate explained how U.S. combat forces could win someone else\u2019s civil war, a war driven by fierce ideological differences. Somehow, magically, the reappearance of big battalions of U.S. troops and massive displays of air power would \u201cshock and awe\u201d radical jihadists into collapse and capitulation.\n4. For the candidates, nothing Obama has done in the last seven years is worthy of the slightest praise. Obamacare must be repealed. The Iran nuclear deal is a disaster. His forthcoming trip to Cuba represents a capitulation to communism. His executive actions are illegal; all of them must be reversed.\n5. Each candidate tried to best the other on who is more pro-Israel. According to Trump, \u201cthere\u2019s nobody on this stage that\u2019s more pro-Israel than I am.\u201d Apparently Israel is the only U.S. ally that is worthy of total support and unconditional love by Republican candidates.\n6. Trump refused to qualify his statement that there is \u201ctremendous hate\u201d in the Islamic world directed against the United States. However, there was no reason given for this hate, and no sense that U.S. military actions overseas, to include invasions, drone strikes, and special ops raids, contribute in any way to Islamic animosity. The candidates were simply not asked why some, most, or nearly all Muslims \u201chate\u201d America.\n7. Finally, topics that weren\u2019t discussed at this debate but which are commonly discussed at Democratic debates: racism, shootings by police against Blacks, prison and justice reform, raising the minimum wage, the rising gap between the richest 1% and everyone else, reducing the cost of college education, and efforts to guarantee affordable health care for all. Nor were women\u2019s issues, such as equal pay for equal work, mentioned. Indeed, with the exception of Trump\u2019s comment about women being mistreated by the Muslim world, women\u2019s issues simply didn\u2019t exist, not in this debate and not in most of the others. Indeed, my wife turned to me during a previous Republican debate and said, \u201cNot one of these guys cares one whit about women\u2019s issues \u2014 they\u2019re offering us nothing.\u201d\nAnd on that sad yet telling note, I\u2019ll end.\nPosted on March 11, 2016 by wjastorePosted in Cuba, Media, US Foreign Relations, US PoliticsTagged Donald Trump, ISIS, John Kasich, Marco Rubio, Republican debates, Republican presidential candidates, Republicans, Ted Cruz. 13 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 10433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brandbase.co.uk/project/la-league/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RJZC7OAYJSPPDYEZXL3NQPHCFBYZCTBD", "length": 1733, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "brandbase.co.uk", "title": "La League - BrandBase", "raw_content": "In many countries girls are treated as inferiors by their fathers or father figures. The organisation Plan aims to break this pattern. Soccer is still dominated by men, yet women\u2019s football is the fastest-growing sport worldwide. Combining these two worlds provides a way of re-shaping the relationship between fathers and daughters to bring them closer. To achieve this, BrandBase developed La League, a new \u2018brand\u2019 that we positioned as a Plan initiative, with a name that reflects both football as well as femininity, and a strong yet warm and personal approach.\nLa League. A new brand, positioned as an initiative of Plan. The name La League is international and appeals to both football and femininity. The pay-off \u2018Born to Win\u2019 supports the very core of the brand identity. The imagery is authentic and powerful. The raw documentary-like photography (by Bill Tanaka) shows strong, tough girls in their purest, most focused form. This approach highlights the underdog situation of the girls in football and aims to break this unjustified perception.\nAs a brand, La League will communicate worldwide and in many different markets. In addition, it will initiate many local events and activities. The brand and visual approach will be launched in an identical fashion worldwide.\nThe jump-off point for the visual identity is to achieve international characteristics. The visual approach of the La League brand needs to work in any market, with models being recruited from the market it serves. La League sets a strong but still warm approach visually, especially through true-to-life photography. In terms of design and colors, the approach is minimal with the purpose of creating an ideal environment for the photography to shine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2220, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brandbase.co.uk/project/shell-office-renovation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZQXN6ASOY6JJLCCM4PDS55WPXNXLCMR", "length": 1028, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "brandbase.co.uk", "title": "Shell Office Renovation - BrandBase", "raw_content": "The Shell headquarters building in The Hague will be renovated over the next few years. During this renovation, the facade will be covered, giving Shell the unique chance to create the biggest building wrap of the Netherlands. This wrap offers an opportunity to communicate several key aspects of the Shell brand.\nIn close collaboration with Shell, we used the building wrap to give visitors a unique sneak peek inside Shell. The Building wrap was divided into 23 rooms, each representing a different discipline within Shell, from the Board of Directors to petrol station employees. Each room tells its story in a unique way and shows the incredible team effort needed to run a company like Shell successfully.\nWe have created the biggest building wrap in the Netherlands. The wrap\u2019s detailed photographs, by Jaap Vliegenthart, offer passersby something interesting to look at each time they see it. Every aspect of Shell, both the company and its employees, will be displayed on the facade for a more than one and a half years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2575, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com/be-blogs/how-indian-brands-can-transform-potential-to-performance/1758", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:49Z", "digest": "sha1:IELLDTYJXV7M6HZ66GFUB4YA4QGRUKZM", "length": 4310, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "brandequity.economictimes.indiatimes.com", "title": "How Indian brands can transform potential to performance - blogs by Jez Frampton | ET BrandEquity", "raw_content": "Jez Frampton\nJez FramptonGlobal CEO, Interbrand\nHow Indian brands can transform potential to performance\nI am delighted to present to the Best Indian Brands 2016 league table, now in its fourth year. The world today keenly waits as India brims with potential. As we already work with a fair number of Best Indian Brands, I am confident India is nurturing some truly world-class brands that are set to make their mark on the global stage. This year\u2019s theme, \u2018Growing Global\u2019 addresses the Indian brands\u2019 ambition to become global brands.\nGrowing global is not just about saying \u201cI want to be a Top 10 business in the world in my category,\u201d because the first question that comes back is \u201cHow?\u201d And that \u201cHow?\u201d is connected to a deep understanding of the forces of growth within a business, which will help you accelerate the organisation.\nThe first and most fundamental force of growth is an inward harnessing: the growth of people. Growth of their capabilities, their understanding, their ability to work together; your processes: the way that you actually do things, how you utilise people; the products and services you bring to market: how you create innovation processes to make sure that capability grows over time.\nThat\u2019s the biggest shift in the industry today: the recognition of the importance of brands inside the organisation. While earlier they were seen as a subdivision of the marketing department, they\u2019re now understood as the fundamental way of how you do business. Simply because, if you\u2019re going to make something move and grow, you have to get people to move with you.\nThe second major force of growth lies in what customers expect from companies: the growth of experience. The singular biggest impact of technology on our lives and businesses is the transformation of customer journeys. There is both complexity and multiplicity of touch points today. And the elusive ideal is all about \u201cseamless experiences.\u201d People expect everything to just work brilliantly all the time. Whether it\u2019s using an app, walking into a store, speaking to the organisation, or engaging a product or service. The implications for CMOs, as the ones that understand the customer base, is that they need to be able to influence and take people on a journey across the spectrum. That\u2019s a big shift. To deliver seamless experiences, all people, processes, and platforms have to be aligned. This calls for re-engineering organisations, nothing less.\nIn today\u2019s dynamic business environment, a brand is not only a long-term, sustainable differentiator between businesses, but is the ultimate agent of growth. We think of brands as \u2018business strategy brought to life.\u2019\nBrands have the power to make someone choose one product over another, or one employer over another. They help stand out from competitors, become relevant to people, and even bring clarity within an organisation. They generate loyalty because they fulfil expectations. They command premium even in a market of parity. This is the power of a brand. We define it as brand strength. It grows business and translates into profitability and earnings. As levers for growth, brands are extremely powerful because they touch so many aspects of the business.\nSuch a brand is not just built by a logo or a tagline or a communication. A brand today is not just a product or a service. It\u2019s the environment, the culture, the organisation, values and behaviours, its customers, the promises, their experience, and more importantly a way of bridging all of it.\nLook at some of the brands that have transformed global markets in the last 5 years\u2014 Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, and Airbnb. These businesses have appeared almost from nowhere and changed how we live our lives. That\u2019s the clue: they understand how we live our lives. They touch us, help us, improve us. Not just by what they offer but also by how they treat us and make us feel. Not just as a product, but as an organisation.\nMy advice to the Best Indian Brands wanting to grow global is to start with, looking deeper\u2014understand the anatomy of growth for your organisation, and then you can start to build clear strategies to achieve global growth. Something that they truly deserve.\nAbout Jez Frampton\nThe author is global CEO, Interbrand. Views expressedare personal.\nGlobal CEO, Interbrand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 9176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bta-rn.de/admissions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:29Z", "digest": "sha1:O5KV7HENZHNJ45NORUST6CSTSHECVFIP", "length": 562, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "bta-rn.de", "title": "Admissions \u2013 BTA Bildungs- & Trainingsakademie GmbH", "raw_content": "We have a commitment to ensure that our pupils receive the best pastoral care and support so that they feel happy and safe here and are therefore able to thrive and achieve academically. Our Student Services team are all trained to work with young people and as part of the team we have other students support the application process.\nWe pride ourselves in delivering the best education possible to our students.\nOur review process has put us in the top 10 schools and colleges in the world.\nYou will be welcomed into a thriving student-led learning environment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://buildingsparrow.org/category/renovation-projects/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:30Z", "digest": "sha1:34I6ZJE7BJM4PQQTZ2LW4SZ4ENWLJQ65", "length": 4374, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "buildingsparrow.org", "title": "Renovation Projects | buildingsparrow.org", "raw_content": "Category Archives: Renovation Projects\nSparrow celebrates renovations, rededicates Children\u2019s Center Teen Lounge\nPosted on June 20, 2014 by buildingsparrow\t\u0095 Posted in Renovation Projects\t\u0095\nSparrow today celebrated a grand re-opening and dedication of our newly renovated Teen Lounge in the Sparrow Children\u2019s Center.\nThe lounge was originally established in 1988 by the family of a teen who passed after spending countless days and nights in the Sparrow Children\u2019s Center. Now, thanks to the generous support of High 5ive \u2013 The Drew Stanton Foundation and Lexus of Lansing, a fresh new age-appropriate \u201chang-out\u201d offers a place for our older Children\u2019s Center Patients to feel like a normal teenager. Read more about the dedication ceremony, and see some of the \u201cbefore\u201d photos.\nTeen Lounge \u201cthe before\u201d\nOne can only really appreciate the \u201cafter\u201d if you\u2019ve had a chance to see the \u201cbefore.\u201d So in preparation for the big reveal next month, here\u2019s a look at the lounge as it was.\nAmbulance entrance\nSparrow Specialty Hospital celebrates a newly renovated facility and 10 years of providing long-term acute care for our community\nPosted on March 7, 2014 by buildingsparrow\t\u0095 Posted in Renovation Projects\t\u0095\nOn Thursday, March 6, we celebrated a newly renovated facility and 10 years of providing long-term acute care for our community.\nSparrow Specialty Hospital continues the healing process by offering a multidisciplinary team approach, including Nurses, Specialty Physicians, Case Managers, Nutritional Services, Pharmacy, Therapy, and more, to meet the complex needs of Patients requiring long-term acute care.\nSparrow initially brought this service to our community back in 2004 and we\u2019re thankful for the Caregivers and nearly 3,000 Patients and families who have been a part of our journey so far.\nThe improvements at SSH are just one of many Sparrow projects that have resulted in more than $250 million reinvested back into our community over the last three years.\nA look at the before. And now a look at the \u201cafter\u201d:\nSparrow Specialty Hospital Renovations\nAt Sparrow, our commitment to providing the best Patient care means providing facilities that meet the needs of our community.\nNew renovations to SSH will provide a more peaceful and healing environment for our Patients and their families during their extended stay.\nA look at the \u201cbefore\u201d:\nSparrow Specialty Hospital (SSH), a 36-bed acute care hospital specializing in Patients who require a 25-day or longer length of stay in a hospital setting, opened on the Sparrow St. Lawrence Campus 10 years ago as the region\u2019s first long-term acute care hospital.\nMore than 40 percent of SSH Patients are able to transition directly to home, while others require additional rehabilitation once their acute care needs have been met.\n36 bed acute care hospital\nConstruction start: Summer/Fall 2013\nCancer Center Parking Deck resurfacing complete\nThe work to repair and resurface the Cancer Center Parking Deck was completed the week of Nov. 11 and has reopened for normal use.\nSome final touches remain, but they will be handled on weekends, as weather permits, to mitigate any further parking disruptions.\nAdditional structural work on the lower level will continue for a few weeks, but will only affect a few parking spaces at a time.\nThis work is being done on the weekends and we anticipate it should be wrapped up in early December.\nWe would like to thank everyone for their patience during this project that ensures our continued ability to provide safe and accessible facilities.\nCancer Center Parking Deck Renovations\nPosted on October 1, 2013 by buildingsparrow\t\u0095 Posted in Renovation Projects\t\u0095\nIn order to continue to provide safe and accessible facilities, we must repair and resurface the upper level of the Cancer Center Parking Deck.\nThe work will be broken up into three stages to ensure continued parking on the upper deck for our Cancer Center Patients during construction.\nSpace will be limited, however, and we ask that all non-Patients (including family members who drive separately from Patients) and Caregivers use the West Parking Ramp, located at the corner of Michigan and Pennsylvania, during this time.\nAccess to the Cancer Center deck will be monitored by a security team and in the event the deck is full, security will assist Patients with alternative arrangements.\nCaregiver Parking Map", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 11978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 297.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.news.yahoo.com/wellness-expo-backlash-continues-amid-000104369.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FZOD74QSARVEGR3IZBI4CTOECDP6WIPJ", "length": 3506, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "ca.news.yahoo.com", "title": "Wellness expo backlash continues amid David Stephan controversy", "raw_content": "Wellness expo backlash continues amid David Stephan controversy\nA long-time vendor at the Winnipeg Wellness Expo Show says he won't participate this year, or ever again.\n\"I'm out. It's too little, too late,\" said Graham Todd, who owns Reliable Mobility and is speaking out because he's angry.\nHe's the latest person to back out of the expo after learning that David Stephan was invited to speak at the Health and Wellness Expos in multiple western Canada cities. Stephan was the man found guilty of failing to provide the necessaries of life for his 19-month-old son who died.\n\u200b\"It's my own ethics, and where I believe the ethics of my company lie, as well,\u200b\" Todd said. His company provides people with healthcare equipment such as medical grade compression, raised toilet seats and complex rehab seating structures. \u200b\n\"There's a place for different philosophies of medicine to coexist, and do well, especially on the preventative side of things, not just on the reactionary\u200b,\" he said. \"But there comes a line where western medicine has to be what we fall back to.\"\nTodd had signed up for the conference a year ago, before he knew who the speakers would be. Furthermore, he said there is a healthy place for controversy, and it can be used to start conversation, but this was too out of line with his personal ethics.\n\u200b\"I'm upset at myself for not keeping a closer eye and having too much trust in the organizers to pick somebody I deem suitable.\" \u200b\nTodd said he's been a part of the Winnipeg expo for around five years, and said he contacted the organizers for an explanation. He wasn't satisfied with the response.\nThe Winnipeg Wellness Expo 2018 is scheduled Feb. 16 to 18. Organizer Rick Thiessen did not respond to CBC's request for comment.\nStephan on schedule 'highly inappropriate': professor\nInitially, the organizer of the event defended the decision to have Stephan as a speaker. He had said he judged his vendors based on their products, not on their personal lives.\nSoon after, key sponsors such as Sobeys and Flaman Fitness withdrew from the event.\n\"It's really disappointing that \u200bsomeone like him was being given a platform to pass on his views about health,\" said Timothy Caulfield, who is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy at the University of Alberta.\nHe added it was \"ironic that he was going to be talking about mental health and wellness. Which again, given his past, seems highly inappropriate.\"\nHowever, Caufield said the community's reaction to the situation and the removal of the speaker was promising. Furthermore, he said circumstances like these highlight the need for the science community to be vigilant.\nHe said people should be cautious of the information and products they find at events like this.\n\"These events legitimize pseudoscience. There's a lot of nonsense, and a lot of that nonsense leverages fear,\" he said.\n\"It kind of often leverages conspiracy theories about Big Pharma. Yes, there are problems with the way Big Pharma works sometimes but that doesn't mean these products are efficacious.\"\nIf people want to attend events like the Wellness Expo, Caufield said they should be wary of products that claim to cure several different ailments and be suspicious of products that rely on testimonial and anecdotes for evidence.\n\"We know how to live a healthy life: you don't smoke, you exercise, you eat real food, you get a good night sleep, you wear a seatbelt and you surround yourself with the people you love. There's no magic.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://care.ucr.edu/education/unhealthy-relationships", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:41Z", "digest": "sha1:6HXSJR6WI7QQJB3Y34GRVWXE5RQDDC25", "length": 2253, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "care.ucr.edu", "title": "Unhealthy Relationships | CARE Program", "raw_content": "Unhealthy and Abusive Relationships\nRelationships exist in every part of our lives. Whether it's a short- or long-term relationship, or hooking up with someone for a long period of time, any behavior or action used to harm, control or intimidate a partner or previous partner can be defined as intimate partner violence (dating violence, relationship violence and domestic violence are terms that are also used). These behaviors can include grabbing, pushing, pinching, yelling, making demeaning comments, hitting, strangulation of the neck, not letting you spend time with friends or family, or making you feel guilty for not spending time with your partner.\nSigns of abusive behavior may include:\nDigital/Cyber: Demands access to emails, social media accounts or phone/text messages.\nEconomic: Makes, or attempts to make, someone financially dependent by controlling financial resources or forbidding class/work attendance.\nEmotional Abuse: Undermines another\u2019s self-worth and self-esteem. Can include constant criticism about body image, diminishing one\u2019s abilities, name-calling and damaging interpersonal relationships.\nPhysical: Hitting, slapping, shoving, grabbing, pinching, biting and/or hair pulling. Also includes the denial of medical care and forced drug/alcohol use.\nPsychological Abuse: Induces fear with intimidation. Can include threats of physical harm to self, others, pets and property, as well as forced isolation from friends, clubs/organizations, school and work.\nSexual Abuse: Coercion, or attempted coercion; sexual contact/behavior without consent. Can include marital rape, attacks on sexual body parts and sexually demeaning behavior.\nThreats: Words, gestures or weapons that express the intent of causing injury or disability.\nThe Cycle of Violence is a pattern often experienced in abusive relationships \u2014 the honeymoon, tension-building and acute or abusive phases repeating over and over. Domestic violence is a pattern of abuse in an intimate relationship that escalates over time. The Cycle of Violence is intergenerational. It not only repeats itself in an abusive relationship, it also repeats itself by emerging later in the relationships of people who experienced and witnessed violence in the home as they grew up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 320.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://carrerasancristobal.com/phi-208-uop-course-tutorial-shoptutorial/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:12Z", "digest": "sha1:QVMVRFAQEKNLFUIFSTU2V6MZRRD4XVNR", "length": 1249, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "carrerasancristobal.com", "title": "PHI 208 UOP Course Tutorial-Shoptutorial - Carrera San Cristobal", "raw_content": "PHI 208 Week 5 Assignment Final paper The existence of God\nPHI 208 Week 2 Assignment Famine, Affluence\nPlease read the article \u201cFamine, Affluence, and Morality,\u201d by Peter Singer and complete the following tasks:\nExplain Singer\u2019s goal in this article, and then present his argument in relation to this issue. Explain three counter-arguments to Singer\u2019s position that he addresses in his article, and then indicate Singer\u2019s responses to those counter-arguments. Define Singer\u2019s concept of marginal utility and identify how it relates to his argument. Compare how the ideas of duty and charity change in Singer\u2019s proposed world? Finally, present your personal response to Singer (this should be no more than one page of the entire assignment). Provide an argument either in support of Singer\u2019s position, against his position, or somewhere in the middle of his position. Remember that when you present your own positions you need to support those positions with as much logical reasoning and factual evidence as possible. The paper must be at least three pages in length, formatted according to APA style, and include a title and a reference page (which does not count towards the page length). Support your point with\u2026\nCRT 205 UOP Courses / Uoptutorial", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cartripple.com/stores/1857-a1supplements-com", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:58Z", "digest": "sha1:VLIDSCHKRJL37K6RL4ZAD5L3GAIZKOHR", "length": 63, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cartripple.com", "title": "A1Supplements.com - CartRipple", "raw_content": "A1Supplements.com helps you find the best deals on supplements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 941, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 176.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cas.uab.edu/peacefulsocieties/2014/02/06/the-semai-of-pos-betau/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:37Z", "digest": "sha1:XMVURFNPKINAHKWJ2GJNW4TLYMA2WB77", "length": 1553, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cas.uab.edu", "title": "The Semai of Pos Betau | Peaceful Societies The Semai of Pos Betau | Peaceful Societies", "raw_content": "The Semai of Pos Betau\nThe New Straits Times, an English language newspaper from Malaysia, sent a journalist to the Semai village of Pos Betau in the Cameron Highlands last week to report on her impressions. As so often happens when people leave the comforts of urban life and venture into a remote area, the journalist was struck by the absence of good electronic communications.\nThe Cameron Highlands is a mountainous plateau region of Pahang State that was established as a hill station by the British nearly 100 years ago. In areas such as Pos Betau, communicating with the outside world by telephone or the Internet is not always easy. The service for both in that village is minimal, residents told the reporter, but the people often preferred to communicate face to face anyway.\nPunitha Kumar, the journalist, spoke with a man who said that Internet access is possible in the village at the state-run primary school, while only certain pockets in the community have phone service. The head of the village, Ahmad Selalu, told the reporter that he hopes the state government will improve the telephone system.\nMr. Selalu said that when villagers tried to place calls on their mobile phones, they had to wait five seconds after they made a comment before the party they were speaking with could hear it and respond. He hoped that the government would rectify the problem. He added, however, that the people were content with their own company, with playing outdoor games, and with live music.\nRural Thai Culture of Rice Farming\nInuit Sex Trafficking", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 8300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://casetext.com/case/bradbury-v-wainwright", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:39Z", "digest": "sha1:JGRHP6EGQWKW5KRKMVCBI5RTXTSDFLNX", "length": 14650, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "casetext.com", "title": "Bradbury v. Wainwright, 658 F.2d 1083 | Casetext", "raw_content": "Bradbury v. Wainwright\nBradburyv.Wainwright\nUnited States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.[fn*] Unit BDec 30, 1981\nObando v. Jones\n\u2026The waiver also extends to claims of ineffective assistance of counsel that do not attack the voluntariness\u2026\nU.S. v. Wright\n\u2026United States v. Broce, 488 U.S. 563, 569, 109 S.Ct. 757, 762, 102 L.Ed.2d 927 (1989). Nevertheless, pleading\u2026\nnoting that defense counsel has a \"duty to assist actually and substantially the defendant in deciding whether to plead guilty\"\nSummary of this case from Barnes v. Stephens\nOctober 15, 1981. Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 30, 1981.\nArchibald J. Thomas, III, Asst. Federal Public Defender, Jacksonville, Fla., for petitioner-appellant.\nDavid P. Gauldin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Fla., for respondent-appellee.\nBefore RONEY, KRAVITCH and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.\nRONEY, Circuit Judge:\nPetitioner appeals from the denial of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, alleging that his guilty plea was not knowingly and voluntarily given and that he was denied effective assistance of counsel. Finding no merit to petitioner's arguments, we affirm.\nDue to the nature of petitioner's allegations, the facts of this case are set forth in some detail. In November 1964, Ronald Bradbury, petitioner, and two codefendants were arrested and charged with robbery, grand larceny, and the breaking and entering of an automobile in Bradford County, Florida. At the time of arraignment on November 9, 1964, the public defender was appointed to represent petitioner. Trial was set for November 16, 1964.\nOn the morning of the trial date, the petitioner, through his defense counsel, advised the court he wished to claim the defense of insanity at the time of the offense. Defense counsel explained that information had come to his attention the previous week upon which the defense could be based, and he requested the court to appoint a psychiatrist to examine petitioner. Petitioner himself informed the court at that time that he had undergone psychiatric treatment on several occasions in the past, and entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity. The court indicated it would appoint \"some competent medical person\" to examine him. On the following day, Dr. Barry of Starke, Florida, was appointed to examine petitioner and to evaluate his sanity at the time of the offense as well as his competency to stand trial. Dr. Barry was not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but had \"some background in the psychiatric/psychological field.\" He conducted his examination of petitioner in the jail. According to petitioner, no psychological tests were given, and the doctor's examination required no more than ten to fifteen minutes. On November 19, 1964, Dr. Barry issued his written report of one sentence stating:\nIt is the opinion of the undersigned that the defendant was legally sane at the time of the commission of the offense and that he possesses the mental capacity at this time to understand the nature and gravity of the crime and is capable of distinguishing right from wrong.\nIn 1964 it was the practice in Bradford County to appoint Dr. Barry to conduct such examinations. No psychiatric or psychological specialist was available in the county.\nReports of petitioner's prior psychiatric and psychological examinations were in existence at the time his case was pending. On at least five occasions prior to 1964, the petitioner had been examined by psychological experts. He had once been placed in a therapy group, but stopped attending before its conclusion. Defense counsel was aware of these reports, but apparently did not attempt to subpoena the records or depose the doctors themselves. In addition to these reports, there were lay witnesses available who would have testified to petitioner's personality disorders at or around the time of the offenses. Counsel listed six lay witnesses in his insanity plea notice.\nPetitioner's counsel informed him of Dr. Barry's report. The petitioner testified he was told that a psychiatrist had found him to be sane. Petitioner's counsel does not remember referring to Dr. Barry as a psychiatrist. Indeed counsel previously had complained many times to the court in his capacity as public defender about the court's use of Dr. Barry for psychological testing of defendants. Upon learning of Dr. Barry's conclusion on his sanity, petitioner asked his counsel to obtain another opinion. The public defender, however, had not been provided any budget for such services and felt that due to prior practices of the court a request for a second expert would be futile. After a discussion of these realities, the petitioner reached a decision to plead guilty.\nDefense counsel negotiated with the prosecutor and perhaps the court and reached an agreement whereby Bradbury would receive a life sentence on the robbery charge if he pled guilty. There are indications in the record that as part of the agreement, the sentences for other charges were to run concurrently rather than consecutively. It was the practice during that time not to inform the defendant of a plea bargain agreement.\nBradbury received a life sentence for the robbery charge and concurrent sentences of 10 years, 5 years, and 5 years for another robbery charge, and two breaking and entering, grand larceny charges. At the time of his offenses in 1964, Bradbury was twenty years old and had a sixth or seventh grade education. Bradbury concedes that he was sane at the time his guilty plea was entered.\nII. GUILTY PLEA\nA plea of guilty must be a voluntary and knowing act. Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. 742, 90 S.Ct. 1463, 25 L.Ed.2d 747 (1970). A guilty plea made by one fully aware of the plea's consequences must stand unless induced by threats, misrepresentations, or improper promises. Id. at 755, 90 S.Ct. at 1472. Since a guilty plea is a waiver of trial, \"it must be an intelligent act `done with sufficient awareness of the relevant circumstances and likely consequences.'\" McMann v. Richardson, 397 U.S. 759, 766, 90 S.Ct. 1441, 1446, 25 L.Ed.2d 763 (1970) (quoting Brady v. United States, 397 U.S. at 748, 90 S.Ct. at 1468). Bradbury contends that his guilty plea was not made knowingly and voluntarily because he did not know Dr. Barry was not a psychiatrist (relevant circumstances) and he did not know about the plea bargain agreement (likely consequences).\nBradbury claims the primary reason for changing his not guilty by reason of insanity plea to a guilty plea was Dr. Barry's report finding him sane. Had he known Dr. Barry was not a psychiatrist, he claims he would not have changed his plea. Although Bradbury may have thought Dr. Barry was a psychiatrist, there is no constitutional requirement that a psychiatrist had to be appointed to examine Bradbury. See Smith v. Baldi, 344 U.S. 561, 568, 73 S.Ct. 391, 394, 97 L.Ed. 349 (1953).\nIt does not appear from the record that the court ever referred to Dr. Barry as a psychiatrist, promising only to appoint \"some competent medical person\" as permitted by Florida law. While Bradbury's counsel does not remember whether he actually told Bradbury that Dr. Barry was not a psychiatrist, he said it was unlikely that he referred to Dr. Barry as a psychiatrist since he had objected to the appointment of Dr. Barry as the examining doctor on other occasions involving an insanity plea. Given the lapse of time since these events took place, it is not clear exactly what transpired. Nevertheless, from the record it does not appear that anyone misrepresented Dr. Barry as a psychiatrist to Bradbury. Absent such a showing, petitioner has not proved this part of his claim that his plea was involuntary.\nBradbury also challenges the voluntariness of his plea due to his lack of knowledge of the plea bargain agreement. With the practices of the time it is apparent he did not know the particulars of the agreement. His attorney, however, fully discussed his case with him. Defense counsel is certain he told Bradbury what the maximum sentences for his offenses were. The district court found, and Bradbury does not challenge it here, that Bradbury knew he could receive life imprisonment for his guilty plea. Although he did not know the details of the plea bargain agreement, he did know the maximum sentence for his guilty plea. There was no misrepresentation of his possible sentence. Although he was hoping for a lesser sentence, that subjective hope is insufficient to make his guilty plea involuntary. See Matthews v. United States, 569 F.2d 941 (5th Cir. 1978); United States v. Battle, 467 F.2d 569 (5th Cir. 1972). As long as Bradbury understood the length of time he might possibly receive, he was fully aware of his plea's consequences. See United States v. Maggio, 514 F.2d 80 (5th Cir. 1975); Dunlap v. United States, 462 F.2d 163 (5th Cir. 1972). Since Bradbury was aware of the consequences and his plea was not induced by any misrepresentation, his guilty plea must stand.\nIII. ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL\nOnce a plea of guilty has been entered, nonjurisdictional challenges to the conviction's constitutionality are waived, and only an attack on the voluntary and knowing nature of the plea can be sustained. McMann v. Richardson, 397 U.S. 759, 90 S.Ct. 1441, 25 L.Ed.2d 763 (1970). If the advice of counsel falls below the minimum required by the Sixth Amendment, the guilty plea cannot have been made knowingly and voluntarily because it would not represent an informed waiver of the defendant's constitutional rights. Mason v. Balcom, 531 F.2d 717, 725 (5th Cir. 1976).\nWhen a guilty plea is entered, it is defense counsel's duty to assist actually and substantially the defendant in deciding whether to plead guilty and to ascertain whether the plea is entered knowingly and voluntarily. Id.; Herring v. Estelle, 491 F.2d 125 (5th Cir. 1974); Walker v. Caldwell, 476 F.2d 213 (5th Cir. 1973). Counsel must be familiar with the facts and the law in order to advise the defendant meaningfully of the options available. Calloway v. Powell, 393 F.2d 886 (5th Cir. 1968). This includes the responsibility of investigating potential defenses so that the defendant can make an informed decision. Lee v. Hopper, 499 F.2d 456 (5th Cir. 1974). Counsel's advice need not be the best, but it must be within the realm of competence demanded of attorneys representing defendants in criminal cases at that time. Tollett v. Henderson, 411 U.S. 258, 93 S.Ct. 1602, 36 L.Ed.2d 235 (1973); McMann v. Richardson, 397 U.S. 759, 90 S.Ct. 1441, 25 L.Ed.2d 763 (1970); Ballard v. Blackburn, 583 F.2d 159 (5th Cir. 1978). The actions of the trial court may cause the ineffectiveness of counsel's assistance. See Hintz v. Beto, 379 F.2d 937 (5th Cir. 1967); McCollum v. Bush, 344 F.2d 672 (5th Cir. 1965).\nBradbury claims he was denied the effective assistance of counsel by the trial court's failure to appoint a qualified psychiatrist and by defense counsel's failure to investigate fully his insanity defense. Bradbury claims he should have had psychiatric assistance in pursuing his only available defense. A psychiatrist is not constitutionally required. Florida law provided that \"the court may appoint one or more disinterested qualified experts\" for such an examination. Fla.Stat. \u00a7 917.02 (1963). There is no evidence that Dr. Barry was unqualified. His report stated that Bradbury was not insane at the time of the offense under the applicable McNaughten test. On this point, the Constitution was satisfied.\nBradbury faults his attorney for failing to acquire the reports and records of his previous psychiatric examinations and treatments, for failing to inform him of the plea bargain agreement, and for failing to press his request for the appointment of a psychiatrist. The record indicates that Bradbury's attorney knew of the reports and records but probably did not seek to obtain them. The attorney cannot remember whether he contacted any of the people who had earlier tested his client. He did have Dr. Barry's report to consider. He thought the evidence of insanity to be adduced from his lay witnesses was weak, apparently basing his judgment on witness interviews. From this, he thought there was little chance to succeed on the insanity defense. There is no evidence that those reports would have established Bradbury's insanity defense. Aware of the existence of the reports and records, his witnesses' expected testimony, Dr. Barry's report, and the strength of the State's case, counsel advised Bradbury of the facts and his chances, and Bradbury decided to plead guilty. Defense counsel provided actual and substantial assistance to Bradbury. In McMann, the Supreme Court recognized the difficulty of pleading guilty before all the facts were known.\n[T]he decision to plead guilty before the evidence is in frequently involves the making of difficult judgments. All the pertinent facts normally cannot be known unless witnesses are examined and cross-examined in court. Even then the truth will often be in dispute. In the face of unavoidable uncertainty, the defendant and his counsel must make their best judgment as to the weight of the State's case. Counsel must predict how the facts, as he understands them, would be viewed by a court. . . . Waiving trial entails the inherent risk that the good-faith evaluations of a reasonably competent attorney will turn out to be mistaken either as to the facts or as to what a court's judgment might be on given facts.\n397 U.S. at 769-70, 90 S.Ct. at 1448.\nAlthough the practice in Bradford County in 1964 was not to inform defendants of plea bargain agreements for fear of making them involuntary, petitioner was advised of the maximum sentence possible with a guilty plea. Counsel's actions did not fall below the minimum assistance due Bradbury under the Sixth Amendment.\nCounsel did present Bradbury's request for a psychiatrist. The court appointed Dr. Barry. There is no evidence to indicate whether defense counsel protested then. After the examination and subsequent report, Bradbury requested another opinion. His attorney told him that the trial court rarely appointed a second expert and that his office did not have funds for such testing. Bradbury then decided to change his plea. By pleading guilty, Bradbury relieved his counsel of any further obligation to press for an additional psychiatric examination.\nDefendant has failed to carry his burden of demonstrating ineffective assistance of counsel. From the facts before this Court, we conclude that Bradbury's defense counsel rendered advice which was within the realm of competency demanded of attorneys representing defendants in criminal cases in 1964.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 17105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 155.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://casetext.com/case/estate-of-dupont", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:17Z", "digest": "sha1:WUHKYV4URKP7NOUKCQOTV5ZHBWJRQTHJ", "length": 30767, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "casetext.com", "title": "Estate of Dupont, 60 Cal. App. 2d 276 | Casetext", "raw_content": "Estate of Dupont\n60 Cal. App. 2d 276 (Cal. Ct. App. 1943)\nCourt of Appeal of California, First District, Division TwoAug 25, 1943\n60 Cal. App. 2d 276\u2022140 P.2d 866\u2022\nGhidoni v. Stone Oak, Inc.\n\u2026Subsequent to the drafting of the court's panel majority opinion, the Supreme Court of Texas delivered its\u2026\nPeople v. Gionis\n\u2026[W]here a person seeks the assistance of an attorney with a view to employing him professionally, any\u2026\nAPPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sonoma County refusing probate of will. Hilliard Comstock, Judge. Affirmed.\nGordon J. McKenzie, H.W. McGowan, Geary Tauzer and A. Dal Thomson for Appellants.\nClarendon W. Anderson for Respondents.\nDOOLING, J. pro tem.\nThis is an appeal from a judgment refusing probate of an alleged will of Hilda Susanna Dupont, upon a finding of the court that the deceased was not of sound and disposing mind at the time the instrument was executed.\nThe proffered instrument was executed by the decedent on December 19, 1940. At that time the decedent was seventy-seven years of age and confined to her bed in a sanitarium, extremely weakened and seriously afflicted by the disease which caused her death on January 3, 1941.\nDecedent, a native of Sweden, came to California as a young woman and lived during the rest of her life in this state. She was twice married but both of her husbands predeceased her, she had no children and at the time of her death her legal heirs consisted of a brother, Charles Eric Leaf, living in Wisconsin, and nieces and nephews, the children of a predeceased sister. Her relations with these relatives had generally been friendly up to the time of the onset of her final illness. She was apparently a prolific letter writer and many letters to certain of her nieces and nephews and their children, couched in cordial and affectionate terms, were introduced into evidence. It may fairly be said from the evidence that up to a very short time before the execution of the proffered will, the contestant Elsa Stromee had been her favorite niece. Because she lived in California Mrs. Stromee had been able to, and had, visited and seen her aunt with more frequency in the last few years of her life than any of the others. Within the year decedent had taken Mrs. Stromee to the office of her attorney and stated to the attorney that Mrs. Stromee was to be the executrix of her will, and by the terms of an earlier will, unrevoked if the proffered instrument was properly denied probate, Mrs Stromee besides being named executrix was bequeathed a substantial share of her aunt's estate.\nFor some days prior to November 27, 1940, decedent had been a patient in the General Hospital in Santa Rosa. On the morning of that day she left the General Hospital, because of dissatisfaction with her treatment there, and went to the home of an old friend, Mrs. H.J. Lamb. At that time she was very ill. She remained at Mrs. Lamb's home until the morning of November 30. On that morning at 4 a.m. she awakened Mrs. Lamb and asked Mrs. Lamb to call a taxi, or to call a messenger boy to send a message to Mr. Hollingsworth, her attorney, to come to see her so that she could ask him to get her some money from the bank. Mrs. Lamb explained to her that this was impossible at that early hour of the morning. Although she had only one dollar with her, she had not previously mentioned to Mrs. Lamb that she needed any additional funds. A little after six o'clock Mrs. Lamb went to a neighbor's house and telephoned for a messenger. She reported to Mrs. Dupont that there would be no messenger boy on duty until eight o'clock and Mrs. Dupont then asked her to cancel the order for the messenger and call a taxi. Mrs. Lamb, after calling the cab, helped Mrs. Dupont to dress, and when the cab arrived Mrs. Dupont was driven to the home of Mr. Hollingsworth. She arrived at Mr. Hollings-worth's home between seven and eight o'clock, while he was still asleep. She was wearing a bathrobe. Mr. Hollingsworth went to his office between eight and nine o'clock and when he returned at noon Mrs. Dupont was still in his home. He could see that she was \"a pretty sick woman\" and he arranged to take her to the Northside Sanitarium where she remained until her death.\nThe same day Mr. Hollingsworth sent a telegram to Mrs. Stromee advising her of her aunt's serious illness and Mrs. Stromee came to Santa Rosa to be with her aunt, arriving on December 2 and staying until December 5. Upon her arrival Mrs. Dupont asked Mrs. Stromee to get a cot and sleep outside her door. Mrs. Stromee replied that she was tired from her trip and needed a good night's rest. At a later time Mrs. Dupont again asked Mrs. Stromee to lie on a cot outside her door during the nights so that she could attend her if necessary. Instead Mrs. Stromee insisted on employing a night nurse for her aunt, at which the aunt became irritated and displeased. During this period the aunt procured Mr. Hollingsworth to get $100 in cash for her from her bank account. This money was left in a handbag in a drawer in Mrs. Dupont's room and without any clear ground for the accusation Mrs. Dupont conceived the idea that Mrs. Stromee had stolen most of it.\nMrs. Stromee left for home on December 5 and her aunt asked her to take her with her. Her physical condition, as hereinafter described, was such as to render a trip of several hundred miles to Mrs. Stromee's home extremely dangerous to her, if not physically impossible, but Mrs. Dupont was annoyed when Mrs. Stromee told her that she could not take her.\nThere is evidence from which the court could conclude that after being annoyed at and unfriendly toward Mrs. Stromee for several days following her departure Mrs. Dupont suddenly changed her attitude completely and asked Mrs. Brandborg, an attendant at the sanitarium, to telephone Mrs. Stromee and ask her to return. Mrs. Stromee returned on December 15 and entered her aunt's room with her husband, Carl, who had driven her to Santa Rosa. She said to her aunt: \"Wasn't Carl a darling to bring me up here so fast?\" The aunt who had always theretofore been friendly to Carl and who had never before used profanity in her niece's presence, replied: \"To hell with Carl,\" and thereafter refused to have anything to do with him.\nAs suddenly as Mrs. Dupont had changed her mind and sought Mrs. Stromee's return, she again turned against her when she did come back at her request. She said to her on one occasion about December 17: \"I suppose you are sending me to a crazy house.\" No apparent reason appears for this remark in any conduct of Mrs. Stromee, and it is not explicable on any logical ground, unless it was suggested to Mrs. Dupont by her own realization that her mind was no longer normal.\nAnother incident in the relation between aunt and niece seems to deserve special comment. Some years before Mrs. Stromee's mother had died after the amputation of a leg. Mrs. Stromee had previously told Mrs. Dupont that none of the children had wanted the amputation performed, but that their mother had insisted on the operation over their objection, saying: \"I am boss, it is my leg, I can do what I please. The doctor told me I can live ten more years if it is performed and I will go through with it.\" Sometime during the period December 15 to 17, Mrs. Dupont said to Mrs. Stromee: \"You have my sister's blood on your hands. . . . You are not going to kill me that way.\"\nTurning from Mrs. Dupont's relations with her niece to her general physical and mental condition from the time of her arrival at the sanitarium, we find from the medical testimony that she was suffering from very advanced arteriosclerosis and a severe organic valvular heart lesion, the valves of the heart were involved in a degenerative process, the blood circulation as a consequence was sluggish, the blood was dammed back in the lungs and as a result she suffered a great deal of pain, developed a severe cough, her respiration and pulse were abnormally high, she could only speak with an effort because of shortness of breath and at times she suffered from Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Her condition was very advanced and serious, she was incurable and it was only a matter of time when she would die. Dr. Carlson, whose testimony is later discussed at greater length, was her attending physician at the sanitarium. He found her irrational at times and rational at others prior to December 19, the date of the execution of the will.\nDuring her stay at the sanitarium and before the execution of the proffered will Mrs. Dupont was too weak to get out of bed unassisted although she was assisted to a commode for the first few days. She was incontinent at times and did not realize that fact. She took ice from a rubber icebag and put it in a knitted cap and put the knitted cap containing the ice on her head, insisting that she preferred it that way. She would ask to be placed on the commode when she had just used it and insist that she had not. She said that she had herself made the concrete slab on her cemetery plot. She asked to have the undertaker open her grave so that it would be ready for her when she died. She wanted the doctor sent for to spend the night with her. She wanted to take an entire bottle of medicine at one time. She tore a nightgown which the nurse wished to put on her. She screamed at night without apparent reason. She told Mrs. Brandborg that she had gone into the corridor to die and that Mrs. Brandborg \"had committed a great sin by dragging her out of her grave.\" She asked the doctor to call the undertaker because she was going to die. She asked Mrs. Brandborg to telephone to the storage house where her furniture was stored and have them look through her furniture for a pencil sharpener because she wanted to write a letter. A large part of the time she talked irrationally and incoherently. She complained that she could not remember anything and that she could not think any more.\nSpecifically several witnesses called for the contestants testified that in their opinion decedent before and on the day of execution of the proffered instrument was irrational or of unsound mind. Mrs. Brandborg, who assisted in caring for Mrs. Dupont at the sanitarium, testified that during all the time she was there she was of unsound mind and gave as some of her reasons: Her speech was rambling at times; on several occasions she talked like she was in a coma; she would look at the ceiling and say she was going to heaven; \"she told me that I had committed a great sin by dragging her out of the grave, she came there in the corridor to die and I was the instrument of getting her back to earth\"; \"she asked the doctor one time to call the undertaker because she was going to die on the occasion of the doctor's visit\"; she was incontinent in the bed and didn't realize that she had been; she wanted the storage man to search through her furniture for a pencil sharpener because she wanted to write a letter.\nMr. Brandborg, also an employee of the sanitarium, likewise testified that all the time decedent was in the sanitarium she was in his opinion of unsound mind. Some of the reasons given were: Putting ice from an icebag into a knitted cap; she couldn't talk coherently; she insisted on using the commode when she had just finished using it and would insist that she had not done so; she screamed on many occasions so loudly as to disturb other patients and then denied that she had done so; she wanted the doctor called to stay with her saying she had plenty of money to pay him to stay with her all the time and was annoyed when Mr. Brandborg pointed out that the doctor had other patients and could not do that; she said that the nurse had not been in her room all night when the nurse had spent the night there; she wanted to take a whole bottle of medicine which the doctor had prescribed to be taken in doses a teaspoonful at a time; she told him that she herself had made the concrete slab on her grave.\nMrs. Nobles, a night nurse who was with Mrs. Dupont each night from December 3 to December 12, described her appearance and conduct variously as irrational at times; not mentally clear; childish and eccentric; erratic and mentally clouded.\nMr. Batt, neighbor and acquaintance of many years, visited Mrs. Dupont twice at the sanitarium. On the first visit Mrs. Batt was with him; on the second visit he was alone. The second visit was after Mrs. Stromme's return \u2014 after December 15. On the second visit Mr. Batt found Mrs. Dupont irrational. Reasons: \"she didn't recognize me when I came in\"; \"she talked wandering like . . . she didn't know what she was talking about, just one thing and another\"; \"she was so much different than she was when we used to see her out there.\"\nMr. Churchman, a real estate agent who sold Mrs. Dupont's ranch for her during her illness, saw her successively in the General Hospital, at Mrs. Lamb's and in the Northside Sanitarium. When he saw her in the General Hospital \"she was fairly strong\"; at Mrs. Lamb's \"I wouldn't say that she was of unsound mind but it is hard for me to say that she was of sound mind. . . . My reasons, I have known her for a good many years and she was always very keen, and at that time she wasn't normal in that respect . . . she wasn't keen.\" When he saw her last in the sanitarium he testified: \"I don't think she was of sound mind.\" His reasons were based upon his observation of Mrs. Dupont for several years, the marked change that had come over her, her appearance and conversation; her failure to remember where she had put the keys to her house and her confused manner in looking in her bag for them and her saying: \"I just can't think any more.\" \"She said she couldn't think, she couldn't appear to think properly.\"\nA few hours before the proffered will was drawn and executed, and on the same day, Mrs. Dupont wrote a letter to her brother. It was written partly in English and partly in Swedish. This letter with the Swedish words translated into English reads as follows:\n\"Dear Brother this is my last letter to you Elsa are a rotten sister have nothing to do now with her she has killed me she has stolen all my hard earned money pretend not you receive this letter be so kind. Elsa is rotten sister to take all my money so have nothing to do with her so good bye. I not help but give all what I have to my nurse. My lawyer will see to it tend to it all \u2014 God bless you for all you have ever done for family. Good bye do not have to with Elsa we better not have anything with Elsa My nurse Mrs. sure done all to make me comfortable to scutt Elsa out Bye Bye Dear Brother.\"\nAt the time of the preparation of the will in her sickroom the testimony shows that Mrs. Dupont first said that she wanted her brother to have half of her estate and Mrs. Lamb to have the other half. Then she said: \"I want to give something to that nurse,\" pointing to Mrs. Reid. When asked how much she replied \"all she is worth.\" She was then asked: \"How much is that?\" Her reply was: \"Well, if there is five thousand dollars give it to her, if there is five thousand dollars give it to her.\" The will was first drawn to leave $5,000 to Mrs. Reid, and later on the suggestion of the draftsman that that was a large sum to leave to a nurse whom she had only known for a few days, Mrs. Dupont at the prompting of the draftsman reduced the bequest to $1,000.\nIn evaluating this evidence certain well settled rules are to be borne in mind.\n[1] A testator has sufficient capacity to execute a will if he has sufficient mentality to understand and keep in mind the nature of his act, the extent and character of his property, and the persons who are the natural objects of his bounty. ( Estate of Sexton, 199 Cal. 759 [ 251 P. 778]; Estate of Finkler, 3 Cal.2d 584 [ 46 P.2d 149]; Estate of Arnold, 16 Cal.2d 573 [ 107 P.2d 25].) [2] Testamentary incapacity because of unsoundness of mind is of two classes, \"either insanity of such broad character as to establish mental incompetency generally, or some specific and narrower form of insanity, under which the testator is the victim of some hallucination or delusion. And, even in the latter class of cases . . . the evidence must . . . establish that the will itself was the creature or product of such hallucination or delusion, or, in other words, that the hallucination or delusion bore directly upon and influenced the creation and terms of the testamentary instrument.\" ( Estate of Chevallier, 159 Cal. 161, 168 [ 113 P. 130].)\n[3] The opinions of lay witnesses as to the mental unsoundness of the testator are no stronger than the reasons given for them and must stand or fall on the strength or weakness of the reasons given. ( Estate of Nolan, 25 Cal.App.2d 738 [ 78 P.2d 456]; Estate of Finkler, 3 Cal.2d 584 [ 46 P.2d 149].)\n[4] Subject to these rules the function of the appellate court is no different on an appeal from a judgment refusing probate to a will because of mental incompetency than in any other case. If there is any substantial evidence to support the judgment it must be affirmed on appeal. ( Estate of Pesagno, 58 Cal.App.2d 390 [ 136 P.2d 644] and cases cited at 392.)\nTested by these rules we are satisfied that the judgment must be affirmed. We may concede, without expressly so deciding, that the evidence is not sufficient to support a finding that the proffered will was the product of an insane delusion or hallucination of the decedent concerning her niece Elsa Stromee. We may likewise concede that the evidence as to all that occurred prior to the time immediately concurrent with the purported execution of the proffered will might not be sufficient to support a finding of general testamentary incapacity. But that evidence furnishes an illuminating background for the scene that was enacted in Mrs. Dupont's sick room on December 19, at the time that the purported will was actually drafted and signed.\n[5] While neither extreme age nor physical or even mental weakness standing alone may be sufficient to invalidate a will, they are circumstances which should be considered together with the facts immediately surrounding the execution of the will in determining whether the testator possessed testamentary capacity. ( Estate of Alexander, 111 Cal.App. 1, 6 [ 295 P. 53]; Estate of Miller, 16 Cal.App.2d 154, 164 [ 60 P.2d 498].)\nThe evidence presents a picture of a woman seventy-seven years old, always theretofore mentally alert and self-reliant, who, under the ravages of a fatal illness, commencing on November 27, when she awakened her friend at 4 a.m. to call a cab or a messenger boy immediately so that she could at once arrange to get some money, thereafter engaged in conduct bizarre, eccentric, extravagant and out of all character with her previous demeanor and way of life. Culminating these marked extravagances, and within a few hours of the drafting and signing of the proffered will, this slowly dying woman who has exhibited so many of the pitiful vagaries of a failing mind, writes a letter to her brother which, measured by the standards of her earlier correspondence in the record, is ill-constructed, labored, repetitious and confused. In addition to a rambling and unjustifiably bitter complaint against Elsa Stromee, it contains the statement: \"I not help but give all what I have to my nurse.\" It is noteworthy, in this connection, that Mrs. Dupont had met this nurse for the first time on the night of December 12, that she apparently did not know her name, that the nurse had been on duty with her at that time during only four nights and two and one-half days, and by her own testimony had never engaged in any conversation with Mrs. Dupont except such as was necessary in the performance of her duties for her patient.\nThus the stage is set for the events immediately surrounding the preparation and signing of the purported will. [6] It is axiomatic that the critical inquiry in determining the mental capacity of a person to execute a will is directed to his condition of mind at the very time of its signing. [7] Evidence of his previous conduct is only admissible for the light that it may throw on his condition of mind at that precise moment. ( Estate of Perkins, 195 Cal. 699 [ 235 P. 45]; Estate of Peterkin, 23 Cal.App.2d 597 [ 73 P.2d 897]; Estate of Miller, 16 Cal.App.2d 154 [ 60 P.2d 498].) From proponents' own witnesses it appears that when the will was being drafted in Mrs. Dupont's sick room she first stated that she had $19,000 in the Exchange Bank and a smaller amount in Postal Savings (which was the fact) and as a part of the same conversation she stated that she wanted to leave \"all she is worth . . . to that nurse\" (pointing to her) and on being pressed to state the amount she replied: \"if there is $5000 give it to her, if there is $5000 give it to her.\"\n[8] The weight and effect of this evidence was for the trial judge. From it he could reasonably find that Mrs. Dupont at that time was so mentally deranged or confused that she did not realize that $19,000 was more than $5,000. If this was so it is clear that Mrs. Dupont at the time of the will's execution did not have sufficient mentality to understand the extent and character of her property. The finding that Mrs. Dupont was not of sound and disposing mind finds sufficient support in this one incident, particularly when viewed against the background of failing mentality portrayed by the other evidence.\n[9] The argument that Mrs. Dupont's statement: \"if there is $5000 give it to her\" is susceptible of explanation compatible with testamentary capacity cannot avail appellants in an appellate court. Our inquiry ends when we determine that it furnishes substantial support for the trial court's finding, and we cannot reweigh the evidence or draw different inferences from it on appeal.\n[10] Appellants emphasize the evidence of Dr. Carlson, Mrs. Dupont's attending physician, that in his opinion she was of sound mind on December 19. A reading of Dr. Carlson's testimony shows that he had no independent recollection of the condition of mind of Mrs. Dupont on December 19. He concluded from a conversation that he had with her on December 20 that on December 19 she was of sound mind, but on cross-examination it was developed that he did not discuss with her the terms of her will or ascertain whether she remembered or understood them. He based his conclusion entirely on a statement by her that she had made a will the day before and was satisfied with it, and he further testified, as hereinbefore noticed, that prior to December 19 she had been at times rational and at others irrational. Under the circumstances the trial judge was not bound to accept his opinion of the condition of his patient's mind at the moment of the will's execution.\nTo appellants' argument based on such cases as Estate of Casarotti, 184 Cal. 73, 78 [ 192 P. 1085], that the testimony of proponents' witnesses must be taken into account in weighing the sufficiency of contestants' evidence it is sufficient to point out that the precise evidence of Mrs. Dupont's conduct and statements immediately preceding the execution of the will, which we have held sufficiently supported the trial court's finding, came from proponents' witnesses including the draftsman and the attesting witnesses of the document itself.\n[11] After Mrs. Dupont's death Mrs. Stromee consulted Mr. Tauzer, an attorney-at-law, with a view to employing him as her attorney to contest the will. At the close of the interview Mr. Tauzer refused the employment. It was sought to prove by Mr. Tauzer that during this interview Mrs. Stromee made statements to Mr. Tauzer inconsistent with her testimony. The trial court sustained an objection on the ground of privilege. It is claimed that this was error. In this connection appellants point to the language of Code of Civil Procedure, section 1881, subdivision 2 which extends the privilege to communications between attorney and client \"in the course of professional employment\" and argue that since Mr. Tauzer refused the employment the situation falls without the language of the section. They also rely on People v. Heart, 1 Cal.App. 166, 169 [81 P. 1918].\nIt is the almost universal rule in common law jurisdictions that \"Where a person consults an attorney with a view to employing him professionally, any information acquired by the attorney in the course of interviews or negotiations looking toward such employment is privileged and cannot be disclosed, even though no actual employment of the attorney as such follows, and notwithstanding the attorney may be afterward employed by the adversary of the person who made such communication.\" (70 C.J. 406; 8 Wigmore on Evidence, 3d ed. (1940) sec. 2304, pp. 587-8; 5 Chamberlayne, Modern Law of Evidence (1916) sec. 3682, p. 5266; cases collected in notes in 21 Ann.Cas. 217; Ann.Cas. 1913A 30; and 34 L.R.A.N.S. 578-9.)\nThe Supreme Court of Colorado in Denver Tramway Co. v. Owens, 20 Colo. 107 [36 P. 848] was called upon to apply a statute identical in language to our own to facts similar to those presented here. That court said at page 855:\n\"If a person in respect to his business affairs, or troubles of any kind, consults with an attorney in his professional capacity, with the view to obtaining professional advice or assistance, and the attorney voluntarily permits or acquiesces in such consultation, then the professional employment must be regarded as established, and the communication made by the client, or advice given by the attorney, under such circumstances is privileged. An attorney is employed \u2014 that is, he is engaged in his professional capacity as a lawyer or counselor \u2014 when he is listening to his client's preliminary statement of his case, or when he is giving advice thereon, just as truly as when he is drawing his client's pleadings, or advocating his client's cause in open court. It is the consultation between attorney and client which is privileged, and which must ever remain so, even though the attorney, after hearing the preliminary statement, should decline to be retained further in the cause, or the client, after hearing the attorney's advice, should decline to further employ him.\"\nAs has been pointed out in other cases, no person could ever safely consult an attorney for the first time with a view to his employment if the privilege depended on the chance of whether the attorney after hearing his statement of the facts decided to accept the employment or decline it.\nWe are satisfied that the language of Code of Civil Procedure section 1881, subdivision 2, is broad enough to extend the privilege to preliminary statements to an attorney in good faith looking to his engagement, and that to give it the construction contended for by appellants would unduly restrict its scope and largely destroy the protection to persons consulting lawyers which is its policy and purpose.\nThe case of People v. Heart, supra, insofar as it may lend support to appellants' argument on this point is supported by no citation of authority. The facts were distinguishable. There a wife sought to employ an attorney to defend her husband and after hearing her statement he declined the employment. He was called to impeach the wife not the husband. The court said:\n\"The inhibition does not extend to communications between the attorney and persons having social or business relations with the client. Certainly not, when the statement did not purport to be conveyed to the attorney from the client, but, on the contrary, was the representation of a witness as to her knowledge of the transaction.\"\nWe are not here called upon to apply the law to a situation such as there disclosed and discussed. The court did state in one sentence of the opinion: \"There is no claim that Appel was ever employed or retained.\" If the court by that single sentence may be said to have held that communications by a party to an attorney whom he is seeking to engage are not privileged it was dictum on the facts of that case, and a dictum which we expressly refuse to follow for the reasons herein stated.\n[12] Counsel for appellants, Hollingsworth, Reid and Lamb claim that the trial judge committed prejudicial error in questioning various witnesses, and in admonishing counsel not to interrupt witnesses before their answers were complete. In this specification counsel for the other appellants expressly refused to join. A reading of the entire record satisfies us that the case was fairly tried, and that the trial judge did not exceed the proper bounds either in seeking to elicit the facts or in maintaining the orderly procedure of the trial. [13] It apparently cannot be repeated too often for the guidance of a part of the legal profession that a judge is not a mere umpire presiding over a contest of wits between professional opponents, but a judicial officer entrusted with the grave task of determining where justice lies under the law and the facts between the parties who have sought the protection of our courts. Within reasonable limits, it is not only the right but the duty of a trial judge to clearly bring out the facts so that the important functions of his office may be fairly and justly performed. ( People v. Mendez, 193 Cal. 39, 45-6 [ 223 P. 65]; People v. Butterfield, 40 Cal.App.2d 725, 731 [ 105 P.2d 628]; People v. Salas, 17 Cal.App.2d 75, 79 [ 61 P.2d 771]; Gerson v. Kelsey, 4 Cal.App.2d 158, 163 [ 40 P.2d 543, 43 P.2d 266]; People v. Ottey, 5 Cal.2d 714, 721 [ 56 P.2d 193].) For the same reason the trial judge is not to be unduly or unreasonably hampered in his control and conduct of the trial. ( Commercial U.A. Co. v. Pacific G. E. Co., 220 Cal. 515, 525 [ 31 P.2d 793].)\nComplaint is made of alleged errors in the admission and rejection of evidence. An examination of the record fails to support any of these specifications. [14] As to certain of the witnesses who were beneficiaries under the proffered will testimony of prior inconsistent statements was admitted by way of impeachment. It is claimed that this violated the rule which excludes evidence of admissions of one beneficiary. (10 Cal.Jur. 1070.) The court showed a clear comprehension of this rule and consistently followed it. The evidence complained of was admitted for impeachment only, not as proof of any facts stated but for the limited purpose of their effect on the credibility of the witnesses making them. (27 Cal.Jur. 169.) In this there was clearly no error. The other specifications are either without support in the record or too trivial to require comment.\nNourse, P.J., and Spence, J., concurred.\nA petition for a rehearing was denied September 24, 1943, and a petition by appellants Hovander for a hearing by the Supreme Court was denied October 21, 1943.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 33087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 264.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://casetext.com/case/ferguson-v-mckenzie", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:BCOVOXM4UJIVRKBN45BQWZITZDLLUTTM", "length": 27847, "nlines": 65, "source_domain": "casetext.com", "title": "Ferguson v. McKenzie, 202 Ill. 2d 304 | Casetext", "raw_content": "Ferguson v. McKenzie\nFergusonv.McKenzie\nSupreme Court of IllinoisJan 29, 2001\nPaszkowski v. Metro. Water Rec. Dist\n\u2026The dissenting justices concluded that, under traditional specificity analysis, section 13-212(a) was more\u2026\nLee v. Naperville Cmty. Unit Sch. Dist. 203\n\u2026In response, plaintiff cited Bertolis v. Community Unit School District No. 7, 283 Ill.App.3d 874, 219\u2026\nholding statute of limitations tolled for minor beneficiaries in wrongful death suit against local governmental entity employees until beneficiary turns eighteen, but one-year limitations period applies thereafter\nSummary of this case from White v. Watson\nrecognizing that a statute of repose reflects a policy to \"terminate the possibility of liability after a defined period of time.\"\nSummary of this case from Harmata v. Scott & Kraus LLC\ncomparing section 13-212 of the Code ( 735 ILCS 5/13-212 (West 1998)), with section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act ( 745 ILCS 10/8-101 (West 1996))\nSummary of this case from Doe v. Hinsdale Township High School District 86\nOpinion filed January 29, 2001.\nAppeal from the Appellate Court for the First District; heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook County, the Hon. Julia M. Nowicki, Judge, presiding.\nRobert M. Winter and Richard Lee Stavins, of Chicago (Robbins, Salomon Patt, Ltd., of counsel), for appellant.\nRichard A. Devine, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Patrick T. Driscoll, Thomas Lyons, Judith Mondello Wick and Edward C. Snow, Assistant State's Attorneys, of counsel), for appellees.\nIn Tosado v. Miller, 188 Ill. 2d 186 (1999), adult plaintiffs brought medical malpractice actions against a county hospital and its employees. A plurality of this court concluded that the applicable statute of limitations was the one-year limitations period of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act or Act) ( 745 ILCS 10/8-101 (West 1998)) rather than the two-year limitations period for medical malpractice actions generally, as prescribed in the Code of Civil Procedure (Code) ( 735 ILCS 5/13-212(a) (West 1998)).\nIn this case, we are asked to determine the applicable limitations period where an heir in a wrongful death claim was a minor when the cause of action accrued, but whose claim against Cook County was not brought until after her nineteenth birthday. We hold that the one-year limitations period of the Tort Immunity Act ran on her claim. Accordingly, it was time-barred.\nThe record contains the following pertinent evidence. Franklin Ferguson (decedent) went to the Fantas Clinic of Cook County Hospital for removal of cataracts. Decedent, 63 years old, was a diabetic for over 25 years and previously had a heart attack. An electrocardiogram (EKG) produced abnormal findings. The clinic, after subsequent evaluation, cleared decedent for surgery, local anesthetic only. On October 10, 1991, decedent underwent removal of a cataract in his left eye. Later that evening at his home, decedent suffered cardiac arrest and died.\nAt the time of his death, decedent had a wife, Virginia Ferguson (plaintiff), and five children. Four of his children were adults: Mary Benson, Deborah Emerson, and Brian and Stewart Ferguson. A daughter, Karen Ferguson, was a minor; she was born on May 7, 1974, and was 17 years and 5 months of age at the time of decedent's death.\nOn October 7, 1993, less than two years but more than one year after decedent's death, plaintiff, individually and as administrator of decedent's estate, brought a medical malpractice action in the circuit court of Cook County. Plaintiff named as defendants Drs. Alicia McKenzie, Jeffrey Nichols, Catherine Kallal, Alan Axelrod, and Maan Elkhadra. The complaint contained, inter alia, a wrongful-death count that alleged damages for injuries to decedent's estate, but did not identify the heirs on whose behalf plaintiff brought the action. We note that Karen was 19 years and 5 months of age when plaintiff filed the original complaint.\nOn January 11, 1994, plaintiff filed an amended complaint. Plaintiff amended the original wrongful-death count by naming herself and decedent's four adult children as the heirs on whose behalf plaintiff brought the action. Also, plaintiff added a separate wrongful-death count, brought specifically on behalf of Karen, which named Cook County as a defendant. Karen was 19 years and 8 months of age.\nDefendants moved for summary judgment. The motion was \"aimed at one issue only: whether the lawsuit was timely filed.\" Defendants argued that plaintiff failed to file the complaint within one year of the occurrence, as required under section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act ( 745 ILCS 10/8-101 (West 1994)). Plaintiff responded that the complaint was timely because section 13-212(a) of the Code ( 735 ILCS 5/13-212(a) (West 1994)) allows an adult two years to file a medical malpractice claim and section 13-212(b) of the Code ( 735 ILCS 5/13-212(b) (West 1994)) allows a minor eight years to file a medical malpractice claim.\nThe trial court ruled that the one-year limitations period of the Tort Immunity Act applied to all medical malpractice claims brought against local governmental entities and their employees, including those claims brought on behalf of minors. Accordingly, the trial court granted summary judgment in favor of defendants. The appellate court affirmed. No. 1-98-0617 (unpublished order under Supreme Court Rule 23 (166 Ill. 2d R. 23(c)). We allowed plaintiff's petition for leave to appeal (177 Ill. 2d R. 315(a)), and now affirm the appellate court.\nThe purpose of summary judgment is not to try a question of fact, but to determine whether one exists. Gilbert v. Sycamore Municipal Hospital, 156 Ill. 2d 511, 517 (1993). Summary judgment is appropriate only where \"the pleadings, depositions, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.\" 735 ILCS 5/2-1005(c) (West 1998). In an appeal from the grant of summary judgment, review is de novo. Crum Forster Managers Corp. v. Resolution Trust Corp., 156 Ill. 2d 384, 390 (1993).\nWe are asked to consider another interplay between section 13-212 of the Code and section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act. Section 13-212 states in pertinent part:\n\"Physician or hospital. (a) Except as provided in Section 13-215 of this Act, no action for damages for injury or death against any physician * * * arising out of patient care shall be brought more than 2 years after the date on which the claimant knew, or through the use of reasonable diligence should have known, or received notice in writing of the existence of the injury or death for which damages are sought in the action, whichever of such date occurs first, but in no event shall such action be brought more than 4 years after the date on which occurred the act or omission or occurrence alleged in such action to have been the cause of such injury or death.\n(b) Except as provided in Section 13-215 of this Act, no action for damages for injury or death against any physician * * * arising out of patient care shall be brought more than 8 years after the date on which occurred the act or omission or occurrence alleged in such action to have been the cause of such injury or death where the person entitled to bring the action was, at the time the cause of action accrued, under the age of 18 years; provided, however, that in no event may the cause of action be brought after the person's 22nd birthday.\" 735 ILCS 5/13-212(a), (b) (West 1994).\nSection 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act provides:\n\"No civil action may be commenced in any court against a local entity or any of its employees for any injury unless it is commenced within one year from the date that the injury was received or the cause of action accrued. For purposes of this Article, the term `civil action' includes any action, whether based upon the common law or statutes or Constitution of this State.\" 745 ILCS 10/8-101 (West 1994).\nI. Tosado\nPlaintiff concedes that her claims and those of decedent's four adult children are time-barred under Tosado v. Miller, 188 Ill. 2d 186 (1999). As mentioned earlier, in Tosado, a plurality of this court concluded that the one-year limitations period of section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act governs medical malpractice cases brought against local governmental entities and their employees rather than the two-year limitations period of section 13-212(a) of the Code.\nJustice Miller, writing for himself and Justice Bilandic, focused on the nature of the defendants rather than on the type of action. He observed that Tort Immunity Act section 8-101 applies only to defendants that are local governmental entities and their employees, while Code section 13-212(a) applies to the broader category of any physician, dentist, registered nurse, or hospital described therein. Justice Miller reasoned that Tort Immunity Act section 8-101 controlled because it was more specific than Code section 13-212(a). Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 194-95 (plurality op.).\nJustice Heiple disagreed with the characterization of Tort Immunity Act section 8-101 as more specific than Code section 13-212(a). He observed that section 8-101 of the Act is more general than section 13-212(a) of the Code because it applies to any civil action, not only to medical malpractice actions. Justice Heiple reasoned that, \"to the extent that section 8-101 is more general than section 13-212(a), this is one of those instances where `the legislature intended to make the general act controlling'\" and that \"section 8-101 was designed to apply broadly to any possible claim against a local governmental entity and its employees.\" Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 199 (Heiple, J., specially concurring). Justice Freeman joined in Justice Heiple's special concurrence to this extent. Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 198 (Freeman, C.J., specially concurring).\nIn this case, the appellate court relied on Tosado in concluding that section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act applied to Karen's claim. However, the plaintiff in Tosado was an adult; that case did not present us with the claim of a minor. Here, it is only Karen's claim that is at issue.\nII. The Present Case\nPointing to section 13-212(b) of the Code, plaintiff contends that she had until Karen's twenty-second birthday to bring Karen's wrongful death claim against the county and its physician employees. Therefore, according to plaintiff, Karen's claim was timely.\nIn their brief, defendants state that they \"have never asserted that the statute of limitations would expire against a minor while he or she was still a minor.\" (Emphasis in original.) Accordingly, defendants acknowledge that plaintiff was not obligated to file Karen's claim while Karen was still a minor. However, defendants contend that once Karen reached 18 years of age, the one-year limitations period of section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act began to run. Plaintiff did not bring Karen's wrongful death claim against the county and its physician employees until after her nineteenth birthday. Therefore, according to defendants, the claim was untimely.\nWe note that plaintiff refers to section 13-212(b) of the Code as a \"statute of limitations,\" or its eight-year repose period as a \"limitations period.\" Such references are inaccurate. Section 13-212(b) is a statute of repose. See Antunes v. Sookhakitch, 146 Ill. 2d 477, 486 (1992) (referring to the repose period of section 13-212(b)). A statute of repose differs from a statute of limitations. A statute of limitations governs the time within which lawsuits may be commenced after a cause of action has accrued. However, a statute of repose extinguishes the action itself after a fixed period of time, regardless of when the action accrued. 51 Am.Jur. 2d Limitation of Actions \u00a7 12 (2000); accord Goodman v. Harbor Market, Ltd., 278 Ill. App. 3d 684, 690-91 (1995); Highland v. Bracken, 202 Ill. App. 3d 625, 632 (1990). Unlike a statute of limitations, which begins running upon accrual of a cause of action, a statute of repose begins running when a specific event occurs, regardless of whether an action has accrued or whether any injury has resulted. 54 C.J.S. Limitations of Actions \u00a7 4, at 20-21 (1987).\nA statute of repose gives effect to a policy different from that advanced by a statute of limitations; it is intended to terminate the possibility of liability after a defined period of time, regardless of a potential plaintiff's lack of knowledge of his or her cause of action. See Mega v. Holy Cross Hospital, 111 Ill. 2d 416, 422 (1986). The effect of section 13-212(b) of the Code \"is to establish an absolute limit for bringing suit of 8 years or until age 22 for minors injured by medical malpractice, regardless of the plaintiff's lack of knowledge of the cause of action.\" Franklin v. Cernovich, 287 Ill. App. 3d 776, 779 (1997).\nThe cardinal rule of interpreting statutes, to which all other canons and rules are subordinate, is to ascertain and give effect to the true intent and meaning of the legislature. Kunkel v. Walton, 179 Ill. 2d 519, 533 (1997); Electrical Contractors Ass'n of City of Chicago, Inc. v. Illinois Building Authority, 33 Ill. 2d 587, 591-92 (1966). Where there is an alleged conflict between two statutes, a court has a duty to interpret those statutes in a manner that avoids an inconsistency and gives effect to both statutes, where such an interpretation is reasonably possible. McNamee v. Federated Equipment Supply Co., 181 Ill. 2d 415, 427 (1998) (and cases cited therein); see People ex rel. Moore v. Chicago, Burlington Quincy R.R. Co., 414 Ill. 419, 425 (1953). However, legislative intent remains the primary inquiry and controls the court's interpretation of a statute. Traditional rules of statutory interpretation are merely aids in determining legislative intent, and those rules must yield to such intent. Collins v. Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Annuity Benefit Fund, 155 Ill. 2d 103, 111 (1993).\nApplying these principles to this case, we hold that section 13-212(b) of the Code applied to Karen insofar as she was a minor when her cause of action accrued. However, because defendants are a local governmental entity and its employees, the one-year limitations period of section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act also applied to Karen and began to run when she reached 18 years of age.\nAlthough Tosado did not involve the claim of a minor, that decision persuades us that section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act controls here. Applying the reasoning of Justice Heiple, the legislature intended that section 8-101 of the Act apply \"broadly to any possible claim against a local governmental entity and its employees.\" See Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 199 (Heiple, J., specially concurring); 188 Ill. 2d at 198 (Freeman, C.J., specially concurring). Also, applying the reasoning of Justice Miller, the Act is more specific than the Code in that the former applies specifically to defendants who are local governmental entities or employees thereof. See Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 195 (plurality op.).\nOur view of the interplay between section 13-212(b) of the Code and section 8-101 of the Act gives effect to the underlying policy of each provision. The legislative intent of section 13-212(b) of the Code is to reduce the period of potential liability and restrict a minor's ability to sue. Antunes, 146 Ill. 2d at 492.\nThe purpose of the limitation period contained in section 8-101 of the Act is to encourage early investigation into a claim against a local governmental entity when the matter is still fresh, witnesses are available, and conditions have not materially changed. Such an investigation permits prompt settlement of meritorious claims and allows governmental entities to plan their budgets in light of potential liabilities. Because a local governmental entity must anticipate that the number of claims made against it will far exceed those brought against a private individual, the provision of an abridged limitations period is reasonable. Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 194-95 (plurality op.).\nOur holding protects the possible claims of minors against local governmental entities by preserving the repose period for minors. As we stated in Antunes, 146 Ill. 2d at 493:\n\"Without doubt, Illinois has a long-established policy of protecting the right of minors to bring suit. As stated in McDonald v. City of Spring Valley (1918), 285 Ill. 52, 56, and reiterated in Severs v. Country Mutual Insurance Co. (1982), 89 Ill. 2d 515, 520, `A child with a meritorious cause of action but incapable of initiating any proceeding for its enforcement will not be left to the whim or mercy of some self-constituted next friend to enforce its rights.'\"\nNonetheless, a party must comply with both section 13-212(b) of the Code and section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act.\nIn this case, Karen, by operation of section 13-212(b) of the Code, was afforded an additional seven months, until she reached 18 years of age, before the one-year limitations period of section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act began to run. Since plaintiff failed to add Karen to the action within that time, her claim is time-barred. This result honors the underlying policies of both section 13-212(b) of the Code and section 8-101 of the Act. \"When two legislative schemes do not seem completely compatible, they should be interpreted so that meaning and effect is given to each statute.\" Stephens v. Cozadd, 159 Ill. App. 3d 452, 456 (1987).\nFor the foregoing reasons, the judgment of the appellate court is affirmed.\nJUSTICE McMORROW, dissenting:\nAt issue in this appeal is whether the one-year limitations period in section 8-101 of the Local Governmental and Governmental Employees Tort Immunity Act (Tort Immunity Act) ( 745 ILCS 10/8-101 (West 1998)) or the eight-year statute of repose in section 13-212(b) of the Code of Civil Procedure ( 735 ILCS 5/13-212(b) (West 1998)) applies to a medical malpractice wrongful-death claim brought by a minor against a local governmental entity or its employees. The majority, relying upon this court's severely split decision in Tosado v. Miller, 188 Ill. 2d 186 (1999), holds that the one-year limitations period of the Tort Immunity Act applies. For the reasons more fully set forth in my dissenting opinion in Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 201 (McMorrow, J., dissenting, joined by Rathje, J.), the majority's decision today continues an unwarranted and unprecedented departure from our traditional jurisprudence. I therefore respectfully dissent.\nIn Tosado, this court was asked to decide whether the two-year limitation period in section 13-212(a) of the Code of Civil Procedure ( 735 ILCS 5/13-212(a) (West 1992)) or the one-year limitation period in section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act applies to medical malpractice actions brought by adults against local governmental entities and/or their employees. Although four members of this court agreed with the disposition that the one-year limitations period in section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act applies to these actions, there was no majority agreement on the basis for that result. A plurality opinion, authored by Justice Miller and joined by Justice Bilandic, found that section 8-101 applied because it was more specific than section 13-212(a). In separate concurring opinions, Justice Heiple and then-Chief Justice Freeman reasoned that section 8-101 applied because the Illinois General Assembly had intended to make this general act controlling.\nIn the matter at bar, we are presented with a question similar to that in Tosado: we must determine which of two conflicting statutory provisions controls. Specifically, we must decide whether the eight year statute of repose contained in subsection (b) of section 13-212 of the Code of Civil Procedure or the one-year limitation provision in section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act applies to medical malpractice wrongful death claims brought by a minor. The majority concludes that, upon the minor's attainment of the age of 18, the one-year limitations period of section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act applies. Recognizing the fragmented nature of this court's decision in Tosado, the majority in the matter at bar employs the reasoning found in both the Tosado plurality opinion and in the Tosado special concurrences to support its result. This approach is unpersuasive and may result in further uncertainty with respect to the appropriate analysis to be employed.\nIndeed, the precedential value of a plurality decision is limited, as \"plurality decisions of a state supreme court, in which no majority agrees to the reasoning, are not binding under the doctrine of stare decisis; if a majority merely agrees to a particular result, without agreeing as to the grounds for a decision, the parties are bound by the decision but the case provides no binding authority beyond the immediate parties. Such decisions do not overrule prior or inconsistent decisions, and are not authority on any point concurred in by less than a majority.\" 5 Am. Jur. 2d Appellate Review \u00a7 602, at 298 (1995).\nThe plurality opinion in Tosado focused exclusively on the nature of the defendants in determining which of the two statutes more specifically applied to Tosado, the plaintiff before the court. The plurality concluded that section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act was more specific than section 13-212(a) of the Code of Civil Procedure because the former provision applies to defendants which are local governmental entities and their employees, a category of defendant which, in the plurality's view, was more specific than the broader group of physicians, dentists, registered nurses or hospitals described in section 13-212(a). Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 195.\nIn dissent, I observed that, traditionally, in determining which of two statutes is more specifically applicable to a particular controversy, most courts have looked primarily to the nature of the plaintiff's cause of action and the type of injury sustained by the plaintiff. Applying these traditional rules of analysis, it was my opinion that section 13-212(a) was more specifically applicable because it more narrowly defined the plaintiffs, their injuries and the nature of their claims. Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 202-04 (McMorrow, J., dissenting, joined by Rathje, J.) I further observed that, absent either explanation or citation to authority, the plurality shifted the analytical focus to the nature of the defendant. It was only by altering the focus of the analysis that the plurality could escape the conclusion that section 13-212 was more specifically applicable. Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 204-05 (McMorrow, J., dissenting, joined by Rathje, J.).\nI continue to adhere to my previously articulated view. In the instant cause the majority, applying the reasoning of the Tosado plurality opinion, finds that section 8-101 is more specific than 13-212(b) because it applies to a more narrow class of defendants, namely, local governmental entities and their employees. 202 Ill. 2d at 312. In accordance with the reasons stated in my dissent in Tosado, I submit that section 13-212(b) controls because it more narrowly defines the plaintiffs, their injuries, and the nature of their claims. Specifically, section 13-212(b) applies only \"where the person entitled to bring the action was, at the time the cause of action accrued, under the age of 18 years,\" and specifies that the cause of action must involve damages for \"injury or death * * * arising out of patient care.\" 735 ILCS 5/13-212(b) (West 1994). Applying the traditional modes of analysis, it is evident that the provisions of section 13-212(b) are far more specific than those of section 8-101, which apply to a \"civil action\" for \"any injury.\" 745 ILCS 10/8-101 (West 1994).\nIn addition, as more fully explained in my Tosado dissent, the conclusion that section 13-212(b) is more specifically applicable to the cause at bar is further supported by the fact that section 13-212 of the Code of Civil Procedure was enacted subsequently to the enactment of section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act. Section 13-212 was enacted in 1982 and the provisions at issue in subsection (b) were enacted in 1987 (735 ILCS Ann. 5/13-212, Historical and Statutory Notes, at 366 (Smith-Hurd 1992)), more than two decades after section 8-101 was enacted in 1965 (745 ILCS Ann. 10/8-101, Historical and Statutory Notes, at 882 (Smith-Hurd 1993)). The fundamental rule of statutory construction is to give effect to the intent of the legislature. It is well established that in seeking to ascertain legislative intent, \"[i]t is presumed that the legislature, in enacting various statutes, acts rationally and with full knowledge of all previous enactments.\" State v. Mikusch, 138 Ill. 2d 242, 247-48 (1990). Inasmuch as section 13-212 of the Code of Civil Procedure was enacted subsequently to section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act, it may be presumed, pursuant to well-settled rules of construction, that the legislature acted with full knowledge of the limitation period in section 8-101.\nIn support of its result in the matter at bar, the majority also relies upon the reasoning of Justice Heiple and then Chief Justice Freeman in their separate special concurrences in Tosado. Justices Heiple and Freeman agreed with the plurality that the one-year statute of limitations in section 8-101 applied, but found \"unpersuasive\" the plurality's characterization of the Tort Immunity Act as being the more specific statute. Instead, the two specially concurring justices concluded that, although section 8-101 is more general than section 13-212(a), this was an instance where the legislature intended to make the general act controlling. Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 199 (Heiple, J., specially concurring); Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 198 (Freeman, C.J., specially concurring). However, as explained in my dissent, scrutiny of the case cited in support of their proposition, Stone v. Department of Employment Security Board of Review, 151 Ill. 2d 257, 266 (1992), revealed that the proposition was untenable. Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 209 (McMorrow, J., dissenting, joined by Rathje, J.).\nI continue to adhere to my position in the instant cause. In the matter at bar, the majority, applying the rationale used by Justices Heiple and Freeman in their Tosado special concurrences, concludes that the legislature intended that section 8-101 of the Tort Immunity Act apply broadly to any possible claim against a local public entity and its employees. Again, for the reasons stated in my dissent in Tosado, I conclude that there is no support for the holding that this case presents an instance in which the legislature intended to make the general provision controlling.\nIn sum, the majority's decision today continues its unwarranted departure from traditional modes of analysis. In my dissent in Tosado, I observed that the plurality opinion left many questions unanswered, and wrote that \"[t]he plurality's newly conceived approach in determining the specificity of conflicting statutory provisions needlessly upsets long-established principles and may result in uncertainty among members of the bench and bar regarding which analysis should be employed.\" Tosado, 188 Ill. 2d at 206 (McMorrow, J. dissenting, joined by Rathje, J.). The majority's opinion today does not alleviate this concern. 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Carlo Cellai, Esq. graduated from New England School of Law in June, 1991 and sat for and simultaneously passed both the New York and Massachusetts bars examinations administered in July, 1991.\nCarlo Cellai, Esq. is a frequent lecturer to his peers in the legal community, private clients and the general public on a variety of legal issues. He has lectured at the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE), South Shore CPA Society and Massachusetts Minority Contractors Association. Currently, Carlo Cellai, Esq. has speaking engagements on a variety of topics to his peers and the general public.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charlenewoodlee.org/tag/agape-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:53Z", "digest": "sha1:F77QWN44J4F4PPRZYY4AYP3G36JZ3BOJ", "length": 4059, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "charlenewoodlee.org", "title": "agape love | Charlene Woodlee", "raw_content": "Chapter 4 Princess Lessons\nagape love, choices, Forgiveness, tests, trials\nA Very Terrible, Awful, Horrible Day\nThis morning the Princess got up in a bad mood. Some people might say that \u201cshe got up on the wrong side of the bed.\u201d She was very tired. So, she was very slow taking her bath and getting ready for school. Her mother kept reminding her that if she didn\u2019t hurry she would miss the bus. But for some reason she just couldn\u2019t get going that morning.\nShe ran to the school bus and got to the bus stop before the bus was ready to leave. As she climbed on the bus she thought, \u201cWhew, at least I made it.\u201d But the bus seemed especially noisy that day which made the Princess\u2019 ears hurt.\nagape love, grace, Kindness\nMicah 6:8 \u201cWhat does the Lord require of you? \u2026.to love mercy\u2026\u201d\nMicah challenges us to \u201clove mercy.\u201d So, what does that look like as we walk it out? First we need to see how God walks out His love of mercy.\nThe Lord has always been looking for a people totally in love with Him, who would commit their lives to Him by obeying Him and allow Him to transform them to look like Him. Moses loved God and wanted to know Him so one day he asked the Lord to show him what God looked like. The Lord answered his request by passing before him. As He did so Moses did not get to see the Lord with his eyes, but he did get to hear God\u2019s description of himself. The Lord described himself to Moses as \u201cthe compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.\u201d (Ex. 34:6-7) Throughout the Old Testament God continued to reach out to people to show them who He was. Some saw Him by faith, some believed in him for a while but got sidetracked by life, but most just didn\u2019t get. Always, God tried to show His love and mercy for His people and He even gave them an encouraging word of a future when they could truly see God in the flesh. Many looked for the Messiah that was promised and in that saw the promise of God\u2019s mercy for them.\nWhen Jesus, God\u2019s son, came from heaven to earth to live in every aspect of humankind from birth to death, God was showing His compassion, grace, love, faithfulness, and willingness to forgive us of our sins. Jesus did for us what we could not do. He was born as a human being, tempted in every way, but did not sin. He was crucified for a sin that he did not commit and by that death took on the sins of all who would look to him as their Lord and Savior. His death redeemed us. Then he rose from the dead and stands at the right hand of the Father to advocate for those who accept his offer of salvation. In these acts God has offered us mercy instead of judgment.\nWhen we decide to take Him up on His offer of mercy we are overwhelmed with God\u2019s grace for us. Grace is often defined as \u201cunmerited favor.\u201d It is the idea that grace is offered to someone who doesn\u2019t deserve it. Grace is the act of giving mercy, or compassionate treatment, to someone who has not or cannot earn it.\nMicah\u2019s challenge tells us \u201cto love mercy.\u201d I think that that begins with loving the act that the Lord has done for us, His willingness to give us mercy when we deserve judgment. It is recognizing the cost to both God the Father and Jesus the Son for granting that mercy and being so thankful for that mercy that we choose to grant mercy to others. Our love for God\u2019s mercy for us inspires us to grant mercy to others in our lives that have hurt us, become our enemies, or need our help. It is not just a challenge to love God for the mercy He has shown us, but the challenge to us to take that love of the mercy He gave us and incorporate into our lives a loving to show mercy to others like He showed to us. In the next chapter we will look at the ways that Jesus showed compassion and mercy to others even before his greatest act for all of us. Then we will look at a man named Barnabas who tried to follow Jesus\u2019 example in his everyday life. 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There are diverse liquids that are used in stimulating the body in a number of ways. This is something that regular butt plugs are not meant for.\nThe most complicated thought, however, is the why for all this. You may wonder why since the body has its own mechanism of conducting its own cleaning and removal of fecal matter, and you may even ask why the additional assistance? Reasons for doing this can be narrowed down to individuals who love doing so, these can be categorized as Recreational couching as well as medical douching.\nRecreational Douching\nRecreational douching is the most popular type of douche. This type of douching is not carried out for medical reasons or a standard known reason. It is however narrowed down to an individual level and is highly dependent on what each individual would like to achieve from this.\nA popular fact for anal douching is that majority of the people are worried of encountering fecal matter if they wish to engage in anal intercourse or play. Shower Enemas are very useful for that matter. However, simplicity with regards to this ends here. The physical part of rectal cleaning has its own diverse reasons though the results are one and the same, the reasons for this vary from one person to the other.\nFor those who are gay, there is usually more pressure to douche often. The expectation for the person who receives the penis is to ensure that they anal douche before taking part in any anal intercourse. If this is not done, there is a likelihood that this would bring them embarrassment and hinder them from attracting other men.\nFor some, douching is not necessarily associated with societal pressure but rather the need to feel more confident while engaging in anal play. This is mostly experienced in the early stages of a relationship. Some people consider such an embarrassment very extreme especially if they are with a new partner. They first try out roleplays using plugs like a cat's tail before engaging in anal play.\nMedical Douching\nMedical douching is done after a doctors recommendation or a recommendation from a health professional. This is on most occasions done in treating an illness and this is likely to be associated with the intestines. In the case where a doctor recommends douching for you, it is important that you strictly adhere to the instructions given by your doctor.\nIf you douche often or even do it incorrectly, you will be in more trouble than if you did not even do it. The decision to douche or not to douche is basically dependent on an individual.\nSee our assorted list of animal tail plugs here.\nIf you choose not to anal douche, you will still find that there would not be feces especially because the body has its own cleaning process. When you decide to anal douche, it is important to ensure that safety is prioritized and that you do not do this on a regular basis, your butt would feel refreshed and comfortable regardless of what your plans for it are.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 6813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cherylsorganizing.com/va-reston-renny-perdue/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:13Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5GGOH2BDSDGNLITS4LXY7AWK6RICZSB", "length": 788, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cherylsorganizing.com", "title": "VA | Reston | Renny Perdue - Cheryl's Organizing", "raw_content": "HomeOur TeamVA | Reston | Renny Perdue\nVA | Reston | Renny Perdue\nRenny is originally from New Jersey and has lived in Northern VA since 1988. She has worked in both the corporate and nonprofit sectors, with Mobil Corporation, EarthShare and most recently as Senior Director of Corporate Partnerships with United Way responsible for the annual fundraising campaign. She has facilitated several office moves; reorganized departments; overseen a strategic plan; and is a stickler for order. Having decided to retire early, she has enjoyed the time to organize her own home including her office, library, storeroom and lots of \u201ccloset surgery\u201d. She has been in the professional organizing business for a year. Renny enjoys reading, yoga, Pilates, Zumba, walking, cooking and going to movies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chickadeepark.com/flora/ryewld", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:46Z", "digest": "sha1:M3BQWHKJG7ZKTD257ECKA3N64VY2QVSO", "length": 94, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "chickadeepark.com", "title": "Chickadee Park: Wild Rye", "raw_content": "I ordered this as part of a mixed seed packet. Now I'm not sure what type of wild rye this is.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 193.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://choicebuildersgroup.com/our-service/home-remodeling/basement-remodeling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:09Z", "digest": "sha1:PCFNTYSBSMQMOSWDDBVLPINQJ24SDJXE", "length": 382, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "choicebuildersgroup.com", "title": "Basement Remodeling -", "raw_content": "Finishing your basement is a great way to economically add usable space to your home.\nThere are many configurations to choose from.\nYou may choose to have the children\u2019s bedrooms and play area, or, you may want to have a media room and added entertaining space. Whatever you decide, Choice Builders design and build it for you. We pay attention to the details, so you don\u2019t have to.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 221.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://christiannews.net/2017/05/21/students-demand-apology-over-superintendents-christian-speech-prayer-at-graduation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:09Z", "digest": "sha1:EJ7SK3NXDDXSLEYMBC45LHGI2EGHV7XA", "length": 3597, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "christiannews.net", "title": "Students Demand Apology Over Superintendent's Christian Speech, Prayer at Graduation | Christian News Network", "raw_content": "Students Demand Apology Over Superintendent\u2019s Christian Speech, Prayer at Graduation\nPhoto Credit: Willard High School/Facebook\nSPRINGFIELD, Mo. \u2014 A small group of students from a public high school in Missouri are demanding an apology from their district superintendent for incorporating Christian themes into his graduation speech and leading those gathered in a prayer.\nAccording to reports, in addition to offering general encouragement, Superintendent Kent Medlin mentioned \u201cthe Savior\u201d and referenced the Bible during the May 13 graduation ceremony for Willard High School. He also invited parents voluntarily to stand for a prayer of blessing over the students.\nBut some students say that the religious content of his message made them uncomfortable, and they felt \u201cpressured\u201d to stand up for the prayer when others did so.\n\u201cI was upset by it. I thought it was offensive to anyone who was attending who was not of the Christian faith,\u201d graduate Joseph Amundson told the Springfield News Leader. \u201cI didn\u2019t stand because it made me so mad that he did that.\u201d\n\u201cI came there to graduate, not go to church. It kind of ruined the rest of my night,\u201d senior Preston Schaeffer also remarked to the outlet. \u201cThat was the last night of my high school experience and he chose to talk about religion instead of graduation.\u201d\nMedlin has offered prayer at past graduation ceremonies, but the four students who contacted the media state that they want the practice stopped. They plan to also reach out to the American Civil Liberties Union to complain.\nThe superintendent, however, says that he never meant to make unbelievers uncomfortable and that he rather found the evening to be beautiful.\n\u201cIf my behavior was offensive to anyone then I am truly sorry,\u201d Medlin told reporters. \u201cI in no way wanted to offend anybody. That was not my intention.\u201d\nSome students have since come to Medlin\u2019s defense, stating that they too found his contribution to be enjoyable and that students were never asked to stand for the prayer\u2014only parents.\n\u201cIt was clear to me that Dr. Medlin had no intention of making any graduating seniors uncomfortable when he invited parents to stand with him. We stood on our own. It was our choice. He made no indication to the class of 2017,\u201d graduate Sam Bird wrote to the Springfield News Leader in response to the initial report.\n\u201cIt is important to me for it to be known that Dr. Medlin took no rights away from my graduating class. He did not force us to do anything, nor was his intention to make anyone feel excluded. As one of the first graduates to stand, I stood on my own. He didn\u2019t tell me to,\u201d he noted.\n\u201cI hope everyone publicly realizes that this man truly made WHS graduation a beautiful night,\u201d Bird said.\nAs previously reported, in 1828, just 52 years after the nation\u2019s founding, Noah Webster, known as the Father of American Scholarship and Education, wrote, \u201cIn my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed. \u2026 No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.\u201d\nWebster\u2019s famous 1783 \u201cBlue Back Speller,\u201d which taught students how to read, included God-centered statements in lessons such as \u201cThe preacher is to preach the gospel,\u201d \u201cBlasphemy is contemptuous treatment of God,\u201d and \u201cWe do not like to see our own sins.\u201d\nStudents Demand Apology Over Superintendent\u2019s Christian Speech, Prayer at Graduation added by Heather Clark on May 21, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 7972, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://christianvoicesbexhill.com/2013/12/22/no-room-at-the-inn-twice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:30Z", "digest": "sha1:AXALCE56HWUS6HIT6MQ3QDW5VT3CVHGO", "length": 739, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "christianvoicesbexhill.com", "title": "No Room At The Inn \u2013 Twice! | Christian Voices Bexhill", "raw_content": "No Room At The Inn \u2013 Twice!\nChristian Voices are very happy to report an excellent reception for their new Christmas themed play \u201cNo Room At the Inn\u201c, script and songs written by Alan Young.\nOn the 15th December 2013, at St. Peter\u2019s Community Centre and Ninfield Methodist Church, we performed the entirely new piece. The play reflects on the thoughts guests and staff at the last inn that Mary and Joseph try in their desperate search for a room.\nWe really enjoyed rehearsing and performing the play and were thrilled with the audience\u2019s reaction to our story. Attached is the service sheet from the St. Peter\u2019s performance.\nIf you saw either production, drop us a note and let us know what you thought!\nNo Room At The Inn \u2013 Service Sheet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cisrussia.com/world-of-cis/news/interesting_facts_about_oxford_ccfs22/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:17Z", "digest": "sha1:47SCI56MYTWMZFQDU32NE7DYGCJH5TMB", "length": 286, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cisrussia.com", "title": "Interesting facts about Oxford \u2014 CIS Russia's article", "raw_content": "World of CISNews Interesting facts about Oxford\nThe Great Hall at Christ Church was used as inspiration for the Hogwarts dining hall in the Harry Potter films. The staircase leading up to the hall was actually used in several scenes in the films.\nMr. Marat Shems, Cambridge Exam Officer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://citizenyang.com/2017/03/15/reconsideration-repeal-of-fuel-economy-standards-for-2022-2025-model-year-cars/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:22Z", "digest": "sha1:6O2OEPAE556GZIYKHOI2XI5D7YTE2YEF", "length": 2616, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "citizenyang.com", "title": "Reconsideration (repeal?) of fuel economy standards for 2022-2025 model year cars | Citizen Yang", "raw_content": "Reconsideration (repeal?) of fuel economy standards for 2022-2025 model year cars\nEPA just posted the news release of Administrator Pruitt\u2019s (and DOT Secretary Chao\u2019s) decision to reexamine the fuel economy standards for model years 2022-2025. The decision was announced earlier by President Trump at a Michigan auto plant. The rationale for this reexamination, the complaint by auto-makers that they are having difficulties meeting the standards, is remarkably disappointing The rest of the world, especially Europe and Japan, already have much higher fuel economy standards than the US, and the EPA/DOT standards would only have made the US catch up. In other words, car-makers already have to build cars with higher fuel economy standards if they want to sell them in most of the rest of the world.\nWhat is especially galling about this is the reason why the rest of the world is so far ahead. For more than 2 decades, between the mid-1980s to 2009, fuel economy standards were not increased, essentially allowing the US to fall far behind other industrialized countries. The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions has a nice chart that shows the fuel economy standards of various countries, including the US. The consequence? Not only will there be more greenhouse gas emissions, but consumers will pay more for gas usage. Sad.\nEven sadder? Countries like China have more stringent standards. (Though in fairness, the standards only apply to new model years.) But at least, these countries have the right forward-looking policies on this issue in place.\nBack in the early 80s, the Reagan Administration attempted to reverse air bag requirements of the preceding Carter Administration, designed to improve vehicle safety and save lives. The ensuing litigation resulted in a famous U.S. Supreme Court case, Motor Vehicles Manufacturers v. State Farm Mutual, which is taught in every administrative law course. The Supreme Court struck down the Reagan Administration\u2019s attempt to roll back that regulation. In the end, the Reagan Administration was only able to slow down the process of making cars safer but didn\u2019t change the eventual outcome \u2013 airbags in every vehicle. That same legal standard, asking whether the new Administration acted arbitrarily and capriciously in undoing the prior regulation, will be applied to the Trump/Pruitt regulatory roll-back effort when it is challenged in court.\nOn a completely different matter and for some levity, for yesterday\u2019s Pi day activities at Santa Clara Law, I \u201ctook one for the team\u201d and got \u201cpied,\u201d together with several other colleagues! Here\u2019s the video. Enjoy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 4112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://civillyspeaking.com/2018/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:28Z", "digest": "sha1:5E2DALQLEC5NAJMCN57IUPSRJSRA7RWW", "length": 514, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "civillyspeaking.com", "title": "June 2018 \u2013 civilly speaking", "raw_content": "Another opportunity is where somebody has maybe a chronic condition where they don\u2019t need a block of leave and the employer doesn\u2019t recognize the need to provide intermittently for a chronic condition so, for example if somebody has developed migraines from a personal injury or workers\u2019 comp case that a doctor is certified for needing maybe two or three days as much as a week or a month or something like that off to deal with the migraine, the employer a lot of times just kind of gets sick of dealing with it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 261.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://civitaquana.blogspot.com/2012/09/3rd-teach-meet-international-online.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:TGQSZHPMHMG4OOCXPYU3CO2JAJBMC4WK", "length": 599, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "civitaquana.blogspot.com", "title": "Janet's Abruzzo Edublog: 3rd Teach Meet International Online", "raw_content": "thank you so much for writing this wonderful post about TeachMeet Int'l. It's indeed a wonderful event because of the teachers like you who want to share their fantastic projects and ideas with their colleagues from all over the world. I'm looking forward to seeing you there again.\nDear Arjana\nIt is a huge honour for me to be taking part in this prestigious International event!!\nThe thanks are all due to you and the fantastic TeachMeet Int'l team, who arrange such events in order to inspire teachers from all walks of life to become better and more informed educators..\nWarm wishes from Abruzzo", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 13603, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cleantalk.org/blacklists/125.104.235.162", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:57Z", "digest": "sha1:JV4WFQKEMGG5UV6AUR3RC5FTZIMSYA6H", "length": 484, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cleantalk.org", "title": "IP 125.104.235.162 spam report. Blacklists & abuse DB", "raw_content": "125.104.235.162 reported as spam3 times, discovered Sep 25, 2018, last activity Sep 25, 2018 08:54:34.\n1 125.104.236.41 Nov 20, 2018 06:48:39 Dec 10, 2018 19:00:40 5\n2 125.104.236.85 Oct 27, 2018 11:28:18 Nov 16, 2018 19:00:23 5\n3 125.104.236.96 Jan 24, 2019 06:25:28 Feb 13, 2019 19:01:44 4\n4 125.104.236.128 Jan 20, 2019 10:53:42 Feb 09, 2019 19:02:37 6\n8 125.104.238.126 Sep 24, 2018 02:25:48 Sep 24, 2018 06:34:13 3\n10 125.104.238.200 Nov 25, 2018 03:49:48 Dec 15, 2018 19:00:06 5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 85.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cmcacorner.com/2012/08/21/cmca-profile-3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:UWMA7ZPSYQIPE32UYDQZ7FIIINKJYOA5", "length": 3501, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "cmcacorner.com", "title": "CMCA profile | CMCAcorner", "raw_content": "Stephen Castle, CMCA, AMS, PCAM\n\u201cIn those days, I was an \u2018expert\u2019 only because I owned a condominium home and served as an association leader.\u201d In 1976, Steve Castle worked as a consultant providing new homeowner orientation and board member programs. The challenging and exciting work Steve performed as a consultant in the emerging community association industry led to his pioneering career as a leader in the field of community association management and a founder of NBC-CAM.\nIn 1995, Steve was asked to join the Blue Ribbon Task Force that founded NBC-CAM. He chaired the NBC-CAM Board of Commissioners from its inception through 2004. He was a key player in the creation of the CMCA program and earned the second certification awarded. Steve\u2019s vision has been critical to the continued success of the CMCA program. \u201cWhen I got into the business 25 years ago, I had to learn by hard knocks, but I would have loved to have had this sort of certification program available,\u201d he said.\nSteve was influential in shaping policy at Community Associations Institute (CAI) as well. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Award in 1997, the Outstanding Volunteer Service Award in 1993, the President\u2019s award in 1996 and 2003, and the Chair\u2019s Award in 2003. Steve\u2019s rewarding professional event was \u201creceiving CAI\u2019s Distinguished Service Award because it is so rarely awarded, and therefore, was more meaningful than other recognitions I was fortunate enough to receive from both CAI and NBC-CAM.\u201d\n\u201cI really can\u2019t think of anything significant that I would want to have done differently in my first 64 years of life\u201d pondered Steve, who is currently enjoying his position as CEO Emeritus of Mid-Atlantic Management Corporation in Pennsylvania. \u201cI\u2019m not totally out to pasture,\u201d he jokes.\nHaving paved the way for the 11,000 and counting CMCAs over 15 years ago, Steve retains his \u201cexpert\u201d status through his continued dedication and commitment to serving community association managers and communities. Steve\u2019s sentiment that \u201cthis new \u2018association\u2019 concept was appealing in the late 1970\u2019s because it represented a future growth potential\u201d remains true today.\n1 thought on \u201cCMCA profile\u201d\nMariah Page on August 24, 2012 at 10:22 am said:\nWas my CMCA profile ever posted?\nMariah Page, CMCA, AMS, PCAM\nKramer Triad Management Group, LLC\n40000 Grand River Avenue, Suite #100\nAssocia \u2014 The Nation\u2019s Leader in Community Association Management\nNotice: This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Please virus check all attachments to prevent widespread contamination and corruption of files and operating systems. 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I lived in a small town right outside of the city of Philadelphia, and now I live in city center Madrid. I taught for 5 years while in the United States, and I received my bachelor\u2019s degree from West Chester University, Pennsylvania. I taught preschool and first grade while in the US, and I absolutely loved it. I believe that I have a great passion for education. I have 2 younger brothers and 2 cats named Olive and Lefty. During my free time I enjoy listening to music, shopping, and spending time with family and friends. I am very excited to start this journey as your new English language assistant and I am looking forward to a year of learning, fun, and adventures!\n\u2013 Food: sushi\n\u2013 Movie: The Little Mermaid\n\u2013 Hobbies: travel, staying active, fashion\nHello! My name is Toni and I am from Sacramento, California. I have been working as an English Language Assistant in Madrid for three years. 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I am looking forward to this school year at Siglo XXI and I hope that I will have the opportunity to meet you all!\n\u2190 Vuelve la vida a los percheros \u00a1Se empiezan a caer los dientes! \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://collegefootball.ap.org/uniondailytimes/teams/wisconsin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MP5VHE2PLMORDBBPVM6GWOAGS6AHWWHY", "length": 801, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "collegefootball.ap.org", "title": "Wisconsin | College Football", "raw_content": "MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 Wisconsin renewed football coach Paul Chryst's five-year contract through January 2024 on Friday. 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Able to capture and reflect light, she later departed to space with fellow Titan Fringe.\nPrysm appears in 61 issues\nPrysm last edited by Etheral-Mileena on 06/22/18 11:16AM View full history\nPrysm was the only member of the incarnation of the Teen Titans in which she was a member that wasn't born and rised on Earth after her mother was used for the experiments of the H'San Natall. The only difference between Prysm's and the rest of the Teen Titan's experiments was that her mother was inseminated while being aboard of one of the H'San Natall's spaceships. Soon after that Prysm's mother was taken into a lockdown into the ship until the day that Prysm was born.\nAfter Prysm was born she was taken to be part of more experiments of H'San Natall, the experiment consisted of putting her a special suit where she would live a life based on the shows that were watched on the 50's, making her believe that she was actually a princess that lived in a mystical time with dragons, making her having a very quiet and enjoyable life, however this wasn't a perfect illusion leading to Prysm's discovery about the truth behind her life.\nIt was soon after that that the young teenagers who had just become metahumans and that would later become the newest incarnation of the Teen Titans arrived at the spaceship of the H'San Natall thanks to a teleport. It was during this that the rest of the teens would also be used as experiments for their suits.\nHowever working together and using their new powers they were able to escape that fake reality, accidentally freeing Prysm in the progress. This made Prysm discover that all her life was fake and that she had been living a lie for the last 16 years, as if things weren't bad enough she got a new appearance that looked similar to glass. After the adventure was over Prysm, Joto (Hotspot), Atom (Ray Palmer) and the rest of the teenagers returned to Earth where thanks to the funding of Loren Jupiter (a former ally of the original Teen Titans) and the help of his daughter Omen (Lilith Clay) they became the newest incarnation of the Teen Titans.\nDuring the adventure, the teens learned that they were half-alien, and their mothers were impregnated by the H'San Natall years ago. All born on June 21st, the kids were part of a sleeper agent program by the H'San Natall to defeat the super-powered beings already on Earth. The group stayed together, and with the funding of Loren Jupiter, became the newest incarnation of the Teen Titans. The heat-generating Isaiah Crockett became Joto; Toni Monetti's silver plasma powers earned her the codename, Argent; With enhanced speed and strength, Cody Driscoll took the nickname, Risk; And the alien girl who could absorb and project light adopted the name, Prysm. Atom decided to remain on the team to learn how to readjust to his life as a teenager, since he was de-aged by Extant during the Zero Hour Crisis.\nPrysm had a hard time adjusting to her new life and new appearance. She had a strong crush on Risk, who didn't return her affections. During a mission that took the team to Skartaris, Prysm was tricked into giving her powers to the evil Motalla in exchange for gaining a human form. Prysm had a chance at being human - and even Cody began to see her in a new light. Sadly, to defeat Motalla, Prysm had to reclaim her powers, and lose her human form in the process.\nAfter a battle with Haze, fellow teammate Joto seemingly died, leaving the team devastated. Complicating matters, Mr. Jupiter disbanded the Titans.\nTeam's rebuilt\nSome time after this Argent inspired by Joto (Hotspot) decided to become a better heroine and try to rebuild the Teen Titans. Bringing the members of her generation of the Teen Titans (Risk, Prysm, etc) she also decided that without Joto (Hotspot) the Teen Titans would need more members, this lead to a membership drive to bring more people and power to the just rebuilt team.\nIt was during this membership drive that both CM3 (Captain Marvel Jr.) and Fringe helped the Teen Titans to battle the Veil and also became the two newest members of the team.\nIt was after this that the Teen Titans would have another confrontation with the H'San Natall along with The Veil. They were captured and imprisoned by the H'San Natall to be brainwashed into being the agents they were born to be. While restrained, they found out that they Joto was alive. It was also during this time that Prysm discovered that her biological mother was not only alive but in league with the rest of the H'San Natall. Later, they managed to escape their restraints and located Prysm and Joto, only for Prysm to turn on her friends in favor of being part of her family. With some encouragement from Superman , who had been investigating the H'San Natall's presence, the race gave up on attacking the Earth and crossing the Titans. While the rest of the team returned to the Earth and went their separate ways disbanding the Teen Titans, Prysm decided to stay in space with her parents, along with Fringe who also decided to stay with her. The reason behind Prysm's decision was that she always considered herself someone that didn't belong on Earth, however with her parents and the rest of the H'San Natall she finally had a place to call home.\nTechnis Imperative\nPrysm along with Fringe along with everyone who had ever been a Teen Titan were captured in the Justice League of America and Titans miniseries: The Technis Imperative. After being rescued they helped the rest of the titans to battle the Justice League of America in order to save Cyberion (Cyborg).\nFirst Appearance: Teen Titans #1 (October 1996)\nCivilian Name: Audrey Spears\nWeight: Undetermined\nHair: Undetermined\nPrysm's body is capable of capturing and reflecting light. Her release of the light is often in the form of laser beams, with varying intensity. The limits of her powers are unknown, but the level of power she has shown causes some to call her the most powerful member of this iteration of the Teen Titans. Prysm's color also often changes to reflect her mood (for example: blue is sad; red is angry).\nPrysm's physiology creates one key weakness. 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You might suggest registration for the NGS 2018 Family History Conference. If you have already registered, they can treat you to the Western Michigan Genealogical Society host event at the Gerald R. Ford Pre...\nBCG Education Fund Workshops\nTuesday, 1 May 2018, the BCG Education Fund Workshop \u2013 Putting Skills to Work, will be held at DeVos Place, 8:30 a.m. \u2013 4:30 p.m. This intensive, full day of learning focuses on skills needed by every genealogist and advocates for established genealogical standards. ...\nIt\u2019s Here!!! The 2018 Family History Conference program is now available online and as a downloadable sixteen-page registration brochure. This year\u2019s program, Paths to Your Past, will feature a full conference DNA track, an expanded African American track, and many new topics including \u201cPa...\nThank You\u2019s and Goodbye (for now)\nToday is Post #125 for the NGS 2017 Family History Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is also the last post for the 2017 Conference, because it is over\u2026yes, it is\u2026ended yesterday. If you attended, you are probably home now exhausted and exhilarated by all you have learned, and ea...\nNational Genealogical Society Awards The National Genealogical Society (NGS) held its annual banquet on Friday evening, 12 May, at the NGS 2017 Family History Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, to present awards that acknowledge and honor genealogical scholarship and service. The banquet spea...\nBeginning in 1986, the National Genealogy Hall of Fame program, administered by the National Genealogical Society, has honored outstanding genealogists whose achievements in the field of American genealogy have had a great impact on our field. Qualified nominations are solicited annually from genea...\nNeed to Ship Books Home? Read On\u2026\nShipping Books Home from the Conference When you attend a conference, do you ever wonder how you will travel with all of your purchases? We have an answer that will lighten your load when you head home! As with previous NGS conferences, a shipping method is offered for attendees and is conveniently...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 5853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://connectionsaustralia.com/en/stories/kshitiz", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:48Z", "digest": "sha1:NVICCTVMRY3VRCJWVZRA4NEMLFE4LFUX", "length": 1924, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "connectionsaustralia.com", "title": "Kshitiz Harsh - Connections Australia", "raw_content": "I came to Australia in August 2016 on Permanent residency visa. I got my visa in 3 months time considered my points were relatively higher compared to others in my Business Analyst occupation. Being an engineer and an MBA, I thought getting a job would not be that hard. But I was wrong. I brought with me my lifetime of savings to last for 5-6 months believing I will definitely get a job by then. It was a bold move as migrating to a country, leaving behind your own, is not an easy decision.\nInitially, I came alone and was sharing a room with another person. The rent was pretty expensive and hence I had to cut down on my food. The first month I tried to contact all the recruiters, forwarded my CV to them and request them to at least meet me face to face to get a better understanding of my skills. Unfortunately, it was all in vain. I then broaden my search and started applying to other cities in Australia. 2 months had already passed and I did not get a single interview call. Pressure was building on me but I did not lose hope.\nAfter 2 months, few recruiters started calling me back but due to no local experience, they were unable to place me for an interview. The holiday season was approaching and still, I was not able to secure a job. In the month of December, I received few interview calls and cleared 2 of them. I started thinking things are improving and my stars are in right order. Unfortunately, due to the holiday season, they did not offer me a role. They asked me to wait till the start of 2017. I was again without a job. I clearly understood it is not at all easy to get a job in Australia as I had thought before. It's a different market altogether. It's tough for immigrants to secure a role, as you don't have a clue where to start, whom to contact, whom to meet, etc.\nFortunately, I got a job at the end of December and things are better for me now.\nI am Kshitiz Harsh and this is my story.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 257.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://consultancy.rabe.org/analysis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQCQHU2BK26TM3ZPP4NZQR6FT5YIEOYC", "length": 1532, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "consultancy.rabe.org", "title": "Analysis \u2013 RABe Consultancy", "raw_content": "Analysis has provided my bread and (almond) butter for the last 15+ years. As an analyst, I convert data into insights by using statistical or philosophical tools.\nStatistical analysis allows us to dig into numeric data, which many, especially larger, businesses collect regularly. This collection ranges from point-of-sales information \u2013 captured whenever you buy something \u2013 to demographics. Combining various sources can provide even more powerful insights that can help business not only what types of customers they have but also who these customers are \u2013 and how to find similar new ones. For example, by understanding their customers better, a retail client was able to target their catalogs more effectively to potential new customers, thus increasing the number of new sales.\nPhilosophical analysis also uses data, though that data is more abstract, often expressed in the form of ideas. These analyses often try to dig below the ideas to uncover \u2013 and question \u2013 underlying assumptions, which can uncover connections that then can be leveraged. For example, in my thesis, I used insights from psychology to question a common institution, marriage, and pointed out that we might want to develop new ways of interacting.\nCombining these tools can give us even deeper insights allowing us to develop programs that address underlying issues more thoroughly. For example, I investigated the extend of violence against women in Buddhist countries and then used the findings to look at teachings that might condone such violence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 1865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://corgibytes.com/blog/2016/09/15/three-influential-books/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PWIHFOS7GFCPFN4OV2FK7IBRH4MZ2736", "length": 5103, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "corgibytes.com", "title": "Three Books That Influenced Corgibytes Culture", "raw_content": "When you build a company, you\u2019re standing on the shoulders of other people. One of the aspects of my job that I love the most, as CEO, is reading lots of ideas and figuring out which ones would work best for us. Here are three books that I go to time and time and time again and whose contents are dog-eared, scribbled, and highlighted the most.\nWhen I first read Daring Greatly, which is a synthesis of research around empathy, shame and vulnerability, it had a profound impact on me. I had long wondered why I felt out of place in the technology sector. This book helped me realize why.\nIf we want cultures that are filled with innovation, creativity, and trust, we must focus on cultivating an environment where we can be vulnerable. In tech, we celebrate the hero: the startup founder who works 130 hours per week, the lone developer who pulls the all-nighter, the CEO who ignores their family so their business can grow. But the hero culture has its drawbacks. A hero can only thrive in crisis. If we reward the people who have made the most personal sacrifices, a fire-fighting culture is inevitable. People become addicted to chaos and poor decision making, which leads to unhappy clients, which puts the business at risk.\nAfter reading Daring Greatly, we were compelled to create a culture where empathy is at the center. The first consultant we worked with said we would get laughed out of tech if we discussed empathy. No one would take us seriously, she said. But our experience couldn\u2019t be more different. Because we\u2019ve focused on empathy, balance, and trust as our cultural pillars, we\u2019ve found ourselves delivering more value than our competitors. We have a backlog of tech talent that wants to work with us, and those of us who are here are happy and relaxed at work.\nThere\u2019s a reason Daring Greatly is at the top of the list. This book, above any other, has shaped the way I approach leadership. The tech sector may be an empathy desert, but Bren\u00e9 Brown\u2019s work has helped us make Corgibytes a beautiful oasis in the middle of it all.\nHow do you motivate employees in the knowledge economy? You start by reading Drive, which delves into this question with exceptional clarity. I\u2019ve long been a fan of Daniel Pink\u2019s work. His ability to tell stories around social science research makes his books incredibly accessible. Scott and I listened to Drive on audiobook together in the car on the way to the office. I love books that are read by the author, and Pink is a good performer. I had downloaded this book on a lark, it was free from my local library and seemed interesting, but that\u2019s all I knew about it. Looking back, the ideas in this book have made a big impact on how we run our business.\nPink breaks down what he calls \u201cmotivation 2.0\u201d into three pillars: autonomy, purpose, and mastery. Reading this book just so happened to synchronize with our decision to recruit more people to join our team. We structured our benefits very clearly around these pillars. We encourage team members to work asynchronously, we have clearly defined our mission, vision and values, and we set aside 10% of everyone\u2019s time for professional development.\nIt was this book that introduced me to concepts such as a growth mindset, working in flow, and the power of play. Like many of the books I find the most useful, this one is rooted in research. If you\u2019re looking to attract and retain the best talent to work for you, add Drive to your reading list.\nLooking at the back cover, you\u2019ll quickly see that Rework is filled with unconventional ideas:\nASAP is poison\nUnderdo the competition\nEmulate drug dealers\nFight bloat\nInspiration is perishable\nAs developers who work with Ruby on Rails, we\u2019ve been aware of 37Signals for a long time. David Heinemeier Hansson, or DHH as he\u2019s referred to in the software circles, developed Rails and released it to the world. We had long heard of the unconventional culture that 37Signals fostered, and which they attributed to the growth of their flagship product, Basecamp.\nThis book is incredibly easy to read. But be warned. You\u2019ll likely want to buy two copies, because if you\u2019re like me, you\u2019ll want to tear out pretty much every page and post it around the office for inspiration. The typography, wit, and illustrative style helped me visualize concepts and sear them into my brain for when I was making decisions. If you know for sure you\u2019re ready to ditch the status quo, Rework will help show you the unconventional path towards success.\nOf course, these are only a few titles of the many books that have helped me sculpt the Corgibytes culture. Some of the books I considered including, but ultimately didn\u2019t: Purple Cow, Team of Teams, The Customer Rules, Small Is the New Big, POP!, Rising Strong, A Whole New Mind, The Diamond Cutter, Essentialism, Mindset, Creativity, Inc., People Over Profit, The Lean Startup, Scaling Up Excellence, Positive Intelligence, Bossypants, Peopleware, Trust Agents, and Show Your Work.\nHow about you? What books have inspired you? If you\u2019ve read any of the ones I\u2019ve listed, what were your reactions?\nbrene brown \u2022\ndhh \u2022", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 6181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://corp.scmp.com/scmp-group-limited-reports-four-fold-increase-in-net-profit-for-first-half-2011/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:52Z", "digest": "sha1:RN7QGG7CPPGAU5GXPXC5DHCKNAZLSBT2", "length": 2198, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "corp.scmp.com", "title": "SCMP Group Limited reports four-fold increase in net profit for first half 2011 \u2013 South China Morning Post Publishers Limited", "raw_content": "Hong Kong, August 25, 2011 \u2013 The South China Morning Post Group Limited today announced the unaudited interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2011.\nThe operating results improved significantly as a result of careful cost management and a more positive economy. Total revenue was HK$443.5m compared with HK$411.7m in 1H 2010, an increase of 8%. Operating profit from principal activities increased 70% to HK$112.8m for 1H 2011. Net profit attributable to shareholders for the period was HK$223.7m, compared with a $52.3m during 1H in 2010. This year\u2019s net profit included a property revaluation gain net of deferred tax of $128.2 million.\nBasic earnings per share came to HK$0.143 per share, compared to HK$0.034 per share in 1H, 2010. Interim dividend per share was HK$0.04.\nThe newspaper publishing division, which generated 84% of the revenue and 72% of the operating profit, reported an increase of 9% increase in revenue and an 80% increase in net profit to $73.7m (from $41.0m for the same period in 2010). Revenue from advertising and marketing services increased by 11%, driven by a higher volume of display advertising in newspaper, glossy magazines and Post Magazine. Recruitment revenue increased 8%, mainly driven by strong growth in online recruitment advertisements.\nThe un-audited circulation of South China Morning Post in the first half of 2011 was estimated at 101,800 copies, same level as last year, and that of Sunday Morning Post was 81,300, increased by 3% as compared with the first half of 2010.\n\u201cThe first half results are very encouraging, and reflect careful budget management and significant effort from the team to drive new revenue sources as well as to optimize the existing product portfolio.\u201d said Ms Elsie Cheung, COO for the SCMP Group Limited. \u201cLooking into the second half of this year, the Group will continue to strengthen its print and digital products for readers and deliver exciting new marketing opportunities for its advertising clients. Provided that the economy remains stable in the months ahead, the Group is confident that the business momentum will be maintained in the second half of 2011.\nSenior PR and Corporate Communications Manager", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 165.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://countrymusicmatters.com/tag/dolly-parton/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:57Z", "digest": "sha1:DKO7EFRQP434HZXZPOGBSDDH4UICQ675", "length": 1837, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "countrymusicmatters.com", "title": "Dolly Parton Archives ~ Page 4 of 13 ~ Country Music Matters", "raw_content": "Dolly Parton Is 2016 Recipient Of The Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award\nSuperstar Dolly Parton has been everywhere with a very busy year. The iconic country artist will be the 2016 recipient of the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented during \u201cThe 50th Annual CMA Awards,\u201d airing Wednesday, Nov. 2 (8:00 PM/ET) on the ABC Television Network live from Nashville. ... read more!\nDolly Parton Featured In Our Throwback Thursday \u2013 \u201cJolene\u201d\nOur Throwback Thursday this week is from one of the real icons of the entertainment industry. Known for things from movies to theme parks, but simply put, it all started with her singing and songwriting. Dolly Parton wrote and performed \u201cJolene.\u201d It was released in October 1973 as the first single from the album \u201cJolene.\u201d The song became her second solo No. 1 single on the country charts. ... read more!\nWaylon Jennings \u201cThe Lost Nashville Sessions\u201d Album Due Out Oct. 21st\nOld school country legends and classics never really age. Country Rewind Records (a division of Hindsight Records, NY), will introduce one of its newest collections of country music\u2019s hidden treasures\u2014\u201dThe Lost Nashville Sessions (Waylon Jennings).\u201d The project will be available October 21, 2016 via all major digital retail outlets. ... read more!\nDolly Parton Schedules Appearances In Support Of \u201cPure & Simple\u201d\nDolly Parton\u2019s career has spanned over five decades and is showing no signs of slowing down. With the release of her 43rd studio album, \u201cPure & Simple,\u201d she will celebrate with appearances scheduled this week on \u201cThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,\u201d August 23rd, \u201cTODAY\u201d on August 24th as well as \u201cFox & Friends,\u201d \u201cAccess Hollywood,\u201d \u201cCelebrity Page,\u201d \u201cCMT Top 20 Countdown,\u201d \u201cGAC Great American Playlist,\u201d \u201cFox NewsEdge,\u201d CBS Newspath, CNN and many more! ... read more!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://couponsforfun.com/tennessee/tn-womens-basketball-hall-of-fame/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJH2KQSAJNBKK6TB4YXBLHCLGOZFF5VB", "length": 340, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "couponsforfun.com", "title": "Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee - Get savings coupon!", "raw_content": "WOMEN\u2019S BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME\nThe Women\u2019s Basketball Hall of Fame is an international museum dedicated to preserving the history of women\u2019s basketball. A non-profit organization, managed by the Hall of Fame Management Inc Board, the Hall of Fame is the only facility of its kind dedicated to all levels of women's basketball in the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 902, "original_length": 38599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 39.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://creativehomekeeper.com/category/faith-and-biblical-womanhood/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7RT6D3T5IQUFFUEDLW4TKI5M2LGKLP3B", "length": 1012, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "creativehomekeeper.com", "title": "Your Faith Archives - Page 2 of 14 - Creative Home Keeper", "raw_content": "Ready to shift the mindset of reading the Bible daily out of duty into a delight? Let\u2019s become a generation of women who delight in God\u2019s Word every single day with these 20 ideas for making reading the Bible daily a time of indulgence! Delight in the Scriptures Crave reading your Bible Enjoy the Word For many of us women,\u2026 Read More\nIs your quiet time anything but quiet? These 5 simple strategies will help you focus on your Bible reading and prayer time in the midst of distractions vying for your attention. Perfect for moms with little ones! \u201cMommy! I\u2019m hungry! Can you fix breakfast now?\u201d \u201cMommy\u2026 he\u2019s looking at me funny! Can you tell him to stop?\u201d \u201cWhat are you\u2026 Read More\nCurrently, we live in a society where God\u2019s Word is not valued, known, or worse, it\u2019s being twisted to support lies. We live in a day and age where we have more access to the Bible than any other generation in history and we have countless translations to choose from. You can even access it for free with the swipe of\u2026 Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 323.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://crschmidt.net/blog/categories/locality-and-space/openlayers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:20Z", "digest": "sha1:EZSHVNNUVIKWZTC32KJC7ZUJBBK7LHWH", "length": 17919, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "crschmidt.net", "title": "Technical Ramblings \u00bb OpenLayers", "raw_content": "Archive for the 'OpenLayers' Category\nAre you generative than consumptive in your field?\nPosted in Locality and Space, OpenLayers, Social, Software on May 26th, 2009 at 10:57:47\nAnselm just posted what appears to be a random thought on twitter:\nAre you more generative than consumptive in your particular field? \u2026 Create more than you consume?\nIn open source, I often rephrase this question as \u201cAre you a source, or a sink?\u201d\nThere are many people in the community who contribute more than they consume. Organizations, individuals, etc. There are also many sinks in the community \u2014 since entropy is every increasing, this seems a forgone conclusion \u2014 and one of the key things that causes an open source project to succeed or fail is the number of sources or sinks.\nI personally try very hard to be a source in all that I do, rather than a sink. One way that I do this is that I try very hard to always followup any question I ask \u2014 for example, on a mailing list, on an IRC channel, or what have you \u2014 with at least two answers of my own. This means that, for example, when I hopped into #django to ask about best practices for packaging apps, I stuck around, and helped out two more people \u2014 one who was asking a question about PIL installation, and one about setting up foreign keys to different models.\nNow, in the end, my answers were simple \u2014 no one with even a basic knowledge of Django would have had problems answering them. But by sticking around and answering them, I was able to make up to some extent for the time/energy that I consumed from someone more familiar with the project, by saving them from needing to answer as well.\nIt is often the case that users trying to get help will claim that once they get help, they will \u2018contribute back\u2019 to the community by, for example, writing documentation. This never happens. Though there are exceptions to every rule, it is almost always the case that users who ask a question, prefacing it with \u201cI will document this for other users\u201d, never follow through on the latter half. The exceptions to this \u2014 or rather, the alternate cases \u2014 are cases where a user has already invested\u043b\u0435\u0433\u043b\u0430 significant research, and likely already started writing documentation. Unless the process is started before the problem is solved, it is almost universally true \u2014 in my experience \u2014 that the user will act as a sink, taking the information from the source and disappearing with it.\nI work very hard on supporting a number of open source projects that I work on. Though my involvement lately has been more hands off \u2014 by doing things like writing documentation instead of answering questions, acting as a release manager instead of fixing bugs, and so on \u2014 I work very hard to keep the karmic balance of my work on the positive side. I believe that this pays off in the long run \u2014 I have somewhat of a reputation of being helpful, which is beneficial to me since it means I\u2019m more likely to receive help when I need it. I also work to keep karmic balance high on the part of the organization I work for, since many of the other people in the organization are less able to keep karmic balance high.\nThese rules don\u2019t apply solely to open source \u2014 I have the same karmic balance issues going on in my work inside of MetaCarta \u2014 but I maintain the same attitude there. Coming in with the idea that it is okay to be a sink can lead to a nasty precedent. In the end, I think that everyone loses. Sinks \u2014 both in open source and other karmic ventures \u2014 will eventually use up the karma they start with, and be left out to dry. It is the case for more than one person that they have extended their information seeking without contributing back beyond the point where I am willing to continue to support their information entropy.\nI joke sometimes about giving out \u201ccrschmidt karma points\u201d. Though I don\u2019t have an actual system in this regard, I do quite clearly delineate between constant sinks, and regular sources, and grey areas in-between. I try to stay on the source side, and I encourage anyone else to do the same \u2014 even if it\u2019s only by answering easy questions on the mailing list, or doing a bit more research on your own. Expecting other people to fix your problems, in open source or otherwise, is simply a false economy of help, since in the end, it simply doesn\u2019t work.\nOpen Source Project Documentation: OpenLayers\nPosted in Locality and Space, OpenLayers, Social on December 11th, 2008 at 16:38:34\nEarlier today, I read a post on the OpenGeo GeoSpiel blog calling for OpenLayers to get on the \u201cUsable Documentation Bandwagon\u201d.\nNow, I\u2019ll be honest: I followed the links that he offered, and found something that is not, to me, much more convincing than the OpenLayers documentation as it stands today. If I look at ESRI\u2019s JSAPI, I see a couple things wrong right off the bat \u2014 like the fact that I can\u2019t actually link to where I want to. In any case, if you click Geometry -> Point, you see a document which, to me, is a lot less interesting than the similar page provided by OpenLayers.\nPerhaps there is some subset of documentation put together by ESRI in their JSAPI that makes sense, but for an API reference, it seems to me that OpenLayers does reasonably well on the portions of our API that someone has invested time to work on.\nThis doesn\u2019t mean we\u2019re \u201cdone\u201d by any stretch of the imagination: One of the things that I\u2019ve wanted to do for ages is actually sit down and do a thorough review of the OpenLayers API documentation and improve a lot of it, targeting cross-linking with other documentation and examples especially. These types of tasks, however, are the types of tasks that require a lot of time, and don\u2019t have a lot of immediate benefit. Since all work on OpenLayers for the past several months has been my personal free time after work, there\u2019s only so much I\u2019m personally able to do. However, no one has *ever* made a request to the OpenLayers team to be able to do this work \u2014 including OpenGeo \u2014 that I\u2019ve seen. It seems to me that whit is experienced and knowledgable about OpenLayers, since I\u2019ve seen him using it for development, but I\u2019ve never seen him ask to participate in improving the OpenLayers API documentation on the mailing lists, nor have I seen a request of this nature from any other organization.\nTo me, this means that it\u2019s likely that our API documentation does, to some extent, meet the needs of the organizations using OpenLayers. It\u2019s not perfect \u2014 nothing is \u2014 but no one thinks it\u2019s a major stumbling block that\u2019s worth fixing, at least not enough to spend money on it.\nThis is exactly the type of reason that OpenLayers is now accepting Sponsorship from organizations looking to support the project. This type of improvement is exactly the kind that project sponsorship can help support.\nOpenLayers is aware of how important documentation is to the success of the project. We have invested dozens of hours between a dozen different contributors to create and maintain a set of relatively complete API documentation. According to Ohloh, of the 55,000 lines in OpenLayers Javascript, over 30% are comments: over 25,000 lines of what is mostly API documentation. No one is ignoring the problem \u2014 and if the current state is insufficient (as everything in the project is, *especially* to new users and beginners), then we\u2019re very open to help from any and all interested parties.\nAPI documentation isn\u2019t the only thing a project needs, of course. Documentation comes in all forms \u2014 and OpenLayers is seriously lacking in a lot of documentation targeted towards beginners of all kinds. We\u2019ve been working to change that, with a new documentation site available, and other efforts targeted documentation of OpenLayers in English and other languages. I would say these efforts are much less complete than the API documentation, and starting on them is far more important, in my opinion, than improving our API documentation is at this time.\nOpenLayers is a large library. It\u2019s used by many organizations. We\u2019re open to contributions of all types \u2014 never have I seen OpenLayers turn away someone who wanted to help with documentation intentionally. We have regularly worked with contributors in helping them to improve the documentation, and to claim that we are ignoring the need for documentation seems to me to be representative of a lack of knowledge of the tools that the project uses for documentation, not specifically a lack in the goals of the project, which puts documentation of functionality \u2014 via API docs and minimal examples demonstrating functionality \u2014 as a requirement of almost all new code in the library.\nClient Side Storage Engine and OpenLayers\nPosted in Locality and Space, OpenLayers on April 15th, 2008 at 21:26:16\nUsing Client Side Storage for Mapping \u2014 a proof of concept which saves locally drawn features either via HTML5 Offline Storage or the same from Google Gears.\nAfter a long, long haul, r6945 tags OpenLayers 2.6 as a final release.\nThe OpenLayers Development Team is proud to announce release of OpenLayers 2.6. As of this final release, the OpenLayers 2.6 release closes 294 outstanding tickets. This is the largest of any OpenLayers release to date.\nClient side reprojection! Smooth commercial layer panning! KML styling support and pretty, auto-sizing popups! Improved styling support! And lots more.\nSix months in the making, this is the best OpenLayers release ever. (And only two RCs! A new record. Here\u2019s hoping that\u2019s not just because we had no testers\u2026 ;))\nUse 2.6 today!\nComments Off on OpenLayers 2.6 Release\nOpenLayers 2.6 in testing\u2026\nPosted in OpenLayers on April 11th, 2008 at 06:20:39\nJust a reminder: If you use OpenLayers in your applications, Now Is The Time to test out 2.6 and make sure that it doesn\u2019t break anything. We\u2019re currently in RC, and we\u2019re getting pretty close to cutting a final release if no one complains.\nThe RC2 Announcement has more info on how to get set up with OpenLayers 2.6.\nComments Off on OpenLayers 2.6 in testing\u2026\nChoropleth Maps with OpenLayers 2.6\nPosted in Locality and Space, OpenLayers on April 5th, 2008 at 15:36:27\nOpenLayers 2.6 adds some cool mechanisms for doing your styling on the client side: allowing you to use attributes of your data to create styling information on the fly.\nA couple days ago, there was a post about using GeoJSON for thematic mapping. The conclusion of that post puts the blame in the wrong place: \u201cConclusion: GeoJSON has a lot of potential, but is currently not suitable for world maps due to browser restrictions.\u201d was the conclusion, but this is the case for all formats: nothing here is specific to GeoJSON. It also stated that Firefox is the best browser for in-browser vector display: this is also wrong, as both Safari and Opera do significantly better with SVG rendering than Firefox or IE.\nI\u2019ve moved beyond that, though, and wanted to look at various ways to style the data.\nThe original map was essentially only styled by using data built into the GeoJSON for storing attribute color. Clearly this is not ideal: embedding styling information with the data is great when you want to control the user experience, but seperating it allows application developers more control. Luckily, with the upcoming release of OpenLayers (OpenLayers 2.6), you can do this styling in the browser.\nThis choropleth map uses the same data as the example in the Thematic Mapping blog post, but instead of taking the style rules from the data, creates a graduated color set. (I don\u2019t know what this is actually called: Thematic mapping isn\u2019t my gig.) Looking at the code, it\u2019s easy to see the color ranges: 0 -> 10, 10-> 20, 20->50, 50->100. (The theme is separated into a separate function for readability.) No base map: we don\u2019t need one for the visual effect to be reasonably pronounced. We get a worldwide, colored map of internet users (in 2005), with attribution and the ability to hover over a country to see its statistics.\nOpenLayers 2.6 has reprojection support: the ability to change the projection of data. So, we can reproject the map into mercator. This is actually a useful educational map: you can see that different projections show significantly different percentages of the world as being covered with high-percentage of internet users.\nAnyway, threw it together, and thought it was cool.\nKML: HTML for the Geoweb\nPosted in Google Earth, Google Maps, KML, Locality and Space, OpenLayers on March 3rd, 2008 at 00:54:17\nKML has become the \u201cHTML\u201d of the Geographic Web. With limited semantic meaning, a combination of mostly-human understandable XML tags for the majority of the usages, widespread use and abuse for purposes far beyond the original thoughts and intentions of the designers, and more, KML fits well into the geographic version of the niche filled by HTML in more generalized content publishing.\nGoogle Earth loads *content* over the web, rather than loading code like Google Maps mashups do. The difference is important: Google Earth \u2018mashups\u2019 generate content which is, to some extent reusable within other applications. Google Maps mashups don\u2019t: they tend to use hidden databases without public APIs, and the HTML and code that you do see is executable code, not content.\nThe content that is generated is reasonably easy to follow: KML is reasonably close to human readable. There doesn\u2019t tend to be a lot of extra XML that confuses users: similar to HTML, it can be edited, for the most part, in a text editor with limited difficulty. There\u2019s a caveat to this, however: editing geographic information \u2014 the actual coordinates behind a \u2018FlyTo\u2019 \u2014 is something that humans don\u2019t have an innate ability to do.\nTo this problem, Google Earth offers a solution: In addition to being a KML viewer, it\u2019s also a KML *generator* \u2014 draw any type of feature you like, style it how you like, then just select the item and \u2018copy\u2019 the item, and paste it into a text editor: You immediately have a working KML file, with coordinates that you created. WYSIWYG editing, built right into the data browser. Google Earth acts as the \u2018view source\u2019 button for the geoweb.\nTo some extent, this is extremely handy: users now have the ability to trivially create styled content in Google Earth, export it, and mix and mash these items together to create their own customized feed of data. However, this democratization is exactly the reason that KML does fit the bill of the \u201cHTML of the GeoWeb\u201d, with its pitfall as well as its benefits.\nOne of the key aspects of the difference between \u201cpaleogeographers\u201d and neogeographers is the difference in the importance of accuracy. (I use the terms lightly here, since I don\u2019t tend to categorize users in that way, but it provides a spectrum which is useful to understand.) In general, GIS professionals \u2014 regardless of what toolset they\u2019re using, be it Google Earth or ESRI ArcMap \u2014 have a need for an understanding of the quality of their data. It doesn\u2019t have to be perfect for all cases, but knowing how good it is or isn\u2019t is an important distinction when you\u2019re going to make decisions based on it. Google Earth doesn\u2019t make including information like this a part of the KML workflow, nor did KML accommodate this type of usage very well until relatively recently.\nInformation like attributes of a feature, source data \u2014 in fact, metadata at all \u2014 and so on, is largely left out of the realm of KML. Similar to HTML, it\u2019s largely treated as a \u2018presentation\u2019 language by the majority of the users of it. (FeatureServer uses it in a different way, and OpenLayers mimicks that usage, but that\u2019s the exception, not the rule.) Although HTML in an ideal world separates style from substance \u2014 using CSS, semantically correct tags, etc. \u2014 I think that most web developers have seen too many uses of for layout to believe that that ideal world actually exists. Similarly, KML has support for many features that users will never use. Separation of content and style is possible, but not as widely used, and mixing presentation with content (in terms of application-style control) is the best practice behavior for KML.\nI\u2019ve seen continued belief by some users that KML is a geographic data interchange format. Although exchanging geographic data via KML is possible, it\u2019s not an interchange format for data: it\u2019 s primarily an interchange format for presentation. Tools like GDAL and other geodata libraries do their \u2018best guess\u2019 interpretation of this data as geographic data, but are not well suited for presentation, only data interchange.\nOpenLayers, on the other hand, is in a position where presentation can be taken into account. The newest version of OpenLayers has support for a fair amount of KML styling: other than differing default styles, this KML file looks pretty similar in OpenLayers and Google Maps. However, even here you can see the comparative limitations: Since OpenLayers is primarily about rendering maps, the \u2018extras\u2019 around the outside are lost, a somewhat significant loss in cases where most of the information is provided via additional display.\nIn the end, Google Earth is currently the only reasonably complete KML browser (that I\u2019m aware of). Google Maps and Virtual Earth are slowly improving, and OpenLayers is moving forward as well. I look forward to seeing continued development, and am hopeful that the open source geospatial community can build UIs around data like KML that allow the feature rich presentational options that are currently available via KML in Google Earth \u2014 even if we\u2019re only in 2d space. Solving the problems of implementing a format as far-reaching as KML is quite a task, and I\u2019m enjoying watching as users demonstrate their interest in a particular set of features by helping to implement them, and look forward to continuing to see the trend of high quality presentations of geographic material grow, both in KML and other arenas.\nYou are currently browsing the archives for the OpenLayers category.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 27340, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cui4u.com/le-becomeparent.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FYSZOTGSSBTMVR2ZOCRZAQCMWAJUZM6H", "length": 12145, "nlines": 58, "source_domain": "cui4u.com", "title": "Fort Myers, FL CPA / Credit Underwriters Inc / Tax / Accountant / Loan / Credit / Business /Governement Guarantee / Bank Loan", "raw_content": "Once you have a child, financial planning for the future becomes even more essential. How will you finance child care, medical bills, food, education, clothing, toys, and education savings? What will you need to spend money on and how much will each item cost? Here is some of the information you will need.\nBirth Through Infancy\nAges One Through Six\nAges Six Through Twelve\nAges Thirteen Through Eighteen\nTeaching Your Kids How to Handle Money\nTaxes and Credit\nThis Financial Guide provides you with guidelines on handling the expenses a child brings. Obviously, we cannot offer precise costs because the costs hinge on variables such as family size, family income, and geographic location. However, we can suggest some rough (often very rough) estimates for the average sized family of two adults and two children and to at least provide a starting point for your planning. Obviously, the costs for later years will go up as inflation takes its toll.\nKnowing what to expect will allow you to plan for the future, thereby increasing your chances that you will not fall short of your financial goals. Indeed, this is the time to review and update if necessary, your financial plan.\nRelated Guide: Please see the Financial Guide: YOUR FINANCIAL PLAN: Getting Started On A Secure Future.\nHere is a breakdown of the items you'll need and an estimate of their cost. The costs are categorized chronologically, according to the child's age.\nNote: These estimates are for a first child. Bear in mind that second or third children will cost less than the first since you will already have purchased many of the items you need. If you have three or more children, you will spend about 22 percent less on each child. Also, note that in the case of multiple births expenses will be higher than (although not double) those of a single birth.\nPlanning Aid: For an estimate of the amount of money you would have at the time your child enters college if you begin saving now, see the Financial Calculator: The College Savings Plan Calculator.\nRelated Guide: If you are ready to start planning now for your child's future college education-and indeed the time to start is now-please see the Financial Guide: YOUR CHILD'S COLLEGE EDUCATION - How To Finance It.\nHere are the costs you can expect up to birth and during the first year:\nNote: For a second or third child, you will spend much less on furniture, clothing, and toys, but health care, child care, and food will remain the same.\nAccording to 2015 report by the International Federation of Health Plans, an uneventful hospital delivery in the United States costs, on average $10,808 and $16,106 for a cesarean section birth. The actual costs you pay, of course, vary depending on your health care coverage.\nBaby Supplies and Equipment\nBefore you bring the baby home, you'll buy a crib, a changing table, and a swing or bouncy seat. The moderately priced versions of these three things will cost you about $1,200. You'll also need at least one stroller that you can expect to pay about $400 for. A full-size infant car seat will cost you about $150-$200, and a full-size high chair will cost $150. Finally, you will spend several hundred dollars on washcloths, sheets, blankets, towels, undershirts, onesies, and other baby clothes. Also, think about whether you plan to use a diaper service, cloth diapers, or use disposable ones.\nFeeding and Diapers\nThe American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusively breastfeeding your baby for at least 6 months. Many women, of course, choose to breastfeed longer than that. Nursing mothers will have to invest in several good nursing bras and nursing pads (about $50) as well as a nursing pillow (about $25). If you plan to return to work after 3 months, consider investing in a hospital-grade breast pump, which will run you about $400. In comparison, a year's worth of ready mix powder formula costs about $1,350. If you buy the ready-to-serve type of formula the cost, is even more, running well over $2,000. You'll also need a year's supply of bottles, at about $90, and you'll have to add another $40 to replace the nipples at least twice in a year.\nDiapers are another expense you need to consider. Cloth diapers are the least expensive option. Disposable diaper costs for the first year run about $850, and a diaper genie costs about $40.\nChild care expenses vary widely. Childcare in a daycare center costs much less than a live-in nanny (unless you have multiples, then a nanny or au pair is the less expensive option), and prices for daycare centers vary widely. Childcare in a daycare center costs much less than a live-in nanny. A mid-priced daycare center charges on average $975 per month for your infant's care, or close to $12,000 per year.\nYour infant will visit the doctor about six times during his or her first year, including well-baby check-ups as well as the inevitable colds and fevers of infancy. How much you will spend for doctor visits during the first year depends on your health insurance.\nToys and Clothes\nYou will spend about $500-$600 on toys and clothing during the first year (in addition to what you bought for the layette.)\nTotal for the First Year\nYour total expenses for the first year run about $15,000-$18,000. The biggest variable is the cost of health care.\nDuring these years, you'll spend about $1,000 on toys and clothes, and about $2,200 a year on food. If your child attends daycare or pre-school, add in the cost of these services. Daycare will cost you an average of $12,000 per year while pre-school costs vary widely. Again, health care costs depend on your health coverage.\nThis is the time when the overall expenses of child-rearing drop and families can save more. During these years, your child care expenses will drop drastically. Health care costs generally stabilize unless of course, your child begins orthodontia during this stage. Then, you'll have to pay more. You are likely to spend more than in the previous stage on clothing, toys, and entertainment, but your kids won't be demanding the high-ticket clothing and other items of adolescence. The bill for food will be just slightly more than what it was in the previous stage. On the negative side, now that your kids are in school, you'll want to pay for all those extras that middle-class kids have: dancing and music lessons, sports participation, and so on. And, if you decide to send your kids to private school or to summer camp, these expenses will have to be added in.\nSweet-16 parties, bar and bat mitzvahs, orthodontia, SAT-preparation courses, music lessons, sports\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6these are just some of things you might be paying for during those years.\nThe best time to start instilling financial skills and values is when children are young. Start giving your kids an allowance once they reach school age. Let them participate in making the decision of how much their allowance should be.\nSome parents may want to require kids to do household chores to earn the allowance. Or, parents might want to provide an allowance, but pay kids extra for the performance of tasks. This incentive plan is, of course, a matter of individual child-rearing philosophy, but it does get the message across that money does not grow on trees.\nGive your kids control over their own money (their allowance and whatever monies you give them that are not earmarked for some particular purpose). You can make suggestions to them about what they should do with it-i.e., that they might spend half and save half but allow them the final say on what happens to the money.\nLet them see the consequences of both wise and foolish behavior with regard to money. A child who spends all of his money on the first day of the week is more likely to learn about budgeting if he is not provided with extras to tide him over.\nHow much allowance to provide is a matter of parental discretion. Most parents provide about $7 per week to their elementary school children, and from $12 to $20 a week to kids in junior high.\nBeyond the basics of budgeting and saving, you will want to get your child involved in saving and investing. The easiest way to do this is to have the child open his or her own passbook savings account.\nIf you want your child to get familiar with investing, there are various child-friendly mutual funds available. The mailings from the fund can be a source of education. Or you may want to get the child interested in individual stocks.\nYou may want to start a \"matching\" program with your kids to encourage saving. For instance, for every dollar that the child puts into a savings account or investment, you might match it with 50 cents.\nIf you want to get your kids involved with investing, it will usually have to be done through a custodial account. There are generally two types of widely used custodial accounts-one is set up under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act, and the other under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act. The type of custodial account available depends on which state you live in.\nWith a custodial account, the child is the owner, but the custodian (usually a parent) manages the property until the child reaches the age of majority under relevant state law, either 18 or 21. The custodian must follow certain rules concerning management of the property in the account. These rules are intended to ensure that the custodian does what is in the child's best interests.\nIRAs for Kids\nIf your child has earned income from a paper route or babysitting, for example, or from working in the family business he or she can contribute earnings to an IRA. The IRA can be an extremely effective investment for a child because of the IRA's tax-deferral feature and the length of time the money is left in the IRA. If $3,000 per year is contributed to the child's IRA for ten years and the money is left to grow until the child reaches age 65, the amount in the IRA could reach $600,000 or more, depending on the returns on the investment. In 2018, your child can contribute the lesser of his or her earned income for the year or $5,500, either to a traditional IRA or a tax-free Roth IRA. The contribution limits are the same for both types of accounts.\nTo replace the \"lost\" earnings, the parents can give $3,000 per year to the child (or the amount of earned income the child has, if less). The child may have to file tax returns.\nThe drawback, of course, is that, with some exceptions, the money cannot be withdrawn before age 59-1/2 without tax penalty.\nRelated Guide: For tax rules on IRA withdrawals for higher education, please see the Financial Guide: HIGHER EDUCATION COSTS: How To Get The Best Tax Treatment.\nKids can learn to use automatic teller machine cards for their savings accounts. They can also start using credit cards at an early age-with parental counsel and involvement. They can learn the concepts of incurring and paying off debts both from credit card use and from small loans that parents make them.\nIt is important to familiarize kids with paying taxes as well. If children have to file tax returns-as they would with an IRA--allow them to participate in the process; this will get them used to the idea of yearly tax payments, and can also be an opportunity for learning about how governments are run with tax revenues.\nNote: One side benefit of getting your kids involved in money management is that it may help to avoid the \"math phobia\" some kids experience in junior high school.\nTip: Professional guidance should be considered for a life event change as major as a marriage of divorce.\nSource: Expenditures on Children By Families 2015, US Department of Agriculture Publication Number 1528-2015. Before-tax Income of $59,200 and $107,400 (Average = $83,300).\nChild's Age Misc. Housing Food Transport Clothing Health Care Child Care & Education Total\nUp to 2 $830 $3,680 $1,580 $1,790 $750 $1,180 $2,870 $12,680\n3-5 $940 $3,680 $1,690 $1,840 $600 $1,110 $2,870 $12,730\n6-8 $1,050 $3,680 $2,280 $1,900 $600 $1,130 $1,710 $12,350\n9-11 $1,110 $3,680 $2,680 $1,940 $780 $1,280 $1,710 $13,180\n12-14 $950 $3,680 $2,780 $2,090 $860 $1,240 $1,430 $13,030\nTotal $17,460 $66,240 $41,400 $35,490 $13,260 $21,270 $38,040 $233,610", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 656, "original_length": 35963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://culteducation.com/group/1099-polygamist-groups/16860-killing-for-god.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:25Z", "digest": "sha1:GZEUMPEZP7GR3YRGFYWYP7IQJJJH4TLE", "length": 44602, "nlines": 182, "source_domain": "culteducation.com", "title": "Killing for God", "raw_content": "Ervil LeBaron Story\nCourt TV, Smoking Gun/August 15, 2006\nErvil LeBaron grimaced as he looked down at the body of his pregnant daughter in the trunk of his car. Rebecca's neck was chafed raw from the rope her killers had used to strangle her, and a stream of blood had dripped from her nose onto the mat under her head. He slammed the trunk shut.\nThe green-and-white Ford LTD was new, and it was the spiffiest car Ervil had ever owned. Not only had his daughter's blood soiled his precious car, it was also an indication of sloppy work by the murderers -- whom he'd contracted.\n\"That's inexcusable!\" he roared at his goons. \"It's just stupidity. We can't have any more of it.\"\nErvil LeBaron had his daughter killed because God told him to do it. God had told the fundamentalist Mormon to do a lot of peculiar things over the years, and Ervil always obeyed without question.\nWhen the Almighty commanded him to \"be fruitful and multiply,\" Ervil took 13 wives and sired over 50 children.\nWhen God told Ervil to kill, he did that too. His followers slashed a bloody trail across Mexico and the American Southwest that left 25 to 30 people dead. Among the victims were Ervil's wives, his brother, former members of his church, leaders of rival polygamous clans, and his 17-year-old pregnant daughter Becky.\nEven after Ervil LeBaron died in a jail cell in 1981, the violence didn't stop. He left behind a long hit list, and his children picked up his bloody mantle, hunting down their father's enemies far and wide and eliminating them.\nTo this day, former members of the LeBaron cult whose names are on that list are still in hiding.\nTo understand how a polygamous psychopath killed in God's name, you've got to dig down to the roots of the Mormon faith itself.\nIn 1823, a young farmer named Joseph Smith claimed that an angel named Moroni showed him gold plates engraved with ancient scriptures. These would later be known as the Book of Mormon.\nAmong other things, the tablets held that Jews emigrated to the Americas from Israel in 7 B.C. and were the ancestors of the Native Americans, and that a resurrected Jesus Christ appeared in the New World before ascending to heaven.\nSmith formed a religion around these tablets.\nSmith's beliefs evolved over time to include the practice of polygamy, in which a man takes more than one wife. Smith figured that God allowed the Old Testament patriarchs to wed multiple women, and it was the holy duty of Mormon males to continue that tradition. (The Church of Latter Day Saints forbids women, however, from engaging in polyandry - the practice of taking more than one husband.)\nBut mainstream Christians condemned Smith's polygamous teachings as immoral and Smith publicly denied he practiced it, all the while amassing a harem of 33 wives and secretly urging his disciples to follow his example. Thanks to the many births produced by these unions, the ranks of the Mormons quickly swelled to one of the largest religions in America.\nBut polygamy didn't sit well with the U.S. government either, which officially outlawed the practice in 1862. Caving in to pressure from Washington, the Mormon church renounced it in 1890.\nThis ruling failed to deter fundamentalist Mormons, who split with the Church over the issue of starting churches that allowed an ongoing collection of wives. Faced with constant harassment from their neighbors and law enforcement, many Mormon fundamentalists fled to northern Mexico, where they formed polygamous colonies in remote regions of the desert and were largely ignored by the local government.\nLeBaron lunacy\nOne of the men who made that journey was Alma Dayer LeBaron. In 1924, Alma loaded his two wives and eight children into covered wagons and rumbled over the sandy border into Mexico. A year later, in a destitute encampment set among sagebrush and barrel cacti, one of his wives gave birth to a boy who would one day be called the \"Mormon Manson\" by the international press.\nLike Joseph Smith, the LeBaron family had a history of revelations from God, which they alternately referred to as voices, callings or commands. Alma Dayer LeBaron had a revelation to take a second wife - prompting the clan's move to Mexico - and another telling him not to register for the WWII draft.\nMany members of the LeBaron clan claimed to hear voices, and many suffered from insanity, Scott Anderson writes in The 4 O'Clock Murders.\nAlma Dayer LeBaron's daughter Lucinda grew so violent during her bouts of psychosis that her parents chained her by the ankle to a hut. Son Ben drifted in and out of mental hospitals for years after hearing voices tell him he was God; he committed suicide in 1978 by jumping off a bridge. Son Wesley frequently called Salt Lake City radio talk shows to expound his belief that Jesus Christ would one day return to earth in a spaceship. The voices told nephew Owen to have sex with the family dog, and he was also committed to a mental hospital.\nThese are just a few examples of LeBaron lunacy; erratic behavior and beliefs seemed to plague the entire clan, but no one more than Ervil LeBaron, who believed he had the God-given power to kill.\nIn Mexico, the family started its own settlement, called Colonia LeBaron. There they eked out an existence as subsistence farmers. As a child, Ervil worked in the fields alongside the brothers he'd later want to kill. As a young adult, he traveled with his brothers throughout Mexico, seeking to win converts to the family's polygamous brand of Mormonism.\nBefore Alma died in 1951, he passed his ministry on to his son Joel, who incorporated the \"Church of the First-Born of the Fulnes (sic) of Time\" in Salt Lake City. Ervil was his big brother's right-hand man.\nThe proselytizing efforts worked, and the colony grew. They opened a nursery and primary school as well as a community kitchen and laundry. Ervil drew up the work schedules, deciding who did what on the communal farm.\nAccording to Ben Bradlee Jr. and Dale Van Atta in Prophet of Blood, Firstborners viewed the soft-spoken, considerate Joel as \"saintly,\" although Ervil was anything but. Unlike his brother, Ervil rarely lifted a hand to participate in physical labor, saying it was his job as a spiritual leader to study scripture and pray instead.\nThis didn't wash with some Firstborners, who started gossiping about Ervil's penchant for expensive clothes, flashy cars, and women.\nAs a young man, Ervil LeBaron was handsome in a hyper-masculine way. He stood 6'4 and had a square jaw and a strong nose. His hair was thick and sandy brown, his eyes were a penetrating blue. In addition to his physical charms, Ervil projected an air of confidence. He leaned into people as he spoke to them, his eyes boring into theirs as he quoted at length from both the book of Mormon and the Bible.\nHis masculinity and high position in the colony hierarchy made women desire him, and Ervil desired them back. He was a sexual carnivore, doggedly pursuing married women, sisters, pre-pubescent girls and middle-aged matrons alike. He would tell each one that God had told him to marry her.\nOne of Ervil's twisted beliefs was that the Virgin Mary had become the mother of Christ at age fourteen, and it was therefore acceptable for him to take adolescent girls as wives, according to Bradlee and Van Atta. The colony joyfully supported their leader's pedophilia by giving him their young daughters as brides.\n\"If you're going to raise up a generation in a plural marriage, it is very important not to let young girls get romanticized in the worldly sense,\" a woman who married her 13-year-old daughter to Ervil told the authors.\nAlthough his adolescent brides were more interested in playground flirtations with boys their age, their parents convinced them that great rewards awaited them in Heaven if they consented to the marriage.\nHe was an ardent suitor, but Ervil was a coolly indifferent husband and father. In Colonia LeBaron, women were babymakers and caretakers, banished to the periphery while men made the important decisions. More often than not, he acted as if his wives were a necessary nuisance. Their wombs served to produce more church members the children who would later become his footsoldiers.\nSome of Ervil's 13 wives eventually grew weary of living in the Mormon harem and left him, taking their children back to the United States. Others stayed by his side to the bitter end. Two killed for him. And two died because of him.\nThe physical location of the brothers' power play was a beachfront settlement in Baja California called Los Molinos, which Joel founded in 1964. The property consisted of 8,500 acres, including nine miles fronting the beach. Several dozen Mexican and American Firstborners lived on the property, where they constructed adobe huts, planted wheat fields, and raised goats.\nJoel and Ervil had clashing visions on how to use the land, according to Bradlee and Van Atta. While Joel envisioned it as an agricultural paradise where poor Mormons could work on a communal farm, Ervil saw its potential as a tourist paradise.\nDespite Joel's opposition, Ervil wooed investors with his millionaire's dream, meeting with moneymen in the States and flying them down to tour the oceanfront, pointing out where the resorts and yacht club would go.\nThe church had been broke for years because Ervil had brought in truckloads of Mexican converts at a faster rate than the colony could feed and clothe them. He tried a number of get-rich-quick schemes to support the LeBaron ministry over the years, including a gambling trip to Las Vegas, a fish-selling business, and harvesting pine nuts from national forests in California.\nOnce, when a potential deal was going sour in Utah, Ervil told a man he'd throw in a couple of nubile women from his flock if he'd \"join his ball team,\" according to Bradlee and Van Atta. The offer deeply offended the man, a mainstream Mormon and family man, who walked away from the negotiations.\nBut while the money schemes failed one by one and cult members were forced to wear rags and eat meals of porridge, Ervil, who was skimming funds from church coffers, was zipping around the colony's dirt roads in a gold Impala and wearing flashy suits. Cult members who held outside jobs were required to tithe 10% of their wages to the ministry, and Ervil was the one who collected these payments.\nWhen Firstborners questioned him about the car - which they'd dubbed the \"Golden Calf\"- he said God told him to buy it because it would impress potential converts.\nAfter a while, Ervil's quest for power took a dark turn. When he wasn't chasing skirts or spending the flock's money on new shoes, he was nose-deep in the Old Testament, and he'd come to believe that he had the right - like the prophets of old - to strike down people who disobeyed him.\nIn Moses' time, breaking the 10 Commandments was punishable by death, and Ervil reasoned that the same rules should apply in the LeBarons' dusty Baja California fiefdom as well. He came up with a series of decrees based on the 10 Commandments, which he called Civil Law, and appointed himself the law's chief enforcer. He decreed that people would die for breaking Civil Law.\nHis congregation noticed the cold gleam in Ervil's eye as he detailed the ancient death rituals he would apply to transgressors - disembowelment, stoning, and beheading - and shrank bank in their pews. They were getting their first glimpses of Ervil's derangement. It would only get worse.\nA time-honored method of making people obey is by threatening them with physical violence. The concept is simple: If you disobey, you will feel pain. Fear of spanking keeps children in line. Fear of torture makes prisoners talk. Fear of hell keeps Christians on the straight and narrow.\nFear of death kept many Mormons compliant under the leadership of Brigham Young, the Church's second prophet. Young believed that if someone strayed from his flock, the only way that person could gain entry to Heaven was if he or she was killed by a righteous assassin.\nHe called this concept \"blood atonement,\" and he explained it to his followers in a sermon he gave on September 21, 1856:\n\"There are sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world, or in that which is to come, and if they had their eyes open to see their true condition, they would be perfectly willing to have their blood spilt upon the ground, that the smoke thereof might ascend to heaven as an offering for their sins; and the smoking incense would atone for their sins...\n\"I know, when you hear my brethren telling about cutting people off from the earth, that you consider it is strong doctrine; but it is to save them, not to destroy them...\"\nIn a nutshell, the Church killed you for major disobedience, e.g. raping a child, murder, especially murdering a child, etc., but it was for your own good. If you were murdered by your brethren, you were assured entrance into Heaven.\nIn the 1850s, historians say, Young frequently resorted to blood atonement to eliminate both his spiritual and business rivals. The Church renounced the bloody doctrine in the late 1800s, but a hundred years later, Ervil decided to reinstate it.\nThe first person Ervil wanted to kill was Rulon Allred, a rival polygamist from Utah, who refused to tithe to Ervil and had derided the Firstborners in public. In one of his typically long and tedious screeds, Ervil decreed that Allred was guilty of character assassination, an offense \"punishable by the death sentence under the Civil Law given by God in the days of Moses,\" according to Bradlee and Van Atta.\nCuriously, Rulon and Ervil had once been pals; in the 1950s, Rulon evaded an arrest warrant in Utah for cohabitation by hiding out at the Colonia LeBaron in Mexico. But that didn't stop Ervil from killing him some 20 years later.\nJoel watched his brother scare Firstborners with his gruesome threats and continue to hawk his Mormon utopia to investors. Eventually, he got fed up. When Ervil told him in the summer of 1972 that God said he and Joel should run the church as equals, Joel put his foot down. Not only would he not share the Firstborn leadership with Ervil, he was removing Ervil from a position of leadership altogether. From that point on, Ervil would be sitting in the pews, not standing behind the pulpit.\nErvil was stunned by the news and wept openly before the congregation when the announcement was made. He walked away alone from the temple that night and began plotting against Joel.\nLike Cain, he would strike his brother down.\nMormon Mafia\nThe LeBaron brothers' split also divided the colony. Families chose sides, arguing whether Joel or Ervil was the \"true prophet.\"\nErvil started another church in San Diego, the Church of the Lamb of God. He began to issue angry proclamations against his brother, according to Bradlee and Van Atta. Joel's disregard for his authority was an \"act of treason against heaven that carries the penalty of death in this world,\" Ervil declared.\nJoel was slain on a parched August day in Ensenada, a slow-moving beach town in Baja California. Joel and his 14-year-old son Ivan had gone to the house of a Church of the Lamb disciple to pick up a car, and while Ivan waited outside the residence, Ervil's thugs jumped his father inside. Ivan heard someone yell \"Kill him!\" and gunshots, Anderson writes. The hit men sped off in a station wagon and the boy ran inside to find his father lying face-up on the floor, blood pooling around his shoulders and two bullet holes in his head.\nAfter murdering his brother, Ervil thought that the Firstborners would flock to him like so many sheep. Instead, they filed murder charges against him and chose a new leader - the youngest LeBaron brother, Verlan.\nAfter Joel's funeral - attended by his seven widows and 44 children - Verlan reluctantly took up the reins of the church. Like Joel, Verlan had a quiet demeanor. He preferred to tool around his farm or spend time with his nine wives and 50-plus children than deliver pulpit-pounding sermons.\nCertain that he was next on Ervil's hit list, Verlan kept a low profile, traveling constantly, frequently changing cars and residences, and otherwise keeping his whereabouts in question.\nIn December, Ervil walked into the police headquarters in Ensenada flanked by two lawyers and demanded that the murder charges against him be dropped. He was tired of dodging cops and needed to travel freely to win more converts to his church. But the police were flabbergasted at the sudden appearance of the murder suspect they'd trailed for months and immediately threw him in prison.\nWhen Ervil finally went to trial nine months later, he was found guilty of homicide but only sentenced to 12 years in prison because the prosecution couldn't place Ervil at the crime scene, Anderson writes.\nHe only served one day of his sentence. Like Lazarus stumbling from his tomb, Ervil walked out of the dank Mexican cellblock on February 14, 1974. A Mexican supreme court had overturned the verdict because Ervil's co-defendants - the church thugs who actually killed Joel - were not present for the trial.\nAfter getting away with murder, Ervil met with a core group of his followers in Yuma, Arizona, according to Anderson. They began to call their leader by a number of honorary titles, including Lord Anointed, One Might and Strong, and Prophet of God. Ervil grew paranoid that the Firstborners would strike back against him, and started carrying a gun and requiring his wives and children to take marksmanship classes from a loyalist who'd served in Vietnam.\nAs Ervil paced back and forth in front of them, telling them they could all be slaughtered at any moment, the group started to act more like a Mormon mafia than a church. They took aliases and had driver's licenses and birth certificates drawn up in their new names. They only made calls from pay phones that couldn't be traced to their location.\nMeanwhile, Verlan, also fearing fratricide, was hiding out in Nicaragua. The paranoid cat-and-mouse game between the two brothers who'd chummed around the Mexican countryside together as boys would drag out for years.\nErvil had too much time to think and plot while he was locked up, and shortly after he was released, he published a new fire-and-brimstone essay called \"Hour of Crisis - Day of Vengeance.\"\nWritten in pompous-sounding King James English, the tract was barely coherent. Only after the Firstborners read and reread it were they able to eke out its meaning. It was essentially a list of demands on the Firstborn church. Among other things, he demanded that the congregation fork over their tithes directly to him, according to Bradlee and Van Atta.\n\"It is a criminal offense, punishable by death, for an enlightened people to pay tithes and offerings to thieves and robbers (and other fundamentalist leaders),\" Ervil wrote. \"The sword of vengeance (will) hang over the heads of all those who should fail to hear the word of the Lord. Willful failure to comply with (the book's) minimum requirements constitutes the crime of rebellion against God.\"\nIn other words, anyone who didn't pay dues to Ervil should die.\nWhile Ervil was in prison, his mother wrote him that he \"should not be in jail, but in a mental hospital,\" and from his latest diatribe, it certainly appeared that Ervil was suffering from delusions of grandeur.\nHis ultimatum was met by a wall of silence, and Ervil decided the apostates must be punished. He told his followers that he'd had yet another revelation: they must destroy Los Molinos.\nThe day after Christmas, he sent his footsoldiers across the border into Baja under cover of night, bearing firebombs and assault weapons. As some 30 Firstborn families gathered around their wood-burning stoves or tucked their children into bed, a pickup truck and a Fiat turned onto the dirt road leading to the quiet farming commune, cut their headlights, and slowed to a crawl. The temperatures hovered near freezing that night, and smoke rose from the chimneys of the cozy homes into the dark blue sky.\nThe peaceful tableau was shattered by a Molotov cocktail crashing through the window of the town's largest house, according to Anderson. Within seconds, the wood-framed house was engulfed in fire. The occupants ran outside, and in the confusion that followed, Ervil's thugs sprayed bullets over the people racing to form a water brigade, their figures silhouetted against the dancing orange flames.\nThe assailants barreled through the settlement throwing more firebombs into homes as they made their way toward their primary target: Verlan's abode. The Firstborn leader wasn't home, but his wife Charlotte and six of their children were. When they saw the truck with five armed men in the back making an erratic beeline for their house, they ran to hide in a dark orchard while the men shot up their house and set it on fire.\nThe 20-minute onslaught left two men dead, 13 people wounded, and Ervil spitting mad because his brother was still alive.\nTotal world domination\nErvil's plans kept getting bigger. After taking over Los Molinos, he wanted to take over the governments of Mexico and the United States, and eventually rule the world.\nHe decided to finance his bid for total world domination by killing his religious rivals and stealing their business.\nAt this point, the Lamb of God church consisted largely of his Ervil's wives and progeny. But there were also enough outsiders to keep the baby propagation going, and like an ancient king, Ervil controlled the \"romantic\" liaisons in his realm. He had first dibs on the females, arranged marriages between subjects, and gave away his daughters to men he wanted to cement relationships with or reward for good behavior.\nThe ever-expanding clan moved to Utah, where Ervil dropped in on the patriarchs of other polygamous tribes and demanded they give him 10% of their earnings... or die. The patriarchs told him to get lost.\nMeanwhile, back in Los Molinos, the Firstborn families were sleeping with guns by their sides and had organized patrols to watch their property. Verlan was living in a safe house in San Diego.\nErvil had moles firmly planted amid the Firstborners who reported back to him on these activities. But some of these people started getting nervous after the raid. One of them was Noemi Zarate, a plural wife of one of Ervil's close associates. Noemi got a bad case of loose lips and complained about the violence, threatening to tell the police the location of Ervil's whereabouts. With the full blessing of Noemi's husband, Ervil decided to shut her up once and for all, and dispatched one of his wives, Vonda White, to assassinate her, Anderson writes.\nThe two women had known each other for years, so it wasn't hard for Vonda to convince Noemi to go for a spin in her car on a chilly January evening in 1975. They drove to a canyon in the foothills of the rugged San Pedro Mountains. In that dark canyon, Vonda pumped the mother of five full of bullets before she could beg for mercy. Another of Ervil's wives, Yolanda Rios - who would herself be murdered a decade later - helped Vonda dig a shallow grave among the creosote bushes, into which they dumped Noemi's body. It has never been found. \"You don't know how pleased the Lord is that that traitor is dead!\" Ervil rejoiced when he heard the news.\nHe was still leaning on other fundamentalist leaders in Utah to cough up money and still getting no results. \"Repent ye therefore or suffer destruction at the hand of God!\" he thundered in one letter to his polygamous rivals. Again, they ignored him, but some beefed up their security measures.\nOne of the men Ervil tried to extort money from was Bob Simons, who lived on a 65-acre ranch near Grantsville, Utah, with his two wives. Simons, who had spent time in mental hospitals when he was younger, believed he was a prophet destined to convert Native Americans to the Mormon faith. He refused to cave into demands to join the Lamb of God church. Ervil was itching to get his hands on Bob's bucolic spread.\nUsing a false name, Ervil paid Simons several visits as a supposed disciple of the church. The two men argued for hours over their theological differences. At one point, according to Bradlee and Van Atta, the argument turned into a fierce wrestling match, and the two men groped and grappled about in the dirt as Simons' wives wailed and wrung their hands.\nBy the time Ervil started hitting on one of his wives, Simons was beyond annoyed, and he told Ervil to keep off his property.\nErvil realized the game was up. He gathered his henchmen around him and revealed that God wanted blood atonement for the false prophet.\n\"We are going to blow him up like a balloon,\" he railed, according to Anderson.\nThe men bided their time for a couple of months before paying Simons a last and fatal visit. On the drive out to Simon's ranch, Ervil's goons stopped by a gardening store to buy pickaxes, shovels and a bag of chemicals that hasten the deterioration of human flesh. They stopped again to dig a coffin-sized hole in the desert hills.\nSimons knew they were coming - one of Ervil's emissaries, Lloyd Sullivan, had called on him a few days a before, claiming he now believed Simons was the true prophet after a conversation he'd had with some Indian chiefs. The chiefs had been searching for the white prophet who would lead them to salvation for a long time, the emissary said. Simons was ecstatic.\n\"How soon can I meet them?\" he asked Lloyd.\nSimons paid the gas money for the ride to his grave on the night of April 23, 1975. The moon-washed landscape was barren and forlorn, but the Indian chiefs had picked the time and the place and Simons wasn't about to protest. He leaned forward in his seat, peering through the windshield. For so many years, he'd sought to make contact with the elusive Native Americans, and now it was happening. He could hardly believe his good fortune and smiled as Lloyd pulled the car up beside a pile of rocks. Lloyd cut the engine, but left the headlights on.\nSimons stood in front of the car, a hand raised to his brow as he peered into the distance, looking for his Indian flock. He was too focused, his heart pounding too hard, to notice two young men creeping up behind him. One of them raised a shotgun to the back of his head and squeezed the trigger, and the self-proclaimed Indian prophet slammed to the ground, dust swirling over him in the headlights' glare.\nThe pregnant assassin\nStanding 6'8 and weighing in at 260 muscle-popping pounds, Dean Vest was a physically intimidating man. He was a Vietnam vet living in San Diego when he followed his father's footsteps to the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times and had stayed on after his father grew disillusioned with the church and left it in the late 60s.\nErvil made him the church's military general, and he taught Ervil's foot soldiers the explosives and weapons tactics he'd used in the jungles of Vietnam. Dean laid out the blueprint for the Los Molinos raid.\nBut Dean's wife Cheryl was never gung-ho about the chauvinist teachings of a church where a woman's primary value was her breeding potential. After years of asking Dean to leave the church, she left him and moved to Washington State with their two children.\nThe 36-year-old was devastated and started reconsidering his allegiances. He started to spend more and more time fixing up a rusted-out barge he'd bought and less time in church. Then he made the mistake of telling people his dream of sailing up the coast in his barge for a joyful reunion with his wife and kids.\nHe should have known better. There was no way that Ervil would let his military commander simply walk away. It would make him look bad. He didn't want Dean to prompt a mass defection. According to Civil Law, Ervil said, Dean must be blood-atoned.\nErvil chose one of the least suspicious people in his clan to kill the weapons expert, his 10th wife, Vonda White. Vonda was living near San Diego with a \"sister wife\" - as the wives called each other - and a houseful of children, and Dean often stopped by frequently for a home-cooked meal or company. He'd never suspect that Vonda - who was barely 5'3 and six months pregnant - would kill him. But Vonda had already proven herself a lethal asset to the Lamb of God church when she'd murdered her sister wife Noemi Zarate the past January.\nOn June 16, 1976, Dean learned his wife and daughter had been injured in a car accident and immediately booked a flight to Seattle, according to Anderson. Before heading to the airport, he stopped by Vonda's house to pick up some things he'd stored there and give her the news. When Dean knocked on the front door, Vonda was playing the role of the loving mother, preparing lunch for six children. But she switched to killer mode as soon as Dean said he was leaving for Washington. She was worried that he'd reconcile with his wife and never come back from the trip. Ervil told her to kill him, and it was now or never.\nBut first she had to feed the kids. She chatted with him while the young ones ate. When the kids were done eating, she shooed them upstairs, telling them to stay out of Dean's way as he packed. Then she pulled out a loaded .38 Colt revolver from a dresser drawer, tucked it into a pocket of her maternity dress and went back downstairs.\nDean was getting ready to lug his baggage to his car when White asked him to look at her washing machine, according to Bradlee and Van Atta. She told him it wasn't working right and he needed a man to check it over. Dean couldn't find the \"problem,\" but he did get his hands grimy fiddling with the motor. As he washed up at the kitchen sink, White stepped behind him and raised the gun. She was wearing rubber gloves. She tiptoed toward Dean's massive back and squeezed the trigger. The first shot ripped through his liver, and Dean straightened over the sink and started to turn right. The second shot pierced his lung, and as he continued turning toward his attacker, blood spewed from his mouth in a five-foot arc. Vonda quickly ducked to avoid the torrent.\nAfter Dean collapsed on the linoleum floor, she delivered the coup de grace behind his left ear, then washed up and called the police, Anderson writes.\n\"Shots have been fired,\" Vonda White - wife, mother, murderer - calmly told the dispatcher.\nThe man and his car\nAfter the police grew suspicious of Vonda's story and told her to stick around town, she fled to Denver, where Ervil had moved his clan to keep one step ahead of his real and imaginary enemies.\nThe Church of the Lamb members were running an appliance repair business and barely making ends meet, despite running a sweatshop where children, women and men alike worked 16 hour days without pay. They crammed into tiny rental homes, dressed in rags, and went hungry. At night, they resorted to digging through supermarket dumpsters for bruised produce and day-old bread.\nIn 1977, however, their hardships paid off and the business finally started to become profitable. The clan started appliance stores in cities in several other states, including Dallas, where a group of cult members moved that winter.\nDespite achieving financial success, Ervil had other nagging problems - such as his daughter. When Rebecca was 15, Ervil had given her in marriage to Victor Chynoweth, a wealthy disciple. But Becky wasn't happy in her marriage; Vic was a distant husband and his first wife made Becky's life hell. When the cult split between Utah and Denver, she was sent to the Mile High City and was forced to leave her baby behind. She was bitter about it. She sniped at her customers and coworkers and threatened to go to the cops, thinking that as the cult head's daughter, she was safe from harm. How wrong she was. Fed up with her antics, Ervil had a revelation from God.\nOne day in April, Ervil told Becky she could retrieve her baby, Victor Jr., from Denver, according to Anderson. She was elated. On the appointed day, she sat in the back seat and chatted with the two boys driving her to the Dallas airport, happier than she'd been in months. She was three months pregnant, and she planned to take her baby boy to Mexico and stay with her mother. She'd give birth to her second child there and raise it with the help of her doting mother. But the boys in the front seat weren't listening. Duane Chynoweth and Eddie Marston were doing a mental rehearsal of a new trick they'd been practicing for the past several weeks: how to strangle someone with rope.\nOn an isolated road outside the Dallas suburbs, Duane pulled the car off the road and Eddie reached down to grab the coiled rope at his feet. It took a long time for Becky to die, longer than they'd planned on. She was young and strong and had a tremendous desire to see her baby boy again. She kicked and thrashed about on the back seat as the two boys tugged at the ends of the rope. Ultimately, the pregnant 17-year-old was no match for two boys afire with the evil gospel of Ervil.\nTheir boss was livid when her blood stained the trunk of his LTD and he chewed out the boys for being so careless. A short while later, he traded the car in for another, more pristine, LTD.\nAs for Becky, her young killers dumped her body in an Oklahoma state park. It was never found.\nRena: Child bride\nIn the midst of his murderous rampage, Ervil received a revelation to take another wife, and married Rena Chynoweth - his 13th and last wife - in February 1975.\nShe was 16, he was 50. In her memoir The Blood Covenant, Rena says Ervil molested her for four years before she finally gave in to making it \"legal.\"\nNevertheless, the aging stud couldn't get it up on their wedding night, Rena writes, or for many nights thereafter. When he finally did manage to consummate their relationship, she was utterly repulsed.\n\"...had to close my eyes and pretend I was somewhere else or he was someone else,\" she writes. \"I would often turn my head away or hold my breath so I wouldn't have to smell his breath. It always reeked of something awful, usually coffee. He kissed like a fish, very stiff-lipped, in a way that really disgusted me.\"\nRena didn't want to kiss Ervil, but she did want to kill for him.\nFrustrated by his inability to eliminate his little brother and take over the Firstborners, Ervil came up with yet another plan to assassinate him, one of many he'd concocted over the years.\nVerlan was in constant motion between safe houses in Mexico, California, and Nicaragua, so Ervil came up with a must-attend event that would lure Verlan into the open: Rulon Allred's funeral.\nRulon had refused to tithe to Ervil and had to die anyway, Ervil figured. His brother would no doubt attend the funeral of the man who had been a legendary Utah polygamist, and the Lamb of God assassins would cut him down during the service. It was the perfect plan, Ervil thought. Two birds, one stone.\nOn May 10, 1977, Rena and another young woman, Ramona Marston, walked into Rulon's homeopathic clinic on the outskirts of Salt Lake City wearing cheap wigs and fake glasses. Rena spotted Rulon as he stepped from a back room and walked toward him. He nodded at her.\n\"He was exactly as he had been described to me,\" Rena would later write in her memoir. \"Tall, slender, gray-haired - a nice, pleasant-looking man... He was no more than three to five feet from me. I knew the moment had come to do what I was sent there to do.\"\nWithout a word, Rena pulled a .25 caliber pistol from her jacket and fired, emptying all seven bullets into the old man's chest. He tried to deflect them with his hands before falling.\nRulon Allred's funeral at Bingham High School was a huge event. Over 2,600 people from around the country traveled to the school for a final goodbye, as did the police and news media, according to Anderson. Ervil's goons drove into the parking lot, took one look at the scene, and aborted their plan to hunt down Verlan among the mourners.\nOnce again, Ervil had failed to kill his younger brother. He was in a foul mood for days.\nThe end of Ervil\nErvil used many classic cult techniques to keep his followers in line, Rena writes. He isolated them by limiting their contact with people outside the church. He exhausted them with his hours-long sermons that broke down their mental resistance. He scared them by telling them that they were being hunted by religious and government assassins and that they would only survive by banding together.\nThe cult's children were normally pulled from school after fifth or sixth grade, because Ervil feared contact with secular playmates might prompt them to question their cloistered lifestyle. Knowledge of the outside world was a dangerous thing.\nFrom age 10 onward, the children were put to work doing chores around the home or in the family business. Ultimately, they had nowhere else to turn once they came of age - no education, no skills, no network of support.\nBut when Ervil started killing, some of the cult members finally shook themselves from their stupor and realized their honcho was a certifiable nutcase. A few managed to tiptoe away from the cult houses and take their incriminating tales to the police. Eventually the law caught up with the cult killers.\nErvil was held at the Salt Lake County jail until May 12, 1980, when he went on trial for masterminding Rulon Allred's murder. After a steady stream of ex-cult members testified against him, he was convicted of the crime and sentenced to life in prison at the Point of the Mountains State Prison in Draper, Utah.\nBut his imprisonment didn't end Ervil's appetite for vengeance. Caged as he was between steel bars and cement, he managed to write his magnum opus, the Book of the New Covenants, at a small desk in his cell. It was his last work, and it would be his most famous. He wrote furiously, scribbling until his fingers cramped and his eyes got blurry.\nThe 500-page screed contained a hit list of more than 50 people whom Ervil decided needed to be blood-atoned, among them cult defectors, police investigators, and prison officials. He distributed copies of the manuscript among his followers.\nErvil died in prison on August 16, 1981, of an apparent heart attack; prison guards found him keeled over in his cell, a hand clutching his throat. In an uncanny twist of fate, his brother Verlan was killed in a car crash in Mexico a few hours later.\nIf Ervil's death made everyone sleep a little easier at night, it shouldn't have. The Book of New Covenants contained a line of succession of men who were to carry on his \"ministry\" after he died.\nOne by one, the people on his hit list began to fall, as Ervil continued to orchestrate murderous mayhem from beyond the grave.\nOn June 21, 1983, his son Isaac, 20, who testified against Ervil, died in a suspicious \"suicide\" while staying with cult-member relatives in Houston.\nIn the fall of 1983, the plans of Ervil's wife Lorna to defect from the cult were cut short when the mother of eight was strangled and buried in a shallow grave in Mexico. Her body has never been found.\nOn December 28, 1983, Ervil's oldest son, Arturo, 33, was gunned down in Mexico by Leo Evoniuk, a rival who disputed his claim to the prophet's mantle.\nAfter Arturo died, the cult leadership fell to Heber LeBaron, Ervil's 20-year-old son. Heber had inherited his towering physical beauty from his father, but he'd also inherited his insanity. His first move was to purge Los Molinos of traitors who'd aligned themselves with Evoniuk.\nIn the early months of 1984, he shot Gamaliel Rios in the face with a .45 automatic. His body was buried in the desert and never recovered.\nNeither was that of Yolanda Rios, Ervil's twelfth wife, who was strangled to death in May 1984 and buried outside of Dallas.\nOn May 21, 1987, Leo Evoniuk was murdered near Santa Cruz, California. Only his dentures, lying in a puddle of blood, were found.\nOn October 16, 1987, Dan Jordan was shot in the head while on a hunting trip in the Manti-La Sal National Forest in Utah with his family and some LeBaron kids. His murder was never solved.\nBut June 27, 1988 was the single bloodiest day in the cult's history. Ervil had raged for 15 long paragraphs in New Covenants against Mark Chynoweth, Duane Chynoweth and Ed Marston, demanding they be slain as traitors. At 4 o'clock that afternoon in simultaneous murders hundreds of miles apart, his wishes were carried out.\nAll three men were former cult thugs who were trying to pursue normal lives in the appliance-repair business. But that wasn't their destiny.\nAt 4 o'clock in Houston, Duane Chynoweth was gunned down when he drove to pick up a used washer at a private home. It was a setup. His 8-year-old daughter Jennifer was with him that day, and she screamed when her daddy was shot.\nThe assassin turned when he heard the child, and walked back to the truck to shoot her in the mouth and forehead, not wanting to leave a potential witness. Across the state in Irving, Eddie Marston was also mowed down by bullets at 4 o'clock after replying to a similar appliance pickup request. And police found Mark Chynoweth in the back office of Reliance Appliances in Houston, his lifeless body sprawled on the paperwork on his desk and riddled with .45 bullet holes. He'd also been executed at 4 o'clock.\nOne by one, the authors of the quadruple murder were caught, caged, and hauled into court.\nIn May 1993, Heber LeBaron, Patricia LeBaron, and Douglas Lee Barlow were sentenced to life in prison without parole for their part in the slayings.\nRichard LeBaron, who was only 17 when he shot Duane and Jennifer Chynoweth to death, was sentenced to five years in prison.\nCynthia LeBaron was granted immunity and testified against her half-siblings at that trial.\nIn June, 1997, Aaron LeBaron was sentenced to 45 years in prison for racketeering, racketeering conspiracy and conspiracy to violate the civil rights of the victims.\nJacqueline LeBaron, whom police say helped to orchestrate the murders, remains at large. She is presumed to be living in Mexico or Belgium.\nStill hiding\nDespite the fact that the killers were jailed, many former cult members still live in fear. It's unclear who the new leader of the LeBaron cult is or whether that person intends to continue checking names off Ervil's hit list, but Rena Chynoweth isn't taking her chances.\nShe split up with Ervil when he was in jail for the Rulon murder, and that won her a place on his list. Twenty years later, she's still in hiding.\nDuring our five-year marriage and for many years afterward, I had to live with some ghastly memories,\" writes Chynoweth. \"I killed a man in cold blood, acting on my husband's orders which he claimed were 'commands from God.' I spent a year and a half running from the law, five months in jail awaiting trial for murder, and many years afterward trying to block out my past.\"\nRena ends her book with a plea to her readers:\n\"These last remnants of Ervil LeBaron's flock are still a risk to the rest of society. They are the last ones who may still feel bound by his blood covenant that has claimed so many innocent lives. They have grown up around violence and violent teachings, and there is grave danger that they will pass these values on to their own children. I want the killing to stop. Only by finding those still out there and getting them the help they need can we stop the bloodshed. \"\nIn her final paragraph, she asks readers who come into contact with the LeBaron children to please turn them in to the police.\nAnderson, Scott. The 4 O'Clock Murders. New York: Doubleday, 1993.\nAssociated Press. \"3 Members of Sect Acquitted of Conspiracy, Murder for Hire.\" January 22, 1993.\nAssociated Press. \"Ex-member of Cult Gets 5 Years for Slaying Man and Daughter.\" November 27, 1993.\nBradlee, Ben Jr. and Dale Van Atta. Prophet of Blood. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981.\nChynoweth, Rena and Dean M. Shapiro. The Blood Covenant. Austin, Texas: Diamond Books, 1990.\nFunk, Marianne. \"Trial Topples Murderous Sect as LeBarons Come Out of Hiding,\" The Deseret News. January 22, 1993.\nMakeig, John. \"Woman says brother ordered deaths of four sect defectors, \"The Houston Chronicle. February 26, 1997.\nTedford, Deborah. \"LeBaron gets 45-year sentence,\" The Houston Chronicle. June 13, 1997.\nYoung, Brigham. Sermon, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 4, pages 53-54; also published in The Deseret News, 1856, page 235.\nJulia Scheeres grew up in Lafayette, Indiana. She has an M.A. in Journalism and has written for the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle and Wired, among other outlets.\nHer memoir, Jesus Land, was published by Counterpoint Books in September, 2005.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 45699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 284.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://culteducation.com/group/1099-polygamist-groups/26716-attorneys-flds-church-discriminated-against-non-polygamous-family.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:17Z", "digest": "sha1:FAVQSXRTYXAONCDUUA4BT2HKKUJF27IW", "length": 9961, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "culteducation.com", "title": "Attorneys: FLDS Church discriminated against non-polygamous family", "raw_content": "Attorneys: FLDS Church discriminated against non-polygamous family\nPolygamy - Family sues, saying it was bullied after moving to community on Arizona border\nThe Salt Lake Tribune/January 29, 2014\nPhoenix -- Is a family living in southern Utah the victim of a \u201crogue\u201d polygamous religion that took over two local governments, or a pawn in a conspiracy designed to suck money out of a benign community?\nThe two images are seemingly at odds with each other, but during opening arguments Wednesday in a federal court in Phoenix, that was exactly how attorneys on either side of a civil rights lawsuit described the Cooke family. The Cookes, who live in Colorado City, Ariz., believe their town and neighboring Hildale, Utah, discriminated against them because they aren\u2019t part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They moved to the mostly polygamous community in 2008 and, they argue, have been refused a water connection and harassed ever since.\nArizona Assistant Attorney General Sandra Kane said Wednesday the harassment was an attempt by FLDS and municipal leaders to drive away the family. Kane explained that Ronald Cooke was born and raised in Short Creek \u2014 the collective name for Colorado City and Hildale \u2014 but moved as a young man. When Cooke was growing up, Kane said, the community was peaceful, even idyllic, and he decided to move back after suffering a disability. Cooke, his wife, Jinjer and their three children decided to move back in 2008 and chose to live in a home owned by the United Effort Plan \u2014 a trust that owns much of the land in the area.\nBut in the time since Cooke had left, both the religion and the local government had been \u201chijacked\u201d by Warren Jeffs and FLDS leaders, Kane went on to say. Jeffs had begun \u201chandling\u201d men in the church \u2014 a term Kane said meant the men were kicked out of the community \u2014 and he went so far as to expel city leaders. Kane added that Jeffs replaced the municipal leadership with his own loyalists, and when people like the Cookes began coming into the community, it challenged the FLDS leaders\u2019 \u201ciron-fisted\u201d rule.\n\u201cJeffs wanted them to fight back,\u201d Kane said, \u201cand they did.\u201d\nKane also previewed the evidence she plans to present during the coming weeks of the trial. Among other things, she said the 10-person jury would see letters from city and police leaders to Warren Jeffs, asking for his guidance. Some of those letters were sent while Jeffs was a wanted man, placed on the FBI\u2019s Most Wanted List for sex crimes.\nIn 2011, Jeffs, 58, was sentenced to life in a Texas prison after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting two girls, ages 12 and 15, whom he took as polygamous wives.\nThe result of the harassment and the FLDS control of the city government was that the Cookes, who aren\u2019t FLDS, were denied utilities when the family requested them, said the Cookes\u2019 attorney William Walker. Ronald Cooke needs fresh water, as well as a disabled-compatible home.\nDespite the Cookes\u2019 pleas for water, and Ronald\u2019s special needs, the city refused them; for years, the family lacked electricity, sewage and water services. The sewer and the power were eventually turned on, but the family still doesn\u2019t have water, Walker explained.\n\u201cThis is a story of people using their religion to lash out against others,\u201d Walker said.\nAccording to Walker and Kane, the city fabricated a story about a water shortage in order to justify denying the Cookes\u2019 request. But despite the alleged water shortage, the cities continued to hook up water to homes of FLDS members. The city even allowed a company to bottle and sell water in the community, Walker said. The real problem, he said, was \u201ca rogue religion that has taken over the government.\u201d\nBut attorneys for the two towns told an entirely different story in their opening arguments.\nJeff Matura, who represents Colorado City, said the Cookes came to the community and were specifically chosen to sue the city in order to make money for Bruce Wisan, who runs the UEP. As Matura told the story, Wisan \u2014 who was appointed by a judge to run the trust in 2005 \u2014 has racked up millions of dollars in fees. Those fees can only be paid by selling UEP land, much of which is in Colorado City and Hildale.\nBut the problem is that a water shortage makes it difficult or impossible to sell that land. Wisan would have to either hook up water to the UEP properties or disclose to buyers how much it would cost to do so, Matura said.\nAccording to Matura, Wisan wanted to get around that rule and the Cookes were the key because they could sue.\n\u201cIf the trust could get around that policy, it could subdivide the land and sell the land,\u201d Matura said.\nMatura also explained the alleged water shortage in detail. He said that the community gets water from an underground aquifer, but that demand for water exceeds the supply. To make matters worse, a pump broke on July 7, 2007, which prompted city leaders to take the threat of a water shortage seriously. From that time forward, Matura said, the community had water restrictions in place.\nThough the Cookes\u2019 attorneys argued that there is no evidence before 2010 of policies that would have prevented the family from getting water, Matura said he would show during the trial that there was indeed a water shortage. He also said that in a letter written to the city, Ronald Cooke himself actually acknowledged the water shortage.\nBlake Hamilton, who represents Hildale, further argued that the Cookes could have received water already if Wisan and the UEP had been willing to cooperate with the cities. According to Hamilton, the city policy of not hooking up new water connections is applied uniformly and fairly. However, the city was willing to compromise with the Cookes, which Hamilton described as \u201ccompassionate.\u201d The UEP turned down the city\u2019s overtures, leaving the family without water for years.\n\u201cAnyone can get a new water connection in the towns if they follow the policy,\u201d Hamilton said.\nThe policy includes bringing new water to the city system \u2014 something Hamilton said the UEP could do because it has significant water rights in the area.\nNeither side could present evidence during their opening arguments, so the differing images they painted of the city and the Cooke family will be teased out over the course of the trial, which is expected to last as long as eight weeks.\nThe Cookes\u2019 attorneys called Richard Holm as a witness Wednesday to confirm their view of the story. Holm was a member of the FLDS Church in the past and was appointed to the Colorado City Council in 1985 \u2014 the year the town was incorporated. Holm testified that Leroy Johnson, then the leader of the FLDS Church, was involved in his appointment to the council, which he served on for 19 years without ever being opposed in an election.\nHolm went on to say that all the members of the city council were FLDS members and chosen with the blessing of church leadership.\nEventually, in 2003, Jeffs kicked Holm out of the church and reassigned his two wives to Holm\u2019s younger brother. At one point, attorneys for the city objected to the line of questioning that prompted Holm to tell the story of his expulsion.\nWalker countered: \u201cThese were the hammers that were being used by religion to force counsel members to do what they wanted.\u201d\nThe judge allowed the questioning to continue.\nHolm later described buying a piece of land in the community that turned out not to have any utilities hooked up to it. Holm reached out to the mayor to get utilities and was told the state had put a moratorium on new water hook ups due to a sewer issue. Several months passed and the story changed to a water shortage, Holm testified. Then, when he obtained water rights and offered to supply the city with water, he was told he and the trust had illegally divided the land.\nThe city eventually filed a lawsuit against Holm and the trust over the subdivision. The case only wrapped up when Holm finally bought the other section of land, rendering the subdivision issue moot.\nFollowing opening arguments, Issac Wyler took the stand as the first witness in the trial. Wyler, a former member of the FLDS Church who now works for Wisan, said the religion changed dramatically when Jeffs took over.\n\u201cIt was a drastic change,\u201d Wyler testified. \u201cIt was a 180-degree change from when I grew up.\u201d\nAmong other things, Wyler said, Jeffs canceled many social activities and forbade church members from talking to \u201capostates,\u201d or those who had been kicked out of the religion.\nWyler also described being kicked out of the FLDS Church in January of 2004, along with 20 other men. The group of men were told to leave immediately, without saying goodbye to their families, and to give Warren Jeffs a list of all their sins. All but two men complied, Wyler said, and he was one of them.\nSignificantly, the mayor of Colorado City and a town councilman were also among the exiled group. Both men complied with Jeffs\u2019 orders, Wyler said, and new FLDS loyalists were appointed to their positions in the city governments. The appointments were apparently unsurprising to Wyler, even though the positions were technically for elected officials.\n\u201cThe elections are unopposed because they\u2019ve been chosen by the prophet,\u201d Wyler explained of the political process in Short Creek. \u201cThe people in the church are told who to vote for.\u201d\nKane and Wyler also went through a series of photos together Wednesday afternoon. The photos showed various different buildings and construction projects, and Wyler said they all had water hookups, despite having been built after the Cookes arrived and during the alleged water shortage.\nHowever, during cross examination, Hamilton asked Wyler if he had ever worked for the towns\u2019 utility companies or seen a list of pre-existing water hookups. Hamilton\u2019s point was that the new projects were compliant with city policy \u2014 which he earlier argued the Cookes could have chosen to obey \u2014 and therefore got water.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 11089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 244.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailycaller.com/2018/02/28/feds-indict-us-israeli-man-antismetic-acts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:07Z", "digest": "sha1:VAODE4AOHW4N6ZJ6SVFOY4CP2ZNRTOLZ", "length": 2358, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "dailycaller.com", "title": "Feds Indict US-Israeli Man Responsible For 9% Of All Anti-Semitic Acts In 2017 | The Daily Caller", "raw_content": "Feds Indict US-Israeli Man Responsible For 9% Of All Anti-Semitic Acts In 2017\nFederal prosecutors on Wednesday charged a U.S.-Israeli dual citizen with hate crime and other offenses in connection with more than a hundred threats he allegedly phoned into Jewish community centers and organizations last year.\nMichael Ron David Kadar, 19, was indicted in federal courts in Georgia, Florida and Washington, D.C. after an investigation into numerous threats against the community centers and high-profile Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and Israeli embassy in Washington.\nProsecutors in Florida say Kadar, who is Jewish, made multiple calls involving bomb threats and active shooter threats to Jewish Community Centers throughout the state. The Florida indictment also charges Kadar with attempting to obstruct the free exercise of religion at the community centers.\nIn Washington, Kadar allegedly called in a bomb threat to ADL offices on March 7 and sent a threatening email about a bomb to the Israeli Embassy two days later. The Georgia indictment charges him with making threatening calls, cyberstalking and giving police a false report about a hostage situation at a private home.\nBefore Wednesday\u2019s indictments, Kadar had already been hit with federal charges in Florida and Georgia for making similar threats against Jewish groups. In all, he is allegedly responsible for at least 160 \u2014 or about 9 percent \u2014 of the anti-Semitic incidents in the U.S. in 2017, according to an ADL report released Tuesday.\nThe ADL audit says there were 1,986 anti-Jewish incidents last year, a 57 percent increase over the 2016 total of 1,267. Based on ADL\u2019s figures, Kadar accounted for more than one-fifth of the rise in incidents of threats or harassment of Jewish people in the U.S. last year.\nIn a statement on the latest charges against Kadar, FBI Director Christopher Wray said it didn\u2019t matter that Kadar\u2019s threats were hoaxes, because the fear felt by his targets was real.\n\u201cThese alleged threats were very real for those individuals who were evacuated, for the first responders who quickly mobilized to get people out of harm\u2019s way, and for those in Jewish communities across the United States who felt targeted and unsafe,\u201d he said.\nKadar was arrested in April in Israel, where he also faces charges.\nTags : anti defamation league fbi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 5597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://damiblog.com.ng/2018/08/12/shocking-oshiohmole-wants-buhari-to-recover-16bn-reportedly-spent-on-power/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CRMP2YXGLM4O4HGBDQ5NC3AY2PXT6K3X", "length": 4098, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "damiblog.com.ng", "title": "SHOCKING: Oshiohmole Wants Buhari To Recover $16Bn Reportedly Spent On Power - Damiblog", "raw_content": "SHOCKING: Oshiohmole Wants Buhari To Recover $16Bn Reportedly Spent On Power\nAugust 12, 2018 SHOCKING: Oshiohmole Wants Buhari To Recover $16Bn Reportedly Spent On Power2018-08-12T18:36:31+00:00 - Gossips - No Comment\nThe chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has called on President Buhari to recover the $16bn reportedly spent on power during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP\u2019s) administration.\nOshiomhole said that the President needs to do the needful so that Nigerians will know that no fraudulent act will go unpunished.\nThe APC chairman said this while receiving hand-over notes from his predecessor, John Oyegun in Abuja.\nAccording to Punch, Oshiomhole said \u201cAs I was reflecting, I watched our President recently asking questions rhetorically, \u2018you have spent $16bn on power under the PDP, to lay emphasis, he repeated, where is the power?\u2019.\n\u201cNigerians in their various homes, those who had the power that day or generator, said, Mr. President, we don\u2019t have. So, $16bn spent, the more dollars they spent, the more darkness the people suffered.\n\u201cNow the questions I had in my mind were: maybe because the President has not yet proceeded to now ask the follow-up questions that \u2018since we don\u2019t find the power, then, you must bring the $16bn that you spent.\u2019 If he doesn\u2019t do that, then the accusations of limited anti-corruption may begin to gain some currency.\n\u201cOur President needs to do the needful. After all, it is already on record what other presidents didn\u2019t do, with regards to the issue of MKO Abiola, and the criminal manner by which the election was nullified, and people pretended that that was never an issue, the President showed courage.\n\u201cThat same courage should not fail him so that he can proceed to recover the $16bn and return it to the treasury from the man who superintended over the spending of that money.\n\u201cWhen he does that, people will say, yes, there is a difference because there are Nigerians who are saying so.\n\u201cThat propelled Prof. Wole Soyinka to say that, if people had immunity as sitting presidents when the immunity expires, should they transit from immunity to impunity? I think impunity is deadlier than immunity.\n\u201cWhat we need to do as a party is to provide the support that our President needs and for the Nigerian people to provide those supports and then they want to distract our attention when they are in trouble and say, \u2018Eh! they want to kill me.\u201d\nThe APC chairman also faulted claims by former President Olusegun Obasanjo that there are plans to hang a crime on him saying \u201cThe man said they wanted to kill him. No! To kill is to prevent the investigation. He must be alive to account. That is a typical distraction.\n\u201cI think all of us should be ready to do anything we can to help Nigerians not to forget in a hurry. Those who thought they can loot for 16 years, destroy the fabric of our growth system, and tender apology later, so, that they can be allowed to come back.\u201d\nAccording to reports, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched investigations into the alleged $16 billion spent on power during Obasanjo\u2019s administration.\nThe post SHOCKING: Oshiohmole Wants Buhari To Recover $16Bn Reportedly Spent On Power appeared first on Naijaloaded | Nigeria's Most Visited Music & Entertainment Website.\nhttps://damiblog.com.ng/2018/08/12/shocking-oshiohmole-wants-buhari-to-recover-16bn-reportedly-spent-on-power/https://damiblog.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/adams-oshiomole-1-1.jpghttps://damiblog.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/adams-oshiomole-1-1-150x150.jpg 2018-08-12T18:36:31+00:00 Owoyomi DamilolaGossips\nThe chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole has called on President Buhari to recover the $16bn reportedly spent on power during the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP\u2019s) administration. Oshiomhole said that the President needs to do the needful so that Nigerians will know that no fraudulent act will...\n\u00ab Beautiful 4-year-old Girl Kidnapped At A Wedding Ceremony (Photos)\n5-0; Cristiano Ronaldo Scores His First Goal For Juventus After 8 Minutes \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 7547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/06/18/moving-on/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QFAVHHBNFXDK7P6EJDCQ52PG23NOAHJE", "length": 659, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "daughterofthedelta.com", "title": "Moving on | daughterofthedelta", "raw_content": "Sara, Mamie and Tiny, probably their last winter in the Strong Avenue house\nSara\u2019s memoirs take us now from Greenwood to Jackson for a little over three years, but we\u2019ll be returning to Greenwood in 1932. The Strong Avenue house will not reappear in these stories, so today\u2019s blog is a tribute to a fine bungalow and the girls who knew it as home.\nHoward\u2019s album also mysteriously ends here. He left us a treasure trove of photos from about 1917 to 1927, but then it just ends. Maybe he was so thrilled with Son\u2019s arrival that he dropped the camera. I\u2019m grateful that Sara saved the album and for the photos which do survive, but I do so wish there were more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://daughterofthedelta.com/2011/10/28/hooray-for-hollywood/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:59Z", "digest": "sha1:HCAZIIJM27KFWC5LPG7REAO5JRM5CINV", "length": 5574, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "daughterofthedelta.com", "title": "Hooray for Hollywood | daughterofthedelta", "raw_content": "\u2190 Habeus Who?\nQuint Quandry \u2192\nRobert Mitchum in \"Home from the Hill\"\n\u201cI covered everything from track meets to debutante parties, from murder trials to street demonstrations, and truly my newspaper job was an education worth as much as all the years I attended school. There were many exciting times and I was in a position to meet a number of celebrities and important people. Movies, or parts of movies, such as Ode to Billy Joe, The Reivers, The Music Man and Home from the Hills were made in or around Greenwood, and I got to take pictures and talk to some of the actors and actresses including Robert Mitchum, George Hamilton, Ralph Bellamy, George Peppard and director Vincent Minelli.\nGeorge Hamilton in Greenwood\nOne of my biggest thrills came from being able to introduce Mama to Mark Rydell, who was directing The Reivers. He had played the role of Jeff Baker in As The World Turns.\n\u201cI also got a chance to talk with Steve McQueen, the lead actor in The Reivers. One big disappointment was when some of the crew filming Home from the Hills with Robert Mitchum out at one of the cotton compresses one Sunday morning invited me to share a box lunch with them and I declined because I knew Russell was at home with Cathy and Mary Carol and they would have to have lunch.\u201d\nGosh. To think Sara gave up lunch with Robert Mitchum and George Hamilton to come home and make me a grilled cheese. That\u2019s maternal dedication. She loved having those movie companies in town, whether it was the upscale crews for The Reivers, with its big-name stars like Steve McQueen and Will Gear, or the fly-by-night cheesy B-movies like Ode to Billy Joe. There was just something about all that acitivity and energy and stardust that thrilled her, and I wished over and over again last year that she had lived long enough to see The Help take over Greenwood. She did read the book and was surprisingly noncommittal about it. I think she was of the generation that had lived that life and she found the fictionalization (and to some degree, sensationalization) of it off-putting.\nThe incident she mentions with Mark Rydell begs expanding on. Sara, Jessie, Big and other women in our family were riveted to As the World Turns for decades, from the first day that Chris and Nancy Hughes walked into their lives in 1955 or so, courtesy of CBS, until they could no longer follow the plots (or lack of plots). If you were hungry or bored or bleeding to death on a weekday between 12:30 and 1:00, that was just your bad luck. You could not raise an adult female in this family to tend to your crisis for all the tea in China. And \u201cJeff\u201d was a much beloved character, somebody-or-other\u2019s husband, who slammed his car into a concrete embankment when actor Mark Rydell decided to ditch that job for directing. So here he is, Jeff resurrected and in-the-flesh, right there in Greenwood, trying to direct The Reivers, and Sara dragged the poor man over to meet Jessie and Big. They were like starstruck teenagers swooning over the Beatles, and Big kept lapsing into calling him \u201cJeff.\u201d He was the sole of kindness and patience, and that is a lovely, enjoyable movie.\nOne of several articles which Sara wrote on \"The Reivers\"\n5 Responses to Hooray for Hollywood\nThe Reivers is one of my favorite reads (and movies). My dad loved the movie so much, he put us in the car one summer and declared we were taking a trip to the town where The Reivers was filmed. It was not Greenwood, but I don\u2019t remember the name of this teeny little town, where a soda fountain was open but they had no bananas for a banana split, so I walked two doors down to the little grocery, bought a bunch of bananas, and toted them back to the little ice cream place. My dad got his banana split, and we got to \u201ctour\u201d this little town, which was just a postage stamp, really\u2026 sorta a letdown in the end. Sarah had much better luck! And The Reivers is still a wonderful film.\nWhat a wonderful story! The little town is Carrollton, which was the perfect setting for 1904 Jefferson, Mississippi. In 1969, all the movie company had to do was layer the streets with dirt and turn a gas station into a livery stable with a false front. Everything else was already a century behind. It\u2019s still a lovely town, now with a few more businesses and one of the best small restaurants, Miss Sippy\u2019s, in the state. Next time you\u2019re in Greenwood we\u2019ll go out and get some chicken salad. And I\u2019ll bet Betty Ray, the owner, would fix you up with a banana split if we gave her some advance notice.\nYou\u2019re on! I was so intrigued by your story (and have such fond remembrances of that trip) that I looked up The Reivers on imdb and yep, Carrollton, and not far from Greenwood. Who knew I would be so involved in Greenwood stories when I grew up? Life is strange. I scoured Carrollton on GoogleEarth (the internet has changed *everything*) and can almost see Miss Sippy\u2019s. Stay tuned for a field trip. Can\u2019t wait. xo\nMy parents were ATWT groupies, too! So was my grandmother. I soooo identify with the statement that you could be bleeding to death, and it was just too bad. BTW, Jeff Baker was married to Penny Hughes. Yep, I couldn\u2019t help but watch it, too when I was at home at lunchtime with the folks. Meg Ryan got her start on that show playing Betsy, in case anybody is interested. I am sure if my folks could\u2019ve met Mark Rydell, they would have been excited, too!\nI remember my mother being amazed that Walter Cronkite broke in during ATWT with the news that Kennedy had been shot. Guess she thought it could have waited until a commercial break.\ufffd", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 8854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://davidshurter.com/2011/12/01/christmas-break/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:15Z", "digest": "sha1:AUTNCAP3HPLH4QTVXWRAHAVGRJEHIQAV", "length": 1439, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "davidshurter.com", "title": "Christmas Break | DavidShurter.com", "raw_content": "I took off my recent posts- I have come to the conclusion that I have no desire to create problems for people, I just want my family investigated. I am rescheduled for a DNA test and the person that I am working with I am 99% sure is on the up and up- and I will know for sure when I meet them. I am going to take a break from DavidShurter.com for the upcoming holiday- I have a lot on my plate right now getting ready for Rabbit Hole to hit the market, and so I want to focus on that and not on this investigation. I was incredibly angry on Monday and I was more than harsh afterwards, and I have always found that anger like that always takes too much energy, and mine is better focused on myself right now. I have a wonderful life- and that hasn\u2019t changed- and I look forward to having all of this known and investigated eventually. After a conversation today, I have EVERY reason to believe that things are working out. Slow- but sure. Like I said, I am just impatient. It was certainly not a virtue I was born with and I have to work hard at it all the time! Anyway- happy holidays everyone- and for those of you who are so inclined- Merry Christmas and Happy NewYear. It looks bright already- and I am excited to see what is going to happen.\nPeace to All of You- and Thanks.\nhttps://davidshurter.com/2011/12/01/christmas-break/\nWhy the Argument about Sybil Matters\nBook Launch for Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor\u2019s Story", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 6151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://daynamariejournalist.com/2016/12/14/kanye-west/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:02Z", "digest": "sha1:HLMJRKAMUC7IAW5CBGBSS6T7DPVS3FKD", "length": 7192, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "daynamariejournalist.com", "title": "#iMissTheOldKanye: The Perfectly Imperfect Artist | #DaynaMarieJournalist", "raw_content": "I gotta say, at that time I\u2019d like to meet Kanye\u201d\nThese highly remembered lyrics are an interlude from Kanye\u2019s recent body of work, The Life of Pablo. I find myself credible to talk about Mr.West because of the love I have developed for his music throughout the years. Mr. West is a rapper who always seems to be the topic of conversation. This comes as no surprise because his wife Kim Kardashian, was robbed in her hotel room this October in Paris. Following the robbery, Mr.West was hospitalized due to exhaustion and was released a month later from U.C.L.A Medical Center. The question raises whether Kanye is trying to put on a perfect act and has finally shown that he is not so Godly as he hoped everyone would perceive? Or is he in fact human and has raw emotions that he needs to deal with?\nAccording to biography.com, The 39-year-old rapper was born in Atlanta, Georgia on June 8th, 1977. West was raised by his mother who divorced his father when he was three years old. Donda West, who was an English professor, made sure to instill the importance of education in her son\u2019s mind. West graduated from Polaris High School and attended college for one year at the Chicago State University, where he studied art. His mother, who was highly disappointed when he dropped out, gave him one year to defend his outrageous decision to see what he would do as a career without a college degree. West moved to New York, where he became a highly paid producer for Sean Carter, also known as Jay-Z. West would eventually use everything he learned to drop his debut album, The College Dropout, which landed him a Grammy for Best Rap Album. Throughout his career, West would go on to release six more studio albums following his debut.\nThere\u2019s no doubt in anyone\u2019s mind how creative Yeezus is and he has evidence to back it up. Yeezus has won over 21 Grammy\u2019s and has eight nominations for the 59th annual show happening February of next year (2017). His latest album has been nominated for Best Rap Album.\nKanye has been through a lot in his life. His mother died in November 2007 due to complications during cosmetic surgery. West\u2019s mother who was 58 years old at the time, was warned against having the surgery because of her tender age. She was announced deceased at Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center. A spokesperson for the hospital told Access Hollywood, \u201cDonda West was brought into the emergency room at Centinela. She was unresponsive and in cardiac arrest. They tried to revive her and were unsuccessful.\u201d\nThe influence of his mother in his life was evident before and after her death. Yeezus proved to the world within a two month range that he went from being an a**hole to someone with emotions, which is something he didn\u2019t quite plan for. In September 2009, when Beyonce didn\u2019t win Video of the Year at the VMA\u2019s, Kanye West abruptly went on stage to tell Taylor Swift how much she didn\u2019t deserve it. The world viewed him as an a**hole, but in Kanye\u2019s eyes, he was standing up for one of his favorite artists.\nThere was a sudden change in reaction to Mr.West when he went on the Jay Leno show to catch up on life. It was shown how much Mr.West was caught off guard when Mr.Leno asked him a question about his mother. Leno asked, \u201cWhat would your mom say if she was still alive?\u201d in regards to Yeezus stealing the award from Taylor Swift. He broke down in tears and revealed to the world that maybe he does care about how he is viewed.\nDealing with death is not easy especially if it was someone whom you were extremely close to. It is irrelevant that his mother passed away nine years ago, as the coping of death differs from person to person. According to Mental Health America, coping with the loss of someone is extremely difficult. As it is stated on their site, \u201cThese feelings are normal and common reactions to loss. You may not be prepared for the intensity and duration of your emotions or how swiftly your moods may change. You may even begin to doubt the stability of your mental health.\u201d\nKanye decided to randomly cancel his Saint Pablo tour late November and it was revealed that he was seeking medical help. The tour which has rounded up millions thus far, features a floating stage that made fans excited to interact with Yeezus. Fans had the opportunity to look up to him from the point of view of the stage. I too was a fan who was looking forward to this highly anticipated tour as I bought tickets for December 30th at the Barclays Center in New York. I was disappointed when I got a refund from TicketMaster informing me that Mr.West has cancelled the tour. Fans took to Twitter to share their disappointment.\nCancelling his tour & screwing over fans was final straw. I\u2019ll jam his music but can no longer defend Kanye\u2019s erratic & egotistical behavior\n\u2014 Brian (@bschnizz) December 13, 2016\nKanye West told ya\u2019ll he was cancelling the rest of the tour for his health, nigga just collected $32M in insurance. Y\u2019all got got.\n\u2014 Manny (@Manny_Bodega) December 13, 2016\nAlong the tour Kanye West made a couple of announcements before being hospitalized. West made a stop in Seattle where he expressed that Jay-Z only used a phone call to find out how his longtime friend was doing which angered Kanye. He stopped his tour to say, \u201cDon\u2019t call me, after the robbery, and say \u2018how you feelin?\u2019 You wanna know how I\u2019m feelin? Come by the house.\u201d\nIn addition to tarnishing his reputation with Jay-Z, West made another announcement on his tour. According to vibe.com, the Chi-Town rapper said he was a fan of Donald Trump. He said he enjoyed his debate style, called him a \u201cgenius\u201d and then said that if he voted this year, he would have voted for Trump. This comes as a shock as Mr.West is always one to defend his people and stand up in issues of racism and prejudices. In an interview he did with Zane Lowe talking about life, music, and his passions, he brought up how he feels the need to stand up against racism and remind everyone why he thinks highly of himself. West stated he doesn\u2019t view himself as a \u201cn*gga\u201d but rather a God. Earlier this week, Mr.West visited the president-elect at the Trump Tower where he said, \u201cI just wanted to take a picture with him.\u201d\nREAD: The Life Of Pablo \u2013 Album Review\nOverall, it does seem like some fans miss the \u201cOld Kanye.\u201d However, there is no old Kanye. This is who he was all along. Kanye is someone who is arrogant, sometimes ignorant, honest, brutal and most importantly real. He has been known to speak for how he feels in the moment and he is living in the moment. Kanye, continue making the world proud with your music. If the world stops listening to you, I\u2019ll still have my headphones plugged in with your music. Kanye is an artist who has flaws but that doesn\u2019t stop his creativity because he is perfectly imperfect. As Kanye said himself, \u201cWhen you\u2019re the absolute best you get hated on the most.\u201d\nOne comment on \u201c#iMissTheOldKanye: The Perfectly Imperfect Artist\u201d\nPingback: \u201cye\u201d Album Review: Kanye\u2019s Superpower Is His Bipolarism | #DaynaMarieJournalist\nThis entry was posted on December 14, 2016 by daynamariejournalist in Uncategorized and tagged Kanye West, TheLifeOfPablo, Yeezus.\nhttps://wp.me/p6PnQx-7J", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 10901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 234.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dayz.gamepedia.com/L%27%C3%AEle_Myst%C3%A9rieuse", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:23Z", "digest": "sha1:YSRUFR4YYIUWLWLMT4FXMOMPNQFV6WAT", "length": 835, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "dayz.gamepedia.com", "title": "L'\u00eele Myst\u00e9rieuse - DayZ Wiki", "raw_content": "L'\u00eele myst\u00e9rieuse (English: The Mysterious Island) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules F\u00e9rat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson. Verne developed a similar theme in his later novel, Godfrey Morgan (French: L'\u00c9cole des Robinsons, 1882).\nRetrieved from \"https://dayz.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=L%27\u00eele_Myst\u00e9rieuse&oldid=129775\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 2246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 115.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dcfoodguy.com/2018/08/24/17th-street-festival-is-this-saturday-8-25/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:47Z", "digest": "sha1:QR3P6LM6XTVRP3MIVDGEZ5WPAD5M4KU6", "length": 2493, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "dcfoodguy.com", "title": "17th Street Festival is this Saturday 8/25 \u2013 DC Food Guy", "raw_content": "August 24, 2018 August 24, 2018 DC Food GuyLeave a Comment on 17th Street Festival is this Saturday 8/25\n17th Street Festival is this Saturday 8/25\n\u201cHistoric Dupont Circle Main Streets presents its 9th Annual 17th Street Festival, a free community event celebrating the shops, restaurants, and services of 17th Street. The 17th Street Festival will take place on Saturday, August 25, 2018 from 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m. in the 1500-1600 blocks of 17th Street, NW. The festival includes a wide variety of street vendors, including artists, makers, entrepreneurs, nonprofits, kids\u2019 activities and entertainment \u2013 rain or shine.\nThe festival will include more than 60 artists and makers selling everything from oil paintings to pottery, jewelry to cigars, and every creative item in between. Other vendors include area nonprofit organizations, local entrepreneurs, and the Kids Zone will have an inflatable slide.\nUnique to the 17th Street Festival will be an all day \u201ctraveling\u201d entertainment on the street, including a funk band, flamenco dancers with guitar, mariachi band, a Chinese lion dancer, and a New Orleans jazz band. We will end the day with a drag performance from 5:00-6:00 p.m. by Brooklyn Heights, a noted drag performer as seen at Town DC (now closed) and Nellies Sports Bar.\n\u200b \u201cCome and join us and bring the family,\u201d said Bill McLeod, Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets\u2019 Executive Director. \u201cWe have 16 great restaurants on 17th Street, most with outdoor cafes, so there is great food and fun for everyone.\u201d \u200b\n\u200bThe 17th Street Festival was started nine years ago by Lee Granados, a long-time Dupont resident. Today it is organized by Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets, with major support from the DC Department of Small and Local Business Development, Hubert\u2019s, Zico, Attache Housing, Elxel, Colonial Parking, Dupont Circle Citizen\u2019s Association, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2B, Stonewall Kickball, TD Bank, Friends of Stead Park, and the City Paper!\n\u200bThe mission of Historic Dupont Main Streets is to promote, coordinate, and maintain improvements of the cultural, economic, and environmental qualities of Dupont Circle to make it an exemplary place to live, work, shop, and play. Support the festival by making a donation and receive a discount wristband. Thanks!\u201d\nCategories Community EventTags 17th Street, Community Event, DuPont, Festival\nPrevious Free FoMu Ice Cream at the Hamilton Hotel (8/20 \u2013 8/31)\nNext SAD NEWS ALERT!!! International Square to be \u201crenovated\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://decarceratepa.info/voices/no-phoenix-here-just-newer-ashes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWHX4RYY4E6DTC664JQ2RY7YQF3V7BJD", "length": 6035, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "decarceratepa.info", "title": "No Phoenix Here, Just Newer Ashes | Decarcerate PA", "raw_content": "On Wednesday morning, July 11, Graterford was put on lockdown and we all knew what it was about. The dreaded move to SCI-Phoenix was finally going down after a decade of talk, building, and false starts.\nOfficers from the DOC CERT Team in black khakis and tees invaded the 89-year-old prison determined to move roughly 2,600 men and property next door to what had been advertised as a new, state-of-the-art \"correctional\" institution. It's supposed to be the Phoenix that rises from the ashes of Graterford, as the thinking of the higher-ups goes. Though the mailing address remains the same, we are now to replace Graterford with Collegeville.\nThe logo on the CERT Team shirts is a gas-masked face in front of a crossed rifle and shotgun surrounded by the Latin words \"Veritas,\" \"Officum,\" and \"Aequitas.\" For five days these officers, who none of us had ever seen before, pushed blue laundry carts up and down cell blocks, picking up men and their property and escorting them away. It was a tight operation, something to see. But the efficiency, which I'm sure was celebrated, is precisely what made it so dehumanizing.\nI got taken away on day five as part of the last group to exit Graterford's 30-foot-high concrete wall. The school building, the beacon of Graterford just days prior, was converted to a shipment portal of human bodies. The room I earned my Villanova bachelor's degree from was now pit stop #1 where a line of officers patted us down. From there it was on to the law library where I sat in a chair and got sniffed by a hound, the same library where countless men navigated their way to freedom over the decades. In the former Prison Literacy Project room, I stood before a mural of a student being handed a diploma and underwent a slow, intricate strip search. In another G.E.D. room, the final stop, I got chained and prepped for shipment.\nIt had been 22 years since I stepped foot in Graterford, three weeks after my 19th birthday in the same month of July. The transport bus, known to us as the Blue Goose, was an upgrade from the old bus I arrived on. It was new, shiny, air conditioned, a sign of what was in store at Phoenix.\nBut no amount of shine can cover up ugly. And opening up a new set of human cages in 2018 at a price tag of half a billion dollars to PA taxpayers is as ugly as it gets.\nSo here we are now. The cell blocks have 72 cells in each of their two separate sides as opposed to 400 in each of Graterford's five blocks. Two big flat screens hang high above on walls over both sides of the control center. The CO station on the ground floor has fancy high chairs and three computer screens various people spend all day looking at. Our cells are still concrete and steel, just cleaner\u2014for now. But it's clear we're not supposed to be in here yet.\nThe cell lights turn on at random times all through the day, including two or three times overnight, and no one seems to have an answer as to why or how to make it stop. Doors to enter and exit the blocks take up to half hour sometimes to buzz open. Every officer says someone other than them is in control of the doors. From one of the block windows we can see what is supposed to be the main yard. Some of the ground is overturned, flag markers all over the place. We won't be going there anytime soon.\nIn fact, we haven't gone anywhere since getting here Sunday\u2014just cell, an hour here and there for phones and showers, and a concrete \"yard\" attached to the cell block with metal tables, two basketball rims, and one workout apparatus.\nOn the night of Tuesday, July 17, a man fell from the top bunk in his cell and didn't get carried off the block in a stretcher until over an hour later. First, two officers in the control center for some reason didn't hear his cellmate buzzing through the new cell intercom system. Finally we all began kicking our doors and screaming \"man down.\" It took another five minutes for one of the officers to find his way out of the control center and to the cell.\nOnce he arrived and assessed the situation, call after call on his walkie went unanswered. A sergeant then came ten minutes later and was able to make contact on his walkie. It took 45 minutes for two medical staff and three COs to arrive. They were stranded at each gate into the block for at least 10 minutes each one. The whole ordeal began at 10:15 and ended around 11:30. The guy never returned to the block.\nFor all the criticism Graterford receives from people who've never been there, something like that would've never happened. In my 22 years inside that wall I\u2019ve seen very little violence. Now everyone seems on edge, staff included. Scowls have replaced smiles or at least neutral countenances. In trying so hard to eradicate the \"Graterford culture,\" everything that was good is being replaced by a certain \"mountain\" mindset. In the mountains, as all the other PA prisons are called, there are many more assaults, and certainly more on staff. And I can't imagine the recidivism rate is any lower with their limited or nonexisting programming. Why would we want to replicate that?\nSo, have we risen? Only time will tell. But if week one is any indication, we've surely sunken to a new low. We've been dumped into a prettier ash pile\u2014that no phoenix can ever rise from.\nFelix Rosado is cofounder and co-coordinator of Let\u2019s Circle Up, a restorative justice project based at Graterford State Prison. Originally from Reading, PA, he has been fighting a death by incarceration sentence since 1995. He also co-coordinates the Alternatives to Violence Project and is a member of the Inside-Out Graterford Think Tank. In 2016, he earned his Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies degree from Villanova University. He is an advisor to Decarcerate PA, as well as to Eastern State Penitentiary\u2019s Prisons Today Exhibit and Returning Citizens Tour Guide Program. 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And daring, outspoken, brash, brilliant, creative, loved herself, and moved in the world with confidence. She had a mind. And the world doesn't accept that a person can have two gifts. You can't be a mind and a beauty.\nWatching this movie and the heroic and tragic life she led, made me look at parallels in my own life. It's why her story has so much to offer practically everyone, because people are much more complex than the stories the world tells about us.\nAlso, I finally understand her invention. You can encrypt communication by changing frequency at seemingly random times. Both the sender and the receiver know which frequency to tune to at any time, but the enemy doesn't. She thought of using something like a player piano roll to coordinate the two. This method, which she got a patent for, is the basis for wifi, cell phones and Bluetooth.;\nvia Dave Winner, remarks in bold by this your tru\u00f1y.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 6096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 306.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deshvidesh.news/index.php/more/numerology", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5QIP5QV7BZG5PCNYVFKTB6NFYXSJKUH", "length": 741, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "deshvidesh.news", "title": "http://www.DeshVidesh.news - Numerology - http://www.DeshVidesh.news", "raw_content": "Now we are in the Year 2018 and most of us are super excited to unravel the mysteries of the\u2026\nIn Numerology, number 9 stands for Mars. You are number 9 as per numerology, if your Day, Life path, or\u2026\nIn Name Numerology, No. 8 stands for Saturn. 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Then we're going to Trader Joe's for supply replinishment.\nMeanwhile, at the Hall of Justice...\nLater that night the beautiful and generous d_n_v is taking the chitlins so we can concentrate on dinner at the Macaroni Grill. After dinner we're going to the theater to see a romantic comedy called High Tension. After that, maybe we'll go to a club or titty bar or something. 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For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1614, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 198.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/student_folklore_all/18/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:C3VDDV46J34LU4CVINTWSW2EJUFOEKMX", "length": 2543, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "digitalcommons.usu.edu", "title": "\"Name Called/ Shadows\" by Jess Ivie", "raw_content": "Name Called/ Shadows\nRaeLee Yancey\nRaeLee is a 20 year old female, she grew up in Stanwood, Washington, moved to West Jordan, Utah her sophomore year of high school and now lives in Logan, Utah. She earned her high school diploma from Copper Hills high in West Jordan, an associates degree from Salt Lake Community College (which she earned in high school), and is currently working towards her bachelors in exercise science and international studies at Utah State University. She grew up in an LDS family. She is an extremely close friend of mine that I met my sophomore year of high school, and she was my roommate freshman year of college. She is a fun loving individual that comes off as quiet at first, but loves deep talks. She loves the outdoors, and music, and animals. She\u2019s got a dry sense of humor. She is also athletic, and believes in ghosts.\nThis story was told at an impromptu game night in the public lounge at my apartment around 9:40 pm. A mutual friend was visiting from Salt Lake, and we decided to have a game night to catch up. RaeLee, the visiting friend, and I were halfway through a game of phase 10 when we got bored and I asked the visiting friend about recent adventures, and he told us a ghost story. After that, a few supernatural stories were bounced around, including this one. It was pretty quiet, because it was late and there were only 3 of us in the room. The collection context and context of use are very similar, because the storytelling started naturally. It would normally be told between peers, later at night or around Halloween, or added to a friend\u2019s recalling of a similar experience.\n\u201cI\u2019ve heard my name! I was biking in the garage and then (inaudible) we have and it just um, you know ummm\u2026 it was probably just my imagination. Anyway, and then- uhhhm. I\u2019ve had one where you just see shadows when you drive, and you just know, so yeah (uncomfortable laugh)\u201d\nRaeLee told this memory quickly, as a filler trying to think of other supernatural experiences. 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You might also be surprised to hear that\u2014overall\u2014consumers believe that digital advertising is improving. Unfortunately, there\u2019s still a long way to go.\nThat said, today, one out of five adults report using an ad blocker all of the time according to Kantar Media \u2018s DIMENSION 2018 research. And it\u2019s not just younger adults using ad blockers. The proportion of adults 45 to 64 who block ads is almost at the same level as those aged 18-34s. It\u2019s also not just heavy tech-savvy users blocking ads. Twenty-three percent of heavy users report always blocking advertising content compared to 21% of all connected adults. The Kantar research surveyed 1,000 Americans and 5,000 in Brazil, China, France and the U.K.\nImportantly, attitudes toward advertising appear to be changing for the better. Nearly three-quarters of online adults feel that that \u201cadvertising is changing for the better, or not changing at all.\u201d Unfortunately, consumers report that targeting practices are misaligned with a positive online advertising experience. Seventy-two percent of consumers say that \u201csometimes I see the same ad over and over again, it\u2019s too repetitive.\u201d Further, more than half of online consumers (56%) report to frequently seeing ads for products they\u2019ve already purchased.\nControl seems to be a key theme in online advertising, particularly in ensuring relevance. Approximately, 63% of those surveyed say that they would like more control over the ads they see online. Just over two-fifths (43%) report their willingness to share personal information for a more relevant advertising experience. Targeting as we know it today with third-party data streams and cookie collection is not the holy grail. There\u2019s still a window of an opportunity to improve the online ad experience and engage users.\nConsumers digital ad boycott should deliver a clear message that we need to improve the online advertising experience. 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By separate email, we will circulate the 7 questions that will be discussed. In that email, members of the Legal and Legislative Committee will be invited to participate in a confidential survey, the results of which will be disclosed on the webinar. Specific companies and names will be removed from the results of the survey and will not be shared publicly. Please feel free to forward this invitation to others in your organization that may be interested.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 186.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dinsdalepch.ca/upcoming_events/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:55Z", "digest": "sha1:NCWE7SZMQ3XYIINGM3BKB3WMUNVF5NLY", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dinsdalepch.ca", "title": "Upcoming Events - Dinsdale... 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Click on each link to get more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 3137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 172.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://directory.dmagazine.com/real-estate-agents/paul-carper/48883/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:03Z", "digest": "sha1:UAG5X2FK5MNNVPOQPYW6D35UQS6XYAQM", "length": 106, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "directory.dmagazine.com", "title": "Paul Carper - Real Estate Agent - Dallas | D Magazine Directories", "raw_content": "Paul Carper\nBest Real Estate Agents (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2008)\nRead More About Paul Carper", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2658, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 89.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://discoverdruidry.wordpress.com/2018/05/28/calling-to-the-hollow-hills-irish-gods-names-and-attributes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:27Z", "digest": "sha1:AD2YGTWJ7CP2TKXHWYILLJYMMJZOJ6IL", "length": 13939, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "discoverdruidry.wordpress.com", "title": "Calling to the Hollow Hills: Irish Gods \u2013 Names and Attributes \u2013 Discover Druidry", "raw_content": "In last month\u2019s blog, we learned about Celtic deities from the Iron Age in various parts of the European mainland. This month we will look at what can be known \u2013 or surmised \u2013 about gods and goddesses in Ireland, including how their names were pronounced and their primary powers or attributes. Like the Continental deities, the Irish deities may have more than one name, and are often multi-aspected. We should not expect them to conform to Greco-Roman archetypes or to match up with modern Neo-Pagan ideas about deities and the year wheel. The Irish gods are \u2018their own thing,\u2019 and should be approached and interpreted on their own terms.\nThere are a remarkable number of books and websites out there which profess to contain the names and attributes of the Irish gods, which for some reason are almost all wildly inaccurate. I\u2019m not entirely sure why this should be, except that the study of Celtic Paganism and Deities is a relatively more recent field of serious study, especially when compared with the study of Greco-Roman and Egyptian deities. Not all of the Irish sources have been well translated, or compiled into one place (or are in sources that can be readily found). Suffice it to say, that one should stick to the following books when learning about the Irish gods and goddesses \u2013 for background information, and also for reading and interpreting the myths themselves. Always better to read a good translation of an Irish tale or legend that contains references to an Irish deity, than to take someone else\u2019s word for it (especially when they cannot tell you where that information comes from).\nFor starters, make good use of Pagan Celtic Britain by Anne Ross (which includes lots of information about Irish deities as well), Dictionary of Celtic Mythology by McKillop, Celtic Heritage by Rees, Celtic Myth and Religion by S. Paice MacLeod, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture by Maier, and of course, Celtic Mythology by Proinsias MacCana. These will be your guides to understanding the tangled web of medieval Irish sources that contain information about the pagan gods \u2013 most easily accessed by reading Ancient Irish Tales by Cross and Slover, Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Gantz, Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Dooley and Roe) and the Celtic Heroic Age by Koch and Carey.\nNo blog entry can possibly contain all the information we have about the Irish deities, the inhabitants of the Hollow Hills. However, I hope that this blog will at least provide a solid foundation for some of the major deities, including a useful guide to how to (actually) pronounce their names (properly) in Old Irish:\nDagda [DAGH-duh, the \u2018gh\u2019 is a soft G sound made in the back of the throat; anglicized DAHG-duh]: His name means \u2018The Good God,\u2019 or \u2018Best God,\u2019 as in \u2018Good at many things.\u2019 Also known as Echu Ollathair [ECH-oo OLL-uh-therr; the \u2018ch\u2019 is as in \u2018loch\u2019 or \u2018Bach,\u2019 not as in \u2018choose\u2019] (\u2018Great Father of Many Horses\u2019) and Ruadh Rofhessa[ROO-udh ro-ESS-uh; the \u2018dh\u2019 symbolizes the \u2018th\u2019 sound in the word \u2018other\u2019] [\u2018Red or Noble one of Great Knowledge\u2019) this powerful and beneficent god has a very wide range of attributes: wisdom, battle, fertility, abundance, music, kingship, the weather, the harvest, and more. He appears in a number of Irish myths which should be read in order to understand his attributes fully. He is the father of Br\u00edg (Brigit) and Oengus Mac \u00d3g (whom he has with Boand, goddess of the River Boyne).\nM\u00f3rr\u00edgan / Morr\u00edgan [MORE-REE-gun, anglicized as MORE-rih-gun]: Her name is interpreted a bit differently depending on whether the first syllable has an accent (fada) or not. If it did originally have the fada, then it means \u2018Great Queen,\u2019 an interpretation I support based on the extremely wide array of attributes she has when one looks at all of the Old Irish sources, and not just a few well known episodes. If the first syllable did not have an accent, then it means \u2018Nightmare / Phantom Queen,\u2019 which does reflect one of her aspects (but not all). She is a powerful goddess associated with battle, death, magic and prophecy, as well as the earth, fertility, sexuality, and many other things. To characterize her as a \u2018Dark Goddess of Battle\u2019 is to stereotype her to almost a caricature. She is powerful and demands respect, but her aspects include almost everything from creation to destruction. She unites with the Dagda at Samhain, and with her blessing (as a Sovereignty Goddess) and her leadership and magical abilities, she helps the Tuatha De Danann vanquish another supernatural race, The Fomorians, in Cath Maige Tuired. As I have shown elsewhere (Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium, Vol. XIX), The Morrigan is the same goddess as Anu, and as Danu. This deepens our understanding of her, and that research should by read by anyone wishing to understand the full range of her attributes.\nLug [LOOGH, the \u2018gh\u2019 is a soft \u2018g\u2019 sound in the back of the throat; anglicized as Loog or Loo]. The meaning of his name is not known (no matter what people tell you), although it may derive from an Indo-European word meaning \u2018light\u2019. This does not mean he is a \u2018sun god,\u2019 which is an outdated Victorian way of looking at deities. It has tenuous possible linguistic link with Gaulish words denoting \u2018raven\u2019 or \u2018lynx,\u2019 but these are problematic and best avoided. Lug is sometimes referred to as Lug Mac Eithlenn [MAHK ETH-lenn] (\u2018Son of the divine figure Ethliu) and also by the epithet Samild\u00e1nach [SAH-vill-DAH-nach; the \u2018ch\u2019 is as in \u2018loch\u2019 or \u2018Bach,\u2019 not as in \u2018choose\u2019] which means \u2018Many Skilled.\u2019 Lug appears to be the Irish reflex of a pan-European Celtic deity elsewhere known as Lugos / Lugus (on the mainland) and later in the medieval Welsh figure of Lleu Llaw Gyffes. His many skills are enumerated in Cath Maige Tuired, when he approaches Tara and declares himself to be a warrior, poet, harper, craftsman, cupbearer, physician, and so forth.\nBr\u00edg [BREEGH, the \u2018gh\u2019 is a soft \u2018g\u2019 sound in the back of the throat; anglicized as Brigid; it is not spelled or pronounced BREED or BRIDE, which are modern Irish or Anglicized versions of the name). She is the daughter of the Dagda, and mother of Bres, whose unworthy kingship is enumerated in Cath Maige Tuired. In the 9th century source Sanas Chormaic (Cormac\u2019s Glossary) she is described as a goddess of poetry, who, along with her two sisters also named Brig, were goddesses of healing and of smithcraft. This triplicism is a huge part of the Celtic spiritual and symbolic tradition, which they inherited from their Indo-European ancestors and antecedents (and does not reflect the modern notion of \u2018Maiden, Mother, Crone,\u2019 a creative and non-historical theory first postulated by the poet and Classics scholar Robert Graves in his 1949 work, \u2018The White Goddess.\u2019) Cormac\u2019s Glossary states that Brigid was very beloved by the poets, because \u2018very great was her protective care.\u2019 Brigid only appears in a few short episodes in the Early Irish materials, where, for example, she was said to have raised the first keening when her son Bres was killed. She appears to have continued on in a new form in the person of Saint Brigid of Kildare, about whom we know quite a bit more; her story contains many interesting and possibly pre-Christian allusions.\nOgma [OHG-muh]. The meaning of this god\u2019s name is not entirely clear, but John Carey has recently published an article in the journal Cosmos showing that his name and attributes appear to be connected with those of the Gaulish god known as Ogmios, known as both a strong-man / warrior and as a poet / god of eloquence. Similarly, in Irish sources Ogma is a beneficent warrior and champion of the Tuatha De Danann, and was also credited with the invention of the Ogam alphabet.\n\u00c9riu, Banba and Fotla [AYR-ee-yoo, BAHN-vuh, FODE-luh]. These are the three eponymous goddesses of the land of Ireland, whom the Gaels encounter when they first land on the island. Each wishes to have her name be upon the land, but only Eriu welcomes the Sons of Mil, saying that their arrival had long been prophesied. Indeed, it is her name that is found in the Old Irish name of Ireland (\u00c9riu), which comes from an Indo-European root word *Iweriju, meaning \u2018Fat / Fertile land.\u2019 She displays attributes of a land or sovereignty goddess, and is the mother of Bres (whom she has with one of the kings of the Fomorians). All three names were used to denote Ireland by Irish poets throughout the Medieval Period. The consorts of these three goddesses were three kings of the Tuatha De Danann: Mac Cuill (\u2018Son of Hazel\u2019), Mac Gr\u00e9ine (\u2018Son of Sun\u2019) and Mac Cecht (\u2018Son of Plough\u2019).\nGoibniu, Luchte, and Creidne [GOV-nyoo, LOOCH-tuh, CREDH-nuh; the \u2018dh\u2019 is the \u2018th\u2019 sound in \u2018other\u2019): These three brothers are Divine Craftsmen, a smith, carpenter and brazier, who were sometimes known as na tri d\u00e9e d\u00e1na, \u2018the three gods of skill.\u2019 They work with The Dagda and Ogma to defeat the Fomorians in Cath Maige Tuired by creating magical weapons. Goibniu was also said to preside over the Otherworld Feast of Immortality.\nBoand: [BOE-and; later spelled Boann and pronounced BO-uhn]. Her name means \u201cWhite / Blessed Cow,\u2019 coming from the root word find (later spelled finn), which means \u2018white, bright or blessed.\u2019 She has an affair with the Dagda, resulting in the birth of Oengus mac \u00d3g. There is an important place-name story in which she approaches the Well of Segais, which could only be approached by Nechtan and his three cup-bearers. She walks around it in a non-sunwise direction and as a result the river rises up and disfigures and drowns her; she then becomes the spirit of the River Boyne. Boand also appears in the Accalam, in some very interesting stories.\nOengus mac \u00d3g [OYN-ghus mahk OGE] His first name comes from the word \u2018oen\u2019 meaning \u2018one\u2019 and here denoting \u2018singularity\u2019 and \u2018gus\u2019 meaning \u2018life force or virility.\u2019 He is called \u2018the Young Son\u2019 (the Mac \u00d3g) because he was conceived, gestated and born all in one day. When the Dagda and Boand united, the Dagda kept the sun in the sky for nine months (Boand\u2019s husband, Elcmar, was away for the day). Oengus is a young man and warrior, and in some tales helps young lovers. He eventually inhabits Brug na Boinne (Newgrange).\nSinann: [SHIN-unn] The story of Sinann is quite similar to that of Boand, in that she was pursuing the illuminating property of imbas (\u2018Great Wisdom\u2019) and followed red bubbles containing this property (perhaps hazelnuts? or amanita muscaria mushrooms) into the water, where she was drowned and became the spirit of the Shannon. There is a wonderful description of this episode in the Metrical Dindshenchas.\nManann\u00e1n Mac Lir [MAHN-uh-NAHN mahk Leer]: This root of this god\u2019s name \u2018Mannan\u2019 is believed to be the root of the name of the Isle of Man. He is the son of a primal ocean god, Lir (whose name, somehow, Shakespeare got ahold of for the name of his character King Lear). Manann\u00e1n also presides over the ocean realms, and appears to live apart from the rest of the Tuatha De Danann whose abodes are under the earth. He appears in short episodes in a number of early Irish sources, and seems to have a connection with magic.\nMidir [MIDH-err; the \u2018dh\u2019 symbolizes the \u2018th\u2019 sound in \u2018other\u2019]. The root of this deity\u2019s name may be related to a word meaning \u2018to judge\u2019 (midithir); he does perform this function in some tales. He owned several white cranes, as well as a Crane Bag, made from the skin of a woman he admired who was transformed into crane form, and which contained a number of magical objects.\nDian Cecht [DEE-uhn Cecht; the \u2018ch\u2019 is as in \u2018loch or \u2018Bach,\u2019 not as in \u2018choose\u2019]. His name could be translated as \u2018Swift One of Power or Cutting,\u2019 and he is a Physician God. He helps heal wounded warriors of the Tuatha De Danann in Cath Maige Tuired. He makes a silver hand for the wounded Tuatha De Danann king Nuadu, but his son Miach [MEE-uch, \u2018ch\u2019 as in \u2018loch\u2019 or \u2018Bach, not as in \u2018choose\u2019] creates a flesh-and-blood arm for him; out of jealousy, Dian Cecht kills Miach. The spell Miach uses to heal Nuadu comes from an old Indo-European magical formula. After his death, his sister Airmid gathered up the 365 herbs and spread them out on her cloak according to her healing properties. The angry Dian Cecht mixed them up so their properties were not known. (Naughty Dian Cecht. Luckily, we have unscrambled many of the herbs!) :\nNuadu [NOO-uh-dhoo; the \u2018dh\u2019 represents the \u2018th\u2019 sound in \u2018other\u2019]. The name of this deity is cognate with that of a British deity named Nodons / Nodens, who is known to have been venerated at a Romano-Celtic healing sanctuary. Nuadu Airgetlam [AHR-get-lahv, which means \u2018Silver Hand / Arm\u2019] was an early king of the Tuatha De Danann. Rather than a god who provides healing, he seems to have received healing at the hands of Dian Cecht and then Miach. He gives up his throne to Lug after he arrived at Tara.\nFlidais [FLIDH-ish; the \u2018dh\u2019 is the \u2018th\u2019 sound in \u2018other\u2019]. This goddesses\u2019 name appears to come from the words \u2018fled\u2019 (\u2018feast\u2019) and \u2018os\u2019 (\u2018deer\u2019). Like Manann\u00e1n mac Lir, she seems to live somewhat separately from the rest of the Tuatha De Danann. She is an independent goddess who lives not in the hollow hills but in the forest or wilderness, where she herds wild cattle and deer, who she milks and protects. She is the divine consort of the human or semi-divine hero Fergus Mac Roich; it was said that when not with Flidais, it took seven ordinary women to satisfy him sexually. She travels by chariot drawn by deer, and although her legend may be influenced by that of Artemis, there are also reports of the Gauls worshipping a Divine Huntress; therefore, these attributes may be native.\nThere are other very interesting Irish gods and goddesses in other sources, but these are the most well-known, who appear in a number of tales and sources, and about whom we have the most information.\nPrevious postMoving Towards a New Reality\nNext postA Revolution of Consciousness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 21116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://disneycruiselineblog.com/cruise-planning/itineraries/sail-date-summary/?saildate=1334", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MMIMIRZDIQMQNKBIBBTWY4KP7ZQXO42T", "length": 58, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "disneycruiselineblog.com", "title": "Sail Date Summary \u2022 The Disney Cruise Line Blog Sail Date Summary \u2022 The Disney Cruise Line Blog", "raw_content": "Embarking from Port Canaveral on Monday, December 28, 1998", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 311, "original_length": 12981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 98.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://docs.dnnsharp.com/action-grid/capabilities/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RYQFB6JF4BTA42OGTSRVSVRDNF3KHJ3T", "length": 264, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "docs.dnnsharp.com", "title": "Capabilities | DNN Sharp Documentation Center", "raw_content": "You can set general settings only on the grid by using the General Settings section and you can also set particular settings on each field, here we refer to the title of the field, the visibility of the field on different devices and the capabilities of the field.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 662, "original_length": 10236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://doderer-gesellschaft.org/english/doderer/research.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:19Z", "digest": "sha1:GKFY7ISOIRDLSXMLQ6RUKF2PME64YIUF", "length": 483, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "doderer-gesellschaft.org", "title": "Heimito von Doderer | Research", "raw_content": "bibliographic information about the work of Heimito von Doderer\nsynopses of scholarly contributions examining the work of Heimito von Doderer; they are either recently completed or in progress (in German)\ninterviews with contemporary witnesses (in German)\nbrief contributions about the person and the work of Heimito von Doderer\na brief curriculum vitae of Heimito von Doderer\nstatements about the person and work of Heimito von Doderer\nan overview of the work of Heimito von Doderer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 173.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dotnews.com/2019/commentary-t-should-consider-extending-red-line-tracks-mattapan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:04Z", "digest": "sha1:OSHRT4OU3JHMZJ42CERNRLFSU4XGCJKS", "length": 4406, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "dotnews.com", "title": "Commentary: T should consider extending the Red Line tracks to Mattapan | Dorchester Reporter", "raw_content": "By Sky Rose, Special to the Reporter\nSky Rose, Special to the Reporter\nA map created by Sky Rose illustrates their proposal for a Red Line Extension from Ashmont to Mattapan as an option to replace the existing Mattapan High Speed Trolley line. Rose, who works for the MBTA but does not speak for the transit agency, believes that the \u201cextension would also be cheaper for the MBTA to run and maintain than using Green Line cars.\u201d\nLast week, the MBTA unveiled a plan for replacing the Mattapan trolleys with Green Line cars. It\u2019s a wonderful proposal that affordably solves the accessibility and reliability problems with the existing trolleys. And it\u2019s a clear win among the trolley and bus plans that they studied.\nBut there\u2019s one option the T has not considered that might be even better: Extending the Red Line to Mattapan.\nIn Boston, there\u2019s a cynicism about building rail, a feeling that it\u2019s so expensive that we have to make do with the bare minimum to cut costs. The MBTA has dismissed a Red Line extension out of hand, without studying it, on the assumption that it would be too expensive. It wouldn\u2019t be.\nBy my rough estimates, it would cost about $275 million total to extend the Red Line to Mattapan Square. The agency\u2019s plan to use Green Line cars would be around $190 million.\nThat $275 million price tag includes two new stations, at Milton and Mattapan, two new overpasses, replacing the track, bridge work, power infrastructure, and supplying enough new trains to keep them coming every six minutes from Ashmont to Mattapan. All of which saves some money by eliminating the need for a dedicated maintenance facility, which Green Line cars would need.\nAn $85 million premium over using Green Line cars is still a lot of money, so the public would have to get some substantial service improvements for the money. In this case, by building a Red Line extension instead of using Green Line cars on the existing line, you\u2019d get a six-minutes faster trip from Mattapan and Milton to downtown, and you wouldn\u2019t need to transfer at Ashmont. An improvement like that could draw thousands of new people to the new stations.\nA Red Line extension would also be cheaper for the MBTA to run and maintain than using Green Line cars. It wouldn\u2019t need the dedicated staff and maintenance facilities required if the Mattapan Line were to remain in place.\nThere\u2019s a lot of operational costs in keeping even a small line running, and since the Red Line is running anyway, an extension to Mattapan would avoid those costs.\nWhether those benefits are worth the cost is up for debate. The estimates I\u2019ve given are very rough, and I\u2019m not an expert. To have an informed discussion about the costs and benefits, we need the MBTA to do a focused study on this and come up with more precise cost estimates.\nUnfortunately, in their recent presentation of the plan for the line where they studied and compared using Green Line cars, buses, or other trolleys, they made no mention of the potential for a Red Line extension.\nIf they won\u2019t seriously study that possibility, we can\u2019t get good budget estimates, we can\u2019t make a good comparison to their favored plan with the Green Line cars, and we can\u2019t say we know we\u2019re making the best decisions about what to do with the line.\nThis is a $200 million decision and we should not make it without investigating all possible options.\nI call on MBTA leadership in charge of the future of the Mattapan Line to seriously consider extending the Red Line. Study it well enough to get real cost estimates and a prediction on how it would improve service and ridership. The first real decision the board will have is in a few months with the Capital Investment Program, which will deal with funding for Phase 2 of the Mattapan Line Transformation. By then, we need to know enough about a Red Line extension to make an informed decision.\nWe often think of rail extensions as too expensive to be feasible, but that doesn\u2019t have to be the case. In Mattapan, where we need to do something anyway and where there\u2019s such a seamless continuation into the existing Red Line at Ashmont, there might be an opportunity to extend the Red Line and improve service affordably. We just need the MBTA to give that option the serious consideration it deserves.\nSky Rose works for MBTA, but in an unrelated area. This piece does not in any way speak for the MBTA. 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(TSXV:EMC) (EMC.WT) (Emblem), on behalf of its health and education subsidiary GrowWise Health Limited (GrowWise), are partnering to develop and launch the Cannabis Industry Specialization certificate in fall 2018. The first of its kind in Ontario, the part-time studies program will be delivered both in class and online via simulcast. It is designed to prepare professionals with business experience or who have already completed a diploma or degree in business to pursue a career in the rapidly growing cannabis sector.\n\u201cThe long-term success of Canada\u2019s cannabis industry will depend strongly on there being a skilled workforce to support and advance it,\u201d said Adam Saperia, president, GrowWise. \u201cTogether, GrowWise and Durham College are ensuring that the right education and training are available to those who are interested in entering this exciting field.\u201d\nAdditional industry leaders are joining GrowWise in contributing expertise to the development of the program\u2019s curriculum, including Ample Organics, Cannabis at Work, Molecular Science Corp., and CannaInvestor Magazine. Building on the success of the college\u2019s Medical Cannabis Fundamentals for Business Professionals course, the new certificate will include a course focused on medical cannabis fundamentals and expand the scope of students\u2019 learning with courses focused on areas such as cannabis in the recreational/adult-use market, cannabis regulatory affairs and ethics, importing and exporting cannabis and cannabis business operations. Students who have already successfully completed Durham College\u2019s two-day, introductory medical cannabis course will be eligible to receive academic credit towards earning their certificate.\n\u201cWith Canada already established as a global leader in medical cannabis and soon to become only the second country in the world to legalize adult recreational use on a national level, the need for skilled business professionals will continue to grow dramatically,\u201d said Don Lovisa, president, Durham College. \u201cWhile other programs focus on the production side of the industry, Durham College is leading the way in preparing professionals interested in management and non-horticultural roles. Graduates of the Cannabis Industry Specialization certificate will make it easier for employers to recognize the right candidates for their jobs.\u201d\nThe new program marks the latest development in Durham College\u2019s work with GrowWise to establish the college as a leader in cannabis-related post-secondary education. The Medical Cannabis Fundamentals for Business Professionals course launched in November 2017 and is now offered on a monthly basis through in-class and interactive simulcast delivery.\nAbout GrowWise Health\nGrowWise Health, a subsidiary of Emblem Corp., provides patients and healthcare providers with personalized education to make informed choices about medical cannabis treatments. With education centres across Ontario and British Columbia, prospective patients can learn more at www.growwisehealth.com.\nAbout Emblem\nEmblem Corp., through its wholly-owned subsidiary Emblem Cannabis Corporation, is a fully integrated licensed producer and distributor of medical cannabis and cannabis derivatives in Canada under the ACMPR (Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations). Led by a team of cannabis experts and former health care and pharma executives, it has three distinct verticals \u2013 cannabis production, patient education centers, and pharmaceutical dosage form development. Emblem trades under the ticker symbol EMC on the TSX Venture Exchange.\nEthan Karayannopoulos\nThis press release contains certain forward-looking information and forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws (collectively, \"forward-looking statements\"). Forward-looking statements are often, but not always, identified by the use of words such as \"anticipate\", \"believe\", \"plan\", \"potential\", \"intend\", \"may\", \"will\", \"should\", or similar words suggesting future outcomes. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or outcomes to differ materially from those anticipated or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include changes in market and competition, governmental or regulatory developments and general economic conditions. The forward-looking statements contained in this document are made as at the date of this news release and Emblem does not undertake any obligation to update publicly or to revise any of the included forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required by applicable securities laws.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 344, "original_length": 12526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://earlybirdbooks.com/how-a-teacher-tries-to-make-sense-of-school-shootings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:02Z", "digest": "sha1:PNKKAASFKIVPTIDFXWO2EMVXX64RUUEP", "length": 8558, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "earlybirdbooks.com", "title": "When Books Aren\u2019t Enough: How a Teacher Tries to Make Sense of School Shootings", "raw_content": "The Florida legislature is debating measures to protect schools from suffering the tragedy that a Parkland school faced last month. Both sides of the aisle have made a number of sensible and controversial proposals on how to properly address the issue of gun violence, school safety, and whether or not we are in a crisis of our own making. BookTrib Contributor Rachel Carter is also an educator who has firsthand knowledge and perspective about what is now our children\u2019s biggest fear: bullets replacing books. Here, Rachel writes about her and her students' concerns, and how\u2014even with so many books offering advice on how to talk about tragedy, grief, and death with kids\u2014there isn\u2019t a book that can explain why we are having to search for these books again, and again, and again.\nThe 1999 school shooting at Columbine happened when I was fifteen-years-old. I remember not sleeping for days afterwards, obsessed with the thought of a trench-coat wearing gunman bursting into my high school at random. Because that\u2019s what it felt like back then: random. We talked about it like we would a hurricane or an earthquake. Sad, tragic, but ultimately a fluke of nature. How could anyone do this? we thought, while assuming that it would never happen again.\nBut it did happen again. And then again. And again. And again. And now here we are, three weeks after yet another school shooting, where 17 people died this time, and that word, random, feels hopelessly na\u00efve. We can no longer talk about shootings in schools as a fluke. Now, it almost feels inevitable. It\u2019s the moment that every teacher prays will never happen, even as we mentally catalog how many desks it would take to barricade the door. How high the window is from the ground floor. If they lock or not. If they open or not. Would we have time to break the glass and get our students to safety? Would the noise draw the gunman to our classroom? Is the two-story jump worth risking? What if there\u2019s another shooter outside? What if we hear them outside in the hallway? What if we lock the door, but another student needs to get in? What if we don\u2019t know who we can trust?\nWhat if, what if, what if.\nSince Parkland, I\u2019ve been trying to make sense of what it means to be a teacher when, at any moment, you might need to defend yourself and your students from a shooter. I\u2019m a part time creative writing instructor at a college where I work five days a week. For at least three hours most days, I sit in different classrooms. I spend even more hours in my \u2018office,\u2019 a big open room filled with cubicles. I\u2019ve had no training for what to do if a shooter shows up. My sister, an elementary school teacher, tells me that I\u2019m supposed to tape a black piece of paper over the windows. But I don\u2019t even have a desk. Or a closet of supplies. Most of my classes are on the third floor. Some of my classroom doors don\u2019t lock, and they\u2019re all covered in windows. I\u2019ve started to carry some paper with me, as well as tape. But really, what would it even do?\nThe morning of February 15th, the day after the shooting in Florida, I gave my students Jo Ann Beard\u2019s haunting essay, \u201cThe Fourth State of Matter,\u201d to read for homework. We had just started a unit on creative nonfiction, so the assignment fit. But more than that, I felt like I needed to acknowledge it in the classroom, to provide my students with a safe place to talk about their fears, their concerns. I wanted them to read about Beard\u2019s experience with a shooting at the University of Iowa in 1991 and be angry that we\u2019re still having the same conversations. I wanted them to be moved.\nBut when they came in the next day, they mostly wanted to talk about Beard\u2019s dog. \u201cThe dog broke my heart,\u201d one of them said. \u201cHe was just so sad.\u201d\nIn the essay, Beard\u2019s dog is slowly dying. She spends hours washing its bedding and taking it outside at all hours of the night. Beard uses the dog and her chaotic home life as a way to show a life on the verge of falling apart \u2013 before it truly does fall apart. At least, this was what we talked about that day in class. We also talked about the way Beard steps outside of herself in order to imagine the specific events of the shooting. One of my students didn\u2019t like this technique. \u201cIt\u2019s lying,\u201d she said. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t even really there.\u201d\nIt was a good conversation about art, about narrative, about craft. I still left feeling disappointed. I considered giving them a different essay, a different book. This Is Where It Ends came to mind, Marieke Nijkamp\u2019s tightly paced 2016 young adult novel about a school shooting that takes place in the span of fifty-four harrowing minutes. But what was I hoping to gain from it? What\u2019s the conversation I actually wanted to have?\nI turn to my colleagues and friends for answers. How are you talking to your students about shootings? I ask. \u201cWe talk about how to barricade the doors,\u201d one tells me. \u201cWe\u2019re debating gun control,\u201d another says. \u201cI tell them there are skunks in the halls and we have to stay completely silent or they\u2019ll spray us,\u201d my sister \u2013 the first grade teacher \u2013 offers. It makes me smile despite everything, but not what she says next: \u201cI never thought I\u2019d have to decide that I was ready to take a bullet for one of my kids.\u201d\nOtherwise, I get few responses. Most people are more than ready to talk about their practical plan in the event of, but few have tried to tackle the fear and the anger it brings up. No one can recommend a book or an article that has helped spark discussion in a classroom, even though so many of them exist out there. So I ask my students what conversations they\u2019re having in other classes. \u201cNot many,\u201d is the resounding answer. \u201cMaybe if we were in more political courses?\u201d one of them suggests. I notice that half of the room has glazed over. It\u2019s not that they don\u2019t care: the minute I ask them a more concrete question \u2013 Why do you think this happens in the first place? \u2013 the conversation is off and rolling. But it\u2019s still not the one I wanted to have.\nAs a writing teacher, it\u2019s my job to teach my students how to write. I also teach them how to make sense of the world around them. How to filter what they see and feel and turn it into stories. Which is why I keep searching for that key, that one essay, that one book, that will help us all understand why senseless violence happens, and how to cope with the fact that it could easily happen to any one of us. That just by sitting in that classroom, we are potential targets. That if it does happen, black paper over the windows probably won\u2019t keep us safe. But there\u2019s no perfect essay. There\u2019s no perfect book. Not this time.\nPhoto Credit: chuttersnap / Unsplash\nWhen I asked my students what they would do in the event of a school shooting, they all had a plan. \u201cWe\u2019d lock the door, then push the desks against it. We\u2019d all hide in this corner where you can\u2019t see us from the windows.\u201d They\u2019re all in their late teens and they grew up in a post-Columbine world. For them, high school meant lockdown drills. I wonder if they don\u2019t want to talk about it anymore because they\u2019re just too tired of talking. Like the student activists emerging out of the Parkland shooting, they want change. They don\u2019t need to read a sad essay to understand what they could potentially face: they\u2019ve been watching the news all their lives. They\u2019ve seen the footage of kids streaming out of yet another school, their hands crossed over their heads, their shirts bloody. My students have stacked their desks, they\u2019ve hidden in the dark, not knowing if it was a drill or if one of their classmates had finally snapped. They know. So of course they\u2019d rather talk about the dog and his bedding than the vague concept of tragedy.\n\u201cWhat would you do if there was a school shooting?\u201d one of them asked me. I hesitated. I thought about showing them my black paper. I thought about saying I\u2019d be willing to take a bullet for them, even if I\u2019m not sure I would. I wanted to hand them that book that doesn\u2019t exist, the one that will answer all of these hard and complicated questions. But I can\u2019t, because it doesn\u2019t exist. So instead I told them the easiest truth I could: I hope I never have to find out.\nBecause we cannot solve a problem we don\u2019t understand, here are some additional resources for parents, teachers, policymakers and other professionals:\nBooks, Blackboards, and Bullets\nBy Peter Langman, PhD\nBy Katherine S. Newman, Cybelle Fox, David Harding, Jal Mehta, and Wendy Roth\nFeatured photo: Feliphe Schiarolli / Unsplash; Additional photo: chuttersnap / Unsplash\nessaygun violence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 10753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 271.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://earningswhispers.com/stocks/mrvl", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:23Z", "digest": "sha1:3HWPPB2FCIH2Y74UM727BUWYDNQIJ36J", "length": 759, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "earningswhispers.com", "title": "Earnings Whisper Number for MRVL: Marvell Tech Group", "raw_content": "Marvell Tech Group\nMarvell Technology Group Ltd. Reports Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Results\nWhat do you expect when MRVL reports earnings?\nWhere is MRVL's stock price going from here?\nMarvell Technology is a leading designer, developer and supplier of mixed-signal and digital signal processing integrated circuit for high-speed, high-density, digital data storage and broadband digital data networking markets. The company's goal is to continue to support its customers in providing faster, better solutions to meet their customers' needs for increased bandwidth as communication solutions evolve. The company meets this goal with state-of-the-art chip solutions that enable data transfer in data storage devices and networking applications.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2357, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eastwoodliving.com.au/hello-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:CVW6QIDRJJR6KIUUC4XVBGZW2ZRXYPBL", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "eastwoodliving.com.au", "title": "Hello world! - Eastwood Living", "raw_content": "Posted on July 10, 2018 by Craig", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 685, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 124.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eatingourfuture.wordpress.com/eating-meat-raises-risks-of-cancer-heart-disease-early-death-shorter-life/chicken-consumption-diseases-cancer-diabetes-infertility-hormonal-imbalances/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:56Z", "digest": "sha1:THSCVX2VLWVXSSJACJBGD65U477POHXQ", "length": 18652, "nlines": 110, "source_domain": "eatingourfuture.wordpress.com", "title": "Chicken Consumption & Diseases: Cancer, Diabetes, Obesity, Infertility, Hormonal Imbalances, Food Poisoning\u2026 \u2013 www.EatingOurFuture.com", "raw_content": "Clips, Quotes & Links to Reports on How Eating Chicken-Poultry is Associated with Higher Rates of Diabetes, Cancer, Obesity, Food Poisoning, Infertility & related Hormonal Imbalances; articles by doctors & studies published in science journals.\nThis site also contains a page with many science reports on the higher rates of diseases associated with eating chicken eggs.\nChicken Consumption and Obesity \u2013 Dr Greger\u2019s 2 minute clip \u201cChicken Big: Poultry & Obesity\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJy9VjtQ9u0\n\u201cChicken consumption is associated with more weight gain than other meat\u2026 If you remember back to that study of hundreds of thousands of men and women, poultry consumption appeared to be the worst\u2026 This new study\u2026 found the same thing. Chicken consumption was most associated with weight gain in both men and women. And it didn\u2019t take much. Compared to those who didn\u2019t eat any chicken at all, those eating about 20 or more grams of chicken a day had a significantly greater increase in their body mass index. That\u2019s around one chicken nugget. Or a single chicken breast once every two weeks, compared to no chicken at all.\u201d\nThe text is at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-big-poultry-and-obesity/\nRegards meat consumption and weight gain a 2010 report in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition states: \u201cPositive associations were observed for red meat, poultry, and processed meat.\u201d In other words consuming them leads to greater weight gain. Their conclusion states: \u201cOur results suggest that a decrease in meat consumption may improve weight management.\u201d\nSpecific results include: \u201cTotal meat consumption was positively associated with [meaning increased] weight gain in men and women, in normal-weight and overweight subjects, and in smokers and nonsmokers. With adjustment for estimated energy intake*, an increase in meat intake of 250 g/d (eg, one steak at approximately 450 kcal) would lead to a 2-kg higher weight gain after 5 y \u2026\u201d\nIt was a study of \u201c103,455 men and 270,348 women aged 25-70 y\u2026 in 10 European countries.\u201d\n* In other words eating meat results in a higher risk of being overweight as compared to eating the same amount of calories from plants, like fruits & vegetables.\nReference: \u201cMeat consumption and prospective weight change in participants of the EPIC-PANACEA study\u201d, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2010 Aug;92(2):398-407; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20592131\nDr Greger clip \u201cInfectobesity: Adenovirus 36 and Childhood Obesity\u201d\nis at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrJPvfuVX2Q\nSummary: \u201cStudies on more than a thousand children suggest that a viral infection may play a role in childhood obesity by increasing both the number and size of fat cells.\u201d\nExcerpt: \u201cThis study, correlating chicken consumption with weight gain, was performed in just one country on about 4000 people. This study included 4 other countries, and included 89,000 people. Animal protein intake was associated with long term weight gain, and again poultry was the worst, associated with 40% more weight gain than red meat or processed meat. Why poultry? Yes they\u2019re so fatty these days because of the way we\u2019ve genetically manipulated them: up to 10 times more fat and calories than they used to have, but one bizarre theory was that it might be due to an obesity-causing chicken virus, to which 1 in 5 obese humans tested positive, and those with exposure to the chicken virus averaged 33 pounds heavier than those testing negative.\nThis chicken virus was the first to be associated with human obesity, but not the last\u2026 This of course raises serious concerns about transmissibility in people\u2026\u201d\nText at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/infectobesity-adenovirus-36-and-childhood-obesity/\nDr Greger clip \u201cObesity-Causing Chicken Virus\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zab6_WmyipQ\nExcerpt: \u201cin a study of 40,000 men and women last year, one of the foods most closely tied to expanding waistlines was poultry.\u201d\nText at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/obesity-causing-chicken-virus/\nDr Greger clip \u201cDoes Eating [Chicken] Obesity Cause Obesity?\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRIsX-WZnMQ\nSummary: \u201cThe implications of chicken now having ten times more fat and calories\u201d\nText at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-eating-obesity-cause-obesity/\nFor short clips and reports about the links between dairy consumption and obesity click that link for the relevant page on this site.\nChicken Consumption & Kidney Cancer \u2013 a 2015 news report: \u201cUniversity of Texas Study Links Meat to Kidney Cancer: Another study has shown people who eat more meat have a high risk of cancer. This time, it\u2019s kidney cancer, researchers reported Monday.\nAnd it\u2019s not just people who eat red meat, as many other studies have shown. People who eat more so-called white meat, such as chicken, have the higher risk, too\u2026\nPeople who said they ate the most grilled meat \u2014 red meat and chicken alike \u2014 had a higher risk of kidney cancer, they reported in the journal Cancer.\u201d\nReference: http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/university-texas-study-links-meat-kidney-cancer-n459811 The study report is in the journal of the American Association for Cancer Research at http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/75/15_Supplement/836.short\nDr Greger clip \u201cPoultry & Penis Cancer\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtlNP-SOTpw\nSummary: \u201cThe largest study to date on poultry workers found a significantly increased risk of dying from penile cancer, thought to be due to exposure to oncogenic (cancer-causing) chicken viruses, which raise consumer concerns as well.\u201d\nExcerpt: \u201cLast year, I presented the study on poultry slaughterhouse workers, where they were found to have excess cancers of the mouth, nasal cavities, throat, tonsils, inner ear cancer, sinus cancer, esophageal, rectal, liver, leukemia, etc\u2026\nThe study was replicated recently in the largest such investigation to date, more than 20,000 workers in poultry slaughtering and packing plants. They found the same thing, confirming the findings of three other studies to date: \u201cthat workers in poultry slaughtering and processing plants have increased risk of dying from certain cancers\u2026 New findings [though, in this study] were [increased risk of death from] cancers of the cervix and penis.\u201d\nExcess cancer of the penis in all males in the study exposed to poultry, with a standardized mortality ratio more than eight-fold higher. Not just penile cancer, but dying from it.\u201d\nText at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-and-penis-cancer/\nChicken & Colon Cancer \u2013 From a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology: \u201cThe overall findings from this cohort identify both red meat intake and white meat intake as important dietary risk factors for colon cancer\u2026\u201d\nRegards specific relative risks (RR) they found the rate of disease was 3.29 times higher in people who ate white meat (like chicken) once or more per week as compared to people who do not eat it.\nIn their words: \u201camong subjects who favored specific types of meat, positive associations [meaning higher disease rates were found] with red meat intake (RR for \u2265 1 time/week vs. no red meat intake = 1.90\u2026) and white meat intake (RR for \u22651 time/week vs. no white meat intake = 3.29\u2026).\u201d\nThe study was \u201ca 6-year prospective study\u201d that \u201cexamined the relation between diet and incident colon cancer among 32,051 non-Hispanic white cohort members of the Adventist Health Study\u2026\u201d\nReference: \u201cDietary Risk Factors for Colon Cancer in a Low-risk Population\u201d, American Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 148, Issue 8, 15 October 1998, Pages 761\u2013774; at https://academic.oup.com/aje/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a009697\nDr Greger clip \u201cBreast Cancer Survival, Butterfat, and Chicken\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9gpRdZGinc\nSummary: \u201cBreast cancer survivors may reduce their chances of survival if they eat too much saturated fat, found primarily in the American diet in cheese, chicken, and junk food.\u201d\nText at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/breast-cancer-survival-butterfat-and-chicken/\nChicken Consumption & Lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes) \u2013 a study of 411,097 participants reports that \u201cwe found that the consumption of poultry was related to an increased risk.\u201d The relative risks (RR) per 10 g intake were:\n\u2013 1.22 being 22% higher for B-cell lymphomas\n\u2013 1.65 being 65% higher for follicular lymphomas (FL)\n\u2013 1.54 being 55% higher for B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (BCLL)\nThey also state \u201cA high intake of processed meat was associated with an increased risk of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (BCLL)\u201d with the relative risk (RR) per 50 g intake being 1.31, meaning 31% higher.\nReference: \u201cConsumption of meat and dairy and lymphoma risk in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition\u201d, International Journal of Cancer, 2011 Feb 1;128(3):623-34; at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20473877\nDr Greger clip \u201cChicken Dioxins, Viruses, or Antibiotics?\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcNF3s2cO4\nSummary: \u201cThe association between poultry and cancer may be explained by the presence in chickens\u2019 and turkeys\u2019 flesh of industrial carcinogens such as dioxins, oncogenic (cancer-causing) viruses, and/or the drugs that were fed to the birds.\u201d\nText at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/chicken-dioxins-viruses-or-antibiotics/\nChicken Consumption & Pancreatic Cancer \u2013 a 2013 International Journal of Cancer study reports on the relative risk (RR): \u201cPoultry consumption tended to be associated with an increased pancreatic cancer risk (RR per 50 g increase per day = 1.72\u2026)\u201d from a study of \u201c477,202 EPIC participants from 10 European countries.\u201d [1]\nThat translates to \u201ca 72 percent increased risk of pancreatic cancer for every 50 grams of chicken consumed daily, which is about a quarter of a breast.\u201d [2] That amount may equate to just three chicken nuggets.\nReferences: [1] \u201cMeat and fish consumption and risk of pancreatic cancer: results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition\u201d, International Journal of Cancer, 2013 Feb 1;132(3):617-24; at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22610753\n[2] Article titled \u201cChicken\u201d on Dr Greger\u2019s site https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/chicken/\nFrom a 2018 CBS news report: \u201cChicken most likely to make you sicken, CDC illness data show \u2026 A new analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] \u2026 Though fish and dairy technically caused more \u201coutbreaks,\u201d chicken sickened the most people \u2026 \u201cChicken is a reservoir for salmonella,\u201d explains Thomas Gremillion, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federation of America. Though proper cooking can kill most salmonella strains, normal food preparation techniques \u2014 like using a sponge to clean up spills or rinsing your chicken in the sink \u2014 tend to spread the bug around your kitchen, he says. That can \u201ccross-contaminate\u201d your sink, cutting boards and vegetables.\u201d\nSource: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicken-is-americas-most-sickening-food-cdc-data-show/\nChicken Consumption & Diabetes \u2013 Dr Michael Greger MD\u2019s clip \u201cWhy is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes?\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t4tBmbPko8\nExcerpts: \u201cA 2013 meta-analysis of all the cohorts looking at meat and diabetes found significantly higher risk associated with total meat consumption, and especially processed meat\u2014particularly poultry [chicken products]\u2026\nSince the 2013 meta-analysis was published, this study came out, in which about 17,000 people were followed for about a dozen years. They found an 8% increase in risk for every 50 grams of daily meat consumption. So, that\u2019s just like a quarter of a chicken breast\u2019s worth of meat for the entire day may significantly increase the risk of diabetes\u2026\u201d\nThe text transcript is at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-is-meat-a-risk-factor-for-diabetes/\n\u201cWhat Causes Diabetes?\u201d is a short clip by Dr Michael Greger MD at\nSummary: \u201cSaturated fat can be toxic to the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, explaining why animal fat consumption can impair insulin secretion, not just insulin sensitivity\u2026 just like smoking can be said to cause lung cancer, high-calorie diets rich in saturated fats are currently considered the cause of type 2 diabetes\u2026 The fats, found predominantly in meat and dairy\u2014chicken and cheese are the two main sources in the American diet\u2014are almost universally toxic, whereas the fats found in olives, nuts, and avocados are not\u2026\u201d\nThe text transcript is at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-diabetes/\nChicken & Infertility from Messed-Up Hormones \u2013 From Dr Michael Greger MD\u2019s clip \u201cMeat Hormones & Female Infertility\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_B88TcG3Jk\nExcerpts: \u201ceat a single serving of any meat, and you increase your infertility risk 30%. Red meat increases infertility risk 40%. But just a single serving of chicken \u2013 half a chicken breast a day \u2013 and women increase their infertility risk more than 50% \u2013 worse than bacon and hot dogs!\nThe text is at https://nutritionfacts.org/video/meat-hormones-female-infertility/\nDr Greger MD\u2019s clip \u201cChicken Consumption & the Feminization of Male Genitalia\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOmk-MVR8o\nSummary: \u201cEating chicken during pregnancy may affect the size and development of one\u2019s son\u2019s penis due to phthalate contamination of the meat.\u201d\neggs and the poultry consumption, in particular, that was a significant predictor of levels of MEHP, as well as total phthalates\u2026 In addition to a smaller penis, MEHP appears to increase the odds of boys later growing breasts, 25-fold, and then decreased testosterone later in life\u2026 if there is one thing pregnant women may want to avoid during pregnancy to protect their sons\u2019 normal development, it would be to avoid poultry.\u201d\nFrom an article on Dr Michael Greger\u2019s site: \u201cEating chickens is the most common source of Salmonella poisoning. A 2014 issue of Consumer Reports published that 97 percent of chicken breasts found in retail stores were contaminated with bacteria that could make people sick, and 38 percent of the Salmonella found was resistant to multiple antibiotics. And, according to a national retail-meat survey by the Food and Drug Administration, about 90 percent of retail chicken showed evidence of contamination with fecal matter.\nViruses may also potentially pose a risk. Might chicken cancer viruses be transmitted to people through the handling of fresh or frozen chicken? A study of 30,000 poultry workers found that those who slaughter chickens have about nine times the odds of pancreatic and liver cancers. For context, the most carefully studied pancreatic cancer risk factor is cigarette smoking, but smoking for 50 years \u201conly\u201d doubles our odds of getting pancreatic cancer\u2026\u201d\nSource: https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/chicken/\nA clip by Dr Michael Greger MD titled \u201cCaloric Restriction vs. Animal Protein Restriction\u201d is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwJASNFy9XQ\nExcerpts: \u201cThe lifespan extension associated with dietary restriction may be due less to a reduction in calories, and more to a reduction in animal protein (particularly the amino acid leucine, which may accelerate aging via the enzyme TOR)\u2026\nOther clips and articles by Dr Greger on the higher diseases risks associated with eating chicken/poultry include:\nAvoiding Chicken to Avoid Bladder Infections\nHandling chicken can lead to the colonization of one\u2019s colon with antibiotic-resistant E. coli that may result in bladder infections in women.\nhttps://nutritionfacts.org/video/avoiding-chicken-to-avoid-bladder-infections/\nSalmonella in Chicken & Turkey: Deadly but Not Illegal\nHundreds of thousands of Americans are Salmonella-poisoned by poultry every year\u2014yet it remains legal to sell meat proven to be contaminated.\nhttps://nutritionfacts.org/video/salmonella-in-chicken-turkey-deadly-but-not-illegal/\nPoultry Exposure Tied to Liver & Pancreatic Cancer\nCancer-causing viruses in poultry may explain increased risks of death from liver and pancreatic cancers.\nClip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2VgEGxfA5I\nText: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-exposure-tied-to-liver-and-pancreatic-cancer/\nA clip by Dr Greger MD regards the consumption of animal fat and pancreatic cancer. \u201cThe largest prospective nutrition study ever published suggests animal fat may play a role in the development of pancreatic cancer.\u201d\nClip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dhn67FYqtw\nText: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/largest-study-ever/\nSwitching from Beef to Chicken & Fish May Not Lower Cholesterol\nThe negative impact of red meat on our cholesterol profile may be similar to that of white meat.\nhttps://nutritionfacts.org/video/switching-from-beef-to-chicken-fish-may-not-lower-cholesterol/\nPoultry Exposure & Neurological Disease.\nPoultry workers exhibit an excess of a wide range of diseases, from thyroid conditions to schizophrenia, and autoimmune neurological disorders, such as myasthenia gravis. This may be due to exposure to viruses present in chickens and turkeys.\nhttps://nutritionfacts.org/video/poultry-exposure-and-neurological-disease/\nSuperbugs in Conventional vs. Organic Chicken.\nThe level of multidrug antibiotic-resistant bacteria contamination is compared between meat from animals raised conventionally, and certified organic meat from animals raised without being fed antibiotics.\nClip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHfa4R3JChM\nText: https://nutritionfacts.org/video/superbugs-in-conventional-vs-organic-chicken/\nHow Many Cancers Have Been Caused by Arsenic-Laced Chicken?\nArsenic-containing drugs intentionally added to poultry feed to reduce the parasite burden and pinken the meat are apparently converted by cooking into carcinogenic inorganic arsenic compounds.\nhttps://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-many-cancers-have-been-caused-by-arsenic-laced-chicken/\nWhere Does the Arsenic in Chicken Come From?\nWhat was the National Chicken Council\u2019s response to public health authorities calling for the industry to stop feeding arsenic-based drugs to poultry?\nhttps://nutritionfacts.org/video/where-does-the-arsenic-in-chicken-come-from/\nFoster Farms Responds to Chicken Salmonella Outbreaks\nFoster Farms chicken may have infected and sickened more than 10,000 people, due to contamination of the meat with fecal material.\nhttps://nutritionfacts.org/video/foster-farms-responds-to-chicken-salmonella-outbreaks/\nPhosphate Additives in Chicken\nThe phosphorus preservatives injected into poultry may not just be an arterial toxin. They also appear to dramatically increase the growth of food poisoning Campylobacter bacteria.\nhttps://nutritionfacts.org/video/phosphate-additives-in-chicken/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 27819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eatonfamily.net.au/catch-22-joseph-heller/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:58Z", "digest": "sha1:WP25RFDGDSGTVHXQGDI62CM3CPEV7B3Y", "length": 321, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "eatonfamily.net.au", "title": "Catch 22, by Joseph Heller - Eaton Family Website", "raw_content": "But instead of a novel most of the chapters are about one or more of the characters. The book is tied together with a central plot but the author seems mainly concerned about poking fun at the military and their waste.\nVery funny in places and I am sure someone who has been in the army would find it easier to relate to.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 119.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/252/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:43Z", "digest": "sha1:FQMARLVTM2BDKNUW4SUD7XAGIOYA4QIA", "length": 1200, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ecommons.udayton.edu", "title": "\"Music Technology in Secondary Music Education: Reaching the 80%\" by Natalie N. Erdy", "raw_content": "Music Technology in Secondary Music Education: Reaching the 80%\nNatalie N. Erdy, University of DaytonFollow\nThe majority of United States school music programs engage nearly every student in the elementary grades. In the secondary schools, however, they tend to become too overly specialized and exclusive. With band, choir, and orchestra often the only options for music participation in secondary schools, this leads to only a small percentage of the student population involved in music education. Courses in music technology are hands-on and relevant to the current student population. These courses can help increase the percentage of 'non-traditional' music students involved in creating music while fulfilling the National Standards for music education. Music technology is also unique because even students with special needs can be involved. This poster presentation will take a look at the music programs of schools in the Dayton area and what they have to offer for non-traditional music students, as well as examining the benefits of such programs\nLinda\tA. Hartley\nErdy, Natalie N., \"Music Technology in Secondary Music Education: Reaching the 80%\" (2013). Stander Symposium Posters. 252.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ecovillage.org/origin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:54Z", "digest": "sha1:TNRIG7ZIJQANJ7XRGBEPFLZXOLZLJXHP", "length": 4727, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "ecovillage.org", "title": "ORIGIN - Global Ecovillage Network", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / News / ORIGIN\nORIGIN Orchestration of Renewable Integrated Generation In Neighborhoods: Connecting Damanhur, Tamera and Findhorn\nMarch 21, 2015 by Nara Pais\n\u201cORIGIN is developing a sophisticated intelligent ICT (Information and Communication Technology) system for the management of energy in a community.\u201d (www.origin-energy.eu). The name stands for Orchestration of Renewable Integrated Generation In Neighborhoods, a visionary project with the goal to achieve a more efficient use of the installed renewable energy generation and storage to reduce the amount of \u201cimported energy\u201d, from the public grid, often produced with non-sustainable means. Beatriz Silva reports.\nThe EU-funded project \u201cis a collaboration of eight organizations from five different European Union member states. The developed solutions are from now on being validated in three ecovillages in three different climatic settings in northern Scotland \u2013 Findhorn, southern Portugal \u2013 Tamera and the Italian alpine foothills \u2013 Damanhur.\u201d\nRepresentatives of the research group of ORIGIN meet regularly in the different places to share. In December, Dr. Andrew Peacock, Eng. Andrew Spence, both from Heriot Watt University Edinburgh, David Todoli, ITI Valencia, and Andr\u00e9 Oliviera, ITI Coimbra, were in Tamera / Portugal, one of the test users of Origin, to present ORIGIN and launch the user interfaces, also informing about the development of the system in March when they met in Damanhur.\nThe main questions are: Where can we save energy? And, how to steer energy use in such a way that priority is given to locally produced sustainable energy when and where ever possible?\nORIGIN research revealed some interesting background information: Portugal has a huge potential of renewable yet centrally generated energy as the big hydro-electric power plants produce most of the energy consumed in winter. To date the country produces and feeds hardly any solar energy into the public grid, however, although Portugal has the longest sunshine duration of Europe. Subsequently, in summer almost all electricity comes from coal, gas and imported Spanish production.\nFor Tamera, the ORIGIN measuring device disclosed the following picture: although the community needs more energy than it produces, it does not use all the solar energy it could generate, and there is a point where the production needs to be stopped, because the batteries are full and not all available energy can be used at the time of production. Remedy shall be provided: ORIGIN gadgets enable the consumers to optimize their energy use. The outstandingly precise weather forecast for the coming eighteen hours \u2013 \u201cwe are better than the National Forecast\u201d said Dr. Andrew in a playful, yet proud, voice \u2013 allows an accurate forecast of energy production. Users can inform themselves when is the best time to do laundry, use the food dryer, charge the electric cars etc. They can use the dashboard to learn how much energy is being generated locally and how much is imported. One can know how much energy is coming from the grid and how much is taken from the sun. People can also know which building is producing or using most of the energy supply and chose the more \u201ccomplicity-free time\u201d for energy consuming chores.\nSimultaneously ORIGN makes it clear: the battery charging software needs to be adapted so that they no longer replenish with whatever available energy; priority must be given to the locally produced energy when charging the community energy storage system. A challenging task for the programmer.\n\u201cORIGIN\u2019s control system will orchestrate energy demand within a community with the aim of better aligning it to local renewable generation\u201d (www.origin-energy.eu). ORIGIN optimization of Tamera\u2019s energy is based on minimizing the curtailment, thus maximizing efficiency as well as battery-life and enabling intelligent consumption behavior.\nIn cooperation with the three communities the program started in November 2012 and will continue until November 2015.\n\u201cHow can we leave knowing that you have a system you will use?\u201d With his question Dr. Andrew added to the fact that the ORIGIN system is an \u201cAwareness Tool\u201d, because in the end \u201cit is about the change in the consciousness of people\u201d.\nAbout Nara Pais\nAfter having worked for 18 years in the corporate world, I started a journey of personal transformation that led me to the ecovillage world. I have lived in Findhorn and served GEN for 1,5 years and now I'm starting a new journey, going back to the urban scenario, carrying community and everything I've learned with me. Get in touch if you are interested in doing a project together or just to share experiences over a cup of tea (real or virtual).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 29485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://educatingessays.co.uk/essay-paper-important/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:11Z", "digest": "sha1:AHFIFOFYYYTUEXA5UIQY7EFDZ55NLOFO", "length": 2973, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "educatingessays.co.uk", "title": "Essay Paper - Why are They Important? - Educatingessays.co.uk", "raw_content": "Essay Paper \u2013 Why are They Important?\n/ Essay paper important\nIn almost all schools, students are made to write essays on varied topics. They are made to write the paper so as to evaluate their reading and writing skills. It is a way to judge the performance of a student.\nIn an essay a student is evaluated on the flowing basis:\n\u2022 Structure of the essay\n\u2022 Language of the essay\n\u2022 Art of expression\nNo doubts, that writing a term paper requires both time and efforts. To write a good essay practice and hard work are required. As the grade increases, the expectation of the examiner increases from the students.\nAt the lower grades, writing a simple but structured essay fetch you good grades and appreciation, but the case is not the same when you come in higher grades.\nIn lower grades, students are made to write an essay on topics like their pet, parents, school, friends or other things around them. This makes the child observant and makes him think of the things surrounding him. Here, only the foundation is laid, so as to make their base strong. The essays in lower grades are only to judge their power to notice people and things around them and to state the most important things in the essay.\nAs you progress in your academic grades, the essays become complex. Now, they are no more simple descriptive essays, they are complex now. They are now expected to attempt argumentative essay, persuasive essays, and discursive essays. More minute details have to be included in the essay and are now supposed to be very focused and comprehensive.\nThe essay in higher grades may pertain to political events, history, social issues, economic policies, literary criticism or on other topic. These essays check you understanding power, your level of knowledge, general awareness, your research ability, your writing and presenting ability and analytical thinking.\nEssays affect the grades of the students, to a great deal, so you must be very careful about them.\nFor an entrance to the college, an essay is the only way to gauge the ability and their analytical powers. The admission essay, ought to be good and structured. A good introduction and conclusion may affect the quality of the essay. Whether you will be entitled to the admission to your desired college and course mainly depends on the quality of your essay.\nWriting an admission article is very important, as your career rests on it.\nThus, you must devote a considerable time and effort to write it. Generally, the admission essay pertains to self and is very tough to write. They mainly demand an essay which is self-evaluating. In some cases, you may be asked to narrate an incidence of your life, which caged it entirely. At times, you are made to write an essay on a topic which you must have encountered every day but would have never bothered to pay any heed to it.\nAn essay is the reflection of the personality and the mindset of the student. So, next time you are asked to write an essay, don\u2019t fret.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://education.apec.org/new-zealand.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLVWI2DN772FVEHRTBE5KLPQQ6VQ2CY3", "length": 257, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "education.apec.org", "title": "New Zealand - APEC Education", "raw_content": "The Government of New Zealand maintains the following information portal to students interested in studying in New Zealand.\nScholarships for Students Studying in New Zealand This website provides resources for students interested in studying in New Zealand.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 10, "original_length": 436, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 68.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://edwinmathe.com/2014/06/13/in-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:EHS2BPCCHDWZDM7IATZUMB4NTRQJBV5R", "length": 795, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "edwinmathe.com", "title": "In Love \u2013 Edwin Mathe's Inspiration Today", "raw_content": "Its so hard to learn something that you are not going to benefit from, Most of us today have learnt the word love and we are only benefiting headaches and stress in the name of this love that we have learnt. Today its more difficult to be in love, i mean in love not just knowing love, there is much more difference in being in love and knowing love, you may know love but you have not experienced it, once you experience it then and then you are in love. This is just a simple thing in life to do for most of us, your relationship can only function to its fullest when you are in love and you know how to act and be patient for things that you may not want to be patient on. This is provoking and simple and i believe you will get a bit out of this, be blessed and be a blessing\nEstimated Peace", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eggabase.com/movies/x-men/stan-lee-cameo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YAHBGHRUDIS6QK7D3N32GKHNX4SDI6HV", "length": 329, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "eggabase.com", "title": "Stan Lee Cameo | X-Men Easter Eggs - Eggabase", "raw_content": "Early in the movie, Senator Kelly is captured by Magneto and used as guinea pig in a machine used to mutate humans into mutants. After using his powers to escape from Magneto into the ocean, he later emerges from the ocean at a busy beach.\nStan Lee can be seen at a hot dog stand on the beach as a naked Senator Kelly walks past.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/04/29/pope-francis-and-pope-tawadros-sign-baptism-recognition-agreement-in-cairo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:47Z", "digest": "sha1:NAXIOK52XGM3EDF4LYYPK7XJASZH5IDO", "length": 10138, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "egyptianstreets.com", "title": "Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros Sign Baptism Recognition Agreement in Cairo | Egyptian Streets", "raw_content": "Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros Sign Baptism Recognition Agreement in Cairo\nThe Roman Catholic Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church will now recognize the baptisms conducted by each other after an agreement was signed by Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II.\n\u201cToday we, Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II, in order to please the heart of the Lord Jesus, as well as that of our sons and daughters in the faith, mutually declare that we, with one mind and heart, will seek sincerely not to repeat the baptism that has been administered in either of our Churches for any person who wishes to join the other,\u201d read a statement by the two heads of churches.\nPreviously, any person who wished to join another church would have to repeat their baptism in their new church. For example, if a Catholic Christian wanted to become a Coptic Christian, he would have to be baptized by the Coptic Orthodox Church.\nThe agreement was signed during a historic two-day visit by Pope Francis to Cairo. Pope Francis met with Pope Tawadros at the Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo. At their meeting, Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros signed a declaration \u201cto exchange a fraternal embrace and to join again in common prayer\u201d.\n1. We, Francis, Bishop of Rome and Pope of the Catholic Church, and Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of Saint Mark, give thanks to God in the Holy Spirit for granting us the joyful opportunity to meet once more, to exchange a fraternal embrace and to join again in common prayer. We glorify the Almighty for the bonds of fraternity and friendship existing between the See of Saint Peter and the See of Saint Mark. The privilege of being together here in Egypt is a sign that the solidity of our relationship is increasing year by year, and that we are growing in closeness, faith and love of Christ our Lord. We give thanks to God for this beloved Egypt, the \u201chomeland that lives inside us,\u201d as His Holiness Pope Shenouda III used to say, the \u201cpeople blessed by God\u201d (cf. Is 19:25) with its ancient\nPharaonic civilization, the Greek and Roman heritage, the Coptic tradition and the Islamic presence. Egypt is the place where the Holy Family found refuge, a land of martyrs and saints.\n2. Our deep bond of friendship and fraternity has its origin in the full communion that existed between our Churches in the first centuries and was expressed in many different ways through the early Ecumenical Councils, dating back to the Council of Nicaea in 325 and the contribution of the courageous Church Father Saint Athanasius, who earned the title \u201cProtector of the Faith\u201d. Our communion was expressed through prayer and similar liturgical practices, the veneration of the same martyrs and saints, and in the development and spread of monasticism, following the example of the great Saint Anthony, known as the Father of all monks. This common experience of communion before the time of separation has a special significance in our efforts to restore full communion today. Most of the relations which existed in the early centuries between the Catholic Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church have continued to the present day in spite of divisions, and have recently been revitalized. They challenge us to intensify our common efforts to persevere in the search for visible unity in diversity, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.\n3. We recall with gratitude the historic meeting forty-four years ago between our predecessors, Pope Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III, in an embrace of peace and fraternity, after many centuries when our mutual bonds of love were not able to find expression due to the distance that had arisen between us. The Common Declaration they signed on 10 May 1973 represented a milestone on the path of ecumenism, and served as a starting point for the Commission for Theological Dialogue between our two Churches, which has borne much fruit and opened the way to a broader dialogue between the Catholic Church and the whole family of Oriental Orthodox Churches. In that Declaration, our Churches acknowledged that, in line with the apostolic tradition, they profess \u201cone faith in the One Triune God\u201d and \u201cthe divinity of the Only-begotten Son of God \u2026 perfect God with respect to his divinity, perfect man with respect to his humanity\u201d. It was also acknowledged that \u201cthe divine life is given to us and is nourished in us through the seven sacraments\u201d and that \u201cwe venerate the Virgin Mary, Mother of the True Light\u201d, the \u201cTheotokos\u201d.\n4. With deep gratitude we recall our own fraternal meeting in Rome on 10 May 2013, and the establishment of 10 May as the day when each year we deepen the friendship and brotherhood between our Churches. This renewed spirit of closeness has enabled us to discern once more that the bond uniting us was received from our one Lord on the day of our Baptism. For it is through Baptism that we become members of the one Body of Christ that is the Church (cf. 1 Cor 12:13). This common heritage is the basis of our pilgrimage together towards full communion, as we grow in love and reconciliation.\n5. We are aware that we still have far to go on this pilgrimage, yet we recall how much has already been accomplished. In particular, we call to mind the meeting between Pope Shenouda III and Saint John Paul II, who came as a pilgrim to Egypt during the Great Jubilee of the year 2000. We are determined to follow in their footsteps, moved by the love of Christ the good Shepherd, in the profound conviction that by walking together, we grow in unity. May we draw our strength from God, the perfect source of communion and love.\n6. This love finds its deepest expression in common prayer. When Christians pray together, they come to realize that what unites them is much greater than what divides them. Our longing for unity receives its inspiration from the prayer of Christ \u201cthat all may be one\u201d (Jn 17:21). Let us deepen our shared roots in the one apostolic faith by praying together and by seeking common translations of the Lord\u2019s Prayer and a common date for the celebration of Easter.\n7. As we journey towards the blessed day when we will at last gather at the same Eucharistic table, we can cooperate in many areas and demonstrate in a tangible way the great richness which already unites us. We can bear witness together to fundamental values such as the sanctity and dignity of human life, the sacredness of marriage and the family, and respect for all of creation, entrusted to us by God. In the face of many contemporary challenges such as secularization and the globalization of indifference, we are called to offer a shared response based on the values of the Gospel and the treasures of our respective traditions. In this regard, we are encouraged to engage in a deeper study of the Oriental and Latin Fathers, and to promote a fruitful exchange in pastoral life, especially in catechesis, and in mutual spiritual enrichment between monastic and religious communities.\n8. Our shared Christian witness is a grace-filled sign of reconciliation and hope for Egyptian society and its institutions, a seed planted to bear fruit in justice and peace. Since we believe that all human beings are created in the image of God, we strive for serenity and concord through a peaceful co-existence of Christians and Muslims, thus bearing witness to God\u2019s desire for the unity and harmony of the entire human family and the equal dignity of each human being. We share a concern for the welfare and the future of Egypt. All members of society have the right and duty to participate fully in the life of the nation, enjoying full and equal citizenship and collaborating to build up their country. Religious freedom, including freedom of conscience, rooted in the dignity of the person, is the cornerstone of all other freedoms. It is a sacred and inalienable right.\n9. Let us intensify our unceasing prayer for all Christians in Egypt and throughout the whole world, and especially in the Middle East. The tragic experiences and the blood shed by our faithful who were persecuted and killed for the sole reason of being Christian, remind us all the more that the ecumenism of martyrdom unites us and encourages us along the way to peace and reconciliation. For, as Saint Paul writes: \u201cIf one member suffers, all suffer together\u201d (1 Cor 12:26).\n10. The mystery of Jesus who died and rose out of love lies at the heart of our journey towards full unity. Once again, the martyrs are our guides. In the early Church the blood of the martyrs was the seed of new Christians. So too in our own day, may the blood of so many martyrs be the seed of unity among all Christ\u2019s disciples, a sign and instrument of communion and peace for the world.\n11. In obedience to the work of the Holy Spirit, who sanctifies the Church, keeps her throughout the ages, and leads her to full unity \u2013 that unity for which Jesus Christ prayed: Today we, Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II, in order to please the heart of the Lord Jesus, as well as that of our sons and daughters in the faith, mutually declare that we, with one mind and heart, will seek sincerely not to repeat the baptism that has been administered in either of our Churches for any person who wishes to join the other. This we confess in obedience to the Holy Scriptures and the faith of the three Ecumenical Councils assembled in Nicaea, Constantinople and Ephesus. We ask God our Father to guide us, in the times and by the means that the Holy Spirit will choose, to full unity in the mystical Body of Christ.\n12. Let us, then, be guided by the teachings and the example of the Apostle Paul, who writes: \u201c[Make] every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you too were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.\u201d (Eph 4:3-6).\nPope Francis Leads Holy Mass at Stadium in Cairo\nSisi Discusses Terrorism, Pope Francis Prays for Victims of Church Explosions\nRelated ItemsbaptismCairocatholic churchChristianitycoptic churchcoptsfeaturedjesusnewspope francispope tawadros", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 14313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ekichir.blogspot.com/2016/10/doctor-smiths-dog.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SQAFNGMRNBTUIKT7MDV3HCQUXZBXJVGS", "length": 8383, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "ekichir.blogspot.com", "title": "EKICHIR: DOCTOR SMITH\u2019S DOG", "raw_content": "photo: dakpets.com\nMr. Smith was an American veterinary doctor, who was fond of animals. He was also a scientist and a researcher, who specialized in animal diseases. He lived in Kaloleni village and would occasionally be seen driving around the village, in his Peugeot 504. Everything about him was Okey\u2026\u2026\u2026well! Almost Okey\u2026..and every livestock farmer was happy to have him around.\nThere was one peculiar thing about him though, which was a source of gossip and attracted hate as well as amazement in the village. It was about \u2018Scooby\u2019 Mr. Smith\u2019s dog. People in the village thought that Mr. Smith pampered his dog too much.\nYou may also like: MY FEAR OF VASECTOMY\n\u201cDid you know that Mr. Smith\u2019s dog has a bed inside the house, complete with a mattress, blankets and even a mosquito net?\u201d one woman asked in disbelief, shaking her head.\n\u201cDo you want to tell us that while some of us sleep on animal skins, on the floor, Mr. smith\u2019s dog sleeps like a king?\u201d an elder asked.\n\u201cYes, that is what I mean. And as if that is not enough, he travels in the same car with the dog. Can you believe that? A dog who should be in the bush, chasing after rabbits, being pampered like a baby\u201d came the reply from the woman.\nIndeed, people could not understand why Dr. Smith ate with his dog from the same table and even slept together inside the house. To the villagers, that was a behaviour bordering on insanity.\n\u201cDo you think the man is in his right state of mind?\u201d someone asked.\n\u201cI am also thinking along those lines. I think he is not a normal human being. This is the kind of person, who can bring a curse upon this village.\u2019 Another one replied.\nAs they were still talking, the local shopkeeper arrived. He was shaking his head in disbelief. He faced the two villagers and said,\n\u201cCan you believe that I found Mr. Smith, washing his dog with soap and warm water? And as if that was not enough, he had the audacity to wipe it with a clean towel and brushed it\u2019s hair?\u201d\n\u201cAiyayayaya!\u201d one villager marveled.\n\u201cAre you sure of what you just saying?\u201d the second villager asked.\n\u201cAs sure as death.\u201d The shopkeeper swore, the licked his finger, touched the soil and pointed to the sky, as a sign that he was telling the truth and nothing but the truth.\n\u201cNcht! Ncht! Ncht! Ncht!\u201d was all the second villager managed to say.\nThe rumours spread around the village like wild fire. Some said that Mr. Smith might be a witch. How comes he had no family? Where are his relatives and friends? Why was he treating his dog better than a human being? \u2018Wasn\u2019t a dog supposed to provide security?\u2019 the villagers reasoned.\nAccording to them, there was clearly something wrong with Mr. Smith.\nWhere the villagers got the rumours, nobody knew. It was claimed that one time, Mr. Smith had jailed a man in another village, far away just because he had shouted at his dog. It was even claimed that Mr. Smith, following the incident, had taken the dog for counseling and psychotherapy.\n\u201cDid you also know that there is another woman, from Mr. Smith\u2019s clan who left a huge inheritance for her dog, when she died?\u201d The shopkeepers asked, to the consternation of other villagers.\n\u201cPwot!\u201d that will not happen in my house as long as I live.\u201d An elder swore. \u201cMay our ancestors curse Mr. Smith and his clan. May he set with the sun.\u201d he added.\nElsewhere in the same village, Joseph had just arrived from Sokoni town. He was one of the village elders and was burdened by age. He had once been a clerk during the colonial period. He was shaking with rage. His sunken eyes, seemed to have sunk deeper into the two holes housing his eyes, hence making the eye lids hang loosely like empty sacks. He was holding his walking stick, which was also shaking vigorously, following the rhythm of the shaking of his body. His fellow villagers were concerned and they sought to know whether he was not well, but what Joseph told them also paralysed them to the core.\nApparently, Joseph had been given a lift by Mr. Smith in his car. He had happily gotten into the backseat of the car and Mr. Smith had sped off. Joseph was not prepared for what he found at the back of the car. He had found the dog sitting comfortably at the back seat and seemed less bothered by Joseph\u2019s entry. He claimed that the dog had looked at him with a lot of contempt, as if to say, \u201cSome people should know their place in life.\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t worry Scooby. We are only assisting our friend.\u201d Mr. Smith kept on reassuring the dog.\n\u201cCan you imagine I, an elder of Kaloleni village, being called the friend of the dog? I had to alight before reaching my destination.\u201d Joseph said, shaking his head with rage.\nThe biggest question among the residents of Kaloleni village was, \u201cHow could someone treat a dog better than a human being?\u201d The villagers could not comprehend that. There was talk of the need to agitate for the rights of animals, \u201cBut what rights?\u201d was all the villagers could ask. They could not understand why a sane man could spend astronomical amounts of money, just on a dog. Someone even went as far as saying that Mr. Smith might have been a dog in his former life, which was given a new lease of life as a human being. As far as the villagers were concerned, their dogs slept outside and ate their food from the floor, most times without a plate.\nWhile Mr. Smith\u2019s dog ate a balanced diet, the other dogs in the village survived on merely carbohydrates, from left over food of theirs masters. Occasionally, they would receive a bone, on a day when their masters were eating meat. Scooby would have died of heart attack, was it to be given the kind of food the other dogs received in the village. What would Scooby for example, think about those dogs in the village, who roamed all over the village feeding on human excrement and garbage? Unbelievable! Two different worlds on the same planet!\nThe villagers were treated to more juicy stories about Mr. Smith and his dog. Who would have thought that there was something in this world like a dog hospital? Could you imagine that Mr. Smith took his dog to a hospital for animals when it got sick? \u201cWhat a lucky animal!\u201d the villagers marveled. Their own dogs were usually left to die of the simplest of ailments and here was a dog, who could even be admitted to a hospital! There was even the rumour that the so called dog hospital had a theatre for surgery, an intensive care unit and a mortuary for dogs.\nIt was common knowledge in the village that games were for children and not adults. This was broken by Mr. Smith, who would sometimes be seen playing a game with his dog outside his house.\n\u201cCome on Scooby.\u201d Mr. Smith would shout at his dog.\n\u201cBow! Wow!\u201d the dog would bark and run after him, jump at his back and they would fall down, then Mr. Smith would burst into loud laughter, which left people shaking their heads.\nThis time, even little children had something to laugh about. To them it was unbelievable that a whole grown up would play like a little child.\n\u201cWhy would an adult be playing with a dog, instead of letting it look for and chase after rabbits?\u201d the villagers kept asking one another.\nOne day his wife and kids visited him. A wave of wonder and amazement swept across the village. Who could have imagined that this man, who treated a dog better than a human being, had a family? Mr. Smith decided to take them for a walk, around the village. Of course the dog was not left behind. This revealed another wonder of wonders. Every time Mr. Smith introduced his wife and kids, he would also introduce the dog as a family member. This sounded like a taboo on the villagers\u2019 part of the world. The village women thought that Mr. Smith\u2019s wife was too na\u00efve.\n\u2018How could she allow her husband to mention her name and the children\u2019s names, in the same breath as a dog? How could she keep on smiling at him as he degrades the children to the same level as a dog, in front of her?\u2019 the women reasoned. They found it difficult to accept the dog as a member of the family.\nWhen he finally left, the villagers shook their fingers after him and shook their heads behind his back. They did that, to disapprove the way Mr. Smith had disrupted the social order in the village. \u201cPhew! Wonders will never end.\u201d A number of villagers were heard saying. There was even a plan to compose a song about Mr. Smith, who loved his dog more than people, as well as his dog that could not chase after rabbits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 9966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://emj.bmj.com/content/36/2/78", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:12Z", "digest": "sha1:YK5EY7HKG7L23WQ2LU5QTWSTSI27ZWGO", "length": 3400, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "emj.bmj.com", "title": "Implementation of tranexamic acid for bleeding trauma patients: a longitudinal and cross-sectional study | Emergency Medicine Journal", "raw_content": "Implementation of tranexamic acid for bleeding trauma patients: a longitudinal and cross-sectional study\nMarisol Fragoso-I\u00f1iguez2,\nIan Roberts3\n1 Emergency Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK\n2 Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN), University of Manchester Institute of Population Health, Manchester, UK\n3 Nutrition and Public Health Intervention Research Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK\nCorrespondence to Dr Timothy J Coats, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; tc61{at}le.ac.uk\nObjective To describe the use of tranexamic acid (TXA) in trauma care in England and Wales since the Clinical Randomization of an Antifibrinolytic in Significant Hemorrhage (CRASH-2) trial results were published in 2010.\nMethods A national longitudinal and cross-sectional study using data collected through the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN), the clinical audit of major trauma care for England and Wales. All patients in the TARN database injured in England and Wales were included apart from those with an isolated traumatic brain injury, with a primary outcome of the proportion of patients given TXA and the secondary outcome of time to treatment.\nResults Among 228\u2009250 patients, the proportion of trauma patients treated with TXA increased from near zero in 2010 to 10% (4593) in 2016. In 2016, most patients (82%) who received TXA did so within 3\u2009hours of injury, however, only 30% of patients received TXA within an hour of injury. Most (80%) of the patients who had an early blood transfusion were given TXA. Patients treated with TXA by an ambulance paramedic received treatment at a median of 49\u2009min (IQR 33\u201372) compared with 111\u2009min (IQR 77\u2013162) for patients treated in hospital.\nConclusions There is a low proportion of patients treated with TXA across the range of injury severity and the range of physiological indicators of severity of bleeding. Most patients receive treatment within the existing target of 3\u2009hours from injury, however there remains the potential to further improve major trauma outcomes by the earlier treatment of a wider patient group.\ntrauma, major trauma management\nContributors The article was conceived and initially drafted by TJC and IR. All authors contributed to commenting on drafts of the manuscript and were involved in each stage of planning, interpretation of results and write-up of the work. The statistical analysis was performed by MFI. The final version has been approved by all authors.\nFunding The Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN) data collection is funded by the National Health Service of England and Wales through subscriptions from participating hospitals.\nCompeting interests TJC and IR were investigators for the CRASH-2 trial; no other relationships or activities could appear to have influenced the submitted work. TARN is based within a university department and is funded through subscriptions from the hospitals that take part in the audit.\nData sharing statement Patient-level data are available, subject to a standard data sharing agreement (which can be found at www.tarn.ac.uk), from the corresponding author at tc61@le.ac.uk. Individual participant consent for data sharing was not obtained, but the presented data are grouped and anonymised, risk of identification is low and approval is in place from the UK Department of Health\u2019s Patient Information Advisory Group.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 7057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://emke.uwm.edu/entry/village-of-lannon/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:30Z", "digest": "sha1:4RAEU7XT7GXR627MKKATOWCJM5SYWW3C", "length": 1925, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "emke.uwm.edu", "title": "Village of Lannon | Encyclopedia of Milwaukee", "raw_content": "The Village of Lannon is a small community in northeastern WAUKESHA COUNTY incorporated in 1930.[1] As of the 2010 census the village had a population of 1,107.[2]\nLannon is located on the Niagara Escarpment, a geographic feature that stretches across the Great Lakes region and contains a significant amount of limestone.[3] The first limestone quarry in WAUKESHA COUNTY was opened in the Lannon area in 1838.[4] The village\u2019s QUARRIES attracted ITALIAN, POLISH, and GERMAN immigrants, many of whom were skilled stone cutters.[5] From the nineteenth century through the twentieth century, Lannon\u2019s limestone was very popular in the construction of homes across the region. It was also burned in kilns to make quicklime, a main component of whitewash. Since World War II limestone from Lannon has been utilized for the construction of churches and landscaping throughout the Midwest.[6]\nThe Village\u2019s fire department, which was a volunteer unit until its formal incorporation in 1917, consolidated with Village of Menomonee Falls\u2019 department in 2015. Lannon\u2019s police department is a part-time unit, assisted by the Waukesha County Sheriff\u2019s Department.[7]\n^ Michael R. Reilly, \u201cLannon History\u2014After Incorporation 1930-1959,\u201d Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, Inc., accessed April 10 2012.\n^ American Fact Finder, \u201cLannon Village Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010,\u201d accessed April 10 2012, http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=DEC_10_DP_DPDP1&prodType=table.\n^ Ruth Schmidt, \u201cLannon and Its Quarries,\u201d Sussex-Lisbon Area Historical Society, accessed April 10 2012.\n^ Schmidt, \u201cLannon and Its Quarries.\u201d\n^ Halquist Stone, \u201cOur History,\u201d http://www.halquiststone.com/company/index.html, accessed April 10 2012.\n^ The Village of Lannon website, accessed October 15, 2018; The Village of Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin website, accessed October 15, 2018.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 208.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://emsathletics.org/main/teamschedule/id/3620083/seasonid/4394245", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:07Z", "digest": "sha1:4WFE445NLSOL6SHVA4OAF4CASPRY4VF7", "length": 481, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "emsathletics.org", "title": "Eastern Mennonite School CoEd Middle School Cross Country Fall 2018-2019 Schedule", "raw_content": "(A) 08/28/18 5:00 PM Dog Days of Summer relay Postponed .\n(A) 09/04/18 5:00 PM Dog Days of Summer relay .\n(H) 09/08/18 8:30 PM 45th XC INV @ Peakview Elementary School .\n(A) 09/11/18 5:00 PM August Road Runners .\n(A) 09/15/18 9:00 AM Augusta Invitational @ Wilson Memorial Postponed .\n(A) 09/20/18 4:30 PM vs Skyline Middle School .\n(A) 09/22/18 8:30 AM Fork Union Invitational-- Same Day as JMU Concessions .\n(A) 10/06/18 9:00 AM Augusta Invitational @ Wilson Memorial Cancelled .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.appsgames.ru/poleznoe-ios/obrezat-video-na-ajjfone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MIJYSDKDWZZEQURRCASH6JUYJ6H3XUHV", "length": 3181, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "en.appsgames.ru", "title": "How to trim video on iPhone: how to trim a video", "raw_content": "How can I trim video on iPhone\nAfter shooting, users often want to remove unnecessary details so that the video looks laconic. There are several options for how to trim the video on the iPhone. For this, you can use both built-in functionality and third-party applications.\nVideo change algorithm\nList of available applications\nVideo review: we trim video on iPhone\nThe procedure allows you to work with the results of shooting completely autonomously, without connecting the iPhone to a personal computer. The finished file can be immediately sent to a social network or uploaded to a streaming service.\nUsing the built-in functionality means launching the Photo application on a mobile device. In order to carry out the cutting of the video, you need to perform the following steps:\nOpen the application \"Photo\" on your mobile device. Find a video of interest in the folder \"Video\".\nEnable video and go into edit mode using the \"Edit\" button. Using the interface with the storyboard, you need to view the video sequence, and then remove the extra scenes by selecting them.\nYellow arrows on the sides of the selected fragment allow you to increase or decrease its length when you click on them.\nSave the modified file to the library. To be able to reformat, it is better not to delete the original.\nThe disadvantage of this method is the limited editing capabilities. You can cut video only from the beginning or from the end. Thus, the elements in the middle of the clip cannot be cleaned up.\nAlternatively, you can consider several programs for trimming video with more features than standard software. The most popular currently the following options:\nThe most widely used video processing app on the App Store is called iMovie. The development of Apple has a high optimization and a large number of settings. Gives the opportunity to cut and glue rollers. There is a built-in processing functionality for sound and visual effects that can be added for more spectacular events. Distributed for a fee and constantly updated.\nClipper Editor has less features than Apple's flagship program. But for everyday use it is quite suitable, since the absence of a large number of settings does not mislead the user. The application allows you to make cutting and move the fragments, changing their location in the final video. The entire video sequence is located on a multi-line desktop, which allows you to quickly view frames, combining them into logical groups. The application is provided free of charge.\nAnother quality editor is Perfect Video. This is a virtual video editing workshop that can function successfully on a mobile device. Features of the application allow, in addition to standard video operations, also add subtitles, watermark, music and additional visual effects.\nThe possibilities of mobile editors are practically not inferior to serious programs for professionals, making the process of creating high-quality content accessible to any user. Quickly enough, you can get practical editing skills and delight high-quality videos not only of your friends, but also upload them to the network for everyone to see.\nAppsgames\u27feUseful iOS\u27feHow can I trim video on iPhone", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4264, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 324.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_schools", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:22Z", "digest": "sha1:MCKD7WBTVIK4QVWBZ233DIY2Z7ZZDO2J", "length": 29799, "nlines": 128, "source_domain": "en.m.wikipedia.org", "title": "Law school - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "(Redirected from Law schools)\n\"College of Law\" redirects here. For the Australian law school, see The College of Law (Australia). For the British university previously known as the College of Law, see University of Law.\n\"School of law\" redirects here. For the ancient Chinese political philosophy, see Legalism (Chinese philosophy).\nLaw degreesEdit\nTo practice in Australia, one needs to graduate with a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), Juris Doctor (JD), or Diploma-in-Law issued by the Legal Profession Admission Board, followed by an internship for 12 months or an extra course in practical legal training (PLT) depending on the jurisdiction and university, and be admitted as a lawyer of one of a state's Supreme Court.\nIn Brazil the legal education begins between 1827/28 in Olinda/PE and S\u00e3o Paulo/SP where the first Schools of Law were established by the new Empire using as educational model the Coimbra Faculty of Law.\nNowadays the legal education consists in a 5-year-long course in which, afterwards, the scholar is granted a bachelor's degree.[1]\nTherefore, it is considered part of the higher education, hence the educational system is regulated as: i) basic education - primary, middle and high school; and ii) higher education: licentiate, bachelor and vocational ed.[2]\nThe practice of law is conditioned upon admission to the bar of a particular state or other territorial jurisdiction (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil - OAB [3]).\nPublic attorneys, public prossecutors and magistrates (judges) admission is made, mainly, through an entrance examination and a constitutional mandatory three years of legal experience. Starting from the second degree courts it is mandatory a 1/5 of its composition to be fulfilled with members of the lawyers/attorneys/barristers association and also from federal/state/labour processcutors (minist\u00e9rio p\u00fablico) regarding the court jurisdiction (it is not applied for electoral and military courts).\nAfter achieving the bachelor's degree of laws it is possible to follow an i) specialization or follow ii) academically (or both), in either case it is called postgraduation: i) lato sensu; or ii) stricto sensu; respectively.\nThe postgraduation, stricto sensu, consists in a: a) master's degree, which is usually a two-year degree; and a b) doctorate's degree, which can take up another four years.[4]\nThe oldest civil law faculty in Canada offering law degrees was established in 1848 at McGill University in Montreal, and the oldest common law faculty in Canada offering law degrees was established in 1883 at Dalhousie University in Halifax. The typical law degree required to practice law in Canada is now the Juris Doctor,[5] which requires previous university coursework and is similar to the first law degree in the United States. There is some scholarly content in the coursework (such as an academic research paper required in most schools).[6] The programs consist of three years, and have similar content in their mandatory first year courses. Beyond first year and the minimum requirements for graduation, course selection is elective with various concentrations such as business law, international law, natural resources law, criminal law, Aboriginal law, etc.[7] Some schools, however, have not switched from LL.B. to the J.D. \u2013 one notable university that still awards the LL.B is McGill University.\nGiven that the Canadian legal system includes both the French civil law and the Anglo-American common law, some law schools offer both an LL.B. or J.D. (common law) and a B.C.L., LL.L. or LL.B. (civil law) degree, such as McGill University, University of Ottawa and the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al. In particular, McGill University Faculty of Law offers a combined civil law and common law program, which has been called \"transsystemic.\"[8] At other faculties, if a person completes a common law degree, then a civil law degree can be obtained with only an extra year of study. This is also true for civil law graduates who wish to complete a common law degree.\nDespite changes in designation, schools opting for the J.D. have not altered their curricula. Neither the J.D. or LL.B. alone is sufficient to qualify for a Canadian license, as each Province's law society requires an apprenticeship and successful completion of provincial skills and responsibilities training course, such as the British Columbia Law Society's Professional Legal Training Course,[9] the Law Society of Upper Canada's Skills and Responsibilities Training Program.[10] and the \u00c9cole du Barreau du Qu\u00e9bec.\nThe main reason for implementing the J.D. in Canada was to distinguish the degree from the European counterpart that requires no previous post-secondary education,[11] However, in the eyes of the Canadian educational system, the J.D. awarded by Canadian universities has retained the characteristics of the LL.B. and is considered a second entry program, but not a graduate program.[12] (This position is analogous to the position taken by Canadian universities that the M.D. and D.D.S. degrees are considered second entry programs and not graduate programs.) Nevertheless, disagreement persists regarding the status of the degrees, such as at the University of Toronto, where the J.D. degree designation has been marketed by the Faculty of Law as superior to the LL.B. degree designation.[13]\nSome universities have developed joint Canadian LL.B or J.D. and American J.D programs, such as York University and New York University,[14] the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy,[15] and the University of Ottawa and Michigan State University program.[16]\nEngland and English common law countriesEdit\nMain article: Legal education in the United Kingdom\nLaw school is usually entered to at the undergraduate level in a university. There is an intermediate bachelor's degree (oikeusnotaari), but the target is the master's degree in law (oikeustieteen maisteri; until 2005 oikeustieteen kandidaatti). Once university education is complete, the title of varatuomari (VT) is obtained with an one-year externship in a district court. This is the basic qualification to practice law. With further experience, the candidate may be admitted to the Finnish Bar Association and licensed with the legally protected title asianajaja, similar to barrister.\nIn France, the legal education is a three tier system. The student may study for a LLB (licence de droit), then a LLM (master de droit) and, for those interested in Law theory, a PhD in Law (doctorat de droit).\nMany French universities offers Law courses in department labelled as Research and Education Units (unit\u00e9 de formation et de recherche) and/or Faculties of Law or Law Schools.\nA LLM-level is a prerequisite for some legal professions, but is combined with vocational education, such as the \u00e9cole nationale de la magistrature for judges and the Certificat d'aptitude aux fonctions d'avocat for advocates.\nLaw Degree in Indonesia consists of three tier systems. The first tier is the Degree of which carries the title of Sarjana Hukum/S.H. (Bachelor of Law). This can be obtained in 4\u20137 years after they enter Law School straight from Senior High School.\nThe second tier varies depending on the legal specialties taken after the first tier. The general title for this tier is Magister Hukum / M.H. (Master in Law). Although it is also common to see other title for secondary tier such as Magister Kenotariatan / M.Kn. (Master in Notary) for Notarial professionals line of work. The second tier can be obtained normally in 1-2 year.\nThe third tier in Indonesian Law Degree is Doctor / DR. (Doctor in Law).\nTo work in legal professions of choice in Indonesia, a Bachelor Law Degree (S.H.) is obligatory. Graduates can pursue their career as Legal in-house counsel, Judge profession (requires admission and further training at Supreme Court Educational Center), Public Prosecutor (requires admission and further training at Public Prosecutor Educational and Training Center), other legal-related work and Advocate.\nTo become an Advocate, Law Graduate should attend an Advocate Special Course (1\u20132 months) and pass the Bar exam. The title Advocate can be obtained after a graduate passes the Bar exam and fulfill several obligation and requirements created by the Indonesian Advocates Association (PERADI), and is a prerequisite for practicing trial law in Indonesia.\nList of some School of Law in Indonesia\nUniversity of Indonesia Faculty of Law, Depok, West Java\nGadjah Mada University Faculty of Law, Jogjakarta, Jogjakarta\nDiponegoro University Faculty of Law, Semarang, Central Java\nPadjadjaran University Faculty of Law, Bandung, West Java\nAirlangga University Faculty of Law, Surabaya, East Java\nBrawijaya University Faculty of Law, Malang, East Java\nHasanuddin University Faculty of Law, Makassar, South Sulawesi\nAndalas University School of Law, Padang, West Sumatera\nDarma Cendika Catholic University Faculty of Law, Surabaya, East Java\nSee also: Legal education in India and Autonomous law schools in India\nIn India, legal education has been traditionally offered as a three-year graduate degree. However, the structure has been changed since 1987. Law degrees in India are granted and conferred in terms of the Advocates Act, 1961, which is a law passed by the Parliament both on the aspect of legal education and also regulation of conduct of legal profession.[17] Under the act, the Bar Council of India is the supreme regulatory body to regulate the legal profession in India and also to ensure the compliance of the laws and maintenance of professional standards by the legal profession in the country.\nTo this regard, the Bar Council of India prescribes the minimum curriculum required to be taught in order for an institution to be eligible for the grant of a law degree. The Bar Council also carries on a periodic supervision of the institutions conferring the degree and evaluates their teaching methodology and curriculum and having determined that the institution meets the required standards, recognizes the institution and the degree conferred by it.\nTraditionally the degrees that were conferred carried the title of LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) or B.L. (Bachelor of Law). The eligibility requirement for these degrees was that the applicant already have a Bachelor's degree in any subject from a recognized institution. Thereafter the LL.B. / B.L. course was for three years, upon the successful completion of which the applicant was granted either degree.\nHowever, upon the suggestion by the Law Commission of India and also given the prevailing cry for reform, the Bar Council of India instituted upon an experiment in terms of establishing specialized law universities solely devoted to legal education and thus to raise the academic standards of legal profession in India. This decision was taken somewhere in 1985 and thereafter the first law University in India was set up in Bangalore which was named as the National Law School of India University (popularly 'NLS'). These law universities were meant to offer a multi-disciplinary and integrated approach to legal education. It was therefore for the first time that a law degree other than LL.B. or B.L. was granted in India. NLS offered a five-year law course, upon the successful completion of which an integrated degree with the title of \"B.A.,LL.B. (Honours)\" would be granted.\nThereafter, other law universities were set up, all offering five-year integrated law degrees with different nomenclature. The next in line was National Law Institute University set up in Bhopal in 1997. It was followed by NALSAR university of law in 1998. The Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University in Delhi offered a five-year integrated law degree course of LL.B (Honours) from 1998 and subsequently from 2007 started to award the B.A.,LL.B / B.B.A.LL.B (Honours). The Mysore University School of Justice set up by the University of Mysore in Mysore offered a five-year integrated law degree course of B.A.,LL.B (Honours) from 2007. The course for three years LL.B. is also regularized in University of Delhi as an option for post graduation after the completion of graduation degree. The National Law University, Jodhpur offered for the first time in 2001 the integrated law degree of \"B.B.A, LL.B. (Honours)\" which was preceded by the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences offering the \"B.Sc., LL.B. (Honours)\" degree. Gujarat National Law University established in Gandhinagar also offers LL.B.\nHowever, despite these specialized law universities, the traditional three-year degree continues to be offered in India by other institutions and are equally recognized as eligible qualifications for practicing law in India. Another essential difference that remains is that while the eligibility qualification for the three year law degree is that the applicant must already be a holder of a bachelor's degree, for being eligible for the five years integrated law degree, the applicant must have successfully completed Class XII from a recognized Boards of Education in India.\nBoth the holders of the three-year degree and of the five-year integrated degree are eligible for enrollment with the Bar Council of India upon the fulfillment of eligibility conditions and upon enrollment, may appear before any court in India.[18]\nMain article: Legal education in Malaysia\nIn Hong Kong, which generally follows the English common law system, an undergraduate L.L.B. is common, followed by a one or two year Postgraduate Certificate in Laws before one can begin a training contract (solicitors) or a pupillage (barristers).\nLaw Schools in Hong KongEdit\nCity University of Hong Kong - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/\nThe Chinese University of Hong Kong - http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/\nThe University of Hong Kong - https://www.hku.hk/\nIn Iran, the legal education has been influenced both by civil law and Islamic Shari'ah law. Like many countries, after high school, one can enter the law school. The first law degree is LL.B. It takes about four years to get LL.B. The first graduate program in law is LL.M. It takes about two to three years to earn an LL.M. The LL.M. is a mix of course work in a specific field of law and a dissertation. The Ph.D. in law is the highest law degree offered by some law schools. It takes about 5\u20137 years depending on the school as well as the students.\nSee Legal education#Japan.\nMain article: Legal education in the Philippines\nLaw degree programs are considered graduate programs in the Philippines. As such, admission to law schools requires the completion of a bachelor's degree, with a sufficient number of credits or units in certain subject areas.[18]\nGraduation from a Philippine law school constitutes the primary eligibility requirement for the Philippine Bar Examination, the national licensure examination for practicing lawyers in the country. The bar examination is administered by the Supreme Court of the Philippines during the month of September every year.\nAs of 2011 the bar examinations were held during November.\nThe University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law was the first secular faculty, and hence the oldest law school in the Philippines.\nIn Singapore, the primary route for obtaining a legal education to qualify as a practicing lawyer is via a 4-year Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from either the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law, or the Singapore Management University School of Law. A third law school affiliated to the Singapore University of Social Sciences will commence its first intake in 2017, aimed primarily at producing law graduates focused on family, criminal and community justice law, as there is a pressing need for lawyers practicing in these areas.\nAdditionally, the SMU School of Law offers the 3-year Juris Doctor degree for aspiring candidates who have already completed a prior undergraduate course of study and who have been award a bachelor's degree in another field. The SMU J.D. is recognised for qualification to the Singapore Bar.\nThere are several private law schools in Singapore that are run by private education providers and which also award the Bachelor of Laws degree. These private law schools are neither recognised nor supported by the government and their graduates are, in the vast majority of cases, ineligible for qualification to the Singapore Bar.\nLaw Schools in SingaporeEdit\nIn Serbia, prospective students are required to pass an admission test for enrollment in a law school. The legal education is a three tier system \u2013 4-year bachelor's degree studies, 1-year Master of Law and 5-year doctoral studies. The Belgrade Law School is the most distinguished and largest by capacity in Serbia. Courses are offered in Serbian and English.\nMain article: Law school in South Korea\nOn July 3, 2007, the Korean National Assembly passed legislation introducing 'Law School', closely modeled on the American post-graduate system.[19] Moreover, naturally, since March 2, 2009, 25 (both public and private) 3-year professional Law Schools that officially approved by Korean Government, has been opened to teach future Korean lawyers.[20] The first bar test to the lawschool graduates was scheduled in 2012.\nIn Sri Lanka to practice law, one must be admitted and enrolled as an Attorney-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. This is achieved by passing law exams at the Sri Lanka Law College, which are administered by the Council of Legal Education and spending a period of six months under a practicing attorney of at least 8 years standing. To undertake law exams students must gain admission to the Sri Lanka Law College and study law or directly undertake exams after gaining a LL.B. from a local or foreign university.[21]\nIn Sweden, the route for obtaining a legal education to qualify as a practicing lawyer is via a 4-and-a-half-year Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree (270 ECTS).\nLaw schools in SwedenEdit\nKarlstad University (since 2017)\nMain article: List of law schools in Taiwan\nIn Taiwan, law is primarily studied as an undergraduate program resulting in a Bachelor of Law (B.L.).[22] Students receive academic rather than practical training.[22] Practical training is arranged after the individual passes the lawyer, judge, or prosecutor exams.\nA degree in law (bachelor, master or doctor) is a pre-requisite for Taiwan's bar examination. According to Ministry of Examination figures, the pass rate for the 2011 exam was 10.6%. Since the bar exam is conducted in Chinese, a native level of language fluency is expected.\nA non-citizen may take the Attorney Qualification Examination.[23] According to Articles 5 and 20 of the Regulations on Attorney Qualification Examination (Bar Exam), non-citizens are allowed to participate in the bar examination with a degree in law earned in Taiwan. Non-citizens are not allowed to sit in the prosecutor or judge examinations unless they are naturalized citizens of Taiwan. Once a non-citizen is approved to practice law in Taiwan, he or she must abide by all statutes related to the legal practice, Codes of Legal Ethics, and the Articles of Incorporation of the Bar Association to which they are members.[23]\nMain article: Law school in the United States\nIn the United States, law school is a postgraduate program usually lasting three years and resulting in the conferral upon graduates of the Juris Doctor (J.D.) law degree. Some schools in Louisiana concurrently award a Graduate Diploma in Civil Law (D.C.L.). To gain admission to a law school that is accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA), applicants must usually take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT),[24][25]:33 and have an undergraduate (bachelor's) degree in any major.[25]:38 Currently, there are 205 ABA-approved law schools that grant the JD degree.[26] There currently are five online law schools that are unaccredited by the ABA but registered by the State Bar of California. Non-ABA approved law schools have much lower bar passage rates than ABA-approved law schools,[27] and do not submit or disclose employment outcome data to the ABA.\nAccording to a study by labor economists Michael Simkovic and Frank McIntyre, a law degree increases the present value of lifetime earnings in the U.S. by $1,000,000 compared to a bachelor's degree.[28][29][30][31][32] According to the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the national average salary for lawyers in 2012 was above $130,000.[33] Salaries vary by geography, with higher average salaries in big cities\u2014especially New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Los Angeles\u2014and lower salaries in rural areas. An unpublished table produced by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that unemployment rates among experienced lawyers are lower than those for most high-income occupations.[34] BLS data also suggests that lawyer employment has grown slightly faster than other occupations, with lawyers comprising a growing share of the work force over the last decade.\nHowever, not all recent law graduates work as lawyers. According to Simkovic and McIntyre's study of U.S. Census Bureau data, around 40 percent of U.S. residents with law degrees do not practice law.[28] Law graduates are disproportionately represented in leadership positions in business and government.[28] The National Association for Legal Career Professionals produces an annual report summarizing the employment of recent graduates of U.S. law schools at a single point in time, 9 months of graduation. Employment at that point is typically around 90 percent, although from 2009 to 2011, the numbers have been lower, at around 86 to 88 percent.[35] Approximately 2 percent of graduates were employed in non-professional jobs.[35] Approximately 75 to 85 percent work in jobs classified by NALP as \"JD required\" or \"JD preferred\", and another 5 percent work in other professional jobs.[35] However, a law degree increases earnings, even including those who do not practice law.[28]\nPostgraduate and professional studyEdit\nSome schools offer a Master of Laws (LL.M.) program as a way of specializing in a particular area of law. A further possible degree is the academic doctoral degree in law of Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) (in the U.S or Canada)., or the Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) in Canada or the UK, or the Ph.D. in Law from European or Australasian universities.\nIn addition to attending law school, many jurisdictions require law school graduates to pass a state or provincial bar examination before they may practice law. The Multistate Bar Examination is part of the bar examination in almost all United States jurisdictions. Generally, the standardized, common law subject matter of the MBE is combined with state-specific essay questions to produce a comprehensive bar examination.\nIn other common law countries the bar exam is often replaced by a period of work with a law firm known as articles of clerkship.[citation needed]\nAlternative legal education systemsEdit\nUK and EuropeEdit\nWhile law schools in the U.S. and Canada are typically post-graduate institutions with considerable autonomy, legal education in other countries is provided within the mainstream educational system from university level and/or in non-degree conferring vocational training institutions.\nIn countries such as the United Kingdom and most of continental Europe, academic legal education is provided within the mainstream university system starting at the undergraduate level, and the legal departments of universities are simply departments like any other rather than separate \"law schools\". In these countries, the term \"law school\" may be used, but it does not have the same definition as it does in North America. The same is true for private Law Schools, e.g. in Germany two private law schools have been established, Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and EBS Law School in Wiesbaden which are termed law schools but follow the usual German path of legal education.\nThere are also sometimes legal colleges that provide vocational training as a post-academic stage of legal education. One example is the University of Law in the United Kingdom, which provides certain professional qualifications lawyers in England and Wales must obtain before they may practice as solicitors or barristers.\nIn Australia, law schools such as the Melbourne Law School, the Adelaide Law School, and the Sydney Law School have emphasised a combination of the British and American systems. However, other universities such as the University of New South Wales, the Australian National University and Monash University are known for their practical work.[36]\nList of law schoolsEdit\nMain article: Lists of law schools\n^ portal.mec.gov.br/cne/arquivos/pdf/rces09_04.pdf\n^ Brasil, Portal. \"Saiba como \u00e9 a divis\u00e3o do sistema de educa\u00e7\u00e3o brasileiro\". Governo do Brasil. Archived from the original on 2016-05-13.\n^ \"OAB - Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil - Conselho Federal\". oab.org.br.\n^ Capes, Coordena\u00e7\u00e3o de Comunica\u00e7\u00e3o Social da. \"Legisla\u00e7\u00e3o espec\u00edfica\". www.capes.gov.br. Archived from the original on 2016-05-04.\n^ The practice of law in Canada Archived 2009-01-31 at the Wayback Machine. FLSC. Accessed September 16, 2008\n^ University of British Columbia. Requirements for Graduation and Evaluation of Work (LL.B.). Accessed June 28, 2008\n^ Canadian law school concentrations, certificates and joint-degree programs \"Archived copy\". Archived from the original on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2017-04-17. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link).\n^ Where Law and Pedagogy Meet in the Transsystemic Contracts Classroom \"Archived copy\". Archived from the original on 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2016-05-08. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link). Accessed April 26, 2013.\n^ Law Society of British Columbia PLTC \"Archived copy\". Archived from the original on 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2009-01-04. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link).\n^ \"Law Society of Upper Canada Law Licensing Process\". Archived from the original on 2009-01-10.\n^ University of British Columbia Board of Governors approves request for LL.B to be renamed J.D. [1].\n^ University of Toronto. law Archived 2009-01-23 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed April 7, 2008. Queens University. Memorandum, Law Students Society[dead link]. Accessed April 7, 2008.\n^ University of Toronto. Faculty of Law: Prospective Students Archived 2011-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed April 7, 2008.\n^ NYU/Osgoode Joint LL.B/J.D. \"Archived copy\". Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-06-19. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link).\n^ University of Windsor / University of Detroit. J.D./LL.B. Program Archived 2008-02-16 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed June 1, 2008.\n^ Michigan State University School of Law and the University of Ottawa. Joint J.D. \u2013 LL.B. Degree Program Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed June 1, 2008.\n^ \"Advocates Act, 1961\" (PDF). Bar Council of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-08-19. Retrieved 2009-06-10.\n^ a b Major Legal Systems in the World Today: An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Law, by Ren\u00e9 David, John E. C. Brierley, Contributor Ren\u00e9 David, John E. C. Brierley, Edition: 2, (Published by Simon and Schuster, 1978)ISBN 0029076102, ISBN 978-0-02-907610-1 [2]\n^ Assembly okays shift to law schools from state bar exam Archived 2007-10-22 at the Wayback Machine, The Hankyoreh, Retrieved on July 4, 2007\n^ Korean Law School List Announced Archived 2011-07-30 at Wikiwix, Korean Law Blog, January 31, 2008\n^ \"SRI LANKA LAW COLLEGE\". Archived from the original on 2010-08-29.\n^ a b Chang-fa Lo, Driving an Ox Cart to Catch Up With the Space Shuttle: The Need For and Prospects of Legal Education Reform in Taiwan, 24 Wis. Int'l L.J. 41 (2006).\n^ a b \"Laws & Regulations Database and The Republic of China\". law.moj.gov.tw.\n^ Kitroeff, Natalie (24 February 2015). \"The First Two Law Schools to Drop the LSAT Could Be Just the Beginning\". Bloomberg Business. Archived from the original on 7 August 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.\n^ a b \"Admissions and Student Services\" (PDF). American Bar Association. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.\n^ \"Law School Links\". www.lsac.org. Archived from the original on 2011-09-18.\n^ \"Statistics\". NCBE. Archived from the original on 2013-04-23. Retrieved 2013-04-10.\n^ a b c d Simkovic, Michael; McIntyre, Frank (13 April 2013). \"The Economic Value of a Law Degree\" \u2013 via papers.ssrn.com.\n^ Solomon, Steven Davidoff. \"Debating, Yet Again, the Worth of Law School\". Archived from the original on 2017-07-09.\n^ Matthews, Dylan (18 July 2013). \"Ignore the haters. Law school is totally worth the cash\". Archived from the original on 23 August 2017.\n^ Weissmann, Jordan. \"Is Law School a Good Deal After All?\". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20.\n^ \"Brian Leiter's Law School Reports\". leiterlawschool.typepad.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-02.\n^ \"Lawyers\". www.bls.gov. Archived from the original on 2006-05-07.\n^ \"Who's Got the Biggest Salary?\". 30 July 2012. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014.\n^ a b c \"NALP - National Association for Law Placement - Class of 2011 Has Lowest Employment Rate Since Class of 1994\". www.nalp.org. Archived from the original on 2015-04-13.\n^ For a discussion on the practical training in Australian law schools see Margaret Castles and Anne Hewitt 'Can a law school help develop skilled legal professionals' (2011) ALTERNATIVE LAW JOURNAL; 36 (2) 2011: 90\u201395. \"Archived copy\". Archived from the original on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2011-10-01. CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)(subscription required)\nDuncan Kennedy: Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, New Edition, New York Univ Press, 2004, ISBN 0-8147-4778-7\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Law_school&oldid=877129805\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 31173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 141.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wahooart.com/@@/8YE8LX-John-Singleton-Copley-Watson-and-the-Shark", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:41Z", "digest": "sha1:B5IRJHMEKWB25A6QMZTBGQ5QR72AWEZU", "length": 4402, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "en.wahooart.com", "title": "Watson and the Shark, 1778 by John Singleton Copley (1738-1815, United Kingdom) | Oil Painting | WahooArt.com", "raw_content": "Painting Copy Watson And The Shark - 1778 By John Singleton Copley , Artworks\n\"Watson and the Shark\"\nJohn Singleton Copley - Oil On Canvas - 182 x 230 cm - 1778 - (National Gallery of Art (Washington, United States))\nCopley and Brook Watson became friends after the American artist arrived in London in 1774. Watson commissioned him to create a painting of the 1749 event, and Copley produced three versions. It was the first of a series of large-scale historical paintings that Copley would concentrate on after settling in London. The painting is romanticised: the gory detail of the injury is hidden beneath the waves, though there is a hint of blood in the water. The figure of Watson is based on the statue of the \"Borghese Gladiator\", by Agasias of Ephesus, in the Louvre. Other apparent influences are Renaissance art, and the ancient statue of Laoco\u00f6n and his Sons, which Copley may have seen in Rome. Copley was probably also influenced by Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe, and the growing popularity of romantic painting.\nThe composition of the rescuers in the boat shows hints of Peter Paul Rubens's Jonah Thrown into the Sea, and both Rubens's Miraculous Draught of Fishes and Raphael's painting of the same name. 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Unlike Eurocities and United Cities and Local Governments it is wholly independent of any city.[2]\nCity Mayors has instituted a Code of Ethics for city leaders who wish to perform their duties beyond all reproach. Preamble from the Code: \"Good and honest local government is the foundation of any nation that strives to provide its citizens with happiness, security and prosperity. Incompetence, corruption and misconduct in local government threaten fundamental decency in a society.\"[3] The foundation also publishes books as an imprint on urban affairs.\nThe City Mayors Foundation commissions the trophy presented as the World Mayor Award. The trophy was designed by artist Manuel Ferrari and is handmade out of steel by the metalworker Kaspar Swankey.[4]\nThe City Mayors Foundation was set up in 2003 by Tann vom Hove (UK/Germany), Ruth Maguire (UK), Guy Kervella (UK/France), Nick Swift (Canada) and Josh Fecht (USA). In 2004 Andrew Stevens (UK), Mayraj Fahim (USA), Tony Favro (USA) and Adriana Maciel (Mexico) joined City Mayors.[2]\n^ Newing, Rod (18 May 2010). \"Funding and social capital are key factors in financing regeneration\". FT.com. Retrieved 28 June 2012.\n^ a b \"City Mayors: About City Mayors\". citymayors.com. 2012. Retrieved 8 March 2012.\n^ \"City Mayors: Code of Ethics\". citymayors.com. Retrieved 8 March 2012.\n^ \"Kaspar Swankey\". swankeypankey.com. 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Moriarty played Halleck in the Dune miniseries (2000)\nGurney Halleck is a fictional character in the Dune universe created by Frank Herbert. He is a major character in Herbert's Dune (1965) and Children of Dune (1976), and appears in some of the prequel and sequel novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.\nGurney is portrayed by Patrick Stewart in the 1984 David Lynch film Dune. P. H. Moriarty played the role in the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel TV miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and its 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. The character will be played by Josh Brolin in the upcoming Denis Villeneuve film Dune.\n2.1 Dune novels\n2.2 Prequels and sequels\nHalleck is a talented minstrel skilled in the use of the baliset. His jawline bears a scar from an inkvine whip wound inflicted by Glossu Rabban in the Harkonnen slave pits. A loyal friend to Duke Leto Atreides and his concubine Lady Jessica, many years after Leto's death it is suggested in Children of Dune that Gurney and Jessica have become lovers.[2] Paul Atreides refers to him as \"Gurney the valorous\" in Dune, and Duke Leto comments that Paul has named Gurney well.\nDune novels[edit]\nHalleck is Paul Atreides' weapons teacher, as well as a skilled musician. He is a chief officer of Duke Leto Atreides, and serves alongside Duncan Idaho as a Swordmaster of the Atreides Household. According to Dune, Gurney was trained by \"the best fighters in the universe\", and alongside Idaho and Thufir Hawat gave Duke Leto a war council almost unparalleled in the Imperium. He manages to survive the fall of House Atreides on Arrakis with 73 men. In the years after the attack, he falls in with the melange smugglers, eventually becoming a powerful figure. His smugglers fall for a Fremen trap \u2014 a fake hoard of spice \u2014 and are almost killed before Paul, now the Fremen leader \"Muad'Dib\", recognizes him. Halleck later becomes Jessica's loyal chief officer after nearly killing her, mistakenly believing she betrayed Duke Leto. In the later novels it is implied that the two become lovers, although this is never confirmed.\nIn Children of Dune, Gurney returns to Arrakis with Jessica from Caladan. He coordinates a purging of dissidents along with Stilgar, an operation that he kept secret. He goes to the sietch Jacurutu under what he believes are Jessica's orders to test that Leto II has not fallen to Abomination. When the Fremen Namri reveals that the testing was ordered by Alia, he kills the man and escapes, sending a message to Duncan Idaho to set off the course of events that will force Stilgar to act. He goes to Tuek's Sietch, where he takes temporary shelter with a new batch of smugglers before stealing an ornithopter. With it, he escapes to a rebel sietch, where Leto II and The Preacher arrive. Leto II takes him to Shuloch. After Leto II returns to Arrakeen and takes the throne, Gurney is assigned to Sietch Tabr as part of Stilgar's Council.\nPrequels and sequels[edit]\nGurney has more recently been explored in the Prelude to Dune prequels (1999\u20132001) written by Brian Herbert, Frank Herbert's son, and Kevin J. Anderson.\nAccording to the prequels, Gurney Halleck was born on Giedi Prime, the homeworld of House Harkonnen. After an incident with the local militia and the murder of his sister, he escaped Giedi Prime and aligned himself with the rogue House Vernius. Eventually, after a string of conflicts and the death of Earl Dominic Vernius, Gurney Halleck arrived at the Atreides homeworld of Caladan seeking the exiled Prince Rhombur Vernius. After helping reclaim the planet Ix for House Vernius, Halleck served House Atreides, eventually becoming Paul Atreides' weapons teacher.\nIn Chapterhouse: Dune (1985) it is revealed that the Tleilaxu Master Scytale possesses a hidden nullentropy capsule containing cells carefully and secretly collected by the Tleilaxu for millennia, including the cells of Paul Atreides, Duke Leto, Jessica, and Gurney. A ghola of Gurney is \"conceived\" in Sandworms of Dune (2007), a sequel to the original Frank Herbert series written by Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, but is killed during gestation in an act of sabotage.\nGurney is portrayed by Patrick Stewart in the 1984 David Lynch film Dune.[3] P. H. Moriarty played the role in the 2000 Sci-Fi Channel TV miniseries Frank Herbert's Dune and its 2003 sequel, Frank Herbert's Children of Dune. The character will be played by Josh Brolin in the upcoming Denis Villeneuve film Dune.[4]\n^ The Brian Herbert/Kevin J. Anderson prequels give Gurney's sister the name Beth.\n^ Gurney's later involvement with Lady Jessica is inferred in Children of Dune as Alia notes, \"Gurney Halleck would be with [Jessica] ... Some said he'd become her mother's lover.\"\n^ Maslin, Janet (December 14, 1984). \"Movie Review: Dune (1984)\". The New York Times. Retrieved February 13, 2019.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gurney_Halleck&oldid=883376519\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 8422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holding", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:EPJZR5KAI6VCBAPOZBX5SVCETZZ3K4XW", "length": 774, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Holding - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Look up holding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.\nHolding may refer to:\nHolding (law), the central determination in a judicial opinion\nHolding (aeronautics), a maneuvre in aviation\nHolding (surname)\nHolding company, a company that owns stock in other companies\nHolding (American football), a common penalty in American football\nThe Miroslav Holding Co., 2001 Croatian film also released as Holding\n\"Holding\", an episode of the American animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head\nAll pages beginning with Holding\nAll pages with a title containing Holding\nHold (disambiguation)\n\"Holdin',\" a song by Diamond Rio\nThis disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Holding.\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Holding&oldid=818268924\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2353, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 142.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Railways", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:13Z", "digest": "sha1:Q2KCJ7HFHLVQWJPEKKF34JIPM7XRCKDZ", "length": 24085, "nlines": 208, "source_domain": "en.wikipedia.org", "title": "Islamic Republic of Iran Railways - Wikipedia", "raw_content": "Islamic Republic of Iran Railways\nRailway of Islamic Republic of Iran\nIran railway 2014\nRahahane Jomhorie Eslamiye Iran\nMajor operators\nRAI, Tooka rail, Samand rail,\nPassenger km\n31 million tonnes\n12,998 kilometres (8,077 mi)\nNo. tunnels\nLongest tunnel\nNo. bridges\nNo. stations\nThe Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (abbreviated IRIR or sometimes RAI) (Persian: R\u0101h\u0101hane Jomhuriye Eslamiye Ir\u0101n) is the national state-owned railway system of Iran. The Raja Passenger Train Company is an associate of the IR,[1] and manages its passenger trains. The Railway Transportation Company is an associate of the IR to manage its freight transport. The Ministry of Roads & Urban Development (Iran) is the state agency that oversees the IRIR. Some 33 million tons of goods and 29 million passengers are transported annually by the rail transportation network, accounting for 9 percent and 11 percent of the whole transportations in Iran (2011).[2]\n1.1.1 During Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran\n1.2 Challenging construction\n1.3 Railway construction\n4 Affiliate companies\n5 Network and corridors\n5.1 North-South Railway\n5.2 Links to Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia\n5.3 Links to Central Asia\n5.4 Links to Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan\n5.5 Link to Turkey, and International Standard Gauge route to Europe\n5.6 Link to Pakistan\n5.7 International railway links with neighboring countries\n6 Railway electrification\n7 Commuter Railway services\n8 High-speed rail\nIn 1887, during the time of Nasser-al-Din Shah, an 8.7 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3\u20448 in) metre gauge horse-driven suburban railway was established south of Tehran, that was later converted to steam. This line was closed in 1952.\nThe Tabriz\u2013Jolfa line (146 km) was built in 1914, the Sufiyan\u2013Sharafkhaneh (53 km) in 1916, and the Mirjaveh\u2013Zahedan (93 km) in 1920.\nThe 1,392 km (865 mi) long Trans-Iranian Railway from Bandar Torkaman on the Caspian Sea to Bandar Shahpur on the Persian Gulf was opened during the reign of Reza Shah Pahlavi in 1939. The railroad was built with rail weighing 33 kilograms per metre (67 lb/yd) and required more than 3000 bridges. There were 126 tunnels in the Zagros mountains, the longest being 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi). Grades averaged 1.5 percent south of Tehran, but then increased to 2.8 percent to cross the 2,220-metre (7,270 ft) pass between Tehran and the Caspian Sea.\nDuring Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran[edit]\nAfter the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran in 1941, this Persian Corridor became one of the supply routes for war material for the Soviet Union during World War II, (Railway trend in Iran). The invading British built a 121-kilometre (75 mi) branch line from the 2,953-foot (900 m) bridge over the Karun River in Ahvaz to a new southern port at Khorramshahr on the Arvand Rud river. In 1943 3,473 American soldiers of the Military Railway Service began running trains between the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea using ALCO RS-1 locomotives rebuilt with 3-axle trucks and designated RSD-1.[3] The Americans set up headquarters in Ahvaz, but were unable (wrong) to tolerate the daytime heat, and generally operated the railway at night.[4] The Persian Gulf Command ran trains day and night. [5]\nChallenging construction[edit]\nSee also: Construction in Iran\nThe Trans-Iranian railway traverses many mountain ranges, and is full of spirals and 1 in 36 (2.78%) ruling grades. Much of the terrain was unmapped when construction took place, and its geology unknown. Several stretches of line, including tunnels, were built through unsuitable geology, and had to be replaced even before the line opened. Nevertheless, the line was completed ahead of schedule.\nIn recent years the railways have undergone significant extensions including the 1977 linking to the western railway system at the Turkish border, the 1993 opening of the Bandar Abbas line providing better access to the sea, and the 1996 opening of the Mashad\u2013Sarakhs extension as part of the Silk Road railway to link to the landlocked Central Asian Countries.\nRailway construction[edit]\nFollowing the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran, American and British railroad crews pose alongside a locomotive, ca. 1943\nA railway bridge at Do Ab, Mazanderan Province on the Gorgan \u2014 Bandar Shah line, 2007\nIn December 2014, a rail line from Iran opened to Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. The opening of the line marks the first direct rail link between Iran, Kazakhstan and China and upon completion of the Marmaray rail project direct rail transport between China and Europe (while avoiding Russia) will be possible.[6][7]\nRoute Length in km Date of Construction\nTabriz \u2014 Jolfa 148 1912\u20141916\nZahedan \u2014 Mirjaveh 94 1920\u20141921\nTehran \u2014 Bandar Shah 461 1928\u20141938\nTehran \u2014 Bandar Shahpur 928 1928\u20141939\nAhvaz \u2014 Khorramshahr 121 1942\u20141943\nSar Bandar \u2014 Mahshahr 12 1950\u20141951\nGarmsar \u2014 Mashhad 812 1938\u20141958\nTehran \u2014 Tabriz 736 1939\u20141959\nGorgan \u2014 Bandar Shah 35 1960\u20141961\nTabriz \u2014 Bazargan 192 1912\u20141971\nQom \u2014 Zarand 847 1939\u20141971\nIsfahan \u2014 Zarrin Shahr 111 1969\u20141972\nZarand \u2014 Kerman 80 1975\u20141979\nBafq \u2014 Bandar-Abbas 626 1982\u20141995\nMashhad \u2014 Sarakhs 165 1993\u20141997\nArpin \u2014 Maleki 24 1993\u20141997\nBadrud \u2014 Meibod 254 1996\u20141998\nArpin \u2014 Mohammediya-2 122 1994\u20141999\nChadormalu \u2014 Meibod 219 1992\u20141999\nMohammediya-2 \u2014 Mohammediya-1 6 1994\u20141999\nBafq \u2014 Kashmar 800 1992\u20142001\nKerman \u2014 Bam 225 1999\u20142002\nBam \u2014 Zahedan 546 2000\u20142009\nIsfahan \u2014 Shiraz 506 2001\u20142009\nKhorramshahr \u2014 Shalamcheh 16 2009\u20142012[8]\nGorgan \u2014 Incheh Borun 80 2012\u20142013[9]\nTehran \u2014 Hamedan 268 2001\u20142017[10]\nArak \u2014 Kermanshah 267 2001\u20142018[11]\nMain article: List of stock used by railways in Iran\nPassengers on board a train from Yazd to Tehran watch movies and sleep, 2014\nIran Railways use a variety of rolling stock for their services. Trains are operated with diesel and electric locomotives. Steam locomotives have been phased out.\nDiesel is a strategic industry, and by using this heavy oil as a fuel instead of gas for locomotives, the Islamic Republic of Iran has joined the 12 world countries which manufacture this type of engine.[12]\nSee also: Transport in Iran\nIn 2008, the IR operated 11,106 km of rail with a further 18,900 km in various stages of development.[13] Almost all of this is standard gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1\u20442 in), but 94 km are Russian gauge of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27\u204432 in) to link up to ex-Soviet Union border states. There is also the no-longer-isolated Indian gauge section of 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) from Zahedan to the Pakistan border that continues to Quetta and the Indian sub-continent. The extent of double-track lines is 1,082 km. The Jolfa\u2013Tabriz line is electrified (148 km). In 2006, IR reported that it possessed 565 engines, 1,192 passenger coaches, and 16,330 wagons. The vast majority of the engines are diesel-powered.\nSiemens trains being unloaded in Shahid Rajai Port, Iran\nThe majority of transportation in Iran is road-based. The government plans to transport 3.5% of the passenger volume and 8.5% of the freight volume by rail. Extensive electrification is planned. The railway network expands by about 500 km per year according to the Ministry of R&T. According to plan, Iran\u2019s railway lines are to reach 15,000 kilometers by 2015 and 25,000 kilometers by the year 2025.[14][15]\nThe State Railways Company has 300 locomotives with an average lifespan of 40 years.[16] The Islamic Republic of Iran Railways, the Iran Power Plant Projects Management (Mapna) and Germany's Siemens have signed a contract for 150 IranRunner locomotives for passenger trains. Siemens is committed to exporting to Iran some 30 locomotives in the first phase and manufacture another 120 using domestic capacities and expertise over the next six years (2007). MLC (Mapna Locomotive Engineering and Manufacturing Company) is the manufacturing company responsible for this production. Another locomotive manufacturer in Iran is Wagon Pars which builds AD43C locomotives in partnership with Iranian power plant maker DESA diesel.[17]\nIn 2009, \u20ac17 billion in foreign investment in rail industry have been secured, according to the Ministry of Road and Transportation of Iran.[18]\nAffiliate companies[edit]\nShiraz train station\nRaja Passenger Train Company is an associate of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (IRIR) and manages its passenger trains, including international trains linking Tehran to Istanbul and Damascus. Raja Passenger Train Company carried more than 4 million passengers during 2003-05. The number of passengers traveling by rail increased from 11.7 million in 2000 to 17.3 million in the year ending March 2005. Every passenger wagon annually carries 7,340 passengers per kilometer on average (whereas the figure is 3,950 people per kilometer in Turkey and 5,220 passengers per kilometer in Egypt). Private enterprises are expected to operate 5,000 wagons by 2009 (50% of total).[16]\nRailway Transportation Company is also a subsidiary of the IRIR to manage its freight transport while the Ministry of Roads and Transportation is the state agency that oversees the IRIR. In Iran, for every wagon, some 1,050 tons of freight are being transported (2008).[16] The cargo rail system between Iran, Turkey and Pakistan will begin regular operations by August 2010.[19]\nZarand Company provides the national railroad system with freight and passenger train carriages.[20]\nNetwork and corridors[edit]\nThe railway network converges on Tehran. The Iranian cities of Isfahan and Shiraz were linked to Tehran in 2009. Further extension of this line to Bushehr and Bandar Abbas is planned. Furthermore, the construction of Chabahar-Zahedan-Mashhad railway, extending from southeast to northeast of the country to the length of 1,350 kilometers, started in 2010 with 3 billion euro credit.[21]\nThe western railway extension links to Turkey at the R\u0101z\u012b\u2013Kap\u0131k\u00f6y border. A northern connection to Azerbaijan, the Caucasus, and Russia has a bogie-changing station at the border at Jolfa. The southern routes connect Tehran to the Persian Gulf ports of Bandar Imam and Bandar Abbas. A line to the Caspian Sea ends at the terminal of Amir Abad and at Bandar Torkaman, and is part of a North-South corridor to Russia and Scandinavia. The north-east corridor connects Mashad and continues further to the bogie-changing station at Sarakh. For the landlocked countries of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan; this line provides access to the sea. A recent connection from Mashad to Bafq has significantly shortened access to the port city of Bandar Abbas.\nTehran-Mashhad with a length of 900 kilometers, Tehran-Qom-Esfahan with a length of 410 kilometers, Qazvin-Rasht-Anzali-Astara with a length of 370 kilometers will all be built with help from China at a cost of $12 billion.[22] In total, Iran has signed a number of contracts with China for the development of 5,000 kilometres of railway lines.[15]\nNorth-South Railway[edit]\nThe North-South railway is complete between Qazvin and Bandar Abbas; the line was expected to be completed as far as Azerbaijan by the end of 2016.[23] Qazvin to Astara is the missing link in North South Transportation Corridor, which links India, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia and Finland. Qazvin Rasht railway completes in 2017 and Rasht Astara railway needs another four years to be completed.[24]\nLinks to Republic of Azerbaijan and Armenia[edit]\nIran's first rail link to the outside world appeared simultaneously with the beginning of the country's railway system, as Iran's first major railway (1916) connected Tabriz with Jolfa on the border with the Russian Empire. The link continued its importance throughout the USSR era; Iran and the USSR signed an agreement on cross-border rail transport in 1940, and amended it in 1958.[25] It is reported that during the late-Soviet era, some 350 railcars crossed the border at Jolfa daily, with the annual amount of cross-border freight reaching 3.5 million tons.[26]\nHowever, after the break-up of the USSR and the closing of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan the Jolfa connection became a dead end, as it only links Iran with the isolated Nakhichevan exclave of the Republic of Azerbaijan.[27]\nIn 2007, Iranian Railways, Azerbaijan State Railway and Russian Railways agreed on implementing the project to build a new line between Qazvin, Resht, Astara, Iran and Astara, Azerbaijan.\nIn April 2017, Russian and India celebrated 70 years of diplomatic relations and vowed to complete the North South Transportation Corridor (NSTC) with the help of Iran. the NSTC reduces time and cost of travel by 30-40 %.[28][better source needed]\nThere is presently no direct railway connection between Iran and Armenia, even though the two countries share a border. In 2009, Iran and Armenia agreed to build a railway linking Armenia with Iran\u2019s Persian Gulf ports.[29]\nLinks to Central Asia[edit]\nIn 1996, Mashhad\u2013Sarakhs extension connected Iran to Turkmenistan, as part of the Silk Road railway to link to the landlocked Central Asian Countries.\nFormer states of the Soviet Union have railways using a 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27\u204432 in) Russian gauge, thus the Iranian Railways maintain break-of-gauge services at borders to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, and beyond brief wide-track rail segments to the border crossing.\nThe Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway link is a part of the North-South Transport Corridor and is a 677 km (421 mi) long railway line connecting the Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan with Iran and the Persian Gulf. It will link Uzen in Kazakhstan with Bereket - Etrek in Turkmenistan and end at Gorgan in Iran's Golestan province. In Iran, the railway will be linked to national network making its way to the ports of the Persian Gulf. The project is estimated to cost $620m which is being jointly funded by the governments of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran.[30]\nLinks to Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan[edit]\nIran extends its railway system to Iraq and Syria(01-2007)\nFeasibility studies were started on Khorramshahr\u2013Basra and Kermanshah-Baghdad links with Iraq,[31] As of 2014[update] the Iranian line to Khorramshahr[32] was finished, but construction had not started on the track from the Iraqi border to Basra.\nIn 2017, the West Corridor was expanded from Arak to Malayer and Kermanshah. The Iranian government eyes on expanding the network further to Khosravi (Iran-Iraq) border by 2018.[33]\nA Afghanistan-Mashhad-Khvaf-Islam Qala railway is being constructed by an Iranian firm, with funding from the Afghan government, but the section in Afghanistan remains incomplete.[33][34][35]\nLink to Turkey, and International Standard Gauge route to Europe[edit]\nIn 1977, the Iranian railways linked to the western railway system at the Turkish border.\nThe route to the west into Turkey terminates at Van with a 90 km (56 mi) train ferry for both freight wagons and international passenger traffic (baggage car only) across Lake Van, which is at an altitude of 1,650 m (5,413 ft), to Tatvan where it joins the Turkish standard-gauge network.\nLink to Pakistan[edit]\nThe construction of the railway from Bam to Zahedan was completed in early 2009 connecting Tehran to Pakistan border with an opening ceremony on 19 July 2009.[36] However international container traffic commenced operations on 14 August 2009 with transshipment (or transloading) between 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) and 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1\u20442 in) standard gauge wagons in the nGulf, Western Texas and Pacific Railwayew Zahedan Exchange Yard on the bypass line.[37] The freight traffic was discontinued however after the initial trial trains and was only revived in 2015.[38]\nIranian Railways have been trying to persuade Pakistan Railways to convert its route to Quetta to standard gauge, in order to facilitate the flow of international traffic to Europe. Pakistan responded in 2006 with a statement that it is to convert its network to standard gauge, and would plan a link with the standard gauge system of China.\nA through passenger service is being considered[37][39] to supplement the occasional Quetta-Zahedan service, itself a poor shadow of the former Pakistan-Iran 'Taftan Express'.\nInternational railway links with neighboring countries[edit]\nAfghanistan - no link - break-of-gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27\u204432 in) - railway link to Afghanistan is being built using 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1\u20442 in) standard gauge.\nArmenia - no link - break-of-gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27\u204432 in).\nAzerbaijan - open - break-of-gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27\u204432 in) - only via the Azerbaijani exclave Nakhchivan, railway link to Azerbaijan proper is being built.\nIraq - no link - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1\u20442 in) standard gauge.\nPakistan - open - break-of-gauge 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in).\nTurkey - open - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1\u20442 in) standard gauge.\nTurkmenistan - open - break-of-gauge. 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 27\u204432 in).\nRailway electrification[edit]\nMain article: Railway electrification in Iran\nAlthough railway electrification in Iran was started in 1975, it was stopped for almost 30 years. A contract for electrification of the Tehran-Mashhad double-track line and the supply of 70 electric locomotives was awarded in 2009.[40] Speeds of up to 200 km/h for locomotive-hauled passenger trains and 250 km/h for tilting EMUs are expected to reduce existing journey times of 7.5 to 12 to less than 5 hours.\nAs recently as July 2017 the Iranian Government has completed a loan agreement for the Tehran \u2013 Mashhad electrification project. Works on this project are expected to begin shortly.\nCommuter Railway services[edit]\nLocal Rail, also referred to Suburban Rail or Commuter rail when originating from a large city and covering its suburbs, is a class of rail services, using railbus-type trains, running a distance of about 50 km to 200 km, and serving all stations.[41] Currently[when?] there are the following services:\nTehran-Parand\nTehran-Jamkaran\nTehran-Qom\nTehran-Pishva\nTehran-Hashtgerd-Qazvin\nTabriz-Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University\nTabriz-Jolfa\nTabriz-Maragheh\nTabriz-Salmas (Once every two weeks)\nAhvaz (Karun Station)-Sarbandar\nAhvaz (Karun Station)-Bandar-e Mahshahr\nAhvaz (Ahvaz Station)-Khorramshahr\nAhvaz (Ahvaz Station)-Andimeshk\nAndimeshk-Dorud\nDorud-Cham Sangar\nMashhad-Binalud-Neishabur\nMashhad-Sarakhs\nMazandaran-Golestan (Shomal Division)\nTehran-Firuzkuh\nGorgan-Pol-e Sefid\nGorgan-Incheh Borun\nMain article: Tehran-Qom-Isfahan High Speed Rail\nSiemens DMUs capable of traveling at 200kph manufactured in Iran, 2007\nCurrently there is one high speed railway line under construction between Tehran and Isfahan passing through Qom. The length of the line is 410 km and the expected opening date was 2018.[42]\nIranian railway industry\nRah Ahan FC\nRailway stations in Iran\nDESA diesel\nNorth\u2013South Transport Corridor\nAshgabat agreement, a Multimodal transport agreement signed by India, Oman, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, for creating an international transport and transit corridor facilitating transportation of goods between Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.[43]\n\u0634\u0631\u06a9\u062a \u0642\u0637\u0627\u0631\u200c\u0647\u0627\u06cc \u0645\u0633\u0627\u0641\u0631\u0628\u0631\u06cc \u0631\u062c\u0627 [Raja Passenger Trains Company], www.raja.ir (in Persian and English) , company website\n\"News Archive\", www.msedv.com, RAJA Passenger Trains Operating Company, Passenger Trains Operating Company, RAJA, is a joint stock company affiliated to Islamic Republic of Iran's Railway Company (RAI). It was established in October 1996 as a part of RAI restructuring process, aimed at separating passenger and freight train operations management from infrastructure maintenance and development.\n^ Pinkepank, Jerry A. 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He then committed suicide. The attack occurred as the officers were executing a search warrant for stolen property and a marijuana grow-op on the farm. Two other individuals, Shawn Hennessey and Dennis Cheeseman, later pled guilty to manslaughter for assisting Roszko.\nThis was the worst one-day loss of life for the RCMP[1] since five officers drowned on June 7, 1958, and the worst multiple-officer killing in contemporary Canadian history.[2]\n1 The Tragedy\n1.1 Initial contact with Roszko\n1.2 Search of the property\n1.3 Roszko returns\n1.4 The shooting\n2 The Fallen Four\n2.1 Anthony Gordon\n2.2 Leo Johnston\n2.3 Brock Myrol\n2.4 Peter Schiemann\n3 Post-shooting investigation\n3.1 Roszko's movements\n3.2 Search of Roszko's property\n3.3 The weapons\n3.4 Cell phone records\n3.5 Undercover investigation\n4 Charges against Hennessey and Cheeseman\n4.1 Murder charges\n4.2 Manslaughter sentences\n5.2 Media commentary\n5.3 Alberta Fatalities Inquiry\n5.4 Upgrade to RCMP weapons\nThe Tragedy[edit]\nInitial contact with Roszko[edit]\nOn the afternoon of March 2, 2005, two civil bailiffs went to the farm owned by James Roszko to repossess a truck which Roszko had purchased, but on which he had not made any payments. They arrived around 3:00 pm. There was a metal gate blocking the road into the farmyard. When Roszko saw the baillifs, he released two large aggressive Rottweilers. The bailiffs decided they should call the RCMP. The officer who responded to the phone call warned them not to go onto the property until the RCMP arrived. Roszko had a criminal record with violent and sexual offences, and was subject to a firearms possession prohibition. He was known to the members of the Meyerthorpe RCMP Detachment.[3]\nRoszko swore at the bailiffs and drove off in a truck. The bailiffs thought it may have been the truck they were to seize, but were not sure.[4]\nShortly after Roszko drove off, three Mounties arrived, including Constable Peter Schiemann. The bailiffs had the legal authority to search the farm for the truck, since they were not sure if the truck Roszko was using was the truck that they had instructions to seize. Acting under that authority, the bailiffs broke open the gate. The Mounties confined the dogs in a shed. The group then went to the quonset in the farmyard. They found numerous vehicle parts, indicating a stolen vehicle chop shop, and a marijuana grow-op. The Mounties realised that they would need a search warrant before proceeding any further. They left the quonset at approximately 4:15 pm and called in the truck as stolen, warning that other officers should be on the lookout for Roszko.[4]\nSearch of the property[edit]\nThe senior officer in the group, Corporal James Martin, left to obtain a warrant, leaving two officers to maintain control of the farm. Corporal Martin returned at 8:40 pm with the warrant. Given the expected magnitude of the search, the warrant was valid for twenty-four hours. The Mounties first conducted a security search of the dwelling and the quonset, to ensure that Roszko was not present.[5] While their search confirmed Roszko was not on the farm, the RCMP found a radio scanner tuned to the frequency of the Whitecourt RCMP detachment in Roszko's residence. They also found lists containing intelligence on the local detachments at Mayerthorpe, Whitecourt, Barrhead and Evansburg, including member\u2019s names, car numbers and cell phone numbers. There was also a night vision scope and .308 and 9 mm caliber ammunition, which indicated Roszko was in breach of his firearms prohibition.[6]\nHaving confirmed that Roszko was not present, the Mounties began the search of the quonset. The initial focus was on the search and seizure of the marijuana plants and equipment, conducted by a special \"Green Team\" from the RCMP \"K\" Division in Edmonton. According to documents obtained by the CBC's The Fifth Estate in a court case to have the search warrants made public, police seized seven growing marijuana plants, and 88 harvested plants from the residence, plus a further 192 growing marijuana plants along with growing equipment from the quonset. The marijuana search concluded around 3:00 am on March 3, 2005.[5]\nAll but two Mounties left at that point, with the expectation that an RCMP team which specialised in stolen vehicle searches would arrive in the morning. Constables Anthony Gordon and Leo Johnston remained on the scene until the morning, with no signs of any trouble. As a security measure during the night, the Mounties had parked several marked police vehicles prominently in the farmyard with their lights on. They also left the vehicle doors and man-door of the quonset wide open, with bright halogen lights on inside. The lights were also left on in the dwelling. The purpose was to make it clear that the Mounties were on the scene and investigating, and to deter unauthorised entry.[5]\nRoszko returns[edit]\nAfter he fled the farm, Roszko phoned Shawn Hennessey, who worked in Barrhead and who subsequently admitted that he was associated with Roszko in the grow-op.[7] Roszko wanted to hide his truck on Hennessey's property. Hennessey refused, but he contacted his brother-in-law, Dennis Cheeseman, for help in dealing with Roszko. Roszko went to Hennessey's farm. Hennessey and Cheeseman arrived there separately.[8]\nRoszko was armed with a Beretta hand-gun, and asked for a Winchester rifle that he knew that Hennessey had been given by Hennessey's grandfather. Hennessey got the rifle, chambered in .300 Winchester Magnum, along with ammunition. He wiped it down. Cheeseman got a pillow case and some gloves. He put on the gloves, then put the rifle in the pillowcase and gave it to Roszko. It was clear to all there that Roszko was enraged at the police.[9] He said he was going to go back to his farm to burn down the quonset, with the evidence of the chop shop and grow op. He had decided to hide the truck at his aunt's home, and asked Hennessey and Cheeseman to follow him there, then drive him to his own farm. They agreed to do so.[9] His aunt's house was 38.5 km from Roszko's own farm.[10]\nAfter parking his truck at his aunt's house, Roszko got into the car driven by Hennessey, who drove him back to the area of Roszko's farm. On the way, Roszko continued to rant about the RCMP, saying he would get even with them. Cheeseman later said Roszko's ranting was \"devil talk\".[11]\nRoszko directed them to drive past the road leading to his own farm and go on to the next one. They could see the lights of the police cars at Roszko's farm. Sometime between 1:00 am and 3:00 am on March 3, 2005, Hennessey and Cheeseman dropped Roszko off. He pulled heavy socks over his boots, presumably to hide his tracks in the snow. He grabbed the Hennessey rifle and set off towards his farm and the police.[11]\nAs they were driving away, Cheeseman suggested to Hennessey that they call police. Hennessey disagreed, and no call was made.[12]\nThe shooting[edit]\nOn the morning of March 3, 2005, Constables Anthony Gordon and Leo Johnston were still providing scene security, pending the arrival of the RCMP Auto Theft investigators. In a telephone report at around 9:00 am, Constable Johnson advised Corporal Martin that the night had been uneventful. Corporal Martin decided to send Constable Myrol to the scene to assist with the search by the Auto Theft investigators. Constable Schiemann was not assigned to work at the scene, but agreed to drop off Constable Myrol. They also agreed that they would pick up some meat and a veterinary sedative to feed and calm down the dogs, who had not been fed since they had been put in the shed the day before. The two drove to the Roszko farm, arriving sometime after 9:30 am.[13]\nJust before 10:00 am, Constable Hoogestraat and Constable Vigor of the RCMP Auto Theft investigation unit arrived. They saw the four Mayerthorpe Mounties at the shed, presumably feeding the meat and sedatives to the Rottweilers. As Hoogestraat and Vigor prepared for the search, the four Mayerthorpe Mounties went towards the quonset. The doors to the quonset were still open, as they had been all night.[13]\nUnknown to the Mounties, Roszko was inside the quonset. The subsequent Fatalities Inquiry could not determine when he had returned, but the judge conducting the inquiry concluded that it was unlikely Roszko had entered the quonset much before daylight. He was well-dressed to spend the night outdoors. He had probably approached the quonset hiding under a sheet which the Mounties later found in the quonset, along with a pillowcase and workgloves. The sheet would have masked him against the snow, and the socks over his boots would have muffled his steps.[14]\nThe four Mayerthorpe Mounties entered the quonset. Outside the quonset, Constables Hoogestraat and Vigor heard two loud bangs, followed by several other sounds which they recognized as gunfire. They also heard screaming from within the quonset. Constable Hoogestraat ran to the radio to report \"officers down\". Constable Vigor started to the entrance of the quonset, when Roszko came out. He had a hunting rifle slung on his back, a pistol in his belt and a Heckler & Koch .308 semi-automatic rifle in his hands. He was just casually walking out, then saw Constable Vigor and stopped, apparently surprised that there were more Mounties outside. He quickly recovered and fired two shots at Constable Vigor, who took shelter behind a police vehicle and returned fire with two shots from his sidearm. Both of his shots hit Roszko, who staggered back into the quonset.[13]\nConstable Hoogestraat was unable to make radio contact with the officers in the shed. The RCMP Emergency Response Team was called by 10:13 am and arrived by 11:52 am from Edmonton, which is normally an hour away from Mayerthorpe.[13] An armoured vehicle from the Canadian Forces Edmonton Garrison was called in, but subsequently stood down as not needed.[15] The Emergency Response Team sent in a Remote Mobile Investigator, a robot with a video camera attached, and determined that all four officers and Roszko were all dead.[13].\nThe Fatalities Inquiry later determined that Roszko killed all four officers, who all died almost instantly. Only Constable Johnson was able to return fire with one shot.[14] Roszko then was wounded in the hand and in the thigh by the shots fired by Constable Vigor outside the quonset. The shot to his thigh fractured his femur. After he went back into the quonset, he turned his weapon on himself.[13]\nThe Fallen Four[edit]\nThe police officers killed in the Mayerthorpe tragedy are referred to as \"The Fallen Four\".[16] Constables Johnston, Myrol and Schiemann were based out of the Mayerthorpe RCMP detachment while Constable Gordon was based out of Whitecourt RCMP detachment.\nAnthony Gordon[edit]\nConstable Anthony Gordon, who was born in Edmonton, Alberta and raised in Red Deer, Alberta, became a police officer in October 2002. He was stationed in Whitecourt, 45 km (28 mi) west of Mayerthorpe, where he was assigned to general policing and highway patrol. Constable Gordon was 28 at the time of his death.[17]\nLeo Johnston[edit]\nConstable Lionide \"Leo\" Johnston became a member of the RCMP in 2001. From Owl River, Alberta, he began his career in nearby Lac La Biche, Alberta before being transferred to Mayerthorpe. Constable Johnston was 32 at the time of his death. He was married to his wife, Kelly, on Nov. 13, 2004.[18]\nBrock Myrol[edit]\nConstable Brock Myrol, who was born in Outlook, Saskatchewan and raised in Red Deer. He had just graduated from RCMP Academy, Depot Division and was an officer with the Mayerthorpe RCMP for less than three weeks at the time of the tragedy. Constable Myrol was 29 at the time of his death.[19]\nPeter Schiemann[edit]\nConstable Peter Schiemann became a member of the RCMP in 2000. From Petrolia, Ontario and raised in Stony Plain, Alberta, he began his career in Mayerthorpe and was assigned to general policing and highway patrol. Constable Schiemann was 25 at the time of his death.[20]\nPost-shooting investigation[edit]\nRoszko's movements[edit]\nThe RCMP began an extensive investigation into the shooting, which lasted for two years. They spent more than $2-million investigating the tragedy, with over two hundred officers involved in the case between 2005 and 2007.[21] At the time charges were laid in 2007, there were still forty Mounties working on it.[22]\nIn particular, the Mounties wanted to find out how Roszko returned to his farm. His truck was found at his aunt's residence, 38.5 km from his own farm, suggesting he had received some assistance in returning.[23][24]\nSearch of Roszko's property[edit]\nAs part of the investigation, the RCMP conducted an extensive investigation of the Roszko property after the shootings, including manual searches and also searches by subsurface radar, x-ray, and airborne infrared methods. A backhoe was also used. These search techniques disproved local rumours that Roszko had major caches of drugs and weapons, or that there were tunnels which he had used to enter the quonset.[24]\nThe search found a sheet, a pillowcase containing a pair of workgloves, a small bottle of water and a tin of bearspray in the northeast corner of the quonset. The Fatalities Inquiry concluded that Roszko had likely concealed himself at that spot for some time, but had actually been in the southeast corner of the quonset when he fired the shots.[14] Subsequent DNA analysis found Hennessey's DNA on one of the workgloves.[25]\nThe weapons[edit]\nA Beretta 92 FS, similar to the gun Roszko possessed\nThe Mounties also found several weapons hidden in various spots in the quonset, including an empty gun bag that was the right size to hold the Heckler & Koch .308 semi-automatic rifle, and an empty Beretta pistol case. These two cases, along with a .22 rifle and a shotgun in another case, were all hidden on a ledge and under the plywood roof, accessible only by ladder. The Fatalities Inquiry surmised that the Heckler & Koch rifle had been hidden in this area and retrieved by Roszko after his return, since he did not have it when he was with Hennessey and Cheeseman. The Fatalities Inquiry also concluded that the initial clearing search and then the Green Team search would have been unlikely to have found these weapons.[24] The Mounties also found three additional rifles, in a gun case hidden inside a seed-drill in the quonset: a Husqvarna .308 rifle and two Lee Enfield .303 rifles. There was also a rudimentary pipe bomb which would not have operated, a homemade silencing device, and various amounts of ammunition.[24]\nThe Mounties investigated the sources for each of the guns. The Heckler & Koch semi-automatic had been legally purchased by a person in Mayerthorpe in the early 1980s, who likely sold it to Rozsko. After changes to firearms laws in 1995, the Heckler & Koch rifle was arbitrarly classified as a prohibited firearm. The pistol was a Beretta 92 FS, which was a restricted weapon. Roszko had purchased it in Utah in 1993 and apparently smuggled it into Canada. The .22 rifle and shotgun were legally imported into Canada and were not restricted weapons. The three rifles found hidden in the seed-drill all had been stolen from a location in Barrhead in 1997. Roszko had never had a firearm registered to him.[24]\nThe Mounties also investigated the Winchester hunting rifle. It was registered to Shawn Hennessey's grandfather, John Hennessey.[26][24] When asked how Roszko obtained the rifle, Shawn Hennessey said he had no idea, and that the rifle had been stolen four months before the shooting.[21] Hennessey subsequently admitted that he and his mother had alerted his grandfather that Roszko had the rifle. John Hennessey admitted that he had told his daughter and grandson that they should all \"story\" to the police that the rifle had been stolen from the back of his welding truck.[27]\nCell phone records[edit]\nA cell phone was found on Roszko's body. The police obtained warrants to track his usage of the phone. They found that he had begun to use the cell phone around the time he left his farm on March 2, 2005, continuing to do so until shortly before 1:00 am on March 3, 2005.[24]\nInvestigation into the cell phone usage showed that he had called his mother, who had called his aunt. Interviews with his mother and aunt revealed that he had been seeking permission to hide his truck on his aunt's property.[10]\nThe cell phone records also showed that Roszko phoned Hennessey's place of employment in Barrhead, and then made several calls to a \"bag phone\" which Hennessey had by virtue of his employment. Roszko also made several calls to Hennessey's residence.[8] When information about the cell phone calls became public a year later, in 2006, Hennessey tearfully denied to a reporter for the Globe and Mail that he knew anything about the events, or why Roszko was calling him.[21]\nUndercover investigation[edit]\nMedia accounts suggest that the RCMP conducted an extensive undercover investigation in the two years after the shootings,[28][29] but there are not many details on that aspect of the investigation. It was not mentioned in the subsequent court decisions. One media account suggested that it involved RCMP undercover officers posing as gang members and putting pressure on Cheeseman.[30]\nCharges against Hennessey and Cheeseman[edit]\nMurder charges[edit]\nOn July 9, 2007, Hennessey (then 28 years old), and Cheeseman (then 23 years old), were charged as parties to the offences committed by James Roszko. In 2006, Hennessey had denied any links to the crime.[31][32] The murder charges against Hennessey and Cheeseman were controversial[according to whom?] because neither man was at the crime scene when the shootings took place. Under Canadian criminal law, anyone who is a party to the murder of a police officer acting in the course of their duties can be charged with first degree murder under the Criminal Code.[33] In June, 2008, they were committed to stand trial on the murder charges after a preliminary inquiry in the Provincial Court of Alberta.[34]\nManslaughter sentences[edit]\nOn January 19, 2009, Hennessey and Cheeseman pled guilty to four counts of the lesser charge of manslaughter.[28][29] On January 30, 2009, the Queen's Bench gave its decision on the sentences for the two men, which was based on an Agreed Statement of Facts, signed by Hennessey, Cheeseman, their lawyers and the Crown prosecutors.[35] The Crown was seeking sentences in the range of ten to fifteen years, while the defence counsel argued the sentences should be in the range of three to five years.[30]\nIn his decision, the Queen's Bench judge rejected the defence position and accepted the Crown position. He held that a fit sentence for Hennessey was fifteen years imprisonment, while a fit sentence for Cheeseman was twelve years. The Court gave them credit for their early guilty pleas and for time served awaiting trial, which reduced those initial estimates. He gave Hennesseey a sentence of 10 years plus 4 \u00bd months.[36] He gave Cheeseman a sentence of 7 years plus 2 \u00bd months in jail.[37][30]\nBoth men appealed their sentences to the Alberta Court of Appeal. On September 27, 2010, the Court unanimously dismissed Hennessey's appeal.[38] The Court dismissed Cheeseman's appeal by a 2-1 majority, with the dissenting judge preferring to give a lower sentence in light of Cheeseman's lesser participation in the offence.[39]\nHennessey and Cheeseman applied for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada in April and May 2011. The Supreme Court dismissed both applications on August 25, 2011.[40][41]\nCheeseman was granted statutory release in 2013, after serving two-thirds of his sentence without incident.[42] Hennessey was paroled in 2015.[43]\nThe memorial in Fallen Four Memorial Park in Mayerthorpe\n\"We Remember\" bronze statue outside the Whitecourt RCMP detachment honouring the Fallen Four\nThree of the four Mounties' names shown engraved at the Cenotaph at Depot in Regina\nA memorial service for the slain officers was held in Edmonton on March 10, 2005, and televised nationally on the CBC. Prime Minister Paul Martin and Governor General Adrienne Clarkson both spoke at the service. Many police officers from Canada and the United States were in attendance.[44]\nOn May 19, 2005, Queen Elizabeth II attended a ceremony in honour of the slain officers at the RCMP Academy, Depot Division, in Regina, Saskatchewan. She also met privately with relatives of the four slain Mounties in the RCMP Chapel at Depot Division. At the time of the killings, she had sent a letter to the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, expressing her shock and condolences.[45]\nThe Fallen Four Memorial Society was founded to honour the slain policemen. The group initiated the building of the Fallen Four Memorial Park in Mayerthorpe which opened on July 4, 2008.[46]\nAlso in 2008, a bronze statue was unveiled in Whitecourt, Alberta in honour of the Fallen Four. The boots represent those of Constable Gordon who was stationed at Whitecourt.[47]\nMedia commentary[edit]\nThe CBC program the fifth estate produced two documentaries about the killings. The first one, entitled \"A Hail of Bullets\", aired on December 7, 2005. The documentary suggested there were discrepencies in the RCMP account of the shooting.[48] Following the 2009 guilty pleas and sentencing of Cheeseman and Hennessey, the fifth estate did a second documentary, entitled \"Collateral Damage\", which aired on February 4, 2009. It included an interview with Hennessey. He now denied some of the material in the Agreed Statement of Facts which had been used in the sentencing hearing in Queen's Bench five days earlier. In the interview, Hennessey said that he did not know about the police search of Roszko's property, and that he had no idea Roszko would intended to attack the Mounties.[49][50]\nAlberta Fatalities Inquiry[edit]\nIn early 2011, an inquiry was held under the Public Fatalities Act of Alberta, before Assistant Chief Judge Daniel R. Pahl. Alberta Justice called a public fatality inquiry into the deaths at Mayerthorpe, which began on January 11, 2011, in Stony Plain Provincial Court. The Alberta Public Fatalities Act states that inquiries can only occur after all related criminal investigations and judicial proceedings are complete. The inquiry produced a 26-page report, concluding that the deaths of the four officers were homicides and the death of Roszko was a suicide. The report provides a detailed factual account of the killings, and also made eight recommendations to prevent a similar event from occurring in the future.[51]\nUpgrade to RCMP weapons[edit]\nOn October 21, 2011, the Commissioner of the RCMP, William J. S. Elliott, announced that the RCMP officers will have a new weapon at their disposition, the C8 Rifle. One of the main conclusions that led to this result was the fact that the officers who were involved in the events did not have the appropriate weapon to face someone with a semi-automatic rifle, as stated in the Fatalities Inquiry.[52]\nCorb Lund referenced this tragedy in a verse of the title track to his album Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!\nOn February 10, 2008, CTV aired a feature length made-for-TV movie called Mayerthorpe.[53]\nSpiritwood Incident\n^ \"RCMP's deadliest day\". Edmonton Journal. March 4, 2005.\n^ \"4 RCMP officers killed on Alberta farm\". CBC News. March 4, 2005. Retrieved October 25, 2014.\n^ \"Report to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General - Public Fatality Inquiry,\" March 3, 2011, p. 5.\n^ a b \"Public Fatality Inquiry Report\", pp. 2-4.\n^ a b c \"Public Fatality Inquiry Report\", pp. 7-8.\n^ \"Public Fatality Inquiry Report\", p. 6.\n^ R v Hennessey, 2009 ABQB 60, para. 14.\n^ a b R v Hennessey (AB QB), paras. 12-15.\n^ a b R v Hennessey (AB QB), para. 11.\n^ R v Hennessey (AB QB), para. 23.\n^ a b c d e f \"Public Fatality Inquiry Report\", pp. 8-11.\n^ a b c \"Public Fatality Inquiry Report\", p. 12.\n^ \"Public Fatality Inquiry Report\", p. 21.\n^ The Fallen Four Memorial Society.\n^ \"Constable Anthony Gordon (Reg. 49673)\". Mayerthorpe Fallen Four Memorial Society. Retrieved October 25, 2014.\n^ \"Constable Lionide (Leo) Johnston (Reg. 48568)\". Mayerthorpe Fallen Four Memorial Society. Retrieved October 25, 2014.\n^ \"Constable Brock Myrol (Reg 51874)\". Mayerthorpe Fallen Four Memorial Society. Retrieved October 25, 2014.\n^ \"Constable Peter Schiemann (Reg. 48064)\". Mayerthorpe Fallen Four Memorial Society. Retrieved October 25, 2014.\n^ a b c Joe Friesen, \"2 face murder charges over Mayerthorpe\", Globe and Mail, published July 9, 2007, updated April 25, 2018.\n^ \"2 Albertans charged in 2005 ambush of Mounties\", CBC, July 8, 2007.\n^ R v Hennessey (AB QB), paras. 9, 11.\n^ a b c d e f g \"Public Fatality Inquiry Report\", pp. 13-14.\n^ a b Hanneke Brooymans, \"Men charged in killing of four Mounties to plead guilty: report\", Canwest News Service/Ottawa Citizen, January 17, 2009.\n^ a b Ryan Cormier, \"Pair who helped Mountie killer feared for their lives\", Canwest News Service/Calgary Herald, January 19, 2009.\n^ a b c \"Two men sentenced in Mayerthorpe case\", CTV News, January 30, 2009.\n^ \"2 face murder charges over Mayerthorpe\", The Globe and Mail\n^ \"2 Albertans charged in 2005 ambush of Mounties\", CBC News, 8 July 2007\n^ Criminal Code, RSC 1985, c C-46, s 231(4)(a).\n^ \"Two men must face trial in Mayerthorpe shootings,\" Globe and Mail, June 6, 2008 (updated April 27, 2018).\n^ \"Hennessey, Cheeseman sentenced for roles in Mountie killings\", CBC News, January 30, 2009.\n^ R v Hennessey (AB QB), para. 110.\n^ R v Hennessey, 2010 ABCA 274 (CanLII), para. 83.\n^ R v Hennessey (AB CA), paras. 84-86, 110-114.\n^ Dennis Keegan Cheeseman v. Her Majesty the Queen, SCC No. 34198, August 25, 2011.\n^ Shawn William Hennessey v. Her Majesty the Queen, SCC No. 34241, August 25, 2011.\n^ \"Man convicted in Mayerthorpe RCMP deaths to be released\", CBC News, October 1, 2013.\n^ Purdy, Chris (2015-05-12). \"Man convicted in Mayerthorpe shooting gets parole\". CTVNews. Retrieved 2018-04-26.\n^ \"Memorial honours Mounties 'who have given everything' \", CBC News, March 10, 2005 (updated March 11, 2005).\n^ Kevin O'Connor, \"Royal visit diary,\" CBC News, May 19, 2005.\n^ Amanda Ferguson (July 4, 2008). \"Mayerthorpe remembers\". CTV News Edmonton. Retrieved October 26, 2014.\n^ \"In Honour\". Whitecourt Star. Sun Media Corporation. 2008-02-03. Retrieved 2011-07-27.\n^ \"A Hail of Bullets\", the fifth estate, CBC, December 7, 2005.\n^ \"Hennessey felt pressure to plead guilty in RCMP killings\", CBC News, February 4, 2009.\n^ \"Collateral Damage\", the fifth estate, CBC, February 4, 2009.\n^ Report to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General: Public Fatality Inquiry, March 3, 2011.\n^ \"Front-line RCMP officers to get high-powered guns\", Globe and Mail, October 21, 2011 (updated May 8, 2018).\n^ \"CTV Movie: Mayerthorpe\", CTV.\nWikinews has related news: RCMP memorial for fallen Alberta mounties delayed\nCBC News: Records of RCMP shooter paint chilling picture\nCBC News: Suspect in RCMP killings had history of run-ins with police\nCBC News: Indepth: RCMP\nCBC the fifth estate documentary \"A Hail of Bullets\"\nFallen Four Society (memorial group)\nTo Serve and Protect: Tragedy at Mayerthorpe on IMDb \u2013 docudrama about the tragedy\nRetrieved from \"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mayerthorpe_tragedy&oldid=883243865\"\n2005 in Alberta\nCrime in Alberta\nDeaths by firearm in Alberta\nMurder\u2013suicides in Canada\n2005 crimes in Canada", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 30525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://englefieldgreenactiongroup.com/2018/06/05/government-ministers-expected-to-vote-today-to-approve-3rd-runway-vote-in-parliament/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:45Z", "digest": "sha1:G632F3BBUJCYZMNEWZIM4K52GTSCREDX", "length": 4751, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "englefieldgreenactiongroup.com", "title": "Government ministers expected to vote today to approve 3rd runway vote in Parliament \u2013 EGAG", "raw_content": "Jun 5, 2018 Jun 5, 2018 egagteam\nMrs May\u2019s ministerial sub-committee on Heathrow expansion, which Philip Hammond our MP is a member, is expected to vote in favour of presenting the Revised National Policy Statement (Heathrow expansion) to Parliament.\nGiven the recent rail debacles that the Secretary of State for Transport Chris Grayling has presided over, with many from both sides of the House demanding that he should resign it is expected that in an attempt to diffuse the rail debacle bad news, Chris Grayling will present the Heathrow proposal to Parliament as early as today or some time during the week.\nThe proposal must be voted on in Parliament within 21 days of it being presented to Parliament.\nDue to this limited time period and the difficulty for MP\u2019s to comprehend the facts from fiction published by Heathrow, it is expected that the vote will go through in favour or a 3rd runway. \u2013 Heathrow\u2019s PR campaign alone has cost more than \u00a330 million, as acknowledged to the Transport Select Committee in February this year \u2013 with no less than four separate Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) complaints upheld in 1 year; in all four cases, the ASA concluded that the claims were misleading and could not be substantiated \u2013 plus the investment promises made by Heathrow to the regions (which incidentally are non-binding on Heathrow).\nEnvironmental Impact \u2013 Noise\nThe environmental impact on Englefield Green and surrounding area cannot be overstated.\nAdding an airport the size of Gatwick to Heathrow is not going to end well for Englefield Green and surrounding areas.\nCurrently, even according to the DfT\u2019s own figures, Heathrow noise significantly affects more people than the the combined impact of 8 of the largest major airports in Europe (in noise order: Frankfurt, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, Brussels, Amsterdam, Madrid, Rome and Munich)!\nAn expanded Heathrow with an additional 54% (260,000) increase in flights will significantly affect many more people, as identified by The Guardian newspaper who published information obtained by a Freedom Of Information (FOI) request that shows, from the Government\u2019s own unpublished figures that 2.28 million people would receive more noise in 2060 and 490,000 people would receive a doubling of noise by 2030; when the 3rd runway opens in 2026 and according to the DfT becomes full in 2028, around 3 million people will receive more noise. Englefield Green will receive more than a doubling of flights from the new indicative flight paths and a doubling of noise along concentrated flight paths, trialled in 2014.\nA fresh examination, by the New Economics Foundation in March 2018, of the economic case for a third, north west runway at London\u2019s Heathrow airport finds it eroded to the point where it is no longer financially viable. Using the government\u2019s own formula for assessing the value for money of transport schemes, Heathrow expansion along proposed lines would be rated as either \u2018poor\u2019 or \u2018low\u2019 value.\nThe Government\u2019s own 2040 forecasts show that the NWR\u2019s value over 60 years range from minus \u00a32.2 billion to minus \u00a37.7 billion. This loss will be paid for by the UK travelling public and taxpayers.\nTransport Select Committee (TSC) \u2013 report\nThe Government\u2019s Transport Select Committee report on 23rd March 2018, came out in favour of the 3rd runway (not unanimously \u2013 a significant minority were opposed), but with a considerable number of pre-conditions. The TSC warned the Government that unless they met those pre-conditions, outlined in the report, before the vote in Parliament, that they would run a significant risk of a Judicial Review.\nA Judicial Review is expected to be placed in the High Court within six weeks of the Parliamentary vote, led by four Heathrow impacted Local Authorities \u2013 Wandsworth, Hillingdon, Richmond and Windsor and Maidenhead.\nRunnymede Borough Council is opposed to Heathrow expansion on environmental grounds, but is yet to support the legal challenge.\nFourth Runway \u2013 2 miles from Englefield Green\nHeathrow have stated that they will be asking for a 4th runway.\nThe 4th runway, as proposed by Heathrow, will be situated to the south of the airport in the Stanwell Moor area with a loss of 850 homes, stradling King George VI and Wraysbury reservoirs and the M25, it will be 2 miles from Englefield Green, allowing over 1 million flights/year from the 4 runways.\nOur MP Philip Hammond supports Heathrow expansion, having previously opposed it at a public meeting in Englefield Green in 2014.\nIf you would like to express your views to our MP Philip Hammond for his representation of our local community, you can email him at philip.hammond.mp@parliament.uk\nPrevious postTransport Select Committee \u2013 3rd runway report out today", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://entdecke-burgebrach.de/en/stations/das-forsthaus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:JFALS3ZNENOIHKJLBL22ZZI6CM4RHAMZ", "length": 2518, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "entdecke-burgebrach.de", "title": "The Forester's House - Kulturspaziergang Burgebrach", "raw_content": "A Forest Office Assessor of the Royal Bavarian Forestry Office was stationed in Burgebrach as early as 1899. The Forestry Office outpost building which survives today was rebuilt by the state between 1900/01 and finally dedicated to its purpose on 21st December 1901. According to contracts dated 15.12.1899 and 19.07.1900, the site was purchased by the state from Mr and Mrs Eck and the community of Burgebrach. The value in those days was 30,000 marks. The plans for the building originate from the Royal Bavarian Agriculture and Forestry Office in Bamberg.\nThe office rooms were accommodated on the ground floor while the head official's apartment, which was first occupied in 1948, was situated on the first floor. This was vacated after the retirement of the Director of Forests on 31.08.1990 and incorporated in the office rooms. The building was repeatedly modernised through various renovation measures such as the installation of central heating or a water supply. During the building work in 1968, the Forest Office was relocated to the Burgebrach Forestry Department at Ampferbacher Str. 141 (the number at that time).\nThe district and the supervised areas have been repeatedly enlarged as a result of various reforms. For example, parts of the Schl\u00fcsselfeld and Bamberg Forest Office came to Burgebrach as part of the reform of 1st July 1973, because the Schl\u00fcsselfeld Forest Office was closed. The area thereby increased by approx. 1000 hectares. Burgebrach was subsequently responsible for almost 8000 hectares of forest.\nThe Bavarian State Forest Service in Burgebrach was divided up as of the 1st July 2005. The state forest division went to the Bavarian State Forestry Commission (administrative agency) for the purpose of profit maximisation but kept its headquarters in Ebrach. The municipal, church and private forests division was attached to the Department for Food, Agriculture and Forestry (ALEF Bamberg) with a branch office in Sche\u00dflitz.\nAfter the restructuring, a restaurant was opened in the building of the Forester's House. This has since been closed, and the premises are used for the accommodation of refugees.\nThe Forester's House is more than 100 years old. The so-called Forestry Office Assessor lived here. He administered almost 8000 hectares of forest at the peak, i.e. even forests around Schl\u00fcsselfeld and Bamberg. The Forestry Administration was split up in 2005 and, although some administrative work remained in Burgebrach, the Forester's House was converted to a restaurant.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 4885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://entheomedicine.org/the-new-science-of-psychedelics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:L6X7VTHXFSDXD3OTLLI5L7OY25QIEUG2", "length": 1642, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "entheomedicine.org", "title": "The New Science of Psychedelics - EntheoMedicine", "raw_content": "Recent studies are finding that drugs such as LSD and psilocybin can help to alleviate depression, anxiety and addiction\u2014and may have profound things to teach us about how the mind works\nTo anyone who lived through the 1960s, the proposition that psychedelic drugs might have a positive contribution to make to our mental health must sound absurd. Along with hallucinogens like mescaline and psilocybin (that is, magic mushrooms), LSD was often blamed for bad trips that sent people to the psych ward. These drugs could make you crazy.\nSo how is it possible that, 50 years later, researchers working at institutions such as New York University, Johns Hopkins, UCLA and Imperial College in London are discovering that, when administered in a supportive therapeutic setting, psychedelics can actually make you sane? Or that they may have profound things to teach us about how the mind works, and why it sometimes fails to work?\nRecent trials of psilocybin, a close pharmacological cousin to LSD, have demonstrated that a single guided psychedelic session can alleviate depression when drugs like Prozac have failed; can help alcoholics and smokers to break the grip of a lifelong habit; and can help cancer patients deal with their \u201cexistential distress\u201d at the prospect of dying. At the same time, studies imaging the brains of people on psychedelics have opened a new window onto the study of consciousness, as well as the nature of the self and spiritual experience. The hoary \u201860s platitude that psychedelics would help unlock the secrets of consciousness may turn out not to be so preposterous after all.\nBy The New Science of Psychedelics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://epic-law.com/personal-injury-protection/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GCZMXQRJ2Z7XDZTWMQNMMRIIVLG4JNFF", "length": 3094, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "epic-law.com", "title": "EPIC Insurance Series: What is Personal Injury Protection (PIP)? | Evergreen Personal Injury Counsel", "raw_content": "Personal Injury Protection (PIP) is a form of auto insurance coverage that you can add to your policy. PIP coverage is considered to be \u201cNo-Fault Insurance.\u201d This means that the insurer will pay out regardless of who is at fault in the accident.\nHere in the state of Washington, PIP is not required for motorists. However, your auto insurance company must offer it to you, and you must reject it in writing. Otherwise, the insurance company is required by law to add it to your policy.\nWhile actual dollar amounts may vary from policy to policy, PIP generally covers:\nThe person whose name on the policy and anyone inside the car at the time of the accident is covered. PIP covers household family members by blood, marriage or adoption, including step and foster children. It will also cover pedestrians and non-family members as well. The insurance companies will sometimes require you to apply PIP coverage to all the vehicles listed on your policy. This could add an additional (but minor) cost to your monthly premium.\nWhy Get PIP?\nWhen most people buy car insurance, they opt for the least costly policy legally required by law. It\u2019s a good idea to go back and review the coverage your current auto policy offers. You might be surprised that basic policy offers very little coverage. The State of Washington requires all drivers to have the following insurance coverage:\nNow let\u2019s say that you get into an accident. From the coverages listed above, there is nothing that will cover lost wages, medical/funeral expenses or loss of services. Even if your personal health insurance will cover your injuries, it will not cover the cost of injuries of the passengers in your car.\nPIP insurance is required to offer the following minimum benefits:\nUp to $10,000 for \u201creasonable and necessary medical expenses for each person injured in an auto accident\u201d\n$2,000 for funeral expenses\nUp to $200 per week ($10k total) for income reimbursement\nUp to $200 per week ($5k total) for \u201closs of services\u201d\nEach policy is different and some may offer more coverage (at the cost of an increased monthly premium). Even if you have short-term and long-term disability policies, you will not receive 100% of those monies as they are considered to be \u201ctaxable benefits\u201d. PIP coverage is a nontaxable payment and could help make up for lost wages.\nWashington Personal Injury Attorneys at EPIC Law\nHaving Personal Injury Protection is one of those things in life that should be done despite additional monthly cost. The extra few dollars you\u2019d be paying out every month is well worth the piece of mind that you\u2019ll have every time you get behind the wheel of a car. Receiving compensation following an auto accident-related injury can significantly reduce the stress and anxiety associated with such an event.\nIf you have any questions on PIP or auto insurance as it pertains to Washington State, get in contact with one of our attorneys at Evergreen Personal Injury Counsel. We have years of experience helping people get the advice and justice that they deserve.\nRead other articles in our Insurance Blog Series:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/sociology/staff/1056/tanisa-gunesekera", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:43Z", "digest": "sha1:3E7XQ5KESNBORCXODNW2ILRX3MWVXTXV", "length": 568, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "essl.leeds.ac.uk", "title": "Tanisa Gunesekera | School of Sociology and Social Policy | University of Leeds", "raw_content": "Tanisa Gunesekera\nPosition: School Support Officer (Events)\nEmail: T.Gunesekera@leeds.ac.uk\nMy role aims to help raise the research, impact and public engagement profiles of the School of Sociology and Social Policy and the School of Politics and International Studies, particularly through coordinating:\nresearch-related events and conferences\nsocial media and website presence, working closely with colleagues in the Faculty Marketing Team\nI work 2.5 days in the School of Sociology and Social Policy and 2.5 days in the School of Politics and International Studies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 2186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ethicalrealism.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/ethical-implications-of-corporations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IXWEQ5MWSYLQUFWU3DAGCVC4ED62DKNY", "length": 30693, "nlines": 80, "source_domain": "ethicalrealism.wordpress.com", "title": "Ethical Implications of Corporations | Ethical Realism", "raw_content": "Corporations are an incredibly powerful force in in the United States. They have a huge influence in politics and the lives of millions of employees. First, I will discuss the nature and moral justification for corporations. Second, I will discuss various moral debates concerning corporations, such as (a) whether corporations have moral responsibility, (b) the nature of corporate social responsibility, and (c) the importance of institutionalizing ethics within corporations. This discussion is greatly based on chapter five of Business Ethics (Third Edition, 1999) by William Shaw.\nCorporations are \u201climited liability companies\u201d created by \u201cincorporators\u201d and owned by investors called \u201cstockholders\u201d or \u201cshareholders\u201d who have certain rights and responsibilities. Stockholders \u201cmay sue and be sued as a unit and\u2026 are able to consign part of their property to the corporation for ventures of limited liability\u201d (160). The investors enjoy \u201climited liability\u201d meaning that investors can\u2019t be sued for all their worth. They aren\u2019t liable to the amount of damage they can do to society and customers. Instead, they can only be sued for the amount equal to their investment.\nLimited liability extends to investors who have little influence on the corporation they (partially) own, but limited liability doesn\u2019t extend to anyone who has an active role when making illegal decisions. These people can face legal action for the crimes they commit. The investors often have little to no idea what is going on in their corporation, and the illegal actions of the employees are often dealt with separately.\nThe term \u201climited liability\u201d is a bit deceptive because I think we can all agree that investors who know little about what the corporation they invest in is doing should have less liability than is humanly possible, and \u201climited liability\u201d is actually \u201climited immunity.\u201d A person can invest in a horrible corporation that does an incredible amount of damage and that person is immune from being responsible for any damage beyond the investment made.\nMoral justifications for corporations\nI will discuss two moral justifications for corporations. These are considerations in favor of having corporations, but they don\u2019t sufficiently prove that corporations are morally justified. There are many considerations for and against corporations and we would have to assess them all to know for sure whether or not corporations are morally justified.\nCorporations were originally considered to be morally justified because they were created to advance public interests. However, that\u2019s no longer the case. Corporations no longer need to serve the public good and can just try to make a profit. This change was caused (in part) due to the arguments of Adam Smith and Alexander Hamilton, who concluded that corporations shouldn\u2019t be required to serve the public good for at least two reasons:\nOne, they thought that the \u201cinvisible hand\u201d of a free market would assure us that corporations would serve the public interest without doing so intentionally (161). Due to the invisible hand, corporations offer the best goods and services at the lowest prices to remain competitive and profitable. Corporations are often very good at being productive, and the existence of corporations can lead to greater prosperity.\nTwo, they thought that people should have the right to create corporations due to a \u201cright of association\u201d (ibid.).\nIt should also be noted that limited liability can encourage investment. People might not want to invest their money in companies if they have to take an active role to make sure the company is behaving morally, legally, and responsibly; and risk their entire fortune from each financial investment in companies. Without limited liability there would probably be a lot less investment in companies and a lot less productive companies as a result.\nObjections to corporations\nIt\u2019s not obvious that corporations are morally justified. I will discuss seven objections to corporations. These objections don\u2019t prove that corporations shouldn\u2019t exist, but they are considerations against using corporations, and we might be able to find solutions to these problems.\nFirst, corporations are a violation of the free market. The fact that investors don\u2019t have to pay for the actual amount of damage they are (partially) responsible for can encourage risky behavior by allowing investors to risk other people\u2019s well being rather than their own. A free market demands that people provide the best goods and services because of the financial ruin involved with harming others and breaking the law.\nSecond, the idea of a business doing a great deal of damage and no one being liable to pay for the entire amount of damage sounds like a violation of a person\u2019s actual rights and responsibilities. We have a right to be compensated to the harm done to us, and companies have a responsibility to compensate for that harm.\nThird, giving investors limited liability and protecting ignorant investors from criminal charges encourages people to be irresponsible. It encourages investors to be ignorant because it validates claims that ignorance can excuse their involvement in a crime. It might be a better idea to encourage people to be responsible and take an active role in their business investments to make sure that nothing illegal or immoral is happening there. We don\u2019t want ignorance to be a free \u201cget out of jail free card.\u201d\nFourth, corporations don\u2019t seem conducive to the responsibility of the employees. Managers and executives in particular can be encouraged to make a profit at the expense of moral and legal considerations. These managers and executives can be fired for not making enough profit and it can be that the only managers or executives who can keep their jobs are ones who are willing to break the law. Additionally, corporate employees often think that obedience is an excuse to breaking the law or committing immoral acts because they can lose their jobs for insubordination. Moreover, when large amounts of people work together, it\u2019s not always clear who should be blamed for immoral or illegal behavior. Sometimes we think everyone shares blame, but we don\u2019t always think we should send everyone to prison.\nFifth, it\u2019s not obvious that the \u201cinvisible hand\u201d has worked out so well. Corporations haven\u2019t always acted in the public interest. BP decided to risk the environment to rake in the dough and lead to a horrific oil spill that devastated our ocean waters, several banking corporations were involved in fraud that lead to the financial crisis, and Goldman Sachs has been involved in several scandals over the years.\nSixth, consumers have not done a good job at punishing corporations for their immoral actions. BP and banking corporations involved in immoral acts are still highly profitable. The invisible hand argument assumes that consumers act in their rational best interest, but they often don\u2019t.\nSeventh, we don\u2019t really have a free market, in part because corporations are allowed to lobby the government and give donations to politicians in the hope for favorable legislation and subsidies. This has further protected corporations from the need to act responsibly. Banks that took risks and committed fraud got a bailout from the government and federal reserve, and has faced little to no punishment for their crimes.\nAre corporations morally responsible?\nIn many ways corporations are treated as \u201clegal persons\u201d with rights and responsibilities. Corporations now have a highly unrestricted freedom of speech, and they are allowed to offer their opinion in the form of political donations, lobbying, advertising, and so on (162). The Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a constitutionally protected right to free speech in the 1978 decision \u201cFirst National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti,\u201d which included the right to donate to politicians (ibid.). The 2010 a Supreme Court decision \u201cCitizens United v. Federal Election Commission\u201d ruled that it\u2019s a constitutional right for corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence political campaigns.\nFreedom of speech involves moral opinions and can have a harmful impact on people\u2014especially when it involves political funding and lobbying, which is one of the most cherished corporate activities. If corporations have the right to make moral decisions that can hurt people, then perhaps they should also be morally responsible for the benefits and harms caused by their actions.\nIf corporations are in some sense legal persons with constitutionally protected rights, then perhaps they also have moral or social responsibilities. It seems a bit unfair to give corporations all the rights of being a person without any of the responsibilities\u2014all the benefits and none of the costs. The wealthy could then use corporations as a haven to be irresponsible and destructive without any significant moral responsibilities, and with the only risk being the loss of a financial investment.\nThere are at least four types of moral responsibility:\nPeople are morally responsible if they can be appropriately praised or blamed for their behavior (163). If people choose to give to a charity that saves lives of their own free choice, then we think they are appropriate praised. However, if people are forced to give to a charity that saves lives at gunpoint, then we don\u2019t think they deserve praise for doing so.\nPeople are morally responsible insofar as they are accountable to the welfare of others, and have duties to help other people (ibid.). Parents are responsible for their children and have to provide food for their children, the news has a duty inform us of political misconduct, accounting auditors have a duty to keep an eye out for fraud, and so on.\nPeople are morally responsible insofar as they are capable of making moral and rational decisions (ibid.). Children, certain people who are insane, and most nonhuman animals seem to lack this kind of moral responsibility. We don\u2019t think they fully deserve praise or blame for their actions because they aren\u2019t fully capable of thinking morally or rationally.\nFinally, people are morally responsible insofar as they are good at acting and thinking in a rational and moral manner. Such people can not only think rationally, but they choose to do so. Our moral heroes who display moral virtue, such as Socrates and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, seem like they are highly morally responsible insofar as they are exceptional people with an unusually high degree of moral virtue.\nCan corporations think and behave morally?\nCan corporations think and act morally or rationally? If so, then it is possible for corporations to be appropriately praised and blamed, accountable for the welfare of others, and virtuous. I will consider a case for and against the idea that corporations can think and act morally.\nCorporations have various goals (related to making profit) and they have procedures to decide how to best achieve these goals (164). Some philosophers argue that corporate decision making is like a machine and is incapable of making moral or rational decisions because the profit motive will override all moral considerations (ibid.). Individuals within corporations can be morally responsible, but that doesn\u2019t mean a corporation, an abstract social construct, can be morally responsible.\nOn the other hand some people, such as Kenneth E. Goodpastor, have argued that corporate decision making is analogous to human deliberation because many conflicting goals can be relevant other than profit (165).\nWhat is the nature of personal moral responsibility within corporations?\nMany people share responsibility within a corporation and they often refuse to accept personal responsibility\u2014to be whistleblowers, to disobey orders to break the law, and so on (165). Perhaps we cannot consider corporate employees to be responsible in the sense of being capable of thinking rationally and morally for themselves. For example, National Semiconductor sold products to the Defense Department without conducting the promised tests on the products and were fined over a million dollars as a result (ibid.). The corporation then refused to tell the Defense Department which individuals made the decision to have incomplete testing because such a decision was \u201can industry pattern beyond any one individual\u2019s responsibility\u201d (166).\nA corporation that blames a few individuals for breaking the law when several people actually share responsibility could even be form of scapegoating\u2014blaming a few so that many others can get away scott free. Consider how many low-ranking soldiers in the military are found guilty of war crimes, but almost no high-ranking ones are blamed. It seems plausible to think that high ranking officers are at least partially responsible as well. Additionally, it seems plausible that corrupt corporate culture can make immoral acts almost inevitable. Consider how it seems plausible to think that CEOs can occasionally face being fired if they aren\u2019t willing to pollute or break the law to increase profits.\nIf we find out that corporations and corporate employees both lack moral responsibility, that would be a serious problem. If no one is responsible, then who is going to pay for the damage done to people by corporations? There are at least two possible solutions to this problem. One, we can attribute responsibility to corporations just like we do people in general. Unfortunately, if corporations are punished, then the individuals who are morally responsible could get off scott free. Two, we can assign responsibility to corporate employees and dismiss the claim that they lack responsibility. Unfortunately, if individuals are punished, then the corporation could continue to encourage or demand immoral behavior. Of course, we could decide that both corporations and corporate employees are both responsible and we could punish both corporations and individuals.\nWhat\u2019s the extent of corporate responsibility?\nThere are at least two major ideas of corporate responsibility other than to abide by the law (and refuse to hurt people).\n1. To maximize profits.\nSome people think that corporations only have a duty to maximize profits. Some people think it\u2019s the duty of the government to look out for the public interest, not corporations. A corporation that sacrifices profit to look out of the public interest is committing themselves to the wrong role. Milton Friedman even suggested that corporations should feel free to pollute to whatever extent is legal:\n[Business people who] believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned \u201cmerely\u201d with profit but also with promoting desirable \u201csocial\u201d ends, that business has a \u201csocial conscience\u201d and takes seriously its responsibilities for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the contemporary crop of reformers\u2026 [are] unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these past decades. (168-169)\nOf course, pollution can hurt people, and could be taken to be a violation of our rights. Pollution destroys the environment, makes us sick, and can even cause fatal illness. People might be willing to pay $50 a year to a corporation if it would agree not to pollute, but that would be a form of coercion. The corporation would be paid to stop hurting people, but it wouldn\u2019t be \u201cfree trade\u201d because free trade can\u2019t allow people to be coerced into conducting business transactions.\nThere are at least five arguments that corporations only have a duty to make profit:\nSome argue that it\u2019s because the investors agree to invest their money in corporations precisely because they want to make profit. It would be a violation of an implicit contract or promissory agreement involved with such investments (171). Of course, even if this is true, we can wonder if this contract is morally binding given that it requires us to abandon certain moral considerations (172).\nSome argue that corporate social responsibility will harm our economy by going against the \u201cinvisible hand\u201d (169, 173-174). We need corporations to be as profit making as possible to help our civilization prosper. Some people object that the \u201cinvisible hand\u201d has not been guiding corporations\u2014perhaps because they are too monopolistic or massive (174). Our \u201cfree market\u201d hasn\u2019t been stopping the immoral behavior of corporations or our social ills (such as pollution and poverty).\nSome argue that we can\u2019t trust corporations to be moral on their own, so we should rely on government regulation rather than demand corporations to self-regulate (ibid). Perhaps people are too selfish or unethical to make sure corporations can act in the public interest on their own (without government incentives). Some people reject this idea because (i) it requires an \u201cintrusive government,\u201d (ii) the government is greatly influence by corporations that can prevent government regulation through lobbying, or (iii) laws and regulations can\u2019t stop every single possible immoral act that corporations will engage in (175).\nSome people argue that corporations are too inept to be ethical (ibid.). Of course, lots of people aren\u2019t particularly informed about moral philosophy and we still demand that they are ethical. We demand everyone behave morally whether they are moral experts or not. Being ignorant about ethics isn\u2019t a get out of jail free card.\nSome people think that corporations are evil or corrupt. They are full of greed and selfish people who don\u2019t know what is truly important if life, so their corrupt idea of behaving ethically will spread their \u201cvalues\u201d to the rest of our culture (176). However, corporations have already been doing everything they can to spread corrupt values and even use such values to influence politics (177). Perhaps their corrupt values are partially caused more from being told to be self-interested profit seekers rather than to also care for other people in our society. Additionally, it\u2019s unclear that corporate charity is really infused with corrupt values.\nTo make profits and help people\nSome people think that corporations have a duty to make profits in addition to helping people. Corporations have some sort of responsibility to make people\u2019s lives better either through quality products and services or some sort of charity. There are at least four arguments to support this view:\nSome argue that with power comes responsibility (ibid.). Corporations have the power to do great amount of good and evil to society at large (170). Those in the position to do the most good have the responsibility to help people. For example, scientists who are best equipped to cure cancer might have a responsibility to do so.\nThere is an implicit social contract between society and corporations that demand that corporations benefit society rather than harm it. If corporations harm us, then we have no reason to allow them to exist (ibid.). This argument is supported by the fact that most Americans believe that a corporation\u2019s highest priority is to the employees and \u201c[o]nly 17 percent think stockholders deserve the highest priority\u201d (171).\nCorporations don\u2019t just make decisions that effects them and those who engage in agreements with them. Their decisions and business deals can harm people and cause hidden costs to others, which are called \u201cexternalities.\u201d For example, pollution or harm done to nonhuman animals. Corporations must somehow try to pay for these externalities\u2014the hidden costs they force on others\u2014or the business can cause more harm than good. A company that makes computers can sell each computer for $300, but creating each computer might cause $400 of damage to others through pollution. It would be unfair of that corporation to reap all the rewards of their business without paying for any of the damage it does. It might be more appropriate for the corporation to charge $700 for each computer and to use $400 to clean up the pollution the business causes.\nSome people could argue that insofar as we allow corporations to enjoy the rights of being legal persons, we must demand corporations to accept responsibilities of being persons as well. Allowing corporations to have the rights of people without the responsibilities could turn corporations into havens that allow the wealthy to escape their moral responsibilities.\nInstitutionalizing ethics within corporations\nWe need to know how corporations can best live up to their moral responsibilities (177-178). Even if corporations don\u2019t have a duty to help people, they still have a duty to obey the law and encourage trust with the public. It is plausible to think that one way this can be done is by improving the corporate culture and make sure employees are taking morality seriously. At least four steps can be taken (178):\nCorporations should admit that they have moral responsibilities and make their moral commitments visible.\nCorporations should encourage their employees to take moral responsibilities seriously. Employees can be rewarded for being ethical rather than punished. There should be a way for employees to voice moral concerns or be whistleblowers without fear of retaliation.\nCorporations should seek rather than try to avoid criticism.\nCorporations need to respect the individuality of people and the diversity of groups.\nCorporate moral codes\nCorporations can make their commitment to being ethical explicit and educate their employees about the moral code in an attempt to improve the importance of ethics within the culture of the corporation and foster trust with the public as a result (180). Top management can do the following:\nArticulate the corporation\u2019s moral values and goals.\nArticulate an ethical code applicable to all employees.\nSet up an ethics committee that has the power to enforce the moral code and oversee ethical issues within the business.\nAdd ethical training to other forms of job training.\nAlthough corporations are an entrenched force in our civilization that probably aren\u2019t going anywhere soon, it\u2019s not obvious that corporations are morally justified or supported by any system of justice. Libertarian justice don\u2019t necessarily support limited liability considering that it allows companies to disrespect human rights and refuse to pay the full damages done. Utilitarian justice doesn\u2019t necessarily support corporations because it\u2019s not clear that limited liability is really best for the \u201cgreater good.\u201d Rawls\u2019s theory of justice doesn\u2019t necessarily support corporations because limited liability can give the wealthy more rights and less responsibilities than are enjoyed by the poor, and it\u2019s not clear that the poor will benefit from it.\nWe have little choice but to live in a world with corporations, and the arguments here offer a greater support to the view that corporations have a moral responsibility beyond merely making a profit. Even if we only demand that corporations make a profit, we still need to demand that corporations obey the law and encourage trust with the public. This can require an improved corporate culture that takes ethics seriously, and it is plausible to think that corporate moral codes enforced by ethics committees can do a lot to help improve corporate cultures.\n[\u2026] Corporations are an incredibly powerful force in in the United States. They have a huge influence in politics and the lives of millions of employees. First, I will discuss the nature and moral justification for corporations. Second, I will discuss various moral debates concerning corporations, such as (a) whether corporations have moral responsibility, (b) the nature of corporate social responsibility, and (c) the importance of institutionalizing \u2026 Read More [\u2026]\nPingback by Ethical Implications of Corporations (via Ethical Realism) \u00ab Hebrew Hutong \u2014 May 15, 2011 @ 9:42 am | Reply\nHi there, I found your article very interesting. The following response has been written as part of a course assignment\nYou state that \u201cif corporations have the right to make moral decisions that can hurt people, then perhaps they should also be morally responsible for their actions\u201d. To answer this question we would need to consider what makes a decision have a moral impact, as opposed to it having no impact, or an impact that has no moral significance. When we look at responsibility for an action we can look at it in a causal sense \u2013 i.e. did the corporation cause a negative outcome for stakeholders. We consider two different types of causal responsibility. Natural causal responsibility, where a non-intentional agent causes an outcome, and moral responsibility. In natural causal responsibility the agent has acted without intent or has not been in control of its actions. For example a branch may fall on your car and cause damage. The branch is responsible for the damage however we would not hold it morally responsible because it does not have the capacity to act with intent. Moral responsibility requires the agent to be acting intentionally or with a sense of control. (Velasquez 2003).There may be legal consequences for an agent attributed with natural causal responsibility, but that does not necessarily mean they acted with intent, or were even able to act with intent, and therefore they may not be held morally responsible. We may frequently say that a corporation intended to do something \u2013 for example \u2018they intended to make a lot of money from that deal\u2019 but is a corporation actually capable of acting with intent? Acting with intent can be defined as being determined to do something or carry out an act. Can a corporation be determined? These are all mental states being described here. In his article on moral responsibility M Velasquez discusses how individuals of a corporation may act with intent, or be determined, or be aware and in control of their actions, and so because the majority of individuals in that corporation carries that feature we may attribute the corporation as a whole as having ability to act with intent. However when it comes down to the simple fact, it is not the corporation that is able to act with intent, it is the individuals within the corporation. This raises a large question over whether corporations are in fact able to make moral decisions leading to moral actions if they are not able to act with intent, therefore we cannot rely on your above statement alone to hold them morally responsible.\nYou also suggest that because \u201cCorporations are in some sense legal persons with protected rights, perhaps they also have moral responsibilities\u201d. I believe in this fact you are confusing legal responsibility and moral responsibility. Just because a corporation may be considered to have legal protection or obligations, it does not automatically follow that it would also have moral obligations. As I stated in my previous point, although we may not be able to say a corporation has moral responsibility we may be able to say that they have natural causal responsibility, and so it may be found appropriate to fine them or impose some other penalty, however that is not necessarily holding them morally accountable.\nWhen considering if corporations can think and behave morally you refer to Kenneth E. Goodpastor in suggesting that corporations may be capable of moral thought and action because corporate decision making is similar to human deliberation in that corporations have many conflicting goals besides just profit. However conflicting goals when making decisions is not all that makes a moral agent capable of moral actions and thinking. Nonhuman animals and the mentally impaired may be faced with conflicting goals when making decisions, however if you were to follow those such as Immanuel Kant then you would not consider the actions and thoughts of these beings to have a moral impact. . Kant would go on to state that what makes us a moral being is the capacity for rational thought and free will. Rational thinking can be defined as using good judgement and logical thought to arrive at a decision. According to M Velasquez the decision structure in a corporation involves following procedures, policies and prescribed ways of acting that all employees and therefore the corporation as a whole follows. When a corporation carries out an action, if it is simply following rules and guidelines it can hardly be defined as carrying out rational thought and free will, therefore can it be said to think and behave morally?\nThere is a final point I would like to question in your article. You state that \u201cpeople are morally responsible insofar as they are accountable for the welfare of others and have duties to help other people\u201d. This does not really support your argument that corporations should be held morally accountable. If I were to follow the above statement in the case of a child on the street, I am not accountable for the welfare nor do I have a duty to that child therefore your statement would suggest that I am not morally responsible towards that child. If you were to follow Friedman\u2019s profit maximisation theory then corporations are only accountable to the welfare of shareholders (while remaining within the law) therefore shareholders would be the only party that the corporation has a moral responsibility towards.\nComment by Liz Dormer \u2014 May 25, 2015 @ 8:27 am | Reply\nLiz, this would be easier to read if you used better paragraph breaks.\nDo you think it is perfectly fine for corporations to have legal but lack moral responsibility? I would think we might want to restrict someone\u2019s rights if they can\u2019t be morally responsible. For example, corporations can influence what laws we have and try to give our country laws that can harm people and non-human life forms. If legal responsibility is enough and they pass laws that harm non-human animals, that seems like a reason to think maybe they need to be morally responsible to wield this much power.\nRight now some governments are giving way more subsidies to corporations that destroy the environment than the charity that is given to save the environment. For example, take a look at this. That causes a lot of extinctions and suffering to various life forms. This is unethical in my view, but it is perfectly legal. That doesn\u2019t make me feel like it is okay.\nYou are right that you are not legally responsible for a child you see on the street, but that doesn\u2019t mean you aren\u2019t morally responsible for the child if you can easily help the child at little cost to yourself, no one else can help, and the child would die without your help. Would you really want to say it is totally okay to let a child die in that case?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 229, "original_length": 33846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eugie.livejournal.com/234068.html?thread=1744212", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:36Z", "digest": "sha1:NDNBLFQSOLTWMLJKHQ536QG6QYHUHSPY", "length": 863, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "eugie.livejournal.com", "title": "On the nature of house cats - Eugie Foster's Self-Indulgent Musings", "raw_content": "On June 12th, 2005 04:55 pm (UTC), ex_troutquee718 commented:\nThat does seem highly dependent on the neighborhood, and how far the cat is prone to wandering. I wouldn't dream of letting a cat out in my area because I'm too close to a busy street. In my old neighborhood, it was possible, because it was a quiet subdivision with speed bumps, so people drive slow.\nI have two ferrets (had three, one died back in October-ish) that I love to death, and always wonder what other type owners have ferrets. When I got my first one, I had no idea how high maintenance they could be, and that they weren't cage animals, like the pet store associate told me. I keep thinking of the hundreds of ferrets that are locked up in cages currently whose owners didn't bother to research what they need and took the store associate's advice on what to do. Sad and depressing to me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://europe.autonews.com/article/20120203/ANE/120209943/mercedes-reports-record-january-sales-on-u-s-german-demand", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:00Z", "digest": "sha1:TFFY6DKPXJGLRA5NLQNIPRRYP547BRWD", "length": 1670, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "europe.autonews.com", "title": "Mercedes reports record January sales on U.S., German demand", "raw_content": "Mercedes reports record January sales on U.S., German demand\nFRANKFURT \u2013 Global sales of the Mercedes-Benz brand rose 5.1 percent to 86,921 cars in January, the automaker said.\nStrong growth in the U.S. and Germany and the continued success of its new B- and C-class models helped the automaker to hit record sales last month.\nSales of Smart vehicles rose 13.7 percent to 7,605 units in the same period.\nDespite an ongoing debt crisis in Europe and a general slowdown in global car sales, the automaker forecast continued growth in 2012.\n\"This year, we want to exceed our record sales from 2011 and once again plan to achieve the best year in the company's history,\" Mercedes sales chief, Joachim Schmidt, said in a statement on Friday.\nStrong sales last month were led by demand in the U.S., where sales jumped 23.8 percent to 20,306 cars, making Mercedes the best-selling premium brand in the country, ahead of nearest rivals BMW and Lexus.\nSales in western European countries, excluding Germany, rose just 1.4 percent to 21,578, as problems in the eurozone continue to suppress consumer spending.\nBut in its German home market, the automaker defied a regional downturn with sales rising 14 percent to 12,627 cars last month.\nIn China, the world's biggest car market, sales fell 7 percent to 14,463 units in January, due Mercedes said, to the partial unavailability of some models in the market.\nSales in other emerging markets continued to go from strength to strength. In Russia, sales rose 41.7 percent last month and in India, sales were up 17 percent in the same period.\nOverall sales for Mercedes-Benz Cars in January totaled 94,526 units, a rise of 5.8 percent.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 266, "original_length": 8807, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://exploretransplant.org/tag/white-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:50Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRL4YA6KRGZAFNMDE6LEYBCQMIPKBQPC", "length": 76, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "exploretransplant.org", "title": "White House | Explore Transplant", "raw_content": "Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as \u201cWhite House\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2069, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 114.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ey.jobs/houston-tx/tax-senior-manager-indirect-tax-sales-use-houston/2A050438B14344E6AD997309DC508936/job/?vs=28", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:KWYM35RQUCS3JYCEPYBVGFQBT2GD56XZ", "length": 1930, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ey.jobs", "title": "EY Jobs - Tax Senior Manager - Indirect Tax - Sales & Use - Houston in Houston, Texas, United States", "raw_content": "EY Tax Senior Manager - Indirect Tax - Sales & Use - Houston in Houston, Texas\nTax Senior Manager - Indirect Tax - Sales & Use - Houston\nRequisition # HOU002YM\nHandling tax in such a large, sophisticated organization takes more than just a technical understanding of current tax practices. As a Sales and Use Tax Senior Manager, we will look to you to lead engagements on a wide range of tax areas and processes, devising strategic outcomes to some very complex issues. In return, you can expect the support of some of the most engaging colleagues around, as well as plenty of opportunities to progress your career.\nOur tax function is constantly evolving, and it\u2019s here you\u2019ll find everything you need to grow as we do. It\u2019s all about taking on new skills and responsibilities as they arise, and being a mentor to our developing talent.\nIt\u2019s fair to say there\u2019s no average day for a Sales and Use Tax Senior Manager \u2013 so you\u2019re likely to spend your time on a diverse array of projects, responsibilities and tasks. Whatever you\u2019re working on, our clients will turn to you for up-to-the-minute tax advice they can always rely on. To make that happen, you\u2019ll be creating a highly collaborative culture, where listening to and sharing information with colleagues is an essential part of the role.\nConnecting with our clients about their business operations and building long-lasting relationships to tailor your advice to their specific needs\nLeading a motivated team of professionals, guaranteeing they have the skills, knowledge and opportunities to reach their full potential\nProfessional knowledge in a broad range of sales and use tax processes, concepts and tools\n8+ years of experience managing budgets, people and projects\nExposure to business development\nAn achieved CPA qualification, certification as a member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation or be a member of a state bar\nTax Senior Manager - Indirect Ta...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fabricofdigitallife.com/index.php/Browse/objects/facet/technology_keywords_facet/id/BCI+System", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:55Z", "digest": "sha1:YBHF36M64G6PYETRAWQOOX73KVEFODZZ", "length": 86, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "fabricofdigitallife.com", "title": "Decimal Lab: Browse Objects", "raw_content": "BCI System\nUsing Brain-Computer Interfaces to Determine the Location of Missing People", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://faculty.sfsu.edu/~jarin/content/notes-arts-and-humanities", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGGYRWVIZBDDW5BNRRBVOTONJWXEFD6J", "length": 1455, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "faculty.sfsu.edu", "title": "Notes on the Arts and Humanities | Jennifer Arin | SF State Faculty Sites", "raw_content": "One of my (guilty?) pleasures is to pause from time to time outside our classrooms, and listen to the lectures going on within. What I hear is so intriguing across the spectrum of our College\u2019s disciplines, that the devaluation and, alongside it, the threat of defunding the Arts and Humanities seem ever out-of-step with the core and reach of human achievement. What those of us at the university risk forgetting, in turn, is that our fields hold not just academic, but also popular appeal: visit a museum on a free day, or attend a Shakespeare play or opera or dance performance in the park, and you\u2019ll witness a mass of spectators.\nHaving returned to the classroom this semester to teach a literature course, I was (not guiltily) immersed in the experience so well defined by Professor Genaro Padilla, Chair of the English Department at U.C. Berkeley. In that department\u2019s Winter 2016 newsletter, Padilla writes that \"Every day in our classrooms, we have space to press the pause button and reflect; space to see the world from multiple points of view; space to argue with the world as it\u2019s been given to us, and \u2026 to imagine new worlds into being.\u201d More than imagine, I dare say, we actually construct those worlds by inspiring, in our students, a passion for the Arts and Humanities; composing creative work and research; and promoting and supporting our College through the ARC. 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Tell us and we'll ask them.\npaid paternity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 200.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://faithfamilyfriendship.com/peeking-at-a-younger-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTHWGCRTYZQIN4SCUJFTC7MLGUF4KZJI", "length": 2462, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "faithfamilyfriendship.com", "title": "Peeking at a Younger Me \u2013 Faith ~ Family ~ Friendship", "raw_content": "I unexpectedly stumbled across an old journal of mine. One I had started as a senior in high school, and had again picked up a few years later as a young married woman thinking about starting a family.\nIts pages contained prayers I had forgotten I prayed. Frustrations I had forgotten I felt. Even the treasured details of my husband\u2019s proposal to me so many years ago was penned within its pages. As I flipped through the small book, I was both amazed and surprised by the words and opinions voiced by my younger self. And I wished I had written more.\nAt times the younger me sounded so mature; my faith seemed so strong. Other entries left me sounding youthful and confused, undoubtedly struggling with the differences in what society expected of me and what God was impressing upon me.\nI was searching for answers; trying to figure out life, attempting to find my way. Certain of some things, completely unsure of others. Doing the best I could with what little wisdom and knowledge I had accrued. Never suspecting there was still so much to learn.\nAs I look back upon those years, I find myself thinking about what is not written in that journal. How I married my high school sweetheart and moved out of state with him, breaking my momma\u2019s heart (though she didn\u2019t tell me for years). How, in the midst of all our fun and excitement, God allowed some tough circumstances to turn our hearts back toward Him, bringing us back home, closer to family and closer to experiencing the life He had planned for us.\nI remember how God faithfully provided for our needs. How he placed certain people in our lives to help point us in the right direction. How he began to bless us with the family we had been praying for all along. How He was always with us \u2013 even when we had no clue He was there, and no idea how much we actually needed Him.\nYes, I am grateful I found that old journal. I\u2019m thankful for the memories it unlocked. I\u2019m pleased to have glimpsed the person I once was. 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Pursuing an honours in psychology at St. Thomas University, Lulu is thrilled to bring her understanding of people\u2019s behaviour to increase Fredericton\u2019s market research.\nHi! My name is Lulu Pastrana. I am on my fourth year at St Thomas University completing an honours degree in Psychology. I was born and raised in Morelia, a city in Mexico on the Pacific ocean side. I decided to study psychology because in case you didn\u2019t know, our brain accounts for 2% of our weight but contains 100 billion neurons that are responsible for every single detail that makes you, you! It is the most intricate and mysterious thing in the universe. Isn't that worth studying?\nMy major has played a key role for me being able to fulfill this position. Marketing requires understanding people...\nAt Ignite Fredericton, one of our key priorities is to establish long-term partnerships between the public and private sector that will assure newcomers\u2019 needs are met all through the settlement and integration process. Meet Amgad Zaky, Ignite Fredericton\u2019s new Local Immigration Partnership Coordinator, whom with great enthusiasm and passion will help drive the city\u2019s econ...\nI came from Pakistan, a part of the developing world which is mostly known through the lens of international news. I was born and raised in Karachi and then moved to Islamab...\nMeet our new Investment Attraction Specialist\nForeign direct investment helps Fredericton reach its full economic potential by providing capital to enhance existing industries, boost productivity and create new employment opportunities in the process. Securing investment that will maximize long-term economic growth for the city is one of Ignite Fredericton\u2019s top priorities. Our vibrant economy is taking its place on the global stage and Sarah Corey Hollohan, our new Investment Attraction Specialist, will help us to accomplish this mission.\nWe asked Sarah to introduce herself to the Fredericton Community. Here is what she had to say:\nI was born and raised in Fredericton. I attended UNB Business graduating in 2005 with an honors in Human Resources and a minor in Entrepreneurship. After graduation, I began working with entrepreneurs through local and provincial economic development organizations and haven\u2019t looked back. I have worked with all stag...\nWelcome Jenny Knutsson to the team!\nOur team continues to grow! Today, we would like to welcome Jenny Knutsson to the role of Local Immigration Partnership of Fredericton(LIPF) Coordinator.\nBorn and raised in the United States, Jenny has worked with a wide-range of organizations at varied levels. 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Already familiar with the business landscape, and having been praised for his dedication and passion by those in the program, Chris was a great addition to our team here at Ignite Fredericton:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 11195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fiddlerman.com/forum/learning-to-play/wanted-a-learning-to-read-music-source-that-focuses-on-violin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:07Z", "digest": "sha1:RBEBHI2FP6N2SHHCJXYT27SA3IK36G7E", "length": 2391, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "fiddlerman.com", "title": "Fiddle talk - VIOLIN DISCUSSION FORUM - Playing the violin | LEARN TO PLAY THE VIOLIN FOR FREE!", "raw_content": "Wanted: A learning to read music source that focuses on 'violin'\nI know that there a thousand and one books, CDs, DVDs and such. But when you start looking at them one of the first things you see is a piano keyboard.\nI don't really want to know where the notes are on a keyboard. I'm learning to play a fiddle. Yes, I know that there violin fingering charts but what I'm looking for is a learn to read music resource that is aimed at the violinist.\nI only know of one such place I've run across... if this helps.\nhttps://fiddlerman.com/forum/learning-to-play/wanted-a-learning-to-read-music-source-that-focuses-on-violin/#spPostForm\n@Ferret - Hi John,\nI know you kind of stressed no finger charts, but this might be of some help anyway to give you a little more complete picture. And it's just for violin.\nThe two links I posted below are on the same site:\nThis first link shows you the violin notes as you see them on sheet music, plus the fingering. And if you click on the notes you can hear what they're supposed to sound like:\nhttp://www.violinonline.com/fi.....vanced.htm\nThe second link which is found under Music Theory on the site, shows you how to read music, and also gives you two tips for remembering the notes and where they are on sheet music.\nhttp://www.violinonline.com/no.....eading.htm\nThe tips they give for remembering the written note positions is the same as what my piano teacher taught me many years ago, and I never forgot it.\nETA: Sorry - forgot to mention that under the Music Theory section, there's other areas to help you learn more, such as dynamics and key signatures, etc.\nThere's also a section on the site for viola.\nI hope this is of some help\n@cdennyb\nWell you better pick up your 'A' and put it back on again. You may need it sometime IMO LOL\n@Feathers\nThanks for that. Very useful. One of the things that I needed was in the first post. The note fingerlings on the staff. I was aware of the egbdf and the face. It's just getting my mind to pin them on the finger board that is the problem\nhttps://fiddlerman.com/fiddle-learning-tools/violin-fingering-game/\nhttps://fiddlerman.com/fiddle-learning-tools/rhythm-counting-game/\nIf you press on the blue scales button on the Violin Fingering Game you can choose a key and put the mouse over any note to see where it is located on the fingerboard.\nHeh heh, I guess Denny just felt that you're deserting him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 451, "original_length": 16684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fiddlerman.com/forum/playing-the-violin/pythagorean-tuning-or-equal-temperment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:23Z", "digest": "sha1:IXXFGBR43HAEFEZSL6JB7O63Q3BA7SHV", "length": 13934, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "fiddlerman.com", "title": "Fiddle talk - VIOLIN DISCUSSION FORUM - Playing the violin | LEARN TO PLAY THE VIOLIN FOR FREE!", "raw_content": "Pythagorean tuning or equal temperment?\nDon't know if ya'll have seen this, but it is interesting to note.\nSome of us have definitely seen it before. It is a pretty good explanation of the different temperings and how that are usually used.\nOne of the many neat things about violin and the other fretless bowed strings is that you have that sort of flexibility.\nI saw that video recently and have been meaning to ask about it.\nI've been able to think of some questions to begin to understand it.\n1) Is this issue of Just vs. Pythagorean partly, mostly, or completely outside of the context of Bluegrass, Country, and other popular genres that have heavy involvement of equal-tempered instruments such as mandolin and guitar?\n2) In the first fifteen seconds he states, \"Most of the time we use the Pythagorean system. Any scale, melody, or passage with one line of music will sound cleaner with large whole steps, narrow half steps, large major thirds, narrow minor thirds, and high seventh or leading tones.\" In this context, is the pitch of each note always considered in terms of its interval with the tonic? Or maybe its interval with the root of the current chord? Or its interval with one or more of its neighbors? Or something else? Do those answers change when considering segments longer than one line?\nI think \"one line of music\" refers to a melodic line for a single instrument, and not one line as in the few bars we see in one pass from left to right on a page of score.\nHi Uzi\nYes, have seen it before and I'm sure it is a good explanation of the differences.\nBut I'm equally sure, that being the 'late starter' that I am, unfortunately I will not be able to put it to good use. Darn\nAnd it's a beautiful piece of music, but I think that I'm doomed to playing solo by the campfire.\nNot a bad fate but.......\nVery interesting. I hope to play those pieces in my life time. I guess I have the bar high. \ud83d\ude42\nThank you @Uzi for the link.\nIndeed, it's interesting and it's also the beauty and power of the instrument.\nMy ear is trained enough and I can hear sympathetic vibrations well enough that if I concentrate, I am able to play the most-used scales (G, D, C, F, etc.) pretty accurately, according to equal temperament, without the tuner, often hitting a green light on every note. I can do the same with simple melodies. I play perhaps half the time without the tuner.\nWhen I am more relaxed and not keeping such close track of my points of reference, I find that I am hitting notes that sound good and sound right on---sound as good as or better than the equal-temperament pitches. But the tuner tells me they aren't on the ET scale. I'm pretty sure they aren't random pitches, pretty sure there is something natural about them.\nSo I seem to be coming up against the issues treated in the video. I think I've been experiencing similar things for some time, so I don't consider this an issue only for advanced players.\nWarning.. Long post. Probably boring to most folks, if not also confusing. Feel free to skip it. If you do decide to read it, might want to get a fresh cup of coffee, walk the dog, go to the bathroom and maybe even pack a lunch before reading it. Don't say I didn't warn you..\nPersonally, I think it is something quite natural, RosinedUp.\nPythagorean tempering is what most people default to if they are singing or whistling a melody with no accompaniment. Pythagoras didn't invent it, he noted some mathematical relationships in how people sung, and what sounded good to people. One doesn't have to learn it to use it. For the most part, it is how an unaccompanied singer will tend to sing, even if they have no training in music.\nJust intonation, aside from complicated descriptions of the frequencies and etc is actually just \"fine tuning\" the harmony a bit when playing doublestops or chords. The major or minor third from the root that is \"dead on\" by equal tempering (like your electronic tuner) doesn't sound quite as nice or \"sweet\" to the ear as when it is adjusted a little.\nI think that adjustment is just a natural reaction when one gets to the point in learning where they have been using doublestops and chords for a while.\nEqual tempering also is good in it's way, and a player will naturally adjust to play with it when playing against something like piano accompaniment.\nWhat was good about the invention of equal tempering, in my opinion, is that it allowed musical instruments like the piano to become more affordable and easier to play. Do some research and you'll find some of the wild things that were done earlier to try and make harpsichords (and later the pianos) that could play in just intonation. The keyboards were more complex, or they needed much more complex shifting tuning systems. Fewer could afford to have one, and fewer could learn to play them.\nThat simpler system involves some compromises, though. No key or commonly used interval sounds terrible, but they also don't sound as good/sweet as they *could*. Still, it is workable and sounds at least pretty good, and it allows more players to be able to afford something like a piano and learn how to play it. Standardization is a mixed blessing.. It makes some things easier at the cost of making some things a bit less optimal.\nThe problem with the equal tempered system is that while the comparatively simple mathematics can seem appealing, few things in nature exactly follow a regular mathematical proportion. The human ear is made of assorted organic materials and has a shape, it was not constructed as a mathematically precise measuring instrument. It would be tempting to think of equal tempering as \"more correct\" because of it's mathematical regularity, but that is not exactly how the ear perceives things. Still as a compromise, it is a very useful one in some ways.\nConsider your electronic tuner, for example.. There are some on the market that can do the different temperings or offer 'sweetened' tunings. But they cost more, because they have to be a bit more complex. So fewer people would have them if they weren't mostly standardized to equal tempering. They'd also be less likely to come free with inexpensive violin or guitar beginner outfits. LOL\nPoint of trivia.. Pianos, in real life, aren't actually tuned in perfect equal tempering either. Since the human ear tends to perceive lower pitches as being a bit sharper than they actually are and perceive higher pitches as being a little flatter than they actually are, pianos are intentionally tuned a bit off the pure mathematical/theoretical perfect equal tempering to compensate for that. As you go down from the middle C octave, the lower octaves are tuned progressively lower and as you go up from the middle C octave, the higher octaves are tuned progressively more sharp. The difference, from one octave to the next is slight. If my memory serves correctly, I think it is around 35 cents (since I know you prefer cents as the increment, rather than old hold-outs like me who insist on Hz..LOL), spread out over the entire range of over 7 octaves. A little over a third of a half step.\nMy point in mentioning it is that it is a concession to the properties of the human ear and human perception. It is a concession made even in an \"equal tempered\" instrument like piano. The Pythagorean and Just tempering systems are also concessions to the human ear and perception. Doing what is necessary to make the music we play sound as good as possible. All of the tempering systems have some degree of compromise, in that they do some things better than they do others. With a flexible little instrument like the violin, we can adjust our playing slightly to do what works best for a given circumstance.\nI can't claim to know how the different tempering systems are actually practised in classical musical training for violin. But I can say from personal experience that the longer one plays, the more one tends to automatically incorporate whatever little adjustments it takes to make one's playing sound good. We get increasingly more aware of \"Is that 'in tune'? Does it sound good? Can I make it just a little better?\" I don't know if most players actually formally study it so much as becoming aware of it and allowing oneself to make the adjustments, in most cases.\nPersonally, I think of it as something that mostly comes naturally over time, as a part of one's development as a musician. Just part of what we learn to do in the process of learning to make things sound as good as we possibly can. A listener most likely will just perceive it as skill, since it sounds better to their ears.\nPerhaps you are correct, RU and it is not an \"advanced only\" topic. But I would have to say that since it was only barely touched on in music theory classes when I was working on my 2 yr degree as a music major, it apparently isn't \"basics that every beginner should worry about\" either.\n@DanielB\nI read the whole thing. And then poured a glass of 'string cleaner'\nI'm sure that I'll never understand all this stuff. Old dogs 'can' learn new tricks, but it seems there must be a limit.\nHowever, it may never be an issue as I don't actually know anyone that plays a piano or any other instrument for that matter\nThe way that I see it us if I'm playing solo, it doesn't really matter.\nAm I right, or have I had a tad too much 'string cleaner'?\nThank you Daniel!. The penultimate para sums it up all. This topic took me to many sites and youtube videos. But I could not understand anything, as music theory is not my cup of coffee.\nI give up........pass the string cleaner.\n@DanielB you said:\nI think that's the major point. It is an advanced topic, from the perspective of mathematical elegance of frequency distributions or the physics of harmonics, or from the perspective of how humans differentiate and distinguish musical tones as distinct from noise, but not from the perspective of how one plays. The practice of shifting between equal temperament and just or pythagorean happens automatically and subliminally, whether or not one understands the theory, the mathematics or the physics -- which is a pretty interesting topic in its own right.\nwhoa Dan.. that was good. I read it this morning in bed.. and at my desk with coffee. Nice writing. Nice article. \ud83d\ude42\n@Uzi: Exactly! The terminology and mathematical models were developed to talk about what sounds good and how it happens.. But the actual shift between the different temperings is something that one learns to do automatically, even if one never learned the terms or equations, never looked at the tables of numbers.\n@coolpinkone: You're lucky it didn't put you right back to sleep, Toni. LOL\n@Ferret: You want a good laugh? You're already using this stuff. I hear it when you play Skye Boat Song, for example, you're settling right into that Pythagorean system. When you use doublestops more, you'll slide right into Just tempering, and when you get around to playing against a guitar or piano backing track, you'll ease right into Equal tempering. Your ears and fingers know more than you think. LOL Trust your ears and let your fingers do what they need to to make it sound good, and it'll come to you.\nOne of the things I have learned about this stuff in the past couple years with hearing different players here develop, is that it does come naturally. They never mentioned that in classes, but it would have been nice if they had.\nThat's one of the reasons I feel the original post was a really good video on it. It is not more technical than it needs to be, and it shows it as something pretty easy and explains that it is just what we do to make the music sound good when we're playing in different situations. Definitely easier to understand and \"get\" than the explanations I got when I asked questions in college. LOL\n@DanielB I totally did not fall asleep. Because I was trying to get this. I know that there was a class this past semester when good old Pythagorus stuff was mentioned. More than anything I recall a young woman arguing with the professor on how to correctly pronoun his name. I recall the Professor not agreeing with her. I recall a part of the class where everyone was in a coma... I took vigorous notes and I was only able to gather the gist of what he was saying. We were not tested on it, and if I had been, I would have surely failed. ha ha It is nice to have the forum and good conversations like this so slowly put this \"theory\" stuff back in to my brain. I always appreciate the information, even if I don't have any \"brainy\" words to add.\nYour thoughts are always plenty \"brainy\", Toni.\nAnd the notion of a prof and one of the other students arguing over how to pronounce Pythagoras is hilarious! Neither of them were alive back then, so neither of them can actually know if for a certain fact. And since it wouldn't actually matter anyway, a great example of how people can get sidetracked by a detail and miss some of the actual lesson they could have had. LOL\nThanks, @DanielB.\nGreat posts, great information.\nViolin is an amazing instrument, able to use different temperings at will, combination of them or even two of them at the same time.\nThat is sooooooo true Dan.\nI used to fly paragliders, and while I do understand the basics of aerodynamics, I really know nothing of the mathematics of it. Lift/drag coefficient just didn't come into it while you where doing it. They just took care of themselves.\nI would fly by the 'feel' of my butt in my harness. I could feel every slight turbulence and change in lift as it was transmitted by my wing, through the 'lines' to my harness.\nIf things started to go 'pear shaped' you just fixed it. You really didn't have time to think about it. But I would learn from it and be less likely to make that particular mistake again\nI approach playing the fiddle in much the same way. The thing that the fiddle has over the paraglider it that the fiddle is no where near as dangerous when you get it wrong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 628, "original_length": 32016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://film-review.org/2012/08/30/rango/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:01Z", "digest": "sha1:7DM4FUI5KT7WVM5EHT5EPAET2VE6B5BU", "length": 3146, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "film-review.org", "title": "Rango | Franz Patrick's Film Archive", "raw_content": "A chameleon named Rango (voiced by Johnny Depp) was throwing a play for himself, an inanimate fish and a headless barbie being his co-stars, when his terrarium was literally thrown off the car after his owner violently swerved on the freeway. He was left to fend for himself in the cruel desert until he met Beans (Isla Fisher), a strange lizard who unconsciously froze up from time to time, and the two headed to a town called Dirt. Beans and the Mayor (Ned Beatty) informed him that the town\u2019s residents were in desperate need of water. Rango was to be sheriff in order to maintain law and order in the land. Written by John Logan and directed by Gore Verbinski, \u201cRango\u201d was an unusual animated film because the characters were not adorable, more than half of the jokes appealed to adults, and the western milieu were not always easy on the eyes. However, I enjoyed it for those reasons because those elements were not something I immediately expected. I found myself focusing on the character\u2019s facial expressions and body parts because they ranged from homely to downright strange. It was difficult not to appreciate the level of detail added in, for instance, a possum\u2019s hair and the way they moved when the creature walked or the manner in which a lizard\u2019s scale changed texture when it was doused with water. But the visuals were not only impressive when the camera remained static. There were a number of rather inspired visual acrobatics. I had two favorite action sequences. The first was when Rango was hunted by a hawk and he took refuge in an empty bottle. Just when we thought our protagonist was safe, it turned out that the hawk was smart enough to grasp the bottle by its neck, fly to a great height, and let go. The second involved a battle in the canyons between Rango and Dirtonians against the thieving moles that knew how to ride bats. They used guns and other explosives; it was absolute chaos but it was astonishing to watch because the things happening on the background were as interesting as things happening on the foreground. Halfway through the picture, I realized that perhaps the film was not for young children. Topics like death, torture, and mysticism were explored. Rattlesnake Jake (Bill Nighy) was introduced and exhibited true menace. One could easily get the feeling that he could eat any Dirtonian in one big gulp and not feel bad about it. The snake\u2019s presence reminded me of Ron Clements and John Musker\u2019s \u201cAladdin\u201d when Jafar turned into a giant cobra. There was also a scene involving a Clint Eastwood-type figure known as the Spirit of the West (Timothy Olyphant) when Rango experienced an identity crisis. While I thought it was bearable, I wasn\u2019t sure children could endure speeches about one\u2019s place in the world. I enjoyed \u201cRango\u201d because it wasn\u2019t afraid to be different. It wasn\u2019t cute but not all animated films need to be.\nanimation, bill nighy, gore verbinski, isla fisher, john logan, johnny depp, movies, ned beatty, rango, review\nFive Easy Pieces \u2192\nDefinitely a film to be enjoyed by film enthusiasts.\nI thought this one was much more clever than it lets on. I was hugely surprised by it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 23470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://financialiq.usbank.com/index/manage-your-business/starting-a-business/podcast-building-a-business-in-a-creative-field.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:58Z", "digest": "sha1:3WM3W4LX3KNWARA5RSCGSUKR7DZURKM2", "length": 865, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "financialiq.usbank.com", "title": "Podcast: Building a business in a creative field", "raw_content": "Podcast: Building a business in a creative field\nMilwaukee hip-hop artist Genesis Renji discusses his music career, the record label he launched and the financial responsibilities of building a business in the music industry.\nWhen your passion for music turns into a business, you need to start thinking a little differently. In this episode of the U.S. Bank Power of Possible podcast, a musician-turned-businessman shares what he learned when he launched a new record label. The company he\u2019s building not only helps him become more successful in his own music career, it also gives him a way to pay it forward to other artists in his community.\nReady to start your journey as a creative entrepreneur? 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(more) Their strange cases include UFO sightings, alien abductions and just about anything else paranormal.\nSeason 11 Season 10 Season 9 Season 8 Season 7 Season 6 Season 5 Season 4 Season 3 Season 2 Season 1\nDavid Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Mitch Pileggi, William B. Davis, Robert Patrick, Annabeth Gish, Robbie Amell, Lauren Ambrose, Laurie Holden, Jerry Hardin, Steven Williams, Cary Elwes, James Pickens Jr., Nicholas Lea, Tom Braidwood, Bruce Harwood, Dean Haglund\nPeople who like The X-Files also like\nWhen is The X-Files back?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forodeeducacion.com/ojs/index.php/fde/search/authors/view?firstName=Jyrki&middleName=&lastName=Konkka&affiliation=Helsinki%20Metropolia%20University%20of%20Applied%20Sciences&country=FI?firstName=Jyrki&middleName=&lastName=Konkka&affiliation=Helsinki%20Metropolia%20University%20of%20Applied%20Sciences&country=FI", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KPYAJK7FVF3RROTQSD2C7DKA3F3UGGRJ", "length": 174, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "forodeeducacion.com", "title": "Detalles de autor/a", "raw_content": "Konkka, Jyrki, Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, Finlandia\nAn Ecosocial Approach to Well-Being: A Solution to the Wicked Problems in the Era of Anthropocene", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://forums.plentyoffish.com/user/ericwashere123.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:42Z", "digest": "sha1:RQG47UC2W4OTUL6TEU6RPWENIJIDCNPK", "length": 784, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "forums.plentyoffish.com", "title": "Forums where ericwashere123 last posted", "raw_content": "View Last 25 Posts by ericwashere123 HERE\nLast 25 active threads ericwashere123 has participated in:\nTime Travel-Is it possible? 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RC in John Thaxter\u2019s hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 495\u2013498). printed:Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:626\u2013628.\nIn this letter, received by Congress on 19 Feb. 1781, John Adams sent intelligence derived from newspaper reports originating at Stockholm, Ratisbone (Regensburg, Germany), Amsterdam, and The Hague. Included were reports on Russian demands for Swedish compliance with the principles of the armed neutrality, Russian naval preparations in the Baltic and White seas, the possibility of Estaing assuming command of a combined allied fleet, Dutch naval developments, and the progress of efforts to form a \u201cuniversal Code for the Sea.\u201d Finally, Adams provided an English translation of Hol\u00adland\u2019s memorial of 13 April to the States General regarding that body\u2019s reply to Prince Gallitzin\u2019s memorial.\nRC in John Thaxter\u2019s hand (PCC, No. 84, I, f. 495\u2013498.) printed: (Wharton, ed., Dipl. Corr. Amer. Rev. description begins Francis Wharton, ed., The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, Washington, 1889; 6 vols. description ends , 3:626\u2013628.)\n\u201cFrom John Adams to the President of Congress, No. 51, 24 April 1780,\u201d Founders Online, National Archives, version of January 18, 2019, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-09-02-0126. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Papers of John Adams, vol. 9, March 1780\u200a\u2013\u200aJuly 1780, ed. Gregg L. Lint and Richard Alan Ryerson. 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In this prize you'll find various lipsticks, blush, eyeliner, primers, and more.\nEnter this competition on the Glitz and Glamour website for the opportunity to be the lucky winner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 1895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://freebieswithattitude.com/tips-my-most-valuable-advice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:27Z", "digest": "sha1:MHQHRHZYH7GHKMVX5KJUKICJSNLYT5DY", "length": 2388, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "freebieswithattitude.com", "title": "Tips \u2013 My Most Valuable Advice | FREEBIESWITHATTITUDE", "raw_content": "Factors To Consider When Choosing The Best Hunting Gear.\nIf the idea of the woods, Mother Nature and the adventure excites you then hunting is for you. The best attire for this activity is clothing that the animals that you are hunting cannot spot easily because like any other activity, you need the right stuff to have a great time and success too. The whole idea is to get as close to the animal that you are planning to hit as possible without them detecting you, and at the same time stay safe from the ones that you do not want noticing or seeing you for safety purposes. You will find a good number of the brands and the sellers of the hunting clothing out there, and that means that you need to know what to look for out there.\nThere is the 3d camo suit and the blaze orange camo that are just what you need for the hunting adventure. Unlike humans, animals are more sensitive to the blue wave length do not see orange color like orange but rather gray or brown and that means that you will camouflage. A better quality of the suit will do the job the best and more importantly, you will not be purchasing another one any time soon. How long the company has been operation, the credentials and the legitimacy are among the first things that you should look at because with the online shopping, it is relatively easy to get a shoddy-quality products. There is that veteran company, accredited by the manufacturer with a history of offering the best of the quality and this is the kind that you should be looking for. A place where there is great and a wide variety of collection is also ideal because there is more chance that you will get what you are looking for.\nThere are a number of things that will affect the pricing and among them is the quality. This is why the very cheap offers are never a great choice. The best thing here is to look for a seller that has the best quality of the 3d camo suit or the blaze orange camo that you are looking for the fairest prices. The best details on the kind of quality that you are looking at will come from the clients that the seller has sold to previously, the third party testimonials. The third party reviews comes from the clients with no conflict of interest and unlike the company therefore tells it as it is. 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Ballet decors, wallpaper, photography, fashion, architecture, the future \"film designer\" gained hands-on experience before becoming chief set designer in 1937.\nHis friendship with Jacques Pr\u00e9vert, who nicknamed him \"Trau\", led to his working with \"poetic realist\" filmmakers, especially with Marcel Carn\u00e9 and Jean Gr\u00e9millon, whom Pr\u00e9vert wrote for. Trauner was responsible for the sets of Port of Shadows (1938), H\u00f4tel du Nord (id.), Daybreak (1939), The Devil's Envoys (1942), Children of Paradise (1943)...\nHis talent opened the doors to Hollywood, where he worked until 1974 with the biggest names, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder (he won the Oscar for best art direction for The Apartment), Jules Dassin, Stanley Donen, Howard Hawks and even John Huston. The exhibit \"Alexandre Trauner 50 years of cinema\", presented for the first time in 1986 at the Beaux-Arts school in Paris, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the French Cin\u00e9math\u00e8que, is still in circulation and contains 180 pieces, models, paintings and drawings.\nMy name is Alexandre Trauner. When I was born, they called me \"S\u00e1ndor\" in Hungary because I was born in Hungary. And my age, it's rather... I don't remember anymore. And my profession, it's designing sets.\nWhat are you doing in this Beaux-Arts chapel? I'm doing my exhibit, an exhibit of 50 years of work in cinema.\nHow many sets, exactly, have you designed for films?\nThat, I don't know exactly. Somewhere around 70, 75. I've never counted, I never bothered counting.\nWith lots of urban decors?\nYes. I've done Paris quite a bit, and... then we made what are known as peripheral towns, which surround the capital.\nDo you feel like a voyeur of the city?\nA voyeur? Oh yes, I'm a voyeur. I like being one very much.\nThis is \"H\u00f4tel du Nord\". It's a design that I did for the construction that we did in the Billancourt studio. Saint-Martin Canal, that's a bit like a poor man's Venice. You know, there are canals, there are boats and the children really love to play next to them. \"Daybreak\", the peripheral working class neighbourhood where the unusual aspect, obviously, for me, brought out a great conglomerate, heterogeneous, suicidal sadness. \"Les Portes de la Nuit\", those were the good days for Carn\u00e9 and Pr\u00e9vert. It was Paris at the beginning of the Liberation, when the family hadn't completely disappeared, when people have to queue for food. It was a transition period and it's an important film. \"Port of Shadows\", a street in Le Havre, which is obviously covered with fog. It's the Zabel boutique, the paved streets before the war, since Le Havre was destroyed, and now, it's a modern city. It's a street in \"Irma la Douce\" which is a street in one of the old Halles neighbourhoods. Me, I really liked Baltard, which was magnificent compared to what they replaced it with afterwards. It's not the time period that I miss. 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Fans worldwide have been waiting a long time for this moment \u2013 their last album, 3D \u2013 was released in 2002, just a few months after Lisa \u2018Left Eye\u2019 Lopes\u2019 tragic and untimely passing. Not only does this year mark the comeback of the group, it also marks the 25th anniversary of their remarkable breakthrough album Ooooooohhh\u2026 On the TLC Tip. TLC\u2019s debut album was playful, unapologetic and affirming for young women \u2013 particularly young women across the black diaspora.\nTLC\u2019s ability to be crazy, sexy and cool through their music is why they are, and always will be, one of the greatest girl groups of all time.\nWith the release of their new album just days away, it\u2019s only right that we prepare ourselves by delving into the TLC archives. Let\u2019s be fair: their back catalogue is strong with an endless amount of vibes. But here are five reasons for you to set your alarm for 00:00 on June 30.\n\u2018Ain\u2019t 2 Proud 2 Beg\u2019 by TLC\nTLC\u2019s first ever single. It\u2019s fun, it\u2019s playful and it conveys everything we absolutely adore about the 90s. The music video \u2013 bold for its time \u2013 features T-Boz, Left Eye and Chili wearing condoms attached to their baggy clothes. TLC sing about the societal pressures that young women feel when it comes to being sexually active, but also highlight the importance of women recognising that they have agency over their own bodies and can do exactly what they want with it.\nIf you want a real treat, check out \u2018Ain\u2019t 2 Proud 2 Beg (Smoothed Down Remix)\u2019. Thank me later.\n\u2018Creep\u2019 by TLC\n\u2018Creep\u2019 was the lead single from TLC\u2019s second album, CrazySexyCool. Produced and written by long-time collaborator Dallas Austin, the iconic change in musical style and image marked a huge reinvention in TLC\u2019s career. With the release of \u2018Creep\u2019, TLC showed the world that they were no longer girls \u2013 they were women.\n\u2018Diggin\u2019 on You\u2019 by TLC\nIt\u2019s a sunny Sunday afternoon in July, you have your friends around and you\u2019re enjoying a few anthems whilst chilling with some rum punch \u2013 or in TLC\u2019s case \u2013 \u201cchilling with some Kool-Aid\u201d. \u2018Diggin\u2019 On You\u2019 begins to play and you have a spot of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu. It is at that very moment that you realise this is exactly what it means to be \u201clike peace in a groove\u201d. TLC weren\u2019t lying.\n\u2018Waterfalls\u2019 by TLC\nMoving away from the chilled vibes is a track that is heavy, with an important message. \u2018Waterfalls\u2019 is one of TLC\u2019s biggest tracks \u2013 if not, the biggest. It references many issues that plagued the 90s \u2013 namely, HIV/AIDs, and it was the first number-one song to ever reference this issue. Left Eye\u2019s rap is one of the best rap features on an R&B song. And with its calm but desperate horns, memorable chorus and drum line, this song is one of the greatest R&B tracks of all time.\n\u2018No Scrubs\u2019 by TLC\nBefore Destiny\u2019s Child\u2019s \u2018Independent Women\u2019, there was TLC\u2019s \u2018No Scrubs\u2019. And no list would be complete without it. Released in 1999, after the group had been away for four years, it was basically them saying, \u201cWe\u2019re still the best of all time \u2013 in case y\u2019all forgot\u201d. They were the queens of reinvention and if there\u2019s any TLC track that portrays this, it is \u2018No Scrubs\u2019.\nWhat are some of your favourite TLC songs? Share your thoughts on our Facebook Page or via @fringefreq on Twitter.\nImage: Sony Music/PR\nTags: 90s music, Featured, Five of the Best, Lisa Lopes, RnB music, Round-ups, TLC, US music\nPortobello Rising Festival 2017 postponed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fueloilnews.com/2006/10/01/center-of-attention/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:14Z", "digest": "sha1:2CUZSFR4K4WF26UVPXNKMA5ZI3QD5F3N", "length": 8488, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "fueloilnews.com", "title": "Center of attention | Fuel Oil News", "raw_content": "Home > Diversification > Center of attention\nREHAU radiant heating and cooling system facilitates energy efficiency at Earth Rangers Centre\nA REHAU radiant heating and cooling system was recently installed in one of Canada\u2019s most innovative and energy-efficient buildings, the Earth Rangers Centre in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada. The 60,000-square-foot facility, which officially opened in October 2004, functions as a wildlife refuge and hospital and as an education center for children. The facility houses a world-class veterinarian research and training hospital, interactive educational displays for the public and will soon include one of Canada\u2019s only oil-spill response units dedicated to wildlife.\nThe ecologically conscious building was designed with leading-edge environmental technologies. These technologies, in conjunction with forward-thinking design and engineering, will enable the facility to use approximately 63-percent less energy than the Canadian standard dictated by the Model National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings.\nTo qualify for public funding as a \u2018green\u201d building, the center had a number of criteria to fill, which included: low energy use; water conservation and re-use; enhanced indoor environmental conditions; materials with high recycled content and low embodied energy; and minimal environmental impact on the site.\nAdditional unique design elements were necessary to accommodate the building\u2019s unusual full-time occupants: beavers, deer, raptors and songbirds, to name a few. Treatment and rehabilitation rooms for these special residents also demanded durability, water-resistance and as few hiding and escape nooks as possible. As a health-care facility, good ventilation and comfortable living conditions for the ailing animals were also a priority.\nTo meet these demands, the project\u2019s engineers specified hydronic radiant heating and cooling. \u2018REHAU was chosen to supply the system based on their innovative technology and their ability to provide comprehensive on-site support throughout the project,\u201d said Richard Lay, senior design engineer at Enermodal Engineering Ltd., and engineer of record for the Earth Rangers project.\nThe Earth Rangers Centre is one of the first buildings in North America with 100-percent reliance on radiant heating and cooling.\n\u2018This technology offers a number of advantages over traditional forced-air systems,\u201d said Mark Euteneier, installer and president of Klimatrol Environmental Systems. \u2018A radiant system benefits the environment by using less fuel, plus it is less costly to maintain. The REHAU system benefits the Earth Rangers project in particular, as it eliminates ductwork in which animals can hide, and it utilizes a concrete floor surface that\u2019s easy to clean and maintain.\u201d\nThe REHAU system also complements the building\u2019s energy-conserving structure-reinforced concrete with load-bearing masonry walls in the animal areas. The interior concrete walls and masonry are able to function as thermal storage, improving the comfort and energy performance of the building.\nFor the radiant heating and cooling system, 74,000 feet of REHAU\u2019s RAUPEX 02 Barrier pipe( 34,000 feet of 5/8-inch and 40,000 feet of 3/4-inch) was installed in more than 36,000 square feet of exposed concrete slabs at six-inch and 12-inch spacing. Tubing was suspended midway in the eight-inch to 12-inch thick slabs using chairs and six-inch by six-inch wire mesh between two layers of reinforcing steel. This placing provided an approximate 3-inch clearance for future fasteners to be drilled in below for pipe and duct hangers. Since slabs with radiant tubing cannot be core-drilled, significant coordination was required for the installation of the electrical conduit and mechanical slab penetrations.\nRAUPEX was installed in both the floor and ceiling, as well as in the cast-in-place skylights, in order to collect, distribute and maximize solar gain. A high-efficiency Viessmann Vertomat 1 million BTU output hot-water boiler was specified as the heat source.\nThe combined ceiling and floor slab mounting design enable the system to provide both efficient heating and cooling. The system\u2019s cooling function employs concrete slabs that are actively cooled to approximately 64F overnight using circulating water from a cooling tower. The slabs warm up slightly during the day as they absorb heat from the space. This technique provides much of the building\u2019s cooling energy on an average day and significantly cuts electricity use. A low-energy-consuming evaporative cooling tower provides most of the energy, supplemented by a small electric chiller. In all, the cooling load for ventilation and space conditioning is only 64 tons, less than half that of a comparably sized conventional building.\nThe heating function provides additional efficiency. \u2018Typically, for a low-energy building, if a slab has adequate capacity for cooling, it will have more than enough capacity for heating,\u201d explained Lay. \u2018Fortunately, overhead heating with low-temperature heated slabs does not produce radiant\nasymmetry, or \u2018hot-head syndrome,\u2019 and is comfortable when combined with a tight, well-insulated building envelope with high-performance windows.\u201d\nRadiant ceiling heating also creates a uniformly comfortable environment for the animals without the drafts, dust and noise sometimes associated with forced-air systems.\n\u2018So far it\u2019s been very comfortable here,\u201d said Phil Ruhl, facility manager for the Earth Rangers Centre. \u2018Due to the pleasing climate, there\u2019s also been a lot of interest in radiant heating systems from those touring the facility.\u201d\nCold weather with temperatures down to -13F posed a challenge during the winter installation of the system. Nonetheless, it was successfully installed with Klimatrol\u2019s supervision and tested as leak-free upon start-up.\n\u2018The flexible nature of RAUPEX allowed workers to quickly and easily install the pipe in the counterflow spiral loop design specifications provided by Klimatrol,\u201d said Euteneier.\nThe REHAU EVERLOC fitting system also proved to be an ideal solution during these challenging construction conditions.\n\u2018REHAU EVERLOC fittings provided the security of a high-quality repair coupling when several pipes were damaged due to the severe construction conditions and the rapid pace of the job,\u201d said Euteneier. \u2018Having the fittings on-site allowed us to continue the pace of the project with no slow-downs, and more importantly, no leaks.\u201d\nTwenty REHAU PRO-BALANCE manifolds were also installed to distribute flow to the various temperature-controlled zones.\n\u2018All manifolds were pressure tested to 68 psi prior to the concrete pour and throughout the duration of the project,\u201d Euteneier added.\nBecause the building also serves as a health-care facility, it required 100-percent outdoor air ventilation with no interior recirculation. To meet this demand, as well as enhance the building\u2019s energy efficiency, the ventilation system was designed using a total of nine 66-foot-long concrete \u2018earth tubes\u201d buried below the frost line. These tubes pre-temper the air prior to entering the building\u2019s air-handling unit by an average of 5F in winter and summer, further complementing the efficiencies of the radiant heating and cooling system.\nThe ventilation system was designed to reduce heating and cooling load energy requirements by 30 kW. This reduction provides a 12-percent increase in ventilation heat recovery effectiveness, and an estimated $7,000 per year operating cost reduction.\nIn all, the Earth Rangers ventilation system is believed to be the largest ground-heat exchange system of its type in a North American building.\nAs a complete system, the Earth Rangers Centre is an ideal example of how forward-thinking design can create cost and energy savings for the future. Currently up and running in Woodbridge, Ontario, the center welcomes public tours during regular operating hours.\n\u2018We are certainly enthusiastic about people seeing what the center does to help animals, as well as how it has been designed with energy efficiency as a top priority,\u201d said Lay. \u2018It is our hope that the building design, coupled with that of the heating and cooling systems, will be entertained for other construction projects in the near future.\u201d\nFor additional information on REHAU radiant heating and other building products, contact REHAU Incorporated, P.O. Box 1706, Leesburg, VA 20177. Phone: (800) 247-9445. Fax: (800) 627-3428. Web site: www.REHAU-NA.com/Construction.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 13588, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fueloilnews.com/2017/08/04/developing-a-biofuel-future/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTRHUURLQVIHZS7VJ335CB3FSKB3VFEB", "length": 2877, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "fueloilnews.com", "title": "Developing a Biofuel Future | Fuel Oil News", "raw_content": "Home > Uncategorized > Developing a Biofuel Future\nDeveloping a Biofuel Future\n\u201cThe long-term future of the heating oil industry depends on the development of a renewable liquid fuel,\u201d declared the program for the inaugural Northern New England Energy Conference, where John Huber, president of NORA, delivered an update on a biofuel project.\nYears ago, a patented process was developed to transform cellulosic material such as wood waste into a liquid for use in heating oil, but it has been used to produce only small volumes, Huber, president of the National Oilheat Research Alliance, told an audience at the conference.\nNow an effort is underway to arrange a field test of the liquid, possibly in heating equipment in the households of service technicians who would be well-qualified to monitor the equipment and provide reports, said Jamie Py, president and CEO of the Maine Energy Marketers Association. A field test could last through one heating season, possibly two, Py said.\nBiofine Technology in Framingham, Mass., said it converts cellulose into levulinic acid, which then can easily be converted to ethyl levulinate\u2014the liquid fuel. Biofine described the process in a presentation it prepared for the Northern New England conference.\nA pilot plant at the University of Maine\u2019s Technology Research Center, part of the university\u2019s Forest Bioproducts Research Institute in Old Town, Maine, can process up to a ton a day of wood fiber to make the levulinic acid for conversion to ethyl levulinate, and to make other biofuels and biochemicals, The Portland Press-Herald reported in May. The pilot plant was undergoing testing to determine whether it could operate on a commercial scale, the Press-Herald reported.\nThe pilot plant is a partnership between Biofine and the University of Maine. \u201cThe biggest obstacle now is financing,\u201d Stephen Fitzpatrick, president of Biofine Technology LLC, told The Press Herald, referring to potential commercial production.\nMaine is considered a suitable setting for production of the renewable liquid for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that paper mills in the state produce wood waste, the cellulosic material that can be used as the feedstock for the liquid fuel.\n\u201cDeveloping a fuel like this is obviously multi-years out,\u201d Huber observed during an interview after the conference. There are many questions about using cellulosic waste to make renewable liquid, Huber said, including: \u201cIs this fuel usable in our product? How would it interrelate with the heating oil? How would it relate with the biodiesel?\u201d Another question is how the liquid might interact with copper, steel and brass\u2014materials in oil-fired heating equipment.\nHuber said Dr. Thomas Butcher, director of the NORA Research & Education Center in Plainview, N.Y., is conducting testing of materials to try to answer such questions.\u2014Stephen Bennett", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 7950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fundblog.hu/page/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:07Z", "digest": "sha1:DGXKQ4CSGULZUYKPWMU2RJ7AZ73Q3D2J", "length": 3135, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "fundblog.hu", "title": "Fundblog | by HOLD Asset Management", "raw_content": "The Solution for the Immigrant Crisis\nWednesday, December 2nd, 2015 | 12:39 pm\nThe majority of Turkey expects a clear indication from the EU whether their country can join to the community. Our interviewee, Sinan \u00dclgen, chairman of\u2026\nThe US balance of trade slipped into negative territory in the 1970s, and the deficit has been on the increase ever since. The crisis slightly\u2026\nMonday, November 23rd, 2015 | 10:49 am\nFriday, November 13th, 2015 | 5:11 pm\nWhat is impossible in physics is possible in the complex world of the economy: something could happen just because people believe in it. Self-fulfilling prophecy\u2026\nWednesday, November 11th, 2015 | 11:19 am\nIn the previous part, I argued that instead of asset purchases or boosted lending, we could much more successfully avoid deflation and stimulate the economy\u2026\nChina is not the only problem. It is Poland too.\nWednesday, November 4th, 2015 | 10:44 am\nWhat happened in the last thirteen months is unbelievable: almost one and a half billion dollar capital left the emerging markets. This is the double\u2026\nEuro is the name of the new safe-haven currency. Or is it?\nTuesday, November 3rd, 2015 | 10:06 am\nEuro performs surprisingly well in the current financial storms, though, our according to our interviewee, market players who deem euro to be the new \u2018safe-haven\u2019,\u2026\nFriday, October 30th, 2015 | 3:12 pm\nAmerica dates Trump, but marries Hillary\u2026\nThursday, October 29th, 2015 | 5:39 pm\nAmerica owes its better economic productivity, and higher employment rate compared to Europe, to its remarkable openness and flexibility originating from its very culture \u2013\u2026\nTuesday, October 27th, 2015 | 10:07 am\nEurope is on the verge of a new recession and deflation. Money should be printed and injected into the bloodstream of the economy. The question\u2026\nFriday, October 23rd, 2015 | 5:42 pm\nThursday, October 22nd, 2015 | 9:00 am\nWednesday, October 21st, 2015 | 9:00 am\nInflation is outpacing the interest paid on bank account deposits, making it hard to \u201cget a return\u201d. Realistic alternatives include: treasuries, real estate and mutual\u2026\nIn an attempt to cash in on the recent popularity and prevalence of bitcoin, inventors have launched a good number (i.e. hundreds) of cryptocurrencies. What\u2026\nThursday, October 15th, 2015 | 10:39 am\nNot long ago, there lived an American economist who thought that it would be best to close down the Federal Reserve, the US central bank\u2026.\nDespite a zero interest rate the threat of falling prices is imminent, which hurts the economy rather badly. In a famous 2002 speech, former Fed\u2026\nThe fact that the average wage in Estonia has passed the 1000 Euro is an important milestone while its economy is rapidly aligning itself with\u2026\nTuesday, October 6th, 2015 | 9:00 am\nHistorical experience shows that excessive inflation will hurt an economy badly. Taking their time in learning the lesson, governments tasked their central banks with the\u2026\nTuesday, September 29th, 2015 | 11:46 am\nIt\u2019s big news whenever a market guru shares his thoughts on the markets and where he expects them to go in the future. Jeffrey Gundlach,\u2026\nMonday, September 28th, 2015 | 3:10 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 6961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fursylima.wordpress.com/tag/advice/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:24Z", "digest": "sha1:CDJJX3JH4GPGCGNLXHFN3NI6YAMUC37Y", "length": 14360, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "fursylima.wordpress.com", "title": "advice \u2013 Danielle Lima \u2013 Corners of my mind", "raw_content": "10 Things I Want to Teach My Kid\nOff to school to learn stuff. But there is so much that I want to teach him that you can\u2019t learn in school.\nWe are only on this earth for so long. We only have so many opportunities to learn from life, and we learn so much from our parents, and older relatives, and those that are supposed to be smarter than us. It\u2019s human nature. We learn from and emulate those that set examples for us. Those that we love, those that we trust, those that raise us. Sometimes we learn about the type of person that we want to be, sometimes we watch them struggle with things and resolve never to have to deal with their issues ourselves. Either way you look at it, either way it goes, it\u2019s still learning something.\nI have a 5 year old son. I love him to pieces. He is the most important thing in the world to me. People come and go in your life. But your children come from you and they will always be yours. You will always bear some type of responsibility where they are concerned, and it is up to us as parents to do everything we can to give them a good start. Good values, the ability to see what is right from what is wrong, and to be able to prioritize things in life so we don\u2019t let trivial things get in the way of what is truly important. We need to give them the tools to have good relationships, to treat people with respect and dignity, and to grow up to be aware individuals that will contribute in a meaningful way to society.\nIn order to do this, we need to teach them things. By example and by just plain telling them and showing them how. If I leave this world tomorrow if I get hit by a bus, or 50 years from now from natural causes (what I\u2019m hoping for) or anything in between, there are things that I want to teach my kid before I go. Lessons that I want him to learn from me, and from my example.\nThe top 10 things, in no particular order are:\n1. Take risks. Don\u2019t be afraid to put yourself out there. If someone gives you an opportunity to do something, don\u2019t stand back shaking your head because you\u2019re scared. Take the plunge and do things that are out of your comfort zone. You\u2019ll have a lot more regrets in life because of the things you didn\u2019t do because you were scared than the things you did do.\n2. Be responsible. This ties in closely with taking risks. Every little thing you do has an impact. It impacts your life and the lives of those around you. Always think about how your actions may reflect on others. Think twice before you speak. If it looks negative, think twice about it and tread very carefully. Rely on your basic knowledge of right and wrong (which hopefully I will have taught you) when making decisions. When you take the risks above, always be responsible and safe, never putting a whim ahead of your own safety or that of others.\n3. Believe in something. I\u2019m raising you in the Catholic faith, as I was raised and your father was as well. I have you in Catholic school, take you to church, and pray with you every night. This is my gift to you. As you get older, your beliefs may change. You may take different paths, begin believing in different things. You may meet a girl (or boy \u2013 who knows?) that shows you a different way of life, a different type of faith, and that\u2019s okay. As long as you have something to believe in, somewhere to go, someone to pray to, a community to support you. A good, solid belief system and set of values to live your life by, that teaches you to treat others as you want to be treated.\n4. Look after yourself. There may come a time in life where you may be alone. You may move away from your family for a job or school, you may just live on your own sometime, doing your thing. Know how to look after yourself. Learn how to cook, how to do laundry (including how to properly fold a fitted sheet). Learn how to properly clean a bathroom and remember to change your sheets once a week. These are all important things that some people, men in particular (sorry guys, but it\u2019s true!) never learn to do. They wait for others to do it for them. They eat out 4 days a week and survive on ramen noodles and Kraft Dinner the other days. Learn to do things for yourself and you\u2019ll never have to rely on others.\n5. It\u2019s okay to ask for and accept help. This ties in with the above point. While you should know how to look after yourself, it\u2019s absolutely okay to ask for and accept help sometimes. Sometimes you just can\u2019t do it all alone. Sometimes you just don\u2019t want to do it all alone. It\u2019s okay to let someone you trust in to share the burdens life brings, both mental and physical. There is no shame in it. And chances are, those that love you will be more than happy to help if you only ask.\n6. Never lose sight of who you are. You will meet people in life that want you to change. You know what? Sometimes that\u2019s okay. Sometimes a change of behaviour is needed. You\u2019re not always right about everything. There may be a better way of doing things. But if someone asks you or tries to make you become someone you are not, or do something that goes directly against what you believe in, don\u2019t be afraid to put on the brakes. Don\u2019t be afraid to stand up for what you believe in and who you are and say \u2013 \u201cI am who I am. If you don\u2019t love me for it, then love me in spite of it. But don\u2019t try to change the essence of me, because I\u2019m worth being me.\u201d Healthy relationships are wonderful, but never let someone else define who you are.\n7. Money isn\u2019t everything. We\u2019ve all heard it before, and we\u2019ve all rolled our eyes at it. Sure, money doesn\u2019t fix your problems but it sure helps to make life easier. Which is true. I\u2019ve gone through financial difficulties, and I will admit \u2013 life is a lot easier to plan when you don\u2019t have to worry so much about where your next dollar is coming from. It\u2019s important to plan for your future. It\u2019s important to be responsible enough to make sure your bills are paid and you\u2019re saving for retirement. But it\u2019s also important to live life. Treat yourself to indulgences every now and then if you can. Have fun. Do things. Don\u2019t wait until you\u2019re 65 and filthy rich to start living life. Live it every day and don\u2019t have regrets.\n8. Stay in school. Education is everything. It gives you opportunities, it opens doors. Even when things get hard, find a way. Finish. If the opportunity is there, learn more. Always keep your mind open to learning new things. Read, read, read. Read anything you can get your hands on. Books, magazines, online or in print. Worlds can be opened to you by reading, and it\u2019s often free. Always remain a student \u2013 in the classroom or in life.\n9. Work hard and give your best in everything you do. If you can look back and say \u201cI did my absolute best\u201d you will never regret not trying hard enough. When you work hard, people see it and you go can places because of it. Your work ethic and reputation will precede you wherever you go. Work hard and live up to it.\n10. Love DOES conquer all. Love people. Allow yourself to be loved. A safe, healthy, loving relationship is one of life\u2019s greatest gifts. Don\u2019t shut yourself off from those who love you, no matter how easy it may be to do so. Sometimes love is hard. Sometimes it\u2019s about loving someone so much that you realize that you need to let them go in order for you both to be happy \u2013 because together it just doesn\u2019t work. Don\u2019t be afraid or shy to show your love. Love your friends, and tell them you love them. If someday you are blessed with children, make sure they know every night when they rest their head on their pillow that they are the most precious thing in the world to you. Give love freely, and accept it freely\u2026\u2026.especially from your mother. \ud83d\ude09\nJust 10. There are so many more. And so many more that he has taught me or reminded me of in his five years. Maybe that will be what my next post is about.\nI Guess You Can\u2019t Make Everyone Happy\nOverall, I aim to please. I am definitely a \u201cyes person.\u201d To a fault usually. People are always telling me \u2013 \u201cyou have to learn to say no!\u201d I\u2019m not very good at it though.\nSo it\u2019s hard when people criticize you when you\u2019re always trying so hard to help them, and to be the best person you can be. It\u2019s easy to get your feelings hurt when you\u2019ve tried so hard, and done so much, only to have someone look past all of that to what you DIDN\u2019T do, and point that out. It really takes the wind out of your sails and can be very discouraging.\nWhat we need to realize I think is that some people are born criticizers. Some are born complainers. Some are born with a negative attitude and will die that way. And some, unfortunately for us, are all of the above.\nSo the question is \u2013 why in the hell do we keep trying to please these people? What\u2019s wrong with being who you are, doing the best you can do? Those who love you and appreciate you will continue to love and appreciate you. Those who don\u2019t, can lump it.\nSo going into the weekend, have a good one, have fun, and be the best you can be. Not for all those Bitter Bettys and Negative Nancys, be your best \u2013 for you, and those that are worth the effort.\nThe quote on the left is something I saw on Facebook yesterday, and it has stuck with me since.\nI am fortunate enough to have many friends. Quite a few of them I have known for years and years. My oldest and dearest friend and I have been sidekicks since we were 5 years old. That\u2019s almost 30 years! Many of my friends that I still keep in touch with I met in high school. I also have friends that Joe and I have met as a couple and enjoy hanging out with. I never really made friends at work as I was the only female my age in the office for many many years, but in the last few years I have been lucky enough to form a friendship with a co-worker that I really cherish, which has made the day to day of my life much more interesting and fun.\nI can honestly say that I haven\u2019t lost a lot of friends. Sometimes people just grow apart, and that\u2019s okay. Life takes people in different directions, and just because you aren\u2019t really good friends anymore doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t care about someone or love them just the same. But deep down it bothers me when there is someone that is in your life, and then they are gone. Someone whose friendship you valued, and then they are non-existent.\nThis can also apply to relationships. I\u2019m happily married for almost 10 years now, and haven\u2019t had to deal with other relationships for a very long time, but there have been times in my life when things went sour and I spent way too long trying to figure out why. Trying to figure out what it was that I did that made things go wrong.\nWhen you\u2019re in the mindframe that accompanies a lost relationship, whether it is a friendship or a mate, you don\u2019t always want to hear the advice that tells you to move on, to leave them behind, and to let go. But something really resonated with me yesterday when I read that caption, and really made things click into place in a lot of ways. From as far back as my teenage years, all the unsolved mysteries of my life, and the lost friendships and relationships (not that there were many), seemed okay all of a sudden. Reading that and putting things into perspective that way, helped me I guess to close the book on a few loose ends that perhaps were never meant to be tied up.\nI like to believe that everything happens for a reason. That God has a plan for all of us. But this has made me think that sometimes He does reach in and take people and things away from us because we aren\u2019t strong enough to do it ourselves. As human beings we tend to be gluttons for punishment and chase after the things that hurt us the most. So the decision is made for us, yet we still do what we can to try to reverse it. To make things better, to set things right.\nWhat we need to realize is \u2013 perhaps things have been set right. We just need to leave it alone and let go.\nWoah. It\u2019s a hot one out there. It\u2019s been a hot week actually. It\u2019s the humidity that does it. There is a heaviness in the air that seems to hit you and take your breath away as soon as you step outside.\nSummer is here folks \u2013 I\u2019m not one to complain about the weather (too much) but it\u2019s here and we might as well enjoy it.\nPlease stay safe, keep up on heat advisories, and employ these simple practices in your day to day life when its so hot out:\n\u2013 Hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! Drink plenty of water. Not just water, look for beverages that have electrolytes.\n\u2013 Keep your blinds and windows closed during the day.\n\u2013 Turn off the lights in your home when they\u2019re not needed.\n\u2013 If you\u2019re outdoors, try to stick to the shade and avoid too much direct sunlight.\n\u2013 Wear a hat outdoors, but remove it when you go indoors, this will allow your body to cool off quicker.\n\u2013 Use those fans! They help to circulate the air, which can be enough sometimes. If it\u2019s a ceiling fan, make sure it is turning in the right direction for cooling. You can place a bowl of ice or something frozen in front of the fan to boost the cooling up a notch.\n\u2013 Minimize the use of your stove and oven. Cook outside when you can, or use a crock pot! I know people often associate a crock pot with winter cooking, but you can make some really great meals, all while not heating up your house at all.\n\u2013 If you have to be outside, and tend to exercise outside, try to limit your activities to early morning or late at night, when the sun isn\u2019t so strong and the humidity isn\u2019t as unbearable. This includes activities such as grass cutting and gardening as well. Don\u2019t forget to drink during your activities. Especially then.\n\u2013 Mint. Eat it, look for mint in lotions, etc. It has cooling properties that will help cool the body down.\n\u2013 Avoid alcohol when outside in the heat. I know this sucks, but it dehydrates you.\n\u2013 Get soaked. Be it in a swimming pool if you\u2019re lucky enough to have access to one, a local splash pad, or just a sprinkler or kiddie pool in your backyard. It\u2019s amazing how a bit of cool water can lower your body temperature to something much more manageable.\nThere are many other ways to keep cool, the internet is full of them. If you have to, go to the mall or your local library to cool off. But please, if you think you are having heat stroke, seek medical attention immediately.\nSome of these (okay, most of these) are so obvious, but it\u2019s so easy to forget the basics sometimes.\nEnjoy the heat, but try to stay cool too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 24547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 238.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://futurefive.co.nz/story/twitter-goes-exploring-your-timeline-moments-search-are-now-one-tab", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:55Z", "digest": "sha1:CPYZVQQ2IMHPUCPT4TESSDDUMDCI6BZO", "length": 1557, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "futurefive.co.nz", "title": "Twitter goes Exploring: Your Timeline, Moments & Search are now in one tab - FutureFive New Zealand", "raw_content": "Twitter goes Exploring: Your Timeline, Moments & Search are now in one tab\nYou may have noticed that the latest version of your Twitter app looks a little different \u2013 or will very soon. Now there\u2019s a new tab called Explore, and it\u2019s another feature that offers user the chance to find out what\u2019s happening across Twitter.\nThe Explore tab is a hybrid of the Twitter timeline, Moments and Search, and will eventually include the \u2018best\u2019 of live video.\nTwitter has been making a raft of changes over the last year, more closely mirroring the live video features of other social apps such as Snapchat, as well as other news aggregation trends.\n\u201cOver the past year, we\u2019ve heard from you that it\u2019s sometimes hard to find what you are looking for on Twitter. Because of this, we've been exploring different ways to make it simpler for people to use Moments, Trends, and Search. During these tests, customers told us that the new Explore tab helped them easily find news, what\u2019s trending, and what\u2019s popular right now,\u201d Twitter said in its blog.\nTwitter stresses that no functionality or features are being taken away \u2013 they\u2019re just being streamlined to make it \u201ccleaner and easier\u201d for users to find what they want.\nThe new Explore tab is being rolled out on Twitter for iOS, and will be coming to the Android app in the coming weeks. The company says that users should update to the latest version of the app to see the new features.\nTwitter says it\u2019s open to feedback on the Explore tab. The company already has more ideas up its sleeves for new features to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 11233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://g4c18.sched.com/speaker/richard_ellenson.712k0fp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:24Z", "digest": "sha1:UAPZ42SY7GXDIXXTJYRCBF45B42FXXOE", "length": 784, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "g4c18.sched.com", "title": "Richard Ellenson - 2018 Games for Change Festival", "raw_content": "Richard Ellenson brings enormous vision and energy to the organization. He was the founder and CEO of two companies, Blink Twice and Panther, which helped transform and reimagine the field of assistive technology for people with disabilities. 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He and his son have been featured as ABC World News People of the Year, in a New York Times Sunday Magazine cover story, and a feature story on ESPN\u2019s E:60.v", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2520, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 92.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gaucheralliance.org/gb/information/privacy_policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MZCFJ5O2DOQXVQSLI3BH3FSPD2HL5TXP", "length": 4458, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "gaucheralliance.org", "title": "International Gaucher Alliance", "raw_content": "home|information|privacy policy\nThe International Gaucher Alliance (IGA) is committed to ensuring your privacy, and personal data, is protected. We have created this privacy policy in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), designed by the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU).\nThis privacy policy sets out how the IGA uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website (http://www.gaucheralliance.org); and:\nWhat information/data we collect\nHow we process the information and how it is retained\nHow we use cookies on our website (cookies policy)\nYou can be assured that should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website; it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy. 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You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.\nAs mentioned, we will not share your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.\nIf you wish to request a copy of the information we hold about you or wish to update or delete any information, please write to: Jo Higgs at: The International Gaucher Alliance, 8 Silver Street, Dursley, Gloucestershire, GL11 4ND, or email: admin@gaucheralliance.org\nA cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a popular site.\nThe IGA uses permanent cookies to enable basic web traffic analysis using Google Analytics.\nWe use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. This analysis shows us which areas of the site are popular and those that are not often visited which helps us to use our website resources in the most effective way. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: www.google.com/privacypolicy.html\nThese will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.\nYou can choose to accept or decline cookies upon first use of the website. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.\nFor further information concerning General Data Protection Regulations and your rights and preferences please click to follow the link:-\nhttps://www.gaucheralliance.org/gdpr", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 7072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 301.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gcls.org/about-us/policies-procedures/gifts-and-donations-policy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JQAHRCUGJCKOVNRIOT5Z7QCGS45D7ATE", "length": 5914, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "gcls.org", "title": "Gifts and Donations Policy | Gloucester County Library System", "raw_content": "The Mullica Hill Library is currently not accepting book donations due to a lack of storage space. If you have book donations you'd like to make, we will being accepting them again on Friday, January 18th between 10 am - 3 pm.\nAdopted by the GCL Commission on July 26, 2017.\nSECTION 1.0 - PURPOSE\nThe Gloucester County Library System (GCLS) encourages the interest and involvement of residents and organizations through donations of book or non-book materials, monetary contributions, and appropriate gifts. It is understood that gifts and donations do not take the place of public support but enable GCLS to provide and enhance library services in ways not financially possible within the annual operating budget.\nGCLS reserves the right to refuse any gift or donation that is deemed to be not in the best interests of the Library to accept.\nSECTION 2.0 - CONDITIONS OF ACCEPTANCE\nGCLS accepts gifts and donations at the discretion of the Library Director and/or the Gloucester County Library Commission.\nGifts and donations are accepted under the following conditions:\nMaterials: Gifts of miscellaneous books or other materials in good condition will be evaluated using guidelines set forth in the GCLS Collection Development Policy. GCLS reserves the right to add any donated item(s) to the collection, or distribute, sell, or discard them. No conditions regarding location, use or eventual withdrawal from the collection or building can be imposed.\nCollections: Gift collections will be accepted at the discretion of the Library Director and/or the Gloucester County Library Commission with the understanding that the collection may not be kept intact. If the donated material is rare or irreplaceable the donor will provide GCLS with a \u201cdeed of gift\u201d letter.\nRecognition/Memorial gifts: GCLS welcomes monetary gifts for the purchase of library materials for the collection given in recognition of individuals or organizations.\nOther monetary gifts: GCLS welcomes monetary gifts to provide and enhance services in ways not financially possible within the annual operating budget. Depending on the wishes of the donors, such donations may be referred to the Friends of the Gloucester County Library System.\nReal estate or other personal property: GCLS will accept gifts of real property that support the mission of the Library. Such offers will be handled by the Library Director, who in consultation with the Gloucester County Library Commission and Library\nSolicitor will determine the suitability of the gift and the terms of acceptance compatible with GCLS\u2019 mission and policies, the donor's intent, and applicable laws.\nWills, Estates and Bequests: Individuals may contact the Library Director who in consultation with the Gloucester County Library Commission and Library Solicitor will determine the suitability of the gift and the terms of acceptance compatible with GCLS\u2019 mission and policies, the donor's intent, and applicable laws.\nTangible gifts: The decision to accept gifts such as furnishings or equipment shall be made by the Library Director. Among the criteria on which the decision shall be based is need, space, impact on staff time, and expense and frequency of maintenance. If a gift is accepted, the gift shall be final and there will be no restrictions on GCLS\u2019 ownership, possession, use or disposition of the gift.\nArt & decorative objects: In general, gifts of art objects shall be of local interest to the community, of a professional quality, well executed and in good condition. Because of limited display and storage areas, potential donors of art & decorative objects are requested to discuss any possible gifts with the Library Director.\nAs with all other gifts, art objects will be accepted only with the donor's full agreement that GCLS has the right to handle or dispose of the gift in the best interests of the Library.\nValuation: Income tax regulations leave the determination of the gift's monetary value to the donor. GCLS cannot assess or suggest a value for non-monetary gifts for income tax or other purposes. On request, a statement acknowledging receipt of the donation will be provided, but will not contain a statement of value. Donors wishing to have an appraisal of their gift done for income tax purposes should do so prior to donation.\nDisposition of gifts: If a gift is accepted by GCLS, the gift shall be final and there shall be no restrictions on GCLS\u2019 ownership, possession, use or disposition of the gift. GCLS may dispose of any gift without notification to the donor.\nSECTION 3.0 - LIBRARY MATERIAL DONATION\nThe Gloucester County Library System (GCLS) accepts donations of books, audiobooks, DVDs and CDs. GCLS may accept donations of materials that pertain to local history. Items must be in good condition. Good condition is defined as not containing dirt, dust, mold, mildew, water damage, musty odor, broken bindings, torn, missing, yellowed or brittle pages, or markings in pen, pencil, crayon or highlighter. An inscription or ownership stamp (including a bookplate) is acceptable. GCLS reserves the right to add any donated item(s) to the collection or distribute, sell, or discard them.\nThe Library will not accept newspapers, newsletters, magazines or encyclopedias.\nThe Library will not appraise or assign a monetary value to donated materials. On request, a statement acknowledging receipt of the donation will be provided.\nDonors should call the library before bringing in donated materials. Library staff are not available to lift or carry any boxes, bags, etc. of donated items. Library staff are not available to pick up donated material from patron homes.\nLibrary staff reserve the right to accept or reject donations based on the above criteria, as well as storage considerations. 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The LSIB is frequently updated.The mission of the Humanitarian Information Unit (HIU) is to serve as a U.S. Government interagency center to identify, collect, analyze, and disseminate all-source information critical to U.S. Government decision-makers and partners in preparation for and response to humanitarian emergencies worldwide, and to promote innovative technologies and best practices for humanitarian information management.\nUnited States. Department of State. Humanitarian Information Unit\nCountries, Disputed boundaries, and Boundaries\nhttp://purl.stanford.edu/jd523yw3613", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 178.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://geofflivingston.com/tag/evolution/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:38Z", "digest": "sha1:J2MCYQCGUJKIJJJTY3IRF2XYGFGOMRIR", "length": 10991, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "geofflivingston.com", "title": "Evolution Archives - |", "raw_content": "Jennifer Nycz-Conner on How Technology Is Transforming Journalism\nJennifer Nycz-Conner is an editor at the Washington Business Journal, where she serves as the business anchor on WTOP and she runs the Working the Room column. She has seen how digital media from blogs to today\u2019s newer technologies like Meerkat and Periscope have changed journalism.\nThe following is an interview conducted with Jen on behalf of xPotomac that focuses on how digital has and continues to change journalism. You can see Jen speak at xPotomac with Jodi Gersh on August 27th in Georgetown (register today using the code \u201cGeoff\u201d and get 20% off). Any typos or errors are mine, not hers.\nGL: Where have we come in the past decade with digital?\nJNC: It\u2019s light years. I have been at the Business Journal for 10 years, which is strange because that\u2019s a really long time in journalism. It has been interesting, as we have had front row seats for this evolution.\nI have seen [the paper] move away from a weekly, where we focused on publishing once a week. We threw that out the door. Stories are no longer held for print. We publish [stories] as soon as we have them. We changed our approach to our weekly print edition so it is more of a wrap-up with a deeper analysis rather than breaking the news. So that for us is one of the big changes.\nGL: How do you like being on the radio instead of print?\nJNC: Radio offers an immediate reaction so that part is really fun. I\u2019ve always been passionate about radio, but I have come to develop a great respect and appreciation for it that I didn\u2019t have before doing it every day.\nPart of that respect is people invite you into their lives; it\u2019s very much a one-to-one medium where print is one to a whole lot of people. You are sitting next to people in traffic. For people to listen to you not only do they have to appreciate what you are saying, but they also have to want to spend time with you and like you.\nThe writing style is very different. Brevity is very important. You learn that 30 seconds is actually a very long time, and I never thought that before.\nYou give a lot of thought about what you are putting into that 30 seconds. There is not a lot of fat to work with on that. You really have to cut it down as quickly as you can, and give people what they need to know right now. They have to care about what you are saying. It has to mean something.\nGL: Do you feel that\u2019s true across media today, particularly the way social media is working?\nJNC: Yeah, there is so much noise, and you can find your news anywhere now. When you look at the traditional broadcast news that we grew up with you waited for Peter Jennings or Tom Brokaw to tell you what was going on. You don\u2019t have that anymore.\nWhat you still have are trusted voices. If you are still getting news you want to get it from someone you know and trust.\nGL: Jennifer Nycz-Conner [laughs].\nJNC: Let\u2019s hope so, seriously, I think about that sometimes. That is part of the job and the occupation and the mission of a journalist to be that trusted voice. They are going to tell you the most accurate, insightful truthful version you can find.\nThe other part is the \u201cwhat does it mean to me\u201d part? We all have tons of noise, and we can find any fact any time of the day. What you can\u2019t find is meaning. What is the analysis, and how does it affect me and my family, and where I live? For us as business leaders, what does that mean? Part of our job is to translate that.\nGL: You are [very involved] in video, and we are seeing big changes including livestreaming taking off. What are you seeing happen with video? What is your perspective as a journalist?\nJNC: It is a crazy time. I\u2019ve been working on our video for three or four years. What we have learned, there is an incredible appetite for video now. We all have screens with us at the time.\nIf you think back 20 years ago, that\u2019s crazy to even think about. I started out in live television production. I used to have to get 53-foot tractor-trailers to do the stuff you can do today on your cell phone. It\u2019s crazy!\nPeople will watch video if it is the right medium for what they want to see. You can\u2019t take what you wrote for the paper and put it in a video. You can\u2019t just recreate the standard news form. They want it short, they want it insightful, and they want the pay-off: \u201cWhat does it mean to me?\u201d If I am going to invest my eyes and ears and give you two minutes of my time, I need some sort of pay-off for it.\nGL: How do you stay relevant with everything and the way the media seems continuously evolve?\nJNC: That\u2019s assuming I am relevant. It\u2019s an upward climb. A benefit for journalists and technology is curiosity. Journalists by their very nature are curious, we don\u2019t go into this business if we are not. That curiosity translates to technology.\nYou want to try out new things. You want to test new things. You want to experiment and find new ways to tell a story. In a way, that makes us pretty good technologists.\nIt is hard to stay relevant. Time management is challenging. It used to be reporters went out, took a notebook and pen, and wrote a story, and had a deadline, and had deadline at 5 o\u2019clock that night.\nNow you are filing a story on your cell phone half the time. You are also shooting video, recording audio, taking pictures, tweeting while you are reporting the story, then writing the story, then writing the wrap-up of that story. Journalists have to do a whole lot more. It\u2019s a constant decision making process about what\u2019s the best use of my time. How will this best serve my audience?\nGL: How do you feel about getting pitched through social media, Twitter, Facebook\u2026?\nJNC: It is hard. The only benefit of the tweet pitch is that it is short. You know their not going to bother with the 18-paragraph introduction before they get to the point.\nWhat drives me crazy is the more of the ping-pong game that a lot of PR people play. They will send you an email, then they will call you and say, \u201cHi, I am calling to see if you received my email.\u201d\n[And] what does drive me crazy is when people don\u2019t know what we cover. That hasn\u2019t changed with technology. We get really consumer oriented pitches or pitches that don\u2019t have anything to do with anything we cover. You got to know the publication, especially today when you can go online, Google it, spend five minutes and get a pretty good idea of what we are doing.\nI don\u2019t mind connecting in different ways. I was on Twitter pretty early, 2009, and that was a great way to connect with people and get some really good stories that way.\nSee Jen speak at xPotomac with Jodi Gersh on August 27th!\nFuture Media Success Is More than a Path\nImmersive technologies offer incredible new media experiences. These paths give us the opportunity to develop new ways of interacting with our communities.\nWe will create incredible experiences that alter the very fabric of our lives. As the media we use becomes accepted, case studies will emerge showing how brands compelled people with remarkable moments and applications.\nConsider the movie Her and the role of personal artificial intelligence avatars in society. You may think it\u2019s far off, but the MIT Media Lab is already working on a similar project involving personal robots. Perhaps social validation via Facebook won\u2019t mean much when we can simply ask our own personal Carla Jung what she thinks about our deepest fears.\nWhatever you think of personal AI, we are entering a time when rich media will be served to us in cars. We\u2019ll receive directions, have tweets read to us, view overlay screens, place entertainment consoles in the rear seat and more. Watches empowered with technologies like Google Now already prompt us in our ear buds that the subway stop is just two blocks to the right, and that waiting for the third train will actually save us time.\nThose are just two obvious examples of the near future or the not-quite-adopted now. Yet, these portable media offer brands and content creators new paths to explore. It\u2019s always been this way.\nDuring Halloween 1938, the United States experienced the incredible impact of radio drama via The War of the Worlds. No one expected such a captivating tale. Radio moved from a medium to gather around and became an incredible, dynamic imagination machine. Broadcasters were outraged, and Orson Welles became one of the world\u2019s great dramatists.\nEvery entertainment podcaster today and every bad alien movie (Cowboys and Aliens comes to mind) can thank Orson Welles and CBS for breaking new ground and creating a compelling experience with an already established medium. Welles and CBS in turn surely thanked H.G. Wells for his brilliance in novel form, all the way back in 1898.\nData and Visual Media Offer Paths\nI am struck by two common themes in online marketing today: the overwhelming movement towards analytics and the increasing drumbeat of visual media. Both are necessary movements \u2014 ones I have touted, too \u2014 offering paths that lead to better relationships with customers.\nPaths are important, but you need levers. That is the issue with today\u2019s data and visual media conversations. They fail to blend levers with paths.\nData points the way to better engagement or more conversions, but you need to compel people. Data only gives us the preferences of the moment and an understanding of community needs. If we fail to build strong levers, people look for a different resolution to their needs.\nToday\u2019s marketing experts talk about visual media, but often don\u2019t know how to develop and use illustrations, graphics, photos and videos. So we hear a lot of chatter about visual media but see few levers. If there was ever a medium in which to show and not tell, this would be it. Instead, we have road signs in the form of blog posts that point out paths, but don\u2019t compel people.\nBoring \u201cme, too\u201d campaigns ensue. The first ones work. But as the signal gets noisier, common content approaches fade to black. While the path is correct, the levers are weak. They lack creativity.\nWhat\u2019s another store selling its wares on Halloween? How about flipping the paradigm and making fun of your overwhelming box store experience with a Shining tribute, one that speaks to your target customers (30- and 40-something families with kids)? Marketing paths need creative levers.\nCompel Us\nLevers compel us. Paths give us a means to create levers, but we need to do more. We have to tell interesting stories and innovate upon the current level of useful content.\nShooting photos in Washington, DC can be tough. Some subjects are so well photographed you really have to look for a different perspective. I often look for a high or low point of view, or shoot at night, or use a long exposure.\nA common subject becomes compelling, more interesting. The Washington Monument takes on a different look in the fog with a long exposure. It\u2019s spooky! A fitting shot for a Halloween week.\nYou\u2019ve got data. You know you need to become more visual. What are you going to do to compel people?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 37253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://getthefashionstylesforwomen.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/luxurious-clothing-stores-in-the-internet/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3CN4RVI3M5LZBMK323K6K75FWKUINOQT", "length": 2640, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "getthefashionstylesforwomen.wordpress.com", "title": "Luxurious Clothing Stores in the Internet \u2013 Designer Clothing", "raw_content": "Luxurious Clothing Stores in the Internet\nThe internet is full of amazing stuffs. Things that you don\u2019t think the internet has are actually seen in the web. If you are interested in wearing designer clothes, then you cannot just find them in the offline clothing stores, as what it was back in the days. Today, the internet has a lot of designer and luxurious clothing stores already. So, if you\u2019re interested to buy some, then the internet can be your source, click on this link for more: https://www.luxuswunder.com.\nPeople would love to improve their confidence and self-esteem by means of wearing their best outfit. Who would not love to look good and attractive anyway? However, the luxurious clothes are typically pricey when compared to the other brands simply because they are \u2018luxurious\u2019.\nIf you want to look for the most ideal luxurious clothing store online, then you have to understand that there are some things that you have to be considering.\nFirst and foremost, the Luxus-Marken clothing store is well reputed to the general population. By simply knowing the name or brand of the luxurious clothing store online, you can easily identify their popularity. Once you will buy from these types of luxurious clothing store online, you can really assure that you will get the finest products there are. They don\u2019t sell and offer the inferior products to their customers as they are doing their best to preserve their identity and brand.\nSecond, you can read some reviews about the luxurious online clothing store. These websites, just like any other sites, have ample of testimonies and reviews from their previous and current customers. If the store happens to have a lot of positive feedbacks, then you can tell that they are actually doing well in their services. However, if there are more negative feedbacks than the positive ones, then it might be better to look for another store.\nYou could always ask for recommendations from your family members and friends. These people are always there to help you at all times. So, their suggestions and opinions are actually what they think is best for you. Just do not be shy to tell them what you want to wear. You might not know that they are also thinking of the same thing with you.\nThe prices of the clothes are very important. You must only narrow down your selection among the clothes that you can afford so that you won\u2019t suffer from any problems in the future. For more information about designer clothing, click on this link: https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/fashion-design-and-crafts/fashion/fashion.\nPrevious Post What You Need to Know About Luxury Brands", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 3861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gettingalong.net/3-essential-listening-skills-to-improve-your-relationship/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OLGNGADODOK62X53Y5JI65XBTQC2ITEW", "length": 3036, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "gettingalong.net", "title": "3 Essential Listening Skills to Improve Your Relationship | Personal Relationship Counseling & Consulting | Alpharetta, GA | 30009", "raw_content": "One of the most important aspects of a healthy relationship is communication. When both partners understand how to communicate properly, they feel loved, connected and secure. But when effective communication is lacking, both people can become defensive, and the relationship can be mired down in distrust, misunderstanding and resentments.\nWhen couples are hitting rock bottom, it\u2019s important they relearn critical communication skills, primarily how to listen to their partner.\nIf you find you and your partner are struggling in understanding each other, below are three essential listening skills that can help improve your communication.\nValidate Your Partner\u2019s Feelings\nTo validate your partner means to understand what they are saying and feeling from their point of view. This does not mean you have to agree with them. It simply means you can see their point.\nWhen responding to something they said, you can validate them by saying something like, \u201cThat makes sense because\u2026\u201d or \u201cI can see how you might think or feel\u2026\u201d\nYou may not always understand your partner\u2019s point of view. In these instances, it\u2019s helpful to ask for more information in a way that is positive and inviting, not negative or defensive. This could sound like \u201cCan you tell me more about\u2026\u201d instead of \u201cI don\u2019t understand what you mean.\u201d\nMirror Their Own Words\nThis exercise will require you to reflect or \u201cmirror\u201d everything your partner is saying in their own words. Yes, it can feel a bit awkward at first, but it is an incredibly effective technique.\nWhen you repeat what your partner has said, you may start your response with something like, \u201cI hear you saying\u2026\u201d or \u201cIt sounds like what you\u2019re saying is\u2026\u201d\nBy starting off with this type of language, it allows you to slow down, process what your partner is saying, and can make the entire exercise feel more comfortable.\nThe longer you practice this skill, the more you will actually hear what your partner says and understand how they feel.\nEmpathize With Your Partner\nThe final step to hearing your partner is recognizing the emotions they are experiencing in the moment. This will require you go deeper than thoughts and head into the vulnerable territory of feelings. You will want to use phrases like, \u201cIt sounds like you were feeling really upset when\u2026.\u201d Or \u201cI can imagine you felt hurt\u2026\u201d\nEmpathizing is extremely important because it shows your partner that how they feel matters to you.\nThough it will take some time to get the hang of these new listening skills, the effort is worth it. And remember, when your partner practices these same skills, you will feel equally loved and respected!\nSome couples may find they need a bit of help from a neutral third party. Couples therapy can provide a safe space for each partner to practice these listening skills. A trained therapist will be able to guide you and offer advice and adjustments.\nIf you and your partner are interested in exploring treatment, please contact me today. I would be happy to speak with you about how I may be able to help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gettingalong.net/meet-eddie/speaking-engagements/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKPFH52E5DSMPJWS2QJWOSA5PNBZ35EC", "length": 3350, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "gettingalong.net", "title": "Speaking Engagement Events | Eddie Reece | Alpharetta, GA | 30009", "raw_content": "I don\u2019t have any workshops scheduled in the near future. Send me an email and I\u2019ll add you to my mailing list. Here are some I\u2019ve done recently:\nUnraveling The Mystery Of Your Financial World\nI\u2019m an expert on the psychology of money. The purpose of the presentation is to demonstrate how exploring one\u2019s financial life can lead to dramatic healing of other life issues. A most troubling relationship is the relationship with money. Financial lives are rarely talked about. When\u2019s the last time you shared the details of your financial life at a social gathering? Given the importance of money in one\u2019s life, doesn\u2019t it make sense to explore your financial life? The presentation will help participants navigate rarely charted waters of their financial world. Working with money issues is one of the easiest ways to bring about psychological improvements. With the improvements in financial health comes improvements in emotional health.\nThe presentation consists of didactic and experiential experiences to expand awareness of how one\u2019s financial life is not only a metaphor for the rest of one\u2019s life, but also an area where deep seated shame is hidden. The following areas will be presented: The secrecy of money, the meaning of money, the connection between shame and one\u2019s financial life, the different money personalities, using the financial life to further understand ourselves, family members, clients and treatment implications and strategies.\nThis is one of my favorites. Someone said over 500 years ago that you can not know what love is until you have learned what love is not. So how come it\u2019s taking us so long to figure it out?! You\u2019re not looking for love in the wrong places. Love is everywhere. Your definition of love, what you\u2019re looking for, is what causes difficulties in relationships. When you stop looking for what love is not, you will find love! Discover what love really is so you\u2019ll be looking for what you really want! You\u2019ll come away from this experience with a different definition of love and how to find it in all of your relationships. Read more about this topic from my blog post titled, \u201cWhat is Love?\u201d\nHow To Talk and How To Listen \u2013 Effective Communication\nI teach communication issues tailoring the talk to the group. So employers hear about better communication for the staff, parents hear about better communication with their kids and couples hear about better communication to build relationships. This is a fun one and applicable to any group.\nTaboo Topics: Sex & Money\nThis workshop explores how examining the financial and sexual parts of our lives can lead to dramatic change. Financial and sexual lives are rarely talked about, especially in psychotherapy. Given the importance of money and sex in one\u2019s life, doesn\u2019t it make sense to explore these areas? The presentation will help you navigate rarely charted waters.\nThe presentation will expand your awareness of how your financial and sexual life is often a metaphor for life itself and may point to areas where deep seated shame is hidden. These are areas where the search for meaning is full force. The following areas will be explored: The secrecy of sex and money, the meaning of sex and money, the connection between shame and one\u2019s financial and sexual life, using financial and sexual beliefs and feelings to further understand one\u2019s life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 5151, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/WikiStart?version=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:45Z", "digest": "sha1:N2ECBLYRZG5KCZ6M4SPE3OGFPPASZGEK", "length": 188, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ghc.haskell.org", "title": "GHC", "raw_content": "The May 2015 Status Report.\n\u200b\u200bHarbormaster, the \u200b\u200bnightly build bots and Travis \u200bhttps://travis-ci.org/ghc/ghc.svg are keeping an eye on our code. See the Status page for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 300.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://girlswanderlust.com/2017/07/20/israel-sea-of-galilee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:39Z", "digest": "sha1:IQKYKOUDIN5AYHZTEQDJPP7JM3PTDASI", "length": 4947, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "girlswanderlust.com", "title": "Exploring Israel: around the Sea of Galilee | Girlswanderlust", "raw_content": "Exploring Israel: around the Sea of Galilee\nIsrael is a very impressive and holy destination. There are so many beautiful places: from nature to cities and from traditional to modern. What I\u2019ve heard, there are not many people who think about Israel when planning a trip. However, it\u2019s definitely a destination worth the travel! During my roundtrip through the country I\u2019ve seen many places. In this article, I\u2019ve told you about Caesarea, Nazareth and Tiberias, which I visited the first day of the trip. In this article, I will tell you some more about the places I\u2019ve visited around the sea of Galilee.\nIn the morning of our second day in Israel, we went to the Mount of Beatitudes. This is believed to be the setting for Jesus\u2019 most famous discourse, the Sermon on the Mount and is one of the most beautifully serene places in the country.\nThe Church of the Beatitudes is located on top of the hill. It was built in 1938 for a Franciscan order of nuns, to a design by the Italian architect Antonio Barluzzi. The eight sides of the light and airy church represent the eight beatitudes.\nAround the church, there is a beautiful garden where you can have a serene walk. From the Mount of Beatitudes, you can have a magnificent view over the Sea of Galilee, the Golan Heights and Capernaum; where I\u2019m going to talk about later.\nBoat trip over the Sea of Galilee\nAfter our visit to the Mount of Beatitudes, we went to the Sea of Galilee for a boat trip. It was a very nice and warm day, so it was perfect to go on a boat!\nPalmtrees!\nFor the ones who don\u2019t know it yet: the Sea of Galilee is actually a lake. If you love boat trips, you should definitely consider to take one over the Sea of Galilee. You have some beautiful surroundings and can enjoy a serene moment.\nIn the place Tabgha, close to Mount of Beatitudes and the Sea of Galilee, you can find the Church of the Multiplication. In the courtyard of the church, you can find a beautiful olive tree. The church of the Multiplication is a catholic church and it\u2019s seen as the place where Jesus gave food to 5000 people because of the multiplication of the bread.\nThe church is pretty \u2018new\u2019, due to the fact that the old church has been destroyed. The current church has been built between 1980 and 1982, but has still some excavations of the old church.\nAfter Tabgha we visited Capernaum, which is also a holy place. Capernaum was one of the main trading villages in the Gennesaret area which was inhabited by about 1.500 people, from whom many were fishermen.\nIn the present day, you can visit some places in Capernaum. There is the ancient synagogue, where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Bread of Life. Furthermore, in this synagogue Jesus would regularly preach. You can now only see remains of the synagogue, because it was destroyed in the past. You can see the remains, including one complete wall, the ruins of the other walls and several columns.\nThere is also a place in Capernaum which thought to have been the home of Peter. Jesus cured Peter\u2019s mother-in-law here and is thought to have lived in this house. There now stands a modern, hexagonal, Franciscan church over the spot thought to have been Peter\u2019s house. There is a glass floor so that you can still see the ancient original church below.\nAt the end of the day, we went to the Golan Heights and stopped at a place, close to the border of Syria. In the past, these heights used to belong to Syria, but during the war in 1967, Israel conquer the biggest part of the area.\nIt was very imposing to stand at this place, while you can see that there has been fights in the past. The surroundings showed us that there\u2019s still a huge security around this place. At the moment there\u2019s, like we all know, war in Syria. Our guide told us that sometimes you can see the bombs explode in Syria from the place where we stand. It\u2019s so bizarre to think about the fact that war is so close from where I was standing..\nThese were the places I\u2019ve visited during the second day of our impressive trip through the Holy Land. Curious about the next days of our trip? Stay stunned! In the next couple of weeks, I will tell you more about it.\nCategory : Israel\nTags : Asia, Girlswanderlust, Golan, Israel, Israeli, Kapernaum, MiddleEast, Mount of Beatitudes, Nazareth, Sea of Galilee, Taghba, Traveller, Travelling, Travellover, Wanderer, Wandering, Wanderlust, Worldtraveller\n\u2190 15 Examples of traditional Maltese food that you should try in Malta.\nBest bags to separate your stuff while travelling! \u2192\n2 thoughts on \u201cExploring Israel: around the Sea of Galilee\u201d\nalanjrimmer on July 28, 2017 at 4:15 pm said:\nTamara, thank you for another amazing article on Israel. Appetite still whetted, it must be an incredible destination. I wish you safe and happy travels and thank you for sharing them, Alan\nGirlswanderlust on July 30, 2017 at 8:24 am said:\nSo nice to hear that you liked this second article as well :-). Thank you! Happy travels for you too!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 16956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 195.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gisandjournalism.weebly.com/the-wall.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:23Z", "digest": "sha1:SZQ64H53WLAOYC4J6X6NG7BO7CWFJMR5", "length": 134, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "gisandjournalism.weebly.com", "title": "The Wall - GeoJourno (Beta)", "raw_content": "The Wall is truly amazing. A bold example of mans defiance of nature, although not an exemplary sample of strategic military thinking.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalcosmeticsnews.com/new-data-from-euromonitor-identifies-growth-opportunities-for-brands/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:12Z", "digest": "sha1:5PQS2HP23C5ISQ7HAUVLNFR7SS6WX5HJ", "length": 1968, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "globalcosmeticsnews.com", "title": "New data from Euromonitor identifies growth opportunities for brands - Global Cosmetics News", "raw_content": "New data from Euromonitor identifies growth opportunities for brands\nPosted by Zoe Efstathiou | Apr 21, 2015 | All Regions |\nGlobal sales of beauty products grew by 5 percent in 2014, generating US$465 in revenue, according to new data from Euromonitor International.\nThe data, released at in-cosmetics Barcelona last week, showed that since 2008, the global beauty market has increased by US$23bn since 2008.\nGrowth has been fuelled by the increasing tendency among consumers in emerging markets to adopt extensive beauty regimes across product segments such as hair care, colour cosmetics and beauty.\nChina and Brazil remain the most promising markets with absolute growth expected to exceed US $10 billion by 2019. Growth is also expected in Indonesia, India, Saudi Arabia. Argentina, Iran, Mexico, Thailand and Turkey\nBy product category, the report predicted the strongest performance between 2014 and 2019 for the face mask market, which it estimates will post a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 10 percent, reaching a value of around US$3bn.\nFace masks present a potential new revenue stream for brands, Euromonitor noted, especially those entering Asia Pacific markets. The data found that consumers in Asia Pacific markets spent twice as much on face masks as consumers in North America during 2014. Around 70 percent of consumers in China, surveyed by Euromonitor, admitted to using face masks on a weekly basis.\nThe market for face masks in the US is also on the rise, having grown by 40 percent last year.\nFacial makeup is predicted to grow at a CAGR of nearly 9 percent, followed by unisex fragrances (CAGR of approx. 7.5 percent) and men\u2019s skincare (6.5 percent.)\nHowever, skin care remains the largest segment across most markets, with global sales expected to reach over US $ 130 billion by 2019.\nPreviousL\u2019Oreal Q1 sales increase by 14.1 percent\nNextNew duty free retail space at London Luton Airport to feature MAC, Jo Malone and Tom Ford", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 6318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/113518/court-releases-names-of-b-c-teens-who-killed-kimberly-proctor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:26Z", "digest": "sha1:7L4WUEA2L2EZYS674QGCSL36H2IF4HDP", "length": 5987, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "globalnews.ca", "title": "Court releases names of B.C. teens who killed Kimberly Proctor | Globalnews.ca", "raw_content": "Court releases names of B.C. teens who killed Kimberly Proctor\nBy Louise Dickson\tVictoria Times Colonist\nVICTORIA, B.C. \u2013 Two youths who brutally raped and murdered 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor last year have been sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole for 10 years.\nToday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert Johnston sentenced Kruse Wellwood, 17, and Cameron Moffat, 18, as adults and lifted the publication ban that had been protecting their identities since their arrest last June. He decided a youth sentence would not be of sufficient length to hold the teens accountable for their offending behavour and imposed an adult sentence.\n\u201cIt goes without saying first-degree murder with intent to kill is the most serious of offences. The circumstances of this murder as admitted by the young persons are so horrific that no words can adequately convey the inhumane cruelty these young men showed Miss Proctor,\u201d\u009d said Johnston.\n\u201cThey planned in avdance to sexually assault and kill Miss Proctor. They chose her because they thought she would be an easy target, not necessarily because either of them had any ill will towards her.\u201d\u009d\nA placement hearing will be held several weeks from now to determine whether they will begin serving their sentence in a federal prison or remain at the Youth Detention Centre until they are 20. The date for that hearing will be set on April 13. The Crown will ask the court to place the teens in the adult correctional system. The teens will be held at the Youth Detention Centre until that hearing.\nIn October, Wellwood and Moffat pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of Proctor, whose badly burned body was found under a bridge on the Galloping Goose Trail on March 19, 2010. The two admitted they lured the Grade 12 student to one of their homes, tied her up, gagged her, sexually assaulted her, beat her, suffocated her and mutilated her body with a knife over several hours. They then put her body in a freezer, and the next day travelled to the Galloping Goose Trail and set it on fire.\nThis morning, Johnston also sentenced Wellwood and Moffat to five-year concurrent sentences on the charge of indignity to human remains.\nWellwood, who had been crying during the hearing, stood first, hands clasped in front, with lawyer Bob Jones by his side while Johnston sentenced him to life in prison. One person in the public gallery burst out crying.\nProctor\u2019s mother, Lucia, who was sitting in the front row beside her husband, cried throughout the proceedings, wiping away tears as the judge imposed the life sentences on the youths.\nLast week, during a grim two-day sentencing hearing, Crown prosecutor Peter Juk urged Johnston to impose adult sentences for the protection of the public.\nJones, who is representing Wellwood, and Steven Kelliher, who is representing Moffat, did not oppose the Crown\u2019s application for an adult sentence.\n\u201cThere was no point in making submissions,\u201d\u009d Jones said after the hearing last week. \u201cTo have done so would have insulted the intelligence of the judge and not afforded the situation the dignity it deserved. We did our best for our clients, but we also wished to avoid a media circus like Reena Virk. We wanted to consider the feelings of the Proctor family as well.\u201d\u009d\nJones will urge the court to keep Wellwood at the youth centre.\n\u201cThe Crown might apply to move him to a federal institution because there aren\u2019t facilities to treat him at the youth centre. But there are forensic psychiatric clinics in this town and you have to consider his age. I\u2019m of the view, he\u2019s doing well at the youth detention centre,\u201d\u009d said Jones.\nWellwood is subject to control and discipline in the secure environment.\n\u201cHe\u2019s not beating up all the other kids. If anything, he\u2019s had to ward off a lot of stuff himself.\u201d\u009d\nIn eerily similar circumstances, Wellwood\u2019s father, Robert Dezwaan, is serving a life sentence for the 2001 murder of 16-year-old Cherish Billy Oppenheim in Merritt. Dezwann got her drunk, sexually assaulted her and beat her to death.\nGrowing up, Wellwood was taunted continuously by other children once the information about his father was made public, said Jones.\n\u201cHe\u2019s still only 17 and to place him in the hardened environment of the federal penitentiary where he is going to be the subject of bullying or sex attacks has made him very afraid. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s because his father is there and has told him things or if it would also create problems for his father,\u201d\u009d said Jones.\nKelliher said he would not oppose Moffat\u2019s transfer to the federal system.\n\u201cThe evidence is overwhelming they can\u2019t be treated in the juvenile system. It suggests they can be best treated in the federal system. We hope the classification will take into consideration his family is here in B.C. That\u2019s a huge factor for a young person.\n\u201cAnd it mustn\u2019t be wholly forgotten these young people have families too and that they are suffering terribly.\u201d\u009d\nCourt-ordered psychiatric and psychological reports on the teens \u2013 who were 16 and 17 at the time of the murder \u2013 show they are at a high risk to re-offend violently and sexually for up to 40 years. The reports also show there is little chance they can be rehabilitated.\nWellwood has been diagnosed as a sexual sadist \u2013 a tendency to derive sexual gratification from inflicting pain \u2013 with very strong psychopathic traits and strong indicators for necrophilia, an erotic attraction to corpses. A psychologist found him to be aroused by the physical and psychological suffering of others, had rape fantasies and was interested in bondage and sexual asphyxia.\nMoffat was not diagnosed as a sexual sadist but has a tendency to sexual deviance and the risk and thrill that go along with it. He has had conduct disorder that began in early childhood which involves defiant, anti-social behaviour.\nThe Times Colonist, Global Television and other media have made an application to get copies of exhibits including the court-ordered reports and wiretap intercepts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 9380, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/12/06/1233905/0/en/Madrigal-s-MGL-3196-Achieves-Primary-Endpoint-in-Patients-with-Biopsy-proven-Non-alcoholic-Steatohepatitis-NASH-in-Phase-2-Clinical-Trial.html?print=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEV6UKGPMZWU5UIPJTTNEXHLTX7AMR52", "length": 11214, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "globenewswire.com", "title": "Print - Madrigal\u2019s MGL-3196 Achieves Primary Endpoint in Patients with Biopsy-proven Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) in Phase 2 Clinical Trial", "raw_content": "Madrigal\u2019s MGL-3196 Achieves Primary Endpoint in Patients with Biopsy-proven Non-alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) in Phase 2 Clinical Trial\n-- Statistically significant improvement in the relative decrease in liver fat in patients treated with MGL-3196 compared with placebo, determined by magnetic resonance imaging-estimated proton density fat fraction (MRI-PDFF) at 12-weeks, the primary end point in this Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial\u2013\n-- Statistically significantly more MGL-3196 than placebo treated patients achieved clinically relevant (at least 30%) liver fat reduction at 12 weeks relative to baseline MRI-PDFF\u2013\n-- Statistically significant improvements in drug-treatment group compared to placebo in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), triglycerides and lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)); these lipids when elevated are associated with increased cardiovascular risk\u2013\n-- Statistically significant improvements in liver enzymes in drug-treatment group, with very good all subject tolerability, few serious adverse events, none related to MGL-3196\u2013\n-- Clinical trial continues blinded with potential for correlating improvement in non-invasive imaging test (MRI-PDFF at 12 and 36 weeks) with improvement in repeat liver biopsy obtained at 36 weeks\u2013\n- Conference call scheduled for 8:30 AM Eastern Time today -\nCONSHOHOCKEN, Pa., Dec. 06, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:MDGL) today announced positive top-line results from a Phase 2 clinical trial in patients with biopsy-proven non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). In this trial, MGL-3196, a first-in-class, oral, once-daily, liver-directed, thyroid hormone receptor (THR) \u03b2 -selective agonist, demonstrated statistically significant results for the primary endpoint, the percent change in hepatic fat versus placebo as measured by MRI-PDFF, a non-invasive imaging test. Recent published data have shown a high correlation of the reduction of liver fat of 30% or more as measured by MRI-PDFF to improvement in NASH on liver biopsy.\nALL MGL-3196 HIGH MGL-3196** Placebo\nNumbers of patients 78 44 38\nRelative change in MRI-PDFF (% change from baseline, median)\nSignificance relative to placebo -36.3%\np<0.0001 -42.0%\np<0.0001 -9.6%\nPercentage of patients attaining \u226530% liver fat reduction\nSignificance relative to placebo 60.3%\np<0.0001 75.0%\n**Prespecified group of patients (44/78) with relatively higher MGL-3196 drug levels\nStatistically significant reductions in ALT and AST were observed in MGL-3196 treated patients; greater reductions in ALT and AST, statistically significant relative to placebo, were observed in the prespecified group of 44/78 patients with relatively higher MGL-3196 drug levels. In drug-treated relative to placebo patients, statistically significant improvements were also seen in multiple secondary endpoints considered to be potentially clinically relevant in patients with NASH including LDL-C, triglycerides, apolipoprotein B (ApoB), and Lp(a).\nMGL-3196 has been well-tolerated with mostly mild AEs, and a few moderate AEs, the numbers of which are balanced between placebo and drug-treatment groups. There are no adverse effects of MGL-3196 on safety laboratory or vital sign parameters. There have been three serious adverse effects in the study, all considered unrelated to MGL-3196.\nThe on-going study remains blinded. Safety, efficacy of NASH resolution by biopsy, and repeat MRI-PDFF will be assessed at 36 weeks. Multiple inflammatory and fibrosis serum biomarkers at 12 and 36 weeks are being and will be assessed.\n\u201cNASH is a common liver disease in the United States, with a growing prevalence, for which no FDA approved treatment is yet available,\u201d said Dr. Stephen Harrison, M.D., Principal Investigator of the study as well as Medical Director for Pinnacle Clinical Research, San Antonio, Texas, and Visiting Professor of Hepatology, Oxford University. \u201cThese results suggest that a highly selective liver-directed, thyroid hormone receptor-\u03b2 agonist may be able to effectively and safely treat patients with NASH. Importantly, the study is designed to allow correlations between efficacy in a non-invasive imaging test, MRI-PDFF at 12 and 36 weeks, and improvement in NASH on liver biopsy at 36 weeks.\u201d\nRebecca Taub, M.D., Chief Medical Officer and Executive VP, Research & Development of Madrigal added, \u201cResults from this study confirm what we have seen in both our preclinical and earlier clinical studies and support our long-standing confidence in the safety and potential therapeutic value of MGL-3196. We fully expect data at 36 weeks to confirm results seen at 12 weeks, and potentially show improvement in NASH on liver biopsy. We look forward to the presentation of the 12-week, Phase 2 results to the scientific and clinical community, and further development of MGL-3196 for treatment of patients with NASH.\u201d\nPaul Friedman, M.D., Chief Executive Officer of Madrigal, stated, \u201cWe are gratified to see clinical results that strongly suggest MGL-3196 has the potential to provide clinically meaningful improvement of NASH by targeting lipotoxicity and inflammation as well as by reduction of cardiovascular risk by lowering atherogenic lipids. These pleiotropic actions, coupled with the excellent safety profile we have seen in this trial, continue to suggest that MGL-3196 has the potential to address the root causes of the underlying disease process in NASH.\u201d\nMadrigal will hold a conference call and webcast this morning at 8:30 a.m. ET. To access the conference call, please dial 833-660-2754 for domestic callers or 409-350-3497 for international callers. When prompted, provide the conference identification number, 5577478.\nThe conference call will also be webcast live and can be accessed at http://www.madrigalpharma.com/newsroom/presentations/ in the \u201cEvents and Presentations\u201d section of the Madrigal website.\nIf you are unable to participate, a replay of the conference call will be available on the website under http://www.madrigalpharma.com/newsroom/presentations/.\nAbout the Phase 2 NASH Study\nThe randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center Phase 2 study enrolled 125 patients 18 years of age and older with liver biopsy-confirmed NASH and included approximately 25 clinical sites in the United States. Patients were randomized to receive either placebo or MGL-3196 with twice as many patients receiving MGL-3196 as placebo. The starting dose in 3196-treated patients was 80 mg once a day. The study employed an adaptive dosing design whereby, in a blinded fashion, the dose could be adjusted by small amounts (i.e. 20 mg up or down) or remain at 80 mg in each 3196-treated patient based on a pharmacokinetic analysis of drug level performed in each patient at 2 weeks.\nThe primary endpoint of the study is the reduction of liver fat at 12 weeks compared with baseline (relative change), assessed by MRI-PDFF, with efficacy confirmed at the end of the trial (36 weeks) by repeat MRI-PDFF and conventional liver biopsy to examine histological evidence for the resolution of NASH. A total of 116 patients completed the 12 week MRI-PDFF; the 9 discontinuations were balanced between placebo and drug treated; 2/9 discontinuations were AE-related.\nOther secondary endpoints include changes in clinically relevant biomarkers at 12 and 36 weeks, improvement in fibrosis by at least one stage with no worsening of steatohepatitis, and safety and tolerability. Results at 36-weeks are expected in the second quarter of 2018. Additional information about the study [NCT02912260] can be obtained at www.ClinicalTrials.gov.\nAbout MGL-3196\nAmong its many functions in the human body, thyroid hormone, through activation of its beta receptor, plays a central role in controlling lipid metabolism, impacting a range of health parameters from levels of serum cholesterol and triglycerides to the pathological buildup of fat in the liver. Attempts to exploit this pathway for therapeutic purposes in cardio-metabolic and liver diseases have been hampered by the lack of selectivity of older compounds for the thyroid hormone receptor (THR)-\u03b2, chemically-related toxicities and undesirable distribution in the body.\nMadrigal recognized that greater selectivity for thyroid hormone receptor (THR)-\u03b2 and liver targeting might overcome these challenges and deliver the full therapeutic potential of THR-\u03b2 agonism. Madrigal believes that MGL-3196 is the first orally administered, small-molecule, liver-directed, truly \u03b2-selective THR agonist. MGL-3196 has demonstrated the potential for a broad array of therapeutically beneficial effects, improving components of both metabolic syndrome, such as insulin resistance and dyslipidemia, and fatty liver disease, including lipotoxicity and inflammation. These pleiotropic actions, coupled with an excellent safety profile, suggest that MGL-3196 could be the preferred treatment option for NASH.\nAbout Madrigal Pharmaceuticals\nMadrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:MDGL) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company pursuing novel therapeutics that target a specific thyroid hormone receptor pathway in the liver, which is a key regulatory mechanism common to a spectrum of cardio-metabolic and fatty liver diseases with high unmet medical need. Madrigal\u2019s lead candidate, MGL-3196, is a first-in-class, orally administered, small-molecule, liver-directed, thyroid hormone receptor (THR) \u03b2-selective agonist that is currently in Phase 2 development for NASH and HeFH. For more information, visit www.madrigalpharma.com.\nThis communication contains \u201cforward-looking statements\u201d made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements contain words such as \u201cexpect,\u201d \u201ccould,\u201d \u201cmay,\u201d \u201cwill,\u201d \u201cbelieve,\u201d \u201cestimate,\u201d \"continue,\" \"future,\u201d or the negative thereof or comparable terminology and the use of future dates. Forward-looking statements reflect management's current knowledge, assumptions, judgment and expectations regarding future performance or events. Although management believes that the expectations reflected in such statements are reasonable, they give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct and you should be aware that actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties including, but not limited to, the company's clinical development of MGL-3196, the timing and outcomes of clinical studies of MGL-3196, and the uncertainties inherent in clinical testing. Undue reliance should not be placed on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. Madrigal undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances after the date they are made, or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Please refer to Madrigal's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for more detailed information regarding these risks and uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied.\nMarc Schneebaum, Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 11704, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://godspeaks-i-listen.com/2011/07/05/no-pain-no-gain-no-bible-no-survival/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:48Z", "digest": "sha1:O6LYCUWY4TUKY35WLENFJNZODU7FUGDE", "length": 4709, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "godspeaks-i-listen.com", "title": "No Pain~No Gain\u2026Know bible~Know survival | God Speaks I Listen", "raw_content": "True Independence\tGod doesn\u2019t like whinning!\nNo Pain~No Gain\u2026Know bible~Know survival\nPsalms 119:71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.\nI am so grateful to God for not spoiling me. I\u2019m very thankful for the hard lessons that were tailor made for me to bring me to the place in Him I\u2019m at today. I\u2019m glad for the lessons He will enact when I need them in the future. It is all for my good.\nSome may think God is mean, harsh, and unfair. They get mad at Him and say all manner of negative things about Him, but I tell you we should all be happy about the lessons if we knew or understood the motives behind them.\nAsk anybody\u2026.I was tough on my 6 kids\u2026they say I held no prisoners. I made my kids listen and when they really went off the track they were disciplined. They didn\u2019t like it at all\u2026.but they all grew up to be wonderful adults. I did what I had to do because I love them so much and I knew they would never learn good morals, be honest, have integrity and most important the fear of God had I not afflicted them at some point with my mother ways. It was for their good! I was firm, consistent and loving.\nOne of the best examples of this lesson was a man my husband and I were honored to know. His name was Rev. Irving and he has since gone home to be with the Lord. He spoke about his lesson very publicly so that\u2019s why I can share it. He said He went to seminary and got his education and thought he had arrived. He was married, had a great life, preached in a big church and all\u2026..but\u2026\u2026he said he was a proud man.\nOne day he had a major stroke that left him paralyzed on one side and he was very sick for a long time. He lost everything\u2026job, family, church, his health\u2026.everything except his life and his mind. God spoke to him and told him why He had allowed this dreadful thing to happen to him \u2026.. God said it was his pride. He repented and God did allow Him to preach again but it was much different. He was so humbled and went from church to church for years telling his story. He had one of the most powerful ministries\u2026\u2026..even though his whole right side was still paralyzed and he had to use a cane to walk\u2026\u2026and even though his speech was so slurred and he stuttered so badly that he could only get a few words out at a time..\u2026he still preached. It was painful to see him struggle to speak, but when he would praise the Lord it was very powerful. We all understood what he was saying and the joy he now had.\nNow God doesn\u2019t give everybody the same lessons or afflictions. Some of us need mild prodding while others need a big shove, but no matter the lesson or affliction it is for our good. That\u2019s why when we pray for others and we pray for ourselves we need to know how to pray for the situation. This is where the Holy Spirit comes in and teaches us, guides us, and points us in the right direction. He will lead us to a scripture or reveal to us what is in our hearts and we will get an understanding about our affliction. It may be that we indeed need to repent, it might be a big attack of the enemy or we might just have something that normally may happen to us. If the affliction is because of correction it is good and you will learn from the discipline, the bible says so.\nPsalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word.\nMessage for today: Know your bible and obey the word\u2026.maybe you\u2019ll have less test.\nThanks for this beautiful blog. I also believe that God has a plan for each one of us\u2026..and that everything happens for a reason as He has planned. It is almost like a big network or web of events which somehow interconnect one way or another.\nFor example, I met someone a few years ago but never kept in touch, but recently this friend has come back into my life when it has been most challenging and has helped me in many ways \u2013 so I feel that I met this person for a reason but didn\u2019t know at the time that our chance meeting would lead to so much more.\nSo knowing this, even if what I am going through is challenging and difficult at times, I believe that God is doing things in my life for my good and I will learn something from it.\nSo glad God has reconnected you with a special friend and blessed you while you were going through tough times. God bless you!\nLove this, Tanya!! Can\u2019t believe you have 6 kids \u2014 I so admire parents who do beautiful jobs raising their young ones! Parenting is one of the toughest jobs we do \u2014 if we do it right! \u2014 but the results are so rewarding. Nobody likes pain, but the Lord in His Wisdom has to purify us so we can spend eternity with Him!\nYeah Deb\u2026.I have 6 adult children\u2026my job is over\u2026well sort of. They still call for advice sometimes. Have a great day!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 10338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 270.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gowatchit.com/watch/movies/the-shamrocks-271537", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NKUGMPJNVDABWXASSKXSZGIQKCNVFOZN", "length": 280, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gowatchit.com", "title": "The Shamrocks (1999) | GoWatchIt", "raw_content": "Cultures clash and friendships fray as a raucous team of Irish nannies dominate the New York women\u2019s soccer league.\nThe Shamrocks is not available now.\nAdd this movie to your queue to receive more information about The Shamrocks and we will let you know when it becomes available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 4456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 309.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/those-who-claim-to-be-jews-but-are-not-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TJE6PH3Y5JBI53H5IPES7LXUF7ME6Q32", "length": 1713, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "gracethrufaith.com", "title": "Those Who Claim To Be Jews But Are Not \u2013 Grace thru faith Grace thru Faith Logo Cog Icon Headphones Icon Lamp Icon eBook Icon Globe Icon Tree Icon", "raw_content": "Those Who Claim To Be Jews But Are Not\nHome \u00bb Ask a Bible Teacher \u00bb Those Who Claim To Be Jews But Are Not\nThank you for you ministry, Jack. I\u2019ve been thinking lately on how there are references to the \u201csynagogue of Satan\u201d? and \u201cthose who claim to be Jews but are not\u201d? in the only two churches which receive the Lord\u2019s commendation in Revelation 2 and 3 (Smyrna and Philadelphia).\nIn the case of Philadelphia I\u2019m wondering if it refers to the replacement theology prevalent in Catholicism and many protestant denominations. I\u2019ve always considered that this theology is a great offense to God as it denies the glory accorded to His Son, denies His covenants with Israel and denies the truth of His prophetic Word.\nI think it is significant also that of all the 7 Churches in Revelation 2 and 3 it is to the church of Philadelphia that the Lord says he holds the \u201ckey of David\u201d?. The modern period of Philadelphia coincided with Zionism and the resurgence of the pre-millennial interpretation of prophecy. What are your thoughts on this?\nWell said. I couldn\u2019t agree with you more. Viewing the seven letters as a chronicle of Church history puts the letter to Philadelphia in the period when the literal interpretation of prophecy re-emerged after 14 centuries of suppression and those concerning Israel were once again seen as applying to the re-born Jewish nation, and not to the church.\nSince many of those who deny Israel\u2019s place in God\u2019s Kingdom also deny the need to be born again, they will be required to bow down before us and admit their errors as part of their judgment.\nThose Who Claim To Be Jews, But Are Not\nHow Can They Claim To Be Christians?\nAre Some Jews Not Jews?\nAre Today\u2019s Jews The Right Jews?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greatermonctonrealtors.com/your-home-selling-guide", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:17Z", "digest": "sha1:RG6WD2SAI2ZNLOSIAZMZMGK3JPWGR4F7", "length": 8625, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "greatermonctonrealtors.com", "title": "Your Home Selling Guide | Greater Moncton REALTORS du Grand Moncton", "raw_content": "Your Home Selling Guide\nHOW TO SELL YOUR HOME, SIMPLIFIED\nWhen deciding to sell, it\u2019s important to think about your objectives. Why are you selling? When is the best time to sell? How much money do you expect to receive? Figuring this out early, with your REALTOR\u00ae will help you make the right choices.\nIn general, people sell their homes for reasons involving their employment, their family, their financial position, or lifestyle. You could be relocated for work, you could get married, or have a baby, you could be in the midst of a strong sellers market and wish to take advantage, or you may have a change in priorities, and may need a different style home.\nIf you have to move to another city for work, the answer will likely be \u201cright away!\u201d For most people, there is some flexibility. The dual goal is to sell it as quickly as possible for the highest price possible. Discuss your specific requirements with your REALTOR\u00ae who can help you determine an asking price that could help to meet your timeline.\nWith your REALTOR\u00ae discuss cycles in the housing market. You may have heard the terms \u201cbuyer\u2019s market\u201d or \u201cseller\u2019s market\u201d. Make sure to talk to your REALTOR\u00ae about the current marketplace conditions so you have a good understanding of what to expect.\nHome selling can also be affected by seasons. For example, buyers may not be willing to walk through snow drifts to look at a home. But you\u2019ll likely be competing against fewer homes. On the other side of the coin, spring tends to be a busy time for real estate. Grass is growing, and flowers are blooming. Parents of school-aged kids are more keen to buy in the spring so moving can be done after school lets out.\nMany people, with help from their REALTOR\u00ae and lawyer, are able to make the buy and sell dates coincide in such a way that you can essentially move from one home to the next. This helps avoids extra costs like a motel, or storage for your belongings.\nYou can also make your offer on your new home conditional on the sale of your current home. That way if the sale of your home falls through, you are not obligated to continue with that purchase. Also, you can negotiate for a longer \u201cclosing period\u201d to finish the sale of your home.\nSell with a REALTOR\u00ae\u2019s help, or go it alone?\nHave you ever considered fixing your own car? You could easily buy the parts and tools needed. However most of us don\u2019t have the time, or knowledge needed to do the job. The same can be said for selling your home. It is a complex procedure involving a lot of money, and a lot of very rigorous legal requirements. Without the knowledge and experience that a REALTOR\u00ae provides, there is a real chance for very costly mistakes.\nMost of those who sell their homes in Canada do so with the assistance of a REALTOR\u00ae. The few who try it alone very often change their minds and end up going with a REALTOR\u00ae because the process is too complex, time consuming, and risky without the help of a professional.\nTake your time and find the REALTOR\u00ae who you feel most comfortable with. The process of selling a home is a lengthy one with the potential for some ups and downs. Having the right REALTOR\u00ae in your corner will make the process that much easier.\nListing your home is a two step process. Part one is a contract, while the second part is a collection of information.\nThe Listing Agreement is a the contract between you and the real estate agency. It allows the agency and its salespeople to market your property. It also forms the basis for drafting an offer on your home, and the negotiations involving the offer.\nDuring the collection of information a REALTOR\u00ae gathers information about your home that will help to gain exposure with potential buyers. Unless you\u2019ve opted for an exclusive listing, this information will be submitted to the Multiple Listing Service\u00ae (MLS\u00ae).This information is also used by REALTORs\u00ae in answering questions and inquiries from prospective buyers.\nIn most cases your REALTOR\u00ae will recommend that you list your home through MLS\u00ae as this way your home will receive the maximum exposure in the shortest amount of time.\nDetermining Your Home\u2019s Asking Price\nOne of the most important decisions you will make during the process of selling your home is deciding with your REALTOR\u00ae how much the home will be listed for. The first few weeks of the listing are the most important.\nThe goal is to choose a price that is reflects the market value. A home can only fetch the sale price that buyers are willing to pay. This is something that takes a comprehensive understanding of the market. Something your REALTOR\u00ae is an expert at. They will work to find the market value of your home, and with that information help you decide on an asking price.\nHow can you help sell your house?\nOne of the most important tasks of any homeowner with a house on the market is to keep your house clean and uncluttered, to allow showings of your home at any reasonable time, and to provide a key for access when you are not home (but don\u2019t worry, you will be contacted before any viewings.)\nYou also need to gather all relevant documents. The your mortgage documents, tax assessments and utility receipts are all things that are needed during the process of selling your home. Utility receipts and a land survey may be needed during the sale process as the potential buyer may request that information.\nSelling your home takes teamwork and a spirit of cooperation to make it happen. Your REALTOR\u00ae is a valuable member of your team, and your help and support will ensure that their efforts result in a successful sale.\nIt\u2019s time to think like a buyer. \u201cWhat can I do to make my home look appealing to prospective buyers?\u201d.\nClean everything. Literally everything. Take a tour of your house and make a note of every opportunity to remove clutter and dirt. Spaces will look bigger if you remove unnecessary stuff. Use this as an opportunity to declutter. With each questionable item of \u2018stuff\u201d you find, ask yourself \u201cHave I used this in the last 6 months? Or will I use it soon?\u201d If the answer is \u201cno\u201d, get rid of it. This is a twofold benefit as your home will look more inviting, and you\u2019ll have less to move.\nRepair what you can, and hire professionals for what you can\u2019t. Missing hinges, and knobs, gouges in the wall, and missing paint are all things you can likely do yourself. Electrical and plumbing repairs, as well as roofing jobs are best left to the professionals\nAn Effective Plan to Market Your Home\nThere are a few elements that can be included in an effective marketing plan. The most direct of these is the For Sale sign. It\u2019s on duty 24/7 and is most sought by potential buyers.\nYour REALTOR\u00ae may also use several other options such as digital and social marketing, and standard advertising.\nYour REALTOR\u00ae is required to present you every offer submitted on your property. While they are working for you, they are an intermediary between you and the buyer, and will allow you to look at each offer with as little emotion as possible.\nWith any offer, you have three options: Accept it, Reject it, or \u201csign it back\u201d with a counter offer.\nIf you accept, you have made a legally binding contract to sell your home, subject to any conditions.\nIf you reject the offer, the buyer may choose to submit another offer.\nIf you \u201csign back\u201d changes, the buyer then has the option of accepting your terms, rejecting them, or submitting yet another counter offer.\nFrom Signed Agreement To Closing\nThe negotiations have been successful, and you and the buyer have agreed to a price. Now it\u2019s time for the final steps to completing the process, known as \u201cclosing.\u201d\nYour lawyer will carefully review the Agreement, noting any conditions that exist. If you are responsible for any conditions, your lawyer will discuss that with you. Once those have been met, your lawyer will get her the documents needed to complete the transaction and. Transfer title to the new owner. Your lawyer will draw up paperwork regarding your mortgage and if it is to be paid off from proceeds of the sale. Once that paperwork is completed, they are also tasked with distribution of the proceeds from the sale.That includes discharging the mortgage, paying all costs according to the statement of adjustment,and give you a cheque for the net proceeds.\nFinally, your lawyer will send you a letter setting out the services that were performed, and giving you and documents from the transaction for our files.\nCongratulations! Your home is sold. You can use the proceeds from the sale to purchase your next property, and you\u2019ve contributed to one of the best long term investments you will ever make.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 9869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greenblacktales.com/2014/02/25/she-episode-5/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:32Z", "digest": "sha1:G6ZW7AZSQDUI5EFN5RS44L6KO3WE5BQG", "length": 10498, "nlines": 102, "source_domain": "greenblacktales.com", "title": "She: Episode 5 \u2013 Green Black Tales", "raw_content": "February 25, 2014 January 17, 2016 'Laolu4 Comments on She: Episode 5\nThe tears streamed down Simi\u2019s face as she raced down the Third mainland bridge. Rain clouds gathered in the sky above, but she was too upset to notice them. Her phone buzzed beside her in a small compartment, she ignored it entirely. She wondered what was wrong with her. She\u2019d received the call from Andy earlier that morning fully ready to end their relationship but she found herself melting under his apologies and well-crafted compliments.\n\u201cI can\u2019t live without you, Simi.\u201d He\u2019d said \u201cI can\u2019t lose you, you\u2019re too special. Please let\u2019s talk this over, my place or yours?\u201d\nAnd as always, she\u2019d chosen his house and gone like a lamb to the slaughter. He\u2019d apologized, made promises and then hugged her and the emotions came flooding back. She\u2019d tried to tell him what she was prepared to say but found she was unable to. He had touched her in all the right places and her defences collapsed. The sex was slicker than usual and it left her feeling like a slut. It took all of her willpower to stop herself from crying in his house, so she hurriedly picked up her stuff and fled, leaving him very confused.\nShe broke in her car and started crying, unable to understand why crying seemed appropriate. She drove faster than she would normally do, trying to get home as quickly as possible. Regret washed over her in waves. She wished she took Izzy along with her, at least that would\u2019ve deterred him\u2014them a bit. She overtook cars without discretion, drawing honks and curses from the other drivers, palms stretched wide open in her direction.\nSimi pulled into her compound teary eyed and slammed the door shut. She stalked past the security guard who she was sure was going to tell her mother he saw \u201cAunty\u201d crying. Izzy met her at the front door, concern written all over her face. Simi ignored her.\n\u201cSimi! Don\u2019t just walk past me. Are you okay? Where have you been?\u201d Izzy inquired.\nSimi continued up the stairs and into her room, where she plopped down onto the bed, buried her face in her pillows and began sobbing. Izzy approached her.\n\u201cSimi, what happened? Are you okay?\u201d She sat beside her sobbing friend \u201cDid he hit you? I know you went to see Andy.\u201d\nSimi didn\u2019t respond. She couldn\u2019t even if she wanted to. For some unfathomable reason, she felt dirty, used, betrayed. She got up, stripped and stepped into the shower, leaving Izzy sitting on the bed, confusion and worry etched onto her chubby face.\nThe cold water hit her with force. She shivered slightly and fumbled with the tap, trying to raise the temperature. She stood there, letting the water flow over her. She didn\u2019t care about the weave on her head or anything else, her mind racing back and forth.\n\u201cSimi, I\u2019m going to make you Horlicks downstairs, I\u2019ll be right back.\u201d Izzy shouted from outside the bathroom. Simi didn\u2019t respond.\nShe knew Izzy would think she was crazy when she found out why she was crying. It wasn\u2019t the first time she had slept with Andy so she had no reason to flip like that. Andy didn\u2019t force her to do anything, she consented willingly.\n\u201cPastor\u201d Her inner voice said.\nShe tried to shut it out, shaking her head in the process.\n\u201cPastor\u2019s gist has gotten to you girl. Your conscience is messing you up.\u201d\nAs much as Simi hated to admit it, she knew she was right. The man had put the fear of God back into her.\n\u201cYou have to be strong Simi,\u201d She told herself \u201cGod doesn\u2019t just strike people dead for their sins.\u201d\nShe knew that was true, at least in recent times. She\u2019d seen places in the bible that claimed otherwise though.\n\u201cGet out of here and do something, you\u2019ve messed up your hair already.\u201d She scolded herself.\nShutting the tap off, she stepped out of the shower and grabbed a towel from the rack. She had begun towelling herself dry when Izzy got back with two steaming cups of beverage.\n\u201cTrust you to make for yourself.\u201d Simi said.\n\u201cWhat is wrong with you?!\u201d Izzy screamed \u201cFirst you walk in crying, and then you have a shower and start making jokes!?\u201d\n\u201cNo! I\u2019m not taking that from you again. I demand an explanation.\u201d\n\u201cOkay,\u201d Simi replied coolly \u201cI\u2019m breaking up with Andy. Don\u2019t say anything yet, I\u2019ve made up my mind and I\u2019m not changing it.\u201d\n\u201cThat\u2019s impossible.\u201d Izzy replied\n\u201cYou can\u2019t expect me not to say anything. I respect your decision but as your friend, I think it\u2019s a silly one.\u201d\n\u201cAnd why is that?\u201d Simi inquired, strangely unoffended by Izzy\u2019s retort.\n\u201cYou guys are so perfect together. What more do you want? What do you want, Simi?!\u201d\n\u201cFirst, I want to be happy. I\u2019m no longer happy with him,\u201d She began \u201cSecondly, I want you to drop this and not one more word about this issue.\u201d\n\u201cAt least talk it over with someone else. Hear what they have to say.\u201d\nSimi considered Izzy\u2019s advice for a moment and then grabbed her phone.\n\u201cWhere are you going to?\u201d Izzy asked as Simi bolted out of the room.\n\u201cPlease give me a moment. Do not interrupt, I beg you!\u201d She implored.\nShe found her way into the second living room, right next to her mother\u2019s room and sat on one of the sofas there. She began with a text to Andy.\nIt\u2019s over between us. You\u2019re a great guy and all but I see no reason for us to continue. It\u2019s not you, it\u2019s me.\nShe cringed at the clich\u00e9 breakup line but continued assuring herself she wasn\u2019t in the mood for deep essays.\nThank you for being an awesome guy, but I need more. XO\nExhaling deeply, she navigated her way to her contacts list and scrolled down until she found the name she was looking for. Jonathan. She dialled and held her breath. For the first time, she noticed it was raining outside.\n\u201cHello?\u201d A voice at the other end answered. It was a female voice.\nSimi froze for a second before replying.\n\u201cUm, hello. Can I please talk to Jonathan?\u201d She responded.\n\u201cHe\u2019s outside, can you call back?\u201d The voice answered, young and definitely female.\nShe hung up feeling let down. Confused at her conflicting emotions, she scrolled through her pictures, skilfully avoiding the album titled \u201cXOXO\u201d. Her more random pictures were preferred as she waited.\nThe vibrating phone made her smile. Jonathan\u2019s name flashed across the screen.\n\u201cHello?\u201d The calmness of his voice floated through the phone, or so she thought.\n\u201cHey, it\u2019s Simi.\u201d\n\u201cI know,\u201d He said, chuckling \u201cWhat\u2019s up?\u201d\n\u201cNothing much, I\u2019m just at home, doing nothing.\u201d\n\u201cOkay, do you guys have light?\u201d\n\u201cYeah, we almost always do. My mom bought an Inverter.\u201d\n\u201cLucky you, we have absolutely no light here.\u201d\nShe liked the way he made small talk. He was very easy to talk to and soon they were immersed in random gist.\n\u201cThat said, go straight to the point.\u201d He said after some extra small talk.\n\u201cWhat?\u201d Simi asked, genuinely puzzled.\n\u201cTo be honest, I can\u2019t explain how, but I know you have something to tell me.\u201d\nShe smiled. He\u2019d make a good detective.\n\u201cI have my ways.\u201d He replied, making her laugh.\n\u201cOkay, but on a serious note, please don\u2019t judge me.\u201d\n\u201cDon\u2019t make promises so quickly.\u201d\nShe noticed the pun. He was assertive and witty.\n\u201cAlright then, here goes,\u201d She took in a deep breath \u201cI just broke up with my boyfriend.\u201d\nSilence ensued for a second and then he spoke.\n\u201cOkay, um, this doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the incident at palms, does it?\u201d\n\u201cNo, not entirely. It\u2019s kind of related sha.\u201d\n\u201cAnd if I may ask, you\u2019re telling me this because?\u201d\nShe felt rejected by his question, like it was none of his business.\n\u201cNo reason, I shouldn\u2019t have brought it up. I\u2019m sorry.\u201d\n\u201cNo, Simi. Don\u2019t get me wrong. I\u2019m kind of flattered that you shared this with me. I\u2019m just scared that I had something to do with it.\u201d\nHis response made her feel slightly better.\n\u201cNah, don\u2019t worry yourself. You had nothing to do with it.\u201d She replied.\nIt felt like a lie. It was a lie. He had everything to do with it. She knew he was a conscious-unconscious factor in her decision.\n\u201cGood to hear. I don\u2019t ever want to be in the middle of two friends. That said, are you okay?\u201d He inquired.\nShe liked the tone of his voice. It was comforting.\n\u201cYes, I guess. I\u2019m handling it well, better than I thought I would.\u201d She answered genuinely feeling alright with her decision.\n\u201cGood for you. I respect your decision though, after all, a failed relationship is better than a broken marriage.\u201d\nHe sounded like one of those young pastors who talked about relationships and life partners.\n\u201cYeah. I\u2019m not just sure I know what I\u2019m supposed to do from now on.\u201d\n\u201cWait, has he said anything?\u201d Jonathan asked.\n\u201cNot yet. He will soon enough. My mind is made up sha.\u201d\n\u201cNice, just ensure its clean. Messy breakups are, well, messy.\u201d\n\u201cYeah. I\u2019m -\u201d She began but was cut short by Izzy shouting her name frantically \u201cI\u2019ll be right back.\u201d\nShe hung up and strode out of the living room, towel still round her body. Izzy approached her looking shell shocked.\n\u201cYour mom is back. She said you should come downstairs, and wear something appropriate.\u201d\n\u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d Simi asked\n\u201cI can\u2019t tell you, just wear something quickly and let\u2019s go.\u201d\nSimi felt uneasy. There was tension in the air. She hurriedly switched her towel for a black hoodie and grey sweat pants. She covered her wet hair with the hoodie and wondered if her appearance was \u2018appropriate\u2019 by any stretch of the imagination. She shoved her phone into her pockets and headed for the living room.\nThere were two people other people in the living room apart from her mother. Her mom was wearing a white shirt on khaki shorts. She looked barely thirty. The tension, however, hung in the air. The two other people were a man and a boy. The man wore a simple pink shirt over blue denim. The boy was trendier, sporting a black t-shirt, jeans and black sneakers. He looked 15, 16 at best.\n\u201cSimisola, sit down.\u201d Her mother instructed with a seriousness in her voice that was barely heard in the house anymore. Simi recognized it and obeyed immediately.\nThe room was silent. The man stared at her, pain reflecting on his face. The boy was more composed than the man.\n\u201cDo you know this man?\u201d Her mother inquired.\nSimi studied him for a few moments.\n\u201cNo.\u201d She shook her head\nHer mom paused. Simi noticed her struggling not to break into tears.\n\u201cThis man,\u201d She began \u201cIs your bastard father that abandoned us.\u201d\nToro February 26, 2014 \u2014 12:23 am\nBeautiful story, uhm but the tension is just too much, I\u2019d definitely watch a movie with this storyline though.\nPeter Ndukwe February 26, 2014 \u2014 8:02 pm\nhmmm new twist! niceee\u2026 took a yle, but u got me waitn for the next\u2026\nosato March 3, 2014 \u2014 8:12 am\nok\u2026so when is 6 coming ooo\nnice twist\u2026really nice story", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 13285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hairlossdhtshampoo.com/blogs/blog/what-is-the-best-minoxidil-available-to-reverse-hair-loss-and-regrow-hair", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:19Z", "digest": "sha1:6FDRYPOE6N7TOU2EFDNDUTABIHOISLEI", "length": 8876, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "hairlossdhtshampoo.com", "title": "What Is The Best Minoxidil Available To Reverse Hair Loss And Regrow H \u2013 Hair Restoration Laboratories", "raw_content": "In this edition, we are going to again revisit minoxidil as a treatment for hair loss and explain how the limitations of regular minoxidil formulations.\nWhile the FDA has approved minoxidil as a hair loss treatment, the medical community is still not in agreement as to how it exactly stimulates hair regrowth.\nSome theorize that minoxidil promotes blood flow to hair follicles and increases both the size of the follicles and the diameter of the hair shaft. This stimulates hair growth and prolongs that growth. Follicles that had, over time, shrunk and are producing finer hairs should then become larger and subsequently produce thicker hair.\nWho Can Use Minoxidil?\nDuring initial clinical testing, minoxidil was only tested on males. Once approved, it was initially offered only in a 2% concentration, just for males. And, because the subjects of the testing only used it in the crown of the scalp, it has only ever been approved to help regrow hair in that area--and not along the hairline or the center of the scalp. Minoxidil was subsequently approved to be used at a 5% concentration, for both men and women.\nMinoxidil is only recommended for men and women with genetic or \u201cpattern\u201d hair loss, and not hair loss caused by any other source, such as stress, medication, childbirth, etc.\nWhat To Expect When Using Minoxidil?\nUnfortunately, it is well-settled that standard minoxidil is quite limited in its effectiveness. For many experiencing genetic hair loss, it will not provide any benefit, particularly if the hair loss is advanced. Additionally, as a result of certain chemicals in standard minoxidil, side effects can be pronounced when using it.\nAt the inception of treatment, users can experience a slight increase in hair loss (also referred to as the \"shedding period\"). This is caused by the minoxidil triggering a new growth cycle in which existing, older hairs are shed to make way for the hopefully new and thicker hair growth. This shedding period should only last a few weeks.\nBetween 3 to 6 months of use, fine, colorless and very soft hairs may begin to emerge. The new hair should begin to thicken and strengthen somewhat, although it may be a little different in color and texture in comparison to the rest of your hair. If regrowth occurs, you will need to keep using the minoxidil, as minoxidil is not a permanent fix or hair loss \"cure\". It works only as long as it continues to be used.\nIf you decide to use standard minoxidil, you must have realistic expectations. There are a number of ways your hair may respond: either you will grow a little back, not regrow any hair but maintain the hair you have left, or see no results at all. On average, only about 33% of users of standard minoxidil report moderate hair regrowth. Unfortunately, the most common response people experience with minoxidil is slight regrowth, no regrowth and/or slowing further loss.\nAnother common question people have about standard minoxidil is whether it can help with a receding hair line. Unfortunately, there is no clinical evidence that standard minoxidil can regrow hair in the front of the hairline. Rather, at the time of its FDA approval, it was only proven to be of benefit.\nThe Real Problem With Regular Minoxidil--It Does Not Address The Actual Cause of Hair Loss-DHT!\nWhile minoxidil may prolong the anagen phase of your existing hairs and help regrow some of the lost hairs, the new hairs will be most likely be thin and weak. Minoxidil does not do anything to stop hair loss as it does not address or counter the actual cause of genetic hair loss-Dihydrotesterone (\"DHT\"). Even if you use minoxidil religiously, eventually, your hair follicles (without a DHT blocker), will become overwhelmed by DHT, leading to hair miniaturization. To properly stop and reverse hair loss, you must block DHT.\nUnfortunately, DHT causes havoc for hair follicles. It connects to them and triggers a process called \"miniaturization\".\nAs the hair follicles become miniaturized, they will grow in thinner and thinner. Eventually, the hair becomes so thin and weak that, once it falls out, it simply does not regrow again.\nThinning hair and hair loss can be caused by a variety of internal and external factors. However, the most common cause of male and female pattern baldness is genetics. And while the cause of genetic hair loss has been the subject of debate for many centuries, today, the medical community is in agreement that it is caused by DHT.\nTestosterone enters the hair follicle of both men and women through gateways known as androgen receptors. Once the testosterone enters the follicles, it interacts with an enzyme, called 5a-reductase. Once that interaction occurs, DHT is produced.\nWhile DHT is necessary during the early stages of life, as we age, it is of no known benefit to adults. Unfortunately, once formed, DHT causes havoc for hair follicles. It connects to the androgen receptors at the base of the hair follicles. This then leads to a process called \"miniaturization\".\nHair growth has three phases: anagen, catagen, and telogen:\nAnagen is the growth phase. Hairs remain in this phase for 3 to 6 years. The longer it lasts, the longer the hair grows. Normally, around 80 to 85% of the hairs on the head are in this phase.\nCatagen lasts approximately 2 weeks. It allows the hair follicle to renew itself.\nTelogen is the resting phase. The follicle lies dormant for 5 to 6 weeks. Normally between 12 and 20% of hairs are in this phase.\nAfter the telogen phase, the anagen phase begins again. The existing hair is pushed out of the pore by the new growth and naturally sheds.\nAs the hair follicles become miniaturized, however, hair that grows in during the anagen phase, will grow in thinner and thinner. Eventually, the hair becomes so thin and weak that, once it falls out, it simply does not regrow again.\nIn order for men and women to prevent and reverse hair loss, DHT in the hair follicle must be blocked.\nWhy The Ultra Strength Hair Regrowth Treatment Is Superior To Regular Minoxidil\nIn order for men and women to prevent and reverse hair loss, Hair Restoration Laboratories has combined FDA-approved 5% minoxidil with ingredients that clinical studies establish have the ability to block DHT.\nUnlike regular 5% minoxidil, the Ultra Strength Hair Regrowth Treatment contains multiple, potent DHT blockers such as caffeine, saw palmetto extract, green tea extract, pumpkin seed oil, azelaic acid, borage extract and cumin seed oil:\nAzelaic acid is a naturally-occurring substance found in whole grains. It is an inhibitor of 5-alpha-reductase in human skin. A reduction of this enzyme reduces the amount of DHT able to attack the hair follicle. Studies reflect that when azelaic acid comes in contact with the scalp, it can prevent or eliminate the binding of DHT to the hair follicle receptor, preventing hair loss and stimulating hair regrowth.\nMultiple studies confirm that caffeine is a powerful DHT blocker. In a study published in the International Journal of Dermatology, researchers saw in vitro growth inhibition of human hair follicles exposed to testosterone. In the same study, the negative effects of testosterone were counteracted by low concentrations of caffeine. Additionally, and most importantly, the study confirmed that caffeine stimulated growth.\nPygeum Africanum Bark Extract\nPygeum africanum is an evergreen tree from Africa. The extract is rich in derivatives of natural fatty acids and is used in herbal medications to relieve urinary symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Excessive DHT happens to be the main cause of BPH (or prostate enlargement) and is also considered the main culprit in causing male as well as female pattern baldness.\nPumpkin seed oil has been shown to block the action of 5-alpha reductase. The enzyme 5-alpha reductase is the main antagonist in androgenetic alopecia.\nThe most important component in cayenne fruit extract is capsaicin. It stimulates the skin cells which increases the overall metabolic process of the skin on a cellular level. Due to intensive metabolism, blood rushes to the skin of the scalp and the hair follicles receive sufficient nutrition and oxygen content from the blood flow which greatly promotes hair growth. Also, capsaicin stimulates the dead skin cells of the scalp which leads to new hair follicle production.\nThe Ultra Strength Hair Regrowth Treatment also contains essential vitamins, nutrients and other ingredients, such as biotin, keratin, inositol, Vitamin E, Vitamin C and Vitamin B6 to dramatically increase the strength, health and thickness of your hair.\nBy treating the root cause of hair loss, the Hair Restoration Laboratories\u2019 Ultra Strength Hair Regrowth Treatment can effectively stop and reverse male and female patten hair loss like nothing else.\nTo learn more about the Ultra Strength Hair Regrowth Treatment, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 11868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hairymouth.co.uk/2012/01/31/funny-music/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:42Z", "digest": "sha1:YKTMC6W54MFZST4OCG646H3P2FSLJ7S6", "length": 919, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "hairymouth.co.uk", "title": "Funny Music | Hairy Mouth", "raw_content": "Music and comedy are two things that go together like peas and carrots. Whether it\u2019s in the form of comedy duo The Flight of the Conchords, Alan Partridges bizarre duets, or the incredibly talented Reggie Watts, there\u2019s a humorous song for everyone. With websites such as Youtube allowing people to present their own knee-slapping parodies, it\u2019s a concept that we have all grown to love.\nNow it seems that this combination of entertainment genres has been taken to a new level. With the inclusion of hilarious songs, painful awkwardness and a laughable persona, The Jetsons have begun to make their mark on society. But, what exactly is it about these two Brighton boys that makes them so funny to watch?\nIt\u2019s Simple. The fact that they are deadly serious about everything they do. Well done guys, keep up the good work. I tip my hat to you.\nTags: Funny, Funny Music, Hairy Mouth, LOL, Post, RantCategories: News, Video", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 299.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/subjects/span10008/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CPNTCUHTCLM7MYC75ORNVDDDB7GIOJ5D", "length": 3674, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "handbook.unimelb.edu.au", "title": "Spanish 6 (SPAN10008) \u2014 The University of Melbourne Handbook", "raw_content": "The focus of this subject will be on the improvement of students\u2019 oral and written language competence and the learning of textual study skills in Spanish, through the study of selected oral and written narratives. These particular texts are part of the long tradition of Spanish and Latin American short stories or historias. Their analysis will allow students not only to understand their textual structure, but also to create their own narratives both in formal contexts (short narration, news reporting, etc.) and informal contexts (blog entry and discussion, etc.). Additionally, students will gain an appreciation of the cultural, historical and literary realities that have shaped the Spanish and Latin American modern and contemporary world. In this subject students will become proficient in using complex sentence structures and verb forms. Students will also become confident in communicating their own literary ideas both in oral and written forms by using a variety of vocabulary, oral expressions and textual analysis skills.\nbe able to interpret academic and everyday communication across the linguocultural genres and more specifically the Historia genre in the target language relative to the entry level;\nunderstand the use of Spanish in real-life situations and learn the specific fluency of linguo-cultural genres produced in the Spanish and Latin American economic, intellectual, cultural and social context with a particular emphasis on the Historia;\nbe able to appreciate, through the linguo-cultural genre of the Historia the historical, cultural and anthropological differences within the Spanish-speaking communities from Spain and Latin-America;\nhave learnt critical theory to explore specific topics in the target language in order to link Spanish and Latin American popular and academic language and culture through the Historia genre;\nappreciate and respect diversity and background difference by critically evaluating the linguo-cultural genre of Historia as present in Spanish-speaking cultures including the viewpoint of the target culture;\nbe able to articulate intellectually sophisticated conversations with both native and non-native speakers in the target language about relevant historical and cultural topics in Historias in Spain and Latin American as a bicultural and bilingual person;\nunderstand the linguo-cultural genre acquisition process with a specific focus on Historias both in English and Spanish showing autonomous, self-directed and academic-level skills;\nbe able to confidently interact in intellectually sophisticated conversations with both native and non-native speakers in the target language about the evolution of language and culture as present in Historias and relate Spanish and Latin American communities to contemporary Spanish Speaking Australia and the Eastern Pacific Rim.\nhave developed research and literacy skills: through frequent and systematic use of the library and other information sources, the definition of areas of inquiry and familiarisation with research methods;\nhave developed critical thinking and analysis of language and culture: through essay writing, oral presentations and tutorial discussion, and by assessing and self-assessing the strength of own and others\u2019 arguments;\nhave an understanding of social, political and cultural contexts: through the contextualisation of judgements and knowledge, developing a critical self-awareness;\nhave learned sophisticated textual analysis strategies: through the writing of short essays and assignments;\nhave developed an ability to present and defend critical ideas: through independent and guided class presentations and class participation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 4837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hannasus.livejournal.com/49290.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:37Z", "digest": "sha1:NMXS4HIS7W2OZN57U43U4SR374FM6DGK", "length": 511, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hannasus.livejournal.com", "title": "The wind's a little more impressive now, but nothing scary yet. The\u2026 - The moon accepts your ridiculous proposal", "raw_content": "The wind's a little more impressive now, but nothing scary yet. The rain's still just barely spitting here, but Galveston is taking a beating. What's really important is that the power held out through the end of BSG (OMGWTFcliffhanger!). The lights have flickered worryingly a couple of times but so far no outages long enough to even reset the clock on the microwave. I'm going to bed now on the assumption that Rita will be waking me up sometime around 3:00 a.m., if not sooner. Catch ya'll on the flip side.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 3177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 304.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hastingslawlibrary.wordpress.com/2012/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:58Z", "digest": "sha1:G63WFU3CD2ID3WNNTQMRUJBCRIED3UCP", "length": 765, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "hastingslawlibrary.wordpress.com", "title": "December | 2012 | Hastings Law Library News", "raw_content": "Pronouncing Dictionary of the Supreme Court\nAfraid of mispronouncing Supreme Court case names in your Con Law class? Fear no more \u2013 a group of Yale Law School students, working in conjunction with the Yale Linguistics Department, has created a free online pronouncing dictionary of Supreme Court case names. The purpose of the dictionary is to \u201chelp conscientious lawyers, judges, teachers, students, and journalists correctly pronounce often-perplexing case names.\u201d The list is organized alphabetically by case name and includes both an audio file as well as the phonetic symbols. Check it out \u2013 you\u2019ll never mispronounce fawlks-vah-g\u0259n-vairk ahk-tee-en-g\u0259-zel-shah again!\nThis entry was posted in ...Websites of Interest on December 13, 2012 by Hilary Hardcastle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hawaii.wish.org/wishes/wish-stories/i-wish-to-go/shore---snow", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TTATT4JQGNEOR6E6QNG7UZ4UL6YXNBOI", "length": 1508, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "hawaii.wish.org", "title": "Shore goes to a winter wonderland! | I wish to go | Wish Stories | Wishes | Make-A-Wish\u00ae Hawaii", "raw_content": "Shore's snowball\nShore on Slopes\nShore and Sister\n\u201c Everyone is truly an angel in our life. Make-A-Wish is like an angel that gives you wings in the form of a Wish. It's amazing to see your child fly. \u201d\n- Wish mother, Jazmin\nIn early August, Shore was diagnosed with a very rapid form of cancer. And although she has responded positively to treatment, the everyday lives of her and her family are still often filled with worry. Despite the hardships, Shore appreciated the light that comes with a Wish, and the hope that it gives to Wish Kids and their families.\nGrowing up in Hawai'i, Shore had never seen snow before. But after recalling stories from her friends, and seeing the movie Frozen, she knew that seeing snow would be something that she needed to experience alongside her family.\nThe adventure took place in Utah, where Shore was met with winding car rides, snowboarding lessons, and tours of the famous Ice Castles. Constant happiness was in the air no matter where they found themselves, because her entire family was just grateful to experience the impact of a Wish together.\n\"It has healed Shore to see people love and care for her so deeply... even though they may not have known her before.\" Wish mother, Jazmin said. \"Watching her on the trip was amazing.\"\nAll of the fun inspired Shore and her family to consider how they can make a difference in their community. Jazmin hopes that this Wish experience will continue to provide Shore with hope and joy, especially when thinking of others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 5065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hbr.org/2014/01/building-a-game-changing-talent-strategy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AG2QBJ3WSDBUCVFLIUSENBVZ5UG5FEWS", "length": 25992, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "hbr.org", "title": "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy", "raw_content": "Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy\nWhen most of the world\u2019s financial services giants were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, the asset management firm BlackRock was busy charting a course for growth. Its revenues, profits, and stock price all performed consistently through this tumultuous period. The authors looked at BlackRock and other game-changing companies\u2014the Mumbai-based global conglomerate Tata Group, and Envision, an entrepreneurial alternative energy company based in China\u2014and found significant commonalities. These three companies demonstrate the essential attributes of a game-changing organization: They are driven by purpose, oriented toward performance, and guided by principles.\nIn the process of conducting interviews with these companies, the authors discovered a fourth thread that weaves them even more tightly together: Each is supported by a game-changing talent strategy. But, they write, the path to such a strategy seems rife with complexity and ambiguity. How can both strategy and execution be consistently superior? How can they support a collective culture yet enable high potentials to thrive as individuals? How can the strategy be global and local at the same time? And how can its policies endure yet be agile and constantly open to revitalization? BlackRock\u2019s approach provides the answers.\nArtwork: Freegums, Spacial Tension, 2011, acrylic on wood, 55\u2033 x 44\u2033\nFounded 25 years ago by eight partners, BlackRock, the world\u2019s largest asset management firm, rewrote the playbook in financial services. While many of its peers were stumbling and retrenching in the aftermath of the 2008 recession, BlackRock was charting a course for growth. Its revenue, profits, and stock price all performed consistently during that tumultuous period.\nWhat interests us is that the company continues to excel. It has a palpable sense of pride\u2014a buzz. But what makes it different? BlackRock is driven by an explicit and concrete mission: \u201cTo create a better financial future for our clients.\u201d It excels at commercializing innovation. Its technology platform, Aladdin (Asset Liability and Debt & Derivative Investment Network), boasts the world\u2019s most sophisticated risk-analytics capabilities combined with superior functionality in portfolio administration, trading, and data control and operations. BlackRock is maniacally focused on delivering high performance, and its leaders say they are proud that the firm\u2019s 11,000-plus professionals abide by its four guiding principles: to be fiduciaries to its clients, to be passionate about performance, to be innovators, and to be \u201cone BlackRock.\u201d\nWe looked at BlackRock and two other companies that have reshaped their respective industries\u2014one Indian and one Chinese (see sidebars)\u2014and found significant commonalities. Although these companies vary widely in scope, scale, and maturity, they demonstrate the essential attributes of a game-changing organization: They are purpose-driven, performance-oriented, and principles-led. And in the process of conducting interviews at these companies, we discovered a thread that weaves them even more tightly together: All three have superior talent strategies.\nEnvision Energy: Purpose and Professional Development\nWhen Lei Zhang founded Envision, in 2007, his goal was to revolutionize the energy industry\u2014to create a company that would \u201chelp solve the challenges of a sustainable future for mankind.\u201d Unlike most other Chinese companies, Envision would compete on technology rather than on cost of labor.\nTo achieve his goals, Lei knew, he had to approach talent sourcing and development differently. The design and manufacture of wind turbines is highly interdisciplinary and technologically sophisticated, and his software platform required deep know-how in both energy management and information technology. Lei set out to source his employees globally and across industries and to attract individuals with world-class capabilities.\nLei and Jerry Luo, Envision\u2019s vice president for HR, were convinced that many successful executives were searching for a greater sense of meaning in their work\u2014a big and exciting idea to lead the industry forward\u2014and that\u2019s what they offered. They wanted employees who could work across cultures and who had an \u201copen innovation\u201d mind-set, so they confined their recruiting to people with multinational experience. They took their search to global pockets of excellence: to Denmark for engineers with alternative-energy-innovation skills, to the United States for software architects, and to Japan for managers skilled in lean manufacturing techniques. They attracted an exceptionally diverse range of top performers.\nTalent development was central to Envision\u2019s strategy. Lei and Luo devised an approach based on three integrated pillars: the Talent and Development Challenge System, which enables employees to solve increasingly difficult technical challenges, acquire additional responsibility, and create internal and external value; 36 behavioral indicators of developmental \u201caccelerators\u201d\u2014namely, \u201cwisdom, will, and love\u201d; and a 360-degree feedback system.\nLei and Luo were determined to create opportunity for everyone. \u201cEnvision is here to help people achieve their ambitions and to help improve the world,\u201d Luo says. So far, their efforts are paying off: Envision\u2019s revenue has doubled every year since its founding.\nTata Group: Talent Capture in Acquired Companies\nTata is India\u2019s largest enterprise group, with businesses in seven sectors, operations in some 80 countries, more than 450,000 employees, and revenue in excess of $100 billion. In recent years it has grown through a series of strategic acquisitions and joint ventures. Global growth and diversity have brought a complex mix of talent management challenges.\nTata\u2019s HR and talent organization has become skilled at determining the value (real and potential) of the people in the companies it acquires and at risk management and talent capture. Risk management involves assessing the culture of the acquired company. HR works alongside finance and strategy to ascertain \u201cwhere the target company has come from\u201d and how it has dealt with challenges in the past, says Satish Pradhan, who recently retired as executive vice president of group human resources. \u201cYou need to understand their fears, their drama, their anxieties.\u201d By providing insight into the acquired company\u2019s readiness for change and the distance between its culture and Tata\u2019s, the talent team helps mitigate risk. This process, which stretches through postmerger integration, can take 12 to 24 months.\nTalent capture is all about unlocking the ambitions and the potential of a leadership team that may be dispirited by a history of challenging performance or subordination to short-term goals. Pradhan grew accustomed to stories of resignation and even despair: \u201cThey\u2019d say things like \u2018Why don\u2019t you guys just tell us what you want us to do.\u2019\u201d When Tata sees opportunity in an acquisition candidate, it seeks to unlock potential at the outset by creating a shared vision: What does the company aspire to be, and how can Tata enable that aspiration? \u201cInitially there is cynicism and disbelief and \u2018What are they not telling us? What\u2019s the game here?\u2019\u201d Pradhan says. \u201cThen, over time, they realize that we are actually serious about what we\u2019re saying. We actually want the acquired company to have aspirations.\u201d\nThe Mechanics Behind the Magic\nFrom our decades of experience as both researchers and advisers, it\u2019s clear what sets those talent strategies apart: They are relentlessly focused on supporting, and in some cases driving, the companies\u2019 business strategies. They are comprehensive, addressing group, divisional, regional, and business unit considerations. They add value, and they work exceptionally well.\nCommitment from the top executive team is central to building and maintaining this business-first mind-set. Game-changing leaders not only excel at articulating the vital importance of talent management but also are heavily engaged in their companies\u2019 actual practices. They demand that their line leaders be accountable for spotting, developing, and retaining the next generation of leaders.\nThat commitment is essential to recruitment\u2014the next important building block in a superior talent strategy. Seasoned HR professionals have little patience for executives who talk a good game about the importance of human assets but then cut management and professional development at the first sign of thinning margins. Line leaders who are skeptical about making substantial and continual investments in their people have already lost the war for talent. A division president recently said to one of us during a strategic off-site, \u201cWe don\u2019t need to waste time building a strong HR team, and certainly not a fancy talent strategy\u2014that\u2019s what headhunters are for!\u201d His company is currently fighting for its life, largely because it didn\u2019t invest in finding and developing the right people to execute its vision and strategy.\nCommitted line leaders and gifted HR managers together create an organizational climate of spirit and energy\u2014a magnet for the very best professionals. Their talent policies are built to last but are constantly under review, to ensure that they can respond to changing conditions on the ground and to cultural differences across the globe.\nCreativity Feature\nLinda Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback\nHow Volkswagen and Google innovate continually over time.\nGetting these things right makes all the difference. It creates an authentic connection between how a company presents itself as an employer and how it really feels inside\u2014the employee value proposition. It gives a healthy sense that promises made are promises kept. Authenticity paves the way for transparency. When employees know what it takes to perform, develop, grow, and succeed, they trust that their company is a meritocracy.\nMake no mistake: This is not an easy place to get to. In fact, the path to a truly game-changing talent strategy is rife with complexity and ambiguity. How can both strategy and execution be consistently superior? How can they support a collective culture yet enable high potentials to thrive as individuals? How can the strategy be global and local at the same time? And how can its policies endure yet be agile and constantly open to revitalization? Too many organizations end up making zero-sum decisions when faced with such challenges. One trap a company might fall into is to think that because it\u2019s a global company, its talent practices need to be globally consistent as a matter of fairness.\nGame-changers don\u2019t look at these issues as trade-offs. Rather, they see them as inherent tensions that must be carefully managed and reconciled: A strategic orientation must be balanced by ruthless operational efficiency; a sense of collectiveness must be balanced by the need for individuals to build their careers; a global perspective must be balanced by local relevance; enduring commitments must leave room for regeneration and renewal. Mastering all four of these tensions together will help your organization achieve and maintain high performance.\nSuperior strategic insight is critical for creating that all-important distance between a company and its competition. Yet the current environment is so intense that winning can come down to a company\u2019s ability to execute more effectively than its rivals. Finding a balance between constant strategic agility and dependable operational excellence is tough for many organizations.\nThe same holds true for game-changing talent strategies. An innovative business model requires that the very best talent be sourced, engaged, developed, and retained. Having a great model is hard enough; finding outstanding talent to execute it is even more challenging, particularly in emerging markets.\nPutting the right talent in the right roles at the right time is one of the differentiators that keep BlackRock out in front. Its talent management policies and practices are guided by its global Human Capital Committee, composed of 35 senior line leaders from across the firm\u2019s businesses and key locations. The only HCC member from HR is Jeff Smith, the global head of human resources; he cochairs the committee with Ken Wilson, a BlackRock vice chairman and a highly respected leader in the financial services industry. Both are members of the firm\u2019s Global Executive Committee. The HCC\u2019s very existence sends a powerful message that talent is not only a strategic and scarce resource but a matter of critical accountability for line management.\nCharged with protecting the firm\u2019s one-company culture, the HCC ensures that the four guiding principles shape day-to-day operations and behaviors and helps guide every aspect of what might be viewed as a talent management value chain across the company. Here are its responsibilities:\nTalent planning and recruitment.\nAlthough the HCC leaves talent tracking and workforce planning to the leaders of the various businesses, it is actively engaged in employer branding. Recognizing that the firm needed to tailor its appeal to a new breed of college and business school graduates, members of the HCC worked with the marketing team to devise a campus recruiting campaign that addresses two of the highest priorities among young people: career mobility and social responsibility.\nThe best talent policies respond to changing conditions on the ground and to cultural differences across the globe.\nEnsuring a high-performance culture.\nLine leaders at BlackRock own the employee engagement process, but the HCC leads focus groups to identify ways of enhancing employees\u2019 experience throughout the firm. It has also raised performance standards and improved the firm\u2019s approach to identifying and promoting high-potential talent\u2014by, for example, assessing leaders on their efforts in this regard.\nPrioritizing leadership behaviors that matter.\nThe HCC insisted that a core part of its charter be to protect and promote the culture and values of the firm by ensuring that leaders are assessed not only on their technical performance but also on how well they live by and teach the guiding principles. As Donnell Green, BlackRock\u2019s global head of talent management, puts it, \u201cThe HCC and BlackRock\u2019s Global Executive Committee are not afraid to address head-on some of the stickier issues of culture change and culture formation, including breaking down silo behavior and driving harder to create a stronger high-performance culture. We live our principles day in and day out. One of them is \u2018We are one BlackRock,\u2019 so leaders who try to make their numbers in a zero-sum fashion by undermining their colleagues soon find out that there is no place for them at the firm.\u201d\nDeveloping employees.\nThe HCC presides over a robust process of employee and managerial development. BlackRock leaders have long valued stretch assignments and bosses who pay attention to developing direct reports as cornerstones of the firm\u2019s talent philosophy. Feeling that one downside of being \u201ca family\u201d can be the impression that the firm\u2019s performance standards are lax, they realize the importance of targeted development. Managing at BlackRock is a program that helps executives be more effective coaches, delegators, and drivers of high performance. As managers move up through the ranks, they can take advantage of an array of programs, such as Driving Performance Through Teams, Influencing for Results, and Enterprise Leadership.\nTalent reviews and succession planning.\nBlackRock has developed an extensive process for talent reviews and promotions. \u201cThe foundation of our business model is collaboration for the client,\u201d Green says, \u201cso who gets promoted to leading at BlackRock matters a great deal.\u201d Green worked with the HCC to construct a talent review process that explicitly assesses employees on being collaborative leaders.\nNetworking and collaboration tools.\nThe HCC uses The Block, BlackRock\u2019s online chat room and collaboration hub, and other types of communication to foster dialogue on subjects such as boosting innovation, networking with the firm\u2019s leaders from emerging markets, and strengthening engagement in growth priorities.\nCollective and Individual\nOur recent research makes clear the importance of creating companies that are guided by a collective sense of purpose. People have always sought meaning in their lives, but we found that a sense of purpose is an overwhelming differentiator in attracting top talent. At the same time, these professionals want opportunities to grow, exciting assignments, and interesting careers. A game-changing talent strategy helps companies provide all these elements.\nGame-changers are clear about the purpose for which they exist. They know that performance is the route to remaining competitive. And they are adamant that their principles will see them through good times and bad. A company\u2019s talent managers can support its objectives by articulating up front that it demands enthusiastic buy-in to its core purpose. Nonbelievers need not apply.\nWe found that a sense of purpose is an overwhelming differentiator in attracting top talent.\nEvery game-changing company we know is backed by a powerful sense of collective pride and a respect for individuals\u2019 need to grow. \u201cWe are maniacal about driving high performance, but we are also a family,\u201d says Larry Fink, a cofounder of BlackRock and its CEO and chairman.\nCollectivism, collaboration, trust, and respect are the foundation of BlackRock\u2019s belief system. \u201cWhat makes a game-changer in my mind is that our clarity of purpose is crystal clear, has never changed, and never will,\u201d Fink says. \u201cWe are a fiduciary to our clients. We serve them. We never, ever compete with them.\u201d The notion of collective behavior was so important to BlackRock\u2019s founders that in its first few years they decided they\u2019d all be paid the same. Thus everyone could focus on sharing information and working together to serve clients.\nWinning the Race for Talent in Emerging Markets\nEmerging Markets Feature\nDouglas A. Ready, Linda Hill, and Jay A. Conger\nWhat separates the successful firms from the not-so-successful ones.\nBlackRock also has a powerful tool for collaboration in Aladdin. \u201cYou need integrated pipes to keep a business together,\u201d Fink explains. \u201cAladdin does that for us. One platform means we are all looking at the same information together, in a transparent fashion, with every business we run and in every location throughout the world. This allows us to talk as \u2018we\u2019 and not \u2018they.\u2019 To be a successful leader at BlackRock, you need to be an exceptional sharer of information.\u201d Charlie Hallac, BlackRock\u2019s chief operating officer, adds, \u201cI believe it\u2019s not possible to effectively represent the firm to our clients if we can\u2019t all articulate Aladdin\u2019s value to BlackRock.\u201d\nBlackRock\u2019s leaders work to build the collective spirit. \u201cWe lead by example and then reinforce those examples through telling stories,\u201d says Rob Kapito, BlackRock\u2019s president and a cofounder. \u201cMuch of what makes BlackRock a special place is that we take our time to select the right partners and the right employees. The notion of \u2018we\u2019 dominates here. I bring our emerging leaders to my house. I cook for them. They get to know me as a person, not just a role. Trust is built by people being transparent and authentic with one another. Authenticity has high currency at BlackRock.\u201d\nNowadays it seems almost trite for a company to announce, \u201cWe are a global company, competing in a complex global environment.\u201d In reality, companies function as confederations of local entities\u2014some of them operating with reasonable autonomy, and some deeply dependent on other businesses and regions\u2014and in strategic partnerships with outside companies. Therefore, identifying, developing, engaging, and retaining local talent is of paramount importance to a company\u2019s success. Winning today has little to do with the efficacy of moving ex-pats in and out of local environments. Top performers who might once have aspired to the head office are now angling for leadership roles in their home countries.\nDo You Have a Game-Changing Talent Strategy?\nThinking about the first three statements below should give your team an indication of what it needs to do to make your company a game-changer. The remaining statements should allow it to gauge to what extent your company\u2019s talent policies and practices are working in support of that objective.\n1. My company places \u201cpurpose\u201d at the heart of its business model.\n2. My company has a high-performance culture.\n3. Leaders in my company follow well-understood guiding principles.\n4. Our people policies help drive our business strategy.\n5. Our talent management practices are highly effective.\n6. Our leaders are completely committed to excellence in talent management.\n7. Our leaders are deeply engaged in and accountable for spotting, tracking, coaching, and developing the next generation of leaders.\n8. Our talent practices are strategically oriented, but they also put a premium on operational efficiency.\n9. Our talent practices engender a strong sense of collective purpose and pride yet work very well for my career as an individual.\n10. Our talent practices strike the right balance between global scale and local responsiveness.\n11. My company has a long-standing commitment to people development, but we are very open to changing our policies when circumstances dictate.\nBut sometimes individuals want to move from their countries and regions, and sometimes a company simply needs to move its key resources. In those situations, game-changing companies know where their best people are, what capabilities they possess, and how they can help with the challenges the company is facing.\nTalented individuals are drawn to organizations that continually refresh their systems, processes, and strategic initiatives.\nBlackRock\u2019s talent policies and practices are globally scaled and locally relevant. Its global graduate recruitment program is built on strong relationships with local universities and business schools. It has rolled out We Are One BlackRock and guiding principles workshops in its offices around the world and made sure they were facilitated by local BlackRock leaders.\nThe firm\u2019s global brand and local relationships draw top senior talent to the firm. One example is Mark McCombe, formerly the CEO of HSBC Hong Kong, who joined BlackRock as its chairman, Asia Pacific. Another is Hsueh-ming Wang, a former Goldman Sachs partner, who recently joined as the first chair of BlackRock\u2019s China operations.\nEnduring and Regenerative\nIn the top-performing companies, a sense of legacy and continuity matters. But talented individuals are drawn to organizations that continually refresh their systems and processes as well as their strategic initiatives, in order to delight customers and outwit competitors. Great companies know that by being agile they can stay in play for many years.\nPerhaps the most powerful way to do this is by building a talent strategy that both endures and regenerates. Jeff Smith, BlackRock\u2019s global head of HR, came to the firm through its 2009 acquisition of Barclays Global Investors, when Fink and the Global Executive Committee decided that BGI\u2019s HR practices were better able to support their firm\u2019s priorities. BlackRock has gained strength and momentum\u2014and many leaders\u2014from each of its acquisitions; the GEC includes four from the BGI merger.\nSmith and his team constantly scan for innovations in HR and talent management practices while ensuring that BlackRock\u2019s guiding principles are well understood and practiced. They conduct an annual engagement survey that addresses, among other things, the quality and effectiveness of BlackRock\u2019s HR and talent practices. And they played central roles in helping Fink, the GEC, and the HCC roll out the We Are One BlackRock and guiding principles workshops. Two of the principles capture the firm\u2019s capacity to manage this tension: \u201cWe are a fiduciary to our clients\u201d (enduring) and \u201cWe are innovators\u201d (regenerative). Little is left to chance at BlackRock: Its executives are committed to measuring everything\u2014talent management, development programs, engagement, rewards, and reputation. Hay Group, which performs global engagement studies, has recently included BlackRock in its high-performance norm group.Game-changing companies build three winning capabilities simultaneously: They are purpose-driven, performance-oriented, and principles-led. We believe that their secret weapon is superior talent strategies characterized by deep commitment from the top executive team, broad-based engagement, and line accountability, with a \u201cleaders developing leaders\u201d culture.\nThese talent strategies are completely aligned with the companies\u2019 enterprise and business strategies; they are transparent and authentic; and they are guided by skilled professionals who know that superior talent can be crafted only by mastering the complexities and tensions of a postglobalization age. They are globally scaled yet locally relevant. They engender a sense of collective passion and purpose while enabling high potentials to thrive as individuals. And finally, they maintain that hunger for revitalization and renewal that is the hallmark of a game-changing company.\nDouglas A. Ready is a senior lecturer at MIT\u2019s Sloan School of Management and the founder and president of ICEDR.\nLinda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She is author of Becoming a Manager and coauthor of Being the Boss and Collective Genius.\nRobert J. Thomas is a managing director of Accenture Strategy. He is the author of eight books on leadership and organizational change, including Crucibles of Leadership, Geeks and Geezers (with Warren Bennis), and Driving Results through Social Networks (with Robert L. Cross).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 29229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://health.howstuffworks.com/skin-care/information/skin-types/sensitive-skin1.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZY3KCS6X2X6APMC2E67QJGQZJCKBGXEX", "length": 1693, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "health.howstuffworks.com", "title": "Sensitive Skin Causes | HowStuffWorks", "raw_content": "Sensitive Skin Overview\nSensitive Skin Causes\nYou might have accepted your irritated skin as a part of life, but sensitive skin has a few easily treatable causes. Rosacea is one common culprit of sensitive skin. This chronic disease manifests in small, pus-filled red bumps on the face, and the condition can vary in severity. Although there's no cure for rosacea, there are treatments, such as topical medications and oral antibiotics, which can lessen irritation. If you think you may have rosacea, talk to a dermatologist [source: Mayo Clinic].\nAnother condition that's often mistaken for sensitive skin is eczema. Eczema is a chronic condition that causes inflammation of the skin and patches of thick, cracked skin on the hands, feet, knees, ankles, wrists or chest [source: Mayo Clinic]. The exact cause of eczema is unknown, but it's thought to be linked to an overactive response of the immune system to unidentified triggers. There are many different types of eczema, but the most common is known as atopic dermatitis, and it affects 9 to 30 percent of the U.S. population [source: WebMD]. If you have eczema, your doctor may prescribe oral medications or ointments that contain steroids [source: Mayo Clinic].\nIn addition to underlying medical causes, sensitive skin can also be caused by severely damaged skin or a reaction to sun or wind exposure [source: WebMD]. Ingredients in the skin care products you use can also cause skin sensitivity. Keep reading to learn more about these irritants.\nGenetic Predisposition to Sensitivity\nSeveral underlying medical conditions that cause sensitive skin can be inherited -- these include acne, eczema, psoriasis and rosacea [source: WebMD].", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://healthfully.com/1011864-signs-symptoms-depression.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:HMDABZB24DJS5X2KHHCOAF4FWLIM6H7D", "length": 5244, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "healthfully.com", "title": "Signs and Symptoms of Depression | Healthfully", "raw_content": "Alternative Medicine for Depression\nMajor Depressive Disorder Vs. Dysthymia\nCauses, Risk Factors and Prevention of Depression\nAdult ADD & Depression\nMessy Room & Depression\nBy William Marchand, M.D. ; Updated August 14, 2017\nThe most accepted description of the symptoms of depressive disorders are those published in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM 5), published by the American Psychiatric Association. A symptom is any subjective evidence of a disorder \u2014 in other words, a phenomenon that is experienced by the individual affected by the condition.\nBefore discussing specific symptoms, it is important to differentiate depressive episodes and depressive disorders. Depressive episodes are specific time periods during which one experiences the signs and symptoms of depression. Depressive disorders are conditions diagnosed based upon the occurrence of depressive episodes. The diagnosis of major depressive disorder is made when one meets the diagnostic criteria for a major depressive episode.\nMajor depressive disorder is diagnosed when symptoms have been experienced almost every day for at least two weeks. The symptoms must be more intense than the normal fluctuations in mood that all of us experience in our daily lives. There are several criteria that must be met for a diagnosis of major depressive disorders as outlined in DSM 5.\nThe first criterion is that one must experience a specific number of depressive symptoms for a diagnosis to be made. DSM 5 lists nine possible symptoms of depression. Five are needed for a diagnosis of major depression, and at least one of these five has to be either depressed mood or loss of interest or pleasure in activities. The symptoms of depression can manifest as mood symptoms, physical symptoms or cognitive (thinking) symptoms.\nThe first two possible symptoms of depression are mood symptoms. These are depressed mood and anhedonia. To meet the criteria for depressed mood, one must feel depressed most of the day almost every day. This mood state might be described as feelings of sadness, emptiness or hopelessness. Anhedonia means decreased ability to experience pleasure. For major depressive disorder, one must experience markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all or almost all activities most of the day nearly every day. As stated above, for a diagnosis of depression, one must have one or both of these symptoms. Many people experience both.\nOther possible symptoms of depression are physical symptoms that impact bodily function. One of these is either significant weight gain or weight loss when not dieting. Sleep disturbance is another, manifested by the inability to sleep or oversleeping nearly every day. Increased or decreased psychomotor behavior (bodily movement) can be a symptom. This is known as psychomotor agitation (trouble sitting still or jittery) or retardation (slowed movements). Finally, daily fatigue or loss of energy is a physical symptom of depression.\nThe cognitive symptoms of depression may manifest as frequent daily thoughts that one is worthless or thoughts and feelings of inappropriate guilt. Another cognitive symptom can be diminished ability to think or concentrate or indecisiveness nearly every day. Lastly, recurrent thoughts of death and/or thoughts of committing suicide can be a depressive symptom.\nIf you (or someone you know) are having thoughts of suicide or self-harm, this is an emergency and immediate evaluation by a medical or mental-health professional is necessary. Several options exist for getting help immediately and are listed in the overview article. One of these is the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. This is a free, 24-hour hotline available to those experiencing emotional crises or having thoughts of harming themselves or others. The number is 1-800-273-TALK (8255).\nIn addition to symptoms discussed above, several additional criteria must be met for a diagnosis of a major depressive disorder. One is that the symptoms must cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning. In other words, the symptoms are more intense than normal mood fluctuations and interfere with the functioning of life. Additional criteria are that the episode is not due to the effects of a substance or medical condition or better explained by another psychiatric disorder. Finally, the individual must never have experienced a manic episode or a hypomanic (milder mania) episode. If there has been a prior manic episode the diagnosis would be one of the bipolar disorders.\nAmerican Psychiatric Association Practice Guideline For The Treatment of Patients With Major Depressive Disorder.\nWilliam R. Marchand, M.D., is the Chief of Psychiatry at the George E. Wahlen VAMC in Salt Lake City, Utah, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Utah. He is the author of \"Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Your Guide to Recovery\" and \"Mindfulness for Bipolar Disorder: How Mindfulness and Neuroscience Can Help You Manage Your Bipolar Symptoms.\"\nDepression and Indecision\nHow to Tell Your Doctor You're Depressed\nPositive & Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia\nSigns & Symptoms of ADD in Adults", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 6708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 212.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/should-payers-question-acas-health-insurance-exchanges", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OH3A6DAL3MA2VYPB4QLJ76EFJOJW4RZI", "length": 6761, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "healthpayerintelligence.com", "title": "Should Payers Question ACA\u2019s Health Insurance Exchanges?", "raw_content": "Should Payers Question ACA\u2019s Health Insurance Exchanges?\nThe leaders of major health insurer Aetna show one example of the type of questioning that remains with the Affordable Care Act\u2019s health insurance exchanges.\nMarch 01, 2016 - The health insurance exchanges have faced some significant challenges and even some questioning among the payer community, especially after the insurer UnitedHealthcare announced at the end of 2015 that it is considering whether to leave the health insurance marketplace.\nCurrently, UnitedHealthcare is thinking of dropping out of the health insurance exchanges by 2017 due to profit loss and negative financial outcomes when selling individual plans through the marketplace. In 2015, the company suffered a quarter of a billion dollars in losses through the exchanges. A similar outcome is expected in 2016 as well.\nHowever, this move could potentially impact other insurers and lead to more concern among the payer community. Merrill Matthews, a resident scholar at the Institute for Policy Innovation, even mentioned that the actions of UnitedHealthcare could leave a \u2018death spiral\u2019 for other insurers participating in the health insurance exchanges.\n\u201cUnitedHealthcare doesn\u2019t feel like it can stay profitable in that group of business and it would indicate that others might be struggling as well,\u201d Matthews began. \u201cSeveral insurers came out and said that they\u2019re still committed to being here, but it might indicate the death spiral that we\u2019re concerned about in the exchanges.\u201d\n\u201cThere\u2019s been a long-running concern that what the exchanges will ultimately be is the place where the people who are the sickest and need subsidies from the federal government will reside,\u201d continued Matthews.\nREAD MORE: CMS Proposes New Rule to Stabilize Health Insurance Exchanges\n\u201cThe question comes about \u2013 would even some of those people be able to buy cheaper insurance, even considering the subsidies, outside of the exchange if a death spiral initiates. If so, does that ultimately make the exchanges unworkable?\u201d\nThe leaders of major health insurer Aetna show one example of the type of questioning that remains with the Affordable Care Act\u2019s health insurance exchanges. Aetna Chief Executive Mark Bertolini had spoken critically of the exchanges during a conference call and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell had spoken with Bertolini to further understand his concerns, according to Kaiser Health News.\nThe Aetna CEO seems to have settled his viewpoint on the health insurance exchanges after Burwell outlined the entire earnings transcript in the call. Bertolini explained that Aetna does like the marketplaces but some changes may need to be made.\nWhile the Aetna CEO continues to work with the Obama administration when it comes to offering health plans on the exchanges, there are some enrollment challenges that Bertolini wants to address including the small percentage of young people choosing health coverage through the marketplace.\n\u201cYoung people pay some amount of premium, pick a number, and have a $5,000 deductible and go to the doctor once a year and pay all in cash,\u201d Bertolini told the news source. \u201cHow does that program support their view of what\u2019s good health?\u201d\nREAD MORE: Affordable Care Act Cuts Uninsured Rate by 6.4% Since 2013\nBertolini suggests that younger people should be offered lower-deductible plans. The Aetna CEO is considering whether the insurer can join the California health insurance exchange \u2013 Covered California \u2013 with the costs of premium a deciding factor. Currently, Aetna has undergone some jumps in rates and state regulators are bringing more oversight to the insurer due to its planned acquisition of Humana Inc. for $37 billion.\nWhile insurers are still questioning whether it is beneficial for them to offer plans through the marketplace, in the midst of the HIMSS 2016 Conference and Exhibition, it is useful to consider the platform and technology necessary to hold the bountiful amount of information payers and consumers provide on the exchanges.\nThe MarkLogic database is used to hold consumer and health plan data via the exchanges and this database has been capable of managing the rise in enrollment numbers over the last few years. When it comes to consumer demand and the capabilities of the health insurance marketplace database, Bill Fox, Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences at MarkLogic, spoke with HealthPayerIntelligence.com to offer some more key data.\nIn order to meet consumer demand and manage the high enrollment numbers, the MarkLogic database \u201cscales out and not up,\u201d explained Fox. As the numbers rose, the system was able to \u201cadd more capacity,\u201d which is how the database handled greater demand.\nThe reason to incorporate the MarkLogic database is due to \u201cits ability to scale out, ingest data in a schema agnostic way, and handle massive volume securely. MarkLogic is a transactional, operational database designed to not only analyze data for better insight, but operationalize it to use in day-to-day business operations,\u201d Bill Fox explained.\nREAD MORE: Payers Face 9.6% Underwriting Loss on Health Insurance Exchange\n\u201cAcross a lot of industries and projects whether it is BBC for the London Olympics or healthcare.gov, we handle these kind of volumes and these kind of surges very well.\u201d\nWhen asked whether Congressional challenges to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act \u2013 or even a complete repeal of the healthcare law \u2013 would put an end to the federal health insurance exchange, Fox mentioned that most insurers and clinicians are more concerned with the business side of healthcare, have found the marketplace a favorable environment, and will likely continue utilize these platforms.\n\u201cTo me, in the conversations that I have with executives all across the healthcare continuum including insurers, hospital systems, or clinicians, they\u2019re more concerned with both the business and delivery of healthcare. They have business concerns like ensuring high quality care is delivered in a profitable manner,\u201d Fox clarified.\n\u201cI think they see the exchange as part of this ecosystem that exists now and the healthcare field will always have to adapt to changing policy and innovation,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThere\u2019s always parts that some people don\u2019t like, some people do, and some people think they need to change some aspects. It\u2019s a huge piece of legislation. There\u2019s always going to be tweaking and it can always get better.\u201d\nAs time goes on, changes are made, and insurers become more comfortable selling health plans on the federal exchange, the Affordable Care Act is likely to have lasting effect and may have greater success.\nHumana to Leave ACA Health Insurance Exchanges by 2018\nNext in Health Insurance Exchange", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 10978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/events/schaeffer-center-seminar-series-emily-oster/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5ENGULMQQ7JSWFS5KGMYSWAY4ANCMN3R", "length": 1366, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "healthpolicy.usc.edu", "title": "Schaeffer Center Seminar Series Emily Oster \u2013 USC Schaeffer", "raw_content": "Schaeffer Center Seminar Series Emily Oster\nEmily Oster of Brown University will present at the Schaeffer Center\nTitle: Diabetes and Diet\nAbout Emily Oster\nEmily Oster is an Associate Professor of Economics at Brown University. Prior to joining Brown, Emily Oster was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and was also a Becker Fellow for the Initiative on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago. Additionally, she currently serves as a Faculty Research Fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Oster studies health and development economics. She has worked on issues of gender inequality in the developing world, including the impacts of television on women\u2019s status (\u201cThe Power of TV: Cable Television and Women\u2019s Status in India\u201d) and on HIV in Africa (\u201cHIV and Sexual Behavior Change: Why not Africa?\u201d). Her current work focuses on demand for, and response to, information about medical conditions. Her most recent paper in this area, \u201cOptimal Expectations and Limited Medical Testing: Evidence from Huntington Disease\u201d, explores why individuals at risk for this disease often avoid informative genetic testing. Oster has a BA and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002 and 2006, respectively.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 127.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://heightline.com/jade-thirlwall-bio-age-ethnicity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:30Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4Q73DVACM4OHNR7C63S5HSWK4UJKKAX", "length": 4536, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "heightline.com", "title": "Jade Thirlwall Bio, Age, Ethnicity, Boyfriend, Height, Body Measurements", "raw_content": "Home Musicians Jade Thirlwall Bio, Age, Ethnicity, Boyfriend, Height, Body Measurements\nJade Thirlwall Bio, Age, Ethnicity, Boyfriend, Height, Body Measurements\nJade Thirlwall is a member of the four-piece all-girl English band known as Little Mix. The group had a highly successful debut album, DNA which peaked at number 3 on the UK chart. The album equally made it to number 4 on the US Billboard 200, the highest any debut by a British girl-group had ever gone.\nAfter two unsuccessful attempts at Britain\u2019s X Factor as a solo act, Thirlwall joined forces with three other female vocalists to form the group at the 8th season of the competition. The group became the first group to win the X Factor as all other victors have been solo acts.\nThe all-girl group has been consistent ever since its formation in 2011. By October 2016, the group already had 4 platinum-certified studio albums to their names, that is no mean feat. The group also clinched the award for British Single Of The Year at the 2017 BRIT Awards for their hit single Shout Out To My Ex. Little mix got 2 nominations at the 2018 BRIT Awards for their 2017 hit single Touch.\nSee Also: Who Are Little Mix Members, What Are Their Names, Net Worth, Boyfriends?\nJade Thirlwall Bio, Ethnicity, Age\nThe highly talented singer was born Jade Amelia Thirlwall on December 26, 1992, to parents James Thirlwall and Norma Badwi. Her mother worked as a school administrator.\nJade Thirlwall is of English and Arabian descent but the Little Mix vocalist describes herself as quarter Yemeni and quarter Egyptian.\nHer father James Thirlwall is English while her mother Norma Badwi is partly Yemeni and partly Egyptian. Jade Thirwall\u2019s maternal grandparents, Mohammid Badwi and Amelia Aziz had met and married in South Shields, which has been home to a Yemeni British community for centuries. Jade Thirlwall was eventually born in the same town.\nJade grew up in the coastal town of South Shields, Durham, England alongside brother Karl David. Her parents separated when she was very young.\nWatching music videos with her dad sparked the young Jade Thirlwall\u2019s interest in singing and performing. She started singing when she was just 6 years old and was thus enrolled at Steps Dance & Fitness, a dancing school in South Shields.\nHer secondary education was at St. Wilfrid\u2019s Community College where she participated in many singing competitions. The talented singer had a petite stature as a teenager which earned her the nickname \u201cPickle\u201d.\nFor her first audition on season 5 of The X Factor, Thirlwall did a cover of I Want to Hold Your Hand, the first US number 1 hit of The Beatles. She was only able to go as far as the Bootcamp that year. She re-auditioned as a solo artist in 2010 without success.\nNot deterred by her earlier failings, Thirlwall reauditioned for the third time in 2011. She didn\u2019t do much better on her own and so she was made to join forces with Perrie Edwards, Jesy Nelson, and Leigh-Anne Pinnock to form the all-girl group named \u201cLittle Mix\u201d in 2011. The quartet participated as a group and went all the way to win the 8th season of the UK version of The X Factor.\nAfter the competition, the group signed on to Syco Music, a record label owned by X Factor judge Simon Cowell. The group is also in a joint US deal with Columbia records.\nThe huge success that followed their X Factor success earned them a nomination as Band of the Year at the 2012 Glamour Women of the Year Awards. Even though they didn\u2019t win that first nomination, the group remained consistent at their trade and in 2014 they were renominated and eventually got the award.\nThe group equally won 2 Teen Choice awards in 2015 and 2016 and they opened for the Dangerous Woman tour of American pop singer Ariana Grande.\nThe British-born singer is currently 25 years of age. Seeing that her music career took off on a brilliant note, Jade Thirlwall still has several years to bless the world with her incredible musical talents.\nSee Also: Sampha \u2013 Biography, Family, Dating, Quick Facts, Wiki\nJade Thirlwall was in a relationship with Sam Craske of the British dance crew \u201cDiversity\u201d. The two had met in April 2012 and were an item for two years, they called it quits in June 2014.\nTwo years after, she met American musician Jed Elliott and they have been a couple since 2016. In addition to its relative longevity, the relationship between these two has been quite blissful and scandal-free.\nHeight: 5ft 3\u2033\nBust Size: 32 inches\nDress Size: 4 (US) or 6 (UK)\nShoe Size: 6 (US) or 4 (UK) or 37 (EU)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 7913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 182.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://herbal-outfitters.com/natural-medication-anxiety/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RR4CQSK7CHVF5WCKIJDFF6VCP77QTYH4", "length": 1985, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "herbal-outfitters.com", "title": "Natural medication for anxiety", "raw_content": "Anxiety is the most common problem affecting many people in the US. It is estimated that at least one out of five people suffers from some form of stress disorder or the other. There are many forms of anxiety such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and panic disorder. While there are many ways to treat these conditions, essential medications can help you to calm down. They are also cheap and have a few adverse side effects. Here are some natural options that you may want to try out:\nYou can find GABA supplements sold online and in food stores to help you calm down and relax. GABA is a brain transmitter that reduces the impact of glutamate to increase your excitement. Research has shown that students who use chocolate laced with GABA before taking tests are less stressed that those who don\u2019t. Ensure that you get to make sure that you get clearance from your doctor before using GABA supplements to avoid adverse reaction with other drugs you might be using.\nDo you feel jittery and anxious? A cup of chamomile tea might be all you need to help you calm your frayed nerves. Chamomile affects some important brain receptors that induce sleep and relaxation. A study done by the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center found that anxiety patients who used chamomile tea for eight weeks or more experienced a decrease in anxiety symptoms. The study found that they experience better prospects than those in placebo control groups.\nL-theanine or green tea is known for increased alertness and relaxation. It also helps to reduce blood pressure and a rising heart rate. Human studies have also shown that they help to reduce anxiety. The more green tea cups you take, the more of the L-theanine you will get in your system to help you relax.\nIt has been approved in Germany as a sleeping aid to cure insomnia and other sleep-related disorders. It can be combined with other herbs such as chamomile. Its best taken in the evening before going to bed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2561, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hitraveltales.com/st-peters-church-a-quiet-escape-in-lovely-mevagissey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:29Z", "digest": "sha1:C2BEAGA2OBGSUO6K3O3OE26G6O2A2C67", "length": 925, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "hitraveltales.com", "title": "Mevagissey's St. Peter\u2019s Church offers a quiet escape", "raw_content": "Mevagissey\u2019s St. Peter\u2019s Church offers a quiet escape\nMevagissey is a picturesque, unique 14th Century fishing village located on the South Cornwall Coast. St Peter\u2019s church, dating to the 10th century, offers quiet respite from the often busy harbor and is located on the northern edge of the town. St Peter\u2019s church features a characteristic saddleback tower roof and is surrounded by an ancient graveyard. The church is on the northern edge of the town away from the harbor. Notable historic items to see include the 14th century window in the transept; a slate memorial to Lewes Dart of Pentewan (1632) and a monument to Otwell Hill (1617). The church today still serves the congregation of Mevagissey as part of the Church of England.\nPreviousEagle Creek Load Warrior Wheeled Duffel Review\nNextNite Ize Gear Ties a Travel Essential\nDestinations Europe United Kingdom Mevagissey\u2019s St. Peter\u2019s Church offers a quiet escape", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 3011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 210.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://holisticrendezvous.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/reflections-on-love-attraction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:11Z", "digest": "sha1:FQIOT42GU32AYFX6OQH4QGQDD5H5YOL7", "length": 4139, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "holisticrendezvous.wordpress.com", "title": "Reflections on Love & Attraction | holisticrendezvous", "raw_content": "Reflections on Love & Attraction\nNow that all of the heart-shaped candies and flowers have been exchanged, we thought it would be beneficial to reflect on the ideas of attraction, love, and finding mates, post V-day. Interactions with others fall within a spectrum of casual encounters, to legitimate romantic interests, to full-on committed and exclusive relationships. How do you know you are interested in, or with, the right person? Do you ever really know? We are still working through these questions ourselves, but thought it would be valuable to share our thoughts, as well as to hear yours!\nThe type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. \u2013 Ortega Y Gasset\nAn overarching theme regarding being intimate with another person is that this cannot effectively be accomplished without first knowing and loving yourself. Societal norms portray the image of living the \u201cAmerican dream\u201d as individuals landing a secure job that brings monetary wealth, followed by finding another person with whom they can share these accomplishments with forever. Despite the promotion of this idea, we all know this is not always the case. Often, people rush into relationships without taking the appropriate measures to get to know, and grow comfortable with, themselves. Before they know it, they have to learn how they function with another person, and how to best make that dynamic work.\nWe believe that this is where many initial issues arise. In a relationship, the goal should be to complement your mate, and to be partners. You should be a team with the shared goals of supporting each other, making each other feel special, and inspiring feelings of purpose and intention within each other\u2019s lives. You have to give yourself the chance to establish your strengths, your weaknesses, your aspirations, and your passions, before expecting yourself to recognize the kind of person you should be with in order to best balance those traits and interests. A productive and healthy relationship with others, and also with yourself, takes work, dedication, thought, and time. Remain conscious of whether or not you feel as though you can be yourself and express your opinions and ideas. Be proactive in your efforts to protect those values, and to ensure that you do not becoming absorbed within, or dependent upon, the people with whom you are spending time.\nAfter focusing on yourself as an individual, make sure that you also take time to reflect on relationships that have had a heavy presence in your life until this point. Think about how these connections may have shaped who you are, and the types of people that you attract.Think about the relationships of your parents, your siblings, and your friends. Reflect on your own interactions with all of those people.\nWe all subconsciously gravitate towards situations that feel familiar, even if they are not ideal, or we have told ourselves to avoid these types of exchanges.\nWrite down the traits that you would like to avoid in your future relationships, as well as the characteristics that you hope to have in these partnerships. Check this list periodically, regardless of your relationship status, to ensure that you have not become desensitized and have not unknowingly found yourself in an unhealthy situation.\nAlways have feeling respected and appreciated, as a unique individual, as a reminder on your list.\nOverall, do not settle. You have complete control over the types of people, and love, you have in your life. Love yourself first. Then, determine the type of person who you could love, and whose love you would want in return. Be patient and true to yourself. There is no time limit on, or specific period, when you can let love and acceptance into your life.\nWhat are some steps, or tips, you can provide to finding a healthy relationship? What mistakes have you found in previous relationships that you are learning from for future ones?\nThis entry was posted on February 18, 2015 by holisticrendezvous in manifestation monday and tagged attraction, confidence, dating, family, intimacy, love, marriage, relationships, valentine's day.\nhttps://wp.me/p4aeS3-AC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 6239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hollymueller.blogspot.com/2017/03/slice-of-life-story-challenge-theme.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3OZ2URYUMJ752D4LNDX3BYBGT4PA3R6P", "length": 8464, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "hollymueller.blogspot.com", "title": "Reading, Teaching, Learning: Slice of Life Story Challenge - Theme Songs for Right Now or Life", "raw_content": "Slice of Life Story Challenge - Theme Songs for Right Now or Life\nImage by Alyssa J. Freitos\nI'm listening to the audio of Two Turns from Zero by Stacey Griffith, and finding lots of ideas for Slices of Life in this motivational book. One of the things she talks about is how music can influence your motivation, mood, and life. She brings up the idea of life theme songs. They can be songs that define your life or just how you're feeling right now. I loved thinking about that and thought it would be a fun topic for a Slice of Life. I also wanted to know what my friends' and family's theme songs were. I got lost in YouTube videos and song lyrics last evening, enjoying what they revealed about us. I'll start with my best friends...\nKaran - Karan and I have known each other since grade school. We graduated from the same high school together and both ended up going to Miami University, rooming together our freshman and senior years. She is an eternal optimist, but she also has a lot going on in her life. We call her \"The Project Queen\". She chose Walking on Sunshine as her life theme song, but this Jackson Browne title as her \"right now\" song:\nJill - I met Jill my senior year of college when Karan asked her to be our 4th roommate in our first off-campus house. She's from Cleveland, but we ended up living in Lebanon, OH (Karan, too - Jill and Karan lived in the same neighborhood) for many years, and now we live in the same condo community! Jill is a single mom, and she and her daughter, Ellie, are very close and have always had this Kelly Clarkson title as their theme song:\nLisa - Lisa was a friend from grade school along with Karan, also went to Miami University, and lived with us senior year. Lisa chose all country songs which focus around the ideas of hometowns, living the simple life, and being thankful for who you are and what you have. Her titles include Jake Owens's Real Life, Kenny Chesney's American Kids, and Zak Brown Band's Homegrown. Her life theme song, though is \"Unanswered Prayers\" by Garth Brooks:\nAnnie - Annie and I met and college as Resident Assistants in the same dorm. We became close friends, and even though she lives in State College, PA, we try to see each other four to five times a year. We have so much fun when we get together, and she is always full of optimism. She was very definitive about her song, and it totally captures her:\nMegan - Megan is a former colleague and close friend. She and I do a lot of presenting together at literacy conferences. She chose a \"right now\" song because she is preparing for the state tests with her students, vacationing with family, and interviewing for a new job - all making her stressed! We both laughed about the video, though - she's adding a disclaimer that she's not quite at Billy Joel's level of \"under pressure\" yet. Ha!\nJulie - she was my neighbor at our former house, and we became good friends throughout the years. She is one of my Bachelor/Bachelorette friends. She responded quickly, too, and picked Brad Paisley's \"Today\". I knew whatever it was, it was going to be country. We share a love of country music! I thought this was a perfect song for her. Get some tissues because this video is a tearjerker!\nNow on to my family's songs...\nLibby - my oldest daughter. She and Jamie have been married a year and a half. She picked two very different songs. She and Ed are alike in that they have very eclectic tastes in music! When she was a young girl she would listen to Anne Murray one night, Macy Gray another, and Brittany Spears the next. She also loved country. When she was older, her CD mixes were very interesting...right, Lib? Now she likes a ton of different things. One of her theme songs is \"Born This Way\" by Lady Gaga. Here is the other:\nJamie - Libby's husband. He and Libby met at Miami University. One of my favorite parts of his twin brother's toast to Jamie and Libby at their wedding is explaining when he knew Libby might be somebody important. After they had been dating for a bit, Jeffrey got in the car, and there was one of Libby's CDs playing. I think it was country music. He responded by saying, \"Hey, that's not our music.\" Ha. Jamie chose this one as a \"right now\" song because he is currently into classical/instrumental music.\nEd - my husband. He has an almost comical diverse playlist of songs. He likes everything from heavy metal, to rap, to contemporary Christian music, to country. When I met him in college, he was the one who made me a Bruce Springsteen fan, and one of our first dates was a Billy Joel concert. He's always kept current with music, and even introduces our daughters to songs first that later become popular. The song that first came to him was the following one, but he had also listened to Eminem's \"Till I Collapse\" three times yesterday. See what I mean?\nKatie is having a hard time picking hers, but we have a funny story from when she was a young girl. We had been talking about what songs we would pick for our future funerals (I know - we have these kinds of conversations), and she didn't even hesitate with her answer: \"If You're Going Through Hell\" by Rodney Atkins. Katie has always had a great sense of humor!\nAnd that brings us to me. There are so many songs to choose from! I chose three. My \"right now\" song is Justin Timberlake's \"Can't Stop That Feeling\". It's a song played at Cyclebar often, and it just makes me feel happy. Once I think of or hear the song, I can't get it out of my mind! I haven't seen \"Trolls\" yet - I need to. I'm in a good and happy place (most of the time - ha) in life right now, so this one represents my present being well.\nI've had memorable \"right now\" songs in the past: Amy Grant's \"Thy Word\", Michael W. Smith's \"Friends\", \"You've Got a Friend\" by James Taylor (our wedding song), Alabama's \"Dixieland Delight\", \"The Dance\" by Garth Brooks, anything by Prince because I loved him, \"Praise You in the Storm\" by Casting Crowns, \"Thunder Road\", \"No Surrender\", and \"Born to Run\" by Bruce Springsteen, My Wish by Rascal Flatts, Don McLean's iconic \"American Pie\", and \"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant\" by Billy Joel. I even have my funeral songs picked out: \"When I Get Where I'm Going\" by Brad Paisley and Dolly Parton and \"I Can Only Imagine\" by MercyMe. Choosing life theme songs is harder, but I think I've decided (at least for now). I've seen Bruce Springsteen in concert 6 or 7 times, and they were all awesome. However, my favorite one was \"The Rising\" tour when I saw him in 2003 at the PNC Park in Pittsburgh. PNC Park was brand new, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was the first musical act to play there. Ed and I went with good friends on that August night, the weather was perfect, and we danced all night. This song makes me think of my optimism and faith, knowing that if things get hard, they will always get better - especially if you have someone by your side. It speaks of sorrow, hope, and love. And it's also really fun to watch this video!\nMy second one is from one of my favorite movies, so I've listened to it again and again, I had to pick it. This one represents my life with Ed.\nThis was a fun Slice of Life to write. What are your life or \"right now\" theme songs?\nWhat a great snapshot of all of your people! I would love to do this with my girlfriends.\nThis is such a great idea for a slice! Definitely borrowing this as a mentor text!\nMichelle Haseltine March 23, 2017 at 7:22 PM\nI'm sobbing through some of these songs!! Brilliant idea!!! Thank you. I may steal this one!\nJennie B. March 23, 2017 at 7:36 PM\nI love this idea! I've thought about a post like this before, but it never came together. I think you've motivated me to try again. Thanks for sharing!\nWhat an amazing slice!! I am really in awe of all the friends and family who could so quickly choose a theme song for themselves. I would need to reflect on that for awhile.\nMy initial thought is my song might be \"I Hope You Dance\" by Lee Ann Womack. I have a long car ride ahead of me; I'm going to give this some serious thought. Thanks for the motivation! ;)\nMorgan Davis March 23, 2017 at 11:27 PM\nThe thread of music through our lives is reflected here in your post. Way to go!\nI'm so impressed with your friends and family for contributing like this! I'd have to take some time to come up with the right song for right now and for my life, though I've always though John Denver's \"Sweet Surrender\" is the song for people in their twenties.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 298, "original_length": 14834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 217.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://horror101withdrac.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-zodiac-killer-1971-blu-ray-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LTWWBHRWW3Z2DPH4GNSWEJQBPMM5H6HU", "length": 4319, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "horror101withdrac.blogspot.com", "title": "HORROR 101 with Dr. AC: THE ZODIAC KILLER (1971) Blu-ray review", "raw_content": "THE ZODIAC KILLER (1971) Blu-ray review\nThe Zodiac Killer (1971) d. Hanson, Tom (USA) (1st viewing) 87 min\nCreating a movie about a serial killer while said serial killer is still at large and still very much active is a strange and exploitative notion indeed, but producer/director Hanson\u2019s backstory further wrinkles the equation. The owner of a chain of slowly-going-bankrupt Pizza Man restaurants claimed (and continues to claim on the audio commentary track for the American Genre Film Archive aka AGFA\u2019s blu-ray release) that his reason for the film\u2019s genesis was that he hoped to catch the murderer, suspecting that the killer would not be able to resist the urge to watch his (or her) exploits dramatized on the big screen. It was a wild scheme, but it\u2019s somewhat charming to believe - however unlikely - that altruism could actually coincide with exploitation.\nObviously, Hanson\u2019s big plan didn\u2019t work out as planned, since the mystery of the Zodiac Killer has yet to be resolved, but what about the film itself? Technically flawed and clumsily performed, it falls squarely in the realm of independent schlock, redeemed only by the \u201cgood bits,\u201d i.e. the murders themselves, and while some of these do mirror actual historical accounts, others are constructed from whole (and wholly ludicrous) cloth.\nWatching a multitude of victims being done in by guns, knives, spare tires, and car hoods (!) is the film\u2019s real attraction for modern day viewers, and there are plenty of memorable mo-mos to be found in the brisk 87 minute running time.\nPadding out the proceedings are a parade of bizarre characters who cross paths with the killer, and their wackadoo quality is welcome since there\u2019s not a lot of mystery; writers Ray Cantrell and Manny Cardoza can\u2019t wait any longer than the first half hour before revealing the (fictitious) identity of their killer. (I\u2019ll save the surprise.) Which begs the question: why create a movie to catch a murderer where the identity is clearly incorrect? Was Hanson hoping the killer would leap out of his seat and shout, \u201cTHAT\u2019S NOT HOW IT HAPPENED!!! THAT\u2019S NOT ME!!!!\u201d\nTZK is the inaugural release from AGFA, who recently teamed up with Something Weird, and while the film itself isn\u2019t mind-blowing, there is definitely reason to be optimistic considering the generosity shown by the new label with their various supplemental materials. In addition to a (relatively) illuminating and entertaining audio commentary featuring AGFA\u2019s Joseph A. Ziemba sharing the mike with Hanson and producer Manny Nedwick (as well as at least one of Hanson\u2019s kids sitting in the background), there is an onscreen-interview with Hanson and Nedwick, a collection of \u201cTabloid Horror\u201d trailers (Manson Family Murders, Three on a Meathook), an interview in the liner notes with Hanson conducted by Temple of Schlock\u2019s Chris Pogialli, reversible cover art, AND an entirely different feature film included as a bonus, 1977\u2019s Another Son of Sam.\nThe Zodiac Killer is available now from AGFA and can be ordered from MVD Entertainment HERE:\nhttps://mvdb2b.com/s/ZodiacKillerTheBlurayDVD/AGFA-001\nLabels: AGFA, Bob Jones, Hal Reed, Manny Cardoza, Ray Cantrell, Ray Lynch, Something Weird, Tom Hanson, Zodiac Killer\nDARK HARVEST (1992) DVD review\nDAWN OF THE DEAD (2004) Blu-ray review\nESCAPES (1986) DVD review\nBEYOND THE SEVENTH DOOR (1987) DVD review\nMADHOUSE (1981) Blu-ray review\nTONIGHT SHE COMES (2016) movie review\nFEED THE LIGHT (2014) Blu-ray review\nWESTWORLD (1973) movie review\nTHE GLASS COFFIN (2016) DVD review\nBEYOND THE GATES (2016) Blu-ray review\nCHILDREN OF THE NIGHT (2014) DVD review\nWHAT WE BECOME (2016) Blu-ray review\nTHE GHOUL (2016) Blu-ray review\nTHE HARVEST (2013) Blu-ray review\nBEYOND THE DARKNESS (aka BUIO OMEGA) (1979) Blu-ra...\nTHE OTHER HELL (1980) Blu-ray review\nCALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER (1959) Blu-ray revie...\nFOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET (1971) Blu-ray review\nTHE CAT O' NINE TAILS (1971) Blu-ray review\nTHE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE (1970) Blu-ray r...\nTHE DEVIL'S HONEY (1986) Blu-ray review\nBROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (2001) movie review\nNIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF (1981) Blu-ray review\nWOLF GUY (1975) Blu-ray review\nTEEN WOLF TOO (1987) Blu-ray review\nTEEN WOLF (1985) Blu-ray review\n31 (2016) movie review\nRED RIDING HOOD (2011) movie review\nLYCAN (2017) DVD review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 9235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 325.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://horseandstylemag.com/2013/07/09/equi-lease-puts-you-in-the-saddle-in-europe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:59Z", "digest": "sha1:VWUOCPUJXG6ZU7JV2BDB4DVMWPTIYDFW", "length": 3433, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "horseandstylemag.com", "title": "Equi Lease Puts You in the Saddle \u2013 In Europe \u2013 Horse & Style Magazine", "raw_content": "Equi Lease Puts You in the Saddle \u2013 In Europe\nEurope, that is. Competing in Europe isn\u2019t an unattainable, pie in the sky dream, says Belgium-based trainer and horse dealer Neil Jones. It\u2019s not just for grand prix riders. And it\u2019s not just for those with deep pockets.\nThe English-born Jones, who has cultivated strong ties with the American horse market during 20-plus years of horse sales from Europe to the United States, recently began providing a sought-after service to riders who wish to experience European show jumping first hand.\nWith an intimate knowledge of all levels of the European show circuit and a strong network of available horses, Jones combined his resources to create Equi Lease, a part travel concierge, part riding vacation service that gives riders the chance to compete in Europe at their own level.\nJones provides the horse and equipment, and offers a virtually unlimited range of shows to target. Planned in advance, Equi Lease trips are becoming a popular option for American riders who are learning that competing in Europe, even for a short time, can actually be within reach.\n\u201cWe can fit every type of budget,\u201d Jones explains. \u201cNo matter the level, for people who want to take the chance to come to Europe and ride in a show for the experience, we welcome it.\u201d\nWhile one can\u2019t exactly lease a grand prix horse, by the same token that\u2019s not the level of rider that Equi Lease serves. For the junior, adult jumper, or low amateur rider, there is a whole wealth of classes at shows all across Europe that are affordable and competitive. Jones points out that even the Global Champions Tour shows have lower, amateur-level classes that riders can enter if they wish (that series, however, is not cheap.)\nRiders are welcome to bring their trainer, or even non-riding members of their family. Whatever the group dynamic, Jones can arrange a trip that includes an experience to fit all participants.\nCanadian rider Julia Kucher took part in an Equi Lease trip last summer. Photo courtesy Equi Lease\nIn 2012, Jones hosted a group of riders at the Magna Racino Spring Tour in Vienna, Austria. After a successful two weeks of competition, he realized that the experience he could put together, from travel arrangements, to pairing a rider with an appropriate horse and arranging show entries, would be highly sought after by the American market. He prefers that riders send video of themselves riding before they come, and if possible he speaks with the rider\u2019s trainer to determine what type of horse would best suit. When the rider arrives, a few days of schooling are always in order, and then it\u2019s off to a show.\nShow jumping entries for competitions in Europe are a fraction of what they are in America; Jones explains that even a FEI-rated show at one or two stars in Europe costs just 250 Euros for three days of jumping. He\u2019s had clients who compete for three weeks and end up with a horse show bill of 1,200 Euros, total. When the cost of the horse, lodging, and sometimes even the airfare is added up, it can equal the cost of a week of show fees for an A-circuit competition in the U.S.\n\u201cIt\u2019s something that people need to know they can do,\u201d Jones remarks. \u201cIt\u2019s very interesting, and very educational for young riders. They can come here and be part of the team for a week, we can arrange a clinic with a top trainer if they like, and they go home a more well rounded, and competitive rider for it.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://horselesspress.org/horse-less-review/horse-less-review-14/horse-less-review-14-cynthia-spencer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:62CTO2Q2UFT67YPSUUPDH2PALSTZGIWG", "length": 991, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "horselesspress.org", "title": "Horse Less Review #14: Cynthia Spencer | Horse Less Press", "raw_content": "Horse Less Review #14: Cynthia Spencer\nfour poems by Cynthia Spencer\nhttps://horselesspress.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/sound-poem-2.wav https://horselesspress.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/poem.wav https://horselesspress.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/as-of-now-were-supposed-to-take-turns-but-no-one-knows-how-long-were-going-to-be-out-here.wav https://horselesspress.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/noise-poem.wav\nCynthia Spencer is the author of the chapbooks in what sequence will my parts exit (plumberries press, 2011) and Mercy (forthcoming from Pity Milk Press, 2013) and co-author with Chelsea Tadeyeske of THERE EXISTS (plumberries press, 2012). Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Cannot Exist, Gritty Silk, Great Lakes Review, Burdock Magazine and Humble Humdrum Cotton Frock. Living in Milwaukee, WI, she is the co-founder of the reading series An Empty Room and performs with The Milwaukee Sound Choir. She writes mostly about feelings at http://cynthiaspencer.tumblr.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 240.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hsallamerican.teamsportsadmin.com/signup?camp_id=MjQ1MQ==", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YV7FBZ7GX5VXHI6IMWEAI432GZCAQ6BM", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "hsallamerican.teamsportsadmin.com", "title": "Salt Lake City, UT Summer All-American Camp | The High School Basketball All-American Showcase", "raw_content": "Salt Lake City, UT Summer All-American Camp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hubslist.org/tag/dna-mismatches/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZAK2UIJXO3ROFS7TSJIQZESW4Z3MCLW", "length": 3859, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hubslist.org", "title": "DNA mismatches | HUB's LIST of medical fun facts", "raw_content": "Vol. 196 July 15, 2018 Consequences of Separating Children From Their Parents\n\u201cHome Security and Family Values \u2013\nIs that an oxymoron?\u201d\nHundreds of children in immigrant families wishing to enter the U.S. from Mexico have been separated from their parents by U.S. policy. The administration has not released the actual number, but the number of unaccompanied children held in U.S. detention centers jumped up by 20% from 8,000 to a little over 10,000 children after implementation of the \u201czero tolerance policy\u201d.\nIn 2016 the Secretary of Home Security John Kelly began to talk about such a separation policy as a deterrent to families seeking entrance either illegally or even if legally seeking asylum on our Mexican border. In response to that proposed policy a coalition of pediatricians, psychiatrists, and social scientists published \u201cSeparating Families at the Border \u2013 Consequences for Children\u2019s Health and Well-Being\u201d in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) June 15, 2017 and founded the Child Advisory Network to advocate against the \u201czero tolerance policy\u201d.\nNow, nobody really believes that separating children from their parents, unless the children are being maltreated or abused, is good for the children. Our own legal system has a very high threshold for removing children from their parents. And maybe, administration policy makers were probably counting on this universal belief (in all languages, of course) to make their action an effective deterrent to immigration.\nThe NEJM article summarized the many studies that document the deleterious effects of separating children from parents; all based on the over-activation of the stress response system of the child\u2019s brain and specific hormone producing organs. Proper balance of that system is necessary for normal physical growth, proper and appropriate regulation of emotions, and maintenance of good health. In fact, such stress and anxiety is apparently cumulative and can ever result in an earlier-than-expected death!\nThe high costs of separating and detaining the children, especially the costs of finding and supporting foster care for U.S.-citizen children of parents who have already been deported, was cited in this review. In many states the foster care system for American children is overwhelmed and an occasional source of horror stories of maltreatment by foster parents.\nPerhaps you\u2019re thinking that these are moot points after the announcement of the reversal of the \u201czero tolerance policy\u201d, but NPR reported on July 12 that in a response to a court order deadline only 57 of the 100 under the age of 5 years had been reunited with their parents (49 other were not). NPR also reported that the total number of separated children is 3000. The next court order deadline in about two weeks calls for 2000 families to be reunited. Both court orders stem from suits brought by the ACLU against the U.S. Department of Home Security.\nReason cited by the Home Security Department for some \u201cfailures to reunite\u201d include criminal charges against a parent(s), parent not available since already deported, and a lack of match between the child\u2019s DNA and the parents\u2019 DNA. Wow, talk about opening up another Pandora\u2019s box for the U.S. border staff, Home Security Department, and our judicial system, already creaking under \u201czero tolerance policy\u201d consequences. Resolution of those instances of DNA \u201cmismatch\u201d will become another nightmare for already stressed-out families and children who were seeking sanctuary from the stress of living in their own country in the first place; a uniquely modern negative consequence of political policy once again trumping science.\nLeave a Comment \u00bb\t| current events, government, Pediatrics, politics\t| Tagged: \"zero tolerance policy\", ACLU, DNA mismatches, foster care system, U.S. Home Security Department, U.S. immigration policy\t| Permalink", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 5079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hueyhelenealcaro.com/woman-told-truth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:09Z", "digest": "sha1:R3ND2Z7RF6QB7X3L4THDEVUWDYX5U7NN", "length": 14070, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "hueyhelenealcaro.com", "title": "Selected Work - Huey Helene Alcaro", "raw_content": "\u201cIf A Woman Told the Truth\u201d\nOriginally printed in Beate Sigriddaughter\u2019s blog\nShe didn\u2019t like sex. In her honest moments\u2014after two or three or . . . however many drinks, she\u2019d allow herself to admit that. Sex was not great. She never said this when she was sober. She never said it to anyone but herself. It was un-American to not like sex. You were to love sex. You were to be obsessed with sex. Sex was to be the be all and end of all of all existence over all time. Sex was IT!\nShe thought of it as something you had to get through to keep a man happy. When she was drunk she thought that. That was probably what kept her from becoming a drunk \u00e0 la AA. \u201cHello, my name is Jennifer and I\u2019m an alcoholic.\u201d There were too many demons, too many beasts when you were drunk. Of course there were those demon-beasts that made you want to pour a stiff one. Drunk or sober. Here a demon, there a beast, everywhere a demon-beast. It was enough to make her want a drink. She laughed at that.\nThe man lying in bed next to her moaned and turned toward her when she laughed.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s funny?\u201d he asked.\n\u201cNothing. Go back to sleep. I was just thinking about something.\u201d\n\u201cTell me,\u201d he said and put his hand on her breast and squeezed.\nJesus, she thought. Leave my breasts alone. This damned breast squeezing was almost as bad as, \u201cDid you come?\u201d Thank god she hadn\u2019t heard that in awhile. She couldn\u2019t say this to him. Not after professing . . . love.\nJennifer knew she was not supposed to feel this way about sex, the good old be all and end all. How many women shared her attitude? Probably more that anyone wanted to imagine. Adrienne Rich had written, \u201cWhen a woman tells the truth she makes room for more truth around her.\u201d If Jennifer told the truth, would it bring forth more? Or would it \u201csplit the world open\u201d as Muriel Rukeyser answered her own question, \u201cWhat would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?\u201d Why weren\u2019t women telling the truth about their lives? Trying to keep the world whole? For what?\nHe\u2019d thought he knew what he was doing. Yeah, sure. Knew what he was doing. Her parents were in Seattle and wouldn\u2019t be back until the middle of the night. Bill Carson had been wanting to get into her pants for months. Those damned boys actually thought girls believed the lies about really liking and respecting you. How stupid did guys think they were? Everyone knew what it was all about. It was about getting into girls\u2019 pants. It was about ramming it in, that\u2019s what it was about. Well, girls had their urges too. Guys didn\u2019t really believe that; they thought the girls had to be talked around, or coerced into, going along, into putting out. If the little assholes had had half a brain, they would have known that the girls were just as interested in sex as they were.\nThere was one big difference. Girls wanted it to be enjoyable, fun, a good thing, not like having a bat rammed into your vagina.\nHe\u2019d arrived with a six pack. What kind of evening would it be if you weren\u2019t bombed? Maybe he needed it to get it up. Maybe he was as scared as she. He popped one open, flopped down on her couch and patted the seat beside him. He threw his arm across the back of the couch and propped one foot on the knee of the opposite leg. Looking casual, Mr. Cool. Imitating someone.\n\u201cCome here and keep me company,\u201d he\u2019d more or less ordered.\nShe should have followed her desire to run screaming though the streets. He did have a certain animal magnetism. He did flip a switch or two. That was the problem. She responded to something in him while her better judgment was telling her to get the hell out. But it was her home, not his. She sat next to him and he started kissing her. The first ramming it in. The tongue. Right in, no preliminaries. It would be a year or more before she found out that kissing could be something other than trying to swallow body parts. His hand started groping around and slipped under her shirt. It kept working its way up until it found her right breast, encased it and squeezed.\nShit. Yeah, shit.\nHis hand wandered here and there for a couple of minutes, then dove under the waistband of her jeans. Maybe things were going to get better. His fingers were wiggling around, groping. Groping, groping, groping.\n\u201cExcuse me,\u201d she said, stood up, and took off her jeans. She turned and stood there in her panties looking down at him. Undressing\u2014at least in part\u2014along with her handing him a condom, had sealed her rep as \u201chot.\u201d She\u2019d thought if they were going to do it, they should get to it without fumbling with clothing and being coy about condoms. Poor naive little Jen, who\u2019d thought efficiency and a desire for acting responsibly had anything to do with what was going on.\nBill about broke his neck getting out of his jeans. One foot got caught in the leg and he fell onto and then rolled off the coffee table. He wasn\u2019t damaged enough to abort the mission, however. He was primed for the big ride.\nLater Jennifer lay in bed hurting and crying. She hurt in a way she\u2019d never imagined. It wasn\u2019t supposed to be like this, was it? Was it always like this? When she heard her parents\u2019 car pull into the garage, she pulled her covers over her head and stayed real quiet until they were in bed.\nWhy had she expected anything else? What could any teenage boy know about sex other than sticking it into some hole? Society screamed sex at them and taught them nothing. What was a teenage boy to do? And the teenage girl? The teenage girl was invaded.\nIt had to get better. She\u2019d identified the problem as lying with the inexperience, coupled with the hormonal urgency, of her first partner. Sex had to get better. Right? Not necessarily.\nRichard was the one she remembered from college. There\u2019d been others, but they blurred together. Richard stood out in her mind because he was The One she\u2019d thought would be different.\n\u201cHey, you dropped your pen,\u201d was his first sentence to her. They were leaving an econ class and she had dropped her pen. Off to coffee they went. It was supposed to be easy in college. Meet an interesting guy and he\u2019d ask if you wanted coffee or something and you went off and talked. If you were lucky, and smart, you talked a few times before you fucked. Richard had seemed in no hurry and that was the come on. Pretend interest in the woman, the whole person. They\u2019d gone to a movie, a concert and just sat around in the Rat or on the lawn or on some steps and talked. He\u2019d even been sympathetic when she\u2019d more or less told him what had happened her first time.\n\u201cI\u2019m not a ram it in kind of guy,\u201d he\u2019d told her. They\u2019d used her room because her roommates had checked out for the weekend and they had the place to themselves for two nights.\nShe did have to give him a point; he didn\u2019t ram it in. He was not that kind of guy. Oh no. Richard wanted to instruct her in the fine art of fellatio. \u201cSucking it,\u201d as he called it. It had been a dreary weekend. Lying around, crouching around with cock in her mouth. Oral stimulation had not included her genitals. \u201cI\u2019m just not into that,\u201d Richard had said.\n\u201cIf you look good, smell good and put out good (little giggle), you can get just about anything you want from a man.\u201d Her mother said this at a wedding. The daughter of an old family friend was getting married and she and her mother were discussing the bride. How she really wasn\u2019t all that pretty and she didn\u2019t seem to be paying enough attention to the groom, according to Jennifer\u2019s mother. They were standing in front of a mirror hanging in the banquet room that held the after ceremony dinner dance. They had spent a lot of time in front of mirrors over the years; her mother had a homing instinct for them. They were standing in front of this mirror, with her mother taking quick little peeks to see if they really could pass as sisters (as some man into the sauce had told them) when she delivered her dose of woman\u2019s wisdom. Her mother had been delivering variations of this all her life. If you looked good enough, and let men think they were in control, everything would be just fine. Her mother had been, and still was a beautiful woman. Her mother spent a good percentage of her time clutching a bottle of 100 proof whatever-she-could-get-her-hands-on.\n\u201cGive me an F. Give me an A. Give me an I. Give me a R. Give me a H. Give me an A. Give me a V. Give me an E. Give me an N. Fairhaven. Fairhaven. Fairhaven.\u201d\nAll the pretty little cheerleaders in a row and she\u2019d been the captain of The Squad. They jumped. They clapped. They smiled at the crowd. They yelled at the crowd. The crowd yelled back. And she was Jennifer Whitley, Head Cheerleader.\nIt was an honor. It was what she\u2019d wanted to be since she was little. Her mother had taken her to cheerleading camps up and down the coast. And she had become the one who set the pace, the tone. When they jumped and kicked and cheered and squealed and clapped, she was the one everyone watched the most.\nWhen they flashed their panties, hers were the ones most drooled over. She hadn\u2019t thought of panty flashing until Meredith Hanson had come out with it. Brainy Meredith, future scientist, who thought cheerleaders were empty headed little cock teasers. Meredith who\u2019d go anywhere she wanted to go in this world.\nJust how were you to get along if you weren\u2019t going to be a rocket scientist?\nJennifer entered the work force. A modern woman. A woman who was to get the benefits feminists had fought for for more than two hundred years. Her first job was with an insurance company, doing claims. It was a playground of twenty-something males and females. All that hot yearning and cruising and looking for THE action that would save them from all further action, finding the one who would deliver you from having to look anymore.\nShe\u2019d found Jim. At first he reminded her of a nice guy Jim she\u2019d known in high school. Still naive and hopeful, she\u2019d moved in.\nHe didn\u2019t just ram it in. He didn\u2019t just want oral sex. He was a man into experimentation. She was to be the subject in his experiments with the knowledge he gained from porn consumption, films in which some stupid broad was willing to let some jerk do whatever he wanted to. Lying there, standing there, bending there, whatever there, while Mr. I\u2019ve-Got-a-Big-Weinie got it off.\n\u201cI don\u2019t like that,\u201d she\u2019d tell Jim. \u201cPlease stop.\u201d\n\u201cNo, wait. You\u2019ll like this. This is really cool.\u201d\n\u201cNo. . . . STOP.\u201d\n\u201cWait . . . You\u2019re really gonna like this\u201d\nShe\u2019d actually had to hurt him before he\u2019d stopped. Then she\u2019d moved out.\nShe was in her thirties, for god\u2019s sake. It was time to be free of men who rammed and jammed and squeezed and pinched and . . . well, there was stuff she didn\u2019t want to remember. God, there was the guy who wanted to pee on her.\nThis current man didn\u2019t seem bad. He had rolled over and gone back to sleep. Actually he was basically a nice man. And his tastes in sex weren\u2019t one-dimensional or sick or self-serving, as far as she could tell. Except for the breast squeezing, he seemed okay.\nShe wondered how it was for Meredith with the brains. Had she found some man who thought sex was for the pleasure of both? She\u2019d like to think some women found that.\nJeremy was the professional one. All the men since college had been professionals, but Jeremy made a profession out of being The Professional. The suits, the ties, the shoes. She stopped noting the designer names that went with the various pieces of clothing because Jeremy changed with each new blip on the fashion screen. He spoke of stocks, bonds, portfolios, mergers and leverages. He learned how to \u201cManage Like a Lama\u201d from a drivel peddler who made money separating fools from theirs.\n\u201cIs that lama as in Tibetan monk or as in the large white animal,\u201d she\u2019d asked.\nJeremy didn\u2019t find that funny at all. He didn\u2019t have permission to laugh from the arbiters of humor for that week. One thing that was a constant with Jeremy were his expectations when it came to sex. There was sex that a man could get with any woman, \u201cYou remember that thing old Ben Franklin said about all women being alike below the waist,\u201d and there was sex with a beautiful woman. Jeremy enjoyed \u201cRomps with the Ravishing.\u201d He\u2019d actually used that term. She was to be honored because she had been chosen to be in that elect company.\nJeremy was disappointed in her. He was always disappointed. At first she thought it was something he objected to in her responses. It wasn\u2019t that. He expected Romps to be an experience that put him over the top into a great Olympian paradise of unending orgasm. He apparently thought beautiful women functioned differently from \u201cregular\u201d women. Beautiful women were to orchestrate great multi-orgasmic crescendos of ecstasy.\nIt\u2019s draining to be told you have disappointed. When she left him, she told him he should become a woman if he wanted to be fucking multi-orgasmic.\nThe man sighed in his sleep, rolled toward her and put his arm across her waist. She didn\u2019t know if she\u2019d stay with him. He was so proud of being with a beautiful woman. She knew she was beautiful. Her mother was and she knew she looked like her mother. All her life she\u2019d been a beauty, and she\u2019d lost count of how many beasts had come sniffing around. In the story, she thought it was the father who sold Beauty to The Beast. She guessed that was true in her world as well, given men were still running it. Her mother had just been the agent selling the lie. Man\u2019s instrument, like a mother in old China who bound the feet of her daughters, causing the crushing of bones, the festering sores, and the tears in the eyes of those daughters who were in so much pain.\nThe man beside her would wrap his arm around her shoulders when they were walking down the street and say, \u201cYou have no idea of how good it makes me feel to be with you.\u201d He said that on the street where the eyes of men could follow her. He did not say that in her kitchen or his living room or in either of their bedrooms. Maybe this is the best she could expect. She reached for the Jack Daniels on the bedside table, then pulled her hand away. No. She needed to get sober.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 15044, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://i.wayne.edu/view/5bd8690c9bc8d", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:24Z", "digest": "sha1:UEFMAPCBVPTWWGEORVYNCSVRVBKHX76T", "length": 2993, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "i.wayne.edu", "title": "A message concerning the Pittsburgh shooting", "raw_content": "Last week, we held the closing celebration for our sesquicentennial, and it was a day of pride for many of us. We celebrated the many aspects of Wayne State University that make us unique, among which is our historical and ongoing commitment to welcoming students from a wide array of backgrounds. Less than 24 hours later, we learned of the deadly shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, and celebration gave way to mourning.\nTo help our community as we struggle to cope with this tragedy, we will hold a memorial today at 4 p.m. on Gullen Mall, next to the Mort Harris Recreation and Fitness Center. The program will last approximately 20 minutes. I invite you to join me.\nIt has been said that events like this happen so often that we are becoming inured to them, or that we are helpless to act. I don\u2019t accept this, and I urge you not to accept it, either. This act was a hideous crime of hate, committed against innocent people practicing a religion of peace, and we all should be shocked and appalled. Our thoughts should be for the innocent men and women who lost their lives, and for those left behind who struggle with this loss. But we can do more, and it starts with each of us.\nWhile this is clearly a vicious act of anti-Semitism, it is reasonable to believe that part of the blame goes to the divisive political rhetoric that is reaching a crescendo in our country. Civil discussion and reasoned debate have given way to bitterness and antagonism, and now \u2014 too often \u2014 to violence. Many of us have stopped listening to the other person or side simply because we have different views. Many of us eye those who differ from us with suspicion, even hate.\nI have spoken often of diversity being more than race or creed, encompassing different ideas and viewpoints. Perhaps we should start right there. How much better would we be as a people if we listened \u2014 really listened \u2014 to one another? How much better would we be if we treated each other with respect and dignity, even when we disagreed? How much better would we be if we revived civility, which seems to have nearly disappeared from our public discourse?\nBeyond condolences, beyond thoughts and prayers, perhaps we can commit to this: to honoring our long history of being a welcoming and inclusive campus community; to listening openly to those with whom we differ and assuming the best intent in the honest exchange of ideas; to tempering passion with reason and civility, rather than giving in to anger. To coming together rather than coming apart, and in doing so, setting an example for others to emulate.\nWayne State has always been a gateway to the American dream for thousands of students from all walks of life. Many of these students were and are Jewish. Their time at Wayne State changed their lives and made our university better. The evidence is all around our campus. At this sad time, I urge you to keep the victims and their loved ones in mind, and continue to be a caring and welcoming campus.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 3107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://icmsonline.org/page/CommunityHealth", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:34Z", "digest": "sha1:AF36TMFLIZQLHT6NJFCSNIAOS4JVHO5L", "length": 2946, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "icmsonline.org", "title": "Community Health - Ingham County Medical Society", "raw_content": "The average life expectancy in the United States at the turn of the 20th century (1900) was 50 years. By the turn of the 21st century, Y2K, life expectancy had reached 80 years. Of course, we can point to amazing medical advancements in the 20th century that must account for that increase, right? Antibiotics, new drugs for just about everything imaginable, diagnostic testing like MRIs and CT scans, robotic surgery\u2014the list of advancements goes on and on. The reality is that good public health accounts for about 80% of that 30-year lifespan increase. Vaccinations, more abundant and safer foods, safer water, motor vehicle safety, recognition of tobacco as a health hazard, and more are among public health improvements in the 20th century. Lately the news is that life expectancy is declining in the United States, now for the second year in a row. That puts the United States behind many other well-developed nations. Coincidentally, or maybe not, in the almost two decades of my public health career\u2014beginning just after Y2K\u2014cuts in public health spending have been the norm. Investment in public health has been on a constant decline for at least two decades. Investment at the federal and state level has a direct Impact on local public health because that is the source of 70% of our funding.\nThe Capital Area Health Alliance (CAHA) is a regional hub for organizations with interest in health and health care. Since its inception, CAHA has convened community conversations to understand and address healthcare system trends, regional needs and opportunities for improvement. The Alliance provides an inclusive platform on which competing organizations and multiple sectors can collaborate. Through its committees, which bring together the expertise and resources of multiple organizations in these sectors, CAHA connects providers engaged in the work of health care with organizations working at the community level to support innovative approaches to improve the health of the entire community and to bring resources and educational opportunities to employers, businesses and area residents.\nMichigan residents urged to take steps to lower their risk of liver cancer during Liver Cancer Awareness Month\nBetween 2004 and 2015, liver cancer incidence increased 46 percent in Michigan. As part of Liver Cancer Awareness Month, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) urges Michigan residents to learn about the leading causes of liver cancer and the steps they can take to reduce their risk.\nChronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C are leading causes of liver cancer, making up 65 percent of factors contributing to liver cancer incidence in the United States.\n\u201cLiver cancer is the sixth leading cause of cancer deaths in Michigan,\u201d said Dr. Eden Wells, MDHHS chief medical executive. \u201cEarly detection can help lower liver cancer risk. Talk to your healthcare provider about possible risk factors and hepatitis testing.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 4096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 166.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ideami.com/project/interactive-installation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:46Z", "digest": "sha1:4N6YTMCKNJVR56LU66EF3RRQA4Q5W7RJ", "length": 2406, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ideami.com", "title": "Deconstructed music | virtual online music composition", "raw_content": "\u201cDeconstructed Music # 1\u201d, winner of the International LAB Award, was a project that aimed to create a new musical work through the modification, combination and rearrangement of an existing piece. The project is based on collective, simultaneous participation in a real-time web environment.\nThe Creative group RAN was formed in order to develop the project. RAN was formed by: Javier Ideami, Carlos Navarro & Ram\u00f3n Prada.\nThe twentieth century has seen much reflection on the democratisation of music. The technological revolution that computing and digitalisation brought came to facilitate this process while the appearance of the Internet and the concept of cyberspace opened up a whole new world of possibilities in this area.\n\u201cDeconstructed Music #1\u201d suggests a step forward, eliminating the concept of authorship to achieve the supreme form of democratisation; creating a form of artistic anarchy informed by simultaneous, interactive, reinvented creation, in search of a continuous, infinitely unfinished piece. We use music as an object of reflection, as our personal conviction is that it is the most universal and primitive manifestation of the human being.\nWith the intention of creating a form of universal \u201cmusical thread\u201d in \u2018perpetum mobile\u2019, Deconstructed Music allows a pre-existing musical work to be deconstructed and shuffled in infinite variations, through the interaction, voluntary or accidental, in real time of any participating world wide web visitor.\nAll the compositions that emerge, being due to action, chance or probability, are accessible in real time to not only those manipulating, composing or deforming the piece, but also to the casual spectator who reflects over the entropy within the chaos.\nDeconstructed music became a physical installation in Laboral, Centro de Arte y Creaci\u00f3n Industrial; Its operation consisted of two parts; a terminal with web access to the project pages to allow public participation in the (de)construction of the piece, and a black box, six metres cubed, equipped with sound and back projected image which emitted a symphony of primary colours generated by the \u2018ad hoc\u2019 musical blocks, amplified by almost absolute darkness within the room.\nDeconstructed Music unlocked a door of possibilities, both aesthetic and industrial, on which we invited the whole artistic and cyberspace community, along with the general public, to reflect upon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 311.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ideas.repec.org/a/tpr/restat/v84y2002i4p569-583.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:40Z", "digest": "sha1:426VBHP4ZLRAN4MLJSKPRR4VK63IIRPR", "length": 10282, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "ideas.repec.org", "title": "The Unreliability of Output-Gap Estimates in Real Time", "raw_content": "The Unreliability of Output-Gap Estimates in Real Time\n(Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)\n(HEC (Montr\u00e9al) and CIRANO)\nWe examine the reliability of alternative output detrending methods, with special attention to the accuracy of real-time estimates of the output gap. We show that ex post revisions of the estimated gap are of the same order of magnitude as the estimated gap itself and that these revisions are highly persistent. Although important, the revision of published data is not the primary source of revisions in measured output gaps; the bulk of the problem is due to the pervasive unreliability of end-of-sample estimates of the trend in output. 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Kuttner, 1992. \"Monetary policy with uncertain estimates of potential output,\" Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, issue Jan, pages 2-15.\nClaude Giorno & Pete Richardson & Deborah Roseveare & Paul van den Noord, 1995. \"Estimating Potential Output, Output Gaps and Structural Budget Balances,\" OECD Economics Department Working Papers 152, OECD Publishing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 22319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://identify.whatbird.com/obj/870/overview/Mangrove_Cuckoo.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RA552HLGC56WBNDCXZCAX7BG4JDHMQTY", "length": 1809, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "identify.whatbird.com", "title": "Mangrove Cuckoo - Whatbird.com", "raw_content": "COCMIR\nThe Mangrove Cuckoo has a large range, estimated globally at 900,000 square kilometers. Native to the Americas and nearby island nations, this bird prefers forest ecosystems. The global population of this bird is estimated at 50,000 to 500,000 individuals and does not show signs of decline that would necessitate inclusion on the IUCN Red List. For this reason, the current evaluation status of the Mangrove Cuckoo is Least Concern.\nMangrove Cuckoo: Medium-sized cuckoo with gray-brown upperparts, black ear patch, yellow eye-ring, white throat, and buff-washed white underparts. Long, dark tail has six large white spots underneath, each with a dark spot. Decurved bill is dark above and yellow below with a dark tip.\nMangrove Cuckoo: Found in in mangrove forests in the United States, part of its range, as well as in some tropical hardwood species. In the tropical range, it is found in mangroves, but also in other types of woodlands. Not always found near water in the tropics, with some birds nesting far from water sources. Considered a permanent resident throughout its tropical range.\nMangrove Cuckoo SONGS AND CALLS\nMangrove Cuckoo A1\nSong is a throaty \"gah-gah-gah\" or \"qua-qua-qua\".\nAbbreviated songs.\n\"Gah-gah-gah\", \"qua-qua-qua\"\nThe Mangrove Cuckoo is found throughout the Caribbean and both coasts of Mexico and South America.\nCompletely silent except during breeding season, birds can be difficult to detect.\nIt is a non-migratory bird in most of its range, but many Florida birds fly south for the winter. Sightings of birds remaining in Florida for the winter have been increasing steadily.\nA group of cuckoos are collectively known as a \"cooch\" and an \"asylum\" of cuckoos.\nEar patch X\nConsists of soft, loose-webbed feathers on the side of the bird's head below and behind the eyes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 8080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ijmhs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1752-4458-7-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:00Z", "digest": "sha1:ZDYKU3DDL3TXQZI4RKXP4RJDUH5X5DLU", "length": 126170, "nlines": 287, "source_domain": "ijmhs.biomedcentral.com", "title": "Rebuilding community resilience in a post-war context: developing insight and recommendations - a qualitative study in Northern Sri Lanka | International Journal of Mental Health Systems | Full Text", "raw_content": "Rebuilding community resilience in a post-war context: developing insight and recommendations - a qualitative study in Northern Sri Lanka\nDaya Somasundaram1, 2Email author and\nSambasivamoorthy Sivayokan3\n\u00a9 Somasundaram and Sivayokan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013\nIndividuals, families and communities in Northern Sri Lanka have undergone three decades of war trauma, multiple displacements, and loss of family, kin, friends, homes, employment and other valued resources. The objective of the study was understanding common psychosocial problems faced by families and communities, and the associated risk and protective factors, so that practical and effective community based interventions can be recommended to rebuild strengths, adaptation, coping strategies and resilience.\nThis qualitative, ecological study is a psychosocial ethnography in post-war Northern Sri Lanka obtained through participant observation; case studies; key- informant interviews; and focus groups discussions with mental health and psychosocial community workers as well as literature survey of media and organizational reports. Qualitative analysis of the data used ethnography, case studies, phenomenology, grounded theory, hermeneutics and symbolic interactionism techniques. Quantitative data on suicide was collected for Jaffna and Killinochchi districts.\nComplex mental health and psychosocial problems at the individual, family and community levels in a post-war context were found to impair recovery. These included unresolved grief; individual and collective trauma; insecurity, self-harm and suicides; poverty and unemployment; teenage and unwanted pregnancies; alcoholism; child abuse and neglect; gender based violence and vulnerability including domestic violence, widows and female headed-household, family conflict and separation; physical injuries and handicap; problems specific for children and elderly; abuse and/or neglect of elderly and disabled; anti-social and socially irresponsible behaviour; distrust, hopelessness, and powerlessness. Protective factors included families; female leadership and engagement; cultural and traditional beliefs, practices and rituals; and creative potential in narratives, drama and other arts. Risk factors that were impeding community rehabilitation and recovery included continuing military governance, depletion of social capital particularly lack of trust, hope and socio-economic opportunity structures for development that would engender a sense of collective efficacy.\nIn view of the widespread trauma at the individual, family and collective levels, community based programmes to increase local awareness, knowledge and skills to deal with common mental health and psychosocial issues; and training of community level workers and others in basic mental health and psychosocial problem solving are recommended to rebuild family and community agency and resilience. The use of cultural practices and school based programmes would rekindle community processes.\nCollective trauma\nDisasters, whether natural, for example after a tsunami, or manmade as in war, are now recognized to cause a variety of psychological and psychiatric sequelae [1]. These could range from adaptive and resilient coping responses in the face of catastrophic events to understandable non-pathological distress as well as a number of maladaptive behavioural patterns to diagnosable psychiatric disorders. Conditions like Acute Stress Reaction (ASR, the old disaster syndrome), Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, anxiety, somatoform disorders, alcohol and drug abuse have been shown to occur after disasters [1, 2]. Chronic long-term trauma can lead to complex PTSD [3], enduring personality changes [4] or Disorders of Extreme Stress Not Otherwise Specified (DESNOS) [5].\nHowever, there is less recognition or understanding of the effects disasters have at the supra-individual family and community levels [6\u20138]. Less is known about appropriate interventions at collective levels [9]. There are many reasons for this relative deficiency. First, the field of disaster studies is itself rather young. For example, the diagnosis of PTSD was accepted only in 1980 with the American DSM III [10] following extensive experiences with Vietnam war veterans.\nSecondly, modern psychology and psychiatry as it has developed has had a western medical illness model perspective that is primarily individualistic in orientation [11]. Geertz describes the Western concept of the individual self as \u201c\u2026a bounded, unique, more or less integrated motivational and cognitive universe, a dynamic centre of awareness, emotion, judgment, and action organized into a distinctive whole and set contrastively both against other such wholes and against its social and cultural background....is a peculiar idea within the context of world cultures\u201d [12]. PTSD is constructed as a condition that exclusively afflicts the individual self, the traumatic event impacting on the individual psyche to produce the PTSD. The World Health Report 2001, while pointing out that there is considerable mental morbidity among those exposed to severe trauma, warns that there is controversy regarding the cross-cultural validity of PTSD [13]. It has been argued that PTSD is a recent western construct that does not apply in non-western societies [14]. It is being increasingly recognized generally that we need to go beyond the individual to the family, group, village, community and social levels if we are to more fully understand what is going on in the individual, whether it be his/her development, behaviour, perceptions, consciousness, experiences or responses to stress and trauma as well as design effective interventions to help in the recovery and rehabilitation of not only the affected individuals but also their families and community [15\u201318]. In collectivistic societies, family or community members may join together in collective coping to pool resources, act cooperatively sharing the burden to resolve a single or common problem at the family (extended family) or community levels.\nFor when the family and/or community regained their equilibrium and healthy functioning, there is often improvement in the individual member\u2019s wellbeing as well. Family and social support, networks, relationships and the sense of community appear to be a vital protective factor for the individual and their families and important in their recovery. Cultural rituals and practices, like the North American Sweat Lodge ceremony [19], thuku kavadi in Northern Lanka [20] and Eastern Lankan oracle tradition [21], can heal and provide meaning to suffering after trauma. It is also becoming clear that social and cultural values, beliefs and perceptions will shape how traumatic events impact on the individual, family and community and the way they respond [22, 23] . The meaning attributed to the event(s), the historical and social context, as well as community coping strategies determines the impact and consequences of trauma. Similarly, firm traditional and religious beliefs and social support has been shown to be a protective factor against the effects of trauma. Equally, community coping and resilience help individuals and families deal with and recover from the destructive effects of disasters.\nUnfortunately, there are no clear evidenced based interventions applicable to post disaster situations. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and pharmacotherapy for post trauma consequences like PTSD, Depression and Anxiety are now used in western countries [24\u201326], but other experts have been critical [27]. On the other hand, once popular and routine methods like debriefing have been shown not to be helpful, even harmful [28]. The Western tradition of seeking help from a counsellor or psychologist would be culturally inappropriate in a collectivistic community [29]. Equally, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), the most validated psychotherapy for PTSD in the western world, may not be applicable in non-western communities [30]. Particularly in a low income and poor resource settings with lack of trained mental health workers and with massive populations that have experienced trauma, western individual therapies would not be feasible, while public mental health, community based and culturally sensitive methods would be more appropriate [31]. The widespread problem of collective traumatization or \u2018loss of communality\u2019[32] following disasters is best approached through community level interventions, particularly in collectivistic, sociocentric communities [33, 34]. Further, community based approaches will enable one to reach a larger target population as well as undertake preventive and promotional public mental health activities at the same time. Individuals and families can be expected to recover and cope when communities become functional, activating healing mechanisms within itself. There have been more recent consensus for best practice in community level interventions for massive trauma [7, 9, 35]. The WHO [36] and other international organizations have come up with the Sphere Project Humanitarian charter and minimum standards when dealing with mental and social aspects of health [37]. A worldwide panel of trauma experts [28] have identified restoring connectedness, social support and a sense of collective efficacy as essential principles in interventions after mass trauma.\nThe Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings developed by the United Nations with the experiences and collaboration of over 200 organizations working worldwide in situations of mass trauma [38] recommend considering the socio-political and cultural context to maximize the participation of local populations, building on available local resources and capacities and integrating close collaboration between support systems when responding. The construct of social capital is becoming increasingly recognized as an important factor in mental health [39, 40]. Social capital is protective for mental health and wellbeing. Disasters such as a chronic civil war can lead to depletion of social capital [41, 42]. Bracken and Petty [43] argue that in current interstate conflicts, \u201cCivilians are no longer \u2018incidental\u2019 casualties but the direct targets of violence. Mass terror becomes a deliberate strategy. Destruction of schools, houses, religious buildings, fields and crops as well as torture, rape and interment, become commonplace. Modern warfare is concerned not only to destroy life, but also ways of life. It targets social and cultural institutions and deliberately aims to undermine the means whereby people endure and recover from the suffering of war\u2026\u201d. In trying to design post war recovery programmes, it becomes important to try and understand the dynamics of how social capital is destroyed as well as look for ways to rebuild it. According to Colleta and Cullen [44],\n\u201cUnlike interstate conflict, which often mobilizes national unity and strengthens societal cohesiveness, violent conflict within a state weakens its social fabric. It divides the population by undermining interpersonal and communal trust, destroying the norms and values that underlie cooperation and collective action for the common good, and increasing the likelihood of communal strife. This damage to a nation's social capital, \u00ad the norms, values, and social relations that bond communities together, as well as the bridges between communal groups (civil society) and the state \u00ad impedes the ability of either communal groups or the state to recover after hostilities cease. Even if other forms of capital are replenished, economic and social development will be hindered unless social capital stocks are restored\u201d\u2026 Such an understanding could enhance the abilities of international actors and local policymakers to more effectively carry out peace building-relief, reconstruction, reconciliation, and development in the post-war context.\nThe strategies for reconstruction and revitalization of social capital after conflict that have been recommended include strengthening social networks and community ties, building social organizations, and macro-social policy reform to increase community access to external resources and power [45]. At the same time as repairing the destroyed social capital, it is vital to preserve, foster and promote the natural resilience of communities to recover and help themselves. Community resilience can be seen as positive, collective adaptability despite high levels of adversity; in this case, the impact of the natural disasters, such as the Asian Tsunami, and the manmade disaster, such as the chronic civil war. An excellent conceptual framework (Figure 1) for building community resilience as a process of dynamic adaptation with a positive trajectory to buffer the adverse effects of disasters and promote community wellbeing has been developed [46]. It is suggested that it is important to ensure commitment, engaging the entire system of the community in an inclusive process; identify scripts, themes and patterns across generations and community history; foster creativity as the central process of healing maintaining sensitivity to issues of culture, gender and spirituality; and encouraging access to all natural and ancillary resources. Other factors mentioned include building on existing resources; collaborating and networking across all systems; relating programme needs to goals, future and best interests of the community; encouraging natural change agents and leadership within the community; empowering families and communities; and developing ownership by the community [47].\nCommunity Resilience as dynamic, networked adaptive capacities[108].\nThe analysis of social protective and risk factors and the social dynamics of coping and growth can help illuminate social processes and identify collective competency factors that can be built upon. Important characteristics of resilient communities include availability of family, kin and neighbourhood support systems and networks (i.e. bonding social capital), community resources like respected and functioning elders, traditional healers and cultural practices, religious leaders and organizations, institutions like schools, health facilities, governmental and non-governmental organizations, community level conflict resolving mechanisms and functioning structures like the judicial system, democratic practices and access, free media, and reliable information. Economic and income stability, employment, occupations and traditional vocations, food, shelter, security, and other essential needs being met would help communities cope with adversities and shocks to the system. Norris et al. [46] identify four primary sets of adaptive capacities for community resilience \u2014 economic development, social capital, information and communication, and community competence (Figure 1). Community competence refers to the capacity, resources and skills within the community to act together, cooperatively and effectively, to meet challenges. Unfortunately in disaster situations, particularly chronic war contexts, some or many of these resources and support systems would be affected, dysfunctional or not available. Community responses and coping may thus become compromised. A vicious resource loss cycle [48] where breakdown of social support, networks, leadership, economic resources and supply chains of material goods, will create a downward spiral of a deteriorating situation of increasing needs and dysfunction.\nCommunity values, beliefs and traditions can provide bulwarks against mass trauma [15]. Adversity-Activated Development (AAD) describes salutary social transformation, post-traumatic growth and progressive changes following challenging circumstances [49]. Thus the breakdown of traditional forms of oppression and rigid hierarchical structures like caste, feudal ownership and patriarchal suppression of women could lead to more positive emancipation and development. New organizations, networks, relationships, friendships, forgetting of old quarrels and conflicts, shared memories and experiences could lead to community growth and enhancement. Motivated and vibrant leadership may emerge while older, ineffective and anachronistic methods are shed. There can be radical and revolutionary alteration in the social trajectories due to critical challenges. Common challenges can forge social unity and cohesion [50]. The common people, and oppressed and excluded minorities, could gain more power and access to resources due to shifts in the social system or out of collective action. Collective consciousness can be awakened leading to more awareness and knowledge. In the tradition of Friere\u2019s \u2018conscientisation\u2019 [51], the breakdown in social structures and institutions creates an opportunity for empowerment, collective transformation and re-alignment of social dynamics, \u201cchallenging existing structures of power and achieving a shift in power relations, ultimately resulting in the transformation of the existing social order\u201d [52].\nThe civil war in Sri Lanka typified in many ways the global trend towards intrastate conflict [53, 54] where ethnic passions [53, 55\u201361] and inequalities play a pivotal role [62]. The bitterly fought contest created a casualty list of well over 100,000 killed; and many more injured, mentally affected, displaced both internally and overseas; and communities, property and ecosystems destroyed. The Sri Lankan state, the various Tamil militants, in particular the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which for over two decades fought to create an separate state, the Sinhala Janatha Vimukthi Perumana (JVP), an ultra-leftist militant group that made two attempts violently to overthrow the government, and India, during its short intervention in the island (1987\u201390) to impose peace, were all involved in a dirty war [63, 64] with grave human rights violations and crimes against humanity [65, 66]. Though critical at times, the international community, its many organizations, diplomatic missions, UN, and aid agencies giving technical support, military hardware, training and the global network of socioeconomic ties and mutual relationships that give covert recognition, legitimacy and tacit sanction as well as the Sri Lankan and Tamil diaspora communities that supported the conflict were also indirectly implicated [63, 64]. Although the actual physical fighting ended dramatically in the Vanni in May, 2009, with the state using indiscriminate shelling and bombing as the LTTE held the civilian population hostage that resulted in over 40,000 civilians deaths, many more injuries and unacknowledged war crimes [67\u201373]; the underlying ethnocentrism and political causes remain unresolved. The survivors of the Vanni massacre were herded into barbwire internment camps with poor facilities and tight security. With increasing pressure from the UN and IC, the state has gradually relaxed its grip, but the north and east remain virtually under martial law [74]. Very few external, but mostly internally displaced populations (IDP\u2019s) have been resettling in their original areas from 2010. By 30 June, 2012 about 440,700 people (131,000 families) had returned to the Northern Province. This figure includes some 230,000 people (72,000 families) displaced after April 2008, that is during the recent Vanni war; and 211,000 persons (58,000 families) displaced before April 2008, that is the more longer-term IDP\u2019s including Muslims and Sinhalese (see Figure 2) [75]. However, some have not been allowed to return to their original homes and lands due to continuing militarized High Security Zones (HSZ). There is some economic and infrastructure development in the war torn areas [76], but three years after the ending of the war, legitimate reparation, community recovery and national reconciliation are yet to take place. The community and its members need to be able to benefit from the developmental programmes being undertaken. Economic recovery will not be sufficient, people need \u2018to reconstruct communities, re-establishing social norms and values\u2019 [77]. International law recognizes the Principle of Restitutio ad integrum for the redress of victims of armed conflict to help them reconstitute their destroyed \u2018life plan\u2019 [78, 79]. This justifies the need for rehabilitation as a form of reparation clarified by the UN \u2018Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to a Remedy and Reparations for Victims\u2019 as taking five forms: restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantees of non-repetition [80]. This should necessarily include psychosocial rehabilitation [81].\nResettlement of IDP\u2019s in the Northern Sri Lanka[75].\nIndividuals, families and communities in Sri Lanka, particularly in the North, the East and so called border areas of Sri Lanka, have undergone twenty five years of war trauma, multiple displacements, injury, detentions, torture, and loss of family, kin, friends, homes, employment and other valued resources [7]. In addition to widespread individual mental health consequences [82, 83], such as PTSD (13%), anxiety (49%) and depression (42%) in the recent Vanni IDP\u2019s [84]; families and communities have been uprooted from familiar and traditional ecological contexts such as ways of life, villages, relationships, connectedness, social capital, structures and institutions [85]. The results are termed collective trauma which has resulted in tearing of the social fabric, lack of social cohesion, disconnection, mistrust, hopelessness, dependency, lack of motivation, powerlessness and despondency. The social disorganization led to unpredictability, low efficacy, low social control of anti-social behavior patterns and high emigration which in turn causes breakdown of social norms, anomie, learned helplessness, thwarted aspirations, low self-esteem, and insecurity. Social pathologies like substance abuse, violence, gender based- and child- abuse have increased.\nThe study attempts to understand the mental health and psychosocial problems faced by families and communities in the current realities of a post war context in northern Sri Lanka, analyze the risk and protective factors to recommend ways of addressing these needs based on expert consensus on best practice, our previous experiences gained during the war [86, 87] and after the tsunami [85, 88], as well as findings from the study.\nThis is a qualitative, ecological study using critical psychosocial ethnography. The study uses as its framework the ecological model of Bronfenbrenner [89] with the micro, meso, exo and macro systems or the individual nested in the family nested in the community [48, 90], focusing more at the family and community levels. The WHO definition of health [50] can be adapted to the Bronfenbrenner model which also emphasizes the need to look beyond the micro or individual and physical level:\n\"Health is a state of complete physical, mental, (familial), social, (cultural), (spiritual) and (ecological) well-being, and not merely an absence of disease or infirmity\".\nThe family unit (in parenthesis for author additions) has been included as it is paramount in traditional Tamil society while the spiritual dimension is an essential part of the Tamil culture. The spiritual dimension has been put forward at various WHO fora but has not been formally accepted yet. Culture is increasingly recognized as an important dimension of mental health [91]. The ecological dimension arises from Bronfenbrenner\u2019s and environmental models and systems theory that emphasis an overall holistic approach, looking at how the different levels, dimensions and systems with different temporal trajectories of their own; influence each other to produce an interactive, dynamic (dys)functional whole. The disaster itself has an impact on these systems and their interaction, and moreover has a temporal trajectory of its own [92, 93]. More recently a growing consensus has been emerging on the need to look at these wider dimensions to understand the dynamics of the effects of disasters and to design effective interventions [9, 18, 94]. This study took place in the long-term post disaster phase, usually lasting years, when traditionally recovery, resettlement, reparation, restoration, rebuilding, rehabilitation, and development are expected, promoted and implemented.\nThis critical, psychosocial ethnography seeks to describe and understand the lived experience of ordinary people in a post war context in northern Sri Lanka from their inner psychology, outer behaviour, social structures and dynamics using psychological and sociological introspection [95] and phenomenology. It critically inquires [96] into the pressing psychosocial issues people face in their daily lives and the inequities in power and access to resources, in an attempt to find ways to address some of these problems, an adaptation of the public ethnographic method [97]. It is also an autoethnography, where the authors are ethnic Tamils, natives or insiders critically observing their own community for subjective and intuitive insights into cultural, religious and social contexts, events, attitudes, values and behavior of their communities [98, 99]. The cases for in-depth study were selected to represent common experiences of the community in general, eschewing the extremes and more sensational accounts, so that a collective narrative emerges. Thus the \u2018epistemological and ethical authority of testimonial narratives\u2019 gives rise to their authentic metonymic property to reflect the whole community [100]. In-depth interviews of individual cases and their families, supplemented by observations of their environment and interactions by home visits and interviews with significant others, produced detailed description and helped understanding the complexities of lived lives, problems faced and manifested, how they coped and survived and the context. In cases of suicide, the technique of verbal autopsy [101] where intimates of the deceased are interviewed and relevant medical including the medico legal post-mortem reports by the Judicial Medical Officers (or his deputy) ordered by the Coroner, and other documents were examined, was employed.\nThe setting was Northern Sri Lanka in the first half of 2012, comprising Jaffna, Killinochchi, Mullaithivu and Vavuniya Districts. Data was obtained through participant observation; case studies and Key Informant (KI) interviews; and Focus Groups (FG) discussions. Participant observation of the general population of this area, their day to day life, psychosocial functioning, context and dynamics was done while working in the mental health field and compared to earlier periods, before and during the war as well after the tsunami [7, 8, 102, 103]. The overall methods adopted here were very similar to Brandon Hamber\u2019s [104] research into the post-Apartheid South African experience:\n\u201cThus, I cannot escape the fact that the research \u2026. is built on active participation in the area under study. I was an observer, a participant, a researcher, an activist, and an action researcher. My position in relation to the area under study and the research that flowed from it cannot be divorced from my role in the process. Furthermore, the research produced and presented here was undertaken in a dynamic context of political and social upheaval in the country at the time. Valuable evidence of how the social world operates can also be generated by observation and participation in interactive situations and social settings. Broadly I adopt a perspective that might be described as \u201cemic\u201d; that is understanding phenomena on their own terms, with insights flowing from inductive processes, and building general accounts from pieces of experience and research. Actors immersed in the context know what the experience of that social setting feels like\u2026 and in that sense they are epistemologically privileged\u201d.\nCase studies and in depth clinical interviews were carried out by the principal author and by trained mental health workers of subjects during their normal psychosocial work. Sampling of respondents and informants was purposive and convenient, where they were available such as in mental health clinics or during field work and deemed interesting. Some were referred by community and village resources, while some were selected by using the snowball technique of following up those identified by cases as having similar psychosocial problems. Cases, KI\u2019s or FG members were not compensated in any way. Key informants included mental health and psychosocial workers, government and non-governmental (NGO) officials, teachers, priests and community leaders. Sixty cases were studied in depth, 35 KI\u2019s were conducted during this period. Seven FG discussions were carried out with mental health and psychosocial community workers separately in Jaffna, Killinochchi, Vavuniya and Mullaithivu and two with teachers and one with women development workers was undertaken in Jaffna. On the average there were 20 participants at each FG and ran from two to three hours. A workshop on psychosocial problems in students with 40 teachers from all over the north lasted a whole day. Data collection was done under risky conditions. Psychosocial work or research were not officially permitted and had to be done with circumspection under some other guise without raising suspicion. Any kind of recording and writing could come under scrutiny. As such data collection was done discretely and manually, sometimes with jotted cryptic notes or committed to memory for later transcription. The case studies were structured assessments involving a mental state examination and ecological observations of context, relationships and social environment. The KI interviews used semi-structured, open-ended probes. Participation observations was ethnographic and ecological. Triangulation (using more than one qualitative method including documental analysis, media and organizational reports) was used for multiple perspectives, to check conclusions and broaden the analysis to reduce bias. Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology was used to feedback transcripts, documentations, findings, conclusions and recommendations to participants for corrections, comments and suggestions, sometimes by e-mail or telephone, which were then used to modify and change the findings and discussion as an ongoing, interactive living process. The FG discussions were in Tamil. Most KI interviews of local participants were also in Tamil but a few with International NGO members were in English. Translations from Tamil were done by the principal author. Suicide and attempted suicide data up to 2012 was obtained through hospital sources, courts and Auditor General Department reports.\nQualitative techniques used eclectically to analyze the data by the authors included case studies, phenomenonology, grounded theory, symbolic interactionism and hermeneutics [105]. Data analysis was done manually. The case studies or the collective case study [106], KI\u2019s and transcripts of the FGD were used to elicit categorical aggregation, find common themes and similarities, direct interpretation and generalizations. The phenomenological analysis sought to understand the meaning, structure and essence of the lived experience for a community while grounded theory is used to look at psychosocial structural processes to develop propositions, conditional matrix, alternate interpretations, themes, hypothesis, and theory. The trauma grid [49] was adapted as a tool to organize the data and conceptualize the functioning of the community in the context of different levels: individual, family, community and society/culture, as these may be affected in different ways, positively, negatively or varying combination of both. Techniques from hermeneutics helped to interpret the political, historical and sociocultural meanings while symbolic interactionism considered the symbols, metaphors and idioms of distress for the multiple meanings of psychosocial interactions. The overall attempt was to extract the meaning and implications, establish themes and patterns to reveal a composite picture of the lived situation, context and shared psychosocial problems so as to find ways to help with effective interventions [107].\nEthical clearance for the ongoing study was sought from the Ethical Review Committee of the University of Jaffna. As open research or assessment of needs in this population were not being permitted, the participants, assistants, sources of information and organizations have been left anonymous.\nThe common psychosocial problems and adaptive changes that were observed and brought out by the KI and FG discussions were inserted into a Trauma Grid [49] adapted for the Northern Sri Lanka context (see Table 1). The findings were divided into expected ordinary reactions to human suffering, more distressful psychological suffering which would benefit from community and family support and diagnosable psychiatric disorders needing professional help. These could be understood as a continuum and not discrete categories with rigid boundaries of exclusion. Positive effects included resilience and beneficial transformative or adaptive change. The identified changes were located as belonging to the individual, family, community or social/cultural levels. Some responses overlapped, saddling several levels.\nTrauma Grid (adapted for Sri Lanka context from[19]\nOrdinary human suffering\nDistressful psychosocial reactions\nAdversity Activated Development\nSorrow, worries, normal grief, fear, stress, anger, uncertainty, magical thinking, psychological trauma, injuries, handicap, losses, low educational attainment\nASR, intense and extreme levels of suffering, complicated grieving, adjustment disorders, maladaptive coping, alcohol & drug (including non-prescription medication) use, somatization, help seeking behaviour, change in ideology/faith, fear of future, suicidal thoughts/behaviour\nPTSD, Depression, Anxiety disorders, Prolonged Grief Disorder, Alcohol & Drug Abuse, Complex PTSD, DSH, Brief (reactive) psychosis, Dissociative episodes, Personality disorders\nIndependent, mature personality, adaptive coping mechanisms, flexibility, establishing and maintaining relationships, planning for their future. socialization and networking skills, entrepreneurship\nPost Traumatic Growth, female leadership, empowerment, liberation, creative activities, nontraditional thinking, innovativeness, nontraditional jobs\nDisplacements, separations, deaths, handicap, loss of properties and structures (buildings), disappearances, orphans, single parents, family disharmony, break-up of extended family system\nASR, grief, family conflicts, domestic violence, separations, divorces, extra-marital relationships, unwanted pregnancies, child & elder abuse, poor parenting, scapegoatism\nDysfunctional family units, morbid jealousy, family pathology, child psychiatric disorders or emotional and behavioural problems among children, homicide- suicide pack\nUnity of nuclear families, cohesion, extended family ties, support system, new relationships, goals and aspirations\nFunctional female headed households, diversity in marriages, Split families\nDisplacements, up rootedness, separations, destruction of normal systems and structures, dysfunctional structures & institutions, loss of buffer system, reshuffled neighborhood, depleted social capital, poverty and unemployment/ underemployment\nASR, denial, rationalization, intellectual dissonance, hopelessness, helplessness, powerlessness, herd instinct, silence, suspicions, distrust, uncertainty, breakdown of ethical and moral values, catharsis, sexual abuse\nCollective trauma, suicide, mass hysteria, impulsiveness and antisocial behaviours.\nRituals, revival of traditional arts (koothu), ceremonies, remembrance observations, monuments and grave stones, social functions\nAcceptance of female leadership, female empowerment & liberation, new ways of thinking and breaking of traditional boundaries, entrepreneurship, awareness of global trends, emerging new form of arts (like cinema, short films), meaningful narratives, practical (problem solving) support, micro finance schemes and economic development\nDepleted social capital, dysfunctional structures & institutions, patronage, authoritarian personalities, corruption\nHopelessness, helplessness, powerlessness, silence, suspicions, distrust\nCollective trauma, suicide\nRituals, ceremonies, remembrance observations, social functions, increasing tolerance about others view, culture and life style\nReduction of caste barriers, female leadership, empowerment, liberation, multi-cultural milieu, rights oriented thinking and behaviour\nThere was widespread exposure to potentially traumatizing events that under normal conditions would be considered extreme and would cause distress in most people. Commonly these traumatic events had been multiple and chronic. Thus forced displacement in extreme situations was universal and commonly multiple (up to 10 or more in many cases). The unexpected and sudden death of a close family member(s), relation(s), and friend(s) in distressing ways was again almost universal experiences. Experiencing injuries, disappearances, separations, internment, arrests, detentions, beatings, bombings, shellings, shootings as well as witnessing these events were common. Undergoing extraordinary physical hardships like thirst, hunger, long marches, and lack of medical attention or shelter were experienced by most families and communities. As such these experiences were considered for the purpose of this study as norms for the population and placed under \u2018Ordinary human suffering\u2019. When these experiences caused observable behaviour or complaints of a psychosocial nature amounting to distress they were placed under \u2018Distressing psychosocial reactions\u2019. When the signs and symptoms met criteria for a diagnosable condition, they were categorized as \u2018Psychiatric disorders\u2019. Where individuals, families or communities showed any positive response, coping, adaptation or growth, these were placed under \u2018Resilience\u2019 or \u2018Adversity Activated Development (ADD)\u2019. Under the circumstances, the lack of adverse reactions to these extraordinary experiences, termed here as \u2018Ordinary human suffering\u2019 could be considered positive coping. These categorizations have pubic mental health implications and how it is dealt with, particularly in a resource poor setting. Several participants were appreciative of this conceptual model when it was fed back and commented that it would be a useful tool for organizing and planning their work in the field.\nIt was initially difficult to bring out positive aspects in the KI interviews and FG discussions. Only with persistent probing and directive questioning were adaptive changes and resilient factors mentioned. There may have been an expectation that negative aspects were being looked for. There may have been a lack of appreciation of positive developments. Most of the PS and health workers had been trained to find pathology, signs of disease, not wellbeing. It was going against the grain of how they usually perceived and operated. But it may have also been difficult to discover anything positive, hopeful in the situation. It could have rather been that by identifying the problems, the hindrances to resilience and recovery could be addressed, the deficiencies, the blocks removed and thereby resilience rebuilt. The open ended FG and KI discussions tended to elicit common PS problems they were encountering in the field. On further questioning they mentioned positive adaptive changes they were seeing. Through the process of the study, directive questioning and feedback discussions, it appeared that participants gained an increasing awareness and appreciation of the positive changes and saw the possibilities of promoting these adaptive changes in their work.\nThe findings from the participation observations by the authors, KI interviews and FG discussions are reported, analyzed and discussed under the headings Individual, Family and Community, as well as significant special topics under Suicide, Grief and Governance.\nAt the individual level, there were persons with PTSD, Depression, Anxiety related conditions, Alcohol abuse in males, Somatoform disorders, suicide and attempted suicide. Most of them did not seek psychiatric or mental health help but were found to request help during community visits. The majority appeared to have accepted these responses to their experiences in the war as normal. However, they had signs of disability, reduced motivation, sleep problems, nightmares, somatic complaints, fear, insecurity, easy startling, and other symptoms. Without adequate outlet or healing, it is possible that the trauma was manifesting itself as somatic complaints and other idioms of distress [97] as well as causing problems and conflict in their families and communities. It is possible that with appropriate psychosocial interventions, opportunities to share and receive support as well as use their emotions in more constructive and creative ways, most of these negative reactions could be turned around towards a more positive trajectory.\nAt the same time, there were exceptional individuals, particularly youths, showing independence, mature personalities, adaptive coping mechanisms, flexibility, establishing and maintaining relationships, particularly across other groups, socialization and networking skills; planning for their future and entrepreneurship. Some had shown remarkable courage during the war, rescuing, caring and helping others. They had survived and coped through astonishing danger and destruction. Leadership, innovation and management skills had developed in some, particularly females and youth. There was evidence of post traumatic growth in their personalities and functioning. However, these youth showing motivation and developing skills in dealing with world, often lacked opportunities structures in a regularized and systemic way for meaningful income generation activities, vocational training, employment or further education. It could be observed that many were becoming frustrated and at a loss of how to advance or even contribute to their family and community welfare. It was evident that the communities and their leaders lacked access to the resources and power structures to harness this available potential for the benefit of the community. Some participants and KI\u2019s felt that the observed discontent among youth, increasing antisocial behavior and problems, including those within families and communities, were a manifestation of the blocks to advancement, a feature of the post war context, rather than the effects of war trauma per se. Some elderly KI\u2019s warned that the long term political fallout could prove grave. At the same time, providing for appropriate means of advancement and development would also help in the healing and recovery process.\nAt the family level, conflicts, separations, remarriages, extramarital arrangements, morbid jealousies and abandoned children were leading to break up of families and family dysfunction: many participants reported noticeable increase in teenage and unwanted pregnancies; alcoholism among males; gender based violence and vulnerability including domestic violence leading to a host of secondary psychosocial problems. There were many widows and female-headed households struggling to make ends meet and keep their families going. The burden of responsibilities had fallen on the shoulders of these women who showed an increased incidence of MHPS problems as a consequence. The loss of a family member, particularly the male, earning head of the family was a risk factor for MHPS problems. Some families were dealing with chronic, often inoperable physical injuries and handicap in a member. Children and elderly were vulnerable groups with special problems, particularly within dysfunctional family settings. There was a noticeable increase in reports of child abuse and neglect; poor parenting, family pathology, and scapegoatism, that is child psychiatric disorders or emotional and behavioural problems where the child had become the conduit through which the abnormalities in the family dynamics was manifesting.\nSome families were being driven to homicide-suicide pacts. Parents forced their children to drink insecticide before they took it themselves.\nCouples too committed suicide together. A case in Mullaithivu revealed how past war trauma, grief, and current resettlement stress intertwined with social issues such as caste :\nKavitha was born in 1988 at Kumulumunai. Her father was killed in 1991 during a Kfir bombing. She lost her mother in 2009 during the final battle at Mullivaikal. Being the only child, her maternal uncle took responsibility for her. Rajah was born in 1983 at Murippu to a family with four siblings. While studying A levels, he was compelled to join the LTTE. In 2009 he lost a leg and tried to commit suicide by biting his cyanide capsule but survived. He was detained in 2009 and released in 2010. Kavitha had been depressed in the IDP camp, grieving for her mother. When Rajah was released to the IDP camp, he had met Kavitha there and both fell in love. The stepbrother of Kavitha had disowned her saying Rajah was of low caste. They had then been resettled in Mullaithivu. According to his relations, Rajah was greatly affected by being handicapped. He often spoke about dying saying it was no use living like this. He was very irritable. He would often damage his leg prosthesis out of despair. After Kavitha had been with them for some time, Rajah\u2019s family started getting into frequent arguments with her. On the night of the suicide, both had dressed in new clothes and, with a picture of the God Anjeneya, had gone into a nearby forest. They had eaten \u2018vadai\u2019 and drunk together a soft drink mixed with insecticide. They had tied their legs with Kavitha\u2019s Punjabi shawl which was then wrapped tightly around both their waists to hold them embracing each other in death. When Rajah\u2019s mother was asked why she had not contacted the guardian of Kavitha beforehand, she had smiled ruefully saying that they could not/were not allowed to associate with \u2018that side\u2019. According to a village leader, Kavitha was of high cast (vellala) while Rajah was of low caste.\nOn the positive side in the North, a majority of families were still united, particularly at the nuclear level. There was mutual support, with hierarchical and shared responsibilities; they faced challenges together, resettled and rebuilt their homes; sent children to school, derived whatever benefits and aids that were available; and found employment and income with a unity of purpose. There was cohesion in their functioning. Families attempted to return to their own homes and rebuild their destroyed homes with whatever was available or obtain aid and material to do so. They also planted trees, cleaned their land grew livestock and attended to their agricultural work. Community resilience is based on the attachment to place, be it home (veedu)[99], village (uur) or region (thesam). The resettling and living in their old home or village has a healing effect [108] that can lead to recovery [77]. In the traditional Tamil identity veedu and uur were central to their self-image, confidence and resilience [109].\nMany families still maintained their extended family ties, support systems, and relationships, which were all protective, increasing social support mechanisms . The fundamental cornerstone of Tamil culture, the family structure, had survived the catastrophic events and was functioning strongly. Community resilience depended on the functioning family and interventions for recovery and rehabilitation should be primarily directed at strengthening this basic unit. In fact, some of the female headed families continued to function despite the loss of the key father/husband, breadwinner figure. There had been some diversification in marriage arrangements, allowing for adaptations and flexibility, for example in caste considerations, and widows remarrying or having allegiances of mutual benefit despite the disapproval of traditional cultural mores.\nFG discussions brought out one form of adaptation observed in the post-war Vanni resettlement process. An estimated 90,000 widows in the North East, many of whom have lost their husbands to the war, have to rebuild their shattered lives as single headed families. Ostracized by traditional Tamil society and in dire economic straits, they are compelled to depend on the military who control most needs, be it housing, rations, allowances, subsidies or schooling. They are then placed in a vulnerable and helpless position (International Crisis Group, 2011). They are also lonely and in need of help in masculine tasks. Soldiers lend a helping hand in rebuilding their houses in remote villages. Sometimes, they are able to get the land and housing loan, materials and other benefits with their military influence. Natural albeit temporary friendships and liaisons are struck up out of mutual needs and attraction. A child follows and the house and land eventually go to the child but the soldier moves on. The practical arrangement results in mutual benefit. The International Crisis Group (2011) report also mentions some of the returning Muslim men helping socially marginalized widows. There were also reports of prostitution.\nMost families had managed to send one or more of its members abroad through innovative strategies and routes who in turn remained faithful, supporting their family economically and helped others to migrate or find their bearings. Some families had split up their living arrangements for work or education purposes, for example one parent and child moving to a city while the rest remained in the village.\nAt the community level, our participant observations, collective case study through multiple cases [106], FG discussions and KI interviews revealed the recurring themes of general hopelessness, helplessness, and powerlessness. Though participants appeared relieved by the end of the fighting there were widespread feelings of insecurity in the remote villages of the Killinochchi and Mullaithivu districts (previously controlled by the LTTE, the so called \u2018uncleared areas\u2019) with the ongoing resettlement process due to the omnipresence of the military. The levels of fear appeared to be less in Jaffna and Vavuniya (which had been under the control of the Sri Lanka army for much longer - the so called \u2018cleared\u2019 areas). Our observations were that community leaders and members were less articulate, reluctant to participate or voice their opinions compared to earlier times. In general, people appeared to prefer to remain silent and noninvolved. Many active Community Based Organizations (CBO\u2019s) and groups had become inactive or defunct. People were suspicious of each other, distrustful of the intentions of others, no longer willing to put their trust in community organizations. FG discussions and statistics from Child Rights and Gender Based Violence (GBV) organizations revealed increasing reports of child abuse, both physical and sexual, domestic violence, unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions. It was not clear whether there was a real increase or whether it was due to increased reporting due to better awareness, access to functioning structures like child and GBV desks and active case finding by concerned workers. Alcoholism among males was brought up as a common problem in communities. Alarm was expressed about alcohol and some drug use among youth and students. Thefts, petty crimes, antisocial activities and corruption were more conspicuous. There appeared to be a general perception the ethical and moral climate in communities was deteriorating rapidly compared to how \u2018tightly controlled\u2019 (kaddupaadu) it had been under the LTTE.\nA health specialist complained,\n\u201cMost of the people are self-centered. Educated people are not willing to talk about human rights. It seems to be a natural response to trauma by the university community, and religious, legal and medical leaders. Individually also some people are not worried about what is happening next door even if it is a medical emergency. Sexual abuse and theft are common even in organizations and institutions because there is no one to monitor. Gang behaviour in youngsters has increased. Corruption is common in public works and it\u2019s safeguarded by political influence. On the positive side, some of the people from abroad and Colombo are coming back to settle down here, while some people here want to migrate aboard. Muslims are being resettled in Jaffna and a good relationship is maintained with the local people. But there is blame on Muslims related to drug dealing, abducting and sexual violations. Muslim politicians are threatening the Tamils, especially in the Vanni\u201d.\nHe described a surreal atmosphere \u201cwhere people deny the actual situation and their past, what had happened in the war, and carry on with their own lives as if nothing was wrong. There is a falsification of memory.\u201d\nFG discussion mentioned examples of mass hysteria, such as aspects of the \u2018grease puthama\u2019 phenomena [110] and attacks of fainting epidemics in schools, that were symptomatic of underlying insecurity. A group of mental health workers who were returning late at night from field work were set upon by a community vigilante groups that had been formed to ward off the alleged grease putham attacks and barely escaped being man handled. They were told that was an occupational hazard of working late! Herd instinct in election voting or strikes was mentioned. The exodus of Tamils seeking to escape to Australia by boat was called a mass hysteria [111, 112] but a more apt terms would have been herd instinct. It could be observed during this period that ordinary people talked about fleeing to Australia by boat to escape the hopeless situation. A vegetable seller at the Saturday public market told her clients gathered around her that rather than put up with the situation, she was going to flee to Australia where she could make a life for herself and her family.\nFG discussions described widespread economic difficulties and poverty due to loss of homes, property and other belongings and that after the war there was inadequate livelihood and sources of income. It was also brought out that families were being resettled in remote villages in the Vanni without adequate resources or material. They were struggling to survive socio-economically. Loss of gainful employment, underemployment, lack of appropriate vocational training for employment and opportunities for commercial enterprise were undermining the recovery process, particularly among youth. FG\u2019s mentioned the vicious cycle of depression where the poverty and lack of opportunities were making once active men and women depressed which in turn made them loose motivation, worry and feel helpless. They were unable to participate or make use of whatever was available. The following two family case histories from Mannar are illustrative of the complex impact of war on current realities:\nMrs. S is a 40 year old widowed mother of six children. Three of them are deceased, and one is missing since the last stages of the war in 2009. She became a widow during the same period, as her husband succumbed to a gunshot injury. Her current family consists of her youngest child, a daughter who is studying for GCE O/L and two grandchildren from her second son who had died along with his wife in the war; the grandchildren are schooling nearby. At present, the only means of income is the occasional odd-job and a minimal income from the home garden. In 2009, during the war, they were gradually displaced towards the north-eastern part of the island. Whilst losing her children and husband, she underwent severe hardship and mental trauma. In fact, her family was a well to do unit before the war, owning land which they cultivated and owned a well-equipped house. She presented to the mental health clinic in 2009 with an episode of severe depression and showed symptoms such as poor sleep, loss of appetite, somatic complaints, poor concentration and interest and suicidal thoughts. She showed marked psychomotor retardation and hopelessness. Her condition is controlled well with the medication. Mrs. S is determined to lift her family up from this hardship. The lack of an effective social support system is very evident. The mental health unit, Mannar is trying to find her financial and social support.\nA family of six were displaced continuously starting in September 2007 from Mannar, then to Killinochchi and finally Mullaithivu Districts. During this displacement in February 2009, the father was injured in the right side of his neck due to a shell and was taken to the Trincomalee hospital by the ICRC ship. During this period the other members of the family were in Vanni. In March 2009, the elder daughter was forcibly recruited by LTTE and still there is no information about her. In April 2009, the mother was killed due to shelling. The rest, comprising three children, were brought into government controlled area in May 2009 by relatives. Now the father and these three children are living in Mannar Adampan area. The children are studying. The father was a blacksmith but he is now unable to work in an efficient manner because of his injury in the right neck. They are struggling to manage their daily life.\nAnother history from Killinochchi also brings out the difficulties faced by many families:\n\u201cWhat I am telling you in words is something I, my family, and many others experience atom by atom (anu anuvaha) every day. What I am going to say will bring back past memories. For that do not cry and show your sympathy. We were living happily as a farming family of seven. We owned our own tractor and were doing well. We had the respect of the village. Then tragedy started with the war- (arrakan vanthu puhunthathu). In April 2007, the movement took my son. He was returned in May as a corpse. I died for a moment. I lost my happiness. My heart started to weaken. Afterwards, due to the intense shelling, we started to move from place to place. I became anxious trying to safeguard my remaining four children. My husband also started falling ill but there were no medical help. In April, 2009 he became serious and they took him by the ICRC boat. In a short period we went over to the Army side. They sent us to the camp. We were short of food and water. We didn\u2019t have any money to buy anything for the children. Then I started to search for my husband. I lived with the hope he would be alive. Finally, they confirmed that he had died. My mind became disturbed. I did not know why I should go on living. Then I thought of my children and lived for them. In March, 2010 we were resettled. When we came to our land, I went into shock. There was nothing there; everything had been leveled to the ground. I wailed loudly. I couldn\u2019t take a step into our land. We struggled to get back to normal life. All the children are still studying. We had no one to go for loans. My son left his studies to work in a garage. We ate from what he earned. I continued to live to bring up the rest of my children. I have been taking treatment at the Killinochchi mental health unit for two years but my burden has not gone from my heart.\nA KI, a mental health professional working in the East, summed up the situation there:\n\u201cIn the East most of the resettled community is fighting for their survival with hardly any structures to support their wellbeing - lack of hospital, school etc. Even if there are buildings, there are few permanent staff members. Further, because of this issue mothers are going abroad to earn for their family but leaving their children. Another issue of concern in the Batticaloa district is the alarming increase in suicide in the absence of diagnosable mental illness. Females are committing suicide by hanging. Hanging as a mode of deliberate self-harm is also increasing. Most of the suicide attempts we have observed, there is either an associated child abuse or gender based violence as one of the primary issue\u201d.\nSuch comparisons with the situation with the East are important to understand similarities and differences in the post-war problems and contexts.\nEx-combatants faced many difficulties with reintegration back into society and finding gainful employment. A Sinhalese KI, a keen observer of developments in the North, observed referring to the breakdown in traditional cultural values:\n\u201cHopefully a \u2018new\u2019 culture will emerge from the younger people, if and when the \u2018development\u2019 of the physical environment that is promised (and it seems to be taking place) takes root \u00ad and perhaps if professionals and teachers and even government servants provide the structure for psychological development to take place, \u00ad especially instilling or promoting a sense of hope. It may not be the same \u2018culture\u2019 that was there in the past but one that takes on board \u00ad and comes to terms with \u00ad all the trouble the people have endured. Recovery whether from personal illness or community disruption must happen, \u00ad always does, \u00ad if perhaps people can see some hope; giving up hope must not I think be allowed to happen\u201d.\nHope is a key ingredient of resilience and economic recovery [113].\nPositive resilience factors that was observed and were mentioned in the FG discussions included functioning families; dedicated and experienced government and non-governmental officers, teachers and community workers; cultural and traditional beliefs, practices and rituals; commitment to education; and creative potential in narratives, drama such as the traditional koothub and other arts. A KI from the Education Department, described the relatively quick resumption of educational activities and reestablishment of basic school structures and functioning in the IDP camps and resettlement process. He pointed out that initially students performed extraordinarily well in national exams despite the hardships they had undergone and limitation for study after displacement and resettlement. However, he pointed out that education standards had deteriorated rapidly thereafter, with the Northern Province ending up at the bottom nationally, though there have been some outstanding individual performances. He attributed this fall to lack of motivation, limited opportunity structures and social overvalued emphasis on exams and tutorial method of study.\nDespite the restrictions on public performances and expression of grief, IDP\u2019s spontaneously turned to Koothu to express what had happened to them after the recent Vanni war. After resettlement, Kovalan Koothu was performed all over the Vanni with large attendances and community participation. In the traditional folk form of Opari (lament), recent experiences and losses from the Vanni war was incorporated in to community grief performances [114]. In terms of progressive development there were new ways of thinking, breaking traditional boundaries; female leadership and agency and their acceptance by the community, their empowerment and emancipation from earlier repression; entrepreneurship, \u2018awareness of global trends, emerging trends in adapting different forms of artistic expressions (like cinema and short films)\u2019\u2009, reduction in caste barriers, multi-cultural milieu, rights oriented thinking and behaviour\u2019. The presence of functioning family units, village and community structures, networks and culture were protective while their absence were risk factors.\nThere were signs of re-emergence of collective efficacy in some extreme cases. Apart from the aforementioned remembrance observations and earlier community action during the \u2018grease putham\u2019 scare, in May (2012) the community in Karainagar, particularly the youth, had taken matters into their own hands when an intellectually disabled girl was sexually abused by visiting salesmen who happened to be Muslim. The Muslim community in Jaffna immediately condemned the actions of the salesmen. However these were extreme situations where the community was pushed to respond to challenges to its values, emotional needs and security. Our observations and participant reports indicated that most people felt they had no control over what was happening. Decisions were taken higher up or in Colombo and implemented without consulting them. People had lost trust in the state institutions. To rebuild community resilience and social capital, civic engagement and responsibility in day to day affairs and a general confidence that community action will bear fruit would have to be re-established. However, this may not be possible where the locus of control is dependent on external authorities.\nAn academic and community activist mused,\nAs academics and community leaders, we have to look for the available positive features which are still surviving after exposure to a terrible protracted war for more than three decades. We need to empower the communities rather than empowering the politicians or individuals. We still expect the state to provide everything, that means we still depend on politicians. We need to have self-sustainable communities in every part of the country. State mechanism should depend on these communities.\nSome common issues raised by the participant included noticeable increase in suicides and attempted suicides as indicative of serious psychosocial problems and unresolved grief and governance as inhibiting community recovery and resilience\nThere was a general perception and concern about the alarming increases in self-harm and suicides attributed to various psychosocial and economical causes in the post-war context. Although suicide appears to be a personal, individualistic action, it has broader social ramifications. Suicide rates have been used as a parameter to reflect the health status of societies. The sociologist Durkheim [115] showed that suicide rates are remarkably constant for each society, but varies according to socio-economic conditions. He demonstrated that there is a marked fall during war. Suicide rates in Jaffna too have shown the same trend with a marked fall during periods of intense fighting [116] and an increase during cessation of war or peace (see Figure 3). According to Durkheim, war increases social cohesion against a common enemy and this gives meaning to life. However, those who may commit suicide during normal times may die from other causes during war. Neeleman [117] described the phenomena of \u2018contextual effect modification\u2019 with the context of war modifying the expected suicide risk by opening up other ways of dying such as enlisting and fighting on frontlines. Thus, the drop in suicide rates could instead be due to war providing an alternative channel for suicidal behavior, but Burvill [118], rejected that explanation based on the figures from Australia. The psychodynamic explanation describes suicide as similar to depression - a form of aggression turned inwards towards the self, whereas war provides an outlet for the aggression to be turned outwards towards a common enemy [119].\nSuicide Rates in Jaffna (Obtained from Jaffna District Courts. 1990\u20131997 figures from Registrar Generals Department).\nSuicide and Attempted Suicide in the Killinochchi District also is increasing, though suicides appears to be a plateauing in 2012 while attempted suicides continues to rise (Tables 2 and 3). The Killinochchi Hospital statistics do not represent overall figures for the whole district which would be substantially higher, but they do show patterns that can be discerned. It is not clear what the sources for the Registrar General Department figures are and how accurate they would be, but are included for comparison and understanding trends.\nSuicides in Killinochchi (Killinochchi District General Hospital (DGH) & Registrar General Department)\nCrude Rate1(per 100,000)\n115,417 (Nov., 2010)*\n121,318 (Dec., 2011)*\n2012 ( first six months)\n1Crude rates- Though not strictly reflecting district rates, calculations were done from Killinochchi Hospital data and where available Registrar General Department data to give an idea of trends. The number of suicides for the district would have been higher than the hospital figures, perhaps reflected in the Registrar General Department figures. During the war there would have been problems of transport and other difficulties so that the war and post war contexts would be different. However, the period 2002 to 2006 was the peace process\u2019 time where some of the contextual factors were similar. It is not clear the source of the Registrar General Department figures but it is noteworthy that the numbers for 2004 are almost similar.\n2 ( ) Registrar General Department data within parenthesis.\n+ Jeyakumar, J. (2005) Study of Suicide and Attempted Suicide in Killinochchi, Killinochchi Medical Association, Killinochchi.\n*Population figures from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs [75]http://www.hpsl.lk/Catalogues.aspx?catID=74.\nN.B. Sri Lanka national suicide rate was 20 in 2006 and 20.6 in 2010. The average Global Suicide rate is 16 per 100,000. Worldwide suicide rates by country can be found at WHO [http://www.who.int/mental_health/prevention/suicide_rates/en/].\nAttempted Suicides (Killinochchi DGH)\n2012 (six months)\n177 (354- projected)\nThus the current trend of increasing suicides and attempted suicide can be expected to rise further in the post-war context unless energetic and effective remedial measures are taken to ameliorate the socio-economic and emotional deprivation and create opportunity structures and hope for youth. The following case of suicide in a University of Jaffna student that received wide media attention [120] illustrates the complex war and post-war dynamics involved:\nP. was a final year arts faculty student. She had been born in Killinochchi to a family with many siblings. When she was six her father had been arrested by the LTTE and branded a traitor to the nation (thesa throhi). He had been paraded in road junctions with announcements over loud speakers all over the north with a placard hung from his neck with the words, thesa throhi. He was then disappeared by the LTTE but her mother continued to search for him for over five years. They never got to see his body. P. grew up in these circumstances in a stigmatized family. She had been a brilliant student at Killinochchi Mahavidyalayam. She was of a sociable and generous nature helping other students in their studies. She gained admission to Jaffna University in 2007 but the LTTE refused to give her the \u2018pass\u2019 to leave their area. She was forcefully conscripted by the LTTE in 2009 and her hair shorn. While serving on the frontlines she had sustained multiple shell blast injuries. Her mother was killed and sister fatally injured by the shelling at Mullivaikal. When she later learned that her mother had been killed, she had developed a deep grief from which she never recovered. She was treated at the welfare centre of the IDP camps for her shell blast injuries. Her previous university admission enabled her early release from detention. Without any close family or social support (her sister married against her wishes and she did not maintain contact but had given her all the family jewelry and land), she initially stayed at the university hotel. Economically she was helped by funds from a distant cousin who was abroad, and other sources. The parents of the cousin were not happy with this help. She had been quite depressed, given to crying, expressing suicidal ideation, wanting \u2018to go where her mother had gone\u2019, listening repeatedly to songs with the theme of mother, and gazing at her mother\u2019s picture. She was said to be a loner, not taking part in usual activities, but would share and find solace by talking about her situation to hostel mates. The hostel environment was believed to have been supportive and nurturing. Retrospectively, it can be suspected that she was suffering from prolonged grief, post traumatic symptoms and depression. However, due to increasing numbers being admitted from elsewhere, the university restricted hostel places to first and final year students. She felt compelled to move out to a room where she became isolated and would lock herself up in the room on returning from the lectures. During the Easter holidays when most students had gone back to their homes, she had gone to an aunt in Killinochchi and then to Vavuniya. After discretely donating whatever she had to elder\u2019s homes and others and attempting to return the funds in her bank to her relations, she had gone to a nearby well and committed suicide there.\nA mental health professional confessed about this tragedy, \u201cSuicide is a social issue and social factors are not favourable to support needy people. It is a wonder that more people are not committing suicide in this hopeless and helpless atmosphere. It could be a sign of their resilience to survive in these conditions\u201d. It was remarked in media reports that earlier too, a university student with Mullivaikal experience (where the majority of the population of the Vanni were trapped by the earlier fighting) had committed suicide. In the feedback discussions, a KI pointed out a University of Jaffna Community Medicine Research study of university medical faculty students from the Vanni in 2010, which found 82% had been directly exposed to the war situation, 67% had barely escaped death, 35% had lost family or friend, 43% had witnessed killing, 27% had been imprisoned, 23 % kidnapped or abducted, and 18% had been tortured or beaten [121]. Such high levels of exposure to traumatic events will need recognition, special care and necessary support.\nA very common psychosocial problem that emerged from the interviews and FG discussions was unresolved grief. Many had lost a family member, kin or close friend under traumatic conditions. Sometimes the death had been painful with untreated injuries and bleeding. Some had to abandon the body without performing traditional rites while others had to leave them before death for their own survival. Some family members had been separated, detained or disappeared leaving a lasting ambiguity and lack of closure. Survivors often had no acknowledgment whether the person was alive or dead and about their circumstances. Anniversary observations and community observance of traditional practices for the dead have not been permitted under the present authorities. Many had guilt over not carrying out the customary rituals, remembrance observations and other practices to honour the dead, socially establish their passing away and get on with life. Organizations and community groups had helped to arrange for the rituals in covert and increasingly overt ways that signaled resilience. The recent (2012) observations of the deaths at Mullaivaikal, in defiance of the authorities, were an expression of collective grief. A mechanism will have to be evolved for dealing with the unresolved grief, such as cultural rituals, public acknowledgement of the deaths and monuments to commemorate their death.\nAlthough not within the original research objectives where individual, family and community level changes were to be studied; governance, clearly an issue pertaining to overall public policy and administration (see Figure 4) was brought up consistently in the KI and FG discussions and was clearly noticeable in the day to day functioning of people, institutions and administration. As authentic research and in the interests of finding effective measures for rebuilding community resilience, these expressions could not be left out of the report despite the risks. All the participants and PS workers expressed relief at the end of the violence, deaths, injuries, and displacement that had characterized life for over two decades and clearly did not wish for a return to those conditions; they said the current militarization and administrative control from Colombo was hampering the recovery of community agency. There was a sense that the military was directly or indirectly involved in all matters of their life and final authority for decisions came ultimately from Colombo. The Governor and Presidential Task Force (PTF) were mentioned repeatedly as ultimately deciding on all economic and developmental programmes and projects. There was a general belief that psychosocial programmes and counselling were not allowed. Community work; organizing traditional rituals, remembrances, celebrations, festivals, meetings, community discussions, organizations, groups; beginning socio-economic programmes and livelihood projects needed prior clearance, and were closely scrutinized and monitored. Several workers confided during their interview that they had been questioned about the nature of their work by persons identifying themselves as \u2018state intelligence\u2019. People felt powerless over what was happening to them and helpless about initiating any constructive activity. There was uncertainty and hopelessness about the future and lack of a sense of control. A KI, an international WHO expert who had also worked in the Middle East, said in relation to building lasting peace:\n\"The present militarization and restrictions placed on the population (in the North and East of Sri Lanka) reminds me of a similar situation the Palestinian Diaspora face in Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza. There is a constant cycle of fighting (armed rebellion by 'Martyrs') followed by defeat and initial despondency and many of the features of population trauma now witnessed in the North and East of Sri Lanka, particularly in the Vanni. In the Middle East, this state of affairs is then usually followed by anger and resentment and eventually armed uprising. I was told the youth are also now more and more attracted to the more radical Al-Qaeda type groups. As one Doctor in Shatila Refugee Camp (in Beirut, Lebanon) mentioned to me 'when you have nothing, you have nothing to lose'.\nIn contrast the very large Palestinian Diaspora in Jordan (where they have full citizenship, no barriers to employment and very few restrictions placed on them by internal or external security forces) do not follow this cycle of violence.\"\nLevels of Interventions[2].\nMany of the participants had faced difficulties in adapting to the current legal and administrative requirements and structures that had been in place before the conflict, having become accustomed to a different set of rules and functioning when under the (now defeated) LTTE. Some complained that local state authorities were reasserting their control and reestablishing earlier ways of doing things. Many were consequently frustrated and depressed by bureaucratic requirements, delays, what appeared to them as arbitrary decisions, undue influence and exclusion from benefits. They felt the actual needs of the populations were not given priority but were being addressed through regular channels. In the Vanni which had been reduced to something resembling ground zero (and with large shortages of human resources), plans and appointments were handled through routine methods. In our participation observation, the appointment of one Medical Officer of Mental Health (MOMH) for the whole district took persistent requests, and much effort and time though he was willing and had started to work there on a volunteer basis without salary. The Mental Health Consultative Forum, Northern Province chaired by the Provincial Director of Health Service and having representatives from all the stakeholders in the government and NGO sectors, of which the authors were a part, met several times at the beginning of IDP resettlement process came up with a detail Mental Health Plan that was ignored and the committee made defunct. \u2018Punishment transfers\u2019c were mentioned as a common method of administrative control. There was a general feeling among those interviewed for the study that officers who went out of their way to help the public or looked at the problems through a humanitarian perspective rather than following official dictates were sent on punishment transfers. Many of the participants felt that the study, feedback discussions and documentation gave them a voice, an opportunity to express their observations and recommendations, emboldened albeit anonymously, that hereto they had felt afraid to speak about or only talked about among themselves.\nCommunity observation of caste differences and patriarchal norms was reported to be resurfacing. Women were being compelled by circumstances, like female headed households with responsibilities for the family, to negotiate with the authorities. In the process they were facing hardships, discrimination, harassment and abuse. Authoritarian personalityd functioning, hierarchical control and obedience, competition for favours, patronage and informing on local matters to higher authorities were observed in administrative functioning. Many administrators were beholden to Colombo, the governor and the military and tried to avoid displeasing them. A KI described the power dynamics as follows:\n\u201cThe Governor was the ex-military commander of Jaffna. During that period, all sides used extrajudicial killings and disappearances to control the population. People lived in terror in those times. People are still having that fearful image and are afraid of adverse consequences other than the routine civilian way of punishments. Though there are much fewer incidents, it appears that the same military style of administration to control the civilian structures continues. Moreover, the same military that was responsible for the human rights abuse during the war are now placed in total control over the local population. This does not enable a trustful relationship and hopeful environment to develop\u201d.\nOn triangulation, confirmation for the ecology of terror during that time comes from University Teachers for Human Rights (Jaffna) [95, 96, 107] and wikileak documents [98]\nIn the principal author\u2019s effort to obtain ethical clearance from the University of Jaffna for this and the previous study of the Vanni IDP\u2019s, the ethics committee has been hesitant to grant clearance. A KI, a young researcher from the University said, \u201cMost of them are not very enthusiastic and a few were even discouraging! I don't know what's behind all these. But, a few of them have encouraged me and told me to submit the proposal in a way, that can assure no blaming on the Government regarding war issues and few even told to me avoid the word 'war'\u201d. Another academic added, \u201cSeveral small scale research projects on mental health issues by students also had difficulties in getting ethical clearance for the same reason\u201d.\nThe psychiatric department at Jaffna University has been closely monitoring suicide rates from the early 1980\u2019s (Figure 3) to understand trends and take preventive measures. The courts had always cooperated in making available their coroner\u2019s verdict records, but from this year (2012), some courts have started to insist on first obtaining permission from the Judicial Services Commission in Colombo, a cumbersome procedure. According to professional KI\u2019s from Jaffna, \u201cA request to meet the judges who are working in Jaffna and discuss pressing local issues was rejected by the Judicial Services Commission\u201d. In the middle 1980\u2019s when civilians had been killed by bombing raids, enterprising judges ordered arrest warrants on the perpetuators, the Sri Lankan Air Force pilots. The police never carried out these arrests and some judges were transferred. When the Indian Peace Keeping Force took over Jaffna in 1987\u201388, they tried to take control of the civil administration, but the local administrators resisted through subtle non-violent ways and the Indians finally gave up. A KI, a health specialist, said that the \u201cirony of current developments after the war was that those who were at the forefront of administering under the LTTE, had now changed over to working for the government using the same authoritarian style\u201d. Though an authoritarian style of functioning was characteristic of traditional Tamil culture, under the present circumstances of recovery after almost three decades of war and devastation of social capital, it becomes an obstacle to rebuilding resilience. A KI, a doctor working in the health sector observed, \u201cmost top administrators in important institutions are political appointees who carry out their agenda, creating a host of problems within the community.\"\nThe power differentials, lack of control and militarization which are critical issues in the North as several recent well researched reports of the ground situation [74, 122, 123] have pointed out, are beyond the scope of this study. This study focused rather on internal and local community characteristics, processes and functioning to promote resilience despite the aforementioned constraint at the higher policy level (see Figure 4 for levels of interventions). However, an observation by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake [124] sums up the importance of addressing these aspects:\n\u201cMilitarization has increasingly deformed democratic institutions and processes, while foreclosing possibilities for reconciliation and closure and thus leaving space for endemic conflict. In the context it is worth noting that a primary reason that Sri Lanka had and still has the best social indicators (health, literacy, education) in the region was the early post-colonial investment in social infrastructure and the welfare state, rather than in the defense sector by leaders of the independence movement in the island. Now that the war is over, Lanka needs to once again lead the way in South Asia: demilitarize and reinvest once again in human resources and the social sectors, particularly education, and ensure power-sharing among the island\u2019s diverse communities\u201d.\nThere is an urgent need to change from the war and post-war military mode of thinking and administration to a post-conflict civilian authority so that an enabling environment, the open space for the reemergence of community resilience can be engendered.\nMany of the psychosocial and mental health problems that were observed and noted in the case studies, KI interviews and FG\u2019s had been prevalent even before the war and could be seen in normal times, but the post-war context was exacerbating and in some cases, causing them. The common theme running through all the narratives, though not always mentioned verbally but lurking in the background, were the war time experiences, losses and post-war context which formed a common denominator to the psychosocial issues facing the general population. The memories of what had happened and the emotions they had felt were still affecting their behavior as much as the ongoing post war context and stressors. These issues have to be addressed if the community is to recover and benefit from rehabilitation and development programmes [77]. Most of the problems and observations brought out in the case studies, FG and KI interviews, confirmed by organizational and media reports, were of a negative nature. There was a sense of loss of communality and agency. People were resigned, passive and silent. The state and military were in control, determining all matters. People felt beholden and dependent. There was a general consensus that if these psychosocial problems could be addressed adequately communities would recover. Unfortunately, a conclusion of this study is that the ecological context is not conducive in the post war setting for community recovery, development and growth. Despite this adverse environment some individuals, families and communities were surviving and coping creatively. The study has found some resilience and adaptation. Our aim should be to encourage these positive developments and create an ecology that would engender resilience. Towards this end, the following recommendations are put forward based on experiences reported in the literature from similar post-war situation around the world, best practice principles from international organizations like the WHO, experiences gained during the war and after the tsunami [91] as well as what came out during the study and feedback discussions:\nCommunity based programmes\nIn view of the widespread nature of the mental health and psychosocial problems in the population as shown by several local surveys [82, 83, 125], findings from this study and the low resource, post war context; the best way to address the problems would be a community based, public mental health approach. Apart from the equivocal evidence on the efficacy of individualized approaches based on medications and CBT for psychiatric conditions such as PTSD [27], particularly in non-western settings, and the lack of appropriately trained professionals in a resource poor setting; the supraindividual trauma at the family and community levels in a collectivistic society would be best addressed through a community based approach that would reach the largest population. The North, East and border areas have undergone a disaster of enormous proportion. As after the Tsunami, a large relief, recovery, rehabilitation and development effort to address the needs of this population has to be launched. A good guide that could be implemented is what has been recommended in similar situations by the WHO [36] and other international humanitarian organizations like the minimum standards of the Sphere Project [37] and the IASC guidelines [38] as was done after the tsunami in the North [103, 126]. The IASC recommends that after addressing basic needs like food, shelter, security, basic health care; a Mental Health and Psychosocial Support or \u2018MHPSS response in participatory, safe and socially appropriate ways that protect local people\u2019s dignity, strengthen local social supports and mobilize community networks\u2019 (see Figure 4) should be implemented.\nWhen the draft findings and recommendations were fed-back to the participants and key-informants, one responded emphatically:\nThis is an important step that we all should have in our mind. There is a need to respect other people\u2019s dignity in all the situations, trivial or crisis. The recent past has imprinted the inhumane and authoritarian approach towards a fellow human. We need to consciously improve our humane qualities and this will help us improve our self-image, relationships, interactions, social support and network and of course our resilience. Similarly, trying to provide a chance for others to express their views, consulting all the stakeholders during decision making and developing a culture of dialogue, negotiation and forgiveness in all our life situations whether at home, at our work place or at our community, will help us to heal from our past and move forward. These things may look like unimportant tiny little things but they serve their purposes and help the community towards constructive development.\nOther organizations working in similar confict and post-conflict situations around the world have used the MHPSS approaches [9, 31, 127, 128].\nThe IASC [129] states that \u2018in most emergencies, there are significant disruptions of family and community networks due to loss, displacement, family separation, community fears and distrust. ..Useful responses include family tracing and reunification, assisted mourning and communal healing ceremonies, mass communication on constructive coping methods, supportive parenting programmes, formal and non-formal educational activities, livelihood activities and the activation of social networks, such as through women\u2019s groups and youth clubs\u2019. During the war and after the tsunami, we tried to do this through increasing local awareness and transferring knowledge and skills of how to deal with common mental health and psychosocial issues to local resources [87]. This was done through training of community level workers and human resources in villages. At the same time, strengthening and expanding existing resources and capacities; capacity building of primary health care workers to deal with common mental health issues; and engendering local participation, leadership, decision making, planning and implementation to rekindle collective hope, trust and efficacy are urgently needed to rebuild community agency and resilience. An innovative community based programme was designed by the WHO after the tsunami by training large numbers of Community Support Officers (CSO\u2019s) to look after the mental health and psychosocial needs of families and implemented effectively all over the affected areas in Sri Lanka [130\u2013132]. They were mobilized to work in the IDP camps in Vavuniya in 2009 and are being deployed in the resettlement process but in limited numbers. The numbers and training needs to be increased.\nDuring the feedback on the recommendations, a KI who had been involved in the training of community resources commented that once they had the knowledge and skills:\nThis could be used in almost all the day to day life settings. Teachers can incorporate some aspects of the mental health and psychosocial issues during their teaching sessions. Lecturers can talk about romantic affairs and how to have safe relationships and how to deal with frustrations without choosing a life threatening self-harming method. A priest can talk about improving the family dynamics and an artist or the media can promote the positive aspects of life.\nThe study found that the war and post-war contexts were impacting negatively on the family and extended family due to deaths, disappearances, separations, displacement and poverty. As the functioning family is the basic building block and foundation of Tamil communities, it would be essential for the community workers to promote the restoration of functioning family units. They could work with families to help them trace missing members, partake in cultural grieving ceremonies for the dead, improve relationships and correct misunderstandings among members, reestablish hierarchical responsibilities, create income generating opportunities for the family and generally encourage unity and positive dynamics. Problems of domestic violence, child abuse, alcoholism in the male, unwanted pregnancies, extra marital relationships, suicide and self-harm, the elderly, and widows could be addressed within the functioning family structure as well as at the community level.\nThe evidence for collective trauma found in the study can be approached through community based programmes to promote the positive resilience and adaptive coping strategies as outlined below. A sense of agency, control, determining their own future and a belief in their collective efficacy had to be restored to the families and communities (Figure 1).\nIt is only by creating a sense of community, collective efficacy and confidence that social capital can be increased, leading to a gain cycle [48] where trust, motivation and hope can be re-established. Linking social capital where communities have access to power, decision making and resources are vital for building resilience. At the same time, there is a need to also address the negative aspects like lack of trust and uncertainty. Efforts will need to be directed at rebuilding social capital through community networks, relationships, responsibilities, roles and processes.\nTo address the finding from the case studies of extensive poverty and lack of avenues for socio-economic advancement, the community workers have to work towards creating opportunity structures for education, vocational and skill training, and capacity building particularly for youth and income generating programmes through networking with other governmental and non-governmental (NGO) agencies. It is by establishing some economic stability, livelihood and access to resources that families and communities will regain their dignity, faith and hope. Improvement in mental health and psychosocial wellbeing would motivate the population and enable better participation in rehabilitation and development programmes, that was found to be clearly lacking in this study.\nCultural rituals and ceremonies\nIt was significant that the study found the communities, though under considerable restrictions and monitoring by the military, had resorted to traditional practices like opari and koothu to express their grief and find solace. It can be expected that communities will regain their natural resilience when performing customary rituals, observe ceremonies like remembrance days and partake in community gatherings and festivals. Encouraging and teaching cultural relaxation methods at the community level is one way we have done this in the past [133]. This would give some relief from the grief and guilt, create faith, meaning and social support and networks. Community monuments that would help focus and express emotions after mass trauma have been called traumascapes [134]. For example, a civil monument at Mullivaikal to all who died there (military, militant, civilian) by a sensitive sculptor and national ceremonies to be observed there annually would go a long way towards reconciliation.\nAs we found during the war and after the tsunami, creative arts are valuable conduits for the expression of emotions, finding meaning and developing meaningful community narratives [7]. Koothu (see Figure 5) [135], other dramatic forms, laments, poetry, writings and drawing should be encouraged and promoted.\nKoothu.\nAs observed by a KI, one of the first positive structure and activity during the recovery phase in IDP camps and resettlement was education related activities. The importance given to education in Tamil culture should be promoted and used to re-establish old routines, structures, and hope in the future. Teacher counsellors can function as community workers to organize activities in the classroom and schools such as play, group activities, creative endeavors, and inter-communal relationships. Several school based programmes were implemented during the war and after the tsunami where teacher counselors and befrienders were trained from all over the North and East [86, 136], who could now be used for the current situation.\nAllow and assist families and communities to settle in their own familiar homes and villages\nThe case studies and observations showed that families were eager to return to their familiar surroundings, home, neighborhood and villages. Some were shocked when confronted with destroyed homes and bare land. Resettling in their ancestral home, village (uur) or region (thesam) will have healing effect [108] and build resilience [77]. The traditional Tamil identity based on veedu and uur[109] may need to be re-established in the post-war context.\nOverall, long-term psychosocial programmes are not only important for restoring well-being and functioning, but also to rebuild social capital and community resilience which would enable and empower affected communities to help themselves.\naGrease putham refers to folklore about male(s) smeared with grease or oil (to make it slippery to hold onto when apprehended) attacking females at night.\nbKoothu is a form of traditional, folk drama that is performed with music and dance with religious, epic and historical themes where well known characters express common themes. In the Vanni, a form called Kovalan koothu is popular and performed by adepts who have usually been trained from childhood by elder practioners.\ncWhen state officers do not perform, carry out expected duties or do not obey directives they are transferred to less favourable posts, usually in the periphery.\ndAuthoritarian Personality is characterized by unquestioning obedience to those above and strict control of those below in a hierarchical structure with structured lines of authority where order, power and status are valued.\nDS, was Seniour Professor of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Jaffna and Consultant Psychiatrist working in Northern Sri Lanka for over two decades. He has also worked in Cambodia for two years in a community mental health programme with the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK; the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and Sri Lanka College of Psychiatrists. Currently on extended sabbatical in Australia, he is a consultant psychiatrist at Glenside Hospital, Supporting Survivors of Torture and Trauma (STTARS) and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Adelaide. He hopes to return to Jaffna this year.\nSS is a consultant psychiatrist working in Jaffna with the Doctor of Medicine (MD) in psychiatry from the Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo. He has worked in the North for over a decade clinically and in community programmes. He is a graduate of the Jaffna University medical faculty.\nThe authors would like to acknowledge the contributions to the study by the mental health professionals doing yeoman service all over the north and east and outside and the colleagues working in other specialties, particularly Dr.\u2019s Gadambanathan, Sivathas, Tharini Ketharanathan, Judy Jeyakumar, Aruljothy, Jeyarasa, Suthakaran, Suganthy, Jamunantha, Surenthirakumaran, Rajeshkannan Nadarajah, Suman Fernando, Kolitha Wickramage, John Mahoney, Jeewaranga Gunasekera, Gaithri Fernando, Willem van de Put; the participants in the study and other anonymous informants.\nThis paper is a developed version of the keynote address at the Health and Medical Sciences tract of the Jaffna University International Research Conference-2012 (JUICE-2012) held in Jaffna on July 20\u201321, 2012.\nThe authors declare that they have no competing financial interests but are Tamil medical officers working in northern Sri Lanka with an abiding interest in the welfare of the region and people.\nDS functioned as the principal author involved in designing the study, collecting and analyzing the data and writing the manuscript. 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I do not necessarily have an Italian meal every day, but not a week would pass without me having a taste of it! I will either cook it at home or eat in a nice Italian restaurant in NYC, Scarpetta being my favorite from the bunch. I do not know what exactly Italian food has that I love it so much. Must be the method they are prepared or the ingredients that are used. Speaking of the latter, the rest of this post will briefly look at some of the ingredients that are commonly incorporated in an Italian dish.\nIf you eat in the best Italian restaurants in Manhattan, there is one thing that they will always have \u2013 olive oil. They are used in almost every dish. It is also versatile as you can enjoy it in many ways. A staple for a Mediterranean diet, olive oil is not only flavorful, but it is also good for the health, especially for the heart.\nThis is another ingredient that is ever-present in Italian cuisine. With the health benefits of tomatoes and the fact that it adds a distinct flavor in almost any dish, no wonder it is popular! Whether it is fresh or canned, Italians love cooking with tomatoes, especially for their pasta sauces. It is fresh, flavorful, acidic, and sweet.\nIt is one of the most popular herbs used in Italian cooking. From fresh salads to pasta sauces, basil is incorporated in many Italian dishes. It can add a hint of freshness to any food. When cooking with basil, however, you have to be careful about the quantity as it can make the dish taste bitter when you use too much.\nThis pungent bulb has long been recognized as one of the most important elements of Italian cuisine. It adds a strong flavor and aroma to any dish. When selecting garlic, look for heads that are hard and firm. There should be no broken skin and sprouts.\nIn English, prosciutto means ham. It is actually already a food on its own, but it is also an ingredient that you can incorporate in Italian dishes in more ways than one. It is one of the prepared meats that could elevate the flavor of your food, such as for salad, pasta, and pizza.\nIt is another pillar of an authentic Italian cuisine. To be specific, there are three main types of cheeses that are used in cooking Italian food \u2013 Parmigiano Reggiano DOP, ricotta, and mozzarella di bufala. The cheeses can be used in almost anything, including salads, pasta sauces, desserts, and pastry. The right cheese will make your dish a stand out!\nThe ingredients that have been mentioned above are the ones that make Italian food mouthwatering and special! Add them in your next dishes to enjoy flavors that are sure to tickle the taste buds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 216.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inkwealth.com.au/learning-centre/fixed-rates-for-home-loans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:08Z", "digest": "sha1:AJI5T3YZZJVC4SQMDSBJWFJLZKYA5LW2", "length": 2002, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "inkwealth.com.au", "title": "Fixed Rates For Home Loans \u2014 Ink Wealth", "raw_content": "A fixed interest rate loan gives you the certainty of knowing what your rate will be for a certain period.\nSo, when choosing between a fixed or variable home loan rate, you are effectively banking on whether rates are likely to go up or down.\nFor example, if you think interest rates are likely to rise soon, then you may choose a fixed rate loan to keep your interest rates pegged at today\u2019s rate. This has the effect of protecting you against the cost of increased interest rates.\nOn the other hand, if you suspect that interest rates could go lower, then you might kick yourself later if you lock in to a fixed rate and therefore miss out on the lower interest charges.\nIt is vital to know that fixed interest rates are not directly linked to the Reserve Bank of Australia cash rate. The individual lending institutions set their own fixed interest rates, and there is generally little warning when they make a change.\nAnd if you later want to break your loan agreement and change your interest basis from fixed to variable or vice versa, there may be significant break costs imposed on you.\nDo be aware that a fixed interest rate is not guaranteed unless you arrange a rate lock. The date that lenders apply this can vary from lender to lender \u2013 sometimes it is regarded as the published rate on the day the mortgage documents are drawn up, and for others the settlement date. There can be several weeks between these events, and the rate can differ significantly. There are ways around it, but you do need to know what the standard practice is for the lender you are dealing with so you know what\u2019s possible.\nAnother option is to choose a mix of fixed and variable rates in your loan.\nAt the end of the day, our goal is to help you find a loan that offers a rate and terms that you can manage comfortably \u2013 and that allow you to sleep well at night.\nYour Ink Wealth Advisor can help you through the maze of choices to help you into the home loan that fits you best. 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OSF is characterized by a sequential decrement in jaw opening with advancement of disease, mainly due to formation of fibrotic bands in the oral mucosa. The characteristic occurrence of OSF among Indians and other Asians has prompted many investigators to search for etiologic factors that may be a part of their diet or environment. Oral Submucous Fibrosis and related diseases are dealt in depth in oral pathology but there in depth etiopathogenesis which explains its origin is not very clear with the student groups. Since we felt strongly about this aspect of dental curriculum, we have tried to compile relevant literature on etiology and pathogenesis of Oral Submucous Fibrosis. This is not a place where we are claiming any original research. Here the target is the dental students of both undergraduate and post graduate level and other medical professionals who are interested. It is a comprehensive attempt to cover all the aspects of Etiopathogenesis Of Submucous Fibrosis. It is not a voluminous book so that the reader does not get brightened by its site. Criticism and constructive comments are welcome at heenasadiqpg@gmail.com We are greatly indebted to Dr. Heena Sadiq Tutor at Indira Gandhi Government Dental College and Hospital. Jammu, for her support and help in compiling the data.\nAuthors:-\nDr. Hina Mehrotra did her BDS from Rama Dental College of batch 2008. Presently pursuing MDS In Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology at ITS Dental College Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida. She has a number of publications to her credit both National and International. She has also presented many scientific presentations in various National and International conferences.\nDr. Shahid Shaikh has completed his master\u2019s degree in Pediatrics and Preventive Dentistry from India. He is attached with various multi-specialty hospitals across Mumbai as a consultant in pediatric dentistry and maintains his exclusive pediatric dental practice. His areas of interest are children with special health care needs, sedation dentistry. He is actively involved in clinical researches and has a number of International and National publications to his credit. He has also presented various posters and papers. He is also awarded for the best paper in National conference. He have two books to his credit.\n1. Member of \u201cIndian Society of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry\u201d.\n2. Member of \u201cIndian Society for Dental Research (ISDR)\u201d.\n3. Member of \u201cIndian Dental Association\u201d.\nContributor:-\nShe did her BDS from Himachal Institute of Dental Sciences and has taken up the branch of Oral Pathology and Microbiology for her Masters in dentistry. She did her Masters from ITS Dental College Hospital and Research Centre, Greater Noida in the year 2015. She is presently working as Tutor at Indira Gandhi Government Dental College, Jammu. She has a number of publications to her credit both Nationally and Internationally. She has also presented many scientific presentations in various National and International conferences. She has a number of books to her credit as an author and has been a key contributor to many books for both National and International publication house.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insidebeer.com/articles/20151217", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:44Z", "digest": "sha1:25N3ZP5WA36BTNP3U34X3GW6KFHWWGOZ", "length": 619, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "insidebeer.com", "title": "Wheat Beer Challenge Launched - Inside Beer: Beer News, Beer Reviews and Beer Tasting Events", "raw_content": "Wheat Beer Challenge Launched\nBritish brewers are being invited to take part in a new Wheat Beer Challenge.\nThe competition, staged as part of the Imbibe Live! trade show, offers the prize of a seasonal listing in some of Mitchells & Butlers\u2019 leading pubs, as well as a trip to the Pilsner Urquell brewery in the Czech Republic.\nBreweries large and small are welcome to enter, with beers accepted in cans, bottles, mini-kegs or mini-casks. The beer may follow any style of wheat beer but the recipe must be new and incorporate at least 25% wheat in the grain bill.\nMore details can be found on the Imbibe Live! website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insidebeer.com/articles/20161018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QYPDU4Z7YM4PZ26LRILX334QY3ZQ4NBW", "length": 497, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "insidebeer.com", "title": "AB InBev and SABMiller Deal Completed - Inside Beer: Beer News, Beer Reviews and Beer Tasting Events", "raw_content": "AB InBev and SABMiller Deal Completed\nThe world's biggest brewing company has been created by the completion of the merger deal between AB InBev and SABMiller.\nThe deal sees the two previous biggest brewers in the world combine after many months of negotiation and the sale of several leading brands. These include the former SABMiller interests Grolsch, Peroni and Meantime, which have now become part of Asahi.\nFurther brand disposals are expected with the future of Pilsner Urquell in question.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insideretailthailand.com/2018/01/coca-restaurant-takes-fresh-tilt-malaysia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:42Z", "digest": "sha1:M5EK2FNVTQK2ZEHQOXEGPFOOTCP4NCPA", "length": 807, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "insideretailthailand.com", "title": "Coca Restaurant takes fresh tilt at Malaysia - Inside Retail Thailand", "raw_content": "Thai dining chain Coca Restaurant is returning to Malaysia with plans to open four outlets in the next three years.\nFirst up will be an outlet in the Bangsar Shopping Centre in Kuala Lumpur seating about 100 diners and serving an \u00e0 la carte menu of Thai/Cantonese cuisine along with Coca\u2019s signature hot pot, creative stock broths (including one being created exclusively for Malaysia) and suki sauce.\nChefs will focus on freshness, including live seafood and premium beef.\nAbsent from Malaysia for seven years after a 20-year stretch, Coca returns with a change of partnership and a new strategy to open in upmarket malls as well as introduce freestanding restaurants \u2013 a strategy it has used over the past seven years in Thailand, Singapore, Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia.\nDining, Food, News, Uncategorized", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://israelbehindthenews.com/best-not-move-us-embassy-jerusalem-us-law-changed/15922/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:17Z", "digest": "sha1:OVARBRDIZ4CQ45FMXVO3PFYTTHKPHPT6", "length": 3821, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "israelbehindthenews.com", "title": "Best Not to Move US Embassy to Jerusalem Until US law is Changed | Israel Behind the News", "raw_content": "Best Not to Move US Embassy to Jerusalem Until US law is Changed\nSilver lining in the delay to move the US embassy to Jerusalem: New momentum to update the relocation law to recognize Jerusalem as part of Israel.\nCovering events in the US capitol when Congress passed the \u201cUS Embassy Jerusalem and Recognition Act\u201d in October 1995, there were great expectations that the US would then renounce its position adopted in 1948 that Jerusalem would not be recognized as a part of Israel.\nThere was also speculation that the US would abandon its position from 1948 stating that all of Jerusalem must be a corpus separatum \u2013 an international zone.\nHowever, the final wording of the US Embassy Jerusalem and Recognition Act removed any explicit references to Jerusalem as part of Israel and made no promise that Jerusalem would remain the exclusive capital of Israel.\nThe late Faisal Husseini, head of the PLO Jerusalem committee, was present in Washington at the time, as was the architect of the Oslo process, Yossi Beilin, who was then the deputy foreign minister of Israel. Both Husseini and Beilin endorsed the new wording of the US Embassy Jerusalem and Recognition Act in 1995, as it was passed into law.\nIn other words, the US embassy relocation act did not violate two cardinal rules of US policy since 1948; Jerusalem was not to be recognized as a part of Israel, and Jerusalem could still become an international zone.\nThe US Embassy Jerusalem and Recognition Act preceded the War of Independence, declaring that Jerusalem must be defined as an international zone under US trusteeship, and remain extraterritorial to Israel. The US State Department went so far as to appoint its own governor for Jerusalem. The assassination of the UN envoy to Jerusalem in September 1948 suspended that process, but did not cancel US policy.\nA case in point: The family of Ben Blutstein, a US citizen who was murdered by a terrorist bomb in July 2002 while eating lunch in the Frank Sinatra cafeteria at the Hebrew University, could not get the US State Department to allow his US death certificate to read \u201cJerusalem, Israel.\u201d The same US policy applies to birth certificates. An American whose child is born in Jerusalem receives a birth certificate which defines the place of birth as Jerusalem, with no nation stated.\nMeanwhile, the delay in the application of the relocation of the US embassy to Jerusalem can now energize the advocates of the US initiative to recognize Jerusalem as a part of Israel and to campaign for the US Congress and White House to act upon legislative changes that should take place before the US embassy is moved.\nIf the US embassy had moved to Jerusalem under the current constraints of US law, that would have established the \u201cde jure\u201d precedent that the US embassy would move without recognition of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.\nIf the US still does not recognize Jerusalem as a part of Israel, the next time Israel objects to an Arab war education curriculum in Jerusalem, and the next time Israel objects to a given policy at the Western Wall, the US can simply repeat the mantra \u201cWell, Jerusalem does not belong to you.\u201d\nWise advice to those who have been so passionate in the fight to move the embassy to Jerusalem \u2013 Best to first ask Congress to enact a US law that would recognize Israeli sovereignty over Jerusalem.\nPrevious articleSaved From Genocide\nNext articleTrump: allergic reactions\nNancy Brenner June 3, 2017 at 12:29 am\nI bought two copies of Genesis of the Palestinian Authority and I want to mail the second copy to some organization that has a significant knowledge deficit as well as the desire to use this masterpiece. Would you be able to give me some recommendations? Please email me when you get a minute. Thanks in advance and Happy Shabbos.\nK.S.. June 5, 2017 at 9:18 am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 15165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://issuu.com/academic-conferences.org/docs/ejise-volume8-issue1-article453?mode=a_p", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:XEDNJPR6T3VQRQGMRIV3POR5GODZLTUY", "length": 39929, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "issuu.com", "title": "Seven Ways to get Your Favoured IT Project Accepted \u2014 Politics in IT Evaluation by Academic Conferences and publishing International - Issuu", "raw_content": "Seven Ways to get Your Favoured IT Project Accepted \u2013 Politics in IT Evaluation Egon Berghout1, Menno Nijland2 and Kevin Grant3 1 Centre of IT Economics Research (CITER), University of Groningen, The Netherlands 2 M&I/Partners, Amersfoort, The Netherlands 3Glasgow Caledonian University, Caledonian Business School, Scotland e.w.berghout@eco.rug.nl Nijland@mxi.nl kevin.grant@gcal.ac.uk IS managers are being put under increasing pressure to justify the value of corporate IT/IS expenditure. Their constant quest for the \u2018holy grail\u2019 continues, as existing methods and approaches of justifying IT/IS expenditure are still failing to deliver. The decision making process is not as objective and transparent as it is claimed or intended to be. This paper discusses seven commonly used tactics used by business managers to influence IT appraisals. The paper takes a \u2018devil\u2019s advocate\u2019 position and adopts some irony when looking at the area of power and politics in IT evaluation. Rather than promoting the use of these techniques, this article aims to raise awareness that IT evaluation is not as rational as most IT evaluation researchers/practitioners would want it to be or indeed claim it to be. It is argued that rationalisation or counter tactics may counteract influence techniques in an attempt to get behind the cloak and dagger side of organisational power and politics, but politics and power in decision-making cannot and should not be filtered out. Due to dissimilarities of objectives, limitations of time and information, influence techniques will always be used. However, rather than being counterproductive, these techniques are essential in the process of decision making of IT projects. They help organisations reach better decisions, which receive more commitment than decisions that were forced to comply with strictly rational approaches. Awareness of the influence and manipulation techniques used in practice will help to deal with power and politics in IT evaluation and thereby come to better IT investment decisions. Keywords: IT Evaluation, IT Decision Making, IT Assessment, Information Economics, Decision Making, Organisational Power & Politics. Information Management.\n1. Introduction IS managers are being put under increasing pressure to justify the value of corporate IT/IS expenditure. Their constant quest for the \u2018holy grail\u2019 continues, as existing methods and approaches of justifying IT/IS expenditure are still failing to deliver what they were intended to deliver and the decision making process is not as objective and transparent as it is claimed or intended to be. This can be attributed to the following reasons; benefits are difficult to assess, measure and manage; costs are high and difficult to predict; large uncertainties and major risk are involved; communication problems and stakeholder politics (Renkema, 2000). It is anticipated that this paper may contribute to managers\u2019 attempts to make sense of power and politics that occurs when evaluating IT investments (Weick, 1995). Sense making is a way to make explicit what is implicit during the IT evaluation process, as sense making seeks to structure the unknown by placing stimuli into some kind of frame of reference, which allows one to \u201ccomprehend, understand, explain, attribute, extrapolate and predict\" (Starbuck and Milliken, 1988).\nThe concept of power and politics has been a central theme of study in academia for many years. Within the social sciences, political science and organisational behaviour disciplines it has been widely discussed and reported. Over the years there has been a growing interest and discussion within the IS community to help explain and explore the subjective nature of information systems and how they are integrated and used within organisations. With the growing recognition of the social and political nature of systems development (Keen, 1981; Markus and Bjorn-Anderson, 1984; Knights and Murray, 1991) and IT evaluation (Hirschheim and Smithson, 1988; 1998), the concept of power is playing a growing and prominent part in IS research. Awareness is growing among researchers that the scientific rational view of evaluation has to be expanded. Perhaps being replaced by a perception of evaluation as a social and political phenomenon, where power is an essential element, as power has a major impact on the decision making process and on the actual decision itself. Many of the existing frameworks developed for IT evaluation identify and discuss the concepts of power and politics, yet they never fully unpack nor assist managers to\nISSN: 1566-6379 31 \u00a9Academic Conferences Limited Reference this paper as: Berghout Egon, Nijland Menno and Grant Kevin (2005) \u201cSeven Ways to get Your Favoured IT Project Accepted \u2013 Politics in IT Evaluation\u201d The Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, pp 31-40, available online at www.ejise.com\nElectronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation Volume 8 Issue 1 (2005) 31-40 see and respond to the highly complex and highly political dimensions that are embedded within the IT evaluation whole process.\nbusiness of politics and the accommodations that are generated, modified or dissolved by politics, which ultimately rests on the disposition of power (Checkland, 1990). Knights and Murray argue: power can be seen to infuse all organisational relationships such that rather than being an exception or aberration from the norm, political activity is the focal process through which organisations are sustained, reproduced and transformed (Knight and Murray, 1994). Power can be understood and to some extent made sense of via four dimensions discussed by Horton (1998) when discussing the work of Lukes (1974) and Hardy et al. (1996) and their contributions of looking at power from a sociological perspective. Lukes developed three dimensions of looking and thinking about power. Hardy et al further developed the work of Lukes and added a fourth dimension (Hardy et al., 1996).\nWithin the academic literature, there is an abundance of diverse, diffuse and available studies, including \u2018n\u2019 step guides on how to do IT Evaluation successfully. While these models and frameworks are often simple, attractive and illustrative they tend to view IT evaluation as rational and objective, with a strong technical focus, and ignore the incremental, serendipitous, and subjective nature of information systems. Many researchers have tried to understand the nature and essence of what power may be and how it may be defined, however, no widely held consensus of these exist. Several researchers claim that power is a \u2018primitive term\u2019 that needs to be clarified using such terms as \u2018influence\u2019, \u2018authority\u2019, \u2018control\u2019, and so on (Ryan, 1984). Power by many researchers and practitioners is clarified as the resources available to a person to make another person do something that the person would not have done otherwise. Moreover, influence techniques can be viewed as the actual use of power (Raven et al., 1998), whereas power is the potential to influence. Manipulation can be viewed as a form of influence, where the person influenced is unknowingly made to do something, which he or she not had done if he or she knew the perceived results.\nActual behaviour in making decisions i.e., concrete instances of power where one agent intentionally influences the behaviour of another one by a certain expressed behaviour (\u2018A gets B to do something\u2019). Dimension 1 involves a focus on behaviour in the making of decisions on issues over which there is an observable conflict of (subjective) interests (Lukes, 1974).\nDimension 1 is restricted to the making of \u201cconcrete decisions\u201d, disregarding the socalled \u201cnon decision-making\u201d by which potential political issues are kept covert or unvoiced. In non decision-making a decision on such an issue is never considered. Dimension 2 of power allows consideration to be given to the ways in which decisions are prevented from being taken on potential issues over which there is an observable conflict of (subjective) interests, seen as embodied in express policy references and sub political grievances (Lukes, 1974).\nInfluence tactics and power tactics to influence people have been topics of research by various researchers (e.g. Raven et al., 1998; Yukl and Falbe, 1991; Kipnis, 1990). By drawing upon their work, different bases of power can be identified, on which influence tactics rely on. Table 1: Bases of power according to French and Raven (1959) Bases of power on which influence tactics rely on 1. Coercive power \u2013 threat or punishment 2. Reward power \u2013 promise of monetary or nonmonetary compensation 3. Legitimate power \u2013 drawing on one\u2019s right to influence 4. Expert power \u2013 relying on one\u2019s superior knowledge 5. Referent power \u2013 based on target\u2019s identification with influencing agent as model 6. Informational power \u2013 convince by (rational) argumentation\nMoving the concept of power beyond a link with conflict, that is both decision making and non decision making are concerned with issues where there are at least two parties seeking different outcomes. This dimension acknowledges the ways in which issues could be prevented from arising at all, i.e. avoiding the potential conflict altogether.\nPolitics is the process by which differing interests reach accommodation. It is the accommodation of these interests that is the\nEgon Berghout, Menno Nijland and Kevin Grant understanding is obtained then more interpretative frameworks are needed, perhaps drawing upon and building upon the existing body of knowledge developed by academics such as Clegg, 1989, Lukes, 1974 and Hardy, 1996, who have provided frameworks to help understand why politics is exercised within situated contexts. IT evaluation is one such situated context.\nLukes tries to give some guidance to the conceptualisation of power by distinguishing between instrumental power and symbolic power (Lukes, 1974). Instrumental power addresses dimensions one and two, and symbolic power addresses dimension 3, i.e. an unobtrusive use of power occurs in order to secure an outcome by preventing conflict. However, this indicates that there is a direct belief that power determines choice and changes as if the intention of the powerful were directly coincident and continuous with their effects. Therefore, Hardy adds another dimension to make sense of this issue (Hardy et al.,1996).\n2. IT evaluation IT evaluation can have many objectives, throughout the life cycle of an IT project (Swinkels, 1997). One important objective of IT evaluation is to facilitate an ex ante appraisal of IT investments. The value of an IT investment proposal is determined to facilitate decision making about a proposal. The discussion on IT evaluation in this article refers to this ex ante appraisal of IT investment proposals.\nEntitled the conceptualisation of power that addresses the power of the system, i.e., where power is neither given nor received but exercised and it only exists in action (Foucault, 1980). This is more aligned to the notion of a web like structure of power within an organisation. This view lies in the unconscious acceptance of the culture and subcultures, roles, norms and values of the how the organisation does things with a combination of structural and non-structural mechanisms of the system.\nThe traditional formal-rational ideal view on evaluation assumes that it is possible before an IT project commences, that managers and evaluators can determine the outcomes of an IT investment project proposal. Knowing the outcomes, an objective decision about whether to allow a project to go ahead can be reached. Many evaluation methods and decision aiding tools are based on this model. For example, based on a Net Present Value (NPV) technique, one can tell immediately whether to invest in a proposal (e.g. a NPV number that is higher than zero, says the investment is worthwhile). Many criticisms have been raised to this formal-rational view on evaluation and the evaluation aiding methods it employs (Weill, 1993; McKeen and Smith, 1993). Some key criticisms to formal-rational evaluation methods are: They neglect the qualitative aspects of investments; They favour short-term views on investments and thereby disfavour longterm infrastructure investments; They neglect the establishment and discussion of risk factors in investment determination; They are susceptible to manipulation, and the inappropriate scientific use and historical ways of working, rather to address and respond to the social view of evaluation (Hirschheim and Smithson, 1999). On the bases of these criticisms new evaluation perceptions and methods for IT evaluation have been constructed. Methods have been constituted that include the\nClegg (1989) builds on this Foucauldian perspective in his framework of circuits of power. The framework considers three circuits: an episodic circuit, social integration circuit and system integration circuit (Clegg, 1989). In the episodic circuit, power is manifested by agents capable of producing their intended outcomes by use of controlled resources and established alliances. The social integration circuits comprise norms, rules and meanings that give identity to particular groups, and system integration circuit consists of technical means and techniques for production (Introna, 1997). The three circuits provide a basis for understanding power as a network of relations, which can be applied to understand situated decisions and outcomes. Rather than theorising about the concept of power in IS research, this article takes a practical and \u2018on the ground\u2019 view of how power is exercised in the process of IT evaluation. It focuses on the manifestation of power in IT evaluation and the description of political actions engaged by managers to try to influence IT decision outcomes. Recognising such actions could aid managers to assess the political issues within the organisation. However, to ensure an enriched and deeper\nElectronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation Volume 8 Issue 1 (2005) 31-40 secondary effects (e.g. increased number of customers, increased number of sales, etc.) of the investments will be absent or a wild guess. By claiming that the project is strategic, it allows the project champion to press \u2018hot words or hot buttons\u2019 in senior managers that trigger them to support the project.\nintangible aspects of the investment (e.g. Parker et al, 1988); that include the notion of an investment lifecycle (Willcocks, 1996, Swinkels, 1997); that assess a portfolio of IT investment proposals (Farbey et al., 1993, Berghout, 1997); that include risk-assessment, and so on. Serafeimidis and Smithson constructed an interpretive methodology that besides the content of the method, also considered context and process of the evaluation (Serafeimidis and Smithson, 1998). However, none of these methods explicitly address the political aspects of IT evaluation.\nArgue that your project is necessary for the organisation to stay operationally efficient and effective, or argue that your project is not an investment, but rather costs for increased maintenance and system management. With investments in the Y2K and in the EURO, together with competitive forces, regulations, and governmental laws, the growth of the Internet and other information communication based technologies, many projects acquire a status of \u2018must-do\u2019. Also from a technical perspective, many legacy systems are kept operational, requiring large investments, because the business operations depend on them. One of the more common arguments is that \u2018if we do not, our competitors will\u2019, which plays on the mindset that \u2018we are (or should we) the best\u2019. Often these projects have highly technical elements, which are unfamiliar to the senior business managers. Under the guise of must-do, a more comprehensive evaluation is said to be redundant. However, even in socalled must-do projects, many alternatives exist. For example, and alternative to investing in legacy systems, a new standard solution package could be acquired to substitute the legacy systems.\n3. Seven influence tactics This section details seven influence tactics that are common in the practice of IT decision making. They are presented from a \u2018devil\u2019s advocate\u2019 perspective. The findings are based on research relating to the comparison of IT evaluation and decision making within the Benelux and Scottish financial sectors (Nijland and Berghout 2000, Stansfield et al. 2000). These seven influence tactics are by no means exhaustive, however, they show the main strategies commonly used by \u2018project champions\u2019 to get their \u2018pet\u2019 projects approved. Table 2: A devil\u2019s advocate perspective on IT evaluation influence tactics Influencing tactics a. Designate a project \u2018strategic\u2019; b. Designate a project \u2018must-do\u2019 or \u2018going-concern\u2019; c. Slice-up a project (the salami-technique); d. Be creative in your cost/benefit/risk analysis; e. Find a problem for your solution; f. Claim you do not have time to make a proper proposal; g. Retry your proposal over and over again.\nDesignate a project \u2018strategic\u2019\nCall your project a strategic initiative, which the organisation must have, so you will not have to commit to verifiable quantitative estimates. With the recognition of recent years that IT investments can have strategic impacts for organisations, many projects have acquired a strategic status. The strategic impact is by definition hard to quantify accurately, as it deals with the future. With the argument that the benefits therefore cannot be calculated, the underpinning of the investment will be at best, be a text or narrative discussion, interpreting and describing how the investment will contribute strategically to the success and or the attainment of corporate objectives, e.g. to enhance the existing product portfolio; to develop new products; to give improved and or access to new markets (e.g. by using the Internet), etc. Estimates about what the\nDesignate a project \u2018must-do\u2019 or \u2018going-concern\u2019\nSlice-up a project (the salamitechnique)\nDivide a bigger project into smaller projects, which stay below the organisational investment threshold for capital projects. Many organisations have a certain financial threshold, before an official IT appraisal is required. As long as the projects stay beneath this threshold, no efforts have to be put into evaluation. Another similar technique entails getting commitment for the first part of the project (salami) and then adds the other parts while the project is on its way asking for additional investments at a later point. Few organisations actually stop a project, which has already started. From this perspective, it is explainable that some projects are started without formal justification, using the argument that waiting for a formal justification would take too long and that the business would loose out if no action were taken quickly.\nEgon Berghout, Menno Nijland and Kevin Grant\ndiscarded proposals. Reconsider the title your proposal to make the tactic less obvious.\nBe creative in your cost/benefit/risk analysis\nInclude only the costs that affect you, stress the benefits of the project to others and be favourable in your assumptions under which conditions your project will be a success. Despite the need and the explicit assumptions within IT evaluation methods on including all lifecycle costs, practice shows that many IT investment proposals only include the initial investment costs, leaving operational costs out. Benefits often are very positive and arise in multiple places in the organisation. Due to an uncertain future, estimates will vary and many assumptions will have to be made which usually are more evangelical than realistic in nature and focus.\nThough we do not encourage the use of these techniques to manipulate outcomes, since they could cloud the objective of IT evaluation to come to an informed IT investment decision, we acknowledge the fact that in real life these influence techniques exist and may even be very useful in terms of persuasion, participation, commitment, bargaining, voting, delegation, generating incentives, etc, on which decision making processes rely heavily on. Indeed it is a widely held believe that it is these influence techniques in fact which make the decision making process (in the case of ex ante IT evaluation) happen (Merkhofer, 1984).\n4. Counter tactics\nFind a problem for your solution\nIn the political arena of IT investment evaluation, it is equally possible to deploy counter tactics against the seven previously described tactics. Managers typically employ two forms of counter tactics: one of rationalisation and one of political counter tactics. The first is aimed at reducing ambiguity by clarification of objectives, processes and information, working towards some common understanding of what is right and wrong. The second increases political behaviour in the organization, and might even create a battlefield where decision makers have to outwit or overpower their opponents by political counter tactics.\nLook for problems in your organisation that can be resolved by applying your ideas. Many technical investments are justified because they have a champion who has a strong belief in the new technology, not because there is a great organisational need for the investment. The project proposers will look for opportunities in the organisation where the new technology will fit, and build a case for that. It is however by no means certain that the new technology will actually be beneficial to the organisation, or that it is the best choice among the different alternative investments.\nClaim you do not have time to make a proper proposal\nRationalization as a counter tactic will be described first, followed by more political orientated counter tactics.\nIn the hectic of a day\u00e2€™s work, people will not mind if you spend your time on keeping the business running, rather than working out investment proposals. Many people in organisations are more inclined to go for shortterm goals, rather than long-term goals. If one claims that there was not enough time to make a proper proposal, due to being busy working on keeping things operational, one might get away with a minimum detailed proposal.\nConflicting objectives are a typical source of political behaviour in organizations. Consequently, political behaviour can be reduced when these underlying conflicts are resolved.\nRetry your proposal over and over again\nDaft summarizes the differences between political and rational behaviour according to eight characteristics (Daft, 1986). Depending on certainty, uniformity of goals, and tightness and centralization of control, decision-making will be rational, political, or mixed (Daft, 1986). This is illustrated in table 3.\nIf you do not succeed at first, resubmit your proposal the year after. In the dynamic market of IT, people change positions and jobs frequently. Since IT evaluation can be highly subjective, it is likely that other people will like your proposal if repeated. Many organisations use an unstructured approach to IT evaluation and do not keep records of previously\nRationalizing a decision making process\nElectronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation Volume 8 Issue 1 (2005) 31-40 surrounds the issues and concepts of power and politics discussed earlier. Daft\u2019s requirements to accurateness of information and consistency of all goals of all participants, it is not logical as to assume there is such a thing as rational decision-making is problematic. However, organisations that employ IT evaluation methods often do this with the aim of rationalising decisions and more \u2018objective\u2019.\nTable 3: Organizational characteristics of rational and political decision making (Daft, 1986) Organisational characteristic Goals, preferences\nRational model Consistent across participants Centralised\nPolitical model\nInconsistent, pluralistic within the organisation Decentralised; Power and shifting coalitions control and interest groups Disorderly, Decision process Orderly, logical, rational characterised by push and pull of interests Free play of Rules and norms Norm of optimisation market forces; conflict is legitimate and expected. Extensive, Ambiguous, Information systematic, information used accurate and withheld strategically Known, at Disagreement Beliefs about least to a about causes cause-effect probability and effects. relationships estimate Based on Result of Decisions outcome bargaining and maximisation interplay among choice interests Efficiency and Struggle, conflict, Ideology effectiveness winners and losers\nGiven the above problems associated with rational decision-making, managers often apply a political counter tactic to challenge non-favourable proposals. Typical examples are (based on Harrison, 1981): Blaming or attacking others. Compare a proposal with similar projects that went wrong. This nicely focuses the discussion on well-known weakness of the other projects. Present your own (selective) information. Finding an academic or consultant that supports your arguments should always be possible. Use your previously established favourable image (credits). Do not argue, just oppose. Suggesting this should be sufficient to cancel the proposal and move to the next point on the agenda. Develop your own base of support. This is preferably done before the actual meeting takes place. Associate with other influential persons. Create obligations. Agree with the nonfavourable proposal, however, do include your, own pet project (include success in your established defeat). Combinations of all counter tactics are being used against all seven influencing tactics.\nThe characteristics described by Daft refer to bringing more clarity and consensus in the organisation and they all require additional time. Consequently, when you are already in favour of a decision or uncertain whether you favour the outcome of the more rational decision making process, you will be less willing to support a more rational decision making process. Elements that need to be assessed when rationalising a decision making process are: Stakeholders: who is responsible for what? Also apply an ex post evaluation of implemented projects. Decision criteria: which criteria are used and how did each project score on each criteria? Project descriptions: which projects are considered, what do they consist of and what should be achieved when? Process: how is the entire decision making process organised? Daft\u2019s simplification of decision-making, though appealing to many managers, may be misleading due to the complexity that\nPolitical counter tactics\nDesirability of counter acting the influence tactics\nTo think that either by rationalising or politically counteracting all possible influence tactics will by definition improve IT investment decision making, is an illusion. To start with the latter, the political counteracting of the influence tactics themselves call for counter-counter tactics to be employed, thereby clouding rather than aiding the IT investment decision process. The former, fully rationalising the decisionprocess, might seem ideal, however it is also detrimental. Decision-making processes are characterises by political aspects. These aspects are an important reason why such\nEgon Berghout, Menno Nijland and Kevin Grant matches closest to what the decision makers actually wanted. This means, that although the information was not complete, the decision makers will afterwards be satisfied with the predicted results. Manipulation: the information is shaped in such a fashion that the decision makers are tricked into taking a decision, that afterwards turn out to not match their wishes. In practice this entails discovering the boundary between influencing and manipulation. The decision maker should ask himself if the information on hand gives enough insight and trust in future outcomes to make the decision.\ndecision-making processes actually work. A crucial part of decision-making is that decisions are not predetermined, but one has the freedom to reach a decision based on arguments. These arguments do not have to be solely rational; people develop creditable and plausible arguments or frames of reference from their own knowledge and experience, norms and values and their personal worldview. To reduce the freedom in decision making by restrictions reduces the participation of the decision makers who at the end of the day have to execute the decision. Moreover, politics in decision-making helps to solve differences of opinions, and thus potentially help to make compromises. It keeps the organisation stay dynamic and to avoid stasis (Keen, 1981) and is a source of new ideas, which enables radical and innovative changes to happen, i.e., changes that would not fit the format of formal decision making.\nThis article aims to contribute to the discussion about managing the politics in IT evaluation by arguing that: The decision makers should be aware of the possible manipulation and influence tactics that can occur, starting with the seven described in this article; Trying to eliminate politics in IT decision making by rationalisation is undesirable, since decision making is not a strict rational process, but a political process; Trying to eliminate possible manipulations beforehand by employing counter tactics is regarded pointless, since counter tactics trigger more manipulations (e.g. countercounter tactics); The decision makers should reserve time to inform themselves sufficiently about the backgrounds of the investment proposal and to further explore unclear and questionable aspects via the persons responsible for the given information.\nAn important thing to remember is that decision making most of the time is not about zero-sum situations, but often a solution can be found to create a win-win situation for all parties involved. Such solutions can count on broader commitment, thereby significantly increasing the chance of success.\n5. Practical implications for decision makers Influence tactics and manipulations will always form a substantial part of IT decision making. In the theoretical ideal situation, all necessary information will be available to make an informed decision and be free from personal bias, interpretation and personal gain. All alternative outcomes can be discussed and calculated to determine the most favourable investment opportunity.\nHowever, due to the bounded rationality of decision makers only limited information will be considered during decision making (Simon, 1960). The decision makers are informed (by definition) with partial information, which has been communicated through restricted means of communication (e.g. written or spoken). The outcome of the decision primarily depends on this limited information and the way this is presented. The influence tactics can be seen in this perspective, as a means to either cope with or misuse these limitations.\nPolitics is often referred to in a negative fashion. However, given limitations of time and information and differences of interest, organisational decision-making will always include politics. Mintzberg observes the following benefits of politics (Mintzberg, 1985); Politics in organisations may correct deficiencies in other more legitimate systems of influence and provide for certain necessary forms of flexibility not otherwise available. Politics can act in a Darwinian manner to bring the strongest members of the organisation into managerial decision-making roles. Politics can often help to promote necessary organisational change blocked by more traditional means.\nThe way the information is presented to the decision makers can be twofold: Influencing: the information is shaped in such a fashion that the final decision\nElectronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation Volume 8 Issue 1 (2005) 31-40 Politics can often facilitate the decision making process, particularly the effective implementation of choices to serve particular interests. Politics in decision-making is inevitable. Elimination is both impossible and undesirable. Impossible, because counter tactics themselves are forms of politics. Undesirable, because they are crucial to come to decisions with commitment that keeps the organisation dynamic and flexible to respond to internal and external developments. The bounded rationality of people makes influence tactics and manipulations an integral part of IT decision making processes. 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Their constant quest for the 'holy g...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 41836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://japan-animemusic.com/en/news/Anime%20Key%20Player%20Interview%20%236Mr.%20Shiro%20Sasaki%2C%20the%20president%20of%20Flying%20Dog%20Part.%201", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:16Z", "digest": "sha1:F2JCQBLOWLI447CYEJYR2CNSSFOQPMYA", "length": 7011, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "japan-animemusic.com", "title": "Anime Key Player Interview #6 Mr. Shiro Sasaki, the president of Flying Dog Part. 1 | JAPAN ANIME MUSIC LAB", "raw_content": "I heard that you started working for Victor Entertainment in 1982. How did you first start working for Victor?\nYou might\u2019ve heard stories like this before but I was originally in a band. I started my first band in middle school. Since I couldn\u2019t become a musician I decided to work at a record company.\nSo you were interested in music to begin with? What kind of music did your band play?\nYes, I was interested in music. We played many different kinds of music. Towards the end, we did make original songs but in general, we did all of rock and even blues.\nSo you started off as a copy band and then started making your own music?\nYes, exactly! I was the vocalist and guitarist for my band.\nWow! I would love to watch you sing play guitar!\nYes (laugh)! Well, I still play in a band to this day! Sometimes I perform.\nThat\u2019s amazing! What kind of music do you listen to on your own time?\nI do listen to a lot of songs that I listened to when I was younger. I guess a lot of western music from the 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s. I do listen to other music too. I love Brazilian music and just about every genre.\nSo you just love music in general. I heard you started working with anime for the first time in 1985. How did that go?\nIn 1982, when I entered Victor I was working as a salesman. I went around record shops in Osaka. I didn\u2019t know much about anime at the time but 1982 was when Macrossfirst started. So Macrossand this other anime called Magical Princess Minky Momowas airing on TV. In October, the theme song singles were released and were both very popular at the time. I thought that animation music was directed towards children and thought that the children or the mothers were buying the singles. That\u2019s when I found out that middle school, high school, and college male students were buying the singles. I was surprised because I thought that the people buying Minky Momosingles are mostly girls but found out a lot of male college students were buying the CDs. The sales team was all a lot older than me so they told me as a newcomer to go study anime. I started buying anime magazines to study anime. That\u2019s how I learned which songs are popular during those days. I starting work in the music field more and that\u2019s when voice actors started coming out to Osaka for campaigns and events. I was actually MCing for some of those events. A lot of salesmen actually did the MC for events like that. When I was MCing, people from the Tokyo department noticed me. I actually wanted to go to Tokyo to work on Rock music. I told the people working at the Tokyo headquarters what I wanted to do. So 3 years later I had a chance to go to Tokyo and work in the anime music field. From that day on I\u2019ve been working for anime.\nSo you were working for anime music ever since?\nYes, that\u2019s right. In the beginning, I was thinking about switching to rock music but then I started noticing that it was very fun working with anime music. I did get an offer to work for something else but I declined because working for anime was fun.\nBut you were not familiar with anime at the time right?\nYes, but I was a music maniac and anime and approaching the music is almost the same thing. The way anime fans read one frame of a manga and the way music fans look at track numbers for albums and talk about a guitar segment is really similar. They connect in the same way. I also realized while working for anime, anime music can be anything as long as it fits the clip. It can be jazz, hard rock; it can even be Brazilian music. Genre doesn\u2019t really matter. I found that quite interesting. There\u2019s magic when anime music and the clip comes together. Not just the music but when there are emotional scenes and the music plays in the background, you feel even more emotional. When experiencing something like that, there was no way in quitting anymore.\nAs you just said right now, the music that you worked with being jazz reminded me of Cowboy Bebop.\nThat was not all completely jazz but yes.\nWhat was the most memorable anime series you worked on?\nThere is so much (laugh)! Well if I talk about Cowboy Bebop, bebop means jazz so Kanno san (Yoko Kanno) wanted to record in New York and she also wanted to work with an legendary engineer named Mr. Rudy Van Gelder. He mainly worked as an engineer for a jazz label called Blue note. So she asked him to be the engineer for the OST. At the time he was over 70 years old. He worked on many jazz songs in the 50s. We also heard that it may be hard to have him work for us but when we offered, he took the job. So we went to New Jersey where he had a studio and recorded music there. So that was very memorable when I was working on Cowboy Bebop.\nIt must be very memorable to record overseas.\nYes, as for Kanno san, she actually has had many recordings overseas. The first recording overseas was for this anime called Macross Plusand that was at Israel in 1994. She wanted to record with Israel Philharmonic, so we went there to record the orchestra.\nWow! I didn\u2019t know so many recordings were taken overseas.\nThere was an anime called AKIRAwhich was popular overseas. Anime was getting pretty big and Kanno san was aware of that too so she didn\u2019t limit herself to making just Japanese music. She wanted to make music that was appealing to the rest of the world as well. After we recorded for Macross Plusand went overseas multiple times, we noticed that in records stores such as Tower Records or Virgin Megastore, they didn\u2019t have a single copy of Jpop music but there was a corner called Manga. They had Macross PlusCDs at the manga corner. That was the case at most record stores. I realized that it is hard to sell JPop overseas but seeing anime music in big record stores overseas made me think more about the overseas audience during the 90s. Cowboy Bebopis a good example, but not only Bebop, in Kanno san\u2019s music, language doesn\u2019t really exist. It seems like Japanese songs have a barrier overseas especially due to people not understanding the language. Kanno san made music in English and also music in a made-up language.\nHow did people overseas react to anime songs? It can be now or in the past.\nA long time ago, Kanno san went to conventions. She doesn\u2019t go much anymore but she used to go quite frequently in the past. When she went, there were easily 1000-2000 people waiting. There were events where she got to play the piano, and it was big success. The audience really liked her. We were able to realize how global anime has become after visiting conventions.\nI feel like the fact that anime songs became more known has made you feel more proud.\nYes, definitely. This was a long time ago but there was a time when Maaya Sakamoto went to Anime Expo and had a concert there. I was surprised and happy to see the audience singing to her Japanese songs. The concert hall is smaller than the ones they have now but there was still about 3000 people there.\nThat is amazing to hear people singing in Japanese!\nNext: Shiro Sasaki Interview Part 2 will be published on 25 Sep, 2018!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 7754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jasminekateblog.wordpress.com/tag/sunset/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:20Z", "digest": "sha1:2HPFCHTXNC7TQ4ABQLSWDZSARF6ERUWY", "length": 138, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jasminekateblog.wordpress.com", "title": "sunset | J.K \u2661", "raw_content": "Everything is so much prettier around sunset, especially towards the end of Autumn. Favourite time of year and day, always. Advertisements", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaynkay.com/sex-ed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:28Z", "digest": "sha1:YSDBSUMHU44TSS5OUKOLQ26D6BIPZCQ3", "length": 4872, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "jaynkay.com", "title": "Sex Ed for Gay Men - Jay & Kay Sex Play", "raw_content": "I\u2019m not sure if you can identify with my experience, but growing up in an ultra Catholic family in a small island developing country did not create the right environment to discuss the topic of sex. Sex was (and still is) taboo for many. Growing up as a Catholic, we were taught that somehow sex was dirty and something to be ashamed about. I basically learnt about sex on my own. There was no such thing as sex education in school (this was banned by the school board). Even our biology books were screened and censored and I\u2019m talking about the 1990\u2019s.\nSexuality was a journey of self-discovery and self-education. As a young boy, I started feeling certain urges and changes in my body that I could not explain. I just went with the flow, with what felt good. I realized that stimulating my genitals produced pleasure so I did it as often as I could \u2013 the joys of self-pleasuring was discovered. I was around 8 or 9 at the time. There was no one there to explain to me what was happening; that I was going through puberty. And although I grew up with both my parents as well as some of my mothers brothers, I dare not mention the \u2018unmentionable\u2019!\nLater on, when I started high school, I was taught that a boy should not touch himself down there. That was a sin. And not just any ordinary sin, one that was \u2018mortal\u2019 \u2013 deserving of death; eternal death in the fires of hell. That was the extent of my sex education in school. Talk about a guilt trip. Talk about self-loathing. But I just couldn\u2019t stop. It just felt so darn good. Then I began to withdraw and go into my shell. I was a bad boy. Nobody would understand what I did. There was no one to talk to. No one to turn to. So I soothed myself (through self-pleasuring) and then I self-loathed and then repeated the cycle over and over hundreds of times again and again. A nasty cycle of pleasure and pain, soothing and shame, gratification and guilt. Even to this day I still have the mental and emotional scars of that process.\nTo add hurt to injury, later on as I progressed through high school something else about myself started to unfold. At first I couldn\u2019t comprehend it. I started noticing something about myself; something subtle at first, gnawing away at my subconscious. Then as I got older it grew to a point where I couldn\u2019t ignore it any longer. My high school was all boys (you see, typical Catholic school). And I found myself \u2018drawn\u2019 to a few of those boys; drawn in a way that at first I thought was admiration but later on I realized it was more than mere admiration. At first I didn\u2019t know what it meant. I thought nothing of it. Then at age 18 it dawned on me \u2013 I was gay. (I\u2019m a slow learner, what can I say.) Gay? No way! Not me! It must be a phase or something. I must be confused! Denial had begun.\nVery quickly I started rationalizing everything and I came up with a grand conclusion. I was gay and that was fine. There was nothing I could do about that. However, everything was going to be okay as long as I did not \u2018act\u2019 gay or do gay \u2018stuff\u2019 with other gay guys. That conclusion was the solid foundation for the \u2018closet\u2019 of denial that I built around myself. It was a huge, dark closet that become comfortable. No one was in that closet with me. I was safe. My secret was safe. Life could be bearable. That closet of guilt and denial became my home for nearly ten years. No, that was not a typo. TEN YEARS!!! Then I met someone, fell in love and was yanked out of that closet with lightning force. I was 28 at the time. Talk about wow!!! It felt as if I was holding my breath underwater for ten years and suddenly came up for air. It was refreshing, invigorating and thrilling all at once. No shame. No guilt. No fear. Just love. And how in the hell could love be a bad thing, right?\nSo here I am, a completely different person. Healed, but still going through the healing process. Better, but still getting better each and every day. Out of the closet but still finding myself putting up walls from time to time, depending on the circumstances and situation. I still have some ways to go, but I am pleased as pumpkin with where I\u2019ve come from and the life lessons I\u2019ve learnt along the way.\nBy now, (if you\u2019ve made it to this point) you\u2019re probably wondering what does all of this have to do with sex ed. Well, it has a lot to do with it. My objective with this page of our website is to help others who might be going through similar experiences. Knowledge is power! And knowing and loving yourself is the greatest power we possess as human beings. \u201cIf you can\u2019t love yourself, how the hell you\u2019re gonna love somebody else!\u201d\nHere\u2019s another article that might be of interest to you:\nIf you\u2019d like us to discuss any other topics just send us a note in the comments section or send us a private message in the \u201cAsk Jay and Kay\u201d page and we\u2019d be happy to discuss the topic here on our site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 7195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jdiaz.seacoastrealty.com/real-estate/community/creeks-end", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:45Z", "digest": "sha1:WL76MYETFHIZQ6LWDBK5WVD2W6L7YM7L", "length": 356, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jdiaz.seacoastrealty.com", "title": "Creeks End Real Estate Listings", "raw_content": "Creeks End Real Estate Listings\nThe Creeks End Real Estate market currently has 1 homes for sale, with the majority of these homes priced between $400K - $500K. With the median list price for the Creeks End area being $459,000 and the median price per square foot of $140 you will be able to find a home that meets your criteria.\nfor Creeks End Real Estate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 243.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeweledwoods.com/2016/12/28/taxation-is-theft-but/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DBB7SRQC5OKZQW366TLGVNQJ4M5BA6KB", "length": 2723, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "jeweledwoods.com", "title": "Taxation is Theft, But\u2026 \u2013 Jeweled Woods", "raw_content": "Author Robert W. Oliver IIPosted on December 28, 2016 December 28, 2016 Categories Philosophy, Politics\n2 thoughts on \u201cTaxation is Theft, But\u2026\u201d\nJonny Letson says:\nIndeed the universe is indifferent to force. Actually, the universe is indifferent to life itself. True the universe doesn\u2019t care. Ethics and values are human constructs. Neither of them care about the universe. They are indifferent to the planets going around the sun. They are only concerned with human behavior, interaction, and improvement. Force is a very big part of human behavior, interaction, and improvement. And property rights address that force.\nTrue or culture manifests our ethics and values. And property rights is one of those ethics and values we have learned to incorporate into our culture not because it is the right thing to do or because it is good, but because we have learned that human life improves dramatically when property rights are honored. It is a very pragmatic way for humans to interact. Also, we value human dignity and see that taking stuff from people against their will destroys that. Even many Native American cultures derived property rights on their own long before Europeans came over.\nGovernment didn\u2019t give us our property rights. It is instituted to protect the property rights we already have. For instance, the US government was instituted to protect the US property from being taken by force by another country. Several people owned land in the US before the US government was instituted. Also, if you lived on a deserted island, you wouldn\u2019t need government to stake a spot of land and call it your own, but you would have to protect it yourself as needed. I would venture to say that humans and property existed before any government.\nHuman government itself is a human construct. Human governments don\u2019t come from any natural or universal law. They are completely made up by humans. The universe is indifferent to human government. As a matter of fact, human government goes against nature. Spontaneous Order is the natural government of humans\u2026self-government. All other governments are abstract human constructs created to escape the realities of nature itself. In this vein I would say that humans are much more capable of natural government than they are of unnatural, centralized, mastermind government. For me we likely do better without human government.\nThanks for your comment, Jonny.\nHow did we already have property rights before government? The universe is indifferent to life, ethics, and rights. They don\u2019t exist outside of a societal structure or culture, and if you enforce that culture you get government.\nPrevious Previous post: Change the We Into I\nNext Next post: The Carnival is In Town", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 9235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jkross.info/quality.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:40Z", "digest": "sha1:7XE6XTZHDQLXRIVOJCSKFS2W5TRQVLM3", "length": 1497, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "jkross.info", "title": "J & K Ross - Quality", "raw_content": "About Us... Quality\nSince 1992 J & K Ross have had their quality systems assessed by a third party (ISOQAR) and were one of the first Safety Equipment Distributors to upgrade their systems to the more customer focused ISO 9001:2008.\nIn their most recent assessment the Auditor stated, under 'Summary of Audit':\n\"Another very good audit, with the gathering and analysis of data again, very comprehensive . . . . ISO9001:2000 is now the culture of the Company\"\nOf course what really counts is what our customers think of us, we can name many Blue Chip clients who have been dealing with us for more than ten years, who have been to the market place, but have seen fit to stay with J & K Ross Limited. They tell us that whilst being commercially competitive is important they consider the value that we add to their the quality and safety performance is right at the top of the list when making their decision.\nWe recognise that we are only part of the supply chain and that having excellent suppliers to ourselves is also of vital importance. To ensure that this can happen we operate an ongoing vendor appraisal system which, over the last 12 months alone, has seen a 46 percent improvement in the reliability of supplies from our key vendors.\nWe would be happy to share the methodology of this system with any / all of our customers and we ourselves welcome the measurement of our own service to our clients. In fact we are happy to provide data compiled by ourselves to facilitate such appraisal.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://join.sleepgroupsolutions.com/seminars/nashville-tn-5/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:35Z", "digest": "sha1:EYSNFQ733AD6TTYQRHYMPEA5HYK6CCJI", "length": 1119, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "join.sleepgroupsolutions.com", "title": "1Sleep Group Solutions | NASHVILLE, TN | Sleep Group Solutions", "raw_content": "Dr. John Comisi\nAbout the SGS Course Instructor: Dr. John C. Comisi\nDr. Comisi has been in private practice in Ithaca, NY since 1983, is President and CEO Sleep Focused Solutions, Inc. was the Founder of Dental Care with a Difference\u00ae, PC, and is an Assistant Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina.\nA graduate of Northwestern University Dental School, he received his Bachelor of Science in Biology at Fordham University. He is a respected Key Opinion Leader, author, speaker and consultant who contributes regularly to the dental literature.\nHe is an Editorial Board Member for several dental publications and is a member of the National Dental Practice Based Research Network (NDPBRN), the Academy of Dental Materials, the American Academy of Cariology, the American Association for Oral Systemic Health, and the International and American Association of Dental Research.\nDr. Comisi is a Master of the Academy of General Dentistry, and holds Fellowships in the Academy of Dentistry International, the American College of Dentists, the Pierre Fauchard Academy and the International College of Dentists.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 120.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jsheld.com/directory/karen-pritchett", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:43Z", "digest": "sha1:PUX5LHA3OSQV2MNTHKOYJIBNEVK5VMBC", "length": 588, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jsheld.com", "title": "J.S. Held", "raw_content": "Karen Pritchett\nkpritchett@jsheld.com\nAs Project Coordinator, Karen Pritchett provides organizational and logistical support for the Nashville, TN office. Karen is an integral member of the project team, acting as a liaison between clients, staff, and other J.S. Held divisions. She is responsible for facilitating efficiency within the office, organizing and communicating project activities including file set-up, file assignments and file organization, while maintaining project documentation and reports. Karen\u2019s previous experience includes over 10 years in the Oil and Gas industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 254.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://k2am.com.au/news-and-media/views-and-insights/the-missing-ingredient", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WMAQJFVJODC3HFGMGL5NBDAZ4ZYRRSPS", "length": 4626, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "k2am.com.au", "title": "The Missing Ingredient", "raw_content": "By David Poppenbeek November 2017\nEquity markets tend to be an insightful gauge for investor and business leader confidence. So given that the average major equity market has more than doubled in value since early 2009, you would have thought that investors and the management of listed companies would be brimming with confidence. Unfortunately this is not the case. The current level of global equity market trading activity, mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings have been subdued. We recently had the opportunity to discuss these trends with two CEOs who are at the coal face, Michael Corbat from Citigroup and Nicholas Moore from Macquarie.\nMichael Corbat made the point that banking regulators are still obsessive about capital levels. In addition, there is considerable overlap amongst the various regulatory bodies and as a result the decision making process is increasingly being extended. Interestingly, leadership amongst key agencies like the Federal Reserve (FED), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is changing. It could be that the regulatory mindset may be about to transition from a \u201csurvival\u201d bias to a \u201cgrowth\u201d focus. Mr Corbat also highlighted that Citigroup\u2019s major clients have constantly been wrong footed by selling into major events like Brexit and the Trump presidency only to then buy back at significantly higher levels. He feels that customers will probably stay fully invested through the next market hurdle which will most likely be the FED\u2019s asset sale program.\nNicholas Moore noted that, given asset market movements, Macquarie would normally be generating meaningful returns from its capital market facing divisions. These businesses typically generate an ROE of between 15% and 20%. However for the last 5 years they have averaged just 11%. Mr Moore indicated that market participants have significant levels of cash but the supply of deals is almost non-existent. He suggested it is possible that the decision makers governing deal supply are still obstructed by the scar tissue from the GFC. From an Australian investor\u2019s perspective these comments from Mr Moore interested us. We have noticed that the average CEO tenure for Australia\u2019s ten largest listed companies is now just 2.3 years. These ten companies combined are almost half of the capitalisation of the ASX200; could these \u201cfresh eyes\u201d lead Australia into a new investment\ncycle? We believe that, as these incoming business leaders adapt to their new roles, confidence regarding trading conditions will most likely stabilise (refer to the NAB business survey chart below). When experience and confidence converge increased business activity tends to follow.\nIn our September quarterly commentary we mentioned that our equity market exposure had increased. We believe that the Australian economy has now developed a stable foundation for future growth. Non-mining capex for the June quarter hit a record high, non-passenger and SUV new vehicle sales have surpassed the prior peak reached during the mining boom and employment growth is finally back to pre-GFC levels. In addition the first time home buyer has finally re-emerged; their finance commitments in August were at the highest level since 2009. From our perspective the missing ingredient is investor confidence. We have been surprised that, according to the WBC/Melbourne Institute Survey, the share market is still seen as the worst place for savings and that level of belief is on par with March 2009. This lack of conviction in equity markets has seen a 5%pa decline in the average daily value of trade on the ASX since the GFC. We believe that sentiment towards the Australian equity market will improve. Interestingly, throughout the 20 years leading up to the GFC average daily trade value on the ASX consistently grew at 20%pa and 100 new listed companies emerged every year. Given we are finally seeing more sell-side analyst upgrades than downgrades, this could be the precursor to a greater level of equity market activity.\nThe Australian equity market has also been a global laggard; over the last 12 months the performance of Australian equities is ranked 65th out of 94 primary markets. The prospective dividend yield of the Australian market is the highest of the developed economies. This is despite expectations that next year Australia\u2019s rate of unemployment and inflation will be about 20% lower than the global average. We are optimistic about investment opportunities in Australia and are confident that our portfolio is well positioned to generate growth in the year ahead.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 6196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kaltinthought.com/2018/10/13/filial-piety-a-shackle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FP65TTZFACO3HOVRME6DIUFWV67DSVQY", "length": 2705, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "kaltinthought.com", "title": "Filial piety a shackle? \u2013 Kalt In Thought", "raw_content": "Filial piety is a central value in traditional Chinese culture. However, I feel that it is a good value to have regardless of race.\nWhile some may feel that being forced to adopt filial piety is akin to being chained down to/by their parents, this is not really the case. In fact, it cannot be something that is forced onto you. The moment it is forced, it is no longer filial piety. Filial piety is simply respecting your parents decisions and repaying them for bringing you up. It is something that should come naturally.\nRespect does not necessarily mean that you have to give them blind obedience. It simply means that you need to treat them with respect. Even if you find something unreasonable, you should not burst out in anger. Instead, try to keep calm and explain your point of view to your parents. Sometimes, all it takes is a little patience and effort to get the other party to see the situation from your point of view. In fact, in this process you may even end up understanding the reason for some of the things your parents ask you to do or not to do and change your mind.\nOf course, sometimes even after discussing the situation at hand, you may not see eye to eye as you and your parents differ in beliefs. In such cases, it would be best if you could reach a compromise. Try to give in to your parents a little bit and slowly gain their trust. Along the way, as their trust in you builds up, they may become more willing to let you have your way.\nAt the end of the day, as long as you do what needs to be done in your daily life, your parents trust in you would likely increase. It would also make it more manageable to give back to your parents in the future.\nWhile it may have been your parents choice to devote their resources to nurture and look after you, it does not mean that we should just accept it and not return anything. Even if they are not expecting returns (parents who just want to see their children grow up happy and capable).\nOf course, this is simply my opinion because my conscience would not let me feel at ease if I let myself be indebted to anyone. Even if they are my own parents.\nOn a side note, I believe that everyone should try to be more respectful towards others regardless of who they are. Two angry people will never resolve a conflict if neither of them calms down to even try to understand each other.\nIn my post, I mainly talked about families with parents who are at least willing to listen to their children and really just want the best for their children.\nWhat are your thoughts on filial piety? Is it a old tradition that should be put away or do you support it? Or do you have truly unreasonable parents who won\u2019t even bother listening to you?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4504, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kathleenmkeenan.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:29Z", "digest": "sha1:KTLWWY4IXMABIYMSBXQI7ZCYKHRPSGGI", "length": 225, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kathleenmkeenan.com", "title": "Kathleen Keenan \u2013 writer and editor", "raw_content": "Hi, I\u2019m Kathleen Keenan, a writer and children\u2019s book editor in Toronto. You can learn more about me right here or browse my blog, Shelf Control, to see what I\u2019ve been reading. Selected clips of my writing are available here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://katielinder.work/when-do-you-call-yourself-an-expert/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:50Z", "digest": "sha1:VRPMJ5KBZUG6HG6Q6ONOLIYIA5CC6G2R", "length": 4624, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "katielinder.work", "title": "When Do You Call Yourself an Expert? | Katie Linder", "raw_content": "When Do You Call Yourself an Expert?\nAn interview I had with the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast went live this week and it was kind of weird. Not the interview itself\u200a\u2014\u200aI was happy with that\u200a\u2014\u200abut just the way it felt to have it be out there. You know, with people listening to it. It was like I was standing on a platform saying, \u201cLook at me! I\u2019m an expert in this topic!\u201d (If that makes you curious about the interview, you can find it here.)\n(Aside: I completely realize that since I currently host two podcasts that post weekly, describing this podcast interview as weird may sound strange. All I can say is it feels different when you\u2019re not the host\u200a\u2014\u200aas the person being interviewed you\u2019re not entirely in control of the final product like you are when you record, edit, and produce your own shows. Also, with my podcasts, I feel like I can balance out what I know with talking about how much I don\u2019t.)\nIn the episode, I talk about blended course design, the topic of my book that\u2019s coming out in November. As I listened to see how our original conversation had been edited (the podcaster-in-training part of me is always interested to see how others do it), I started thinking about what it means to write books and talk about them. And that got me thinking about when I feel like I can call myself an expert on a particular topic.\nDespite appearing pretty confident about most things, in my brain of brains\u200a\u2014\u200alike my heart of hearts, but more intellectual\u200a\u2014\u200aI hesitate to claim expertise in almost anything. I think that\u2019s why I like to think of myself as a professional learner. In lots of situations, I\u2019ve found that the more I learn, the more I realize what I don\u2019t know. When I finished my PhD, for example, all I really wanted to do was go back to school for a series of MA degrees in a bunch of other subjects that I touched on in my dissertation. As I created that manuscript and shaped my arguments, I realized how much I didn\u2019t know about a lot of things.\nAt the same time, to be fair, since I earned my PhD in early 2011 I\u2019ve written a couple of books and a bunch of articles and I now direct a research unit, so I must be able to claim expertise in some things. Or at least other people have recognized me as having enough knowledge to let me share what (I think) I know with other people. (Do I sound conflicted about my own expertise? Good. I\u2019m glad that\u2019s coming across.)\nAfter thinking about it, here are some of the ways that I identify my own expertise:\n1. I\u2019ve looked at a topic from a range of angles, including discussing it with diverse stakeholders, and feel that I can see the complexities of it (even if I don\u2019t understand them all)\n2. I can talk about the topic with confidence, providing varied examples to audiences that may have different knowledge levels of the topic\n3. I see multiple sides of the issue or topic and, even if advocating for one side or another, am able to state pros and cons and let other people come to their own conclusions\n4. I\u2019ve learned enough or gained enough experience with a particular issue or topic that I have definitive views on it\n5. I\u2019ve read everything I can find on a particular topic, synthesized that information, and practiced that synthesis more than a dozen times (as in facilitating a workshop or doing a keynote)\n6. I\u2019m open to changing my mind about something after much thought, reflection, input from colleagues, and experience\n7. I feel committed to continually learning about that topic over a period of several years\n8. The topic or issue seems expansive to me, but that\u2019s not a scary thing\nAll of these things would describe how I feel about the topics of my first two books, so I guess I could add:\n9. I write a book on the topic or issue\nGiven all of this, the thing that most makes me feel like I can claim expertise about something is that I never think that expertise is fully claimed. When you become an expert, it just means you are committing yourself to learning something for the long-term. There is no such thing as mastery, just the continual process of being committed to learning more about that thing. Kind of like yoga or meditation, where you\u2019re constantly practicing, expertise demands a similar commitment.\nDefining expertise as mastery embeds a rigidness in the concept that\u2019s intimidating and a bit overwhelming to me. It\u2019s a lot less pressure for me to think that expertise is never done. That there\u2019s always a chance to learn more, to make mistakes, to grow, to change.\nWhen do you feel like an expert and when do you question your own expertise?\nDo you think expertise looks the same for everyone? Why or why not?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 6434, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://keep-calm.net/keep-calm-and-use-the-chloroform-white-black.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:14Z", "digest": "sha1:O75LI3CF4KSHLZ77BWJDPXPWFGSEKPYW", "length": 2250, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "keep-calm.net", "title": "KEEP CALM AND USE THE CHLOROFORM | KEEP-CALM.net", "raw_content": "KEEP CALM AND USE THE CHLOROFORM jump to downloads\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3706, "original_length": 116167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 323.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/car/352807", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:42Z", "digest": "sha1:TODL22C2ZKRMC6HXKG4KFFUGKT33EUV3", "length": 8283, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "kids.britannica.com", "title": "car - Kids | Britannica Kids | Homework Help", "raw_content": "A car is a vehicle that has wheels, carries a small number of passengers, and is moved by an engine or a motor. Cars are also called automobiles or motor vehicles. Trucks and buses are motor vehicles as well. However, trucks and buses are larger than cars, and they carry heavier loads.\nIt is hard for anyone today to imagine what life was like before there were cars. Cars and other motor vehicles have made it easy for people to travel within a city or across a continent. They have also influenced where people live. People once had to live near their jobs, but now they can live farther away and drive to work.\nYet cars and other motor vehicles have brought problems as well. Tens of thousands of people are killed or injured each year in traffic accidents. Cities are often congested with huge traffic jams. And gasoline is a limited resource that pollutes the atmosphere when burned as fuel.\nCar bodies have come in many different types. In early days most cars were open, without a fixed top. Now, aside from convertibles, most cars are closed. The most common styles include coupes and sedans. A coupe is a two-door car with a small back seat. A sedan usually has four doors and seats four to six people. Sedans with a lift-up rear door are called hatchbacks. Sports cars are built low to the ground and usually have no back seat. Station wagons have extra carrying capacity. By the end of the 20th century, however, they had been mostly replaced by minivans and sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Some cars are specially designed and built to be used for racing.\nAll cars have certain basic parts. The body of an automobile is the outer shell that encloses the vehicle\u2019s mechanical parts and its passengers. Most auto bodies are made of steel, but some are made of strong plastics or fiberglass. The body is attached to the chassis. This consists of a frame that holds all the other major parts of the car together. Those other parts include the engine, a steering system, brakes, and the wheels.\nA driver operates a car by pressing on pedals to make it go and stop and by turning the steering wheel to guide where the car goes. The pedals and steering wheel work because they are part of a larger system.\nMost cars are powered by internal-combustion engines. In such an engine a mixture of air and gasoline enters a tubelike cylinder through valves. There the mixture makes small explosions. Each explosion produces gases that expand rapidly and push against a device called a piston on one end of the cylinder. The piston goes up and down as the gases expand and contract. Rods connected to the pistons convert that movement into the power that eventually turns the wheels. Most car engines have four to eight cylinders.\nThe air-fuel mixture that enters the engine cannot ignite by itself. It needs an electric spark. This comes from devices called spark plugs. They get their electric current from a battery. The car\u2019s lights, horn, turn signals, windshield wipers, starter, and instruments such as the gasoline gauge are also powered by the battery.\nAn exhaust system carries burned gases from the engine to the muffler. The muffler cools the gases. It also reduces their pressure. This reduces the noise coming from the tailpipe. Modern cars are also equipped with a device called a catalytic converter. The catalytic converter uses chemicals to reduce exhaust pollution.\nAn internal combustion engine gets very hot. Cars therefore must have a cooling system. In a liquid cooling system, coolant (water and antifreeze) flows through passages around the cylinders and carries off this heat. The hot coolant is then pumped through a radiator to cool it off. Some engines are cooled by a flow of air and have no liquid coolant.\nThe engine provides power to make a car go, but something else must turn the wheels. The parts of the car that transmit, or deliver, power from the engine to the wheels are together called the power train. When a car is starting or moving uphill the engine must deliver more power than when it is cruising on level ground. The transmission uses gears to reduce or increase the speed and power of the engine. The drive shaft carries the power from the transmission to the axle, which connects the wheels.\nOnce a car is moving it is important to be able to make it stop. When a driver presses the brake pedal, pistons force fluid through small, flexible pipes to brakes at each wheel that stop the vehicle.\nThe wheels of a car are part of a system called the suspension system. This consists of springs that absorb bumps and shock absorbers that cushion the spring movement. The air-filled tires of a car also cushion the ride. The tires have rough surfaces that help keep them from sliding around on slippery or loose surfaces.\nThe first true automobile was a machine that had three wheels and was powered by steam. It was built by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot of France in 1769. It was heavy and moved very slowly. Many manufacturers produced steam-driven automobiles during the late 1890s and early 1900s. A disadvantage of steam was that water had to be brought to a boil before the car could go.\nDuring this same period other manufacturers produced cars run by electric motors. Electric cars ran smoothly and were easy to operate. However, they did not run well at high speeds. They also had to have their batteries recharged every 50 miles (80 kilometers) or so.\n\u00c9tienne Lenoir of France developed a gasoline-powered internal-combustion engine in 1860. In 1876 the German Nikolaus Otto built an improved gasoline engine. Gasoline engines proved to be more reliable than the other kinds. The brothers Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea built the first successful gasoline-powered car in the United States in 1893. Soon several people set up factories to produce cars.\nDevelopment of the Automobile Industry\nHenry Ford made his first automobile in Detroit in 1896. Ford introduced the assembly line in 1913. This made it easy to produce many cars very quickly. Assembly-line workers stay in one place and do only a single task as the parts pass by on a conveyor. Ford soon sold millions of cars. The Model T version was especially popular. Several other companies were established at this time as well.\nIn the period after World War I (1914\u201318), automobiles became easier to operate and more comfortable. Steel bodies and heaters became common.\nAfter World War II (1939\u201345) automakers began using power steering, power brakes, and automatic controls for windows and seats. Air conditioning also became available.\nIn the late 1950s, European compact cars like the Volkswagen Beetle caused a sensation. Automakers in the United States built their own compact cars starting in 1959.\nThe Problem of Oil\nThe gasoline used in cars comes from oil. As the United States began to use up its own oil supplies, it looked to other countries for more. In 1973 the oil-producing countries stopped shipping as much oil to the countries that needed it. This caused high prices and long lines at gas stations. It also made automakers work to produce cars that did not use as much gasoline. Japanese companies were especially successful at this.\nCars also cause widespread air pollution. As gasoline is burned it produces harmful gases. New types of gasoline and catalytic converters helped ease the problem. Even so, some scientists blame these gases for a problem called global warming. The scientists and others became more concerned in the 1990s. Many drivers had replaced their passenger cars with SUVs. Such automobiles use large amounts of gas and produce more of the harmful gases.\nBy the 21st century some automakers had created vehicles that used alternative energy sources. Some ran on biofuel (such as ethanol) or batteries. The most successful alternative cars were called hybrids. They ran on a combination of gasoline and electric power.\nAutomobile safety is a continuing issue. Early cars were very dangerous to ride in. Since then car manufacturers have worked to create safer cars. They installed such devices as seat belts and air bags to protect riders in a crash. They have also tried to improve the way cars are built and the materials used to build cars so that the cars will survive a crash better.\nDiesel engines are used mostly for trucks and buses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 10858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kirpalsingh-teachings.org/en/multimedia/video/327-sant-kirpal-singh-his-competency.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:03Z", "digest": "sha1:F7JS6PC277BYRE455AKTYYEHSH44VCVB", "length": 493, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kirpalsingh-teachings.org", "title": "Sant Kirpal Singh - Kirpal Singh Teachings", "raw_content": "The whole of mankind is lamenting its unhappiness every step of the way. Who is there to give consolation in world, and guidance in the next? Guru Nanak has said on this subject, \"O Nanak, break off all connections with the imperfect, and search for a perfect Master; they will abandon you even while you live, but he will never leave you even after death.\" His protection will always be over your head; keep your attention constantly on Him, and you will become a true disciple of the Master.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2017, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 293.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kitchenremodelsacramentogurus.com/california/dutton.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:23Z", "digest": "sha1:HV6ZJPEGVX26ZLUPIUM33MTKIBGMCATR", "length": 4463, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "kitchenremodelsacramentogurus.com", "title": "Kitchen Remodel Sacramento in Dutton, California", "raw_content": "Kitchen Remodel Sacramento in Dutton, California\nYou may create many ideas for the contractors near me in Dutton, California to work on, and they will show you what they can do with your kitchen. The kitchen will feel much different after you have completed the work. You may walk into your kitchen to see what you want to change, and you may bring the contractor with you to learn how large the room is. They will take measurements that go into their plans, and they will begin working on the sketches or designs that must be used as they complete their work.\nYou are searching for something that makes your home beautiful to live in, and you are attempting to create a kitchen that you may cook in every night, that you may host parties in and that you may congregate in as a family. Your kids will love coming into the kitchen, and your family will love your kitchen in Dutton, California when they come over for a holiday meal. The hosting you do in the house will be much better because you have a kitchen that is made for this, and you will feel as though you are cooking in a TV kitchen that was made to look good on-camera. You may check prices next, and you will learn how to manage the cost of a kitchen remodel.\nDutton Kitchen Remodel Sacramento\nThere are quite a few things you will learn about the kitchen when you are having it remodeled in Dutton, California, and the people who work on the job when show you the colors and styles that they think will look best. You may choose something that will help you build a new kitchen, and you will feel good knowing that you have made the best decisions for your home. The home you are creating will feel better because it was built around a modern design concept, and you may choose an open concept or other style you like.\nYou must have your kitchen remodeled in Dutton, California by someone who has done this process many different times, and they will give you steps that help you with designing the kitchen. The program you use for the job will make it simple to complete the work, and there are many things in 2017 that will make your remodel go by much faster.\nThe work that is done in the home in Dutton, California is devoid of the mistakes that often happen because technology is used to manage each part of the project, and you will see the process unfold in a number of media before your very eyes. The project plan will be emailed to you when you need it, and you will receive emails every day that show you what the company plans to work on that day. They are honest with you about the pace they are working, and they will show you the schedule they are using for the job. You may see the worksheet that was created to manage the job, and they will help you understand what they are doing that day that you may not quite comprehend.\nYou may build a kitchen in Dutton, California that will offer a high return on investment, and you may build one thing that is modern. And exciting for anyone who enters your home. The company will give you advice that helps you save money, and they will do many clerical things that make the house easier to manage. You may ask the contractor how they plan to make your kitchen look beautiful, and they will give you many of these options:\nThe trends that are current for the industry are important to you, and you will find that the company may give you advice for designing the room. They will show you how the kitchen in Dutton, California may look with all these different things. They may give you advice that explains how they would plan the kitchen in Dutton, California if they were in your position, and they will show you many online.\nThey will write up and share your contract for the kitchen remodel in Dutton, California\nThe contract for your remodel in Dutton, California will reflect many different things on the job that must be done, and you will have your own copy that you may follow when the work is done. You may not realize how complex a job such as this is, but you will see it completed according to the contract you were given.\nYou will close the process with an inspection that shows how the kitchen was remodeled in Dutton, California. The people on the team will inspect your home, and they will guide a code enforcer through your home if they wish to visit. The kitchen will look beautiful when it is completed, and it will give you a peace of mind that your home is prepared for entertaining and parties that you wish to host.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 14610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://komiza-nina.com/en/island-of-vis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:N6GAXLQGOPKHMPLMWWZ2BQHAHRR4JO4J", "length": 1020, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "komiza-nina.com", "title": "Island of Vis \u2013 The Nina Zanki Apartments, Komiza \u2013 island of Vis", "raw_content": "The island of Vis has a surface of 90 km2 with countless beautiful bays and beaches, unspoliled nature and archipleago. Most of the caves and specific locations (such as the old military facilities) can be visited. There are various homesteads on the island where you can go and have a meal.\nIf you need any information or suggestion we are always available.\nThe distance between Komi\u017ea and Vis is 10 km, and you have regular bus lines every day.\nIt is important to mention the island of Bi\u0161evo because of its beautiful beaches, clear sea, and one of the most famous caves in the world. Visitors come from all over the world to see the Blue Cave, for which there are organized trips every day.\nThe distance of the island of Vis allows you to experience another dimension of life on our globe, unspoiled nature, peace, and the spirit of the island.\nKomi\u017ea leaves you with deep unforgettable memories.\n\u00a9 2014 \u2013 2019 The Nina Zanki Apartments, Komiza - island of Vis. Web design & photography: Stjepan Tafra. Island of Vis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kpfa.org/episode/74064/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:36Z", "digest": "sha1:AO6YI44M6Y2AZ4MT5WGFMA4RTQXOAVQH", "length": 37, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kpfa.org", "title": "Joe Frank \u2013 October 9, 2011 at 9:00pm \u2013 KPFA", "raw_content": "Joe Frank \u2013 October 9, 2011 at 9:00pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2072, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 35.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kplr11.com/2018/12/21/st-louis-police-release-surveillance-video-of-officer-involved-shooting-at-gas-station/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:10Z", "digest": "sha1:TMNKECTNTHZ3EODJRKSPDXP474WLIEZR", "length": 1233, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "kplr11.com", "title": "St. Louis police release surveillance video of officer-involved shooting at gas station | kplr11.com", "raw_content": "Posted 3:10 pm, December 21, 2018, by Kevin S. Held, Updated at 03:19PM, December 21, 2018\nST. LOUIS \u2013 The St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department released surveillance video of a fatal encounter between officers and a suspected car thief at a north city gas station.\nThe incident occurred Wednesday, December 12 at the BP gas station near the intersection of Goodfellow Boulevard and Lillian Avenue.\nAccording to police, a license plate reader spotted a recently stolen vehicle at around 1 p.m. near the gas station. The city\u2019s Real-Time Crime Center sent out an alert to officers to search for the vehicle.\nPolice found the stolen vehicle at the gas station. An officer on foot confronted the driver of the stolen vehicle while he was sitting at a gas pump with the vehicle's door open.\nThe video shows the suspect put the vehicle in reverse and attempted to escape. The vehicle dragged one officer and crashed into a pumping area on the other side of the gas station.\nThe officer being dragged fired his weapon during the altercation and struck the suspect in the chest. Both the officer and suspect were injured and taken to the hospital. The suspect, identified as 29-year-old Demario Bass, was pronounced dead at the hospital.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4451, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 257.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ktliterary.com/2011/08/this-sounds-familiar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:41Z", "digest": "sha1:B22UZHKVI7HIQWVZZRNSBXR5KSVN42FH", "length": 9399, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "ktliterary.com", "title": "kt literary \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb This sounds familiar\u2026", "raw_content": "I\u2019ve been working on getting caught up on my queries lately, and last night, came across several queries that read, to me, almost exactly like the plot of other books I\u2019d read. Now, sure, that can happen naturally, as authors tune into a zeitgeist, just as Hollywood may prep two Snow White movies at the same time, or two meteor-coming-to-destroy-us disaster films, or whatever. And sure, sometimes it\u2019s just a surface similarity, and the book itself may be completely different than the one it reminds me of, in interesting and compelling ways.\nBut still \u2014 unless you can show me that, it\u2019s hard to get past the feeling that I\u2019ve seen this before, so why would I want another book that treads the same ground already covered?\nI have to wonder if it\u2019s a matter of not really knowing the category in which you\u2019re writing. As a writer of young adult novels, for instance, you\u2019re not expected to have read EVERY YA novel out there, but I\u2019d expect you to have more than a passing familiarity with the biggest names and the most popular titles. If you\u2019re going to pitch me a novel about a teen girl at a private school that trains spies, I\u2019m going to wonder why you don\u2019t seem to be aware of Ally Carter\u2018s Gallagher Girls series. I\u2019d rather you say, yes, I know about the Gallagher Girls series, but my novel does x, y, and z differently, and it\u2019s set in 1945 instead of present day. That still might not get a request from me, but at least it shows that you\u2019re aware of your competition.\nThen again, I know that way back in pre-historic days, when I was working on my YA novel about a female perspective on Arthurian legends, I very deliberately stayed away from reading The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, which everyone went to great lengths to tell me was about a female perspective on the Arthurian legends. So it\u2019s ok not to have READ your competition, but I think you still have to KNOW about it.\nThe other thing to bear in mind is that it should be about the characters, not just the setting. Your zombie novel may be set in a world where the rise of the undead was caused by a cure for cancer, just like in Mira Grant\u2018s Feed, but if you can tell me what makes your characters as compelling as Grant\u2019s, so that I\u2019ll care just as much about their (spoiler!) deaths as much as I did about the characters in Feed, then you may have a shot.\nOtherwise, often when I see a query like this, it makes me just want to respond with a link to the book I think they\u2019re ripping off!\nWhat do you think? Have you come across this problem in your own writing and querying?\nTags: queries, similar ideas\n\u2190 Planning for 2012\nLet\u2019s Talk About Pitches \u2192\n14 Responses to \u201cThis sounds familiar\u2026\u201d\nMy current WIP, which I actually first started writing when I was 11 (I've since started completely over- the original makes me cringe every time), started out as a pretty shameless rip-off of basically everything I loved at the time. The biggest problem when I started over again last year was cutting out all of that and leaving just the echoes.\nA friend of mine, who has self-published his novel just to say he did\u2013 states outright in the acknowledgements that he ripped off the ending from something by Vivian Vande Velde (\"And I kind of hope she sues me because then I'd get to meet her in court\"). He isn't concerned with actually getting published, so he doesn't care. He just writes for the sake of writing, and perhaps that's what some of these authors querying you do as well\u2013 they just don't know they're doing it.\nThe sad truth is that MANY of the writers querying me will never be traditionally published, so to acknowledge that they might be writing just for the sake of writing is HUGE.\n\"If you\u2019re going to pitch me a novel about a teen girl at a private school that trains spies, I\u2019m going to wonder why you don\u2019t seem to be aware of Ally Carter\u2019s Gallagher Girls series. I\u2019d rather you say, yes, I know about the Gallagher Girls series, but my novel does x, y, and z differently, and it\u2019s set in 1945 instead of present day.\"\nI was under the impression that it was a serious query faux pas to compare your book to some popular hit, and that implying that you did what they did better shows arrogance as well.\nI don't think you have to frame it in a way that implies yours is better. When I queried Kate with my first manuscript, I mentioned 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson as a book that had a similar feel, but let my description of my manuscript speak to the differences. It worked. \ud83d\ude42\nExactly. I'm not saying that you should say your book is as good as Ally's, but show me that you're aware that Ally's exist, and explain how and why it's different \u2014 not better. Different.\n@ihiatt Says:\nWhen I finally sat down to churn out my first manuscript, I explained to folks that one of the biggest pieces of advice that authors, editors and agents give is to read. Read, read, read. Know the genre and audience your pitching to.\nOne person said that they would do the exact opposite out of fear of copying what's already been done. The way I explained it to them is that it's -all- been done before. You want to write a book about vampires? Okay. Toss it in the warehouse with the others. Zombies? Werewolves? Popular guy, awkward girl? It's all been done. The premise of a book at its barest state is not going to be original. You need to make it original beyond that point.\nMy manuscript is about a teenager who has prophetic dreams. Has it been done? You bet. One of my favorite books is The Stand by Stephen King, where prophetic dreams were a huge plot point. It's been done. But I'm well aware of how it's been done. As you've said, being aware is the key. Having the conscious thought of \"This has been done. Now how can I do it better?\" should be what -every- writer is thinking. Otherwise, why bother? If my book is a just an awkward copy or collage of what's already out there, then it's really just fan fiction.\nThe notion that the writer should have to read all of those books they might be copying is ridiculous, as you've said. The human race has been writing for quite some time now. That's quite a library an author will have to peruse. A decent amount of research should always be part of writing, though. Apart from the actual facts/believability of the story, a writer should be poking around the market. At the very least, the big names. I for one have never heard of the Gallagher Girls. Then again, I'm not writing about spies\u2026\nSo I told that person who questioned doing so much reading of material already out there, that it's simply about keeping that mindset. Know what's out there, strive to do it better. Any writer that does that will yield something worth at least a glance.\nExactly! Great comment \u2014 thanks for sharing.\nS. C. Green Says:\nThis is definitely something to keep in mind. It might be a good idea for any writers out there who think their stuff is original to ask beta readers to suggest other books that remind them of his or her work. You are right though, the fate of the book rests on the strength of the characters. If I don\u2019t connect with the character, I won\u2019t hesitate to put it down. I have too many other stories to read with characters I\u2019m ready to follow to the ends of the Earth, regardless if the plot is somewhat recycled.\nExcellent idea! Often writers are too close to their work to even see the parallels.\nI really enjoy the conversations you get going here. So much so I'd like to recognize you with a blog award from my writer's group site, The Parking Lot Confessional. You can pick it up here: http://parkinglotconfessional.com/2011/08/12/the-\u2026\nI guess I don't get why someone wouldn't want to say which books theirs resembles. I see it as a huge compliment to the authors. I do have to agree that it is all about how it is written, nobody likes a ripoff, the same being told the same way, but I will proudly admit that I get a lot of my inspiration from Luanne Rice. She has a unique way of letting a story unfold mysteriously while keeping you aching/longing for her characters. This is something I try to echo, but with my characters own personalities.\n@ghosthorse_mt Says:\nWonderful discussion, everyone! I try to keep up with popular books and movies in my genre for Middle Grade readers. I don't have time to read each book from cover to cover, but I find it helpful to examine writing styles and popular themes. I then try my best to be original with my plot, setting, and characters. It is very important to me to communicate my stories in a commercially viable way. I really want the kids to enjoy the stories, and that means keeping up with their current trends. I have often found that I make up something that has already been done by another writer or story teller. I find out about it usually three or four chapters too late and have to re-write entire passages. It keeps me flexible. lol One of the hardest challenges is to create a new myth, since the human psyche is so full of repetitive symbols. The works of Joseph Campbell have been very helpful for me as a writer. I also read fairy tales and folk tales from as many different cultures as I can. They have helped me with original material. Again, thanks for the tips!\nI love that you say it should be all about the characters, not just the setting. For me, it's always the characters that get me reading. 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He came to Sin City in 1998 to open Bellagio and ended up making it home base, building a career as one of world\u2019s leading bar professionals. He helped form the second chapter of the U.S. Bartenders\u2019 Guild in Las Vegas, and today, with more than 50 chapters across the country, Vegas\u2019 is the second largest. \u201cThe industry here is very much a family, and we support one another and celebrate our successes.\u201d\nAbou-Ganim also created For the Love of Cocktails, now an epic three-day celebration drawing more than 3,500 professionals and enthusiasts. It\u2019s also a fundraiser for the Helen David Relief Fund, named for Abou-Ganim\u2019s cousin who ran a bar in Michigan for nearly 70 years and dedicated to assisting bartenders and their families battling cancer.\n\u201cThis year is so exciting because there will really be something for everybody,\u201d Abou-Ganim says. 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Following Mark Driscoll\u2019s resignation in 2014, Jeff has headed the care and leadership of Doxa Church, a new church plant born out of what was Mars Hill Bellevue. We recently had the opportunity to interview him for our 5 Leadership Questions podcast here.\nJeff newest book is Saturate: Being Disciples of Jesus in the Everyday Stuff of Life. Many Christians have unwittingly embraced the idea that \u201cchurch\u201d is a once-a-week event rather than a community of Spirit-empowered people; that \u201cministry\u201d is what pastors do on Sundays rather than the 24/7 calling of all believers; and that \u201cdiscipleship\u201d is a program rather than the normal state of every follower of Jesus. Drawing on his experience as a pastor and church planter, Jeff Vanderstelt wants us to see that there\u2019s more\u2014much more\u2014to the Christian life than sitting in a pew once a week. God has called his people to something bigger: a view of the Christian life that encompasses the ordinary, the extraordinary, and everything in between.\nHere are some of our favorite quotes from the book:\nBefore Jesus did formal ministry, he spent thirty years of his life doing normal, mundane, unremarkable stuff. He lived a regular life for the glory of God.\nI\u2019ve found one of the main reasons many people do not get involved with the work of God in this world is because they don\u2019t believe God wants to or can use them. They don\u2019t know that Jesus prefers normal, weak, and broken people.\nGod the Father, the Creator of the universe, receives and accepts you in Christ Jesus. If you believe this, you can rest. You are loved. You are accepted. You are already significant.\nGod\u2019s Spirit calls us out of hiding reminding us that in Jesus there is no more guilt, no more shame, and no need to cover up.\nThe thing that matters most cannot be taken away from us, and nothing can happen to us to prevent us from inheriting it.\nOur job is not to change people. That\u2019s God\u2019s job. Our job is to love people so they come to know the Father\u2019s love through us.\nIf we believe Jesus is the Savior of our future\u2014we can rest secure in him in the middle of this broken world where we live.\nGod always intended that every part of life be a participation in His activity and a celebration of His goodness.\nIf we are servants of Jesus, we are in the place where he has put us in order to serve others like he served us.\nJesus didn\u2019t call us to merely make a decision for him. He doesn\u2019t need our vote of approval. He doesn\u2019t want deciders. He wants disciples\u2014people who are devoted to becoming more and more like him in everything, everyday.\nIf we are to be disciples of Jesus who are being reformed and restored to become more like him, we need to have people in our lives, up close and personal.\nGenuine repentance and faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ always lead to a change of behavior.\nWe have the Spirit of God in us so that we might be empowered, just as Jesus was.\nWe taught Christians to see themselves as the church in our city, instead of seeing church as only an event they attend on Sunday. They learned how to see all of life as sacred and every action as part of God\u2019s missionary work in the world. They began to see that he was in them, working through them in the normal stuff of life.\nIt\u2019s amazing how often Christians want to experience the presence and power of God apart from the mission of God.\nThis is what Jesus does. 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I worked with dogs and other pets who suffered from behavioral issues, animals who needed basic obedience, and people who needed service animals for various ailments. Some animals were easier to train than others. Animals, like all sentient beings, came to me with emotions that needed to be addressed. If I was to be successful, I had to understand those emotions. Some people will deny that animals are emotional beings; not only is this assumption false, it can actively prevent any kind of meaningful training or behavioral modification.\nIn order to effectively train, I had to understand what the animal was feeling. Was the driving force behind the behavior fear, excitement, anger, frustration, panic, joy, or some other emotion? Some people came to me when there was no other hope left, the next stop would be to either re-home or euthanize the animal. In these cases, where it was literally life or death for the animal, the pressure was intense. I always desperately wished I could bark like a dog or meow like a cat, so that I could tell them in their own language that if certain behaviors didn\u2019t cease, that they could die.\nBut of course, you can\u2019t sit down and have a heart-to-heart talk with an animal who doesn\u2019t speak English. All I could do instead, was work with them the best I knew how, utilize all my previous experience and training, try my best, and pray. I prayed constantly for all the animals I trained, regardless of circumstances. It was a huge comfort for me to know that a God who feeds the birds of the air (Matthew 6:26) loved my clients\u2019 pets far more than their guardians or I ever could. God was a safety net in my training. All of my limitations that I had as a human, and therefore a member of a different species, it was of great comfort to know that God was always right there to pick up where I left off. The God of all creation is not an impersonal deity, but a loving Father to all the world.\nSome people came to me when there was no other hope left, the next stop would be to either re-home or euthanize the animal. In these cases, where it was literally life or death for the animal, the pressure was intense.\nIt wasn\u2019t just animals in training that I would try so desperately to reach, it has been many animals throughout the course of my life. I, being a human being with a fully developed neocortex and the ability to plan, have always been better equipped than animals to understand what was necessary for the health and well-being of another species. Since I\u2019ve been an adult I\u2019ve had to do things that animals would consider quite unpleasant. I once spent twenty minutes in sub-freezing weather trying to put a jacket on a stubborn goat. I\u2019ve given nail trims to squirrels in rehab, become a one-woman fitness camp for dogs, restrained animals as painful mats were combed out of their coats, given hoof and tusk trims to pigs, medicated countless species, and once even pried a snake off the finger of an unfortunate pet store employee.\nIn all of those instances I knew that I knew better than the animal, and as a higher order mammal, I felt a responsibility to act to help them in that moment in time. In Genesis 2:15, God instructed us to take care of the Earth and the animals, so I knew that it was my Christian duty to help. But, oh, how often have I desperately wished that I could get on their level and explain to them why I did what I did. I knew that I had to be the bad guy to save them from themselves. If I had the power to become a squirrel, or a dog, or a cat, or a pig, then they would have understood my actions and things would have been much easier and less scary for them.\nBut of course, I can\u2019t ever be a dog or a cat or any other animal. I can\u2019t become something I\u2019m not to save what some may consider an inferior species. As much as I want to, I can\u2019t stoop down and save another species. I can\u2019t do that, but God can. And God did.\nYou see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous man, though for a good man someone might dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.\nIn the beginning, God created everything that is in the universe. Amazingly, as big and powerful; as omnipotent and omniscient as He is, He still bothered to care about us human beings. When God put us on the Earth, He had ideals, as described in Genesis and Isaiah, plans for us that we, in our rebellious state, have failed to live up to. God could have written us off as a bunch of dirty, rotten, sinners from the moment that Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. God could have given up on us after the great flood, but He didn\u2019t. From the beginning of time onward, God has refused to give up on us. He sent prophets to act as His spokesman and warn His children about the dangerous path that they were on. But more often than not, it was to no avail. He just couldn\u2019t get through to us.\nMankind, throughout history, has refused to listen to God\u2019s warnings. Compared to God we are an inferior species. God knows what is right for us, but we refuse to do it. Like a cat getting a bath, or a squirrel getting a nail trim, we claw and bite and refuse to let anybody save us from ourselves. God tries to get it through our thick skulls what we need to do, but we\u2019re too ignorant, too inferior, and we just don\u2019t understand.\nEventually, God stopped charging walls. He couldn\u2019t get through to us on His terms, so He came to us on our level. Roughly 2,000 years ago in a stable in Bethlehem, God came to us as a human infant. He could not come to us as a deity, our feeble brains couldn\u2019t comprehend that. He couldn\u2019t come to us through prophets, we\u2019ve had a tendency to scoff, imprison, or outright murder God\u2019s spokesmen. So, He came to us as us. A God in human form. He spoke to us in our language, plain words that we could understand. And He showed His care for us and His solidarity with us, by sending His Son down here to be one of us.\nAfter spending some thirty-three years in human form, His time was up. He\u2019d taught us what He came to teach us. And so, as the ultimate sacrifice, He stretched his arms as wide as He could, to show us how great was His love for us, and He had those arms nailed to a cross where He died. Righteous people die all the time, but Jesus was no righteous person. He was God in human form, the grave could not contain Him. He did not stay dead, but briefly walked among humanity before ascending to His heavenly throne.\nGod knew that humanity was on a dangerous path. In His love for us, he became us, and in so doing, He was able to save us. I have often wished that I could become an animal to save the animals. Despite my love for animals, and despite my previous training, I could never experience the world as they experienced it. To them, my benevolent acts were viewed as punishment. I couldn\u2019t explain to them my purpose, I couldn\u2019t always reach through their fear, and for their part, they couldn\u2019t understand my actions. Everything must have seemed so arbitrary. God was able to accomplish for humanity the very thing I could never do for animals. Jesus was fully human; he felt hungry, thirsty, frustrated, angry, sorrowful, compassionate, annoyed, joyous, and even intense physical pain. And in the end, He managed to save us all.\nRighteous people die all the time, but Jesus was no righteous person. He was God in human form, the grave could not contain Him. 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The Laser swerving across the road to hit a brick wall - the one near the sports grounds at the back of Seaforth - yellow bonnet crumpling, metal screeching, indicator lights exploding and spraying orange glass. My neck whiplashes forward, the windscreen shatters and the car presses in around me like a cocoon. Tight, tight, tighter, the warmest hug in the world.\nIt scares me. I don't want to do it. But sometimes I think it's the only way I'll be able to turn off what's in my head.\n(From chapter 2 of Raw Blue.)\nCarly is living a half-life, working dead hours in a restaurant so she can surf during the day, and generally trying to get by without being noticed. Surfing is the only way she knows to be happy, because it allows her to forget the awful thing that happened to her - the thing she refuses to talk about, but which permeates every aspect of her existence.\nDespite her best efforts, Carly becomes pulled into the lives of others, most notably a lonely woman in the flat above, an oddball kid and an attractive surfer with a mysterious past of his own.\nThe thing about hiding from your trauma is that it doesn't go anywhere. It stays in your head, taking up more and more space, becoming more and more impermeable, until inevitably you crash into it. In Raw Blue, the reader can see the crash coming from chapter one, but the narrative is so compelling, so exquisitely, quietly painful, that (to adopt a clich\u00e9) it's impossible to look away.\nBecause Carly's narrative, filled as it is with the minutiae of a life unlived, is hugely compelling. Her uncertainties and fears (what will happen if she does this? How will someone react if she puts a foot wrong?) are exaggerated versions of those faced by many of us as we navigate the world on a daily basis. She is smart but vulnerable and dedicated to being invulnerable, constantly prepared to forestall the next bad thing that might happen to her.\nFrom Carly's viewpoint even her escape (surfing) is fraught with tension. Take the line-up of surfers, with its internal politics and suspicion of outsiders, women and children. The chaos of the ocean despite Coastalwatch's best efforts at prediction. Carly's attempts to stay under the radar, which are continually thwarted by the attentions, well-intentioned or not, of her fellow surfers. However hard she tries, she can't avoid bumping up against other people and her own past.\nAs a first novel, Raw Blue is seriously impressive - and I haven't even mentioned a lot of the things I liked about it, so I'll just list them briefly here: the setting (Sydney's Northern Beaches), the taut, compelling writing, the understated anger (so understated that you get the impression even Carly doesn't realise it's there) in the narrative voice, the way what was done to Carly is dealt with, the very lovely (and yet imperfect) Ryan, Eagar's obvious love for the ocean. This is the first of Kirsty Eagar's books that I've read, and I will be on the lookout for more.\nVersion I read: Catnip Books paperback won in a competition held by Shelleyrae of Book'd Out. The book is available in Australia, the UK and I believe also in the USA.\nTo learn more about Kirsty Eagar, check out her website.\nFrom: veganyanerds.blogspot.com\nGreat review, Liz! 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In a provincial English town with cobbled market square and an ancient monastery reigns idyll, but is it seems for real? What lies behind a beautiful English facade? In fact, a quiet town has long been in a state of war. Rich in conflict with the poor, teenagers \u2013 with their parents, wives \u2013 their husbands, teachers \u2013 with students\u2026 Pegford is not what it seems at first sight. And vacated seat in the local council only exacerbates these conflicts, which threatens to lead to a war, which has not seen in a small town before\u2026\nOriginal Title: The Casual Vacancy\nCreator: Jonny Campbell\nCast: Silas Carson, Joe Hurst, Michael Gambon\nDownload full episodes of The Casual Vacancy (season 1) for free", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 330, "original_length": 6700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://locations.theupsstore.com/tx/waxahachie/791-hwy-77-n", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:55Z", "digest": "sha1:4CYYVJV63TDLWZLNRGYDFITGSQPMDXGT", "length": 4516, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "locations.theupsstore.com", "title": "The UPS Store Waxahachie: Shipping & Packing, Printing and Mailboxes in Waxahachie , TX", "raw_content": "The UPS Store Waxahachie\nYour resource for mailbox, shipping, and printing services in Waxahachie, TX.\nSte 501-C\nBehind Cotton Patch\nAt The UPS Store located on 791 Hwy 77 N in TX, we are your professional packing and shipping resource. Not only are we certified packing experts, we also offer a variety of shipping service options when you need to send your items. Whether you need to send something overnight or via expedited air service, or have a really large box you need to ship, we are your pack and ship store that\u2019s ready to help.\nYou can count on the printing professionals at The UPS Store Waxahachie to help you make a lasting impression. We offer a wide range of printing and copying services to help you promote your small business or prepare for your personal event or presentation. Place your order online or stop by our store to get started.\nThe UPS Store is your professional packing and shipping resource in Waxahachie. We offer a range of domestic, international and freight shipping services as well as custom shipping boxes, moving boxes and packing supplies. The UPS Store Certified Packing Experts at 791 Hwy 77 N are here to help you ship with confidence.\nLooking for a notary public in 75165? 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I was playing around with an idea for 4 books and I started with three separate titles\u2026 Then I politely asked my muse to fill in the blanks.\nMy muse appears to be bi-sexual. When I worked on the \u201csexy\u201d title I felt as if I was looking at my subject matter at first as a woman, then as a man\u2026 In any case, in an hour I had three well thought out titles with multiple subtitles/headers to work with. Both the muse and I are not quite sure about the 4th book. We need the title first\u2026 I\u2019ll sleep on that, or watch a movie, read a book, and come back to it. That will give my muse time to show me what the 4th title should be.\nMy muse visits me in dreams. That\u2019s an exciting way to write poetry\u2014dream interpretation. You\u2019d have to read some of my poetry books to understand that comment. It\u2019s fun actually when my muse visits in a dream because we don\u2019t have to write anything real\u2014we have true poetic/dream state license to play with our words.\nWhen I write fiction I\u2019ve had some amazing experiences! In The Lei Crime Series: NARCO ORPHANS (Kindle Worlds Novella) I thought I was in control of the plot. But my muse took over and added an element that came out of the blue\u2014or should I say out of an explosion and raid on a drug cartel in the mountains. I was so shocked! It made me cry when I saw where my muse was taking my novella. And for me, that\u2019s a very good thing.\nI use an excel worksheet to plot my mysteries. I have to because I like to work with several plot lines that will intersect. So I need to be organized. In my most recent novella JET: Displaced (Kindle Worlds Novella) (JET-Displaced Book 4) about 3/4 of the way through the story a new character arrived. I swear to you I gasped! This person appeared out of nowhere and made my heart sing!\nMy muse is magical. We love each other. I know when I start a project that I will be more surprised at the finished product than the reader. And that\u2019s why for me writing with my muse is a passionate love affair.\nPosted in: Quora, Thoughts | Tagged: am writing, books, characters, dream interpretation, dreams, life, love, love affair, muse, non-fiction, novel, On Writing, plot, POETRY, process, self help, writers skills\nHow did you start over after you had lost everything? How did you get your life together? Q\nWhat is the worst yet also the best day of your life?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Anti-Semitism-on-US-college-campuses-educating-pro-Israel-Americans-and-marking-the-Shoah-396261", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OC5QL2EDETNZPVNF2LA74GXCLQXZC5SQ", "length": 8155, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "m.jpost.com", "title": "Anti-Semitism on US college campuses, educating pro-Israel Americans and marking the Shoah | The Jerusalem post", "raw_content": "Anti-Semitism on US college campuses, educating pro-Israel Americans and marking the Shoah\nTel Aviv University campus (photo credit: PR)\nLast week I was privileged to speak to two very different audiences about the Middle East and Israel.\nThough the talks had the same title, \u201cUnderstanding the Middle East: Iran, the Sunni-Shi\u2019ite War, the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism and the Delegitimization of Israel,\u201d the reasons I was invited, and the questions I received were profoundly different.\nThe first talk was at Purchase College in Westchester County, New York. I had been invited as part of my college speaking tour on the Middle East which brought me to many universities in the Northeast, i.e. Harvard, Cornell, Brown, SUNY Oneonta SUNY Binghamton and more. The first scheduled speaking date was postponed because of a snowstorm. Coincidentally, a week before the rescheduled talk, the campus was defaced with anti-Semitic and racist graffiti including swastikas and a noose.\nThere is a rash of anti-Semitism now sweeping college campuses. I know this because my organization, Middle East Political and Information Network (MEPIN), is continually being asked to sign letters to college presidents throughout the country responding to the growing number of anti-Semitic incidents, insisting that universities maintain a safe environment for Jewish students.\nI was told that even before this anti-Semitic incident, the topic of my speech had created a controversy on campus, especially among a growing anti-Israel movement, and that I should be prepared to receive a hostile reception. The anti-Israel group did ask some provocative questions during my talk, but to their credit they choose not to interrupt the talk or intimidate Jewish students as other anti-Israel groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine have done. Perhaps the police presence had something to do with it.\nHillel of Westchester, and the Westchester pro-Israel community, responded to the display of anti-Semitism by publicizing my talk to the local Jewish community and rallying support for the students by coming out in large numbers. Purchase College is not known as a hotbed of political activism, but nowadays anti-Israel activists of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement are targeting almost every college, and the anti-Israel activity often turns into simple, ugly anti-Semitism.\nThe State Department\u2019s working definition of anti-Semitism says that if you deny the Jewish State of Israel the right to exist, or hold it to a standard not asked of any other nations, that is anti-Semitism. Advocates of BDS against Israel fit that definition when they have nothing to say about the current major violators of human rights around the world, denying basic rights to women, committing mass genocides, and abrogating the rule of law to punish their political opponents.\nLater in the week I was invited to speak at a non-denominational Protestant Church of primarily African American New Yorkers. I cannot remember a more engaged audience, eager to learn what is really going on in the Middle East. What impressed me most was that they were totally aware of the way many mainstream media outlets editorialize the news, as they report it in their supposedly non-editorial pages, fitted to their own opinions. I only wish the Progressive readers of The New York Times were as astute as this audience. They were passionate about Israel, frustrated with the administration\u2019s pressure on Israel and its readiness to capitulate to the Iranians. Members of the audience asked me how they could become active in advocating for Israel.\nBoth groups, college kids under attack for their pro-Israel activism and church groups willing to advocate for Israel, present challenges and opportunities for the pro-Israel American Jewish community.\nAmerica is a Christian majority nation. There are many Christians in America, both Protestant and Catholic, who would like to support Israel based not only on religious teachings but because they see in Israel a liberal humane nation and a strategic asset to America. But pro-Israel groups, both Jewish and Gentile, liberal and conservative, need to work to coordinate their resources to educate religious communities. If pro-Israel advocates fail to connect with America\u2019s churches of all denominations, the vacuum will be filled by anti-Israel groups who have already hoodwinked some denominations into joining forces with those groups pushing for BDS, convincing them that Israel is the schoolyard bully, picking on an innocent underdog.\nOn the college campus, our kids are besieged by a growing plague of anti-Zionism in the name of political correctness and anti-colonialism.\nAs Phyllis Chesler, a leading voice of the feminist movement, says, the \u201cnew anti-Semitism\u201d is nearly inseparable from anti-Zionism. According to a recent survey by Trinity College, the majority of secular and religious Jewish students on American college have experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism during their college careers.\nWe must support our college students and provide them with an environment that isn\u2019t poisoned by anti-Semitism. That means fighting the BDS movement, not rationalizing it, legitimizing it, and providing Jewish forums to demonize the Jewish state. Are you listening, New Israel Fund and J Street? As Malcolm Hoenlein, the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations said, \u201cIt is the BDS movement that is the 21st century form of 20th century anti-Semitism...\nit is attacking the collective Jew, Israel, rather than the individual Jew that we saw 70 years ago.\u201d\nWhich brings me to the third speech. I will be speaking to a Shoah commemoration in New York, where there will be many young Jewish adults in attendance. They are our future, and the following is what I will say to them.\nAnti-Semitism in the 21st century has changed its face from the racial and religious anti-Semitism directed at the individual Jew in the 20th century, to focusing on the Jew among nations, Israel. You may hear someone claim that they are not anti-Semitic, just anti-Zionist. Don\u2019t believe it.\nIsrael is our ultimate victory over the Nazis, with its ground-breaking medical and scientific discoveries, a vibrant free society, the only liberal democracy in a region filled with unstable, brutal, repressive, corrupt regimes. As American Jews, we should be honored and proud to support Israel as the miracle that rose out of the ashes of humanity\u2019s darkest hour.\nToday, Holocaust deniers proliferate, and challenge the very fact of the unspeakable horrors of the Shoah.\nIn Iran, President Hassan Rouhani reinstated an annual conference of Holocaust deniers and anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists. In the Palestinian Authority, President Mahmoud Abbas wrote his PhD thesis supporting Holocaust denial. Yet the most anti-Semitic nations in the world sit in the leading bodies of the United Nations, even controlling the human rights council.\nWhile we look back and try to honor the memories of those six million who were slaughtered, we must also look forward, and use all of our strength to defend endangered Jewish communities, whether in Europe, South America or Israel.\nWe need to be less reactive and more on the offense in our response. This includes empowering non-Jewish pro-Israel Americans with the information and knowledge to effectively advocate for the Jewish state. Over 70 percent of Americans are sympathetic to Israel, but their knowledge is a mile wide and an inch deep. 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Galang | Page 2", "raw_content": "Life as a \u201cSingle\u201d Guy \u2013 Stories Through Musical Improvisation: XI. \u201cYour Hand Upon Mine\u201d (08/10/2015)\nWe met one Friday evening after that emotional roller coaster. It was the second time we were talking and spending time face to face, an unforgettable moment. We ate and drank. Our minds met in the most cohesive way. We held each other\u2019s hands for the first time in 18 years. It felt warm, comforting, reassuring, and secure. As midnight approached, it felt so intense that it was as if fireworks lit up the sky. It was the happiest I\u2019ve been in years. How our minds meet and how her hand felt upon mine seem to make perfect sense. What will we make out of this, only time will tell. We were just enjoying that present moment, and in that instance we were very happy.\nLeave a comment Posted in Creativity, music composition, music improvisation, music performance, piano Tagged music composition, music improvisation, music performance, piano\nLife as a \u201cSingle\u201d Guy \u2013 Stories Through Musical Improvisation: X. \u201cIt Ain\u2019t Over\u201d (08/08/2015)\nWhen I thought the door has been closed, it was still open. I gladly entered it. She was still there, the connection was still there, and we\u2019re enjoying the present. I may have felt shattered once but I guess I was able to pick up the pieces so it ain\u2019t over.\nLife as a \u201cSingle\u201d Guy \u2013 Stories Through Musical Improvisation: IX. \u201cA Full Day\u201d (07/31/2015)\nFridays can be filled with so much things to do. 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In the wake of recent product recalls, pressure is now mounting on the agriculture industry to keep the food we eat healthy.\nBio-pesticides harness the science of biotechnology to control pests and contamination in a sustainable, non-toxic manner. A company that is leveraging the power of bio-pesticides is Agri-Neo Inc., which develops and markets low-risk agricultural chemicals, biologicals and plant extracts. The company launched this week a new organic sanitizer, Neo-Pure, that destroys pathogens on raw food such as edible seeds, nuts and spices.\nDangerous pathogens, such as certain bacteria or fungi, can contaminate raw food products at one or more points as the food travels from field to package. It only takes one seed, nut or spice with harmful pathogens like E.coli or Salmonella to lead to disease outbreaks and product recalls.\nRob Wong, president and chief operating officer of Agri-Neo, says preventing contamination before food hits store shelves is a key step to keeping raw food safe, especially for popular superfoods such as seeds.\n\u201cCertain food products are highly susceptible to pathogens. For example, edible seeds like hemp, chia and flax that are eaten raw by most people. On one hand, it\u2019s great because you\u2019re maintaining the nutritional profile of those products. But on the other hand, because you\u2019re not cooking it, those dangers are a lot greater,\u201d Wong said.\nSeed products are traditionally tested by sampling small batches of product for analysis in order to identify any contaminations. However, this randomized process is unlikely to detect all contaminated seeds. Just this past August, there was a massive recall in Canada when Salmonella was found in chia seed powder.\nAs a result of this event, and many others like it, regulations such as the Safe Food for Canadians Act (in Canada) and the Food Safety Modernization Act (in the US) are now beginning to mandate preventative treatments for pathogen control. And with increasing health awareness and consumer fondness for organic food, the demand for bio-pesticides in agriculture is set to open up more competition in the market. BCC Research estimates that the global bio-pesticide and synthetic pesticide market will grow from $54.8 billion in 2013 to nearly $83.7 billion by 2019. Bio-pesticides will account for $6.9 billion of that total, representing an annual compound growth rate of 13.9% from 2014.\nAgri-Neo\u2019s new organic sanitizer, Neo-Pure, provides instantaneous contact control of pathogens on the surface and inside raw food products. The product uses peracetic acid, an organic compound, to disinfect a food product. The sanitizer then biodegrades completely, leaving no residues, which means that the taste, smell, appearance and nutritional profile of the raw food products remain unchanged. This enables food companies to eliminate the risks of contamination or recall.\nAgri-Neo has already closed its first round of sales of Neo-Pure, which is approved by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and HACCP-endorsed, a guideline for food safety principles adopted by most countries around the world. The sanitizer is already in use by Advantage Health Matters, an organic food distributor, who began looking for a way to sanitize its products after one of its brands was recalled due to possible food safety concerns.\nThe appetite for sustainable agricultural practices among farmers, manufacturers and consumers is likely to grow as demand for food around the world increases. Pest resistance, environmental impact and consumer backlash to conventional synthetic chemicals are putting increased pressure for sustainable ways to grow and treat the food that ends up on our tables.\n\u201cAgriculture has to change. It\u2019s not like there\u2019s going to be more arable land to farm or more fresh water. The big question in agriculture right now is: How do you get more with less? We\u2019re trying to do that in our sustainable way by making bio-pesticides the standard,\u201d Wong said.\nWatch this video to learn more about Neo-Pure.\nPressure gauge: The future of weather is in your back pocket", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 6626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matthewbibby.com/hyperlinkinfo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ALV6RD7S63IVLE2GOWO4EUWY6TBG3EZJ", "length": 238, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "matthewbibby.com", "title": "Thank You", "raw_content": "Thanks for letting me know that you'd like to know more about the automated hyperlink tester system.\nI'll be in touch shortly with details.\nIf you have any questions in the meantime, let me know.\nMatthew Bibby Posted on January 21st, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mayo615.com/2013/02/14/1542/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:35Z", "digest": "sha1:DLNEKS5G5QYKBVM5C7GA62BELAUT7XTD", "length": 1691, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "mayo615.com", "title": "U.S. Ranks Lowly 8th in Global Internet Race: Sweden #1 | mayo615", "raw_content": "You are here: Home \u00bb U.S. Ranks Lowly 8th in Global Internet Race: Sweden #1\nFurther evidence that Yale Law Professor Susan P. Crawford is right about a telecom monopoly in North America that is throttling the Internet and endangering our economic competitiveness. Read Ms. Crawford\u2019s book, \u201cCaptive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age.\u201d Professor Crawford is also being promoted to succeed Julius Genachowski, as FCC Chairman. I wholeheartedly endorse her.\nSweden was the first country to launch an LTE network, and it retains plenty of bragging rights. According to a study by U.K. network-testing firm OpenSignal, Sweden has the fastest 4G networks in the world, averaging download speeds of 22.1 Mbps.\nThe U.S. was the second country to deliver commercial LTE networks on the world stage, but it ranks far lower in terms of 4G bandwidth delivered. OpenSignal found that networks in Hong Kong, Denmark, Canada, Australia, South Korea and Germany all performed better. The U.S. placed eighth, averaging downlink speeds of 9.6 Mbps.\nWhy the low scores? It probably has to do with the configuration of U.S. carriers\u2019 networks. While most operators around the world secured 40 MHz of spectrum with which to launch their new 4G networks, U.S. carriers have been working with smaller swatches of airwaves. Verizon(s vz)(s vod) and AT&T(s t) are using 20\u2026\nTags: 4G, Barack Obama, Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry, Crawford, featured, Federal Communication Commission, Julius Genachowski, LTE, Monopoly, Susan P. 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Pride\u2019s products are considered the industry standard based upon their precision, accuracy and reliability. The transaction represents a new partnership between May River and the majority of Pride\u2019s prior shareholders, including Mark Zauhar, founder, Bruce Allyn, President, and David Gadow, Director of Engineering & Manufacturing. In addition to investing alongside May River, Messrs. Zauhar and Allyn will also serve with May River on Pride\u2019s Board of Directors.\nBruce Allyn, President of Pride, said \u201cWe are delighted to partner with May River. They share our vision for growing Pride and can provide financial, strategic and professional resources required to accomplish our goals and to provide our customers with the best products in the world.\u201d Mark Zauhar, founder of Pride, added \u201cThis recapitalization is a positive outcome for our shareholders, employees and customers.\u201d\nSteve Griesemer, May River Partner, said \u201cWe were immediately drawn to Pride\u2019s proprietary technology, its strong customer relationships, its large, global installed base, and the mission critical nature of Pride\u2019s products.\u201d Chip Grace, also a May River Partner, added \u201cMay River is pleased to be selected to partner with Pride\u2019s management team in the acquisition. We look forward to assisting Bruce and the team in realizing Pride\u2019s full potential in the years to come.\u201d\nFranklin Partners Inc. served as financial advisor to Pride and the selling shareholders in this transaction. Fifth Third Bank provided senior and subordinated debt financing in support of the recapitalization. Paul Hastings LLP served as legal counsel to May River and its investor group, while Ravich Meyer served as counsel to the Company and its shareholders.\nABOUT PRIDE ENGINEERING\nPride Engineering designs and manufactures highly-engineered, mission-critical, multi-piece machine tools and related equipment for the front-end production of two-piece food and beverage cans. The Company\u2019s product offering includes can body-forming tool packs, can bottom formers or \u201cdomers\u201d, precision grinders, and the newly introduced GuardianTM line of Over Travel Sensors. Pride\u2019s products are used in over 365 can-making lines in facilities around the world. Pride\u2019s products utilize proprietary technology that extends the wearable life of can-making equipment and provides precision and consistency that cannot be replicated by other competitors. Pride\u2019s products are considered the industry standard by two-piece food and beverage can makers around the world. 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Mark your calendar now! Tickets will go on sale later this summer and are expected to go fast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 181.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mediahuis.be/en/media/nieuwsblad-gentenaar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:12Z", "digest": "sha1:Y57QMGOXVJRT6IAL7JOT56VJA7VPW632", "length": 2317, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mediahuis.be", "title": "Het Nieuwsblad/De Gentenaar - Mediahuis", "raw_content": "Read along. Live along.\nHet Nieuwsblad follows current events from near and far. Notjust the hard facts of politics and economics, but also the human stories behind the events. That makes Het Nieuwsblad a unique, accessible newspaper, easy to read for the whole family. Het Nieuwsblad is a valuable source of information, a guide for living in today\u2019s world, a committed newspaper that dares to voice an opinion. We show what's happening and bring the world to our readers.\nHet Nieuwsblad in perspective\nReaders of Het Nieuwsblad want to have their say about everything. That\u2019s why the newspaper closely follows the news and offers a constant flow of accessible and accurate information to a broad audience.\nHet Nieuwsblad is never far away. The newspaper is at the centre of local life and offers the largest selection of regional news and sports in a handy removable section every day.\nSportwereld is the most extensive and varied sports paper in the country. In addition to major world events, we put the spotlight on the provincial leagues and even youth teams.\nAn overview of the most current news divided into five broad sections: general news, sports, region, BV & CO and SHE. Subscribers have unlimited access to all N+ articles on the website.\nNB newspaper app\nThe newspaper and supplements are available online to subscribers - on smartphones, tablets and PCs. On Sundays we publish the exclusive digital Sunday paper, giving readers fresh content from Het Nieuwsblad seven days a week.\nNB news app\nThe news app provides an overview of the main regional, national and international headlines at all times. Sport fans will find the latest sports news and live reports.\nN+ newsletter\nIn the N+ newsletter the editors select some of the most interesting articles and scoops from the following day's paper - meaning subscribers are always a step ahead of the news.\nNU, Het Nieuwsblad\u2019 weekend supplement, presents topics that are close to your heart, relevant to our times and thoroughly explored through engaging stories, sharp columns and topical interviews.\nEvery Saturday, the consumer magazine Check tests everything for the reader, from food, drink and gadgets to home decoration, cars and travel.\nOn Wednesday, kids get the Jommekeskrant: eight pages of news, comics and games tailored for young readers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 312.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://medical.gerber.com/nutrition-health-topics/allergy-and-immunity/articles/pediatric-allergy-impact-of-early-feeding", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OEDI3LHLZZLI27EV5UZBNXCSVEDSNY3K", "length": 1204, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "medical.gerber.com", "title": "Pediatric Allergy | Allergy | Articles | Gerber Medical", "raw_content": "\"A discussion by Dr. Jose Saavedra, Medical and Scientific Director at Nestl\u00e9 Nutrition and a pediatric gastroenterologist at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Public Health, regarding the possible impact of early feeding choices and risk of developing atopic dermatitis\"\nThis video is for medical education only and contains information that may not be consistent with the Qualified Health Claim accepted by the FDA which is as follows: Little scientific information evidence suggests that, for healthy infants who are not exclusively breastfed and who have a family history of allergy, feeding a 100% whey protein partially hydrolyzed infant formula from birth up to 4 months instead of an intact cow\u2019s milk protein formula may reduce the risk of developing atopic dermatitis throughout the first year of life and up to 1 year of age. GERBER\u00ae GOOD START\u00ae formulas should not be fed to infants with existing milk allergy or to infants with existing milk allergy symptoms.\nBreastfeeding is by far the best way to nourish an infant.\nLearn about the first-ever Qualified Health Claim for infant formula\nRead FAQs about the first-ever Qualified Health Claim for infant formula\nRead Gerber\u2019s Press release", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mentoringreece.com/astronomers-date-sapphos-2500-year-old-poem/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:22Z", "digest": "sha1:6MH2VVATJPD7RSLDWBTY24K6KODCWUGC", "length": 4893, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "mentoringreece.com", "title": "Astronomers Date 2,500-Year-Old Poem - Mentor - Study abroad in Greece", "raw_content": "Astronomers Date 2,500-Year-Old Poem\nBy Mentor in Greece Date October 1, 2017\nFor centuries, scholars have mined the verse of Greek lyric poet Sappho, Plato\u2019s \u201ctenth Muse\u201c, for clues about her life. Her biography remains speculation: Most of her poetry was lost, and what\u2019s left survives only in papyri fragments. One such bit of verse, called \u201cMidnight Poem\u201d, describes a lonely night of stargazing. Here is Henry Thornton Warton\u2019s 1887 translation, from the original Aeolic Greek:\nThough these musings seem sweeping, they contain scraps of information about the particular night in question: Sappho describes a night when the moon, and the star cluster Pleiades, set before midnight on the island of Lesbos. Now, in the tradition of trying to paint a biographical portrait of Sappho from her work, a group of astronomers and a physicist at the University of Texas, Arlington have attempted to seasonally date \u201cMidnight Poem\u201d using these bits of data.\nUsing highly-specialised astronomical software, a team of scientists has managed to accurately date \u2018Midnight Poem\u2019, a work by lyric poet Sappho. The poem, according to the researchers, describes the night sky in Greece, some 2,500 years ago. Recently published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, the paper, titled \u2018Seasonal dating of Sappho\u2019s \u2018Midnight Poem\u2019 revisited\u2019, was the result of research by physicists and astronomers from the University of Texas at Arlington.\nThe team also included Martin George, the former head of the International Planetarium Society and a current member of the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand. Speaking about the study, Manfred Cuntz, a professor at the university and the paper\u2019s chief author, said:\n\u201cThis is an example of where the scientific community can make a contribution to knowledge described in important ancient texts. Estimations had been made for the timing of this poem in the past, but we were able to scientifically confirm the season that corresponds to her specific descriptions of the night sky in the year 570 BCE.\u201d\nIn \u2018Midnight Poem\u2019, Sappho describes in striking detail a star cluster called Pleiades. Observed from the island of Lesbos, which was also the birthplace of the ancient Greek poetess, the Pleiades is depicted as setting at about midnight. With the help of an advanced computer program, known as Starry Night Version 7.3, Cuntz and his colleague Levent Gurdemir successfully identified the earliest date, on which the star cluster might have set at around midnight or earlier, in 570 BCE. Using the high-tech Planetarium system, called Digistar 5, the researchers were also able to accurately recreate the night sky in ancient Greece, during Sappho\u2019s time. Gurdemir added:\n\u201cUse of Planetarium software permits us to simulate the night sky more accurately on any date, past or future, at any location. This is an example of how we are opening up the Planetarium to research into disciplines beyond astronomy, including geosciences, biology, chemistry, art, literature, architecture, history and even medicine.\u201d\nAccording to the astronomers, in the year 570 BCE, the earliest date that the Pleiades set at or slightly before midnight was January 25, which is possibly what the poem refers to. In fact, the time, at which the star cluster set, got progressively earlier as the year went on. Cuntz explained:\n\u201cThe timing question is complex as at that time they did not have accurate mechanical clocks as we do, only perhaps water clocks. For that reason, we also identified the latest date on which the Pleiades would have been visible to Sappho from that location on different dates some time during the evening.\u201d\nAdditionally, the scientists estimated that the last date for the Pleiades star cluster to be visible towards the end of what is known as astronomical twilight \u2013 the instant when the Sun\u2019s altitude is exactly -18 degrees, and consequently, the sky is perfectly dark \u2013 was likely March 31. Many of Sappho\u2019s poems deal with astronomy, with some referring to the Sun, the Moon, the stars and even Venus. Cuntz went on the say:\n\u201cFrom there, we were able to accurately seasonally date this poem to mid-winter and early spring, scientifically confirming earlier estimations by other scholars\u2026 Sappho should be considered an informal contributor to early Greek astronomy as well as to Greek society at large. Not many ancient poets comment on astronomical observations as clearly as she does.\u201d\nTalking about the significance of the research in the field of astronomy and science, Morteza Khaledi, the dean of the university\u2019s College of Science, said:\n\u201cThis research helps to break down the traditional silos between science and the liberal arts, by using high-precision technology to accurate date ancient poetry. It also demonstrates that the Planetarium\u2019s reach can go way beyond astronomy into multiple fields of research.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 5729, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://merryjane.com/news/los-angeles-residents-demand-diversity-in-cannabis-industry-at-town-hall", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:14Z", "digest": "sha1:PGOGCQXJDGOACIKFTBIKE6YXDNOOFPWF", "length": 2338, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "merryjane.com", "title": "Los Angeles Residents Demand Diversity in Cannabis Industry at Town Hall - NEWS", "raw_content": "Los Angeles Residents Demand Diversity in Cannabis Industry at Town Hall\nCannabis advocates want to ensure that racial diversity is not an afterthought.\nLast week, around 150 people gathered at the Expo Center in Los Angeles to discuss concerns over ensuring racial diversity in California's rapidly growing cannabis industry. This town hall meeting will be the \u201cfirst of several\u201d such hearings that will focus on the ramifications of full recreational legalization in the state, according to Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer.\n\u201cThe war on drugs has really been a war on communities of color,\u201d said Jones-Sawyer, whose Assembly district comprises a majority of black and Latino constituents. At the hearing, he explained that he got involved in cannabis regulations to ensure that the new rules would \u201cunwind all the damage\u201d done to minority communities, rather than make it worse.\nJones-Sawyer called members of the community his \u201csoldiers and advocates,\u201d and urged them to directly get involved in the cannabis industry. \u201cWe get so afraid of the form and the bureaucracy and going into the building, we end up not participating at all,\u201d he said. The Assemblyman encouraged potential business owners to consider opening cannabis cultivation businesses on Alameda Street, an avenue in his district that currently boasts one of the largest numbers of cannabis manufacturers in the state.\nThe meeting provided a basic, ground-floor guide on how to get started in the cannabis industry. Lori Ajax, head of the state Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation, described the state's new application process, which will allow potential business owners to apply for a license and pay their fees online, and then receive notifications of acceptance or denial via email. \u201cHopefully it\u2019s going to be as easy as that,\u201d she said.\nAlso present at the meeting was Virgil Grant, co-founder of the Southern California Coalition and the California Minority Alliance. Grant has been working through these organizations to develop an equity program for the cannabis industry with L.A. city officials. At the hearing, Grant explained the importance of ensuring that this equity program was incorporated from the start. \u201cWe don\u2019t want it to be an afterthought,\u201d he said.\nnewsBusinesspoliticsLegalizationLegislationcaliforniadispensariessafetyElection 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5780, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://metrosource.com/reclaiming-my-pride-meet-the-judges/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HLTEX53PJ2YNADYDFGN5XCHE65Z2RIQL", "length": 7197, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "metrosource.com", "title": "Reclaiming My Pride \u2014 Meet the Judges | Metrosource Reclaiming My Pride \u2014 Meet the Judges | Metrosource", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Miscellaneous \u00bb Reclaiming My Pride \u2014 Meet the Judges\nReclaiming My Pride \u2014 Meet the Judges\nWritten by metroeditor| February 6, 2018| Miscellaneous\nFor Metrosource\u2019s Reclaiming My Pride Contest we sought out judges that are community leaders, along with having a passion for art to judge our finalists. The following eight judges scored the finalists\u2019 pieces based on the strength of the piece\u2019s description and how the submission fits within the Reclaiming My Pride themes of community, creativity, and charity, the uniqueness of the piece, and overall visual appeal.\nAli Hossaini, American artist, Philosopher, and Businessperson\nWorking at the cutting edge of art, technology, and business, Ali Hossaini\u2019s video installations have been exhibited throughout the world, winning acclaim from Vanity Fair, Cool Hunting and others, including The New York Times, which has called him a \u201cbiochemist turned philosopher turned television producer turned visual poet\u201d in a review of his 3D installation Ouroboros. He has worked with iconic talent including Brad Pitt, Salma Hayek and Dennis Hopper, and his productions have been presented by BAM, the Barbican, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, New York City Opera, the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum in Beijing and the American Museum of the Moving Image. He is Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Informatics, King\u2019s College London, a trustee of the Young Vic Theatre and an Associate of Lord Cultural Resources.\nBilly Schelly, Award-Winning Author\nBill Schelly is an award-winning author whose memoir Sense of Wonder, My Life in Comic Fandom is the story of a gay kid who found a home in the subculture of 1960s and 1970s comic fandom. As a teenager, he became an early creative force in fandom, created his own comics, and built a network of likeminded young people, turning his love of comics into a career as an adult. He received a degree in Art Education from the University of Idaho, and has written over 20 comics-related books, including SENSE OF WONDER from North Atlantic Books. His web site is Billschelly.net.\nChristopher Pusey,, Gallerist/Curator\nWith its roots in the heart of New York\u2019s East Village and a keen eye focused on established urban and emerging artist, veteran art dealer Christopher Pusey co- founded Dorian Grey Gallery in 2010. At the height of its popularity, DGG was the premier source for the most authentic works of art connected to the historic streets of New York City.\nIn 2017 Dorian Grey Projects evolved and transitioned to a private salon exhibition space in Soho specializes in art advising and curatorial services. Artists exhibited include Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Hambleton, STIK, Steven Lowy, Martha Cooper and a specialty co- branding Liberty project with Peter Max. Now in Chelsea, Christopher is the Sales Director at Chase Contemporary gallery, a 3000 sq foot venue on 10th Ave. specializing in paintings by RETNA, and noted photographers such as Raphael Mazzucco, Terry Oneal, and Mark Seliger.\nElisabeth Condon, American Painter\nElisabeth Condon is an American painter whose extensive body of work features spills of poured paint as a central compositional landmark. Condon received the 2015 New York PULSE Prize for the body of work she created at Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai. She has also received a New York Studio School Mercedes Matter award, a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Florida Individual Artist Grant and numerous university grants. Condon\u2019s work is held in the public collections of the United States Foundation of Art in Embassies Program (Beijing), Perez Museum Miami, Tampa Museum of Art and JP Morgan Chase Collection, among others.\nFawn Rogers, LA Based Contemporary Artist\nFawn Rogers (born in Portland, Oregon) is a Los Angeles-based contemporary artist. Through painting, photography, video, and sculptural installation, Rogers addresses the idea of power as the currency of nature and human interaction, while her aesthetic incorporates realism, conceptualism, and the synthesis of text and image. Concerned with systems of the natural world and social constructionism, her art accepts nature as a full range of existence, including violence, innocence, and invention. She has shown her paintings, photographs, and conceptual installations in museums and galleries, alongside non-traditional locations on four continents.\nLaval Bryant, Senior Manager of Groups and Tourism Brooklyn Museum\nBorn in Harlem and raised across the street from the Brooklyn Museum, Laval\u2019s love and passion for the arts were fostered not only by her residence in cultural hubs, but by her schooling at the prestigious Calhoun School in Manhattan as well while pursuing a degree in Arts and Business at Brooklyn College. Over the course of her career, Laval has lent her talents and expertise in communications to several organizations including The Metropolitan Museum of Art as the Manager of Digital Audio Programming, Digital Media; however, Laval\u2019s passion and love for the community led her back to the Brooklyn Museum, and as the Manager of Groups and Tourism Sales.\nOutside of her work pursuits, Laval also serves as a Board member for the Cultural Museum of African Art, performs as a professional vocalist and songwriter, volunteers for the homeless, mentally ill, and chemically addicted, and an is staunch advocate for the Brooklyn Community.\nScott Frankel, Musical Theatre Composer\nScott Frankel is a musical theatre composer whose most recent workWar Paint(starring Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole), enjoyed a run on Broadway following a record-breaking engagement at the Goodman Theatre. Other works include Grey Gardens (Tony nomination)Far From Heaven (Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival)Happiness (Lincoln Center Theater)Doll (Ravinia Festival) and Meet Mister Future (Winner, Global Search for New Musicals). Earlier this year, The Songs of Scott Frankel & Michael Korie were presented as part of Lincoln Center\u2019s American Songbook series. Frankel is the recipient of the ASCAP Foundation New Horizons Richard Rodgers Award and the Frederick Loewe Award. He is a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and a graduate of Yale University.\nScooter LaForge, NYC Based Artist\nScooter LaForge is a full-time artist living in New York City. His work has been featured in shows at the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York, the Friedrichshof Museum in Vienna, and the Spiritmuseum/Absolut Art Collection in Sweden. His solo show How to Create a Monsterpiece, shown at the Howl! Happening Gallery in New York, was included on Autre\u2019s list of top ten exhibits of 2015. His most recent solo exhibition, Everything is Going to Be OK, in Bushwick\u2019s Theodore:Art, was recommended by The New York Times. He was commissioned to create garments for Madonna\u2019s performance of her single \u201cBitch I\u2019m Madonna\u201d on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Beyonc\u00e9, Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, and Debbie Harry have all worn items from his clothing line. The artist works closely with Patricia Field, legendary stylist and fashion maven, and is prominently featured on her ArtFashion gallery of made-to-order clothing.\ncontest reclaiming my pride", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 10403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://migrationsansfrontieres.com/2018/06/01/top-vacancies-in-migration-assistance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:06Z", "digest": "sha1:VCPTRCM4DCD6I5OXWJHYB6FODAANMTED", "length": 565, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "migrationsansfrontieres.com", "title": "Top Vacancies in \u2018Migration Assistance\u2019 \u2013 Migrations sans fronti\u00e8res / Migration Without Borders", "raw_content": "Vacancies in the field of protection migrants\u2019 rights, promotion of international migration law and other.\nWorking with IOM you\u2019ll get an opportunity to assist in the search for practical solutions to migration problems and to provide humanitarian assistance to migrants in need, including refugees and internally displaced people.\nIOM activities include the promotion of international migration law, policy debate and guidance, protection of migrants\u2019 rights, migration health and the gender dimension of migration.\nSource : Top Vacancies in \u2018Migration Assistance\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 7551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mikkomi.com/privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:17Z", "digest": "sha1:3KTHAMNANZBCTH56RD6PXB7DJMXC6S3P", "length": 1364, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mikkomi.com", "title": "Privacy Policy | Mikkomi", "raw_content": "Your privacy is important to us. 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However, this does not include trusted third parties who assist in operating our website, conducting our business, taking over client services, or servicing you, the client, so long as the third party keeps this information confidential.\nWe may release your information if we believe it to be appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.\nThis website is meant for people who are 13 years and older.\nThis is for information collected online only.\nIf we make changes to our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, and/or update the Privacy Policy modification date below.\nPrivacy Policy was last modified: December 20th, 2017 by Web Staff", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 299.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2015/10/29/minnesota-vikings-ol-sullivan-suffers-setback/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:42Z", "digest": "sha1:KFEPIDLI7XWO43BTJGAPWM4O2QX2NAMX", "length": 3986, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "minnesota.cbslocal.com", "title": "Minnesota Vikings OL Sullivan Suffers Setback \u2013 WCCO | CBS Minnesota", "raw_content": "Minnesota Vikings OL Sullivan Suffers Setback\nFiled Under:Brandon Fusco, Joe Berger, John Sullivan, Mike Zimmer, Minnesota Vikings, Vladimir Ducasse\nMINNEAPOLIS, MN - AUGUST 15: Joe Berger #61 of the Minnesota Vikings runs a play during the preseason game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on August 15, 2015 at TCF Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings defeated the Buccaneers 26-16. (Photo by Hannah Foslien/Getty Images)\nThe Minnesota Vikings expected to get John Sullivan back at some this season when he was placed on the injured reserve with the designation to return before the season began. After suffering a setback in the weight room a week and a half ago, the team is not sure the starting center will play again this season.\nThe eighth-year veteran quietly became one of the league\u2019s best centers while playing every game over the last three seasons for the Vikings. He had missed just three games in his career and has started every game he has played in since his second year in the league.\n\u201cIt was disappointing and he was doing really, really good and then all of a sudden, he had a little mishap, so he had to have another (surgery) done,\u201d Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer said Monday during his weekly press conference.\nIn his place, Joe Berger has been the starting center for all six games this season. Berger filled in last season when then-starting right guard Brandon Fusco and his primary backup Vladimir Ducasse were injured. Zimmer praised Berger at that time for stabilizing the offensive line.\nZimmer wants to prove the naysayers wrong\nThe Minnesota Vikings were a trendy sleeper pick during the offseason to make the playoffs as a wild card. That tune changed very quickly when they were blown out by the San Francisco 49ers in Week 1.\n\u201cI just think that, there was a lot of doubters after we lost to San Francisco, right?\u201d Zimmer said when asked who is doubting his team. \u201cI don\u2019t know. When people say we lose all of these games, we can\u2019t win a game on the road, we can\u2019t win a game in the division, I just take it personally I guess. Even tough I haven\u2019t been around that long. I\u2019m hearing it from 10 years ago, or something they\u2019re telling me.\u201d\nHowever, since that game, they have won four of five games and currently possess the second wild card spot in the NFC playoff standings. They have a full game or more lead on the teams chasing them.\n\u201cI like proving people wrong,\u201d Zimmer said. \u201cPeople have doubted me for a long, long time. I hope they keep doubting our football team, because that\u2019s the mentality I\u2019m trying to get them, say what you want and let\u2019s go prove it.\u201d\nThe Vikings have another chance to overcome their own history this week with a trip to Chicago to face the Bears. They haven\u2019t won in Soldier Field since 2007.\nThe Vikings announced several roster moves Tuesday. Cornerback Jabari Price was placed on injured reserve and wide receiver Donte Foster was released from the practice squad. Linebacker Brandon Watts was promoted from the practice squad to take Price\u2019s spot on the 53-man roster. Fullback Blake Renaud and linebacker Terrance Plummer were signed to the practice squad to fill the two open spots.\nPrice was suspended for the first two games of the season and has been inactive with a shoulder issue since.\nWatts was a seventh round pick of the Vikings in 2014. As a rookie, he played in two games and made one tackle. He was among the final cuts at the end of the preseason.\nFoster has been signed to and released from the Vikings practice squad a few times over the last two seasons.\nRenaud was signed as an undrafted rookie in April. He was among the team\u2019s final cuts at the end of the preseason.\nPlummer was signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted rookie following in April. He was among the Redskins last cuts, but was signed to their practice squad. He was promoted to the 53-man roster after Week 1 and was active for three games. He recorded one tackle before being waived following Week 4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 12647, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 182.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mirror.cruisenation.com/cruises-to/colon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:04Z", "digest": "sha1:O47JKELBXHHCQPHTPEQBMGZSGF6UIQZ5", "length": 823, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mirror.cruisenation.com", "title": "Cruises to Colon | Cruise Nation", "raw_content": "Cruises to Colon\nThe Panama Canal transit offers visitors to travel from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean in one day. You can marvel at one of the most interesting engineering wonders in the world.\nThe Panama Canal Railway runs parallel to the Panama Canal, enjoy the picturesque journey between Colon and Panama City as you travel through lush rainforests and alongside the historic Canal's locks.\nThe Panama Viejo is located within the old Panama City and former capital of the country. The site includes ruins of the first European settlement on the Pacific Coast and is on the UNESCO World Heritage list.\nLocated near the banks of the Panama Canal this National Park which dates back to the 16th century covers 55,000 acres and is known for its abundance of bird species and mammals including monkeys and sloths.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 529, "original_length": 11113, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 145.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://missionlocal.org/2015/03/eyewitnesses-speak-up-at-vigil-for-amilcar-lopez-perez/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HAVVNBGAO4Q6VDYJLQWZODJXKV6KJ36C", "length": 5196, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "missionlocal.org", "title": "Eyewitnesses Speak Up at Vigil for Amilcar L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez - Mission Local", "raw_content": "Eyewitnesses Speak Up at Vigil for Amilcar L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\nBy Andrea Valencia | Mar 8, 2015 | Featured, Front Page, Mobile, Today's Mission, Trouble | 0\nA photo of Amilcar L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez. Photo by Daniel Arauz.\nFor the first time the roommates of the 21 year-old Guatemalan shot to death by two plainclothes officers on Feb. 26 have come forward to give their version of events.\nThe two roommates, who asked that their name not be used for fear of reprisals, offered their statements to some 60 neighbors, activists, community members, and relatives of other victims killed by police who gathered at a Saturday vigil for Amilcar L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez.\n\u201cThe day he was killed, we saw everything,\u201d one said in Spanish. \u201cI want to say everything I know, but I am scared,\u201d he said adding that he feared being deported for not cooperating with police.\nBoth of the roommates are facing an eviction at the end of the month.\nOnce again, their version differed sharply from the official version which casts L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez as allegedly attempting to steal a bicycle with a knife when two plainclothes officers came on the scene at 9:45 p.m. The alleged victim thanked police for saving his life, police reported on the night of the incident.\nHowever, neighbors and eye witnesses assert that police walked into a crime in progress and confused L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez as a suspect, when in fact he was the victim. The witnesses said that the cyclist stole L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\u2019s cell phone and he was chasing after him.\nOne of the eyewitnesses offered more details at Saturday\u2019s vigil. \u201cThe cops came from behind him,\u201d he said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t realize they were cops. He squirmed away and ran towards the two (parked) cars. They ordered him to drop the weapon, he did -over there- (he signaled to the side of the altar on the sidewalk) and then they shot him.\u201d\nThe witness said he has \u201cbeen quiet, but I can\u2019t sleep.\u201d He made the statements in Spanish to some 60 people gathered around the memorial on Folsom Street, near 25th.\nNeighbor and civil rights attorney, Bill Simpich, conducted the vigil along with neighbor Jorge Hari Cal. L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\u2019s body will be taken to Guatemala once the autopsy is finalized in the coming days, said Simpich.\nThe second roommate was also scared to give his statement when detectives showed up at his house because it was starkly different from the police account of the facts.\n\u201cIf these cops acted in this manner and allegedly say they were attacked. It\u2019s not true. If later, we make a statement against that, what will become of us?\u201d he asked those gathered in front of the sidewalk memorial.\n\u201cWe are overwhelmed, stressed out, we can\u2019t sleep,\u201d he said adding that L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez was not attempting to steal the bicycle.\nOne of L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\u2019s roommates said that he had to break the news to L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez family in Guatemala, who are from indigenous descent. L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez was from Chiquimula, and it\u2019s very possible that Spanish was his second language, he said.\nL\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez had enrolled in English classes at CCSF a month and a half before he was killed, said one of his roommates. He was the oldest of three brothers and was the main economic supporter of his family. \u201cHe had just sent enough money to buy a tractor to plow the ground,\u201d he said.\nL\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez often worked 12 to 14 hour shifts to cover his multiple construction and restaurant jobs.\nNeighbors expect L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\u2019s father to visit in the coming weeks and to work with a steering committee that is in the works to file a lawsuit against the officers that killed him.\nPolice have identified the two plainclothes officers as Craig Tiffe and Eric Reboli.\nIndependent of the vigil, a march and rally was organized and attended by approximately 40 people who gathered at 16th and Mission. As the group made their way towards the Mission Police Station chanting \u201cHow do you spell murder? SFPD\u201d and \u201cWho killed Amilcar? SFPD,\u201d riot police and vans quickly followed them.\nThe group reached the 24th Street BART Plaza and quickly headed towards Folsom Street, where they retold the story of L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez. The group marched back to the BART plaza to wrap up the march.\nPeople started gathering at 6p.m. on Saturday for a vigil held for Amilcar L\u00f3pez P\u00e9rez, who was shot and killed by SFPD. Phoyo by Andrea Valencia\nBack at the vigil, a fundraising effort to help with expenses was said to be in the works to set up a bank account \u201cto make sure the money gets to the right people,\u201d said Simpich, referring to L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\u2019s family. Regardless, a glass bowl was passed around to start the collection.\n\u201cWe hope to do as much as we can to move forward with the plan, to get justice for Amilcar, for the fallen, for everyone,\u201d said Bill Simpich, a neighbor and civil rights attorney who is actively working with neighbors to create a steering committee.\nA facebook public group has been created as a means to establish a central calendar.\nOfficer involved shooting at 24th and Folsom\nAt vigil on Folsom, sharply different accounts of police shooting\nTempers flare at town hall for officer involved shooting\nNeighbors and clergy call for new police strategies\nTags: Amilcar L\u00f3pez-P\u00e9rez\nPreviousGood Morning Mission \u2013 the Terminator Sleeps\nNextPainting the Lexington Club Corner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 7558, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://misstula.wordpress.com/category/love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:50Z", "digest": "sha1:QV3NTYZVMQNKJTGAKELO7LTIIQU6ATTE", "length": 5152, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "misstula.wordpress.com", "title": "Love | Petula Caesar", "raw_content": "Where is the love? Not here (and hasn\u2019t been since 2004\u2026)\nby misstula in Love\nTonight, for some reason, I decided I wanted to blog about love.\nI can\u2019t really say exactly why I am feeling compelled to write this right now. But whenever I think about writing something, I write it. It doesn\u2019t matter what the subject, or what I think about it, or whether anyone else will get it. So why should writing about love be any different.\nI am sitting on my couch late tonight, trying to remember the last time a man told me he loved me. And believe me, it\u2019s requiring me to go way back as the saying goes\u2026back into time. In fact I have to travel back to 2004 to recall the last time a man said those three words to me. It was a man I thought I would marry at the time. I wanted to marry him, I really did. There is no relief in the world like the relief a single woman feels when she\u2019s finally met \u201cthe one\u201d and thinks she is at long last going to be taken \u201coff the market\u201d. I wouldn\u2019t say that being single is a horrible thing, but it grows tedious over time. And one thing that life has taught me is that people aren\u2019t meant to be alone. They really aren\u2019t. More often than not even when they say they are going to be along, they don\u2019t actually do it. They usually find someone (or several someones) to keep them company at least sometimes. But as fate would have it, I was not meant to marry this man. I can\u2019t say that I\u2019m sorry that we didn\u2019t marry; ultimately I think it was best that we part company. He wasn\u2019t ready to be a husband, and definitely not my husband. What I didn\u2019t realize was the last time he told me he loved me was going to be the last time, for a long time, that any man would say that to me.\nNow just because I haven\u2019t heard the words doesn\u2019t meant I haven\u2019t felt at times that there were men in my life who loved me. Because there have been brief moments when I thought someone felt that way about me. I was wrong in those cases. So that leaves me here tonight, six years without hearing those three words from a man. And I must admit right now, it hurts. I\u2019m not really sure why it\u2019s bothering me right now. Maybe I\u2019m feeling particularly lonely on this night, or some wave of nostalgia has taken over me. I guess watching \u201cSoulfrodisiac\u201d on VH1Soul isn\u2019t helping, with all this slow, sexy, romantic love songs playing. But right now I am closing my eyes tight, and remembering how it felt to hear those words. I can hear them in my ear, soft and low as I drift off to sleep. I can hear them over the phone line as we reluctantly end our hours-long conversation. I watch his lips mouthing the words to me from across a crowded room. I look down at my cell phone and receive his text message that only says \u201cI luv u.\u201d I remember it with great fondness, especially because I knew he meant it. He really did love me, and every time he said it it was the absolute truth.\nBut that was six years ago. Six long years ago. And since then I have not heard a man say those words to me. I can\u2019t help but wonder if it is because I have become unloveable somehow. I can\u2019t help but wonder how six years of my life went by, and not one single man that I met was moved by me in any significant way. Maybe I am arrogant, maybe it\u2019s kind of ridiculous for me to think that meeting me would be such an incredible experience that those words would fall from some man\u2019s lips. But if I\u2019m arrogant\u2026well, truthfully, I\u2019ll buy that. I\u2019m pretty amazing if I do say so myself, and continue to be in spite of a lot of disasters that should have left me bitter, battered and afraid of living. But I\u2019m not. At least I don\u2019t think I am \u2013 but then I think of my six year drought without those words to water me, and I cast myself into a world of self doubt again.\nMaybe love is rationed out in one\u2019s lifetime. I must be honest; I\u2019ve experienced a great deal of love in my life over the years, including the love I speak about now. And again, speaking honestly, I did not always treat it carefully. At times I threw it away with both hands, confident it would come back to me in greater abundance. And it usually did. I\u2019ve excelled at walking away all my life, and I guess I always expected love to just follow me like a puppy in need of a good home. But what do I do now when I look back and love isn\u2019t following me? So, as I enter my seventh loveless year, I try to figure out how I can continue across this dry season of my life. I do gain some comfort from the love I do have in my life from family, and the one or two close friends who I hope hold some kind of love for me within themselves. That love has warmth, but no heat, and heat is what I miss as winter makes its way to my doorstep again. The heat of that particular kind of love is what I want to warm me for a change, but since that isn\u2019t entirely up to me, I may just have to continue to make do with what I have.\nIn the meantime, to each of you reading this, find someone to love. Not just warmly and fondly, but with great heat and passion. Set them aflame with your heart so that they know they are alive, so that they can add fire to you in return. It is so crucial in such a very very cold world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 369, "original_length": 53424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mlpwealth.co.uk/services/10-investment-news/43-lisa-webster-reasons-to-breach-the-lifetime-pensions-allowance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:33Z", "digest": "sha1:T2J73RYDAS3GEDADYRPHWFJNRN4YD2M3", "length": 4076, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "mlpwealth.co.uk", "title": "Lisa Webster: Reasons to breach the lifetime pensions allowance", "raw_content": "Lisa Webster: Reasons to breach the lifetime pensions allowance\nThe lifetime allowance is set to increase from April for the first time since 2010. Given the hatchet that has been taken to the LTA since then, this is a welcome change in direction.\nThe plan to increase the LTA in line with the consumer price index was announced in 2015 and confirmed by the Treasury in July this year (although at least one former pensions minister has expressed views it may yet be due for a trim once more come Budget time).\nThe reality is that more and more people are being caught by the LTA and, although any increase in its level is welcomed, the CPI linking will slow the growth of people being caught, rather than change the direction of travel.\nSo, if you know they are likely to breach the LTA, why would you encourage a client to continue to put money into a pension? Let\u2019s look at the pros and cons.\nThose who have LTA issues are likely to be at least higher rate taxpayers \u2013 maybe additional rate.\nAssuming higher rate relief going into a pension, any personal contributions will benefit from 40 per cent relief. If a client has control of their company and pays an employer contribution instead of salary, they effectively get 40 per cent relief plus National Insurance savings on top.\nAd we all know that, once in the pension, they benefit from tax-free compound growth.\nOn the downside, once the LTA is breached, a client is going to pay a tax charge on the excess, plus income tax on any withdrawals they make.\nIf they take the excess as income, the LTA charge is 25 per cent and then income tax on the balance. For a higher rate taxpayer, this is an effective rate of tax of 55 per cent.\nOf course, someone who may have been a higher rate taxpayer while paying in may only be a basic rate taxpayer at point of withdrawal, in which case the effective rate of tax is only 40 per cent.\nIf the client chooses to take the excess as a lump sum instead of income, then the charge is 55 per cent, so really only a viable option for higher or additional rate taxpayers.\nIf a client is likely to be a basic rate taxpayer in retirement, then 40 per cent tax relief going in and 40 per cent tax coming out with the benefit of tax-free growth in between is not a bad deal.\nIf the client is still a higher rate taxpayer then the 55 per cent tax rate on withdrawal looks high, but they need to weigh up the benefit of those tax-free compound returns versus taxes paid if invested elsewhere over the same period.\nThe real benefit may come if the client does not need the pension above the LTA but is instead looking at tax-efficient ways of passing funds to the next generation.\nIf the pension is untouched on death before 75 then the 25 per cent LTA charge will apply to the excess, and the balance can be paid tax-free to any nominated beneficiaries provided designated within two years.\nTaking the more optimistic view that they live beyond age 75, then the 25 per cent LTA charge will be taken on their 75th birthday, with growth thereafter exempt from any further test. Income tax will be payable when their beneficiaries eventually withdraw the funds but this will be at the beneficiaries\u2019 marginal rate, not the client\u2019s.\nBy this stage of life, the client may well have grandchildren, as well as children, and potentially great-grandchildren. They can have any number of beneficiaries and passing funds on to non-taxpayers is especially efficient. Beneficiaries under the age of 18 would effectively have their funds managed by parents and could be used for school fees or the like.\nAnother option if the client does not need the excess funds personally is to take income and use it to fund pension contributions for their children. By the time the client reaches later life, their children could well be higher rate taxpayers, so withdrawals at an effective rate of tax of 40 per cent could be used to fund their pension contributions in a tax neutral way. Doing this moves funds from a scheme with an LTA excess to the next generation who may not have the luxury of the same issue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mnlive.co.uk/forums/asia.16/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:LPPLUTT6KO3NUBAKRZ46JNAAUDZKS2NP", "length": 86, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mnlive.co.uk", "title": "Asia | Modern Nations", "raw_content": "O.S.I.R.I.S - Office of Secret Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Investigation Strategy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 339, "original_length": 5009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 112.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://modestoacademy.com/art-drama.html?sem0=28320", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NKLSGSSMZBYLKEMMGAGQRGERRYSQXBAS", "length": 896, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "modestoacademy.com", "title": "MODESTO ACADEMY OF MUSIC & DESIGN - ART & DRAMA CLASSES", "raw_content": "GET MESSY! AGES 5-8\nGET MESSY!- ages 5-8 Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 09/05/18 - 09/26/18\nLET'S DO ART! - ages 5-8\nLET'S DO ART: AUTUMN - ages 5-8 (Full) Friday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM 11/02/18 - 11/30/18\nBEGINNING PAINTING - ages 5-8 (Full) Wednesday 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM 09/05/18 - 09/26/18\nEXPLORING SCULPTING - ages 5-8 (2 Seats Left) Wednesday 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM 11/28/18 - 12/19/18\nSTAR WARS AND MORE - ages 5-8 Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 10/17/18 - 12/05/18\nLETS DO EXPRESSIONISM - ages 8-12 Wednesday 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM 09/05/18 - 10/10/18\nLETS DO EXPRESSIONISM - ages 8-12 Tuesday 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM 09/18/18 - 10/23/18\nBE ORIGINAL! - ages 9-18 Friday 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM 09/07/18 - 10/26/18\nDRAWING PRINCESSES AND PONIES - ages 5-8 (Closed) Friday 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM 09/07/18 - 09/28/18\nFUN IN 3D MEDIA - ages 5-8 & 9-12\nFUN IN 3D MEDIA - ages 9-12 Wednesday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM 09/05/18 - 10/10/18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 104.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://money.cnn.com/2014/02/25/autos/gm-ignition-recall-expanded/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:07Z", "digest": "sha1:27GZNP6UWMJDTP2NULQXO23NMUKA5ZMI", "length": 3508, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "money.cnn.com", "title": "GM expands ignition recall to 1.4M vehicles", "raw_content": "GM expands recall, cites 13 deaths\nby Peter Valdes-Dapena @peterdrives February 26, 2014: 8:32 AM ET\nThe Chevrolet HHR is among the models GM is now recalling for a potentially dangerous ignition problem.\nGeneral Motors announced Tuesday that it is expanding a recall of compact cars due to an ignition problem, and has raised the number of deaths resulting from the problem to 13.\nThe recall now affects 1.37 million vehicles built between 2003 and 2007.\nIn addition to 778,000 Chevrolet Cobalts and Pontiac G5 cars recalled earlier this month, GM (GM) is also recalling Saturn Ions, Chevrolet HHRs, Pontiac Solstices and Saturn Sky models for the same issue.\nGM says the ignition on the vehicles recalled can accidentally switch out of the \"Run\" position while the car is being driven. When that happens, the car's engine shuts off, rendering power brakes, power steering and airbags not operational.\nOriginally, GM said there had been six fatalities among front-seat passengers as a result of this problem. There have been 31 frontal crashes involving vehicles with the problem.\n\"Ensuring our customers' safety is our first order of business,\" said GM North America President Alan Batey. \"We are deeply sorry and we are working to address this issue as quickly as we can.\"\nGM has been accused of not responding quickly enough to resolve this problem. A Georgia attorney is suing GM on behalf of a woman who died in 2010 while driving a 2005 model year Cobalt. The attorney, Lance Cooper, has also petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to fine GM for not acting quickly enough once it knew of the problem.\nThe bear market for classic American cars\nA GM engineer experienced the problem while test-driving one of the vehicles in 2004 according to deposition transcripts provided to CNNMoney by Cooper. GM's engineers concluded there was a problem with the ignition switch in 2005, the depositions showed.\nUnder current law, automakers are required to report safety defects to the NHTSA within five days of discovering them. Failure to do so carries a maximum fine of $35 million. Last year, Ford had to pay the maximum fine, at the time, of $17.4 million for failing to promptly recall Ford Escape SUVs with gas pedals that could become stuck. The fine was increased to the maximum in October of 2013. Toyota has also had to pay large fines for failing to promptly report safety issues.\nIn a chronology of events recently filed with NHTSA, GM indicates that its engineers did not originally think the problem was safety related because steering and brakes, albeit without power assistance, would still work with the engine off. Also, the engine could be restarted after shifting the car to Neutral or Park.\nIt was also not immediately clear why the airbags did not deploy in many crashes, according to the document.\n\"The chronology shows that the process employed to examine this phenomenon was not as robust as it should have been,\" said GM's Batey. \"Today's GM is committed to doing business differently and better. We will take an unflinching look at what happened and apply lessons learned here to improve going forward.\"\nGM will notify owners of vehicles involved in the recall to bring their vehicles to a dealer, which will replace the ignition switch at no charge.\nIn the meantime, GM is advising owners to avoid having anything other than the car keys hanging on their key chain. The added weight of additional objects can make it more likely the key will turn accidentally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 199, "original_length": 6950, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://monocle.com/film/culture/sundance-film-festival/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:46Z", "digest": "sha1:SXVRMYLTAHQ5I36WUTYAGSRUN2AWRGK3", "length": 109, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "monocle.com", "title": "Sundance Film Festival - Film | Monocle", "raw_content": "Monocle attends the Sundance Film Festival to ask whether you still need a screening to break the box office.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 5374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 195.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mootorauthority.com/2019-bmw-m140i/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:27Z", "digest": "sha1:AMONKY4KXD6GZPI7I57WWXDMOVGDLFTN", "length": 2125, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "mootorauthority.com", "title": "2019 BMW M140i - Review, Engine, Features, Price, Interior, Photos", "raw_content": "April 6, 2018 April 6, 2018 \u00b7BMW\nBMW is rumoured to be constructing a direct competitor to the Mercedes-AMG A45 and Volkswagen Golf R\u2013 it\u2019ll be called the BMW M140i and be based on the as-yet-unrevealed new 1 Series.\n2019 BMW M140i Specifications\nWhile that name might sound familiar, the new model will represent a significant departure from the six-cylinder, rear-wheel drive car that is presently on sale. Instead, the brand-new M140i is anticipated to have a turbocharged 2.0-litre four-cylinder engine and 4\u00d74\u2013 exactly the very same setup you get in the Mercedes-AMG A45 and the Golf R.\n2019 BMW M140i Engine\nWhile you\u2019ll mourn the passing of the BMW\u2019s sweet-sounding and lustily powerful six-cylinder engine, the improved fuel economy of a turbocharged four-cylinder will be most welcome. Fuel economy is most likely to increase from the existing car\u2019s mid-30s score to something closer to 40mpg.\nStress not, though, since performance ought to also be improved. The brand-new M140i\u2019s 2.0-litre engine is rumoured to produce in the region of 340hp, enough to get it from 0-62mph in around 4.5 seconds, when integrated with four-wheel drive and the quick-shifting seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox from the X2.\nIronically, the brand-new 1 Series\u2019 better interior area\u2013 enabled by its front-wheel-drive design\u2013 will not be straight attributable to the four-wheel drive M140i, however you can still anticipate the new M140i to have a larger boot and more rear legroom than the current model. Technology will also play a part in making the new car much easier to deal with, and it\u2019s likely to be offered with self-driving technology\u2013 that can drive the car for you in hectic traffic\u2013 and BMW\u2019s outstanding new 10.25-inch infotainment system.\nWhile the interior design is most likely to remain under wraps in the meantime, you can anticipate to obtain a better idea of how the exterior will appear when our spies capture it undergoing screening at the Nurburgring before it goes on sale in 2019 costing from around \u20a4 35,000.\n12 photos of the \"2019 BMW M140i\"\nTags: #BMW M140i\nhow much does the 2019 merceds benz g63 curb weight", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4021, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mouritz.org/?page_id=861", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:20Z", "digest": "sha1:QKBHSNRZEWTB3ZJNZUT26SGQNOMKYCHN", "length": 1933, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mouritz.org", "title": "Other Subjects > Work & Industry | Mouritz ORG", "raw_content": "F. M. Alexander There is a picture of Alexander holding a pen in the slideshow on this Companion homepage. He was a keen letter writer. In CCC Alexander describes a case with a pupil whom he recommended to take frequent breaks while writing: A pupil of mine, an author, had been in a [\u2026]\nThis article covers the application of the Technique to the workplace and the teaching of the Technique at the workplace, on site. (This entry excludes music, dance and acting colleges, hospitals and schools, see below). F. M. Alexander Although there are references to the application of the Technique to work in Alexander\u2019s writings, there [\u2026]\nF. M. Alexander F. M. Alexander taught several doctors, especially in the 1920s and 1930s. In UoS Alexander dedicates a chapter to \u2018Diagnosis And Medical Training\u2019. Here he writes that No diagnosis of a case can be said to be complete, unless the medical adviser gives consideration to the influence exerted upon the patient, [\u2026]\nErgonomics is here used in the restricted sense of the adaptation of humans for the workplace and the adaptation of work equipment for humans, primarily for the purpose of comfort, productivity and safety. F. M. 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Improve your marriage and reduce marital problems with Mark Gungor\u2019s\u2026\nDanny (Winston Elizalde) and Jonas (Nor Domingo) are petty crooks whose idea of going big-time is kidnapping the only daughter of a middle-class couple for a ransom price of 50,000\u2026\nFilm from Tody Walker\nSingapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore\u2019s past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary\u2026\nEvenside Church is an upstanding and venerable institution that has served African-American families in rural Maryland for 200 years. Minister Karl Upton is proud to be its young, up-and-coming assistant\u2026\nFemi Kuti: Live at the Shrine\nAn unprecedented collection by Afrobeat legend Femi Kuti, Live At The Shrine includes both a concert film/DVD documentary and a live concert CD, singularly conveying the beauty and joy of\u2026\nDie Wittelsbacher\nA woman lives with her seven-year-old daughter and newborn son in an isolated house in the middle of a mournful landscape; it seems as if winter has encased everything in\u2026\nSteven Gerrard: My Story\nCoveted by every manager in world football and idolised by Liverpool and England fans, Steven Gerrard truly has the world at his feet. This programme provides fans with a rare\u2026\nHigh Octane: Detonate\nPerformance car enthusiast, Ketzal Sterling embarks on an epic journey around the globe. He is in search of the world\u2019s most extreme road cars and will put them to the\u2026\nSettling into domestic bliss, a woman is thrilled to have found her dream home. But soon enough, she\u2019s living a nightmare, haunted by the spirit of a deranged ex-convict who\u2026\nThe Angelmakers is a 2005 documentary that provides insight into the epidemic of arsenic murders by women, known as The Angel Makers of Nagyr\u00e9v, in 1929. The film is shot\u2026\nCountry: Hungary, Netherlands, UK\nGipsy Kings \u2013 Tierra Gitana\nThis DVD features a documentary about the band, entitled \u201c\u201dTierra Gitana\u201d\u201d (57 minutes) and a concert recorded at the height of the Gipsy Kings\u2019 popularity. Tierra Gitana: Igual Se Enfonces,\u2026\nKevin Bloody Wilson Live 2004\nKevin Bloody Wilson is the undisputed king of politically incorrect comedy. A master of bawdy ballads and dirty ditties. Live 2004 is Kevin Bloody Wilson at his unadulturated best and\u2026\nPop Yer Bottlez!\n\u201cPop Yer Bottlez!\u201d is the highly anticipated follow-up to the smash hit \u201cWSKI 106\u201d. 5 time X-Games champion TANNER HALL and skiing icon CR JOHNSON team up once again with\u2026\nDe sussen en de geuzen\nRicky Nelson Sings\nChronicling Ricky\u2019s evolution from teen sensation to rock star, this documentary includes twenty of his timeless musical performances spanning eight years on the \u201cOzzie and Harriet\u201d show, plus all-new interviews\u2026\nJonas has promised to take time off work to take care of his baby daughter so that his fianc\u00e9 can go back to work. The problem is that his company,\u2026\nRollin\u2019 Through the Decades\nRollin\u2019 Through the Decades celebrates skateboarding\u2019s journey from London\u2019s South Bank underneath the Queen Elizabeth Hall, spiritual home of skateboarding since the early seventies through to today. Rollin\u2019 Through the\u2026\nAs he has done countless times before, Cris (Archie de Calma) is riding the jeepney bus along the Elliptical Road bordering the Quezon Memorial Circle. Suddenly a robbery begins and\u2026\nAtrocity Circle\nBrandon is raising a family with his beautiful wife Lisa and going to school to become a doctor. But after seeing a horrible victim of rape he recovers memories of\u2026\nObsessed & Scientific\nObsessed & Scientific is a documentary about the possibility of time travel and the people who dream about it.\nAnimated Hero Classics: Beethoven\nEven as a young boy, Beethoven marched to the beat of a different drummer. Trained in the traditional music methods by his father, Beethoven was an accomplished pianist by the\u2026\nNato Commando\nAlex Lommo, an Ex-Nato Commando, must rescue his old pal Colonel F\u00e4gerlund from the hands of Evil corporation Metacom, which has developed a new terrible biological weapon which turns people\u2026\nStory about the relationship between 3 generations of one family. A son and a young woman, father and his dead friend\u2019s wife, grandfather and his new love interest who looks\u2026\nA film about the director\u2019s relationship with his father who was a team member of the Harlem Globetrotters.\nA powerful documentary about five women whose lives have been irrevocably altered by the Rwandan genocide. With the country left nearly 70% female in the wake of the massacres, \u201cGod\u2026\nCassidy, the lead singer of a band, lives with her boyfriend and band member, Neal. Cassidy records the torment of her silent pain and suffering in a private journal. Thinking\u2026\nBoy meets girl everyday on her way to work. Will her job stop them from falling in love?\nCarlos Mencia: Not for the Easily Offended\nMonologuist and provocateur Carlos Mencia covers \u2014 with refreshing candor \u2014 taboo topics that run the gamut from ethnic stereotypes and race relations to immigration, war, patriotism, capitalism and family\u2026.\nRoy Jones Jr\u2019s Greatest Knockouts\nRoy Jones Jr\u2019s Host a look back on some of his knockout wins. More the most part this is Jones just beat the hell out of people I don\u2019t remember\u2026\nWelcome to the worlds most dangerous job.\nPride Bushido 8 was a mixed martial arts event held by Pride Fighting Championships. 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If you want to use it for an extended period of time like watching a movie, you can plug it for char...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mspub.blogs.pace.edu/category/link-of-the-week/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:44:56Z", "digest": "sha1:6ZXWCFHPD6TDOK3AMDGACWWFPHW7PWRW", "length": 5275, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "mspub.blogs.pace.edu", "title": "Link of the Week \u2013 Master of Science in Publishing Blog", "raw_content": "Category: Link of the Week\nLink of the Week | CoSchedule\nHaving trouble trying to manage where all your social media posts are going and when your next blog update is going to be? Not sure who is looking at your website or social media and how often?\nCoSchedule is a website designed to help with that. By using one website you can organize your office, or just yourself, to make things easier. Created in 2014, this website boasts that \u201cOn average teams save 12 hours per week.\u201d It even has a calculator that can help you identify how much time you could save as a team by inputting how many members are on your team, how many projects you do in a week, and even how many social media accounts you have.\nWhat\u2019s even better is that the guesswork that comes along with figuring out the best time for posting is gone. By using their \u201cbest time\u201d feature for social media posts, it \u2018ll allow the user to let the program take care of that, by analyzing the best time to post your message to get the most amount of traction. CoSchedule will even be able to identify which of your social media posts did the best and then recommend you running it again in 1,2, or even 3 months after the first post.\nCoSchedule has a variety of different plans that allow the user to be able to find one that fits their individual needs, whether that be a single person running a blog, or an entire company that needs to know where each team is on a large project.\nAuthor Melissa RechterPosted on November 30, 2018 November 26, 2018 Categories Link of the WeekTags CoSchedule, Link of the Week, organization\nLink of the Week | Brooklyn Book Festival\nThe Brooklyn Book Festival (BKBF) is one of the biggest festivals in New York City and this year it is featuring over 300 authors. Originally meant to showcase the unique \u201cvoice\u201d of Brooklyn, because of the variety of authors that resided there, the event has taken off allowing other authors outside of Brooklyn to be celebrated as well.\nThe Festival starts on Monday, September 10 and will primarily be in downtown Brooklyn. There will be different panels, themed readings, author signings, and vendors that will be present. More recently, the festival has gown to include two special days during the festival: Children\u2019s Day (Saturday, September 15) and Festival Day (Sunday, September 16th).\nThey are also presenting the Bobi Award, which is the Best of Brooklyn award for the author \u201cwhose work best exemplifies or speaks to the spirit of Brooklyn\u201d. This year, the winner is N.K Jemisin who is the first author to win with speculative fiction.\nThe full schedule for the Brooklyn Book Festival can be found here.\nAuthor Melissa RechterPosted on September 12, 2018 October 4, 2018 Categories Link of the WeekTags Brooklyn, Brooklyn Book Festival, link, Link of the Week, New York, NYC\nLink of the Week | Purdue Owl\nIf you\u2019ve ever written a paper, chances are you\u2019ve thanked the writing gods (and Purdue University) for Purdue OWL. The free writing service shares resources and materials with Google-ers around the world, whether they\u2019re looking for help with an academic assignment, a specific citation format, or a job application. If you\u2019ve never heard of OWL before\u2026you\u2019re welcome. Continue reading \u201cLink of the Week | Purdue Owl\u201d\nAuthor Rachael KellyPosted on May 9, 2018 Categories Link of the WeekTags internships, Online Writing Lab, Pace University, Purdue OWL, Purdue University\nLink of the Week | Handshake for publishing students at Pace University\nIs your job search yielding less-than-fruitful results? Are you stressed from preparing summer and fall internship applications? (Contrary to popular belief, it is not too early to start applying for fall positions, especially if they\u2019re with the Big 5!) Here\u2019s our advice: book an appointment with Professor Jane Kinney-Denning, the publishing program\u2019s Executive Director of Internships and Corporate Outreach, or someone in Career Services. They\u2019re here to help you navigate the big wide job world out there.\nHandshake is another resource you should definitely be using (Pace subscribes to the program). The talent-recruitment start-up calls itself a \u201cdemocratizing opportunity\u2026because building [a] career shouldn\u2019t depend on where you go to school, what you\u2019re majoring in, or who your parents know.\u201d The platform posts job and internship listings, advertises events, and allows employers to message students directly if they meet the criteria for certain jobs. Continue reading \u201cLink of the Week | Handshake for publishing students at Pace University\u201d\nAuthor Rachael KellyPosted on May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018 Categories Link of the WeekTags Career Services, Handshake, Pace University, Professor Jane Kinney-Denning\nLink of the Week | Pace University Library\nIf you are a graduate student in the M.S. in Publishing program, you will (eventually) be required to write a graduate thesis paper. Graduate theses are completed over the course of PUB 699A and B, or as part of the two-sequence Graduate Seminar course (690 A and B). If you\u2019re planning on writing your paper this summer or fall, don\u2019t forget to use the Pace University Library!\nContinue reading \u201cLink of the Week | Pace University Library\u201d\nAuthor Rachael KellyPosted on April 25, 2018 May 2, 2018 Categories Link of the Week", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 8134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mssociety.ca/research-news/article/ms-society-funds-three-new-studies-that-seek-to-provide-more-options-for-accessing-physical-activity-for-people-living-with-ms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:01Z", "digest": "sha1:UPXDSYRVQMURRNXTWQHDS6DJMI4V25PO", "length": 7161, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "mssociety.ca", "title": "MS Society funds three new wellness studies that seek to provide more options for accessing physical activity for people living with MS \u2014 MS Society of Canada", "raw_content": "Physical activity is an important priority for people affected by multiple sclerosis (MS). In 2015, the MS Society of Canada posted the MS Wellness Survey, an online questionnaire designed to capture the voices of people living with MS about how they view wellness, what they do to achieve optimal wellness, and areas related to wellness in which they would like to see more research. Many respondents were keen to see more research and programs in the area of physical activity, with nearly a third of respondents wishing to know the best type of activities suited to their level of ability, and another third also identifying a lack of access to facilities for physical activity as a significant barrier to being physically active.\nTo address the interests and gaps in wellness that were highlighted in the MS Wellness Survey, the MS Society and its affiliated MS Scientific Research Foundation launched a new funding opportunity in 2016 called the Herm\u00e8s Canada | MS Society Wellness Research Innovation Grant (WRIG). The goal of the WRIG was to translate research findings into innovative wellness solutions that would improve health and quality of life for people affected by MS. Following a competitive review process, three applicants were each awarded $40,000 over one year to pursue research related to MS and wellness:\nDr. Katherine Knox, University of Saskatchewan\nDr. Charity Evans, University of Saskatchewan\nDr. Ann Yeh, The Hospital for Sick Children\nCollectively, the studies will address various aspects of integrating physical activity into MS care and lifestyle across the age spectrum, with the goal of providing people living with MS more options to manage their MS and improve their wellness and quality of life.\nDr. Katherine Knox - Web-based physiotherapy in moderate to severe MS\nPersons with MS may find it challenging to participate in regular physical activity or exercise, which is activity done to improve health and/or fitness. This is due to a number of reasons: exercise programs tailored to individuals with significant mobility impairments may be difficult to find, and exercise facilities such as gyms may be inaccessible to certain people living with MS due to geographic, economic, and/or mobility factors.\nDr. Knox will lead an interdisciplinary team of physiotherapy specialists, community health providers and people living with MS to address wellness through a web-based physiotherapy program for people with MS with moderate to severe disability. The study will assess the adherence, acceptability and safety of the web-based exercise program in forty-five people living with MS over six-months. The study will also seek to answer questions such as: how much physiotherapist care time does a web-based program require, and; how do participant-reported symptoms, emotional wellbeing, activity levels, and physical function compare over six months between web-based physiotherapy and usual care? A web-based approach may provide wellness benefits for persons with MS by being more widely accessible to persons with disability.\nBy including current health care providers and administrators on the research team, the program, if found to be acceptable and feasible, may be more readily adopted into clinical practice. Overall, this study may help to close a significant gap in access to physical activity for persons with more advanced levels of disability.\nDr. Charity Evans - Determining the Impact of a Pilates Program in Multiple Sclerosis\nPilates - a type of exercise that focuses on body positions and movement \u2013 is becoming popular among people living with MS as an alternative to the more traditional exercise programs. Although somewhat limited, previous research has suggested Pilates may have some beneficial effects in MS.\nDr. Evans will lead the first study in Canada to examine the impact of Pilates in MS. In collaboration with community co-investigator Jana Danielson, owner of multidisciplinary health and wellness studio Lead, Dr. Evans will conduct a 12-week, single-blinded, randomized controlled study in thirty people living with MS to evaluate the effects of two 50-minute Pilates classes twice weekly, plus weekly 1-hour massage therapy, compared to massage therapy alone. The impact of the Pilates treatment will be assessed by comparing between the two groups any changes in walking ability from the start to the end of the study using the 6-minute walk test. The study will also evaluate differences in other outcomes such as physical performance (balance, flexibility, independent mobility), muscle strength, and quality of life.\nResults from this study will provide important insight into an exercise option that may benefit individuals with MS and provide them with another strategy to help manage their disease and enhance their wellness.\nDr. Ann Yeh - Development and Usability Testing of the ATOMIC (Active Teens MultIple sClerosis) Mobile App to Increase Physical Activity Levels in Youth with Multiple Sclerosis\nPrevious studies have demonstrated a relationship between higher self-reported physical activity and lower MS disease burden, as well as lower levels of fatigue and depression, in children and adolescents living with MS. Unfortunately, youth with MS overall tend to be highly inactive. In particular, social, psychological and environmental barriers may prevent youth from starting and sustaining group-based exercise programs.\nDr. Yeh proposes to address this important issue by developing an intervention to increase physical activity in youth with MS by providing an accessible and sustainable alternative to group-based exercise programs. By taking advantage of widespread access to internet and mobile devices among youth, Dr. Yeh and her team will develop a physical activity mobile application (app) tailored to youth with MS and evaluate the usability of such an app. Features of the app will include the ability for users to directly monitor their physical activity behavior; theory-informed physical activity content and coaching features to help youth overcome barriers to activity; and social networking features to give youth with MS an opportunity to connect and support one another.\nThe study is poised to provide accessible and individually-tailored physical activity programming for youth with MS who face significant barriers to engaging in physical activity. It will also provide a platform for researchers to discover how to best promote PA and understand the role of physical activity on disease outcomes.\nTo successfully achieve the goal of translating research findings into innovative wellness solutions that will improve health and quality of life for people affected by MS, WRIG is founded on a keystone of active engagement of people affected by MS throughout the research process. By engaging members of the MS community, researchers will be better equipped to identify specific questions that are relevant to the community, people affected by MS will be empowered to actively contribute to research, and an immediate impact can be delivered that can be translated directly to people affected by MS in the clinic, at home, and/or in the community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 10230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://music.depaul.edu/cmd/faculty-and-staff/faculty-a-z/Pages/Laurie-Blanchet.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:04Z", "digest": "sha1:G57XXY5WOR55U7GTBRYT6FYECCETN3KD", "length": 1716, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "music.depaul.edu", "title": "Laurie Blanchet | Faculty A-Z | Faculty & Staff | Community Music | School of Music | DePaul University, Chicago", "raw_content": "School of Music > Community Music > Faculty & Staff > Faculty A-Z > Laurie Blanchet\nLaurie Blanchet\nCPS Partnerships - Clarinet/Saxophone\nPost-master\u2019s Certificate in Performance, DePaul University\nGraduate Performance Diploma, McGill University, Montr\u00e9al Qu\u00e9bec\nMM in Clarinet and in Chamber Music, Conservatoire de musique de\nBM Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke, Qu\u00e9bec\nOriginally from Qu\u00e9bec, Canada, Laurie is a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, is a regular substitute with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, has performed with Orchestre symphonique de Qu\u00e9bec and has been accepted onto the substitute list of the Philadelphia Orchestra.\nShe's currently studying at DePaul University with the Principal Clarinet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Stephen Williamson.\nAs a soloist, Laurie was Semi-finalist of Concours Prix d\u2019Europe in 2018 and 2016, Stepping Stone Canada in 2018 and Canadian Music Competition in 2015. She has won the Concerto Competition of Orchestre symphonique du Conservatoire de musique de Qu\u00e9bec in 2015, Orchestre symphonique des jeunes de Sherbrooke in 2013 and Orchestre symphonique de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke in 2012.\nDuring the summers 2016-2017, Laurie was at the Pierre Monteux School and Music Festival in Maine, where she had the opportunity of performing Bartok\u2019s Contrasts with the concertmaster of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra.\nLaurie has been a clarinet teacher since 2009 and has had the opportunity of being a College teacher at Conservatoire de musique de Rimouski, Qu\u00e9bec, for a semester in 2016.\nLaurie is also a military musician in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve Band since 2012. In her free time, Laurie enjoys to having a good coffee and reading books.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4102, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 188.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musicnerd.ca/the-blue-van-hits-toronto-tonight/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:53Z", "digest": "sha1:L4M3CECT5GSJ5ZHSSONWAPFXYAE2TUG5", "length": 4694, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "musicnerd.ca", "title": "The Blue Van Hits Toronto Tonight \u2013 THE MUSICNERD CHRONICLES", "raw_content": "You are here: Home The Blue Van Hits Toronto Tonight\nThe Blue Van Hits Toronto Tonight\nCanadian audiences are getting their first chance to see Denmark\u2019s The Blue Van in several years.\nTonight (Thursday) and tomorrow, they\u2019re hitting two Toronto venues \u2013 the Brooklynn Bar and Neutral Lounge, respectively.\nIf The Blue Van keyboardist/guitarist S\u00f8ren Christensen had his way, we would have much greater access to the band, which released its debut album, the \u201860s-throwback rock/R&B record The Art of Rolling, in 2005.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a challenge financially (to tour North America) because you have to travel to the other end of the world,\u201d he said in a recent interview from New York. The band had recently landed in New York City from their home in Copenhagen, Denmark.\n\u201cThe gear situation, the visa situation with America is part of the challenge,\u201d he continued. \u201cUnfortunately we don\u2019t get to do this as often as we\u2019d like to. We just bought visas for the whole year now, so hopefully we\u2019ll get to come over her a couple times while this visa is still good.\u201d\nChristensen and his bandmates \u2014 Steffen Westmark (vocals and guitar), Allan Villadsen (bass) and Per J\u00f8rgensen (drums and vocals) \u2013 actually made a nice discovery shortly after landing in the U.S. The music gear they had ditched about five years prior in a New York storage space was all still intact, and the band quickly sorted out that it all still works.\nThe boys in The Blue Van are touring in support of their fifth record, Would You Change Your Life?, released in Canada two weeks ago.\nChristensen laughed when it was suggested to him that if a listener heard the group\u2019s debut record and their new record back to back, they wouldn\u2019t believe it was the same band. While The Blue Van started out playing scrappy, organ-heavy, late-\u201860s style British rock, they\u2019ve evolved over the years to blend a modern electronic sound with their power chord crunch.\n\u201c(We\u2019re) the same four guys that have played together since we were 12 years old,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve lived through many changes of trends and fashions, and we\u2019ve changed ourselves. We grew up together. We keep getting into new things and keep discovering new music. I don\u2019t see why we shouldn\u2019t be allowed to follow whatever we\u2019re into instead of making the same record over and over again.\u201d\nChristensen said the band\u2019s last two records, Man Up (2008) and Love Shot (2010), were \u201cvery produced,\u201d but they went a different direction on Would You Change Your Life?\n\u201cWith this album, we wanted to be a little more organic again like we were on our first two albums,\u201d he explained. \u201cSo we did a lot more stuff live in the studio this time than we had been doing on the last two albums. Less layers and more live stuff, more grit.\u201d\nThe Blue Van feels at home in front of North American audiences. While Christensen said European audiences are more pop-ccentric in their tastes, he said North American crowds \u201clove their extended guitar solos. It\u2019s definitely our kind of people.\u201d\nIn the world of rock n\u2019 roll, it\u2019s pretty common to see band members in just about any group change over time. A member or two will leave, \u201cor the drummer will combust,\u201d Christensen chimes in, but The Blue Van have been the same four guys for their entire decade-long run.\n\u201cI think the secret is that when we started out, we were in this small community, just a small village, so we didn\u2019t really have a choice \u2014 there was only one drummer and one bass player,\u201d Christensen said. \u201cSo you couldn\u2019t really switch around a lot, so we just got used to being together and hanging out. So it\u2019s more like a brotherhood now. It\u2019s always been the four of us, it\u2019s never been an issue.\u201d\nHe\u2019s hoping this current tour of the U.S. and Canada will lead to some business connections in addition to new fans. While The Blue Van isn\u2019t necessarily seeking a record label, they would like to find some touring support.\nSince it\u2019s been years since the band last played North America, they are eager to see what kind of demand there is for their tunes. It doesn\u2019t feel like a new beginning, Christensen said, but like the band is simply \u201cmoving on.\u201d\n\u201cIn a way, pulling the gear out of the storage space that we left and locked it into five years ago, it just feels like another day in show business,\u201d he said. \u201cIt just feels like we\u2019re moving on.\u201d\nThe Blue Van will head back overseas after this tour, and they\u2019re lining up some European festival dates for the summer.\nEric Lewis is a news reporter in Moncton, New Brunswick who contributes features to MusicNerd. He still can\u2019t get enough of The Blue Van\u2019s debut record, The Art of Rolling, and he\u2019s jealous of the good folks in Toronto who gets to see the band live this week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 7092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 184.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mwc-cmm.org/content/growing-church-look-reported-church-members-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WFJONFZ4YFYPLDF7ABT4Y4PWF6ZDI5HO", "length": 4201, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mwc-cmm.org", "title": "A growing church: a look at reported church members in 2018 | Mennonite World Conference", "raw_content": "Worship at a congregation of Uganda Mennonite Church. Photo: Uganda Mennonite Church\n\u201cUganda is ripe for evangelism and the church is growing,\u201d says bishop Simon Okoth, national coordinator of Uganda Mennonite Church. The new Mennonite World Conference (MWC) member church (accepted by the Executive Committee in 2017) grew from 310 members in 7 congregations reported in 2015 to 553 members in 18 congregations in 2018.\nEvery three years, MWC collects information from its members to publish for its members, showing the growth of national churches around the world in member churches and those who are not members or are on the path, like Uganda Mennonite. Global statistics, a global map showing the most recent statistics for Anabaptists churches in each country and a large wall map are found here.\nOne international association (IBICA) and 107 national churches are MWC members, comprising 69 percent of the total Anabaptist-Mennonite faith family identified.\nOverall, Anabaptism worldwide has grown: 2 131 000 baptized members in 86 countries.\nMuch of the growth in Anabaptist-Mennonite congregations can be seen in the Global South, in national churches like Uganda that are springing up in peri-urban areas (the hinterlands outside cities). Growing greatly in number, Uganda Mennonite Church congregations face many challenges: buildings barely covered by a roof, and no windows; lack of chairs for church members to sit on during services, pastors who have no formal training and sometimes no paycheque.\nMWC member churches in Africa reported 701 814 baptized members in 2015. That increased by five percent to 738 315 baptized members in 2018.\nAsia and the Pacific saw a two percent growth in baptized members, although the number of baptized members of Mennonite World Conference decreased slightly. Greater precision in reporting accounts for some of the decreases reported in countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam. Bharatiya Jukta Christa Prachar Mandli, an Anabaptist church based in Kolkata, India, shows the greatest increase: 36% growth from 2015\u2019s 2 725 baptized members to 4 260 in 2018.\nBaptized members of MWC member churches in Latin America grew by six percent: from 102 377 in 2015 to 109 177 in 2018.\nTwo national churches in Latin America grew by more than thirty percent. New MWC member COBIM, the Mennonite Brethren church in Brazil, grew from 6 960 baptized members in 2015 to 10 400 in 2018. Conferencia Peruana Hermanos Menonitas went from 664 members in 2015 to 1 000 in 2018.\nIn Venezuela where economic collapse has made daily life difficult, MWC associate member church Casa de Restauracion y Vida Shalom saw their members fall by more than half from 250 in 2015 to 120 in 2018.\nEurope, cradle to Anabaptist faith, sees losses in historic areas, like the Netherlands where the Algemene Doopsgezind Societeit fell from 7 650 members in 2015 to 5 725 in 2018. However, new expressions of Anabaptism are growing in Albania and Spain. The former grew exponentially from 30 baptized members in 2015 to 120 in 2018, while Anabautistas, Menonitas y Hermanos en Cristo in Spain increased from 376 to 501, aided by mission work from Amor Viviente of Honduras.\nIn North America, Mennonite Church USA reports a 33 percent decrease in baptized members as Lancaster Mennonite Conference leaves the alliance to form a separate conference. Several other national churches report slight decreases overall, while the Conservative Mennonite Conference in USA shows two percent growth. The Be in Christ Church of Canada (formerly Brethren in Christ) is growing steadily with approximately 17 000 attendees in 2018. (2015\u2019s reported membership of 4 080 used a narrower measure of membership).\nOverall, Mennonite World Conference member churches have grown by two percent since 2015 while Anabaptists counted globally have grown one percent. Globally, two thirds of Anabaptists are found in the Global South.\nCounting only MWC-member churches, that number shifts to 81 percent of members living in the Global South, in places like Uganda.\n\u201cThe Mennonite Church Uganda is quite happy and honored to be member of the global family of the MWC,\u201d says Okoth. \u201cMay God sustain us together.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 8121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mybookie.ag/news/nfl/dolphins-colts-2018-week-12-odds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:00Z", "digest": "sha1:UQIJ5ELWRYXXMCHZFTG3WKM3HJC5KWRH", "length": 3474, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "mybookie.ag", "title": "Dolphins vs Colts NFL Week 12 Odds & Game Preview | MyBookie Sportsbook", "raw_content": "After 10 games, there are very often two types of teams sitting at 5-5. There are those who are probably not going to make a run at the playoffs, while the rest appear to be hitting their stride at just the right time. This coming Sunday, we will see one of each of these teams go head to head in a critical playoff battle. The Miami Dolphins started the season strong, but they have been hit hard by the injury bug now and are slipping in the wrong direction.\nThey will be on the road to face an Indianapolis Colts team that is gaining more confidence with each passing week, especially with QB Andrew Luck beginning to look as though his shoulder woes are now a thing of the past. There is a logjam in the race for the Wild Card in the AFC, and as it stands right now, the Dolphins hold the tie-breaker over the Colts. Indianapolis will be looking to jump above Miami, and potentially the playoff line, with a win this weekend as an 8-point favorite. The point total for this one is set at 51.\n\u201cWe want to go out there, make plays, score touchdowns and put points on the board.\u201d \u2013 @KSTiLLS.\nFull episode of #SoundBites: https://t.co/07Ib9EHG5q pic.twitter.com/jtc7hfDscJ \u2014 Miami Dolphins (@MiamiDolphins) 22 de noviembre de 2018\nNFL Odds: Indianapolis Colts -7.5 (Total 51)\nWhy bet on the Miami Dolphins?\nThe Dolphins are in dire need of a good performance after going just 1-4 SU in their last 5 games. The good news for Miami is that QB Ryan Tannehill has been upgraded to probable for this weekend. It\u2019s going to be interesting to see if he gets the start or if he is only brought in when things start going south.\nGiven that the Dolphins really can\u2019t afford to keep losing, chances are he will be under center if he is anywhere close to 100% healthy. The Dolphins could use some help, especially on the road, where they are just 1-9 SU and ATS in their last 10 games. They have also only won once in their last 6 visits to Indianapolis and are 2-4 ATS in those games.\nWhy bet on the Indianapolis Colts?\nI\u2019ll b the first to admit that I had the Colts written off in the early part of the season, but they have proven me, and many more besides, wrong. They are coming into this one on a 4-game winning streak, and while most of those wins have come against the lesser lights in the league, you cannot deny that the Colts have been firing on all cylinders.\nDuring their winning run, the Colts have been averaging a little over 36 PPG, with their 38-10 win over the Tennessee Titans last week perhaps being the most impressive performance of the bunch. The end result of all those points being scored is that the Colts have now seen the OVER hit in 5 of their last 7 games. The OVER has also come up in 6 of the last 9 games that the Colts have played against the Dolphins at home.\nDolphins vs Colts NFL Week 12 Betting Trends\nMiami is 1-9 ATS in its last 10 games on the road\nMiami is 1-9 SU in its last 10 games on the road\nThe total has gone UNDER in 5 of Miami\u2019s last 6 games on the road\nIndianapolis is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games when playing Miami\nThe total has gone OVER in 5 of Indianapolis\u2019s last 7 games\nExpert Pick & Final Score Prediction for Dolphins vs Colts\nThe return of Tannehill may give the Miami Dolphins a bit of a boost, but I still think they are going to be seriously outgunned by a very confident Colts team. Let\u2019s go with Indianapolis to win and cover, with the OVER also looking like a good bet.\nScore: Miami Dolphins 20 \u2013 Indianapolis Colts 34", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 622, "original_length": 18138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mybookie.ag/news/nfl/falcons-saints-2018-week-12-thanksgiving-odds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:02Z", "digest": "sha1:RXEMF4QBP5HW3RHIT6M77YRPCTILRUXT", "length": 5724, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "mybookie.ag", "title": "Falcons vs Saints NFL Week 12 Thanksgiving Odds & Preview | MyBookie Sportsbook", "raw_content": "Falcons vs Saints NFL Week 12 Thanksgiving Odds & Preview\nA few firsts on Thanksgiving night when the New Orleans Saints host the NFC South rival Atlanta Falcons. It\u2019s the first-ever meeting between the teams on the holiday and the first time the Saints host a Turkey Day game. They are huge NFL betting favorites to extend the longest winning streak to 10.\nIt\u2019s been a quiet few games for Calvin Ridley, but let\u2019s not forget the last time the rookie played the Saints he had 3 touchdowns.\nAnd Matt Ryan expects him to play well. https://t.co/wUzGeO0e54 pic.twitter.com/POnDgWvNp6 \u2014 Kelsey Conway (@FalconsKelsey) 20 de noviembre de 2018\nNFL Week 12 Odds: New Orleans Saints -13 (Total 60)\nNew Orleans won a wild game in Atlanta in Week 3, 43-37 in OT. Drew Brees\u2019 1-yard run capped an 80-yard touchdown drive to open overtime. That TD came after Brees\u2019 7-yard score late in the fourth quarter forced the overtime. After the Saints won the coin toss, Brees and the Saints held the ball for more than seven minutes. Brees passed for 396 yards and three touchdowns and ran for two scores. Alvin Kamara had 15 catches for 124 yards and ran for 66 yards. Matt Ryan threw for nearly 374 yards and five scores, and Calvin Ridley became the first Atlanta rookie with three scoring catches.\nThursday marks the 100th overall meeting between the two teams (including the postseason), with Atlanta leading the series 52-47. The Falcons will make their third appearance on Thanksgiving and first since 2007.\nA team that entered the season touted to be a Super Bowl contender and possibly the first squad to play a Super Bowl in its home stadium now sits at 4-6. Only 12 teams out of 163 since 1990 have qualified for the playoffs after starting 4-6.\nAtlanta looks to rebound following a Week 11 loss to Dallas. Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones had six catches for 118 yards and a touchdown last week. Jones leads the NFL with 1,158 receiving yards this season and has 46 career games with 100+ receiving yards, the most by a player in his first eight seasons in NFL history.\nMatt Ryan completed 24-of-34 passes for 291 yards, one touchdown, and one interception in the loss. It was Ryan\u2019s first sub-300 yards day since Week 5. The Falcons didn\u2019t get into the red zone until the second half as the teams traded field goals the first three quarters. Ryan\u2019s interception was a drop by Calvin Ridley that clanged up into the air for Leighton Vander Esch. Ryan is averaging 330.6 passing yards per game this season, the highest mark in the NFL, and is the only player in the league averaging 300+ passing yards and completing at least 70 percent of his passes (71.1 percent). Ridley caught 3-of-4 targets for 32 yards vs. Dallas. Ridley has just one touchdown since September and has topped 50 yards only once since Week 4. Ridley has 39 catches for 532 yards and seven touchdowns on the year.\n\u201cI think mentally he\u2019s in a good place,\u201d Ryan said of Ridley for Thursday. \u201cThere are ups and downs through every season for all of us and I think he\u2019s handled that really well. I expect him to play well.\u201d Falcons coach Dan Quinn said linebacker Deion Jones (foot) is moving well, but they still want to see him generate more power. Jones has been out since undergoing foot surgery following the season opener. It\u2019s not likely he plays Thursday.\nThe Saints are an NFL-best 8-2 ATS and have covered eight straight games.\nNo team looks better than the Saints right now on their nine-game winning streak. They destroyed the Super Bowl champion Eagles 48-7 last week. Drew Brees threw for 363 yards with four touchdowns and zero interceptions for a 153.2 passer rating.\nBrees has 23 career games with at least four touchdown passes and zero interceptions, including two this season, surpassing New England\u2019s Tom Brady (22) for the most such games by a quarterback in NFL history. Brees set the record for highest completion percentage in 2017 when he completed 72 percent of his throws. He\u2019s on pace to shatter that record this season. New Orleans, which has won nine consecutive games and sits atop the NFC South with a 9-1 record, has scored at least 40 points in six games this season, the most by a team in its first 10 games of a season in NFL history.\nMark Ingram rushed 16 times for 103 yards and two touchdowns in the Saints\u2019 Week 11 win. Ingram set the tone on his opening carry, going for 38 yards to help spark a field-goal drive. His first touchdown came on a 14-yard rush early in the second quarter, and he scored from one yard out in the third. Ingram has now topped 100 yards in each of the last two games. Alvin Kamara rushed 13 times for 71 yards and turned his only target into a 38-yard touchdown.\nTre\u2019Quan Smith hauled in 10-of-13 targets for 157 yards and a touchdown in the win. Coming off a zero target game against the Bengals, Smith exploded in this matchup. And Smith had a total of just 12 catches for 214 yards and three touchdowns on the entire season heading into Sunday\u2019s game against Philadelphia. His previous career highs were three catches and six targets. Michael Thomas caught all four of his targets for 92 yards and a touchdown.\nThe Saints are averaging an astounding 4.4 offensive touchdowns per game. By comparison. The record-setting 2007 Patriots averaged 4.0 per game.\nFalcons vs Saints NFL Week 12 Betting Trends\nUnder is 3-1-1 in the last 5 meetings in New Orleans\nFalcons are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 meetings\nFalcons are 2-5 ATS in their last 7 meetings in New Orleans\nThe total has gone UNDER in 6 of Atlanta\u2019s last 8 games on the road\nThe total has gone OVER in 7 of New Orleans\u2019s last 10 games at home\nExpert NFL Betting Prediction for Falcons vs Saints\nToo many points \u2013 Falcons can hang within 10.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 610, "original_length": 20152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mybooksource.com/robert-burns-in-time-and-place-pb.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:52Z", "digest": "sha1:XY62M5GJ5EQGWN47TJHNUEOPCWUARCSA", "length": 2280, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "mybooksource.com", "title": "Robert Burns in Time and Place - MyBookSource", "raw_content": "Robert Burns in Time and Place\nBy Frances Jarvie, Gordon Jarvie\nA study of the life and work of Robert Burns, placing his work into the tapestry of events in Ayrshire, Scotland and the wider world - which all shaped his experiences and his poetry.\n\"Robert Burns in Time and Place\" is a brand new title in the \"Scotties Books\" series which contain a wealth of interesting facts, stimulating activities, web sites and suggestions for places to visit. The year 2009 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns but studying the life and work of the poet is no longer just a celebration around his birthday, but can be embedded across the school curriculum. The book looks at Ayrshire, Scotland and the wider world as they were in his time and which shaped his experiences and his work.\n' ... a historical and geographical context for Burns' life and work. This is an extremely well-designed and illustrated short information book, with maps, family trees, timelines, photographs and pictures ... this is a high-quality publication which would be valuable for any project work connected with Scotland's national poet and the festivities still connected with his name.' School Librarian ' ... it is engaging and full of appropriate supporting illustrations, timelines, prints and a wealth of museum material to help support the text. ... these all serve to provide the reader with a clearer appreciation of Scotland's national poet whose life and works are celebrated around the world today.' History Teaching Review ' ... firmly aimed at children but is a book we can all read and learn something new about Burns, or have our conceptions of his time challenged. ... well-presented, with crisp, well-chosen illustrations, and places Burns both in his own time, and our own, with useful hints on holding a Burns Supper, as well as sections on farming in Burns' time, sea-bathing in the Solway, and much more - there is even a Burns wordsearch!' Ayrshire Notes\nGordon Jarvie\nFrances Jarvie\nScotland's Vikings\nGordon Jarvie, Frances Jarvie\nThere Shall be a Scottish Parliament\nThe Wallace Book\nEdward J. Cowan\nRobin Howie\nMy Luve's Like a Red, Red Rose\nA Doctor's Line\nOban & Mull Tourist Map\nA Chasm in Time\nPatricia R. Andrew\nSet Adrift Upon the World\nSeton Gordon's Cairngorms", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 306, "original_length": 7374, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myvue.ie/film/johnny-english-3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:31Z", "digest": "sha1:2BJZLLNUIMJW7CUPOM4Z5KQYIBTDRW6L", "length": 1631, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "myvue.ie", "title": "Johnny English Strikes Again | Book tickets online | Vue Cinemas", "raw_content": "Rowan Atkinson, Olga Kurylenko, Ben Miller, Jake Lacy\nThe world\u2019s greatest spy is brought out of retirement to save MI7 from a cyber-attack that\u2019s left Britain \u2013 and Her Majesty \u2013 at risk. One of the UK\u2019s greatest comedy talents, Rowan Atkinson, returns to his hilarious character, with superstars Olga Kurylenko and Emma Thompson for the third film in the action-packed franchise.\nJohnny English (Rowan Atkinson) is semi-retired. Teaching children at a prep-school and imparting years of spy knowledge to Britain\u2019s future best and brightest, Johnny can\u2019t help but long for his action days.\nLuck strikes when Johnny is summoned to MI7 \u2013 but not for a natter about old times. The service has been hacked, with every secret agent\u2019s location and mission revealed to the public. The whole organisation is in jeopardy, and with every working agent unable to serve, there\u2019s only one solution: Johnny has to come out of retirement.\nWorking with his assistant, Angus Bough (Ben Miller), Johnny travels to far-reaching and exotic locations to bring down those responsible for the hack, using analogue methods in a digital world. Can this old school spy find victory against those who use technology for their own gains?\nRowan Atkinson, the beloved comedy genius behind Mr Bean and Blackadder, returns to his role as Johnny English, seven years since the last film in the franchise.\nAtkinson is joined by Emma Thompson (The Children Act, Beauty and the Beast), Olga Kurylenko (The Death of Stalin) and Ben Miller (Paddington 3), in a family comedy that delivers plenty of action \u2013 and even more laughs.\nJohnny English Strikes Again - Trailer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 261.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://natsnoodles.com/2015/05/01/nats-april-in-review-just-maybe-a-little-bit-of-frustration/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:40Z", "digest": "sha1:S3ANWRGMBEGYSBLODG6CSOWBUUJP5AE3", "length": 7695, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "natsnoodles.com", "title": "Nats\u2019 April in review: Just maybe a little bit of frustration | Nats Noodles", "raw_content": "Nats\u2019 April in review: Just maybe a little bit of frustration\nAnthony Rendon, Blake Treinen, Bryce Harper, Casey Janssen, Craig Stammen, Dan Uggla, Danny Espinosa, Denard Span, Drew Storen, Gio Gonzalez, Ian Desmond, Jayson Werth, Jordan Zimmermann, Jose Lobaton, Matt Thornton, Max Scherzer, Michael A. Taylor, Tyler Moore, Yunel Escobar\nThe Nationals kicked off the season as the consensus choice to win the NL East, with many prognosticators picking them to win the pennant or even the World Series. They utterly failed to meet expectations. They finished the month in 4th place with a 10\u201313 record, 5 games behind the division leading Mets. The season is still young, and projection methods still indicate that they have a good chance to turn things around. (FanGraphs show them with a 70.9 percent chance of winning the division, down from 86.4 percent at the beginning of the month.) But they need to turn things around soon.\nThe season began on April 6, when the Nationals hosted the Mets. The Nats lost the opener based on\u2014in what would become a pattern\u2014their sloppy defense. The opening day lineup had major holes. With Anthony Rendon, Jayson Werth, Denard Span, and Casey Janssen all out with injuries, the opening day lineup featured Michael A. Taylor in center field, Tyler Moore in left, and Dan Uggla at second base. The Nats won the second game, but lost the third game and the series.\nThe pattern of losing continued on their first road trip, when they lost two of three to both the Phillies and the Red Sox. Werth was activated in time for the series in Boston, but would spend the rest of the month trying to regain his stroke. The injuries continued to mount, however, when Craig Stammen suffered a torn flexor injury on his right elbow, which required surgery and left him disabled for the rest of the season.\nDuring the next home stand, the team seemed to be coming together. The Nats won three of four against the Phillies, and Span rejoined the team for the last game of the series. Taylor, who had been hitting well, was sent to Syracuse so he could get regular at bats. The Phils were followed by the NL Central-leading Cardinals, who have been the Nationals\u2019 nemesis in recent years. The Nats won the first game 2 to 1 in the 10th inning, but then lost the second and third games, with bullpen meltdowns contributing to the losses.\nThe month ended with a road trip that got off to an ugly start. The Nats were swept by the Marlins, and looked really bad. Next the Braves beat them in the next game, extending their losing streak to six games. The next night, the Nats appeared to have reached their nadir when they reached the end of the fourth inning trailing 10 to 2. But the bats came alive that evening and after Dan Uggla hit a 3-run homer in the top of the ninth, they closed a 13-12 comeback win. The bats stayed alive the next two nights, with a 13 to 4 win in the rubber game of the Braves series and an 8 to 2 win over the Mets on the last day of the month for the opener of a 4-game series in New York.\nIn April, the hitting died. The Nats hit .236/.307/.378 and ranked 11th in the NL in park-adjusted weighted runs created (wRC+) with 89. The defense was also awful, ranking 13th of 15 teams in the NL in defensive runs saved.\nFor relief pitching, my preferred metric is RE24, which takes account of game situations, such as inherited runners. The Nats relievers ranked 8th in the NL in April with an RE24 of 2.05. They were tied for 8th in the league in shutdowns, with 16, but also tied for the most meltdowns, with 14.\nThe Nats\u2019 vaunted rotation didn\u2019t live up to the lofty expectations. The starters were 9th in the NL in ERA\u2013 with 104 (or 4% worse than the average team)\u2014this is a measure of ERA that is park-adjusted and measured relative to the league. They showed up better in fielding independendent metrics, ranking 3rd in the league in FIP-, or park-adjusted fielding independent pitching with 81, which is 19% better than average.\nMax Scherzer (1-2, 2.20 RA/9, 4 G, 28-2/3 IP, 9.1 K/9, .221 opp OBP, 1.1 RA9-WAR).\nBryce Harper (.286/.440/.545, 23 G, 5 HR, 18 R, 15 RBI, 0.6 fWAR). (Fangraphs actually gives Danny Espinosa higher WAR with 0.7, with a .255/.377/.431 line and great defense, but I\u2019m sticking with Harper because he played every day.)\nMatt Thornton (0-0, 4.50 RA/9, 9 G, 6 IP, 4.5 K/9, .200 opp OBP, 3.71 RE24, 0.0 RA9-WAR). This was a tough category. Usually, 4.5 runs allowed per 9 innings would have been insufficient for a monthly award, but 2 of his 3 runs allowed were scored on an error by Blake Treinen after Thornton was pulled from the game, and one of those runners had reached on an Ian Desmond error. And all of the other relievers have their own flaws.\nJayson Werth (.175/.254/.211, 15 G, -0.5 fWAR).\nMax Scherzer (April 17, 7\u20132 win over the Phillies in Washington) gave up 1 run on 4 hits in 8 innings, striking out 9 and not issuing any walks, for a game score of 79.\nJordan Zimmermann (April 13, 9\u20134 loss to the Red Sox in Boston) gave up 8 runs on 9 hits, 1 walk, and 2 hit batsmen in 2-1/3 innings, while not getting any strikeouts. His game score was 8.\nMax Scherzer (April 6, 3\u20131 loss to the Mets in Washington on opening day) gave up 3 unearned runs on 4 hits and 2 walks in 7-2/3 innings with 8 strikeouts (game score 71).\nGio Gonzalez (April 10, 4\u20131 loss to the Phillies in Philadelphia) gave up 3 runs on 5 hits and 4 walks in 6-1/3 innings with 4 strikeouts (game score 51).\nJordan Zimmermann (April 18, 5\u20133 loss to the Phillies in Washington) gave up 4 runs on 4 hits and 4 walks in 6-1/3 innings with 3 strikeouts (game score 52).\nGio Gonzalez (April 15, 10\u20135 win over the Red Sox in Boston) gave up 5 runs (4 earned) on 6 hits and 2 walks in 6 innings with 6 strikeouts (game score 46).\nDrew Storen (April 28, 13\u201312 win over the Braves in Atlanta). It was a fairly routine save in a one-run game on the road, albeit a most remarkable game in which the Nats came back from an 8-run deficit, the largest comeback in Nationals history. Storen allowed one walk, but got 3 outs without allowing a runner to reach scoring position. (Win probability added .162)\nBlake Treinen (April 14, 8\u20137 loss to the Red Sox in Boston). Treinen came in with one out in the bottom of the seventh with the Nats leading 7 to 5 and runners on first and second. He proceeded to hit the first batter he faced, loading the bases. On a comebacker to the mound, he first failed to field it, then threw the ball away, committing 2 errors and allowing 2 runs to score. Another run scored on a groundout to the shortstop, and the Nats were trailing 8 to 7 by the time Treinen got the third out. He returned in the eighth to pitch a scoreless inning, but by then the damage was done. (WPA \u2013.406)\nDan Uggla (April 28, 13\u201312 win over the Braves in Atlanta\u2014see \u201cBest shutdown\u201d). After being down 9 to 1 and then 10 to 2, the Nats had scored 8 more runs and were trailing the Braves 12 to 10 in the top of the ninth. Jose Lobaton singled and Danny Espinosa walked, so there were runners on first and second with one out when Uggla came to the plate. Atlanta fans had booed Uggla relentlessly during the series. After getting behind 0-2 against Atlanta closer, Jason Grilli, Uggla hammered the next pitch into the left field stands, giving the Nats a 13 to 12 lead (WPA .709).\nIan Desmond (April 21, 2\u20131 win over the Cardinals in Washington). In the bottom of the ninth with the score tied 1 to 1 and the bases loaded with one out, Desmond struck out. (WPA \u2013.175). In the 10th, however, Yunel Escobar undid the damage with a two-out solo walk-off homer.\n\u2190 Nats sign Max Scherzer; What\u2019s next?\nA comment on Harper\u2019s ejection by Marvin Hudson \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 11904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nehamashira.com/2006/02/07/learning-to-tame-barnelia-listen-to-concertos-write-sonnets-and-blog-simultaneously/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CIZ7R7KI23LLVOHRODQFJSLK6IBOBLND", "length": 3724, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "nehamashira.com", "title": "Learning to tame Barnelia, listen to concertos, write sonnets, and blog simultaneously. \u2013 Nehamashira's Blog", "raw_content": "I have entered another dimension in time and space. Barnelia is silent, and so is the radio- one flick of the switch will alter the latter without damaging the former. Neil Young\u2019s \u201cflying mother nature\u2019s silver sea to a new home in the sun\u201d is being sung elegantly by the King\u2019s Singers (in 4 part harmony). Matzo ball soup burbles contentedly on the front burner beside the frying pan of potatoes and cabbage (my OWN organic cabbage at that\u2026life just keeps getting better and better!). The sun indeed did shine today- a rich blessing given that it has poured with torrential (OK I\u2019m exaggerating) rains for 45 out of the last 47 days. To have the sun shine like it did today reminded me of a short story that I read in grade seven called \u201cAll summer in a day\u201d. The story is unabashedly sci-fi: set on the planet of Venus (I think), the children in the story have known nothing but rain in their short lifetimes, as the sun only comes out for one day every 7 years. However, a little girl from the planet earth tells her class mates that she has seen the sun shine before. She is in turn mocked and tormented by her disbelieving (and somewhat resentful) peers- to the point that they decide to lock her in the closet. One can guess the outcome- the sun does come out to shine and in the rapture of the moment the entire class rushes outside to experience the joy- leaving the little girl locked up\u2026\u2026\u2026\nNow that is entirely too depressing n\u2019est pas? Enough of that\u2026.Barnelia insists! Let\u2019s talk about flowers and compost and mending fences. \u2026..much more edifying. I planted 25 daffodil bulbs and pulled a whack of weeds\u2026as is testified by the mountain of clippings and other organic detritus on the boulevard. God reveals much to us through the discipline of tilling the earth- how mysterious is that hidden world of earthworms, centipedes, and mycorrhizal associations. What is humbly hidden from our eyes becomes the glorious prelude to the beauty that is spring. New birth from the decay of winter- resurrection, renewal. Phos hilarion, glorious light!\n3 thoughts on \u201cLearning to tame Barnelia, listen to concertos, write sonnets, and blog simultaneously.\u201d\nOh you write beautifully Josie.Thank you for reminding me of nature\u2019s mirror of our own winter and spring, and summer. Today is another sunny, warm day\u2026I saw a tree last night that had bloomed on one side, and is still dormant on the other side. Perfectly in half. Then I realized that the half that had bloomed has a heating vent under it from one of the massive buildings on campus. I wondered\u2026this is what a tree suffering from manic depression looks like. Half is in spring, half is in winter\u2026and it can\u2019t figure out why, because each side is expressing what it feels right then. If only we could tell it, make it understand, that it\u2019s simple really, nothing to worry about, look at the big picture\u2026it\u2019s just a vent causing this, it\u2019s not you\u2026you\u2019re not that crazy after all. But that tree will probably never get to view itself from the perspective and understanding of a human, and will feel bi-polar for the rest of its life, at least in February\u2026it might even attribute it\u2019s problems to the imbalance in the nutrients in the soil. AHH. I get carried away with personification sometimes.Have a nice week, and I look forward to seeing you next week \ud83d\ude42\nLibre esprit says:\nBarnelia??? Do enlighten.\nBarnelia is rather difficult to describe. She is small (less than 2cm in diameter),as red as a rose bud, and quite vocal at times, although for the most part she remains politely mute. Like any child, she can be embarassing in a heartbeat, and frequently demanding at the most inconvenient of times. However, I could not live without her- for Barnelia is a stoma.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nesn.com/2019/02/bruins-unable-to-slam-door-on-flyers-in-thursdays-overtime-loss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XOIW4AUKXYTIJSY44XDP7DK3OJINLO4D", "length": 694, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "nesn.com", "title": "Bruins Unable To Slam Door On Flyers In Thursday\u2019s Overtime Loss | NESN Sports Today | NESN.com", "raw_content": "by NESN Video on Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:25PM\nNot only did the Boston Bruins strike first Thursday night, they entered the third period with a lead over the Philadelphia Flyers.\nBut when all was said and done at TD Garden, the B\u2019s saw their losing streak swell to three.\nBoston was unable to extend its lead at any point in its 3-2 overtime loss to the Philadelphia Flyers, which also plagued the Black and Gold in Tuesday\u2019s shootout defeat at the hands of the Winnipeg Jets.\nAfter Thursday\u2019s game, NESN\u2019s Andy Brickley and Jack Edwards broke down the Bruins\u2019 current struggles. To hear what they had to say, check out the video above from \u201cNESN Sports Today,\u201d presented by People\u2019s United Bank.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 3636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://netplaymag.com/2015/05/27/remembering-a-community-leader/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KHRZGMS6MLHYFOI24E2D5SR225RVFPPE", "length": 3828, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "netplaymag.com", "title": "Remembering a Community Leader \u2013 NetPLAY Magazine", "raw_content": "Remembering a Community Leader\nWhen Bronal Harris took an early retirement from her job as a bank executive in 1999, she didn\u2019t travel the world or purchase a beach home.\nShe took her life savings and began plans for a 22,000 square foot community center that would serve the kids in her home neighborhood of North Philadelphia.\n\u201cWhen she first told me this idea, I thought she was crazy,\u201d said Ralph Mundy, a longtime friend of Harris. \u201cA lot of people did. But you didn\u2019t tell Bronal Harris \u2018no.\u2019\u201d\nHarris\u2019 life mission was to support the community. In her 24 years at CoreStates Bank (now Wells Fargo), Harris reviewed proposals from non-profit community organizations and approved them for grants. Her career, combined with her inherent passion for the community, was the driving force behind her dream of a community center.\n\u201cHer job at the bank gave her a unique insight into what was going on in her community,\u201d Mundy said. \u201cShe saw where support was needed and eventually realized that she could do something herself.\u201d\nBut she had a unique angle: tennis.\nFor Harris, tennis offered exactly what these kids needed. In tennis, she saw a totally different aspect of athletics that matched perfectly with the overall mission of her community center. It was a grueling and strategic sport, but it wasn\u2019t brutal. The kids had to display sportsmanship and integrity.\n\u201cThe sport supplemented the mission of the community center for her,\u201d Mundy said. \u201cThe lessons that were taught in the classroom were reinforced on the tennis court. Her intention was always for it to be an educational facility first and a tennis facility second.\u201d\nHarris put together a committee to begin working on plans for the community center. She traveled to other facilities to see how they were running their programs. She met with her old coworkers to secure a loan.\nShe even traveled door to door to churches and businesses in North Philadelphia to see how they would feel about a new community tennis center in their neighborhood.\n\u201cShe had so much energy and when she got an idea in her head, there was no stopping her,\u201d Mundy said. \u201cHer energy was so infectious that it was almost impossible to not get behind her and her mission.\u201d\nEventually, Harris secured a location at the corner of 10th & Girard in North Philadelphia. And in 2003 , the Althea Gibson Community Education and Tennis Center opened its doors.\nHarris was introduced to Melvin Reese, who was running the Bill Johnson Tennis Program in Philadelphia. Reese brought some kids to the Althea Gibson Center to hold an exhibition and soon after, he began running programming on those courts.\n\u201cShe was funny about who could use her courts and who couldn\u2019t,\u201d Reese said. \u201cThe only people who ever played on them were kids from community organizations. Adults would come in asking to pay to use her empty courts, and she would say no. She never wavered on her vision for the center.\u201d\nThat was the way it remained until the economy took a hit in late 2007-early 2008, and Harris lost a good portion of the financial backing she was receiving from large businesses and corporations. The Althea Gibson Community Education and Tennis Center closed in 2013.\nToday, a Spanish community group inhabits the building that still stands at the corner of 10th & Girard. The facility is open on weekends and allows the community to get together to participate in sporting events, mainly volleyball and soccer.\nHarris passed away early in 2015, but her passion for the community lives on. While her facility is no longer an education and tennis center, her dream of a place where community members can come together is still a reality.\nTagged as: althea gibson, bronal harris, magazine, middle states, netplay, philadelphia, tennis, usta\nWhy play tennis? It can take you all over the world.\nA Super Program", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://new.dowjones.com/scoops/affiliated-managers-group-near-deal-buy-d-e-shaw-stake-source/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:13Z", "digest": "sha1:CBROY3PTZMHRCYACNIESGM2Z5PAPAS4J", "length": 5004, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "new.dowjones.com", "title": "Affiliated Managers Group Near Deal to Buy D.E. Shaw Stake \u2014 Source - Dow Jones", "raw_content": "Affiliated Managers Group Near Deal to Buy D.E. Shaw Stake \u2014 Source\nJuliet Chung and Dana Cimilluca broke the news that Affiliated Managers Group Inc was close to a deal to buy a 20% stake in hedge-fund giant D.E. Shaw Group from the estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. The deal is valued at more than $500 million, according to sources. Lehman paid about $800 million for the stake in 2007.\nJune 15, 2014, 7:03 PM EDT: Affiliated Managers Group Near Deal to Buy D.E. Shaw Stake \u2014 Source\n7:03 PM EDT: AMG Would Pay More Than $500 Million for 20% of D.E. Shaw \u2014 Source\n7:03 PM EDT: Lehman Brothers Estate Would Be Seller of D.E. Shaw Stake to AMG \u2014 Source\n7:03 PM EDT: Boston Firm AMG Near Deal to Buy D.E. Shaw Stake\nBy Juliet Chung and Dana Cimilluca\nA Boston investment firm is nearing a deal to buy a stake in hedge-fund giant D.E. Shaw Group for more than $500 million from the estate of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter.\nAffiliated Managers Group Inc. has bid for the 20% stake in a deal that would value D.E. Shaw at more than $2 billion. An agreement in principle has been reached but a final deal isn\u2019t imminent and could still fall apart, according to people familiar with the matter.\nD.E. Shaw, based in New York, manages about $32 billion and is known for its quantitative-trading strategies. Lehman Brothers, the investment bank that collapsed in 2008, paid between $750 million and $800 million for the stake in 2007, part of a wave of activity before the financial crisis by banks looking to buy their way into the hedge-fund business.\nThe remnants of Lehman Brothers emerged from bankruptcy proceedings in 2012, and the estate has estimated unwinding its remaining holdings could take several more years.\nAMG was one of six firms invited last year to bid on the stake by bankers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., The Wall Street Journal reported in December. The firm is a holding company that owns pieces of several big hedge-fund firms, including AQR Capital Management LLC, BlueMountain Capital Management LLC and ValueAct Capital Management LP.\nOthers invited to bid in the D.E. Shaw auction included Blackstone Group LP, KKR & Co. and Foundation Capital, a private-equity firm in Greenwich, Conn., people familiar with the matter said.\nSome of the firms that looked at buying the stake found the terms limiting, according to people familiar with the matter. The acquirer would assume all the terms Lehman negotiated in 2007, meaning it would share in D.E. Shaw\u2019s profit but wouldn\u2019t have a vote in the firm\u2019s direction or management.\nD.E. Shaw founder David E. Shaw has final approval on the buyer. Mr. Shaw founded the firm in 1988 but has since stepped away from its daily operations.\nInvestment groups have raised billions of dollars recently to buy minority stakes in hedge funds, prompting some in the industry to question whether the market is frothy.\nThe deals are a way for stakeholders to profit from hedge-funds\u2019 management fees and performance, and buyers see more opportunity as banks have pulled back to adapt to stricter capital rules on managing capital and risk.\nHedge-fund clients don\u2019t always like the deals, worried they are a way for managers to cash out. But managers and stake buyers say the sales are often structured to ensure that managers remain active, can help motivate employees if they create a more attractive incentive structure and can increase the long-term odds a firm will endure beyond its founder\u2019s involvement.\nAMG, whose chief executive is former Goldman deal maker Sean Healey, buys pieces of traditional asset managers and minority investments in alternative firms, such as hedge-fund and private-equity shops.\nThe investment firm, which has a market capitalization of $10.9 billion, began buying into hedge funds in the years before the crisis, and several of the firms it bought into have grown considerably. The firms in which it has stakes collectively manage $594 billion.\nThe dynamics for AMG would be different with D.E. Shaw, not only because AMG wouldn\u2019t be negotiating its ownership terms, but because D.E. Shaw already is one of the biggest hedge-fund firms in the industry. D.E. Shaw has diversified beyond its quantitative roots to manage billions in other strategies.\nIn 2007, D.E. Shaw managed $29 billion and was able to charge management fees of 3% and performance fees of 30% in one of its hedge funds. That fund\u2019s fees have lowered to be in line with D.E. Shaw\u2019s fees for its other hedge funds\u2013still some of the highest in the industry, but a comedown following poor performance and redemptions by investors during the financial crisis, troubles that plagued other hedge funds. By 2010, D.E. Shaw\u2019s assets under management had decreased to roughly $20 billion.\nThe firm has since rebounded and last year closed its hedge funds to more money to safeguard their ability to generate returns.\nWrite to Juliet Chung at juliet.chung@wsj.com and Dana Cimilluca at dana.cimilluca@wsj.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newatlas.com/carnegie-mellon-gabriel-expert-system/40688/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:48Z", "digest": "sha1:7QNITC237SBAFZK6BCBZ6PVKTTKCG7IV", "length": 3964, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "newatlas.com", "title": "Gabriel computer system offers a guiding voice to users", "raw_content": "Gabriel computer system offers a guiding voice to users\nGabriel uses advanced algorithms and \"cloudlets\" to provide real-time advice to users on how to carry out tasks, such as freehand drawing(Credit: Carnegie Mellon University)\nIf you ever wished you had an angel at your shoulder to give tips on how to carry out a difficult job, a digital version may not be that far off. A team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University are working on a wearable cognitive assistance computer system named after the angel Gabriel that observes what a person is doing, provides prompts to help in completing tasks in real time, and avoids being a pest when not needed.\nExpert \"coaching\" systems are one of the great promises of the digital age with powerful algorithms backed by massive databases helping people to solve problems or teaching them to carry out tasks. It seems like a straightforward idea. The internet is the world's single largest repository of information, computer vision is becoming much more advanced, and supercomputers running cognitive algorithms like IBM's Watson have a tremendous problem solving ability, so such systems should be easy to create ... but they aren't.\nThe cloud has a huge potential for creating a system that can guide a user through a task, but there are a number of problems that need to be overcome. For one thing, a wearable system isn't of much use if it just rambles off a list of steps like a manual or a training video. This would result in a string of needless instructions, such as when you use a GPS to get out of the airport carpark and it keeps giving directions even though he know the way home perfectly well.\nAnother problem is the time lag. It takes time for data to go from a wearable device, into the cloud, to the computing platform, and then back again with the answer. If this takes too long, that answer will be useless, so a cognitive assistance system needs to be fast as well as powerful.\nFunded by a four-year US$2.8 million National Science Foundation grant, the aim of the Gabriel project is to produce a system that watches what the user is doing, assesses the situation, and offers advice when needed while shutting up the rest of the time.\nGabriel is currently in the proof-of-concept phase and can guide a user through the process of assembling LEGO models, freehand sketching, or playing Ping Pong. The latter, which involves Gabriel prompting to player to move left or right, demonstrates the necessity for speed for such a system to be practical\nGabriel works in conjunction with wearable vision system like Google Glass, which allows it to monitor what the user is doing. The key to the system is called a \"cloudlet\" and gives Gabriel what the team describes as a robot-like sensing and task planning with the user doing the actual work. Conceived by Mahadev Satyanarayanan, professor of computer science and the principal investigator for Gabriel, cloudlets are essentially data centers that support multiple mobile users.\nWhat makes the cloudlets different is that they are stationed on cell towers or in buildings in close proximity to the users. In this way, the data only has to make one wireless connection rather than the tens or even hundreds that a typical cloud connection must navigate. The team says that this reduces the roundtrip time for data communications from a typical 70 milliseconds to a few tens of milliseconds or less.\nCarnegie Mellon says that the team is working on improving Gabriel's computer vision while adding audio and location sensing. Its first applications will be in areas of special skill or knowledge, but it may one day see wider applications.\n\"Ten years ago, people thought of this as science fiction,\" says Satyanarayanan. \"But now it's on the verge of reality.\"\nGabriel uses advanced algorithms and \"cloudlets\" to provide real-time advice to users on how to carry out tasks, such as freehand drawing (Credit: Carnegie Mellon University)\n#Carnegie Mellon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newportbeach-dentist.com/sedation-dentistry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:50Z", "digest": "sha1:LIDJNM2YULB7FOAVBLNCMJMOJRNDUDMF", "length": 279, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "newportbeach-dentist.com", "title": "Sedation Dentistry in Newport Beach, CA | Spath Dentistry", "raw_content": "Sedation Dentistry2016-11-182018-07-31https://newportbeach-dentist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/newport-beach-dentist-spath-dentistry-logo-1.pngSpath Dentistryhttps://newportbeach-dentist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/newport-beach-dentist-spath-dentistry-logo-1.png200px200px", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 11586, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 207.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.uga.edu/uga-18th-us-news-world-report-ranking/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:37Z", "digest": "sha1:JDE5DFZP7EW6WIMRNFVN7IP3ZZTVWZKM", "length": 4502, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "news.uga.edu", "title": "UGA jumps to 18th in U.S. News & World Report ranking - UGA Today", "raw_content": "UGA jumps to 18th in U.S. News & World Report ranking\nAthens, Ga. \u2014 The University of Georgia moved up three spots to No. 18 in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of Best Public Universities, released today.\n\u201cI am pleased that the University of Georgia continues to be recognized as one of the very best public research universities in the nation,\u201d said President Jere W. Morehead. \u201cI want to thank our outstanding faculty, staff, students, alumni and supporters for this achievement. UGA\u2019s upward trajectory is a testament-above all else-to their hard work and dedication to excellence.\u201d\nOutstanding performance on key measures of student success contributed to the university\u2019s strong position in the national rankings: UGA\u2019s first-year retention rate increased from 94 percent to a record 95 percent during the rating period, and its six-year graduation rate remained at an all-time high of 85 percent.\nIncreases in student selectivity measures also led to the top 20 ranking. UGA\u2019s acceptance rate decreased from 56 percent to 53 percent during the rating period; the percentage of students in the top 10 percent of their high school class increased from 52 percent to 53 percent, and test scores for the 25th-75th SAT/ACT percentile increased as well.\nThese measures reflect the continuing rise in the quality of the student body at UGA as well as a steady increase in the number of applications for admission. This fall marked the fourth consecutive year in which the incoming class of first-year students set a record for academic quality, and applications for fall admission reached an all-time high this year at nearly 23,000, surpassing last year\u2019s record total.\n\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that demand for a UGA education continues to surge,\u201d said Pamela Whitten, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. \u201cOur long tradition of excellence and bold new academic initiatives have created an unparalleled learning environment that fosters the highest levels of student success.\u201d\nUGA\u2019s top ranking also benefited from an improved academic peer assessment rating, which measures how a university is regarded by administrators at peer institutions. The reputational score is determined by surveying presidents, provosts and deans of admissions, or officials in equivalent positions, at institutions in the same ranking category.\nUGA has made national headlines in recent years for major faculty hiring initiatives and innovations in undergraduate education. This fall, UGA became the nation\u2019s largest public university to ensure that all undergraduate students benefit from hands-on learning experiences-such as internships, research projects or specialized study abroad opportunities-that prepare them for success after graduation. In addition to implementing its experiential learning initiative, the university also recently implemented a small class size initiative that has brought more than 50 new faculty members to campus to create more than 300 additional course sections in high-demand subjects.\nVice President for Instruction Rahul Shrivastav has played an important role in implementing these and other academic initiatives since he assumed his position in February 2015. \u201cThe university has been committed for many years to enhancing the learning environment for students, and new initiatives in advising and experiential learning, along with more classes, are elevating undergraduate education to new heights,\u201d said Shrivastav. \u201cThe higher education community has taken note of our pioneering spirit and our strong commitment to excellence in teaching and learning.\u201d\nThe state of Georgia is one of only three in the country with two institutions\u2014Georgia Institute of Technology and UGA\u2014listed among the top 20 public universities. In addition, UGA was one of only two institutions in the Southeastern Conference, along with the University of Florida, to rank in the top 20 among publics.\nUGA recently was ranked No. 17 on the Forbes \u201cTop 25 Public Colleges 2016\u201d list and consistently ranks as one of the nation\u2019s best values in public higher education. Kiplinger\u2019s ranked UGA at No. 12 on its 2016 list of the 100 best values among public colleges and universities, and The New York Times ranked UGA at No. 10 among public universities doing the most for low-income students in its 2015 College Access Index.\nHonors / Awards News Release Office of Senior VP for Academic Affairs and Provost Office of the President Office of the Vice President for Instruction Rankings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 8247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 146.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nguonhocbong.com/scholarships/2018-fulbright-vietnamese-scholar-program/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:42Z", "digest": "sha1:C6NBTLUAKBIS4P6XNJB7ICQHCATGYUAN", "length": 1700, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "nguonhocbong.com", "title": "2018 Fulbright Vietnamese Scholar Program - Ngu\u1ed3n H\u1ecdc B\u1ed5ng <% if ( total_view > 0 ) { %> <%= total_view > 1 ? \"total views\" : \"total view\" %>, <% if ( today_view > 0 ) { %> <%= today_view > 1 ? \"views today\" : \"view today\" %> no views today\tNo views yet", "raw_content": "[Ch\u01b0\u01a1ng tr\u00ecnh H\u1ecdc gi\u1ea3 Fulbright 2018]\nThe U.S. Mission in Vietnam is seeking qualified candidates for the 2018 Fulbright Vietnamese Scholar Program (VSP). The VSP provides grants to Vietnamese scholars to lecture and/or conduct research at American institutions or universities for three to nine months.\nEstablished in 1946 and funded by the U.S. Congress, the Fulbright Program aims to achieve mutual understanding through academic and cultural exchange. The Fulbright VSP is a competitive, merit-based scholarship program. Successful applicants are provided with a stipend, living expenses, health and accident insurance for the full term of the grant, and transportation to and from the United States. The Fulbright Program in Vietnam in coordination with the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) helps place scholars at appropriate host institutions in the United States.\nThe VSP actively encourages women, minorities, and residents from all provinces to apply. Applicants of various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities, science, and technology are welcome. Competition is open to all applicants who meet the following minimum criteria: be a Vietnamese citizen; hold a MA or PhD (or equivalent degree in some specific professions); and have English skills adequate to conduct research and/or lectures in the United States.\nFurther details on application are available: CLICK HERE\nThe deadline of application submission is 5:00 p.m., October 15, 2017 by Vietnam time zone.\nInformation sessions will be held in major cities/provinces to guide the prospective candidates through the application process.\nDetails can be found on the Fulbright website at: CLICK HERE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 201.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nigeriaworld.com/articles/2007/mar/211.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:26Z", "digest": "sha1:3PNGXRB3CGUFKFPZXS4BRNTVV3YVIPN7", "length": 42590, "nlines": 152, "source_domain": "nigeriaworld.com", "title": "Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Odili Vs Yar\u00b4Adua; Obasanjo`s dilemma during the PDP National Convention", "raw_content": "Temple Chima Ubochi Wednesday, March 21, 2007\nPolitics is \u201cthe art of the possible\u201d. Politics has to do with \u201cwho gets what, when, how and why\u201d. In politics there is no permanent friend or enemy, but, permanent interest. There is also no morality in politics.\nEvery human being is a political \u201canimal\u201d and practices politics every day in one way or the other. For example, the decision of a house wife to cook rice instead of beans is politics in a way, that may be to please her husband or children who like rice more than beans.\nThe decision of the man to buy a house where he is living instead of building one in his village has atom of politics in it. The point I am trying to make is that, it is not only politicians that practice politics.\nSomebody doesn\u2019t have to be a political scientist to be a good politician. Infact, some of those that read political sciences might not go into politics in their life time, whereas the best politicians are people outside the field.\nBill Clinton \u2013 one of the best politicians and one of the best presidents ever produced in America, Tony Blair of United Kingdom, Barack Obama \u2013 the rising star of American politics, Nelson Mandela, and to bring it down home, Governor Duke of Cross River State, are not political scientists, but, they excelled in politics.\nGovernor Odili failed to have a complete grasp of what politics is all about, that was why he blew the greatest chance the people of former Eastern Region had to ascend to the \u201cthrone\u201d. He made unpardonable mistakes. He failed to understand that too much familiarity breeds contempt. He forgot that \u201che that must eat with the devil must take a long spoon\u201d and that \u201cwhen greeting passes the elbow, it means then another thing\u201d.\nWho is Governor Peter Odili?\nDr. Peter Odili who is the governor of Rivers State is from Ogbaru Clan of Ndoni community which geographically spreads from the Onitsha end of the Niger Bridge, on both banks of the river, down into what is known today as Rivers state. He attended CKC Onitsha, and was their football captain in his days and studied medicine at UNN.\nAssuming Gov. Odili as an Igbo from South- South geopolitical zone is the PDP flagbearer, he would have served as a bridge between the aspiration of the South- South and South-East. As a president, he would have naturally had the unprecedented advantage of having two geopolitical zones as his/her home base. His wife is from Mbaise in Imo state.\nWhen he made his intentions know that he will go for the plum job; subtle efforts was made to position him as a man to succeed Obasanjo in the face of ceaseless crises that have befallen the area in recent years and the need to placate them. And his supposed close relationship to Obasanjo made matters appear very real for him and one thought it was only a matter of time for the emergence of President Peter Odili. Even the South-Easterners were ready to get into political marriage with the South-Southerners to support Odili as a compromise candidate.\nWho Stopped Odili?\nIt was Nuhu Ribadu that single-handedly scuttled the Presidential ambitions of Peter Odili before Govs. Ibori and Saraki finished the assignment. Ribadu made it clear to Obasanjo earlier enough that there is no way he would be alive to see Odili the President of the Republic having watched from the sideline how he mismanaged the resources of his state coupled with mountain of petitions against him.\nTo prove this point, Daily Independent of March 13, 2007 wrote this:\nEconomic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu, confirmed in London on Monday that Rivers Governor, Peter Odili, was one of those stopped from contesting for the Presidency because of corruption. \"There\u2019s nobody we dealt with like Odili in Nigeria,\" he said in a paper he delivered at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).\"(Odili) would have been President. We stopped him. We even stopped his boy from becoming governor.\" Ribadu admitted that the EFCC is not able to prosecute every one found culpable but insisted that no lies have been fabricated against anyone to stop him from fulfilling his political ambition. \"We\u2019re not 100 per cent okay, but whatever is done is genuine. It\u2019s not a fight against Obasanjo\u2019s enemies.\" Corrupt politicians \"are shameless people. They\u2019ve institutionalised themselves. They\u2019re the ones who will buy a house in Washington and put a wife there.\"\u2026\u2026\u2026.\" The anti-corruption crusade has saved Nigeria from career corrupt politicians, Ribadu stressed, recalling that prior to measures being put in place by the EFCC, \"within two to three days of collecting federal allocation for their states, some governors took the money abroad and converted it into their personal use. Some of them will be on the run after May when their immunity expires. One individual owns 147 properties.\"\nA day before the PDP national convention of December 16, 2006, Odili had a quarrel with Ribadu at Aso Rock when Obasanjo invited the two to give Odili the bad news that he can\u2019t be the PDP presidential candidate. Odili would have been impeached and now in jail left to Ribadu alone, but, Obasanjo saved him, at least recognising and appreciating all he did for him and their party.\nSome of the reasons why EFCC scuttled the presidential ambition of the \u201cgolden\u201d governor were : his \"Father Christmas\" life style, he made heavy donations across Nigeria to worthy and sometimes unworthy programs; the Cadbury deal; the over inflated cost of building the 150 MW Omoku Gas Turbine and Power Transmission Line; his relationship with Arik Airlines and some oil deals.\nThe EFCC discovered that Governor Peter Odili has in one fell swoop \u201cmisappropriated\u201d N200 billion. This might not be all that he mismanaged. There were reports of Government officials, their cronies and siblings\u2019 bank accounts swelling with billions of public money. A whooping sum of N20 billion was found in the bank account of Hon. Rotimi Amaechi, the long time crony of Governor Peter Odili, the longest serving Speaker of a state House of Assembly in the country and Odili\u00b4s anointed successor until EFCC scuttled that ambition.\nGovernor Peter Odili, who happens to be one of those few indigenous governors of Rivers State with all the money at his disposal, had a golden opportunity to leave land mark developments in Rivers State but he squandered the chance.\nOdili traversed the length and breadth of Nigeria campaigning before the PDP national convention and spending in the process huge amount of money that could only have come from the State treasury. He received chieftaincy titles from different traditional institutions in the country all in the efforts to project his national acceptance and to herald his ascendance to the throne come 2007.\nOdili\u00b4s generosity and his lack of accountability haunted him at the end and upon his strong personality, his free disposition with money worked against him in favour of a fiscal conservative candidate like Yar\u00b4Adua. Odili is everything Yar\u00b4Adua is not and vice versa.\nRivers State may still rank among the richest in the country because of crude oil deposits and natural endowment. The state is self-sufficient in food production having rivers which supply rich sea foods and also rich soil for crop production coupled with the rich mangrove and rain forests supporting a variety of economic activities.\nRivers State\u2019s sources of income are as follows:\na jumbo monthly allocation from the Federation Account\nhuge internally generated revenue\ntwo seaports, two giant refineries, a petrochemical complex, a fertilizer plant, an international airport\nmany oil, gas and allied products companies paying their royalties and taxes to the government. Most of the oil companies relocated their headquarters to Port Harcourt from Lagos for proximity purposes.\nWith such glut of cash at the disposal of Governor Odili and his government, the question became: What to do with money?\nGovernor Odili faults are as follows:\nHe sponsors every event whether necessary or not.\nHe is the chief financier of PDP, at least, up till December, 2006.\nHe sponsored every Obasanjo\u2019s \u201cwar\u201d with any National Assembly Officer.\nAny visiting PDP National Officer to the state will have a bag of money to take away with.\nOdili and Governor Chimaraoke Nnamani of Enugu State bankrolled the Third term campaigns.\nIt was reported that Governor Odili made donations to some destitute homes in USA. There is nothing wrong with helping the downtrodden, but, in Rivers State in particular and Nigeria in general, there are millions of destitute and less privileged people. Odili forgot the saying that \u201cIt is better to do a good deed near home than go far away to burn incense\u201d.\nThe huge amount of money coming into the state\u2019s coffer made no positive impacts in the lives of the state\u2019s citizens and there aren\u2019t much infrastructural developments to show for it.\nFor a State like Rivers that receives an average of N10 billion monthly from the federation account, much more would be expected from the Governor, but there isn\u2019t much to show for it on the ground.\nDespite taking charge of one of the largest remittances of any Nigerian state, there is little that the Odili government can show for it in Rivers state. Power remains epileptic in a state that has some of the largest reserves of oil in the country.\nOdili gave some money to the Ghanaian national team when they lost three goals to nil to the Eagles in Port-Harcourt in the last match leading to our qualification for the World Cup of 2002 in Japan/Korea. What for?\nRiver State is one-city state. Governor Odili should have done something about it; after all, there is enough money to execute new projects, if he wanted.\nI was in Port Harcourt last January, the city is being rubbished by the increasing number of refuse dumps in various parts of the capital, just as some of the streets, especially in Diobu area, are crying for government\u2019s attention. The Mile One Market end of Ikwerre Road, Oil Mill Market, the Eleme Junction Roundabout in Aba Road, the Mile Three areas and the Ikoku end of the town are all facing similar problems.\nOdili built a Government house called \u201cBrick House\u201d and a State House of Assembly that are all imposing. The contracts for the construction of these masterpieces were inflated. What good is imposing structures when the citizens are hungry, can\u2019t find jobs, workers are being owed etc?\nViolence in Rivers State is endemic with one report accusing the state government of sponsoring it. Ironically, this is a state known hitherto for its tranquillity.\nGovernor Odili was too desperate\nOdili should have known that desperation for power could be counterproductive.\nGovernor Odili is like a barber\u2019s chair; its position is always determined by the Barber. He is a habitual compromiser who will do anything just to remain in power and in control, because he hates having a dissenting opinion, or trying something new. He lacks consistency in what he say and what he do, Odili can blow hot today and blow cold tomorrow, as long as his personal survival is not threatened. He always trust on his judgment or ability to be able to defend whatever position he takes at any given point, regardless of the cost to him or the people he professes to lead. He understands Machiavelli\u2019s theory \u201cthe end justifies the means\u201d well, and all other collateral damages arising out of his decision or indecision are to be ignored or simply set aside as irrelevant.\nOdili was busy pleasing Obasanjo and Tony Anenih. No one should be surprise because Odili was treading a familiar and his usual path. What he did between 1999 and 2006, he did for Abacha in the past and it haunted him during the 1999 elections in Rivers state. The only difference this time around is that by a single effort he negotiated away a life long aspiration of his people.\nDr Odili during the Abacha era was the National Secretary of the Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN), one of the five parties that wanted Abacha to be their sole presidential candidate. Dr Odili was the person that announced that Abacha should come and carry the flag of DPN at the presidential election of that year. Few days in Abuja before Abacha died. Odili told every one that was listening that Abacha was the only man who could rule Nigeria without the nation disintegrating.\nIronically, Odili having the rare opportunity to excel in politics is rather having only embarrassment, humiliation and disgrace.\nGovernor Odili was so desperate to be president and that might have led him into corruption, just like people that want riches by all means and in that process are being duped or they get into something that they will later regret.\nIn Port Harcourt, one sees several billboards with the pictures of Odili and Obasanjo at strategic locations with captions like \u201cthe governor and people of Rivers State stand with President Obasanjo\u201d, \"Rivers State will stand by you, President Obasanjo, come rain come sunshine\", \u201cWelcome to your second home Mr. President\u201d and many more.\nOdili might have bankrolled many of the Obasanjo and PDP projects all to win the president\u2019s favour.\nMy heart goes out to Peter Odili. He was one of the contestants that invested the biggest amount of time and money into the campaign but lost all at the end. I blame him for his plight; he was so subservient to Obasanjo. He named a lot of things in Rivers State after Obasanjo and his family just to curry his favours and while doing these, he got himself steeped into corruption. Some roads or structures in Rivers State are named after Obasanjo and his family. The state Taxis are named after Stella Obasanjo. Obasanjo visited Rivers State more than any other state in Nigeria. The Governor forget the saying \u201cwhen you want to test the depths of a stream, don\u2019t use both feet\u201d and that \u201ca known enemy is dangerous, but a false friend is worse\u201d.\nI must be sincere by saying that what somebody sees in Rivers State does not in any way reflect the huge amount of money that comes into the state\u2019s coffer. Odili mismanaged the state\u2019s revenue just to please Obasanjo and the king makers and still lost out in the end.\nI hope the level of corruption in that state will not land him where he never dreamt of after May, 2007.\nA state government buying two brand new aircrafts for the use of its officials instead of catering to its people and paying salaries on time is unexplainable. The fact of the matter is that the governor and the state officials bought themselves private jets. Pure and simple! Even if one of them is an ambulance, the question then is: Which ordinary Nigerian can afford to board that aircraft or the Presidential jet to United Kingdom or Germany or Spain or America for treatment? Only Yar\u00b4Adua, Atiku, Odili, their political aids, their family members and their cronies can afford that luxury.\nThe Guardian of January 5, 2006 wrote that the first plane bought by Rivers State Government with registration number 5N RSG, was christened \"Lady Queen of Victory\" in commemoration of President Olusegun Obasanjo's victory at the Supreme Court in the electoral case between him and the former ANPP presidential candidate in the 2003 polls, Gen. Mohammad Buhari (rtd).\nEnemies at home\nThe Ogoni and Ijaw people loathe Odili from the start. They even see him as an Igbo man that has no business representing south-south people.\nTam David-West and Chief Edwin Clarke were quoted as saying that the chance of the Niger Delta should not be taken over by proxy by people who are not from the zone.\nThe problem is that Odili never came out to declare his ethnicity. Having found himself in Rivers State did not take away his Igboness.\nThe people of Igbo descent who found themselves in Rivers and Delta States respectively are denying their Igboness at their own detriment. While denying that they are Igbos, their new \u201cfound\u201d origins are as well not paying them well.\nThe best approach for them is to join forces with their Igbo brothers and sisters and fight for justice within Nigeria. By doing this, the Ikwerres and the Ika-Igbos will be liberated physically and spiritually and will be better placed to take their rightful place politically and economically in Nigeria.\nJust a little story from my experience last January:\nI was at Mile 3, Port Harcourt in January to see an in-law marrying a distant cousin of mine. This was my first time meeting this man. They are owners of the land where University of Science and Technology is situated; they gave the land to the government. For those that don\u2019t know, Port Harcourt is Igbo town formerly known as \u201cAlaocha\u201d.\nWhen I arrived, the man started communicating with me in English but I forced him to speak Igbo and to my surprise, his Igbo were as good as mine. Unfortunately, none of his three children can speak the mainland Igbo because nobody is teaching it to them.\nI want to tell the Igbos of Rivers, Delta and Akwa Ibom States respectively to start teaching their children in addition to their dialect, Igbo and English languages respectively, so that their children will be able to mingle up well later. Whether those Igbos from the three states I mentioned above accept it or not, they are Igbos. They will one day come back to their senses and then back into the Igbo fold after the turn around that will happen soon.\nWhen the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed and the city was sacked, the Israelites dispersed all over the world, the dislocated Jews and the ones already in Europe then began to hide their Jewish identities including names and language for fear of persecution. After 1948, when modern Israel was established, those Jews that hid their identities, names and language hitherto, started brandishing their Jewish identities, names and language all over again.\nDuring the Second World War, Adolf Hitler of Germany and his men killed or gassed about 6 million Jews to death and during the Nigerian civil war, Gowon and his men killed about 3 million Igbos through guns, bombs and starvation.\nI understand why the Igbos of Rivers, Delta and Akwa Ibom States respectively are behaving the way they are doing now; no body want to identify with failure. They see the Mainland Igbos as failures having lost the war, but, I want to assure them that \u201cthe scions of Israel\u201d will be taking up their rightful place in Nigeria again. The children of King David will be reaching the \u201cpromise land\u201d soon.\nIt is unfortunate that some of the Ogoni and Ijaw leaders like Prof. Tam David-West, Chief Edwin Clarke (who convinced the then Nigerian government to reject the Aburi Accord of 1967 that should have granted Eastern Nigeria including part of his Ijaw nation, confederate status within the Nigerian nation) and many others, see Odili more as an Igbo than as a Nigerian. These are some of the leaders that played great part against the Igbos during the civil war and their attitudes against the Igbos are now the modern Ijaw or Ogoni political philosophies. Their systematic indoctrination of innocent new generation of the Ijaws and Ogonis with such Igbo phobia will not take them any where. It is all un-necessary.\nIgbos can be of great help to the Ogonis and Ijaws. The late Chief Ken Saro-Wiwa, upon all he did against the Igbos during and after the war and how he connived with others to seize the Igbo properties in Port Harcourt after the war, using his newspaper column to write rubbish about the Igbos then, appeared uninvited at an Ohaneze meeting in 1994, asking his Igbo neighbours to help him in his struggle for the emancipation of the Ogoni people. Every one present was surprised with Saro-Wiwa visit and he was warmly received at the meeting in a true brotherly re-union. It was really an emotional situation.\nThe Igbos through the Ohaneze Ndigbo then offered to help in one way or the other to see his agitation realised, unfortunately, before anything could be done, he was callously hanged by Abacha. Worthy of mentioning is how Chief Mbakwe reminded every body present in that meeting of the inter-relationship between the Igbos and the Ogonis by saying that while the Easterners was looking for a name for their new nation then, that it was an Ogoni man (Frank Opugo) who suggested the name Biafra. So the Ogoni and Ijaw brothers and sisters should not see the Igbos as \u201cenemies\u201d but as friends. There are lots that should unite the Igbos, the Ogonis and the Ijaws than that that should separate them.\nIt is unfortunate that some leaders of the minorities, mostly of the Eastern extraction have boasted that if not for their contributions Nigeria could not have survived and stayed together. In other words, they were responsible for making the Biafran dream impossible. These are people like Tam David-West, Chief Edwin Clarke, Anthony Enahoro etc and their comments against the presidential ambition of Governor Odili confirmed this.\nWho is Yar\u00b4Adua?\nAlhaji Umaru Yar\u00b4Adua, 51, the governor of Katsina State, is better known as the younger brother of the late Gen. Shehu Musa Yar\u00b4Adua. The late Yar\u00b4Adua was the Chief of General Staff and second in command to President Olusegun Obasanjo, when he was military head of state between 1976 and 1979.\nUmaru Yar\u00b4Adua has attributes which are not readily associated with most politicians of his era. He is quiet, humble, taciturn and largely unassuming. His emergence in1999 as governor was regarded as a product of the influence of the political platform, the Progressive Democratic Movement (PDM), set up by his late brother. He however comes from a politically active family. Besides the late General Yar\u00b4Adua, his father Musa Yar\u00b4Adua was the Minister of Lagos Affairs in the First Republic, a chieftain of the conservative Northern Peoples Congress (NPC). The Governor is an independent minded politician; he took to his own political course quite early.\nThe governor graduated from the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria with graduate and postgraduate degrees in Chemistry. A former chemistry teacher, the governor is one of the few serving governors not being investigated for corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In Katsina State, he put a prudent system of financial management in place.\nPeople falsely believed that Yar\u00b4Adua was never ready for the job from the start as nobody saw him early enough campaigning for the PDP Presidential ticket. He is wrongly seen as a reluctant PDP Presidential candidate, a man believed not to have the experience, the contact and reach, with poor health to run a successful presidency after Obasanjo. He is being seen as a would-be hostage to the wishes and directions of Obasanjo and his cohorts.\nWhy did Obasanjo choose Yar\u00b4Adua?\nOdili was the only PDP presidential candidate that had campaign structure in place and traversed the length and breadth of Nigeria to get his message across long enough before the PDP national convention. But he forgot to put his house in order before investing a lot of time, money and energy into the campaign.\nObasanjo couldn\u2019t defend Odili after the evidences against him. He had no other choice than to give the ticket to a Fulani man because he is afraid of what will happen to him after May, 2007. He doesn\u2019t trust any southerner or northerner except the Yar\u00b4Adua family because of the long tie between the two families.\nA frustrated Obasanjo was reported by ThisDay Newspapers of December 21, 2006 to have delved into how he had to cut his own loss at the PDP national convention:\n\u201c\u2026. you know as well as I do that my candidate for the presidency is Peter (Odili). But when I realised that would be hard I promised him the VP ticket after I had made him to withdraw from a contest he could have won. But you saw the pressure I had to face at the end of which I could not offer Peter what I promised\u201d.\nObasanjo chose Yar\u00b4Adua because of the fear that IBB will be contesting under NDP and Atiku will use the PDM of the senior Yar\u00b4Adua to his advantage. He was afraid that the Hausa/Fulani people would have united against a southern candidate making PDP to lose the Presidency. The Northerners know how to close ranks when it comes to their \u201cNorthern Agenda\u201d irrespective of their disagreements on other issues.\nObasanjo conceded the presidency to the north under duress. They forced him to suddenly remember the proverbial \u201caccord\u201d of 1998, which he had ignored while pursuing his third term agenda.\nObasanjo chose Yar\u00b4dua because of their family connection and because he is an upright man not tainted by corruption. Secondly, only a trusted friend like Yar\u00b4Adua can defend Obasanjo, if he gets entangled into political problems when he leaves office. No southerner can be able to cover up Obasanjo, if anything goes wrong later. This is the reason he want to hand over power to the Northerner. Obasanjo also want somebody he will be able to influence thereby ruling by proxy after May 27, 2007.\nBy choosing Yar\u00b4Adua, the PDP resurrected the opposition parties that were enjoying their slumbers prior to the PDP national convention of December 16, 2006. With Buhari as the ANPP Presidential candidate, PDP has a lot of work to do. Yar\u00b4Adua and Buhari are from the same state.\nOne of the unplanned outcomes of PDP national convention is that the ANPP have a good chance of wrestling power out from PDP\u00b4s control in a free and fair election.\nPDP chose an introvert; giving the excuse that he managed the resources of his state well. He is not extravagant having saved N6 billion for his poor state, a feat Governor Odili can\u2019t boast of, if say, he was the governor of Katsina State; a state without any known natural resources.\nYar\u00b4Adua is very humble, simple and open. He has done a lot for his state when compared to Rivers State or Abia State, upon the merger income that comes into the state\u2019s coffer from the federal account.\nYar\u00b4Adua might not be a weakling as many people tend to believe. Although he is publicity shy but what does he stand for?\nHe is believed to provide quality leadership and scored a string of achievements, which are widely under-reported.\nAn epitome of integrity and transparency\nHis watchwords are honesty and accountability\nHe is frugal and stingy and might beat Obasanjo on this one.\nHe successfully got the elites in his home state to accept the fact that his government is for the generality of the masses and not for them, the elites alone, as is the case in most states of the federation.\nHe might be the best form the pack that can consolidate on the anticorruption war and the multiple economic reforms of the Obasanjo\u2019s administration.\nFor a governor that is known often to break protocol to mingle with the common folk, Umaru Yar\u00b4Adua is sometimes considered as imperious.\nYar\u00b4Adua is also a strong personality. Only a man with will power can win election twice in Katsina State, with its characteristic turbulent politics. Yar\u00b4Adua was also able to flatten out some of his highly placed political opponents like the Speaker of the House of Representatives (Masari), a former Internal Affairs Minister (Magaji) etc.\nDuring the Second Republic, his father stayed with the ruling and conservative party; the National Political Party (NPN) while he stayed with the PRP. So he can be his own man without Obasanjo controlling him, if, he becomes the president.\nBeing the son of a former first Republic Minister who played prominent roles in getting so many Northerners into the army and being the blood brother of a former Chief of staff, Supreme Headquarters during Obasanjo first rulership as a military Head of state, the governor has a support base to sustain his rulership, if he makes it to Aso Rock come May 27, 2007.\nYar\u00b4Adua is also a political actor. Few years back, he might have started nursing the presidential ambition and he took the following steps without people actually paying attention to them:\ngradual withdrawal from direct association with the vice-president because of the war in the presidency, but it was rather a tactical preparation.\nhe outsmarted others to get Shema, his candidate elected or appointed as the PDP Deputy Chairman for a purpose of preparing the ground at the national level for his eventual entrance into the presidential race, of course, with Obasanjo\u2019s blessings.\nSo what makes Yar\u00b4Adua stand out from the crowd?\nHe will be the first university graduate to be elected president. If, he wins. Yar\u00b4Adua holds both a first and second degree in Chemistry. Apart from Odimegwu Ojukwu, of APGA and Professor Pat Utomi, of Africa Democratic Congress (ADC), no other candidate in the race can boast of Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s credentials. None has superior academic and intellectual credentials and none has publicly enunciated his development agenda in a fundamental manner as Yar\u00b4Adua has done.\nHe raised the financial status of Katsina State, from a debt laden one to one that can sustain at least one year of activities without funding from the Federation Account. He proved this when as one of the states that set up new local government areas, he went ahead to fund their activities without waiting for funding from the Federal Government. It is said that the state has about N6.5 billion in its reserves.\nHe has also done well in the education sector. Primary school enrolment has jumped from just 460,000 in 1999 to over one million today. A Scholarship Trust Fund, funded by the state and local councils has raised N1.5 billion, which has guaranteed that indigent students get a way of securing their education. The reduction of student population in the primary school from an average of 250 students to 40 pupils per class is another feat.\nDaily Sun Newspaper of March 10, 2007 gave an impressive record about this man:\nUntil he joined the presidential race late last year, not much was heard or known about Umaru Musa Yar\u00b4Adua, the incumbent governor of Katsina State, and presidential flag-bearer of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).\nBut a recent facility tour of the amenities in the state reveals that the former lecturer is indeed a silent achiever. His exploits in the provision of potable water, good health care delivery, education, are eloquent testimonies.\nInspite of the tremendous achievements in the past eight years, an average indigene of the state is of the opinion that what the journalists saw during the February visit was only a tip of the iceberg. The stakeholders believe that a Yar\u00b4Adua presidency would transform the nation for the better, given his enviable record in the state.\nIt is on record that the state was endemic with guinea worm, a water borne disease. In fact, guinea worm eradication was one of the topmost challenges of the politician when he assumed office in 1999. This perhaps was why the state government embarked on the expansion of the coverage area of water supply, as well as the supply of equipment and operational maintenance.\nYar\u2019Adua\u2019s exploits are not limited to the water sector. A peep into the transformation of the health care system is also marvellous.\nThis is noticeable with good and regular water supply to the public hospitals, electricity back-up, functional medical equipment, adequate and well motivated staff, and the compliance of the people to his newly introduced community participation in the health sector. The repairs of dilapidated structures and construction of new hospitals are also good points of reference.\nHow the unassuming politician achieved this feat remains a mystery to many, but the Permanent Secretary in the Katsina State Ministry of Health, Dr. Salisu Banye, gave an insight into the achievement. While conducting journalists round the newly acquired facilities in the state hospitals during a visit, Banye said that when Yar\u00b4Adua came on board in 1999, his administration selected seven out of the 18 existing ones as pilot hospitals, to ensure a community participation and involvement in the health sector. He added that community leaders were appointed as board of trustees for the hospitals.\nTill date, he said that \u201call the hospitals in Katsina State have been renovated and expanded, medical equipment worth over N450 million have been procured following needs assessment by end users.\u201d He explained further that a total sum of N65 million was given as SEED money for DFR and approval for direct purchase of drugs from manufacturers, to ensure quality and price reduction, noting that drugs are sold at 25 per cent subsidy to patients.\n\u201cAll our hospitals are provided with a minimum of two standby electric generating sets, two boreholes with improved water supply and reticulation, from water board. We have also taken delivery of brand new ambulances.\u201d\nBanye also informed that the state government has increased the staff strength at the hospitals, increased staff salaries, allowances and welfare packages. \u201cThis is not all, our staffs now engage in regular training and retraining programmes, this is targeted at ensuring optimal performance, and we are already seeing the results. About 206 Katsina State indigenous medical students are training in various universities across the country, under the sponsorship of the state government.\u201d\nIn the educational sector, Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s effort at improving the hitherto backwardness of the state academically has paid off. This he achieved by setting up a special intervention fund to build and equip more schools, improve teachers welfare and increase their salaries, the new educational policy also gives a number of incentives that make parents voluntarily release their children for western education.\nIt was gathered that N500 million was released annually as special intervention to revamp the sector. This is part of Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s initiative to ensure a conducive learning environment, provide teaching materials, and make schools friendlier to the teachers, both at the primary and secondary school levels. The state chairman, Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Alhaji Shehu Imam sheds more light on this: \u201cIn 2004, the governor started by giving us N500 million yearly as special intervention for upgrading the primary schools in the state. I am proud of the teaching materials because it has boosted our morale. \u201cWe now provide our children with free teaching materials in order to dissuade them from buying books outside, this has helped us a lot and it also encouraged our children to want to learn.\n\u201cThe state government in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Education has also embarked on an annual census of schools and the pupils.\u201d Similarly, Imam informed that the state government has upgraded its primary schools as part of efforts to provide a conducive learning environment for the pupils.\nThe permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Alhaji Danyaya Mashi, while conducting journalists round some of the 25 newly built secondary schools stated that \u201cwe took time to ensure they are well equipped with computers and other modern day teaching facilities.\u201d\nThe works ministry was the last point of call. The Permanent Secretary, Mr. Ahmed Aminu Yar\u00b4Adua, eulogised the governor\u2019s preference for quality project without any unnecessary or wasteful spending. He told journalists during the visit to the newly completed Katsina State secretariat, a large expanse of land accommodating all the ministries that facility managers in his ministry would ensure its regular maintenance.\nNigerian Tribune of Feb. 25, 2007 quoted the President thus:\nPresident Obasanjo said, allowing leaders who did not share his vision on the reform agenda, would spell the death knell for the country.\nHe pointed out that Nigeria crashed from being ranked 48th in the global economy in 1979 when he relinquished power as military Head of State, to an enviable position in 1999 when he returned as a democratically elected president.\nQuoting the president \u201cWe cannot afford to lose this chance of cumulative growth again. We can\u2019t let Nigeria slide back or it will mean death to the whole country. We are not there yet, but we are moving and we must continue in the right direction.\n\u201cIt is the responsibility of all Nigerians and all agencies of government to ensure that we have a successful election. On the part of Government, we have left no stone unturned to ensure hitch-free elections\u201d, he stated.\n\u201cSeven years ago, nobody knew Nigeria could have the current levels of foreign reserves, nobody knew Nigeria would get debt relief, nobody knew that Nigerians in the Diaspora would return home, with so many repatriating their money back, so indeed there is hope for our future\u201d.\nFrom the above passage, one can deduce why Obasanjo is looking for Mr. Clean.\nYar\u2019Adua\u2019s weaknesses\nBeing a sucessful governor of a state does not mean that he will be a suceeful president. There is more to being a president than meet the eyes.\nNo matter the nice qualities of Yar\u00b4Adua, one thing is clear and that is; he has very little experience in handling major strategic issues, whether in international relations, the security, geo-political issues like Niger-Delta problems, the federal bureaucracy or even the whole complex issues about running a modern economy. Therefore, the one person who Yar\u00b4Adua in power would depend on for guidance is Obasanjo. And from this dependency the President can hope to have the leeway to continue to be relevant and project his influence in governance. Obasanjo will be all pleased to lend a helping hand as well as carrying out his oversight role as the next Chairman, Board of Trustee of PDP. The post is now for ex-presidents with wide range of powers attached to it, courtesy of the amendment of the PDP constitution at their national convention last December.\nHis health is one issue that he has battled with in the last six years. His health is not \u201ctoo good\u201d. The governor is battling with a serious kidney ailment, which has often kept him in the hospital and out of public events for long spells, sometimes up to six months on several occasions. He has since 2000, gone abroad for medical attention and to undergo dialysis to support the kidneys perform their natural functions. He is a regular visitor to the German doctors. He just returned from Mainz, Germany where he was treated for the so called \u201ccatarrh\u201d, making one to wonder whether as a president, he will have all the time on earth to be checking out always for medical check-ups. His health might be one reason he is not known to travel outside Katsina State.\nNobody knows whether his failing health can withstand the pressures and rigors that the office of the president demands.\nNigeria is such a complex and unique entity that only the strong, healthy and hard-hearted can rule (hard-hearted in the sense that he will be ready to take unpopular decisions to get things going). I hope he knows what he will be facing, if, he wins the election.\nNigerians will not take \u201chad I known\u201d from any body. It is either he is there full time or not there at all. No half measures.\nThere are reports that Yar\u00b4Adua lacks good inter-personal relationship, with no single intimate friend or confidant, just like his late brother, Shehu Yar\u00b4Adua. The report went on to say that he lacks courage, focus, initiative, and boldness to appear in the public to handle National and International matters. It all means then that Yar'Adua's personality lacks competence, vibrancy, exposure, experience, charisma and good health to lead Nigeria in 2007. Nigerians hope that he has to surround himself with capable hands, if he wins the 2007 Presidential elections.\nMy little advice to whoever that will be elected the President of Nigeria is that he should not surround himself with the kind of \u201clocusts\u201d (ministers) Shagari had. We don\u2019t want a president like incompetent Shagari again that will watch his ministers sharing our commonwealth for themselves, only to go upstairs crying and praying God to forgive them. We don\u2019t want another Umaru Dikko; otherwise he will be coming home not in crate this time around but in a casket.\nWhat are Obasanjo\u2019s legacies as his tenure comes slowly to an end.\nFrom 1999, President Obasanjo has made modest progress particularly the way he has raised consciousness about the evils of corruption above all other issues. Nigeria got good global credit rating with consequential good flow of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs).\nOn the failure side, unprecedented availability of funds from export of crude oil and the resultant huge foreign reserves have no meaningful or positive impacts in the lives of ordinary Nigerians. Also the decayed infrastructures and the embarrassing security situation in the country are where Obasanjo has no justification for failing.\nObasanjo excluded the following people from the EFCC list and that is also a mistake:\nAttahiru Bafarawa, the presidential candidate of DPP.\nGoodluck Jonathan, the vice-presidential candidate of PDP.\nGovernorship Candidates: Justus Olugbenga Daniel of Ogun State, Olusegun Agugu of Ondo State, Alao Akala of Oyo State and Bukola Saraki of Kwara State respectively was excluded from the list of political aspirants that deemed unfit to run for the forth coming general elections in the country, following their alleged involvement in corrupt practices.\nObasanjo and Nuhu Ribadu are not perfect just like every one of us, they might have been biased in one way or the other, but, we must start from somewhere. Those that are corrupt and are now free because they are friends of Obasanjo don\u2019t have to rejoice for too long because their own time of judgement is coming. All those corrupt Nigerians will one day, just like Peter Tosh said, run to the rocks to hide but the rocks will be melting, they will run to the sea, but, the sea will be boiling; there will be no hiding places for them. They will beg death to take them away, but, death will laugh at them. They will not be able to bribe their ways out.\nLet those corrupt people that embezzled our commonwealth e.g. IBB etc look up to history to see what will be their fate. They should not forget what happened to Mobutu of Zaire, Samuel Doe, Charles Taylor and Johnson of Liberia, Idi Amin of Uganda, Pinochet of Chile, Marcos of Philippine, Papa and Baby \u201cDoc\u201d Duvalier of Haiti, Saddam Hussein of Iraq etc.\nMay God bless and help Nigerians to do the right thing during this election. We all have been complacent for too long. It is time to change our attitudes and use this opportunity to lift Nigeria out of the moribund and mundane conditions it is now in.\nMy people use to say that \u201ca woman that some of her children died while sleeping, will never allow those still alive to fall asleep\u201d. It is a saying and it is also a parable for the wise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 43035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/ubochi/080808.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:KT3G7R3PRU23ZNJJ5G5W6SEE33MUO5UP", "length": 20088, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "nigeriaworld.com", "title": "Nigeriaworld Feature Article - Nuhu Ribadu: Is Yar\u00c1dua leading a government or a gang?", "raw_content": "Temple Chima Ubochi Friday, August 8, 2008\nskipped the Part 11 of my on-going article for now to comment on this unfolding story. The story is too hot to be ignored.\nThe Punch Newspapers of August 6, 2008 with the caption \u201cRibadu, dead police officer, others demoted\u201d wrote:\n\u201cThe Police Service Commission on Tuesday announced the demotion of the former Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission, Mr. Nuhu Ribadu, from the rank of an Assistant Inspector-General of Police to Deputy Commissioner of Police.\nAlso demoted from the rank of commissioners to deputy commissioners are the late Mr. Haz Iwendi, Mr. Solomon Arase, Mr. Amodu Ali, Mr. Columbus Okaro, Mr. Olayinka Balogun, and Mr. Adebayo Ajileye. Iwendi, a former Force Public Relations Officer, was until his death on May 5, 2008, the Commissioner, Kaduna State Police Command\u201d.\nThis news came to me not as a shock because I saw it coming after getting wind of it some months back through a high placed source. I was only praying that it never comes. Infact the news removed some steam from me because all along, my friends have been telling me to give up hope for a better Nigeria because for them it will never get better. But, I \u00b4ve been trying to convince them not to turn their back on Nigeria, that things will surely work out well soon. Some of my friends and acquaintances even went as far as telling me that they stopped reading news from Nigeria because each time they do, they developed high blood pressure. I have been optimistic all along, but, lo, my friend, to be very sincere with you, I am now as pessimistic as any one can be; I see no more hope for Nigeria. Anybody hoping that Nigeria will change on its own need to re-think! With these bandits in power, we are in for a big trouble. We have no government at all, what we have is a band of thieves that will bulldoze away anything or person that tries to stop them from stealing Nigeria more dry.\nI am angry, I am sad, my heart bleeds, it\u2019s heavy on my heart; my thoughts is with Nuhu Ribadu, a man that so much loves Nigeria that he put his life on the line for the poor. Nuhu is loved by the masses and hated by the ruling cabal because he tried to stop them from selling Nigeria to the highest bidder, he asked them to use the commonwealth for the betterment of their constituencies, he told them that more than $400 billion of the national wealth have been stolen since independence and that the waste is enough, that they should start working for the common good. That\u2019s how Nuhu offended the rogues that called themselves the ruling elite, that\u2019s why they want his head on a platter, that\u2019s why they are frustrating him, that\u2019s why they want to make him crack, that\u2019s why they want to make him to go mental. Those after Nuhu are taking it so fast; it\u2019s not up to six months that he was removed from the job he was doing well, now they have demoted him two ranks, they will soon send him away from the national Institute for Policy and strategic studies (NIPSS) where they sent him to and in few days time, they might charge him for treason to keep him away for life because he knows what many do not know, because he\u2019s privy to what so many don\u2019t have knowledge about, because he knows what transpired behind the curtains in Aso Rock and the horse trading that happened and how the incumbent president emerged. The presidency is afraid that he will spill the bean, they are afraid that he will open the can of worm, they are afraid because they know that he is the most popular Nigerian now and that he has the goodwill of Nigerians, that the sky will be his limit in Nigeria if left \u201cunchained\u201d. They want to put him away or even kill him. Why do good things never last?\nThat is typical of Nigeria, a country that sacrifices its best for mediocre, that\u2019s how the members of the kangaroo senate committee on FCT made a caricature of themselves by saying that they are banning El Rufai from holding political office. El-Rufai and Nuhu Ribadu are in a class of their own, they are two of the best the north and Nigeria can now offer, they have no match but that\u2019s paining a lot of people, those criminals in power see this trio as an obstacle in their quest for an \u201ceverlasting\u201d political power and must be done away with, through any means. It is only a campaign of calumny and reprisal against patriotic and upright men that really wanted to extricate Nigeria from the clutches of 419ners that have taken up addresses at Aso Rock, National Assembly, Abuja, state government houses and local government headquarters all over Nigeria respectively.\nWith these kinds of people calling themselves the ruling class, there is no hope for Nigeria; instead of going forward, Nigeria will be going backward. All Nigerians of goodwill should join hands in whatever way to stop the country from sliding more into the abyss it is heading to; all Nigerians should start shouting, if that will help, to see if those imbeciles in authority positions will listen, otherwise we all are losing a country we love, to people that have no morals, to people that have heart of stone, to people that only care about themselves, their families and friends; to people that don\u2019t give a damn if every other Nigerian dies off. We are in trouble, let\u2019s join hands to rescue Nigeria, let\u2019s join hands and send an unmistakable message to the cabal in Abuja and the states capital.\nThis demotion of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu by the Police Service Commission from Assistant Inspector General to Deputy Commissioner along with 139 other policemen sparked off a plethora of condemnation more than those rogues envisaged. It is commendable that many Nigerians are condemning this victimisation being meted to Nuhu Ribadu and others.\nChief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) described the demotion as absolutely bizarre \u201cI condemn as absolutely bizarre the demotion of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu from Assistant Inspector-General of Police to Deputy Commissioner of Police after his illegal and unjustifiable removal as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).\nMallam Nuhu Ribadu\u2019s non-criminal offence for these atrocious and oppressive actions of the Federal Government against him is his (Ribadu\u2019s) honest character and the unprecedented arrest, arraignment and trial of some powerful bigmen for corruption.\nI want President Umaru Musa Yar\u2019Adua to realize that any government that punishes honesty sows the seeds of its inevitable destruction by corruption.\u201d\nAfenifere in its statement signed by National Publicity Secretary, Yinka Odumakin, said: the demotion of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu is an embarrassment this administration will have to contend with.\nAfenifere said it was \u201cquite uncomfortable\u201d with the action. For them, the administration accepted Ribadu as AIG when it sent him to the Nigerian Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies, Kuru for a course that would qualify him for his new rank, wondering why the policy somersault that led to his demotion.\nWhile reading another meaning into the exercise, Afenifere cried foul that \u201cabout 40 of the demoted officers, compared to nine from the North, come from the South-West geo-political zone, which means they are all Yoruba.\u201d\nThe group alleged that the exercise was another manipulation to ensure that a certain ethnic stock continued to take all the sensitive positions in the force now and in the future.\nThe group observed further that: The late Haz Iwendi was buried as a Commissioner of Police with full honours. Are they going to exhume his body and rebury him with his new rank?\nIf the excuse for these demotions was that the officers were promoted out of rank, why is the name of Mr Mike Okiro (IGP) not on this list? It is on record that he was promoted from CP to DIG without ever being an AIG; even his confirmation as IG by-passed Onovo who was senior to him.\nFrom all the above, our deductions are that these exercises were carried out for two reasons: ethnic manipulations of the force and humiliation of Ribadu.\nA human rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP) introduced a new dimension to the development as it has forwarded a petition to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders, Mrs Margaret Sekaggya on the alleged threat of arrest and demotion of the EFCC former boss, urging her to prevail on the government to stop harassment and intimidation of the former anti-graft agency boss.\nIn a petition dated 6 August, 2008 and signed by SERAP\u2019s Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organization said, \u201cThe Nigerian government justified his (Ribadu) demotion on the ground that his \u2018promotion was irregular and done without regard for the laws guiding such exercise.\u201d\nHowever, SERAP believed that the demotion was in bad faith and part of a persistent smear campaign against Mr Ribadu for his anti-corruption campaign while in office. There are credible reports that while the government was announcing Mr Ribadu\u2019s demotion it was also making attempts to arrest him in Kuru, Jos, purportedly for \u2018questioning\u2019.\nThe organization also said that it was deeply concerned by the retaliatory measures taken by the Yar\u2019Adua government to arrest and demote one of the most efficient, focused consistent and hardworking anti-corruption campaigners in our country. The threats of arrest and demotion not only aim to continue the victimization of Mallam Ribadu for his anti-corruption activities as Chairman of the EFCC but also to harass, intimidate and frustrate the work of other anti-corruption campaigners and institutions.\nWe are seriously concerned about the safety and well-being of Mr Ribadu, and fear that continuing attacks against him are a reprisal for his efficient and diligent prosecution of official and political corruption while in office, the organization added.\nPat Utomi said that while it was good to follow due process, one must realise the grievous effect the action would have on the Police.\nIf Ribadu goes back to the force, what will happen to his subordinates when he was AIG? The Commission should have let sleeping dogs lie\u2019\u2019 he said.\nA Non Government Organisation, Children's Anti Corruption Initiative, said the demotion of Police officers, especially, Ribadu who performed creditably during his stint at EFCC, from AIG to DCP is demoralising, not only to him, Ribadu, but to all Public Servants who may wish to use all at there disposal to fight corruption. It will also affect negatively the psyche of Nigeria youth who are of the believe that the only way up is through corruption\u201c, the group said.\nThe National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Plateau State said they are confused on what to do over Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, who is undergoing a course at the institute.\nA source from the school was quoted as having said:\n\u201cThe development in the police is a surprise to us here. They were the one who sent him here and he is more than half way through his programme, so what do we do? This is the first time we are facing this kind of situation. I am waiting for instructions from above. I don\u2019t think it is wise for us to say anything on the issue, moreso, that the police authority has not briefed us on the demotion. We are just reading it on the pages of the newspapers. We cannot just say go away on the basis of what we read in the dailies. I am waiting for directive from above and until I hear from above, I cannot do otherwise,\u201d\nBamidele Aturu said that \u201cthe government has taken a decision that will hunt it for a long time for many reasons. First, many Nigerians will not be convinced that this is not a continuation of the war against Ribadu for the role he played while he was the EFCC chairman. Further, he said, the argument about the rule of law is not very honest. I stand to be corrected; there is no law in the police force or Nigeria that stipulates how an officer on the rank of ACP is to be promoted. Once you get to the rank of ACP, promotions and appointments become political. Many officers have been promoted from CP to DIG, like the present IG, Mike Okiro. He never was an AIG. Why was he not demoted. Tarfa Balogun, former IG was promoted from AIG to IG. He was never a DIG and there are many other instances. \u201cAll this talk about the man being favoured is not a serious argument, given that he was EFCC chairman at the time and many Nigerians will smell a rat and I think the Police Service Commission has only been used as an instrument by those who held the President hostage. I advise them to reverse what they have done because it smacks of witch-hunting and will discourage other police officers to work for the country. In spite of the mistakes of Ribadu, which I had pointed out in the past, I think they are carrying the attack on him too far,\u201d he added.\nPresident of the West African Bar Association (WABA), Mr. Femi Falana said the demotion of Mr. Nuhu Ribadu and other police officers is illegal and should be reviewed. Falana said that the Police Service Commission has no such powers to demote police officers already promoted without committing any criminal offence.\nThe statement said: \u201cPurported reduction in the rank of Mr. Nuhu Ribadu and 139 other police officers by the Police Service Commission on the ground that the Police Authorities who promoted them a few years ago did not follow \u201cdue process\u201d is illegal and unconstitutional.\nHaving been made to wear their ranks, given statutory responsibilities and paid salaries and other allowances in line with their promotions the Police Service Commission cannot, in law, demote such officers by virtue of Section 151 of the Evidence Act which provides as follows:\nWhen one person has, by his declaration, act or omission, intentionally caused or permitted another person to believe a thing to be true and to act upon such belief, neither he nor his representative in interest shall be allowed, in any proceedings between himself and such person or such person\u2019s representative in interest, to deny the truth of that thing.\nSince the said officers have acted on the fact of their promotion the Police Authorities are stopped from denying the fact of such promotion.\nThis president is not yet serious with governance; I hate hearing him claiming falsely to be a servant leader and defender of rule of law. I hate to hear the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General saying rubbish about the rule of law. Now their plans have worked; ex-governors George Akume, Orji Uzoh Kalu, Chimaroke Nnamani, James Ibori, Turaki, etc must now be opening their champagnes, but, let them know that \u201cman proposes but God disposes\u201d, they will never go scout free after shortchanging their people as they did, with or without Nuhu Ribadu, they will face justice one day. This President has actually sold his conscience to those corrupt officials who bankrolled his election. Ribadu should take solace that many Nigerians are solidly behind him; he should understand that such are prices one pays in defending the masses.\nThe PM News of August 7 2008 with the caption \u201cRibadu Wanted for Treason\u201d wrote: \u201cThe woes of the former boss of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, are being compounded by the day, following his demotion from Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), along with 139 police officers.\nHis latest albatross is that he is being wanted by security operatives over what was described as treason. Sources told P.M.News that Ribadu is allegedly in possession of classified documents that he wants to use against the Federal Government.\nIt was also gathered that information available to the security agencies indicates that Ribadu is trying to influence Supreme Court judges to rule against President Umaru Yar\u2019Adua over his victory in the April 2007 presidential election, which was challenged by Atiku Abubakar of the Action Congress and ANPP\u2019s candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).\nAlthough the Elections Petitions Tribunal upheld Yar\u2019Adua\u2019s victory, the other candidates challenged the ruling at the Supreme Court, and Ribadu is allegedly trying to influence the judges to rule against Yar\u2019Adua.\nSources said Ribadu, who returned last weekend from Sierra Leone with his course mates at the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Jos, where he is undergoing a nine-month capacity building course, was sighted yesterday (August 6, 2008) at NIPSS, but was said to have escaped this morning (August 7, 2008), when operatives of the State Security Service (SSS) went there to arrest him.\nHe was said to have got wind of the impending arrest and escaped hours before the security operatives swooped on him. Last week SSS operatives also tried to pick him up but he also escaped.\nAlready, the Federal Government is reported to have given the new EFCC boss, Farida Waziri, the nod to probe the petitions against Ribadu. The petitions border on how he spent the foreign grants he received during his tenure as EFCC boss\u201d\nI am blaming Obasanjo for all these nonsense; he failed to do the necessary things he was supposed to do before leaving office. Fate entrusted a lot of responsibilities on him but each time he failed to live up to them. Obasanjo as a president was the only man that would have changed Nigeria for the better, but, he blew it again. His words then were like law, everywhere stays quiet whenever he \u201ccoughed\u201d, and he bestrode the landscape like a colossus. He should have used his \u201clarger than life\u201d status then to turn few things around. No one can change Nigeria with a kid\u2019s glove; only the hard way will be good enough for Nigeria. The point I am making is that Obasanjo should have followed his heart by appointing Ribadu as the Inspector General of Police as he wanted to. That would have entailed retiring Okiro and others and Ribadu would have changed the police for the better. Secondly, Obasanjo failed to re-appoint Nuhu Ribadu for a second four-year-term as the EFCC head; otherwise, nobody would have removed him before the term runs out. Obasanjo made a catalogue of mistake and he is paying the price now: He single-handedly crowned Yar\u00c1dua and Goodluck president and vice president respectively (two dull guys that weren\u2019t prepared for the high offices they are now occupying and are not ready to change for the better). Yar\u00c1dua is paying Obasanjo with \u201ccounterfeit\u201d by revising all the policies he put in place as president and his party PDP just stripped him of the Chairman, Board of trustee post. Obasanjo must be licking his wound somewhere now, the blames are entirely his; he really fumbled.\nNow I know why good people don\u2019t want anything to do with government, now I understand why people left our governments at all tiers in the hands of drug barons, assassins, 419 kingpins, occultists and ritualists, ex-convicts, morons etc. Nigeria is not worth dying for with the calibre of men at the helm. Ribadu did all for Nigeria only to be demoted and may face treason charges. I don\u2019t see the country \u201cmaking it\u201d no matter what people say or do, only God can save Nigeria. Let those \u201cwolves in sheep\u2019s clothing\u201d in corridors of power know that with such attitude and frame of mind of theirs, the days of Nigeria are numbered, God will never allow this injustice to continue, let those gangs and cliques occupying the authority positions and using them for their selfish ends think about the consequences of their actions, they are forcing Nigerians to the edge and that can be catastrophic.\nFor Nuhu Ribadu: the thoughts and prayers of good Nigerians are with you, they can only weaken or frustrate your flesh but not your spirit which I know is still very high. No matter whatever that happens to you, be sure that you are and will always remain in our hearts. You have carved a niche for yourself and nobody can take away that from you; Yar\u00c1dua, Aoondakaa, Ibori and others can connive and take away your rank, but, they can\u2019t take away your record and your place in our hearts.\nMAY GOD SAVE NUHU RIBADU AND NIGERIA!!!\nThe thanks is all yours!!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 20402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com/a-rabbi-explores-how-jews-view-other-religions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RZ4EUBLSKEAZW775LKKOJSLWISHOZBIT", "length": 5132, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com", "title": "A rabbi explores how Jews view other religions | New Jersey Jewish News", "raw_content": "A rabbi explores how Jews view other religions\nRabbi Alan Brill signs a copy of his new book, Judaism and Other Religions: Models of Understanding, at Seton Hall University March 21. Photo by Robert Wiener\nFor a man who grew up in Forest Hills, a multi-ethnic area of Queens; was ordained as an Orthodox rabbi at Yeshiva University; and received a doctorate in Catholic theology from Fordham University, the subject of Alan Brill\u2019s new book seems predestined.\nBrill describes Judaism and Other Religions as \u201ca Jewish theology of other religions,\u201d rather than an interfaith dialogue.\nThe book examines a wide range of Jewish texts reflecting on other faiths, from biblical and talmudic views to contemporary approaches. At the heart of the book are questions of inclusivity. Can only one religion represent the \u201ctruth\u201d? Is God to be found in other religions? Is there a \u201cuniversal monotheism\u201d?\n\u201cSince I tend to be an academic, I have produced a book which gave everyone resources of traditional texts that produced the \u2018middle positions\u2019 from the traditional rabbinical, medieval, and early modern texts,\u201d said Brill, who holds the Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair of Jewish-Christian Studies at Seton Hall University in South Orange.\nHe defines that \u201cmiddle position\u201d as somewhere between pluralism, which suggests that no one religion can claim the singular truth, and exclusivism, which says all other claims about God but your own are false.\n\u201cThe middle position is things like inclusivism \u2014 \u2018I can find a place for you within my own religion and my own system of thinking.\u2019 It means that either \u2018we share the same God\u2019 or \u2018I can see we are both contributing to the moral climate of the world\u2019 or \u2018I can see in the end of days we are going to come together.\u2019 It is not coming to an immediate pluralism.\u201d\nAn expert on the history of Jewish mysticism, Brill became involved in interfaith work in the past 15 years, after an earlier wave of locally centered dialogue took on the benign trappings of \u201cBrotherhood Week.\u201d\n\u201cThat was not offering comfort to people after 9/11, when they felt the extremists were coming out from every religion,\u201d said Brill. \u201cI think the extremists have received prominence. People have to wake up and say, \u2018They are not going away.\u2019 In the post-9/11 world it means speaking to traditional Muslims, such as imams in Saudi Arabia, and Catholic bishops.\n\u201cTherefore, they needed Orthodox rabbis who could speak to the more traditional elements of Catholicism and Islam.\u201d\nFor Brill, the dialogue extends within Orthodox Judaism as much as it does to other religions. Brill has taught at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, the \u201copen\u201d Orthodox yeshiva in Riverdale, in the Bronx, and contributed to The Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, an organization that \u201cfosters an appreciation of legitimate diversity within Orthodoxy.\u201d\nThe challenge for Orthodox Jews, he said, has been to treat other religions on theological terms \u2014 that is, taking their adherents seriously as religious believers in their own right and not merely as \u201cnon-Jews.\u201d\nIn a talk before signing books at the Walsh Library at Seton Hall on March 21, Brill paraphrased words written by 16th-century rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi on Jewish relations with other faiths.\n\u201cDo not curse the Christians and Muslims as an entire phobia, as an entire religion. You are only going to be angry at those who hurt you, only at those who persecute you. Do not globalize it and make it into a bigger hatred.\u201d\nMove to moderation\nIn his book\u2019s introduction, Brill writes of interfaith encounters where Christians and Muslims speak about Judaism from the viewpoint of traditional teachings while \u201cthe Jewish representative addresses the assembled from the general perspective of comparative religion, politics, or anthropology. There needs to be Jewish theologies of other religions.\u201d\nHis own views were founded, he said, by growing up in a \u201cpost-Vatican II world,\u201d after the Catholic Church\u2019s momentous declaration that supported greater religious tolerance and renounced the teaching that Jews killed Christ.\n\u201cI grew up with kids who never said anything anti-Semitic. The fact that I went to Fordham University for my doctorate in Catholic theology only makes sense in a post-Vatican II world. I wasn\u2019t made to feel an \u2018other\u2019 at Fordham because they were just as open to Greek Orthodox, Protestants, and anybody else who wanted to study there,\u201d he said.\nSince then he has participated in a range of interfaith encounters, from a visit by Roman Catholic cardinals to Yeshiva University in 2004, to a multi-faith conference initiated by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2008, to a visit to Seton Hall by eight moderate Muslim leaders from Iraq in 2009.\nBrill said the interfaith dialogue is expanding beyond the Abrahamic faiths.\n\u201cThere are Jews and Hindus talking and Jews and Sikhs talking. Everyone is talking to everyone now. This is an exchange of globalization,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople have got to deal with the issues. 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This includes words \u2013 both written and spoken.\nSexual violence is about exerting power and control over others.\nIt can include a variety of acts and experiences and may also be known as sexual assault, rape, sexual abuse, exploitation, incest, date rape, and human trafficking.\nSexual violence also includes sexual harassment and catcalling, indecent exposure, stalking, showing or distributing demeaning sexual imagery, and online harassment, also known as cyber-violence.\nPeople of all genders can be subjected to sexual violence. However, sexual violence is mostly experienced by women, children \u2014 including boys \u2014 and transgender and gender non-conforming people.\nIt can be a single occurrence, or can be ongoing by the same or different perpetrator.\nSexual violence can happen to people of any age.\nPeople of all genders, races, sexual orientations and class backgrounds can be subject to sexual violence. However, some people, such as racialized and Indigenous women, women with disabilities, low-income women, women with addictions, young women, and transgender people experience higher rates.\nSexual violence is a serious health, social and public safety issue in Nova Scotia that affects all of us.\nEveryone deserves to live safely.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 2075, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 157.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nwindianabusiness.com/industries/professional-services/professional-legal-advice/legal-qa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:24Z", "digest": "sha1:A5SUJE3APOOTCRKUAUNXOH2BX3KH2NUY", "length": 12023, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "nwindianabusiness.com", "title": "Legal Q&A - Northwest Indiana Business Magazine", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Industries / Professional Services / Professional & Legal Advice / Legal Q&A\nJuly 30, 2010 by Michael Puente\nDisputes arise in every type of business\u2014big or small, new or established. Disputes can develop between a business owner and employee or with an independent contractor. And litigation is always costly.\nFor instance, a dispute could arise over Internet use at work, about what\u2019s being posted and how that might affect a business\u2019s reputation.\nHow to keep your company from getting embroiled in legal tangles and minimize costs, whatever the issue, is what our experienced attorneys will try to accomplish in this article.\n\u201cAs the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,\u201d says attorney Rabeh Soofi Bruder of Ice Miller LLP\u2019s Indianapolis office.\nOne of Soofi Bruder\u2019s specialties is assisting corporate clients with questions and concerns about the Internet and its application in the workplace. Soofi Bruder and a colleague recently completed a survey polling chief executive officers called \u201cCEO Survey: Internet, Technology and Social Media Rising Concern.\u201d\nQ: How are most companies dealing with the use of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, by employees? Since social media has been around for several years, most companies are probably used to dealing with this issue, correct?\nSoofi Bruder: What we\u2019re seeing nationally is that most companies do not have social media policies in place. As you know, sometimes it takes a while for business to catch up to technology. \u2026 Everybody is involved. For employers, it\u2019s not possible to stop employees on what they do after hours. They have social lives. They are going to use these sites. They are going to make comments about their jobs and bosses. Most companies do not know how to handle it. Some companies have responded by banning social media sites altogether. That\u2019s not an effective way of handling the problem. Businesses need to see that the Internet could be their biggest opportunity to growing their business. We\u2019re seeing companies using coupons on the Internet and offering special discounts for people only using Facebook.\nAttorney Eric Seigel, a partner with Tuesley Hall Konopa LLP in South Bend, also deals with social media issues with business clients.\nQ: Should employers have policies about the use of the Internet while on the job?\nSeigel: I recommend that businesses do have a policy in place for use on the job. They need to have a policy that addresses the use of social media on work hours and on work equipment. There are benefits and a downside when it comes to social media.\nLet\u2019s say someone is on their Facebook page on something unrelated to their work and they post some unflattering comments about the company. That can cast the company in a bad light. Can you take action against that employee? Even if you don\u2019t have a policy in place, depending on the conduct, you can still take action, but you\u2019d be in a better position if you have a policy in place before you get to that point.\nOf course, not all disputes involve social media. Some disputes can arise over the simple task of deciding who will take over a business if the CEO or owner passes away. Thomas Gardiner says most smaller companies do not have a succession plan in place. Gardiner is a partner with the Chicago law firm of Gardiner Koch Weisberg & Wrona.\nQ: What is the benefit of having a succession plan and do all companies need one?\nGardiner: I would be surprised if most companies have a succession plan. Succession planning is something we would recommend because in the event of an emergency, it\u2019s clear what would occur. However, I don\u2019t think in a family business it\u2019s often necessary. The board of directors will convene a meeting and make a decision. In a family-operated type business, a succession plan isn\u2019t often stated but in practice a succession plan may mean the son might take over. That might be the assumption without a stated plan. In Fortune 500 companies, sometimes the frontrunner for the top position may not be the person chosen to be the new CEO. Sometimes things are not set in stone.\nGiven today\u2019s economy, one might think it\u2019s not a good time to start a business. But some people are opting to make a go at it. If you do try to become an entrepreneur, it\u2019s vital to do your homework. Attorney George W. Carberry, a partner with Burke, Constanza & Cuppy LLP in Merrillville, assists and guides new business owners.\nQ: What are some of the legal considerations an entrepreneur should consider before starting a business?\nCarberry: Some of the things that we first talk about is what is the best model for the business? Will it be a corporation, an LLC, sole proprietorship? We also recommend that whatever the venture is in, know the market. What drives the market of this particular area of business? Who would the competition be? Put together a business plan. We also talk about capitalization. How much money is it going to take? Don\u2019t underestimate how much it will cost to acquire the inventory. How long is it going to take the business to be successful? So many new businesses are so undercapitalized that six months into it, the owner is trying to find out how he\u2019s going to come up with other sources of income. Banks are putting a hold on lending. Banks are in business to lend money but it\u2019s just not happening right now. The client has to be realistic about that.\nA new business or company may want to acquire property to build a warehouse or plant, but the property may have some environmental issues. Attorney Nicholas J. Chulos, a partner with Krieg DeVault, says there are many issues to consider. Chulos works out of the firm\u2019s Indianapolis and Schererville offices.\nQ: What do buyers of property with environmental concerns need to be aware of?\nChulos: The very first thing to do is make sure that they hire a strong environmental firm do a site assessment and other analysis on the property. You really need to get a handle on what the scope is. You also want to talk to the land owner and see what the owner has to say. They may say they don\u2019t know or they might not be forthright. The owner still needs to disclose what\u2019s wrong with the land. Many times it\u2019s covered in a fairly detailed real estate agreement. In some cases, the property has had issues with the EPA or Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Sometimes there\u2019s ongoing remediation. Sometimes, whether you\u2019re the buyer or seller, you can\u2019t quantify the liability. It\u2019s hard to figure out. In most cases, you can quantify the liability, within a range. It depends on the size of the property and what\u2019s going on or has gone on with the property. In some cases, you buy the property at your own risk.\nIn some businesses, employees may feel the need to organize a labor union. Gerald F. Lutkus is a partner in the South Bend office of Barnes & Thornburg LLP and a member of the firm\u2019s Labor and Employment Law Department.\nQ: Can a company stop or prevent employees from organizing a labor union?\nLutkus: It\u2019s not a matter of allowing or not allowing employees. Employees have a right to organize. If it\u2019s determined there is majority support for a union, they have a right to do that. Employers do have a right to inform their employees why unionizing is not a good thing. They need to make sure that they communicate to their employees the downside of union organizing. The expense of paying union dues, for instance, or going through the union for complaints. And there is no guarantee of higher wages or better benefits. All that is subject to negotiation. Likewise, an employer can\u2019t threaten job loss for unionizing. That\u2019s illegal. But there is a reason why only 8 percent of American employees in the private sector are represented by unions today. They have fallen into disfavor.\nSome communities have provided tax incentives to lure new business to a blighted or underdeveloped area. This may include the use of TIFs (tax increment financing districts). TIFs continue to receive a bad rap by some in the community. According to the state of Indiana, once a TIF district is created, the property tax revenue attributable to new assessed value within the district accrues to the redevelopment district rather than traditional taxing units such as schools, the county or the township. The new revenue is usually used to pay for improvements to the infrastructure within the designated TIF district. Richard Hill, a partner with Baker and Daniels in South Bend, advises local municipalities in establishing a TIF district. He once served as city attorney for the city of South Bend.\nQ: Why have TIFs received such bad publicity in some places? Is it worth the headache for communities to establish such a district?\nHill: In dealing with a blighted area, TIFs may be suitable to attract new jobs to a community. From the standpoint that it brings business into that community, they may have very few resources at hand. We don\u2019t get the benefit of new taxes if it\u2019s not for the new project going into a blighted area with the help of a TIF.\nWith unemployment in Indiana at 10 percent, which is slightly more than the national average, business owners have the potential to hire very qualified candidates for vacant positions. On the other hand, there are a number of \u201coverqualified\u201d candidates that some firms may decide not to hire. Jim Jorgensen is a partner in the Valparaiso office of Hoeppner Wagner & Evans. He specializes in the areas of labor, employment, banking and business law.\nQ: Should employers be careful when deciding not to hire someone they have deemed to be \u201coverqualified\u201d? And why are companies reluctant to hire someone who is overqualified for a position?\nJorgensen: I think the concern is that the person will immediately be looking for another job. When someone is hired into a position for which they are overqualified, overqualified means I\u2019m also underpaid compared to what I\u2019m used to. The person may spend most of the time and attention in finding another job. Individuals who are overqualified are usually over the age of 40. The person could file an age-based claim. There are more of those types of claims emerging. The courts are looking closely to determine if the firm had a legitimate business reason not to hire that person. There always has to be a legitimate, non-discriminatory reason not to hire a person.\nEven after a dispute ends up in court, there are still ways to resolve the dispute. Civil mediation is one way disputing parties can try to resolve the matter. Daniel W. Glavin, managing partner with Beckman, Kelly and Smith in Hammond, is a certified mediator. He\u2019s helped mediate hundreds of civil cases.\nQ: Why would a party or parties to a lawsuit want to try to settle a dispute by going through the mediation process? Does it work?\nGlavin: At their core, all business disputes involve somebody not wanting to pay. Sometimes, one party doesn\u2019t want to pay because they feel they didn\u2019t get the value or that they didn\u2019t receive what they have contracted for. There are also business disputes litigated simply because one party cannot pay. We\u2019re seeing more of that given the economic pressures.\nA mediator is completely neutral. \u2026 The process kind of forces the party to take a cold hard look at their case before they get ready for trial. Some cases are starting mediation much earlier in the process. \u2026 Sometimes cases are referred to mediation by the court. That\u2019s usually the rule rather than the exception. Judges want the parties to make a genuine effort without the courts involved. \u2026 I think a competent mediator with every case feels that there is some way to get these people to reach an agreement. Sometimes it doesn\u2019t take very long for you to conclude that is not going to happen. Sometimes you feel that this is definitely going to happen. Then, there are other cases where almost every issue is being disputed in the case. 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While this action is not surprising given North Korea\u2019s pattern of aggressive behavior, any missile activity by North Korea is of concern to the international community. The United States remains vigilant in the face of North Korean provocations, and is fully committed to the security of our allies in the region.\nThe President has been clear that he is prepared to engage constructively with North Korea. However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbors.\nNorth Korea is only further isolating itself by engaging in provocative acts, and is wasting its money on weapons and propaganda displays while the North Korean people go hungry. North Korea's long-standing development of missiles and pursuit of nuclear weapons have not brought it security \u2013 and never will. North Korea will only show strength and find security by abiding by international law, living up to its obligations, and by working to feed its citizens, to educate its children, and to win the trust of its neighbors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 292, "original_length": 6748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ohsonline.com/articles/2011/10/09/masonry-contractor-nailed-for-repeat-violations-at-two-worksites.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:52Z", "digest": "sha1:3TNZB2Y6POSVTEHGPD35JCCJII25T4ED", "length": 2197, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ohsonline.com", "title": "Masonry Contractor Nailed for Repeat Violations at Two Worksites -- Occupational Health & Safety", "raw_content": "Masonry Contractor Nailed for Repeat Violations at Two Worksites\nOSHA's inspections were initiated under a regional emphasis program aimed at preventing injuries and deaths caused by falls. Proposed penalties total $164,120.\nOSHA has cited Doraville, Ga.-based masonry contractor Juan Sagredo for safety violations at worksites in Sugar Hill, Ga., and Conyers, Ga. OSHA's inspections were initiated under a regional emphasis program aimed at preventing injuries and deaths caused by falls. Proposed penalties total $164,120.\nThe inspection in Sugar Hill resulted in citations for four repeat violations carrying penalties of $99,220. The violations involve failing to provide a platform with a guardrail along all open sides and ends, as well as toe boards to protect workers from falling tools and materials; failing to supply ladders for employees to use when accessing working levels of scaffolding; failing to provide eye and face protection for workers who operate machinery, such as mixers; and exposing workers to an unguarded concrete mixer blade. The company received citations for similar violations in 2008 and 2010.\nAdditionally, the company received a citation with a $3,300 penalty for a group of serious violations, including failing to develop and maintain a written hazard communication program, maintain required copies of material safety data sheets, and inform workers about hazardous chemicals in their work areas.\nOSHA's inspection of the company's job site in Conyers resulted in a citation for one repeat violation, carrying a $61,600 proposed penalty, for failing to install guardrails along all open sides and ends of the scaffold platforms. This was the third time the company was cited for a similar violation.\nOne other-than-serious citation with no monetary penalty also was cited for failing to certify that operators of a powered industrial truck had been trained and certified.\n\"Falls are the leading cause of fatalities in the construction industry, and employers must take proper precautions to ensure the safety of their employees. 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DOJ'S RESPONSE TO THE ZONA ROSA MURDERS: THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION\nThis section of the Report responds to SSCI's Questions 1, 2, 5, and 7, which state:\nQuestion One: What information does DOJ have on the perpetrators/intellectual authors of the murders and the subsequent investigation into this matter?\nQuestion Two: What action has been taken by officials from DOJ against the perpetrators/intellectual authors of the murders?\nQuestion Five: What role did DOJ play in the investigation of the murders and what priority has been placed on the investigation?\nQuestion Seven: What dealings, since the murders, has DOJ had with the government of El Salvador on this matter, and in the course of that relationship, has the Salvadoran government demonstrated an aggressive effort to identify, prosecute, and incarcerate the perpetrators/intellectual authors?\nB. DOJ's Role in the Immediate Aftermath of the Murders\nAs was clear from our interviews of government officials involved in the response to the Zona Rosa attack, the consensus of the United States government after the murders was that it should assist the Salvadorans in a military response to the murders and also assist the Salvadorans in prosecuting the murderers in the Salvadoran courts, if they could be apprehended, rather than seek to prosecute the murderers in the United States. All agencies, including DOJ, were in agreement on this principle.\nWe were informed that a military response was the primary option initially considered by the United States. Langhorne Anthony Motley, the Assistant Secretary of State for American Republic Affairs, David Passage, the Charge d'Affairs in the United States Embassy in El Salvador, and General John Galvin, Commander in Chief, United States Southern Command, all reported to us that the initial focus of United States efforts in response to the murders was on military action. [The DOD OIG's report should be consulted for information on the proposed military response.] For example, Passage, said he had no recollection of any effort to bring the perpetrators of the massacre to justice in a court proceeding. He said that the situation did not lend itself to that kind of resolution. Passage stated that the Salvadorans, with the aid of the United States, were engaged in the \"prosecution of a war,\" not in trying to bring individuals to justice in the courts.\nMoreover, when a judicial response was considered, it was agreed that the preferable forum to prosecute the perpetrators was in El Salvador. Shortly after the murders, the FBI consulted with the General Litigation and Advice Section (GLAAS) of DOJ and determined that jurisdiction in the United States to prosecute the killers would exist if the government could prove that the Marines were internationally protected persons, as defined in 18 U.S.C. \u00f5 1116. This statute makes the killing of an internationally protected person, no matter where it occurs, punishable under United States law. [ An internationally protected person is defined in 18 U.S.C. \u00f5 1116(3) as: (A) a chief of State or the political equivalent, head of government, or Foreign Minister whenever such person is in a country other than his own and any member of his family accompanying him; or (B) any other representative, officer, employee, or agent of the United States Government, a foreign government, or international organization who at the time and place concerned is entitled pursuant to international law to special protection against attack upon his person, freedom, or dignity, and any member of his family then forming part of his household.] GLAAS concluded that the Marines qualified as internationally protected persons under this statute. In 1985, this crime was punishable by a maximum sentence of life in prison. [The murders occurred before the enactment of the terrorism statute, 18 U.S.C. \u00f5 2331, in 1986 which gave the United States jurisdiction to prosecute terrorism that affected United States citizens abroad.]\nDespite the possibility of a United States prosecution under \u00f5 1116, it was agreed by DOJ, DOS, and other United States government agencies that a Salvadoran prosecution, rather than a prosecution in the United States, was preferable for several reasons. First, the physical evidence and the witnesses to the crime were in El Salvador, and there was no indication that the Salvadorans would provide either the evidence or the necessary witnesses for a prosecution of its citizens in the United States. Second, the United States had made extensive efforts to encourage improvement of Salvadoran law enforcement agencies, including the creation of the Salvadoran Special Investigative Unit (SIU), an independent law enforcement unit modeled on the FBI. Taking the matter away from the Salvadorans would have been seen as contrary to these efforts. Third, the United States tried to encourage the Salvadorans to improve their judicial system and to use it to prosecute military defendants for human rights violations as well as to prosecute terrorists. This was consistent with the United States government's policy of encouraging countries to prosecute terrorists locally rather than to rely on the United States to police the world.\nSeveral witnesses stated to us that it would have been seen as hypocritical to push the Salvadoran system to function better and then to remove a case from its jurisdiction merely because the victims were United States citizens. In addition, despite the strong presence of the United States in El Salvador--including military advisors and an active CIA Station--the sovereignty of El Salvador was considered an important factor in allowing it to take a strong response to the murders. The United States Ambassador in El Salvador in 1987, Ambassador Edwin G. Corr, made clear to DOJ and others that he felt strongly that the United States should not embarrass the Salvadorans in a public way by seeking to take away the Zona Rosa cases, thereby giving a vote of \"no confidence\" to the Salvadoran judicial system.\nConsistent with this consensus, the FBI was willing to assist the Salvadorans in their investigative efforts and, as a back-up, to participate in any future prosecutive efforts in the United States. However, it was understood that the FBI would not be conducting its own investigation. On June 26, 1985, a meeting was held in Washington at the request of President Reagan to discuss the appropriate United States response to the murders. Present at the meeting were representatives of the CIA, DOS, DOJ, and FBI. According to a Memorandum for the Record written by the CIA, all agreed that a \"Joint PRTC [The PRTC was one of the five major factions of the FMLN, a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group in El Salvador. ] Task Force\" would lead the efforts to gather information about the murders. The task force was to be run out of the CIA Station in El Salvador and was composed of Salvadoran military and CIA personnel. During a discussion of the handling of the technical and forensic evidence collected in connection with the case, it was decided that the Salvadoran SIU should manage the evidence, with United States support. The FBI made clear at the meeting that the FBI agent detailed to train the SIU was not going to conduct the investigation, but rather assist the Salvadorans, because the FBI did not want to create false hopes that it would be handling the case.\nIn addition, the FBI offered assistance to the DOS Office of the Inspector General, which initiated its own review to determine if the security arrangements that had been in place to protect United States government officials in El Salvador were followed and whether new precautions were required. The FBI informed the head of this DOS investigation that FBI technical assistance was available to him. The DOS investigators performing the review called upon the FBI to aid the Salvadorans with analysis of the forensic evidence that was recovered.\nOn June 25, 1985, FBI Headquarters sent a teletype to the FBI's Legat in Panama (which covered El Salvador) and the FBI's WMFO outlining the facts surrounding the Zona Rosa murders. The FBI pointed out that \"if the unknown assailants are eventually identified, apprehended, and subsequently released to United States authorities for prosecutive action,\" charges could be brought against them in the United States. FBI Headquarters directed the Panama Legat to obtain all Salvadoran reports on the murders in order to be prepared for such a situation in the future.\nC. The Salvadoran Investigation\nImmediately after the Zona Rosa murders, Salvadoran\nPresident Duarte convened a committee, including the Salvadoran Vice President and the Defense and Security Ministers, to oversee the Salvadoran criminal investigation into the murders. The Salvadoran SIU was charged with assisting the Salvadoran military--and more specifically its National Guard--and the Salvadoran National Police in identifying the murderers.\nThe Salvadoran SIU was intended to be a \"clean\" law enforcement body, untainted by any corruption that affected the Salvadoran military or civilian police. In the several years before the Zona Rosa murders, an FBI agent had been assigned, together with a DOJ attorney, to work with the SIU in teaching it basic investigative techniques. United States law enforcement officials also periodically went to El Salvador to train the SIU in proper law enforcement techniques, and SIU investigators occasionally came to the United States to receive further training.\nThe Salvadoran authorities--the National Police and National Guard, assisted by the SIU--conducted an extensive investigation into the murders, leading to the prosecution in El Salvador of one of the gunmen and several of the supporters of the attack. We next describe information that was developed by the Salvadoran authorities in its investigation and that was shared with DOJ when it began its own prosecutive efforts in 1987.\n1. The Salvadoran Forensic and Crime Scene Investigation\nThe Salvadoran National Police arrived at the crime scene on June 19 ten to twenty minutes after the murders. We were informed that they did not get there sooner because some of the police did not have cars and had to take public transportation to the scene. Members of the technical section of the Salvadoran National Police, which was in charge of processing the scene, found eight bodies when they first arrived. The bodies of the four Marines had already been taken to the emergency room of a hospital.\nEven after the police arrived, they failed to adequately preserve the crime scene. By the time the technical section of the police attempted to process the crime scene, civilians were milling throughout the area. According to a DOS Diplomatic Security report that was supplied to the FBI, the Salvadoran police tried to follow leads immediately after the murders, but witnesses had already left the scene and cars had been moved. As a result, many witnesses were not identified and the crime scene was \"rendered almost useless because almost everything was moved, shifted, or taken.\" The DOS report confirmed that the crime scene area was not secured because of the late arrival of the police. Many civilians at the scene picked up spent rounds and shell casings, taking them as souvenirs. Bullet holes in the shops were quickly plastered over by shopkeepers. Because of these actions, no final determination was made as to the number of rounds fired, the positions from which the attackers fired, how many persons fired, or the types of weapons used. [The Salvadorans later attempted to reconstruct the crime scene and determine the location of the bodies and the trajectories of the shots.]\nThe four slain Marines--Gregory O. Weber, Patrick Kwiatowski, Thomas T. Handwork, and Bobby J. Dickson--were taken on June 19 to the \"Hospital de Diagnostico y Emergencia\" in San Salvador. A Salvadoran Medical Examiner examined the bodies of the four Marines at 11:40 p.m. The Medical Examiner determined the cause of their death to be hemorrhagic shock. The Medical Examiner found that the body of Dickson had 18 entry wounds; Weber's had 10 entry wounds; Kwiatowski's had 3; and Handwork's had 10. However, no autopsies were performed on the bodies. According to a letter from the Marine Corps Personal Affairs Branch dated September 30, 1985, the Salvadorans did not perform any autopsies because the cause of death was known: cardio respiratory arrest due to multiple bullet perforations.\nThe Salvadoran National Police laboratory performed chemical analysis on the slain Marines' clothing. Gun powder was found to be present on some of the clothing. According to the police report, this suggested that the Marines were shot at very close range, likely a distance of less than 15 centimeters.\nThe Salvadoran police conducted ballistic tests on five 5.56 mm casings found at the scene. The tests showed that four different types of firearms using 5.56 mm bullets were employed by the assassins. Tests of nine 9 mm casings found at the scene showed that two different types of 9 mm weapons were used. Attempts were also made to compare casings found at the scene of the crime with shell casings found in the vicinity of \"la Esperanza Penitentiary,\" a Salvadoran prison that had been attacked by guerrillas early in 1985. The bullets were determined to be similar, but they could not be matched because the police laboratory did not have a microscope powerful enough to enlarge fine characteristics. It does not appear from FBI records that the FBI was ever asked to assist with the examination of the bullets.\nAccording to the DOS Diplomatic Security report, four 9 mm rounds were removed from the bodies of Marines Handwork, Dickson, and Weber. Two 9 mm rounds were also removed from the body of United States citizen Robert Alvidrez, a businessman who had been killed while sitting at the sidewalk cafe. Salvadoran National Police lab technicians found that the rounds removed from Handwork and Weber were fired by the same weapon.\nOn June 20, 1985, the Salvadoran police recovered an abandoned white Toyota pickup truck with red stripes on the sides in San Salvador. The truck had bullet holes in the right fender, blood stains on the floor, and a briefcase containing a hand grenade inside the truck. Some M-16 and .38 bullet casings were also found on the seat and floor. The license plate of the vehicle was traced to [REDACTED], a sales manager for an unknown company. [REDACTED] reported to the police that he had stopped at a gas station on June 19 at about 5 p.m., when he was accosted at gun point by two young men. They stole his truck and drove away. On June 20, 1985, a co-worker of [REDACTED] found his truck abandoned and reported it to the police. The police obtained fingerprints from the abandoned vehicle, most of which matched those of [REDACTED].\nTests were conducted on the spots found on the clothing of the Marines and a spot in the abandoned Toyota pickup truck. The spots were determined to be blood, but no \"type, differentiation and accuracy tests\" were conducted, because the Salvadoran police laboratory did not have the necessary equipment. It does not appear from FBI records that the FBI was asked to assist the Salvadorans in these examinations.\nOne of the gunmen in the attack, Jose Roberto Salazar Mendoza (Salazar), also known as Julio, was killed while in the line of fire of another gunman. The attackers took Julio with them as they fled the scene and left him at the Red Cross. He was then taken to a hospital. The police located the hospital where his body had been taken, but by the time the police arrived at the hospital, his body had already been buried. The police had the body exhumed for examination. Traces of gun powder were found on the backs of his hands. It was later determined that the blood found in the abandoned pickup truck matched Julio's blood type. According to the DOS Diplomatic Security Report, a 9 mm round was removed from Salazar's body, but this bullet was later lost.\nOn June 21, 1985, a fourteen-year-old boy found two identical notes in envelopes in a public telephone booth in front of a radio station in San Salvador. One of the notes was turned over to the police and the other was kept by the telephone company. The note turned over to the police was entitled \"Communique of the Politico-Military Committee of the Urban Guerrilla Commandos `Mardoqueo Cruz' of the FMLN.\" In it, the Mardoqueo Cruz claimed responsibility for the killings of the Marines in the Zona Rosa attacks. [The Mardoqueo Cruz was the urban commando section of the PRTC. The PRTC was one of the five major factions of the FMLN, a Marxist-Leninist guerrilla group in El Salvador.] The note stated, in part:\nWe inform: (1) That our Commandos claim responsibility for the execution of the politico-military operation: \"YANKEE AGGRESSOR IN EL SALVADOR, ANOTHER VIETNAM IS IN STORE FOR YOU,\" which consisted of an annihilation attack against American military advisors, CIA agents, and elements from other nations connected to intelligence agencies in the service of American imperialism that were in the Zona Rosa, Colonia San Benito, in the Chili's restaurant.\nWe make an appeal to the American public opinion to increase their efforts and actively oppose the warlike administration of Ronald Reagan to prevent him from embarking in yet another military adventure that would bring more pain and suffering to the American people.\nAccording to the DOS Diplomatic Security report, no one processed either of the PRTC letters for latent fingerprints, and no one recovered the second original of the letter from the Salvadoran telephone company.\nThe DOS Diplomatic Security Report stated that on June 28, 1985, DOS Diplomatic Security Agent Victor DeWindt was given a clear plastic bag containing eight M-16 shell casings and one spent bullet. It is unclear from the report where this material came from and who gave it to DeWindt. This material was forwarded to the FBI for examination. The DOS report also stated that the police had recovered 20 rounds from the attack site. DeWindt reported that: \"Most of the rounds were left in the bodies. However, some of the rounds were removed and forwarded to the police technical laboratories for study and analysis.\" It is not clear whether any of these bullets were removed from the bodies of the Marines.\n2. The Salvadoran Interviews of Witnesses\n[REDACTED] was [REDACTED] in the Zona Rosa on the night of June 19. On July 10, 1985, he was interviewed by the Salvadoran National Police about what he had witnessed. [REDACTED] said he first saw the guerrillas drive up to the cafe in a pickup truck. [REDACTED] believed that a second car was also travelling with the pickup truck. He said that several individuals dressed in camouflage gear got out of the truck, lined up in front of the Marines, and opened fire at them. After the gunmen fired at the Marines, they fired into the crowd in the cafe and towards the Brazilian Embassy across the street.\nDuring the attack, [REDACTED] was shot twice in the legs and fell to the ground. While he was lying on the ground, one of the gunmen approached him and took a .45 caliber pistol that [REDACTED] kept in his belt. The gunmen then retreated into the pickup truck and drove away. [REDACTED]also stated that, before the guerrillas drove up, a man came into the bar acting strangely. The man hung around the bar, then made a telephone call and left just before the guerrillas arrived. [REDACTED] stated that he believed that the man had been a scout for the guerrillas.\nSalvadoran police also interviewed [REDACTED], another [REDACTED] eyewitness to the attack. Despite the belief of Salvadoran police that [REDACTED] could identify the assailants, he insisted that he was not able to identify anyone.\nSalvadoran police interviewed numerous other witnesses to the attack. These witnesses saw a pickup truck with guerrillas drive to the cafe, and saw several people climb out of the truck and begin firing at the Marines. None of these witnesses were able to identify any of the attackers. Most had seen very little because the shooting surprised them, and they had immediately sought cover. The few who saw the attackers were not able to describe them in any detail. None of these witnesses appear to have been asked to view any lineup of potential suspects.\nSalvadoran police interviewed [REDACTED], a Salvadoran citizen who worked for Taca Airlines and flew frequently to the United States. [REDACTED] reported to police that on June 19, 1985, at approximately 5 p.m., her truck had been stolen from her by two unknown men carrying guns. [REDACTED] believed the men to be guerrillas. [REDACTED] provided full descriptions of both men, but the Salvadoran police were unable to compile composite drawings from her descriptions. The truck was later recovered by the police and held in connection with the killings. DOJ has no information as\nto where or when the truck was recovered or whether it was processed for evidence. It does not appear, however, that [REDACTED] truck was used in the attack.\nFrom these witnesses, the Salvadoran police concluded that there were about twenty individuals involved in carrying out the massacre and that they arrived at the scene in two pickup trucks--one red and one white. Four of the guerrillas shot at the Marines, while others provided cover. After they had fired at the Marines and into the crowd, the gunmen jumped back into the pickup trucks, returning briefly to grab their injured comrade Julio. The guerrillas drove away and dropped Julio at the Red Cross.\nBased on the witnesses' statements, the Salvadoran National Police composed artist sketches, or \"identikits,\" of the suspect who had stolen [REDACTED] white pickup truck, five of the suspects at the scene of the crime, and the suspect that [REDACTED] believed to have been checking the cafe before the shooting. These sketches were published in Salvadoran newspapers.\nD. FBI Assistance to the Salvadoran Investigation\n1. FBI Investigative Steps\nAs discussed above, the FBI offered to provide any technical assistance or other support requested by the Salvadorans.\nIn July 1985, at the request of DOS, the FBI interviewed [REDACTED], a pilot for Taca Airlines. DOS had learned that [REDACTED] had a bullet from the attack at his home in New Orleans. [REDACTED] stated that he witnessed the shootings as he was riding by the cafe in a Taca Airlines van. [REDACTED] recovered a bullet that hit the van and came to rest on the van floor. [REDACTED] kept the bullet as a souvenir. [REDACTED] turned the bullet over to the FBI, and it was forwarded to the FBI laboratory.\nThe FBI also received information from an assistant to United States Senator Jeremiah Denton that [REDACTED] might be able to identify the people who had stolen her pickup, even though she had told Salvadoran authorities that she could not. The FBI therefore interviewed [REDACTED] when she was in New Orleans on July 1, 1985. [REDACTED] gave the FBI the same information that she had given the Salvadorans. She added that she was concerned for her safety and also worried that the authorities might not believe that her truck had been stolen and would think she was collaborating with the guerrillas. When [REDACTED] returned to El Salvador after the interview, she complained to Salvadoran authorities about the FBI interview. As a result, President Duarte raised the matter with the United States Embassy, and the Embassy asked the FBI not to interview any Salvadoran citizens without prior coordination with the Embassy and Salvadoran authorities.\nOn July 18, 1985, FBI Headquarters directed the FBI's Houston field office to track down leads the FBI had received from the CIA regarding an individual named Roberto Ernesto Sanchez Marroquin (Marroquin). The CIA had reported [REDACTED] Marroquin was involved in the Zona Rosa killings. Marroquin was believed to be in the Houston area. On July 30, 1985, after Marroquin was arrested by INS as an illegal alien, the FBI interviewed him. He admitted that he was a member of the PRTC but denied participation in the Zona Rosa killings. The FBI gave Marroquin a polygraph about his denial of involvement in the Zona Rosa murders, which he passed. Checks by the FBI revealed that Marroquin had been in the United States at the time of the killings. On August 23, 1985, because of his illegal immigration status, Marroquin was deported to El Salvador.\n2. FBI Laboratory Assistance\nThe FBI agreed to provide laboratory support to the Salvadorans because of the inadequacy of the Salvadoran equipment and the lack of training in certain techniques and analytic methods. On August 14, 1985, the FBI Panama Legat forwarded a request by the Commander of the Salvadoran Special Investigative Unit to FBI Headquarters for FBI forensic laboratory assistance. The Legat had received this request several days earlier when he was in El Salvador. The FBI was asked to supervise forensic examinations by the Salvadoran National Police in El Salvador and provide the necessary equipment to the Salvadorans. Officials of the FBI Laboratory Division strongly recommended that the forensic evidence be sent to them in Washington so that they could conduct a thorough and complete examination. Tests with significant results could then be repeated in El Salvador, in collaboration with the appropriate Salvadoran technical personnel, to meet the requirements of the Salvadoran judicial system. The Salvadorans agreed to this procedure.\nIn addition, the FBI Identification Division made two fingerprint specialists available to travel to El Salvador, although there is no record in FBI files that they went. A bullet removed from the right wrist of United States Marine Gregory Weber was submitted to the FBI laboratory for evaluation. It was examined microscopically for a determination of what type of weapon had fired it and held for future comparison. DOS also submitted two bullets and eight cartridge cases to the FBI laboratory for examination. The source of these items was not relayed to the FBI. The FBI determined that the bullets were fired by the same firearm, either a Colt Ar-15, an M-16, or an Armalite AR-180. The New Orleans FBI field office also forwarded the bullet retrieved from witness [REDACTED] to the FBI Laboratory in Washington. The bullet was examined and retained for future comparison with a recovered weapon. The laboratory found that the bullet's markings were of limited value for comparison. The laboratory found that the bullet was consistent with one fired from a .357 or .38 caliber revolver. It is unclear why the Salvadorans did not submit other forensic evidence, such as the blood and fingerprints, to the FBI for analysis.\nE. The Break in the Case--the Arrest of Garcia\nOn August 4, 1985, the United States Border Patrol in San Diego, California, arrested Juan Miguel Garcia Melendez (Garcia) during a routine sensor check for illegal aliens. On August 6, 1985, Garcia told a Border Patrol agent that he had information about the Zona Rosa murders. The Border Patrol conducted an extensive interview of Garcia about the Zona Rosa murders and notified the FBI about the information it learned. On August 7, Garcia was again extensively interviewed by the FBI, the Border Patrol, and a Naval Investigative Service agent.\nGarcia reported that he had been employed in an upholstery shop in San Salvador along with William Celio Rivas Bolanos (Rivas). On the afternoon of June 19, while in the upholstery shop, Garcia overheard Rivas talking with a person known as Ulises. Garcia said that he knew Ulises because he came around the upholstery shop frequently to meet with Rivas. On June 19, Rivas and Ulises began drinking alcohol at the shop at 4 p.m. and were intoxicated by 6 p.m. The two attempted to persuade Garcia to come with them because they had \"some work for him.\" They would not give Garcia any further information, except to say \"by the Cafe Don Pedro.\" Garcia was tired and went home instead. About 9:30 p.m., he heard a radio broadcast about the murder of the United States Marines in the Zona Rosa district.\nGarcia said that he went to work at the upholstery shop the next morning. Rivas came to the upholstery shop, followed by Ulises, who had a newspaper containing a report of the murders. Garcia overheard Ulises ask Rivas who had shot Julio. Rivas replied that he did not know because he had not heard any shots. Ulises stated that their group was now reduced to three members and they needed four to function. Garcia stated that he determined from the conversations he overheard that Ulises was the leader of a four man \"cell\" of the PRTC consisting of Rivas, Macias (also known as Felipe), and two other unidentified members. A man known as Walter led another cell. Mario commanded the leaders of several cells or groups. Ulises told Garcia about a total membership of approximately 15 people in the organization he believed to be the Mardoqueo Cruz Urban Commandos.\nDuring his interview with the Border Patrol, Garcia asked about the $100,000 reward being offered by the United States government for information leading to the prosecution of the Zona Rosa killers. No promises or specific information about the reward money were given to Garcia, but he was told that the investigating agencies would be advised of his inquiry.\nThe information obtained from Garcia was passed to the CIA Station in El Salvador, which forwarded it to Salvadoran authorities.\nOn August 16, 1985, Garcia was voluntarily deported from the United States to El Salvador, where he was arrested at the San Salvadoran airport by the Salvadoran Treasury Police.\nF. The Arrest of William Celio Rivas-Bolanos and Jose Abraham Dimas Aguilar\nOn August 12, 1985, acting on the information provided by Garcia, the Salvadoran National Guard raided the upholstery shop at which he worked, \"Tapiceria Estrella.\" In the raid, the National Guard captured Rivas. Also arrested was David Wilber Villalta Ruano, another worker in the upholstery shop. No weapons or documents were found at the time of their arrest. Ulises eluded capture. The Salvadoran police believed that Ulises was in the upholstery shop at the time of the raid but fled out the back door when the Salvadoran police failed to block that exit.\n1. Statements to Salvadoran Authorities\nAt the time of these arrests, El Salvador had declared itself under a state of siege as a result of the guerrilla war being waged. Under Salvadoran law, the investigation and prosecution of all cases involving guerrillas or terrorist activities were to be handled by the military and processed in military courts. Salvadoran law also provided that suspects could be detained incommunicado for a period of 15 days, during which time the military was entitled to investigate the offense. During this period, interviews and analysis of forensic evidence would be conducted and, at the conclusion of the fifteen days, turned over to the military court for determination of whether probable cause existed to try the prisoner.\n(a) The Confession of Rivas\nAfter Rivas' arrest, he was taken to National Guard Headquarters. The officers of the G-2 Section of the National Guard began to interrogate him 45 minutes after he arrived. Officers of the G-2 Section were trained in intelligence work and, according to a DOJ prosecutor who later investigated the Zona Rosa murders, \"not versed in law enforcement investigatory techniques as we know them.\" The interrogation was conducted without any formal advice of rights. The focus of the interrogation was on locating Ulises and other terrorists identified by Garcia.\nRivas told the G-2 interrogators that Ulises could be found at a garage on the west side of San Salvador. An arrest team went to the garage and arrested the brother of Ulises, Jose Abraham Dimas Aguilar. Another suspect known as \"Macias\" escaped just ahead of the arrest team.\nThe initial interrogation of Rivas lasted about three hours in a cell at the National Guard. Questioning resumed later and lasted until 2 a.m. the next morning. Over the next four days, two military interrogators interrogated Rivas. Rivas was permitted to eat and use a bathroom as he wished. According to a DOJ prosecutor, however, sleep deprivation was probably used as a technique, and the interrogation generally lasted about 14 hours a day. The interrogators reported that they recorded their questions and Rivas' answers, but DOJ prosecutors were never able to obtain such records.\nBecause of concern for human rights violations, Salvadoran law provided that representatives of the International Red Cross were allowed to see prisoners during the 15-day period of incommunicado incarceration. Red Cross representatives were allowed to see Rivas on an unknown date during his first 15 days in prison, but they did not interview him.\nDuring the four days of interrogation, Rivas admitted his past involvement with the FMLN and detailed terrorist acts committed by him and others. However, he continued to assert that he was not involved in the Zona Rosa killings.\nOn August 17, 1985, the fifth day of the interrogation, the National Guard interrogators confronted Rivas with the fact of Garcia's arrest and his statements to them. Rivas then gradually began to acknowledge his involvement in the Zona Rosa murders. Finally, on August 17, after a prolonged interrogation, Rivas confessed to firing on the Marines. Rivas also stated that Garcia was a sympathizer with the PRTC and acted as a front at the upholstery shop but was not personally involved in the murders.\nOn August 20, 1985, the lead Salvadoran investigator, or \"Instructor,\" took a formal signed statement under oath from Rivas. Under Salvadoran law, such a statement may be taken any time within the first 15 days of the prisoner's detention. Present at the formal statement was a secretary appointed by the Instructor to record the statement. Two National Guard officers, neither of whom was directly involved in the Zona Rosa investigation or the interrogation, were also present. At the beginning of this statement, Rivas was advised of his rights under Salvadoran law. He was advised that he was considered innocent until proven guilty; he was not obligated to testify; he could not be coerced into a statement; and he was entitled to indemnity if the charges were found to be false. In a military investigation such as this, Rivas was not entitled to an attorney.\nRivas' signed statement included his description of his history with the guerrilla movement, beginning with his recruitment in 1981 through his establishment of the upholstery shop as a cover for terrorist activities. The statement then provided the following version of events surrounding the Zona Rosa killings.\nAround June 14, 1985, Ulises told Rivas that they were going to \"knock over some Americans\" within the next several days. On June 19, 1985, Ulises confirmed that they were going to carry out the planned attack and that they should meet at the garage of Ulises' brother that afternoon. At 5 p.m., Rivas, Ulises, and another PRTC member called \"Macias\" met at the garage. Ulises told them that they should meet again at the Cafe Don Pedro at 8 p.m.\nRivas went to the Cafe Don Pedro that evening. At 8:50 p.m., Ulises arrived in a yellow Toyota pickup truck with Macias, Julio, Pepe, Walter, and two other men Rivas did not know. Ulises gave Rivas an M-16 rifle, a green knapsack containing ammunition, a cap, and a green camouflage shirt. Ulises told Rivas that he was part of the strike team and should fire his weapon when they arrived at their destination. Upon arriving at the monument of the Savior of the World, they met a light blue car that signalled to them by honking twice. The Toyota truck signalled back. Both continued on to the Zona Rosa.\nWhen they arrived in front of Chili's Restaurant in Zona Rosa, Ulises got out of the truck and started firing at one table. Julio did likewise and yelled \"There, Buddy,\" indicating that Rivas should concentrate his fire on the table where the Americans were sitting. Rivas opened fire on the table, shooting all the ammunition from his weapon. Rivas also accidentally shot Julio in the back when Julio crossed into Rivas' line of fire.\nWalter and an unknown man were shooting their weapons in the direction of security officers at the Brazilian Embassy in order to keep them distracted. Pepe and the driver of the Toyota were covering the north side of the cafe. When Ulises thought that they had killed the foreigners, he shouted \"Retreat,\" and they went back to the pickup truck. When they reached the truck, Ulises asked, \"Where's Julio?\" and realized that Julio was lying wounded in the gutter in front of the cafe. Ulises went back, picked up Julio, and carried him to the truck, and they drove away. After they had driven some distance, Ulises ordered Rivas out of the truck. Rivas left all of the equipment and clothing Ulises had given him in the truck. Rivas then went home.\nRivas went to work at the upholstery shop the next morning so that he would not arouse suspicion. Ulises also came to the shop that morning and asked Rivas why he had injured Julio. Ulises told Rivas that Julio was receiving treatment at the Red Cross. Because Rivas was afraid of Ulises, he said that he had not shot Julio and did not know who had.\nRivas reported in this statement that Jose Abraham Dimas Aguilar, the brother of Ulises, was aware of the plans for the attack and knew about discussions about it both before and after the attack. After the attack, Ulises ordered the cell to remain inactive for two months to avoid detection or apprehension.\nOn August 23, 1985, Rivas was taken to the scene of the Zona Rosa murders to re-enact the attack for the police. According to an FBI report, Rivas \"displayed an intimate knowledge of the crime scene and the manner of the killings.\"\nOn August 24, 1985, Rivas was polygraphed by the CIA Station in El Salvador. Before beginning the actual polygraph, the CIA polygrapher conducted a \"pre-test interview\" during which Rivas admitted his involvement in the murders.\nThe polygraph confirmed that Rivas was being truthful about his involvement in the killings, but indicated that he was not being completely truthful when he denied that Garcia was involved in the killings. There was also an indication of deception when Rivas denied that he had deliberately given false information regarding which persons took part in the Zona Rosa attack and when he denied deliberately withholding information about the Zona Rosa attack. The polygrapher found that Rivas had an \"indifferent attitude\" throughout the polygraph and interview and appeared ready to accept the consequences of his actions.\nA report describing Rivas' case was turned over to the military judge on August 28, 1985. Witnesses to the crime also appeared before the judge so that the judge could determine whether the statements in the report were true. Rivas was not present at this hearing. The two National Guard interrogators who had taken Rivas' written confession testified about the confession and stated that Rivas gave his statement without coercion.\nOn August 29, 1985, Rivas gave a statement to the judge. The judge and three Salvadoran prosecutors were present at the hearing, which was conducted at the National Guard Headquarters because of security concerns. The judge advised Rivas of his rights and made a tape recording of Rivas' statement. In the statement, Rivas again confessed to shooting the Marines. At the conclusion of the proceedings, the judge had the tape transcribed for Rivas' signature. [The tape and transcription were never obtained or located by DOJ.] The judge found probable cause to try Rivas, and the case was elevated to the trial stage.\n(b) The Statement of Garcia\nOn August 23, 1985, Garcia allegedly made a statement to Salvadoran authorities in which he confessed to actual participation in the killings. Because Rivas had not implicated Garcia and because Garcia had not previously admitted participation, the National Guard separately took both men to the scene of the crime on August 23, 1985. As noted above, while Rivas demonstrated an intimate knowledge of the crime scene, Garcia was unable to provide any information as to how the attack occurred, and it seemed to the police as if he had never been at the crime scene. Garcia was questioned further and recanted his confession, saying that he had admitted to participation in the murders because of his fear of the police.\nLater on August 23, 1985, Garcia signed a written statement which contained the following information.\nGarcia said that he met Rivas while working in an upholstery shop in November 1983. Garcia discussed with Rivas past propaganda efforts in which Garcia had participated on behalf of the \"revolutionary party.\" Rivas told Garcia that such efforts were out of style and that direct military action was required. In August 1984, Rivas proposed that they set up another upholstery shop with money provided by a \"terrorist organization.\" Rivas told Garcia that he would ask \"Charli\" for the money, who would ask Mario. Ulises would pose as the owner. Garcia would get to split the profits from the shop's work. Garcia agreed, and the shop was opened in October 1984.\nGarcia provided information on the type of surveillance and other information-gathering activities in which he allegedly participated while working at the upholstery shop. For example, Garcia reported that Rivas used the shop to observe the movement of National Police vehicles, which the group could subsequently attack.\nGarcia stated that several days before the Zona Rosa murders, he learned there was going to be some action taken against \"the Americans.\" On the day of the attack, Rivas told Garcia that the operation was to be carried out that day and said Garcia would hear about it on the radio that night. Garcia said he heard about the attack when he was listening to a soccer game on the radio. The next day Ulises came to the upholstery shop and explained how they had shot the Americans. Rivas interrupted to say that Macias had yelled \"Long live Mardoqueo Cruz\" during the attack. Rivas stated that the Brazilian Embassy guards had shot Julio. When Rivas left, Ulises told Garcia that Rivas had shot Julio but that Ulises was not going to say anything in order to avoid an argument. Ulises told Garcia that Pepe had been in charge of shooting at the Brazilian Embassy officers and that Julio, Macias, Rivas, and Ulises had fired on the Americans.\nOn October 3, 1986, Garcia filed a motion seeking his release. The motion argued that he had been forced to make a statement to the police in violation of his right to remain silent. This motion was denied, and he remained in custody.\n(c) The Statement of Jose Abraham Dimas Aguilar\nOn August 20, 1985, Jose Abraham Dimas Aguilar (Dimas) signed a written statement in the presence of the Salvadoran National Guard. In it, Dimas admitted to knowing that his brother Ulises, together with William, Miguel, Macias, and Tiamina, met at Dimas' garage and that Dimas was aware they were members of a terrorist organization. Dimas was also aware that they were planning something, which he later deduced was the Zona Rosa attack. Dimas' statement also said, without explanation, that he later learned that all of the people mentioned in his statement were directly involved in the attack. Dimas' statement concluded that he \"collaborated with the organization in the sense that he sheltered them in the garage and that Ulises was his partner.\"\nOn August 28, 1985, Dimas' statement was presented to the military court, and the next day he affirmed to the court that it was true.\n(d) The Press Conference\nOn August 30, 1985, during a press conference in San Salvador arranged by President Duarte, Rivas admitted his participation as a shooter in the Zona Rosa attack. Dimas and Garcia both stated that they were members of the PRTC and had served in support roles in the attack, but they denied having participated directly in the killings.\n(e) The Statement of David Wilber Villalta Ruano\nOn August 20, 1985, the National Guard interviewed David Wilber Villalta Ruano (Ruano), who had been arrested in the upholstery shop with Dimas and Rivas. Ruano stated that he met Rivas through Garcia and that he performed upholstery jobs for Rivas. On June 21, Ruano began work on an upholstery job for Rivas. While Ruano was working on this job in the upholstery shop, a man named Ulises came every day to read the paper and talk to Rivas in private. Ruano suspected that the two were involved in something bad because of the way they talked. Ruano told the National Guard that he did not know anything about the attack on the Marines aside from what he had read in the papers. Ruano viewed lineups that included Garcia and Rivas, and was able to identify both of them. He was later released from custody.\n2. The Eyewitness Identification of Rivas\nOn August 24, 1985, [REDACTED] who was shot in the attack, was asked to view lineups at the Salvadoran National Guard headquarters. One lineup had five suspects, including Rivas. [REDACTED] viewed the suspects and asked that they wear black berets, because the gunman he saw on June 19 had been wearing such a beret. All five suspects were given black berets, and [REDACTED] identified Rivas as the man who fired at the Marines on June 19. [REDACTED] was not able to identify Dimas, Garcia, or Ruano in similar lineups.\n[REDACTED] in the cafe, also viewed lineups containing Rivas, Garcia, Dimas, and Ruano. [REDACTED] was not able to identify any of these four men as the gunmen he saw on June 19th.\n3. Salvadoran Charges against Rivas, Garcia, and Dimas\nAt the conclusion of the hearing before the military trial court, the judge certified an indictment charging the three defendants as follows:\nRivas: Subversive Association, Acts of Terrorism, First Degree Robbery (Auto)\nGarcia: Subversive Association, Aiding and Abetting Subversive Propaganda, Acts of Terrorism\nDimas: Subversive Association\n4. Salvadoran Theory of the Murders\nAs a result of its investigation, the Salvadoran National Police and National Guard reached several conclusions. The police concluded that the probable planner of the attack and leader of the \"cover group\"--the group that shot at the Brazilian embassy and watched for any defensive fire--was Mario Gonzales. The police believed that at the time of the attack Mario Gonzales was a member of the PRTC Central Committee and was in charge of the Mardoqueo Cruz, a small cell of the PRTC that was focussed on guerrilla activities within San Salvador. The National Police and National Guard also thought Mario Gonzales was responsible for other urban terrorist attacks carried out by the Mardoqueo Cruz.\nThe police also believed that Garcia and Dimas were members of this \"cover group.\" The police concluded that Jose Antonio Lemus Figueroa (also known as Walter), Pepe, and two other unknown men were members of the \"security and containment group,\" the group assigned to provide protection to the shooters. The police believed Walter to be a cell leader in the Mardoqueo Cruz. Police believed that Lemus and Pepe were also involved in an attack against National Police personnel in February 1985.\nThe police thought that the \"annihilation squad\"--the actual shooters--was made up of Ismael Dimas Aguilar, also known as Ulises, Jose Roberto Salazar Mendoza, also known as Julio, Jose Antonio Bolanos Rivas, also known as Macias, and William Celio Rivas Bolanos. Police believed that Ulises was acell leader in the Mardoqueo Cruz and had been trained in Cuba from May 1981 to December 1982, and in Nicaragua from August to December 1983. Ulises, Julio, and Rivas were all thought to have been involved in various acts of terrorism and sabotage in El Salvador for several years before the Zona Rosa attack.\nAs noted above, Julio was killed in the Zona Rosa attack when he crossed into the line of fire of Rivas. The two other alleged gunmen, Ulises and Macias, were never apprehended. Salvadoran authorities learned from four different sources that Ulises was killed at the Guazapa volcano in a battle with Salvadoran armed forces.\nAfter the initial charges were lodged against Rivas, Garcia, and Dimas, their cases languished for some time. In 1987, DOS learned that, as part of the Central American peace process, the Salvadoran government was considering an amnesty for all prisoners accused of \"political crimes,\" which potentially applied to the Zona Rosa perpetrators. 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(b) Position of source and receiver for RDD system.\nMentions: The level of sound is reduced by an extended barrier as, for example, a wall or a building, and that the obstacle casts an acoustic signal shadow. Nevertheless, the shadow is not ideal because sound is diffracted around the edges of the obstacle. The level attenuation in decibels caused by a height can be calculated for the straight, constant, and infinite length barrier by using the below equation given by Kurze and Anderson [17]:(1)\u0394L=5dB+20log(2\u03c0N)12tanh(2\u03c0N)12dB and N=2(A+B\u2212d)\u03bbwhere (A+B) is the shortest path length over the edge, from the source to the receiver in the barrier shadow zone and d is the direct path distance between source and receiver through the barrier. \u03bb is the wave length of the sound. 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The word of the day was icsid.\nSales Tax Amendments Act, 2006\nSettlement of International Investment Disputes Act\nDonald MacInnis\nAhuntsic-Cartierville Housing Committee\nFive with Drive\nScience and Technology Exploration Centre\nCanadian Police Week\nThe Good Old Soccer Game\nElectoral Boundary Readjustment\nOlympic and Paralympic Marks Act\nStanding Committee on Official LanguagesPrivilegeOral Questions\nPrince George\u2014Peace River B.C.\nJay Hill ConservativeSecretary of State and Chief Government Whip\nMr. Speaker, I would hopefully like to bring some clarity to some of the allegations that we just heard from the leader of the official opposition, especially in light of his personal comments about actions that I took and his rationale that those somehow posed a threat to my opposite numbers, the opposition whips.\nAt the outset, I would like to reiterate the comments made by the hon. House leader for the government when he stated that the other committee members, the Conservative government members on the official languages committee, all support the chair and continue to support the chair, the hon. member for Stormont\u2014Dundas\u2014South Glengarry.\nBy saying that, I would pose the question to the opposition parties, what would they have me do as the whip then? Am I supposed to somehow force one of those members to take the chair, after the opposition summarily removes him? That is what I hear them suggesting.\nWhat about the vice-chair?\nJay Hill Conservative Prince George\u2014Peace River, BC\nMr. Speaker, with all due respect, I sat here and listened to the arguments from the other members, but as soon as I start to talk and they do not like what I am saying, then they have no respect and they have to start heckling on a question of privilege. You know how serious a question of privilege is, Mr. Speaker.\nThe noise has not been bad, I must say, and I am paying close attention to what the hon. chief government whip is saying, as always, but he does ask some rhetorical questions and unfortunately those invite answers. He has asked a couple of rhetorical questions in his remarks which did seem to provoke some response, of course not from me. I will deal with the arguments later, but I am pleased to hear him now and I hope he will be able to continue his remarks uninterrupted.\nMe too. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.\nWhen I had the conversations, which I believe to be private conversations between me and my opposite numbers, concerning the notice of motion that the whip for the New Democratic Party had served that he intended to bring a motion of non-confidence against the chair of the official languages committee, when I had those discussions with my opposite numbers, the whips of the three opposition parties, I assumed that conversation and those discussions were in confidence, the same as we often have confidential conversations. In any event, that has turned out not to be so. My rationale in having those conversations was simply to ensure that there was no ambiguity about the rules.\nThe rules, as the hon. Leader of the Government in the House of Commons has stated, are that in the Standing Orders the chair of that particular standing committee is a government member. Those are the rules.\nI wanted to ensure that the whips of the other parties, if their members were to support that motion of non-confidence that the whip of the NDP had put forward, if they intended to support that and summarily and arbitrarily dismiss the member for Stormont\u2014Dundas\u2014South Glengarry from the chair position, that then by the rules of the House, unless a Conservative member was to allow his or her name to stand, the committee would no longer sit. I merely reiterated those rules to the whips and wanted to ensure that there was no question in their minds that this particular action would have that particular consequence.\nI was not threatening anyone. I did not think that I was posing a threat. I was just saying exactly what would unfold and indeed, that is what has unfolded.\nThe second issue I would like to address, Mr. Speaker, is that we have a tradition in the House of Commons, and I believe at committee, whereby when some members might take personal exception to some remarks or actions that some other member has made, that we respectfully call upon them to explain themselves. We listen to that explanation. Perhaps that member will offer an apology and seek forgiveness, whether it is in this chamber or whether it is in committee. It has happened to me certainly many times in my experience when different members have found themselves in that position over the 14 years I have been here.\nThat did not happen in this particular case. Let us be clear that the hon. whip for the New Democratic Party put forward a motion to remove the chair of the official languages committee. He believed that the opposition members on that committee should act as judge, jury and executioner without even listening to the hon. member's explanation. That was put forward. They debated the decision before they ever arrived at the committee. Before they ever asked him to explain himself, explain his actions, they were already determined to remove him.\nI would suggest to you, Mr. Speaker, that that suggests there is a serious problem. When we say that the opposition is playing partisan politics with this particular issue, I would like you to review it.\nSomeone is heckling from the other side and saying, \u201cYou're making it up\u201d. I am not making this up.\nThe testimony of the committee is there. I would challenge anyone in this country that is interested in this particular issue to find out what was said today, this morning, at the official languages committee.\nI was not there but a lot of members were there and it was certainly reported to me that the member for Stormont\u2014Dundas\u2014South Glengarry offered an explanation for his actions.\nThe reality is, Mr. Speaker, that he still enjoys the support of his colleagues. I as the whip am not going to and no one else in this party is going to try to force one of my colleagues to serve as chair and undermine his credibility when he has no reason to be removed, none, Mr. Speaker.\nSomeone is saying \u201ca dictatorship\u201d. Do you know what this is, Mr. Speaker? This is merely the latest example of the Liberals' arrogance that they cannot come to terms with the fact that they lost the election. They cannot come to terms with that. Their arrogance is such that they and the other two parties are going to determine who the Conservatives have as chairs.\nIf we allowed this to stand, they could remove every single one of our chairs. We could play musical chairs until the cows came home, but what would it accomplish, other than allowing the opposition to determine who our chair is? The fact of the matter is there are many opposition members sitting on many standing committees that personally I and some of my colleagues take exception to some of the antics they pull on any given day.\nIf I were given my choice, I might even suggest that it might be nice to have certain members removed from committees, but it is not my choice of who the opposition parties choose to have on a specific standing committee. In fact, we have a long-standing tradition that when an opposition party, when any party wants to make a change in its membership on a standing committee what happens by the rules of the House is all four whips sign.\nI do not ask the hon. member that serves as the whip for the official opposition to justify to me why they want to remove one member and put another member on that committee. I do not do that. It is not my place to do that. It is the Liberals' business who they have on a certain committee and it is the Liberals' business who they choose to let their name stand as vice-chair of a certain committee. I do not try and tell them and dictate and say, \u201cWell, I don't like that person's attitude. I don't like what they said the other day. I don't like what they did last week, so we are going to vote them off the island and we are going to have someone else serve as vice-chair\u201d. It is the Liberals' business who they have as vice-chair. I do not pretend for a minute that I should be able to dictate to them who that person is.\nAs the government House leader has said, I would suggest very strongly that the leader of the official opposition does not understand the rules very clearly when he thinks that this is a question of privilege. It is not a prima facie question of privilege. Mr. Speaker, I would ask you to rule in that way.\nMr. Speaker, I am very surprised to hear the government whip make a statement to the effect of how audacious it is of members of the other parties to determine who the Conservatives have as chair of a committee.\nI have to say to the member, with all due respect, our rules were changed very explicitly to provide that the members of committees elect the chairs. They are not appointed by the government. They are not appointed by the government whip. They are elected by the members of the committee by secret ballot.\nThose remarks in my view are presumptuous and allow me to infer as a member that the government is purporting to name chairs or vice-chairs.\nI accept and we all accept that the government whip and the parties have a role in putting forward people for election, but once that is done, it is up to the members of the committee and the Chief Government Whip should know that.\nI also state, and I will wrap up here, that if the government whip in taking that view is also of the view that he and they, his members, will refuse to perform work on a committee, then that in my view constitutes a constructive obstruction to the work of a committee created by this House and given a mandate by this House. That is what the leader of the official opposition is trying to say this afternoon.\nWe have a serious problem that if not a privilege borders on privilege. We have to get it fixed, because I as one member cannot allow this attitude to prevail.\nMr. Speaker, I would like to clarify something in this debate. I want to begin by saying that I attended this morning's entire meeting of the Standing Committee on Official Languages. I was there from 9 a.m. until the end. The chief government whip is trying to bet on public opinion. However, there are some facts that the chief government whip cannot deny. Among other things, in this House we have to abide by the Standing Orders. A chair, and even you, Mr. Speaker, in your position as Speaker of the House of Commons, cannot on his or her own initiative rule on a wide range of matters because those matters are included in, limited and governed by the Standing Orders. What happened in the Standing Committee on Official Languages is another illustration of this.\nToday, this incident happened in the Standing Committee on Official Languages. As a whip, I have complained many times about the behaviour of certain chairs. I do not complain about the person specifically, but that the person filling the role of chair, who is part of the government, thinks he is above the rules. That is why we consistently ask the chair to verify regulatory and legal aspects with the committee clerk, who is not partisan. In most cases, our clerks are very qualified. They are the guardians and custodians of the rules that govern us in the House and in committee. Unfortunately, the chairs think they are above the rules and they ignore advice from the clerks.\nLet us put things back in perspective. The government whip may attempt to stir a public opinion battle through the media, but there are facts that cannot be denied. These are undeniable facts. The chair of the Standing Committee on Official Languages lost the support of the majority of members on the committee. What does that mean? What happens when the chair of a committee has lost the support of its members? Must we keep him on? Should we turn a blind eye? Do we sweep the dust under the rug, figuring that it was just a bad patch, and forget about it? I am sorry, but what happened at the Standing Committee on Official Languages was decided by the members of that committee, who felt that enough was enough and that this chair did not deserve the confidence of the committee.\nOur Standing Orders are clear. Standing Order 106(2) states, and I quote:\nAt the commencement of every session and, if necessary, during the course of a session, each standing or special committee shall elect a Chair and two Vice-Chairs, of whom the Chair shall be a Member of the government party, the first Vice-Chair shall be a Member of the Official Opposition, and the second Vice-Chair shall be a Member of an opposition party other than the Official Opposition party.\u2014\nI will dispense with the rest of the standing order in question.\nThe chair having lost the confidence of the committee, a motion was put forward by the whip for the NDP. Members from the Liberal Party and the Bloc Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois voted in support of the motion, and the member from the NDP also voted in support of his own motion. The Conservatives voted against it. How do the votes tally up? Because he is in government, the government whip would have wanted to disregard the outcome of the vote and say that, even though there were seven votes against four, the four won over the seven. I have never been good at math, but I would say, based on the law of numbers, that seven is more than four.\nThe situation of a minority government is special, but it looks as though the Conservative government has not yet understood that. In committee, as in this House, when the three opposition parties unite, the government cannot pass what it wants. This is the reality of a minority government. The committees are made up as follows: there are five Conservative MPs\u2014including a chair, four Liberal MPs, two from the Bloc and one from the NDP. Which means that sometimes we vote seven to four. The opposition parties do not always have to stand together. Sometimes one opposition party votes with the government and it is defeated. Other times, one party finds itself alone with its own motion. This is the reality.\nI will end by explaining that this morning we lost confidence in the chair and we tried to elect a new chair of the Standing Committee on Official Languages. We offered the position to four members of the Conservative Party: the member for Beauport\u2014Limoilou, the member for Louis-H\u00e9bert and two other members whose riding names I have forgotten. They all refused.\nThis is understandable when the person is unable to accept. Did they refuse voluntarily or did they refuse as the result of instructions from the whip? The chief government whip\u2014and he will recall\u2014has already told me that, if we wanted to bring a chair down, all the others would refuse. So this is the situation we are in. All the others refused; the committee is not dissolved, but it is suspended.\nAs parliamentarians, we will have to decide what to do to clear the impasse. The chief government whip, however, had told me that this is what would happen. It was already written in the big book. What happened this morning was not a surprise. I therefore support the question of privilege tabled by the leader of the official opposition.\nYvon Godin NDP Acadie\u2014Bathurst, NB\nMr. Speaker, I see no problem with the Chief Government Whip saying that the government may select committee members, since every political party does it. This has never been a problem. However, when it is the committee chair who makes the selection and the chair decides to go against the committee's decision, it is then that we must intervene, withdraw confidence and raise a question of privilege.\nFurthermore, the Chief Government Whip is saying that our conversation was private and confidential. At no time did we say that it was confidential. This is not the first time this has happened. It also happened last year in another committee. The Chief Government Whip turned his back on us and threatened us, if we did not do as the government wanted, which was to do away with the committee and no longer appoint anyone.\nI call that blackmail and, here in the Parliament of Canada, we do not accept blackmail on the part of the Conservative government or the Chief Government Whip.\nMr. Speaker, I have a couple of new points I would like to bring forward on this question of privilege.\nLet us make no mistake, this is a partisan issue and everyone here knows it, whether they are willing to admit it or not. Again, I would reiterate the comments of my colleague.\nYes, your's.\nI listened with patience and with tolerance to other comments and I would expect the members opposite to give me the same consideration.\nWithout question, everyone here knows that this is not a matter of not having confidence in the chair. This is a political matter. We have had a rash of non-confidence motions in the chairs of committees over the past little while. In fact there is a motion right now for yet another committee, the Standing Committee on International Trade, to express non-confidence in the chair.\nThere is no other reason for this except that the opposition, first, is trying to embarrass the government, and second, is trying to take control of the committees by changing the Standing Orders.\nI also want to take issue with a comment by the hon. member for Scarborough\u2014Rouge River who asked, in respect to the hon. government House whip's comments about the fact that a Conservative chair needs to be reappointed or re-elected, whether the official whip knew that the rules are that this is an election, not an appointment process. That is very true but we must have a government member allow their names to be forward. They have complete confidence in the current chair and they do not want to put their names forward. That is where it stands right now.\nThose are the rules and the Standing Orders. In fact, if one were to accept the logic of the members of the opposition who basically seem to be saying that in committee and in all other parts of the Parliament, if the opposition vote as a majority to either change a chair or change Standing Orders, we should allow it be done, let me just pose a question.\nWe are in a minority government right now but what would happen in the case of a majority government? Would government members be able to stand in this House and say, \u201cMr. Speaker, we want to change a number of standing orders and, by the way, we also want to curtail debate on the legislation before you, and, by a majority vote, if we win that will happen\u201d.\nIt would be a very efficient way to govern but it would not be very democratic, which is what is happening here. They are trying to ignore Standing Orders for political purposes.\nMr. Speaker, I beseech you to not get caught up in this partisan attack on chairs we have elected and who should regain the confidence of all committee members.\nThere cannot be many more points on this one that I have not heard already. I will hear members very briefly but if it is repetitious, I will cut the members off. I warn them of that because I feel I have heard the arguments on this matter now. The hon. member for Laval\u2014Les \u00celes.\nMr. Speaker, I would like to offer some clarification that is at the source of this debate; specifically, why we asked the chair of the Standing Committee on Official Languages to resign.\nIt was a majority decision. The three opposition parties agreed to do it. I must say that it is rare for the three opposition parties to agree, but in this case, they did. The chair of the Standing Committee on Official Languages cancelled the meeting last Tuesday without giving any reason or prior notice to the members. We found out exactly two minutes before 9 o\u2019clock, when we should have been starting the meeting. He also cancelled the following meeting, which was scheduled for last Thursday. It is my understanding that only reason we had a meeting this morning is that I was able to put forward a motion to have a meeting.\nWe asked the chair to resign because he did not have the confidence of the members of the committee. The members of the committee elected that chair because the members form a unit and they work together, as a team. That means that the work of the committee must be done together. What happened is that the chair made a decision last Tuesday without consulting the members of the committee and without advising them. The chair is elected by the members and is accountable to the members. In my view, what happens in Parliament\u2014and I include the House and the committees of the House--must, at all times, be democratic. I apologize for the clich\u00e9, but the eyes of the nation are upon us. What happens here must be as democratic as possible.\nOn one hand, the chair first decided to cancel two meetings without informing the members; without giving them any reason for the cancellation. On the other hand, this morning\u2019s meeting was divided in two; there was a change in the agenda for the second part. It was cancelled once again without informing the members and without asking for their views.\nI believe this clarification was important. It is not because we wanted to take down the chair. It was not because we were angry over anything; it is because, in our opinion, the partisan strategies of the chair could not be considered acceptable in a committee that calls itself democratic\nMr. Speaker, I want to mention a point that has not yet been raised. I am simply reacting to the comments made earlier by the member for Regina\u2014Lumsden\u2014Lake Centre, who seemed upset at the partisan nature of this place.\nI do not know whether the hon. member is aware of that, but this is not a bridge club: this is the House of Commons. If the hon. member is not partisan, then for heaven's sake he should sit as an independent member, or else hold his meetings elsewhere. Politics is the essence of our work here. It is partisan work by definition. When I rise on behalf of my party, I do not want to adversely affect it, so my remarks are partisan by nature.\nI will conclude by saying that we should not forget that the fundamental issue was that we were supposed to hear witnesses on the court challenges program, which the government abolished. We wanted to know what ordinary citizens thought of that decision. Abolishing the court challenges program was a partisan decision. That is why the committee's partisan members wanted to hear these witnesses.\nMr. Speaker, I would like to add a new element, in reaction to the comments of the member for Regina\u2014Lumsden\u2014Lake Centre, who said that there seems to be an endless number of such motions. He mentioned two.\nI personally sat on two committees of this Parliament. The first one is the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities\u2014on which I am still sitting\u2014chaired by the member for Brandon\u2014Souris, in whom I have total confidence. I also sat on the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, chaired by the member for Perth\u2014Wellington. Incidentally, this is the committee that reviewed the issue of the court challenges program. Again, I have full confidence in this member as chair of that committee.\nTherefore, the government should not say that the official opposition is systematically opposed to all committee chairs, because that is not the case.\nI believe I have heard enough about this point. I see, however, that the hon. member for Beauport\u2014Limoilou wants to speak.\nSylvie Boucher ConservativeParliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Minister for la Francophonie and Official Languages\nMr. Speaker, we are talking about democracy here. I hope that as a Conservative, I have the right to have confidence in my chair and I also have the right to vote as I wish.\nI have heard enough about this point.\nI will take the matter under advisement and come back to the House in due course with a ruling on this point.\nThe House resumed consideration of the motion that Bill C-53, An Act to implement the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention), be read the second time and referred to a committee.\nSettlement of International Investment Disputes ActGovernment Orders\nMr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to speak to Bill C-53, An Act to implement the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States (ICSID Convention).\nOne of my colleagues from the Liberal Party in the previous intervention talked about the lack of confidence in the chair and said that the eyes of the nation are upon us. I certainly believe that is the situation in the House.\nPeople watching back home must have been wondering about the cluster of Reform Party members in the previous debate licking their wounds in outraged indignation. It reminded me of when I was a kid and Gilles \u201cThe Fish\u201d Poisson once lost a Texas cage match to \u201cKiller\u201d Kowalski and he talked about how he had been hard done by.\nAs serious as the issues are, they are sometimes somewhat surreal. I think people back home wonder exactly what we are debating here because we seem to be in a bubble sometimes, separated from the reality of working people and their workplace.\nI want to speak to this bill in terms of concrete examples. I am going to focus specifically on how a bill like this would be enacted. It is all very well to talk about the need for an international convention on the settlement of investment disputes because these happen all over the place and we need to set some high standards.\nIn recent years, and particularly with the chapter 11 case with NAFTA, we have seen some very disturbing trends emerging. The New Democratic Party members will certainly be voting against this bill because we have concerns about the lack of transparency, the lack of accessibility, and the lack of accountability.\nWhen we talk about protecting investments overseas and in Canada, we are talking about how it needs to be based on the rule of law. We certainly believe that law is a guiding principle, but there are a number of principles about law that have to be applied. A number of the dispute mechanisms seem to be basically circumventing some of the basic principles of law.\nIf there were to be a dispute in court, the interested parties should be able to speak to it. That is a fundamental principle of law. We do not see that, for example, in chapter 11 of NAFTA. We did not see that in what was laid out in the multi-lateral investment agreement that came out in 1997. There needs to be a transparency of judgments, and yet with this ICSID bill that is before us there is no obligation to even publish the evidence and the awards.\nOne of the most fundamental issues in terms of legal jurisprudence is the need for transparency and full disclosure of evidence, so that evidence can be weighed publicly, not behind closed doors. There is a fundamental difference between being judged by a jury of peers in one's community and being judged by a couple of buddies in a backroom.\nI am going to speak about a specific case and how I see it unfolding under chapter 11 because I believe it resonates the application for applying the principles on a larger scale. That case is the $350 million claim against the Government of Canada by one Vito G. Gallo. I have his request for arbitration under chapter 11 of the free trade agreement. I have read Mr. Gallo's claim from start to finish and it is very interesting. I know most of the case fairly well.\nHe says he is the sole owner of 1532382 Ontario Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of the province of Ontario. I would agree that this company is incorporated in Ontario. I would also agree with him that the Adams Mine, a former iron ore mine, is located 10 kilometres southeast of the town of Kirkland Lake. That is in my riding. Other than that I would question most of the evidence that he has brought forward to the arbitration dispute panel.\nThat gets back to the issue under Bill C-53 about the need to fully disclose evidence. For example, in Mr. Gallo's claim, he states that he owns and controls the enterprise, meaning the Adams Mine as a possible site for landfill.\nI find that very interesting. We have to go back a bit into the history of this site. In 1990 Dofasco shut down the Adams Mine. It was an iron ore operation in my riding which lost a number of good paying jobs. The issue then became its possible use as a landfill, but the landfill was fairly challenged because we had 360 million litres of groundwater flowing through it every year.\nAt that time the owners were Notre Development, a small company out of North Bay, and the City of Toronto, which was a partner. The city of Toronto paid for most of the initial costs. It was the taxpayers in Toronto, not investors, who paid for the studies.\nThe studies were based on an unproven concept called hydraulic containment. It stated that 360 million litres of groundwater, which people in my riding contended fed the entire agricultural belt in the valley below, flowed through the pits every year. The theory was that pipes would be installed and for 1,000 years the groundwater of northern Ontario would be used to wash 20 years worth of garbage. It was seen then as somewhat of a cockamamie plan, but the city of Toronto paid for the studies to get this to ground level.\nIn 1997 it went before an environmental assessment board in Ontario at a time when Premier Mike Harris, who was considered a very close supporter of the dump, changed the environmental assessment act in Ontario, and changed it dramatically.\nWe suddenly had a scoped EA for what would be the single largest dump project in Canadian and possibly North American history. It was subject to a very narrowly scoped EA, which looked at only the question of whether the computer models supplied by the proponent were feasible. At that time all the other issues of groundwater contamination and the potential threat in the surrounding environment were ignored.\nIt was actually passed at that time in a very narrowly focused area, but there were issues with 2 of the 12 or 13 drill holes. There were two serious questions about whether those proved the theory of this dump or they did not. I am explaining this just as background so everyone has the full sense of what I am talking about in terms of this multilateral investment agreement that we are looking at now.\nThe city of Toronto stepped back and decided it was no longer going to be a proponent. Therefore, it was no longer the key proponent, but it was possibly a customer for this site. Throughout this, it was an Ontario company bidding on a municipal contract. There was no discussion at any point that this was in any way an international project.\nIn 2000 the city of Toronto walked away from this proposal because of the dangerous issues of liability. Nobody wanted to accept the liability for having to guarantee that pumps on a theoretically unproven site could run for 1,000 years. It also stepped aside because it was probably the largest civil disobedience action in Ontario history at that point.\nThe federal and provincial governments were very cognizant of the fact that the Algonquin nation had brought forward a very serious prima facie case for unextinguished aboriginal title at that site. There were numerous questions, as well as the potential groundwater threat from this unproven site.\nThe city of Toronto was not willing to accept the liability. Canadian Waste Services at that time, which was the new partner, also walked away, so the site was left without a customer. If we check the records for the last seven years, regardless of what happened with Michigan, the city of Toronto said time and time again, \u201cWe will never go back to this site. No matter what, we will never go back there\u201d. It was a site without a customer.\nThen in 2002-03 a new company was formed, which was 1532382 Ontario Inc. It set itself up as the new proponent. What is this company? We do not really know.\nI have a corporation profile report. What is the jurisdiction for 1532382 Ontario Inc.? It is Ontario. What is the former jurisdiction? It is not applicable. The corporation type is an Ontario business corporation. What is its registered address? It is Suite 101, Don Mills, Ontario. Its mailing address is 225 Duncan Mill Road, Suite 101, Don Mills, Ontario. If you are not seeing much of an international investor angle here, you are like me, Mr. Speaker.\nPage 2 of this very paltry corporate report says that the administrator is Brent W. Swanick. His address is 104 Yorkminster Road, North York, Ontario. The first director is not applicable. The officer type is president. The resident is Canadian.\nWe do not see anything on this paltry two page report of any connection as to who is behind this Ontario numbered company, a company that picked up a site that was derelict, that had no customers and no possibility of a customer. Then it decided to go into business to bid on a municipal contract. We have an Ontario numbered company bidding under the province of Ontario for a municipal contract. The only contract it could get from the city of Toronto was that it would not deal with the company.\nThe deal was contingent upon two key issues, and they are raised in NAFTA chapter 11 challenge. First was the fact that it applied for a take water permit in 2003. The second issue was that it applied through the MNR to purchase 2,000 acres of Crown land at what we thought was the outrageously low price of $22 an acre. In fact, I helped initiate a local bidding campaign that said we would spend $5 to $10 more an acre and we would outbid it. There is a fundamental principle. If we are to dispose of Crown land assets in the province of Ontario, we have to go through due diligence and bring this out into the public. We cannot simply do this behind the scenes.\nThe other issue with this 2,000 acres was it was subject to a land claim issue with the Algonquin nation. It came forward very clearly with its prima facie evidence that said that there had been no consultation with the nation. It said that it had be consulted. Therefore, it was an obligation of the Ontario government to hold up the disposal of the Crown land until that was addressed.\nThe other issue that was very pertinent at the time was whether the take water permit at the site should have been allowed. On August 12, 2003, Dr. Ken Howard, who has been recognized as the key hydrogeologist in the province of Ontario, was brought in to review the information. Dr. Ken Howard was also brought in to deal with Walkerton and was the key provincial guy for bringing forward all the recommendations for provincial legislation out of the Walkerton report.\nHe studied the Adams Mine environmental assessment process. He said that the decision to issue the certificate at that site specifically was based on the results of drill holes 98-1 and 98-2. He concluded that the drill hole results were \u201cseriously deficient\u201d and that the director of approvals branch approved the dump on evidence that \u201chad virtually no scientific merit\u201d and were \u201ceffectively worthless\u201d.\nWe will not find that in my mysterious friend Vito Gallo's submission. Neither will we find any of the issues before the NAFTA tribunal about this first nations land issue or the fact that there was widespread opposition to this plan or the fact that there was no customer. However, that might not matter. Under chapter 11, a mysterious numbered company is going before a tribunal and saying it wants a dispute mechanism where all this evidence does not come through and the public interest does not get to be heard.\nThe other question I find really interesting in this is I have never heard of Vito Gallo. Now maybe that is not an uncommon thing. There are lots of people of whom have not heard, but I have heard of many of the people who have been involved in the Adams Mine over the years because I have paid very close attention to it.\nFor example, I was very aware of the Cortellucci group of companies out of southern Ontario. In the May 9, 2003 issue of the Toronto Star they were identified as key owners of this Adams Mine proposal. In fact, Mr. Mario Cortellucci has given serious amounts of money through clan Cortellucci to the Conservative government. However, I am not bringing that up here because I am not being partisan. I am just pointing that out as a side issue. When Mr. Cortellucci was asked by the Toronto Star if he was in fact the owner of the Adams Mine at that point, he said he was just one of a dozen or so investors.\nNow we have a situation where we have this numbered company. We do not know what it is except we know it is an Ontario company run by an Ontario administrator. Maybe we have no I.D. to prove this, but this man is purporting to be an American who has international rights to come in because he has been circumvented in all his other points. There are questions about who else is involved in this.\nWe know the Cortellucci Group of Companies was identified. In 2003 a lawsuit was launched by Canada Waste Services over the ownership of the site. It never mentioned Vito Gallo, but it mentioned the Notre Development Corporation and the Cortellucci Group of Companies. In fact, it referred to the Cortellucci agreement.\nWe would think it would be incumbent upon the Government of Canada, before we fork out $350 million to Vito, my friend, to find out who is behind this numbered company.\nWe do not know if any of the due diligence has been done. All we know is this numbered company tried to sue the Ontario government in 2003-04, after it was shut down when the provincial Liberal government revoked the permit based on a number of key issues. The first was new evidence. The second was as a result of the Walkerton inquiry. It was the idea that in Ontario in the 21st century we did not use groundwater to wash garbage. It is kind of an odious thought. Ontario decided that is not even a 20th century idea and it is not even a 19th century idea. We do not use groundwater to wash garbage. Therefore, it suspended the permit, not just for that site, but for any site in Ontario on the bases that we do not use a lake full of fresh groundwater in which to throw our garbage.\nAt that point this numbered company, 1532382 Ontario Inc., sued the Ontario government, which is fair. They are investors. They took their case of $300 million and they went against the Ontario government. However, we did not see that case go anywhere. Nothing seemed to happen.\nWe know there were some negotiations with some of the investors about whether to accept a payout. Then, lo and behold, just a few months ago, Vito G. Gallo said that he owned the mine, that he was the direct beneficiary of all the possible benefits that should have accrued, going back to when Toronto was paying for the cost.\nWe had no evidence to know at what point Vito Gallo stepped into the Adams Mine. We do not know if Vito Gallo is the only investor. We do not know if Vito Gallo is one of a hundred investors, one of ten investors, or one of five investors. We do know this company that he says he owned as an American investor is an Ontario numbered company. It was an Ontario numbered company bidding under provincial rules for a municipal waste contract in the province of Ontario. There was nothing international about this whatsoever. Yet he is now before a NAFTA tribunal, asking for $350 million, and the Canadian taxpayers will not have our lawyers there bringing forward witnesses.\nOne would think that if we are going to talk about international trade law that has jurisprudence on its side and accountability and fairness, then fairness would include the right of a domestic government to bring forward legislation that is fair. If it does affect business, there is a process. However, the government might have compelling reasons, such as Dr. Howard's evidence, to act on this.\nAnother doctor I would like to mention is Dr. Larry Jensen. He is the provincial geologist for the Kirkland Lake region. He spent 40 years studying the faults of the Adams Mine.\nI found it absolutely strange when I was at the environmental assessment hearing and I looked at the maps of the experts which showed all the fault lines. They were very vague. There was hardly anything there. In fact, they were not Dr. Jensen's maps; they were maps from the 1950s.\nI will conclude on this. Dr. Larry Jensen was a the provincial geologist in the Kirkland Lake region for 40 years. He studied the Adams Mine every day. He said that the Adams Mine proposal was,\n\u2014a disaster for the not too distant future, perhaps not for the residents of Kirkland Lake itself, but for all those people and the wild life to the south and southeast in the Timiskaming region and beyond, as far as to the mouth of the Ottawa River\u2014an area hundreds of times larger than Toronto itself.\nWhen we have evidence like that, jurisprudence says all the evidence has to be brought out. 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Fusion for Energy is launching the call also on behalf of the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (\"EU-OSHA\" - Bilbao, Spain).\nThis is a procurement procedure in \u201ctwo-steps\u201d where:\n1. In the 1st step, following publication of the Contract Notice in the OJEU, any interested economic operator may ask to take part by sending a Request to Participate. The Requests to Participate are assessed and Candidates are pre-selected;\n2. In the 2nd step only the pre-selected Candidates will be invited by Fusion for Energy to submit a Tender. 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He continued his Navy career as a Naval Reserve Officer and as an active consultant at the U.S. Naval Academy and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland until 2004, before retiring fully from the military into civilian life.\nDr. Ove is Board certified, a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. He holds privileges at the Anne Arundel Medical Center where he is a member of the orthopaedic service.\nA native Montanian, Dr. Ove grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in 1978 and 1982. During those years, he became an avid runner, tennis and squash player, and nordic and downhill skier, pursuits he continues to enjoy today.\nTeam Physician for Bowie State and DeMatha Catholic High School\nU.S. Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 94.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://padmanpl.blog/tag/the-scarlet-scallywags/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LC7S4L2BDIMQTRAZ3MOMWLOZ46ZFAJDZ", "length": 22, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "padmanpl.blog", "title": "The Scarlet Scallywags Archives - PadmanPL.Blog", "raw_content": "The Scarlet Scallywags", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 5285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 304.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://palmspringswomensjazzfestival.org/2015-jazz-festival/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:03Z", "digest": "sha1:DDYBMWYLRQAS6UMFNCBGNOMM44M7L5JD", "length": 5182, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "palmspringswomensjazzfestival.org", "title": "2015 Jazz Artists | Palm Springs Women's Jazz Festival", "raw_content": "The Greatest Jazz Show on Earth Annenberg Theater Palm Springs, CA\nEach year we are honored to feature some of the great jazz musicians of the day. Many have their own albums and performed at jazz festivals around the world. We also feature newer artists to bring together working greats and soon to be greats. The 2015 festival highlighted the talent of 30 female artists.\nAnn Patterson and the Maiden Voyage All-Stars hit the stage Opening Night on October 9, 2015. They performed along with festival music director Sweet Baby J\u2019ai, dancer and choreographer Dawn Robinson and the Friday night headline artist Diane \u201cDeedles\u201d Schuur.\nRemarkable musicians including pianist Karen Hammack, bassist Nedra Wheeler, Drummer Sylvia Cuenca, trumpeter Anne King and guitarist Kimberly Allison and leader/saxophonist Ann Patterson, provide an impressive musical landscape for the night. The band is a derivative of the 17-piece Maiden Voyage, described by Leonard Feather as \u201c\u2026not just the best orchestra of its sex, but one of the most rewarding bands on the present scene.\u201d They have appeared at the Playboy, Monterey and Concord Jazz Festivals, and the Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival at the Kennedy Center to name a few.\nSunnie Paxson\u2019s Latin Jazz Explosion\nPerforming Saturday, October 10, at the Latin Jazz Poolside Party, the Sunnie Paxson Latin Jazz Explosion is a group of women who burst onto the scene in a male dominated genre that has traditionally been resistant to female instrumentalists. Paxson is known for her driving performances and memorable melodies. She leads this group of fiery women in an afternoon of contemporary Latin jazz with a touch of funk thrown in to fuel the flames. Featuring heavyweights from the Latin Jazz World, the group included Nikki Campbell on congas, Sarah Bauza on trumpet, in-the-pocket-bassist Robin Bramlett, and hard-driving drummer Suzanne Morisette-Cruz. The dynamic ensemble mixed the key ingredients; Afro Cuban, salsa and funk for a day of joyfulness.\nHitting the stage Saturday, October 10 at the Annenberg Theater, the Women in Jazz All-Stars is a group of musicians crafted by music director Sweet Baby J\u2019ai. The 2015 group was a collection of extraordinary musicians merging jazz, blues and funk for a compelling musical tapestry. This gifted group of All-Stars was led by acclaimed keyboardist/musical director Gail Johnson (Jazz in P!nk). The band also featured multi-layered guitarist Kat Dyson (Prince, Cyndi Lauper), veteran bassist Lynn Keller (American Idol, Stevie Wonder, Faith Hill), ubiquitous drummer Dee Simone, and vocalists Aankha Neal and Naja Smith providing their infectious harmonies. During the evening they performed with Jessy J and headliner Nona Hendryx.\nThe Sascha Dupont Trio\nOpening the Saturday night show, The Sascha Dupont Trio ranged from bop to blues. These formidable musicians have been credited with marketing the hearts of audiences across the nation. Denmark native, award-winning songwriter/pianist/vocalist Sascha Dupont achieved crossover success by releasing several gold-selling albums. Dupont, classically trained bassist Sherry Luchette, and accomplished drummer/vocalist Nicole Falzone have shared the stage with many musical legends over the years including Ray Charles, George Benson, Oletta Adams and Clark Terry.\nOn Sunday, the trio was joined by Grammy(r) nominated saxophonist Carol Chaikin to create the mood for the annual Tribute to the Divas. the 2015 show included tributes to Etta James, Anita O\u2019Day, Chaka Khan and Amy Winehouse.\nElaine Gibbs appearance on Season One of X Factor as one of the \u2018Over 30\u2019s\u2019 finalists, where she wowed judges with her interpretation of Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis. LA Reid, Simon, Nicole and Paula raved that she is one of the best singers they have ever encountered.\nElaine\u2019s her heartfelt and emotional voice was part of a music video for TV1\u2019s Black History Month called \u2018Martin Can You Hear Us\u2019, designed to reconnect Americans to the importance of Dr. King\u2019s teachings.\nShe has performed in over 25 countries, with some of the biggest names in the world of Gospel and R&B music such as the late Rev. James Cleveland, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Tramaine Hawkins and Shirley Ceasar. She has worked with Bobby Womack, Cherrelle, Miki Howard and the Gap Band. She has sung for Rod Stewart and performed at recent galas honoring individuals such as Kenneth \u2018Babyface\u2019 Edmonds, Angela Bassett, Stephanie Mills and Chaka Kahn.\nKellye Gray is one of the most accomplished jazz vocalists on the national scene. Gray\u2019s profile continues to grow by leaps and bounds, recording over half-dozen albums as a leader and logging performances nationally and internationally at world-class venues and festivals including Lincoln Center, the Spoleto Festival, Yoshi\u2019s, SFJAZZ. Kellye has been honored to share the stage with legends Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Etta James, to name a few.\nHer debut release, Standards In Gray (Justice Records) broke her onto mainstream radio in 1990 landing the fledgling, indie release into the top twenty. 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As the HBA celebrates its 75th anniversary, it is excited to announce that the 2018 Denver Parade of Homes will feature 75 homes, plus one spotlight master plan community.\nThis year\u2019s Parade will showcase:\n75 newly designed model homes, custom homes by 23 area residential builders located in neighborhoods throughout the greater Denver metropolitan area;\nThe home builders and developers joining the 2018 Parade include:\n\u201cWe are thrilled to have so many of our members participating in the Parade during this landmark year,\u201d said Jeffrey Whiton, CEO of the HBA. \u201dThe Parade of Homes is a longstanding tradition of the HBA which shows the great work our members do. Each of the homes has its own style, so anyone looking for inspiration from the interior design or landscaping will not be disappointed.\u201d\nAttendees will enjoy the \u2018wow factor\u2019 they look forward to seeing at the \u2018Dream Homes,\u2019 while they also have an opportunity to see great new homes, in a variety of prices and styles, from established neighborhoods to new communities. Showcased properties will be found throughout Metro Denver from Timnath to Castle Rock and Arvada to Aurora, and Winter Park.\nThe 2018 Parade of Homes will be held from Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018 to Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018. During this time, the Parade will be held on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m. This event is free, self-guided and open to the public. Specifics on builders and communities participating are available at paradeofhomesdenver.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://paragonfuneralservices.com/tribute/details/826/Leon-Kostiuk/obituary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HJX4I5YLT33XEKYMPDSLGCMKMRJR6FGS", "length": 1465, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "paragonfuneralservices.com", "title": "Obituary of Leon Kostiuk | Regina funeral home serving best cremati...", "raw_content": "Obituary of Leon Kostiuk\nIt is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great grandfather Leon Kostiuk, on Saturday, February 9 at the age of 92. He was predeceased by his son Jerry and great granddaughter, Laura; parents, Dumitru (Mike) and Domnica (Nettie); brothers Bill and Nick; sisters, Jean, Freda, Eva and Laura; Leon is lovingly remembered by his wife of 70 years, Hannah; daughter; Joan (Terry) Cobler and granddaughters, Penny (Rod) Syrnyk and Patrice (Mark) Easton; daughter, Charlene (Bill) Makelki and grandson, Cory (Holly) Makelki; son, Ronald (Karen) Kostiuk; grandchildren, Jerry\u2019s children, Michael (April) and Jessica (Tom); great grandchildren, Tayler (Megan), Chelsey(Matt), Quinn (Erica),Garrett, Logan, Nyah, Vayda, and great-great grandsons Blake & Levi; sisters Mary Stann and Gloria (Bill) Krasiun, as well as many nieces and nephews. Leon was a loving husband, father and grandfather who enjoyed spending time with his family. Leon was a very hard worker and spent the majority of his life farming near Southey. He was a great curler in his younger days and was an avid \u201csports\u201d father cheering on his children in their sports activities including softball, hockey and curling. He loved farm life, animals and the great outdoors and was still out in the tractor and on the combine in his mid eighties. A Private Celebration of Life for family and close friends will be held.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://parentzone.org.uk/tags/parenting?page=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:43Z", "digest": "sha1:4UCF2RJ456I6USPMIL6ROVFP46D3QGJN", "length": 313, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "parentzone.org.uk", "title": "parenting | Parent Zone", "raw_content": "Making the most of parents\u2019 evenings\nIt pays to be prepared for parents' evenings...\nChildren do better at school if their parents are involved in their education. That means taking an interest in what they\u2019re doing academically \u2013 but it also means creating conditions that help them... here are some suggestions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 2783, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 203.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://paulbigland.blog/category/saip/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RSC66TU3GDSRAKUP7RZTDPQTESF7GCYV", "length": 2893, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "paulbigland.blog", "title": "SAIP | Paul Bigland", "raw_content": "Category Archives: SAIP\nLife\u2019s little ironies.\nPosted by Paul Bigland in Anti Hs2 mob, Hs2, SAIP, Stafford\nAnti Hs2 mob, Hs2, SAIP, Stafford\nI\u2019m on my way to Stafford to spend a day looking at the \u00a3250m project to increase rail capacity on the West Coast Main Line through a combination of resignalling, line speed improvements and building 6.5 miles of brand new railway around Norton Bridge. The project, known as SAIP (Staffs Area Improvement Programme) will create extra capacity for a few years & take some of the pressure off the WCML before Hs2 is commissioned.\nOther media colleagues were meant to be traveling up from London to join us but signal failures on the Southern WCML mean they\u2019re unlikely to make it. To think, we\u2019ve only recently spent \u00a310bn \u2018modernising\u2019 the WCML. It wasn\u2019t enough. Too many projects were \u2018descoped\u2019 (Stafford resignalling was one) and the reliability of our rail spine is poor.\nIronically, those opposed to Hs2 claim we can make do with using the WCML forever without building any new line. They think we can get away with tinkering around with the Victorian network to provide a 21st century railway. Practical experience & events like today show how out of touch with reality they were. Luckily, they weren\u2019t allowed to prevail & we\u2019ll be starting building Hs2 from 2017 (or 2016 if you count the enabling works).\nOn Hs2, passengers won\u2019t have to worry about signal failures. It won\u2019t have any!\nOnly one of our three London colleagues made it and services are still disrupted this evening. Apart from that, it was a good day. The Staffs Alliance team gave us a very interesting presentation, then took us for a tour of the site. I\u2019ll blog about it in detail another time, so here\u2019s a quick taster. This is bridge 6a on the new Down line chord from the yet to be built Searchlight Junction through to Stone. The bridge is built over the course of a stream which has been diverted until construction\u2019s complete. Once it is, the river will run underneath. The deck above consists of two parts. The deck in the foreground will carry the double track rail line whilst the rear deck will carry the new route of the B5206. The gap between is so that fish will still swim underneath it. If there was no light well the length of dark river would dissuade them. It\u2019s a good example of civil engineering & ecology in action.\nMeanwhile, to whet your appetite \u2013 here\u2019s a few more photo\u2019s..\nThe single line connection off the existing WCML, looking North.\nLooking at the new cutting towards Stafford & the connection with the existing WCML at Chebsey\nConstructing the new cutting Northwards. The track that\u2019s been laid forms a railhead for works trains delivering materials to the site.\nBuilding a retaining wall to protect an old Marl pit which is being preserved. 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There were no harmful effects on kidney function during the study.\nThe research team is now looking at how to run a larger, longer trial. Despite water being potentially a low-cost therapy for treating ADPKD, finding the money for a major clinical trial is proving a challenge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 7746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://planitagency.com/terms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2LGVOSTQLMWRSNI6JEHTO767KN2RKTR2", "length": 35977, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "planitagency.com", "title": "Terms and Conditions \u00bb Planit Terms and Conditions \u00bb Planit", "raw_content": "These \u201cTerms and Conditions\u201d and Privacy Policy are an agreement between you and Planit Advertising, Inc. 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You shall notify the Company immediately of any unauthorized use or threat of unauthorized use of your account or the Website or of any other breach or potential breach of security known to you with respect to your account or the Website, including without limitation any loss or compromise of any password, and will cooperate with the Company in every reasonable way to help the Company prevent the further unauthorized use, threat of unauthorized use, disclosure or threat of disclosure regarding the Website, your account and/or your password. You agree that immediately upon termination of your right to use the Website or any password-protected portion of the Website, or upon any earlier demand by the Company at any time, you will cease all access and/or use of the Website or such password protected portion of the Website, and will not attempt to access and/or use same.\nCONFIDENTIALITY. You acknowledge that by use of portions of the Website, you may use and you may acquire the Confidential Information. As used herein, \u201cConfidential Information\u201d means all confidential and/or proprietary information and trade secrets of the Company, whether or not memorialized, and in any form or media, regarding the Company or the Company\u2019s business, including without limitation Feedback and Materials you submit to us relating to the Company\u2019s intellectual property, technology, research and development, systems, software, business plans, business operations, strategies, financial information, technical information, customers, customer lists, suppliers, operating policies and procedures, and any third-party information that the Company is required to keep confidential where such information is not generally accessible without a password. \u201cConfidential Information\u201d includes any account passwords. You shall not at any time, directly or indirectly, for any purpose, use, copy or disclose to any other person or entity any Confidential Information, or permit others to do so, other than for the purposes expressly allowed hereunder. The Company may seek and obtain injunctive relief against the release or threatened release of Confidential Information, in addition to any other available legal remedies. You shall notify the Company immediately if you learn of any unauthorized possession or use of the Confidential Information and will promptly furnish all details of such possession or use to the Company.\nSite Ownership. The Website and all content, organization, graphics, design, compilation, translation, and other matters related to the Website (collectively, \u201cContent\u201d) are protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks, and other proprietary (including but not limited to intellectual property) rights pursuant to international conventions and U.S. and other laws. The Website and all Content is the property of the Company and/or third party licensors, and all right, title and interest in and to the Website and Content will remain with the Company or such third party licensors. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners. You do not acquire ownership rights to the Website or any Content other than any rights in the Materials that you may have. You will abide by any and all additional copyright notices, information, or restrictions contained in any Content. You will not modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Website or any Website content. You may only use the Website and the Content as expressly permitted herein, and any other use is prohibited. 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If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please provide the Company\u2019s Designated Copyright Agent, identified below, with all information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (\u201cDMCA\u201d), 17 U.S.C. \u00a7 512, summarized as follows: (1) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (2) identification of the copyright work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works at a single online Website are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works at that Website; (3) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; (4) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party; (5) a statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; (6) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; and (7) any other materials or information as may be required under the DMCA as amended from time to time or by the U.S. Copyright Office.\nDesignated Copyright Agent. 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You and the Company each agree to submit to binding arbitration in the event of a dispute, controversy or claim (each, a \u201cDispute\u201d) arising out of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof (including the determination of the scope or applicability of these Terms and Conditions to arbitrate), your or the Company\u2019s rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions, the Website, the use of the Website, and/or the information, services and/or products that may be provided by or through or in connection with the Website. The arbitration will be held in Baltimore, MD before one arbitrator on an individual basis and not as a class action. You expressly waive any right you may have to arbitrate a dispute as a class action. You also expressly waive your right to a jury trial. The arbitration will be administered by JAMS (www.jamsadr.com). You may obtain a copy of the rules of JAMS by contacting the organization. You and the Company shall agree on one arbitrator to conduct the arbitration. In the event the parties cannot agree on an arbitrator, the arbitrator will be selected in accordance with the JAMS rules. Each party shall be responsible for its own attorney, expert and other fees, unless such fees are awarded by the arbitrator to the prevailing party. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section, to the extent you have in any manner violated or threatened to violate the Company\u2019s intellectual property rights, the Company may seek (and you will not contest) injunctive or other appropriate relief in any local or federal court in the Baltimore, MD, and you consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in such courts.\nArbitration Final. The arbitrator\u2019s award is final and binding on all parties. The Federal Arbitration Act, and not any state law concerning arbitration, governs all arbitration under this clause. Any court having jurisdiction may enter judgment on the arbitrator\u2019s award. If any part of this clause, other than waivers of class action rights, is deemed or found to be unenforceable for any reason, the remainder shall remain enforceable. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if the waiver of class action rights contained herein is not enforceable as to any person or persons, such non-enforceability shall apply to such person or persons only, and all other persons shall continue to be governed by the Arbitration Clause.\nGiving Up Right of Class Action. These Terms and Conditions provides that all Disputes will be resolved by binding arbitration and not in court or by jury trial. 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If you are a California resident, to the extent permitted by California law, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542, which states: \u201cA general release does not extend to claims which the creditor does not know or suspect to exist in his favor at the time of executing the release, which if known by him must have materially affected his settlement with the debtor\u201d as well as any other unknown claims under California Civil Code Section 1542 or any statute or common law principle of similar effect.\nCHOICE OF LAW; JURISDICTION AND VENUE; WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL To the maximum extent permitted by law, these Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of the United States of America and the State of Maryland, excluding any law or conflicts of law principle that would apply the law of another jurisdiction. To the extent a Dispute is not governed by the Arbitration Clause, you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Baltimore, MD in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Website or under these Terms and Conditions; provided, however, that in the event the Company is sued or joined by a third party in any other court or in any other forum in respect of any matter which may give rise to a claim by the Company hereunder, you consent to the jurisdiction of such court or forum over any claim which may be asserted by the Company therein. You irrevocably consent to the exercise of personal jurisdiction by such courts in any such action. In addition, and notwithstanding the foregoing, you irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any objection that you may now or hereafter have to the laying of the venue of any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court and any claim that any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court shall be conclusive and binding upon you and may be enforced in any court in which you are subject to a jurisdiction by a suit upon such judgment. Use of the Website is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms and Conditions, including without limitation this paragraph. To the extent a claim is not governed by the Arbitration Clause, the Company and you each hereby waive the right to a trial by jury in any court and in any suit, action or proceeding, whether in tort, contract, or otherwise, in which any such party is a party, as to any claim arising out of or in connection with these Terms and Conditions, your or the Company\u2019s rights and obligations under these Terms and Conditions, the Website, use of the Website, and/or the services and/or products that may be provided by or through or in connection with the Website.\nViewing, Accessing and Use Outside the United States. If and when any products or services referenced on the Website become available, they will become available in the United States and may not become available elsewhere. The Company makes no claims that the Website or any products or services referenced therein may be lawfully viewed, accessed or used outside the United States. Access or use of the Website or any products or services referenced therein may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access or use the Website from outside of the United States, you do so at your own risk and you are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction.\nNo Joint Venture. You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment or agency relationship exists between you and the Company as a result of these Terms and Conditions or your use of the Website.\nHeadings. Section headings and other captions in these Terms and Conditions are used solely for the convenience of the parties, have no legal or contractual significance, and shall not be used in interpreting, construing or enforcing any of the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.\nSurvival. The provisions of the following sections shall survive any termination or expiration of these Terms and Conditions: Disclosure Under Law, Materials, User Representations and Warranties, Disclaimers, Indemnification, Confidentiality, Copyright and Other Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution (Arbitration Clause), Choice of Law; Jurisdiction and Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial, and Miscellaneous.\nNo Waiver. The failure of the Company to enforce any provision of these Terms and Conditions will not be construed as a waiver or limitation of the Company\u2019s right to subsequently enforce and compel strict compliance with that provision or any other provision of these Terms and Conditions.\nAssignment. No assignment, delegation or other conveyance of these Terms and Conditions may be made by you (by operation of law or otherwise) without the prior written consent of the Company, to be given in its sole discretion. The Company may assign its rights and obligations hereunder to any other party.\nStatute of Limitations. Any cause of action you may have with respect to your use of the Website must be commenced within one year after the claim or cause of action arises; thereafter, any such claim will be forever barred, without regard to any contrary legislation.\nAgreement Binding. In the event that any provision of these Terms and Conditions is deemed to be unenforceable, said provision will be interpreted to reflect the original intent of the parties in accordance with applicable law, and the remainder of these Terms and Conditions will continue in full force and effect.\nNotices. Notices to the Company under these Terms and Conditions shall be sufficient only if in writing and transmitted via personal delivery, delivered by a major commercial rapid delivery courier service, or mailed, postage or charges prepaid, by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to the Company, with such notices being effective as of the date of actual, confirmed receipt by the Company. Notices to you are deemed effective if sent to the email, fax, mail address or other contact information provided by you, and are deemed effective upon the earlier of being confirmed received or one day after having been sent.\nEntire Agreement; Language of Agreement. These Terms and Conditions, including the Website\u2019s Privacy Policy, contain the entire agreement between you and the Company with respect to the Website. It supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and the Company with respect to the Website. Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved. A printed version of these Terms and Conditions and of any notice given in electronic form shall be admissible in judicial or administrative proceedings based upon or relating to these Terms and Conditions to the same extent and subject to the same conditions as other business documents and records originally generated and maintained in printed form. It is the express wish of the parties that these Terms and Conditions and all related documents are drawn up in English.\nInquiries regarding these Terms and Conditions should be directed to\nprivacy@planitagency.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 37000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 245.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://plogertrans.com/may-2018-newsletter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:00Z", "digest": "sha1:D3W6EXY25DYK4O5X76K7SOXBMI2F3DUO", "length": 140, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "plogertrans.com", "title": "May 2018 Newsletter \u2013 Ploger Transportation", "raw_content": "[pdf-embedder url=\u201dhttps://plogertrans.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Newsletter-Volume-2-Issue-5.pdf\u201d title=\u201dNewsletter Volume 2, Issue 5\u2033]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 285.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pointsandpixiedust.boardingarea.com/disneyland-hotel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:55Z", "digest": "sha1:AF3KLWXH62HZRU4DB7D3EIDTVLNITHQ4", "length": 2514, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "pointsandpixiedust.boardingarea.com", "title": "How to Earn Points and Miles without Applying for a Credit Card - Points and Pixie Dust", "raw_content": "In the world of Points and Miles, opportunities to earn points are plentiful and frequent.\nYou just have to know where to look. It is my goal to keep you updated on the latest \u201cbreaking news\u201d about ways to earn valuable Points and Miles, simply by doing what you already do.\nIn the last 3 months, we\u2019ve seen very lucrative hotel bonuses that did not involve applying for a credit card. In April, folks were able to purchase deeply discounted travel through Daily Getaways, which was a month-long promotion that was co-branded with American Express. During that promotion, I was able to scoop up 32,000 Wyndham Rewards points for $99. I\u2019m going to be able to use those points later at a Wyndham property of my choice. An award night in one of Wyndham\u2019s mid-tier properties goes for 16,000 points a night, so considering that there are mid-tier properties that cost $400/night, I potentially saved our family $700!\nAnother recent promotion that many folks were excited about was the Club Carlson Big Night Giveaway. Basically, if you stayed one night at one of their properties, you earned the equivalent of a night\u2019s stay in Club Carlson points to use on future reservations. There was a Radisson giveaway, which went hand in hand with similar promotions at Country Inn and Suites and Park Inn. Again, the fact that there are some very expensive Club Carlson properties out there (especially in Europe), made this promotion a very lucrative one.\nComing right up is (fingers crossed) the US Airways Grand Slam Promotion. Historically, this has happened in September-November. The miles you earn in the promotion are based on the number of \u201chits\u201d you earn; you earn hits by completing a qualified transaction with an eligible US Airways partner (these change from year to year, but in 2011 they included companies and services such as OfficeMax, NetFlix, and Biscoff biscuits). 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The S-400 missile system, which has been in service since 2007, can track some 300 targets and shoot down around three dozen targets simultaneously over a range of 400 kilometres. 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When did you last take a grandson or granddaughter to visit a cemetery, or an old church where they could see some old baptismal records, or to the Social Security Death Index(SSDI) and Social Security Death Records(SSDR) offices, or some other place of relevant interest?\nFor that matter, again with respect, when was the last time you shared with somebody, who does not get involved with what you know to be of great personal value, something of a \u0091testimonial\u0092 about what is going on in the earth in relation to those who are responsible for their being here in the first place???\nOf the thousands that somehow do commence the pursuit of genealogy (family history), only few \u0091survive\u0092. There are many reasons for this high \u0091mortality rate\u0092. One of the most often quoted is, \u0093it simply takes too much of my time\u0094. It\u0092s true! Genealogy does consume time, and lots of it. But this is more than just a search for names, dates and places; it is a search for the discovery of our own identity, and in a sense, the discovery of our nation, as we seek for those of our ancestors who left their footprints somewhere in time. Unfortunately the \u0091apprentices\u0092 get worn out before they discover the true joy of this \u0091recreation\u0092. This should be genealogical \u0091recreation\u0092, not genealogical \u0091work\u0092.\nWhat is needed to maintain the interest and commitment of our \u0091new\u0092 colleagues? The answer is simple: They need to find the \u0091stories\u0092 of their ancestors, not just the data. It\u0092s the stories that will keep them coming back, back to the genealogical libraries, online facilities, the churches, the cemeteries, back to those Vital Records, back to their living ancestors, back for more. But they\u0092ll need more data won\u0092t they? Yes they will, because the data will help them to find the stories.\nEncourage them not to get lost in those early days on all the collateral lines, dealing with cousin \u0091this\u0092, and second cousin \u0091that\u0092. The almost irresistible emotional attraction lay in the sagas of the direct ancestors; the men and women from whom they sprang.\nIt will help if they understand that each of us is a physical and \u0091spiritual\u0092 composite of those who have gone before. We need to encourage them to look for the stories that are behind the names, dates and places, so that they can begin to see and feel who they really are: To see the character traits in ancestors, that they recognize in themselves, otherwise, researching the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), the Social Security Death Records (SSDR), the myriad of Vital Records such as birth, death and marriage certificates, old church baptismal records and the like, old wills, probate documents and shipping lists, will simply wear them out. Rather than searching through the cemeteries for those interesting headstones, they\u0092ll be buried under one.\nIt may come as a surprise to many of you, but genealogical research needs every advocate and devotee possible. Why? Because the fact is, that the more researchers there are, the more records we discover and the more relevant research we produce.\nSince the first Genealogical Society was established back in 1836, more pages of research have been produced than existed in the world at that time. For history to make a contemporary contribution, whether family history or the history of communities or nations, it has to be researched, written about and indexed. It has to be made available, to be given \u0091true\u0092 meaning, by being able to be absorbed into the lives of each of us; to touch us, to motivate us, or perhaps to cause us to revile at certain practices of the past. History, and its records, cannot be allowed to lie dormant and unused.\nIf you are one of those who has a life-time membership at the SSDI or SSDR etc, and you are known in geneological circles from New York to San Francisco, and you are in the Guinness Book of Records for the most names submitted to the IGI, please ask yourself, notwithstanding all the data you have collected, is it not the stories about your direct ancestors that really touch you, and help to fill your heart and mind with the wonder of all that has come to you through them?\nWell, if this strikes a chord with you, please, make up your mind today, that you will do something that will stimulate another person\u0092s interest? You might just add another valuable researcher, perhaps the best yet, to Genealogical research?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 5602, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://powellriver.info/Tourism-Powell-River/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&layout=item&id=7&Itemid=252", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:46Z", "digest": "sha1:SK763V3V3RJ732JTRS37LZMKLHTEYNNE", "length": 2026, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "powellriver.info", "title": "ARTS, CULTURE & HERITAGE", "raw_content": "Powell River's mill town roots are on display in the historic Townsite, celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2010. Check out landmark buildings like the Patricia Theatre, Dwight Hall, and the Rodmay Hotel, as well as the nearby Catalyst paper mill. Walking tours are available. The funky collection of logging equipment and Tla'amin Nation art at the nearby Powell River Historical Museum is a highlight.\nWith a burgeoning local arts scene, connoisseurs can pick up First Nations-themed watercolours at Wind Spirit Gallery, stunning wood art from Tourigny andMarce, or handmade pottery and ceramics at Down to Earth Clayworks. The annual Purple Banner Studio & Gallery Guide helps visitors locate artists independently. For festivals and events, don't miss the stunning selection of choirs at International Choral Kathaumixw (July), the week-long Blackberry Festival (August) with fireworks and foodie fun, or the Sunshine Music Festival (September) with blues and worldbeat artists.\nOur food and fields are very much a part of our everyday culture here on the Sunshine Coast. Powell River's Open Air Market is an old-fashioned,country-style market selling fresh, locally grown farm and garden produce, home baking, honey, soap, woodcrafts, jewellery, and a variety of original items hand-crafted by local artisans.\nHockey is huge in Canadian culture, and for spectator sports buffs, Powell River is home to the Powell River Kings of the Junior-A level British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) and the Powell River Regals, three-time Allan Cup champions in Canadian senior hockey. Feel like a workout? Try the huge Powell River Recreation Complex (5001 Joyce Ave.) with two ice rinks, a 25m/82ft swimming pool, a skateboard park, and so on.\nThe Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy (PRISMA) offers a unique program that prepares music students and young professionals for a career in music performance. It is designed to assist students in obtaining the necessary tools to win a position in a professional orchestra.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 5636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://powerpop.blog/2018/11/20/10cc-im-not-in-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:30Z", "digest": "sha1:47SDERH7UEKZOREL36XWXAGZMHBFKUPO", "length": 3391, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "powerpop.blog", "title": "10cc \u2013 I\u2019m Not In Love \u2013 PowerPop\u2026 An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture", "raw_content": "I always thought this was a clever song. The song peaked at #2 in the Billboard 100, #1 in the UK, and #1 in Canada. The overall wash sound was achieved by a total of 256 vocal overdubs in the background.\nIt was written by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman. Eric Stewart came up with the song by his wife telling him that he didn\u2019t tell her he loved her enough. Eric said if I say it too much it would not mean anything.\n\u201cI met this gorgeous girl called Gloria at Halifax town hall. I was 18. She was 16. Three years later, we got married. A few years after that, Gloria told me: \u2018You don\u2019t say \u2018I love you\u2019 much anymore.\u2019 I told her that, if I said it all the time, it would sound glib. But I started wondering how I could say it without using those actual words. So \u2018I\u2019m not in love\u2019 became a rhetorical conversation with myself \u2013 and then a song.\nI wrote the lyrics in a couple of days. The line, \u2018I keep your picture up on the wall, it hides a nasty stain\u2019 was about the crack in my bedroom wall at my parents\u2019 house in Manchester. I\u2019d put a photograph of Gloria over it. When I took the song to the band, they said: \u2018I\u2019m not in love\u2019? What the f\u2013k is that? You can\u2019t say that!\u2019 But Graham Gouldman, our bass-player and chord-master, agreed to work on it with me. We both liked The Girl From Ipanema, so we gave it a similar bossa nova style. Then Kevin Godley, our drummer, said it was crap.\nWe were about to scrap it and wipe the tape but, as I walked around the studio, I heard the secretary singing it and the window-cleaner whistling it. I knew we had a tune: we just hadn\u2019t captured it properly. Kevin suggested doing it again, but with banks of voices. I thought that meant hiring a choir, but Lol Creme, our keyboard player, said we could do it using tape loops.\u201d\nSo don\u2019t forget it\nIt\u2019s just a silly phase I\u2019m going through\nDon\u2019t get me wrong, don\u2019t think you\u2019ve got it made\nI\u2019m not in love, no no, it\u2019s because..\nThat doesn\u2019t mean you mean that much to me\nSo if I call you\nIt hides a nasty stain that\u2019s lying there\nSo don\u2019t you ask me\nI know you know it doesn\u2019t mean that much to me\nOoh you\u2019ll wait a long time for me\nOoh you\u2019ll wait a long time\nAnd just because I call you up\n8 thoughts on \u201c10cc \u2013 I\u2019m Not In Love\u201d\nBeautiful song. There\u2019s so many influences I can hear. The Beach Boys. Phil Spector\u2019s wall of sound production, #9 Dream, Todd Rundgren. I\u2019ve always appreciated 10cc. Liked Godley and Creme\u2019s 1980\u2019s recording too.\nIt does have that dreamy effect. 256 audio vocal overdubs. I don\u2019t know if Bohemian Rhapsody has that many. That took me by surprise but it paid off in a wall of sound.\nromantic and beautiful music. That whole LP rocks.\nIt does\u2026 I like the layers of sound they do\nfantastic song and really quite unique for that era. I believe at the time it was considered the most expensive song ever recorded (but it paid off!) although Queen may have eclipsed that shortly thereafter. And wow- I didn\u2019t know there was a Canadian connection \u2013 the Halifax girl! Cool song, cool story!\n256 vocal overdubs\u2026that is crazy even for digital today. But like you said it paid off.\nI thought you would like that!\nA great sounding record. I read once somewhere that Elton Hercules John said it was his favorite song of all times.\nIt fits.. I forgot about \u201cHercules\u201d\u2026\nPrevious Previous post: The Rivieras \u2013 California Sun\nNext Next post: Black lights and Black Light Posters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 829, "original_length": 24863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://praiseindy.com/2078377/chicago-man-guilty-of-murder-for-giving-niece-gun-that-killed-14-year-old-endia-martin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:46Z", "digest": "sha1:XMNSD54HS33XFXVNCH4VCFPV22RCAS7V", "length": 3104, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "praiseindy.com", "title": "Endia Martin: Chicago Man Guilty Of Murder For Giving Niece Gun | AM 1310: The Light", "raw_content": "Chicago Man Guilty Of Murder For Giving Niece Gun That Killed 14-Year-Old Endia Martin\nProsecutors argued that Donnell Flora's decision to bring the weapon to the scene resulted in Endia's death.\nThe uncle of a Chicago teenager who fatally shot another teen girl over a Facebook dispute in April 2014 was found guilty of murder for supplying his niece with the firearm.\nA jury deliberated for just over two hours Saturday, finding 27-year-old Donnell Flora guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and aggravated battery in the death of Endia Martin, The Chicago Tribune reports.\nEndia was only 14 years old.\nDuring the trial, the defense argued that Flora \u2014 who is wheelchair-bound after a 2010 shooting left him paralyzed \u2014 did supply the .38-caliber revolver, but did not intend for it to be used. From the Tribune:\nIn arguing that Flora should be found not guilty, defense attorney Joel Brodsky brought up the role of self-defense in the case, claiming Flora\u2019s only intention in involving the gun in the confrontation was to protect his niece. Brodsky said the niece\u2019s rival, Lanekia Reynolds, who was also Endia\u2019s best friend and a witness to the killing who testified during the trial, had posted Facebook threats to Flora\u2019s niece.\n\u201cThese were not mere threats,\u201d Brodsky said. \u201cThey were \u2018I\u2019m going to kill you. I\u2019m going to out you in the ground next to your dad.\u2019\u201d\nFlora\u2019s \u201conly intent was to protect his niece,\u201d Brodsky said. \u201cIt was not the brightest idea he ever had. But it doesn\u2019t change the fact that that was his intent.\u201d\nProsecutors, however, argued that Flora\u2019s decision to bring the weapon to the scene resulted in Endia\u2019s death.\n\u201cLife is precious. No one knows that more than the family of Endia Martin. No one knows that more than the defendant,\u201d said Assistant State\u2019s Attorney Barbara Bailey.\n\u201cHe became her provider \u2014 the provider of a handgun,\u201d Bailey said. \u201cWhen there were about 1,000 other options that could\u2019ve been taken by an adult, he chose to continue the cycle.\u201d\nProsecutors dismantled Flora\u2019s self-defense argument, saying that even though Endia\u2019s friend, Lanekia Reynolds, brought a chain with a lock to the confrontation, it was no match for a gun.\n\u201cThis, versus this?\u201d Assistant State\u2019s Attorney Athena Farmakis asked the jury, holding the lock in one hand and the revolver in the other. The lock couldn\u2019t possibly cause as much bodily harm as the gun, she said.\nThe teen girl, who is not being named because she is a juvenile, has been charged as such. During the 2014 confrontation, the girl fatally shot Endia outside a home in the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago.\nShe has yet to stand trial.\nSOURCE: Chicago Tribune | VIDEO SOURCE: Inform\nAUDIO: Detention Staff Used Martial Arts On 16-Year-Old Black Teen Found Dead In Cell, CPR Denied For 11 Minutes\nFather Charged With Homicide After City Official Accidentally Killed His 12-Year-Old Daughter\nChicago Man Guilty Of Murder For Giving Niece Gun That Killed 14-Year-Old Endia Martin was originally published on newsone.com\nChicago\t, chicago gun violence\t, crime\t, juveniles\t, shooting\t, violence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 6028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://princebooks.com.br/o-livro-dos-simbolos", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:44Z", "digest": "sha1:DV4K6FQEWEOWWOMDTMC2CIGG4FUQPE3Q", "length": 1628, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "princebooks.com.br", "title": "O Livro dos Simbolos Reflexoes Sobre Imagens Arquetipicas", "raw_content": "O Livro dos Simbolos\nThe Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. The highly readable texts and over 800 beautiful full-color images come together in a unique way to convey hidden dimensions of meaning. Each of the ca. 350 essays examines a given symbol\u2019s psychic background, and how it evokes psychic processes and dynamics. Etymological roots, the play of opposites, paradox and shadow, the ways in which diverse cultures have engaged a symbolic image\u2014all these factors are taken into consideration.\nAuthored by writers from the fields of psychology, religion, art, literature, and comparative myth, the essays flow into each other in ways that mirror the psyche\u2019s unexpected convergences. There are no pat definitions of the kind that tend to collapse a symbol; a still vital symbol remains partially unknown, compels our attention and unfolds in new meanings and manifestations over time. Rather than merely categorize, The Book of Symbols illuminates how to move from the visual experience of a symbolic image in art, religion, life, or dreams to directly experiencing its personal and psychological resonance.\nThe Book of Symbols sets new standards for thoughtful exploration of symbols and their meanings, and will appeal to a wide range of readers: artists, designers, dreamers and dream interpreters, psychotherapists, self-helpers, gamers, comic book readers, religious and spiritual searchers, writers, students, and anyone curious about the power of archetypal images.\nProduto: O Livro dos Simbolos", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 5882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://princewilliamliving.com/tag/dr-charles-poland/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SGYGF7WDSX3NNC4PFTQIL66RS65D3IFZ", "length": 143, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "princewilliamliving.com", "title": "Dr Charles Poland Archives | Prince William Living", "raw_content": "Browsing: Dr Charles Poland\nDr. Poland to Open New Exhibit\nProvided by City of Manassas On February 6 at 2:00 p.m. Dr. Charles Poland, retired\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 4341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 249.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://private-investigator-dewsbury.co.uk/digital-night-vision-rifle.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:03Z", "digest": "sha1:EJKDPJLZBT5C6ZWUGS3FLXM5HXVGER3L", "length": 1950, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "private-investigator-dewsbury.co.uk", "title": "Digital Night Vision Rifle", "raw_content": "Private investigators and private detectives risk their lives whenever they conduct investigations involving high profile hazardous identified criminals. This really is the reason why the investigation enterprise has developed creative means and methods on the best way to lessen or eliminate the risks when conducting such surveillance. One of the fundamental gadgets or devices that a private investigator or a private detective ought to have is a device that can allow him or her to observe the target individual at a considerably secure distance. Other factor that a private investigator or a private detective really should contemplate will be the condition of the atmosphere, mainly the time simply because night time surveillance can pose more limitations and risks as compared to the day time investigation. Night time surveillance can both benefit and limit the private investigator or private detective by creating use of darkness as cover and being limited in sight also on account of darkness.\nThe factor of darkness can now be eliminated as a limitation due to the development of a digital night vision rifle scope. This device is said to be employing the newest within the files of optics and electronics, it utilises an really sensitive CCD array exactly where the image is then transferred into a 640\u00d7480x3 display allowing you to obtain a much more detailed vision of one's target. The CCD array is extremely sensitive that it automatically adjusts under various lighting conditions. It is built in IR illuminator aides the CCD array in capturing clear images or videos below low lighting conditions, it also has a remote control that enables you to remotely activate a number of the standard functions of the digital night vision rifle scope.\nWith the digital night vision rifle scope the private investigators and private detectives are regarded as to be prepared and effectively equipped with all the most modern in scope devices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 12657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://protect-advice.org.uk/alerting-a-third-party/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:41Z", "digest": "sha1:XHXCKLH4RR6VG4YBLGFTAVEPRQKFIINT", "length": 2360, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "protect-advice.org.uk", "title": "Alerting a third party | Protect - Speak up stop harm. \u2191", "raw_content": "Where a worker reasonably suspects malpractice (inc. a crime), he will be protected from victimisation where he raises with a person who is legally responsible for the matter and the concern raised is in the public interest.\nAdrian worked at a local site of a major waste disposal firm. He was concerned that his colleagues were involved in a big scam defrauding a local paper mill. Adrian suspected that some employees of the mill were being paid to steal top grade paper, which was then concealed amongst waste paper in skips that were collected daily by a waste paper company. When the company delivered the waste to Adrian\u2019s firm, the paper was also sold on for cash, at a fraction of the market cost.\nAdrian was reluctant to identify himself initially and was concerned that the perpetrators were influential in his firm and had good contacts with the local police. He described the atmosphere at the site as intimidatory, and the managers as bullying and abusive. He feared that if he spoke out, not only would he lose his job, but his life would be made intolerable. From the information that Adrian gave us, we were satisfied that the matter should be looked into. With Adrian\u2019s agreement we contacted the victim of the fraud, the local paper mill.\nAlthough the company initially suspected we were a security company seeking new business,they soon realised that their procedures left them open to such a fraud. Within a couple of weeks the company caught two of its staff engaged in the scam red-handed. However, they were unable to identify the size of fraud or how long it had gone on. Having obtained assurances on his behalf, we put the company\u2019s investigators in touch with Adrian. He was able to show them how the fraud had been concealed in the paperwork.\nWith this information the company realised that the fraud had cost it some \u00a33 million. The police were called in and arrests were made. The boss of the waste paper company was convicted and sentenced to three years, and others involved were jailed for several months. Adrian\u2019s foreman was sacked, the chargehand resigned and the manager of the site took early retirement. The local paper mill recovered almost \u00a31 million from its insurers toward the loss and so averted plans to close down with the loss of over one hundred jobs. The atmosphere at Adrian\u2019s firm has improved significantly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 203.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psmag.com/author/rachel-cohen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:50Z", "digest": "sha1:OFJAAB3RST6BGJAHHP6ZCXGINMWZCH53", "length": 430, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "psmag.com", "title": "Articles by Rachel Cohen - Pacific Standard", "raw_content": "Rachel Cohen is a journalist at the American Prospect, with a focus on social policy, housing, and labor. She also writes on cultural and political issues that affect the American-Jewish community.\nWill Handing Public Housing Projects to Private Developers Hurt the Poor?\nThe government has called the new Rental Assistance Demonstration program the \"answer\" to housing woes, but there's very little evidence to support that case.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 175.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psychologenie.com/fundamental-attribution-error-examples", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:04Z", "digest": "sha1:BN2N6QC7VGFEFO6GJE5RM6NIIHSUTYC2", "length": 6041, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "psychologenie.com", "title": "Some Examples of Fundamental Attribution Error Which We Make Daily", "raw_content": "Some Examples of Fundamental Attribution Error Which We Make Daily\nHere are some fundamental attribution error examples to help you understand this concept better, as it is probably something you may be doing all the time, bit still do not know what it is.\nThe term fundamental attribution error may sound heavy, but when we try and understand what it is, it is rather easy to relate to this concept. We make such errors all the time in our daily lives, without realizing it. It is, in effect, a term used to describe the judgments we make about individuals based on a situation. It is something we have all resorted to at some point of time. Here, we try and explain this concept with the help of some fundamental attribution error examples.\nFundamental attribution error, also termed as a cognitive bias in social psychology, or the attribution theory of social psychology, is defined as the tendency to judge a person in an unpleasant situation in a bad light, and attribute her/his behavior to internal causes and qualities rather than understanding the situation or circumstances that may cause the person to behave in that manner. On the other hand, were we to make the same errors, we would easily attribute the causes to external factors. It is described as the overestimation of the attributes of another person's personality and the underestimation of our own personal qualities in relation to a particular situation.\nWhen you walk into a store and someone bumps into you, what is the first thought that crosses your mind? That the person who bumped into you is careless, is not looking where he is going, does not know how to behave in public, etc.? All these and many other thoughts and judgments about him are created in your mind, without being aware of the situation that the person may be in. Here, you are making a fundamental attribution error, because you are attributing certain characteristics to the person based on that one incident, without being aware of what he may actually be like.\n# 1: Your friend fails an exam that both of you have given. She always seems to get a low grade. You begin to think that she is lazy; she's more involved in activities other than studying; that she is not interested in studies. However, it is possible that she may be having trouble retaining information, or that there may be circumstances at home that do not permit her to study enough for any upcoming test.\n# 2: Many of us attribute the 'commitment phobia' many people claim to suffer from as going with the flow or a trend. Being phobic of committing to someone is what people think is something that has been learned by watching television. However, there are real reasons why someone may suffer from a commitment phobia. For instance, children who have seen their parents go through a divorce are likely to suffer from such fears of commitment. Again, a grave mistake has been made because of generalization.\n# 3: Someone is having trouble starting their car. You decide to help the person by giving her a piece of advice on something they should do to get the car started. The person shoots you down, snaps at you, or just ignores you. You get angry yourself and dismiss the person as a rude, misbehaved individual who does not value the help someone is trying to offer. It is probably likely that a lot of people have offered the person the same piece of advice that you did and it didn't work; or that the person has already had a rough day and the car getting spoiled was the cherry on the icing. This is another example.\nWhy do we Make such Errors?\nPsychologists have explained several reasons for these errors that we tend to make such as those explained in the examples above. For one, because we have no other reference point except the person in question, we are likely to make a judgment about the person in order to pacify ourselves. In our own case, because we know exactly what the situation is, we know what to attribute our success or failure to. It is perhaps easier to 'assume' rather than determine the actual cause of a situation, for the fear that it may make us uncomfortable. While these are the causes, these are in no ways justified methods of making assumptions about a person. The best way to understand this is by the fact that when someone makes judgments about us or says something about us without knowing what we are going through, it angers us to no extent. How then, can we justify making an assumption about someone else without knowing that person?\nWhile the fundamental attribution error is made by judging a person based on his intrinsic behavior and our own on external situations, opposite cases are also likely. For instance, when someone earns a promotion at work, we tend to attribute this success to external factors by adopting what is known as the 'sour grapes' attitude. We think it's because he is favored by a particular manager, or because he's just plain lucky. Here, we fail to attribute this success to his personal traits such as determination or hard work. In another example, a person with a low self-esteem or poor self-image may assume that he is unable to find a life partner because he doesn't look good or because he isn't funny. On the other hand, this may actually happen because he is not making the effort to go out and meet people, thereby limiting his chances of meeting someone.\nIt is important to learn how to avoid making the fundamental attribution error. Stopping to think for a moment and understanding the cause for a particular person's behavior is something all of us ought to do in order to avoid making assumptions about someone. This will improve our observation powers and will help us empathize with others. By understanding the aforementioned examples, you will be able to dodge such situations and look at it from a third person's perspective. Further, in your own case, there is nothing wrong with attributing some internal and external factors to your gain or loss in certain situations where it is deserved. Just don't make either a habit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 7285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 207.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://q102sf.radio.com/tag/singer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:06Z", "digest": "sha1:P6HRRGGTWNQVGAKUGECMYARR7F7HN273", "length": 340, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "q102sf.radio.com", "title": "Singer | Q102.1", "raw_content": "R&B Great James Ingram Dies at 66\nMusician, Grammy Award-winner and Oscar nominee James Ingram has died at the age of 66...\nThe undisputed \"Queen of Soul\" who sang with matchless style on such classics as \"Think,\" ''I Say a Little Prayer\" and her signature song, \"Respect,\" and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 179.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/1453", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:50Z", "digest": "sha1:OUHCI5K4ZO3FTQKGMK5PJOMESNZA2H47", "length": 1924, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "qmro.qmul.ac.uk", "title": "The visco-elastic properties of the arterial wall.", "raw_content": "The visco-elastic properties of the arterial wall.\nBERGELViscoElastic1960.pdf (9.950Mb)\nThe visco-elastic properties of the arterial wail are of importance in determining the behaviour of the circulatory system for the pulse wave is a relatively rapid event. It has been reported that arteries show very little change in length with each heart beat. There are no reports of studies on arterial behaviour carried out under conditions that take account of these two factors. Accordingly an investigation has been made of the pressure-diameter relations of various types of dogs' arteries under static and dynamic conditions. All experiments were performed with the vessel held at the length which it occupied in vivo. Measurements were also made of the relative wall thickness and of the amount of shortening which occurred when an artery was excised. Under static conditions all arteries show an elastic modulus which increases with distension; this is less marked, in the low pressure range, for the elastic thoracic aorta. This increasing modulus results both from the presence of various wall constituents arranged in parallel and from the non-linear elastic behaviour of these elements themselves. Under dynamic conditions the artery shows increased stiffness, the magnitude of this increase is proportional to the muscularity of its wall. This increase occurs at low frequencies and is compatible with what is known of the time-dependent properties of smooth muscle. Little further increase occurs at frequencies between 2 and 20 c/a. The dilatation also lags behind the pressure changes by a small amount. These factors will influence both the velocity and the attenuation of the pulse wave. The variation with frequency of these two factors has been calculated using the data obtained in these experiments. The results of this calculation stand comparison with published values for the pulse wave velocity\nBergel, D.H.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://raisinglaz.com/2015/10/27/visiting-an-artist-in-his-studio/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:50Z", "digest": "sha1:SHNYXFBFMUSJDP6O2WEWPU4QG6DCN4NE", "length": 3620, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "raisinglaz.com", "title": "Visiting an artist in his studio \u2013 Raising Lazarus", "raw_content": "Most often, the term \u201cartist\u201d describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or high culture. People who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value. An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts, and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only. The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (less often for actors). \u201cArtiste\u201d (the French for artist) is a variant used in English only in this context. Use of the term to describe writers, for example, is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like criticism.\nArt historians and critics define artists as those who produce art within a recognized or recognizable discipline. Contrasting terms for highly skilled workers in media in the applied arts or decorative arts include artisan, craftsman, and specialized terms such as potter, goldsmith or glassblower.\nWiktionary defines the noun \u2018artist\u2019 as follows:\nA person who creates art as an occupation.\nArtist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist also may be defined unofficially as \u201ca person who expresses him- or herself through a medium\u201d. The word is also used in a qualitative sense of, a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.\nMost often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or \u2018high culture\u2019, activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, new media, photography, and music\u2014people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics define artists as those who produce art within a recognized or recognizable discipline. Contrasting terms for highly skilled workers in media in the applied arts or decorative arts include artisan, craftsman, and specialized terms such as potter, goldsmith or glassblower.\nFine arts artists such as painters succeeded in the Renaissance in raising their status, formerly similar to these workers, to a decisively higher level, but in the 20th century the distinction became rather less relevant.\nThe term may also be used loosely or metaphorically to denote highly skilled people in any non-\u201cart\u201d activities, as well\u2014 law, medicine, mechanics, or mathematics, for example.\nOften, discussions on the subject focus on the differences among \u201cartist\u201d and \u201ctechnician\u201d, \u201centertainer\u201d and \u201cartisan\u201d, \u201cfine art\u201d and \u201capplied art\u201d, or what constitutes art and what does not. The French word artiste (which in French, simply means \u201cartist\u201d) has been imported into the English language where it means a performer (frequently in Music Hall or Vaudeville). Use of the word \u201cartiste\u201d can also be a pejorative term.\nPrevious Article Getting NASA back on its feet\nNext Article Blogging the Institutes\u20131.6.3\u2013Error Cannot Be Erased Until the Truth is Planted\n2 thoughts on \u201cVisiting an artist in his studio\u201d\nThe proportions of this rebellion were not for a long time understood. I saw that it involved the greatest difficulties, and would call forth all the powers of the whole country.\nGeorge Harrison says:\nIn a word, I would not take any risk of being entangled upon the river, like an ox jumped half over a fence, and liable to be torn by dogs, front and rear, without a fair chance to gore one way or kick the other.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 5121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 195.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://readingacts.com/2011/03/01/acts-1313-52-paul%E2%80%99s-synagogue-sermon-part-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BZTKW33QVTX7DWGEDBDISHZSIWUMSDGB", "length": 13616, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "readingacts.com", "title": "Acts 13:13-52 \u2013 Paul\u2019s Synagogue Sermon (Part 1) | Reading Acts", "raw_content": "Acts 13:13-52 \u2013 Paul\u2019s Synagogue Sermon (Part 1)\nMarch 1, 2011 in Luke / Acts, Observations on Acts | Tags: Acts 13, Justification by Fatih, Synagogue Sermon\nSchnabel points out that there are three movements in the sermon (Paul the Missionary, 158-9). Paul first reviews Israel\u2019s history from the Patriarchs through John the Baptist (verses 16-25). In the second movement, Paul declares the importance of Jesus in the light of this history (Verses 26-37). It is in this section that Paul carefully weaves several texts form the Hebrew Bible together to make the point that Jesus fulfils the promise made to Abraham. The final part of the sermon is the call to repentance (verse 29-41). Like Peter and Stephen, Paul calls his listeners to respond to the message that Jesus is the Christ, although the repentance here in Paul\u2019s sermon is not related to the killing of Jesus, nor does he declare that the \u201ctimes of refreshing will come.\u201d Now repentance is connected with justification and forgiveness of sins (verses 38-39).\nStefan Skillman\nI would agree, Paul is clearly stating that Jesus Christ is the now the means to salvation. When reading Schnabel on Pg 160, the third part\u2026.formulates a decisive proclamation of salvation through Jesus Christ the Messiah. That quote sums up what Paul stand for, he would say the law is not the way to Salvation, any more. We also know that Paul does not back the law any more, we know that from talks in class about how Paul is the one who corrects Peter and the disciples that they are to minister to Gentiles too, and he is the one that states that circumcision is not necessary any more.\nI did find the end of chapter 13 kind of humors, Luke is defiantly sneaking a jab in at the JEWS, and he defiantly appreciates the fact that the Gentiles get salvation offered to them.\nCary J. Boehm\nYes, this is a development away from the Law. Paul is telling us that God is forgiving sins in a new way, instead of it being the law. God is now offering forgiveness through the death of His Son, Jesus Christ. That the law is no longer the way to Salvation. I am wondering if Paul would want to throw out the law together? After all, he is not backing it anymore.\nI would have to disagree with the part said above that Paul is done with the law and that he isn\u2019t backing the law. Of course Paul has been shown the way to justification through what we know as salvation through faith, a faith in Jesus, and I do agree with the fact that Jesus has become the living sacrifice who is an atonement for our sins. I however disagree that Paul would just turn his back on the law. He is a devote Jew whether he is proclaiming salvation through faith or abiding by the customs of the Old Law. Without the Law we cant define what sin is, according to the Ten Commandments. He may have taken steps toward a new way of living because of the new understanding that God has made clean of what once was not but I do agree that Paul is preaching salvation that is not found in the Law but in Jesus. Galatians 3 clearly defines Paul\u2019s confidence in faith through Jesus and no longer the Law, so I guess I was just saying I disagree with the fact that Paul would stop cold turkey from practicing the traditions and customs of the Jewish heritage.\nYou are right, \u201ccold turkey\u201d is not a possibility here \u2013 he remains a loyal Jew the rest of his life and IMHO he does not willingly break the Law; for example, he continues to keep Passover, it appears, later in the book of Acts.\nBut the fact remains that Paul promises salvation for sins which ordinarily would not be forgiven in the law. That is a development which was unanticipated at this point in history. I would not say Paul dispensed with Law, but redefined in in Jesus. That is pretty much what he did with everything Jewish \u2013 it is all now \u201cin Christ.\u201d\nVanAssen\nI don\u2019t think Paul is trying to get rid of the Law. He says in Romans repeatedly that the law is good. I would agree that everything is now done \u201cin Christ\u201d. The law is still good and useful, especially for us to know what is right.\nMy personal opinion is that Paul wouldn\u2019t get rid of the law at all, except that people would use the law to build themselves up or even divide the Christians. Such as the Religous leaders who used it to show thier piety or the the Jews who converted and would then want all the gentile converts to live Jewish lives.\nKillaCamMyers\nI think that Paul is trying to make a statement of hope rather then defying the Law of Moses. Paul says in acts 13:38-39, \u201c\u2026Through this man forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, and by him everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the Law of Moses.\u201d This to me is just Paul trying to make his point heard clearly. don\u2019t misunderstand me, i completely agree with what Paul is saying in that I believe that sin is not an issue anymore because it has been taken care of at the cross. I am saying that in this case (his speech in Acts 13) Paul doesn\u2019t feel the need to be sensitive to everyone\u2019s feelings and is trying to get the point across that we are freed from the law. He isn\u2019t saying that the law is bad, but he is saying that it is unnecessary.\nIn my opinion, I think that in this specific situation, as Paul is preaching to Jews, Paul is not telling them to disobey the Law or just throw the Law out the window. Yes, he is showing them that there is a new way of forgiveness that covers all, but he is not instructing them to abolish the Law. He is simply stating that Jews need to believe on Jesus Christ as Messiah to be saved. The same goes for the Gentiles, and they do not need the Law. The Jews probably want to hold onto it awhile as they acclimate to this new revelation.\nmac daddy ware\nIt is clearly obvious that Paul\u2019s sermon is similar to those of Peter and Stephen yet they are calling for something that is distinctly different. While Peter is preaching to those who actually witness the events of the crucifixion of Jesus and even those that took part in it. Paul on the other hand is exp laing the significance of what Jesus had to go through and how were are justified freely by God\u2019s grace.\nPaul is not talking about the sins made against the Messiah by way of crucifying him\u2026 he is saying that all we need to do is believe in our hearts that Jesus was sent down to Earth to bare the guilt and shame on the cross and that he rose again on the third day. This my friends is how we are justified.\nLeslie Pumford\nPersonally, Paul is using the same form of speech that Peter and Stephen did, but if you look at the end of their sermons, the new believers needed to be baptised in order to be saved. I know that is really not the case, but I think it is more symbolic for the belivers of that time. It is like when someone gets married. You wear a ring to symbolize your love and committment. With being saved at that time, being symbolic was important. To show publicly that you are a follower of Christ is very important. Today, many people are very touchy about the idea of baptism. Most churchs today, make baptisim a choice, not a requirement like Peter and Stephen did in their sermons.\nOn the other hand, this is also the turning point where, it becomes more than just a symbol, but a change of heart. A personal choice that you much make on your own. God\u2019s light will shine through our lives, and the hearts he has changed will be seen.\nI can\u2019t see where it says, that Paul is completely done with the law as a whole. It appears to be redefined but I feel that what has done away with is the personal sacrificing for breaking the law. Jesus was now the ultimate sacrifice for their sin and therefore there is no more need of the Jews\u2019 sacrifices to atone them. If the law did not save before anyways, there is no reason to do away with it. It is still good and a moral standard given by God.\n\u201cWhen you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross.\u201d(Colossians 3:13,14).\nWhen its said, \u201d \u201cone who believes is justified,\u201d but in a way that the Law could never justify\u201d\u2026does that mean that they are now justified forever.. I cant remember if this was brought up in class or a different post(or maybe I\u2019m crazy) but doesn\u2019t it mean that they are now atoned forever and don\u2019t have to keep making sacrifices for their sins, as the law required them to do when they broke it. Also they could never be justified by the law anyways because no human is perfect enough to keep it completely, except Jesus.\n\u201cHe condemned sin in the flesh so that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit\u201d(Romans 8:3,4). Is the requirement of the law the author is referring to, the need for the blood, the need for sacrifice to atone sin?\nPaul\u2019s speeches are always radical to the Jew bystander, but this is perhaps the most shocking. This speech could be understood much like how we weed out the things we don;t want to hear in sermons. The Jews did not want to believe such things as Paul was speaking, mainly because they directly denied the reality they had all experienced since birth. If Paul was correct, then everything they knew would be different. Their community would be shaken, the Jew hierarchy would be dismantled, the traditions would start to crumble. If Paul was right, things would be radically new and different.\nWell, guess what. Paul was right.\nKimmy Haney\nI feel like it is almost like what happens now a days, when a new youth Pastor comes into a church, everything he/she says is taken by the older generations, and the people in the church as ether a negative, or interesting but wrong view. It happens to each person in the church, we listen to a sermon, yet we hear only what we want to hear. Selective hearing is something I believe each human suffers from. I do not have a opinion on whether Paul was preaching right or wrong, or something different from before. I think with more continual research I might develop an opinion, or chose what I believe to be true in this lesson ergo scripture passage.\ntammydykstra\nYes, interesting indeed. Paul does seem to be shifting from the Law, and we can bet that it has little to do with any organic drive of his own, rather due to a fulfillment of what God promised to Ananias concerning Paul, \u201c[Acts 9.15-16] But the Lord said to Ananias, \u201cGo! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel. I will show him how much he must suffer for my name.\u201d\nThe suffering that I understand here is probably not the suffering that we usually think of in reference to the denotation of the word, but I have to imagine that for God to call Paul from the very thing to which he had devoted his life was certainly a painful realization for Paul.\nIn no way was he required to relinquish his zeal for the Law, yet at the same time, the ministry to which God called him carried much less demand for this scholarship. Arnold says that \u201cPaul contextualizes his message to people who do not know the Scriptures\u2026while avoiding a recounting of Israel\u2019s history or how Jesus fulfills Jewish prophecies about a coming Messiah.\u201d\nHis expertise, the very pedestal on which he could legitimately stand (before Christ) was removed and Paul had to finally find God\u2019s strength in his own weakness.\nIt was as revolutionary then as it is now. He never promised that life according to the Gospel would be easy, but so well worth it.\nThis subject does seem to be fully covered. Yes, Paul is a light to the Gentile world, following the command of God. However, Tammy, you talk about how Paul must suffer. I like your idea, but I would also include that Paul was willing to kill for God. However, God is going to show Paul that he would be killed for Paul, and that Paul would accept that. I think that having that discussion at a time when Paul was on his way to persecute Christians, would be a strong indication of that this is what is meant by \u201cshowing him how much he must suffer for my name.\u201d\nMcPorter\nI agree a lot with what Rachel said, he is not telling them to forget the law, he is telling the Jews that the Messiah has already come, and is preaching a message of salvation to them. Joe says it well when he says that Paul\u2019s sermons are going to shock the average Jew. OF course the average Jew is going to be shocked, imagine somebody coming into your town and telling you that the tradition and laws you have always followed will not give you a free pass into heaven. But we do see that Paul is effective in his preaching, because the wherever Paul went, the church grew because of it. When Paul was presenting the Gospel he knew what he was doing.\nJessica Daugherty\nPaul is definitely not turning away from the law, as many people have said already. He is still very zealous for keeping the commands of the law, but is trying to show them that there is a new way to salvation now. Plus, with salvation comes the desire to do \u201cgood\u201d things. What we do is not what saves us, but once we are saved we want to do things that are helpful to others and pleasing to God. It will always be a struggle, but we have great examples like Paul that show us that it can be done\u2013we do not have to give into our desires because we have God to help us through those struggles.\n\u00ab Acts 13:6-17 \u2013 The Blinding of Bar-Jesus\nActs 13:13-52 \u2013 Paul\u2019s Synagogue Sermon (Part 2) \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 18619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://redtentdirectory.com/tag/sharing-accross-generation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:45Z", "digest": "sha1:VAYXGYZES4XQXWG4S6CTTKBSGYOZTFQ7", "length": 86, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "redtentdirectory.com", "title": "sharing accross generation - Red Tent Directory", "raw_content": "Red Tent is a place where you could find your sacred wild way to your home \u2013 yourself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://regatta.iupui.edu/paddlers/team-registration.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:23Z", "digest": "sha1:TUEZCSGYFZ4NZUZOZ5BOVIRM3RFMYYIV", "length": 511, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "regatta.iupui.edu", "title": "Team Registration: Paddlers & Teams: IUPUI Regatta: IUPUI", "raw_content": "Be a part of the 2019 eleventh annual IUPUI Regatta sponsored by Herff Jones!\nRegatta registration opens August 21st at 8:00 a.m.\nWhen registering, please have the following information for each of your team members:\nEach year, hundreds of paddlers race down the canal for IUPUI\u2019s largest student-run event \u2013 the IUPUI Regatta presented by Herff Jones. IUPUI Faculty, Staff, Students and Alumni are invited to form teams of four with up to two handlers/alternative paddlers to compete in the field of 200 teams.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1751, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://reginawalkerauthor.com/2013/01/28/we-expect-teachers-to-do-what/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:36Z", "digest": "sha1:B2W52LHD2VEKDXFXMSOMEQB3P5J4XAPQ", "length": 1894, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "reginawalkerauthor.com", "title": "We expect teachers to do what?! | Regina Walker", "raw_content": "\u2190 Hypocrite or Human?\nThe Beach Ball \u2192\nWe expect teachers to do what?!\nHi. It\u2019s almost 2 in the afternoon, and today was a new adventure for me. I officially homeschooled 3 kids today. Not just the usual 2, but 3. All 3 of which are very active boys, with very busy minds. They range from 8th grade to kindergarten.\nAnd if I measured today\u2019s success based on someone else\u2019s measuring stick, I\u2019m pretty sure we failed. We didn\u2019t get through nearly as many \u201clessons\u201d as I thought we would. On top of managing 3 that are doing school, I have a 3 year old and a 2 year old keeping me busy. And as I manage a total of 5 kids, I\u2019m scratching my head thinking, \u201cWe expect teachers to handle 20+?\u201d Now, granted, they are all the same age and they use one curriculum, and teach the same material to everyone in class. But does that really make it easier to manage them?!\nI had to stop sitting and directing to cook lunch and school fell apart. But I don\u2019t know how to make soup and sandwiches and make three kids stay on task. So, we put school aside, I finished cooking, we ate, and now they are outside. I almost started doubting this whole idea, as much as I love it and want it\u2026I thought \u201ccan I really do this?\u201d But you know what? They all learned something today, they are all happy today, they are all fed today, and this is day 1 with 3 in school. That changed our entire routine.\nTomorrow, we\u2019ll get through a little more, I\u2019ll start a little earlier, and I\u2019ll be better prepared to be a little stricter. Plus, I know a little more of what to expect.\nSeriously though, if 5 kids can be this challenging, what causes us to expect a single teacher to manage 20+ students? I really can\u2019t make sense of this at all\u2026 thoughts?\nThis entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged boys, Education, failure, homeschool, kids, learning, school, students, studies, success, teachers. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 6724, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://regional.pinkvilla.com/telugu/news/raju-gadu-stills-amyra-dastur-raj-taruns-sizzling-chemistry-hard-miss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HHOCPBYIV25DV7QKN2RJZHHEGSZJ4RMN", "length": 1738, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "regional.pinkvilla.com", "title": "Raju Gadu stills: Amyra Dastur and Raj Tarun's sizzling chemistry is hard to miss - News", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Telugu \u00bb News \u00bb Raju Gadu stills: Amyra Dastur and Raj Tarun\u2019s sizzling chemistry is hard to miss\nRaju Gadu stills: Amyra Dastur and Raj Tarun\u2019s sizzling chemistry is hard to miss\nWhile the makers of the film are gearing up for the film's release on June 1, here are some stills from the film that will only raise excitement among the audience.\nSouth actress Amyra Dastur will be seen next in the Sanjana Reddy directed by Raju Gadu opposite Raj Tarun. The film marks the debut of Sanjana as a director. The recently released film\u2019s trailer only hints that it is likely to be a full-on entertainer. While the makers of the film are gearing up for the film\u2019s release on June 1, here are some stills from the film that will only raise excitement among the audience to watch the film. The stills give us a glimpse of sizzling chemistry between Amyra and Raj Tarun.\nCheck out stills below:\nA model turned actress, Amyra has acted in several films in the South Indian film industry including films in Tamil and Telugu. There are a lot of expectations from Amyra Dastur with Raju Gadu. Meanwhile, the makers of the film have completed censor formalities and has been cleared with U/A certificate.\nIn case if you haven\u2019t watched it, here\u2019s Raju Gadu trailer:\nProduced by Ramabrahmam Sunkara, Raju Gadu, which has music by Gopi Sundar, features Amyra Dastur as the female lead. The first song of the film was released recently and it received a positive response from the audience.\nMeanwhile, Amyra will soon be seen opposite Rajkumar Rao in Bollywood film Mental Hai Kya and with Ali Fazal is the Hindi remake of Prasthaanam. She has also recently wrapped up the shoot for Leena Yadav\u2019s Rajma Chawal.\nTags: Amyra Dastur, Raju Gadu, Telugu", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rehabreviews.com/kent-youth-and-family-services-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:17Z", "digest": "sha1:POZS5TYHEKY3ZBQPZZXGGKNRDCU4YQCG", "length": 4140, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "rehabreviews.com", "title": "Kent Youth and Family Services Reviews, Cost, Complaints", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbRehab Reviews\u00bbOutpatient\u00bbKent Youth and Family Services\nBased about 20 miles from Seattle in Kent, Washington, Kent Youth and Family Services is a behavioral health institution offering services to children, youth and their families in South King County. The facility offers outpatient substance abuse services designed to assist adolescents ages 11 to 20 with dual-diagnosis support included. Kent Youth and Family Services helps an estimated 8,000 adolescents annually.\nThe most comprehensive program at Kent Youth and Family Services is its Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP). IOP consists of three group therapy sessions a week and one individual therapy session, all of which are led by LCDCs. To allow clients to continue with schooling uninterrupted, the facility schedules all of these sessions in the evenings Tuesdays through Thursdays from 4 to 6 pm and on Mondays from 4 to 5 pm. While these sessions cover a variety of subjects, the facility relies on the Seven Challenges model and includes Motivational Interviewing (MI) and relapse prevention. While the facility does provide information about 12-step recovery, it is not a required part of the program.\nFor those in need of a less intensive program, Kent Youth and Family Services has a host of other services including the Back on Track program, which is an early intervention option for lower risk clients. There\u2019s also the Diversion Program which allows clients convicted of a minor drug offense to attend their diversion hearing at the facility rather than in court, offering an educational component to this judicial process.\nWithin the substance abuse program, dual diagnosis care is available in the form of group and individual sessions that address co-occurring disorders. It\u2019s worth noting, however, that Kent Youth and Family Services also offers an entirely separate outpatient mental health program. As a result, those in need of more intensive care may find their needs better served by enrolling in both programs. Those in the mental health track can expect regular visits with a psychiatric nurse practitioner and medication management. The facility does not offer a medical detox and clients in need of this service must complete the process before beginning treatment.\nKent Youth and Family Services also advocates family involvement in recovery, with a family program available on Thursdays from 6 to 7:30 pm. The program is open to all parents and is a peer-led support group, during which parents can receive information about their child\u2019s progress, ask questions and receive information about how to help in recovery.\nEach client\u2019s program varies though typical lengths of stay generally last six months. In keeping with this, aftercare is offered but is highly tailored to each individual\u2019s needs, usually consisting of group and individual therapy when needed.\nIn addition to these outpatient services, Kent Youth and Family Services also offers the ROADS program, a recovery school at the Kent Phoenix Academy which is the first public substance abuse disorder facility in the state and features a supportive classroom environment for high school students in recovery.\nAn expansive institution with a large variety of behavioral health services, Kent Youth and Family Services is valuable resource for families in Kent, Covington and South King County. Those attending the substance abuse program can expect an affordable outpatient program with dual-diagnosis care and a strong emphasis on family involvement in their recovery.\n232 Second Ave. S, Ste 201\nKent Youth and Family Services Cost: Sliding scale. Reach Kent Youth and Family Services by phone at (253) 859-0300 or by email at [email protected]. Find Kent Youth and Family Services on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Vine\nDo you have a complaint or review of Kent Youth and Family Services to add? Use the comments area below to add your Kent Youth and Family Services review.\nPhoto courtesy of Joe Mabel [GFDL (https://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC-BY-SA-3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via WikimediaCommons (resized and cropped)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 7134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://renism.wordpress.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ERLSLDAIAI2T2UGS6I2X26MI4WYV7VGZ", "length": 256, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "renism.wordpress.com", "title": "About | Renism", "raw_content": "Ren DC\nBio: A part-time Public Relations and Corporate Communications professional, dancer, speaker, writer, and adrenaline junkie. Part-time surfing, cooking, photography, and NBA enthusiast. Full-time lover of God and the people and world He has created.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 244.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/57250", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:55Z", "digest": "sha1:LUCFSTTXHQWNWMR5U57IKNM4TJTC623M", "length": 88, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "repositories.lib.utexas.edu", "title": "Letter to H.B. Stenzel from W.A. Mendenhall on 1932-08-04", "raw_content": "Letter to H.B. Stenzel from W.A. Mendenhall on 1932-08-04\nMendenhall, W.A.\nWashita Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 263.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://research.chalmers.se/en/project/6385", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:47Z", "digest": "sha1:OFVF5JNOKZBMRR4Y6U2NYG3Z6GD3SJQW", "length": 4107, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "research.chalmers.se", "title": "Sustainable production of value-added fuels and commodity products via microbial electrosynthesis", "raw_content": "Sustainable production of value-added fuels and commodity products via microbial electrosynthesis\nThe biorefinery concept, where energy and commodity chemicals are sustainably produced using alternative chemistry processes, has attracted a lot of attention from policy makers, research institutes and the industry. In the biorefinery, energy and chemicals are produced from biomass, instead of crude oil, and independence from fossil fuels is promoted. Fuels production from biomass has been expanding, however many of the biofuels, and especially first generation ones, are competing with food production because of their demands for land. A more sustainable option for the production of energy and chemicals is by utilising technologies that can convert waste and wastewater into \u201cgreen\u201d chemicals and energy, and this is what we propose in this research project.\nBioelectrochemical systems (BES) is considered a green-chemistry technology, where bacterial \u201ccatalysts\u201d release the energy present in waste and wastewater and convert it into useful commodity products and fuels. When wastewater is the source of energy, water is being remediated in the anode and it can be safely returned to nature. Electrons released from wastewater are then transferred to the cathode, where microbes are generating electricity for the production of biogas and commodities which have a high energy and/or commercial value.\nWhen working together with anaerobic digestion, BES cathodes can also be used as supporting processes for the treatment of troublesome wastewater streams and shock loads that can cause failure of the anaerobic digestion processes. Acidic wastewaters high in volatile fatty acids are such streams, which on one hand they can inhibit methane production but on the other hand they are good candidates for hydrogen production in BES. Hydrogen production increases the pH and improves hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis, which in turn produces biogas with a high methane content, even at ambient temperatures. Also, alcohols production (e.g. ethanol, propanol, butanol) from the chemical reduction of volatile fatty acids (e.g. acetate, propionate, butyrate) on the cathode is adding value to the final effluent and makes the process more economically attractive. Another way to add value to the final product is by co-digesting such wastewaters with wastewater coming from the biodiesel industry. Biodiesel production has been growing rapidly, producing increasing amounts of wastewater with a high glycerol content. When co-treated in a BES cathode, hydrogen and methane production can be enhanced and coupled with the conversion of the cheap glycerol to the very economically attractive commodity 1,3-propanediol (1,3-PDO).\nIn the proposed project we will study the sustainable production of biogas, alcohols and 1,3-propanediol, from wastewater treatment. Research work conducted by the applicant, also in support of this proposal (Appendix 1), confirmed that valuable commodities and fuels can be produced using BES technology, and that BES can improve methane production even under conditions which do not favour conventional anaerobic digestion. Such results have given us the tools to look deeper into optimizing the processes involved, and we can now exploit the BES capabilities even more. The work proposed will be conducted by Dr Nikolaos Xafenias, an Environmental Engineer with both PhD and post-doctoral research on water remediation and energy production using BES. The work will be done within the Industrial Biotechnology (IB) group of Chalmers University of Technology, which is supported by Chalmers\u2019 Energy Area of Advance. The IB group is internationally recognized for its research on commodities production, it has a high interest in anaerobic digestion and other biorefinery processes, it is very well equipped for such a work, and therefore it is the most suitable host for the proposed project.\nNikolaos Xafenias (contact)\nG\u00e4stforskare vid Chalmers, Biology and Biological Engineering, Industrial Biotechnology\n\u00c5Forsk (\u00c5ngpannef\u00f6reningens Foundation for Research and Development)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 5823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 303.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://right2bwrong.com/2016/05/15/on-power-equations-in-love-and-frienships/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HBINE4HQV23BUEYQKJD4UNPK7VNPS6L7", "length": 6571, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "right2bwrong.com", "title": "On Power Equations in Love and Friendships \u2013 The Right to be Wrong", "raw_content": "\u2018The person with power in a relationship is the one who wants it less.\u2019\nThat comment set me thinking. Applied to my experiences, it is a truth that holds good for both, love and friendships where the latter are between people of the opposite sex. Of course, I was aware of it deep down, but refused to acknowledge it. I do that a lot: not allowing uncomfortable things to rise into the conscious mind even though I am perfectly aware of these thoughts simmering just under the surface. It feels sane to keep a lid on them. Except when someone challenges you. Then, you really have little choice but to examine that which you know, but don\u2019t want to know.\nThe ideal situation is, of course, to have relationships that are equal in all ways. They exist, I am told. However, I come from a socio-cultural milieu that makes this extremely difficult for me to comprehend in practical terms. I have always seen one person in a relationship to be the one calling the shots. From my perspective, it is usually the man though I have seen some where it is the woman.\nPower equations in relationships exist even between two strong personalities\nMy interpretation of the power play may, however, be different from the norm. For me, the person in a position of power in a relationship is there because I granted them that status. It\u2019s not like I am weak or can\u2019t call the shots. I could, and do outside of that specific relationship, but the fact that I relinquish that power completely and give it to another is my way of saying \u2018I trust you, love you, believe in you, and hold you in high regard\u2019.\nI realise how misunderstood one can be with that attitude. The other person sees what they want to see: they see a weak individual who is needy; someone who is willing to give up all power and submit to them, who needs their constant presence in order to hold them up, be there for them, make decisions for them, fulfil their emotional needs, and protect them. The independent types feels obligated, trapped and compromised; wanting to withdraw and get away from the clingy creature. The irony is that the clingy creature then strives harder to show them that they need not fear for their freedom by reassuring them that they are free to choose, to call the shots, to reject, to walk away if they want to, thereby plying them with even more power. The balance of power shifts continuously in the favour of one over the other, with one giving it freely and the other being burdened by it. It is a comedy of errors.\nThe one with the power soon forgets that the power was granted. They begin to slight the other by flaunting it, believing that they are superior in some way, that being powerful is their right. To assert their freedom of choice, which they have anyway, they threaten to leave or tell the other to, especially when a conflict arises. Therein lies a tale: the expectation that the other will crumble, back off, compromise, go silent, not challenge their authority, accept defeat, or \u2018fall in line\u2019.\nSo, victory ensues since that expectation is fulfilled. The one with power fails to see that the other has backed off because harmony is important to them, not because they can be cowed. They also fail to see or appreciate the courage it needs for the \u2018clingy\u2019 person to live with the constant knowledge that they are on probation every minute and that they may be required to let go any moment. A third failure is that they do not make the effort to understand the other\u2019s view point that living with the constant awareness of another human being gives a wonderful feeling of connectedness to some of us, irrespective of whether that person wishes to grace us with their presence in our lives.\nAnd so, the superior confidence from one: \u2018I don\u2019t need this relationship. It\u2019s not my need; it\u2019s yours. It doesn\u2019t really affect me either way. I can live without it perfectly comfortably. You are here because you want to be. If you don\u2019t agree with me, you can get lost.\u2019 Power can be wielded with cruelty, and often is. There is a thin line between candour and cruelty.\nTo the question, do you want me to stay or leave; the answer would be, \u2018that\u2019s for you to figure out/choose.\u2019 Faced with that situation, the dilemma of the other would be: If the person in power wants the relationship less, how much is \u2018less\u2019? How can it be quantified? If that relationship is a part of my existence; what kind of measure would I apply to define \u2018more\u2019 or \u2018less\u2019? What measurable standard could I use to decide whether I ought to leave or stay? A person who cannot find it within themselves to say, \u2018Stay, I value you too\u2019 then quantifies the \u2018less\u2019 for me by omitting that statement from any conversation.\nRepeated slights reduce the capacity to withstand the misuse of power. There will come a point when it becomes necessary for the clingy person to accept that their interpretation of power in a relationship will neither be understood, nor appreciated by the one who wields it. Then, even the most tenacious, the ones who love most deeply and loyally, feel defeated enough to give up: Hit the mute button and go silent. Not literally, that is, but in a way that the depth in the connection is given a quiet burial.\nIn my dictionary, giving up and letting go simply mean that I no longer strive for the connect, or being understood. Nothing changes on the surface. The emotions are still engaged, but no longer in view: We continue to live in the outer world, we talk, we laugh, we move from one day to the next, go about our routines, but there is no access to the inner world of the mind anymore. Total isolation.\nConflict Friendship love Power Equations Relationships\nPrevious Post On Conditions and Expectations in Loving\nNext Post On Finding and Being Found: The Little Lost Toy\n2 thoughts on \u201cOn Power Equations in Love and Friendships\u201d\nWe once moved together\nSynchronized perfectly\nConsciously completing\nSteps, complementing\nThoughts one of the other.\nThat was once\nWhen we woke\nTogether as the day dawned\nAnd halted to rest as the night fell\nMoments shared, waited and anticipated.\nThen followed life:\nMy days and your nights\nMy dreams and your desires\nSeparately moving, distant\nInsular, exclusive, defining one and the other\nThe message flashing:\nSync failed\u2026.\nright2bwrongblog says:\nNicely put. I believe people grow out of step when they don\u2019t make the effort to give time to communicate, appreciate and think. Time is in such short supply. That which makes life worth living, the personal connect, is the first to be dropped from the priority list. Shouldn\u2019t be that way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 8718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 334.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://riverbend-cards.myshopify.com/products/201d-05", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OCNBW4ROEG4QHWQXFXEE7NZT2FJSH7L6", "length": 50, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "riverbend-cards.myshopify.com", "title": "201d-05 \u2013 Riverbend Cards", "raw_content": "Central Park Trees and Dakotas (H) - New York City", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1394, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rivertonfreelibrary.org/2016/11/candlelight-house-tour-sneak-peek/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:16Z", "digest": "sha1:E3UJYM6NLC5GR365NBB4RXJHM632SV7F", "length": 623, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rivertonfreelibrary.org", "title": "Candlelight House Tour \u2014 Sneak Peek! | Riverton Free Library", "raw_content": "Candlelight House Tour \u2014 Sneak Peek!\nLibrary Board member and photographer, Eleanor Paladino, is giving us a sneak peek at the lovely houses that are on this year\u2019s Candlelight House Tour. (It is her photo of the library that is our new masthead!) And don\u2019t forget \u2014 the library\u2019s second floor apartment and the Historical Society of Riverton\u2019s Archives, which is also at the library, will be on display. Come join us! All proceeds benefit the library.\nTickets, available in advance for $15 each, can be purchased at the New Leaf, the Orange Blossom Cafe, and Fresh Produce of Palmyra. Tickets at the door will be $20 each.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://riviera-buzz.com/features/local-buzz/item/805-tubby-and-nottubby.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FWIPLRJYKRM5CLFY5ZFAUOYHOHRRMURY", "length": 9015, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "riviera-buzz.com", "title": "Tubby and Nottubby - That is the Question | Riviera Buzz", "raw_content": "Tubby and Nottubby \u2013 That is the Question\nThere is lots of talk about cross-genre theatre\u2026maybe, some time. Sophie Brech and Louis Fortier are already a few steps ahead.\n\u201cLouis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.\u201d \u2013 Like in the immortal Casablanca quote, it certainly was a beautiful friendship that first brought aspiring English actress Sophie Brech and her Quebecois classmate Louis Fortier together at Jacques Lecoq\u2019s International School of Theater in Paris 17 years ago. And it has since matured into a very happy marriage, and an artistic collaboration of rare creativity and poetry. Their play, The Tragi-comic Destiny of Tubby and Nottubby, is winning hearts and critical acclaim all over the world, and recently stopped over at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de Nice where they utterly charmed a notoriously hard-to-please audience.\nTubby and Nottubby is a rare gem: The story of two \u201clarger than life characters\u201d of the humorous, storytelling kind, a poetic and magical version of Stan and Ollie. Theirs is a playful, philosophical tale of uniting contrasts, bridging differences, and overcoming obstacles: One Christmas eve in London, fat Tubby and skinny Nottubby literally bump into each other as they are both preparing their farewell from this wicked world. They discover kinship and decide to suspend their somber plans for now\u2026 and to go on a journey together, a journey of eventful discovery. Discovery of things, characters, places, and eventually, of themselves and each other.\nThis bilingual play manages to touch adults as much as children; evokes an eerily premonitory \u201cBrave New World, ed. 2014\u201d scenario; incorporates a good dose of Shakespeare, en passant Homer\u2019s Odyssey, and the Greek saga of Orpheus and Eurydice; contrasts human behavior and emotions; veers between laugh-out-loud funny and quietly introspective; and culminates in a happy end\u2026. with a twist. The music is as touching as the brilliant light effects\u2026 simple, refined, and elegantly understated accents, subtly suggesting moods rather than dictating them. And whether intentional or not, the play represents exactly who Tubby (Louis) and Nottubby (Sophie) are as people.\nThey come from two different worlds which outwardly have little in common: Louis Fortier grew up in a modest and sometimes rough suburb of Quebec City, Canada, that was far away from the uptown world of the arts and theatre among the chic caf\u00e9s and boutiques.\n{youtube}WearKwiVKh4?rel=0{/youtube}\nIt was many years later, whilst studying literature at The University of Montreal with the goal to teach \u2013 even though in his heart of hearts he knew that he was not cut out for that career \u2013 that he had his first encounter with theatre when he chose to join the University Theatre Company as a performer. A decision that changed his life: In 1996, profoundly moved by the artistic resistance in Bosnia, he dropped everything, bought a single ticket to Paris, and from there worked his way into wartorn Sarajevo.\nAnd there things happened, and happened fast. On his first night there, Louis told his landlady that he was interested in theater. She promptly called Dino Mustafic (then the young leader of the artistic resistance and now an internationally acclaimed director) \u2026and before he knew it, Dino had graciously arranged for Louis to be a guest student at The Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo. \u201cSerendipity at work,\u201d he calls it.\nThe following year, he returned to Paris, enrolling at The Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School, and there he crossed paths with Sophie Brech, a beautiful young acting student from England who had spent part of her childhood in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Born into an alternative family, she and her six siblings lived in a TV-free home. Having to come up with their own ways to keep themselves entertained awakened Sophie\u2019s creativity and a love for performing. Drawn to foreign shores early on, she gave in to her urge as soon as she could, and found herself in Paris, with no French other than \u201cje t\u201daime\u201d, a phrase she bestowed freely on everyone in her environment, blissfully unaware of the profundity of its meaning. And so her baker, her neighbor, any random stranger, and of course also her classmate Louis found themselves at the receiving end of her declarations\u2026.\nLouis didn\u2019t mind at all though because he and Sophie had clicked right away, and they soon became inseparable, despite the school\u2019s declared policy to discourage relationships. \u201cShe makes me laugh\u2026. No one has ever made me laugh as much as she does,\u201d he raves, looking at her with a gaze that betrays profound love and admiration. And it is easy to see why. Sophie is much like him \u2013 intelligent, warm, bubbly, openminded, caring, and irresistibly charming, with a smile that makes glaciers melt. Together, they are the kind of couple you think only exists in movies, the kind that finishes each other\u2019s sentences in fine Franglais, that is each other\u2019s rock. Maybe it is that complicit\u00e9 that makes them such an artistic powerhouse. Sensing that in each other, they set out to work together.\nParis has been home to them ever since they met, and where they have been working with the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Fools and Feathers company since 2009, performing original creations such as Tubby and Nottubby and Out of the Dark. Sought-after by directors like Robert Lepage, Shuji Onodera, Omar Porras, and Andrew Wilson, they have come a long way from the street performers they first set out as, to being invited to play all over the world. South Korea, Japan, Canada, or Afghanistan, to name but a few.\nPlaying in Kabul in June 2013 at the joint invitation of the Institut Fran\u00e7ais, the British Arts Council, and the Goethe Institute really left a mark on both of them. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know what to expect\u2026maybe no one was going to come to see the play, not to mention the extreme and constant danger,\u201d Louis tells us. \u201cThere were four suicide attacks during our two week stay in Kabul.\u201d But the culture-deprived local population flocked to the French Institute and welcomed artists and play with incredible enthusiasm. It was a triumph, which not even the total blackout 20 minutes before the performance could mar.\nSophie and Louis also ran theatre workshops both at The National Theater and at The University of Kabul, marveling at the vitality, talent and courage of the actors who continued to come back day after day, despite some of their family\u2019s disapproval and the Talibans\u2019 threats. They witnessed the transformation of shy young women into confident ones within just a few days, simply because they were encouraged to push the envelope of their daily existence a little bit. \u201cWhat a journey! It takes so little and it does so much,\u201d Sophie says.\nIt may also have to do with their approach to what theater is. \u201cTo quote our teacher Jacques Lecoq, theater is there to change life. It allows you to be in touch with your emotions. You don\u2019t have to be afraid of someone like Shakespeare, we want to show how much fun, how concrete, how poetic his work really is,\u201d Louis adds. Theater is the great uniter, as they have often experienced, and it has also united their two families in the English Cotswolds and in Quebec City who are now very proud of their talented children, and have for themselves discovered the fascinating world of the stage.\n{youtube}bQuLqxPMDZc?rel=0{/youtube}\nAnd it is that philosophy of an \u201caccessible theater\u201d that they share with Irina Brook, Director of the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de Nice. After having seen Tubby and Nottubby near Paris in 2013 \u2013 another instance of serendipity at play here \u2013 she programmed the show soon after she was called to lead the TNN in January 2014.\nA perfect move both for the artists and the audience. \u201cWhat an experience! The atmosphere was great and we felt very much loved and welcome in Nice. Working with Irina was unique \u2013 beautifully challenging\u2026. and chapeau to the tech teams, our own and that of the TNN, stage manager Sauveur Fargione, sound engineer Guillaume Pomares and light engineer Alex Toscani!\u201d, Sophie and Louis jointly remember their passage at the TNN. The appreciation certainly went both ways\u2026. the Ni\u00e7ois public was profoundly touched by Tubby and Nottubby\u2019s bittersweet story and left in a rare state of adoration, talking about the play for days after.\nNext on Sophie and Louis\u2019 schedule, a tour of Western Canada at the invitation of the Cercle Moli\u00e8re, in Winnipeg, and L\u2019Unitheatre, in Edmonton for a series of 25 performances. They will return to perform near Paris at the end of March 2015.\n\u201cWe do work separately and for other people from time to time,\u201d Louis says, \u201cbut truth be told, we prefer to be together, even at half pay.\u201d Such stuff as dreams are made of, and happy marriages, and beautiful theater\u2026..\nAll images courtesy Louis Fortier & Sophie Brech; lead image and stage photos \u00a9 Karine C\u00f4t\u00e9; Tubby and Nottubby headshots \u00a9 Alex Maltais\nSan Francisco\u2019s LINES Ballet Visits the French Riviera\nWinter or Summer, Check Out the Red Kaf\u00e9 in Nice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 13242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rockingquotes.com/author/d._w._griffith/griffith_6344_1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:11Z", "digest": "sha1:HBPQHWBIN7RLP7EHVJM6X6LUX5QTSUMB", "length": 396, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rockingquotes.com", "title": "D. 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So could not boast even Moscow monasteries.\nIn 1930 the monastery was severely looted. The whole church utensils were separated, and the walls are markedly deteriorated. 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Beautiful shirt or top.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 204.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://russellhrconsulting.co.uk/the-hr-headmistress-blog/tagged/disability", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:13Z", "digest": "sha1:V5JFXEDHPASAAZE35VBKSSN7LU2IFVGZ", "length": 594, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "russellhrconsulting.co.uk", "title": "The HR Headmistress' blog", "raw_content": "As part of our training process trainee and junior consultants spend time with clients to gain an understanding of the different roles in various organisations. We work with a number of different types of clients from schools to builders\u2019...\nMon 23rd Feb 2015 | Tagged as: loading...\nTo be Sick or Not to be Sick\nDid you know that an employee does not need to be fully recovered to return to work?\nThe Government has recently indicated that employers may, in principle, be able to overrule a GP's advice in a fit note as to whether or not a person is...\nMon 9th Sep 2013 | Tagged as: loading...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 5560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 221.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://s36.a2zinc.net/clients/questex/ncb19/Public/eBooth.aspx?IndexInList=141&FromPage=Exhibitors.aspx&ParentBoothID=&ListByBooth=true&BoothID=159692", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:45Z", "digest": "sha1:G62MKBQ6S4RURHUKL643IG42WLHTLARQ", "length": 466, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "s36.a2zinc.net", "title": "Nightclub & Bar 2019", "raw_content": "Greenspun Media Group/Culture Weekly\nGreenspun Media Group is the most influential, full-service media solutions provider in Southern Nevada with over 68 years of journalism expertise, publishing award-winning print and digital media in the Las Vegas Valley covering news, business, entertainment, nightlife, restaurants, personalities, shows and attractions.\nBrands: Las Vegas Weekly, Culture Weekly, Las Vegas Magazine, Vegas2Go, Las Vegas Sun.com and VegasInc.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 9669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sacrebleu.xyz/2018/12/06/is-china-really-more-dystopian-than-the-uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:10Z", "digest": "sha1:3SOH3SPO2T37EUAXFDLX5GA7MZRYVB2X", "length": 2993, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sacrebleu.xyz", "title": "Is China Really More \u201cDystopian\u201d Than The UK? | Sacre Bleu", "raw_content": "Is China Really More \u201cDystopian\u201d Than The UK?\nAuthored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review,\nRT reported that the UK\u2019s so-called \u201cNational Data Analytics Solution\u201d will see an algorithm process whichever of 30 separate data points have been recorded about a person in local and national police databases in order to predict which members of the population are most likely to commit a crime or be victimized by one, after which the state will dispatch local health and social workers to offer \u201ccounseling\u201d to them in an attempt to prevent the computer\u2019s envisioned scenario from transpiring.\nThis program is being likened to the 2002 film \u201cMinority Report\u201d and carries with it a vibe of China\u2019s controversial \u201csocial credit\u201d system, albeit without any \u201crewards\u201d being offered for law-abiding behavior. In fact, one can actually make the claim that instead of the UK copying China to a degree, it was actually China that learned from the UK seeing as how the island nation\u2019s mass surveillance system used to be far ahead of the communist nation\u2019s one.\nThe problem with \u201cpre-crime\u201d technology, however, is that it straddles the fine line between security and liberty in what is supposed to be a \u201cdemocracy\u201d, therefore making it uncomfortably out of place in the UK while being much more natural to implement in centrally controlled societies like China\u2019s. While the European country insincerely pretends to be a \u201cdemocracy\u201d in the Western sense of how this system is commonly assumed to function, the East Asian one makes no such pretenses and is proud of having a different organizational model, which should be doubly disturbing for any British citizen because it means that their \u201cdemocratically elected government\u201d is actually less forthcoming about its nationwide surveillance strategy than comparatively more centralized China\u2019s is. No value judgement is being made about either country\u2019s governing system, but the purpose of this comparison is to point out the surprising similarities between the two that are usually lost on most observers.\nFor as much as China is demonized for taking proactive security measures against Uighurs who the state fears are at risk of succumbing to terrorist ideologies, the UK will essentially be channeling the same spirit of this strategy through its \u201cNational Data Analytics Solution\u201d with what can only be assumed are the ethno-socio minority groups in the country that are statistically more at risk of committing crimes or being victimized by them.\nThe difference, however, is that drawing attention to this doesn\u2019t serve the US\u2019 geopolitical interests because it has nothing to gain by destabilizing the UK and possibly imposing sanctions against it for supposedly violating these subjects\u2019 \u201chuman rights\u201d, unlike its stance towards China in this respect. While many are fretting that \u201cEast Asia\u201d is pioneering the way for Orwell\u2019s 1984 to come to life, they\u2019d do well to consider just how much \u201cOceania\u201d has already done to make this a reality too.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 3631, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sagewoman.life/2016/11/16/its-an-opportunity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:02Z", "digest": "sha1:EK62P26EY2ST4RCISDCNKYWSNMJWOMQ6", "length": 1007, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sagewoman.life", "title": "It\u2019s An Opportunity \u2013 Sage Woman Chronicles", "raw_content": "On November 16, 2016 November 15, 2016 By lucindasagemidgordenIn Empathy, Peace, personal growth, Uncategorized\nPeaceTaking ActionThe Electionsviolence\n5 thoughts on \u201cIt\u2019s An Opportunity\u201d\nkim kling\nThank you for this! These kinds of thoughts are so needed in the world right now. Love to you Lucinda!!\nThanks, Kim. Love to you and your family.\nThank you, Lucinda. You always say exactly what I need to hear. I need to know that there are other people out there feeling as I do. It\u2019s been such a roller coaster ride; so many ups and downs. Trying to keep our balance is an ongoing process. I return to the teachings and wisdom of the ages for sustenance. The quotes you shared were perfect. I\u2019m loving your book!\nThanks, Dorothy. I\u2019m just trying to figure out how I feel and what to do next. I\u2019m glad you like my book.\nI expected an uproar after the election. If Trump had lost, he would have contested the whole election. I figured at least some protest if Trump won. We wills how the whole thing plays out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sagharborexpress.com/east-enders-air-concerns-about-south-fork-wind-farm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:28Z", "digest": "sha1:N2JYWTPL5SMD7EVUU5YJETQBT2Y32UQB", "length": 8823, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "sagharborexpress.com", "title": "East Enders Air Concerns About South Fork Wind Farm - The Sag Harbor Express", "raw_content": "Home News Environment East Enders Air Concerns About South Fork Wind Farm\nEast Enders Air Concerns About South Fork Wind Farm\nEast Hampton Town Surpervisor Peter Van Scoyoc speaking during a meeting at the Amagansett American Legion on Monday. Peter Boody photo\nThe potential for \u201cindustrialization\u201d of the ocean by wind farm developers was among the worries aired Monday night when about 150 people packed the Amagansett American Legion Hall for a meeting hosted by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) as it begins to weigh the environmental impacts of Deepwater Wind\u2019s proposed South Fork Wind Farm and its undersea transmission cable.\nMichael McDonald of the environmental East End Resilience Network said he favored wind energy but the more he looked into the project and the potential for more wind farm developers to seek BOEM sea-bottom leases, \u201cIt appears as if we\u2019re industrializing our town and our ocean resources.\u201d He asked BOEM to limit any further offshore development after Deepwater \u201cuntil we understand better\u201d what its impacts will be.\nThe event was one of three \u201cscoping sessions\u201d BOEM is holding on Long Island and the southeast coast of New England to collect concerns, comments and questions about the environmental review process for Deepwater\u2019s planned wind farm, which the company says will provide enough power for 50,000 \u201ctypical\u201d homes on the South Fork. It will be located on ocean floor Deepwater has leased from BOEM about 35 miles east of Montauk, with an undersea transmission cable planned to come ashore at Beach Lane in Wainscott or in Napeague.\nThe meeting was highly structured, apparently organized to limit the potential for conflict. Except for Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, who was given four minutes because he was speaking on behalf of both the Town Board and the Town Trustees, speakers were limited to two-minute questions or comments by the \u201cfacilitator,\u201d Meg Perry of the Washington D.C.-based organization Resolve, a private nonprofit that specializes in \u201ccollaborative problem solving,\u201d according to its website.\nOn hand to answer questions were Mary Boatman, BOEM\u2019s environmental impact statement coordinator, and Aileen Kenney, Deepwater\u2019s senior vice president for development, as well as other BOEM and Deepwater representatives who staffed informational displays set up around the room.\nAmong the comments and questions, offered over the course of two hours, a man with a British accent said that, in Europe, \u201cthere\u2019s nowhere left where you can\u2019t see a wind turbine\u201d offshore.\nA woman said she\u2019d heard there would be 200 turbines offshore, not just the 15 Deepwater proposes, which BOEM and Deepwater officials both said was untrue. But in answer to a later question, Ms. Kenney of Deepwater said other lease areas held by other companies near the South Fork wind farm site could contain a maximum of 100 to 125 more turbines, which she said the company would take into consideration in the environmental impact statement (EIS).\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want to live in a factory\u201d for energy production, like the Gulf of Mexico, Ira Barocas said. The Gulf\u2019s fisheries have been \u201cretarded\u201d by energy development, he added. \u201cWhat will this mean for our entire future here?\u201d\nA Sagaponack resident, noting that a single voice isn\u2019t loud but 15 people talking in a room create a kind of \u201charmonic reverb,\u201d asked if the noise impact of the wind farm would be assessed cumulatively rather than on the basis of each individual turbine.\nSi Kinsella of Wainscott asked if BOEM would question \u201cthe need for the wind farm in the first place,\u201d given data that shows South Fork energy consumption declined 7.3 percent over the last decade and is forecast to decline another 3.7 percent over the next 10 years.\nBut a few speakers warned that climate change posed a far greater and more environmental immediate threat than the wind farm.\n\u201cI hear a lot of people talking about \u2026 protecting the character of the town. I\u2019m here to tell you that ship has sailed,\u201d said Don Matheson of East Hampton. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its own assessment of the impacts of global warming, has called for society to \u201cdisassemble and replace 58 percent of the Industrial Revolution in 12 years\u201d to prevent \u201ccreeping chaos,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThat ain\u2019t going to happen,\u201d he added. So environmental chaos \u201cis going to creep over the Town of East Hampton, creep over the fishing industry in terms of acidification of the ocean, so we don\u2019t have a choice. We and communities like us all over the world have to make a decision to name our poison. I would like to thank Deepwater wind for taking the financial risk to perhaps take a small baby step forward to fight climate change and I would urge you to be sure that you look at this environmental impact on fishing and on the town in the context of the environmental impact statement provided by the IPCC from thousands of scientists all over the world.\nThere was as much applause for Mr. Matheson and Janet Sickle, who also raised the specter of impending environmental catastrophe from global warming, as there was for speakers critical of Deepwater Wind.\n\u201cWe have a 10- or 11-year window to quit using fossil fuels or we will have tipped the planet over into an irreversible process,\u201d Ms. Van Sickle said. \u201cI know that fishing is not an abstraction while what I\u2019ve just said is abstract. It\u2019s very hard to believe because it sounds like science fiction \u2014 but it\u2019s science actuality.\u201d She added that \u201c\u2026 our children and our grandchildren, this way of leading a life, is far more endangered by climate change \u2014 the acidification and the warming of the oceans \u2014 than it is endangered by a wartime, emergency switchover to renewable energy.\u201d\nDeepwater Wind\u2019s contract with LIPA-PSEG to sell its wind farm\u2019s power into the grid here is \u201cdeeply flawed and I am not supporting that aspect of Deepwater Wind,\u201d she added, \u201cbut we must switch to renewable energy as if our lives depended upon it.\u201d\nBayman Brad Loewen, chair of the East Hampton Town Fisheries Committee, and a former town councilman, offered what he called \u201can official complaint about this meeting for the record.\u201d He said unrestricted public comment was an essential element of the environmental review process and yet the meeting was set up with a two-minute speaking limit, which he \u201cviewed as a stifling of public comment.\u201d He added that \u201cyou guys have already made up your mind and just don\u2019t give a damn what we say.\u201d\nGoing on to a written statement, he said of local commercial fishermen, \u201cWe aren\u2019t unsophisticated climate deniers who need to be told what\u2019s best for us and our future. Why should we be the only ones who sacrifice ourselves to Deepwater and their profit?\u201d Referring to Deepwater\u2019s recent sale to the Danish wind-energy giant \u00d8rsted, he asked, \u201cWhy should we believe them when they tell us they have everyone\u2019s best interest at heart after having sold themselves to European big money people thousands of miles away who know nothing about us and our lives.\u201d\nLocal attorney George Stankevich quipped, \u201cThank you for this project,\u201d which he implied would blaze a trail for \u201cthe largest offshore oil drilling companies in the world\u201d to move in and \u201cin five years I\u2019ll be representing\u201d them. He added of BOEM and Deepwater officials at the meeting, \u201cIf you think they can control the supervisor with a flash card\u201d showing his time is up they are \u201cfar removed from the reality of East Hampton.\u201d\nMr. Van Scoyoc read a long-prepared statement that went into technical detail about the issues the Town Board and the Town Trustees want addressed in the BOEM\u2019s EIS for Deepwater. After his four minutes, Councilman David Lys, Town Trustee clerk Francis Brock and Trustee Rick Drew continued reading the statement with their two-minute allotments.\nIts most pointed requests came as Mr. Drew read it. Of documents submitted so far by Deepwater, he said that \u201cthe offshore electric and magnetic field assessment is based on a maximum 132-megawatt-sized wind farm. Yet the largest currently available turbines are 10 megawatts. NGE [Energies] is developing a 12-megawatt turbine meaning\u201d the transmission cable \u201ccould well be asked to handle a 150- to 180-megawatt project. In addition, the existing noise study does not address the possible increase above 132 megawatts resulting from future repowering of turbines.\nAlso, he said, \u201cThe submitted studies do not appear to be coordinated.\u201d A magnetic and electric field assessment study, he said, refers to a 138-kilovolt \u201cSouth Fork export cable\u201d while a more recent fish habitat assessment refers to a 230-kilovolt cable.\n\u201cThat\u2019s not a minor discrepancy,\u201d he said.\nPrevious articleStudents Pour Their Hearts into \u2018Don\u2019t Drink the Water\u2019\nNext articleNew Artists-In-Residence Program Fosters the Creative Spirit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 13382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sagharborexpress.com/traffic-forefront-tj-maxx-expansion-concerns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IOHVMZHOUZW5GEQGDM3DPEYU3MNETWAK", "length": 6502, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "sagharborexpress.com", "title": "Traffic at Forefront of T.J. Maxx Expansion Concerns - The Sag Harbor Express", "raw_content": "Home News Government Traffic at Forefront of T.J. Maxx Expansion Concerns\nTraffic at Forefront of T.J. Maxx Expansion Concerns\nT.J. Maxx in Bridgehampton.\nAt a public hearing on a proposal to expand discount retailer T.J. Maxx in the Bridgehampton Commons, the shopping center owned by Kimco Realty on Montauk Highway and Snake Hollow Road, residents expressed concern the project had the potential to further exacerbate traffic in the hamlet.\nOn November 8, the Southampton Town Planning Board held its first public hearing on a proposal to expand the 33,000 square-foot building, located on the eastern side of the shopping mall, by 17,000 square-feet.\nThe public hearing followed an October 4 decision by the Southampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals to approve multiple variances to allow the project to move forward. After ruling in August to issue a negative declaration on the project \u2014 meaning it does not have the potential to cause a significant adverse environmental impact under the State Environmental Quality Review Act \u2014 the planning board deemed the application complete last month, paving the way for public hearings before the board votes on whether to approve the expansion.\nAccording to planning board Chairman Dennis Finnerty, the public hearing will be re-opened for comment on December 13 when the project-sponsors \u2014 not at last Thursday\u2019s meeting \u2014 are expected to attend.\nBridgehampton Citizens Advisory Committee Chairperson Pamela Harwood was the first to speak, representing the CAC, a group that has vocally opposed the expansion.\n\u201cBridgehampton residents are seeing their small, once rural hamlet becoming a hub of oversized commercial and residential development,\u201d she said. \u201cThe Southampton Town Planning Board has in the last few years seemed to favor wealthy business interests by approving a wave of town code variances despite community resistance, all given to allow even larger structures and usage.\u201d\nAs members of the planning board later tols Ms. Harwood, the board cannot legally grant variances \u2014 that is the purview of the town\u2019s zoning board of appeals. A planning board is charged with reviewing site plans and is often tasked with serving as the lead agency for large development projects under SEQRA. It also has the ability to regulate land use through tools like \u201cbanking\u201d parking spaces, which is proposed for this project. Land banking allows a developer to designate open space that could be used for parking and reserve that space as green space unless it is deemed in the future to be necessary to accommodate parking needs.\n\u201cI want to say, I am not anti-Bridgehampton Commons,\u201d said Ms. Harwood. \u201cIn fact, I love the Bridgehampton Commons. I live five minutes away and go there every week. But enough is enough.\u201d\n\u201cDo we want Bridgehampton to be the new center for big box stores of the Hamptons? Nobody in Bridgehampton wants that,\u201d she said.\n\u201cI have also heard you approved a traffic study that says there is no additional traffic because it is an extension of the existing store,\u201d added Ms. Harwood. \u201cI have not spoken to anyone who agrees with that. Everyone thinks there is the possibility of more traffic but I would air on the side of caution. We just came from Bridgehampton tonight. It took a half hour to get from Bridgehampton, Main Street just to the border of Water Mill \u2026\u201d\nIn a statement read by Ms. Harwood, Nancy Cervantes said the project could harm the character of the hamlet.\n\u201cWhy are we letting developers destroy these qualities by augmenting a mall that was out of character at its inception and is totally wrong in 2018,\u201d she wrote. \u201cPlease look at the whole picture.\u201d\nMs. Cervantes warned approval could impact future applications including the redevelopment of 13 acres owned by Konner Development across the street from Bridgehampton Commons.\n\u201cUntil there has been an updated master plan, there should be a moratorium on any mall development or expansion,\u201d wrote Ms. Cervantes.\nAndrea Spilka, of Eastport, also submitted a statement through Ms. Harwood on behalf of the Southampton Town Civic Coalition \u2014 an umbrella organization of many civic associations located west of the Shinnecock Canal. She called on the board to deny the application.\n\u201cWe have all experienced traffic problems from Water Mill to Bridgehampton and sadly, the proposed expansion would make matters worse,\u201d Ms. Spilka wrote.\nShe also questioned the need for the expansion.\n\u201cI question the corporation\u2019s business plan,\u201d Ms. Spilka wrote. \u201cTo go to the expense of building an additional store when there are already vacant storefronts in the Bridgehampton Commons \u2014 right to the left of the T.J. Maxx entrance there are two empty stores \u2014 seems foolhardy as does expanding their brick and mortar footprint when so many people are changing their buying habits, resulting in the closure of many retail stores.\u201d\nNoyac resident Larry Penny told the board it should use its influence to encourage the developer to install solar panels on the roof of the new building.\n\u201cI know you can\u2019t tell the developer he has to do that but you have a little freedom to work with the developer,\u201d said Mr. Penny. \u201cIf the whole mall were solarized it would be enough to provide about 500 houses electricity.\u201d\nMr. Penny also said the planning board should require an environmental impact statement under SEQRA, although the board has already voted not to do.\n\u201cWhat concerns me most is the traffic,\u201d said resident John Kringler. \u201cI live here year-round and it gets worse every month it seems.\u201d\nPlanning board member Jacqui Lofaro agreed traffic is an issue that residents face throughout Southampton.\n\u201cWe have no traffic engineer on staff in this town,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat is the single, biggest nightmare in this town \u2014 traffic.\u201d\nShe encouraged residents to lobby the town board to hire an engineer to study traffic throughout the town and \u201ccome up with some creative solutions.\u201d\n\u201cWe are all frustrated about the traffic and getting past the Commons,\u201d she said. \u201cIt may not be the Commons \u2014 it could be the trade parade.\u201d\nMs. Lofaro also noted with roads owned by the state, county and town, it can be complicated to bring everyone to the table to come up with reasonable solutions.\n\u201cSo we are as frustrated as you are,\u201d she said.\n\u201cWe will bring this back up on the 13thand by then we will have all the traffic problems figured out,\u201d joked Mr. Finnerty.\nPrevious articlePublic Hearing Planned on Fischl, Gornik\u2019s \u2018The Church\u2019\nNext articleSmall Town Crank: Lost in the Madhouse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 10632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sagittarius.agency/author/sara-galbiati", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QYBVYX4HILQVJFQ7JHMD5VJJVV4JTTCI", "length": 379, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "sagittarius.agency", "title": "Sara Galbiati | SEO Consultant", "raw_content": "Sara is one of our SEO Consultants, with over 10 years' experience in Digital Marketing, leading strategy, communications and delivery for high profile accounts.\nSEO is her true love but she also has a keen interest in Social and Influencer Marketing.\nOutside of work, she enjoys spending time with her daughter, going to gigs and watching all the latest sci-fi and crime series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 184.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://samferree.com/2013/10/07/the-laziest-critic/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:02Z", "digest": "sha1:RCNGU7K7A3L7URTX3LRBTLR6Q5ESKK7T", "length": 3879, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "samferree.com", "title": "The Laziest Critic | sam ferree | scribbler", "raw_content": "\u2190 Nonprofiteers #3 \u2013 Pessimist Bias\nA matter of indifference \u2192\nThe Laziest Critic\nWhile we were workshopping his play, my friend K asked, \u201cBut, the question I\u2019ve been wondering is, \u2018Does this story need to be told?\u2019 I\u2019ve heard of so many writers who hear that question and realize, \u2018My god, what have I been doing?\u2019 Does this story need to be told?\u201d\nI have only heard that question a handful of times. The person asking typically offers this and nothing more to the conversation and everyone stumbles around trying to answer, eventually arriving at \u201cNo,\u201d because there is no way to answer that question. I\u2019ve never bothered trying because the question deserves no response.\nIn my first workshop, R said that for every story there is some merit to compliment and some deficiency to criticize. I agree with that, but I\u2019ve met too many people that favor the latter over the former.\nThere are a lot of good questions to ask when you\u2019re critiquing a story. What\u2019s at stake? What do the characters want? Where is this going? Etc. (and insert specificity). If things are unclear and you\u2019re pretty sure they aren\u2019t meant to be, you should ask a question.\n\u201cDoes this story need to be told?\u201d is the laziest critique I\u2019ve ever heard.\nIf you can\u2019t come up with a better reason to question the merit of another person\u2019s story, you\u2019re not trying hard enough. That doesn\u2019t mean there isn\u2019t something wrong with the story (there is always something that could be better), but asking \u201cDoes this story needs to be told,\u201d probably means 1.) You don\u2019t like it for aesthetic reasons (which is perfectly fine, but useless to the writer), or 2.) You think it\u2019s unoriginal, which I would argue is not necessarily a bad thing.\nAs Zero Punctuation pointed out, there was absolutely nothing original about The Last of Us. It was just a typical action-adventure, zombie-post-apocalyptic, survivor-horror video game. If you know the genres, you probably could\u2019ve gone down a checklist of all the tropes and not missed a single one. However, what makes The Last of Us stand above all the others is that it was a Great action-adventure, zombie-post-apocalyptic, survivor-horror game. Yes, there wasn\u2019t anything new, but damn did they do it better than everyone else.\nOthers have said it more eloquently than me, but if your sole criteria for whether or not something is good is originality, you probably hate a lot of things (like Zero Punctuation, but he\u2019s at least entertaining), which is unfortunate. It\u2019s bad for your heart and quality of life.\nBut the question of whether or not a story should be told isn\u2019t just ridiculous \u2013 it\u2019s offensive. It expresses discomfort or value judgement to subject matter. Good criticism (at least in a workshop) is about craft.\nLast Wednesday, I listened to a slam poet friend perform a story at Kieran\u2019s Irish Pub about the first time he masturbated and he turned it into a meaningful commentary on Americans\u2019 discomfort with sexuality. In the same hour, I struggled to pay attention to a man talk about his first-hand experience with rural poverty.\nA better anecdote: A teacher of mine told me about how when she was 19 she won the right to go workshop with some Great Writer. When it was her turn, the Great Writer tore her work to pieces and made her cry in front of everyone present. Afterwards he spoke to her privately, \u201cFor the next five years, don\u2019t write another word. Go to Rio Grande City in Texas and work there as a waitress for five years. Then you\u2019ll have stories to tell.\u201d\n\u201cBull shit,\u201d my teacher concluded.\nBull shit, I say. An old man tells a young woman that the only worthwhile stories she has to tell are those she gleans from someone else\u2019s tragedy. No one has the right to tell you your story doesn\u2019t deserve to be told.\nWe all have worthwhile stories to tell and it\u2019s the telling that matters.\nFiled under SlamMN, Story Slam, Uncategorized, Writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 6749, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://samgentle.com/posts/2016-08-22-prototype-wrapup-26", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EYHIQPWBKSUC6NHZHRJQUFLUCF56NADI", "length": 2359, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "samgentle.com", "title": "Prototype wrapup #26 - Sam Gentle.com", "raw_content": "Last time I just made a one-off prototype, but this set of prototypes is once again a series of parts leading up to a project. The post for that project is coming soon, but in short it involves real-time button and display synced to a webpage. This led to a particularly interesting set of problems because I basically wrote code for 4 different environments: Arduino, ESP, web server, and web client. This was on a pretty short time frame, so most of the code is pretty rough and ready. Still, although it involved a lot of different moving parts, each individual part wasn't too complex. Perfect for prototypes!\nThis was the Arduino code necessary to drive the display, as well as both send and receive updates over serial. One neat trick I ended up using here was JSON for communication, and ignoring anything that didn't begin with a left curly (as a JSON object does). This meant I could send debug information and data on the same serial port and, indeed, debug it even while the serial port was being used for communication between the Arduino and ESP. I also, for some reason, wrote it in a way that would allow me to have any number of displays and buttons.\nFor this part, getting the Arduino to talk to the web server, I basically just wanted a serial-to-web-request proxy. I used NodeMCU and wrote a custom Lua script on top. This wasn't strictly necessary, and in some ways it may have been easier to just use Arduino on both ends (The Arduino platform can build for the ESP chip). But Lua is fun, and I figured this way I wouldn't have to swap back and forth between Arduino serial targets, which is always a huge pain. Plus being event-driven was probably the best API here, because multiple requests could be coming in over the wire at once, though in practical terms all I did was drop them anyway.\nThis is the code for the actual web client and server. Ye olde bog standard Coffeescript plus DOM manipulation, nothing fancy because fanciness wasn't really required. Everything just used polling, so it's not really real time, though I had in the back of my head that maybe I should be using websockets. I knew I'd need to have polling as a fallback regardless, and I thought maybe polling would cache better, so I figured that might be enough. Both the graphics and the websockets ended up coming later, but that's for next week's prototypes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 2514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sanspareilonline.com/tag/vagina/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VPQXXBB67MQCPJ4OLEKWOOXZLQCEH4WU", "length": 455, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sanspareilonline.com", "title": "vagina Archives -", "raw_content": "by Adminupdated on September 25, 2018 September 25, 2018 Leave a Comment on Six Things You Really Need to Know About Vaginas By Emma Raho0\nOn my daily journeys through the internet I\u2019ve seen a disturbing trend of misinformation and rumours about our lady bits that just won\u2019t die. So I\u2019ve decided to compile a list of the most common rumours and explain why they are complete bollocks. \u201cPubic hair on women is disgusting and dirty\u201d \u2013 Pubic hair actually \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/3352", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QWTLQHHBWCQ4RBQTMCMEEDZME3YOV4VE", "length": 466, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "scholarworks.iu.edu", "title": "Index", "raw_content": "Barrett, Edward (State Geologist)\nPublisher: Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana Geological Survey Press\nCitation: Barrett, E. (Ed.) (1917). \"Index.\" In Forty-first annual report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana, pp. 122-123. Bloomington, IN: Indiana Geological Survey Press.\nSeries, #: Annual Reports of the Indiana Geological Survey\nName: 41st_Index.pdf\nThe Forty-First Annual Report of the Department of Geology and Natural Resources, Indiana", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://screenrant.com/wonder-woman-tv-trailer-poster-diana-prince/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:39Z", "digest": "sha1:35TLSZGL77G5A7NTOCDD54XQ3HZDTM6U", "length": 3201, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "screenrant.com", "title": "Wonder Woman TV Trailer & Poster Revealed | ScreenRant", "raw_content": "Wonder Woman TV Trailer & Poster: Diana Prince Gets Her Name\nWarner Bros unveils a new Wonder Woman TV trailer and battle-focused poster with little more than a month left before the film's theatrical debut. The character of Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) was first introduced in Warner Bros' burgeoning DC Extended Universe in last year's Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. Though Zack Snyder's second DCEU entry was disliked by a number of critics and received a divisive response from fans, Gadot's portrayal of Wonder Woman was largely enjoyed by viewers. While the second DCEU film to debut in 2016 was the villain team-up Suicide Squad, Warner Bros' next DC Comics film is focused entirely on Diana.\nDirected by Patty Jenkins, Wonder Woman depicts the hero's origin story as she grows up as a princess of Themyscira then travels to the human world with Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) to put an end to World War I. However, we know that she'll face off against the Wonder Woman villain Ares, the god of War, within the film, which will no doubt offer insight into how Diana became the hero we met in Batman V Superman. Now, a new TV trailer and poster for Wonder Woman further tease the superhero's origin story that will be featured in her upcoming solo film.\nWarner Bros released a new TV trailer (above), which features a great deal of the same footage that debuted in the Wonder Woman TV spots last week, including the scene in which Steve cuts off Diana before she can introduce herself as the princess of Themyscira - simply introducing her as Diana Prince. The new poster was unveiled by Gadot herself on Twitter and highlights Wonder Woman in no man's land on a WWI battlefield, using her gauntlets to deflect a bullet. Take a look:\nLike all the Wonder Woman posters that have come before this one, the new one-sheet from Warner Bros features Diana, and Diana alone. Although the cast of Wonder Woman includes a number of well known and respected actors - such as Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, and David Thewlis - each piece of marketing focuses most on the film's titular superhero. Of course, that's not to say the other actors don't have stand out moments in the various trailers and TV spots (Lucy Davis is hilarious as Etta Candy in particular), but the posters specifically focus on Wonder Woman alone.\nThis new trailer and poster arrive on the heels of Warner Bros stepping up their marketing for Wonder Woman with little more than a month left before the film's debut. Just before the five-weeks-left mark, fans began to voice concerns over the lack of Wonder Woman marketing up to that point, especially considering the studio had already released a full trailer for Justice League nine months ahead of that DCEU entry's premiere. However, it seems Warner Bros either took fan concern into consideration and stepped up their Wonder Woman promotion or the studio always planned to begin the final big push for Diana's solo vehicle around this time. Either way, with just over four weeks left before the movie hits theaters, Warner Bros is working hard to get fans and casual moviegoers alike excited for Wonder Woman.\nNext: Wonder Woman Movie Theories That Could Be True", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scvincent.com/2018/09/28/north-easterly-sidetracked-by-saints/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:77XACEL7NUER6LXA7DO4D54TIH6CK3IG", "length": 8101, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "scvincent.com", "title": "North-easterly: Sidetracked by saints | Sue Vincent's Daily Echo", "raw_content": "\u2190 Spindle-Stone Heugh\u2026 Stuart France\nThe Last Hrtedyp ~ James Pyles #writephoto \u2192\nNorth-easterly: Sidetracked by saints\nFew churches named after a saint have a historical claim to have been built by their namesake, but St Aidan\u2019s church in Bamburgh is one of the few who have that right. The original church here was founded by St Aidan himself in 635, shortly after he was called to Bamburgh by King Oswald.\nAidan was a monk at the monastery on the island of Iona where Oswald had been raised as a boy. Aidan, like most of those who served at Iona, was Irish and, in the early part of his mission to Northumberland, King Oswald was obliged to act as his interpreter. King and monk shared a mission to bring their faith to the region and must have become close friends.\nAfter Oswald\u2019s death in battle at the hands of King Penda, the king was hailed as a saint and many miracles were attributed to his relics and the spot where he died. Bamburgh\u2019s parish church has a chapel dedicated to Oswald as both king and saint, an over its altar is a gilded image of the king with his sister, St \u00c6bbe, whose church we had seen just an hour earlier.\nAidan\u2019s mission continued to receive royal support from Oswald\u2019s successor, Oswine, and the saint\u2019s manner led to these two also becoming friends. When, during his devotions at his new monastery on Holy Island, Aidan saw the smoke of battle rising from the walls in 651, the saint fell to his knees in prayer and exhortation\u2026 and, the story goes, the walls of the fortress escaped the flames unscathed.\nAidan was a visionary in more ways than one and walked through life in the footsteps of his faith. The Venerable Bede wrote of the saint that he never rode where he could walk, gave only hospitality to the wealthy, and all donations he received were given to the poor, used for housing and educating orphans and for freeing those sold into slavery. Winning the love and respect of all, from the lowliest to the highest, it is little wonder that he is venerated in this area\u2026and especially at the church where he died.\nHe was buried at his monastery on Lindisfarne, the Holy Island, and although the shrine at Bamburgh stands empty, it is still filled with the light of the many candles that are lit beside it. The atmosphere of the church changes as you pass from nave to chancel and stand before the shrine.\nThere is a sense of coming into a holy place, quite unlike the feeling you usually experience in the quiet and reverential atmosphere of a church. Perhaps it is centuries of prayer that charges the very air and stone with the faith of the thousands who have paused here, acknowledging that whatever they hold in their hearts stems from One Light, no matter by what Name they know It.\nThe current church dates largely to the twelfth century. The capital of one pillar bears ornate Norman decoration and the style of the building shows its growth, with rounded Norman arches holding Victorian and modern stained glass beside the windows with later Gothic tracery.\nThe font is a modern affair, with a highly decorated and unusual cover, showing the offices performed by the priesthood. Whilst its stark colours may grate on modern sensibilities, this bright and ornate style would have been perfect for the early church. In a world where vivid dyes and colour were largely reserved for the wealthy, the churches offered a sacred spectacle to all with wall painted, glass and gilding. The glass in the church is truly spectacular, with a huge amount of windows casting jewelled light through the shadows.\nBeneath the chancel is a crypt that now contains the remains of a hundred and ten skeletons recovered from the sand dunes below the castle. The Bowl Hill burial site dates back to St Aidan\u2019s time and the people who were buried there may well have known both Oswald and St Aidan himself. They would certainly have known of the saint, and, had they lived after his death, have revered the spot where he died. The excavations spanned decades, and much has been learned from the remains of those who were laid to rest beneath the church.\nOne skeleton was that of a local man over sixty-five years old, while another of a similar age came from Scandinavia. One young woman was a seamstress and the wear on her teeth shows where she held the needle over the years\u2026and perhaps bit the thread too. A child\u2019s bones show that he was born in the Mediterranean area, and later spent time living in France, while another skeleton, that of a teenage boy, showed a sword cut had struck him from shoulder to knee.\nI like the thought of them being laid to rest, with all due ceremony and respect, in a church they would have known fourteen hundred years ago\u2026even though the stones we now see stones would not be placed there until long after they themselves had been forgotten. Later that weekend, we were present at another dig, quite by chance, and saw the first glimpses of the bones of Aidan\u2019s brethren from the Lindisfarne monastery\u2026 and that was incredibly moving.\nThe chancel has an ornately carved reredos showing mainly Northumbrian saints, and is worthy of far more attention than we gave it. Our eyes were held, though, by a series of stunning windows from the Netherlands depicting the Twelve Apostles. The clear, vivid colours are incredibly rich and each window is striking.\nBeneath their beauty is a very simple tomb, set into a niche in the wall. It bears the effigy of a Crusader Knight, possible a Templar, and beside him is a banner, the Beaus\u00e9ant\u2026 the black and white banner used by the Templars and donated by a modern chapter as a mark of respect for the unknown knight. The banner was used in battle and, in many ways, typifies the utter dedication of those militant monks who lived under its aegis. While one banner of the Order still flew on the battlefield, the Templars were expected to fight beneath it. When their own banners fell, they were to stand with the banners of the Christian Orders\u2026and then any other banner of their faith. Only if all of them fell were they allowed to save their own lives\u2026or they risked being expelled from the Order.\nWe, though, were obliged to \u2018leave the field\u2019, as time was getting on and our friends would be waiting for us\u2026 we were just glad to have had the time to visit this beautiful church.\nThis entry was posted in adventure, albion, Ancestors, Ancient sites, Don and Wen, History, Photography, Stuart France and Sue Vincent, Templars, The Silent Eye and tagged archaeology, Bamburgh, King Oswald, skeletons, St Aidan's church, stained glass. Bookmark the permalink.\n22 Responses to North-easterly: Sidetracked by saints\nReblogged this on DENIS LEVIEUX PHOTOGRAPHE INFOGRAPHISTE and commented:\npatrimoine superbe a decouvrir\nAnother fascinating journey through the early middle ages highlighted with captivating pictures.\nHas to be reblogged\nThanks, Roger. This is a beautiful little church and deserved a bit of research.\nVery much so, Sue and thanks to you brining it to our attention.\nMy pleasure, Roger.\nSue often takes the reader through interesting journeys into Britain\u2019s earlier heritages made all the more enthralling by the inclusion of beautiful photos. A blog well worth visting.\nHere is one fine example\nFascinating, as always, Sue. Thank you.\nThanks, Mary. This is a lovely little church.\n\u201c\u2026 and must have become close friends.\u201d Sounds not they really became best friends. \ud83d\ude09 Best wishes for the weekend. Michael\nA lovely post, Sue. How sad about the teenage boy who was cut by a sword from shoulder to knee.\nI loved this though it shows that even in a place like this, it was no uncommon to have violence. So beautiful and in some ways, so sad.\nMagnificent post Sue. Stunning photos and I\u2019d have to imagine the amount of research put forth to. \u2764\nThanks, Debby. As usual, there were a dozen tabs and a few books open writing this I learn a lot from the research that doesn\u2019t always make it to the page \ud83d\ude42 xx\nA fantastic way to learn and share with us! \ud83d\ude42 xx\nI love that kind of research \ud83d\ude42 \u2764\n\u2018too\u2019 \ud83d\ude42 My finger was faster than the old brain. \ud83d\ude42 xx\nI know that feeling all too well, Debby! x", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 288, "original_length": 15583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=7486", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:20Z", "digest": "sha1:G3RNC7I64UJRKTGYNBYLDOMDRCZRLQSH", "length": 6143, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "search.ancestry.co.uk", "title": "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s", "raw_content": "Ancestry.com. U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.\nOriginal data: Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI, USA: Gale Research, 2012.\nAbout U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s\nEvery American with immigrant ancestors needs the \"Passenger and Immigration List Index: 2012 edition, 1500s-1900s\" \u2014 especially for those seeking ancestors prior to the 1820s. This important work is the best, if not the only place to go for tracing relatives to early colonial America and beyond. Updated for 2012, this data set contains listings of approximately 4,712,000 individuals who arrived in United States and Canadian ports from the 1500s through the 1900s. It was compiled by P. William Filby and published by Gale Research.\nWhile researching passenger lists can often be tedious and difficult, this data set makes finding information on your immigrant ancestors easier than ever. Each entry has been indexed by name and is searchable by keyword. The \"Genealogical Journal\" hailed the printed version of the \"Passenger and Immigration List Index\" as \"one of the greatest contributions to genealogical literature in the last decade.\"\nPrior to 1820, most ships coming to America did not keep documentation of who was on board. Immigration was more of a trickle than a flood. Many individuals traveled to their destination on uncomfortable, rat-infested cargo ships -- usually only five, ten, maybe thirty passengers suffered through the trip together. Because of this, pinpointing documentation of your ancestors' journey to pre-1820 America can be almost impossible. Simply put, very little information exists today that could help.\nThat's why the Passenger and Immigration List Index proves such an invaluable resource for family history enthusiasts. Thousands of different records have been used to compile this index, everything from original passenger lists to personal diaries. The result is the only compilation of passenger lists this comprehensive -- and the search goes on. The publishers provide yearly supplements as their research uncovers new immigration data.\nFor each individual listed, you may find the following information:\nYear and place of arrival\nNaturalization or other record of immigration\nNames of all accompanying family members together with their age and relationship to the primary individual\nFor example, you may be able to establish a record similar to this one: Aab Wilhelm was 38 when he arrived in Baltimore in 1850 accompanied by his wife Elisabeth Stoll, son Heinrich, and daughter Elisabeth. The original source of the information is also provided. By locating the original source document, you may be able to determine additional details such as the name of the ship on which your ancestors sailed and the location of their naturalization.\nName - In this field you will find the individual's given name and surname. You should note that names of immigrants were often recorded as they were heard and that many immigrants could not spell their own names. Thus, spelling variations of names occur and members of the same family arriving at different times or places may be found under a different spelling. If you are unable to locate a particular given name and surname, try switching the given name to an initial, abbreviation, or possible misspelling. If the surname is not common, you may wish to search only on the surname.\nPlace - This field provides the location of the port through which the individual immigrated.\nYear - This field lists an immigrant's year of arrival or the first time that person appeared in public record.\nAge - This field indicates the immigrant's age in the source record.\nNote: You should note that the date and location that appear in the \"Passenger and Immigration Lists Index\" do not necessarily equate to the date and port of arrival. Occasionally, the locations referred to are destinations, locations of settlement, or the particular location of the immigrant on the date cited. Dates may reflect the date of death, the date the primary individual requested permission to emigrate, or the point in time when documents place that person in the New World at the location specified. Although the information listed is not always dates and locations of arrival, these references were retained by Gale Research (the original publisher of this material) because the editors felt that \"when someone is searching for an elusive ancestor, all information is helpful.\" Large public libraries, state libraries, libraries with genealogical or history collections, and libraries of family associations and genealogical or historical societies are excellent places to look for the sources listed in the \"Passenger and Immigration Lists Index.\"\nBaltimore, Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1872\nThis data set contains alphabetical listings of approximately 227,000 individuals who arrived at Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. from foreign ports between 1820 and 1872. Information available in this database includes: name, gender, age, occupation, place of origin, destination, name of ship, port of departure, port of arrival, date of arrival, and source information.\nPhiladelphia, Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1800-1850\nThis data set contains alphabetical listings of approximately 180,000 individuals who arrived at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. from foreign ports between 1800 and 1850. The following information may be found in this database: name, gender, birthplace, age, occupation, country of origin, port of departure, port of arrival, date of arrival, destination, ship name, and source information.\nBoston, 1821-1850 Passenger and Immigration Lists\nThis data set contains alphabetical listings of approximately 161,000 individuals who arrived at the port of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. from foreign ports between 1821 and 1850. The following information may be found in this database: name, gender, age, occupation, country of origin, date of arrival, ship name, and source information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 8255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sedna-project.eu/resources/industry-news/?page=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UJIFRDNMGCYVBBSS7KVGICZCGM4PCHKS", "length": 1395, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "sedna-project.eu", "title": "Industry news", "raw_content": "The World's Biggest Shipping Company Is Testing a New Arctic Route That's Made Possible By Global Warming\nThe Danish shipping company Maersk will launch the Venta Maersk this week, which will sail from Vladivostok on the Sea of Japan up and around the Arctic Circle, skirting Scandinavia and stopping in Bremerhaven, Germany, to arrive in St. Petersburg by the end of September, the first container ship to take the Northern Sea Route.\nRolls-Royce Improves Ice Class Ship Stability\nNewly designed Rolls-Royce stabilisation systems will allow ice class ships to benefit from greater stability with higher levels of roll reduction.\nA Special Module Carrier Breaks the Ice\nThe world's first polar class heavy transport deck carrier, Audox, was specially constructed for transporting modules from Belgium through Arctic waters to the Yamal liquefied natural gas (LNG) project site in northern Russia.\nRussia\u2019s Novatek ships first LNG cargo to China via Arctic\nPAO Novatek has shipped its first cargos of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Yamal LNG project to China via the Northern Sea Route.\nThe US National Transportation Safety Board has issued a marine accident brief and a related safety alert warning mariners of the dangers of icing following the agency\u2019s investigation of the sinking of the fishing vessel Destination in the Bering Sea last February with the loss of all six crew members.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 298.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sehdp.weebly.com/interest-surveys.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:16Z", "digest": "sha1:TROLHCNMWYHFNFFZCCT3AELLBR5WDMUU", "length": 1053, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "sehdp.weebly.com", "title": "Interest Surveys - Sierra Holiday", "raw_content": "My Interest Survey Results\nTest Taken on February 5, 2018\nTest Taken on October 8, 2018\nWhat was your experience taking the assessment?\n\u200bIt was very easy because it is very personal and there were no correct answers. I didn't think that most of the questions were very personal to who I think I am but there were some that I related to.\nWhich of the top three do you relate to most?\n- Arts, A/V Technology and Communication\n\u200b- Hospitality and Tourism\nHow accurately do the results reflect you?\nI don't think its spot on but it is pretty accurate.\nWhat did it confirm for you?\nI do want to travel and do something with the arts and with other people.\nWhat don\u2019t you agree with?\nI don't really agree with hospitality. I want to go out and do something fun and creative and that word just doesn't do it for me.\nWhat surprises did you find out about yourself?\nI think that it was surprising that finance was high up there.\nHow do you want to use this information going forward?\nI don't think I really need this information to help me know what I want to do.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 2951, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sempra.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=19080&item=70763", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:39Z", "digest": "sha1:54BS4J5OQE7NFLMFUJBX33ULIDSVGGP2", "length": 2089, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sempra.mediaroom.com", "title": "High Tech Elementary and High Tech Middle Chula Vista Launch SDG&E's 25th Clean Energy Project - Oct 19, 2011", "raw_content": "SAN DIEGO, Oct. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- How do you NOT drive a car 8.4 million miles? The new High Tech Elementary and High Tech Middle Chula Vista students know. Today they helped do just that by adding a San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)-owned solar system to their school's rooftop \u2013 as well as adding solar to their curriculum. This marks the 25th project like this for SDG&E's \"Sustainable Communities Program,\" which now totals three megawatts of clean energy. This energy goes back onto the grid which benefits each of the project's surrounding community.\nThe three megawatts of clean energy is equal to: NOT driving a car 8.4 million miles, powering 2,000 homes, saving 6.4 million pounds of greenhouse gases each year, planting 98,000 trees or removing 722 cars from the road.\nThe High Tech Elementary and High Tech Middle Chula Vista students flipped the switch on their rooftop solar system, marking the third solar project SDG&E has done with the charter school. The effort includes a curriculum where students learn about renewable energy and energy efficiency.\nThe schools are seeking LEED\u00ae Platinum certification from the US Green Building Council and were designed to be nearly 26 percent more energy efficient than required by California Building Codes.\n\"Moving forward, Sustainable Communities Program projects will incorporate advanced energy storage and electric vehicle charging stations,\" said David L. Geier, vice president of electric operations for SDG&E. \"These will serve as models for SDG&E's smart grid that will ultimately predict and 'intelligently' respond to the changing needs and actions of customers by efficiently delivering sustainable energy when it's most needed.\"\nThe program focuses on solar, fuel cells and energy storage for schools, municipal facilities, large multi-family mixed use developments. The program team collaborates with builders to construct sustainable green buildings that are highly energy efficient.\nFor further information: Allison Zaragoza/Art Larson of San Diego Gas & Electric, +1-877-866-2066, www.sdge.com, Twitter: @sdge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 2933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sensenbrenner.house.gov/press-releases-statements?ContentRecord_id=894FA244-9E60-4F1A-BA49-1E3128A9B388", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:58Z", "digest": "sha1:T3ON2MKP5J4O2JPCSAR3NV76KE6ICAC7", "length": 1554, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "sensenbrenner.house.gov", "title": "Sensenbrenner Disagrees with Johnson Lawsuit - Press Releases & Statements - Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner", "raw_content": "Sensenbrenner Disagrees with Johnson Lawsuit\nSenator Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) plans to file a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The purpose of the suit is to end the employer contribution authorized for Members of Congress and their staffs who have entered the District of Colombia healthcare exchange as mandated by the Affordable Care Act.\nCongressman Jim Sensenbrenner: \u201cSenator Johnson\u2019s lawsuit is an unfortunate political stunt. I am committed to repealing Obamacare, but the employer contribution he\u2019s attacking is nothing more than a standard benefit that most private and all federal employees receive \u2013 including the President. Success in the suit will mean that Congress will lose some of its best staff and will be staffed primarily by recent college graduates who are still on their parents\u2019 insurance. This will make it even more difficult to fight the President and his older, more experienced staff.\n\u201cSenator Johnson should spend his time legislating rather than litigating as our country is facing big problems that must be addressed by Congress \u2013 not the courts. All Republicans want to repeal Obamacare, but this politically motivated lawsuit only takes public attention away from how bad all of Obamacare really is and focuses it on a trivial issue. Fortunately, Senator Johnson\u2019s suit is likely frivolous and will not achieve the result he\u2019s seeking.\u201d\nPermalink: https://sensenbrenner.house.gov/2014/1/sensenbrenner-disagrees-with-johnson-lawsuit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 253.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shalom.kiwi/2016/03/the-question-david-shearer-has-yet-to-answer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:A6RSOK5N6JARJJHSUCSEB2XELLBNQAGO", "length": 6844, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "shalom.kiwi", "title": "The question David Shearer has yet to answer - Shalom.Kiwi", "raw_content": "David Shearer is a well-liked and respected politician who has proven his humanitarian credentials by working and running programmes in some of the most war-ravaged parts of the world, including Somalia, Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Gaza. His track-record shows him to be someone who cares about the downtrodden and dispossessed.\nThanks to this professional background, Shearer is held out by the Labour Party as their expert on international affairs, particularly in relation to the Middle East. Indeed, his PA has claimed that\nthere are few New Zealanders better qualified to comment in an un-biased [sic] way on the Israel/Palestine situation than David, given his background.\u201d Alec McLean, Executive Assistant to David Shearer\nUnfortunately, the evidence suggests that this statement is completely incorrect.\nWhile David Shearer clearly has an interest in the conflict, we have yet to see any real evidence that he has a real understanding of the complex issues involved from both sides\u2019 perspectives. Additionally, the public record of his statements and actions demonstrate that in no way is Shearer an unbiased commentator.\nA recent post on David Shearer\u2019s Facebook page, supporting Murray McCully\u2019s statements blaming Israel for the stalling of the peace process, has brought these shortcomings into clearer focus. On being challenged about his post he replied:\nYes none of us should ignore or tolerate violence particularly against civilians \u2013 I agree \u2013 but settlement expansion IS the major issue to any two state solution. That\u2019s obvious. Since I left there in 2007 tens of thousands of new houses have built. More than 500,000 settlers now live in the West Bank. Each settlement has its own roads, infrastructure that for the most part are completely separate from the Palestinian villages they are adjacent to. How is it possible for a Palestinian state to operate with thousands of Israelis inside it? Or why build more if a two state solution is the end goal and reaching that goal will be made evermore less possible?\u201d David Shearer [emphasis added]\nTo which there was a reasoned response and question from Juliet Moses:\nDavid, Israel \u201coperates\u201d and indeed flourishes with a 20% Arab population, as you will be aware. Arabs have fully democratic rights and function at every level of civil society, including Parliament, the Supreme Court and academia. So, if I understand the argument correctly, Israel can and is expected to operate like this, and Palestinians insist they must have the right of return to Israel, which would soon mean an Arab majority in Israel. However, the West Bank, where Jews have lived for thousands of years and that Palestinians have NEVER had sovereignty over, must be judenrein? How is that even-handed? How you can think that settlements is THE issue when the Palestinians demand self-determination in and sovereignty and exclusivity over the West Bank but deny that same right to the Jews in Israel?\u201c Juliet Moses [emphasis added]\nImagine if a politician said \u201cIsrael cannot operate with the 1.6m Arabs who live in the country\u201d. If anyone were to suggest that Israel could not function as a country if there were a minority of Arabs living in it as equals, that person would correctly be labeled a racist; it is racist to suggest that the Jewish state must be exclusively Jewish. Moreover, they would be ignoring reality; Israel has flourished with Arabs comprising 20% of the population and having full and equal rights.\nAnd yet, David Shearer believes that it would be unthinkable to contemplate a Palestinian state \u201cwith thousands of Israelis living in it\u201d. Is such a blatant (and arguably, racist) double-standard acceptable from a politician who prides himself on being an unbiased commentator? Or has David Shearer not really considered these questions? Having apparently received little challenge to his \u201cexpert\u201d credentials in New Zealand political circles, it is a possibility. Either way, we look forward to clarification of his statement.\nAn examination of statements that Mr Shearer has previously made in relation to the Arab-Israeli conflict shows a pattern of harsh criticism of Israel, with little regard for context or alternative points of view. We have yet to see any substantive criticism by Shearer of the corrupt and undemocratic Palestinian Authority, which surely one should reasonably expect of a humanitarian who cares deeply and speaks out for the oppressed.\nIn his Facebook comment above, Shearer said that \u201cnone of us should ignore or tolerate violence particularly against civilians\u201d. However, Mr Shearer has not once condemned the Palestinians for the current wave of terror attacks against Israelis, which have been condoned and encouraged by their leadership. David Shearer has a long history of public statements that should give pause to those who would call him \u201cun-biased\u201d.\nWe reported that Mr Shearer co-hosted a screening at Parliament of \u201c5 Broken Camera\u2019s with hate group Kia Ora Gaza earlier this year. Mr Shearer stood side by side with Kia Ora Gaza spokesman Roger Fowler, and endorsed the one-sided film openly and without any caveat. Shearer has not hosted an event that gives an Israeli perspective. He has, however, hosted and proclaimed support for Palestinian Authority representatives, seemingly without question.\nMr Shearer has proudly publicised his relationship with Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour, a man who has invoked an age-old blood libel against Israel, claiming Israelis harvest Palestinians\u2019 organs. Ambassador Mansour is not the only Palestinian leader to make such claims but there has been no evidence to substantiate them. Mr Shearer has not, to our knowledge, expressed any concern about these comments.\nMr Shearer has also hosted Palestinian Foreign Minister Dr Riad Al-Malki, a man who has said the Palestinian Authority will \u201cnever again\u201d sit down to conduct direct negotiations with Israel, and thanked him for his \u201ccommitment\u201d. If outright rejecting the idea of negotiations is the type of commitment that Mr Shearer endorses, he cannot claim to be a fair commentator on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Such a position, and the wish for a state without Jews, is the same as the terror group Hamas.\nIn short, we are not aware of any evidence whatsoever to corroborate the claim that Shearer is both unbiased and a subject-matter expert. In fact, his approach to date has appeared to consist of one-sided sloganeering instead of a considered and rational examination of the facts. We expect and hope for further understanding, nuance, and engagement from one of our leading politicians. A response to Juliet Moses\u2019 question would be a good start.\nTOPICS:5 Broken | David Shearer | Dr Riad Al-Malki | Extremism | Gaza | Israel | Juliet Moses | Kia Ora Gaza | Murray McCully | Palestinian Authority | Riyad Mansour", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 9945, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sharman-law.com/hello-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:13Z", "digest": "sha1:CDQS7KFULFVHFQRW72CVWNBSI3DFNAK3", "length": 1302, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "sharman-law.com", "title": "Welcome! -", "raw_content": "> EMPLOYMENT LAW NEWS > Law Practice Management > Welcome!\nApril 8, 2011 No Comments By Paul Sharman Law Practice Management\nThis is the first of what I hope will be many posts on several topics including: employment law, solo practice challenges, law practice technology, social media, news, sports, and anything else that seems interesting or worthy of comment.\nThere are several markets I hope to serve with this law firm:\n1) Provide legal advice and counsel to employees who have claims against their employer for discrimination, unpaid overtime or unpaid benefits\n2) Provide legal advice and counsel to small business owners who do not have the benefit of full-time legal or human resources staff to help them understand the complex web of employment laws\n3) Provide legal advice and counsel to highly compensated individuals who need assistance negotiating a severance or changing positions under a non-compete or non-solicit agreement with a previous employer\nThese first couple of weeks have been hectic, mostly because of all the setup tasks that need to be accomplished, as well as determining which clients would be bringing their cases to my new firm. Now that this website/blog is up and most of the initial setup of the firm is done, I can focus on serving clients and marketing the firm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shelby.mugshot.press/arrest/677169/john-shields", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:09Z", "digest": "sha1:ISB2OWNANAZ7A27ZK5UBKL4KEAIXW6BH", "length": 409, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "shelby.mugshot.press", "title": "Mugshot of JOHN SHIELDS arrested on 09/14/2018 in Shelby, Kentucky | Shelby Shelby County Kentucky Mugshot Site", "raw_content": "Middle Name: TRENT\nEXCESSIVE WINDSHIELD/ WINDOW TINTING\nJOHN SHIELDS was booked on 9/15/2018 3:20:00 AM. SHIELDS was arrested by SPENCER SO in Shelby, Kentucky. SHIELDS was 23 years old at the time of the arrest.\nJOHN SHIELDS may not have been convicted of the charges or crimes listed and are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Please contact the SPENCER SO for more information regarding arrest records.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 1964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 284.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shesaid.com/4-types-of-friends-you-need-to-cut-from-your-life-this-year/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JCVQYURXL2ORUPGZMA364H54SNLM3WO2", "length": 5869, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "shesaid.com", "title": "4 Types Of Friends You Need To Cut From Your Life", "raw_content": "4 Types Of Friends You Need To Cut From Your Life\nJust cut the crap.\nWhen it comes to friendships, quality definitely trumps quantity.\nThere\u2019s no point clinging on to people who might seem like good friends, but in reality just cause you stress and negativity.\nSometimes, an honest conversation with your friend about the things that bother you might be all you need to resolve existing issues, but at other times, it\u2019s best to let go of the idea they will change, and instead accept the fact you two are better off without each other.\nIf any of these four types of friends sound familiar to you, it might be time to move on\u2026\n1. The friend who always interrupts you\nBefore you say interrupting people isn\u2019t a reason to break up a friendship, let me explain. If you\u2019re in the middle of telling your friend about your shitty weekend and they interrupt you saying they totally understand because they had a much worse weekend, the problem isn\u2019t the fact you were interrupted, it\u2019s that your friend doesn\u2019t care for your problems and is far more self-interested in shifting your attempts at discussing them back onto themselves.\nWhen every conversation ends with them having talked way more than you, even if the topic initially revolved around you, it is clear your friend likes to hear themselves talk and sees you as someone they can talk to, not with. They might be fun to hang out with, and even seem like a great friend because they\u2019re up for anything, but if they cannot listen, let go.\nNot sure if this applies to you? Put your friend to the test. A side effect of not being able to listen to you is they won\u2019t remember much of what you told them, as they\u2019re preoccupied with their own thoughts, so try asking your friend a few questions about a problem you recently had, and see if they know what you\u2019re talking about or respond as if it\u2019s new information.\n\u201cConnecting with others and communicating well begins with considering the other person\u2019s perspective,\u201d explains communication specialist Marion Grobb Finkelstein.\nSo if someone is constantly interrupting, it damages your connection, and therefore your friendship.\n2. The friend who disappears\nWe all know flaky people who have a hard time committing to plans and are constantly late, and then there are those who seem to go through phases. Sometimes they\u2019re reliable and available almost every day, and sometimes you won\u2019t hear from them for months at a time.\nThese ghosting periods tend to align with said friends getting into a relationship, soon after which, it\u2019s like they\u2019ve vanished from the face of the earth. Texts are unanswered, calls ignored, and invites declined because her and the BF already have plans (read: their relationship is too codependent for words).\nA study led by Oxford University Professor Robin Dunbar revealed that most new relationships come at the expense of two friendships.\n\u201cIf you don\u2019t see people, your emotional engagement with them drops off and does so quickly,\u201d says Dunbar.\nSo if your friend can\u2019t make an effort to see you, you might be one of the two friendships who didn\u2019t survive their new relationship.\n3. The friend who brings you down\nI hate to admit it, but during highschool, my mother was usually right about friends who had a bad influence on me. It took me years to see what she saw, but I eventually broke off a friendship with a girl who constantly got into trouble.\nThese types of friends might seem extremely appreciative of you, call you their BFF, and spend a lot of time with you, but when their problems become your problems, something\u2019s not right.\nIt might start with them needing a place to stay for the night, or asking to borrow a little money as they are short on cash. The time spent with them usually involves crying, long talks about their current situation, and lame excuses. No matter how much advice you give them and how often you help them, they always find a way to make things worse.\n\u201cWhen your friendship has fallen into a pattern of negativity, there is little possibility of being able to effect true change in the relationship,\u201d says author and friendship expert, Irene Levine.\nIf after every conversation with your drama-addicted friend you feel drained and suffocated by her problems, it\u2019s time for that friend to seek professional help and let you get back to focusing on your own life.\n4. The friend you have nothing in common with anymore\nSometimes, we hold on to friendships for the sake of good memories and familiarity. But just because you\u2019ve known someone all your life, doesn\u2019t mean you necessarily have to be good friends with them.\nPeople change, and while the girl you sat next to in class for 12 years seemed like your soulmate when you were 18, she might now be living in a small town with her husband and four children while you\u2019re working 12-hour days in three different countries.\nYou\u2019re both happy for each other, but it is undeniable you don\u2019t have much in common to share with each other anymore. Psychology professor Brett Laursen confirms we need to have things in common in order to remain friends.\n\u201cDissimilarity is bad for friendships,\u201d he says. \u201cIt causes conflict, it interferes with cooperative activities and shared pleasures, and it creates circumstances where one friend bears more costs, such as the friend who is less aggressive; or gets more benefits, such as the friend who has lower social status than the other. Dissimilarity disrupts relationship bonds.\u201d\nOf course it\u2019s sad when longstanding friends slowly become strangers, but it\u2019s normal to grow apart from people, and accepting that will be much better in the long run than trying to keep a friendship alive that doesn\u2019t really exist anymore.\nImages via blog.urbanoutfitters.com, tumblr.com and giphy.com.\nComment: Do you have a friendship that\u2019s no longer fun?\n6 Signs You Need To Stop Acting Crazy And Accept He\u2019s Just Not Into You", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 453, "original_length": 13166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shop.homeboyindustries.org/collections/books/products/tattoos-on-the-heart-100", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:47Z", "digest": "sha1:HVGE3YW2I6TOV4RTKV3ZTIIELBI6J2EA", "length": 177, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "shop.homeboyindustries.org", "title": "Tatuajes en el corazon(Spanish paperback) \u2013 Homeboy Industries", "raw_content": "Tatuajes en el corazon(Spanish paperback)\nA breathtaking series of parables distilled from the past two decades of Gregory Boyle\u2019s life working with gang members in Los Angeles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 1054, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shop.mexicansummer.com/product/best-coast-the-only-place/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:50Z", "digest": "sha1:IVHRCDEC5JLH3QHHFZGGLDHXZRIYUASD", "length": 2291, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "shop.mexicansummer.com", "title": "Best Coast - The Only Place - Outpost", "raw_content": "On May 15, 2012, Best Coast released their highly anticipated new album The Only Place. This follow-up to 2010\u2019s acclaimed Crazy For You finds the proudly Southern Californian duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno maturing in both their sound and perspective. While Crazy For You was a nostalgic tribute to teenage feelings, The Only Place finds front woman Cosentino starting a transition into adulthood. \u201cI\u2019m trying really hard to grow up,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m trying to let go of my bad habits and the immature things I still drag around with me.\u201d Of course this adjusting comes with uncertainty and self-doubt, two feelings at the emotional center of an album that also features a love song to her home state of California in the title track. All encompassed in the memorable album cover, derived from a 1913 sheet music illustration paying homage to the golden state.\nAs with all of Best Coast\u2019s previous recordings, on The Only Place Cosentino handles all songwriting, lyrics, vocals and rhythm guitar, while multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno plays lead guitar, bass and drums. What\u2019s new this time is their decision to work with producer and composer Jon Brion. A revered figure in the music world, Brion has collaborated with artists including Fiona Apple and Kanye West and created the scores for such films as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Punch-Drunk Love. Recorded at Capitol Records\u2019 famed Studio B, The Only Place features a cleaner and richer sound than other Best Coast releases. Many of the songs\u2019 arrangements are detailed with subtle percussion and unexpected instrumentation. Intricate but never overworked, the biggest change from previous releases is how it showcases Cosentino\u2019s voice, this time letting it ring clear, unhidden by distortion and reverb.\n1\tThe Only Place\tPLAY\n2\tWhy I Cry\n5\tNo One Like You\n6\tHow They Want Me To Be\n7\tBetter Girl\n8\tDo You Love Me Like You Used To\n9\tDreaming My Life Away\n10\tLet's Go Home\n11\tUp All Night\n12\tMean Girls (B-side)\n13\tAngsty (B-side)\nBest Coast Crazy For You Mexican Summer\nBest Coast Crazy For You Release Date: Jul, 2 2010\nOnly available in North America Mexican Summer are elated to announce their latest artist and full length release from California\u2019s Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno, aka Best Coast. Crazy For", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 4544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 262.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shsjacketbuzz.org/1048/sports/baseball-season-comes-to-an-end/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:24Z", "digest": "sha1:R2HTUH7ARZMFV5SPEK4HBVMYD2HUKCMR", "length": 1271, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "shsjacketbuzz.org", "title": "Baseball season comes to an end \u2013 The SHS Jacket Buzz", "raw_content": "Baseball season comes to an end\nThe Starkville High School baseball team advanced to the first round of playoffs for the fourth year in a row. The Jackets took on the Tupelo Golden Wave for a three-game series.\nThe first game took place Friday at Tupelo. Starting on the mound for the Jackets was senior Austin Campbell.\n\u201cMy mindset going into this game was to go out and lay it all on the line. No matter what I wanted to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I gave it my all,\u201d Campbell said.\nThe Jackets fell to Tupelo in the first game 4-3, and the second game 4-1. Right fielder, Carter Hunt, who is also a senior still agrees that Starkville was the better team.\n\u201cMy senior year meant a lot to me, and I really cherished everything that we did throughout the fall. I knew this season would be my last and I\u2019m just thankful for all the great friends I made through the program,\u201d Hunt said.\nSenior, Johnathan Evans also played his last games versus Tupelo. \u201cWe played well together. You can just feel the connection this team has; it\u2019s definitely something I\u2019m going to miss next year.\u201d\nThe Yellow Jackets finished the regular season with a 15-11 record. The baseball team will be recognized for their season at the Spring Sports Banquet, Thursday, May 17.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3798, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://si.coca-colahellenic.com/en/sustainability/health-wellness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:13Z", "digest": "sha1:VZJHMYCBM2QKJRGH5NKUHNLHFT2T3ZT2", "length": 1368, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "si.coca-colahellenic.com", "title": "Health & wellness page | Coca-Cola HBC", "raw_content": "Home Sustainability Health & wellness\nObesity has turned into a significant threat for health. It\u2019s primarily the result of energy imbalance. The most effective way to manage body weight is to balance the amount of energy (calories) consumed with the amount expended through physical activity and healthy living.\nWithin this context, The Coca Cola Company announced a series of commitments in 2013 that our global business system will seek to achieve by 2020. These cover\nLow or no calorie options in every market\nTransparent nutrition information\nHelping to get people moving by supporting physical activity programmes\nMarketing responsibly, including no marketing to children under 12 years old\nAs part of our responsibility towards the health and wellness of our employees, we provide them with medical check-ups, gym memberships and the opportunity to take part in the company\u2019s community sport and healthy living programmes.\nWe give our employees the opportunity to choose from a variety of activities during the week like yoga and running with a team or with a professional coach. We also hold an annual family day, where we invite our employees and their families to come and take part in many activities for both adults and children.\nThe Coca\u2011Cola Company: our commitment to transparency - our actions and way forward\nBeverage Institute for Health and Wellness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 9441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sib.illinois.edu/undergraduate/guidelines/read_graph", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:30Z", "digest": "sha1:7GFHIBOFVLP735NRYJRJER2LIUQGJ6MP", "length": 2954, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "sib.illinois.edu", "title": "Guidelines | School of Integrative Biology | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign", "raw_content": "How to Read a Graph\nAdapted from http://TIEE.ecoed.net/teach/essays/figs_tables.html\nWhen facing a new and complex graph, it is helpful to follow a three-step process described below. This process will help you slow down and dissect the pieces of a graph. As a result, you can avoid being overwhelmed and giving up too easily, and also avoid jumping to the wrong interpretations too quickly.\nStep One: Describe set-up\nFirst determine how the figure/table is set up. This is the part that everyone would agree about and is not a matter of interpretation.\nWhat is represented on the axes? Always start by defining the x-axis and y-axis. The x-axis runs horizontally and usually represents the independent variable. The independent variable is what is manipulated or chosen for the treatments. The dependent variable \"depends\" upon, or responds to, those independent treatments. The dependent variable is plotted on the vertical y-axis.\nWhat are units on the axes? Make sure you understand what these units mean. This will help you see precisely what are the relationships between variables. Understanding the units allows you to quantify relationships between variables. For example, if one is greater than another, ask by how much.\nWhat is the scale on each axis (if it\u2019s a continuous variable)? Does it include a relatively small range of variation or a large one?\nPay attention to the symbols and legend on a figure. A graph might compare responses to the independent variable among groups. Sometimes these groups are represented by different symbols, dotted lines, color patterns, etc. These patterns may be explained in a legend or in the caption on the graph: look in both places!\nStep Two: Describe patterns in the data\nSecond, describe the pattern of the data in the graph.\nFor a bar graph, which treatments are higher or lower than other treatments? How much variation is there relative to the differences between bar heights?\nFor a scatter plot or line graph, what is the pattern? Does the dependent variable increase or decrease linearly with the independent variable, or is the pattern more complex? For example, does it increase linearly and then level off? Is it a \"hump-shaped\" or \"U-shaped\" relationship?\nPay attention to detail; that may be important.\nAt this point you should have a pretty good idea of the question addressed by the data set and the experimental design \u2013 how it was carried out.\nStep Three: Interpret the data\nNow you are ready to interpret the data. What conclusions can you draw from the pattern that you have described?\nWhat do these results tell you about the phenomenon being studied?\nDoes the graph support or reject the study\u2019s hypothesis? It can be helpful to sketch out what the graph would look like if the hypothesis were supported and what it would look like if it were not.\nAre there alternative explanations for the pattern in the data?\nHow do the results fit into the larger picture of ecological thinking?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 4900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://silerra.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/portfolio-of-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:08Z", "digest": "sha1:OONCDGKHGOD63HKVDBRUK52CM64YGDEC", "length": 291, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "silerra.wordpress.com", "title": "Portfolio of Work | Silerra - Pixels and Timber", "raw_content": "This entry was posted on September 20, 2010 at 6:12 pm and is filed under Silerra business with tags artwork, graphic, graphic design, images, portfolio, woodwork.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://skateboarding.transworld.net/news/dcs-king-of-sao-paulo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:06Z", "digest": "sha1:APC4TPKVCORZFAPWZKI2VO5CCPXGOYCR", "length": 201, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "skateboarding.transworld.net", "title": "DC's King Of Sao Paulo | TransWorld SKATEboarding", "raw_content": "DC\u2019s King Of Sao Paulo\nDC is at it again, traveling the world throwing one-of-a-kind contests in major skate cities. They\u2019re down in Brazil for their KOSP event. Stay up to date at DC Skateboarding TV.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 5477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sleepingmansbooks.com/the-author-my-thoughts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XC5GM6JYYQKBWJL7JGFDCSBMBTJEGFD6", "length": 750, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sleepingmansbooks.com", "title": "Woody Carter, author", "raw_content": "Woody Carter, Ph.D.\nWoody Carter is a narrative theologian who holds a doctorate in theology, religion, and the arts from the Graduate Theological Union, in Berkeley, California.\nHe has served as an associate professor in the Bachelor of Arts Completion Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and as an instructor in theater arts at several community colleges in the Bay Area.\nHe is a retired executive director of the Bay Area Black United Fund, an identity-based philanthropic organization in Oakland, California, and the author of the nonfiction work \"Theology for a Violent Age: Religious Beliefs Crippling African-American Youth.\" He divides his time between living in Washington, D. C., and Bangkok, Thailand.\u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 65.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://snaxxx.livejournal.com/123102.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:21Z", "digest": "sha1:G6B2BL5OI5HUOKZKUMTGWTWBXZS4L3XF", "length": 1946, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "snaxxx.livejournal.com", "title": "Pan's Labryinth opening in Austin - Mise en Sc\u00e8ne", "raw_content": "Pan's Labryinth opening in Austin\nOnce in a great while, I've been fortunate to experience an artistic event so visually stunning and emotionally captivating that it bears a lasting impression. At the top of that list is Cirque du Soleil's \"Quidam\", which I saw live in San Jose years ago. The performances were wonderful, but the story and music was also impressive. Now another event has taken the #1 spot. I was fortunate enough to see Pan's Labryinth as a special screening at the Fantastic Fest.\nVisually stunning and emotionally captivating, this fairy tale for adults is not to be missed! Definitely the top movie I saw in 2006, and I am excited that it is opening in Austin on January 12th. The Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar presents Pan's Labyrinth, and opening weekend will feature Spanish tapas and a Spanish wine flight. I'm getting together some friends to see it opening night, because I'd like to see it again on the big screen. Plus I want to see what effect it will have on others. More on the movie -\n\"Beautiful and Exhilarating, a fairy tale for Grown-ups\" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times\n\"The year's True Masterpiece, the best movie of the year\" - The New York Post\nPAN'S LABYRINTH is a fanciful and chilling story set against the backdrop of a fascist regime in 1944 rural Spain. It's Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbinding fable. The film centers on Ofelia, a lonely and dreamy child living with her mother and adoptive father; a military officer tasked with ridding the area of rebels. In her loneliness, Ofelia creates a world filled with fantastical creatures and secret destinies. With post-war repression at its height, Ofelia must come to terms with her world through a fable of her own creation.\nCurrent Music:Pan's Labyrinth soundtrack\nI heard a review of this on NPR yesterday, it sounds amazing.\nuh um wow... 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The City Council may, by ordinance, authorize the issuance of a nonexclusive franchise to construct, operate, and maintain a private service, facility, or system within the City to any person or entity, whether operating under an existing franchise or not, who applies to conduct a system, facility, or service, in a City right-of-way. Any franchise issued under the authority of this chapter shall comply with the terms and conditions of this chapter. 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Roberts, Jr. in Washington, D.C., January 20, 2017.\nThe first year of Donald Trump\u2019s presidency was widely described as unorthodox and tumultuous, inundated by a series of controversies and scandals that ended up dividing not only the political scene but also the world at large. Although he is a successful businessman and TV personality, Donald Trump\u2019s lack of political experience made his transition to the White House more difficult than usual.\nBeing the winner of the 2016 presidential race, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States on January 20, 2017. His inauguration speech dwelled on the need for a radical change in U.S. policy, which could make \u201cAmerica First\u201d again. The crowd present at the event was smaller than expected, but Trump\u2019s staff insisted that the number circulating in the press was wrong, and that the crowd had been the largest ever. This marked the beginning of a conflicting relationship between the administration and the press, which continued in the same terms throughout the year.\nBy the end of his first week in office, Donald Trump had already signed six executive orders of major impact. His first order initiated anticipatory procedures for the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare). He pulled out the country from the Trans-Pacific Partnerships and reopened Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipeline construction projects. Following his campaign agenda, Trump also issued an executive order for the construction of a new border wall between Mexico and the United States.\nStaff Turn-over\nFrom its early days in office, the Trump administration became a recurrent topic of dissection in the media, not just for its policy, but also for the unprecedented internal conflicts between the President and his staff, or between the President and the other political and administrative entities. Soon after he reached the White House, Trump appointed RNC chairman Reince Priebus as White House Chief of Staff and his campaign CEO Steve Bannon as White House Chief Strategist. The collaborations were unsatisfactory and Priebus was replaced by retired Marine General John F. Kelly in July 2017 while Bannon resigned a month later and was not yet replaced. Moreover, as Trump enforced his unconventional policies, hundreds of officials from the executive branch agencies have left government positions from the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security, the Environmental Protection Agency, and others.\nA scandal put a strain on the White House when the U.S. Intelligence Community revealed with evidence that the Russian government interfered in the presidential election of 2016. According to an assessment by the Officer of the Director of National Intelligence, Russian leaders favored Donald Trump. Moreover, Russian president himself was behind a campaign to undermine Hillary Clinton and to harm her chances of winning. The main ways in which Russia interfered was by spreading fake news that were intensely promoted on social media and by hacking e-mails of Clinton\u2019s campaign staff. Several investigations ensued, which aimed to discover ties between Russia and Trump\u2019s associates.\nOn May 9, 2017 Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, partly due to Russian meddling investigations as he was dissatisfied and frustrated with the suspicions surrounding him. Trump considered the investigation a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d and was looking forward to getting himself out of it. Comey revealed a memo of a discussion he had with Trump in February 2017, in which Trump was trying to influence his decisions during the investigation. After Comey\u2019s dismissal, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed to lead the investigation into Russian meddling that Comey was working on. Donald Trump was accused of obstruction of justice, but the accusations eventually died off.\nJames B, Comey Jr. served as the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 4, 2013 until his dismissal on May 9, 2017.\nDuring his early days in the office, Trump adopted a series of policies in support of deregulation and smaller federal government. On January 23, 2017, he ordered a temporary government-wide hiring freeze with the intention of reducing administrative costs. He also abolished ninety federal regulations. The efficiency of his measures is still debated by analysts.\nIn 2012, Donald Trump publicly talked about his opinions on global warming, which he described as a lie invented by the Chinese. He later said he was joking, but as soon as he reached the White House, it became obvious that he was dismissive of environmental protection policies.\nThis approach caused a lot of friction in the American society. Trump\u2019s refusal to accept the scientific consensus on climate change caused international outrage, especially among environmental scientists and activists. Not only that he called the Environmental Protection Agency a disgrace, but also threatened to cut its budget. On June 1, 2017, Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris Climate Agreement, which calls 170 countries to implement policies that reduce carbon emissions. Moreover, climate change is no longer on the list of threats in the national security report released by the administration.\nAs a result of his disbelief in climate change, Donald Trump directed his energy policies to advocate domestic industrial support for fossil and renewable energy sources. The reason behind his policies was to limit the dependence on Middle-Eastern oil. Although energy independence is an important goal, the fact that neither Trump nor his advisers believe in the threat of climate change led to a non-regulated market with no sign of immediate action in sight.\nLong before his presidency, Donald Trump talked about the need for universal healthcare. In his book from 2000, The America We Deserve, he brought numerous arguments in favor of a single-payer healthcare system and expressed admiration for the Scottish National Health Service. During the presidential campaign, he spoke about his goal of replacing Obamacare. As soon as he took office, Trump urged Congress to launch the process of repeal and replacement.\nThe U.S. House of Representatives voted the repeal of Affordable Care Act (ACA) in May 2017. Despite several months of debate, the Senate did not manage to pass a repeal bill. Frustration arose between Trump and Congress, leading to a shaky relationship. The Trump administration sabotaged the program by cutting the ACA enrollment period in half and significantly reducing funding for advertising that encouraged enrollment. In December 2017, as Trump signed the tax reform into law, the individual health insurance mandate was removed as a result. Without the individual mandate that was a key provision of the Obamacare, the number of people with coverage will decrease significantly. The repeal will be implemented in 2019.\nTax Reform and Trade\nThe major piece of legislation that affected the United States during Trump\u2019s first year in the office is the tax bill introduced in December 2017. Although the impact of the bill on the lives of Americans has yet to unfold, financial specialists concluded that highest earners are expected to benefit most from it. The law permanently cuts corporate tax rate to 21% while individual tax rates are cut temporarily. The bill also increases child tax credit and doubles the estate tax threshold to $11.2 million.\nAlthough he considers himself a free trader, Trump\u2019s policies are regarded as rather protectionist, mostly because of his attitude towards North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He also proposed to increase tariffs on Chinese and Mexican exports to the U.S. Moreover, Trump threatened to leave the World Trade Organization to ensure that his new tariffs were accepted. Donald Trump is also a supporter of Brexit and wants to negotiate a fair post-Brexit trade deal with the United Kingdom that could benefit both countries.\nBesides the political and social issues that marked Trump\u2019s first year in the office, the natural disasters that affected many American communities in 2017 were a great challenge for the President. Severe floods and massive fires put Trump in the position of having to offer support and comfort to millions of people. According to the press, he struggled to find a proper, considerate approach when visiting ravaged zones where people were fighting for survival.\nIn parallel with the intense debate around Trump\u2019s energy policies, his immigration agenda became another topic that caused division and outrage, and not just in the United States. During the campaign, he promised to stop illegal immigration from Mexico by building a higher wall on the Mexico-United States border and forcing Mexico to pay for it. He also vowed to massively deport illegal immigrants residing in the U.S. and he condemns birthright citizenship. When faced with disapproval, Trump assured his opponents that deportation would focus on criminals, security threats, and visa overstays.\nOn January 27, 2017, only a week after his inauguration, Donald Trump signed an executive order that forbade entry into the country for the next 90 days to citizens of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. He also suspended admission of refuges for the next 120 days. The order was imposed without any prior warnings as Trump cited security reasons. As it took effect immediately, the consequence of it was waves of chaos, confusion, and protest at airports. Many travelers were detained on arrival or weren\u2019t allowed to board planes heading to the country. Three days after the issue of the order, Sally Yates, the Attorney General, directed Justice Department lawyers to ignore it. She was promptly dismissed and replaced by Dana Boente, who agreed to enforce the order. However, several legal challenges were filed against it. On February 5, a federal judge in Seattle blocked its implementation.\nOn March 6, Trump issued a revised order to include exceptions for permanent residents and Iraqi travelers. Once more, the implementation of the order was blocked by several federal judges. Two months later, the Supreme Court ruled that the ban could be enforced on visitors with no credible relationship with a person or entity in the United States. On September 24, 2017, the temporary order was replaced by Presidential Proclamation 9645, which permanently restricted travel from the originally targeted countries, with the exception of Iran and Sudan. The new order also banned travelers from North Korea, Chad, and Venezuela. After a series of other legal actions, the Supreme Court allowed the proclamation from September to go into full effect on December 4. However, legal challenges continue in lower courts.\nJudge Temporarily Blocks President Donald Trump\u2019s Plan To End DACA | TODAY\nOne of the main things that made Donald Trump stand apart in the run for the office was his nationalistic discourse. He repeatedly spoke about his desire to support an \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy. He proposed to increase U.S. military defense spending and also cut U.S. spending on NATO and in the Pacific region. He talked about redirecting the resources of the country toward domestic needs, claiming that assuming voluntary responsibilities on the international scene was detrimental to the development of the country. Although as a candidate he suggested to leave NATO, he changed his mind while at the White House, officially pledging commitment to NATO.\nDuring his time in the office, Trump talked repeatedly about the need of establishing a good relationship with Russia. In May 2017, he visited Israel, Italy, the Vatican, and Belgium as part of an official trip. During the same international trip, the President and the First Lady visited the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Saudi Arabia. The trip was an unprecedented move for a U.S. President and indicated a shift in Middle East politics, mostly because the implication of his support for the Saudis is that he agrees with their war in Yemen and the blockade on Qatar.\nDonald Trump often declared himself a \u201cbig fan\u201d of Israel and it came as no surprise when, on December 6, 2017, Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, after a promise made during the campaign. Despite numerous objections from Palestinian and world leaders, Trump added that he would initiate the relocation of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Trump\u2019s decision to back up Israel caused waves of protests, especially across the Middle East. On December 21, an emergency meeting at the United Nations General Assembly condemned his actions. 128 members of the UN voted against the United States, which demonstrated to Trump\u2019s critics that he has put the country on the path of isolation.\nIn summer 2017, Trump\u2019s approach to foreign policy aggravated the relation with North Korea, becoming a major issue of concern. The tension increased significantly when, according to observers, North Korea tested two intercontinental ballistic missiles which have the capacity of reaching the western parts of the United States. Donald Trump saw this as a challenge at his address and promised to respond to further provocation with \u201cfire and fury\u201d. The dispute between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un continued with a series of threats from both sides.\nNorth Korea's ballistic missile - North Korea Victory Day-2013\nOpposition and Criticism\nMany agree that one of the main characteristics of Trump\u2019s presidency has been the proliferation of nationalist views, along with the attempts to pull back the United States from global agreements. An evident result is the rise of racial strife as the hostility of far-right extremists towards minorities became more prominent on the public scene. For example, on August 11, 2017, a white nationalist march was organized in Charlottesville, Virginia. Other critics consider that Trump\u2019s combative and divisive approach to politics, especially the repeal of Obamacare and the \u201cMuslim Ban\u201d, led to unrest and mass protests that destabilized the country.\nIn November 2017, six Democratic representatives introduced five articles of impeachment against President Trump, citing several violations of the law. Trump was accused of undermining the freedom of the press and obstruction of justice, among others. Another article of impeachment had already being introduced in July by a Congressman. In December 2017, another Congressman introduced two articles of impeachment, accusing Trump of associating with neo-Nazism and white nationalism and inciting violent actions. The impeachment resolution was put to a vote and was finally defeated by a large margin.\nAccording to presidential approval ratings, Donald Trump is the least popular American President in the history of modern opinion polls. Many fact-checking entities and media outlets agree that Trump made countless false statements in public speeches and interviews.\nWest,Doug. Donald Trump: A Short Biography: 45th President of the United States. C&D Publications. 2018.\nDefying Trump, U.N. General Assembly Condemns U.S. Decree on Jerusalem. December 21, 2017. The New York Times. Accessed January 10, 2018\nDonald Trump\u2019s First Year as President: A Recap. December 30, 2017. The Atlantic. Accessed January 8, 2018\nDonald Trump reveals his isolationist foreign-policy instincts. May 22, 2016. The Economist. Accessed January 9, 2018\nDonald Trump promises post-Brexit Britain a 'fair' trade deal. January 15, 2017. NBC News. Accessed January 8, 2018\nDonald Trump's Energy Plan: More Fossil Fuels and Fewer Rules. May 26, 2016. The New York Times. Accessed January 8, 2018\nDonald Trump's unsettling nonsense on weather and climate. March 22, 2016. The Washington Post. Accessed January 8, 2018\nThe 18 photos that encapsulate Trump\u2019s first year as president. December 27, 2017. Quartz. Accessed January 8, 2018\nTrump on Paris accord: 'We're getting out'. June 1, 2017. CNN. Accessed January 8, 2018\nTrump says he plans to 'let Obamacare fail'. July 18, 2017. Politico. Accessed January 8, 2018\nTrump Calls To Ban Immigration From Countries With 'Proven History Of Terrorism'. June 13, 2016. NPR. Accessed January 9, 2018\nTrump impeachment articles introduced by six Democrats calling for hearings to begin immediately. November 15, 2017. Newsweek. Accessed January 10, 2018\nTop U.S. intelligence official: Russia meddled in election by hacking, spreading of propaganda. January 5, 2017. The Washington Post. Accessed January 10, 2018\nTrump, the Post-Truth Propagandist, Has Reduced the Presidency to Reality TV\nThat's not going to matter anymore once America becomes a dictatorial country--OH WAIT!! IT ALREADY IS!!!!\nThanks for the comment on my Trump article. Donald Trump does elicit strong feelings in people. However, it is great we live in a country where we can openly disapprove of the government and the leadership.\nDoug, I have never been a fan of Donald Trump and I never will be. I think the election was rigged by the Russian influence. Hillary won by nearly 3 million votes and lost. It just doesn't add up. Trump putting his daughter and son-in-law in key positions in the White House is something I am totally against. Family should not be involved. He has done a lot to harm America by his policies and standing around the world. Politics is a dirty business and if anyone supports Donald Trump I have nothing against them. I have friends that think he is the greatest. I just don't happen to be one of those.\n\"Long before his presidency, Donald Trump talked about the need for universal healthcare. In his book from 2000, The America We Deserve, he brought numerous arguments in favor of a single-payer healthcare system and expressed admiration for the Scottish National Health Service. During the presidential campaign, he spoke about his goal of replacing Obamacare. As soon as he took office, Trump urged Congress to launch the process of repeal and replacement.\nThe U.S. House of Representatives voted the repeal of Affordable Care Act (ACA) in May 2017. Despite several months of debate, the Senate did not manage to pass a repeal bill. Frustration arose between Trump and Congress, leading to a shaky relationship. The Trump administration sabotaged the program by cutting the ACA enrollment period in half and significantly reducing funding for advertising that encouraged enrollment. In December 2017, as Trump signed the tax reform into law, the individual health insurance mandate was removed as a result. Without the individual mandate that was a key provision of the Obamacare, the number of people with coverage will decrease significantly. The repeal will be implemented in 2019. \"\nHe did try to repeal the Obamacare. Obama either lied or didn't care when he said, if you like your insurance plan, you can keep it. If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.\nThese two things are the core of having success in your health. Not all doctors are alike, and if you find a good one you want to keep it. Many people that were undergoing cancer treatment lost both of those things.\nOne thing that no healthcare system so far has done is to improve the quality of healthcare. This is more of a problem than the type of insurance. Since the Salk vaccine in the 1950s for Polio, I don't know of any cure for any major disease. What we have is long term and expensive treatments, and in many cases the treatment only deals with the symptoms of the disease and not the root.\nWhat has improved are surgeries, but these are not cures they are just removing disease, not curing it.\nWhat Trump did with the Tax Plan is to take the ridiculous mandate of Obamacare and that gives the young and healthy people a choice.\nInstead of reforming Healthcare as Obama and his democrat controlled congress did, he could have made a few laws that would accomplish more immediately than the over eight year rollout of Obamacare. The one significant law would have been stop preexisting diseases from adversely affecting or preventing a person getting affordable healthcare.\nObamacare allowed both the health insurance people and the drug companies in having a monopoly where they were in control.\nAlso, in 2013, congress raised the medical tax deduction threshold from 7.5% to 10%. That means that people will be paying more for their medical. That doesn't seem to be the direction if the healthcare was more affordable. It shows that the government thought that people would be paying more than 7.5% of their AGI for their medical. And taking more than 6 years to fill the donut hole is also not helping the people.\nPresident Trump has done what he can to reverse Obamacare, but he is doing it alone. The blame goes on the democrats and those republicans that act like democrats.\nIt is very hard to write about Donald Trump in an unbiased fashion. Depending on which news organization you watch (or read), he is either the devil in a suit or the best thing that has ever happened to America. I am sure the real Donald Trump is somewhere in between.\nDoug. Thanks for once again taking the time to publish an article on the best president ever (I meant that sarcastically, by the way, because Trump really is the worst. I am a conservative Democrat who wants females to shine and not have to worry about drama and such. Trump is replacing the good republicans with the bad. Remember, the Republicans control the entire government.\nI agree with Jean's post. It's totally unbiased, and yes, illegal stuff are legal now.\nThanks for the attempt at an unbiased look at the first year of Trump's campaign. It's not an easy thing to do in such a divided country.\nAlso agree if Congress can't get it together, maybe they should get docked for time off and go without the best health insurance like the rest of us when we don't work.\nNice coverage of President Trump's accomplishments so far. I find it peculiar that his recent moves towards putting the U.S. in a position of fair and balanced trade have been attacked so harshly in the media. I must have missed the memo when making moderate moves to close an enormous trade deficit became a \"trade war\".\nI want to blame all the elected officials (Dems and Reps) in Washington, DC, for shutting the government down. They need to get off their rears and get the government functioning again. That is what we pay them for!\n@ Brad, Trump blamed POTUS for 2013 shutdown. So in Trumpian terms, POTUS is at fault in 2018 also.\nI am very pleased with the accomplishments our president has made in such a short time.Would be hard to find fault with his accomplishments.\nAre you also going to blame president Trump for the Shutdown? The democrats and some republicans but Illegal Aliens before the American People and the country. The DACA had until March, and it isn't even a non discretionary item in the budget.\n\"In November 2017, six Democratic representatives introduced five articles of impeachment against President Trump, citing several violations of the law. Trump was accused of undermining the freedom of the press and obstruction of justice, among others. Another article of impeachment had already being introduced in July by a Congressman. In December 2017, another Congressman introduced two articles of impeachment, accusing Trump of associating with neo-Nazism and white nationalism and inciting violent actions. The impeachment resolution was put to a vote and was finally defeated by a large margin.\"\nThe freedom of the press. The main stream media has no credibility as being the press, as they have shown they are totally biased against the president.\nAn example, was the alleged sh-----e comment that they used after only Dick Turpin (D) said he heard the president say in a Closed Door Meeting at the WH. Even though Trump and the rest of the 5 people in that room say that the president didn't say it.\nThen CNN used the Shithole word 195 times in one night. How is that reporting the news.\nThe Obstruction of Justice didn't happen. Comey didn't even support it, and if there was obstruction of justice Comey didn't report it as a crime to the DOJ.\nSo these two items are just running loose with no foundation.\nRemember how those presidential candidate polls turned out in real life. Trump won the presidency while the polls said he didn't have a chance.\nAs far as the 1950 \"lies\" in 347 days, I have made my answer in an article.\nI agree on everything. I'm normally not a politician and don't talk about politics, but look at my politics-relatated articles. Some are in HubPages, and the other ones are in Soapboxie. I don't normally do this, but read my articles.\nhttps://hubpages.com/politics/America-A-Horrible-P...\nhttps://hubpages.com/us-politics/10-Reasons-Why-Do...\nhttps://hubpages.com/politics/DonaldTrumpAntichris...\nhttps://hubpages.com/social-issues/parisaccordclim...\nRead those articles.\nbradmasterOCcal :\nThanks for the helpful comments. I'll clean that section up in a day or two.\nI am not sure that there is a point being made in this article.\n\"Trump\u2019s combative approach has likely only worsened the conflict, as many suggest. In November 2017, Trump went on a trip to Asia, visiting Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and meeting many leaders in the region.\"\nFor example, \"has likely only worsened\" \"as many suggest\".\nHardly factual and doesn't make a conclusion.\nEnjoyed your article. well done.\nCatherine Mostly\n13 months ago from Seattle, WA - USA - The WORLD\nWow, despite this being a very compact article, it is power-packed with highlight after highlight. I think you covered just about everything, much of which I had already forgotten about. Thanks for the reminder.\nWhile I'm not nearly as convinced that this is entirely 'unbiased' - it is a really good try. Believe it or not, there are many of us who would like to be unbiased about Trump - and find it damn near impossible, most of the time. Its not like he makes it easy, LoL!\nVery good article! Unbiased and informative. 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(POCA), committed from 2015, in relation to Exchange Control Regulations related to foreign currency in an amount of 1 147 200 USD.\nThe couple who run several business enterprises in South Africa and abroad are expected to appear before the Pretoria Commercial Crime Court on Monday, 4 February 2019.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 5589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://southamptonpost.com/?poid=255&imid=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:02Z", "digest": "sha1:2KEBPHQMY6X77GJS6BTH4U6SDGXPC57U", "length": 123, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "southamptonpost.com", "title": "Home 1", "raw_content": "Inflatable seat is useful in a very variety of things. 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He is most often a foe of Spider-Man.\nJackson Arvad was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania. A former employee at Roxxon Oil, he worked in the division dedicated to electromagnetic research as a scientist. Under constant pressure of being fired, Arvad spent lots of time furthering his work on electromagnetism, getting little sleep in the process. He eventually ended up falling asleep on the job, unable to save himself from a laboratory accident that would change his life. He ended up being caught in the electromagnetic field of a device he was working on, the device weakening the attraction between the molecules in his body, threatening his life.\nBecoming Will o' the Wisp Edit\nWhen his boss learned of the accident, he decided to let Arvad die, but not before he demanded any scientific applications the device would've had. However, Arvad was able to save himself when he learned he was able to control the level of attraction between his body's molecules. He attempted to kill his employer, Jonas Harrow multiple times but was stopped each time by Spider-Man. Finally, he opted to simply hypnotize the man into confessing his crimes to the police. He was recently seen among an army of supervillains organized by Hammerhead that was captured by Iron Man and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents.\nWill O' The Wisp possesses the power to exert conscious control over the sub-atomic electromagnetic particles that carry the force of attraction between the molecules of his body. This enables him to control his density, granting him such powers as superhuman strength, flight, and intangibility.\nMentally willing himself to his maximum density, he can make his flesh and substance as hard as the mineral feldspar. At this density, his muscles become denser and stronger, granting him superhuman strength.\nMentally willing himself to his minimum density, Will O' The Wisp allows a non-critical number of random molecules to oscillate at a small distance from his body, granting him intangibility (unlike the Vision, who shunts his excess molecules extradimensionally, He disperses them omnidirectionally in this dimension). The process of dispersing his molecules produces a bright, sparkling light.\nWill O' The Wisp possesses superhuman strength enabling him to lift (press) approximately 12 tons while in his state of maximum density.\nWill O' The Wisp can maintain his density state of density for about 10 minutes before fatigue forces him to let up.\nRetrieved from \"https://spiderman.fandom.com/wiki/Jackson_Arvad_(Earth-616)?oldid=55538\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 7979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://store.bookbaby.com/book/deliver-us-from-evil1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:39Z", "digest": "sha1:56DLIF5PKWAVQYBCH7VYJAAGMTNIPEYF", "length": 5539, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "store.bookbaby.com", "title": "Deliver Us From Evil by Kathy Thomas | BookShop", "raw_content": "Genre:POETRY\nSubGenre:Inspirational & Religious\nby Kathy Thomas\n\u201cDeliver Us from Evil\u201d is a collection of my writings throughout the years, as my spirit wrestled against the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness (Ephesians 6:10-12). You will find some writings uplifting while others give warning to stay close to God, and the consequence for neglecting our relationship with our Heavenly Father. The short time we are on this earth is nothing compared to eternity, but many strive to make this life comfortable while never thinking of what lies ahead. Will you be comfortable? Will you be happy? Will you be in severe distress and torture? The decision is all yours!\nThere is a way of life that seems right to us, but is it God\u2019s way of living? We must be ever aware that there is a wrong and a right way to live. There is a wrong and a right way to think. There is a wrong and a right way to speak. That evil is ever present to try and get us off track, following a direction that is totally useless. The only thing that matters is this; \u201cWhat does God have to say about it?\u201d If you know what God says about a certain subject, that knowledge overrides everything I might think or feel! Study God\u2019s Word so you will know where He stands! \u201cDeliver Us from Evil\u201d is a collection of my writings throughout the years, as my spirit wrestled against the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness (Ephesians 6:10-12). You will find some writings uplifting while others give warning to stay close to God, and the consequence for neglecting our relationship with our Heavenly Father. The short time we are on this earth is nothing compared to eternity, but many strive to make this life comfortable while never thinking of what lies ahead. Will you be comfortable? Will you be happy? Will you be in severe distress and torture? The decision is all yours! Pay attention to what you do, say or think! Our Heavenly Father knows all, and we will be judged by our own words. (Matthew 12:6) Our God is not willing that any should perish that is why He sent His Son to pay the price for our sin. (John 3:16) We must accept His payment as payment in full and take the gift of life that is freely given to all. If we neglect to take care of this manner in this life we will have all eternity to regret.\nI\u2019m a wife, mother, grandmother and proud of it! I loved having little children around and really enjoy my grandchildren now. When I was between the ages of 10-12 years old I would pray to God that He would put a baby on the doorstep for me. I wanted a child of my own! It never happened, but my mother was blessed with children in her older age so I feel my payers were answered in another way. Thanks Mom! Years later I was blessed with a daughter of my own! Praise God! I named her Christy. What a wonderful little girl! The creativity in me started to spark! Eleven years after her birth; God blessed our family with another little girl, Valorie! She was a miracle baby! First of all it was a miracle of her conception. My husband and I were trying for five years and nothing! One night at church our Pastor asked for the person to come up for prayer that was praying to get pregnant. My husband was pulling me out of my seat to drag me up front. Little did he know that I had stopped praying a while back as I was now thirty-four and did not want to get pregnant past the age of thirty-five. You know the rest of the story\u2026I gave birth! At delivery there was an emergency and she was quickly taken. All my husband and I saw was a blue baby with no life as she was rushed into another room for the Doctors to work on her. Minutes later we heard her cries and knew that God had brought her through! I thank God for the family He has given me! I also have always believed that with God all things are possible. In 2007 I had an auto accident that changed my life in so many ways. Due to a head injury I suffered from loss of memory. I knew who my children and husband were, but what I forgot was how to do things. I now felt stupid! I knew I should know how to wash the clothes and do the dishes, but I did not have a clue. If I remembered how to do something I could not put the steps in the right order. I remember this test I was given in the doctor\u2019s office. I was given pictures of a lady feeding her dog. My job was to put the steps in order. I became very upset as I knew how to feed a dog! At least I knew that I should know how to feed a dog, but I could not put the pictures in their proper order. I go into detail in a book that I wrote with the help of God, \u201cSteps to Achieving God\u2019s Vision for Your Life.\u201d This book has the steps that God gave me to follow to obtain my healing. As I continued to get better I realized that, what He gave was what I had already known before the accident. What the injury had taken away; God had restored to me. This injury caused me to learn to trust in God and follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. I had to listen to that still small voice and not listen to my head as I did not recognize my thoughts or feeling, they were lying to me. Thank God that he has brought me through a trial of great magnitude! I now look forward to the future and its possibilities, for I am loved by God and so are you! God has great plans for you! Start believing that you are the apple of His eye, and that He is your loving Father wanting to give you good gifts!\nAn Usher and Greeters Guide to the Heart of a True Servant by Gwendolyn Moore\nSteps To Achieving God's Vision For Your Life by Kathy L Thomas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 9437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 279.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://store.edsheeran.com/uk/clothing/unisex/peach-divide-world-tour-t-shirt.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:18Z", "digest": "sha1:AANEE43U3MVT52CZWAPDCGGRLH7M2BV6", "length": 72, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "store.edsheeran.com", "title": "Pink Divide World Tour T-Shirt Ed Sheeran", "raw_content": "The Peach Divide World Tour T-Shirt, printed on a unisex cotton t-shirt.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.61, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://straightlinelogic.com/2018/10/21/she-said-that-10-21-18/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:24Z", "digest": "sha1:TPOWLZJ23CJZL6WJRC3EFH6JI4QYNUEA", "length": 592, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "straightlinelogic.com", "title": "She Said That? 10/21/18 | STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Damnable Cult of the Stock Market and the Istanbul Bonesaw Massacre, by David Stockman\nFrom Manal al-Sharif (born 1979), Saudi Arabian women\u2019s rights activist who helped start a women\u2019s right to drive campaign in 2011, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman\u2019s Awakening (2017):\nThe axiomatic thing about Saudi society is that while there are a seemingly infinite number of rules, it is also possible for people in authority to go outside those rules, and, if not break them, at least bend them quite a bit.\nThis entry was posted in Government and tagged Manal al-Sharif. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 8280, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 174.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://strategywiki.org/wiki/Samurai_Ghost", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GTCCMIB67RHQ64BYAFPDFUADZNXC3LWV", "length": 872, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "strategywiki.org", "title": "Samurai Ghost \u2014 StrategyWiki, the video game walkthrough and strategy guide wiki", "raw_content": "Samurai Ghost | Table of Contents | Walkthrough\n\u6e90\u5e73\u8a0e\u9b54\u4f1d \u5dfb\u30ce\u5f10\nTurboGrafx-16, Wii\nGenpei Touma Den: Computer Board Game\nGenpei Touma Den\nSamurai Ghost Channel\nSamurai Ghost (sometimes typeset as \"Samurai-Ghost\"), released in Japan as Genpei Touma Den: Kan no Ni (\u6e90\u5e73\u8a0e\u9b54\u4f1d \u5dfb\u30ce\u5f10, lit. \"The story of exterminating demons during the Genpei period: Volume 2\"?), is a 1992 action game released by Namco for the TurboGrafx-16. The game is the direct sequel to Genpei Touma Den, though the third game in the series, and is the first game in the series to be released outside Japan. It was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console in North America on October 29, 2007 and in Europe on November 2, 2007.\neditGenpei Touma Den series\nGenpei Touma Den \u00b7 Genpei Touma Den: Computer Board Game \u00b7 Samurai Ghost\nRetrieved from \"https://strategywiki.org/w/index.php?title=Samurai_Ghost&oldid=734006\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 2963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 175.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://strosechurch.saintrose.net/ministries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:03Z", "digest": "sha1:EJ2ATDG4RV5IFGHLMB5F5X4SIBHXQ264", "length": 2133, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "strosechurch.saintrose.net", "title": "Parish Ministries - St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church", "raw_content": "Our St. Rose ministries are organized into commissions and sub-committees that provide Advisory and Consultative support to the Pastor, Parish Staff, other Parishioners, School Principal as well as Operational support for the Physical Facilities of the parish. Members are generally, but not exclusively, adults. Appointments for commissions are normally for 3 years, whereas for the operational committees (e.g. maintenance, festival, computer, \u2026) it varies and is based upon function and need. The commissions normally meet monthly. Operational committees meet as needed.\nThe Administration Commission is the steward of parish resources. It is comprised of a representative from each of its current sub-committees: Communication, Finance, Landscaping, Sponsorship, Temporal Affairs, and Catholic Appeal.\nThe Faith Formation Commission deals with matters concerning all levels of religious educational programming in the parish, children through adults. The Commission\u2019s role is to foster cooperation, coordination and communication among all groups and individuals involved in the faith formation ministries of the parish and to encourage a parish wide involvement.\nThe role of the Parish Life Commission is to promote family life, help build the parish community and to help foster a sense of belonging among parishioners. It organizes and carries out activities such as Coffee & Doughnuts, the Parish Dinners and events.\nThe School Commission is made up of appointed individuals with different talents who work together in an advisory capacity to the school principal. This Commission\u2019s members are discerned, meaning that one cannot just sign up for this. The existing members review all interested parishioners and make appointment recommendations to the Pastor. Terms are for 3 years and 1/3 of the members turn over each year.\nOutreach and Social Concerns Commission\nThis commission reaches out to the greater community outside the walls of St. Rose. We work with the Crisis Pregnancy Center, The Gabriel Project, the March for Life in Washington, and many more activities that help us to bring our communities closer to God.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 220.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stuart.iit.edu/events/internships-and-career-opportunities-northwestern-mutual", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRGQF3U7CFQCHPEX3BTJIBXOHXJNP4HA", "length": 1434, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "stuart.iit.edu", "title": "Internships and Career Opportunities at Northwestern Mutual | IIT Stuart School of Business", "raw_content": "Internships and Career Opportunities at Northwestern Mutual\nYaritza Jurado will be giving a presentation on internships and full-time opportunities at Northwestern Mutual on Tuesday, February 12 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. in DTC Room 470.\nYaritza Jurado is a Regional Campus Recruiter with Northwestern Mutual. Her wealth of professional and academic experience is steeped mainly in education. She worked as an admissions coordinator at the SIU School of Medicine, as a staffing consultant in Express Employment Professionals, as well as marketing for the Gamma Phi Omega International Sorority. She has a BS in Business Management from Southern Illinois University and a masters in HR from DePaul.\nThe Northwestern Mutual is an American financial services mutual organization based in Milwaukee. The financial security company provides consultation on wealth and asset income protection, education planning, retirement planning, investment advisory services, trust and private client services, estate planning and business planning. Northwestern Mututal's products include life insurance, disability income, and long-term care insurance; annuities; investments; and investment advisory products and services.\nAll Stuart students including the graduates and undergraduates pursuing Finance, Mathematical Finance, Business Administration, Marketing Analytics, and Management Sciences are encouraged to attend. Register now to claim your spot.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 6239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 100.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studentscholarships.org/careers_salary/229/unemployment/technical_occupations_in_libraries_archives_museums_and_art_galleries.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KPZ4B7IQMG5OPF3WQLEYNSMX4B3CKY2N", "length": 421, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "studentscholarships.org", "title": "What is the currently unemployment rate for a Technical Occupations in Libraries, Archives, Museums and Art Galleries?", "raw_content": "What is the currently unemployment rate for a Technical Occupations in Libraries, Archives, Museums and Art Galleries?\n5% of Technical Occupations in Libraries, Archives, Museums and Art Galleries are unemployed. This rate is close to the average for technical, professional, and skilled occupations.\nLibrary and archive technicians and assistants help users get information from library/archive resources, assist... more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studymetro.blog/2018/08/24/who-else-wants-to-learn-about-top-10-universities-in-new-zealand/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:K6LG7ESAJQRV545KP2RXAHSWYZ4VZSA3", "length": 1960, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "studymetro.blog", "title": "Who Else Wants to Learn About Top 10 Universities in New Zealand? \u2013 Study Metro- Study Abroad in Top University", "raw_content": "Who Else Wants to Learn About Top 10 Universities in New Zealand?\nIn the event the University of Texas is on your top collection of schools, complete the application once possible. It is established in different cities throughout the country, so you can choose your favorite college in any city. There are a couple universities in Scotland that have an excellent reputation on the planet.\nThe New Fuss About Top 10 Universities in New Zealand\nIn the majority of cases, if your country gives you student aid that is, you\u2019ll be in a position to bring it with you to Scotland. Experience true freedomIn a new nation, you\u2019re just you. If you\u2019re from an English Speaking Country, you don\u2019t need to take the tests.\nFinding Top 10 Universities in New Zealand on the Web\nStudents learn not merely by lectures and seminars but in addition by hands-on experiences. They are able to achieve the NCEA at three levels via a wide range of courses and subjects, both within and beyond the traditional school. You also need to know whether you need to be a research student or a normal student. Part-time students should put in an application for a visitor visa. With smaller classes students are ready to get acquainted with their professors better.\nShould you need additional research you are able to look for some academic studies that discuss the advantages of studying abroad. In fact, studies reveal that Deaf drivers are no more inclined to be involved in car accidents than hearing drivers. Studying abroad is an excellent experience, particularly when it is for free. Study in Europe Getting a greater education abroad is a good achievement and life-changing experience, but the majority of the times it includes high expenses and several other higher requirements that can be problematic for some students to finish.\nPrevious Previous post: The Key to Successful Education Usa Fair\nNext Next post: Startling Information Regarding Study Abroad Masters Program Exposed", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 5229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://suesspiciousminds.com/2015/06/18/taking-forty-thousand-pounds-in-cash-to-pizza-express/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4P7RXD7WNAIC4BDSRJ6BV6Z5ZLCTVZJC", "length": 10371, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "suesspiciousminds.com", "title": "Taking forty thousand pounds in cash to Pizza Express | suesspiciousminds", "raw_content": "\u2190 Minnock judgments (part 2) and a different judicial approach\nSix month delay in giving judgment (appeal point) \u2192\nTaking forty thousand pounds in cash to Pizza Express\nI mean, I know it is a tad more expensive than other pizza restaurants, and yes those doughballs ARE tempting, but I don\u2019t think you need to go with that much cash in your back pocket.\nKaur v Randhawa 2015\nThis is an ancillary relief case in which the Ex Wife (who we\u2019ll call Wife) was making applications for the Ex-Husband (who we\u2019ll call Husband) to make good on the payment that he had been ordered to pay her in the final order of their divorce settlement. He had been ordered to pay her \u00a380,000.\nThe Husband had a retort to this, which is that he had met with his Wife months earlier and agreed to pay her forty thousand pounds in cash, as a full and final settlement. (It isn\u2019t wonderfully clear why she\u2019d agree to take \u00a340,000 when a Court had just ordered that she would get \u00a380,000, and the argument that it was \u2018so that she wouldn\u2019t lose her benefits\u2019 isn\u2019t that convincing)\nThe Husband\u2019s case is that he met with the Wife in Pizza Express (in Slough) and there handed her \u00a340,000 in notes. Assuming that they were in \u00a350 notes, that\u2019s 800 notes. One fifty pound note weighs 1.1 grams, so 40k is 800 grams or 1.75 pounds for the more experienced reader.\nIf you piled up \u00a340k in fifty pound notes, it is about ten inches high. I\u2019m going to go out on a limb and say that even in Slough, where people routinely light their Romeo y Julietta cigars with crisp fifty pound notes, a ten inch thick pile of banknotes is going to attract some attention.\n[I\u2019m grateful to this website for allowing me to calculate and visualise just what \u00a340,000 in cash might look like\nhttp://www.reviewmylife.co.uk/blog/2010/05/09/what-does-one-million-pounds-look-like/ ]\nOne might imagine that if you were handing over \u00a340,000 in cash, in full and final settlement of an \u00a380k debt, you\u2019d want to get some proof of that.\n7. the husband says that in December 2013 he met the wife (and their child) at a Pizza Express in Slough where he paid her \u00a340,000 in cash she having earlier agreed with him to accept this sum in satisfaction of her entitlement under the order. He says she agreed to accept this lesser sum in cash so that her receipt of benefits would not be disturbed. She agreed that her \u201ccharge\u201d over the property would be lifted on payment of the \u00a340,000.\nThe wife flatly denies this. She says that the last time she met the husband was in 2011.\nThe husband says that he borrowed the \u00a340,000 from his brother. It was in \u00a350 notes in packets of \u00a32,500 \u2013 16 packets in all. He says his brother came with him as well as another person who would act as a witness. He says that he took photos on his phone of him handing over the money but unfortunately he has since lost the phone. He says that his brother told him to get a receipt but he did not do so, as he trusted his wife. He said he had Facebook messages which would prove that the wife received the money.\nThe brother says that he had the \u00a340,000 in his safe. Alternatively he may have got it out via a casino. At an earlier hearing he had explained to me that \u201cwhenever we need cash, yes, I often go to a casino and take out the money there because its very lot easier to take it out\u201d. He says he accompanied the husband to Slough with the cash. He advised the husband to get a receipt. He did not see the husband hand over the money. He did see the wife walking past in the street. The husband did not mention taking photographs. He could not remember if they brought a third person with them; they might have done.\nThese stories, which were given in witness statements, were repeated from the witness box on oath.\nJust to pull that together, the Husband got \u00a340k in fifty pound notes, in sixteen separate bundles, and he got this from his brother, who got it from a safe, or from a casino. And they didn\u2019t get a receipt. And he took photos, but those photos were on his phone, which is now lost. And he took a witness but can\u2019t produce that witness.\nOne would expect that if the Wife was being handed a ten inch pile of fifty pound notes in Pizza Express that their waiter \u201cHi, I\u2019m Russell and I\u2019ll be your waiter tonight\u201d was lingering around and being particularly attentive in the hope of a really good tip. I would have tried to track him down, I bet he would have remembered it either way.\nDo you think Mostyn J went for this plausible account?\nI have no hesitation in rejecting the evidence of the husband and his brother. I am certain it is false. Not only is it implausible in the extreme but it is not corroborated by contemporaneous documentary evidence or subsequent events. The husband has not produced any evidence from the alleged witness. His printouts of his Facebook account show no admissions from the wife (although the husband says that those were in audio clips which are referred to in the printouts.) The brother\u2019s bank account does not show \u00a340,000 taken from a casino at that time. It shows over four days in December 2013 \u00a335,000 paid into a casino and \u00a350,000 paid out, a net withdrawal of \u00a315,000. Perhaps most significantly on 12 February 2014 in a conversation with the wife\u2019s solicitor the husband said he \u201cwas not going to comply with the order\u201d. In that conversation, as recorded in the attendance note, the husband did not say that two months earlier he had paid the wife \u00a340,000 in cash which she had accepted in full satisfaction of her entitlement under the order. It is inconceivable that he would not have mentioned this if it had in fact happened.\nIf you ARE going to claim that you paid your wife 40 grand in used fifties, but that you can\u2019t prove it in any way, it is probably NOT a good idea to tell her solicitor two months after the alleged transaction when they ask you for the money that you aren\u2019t going to pay it, rather than \u201cI have already paid her it\u201d\nNot only did Mostyn J not believe the Husband and make orders that the proper sum of money owed to the Wife would have to be paid, but he ruled that the Husband should pay the Wife\u2019s legal costs at an indemnity rate (i.e as though her firm were charging private client rates rather than legal aid)and his Brother should have their evidence considered by the Director of Public Prosecutions to consider whether they should face trial for perjury.\nIf an inter partes order for indemnity costs were made against the brother and the husband on a joint and several basis then the wife\u2019s solicitors would be entitled to relinquish the legal aid certificate and be paid on a private basis. This is perfectly acceptable; indeed given the very low rates of pay by the agency legal aid firms depend on such orders for their survival.\nIn my judgment the disgraceful conduct of the husband and the brother well justify an order for indemnity costs. The freezing order will remain in place until the balance of the costs award has been ascertained and paid. Obviously the freezing order is varied to permit the third party debt order to be executed.\nI direct that this judgment and the court bundle be sent to the DPP for her to consider whether proceedings for perjury should be brought against the husband and the brother.\nPosted in case law and tagged ancillary relief, director of public prosecutions, dpp, kaur v randhawa 2015, mostyn j, perjury. Bookmark the permalink.\nImagine if he gave to her in 1 pence pieces \ud83d\ude2e\nThere can be no conviction for perjury on the uncorroborated evidence of one witness. I don\u2019t see thart going anywhere.\nsuesspiciousminds | June 19, 2015 at 11:06 am\nYes, hard to prove to the criminal standard. I think Mostyn J quite right to say that the Husband\u2019s account was considerably short of being more likely than not to be true, but proving that it is a lie to the criminal standard is quite tricky.\nAndrew | June 19, 2015 at 11:10 am\nThere is a specific provision in the Perjury Act requiring corroboration!\nOh yes.. I\u2019m grateful, as I wasn\u2019t familiar with that particular requirement\nPerjury Act 1911\n13 Corroboration..\nA person shall not be liable to be convicted of any offence against this Act, or of any offence declared by any other Act to be perjury or subornation of perjury, or to be punishable as perjury or subornation of perjury, solely upon the evidence of one witness as to the falsity of any statement alleged to be false.\nThat would seem to require that both the ex-wife AND another witness (surely not Mostyn J) give evidence as to why the statement is false. [Although ex-wife\u2019s solicitor COULD presumable give evidence about the telephone conversation\u2026]\nIf he had written to the solicitors to say that he wasn\u2019t going to pay, that presumably would get around the \u2018solely upon the evidence of one witness\u2019 element. There might only be one witness, but there would be corroborative evidence.\nThat also means that the frequently asked question \u2013 \u201cIf a social worker lies, why don\u2019t they get done for perjury?\u201d should also contain that as part of the answer \u2013 if the evidence of lying was one person\u2019s word against the other and the Judge decides to believe person A not person B and even if the Judge says person B was lying, it wouldn\u2019t solve s13 of the Perjury Act 1911.\nThis clause does suggest that if I go in the witness box and say \u201cIt wasn\u2019t me that injured the child, a midget strangler assassin baby came out of the sky in a minature helicopter, did it and then flew off\u201d (the actual solution to a crime novel by Harry Stephen Keeler, by the way), then the fact that my partner was there and gives evidence that I\u2019m lying about it wouldn\u2019t amount to something that could lead to a Perjury conviction, due to s13, even though my lie is outlandishly and trasparently obvious.\ndbfamilylaw | June 19, 2015 at 6:03 am\nA note on para 20 for Mostyn J: if you do get a legal aid certificate in cases like this (more and more rare) then any order for costs are at your full client rates \u2013 a rare exception to the indemnity rules; and if a judge has found no money was paid, I suppose she\u2019ll get out of the LAA charge on what was never there\u2026\nAndrew | June 19, 2015 at 6:22 am\nNice try but the Third Party Debt order was made final and the LAA charge will bite. 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It\u2019s such a comfort to know that he\u2019s well loved and cared for even though he is far away.\nAnd here is Carol, the other mother! She\u2019s second from the left, and her husband, John, is on the far right. They left their home in Britain and went to Poland to have an open home. I\u2019m so thankful for them!!!!!\n2 thoughts on \u201cIan\u201d\nI\u2019m starting to understand the \u201cfeeling\u201d behinds these son/mother things more and more as my boys get older. Someday maybe I\u2019ll be in your shoes and then I\u2019ll REALLY understand. What a fun picture of Ian. Looks like he\u2019s thriving.\nvery nice pix! 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It also examines the way Europeans responded to the unfamiliar plants and animals they encountered when they first arrived in the new colony.\nDiscover how Tasmania\u2019s natural environment influenced the development of the colony and how some species vanished, others prospered and new ones arrived.\nThis is a permanent exhibition on the ground floor of the Bond Store Galleries.\nAMARNA (2015) \u2013 Jam...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4960, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 214.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tasmanianartsguide.com.au/whats-on/exhibitions/modern-age/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:02Z", "digest": "sha1:VBBJXUTGUPUJOZYSK2U3BN5QDXZVYPBY", "length": 404, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tasmanianartsguide.com.au", "title": "Modern Age - Tasmanian Arts Guide", "raw_content": "Modern Age examines the influence of the global Modernism movement on Tasmanian art including the work and story of the female artists who worked out of a studio in Hobart\u2019s Collins Street in the 1930s such as Dorothy Stoner, Maude Poynter and Edith Holmes. The Modern Age gallery also includes works from the Australian studio crafts revival in the 1960s and 1970s.\ncraft revival,\nmapali \u2013 Dawn Gathe...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 4789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://taxfoundation.org/nashvilles-tax-break-seniors-raises-questions-fairness-legality/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:20Z", "digest": "sha1:WME4QE5BORIFGVXVJAQYFAEZSRPG3JB6", "length": 1960, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "taxfoundation.org", "title": "Nashville's Tax Break for Seniors Raises Questions of Fairness, Legality | Tax Foundation", "raw_content": "Nashville\u2019s Tax Break for Seniors Raises Questions of Fairness, Legality\nNashville Mayor Bill Purcell is hoping that a half-cent sales tax increase for the city on the ballot will pass this November. Why? In part, to transfer some of that money to the elderly in the form of tax cuts on property, wheel, and sales tax. As today\u2019s Nashville Tennessean explains:\nTax breaks for Nashville seniors \u2014 which Mayor Bill Purcell wants to fund with a half-cent sales tax increase \u2014 are being questioned by some who say they may not stand up in court even if the tax hike passes at the polls.\nMembers of the grass-roots group Tennessee Tax Revolt \u201care talking seriously\u201d about challenging Purcell\u2019s proposed elderly tax relief program on constitutional grounds, leader Ben Cunningham said. However, the group has not made a final decision on whether it will sue.\nThe mayor wants to give seniors breaks on sales, wheel and property taxes using some of the $57.5 million that would be raised from a half-cent sales tax increase, which voters are casting ballots on now. That would increase Davidson County\u2019s combined state and local sales tax rates to 9.75 cents on the dollar.\nMost likely, the mayor is seeking to prop up his vote total with the demographic that tends to actually show up at the polls\u2014the elderly. And while most would agree with the basic unfairness of this proposal, one could question the recent prescription drug benefit passed by Congress and signed by the President on the same grounds. It essentially redistributes money from one age group to another, mainly for political reasons.\nIn reality, the elderly already receive an effective sales tax break compared to everyone else because businesses across Nashville commonly offer discounted prices on a range of goods to senior citizens. For every dollar of these discounts, retailers effectively lower the base at which the purchase is taxed, thus providing seniors with a roughly 9 cent tax break.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 198, "original_length": 7176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tcpreprod.com/video/whatsapp-works-well-in-the-developing-world-and-messenger-works-well-in-the-developed-world-clip/519622168/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:42Z", "digest": "sha1:4G5OP4PRLWD2MQ2FSRO37NPWO74KMNYB", "length": 98, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tcpreprod.com", "title": "WhatsApp Works Well in the Developing World and Messenger Works Well in the Developed World (Clip) - TechCrunch Disrupt | TechCrunch TV", "raw_content": "WhatsApp Works Well in the Developing World and Messenger Works Well in the Developed World (Clip)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 5040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 236.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techraptor.net/content/tag/lego-pirates-of-the-caribbean", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:40Z", "digest": "sha1:S42J6APISHVZDRADW7GYYYZOHWOU53T7", "length": 472, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "techraptor.net", "title": "Lego Pirates of the Caribbean Content", "raw_content": "Lego Pirates of the Caribbean Articles\n6 Underappreciated Pirate Games\nWhen you think of pirate games, one of three probably comes to mind: Sid Meier\u2019s Pirates!, Assassin\u2019s Creed IV Black Flag or (my personal favorite) the Monkey Island series. Don\u2019t get\u2026\nXbox Games with Gold: July 2017 \u2013 Pirates and Rainbows\nGames with Gold subscribers can look forward to Grow Up, Runbow, Kane & Lynch 2, & Lego Pirates of the Caribbean this month! All four titles are playable on the\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 260.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teflpedia.com/index.php?title=Free_writing&oldid=21581", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AXRBDN3SFDLAKHCOXE3DD7U7DWF7RQJ4", "length": 8743, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "teflpedia.com", "title": "Free writing - Teflpedia", "raw_content": "Revision as of 15:13, 12 August 2012 by Bob M (talk | contribs) (cat)\nFree writing is a pre-writing technique used in ESL and Native English Speaking classrooms. In free writing students are assigned the task of writing for a short period of time on any topic either chosen by the student or the teacher. It is essential to keep writing without worrying about grammar, spelling, or punctuation.\nFree writing necessarily is unprepared, open-ended, and flowing student work. According to Peter Elbow \u201cthe goal of free writing is in the process, not the product\u201d (Writing with Power, 1998, p.13). This means that free writing does not necessarily produce perfect or suitable material for use in class tests or essays. However free writing pieces are syntactically coherent and express the verbal energy of a student. The technique encourages students to \u201csee writing as a problem-solving activity involving self-regulation, evaluation, diagnosis, and reflection\u201d (Grabe & Kaplan,1996, p.244). Therefore it is very helpful in a Second Language classroom.\nFree writing tasks are not supposed to be evaluated or criticized by the teacher and are mostly not even handed in by the students. Nevertheless it may be helpful for some students to read through their writing again in order to increase successful self-evaluation and reflection.\n2 Learner's role\n3 Teacher's role\nBenefits for the ESL classroom[edit]\nFree writing is a useful way to get students to find topics, to recognize ideas of which they were not aware, and to nominate possible topics for future writing activities. Research on writing tasks in classroom environment has shown that certain pre-writing activities are particularly useful for students.\nFree writing can enhance students' writing expertise, make their English more proficient and help them to reflect upon their own writing style (cf. Grabe & Kanplan,1996, p.246).\nSince free writing is not evaluated by the teacher, students can feel free to say whatever they have on their minds about a topic or idea. Free writing also helps students to overcome writer's block because they learn to simply \u201cget on with it and not to be held back by worries about whether these words are good words or the right words\u201d (Elbow, Writing with Power,1998, p.14). According to Elbow, free writing by these means helps to separate the process of producing a piece of writing from the process of revising it (cf. Writing with Power, p.14). In addition, frequent free writing exercises increase students' fluency in the foreign language and helps build up new vocabulary.\nPieces of free writing can be very useful for teachers as well as students to find ideas for future writing activities. It is an easy way to explore unknown topics and questions without the strict regulations of form, grammar or citation. At the same time students can not only explore topics they never thought they would find interesting, but also become aware of their individual voice in writing (cf. Grabe & Kaplan,1996, p.311). Apart from any external constraints students are able to find out how they write or how their stream of consciousness flows.\nThus, free writing is self-reflective task for ESL writers which gives them the chance to take a step away from the stress of a classroom full of many other learners with individual needs.\nLearner's role[edit]\nThe learner's role in free writing is a simple and at the same time sometimes frustrating and difficult role. The learner's only job is to write for a set time, for example ten minutes. Difficulties may occur because the learners are supposed to keep writing. They are not supposed to stop for anything. They are just supposed to write quickly but without rushing. Whenever the learners do not know what to write it is fine to write \u201cI can't think of anything to say\u201d. As long as they never stop to look back, to cross something out, to wonder how to spell something, to wonder what word or thought to use, or to think about what they are doing, they complete the tasks successfully. The only requirement for the students is that they never stop writing until the time is up (cf. Elbow, Writing without teachers, 1998, p.3).\nStudents may encounter several kinds of difficulties during free writing tasks related to their individual sentiments. Some students may be reluctant to go on writing and concentrating on their stream of consciousness incessantly. They will find it very difficult to keep writing without ever looking up or stopping to gather new thoughts.\nOther students may keep using an eraser or scoring out pieces of their writing because they want their work to be perfect. Spelling and grammar mistakes are not acceptable for them, regardless of how much the interruption disables them to follow through with their task. Another indicator for perfectionism encountered in ESL classrooms during free writing tasks may be the constant use of a dictionary to find the most accurate word. Some students may even find that their own words are not convenient for the task and will therefore start to copy from their textbooks or other material previously used in the classroom.\nTeacher's role[edit]\nWhile students are completely free, the teacher in free writing is observer, facilitator, and encourager at the same time. A good teacher needs to be aware of issues that occur in writing and has to convey these insights to students before even assigning a task.\nResearch shows that writing takes time to develop and instruction should be planned accordingly. Students need to be made aware of the role of language form as the medium of meaningful communication, as well as the types of language constraints which are reflected in different genres and purposes for writing.\nTeachers need to keep in mind that writing development requires extensive practice and cannot expect free writing to be successful the very first time. In addition students will occasionally vary in their performance and should be aware that this variation will occur. In free writing students should be encouraged, at times, to take risks and to innovate (cf. Grabe & Kaplan,1996, p.254\u2013255). This concludes in the teacher's facilitating role: \u201censuring that students aren't correcting, changing what they wrote, consulting their dictionary, or one of the hundred and one other activities that distract or interrupt students writing\u201d (Dickson,2001,p.1).\nMoreover, the teacher acts as an encourager to provide students with the necessary reminder to remain focused on the task at hand. Especially when it comes to perfectionist students, teachers have to make sure they understand their task correctly and keep to it. Then they remind them that perfect work is not expected and that the process of writing freely is much more important than the product.\nSeveral variations are possible and post-writing ideas are diverse. A more directed form of free writing occurs when a teacher suggests a general idea and students write on anything relevant to that general idea (cf. Grabe & Kaplan,1996, p.310).\nIn free writing, some students do report negative experiences, mostly complaining that they do not know what to write. In these situations, a stimulus or prompt can be very helpful to start writing. However, these prompts are not topics; they do not set limits to what can be written about. They are merely places to start writing. Possible prompts could be citations, music, pictures, proverbs or video sequences. All of these are just means to inspire the students, which make it easier for them to find a threat of thought (cf. Dickson, 2001,p.2). The most controlled type of free writing occurs in response to a specific question raised by the teacher.\nSince ESL classrooms often don't assign as much time as needed for regular free writing, students should be encouraged to write at home. A possible variation of free writing for students outside the classroom may be to keep a dialogue journal or a learning log.\nColorado State University. (2012). Teaching Writing. Retrieved March 5, 2012 from the World Wide Web: http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/esl/writing.cfm\nDickson, K.J. (2001, August). Freewriting, Prompts, and Feedback. The Internet TESL Journal, Volume 2, No.8.\nElbow, P. (1998). Writing with Power. Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.\nElbow, P. (1998). Writing without Teachers (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.\nGrabe, W. & Kaplan, R.B. (1996). Theory and Practice of Writing. An Applied Linguistic Perspective. London: Longman.\nJacobs, G. (1986, October). Quickwriting. A Technique for Invention in Writing. 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Tutors will have the opportunity to make lasting and effective relationships with their students in a supportive professional environment. ITG offers extensive training and curriculum guidance from international school teachers with years of experience. When you arrive in HCMC we\u2019ll help organise every aspect of your stay from accommodation to your work permit and residency card. Positions are available from 6 to 18 months, starting from January or February 2019.\nIt is only our opinion, but we think there has never been a better time to be in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City). Drenched in history, Saigon is a city in the midst of a mind-boggling transformation. New skyscrapers, hip international bars and buzzing arts venues appear on an almost weekly basis. This is set amongst the last vestiges of a sleepy French Colonial past and the utterly distinctive quality of traditional street life, with its bustling coffee shops and mouthwatering food vendors. 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It can be a good time to reflect on the wins and losses of the previous twelve months. It's also an excellent time to take stock and evaluate what your business needs to go forward.\nIT demands move at a staggering speed, meaning last year's tech may not fit next year's needs.\nThe new year can bring major change to both the business and the environment it operates in. Regulations, contract terms, and seasonal spending habits mean that adaptations have to be made for continued growth.\nA smart business knows how and where to incorporate flexibility to win more business and adapt to a new environment. As we move into the new year, there are fundamental questions we should ask about our IT to ensure we are ready to tackle the next twelve months too.\nIs Your Hardware Still Up to The Task?\nBusinesses are often challenged by their client's demand for files that seem to continually increase in size and resolution. The storage needed to handle, use, and archive these enormous files appears to grow at a near exponential rate.\nEvery device today is capable of capturing more data at a higher resolution than ever before. Huge data needs have become the new standard.\nThe expectation of bigger and bigger data is only set to continue as we progress into another new year. Many clients expect, or demand, exceptional quality from professional services and with a fast turnaround time too.\nThese competing demands put as much strain on network hardware and computing power as they do physical storage. One of the most important things a business can do when reviewing IT demands is to ensure there are no bottlenecks in the productivity pipeline.\nIs Your Backup Reliable and Ready?\nAlmost every business in the modern day has learned enough to put a backup in place. Whether simply transferring files manually to USB storage, copying documents over to a local server, or saving media to the cloud. However, not every business is testing their backups. Fewer still are testing them reliably.\nA backup is only as good as what we know can be reliably restored from it. Cases have emerged where big-name firms had famously believed they were backing up successfully for months or years, only to find out their backup was failing when they really needed it.\nWhether impacted by missing assets, unable to transfer files, or affected by corrupt data, an untested backup may be as useful as not having any backup at all. A critical goal for the safety and reliability of any business should be to have dependable backups that are tested at regular intervals.\nIs Your Compliance Still Up to Date?\nNearly every business in the world has compliance and regulations standards it must adhere to if it is to keep its position in the marketplace. These may be industry specific such as medical or automotive certifications, or regional protections such as data protection regulations.\nRequirements for each of these areas change regularly. It is up to each firm to keep on top of both changes to rules and changes to the firm which may impact them.\nChanging IT can often impact certifications in a big way. Many feature rules which affect storage, processing, or altering the way in which data is used; it's essential to check your usage against strict requirements relevant to your business.\nWhile time-consuming and difficult, these checks require a strong knowledge of both the rules and your IT system. The penalties for failure can be severe and crippling. It is a critical area of the firm you can't afford to get wrong.\nIf you are looking to boost your business in the new year, check up on your systems and technology, or dust up your certifications to the latest standard: there's never a better time than now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 7776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://termlifeinsurancemales.com/life-insurance-company-reviews/review-minnesota-life-insurance-term-quotes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:28Z", "digest": "sha1:Z4PRXPR23K7DA4WU5FNUYGO7PE7W62GF", "length": 5470, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "termlifeinsurancemales.com", "title": "Review of Minnesota Life Insurance Company \u2013 Ratings and Products | Term Life Insurance for Males", "raw_content": "Everyone likes to know more about the company who they are doing business with and learn something about their strengths and weaknesses.\nIn this article, I\u2019m going to provide you with information and a review of Minnesota Life Insurance Company to help you make an informed choice when deciding if this life insurance company is a right choice for your life insurance needs.\nMinnesota Life Insurance Company is part of the Securian Financial Group. The company was founded in 1880 so it clearly is an established company that has aged well over time. Currently, Securian Financial Group, which includes Minnesota Life Insurance, offers its services to approximately10 million people in the U.S. with a mixture of insurance, investment and retirement financial products.\nFinancial Strength of Minnesota Life Insurance Company\nOne of the indices to consider when choosing a life insurance company is to know how strong they are financially. Like any other company, the financial health of a life insurance company can ebb and flow for a variety of reasons. If a company isn\u2019t financially strong, this can impact your life insurance policy anywhere from their ability to pay claims to their investment portfolio which could impact the cash value of a Permanent life insurance policy.\nOne way to find out the financial strength of a company is through the rating companies such as Moody\u2019s, A.M. Best, Fitch and others who examine the corporate books of these companies in minute detail and rate their health accordingly.\nSo, how does Minnesota Life Insurance Company rate? Minnesota Life as part of the Securian Financial Group rates quite well and is considered a sound company from a financial perspective. Moody\u2019s gives it an Aa3 rating which is \u2018Excellent\u2019. A.M. Best rates the company as A+ which is\u2018Superior\u2019, and Fitch has rated the company as AA or \u2018Very Strong\u2019. Additionally, the Comdex ranking for this company is rated as 93, and is based on a scale of 1-100.\nTheir Comdex rating is of particular note. Would you believe theirs at 93 is higher than many, very well known insurance carriers such as Genworth (78), Reliastar/ING (75), and American General (82).\nThey have the same A.M. Best rating as some of the most financially reputable companies in the world, including Ohio National and Monumental Life. One of the only companies that beats them in financial ratings is State Farm, who have a staggering Comdex rating of 98!\nProducts Offered by Minnesota Life Insurance Company\nMinnesota offers the following life insurance policies to its customers;\nAdvantage Elite Term\nTerm life insurance is the cheapest form of life insurance that gives a policy holder temporary coverage for a specific number of years such 10, 20 or 30 years which is why it is called \u2018term\u2019. The premiums you pay remain the same for the term and cover death benefits only. During the life of the policy there may options at interval periods in the policy when you can change your term insurance policy to a permanent insurance policy.\nOne unique feature about Minnesota Life is they\u2019re one of the few companies to offer a 5 year term.\nPermanent life insurance gives a policy holder coverage for their entire life and also offers the additional advantage of a cash value accumulation. The cash value has a number of tax advantages and can be borrowed against if you incur a financial emergency, or it can be used as a retirement supplement.\nPermanent Life insurance is not only used for individuals but is also used by businesses as a form of business life insurance for key personnel and partners. Some permanent policies may have consistent premiums while others allow you to adjust the premium according to your budget.\nThere are different types of Permanent life insurance policies. Your choices include:\nAccumulator Universal Life \u2013 Also provides you with a cash value and death benefits but has the added advantage of allowing you to make flexible premiums.\nSecure Whole Life \u2013 Their whole life policy offers guaranteed life insurance benefits for life as well as guaranteed cash value accumulation, which can be drawn from by way of loans or withdrawal if needed.\nEclipse Indexed Life \u2013 This is their Indexed life insurance policy, which has the potential of interest crediting and is directly related to changes in an index account(s). The crediting potential has a maximum and minimum.\nEclipse Survivor Indexed UL \u2013 This type of policy gives coverage to 2 people and the death benefits become payable when the second one of the parties dies. The thing that makes Minnesota Life\u2019s survivor policy unique is with the indexing feature, it has the capability of building up some very nice cash value.\nWhat about Whole life insurance? \u2013 Minnesota Life does not currently offer a type of whole life.\nComplaints against Minnesota Life Insurance Company\nEvery insurance company has consumer complaints. Minnesota Life Insurance Company is no exception. There are many consumer complaint sites on the web but frankly, they are suspect and I take them with a grain of salt. If you want take the pulse of how a company fares, the best way is to look at a legitimate consumer complaint organization such as the Better Business Bureau.\nMinnesota Life Insurance Company isn\u2019t listed with the BBB because it falls under the Securian Financial Group, and this company has an A+ rating which is top of the line. That says it all.\nFor a quote on a Minnesota Life policy, call us at 877-996-9383.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 9832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tfc.tv/episode/details/143997/pusong-ligaw-december-07-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZA6KBDK55YUU4TJ2MB22HCYNQOFY7NH", "length": 115, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "tfc.tv", "title": "TFC - Pusong Ligaw December 07, 2017 Episode | Kapamilya Teleserye | Free at TFC", "raw_content": "Despite the rumors about their affair, Caloy (Joem Bascon) and Tessa (Beauty Gonzalez) opt to fight for their love.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2024, "original_length": 41604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-artists.org/concrete-art/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:09Z", "digest": "sha1:VITXD6GTY6JG2YQONDZENRPQ5WQYVFKP", "length": 1091, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "the-artists.org", "title": "Concrete Art - the-artists.org", "raw_content": "Theo van Doesburg: \u201cA work of art does not derive from nature but is an autonomous reality composed of colour and form, an object for intellectual and spiritual use.\u201d\u2026Art \u201cshould receive nothing from nature\u2019s formal properties or from sensulaity or sentimentality. We want to exclude lyricism, dramaticism, symbolism\u2026\u201d\n\u201cArt should receive nothing from nature\u2019s formal properties or from sensulaity or sentimentality. We want to exclude lyricism, dramaticism, symbolism, etc\u2026. The picture should be constructed entirely from purely plastic elements, that is to say planes and colours. A pictorial element has no other significance than \u2018itself\u2019 and therefore the picture has no other significance than \u2018itself\u2019\u2026. Technique should be mechanical, that is to say, anti-impressionistic\u201dTate: Concrete Art\nTerm introduced by Van Doesburg in 1930 \u2018Manifesto of Concrete Art\u2019 published in the first and only issue of magazine Art Concret. He called for a type of abstract art that would be entirely free of any basis in observed reality and that would have no symbolic implications\u2026\nConcrete Artists", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-constituent.com/additional-statements-by-senator-mark-begich/speech/1581", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:10Z", "digest": "sha1:R5WDIGONEDUT4L4R4DCJPNN5RNFUEQ3K", "length": 4589, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "the-constituent.com", "title": "Additional Statements by Sen. Begich", "raw_content": "BEGICH. Mr. President, today I wish to honor the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Marine Highway System. Alaskans celebrate this critical and necessary water transportation system [[Page S648]] which links rural and urban hub communities along the coast of our vast State. Unlike the lower 48, many of our communities are not accessible by road, so in many areas the primary means of travel is by air or sea. Therefore, the Alaska Marine Highway makes up a large part of our highway system and is a route so special it has been designated a National Scenic Byway and an All American Road, the only marine route in the United States with this designation.\nMy family and I share special memories of taking the ferries to many communities throughout Alaska. The Marine Highway was even part of our trip here to Washington for my first year in the Senate. A ferry ride brings Alaskans together while on their way to visit family, play in basketball tournaments, or bring new cars and boats home from the lower 48.\nAlthough the 50-year anniversary commemorates the formal establishment of the Alaska Division of Marine Transportation in 1963, the Alaska Marine Highway System was begun in 1948, initiated by three men with a dream to provide dependable marine transportation among Alaska's coastal communities. Haines resident Steve Homer joined forces with brothers Ray and Gustav Gelotte to purchase the M/V Chilkoot and set up Chilkoot Motorship Lines. The vessel, formerly a U.S. Navy landing craft, required work to remove its military features and ensure it could pass U.S. Coast Guard inspection, but within a few months of its purchase, it was deemed ready for service as a civilian passenger vessel. The M/V Chilkoot could carry a maximum of only 14 cars and by all accounts had ``poor accommodations'' due to retaining many of its original Navy features. No matter the M/V Chilkoot ferried its first two cars from Haines to Juneau in August of 1948.\nAs fate would have it, one of those cars belonged to Ernest Gruening, then the Territorial Governor of Alaska. Governor Gruening became an ardent supporter of the new transportation system and with two other commissioners from the Board of Roads authorized the construction of ferry ramps in Juneau, Haines, and Skagway. Thus, service to these three small southeast communities was born.\nIn 1988 Steve Homer wrote a letter about his experience starting the Alaska Marine Highway System. In that letter he wrote that his initial idea of bringing a landing craft to Southeast Alaska was spawned in 1944 when he commanded such a craft in World War II. He said he signed partnership papers to form Chilkoot Motorship Lines in 1949 and that the total required equity capital was $9,177 in 1948 dollars. A few years later the business ran into financial difficulties, and the Alaska Territorial Government offered to purchase it. Ownership transferred to the territory in 1951.\nBy 1957 the M/V Chilkoot was too small to meet demand and was replaced by the M/V Chilkat. The M/V Chilkat could carry 59 passengers and 15 vehicles. It began daily service between Juneau, Haines, and Skagway in April of that year.\nTwo years later, on January 3, 1959, Alaska became the 49th State and the M/V Chilkat became the first State-owned ferry. That same year, the First Alaska Legislature approved the Alaska Ferry Transportation Act, and voters approved bond issues totaling $18 million to expand the ferry fleet. These bonds enabled the State to commission four new vessels and build docks throughout southeast Alaska and the Kenai Peninsula. In 1963, with the establishment of the Division of Marine Transportation, the Alaska Marine Highway System was officially launched.\nOver the past 50 years the Alaska Marine Highway has grown to include 11 vessels which serve 35 communities. From the southern terminus in Bellingham, WA, the system stretches more than 3,500 miles to Dutch Harbor, AK. It makes port calls in Prince Rupert, BC, and throughout Alaska's Inside Passage. It travels across the Gulf of Alaska to Prince William Sound and along the Aleutian Chain, all to carry the Nation's commerce to distant destinations and Alaska's passengers to home ports. Through this scenic highway, Alaskans share their incredible natural beauty with visitors from around the world and connect with each other through a transportation system which has served safely and reliably for 50 years.\nThank you for allowing me to celebrate this milestone 50th anniversary of the unique Alaska treasure known as the Alaska Marine Highway System. ____________________", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 17206, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 171.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-funeral-home-directory.com/funeralhomes/NewYork/KingsPark/service.ashx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLXLLQ3JARZV2D72BTGQFLSJCFSH626U", "length": 2268, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "the-funeral-home-directory.com", "title": "Kings Park, New York Funeral Homes, Mortuary, Memorial Chapels - The Funeral Home Directory", "raw_content": "Kings Park, New York Funeral Homes\nSend funeral flowers to a funeral home in Kings Park, New York. Beautiful sympathy flowers delivered by local florists to any Kings Park, New York funeral service.\nButler-Hughes Funeral Home, Inc.\nMap of Butler-Hughes Funeral Home, Inc.\nMap of Clayton Funeral Home\nHughes Funeral Home Of Kings Park\nMap of Hughes Funeral Home Of Kings Park\nAdd a Funeral Home for Kings Park, New York\nKings Park, New York Obituaries and News\nNew York City Council Speaker Vows to Restrict Cooperation With Immigration Authorities February 16, 2017\nNew York City Council ... her fourth and final state of the city address. \u201cIf you are here, you are a New Yorker,\u201d Ms. Mark-Viverito said at Kings Theatre in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. She called New York\u2019s estimated 3... (The Wall Street Journal)\nNBA Round Up: Klay stars as Warriors crush Kings, LeBron leads Cavs and Spurs rout Magic February 16, 2017\nGolden State responded from their loss on Monday with a 109-86 victory over the Sacramento Kings ... The Oklahoma City Thunder benefited from another Russell Westbrook triple-double as they triumphed 116-105 against the New York Knicks. (sportsration.com)\nSister Margaret Ann Ryan, Order of Preachers February 16, 2017\nBorn in New York City, N.Y., and raised in New Milford, Sister Peggy knew of God\u2019s love first from her parents, John and Mary Agnes. A graduate of the Academy of the Holy Angels, she earned her bachelor of science degree in elementary education from ... (New Jersey Hills)\nGrand jury clears N.J. SWAT team member who shot retired NYPD cop February 16, 2017\nTRENTON -- A retired officer with the New York City Police Department was intoxicated and acting ... According to a published obituary, Fennell was a \"highly decorated and much respected\" police officer who retired after 20 years with the NYPD in 2001. (New Jersey Online)\nMark-Viverito pledges to protect New York City from Trump in final State of the City address February 16, 2017\nNew York City Council ... her final ten months in the City Council ensuring the boroughs remain a refuge for the immigrants who came after him, as well as women and vulnerable New Yorkers. In her speech, delivered at the Kings Theatre in Flatbush, Brooklyn ... (City & State)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theatreinlondon.ca/venues/spriet-family-theatre/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:24Z", "digest": "sha1:GMTD557JQFORTZ3PGFGSDQTVUIJ3MWZF", "length": 1866, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "theatreinlondon.ca", "title": "Theatre in London \u00bb Venues \u00bb Spriet Family TheatreSpriet Family Theatre \u2013 Theatre in London", "raw_content": "Matilda the Musical (June 2019)\nNewsies (January 2019)\nA Charlie Brown Christmas (December 2018)\nA Christmas Story \u2013 The Musical (December 2018)\nIt\u2019s A Wonderful Life \u2013 A Live Radio Play (December 2018)\nReturn to the Forbidden Planet (November 2018)\nThe Most Epic Birthday Party Ever! with Moira\u2019s Birthday (November 2018)\nThe Most Epic Birthday Party Ever! (November 2018)\nMoira\u2019s Birthday (November 2018)\n42nd Street: Young Performers\u2019 Edition (November 2018)\nThe Trials of Robin Hood (November 2018)\nRockin\u2019 Robin Hood (November 2018)\nThe Witches (October 2018)\nAladdin Jr. (July 2018)\nPolice Cops (June 2018)\nMark Toland: Mind Reader (May 2018)\nWooster Sauce (May 2018)\nAttention Seeker (May 2018)\nArt of War (May 2018)\nLuddite\u2019s Rant (May 2018)\nAWKWARD HUG (May 2018)\nJunie B. Jones The Musical Jr. (May 2018)\nJunie B. Jones Is Not a Crook!/Miss Nelson Is Missing! (May 2018)\nMiss Nelson Is Missing! (May 2018)\nJunie B. Jones Is Not a Crook! (May 2018)\nThe Jungle Book Kids (May 2018)\nThe Adventures of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (May 2018)\nHeathers: High School Edition (April 2018)\nSomething Wicked\u2026 (April 2018)\nAlmost, Maine (April 2018)\nMy Fair Lady (April 2018)\nThe Theory of Relativity (March 2018)\nThe Wizard of Oz: Young Performers\u2019 Edition (March 2018)\nBig Fish (January 2018)\nThe Music Man (December 2017)\nThoroughly Modern Millie (December 2017)\nThe Best Christmas Pageant Ever (December 2017)\nGame of Tiaras (November 2017)\nThe Phantom Tollbooth Jr. (November 2017)\nOklahoma! G2K (November 2017)\nThe Diary of Anne Frank (November 2017)\nThe Addams Family Young@Part Edition (October 2017)\nHigh School Musical 2 Jr. (July 2017)\nHigh School Musical Jr. (July 2017)\nSunday in the Park with George (July 2017)\nFull Tilt Boogie (June 2017)\nThe Fever (June 2017)\nFiggy Pudding (June 2017)\nWhisper Into My Good Ear (June 2017)\nAmaze \u2013 a Comedy Magic Show (June 2017)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebookofjohn.net/about-me-%26-contact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:03Z", "digest": "sha1:RPMFXJCMOO5WR7UY5OULWN2MXJAPN324", "length": 1179, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thebookofjohn.net", "title": "About Me & Contact | The Book of John", "raw_content": "John is a licensed practicing attorney, counselor and personal life coach who has helped thousands of people. He was born in Birmingham, Alabama and has a B.A. in American Studies (a self-study concentrating in History, English and Sociology.) from the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. At thirty-five, while working full time as an insurance claims adjuster, he decided to go to law school at night and graduated from Jones School of Law in Montgomery. He is twice widowed and has two boys and two grandchildren.\nHe is a self-taught metaphysician, carpenter, writer, artist and musician. John has spent tens of thousands of hours in research, self-examination, meditation and prayer discovering the nature of Reality, the Universe and himself. He spends his free time in helping others through his experiences.\nFor help in Identifying the subconscious programs that are running in the background of your mind.\nHow to delete those programs that you probably don't even know are running.\nReinstall a new operating system of joy, peace, abundance that the world can neither give nor take away.\nattyjlong@gmail.com\nhttps://www.facebook.com/john.t.long\nhttps://twitter.com/long2b1", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1817, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 104.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecloudconsultancy.eu/news/microsofts-iphone-and-android-friendly-band-arrives-in-the-uk-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:25Z", "digest": "sha1:SHHQNMOBVHDK7ROAY2VRV5Q53UUG4GKZ", "length": 478, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thecloudconsultancy.eu", "title": "Microsoft's iPhone and Android-friendly Band arrives in the UK | Cloud Consultancy", "raw_content": "The Microsoft Band wearable device will go on sale in the UK for \u00a3169.99 from the middle of April, the company has confirmed.It will be available from Amazon, Currys PC World, Dixons Travel, Harrods, and O2.\nMicrosoft\u2019s device offers most of the standard fitness band features, including heart rate monitor, sleep tracking, and calories burned, but also supports email snippets, calendar notifications, and Microsoft\u2019s personal assistant software Cortana alongside built-in GPS.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 240.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thecollegeinvestor.com/17836/benefits-investing-land/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:54Z", "digest": "sha1:BE665DYG3MXCEWTWE4OL2Y2T7B6LPNFO", "length": 5209, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "thecollegeinvestor.com", "title": "How To Make Money Investing In Land", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb The Benefits of Investing in Land\nWhen you think of real estate investments rental homes, commercial properties and foreclosures come to mind. Those certainly are the most common.\nBut what about land?\nA large plot of land is getting ready to go up for sale next to me which has put this type of investment on my radar. Like anyone looking to make a well-thought out (and profitable) financial move I started digging deeper into the pros and cons of making this type of investment.\nBenefits of Investing in Land\nIt didn\u2019t take me long to come up with some good reasons to invest in land. I also called on a close friend who also has a few plots of vacant land to see what he had to say.\nIt\u2019s a Limited Resource\nNobody is making any more land. Unlike products that come from the factory there\u2019s a finite amount of land. This one reason makes land insanely attractive to me.\nThere\u2019s Little Maintenance Compared to Other Real Estate Investments\nOne of the beauties of vacant land? There are no buildings.\nThere\u2019s no fixing leaky roofs, clogged toilets or replacing carpet at every tenant turnover. Nobody is living on the land. It can\u2019t get much simpler.\nYou Can Start Inexpensively\nWhile you\u2019re not going to swoop up 100 acres of farmland inexpensively there are some other types of properties that you can get started with.\nI visited the MLS for my area and found vacant land that from a quick search looked to be appealing at only $8,000.\nThe money that you\u2019ll need to spend will vary based upon the goal you have for your land. (You should know your goal before buying.)\nIt Can Be Profitable\nBeyond your enjoyment there\u2019s no reason to invest in land if there\u2019s not some sort of financial gain. Believe it or not there are several ways to profit from land which we\u2019ll go over below.\nHow to Make Profit From Vacant Land\nIf you\u2019ve thought about land but haven\u2019t come up with a concrete goal here are a few ways you can make a profit from vacant land.\nJust like you can with stocks or other like investments, you can apply the buy and hold strategy to land. If you get a good deal on land now and hold it for twenty years you can sell and walk away with a profit later.\n(Of course, just like stock market investments there are no guarantees.)\nAnother thing you can do is lease the property while you buy and hold, making your investment pay for itself over the long run.\nLease to a Farmer\nIf you get your hands on a good piece of farmland for the right price you\u2019ve found yourself a good investment.\nFarmland has historically produced bigger returns than stocks, bonds or mutual funds over the long run. Since 1990 farmland capital value has grown by 4.6% and when taking in consideration the income generated by leasing the property, returns have averaged 11.8% annually. (Source) That\u2019s a pretty good return for a fairly hands-off investment.\nThe downside? Farmland is going to be more expensive than other types of vacant land and may be harder to get started with if you don\u2019t have a pile of cash just lying around.\nLease to a Hunter\nDid you know that hunters will pay a pretty penny for the right land? If not, it\u2019s true. I have two family members who lease hunting grounds every year and a quick look on the auditor\u2019s website tells me that they\u2019re paying more than the taxes on the property.\nLeasing in this capacity is one strategy that you could add to the buy and hold. By leasing the property you\u2019re going to walk away with enough cash to cover any property tax and insurances and possibly a profit there are after.\nJust like you can flip a home you can also flip land. This, of course, will highly depend on the area you live. If you\u2019re able to pull it off you may be able to buy land at a cheap price during the slow time of the year and then relist for more at later date.\nIt can be hard to get a loan on vacant land. If you have the cash to purchase vacant land you can offer seller financing to a buyer at a higher rate than the bank would offer.\nOther Things that Should be Considered\nVacant land can be a great investment for the right person but before you go out and buy yourself a piece or property you need to know what to look for.\nOne big question you should be asking yourself is why is the land vacant in the first place? You need to visit the land in question and also find out about zoning laws, any environmental concerns, and utility hookups, just to name a few.\nWhen you\u2019re just getting started your best bet is to heavily research and find a mentor or real estate agent who is knowledgeable and can guide you in your search.\nAlso, remember that just like other investments buying vacant land is not a get rich quick scheme. Instead it\u2019s a solid investment when done properly and by the right person.\nHave you ever considered land as an investment?\nFiled Under: Investing Tagged With: buying land, Investing, investing in land, vacant land\nI share your thoughts about land; \u201cIt\u2019s a Limited Resource\u201d and \u201cThere isn\u2019t any maintenance cost\u201d.\nI would add one more point:\n~ in case the world flip over and the government decide to confiscate all your cash saving in the bank (they can), they will not be able to take your land.\nSo land is better than a safe deposit for your cash.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 9693, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thedroidguy.com/tag/lg-optimus-f3q", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:3ADV5MPYERCMUXSXHZZUEMHLUAPSB755", "length": 1791, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thedroidguy.com", "title": "LG Optimus F3Q Archives", "raw_content": "Evleaks Shows Off LG Optimus F3Q For T-Mobile\nWell, here\u2019s a really strange phone. Today on Twitter, Evleaks has shown off the LG Optimus F3Q. He also says the phone is headed to T-Mobile. The specs and OS the phone are running on are a bit baffling, since this is 2014.\nSo the most obvious thing is that the Optimus F3Q will have a slide-out keyboard. Not many phones have had this lately, since most touch keyboards are really good these days, and you can change them in the Play Store. But a physical keyboard is a nice unique design feature.\nNow here are the specs. The Optimus F3Q has a dual-core 1.2GHz chip inside of it, along with an as yet unrevealed amount of RAM. But the screen is a 4\u2033 WVGA display, which means it is a 480p display. If you have seen the Nokia Lumia 520 or 521, that\u2019s the quality of the display, most likely.\nThe phone has no front-facing camera, but the rear camera is 5 MP. There is no saying of if it has a flash or not. The battery is a 2460 mAh component, which is slightly larger than the one in the HTC One, which is 2300 mAh. That\u2019s a good battery, for the specs this phone has.\nThe LG Optimus F3Q also has support for T-Mobile\u2019s growing LTE network. That\u2019s good, since according to T-Mobile, it\u2019s the fastest in the US. Finally, this phone is running Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2. Yes, 4.1.2 Jelly Bean, not 4.4.2 KitKat.\nThat\u2019s surprising, since KitKat can handle every device with 512 MB of RAM or more. Hopefully after this phone is released, LG releases a KitKat update for it, but I doubt that. This phone seems poised to be on T-Mobile\u2019s pre-paid plans.\nEvleaks does not have a release date yet, but it should be out soon. Unless you want a phone with a 480p display and a slide-out keyboard, I\u2019d suggest you avoid the Optimus F3Q when it\u2019s released.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 15263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thedullwoodexperiment.com/tag/world-war-i/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EXSJBXIZKXDA6TVCLBI7KQET6MPDIHTR", "length": 25034, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "thedullwoodexperiment.com", "title": "World War I | thedullwoodexperiment", "raw_content": "14-18-Now, 3D, Archival footage, Colourisation, Documentary, Imperial War Museum, Peter Jackson, Restoration, Review, World War I\nD: Peter Jackson / 99m\nFour years ago, Peter Jackson was approached by the 14-18-Now organisation to make a thirty minute documentary on the First World War to mark its hundredth anniversary. The only proviso was that he use archival footage held at London\u2019s Imperial War Museum. Jackson readily agreed but realised that the surviving footage would need to be restored in order to present the best possible version of the movie he was going to make. In the end this meant a long, painstaking process that involved cleaning up the material, correcting a variety of frame rates to today\u2019s standard of twenty-four frames a second, and then both colourising it and converting it into 3D. With recordings of World War I veterans conducted by the BBC during the Sixties making up the soundtrack, They Shall Not Grow Old (a transposition of the quote by Laurence Binyan), is a stunningly immersive and emotive experience that brings the so-called \u201cGreat War\u201d to life in a way that has never been seen before. The application of modern technology gives the documentary an immediacy that\u2019s both powerful and, in places, quite profound. And thankfully, what was meant to be a thirty minute piece, has been expanded to nearly a hundred minutes; and Jackson doesn\u2019t waste a single one of them.\nThe movie doesn\u2019t begin with this new, remastered footage. Instead, we see old, damaged images of servicemen walking past a static camera, and it\u2019s a little jerky, and either a little faded or too bright, but it\u2019s what we\u2019re used to seeing. But as the movie progresses, the images begin to improve. Black and white gives way to colour, the 3D becomes sharper and more pronounced (though without becoming distracting), and the footage itself takes on more and more detail. What emerges is a compelling visual exploration of a serviceman\u2019s life on the battlefield, when fighting and at rest, and from the time war was declared and men \u2013 and especially teenagers \u2013 rushed to take up arms, to the Armistice and the problems they faced when they returned home. Jackson tells the story of the war from the perspective of the British (naturally), but also makes room for the Germans, and the similarities between the men who fought on both sides. There\u2019s footage of British and German medics working side by side to save the injured and the dying, and examples of the lack of ill will shown to German captives. Jackson makes the point very succinctly: neither side knew why they were fighting, and were sympathetic towards, and respectful of, each other.\nBut while the visuals are the movie\u2019s \u201cmain attraction\u201d as it were (and rightly so), where Jackson truly excels is in the decision to use those recordings from the BBC. So much detail is present in these remembrances that almost every single one of them sheds light on the emotions and feelings and opinions of those who fought. These voices from the past vividly illustrate the hopes and fears that were felt at the time, and they remind us that initially, many thought the war would be an adventure. There\u2019s humour too, a reminder that these men couldn\u2019t allow themselves to be overwhelmed by the nature of their situation in the trenches. And then, as if these recollections aren\u2019t enough, Jackson goes one step further: he gives voices to the men in the archival footage through the use of lip reading experts who examined the footage and worked out what was being said. Now this footage comes complete with an audio track that would never have been heard otherwise. It\u2019s disorientating at first, but the effect is incredible: combined with the colour and the increased detail of the image, it\u2019s as if we\u2019re seeing contemporary footage, and not imagery that\u2019s a hundred years old. Jackson has done something extraordinary: he\u2019s made the past look and sound as real as the present.\nRating: 9/10 \u2013 for some, this may prove to be Peter Jackson\u2019s finest work (yes, even better than The Lord of the Rings trilogy), and on many levels it is; a triumph of technology plus a philosophical approach to the material that focuses on the men who fought rather than the reasons for their fighting, this is hugely impressive, and a powerful reminder of the human ability to endure and/or overcome the worst of adversities.\nAction, Amazons, Ares, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, DC Extended Universe, Drama, Fantasy, Gal Gadot, Patty Jenkins, Review, Robin Wright, Superhero, Themyscira, World War I\nD: Patty Jenkins / 141m\nCast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Sa\u00efd Taghmaoui, Ewen Bremner, Eugene Brave Rock, Lucy Davis, Elena Anaya, Lilly Aspell\nOn the hidden island of Themyscira live the Amazons, a fierce warrior tribe of women whose presence in the world has been kept from the rest of mankind by the wishes of Zeus. The only child on the island is Diana (Aspell), the daughter of Queen Hippolyta (Nielsen). Diana is precocious, challenging, disobedient, and determined to become a warrior like the rest of the Amazons, but her mother forbids it. Hippolyta\u2019s sister, Antiope (Wright), trains Diana in secret, though, and she grows into a young woman (Gadot) to be reckoned with: the quickest, most agile, most determined Amazon of them all. With her fighting skills honed under the stewardship of Antiope, Diana finds she lacks a clear purpose in life, until one day the shield keeping the island hidden is penetrated by a plane that crashes into the sea. Diana rescues the lone pilot, Steve Trevor (Pine), who tells the Amazons of \u201ca war to end to all wars\u201d, and who provides all the reason Diana needs to leave the island and seek her destiny (once she leaves she can never return).\nThe pair travel to London where Trevor alerts the British High Command \u2013 led by Sir Patrick Morgan (Thewlis) \u2013 to a plot by Germany\u2019s General Ludendorff (Huston) to end the War by use of the most deadliest form of mustard gas yet created. Forced to go it alone, Trevor recruits three old friends \u2013 would-be actor Sameer (Taghmaoui), sharpshooter Charlie (Bremner), smuggler the Chief (Brave Rock) \u2013 and with Diana, travels to the Belgian Front, where Ludendorff and his chief scientist, Dr Maru (Anaya), are in the process of preparing their new weapon to be used for the first (and they hope, last) time in the War. But Diana has no intention of letting them succeed in their plan, and convinced that Ludendorff is the modern incarnation of Ares, the disgraced God of War, she takes the fight to the Germans, and in the process learns something about herself that has been hidden from her all her life\u2026\nThe question everyone is asking is an easy one to answer. The question is, is Wonder Woman the best DC Extended Universe movie to date? And the easy answer is Yes, it is. But that\u2019s like saying, if I have one leg shorter than the other, and I have an operation to correct this, will I be better able to walk? Again, the answer is Yes, of course. And so it goes with Wonder Woman, a movie that provides a sharp upturn in quality in relation to its predecessors \u2013 Man of Steel (2013), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016) \u2013 but which still embraces many of the issues and problems that have plagued those same DCEU productions.\nIt\u2019s yet another movie where the tone is so earnest and so po-faced that when the script does make an attempt at humour, it\u2019s the same as when Garland Greene says of Billy Bedlam in Con Air (1997): \u201che\u2019s so angry moments of levity actually cause him pain; gives him headaches. Happiness, for that gentleman, hurts.\u201d The humour is there, tucked away in odd places, but it never feels like an integral part of the overall tone and feel of the movie. It\u2019s as if Allan Heinberg\u2019s script was accused of being too heavy, and was charged with including moments of levity as a direct consequence. What this means in practice is that the movie rarely feels comfortable when it\u2019s tasked with being funny, and seems to breathe a sigh of relief when it can move on and concentrate on providing audiences with an industrious trek through the land of superhero clich\u00e9s.\nAs an origin story, it\u2019s akin to the first Thor movie, in that it introduces us to a realm built on myth and legend, and after a suitable period, hijacks the central character and thrusts them into the \u201creal\u201d world, with all its problems and rewards. Themyscira is a first for the DC Extended Universe, a beautifully realised paradise that features sun-dappled buildings, verdant fields, and the healthy glow of bronze and gold. Its relentlessly blue skies stretch as far as the eye can see, and the azure waters of the sea are dazzling. But once the island of Themyscira is left behind, the movie defaults to the muted colour palette and downplayed visual aesthetic that governs all the movies in the DC Extended Universe. Whether we\u2019re in London or the battle-torn Belgian countryside, the movie does its best to be all gloomy backdrop and sombre foreground. It all fits in with the earnest, dramatic nature of the material, but as a visual statement it\u2019s less than satisfying and helps to drain some of the life from the movie as a whole.\nWhere the movie does score more highly is in its attention to the horrors of life on the Western Front, and the effects of warfare on the local populace. But even that acknowledgment is over quickly so as to facilitate the next action sequence (which unfortunately features the kind of jerky CGI gymnastics from Wonder Woman that you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking wouldn\u2019t be attempted anymore in a movie costing $149 million and released in 2017). There are other nods to the horrors of war \u2013 Charlie\u2019s PTSD, musings on the terrible things that man can inflict on his fellow man \u2013 but while it\u2019s good to see them addressed \u2013 however briefly \u2013 it\u2019s as near to depth as the movie gets, and they seem shoehorned into the main storyline rather than arising naturally from it. Diana\u2019s obsession with hunting down Ares also gives rise to further arguments about the nature of war and man\u2019s predilection towards it, but these are largely spurious and serve only to weigh down a final showdown between Diana and Ares that quickly descends into yet another dispiriting bout of disaster porn theatrics.\nAs the 5000 year old Amazon princess, Gadot builds on her appearance in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and proves that the praise she received in that movie wasn\u2019t just a result of her standing out against its poor structure, lacklustre script, and wayward direction. There are some roles that can only be played by certain actors or actresses, and Gadot owns the part in a way that the likes of Sandra Bullock, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Beyonc\u00e9 Knowles \u2013 all considered for the role in the past \u2013 would find incredibly difficult to match or improve upon. Elsewhere, Gadot isn\u2019t the most convincing of actresses, but here she gives a compelling, intuitive performance that stretches her skills as an actress but does so in a way that marks her out \u2013 in the DC Extended Universe at least \u2013 as the character to look out for. She\u2019s ably supported by Pine who reins in his usual cocky charm; Huston as yet another less than memorable villain; Thewlis as the politician who may or may not be all that he seems; and Wright as Diana\u2019s strong-willed aunt. However, if anyone in the supporting cast has to be picked out, it\u2019s Bremner, who injects some much needed energy into his scenes and who makes Charlie possibly the most well rounded character in the whole movie.\nMuch has been made of Patty Jenkins being the first female director of a superhero movie featuring a female character as its lead, and Jenkins does do a decent enough job of pushing against the narrow confines of a DC superhero movie. But though she does manage to incorporate some elements of feminism into the story, there aren\u2019t enough to make the movie into something more relevant than it is, and it\u2019s curiously flimsy as an example of female empowerment. This is still, and despite the presence of Wonder Woman herself, a Boys\u2019 Own adventure that could have featured any number of superheroes as its lead protagonist. It gets full marks for its period setting (something that was avoided for a long time before production finally began), but the movie takes too long in getting its audience from London to the Front, takes too much time in attempting to flesh out characters that don\u2019t need fleshing out, and provides enough exposition to deaden the senses more effectively than Dr Maru\u2019s poison gas. A small-scale triumph, then, and a definite improvement on the movies already mentioned above, but there\u2019s still a long way to go before DC and Warner Bros. overcome the same problems they seem incapable \u2013 at present \u2013 of recognising and prevailing over.\nRating: 6/10 \u2013 a movie that starts out strongly (much in the way that Suicide Squad did), Wonder Woman seems set on delivering on the promise it showed in its trailers, and the advance word from preview screenings, but it soon falters and falls prey to the apparently carved-in-stone requirements of the DC Extended Universe; bold and confident in places, yet haphazard and stumbling in others, it\u2019s a movie that surprises more than it dismays, but when it does dismay the effect is, unfortunately, far more noticeable, and has far more repercussions.\nMini-Review: The Man Who Knew Infinity (2015)\nDev Patel, Drama, Jeremy Irons, Mathematics, Matthew Brown, Partitions, Proofs, Review, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Trinity College, True story, World War I\nD: Matthew Brown / 108m\nCast: Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Toby Jones, Jeremy Northam, Kevin McNally, Richard Johnson, Anthony Calf, Raghuvir Joshi, Stephen Fry\nMadras, India, 1914. Humble clerk Srinivasa Ramanujan (Patel) has a special affinity for mathematics; he can see formulas in his head, and he can write them down without having to pause or check what he\u2019s writing. Spurred on by his employer, he writes to the British mathematician, and professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, G.H. Hardy (Irons). Hardy is impressed enough to pay for Ramanujan\u2019s passage to England, and with a promise of ensuring the young Indian\u2019s work is published. Once at the college however, Ramanujan finds himself pressed to explain just how his formulas work. Hardy needs him to provide \u201cproofs\u201d \u2013 how he works things out \u2013 but at first it\u2019s an alien concept that Ramanujan fights against.\nBack in Madras, Ramanujan\u2019s wife, Janaki (Bhise) is reliant on his letters for news of when she can travel to be with him. But his jealous mother, Narasimha (Joshi), hides his letters and confiscates hers. In England, his wife\u2019s apparent silence adds to his further woes: experiencing institutionalised racism, the delays in being published, and the onset of tuberculosis. As he struggles to meet the demands that Hardy imposes, Ramanujan begins to feel despair at the thought that all his theories and formulas will die with him. It\u2019s only when he and Hardy challenge another member of the faculty, Major MacMahon (McNally), over partitions, that his work begins to be recognised, and his position as a gifted mathematician is guaranteed.\nA true story about a most remarkable man, The Man Who Knew Infinity is a fairly standard biopic that benefits greatly from the participation of Patel and Irons, both of whom give strong, inspiring performances, and from the work of production designer Luciana Arrighi Rajeevan, who recreates the period covering World War I with style and attention to detail. Beyond this, though, this is very much a standard tale of one remarkable man\u2019s struggle to be heard and understood against an environment that appears unable to entertain original thought. There are many such stories throughout history, and many have been into serviceable movies, and while The Man Who Knew Infinity is certainly an interesting story, it\u2019s too similar to many other stories to have much of an impact.\nPartly this is due to the period of time over which the movie takes place \u2013 six years \u2013 which leaves the narrative necessarily fragmented. As a result, Ramanujan\u2019s story feels incomplete, with too many scenes that are replays of earlier ones (Hardy\u2019s insistence on proofs is played out on several occasions). The movie isn\u2019t too subtle in depicting the racism of the time, doling out exactly the kind of scenes you\u2019d expect to see in a movie such as this \u2013 Ramanujan is verbally abused, physically assaulted, and generally despised by the majority of the teaching staff \u2013 and there\u2019s the classic movie moment where after a number of scenes where Ramanujan is prone to coughing fits, he finally coughs up blood into a handkerchief. Watching the movie, you can practically predict every beat of the narrative, and every advance in the material. But on a basic level it remains entirely watchable \u2013 just don\u2019t expect too much from it.\nRating: 6/10 \u2013 an inspiring tale told with a minimum of passion, The Man Who Knew Infinity relies on a number of biopic clich\u00e9s in telling its story, and in doing so, dulls the drama inherent in Ramanujan\u2019s life; boasting two clever, intelligent central performances, and often glorious cinematography by Larry Smith, the movie feels as if it was aiming for more, but didn\u2019t quite have the resources to achieve it \u2013 but at least it tried.\nAgyness Deyn, Blawearie, Drama, Farming, Kevin Guthrie, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Literary adaptation, Peter Mullan, Review, Scotland, Terence Davies, World War I\nD: Terence Davies / 135m\nCast: Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Kevin Guthrie, Jack Greenlees, Daniela Nardini, Ian Pirie, Douglas Rankine\nTerence Davies is not one of the UK\u2019s most prolific movie makers, but he is one who is highly regarded and he\u2019s been justly lauded over the years for movies such as Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The House of Mirth (2000). He\u2019s a director who chooses his projects with great care, and he invests a lot of time and effort in getting things right. Sunset Song, an adaptation of the classic novel by Lewis Grassic Gibbon, has taken fifteen years to reach our screens, and shows Davies focusing on the lives of a small farming family on the eve of World War I.\nThe main character is Chris Guthrie (Deyn), the eldest daughter of John (Mullan) and Jean (Nardini). She has her work on the farm to occupy her, but she has few plans for her own future, despite being well educated and with an innate sense of the world around her (even if she hasn\u2019t travelled far enough to see it). Her father is a hard, pitiless man who controls the farm and his family with a harshness that tips over into brutality when he feels it necessary. As well as Chris, he has a son, Will, and two younger children, Dod and Alec. John and Will clash continually, and Chris tries to act as peacekeeper but her father\u2019s attitude makes it difficult.\nWhen Jean discovers she is pregnant again, it proves too much for her, and the action she takes to avoid childbirth leads to Dod and Alec being sent to live with their aunt and uncle. Tensions and tempers flare up as John and Will clash ever more violently, and so much acrimony arises that Will makes the decision to emigrate to South America. Left on her own with her father, Chris has no choice but to fill both her brother\u2019s and her mother\u2019s shoes, and run the household as well as look after parts of the farm. She and her father have an uneasy relationship, and it\u2019s made harder when he suffers a stroke that leaves him bedridden. Subsequently she finds herself in charge of the farm, and with a difficult decision to make: sell up or manage the farm herself.\nShe chooses the latter, and with help from some of her neighbours and old friends of her father\u2019s, Chris finds she has a natural flair for farm management, and she comes to realise just how much she loves the life she leads. Wooed by a young farmer called Ewan Tavendale (Guthrie), Chris eventually marries him and they have a son. But World War I arrives and Ewan goes off to fight in France. Chris waits anxiously for his return but when he does he\u2019s a changed man: violent, angry and aggressive. Fearing the consequences for their marriage if he\u2019s the same when the war ends, Chris is left with yet another difficult decision to make.\nIf you\u2019re adapting a classic novel then it makes sense to stick closely to the novel\u2019s structure and themes, and with Sunset Song, Davies has done exactly that. The farm, Blawearie, is surrounded by rolling hills and (in summer at least) some very beautiful meadowland, but it\u2019s an old farm, with few modern appliances or signs of mechanical progress to show that John is moving forward with the times. Chris and Will can see the value of these modernisations but their father is something of a grim traditionalist, holding out against the inevitability of change. It\u2019s his way of staying in control, even if ultimately, it\u2019s to his, and the farm\u2019s, detriment.\nWith themes of change firmly embedded in the script and foregrounding the relationships between Chris, Will, and their father, Davies is free to explore the role of women in such small communities \u2013 Chris is independent and speaks her own mind, not a commonplace for the period \u2013 as well as the way in which these small communities unite in times of need, and often in a way that is now anathema to modern ways of thinking; despite his often appalling behaviour, John is still highly regarded by his peers, and where he might be shunned today, back then he\u2019s still a man to be respected, and helped when required.\nBut while the tone and the subject matter and the characters are all handled with skill and seemingly effortless dexterity, somehow Davies has managed to make Sunset Song somehow lacking, as if the story, by itself, should be enough to carry the viewer along quite comfortably. Instead, the narrative meanders at times as it tries to paint a broader picture of the small world it\u2019s focused on. The events that occur on Blawearie Farm, while undeniably dramatic, also suffer from over-familiarity. The blinkered, brutal father figure is one we\u2019ve seen time and again (and with Mullan in the role as well), and the character of Chris is the intelligent, brave, compassionate daughter who acts as a counterpoint to her father\u2019s belligerence. A classic tale complete with classic characters is here transposed into a classic tale with all-too predictable character arcs.\nTo be fair it\u2019s not entirely Davies\u2019 fault. The problems are inherent in the story and the narrative, as each step of Chris\u2019s journey to maturity and independence are threatened at every turn, and her resilience and resourcefulness is challenged each time. Davies never really finds a way to overcome these over-familiarities, and we\u2019re left with a movie that is sumptuous to look at, and beautifully framed and realised as only Davies can devise, but also a movie that doesn\u2019t allow itself to connect with the audience, preferring instead to tell its story at a distance. There\u2019s never any real emotional investment made in the characters, or their trials and tribulations, and without that investment, many scenes lack the intensity needed to draw the audience in.\nNevertheless, Sunset Song is still a good movie, but one that could have made more of an impact on viewers. Davies is at times a visually astonishing director, and there are several shots in the movie that are simply superb in terms of light and colour and shade and composition. His cast are uniformly excellent, with Deyn grabbing all the plaudits as Chris, giving a complex, striking performance as a young woman on the verge of achieving whatever she wants, but still retaining the insecurity that comes with being in such a momentous position. Mullan could probably play his type of role in his sleep by now, but there are few actors who can take such an objectionable character and make him recognisably, understandably human. The scenes between the two of them, though lacking the emotional charge that\u2019s sorely needed, are still fascinating to watch for the ways in which both actors spar with each other.\nThere\u2019s certainly room for this type of \u201cheritage\u201d movie in amongst all the over-hyped productions out there, and Davies is a movie maker we should all cherish for his ability to bring recent periods in history to life with such precision and attention to detail, but with Sunset Song he\u2019s made a movie that only goes part way to achieving the classic status of its source novel.\nRating: 8/10 \u2013 a bracing depiction of early 20th Century Scottish farming life with terrific performances and Davies creating a fully recognisable world, Sunset Song \u2013 while missing a fair degree of passion in its telling \u2013 is still a movie with considerable merit; achingly beautiful in places, and a joy to watch if you appreciate measured, thoughtful movie making, Davies\u2019 latest may be a tad disappointing but it\u2019s still head and shoulders above the majority of movies out there at the moment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 34129, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theglobalobservatory.org/2018/07/on-the-ground-in-yemen-qa-with-farea-al-muslimi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:51Z", "digest": "sha1:3YA27VPQAWTKH7YTZVXSAMTZX25D2A3E", "length": 11101, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "theglobalobservatory.org", "title": "On the Ground in Yemen: Q&A with Farea al-Muslimi | IPI Global Observatory", "raw_content": "Yemeni pro-government forces backed by the Saudi-led military alliance gather during their fight against Houthi rebels in the area of Hodeidah's airport on June 19, 2018. (STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)\nAs the battle for the port of Hodeidah continues to intensify, the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen has raised further alarm, particularly for its impact on the young. The increase in violence has laid more bare the regional rivalries that are exacerbating it and has made the aim of the new United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Yemen, Martin Griffiths, to rekindle peace talks a challenging goal.\nFor its part, the UN has continued its efforts to work towards a peaceful settlement of the conflict. The UN Special Envoy visited Sanaa recently and expressed confidence that a deal could be reached. Last month, as the fighting around Hodeidah began, the co-founder and chairman of the Sanaa Center for Strategic Studies, Farea al-Muslimi, was in New York after his own visit to Yemen. He sat down with the Global Observatory editor Samir Ashraf to describe the reality in the country and the prospects for a settlement of the conflict.\nWhat are things like on the ground in Yemen now? Walk us through your recent trip, what did you do while there? How did you get in and out?\nPolitically there is an absolute deadlock. Diplomacy has basically stopped and nothing has been done to relaunch negotiations, whether through the UN or through other routes.\nObviously, in terms of healthcare provision and the humanitarian situation there has been an extreme escalation. There is the pushover battle at Hodeidah port, the last main port of food, aid, and trade getting into Yemen. Of course, pushing the battle towards Hodeidah will be an extreme nightmare for humanitarians, businessmen, and for life in general, especially in the north under the Houthis. Unfortunately, there is less pushback now from NGOs, human rights groups, aid organizations, and some Western countries.\nWhy do you think there is less pushback?\nMany reasons. One is that the Saudis are determined and there is less ability to actually persuade them to change course. Two, the Houthi escalation and their battle with their allies has made them much weaker politically, despite their military and security strength.\nIn terms of the consequences of this lack of pushback? Yemen is becoming increasingly cut off, and the port of Hodeidah is not the only problem. We have some airports, for example, that have been shut down for two years. You only have Hadhramaut or Aden airports open, and for three airplanes. Three airplanes serving 27 million people. So if you want to get in or out of Yemen\u2014which is especially a problem if you are sick or need medical attention\u2014you have to drive 25 hours and pass over 128 road checkpoints through Sanaa, Dhamar, Bayda, Marib, Hadhramaut, and onwards.\nIs that how you went in? Who is manning these checkpoints?\nYes, and also how I went out.\nDifferent groups man different checkpoints. For example, there are some in the Houthi areas that are under the Houthis\u2014there were 52 of these\u2014and some under the internationally recognized government, like at the first checkpoint at Marib. Then there\u2019s others under the national army, and others still under different groups fighting the Houthis.\nThe checkpoints are a major obstacle to people getting in and out of the country. If those manning just one of them decides you cannot cross, you are truly stuck. Very few people can fly out of Yemen on a plane. This land route exists because of the lack of other ways to get in and out. It points to a lack of management and also to the fact that the conflict is not being resolved.\nThe impact of these obstacles\u2014the lack of movement within the country, aid being cut off, fighting between groups\u2014is far-reaching, even in previously \u201cgood\u201d areas. In Sanaa, for example, you now have much more hunger, you see people in the street with clean clothes like yours and mine who are beggars in the streets. This tells you that these people were previously fine, relatively speaking, they have just been pushed to the edge. At this point, it has been 19 months since salaries were paid to 1.2 million public sector workers. By our calculations these 1.2 million supported a further six million Yemenis. Basically, the last group of Yemenis who were not hungry or in a humanitarian crisis have reached that in the last year.\nWhat about outside of cities? Has this also been the case there?\nWhat I described is more true in the Houthi-controlled areas\u2014which is somewhere between 25 and 50 percent of the country and where the absence of salaries has done more harm\u2014but also in other places too. Basically, a decision was made to halt salary payments for government workers and then to blame the Houthis for it, to push the people against them. This has not worked. If there is one group that is actually getting richer in Sanaa it is the Houthis.\nThe salary decision was the best thing that could happen for the Houthis in terms of recruitment since the main motive for people to fight is economic. The Houthis have used the trick where they pay people in the front lines. They don\u2019t pay you your salary at home, they pay you at the front line. So, since people need money, they turn to the Houthis and fight for them.\nAnother major issue is the black market. If you look at the war economy, which is something we have studied closely at the Sanaa Center, there is trafficking in fuel, weapons, and goods that everyone has a share in, from [President Abdrabbuh Mansur] Hadi\u2019s sons to the brothers of Abdel-Malek al-Houthi. Looking at this black market is important because it is rare point where all the warring sides meet, which can be an opportunity to make peace more feasible.\nWhat impact have the sanctions had on the black market? Do you think sanctions should be lifted?\nIn 2014, the idea of having sanctions made some sense. You want to hold those responsible for what was happening in Yemen accountable. Sanctions work well for someone like [Ali Abdullah] Saleh who had money outside Yemen, but not so much for the Houthis since they still work in cash. How do you sanction someone, who never leaves Yemen, with a travel ban? From this perspective the sanctions were a bit na\u00efve.\nWhat was ultimately missing from the whole sanctions process was an understanding of the context. We sanction Saleh, but some countries in the region continue supporting him. If these countries hadn\u2019t, we wouldn\u2019t need sanctions to change behavior.\nI think we have a very good sanctions model in Iran and we should use it in Yemen. That model says conditional, gradual, incremental removal. You behave better\u2014whether you\u2019re Saleh\u2019s son, or Hadi, or Abdel-Malek al-Houthi\u2014then some restrictions are removed. That way you can improve buy-in for peace in Yemen.\nRight now, sanctions don\u2019t fulfill peace purposes. The sanctions were made for the idea of sanctions, not for the idea of peace. Things have changed since Saleh was killed, and again we need regional buy-in. If we have the regional buy-in, we are fine with sanctions or without sanctions. So that will be something we have to rethink as we move ahead in any new peace process or thought process. Any conversation on removing or adding sanctions, cannot and should not happen without an understanding of the context. It should happen in the larger context of any peace \u201cpackage\u201d\u2014a new UN resolution, commitments, regional understanding, and P5 support for peace in Yemen.\nWhat are the possibilities for a halt or end to the conflict? What do you think is needed from regional actors to reach a ceasefire? What do you think of Iran calling for a ceasefire?\nIran is not pushing for a ceasefire and is not going to push for one. They are very happy with how things are in Yemen. From Iran\u2019s perspective they are actually \u201cwinning\u201d\u2014they throw one dollar, the Saudis throw one million dollars. In fact, Iran has nothing to lose in Yemen compared to in Iraq, Lebanon, or Syria, which is contrast to the Saudis. So for now it is not in their interest to pursue peace, except in relation to the Iran deal with the US. I think their behavior in Yemen is more likely to change than in other places if keeping the deal or negotiating a different deal were offered in exchange.\nI think three things need to happen for peace in Yemen. One, we will need understanding between the Saudis and Iran specifically on Yemen. Start with that, because both have an interest there and both can be convinced on the issue.\nThe second is about the UN process, which as faulty and as problematic as it is, and as misguided as it has been, is the only framework for peace between Yemenis themselves. The UN will need to pass a new resolution, in my opinion, that commits to peace. [Security Council] Resolution 2216 is, fundamentally, a war resolution. It has the provision that power cannot be taken by force\u2014which is important and should be kept in another resolution\u2014but ultimately it justifies the war, it does not push for peace.\nThe third is about the problems that started this war, which we keep forgetting about because of where we are now. This means examining the regional divisions that have impacted the economic development and investment in peace in Yemen, as opposed to war, on the part of other Gulf countries. Also, issues and discontent in Yemen were largely ignored by international actors and the UN in favor of Syria and Libya. Now, at least, we have a UN envoy who is more credible in the eyes of the Houthis, with more access. We should build on this.\nI think if there is one overall lesson it is in relation to a question I usually get from diplomats. They ask, \u201cWhat is one thing we should do to solve the war Yemen?\u201d I say, \u201cDon\u2019t try to \u2018solve it\u2019 because that is based on a very short-sighted timeframe.\u201d Peace takes time. It takes longer than a war and we need to it a shot. If we avoid short-sightedness then we avoid raising expectations and falling flat, which drains hope and backfires.\nMuch of what we hear about Yemen is negative, what are the positive signs that you see?\nThe bad news is that we have never seen anything like this war before. Eighteen countries, even more, are involved in it. The good news is\u2014if it is even good news\u2014that from a conflict resolution point of view, Yemenis are not new to wars. We are not new like people in Syria or other countries. Yemenis know how to manage conflicts and violence. Thus, in my opinion, whenever other countries\u2014a coalition, the Iranians, or whoever\u2014are ready for peace, it is possible and can happen quickly.\nIf you could share one story or description of Yemen, what would it be?\nThe true story of Yemen is not of a humanitarian crisis. Right now, there is a serious humanitarian crisis, but that is not its story. This crisis is happening because of political decisions to keep it. It is ultimately a political crisis. Framing it as a humanitarian crisis is an apology for not doing the serious work to end it. This is a solvable crisis. It just needs a little bit of understanding.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 15052, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehaletelescope.com/24430/hale/wikipedia-aint-bad/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:29Z", "digest": "sha1:IKC6KJAQKRGI5CKGEVHJRNWOEFVEUM4C", "length": 3596, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "thehaletelescope.com", "title": "Wikipedia aint bad \u2013 The Hale Telescope", "raw_content": "Wikipedia aint bad\nmr. man, student|September 28, 2018\nWikipedia is bad, no discussion. Its info comes from unreliable people and it\u2019s untrustworthy. Right? Well I don\u2019t think so, and I say this because Wikipedia\u2019s reputation has taken quite the beating, and I feel it isn\u2019t deserved. Now it shouldn\u2019t be a source on an assignment, but most of the time it\u2019s pretty reliable. And here\u2019s why.\nNow, one of the most common criticisms of Wikipedia and its articles is the fact that any old troll can go onto a Wikipedia article and input wrong information to fool the average Joe. While this is a problem, what\u2019s failed to mentioned most of the time is the fact that Wikipedia has system operators, also known as admins. Admins who can, according to Wikipedia itself, block and unblock certain accounts and IP addresses from editing, delete pages with fewer than five-thousand revisions, view and restore deleted pages, delete page revisions, provent pages from being edited by non-admins and more. This means any potential harm a person could cause on an article not protected would probably be changed back immediately. And not anyone can become an admin, the process to becoming one is an intensive process that includes a discussion about whether or not the candidate should be accepted that takes place for seven days. I\u2019d say most of the admins are pretty qualified.\nAnother problem with this criticism is the fact that it\u2019s one of Wikipedia\u2019s greatest strengths, as well being a great weakness. The fact that any person can edit an article means that hundreds of qualified people can and will add or improve the information shown in the article. This means that most of the articles, or at least the most visited ones, are pretty well fleshed out.\nIf you don\u2019t trust the information, try looking at the sources Wikipedia links. Any contentious, poorly sourced info and/or information with no sources cited is likely to be deleted by an admin. In fact, any material likely to be challenged by others is required by Wikipedia sourcing policy to have inline citations. Inline citations allow a reader to connect any piece of information to reliable sources to support it. This policy applies to ALL material on Wikipedia, no exceptions. It especially applies to contentious material about people, helping making sure that well known or historical individuals aren\u2019t defamed just because they aren\u2019t liked by someone. And if a topic doesn\u2019t have reliable sources, Wikipedia policy requires there to be no article on the subject. These polices and some others help the reliability and accuracy of Wikipedia articles.\nNow, I\u2019m not saying Wikipedia is perfect. Wikipedia\u2019s problems are legitimate. While I\u2019m sure the editors and admins of Wikipedia do their best to raise the quality of the many articles they have, they can\u2019t solve every bit of vandalism, errors, and wrong information on the articles that are open for editing. When any jerk can trash an article, there\u2019s bound to be issues. Wikipedia isn\u2019t a good source for academic writings or research or really anything you need in depth stuff for. But that\u2019s not really what Wikipedia was made for in the first place. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia; it\u2019s whole purpose is to be a source somebody could quickly refer to for particular information, not to be an essay source. And really, this is where Wikipedia excels. So no, Wikipedia isn\u2019t a good source to get all your knowledge on a subject from or to use as a main source on a project. But if you need an easy to navigate place to quickly go to for bits of info, Wikipedia is pretty alright.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/419858-41-percent-of-adults-dont-plan-to-get-flu-shot-after-deadliest-season-in", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:26Z", "digest": "sha1:SCVSH4D6N62KFRYCCEVKKNWRFVNRB4XU", "length": 3044, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "thehill.com", "title": "41 percent of adults don't plan to get flu shot despite last year's deadly season | TheHill", "raw_content": "41 percent of adults don't plan to get flu shot despite last year's deadly season\nMore than 40 percent of American adults have not received a flu shot this year and don't plan to do so, according to a new poll released Wednesday.\nThe survey from NORC at the University of Chicago found that, as of mid-November, 41 percent of adults said they haven't been vaccinated and have no plans to change that, despite last season's record-high death toll.\nAmong adults who said they don't plan to get vaccinated, most were concerned about side effects and getting the flu from the vaccination. Others believed that the flu vaccines don't work very well or that they were unlikely to get sick from the flu.\nHealth experts argue the side effects of the vaccine are generally mild and the vaccine does not cause the flu.\nFor those who received flu shots in the past two flu seasons, their chance of getting the virus dropped 40 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\nPublic health officials at the federal level have pleaded with the public to get vaccinated this year after the virus killed 80,000 people last year, making 2017 the deadliest flu season in decades.\nIn recent seasons, the death count has ranged from 12,000 in 2011\u20132012 to 56,000 during the 2012\u20132013 season.\nTop officials, including Surgeon General Jerome Adams, have framed getting vaccinated as a social responsibility.\nWhen healthy adults get vaccinated, it can not only protect them from the flu but also stop them from spreading it to children and the elderly, who have weaker immune systems, experts say.\n\u201cFlu vaccination helps prevent people from getting sick with the flu and reduces the severity of illness for those who do get sick,\" said Caroline Pearson, senior fellow at NORC at the University of Chicago.\n\"Widespread vaccination also helps create \u2018herd immunity\u2019 that protects vulnerable groups who are prevented from getting vaccinated.\"\nAdams put it in plain terms at a news conference in September:\n\"That herd immunity is so, so very important,\" he said at a news conference. \"That community immunity is what we want to take home today; 80,000 deaths last year and they all got the flu from someone else.\"\nThat included 180 children, the majority of whom were unvaccinated, he said.\nAccording to the poll, among adults with children under age 18, 39 percent said they don't vaccinate their children.\nThe death toll from the flu last year was the highest its been in four decades, with cases increasing in November and peaking in January and February.\nStill, according to the NORC survey, only 43 percent of adults reported getting a flu vaccination.\nAnother 14 percent said they have not been vaccinated but plan to this season.\nPeople over the age of 60 reported the highest vaccination rate, while adults under age 45 are the least likely to report being vaccinated.\nThe poll, which was conducted from Nov. 14 to Nov. 19, included 1,202 interviews with a nationally representative sample of Americans in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 234, "original_length": 7278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theideaguy.us/share-releasing-our-ideas-to-the-universe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:05Z", "digest": "sha1:DN7UEKR3MFWGU46PRP4RIPEDBZ2ZVZ5M", "length": 5478, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "theideaguy.us", "title": "Share: Releasing Our Ideas to the Universe - The Idea Guy\u2122", "raw_content": "The Share stage is when you solicit feedback, about the prototypes you have created, from users outside of your internal (primary) group. This is yet another opportunity to gain empathy for the people you are designing for, but unlike your initial empathy mode, you have now likely done more iterations to the prototypes to test. Both of these stages tend to focus the interaction with users, but sharing can include more people, like users you did not encounter yet, people connected to users and others working on the same problem.\nDefinition: Sharing your ideas with the public, other users and people trying to solve the same problem.\nThe Share stage is the final stage of the design process. During this stage, we have most likely developed a superior design which has been positively tested and is ready to be released into the world. Furthermore, our chosen design seeks to solve our user\u2019s needs. Therefore, our design will make the world a better place for our users. A\nWe believe the color purple perfectly represents the sharing stage. Universally, purple is the color of royalty and hierarchy. Therefore, this relates to how our design will address a problem which has otherwise not been solved. Rising above all other existing products and services, we will share our new design to the world with pride!\n\u201cIt is often used to denote a high quality or superior product\u201d Learn more here\n\u201cPurple combines the calm stability of blue and the fierce energy of red. The color purple is often associated with royalty, nobility, luxury, power, and ambition. Purple also represents meanings of wealth, extravagance, creativity, wisdom, dignity, grandeur, devotion, peace, pride, mystery, independence, and magic.\u201d Learn more here.\n\u201cAll in all, purple communicates in a positive way. It is said to have the power to uplift, calm nerves and encourage creativity, making it an all-inclusive color.\u201d Learn more here.\nhe Share stage is when you solicit feedback, about the prototypes you have created, from users outside of your internal (primary) group. This is yet another opportunity to gain empathy for the people you are designing for, but unlike your initial empathy mode, you have now likely done more iterations to the prototypes to test. Both of these stages tend to focus the interaction with users, but sharing can include more people, like users you did not encounter yet, people connected to users and others working on the same problem.\nIdeally you will continue to share within the real context of the user\u2019s life. Versions of the prototype can be randomly shared for feedback on A / B versions. The more people with whom you share your prototype the more people can provide feedback from their unique perspective.\nWhy Share\nTo collect more objective feedback on your prototypes and solutions. Sharing informs primary, secondary and tertiary people outside of your initial test circles about your prototypes. Sharing is an ongoing opportunity to build empathy through observation and engagement.. Sometimes sharing proves that not only did you get the solution right, but that you framed the problem correctly.\nStart sharing appropriately. If you prototype is public knowledge, share with as many different types of people for many types of feedback.If it is not public (intellectual property) then be discreet with your sharing. Sometimes a non-disclosure agreement can help secure your IP while still collecting the critical information needed for success.\nStorytelling | Storytelling has become an increasingly popular and successful method of sharing in recent times. Customers are becoming more interested in humility, honesty, and transparency. Therefore, when releasing a product into the world it can often be powerful to tell a story about how that product was developed from scratch. In the scenario of Design Thinking, we can share our story of the design process and any ups and downs we encountered on our journey. Watch the following video to further understand how companies are using storytelling as a method of sharing to customers.\nPresentation | Presentations are arguably the most common method to sharing an idea. Presentations can range in their forms of delivery. Sometimes, we may have supporting evidence such as a Powerpoint, a portfolio or a graph to help us present our points. However, presentations are most commonly delivered in a direct dialogue to one or more people from the presenter. Fundamentally, a presentation requires you to get a message across to the listeners and will often contain a \u2018persuasive\u2019 element. Watch the following video in order to understand how to deliver a confident and clear presentation.\nPitch | Different to a presentation, a pitch is a tool used to share an idea to potential investors. Pitches are often a lot shorter, ranging from 10 seconds to 10 minutes. Therefore, a good pitch follows a rehearsed and tight structure. When delivering a pitch to investors, the presenter also uses a more direct sales approach. It is important to share any forecasts and future plans of the idea too. Watch the following video to further understand what is expected from a pitch.\nSocial | Sharing on social media can be a very powerful tool to reach a large audience. However, there are a lot of social media platforms and each platform requires a different method of sharing. The following video will help to explain the different types of sharing on social media and what kind of strategies are most successful.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 7114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thejupital.com/going-solo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EYJM4M4MJ2K6WMASMSQPW2RROB4LCTMZ", "length": 3795, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "thejupital.com", "title": "Going solo | Productive News | the Jupital", "raw_content": "Zayn Malik and model Gigi Hadid starring in the solo artists first single \"Pillow Talk\".Credit@ZaynVEVOYoutube\nFormer One Direction band member Zayn Malik may have proven his success as a solo artist having newly released single \u2018\u2018Pillow talk\u2019\u2019. The pending album following his venture as an independent performer may have the ability to reflect artistic bravery and experimentation, offering a new musical dimension to fans globally.\nZayn Malik\u2019s album which saw its release on the 29th January 2016 \u201cPillow talk\u201d may be considered a new genre for the former One Direction band member, which presents an R&B feel representing the singer\u2019s evolved identity since leaving the band One Direction. This genre may also indicate the artistic direction the singer desires to venture, with the ability to reach a new and more mature audience as well as exploring his artistic capability.\nAlthough the genre may be alternative to the singer\u2019s pop background in One Direction, it may still prove to be a success. Likewise the music video may have engaged audiences with the appeal of Chanel model Gigi Hadid, who features as Zayn Malik\u2019s love interest reflecting what may be a desire to stay current as well as mainstream in its youthful public appeal.\nZayn Malik 2015 solo announcement.Credit@Youtube\nThe solo single evidences a lead vocal by the former band member demonstrating a comfort and confidence in his performance ability as an individual, a dimension which may have been overshadowed in a band environment. This might see the artist taking the lead in the choice of genre, lyrics and newly formed brand of his own identity as a solo act, demonstrating authenticity in his creativity.\nHaving topped the charts in the UK, Australia and Ireland upon its debut, the single may have paved the way as an example for many other band members who may seek to embark on a career as a solo artist with similar courage as Zayn Malik has demonstrated. This may have the ability to create a dialogue on whether growth and artistic progression may be reached for solo artists who may feel limited in a band environment, encouraging performers to stay faithful to their personal journey and vision.\nThe band One Direction\u2019s release of the single \u2018History\u2019 without Zayn may have demonstrated a unity with what may be considered a \u2018goodbye\u2019 after having reconfirmed on the X-Factor stage their break from music. This may evidence some of the challenges having a band member depart may bring, such as finding a sense of stability amidst rapid change.\nZayn\u2019s new direction as a solo artist may offer fans a reasoning for his departure from the band as well as encouraging a dialogue surrounding other artistic figures who have similarly gone on to succeed from bands such as Robbie Williams and Garry Barlow. This may present a sense of endless opportunity for artists, who may go on to reunite within their musical careers. It may also reflect the way in which a band experience may be fundamental to an artist\u2019s singular growth in the music industry as well as a platform to venture on a musical endeavour alone.\nZayn Malik interview for Fader Magazine.Credit@Youtube\nDiscussions surrounding the direction for Zayn\u2019s future as a solo artist may be further affirmed in his first studio album \u201cMind of Mine\u201d as well as his new signing under record label RCA Records, who manage artists such as Chris Brown and Miley Cyrus. This may evidence a new channeling of a more cutting edge, innovative and on-trend sound that may see him collaborating with rappers, singers and producers who share the singer\u2019s label with him thus furthering creativity.\nHow may Zayn Malik\u2019s departure from One Direction present a new identity for him as a solo artist?\nentertainment music One Direction Pillow Talk solo artist zayn malik", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 6582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 287.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themarketingpractice.com/en-US/insights/artificial-intelligence-b2b-marketing-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:45Z", "digest": "sha1:56OYBLJUZLM6FXWEWDSDC42WQRQ2ETW7", "length": 5190, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "themarketingpractice.com", "title": "AI in B2B marketing: a reality check | The Marketing Practice", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t believe the hype Artificial intelligence in B2B marketing: a reality check\nOriginal post can be viewed here on LinkedIn.\nIt didn\u2019t take attending too many sessions at the recent B2B Ignite event in June in London to realize that AI is the next big thing to get marketers salivating. I\u2019m pretty sure you could have predicted this happening a few years ago too. As marketers have sought to deliver measurable commercial results to the business, so investment in marketing technology platforms has grown from baseline-tactical levels to strategic-business-platform levels of significance. The reality, though, is that the practical results of new martech investments have not always lived up to initial promise \u2013 at least not until a level of product maturity and experience has developed. Now, I\u2019m not necessarily saying that marketers believe their own hype. But sometimes, in the quest to transform marketing operations, the realities of new software have not always been challenged before purchase. And Gartner is now throwing up the same warning flags for the next generation of technology. According to Gartner analyst Jim Hare, many software vendors are \u2018focused on the goal of simply building and marketing an AI-based product, rather than identifying use cases and business value to customers.\u2019 Put another way, we\u2019re approaching peak-hype and every software developer and enterprise technology company is jumping onto the AI bandwagon. To be clear, I think that AI will at some point have a transformative effect upon the way marketing activity operates, but I don\u2019t believe that the start of the adoption curve is the place to accept that we\u2019re in a good place to see a significant impact without hefty, committed investment and a long-term roadmap. We have, of course, seen exactly this level of hype many times before. It could be argued that the first wave of martech was centered on CRM. \u2018CRM will fix all of your data woes, and then you\u2019ll be able to run perfect campaigns.\u2019 That was the message, but it didn\u2019t quite work out. In theory, it\u2019s correct, and if you have your data sorted then you will run great campaigns, but it misses the fact that data is never \u2018sorted\u2019 \u2013 it\u2019s an ongoing, evolutionary thing that needs to adapt to updates from across channels, campaigns and contact points. Data management is a process, not an endpoint. So, then the second wave came along, and marketing automation promised that you can execute all of your campaigns across channels and set trigger points to identify leads and capture information in one place, and everything will be great. The problem with this is that it never quite works out that way, and managing marketing automation well to create that perfect demand center is still a manual process requiring significant investment. And so now we arrive at the dawn of the third wave \u2013 AI. This time, AI will take care of those complexities, it will learn and respond to trends dynamically and fix all of those challenges that marketers have. This may be an oversimplification that doesn\u2019t do justice to the giant steps that have been taken in marketing technologies, but interestingly and fundamentally, the challenge that sits behind each of these three waves of technology development is the same: \u2018How do we execute marketing better?\u2019 And so, when we arrive near the start of a new technology trend that will help us do better marketing, we start to see that every vendor is now touting AI baked into their products. What does that even mean? According to Jim Hare, \u2018Most vendors are overselling the AI capabilities of their products with shiny, bold marketing when their technology provides strictly rule-based machine learning and analytics (rather than anything remotely self-learning). We are heading toward a point of dilution where AI is likely to become just another marketing term used for any software app displaying even the most rudimentary intelligence.\u2019 If you are planning to adopt AI into your marketing strategy, it\u2019s worth taking a quick pause to ask some questions:\nWhy? What are you expecting to see from it? What would you expect to see if you didn\u2019t adopt it?\nWho really knows a lot about this? Are the people who claim to be experts that qualified, and how much experience do they actually have?\nOperationally, what are you willing to commit to transforming your marketing, and how long are you willing to do it for?\nHave you got the basics in place to make AI even worthwhile? Have you reached the point where you\u2019ve exhausted all that rules-based technologies can do, such that you need to push into AI?\nFor those who approach AI in the right way \u2013 as a learning exercise that is going to evolve and act as a figurehead programme to drive marketing improvement over several years \u2013 there is a significant opportunity. On the leading edge of the technology, an AI-powered customer engagement strategy could drive the business into new territory. But slip onto the bleeding edge, and it could be an expensive investment into something that isn\u2019t really understood, has poor, zero or negative returns and could stall the business from driving forwards in other areas.\nBy Chris Bailey | August 8, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 6053, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themindrenewed.com/in-the-media/1175-news331", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:05Z", "digest": "sha1:AGC3VLK66LEM52MHWCS42CEAJDXKVS4I", "length": 6376, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "themindrenewed.com", "title": "\"Fear Has Large Eyes\" : Skripal Affair (Makinde)", "raw_content": "Home IN MEDIA \"Fear Has Large Eyes\" : Skripal Affair (Makinde)\n\"Fear Has Large Eyes\" : Skripal Affair (Makinde)\n\" \"Fear Has Large Eyes : The Sergei Skripal Affair\", \u00a9 Adeyinka Makinde (07 March 2018)\n\u201cWe did not reject our past. We said honestly: \u2018The history of the Lubyanka in the twentieth century is our history\u2026\u2019 - Nikolai Patrushev, director of the FSB, Excerpt from an interview in Komsomolskaia Pravda, December 20, 2000.\nThe secret services of Russia have garnered an enduring reputation for ruthlessness.\nWhether dealing with internal opponents (Think: Ivan The Terrible\u2019s Oprichnina, the Tsarist Okhrana, Felix Dzerzhinsky\u2019s Cheka and the NKVD terror orchestrated by the likes of Genrikh Yagoda, Nikolai Yezhov and Lavrenti Beria) or the external apparatus (Think: Viktor Abakumov\u2019s SMERSH, the role of the KGB in smashing anti-Soviet movements in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, as well as the exploits of the GRU, Soviet military intelligence), the apparatus of espionage and counter-espionage have set unenviable standards in uncompromising brutality.\nThe extraordinarily repressive capacities of the gulag system was of course immortalised by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn\u2019s The Gulag Archipelago and the Lubyanka has become synonymous with Bolshevik terror replete with a signature style of execution every bit as emblematic as revolutionary France\u2019s guillotine: a bullet to the back of the head.\nYezhov\u2019s name provided the label for the most brutal part of Stalinist terror in the 1930s, the Yezhovshchina. That term was the invention of a scared, scarred and cowed populace. But the protagonists of terror have not shirked from either publicly extolling the merits of the wielding of terror or in revealing the ruthless objectives of particular institutions created to promote the security of the state.\nThus it was Dzerzhinsky who declared during the early Bolshevik era that \u201cwe stand for organised terror\u201d. And it was Stalin who coined the phrase Smert Shpionam, \u201cDeath to Spies\u201d, from which the name SMERSH, a conglomerate of counter-espionage organisations within the Red Army, was derived.\nAnd death has often been the lot of Russian and Soviet traitors: Major Pyotr Popov in 1960, Colonel Oleg Penkovsky in 1963 and Major-General Dmitri Polyakov in 1988 were officers of the GRU who were executed as agents acting in the service of foreign powers.\nIn Penkhovsky\u2019s case, the legend persists that he was bound to a stretcher and incinerated while alive in a crematorium as a warning to potential traitors. All the evidence points to him having been shot, but the tale of his presumed fate is indicative of the perception of many in the West of a Russian predisposition to cruelty and even barbarity in dispensing \u2018justice\u2019 to those perceived as enemies of the state.\n\u201cFear has large eyes\u201d warns an old Russian proverb, and to many in the West, this is as true today as it was in Joseph Stalin\u2019s time. Apart from presiding over numerous purges and the entrenchment of a repressive, totalitarian order, Stalin, who was Georgian, is claimed to have been influenced by Caucasian notions of honour and vengeance in the pursuit of his former rival Leon Trotsky. Not only was Trotsky assassinated by an agent of the NKVD in 1940, his family was destroyed by assassinations and persecutions inflicted by the Soviet state.\nSome now seek to paint contemporary Russia with a similar brush. Under Vladimir Putin, who is often posited as a practitioner of the Russian brand of oriental despotism, they point to the deaths of dissenting journalists, political opponents and dissident former members of Russia\u2019s security services. A case was made against two former FSB officials, Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun for responsibility in the death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former colleague of the FSB who died from polonium poisoning in 2007.\nNow, the same allegation is being made in regard to the suspected poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a former colonel in Russian military intelligence. Skripal had been convicted of revealing the identities of Russia\u2019s secret agents to MI6, Britain\u2019s foreign intelligence service. In 2010, he was released into British hands as part of a \u2018spy swap\u2019 in Vienna.\nAt the time, Putin was quoted as declaring that \u201ctraitors always end badly. Secret services live by their own laws and these laws are very well known to anyone who works for a secret service.\u201d\nBut those who consider this a self-incriminating statement need to bear the following in mind. Skripal, who was officially pardoned by Russia\u2019s then-President Dmitry Medvedev, did not suffer the fate of those who committed similar acts during the Soviet era. In fact, many would argue that he got off lightly with a thirteen-year sentence.\nIt begs the question: why would Russia attempt to kill Skripal at this time?\nWhile many Western observers will pooh-pooh Andrei Lugovoi\u2019s assertion that Skripal\u2019s targeting is \u201canother provocation by British intelligence agencies\u201d aimed at demonising Russia, others will be more circumspect and reserve judgement because such a campaign of demonisation has been orchestrated in the West and promoted by the mainstream media for over a decade.\nFurther, the notion that Britain\u2019s intelligence services cannot themselves be involved in the dark arts of murder and \u2018black operations\u2019 is simply not tenable. From the so-called \u2018Lockhart Plot\u2019 against Vladimir Lenin engineered by M1-1C the precursor to MI6 to complicity in the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba and a plan to assassinate Irish Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, Britain\u2019s intelligence services have been involved in homicidal conspiracies. Yet, the official narrative continues to uphold the pretence of an almost benign intelligence apparatus averse to plots involving assassinations.\nWhile the aforementioned remarks of Nikolai Patrushev have been taken as evidence by Western analysts that the Russian intelligence service continues to embrace a draconian ethos, it is also worth recalling his comments about British intelligence which he insisted in 2008 has since the times of Queen Elizabeth I, \u201coperated on the principle that the end justifies the means.\u201d\nThere may be more to this episode than meets the eye.\nAdeyinka Makinde is a writer based in London, England.\nThis article is Copyright \u00a9 2018 Adeyinka Makinde, all rights reserved, and reproduced here with kind permission.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 7221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themlsblog.com/2017/02/28/alpha-release-3-0-the-explore-feature/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:10Z", "digest": "sha1:JF3UGL6VF23HPBIZK65ZCHJD34JM65LW", "length": 427, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "themlsblog.com", "title": "Alpha Release 3.0 \u2013 The Explore Feature \u2013 The MLS\u2122 Blog", "raw_content": "Hello, everyone! Today we\u2019re introducing one of the most exciting new features of our Alpha Release 3.0 \u2013 the explore feature! As you will see in the video below, this feature allows you to conveniently browse your area of interest to find properties with a close proximity to local businesses and institutions.\nAfter trying out this new feature, leave us feedback here by March 10th for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themysterytin.com/2017/08/10/building-and-burning-bridges/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:59Z", "digest": "sha1:UVWTN4I5RIWSZIVOILU3BWGHNKKJJQL2", "length": 6187, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "themysterytin.com", "title": "Building (and Burning) Bridges \u2013 MYSTERY TIN", "raw_content": "Portland, Oregon, has a TON of bridges that span the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, unsurprisingly earning Portland the official nickname of \u201cBridgetown.\u201d As the Willamette divides Portland down the middle, starting at the top, there\u2019s the St. Johns Bridge, Fremont Bridge, Broadway Bridge, Steel Bridge, Burnside Bridge, Morrison Bridge, Hawthorne Bridge, Marquam Bridge, Tilikum Crossing, Ross Island Bridge, and the Sellwood Bridge way down at the bottom. So, with my car packed up full of my belongings (again), I departed Portland thinking about all bridges in my life\u2026\nThe very first bridge in Portland was the original Morrison Bridge, built in 1887, also happened to be the longest bridge west of the Mississippi River. It was an architectural marvel, finally allowing people and horse-drawn buggies alike to pass over the Willamette. It was originally a toll bridge, but the toll was dropped in 1895. The Morrison Bridge has been rebuilt a number of times, the most recent redesign was in 1958.\nSt. Johns Bridge, Portland, OR.\nMy favorite is the beautiful blue St. Johns Bridge, where you\u2019re 205 feet off the water!\nBridges physically connect two locations that would otherwise be unconnected (or too cumbersome for success), bonding the \u201cplaces\u201d (not just the physical locations, but the inhabitants and spirit) together through building and exchange of a bridge. Goods, people, whatever. We all know this. Bridges are cool. But if you really dig down on the friendship-bridge metaphor, it is both inspiring and painfully honest.\nIt takes a lot of energy to build a bridge, and equal energy to maintain it. Both sides of the bridge benefit from the connection, some more than others at times. If the tedious, general upkeep is not maintained (the check-ins and touch-ups), even a well-built, and well-traveled, bridge can break down over time. Here it comes\u2026 the same is true with our friendships.\nI love Portland, and I had a great time living there. I made some amazing connections, friends I\u2019ll keep for the rest of my life. But what about those people that didn\u2019t become my best friends? What about the people that wronged me? And perhaps more introspectively, how do we address the relationships that have grown to become imbalanced? How do we build the right bridge?\nTower Bridge, London. (Not in Portland)\nThere are so many quotes about burning bridges, I chose not to include one in this post, simply because we all get the metaphor by now. We like burning bridges because it\u2019s an instant satisfaction, exciting, energy-filled exchange where you hope the end result will be complete and total destruction of your enemy and there\u2019ll be exclamations in of worldwide vindication that in the end, they were wrong and you were right! And we all know, it rarely (if ever) ends like that. Instead, you\u2019re emotionally drained, somewhat ashamed, slightly confused, and the ripples of your outburst will continue to echo outward, essentially ruining your reputation behind you (i.e. burning other bridges)\u2026 Not so cool now, huh?\nBut old bridges aren\u2019t actually burned. Not even old wood ones. Bridges, when they\u2019re decommissioned, are for the most part disassembled. The bridges are stripped down to the bare bones before destruction. Many pieces will be salvaged, reused, repurposed, into other objects in our everyday lives. What if we applied that principle to \u201cdecommissioning\u201d our bridges?\nWhat if, rather than exploding at that friend that never returns your phone calls or text messages, you simply, gently, emotionally disassemble that bridge, piece by piece, and put that energy into other facets, other friendships, other bridges?\nThe need for connections is a symptom of the digital landscape we\u2019re currently creating. The idea that things can be connected is being celebrated. The belief that everything should be connected is, in my opinion, sometimes needless and counterproductive. Some bridges just don\u2019t need to exist, and that\u2019s okay. We are not only defined by who we choose to associate with, but also who choose not to associate with.\nSome bridges should not exist. You don\u2019t need to be \u201cfriends\u201d with that guy that never calls you back. You don\u2019t need to be \u201cfriends\u201d with the owner of the company that fired you. You don\u2019t need to be \u201cfriends\u201d with that roommate that you really didn\u2019t like. The truth is, those were never large, sturdy bridges to begin with. They were footpaths. A dangling line across a chasm. It served it\u2019s purpose when you needed it, but it isn\u2019t intended to last the rest of your life. These bridges are okay to let go.\nI\u2019ll be honest, I wanted to burn bridges. SO BADLY. Ultimately, I just let them be. There\u2019s was little fire. Maybe we\u2019ll cross over them again sometime in the future, or maybe they will fall into the relentless river of time and life. I valued them, but I can\u2019t look back at the bridge and wonder if it will make it, I\u2019ve got to keep moving forward, over the bridge. The bridges that we should be spending most of our energy on are the bridges to the future. What are we doing today that will connect us, in a positive way, to where we want to be in the future? What kind of incremental bit of progress, which plank can I add today, to get me one step closer to the other side, where I ultimately want to be? And who can I connect with, work with, support, and partner with, where we can achieve our goals together?\nFor me, that\u2019s filmmaking, and that\u2019s not going to happen in Portland, Oregon. And despite all the reasons to stay (Fall in Portland is the best, the solar eclipse, Crater Lake, etc.), I have to build on my 15 years of screenwriting and put it all into action, to finish building that bridge, with a complete move to Los Angeles.\nSo yesterday, I loaded up my car with every item I own (for the sixth time in just over two years), said goodbye to Portland, and I\u2019m currently on my migration South.\n(Bonus drive over the Bay Bridge!)\nI\u2019ll see you in Los Angeles!\nPosted in Blog, Creative Writing, featured, Movies, Mystery Tin, Photo Set, Photography, travelTagged Bridges, friendship, Los Angeles, PortlandBy Mystery TinLeave a comment\n\u2190 Photo Set: Northern Ireland\nYour Personal Mantra for 2018 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 7794, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 257.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theproperblog.com/life/reflecting-on-2016-changing-the-game-for-myself-in-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:30Z", "digest": "sha1:TRVW4GQEDVVDYSYOLTXI656ELDJJRO6M", "length": 10774, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "theproperblog.com", "title": "Reflecting on 2016 & Changing The Game in 2017", "raw_content": "Reflecting on 2016 & Changing The Game For Myself in 2017\nHey! It\u2019s me! Lexy. The author of this blog. You may have thought I decided to skip town, or was in hibernation, or just decided to take an extended leave of absence. And you were correct! The holiday turned into an extended moment for me to catch my breath and take a step back to really evaluate the state of things. I feel like I\u2019m doing this constantly, but there\u2019s always a massive amount of reflection at the beginning and end of each year. (I\u2019m sure that\u2019s the case with most of the sites you like to read!)\nLast year was a huge year for PROPER. We worked with brands that I always dreamed of working with (Target, Marshalls, & Dunkin\u2019 Donuts immediately come to mind, among others\u2026), and I outgrew the small space I\u2019ve been working in all these years for the day-to-day shoots. But with the excess work, came additional stress and anxiety. I found myself stressing out over the editorial calendar and the content that was being created and shared here. I was also creating stress about every other aspect of my life. The biggest issue of last year: my health.\nI know that I joke a lot about diabetes and rarely mention what it\u2019s really like, but the truth is that I felt sick a lot last year. We\u2019ve been wanting to have another baby (Vita is THREE going on THIRTEEN, I swear it.), but the diabetes has made things a lot tougher this time around. There are so many factors that go into a diabetic pregnancy that I won\u2019t bore you with here. I\u2019ll save that for another day! But if you don\u2019t manage your blood sugar 100%, things can go south quickly. I had been keeping my blood sugar at a much lower level than normal in hopes to lower my a1c (average blood glucose level over 3 months). A lower a1c results in a safer pregnancy, but it\u2019s tricky to get and keep your blood sugar low and stable. I was keeping my blood sugar dangerously low throughout the day in hopes of lowering my numbers faster so that my body would be ready for a healthy pregnancy. There was an instance back in November where my blood sugar crashed while I was doing some Christmas shopping. Again, I don\u2019t want to go into too much detail, but to an onlooker, I appeared to be having a stroke. (The symptoms of severe hypoglycemia mimic a stroke. Right down to the paralysis!) A woman found me on the ground of a parking lot hanging outside my car, and she arrived just in the nick of time. I don\u2019t know what would have happened had a few more minutes passed, but I am SO grateful she came when she did. Since then, I\u2019ve been more weary of keeping my sugars stable and feel a little lost as I navigate these next few months and how Logan and I go about growing our family. I promise I have a point with all of this! While I can\u2019t speak for all diabetics, I will say that when my blood sugar is low, I have zero energy. My energy levels had plummeted all last year (despite the amount of caffeine I was taking in) and I just crashed at the end of each day. When blood sugar rises and falls and fluctuates around the clock, you can seem like a crazy person. Which is how I spent most of 2016. I definitely didn\u2019t feel like myself.\nIt was hard for me to find the energy \u2013 and the time \u2013 to constantly create new things to keep up with the current trends. I felt like I was falling behind compared to everyone else in blogland. When I wanted to voice my concerns, I felt that I couldn\u2019t and shouldn\u2019t. I felt that PROPER had become a place that existed solely for happy, beautiful, and/or sarcastic content. \u201cThere\u2019s no room for negativity here.\u201d That\u2019s what I told myself every time I started to craft up a post such as this one. So if I didn\u2019t have something happy or beautiful to share, this space didn\u2019t get updated. And I was quiet over on social media as well. After all, I didn\u2019t have anything amazing or glamorous to share, so I figured it would just be easier to be hush-hush until I did.\nWhen I first started blogging years ago (I\u2019m embarrassed to jog your memory of this lest you check the archives!), I really enjoyed every minute of it. I enjoyed sharing inspiring things, and also building relationships with all of you who came to read here, and with the people behind the blogs I was reading. There seemed to be more time to do all of that years ago before blogging became more than a full-time-around-the-clock-don\u2019t-eat-don\u2019t-sleep-ignore-your-life kind of thing. Nowadays, we do more than just create a post and throw it up on the homepage to see. We spend the time planning the post, creating the content, photographing it, editing the photos, writing the copy, editing that copy, scheduling the post, writing copy & editing images for different social media platforms, and then analyzing the numbers and figuring out whether readers liked the post or not so we can start all over and do it again. There are so many platforms to update and curate for. And I just can\u2019t keep up. And I don\u2019t want to.\nI\u2019m going back to the basics. Things are going to be slightly different around here starting now. Of course there will still be DIYs, recipes, roundups, makeovers, and more, but I also want things to get back to being a little more personal. I love this blog, and I love what I do. I feel lucky every day that the thing I love to do became my job. I\u2019ve made resolutions in the past, but feel that I\u2019ve got the support I need to really change things up and stick to those resolutions. I don\u2019t want the anxiety of my never-ending inbox, or the fact that I haven\u2019t been able to keep up with conversations on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook eat away at me each morning when I wake and each night before I fall asleep. (Please know that I read each and every comment! It just takes me a bit longer sometimes to get to it and respond!!!!) Something has to change. And it starts with me. I want my days, weeks, and months to be meaningful. And as much as I love chucking the glitter for Boomerang videos, I don\u2019t want the message I share here and everywhere else to be one that seems shallow. (While at the same time, I\u2019d like to discuss what is going on in Bachelor Nation. So you gotta meet me in the middle.)\nThere are so many things in this world that I take an interest in. And after the 2016 that we all had, I just want the future to be better. So I\u2019m going to do my hardest to be more transparent and create and share things that are more worthwhile.\nHoly novel! Am I right? It actually took me about 7 days to complete this post because important things kept coming up (playing Twister with Logan and Vita, and multiple trips to the park). Last year, I would have kept putting off the games with my family so that I could work, but this year, I\u2019m remembering the things that truly matter. And I hope you can too!\nSAPPY ALERT: From the bottom of my heart, I cannot thank you all enough for reading here and everywhere else. I love ya. Really.\nHere\u2019s to a more honest, fulfilling, and truly inspirational 2017!\nxoxoxo (and more loving characters),\nThoughts On Pregnancy & How It\u2019s Affected My Brain\nNew Year. New Mindset.\nFiled Under: Life Tagged With: 2017, goals, Life, Resolutions\n\u00ab Mission Merry \\\\ Holiday House & Card Sneak Peek\n#ProperPrintables \\\\ Printable Abstract Labels For Organizing Everything \u00bb\nI stopped blogging because of a chronic illness of mine. At first it was just limit the posts then I couldn\u2019t even do those. Extreme fatigue would keep me in bed. Once I started putting me and my family first again, I noticed my mind is clearer and the creativity is slowly coming back. Knocked me down but like you I hope to be back up. We put a ton of pressure on ourselves as bloggers and it takes the fun out of it.\nHopefully in 2017, we will get our blog groove back and be healthy. Cheers to staying healthy! Rooting for you.\nJulianna Wing says\nAh! So glad you are doing a little bit better. That experience in the parking lot must have been terrifying to go through! I love your beautiful work as well as your honest words. I hope your 2017 looks sunnier.\nDomesticali says\nI think a lot of us are yearning for the good old days of blogging and the honest human connection that they used to provide. Sorry to hear of your rough time with diabetes \u2013 our health impacts everything so dramatically.\n\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0fLex\nBest blog post ever. I\u2019m feeling the 2017 you, Lexy. Back to the basics. Social media kind of sucked the real life out of all of us. Let\u2019s take it back! Less faux perfection and more being in the present. I can\u2019t imagine the pressure you must feel as a blogger, but as a reader it\u2019s so much better to feel connected to an actual real person who is vulnerable at times and goes against the grain of the perfect everything all the time. You\u2019re just the very best. Your blog is incredible. You should be so proud. This post was so honest and we all admire it. Yeah, I just spoke for the world. Bring it on Proper, 2017!\nLove this and you! \u2764\ufe0f\nI could not agree more! To do something you love for a living is such a gift, but constantly working to keep up, while still giving your personal life the time + energy it deserves, is no easy feat!! I love what you shared! And sending you all the love while you work to grow your family. \u2764\ufe0f\n\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d\ud83d\ude2d Couldn\u2019t keep it together while reading this post! I just love you to death and I am so happy that you are going to change things up a bit. Your health and family need to be your number one priority! xoxo\nLove you Lexy!! You are such an amazing person all around and I\u2019m privileged to have you as my friend. 2017 is going to be great!!! HUGS!! \u2764\nWOW! What a scary experience, I\u2019m so glad your ok!! Your blog is awesome and I agree sometimes blog would trump life and I HATED it. Im doing the same this year, trying to prioritize. You are awesome, your blog is awesome and I\u2019m excited to read more personal posts \ud83d\ude09 xoxo\nThis is a really inspiring post. Loved everything about it. So real and so interesting. The hustle of blog land can be a little insane and I\u2019m with you on the slowing down part.\nLois Ward says\nLexy, You are such an amazing wife and mother. I love your blog and know how hard you work on all of it everyday. It is nice to sit back and reflect what we want most in our lives. A new year helps us to do that. The diabetes just makes everything harder and takes a lot of time just to manage it. We love you and all that amazing talent you have.\nMichelle foulger says\nI was tearing up reading this entire thing. I love you lex, and love your priorities. It\u2019s been WAY too long, know you\u2019re in my prayers and I am beyond happy you shared this. You have done things with this blog that I can only dream of, you\u2019re such an inspiration. Here\u2019s to 2017, it\u2019s gonna be baby-filled and I\u2019ll be damned if I don\u2019t get to see you ONE time!!! Xoxo\nLove ya sister!!\ud83d\ude18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 15032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thetablet.org/spots-available-for-st-edmund-prep-tip-off-tourney/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JZ3YNR4TUCPZY5NLY7OVSYA6WK7OPTII", "length": 843, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thetablet.org", "title": "Spots Available for St. Edmund Prep Tip-Off Tourney - The Tablet", "raw_content": "Spots Available for St. Edmund Prep Tip-Off Tourney\nSt. Edmund Prep H.S., Sheepshead Bay, will host its 20th annual Tip-Off Tournament to ring in the Catholic Youth Organization basketball season.\nEighth grade teams are invited to participate. The tournament has been a great gathering of teams of all levels in Brooklyn and Queens for 20 years.\nEach team plays three games. The tournament fee is $175, which includes referee fees and a drawstring bag for each participant.\nThe championship and runner-up team will be awarded trophies, as well as plaques for the All-Tournament team and M.V.P. trophy.\nThe tournament begins on Oct. 26 and wraps on Nov. 4.\nIf interested, please email St. Edmund co-athletic director and head varsity basketball coach Dan Wiatre at dwiatre@stedmundprep.org.\nTags: basketball, high school sports, St. Edmund Prep", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thetablet.org/tag/msgr-george-higgins/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:50Z", "digest": "sha1:X4E6IKDMELZJSQCV3ICMFULL32XHY2IJ", "length": 432, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thetablet.org", "title": "Msgr. George Higgins Archives - The Tablet", "raw_content": "Msgr. George Higgins\nConversations with My Favorite Authors\nHAVING JUST finished writing the column that appeared in last week\u2019s issue, I am looking at the three large bookshelves I have in my room. Even though I gave away more than a hundred books a few years ago, there are still hundreds of books in this room. Memories of being profoundly influenced by some of these books when I first read them are coming back to me as I type.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 199.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thisisrazz.com/blog/2018/cockygate-internet-write-romance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NNKCEGRQU2GGAR45DEKTG4P4LN6FCVJA", "length": 985, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thisisrazz.com", "title": "Cockygate (or how to piss off the Internet when you write romance)", "raw_content": "Posted in Commentary on Monday May 7, 2018\nSo a Romance novelist went all Entrepreneur Magazine and copyrighted the word \u201cCocky\u201d. Then she goes and sends out a bunch of \u201ccease and desist\u201d letters to authors who used the word in their titles.\nAside from the full-on roasting she\u2019s getting on t\u2019internet, there\u2019s also the legal ramifications that are likely to follow. The C&Ds are dubious at best, her work is being trashed and there\u2019s the potential legal costs if she decides to defend her copyright.\nI get it. As an author there are bits of my writing I wouldn\u2019t mind slapping a copyright on. And I\u2019m sure, when I\u2019m huge and successful, I\u2019ll take offence at authors nicking my characters (and force them to write a successful, yet badly written pastiche).\nHopefully, though, I won\u2019t descend to the level of stupidity of trying to copyright a common usage word.\nIntroducing a submissive to chastity\nMy own bitter experience of BDSM and mental health\nPlease let me be your slave, Master", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tntribune.com/community/national-minority-donor-awareness-week-reason-dance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:I4FYOX3ANHTZN2F4TJY737BWH7DAO3G7", "length": 3583, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "tntribune.com", "title": "National Minority Donor Awareness Week, A Reason to Dance - The Tennessee Tribune", "raw_content": "Home Community National Minority Donor Awareness Week, A Reason to Dance\nNational Minority Donor Awareness Week, A Reason to Dance\nOn July 5, writer and teacher Clint Smith tweeted a video of his father dancing with his sister at her wedding reception. The video went viral, garnering nearly 90,000 likes, more than 20,000 retweets, and coverage from major media outlets throughout the nation. You see, this father-daughter dance wasn\u2019t only significant for Clint\u2019s family \u2013 it also resonated deeply with the more than 118,000 people on the organ and tissue transplant waiting list, their friends and family.\nJust a few years ago, Clint\u2019s father\u2019s kidneys failed. He was on the edge of death. It was a kidney donor who saved his life and gave him the chance to dance.\nUnfortunately, Clint\u2019s father\u2019s fight with kidney disease is not unique. And it is even more prominent in the minority community. In fact, members of the minority community comprise 58 percent of those on the organ and tissue donation waiting lists. African Americans, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and Hispanics are three times more likely than Caucasian people to suffer from end-stage renal disease, often as the result of high blood pressure and other conditions that can damage the kidneys.\nThis week is National Minority Donor Awareness Week, which is recognized annually from August 1-7 to increase the public\u2019s understanding of the need for more organ, eye, and tissue donors, especially among minorities. This special observance honors minorities who have been donors, and encourages others to register as donors and take better care of their health to reduce the number of people needing a transplant.\nAlthough organs are not matched according to ethnicity, and people of different races frequently match one another, all individuals waiting for an organ transplant will have a better chance of receiving one if there are large numbers of donors from their ethnic background. This is because compatible blood types and tissue markers\u2014critical qualities for donor/recipient matching\u2014are more likely to be found among members of the same ethnicity. A greater diversity of donors can increase access to transplantation for everyone.\nAfter sharing his family\u2019s story, Clint Smith encouraged his followers to register as organ and tissue donors. I echo his call to action. One donor\u2019s organs can save up to eight lives, and one donor\u2019s tissues can restore up to 50 lives. Registering in Tennessee is quick and easy \u2013 just visit www.DonateLifeTN.org where you can find all the information you need, sign up as a donor and even indicate whether you prefer to donate all of your organs and/or tissues, or specify which you would like to give. You can also register at the Department of Safety, when applying for, renewing or updating a state driver\u2019s license or ID. It is important to tell your family about your decision.\nThe education and registration of members of minority groups is essential to helping close that gap. This week is the perfect time to honor our friends and family who have been donors by making the decision to save and restore lives, and telling our families about our wishes. After all, when lives in our communities are saved, we all have a reason to dance.\nNational Minority Awareness Week\nPrevious articleTwo Nashville Megachurches to Bridge Cultural Divide on August 5 in Support of Education & Healthcare for Nashvillians of All Races\nNext articleTHE EDUCATION EQUAL OPPORTUNITY GROUP HOSTS 14TH ANNUAL FUNDRAISING GALA: HONORING LAWRENCE V. JACKSON AS THE 2017 PIONEER AWARD RECIPIEN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 8500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 263.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tomwright09.wordpress.com/malaysian-race-quotes-i/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:26Z", "digest": "sha1:L23G2DXMZTBT4WNZFUCDA3ZYBB5PPJ5D", "length": 4675, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "tomwright09.wordpress.com", "title": "Malaysian Race Quotes I | The Chequered Flag", "raw_content": "Vettel won an enthralling Malaysian GP\nSebastian Vettel (1st)\n\u201cThe entire race was quite different to what we saw two weeks ago \u2013 it was a lot closer and there were more pit stops due to the tyres.\n\u201cI\u2019m very pleased with today\u2019s result. I love what I do and don\u2019t think I could be happier at this stage. It\u2019s been close here, so we need to keep cool and keep pushing, but the guys know this is the way forward, so I\u2019m not worried. But for today we will enjoy it and be very proud.\u201d\nMark Webber (4th)\n\u201cIt was a tough race today. It wasn\u2019t a good start out of the box and we had a failure with the KERS, so I was out of position on the first lap\n\u201cAnyway, I fought back with a good strategy and got some good points at least. It wasn\u2019t our day today and I was disappointed not to get on the podium. It was close, but not close enough, But, it will come and now we go to Shanghai.\u201d\nJenson Button (2nd)\n\u201cThis has been an extremely encouraging weekend for us. It\u2019s very satisfying to come away with a good lot of world championship points \u2013 everyone in the team has done an amazing job and we should feel very proud of ourselves. \u201c\nLewis Hamilton (8th)\n\u201cToday was just one of those days. It\u2019s never satisfying to start second and finish seventh, but that\u2019s racing. We just have to take it on the chin and move on from it.\n\u201cDuring the race, my tyres kept dropping off. I was trying to look after my tyres, and being hit from behind by Fernando (Alonso). I think he got a bit too close, and, when he pulled out, he just clipped me with his wing and broke my car\u2019s rear floor. \u201d\n\u201cJenson drove a truly excellent race today, pushing hard when it was appropriate to do so but also conserving his tyres when necessary, and the result was a very well deserved second place.\nLewis had a difficult afternoon, his frustrations beginning at the very first corner of the very first lap, when Nick unexpectedly nipped past him from way back in sixth place on the starting grid. After that, he tried his utmost to reclaim the place, nearly doing so on a number of occasions, but inevitably his tyre conservation was compromised in the process.\u201d\nNick Heidfeld (3rd)\n\u201cI had a great start just like in Australia, and did not expect to make up so many positions. I moved up to P2, making up four places. After that I did my best to follow Sebastian (Vettel) but he was much quicker\n\u201cIt\u2019s another great result for Lotus Renault GP and it\u2019s clear the team has taken a big step forward this year.\u201d\nVitaly Petrov (DNF)\n\u201d I made a small mistake which shouldn\u2019t have had the consequences it had. I went wide and the car took off on the curb, landing hard. Both cars should have been in the points today, but the good news is that we clearly have the pace needed to compete this season.\u201d\nEric Boullier, Renault team principal\n\u201cI\u2019m pleased of course for Nick but I\u2019m also pleased for the whole team. It\u2019s another great reward for us, especially after the tough start to the weekend. It\u2019s good to be on the podium again, although it is disappointing to have lost one car with less than ten laps to go.\n\u201cScoring two podiums in a row is definitely very satisfying.\u201d\n\u201cWe definitely have to improve the car, but it\u2019s equally true that our race pace is very different to our performance in qualifying. That\u2019s a positive, but we know that grid position is nevertheless very important, so we have to move forward on this front.\u201d\nFernando Alonso (6th)\n\u201cI am happy with this race: not with the result but because we were finally competitive.\n\u201cWe were not lucky: if the moveable rear wing had worked all the time, I could easily have passed Hamilton down the straight, but instead we had to fight hard. He defended very well and, unfortunately, we touched: that broke my wing and I had to come back into the pits to change it, thus losing any chance of getting to the podium. These things happen.\u201d\n\u201cWe cannot be pleased with this result, because today, we had the possibility to finally leap up onto the podium. Two incidents, linked one to a reliability issue (a failure of the moveable rear wing on Fernando\u2019s car) and one at a pit stop (a problem with the left front at Felipe\u2019s first stop) cost us very dear. It\u2019s a shame.\u201d\n\u201cI had a good car, the team did a great job, and I\u2019m particularly happy we were able to score our first points here. The strategy with only two stops was a little bit risky, but I think it worked out quite well.\n\u201cI had some nice and fair battles with Mark Webber and Michael Schumacher, which I enjoyed.\u201d\nJames Key, Sauber technical director\n\u201cThe result was excellent for us. 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Being an upstanding member of society and the owner of Goldberg Industries, a multi-million dollar arms company responsible for providing the military during the World War 2, news of his death caused an uproar at the local police department.\nIt seemed the case was tailor-made for the legendary detective Knox, a prodigy who successfully solved over hundred cases. Accompanied by an aspiring young detective Clark assigned by the Chief to keep an eye on him, Knox departs towards the Goldberg's estate to discover the truth behind the incident.\nMiles away from nearest settlement in a mansion hidden from the eyes of public, it is only natural to presume that only those present at the time could have been involved. Follow clues, look for evidence and discover key information by interrogating the suspects. All pieces of the puzzle will be presented and it's up to you to deduce who, how and why the murder happened.\nA mystery visual novel inspired by classic novels from Arthur C. Doyle and Agatha Christie and \"When They Cry\" series.\nProfession: Senior Detective\nOne of the most famous detectives in the entire state, Knox has yet to stumble upon a mystery he is unable to unravel. Despite his young age, he decisively solved over 100 cases.\nA prodigy by nature, he rarely puts any effort in his detective work often neglecting it to enjoy cigarettes and coffee.\nProfession: Junior Detective\nA young and naive detective working on his first case, eager to prove himself. According to Knox he is a narrow minded simpleton sent by the Chief to ensure Knox plays by the book.\nProfession: Ex-Soldier 1st Class\nEldest son of the deceased who has just returned from the Second Great War. His intellect and bravery allowed him to prove his worth on the front lines in the Pacific.\nBeing the eldest heir, he is the first in line to inherit his father's fortune.\nWell established businessman and a close friend of the deceased. He helped Goldberg create his financial empire during the war. Despite his short temper his charisma makes him beloved by his employees.\nThe widow of the deceased.\nAlthough their marriage lasted very short she claims that she loved the deceased deeply. Ms. Goldberg is a very emotional person that can change her attitude very quickly if provoked.\nProfession: Butler\nThe family butler that has served the Goldbergs for decades.\nCalm and patient man which despite his old age still chooses to work instead of retiring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://triviachamp.com/General-Knowledge-Trivia-Questions-E121.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:08Z", "digest": "sha1:RLPC7A4P2WOBO7JWBHYBR7YSOSRDMCFC", "length": 3436, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "triviachamp.com", "title": "General Knowledge Trivia Questions E121-Free Printable Trivia Questions Answers & Games", "raw_content": "General Knowledge Trivia Questions #121\nPrintable General Knowledge Trivia Quiz\nMaking its debut in October 1939, the first Marvel Comic book (Marvel Comics #1) featured which superhero?\na. Human Torch\nb. Captain Marvel\nc. Iron Man\nd. Spider Man\nHuman Torch - The comic also featured the anti-hero 'Namor the Sub-Mariner'.\nThe Beatles' song \"All You Need is Love\" opens with a few bars from which country's national anthem?\nFrench - All You Need is Love was released as a non-album single in July 1967.\nTraditionally, a couple's third wedding anniversary is known as their?\na. Wood Anniversary\nb. Leather Anniversary\nc. Cotton Anniversary\nd. Paper Anniversary\nLeather Anniversary - Fifty years of marriage is called a 'Golden Wedding Anniversary'.\nWho took over Radar O'Reilly's job as company clerk on the TV show M*A*S*H in season eight?\na. Duke Forrest\nb. Charles Winchester\nc. Luther Rizzo\nd. Maxwell Klinger\nMaxwell Klinger - Radar was given a hardship discharge to help on the family farm after the death of his Uncle Ed.\nWhat Chinese general and military strategist is credited with writing the 5th century BC text \"The Art of War\"?\na. Tan Zheng\nb. Su Yu\nc. Xu Haidong\nd. Sun Tzu\nSun Tzu - Much of The Art of War is about how to fight wars without actually having to do battle.\nWhat spacecraft was the first to land successfully on Mars in July of 1976?\na. Mars Pathfinder\nb. Mars Three\nc. Mars One\nd. Viking One\nViking One - Viking performed a biology experiment whose purpose was to look for evidence of life on the planet.\nThe largest animal habitat, Oceans cover approximately what percentage of the Earth?\n70 Percent - The largest and deepest ocean is the Pacific.\nOf the 88 keys on a piano, how many are white?\n52 - The lowest key is an A, the highest is a C.\nWhat battle was the last major German offensive campaign in its western theater during World War II?\na. Battle of Dunkirk\nb. Battle of France\nc. Battle of the Bulge\nd. Battle of Arnhem\nBattle of the Bulge - The Battle of the Bulge was the largest battle fought by the United States in World War II.\nCodenamed Operation Ajax, a 1953 joint US/UK coup in Iran overthrew which democratically elected Prime Minister?\na. Ahmad Qavam\nb. Mohammad Mosaddeq\nc. Reza Pahlavi\nd. Fazlollah Zahedi\nMohammad Mosaddeq - Mosaddegh was imprisoned for three years and then put under house arrest until his death in 1967.\nWhat serial killer terrorized Whitechapel, in the East End of London, committing at least five murders in 1888?\na. Sarah Freeman\nb. Sweeney Todd\nc. The Zodiac Killer\nd. Jack the Ripper\nJack the Ripper - Jack the Ripper's first known victim was Mary Nichols, who was murdered on August 31st, 1888.\nb. Sumo Wrestling\nc. Karate\nSumo Wrestling - Although Sumo is the national sport, baseball and soccer have far more fans.\nIn what decade did Great Britain join the United States and the Soviet Union as a nuclear power?\n1950s - 1952 to be exact.\nIn the National Hockey League (NHL), what trophy is awarded annually to the league's most valuable player?\na. Lady Byng Memorial Trophy\nb. Calder Memorial Trophy\nc. James Norris Memorial Trophy\nd. Hart Memorial Trophy\nHart Memorial Trophy - The Calder Memorial Trophy is awarded to the league's most outstanding rookie player.\nWhich of the following animals is not native to Australia?\na. Wildebeest\nb. Echidna\nc. Dingo\nd. Platypus\nWildebeest - The wildebeest is native to Africa.\nGeneral Knowledge Trivia Questions #79", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 7262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://turnerdrake.com/products/pt-caselaw.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:59Z", "digest": "sha1:O4WWIJWX4KNOMFHTIC764HQ7QIJKAL54", "length": 66620, "nlines": 253, "source_domain": "turnerdrake.com", "title": "Successful Property Tax Appeal? Consult Case Law!", "raw_content": "Successful property tax appeals often hinge on assessment appeal decisions, frequently not broadly published, by the Assessment Appeal Court/Assessment Review Board. The Assessment Acts provide the framework for property tax assessment, including the basis for the assessed value. However there are many different methods of arriving at the assessed value itself. Property Tax Case Law is often useful for illuminating and resolving practical issues of valuation: ultimately the assessed value is simply an opinion, and there a many ways of skinning a cat (metaphorically speaking).\nThe various provincial Assessment Acts have much in common with each other. Assessment Appeal Case Law in one provincial jurisdiction is therefore often useful precedent for interpreting an Assessment Act in another province. The following property tax appeal cases are catalogued by province:\nN.B. Publishing Company\n210 Crown St., Saint John, N.B.\nClosed Multi-storey printing plant\nThis hearing arose as a result of appeals by the Appellant of its assessment for the 1999 and 2000 taxation years. The value for both years had been set by the Provincial assessing authorities at $2,041,400. The property involved was a purpose-built newspaper publishing facility, constructed in 1963. Since March of 1998, the printing function had been shut down, and at the valuation dates for the 1999 and 2000 assessment years, approximately 60% of the building (comprising the former printing plant) was dormant. The remainder was utilised for offices and distribution.\nThe hearing was conducted over sixteen days in June of 2003 and January, March, September and December of 2004. One-hundred and seventy-three exhibits were tendered.\nUltimately, the assessment was reduced to $1,702,000. There are a number of noteworthy points made by the Board in its 60-page decision:\nIn spite of the age of the building, the Board deemed the Cost Approach was the most appropriate approach to use in valuing the building, which it categorised as \u201cspecial purpose\u201d. Neither appraiser had described it as such. The differences in value arrived at by the appraisers for the opposing sides using the Direct Comparison and Income Approaches caused the Board concern (Interestingly, there was a similar gap between their respective values arrived at using the Cost Approach).\nThe Board espoused use of the Quantity Survey method for the calculation of Reproduction Cost New, despite the fact that the approach was not customarily used in the jurisdiction, on the basis that the approach was able to more accurately capture the \u201cidiosyncrasies of this rather unusual building\u201d. The Board did note that \u201c\u2026the valuation of properties by use of costing systems which are not customarily employed in this jurisdiction, by the Respondent, only leads to increased costs to the taxpayer and, quite clearly, much more complex and time-consuming appeal hearings\u201d.\nThe Board favoured use of the Breakdown method of calculating accrued depreciation, preferring a 70-year economic life estimate over the estimated lives used by either appraiser.\nIn accordance with stated case law, the Board rejected the assessor\u2019s argument that HST be included in the RCN estimate.\nThe decision was not appealed by either party.\nFood City Limited (now known as Sobey's Land Holdings Limited)\nRiver Road, Oromocto, N.B.\nInclusion of H.S.T. in Assessed Value\nFood City Limited challenged Service New Brunswick's insistence that the Harmonised Sales Tax (H.S.T.), a value added tax, should be included in their calculation of the assessed value.\nThe New Brunswick Assessment Act requires that property be assessed at its market value on a \"base date\" (January 1st of the assessment year). Service New Brunswick (SNB) calculates the market value of some properties by computing their construction cost, deducting depreciation, and adding the result to the land value. This is a well established technique for ascertaining the value of \"specialised property\"; real estate that is often built by the occupier to fulfil a specific purpose such as a saw mill, oil refinery . or, as in this case, a large food distribution warehouse and supermarket. SNB uses the Boeckh costing system for this purpose. Even though they had used the Boeckh system since time immemorial they had not realised that the costs so generated, were inclusive of the H.S.T., a \"pass through\" tax similar to the G.S.T., but levied at 15% instead of 7%. This fact surfaced at the first level of appeal before the Assessment Planning and Appeal Board in 2003. The Board decision observed that \"This rather startling revelation came to light when two local agents of the Respondent (Service New Brunswick) advised the Board they were unaware of this\". Once they discovered that their costing figures included H.S.T., SNB did a flip flop and decided that this was the way to go. Since property owners engaged exclusively in commercial activities are entitled to full Input Tax Credits for the H.S.T. they incur, the tax is a \"wash\". The Board was plainly outraged by SNB's tactics and called their policy of including the H.S.T. in the assessed value \"an affront to common sense\". Service New Brunswick promptly appealed the Board's decision.\nThe New Brunswick Court of Queens Bench heard SNB's appeal on July 19th 2004. The Judge agreed with the Board and in dismissing Service New Brunswick's appeal reiterated that \"It would be an affront to common sense that the cost of an item could be increased by the amount of a local tax which is rebated to the payer, with an offset of one with the other\". Service New Brunswick's Director of Assessment, Mr. William Morrison, was in court to hear the decision, which also awarded costs to the Respondent. SNB promptly appealed again, this time to the Court of Appeal of New Brunswick.\nThe New Brunswick Court of Appeal heard the case on April 26th 2005 and rendered judgement dismissing the appeal (with costs) on June 30th 2005. In its decision the Court noted that \"the executive director relies heavily upon Montreal (City) v. Sun Life Assurance of Canada [1952] 2 D.L.R. 81, an oft-cited decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. In my respectful judgement, that reliance is ill-conceived. Indeed, I see the Board's assessment as fully in synch with the principles articulated in Montreal (City) v. Sun Life Co. of Canada\".\nService New Brunswick reportedly seriously considered appealing the Court of Appeal's decision to the Supreme Court of Canada ... but then abandoned the idea, no doubt despairing that the world would ever adopt its view of common sense.\nNew Brunswick Court of Appeal\nGanong Bros. Ltd.\n1 Chocolate Drive, St. Stephen, N.B.\nConfectionary and manufacturing Plant\nGanong Bros. Ltd. appealed the 1993 and 1996 assessments on its candy manufacturing facility in St. Stephen New Brunswick to the New Brunswick Regional Assessment Review Board (now the New Brunswick Assessment and Planning Appeal Board). Ganong was successful in having the assessed value reduced from $5.9 million dollars, to $4.3 and $4.4 million for 1993 and 1996 respectively.\nIn reducing the assessments, the Board recognized that an allowance for external obsolescence was necessary in arriving at the Real and True Value. The plant had been constructed in 1991 with the financial assistance of both the federal and provincial governments. That assistance totalled almost 50% of the project cost, and it was Ganong\u2019s argument that without it the facility would not have been constructed. With this in mind, Ganong maintained that the amount of the subsidies qualified as external obsolescence.\nArmed with its 1993 and 1996 decisions, Ganong then sought a reduction in the 1997-2001 assessed values, which were at $5,900,000. The Director refused to vacate the assessments, and his decision was appealed to the Assessment and Planning Appeal Board. Ganong\u2019s case to the Board rested in issue estoppel: that the 1997-2001 assessments were tied to the 1996 value, and that in the absence of \u201cfresh and compelling evidence\u201d, the subsequent years\u2019 assessments should have been adjusted in accordance with the Board\u2019s previous decision. After conducting a de novo hearing, the Board agreed. The Director successfully appealed, in turn, to the Court of Queen\u2019s Bench, who quashed the Board\u2019s decision and remitted the matter to the Board for reconsideration on the understanding that issue estoppel does not apply to property assessments.\nThe Court remitted the matter back to the Review Board for reconsideration, ruling that it had in fact been presented with new evidence. In support, the Court noted that Ganong\u2019s appraiser had placed a higher value on the property for the subsequent years and, to complicate matters, the Director\u2019s appraiser had valued the property at an amount greater than that set out in the 1997-2001 Notices of Assessment.\nIn summary, the Court\u2019s conclusions were as follows:\nThat issue estoppel may be invoked in property tax cases where: (1) two or more annual assessments reflect the same value; (2) the earlier assessment has been successfully appealed to the Appeal Board; and (3) the Director does not possess fresh and compelling evidence that would support the imposition of an assessed value greater than the one fixed by the Board on the earlier appeal.\nThat government subsidies are a relevant consideration when assessing the market value of real property. The Court did not, however, accept the proposition that the amount of the subsidy should be deducted from the reproduction cost. It preferred the methodology of Ganong\u2019s appraiser, who recognised that the subsidies were a relevant consideration, but arrived his estimated obsolescence from the market.\nThat the Appeal Board is not permitted to arrive at a property value greater than the amount set out in the Notice of Assessment. The Director, in Ganong, had produced an appraisal at the Board hearing in excess of the published assessment.\nNew Brunswick Assessment Review Board\nRoyal Bank Realty Inc.\n83-85 Charlotte St., Saint John, N.B.\nRoyal Bank Realty Inc. appealed a referral decision for the 1998 taxation year. The property the subject of this appeal, was the Royal Bank Building located in the central business district of Saint John. This 61,000 ft.\u00b2 bank and office building was only four years old at the time of this 1998 appeal. The Royal Bank occupied 37% of the total rentable space and leased their area back to themselves at a market rent. Of the total 24 tenant suites in the building, the Royal Bank occupied six, another ten were vacant and the remainder were leased to five different tenants. The structure was in excellent physical condition and comprised Class A office space and a banking hall.\nThe Appeal Board reduced the assessment from $4,800,000 to $3,297,000; the most significant reasons for doing so being the following:\nThe Board focused almost entirely on the income (rent) producing ability of the property. Hardly surprising, this was after all investment grade real estate with a Grade A tenant occupying over one third of the space. However the Royal Bank was also the owner and past practice of the Provincial Assessment Authority, Service New Brunswick, had been to focus on the cost of creating a substitute building when the property was largely owner occupied. However in this instance, Service New Brunswick's views coincided with the appellant and their case rested on the income generating ability of the property.\nThe Board rejected Service New Brunswick's overall capitalisation rate of 9.5% and substituted 11.0% instead. (The overall capitalisation rate is divided into the annual net operating income to convert it into a capital value, i.e. the assessed value).\nThe Board recognised that tenant inducements, e.g. free rent, were a legitimate expense. They also appear to have accepted that the cost of (free) leaseholds have to be deducted from the cash flow ... and then added back as a (depreciated) capital cost for assessment purposes.\nThe Board also accepted that a structural reserve allowance (effectively monies set aside for capital replacement) was a legitimate expense.\nThe Board rejected the rent paid by the Royal Bank to itself and substituted Service New Brunswick's estimate of market rent.\nThe Board rejected the stabilised long term vacancy allowance tendered by the appellant and substituted instead the actual (greater) vacancy.\nSmall Fry Snack Foods Inc.\n179 MacLean Ave., Hartland, N.B.\nPotato chip and corn snack manufacturing plant\nSmall Fry Snack Foods Inc. appealed referral decisions for the taxation years 1999, 2000 and 2001. Their property comprised a purpose built potato chip processing facility built in 1982, with an addition constructed in 1989. Demand for potato chips was such the plant ran 24 hours per day, six days per week. However the market for the plant's product had shifted from Canada to the United States. The U.S. customers wanted their chips cooked in cottonseed, rather than canola oil, and this created a difficulty because there was room for only one fryer in the Cooker Room, thus requiring that the plant operate three shifts, instead of two. Service New Brunswick, the Provincial Assessment Authority, refused to recognise this deficiency in their assessment.\nThe Director of Assessment also argued that the vegetable oil storage tanks on the property were assessable because the building was a special purpose structure, and the tanks provided services to the building. In other words the building could not fulfil its designed purpose without the tanks, and as such the latter were assessable as \"real estate\".\nBoth parties in the appeal were required to submit valuation reports. The Board dismissed Service New Brunswick's report, noting that \"this document (it is difficult to call it a report) was full of misinformation, partial information and error\".\nThe Board determined that, if in fact the vegetable oil storage tanks were part of an integrated system of a special purpose facility, they would indeed be assessable under the rationale set out by the New Brunswick Court of Appeal in the case Director of Assessment & Miramichi Pulp & Paper Inc. 1996 172 NBR (2d) 290. However the Board agreed with Turner Drake that the building was adaptable to more than one use, and that the tanks were part of the manufacturing process, and therefore were not assessable. They made an allowance calculated at 25% of the reproduction cost, to account for the functional deficiency caused by the single fryer constraint.\nMulti-storey printing plant\nN.B. Publishing Co. appealed the 1998 referral decision reducing the assessment from $2,821,600 to $2,041,400. In essence the appellant's case rested on the fact that the building was a special purpose property, erected around a huge printing press which had been declared redundant prior to the Assessment \"base date\", even though it was still in use on that date. The Assessment Department had taken the position that, since the printing press was still in use on the base date, they could ignore its impending demise, even though it was well known prior to the base date that the printing press was going to be abandoned, and the printing process moved to Moncton.\nN.B. Publishing Co. occupied a multi storey industrial building in Saint John constructed in 1963 specifically for the purpose of accommodating a printing press and the related services necessary to publish a newspaper. On November 11th, 1997 the newspaper made public its decision to transfer the printing to Moncton early in 1998. The newspaper was still in operation in the building on January 1st, 1998, the \"base date\" for valuation purposes for the 1998 assessment year, so the Provincial Assessor ignored the proposed plant closure and assessed the building as though it was not going to take place.\nThe Board ruled that, since it was known the closure was going to occur prior to the base date, the impact had to be reflected in the assessment. The Board plainly considered the Assessment Department's position ludicrous and in tones of mounting incredulity observed that the Assessor \"believes that the Assessment Act requires him to focus on conditions on January 1st, 1998 no matter what happens, no matter how catastrophic an event takes place on January 2nd, 1998 and, even if you know this event would happen in November of 1997\". The appeal was allowed.\nBaxter Foods Limited\n59-113 Millidge Ave., Saint John, N.B.\nBaxter Foods Limited appealed a referral decision for the 2000 taxation year. The property the subject of this appeal comprised a dairy and ice cream plant built in different stages over the period 1930 to 1990. The plant was situated in a residential area and was surrounded by houses and a school. Due to the congested nature of the neighbourhood it was difficult to get large trucks in and out of the area, and loading areas. Because the plant had grown like topsy, it was functionally inadequate for its present use and operated at 40% to 60% capacity. In addition part of the plant was multi-storey, and some upper floors were not fully utilised. The plant had recently lost a major contract to supply a supermarket chain. Service New Brunswick, the Provincial Assessment Authority, refused to acknowledge that the functional deficiencies of the plant had a bearing on its assessment ... or that the loss of business impacted adversely on the property value. Service New Brunswick argued that such factors were not relevant because they were \"only doing a 'bricks and mortar' appraisal\".\nThe Board ruled that \"a deduction from value should have been made because of the inefficiencies at the plant and the well-documented problems of unloading and loading at the plant\". They decreed that there should be an allowance (a deduction) of 25% from the Depreciated Cost for functional and economic obsolescence.\n275 King Ave., Bathurst, N.B.\nThis was an appeal of the 1999 taxation year assessment. The land was improved with a four storey commercial building constructed in 1953, some upper floors of which were no longer used. From a retail use viewpoint, the multi-storey structure was obsolete. The owner occupier decided to close the store in 1998 and implemented that decision during 1999. The building was then extensively renovated and leased to N.B. Tel. as a call centre.\nThe base date for valuation purposes was January 1st 1999. At that point Lounsbury Company Ltd. had decided to close their store but had not communicated this information to the general public. The Board ruled that since Service New Brunswick's assessor was not aware of the impending closure, it was not appropriate to reflect the fact in the assessment because there was \"no compelling evidence of the property being abandoned or demolished by the Appellant as of January 1st, 1999\". The Board dismissed the appeal.\n1945 Miramichi Ave., Bathurst, N.B.\nThis was an appeal of a 2000 taxation year assessment. The property was improved with a single storey commercial building, erected in 1978, containing the offices, showroom and service area for a General Motors dealership. The premises no longer met GM's image standards under their GM Image 2000 program and planning was underway to upgrade the building. The renovations were to be undertaken in 2001 at an anticipated cost of $400,000.\nThe Appellant argued that the proof of the functional obsolescence of the building lay in the significant changes and improvements required by the GM Image 2000 plan. Since a showroom, customer waiting room and drive through service area had to be added, they argued that the former building had significant deficiencies. The Board ruled that there was no evidence to link one with the other.\nHeath Steele, Northumberland County, N.B.\nLead-zinc concentrator mill\nThis was an appeal of the 1994, 1995 and 1996 taxation year assessments. The property consisted of two parcels containing 906 acres and 839 acres, improved with a lead-zinc concentrator mill and an array of support facilities for a mine. The facility had been closed in 1984 due to depressed economic conditions and had re-opened again in 1987. An annual expenditure of $2.5 to $3.0 million was required in maintenance to ensure that the 'B' mine was de-watered and water treated, irrespective of whether the mine was operating. The mining operation was projected to terminate during the first quarter of 2000, at which point there would be no use for the lead-zinc concentrator mill unless other ore was found in the area. It was anticipated by the owner that the buildings would be torn down in 2001 at a cost of about $2.5 million.\nThe keys points of issue in this case were, (1) were the foundations for machinery and equipment assessable?, (2) should the estimated life of the ore body be taken into account when ascertaining the deprecation, and value, of the buildings? The Board's decision essentially ignored the first question but did address the question of the ore body. They ruled that depreciation of the buildings had to be based on the buildings' normal life, not upon the life of the ore body. The decision was appealed to the Court of Queen's Bench of New Brunswick: they dismissed the appeal.\nGanong Brothers Limited\nConfectionery and Manufacturing Plant\nGanong Brothers Limited argued that the 1993 and 1996 assessments of $5,868,400 and $5,875,700 were incorrect even though the property had been constructed in 1989 at a cost of $7,281,024. They relied instead upon their expert's report which valued the property at $4,289,000 (1993) and $4,387,000 (1996). The Assessment Department relied instead on their own appraisals of $6,714,800 (1993) and $6,688,000 (1996).\nThe substantial divergence of opinion was for the most part, attributable to the \"External Depreciation\" of $3,361,066 (44.2%) identified in the appellant's appraisal report. The property had been constructed with significant government funding, without which the appellant testified, the facility would not have been built.\nThe Board ruled that the subject of government funding was a relevant consideration as to whether (or not) the structure would have been erected (and at what cost), and that the appellant could not be considered as a purchaser at a price based upon the historic cost of the structure. The appeals were allowed.\nCrystal Beverages (1993) Limited\n220 Henri Dunant St., Moncton, N.B.\nSoft drink bottling and distribution\nCrystal Beverages appealed the 1996 referral register decision confirming its assessment. In essence the appellant's case hinged on the additional cost of operating the bottling plant due to, (1) inadequate parking and circulation space around the building, coupled with the poor siting of the building on the lot and, (2) inadequacy of the building, in particular the lack of warehousing space which forced the occupier to rent additional off-site storage. The Board allowed the appeal. The Assessment Department tried to discredit the appellant's expert witness by referring to a \"without prejudice\" negotiating position presented by the latter prior to the Board hearing in an attempt to reach a settlement. The Board ruled that this tactic was \"unwarranted\". The Board also ruled that \"asking prices\" had no evidentiary value.\nCourt of Appeal of New Brunswick - 69/95/CA\nMiramichi Pulp and Paper Inc.\nNelson-Miramichi, N.B.\nUnder the New Brunswick Assessment Act, electrical power distribution systems fall within the definition of \"real property\" and are assessable. Machinery and equipment does not and is not ... so electrical power systems whose sole purpose is to feed process machinery forms part of the equipment, not the real estate, right? Right! Well, sometimes. The Court of Appeal of New Brunswick cast some light on the vexing question of power wiring and its chameleon like qualities in this decision. Although the Appeal Court ruled that the power wiring was part of the real estate, and not the equipment, a careful reading of the decision reveals that this is the exception rather than the rule.\nMiramichi Pulp and Paper Inc. operated a Groundwood pulp mill and sawmill in the former village of Nelson-Miramichi. The mill's electrical system was substantial: \"one 138,000 volt substation, one 6,900 volt substation, nine 600 volt substations, forty 600 volt load distribution centres, numerous circuit breaker distribution panels and disconnects and a network of cables located throughout the mill site. The major portion of the Electrical Distribution System is used to operate the Production Equipment at the mills, primarily the Groundwood mill. A small portion of the system is used to service the various buildings\". The portion of the network which provided services to the mill buildings themselves was not at issue, it was clearly assessable, the question of assessability focussed on the remainder of the electrical system since its primary purpose was to feed the processing equipment. The Appeal Court dismissed the Director of Assessment's arguments that (1) \"any electrical power distribution system\" meant \"all\" such equipment, and (2) that the degree of annexation of the power systems made them indivisible from the real estate to which they were affixed. However, the Appeal Court did rule that the power wiring was part of the real estate and therefore assessable because the latter was a mill and unable to function as such without the wiring: \"The electrical distribution system of Miramichi Pulp and Paper is part of the realty because it is necessary for the building to function as a mill.\"\nIn essence this decision determines that electrical distribution systems are not assessable provided that their function is to power process machinery; unless the building which houses that process machinery is a special purpose building which could not fulfil its intended use without that electrical distribution system. In the latter event it is assessable.\nLodgers Riverfront Corp.\n239 Woodstock Rd., Fredericton, N.B.\nNew, full service hotel\nThis appeal was concerned with the sum at which the property of the appellant should be assessed for the 1992 taxation year, the base date for which was the 1st January 1992. The appellant appealed from a 1992 Referral Register Decision confirming the assessment at $13,262,200. The property at issue was a seven-storey Sheraton Inn constructed during 1991 at a total cost of $29,504,274. Commencement of operations was the 24th January 1992.\nThe appellant's presentation included an expert's report that valued the property at $6,865,000 utilising the Income Approach. The respondent argued that because no income stream was present at the base date, this approach was not relevant. The report filed in support of the assessment contained only the Cost Approach to value.\nThe Board ruled that a purchaser entering the marketplace on 1 January 1992 would consider the historical costs, but would also require accurate projections of income and expenses upon which to base their determination of value. The Board ruled that the purchase price would not be the cost price.\nThe appeal was allowed and the 1992 assessment was set at $6,865,000.\nCourt of Queens Bench - Trial Division - S/C/1094/79\nChan Food Products Ltd.\nSaint John Industrial Park, N.B.\nChan Food Products Limited sought a declaration from the Court that certain walk-in freezers and coolers were not assessable property. The plaintiff argued that the coolers represented structures other than buildings, or alternatively, installations, and in either case were not assessable under the Assessment Act. To support their case, the plaintiff presented evidence that the coolers and freezers could be disassembled, moved from their present location, and reassembled elsewhere. The Court ruled that the purpose of the coolers was to enhance the value of the premises, and that the physical affixing of the freezers and coolers, however minor, made them assessable under the Act.\nNew Brunswick Supreme Court - Queens Bench Div. - Topic 1565\nThorne Ave., Saint John, N.B.\nJ.D. Irving Limited sought a declaration from the Court that a combination walk-in refrigerator/freezer was not assessable property. The Assessment Department argued that the unit, weighing 10,000 lbs., was placed in one spot with the intention that it remain there for the duration of its useful life. The Court ruled that the cooler/freezer unit was no different from a cooler/freezer unit that may be found in one's home, despite its size, and that the degree of affixation of the unit was irrelevant in applying the exclusion rule. The Court declared that the cooler/freezer unit was not assessable property.\nThis decision is somewhat inconsistent with the \"Chan Food Products Ltd.\" case.\nLouise Wolfson\n5900 Inglewood Drive, Halifax, N.S.\nUniformity (General Level of Assessment)\nThe case involved a single-family dwelling in Halifax\u2019s south end. Ms. Wolfson had appealed her 2005 property assessment to the Regional Assessment Appeal Court (\u201cRAAC\u201d). The RAAC confirmed the assessment, and Ms. Wolfson further appealed to the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board. Her Notice of Appeal to the Board said her ground of appeal was \u201cAssessment too high\u201d and in particular \u201cLand value too high\u201d.\nIn Nova Scotia, valuation for assessment purposes is governed by s.42(1) of the Assessment Act. Section 42(1) says that \"all property shall be assessed at its market value ... but ... the assessor shall have regard to the assessment of other properties in the municipality so as to ensure that ... taxation falls in a uniform manner upon all residential ... property ...\".\nUniformity is determined as stated by Chief Justice MacKeigan in Hebb v. Director of Assessment and Town of Lunenburg (1979), 32 N.S.R. (2d) 427 (SCAD) at p 436:\nA county court judge in an assessment trial de novo should apply the s. 38 (now 42(1)) rules as directed by Chief Justice Ilsley. He should, I suggest, first ascertain the actual cash value of the property under appeal and determine the ratio of the assessment to that value. He then should determine the 'general level of assessment' relative to the actual cash values of properties in the town or municipality generally. To do so he should ascertain on the evidence before him whether the general assessment ratio is what the assessor states it is or whether it is a different ratio. In most cases lack of other evidence may compel him to accept the assessor's ratio. If the ratio is thus higher, the judge should reduce the appealed assessment to confirm with the general ratio.\nIn response to Ms. Wolfson\u2019s appeal, the Director of Assessment filed a report stating that \u201cThe Level of Assessment for the subject Municipal Unit for the year 2005 is 96.7%\u201d. Before the hearing of the appeal, the Board wrote to counsel for the Director stating:\nWolfson, Louise - 5900 Inglewood Drive, Halifax - Assessment Appeal - AS-06-06\nThe Board has perused the report of Mr. Terrence E. Naugle dated March 7, 2007. The Board directs the following be filed on or before Wednesday September 12, 2007:\n4. For each of the properties listed in Schedules B and D, please provide the following:\n(a) PRC reports;\nif the PRC reports do not provide the assessment value from the date of sale, please provide it for the years not disclosed on the PRC reports;\n(c) please provide the assessment price/sale price ratio on the date of each sale; and\nwere each of these sales included in the calculations for the level of assessment for HRM the corresponding taxation years? If not, why not?\nThe Board has previously heard evidence from an Assessor for the Director that although he did not do the analysis for the level of assessment, it was his understanding that the ratios [assessment value/sale price] for all qualified sales (the Board understood this to mean all arm\u2019s length sales excluding those under duress such as tax sales \u201carm\u2019s length sales\u201d) are plotted on a graph. The person in each area [municipality] responsible for doing the market analysis would then determine the general range on graph within which most of the properties are clustered, like a band of sales around a line. The few outliers that are outside of this general range (above and below this band) are not included in the calculation of general level of assessment. Please advise the Board of the answers to the following questions:\nIs this how the level of assessment for residential properties for the 2005 taxation year was calculated for HRM? If yes, provide a copy of the plot graph prepared for HRM for 2005.\nIf not, how are \u201cqualified sales\u201d and \u201coutliers\u201d determined? (Attach any written policies)\nAre all outliers considered unqualified sales?\nHave the policies for determining \u201cqualified sales\u201d and \u201coutliers\u201d changed since 2005? If yes, provide a copy of the new policies.\nIf the above description is generally correct, what was this general range of ratios for the residential property sales for HRM for the 2005 residential level of assessment? (For example, a range of 5% below and 5% above the line)\nWhy are any outliers excluded from the residential calculation of the level of assessment for HRM in 2005? Include in your comments the relevance and application of the Homco decision.\nIf all outliers were included in the calculation for the level of assessment for the residential properties in HRM for 2005, what would the level be?\nTo further understand how the assessment value is determined by the Director in accordance with s. 42(1) of the Assessment Act, the Board directs the following information to be provided:\nwhat affect does the market oriented cost approach in determining assessment values have on the high market value properties like those in Schedule \u201cB\u201d and \u201cD\u201d, and how does it compare to the sales at the other end of the market value spectrum throughout HRM?\nin answering question 8(a), please provide the list of sales in HRM 6 months before and 6 months after the base date of January 1, 2003 for these two ends of the spectrum. As the Board understands the computer system used by the Director can produce the lists of the following information, the Board directs the following be provided to the Board:\nfor the time period noted above, a list of the assessment /sale price ratios for each of the properties sold throughout HRM having a sale price of $750,000 or more; and a separate list of the ratios for each of the properties sold for $100,000 or less? The information for each sale should include the address, sale date, sale price, assessment value, and ratio.\nThe Director\u2019s counsel objected to answering the Board\u2019s questions and production of records on the grounds that they were not relevant to the appeal because Ms. Wolfson had not explicitly challenged uniformity. Counsel asserted that the Board did not have the authority to seek answers to question relating to issues not raised by parties to the appeal.\nThe Board held a preliminary hearing, and later issued a written decision concluding that the Board did have jurisdiction to order production (2008 NSUARB 9). The Director appealed.\nThe Director\u2019s grounds stated that the property owner, Ms. Wolfson, did not challenge the Director\u2019s treatment of uniformity and the general level of assessment (\u201cGLA\u201d). Accordingly, the Board automatically should have accepted the Director\u2019s treatment of uniformity and the GLA at 96.7%, and no further evidence on those topics was relevant. The Director submitted that, by ordering production of irrelevant evidence on the Board\u2019s own initiative, the Board presumed that the Director\u2019s treatment of uniformity was wrong. This reversed to the Director\u2019s shoulders the onus of proof that should rest on Ms. Wolfson as appellant. The Director's Notice of Appeal said that the Board Chair exhibited bias. At the hearing in the Court of Appeal, the Director's counsel said that the bias argument was secondary to the principal submission that the Board had improperly reversed the onus of proof.\nThe Court of Appeal found that the issue of uniformity had, in fact, been raised by both parties to the appeal- by the Director in her report, and by Ms. Wolfson\u2019s agent at the preliminary Board hearing (at which time he stated that the GLA was at issue any time the assessed value of property was under review, due to the marriage of market value and uniformity under s.42 of the Act).\nIn summary, the Court found that Board did not request irrelevant information, did not prejudge an issue of the merits, did not reverse the burden of proof and did not exhibit bias. The appeal was dismissed.\nRomad Developments Ltd.\n5 Linden Avenue, Wolfville, N.S.\nIncome and Expense Questionnaire\nThis case involved an eight unit apartment building. Romad had applied for an order to quash a decision of the Regional Assessment Appeal Court dismissing its assessment appeal. At issue was interpretation of Subsection 21(2) of the Assessment Act - which requires a property owner to answer and complete a request by an assessor for relevant information required by him to make a proper assessment of a property, sign it and \u201creturn it to the assessor so answered and completed\u201d within thirty days.\nIn this case, Romad mailed the completed answer by ordinary mail to the assessor at the proper address, but the assessor had no record of receipt. The question was whether this constituted compliance with 21(2). Under Section 23, a person who \u201cneglects, refuses or fails to. . . answer, complete and return the [information]\u201d under s.21 is guilty of an offence under the Act, and loses the entitlement to appeal from the assessment.\nRomad submitted that the Act does not require personal service. While the Director must deliver the request for information by registered mail addressed to the person at his/her/its last known address (per s. 20(3)), there is no such requirement in Subsection 21(2), which is silent as to the method of delivery.\nRomad\u2019s interpretation was that this silence meant that regular mail was sufficient. It noted that Section 53 of the Act (which provides for the service of Notices of Assessment by the Director on the property owner) permits service to be either in person or by leaving it at the assessed owner\u2019s residence or work, or posting it on the assessed property, or mailing it postage pre-paid (that is, by regular mail) to the assessed owner\u2019s last known address.\nRomad argued that the taxpayer suffers a prejudice by a procedure that imposes on the taxpayer a higher standard of service in replying to requests for information than is required of the Director in serving a notice of assessment on the taxpayer.\nThe Respondent argued that the scheme of the Act is frustrated if all the tax payer had to do was say they put the reply in the mail.\nThe Court stated that \u201c\u2026if the clear language of Section 53 of the Assessment Act does not impose upon the assessor the obligation of establishing receipt by the taxpayer of an important document such as a notice of assessment, with the adverse concomitant consequences to the tax payer, it is hardly just or equitable to infer such as strict obligation on the taxpayer, in the absence of greater clarity in the wording of Section 21(2)\u201d.\nIt reached the conclusion that return by ordinary mail conforms to both the intent of the legislation and the ordinary and plain meaning of Subsection 21(2), and that Romad was entitled to have the Regional Assessment Appeal Court hear its appeal.\nAPL Properties Limited\n79 and 81 Lakecrest Drive, Dartmouth, N.S.\nAPL Properties Limited owns two apartment complexes in Dartmouth. Section 20(2) of the Assessment Act permits the Director to request \u201c. . . relevant information required by him in order to make a proper assessment\u201d from any person. The Director of Assessment requested information from APL under the Assessment Act, R.S.N.S. 1989, c. 23, which sets a deadline of 30 days from the date of receipt for provision of such information. In this particular case, the information request was received on the 21st of May.\nResponding to such requests was the responsibility of APL\u2019s Senior Property Manager, whose mother was gravely ill. For this reason, APL did not supply the information until the 33rd day. A request for an extension was made both verbally and by e-mail by APL. No response to this request was received from the Director.\nThe Director asked the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board to dismiss APL\u2019s appeals (thereby denying APL of any opportunity for a hearing on the merits), because of its failure to file within the 30 day time limit. The principal issue in the proceeding was whether the Appellant\u2019s failure to provide the requested information (under Nova Scotia\u2019s Assessment Act) within 30 days of the date the request was received meant that the Appellant has lost its right of appeal.\nThe evidence before was that the Director suffered no harm, or even inconvenience, from this late filing \u2014 indeed, none of the evidence before the Board indicates that the information was needed by the Director until long after the taxpayer had supplied it.\nThe Board nevertheless rejected the Appellant\u2019s appeals, finding that Nova Scotia\u2019s Assessment Act prohibited the Board from granting an extension to the Appellant taxpayer. Other findings in the decision are as follows:\n\u2022 The 30-day time limit excludes the date of receipt (per the Interpretation Act);\n\u2022 The Director was under no obligation to respond to the Appellant\u2019s request for extension;\n\u2022 \u201cde minimis non curat lex,\u201d usually translated as \u201cthe law does not concern itself with trifles,\u201d or \u201cthe law is not concerned with insignificant matters\u201d is not a valid defense.\nJulia Knickle\n103 Dauphinee Road, Second Peninsula, Lunenburg, N.S.\nThe Knickle case was originally heard by Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board member Dawna Ring, Q.C., in March of 2007.\nOriginal Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board Decision: Watson and Julia Knickle v. Director of Assessment (2007 NSUARB 15)\nThe case involved a modest, 30-year-old, single family bungalow constructed on a 1.75 acre irregularly-shaped lot with frontage on a mud flat. Access to the property was only available through four adjoining private properties.\nThe Knickles\u2019 appealed their 2004 assessment of $235,800, being a 60% increase over the 2003 assessment. The Director of Assessment and the Regional Assessment Appeal Court confirmed this value. After filing the Notice of Appeal to the Board, the Regional Manager and Assessor for the area viewed the property, had discussions with the Knickles\u2019, and agreed to a valuation of $194,500. This settlement offer was rejected by Counsel for the Director, and for the hearing before the Board, the Director asserted the 2004 assessed value for the Knickles\u2019 property was $319,000, being a 119% increase over the previous year. The Knickles did not advance an estimated assessment, simply stating in their Notice of Appeal that the land and house values were \u201cunreasonably high\u201d.\nThe Board heard the evidence of the parties, conducted a view of the property and of the comparables used by the Director in support of her $319,000 assessment, and ultimately reduced the 2007 assessment to $58,190. The 74-page decision reviewed a number of matters, and summarized these as follows:\nthe object of the Act is to ensure people pay their fair share of their municipal taxes and to that goal are provided easy access to the appeal processes;\nthe final appeal is to an administrative tribunal;\nthe jurisdiction of the Board is to inquire into the matter anew and conduct a full investigation (emphasis added);\nthe Board is to determine the proper assessment value;\nthe Act does not specifically state who bears the burden of proof;\nthere are no adversarial parties in the proceedings and all participants have a common goal of determining the assessment value of the property in accordance with the Act\u2019s criteria;\nthe size of the claim, that is the corresponding taxes, are relatively small for the vast majority of the claims;\nthe Director has all relevant information and expertise to determine the valuation;\nthe methods of determining market value or even applying percentage factors to comparable property sales can be complex; and\nthe costs of retaining expertise is cost prohibitive in most cases.\nProbably most notably (and controversially), the Board member stated at Paragraph 211:\n\u201cI find that to place the burden of proof upon the lay taxpayer is in conflict with conducting an inquiry and full investigation\u201d.\nDirector\u2019s Appeal\nIn the Notice of Appeal, the Director articulated numerous grounds said to reflect error of law or jurisdiction by the Board. These can be summarized as follows, recognizing there is some overlap between issues:\nthe Board erred in concluding that on an appeal by the taxpayer to the Board from the RAAC the burden of proof does not rest on the appellant to establish on the evidence presented that the Director\u2019s assessment is incorrect;\nthe Board erred by misinterpreting the nature of its function in conducting a de novo hearing;\nthe Board erred in raising and deciding the issue of the burden of proof on its own motion, without notice to the parties and without inviting or hearing submissions from the parties;\nthe Board erred in conducting a valuation of the property in the absence of a supporting evidentiary basis;\nthe Board exhibited bias and a lack of impartiality in the proceeding by acting as an advocate for the taxpayers.\nThe Court allowed the Director\u2019s appeal, and remitted the matter back to the Board for hearing by a different Board member. The Court found that the Board erred in finding that on an assessment appeal, the appellant bears no burden of proof. It found that there were two aspects to this error:\nThe Board\u2019s finding is inconsistent with the language of the statute and contrary to established, binding judicial precedent; and\nThe issue of the burden of proof was not raised by the Board either during or after the hearing had concluded. It was addressed without any notice to the parties, the Board having decided to raise this fundamental issue.\nThe Court further found that the Board misinterpreted the concept of a de novo hearing and erred in law in concluding that the nature of the appeal was other than a traditional adjudicative process.\nHomburg L.P. Management Inc. et al.\n1741 Brunswick Street, Halifax, N.S.\n356 Windmill Road, Dartmouth, N.S.\nThe appellant Homburg had made a successful application to the Supreme Court for orders to quash the decision by the Respondent not to process the appeals in respect to the 2004 real property assessment of two income-producing properties at 1741 Brunswick Street and 356 Windmill Road, Halifax Regional Municipality. The Director had appealed to the NSCA to have the decision reversed.\nThe Director of Assessment said that the respondents did not give a timely reply to a request for financial information made by the Director under the Assessment Act, and that this barred the respondents\u2019 assessment appeals. The respondents disagreed. The issue in the Court of Appeal was whether those procedural questions are for the Regional Assessment Appeal Court (the \u201cRAAC\u201d) preliminary to the assessment appeal, or to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on a separate application.\nPrecedent had previously been set in Nova Scotia (Director of Assessment) v. Springwell Properties Ltd. (1993), 119 N.S.R. (2d) 227 (N.S.S.C.-A.D.): in that case, the Appeal Division found that both the Municipal Board (predecessor to the NSUARB) and the RAAC had jurisdiction under Section 23.\nIn the face of the decision in the Springwell matter, the Court found that \u201c\u2026it is patently unreasonable for Assessment Services to take the position that the Regional Assessment Appeal Court is without jurisdiction to hear the appeal as to whether a party has lost the right of appeal pursuant to s. 23 of the Assessment Act\u201d. It granted the Order.\nThe Court of Appeal agreed with the Supreme Court, stating that the RAAC has the power to determine a preliminary jurisdictional issue as to whether a valuation appeal should proceed. The Director\u2019s appeal was dismissed.\nHomco Realty Fund (20) Limited\nGeneral Level of Assessment\nThe Court dismissed the director's appeal and upheld the decisions of the Supreme Court (and the Nova Scotia Utility and Review board before it), which had found that uniformity of assessment is achieved by applying the general level of assessment to market value. The court affirmed that the board did not err in law or exceed its jurisdiction by reviewing and amending the calculation of the published level of assessment, reducing it from 98.6% to 91.9%.\nThe NSCA also dismissed Homco's costs appeal.\nAllan and Ann-Marie Creaser\n168 Sunnybrook Road, Lunenburg, N.S.\nThis preliminary decision addresses two principal issues:\nWhere the Director restricts the notice of appeal to market value only, can the respondent property owners, who have not cross-appealed, raise uniformity as in issue?\nIf the answer to the first question is \"yes\", should the Board order disclosure of certain specific evidence respecting uniformity (and, in particular, information relating to the general level of assessment and the sales from which it is calculated) which has been requested on behalf of the respondent property owners?\nIn view of the Board, the answer to both these questions was \"yes\". It ordered that uniformity may be an issue in the appeal, and that information held by the Director in relation to it (specifically, the calculations used to produce the general level of assessment) must be disclosed.\nHomco Realty Fund (20) Limited, the owners of a major downtown office building, challenged Service Nova Scotia's (SNS) calculation of the General Level of Assessment for commercial properties in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). The objective of Homco's concern was 1741 Brunswick Street, a building situated rather appropriately, opposite Halifax's Town Clock, an edifice that has held Haligonians accountable since 1803.\nThe Nova Scotia Assessment Act requires that property be assessed at its market value on a \"base date\" (January 1st two years preceding the assessment year). However the Act also recognises that Service Nova Scotia may be less than assiduous in its pursuit of this obligation so it also mandates that \"taxation must fall in a uniform manner\" on properties in the municipality. Provincial case law has established that this uniformity provision must be applied across, rather than within, asset classes in the municipality. So all commercial property has to be assessed uniformly . office buildings cannot be compared solely with other office properties, but must be compared with every commercial assessment in the municipality. This \"General Level of Assessment\" is calculated by dividing the sum of the assessments, for those properties that have sold within six months of the base date, by the aggregate of their sale prices. If this aggregate assessment to sale price ratio is 80%, then all properties must be assessed at 80% of their market value. If the property is assessed at a higher rate than 80%, the owner and occupiers will pay too much in taxes. Service Nova Scotia calculates the General Level of Assessment, for each municipality, every year. Since sale prices are not public knowledge in Nova Scotia, private taxpayers are unable to calculate the General Level of Assessment because the relevant data is not available to them. They must instead rely on Service Nova Scotia's calculations. It follows therefore that there is a heavy responsibility on SNS to \"get it right\" . since if they fail to fulfil this responsibility half of the commercial properties will shoulder too high a tax load, and half will pay too little in property and business occupancy taxes.\nService Nova Scotia excluded all properties from its General Level of Assessment calculation whose sale price was determined using discounted cash flow. Since all major investment type properties are valued on this basis, all were excluded from the calculation! The Board determined that SNS' decision to exclude these sales was based on (1) administrative convenience, and (2) a misinterpretation of a previous court decision (City of Halifax and Revenue Hotels Limited v. Director of Assessment 1988, NSMB-122-85-A). The Board observed that as a result of the foregoing \"the assessments of many large and expensive commercial properties in the HRM have been set at values lower than they should have been\". (The collorary of course, is that the other properties have had to pick up this substantial tax shortfall). Service Nova Scotia's Mr. Musycsyn excluded the sale price of the subject property, 1741 Brunswick Street, even though it sold close to the base date, as evidence of its market value! He also excluded the sale of Purdy's Wharf, HRM's trophy office complex and acknowledged that he would have done so even if it had not been sold on a discounted cash flow basis because it was an \"outlier\" i.e. it was so under-assessed its inclusion in his data would have substantially reduced his General Level of Assessment calculation! The Board referred to this practice as a \"systemic error\" and observed that \"this problem is further aggravated by the Director's attempt to (in the Board's view) artificially protect the Director's claimed general level of assessment by excluding sales of such large transactions\" and \"while the Director not surprisingly appears to be content with a claimed general level of assessment which is close to 100%, one of the ways the Director achieves this result is to automatically exclude sales which would otherwise lower it\". On another occasion Service Nova Scotia's Mr. Musycsyn excluded a purchase by the Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan partly on the grounds that the purchaser was \"a pension plan\" and a \"national purchaser\", causing the Board to observe \"the Director appears ready to disqualify any sale involving a REIT or pension fund without further inquiry as to the market circumstances of the sale\". Mr. Musycsyn's rationale apparently was that REITS and other \"national\" purchasers were lamentably lacking in sophistication and consequently paid far too much for property ... so these sales had to be excluded from his analysis!\nThe Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board rendered their 118 page decision on February 28th 2005. They allowed Homco's appeal and determined that SNS' \"general level of assessment is wrong\" and calculated it at 91.7% (SNS had insisted it was 98.4%). The Utility Board's weighty decision, as befitted six days of hearings over a five month period in 2003 and 2004, was thoughtful and carefully reasoned. Service Nova Scotia promptly appealed. The case was heard by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (CA 246980) on May 16th 2006. Their decision, rendered on May 26th 2006, dismissed Service Nova Scotia's appeal.\nHinspergers Poly Industries Limited\n80 Blakeney Dr., Truro, N.S.\nPolyethylene producer\nHinspergers Poly Industries Limited filed an appeal of their year 2000 assessment, two days after the expiry of the appeal period. Service Nova Scotia, the Provincial Assessment Authority refused to accept the appeal, on the grounds that it was out of time.\nHinspergers Poly Industries Limited owned a factory located in the Truro Industrial Park. On January 10th 2000, the Director of Assessment mailed an Assessment Notice for the property to Hinspergers' head office in Mississauga, Ontario. The Assessment Notice went unnoticed for 33 days (the Appeal Period was 21 days, but non-residents of Nova Scotia were permitted a possible 10 day extension by the Assessment Act). The omission was noticed on a Saturday, and the appeal was filed the following Monday. Under the Assessment Act, the Review Board has the power to grant an extension where filing the appeal \"has been prevented by absence, illness or other sufficient cause\".\nThe appeal period has been held, in previous Board decisions, to commence when the Assessment Notice is mailed . not when it is received. The application for the granting of an extension must be filed within 60 days and the Assessment Act indicates that the relevant evidence must accompany that filing. The Act implies too that the Nova Scotia Assessment Appeal Court hearing must also be conducted within that same time period. Hinspergers complied with this ambitious schedule, only to have their application rejected by the Nova Scotia Regional Assessment Appeal Court.\nThe Board heard that the Assessment Notice had been overlooked because the small (5 person) administrative staff were overwhelmed by structural changes at the 100 employee company. There were changes at head office involving new telephone and computer systems, and changes in the two factories which involved the polyethylene pipe manufacturing processes themselves. The Board appears to have been particularly impressed by the fact that the error was discovered on a Saturday! They granted Hinspergers Poly Industries Ltd. their extension.\nNova Scotia Regional Assessment Appeal Court\nColchester Park Development Society\n1540 Plains Rd., Debert, N.S.\nBulk land\nColchester Park Development Society, an incorporated non-profit body with a mandate to promote economic opportunities in the community, took over the ownership of Canadian Forces Station Debert from the Department of National Defence. The overall acreage obtained by the Society when it acquired this former military station, consisted of 36 acres of residential land, 137 acres of commercial land, and 386 acres of bulk land. The bulk land was unserviced, had not been subdivided and was covered with alders and scrub brush. In 2001, following the acquisition by the Society, Service Nova Scotia, the Provincial Assessment Authority, decided to reclassify the 386 acres of forest land from \"resource\" to \"commercial\". A commercially classified property typically carries about double the tax load of a residentially classified property with the same assessed value (forest land classified as \"resource\" is taxed at the residential rate).\nService Nova Scotia's rationale for reclassifying the land from \"resource\" to \"commercial\" was that the Society intended to so utilise the land in the future. The Society was actively marketing the developed commercial and residential portions of Colchester Park and operated a web site for that purpose. Service Nova Scotia took the view that the stated intentions of the Society, as evidenced by its articles of incorporation, and the material on its website, demonstrated an intention to use the property for commercial purposes.\nThe Nova Scotia Regional Assessment Appeal Court rejected Service Nova Scotia's reclassification, based on the precedent set by the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision in the case Eastern Forestry Resources Ltd. v. Director of Assessment (N.S.) et al (1991), 108 N.S.R. (2d) 357. The Appeal Court had ruled that a change in use only occurred when a physical action was undertaken, such that the land ceased to be utilised for its previous exempt use. An intention to use the land for commercial purposes did not meet this change of use test. The Nova Scotia Regional Assessment Appeal Court found in favour of the Colchester Park Development Society. Service Nova Scotia did not appeal the Court's decision.\nNova Scotia Utility and Review Board - AS-97-23b\nEdcyn Inc.\n5850-54 Sullivan St., Halifax, N.S.\nCommercial-owner occupied\nThis was an appeal by Edcyn Inc. from a decision of the Regional Assessment Appeal Court dated 11th October 1997, which reduced the 1997 assessment of a commercial property located at 5850-54 Sullivan Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, from $569,700 to $566,900. The base date for determining the value of the property was 1st January 1995. The Director of Assessment argued that the 1997 assessment should be raised to $618,600.\nThe Board's decision reviewed the \"Mass Appraisal\" reporting approach used by the Assessment Department and ruled against it. Edcyn Inc. provided a traditional \"3 approaches\" valuation to the Board (prepared by Turner Drake), who accepted this method as the proper one to use for assessment appeals. Their 34 page decision also included findings about the disclosure of experts' evidence prior to the hearing review. Two of the observations in the decision are:\n\"In the judgement of the Board, the report submitted by Mr. Pitman (which, again, the Board recognises is the format currently used by the Director), does not meet the requirements of Rule 14.\"\n\"Recognising the Director's duty with respect to the taxpayers as a whole to ensure uniform assessment across a Municipality, the Director might wish to consider the prudence of attempting to determine actual market value, using a more intensive review than necessarily occurred in the original mass appraisal assessment.\"\nNova Scotia Utility and Review Board - AS-95-55-59\nMaplehurst Properties Limited\nAlderney Gate, Dartmouth, N.S.\nMaplehurst Properties appealed a decision of the Regional Assessment Appeal Court. The Assessment Department defended the assessment using \"mass appraisal\" techniques and attempted to justify this approach with statistics showing that the resultant assessments were within an acceptable range. The appellant retained Turner Drake to produce a property specific appraisal. The Board ruled as follows:\nNon-recoverable Operating Costs - the 15% administration fee and the federal tax on large corporations were both deductible operating expenses.\nGeneral level of Assessment - this was acceptable as the only test of uniformity. The Assessment Department's submission on Coefficient of Dispersion and the Price Related Differential were ignored.\nStructural Reserve - this was disallowed on the grounds that it was not appropriate for a new building.\nDepreciation of Leaseholds - all leaseholds are depreciated to the base date (1st January 1991) not to the state date (which changes annually).\nMass Appraisal Techniques - the Board was critical of the Assessment Department's attempt to hide behind \"mass appraisal techniques\" and \"Department policy\". It ruled that \"valuations provided to the Board relying on Mass Appraisal Techniques are subject to the same test of reliability as information provided by the single property appraisal\".\nNova Scotia Court of Appeal - CA-132181\nCanada Trustco Mortgage Company\nHighfield Park, Dartmouth, N.S.\nThis was an appeal and cross appeal by Canada Trustco and the Assessment Department, together with the Halifax Regional Municipality from the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board Decisions NSUARB - AS-94-77 to 79 and 115 to 124. Both appeals were dismissed in a unanimous decision. All of the fourteen buildings were erected after the 1st January 1988 base date and by the state date (1st December 1993) economic conditions, primarily high vacancy rates, had profoundly affected the market value of the buildings ... not least of which was the adverse impact on vacancy rates of the construction of the subject properties themselves ... almost 1,000 units introduced rapidly into a small market. Under their earlier decision (CA-120545) the Court had determined that property had to be assessed at the state date, so declining economic conditions which post dated this date had to be ignored. But what if the decline had been caused by the construction of the properties under appeal? Essentially the Court of Appeal confirmed that the state date assessment had to consider the adverse impact on the vacancy rate resulting from over exuberant construction activity, even though it had occurred after the state date.\nWandlyn Inns Limited\nWindmill Rd., Dartmouth, N.S.\nThis was an appeal and cross appeal by Wandlyn Inns and the Assessment Department from the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board Decision NSUARB - AS-93-01. Both appeals were dismissed in a split decision. Essentially the Court of Appeal confirmed that the \"state date\" provisions of the Assessment Act relate to the \"physical condition\" of the property only and exclude changes in market value which arise out of factors e.g. decrease in trade, other than physical changes.\nNova Scotia Supreme Court - Appeal Division\n[1992] N.S.J. No. 169; S.C.A. No. 02568\nJohn A. Doucette (Respondent)\n5287-89 Tobin St., Halifax, N.S.\n5-unit apartment\nThe Appeal Division reversed the decision of the Nova Scotia Municipal Board and increased the assessment on the Respondent's five-unit apartment building to $315,800. The Board had reduced the assessment from $284,800 to $277,000.\nThe Respondent, Doucette, had purchased the property in 1987 for $320,000. The base date for the 1990 assessment year was the 1st January 1988. The submission on behalf of Doucette to the Board did not dispute the market value of the property, rather it was centred upon the assessments of certain comparables in the area of the property at issue. The Board focused its attention on those properties in reducing the assessment.\nThe Director appealed. The Appeal Division ruled that the Board should not have permitted its attention to be diverted from Section 42 (1) of the Assessment Act, which reads:\n\"Valuation 42 (1) All property shall be assessed at its market value, such value being the amount which in the opinion of the assessor would be paid if it were sold on a date prescribed by the Director in the open market by a willing seller to a willing buyer, but in forming his opinion the assessor shall have regard to the assessment of other properties in the municipality so as to ensure that taxation falls in a uniform manner upon all residential and resource property and in a uniform manner upon all commercial property in the municipality.\"\nThe decision ruled that the Board erred in law in failing to properly apply Section 42(1) of the Act and the case law explaining that Section. It also erred in determining that uniformity did not exist simply by comparing the subject property with a few others in the vicinity. The decision further ruled that the fact that other properties on the same street or in near vicinity were assessed lower in relation to actual cash value than the subject property, was not grounds for altering the assessment of the latter property.\nThere was no evidence before the Board demonstrating that the assessor erred in assessing properties at 98.7% of market value in order that taxation fall in a uniform manner upon all real property in the municipality. The Court allowed the appeal, put aside the decision of the Board and set the assessment at $315,800 (i.e. $320,000 x 0.987) for the 1990 tax year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 437, "original_length": 71228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tw-knowledge.org/ictesa2019/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:PNGP67BAF2P2BLU3NPBC63ZDSA7XNMFC", "length": 1460, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "tw-knowledge.org", "title": "ICTESA 2019", "raw_content": "Science, and Application 2019\nICTESA 2019\nInternational Conference on Technology, Engineering, Science, and Application 2019\nInternational Conference on Technology, Engineering, Science, and Application (ICTESA) 2019 will take place at the Fukuoka International Congress Center (FICC) in Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan, on April 1-3, 2019. The ICTESA conference has been held since 2007. During the past 12 years, people attending the conference have benefited from finding opportunities for sharing new ideas with their peers and establishing links with worldwide attendees for further collaboration. Therefore, we cordially invite you to enhance the value of this conference by contributing your full paper or abstract submissions to facilitate the sharing and update of the latest research findings in the field of technology, engineering, science, and application.\nFukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, situated on the northern shore of Japanese island Kyushu. As of July 2011, Fukuoka passed the population of Kyoto. As of 2015, Fukuoka is Japan\u2019s sixth largest city, having passed the population of Kobe. In particular, major cities in East Asia are within 2,000 km of Fukuoka. The ICTESA 2019 will provide an outstanding combination of educational, social and recreational opportunities with arranging two local cultural performances, two keynote speeches, opening & welcome ceremony, oral and poster presentations, and a half-day industrious tour.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://twentyeighteighteen.com/2016/10/23/melchizedek/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:17Z", "digest": "sha1:BTO4I52O53MTRGSFOKE5DTPOPK63APYQ", "length": 17076, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "twentyeighteighteen.com", "title": "Genesis 14: Melchizedek. \u2013 Twenty Eight Eighteen", "raw_content": "Genesis 14: Melchizedek.\nFor my final class that I am teaching in Genesis this quarter, we are going to discuss a character that only gets three verses in the book of Genesis, but becomes very important in Christology, especially when discussing the priestly role of Christ. The story of Abram and Melchizedek is perhaps one of my favorites in the book of Genesis, not because of the story itself, but because of the point that the Hebrew writer makes using it, which we will get to later. Before we get to the story, however, it is good to have a little background and context setting.\nThe account of Abram\u2019s interaction with Melchizedek is one that has been the subject of much mystery and thought over the years, as it appears and disappears quite suddenly in Genesis 14. Overall, there are only 4 verses dedicated to Melchizedek in the entire Old Testament. This in and of itself is not what is perplexing- plenty of names in the Old Testament get far less attention. What is peculiar is the abrupt nature in which Melchizedek is brought up in Genesis 14, the way he is referenced in Psalm 110:4, and the way his role in Christology is fleshed out in almost three chapters by the author of the book of Hebrews. Though Melchizedek appears a good number of times in second temple period literature, the apographa-esk accounts do not deal with Psalm 110:4 at all, and the dead sea scroll accounts depict him as an angelic figure (only supposedly based off of Psalm 110:4). To me, it seems unlikely that the Hebrew writer drew heavily from these sources to develop this Christology, though its not completely outlandish to think he might have drawn on some common conceptions of Melchizedek at the time. It is clear that the Hebrew writer saw Melchizedek as a type of Christ, and it appears that he drew this theology mostly from these four verses from the Old Testament.\nThe story of Melchizedek falls just after Abram rescues his nephew Lot who had been taken as a captive of war along with his family when a pact of four kings went to war against the king of Sodom. If you are familiar with the story, you know that when God called Abram to get up from his country and his people and go into the land which God would give to him and his offspring (Genesis 12), he took his nephew Lot with them. Their herds and people became so numerous that they had to separate to keep the peace. Abram gave Lot his choice of settling in the land of Canaan, and Lot chose to pitch his tent towards Sodom. Now the king of Sodom and four of his allies had gone to war against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and three of his allies, five kings against four. We don\u2019t get a lot of details about the battle, but we see that Chedorlaomer and his allies defeated the king of Sodom and took the possessions of the cities, including Lot and his family, along with their possessions. When Abram heard of his nephew\u2019s distress, he took 318 trained men to go to battle with Chedorlaomer, and defeated them, bringing back Lot with his possessions and the people. It is on the return from this victory that we meet Melchizedek.\nAbram and Melchizedek.\nAs Abram is coming back from his victory, the king of Sodom comes to the Valley of Shaveh, assumingly to express his gratitude to Abram for defeating Chedorlaomer. All of the sudden, Melchizedek, king of Salem, shows up on the scene to bless Abram. Salem is likely a reference to a city that was a precursor to Jerusalem, as you can see Salem in the name of Jerusalem. This would shed a little light on the importance of Melchizedek in the eyes of an Israelite. The Hebrew writer would later inform us that \u201cking of Salem\u201d means \u201cking of peace.\u201d We also learn from Genesis that Melchizedek was a priest of God Most High. This phrase \u201cGod Most High\u201d is a very interesting phrase, and is usually used in the context of referencing God in the midst of other spiritual beings. It seems to bypass the terms of the Mosaic Law, harking back to what was before the Law. This is obviously the case here, as we see that Melchizedek was a priest before the Aaronic priesthood was ever established (this will become very important later). Melchizedek brings out bread and wine for Abram and his men, and then pronounces a blessing upon Abram through God Most High.\nAfter this blessing, Abram gives Melchizedek a tenth of everything. This is a very interesting action, especially when compared with what happens next. The tithing done here would suggest that Abram understands that he is subordinate in some way to Melchizedek, perhaps specifically in terms of a spiritual hierarchy, if you will (just as the children of Israel would give tithes to the Levites, the tribe chosen to be the spiritual leaders of all the tribes of Israel). Contrast this interaction with Abram\u2019s encounter with the king of Sodom, developed in the following verses. Abram is unwilling to take anything that the king of Sodom offers, though he apparently had no problem taking the bread and wine offered by Melchizedek, and he certainly doesn\u2019t give the king of Sodom a tithe of anything. There seems to be trust in the relationship that Abram has with Melchizedek, and a deep cynicism or distrust with the king of Sodom (which may not be all that surprising, given the wicked nature of Sodom that we will learn about later). From this interaction, it is more than fitting that the Hebrew writer calls Melchizedek \u201cking of Righteousness.\u201d\nThe important takeaways from this interaction with Melchizedek, which will become apparent as we move on, are Melchizedek\u2019s status as a priest of the Most High, his lack of genealogy (and possibly the abrupt nature of his appearance and disappearance), and the fact that Abram pays him tithes. This will all become important as the Hebrew writer shows Melchizedek as a type of Christ.\nMelchizedek and Christ.\nThe only other instance in the Old Testament where we find a reference to Melchizedek is in Psalm 110. What\u2019s interesting about this reference, however, is that it is in the middle of a very clear messianic prophecy. This psalm is referenced upon numerous occasions in the New Testament (Acts 2:34-35, Heb. 1:13, 5:6, 7:27,21), even by Jesus himself (Mt. 22:44, Mk. 12;36, Luke 20:42). It is clear from Jesus\u2019 use of the psalm that the Jewish leaders of his day knew that this was a messianic passage. So what is Melchizedek, a king who got three verses in the book of Genesis, doing in the middle of a messianic prophecy?\nThe key parts of verse 4 are these two phrases: \u201cpriest forever\u201d and \u201cafter the order of Melchizedek.\u201d The author of Hebrews will elaborate on the phrase \u201cpriest forever\u201d. In the second phrase we find that there is an order, or some rank/characteristic that Melchizedek\u2019s priesthood had that Aaron\u2019s priesthood did not, as it is reasonable to assume that the Psalm is contrasting the two priesthoods. Note again that Melchizedek was a priest of the Most High God before the Aaronic priesthood was ever established.\nNow we finally get to what the book of Hebrews has to say about Melchizedek. The author spends the better part of Hebrews 4:14-7:28 setting up Christ as our great high priest after the order of Melchizedek. As high priest, Jesus acts on behalf of men in relation to God, offering the ultimate sacrifice for our sins through his death on the cross. Not only is he our high priest, he is a high priest that knows our sufferings intimately, having gone through them himself and knowing our struggles, having been tempted in every respect that we have been (Heb. 4:14-16). But there was a necessity that Jesus\u2019 priesthood be different than the Aaronic priesthood. The most obvious reason for this is that the Aaronic priesthood was occupied by sinful men, who had to also make intercession for themselves as they made intercession for the people. Further, the sacrifices that they made, the blood of bulls and goats, could never actually take away sin (Heb. 10:4). If you notice in the laws for sacrifices in the book of Leviticus, most, if not all, animal sacrifices were for unintentional sins (see Leviticus 4-6), or for purification (even without sin, such as in the case of childbirth).1 The priests of the Aaronic priesthood also were mortal men who died and continually passed on the priesthood to another.\nTo overcome these limitations of the Law, for perfection was not obtainable through the law (Heb. 7:18-19), Jesus\u2019 priesthood had to be established on a different order, a better order. This is where the Hebrew writer pulls in Psalm 110 and Genesis 14, using them to paint Melchizedek as an archetype of Christ. Melchizedek was the king of Salem and a priest of the Most High God. We know very little about this Melchizedek as we are not given his genealogy nor a record of his birth or death. In a way he appears out of nowhere and then disappears as quickly as he appeared. He did not need to be of a certain lineage to be a priest of the Most High, just as Jesus came through the line of Judah, of which the Law said nothing about priesthood. Melchizedek, in a sense, continued as a priest forever because he is not recorded as having the beginning of days or the end of life, just as Jesus continues as our High Priest forever, having been raised from the dead to defeat death, never to die again.\nMelchizedek, whose name is translated as king of righteousness and his kingdom as the king of peace, is shown to be the greater of the two men, as Abraham gave him a tenth of the spoils of war. By extension, it could even be said that Levi, from whom the Levitical priesthood would come, gave tithes to Melchizedek through Abraham his ancestor. Yet the inferior was blessed by the superior (just as we are blessed through Christ, our superior). The Hebrew writer emphasizes different comparisons of better/more excellent verses the inferior. Note the importance here that Melchizedek is before the Law, just as the Abrahamic covenant was made before the Law (see Gal. 3). Since Jesus was of the tribe of Levi, there was a change in priesthood, and therefore a change in the law- back to the order of Melchizedek, king of Righteousness and of Peace. Do you see the connection?\nThe Levitical priesthood was plagued by sin and death. There was need for many priests because they all succumbed to death. Further, the law made nothing perfect. But Jesus is the guarantor of a better covenant, for His priesthood was confirmed with an oath (the Lord swore) and build on the only sacrifice that could actually take away our sins, and that was the sacrifice of His life, the perfect Lamb of God. He introduced a better hope. Jesus did not need to offer first for His own sins, for He knew no sin, but rather was able to impart a purity that the blood of bulls and goats from the Levitical priesthood could never do (see Hebrews 10:4). Nor was He prevented from continuing in office by death, because He won the victory over death and lives forever. The word of oath that came in Psalm 110:4 appointed Christ as a priest forever, just as Melchizedek continued forever, and the bearer of a more excellent covenant.\nMilk to meat.\nThis is actually why the story of Melchizedek is one of my favorite stories in the book of Genesis.I love the application point that the author of Hebrews makes when he is talking about Melchizedek. Though he is in the middle of deep theological discussion, the Hebrew writer takes a break to address the people he is writing to directly, that they might recognize where they are in terms of maturity (see Heb. 5:11-6:12). He bluntly says that what he is trying to explain is hard to grasp because they had become dull of hearing. They should have reached the point where they were able to teach these things, but they were still stuck on the basic principles of faith. Even more, they still needed someone to teach them again these basic principles. They were on milk when they should have been enjoying the spiritual meat of the word of God. He warns them here that they need to press on to maturity, with their powers of discernment trained to distinguish good from evil.\nHe goes on in rebuking and encouraging his audience to press on to maturity, leaving the elementary principles. This is not to say that they were to forget these teachings, of course, but rather to move past them. He lists six fundamental teachings that should be accepted and not laid again as a foundation: repentance, faith, baptismal instructions, the laying on of hands, the resurrection and eternal judgment. It was time to move on into deeper study and deeper understanding. Then the Hebrew writer makes a strong statement, saying that it is impossible for those who have tasted salvation and then fallen away to be renewed to repentance since they are crucifying the Son of God once again and holding Him up to content. Note that this says it is impossible to renew them to repentance, indicating that they who had fallen away were unwilling to repent of their sins, and thus why they were crucifying (present participle, continuing tense) the Son of God again (see Hebrews 10:26). They were a crop that had born thorns and thistles, and were to be thrown into the fire (see Luke 13:6-9). The Hebrew writer was not saying these things to his audience so as to discourage them, but rather to encourage them to be imitators of those though faith and patience inherit the promises. He was confident that their response would be positive, that they would indeed push towards maturity.\nWe too should take the warning given here by the Hebrew writer to press on to maturity, not laying again the foundational principles but enjoying the solid meat of the word. Our journey to maturity is expected of us as Christians. Too often do I see Christians who remain shallow in their theology, not wanting to take it to the next level for this reason or that. Maybe we say we\u2019re too busy, or not smart enough. Maybe we assume that\u2019s the preacher\u2019s job, and not our own. Or maybe we are scared that we will find things that we don\u2019t know, don\u2019t understand or perhaps even show that we have been wrong about some point of theology all of our lives. Whatever our excuse, I don\u2019t think the Hebrew writer would have accepted it. We are expected to grow, learn and mature in Christ. It is not optional. Lest we be like the audience here that still needed spiritual milk when they should have been eating the meat of the word of God. Let us be encouraged by this example, and press on to deeper study and deeper understanding of the One who created us all.\nSuggested Reading: Genesis 14, Psalm 110, Hebrews 5-7.\n1. In our study of the Abrahamic covenant, we saw that an important theme was that it was made prior to the Law (see Gal. 3). This interaction with Melchizedek also happens before the Law, and we see that Melchizedek was a priest before the Aaronic priesthood was ever established. Do you think this is significant? Why or why not.\n2. The blessing the Melchizedek gives Abram is focused on God and what He did for Abram. Is this how we look at our accomplishments today? How can we incorporate this attitude into our daily lives?\n3. Compare and contrast Abram\u2019s interaction with Melchizedek and with the king of Sodom.\n4. Psalm 110:4 is clearly a Messianic Psalm. The key parts of Psalm 110:4 are these two phrases: \u201cpriest forever\u201d and \u201cafter the order of Melchizedek.\u201d What do you make of these two phrases?\n5. This psalm is referenced upon numerous occasions in the NT. How important was OT to early Christians?\n6. Hebrews 5-7 deals extensively with Jesus being our high priest and the necessity of there being a change in the Law. To overcome the limitations of the Law, for perfection was not obtainable through the law (Heb. 7:18-19), Jesus\u2019 priesthood had to be established on a different order, a better order. What were some limitations of the Law? What does \u201cthe order of Melchizedek\u201d entail? How is it better?\n7. Melchizedek was the king of Righteousness and Peace. How is he a type of Christ?8. Though he is in the middle of deep theological discussion, the Hebrew writer takes a break to address the people he is writing to directly, that they might recognize where they are in terms of maturity. Are there ways we can recognize our own immaturity?\n9. Do you think the Hebrew writer is being too harsh?\n10. He goes on in rebuking and encouraging his audience to press on to maturity, leaving the elementary principles. Do we ever dwell on the elementary principles? How?\n11. We are expected to grow, learn and mature in Christ. It is not optional. What are some practical ways in which we can mature in Christ? How can we continue in them?\n12. How can we measure our growth?\n1. For a very good study on what Leviticus teaches about the sin and guilt offerings, see Dr. Michael Heiser\u2019s podcasts on Leviticus 4, 5 and 6: Leviticus 4, Leviticus 5, Leviticus 6. \u21a9\nAbramantitypearchtypechedorlaomerChristdeepGenesisHebrewslearninglotmaturitymeatMelchizedekmessiahmessianic prophecymilkpsalm 110sodomstudytype\nPrevious Post Genesis: The Abrahamic Covenant.\nNext Post Salvation as a process.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 20535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.blastingnews.com/politics/2017/06/has-the-finsbury-park-mosque-incident-been-largely-whitewashed-001800315.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:53Z", "digest": "sha1:SS6FMRL6KTOMANFSXMDDRI2BWFJREBQB", "length": 4490, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "uk.blastingnews.com", "title": "Has the Finsbury Park Mosque incident been largely whitewashed?", "raw_content": "Has the Finsbury Park Mosque incident been largely whitewashed?\nThe media focus has been largely on Grenfell Tower whilst Finsbury Park Mosque is ignored but why?\nstanding on the side of love - finsburyparkmosque.org\nLast Sunday night, early Monday morning saw a devastating terrorist incident at Finsbury Park Mosque, London, which left one dead and several injured. The man who committed the atrocity was held by the Imam, who stopped violence bestowing the individual. An act of compassion and a sense of real justice overcame hate and fear in a moment that you could be forgiven for a knee-jerk violent reaction. But that was not the case and the Imam proved that, another way is possible.\nHowever, since the incident there has been little coverage from the media and the normal outrage (understandably) and calls from the government to do more to combat extremism have either gone completely or overshadowed by the Grenfell Tower fire.\nA media whitewash?\nGrenfell Tower was a terrible incident and a consequence from conservative austerity policy since 2010. But the attack on Finsbury Park Mosque is a consequence of the same austerity but from a different avenue and it isn\u2019t being treated with the same severity as it should be. It was a right-wing terrorist attack and this is likely to be an ingrained societal issue that the government needs to combat in equal measure as issues such as Grenfell Tower and the previous Islamist terrorist attacks in London and Manchester.\nThe media have been mostly ignoring the attack with only updates every so often. Even though, with the attacks in London and Manchester, most of the media hounded the government for answers and the far-right themselves tried to place blame on the likes of Jeremy Corbyn, who has only ever sought peaceful solutions.\nBut this attack has been mostly ignored by the far-right and right-wing media because it doesn\u2019t fit their view of what a terrorist looks like. There have also been complaints that the attack didn\u2019t have a question on BBC\u2019s Question Time this week, when recent incidents in Manchester and London were featured heavily.\nAusterity helps create extremism\nThe reason why the attack itself is linked to austerity is because of the rhetoric of blame by those right-wing hate preachers such as Nigel Farage, Katie Hopkins, the Daily Mail, Daily Express and The Sun. The Daily Mail claimed the usual \u2018lone-wolf\u2019 and \u2018mental health problems\u2019 rather than say what it was, a terrorist attack. Those who preach hate use the state of austerity to further their personal agendas of hate towards other cultures ideals.\nCommunities that have been left to rot by the Conservative Party over the last 7 years have still often voted Conservative.\nNine out of the ten poorest regions in the EU, are in Britain and every single one of those voted for the Conservatives at the election. Despite it being the fault of Conservative policy, that has affected them but rhetoric against immigration from those hate preachers and other media complicity to spread this false rhetoric has helped create the environment for far-right extremism to blossom. There are always videos of people verbally and sometimes physically attacking foreign nationals, largely Muslim, on the grounds of their beliefs and where they come from.\nBrexit has contributed massively to the rise in far-right extremism and it has only been a year since the vote to leave. Islamist hate preachers are usually locked up or deported but far-right hate preachers are left to their devices and treated as mainstream. Nigel Farage and until recently, Katie Hopkins were given platforms by LBC, the latter also has a regular Daily Mail column.\nArron Bank\u2019s Westmonster and Leave.EU platforms play a significant role on social media in exploiting austerity to preach their divisive hate, often spreading fake news and hiding opinion as \u2018news\u2019.\nThe need to combat extremism\nThe government needs to do more to stop the rise in far-right extremism, as they have currently allowed it to thrive and become mainstream. But the Conservatives have currently been their furthest right-wing than at any time in their recent history. With blame, often being placed on immigration to hide the ideological attack on the country. The corporate system has gained too much power and society has suffered, but there is fight back and real change could be afoot very soon. The general election has provided a footing for Jeremy Corbyn and the youngsters who voted for him.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 7696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.blastingnews.com/sport/2017/11/west-ham-united-finally-sack-slaven-bilic-002147819.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:35Z", "digest": "sha1:L2AQRNBMN7GDYRBJZP2GAPP3BXXDIITK", "length": 3598, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "uk.blastingnews.com", "title": "West Ham United finally sack Slaven Bilic", "raw_content": "West Ham United finally sack Slaven Bilic\nAfter dropping into the relegation zone last weekend, West Ham United and Slaven Bilic have now parted ways.\nSlaven Bilic sacked as West Ham manager with David Moyes set to take over - The Guardian\nIn what was quickly becoming the #Premier League's most untenable position, West Ham United have finally announced the departure of #Slaven Bilic.\nThe decision comes after weeks of speculation surrounding the Croatian's future. West Ham's choice to axe their former boss comes after a disappointing start to this season's Premier League campaign.\nBreaking: West Ham have sacked manager Slaven Bilic. Get the very latest now on #SSN pic.twitter.com/eeD8tX2BpY\n\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) November 6, 2017\nA dismal run of form\nDespite initial success in East London, Bilic has endured a horrific run of results. His sides lack of form has seen the former Croatian boss seemingly fighting for his job on a weekly basis.\nSince the start of last season, the Hammers have only picked up 31 points, and their recent performances show signs of a side destined to be involved in a battle for Premier League survival come May.\nWith fellow Premier League strugglers, Everton, Leicester and Crystal Palace already changing their managers, it was no surprise that West Ham would follow suit.\nThe final nail in Bilic's coffin came after West Ham's 4-1 home defeat to Liverpool on Saturday evening. The loss last weekend means the Hammers have only managed to pick up just two wins out of their first 11 matches this season, conceding 23 goals in the process, the worst record in the Premier League this year.\nAfter moving into the relegation zone, West Ham's co-owners David Gold and David Sullivan feel that Bilic is no longer the man who can take their side to the next level.\nAlong with Bilic, his coaching staff have also been shown the door by the Hammers' board. Nikola Jurcevic, Edin Terzic, Julian Dicks and Miljenko Rak have all left the club with immediate effect.\nFor West Ham, their problems have stemmed deeper than just a poor run of form. Despite leaving the Olympic Stadium with West Ham's best point-to-game ratio, Bilic's tenure in East London will be remembered for a disastrous move to their new stadium, unfit players and spending \u00a346million on failed signings.\nThe return of David Moyes?\nThis morning it has been all but confirmed that former Manchester United boss, David Moyes, will take charge of the Premier League strugglers until the end of the season.\nMoyes has been out of work after finishing bottom of the Premier League with Sunderland last year. Last weekend, speculation surrounding Moyes' availability began to add to Bilic's mounting pressure when the Scotish boss announced his interest in the potential vacancy, speaking to the BBC, Moyes said: \"I am interested but at the moment the vacancy has not become available. I know what Slaven must be going through\".\nWith the position in West Ham's dugout now vacant, the former Manchester United boss is expected to be announced as early as tomorrow morning, with Moyes expected to be taking West Ham's training session tomorrow afternoon.\nIt will be curious to see how the West Ham supporters take the appointment. Since leaving Everton in 2013, Moyes has embarked on a torrid five-year spell. After failing to make an impact at United, Real Sociedad, and Sunderland, Moyes' last win percentage at the Stadium of Light was as low as 18.6%.\nNext up for the struggling Hammers, West Ham will be looking to regain some stability as they take on Watford after the international break.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 6785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uk.news.yahoo.com/former-cdc-director-tom-frieden-arrested-forcible-touching-heres-means-224949007.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:00Z", "digest": "sha1:JZFBZ26PNKNLZ43ISGR6CTPTM5FUSGTS", "length": 4291, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "uk.news.yahoo.com", "title": "Ex CDC director Tom Frieden arrested for forcible touching", "raw_content": "Former CDC director Tom Frieden was arrested for 'forcible touching' \u2014 here's what that means\nDr. Tom Frieden, a respected former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was arrested for several sex crimes, including an act called \u201cforcible touching.\u201d\nOn Friday, Frieden, 57, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was charged with forcible touching, sex abuse, and sexual harassment for squeezing the backside of a 55-year-old female acquaintance, in October, at the home he reportedly shares with his Oberlin College girlfriend Barbara Chang (although it\u2019s not clear if they are married). According to the New York Post, Frieden grabbed the victim, whom he has known for two decades, as they, along with others, were leaving his home.\nA representative of the Brooklyn District Attorney\u2019s Office told Yahoo Lifestyle in an email that Frieden was arraigned and released without bail. The judge also issued an order of protection that prevents him from having contact with the victim. Frieden\u2019s next court date is October 11.\nFrieden\u2019s attorney Laura Brevetti did not return Yahoo Lifestyle\u2019s request for comment.\nA statement written on behalf of Frieden and published by the Associated Press read, \u201cThe allegation does not reflect Dr. Frieden\u2019s public or private behavior or his values over a lifetime of service to improve health around the world.\u201d\nTom Frieden, former director of the CDC, appeared at a Brooklyn arraignment to face several sex charges, including forcible touching. (Photo: Getty Images)\nNew York State penal law classifies forcible touching as a class A misdemeanor that involves a person \u201cintentionally, and for no legitimate purpose\u201d forcibly touching \u201cthe sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing such person, or for the purpose of gratifying the actor\u2019s sexual desire.\u201d\nExamples of forcible touching are squeezing, grabbing, or pinching, and, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), the penalty for a conviction is up to one year in prison.\nAs described in his official bio, Frieden as health commissioner from 2002\u201309 implemented smoking bans in bars and restaurants and spearheaded the posting of nutritional content on menus. He also played a public role in handling major disease outbreaks such as the 2014 Ebola crisis.\nFormer President Barack Obama, who appointed Frieden to the CDC, once called him \u201can expert in preparedness and response to health emergencies,\u201d according to the New York Post.\nFrieden currently oversees Resolve to Save Lives, a health initiative by the global public health organization Vital Strategies that receives funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.\nCDC spokesperson Bert Kelly tells Yahoo Lifestyle, \u201cCDC has no information on this matter. We refer you to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.\u201d\nHowever, Jos\u00e9 Luis Castro, president and CEO of Vital Strategies, sent the following statement to Yahoo Lifestyle: \u201cIn April of this year, Dr. Tom Frieden, who heads our Resolve to Save Lives Initiative, informed me that a non-work-related friend of his and his family of more than 30 years accused him of inappropriate physical contact. I have known and worked closely with Dr. Frieden for nearly 30 years and have seen first-hand that he has the highest ethical standards both personally and professionally. In all of my experiences with him, there have never been any concerns or reports of inappropriate conduct.\n\u201cVital Strategies is committed to a workplace that is free of sexual harassment. As such, even though she is not an employee, earlier this month we conducted a thorough investigation by an external expert, which included an in-depth interview with every staff member on the Resolve to Save Lives team to determine whether there are any concerns about inappropriate behavior. This assessment determined there have been no incidents of workplace harassment.\n\u201cVital Strategies greatly values the work Dr. Frieden does to advance public health and he has my full confidence.\u201d\nWhat is \u2018outercourse,\u2019 the term Brock Turner\u2019s lawyer used at sexual assault conviction appeal?\nDad attacks man he suspects of taking upskirt photos of women: \u2018You messed with the wrong family\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 7725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ukuni.net/universities/nottingham-trent-university", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:10Z", "digest": "sha1:NMX7VAITEIR5HC7PD6XMCFPACCUBU2Z5", "length": 2015, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ukuni.net", "title": "Nottingham Trent University | UKuni", "raw_content": "Universities in the UK Nottingham Trent University\nMatthew Charles Berry (born 2 May 1974) is an English actor, writer, and musician. 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Its roots go back to 1843 with the establishment of the Nottingham Government School of Design which still exists within the university today. It is one of the largest universities in the UK with around 28,000 students split over three different campuses. In 2008, The Complete University Guide named Nottingham Trent the \"top post-1992 University\" in the country. The university has \"one of the best employability records of any university in England and Wales\". It maintains close ties to over 6,000 businesses and 94% of students progress to full-time employment or further education within six months of graduating.The Guardian calls Nottingham Trent \"the most environmentally friendly university in the country\". The university has a strong research arm with, in 2008, 74% of the university's research considered of international status and an impressive 8% ranked as world-leading.\nWebsite: www.ntu.ac.uk\nEmail: international@ntu.ac.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 67.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://uncmedicine.org/giving/donor-recognition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4DSGX3377HAXCDZBT5KAFAYSCYJDSH6R", "length": 3851, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "uncmedicine.org", "title": "Donor Recognition | Medical Foundation of NC", "raw_content": "Home / Giving / Donor Recognition\nSupporters\u2019 contributions have provided the important resources that have helped make UNC become the highly regarded academic medical center it is today. The Medical Foundation of NC, Inc. is honored to recognize the many generous donors to the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Hospitals who, through their gifts, support students, faculty and the citizens we serve across the state. Giving to medicine demonstrates leadership and a special commitment to caring, discovery, teaching, and hope. To honor and express our appreciation of these benefactors, the following recognition societies have been established:\nThe W. Reece Berryhill Society\nEstablished in 2002, the W. Reece Berryhill Society recognizes alumni and friends who support UNC Medicine through any type of deferred gift. Through their generosity and foresight, Berryhill members play a vital role in securing the future of medicine at UNC. The Society is named in honor of the late Dr. Berryhill, a longtime dean and leader of the School of Medicine and who is widely recognized as \u201cthe father of modern medicine at UNC.\u201d\nMembership in the Berryhill Society is open to individuals who wish to help assure that UNC Medicine continues to thrive for generations to come. Acceptable gifts include a variety of estate planning tools such as charitable remainder trusts, charitable gift annuities, life insurance, will bequests and gifts of retirement plans. Membership offers opportunities to be more fully engaged with the key members of the Medical School and Hospitals administrative team and fellow Berryhill members.\nAll Berryhill Society members who provide documentation of the deferred planned gifts will be submitted for membership in the University-wide planned gift recognition group, The Gerrard Society.\nLoyalty Fund Associates\nEstablished in 1989-90, the Loyalty Fund Associates program was created to recognize the importance of significant private alumni support of the UNC School of Medicine. Loyalty Fund Associates are our leaders and their gifts are key to the success of the Loyalty Fund campaign each year. The Junior Associates gift club was established in 1999 to recognize recent graduates who make significant annual gifts. Graduates of four years or less who give $250 or more, and graduates between five and nine years out who give $500 or more, qualify as Junior Associates.\nAs an Associate or Junior Associate, one\u2019s involvement is not limited to financial support. Associates are invited to Chapel Hill to participate in academic and extracurricular programs to broaden their relationship with the School of Medicine.\nThe Co-Founders\u2019 Club\nCo-Founders\u2019 is the annual recognition society of The Medical Foundation of NC, Inc. that honors individuals who have given $2,000 or more cumulatively to any area of UNC School of Medicine or UNC Hospitals from July 1 to June 30.\nEstablished in 1966, Co-Founders\u2019 celebrates a partnership that continually helps to improve the health of North Carolinians and many others. Alumni and friends provide unrestricted and restricted gifts for scholarships and fellowships, research, programs, lectureships and professorships. Together, these private annual gifts provide steady resources that are absolutely critical to our leadership in medicine. We thank these donors for investing in our medical education, research and service missions.\nMembers are listed on the Annual Donor recognition display in the lobby of Bondurant Hall, the main School of Medicine building. Co-Founders\u2019 are invited to participate in educational opportunities and special events and receive news and information through the Medical Bulletin and other communications. Additionally members may receive recognition in the giving societies of the University or other areas within medicine to which their gift was made.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 5745, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://unfetteredequality.com/2015/05/14/what-liberals-and-conservatives-fail-to-understand-about-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:33Z", "digest": "sha1:B72VJAQNJI2XOXGQX4LLIR3Z3AYWZGKG", "length": 5418, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "unfetteredequality.com", "title": "What Liberals and Conservatives Fail to Understand About History | unfettered equality", "raw_content": "Grant and his Generals (1865) by Ole Peter Hansen Balling. National Portrait Gallery\nAn article in Mother Jones by Ryan Cooper caught my eye recently because it concerned a favorite topic of mine \u2013 the American Civil War. Cooper\u2019s article was written in response to Robert Tracinski at The Federalist; the two have been feuding electronically about the coercive nature of law and the feasibility of laissez-faire economics over the past few weeks.\nTracinski argues, for instance, that the first 150 years of our history as a nation were a libertarian paradise since the federal government\u2019s share of GDP was under 10 percent and the laws establishing the modern welfare state had not yet been implemented. Cooper rightfully dings Tracinski for ignoring the existence of slavery or Jim Crow in his analysis, as these institutions definitely undercut the argument for 1776-1926 as a beacon of liberty.\nYet strangely, Cooper goes on to make similarly reductive arguments in his own analysis. Reconstruction, he says, was a period where \u201cAmerican society as a whole tried reasonably hard to do right by the freed slaves, before getting tired of the effort and abandoning them to the depredations of racist terrorism.\u201d Elements of this argument are true, but to speak of American society as a whole is a fallacy; if the whole of American society tried \u201creasonably hard\u201d to do right by black people, how does one explain the concurrent existence of racist terrorism? Or the widespread Confederate sympathies in cities such as Baltimore and New York during the war?\nCooper goes on to say that since slavery was a moral evil predicated on the coercion of black bodies, \u201cthe war that ended slavery, despite involving coercion in the form of organized mass killing, was therefore good!\u201d I agree with Cooper that the morality of coercion depends greatly on the context, but still feel his argument is simplistic. For one thing, the idea that the Civil War was about ending slavery gained popularity as the conflict dragged on, rather than being a goal at the outset. In fact, northerners and southerners reversed their position on the cause of the war in the decades to follow. Whereas northerners were initially adamant that the war was about preserving the Union, in later years they claimed the real cause was emancipation. Southerners, who had no qualms about asserting their pro-slavery aims prior to and during the war, adopted the Lost Cause as a banner in the aftermath of defeat.\nFor another thing, the winners of the war were far from morally upright in its execution or in its aftermath. Many of the heroes of the Union Army, Custer being the most famous example, went on to complete the genocide of Native Americans during the Indian Wars that followed. Phillip Sheridan, who routed the Confederates in the Shenandoah Valley and brought the force of martial law against anti-black conservatives in Louisiana, went on to order mass killings of the Cheyenne, Kiowa and Comanche tribes; his most famous apocryphal saying was \u201cThe only good Indians I ever saw were dead.\u201d\nFinally, for an argument that presents the primacy of slavery to the history of 19th century America, Cooper spends little time with the slaves themselves, content to concern himself with the motivations of white northerners and one quote from Ta-Nehisi Coates. Ironically, Coates once wrote of the war that \u201cthe message has long been clear: the Civil War is a story for white people\u2014acted out by white people, on white people\u2019s terms\u2014in which blacks feature strictly as stock characters and props.\u201d Black (and white) resistance to slavery and injustice predated the coming of war and emancipation by at least a century, and this resistance belies the assertion of any benign period of American liberty far more powerfully than the act of emancipation or feeble attempt at Reconstruction.\nCooper and Tracinski, though arguing from opposing viewpoints, both present incomplete narratives. Many writers use history in the service of making some larger point, rather than engaging with the full record as it is. It is true, as Tracinski notes, that the growth of the federal government during and after the Civil War had far-reaching \u2013 and, at times, negative \u2013 implications for American society. It is equally true, as Cooper acknowledges, that government intervention proved necessary to prevent the coercion and exploitation of black Americans. These narratives are not in opposition, but in fact are facets of the same complex story of American society in the 19th century.\nThe question of whether government coercion is a force for good or evil is a distraction. The ultimate lesson to draw from our Civil War history is not, as Cooper asserts, \u201cwhat can happen when a society really tries to right a past wrong, and tragic, infuriating failure of will.\u201d Nor is it that, as Tracinski asserts, \u201cthe welfare and regulatory state\u2026is a historical aberration.\u201d The lesson is that our history, like our people, will forever be a jumble of contradictory claims about liberty, notions of citizenship, and uncomfortable realities. To seek the false comfort of narrative in our history \u2013 a weakness we are all susceptible to \u2013 will do us no good.\nTags : American history, Civil War, coercion, force, GDP, George Custer, Indian Wars, Phillip Sheridan, slavery, welfare state\n\u2190 Part IV: The War At Home\nChat Corner: The Gang Discusses Game of Thrones S05E06 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 7625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627797467", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:22Z", "digest": "sha1:T5JTIIXUZAVRFR37D6A3NCNXSISUK64T", "length": 1464, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "us.macmillan.com", "title": "Get Well Soon | Jennifer Wright | Macmillan", "raw_content": "Throughout time, humans have been terrified and fascinated by the diseases history and circumstance have dropped on them. Some of their responses to those outbreaks are almost too strange to believe in hindsight. Get Well Soon delivers the gruesome, morbid details of some of the worst plagues we\u2019ve suffered as a species, as well as stories of the heroic figures who selflessly fought to ease the suffering of their fellow man. With her signature mix of in-depth research and storytelling, and not a little dark humor, Jennifer Wright explores history\u2019s most gripping and deadly outbreaks, and ultimately looks at the surprising ways they\u2019ve shaped history and humanity for almo\u2026 More\u2026\nWhen I tell people that I am writing a book on plagues, well-meaning acquaintances suggest I add a modern twist. Specifically: \u201cYou know, like how we\u2019re all on our cell...\nPraise for Get Well Soon\n\"Wright combines a deep knowledge of her subjects with an abiding love for their depravity; she chronicles their breakups with a wit as sharp as a guillotine's blade.\"\u2014P\u2026 More\u2026\nJennifer Wright is the author of It Ended Badly: Thirteen of The Worst Break-Ups In History. She has written for numerous publications, including McSweeney\u2019s, The New York Observer, Salon, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Popular Mechanics, Maxim, The New York Post and more. She lives in New York City with her fianc\u00e9 who is pretty sure she has a cold and not the bubonic plague.\nFabrizio Chiesa\nItEndedBadly.net", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 11205, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://usefulresearchpapers.com/equal-opportunity-employment-research-paper/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:H6T3LRC76BRMEPVJSSBZWLBTT2XG4VSI", "length": 4474, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "usefulresearchpapers.com", "title": "Equal Opportunity Employment Research Paper | UsefulResearchPapers.com", "raw_content": "Equal opportunity employment is the law, which was designed to protect employees against any form of discrimination in labor relations.\nAs a study conducted in 2007-2008 by Centre for Social and labor rights shown, such discriminations is a common enough occurrence. About 14% of workers faced discriminatory practices in labor relations; about 60% of job advertisements published in the media, contain discriminatory requirements for applicants for a job. Meanwhile, the power of the legislative development of legal issues, as well as the number of research and practical recommendations on the work of lawyers representing the victims of discrimination in the courts are clearly insufficient.\nCollege students who writes their research paper on equal employment opportunity should understand that discrimination in employment and labor relations takes many forms. All forms of discrimination are characterized by one common feature:\nNeed help with writing a research paper on Equal Opportunity Employment? Click here!\ndiscrimination entails a different attitude towards people because of certain features specific to them (such as race, color or gender), resulting in inequality of opportunity and treatment.\nIn other words, discrimination leads to inequity and amplifies it.\nIt limits the freedom of the individual in the development of his abilities, as well as opportunities to make choices and follow their professional and personal aspirations. Combating discrimination is a way of achieving equality. We can say that discrimination epitomizes what is forbidden, and equality is something that should be achieved. Laws against discrimination in employment, have been issued for the purpose of achieving equality first for racial and ethnic groups, and then to other groups (gender, age, etc.), subject to discrimination. Currently there are many theories of equality, but they may be grouped in the three main groups and discussed respectively in three perspectives: historical, economic, and compensation.\nHistorical perspective shows the purpose of the laws on discrimination in employment. For example, in the U.S. adoption of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ushered in a new era when discrimination has become a phenomenon that cannot occur exist with impunity in society. Modern laws prohibiting discrimination, aim achieving equality of all classes before discriminated with impunity: racial, ethnic minorities and other categories legally protected now. American law is a reflection of tough and clear anti-discrimination policies by which the law defines how an employer must act and what he cannot do in a particular situation.\nThe law says that an employer making a decision cannot base it on such grounds as race, ethnicity, gender, etc. The law does not limit the freedom of the employer in hiring, firing, promotion of staff, but only until these decisions will not be based on parameters that are prohibited by law.\nEconomic perspective shows what economic value will have legal prohibition of discrimination and whether it outweighs the demands of market competition. The success of anti-discrimination legislation does not depend on the presumption that discrimination is evil, and the evaluation of the impact of its prohibitions on market efficiency. In assessing discrimination in economic terms, American authors identify two concepts that explain its existence in the labor market even if there is, in principle, anti-discrimination legislation. The first theory, developed by G. Becker, concerns the situation of African Americans: many employers, customers, co-workers do not experience the pleasure of communicating with them and try to protect themselves from such interaction. Ultimately, it affects employment, wages and working conditions of people with black skin. The second theory advanced by E. Phelps, explains racial discrimination by low productivity of African Americans. Sometimes it is more profitable for an employer to hire white workers whose productivity is better, than adapt to the black workers. Stereotypes existing in society, compels employers to refrain from hiring an inefficient worker.\nFree sample college research papers on equal employment opportunity gives you a chance to learn more about the topic.\nAre you looking for a top-notch custom research paper about Equal Opportunity Employment? Is confidentiality as important to you as the high quality of the product?\nEmployment Law in the United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 5488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 189.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://usenetreviewz.com/easynews-updates-iphone-app/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:QJQVHM7Z54PFXZ6BPU4RDLFQEQXK3GDW", "length": 2417, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "usenetreviewz.com", "title": "Easynews Updates iPhone App", "raw_content": "If you\u2019ve had some issues with bugs with EZ Global Search from Easynews version 1.6, version 1.7 of the mobile app has fixed them. The app was rolled out on the iTunes store on January 18th and contains some notable improvements. The app is now compatible with iOS 6 and with iPhone 5. The update is free for those who own the app already.\nThe new version of EZ Global Search will run on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad devices, so nearly all Apple users should be covered with this update. It currently costs $2.99 on the iTunes store. The purchase price gives you access to any future updates to the app.\nThe app has powerful features built into it. You can search by keyword and then filter your results by a number of different criteria, including the date, the newsgroup, the file type and more. If you\u2019re looking for videos, you can get a thumbnail image of the video to further refine your searches.\nThe Zip Manager Tab allows you to see any files you have queued up to download. Essentially, you\u2019ll have access to most of the same features you\u2019d find on the Easynews website interface, but they\u2019re formatted to be friendly to iPhone users.\nYou can push posts to download apps, as well. It\u2019s compatible with iCab Mobile, Downloads, Atomic Web browser, GoodReader and several other popular apps. You can even view the content on the players included with some of these apps.\nThe new version also supports NZB apps, including SABMobile.\nThere is a lot of flexibility built into the app. You can, for instance, create a search and save it directly to your Easynews account, allowing you to access it later on. You can also choose which ports you connect to. These include 80 and 81 or, if you want SSL encryption, you can connect over ports 443 or SSL 81.\nIf you have favorite newsgroups set up on Easynews, you can search through them very easily using this app. You can also take advantage of comprehensive information about the files that you download, including the sample rate, bit rate, resolution and more.\nAirPlay Audio support is included with this update, but video support has not been added yet. This app does allow you to use your iPad in full resolution, as well, and is universal for iPad and iPhone.\nEasynews even allows you to look at your Gig Bank data on the app. You can update your current version of EZ Global Search or purchase a new version, if you don\u2019t have one yet, on the iTunes store now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 3204, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://usmjparty.com/tag/federal-powers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:EBLZKBQGNWVQZRRSHI7BHKQU36GXG7G4", "length": 12945, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "usmjparty.com", "title": "federal powers Archives \u2014 U.S. Marijuana Party", "raw_content": "Tag: federal powers\nProhibitionists are Overstating Feds vs. State Marijuana Legalization Case to Media\nshereekrider Drug War\tcannabis, commerce, federal powers, medical cannabis, state powers, UN\t1\nby David Borden, December 10, 2012, 02:54pm\nA mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, \"Obama\u2019s Pot Problem,\" missed the mark on the federal preemption question \u2014 can the feds shut down Washington and Colorado\u2019s legalized regulation systems? Tim Dickinson wrote the following on that subject:\n[T]he administration appears to have an open-and-shut case: Federal law trumps state law when the two contradict. What\u2019s more, the Supreme Court has spoken on marijuana law: In the 2005 case Gonzales v. Raich contesting medical marijuana in California, the court ruled that the federal government can regulate even tiny quantities of pot \u2013 including those grown and sold purely within state borders \u2013 because the drug is ultimately connected to interstate commerce. If the courts side with the administration, a judge could issue an immediate injunction blocking Washington and Colorado from regulating or taxing the growing and selling of pot \u2013 actions that would be considered trafficking under the Controlled Substances Act.\nBut a former Bush administration official quoted in the New York Times on Thursday, former DOJ civil division head Gregory Katsas, made the opposite prediction. Katsas was \"skeptical\" that a preemption lawsuit would succeed, according to the Times. Why? Perhaps because it\u2019s not just that the feds can\u2019t force states to criminalize drug possession, as Kevin Sabet selectively pointed out to Dickinson. It\u2019s also the case that they probably can\u2019t directly force the states to criminalize sales either. The Controlled Substances Act in fact leans against federal preemption of state drug policy, as pointed out in a law professors brief on preemption submitted in a California case this year.\nDickinson also pointed out that federal officials had used threats to prosecute state employees involved in implementing regulations for medical marijuana. In my opinion the US Attorney letters were deliberately vague \u2014 scary enough to influence state officials, but in most if not all cases stopping short of explicitly making that threat. A better piece of evidence, I think, is that in 16 years of state medical marijuana laws, no federal prosecutor has ever tried to actually invalidate such a law in court, not even after the Raich ruling. Why not? They must not think they have a slam dunk case. And if preemption is not a slam dunk for medical marijuana, then it\u2019s not a slam dunk when it comes to legalization either, although there are additional arguments to throw against full legalization.\nThe reality is that no one knows how this will turn out if it goes to court. Raich established that federal police agencies can use their powers in medical marijuana states to continue to criminalize marijuana federally, justified by the Interstate Commerce Clause. But that is not the same as having the power to forbid states from granting exceptions to the states\u2019 own anti-marijuana sales laws, which in legal terms is what the regulatory frameworks do, and plenty of smart lawyers are skeptical that they can do that. This is not a slam dunk either way.\nStates Legalizing Marijuana Will Violate Federal Law, Trigger Constitutional Showdown: DEA, Drug Czars\nshereekrider Latest News, Politics\tCivil War, Constitution, drug war, federal powers, state powers\t0\nThe Huffington Post | By Matt Ferner Posted: 10/15/2012 3:13 pm EDT\nOn a Monday teleconference call, former Drug Enforcement Agency administrators and directors of the Office of National Drug Control Policy voiced a strong reminder to the U.S. Department of Justice that even if voters in Colorado, Oregon and Washington pass ballot measures to legalize marijuana use for adults and tax its sale, the legalization of marijuana still violates federal law and the passage of these measures could trigger a \u201cConstitutional showdown.\u201d\nThe goal of the call was clearly to put more pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to make a public statement in opposition to these measures. With less than 30 days before Election Day, the DOJ has yet to announce its enforcement intentions regarding the ballot measures that, if passed, could end marijuana prohibition in each state.\n\u201cNext month in Colorado, Oregon and Washington states, voters will vote on legalizing marijuana,\u201d Peter Bensinger, the moderator of the call and former administrator of the DEA during President Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan administrations, began the call. \u201cFederal law, the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court decisions say that this cannot be done because federal law preempts state law.\u201d\nBensinger added: \u201cAnd there is a bigger danger that touches every one of us \u2014 legalizing marijuana threatens public health and safety. In states that have legalized medical marijuana, drug driving arrests, accidents, and drug overdose deaths have skyrocketed. Drug treatment admissions are up and the number of teens using this gateway drug is up dramatically.\u201d\nBensinger was joined by a host of speakers including Bill Bennet and John Walters, former directors of the While House Office of National Drug Control Policy; Chief Richard Beary of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP); Dr. Robert L. DuPont, founding director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and who was also representing the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and several others.\nIn response to the drug warriors calling out Holder again to take a strong public stance against these marijuana legalization measures, Mason Tvert, co-director of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, the group behind Colorado\u2019s Amendment 64 said to The Huffington Post:\nWe believe anything claimed by participants on the call today needs to be taken with many grains of salt. These people have made a living off marijuana prohibition and the laws that keep this relatively benign substance illegal. The nation wastes billions of taxpayer dollars annually on the failed policy of marijuana prohibition and people like Bill Bennett and John Walters are among the biggest cheerleaders for wasting billions more. The call today should be taken as seriously as an event by former coal industry CEOs opposing legislation curtailing greenhouse gas emissions. They are stuck in a certain mindset and no level of evidence demonstrating the weakness of their position will change their views.\nThis is an election about Colorado law and whether the people of Colorado believe that we should continue wasting law enforcement resources to maintain the failed policy of marijuana prohibition. Our nation was founded upon the idea that states would be free to determine their own policies on matters not delegated to the federal government. The Controlled Substance Act itself acknowledges that Congress never intended to have the federal government fully \u2018occupy the field\u2019 of marijuana policy. We hope the Obama administration respects these state-based policy debates. If Amendment 64 is adopted by the people of Colorado, there will be sufficient time before any new businesses are established for state and federal officials to discuss the implications.\nToday\u2019s call elaborated on a September letter that nine former DEA heads sent to Holder strongly urging him to oppose Amendment 64 in Colorado, Initiative 502 in Washington and Measure 80 in Oregon. \u201cTo continue to remain silent conveys to the American public and the global community a tacit acceptance of these dangerous initiatives,\u201d the nine said in the letter to holder obtained by Reuters.\nA month before the 2010 election in California, Holder vowed to \u201cvigorously enforce\u201d federal marijuana laws and warned that the government would not look the other way and allow a state marijuana market to emerge. California\u2019s Proposition 19 was narrowly defeated in 2010 and the pressure is on Holder again to voice opposition to these 2012 measures.\nWhen pressed by a reporter during a Q & A following the call if the group was at all surprised that Holder had not yet made a statement about the measures, former drug czar John Walters replied, \u201cI think it\u2019s shocking. All you have to do is say things that this administration has already said. It would help enormously and I think it would defeat these measures.\u201d\nBoth Colorado and Washington\u2019s pot ballot measures are quite popular with voters, according to recent polling and have been backed by an increasingly diverse group across a range of ideological perspectives.\nIn Colorado, if marijuana is legalized it would be taxed and regulated similar to alcohol and tobacco. It would give state and local governments the ability to control and tax the sale of small amounts of marijuana to adults age 21 and older. According to the Associated Press, analysts project that that tax revenue could generate somewhere between $5 million and $22 million a year in the state. An economist whose study was funded by a pro-pot group projects as much as a $60 million boost by 2017.\nCONTINUE READING\u2026\u2026(VIDEO)\nRon Paul wins if Supreme Court strikes Obamacare\nshereekrider Opinions\tcommerce clause, Constitution, federal powers, obamacare, regulate interstate commerce\t0\nHow did it get this far? Even a naturalized citizen like me and tens of millions of others who took an oath to uphold the Constitution can clearly see that the United States is no longer a constitutional republic with limited powers.\nArticle I Section 8, which enumerates the federal government\u2019s powers, has been ignored by Congress and the Supreme Court for nearly two centuries. Congress has passed laws that presidents from both major parties have signed that egregiously expanded federal power.\nCleverly, big government advocates have hung their hat on the Commerce Clause instead, which gives the federal government the power to \u201cregulate\u201d interstate commerce. By invoking the Commerce Clause, statists have created America\u2019s unsustainable welfare state\u2013Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc.\nAn accurate historical reading of the Commerce Clause turns this interpretation on its head. As Judge Napolitano has pointed out, the Founders wanted to make commerce \u201cregular\u201d in the fledgling republic by removing trade restrictions and other burdens so commerce could flow seamlessly between the states. In other words, the Commerce Clause was not intended to give the federal government open-ended power to interfere with business activity.\nMoreover, a free society requires freedom. The ability of the people to invent, produce, trade, consume, save and enjoy the fruits of their labor is supposed to be the essence of America. In other words, a limited government, free enterprise republic needs the government to secure the borders and protect liberty, not order people how to live their lives.\nIf all the Supreme Court justices who heard the challenge to Obamacare this past week were faithful to their oaths to uphold the constitution, they would have excoriated the Solicitor General who was defending Obamacare, and castigated the President and the Congress for creating a law that was an affront to the Constitution\u2014and an assault on the American people\u2019s liberties. In addition, the Supremes should have taken one giant step for liberty by stating that they will strike down all laws that have been enacted that are inconsistent with Article I Section 8 of the Constitution. Maybe they will do so in their ruling about Obamacare that is due in June. However, I would not hold my breath that all nine justices will \u201csee the light,\u201d namely, that Obamacare is the latest statist piece of unconstitutional legislation that must be struck down.\nIf the Supreme Court strikes down Obamacare, root and branch, the march to liberty could accelerate.\nThat would mean that Ron Paul has won, even if he is not elected president this year. The Ron Paul Revolution, the movement to restore the Constitution, is gaining strength day by day.\nWe have a long way to go to recreate a free society, but like all great journeys, we must agitate for what is right and honorable, a limited government republic, and not give up the fight worth fighting.\nMurray Sabrin is a professor of finance at Ramapo College and blogs at www.MurrarySabrin.com.\nRECENT COLUMNS BY MURRAY SABRIN\nTyler Clementi\u2019s roommate Dharun Ravi did not commit a hate crime\nRon Paul should be more aggressive in his quest to restore America\nEfforts to derail Ron Paul in Republican primaries are dirty politics\nKey to N.J. tax relief: Revamp urban education, abolish state income tax\nGov. Christie should abolish income and corporate taxes for economic freedom\nLiberalizing N.J.\u2019s concealed firearm laws would help reduce crime\nChristie supports more war by endorsing Mitt Romney\nHerman Cain pays lip service to government spending cuts\nRon Paul hit piece is revealing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 444, "original_length": 35414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://utorontopress.com/ca/northern-star-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UNHQDE57APFXETWRPMSG7QFMBL3JGU65", "length": 5054, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "utorontopress.com", "title": "Northern Star J.S. Plaskett-9781442630178|University of Toronto | U Toronto Press", "raw_content": "John Stanley Plaskett was Canada\u2019s pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century. His legacy lives on in the observatory he founded in Victoria, British Columbia, and the reputation he built for Canada as a nation making vital contributions to basic science. Plaskett\u2019s pioneering work with the most massive stars and his definitive determination of the rotation of the Milky Way Galaxy earned him international recognition of the highest order.\nNorthern Star explores Plaskett\u2019s unorthodox and fascinating life from his rural roots near Woodstock, Ontario through his days as a technician at the University of Toronto to his initiation in astronomy at the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa. His greatest achievements followed after he persuaded the government of Canada, in spite of the strictures of the First World War, to finance what was then the world\u2019s largest operational telescope. Peter Broughton\u2019s accessible and engaging prose illuminates Plaskett\u2019s numerous achievements and the social, political, economic, and religious milieu surrounding them. This richly illustrated volume invites readers to understand the pull that Plaskett\u2019s passions, personality, and motivations exerted on him during his lifetime.\nNorthern Star explores Plaskett\u2019s unorthodox and fascinating life from his rural roots near Woodstock through his days as a technician at the University of Toronto to his initiation in astronomy at the Dominion Observatory in Ottawa.\n\"This is a book that needed to be written. Its appeal may fall between the general public readership and that of active astronomers, but many passages bridge that gap, and it is evident that nothing has been omitted for those who crave detail and further reference. Northern Star will stand as a complete and thorough record of a remarkable Canadian, a definitive account of what he gave to the country and to the world of science.\"\nBC Booklook, March 18 2018 (online)\n\"Plaskett\u2019s legacy is covered nicely in this well-produced volume, and that, of course, includes his son, Harry, who became the Savilian Professor at Oxford. The first of the appendices lists his many publications; copious Notes follow \u2013 90 pages of them \u2013 and a comprehensive Index concludes the book. A number of monochrome photos help bring the story to life.\"\nThe Observatory, December 2018\n\"John Stanley Plaskett was a prominent member of what can be regarded as the first generation of Canadian professional scientists and firmly established Canada as a major partner in international astronomical research. In this thoroughly researched biography, Peter Broughton has given us a scholarly and readable account of Plaskett\u2019s life and work.\"\nAlan H. Batten, F.R.S.C\n\"The publication of Peter Broughton's Northern Star: J.S. Plaskett, is a watershed event for the history of Canadian astronomy. Plaskett, founder of the still-vital Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, was the first Canadian astrophysicist whose quality and quantity of research and professional connections ensured his ability to walk on the world stage of the discipline. Broughton's scholarship is thorough, and he presents it in an attractively readable form. Of particular value is the setting of Plaskett's career and work firmly in their contemporary context, the author's mature evaluations of Plaskett's scientific achievements, and the reproduction of many rare and previously unpublished archival photographs evoking the research and social contexts of the first formative period of astrophysics in Canada.\"\nR.A. Rosenfeld, Archivist, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada\nR. Peter Broughton was president of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada from 1992 to 1994. His service and extensive writing on the history of astronomy led the International Astronomical Union to name a minor planet in his honour.\nJames E. Hesser authored or coauthored more than 250 scientific publications and was a pioneer in using the Hubble Space Telescope to establish the ages of the outermost star clusters related with the Milky Way Galaxy. He was the director of the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria, British Columbia, serving from 1986 to 2013.\nPreface , Acknowledgements, and Abbreviations\nPart I - Preparing the Ground\nChapter 1 \u2013 Rural Roots (to 1890)\nChapter 2 \u2013 Toronto Responsibilities (1890-1903)\nChapter 3 \u2013 Ottawa Advancement (1903-07)\nPart II - Budding Scientist\nChapter 4 \u2013 The Sun and the Stars (1906-11)\nChapter 5 \u2013 The Dream of an Upright Man (1911-13)\nChapter 6 \u2013 Transition (1913-17)\nPart III - Career in Full Flower\nChapter 7 \u2013 This is the House that Jack Built (1917-21)\nChapter 8 \u2013 Challenges and Rewards (1921-23)\nChapter 9 \u2013 The Farthest Stars (1924-26)\nChapter 10 \u2013 Beyond the Stars (1927-30)\nChapter 11 \u2013 The Big Picture (1930-34)\nPart IV - The Fruits of his Labour\nChapter 12 \u2013 Retirement (1934-41)\nChapter 13 \u2013 Regeneration (1942- )\nNote to Appendices\nAppendix A: Chronological listing of JSP\u2019s published papers\nAppendix B: Chronological listing of JSP\u2019s talks\nhistory \\ history of science and technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 9737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 195.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vacationrentalssmithmountainlake.com/activities/slocums-appaloosa-ranch-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:54Z", "digest": "sha1:DJSGV6NNJQOIBZG4FHRTEADF6J37IK6W", "length": 2634, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "vacationrentalssmithmountainlake.com", "title": "Slocum's Appaloosa Ranch -", "raw_content": "Slocum\u2019s Appaloosa Ranch\nSlocum\u2019s Appaloosa Ranch is a horse facility located near Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia that offers guests the best experience in trail riding and lessons that can be found in the area. Take a break from the stress of daily life and mount a trusty steed at this amazing ranch. The experience will create memories for years to come and you will want to return.\nAbout Appaloosa Ranch Ranch\nSlocum\u2019s Appaloosa Ranch is nestled near Smith Mountain Lake and offers guests the best experience in anything ranch related. From trail riding, lessons, and summer horse camp to just a great overall experience. Slocum\u2019s is the perfect place to learn more about horses. The owners have over 50 years in the horse business.\nAnyone interested in a trail ride through the hills and valleys of the ranch in Bedford County must make an appointment. Whether you\u2019ve been riding a numerous times, or it\u2019s your very first experience, or you\u2019re young or old, you\u2019ll enjoy the experience. Trail riding rates start at $25 per hour and $35 per hour and half, per person. We trail 7 days a week, depending on weather and typical trail riding times are 10:30am, 1:30pm, & 3pm Monday through Friday, 10:30am, 12:30pm, and 3pm Saturday, and 10:30am, 12:30pm, and 4pm on Sunday. Remember you must make an appointment and you will be paired with a horse. Cash or local checks only, please.\nHorseback riding lessons at Slocum\u2019s Appaloosa Ranch are the best value around. Group lessons are $25/hour and include everything from the basics of riding to more advanced techniques. Private lessons are $40 per hour. They accept riders of all ages.\nEvery summer, Slocum\u2019s hosts a Summer Horse Day Camp that takes riders of all skill levels and teaches them about owning and riding a horse. Campers are assigned a horse for the week and learn the basics of horse anatomy and terms for riding and care. Campers will be riding their horse daily and will participate in games, trail rides, and lessons to hone their skills. This opportunity gives campers hands on experience that includes grooming, tacking, feeding, and horse handling skills. The camp is only $150 per person for ages 8 and up; this is by far the best value for what you get!\nSlocum\u2019s offers other services, like pasture boarding, breaking and training horses, and horses for sale.\n1674 Private Hills Lane\nIf you have any questions, the staff would be happy to help you, just give them a call at 540-312-0617. Their staff is available to answer any and all questions that you may have about Slocum\u2019s Appaloosa Ranch.\nDon\u2019t forget to click here to look at some of our vacation rentals!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 4756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vacationrentalssmithmountainlake.com/lakesidesingersconcert/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:33Z", "digest": "sha1:A54TSQISGUNLDQ6NWOJNLCU5IZNPFKEF", "length": 1391, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "vacationrentalssmithmountainlake.com", "title": "Don't Miss the Lakeside Singers Concert | Smith Mountain Lake Rentals", "raw_content": "Lakeside Singers Concert\nThe Lakeside Singers are back!\nNow under new management, the 55-voice Lakeside singing group of community members is back again to bring fantastic vocal performances to the Smith Mountain Lake area. The new director, Melia Garber, an accomplished piano performer and an instructor at Hollins University, is sure to bring one of the best performances yet! This year\u2019s theme is \u201cWe Will Rock You,\u201d and with it will come a sampling of popular and traditional songs sung in beautiful four-part harmony. This will include songs by ABBA, the Beatles, Beach Boys, and more! There is no better time to see the new Smith Mountain Arts Council Lakeside Singers!\nThe concert will be held June 1 & 2 at the Trinity Ecumenical Parish, located at 40 Lakemount Dr., Moneta, VA 24121, starting at 7 p.m. on June 1st and 3 p.m. on June 2nd. Tickets are $12, $10 for SMAC members. Come support local arts, and enjoy being serenaded by the Lakeside Singers!\nAfter the show, return to a gorgeous Premier Vacation Rentals home in Smith Mountain Lake! With our wide selection of condos, cabins, and luxury properties, all with high end amenities, you would be hard pressed to find a better place to come back to and talk about the show! Premier Vacation Rentals offers a perfect rental for any vacationer. Contact us to book a reservation today and enjoy your stay in Smith Mountain Lake!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 3439, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://variety.com/2018/film/podcasts/playback-podcast-damien-chazelle-first-man-1202953730/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4VGUWZQRNIOZX7RZLMHUNT3K47BHQ2RY", "length": 4054, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "variety.com", "title": "Playback Podcast: Damien Chazelle on \u2018First Man\u2019 \u2013 Variety", "raw_content": "Listen: Damien Chazelle on \u2018First Man\u2019 and \u2018Surreal\u2019 Oscars EnvelopeGate\nPLAYBACK is a Variety / iHeartRadio podcast bringing you conversations with the talents behind many of today\u2019s hottest films. New episodes air every Thursday.\nFilmmaker Damien Chazelle had quite the act to follow after \u201cLa La Land,\u201d the 2016 musical that tied the record for Oscar nominations and marked him as the youngest person to ever win the Academy Award for directing. He\u2019s answered with \u201cFirst Man,\u201d the story of Neil Armstrong\u2019s journey from personal tragedy to the absolute heights of human accomplishment. But as familiar a moment as that is, in the American and indeed the global psyche, Chazelle\u2019s mission was to peel back unseen layers of the tale.\n\u201cIt seemed like, for such a famous event, [it was] an event that could use some demystifying, maybe de-romanticizing,\u201d Chazelle says. \u201cIt felt like there was a lot left to unpack in that event and certainly what led up to it. It coincides nicely with Neil\u2019s life. He joined up with NASA right around the time this sort of \u2018moonshot\u2019 became a national goal right at the top of the decade. It was trying to see through his eyes and the program\u2019s eyes as a whole, how you go from those first beginnings of space exploration to traveling 32 times the size of earth all the way to the moon and back, basically in the span of eight or nine years.\u201d\nUnlike \u201cLa La Land,\u201d which was somewhat predesigned and easier to edit with the extensive use of single takes, \u201cFirst Man\u201d was largely discovered on set and in the editing room. It felt on the whole closer to \u201cWhiplash\u201d for Chazelle, in terms of post-production, and like his 2014 sophomore feature \u2014 which was finished in a mad dash leading up to the Sundance Film Festival that year \u2014 things came right down to the wire on finishing \u201cFirst Man\u201d in time for its Venice bow. Ultimately Chazelle says his latest work easily amounted to the biggest technical challenge of his career so far.\n\u201cOnce you try to set parameters around something \u2014 in this case, everything should feel like a Super 16 documentary and we\u2019re expanding from there \u2014 it kind of puts more of a burden on visual effects and sound design,\u201d he says. \u201cIn a different kind of movie I think you can get away with stuff being more obviously synthetic. There\u2019s a lot more allowance for things to look computer generated or sound heightened or whatever. But here we knew we weren\u2019t going to have that sort of facility, that stuff that was fake would look and sound fake. So that dictated a lot of what the workflow was going to be, that we were going to try as much of the visual effects in-camera [as possible] \u2026 and try to bake everything into a look that hopefully would harmonize, so that at the end of the day, whether it\u2019s a miniature or a piece of computer-generated imagery or a totally sort of in-camera, practical [effect] \u2014 it would hopefully all speak the same language.\u201d\nOutside of an extensive recent Telluride discussion, the last time I sat down with Chazelle was the morning after the 89th annual Academy Awards, which ended with that instantly infamous envelope snafu and \u201cLa La Land\u201d erroneously being announced as the best picture winner. Barry Jenkins\u2019 \u201cMoonlight\u201d was soon revealed as the real winner in one of the craziest television moments in history. Asked about it now, Chazelle can only take it for the bittersweet moment that it was.\n\u201cIt all feels a little bit like something out of a movie, which I guess is appropriate,\u201d he says. \u201cBut there was something kind of fun about it. Hollywood, the Oscars, all that stuff has the potential to be absurd enough on its own, so it felt like that whole episode was maybe a way of underlining that. I saw Barry in Toronto actually when we were just there. It\u2019s a surreal memory, but a fun one.\u201d\nFor more, including thoughts on Chazelle\u2019s move into the streamer space with Apple and Netflix projects, listen to the latest episode of \u201cPlayback\u201d via the streaming link above.\nDamien Chazelle photographed exclusively for the Variety Playback Podcast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 271, "original_length": 12582, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vehrklempt.com/2015/05/24/828/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:14Z", "digest": "sha1:LWKQXU5WVH5GFLUNMISCALPL5LBBKPSV", "length": 251, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "vehrklempt.com", "title": "Vehrklempt", "raw_content": "Today, I realized that sometimes I wrote for you. I wanted you to know me, so that I can know myself. And when you were no longer in the picture, my thoughts went quiet and a part of me veiled itself.\nI am a life force, and I need to exist for myself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 227.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vergellibertad.wordpress.com/about-the-project/photo-gallery/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:22Z", "digest": "sha1:HRNP3SPR4D6Z32OFMFZVZKODHHSQQS2R", "length": 465, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "vergellibertad.wordpress.com", "title": "Photo Gallery | Freedom Orchard", "raw_content": "The Freedom Orchard Team has three galleries, please click on one of the following links to arrive to the appropriate page:\nBeautiful Photos of Chile (Amateur, general)\nFreedom Orchard Development (Sustainable Community Project)\nRandy says:\t April 8, 2013 at 12:06 am\nSo where are the photos?\nThe photos are shown when you click on the appropriate tab. There are also many photos on the Freedom Orchard FaceBook page; https://www.facebook.com/FreedomOrchardInChile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vibcare.co.in/flurbiprofen-sodium/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:57Z", "digest": "sha1:OUTSVECLT4NETD4VW6CMLQKMKB26VKRC", "length": 2078, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "vibcare.co.in", "title": "Flurbiprofen Sodium | VIBFLUR EYE DROP - Vibcare Pharma", "raw_content": "Flurbiprofen Sodium 0.03%\nFlurbiprofen, a propionic acid derivative, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory agent (NSAIA) with antipyretic and analgesic activity. Oral formulations of flurbiprofen may be used for the symptomatic treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis and anklylosing spondylitis. Flurbiprofen may also be used topically prior to ocular surgery to prevent or reduce intraoperative miosis. Flurbiprofen is structurally and pharmacologically related to fenoprofen, ibuprofen, and ketoprofen.\n\u201cLD50=10 mg/kg (orally in dogs).\nSelective COX-2 inhibitors have been associated with increased risk of serious cardiovascular events (e.g. myocardial infarction, stroke) in some patients. Current data is insufficient to assess the cardiovascular risk of flurbiprofen. Flurbiprofen may increase blood pressure and/or cause fluid retention and edema. Use caution in patients with fluid retention or heart failure. Risk of GI toxicity including bleeding, ulceration and perforation. Risk of direct renal injury, including renal papillary necrosis. Anaphylactoid and serious skin reactions (e.g. exfoliative dermatitis, Stevens-Johnson syndrome, toxic epidermal necrolysis) may occur. Common adverse events include abdominal pain, constipation, diarrhea, dyspepsia, flatulence, GI bleeding, GI perforation, nausea, peptic ulcer, vomiting, renal function abnormalities, anemia, dizziness, edema, liver function test abnormalities, headache, prolonged bleeding time, pruritus, rash, tinnitus. Although rarely documented in the case of flurbiprofen, oral propionic acid derivatives have been associated with a relatively high frequency of allergic reactions.\nFlurbiprofen tablets are indicated for the acute or long-term symptomatic treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, osteorarthritis and anklosing spondylitis. It may also be used to treat pain associated with dysmenorrhea and mild to moderate pain accompanied by inflammation (e.g. bursitis, tendonitis, soft tissue trauma). Topical ophthalmic formulations may be used pre-operatively to prevent intraoperative miosis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 5909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 223.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vietnamnews.vn/world/505177/five-killed-in-pre-election-violence-in-nigeria-police.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:40Z", "digest": "sha1:OG7LOQD3UB4AQ6BV7OC65DAJTND4EUWB", "length": 1160, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "vietnamnews.vn", "title": "Five killed in pre-election violence in Nigeria: police - World - Vietnam News | Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports - VietNam News", "raw_content": "Five killed in pre-election violence in Nigeria: police\nSecurity personnel control a crowd of supporters of Nigeria\u2019s ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) party at a stadium campaign rally in Lagos. \u2014 AFP Photo\nWARRI \u2014 Five people were killed in southeast Nigeria during clashes between supporters of the two main political parties, police said on Monday, just days before a general election.\n\"The victims were shot in a likely revenge attack by persons suspected to be from opposing political parties in the area,\" said Aniamaka, adding that they were shot on Sunday when gunmen fired into the apartment just before midnight.\n\"Calm has been restored to the area,\" he said, and everything was being done to ensure \"such an incident does not reoccur especially with a few days to the general elections.\"\nThe Uvwie local government chairman Ramson Onoyake also confirmed the five deaths and said that \"six persons have been arrested\" in connection with the deadly shooting.\nThe presidential contest will see incumbent Muhammadu Buhari seek to win a second four-year term against former vice president Atiku Abubakar in what is expected to be a close race. \u2013 AFP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 4562, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vincilingua.ca/Overview/More/how_more.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:18Z", "digest": "sha1:TPZR4WCMFESS5V72L2OAH72RZMGAPD4F", "length": 4470, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "vincilingua.ca", "title": "VinciLingua: how", "raw_content": "VinciLingua: how it works\nThere are two intertwined facets to the VinciLingua project: use of natural language generation to produce exercises on the one hand, and use of web technologies to allow learners to explore data and arrive at concepts in textbooks and other web environments. Each makes use of specific pieces of software, as we will see below, but they are complementary and offer the potential for an overarching synthesis. We will begin with natural language generation. An overview is presented in the What section. We will be interested here in how the system works at a more detailed level. Those wanting even more detail can consult the Vinci Lab website.\nAs the following figure shows, the generative part of VinciLingua may be thought of as a choreography involving four elements, as well as two people.\nThe starting point here is the ivi/Vinci environment, a natural language generation system embedded in an editing environment. Ivi/Vinci is written in C and runs on a variety of platforms. It provides a linguist with a friendly environment for writing grammars. (For details, see the Vinci Lab page.) A linguist can use the ivi/Vinci environment, and specifically its various metalanguages (for semantics, lexicon, syntax, morphology, etc.) to define some grammar. The grammar is used to generate utterances. Examination of these allows for debugging until output is satisfactory. Of course, once defined, grammars may be used in a variety of exercises.\nAt the same time, the linguist and the computer scientist define the instr module (currently written in C) which acts as a proxy for a human instructor. In its simplest form, it decides which grammar to run, noting this in a database, along with details on which student is doing which exercise and what results were obtained. In a more complex form, it can provide for adaptive generation, where previous results are used to direct subsequent generation. There is thus a dialogue between ivi/Vinci and instr.\nOnce instr has decided on a grammar to run, it asks ivi/Vinci to produce an utterance. This is handed to stdnt, essentially an interface module, which sets up a web page for some specific kind of exercise (fill-in-the-blanks, multiple choice, audio, visual, etc.) and using php, javascript, css and html, produces a webpage. stdnt also collects student responses and passes them back to ivi/Vinci for analysis by instr. The learner sees only the web interface created by stdnt, not the underlying architecture. At the same time, a record is kept of what the student has done and what analysis has been made. Examination of this log provides clues about a student's progress.\nThis, in a nutshell, is how the system works. We have ignored a variety of issues, including different classes of users. Thus, teachers can create exercises and tests, while students can only take them. When the system is used in a for-marks context (as is currently the case with the version run by Continuing and Distance Studies at Queen's University), individual users are identified and logs kept of their interactions. However, in the freely available experimental version, users are anonymous. Anonymized logs are kept of interactions, but there is no 'memory' of individual users.\nWe turn now to the interactive environment used in textbooks and pedagogical experiments. The following image shows its primary components.\nThe starting point is some html code to provide the contents of a page. It is important to note that this html includes semantic information about the nature of the elements on the page. For example, for an exploratory activity on parts of speech, part of the background html looks like this:\nUsing this information, it is possible to combine CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and jQuery to allow a learner to select a text, choose a part of speech, and click on words in the text to determine if they are members of this part of speech. If the learner is correct, the word turns green. If not, it turns red. The result looks like this:\nUsing the results, a learner can begin to form a conceptualization of the different parts of speech. Of course, it is possible for multiple texts to be made available. More interestingly, since the semantic html itself is just a textual document, it is possible for ivi/Vinci to generate the html and to adapt it in light of a learner's progress. Exploring this interaction between generation and exploration is a key part of our ongoing research.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 4550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://virginiaweeklynews.com/tag/upgrade/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:50Z", "digest": "sha1:6B2GXOKLLEO4WNOUEATJFBRZEWPSKBW4", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "virginiaweeklynews.com", "title": "Upgrade", "raw_content": "https://virginiaweeklynews.com/tag/upgrade\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 180.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visitannapolis.org/events/6657", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:CXWII5U2WHTT5W4OT7V2FIQJALSHMSL7", "length": 118, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "visitannapolis.org", "title": "Visit Annapolis - Navy Baseball vs. Holy Cross", "raw_content": "Come out and support the Navy Midshipmen Baseball team against Holy Cross in the second game in the three game series!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 4067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 141.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://visitsedona.com/about-us/history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HGQLOKU2UQRJDHXEGCR6EOFOTGAWF6RM", "length": 6290, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "visitsedona.com", "title": "History of Sedona | Visit Sedona", "raw_content": "Sedona has a \u201cHistory Walk\u201d \u2013 a self-guided stroll through art, cinema, history, geology and nature\u2026 a scenic sojourn among restaurants, shops and galleries. Find yourself on Sedona\u2019s walking web map. Easy to use on your cell phone! (WalkSedona.com)\nEarly History & Sedona Facts\nIn a rather bizarre manner, the history of this area does not have its roots in Sedona, which T.C. Schnebly named after his wife in 1902. Instead, the story had its beginning in Oak Creek Canyon, where Glenn Kilbourne and Carley Burch, the main characters in Zane Grey\u2019s The Call of the Canyon, lived and loved under looming, stone walls and whispering pines.\nLong before Grey hunted, fished and wrote in the wild and lonely canyon, however, the first settler to heed the call, J.J. Thompson, claimed property under this country\u2019s 1862 Homestead Act. In 1876, Thompson took squatters rights to a parcel of land across from today\u2019s Indian Gardens Store, where a year earlier, scouts from Fort Verde now, Camp Verde, had captured a small band of Tonto Apache Indians.\nWhen Thompson took his land, he found the Indian\u2019s deserted gardens and a healthy spring, which encouraged him to build a log cabin. He called his home Indian Gardens Ranch, but later he shortened it to Indian Gardens. After Thompson homesteaded in the canyon, more settlers heard the call, and they came to raise horses and cattle. They dug irrigation ditches so they could plant crops, too and in particular, they established orchards. During the ensuing decades, trails and cowpaths in the canyon became dirt roads, and this attracted more people.\nEarly Farming & Irrigation Systems\nOne of these early residents was Frank Pendley, who became the most notable farmer in the history of Oak Creek Canyon because his pioneer spirit and engineering skills enabled him to construct an innovative irrigation system. He succeeded where many others had failed to the extent that his apples and pears were sold at markets in Jerome, Cottonwood, Phoenix and Los Angeles. Fact is, Pendley\u2019s irrigation system still is used at Slide Rock State Park, site of his early homestead.\nSouth of J.J. Thompson\u2019s newly named Indian Gardens, the Abraham James family earned the distinction of being the first residents of this immediate community, which was destined to be called Camp Garden, and then Sedona. James, his wife and son moved here in 1879, and apparently James is the guy this community can thank for making it a popular tourist attraction more than 100 years later. Yes, James was a prolific originator of place names especially for this community\u2019s spectacular red-rock formations.\nHowever, Dr. Jesse Walter Fewkes of the Smithsonian Institute also deserves credit, because after naming the two largest cliff dwellings in this area Palatki and Honanki in 1895, this archaeologist predicted that Red Rock Country would become extremely popular with tourists.\nAs for James, according to records left by old-timers, he named Bell Rock, Steamboat Rock, Court Rock and Church Rock. Years later, Court Rock and Church Rock became Courthouse Rock and Cathedral Rock, and the names were reversed with regard to the rock formations.\nDuring the same year that Thompson settled in Oak Creek Canyon, 1876, Beaver Head Stage Station was built near Dry Beaver Creek, 12 miles south of what now is Sedona. This station was located on the very old road from Winslow to Yuma, which branched off the route of what was to be the Santa Fe Railroad and Hwy 66. Later, a rough road extended from the stage station to Big Park, which was named Village of Oakcreek in 1968. Here, the road continued north to the area that was to be Sedona, and it also branched west to Red Rock, a settlement on Oak Creek best described as the area between what was to become known as Red Rock Crossing and today\u2019s Red Rock State Park.\nJohn Lee settled near the crossing at the same time as Thompson claimed land in Oak Creek Canyon, and Margaret Ann Jackson made 1876 an even more significant year in this areas history when she became the first white woman to live on lower Oak Creek. Also, Henry Schuerman acquired a 160-acre farm south of Lee\u2019s property, where the state park is located, in 1884.\nHow Sedona Got Its Name\nAs the story of this community\u2019s early history goes, T.C. and Sedona Schnebly were attracted to Upper Oak Creek or Camp Garden both names were being used at that time. Strangely, these names were totally appropriate because during the past 100 years, unnumbered families and individuals have been drawn here by the raving descriptions of friends and relatives. In the case of T.C. and Sedona, it was T.C\u2019s brother, Dorsey Ellsworth Schnebly, who discovered Red Rock Country while seeking an ideal climate and atmosphere for his health. According to the recorded testimony of Ellsworth Schnebly, son of T.C. and Sedona, his uncle was inspired by the discovery of towering red rocks interfused with forested greenery, as well as vast acreage surrounded by meandering, clear Oak Creek.\nHaving purchased an 80-acre site from Frank Owenby after traveling from Kansas in late 1901, T.C. constructed a handsome house with two stone fireplaces near the location of present-day Los Abrigados Resort and Tlaquepaque Arts and Crafts Village. And when residents of this small settlement complained to T.C. about slow and infrequent mail service, he immediately filed an application for the establishment of a post office.\nVarious reports indicate that T.C. suggested calling the post office Schnebly Station, then Red Rock Crossing and even Oak Creek Station and most of these reports state that the names were not accepted by the government because they were too long to fit on a cancellation stamp. Subsequently, T.C\u2019s brother, Dorsey Ellsworth, thought of submitting the name of T.C\u2019s wife, Sedona. And after telling T.C. that in the person there was a character that would stand well as a symbol for the community, he turned to Sedona and said, You\u2019re going to have a town named after you.\nPostal officials approved the name Sedona, and on June 26, 1902, the post office was in business in the back of the Schnebly home.\nTo learn more about Sedona's rich and unique history, visit The Sedona Heritage Museum to hear these stories and many others about local Sedona history.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 8258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vtcynic.com/tag/uvms-womens-center/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:32Z", "digest": "sha1:B2HZHFDBUWM4U2BI3TMCBF73VQSCHCM3", "length": 20, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "vtcynic.com", "title": "UVM\u2019s women\u2019s center \u2013 The Vermont Cynic", "raw_content": "UVM\u2019s women\u2019s center", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 1989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 106.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://vukosifungeni.wordpress.com/2012/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:19Z", "digest": "sha1:AMKIQPBDJRFNCUUQXH2D6LGUZT3Z4RDD", "length": 1769, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "vukosifungeni.wordpress.com", "title": "June | 2012 |", "raw_content": "J.P. Morgan\u2019s Growing Loss Weighs on Banks\nJ.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is weak this morning on word that the bank\u2019s trading losses will be much wider than originally reported. The market knew that the loss would be at least $2 billion, but for the trades to unwind the bank\u2019s ultimate loss is one which we will not fully know until the bank\u2019s earnings report in July. Even then, the full loss may not be known.\nThe New York Times has a scathing report showing that the trading loss may total as much as $9 billion. Other news outlets are calling it $9 billion in a headline \u201cone-upping effort\u201d and that may be skewing the news. We were expecting the loss to widen further from the $2 billion, maybe to as much as $4 billion or even $5 billion. But up to $9 billion?\nThis trading loss, and the image blow to\u2026\nGlencore, Xstrata Merger on the Rocks (GLCNF, XSRAY, BHP, VALE, RIO)\nThe announcement last February that Glencore International AG (OTC: GLCNF) would acquire mining giant Xstrata plc (OTC: XSRAY) has always faced one very big problem: just 17% of Xstrata shareholders voting against the deal can kill it. Glencore, which already owns 34% of Xstrata, cannot vote in the deal that has recently been pegged at a value of $58 billion. Some earlier estimates of the deal\u2019s value ran as high as $90 billion.\nWhatever. The latest threat to the merger is a demand from Qatar Holdings \u2014 the sovereign wealth fund that owns 11% of Xstrata \u2014 that Glencore boost its offer by 16%, from 2.8 shares to 3.25 shares of Glencore stock for every share of Xstrata.\nQatar Holdings\u2019 demand follows a dispute over a retention package for Xstrata\u2019s senior managers worth about $270 million. The total payout to Xstrata employees would be around $337 million. Originally to be\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 245.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://walkertexasranger.fandom.com/wiki/Francis_Gage", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:51Z", "digest": "sha1:BYSY3DX3MOQURLWGH6JKNKJ3IZSCAICU", "length": 1380, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "walkertexasranger.fandom.com", "title": "Francis Gage | Walkerpedia | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Characters, Male Characters, Living\nFrancis Gage is played by Judson Mills. He is Sydney Cooke's partner, both rookie rangers, yet both very good rangers. He is in seasons 7 and 8, appeared in 46 episodes.\nHistory: Gage has one sister, and was orphaned at a young age. He was a bartender to pay his way through school. However his law enforcement experience prior to the Rangers is not known.\nFighting skills: Much like Trent and Walker, Gage is a skilled martial artist, and is shown to have some kick-boxing experience as well. He is also a gym rat, and on several occasions has been seen working out at home.\nPersonal: Gage is similar to the most male rangers in the show, having a macho outward attitude, but are soft spoken and genuinely cares about helping people and getting justice for the people they meet.\nSydney: While most of their relationship is strictly professional, it is shown that they have a mutual attraction to each other, and it is implied later that they do pursue a romantic interest in one another. It is especially high lighted when Gage loses his hearing temporarily and Sid sees that he has a cooked meal and is taken care of.\nJulie: This is Gage's older sister and from all accounts all the family he has left, as he was orphaned at a young age and was never adopted.\nRetrieved from \"https://walkertexasranger.fandom.com/wiki/Francis_Gage?oldid=3546\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 2963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wanhao.myminifactory.com/competition/ikea-119", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:20Z", "digest": "sha1:UCN5XNHGDZTTJO5J72ZDZPXGA3MFLORD", "length": 8981, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "wanhao.myminifactory.com", "title": "3D Design and Print Competitions - MyMiniFactory Contests", "raw_content": "Democratic Design Challenge\nOff The Grid: Open Source and 3D\nThis official design challenge on MyMiniFactory in collaboration with IKEA explores the notion of \"Off the Grid\" and ties into a series of public workshops, and we want you to contribute. For those of you who participated in one of these workshops, the information below is not new, but please have a read through anyhow, especially to see how to take part in this online Design Challenge.\nWhy \"Off The Grid\"?\nIKEA believes in providing as many people as possible with the means to create a better everyday life. Today, a lot of people lack access to the common water, energy and communications grids, which in many cases are key to make life at home work. That is why we want to explore independent off the grid solutions that allow people to be less dependent on existing systems. We want to explore hands-on everyday off-grid solutions for the basic things to cope with everyday life: energy, water, and communication. We want to harness the power of the sun to provide the light and electricity needed in everyday life. We want to improve the usage, cleaning, and collecting of water. And we want to see how people can connect without grids.\nWhy a Democratic Design Challenge?\nOff the Grid connects to IKEA's idea about democratising great things, to give the people access to high-value products that make everyday life better. Democratic Design is guided by IKEA's vision \u201cto create a better everyday life for the many people\".\nDemocratic Design is a tool and a mindset that can be applied to a number of design areas - from product design, to architecture, to media, to food, and much more.\nMaking things better through IKEA's Democratic Design principles means doing five things better:\n1) Form: making the world more beautiful.\n2) Function: really making everyday life easier and more meaningful.\n3) Quality: making everything last longer and age gracefully.\n4) Sustainability: taking responsibility to have an improving impact on people and the planet.\n5) Low price: making it truly affordable for the many.\nIKEA works with all five principles, all the time. It's a straightforward formula but it takes a lot of hard work. Besides being the way IKEA makes things better and making sure as many people as possible can get access to great solutions, Democratic Design also creates a way for more people to talk about what's good and what's not.\nFor this challenge, participants should embrace the Democratic Design process, and use 3D designs and 3D printing to create an \"Off the Grid\" solution which aims to solve a problem that people or institutions face today. This is an open brief, but operates within the specific framework: access to water, access to energy and communications are the three problems that qualify for this \"Off the Grid\" design challenge.\nBe creative, be inspiring and deliver a project that can help make a difference.\nFind out more about Democratic Design.\nYou can enter the Democratic Design Challenge in two equal ways: either by submitting a 3D printable version of the object, or simply by submitting an idea of the object. When submitting an object, you can use your favourite 3D design software, or explore our curated list of 3D tools. See the Process below for more details.\nThe IKEA Democratic Design Challenge launches on Friday 25th May 2018. You can submit your 3D printable object or your design idea from that date. Your can submit any number of 3D printable object and/or ideas based on the design brief during that period, and all of them will be considered as an entry of this design challenge.\nEntries will be open until Friday, August 31st 2018.\nWhen submitting a 3D object and for this object to eventually be published and shared to other members on MyMiniFactory, this object has to be 3D printable on a desktop 3D printer. On the other hand, when submitting an idea, all you need is a title, a description and a picture. This picture can be anything that helps you describe the idea (sketches, pictures, reference pictures, etc.). It makes it both very easy to share simply the spark of an idea, but you can also go into more detail if your concept has been more tested.\nWhen submitting your object or your idea, please use the five dimensions of Democratic Design to describe your product: it makes it easier for IKEA to review and evaluate what you want to do and how you want to do it (see the rest of the process below). Does your solution have a form that is appealing and pleasant to live with? Is it really functional? Does it solve the problem you aim to solve in a way that is easy to use? Are the materials and the construction durable and long-lasting? Does it support a sustainable way of life and can it be produced in a sustainable way? How is this solution affordable? Is the production simple? Are you proposing the right use of materials? Try to make your object or your idea as hands-on as possible. Think about how people can use it in their everyday lives in a simple way - connect your object or your idea to the needs, activities and behaviours we all go through during the course of the day.\nNeither objects nor ideas uploaded during this submission period will be published at that time. This is because entries to this particular Democratic Design challenge will be reviewed by IKEA before publication (see bullet point below).\nFollowing the submissions period, IKEA will review and evaluate the entries during the following weeks (there again, the precise date is to be confirmed and will be communicated to participants). Until this date, objects and ideas submitted as part of the Democratic Design Challenge will be under a \"Free Exclusive License\", meaning that only IKEA can use the idea and that IKEA does not pay anything for it until the end of this evaluation period and if IKEA decides to acquire the idea. This does not mean that IKEA owns the object or the idea that is submitted (you keep ownership and copyright), but that they have the right to be the first to acquire the objects and ideas submitted (if a deal is found with the designer or creator). This is not an automatic process, but relies on the further dialogue between IKEA and the designer.\nIn the case that IKEA wants to acquire the object or the idea, this leads to a further conversation between the designer and IKEA. Both parties eventually enter into an commercial agreement, with IKEA to further develop the idea into an IKEA product. In this case and only at this stage is the object or the idea exclusively owned by IKEA.\nIn the case that IKEA does not want to acquire the object or the idea or that no deal is found between IKEA and the designer, objects and ideas are published on MyMiniFactory. Ownership of the objects and the ideas remains with the designer. You can find out more about the licensing on MyMiniFactory on this page.\nAfter the review phase and once objects are published, a public community vote period will be open from April (once again, the precise date and mechanism of the community voting will be confirmed; but this will give a fair chance to the best designs to be identified by the community and desktop 3D printer users).\nWinners of the community vote reward will then be announced. The best designs will be curated and promoted in collections organised under the official IKEA profile on MyMiniFactory.\nPlease don't hesitate to ask any questions!\nOn top of contributing to solving global challenges by taking part in the Democratic Design Challenge, the best ideas and designs will have the possibility of being included in a collection of Off The Grid solutions, developed by IKEA. A selection of ideas and designs will probably be showcased during the IKEA Democratic Design Days in \u00c4lmhult - an annual event attended by some 250 journalists and influencers. This is a great opportunity to showcase your work to design enthusiasts, press, and IKEA insiders. To find out more about the Democratic Design Days, check out the last edition's live show below.\nCommunity vote reward\nYour objects will also be made available to 3D printer owners around the world, by being published on MyMiniFactory. Following publication of objects, a public community vote will be open, inviting members of MyMiniFactory to Like their favourite design. The object that collects the most Likes at the end of this community voting period will receive a desktop 3D printer (brand and model TBC).\nInvite your friends and colleagues\nWhether you're looking to enter as a team, to share this Design Challenge with friends or with fellow students, or simply to share this design brief on social media, here are some easy sharing options for you:\nDo you have any questions, comments or feedback about the IKEA Democratic Design Challenge (including questions from the press)? Don't hesitate to post your public questions below. Alternatively, you can also contact the MyMiniFactory Team using our contact form or by emailing info@myminifactory.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 10772, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2008/04/07/gns-wins-sec-info-security-contract.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:59Z", "digest": "sha1:OCW24SLDDJOPHUGFIIGJ2P2T2WOTQNNO", "length": 819, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "washingtontechnology.com", "title": "GNS wins SEC info security contract -- Washington Technology", "raw_content": "GNS wins SEC info security contract\nGlobal Network Systems Inc. has been picked by the Securities and Exchange Commission to help the agency with several security requirements.\nUnder a $3.5 million contract, GNS of Rockville, Md., will provide SEC with professional services to help it meet requirements from the Office of Management and Budget and the Government Accountability Office, and also under the Federal Information Security Management Act.\nGNS will assist with improving information security programs, while also providing OMB oversight reporting and automating FISMA compliance.\nThe company has been working with SEC for two and a half years. The woman-owned, 8(a) small business will have four people working on the project and will add others as needed, said Peyman Goldoust, GNS executive vice president.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 7121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://weather.com/en-IN/weather/today/l/Minha+RK+AEXX0297:1:AE", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:24Z", "digest": "sha1:4SEUW3EZZMRNUHTGNG6EYXLSK73LJ3XN", "length": 27, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "weather.com", "title": "Minha, United Arab EmiratesWeather Forecast and Conditions - The Weather Channel | Weather.com", "raw_content": "Minha, United Arab Emirates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 1594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 133.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wedatenerds.com/2012/11/21/nicholas-hoult-is-everywhere-so-hot-right-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:AQYBI7426JTGTVZZEFNFGNSPB2SAPUUT", "length": 763, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "wedatenerds.com", "title": "Nicholas Hoult is Everywhere! So Hot Right Now! \u2013 We Date Nerds", "raw_content": "I\u2019m not sure if the readers out there have noticed but Nicholas Hoult seems to be everywhere these days. We first fell in love with Hoult as the rap loving kid in About a Boy and then as the sex crazed teenager in Skins and once again as Beast in X-Men: First Class.\nBut in the past week Nicholas Hoult has shown up in two very different movie trailers. I know what I think of both but want to hear what you think.\nFirst was one shown to me by Cyclops and before Twilight. It\u2019s called Warm Bodies and appears to be a zombie romcom.\nThe second trailer is for the movie Jack the Giant Killer a new twist on the classic Fairy Tale.\nReaders what do you think about these movies?\nThe Cinemamovie trailers, nicholas hoult, X-Men, x-men: first classZabbyBLeave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4667, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wenstrup.house.gov/about/what-i-stand-for.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:38Z", "digest": "sha1:WWCWEQLNN2B4WYKQVXBO64T6BZBNKN75", "length": 2253, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "wenstrup.house.gov", "title": "What I Stand For | U.S. Representative Brad Wenstrup", "raw_content": "Too many people in Washington talk much but say little. That\u2019s not my style. I want you to know where I stand:\nService before self. Country comes first and freedom comes at a high price. We each have a duty to honor those who paid our bill, with their lives, by defending freedom for the next generation. Our country is worth sacrificing for. Freedom is worth fighting for.\nTruth, justice, and the American way. I grew up with the black-and-white superman. Every episode started with the narrator talking about superman fighting \u201ca never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way!\u201d I bought into that idea. Today, I\u2019m concerned that too often, in our culture, the end justifies the means. Too many people have the attitude of: If I get want I want politically, it doesn\u2019t matter how I got there. I reject that idea. It does matter. Truth and justice still are the American way \u2013 and I will keep fighting for that.\nWe can't tax our way into prosperity, or spend our way out of debt. I believe that \u2013 just like any American family or business \u2013 the federal government needs to get its finances in order. We need to provide tax relief to the American families, entrepreneurs, and employers and we need to address the national debt that is crippling our children\u2019s future. We need also to rein in Washington\u2019s out of control spending. Because at the end of the day, the federal government will never be able to tax away its spending problem.\nEvery life has value. Every person has dignity. This fundamental value is the underpinning for our national identity: \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are LIFE \u2026.\u201d It's part of the soul of our nation and I will never stop fighting to ensure life is protected at every stage.\nPeople come before politics. Constituent service is a priority for\u202fmy office,\u202fbecause I believe government was created to serve the people \u2013 not the other way around. That\u2019s why my office prioritizes consistent communication, and close contact with constituents \u2013 whether it\u2019s through in person meetings, social media updates, or our weekly polls. We\u2019re here to serve you and stand ready to listen.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 207.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://westherald.com/elon-musk-claims-we-can-terraform-mars/4172/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:49Z", "digest": "sha1:JUM7TI3B77NTT424PA6YG5HB53SU6SI5", "length": 1637, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "westherald.com", "title": "Elon Musk Claims We Can Terraform Mars | West Herald", "raw_content": "Posted on August 1, 2018 by Safar Adeli\nWhile scientists say we can\u2019t terraform Mars, Elon Musk strongly believes the opposite\nMars features a very thin atmosphere, which translates to men quickly dying from one of the following four causes: 1) lack of sufficient atmospheric pressure to prevent organs from rupturing out of the body, 2) suffocation from lack of oxygen 3) freeze from low temperatures, or 4) get fried from too much ultraviolet radiation.\nThe solution to prevent this from happening would be to increase the atmospheric pressure on the Red Planet enough to allow humans to walk on its surface without a pressurized suit and, ideally, without a breathing machine.\nOne plan to do so inquires the release of carbon dioxide that is trapped in Mars\u2019 surface. Back in 2015, Elon Musk suggested accomplishing it through dropping weapons on the planet\u2019s poles.\nHowever, according to a new study, there is not enough CO2 trapped in the surface to increase the atmospheric pressure to terraforming levels.\nEven so, Musk claims that there is plenty enough CO2 trapped in the soil to achieve terraforming, but did not specify what exactly backs up his claims.\nAt the same time, NASA admits that we don\u2019t have the necessary technology to make terraforming a possibility yet. Musk plans to send humans to Mars in 2024, so there is still plenty of time.\nPosted in ScienceTagged elon musk, humans on mars, mars, mars atmosphere, nasa, red planet, terraforming, water on mars\nWe may finally know a cause for Alzheimer\u2019s and you might want to talk to your dentist\nNew Study Reveals That the Flows of \u201cWater\u201d on Mars Might Actually be Sand", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 4625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://westherald.com/rockets-hit-kabul-airport-just-hours-after-us-defense-secretary-arrived/3447/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:4TAFH3D2K6YTDOQ5VWUW6WIN74NQ764E", "length": 1905, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "westherald.com", "title": "Rockets Hit Kabul Airport Just Hours After US Defense Secretary Arrived | West Herald", "raw_content": "Rockets Hit Kabul Airport Just Hours After US Defense Secretary Arrived\nPosted on September 27, 2017 by Ramin Taherian\nA few hours after US Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived at Hamid Karzai International Airport, rockets hit next to the facility\nThe location from which the rockets were fired is still unknown, according to Afghan Interior Ministry\u2019s spokesman Najib Danish.\nTaliban\u2019s spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid took responsibility of the attack and said that Mattis\u2019 plane was, indeed, the target. Fortunately, no one was injured.\nAll houses located close to the airport were searched as there were suspicions that the rockets might have been fired from one of them, Danish added.\nMattis\u2019 visit on Wednesday was unannounced and was his first trip to the country since Donald Trump announced a new Afghan strategy in late August.\nAt a press conference with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Stoltenberg, Mattis mentioned that he had just heard some press reports, and said that \u201can attack on an airport anywhere in the world is a criminal act by terrorist.\u201d\nHe further added that \u201cIf, in fact, this is what they have done, they will find the Afghan Security Forces continuing on the offensive against them in every district of the country right now.\u201d\nMattis met with Afghan President Ghani at the Presidential Palace and said it was \u201crefreshing\u201d to be there alongisde NATO\u2019s leader.\n\u201cA lot is riding on this of course as we look toward how do we put an end to this fighting and the threat of terrorism to the Afghan people, to the international community and how do we put this into a path of political reconciliation,\u201d he said.\nPosted in PoliticsTagged afghan, attack, Donald Trump, james mattis, meeting, rocket\n\u201cThe Tougher, the Better\u201d \u2013 Trump Administration\u2019s New Travel Ban\nAmazon Alexa: One Thing Needed Before Getting Into Health Care\nBali Volcano Might Erupt Soon \u2013 120,000 People Evacuated", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://what-to-watch.com/tag/con-man/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:36Z", "digest": "sha1:224LLTYPA63F65BHEJ4UFTWZO4SHJ54F", "length": 3376, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "what-to-watch.com", "title": "con man | What to Watch.", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: con man\nAmerican Hustle (2013) Rated PG-13\nA con man and his partner are forced to work with an F.B.I. Agent that brings them into the world of power brokers and mafia. Starring Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, and Amy Adams. I\u2019m still wondering how this film has gotten all \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in 2013, Crime, Drama, films, Movie reviews, movies, Rated PG-13, reviews\t| Tagged actors, agent, American Hustle, Amy Adams, best, bradley cooper, cast, characters, Christian Bale, con, con man, costumes, direction, F.B.I, FBI, film, film reviews, films, improvised, mafia, man, movie, movie reviews, movies, not worth, partner, plot, powerbrokers, production, story, trailer, work, world\t| Leave a comment\nThor: Ragnarok (PG-13) Thor is imprisoned on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the destruction of his home world and the end of Asgardian \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in 2018, DVDS, films, Lists, movies, Tv shows\t| Tagged 2018, Ali Skovbye, Amaury Bossy, Armand Assante, Aya Hirano, Blue Planet II, Campfire Kiss, Carlos Ayala, Cate Blanchett, Cheryl Hines, Chris Hemsworth, christopher plummer, Claudia Karvan, con man, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Ninth Season, Dan Stevens, Danica McKellar, David Attenborough, Dragon Cry, Faces Places, Fairy Tail, Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, films, Gekij\u00f4ban, Gekij\u00f4ban Fairy Tail, Gekij\u00f4ban Fairy Tail: Dragon Cry, Georgina Naidu, IMDB, Jean-Paul Beaujon, Jeff Garlin, Jim Belushi, Juno Temple, Justin Baldoni, justin timberlake, Kavan Smith, Lady Bird, Larry David, Laurie Metcalf, Leanne Lapp, Lists, Makoto Furukawa, March 6, Miriam Margolyes, movies, New This Week on DVD, Newton's Law, Newton's Law: Season 1, Noorin Gulamgaus, Pascale Hutton, Paul Greene, Peter Drost, Ragnarok, Saara Chaudry, Saoirse Ronan, Season 1, Soma Chhaya, The Breadwinner, The Complete Ninth Season, The Man Who Invented Christmas, The Perfect Bride, Thor, Thor: Ragnarok, Toby Schmitz, Tom Hiddleston, Tracy Letts, TV series, Tv shows, Visages villages, Wataru Hatano, Wonder Wheel, Yves Boulen\t| Leave a comment\nJuly 4th Films 2011\nApollo 13 (1995) Rated PG Technical troubles scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1971, risking the lives of astronaut Jim Lovell and his crew in director Ron Howard\u2019s chronicle of this true-life story, which turns a failed journey into \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in films, Lists, movies\t| Tagged 1776, 1960s, 1971, 4th of july films, 70s, academy awards, apollo 13, astronauts, ben franklin, Best Actor Oscar, best picture, biography, boys band, Broadway, buddy hackett, comedy, composer, con man, declaration of independence, Drama, earh, entertainer, films, forrest gump, friends, funny, George m. cohan, give my regards to broadway, heroism, history lesson, hometown, howard da silva, it's a grand old flag, James Cagney, Jim Lovell, John Adams, July 4th films, ken howard, Librarian, lunar mission, meredith willson, midwestern americana, movies, Mr. Broadway, Music man, Musical, netflix, over there, patriot, performances, peter stone, Playwright, pulitzer prize, Robert Zemeckis, Ron Howard, score, simple-minded, six, song and dance, songs, soul mate, story, Thomas Jefferson, tom hanks, true-life, valentine, vaudeville, William Daniels, winner, Yankee doodle dandy\t| Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 462, "original_length": 19212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 334.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://whatever.scalzi.com/2016/06/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:39Z", "digest": "sha1:NJGBUN2NPQ6GEPQI3DYMV425JWNS2LZV", "length": 8663, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "whatever.scalzi.com", "title": "June 12, 2016 \u2013 Whatever", "raw_content": "June 12, 2016 June 13, 2016 John Scalzi1 Comment\nA man goes into an immigration services center in Binghamton New York, blocks the exit in the back with his car, goes through the front door with handguns, body armor and ammunition. He shoots the receptionists and opens fire on a citizenship class. He murders thirteen. This is horrific. I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nA psychiatrist trained to help others with the stress of combat goes to Ft. Hood, the army base at which he is stationed, and opens fire on his fellow soldiers and some civilians, too. Another thirteen people are murdered there. Three are killed charging the shooter. Words cannot express my sorrow. I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nA professor is denied tenure at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. She goes to a department faculty meeting and in that conference room pulls out a nine-millimeter handgun and shoots six people, three of whom she manages to murder. Those people were just doing their jobs and what happened to them is terrible. I don\u2019t want to have to think about it any further. I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nA truck driver in Manchester, Connecticut comes out of a company disciplinary hearing for allegedly stealing beer and starts shooting up his place of work. He murders eight people, calls his mother and tells her about it, and then shoots himself. Gun control discussions are a mess in this country and they never go anywhere productive, there\u2019s no middle ground, and they make me tired thinking about them. I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nIn Tucson, Arizona, a member of Congress is meeting with her constituents in the parking lot of a supermarket, and a 22-year-old man comes up and shoots her straight in the head. A representative to Congress, can you believe that! She somehow survives, but he murders six others, ranging in age from nine to 79. That\u2019s quite a range. Surely the attempted assassination of a US Representative will start a substantive discussion by someone. In the meantime, I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nSeal Beach, California, where a man and a woman are having a custody dispute. His solution: Enter his wife\u2019s place of work, a hair salon, and open fire on anyone there. He murders his ex-wife and seven other people, including one man not even in the salon. He is in his car in the parking lot outside the salon. Bad luck. Here\u2019s an interesting thing: there is a sort of magical power to saying that you offer your thoughts and prayers.\nOakland, California, and at a small Christian college, a man who had been expelled for behavioral and anger management problems decides that he\u2019s going to find an administrator he has issues with. He doesn\u2019t find her, so instead grabs a secretary, enters a classroom and orders the students there to line against a wall. Some refuse. He shoots, reloads and shoots some more. Seven people are murdered. The shooter later says he\u2019s sorry. The magical power of saying that you offer your thoughts and prayers is that once you do it, you\u2019re not required to do anything other than to offer your thoughts and prayers.\nIn Aurora, Colorado, a midnight audience of Batman fans are half an hour into the final installment of Christopher Nolan\u2019s superhero trilogy when a man enters the theater, clad in protective armor, sets off two gas canisters and starts shooting. Some audience members think this is a stunt tied into the film. It\u2019s not a stunt, and the shooter, armed with an assault rife, a shotgun and a glock, murders a dozen people, ten of whom die right there in the theater. When police visit the shooter\u2019s home, they find it rigged with explosives. The shooter placed a camera to record what happens if the police just barge in. Saying \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d is performative, which is to say that just in saying it, you\u2019ve performed an action. Prayers leave your mind and go to God. It is a blessed, holy and as such apparently sufficient thing, to offer your thoughts and prayers.\nSunday morning, and in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, members of the Sikh temple there have gathered for services and meditation and are preparing a communal meal when a white supremacist and Army veteran starts shooting, murdering six and wounding a police officer before killing himself. Did you know that Sikhs are often confused by the unknowing and possibly uncaring for being Muslim, and that the excuse of \u201cI thought they were Muslims\u201d is itself a sign of racial hatred? Mind you, there are people who will say to you that it\u2019s not enough, only to offer your thoughts and prayers.\nIn Minneapolis, a man is called into an office by his supervisor and told he is losing his job. The man replies, \u201cOh, really?\u201d and pulls out a handgun, shooting the supervisor after a struggle for the weapon, eventually murdering five others before killing himself. Indeed, people particularly expect more from lawmakers, who have the ability to call hearings and allow government studies and even change laws, rather than only to offer their thoughts and prayers.\nBrookfield, Wisconsin, another hair salon, another estranged couple. The wife seeks a restraining order when the husband threatens to burn her with acid and set her on fire with gasoline. He does neither. He does, however, murder her, along with two other women. Witnesses say the wife tried to protect the others before she died. But again, even if you\u2019re a lawmaker, with the ability to do things that could have concrete impact, you might argue that your responsibility to women being murdered by husbands, workers murdered by co-workers, religious minorities murdered by bigots, soldiers murdered by other soldiers, innocents murdered by those who are not, ends when you, in a tweet, Facebook post or press release, offer your thoughts and prayers.\nA man enters an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, and with a Bushmaster XM15-E2S carbine rifle, murders twenty children, all of whom are either six or seven years old.\nWe pause here a moment to think about that.\nTwenty children. Ages six, or seven.\nAnd here maybe you think to yourself, this is it. This is the place and time where thoughts and prayers in fact aren\u2019t enough, where those who only offer their thoughts and prayers recognize that others see them in their inaction, see that the convenient self-absolution of thoughts and prayers, that the magical abnegation thoughts and prayers offer, is no longer sufficient, is no longer proper, is no longer just or moral, or even offers the appearance of morality.\nWe pause here a moment, and wait to see what happens next.\nAnd then they come. One after another.\nFive murdered in Santa Monica, California by a gunman. I offer my thoughts and prayers.\n12 murdered in a running firefight through the Washington Navy Yard in DC. Like a ritual, I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nFt. Hood, Texas again, for another three murdered. Like a litany, I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nSix murdered in Isla Vista, California. Violence against women is horrible, and I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nNine murdered in Charleston, South Carolina. It\u2019s unspeakable that violence against black Americans has happened like this, and I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nFive murdered in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Muslims should answer for the crimes of this person, even if they do not know him or would in any way condone the action, and I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nNine murdered in Roseburg, Oregon. I offer my thoughts and prayers.\nThree murdered in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Thoughts and prayers.\nFourteen murdered in San Bernadino. Thoughts. Prayers.\nFifty murdered in Orlando.\nFifty people, in a gay club, by a shooter who his father says was disgusted by the sight of two men kissing, and who news reports now tell us had pledged allegiance to ISIS.\nAnd what do we do now, I wonder, when the victims are who they are and the perpetrator is who he is, the situation is ripe for posturing, and there\u2019s a phrase to be used that allows one to assert maximum public virtue with minimum personal effort or responsibility?\nWhat do we do now, when thoughts and prayers are easy, and everything else is hard?\nHere is the thing: In the aftermath of terrible violence, offer thoughts, and prayers, if it is your desire to do so.\nThen offer more than thoughts and prayers. Ask for more than thoughts and prayers. Vote for more than thoughts and prayers. Help those for whom thoughts and prayers are the start of their responsibilities, not the abdication of them. And as for the others, you may politely remind them of Matthew 6:5-6, and perhaps also Matthew 7:21-23. Perhaps they will see themselves in the words there. Perhaps not. They\u2019re worth thinking on regardless.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 15226, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/3312888073_74a4254356_z/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:10Z", "digest": "sha1:632PJPJM5I7XVA5TQ3LHWKWPVISJCFMB", "length": 11177, "nlines": 110, "source_domain": "where.ca", "title": "Road Trip | Road Trip: Vancouver Island Coastal Drive, From Victoria to Tofino | where.ca", "raw_content": "where.ca > Whereblog > Road Trip > Road Trip: Vancouver Island Coastal Drive, From Victoria to Tofino\nA place where the mountains meet the sea, Vancouver Island\u2019s beauty is known the world over. At times wild and untamed, the Island can be equally refined and sophisticated as well as quirky and interesting. Traversing the two-lanes that link British Columbia\u2019s capital with its best-known surf town is a pleasurable experience\u2014especially if you make time for lots of stops along the way.\nTravelling from south to north is the best way to tackle this drive. You can steer your own car onto a ship operated by BC Ferries and sail onto the Saanich Peninsula near Sidney, or fly into the Victoria International Airport\u2014also near Sidney\u2014and rent a car from there. Then get on the Trans-Canada and head north to Parksville, then west on BC Highway 4 to Tofino. Split the drive into at least two or three days.\nTake a little time to explore Victoria, a lovely city carved out of the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. Have a look at some Orcas as they swim and breach by roaring out into the Salish Sea on a zodiac with Prince of Whales, the city\u2019s premiere whale-watching outfit, browse the shops near the city\u2019s picturesque Inner Harbour, or take a cute little water taxi and go for fish and chips at Fisherman\u2019s Wharf.\nAnd when you\u2019re ready to roll, head over the Malahat Drive (the winding section of mountain highway that connects the Saanich with the rest of Van Island). Stop in the charming village of Chemainus, which is painted with dozens of murals celebrating the town\u2019s history and heritage, and browse their local artisan shops. Spend a little time in Parksville, home to some of the best beaches on the island and perhaps the warmest seawater in Canada\u2014dramatic ties create a giant beach, the sun heats the sand, and when the tide rolls back in the sand heats the water, making for a pleasurable swim. There are also a number of interesting diversions in the area, including the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre, which rehabilitates wounded and orphaned raptors (hawks, eagles, raptors) and black bears. Browse The Old Country Market in Coombs\u2014it\u2019ll be the building with goats eating tall stands of grass on the roof. Inside there\u2019s a caf\u00e9 and rambling store that sells everything from hammocks to Quebec cheese to bread baked right on site.\nThen head west, over the mountains, to Tofino, about 2 \u00bd hours west of Parksville, a lovely stretch of highway that winds past lakes and snow-capped peaks. Stroll along famous Long Beach, a mystical place strewn with driftwood and lapped by Pacific waves, some of which are ridden by wetsuit-clad surfers (inquire in town about a lesson).\nVictoria may seem like a strange place for Southern barbeque, but you can find authentic, mouth-watering pulled pork at Pig BBQ Joint, located right in the heart of town. En route north in Mill Bay, fuel up at the original outlet of Serious Coffee, which opened more than a quarter-century ago and paved the way for the small chain of coffee shops that has become an island institution. Please note that they also feature some pretty serious brioche, in all its gooey goodness. A little further up the road, and a little off the beaten track, have some lunch at Genoa Bay Caf\u00e9, where you can munch on fresh Salt Spring Island mussels or West Coast seafood chowder while taking in the view of a charming harbor filled with small boats, skirted by mountains and dense forest (it\u2019s worth the drive). And in Tofino, chow down on fish tacos or a hearty burrito at Tacofino, a cheery orange food truck in the back parking lot of a surf shop just outside of town that has become the stuff of legend by feeding thousands of surfers.\nIn Victoria, lay your head down in style at the Fairmont Empress, perhaps the city\u2019s most recognizable landmark, with its ivy-covered facade and air of English sophistication. At the midway point of the trip, relax at Parksville\u2019s Beach Club Resort, which sits directly on the water and features large, comfortable rooms, a spa, and an excellent steakhouse. And in Tofino, Long Beach Lodge features spectacular sea views and more than enough comfort to rest your adventure-weary bones.\nSpinning a few songs by the Aussie activist rockers Midnight Oil\u2014the band that did more than any other to save the old-growth forests of Clayquot Sound\u2014is a must. Listen to Nelly Furtado in Victoria\u2014her hometown\u2014and as you travel over the Malahat, put on some Hot Hot Heat, who hail from nearby Shawnigan Lake. And while they\u2019re not exactly from the Island, it seems appropriate to hold a little tribute to the rockers of the Pacific Northwest who popularized grunge rock all those years ago\u2014Seattle\u2019s Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and, of course, Nirvana.\nPhoto by Shayne Kaye\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/5648223433_5c18ef0933_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/5648223433_5c18ef0933_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/5648223433_5c18ef0933_z/\n5648223433_5c18ef0933_z\nPhoto by David Wise\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/14718089_815a6b6542_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/14718089_815a6b6542_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/14718089_815a6b6542_z/\n14718089_815a6b6542_z\nPhoto by Damian Nimeck\nWhale watching off the coast of Victoria\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/179512010_85a7ca3e75_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/179512010_85a7ca3e75_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/179512010_85a7ca3e75_z/\n179512010_85a7ca3e75_z\nSaanich Inlet from the top of Malahat Drive\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2211836388_72d6c4b7fb_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/2211836388_72d6c4b7fb_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/2211836388_72d6c4b7fb_z/\n2211836388_72d6c4b7fb_z\nPhoto by wynlok\nNative Heritage mural by Paul Yguarta, Chemainus\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/6068712140_e8c4661045_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/6068712140_e8c4661045_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/6068712140_e8c4661045_z/\n6068712140_e8c4661045_z\nPhoto by StephenZecharias\nThe Hong Hing Waterfront Store mural by Paul Marcano, Chemainus\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/5485980595_68e1dc4d93_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/5485980595_68e1dc4d93_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/5485980595_68e1dc4d93_z/\n5485980595_68e1dc4d93_z\nPhoto by Derek K. Miller\nParksville's coastal wildlife\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3312888073_74a4254356_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3312888073_74a4254356_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/3312888073_74a4254356_z/\n3312888073_74a4254356_z\nParksville's beaches\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/214783466_fecffdf7df_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/214783466_fecffdf7df_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/214783466_fecffdf7df_z/\n214783466_fecffdf7df_z\nPhoto by Alanna@VanIsle\nRathtrevor Beach, Parksville\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/92391757_08db00bd38_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/92391757_08db00bd38_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/92391757_08db00bd38_z/\n92391757_08db00bd38_z\nPhoto cornawe\nThe cheeses at the Old Country Market in Coombs\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3827679380_c19cccd41e_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3827679380_c19cccd41e_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/3827679380_c19cccd41e_z/\n3827679380_c19cccd41e_z\nThe bakery at the Old Country Market in Coombs\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3827678372_1a77712c59_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3827678372_1a77712c59_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/3827678372_1a77712c59_z/\n3827678372_1a77712c59_z\nThe spread at the Old Country Market in Coombs\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3827677430_a0ca70958e_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/3827677430_a0ca70958e_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/3827677430_a0ca70958e_z/\n3827677430_a0ca70958e_z\nPhoto by Thiago Sanna Freire Silva\nA black bear near Tofino\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/529822399_3caa757c4f_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/529822399_3caa757c4f_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/529822399_3caa757c4f_z/\n529822399_3caa757c4f_z\nPhoto by Tom Carwardine\nA view of the coastline outside of Tofino\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/12094357_b102fe23b0_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/12094357_b102fe23b0_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/12094357_b102fe23b0_z/\n12094357_b102fe23b0_z\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/294884652_17cd72a12c_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/294884652_17cd72a12c_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/294884652_17cd72a12c_z/\n294884652_17cd72a12c_z\nPhoto by Magnus\nTofino's rocky beauty\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/133065701_137574fca9_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/133065701_137574fca9_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/133065701_137574fca9_z/\n133065701_137574fca9_z\nPhoto James Wheeler\nA view of the Wickaninnish Restaurant, Pacific Rim National Park, Tofino\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/5959353375_ea10a88e1b_z-88x88.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/5959353375_ea10a88e1b_z.jpg\nhttps://where.ca/blog/road-trip-blog/road-trip-vancouver-island-coastal-drive-from-victoria-to-tofino/slide/5959353375_ea10a88e1b_z/\n5959353375_ea10a88e1b_z\nPhoto by Invoke Media\nTacofino's fish 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science and public, doesn\u2019t water down its science standards \u00ab Why Evolution Is True", "raw_content": "\u00ab Sell your poop for $40 a shot and save lives!\nNow hoop earrings have become cultural appropriation \u00bb\nNew Mexico, with input from science and public, doesn\u2019t water down its science standards\nUPDATE: I have an email from Glenn Branch, who works for the National Center for Science Education, correcting the news report (and therefore the post below). I quote with his permission, and with thanks:\nThe US News and World Report version of the AP story on New Mexico\u2019s science standards leaves out a lot of details, and it\u2019s not accurate to say that \u201cthe state department of education backed down\u201d tout court et sans phrase.\nThe worst of the changes that undermined the scientific accuracy of the standards\u2019 treatment of evolution, the age of the earth, and climate change have been removed, but even as amended the proposed standards are still distinctly weaker than the Next Generation Science Standards on evolution and climate change. The Public Education Department\u2019s announcement failed to address the absence of a middle school standard about embryological evidence for evolution or the omission of \u201cdue to human activity\u201d from a high school standard about Earth\u2019s systems, for example. It remains to be seen whether the Public Education Department will revise the proposed standards further.\nAccording to the Santa Fe Reporter (October 18, 2017), \u201cDespite the statement issued late Tuesday night, [Secretary-Designate of Education Christopher] Ruszkowski has not released a formal version of what his department spokeswoman says is a new proposal on the way.\u201d\nhttp://www.sfreporter.com/news/2017/10/18/standard-questions/\nIn these dire times when American government is going down the tubes, we sometimes see a glimmer of rationality. We have one today from New Mexico.\nAs I reported about a month ago, New Mexico was set to water down its science curriculum about the usual issues: evolution, global warming, and even the age of the Earth. As I wrote then:\nMother Jones has an article by Andy Kroll about how the state of New Mexico has watered down a widespread and excellent secondary school science curriculum (grades kindergarden through 12): the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) developed in conjunction with National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The state\u2019s public education department released a document (here) that proposes changes to its existing standards that have changed some of the NGSS guidelines.\nHere are two of those proposed changes.\nDanger! Mushbrains and believers at work! But in the end, reason prevailed. According to several sources, including US News and World Report, after a public meeting in which the public vociferously opposed these changes, and after scientists (and entire departments in state universities) wrote in, the state department of education backed down.\nNew Mexico\u2018s proposed school science standards are being revised after a public outcry against the deletion or omission of references to global warming, evolution and the age of the Earth.\nPublic Education Secretary Christopher Ruszkowski announced Tuesday several changes to the final version of the state standards that incorporate suggestions from the public.\nThe Public Education Department says final standards will restore references to the 4.6 billion-year age of the Earth, the rise in global temperatures over the past century and the process of evolution due to genetic variation. A complete version of the final standards was not released.\nPublic comments at a packed public hearing Monday were overwhelmingly critical of state revisions to a set of standards developed by a consortium of states and the National Academy of Sciences.\nThere was also a letter (made into an ad) signed by 61 scientists, most of them physicists and many from Los Alamos, which you can see here. Curiously, few biologists signed, though they may have weighed in through group letters from universities (I know of at least one).\nThe changes shown above, and others, were so blatantly creationist and anti-science that it would have been a huge embarrassment to New Mexico, and to its rational inhabitants, to have this stuff publicized. In the end reason triumphed, but it may have occurred only to avoid public shaming. But I\u2019ll take what I can get.\nh/t: Avis, Woody\nThis entry was written by whyevolutionistrue and posted on October 19, 2017 at 10:30 am and filed under climate change, creationism, science education. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.\tBoth comments and trackbacks are currently closed.\nI still don\u2019t trust them. They could just adopt the national standards, yet they are still planning to make some revisions.\nIt also shows the grim nature of things in this county when you have to fight just to express the the truth and the evidence.\nIn the end reason triumphed, but it may have occurred only to avoid public shaming.\nAnd this is why transparency in government is vital. Without the opportunity to shame our public officials, who knows what would happen. As the Washington Post declaims: \u201cDemocracy dies in the dark.\u201d\nOr, though I don\u2019t remember where I saw it, \u201cSecrecy is the beginning of tyranny\u201d.\nThere\u2019s always Texas, Arizona, Alabama,Mississippi and the rest.\nOK the nucular folks in Los Alamos seem to care about science.\nMight be time for the rocket-heads in Houston and Huntsville to step up.\nAnd yes, the life-sciences people should care more. But who listens to them?\nPublic shaming an unlikely aid of reason in the 21st century?\nAll praise to Embarrassment!\nJerry: The Economist is fairly well respected yet doesn\u2019t give the names of authors of articles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 7996, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Digital_Economy_Act_Campaign", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:50Z", "digest": "sha1:25BVJF2NBYZWHFJRQNMWXBWBNG33KXPD", "length": 137, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wiki.openrightsgroup.org", "title": "Digital Economy Act Campaign - ORG Wiki", "raw_content": "Digital Economy Act Campaign\nRetrieved from \"https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/w/index.php?title=Digital_Economy_Act_Campaign&oldid=24912\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/w/index.php?title=Sexuality&action=edit§ion=95", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:58Z", "digest": "sha1:GIWTPS3NH34DKGTKBGL4OWS2JE7F2IKA", "length": 1601, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org", "title": "Editing Sexuality (section) - World University and School Wiki", "raw_content": "=== Universal Translator at WUaS === http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/WUaS_Universal_Translator Google Translate language: Sugar Labs: Translation System language: Region: '''Select Translators''' Babelxl. 2015. [http://babelxl.com/ Babelxl: the best translator]. http://babelxl.com/ . Babylon Online Translation. 2015. [http://translation.babylon.com/ Babylon Online Translation]. (Offering hundreds of dictionaries and translation in more than 800 language pairs). translation.babylon.com/ . Free-translator.com. 2015. [http://free-translator.com/ Free-translator.com]. free-translator.com/ . Google Translate. 2015. [https://translate.google.com/ Google Translate]. translate.google.com/ . SDL Free Translation. 2015. [http://www.freetranslation.com/ SDL Free Translation]. freetranslation.com/ . Word Lingo Free Translation Tools. 2015. [http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products/ Word Lingo Free Translation Tools and Machine Translation Products]. worldlingo.com/en/products/ . '''Select Video with Subtitles for Translation''' Amara.org. 2015. [http://www.amara.org/en/ Amara.org: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified]. (Amara makes video globally accessible: Captions, subtitles, and translations simplified). amara.org/en/ TED Open Translation Project. 2015. [https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project TED Open Translation Project]. (See - https://www.ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project - and - https://www.ted.com/participate/translate/get-started). ted.com/about/programs-initiatives/ted-open-translation-project .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 326.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wilsonsmedia.com/the-john-legend-song-heard-at-a-billion-weddings-hits-1-billion-views-on-youtube", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:41Z", "digest": "sha1:NOISLBCB3Q7KDIVPW3E6MJZYSQZZCUQL", "length": 953, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "wilsonsmedia.com", "title": "The John Legend song heard at a billion weddings hits 1 billion views on YouTube | Wilson's Media", "raw_content": "The John Legend song heard at a billion weddings hits 1 billion views on YouTube\nPosted By: zach_wilson 0 Comment All Of Me, John Legend, Music Videos, Youtube, Youtube Music\nJohn Legend has made it to YouTube\u2019s 1 billion club.\nThe award-winning songwriter and singer\u2019s 2013 music video for \u201cAll Of Me\u201d crossed 1 billion views on Thursday.\nLegend joins Calvin Harris (\u201cThis is What You Came For\u201d ft. Rihanna), Drake (\u201cHotline Bling\u201d), Adele (\u201cRolling in the Deep\u201d), Fifth Harmony (\u201cWork from Home\u201d ft. Ty Dolla $ign) and a handful of other artists in reaching the music video milestone.\nIn all, 24 videos hit 1 billion views in 2016, YouTube said.\nSEE ALSO: John Legend was out of town for a Santa photo, so Chrissy Teigen improvised\nTo celebrate, Legend answered questions on YouTube\u2019s Twitter account. Read more\u2026\nMore about Music Videos, All Of Me, John Legend, Youtube Music, and Youtube\nTeacher has totally amazing reaction to gift from his students", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 333.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wiselittlenuggets.com/2016/01/10/laying-it-down-for-good/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UT47S6DMFABXHJPFJRL7FQKCUQ7HXGIK", "length": 4204, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "wiselittlenuggets.com", "title": "Laying It Down For Good \u2013 Wise Little Nuggets", "raw_content": "Laying It Down For Good\nWe had to miss church today because Bradley wasn\u2019t released by the Dr. to be around people until tomorrow. (Greenhouse, you\u2019re welcome) \ud83d\ude42 I didn\u2019t want to miss, but in the missing, the Lord gave me the chance to minister to a friend who needed to talk. I felt the Holy Spirit when we prayed and I hope she did too. Afterwards, I went straight to the Word. It\u2019s so very important to go straight to the Word after a session like we had, for both of us. This is where the Lord took me after that.\nPsalm 34:15 \u2013 17 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their cry; the face of the Lord is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth. The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; He delivers them from all their troubles.\nPraise God. He sees you. He hears you. He knows you. He loves you. He is with you. He is your deliverer. He\u2019s on your side!\n10 times out of 10 our problems are way bigger than we are. So, we have to give them to the one who can handle them. He knows the answers. He has a plan. He is faithful. So we should run to Him. Fear, worry, confusion, and doubt are all of the enemy. Anything that does not line up with Jesus and the way He lived His life on earth is of the enemy. God is faithful and just. He is gentle and kind. He is love. Love is not puffed up, love is not rude, love is not envious, love does not hurt, love is good and He is love.\nPsalm 85:8-10 I will hear what God the Lord will speak, for He will speak peace to His people and to His saints; but let them not turn back to folly.\nSurely His salvation is near to those who fear Him, that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed.\nWhen we decide to give our problems fully to the Lord, we also have to make the decision in that moment, that we will be obedient to His voice. We have to make the choice to follow Him where He leads and not to pick our worries back up. We have to choose not to go our own way, not to go backwards or walk in circles, but to follow Him on His straight and perfect path. Rest assured that your mind will not want to cooperate at first. When this happens, you must go directly to the Word of God. Feed your spirit with truth and meditate on the Word day and night.\nWe have to trust that when He said He would never leave us or forsake us, He meant what He said. Do not turn back to folly. Press forward and follow the King of Kings wherever He leads every single day. When you do this, when you follow Him and let Him make the plans, and you go and abandon all your fears, mercy and truth will meet and righteousness and peace will kiss.\nWhat an amazing promise!\nThink about it. When we follow Jesus, mercy and truth will meet. He will give us mercy. We will walk in HIS TRUTH! We will know what\u2019s right and what\u2019s wrong and everything will make sense and confusion will be gone. When we follow Jesus and walk in His plan righteousness and peace will kiss. Righteousness is holiness, living for God in His purest form. Peace is freedom from fear, from distress, from worry, from war. What\u2019s the war? The war is your problem. The war is all the mess that goes on in your mind. The war is Satan coming to steal, kill, and destroy.\nThe question is, what do you want? Do you want to remain where you are walking in circles or do you want the promised land? The answer is always Jesus. Be diligent to pray, read the bible, write scriptures down and tuck them away in places you\u2019ll find them all day. Keep reminding yourself of the scriptures you\u2019re standing on. Lip service won\u2019t save you. Living for Jesus and in Him and with Him will.\nFather, I thank you for your promises! You are faithful. You have promised me peace, righteousness, mercy, and truth, and today I receive those promises. I lay down my cross so you can have it. Take it from me Lord. It\u2019s too much for me to bear. I\u2019m tired, I\u2019m weary, I\u2019m heavy burdened, and I can\u2019t do this anymore. Take it. I give it to you once and for all. I thank you for showing me grace and mercy and always being here with me. I love you Jesus. Amen.\nPrevious For the Weary & Burdened\nNext Don\u2019t Take It Back", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://withourbaby.com/babysitters/annie-nguyen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:03Z", "digest": "sha1:O2MVOA4WYYTMWXO7REWYRN75YCXF4S3Y", "length": 817, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "withourbaby.com", "title": "Annie Nguyen", "raw_content": "Profile : Annie Nguyen\nI'm the eldest of 4, which means I'm very responsible because I've had to look after my younger siblings often. I probably take on more responsibility than I should but that's because it's second nature to me. I'm constantly surrounded by children/ nieces and nephews so I'm more than happy to be around children. If I can get my hands on an adorable child, I'll hug it to death! I love it when they are in their \"terrible twos\" because that's when they are curious about the world and want to explore everything, test the limits and boundaries, and I love that they are full of wonder and awe, because sometimes I feel like I am just a two-year-old exploring the world with wide curious eyes.\nHomework Supervision 100 %\nBaking cakes & Cooking 80 %\nBabysitting on a casual basis\nVietnamese 80 %", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wittysparks.com/device-hacks-stop-them-like-a-pro/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XHUFLA7KYK5GNHSKPGBCNC6R7VVOLU6F", "length": 4251, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "wittysparks.com", "title": "Device Hacks: Stop them Like a Pro", "raw_content": "Technology Device Hacks \u203a Device Security \u203a Hacks \u203a security\nDevice Hacks: Stop them Like a Pro\nhttps://wittysparks.com/device-hacks-stop-them-like-a-pro/\nWhen \u201cSticky Rice\u201d decided to send the first sushi rolls into space, they needed to make some modifications to a weather balloon to make it possible. First, they needed a payload arm to hold their sushi plate, and a small camera (they used a GoPro).\nIn addition, they needed GPS units to be able to track the delivery of their payload to recover their camera. Lastly, they needed to make sure their equipment was capable of interfacing with a PC, whereby they could pull the footage from the camera and review data from the launch.\nThere was a lot of hardware necessary to make the launch a success. Before you assemble your device, you have to consider the safety and security of the data and electronic components you\u2019re using to operate it. Here are some tips on how to protect your hardware.\nAny good programmer knows that it\u2019s easier to restrict permissions than it is to develop a profile for every user. Try to come up with a bare minimum set of requirements for what you need to be able to do with your hardware. You might need to access data, or use software on the device to complete an action. Don\u2019t leave the door open for vulnerabilities with complicated multi-tasking. Create the hardware with one purpose in mind and restrict access to all other operations.\nAlso Read: DNSSEC abuse: how an additional layer of security is being exploited for DDoS attacks\nIn Linux, you can create a pseudo user with restricted privileges. This is useful for applications that are greedy and want access to parts of your device that seem irrelevant to their function. A pseudo-user lets you create a profile of sorts that is built specifically for the operations you need and nothing more.\nSignals and Operation\nIn most cases of hardware, it\u2019s best if you restrict access to certain functions so that the user can focus on what the device is primarily used for. We see this dynamic in play in office settings, where the IT department will restrict public access to operations like printing or CD burning. If you\u2019re designing an RC car, for instance, the receiver should be able to receive signals from one specific frequency at a time. This cuts down on interference, and ensures the device is operable only by the user.\nTracking was very important to the launch of Sticky Rice\u2019s sushi plate. Tracking allows you to not only spot a device, but to identify it electronically. We sometimes see manufacturers use RFID chips, for instance, to tag a device as it journeys through an assembly line. This helps the production managers track the development of the device as it travels through assembly. GPS units are more main stream, but they track only physical location. It\u2019s up to you to determine what you need to track, and what will be most useful to you.\nAlso Read: Android security flaw leaves Gmail vulnerable to hackers!\nHow your computer interacts with the device is also important. Viruses are passed via third party devices all the time. That\u2019s part of how STUXNET was able to spread so widely\u2013engineers would bring infected flash drives from home into work. You should have a few options for virus protection, so you can try different programs to see what catches infections most efficiently. Thoroughly check your computer, and set a schedule so that virus checks are done automatically.\nAlso, consider restricting access to your computer; the data stored from your devices could be just as vulnerable as the device itself.\nMost simple hardware devices won\u2019t need to worry about serious hacking, and sometimes hacking is what makes hardware fun. Still, there are certain situations where a hack or a malfunction can leave your device incapable of recovery. Create a backup for your data, and acquire insurance for expensive devices that are difficult to replace.\nDisgruntled ex-employees, DDoS attacks and the revenge of the nerds\nHow To Remain Safer Thanks To Available Technology\nDNSSEC abuse: how an additional layer of security is being exploited for DDoS attacks\nPrevious PostTechnology Is Making Business Easier In The 21st CenturyNext PostMobile Technology Invades You Vehicular Life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 7416, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://worldofimmensum.com/blog/2017/12/7/what-art-style-is", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:53Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6V5N2ZC7E4MLS4LABK7BLMTBQWNLO3G", "length": 1774, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "worldofimmensum.com", "title": "What Art Style is and How to Develop Yours | Art Chat \u2014 World of Immensum", "raw_content": "In the above video, I discuss what I believe art style is, what art style is not, and give a few tips on developing a style of your own.\nArt style should not be stagnant. You don't \"find\" your art style, then stop growing and developing as an artist. Since many artists consider their work to be an extension of themselves, this only makes sense. As human beings, we are constantly evolving, so it follows that our artwork would evolve with us. This is why I prefer the phrase \"developing your style\" over \"finding your style\".\nDon't let your artwork be defined by your \"style\". Just because you typically do something a certain way doesn't mean you will (or should) always do it that way. If you feel an impulse to do something differently but it's not something you associate with your style, do it anyways.\nDon't use \"it's just my style\" as an excuse to get out of doing something that's scary or hard.\nDraw a lot. This is key to developing your art style. Your hand can't instinctively know what to do unless you give it a chance to learn, just like in any other hobby. Once you've done something enough, your body will start to understand what you want from it.\nHave a solid grasp on the basics. Though there is always more to learn (and I have a long way to go as well), having an overview of art fundamentals will give you a point of reference for changing things. Learn the rules so you know how to break them.\nThough the above bullet points are some of the more key takeaways from the video, there are many more tidbits to learn from the video itself. I hope this was a helpful overview, and let me know if you have any questions or video ideas. See you all next time!\n\u2190 STEPS: Grow Your Creativity | Exercise 1An Introduction to the Thematic Content of This Blog \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://worldwhatfun.com/2014/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:16Z", "digest": "sha1:UYKYDP4O75RWGVWRIHNTT3M3ZCQRCZLF", "length": 460, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "worldwhatfun.com", "title": "September 2014 \u2013 Home of Roughabite Picture Book, Meleanna and The Fat Frog, Redhead Genie Comic, Keekoo and Friends, The Scrasses Family", "raw_content": "Posted on September 27, 2014 Posted in Children's Books, Children's TV Shows, Comic Artist Jamaal r. James, Creative Arts, Jamaal R. 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James, james creative arts and entertainment company, Kid's Books, Kid's TV Shows, Roughabite Comic Strip, roughabite comicsLeave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 455, "original_length": 15294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wrongworld.gamepedia.com/Category:Weapons", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:IVADWV7A7TG6QWNDQQ6MBFSUHCQY23H7", "length": 92, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wrongworld.gamepedia.com", "title": "Category:Weapons - Official Wrongworld Wiki", "raw_content": "Retrieved from \"https://wrongworld.gamepedia.com/index.php?title=Category:Weapons&oldid=716\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 1304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 267.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/11796", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:50Z", "digest": "sha1:7JRV7LKRNL65LE5MMCHEEMB66EAPK7NQ", "length": 200, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "wsc.nmbe.ch", "title": "NMBE - World Spider Catalog", "raw_content": "Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2011). A survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Araneae). 7. A new species of Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908 from the Russian Far East. ZooKeys 79: 1-10. -- Show included taxa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.6, "perplexity": 161.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ww2.kqed.org/filmschoolshorts/2015/02/23/new-mission-interview-with-chris-giamo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:41Z", "digest": "sha1:4CNYDYCUBV3DMKD3I4NUDSHIF5SKHLGG", "length": 6528, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "ww2.kqed.org", "title": "\"New Mission\" | Interview with Chris Giamo | Film School Shorts", "raw_content": "Named for Mission Dolores, the Mission District has long been home to immigrants and communities of color, as well as a thriving art scene. It\u2019s hardly news that the San Francisco Bay Area has seen an influx of young tech-workers and urban professionals in recent years, leading many to question where the neighborhood is headed. New Mission, a short documentary by Chris Giamo of Stanford University, examines the changes to the Mission District and expresses a commonly overheard fear that the neighborhood is slowly losing the qualities that made it unique.\nWe reached out to Chris via email to chat about gentrification and documentaries.\nShoes hang from wires in the documentary New Mission.\nTell us about yourself. What got you into film?\nI grew up in northern Indiana and started making art / doc films when I was a teenager. I also have a background in anthropology and spent a lot of years living and working in other countries. The synthesis of art, ethnography and human rights drives my filmmaking.\nA child plays in a garden in the Mission.\nWhat\u2019s your relationship with the Mission neighborhood?\nI moved out to San Francisco after [a year] living in London, where I was working with Sikhs. My cousin had a place on 23rd and Harrison Street, and I lived there during 2008 and 2009. It was a time when I started making films and music pretty much full-time. Kinda the golden age of my early twenties. I left to go to graduate school in Syracuse, and after that moved to Maine for a couple years. I came back here in 2013 and was shocked to see how rapidly things had changed in just a few years. The entire side of 23rd Street had been taken over by condos with a \u201cLocal Mission Market\u201d built into them. These past two years, I\u2019ve typically spent my weekends in that neighborhood. My old roommates still live at the house and it continues to be a creative space for me\u2014part of my past and present, memory and growth.\nWorkers in the Mission.\nHow\u2019d you meet your subject and narrator Louie Gutierrez?\nMy girlfriend and I drove out to San Francisco from Maine in August 2013. The second morning there, we walked down 24th Street to get some coffee and she wanted to go into La Reyna Bakery. I was wearing a Stanford sweatshirt that I\u2019d found the day before, and Louie started up a conversation about \u201ceducation being survival.\u2019 We got to talking about the neighborhood and he said, \u201cWell, here\u2019s your first film.\u201d A couple of weeks later, I came back and asked if he\u2019d be willing to be the voiceover for the film and things happened from there.\nLike Louie, I too remember seeing La Bamba when it first came out. It was a powerful day, seeing myself and the very people around me in that theatre represented. But it also seems like Louie\u2019s lament for that screening \u2013 and for those very classic Mission movie theaters that no longer exist \u2013 also speaks largely to the neighborhood\u2019s gentrification. What are your thoughts?\nI agree. The movie theaters were a place for the community, and Louie\u2019s memory of La Bamba speaks to the shared memories of yours and so many others. The decay and renovation of the theaters are a physical and metaphoric testament to the process of gentrification in the neighborhood. When filming around that area, people would often come up to me and tell me the memories they had of those places. One woman I met had even worked at the New Mission Theater.\nThe New Mission Theater.\nHow much of this \u201cold\u201d and \u201cnew\u201d Mission played into your editing process?\nThis interaction between old and new was integral to the film\u2019s narrative structure; it\u2019s about the clash between the two, which is embodied in the film\u2019s central metaphor of the New Mission Theater. Neighborhoods evolve, and I wanted to convey this evolution through the narrative arc of the film, which moves from past into present and shows how the two realities meet. This conflict is expressed through the juxtaposition of image and voiceover, as well as more overt cuts like when the backyard fades into the condos, or when it cuts from the \u201cTech is not culture\u201d sign to the graffiti of \u201cAdapt\u201d.\nNew Mission is a very tonal piece. The film feels not so much like a funeral, but maybe a memorial. Am I heading in the right direction?\nYes, I think so. The street art in the neighborhood testifies to this as well. The film is about memory and change, and to me there\u2019s a strong feeling of nostalgia in it. Louie told me the film reminded him of that feeling you get sometimes in the autumn.\nStreet art in the Mission.\nWhat do you see as the future for the Mission District?\nI see higher buildings and higher rents. So long as Silicon Valley and San Francisco grow, the Mission will continue to undergo a physical and demographic shift. Some say it\u2019s a \u201cnatural process.\u201d\nChris Giamo in San Francisco.\nWho are some of your influences as a filmmaker?\nI like the work of Alain Resnais, James Longley, Nikolaus Geyrhalter and Werner Herzog. I also find a lot of inspiration in American avant-garde filmmakers like Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage.\nTell us about your Stanford experience.\nI\u2019ve learned a lot at Stanford, and the program has been a great phase for my development as a filmmaker. I\u2019ve made four films in the past two years of the program. With Louie\u2019s guidance, I was led to co-direct a film about the killing of Andy Lopez, a thirteen-year-old who was killed by a Sheriff\u2019s deputy in Santa Rosa. I also made a film out in the dustbowl of Owens Lake, on the edge of the Eastern Sierras. Currently I\u2019m editing my thesis film, Blue Star, which re-imagines a Sikh survivor\u2019s memory of the Indian Army\u2019s attack on the Golden Temple in 1984. The film was shot on location in Punjab, India.\nAdvice to student documentarians?\nMake films that you find meaning in and be true to your subject. Try to push the boundaries of form as much as possible\u2014there\u2019s so much room for exploration and experimentation within the genre. Don\u2019t get too caught up in the industry side of things, just make the films you want even if they don\u2019t seem possible. Never, ever compromise your own vision.\nChris Giamo is a San Francisco-based filmmaker. He is currently in post-production on a short documentary, Blue Star, which re-imagines the eye-witness account of a Sikh pilgrim who survived the Indian Army\u2019s massacre at the Golden Temple in 1984.\nExplore: bay area, cinequest, cinequest25, college film competition, FSSnews, interview, stanford\n\u00ab \u201cAttack of the Killer Trees\u201d | Interview with Valerie Giuili\n\u201cBell Jar\u201d | Interview with Joshua Pausanos \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 9181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 238.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.10news.com/news/la-jolla-businesses-booming-with-warm-water-temperatures", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:07Z", "digest": "sha1:PINC56DTJCQ2MTQEMWG3I7774FNHA33E", "length": 1679, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.10news.com", "title": "La Jolla businesses booming with warm water temperatures", "raw_content": "La Jolla businesses booming with warm water temperatures\nLA JOLLA, Calif., (KGTV)\u2014 Record-setting water temperatures are inviting tourists, locals, and wildlife out to the beaches.\nThere is a constant flow of customers at water tours and rental shops all over La Jolla. At \u201cEveryday California,\u201d kayak tours are fully booked almost a week in advance. You\u2019re lucky if they can take you as a walk-in.\n\u201cThe rentals have been picking up, just because people are definitely noticing that the water is warmer,\u201d Everyday California manager, Peter Kosulin, said.\nSensors at La Jolla Scripps pier are detecting temperatures at nearly 80 degrees \u2014 the same as Hawaiian waters.\nRachel Mulvaney brought her friends visiting from Denver and Salt Lake City to La Jolla Shores for a half-day of snorkeling.\nWith the warmer-than-usual weather, she is one of the thousands of San Diegans, now feeling like tourists in their own beaches.\n\u201cI\u2019m a big pansy when it comes to cold water, so getting in right now is so refreshing,\u201d Mulvaney said.\nThe warm water temperatures also have an impact on wildlife.\n\u201cWe have the leopard sharks trying to show their face, the sea turtles are out more often, the sea lions are playing around, so it\u2019s really nice during this time of year, because all the wildlife is enjoying the water just as we are, so it just kind of brings everyone together,\u201d Kosulin said. Warmer waters help accelerate the pregnancy process for female leopard sharks, Kosulin noted, which is why there have been many recent sitings of the creatures in La Jolla's shallow waters.\nMeteorologists said a heat-wave is on its way, so warm water temperatures will continue for the next few days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.10news.com/news/man-taken-to-hospital-after-being-shot-by-paintball-gun", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ULDV3BW5WTTDWTCY6CO4SDMM3ZIT6LLC", "length": 609, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.10news.com", "title": "Man taken to hospital after being shot by paintball gun", "raw_content": "Man taken to hospital after being shot by paintball gun\nSAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A man was taken to the hospital after he told police someone shot him in the face with a paintball gun.\nJust after 12:30 a.m. Monday, a man banged on a resident\u2019s door at a home in the 3800 block of Superior Street in Mountain View begging for help, San Diego police said.\nResponding officers said the man suffered what appeared to be a serious eye injury and had his face covered with yellow paint.\nHe was taken to the hospital for treatment.\nMeanwhile, police could not find the person or people who may have opened fire on the man.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 2715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 185.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.1aia.com/blog/2014/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:35Z", "digest": "sha1:2OWISF2LP2KAZTKLZNXUGC7X23E2NNVO", "length": 6784, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.1aia.com", "title": "June, 2014 | Insurance Blog | 1st American Insurance Agency", "raw_content": "Will my insurance company give me a discount for having a home inventory?\nWhen you are working with an insurance company to find the best discounts to address your needs and goals in Lafayette, CO, you may wonder if a home inventory will help reduce your premium and give you a special rate. Depending on your insurer, an inventory may or may not help reduce your rates.\nA home inventory refers to a list of items that you own. Ideally, you will want to identify the replacement cost or the value of each item that is listed. The value of the item will depend on the type of coverage that you are purchases.\nRead your policy to determine if you have coverage for the replacement cost of the item or the current market value. The replacement cost may mean that you will be able to replace the item with the same item or with an updated version if the item is no longer sold in stores. The market value refers to the cost of the item after depreciation rates are calculated.\nThe only way to determine if your insurance provider will offer discounts for a home inventory is by asking a representative of the company. Find out what the company requires as proof and see how much of a discount is provided. Some insurers may offer reduced rates, but the percentage and savings may vary between companies and policies.\nIt is possible that creating an inventory can help you cut back on the cost of your homeowner\u2019s insurance, but every company is different and the details of your policy may vary so the options and savings that you can expect will depend on several factors. Contact us to talk to an agent for more details.\nIs frost damage to your driveway covered by my home insurance policy?\nDuring the winter months, it is likely that you will face a variety of situations associated with winter storms, snowfall and frost. Among the problems that may arise is the possibility of frost damage to your driveway, sidewalks and even your yard. Depending on your coverage and policy, you may or may not be covered for the situation.\nIn many cases, insurance companies will pay for any damages to your property that are related to sudden and unexpected situations. For example, a sudden frost that comes up without warning and is part of a winter storm may be covered. Frost that develops slowly and provides enough time to protect against may have less coverage or may not be covered by every policy.\nIt is also important to recognize that a frozen and frost-covered driveway may not be covered if it stems from a problem that is not covered by your policy, such as a flood that freezes.\nEven if your policy does provide coverage for the situation, it is possible that the amount of funds available for the repairs may be limited. Some insurance providers will only cover a set percentage of your total homeowner\u2019s policy, such as five percent, so you may or may not have the amount of funds that you need to pay for the damages.\nThe amount of coverage may vary, so it is important to read your policy and evaluate any figures that are associated with storm damage.\nYour driveway is considered part of your yard and it may be protected against frost damage, but the details of your policy can impact your options. Contact us to speak to an agent to learn more about the policies that are available.\nWhat is a classic cl homeowners policy?\nWhen you are looking at homeowners insurance options, you may come across classic CL policies in Lafayette, CO. The problem that you may face is identifying how it differs from other plans and what is covered in the policy. Although there may be some slight differences between policies and insurance providers, there are some key factors that make the policy a classic CL plan.\nThe homeowners insurance policy is a type of coverage plan that addresses a variety of needs, goals and concerns. It is similar to an HO-3 policy, which is a comprehensive plan for a home that goes beyond the basic liability protection.\nEven though the policy offers comprehensive coverage, it can protect against perils and problems that are not usually easy to cover. The specific coverage may vary slightly based on the plan you are considering, but most of the policies will address the main concerns that homeowners may face.\nAs a comprehensive policy, it will protect against common risks and perils associated with homeownership. The coverage provides protection against liability, named perils and the replacement cost of personal belongings.\nIf you have recently had a policy canceled or non-renewed, then you may discover that the policy is appropriate for your needs. The plan can provide coverage, even if you have been denied or faced a cancelation on a previous policy. It allows you to address your concerns so that you can maintain peace of mind when it comes to common risks.\nOwning a home does not always mean that it is easy to obtain insurance for your property. In some cases, you may need to look for additional protection or an alternative plan. Contact us to learn more about classic CL policies and how it may be appropriate for your needs.\nCan an auto insurance company cancel a policy after just one claim?\nMaking a claim on your auto insurance policy is not unusual. You can make a claim whenever you get into an accident or face a situation that is covered by the policy. When your policy is canceled after making a claim, it may seem that the insurance company is refusing to provide coverage because of your actions. Depending on the situation, it may or may not relate to your claim.\nTiming and Non-Renewal\nThere is nothing more worrisome than seeing a cancel policy notice in the mail. You may wonder why your policy is being discontinued. Depending on the timing, it may or may not relate to your claim.\nA non-renewal notice is not the same as a cancelation. It means that the company is choosing to discontinue your coverage when the policy is expiring and you will usually receive a notice in the mail roughly 45 to 60 days before the expiration of your current coverage period.\nCancelation can occur at any time, but it is not usually related to your claim.\nWhen Companies Cancel Insurance\nIf your policy is canceled in the middle of a term, then it usually relates to two main problems: inaccurate information on your application or missed payments.\nIt may relate to your policy if your insurance company suspects that you have made a fraudulent claim or that you have exaggerated the damage. Some companies may also cancel your policy at the beginning of an insured period and may not have a specific reason.\nCanceling a policy after making a single claim is not common, but it can happen in some situations. The reasons for the cancelation can vary and may not relate to your claim. Contact us to speak to an agent for more details.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 9408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.360cities.net/zh/image/nave-of-st-margaret-of-antioch-west-hoathly-sussex", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:55Z", "digest": "sha1:ILT7DPXX2HL2RH2NIO6IZG3GEYRMP5KS", "length": 447, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.360cities.net", "title": "Nave of St Margaret of Antioch, West Hoathly, Sussex", "raw_content": "Nave of St Margaret of Antioch, West Hoathly, Sussex\nThis church sits on one of the highest ridges in Sussex and dates from the late 11th century.\nClick here for the churches website - http://www.westhoathly.org.uk/ and here for more information on its history and construction - http://www.sussexparishchurches.org/spc_V31/west-sussex/29-west-sussex-u-y/610-west-hoathly-st-margaret\nTags: church; sussex; historic building; religion; christianity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 3550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.7gmedia.com/blog/en/category/social-media/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WQTEHG7KBSE3AXT7N6GUCV7W5DVMDITJ", "length": 1365, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.7gmedia.com", "title": "Social Media Marketing Services in Dubai | Social Media Agency", "raw_content": "In recent years it has become harder and harder to effectively market products due to the surge of marketing messages and advertisements available in the public space. It is very easy to think the way to get noticed in today\u2019s digital space is to invest in new and exciting technology or risk becoming lost in\nAll social media experts are not good marketers. Social media marketing requires you to effectively communicate your business message to the relevant audience. Lead generation, increasing sales, improving customer retention and growing your business depends mostly on how you market your business. What many social media experts forget is that social media is a component\nThe Basics of Remarketing\nRe-marketing is a term that has surfaced as an online marketing strategy in recent years. In simple terms, it is any sales and advertising strategy that maintains contact with potential customers after they visit a business. Even though re marketing existed way before the internet, it has become a common and effective tool in e-marketing.\nFor all businesses, the priority has very quickly become Social Media Marketing. What was completely unheard of just 10 years ago, and largely untapped up until around five years back, is now one of the first allocations when the annual budget sheet is drawn up. Some companies were quick to realize that such a huge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.941area.com/restaurants/best-seafood-in-sarasota.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:21Z", "digest": "sha1:4CN74LD2RTYONQTTCRTRJ7QRYXXRLBEE", "length": 3230, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.941area.com", "title": "Best Seafood in Sarasota", "raw_content": "As you may already know, Florida is a great place to get fresh seafood. In Sarasota, you can enjoy a wide variety of fish and other delicacies that are sure to satisfy any hungry customer. Stone crabs, scallops, and local fish are just a taste of what the best seafood restaurants in Sarasota have in store for you.\nWalt\u2019s originated back when Sarasota was a pristine area mostly known as a commercial fishing town and has found booming success ever since. Today, Walt\u2019s Fish Market serves some of the freshest fish in the city with a variety of dishes featuring oysters, crabs, salmon, delicious ceviche, and much more. Customers may also enjoy a few drinks, outdoor seating, and live music at the restaurant\u2019s tiki bar.\nThe Dry Dock Waterfront Grill offers a casual setting on Longboat Key with one of the best waterfront views in the city. The restaurant features an outdoor patio and a second-floor terrace overlooking the Sarasota Bay. Its evening lighting makes it a great destination for a romantic date if you\u2019re in the mood for amazing seafood. You can even catch a beautiful sunset while you\u2019re there. Dry Dock Waterfront Grill is also dog-friendly, so you can always take your canine buddy to the restaurant when dining out.\nIndigenous is an innovative restaurant led by James Beard Best Chef, South semi-finalist Steve Phelps. Phelps\u2019 mission is to give the customer a unique experience with locally-sourced ingredients. The restaurant also focuses on sustainability, which has been an important goal for Phelps, since finding the balance between our food and the conservation of our planet is what it\u2019s all about. This is what makes Phelps such a good chef as well as his incredible talent when it comes to cooking seafood!\nLocated in St. Armand\u2019s Circle, Crab & Fin has been serving delicious seafood in Sarasota since 1978. The restaurant is conveniently located at the heart of St. Armand\u2019s, making it a prime destination after shopping around the area. The team over at this seafood restaurant has explored many corners of the world in search for the best seafood dishes, and now they have the pleasure of bringing them to Florida! Their fresh ingredients are brought in by plane on a daily basis, and their friendly staff also helps make Crab & Fin another one of the best seafood restaurants in Sarasota.\nRelated content: Best Seafood in Siesta Key | Oysters, Crab, Lobster, and More\nOwen\u2019s has a friendly, casual atmosphere that makes you feel at home, and their top-quality seafood keeps bringing in customers from all around the country. Their fresh local seafood arrives at the restaurant every morning, and their great dishes pair well with a wide selection of craft beer and wine. Owen\u2019s Fish Camp is located in the historic Burns Court in Downtown Sarasota. Their traditional style is reminiscent of how Florida was in the old days and what still makes Florida an incredible place to live in.\nSarasota has become a hot spot when it comes to good seafood. If you\u2019re looking for any new places to dine out, try some of the best seafood restaurants in Sarasota!\nFor more seafood restaurants in Sarasota like these, register on 941area and connect to everything the Sarasota and Bradenton area have to offer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/interviews-regarding-container-corporation-america-10316", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:16Z", "digest": "sha1:75XHFR43MZNYQLR5FALOTITQQFJSUEMS", "length": 1282, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.aaa.si.edu", "title": "Interviews regarding the Container Corporation of America, 1984-1985 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution", "raw_content": "Interviews regarding the Container Corporation of America, 1984-1985\nSize: 9 sound cassettes (partially transcribed)\nSummary: Interviews of Charles Coiner, Agnes Denes, Leo Leonni, John Vincent Massey, Elizabeth Paepcke (wife of Container President Walter Paepcke), and Edward Warwick, regarding the Container Corporation of America's advertising campaigns and the development of the art collection. Also discussed is the role of the advertising agency N. W. Ayer and Son to the Container Corporation of America. The interviews were conducted by Martina Norelli, associate curator of graphic arts of the National Museum of American Art, in preparation for the exhibition and catalog \"Art, Design, and the Modern Corporation,\" held October 24, 1985-January 19, 1986.\nDonated 1991 by the National Museum of American Art.\nUse of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information. Denes and Paepcke interviews are transcribed.\nInterviews regarding the Container Corporation of America, 1984-1985. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.\nNorelli, Martina Roudabush\nPaepcke, Elizabeth\nPaepcke, Walter Paul\nMassey, John\nWarwick, Edward\nCoiner, Charles T.\nN. W. Ayer and Son", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 5966, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 230.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-04/mike-kelly-to-recontest-nsw-seat-of-eden-monaro/6441662?source=rss", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:49Z", "digest": "sha1:7VOAKJO3P5IXVHVTIWFJ3YUSOIQZPK6N", "length": 1978, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.abc.net.au", "title": "Mike Kelly to recontest NSW seat of Eden-Monaro at next federal election - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)", "raw_content": "Mike Kelly to recontest NSW seat of Eden-Monaro at next federal election\nPhoto: Mike Kelly has announced that he will recontest the NSW seat of Eden-Monaro. (ABC News)\nRelated Story: Lawyers in defamation case over former MP's tweet criticised\nRelated Story: Mike Kelly withdraws from Senate race\nMap: Yass 2582\nFormer Labor member for Eden-Monaro, Mike Kelly, has announced that he will recontest the seat at the next federal election.\nDr Kelly lost his New South Wales Lower House seat to the Liberals' Peter Hendy by fewer than 1,000 votes in 2013.\nIn a written statement the former defence materiel minister said he was dedicated to serving Eden-Monaro - where his family lineage goes back 165 years.\n\"The people of Eden-Monaro deserve a hard-working local member who will fight their corner with passion and commitment,\" Dr Kelly said.\n\"I am committed to a country that keeps faith with our tradition of the 'fair go'.\n\"That means a society in which every child has the opportunity to excel, assisting those who are unable to support themselves to an acceptable standard of life, and providing appropriate assistance to those who have rendered our nation and community special service.\"\nDr Kelly highlighted social fairness, promoting regional Australia and building a sustainable new economy as the keystones of his re-election.\nHe also identified achieving equity for Indigenous Australians, tackling domestic violence in a meaningful way and addressing all forms of discrimination as key focus areas.\n\"I commit to campaigning based solely on policy issues and the performance of my opponents, and will not engage in personal attacks, smear or underhanded tactics,\" he said.\n\"If elected to Parliament I will adopt the same approach and will strive to promote civil discourse and bi-partisanship wherever possible.\"\nTopics: states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, federal-government, federal-parliament, yass-2582, goulburn-2580, bega-2550, nsw, canberra-2600, act", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 9141, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abfjournal.com/dailynews/crestmark-transportation-services-offices-moves-to-franklin-tn/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WNEF3UV4CMSVVYFALQUFCX6YKIOESL2G", "length": 985, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.abfjournal.com", "title": "Crestmark Transportation Services Offices Moves to Franklin, TN \u2013 ABFJournal", "raw_content": "Crestmark Transportation Services Offices Moves to Franklin, TN\nCrestmark Transportation Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Crestmark Bank, moved its office to Franklin, TN during the holiday season in mid-December 2011 from the office\u2019s previous location in Nashville. This move allows the group the necessary room for future growth, and incorporates all staff from the recent Comdata Financial Services acquisition with the Crestmark team.\nThe new address is 800 Crescent Centre, Suite 620, Franklin, TN 37067.\n\u201c2011 was a busy year for us, and the addition of the Comdata team has already proved to be a great decision\u2026 but we really needed to get everyone in the same building,\u201d said Bryan Alsobrooks, group president of Crestmark Transportation Services. \u201cWe\u2019re excited about our new location, and our strengthened ability to bring financial solutions to the transportation industry.\u201d\nCrestmark is a provider of working capital solutions for small- to medium-sized businesses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.abps.ch/en/members/bordier-cie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:XRAOYKFT6SJDUSMI6CCE453HVCLGZ2BH", "length": 1461, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.abps.ch", "title": "Bordier & Cie - ABPS", "raw_content": "Bordier & Cie, founded in 1844, is an independent private bank with unlimited liability, owned and managed by the fifth generation of its founding families. The head office is located in Geneva.\nIn Switzerland, its branch offices are located in Nyon, Berne and Zurich. Bordier & Cie is also a group, with offices in Europe (France, the UK), Asia (Singapore) and on the American continent (Uruguay, Turks and Caicos).\nBordier & Cie places the greatest emphasis on human relationships: the client is the starting-point for its philosophy. This is anchored to fundamental values that are not negotiable and whose significance becomes fully apparent as time passes: commitment and responsibility, absolute independence and availability.\nThese singular features guarantee for the client an original 'Bordier' experience, the blending of investment performance with a tailor-made service.\nThe Bordier & Cie Group is exclusively dedicated to private management. Its mission : protecting, growing and passing on to future generations all assets entrusted.\nIts approach is global, based on a fluid vision of assets and on strong and original convictions. Its standard is the made-to-measure. The assets are managed individually and dynamically, dependent only on the objectives and the personal situation of the client.\nWe can also offer our clients the following array of advices and services:\nGlobal Advice to Pension Funds\nPartners of Bordier & Cie\nLegal & Tax Advice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 3464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.acantranslations.com/newgame-chapter17/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FAXH77IBAGNKDRA64IKZOBZWPL4RQWJU", "length": 9474, "nlines": 108, "source_domain": "www.acantranslations.com", "title": "New Game - Chapter 17 - Acan Translations", "raw_content": "Takumi said he was chasing after Gaitsu, but even though he was irritated, his pace was slow.\nHe followed footprints, stomped and snapped leaves and branches, and entered the forest.\nAt the end of those tracks was an open space, where Gaitsu was panting heavily while bent on his knees.\n\u201cSo, can\u2019t you run any further?\u201d\nGaitsu let out a high-pitched sound while he jolted to face his chaser.\nHis expression was warped in fear.\n\u201cP-Please\u2026 I\u2019ll give you all my money! I\u2019ll give you everything I have, but spare my life\u2026!\u201d\n\u201cAaah, I can\u2019t hear you! Don\u2019t beg for your life with those cheap words.\u201d\nTakumi\u2019s gaze sharpened. He was in a bad mood.\n\u201cI won\u2019t gain anything from killing you\u2026 So you will give me information, otherwise I won\u2019t forgive you for the slaves you let die.\u201d\nTo support Amberg, Gaitsu had to sacrifice many slaves in those illegal gambles.\nNot only in crude battles, but even in worthless, wasteful, unproductive ways. That was unforgivable.\nAs Takumi glared daggers at him, the man was trembling in fear, but as time passed, hatred filled his gaze.\n\u201cYou are a bastard\u2026 you\u2019ve always been since your childhood. You\u2019re so prideful and arrogant. No matter what happens, you step on others and look down on them\u2026\u201d\n\u201cThat\u2019s what superior people must do. If you don\u2019t have pride, you can\u2019t rise above others, and if you\u2019re not arrogant, you can\u2019t find people of your same level\u2026 I know that better than anyone.\u201d\nThe young man remembered his old world.\nPeople, teams, organizations, companies, countries\u2026 he spoke as he stood above all of them.\nGaitsu couldn\u2019t grasp the real meaning of those words.\nHe could only understand that Takumi was born a step above him, with better status and capacities.\nStill, he couldn\u2019t accept that easily.\n\u201cThen\u2026 If I can fucking kill you, even I\u2019ll prove my worth!\u201d\nThe moment he screamed that, the silent forest instantly became noisy.\nSo many demi-humans appeared that they outnumbered easily those who were on the wagon before.\n\u201cI thought you were underestimating me by bringing only those few men with you, but now I understand\u2026 You might manage to kill me with this many people.\u201d\n\u201cI thought some casters from different countries would be able to seize the Hound\u2026 But well, since you followed me, it doesn\u2019t matter anymore.\u201d\nGaitsu stood up again and not a trace of fear could be seen on his face.\n\u201cSomeone who manipulates others while looking down on them\u2026 you bastard are indeed frightening. You might have me, the big companies, and maybe even the whole country in your hands\u2026\u201d\nHis lips thinned and curved into a toothy smile.\n\u201cBut in the end, you\u2019re just a human like everyone else. It doesn\u2019t matter the number of slaves you own, and neither how strong is that werebeast.\u201d\nThe killing intent that surrounded them was growing thicker.\n\u201cI\u2019ll smash your head and gouge your heart out\u2026 your time has come.\u201d\nGaitsu glared at him with bloodshot eyes, and then raised his hand.\nThe moment he would have lowered it, the young man in front of him would have died.\nHis body would have turned into a pulp of meat and crushed bones.\nStill, even in this hopeless situation, Takumi didn\u2019t lose his composure.\n\u201cYou\u2019re superior because you can predict what comes next, huh\u2026? I see you as a threat, and as everyone I saw like that, I\u2019ll destroy you\u2026 This is what being superior means.\u201d\n\u201cHah\u2026 is this how you beg for your life? How arrogant.\u201d\n\u201cBegging for my life? Stop spitting nonsense.\u201d\nA smile brimming with self-confidence formed on Takumi\u2019s face.\n\u201cYeah, you\u2019re begging for your life\u2026 just like the scum you are, filthy pig.\u201d\nGaitsu nodded meekly.\n\u201cThey\u2019re gonna slit your throat.\u201d\nAs he started to lower his hand, a thunderous sound pierced his ear.\nEveryone who heard that froze in shock.\n\u201cYou\u2019re good, but\u2026 you missed something from the start.\u201d\nThe smell of gunpowder hung in the air.\n\u201cDo you really think anyone can handle me?\u201d\nThe man started to tremble slightly and pointed at Takumi\u2019s hand.\n\u201cW-What is\u2026 that\u2026?\u201d\n\u201cC\u2019mon, piggie, can\u2019t you recognize a gun when you see one?\u201d\nGuns were well known in that world.\nThat\u2019s why Gaitsu stiffened the moment he heard that bang.\nWhat Takumi held in his hand was still unknown to the world.\n\u201cA wheel gun, commonly known as revolver, but I strongly doubt you can understand what it is.\u201d\nSince magic displayed higher efficiency at long range, guns were acknowledged as mere hunting playthings for nobles.\n\u201cA\u2026 A gun that doesn\u2019t need a flint and can be carried that easily can\u2019t\u2026\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s right in front of you. I can\u2019t explain how triggers and cartridges are made because it might cause a lot of trouble, though.\u201d\nIn a world where knowledge about firearms didn\u2019t surpass muskets, the existence of handguns might have started a revolution.\nAnyone would have brought along one, and anyone would have used it.\nAfter that, sniper rifles, assault rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers would have been next\u2026 they were all developed in Takumi\u2019s former world due to the absence of magic, and their firepower could rival magic\u2019s.\nThey would have created conflicts, and the blood of a lot of lives would have stained the earth.\nTakumi didn\u2019t want to turn this already cruel world into an even bloodier one.\nBut exactly because he now lived in a merciless world, he had to protect himself as better as possible.\n\u201cHumans are weak\u2026 but I wonder if it\u2019s the same when they hold a gun.\u201d\nGaitsu panicked for an instant, but then regained his composure.\n\u201cWhat\u2026 did you say? That\u2019s just a small gun! As if you\u2019ll be able to deal with this many people!\u201d\n\u201cIf you think so, bring it on. You guys are not enough to kill me now.\u201d\nA mocking smile appeared on his lips.\nIt was the fiendish, cruel grin of someone who stood above everyone else.\n\u201cC\u2019mon, coward, let\u2019s see if you can do that.\u201d\nGaitsu\u2019s expression stiffened, but in the end, he lowered his arm.\nThe demi-humans, who were loyal to him thanks to drugs, rushed toward their target, but the moment they leaped into the air to assault it, an invisible force knocked them on the ground.\nThe smell of blood filled the air, and Gaitsu looked at his opponent\u2019s weapon only to see that he wasn\u2019t pointing at them, and no smoke was coming out the gun\u2019s barrel.\n\u201cSo, who\u2019s next? If no one steps forward, I\u2019ll come get your leader.\u201d\nSaid Takumi as he started to walk toward his prey.\nOther demi-humans reacted to those words and started their assault, but it was like an invisible wall prevented them to get too close to him, and after leaving trails of blood behind, they all fell at his feet.\n\u201cYou\u2019re good, but you\u2019re also an incredible coward. The moment you saw a gun you were so scared that you couldn\u2019t do the right move. Let me be clear\u2026 I never said this is the only gun or type of gun I created, and neither I said I\u2019m the only one who holds one.\u201d\nBullet holes pierced through the bodies of those who laid on the ground, but none of those wounds was fatal.\n\u201cThat\u2019s not\u2026! I didn\u2019t hear any other gunshot!\u201d\n\u201cThat just means they were too distant to be heard. Don\u2019t make me say obvious things.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s impossible! How can someone aim only at demi-humans from such a distance and while we\u2019re in a forest!\u201d\nAnother assaulter fell in front of the baffled man.\n\u201cActually, that\u2019s totally possible. Here\u2019s the difference between you and me.\u201d\nThe young man got closer while maintaining his smile.\n\u201cDwarfs aren\u2019t the only useful demi-humans, you know. Werebeasts can see in the dark, bird-men can read the wind currents, dragon-men can measure the temperature with their body\u2026 and even elves can be more than playthings. Each one of them has its own special traits, and you should use them properly to see noteworthy results. But you only waste them and run away from reality, calling all of this impossible.\u201d\nGaitsu didn\u2019t even have the chance to run now.\nTakumi\u2019s invisible army would have blown away his head if their leader ordered them to.\nHe understood the difference in strength, tactics and abilities between them.\nAll of that was done by a powerless human.\nBy someone who let his subordinates be his strength.\nSomeone who, standing above the others, had an overwhelming aura.\nThe dread he was feeling reminded him of the one-sided battle with Kunon.\nAs he couldn\u2019t stand that pressure anymore, something inside him shattered.\n\u201cYou think that a slave merchant is simply a slave trader\u2026\u201d\nTakumi stood now in front of Gaitsu, who had lost the will to run.\nA smile crawled on his face as he decided where to aim.\n\u201cBut a real slave merchant is someone who can use its articles.\u201d\nThe gun let out a mechanical sound as the wheel rotated.\n\u201cNow, you still have some value.\u201d\nThe devil\u2019s grin replaced Takumi\u2019s smile.\n\u201cI will crush you like a slave every time I get the chance.\u201d\nAnother thunderous sound resounded in the woods.\nBy AcanTranslations|2018-06-20T03:12:47+00:00May 11th, 2018|A New Game from the Depths of Captivity!|8 Comments\nMild Fracas 12 May 2018 at 0:55 - Reply\nWait wait wait\u2026 how the hell was he able to get precise enough tooling to make something like a friggin sniper rifle?? And how did he precisely make cartridges with enough power to shoot from a distance where you couldn\u2019t even hear any sound, regardless of the delay of the report? We can\u2019t do that even now without some kind of suppressor\u2026 well, it\u2019s isekai, so I guess that\u2019s enough reason.\nMac_Tgh 15 May 2018 at 3:23 - Reply\nWait, and the information? what was that of \u201cyour life is no value, only your info\u201c a few senteces ago?\nwell the MC can be more brutal than i thought (and i like it )", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 11056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.activityhero.com/biz/7191-rock-and-roll-after-school-philadelphia-ms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GIIW4XNQTCBVNT7OVAC7NNA364IOTP24", "length": 26, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.activityhero.com", "title": "Rock and Roll After School Schedule & Reviews | ActivityHero", "raw_content": "Rock and Roll After School", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adamsandreese.com/news-knowledge/from-the-gridiron-to-the-courtroom-lampley-featured-in-nashville-business-journal-who-to-meet-spotlight", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DBH52SF4SCZEASIBDWVQ36NBRAV5LQ4N", "length": 1777, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.adamsandreese.com", "title": "\u2018From the Gridiron to the Courtroom\u2019: Lampley Featured in Nashville Business Journal \u201cWho to Meet\u201d Spotlight | News & Knowledge | Adams and Reese LLP", "raw_content": "\u2018From the Gridiron to the Courtroom\u2019: Lampley Featured in Nashville Business Journal \u201cWho to Meet\u201d Spotlight\nAdams and Reese Nashville Office Partner in Charge Brad Lampley was featured in the Nashville Business Journal\u2019s \u201cWho to Meet\u201d Spotlight: \u201cFrom the Gridiron to the Courtroom,\u201d discussing Lampley\u2019s legal career, contributions to the Nashville community, and his former college football career at The University of Tennessee.\nLampley answered questions from, \u201cWhat led you to be an attorney?\u201d to \u201cHow do you like to spend your free time?\u201d to \u201cWhat was it like playing with Peyton at Tennessee?\u201d\nLampley played offensive tackle during the 1990s, playing with Manning on some of the school\u2019s best performing teams. He seriously thought at being a college football coach, but had a chance encounter with Sam Bartholomew, who gave him a job at Adams and Reese\u2019s predecessor firm.\nLampley now manages the Nashville office of Adams and Reese. His primary focus is in government relations, lobbying on behalf of clients before the Tennessee General Assembly.\nLampley was recently appointed by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to serve a five year term on the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees, which is the governing body of the University of Tennessee and its five campuses across the state. He has also served on the board of directors of the Franklin American Mortgage Music City Bowl for more than a decade, during which time the bowl has grown to provide an average economic impact of more than $18 million per year for the Nashville area. He served as the bowl's Chairman in 2011 and 2012, the youngest Chairman in the bowl's history. He also serves on the board of directors for the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame, and volunteers his time as a youth football coach.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 120.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adamsfunds.com/insights/the-rewards-of-a-long-term-approach-in-the-24-hour-news-cycle-era/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:25Z", "digest": "sha1:EMUR6T2FFEKTPDEOINJSSXAQSESMLAZM", "length": 4688, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.adamsfunds.com", "title": "Adams Funds", "raw_content": "A world filled with constant news flow can be overwhelming to investors. The media often speaks in absolutes to create sensational headlines to generate the most attention. It is easy for investors to get caught up in the noise, particularly during volatile markets with pronounced swings both up and down. The headlines can raise concerns about prospective threats that could derail the stock market or, alternatively, create a \u201cfear of missing out\u201d by simplifying or overstating more bullish catalysts. Unfortunately, investors who react to the non-stop news can end up selling stocks at the wrong time, which is why investors are often better served to block out the noise created by the news and Stay Invested.\nInvestors who react to the non-stop news can end up selling stocks at the wrong time, which is why investors are often better served to block out the noise created by the news and Stay Invested.\nLooking back over just the past two years, there are many examples of how the media has created a frenzy over news that, in reality and in hindsight, proved to be insignificant. The narrative of most financial news publications leading up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election is an example. A November 2016 article in Barron\u2019s summarized the consensus view among most news organizations with a headline predicting \u201cIf Trump Wins: Expect a Swift Selloff in U.S. Stocks.\u201d Of course, we now know that, after a short-lived drop, domestic stocks rallied following the election, fueled by the prospect of tax reform as well as less regulation under the Trump administration.\nFor those who responded to the headlines leading up to the election or once the results were in by selling stocks, it meant missing the ensuing 6% post-election rally in the S&P 500 in November and December of 2016, and watching from the sidelines as stocks ascended to record highs. According to the 2017 Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior (QAIB), an annual report published by market research firm DALBAR, the average mutual fund investor underperformed the S&P 500 Index by 5% during the election year. In their commentary, the researchers attributed the shortfall to widespread fears of a post-election downturn that never materialized.\nSomething similar occurred in June of last year when a bearish note from Goldman Sachs, which was widely covered across the financial media, helped trigger a temporary rotation out of the FAAMG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Google) and the broader technology sector. FAAMG stocks declined 5% on average in June 2017; however, tech shares quickly recouped their losses and by the end of July were up 6% on average and up 18% from the June lows by year-end.\nThese examples are actually quite common. In a past Insight, we highlighted the tendency for pronounced market swings to be clustered together, making it much more difficult for investors to time the market based on the news cycle. For instance, the revelation that President Trump asked then-FBI Director James Comey to drop an investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn caused the stock market to drop 2% last May, the largest one-day decline of 2017. It took just three days for the S&P 500 to recover from the drop, and it went on to gain another 13% for the remainder of the year.\nFocusing on the endless stream of news and the many emotional outbursts of Twitter, and the potential impact they have on stocks has proven to be ineffective for most retail investors. This is particularly true in an era in which high-frequency trading platforms can make split-second decisions long before market-related news reaches mainstream investors. This is also why many long-term professional investors tend to ignore the non-stop news flow altogether because it merely represents more noise that can distract attention from the signals that really matter. To avoid overreacting to the 24-hour news cycle, we recommend investors consult with their financial advisors and maintain a long-term strategy.\nIn our earlier Insight, we discussed the many challenges for individual investors who attempt to time the market. In a way, the news cycle encourages this behavior through applying a black-and-white depiction of developments that are more appropriately characterized through shades of gray in terms of whether they positively or negatively impact equity prices.\nProfessional investors focus on real signals, conveyed through fundamental analysis and economic data, versus the noise that results from a hectic news cycle. And while the headlines on any given day, at any given hour, may scream to either buy or sell, we believe the best strategy is to Stay Invested.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adamsfunds.com/news/adams-funds-discusses-the-role-of-closed-end-funds-in-portfolios/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:V4PO6BY56VAUXUGSBTO4GIDJCVDKRLIT", "length": 3008, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.adamsfunds.com", "title": "Adams Funds", "raw_content": "BALTIMORE, MARYLAND \u2013 September 8, 2017 \u2013 Senior management from Adams Funds, which consists of two of the country\u2019s oldest closed-end funds, Adams Diversified Equity Fund (ADX) and Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), attended the Closed End Fund Association\u2019s Advisor Summit on September 20, 2017 in Chicago. Lawrence Hooper, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Adams Funds, participated in a panel discussion with other leaders in the closed-end fund (CEF) industry on the role closed-end funds can play in a diversified investment portfolio. The group discussed the benefits and challenges to the CEF structure.\nOne of the primary benefits of CEFs is the structure provides fund managers the ability to take a long-term view on investments. Unlike open-end funds that may have to sell stocks at inopportune times to meet redemptions, CEFs have permanent capital, providing fund managers more flexibility around investment decisions.\nAnother compelling aspect of CEFs for many investors is the distributions the funds pay. Adams Funds is committed to a 6.0% distribution, which many investors have chosen to reinvest. The impact of reinvesting these distributions over time is significant. For example, if an investor in ADX had reinvested their distributions annually since 2002, the total return was 203.8%. The magnitude of reinvesting is illustrated in the chart below. It compares the total return from reinvesting with the simple return from stock price appreciation during this period, which for ADX was 20.2%. For PEO, even though the stock price return during this period was 5.2%, the total return for investors was 198.5%.\nAlthough discounts for CEFs have narrowed over the past year, they remain a focus for the industry. Many view the discount as an opportunity as it provides access to similar portfolios and strategies offered by open-end funds, but at a discount to the price investors would pay for open-end funds.\nOne consistent theme from the industry leaders was the need to educate investors on the CEF structure. There is a perception that the lack of understanding contributes to the discounts to NAV. In addition, more publicity is needed to increase awareness of the benefits of CEFs. Taken together, these could help discounts narrow and increase the use of CEFs in investors\u2019 portfolios.\nSince 1929, Adams Funds has consistently helped generations of investors reach their investment goals. Adams Funds is comprised of two closed-end funds, Adams Diversified Equity Fund, Inc. (NYSE:ADX) and Adams Natural Resources Fund, Inc. (NYSE:PEO). The Funds are actively managed by an experienced team with a disciplined approach and have paid dividends for more than 80 years across many market cycles. The Funds are committed to paying an annual distribution rate of 6% or more, providing reliable income to long-term investors. Shares can be purchased through our transfer agent or through a broker. For more information about Adams Funds, please visit: www.adamsfunds.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 4228, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adcouncil.org/Impact/Case-Studies/Diversity-and-Inclusion-2015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:59Z", "digest": "sha1:MTRHE3L73K27B7O3BNJTSGPKKOB32JVZ", "length": 2067, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.adcouncil.org", "title": "Diversity and Inclusion (2015) | AdCouncil", "raw_content": "Most Americans agree that people should be treated respectfully and fairly. Yet many people in the United States still report feeling discriminated against. The reason might be that we're actually discriminating unintentionally -- some call this implicit bias. Implicit bias influences how we treat people and how we interact with each other. More broadly, it can perpetuate disparities by impacting someone's ability to find a job, secure a loan, rent an apartment or get a fair trial. To end bias, we need to become aware of it. And then we need to do everything within our power to stop it.\nPromote inclusion to reduce bias.\nAdults age 18+.\nTo end bias, we need to become aware of it.\nOver $62 million across all media types since the launch of the campaign in 2015.\nSince launching the first video on Upworthy on March 2nd 2015, the 3 minute \u201cSkeletons\u201d video is now the second most viewed community & activism campaign of all time with over 164 million views, and was the first PSA to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Commercial in 2016.\nThe campaign launched additional rounds of work in subsequent years to keep extending the message. The \u201c#WeAreAmerica\u201d video featuring WWE Superstar John Cena launched on July 4, 2016 and has been viewed over 92M times. Since launching on Valentine\u2019s Day 2017, the \u201cFans of Love\u201d video has been viewed over 38M times. Awareness of the PSAs is higher than most campaigns at 60% (Jan-June 2017), with almost 1 in 3 people aware of the Love Has No Labels brand.\nMore importantly, the campaign has shown to have significant impact on shifting behaviors and attitudes towards bias and inclusion. Since February 2015, more adults agree that there are things they can do to help create a more inclusive and accepting environment for others (61% to 72%) and that bias can lead to discrimination (73% to 77%). Since the launch of the campaign, more adults agree that supporting diversity and acceptance around race, gender, sexuality, religion, and disability is very important (33% to 44%).\nDiversity & Inclusion\tFamily & Community", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 182.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.adcouncil.org/Our-Campaigns/Education/(view)/list", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:18Z", "digest": "sha1:KUZGK45XGQGL6SDNTLNDOZOIM45ZXXIA", "length": 377, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.adcouncil.org", "title": "Education | AdCouncil", "raw_content": "According to the US Census Bureau, more than 37 million adults ages 16 and above do not have a high school diploma. Data shows that high school dropouts earn substantially less than high school graduates and have a lower quality of life. Many must work multiple jobs to support their families--and without a GED\u00ae diploma, they tend to get the lowest paid and least stable jobs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 2880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 151.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.addressreport.com/report/property/barnum-island-ny/4391-new-york-ave-11558/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:02Z", "digest": "sha1:SMAXWB654RPPD24ILILKEXMBV2F6IKUC", "length": 139, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.addressreport.com", "title": "4391 New York Ave Report: Reviews, Complaints & Public Records", "raw_content": "4391 New York Ave is a 1-floor Single Family Home in ISLAND PARK. The building was built in 1960 and has 1,691 square feet of living space.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 78.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.agb.org/reports", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:29Z", "digest": "sha1:XOWI2XYKYSECCIRGDUUDCO52MH5O5A3L", "length": 3457, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.agb.org", "title": "Research & Reports | AGB", "raw_content": "AGB is pleased to share this fourth publication in a series of informational briefings developed as part of The Guardians Initiative: Reclaiming the Public Trust, an effort to educate and engage trustees as advocates on key issues in higher education.\nA number of recent reports\u2014some from partisan sources, others from well-regarded independent surveyors such as the Pew and Gallup organizations\u2014suggest that public trust in colleges and universities has declined. In today\u2019s politically fraught climate, such reports...\nAGB is pleased to share this fifth publication in a series of informational briefings developed as part of The Guardians Initiative: Reclaiming the Public Trust, an effort to educate and engage trustees as advocates on key issues in higher education.\nAcross the nation, state elected leaders periodically mandate a review or propose legislation to change the oversight of public higher education\u2014to alter or completely reorganize statutory (or constitutional) bodies that determine policy for public colleges and universities.\nThe AGB 2018 Trustee Index\nThe AGB 2018 Trustee Index is the second annual survey of college and university board members about those issues they see as the most pressing facing the sector and the institutions they serve.\nAGB is pleased to share this third publication in a series of informational briefings developed as part of The Guardians Initiative: Reclaiming the Public Trust, an effort to educate and engage trustees as advocates on key issues in higher education.\nSmaller, private, independent institutions of higher education across the United States are facing challenging times. This white paper by Edwin H. Welch, president of the University of Charleston, shares lessons gleaned from the institution\u2019s innovative efforts over almost 30 years.\nAGB convened its Council of Presidents, an advisory group of 35 college leaders from a wide variety of institutions across North America, on October 15-16, 2016.\nAGB is pleased to share this second publication in a series of informational briefings developed as part of The Guardians Initiative: Reclaiming the Public Trust, an effort to educate and engage trustees as advocates on key issues in higher education.\nShared governance is one of the basic tenets of higher education, and yet there is considerable evidence that it is not generally well understood by its primary participants\u2014faculty members, presidents, and members of boards of trustees.\nStrengthening HBCU Governance and Leadership\nOver the course of nearly two years, 24 historically black colleges and universities intentionally and collectively took stock of their existing governance practices and made appropriate changes to ensure that both parties are effectively fulfilling their distinct duties and responsibilities.\nPublic higher education is a major recipient of state funding and resources. As such, public colleges and universities directly respond to state needs for higher education and are required to provide transparency in decision-making, which is codified in state open-meeting and record laws. These laws, often termed \u201csunshine laws,\u201d present challenges and opportunities to institutional leaders a\nCampus climate issues continue to pervade many institutions, with related news stories commanding headlines across the country. Through oversight and leadership, college and university governing boards play an important role in helping to create inclusive campuses.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 5728, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aggreko.com/en-asia/news/2018/global-news/august/aggreko-signs-cost-saving-power-plant-contract", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:30Z", "digest": "sha1:JDR6RASOAUN5XUP2CBMNO47LPR3NUHIJ", "length": 4034, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.aggreko.com", "title": "Aggreko enhances fuel flexibility reputation signing its first LPG fuelled power plant contract | Aggreko", "raw_content": "Aggreko enhances fuel flexibility reputation signing its first LPG fuelled power plant contract\nWe are excited to have signed a new three-year contract with the island of St Croix, a US Virgin Island, to deliver 20 MW of flexible, reliable power. This Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG)-powered Next Generation Gas (NGG) generator power plant will help the island provide essential power to residents, meeting the energy needs of both businesses and homes and providing power to approximately 26,000 customers.\nThis is Aggreko\u2019s first deployment of an NGG solution using LPG. One of the benefits of an NGG generator is its ability to operate using a much wider variety of gas fuel types and compositions than our other gas generators. NGG generators can operate using natural gas, Liquid Natural Gas, Compressed Natural Gas, LPG and Associated Petroleum Gas.\nThis is partly down to the high tolerance of NGG generators to a wide methane index, enabling our customers to have great fuel flexibility options when it comes to power generation fuels. This flexibility was essential for the St. Croix contract; this remote island needed a solution that would operate using the fuel types available.\nTailoring services to our clients\u2019 individual needs is a fundamental part of our business, and St Croix has its own unique requirements. On the island, power demand can change as much as 40% between day and night due to high levels of commercial activity during the day, which means that flexibility is essential. In order to meet these requirements, our power plant will be comprised of individual 1.2 MW power modules, which guarantees greater energy efficiency, with supply seamlessly adapting to cover day and night-time demand-side changes.\nThis contract also demonstrates our cost-saving solutions for customers. The new power plant is expected to provide $6 million of savings to the island in the first two years, which will directly result in electricity savings for the end user. Importantly, this can be achieved without compromising the robustness or reliability of the power supply, which is vital to remote islands like St. Croix.\nThe 20 MW power plant will meet all local and federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions requirements, including a continuous emissions monitoring system. In fact, gas solutions are cleaner and greener than other fossil alternatives. With lower exhaust emissions and noise levels they meet the most stringent environmental regulations, while providing market-leading fuel efficiency. The recent incorporation of LPG power generation to the island will also enable St. Croix to contribute to carbon reduction targets.\nAggreko\u2019s Managing Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ana Amicarella, said: \u201cAs energy markets continue to undergo profound transformation in search of reduction in the cost of power generation and lower emissions alternatives, both Aggreko and our customers are having to rapidly respond. This new LPG fuelled power contract in St. Croix is one example of such a response.\u201d\n\u201cWe are delighted that this power solution will enable businesses and families to flourish, and we are pleased to have the opportunity to work with the authorities on the island to make a positive impact on St. Croix and its people.\u201d\nCan NGG provide your power?\nContact Us on Social Media Tweet us at Aggreko_Intl\nFill out your details and we'll get back to you as soon as possible. All fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required.\nPlease select Product or Service enquiry General enquiry Careers enquiry Media request or Press enquiry\nPlease select Agriculture Construction Contracting Data centres Events Facilities management Fish farms Food and beverage Government services Manufacturing Mining Oil and gas Petrochemical and refining Pharmaceuticals Rail and public transport industry Refining Renewable energy Retail and wholesale Shipping Telecommunication technology Utilities Utilities distribution Utility power generation Water supply sewerage and waste management Other", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 9795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aicapitaladvisors.com/blog/2018/7/24/how-cryptocurrency-is-changing-venture-capital", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:30Z", "digest": "sha1:AB43WNE2VXOM7B5AJUF5LPTWTRY5P5YJ", "length": 4212, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.aicapitaladvisors.com", "title": "How Cryptocurrency Is Changing Venture Capital \u2014 Alternative Investment Capital Advisors", "raw_content": "Cryptocurrencies have been changing the landscape of our economical transactions, and venture capital is no different. It has been likewise affected by the influx of various tokens available that circumvent the need for third-party verifications systems.\nIt was necessary, in a traditional setting, for a startup to develop their pitch deck, and while that is still true, it is often not a requisite that they create a business plan. This, often laborious, step can now be substituted with a simple white paper that is more like a report on a company\u2019s proposed solution to a felt need than it is a detailed model of the way in which they intend to conduct business.\nIt is still absolutely integral for those in venture capital to develop their offering for presentation to a financial institution to receive the backing that they need. For many, however, cryptocurrency is finding alternative routes to providing the ever-important funding that is the lifeblood of any endeavor.\nThe ICO Approach\nFor cryptocurrencies that need to raise capital but who do not possess the familiar structure of a company in its beginning stages, there is another way. The Initial Coin Offering or ICO is a means of bypassing the usual model of selling equity in a business. Instead, this method involves creating tokens for distribution to those who provide them with funds.\nThis means that firms are no longer giving shares of their future revenue away and with it, a part of their company. This serves the double purpose of both growing their holdings, and it also puts this digital form of money in the hands of people who will, hopefully, go and spend it. These early adopters help legitimize this novel form of currency, emboldening others to try the recently created coin.\nDAPPS, Tokens Types, And The Need For A Common Denominator\nWe\u2019ve just discussed tokens used as currency, yet there is another type \u2013 the work token. But to understand this, we first need to understand DAPPS. The creator of Ethereum wished to invent a system of exchange that improved upon the technology of Bitcoin and that would become another internet unto itself. This platform gives users the ability to write their own apps, referred to as decentralized applications or DAPPS, and their uses can be diverse.\nOnce the DAPP is written, its inventors will enlist the help of those who are prominent in the world of blockchain to attest to their DAPP\u2019s viability. The startup will need to decide the total number of token they want to exist, the decimal point to which they can be divided, and a symbol to represent their cryptocurrency. Once this has been accomplished, an ICO can go public.\nTo solve the obvious problem of having too many token systems in the world to manage in a single wallet, coins are transmitted using a master form of exchange called ECR-120. This works by providing all new tokens with a ready platform on which to burst onto the world stage. In addition, there are four main websites on which developers can place their ICOs to an audience of hungry investors that isn\u2019t unlike a Kickstarter for ICO startups.\nCryptocurrencies are slowly and steadily changing the way business is done throughout the word, as they exert their influences on the institutions we have, so long, taken for granted. Banking is still a staple for fledgling startups to amass capital, but there is absolutely a growing segment of innovation that is taking place using the blockchain.\nWe\u2019re seeing the potential for growth expand, as more mainstream businesses and retailers are accepting cryptocurrency or are floating the idea of working it into their current model. ICOs have shown time and time again to be a fast way of helping a startup become fully funded. Time will only tell whether the initial vision behind Ethereum that it become a new frontier, an Internet built on the infrastructure of blockchain, will come to pass, changing how we engage in business forever.\nAI Capital Advisors can help you better your business to achieve a higher valuation by improving your presentations, capital raise and financial structures and your strategic planning. Feel free to contact us for more information, and we look forward to working with you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 5246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ajc.com/classifieds/obituaries-announcements/winter-irwin/Xk5LWxCrxDUF5AfhMl4tYN/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:00Z", "digest": "sha1:XCKU3GAH2RPX2BG2G7PYBDG2N4E3C3GU", "length": 1249, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ajc.com", "title": "WINTER, Irwin", "raw_content": "WINTER, Irwin\nWINTER, Irwin \"Bill\" Irwin \"Bill\" Winter, 91, of Atlanta died Jan. 19, 2019. Graveside services will be held Jan. 22 at Greenwood Cemetery at 11:30 AM with Rabbi Neal Sandler officiating. Born in Brooklyn, NY, he served in the Army, obtained his business degree from NYU, met his soul mate, and moved to Georgia to start a family. Bill was a loving husband, father and grandfather. He was predeceased by his wife, Ruth, of 51 years. Together they owned and operated the Cumming Convalescent Home in Cumming, Ga, providing excellent care for others. His positive attitude was infectious and his kindness unmatched. Bill was always quick with a joke and a welcoming smile. Bill is survived by his two sons and daughters-in-law, Steven and Alison Winter of Johns Creek and Mark and Elaine Winter of Flagler Beach, FL; and by his daughter and son-in-law, Janet and Perry Beard of Alpharetta; and grandchildren Ryan, Shannon, Jordan, Tyler, Kayley, Alyssa, Stacey, Jaime, and 4 great-grandchildren. Sign online guestbook at www.edressler.com. Memorial donations may be made to the American Heart Association. Arrangements by Dressler's Jewish Funeral Care, Atlanta, GA; 770-451-4999.\nDressler's Jewish Funeral Care\nwww.JewishFuneralCare.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 4700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.albertavetcenter.ca/pet-library.pml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4KXGT4I5AE6UPMZAI5IBOHILSKF7DITD", "length": 336, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.albertavetcenter.ca", "title": "Pet Library - Alberta Veterinary Center - Red deer, AB", "raw_content": "Alberta Veterinary Center provides you with a full library of pet medical information from the Veterinary Information Network. VIN is the world's first and largest online veterinary community, where new articles are added weekly by the experts at VIN to make sure that our readers have the most current veterinary information available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2015/02/apparently-cares-gaza-150222125448705.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:45Z", "digest": "sha1:HEU5OP2DORGHHJP2NFC3M5MM6TJJ2HKJ", "length": 5692, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.aljazeera.com", "title": "\ufeff Apparently no one cares about Gaza | Poverty & Development | Al Jazeera", "raw_content": "Apparently no one cares about Gaza\nSix months after the Cairo Donor Conference, 100,000 remain homeless.\nby Tony Laurance\nPalestinian children walk between the rubble of buildings which were destroyed during the summer war in Gaza City [AP]\nWriting for Al Jazeera last October, ahead of the Cairo Donor Conference for Gaza, I warned that it was not enough to pledge large sums - as donors duly did. We needed to learn from past failures and ensure that the aid was actually delivered. Alas, six months on from the attacks, my worst fears have been realised. Pledges have not been fulfilled, reconstruction has stalled and hope is draining away.\nThis month we learnt that just over 5 percent of the money pledged to rebuild Gaza after last summer's devastating 51-day conflict with Israel has been delivered. What does this say about the international community's commitment to the beleaguered territory and its 1.8 million residents?\nSix months after war, Gaza still in ruins\nI was in Gaza last week and have never known the place more depressed. The rubble has not been cleared. Power cuts continue. The economy has not begun to recover and poverty is widespread. You see destroyed buildings everywhere.\nSome 100,000 people are still homeless after their homes were destroyed in the bombing. Some of them have moved in with other members of their family and are living in impossibly crowded conditions. Others, less fortunate, live in caravans, UN shelters or in damaged homes exposed to the elements. It was cold and wet while I was there. The situation teeters on the brink of another major crisis.\nAnother major crisis\nI visited Gaza with a team of UK surgeons, specialists in limb reconstruction, who are working with their Palestinian colleagues to help repair the bones of some of those most seriously injured last July. This is a programme run by Medical Aid for Palestinians with funding from the UK Department for International Development.\nWe carried about $265,000 worth of medical equipment with us from the UK, dragging it in suitcases on the long walk from the Erez crossing. I saw it immediately be put to use in the operating theatres of Shifa hospital. Wonderful in many ways - but what kind of system is it when this is the way you equip your hospitals? When the local doctors are reliant on visiting consultants to teach them new skills because they cannot leave Gaza to train outside?\nThe health services are struggling to cope. They are overburdened and under-resourced. There are, once again, severe shortages of drugs and consumables as the supplies delivered in the war run out. Many of the staff have not been paid for months, others are receiving only 60 percent of their salaries as a result of the Palestinian Authority's financial crisis which has been compounded by Israel's withholding of tax revenues. What health service in the world could function in a situation like this?\nI also saw the impact of the continued legacy of the conflict. Over 8,000 \"explosive remnants of war\" - unexploded shells, grenades, bombs - remain scattered across Gaza, posing fatal risks to children in particular. During my visit, our surgeons helped treat three seriously injured children who'd picked up one of these deadly devices. It was a reminder that while we mark the six-month anniversary of the ceasefire, the conflict continues to take a terrible toll.\nWhile the logistics of getting medical aid into Gaza are difficult, they are nothing when compared to the obstacles in the way of meaningful reconstruction.\nWhile the logistics of getting medical aid into Gaza are difficult, they are nothing when compared to the obstacles in the way of meaningful reconstruction. To meet Gaza's housing needs, including rebuilding destroyed or severely damaged homes and addressing natural growth, 735 truckloads of materials need to enter Gaza every day for the next three years.\nThis daily truck requirement was not reached for the entire month of November when an average of only 287 trucks with building materials entered Gaza per day. While December saw a slight improvement, the whole process stalled in January due to a lack of funds.\nWhy? Everyone is blaming someone else. The Palestinians blame Israel for the ongoing siege and point to the failure of the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism (GRM) which was established as a temporary system after the war to facilitate the transfer of materials for reconstruction.\nIsrael blames the Palestinians for their inability to heal their divisions and abide by the terms of agreement of the reconstruction mechanism. The UN points the finger at donors who have not delivered on their pledges.\nOrdinary Palestinians in Gaza look on with growing dismay. They feel abandoned and forgotten. They are the ones suffering while those with power over them remain locked in entrenched positions. They are unable to leave and powerless to change things. Although the people of Gaza are astonishingly resilient, this impasse and continuing isolation are testing them to the limit.\nThe deadlock must be broken. Donors must deliver on their pledges. The PA and Hamas must settle their differences for the greater good of their people and for the possibility of peace. Israel must live up to its responsibilities as the occupying power and lift the siege. Egypt, too, must play its part by reopening the Rafah crossing on a regular and reliable basis.\nConsidering the horrors of what we saw last July and the very real possibility of it being repeated, we must start fresh new efforts to return hope to Gaza.\nTony Laurance is the chief executive of Medical Aid for Palestinians and former head of the WHO in Palestine.\nTony Laurance\n@ TonyLauranceMAP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 9816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.analectabooks.com/kate-atkinson--started-early-took-the-dog---signed-first-edition.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UY22YSOCNT4WTFJS2F64O7TUUMQ2TMCE", "length": 1076, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.analectabooks.com", "title": "Kate Atkinson : Started Early, Took the Dog - Signed First Edition - ANALECTA BOOKS : BESPOKE SIGNED & REMARQUED (SKETCHED) FIRST EDITIONS", "raw_content": "Kate Atkinson : Started Early, Took the Dog - Signed First Edition - SOLD OUT\nFirst edition, first impression - signed and dated by the author to the title page.\nSynopsis :A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a purchase she hadn't bargained for. One moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Witnesses to Tracy's Faustian exchange in the Merrion Centre in Leeds are Tilly, an elderly actress teetering on the brink of her own disaster, and Jackson Brodie who has returned to his home county in search of someone else's roots. All three characters learn that the past is never history and that no good deed goes unpunished. Kate Atkinson dovetails and counterpoints her plots with Dickensian brilliance in a tale peopled with unlikely heroes and villains. \"Started Early, Took My Dog\" is freighted with wit, wisdom and a fierce moral intelligence. It confirms Kate Atkinson's position as one of the great writers of our time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 405, "original_length": 24864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anamericanlion.com/aal/2017/5/trump-must-do-the-bidding-of-his-russian-masters", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:19Z", "digest": "sha1:SZ56P7HWL7NCWKZCGDILSFE4Y2PLV5SF", "length": 2246, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.anamericanlion.com", "title": "Trump Must Do the Bidding of His Russian Masters \u2014 An American Lion", "raw_content": "Trump Must Do the Bidding of His Russian Masters\nIf it's Wednesday, then there must be another huge bombshell revelation about how the Russians own Trump while the Republican Party keeps yelling \"na-na-na-na-na\" while covering its ears:\nThe Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore, that its officials were ejected from in late December as punishment for Moscow\u2019s interference in the 2016 presidential election.\nPresident Barack Obama said Dec. 29 that the compounds were being \u201cused by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes\u201d and gave Russia 24 hours to vacate them. Separately, Obama expelled from the United States what he said were 35 Russian \u201cintelligence operatives.\u201d\n[The luxurious, 45-acre compound in Maryland being shut down for alleged Russian espionage]\nEarly last month, the Trump administration told the Russians that it would consider turning the properties back over to them if Moscow would lift its freeze, imposed in 2014 in retaliation for U.S. sanctions related to Ukraine, on construction of a new U.S. consulate on a certain parcel of land in St. Petersburg.\nTwo days later, the U.S. position changed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a meeting in Washington that the United States had dropped any linkage between the compounds and the consulate, according to several people with knowledge of the exchanges.\nThis is still NOT ENOUGH to convince the Republicans to cut their losses and remove Trump from power. This is still NOT ENOUGH to compel any of them to put country ahead of party. This is simply NOT ENOUGH to change the minds of anyone.\nThis is the best we're going to get. No one is all of a sudden going to discover their patriotism. We are months and months if not years away from anything resembling an accountability moment. Here you have an American president handing back to the Russians their collection or spying sites as if he's in the tank for them.\nThey are all traitors, every one of them.\nTagged: Treason, Fiasco\nNewer PostTrump is the Daddy Who Can't Stop Beating His Children\nOlder PostHillary For the Win", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 3665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ancientfaces.com/person/maria-callas/192739003", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:41Z", "digest": "sha1:VJ4EBDCR6YDUNJ3S5G6OLA4QV5VJKBXJ", "length": 20799, "nlines": 78, "source_domain": "www.ancientfaces.com", "title": "Maria Callas (1923 - 1977) - New York, NY", "raw_content": "Callas Family History\nMaria Callas Bios\nShow other Maria Callases\nMaria Callas was born on December 2, 1923 in New York, NY. She had siblings Vassilis and Yakinthi. She died on September 16, 1977 in Paris, \u00cele-de-France, France at 53 years of age. Her cause of death is listed as: heart Failure.\nMaria's education includes: The tone of the voice was warm, lyrical, intense; it swirled and flared like a flame and filled the air with melodious reverberations like a carillon. It was by any standards an amazing phenomenon, or rather it was a great talent that needed control, technical training and strict discipline in order to shine with all its brilliance., Trivella agreed to tutor Callas completely, waiving her tuition fees, but no sooner had Callas started her formal lessons and vocal exercises than Trivella began to feel that Callas was not a contralto, as she had been told, but a dramatic soprano. Subsequently, they began working on raising the tessitura of her voice and to lighten its timbre. Trivella recalled Callas as: A model student. Fanatical, uncompromising, dedicated to her studies heart and soul. Her progress was phenomenal. She studied five or six hours a day. ...Within six months, she was singing the most difficult arias in the international opera repertoire with the utmost musicality., On April 11, 1938, in her public debut, Callas ended the recital of Trivella's class at the Parnassos music hall with a duet from Tosca. Callas recalled that Trivella: had a French method, which was placing the voice in the nose, rather nasal... and I had the problem of not having low chest tones, which is essential in bel canto... And that's where I learned my chest tones. However, when interviewed by Pierre Desgraupes (fr) on the French program L'invit\u00e9e du dimanche, Callas attributed the development of her chest voice not to Trivella, but to her next teacher, the Spanish coloratura soprano Elvira de Hidalgo. Callas studied with Trivella for two years before her mother secured another audition at the Athens Conservatoire with de Hidalgo. Callas auditioned with \"Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster\" from Weber's Oberon. De Hidalgo recalled hearing \"tempestuous, extravagant cascades of sounds, as yet uncontrolled but full of drama and emotion.\" She agreed to take her as a pupil immediately, but Callas's mother asked de Hidalgo to wait for a year, as Callas would be graduating from the National Conservatoire and could begin working. On April 2, 1939, Callas undertook the part of Santuzza in a student production of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana at the Greek National Opera at the Olympia Theatre, and in the fall of the same year she enrolled at the Athens Conservatoire in Elvira de Hidalgo's class. In 1968, Callas told Lord Harewood, De Hildalgo had the real great training, maybe even the last real training of the real bel canto. As a young girl\u2014thirteen years old\u2014I was immediately thrown into her arms, meaning that I learned the secrets, the ways of this bel canto, which of course as you well know, is not just beautiful singing. It is a very hard training; it is a sort of a strait-jacket that you're supposed to put on, whether you like it or not. You have to learn to read, to write, to form your sentences, how far you can go, fall, hurt yourself, put yourself back on your feet continuously. De Hidalgo had one method, which was the real bel canto way, where no matter how heavy a voice, it should always be kept light, it should always be worked on in a flexible way, never to weigh it down. It is a method of keeping the voice light and flexible and pushing the instrument into a certain zone where it might not be too large in sound, but penetrating. And teaching the scales, trills, all the bel canto embellishments, which is a whole vast language of its own. De Hidalgo later recalled Callas as \"a phenomenon... She would listen to all my students, sopranos, mezzos, tenors... She could do it all.\"[24] Callas herself said that she would go to \"the conservatoire at 10 in the morning and leave with the last pupil ... devouring music\" for 10 hours a day. When asked by her teacher why she did this, her answer was that even \"with the least talented pupil, he can teach you something that you, the most talented, might not be able to do.\", . Her occupation and profession is listed as: After the liberation of Greece, de Hidalgo advised Callas to establish herself in Italy. Callas proceeded to give a series of concerts around Greece, and then, against her teacher's advice, she returned to America to see her father and to further pursue her career. When she left Greece on September 14, 1945, two months short of her 22nd birthday, Callas had given 56 performances in seven operas and had appeared in around 20 recitals. Callas considered her Greek career as the foundation of her musical and dramatic upbringing, saying, \"When I got to the big career, there were no surprises for me.\" Main operatic career After returning to the United States and reuniting with her father in September 1945, Callas made the round of auditions.[21] In December of that year, she auditioned for Edward Johnson, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, and was favorably received: \"Exceptional voice\u2014ought to be heard very soon on stage\". Callas maintained that the Met offered her Madama Butterfly and Fidelio, to be performed in Philadelphia and sung in English, both of which she declined, feeling she was too fat for Butterfly and did not like the idea of opera in English. Although no written evidence of this offer exists in the Met's records, in a 1958 interview with the New York Post, Johnson corroborated Callas's story: \"We offered her a contract, but she didn't like it\u2014because of the contract, not because of the roles. She was right in turning it down\u2014it was frankly a beginner's contract.\" .\nFind records of Maria Callas\nFind records of Maria\nMaria Callas\u2019s biography is built and maintained by people like you. Create an online profile of Maria so that her life is remembered forever. If any factual information is incorrect, please edit Maria\u2019s biography.\nCarlo Maria Giulini has described the appeal of Callas's voice:\nIt is very difficult to speak of the voice of Callas. Her voice was a very special instrument. Something happens sometimes with string instruments\u2014violin, viola, cello\u2014where the first moment you listen to the sound of this instrument, the first feeling is a bit strange sometimes. But after just a few minutes, when you get used to, when you become friends with this kind of sound, then the sound becomes a magical quality. This was Callas.\nMaria Callas Biography & Family History\nThis genealogy profile is dedicated to the life and ancestry of Maria Callas and her immediate Callas family. Add to Maria Callas's genealogy page to share your memories & historical research with her family and other genealogy hobbyists.\nNew York, Manhattan County, NY United States\nParis, Paris County, \u00cele-de-France France\nDo you know the final resting place - gravesite in a cemetery or location of cremation - of Maria Callas? Add burial and funeral information.\nView Maria Callas's obituary\nDid Maria move a lot? Did she emigrate from another country? Add Maria's last known location.\nMaria Callas lived 20 years shorter than the average Callas family member when she died at the age of 53.\nSiblings: Vassilis Callas and Yakinthi Callas\nThe tone of the voice was warm, lyrical, intense; it swirled and flared like a flame and filled the air with melodious reverberations like a carillon. It was by any standards an amazing phenomenon, or rather it was a great talent that needed control, technical training and strict discipline in order to shine with all its brilliance.\nTrivella agreed to tutor Callas completely, waiving her tuition fees, but no sooner had Callas started her formal lessons and vocal exercises than Trivella began to feel that Callas was not a contralto, as she had been told, but a dramatic soprano. Subsequently, they began working on raising the tessitura of her voice and to lighten its timbre. Trivella recalled Callas as: A model student. Fanatical, uncompromising, dedicated to her studies heart and soul. Her progress was phenomenal. She studied five or six hours a day. ...Within six months, she was singing the most difficult arias in the international opera repertoire with the utmost musicality.\nOn April 11, 1938, in her public debut, Callas ended the recital of Trivella's class at the Parnassos music hall with a duet from Tosca. Callas recalled that Trivella: had a French method, which was placing the voice in the nose, rather nasal... and I had the problem of not having low chest tones, which is essential in bel canto... And that's where I learned my chest tones. However, when interviewed by Pierre Desgraupes (fr) on the French program L'invit\u00e9e du dimanche, Callas attributed the development of her chest voice not to Trivella, but to her next teacher, the Spanish coloratura soprano Elvira de Hidalgo. Callas studied with Trivella for two years before her mother secured another audition at the Athens Conservatoire with de Hidalgo. Callas auditioned with \"Ocean, Thou Mighty Monster\" from Weber's Oberon. De Hidalgo recalled hearing \"tempestuous, extravagant cascades of sounds, as yet uncontrolled but full of drama and emotion.\" She agreed to take her as a pupil immediately, but Callas's mother asked de Hidalgo to wait for a year, as Callas would be graduating from the National Conservatoire and could begin working. On April 2, 1939, Callas undertook the part of Santuzza in a student production of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana at the Greek National Opera at the Olympia Theatre, and in the fall of the same year she enrolled at the Athens Conservatoire in Elvira de Hidalgo's class. In 1968, Callas told Lord Harewood, De Hildalgo had the real great training, maybe even the last real training of the real bel canto. As a young girl\u2014thirteen years old\u2014I was immediately thrown into her arms, meaning that I learned the secrets, the ways of this bel canto, which of course as you well know, is not just beautiful singing. It is a very hard training; it is a sort of a strait-jacket that you're supposed to put on, whether you like it or not. You have to learn to read, to write, to form your sentences, how far you can go, fall, hurt yourself, put yourself back on your feet continuously. De Hidalgo had one method, which was the real bel canto way, where no matter how heavy a voice, it should always be kept light, it should always be worked on in a flexible way, never to weigh it down. It is a method of keeping the voice light and flexible and pushing the instrument into a certain zone where it might not be too large in sound, but penetrating. And teaching the scales, trills, all the bel canto embellishments, which is a whole vast language of its own. De Hidalgo later recalled Callas as \"a phenomenon... She would listen to all my students, sopranos, mezzos, tenors... She could do it all.\"[24] Callas herself said that she would go to \"the conservatoire at 10 in the morning and leave with the last pupil ... devouring music\" for 10 hours a day. When asked by her teacher why she did this, her answer was that even \"with the least talented pupil, he can teach you something that you, the most talented, might not be able to do.\"\nAfter the liberation of Greece, de Hidalgo advised Callas to establish herself in Italy. Callas proceeded to give a series of concerts around Greece, and then, against her teacher's advice, she returned to America to see her father and to further pursue her career. When she left Greece on September 14, 1945, two months short of her 22nd birthday, Callas had given 56 performances in seven operas and had appeared in around 20 recitals. Callas considered her Greek career as the foundation of her musical and dramatic upbringing, saying, \"When I got to the big career, there were no surprises for me.\"\nMain operatic career\nAfter returning to the United States and reuniting with her father in September 1945, Callas made the round of auditions.[21] In December of that year, she auditioned for Edward Johnson, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera, and was favorably received: \"Exceptional voice\u2014ought to be heard very soon on stage\".\nCallas maintained that the Met offered her Madama Butterfly and Fidelio, to be performed in Philadelphia and sung in English, both of which she declined, feeling she was too fat for Butterfly and did not like the idea of opera in English. Although no written evidence of this offer exists in the Met's records, in a 1958 interview with the New York Post, Johnson corroborated Callas's story: \"We offered her a contract, but she didn't like it\u2014because of the contract, not because of the roles. She was right in turning it down\u2014it was frankly a beginner's contract.\"\nIt is unknown if Maria Callas is a military veteran.\nUnknown. Add Maria's ethnicity.\nUnknown. Add Maria's nationality.\nUnknown. Was Maria a religious woman? Add Maria\u2019s religion\nHistorically notable or family photographs that show the life of Maria Callas and her immediate Callas family.\n1923 - In the year that Maria Callas was born, on September 1, an earthquake - the Great Kanto earthquake - destroyed one-third of Tokyo. Measuring 7.9 and with a reported duration of between 4 and 10 minutes, casualties totaled about 142,800 deaths, including about 40,000 who went missing and were presumed dead.\n1939 - At the age of 16 years old, Maria was alive when in May, Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length animated film, reached a total international gross of $6.5 million which made it (to then) the most successful sound film of all time. First released in December 1937, it was originally dubbed \"Disney's Folly\" but the premiere received a standing ovation from the audience. At the 11th Academy Awards in February 1939, Walt Disney won an Academy Honorary Award - a full-size Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones - for Snow White.\n1962 - By the time she was 39 years old, on August 5th, actress and sex symbol Marilyn Monroe died in Brentwood California. She was ruled to have died from suicide due to a drug overdose. There has been controversy regarding the circumstances ever since, due to her relationships with Jack and Bobby Kennedy.\n1967 - When she was 44 years old, on November 7th, President Johnson signed legislation passed by Congress that created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which would later become PBS and NPR. The legislation required CPB to operate with a \"strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature\".\n1977 - In the year of Maria Callas's passing, on May 25th, Star Wars premiered in theaters. Eventually, it became the highest-grossing film of all time - until E.T. surpassed it a few years later. It was an immediate hit with theatergoers.\nMaria Callas Family Tree\nWho was Maria\u2019s parents? Did she get married and did they have children? Share Maria\u2019s family tree to share her legacy and genealogy pedigree.\nedit Maria's Family\nYakinthi Callas\nVassilis Callas\nVassilis Callas Yakinthi Callas\nYou can add or remove people from Maria's family tree by clicking here.\nThis obit of Maria Callas is updated by the community. Edit this biography to contribute to her obituary. Include details such as cemetery, burial, newspaper obituary and grave or marker inscription if available.\nMaria Callas, Commendatore OMRI[1] (/\u02c8k\u00e6l\u0259s/; Greek: \u039c\u03b1\u03c1\u03af\u03b1 \u039a\u03ac\u03bb\u03bb\u03b1\u03c2; December 2, 1923 \u2013 September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano, one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina.\nBorn in New York City and raised by an overbearing mother who had wanted a son, she received her musical education in Greece and established her career in Italy. Forced to deal with the exigencies of 1940s wartime poverty and with near-sightedness that left her nearly blind onstage, she endured struggles and scandal over the course of her career. She turned herself from a heavy woman into a svelte and glamorous one after a mid-career weight loss, which might have contributed to her vocal decline and the premature end of her career.\nThe press exulted in publicizing Callas's temperamental behavior, her supposed rivalry with Renata Tebaldi and her love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Although her dramatic life and personal tragedy have often overshadowed Callas the artist in the popular press, her artistic achievements were such that Leonard Bernstein called her \"the Bible of opera\" and her influence so enduring that, in 2006, Opera News wrote of her: \"Nearly thirty years after her death, she's still the definition of the diva as artist\u2014and still one of classical music's best-selling vocalists.\"\nThe name on Callas's New York birth certificate is Sophie Cecilia Kalos. She was born at Flower Hospital on December 2, 1923, to Greek parents, George Kalogeropoulos (c. 1881 \u2013 1972) and Elmina Evangelia \"Litsa\" (n\u00e9e Demes; originally Dimitriadou; c. 1894 \u2013 1982), although she was christened Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos (Greek: \u039c\u03b1\u03c1\u03af\u03b1 \u0386\u03bd\u03bd\u03b1 \u039a\u03b1\u03b9\u03ba\u03b9\u03bb\u03af\u03b1 \u03a3\u03bf\u03c6\u03af\u03b1 \u039a\u03b1\u03bb\u03bf\u03b3\u03b5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c0\u03bf\u03cd\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5). Callas's father had shortened the surname Kalogeropoulos first to \"Kalos\" and subsequently to \"Callas\" in order to make it more manageable.\nThey also had a daughter, named Yakinthi (later called \"Jackie\"), in 1917 and the birth of a son, named Vassilis, in 1920. Vassilis's death from meningitis in the summer of 1922 dealt a blow to the marriage. In 1923, after realizing that Litsa was pregnant again, George made the unilateral decision to move his family to America, a decision which Yakinthi recalled was greeted with Litsa \"shouting hysterically\" followed by George \"slamming doors\". The family left for New York in July 1923, moving first into an apartment in the heavily ethnic Greek neighborhood of Astoria, Queens.\nLitsa was convinced that her third child would be a boy; her disappointment at the birth of another daughter was so great that she refused to even look at her new baby for four days. Maria was christened three years later at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in 1926. When Maria was 4, George Callas opened his own pharmacy, settling the family in Manhattan on 192nd Street in Washington Heights where Callas grew up. Around the age of three, Maria's musical talent began to manifest itself, and after Litsa discovered that her youngest daughter also had a voice, she began pressing \"Mary\" to sing. Callas later recalled, \"I was made to sing when I was only five, and I hated it.\" The marriage continued to deteriorate and in 1937 Evangelia decided to return to Athens with her two daughters.\nWhat do you remember about Maria Callas? Share your memories of special moments and stories you have heard about her. Or just leave a comment to show the world that Maria is remembered.\nMaria Callas, Commendatore OMRI was an American-born Greek soprano, one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations.\nBorn: December 2, 1923, Manhattan, New York City, NY\nDied: September 16, 1977, Paris, France\nSpouse: Giovanni Battista Meneghini (m. 1949\u20131959)\nSiblings: Vassilis Callas, Yakinthi Callas\nDon't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the rules.\nYou are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.\nWhen music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.\nOther Records of Maria Callas\nOther Callases\nVassilis Callas New York, New York\nYakinthi Callas New York, New York\nGeneva (Gibeson) Fenno Anderson, California\nGalen Richard Gibeson (born 1936) Lakeview, Oregon\nElisabeth Ann (Gibeson) Dickson/SuChy (born 1958) Redding, California\nLinda (Lawerance) Pixley Conneaut, Ohio\nAnita Susana (Pixley) Myers (born 1966) Conneaut, Ohio\nMark Pixley Conneaut, Ohio\nDavid Lester ( Myers) Myers (born 1985) Conneaut, OH\nJaclyn Renee (Myers) Marshall (born 1991) Conneaut, Ohio\nLester Howard Myers (born 1966) Conneaut, Ohio\nTimmy Marshall\nLuke James Marshall Ashtabula, Ohio\nJennifer S (Collins) Reppond Texas\nMarina Yashina Moscow, Russia\nMary ________ Tierney\nSuccess Stories from Biographies like Maria Callas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 29860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anera.org/stories/walking-easier-with-some-help-in-gaza/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:57Z", "digest": "sha1:IOQNEGXBZRCAS3HGM6MBOHD6I3PJS7VS", "length": 2408, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.anera.org", "title": "Walking Easier with Some Help in Gaza | Anera", "raw_content": "Walking Easier with Some Help in Gaza\nTen-year-old Abed El-Azeez loves school. \u201cI love math,\u201d the young Gazan says with pride. \u201cIt\u2019s my favorite class.\u201d Abed, a top student in his class, is confident and certain about what he wants to be when he grows up too: \u201cI want to be an engineer.\u201d\nBut it has not been easy for Abed to get to school. He has a walking disability and desperately needed crutches to help him walk back and forth from his school, the Society for the Phsyically Handicapped, a five kilometer trek each way.\nWalking Aids Mobilize Gaza Students with Disabilities\nAbed is one of six children in his family, but the only one with a disability. His father Ayman says the impairment was caused by a severe deficit in blood count when he was little and has resulted in a life-long handicap. \u201cWe are so proud of our child and what he can do despite his handicap. All of us give him love and support.\u201d\nBut Ayman says the tough economic situation in Gaza and his lack of steady work made purchasing crutches beyond his reach. The blockade of Gaza and destruction of tunnels to Egypt cut down the supply of walking aids as well as essential medicines and equipment for people with disabilities. Crutches and other walking aids are hard to come by and what is available is expensive.\nAyman and Abed were overjoyed by AmeriCares\u2019 donation of adult and child crutches and canes, which Anera\u2019s medical aid team delivered to hospitals and clinics across Gaza. Anera has also delivered the much-needed walking aids to the West Bank.\nDelighted with his new walking aids and ability to move around more easily, Abed has set himself a new goal. \u201cI dream of walking around the city and learning about different places.\u201d\nDirector of Gaza Society for Physically Handicapped is Role Model\nDr. Sameer Abu Jayaab, who runs the Society for the Physically Handicapped -- who is himself handicapped \u2013 expressed his appreciation for the support his organization and school have received, from medicines to wheelchairs and crutches. \u201cFor more than ten years, the organization has worked to serve more than 11 thousand registered handicapped people. And, I can say with certainty that at least seven thousand of them regularly benefit from Anera\u2019s support and contributions.\u201d\nThe director of Society for Handicapped in Gaza walks with his student, who now can move around more easily thanks to his new crutches from Anera.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 4454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.anticcolonial.com/en/naturelovers/hyperion-tallest-tree-in-the-world/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HYZQV76H7B2YHOYAHHLCGX4ILZWVO4KD", "length": 435, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.anticcolonial.com", "title": "Hyperion, tallest tree in the world - L'Antic colonial", "raw_content": "Hyperion, tallest tree in the world\nManifiest\nNature continues to surprise us, this time in the form of the highest tree in the world. Called Hyperion and located in the United States, this wonder stands at 115 metres high (21 metres taller than the Statue of Liberty):\nSource: http://famousredwoods.com/\nHyperion\u2019s big trunk\nWest side Hyperion\u2019s trunk\nNatural wood mosaics, the perfect decoration for the home\nNatural Stone in fashion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 7640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.apple.com/ie/shop/question/answers/product/MD564ZM/A/i-have-an-old-pc-game-which-may-not-be-compatible-with-the-mac-but-is-the-anything-i-can-do-or-download-to-make-this-work/QDY9HK9CUKKC2A9DK", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:40Z", "digest": "sha1:WQPMFGKG66B3RALQRD5FEQ6ZD4LP4D5U", "length": 382, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.apple.com", "title": "i have an old pc game which may not be compatible with the mac but is the anything i can do or download to make this work? - Apple (IE)", "raw_content": "i have an old pc game which may not be compatible with the mac but is the anything i can do or download to make this work?\nthe game is a pc cd-rom and is called harry potter the chamber of secrets is there any way i can make this work?\nFlag as inappropriate (i have an old pc game which may not be compatible with the mac but is the anything i can do or download to make this work?)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aptaclub.ie/dealing-with-a-food-allergy-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:KHIQETWXQPUNYQSYPYBW7C37IVI2DAUX", "length": 2639, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.aptaclub.ie", "title": "Dealing with a food allergy - Aptaclub", "raw_content": "If there is a history of food allergy, eczema, hay fever or asthma in your family (one or more of your baby\u2019s first-degree relatives i.e. parent or sibling) then there is a higher risk of your baby developing a food allergy but not always\u2026\nIf there is a confirmed history of allergy in the family it is best to breastfeed your baby. The Department of Health and Children recommends exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months and continue with the gradual introduction of solids at 6 months for up to 2 years and beyond. If you are bottlefeeding your baby, and you suspect they have an allergy, talk to your healthcare professional. There are specialised formulas available and your healthcare professional will advise you if you need to use one for your baby (cows\u2019 milk allergy). It is recommended that you begin weaning at around 6 months, no earlier than 17 weeks and no later than 6 months of age (FSAI, 2012).\nNew European expert guidance states that potential allergenic foods do not need to be excluded or introduced late to a baby\u2019s diet, even if there is a family history of allergy. When you do introduce potential allergenic foods, give them one at a time and spaced apart to allow you to monitor any adverse reactions to the food.\nWhat types of food are potential allergens?\nIf you feel your baby may have an allergic reaction talk to your local doctor for a correct diagnosis. They will most likely refer you to a Dietitian who will review the symptoms and advise you as to the most appropriate diet for your little one. Ensure you have your Doctor or Dietitian\u2019s approval before eliminating any foods from your baby\u2019s diet as by doing so could possibly be depriving your baby of essential nutrients.\nEczema or skin irritation particularly on the face\nSwollen lips and eyes\nWheezing, runny nose, sore throat and watery eyes\nReactions can also be more severe, breathing difficulties or a drop in blood pressure (anaphylaxis) may be life threatening, if your baby shows these symptoms call emergency services immediately.\nWill an allergy affect my baby for his whole life?\nIt depends on the type of allergy, the majority of babies will grow out of cows\u2019 milk allergy by the age of 3 years, however it is unlikely that babies will grow out of a nut allergy for example. It is important that you monitor your baby\u2019s condition closely with your G.P. and that he is retested occasionally to see if the allergy still exists.\nIf there is a history of allergy in your family and you are about to begin weaning contact our team of Nutritionists who will guide you on the right path.\nHow to Hold Your Newborn\nMonitoring Baby's Weight", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.arcusglobal.com/in-the-media/nhsbsagigabit", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:51Z", "digest": "sha1:FTB3PBVJ5TEDWSD2VMXFOFTYSMGHNZVB", "length": 724, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.arcusglobal.com", "title": "NHSBSA moves to a more customer focused model with help from Arcus \u2014 Arcus Global", "raw_content": "The NHSBSA\u2019s journey has seen its services move towards an increasingly customer-centric model. This journey has transformed the end to end user experiences and the culture of how the organisation views and delivers its services.\nKey to this transformation has been the adoption of a cloud-first hosting model. This has been instrumental to the growth and improvement of NHSBSA\u2019s services and enabled it to cater for growing demands on its services. \u201cOur cloud services were developed in partnership with Arcus and Amazon Web Services (AWS), this has enabled us to increase flexibility while reducing deployment times so that we're now deploying multiple releases per month\" said NHSBSA\u2019s Chief Digital Officer Darren Curry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.army.mil/article/208477/army_announces_austin_as_the_home_of_new_army_futures_command", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LE77R664ZYAF66CRL3OAVM2O4CSKIMV5", "length": 4185, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.army.mil", "title": "Army announces Austin as the home of new Army Futures Command | Article | The United States Army", "raw_content": "Army announces Austin as the home of new Army Futures Command\nBy Department of the ArmyJuly 13, 2018\n1 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Austin, Texas is the home of the new U.S. Army Futures Command. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army graphic) VIEW ORIGINAL\n2 / 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Austin, Texas is the home of the new U.S. Army Futures Command. (Photo Credit: U.S. Army graphic ) VIEW ORIGINAL\nWASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army announced today that, after a months-long review of potential sites, its new Futures Command will be headquartered in Austin, Texas.\nArmy Futures Command, which began operations on July 1, will lead the Army's future force modernization enterprise. The command is expected to assess the future operational environment, emerging threats, and new technologies in order to develop and deliver concepts, requirements, future force designs, and modern materiel solutions to meet our Soldiers' wartime needs.\nThe Army has worked hard increasing current readiness and strengthening its combat formations. Futures Command will provide that same focus to future readiness by fine tuning and implementing the service's modernization strategy to increase the Army's lethality against near-peer competitors in tomorrow's conflicts.\n\"The establishment of the Army Futures Command is the best example of our commitment to the future readiness and lethality of the force,\" said Secretary of the Army Hon. Mark T. Esper. \"Army Futures Command will help fulfill the Army Vision by addressing the key shortcomings of the current acquisition system, providing unity of command, effort, and purpose to the entire modernization enterprise.\"\nFutures Command will lead the Army's force modernization efforts; it is charged with providing Soldiers the weapons and equipment they need, when they need them. This new four-star command will complement the Army's other four-star headquarters -- Forces Command, Training and Doctrine Command and Army Materiel Command -- and is scheduled to reach full operational capability in summer 2019.\n\"This is a big year for the Army because we believe that we need to significantly reform the way the Army does research and development, testing and evaluation, procurement, and everything else that contributes to the modernization process,\" said Gen. Mark A. Milley, Chief of Staff of the Army.\nEstablishment of the command marks the most significant reorganization of the institutional Army since 1973, when it created U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) and U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Unique in structure and design, it is being headquartered in Austin, Texas to better partner with academia, industry, and innovators in the private sector, while providing a good and affordable quality of life for Futures Command personnel.\nWhen it reaches full operating capacity in summer 2019, the headquarters will comprise about 500 personnel. Sub-organizations, many of which currently reside within TRADOC and AMC, will transition to Army Futures Command in the coming months. The Army has no plan to physically move units or personnel from these commands at the present time.\n\"This is not about moving lots of people from other commands,\" said Ryan D. McCarthy, Under Secretary of the Army. \"Army Futures Command can be best characterized as a restructuring and de-layering to maintain the 'best in breed' in all military capabilities.\"\nArmy Futures Command also oversees the Army's eight cross-functional teams, which are aligned against the Army's six modernization priorities. Each CFT is expected to facilitate faster acquisition decision making by Army senior leaders in order to meet the needs of the future force, consistent with the Army Vision.\nMedia queries about this newly established command should be addressed to Col. Patrick R. Seiber, Army Futures Command Communications Director, at patrick.r.seiber.mil@mail.mil or 703-545-3560. All other media queries should be addressed to Lt. Col. Monica Womack at monica.v.womack.mil@mail.mil or 703-695-0378.\nSTAND-TO! Army Futures Command Location Announcement\nJanuary 11, 2019Gen. Austin S. Miller Visit\nDecember 27, 2018Futures Command tops 2018 modernization stories", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aroundaboutbritain.co.uk/Merseyside/11300", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:OSR7AZVAWDKFFGEBPUMIDGPGXALNQT3Z", "length": 1422, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.aroundaboutbritain.co.uk", "title": "Around About Britain :: Hotels, B & Bs, Self Catering Holiday Cottages and Campsites in the UK", "raw_content": "Low House Farm, Claughton, Lancaster, Lancashire\nLow House Farm is a working farm is located in the Lune Valley in the Lancashire village of Claughton which is close to Lancaster. The house provides bed and breakfast accommodation with beautiful views of the valley and Yorkshire Dales. As the B&B is on a working farm if you come in the Springtime you may be lucky enough to feed the lambs or collect eggs for your breakfast.\nThere are 3 bed and breakfast rooms which consist of an en suite family room, double room with adjoining bathroom and a single room which shares the family bathroom. All of the rooms have a TV, radio, hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities. Guests are welcome to relax in the lounge which has a TV, books, games and tourist information. Outside there is a swing and slide for children to enjoy.\nThe B&B accommodation is located within easy reach of the M6 so we are in the ideal spot for exploring the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales, Forest of Bowland and the North West coast. The nearby town of Lancaster has got a beautiful castle, quirky boutiques, museums and galleries to explore. There are plenty of places to eat as well as interesting places to visit for a night out.\nFor more information about our bed and breakfast in Claughton please see our website.\nPacked lunches by arrangement.\nParking is in front of house.\nContact Name: Shirley Harvey\nWebsite: http://www.lowhousefarm.co.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2187, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 220.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artosaka.jp/en/privacy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:41Z", "digest": "sha1:IT6CFR6JGZ57VETUXKB27FG27IGRLT3Q", "length": 1880, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.artosaka.jp", "title": "Privacy Policy \u2039 ART OSAKA 2018", "raw_content": "ART OSAKA Organizing Committee (hereinafter \u201cSite Operator\u201d) collects user information to the extent required for running the services (including information provision and handling inquiries) provided on the ART OSAKA Website (www.artosaka.jp). The Site Operator complies with legislation and codes of conduct concerning the protection of personal information, puts in place internal structures for the protection of personal information, and makes ongoing improvements, including reviews of the privacy policy provided in this document (hereinafter \u201cPrivacy Policy\u201d). It also pays utmost attention to the protection of personal information, and in the collection, preservation, and use of personal information, it handles the information appropriately and only to the extent determined by the purpose of use. The Site Operator\u2019s approach to personal information and to the management of personal information is set out in the Privacy Policy provisions below.\nIn this Privacy Policy, personal information is defined as information such as name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or other descriptions provided by users through the ART OSAKA Website that can be used to identify an individual user, or information that can be used to identify an individual by means of numbers or symbols pertaining to the individual. Personal information also includes information concerning a person that cannot be used independently to identify an individual, but that allows easy reference to other information resulting in being able to identify an individual.\nA. The answer to inquiries.\nB. To send e-mail magazines and direct mail regarding ART OSAKA events.\nC. To send e-mail magazines and direct mail regarding on art exhibitions and events which ART OSAKA engaged, with in an appropriate manner.\nART OSAKA Organizing Committee Office\nEmail\uff1ainfo@artosaka.jp\nTel\uff1a+81-(0)6 7506 9338", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 202.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artsriot.com/events/laurenruthward", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:44Z", "digest": "sha1:TSWX43E3R6LGPKIXNJQVL5HL6RRSIN3P", "length": 4399, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.artsriot.com", "title": "ArtsRiot", "raw_content": "Lauren Ruth Ward with Francesca Blanchard\nNoise Ordinance presents\nwith Francesca Blanchard\n\u201cI fucking nail second chances,\u201d says Lauren Ruth Ward, benignly reflecting on the time she got expelled from high school in her junior year. With aged wisdom beyond her years, she reminisces about her hometown of Baltimore, where her upbringing was what the songstress lovingly refers to as a \u201ccocktail for being an artist;\u201d She grew up splitting her time between a bohemian mother \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m very pragmatic, and she would call that cold and intense\u201d \u2014 and some weekends with her father \u2014 \u201cHe\u2019s a \u2018healthy republican,\u2019\u201d she says with a laugh. From a young age, she also had a natural drive for creativity, with the talent to back it. \u201cI was wearing a beehive every day in sophomore year,\u201d she says, describing how she\u2019s always had a knack for doing hair. \u201cJunior, senior year, \u2018scene\u2019 was really in and I was like a \u2018scene\u2019 queen. I had a splash of blonde over here, splash of blonde over there.\u201d\nMeanwhile, Ward also taught herself to sew clothes, as well as sing and play guitar, taking cues from the music of her childhood \u2014 \u201870s rock and her mom\u2019s old disco compilations \u2014 and the music of her teens: Mirah, Elliott Smith, basically anything \u201cemotional, folky and dismal,\u201d she says. (If you\u2019re curious, that combination lands Ward somewhere between Janis Joplin and Courtney Barnett.)\nWhen graduation rolled around and it came time to pick a career, Ward took on hairstyling. By 22 she had a fully booked calendar with cancellation backups at the salon where she worked and was running her own wedding updo business. She was ambitious, successful, and doing work she loved, yet something was missing. \u201cI saw the music then, but I was behind a chair six days a week,\u201d says Ward about coming to terms with pursuing another career. \u201cTo be honest, I wanted a band,\u201d she continues, \u201cevery time I found someone to play with, they had a day job \u2014 they didn\u2019t have the dream. And you really gotta fuckin\u2019 have it to live in a world that\u2019s musical.\u201d\nSo in 2015, Ward packed up her life and road tripped to her new home of Los Angeles. After a challenging, perfectionistic pursuit, Ward came together with a band: Liv Slingerland (bass), India Pascucci (drums) and guitarist and fellow songwriter Eduardo Rivera. \u201cThey all call me \u2018Mom,\u2019\u201d she says with a laugh. \u201cIt\u2019s like getting three new best friends that you\u2019re giving the most personal part of yourself.\u201d They\u2019ve even got matching jackets.\nTogether, they created Ward\u2019s debut album, Well, Hell, a nine track sampler of what she calls the band\u2019s \u201cfour modes.\u201d There\u2019s the \u201cheaven of the album,\u201d \u201cDid I Offend You?,\u201d a sweet, airy, swiftly cadenced track which crescendos into a powerful chant: \u201cYou\u2019re only breaking down/ you\u2019re only breaking down/ you\u2019re only breaking down.\u201d Then there\u2019s the \u201chell,\u201d \u201cBlue Collar Sex Kitten,\u201d a full-throttle rock song that dives head first into distorted chords, sexuality \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m a dyke/ dated guys/ ain\u2019t a crime/ won\u2019t apologize for my tribe,\u201d sings Ward \u2014 and a psychedelic breakdown that sounds like lucid dreaming. There\u2019s the band\u2019s acoustic mode, made up by breathy tracks like \u201cTravel Man,\u201d and finally Ward\u2019s poppier side, heard on \u201cSideways\u201d \u2014 a funky, retro take on soul-searching and feeling lost \u2014 and \u201cSheet Stains,\u201d a bluesy ode to her fiance\u00e9, indie pop mega-star LP, who sings backup vocals on the track.\nThe band\u2019s chameleonic moods are punctuated by Ward\u2019s playfulness with her bandmates on stage, dancing with audience and her signature white dotted eyes. Ward\u2019s music has even gained her a dedicated international fanbase \u2014 in fact, three fans flew from France to be at the Well, Hell record release show in Los Angeles.\nIn some ways, Well, Hell is Ward\u2019s second chance at a career doing what she loves most: creating. \u201cI could totally have done a version of this in Baltimore, but not the way I\u2019ve done it here,\u201d Ward says of making music in Los Angeles. In others, Ward hasn\u2019t changed a bit \u2014 you can still catch her doing hair, though now it\u2019s under a batch of clementine trees at her house. \u201cI had four clients at my house today,\u201d she says with a laugh as she preps for a show. \u201cI just picked the hair out from underneath my nails.\u201d Either way, one thing\u2019s for sure: there\u2019s no telling what\u2019s in store for Ward and company. \u201cThis is definitely a different life for me,\u201d she says. \u201cThis is Lauren 2.0.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.artworkonly.com/famous-art/the-dancing-class-by-edgar-degas-famous-art-handmade-oil-painting-on-canvas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:06Z", "digest": "sha1:N27CPXT7YI2HPNXW4WXIE24WR2MFNCII", "length": 721, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.artworkonly.com", "title": "The Dancing Class by Edgar Degas - Famous Art - Handmade Oil Painting on Canvas \u2014 Handmade Paintings on Canvas by Artwork Only", "raw_content": "The Dancing Class by Edgar Degas - Famous Art - Handmade Oil Painting on Canvas\nDancers are the favorite subjects of Edgar Degas. In his entire career, he had painted countless works about dancing and dancers. The Dancing Class was the first painting of the artist about the subject. Instead of going to the backstage of Paris Opera as he did later on, Degas had the dancers come to his studio to pose for him. In this masterpiece, the some dancers are seen practicing, particularly the one at the center, whose graceful pose is reflected on the mirror. The other dancers are resting near the piano with the fiddler. But this graceful and happy atmosphere is contrasted by one dancer who seems to be crying near the door.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ascap.com/press/2013/1120-neyo-and-paul-williams-urge-congress-to-update-music-licensing-regulations-for-the-digital-age", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:23Z", "digest": "sha1:IBOI3WD3NKIKHNDST3VTRQNPQILS3JOI", "length": 4124, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.ascap.com", "title": "Grammy Winners Ne-Yo and Paul Williams Urge Congress to Update Music Licensing Regulations for the Digital Age", "raw_content": "Grammy Winners Ne-Yo and Paul Williams Urge Congress to Update Music Licensing Regulations for the Digital Age\nCapitol Hill panel discussion hosted by Creative Rights Caucus featured performance by Ne-Yo and debut of short film, song and music video\nSinger-songwriter Ne-Yo, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams before the panel\nASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams, Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), singer-songwriter Ne-Yo, Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) and ASCAP EVP and General Counsel Elizabeth Matthews before the panel\nASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams, ASCAP EVP and General Counsel Elizabeth Matthews and singer-songwriter Ne-Yo during the panel discussion\nGrammy-winning singer-songwriter Ne-Yo giving a special performance after the panel discussion\nASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams during the panel discussion\nWashington, D.C., November 20, 2013 \u2013 Creative Rights Caucus Co-Chairs Rep. Howard Coble (R-NC) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) today welcomed ASCAP to Capitol Hill for a special performance and panel discussion focused on changes to the outdated licensing system in today's digital landscape. ASCAP, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding on February 13th, 2014, has been integral in ensuring music creators are fairly compensated for their work even as production and distribution methods have changed dramatically.\nThe panel discussion, moderated by ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams, an Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe-winning member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, featured ASCAP Executive Vice President and General Counsel Elizabeth Matthews, as well as three-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, songwriter, producer and actor Ne-Yo.\n\"As we consider new policies in the music and copyright space, it's important for all of us to recognize the unique concerns and challenges facing songwriters, in addition to those who perform their works,\" said Rep. Chu in welcoming remarks.\nRep. Coble added, \"We are thrilled to welcome such distinguished songwriters to the Hill today to discuss their experiences in the music industry and their personal perspectives on these important issues.\"\nASCAP President Paul Williams invited other music industry stakeholders to join in an effort to reexamine the regulatory system governing music licensing, saying, \"America's ability to continue creating and exporting the world's greatest music depends on all of us working together to modernize the music licensing system in a way that allows songwriters and composers to thrive alongside businesses that revolve around our music.\"\n\"It\u2019s a different world for songwriters as streaming has taken over, especially for those writers just starting out,\" said Ne-Yo, who performed some of his hit songs after taking questions from the audience. He continued, \"For many songwriters, performance royalties paid through ASCAP help put food on the table and pay the rent \u2013 it's just that simple.\"\nResponding to questions about specific policy changes ASCAP would like to see, ASCAP General Counsel Elizabeth Matthews said, \"This is an exciting time for ASCAP as we work to shape the future of the music licensing landscape so that everyone wins \u2013 consumers, content services and the songwriters and composers who are the foundation of the music eco-system.\" Matthews continued, \"ASCAP is uniquely positioned as the most efficient and effective collective licensing model, but the historical practices and laws that govern how we do business need to be updated in order to reflect advances in technology, end-user behavior and an evolving competitive landscape.\"\nASCAP also unveiled the short film Why We Create Music, featuring 15 of today's top songwriters and composers, including Ne-Yo. Commissioned for their upcoming 100th birthday, the film provides an intimate look into the hearts, minds and musical gifts of these music creators, and features an unprecedented collaborative musical score \u2013 also debuted at the event with its accompanying music video \u2013 entitled \"More Than the Stars.\" Watch Why We Create Music now at ASCAP100.com and below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 8115, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.asophisticatedchic.com/discovering-the-world-of-fashion-beauty-travel-and-teaching-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:25Z", "digest": "sha1:GD5ZPHJDGRPFDFZ2UE5EHKENIQMGKPPI", "length": 149, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.asophisticatedchic.com", "title": "Discovering the world of fashion & beauty, travel and teaching. (1) | A Sophisticated Chic", "raw_content": "Discovering the world of fashion & beauty, travel and teaching. (1)\nPrevious Post Discovering the world of fashion & beauty, travel and teaching. (1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1180, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 145.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.aspentimes.com/news/letter-suggests-four-laning-highway-82/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:32Z", "digest": "sha1:UVF4IKMBLE3CK33QXCMSB5QUWJ3RAF4T", "length": 1924, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.aspentimes.com", "title": "Letter suggests four-laning Highway 82 | AspenTimes.com", "raw_content": "Letter suggests four-laning Highway 82\nFour-lane highway advocate Jeffrey Evans has stepped up his campaign to force the state to make Highway 82 four lanes all the way into Aspen, without any mass-transit lanes attached.Evans, who has battled for decades in favor of the expansion of Highway 82 to four lanes as the best way to move commuting workers up and down the Roaring Fork Valley, has issued an emailed form letter for his fellow four-lane advocates to send to the Colorado Department of Transportation.The letter, addressed to CDOT Executive Director Tom Norton, is a plea to abandon what is known as the \u201crecord of decision\u201d CDOT issued back in the 1990s, when the agency finished studying the alternatives for the Entrance to Aspen.The ROD contains a \u201cpreferred alternative\u201d for the so-called \u201cstraight shot\u201d option, which calls for two lanes of traffic and two lanes dedicated to buses or trains.The new stretch of highway was to be built from the roundabout, just west of town, across the Marolt Open Space and bridging Castle Creek, to connect directly onto Main Street.Due to a lack of funds coupled with multiple and conflicting local elections about the subject, the \u201cstraight shot\u201d remains in limbo. CDOT decided last year that its documentation regarding how to proceed with highway design at the Entrance to Aspen was outdated, and that it needed to review and perhaps revise an Environmental Impact Statement and the ROD concerning the entrance issue.\u201dState highway improvements must benefit everyone, the entire traveling public,\u201d Evans states in his letter, which permits anyone to date it, sign his or her name and send it to the CDOT.The letter calls upon CDOT to conduct its ongoing re-evaluation of the \u201crecord of decision\u201d in public, and issues a \u201cdemand\u201d that the agency agree to \u201cstraighten and expand the current two-lane road to four lanes\u201d with no provision for dedicated mass-transit lanes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 6649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 338.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/Media/Pages/6PR-Mornings-with-Gareth-Parker-13-dec-2018.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WG3VIPXUPZW2IC6B4KXWQN7HUYJXPMOF", "length": 10065, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.attorneygeneral.gov.au", "title": "6PR \u2013 Mornings with Gareth Parker", "raw_content": "GARETH PARKER: Another cricket tragic is the Attorney-General Christian Porter, good morning.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Mate, how are you going?\nGARETH PARKER: Okay. There's two very important things I want to talk about. But very briefly, very briefly; should Western Australia go after the Boxing Day Test?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Absolutely. Why wouldn't we? We've got the best stadium in Australia, if not the world at the moment and I just think it's healthy codes to share around great events. Like part of cricket's great appeal is it's a truly national game and I think it should move around. The grand final for footy should move around as well.\nGARETH PARKER: Okay. We'll pass that on to the relevant governing bodies. Lots on the agenda today. Two big announcements - one around religious freedom, the other about corruption. We'll come back to the corruption one. What does your bill that you've announced with the Prime Minister this morning, what does it actually do? We hear about protecting religious freedom - okay, everyone agrees with that - but what does this bill actually do?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Sure. Okay, so there are four Discrimination Acts that presently exist in Australia - the Sex Discrimination Act, Race, Age and Disability Discrimination Act. Those acts basically say that if you have one of those attributes people can't discriminate against you because of that attribute. So for instance, at the moment if you're invited to a function and were declined entry into that function because of your sex or your age or your race, that would be against the law. But if you were invited to a function and turned up and refused entry because you were Islamic or because you were Jewish or because you had no religion, that is not unlawful. And what we're saying is that the final part of our anti-discrimination system should be that you can't be discriminated against because you're a religious person or indeed because you're an atheist. So this we think is just a sensible final step in Australia's anti-discrimination law.\nGARETH PARKER: So does - in practical effect, it elevates religion or non-religion to the same status as age, disability, gender when it comes to discrimination and the laws that are currently in place?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Yeah. You'd have the same sort of protections against discrimination based on that attribute, that is religion, as you would other attributes such as your gender or your age. That's what it does.\nGARETH PARKER: Is there any evidence that people are being discriminated against on the basis of their religion at present?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Yeah. I think that if you read the full Ruddock report and read the newspapers. I mean, that incident - the example of someone being refused entry to a room because of their Jewish faith, that happened here in New South Wales where I am today, not that long ago. There have been instances of people arguing based on their religious belief that the traditional view of marriage - the definition of marriage is the only appropriate definition of marriage and have been sacked for it and have had to run unfair dismissal cases. There's a Baptist care organisation in Queensland that sent an e-mail out to its staff during the same-sex marriage plebiscite asking them to vote against, just like Qantas sent an e-mail out to its staff asking them to vote for, except the Baptist organisation ended up being hauled before tribunals in a legal proceeding. So it does happen and what we think is that people should have the same protections against that type of thing, as they do based on their sex or their age, or the fact that they might have a disability.\nGARETH PARKER: Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, recognised religions; do these protections extend to Scientologists or people who claim to follow some other bizarre religion that they've made up themselves?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Yeah, so we're fairly well advanced in the drafting, but you've obviously got to define religion in a way that people who fill out the census as Jedi Knights aren't going to be able to claim religious protection. So you've got to be sensible around the edges there, but that's something that state and Commonwealth law do all the time when they define things like charities set up for religious purposes and so forth.\nGARETH PARKER: So would it be the same test?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well it would be a similar test, yeah.\nGARETH PARKER: Not unsurmountable?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: No, not at all. I mean, some of these drafting exercises are not uncomplicated, but the architecture of discrimination legislation is pretty well known. You define the attributes.\nGARETH PARKER: Yeah, but it's easier to define age and gender and race than it is religion, which is about belief rather than things that are biologically determined.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well even with respect to the Sex Discrimination Act, over the years they've had to go back and revisit the definition to include intersex status or marital status. So there's an ability to always evolve definitions, but it's not beyond the wit and wisdom of us to draw an appropriate line between Orthodox and recognised religions and things that people would not reasonably constitute to be religions.\nGARETH PARKER: Okay. So under the new rules, would a Christian school be able to refuse admission to a Muslim student or vice versa?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well that is a very good question. All of these bills like sex and age and race discrimination set up the things that can't be done to you because of your attributes and always have exemptions. So the starting position would it would be unlawful to refuse admission to a room or a club or a church. But there are always going to have to be exemptions, so it would of course, naturally be the case that you would create an exemption so that you could not have someone who is a member of the Catholic priesthood applying to be a rabbi for instance. So of course, you've got to draft those exemptions. But the essential principle is the fact that people shouldn't be refused membership or a promotion in their workplace because of their religion.\nGARETH PARKER: This is one of the problems though isn't it, when you start legislating for rights is that these things, butt up against one another in ways that can be quite unpredictable and can be quite unintended.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well I think that's very true and we've seen that in the debate about school kids in religious schools. Everyone agrees that there are two principles - one that religious schools should be able to conduct their affairs and teach in accordance with their doctrine and their faith. We also agree that school kids shouldn't be discriminated against based on their gender orientation. However, trying to find the perfect balance between those two things is a very, very difficult process. Scott Morrison, the Prime Minister had a bill which we think found a good balance between those things, even offered a conscience vote on it and that was declined. So, of course, drafting these types of bills is not without its complications. But ultimately, what you want to do is say that if people are protected from an unfair and discriminatory behaviour in certain circumstances, why not the circumstances that attach to their religion because religion and its expression is a very fundamental right for a huge number of Australians.\nGARETH PARKER: Yeah. Well all of us have got the right and the freedom to practice our religion or not practice any religion. So that's true. We're running a little bit out of time, but I want to get on to the corruption issue as well. You are going to create some sort of body now; what are the essential details?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Yep. So we will create what will be known as the Commonwealth Integrity Commission. There'll be three commissioners - a head Commissioner; one commissioner who is in charge of looking into law enforcement agencies from the ATO right up to the AFP. So, if you like, they investigate the investigators. The other side of the organisation will be a public sector integrity commissioner who can look at everyone in the public sector, politicians included going right down to contractors. So of course, in a government as large as the Commonwealth Government there are always risks that develop, particularly when large amounts of money are being exchanged and there's procurement and contracting. So for the first time ever, there'll be a dedicated, specialised peak body with sufficient investigative powers and resources to have referred to it the most serious allegations of corruption and its job will be to build briefs, uncover, detect and then hand those briefs over to the DPP to prosecute.\nGARETH PARKER: Will it have coercive powers or public hearing powers like the CCC for example in this state has?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: It will have strong investigative powers; it will not be a public hearing body. We've made a conscious decision to have a body that investigates and whose job it is to build briefs for an eventual trial. We didn't want to establish a body that has show trials based on no rules of evidence and ends up writing reports that make claims of very substantial criminality, without having abided itself by rules of evidence. And the reason why we did that is because we've seen cases in WA going right back to Mike Allen, in New South Wales with Margaret Cunneen; when a report's been written, a finding - very serious finding \u2013 against the individual has been put in the report and later it's been found to be totally without merit and basis, and we want to have a more rigorous approach.\nGARETH PARKER: Attorney-General, thank you for that and thank you for all your appearances on the program this year. We won't talk again before the end of the year, but to you and to your family - I hope you have a great Christmas and we'll do it all again next year.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Yep. And to you and your listeners and make sure everyone gets out to the cricket.\nGARETH PARKER: Absolutely. Christian Porter, the Attorney-General.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 10715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.attorneygeneral.gov.au/Media/Pages/Doorstop-Media-Conference-Perth-14-dec-2018.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6OKUTVUCQ43IYC6K5Z3XB3ABA7MIUR6Z", "length": 14297, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.attorneygeneral.gov.au", "title": "Doorstop Media Conference Perth", "raw_content": "ATTORNEY-GENERAL:I just want to commence with a short opening statement with respect to yesterday's announcement of a Commonwealth Integrity Commission.\nLast night I saw former Labor Minister, Stephen Conroy, say that Bill Shorten, in his words, should take a very deep breath because if you were to have a body of this type at a commonwealth level, the model that the Government has proposed is how you would go about doing that.\nI might also just thank the Law Council of Australia for their very strong support yesterday of the model that we've proposed.\nInstead Labor's response yesterday was the typical opposition for opposition's sake. The criticism of the proposal in circumstances where they clearly could not have read all of the many detailed documents that explain the nature and operation of what will be a very substantive and effective addition to commonwealth integrity arrangements.\nYesterday, we had Labor effectively saying after months, where they have asked for constructive, detailed planning and engagement from the Government; we had Labor yesterday receive the constructive, detailed planning and effectively tell us that they liked none of it, but of course had absolutely nothing to offer in any detail by way of alternative.\nWhat we saw yesterday was just ridiculous, political point-scoring in a very serious area where the Government has put a very serious, detailed policy to the public and one which will greatly improve integrity arrangements at the commonwealth level.\nQUESTION: Well on that point, Labor said your model prevents the Commission from examining this government, can you just explain\u2026.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL:You're quite right, the question was, and it was put by Labor yesterday, that the model that we have set out would prevent the future Commission from examining this government or any past government. 100 per cent incorrect. And that statement couldn't have been made by way of criticism if Labor had bothered to read the detailed plan that they'd been calling for months. There are already about 40 corruption offences on the commonwealth statute books. We've indicated that we're going to create a few more \u2013 even tougher offences. With respect to those 40 existing offences, it is of course the case that when this body is created, it will be able to look back in time and ask itself the question by way of due and proper investigation, have any of the existing offences been committed. That means they could investigated this Government, the previous Labor Government, Sam Dastyari, whoever it might be in the past if they had reason to believe that that person may have committed had committed an offence that exists.\nWith respect to the number of offences that we will create \u2013 they will not be retrospective. Not merely would that be unusual, it would be extraordinary for any government to create a retrospective criminal offence. The offences that we are looking to create are offences of serious and repeated public corruption; aggravated offences of public corruption and corruption by senior executive officials of the public service. They will not be retrospective, but as I say there are already 40 corruption offences on the books.\nI mean is Labor today seriously saying that they're intending to create serious criminal offences, new offences, and make them retrospective? Are they saying that they're going to create a bespoke criminal offence for the behaviour that Sam Dastyari engaged in and retrospectively investigate Sam Dastyari? I mean that is absurd and it demonstrates that Labor actually didn't bother to consider the detailed proposal that came out yesterday, that they could get that point so wrong.\nQUESTION: So, why did you say that\u2026\u2026?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: So, I was asked a question about whether or not it would have active criminal retrospectivity. And answered of course it won't, with respect to the new criminal offences. That's what retrospectivity is. But being able to investigate things that occurred previously, pursuant to existing criminal offences, is not actually retrospectivity. That's what the AFP does now, and that's what this body do in the future.\nQUESTION: Can you explain how matters will be referred to the commission and who can refer them\u2026.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: So there will be two sides, of course, to the Commission: the law enforcement integrity side and the public sector integrity side. On the public sector integrity side, the public can make complaints to any of the number of agencies that already exist. There are 13 agencies that already exist. They would of course consider the matter. If it's minor, it would stay with them. If it's a serious and substantial matter, they would refer it on to the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner. Equally, the AFP, which can receive complaints from the public at any time, would make an assessment. And if they thought it was something that was best investigated by this new specialist agency, they would hand it on the agency. Not at all an unusual set of arrangements.\nQUESTION: What do you make of,\u2026.could the ABC be investigated?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, all public servants could be. But unlike the proposal that was put by the private members in their private member's bill, which effectively said an ABC journalist could be breached for a minor code of conduct violation, here, whether the person is a journalist or a senior executive in the public service or a politician, the standard would be: have they breached a known criminal law that exists in the Commonwealth statute laws? And if so, they could be investigated. The complaint that I, that our Government, and many others had about the private member's bill brought in very recently was the standard and the definition of corruption was so low, it would capture a whole range of behaviour that really is minor in nature. But also the definition, remarkably, was to be applied retrospectively. So even minor behaviour six or seven years ago that wasn't an offence at the time could've been brought forward and made an offence in the future, which would be an extraordinary thing for anyone to do.\nQUESTION: What do you make of the assessment of several senior lawyers, including the a former ICAC Commissioner that you're model has \u2026. powers?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, I'd just simply reject that. I mean people will have views about whether you should have more or less public hearings. And of course, that's fine. But we've been absolutely clear as to when there would be public hearings, who would be able to conduct them, and when there would not be public hearings. Now, we think that setting up a body with about 150 staff with an indicative budget of $125 million, with very serious investigative powers is exactly the right approach. Now, some of those that have criticised have been associated with bodies like New South Wales ICAC, who have had spectacular failures in their operation. And what we want to do is avoid those type of failures.\nQUESTION: So one of those criticisms is that it will make it easier for politicians to cover things up and it's been a step backwards for \u2026?\nATTORNEY-GENERAL:Well, who said that?\nQUESTION: Geoffrey Watson\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, that is ridiculous. I mean it's just ridiculous. Politicians would be able to be investigated and scrutinised by this body just like any other single public servant. This body would have serious investigative powers. It would be able to receive referrals from all the bodies that already investigate politicians like the Independent Inspector of Parliamentary Expenses, like the Electoral Commission. Anyone could make a complaint to the AFP which could be handed on to this body. Politicians would be treated no differently by this body to any other public servant amongst the many hundreds of thousands of public servants. I just think that is a particularly ill-informed comment.\nQUESTION: $30 million dollars a year, That's less than the ABCC. Is that going to be enough to try and cover the \u2026.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: So, $30 million a year - in excess of $120 million over four years - as an indicative figure is a very substantive amount of money for an nvestigative body of this type. We think that that - of course it's got to go through budget processes, but that is an indicative estimate of what you would have - and it is a monstrously large amount of money: $125 million to investigate corruption at a federal level across the public service. I mean, again, is anyone seriously suggesting that that's not inadequate? I might note that that is on an indicative basis a larger budget than what Labor are proposing would be necessary.\nQUESTION: Inaudible question\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, if the crossbench are serious in their call for a body which can investigate, uncover, detect and build briefs to prosecute corruption then I am sure that they will take their time, look at this proposal, see it for what it is - which is a very, very serious approach to a difficult area of public policy. So I would be surprised given that they are enthusiastic for a body of this type that they wouldn't see this - whilst it might not have everything that every person on the crossbench would want - that they might not see this as a very, very good approach to solving problems in this area. But I might note that what we have been interested in as a government is not producing a showboat agency. This is meant to be a serious investigative machine for law enforcement.\nWhat Labor have done is said that they spent 12 months developing a proposal and consulting, put out a press release with no detail, and then today will criticise the basis upon which we say public hearings and a body like this should be able to be conducted, but can't tell us when they would have a public hearing.\nSo we had Tanya Plibersek out yesterday, telling us the public hearings were terrible because they've been shown to destroy people's reputations based on findings that were found, years after, to have been unfair or untrue. And then suggesting that somehow they would have a system where all public hearings would have to be, first of all, predated by a private hearing. That's the first that we've heard of that. No detail around that. How would that work?\nWhat you've got here is a plan that gives all the details around the key questions. The Law Enforcement Integrity agency at the moment can already conduct public hearings, if it chooses, at its discretion. That power remains. That side of this new organisation's jurisdiction is very greatly increased. So the Law Enforcement Integrity Commission, with the power to hold public hearings, would now also have jurisdiction over the ATO, ASIC, the ACCC, APRA. But what we have said is that if you want an agency that's not a showboat agency but is a serious investigative machine for law enforcement, that on the public sector integrity side you are better off having a truly investigative body that does not have the ability to call public hearings. Now, as I say, some people might take a different view. Some people say that's too much. By way of public hearings some people say that will be too little by way of public hearings. But Labor tell us that they don't like our plan, but can't tell us what their alternative is. They're not even close and they've been utterly confused in every explanation that they've offered publicly as to what they think the alternative should be.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, I've had many conversations with Cathy McGowan particularly, who's probably - if I can say - the leader of the push on the crossbench to have a body of this type. I've given her briefings on this model. I've spoken to her about my views, about some of the deficiencies in the model that she presented and what alternatives we think might be preferable. They've been, I would have to say, very constructive conversations. So there's definitely room for negotiation with the crossbench.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: So, the question being why not have it all out there in the public in public hearings? Well I guess that's a question that many people would answer by saying that they themselves were subject to those public hearings. They themselves in those public hearings, or later by reports publicly made, had their reputations destroyed and had the findings of those public hearings and those public reports overturned by Parliamentary inspectors, by the High Court. And so what we say is in the public sphere on the public servant side of this organisation, it is better to avoid those showboat type processes where there is cross-examination of witnesses without prior disclosure, where there is no adherence paid to the usual procedural fairness and natural justice rules, where there is evidence by ambush and no disclosure to people being questioned.\nWe think that on balance, that very extreme power is best left on the side of this organisation that deals with investigative bodies themselves; so where bodies like the AFP or Border Force or ATO have themselves investigatory powers, the most serious powers known to government, and there is a sense or reasonable suspicion that there is corruption then it may be appropriate in those circumstances to have public hearings. But that the better balance on the public servants side of this organisation is to conduct investigations in the normal way, with very strong powers and strong funding and specialist skills but in the normal way.\nATTORNEY-GENERAL: Well, it would depend on the subject nature of the corruption that they'd witnessed. But there are very significant protections under our whistle-blowers act for people who might want to give complaint about matters of that type and in fact they were recently strengthened. Matters of that type can be given inside the agency. If the person believes they can't do that there are existing agencies like the Ombudsman, the Auditor General, and the AFP. And what we've designed is a body which is a peak body with specialist skills, robust funding, that is able to take referrals from those organisations in the most serious of matters. But there are any number of avenues for people in the public sector who are whistle-blowers and see wrongdoing to put those complaints properly and in a way where they're very well protected.\nOkay? Thanks everyone.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 15035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.australianchurchrecord.net/the-church-in-ireland-an-interview-with-trevor-johnston/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:03Z", "digest": "sha1:MT2LFXGRV7YUUB2Z7RDQU4UEFRX5WWZ5", "length": 13877, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.australianchurchrecord.net", "title": "The Church in Ireland: An interview with Trevor Johnston \u2013 Australian Church Record", "raw_content": "Trevor, thanks for agreeing to be interviewed for the ACR. You\u2019ve had a long association with evangelicals in Australia, particularly in Sydney. Do you mind giving a brief history of your personal affiliation?\nMy own connection stretches back to 1995 and a Proclamation Trust conference for theological students. Several of us from Ireland travelled to hear Dick Lucas, David Wells, Jim Packer and Peter Jensen. For me, this was a moment of personal reformation. The year before, the (charismatic) Toronto Blessing had significantly impacted the youth and church movements in Northern Ireland, causing much confusion. Yet many of us\u2014mostly because of little theological training or thought\u2014were acting on instinct when identifying it as seriously wrong. Peter Jensen spoke on the true ministry of the Holy Spirit. This was revolutionary for us. It had clarity, scholarship, biblical faithfulness\u2014and that came from the ordained principal of an Anglican theological college! We had never seen anything like it before. And since the Aussies and Irish share a similar dislike of the \u2018Poms\u2019, we got on very well in the context of an English conference too!\nThis relationship continued through my time in the Church of Ireland Theological College. We invited Peter Jensen to lecture for a day on the doctrine of revelation. That was a hugely significant time of personal reformation for many ordinands and others, just like it was for me back in \u201995. We then invited Peter Adam to do a similar day; again, hugely helpful. This connection continued through Phillip Jensen\u2019s influence as he shaped the leaders of our group of fledgling young confessional Anglicans.\nIn 2004, I was appointed Anglican chaplain to the University of Ulster and, in preparation, visited Sydney for six weeks. Our family enjoyed hospitality in Bishopscourt, we spent time with Col Marshall, Philip Jensen, Paul Grimmond, and we visited MYC, UniChurch etc. As a result, Col Marshall spent six months in Ireland, establishing the MTS work here, which I have helped to lead. These links have now come together through GAFCON, which combines all of these various aspects (planting, training, recruiting, deep theological thinking).\nIn fact, there\u2019s quite a historic link between Irish evangelicals and the Diocese of Sydney stretching back over a century, which shows our relationship to be a two-way street. TC Hammond, a former Principal of Moore Theological College, was himself a fiery Irish preacher and theologian. In recent times, these links have been rekindled somewhat through folk like Peter Orr, Cameron Jones, Dave Jensen and CMS missionary Erin Moorcroft (Sligo). How valuable are these links to evangelicals in Ireland?\nTC Hammond\u2019s brilliance was never recognised in the Church of Ireland, to our shame. It was partly a result of people fearing him\u2014he was a fierce and skilled debater of Roman Catholics in \u2018the controversy\u2019 debates in Dublin and around Ireland\u2014and partly down to a dislike of his confessionalism and Anglican Protestantism by a church hierarchy that didn\u2019t value either.\nSydney Anglicans have a lot of what we don\u2019t have, so these current links are very significant. These are some of the things I see in Sydney that I pray we might have more of here in Ireland:\nyour solidly confessionally driven, faithful, shaped-by-biblical-theology, high-level theological education which serves the gospel and the Church\nyour ethos of challenging men and women to consider full-time, financially dependent gospel ministry\nyour apprenticeship model of training (through MTS)\nyour willingness to plant churches and the models that you\u2019ve typified\nyour doctrine of the church that enables you to meet gospel needs in whatever community in which you find yourself, adaptably.\nThe value of the Irish-Australia link was exemplified in the past in the person of Clive West. Can you give background to this?\nFor many of us, Clive exemplified all of the above. He displayed a solid commitment to historic and classical Anglican evangelicalism. Clive was a friend of Dick Lucas and Philip Jensen, introducing both to Ireland in the mid-80s. He testified to the fact that he came into contact with them too late on in his ministry and he was determined that the next generation would benefit and learn from them much earlier on. Above all he showed consistent courage in standing for biblical truth, when many of his generation drifted or lost sharpness of focus.\nI did my apprenticeship with him (though this was before the days of MTS Ireland and we never called it an \u2018apprenticeship\u2019\u2014he just instinctively trained me in the areas of conviction, character and competency). I witnessed his training and investment in the next generation. He and his wife Margaret were a formidable team. Today, there are those from each generation and decade who testify to the Wests\u2019 care and challenge.\nClive personified the reformed pastor and for him ministry was the regular, consecutive expository proclamation of the word, with prayer. Training for the next generation in the word was paramount for him. He worked towards the reformation of the Church of Ireland through Synod and the Liturgical Advisory Committee. We loved him dearly and miss him. He\u2019d have been thrilled to have seen the links with Sydney develop.\nHow is Clive\u2019s legacy continued today?\nI am his successor as rector at All Saints\u2019 Church in the university area of Belfast. Prior to the first GAFCON he said to me, \u201cbring some of GAFCON back here\u201d. His vision was for a return to the basic Christianity of confessional Anglicanism in the Church of Ireland. For years it had been weakened through its theological college as well as various other movements and innovations that reduced commitment to the gospel and the word of God.\nA number of us are seeking to realise this vision and are continuing to reach the next generation so that the Bible and its exposition is our heartbeat in training and ministry. We have established the Clive West Memorial Trust (westtrust.co.uk) to support financially those training at the world\u2019s best theological colleges and to enable an annual lecture. Dr Ashley Null, Dr Mark Thompson and Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali have given the lectures to date and we are very encouraged by the interest and support shown so far.\nWhat are the biggest kinds of challenges that face evangelicals in Ireland today? Does the North-South divide complicate things?\nThe Republic of Ireland is the least evangelised part of this island, and in fact the entire English-speaking Western world. This is in contrast to Northern Ireland where there are a number of large churches. There is significant overall decline in the denominations on the island, but the Church of Ireland in the south is feeling this most acutely. The age profile is old, the reach is small and the major urban centres lack any kind of strong ministry.\nFor too long, we in the north of Ireland have ignored this great gospel need on our doorstep. Of course there are sectarian, cultural and historical reasons for it, but to our shame we have allowed these to blind us to this great evangelistic challenge. The Republic of Ireland has now come of age as a Western European nation, rejoicing in having thrown off the shackles of its Roman Catholic heritage. We saw this clearly in the referendums on abortion (2018) and same-gender marriage (2015). For the southern Irish, God is now seen as redundant and unnecessary.\nNorthern Ireland is facing huge challenges and my worry is that we have relied too long on an assumed orthodoxy, which has no real grounding in the word of God. The churches, although large, are not necessarily teaching, training and equipping the next generation. There is much assumed evangelicalism.\nOn the other hand, have you seen any encouraging signs in the Church of Ireland recently?\nBy God\u2019s grace there are pockets where great things are happening, with vibrant churches that are teaching the Bible, trusting Christ, and raising up ministers and other gospel workers. A huge encouragement has been in the number of people in their late teens and twenties beginning to understand and love confessionally reformed Anglicanism. We are praying that God will raise up from this number the next generation of gospel workers who will train, plant churches and selflessly serve in ministry.\nYet, there are significant swathes of the Church of Ireland that are revisionist in their approach to the questions of human sexuality. The official teaching of the church remains that marriage is between one man and one woman but there are many (bishops, clergy and laity) who are trying to change this teaching and in 2017 a motion, defeated by around 10-15 per cent, sought to push against this traditional teaching.\nAt the 2018 General Synod the bishops said that there is no appetite for further discussion on the issue, rather than saying that same-sex marriage is against God and his word. At least one of their own number is actively promoting revision on this issue in his own diocese. This duplicity is our major fear. Some have commended the Scottish Episcopal Church, suggesting that it may provide a potential model to follow. Several Irish bishops have not spoken unambiguously in their understanding that life begins at conception and have both tacitly and explicitly supported the lifting of restrictions around abortion. So, alongside the great encouragements, there are worrying trends and discouragements. GAFCON Ireland has the work of renewal and revival as its raison d\u2019etre.\nThe uniqueness of Jesus Christ is perhaps our next challenge, especially with increasing multi-culturalism on our island. Moreover, we have not had a significant number of people heading towards cross-cultural mission for a long, long time. This, I think, is a fairly precise indicator of the health and vibrancy of the Church of Ireland.\nGAFCON Ireland was launched in the past month, and Archbishop Peter Jensen spoke. Can you tell us about some highlights from this launch? What have been some of the encouragements or challenges?\nWe established ourselves in 2016, and publicly launched in 2018 with over 400 present; it was a tremendous event. Archbishops Greg Venables, Peter Jensen and Ali Baba Lamido (Nigeria) spoke, with Vaughan Roberts teaching through Titus. We were encouraged to be faithful (that was the conference title) and the challenge was to be 100 per cent so. Peter\u2019s address was historic and seminal. We were all fired by his challenge to serve the gospel, without reservation or hesitation, for the next generation.\nOur major challenges going forward are internal and relational. Opposition to GAFCON is not primarily from those who are liberal; rather we are finding that fellow evangelicals are opposing GAFCON Ireland\u2019s establishment and citing various reasons, though many of us feel this is coming from a variety of sub-texts. It seems that maybe issues around a theology of headship, charismatic theology and even personal ambition are causing these reactions. Some of our council have received significant criticism from close friends. That has been very surprising and sad.\nHow important is GAFCON Ireland to the current and future situation of the Church of Ireland?\nThe two major foci of our work going forward are in the areas of training and planting. We have our training focus through \u2018Theology Ireland\u2019 (TI), a three-week programme in which Dr Peter Orr (from Moore) gave a condensed version of his Biblical Theology primary course. There was great excitement as the Bible\u2019s overarching storyline became apparent. TI will run again in 2019 along the same lines and there will be a centre in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Dr Mark Thompson, Dr Ashley Null, Dr Gerald Bray are amongst those who have agreed to act as advisers as we consider next steps in relation to theological education.\nIn terms of planting, where a faithful Anglican gospel witness exists, GAFCON Ireland will seek to offer support and (if requested) resources. This will bring the backing of the international movement to the local situation. In the absence of a faithful witness, we will seek to plant a gospel work.\nWhat kind of international role is there for the Church of Ireland via GAFCON?\nI think we have more to gain from GAFCON than to give! But if we can contribute anything it will be along the lines of encouragement and participation in the various networks being established at the Jerusalem conference. We will gain from the courage and clarity shown by the leadership. Archbishop Okoh (Nigeria) met with two of us, stared at us and asked, \u201cHave you counted the cost, my brothers?\u201d. Pray that we have. I am on the Panel of Assistors for the Primates\u2019 Council and the Irish rep on the church planting network. I think our contribution will be to bring confidence to the international movement as our branch consolidates into the future.\nFinally, what can we be doing here in Australia to continue to help our brothers and sisters in Ireland?\nPray for our work, that we would remain faithful under various pressures and ask that God would make his gospel known in the cities and rural areas of our great island. We\u2019d appreciate your continued interest, partnership and support (even financial). As we\u2019ve outlined, there has been a steady stream of gospel workers come to Ireland over this past decade and we would love that to continue. Training is our biggest weakness, so we\u2019re glad to be able to share in the many rich resources you have in that area (especially MTS apprenticeships, including the recruitment stream, and Moore Theological College).\nThank you for your interest and for all that you have given and continue to give us in Ireland. Please keep going! We give thanks to God for you.\nPrevious storyGAFCON 2018: A turning point in the history of Anglicanism\nNext storyThe way of cleansing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 17963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.australianchurchrecord.net/the-confidence-and-hope-of-our-calling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:00Z", "digest": "sha1:MMJ7QLCNEUWDHZGUVV56JWDYOOETBFIH", "length": 5614, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.australianchurchrecord.net", "title": "The confidence and hope of our calling \u2013 Australian Church Record", "raw_content": "He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. (1 Thess 5:24)\nThese few simple words sum up some of the essential fundamentals of Christianity. They tell us three things about God: that he has called us, that he is faithful, that he will do. They tell us that our Christianity is built on God. First, on his word, on his declared mind and purpose, on his personal summons or invitation\u2014he has called us. Second, on his character\u2014he is faithful, and so his word is true, and can be trusted. Third, on his complementary doing, his performance of what he has promised\u2014he surely will do. For in the Christian gospel God does not just point the way, or provide the example, and leave us to do all the performance. He himself is the great Doer. He crowns his call, he completes his word, he confirms his faithfulness, by his doing.\nThese words also tell us that Christianity involves all who share in it in direct personal relations with God. It is here implied that the Christian life includes a revelation of God\u2019s mind, a response to his call, a reliance upon his faithfulness, and a realisation of his working. As Christians, we are meant to prove that the God who calls us is himself the faithful Doer, transforming our experience by his activity. Or, to put it in yet another way, as we pause and meditate upon this verse, and upon what it has to suggest to us, it will be appropriate to consider the source, the character, the confidence and the fulfillment of our Christian calling\u2014the origin, the content, the guarantee and the crowning prospect of our Christian hope.\n1. The source or origin of our Christian calling and hope is God, not ourselves. We are not following our own fancy, or some age long human tradition. God has called us. Becoming Christians is not primarily our idea; it is simply our response to the divine initiative. We have not chosen him; he has chosen us. Those who become Christians simply say \u201cYes\u201d to the divine invitation; they obey God\u2019s voice. Nothing, indeed, is more fundamental and indispensable to the true Christian experience than this\u2014to be sure, indeed to be amazed at the awareness, that God himself has chosen and called us, that in his mercy he has set his wonderful love upon us, that we have a special place in his purpose, not by our merit, but by his grace.\n2. The character and content of our Christian calling and hope it will next be natural to ask, what kind of lives are we Christians now meant to live, and what have we to look forward to, whether in this life or the next? The answers to these questions are found in that word of revelation by which God calls us. For when God calls he makes plain both the pathway and the goal which he has in view. Take, for instance, the witness of 1 Thessalonians. In 2:12 the ultimate goal of our calling is said to be to share in the kingdom and glory of God. In 4:3 and 7, and 5:17-18, the present pathway is described as one of holiness, and of joyful trust and thankfulness. In a world in which God\u2019s standards are defied and his mercies and his truth unappreciated, it is God\u2019s will that, as his people, we should be different\u2014by lives of purity, and by words of praise, prayer and thanksgiving. In 5:23 references to the present perfection of holiness, and to the prospect of final participation in glory, are joined together in a prayer, which is immediately followed by the words: \u201cHe who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it\u201d.\nThe last two points we can best consider together: (iii) The confidence and guarantee of our Christian calling and hope is the faithfulness of God, and (iv) The crowning prospect and active fulfillment of our Christian calling and hope are found in God\u2019s doing.\nWe know that he will do what he has said. For words, particularly words of professed intention, are worthless, indeed they are worse than worthless, they are positively misleading, unless those who utter them mean what they say, and intend to perform what they promise. It is at these very points that God is completely different from sinful and fallible men. \u201cGod is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will not fulfill it? (Num 23:19). Men say things that are not true; they make promises and later go back on their word. This is what causes discord in married life, in society, in international relations. God is entirely different, he shows his truth and his trustworthiness by performance; he always completes utterance with action. So, in our uncertain world the one sure ground of confidence and hope is to be found in the word of God and in the certainty that God will fulfill it. When our scientific and unbelieving age tries to mislead us into supposing that the material world is everything, and that the so called word of God has had its day, and ought to be discarded, let us remember that the Lord Jesus himself said exactly the opposite: \u201cHeaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away\u201d (Matt 24:35). Confidence and hope are, therefore, to be found in the call of God, in his revealing word, in his unchanging faithfulness, in his certainty to fulfill his promises. So let us make God and his word our confidence; let us make God and his faithful doing our hope. \u201cHe who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it\u201d (compare Psalm 37:5).\nThis article was first published in the Australian Church Record on 23 November 1961. In this series we hear reflections on Scripture from the Rev. Alan M Stibbs.\nPrevious storyBeing salty in a secular world: An interview with Os Guinness", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 9984, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.australianchurchrecord.net/the-word-was-made-flesh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:QZQRK3TETUS4DIRYCTQ24KYWGB7WWGXG", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.australianchurchrecord.net", "title": "The Word was made Flesh \u2013 Australian Church Record", "raw_content": "July 6, 2017 August 7, 2017 by Leon Morris", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 9422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 174.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.auto123.com/en/used-cars/all-inventories/quebec/beauport/all-years/all-makes/all-models/all-bodytypes/all-sellers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:NZ7SCX4XA235WKZZVK4ZAE23ERL3WGAM", "length": 398, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.auto123.com", "title": "Used cars for sale in Beauport - Second hand vehicles in Beauport | Auto123", "raw_content": "Used vehicles for sale in Beauport\nUsed cars for sale in Beauport. 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With the help of the various options in our search engine, you can easily browse through our inventory and find the exact used vehicle for sale in Beauport that you are looking for.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 302, "original_length": 5194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 224.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.autodeal.com.ph/car-promos/search/ilocos-norte-province/san-nicolas-739-city/ford-make/ecosport-model/page-1?sort-by=relevance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HFQZINZIMO6WRR2L4EYYCK3I4F7K2YPQ", "length": 159, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.autodeal.com.ph", "title": "All Car Promos for Ford EcoSport in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, Philippines | Autodeal", "raw_content": "Home Car Promos Result for Ford Car Promos in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Region\n1 Result for Ford Car Promos in San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Region", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 207.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.avonadvocate.com.au/story/5622881/applications-open-for-rural-womens-award/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:18Z", "digest": "sha1:3XMA2X4UY7KMENK7MJGFBH4M3RXZ66HL", "length": 4828, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.avonadvocate.com.au", "title": "Applications open for Rural Women\u2019s Award | The Avon Valley Advocate", "raw_content": "Emerging female leaders who want to create impact, innovate and make a difference to rural and regional Australia are encouraged to apply for the 2019 AgriFutures Rural Women\u2019s Award. The award has seen close to 300 exceptional women from rural communities and industries share their challenges, along with their solutions, to many problems faced in rural industries and communities. Unbounded food waste, safety in rural settings, innovation and skill shortages in rural and remote communities, along with the impact of literacy levels in industrial settings, are all problems being challenged by the 2018 national finalists of the Award. The AgriFutures Rural Women\u2019s Award encourages innovation and problem solving, looking for projects and initiatives in various stages of development, that offer solutions to rural industries and the communities they support. Projects or initiatives can be commercially focused, providing they still align with AgriFutures\u2019 strategic priorities of innovation, creativity, community sustainability, education, productivity, agribusiness, regional development and technology. Location is also no barrier \u2013 applicants can live in rural and regional Australia, or in the city \u2013their applications will be measured on the impact and benefits to rural and regional Australia. Additionally, the Award criteria outlines that applicants are not required to have a specific project to be considered eligible, applications can be submitted based on an idea, an identified problem or opportunity. \u201cNow is the time to encourage the female leaders in our communities to apply for an award like this,\u201d said John Harvey Managing Director of AgriFutures Australia. \u201cIf you know someone who is actively contributing to rural industries and regional communities, tap them on the shoulder. \u201cWe hear time and time again, that it is often the friendly encouragement from someone else, that gets applicants over the line to apply.\u201d Each state and territory winner receives a $10,000 bursary provided by Platinum sponsor Westpac, to bring their idea or project to life, access to professional development opportunities and national Alumni networks. Applications for the AgriFutures Rural Women\u2019s Award are open now and close on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 11pm AEDT. Apply now at www.agrifutures.com.au/rwa\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/eliza.wynn/424201cc-3035-439d-a871-24518094a414.jpg/r0_254_4992_3074_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nApplications open for Rural Women\u2019s Award\nEmerging female leaders who want to create impact, innovate and make a difference to rural and regional Australia are encouraged to apply for the 2019 AgriFutures Rural Women\u2019s Award.\nThe award has seen close to 300 exceptional women from rural communities and industries share their challenges, along with their solutions, to many problems faced in rural industries and communities.\nUnbounded food waste, safety in rural settings, innovation and skill shortages in rural and remote communities, along with the impact of literacy levels in industrial settings, are all problems being challenged by the 2018 national finalists of the Award.\nThe AgriFutures Rural Women\u2019s Award encourages innovation and problem solving, looking for projects and initiatives in various stages of development, that offer solutions to rural industries and the communities they support.\nProjects or initiatives can be commercially focused, providing they still align with AgriFutures\u2019 strategic priorities of innovation, creativity, community sustainability, education, productivity, agribusiness, regional development and technology.\nLocation is also no barrier \u2013 applicants can live in rural and regional Australia, or in the city \u2013their applications will be measured on the impact and benefits to rural and regional Australia.\nAdditionally, the Award criteria outlines that applicants are not required to have a specific project to be considered eligible, applications can be submitted based on an idea, an identified problem or opportunity.\n\u201cNow is the time to encourage the female leaders in our communities to apply for an award like this,\u201d said John Harvey Managing Director of AgriFutures Australia.\n\u201cIf you know someone who is actively contributing to rural industries and regional communities, tap them on the shoulder.\n\u201cWe hear time and time again, that it is often the friendly encouragement from someone else, that gets applicants over the line to apply.\u201d\nEach state and territory winner receives a $10,000 bursary provided by Platinum sponsor Westpac, to bring their idea or project to life, access to professional development opportunities and national Alumni networks.\nApplications for the AgriFutures Rural Women\u2019s Award are open now and close on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 at 11pm AEDT.\nApply now at www.agrifutures.com.au/rwa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 7066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/fall-words", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:16Z", "digest": "sha1:4CNBVDPIMOUDXFUUETMNGTTMFGTM6UPP", "length": 6275, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.babbel.com", "title": "Here Are The 10 Most Quintessential And Relatable Fall Words", "raw_content": "There\u2019s no season quite as poignant as autumn, with its gradual and beautiful transformation of nature. Grab yourself a cup of coffee or tea and settle in \u2014 it\u2019s time to share our favorite fall words.\nDropping temperatures, gold to rust-red leaves, and dwindling daylight are only a few of the markers for the presence of fall \u2014 or autumn, as it\u2019s also called. It\u2019s a beautiful transition that most of us embrace with open arms. The word itself, fall, is Germanic in origin, though its precise derivation is unclear. It could be the Old English fi\u00e6ll or feallan, or the Old Norse fall, all of which have the meaning \u201cto fall from a height,\u201d much like the turning leaves. So in honor of this transitional season, here are 10 of the best fall words to get you in the mood.\nBrisk, fresh and invigorating are all great ways to describe the feeling of crisp fall air. It\u2019s a word that is both succinct and polite, and it perfectly describes a day that is neither warm nor freezing (that comes later). Morning walks in the park, tweeting birds and a crunchy layer of frost on the grass are all quintessential visuals of crisp fall weather.\nFoliage, as a representation of leaves, flowers, and branches, is a word intimately related to fall. As the days grow shorter, leaves stop producing chlorophyll (the green pigment responsible for their color) and eventually drop. Beautiful shades of yellow, gold, orange and red dot the trees and pepper the ground during these cool fall days.\nTo combat the new wave of cold, it\u2019s essential to achieve the optimum balance between crisp and cozy. Peak coziness is marked by contentment, comfort and warmth. It\u2019s cradling the hot cup of coffee in your hands, covering your legs in a blanket, or settling into a warm meal.\nAlso known also as squash or winter\u2019s squash, the pumpkin is a truly iconic fall fruit (that\u2019s right, it\u2019s technically not a vegetable). It\u2019s also surprisingly versatile, with many qualities and uses. You\u2019ll find that the majority of the pumpkin is edible, from its fleshy shell to its leaves, and even its seeds inside, which makes it a great ingredient for an array of sweet and savory dishes. The word pumpkin originates from the word pepon, which is Greek for \u201clarge melon.\u201d\nSpeaking of pumpkins, fall would be incomplete without the celebration of Halloween right in the midst of the season (October 31). The word Halloween is a contraction of Hallows\u2019 Even or Hallow\u2019s Evening, meaning Saints\u2019 evening. In some parts of the world, the original Christian tradition of visiting churches and lighting candles on the graves of the dead is still very much alive, while in others it has been turned into a commercial and secular celebration for costume parties, trick-or-treating and jack-o\u2019-lantern carving.\nAnother widely celebrated day is the national holiday of Thanksgiving in the United States, Canada, Liberia and parts of the Caribbean, with Germany and Austria also having similarly named holidays. It has roots in religious traditions and came about as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest, even though it\u2019s mostly celebrated as a secular holiday today. Naturally, the much-loved and traditional dishes for Thanksgiving are the roast turkey and pumpkin pie.\nSince we\u2019ve mentioned it, the pie must also cop a spot on the list of top fall words. The beauty of this baked dish with a pastry crust is that it can be filled with just about anything your heart desires. Perhaps a warming chicken and leek, custard or plum, or maybe a creamy scalloped potato variety? In the fall, a few of the delicious and popular filling options are mushrooms, turnips, potatoes, pumpkin, rhubarbs, plums and apples!\nWhile oranges are still in season for fall (namely the late-blooming Valencian orange), the color is particularly what warrants a mention on this list. Right between yellow and red on the color spectrum, the color orange is actually named after the fruit. It\u2019s the color of seasonal vegetables, autumnal leaves, warmth and fire, and is often associated with amusement, aromas and the unconventional. It\u2019s also our favorite color here at Babbel!\nAs squirrels sense cooler weather setting in, they begin to gather and save food. When you see these furry little creatures collecting and burying nuts during this time of the year, it\u2019s because they\u2019re preparing for winter \u2014 after which they wake up and retrieve the food they\u2019ve buried. It\u2019s also not uncommon to see them grow twice in size during this time. Oh, and if you were wondering, the name squirrel comes from the Old Greek work skioros, meaning \u201cshadow tail.\u201d\nThe final word on this list of fall words is the mushroom, our favorite (sometimes edible) part of fungi. This word made our list because a popular fall activity is to go mushroom picking, or mushrooming, to gather edible varieties for cooking. In case you were curious, the word mushroom goes back centuries, and you can see words such as mushrom, mushrum, and mousheroms in regular use in English starting from 1400.\nSpeak a new language with confidence!\nA Cultural History Of Pumpkins And Gourds\nIt\u2019s fall, which means pumpkins have been shoved into every space they can fit into. How did they become ubiquitous? The history of pumpkins provides clues.\nWhat Is Hygge And Why Is This Danish Concept Still So Popular?\nBy now you\u2019ve probably seen the Danish word \u201chygge\u201d everywhere. But what is \u201chygge\u201d? What does it mean? We\u2019ll explain its definition and how it shapes Danish culture.\nQuintessential Fall \u2014 How Other Countries Celebrate Autumn\nWe know Americans have an obsession with fall, but how do people around the world ring in the season? (It goes far beyond Pumpkin Spice Lattes!)\nGuinevere grew up in the tiny town of Moonambel in Australia among the gum trees and grapevines. She started in fashion design and moved to marketing, but has always enjoyed writing on the broad topic of things that connect people. Her indulgences include miniature objects like ceramic fruit, sunbathing with intermittent dips (preferably at a sandy beach), and cooking for friends. Now living in Berlin, she\u2019s trying her hand at speaking German.\nArticles by Guinevere Jones\nThe Nuances Of Spanish Dialects Around The Globe\nThe 8 Best Books To Learn French\nThe 9 Best Films To Learn French", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 8230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ballerstatus.com/2018/01/27/lil-wayne-delivers-dedication-6-reloaded-stream/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:42Z", "digest": "sha1:LSZPSJA7D5AJBCTLAZ3NEQMVJRQMXU74", "length": 737, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ballerstatus.com", "title": "Lil Wayne Delivers \"Dedication 6: Reloaded\" -- Stream It Here", "raw_content": "Lil Wayne Delivers \u201cDedication 6: Reloaded\u201d \u2014 Stream It Here\nAfter delivering his anticipated Dedication 6 mixtape on Christmas Day, Lil Wayne returns with the Reloaded edition.\nThe DJ Drama-hosted mixtape features 20 songs and a slew of guest appearances, including Drake, Juelz Santana and Rich The Kid, on \u201cFamily Feud\u201d, \u201cBlood Mary\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Shoot Em\u201d respectively.\nAdditionally, Weezy drops remixes to Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cLOYALTY\u201d (\u201cWeezy N Madonna\u201d), A$AP Ferg\u2019s \u201cPlain Jane\u201d (\u201cGo Brazy\u201d), and Lil Pump\u2019s \u201cGucci Gang\u201d (\u201cGroupie Gang\u201d).\nLil Wayne\u2019s Dedication mixtape series first launched back in 2005. As indicated in the title, this is the sixth edition.\nStream Dedication 6: Reload below.\nAlbum StreamsLil WayneMixtapesNew Music", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 290.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ballsbridgeliving.ie/food-drink/crowes-pub-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:53Z", "digest": "sha1:T4GSCCUKWTRHNXU3FWBO5T5B4MMCZTX3", "length": 2328, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ballsbridgeliving.ie", "title": "Crowe's Pub \u2014 Ballsbridge", "raw_content": "Food & Drink Crowe's Pub\nPreviousChopped NextGirl and the Goose Restaurant\nWeb: crowespub.ie\nCrowes Pub was established in 1906 by Timothy and Catherine Crowe who hailed from Limerick and Tipperary respectively. Their friendship with the legendary Michael Collins and Sean Treacy, who drank in the pub, gave rise to the occasional raid by the Black & Tans. Timothy Crowe was a great GAA man and was on the organising committee which first acquired and then set up Croke Park. In 1920, Timothy Crowe with his son Philip (grandfather and father of David Crowe, the current proprietor) were at the infamous match in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday when many innocent spectators were shot dead by the Black & Tans. It was a lucky escape for an ex-employee of Crowes who was playing that day.\nCulture played its part too in the history of Crowes Pub whose patrons counted many literary giants of their day. Poets and playwrights, such as Patrick Kavanagh and Brendan Behan, mingled at the bar while a certain Myles Na Gopaleen alias Flann O\u2019Brien alias Brian O\u2019Nolan was known to have left a vehicle which was not mechanically propelled (namely a car without an engine) outside the pub door in a fiendishly clever plot to out-manoeuvre An Garda S\u00edochana.\nDespite the untimely death of his grandfather Timothy in 1926, David\u2019s grandmother, Catherine, continued to manage the pub while at the same time looking after her teenage boys and the whole family lived over the pub. A well-known face in the neighbourhood and loyal to the family, Jack Fennell worked as the pub porter for 49 years until his death in 1968. He was responsible for the pub bottling and labelling its own whiskey, stout and beer. In the early fifties, David\u2019s father, Phil, took over from his grandmother. Phil\u2019s wife, Maura, added home-cooked food to provide a true tavern experience. David and his brother Tim began working in the pub alongside their parents in the late sixties and became an integral part of the business. David, who has now worked in the pub for well over forty years, continues the Crowe tradition of friendly hospitality and is the third generation of the Crowe family to run the pub which is one of the oldest family-owned pubs in the country.\nVisit Crowes Pub today and enjoy a hearty welcome with a friendly chat and a trip down memory lane!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-02-13-1996044056-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:06Z", "digest": "sha1:V33FQ3MVOMF7DSBRROPKXPBIEBIZCAAK", "length": 4906, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.baltimoresun.com", "title": "Council, educators aim to end differences They are at odds over level of funding - Baltimore Sun", "raw_content": "Council, educators aim to end differences They are at odds over level of funding\nDuring a rare joint meeting yesterday, the Howard County Council and the county school board vowed to improve their strained relations, but they remain deeply divided about funding for schools.\n\"The school board does not want to bankrupt the county, and the council is not looking out to put students on the street,\" said school board member Stephen Bounds. \"Somewhere in between we have to find a way to come together. Hopefully, we'll be able to do that in a less acrimonious fashion this year.\"\nBut the conflict between the board and the council about how much money the county can afford to spend on education is not likely to end soon -- and may even worsen as the two governing bodies struggle with their tight budgets for the next fiscal year.\nThe county financial situation is severe enough that one County Council member suggested yesterday that the county might forgo salary increases next fiscal year for all county and school employees.\nCouncil members also indicated yesterday that they agree with County Executive Charles I. Ecker's warning last week that Howard government cannot afford to keep up with the state's \"maintenance of effort\" law next year.\nThe law requires county governments to spend at least as much per pupil as they spent the year before -- or else the county school systems would lose some matching state aid for education.\nIn Howard, that means Mr. Ecker must increase the county's education spending by about $6.6 million next year to keep up with projected enrollment growth -- or the school system would be out about $2.8 million in state funds.\nThe council and Mr. Ecker are supporting a state bill to reduce the maintenance-of-effort requirements. The bill -- which has been backed by school officials in some counties but not Howard -- calls for counties to increase their education funding by 60 percent of the amount currently required to cover new enrollment.\n\"From my perspective, it's an unfunded mandate,\" said council Chairman Darrel Drown. \"You'll see us funding education and funding it at an appropriate level, but it is incumbent on us to get rid of this unfunded mandate.\"\nReplied Mr. Bounds, who like other school board members favors the current maintenance-of-effort requirement, \"We have 1,500 unfunded mandates coming in next year\" to the school system in the form of new students.\nIf the law was changed, the county would have to increase its contribution to the schools next fiscal year by about $4 million instead of the $6.6 million needed to keep up with all of the schools' enrollment growth.\nSuperintendent Michael E. Hickey has described his proposed $241.9 million operating budget for next fiscal year as the \"tightest budget\" in his 12 years in Howard. He has said his proposal would provide only for new students and for the new schools scheduled to open in the fall.\nCounty officials say Howard's revenues aren't projected to increase enough to cover those requested expenses -- along with rising costs for other services.\nCosts associated with current maintenance-of-effort requirements, all county debt service and solid waste disposal would increase the county's budget next year by $13.6 million, but county revenues are projected to rise by just $9 million.\nMr. Ecker has proposed instituting a $125-per-household trash fee to raise more revenue, while cutting the property tax rate by 4 cents -- a combination that would raise an additional $4 million to $5 million in revenues for the county next fiscal year.\nYesterday, council members indicated they didn't support cutting the property tax rate, preferring to devote those funds to debt service.\n\"I'd rather hold [the rate] where it is rather than have to turn around next year and raise it again,\" said council member Charles C. Feaga.\nMr. Feaga also said he believed that no county or school employee should get a raise next year.\nSchool officials have said they will try to fund any salary increases within their proposed budget, cutting elsewhere to be able to pay teachers and other employees.\nWith their tight budgets, county and school officials pledged yesterday to try to meet more often this year and thereafter and to avoid some of the acrimony of recent budget negotiations.\n\"We will be as civil as we can,\" Mr. Drown said.\nMeanwhile, tax receipts through the first six months of the current fiscal year indicate that the county is not receiving as much money as officials predicted. The latest figures indicate the county's revenues will fall about $2.9 million short.\nBudget administrator Raymond Wacks told the council later in the morning that Mr. Ecker has decided to leave some positions unfilled and cut departments' discretionary spending.\nMr. Wacks said the budget outlook for this fiscal year will depend on whether the county will have to clean up after another snowstorm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5273, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baptistjax.com/locations/baptist-medical-center-jacksonville/born-to-make-an-impact", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:11Z", "digest": "sha1:QEQQA4SOVHK2HQA4OLNDKAN65LT3DT66", "length": 4561, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.baptistjax.com", "title": "Born to make an impact | Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville | Baptist Health, Jacksonville, FL", "raw_content": "Born to make an impact\nDr. Tra\u2019Chella Johnson Foy is the first African-American woman to be elected president of the Duval County Medical Society.\nThe image of a child being pulled from the rubble of a collapsed wall is forever seared in her mind.\nShe vividly remembers people digging with their bare hands in a frantic attempt to extract the boy from the mountain of crumbled bricks. In the confusion of the moment, she noticed something else: No one knew how to properly care for the severely injured victim before medical help arrived.\n\u201cIt was at that moment that I said to myself, \u2018I want to be the person who knows what to do,\u2019\u201d recalled Tra\u2019Chella Johnson Foy, MD, a Baptist Primary Care family physician who witnessed the wall collapse in the early 1980s while growing up in a West Jacksonville public housing project known as Hollybrook.\n\u201cA doctor is someone who is trained to save somebody\u2019s life and that\u2019s what I wanted to become.\u201d\nDespite ranking third in her graduation class at Ribault High School, Dr. Foy lacked the financial resources to apply to colleges when she was 17. Her mother was fresh out of rehab, and her father continued to battle drug abuse and mental health issues. If not for the love and support of her uncle and other friends and relatives, Dr. Foy said, she may never have reached her full potential.\n\u201cMy background is replete with challenges,\u201d added the Jacksonville native, who recently became the first African-American woman to be elected president of the Duval County Medical Society. \u201cBoth of my parents were on drugs. For a time, we lived in an abandoned house without lights and running water. I used to pray to God to not wake me up in the morning.\u201d\nBut Dr. Foy wouldn\u2019t let her dire circumstances define her. She was determined to make it to college and her involvement in Ribault\u2019s Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training program, then-headed by retired 1st Sgt. Molbro Roberts, helped ensure her college ambitions.\n\u201cSarge helped me facilitate that dream by paying my application fees to the University of Florida and Florida State,\u201d said Dr. Foy, a former JROTC student who earned a scholarship to Florida, where she spent summers working in the College of Office of Minority Relations.\n\u201cGoing to college was a big deal. My goal was always to get a medical degree and go back and serve the community where I grew up.\u201d\nShe made good on that promise. After graduating from medical school at Morehouse College in Atlanta, home to the National Center for Primary Care, Dr. Foy served a three-year residency in primary medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, where she earned awards for excellence in graduate medical education and outstanding clinical skills in patient care.\nDuring her third year of medical school, she was one of only eight students in the country to receive an Arthur Ashe AIDS Care fellowship to the Harvard AIDS Institute in Boston. The fellowship is designed\nto increase the number of minority physicians involved in AIDS-related clinical care. As a medical resident in Jacksonville, she volunteered at a free clinic for substance abusers and underserved mental health patients, eventually becoming its volunteer medical director.\nToday, the community-conscious family physician and mother of one serves as a board member of several professional and nonprofit organizations, including \u201cWe Care Jacksonville,\u201ca volunteer coalition of health care professionals who provide primary and specialty care to the underserved. She\u2019s also an alternate delegate to the American Medical Association and vice president of the minority-based Northeast Florida Medical Society.\nAfter spending 12 years as a primary care physician on Jacksonville\u2019s Northside, Dr. Foy, a diabetes master clinician with expertise in most chronic conditions, joined Baptist Primary Care\u2019s Larmoyeux Family Medicine in downtown Jacksonville earlier this year. The clinic, established in 1938 by Louis J. Larmoyeux Sr., traces its roots to Dr. Julia A. Larmoyeux, a trailblazing female physician in Jacksonville in the early 1900s.\n\u201cThe Larmoyeuxes have been staples in the community for decades, and I\u2019m honored to be a part of a historic practice and continue the legacy of its founders,\u201d said Dr. Foy, who works at the East Ashley Street clinic with Drs. Louis J. Larmoyeux Jr. and Sandra Laurencin.\n\u201cBeing a part of Baptist solidifies my future and allows me to care for entire families and, in turn, entire communities. This gives me the opportunity to make the impact on the world that I believe I was born to do.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 11396, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 192.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-early-sessions-jane-roberts/1118954019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WQSABLC7454I4GUEKMWPNOX2GSD5TBAU", "length": 2090, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.barnesandnoble.com", "title": "The Early Sessions: Book 8 of The Seth Material by Jane Roberts | NOOK Book (eBook) | Barnes & Noble\u00ae B&N Top 100 NY Times Bestsellers", "raw_content": "The Early Sessions: Book 8 of The Seth Material\nby Jane Roberts, Robert ButtsJane Roberts\nBOOK 8 OF THE 9-BOOK SERIES FROM PREEMINENT PARANORMALIST JANE ROBERTS\n\ufffdSeth was one of my first metaphysical teachers. He remains a constant source of knowledge and inspiration in my life.\ufffd\n\ufffd Marianne Williamson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A RETURN TO LOVE\n\ufffdThe Seth books present an alternate map of reality with a new diagram of the psyche\ufffd.useful to all explorers of consciousness.\ufffd\n- Deepak Chopra, MD, author of SUPER BRAIN\n\ufffdI would like to see the Seth books as required reading for anyone on their spiritual pathway. The amazing in-depth information in the Seth books is as relevant today as it was in the early 70s when Jane Roberts first channeled this material.\ufffd\n-Louise Hay, internationally bestselling author of YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE\nPresented in 9 books, THE EARLY SESSIONS is a collection of the material channeled by Seth through Jane Roberts, during the first six years of his relationship with Jane and her husband, Rob Butts. The material consists of over 500 sessions, and contains new content and insights from Seth on a vast array of topics.\nTHE EARLY SESSIONS also illuminates evolution of the Seth material, the very first questions asked by Jane and Rob, and the initial, detailed exposition by Seth of his philosophy and vision.\nNew Awareness Network, Inc.\nThe Early Sessions , #8\nJane Roberts (May 8, 1929 \ufffd September 5, 1984) was an American author, poet, psychic and spirit medium, who said she had \"channeled\" a personality who called himself \"Seth\". Her publication of the Seth texts, known as the \"Seth Material\", established her as one of the preeminent figures in the world of paranormal phenomena. The Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives maintains a collection entitled Jane Roberts Papers (MS 1090), which documents the career and personal life of Jane Roberts, including journals, poetry, correspondence, audio and video recordings and other materials donated after her death by Roberts' husband and other individuals and organizations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 345, "original_length": 11977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 131.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bates.edu/news/2014/01/17/solo-performance-to-unveil-muslim-womens-lives/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:24Z", "digest": "sha1:D2BD5GG6I5FJB2ZY3Y7VG4AEVBPVWKJ5", "length": 2337, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.bates.edu", "title": "Solo performance to unveil Muslim women\u2019s lives | News | Bates College", "raw_content": "Rohina Malik performs \u201cUnveiled.\u201d (Sadaf Syed)\nBates College presents playwright-actress Rohina Malik performing her critically acclaimed one-woman show Unveiled, portraying five Muslim women living in a post 9/11 world, at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 27, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.\nThe show is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact 207-786-8272 or multifaithchaplaincy@bates.edu.\nUnveiled, written by Malik, uses women\u2019s stories of racism, hate crimes, love, Islam, culture, language and life to reveal what it means to wear the veil. Directed by Ann Filmer, the play premiered in May 2009 at the 16th Street Theater in Illinois, where it sold out the entire run.\nSince then, Malik has brought Unveiled to such theaters across the country as the Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago, the Next Theater in Evanston, Ill., and the Brava Theater in San Francisco.\n\u201c[This] hugely talented writer-actress is a remarkable new theatrical voice in Chicago,\u201d wrote Chris Jones of the Chicago Tribune. \u201cIn her rich, upbeat and very enjoyable 70-minute collection of five character studies of Muslim women in modern-day America, Malik gives voice to characters from whom we hear far too little in the theater.\u201d\nMalik is a Chicago-based playwright, actress and performance artist. She was born of South Asian heritage and raised in London. She is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists, an artistic associate at the 16th Street Theater and was one of four writers in the inaugural group of the Playwrights Unit at the renowned Goodman Theater.\nHer other plays include Yasmina\u2019s Necklace and The Mecca Tales, both developed and presented in staged readings at Goodman Theater.\nThe Bates performance is sponsored by the Multifaith Chaplaincy; the Office of Intercultural Education; the departments of theater, religious studies, women and gender studies, English, politics, anthropology and sociology; the Harward Center for Community Partnerships; and the social sciences division.\nCategories Academic Life Arts Diversity\nTags academic life arts Multifaith Chaplaincy Office of the Multifaith Chaplain performing arts Religious Studies Rohina Malik Theater Unveiled visual art Women and Gender Studies\nAn award-winning poet, Crystal Williams to read in Language Arts Live event\nFiguring out Erica Rand, the scholar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 5304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.baystatehealth.org/news/2015/12/wesson-giving-tree", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:48Z", "digest": "sha1:G4DZWHZZCQWCRL53CA2DOKLCIKLVSWL6", "length": 3692, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.baystatehealth.org", "title": "Wesson Giving Tree | Baystate Health | Springfield, MA", "raw_content": "News & More Wesson Giving Tree\nWesson Women's nurses donate to the YWCA to help victims of domestic violence\nIt was back in 2009 when staff on Wesson 2 lost a beloved nurse as a result of domestic violence.\n\u201cWe just adored her. She worked at Baystate Medical Center for quite a few years. And the tragedy prompted us to do something,\u201d said Grace Lavoie CNRP, RNIII of Wesson 2.\n\u201cInitially, Wesson 2 collected money and donated annually to the YWCA in her honor. We did this for a couple of years and then decided we wanted to do more. Three of us, Anne Cournoyer, Maureen Fitzgerald and I, thought of doing a Giving Tree at Christmastime to help the women and children affected by domestic violence,\u201d said Lavoie.\nAmong the gifts donated over the years have been pots and pans, linens, comforters, dishes, glasses, all types of clothing (\u201cBecause these women are starting their lives over again,\u201d said Lavoie) and much more. Also, for the kids, all kinds of toys have been purchased and donated, especially popular items such as Dora the Explorer and everything from the popular Disney movie \u201cFrozen.\u201d\n\u201cMoms also like gift cards which they can then use to buy their own kids something,\u201d said Lavoie.\n\u201cWe\u2019re just so grateful for the amazing response we\u2019ve received from so many donors over the years, who have so generously contributed to our efforts to brighten the holidays for the women and children on our list,\u201d she added.\nToday, their fundraising effort for battered women and their children has grown to include staff from WETU and LDRP and involves a \u201cGiving Tree\u201d which travels back and forth among the three units.\n\u201cOur patient populations are all women and we have heard some terrible stories from some of them about the suffering they have endured over the years from their partners. We knew we had to give back to the community in which domestic violence is such a big problem,\u201d said Lavoie.\nAs Christmas approaches, Lavoie calls Linda Larese, executive assistant at the YWCA of Western Massachusetts, who gives her a list of women and children at the YWCA.\n\u201cWe ask Linda to send us the first and second wishes of the moms and children at the shelter. Then a group of us from Wesson 2, LDRP, and WETU get together and make handmade ornaments to hang on the tree. This year we made 110 ornaments each with their first name, age, size, and their 1st and 2nd wishes on them. In addition to our own staff members, employees \u2013 social workers, doctors and others \u2013 from other areas of the hospital often pick an ornament off the tree and generously donate the gift listed on the ornament. We had one doctor, a pediatrician, who said the tree meant a lot to her because her sister died as a result of domestic violence. We usually do pretty well in granting all their wishes, and the gifts are all delivered to the shelter just a few days before Christmas,\u201d said Lavoie.\nDomestic violence and abuse can happen to anyone regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, income, or other factors. And both women and men can be victims of domestic violence.\n\u2022\tEvery 9 seconds in the U.S., a woman is assaulted or beaten.\n\u2022\tOn average, nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the U.S. During the year, this equates to more than 20 million women and men.\n\u2022\t1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men have been victims of some form of physical violence by an intimate partner within their lifetime.\n\u2022\tOn a typical day, there are more than 20,000 phone calls placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide.\nPhoto: Connie Blake, MSN, RN stands next to the Giving Tree nurses on Wesson 2 established in memory of a co-worker who lost her life to domestic violence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 5590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37627028", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5LK56JSR2GHEIEAXMKU5EKO2AINWRUK6", "length": 2193, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.bbc.com", "title": "DR Congo stability at extreme risk, UN warned - BBC News", "raw_content": "DR Congo stability at extreme risk, UN warned\nImage caption Opposition supporters are staging angry protests in Kinshasa\nThe Democratic Republic of Congo is at \"extreme risk\" of descending into widespread violence, the UN Security Council has been warned.\nUN envoy Maman Sidikou said threats to the 18,000-strong peacekeeping mission there outstripped its capabilities.\nViolent protests have broken out over the postponement of presidential polls.\nThe opposition accuses President Joseph Kabila of trying to cling to power beyond the end of his term, which is due to expire in December.\nDozens of people died in anti-government violence in the capital Kinshasa last month after the electoral commission said it could not hold polls in November.\nThe headquarters of three opposition parties were also attacked and burned down.\nCould DR Congo's president face a mass uprising?\nJoseph Kabila unlikely to give up power\n\"Actors on all sides appear more and more willing to resort to violence to achieve their ends,\" Mr Sidikou, head of the UN peacekeeping mission known as Monusco, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday.\nImage caption President Joseph Kabila is barred by the constitution from running for office again\n\"While Monusco will do everything it can within its mandate to protect civilians, the scope of the threats dramatically outstrip the mission's capabilities.\"\nHe added: \"The Democratic Republic of Congo has entered a period of extreme risk to its stability. The coming period will certainly be extremely difficult, the tipping point in the serious violence could be reached very quickly.\"\nMr Kabila took power in 2001 following the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila, and the constitution bars him from running for office again.\nLast month, the US imposed sanctions on two senior security officials allied to President Kabila.\nIt accused army Gen Gabriel Amisi Kumba and John Numbi, a former police chief, of threatening the country's stability by suppressing the opposition.\nA government-backed effort to work out a solution to the political crisis, called a \"national dialogue\", has been boycotted by most opposition parties.\nDR Congo protests: Why have they erupted?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 6105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/Vidor-restaurant-offers-a-taste-of-Cajun-culture-13561932.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:11Z", "digest": "sha1:KIAGNEKVZ5SFFDYV5GFBAOKY3FW57GWG", "length": 5386, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.beaumontenterprise.com", "title": "Vidor restaurant offers a taste of Cajun culture - Beaumont Enterprise", "raw_content": "https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/entertainment/article/Vidor-restaurant-offers-a-taste-of-Cajun-culture-13561932.php\nVidor restaurant offers a taste of Cajun culture\nKara Timberlake\nThe interior at Cajun Works, a restaurant located inside the Vidor Walmart, is a testament to all things Cajun, from food to slang and a timeline of owner Toby Kimball's family history. Photo taken Wednesday, January 16, 2019 Photo by Kim Brent/The Enterprise\nThe interior at Cajun Works, a restaurant located inside the Vidor Walmart, is a testament to all things Cajun, from food to slang and a timeline of owner Toby Kimball's family history. Photo taken Wednesday,\nWalking into Cajun Works, found inside the Vidor Walmart, you're transported to another world - one located on the swamp. Timelines on the walls showcase over 400 years of Toby Kimball's family history from France to Quebec to Louisiana, where they arrived in the 1780s.\nFor Kimball, owner of the eatery and franchise, cooking is more than just about taste - it's about culture.\n\"Personally, I've always liked to cook,\" he said. \"I always was the camp cook, the cook at skip day. We live out in the swamp on the bayou on the Atchafalaya river, so we always got together and went to the river and went to my camp on the bayou.\n\"The camp was a place to relax and to share stories, and the beauty of our [Cajun] culture is not cooking to eat and go to sleep - it's an event. You cook all day and socialize and tell stories, and then you eat at the end.\"\nCajun Works\nWhere: 1360 N Main St., Vidor, TX 77662\nHours: 9 a.m. \u2013 9 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 10 a.m. \u2013 9 p.m. Sunday\nDrink situation: soft drinks, tea, lemonade\nInfo: https://www.facebook.com/cajunworks/ http://www.cajunworks.com/ (409) 681-5077\nAfter Kimball joined the military, he made a startling discovery.\n\"During my trips in the military, I found no representation of our culture - none,\" he said. \"I traveled all over the country and overseas a couple times, and there was just nothing. I went to school in Tennessee - nothing. Then I transferred to Washington State, and then I transferred down to San Francisco where I spent three years. There was nothing to represent a Cajun. Everywhere I went, I cooked, and they loved it. So that gave me an idea.\"\nAfter returning home to Louisiana, Kimball started a mechanic shop behind his father's gas station, with ideas churning in his mind.\n\"Around the camp one day, just talking over the campfire, I said 'We should buy the store next door and move your store and open a restaurant,' and it actually happened,\" he said. \"I started engineering the products - the pies and the balls. After that, I started working on the older recipes of my family which goes all the way back to France.\"\nKimball opened the restaurant, located in Krotz Springs, Louisiana, in 2007, with its success spurring the motion of building a Cajun Works franchise in 2012. A prototype location was opened in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, in 2015, followed by the opening of the location inside the Vidor Walmart in October of 2018.\nMotivating his pursuits is a desire to represent his upbringing, Kimball said.\n\"The beauty is that it's not all about the food,\" he said. \"My whole goal was to build something that would represent our families, our past families, our culture in a true way where people could learn it - that's what this whole franchise was done for - not only my family, but every true, authentic Cajun family that was not represented.\"\nNot wanting to be like anything else on the market, Kimball strived to create unique dishes with Cajun flair.\n\"Everybody had boudin balls,\" he said. \"I didn't want to be like everyone else. I like different items. So I did all meat -your balls can come in any type of meat. There's no rice. It's protein. Why eat rice, when you can eat meat?\n\"And then the meat pies, Itried to have it where someone coming in the c-store or into a university or stadium can eat quality food without making a mess. That's where the pies come in. I have gumbo in them, Ihave crawfish etouffee, I have smothered chicken and rice and gravy in a pie, I have red beans and rice in a pie. You can get the same product that you're getting in a bowl or a plate put in a pie.\"\nIf you're struggling to decide on a dish, ask for a sample, so you can \"try it before you buy it,\" Kimball said.\nCustomer favorites include the etouffee and the chicken gumbo, Kimball said, with catfish being another popular choice.\n\"Mine is Louisiana catfish,\" he said. \"It has a flavor to it. People love it.\"\nTo wash it all down with, grab a cup of Roy's Lemonade - a lemonade that is the perfect amount of sweet.\nFans of the eatery can attempt to recreate the flavors at home by purchasing Cajun Works products such as seasoning, fish fry, and other pre-packaged items.\n\"Pretty much anything you can buy hot you can buy cold,\" Kimball said. \"We have a display freezer up front with pretty much everything we cook - etouffee, smoked sausage boudin, etc.\"\nIn March, a Cajun Works location will open in Buda, Texas, with Kimball planning to expand more in the future, showcasing what his culture is all about.\n\"I'm representing what I grew up with,\" he said. \"Life is simple in the Cajun culture. It's not complicated. There's lot of rice and gravies and fried foods. We like to have fun while we're cooking.\"\nKara Timberlake is a freelance writer for Cat5.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 10082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.begadistrictnews.com.au/story/5630517/a-century-since-amiens-ill-never-know-the-terror-of-trench-warfare/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:55Z", "digest": "sha1:7APBL6F44N2ZGCCMLHJDFFYAKXNNAJ5A", "length": 4938, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.begadistrictnews.com.au", "title": "A century since Amiens: \u2018I\u2019ll never know the terror of trench warfare\u2019 | Bega District News", "raw_content": "One hundred years since his grandfather Alfred was shot in the leg during the Battle of Amiens, Ross Riddett is travelling to the Western Front. While pondering his voyage, Mr Riddett\u2019s mind conjures images of torrid trench warfare in the build up to the August Allied offensive, lead by Lieutenant General Sir John Monash \u2013 an offensive which eventually lead to the end of the war. \u201cHaving experienced war and the fear, it will be cathartic,\u201d Mr Riddett said. \u201cI\u2019ll experience the place where my grandfather would have felt a lot of terror and camaraderie. \u201cI can relate to his experience, but I\u2019ll never know the terror of trench warfare.\u201d The 70-year-old Verona resident is travelling to France this week with his wife Marianne, with the couple joining their daughter Robyn, who lives in London. \u201cRobyn doesn't know much about the background, so it will be good for her to learn all about it,\u201d he said. Like many returning soldiers, his grandfather kept much to himself, not sharing his wartime experiences with those closest to him. \u201cI would love to talk to him, and have him fill in the details of his experience, which unfortunately I can\u2019t do,\u201d he said. Mr Riddett has had a difficult time finding records of the exact movements of his grandfather during the battle, but he does know he spent time recovering from his injury in England before arriving back in Australia almost a year later. \u201cAfter returning home he named his war service home in Melbourne after Amiens,\u201d Mr Riddett said. Mr Riddett was conscripted in 1970 to fight in the Vietnam War, a war he now believes should never have happened. \u201cWhen I came home I felt guilt, and in hindsight it was a war we shouldn\u2019t have been in. The Vietnamese see our war as a blip on the screen, because they\u2019ve spent so long fighting people off,\u201d he said. While in Vietnam Mr Riddett was lucky not to be shot in the leg himself, this time by accidental friendly fire during a patrol. \u201cHe was court-martialed but got off because his weapon was faulty,\u201d Mr Riddett said with a laugh. \u201cI think he must\u2019ve had a worn safety, so when he walked it shot right near my foot.\u201d\nhttps://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/aDk3ybksPDmZjUDtWpgi6b/d0ad7ba9-654a-48bd-ad9f-be890db71274.JPG/r0_49_5009_2879_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg\nA century since Amiens: \u2018I\u2019ll never know the terror of trench warfare\u2019\nCATHARTIC: Seventy-year-old Ross Riddett is visiting France 100 years since his grandfather was shot in the Battle of Amiens on February 21, 1918.\nOne hundred years since his grandfather Alfred was shot in the leg during the Battle of Amiens, Ross Riddett is travelling to the Western Front.\nWhile pondering his voyage, Mr Riddett\u2019s mind conjures images of torrid trench warfare in the build up to the August Allied offensive, lead by Lieutenant General Sir John Monash \u2013 an offensive which eventually lead to the end of the war.\nWhen I came home I felt guilt, and in hindsight it was a war we shouldn\u2019t have been in.\nVietnam War veteran Ross Riddett\n\u201cHaving experienced war and the fear, it will be cathartic,\u201d Mr Riddett said.\n\u201cI\u2019ll experience the place where my grandfather would have felt a lot of terror and camaraderie.\n\u201cI can relate to his experience, but I\u2019ll never know the terror of trench warfare.\u201d\nThe 70-year-old Verona resident is travelling to France this week with his wife Marianne, with the couple joining their daughter Robyn, who lives in London.\nRoss Riddett's grandfather Alfred (pictured) was shot in the leg during the Battle of Amiens. Picture: Alasdair McDonald\n\u201cRobyn doesn't know much about the background, so it will be good for her to learn all about it,\u201d he said.\nLike many returning soldiers, his grandfather kept much to himself, not sharing his wartime experiences with those closest to him.\n\u201cI would love to talk to him, and have him fill in the details of his experience, which unfortunately I can\u2019t do,\u201d he said.\nMr Riddett has had a difficult time finding records of the exact movements of his grandfather during the battle, but he does know he spent time recovering from his injury in England before arriving back in Australia almost a year later.\n\u201cAfter returning home he named his war service home in Melbourne after Amiens,\u201d Mr Riddett said.\nMr Riddett was conscripted in 1970 to fight in the Vietnam War, a war he now believes should never have happened.\n\u201cWhen I came home I felt guilt, and in hindsight it was a war we shouldn\u2019t have been in. The Vietnamese see our war as a blip on the screen, because they\u2019ve spent so long fighting people off,\u201d he said.\nWhile in Vietnam Mr Riddett was lucky not to be shot in the leg himself, this time by accidental friendly fire during a patrol.\n\u201cHe was court-martialed but got off because his weapon was faulty,\u201d Mr Riddett said with a laugh.\n\u201cI think he must\u2019ve had a worn safety, so when he walked it shot right near my foot.\u201d\nDiscuss \"A century since Amiens: \u2018I\u2019ll never know the terror of trench warfare\u2019\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 7869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 226.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.benburgess.co.uk/slavery-statement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:IDF6BAC7CJSHLQTBX3C4TSA2EPTQJ4ZB", "length": 1579, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.benburgess.co.uk", "title": "Anti-Slavery Statement - Ben Burgess", "raw_content": "This statement is made pursuant to s.54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 and sets out the steps that Ben Burgess Holdings Ltd and its subsidiary Ben Burgess & Co Ltd have taken and are continuing to take to ensure that modern slavery or human trafficking is not taking place within their business or supply chain.\nModern slavery encompasses slavery, servitude, human trafficking and forced labour. Ben Burgess Holdings Ltd and its subsidiary Ben Burgess & Co Ltd are committed to acting ethically and with integrity and transparency in all business dealings.\nAs part of our commitment to ensuring that there is no modern slavery or human trafficking in its supply chains, we have the following internal procedures to ensure that it is conducting business in an ethical and transparent manner:\nAs part of our supplier approval process we incorporate a review of controls undertaken by that supplier to ensure there is no evidence of slavery or human trafficking. We will not support or deal with any business involved in slavery or human trafficking.\nWe conduct robust checks on any new employee \u2013 including eligibility to work in the UK \u2013 to safeguard against human trafficking or individuals being forced to work against their will.\nWe are committed to complying with minimum and living wage legislation.\nApproval of this statement\nThis statement has been approved by the Managing Director in relation to the year ended 31st January 2018\nRequest information about Anti-Slavery Statement in :branch\nTo enquire about the hire of Anti-Slavery Statement please fill in the form below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 6127, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.berkeleyprep.org/page/school-life/berkeley-broadcast-network/bbn2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:32Z", "digest": "sha1:TEMU4IH34A6DAXC25GKREP2Q7UOWGGEJ", "length": 248, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.berkeleyprep.org", "title": "Live Streaming 2", "raw_content": "Varsity Girls Soccer vs Academy of the Holy Names - Friday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m.\nRegion Semifinal\nDue to the FHSAA\u2019s post-season policy, this event is only available for viewing with the purchase of a pay-per-view subscription. A monthly pass is $9.95.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 6326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 159.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.besteveralbums.com/buy.php?o=track&oid=1520018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:52Z", "digest": "sha1:E7JA3YDDIL7YJXLVM4BIWSEKD4WROIHV", "length": 145, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.besteveralbums.com", "title": "Buy Ich Brauch Dich (track) by S.Y.P.H. : Best Ever Albums", "raw_content": "\"Generals gathered in their masses, Just like witches at black masses\"\nBuy Ich Brauch Dich (track) by S.Y.P.H.\nIch Brauch Dich by S.Y.P.H. (1982)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 1761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.betagammasigma.org/mainsitedev/events/bgs-awards/entrepreneurial-achievement", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:29Z", "digest": "sha1:FC6WHOGCZLH7ZAMIZ55XWHUOOSRSD3B6", "length": 1202, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.betagammasigma.org", "title": "BGS Entrepreneurial Achievement Award Entrepreneurial Achievement - Beta Gamma Sigma", "raw_content": "The Beta Gamma Sigma Entrepreneurial Achievement Award (formerly known as the Medallion for Entrepreneurship Award) provides national recognition to those individuals who develop, organize, and enhance successful new ventures. Recipients of this signature honor have assumed the risk of starting a business or initiating a new venture/idea within a larger organization. The intent is to focus on our entrepreneurs as the people who drive innovation, our economic engine, and support for new ideas.\nIndividuals are selected for the Entrepreneurial Achievement Award based on the following criteria:\nEntrepreneurs who develop, organize, and launch a successful business venture or social entrepreneurship endeavor that has demonstrated success and proven through its operational results to be a sustainable concept\nExemplars for ethical business leadership and the values of the Beta Gamma Sigma Society, including honor and integrity, and the pursuit of wisdom, earnestness, and service are sought.\nThe 2019 Entrepreneurial Achievement Awards nomination process is now closed. Applications were due by December 18, 2018. If you have any questions, please contact Denise Cage at dcage@betagammasigma.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 6528, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.betsybetts.co.uk/blog/2015/3/30/ladybird-by-design", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:37Z", "digest": "sha1:KRRQMFGUMJGDCV6L7AJRJEA7YEEGUS52", "length": 2929, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.betsybetts.co.uk", "title": "Ladybird by Design \u2014 Betsy Betts", "raw_content": "I challenge anyone over the age of 30 not to get nostalgic about Ladybird books. Certain covers take me right back to my childhood, and from over hearing others at the Ladybird by Design exhibition at the De La Warr pavilion, many people feel exactly the same way.\nThese fantastic little books have slowly been gaining cult status over the last decade, with their prices slowly rising in charity shops and online, and the emergence of the Simon Spicer cards that are sold in contemporary gift shops.\nLast autumn we watched \"The Ladybird Book Story: How Britain Got the Reading Bug\" on BBC iplayer. It was absolutely fascinating, seeing why the books were initially made, and how the themes developed. It was also comforting to see other enthusiasts who were far more avid collectors than us (who always used them, not just collected them).\nWe never need an excuse to pop over the beautiful De La Warr Pavilion, and so when we saw they were showing an exhibition all about Ladybird books we put it top of our Easter holiday list. Bexhill is lovely in Spring. A real antidote to busy and bustling Brighton (I am one of those miserable people who prefer it off season) the beach is lovely to walk along, and the views along the coast are spectacular. Monday was a good day to go, the sun was shining so the building looked stunning.\nThe title of the exhibition is based on the book written by Lawrence Zeegan, which was published on 5th March. Ladybird by Design tells the story of the books, and is my read of the year (so far..!). It is full of images from the books, but there is also so much to read. A real treat if you are into design, social history and/or illustration. I was lucky enough to receive a copy of the book for mothers day from my children, along with the card you can see on the left (well, I would imagine my husband bought it...)\nThe exhibition was well worth travelling along the coast to see. One of the first things you see when you walk in is a case that contains the mock up of the first book, then a sheet of paper with a book printed on it, before it is cut and bound.\nMy favourite area was the paintings from Shopping with Mother\". We spent a long time looking at each image, and we realised we were narrating them to each other and pointing out details - just like you would with a four year old. The illustrations are just exquisite.\nAfter the De La Warr we went to look round the shops in Bexhill. Lots and lots of charity shops, which did mean we bought some books - including these two for \u00a31. Check out the cheese and pineapple on the cover! The nine year old is planning on cooking a few recipes from these. Published in 1979, featuring photography not illustrations, they are still clear and easy to read. No collectors items for us, they will be used. First project is an orange cake - maybe with angelica.\nLadybird by Design exhibition\nOn till 10th May 2015, at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 3606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bibianabadenes.com/de/kinesis-fisioterapia/terapia-integral-acuatica/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:15Z", "digest": "sha1:WEZKPHUUQLEJUR4IYSUA4X6SOBUPZMPM", "length": 2572, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.bibianabadenes.com", "title": "Integral Aquatic Therapy (TIA)\u00a9 | Bibiana Badenes", "raw_content": "Integral Aquatic Therapy \u00a9\nIntegral Aquatic Therapy (TIA\u00a9) is a gentle and effective type of Body Therapy and rehabilitation performed in warm water (35\u00b0 C). It combines elements of soft tissue manipulation and massage, joint mobilization, trigger-point therapy, stretching and myofascial and positional release into a beautiful sequence of fluid movements. During a TIA\u00a9 session, the patient can totally relax. The face and nose remain out of water since they are supported by water, different floating devices (used when necessary) or/and the healing hands of the practitioner.\nThe effects of warm water (ideally performed in salt water or water treated with ozone) produce spontaneous responses in the connective tissue and the autonomic nervous system as well as on the emotional and energetic levels. This leads to a deep state of relaxation and decreases stress. In this state, the releasing of myofascial restrictions and joint adhesions facilitates an increase in general motion, defines the different areas treated and opens new neuromuscular pathways.\nContrary to bodywork we do in a gravity field where the client\u2019s body is stabilized on a treatment table, in the water, the body is free to move around and be moved, locally or entirely stretched in unusual directions and ways. The entire spinal column can be moved with snake-like and spiral waves which are impossible to achieve outside the water. Hip and shoulder joints can be decompressed more easily and be guided into new movements in a less painful environment. The hydrostatic pressure of water simulates hundreds of soft hands sustaining and massaging the entire body from all directions simultaneously.\nFor a patient who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis (RA), osteoarthritis (OA) or chronic pain (CP), this therapy could be the first painless movement they have experienced in a long time.\nTIA\u00a9 has been used and has shown immediate and long term positive results in treatment programs for patients with RA, OA and CP in our Kinesis Physiotherapy centre in Benic\u00e1sim, Spain (also for Swedish patients from different Stress management and Burnout Syndrome programs who are lodged for some time in our city to receive treatments) as well as in various clinics in New Zealand.\nSome patients who have benefited so far on a personal level are: patients with musculoskeletal trauma injuries, spinal cord injuries, rheumatoid arthritis, cerebral palsy, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, ankylosing spondylitis, post-mastectomy, rotator cuff injury and stress syndrome.\nWe offer courses for health professionals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Hebrews%2013:1-14;&version=KJV", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RDG2O4MVQFUSTTUE4ZBQSCCZBK5ZTEXV", "length": 72, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.biblegateway.com", "title": "Hebrews 13:1-14; KJV - Let brotherly love continue. Be not - Bible Gateway", "raw_content": "Hebrews 13:1-14 King James Version (KJV)\n13 Let brotherly love continue.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 243, "original_length": 26738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 100.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+9%3A30%2CEphesians+2%3A12&version=NIV", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:29Z", "digest": "sha1:ETIBIZGY33WD7J6KPRI3QH4AVQALMVFR", "length": 377, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.biblegateway.com", "title": "Romans 9:30,Ephesians 2:12 NIV - Israel\u2019s Unbelief - What then shall - Bible Gateway", "raw_content": "30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;\n12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.\nEphesians 2:12 : Isa 14:1; 65:1\nEphesians 2:12 : 1Th 4:13", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 36795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 206.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bigego.com/index.php?page=reviews&family=f&category=c&display=1219", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GJ2A4RXKSJB4EWIBMQ5VNYEJEUJL7F6B", "length": 1676, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.bigego.com", "title": "Jim's Big Ego : UnPop for the Unpopulous!0", "raw_content": "a review of free*\nthe Secret Life of Pudding\nby Nat Budin\nThe self-proclaimed greatest band in the history of recorded music, Jim's Big Ego, has just released their new album, \"free*\". That's right, \"free*\". That's \"free\" with an asterisk, which has a couple of meanings, from what I can tell:\nIt's available for pay-what-you-want-including-nothing download from their web site, but if you want a higher-bitrate version or a physical (CD or vinyl) copy, you have to pay a designated amount of money. Sort of like an NPR pledge \"gift.\"\nThe music on it is Free as in Freedom, or at least, Creative Commons-licensed, although the liner notes aren't super clear on exactly what the licensing terms are, unfortunately.\nSo, how's the music? To make a long story short, it's good! Some highlights (for me, on a first listen):\nPascagoula Pawn & Gun - a country/western song from Jim's Big Ego! \"Had to pawn my gun to buy the bullets, had to sell the bullets to get the gun - one day I'll get them both together, then everybody had better run!\" Hilarious.\nAward Show - they've been doing this one at concerts for awhile, and it's still funny.\nInternational - Jim's modern take on the Communist anthem, which, dare I say it, makes socialism catchy.\nDepravity - as Jim says, depravity is all around us! A wonderfully sarcastic slap at the right.\nUtopia - a really beautiful song, the kind for which you take out the lighters at the concert. Reminds me a lot of the earlier JBE and solo Jim albums.\nTo sum up - you may as well try it, it's free! And this band is clearly betting that, like a junkie, you'll keep coming back for more.\nread the full article: Lord Save Us All From Depravity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2441, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biogs.com/football/robinho.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:34Z", "digest": "sha1:PVTEXZOYQKXFZ2M3UFQD2PPBZXKTYRJT", "length": 2083, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.biogs.com", "title": "Robinho Biography - Biogs.com", "raw_content": "Home > Categories > Sports > Football > Robinho's Biography\nRobinho's Biography\nRobinho Facts\nWho is Robinho?\nRobson de Souza was born on 25th January, 1984, in Sao Vicente, Brazil.\nThe Brazilian footballer is better known by his nickname Robinho.\nHe made his debut for Santos in the Campeonato Brasiliero (Brazilian Championship) in 2002 and along with Diego, his close friend and team mate, starring alongside him, he led Santos to first place in the league and their greatest honour since Pele retired.\nRobinho struggled in 2003 and therefore Santos had a disappointing season. However, in 2004 he played well and had an excellent goal-scoring record of 21 goals in 36 league games.\nRobinho's appearances attracted the attention of some of Europe's top clubs including Real Madrid, Chelsea, Bayern Munich, Liverpool and AC Milan, but Santos did not want to release him.\nIn 2004, Robinho's mother was kidnapped and was held captive for two months before being released and he stated publicly that he wanted to leave the country.\nIn the summer of 2005, Robinho moved to Real Madrid for a reported US $30 million.\nHe made his debut for Madrid against Cadiz, coming on as a substitute in the second half. At Madrid he played with other Brazil internationals, like Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos and Julio Baptista.\nWith just minutes to spare before the closing of the transfer window, Robinho was transferred to Manchester City on September 1, 2008.\nRobinho's transfer to Manchester City from Real Madrid was a British record of around \u00a332.5m.\nAlthough Robinho turned it on at home, many criticised his performances for Manchester City away from home in his first season. However, Manchester City manager Mark Hughes and captain Richard Dunne defended Robinho.\nOn 28 January 2010 it was revealed that Robinho was to join his former club Santos on loan until 4 August 2010.\nOn 31 August 2010, it was announced that Robinho had moved from Manchester City to AC Milan.\nIn November 2017, Robinho was sentenced to nine years in prison for taking part in the gang rape of a woman in Milan in 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 5361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 160.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.biopsychiatry.com/bigpharma/gifts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:06Z", "digest": "sha1:K6UFBWLPYIEV3KEU37JJ2JC55VHXSD6A", "length": 5526, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.biopsychiatry.com", "title": "Drug makers' lavish gifts to psychiatrists", "raw_content": "Psychiatrists Top List in Drug Maker Gifts\nWASHINGTON, June 26 \u2014 As states begin to require that drug companies disclose their payments to doctors for lectures and other services, a pattern has emerged: psychiatrists earn more money from drug makers than doctors in any other specialty.\nHow this money may be influencing psychiatrists and other doctors has become one of the most contentious issues in health care. For instance, the more psychiatrists have earned from drug makers, the more they have prescribed a new class of powerful medicines known as atypical antipsychotics to children, for whom the drugs are especially risky and mostly unapproved.\nVermont officials disclosed Tuesday that drug company payments to psychiatrists in the state more than doubled last year, to an average of $45,692 each from $20,835 in 2005. Antipsychotic medicines are among the largest expenses for the state\u2019s Medicaid program.\nOver all last year, drug makers spent $2.25 million on marketing payments, fees and travel expenses to Vermont doctors, hospitals and universities, a 2.3 percent increase over the prior year, the state said.\nThe number most likely represents a small fraction of drug makers\u2019 total marketing expenditures to doctors since it does not include the costs of free drug samples or the salaries of sales representatives and their staff members. According to their income statements, drug makers generally spend twice as much to market drugs as they do to research them.\n\u201cFor the fourth year in a row, our analysis shows that there is a great deal of money being spent in our small state on marketing pharmaceutical products,\u201d said William H. Sorrell, the Vermont attorney general.\nEndocrinologists received the second largest amount, according to the Vermont analysis, earning an average of $33,730. Since the state identified the specialties of only the top 100 earners, these averages represent the money earned by only some of the state\u2019s specialists. There were 11 psychiatrists and 5 endocrinologists in that top group of 100.\nStill, a similar pattern was evident in a Minnesota database that was the subject of a series of articles in The New York Times this year. As in Vermont, psychiatrists earned on aggregate the most in Minnesota, with payments ranging from $51 to $689,000. The Times found that psychiatrists who took the most money from makers of antipsychotic drugs tended to prescribe the drugs to children the most often.\nThese and other stories have helped to fuel a growing interest among state and federal officials to document and restrict payments to doctors from drug makers. At a gathering last month at Columbia Law School in New York, state attorneys general from across the country discussed ways to get similar data for their states.\nAnd today, the Senate Special Committee on Aging, which is led by Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, will hold the first of a series of hearings on the issue, which could lead to legislative proposals to restrict and require disclosure of payments and gifts to doctors from drug companies nationwide.\nSeveral lawmakers on Capitol Hill have expressed interest in such legislation, including Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa. \u201cA federal law requiring public disclosure of payments to doctors could be very effective if it was carefully monitored and consistently applied,\u201d Mr. Grassley said.\nEfforts to require disclosure of payments to doctors began almost by happenstance in 1993, when The Minnesota Legislature passed a law that restricts drug companies from giving doctors gifts valued at more than $100 in any given year. The legislation also required companies to report and make public any consulting fees paid to doctors.\nLee Greenfield, a former state representative in Minnesota and one of the law\u2019s authors, said it passed with little fanfare or debate after legislators heard stories about doctors accepting gifts of great value from drug makers.\n\u201cWhy do we want them bribing doctors to use what may not be the best or most cost-effective drug for the patient purely to get some hand-held TV, we all asked,\u201d Mr. Greenfield said.\nStill, compliance with the law has been spotty. Some companies never responded to the board\u2019s requests for disclosures. Others did so fitfully. A few sent letters saying they did not collect that information and thus could not provide it.\nMinnesota officials never cracked down. Such reports were put in file drawers and largely forgotten until this past year, said Cody Wiberg, executive director of the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy. Mr. Wiberg said he planned this year to pursue companies that fail to report.\nBesides Vermont and Maine, more than a dozen other states have or are now considering similar legislation, said Sharon Anglin Treat, executive director of the National Legislative Association on Prescription Drug Prices.\nOfficials in Maine and Vermont said they would try to compare reports of payments to doctors with Medicaid records to explore how marketing practices might influence prescribing by doctors in ways that increased costs to taxpayers.\n\u201cWhat we want to be able to do is overlay the prescribing information that we have with the drug detailing information,\u201d said Jude Walsh, special assistant to the governor of Maine, John E. Baldacci. \u201cIf we see that doctors in a certain southern county in the state are prescribing a lot of a drug and getting a lot of detailing for that drug, that could lead to some record reviews to see what\u2019s happening.\u201d\nPharmapolitics.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 6217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk/News/walk-of-witness-stratford-upon-avon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YR4GY7D3XY5XOVAW7LELG5ZUUDSJXA2R", "length": 535, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.birminghamdiocese.org.uk", "title": "Birmingham Diocesan Trust | Walk of Witness - Stratford-upon-Avon", "raw_content": "Walk of Witness - Stratford-upon-Avon\nChurches in Stratford-upon-Avon joined the traditional Walk of Witness through the town\u2019s streets on Good Friday.\nStarting on Waterside, a cross was carried at the head of the procession which was finally erected at the top of Bridge Street on the traffic island.\nThe Stratford Group of Churches Together organised the walk which saw Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Renewal Church members and Street Pastors join in worship.\nelection of photos can be viewed here\nHappy and Peaceful Easter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 3330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bloodstock.uk.com/events/boa-2015/bands/sepultura", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:E7F6N6M7A3T64UWMDYAKFNX7GD3LJWOX", "length": 19051, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "www.bloodstock.uk.com", "title": "Band Profile for SEPULTURA - boa-2015 | Bloodstock", "raw_content": "Sepultura (Portuguese for \"grave\") is a Brazilian metal band from Belo Horizonte. Formed in 1984 by brothers Max and Igor Cavalera] the band was a major force in the death metal and thrash metal genres during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments drawing influence from nu metal, hardcore punk and industrial metal. Sepultura has had several changes in its lineup since its formation, with the band's founders, lead singer/rhythm guitarist Max Cavalera and drummer Igor Cavalera departing in 1996 and 2006, respectively. Sepultura's current line up consists of vocalist Derrick Green, guitarist Andreas Kisser, bassist Paulo Jr. and drummer Eloy Casagrande.\nSepultura has released 13 studio albums so far, the latest being The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart (2013). Their most successful records are Arise (1991), Chaos A.D. (1993), and Roots (1996). Sepultura has sold over 3 million units in the USA and almost 30 million worldwide, gaining multiple gold and platinum records across the globe, including in countries as diverse as France, Australia, Indonesia, United States, Cyprus and their native Brazil.\nMax Cavalera era\nSepultura was formed in 1984 in Belo Horizonte, the capital city of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The band was founded by teen brothers Max and Igor Cavalera, the impoverished sons of V\u00e2nia, a model, and Graciliano, a well-to-do Italian diplomat whose fatal heart attack left his family in financial ruin.[16] Graciliano's death deeply affected his sons, inspiring them to form a band after Max heard the album Black Sabbath Vol. 4 the very same day. They chose the band name Sepultura, the Portuguese word for \"grave,\" when Max translated the lyrics of the Mot\u00f6rhead song \"Dancing on Your Grave\".\nThe brothers' early influences included Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple, and the popular metal and hard rock artists of the early 1980s, such as Van Halen, Iron Maiden, Mot\u00f6rhead, AC/DC, Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne. They would travel to a record shop in S\u00e3o Paulo that mixed tapes of the latest records by American bands. Their listening habits changed dramatically after being introduced to Venom. As Igor Cavalera put it:\n\u201c\tI remember the first time I listened to Venom, it was on a friend's borrowed tape. It was similar to Mot\u00f6rhead, only a lot heavier. I remember someone saying: it's the devil's Mot\u00f6rhead! After we got acquainted with Venom, we stopped listening to Iron Maiden and all that lighter stuff.\t\u201d\nThe Cavalera brothers started listening to bands such as Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Kreator, Sodom, Megadeth, Exodus and Exciter. By 1984, they had dropped out of school.[18] After several early membership changes, Sepultura established a stable lineup of Max on guitar, Igor on drums, vocalist Wagner Lamounier, and bassist Paulo Jr Lamounier departed in March 1985 after disagreements with the band, and moved on to become the leader of the pioneering Brazilian black metal band Sarc\u00f3fago. After his departure, Max took over the vocal duties. Jairo Guedes was invited to join the band as lead guitarist.\nBestial Devastation and Morbid Visions (1984\u20131986)\nAfter about a year of performing, Sepultura signed to Cogumelo Records in 1985. Later that year, they released Bestial Devastation, a shared EP with fellow Brazilian band Overdose. It was self-produced and recorded in just two days. The band recorded their first full-length album, Morbid Visions, in August 1986. It contained their first hit, \"Troops of Doom,\" which gained some media attention. The band then decided to relocate to the larger city of S\u00e3o Paulo.\nSchizophrenia, Beneath the Remains and Arise (1987\u20131992)\nIn early 1987, Jairo Guedes quit the band after losing interest in playing death metal. Jairo was replaced by S\u00e3o Paulo-based guitarist Andreas Kisser,[24] and they released their second studio album, Schizophrenia, in 1987. The album reflected a stylistic change towards a more thrash metal-oriented sound, while still keeping the death metal elements of Morbid Visions. Schizophrenia was an improvement in production and performance, and became a minor critical sensation across Europe and America as a much sought-after import. The band sent tapes to North America(USA) that made radio playlists at a time when they were struggling to book gigs because club owners were afraid to book them due to their style.[18] The band gained attention from Roadrunner Records who signed them and released Schizophrenia internationally before seeing the band perform in person.\nThe band's third studio album, Beneath the Remains, was released in 1989. The album was recorded in a rustic studio in Rio de Janeiro while the band communicated through translators with the American producer Scott Burns.[18] It was an immediate success and became known in thrash metal circles as a classic on the order of Slayer's Reign in Blood.[25] It is hailed by Terrorizer magazine as one of the all-time top 20 thrash metal albums,[26] as well as a gaining a place in their all-time top 40 death metal records.[27] Allmusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5 and said, \"The complete absence of filler here makes this one of the most essential death/thrash metal albums of all time.\"[28] A long European and American tour furthered the band's reputation, despite the fact that they were still very limited English speakers. Their first US show was held on October 31, 1989 at the Ritz in New York City, opening for Danish heavy metal band King Diamond. The band filmed its first video for the single \"Inner Self\".\nIn January 1991 Sepultura played for more than 100,000 people at the Rock in Rio II festival. The band relocated from their native Brazil to Phoenix, Arizona in 1990, obtained new management, and recorded the album Arise at Morrisound Studios in Tampa, Florida.[18] By the time the album was released in 1991, the band had become one of the most critically praised thrash/death metal bands of the time. The first single \"Dead Embryonic Cells\" was a success, and the title track gained additional attention when its video was banned by MTV America due to its apocalyptic religious imagery. The album was critically acclaimed and their first to chart on the Billboard 200, reaching No. 119\nMax Cavalera married the band's manager, Gloria Bujnowski, during this period.[23] In 1992, Sepultura was part of two major tours: Helmet/Ministry and Alice in Chains/Ozzy Osbourne. Reflecting on their past in Brazil at the time, Max Cavalera said, \"Traveling on trains. Getting beat up by cops. Sleeping behind the stage. It's part of growing up. It's part of the nature of this stuff. If you don't have that kind of background, you can't be a band like us.\"[18]\nChaos A.D., Nailbomb and Roots (1993\u20131996)\nSepultura's fifth album, Chaos A.D., was released in 1993. It saw a departure from their death/thrash metal style, adding elements of industrial and hardcore punk Allmusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5 and wrote that, \"Chaos A.D. ranks as one of the greatest heavy metal albums of all time.\" In 1994, Max and Igor, along with Alex Newport of Fudge Tunnel, released an even more industrial-oriented album, Point Blank, under the group name Nailbomb. The group performed only one full live gig, and the performance was released as Proud to Commit Commercial Suicide. Nailbomb disbanded in 1995.\nSepultura's departure from death and thrash metal continued with their sixth album, Roots, which was released in 1996. On this album the band experimented with elements of the music of Brazil's indigenous peoples, and adopted a slower, down-tuned sound. The album was hailed as a modern day heavy metal classic. Allmusic gave it 4.5 stars out of 5 and said, \"Roots consolidates Sepultura's position as perhaps the most distinctive, original heavy metal band of the 1990s.\" In 1996, Sepultura performed \"War (Guerra)\" for the AIDS benefit album Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin produced by the Red Hot Organization.\nDeparture of Max Cavalera (1996\u20131997)\nIn 1996, Sepultura played on the Castle Donington Monsters of Rock main stage alongside Ozzy Osbourne, Paradise Lost, Type O Negative, Biohazard and Fear Factory. The band was suddenly a three-piece with Andreas Kisser taking over on lead vocals, after Max Cavalera left the concert site earlier in the day upon learning of the death of his stepson Dana Wells in a car accident. After Dana Wells' funeral was finished, Max returned and continued to tour with Sepultura. A few months after Wells' death, the band told Max that they wanted to fire their manager Gloria Bujnowski, who was Max's wife and Dana's mother, and have her replaced with someone else. The other band members felt that Bujnowski was paying more attention to Max rather than the band itself. Max, who was still dealing with the death of Wells, felt betrayed by his band members for wanting to rid of Bujnowski and abruptly quit the band. For many years, the true reasons behind his departure remained unknown. In 1997, regarding how he felt when leaving Sepultura, Max Cavalera said, \"I started Sepultura back in the day. I used to write that name on my schoolbooks. What I'm going through now, is like watching my own son die. I cry every day, I feel hurt, sad, angry, it's like half of me has died.\" Max Cavalera's final performance with Sepultura was at Brixton Academy in England on December 16, 1996.\nIn an interview with Faceculture in 2010, Max Cavalera explains that one of the reasons he left Sepultura was that Kisser's wife attempted to arrange Dana Wells' funeral before Max and his wife Gloria Bujnowski could return home from England. Max also said in the interview that he regrets the events that led to his departure but a reunion is currently unlikely due to lingering disputes between him and Kisser, although Max has expressed interest in such an idea in the future. The events also led to a feud between Max and Igor Cavalera that lasted until Igor's own departure from the band ten years later.\nDerrick Green era\nAgainst, Nation and Roorback (1998\u20132005\nSepultura on stage\nFollowing Max Cavalera's departure, the rest of Sepultura announced plans to find a new vocalist. North American musician Derrick Green from Cleveland, Ohio, was selected as the band's new front-man. The first album with the new line-up was Against, which was released in 1998. The album was critically and commercially less successful than previous albums and sold considerably fewer copies than the debut album by Max Cavalera's new band Soulfly.[23][37] Allmusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5, stating that \"...there are enough flashes of the old Sepultura brilliance to suggest that great things are still to come.\"\nThe band's eighth album, Nation, released in 2001, sold poorly. It would be their last studio album with Roadrunner Records. Allmusic gave the album 3 stars out of 5 and said, \"As Green scrapes the lining of his vocal chords through the brash, impassioned tracks, he's singing about more than just 'one nation, Sepulnation'; he's suggesting something bigger, something worth shouting about and fighting for.\" In an interview, Derrick Green said that, \"Every song will be related to the idea of building this nation. We will have our own flags, our own anthem.\"[38] A recording of Max Cavalera's last live show with Sepultura, titled Under a Pale Grey Sky, was released in 2002 by Roadrunner Records.\nAfter recording Revolusongs, an EP of covers in 2002, the band released their ninth studio album, Roorback, in 2003. Despite receiving greater critical acclaim than its predecessors, sales remained low. It was their first album with SPV Records. Allmusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5 and said, \"...if there are still any lingering doubts about the Green/Sepultura match, 2003's excellent Roorback should put them to rest for good. Green is passionate and focused throughout the album \u2014 he has no problem going that extra mile \u2014 and the writing is consistently strong.\"[39] In 2005, the band played in Dubai for the annual Dubai Desert Rock Festival. In November of that year, a live double DVD/double CD package, Live in S\u00e3o Paulo, was released. This was the first official live album from the band\nDante XXI, A-Lex and departure of Igor Cavalera (2006\u20132010)[edit]\nSepultura in Poland.\nSepultura's tenth album, Dante XXI, was released on March 14, 2006. It is a concept album based on Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy. Music videos were recorded for the songs \"Convicted in Life\" and \"Ostia\". Allmusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5 and said that, \"Overall, Dante XXI is easily one of Sepultura's strongest releases to feature Green on vocals.\"\nIn a 2007 interview with Revolver Magazine, Max Cavalera stated that he and Igor, both of whom having recently reconciled after a decade-long feud, would reunite with the original Sepultura lineup. There were also rumors that the reunited line up would play on the main stage at Ozzfest 2007. However, this was denied by Kisser and the reunion did not occur.Instead, Igor Cavalera left the band after the release of Dante XXI and was replaced by Brazilian drummer Jean Dolabella. After leaving Sepultura, Igor and Max formed Cavalera Conspiracy.\nSepultura appeared in a successful ad campaign for Volkswagen motors commercial that aired nationally throughout Brazil in 2008. The spot said that \u201cit's the first time you've seen Sepultura like this. And a Sedan like this one too\u201d. The Volkswagen TV spot shows Sepultura playing bossa nova, the opposite of its heavy metal style, to say that \u201cyou never saw something like this, as you never saw a car like the new Voyage\u201d.\nSepultura released the album A-Lex on 26 January 2009. This was the first Sepultura album to include neither of the Cavalera brothers, with bassist Paulo Jr. as the sole remaining member from the band's debut album. A-Lex is a concept album based on the book A Clockwork Orange. The album was recorded at Trama Studios in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, with producer Stanley Soares. Allmusic gave the album 4 stars out of 5 and said, \"Personnel changes can have a very negative effect on a band, but Sepultura have maintained their vitality all these years \u2014 and that vitality is alive and well on the superb A-Lex.\"\nThe band was one of the featured musical guests at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008 on November 13. They performed a cover of \"The Girl from Ipanema\", and \"We've Lost You\" from the album A-Lex.The 9th annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony was held at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas and aired on Univision. Sepultura supported Metallica on January 30 and January 31, 2010 at Morumbi Stadium in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. The two concerts were attended by 100,000 people. The band filmed a concert DVD in 2010. Sepultura played at Kucukciftlik Park, Istanbul, on April 27, 2010. On August 8, 2010 visited the UK to play at the Hevy Music Festival near Folkestone.\nKairos and The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart (2010\u2013present)\nEloy Casagrande at Nova Rock Festival 2014\nOn July 6, 2010, it was announced that Sepultura were signed with Nuclear Blast Records, and would release their first album for the label in 2011. The band confirmed that there would be no reunion of the classic lineup. By the end of 2010, the band began writing new material and entered the studio to begin recording their 12th album with producer Roy Z (Judas Priest, Halford, Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson, Helloween and Andre Matos) On March 1, 2011, Sepultura had completed recording their new album, entitled Kairos, which was released in June 2011.\nThe album includes cover versions of Ministry's \"Just One Fix\" and The Prodigy's \"Firestarter\", both of which are available as bonus tracks on various special-edition releases. Sepultura played on the Kairos World Tour and at Wacken Open Air 2011. Drummer Jean Dolabella left the band and was replaced by 20 year old Eloy Casagrande in November 2011, who had already played in Brazilian heavy metal singer Andre Matos' solo band. In November and December 2011 Sepultura participated the Thrashfest Classics 2011 tour alongside thrash metal bands like Exodus, Destruction, Heathen and Mortal Sin.\nIn May 2012, guitarist Andreas Kisser told Metal Underground that Sepultura would soon \"start working on something new with Eloy\" and see if they could \"get ready for new music early next year.\" In an interview at England's Bloodstock Open Air on August 10, 2012, Kisser revealed that Sepultura would be filming a live DVD with the French percussive group Les Tambours du Bronx. He also revealed that the band was \"already thinking about new ideas\" for their next album and would \"have something new going on\" in 2013.\nOn December 10, 2012, producer Ross Robinson, who produced Sepultura's Roots album, tweeted: \"Oh, didn't mention.. Spoke to Andreas, it's on. My vision, smoke Roots- It can be done\",suggesting he would be producing the band's next album. This was later confirmed, as well as an announcement that the album would be co-produced by Steve Evetts. Former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo made a guest appearance on the album.\nOn January 25, 2013, it was announced that author Jason Korolenko was working on Relentless - The Book of Sepultura, which is described in a press release as \"the only book-length biography to cover the band's entire 30-year career.\" Relentless is scheduled for publication in late 2013.\nOn July 19, 2013, it was revealed that the title of the band's thirteenth album was The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart.\nIn October 2014, the band make their long awaited return to both Australia and New Zealand for the first time since 2003 and 1999 respectively.\nSepultura's early influences were heavy metal groups such as Iron Maiden, Metallica, Celtic Frost and Slayer, and death metal bands like Possessed and Death. Andreas Kisser affirmed that \"without Slayer, Sepultura would never be possible\".\nMTV has called Sepultura the most successful Brazilian heavy metal band in history and \"perhaps the most important heavy metal band of the '90s\". In 1993, Robert Baird of Phoenix New Times wrote that the band played \"machine-gun-tempo mayhem\" and that the members \"love to attack organized religion and repressive government\".\nSepultura's is in general terms Heavy metal, music is predominately Thrash Metal to the extreme but, borderlining with genres Death Metal, later to Metalcore type up til after Max Cavalera left in the late 90's to evolve into Nu metal, incorporating styles from Black Metal, Hardcore punk and Doom Metal. Plus they also later experimented with tribal music from Brazil, and a little bit of Japanese music. Their recent releases of albums are all majorly influenced by their own Country of Traditional Brazil music and expanding to Nu Metal or Industrial Metal.\nRoots Buy\nChaos A.D. Buy\nArise Buy\nSchizophrenia Buy\nBeneath the Remains Buy\nNation Buy\nAgainst Buy\nDante XXI Buy\nThe Best of Sepultura Buy\nChaos A.D. (Reissue) Buy\n1 Roots Bloody Roots\n3 Ratamahatta\n4 Refuse/Resist\n6 Slave New World\n8 Biotech Is Godzilla\n10 Breed Apart", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 22442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 114.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bloomlegal.com/dui-dwi/dui-faq/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:27Z", "digest": "sha1:FFKDC4LXRCG457PKOQM4PEN2TVZ4NHKH", "length": 16619, "nlines": 71, "source_domain": "www.bloomlegal.com", "title": "New Orleans DUI Lawyer Answer FAQs About Drunk Driving Charges", "raw_content": "What to Expect When Facing a Drunk Driving Charge\nConsulting with a New Orleans DUI lawyer after a drunk driving arrest is essential, as a driver can receive serious criminal penalties for driving while impaired. At Bloom Legal, we know that being arrested is scary and that reaching out to a lawyer may seem intimidating as you try to cope with legal charges.\nTo help educate you about DWIs and the legal process, Bloom Legal has prepared a list of frequently asked questions and their answers to help you gain a better understanding of what to expect when facing a drunk driving charge in the New Orleans area.\nCommon Questions About DWIs\nThe answers below provide some basic information you need to know about a drunk driving arrest, but every case is different. To obtain advice regarding your case and get the best results, you need a strong legal advocate to represent your interests.\nOur New Orleans DUI law firm is here to help \u2013 don\u2019t hesitate to give us a call if you have more questions, or want to learn how we can help you with your case.\n1) What penalties will I face if I am convicted of drunk driving?\nPenalties for drunk driving vary depending on how high your blood alcohol content was at the time of arrest, whether aggravating factors existed (like an underage child in the car), whether you caused the collision, and whether or not you have prior convictions. You could face fines and jail time if you are found guilty of drunk driving\n2) Will I lose my license if I am convicted of a drunk driving offense?\nA conviction for a drunk driving offense will result in the suspension of your license. After you have been charged, your license is immediately suspended and you receive a 30-day temporary driving permit. If you do not apply for an administrative hearing to contest the license suspension, your license will be suspended for 90 days if it is your first offense and your blood alcohol level (BAC) was below .08. A longer suspension is possible if your BAC was more than .08, you refused to submit to a blood alcohol content test, or if you have prior convictions\n3) Will I have a criminal record after a New Orleans DUI?\nDrunk driving is a criminal offense, so the conviction will appear on your criminal record and on background checks. It may be possible, under some circumstances, to enter into a diversion or first-time offender program in order to prevent the offense from appearing on your record. Consult a New Orleans DWI attorney to see if you qualify for these programs.\n4) Do I have to go to court if I am arrested for drunk driving?\nTypically, you must go to court for a drunk driving charge to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty and to face a trial regarding your guilt. If you hope to resolve the criminal charges without a trial, you may be able to enter into a plea bargain. You should consult with a New Orleans DWI lawyer to negotiate a plea agreement with the prosecutor so you can minimize any penalties.\n5) What if I was arrested for drunk driving in New Orleans, but I live out of state?\nA driver\u2019s license suspension and a criminal conviction for drunk driving will follow you back to your home state. You cannot simply ignore the charges or fail to appear in court, as this is considered a criminal act. Instead, you should be proactive and hire an attorney who can help you resolve the charge(s).\nAt Bloom Legal, we represent many out-of-state defendants who received a DWI in New Orleans. Our attorneys work to reduce the number of times you must return to Louisiana for court appearances. At the same time, we also use our legal experience to help obtain a favorable outcome.\n6) How Can a New Orleans DWI Lawyer Help?\nA New Orleans DWI lawyer will advise you on how to plead, help you negotiate a plea bargain, or represent you in court. If you to go court, we will advise you of potential defenses and help build and argue your case. We will advocate for you and protect your rights during your entire interaction with the criminal justice system in Louisiana.\nHow to Hire a New Orleans Lawyer\nDrunk driving charges can result in the loss of your freedom and license. In order to prevent a criminal record it is wise to work with a New Orleans DWI lawyer. An experience lawyers can help you avoid conviction or minimize penalties.\nBloom Legal has extensive experience representing clients who are facing DWI charges. We take an innovative approach to helping you fight the criminal accusations against you. Call Bloom Legal today to learn more about how our firm is different than the attorney down the street: (504) 599-9997.\n7) How Do I Hire a New Orleans DWI Lawyer?\nWhen you need to hire a New Orleans DWI lawyer, your first piece of business is locating an attorney who specializes in this particular area of law. Louisiana has thousands of criminal defense law firms, but drunk driving charges require specialized knowledge. Your attorney may need to help you question the results of breath, blood and field sobriety tests, so you need a lawyer who understands the science and law behind drunk driving charges.\nThe Louisiana Bar Association can provide accurate information about drunk driving lawyers and there are many resources available who disclose the top drunk driving defense attorneys are. For example:\nYou should look to the Better Business Bureau to find information on accredited New Orleans DUI law firms. Bloom Legal has a top rating with the BBB. You can read reviews from satisfied clients directly on the site.\nYou can look to Avvo to find information on law firms and reviews from past clients to learn more about attorneys. Bloom Legal won a Clients Choice Award for 2014 for Criminal Defense from Avvo.\nYou can also check out the list of local Super Lawyers. Bloom Legal was named on the list in 2013.\nOnce you have found a New Orleans DWI lawyer who has good client reviews, is BBB accredited and top-rated by clients and peers, the next step is to schedule a consultation.\nWhen choosing a law firm look for a New Orleans DWI lawyer who has someone available to talk to you 24/7, as you never know when you may need legal advice. Drunk driving charges don\u2019t always happen during business hours (actually, are most common after hours). Bloom Legal is available to clients any day of the week at all hours of the day. Legal help is always a phone call away.\nDuring your consultation, pay attention to how he or she treats you. Does your attorney ask questions and seem interested in your case? Is your lawyer committed to providing you representation at a reasonable cost with a minimum of stress? Will your lawyer fight hard for your rights or just try to quickly settle your case?\nAt Bloom Legal, we understand how much is at stake when you are facing DWI charges. That\u2019s why we do everything possible to help you avoid conviction and minimize penalties. Call Bloom Legal today to learn more about how we can help you: (504) 599-9997.\n8) What are Some Common Terms that Relate to My DUI Arrest?\nBelow, our firm has defined some common DUI terms to help you easily decipher the conversations and paperwork that relate to your arrest:\nAbsorption Rate \u2013 the rate that alcohol enters your blood stream. Food, the type of alcohol and biological factors all affect your absorption rate.\nBlood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) \u2013 this term is often used interchangeably with \u201cblood alcohol content\u201d although blood alcohol concentration is the official term. BAC refers to the amount of alcohol that is in your blood stream. Your BAC may be measured by a breath, urine test or blood test. If your BAC exceeds the legal limit of .08, then you are considered to be in violation of drunk driving laws.\nBreath Test \u2013 also called a breathalyzer, a breath test is used by law enforcement to determine the amount of alcohol in your blood stream.\nBurnoff \u2013 refers to how quickly your body metabolizes alcohol. Your age, medical conditions, and the frequency of alcohol consumption can all affect the rate burn-off occurs.\nDram Shop Liability \u2013 refers to laws that hold drinking establishments such as bars and restaurants legally liable for injuries that third parties experience. Dram shop laws can make bars and restaurants responsible for accidents caused by drunk drivers under certain circumstances such as if the bar served someone who was already clearly intoxicated or who was not 21 years old.\nField Sobriety Test (FST) \u2013 is conducted by law enforcement to provide an initial assessment on whether a driver is intoxicated or not. Field sobriety tests usually assess physical or mental coordination. For example, a driver may be asked to walk a straight line or to recite the alphabet.\nIgnition Interlock Device (IID) \u2013 is a device that may be required on the vehicle of someone with several drunk driving convictions. The driver pays for the installation and is required to blow into a breathalyzer on the IID before starting the vehicle. If the device detects alcohol the car will not start.\nImplied Consent \u2013 according to implied consent laws, drivers in Louisiana are required to have a blood alcohol content test if there is reason to suspect they are driving while impaired.\nImpound \u2013 your vehicle may be impounded or towed to a designated police yard after you have been arrested for impaired driving. There will be fees and costs associated with removing your vehicle from impound.\nLicense Suspension \u2013 a person who has been convicted of a DUI may have his or her license suspended and will not be allowed to drive for a period of time. An administrative license suspension may also occur after a drunk driving arrest. An administrative suspension means that the Department of Motor Vehicles automatically suspends a license unless the alleged drunk driver requests a hearing.\nMiranda Rights \u2013 law enforcement officers must read Miranda rights when an individual is arrested and before questioning. The Miranda rights include the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney.\nRestricted License \u2013 also referred to as a hardship or provisional license, a restricted license makes it legal for a person to drive for a limited purpose or period of time. Restricted license commonly allow travel to and from work or to fulfill family obligations.\nRising BAC Defense \u2013 this is a DUI defense in which you allege that you were not over-the-limit at the time when you were operating your vehicle even if you were over-the-limit when your BAC is tested. The defense is based on the premise that your BAC continues to rise for a period of time after you are no longer drinking.\nZero Tolerance \u2013 according to zero tolerance laws, teenagers under the age of 21 are not allowed to drive after consuming alcohol under any circumstances.\nUnderstanding these common DUI terms is essential. For help learning more about drunk driving or for advice about your DUI charges, contact Bloom Legal to speak with a New Orleans DUI lawyer today \u2013 (504) 599-9997.\nDriver\u2019s Rights\nIn New Orleans\u2019 drivers have a responsibility to operate a motor vehicle safely, but they also have legal rights. Motorists have a right to expect that other individuals on the road will obey the rules and not put them in danger by speeding or failing to yield the right-of-way. Drivers also have the right to fair traffic stops and police intervention, as described in the U.S. Constitution.\nIf you were charged with a drunk driving offense it is possible your rights as a driver were abused by law enforcement. If the arresting police officer failed to follow proper protocol, it is possible that the evidence collected is no longer admissible in court, making it difficult for prosecutors to file a case against you.\nThe New Orleans DUI lawyers of Bloom Legal know the rules for driver\u2019s rights inside-and-out. We can review the facts and circumstances of your arrest and help you do everything possible to avoid a conviction for a driving crime.\nUnderstanding Driver\u2019s Rights\nDrivers have a right to be free from unlawful search and seizure. The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees individuals the right to be secure in their person and their property. This means that unless police have probable cause, they cannot pull you over.\nIf you were violating traffic laws or the rules of the road, the police have the right to make a traffic stop. However, this does not necessarily give an officer the right to search your vehicle or request a breathalyzer test.\nUnless a law enforcement officer has reasonable belief that you are intoxicated, he or she cannot force you to submit to a sobriety test.\nFor example, if you were pulled over for speeding, the officer cannot make you take a breathalyzer or blood test unless there is reasonable belief that you are under the influence. Reasonable belief can be the smell of alcohol, red eyes or visible signs of impairment. However, if you were pulled over for swerving or erratic driving the officer may have a legitimate reason to suspect you were intoxicated and could legally ask you to submit to a sobriety test.\nDrivers have the right to refuse a breathalyzer test and a field sobriety test, even if there is evidence of intoxication. Breath and field tests for intoxication are notoriously unreliable and are prone to false positives.\nWhile implied consent laws require drivers to submit to some tests if there is reason to believe they are impaired, the driver can refuse these field tests and will instead be given a blood or urine test. It often makes sense to refuse the tests in the field because of the risk of false positives and because you do not want to provide additional evidence for prosecutors to use against you if you are charged.\nQuestions Your Lawyer Should Ask\nIf you have been accused of a crime or are being questioned by the police in connection with criminal activity it may be time to seek legal counsel from a New Orleans criminal defense lawyer.\nBefore hiring your lawyer you will likely visit for a consultation to exchange paperwork and determine if your case is a good fit for the law firm or lawyer.\nIt is natural to be nervous about your initial consultation, but it is important to listen carefully to the questions he or she asks to determine if they have your best interests at heart. You should also be prepared to share important paperwork, which may include police reports, medical records and state identification.\nAt Bloom Legal we listen carefully to the facts of your case. Using this information \u2013 and taking into consideration your priorities for the case \u2013 we use our consultation time to formulate a personalized defense that is right for you.\nSome questions you can expect a New Orleans criminal defense lawyer to ask include:\nDo you have a past criminal record? It may be uncomfortable to talk about your past charges or your arrest record but you must give your lawyer this information. You could potentially face harsher penalties if you have a previous record. For example, if you were previously convicted of drunk driving, you will likely face bigger fines and a longer incarceration time for a second offense.\nWhat charges have been filed against you? If you have legal documents showing what you have been formally charged with, you should bring copies to your first meeting with your attorney. Your lawyer can provide information on the potential penalties for conviction of a particular criminal charge. A New Orleans criminal defense lawyer also knows the elements of each crime and what the prosecutor has to prove to convict you of a particular offense.\nWhat were the events leading up to your arrest? You must provide information to your New Orleans criminal defense lawyer about the circumstances leading to your arrest. Were you under the influence of alcohol? Why did the officer pull you over? You should be honest because accurate information allows your lawyer to better prepare.\nAfter your first meeting everyone should have a clear picture of what the charges are and you should understand your options for defending yourself. You should also provide other information to your lawyer like your residency status and whether you are interested in a plea bargain or doing everything possible to avoid conviction.\nBloom Legal provides personalized one-on-one representation to clients accused of crimes throughout New Orleans and surrounding areas. Our goal is to make handling your criminal charges as simple and stress-free as possible while getting the very best possible outcome for you. We will ask you for necessary details to provide you with the very best in legal representation. 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Relin\nThe inspiring account of one man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 4909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 234.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/di-matt-barnes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:29Z", "digest": "sha1:XA2U56MHOMVNLKB6OKPCXXPXDK54CAWD", "length": 7787, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.bookseriesinorder.com", "title": "DI Matt Barnes - Book Series In Order", "raw_content": "DI Matt Barnes Books In Order\nPublication Order of DI Matt Barnes Books\nLethal Intent (2013) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nA Reason To Kill (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nA Need To Kill (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nChosen To Kill (2014) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nA Passion To Kill (2015) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nRaised To Kill (2016) Hardcover Paperback Kindle\nThe DI Matt Barnes series is a famous book series of mystery, crime fiction, suspense, and thriller novels. It consists of a total of 6 books, which were released between the years 2013 and 2016. The series is written by a highly renowned English novelist named Michael Kerr. All the books of this series take place in London, and feature the chief protagonist in the role of Detective Inspector Matt Barnes. Author Kerr has filled each and every book of this series with non-stop action, suspense, gruesome details, fast paced story, little disturbing psychological elements, and many interesting twists and turns. The other characters besides Matt Barnes also look very interesting. They have been described as playing important roles in carrying the mysterious stories forward. DI Barnes is introduced into the series as a determined officer, who puts all his efforts in hunting down the criminals, psychopaths, killers. One such psychopath named Gary Noon launches an assault on Barnes\u2019 life, but he manages to dodge the assault and come out alive. Gary Noon makes a few more attempts on Matt\u2019s life, posing as a determined assassin with the intention of killing Barnes at any cost. Matt Barnes studies everything about Gary\u2019s life and discovers that he is an evil and a sadistic psychopath. A crime boss named Frank Santini, whom Matt Barnes was causing trouble by taking down his criminal operations, had hired Gary Noon to finish him. Matt manages to close the chapter of Gary Noon once and for all, but Frank does not rest with this. He keeps sending assassins to kill Matt, who keeps fighting them off and then makes it his primary task to finish the criminal empire of Frank Santini forever. As the series progresses further, many other suspenseful events come to light. All such thrilling and suspenseful events keep the readers intrigued till the end of each book and then enable them to go to the next in line. Author Kerr found great successes with each of the books and was praised by numerous critics for his excellent contributions to the mystery genre. The successes boosted his confidence a lot and enabled him to keep writing interesting mystery stories henceforth in his career.\nAuthor Michael Kerr is well known for his mystery novels. He has particular interests in writing violent, action-packed, and original crime thrillers. Kerr says that he knows what kind of mysteries he would enjoy to read as a reader, and so he tries to develop such stories for others as well. He has gained inspiration and influences from the popular written works of famous mystery authors like David Baldacci, Michael Connelly, Lee Child, Harlan Coben, etc. Prior to starting a career in the field of writing, author Kerr used to work in the Prison Service. He has given around 20 years of his life in this line of work. Such a vast amount of time in the vicinity of criminals has allowed author Kerr to have a great research about the ways and thinkings of the criminal. He has been able to gain knowledge about the dark worlds that the most dangerous of the serial killers frequent. Kerr has been fortunate to come across a few of such criminals, serial killers, and psychopaths. As of today, Michael Kerr resides in a small cottage located near the main road close to Yorkshire Woods. In his spare times, he likes to enjoy photography, witnessing the wildlife, indulging in interesting social activities. And the thing that he enjoys the most is creating new, intriguing characters and placing them in the various situations that he keeps dreaming about. Author Kerr is of the opinion that a good read is made only by believable protagonist. Such a character is the one that the readers care about, and feel that their emotions are getting stirred up because of his or her presence in the story. Kerr looks forward to writing many more interesting stories for his fans all across the globe.\nA very popular book of the DI Matt Barnes series written by author Michael Kerr is entitled \u2018Lethal Intent\u2019. It was released by the Head Nook publishers in the year 2013. The central characters of this book are shown as Matt Barnes, Ray Preston, Beth Holder, etc. At the start of this book\u2019s story, it is shown that Matt Barnes recovers from the serious injuries that he had sustained on his previous mission and is now hoping to take his relationship with Dr. Beth Holder a step forward. Beth specializes in criminal psychology and she brings a new case to Matt Barnes that involves a homicidal sociopath. Beth and Matt learn about the abduction of the 13 year old daughter of the DS Ray Preston. They begin to reach out to all of their resources to look for the unknown kidnapper. The reason behind the kidnapping is suspected to be a grudge held by the kidnapper against Preston. Later, it is discovered that the abductor has an agenda of his. He wants to avenge a justice travesty perceived by him. The lethal intent of the perpetrator is to physically and psychologically destroy the ones that he believes are guilty for his loss. No matter how hard Matt Barnes, his team, and Beth Holder try to catch the sociopath, he always seems to be a step ahead of them. In this ultimate game, the sociopath turns into a nightmare for the police. Matt feels that the culprit is a different kind of criminal. He seems to enjoy the game of cat and mouse, and likes to face them instead of running away from them. Beth Holder and Matt Barnes continue their search for the killer and soon realize that he is trying to hunt them down instead of the other way round. If they do not stop this psychopath killer in time, many more people are going to turn up dead.\nAnother well written novel of this thriller series is called \u2018A Need to Kill\u2019. The Head Nook publication released this book too in 2014. Kerr has depicted the main characters in the book\u2019s story as Marsha Freeman, Trudi Jameson, Beth Holder, Matt Barnes, and several other. At the beginning of the story of the book, it is depicted that Marsha Freeman\u2019s dead body is found in a lock-up in Putney. A former model, Marsha is known by her professional name Trudi Jameson. The investigators find that Marsha was beaten brutally, burned many times with cigarettes, and then strangled to death. Lately, Marsha had turned into a high class prostitute and was involved in providing her services to rich clients, including famous celebrities, captains, and politicians. What the investigators are not able to understand is why the killer tore away 3 pages from Marsha\u2019s address book? As the murder of Marsha Freeman had the same modus operandi as a previous case handled by the Serious Crime Unit, her case is also handed over to them. The common link between the two cases is that both victims were redheads and prostitutes. Matt starts working on this case and hardly finds any time to spend with Beth Holder. Because of this, their relationship as lovers begins to get strained. Beth looks worried about Matt\u2019s fanatical dedication towards his work alone and so she takes some time off while visiting New York for seminar to think about her relationship with Barnes. On the other hand, Matt starts interviewing Marsha\u2019s clients through her address book and tries to narrow down the killer with each clue that he finds. Matt is sure that the killer will strike again and he is all set to catch him when he attempts to do so.\nBook Series In Order \u00bb Characters \u00bb DI Matt Barnes", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 10417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bridgemi.com/economy/how-could-michigan-cut-income-taxes-and-spend-more-education-and-infrastructure", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBKBP6ZLC6BKY6DG7M45QRV776PDBBDJ", "length": 2383, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bridgemi.com", "title": "How could Michigan cut income taxes AND spend more on education and infrastructure? | Bridge Magazine", "raw_content": "How could Michigan cut income taxes AND spend more on education and infrastructure?\nFrankly, we have no idea. There\u2019s no clear path to accomplishing both. There\u2019s only a collision course.\nThe Republican governor\u2019s experts spent the last year-plus building arguments for $6 billion per year in new spending on education and infrastructure. The GOP-run Michigan Legislature spent the first part of 2017 building arguments for a $1.1 billion annual tax cut. The competing visions for Michigan\u2019s future simply cannot be reconciled.\nThe legislative response in the state capitol to the infrastructure commission\u2019s $4 billion a year alarm bells? Crickets. Snyder\u2019s budget proposal this winter asked for $20 million for future infrastructure projects \u2013 less than one percent of the identified unmet need \u2013 but the House cut that to $5 million.\nThe legislative response to the education commission\u2019s $2 billion a year alarm bells? Crickets. Neither the education commission nor the governor spelled out how to pay for the recommended fixes. Nor has the legislature responded in any serious way.\nSnyder\u2019s budget proposal this winter beefed up funds for at-risk schools by $150 million. The House budget cut that to just under $130 million. Snyder's budget called for a 2.5 percent increase for universities, an increase of $35 million. The House budget has a 1.9 percent increase of nearly $27 million. The 21st Century Education Commission said in its February report Michigan would need to spend $740 million more a year to rank in the top half of states in support for higher education.\nFinally, it\u2019s always easier to proclaim you\u2019ll cut taxes if you don\u2019t have to explain where you\u2019d trim spending to pay for the cuts. This lack of specifics was part of the downfall of the House income tax cut plan earlier this year, as Rep. Michael McCready, R-Bloomfield Hills, explained as he voted against the tax cut plan: \u201cI wanted to know what area of the general fund we were going to cut. I wasn\u2019t comfortable about not getting the information. Our general fund has a lot of pressures.\u201d\nNEXT: What if Michigan ultimately raises taxes? Who might get nicked?\nAlfred Campbell\nMcCready is just another Tax and spend liberal running as a Republican. He has a personal portfolio worth millions and no reguard how us \"little\" people survive or go to work each day to pay for his failure of leadership.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 5616, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 269.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-man-describes-life-flashing-793236", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:D32GYN3I5TCFD7PC4FEPPQC4I2GA6C6R", "length": 2910, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.bristolpost.co.uk", "title": "Bristol man describes \u2018life flashing before his eyes\u2019 in near-death experience - Bristol Live", "raw_content": "Bristol man describes \u2018life flashing before his eyes\u2019 in near-death experience\nChristopher Mooney, from Bristol, said he felt a deep sense of calm during his brush with death\nChristopher Mooney has described what it was like to nearly die (pictured: stock image of a silhouetted man)\nDeath is a certainty we all face in the future \u2013 yet what it feels like to die remains a great mystery.\nThose who may be able to share some insight, however, are people who have narrowly escaped death \u2013 including Christopher Mooney, from Bristol.\nMr Mooney has shared his near-death experience on an online thread to shed some light on what it felt like to be less than 30 seconds from the end of his life.\nReassuringly, he described feeling calm \u2013 saying it was one of the \u201cmost peaceful moments\u201d of his life.\nMr Mooney said the stereotype of life flashing before your eyes was true\nHe said he even managed to see the funny side of how unlucky he was, adding the stereotype of life flashing before your eyes was true.\n\u201cI had a near death experience once, when I was pretty sure I was 20\u201330 seconds away from the end. Like, I mean, I was completely sure I was about to die,\u201d Mr Mooney posted on question and answer site Quora .\nBristol police WILL use spit hoods on suspects to protect officers from infections\n\u201cI remember my feelings at the time, vividly. How could you forget? I actually felt very calm. People are scared of death. But once you know it\u2019s happening, and you can\u2019t do anything about it, you find peace. It was actually one of the calmest, most peaceful moments I can recall in my life.\n\u201cI was very, very reflective. When you hear the stereotypes of \u2018your life flashing before your eyes\u2019, that\u2019s exactly how I felt. I reflected on my life, and who I was, and if I could have done anything better.\nMr Mooney said his experience helped him find faith, despite previously being an atheist\n\u201cIt sounds funny, but I also really had this \u2018well, this is just my luck!\u2019 kind of feeling. I actually found it kind of humorous. I was kind of laughing a bit, about how unlucky I was!\u201d\nMr Mooney\u2019s account of his brush with death has been read more than 140,000 times.\nHe said his experience, which he managed to recover from, helped him find faith \u2013 despite previously identifying as an atheist.\nBristol student's killer says murder trial was unfair because jury knew he'd raped teenage girl\nAsked if he was afraid, Mr Mooney responded: \u201cI, kind of, had no fear, because I didn\u2019t think it was that big a deal?\n\u201cI know this sounds crazy, but all I can say is, that when the moment came, my mind was completely prepared for it.\n\u201cMy brain kind of changed, and I understood everything, and was prepared for everything. It\u2019s almost like the human body/brain is completely prepared for its demise, but you don\u2019t get to access this skill until you really need it?\u201d\nWatch the McDonald\u2019s Christmas advert which was filmed in Bristol", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 9673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.brit.co/new-books-may-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:29Z", "digest": "sha1:S6UV62HJKUGBNFSWDWPCXSW2TU36S7IZ", "length": 8675, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.brit.co", "title": "13 Powerful New Books to Read in May | Brit + Co", "raw_content": "13 New Books Worth Spending Your Tax Return On\nNow that our juicy tax return is finally sitting pretty in our bank account, we're giving ourselves the freedom to dream up all the different ways we can use our well-earned dough to splurge on life's luxuries. But while we'd love to go on a crazy spending spree (we're already Pinterest-planning a dreamy summer getaway and pinning adorable work wardrobe essentials for spring), we've come to the decision to put the majority of our return in the bank and splurge on mini indulgences instead. That's why we're investing a small portion of our tax return in updating our bookshelves with a few hot new reads. From the newest Roxane Gay to an inside look at a women's correctional facility, here are 13 brand-new books being released in May to spend your tax return on.\nNot That Bad by Roxane Gay ($27): Known for her unique voice and brave cultural commentary, powerhouse author Roxane Gay presents a brand- new stunning anthology of first-person essays on rape, assault, and harassment. With essays by Ally Sheedy, Gabrielle Union, and Amy Jo Burns, among others, this powerful and necessary collection is an honest and heartbreaking portrait of the current cultural climate that demands to be read. Publishing Date: May 1\nThe Mars Room by Rachel Kushner ($27): Rachel Kushner is a force within the literary community and was nominated twice for the prestigious National Book Award. Her latest novel is set in 2003 America and stars Romy Hall as she starts her two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility. With the novel already receiving major traction from acclaimed book reviewers, we can't wait to get our hands on this tragic and impassioned novel in May. Publishing Date: May 1\nHey Ladies! by Michelle Markowitz and Caroline Moss ($17): This hilarious novel follows a group of eight 20- and 30-something ladies as they go about their everyday lives \u2014 from the struggling of trying to pay for everything with Forever21 gift cards to planning a disastrous wedding for a DIY suburban bride-to-be. Based on a column in The Toast of the same name, this hugely relatable novel is the perfect literary pick-me-up to brighten your spirits this spring. Publishing Date: May 1\nThe Optimistic Decade by Healther Abel ($27): Llamalo is a seemingly utopic back-to-the-land camp where founder Caleb Silver is determined to teach others to live simply. The novel follows the lives of five characters touched by this summer camp, including ranchers Don and son Donnie, who lost everything with Exxon; daughter of the founder Rebecca Silver; and teenager-turned-devotee David. With a backdrop of the political protests against President Reagan and the Gulf War, this skillfully written novel is both a one-of-a-kind coming-of-age story and an in-depth look at good intentions gone awry. Publishing Date: May 1\nThe Perfect Mother by Aimee Molloy ($28): If you're the type of reader who needs to read the book before the movie, you're going to want to put this on your to-read list STAT before Kerry Washington stars in the major motion picture adaptation currently in production. Twice a week, the May Mothers (a group of new moms whose babies were all born in May) get together in a Brooklyn park for some much-needed kid-free time. But one day, when the women decide to mix up their routine and head for drinks at a neighborhood bar, the unthinkable happens: Six-week-old Midas is kidnapped from his crib. In the next 13 days, friendships and marriages will be tested as the neighborhood desperately searches for answers. Publishing Date: May 1\nOur Kind of Cruelty by Araminta Hall ($26): If you're in the mood for something bone-chillingly creepy, pick up a copy of Hall's newest thriller. After a tragic and difficult childhood, Mike Hayes was settled into his quiet, lonely life \u2014 that was, until he met Verity Metcalf. Slightly (okay, more than slightly) obsessed, Mike dedicated his life to making her happy by finding the perfect house, job, and body. Despite the fact that V isn't returning his calls and vows she's marrying Angus, Mike thinks that if he watches V closely enough, he can come to her rescue in the perfect moment. With disturbing twists folded into each page-turning chapter, this is one dark thriller you don't want to miss. Publishing Date: May 8\nWarlight by Michael Ondaatje ($27): From the same author who brought us The English Patient, this new novel set in the decade after WWII follows the exciting lives of 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel. Just after the war, Nathaniel and Rachel's parents left for Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure called The Moth. As they begin to get to know some of eccentric friends who all have a hazy history of service during the war, they start to believe that this mysterious figure could be a criminal. Now, a dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all the mysteries that shrouded this time as he reflects on his experience through both hard-learned facts and childhood recollection. Publishing Date: May 8\nThat Kind of Mother by Rumaan Alam ($27): As a first-time mother, Rebecca Stone was utterly overwhelmed after delivering her new baby boy. So she reaches out to the one person at the hospital who gave her genuine help, Priscilla Johnson, and begs her to come work for her as a nanny. But as Priscilla helps stabilize Rebecca's new life as a mother, she also makes her confront her own privilege and view on race. When Priscilla unexpectedly dies in childbirth, Rebecca immediately steps up to adopt the baby. Now faced with a unique challenge of raising two young boys of different races, Rebecca must confront a society that is determined to treat her boys differently. Publishing Date: May 8\nBarracoon by Zora Neale Hurston ($25): Ninety-one years ago, Zora Neale Hurston journeyed to Plateau, Alabama, to interview 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, one of the last-known survivors of the Atlantic slave trade who was abducted from Africa on the last \"Black Cargo\" ship to arrive in the US. Spending more than three weeks with Lewis talking through his harrowing experience, Hurston's previously unpublished history uncovers Lewis' tragic story, including his childhood in Africa, the unspeakable horror of being held in a barracoon for selection by American slavers, his experience of the Middle Passage and aboard the Clotilda, and his years in slavery until the end of the Civil War. Publishing Date: May 8\nPick Three by Randi Zuckerberg ($27): Work. Sleep. Fitness. Family. Friends. According to leading businesswoman Randi Zuckerberg, the idea of the well-balanced entrepreneur is a complete fallacy. Instead of trying to do it all, Zuckerberg believes that we should instead focus on succeeding in three key areas. Based off a popular tweet she composed about \"The Entrepreneur's Dilemma,\" Zuckerberg expands on this ground-breaking idea in a new practical handbook that includes stories from her now-famous career and insights from some of Silicon Valley's finest. Publishing Date: May 15\nThe Outsider by Stephen King ($30): When an 11-year-old boy's corpse is found in a town park, the entire town of Flint City is rightfully horrified. Luckily, eyewitness accounts and fingerprint evident point to one citizen: Terry Maitland. Little League coach, English teacher, husband, father of two girls, and one of Flint City's most popular citizens, Terry is publicly arrested shortly after the corpse is found. But even despite all the evidence stacked against him, Terry has an alibi. Get ready for yet another one of Stephen King's classic suspenseful tales, folks! Publishing Date: May 22\nEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman ($16): Eleanor Oliphant struggles with the social aspects of life and therefore tends to not variate from her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions. But one day, Eleanor and the bumbling IT guy from her office save an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk. Now part of a trio of ragtag friends, Eleanor slowly begins to open herself up to new experiences in this charming novel by first-time novelist Gail Honeyman. Publishing Date: May 22\nBlame It On Bianca Del Rio by Bianca Del Rio ($22): The breakout star and winner of the sixth season of RuPaul's Drag Race Bianca Del Rio unleashes her signature wit and snarky commentary on the world in her new riotous advice book. From listing her favorite fetishes to answering hilarious fan questions about drag, Bianca Del Rio's outrageous advice book will have you gasping for air and frantically searching how to re-watch her season on Drag Race. Publishing Date: May 22", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 11535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/art/Croatian-literature", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:02Z", "digest": "sha1:FXACTM7FFABD47TAP54EPIUBVUB5ERP6", "length": 7057, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "Croatian literature | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "Gordana P. Crnkovic\nCroatian literature, the literature of the Croats, a South Slavic people of the Balkans speaking the Croatian language (still referred to by linguists as Serbo-Croatian).\nExtant ecclesiastical works survive from the 11th century, and by the second half of the 15th century Croatian literature embraced biblical stories, legends, folklore, and popular stories. In the 15th and 16th centuries the outstanding Old Croatian writers were Marko Maruli\u0107, author of the epic Istoria sfete udovice Judit u versih harvacchi slozena (written 1501, published 1521; \u201cThe History of the Holy Widow Judith Composed in Croatian Verses,\u201d usually known as Judita), a plea for the national struggle against the Ottoman Empire; Hanibal Luci\u0107, author of Robinja (\u201cThe Slave Girl\u201d), the first South Slav secular play; Marin Dr\u017ei\u0107, who wrote pastoral dramas and comedies portraying Renaissance Dubrovnik (his comedy Dundo Maroje, first performed about 1551, played throughout western Europe); and poet Petar Hektorovi\u0107. In the 17th and 18th centuries the leading voice belonged to Ivan Gunduli\u0107, author of a stirring epic, Osman (oldest existing copy approximately 1651; Eng. trans. Osman), describing the Polish victory over the Turks at Chocim (Khotin, now in Ukraine) in 1621.\nRomanticism in Croatian literature evolved out of the Illyrian political movement (1835\u201348), which aimed at a union of all South Slavs within the Habsburg federation. Ljudevit Gaj, one of the leaders of the movement, promoted the \u0161tokavski (Shtokavian) dialect as the literary language of Croatia and also developed a unified orthography. Personal, patriotic, and reflective lyrics were popular and were well represented by the sensitive, moving poems of Stanko Vraz and Ivan Ma\u017eurani\u0107. The latter was best known for his longer narrative poem Smrt Smail-age \u010cengi\u0107a (1846; The Death of Smail Aga), written in the tradition of oral epic poetry and showing South Slavic allegiance by taking as its subject the struggle of Montenegrins against the Turks. Other representative lyrical works include the patriotic songs and poetic drama of Petar Preradovi\u0107 and the dramatic works of Dimitrije Demeter. Another major figure, in the late 19th century, was August \u0160enoa, poet, dramatist, critic, journalist, and creator of the Croatian historical novel of realism. Conditions among the lower classes became a concern of many Croat writers of the period, including Evgenij Kumi\u010di\u0107, Ksaver \u0160andor Gjalski, and Silvije Strahimir Kranj\u010devi\u0107. In his autobiographically charged U registraturi (1888; \u201cIn the Registrar\u2019s Office\u201d), commonly considered the best Croatian novel of the 19th century, Ante Kova\u010di\u0107 tells a poignant tale of a talented village boy sent to the city for schooling. He gives a penetrating portrayal of both rural and urban settings and of human destinies of the time.\nIn the opening years of the 20th century, poetry was the dominant genre, much of it influenced by the Aestheticism movement and concerned with the inner struggles of modern humans with their world and the search for meaning in individual existence. These common Western themes were modified by specifically Croatian concerns with the country\u2019s lack of development and political subjugation (to Hungary at that time). Well-known writers of that time include Vladimir Vidri\u0107 and Vladimir Nazor. The leading figure of the early Modernist phase until World War I was Antun Gustav Mato\u0161. He edited the anthology Mlada hrvatska lirika (1914; \u201cThe Young Croatian Lyric\u201d), which marked the zenith of such verse. Between the wars, avant-garde poetry continued to be expressed in the verse of poets such as Tin Ujevi\u0107 and Antun Branko \u0160imi\u0107, while Ivan Goran Kova\u010di\u0107, in Jama (1943; The Pit), a long poem evoking the horror of war, retained a classical elegance in his verse. Prose writers included Dinko \u0160imunovi\u0107, whose memorable stories depicted both the backwardness and the beauty of Dalmatia; Ivana Brli\u0107-Ma\u017eurani\u0107, who earned lasting popularity with her masterpiece collection of poetic fairy tales, Pri\u010de iz davnine (1916; Croatian Tales of Long Ago); the prolific Marija Juri\u0107 Zagorka, who wrote gripping historical novels; and Slavko Kolar, who depicted the life of the peasant in a changing world. The dominant writers of the interwar period were August Cesarec (Zlatni mladi\u0107 [1928; \u201cThe Golden Boy\u201d]) and Miroslav Krle\u017ea (Povratak Filipa Latinovicza [1932; The Return of Philip Latinovicz] and the collection of English translations The Cricket Beneath the Waterfall and Other Stories [1972]). Both presented contemporary social problems as the result of class exploitation and deeply explored the psychology of their characters. Krle\u017ea is known not only for his imaginative writing, which spanned the century to his death in 1981, but also for his work as an editor of literary periodicals, as an essayist, and as a critic who dominated Croatian cultural life for much of the century.\nIn the less-restrictive atmosphere that followed Yugoslavia\u2019s break with the Stalinist Soviet Union in 1948, new prose writers included Ranko Marinkovi\u0107 (Kiklop [1965; \u201cThe Cyclops\u201d]) and Vjekoslav Kaleb (Divota pra\u0161ine [1954; \u201cThe Wonder of Dust,\u201d Eng. trans. Glorious Dust]), who wrote on the war and contemporary society in Croatia. Vesna Parun, an important and fruitful poet, was recognized most notably for her collection of poems Crna maslina (1955; \u201cBlack Olive Tree\u201d). The younger prose writer Antun \u0160oljan took more cosmopolitan themes for his work, as did the poet Ivan Slamnig of the same generation. In the latter part of the 20th century, Croatian literature included experimental autobiographies by Irena Vrkljan (Marina ili o biografiji [1985; Marina; or, About Biography]), playing with the boundaries between autobiography and biography; spirited stories and novels by Dubravka Ugre\u0161i\u0107; essays and novels by feminist journalist and writer Slavenka Drakuli\u0107 (The Balkan Express, 1993); genre novels by the popular Pavao Pavli\u010di\u0107; prose by a prolific Croatian-Bosnian writer of the younger generation, Miljenko Jergovi\u0107, and, at the turn of the 21st century, by Zoran Feri\u0107, Ante Tomi\u0107, and Julijana Matanovi\u0107.\n\u2026the beginnings of a distinctive Croatian literature.\u2026\nPetar Hektorovi\u0107\nPetar Hektorovi\u0107, poet and collector of Dalmatian songs, an important figure in the Ragusan (Dubrovnik) Renaissance in South Slavic literature. An aristocratic landowner, Hektorovi\u0107 was impressed by the Italian humanist adaptation of classical forms for\u2026\nIvan Gunduli\u0107, Croatian poet and dramatist whose epic poem Osman (the oldest existing copy is dated approximately 1651; it was first published in 1826; Eng. trans. Osman) was the outstanding\u2026\nSerbo-Croatian language, term of convenience used to refer to the forms of speech employed by Serbs, Croats, and other South Slavic groups (such as Montenegrins and Bosniaks, as Muslim Bosnians are known). The term Serbo-Croatian was coined in 1824 by German dictionary maker and folklorist Jacob\u2026\nMore About Croatian literature\ncontribution by Maruli\u0107\nIn Marko Maruli\u0107", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 11884, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.britannica.com/place/Tongdaemun-Market", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ER2OLBUP7SP5J6E4RYV3DD74UXNBQXNN", "length": 414, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.britannica.com", "title": "Tongdaemun Market | market, Seoul, South Korea | Britannica.com", "raw_content": "Tongdaemun Market\nmarket, Seoul, South Korea\nIn Seoul: Finance and other services\n\u2026shopping areas are the extensive Tongdaemun Market and the smaller Namdaemun Market, located near the downtown of the North City. Comprising numerous individually owned shops, these markets serve not only Seoul but the entire country. There are also large department stores and shopping centres in Kangnam, the downtown South City\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.broadsheet.com.au/sydney/art-and-design/article/tying-knot", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:20Z", "digest": "sha1:CKGALPR6GPSTOOVKN6QCZF5VJJX3DVBF", "length": 2889, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.broadsheet.com.au", "title": "Tying The Knot - Broadsheet", "raw_content": "The Knot, a new exhibition by New York artists Tom Smith and Jonathon Rosen is a tribute to the possibilities of love as well as its inevitable contradictions.\nPhotography: Kit Baker\nThere are few things transformative enough to make you change course, jump on a plane or throw away a lucrative career to follow your dreams. For Jonathon Rosen, an advertising creative battling the burnout that sometimes comes from spending your life making work for other people, it was his relationship with his boyfriend Tom Smith, a New York artist who insisted he take a trip to Art Basel.\n\u201cI was never meant to be an artist,\u201d laughs Rosen, whose I WANT series is a sequence of collages that layer carefully carved statements spelling out his deepest desires with pop culture ephemera, like glamour photos and trashy Mills and Boon covers. It is currently on display as part of The Knot, a new exhibition at East Sydney\u2019s sun-splashed William Wright Artists Projects. \u201cBut I was so stifled and burnt out in advertising. Then Tom took me to Basel and I started making art. I started with one big piece but had no idea about the journey I was going on. In advertising you\u2019re giving voice to brands, your creative director and clients, so there\u2019s nothing left for you. My new life is because of Tom.\u201d\nThe Knot, which also features Smith\u2019s paintings \u2013 hyper-saturated dreamscapes that combine precise cutting techniques with a palette of oranges, blues and hot pinks to dazzling effect \u2013 is a tribute to the couple\u2019s emotional and creative chemistry. The pair got engaged at Art Basel a year ago and planned the show to coincide with Mardi Gras and Art Month. They want to highlight the relationship between profound personal love stories and wider debates around marriage equality.\n\u201cWe tossed around the idea of working on a show together ever since Jon started making work. But it wasn\u2019t until we got engaged at Art Basel a year ago, and the shift we witnessed in our relationship, that we started thinking about the exhibition,\u201d says Smith. He also works as a printer at Two Palms, a printing studio linked with artists such as Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown and Chuck Close. \u201cThe kind of work we were making in our lives throughout that process became an interesting reason to have a show here. So, it\u2019s really about where we are in our lives together.\u201d\n\u201cWe don\u2019t work in the same room \u2013 Jon works in the apartment and I work in a studio because I like to be alone when I\u2019m painting,\u201d says Smith. \u201cBut I\u2019ve learnt that every night when I go home I like to show him a photo of what I\u2019ve done that day.\u201d\n\u201cThat\u2019s the interesting thing about a knot. It can feel like a noose but it also represents safety and security. You\u2019re constantly loosening it and tightening it,\u201d Rosen adds.\nThe Knot opens Friday February 20 at William Wright Artists Projects and runs until March 14, 2015.\nwilliamwrightartists.com.au", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 5235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bronsonhealth.com/doctors/lakshmi-kocharla/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:45Z", "digest": "sha1:OZQHBA63BY3K7GHNK3FDY4FWS6IXJGZC", "length": 1056, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.bronsonhealth.com", "title": "Dr. Lakshmi P. Kocharla, MD, FACR - Rheumatology - Bronson Healthcare", "raw_content": "Home > Lakshmi P. Kocharla\nLakshmi P. Kocharla, MD, FACR\nWhen I go into the office every day, it doesn't feel like work to me. My profession provides me the opportunity to understand what someone is going, physically or emotionally, and I am able to help relieve their pain. I connect with patients so that I can understand the challenges they are facing. They deserve the best care from me.\nBronson Rheumatology Specialists\nDr. Kocharla's aunt suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis, so growing up she witnessed how suffering and pain can impact all aspects of a person's life. This inspired her to become a doctor, because she knew she wanted to help relieve the pain, discomfort and suffering of others. Outside of the office, Dr. Kochlara enjoys traveling, cooking international cuisines, reading and spending time with her two daughters.\nUniversity of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, Immunology and Rheumatology\nMichigan State University/McLaren Regional Medical Center, East Lansing, Mich, Internal Medicine\nGuntar Medical College, Guntar, AP, India", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 236.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/study-fort-lauderdale-spending-a-ton-getting-little-out-of-police-department-7481660", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:03Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZH3BKHMX3TZ5YSNTB5A25ACMDK2VOL3", "length": 3763, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.browardpalmbeach.com", "title": "Study Says Fort Lauderdale Spending a Ton on Police | New Times Broward-Palm Beach", "raw_content": "Study: Fort Lauderdale Spending a Ton, Getting Little Out of Police Department\nFort Lauderdale PD got less for their money than almost any other force in America, a study found.\nPer citizen, Fort Lauderdale spends more on its police department than almost any other city in the country, according to a study the finance website WalletHub released earlier this month. On the surface, that might seem like a good thing. More money should help officers do their jobs better, right?\nAccording to that same study, however, the city's money is not going too far.\nVideo Shows Fort Lauderdale Cop Slapping Homeless Man Who Wanted to Use Restroom: \"You're Not Going to Pee!\"\nBiking While Black Still a Crime in Fort Lauderdale, According to New Data\nFour New Year\u2019s Resolutions for Fort Lauderdale Police in 2016\nJust over a week ago, WalletHub released its annual ranking of the police departments that represent the best \u201creturn on investment\u201d \u2014 that is, the departments that reduce the most crime, using the least amount of money. In compiling the study, the website tracked how much the 104 most populous U.S. cities spent on policing and compared those figures to cities\u2019 \u201csafety\u201d rates, a number WalletHub\u2019s research team crunched using cities\u2019 crime, unemployment, and poverty data. In terms of return on investment, the study said, Fort Lauderdale Police are the third-worst in the nation.\nThe problem, the study said, is the fact that the city spends roughly $800 per capita on safety \u2014 more than any city studied, save Washington, D.C. \u2014 but still reports a safety rate lower than 80 percent of the cities studied. Most of the cities that landed near the bottom of the list did so because they spent a lot actually reducing crime \u2014 New York City, for example, rated poorly on WalletHub\u2019s list, simply because it spends an astronomical amount on its cops. New York, however, reported the second-best safety numbers in the entire study. Fort Lauderdale, the study claims, may be uniquely poor at spending money, as it spends a ton without necessarily making its citizens much safer.\nStrangely, the \u201csafest\u201d cities, according to WalletHub\u2019s methods, didn\u2019t necessarily land at the top of the study either. Akron, Ohio, which reports a middling \u201csafety\u201d rate, took the top spot, and both Detroit and Cleveland, two cities with particularly bad crime problems, also landed within the top ten. Miami, which ranked roughly as \u201csafe\u201d as Fort Lauderdale, came in at 33rd overall, due to the fact that it spends $300 less per-person on crime prevention than Fort Lauderdale does.\nFort Lauderdale Police Public Information Officer Keven Dupree said Wednesday he was unable to comment on the study without first consulting other members of the department.\nWhat is clear, though, is that pumping money into a city\u2019s police department doesn\u2019t necessarily lead to increased \u201csafety,\u201d as many of the factors that actually drive crime \u2014 like a person\u2019s economic situation \u2014 remain, no matter how many cops are sent out on patrol.\nOne of the experts WalletHub consulted on the study, Aaron Chalfin, who directs research at the University of Chicago\u2019s \u201cCrime Lab New York,\u201d agreed and told WalletHub that \u201cevery city faces different challenges, and it\u2019s difficult to infer from crime statistics which departments are doing better than others.\u201d Extra money, he said, is often better spent on \"smart policing\" programs, like crime-prediction software or de-escalation training for cops, rather than new equipment, in some circumstances.\nStill, it\u2019s shocking to see how much Fort Lauderdale pumps into its police force each year \u2014 $95 million according to the city\u2019s 2016 budget \u2014 compared to, say, public works projects or housing for the city\u2019s relatively large homeless population.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 7272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bruceslutsky.com/2017/03/school-of-rock-at-winter-garden-theater.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:41Z", "digest": "sha1:SOXMEDYYK4RHNM43HHQ3ZXVXVCYIOVOZ", "length": 872, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.bruceslutsky.com", "title": "Bruce's Journal: School of Rock at the Winter Garden Theater For Lee's Birthday", "raw_content": "School of Rock at the Winter Garden Theater For Lee's Birthday\nEvery year we take Lee to a concert or a Broadway show for his birthday. This year he chose to see School of Rock. We saw the movie a few years ago, but live music is always better. The show follows Dewey Finn, a failed, wannabe rock star who decides to earn a few extra bucks by posing as a substitute teacher at a prestigious prep school. It includes 14 new songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber and all the original music from the movie.\nAfter the show, we wanted to eat at Ellen's Stardust Diner, but the line to get in was literally a block long. It seems that after the matinees ended, people just flocked there. It seems that the best way to get in is to go while shows are in progress. We haven't been there in a few years, but we really enjoy the singing waiters and waitresses. Instead, we ate at TGIFridays.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 5737, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 187.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buckinghambooks.com/book/luncheon-menu-for-paquebot-france-croisiere-autour-du-monde-the-compagne-generale-transatlantique-french-line-ship-dated-february-12-1974/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:25Z", "digest": "sha1:4GK2KVHEE3ECIT5TFYIJ7JJPD4YX5SGY", "length": 1443, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.buckinghambooks.com", "title": "Luncheon Menu For Paquebot France, Croisiere Autour Du Monde, The Compagne Generale Transatlantique French Line Ship, Dated February 12, 1974", "raw_content": "13 1/2\" x 9 1/2\" with beautiful color artwork by Jean A. Mercier on front cover showing a young girl fanning a young man who is gazing out into the ocean at a ship. Rear cover offers words to \"La Vie Anterieure\" by Charles Baudelaire. The S.S. France was one of the last transatlantic liners. \"One area given an unusual amount of attention was the ship's kitchens; 1,500 square meters in area, and placed almost amidships, between the two dining rooms which the one kitchen served. It was thought by the CGT directors that the France would not only display the best in French art and design, but also French cuisine. The kitchens were equipped with the most advanced machinery available, as well as many traditional cooking aides, including a stove that was 12 meters long and 2.5 meters wide. Staffed with 180 of France's best cooks, sauce and pastry chefs, rotisserie cooks, head waiters and wine stewards, this team made the France one of the finest restaurants in the world.\" This is reflected in the menu offerings. Chef des Cuisines: Henri Le Huede. The menu is offered in French on the inside of the front page; the menu is offered in English on the facing page. Corners lightly bumped. A wonderful menu with cover art that is highly collected.\nA Very Small Place. Arizona's Santa Cruz County ...\nby Alma Ready\nSpeech Of Mr. Benton, Of Missouri, Delivered In ...\n1873 J.O. Dorr's Improved Axle Grease Invoice\nDorr'S Improved Axle Grease", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.buildfutureskills.com/irish-workers-hit-higher-tax-rate-before-salaries-reach-average-industrial-wage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:52Z", "digest": "sha1:A43K4OFTRKABKBXOSHSQOXWYDOCNLERO", "length": 1144, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.buildfutureskills.com", "title": "LOGINRegister", "raw_content": "Irish workers hit higher tax rate before salaries reach average industrial wage\nLesson: Irish workers hit higher tax rate before salaries reach average industrial wage\nWorkers in Ireland are paying the higher 40% rate of income tax before their salaries reach the average industrial wage, according to a study by the Irish Tax Institute.\nAhead of next month\u2019s Budget, the organisation says rates of taxation escalate rapidly as wages rise in comparison with other countries.\nIt has called on the Government to adopt a long-term approach to changing the tax system, instead of a budget-by-budget system.\nIt said workers on salaries of \u20ac55,000 here pay more tax than those in Sweden, Spain and Switzerland.\nThey also pay \u20ac800 more annually than equivalents in the UK.\nThe organisation said those on a salary of \u20ac75,000 pay \u20ac4,500 more than their British counterparts, while people on \u20ac100,000 pay \u20ac12,500 more in tax than those in the UK.\nThe Tax Institute said earners move from the 20% rate of tax to the 40% rate at relatively low incomes.\nThat means people who earn less than the average industrial wage hit the top rate of income tax of 40%.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/guess-plunges-after-kate-upton-accuses-co-founder-of-harassment", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:54Z", "digest": "sha1:CH7XOUEFKVQZOGH2SS7ILM7MYSRQZOLQ", "length": 1868, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.businessoffashion.com", "title": "Guess Plunges After Kate Upton Accuses Co-Founder of Harassment | News & Analysis | BoF", "raw_content": "Guess Plunges After Kate Upton Accuses Co-Founder of Harassment\nThe brand suffered its worst stock decline in more than two months, with shares falling as much as 12 percent to $16.16, after gaining almost 40 percent last year.\nGuess store | Source: Shutterstock\nLOS ANGELES, United States \u2014 Guess? Inc. shares plummeted after Kate Upton accused co-founder Paul Marciano of sexual harassment, embroiling the fashion brand in the #MeToo movement.\nUpton, a supermodel and actress, said on social media Wednesday that Marciano \u201cshouldn\u2019t be allowed to use his power in the industry to sexually and emotionally harass women.\u201d She added the #MeToo hashtag, which has become a rallying cry for the movement against sexual assault and workplace misconduct.\nMarciano stepped down as chief executive officer of Guess in 2015 but still has major influence in the company in his roles as chairman at chief creative officer. He art-directed the latest advertising campaign for Guess, featuring Jennifer Lopez, and appeared at a party celebrating its launch on Wednesday night.\n\u201cI\u2019m disappointed that such an iconic women\u2019s brand @Guess is still empowering Paul Marciano as their creative director,\u201d Upton said in a tweet.\nGuess suffered its worst stock decline in more than two months in the wake of the accusation, sending its shares down as much as 12 percent to $16.16. They had gained nearly 40 percent last year.\nMarciano held more than 14 percent of Guess shares as of March 2017, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That stake would be worth roughly $25 million less after Thursday\u2019s decline.\nThe Los Angeles-based company didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.\nUpton also spoke briefly with TMZ as she walked through Los Angeles International Airport on Wednesday night. \u201cI\u2019m excited to tell my whole story,\u201d she said.\nBy Kim Bhasin; editor: Nick Turner", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 281.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businessoffashion.com/community/people/park-seo-won", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:VWPJYI4MVOHY77V6PBRLPGIKU5RG5WX2", "length": 1005, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.businessoffashion.com", "title": "Park Seo-Won | BoF 500 | The People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry", "raw_content": "As the heir apparent to a Fortune 500 business empire, this vice president is growing a vast retail network in his native South Korea.\nThe eldest son of Jeongwon Park, the chairman of Doosan Corporation, Seo-Won is the heir to the Korea-based holding company and in 2015 was promoted up the ranks to become a successor of the country\u2019s 14th largest business conglomerate.\nPark was appointed to the role of senior vice president in November 2015, where he has been responsible for the marketing and strategy of Doosan\u2019s duty-free operations. He has been credited with Doosan\u2019s venture back into retail: under his leadership, the conglomerate won the state license to operate in the tourist-frequented Dongdaemun district in central Seoul and now stocks products of more than 370 brands.\nPark also leads Doosan\u2019s advertising agency Oricom and independent creative consulting firm Big Ant.\nTos Chirathivat\nChief Executive, Central Group\nfacebook.com/pages/doosan-group\nKorean Retailers Shake up the Old Guard", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 2524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 192.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171114006494/en/A.M.-Assigns-Credit-Ratings-Colonnade-Insurance-S.A", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:15Z", "digest": "sha1:57VBPJKRVYNBB6UTG5ZAX4KTKL7OCK2C", "length": 4084, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.businesswire.com", "title": "A.M. Best Assigns Credit Ratings to Colonnade Insurance S.A.; Assigns Indicative Issue Credit Ratings to Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited | Business Wire", "raw_content": "A.M. Best Assigns Credit Ratings to Colonnade Insurance S.A.; Assigns Indicative Issue Credit Ratings to Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited\nOLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A.M. Best has assigned a Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of A- (Excellent) and a Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of \u201ca-\u201d to Colonnade Insurance S.A. (Colonnade) (Luxembourg), a member of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (Fairfax) (Toronto, Canada) [TSX: FFH] group of companies. Additionally, A.M. Best has assigned indicative Long-Term Issue Credit Ratings (Long-Term IR) of \u201cbbb\u201d to senior unsecured debt, \u201cbbb-\u201d to subordinated debt and \u201cbb+\u201d to preferred stock of the recently filed short-form base shelf prospectus (base shelf prospectus) of Fairfax. The outlook assigned to these Credit Ratings (ratings) is stable. The existing ratings of Fairfax and its subsidiaries are unchanged. The assigned ratings, for securities that may be issued under the shelf registration statement, are consistent with the current ratings of Fairfax\u2019s outstanding securities. The new base shelf prospectus replaces Fairfax\u2019s previous shelf registration, which expired Oct. 19, 2017. Consequently, the indicative Long-Term IRs for the previous shelf registration have been withdrawn. The company\u2019s financial leverage and coverage ratios are within A.M. Best\u2019s guidelines for Fairfax\u2019s current ratings and are expected to remain so over the near term.\nThe ratings of Colonnade reflect the overall strength of its balance sheet, supported by its ultimate parent Fairfax, favorable loss performance, the expected improvement in overall operating performance and adequate business profile. Colonnade benefits from explicit and implicit support provided by its ultimate parent, Fairfax, including a legally binding guarantee, track record of capital support, technical reserving support, investment management services and enterprise risk management (ERM) expertise. Key offsetting rating factors are Colonnade\u2019s current operating performance, which is reflective of its elevated expense ratio, and marginal ERM.\nColonnade\u2019s adequate balance sheet strength is supported by its strong risk-adjusted capitalization. A.M. Best expects Colonnade\u2019s risk-adjusted capitalization to remain reliant on support from Fairfax over the next few years as it implements its growth plans and absorbs startup costs. Colonnade's premium volume has grown rapidly since 2015, accelerating in 2017, as a result of the rollover of books of business acquired from QBE and AIG. The risk associated with Colonnade's premium growth is moderated by the retention of a high proportion of management, staff and business.\nColonnade\u2019s adequate operating performance is driven by its favorable loss performance, which is offset by the initial costs incurred in its developmental stage with expenses outpacing premium by a sizable margin. The company\u2019s adequate business profile reflects its concentration in the Central and Eastern European region, with the two largest countries (the Czech Republic and Poland) representing about 40% of the premium written. Concentration risk is somewhat offset by the dispersion of the remaining 60% of the business in four other central European countries, and the product offering, with personal and commercial business representing 40% and 60% respectively.\nA.M. Best considers the company\u2019s risk management capability to be generally in-line with its risk profile, which is supported by its focus on maintaining geographic and by line diversity of its business, conservative reserving and per risk reinsurance limits. However, the company maintains an outsized 1-in-500 years all perils probable maximum loss which, if incurred, would result in a sharp deterioration of risk-adjusted capital levels. While the current guarantee from Fairfax would cover Colonnade\u2019s liabilities in that scenario, the company\u2019s risk appetite and current reinsurance structure do not support an overall adequate ERM assessment.\nDarian Ryan, CPA\ndarian.ryan@ambest.com\nJennifer Marshall, CPCU, ARM\njennifer.marshall@ambest.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 6741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.bwglaw.com/anesthesia-errors.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:31Z", "digest": "sha1:7S2CHVTOVYX4CMOQCMBYRELXZ7NXZ7DX", "length": 5227, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.bwglaw.com", "title": "Anesthesia Errors | Boston Medical Malpractice Lawyers Breakstone, White & Gluck", "raw_content": "Experienced Boston Medical Malpractice Lawyers\nInjuries due to anesthesia errors are often catastrophic. Proving that an injury was caused by negligent anesthesia care can be a daunting task. That is why you need an experienced and qualified lawyer to investigate and prosecute your anesthesia medical malpractice case. Our experienced medical malpractice lawyers have successfully handled anesthesia malpractice cases resulting in death, paralysis, severe brain injury, and loss of use of limbs. While there are many inherent risks involved with undergoing medical procedures and surgeries, many of these risks can be avoided by proper anesthesia care.. Some of the most serious risks involve the use of anesthesia, which is why the administration of anesthesia requires constant and diligent observation of the patient. The anesthesiologist administering the drugs must make sure that the patient can undergo anesthesia and that the appropriate dose of each drug is used. They also need to monitor the patient for any adverse reactions. When anesthesiologists and other medical professionals fail to use appropriate care when using anesthesia, the outcome can be devastating for the patient. At Breakstone, White & Gluck, our Boston anesthesia malpractice lawyers are prepared to help you seek the judgment or the settlement that you deserve following an anesthesia error.\nIn general, anesthesia errors involve situations in which a patient experiences unnecessary and preventable harm as a result of a mistake in the administration of anesthesia. Anesthesia involves drugs that put the patient in a temporary state of unconsciousness, unable to feel pain. When you are under anesthesia, you are completely at the mercy of the medical professionals providing you with treatment. There are many different surgeries and procedures in which anesthesia is used, including child deliveries involving caesarean sections and other complications.\nAs patients, we depend on medical providers to take the risks of anesthesia into account and to ensure that they are providing competent and timely medical care. There are many ways that a medical professional can administer or monitor anesthesia negligently. For example, some of the most serious issues that develop regarding anesthesia use include a lack of sufficient oxygen for the patient under anesthesia, a sudden allergic reaction to the drug that is not identified in a timely fashion, and a failure to treat hyperthermia. If anesthesia is not administered correctly, the victim can suffer brain damage, disabilities, a stroke, or even death. These drastic outcomes can happen even when the anesthesiologist makes a slight error in the administration of the drugs.\nIf you suffered an injury as a result of an anesthesia error at a Boston area hospital, our anesthesia malpractice attorneys are ready to help you bring a claim against the medical professionals who treated you at the time of the incident. To recover compensation, you must show that the medical professionals failed to treat you with the same level of care and timeliness that other medical professionals with a similar specialty and background would have used when faced with your specific characteristics and conditions. In other words, you must show that the defendant did not act as a competent, reasonable, and prudent anesthesiologist would have acted in the same situation.\nNext, you will need to show that this failure was the cause of the injuries that you sustained. In medical malpractice actions, a defendant sometimes argues that the plaintiff\u2019s pre-existing or underlying conditions were the primary reason why they suffered injuries\u2014rather than the alleged lack of appropriate care. To fight back against this, your Boston anesthesia malpractice attorney can retain an expert medical witness who can testify about the lack of appropriate care that was rendered and its causal connection to your injuries.\nThe final phase of the litigation requires the victim to offer evidence supporting the amount of damages that they are seeking in the lawsuit. There are many different categories of damages that you can potentially obtain. Some of the most common types of damages include medical expenses, lost wages, loss of earning capacity, pain and suffering, and compensation for any future medical care needs.\nDiscuss Your Case with a Dedicated Anesthesia Malpractice Lawyer in Boston\nIf you are facing complications from an anesthesia error or another type of medical malpractice, the diligent trial lawyers at Breakstone, White & Gluck are prepared to help you fight for the compensation that you deserve during this painful and difficult time. We have proudly served people in Boston, Cambridge, Waltham, Lowell, Newton, Somerville, Quincy, Dedham, Norwood, Brookline, Attleboro, Barnstable, Brockton, Plymouth, Worcester, Lawrence, and Springfield. We know that no amount of money can truly make you whole again after the physical pain and mental anxiety that you have endured, but it can help you shoulder the financial burdens. To set up your free consultation, call us now at 1-800-379-1244 or contact us online.\nAnesthesia Errors | Boston Medical Malpractice Lawyers Breakstone, White & Gluck", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 9418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.caa.ae/caa/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=1&tabid=60", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:29Z", "digest": "sha1:BRRQ6MYO4KWX24S6NVYNL75VENOP6Z2X", "length": 2376, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.caa.ae", "title": "CAA Portal", "raw_content": "CAA Mission\nThe Commission for Academic Accreditation is the Federal Government's Quality Assurance Agency charged with promoting educational excellence across diverse institutions of higher learning in the UAE. Through licensure of post-secondary educational institutions, and accreditation of individual programs, the Commission strives to assure high quality education, consistent with international standards.\nEnsuring Quality and Academic Standards\nMaintain and implement a quality framework which assures that institutions of higher education in the UAE operate in line with international academic, administrative, managerial, and operational standards.\nDiversifying Services\nOffer a broad range of appropriate services and activities that further enhances quality.\nEnsuring an Effective Operation\nDeliver efficient and effective quality-enhancing processes for a strongly developing higher education sector.\nPlay an active, cooperative and influential role in the international community of quality assurance organizations for higher education.\nEXCELLENCE We continually strive to improve the quality of higher education in the UAE.\nINTERNATIONALISM We follow standards and procedures consistent with the best international practice, with the goal of making higher education in the UAE comparable to internationally recognized institutions of higher education.\nINTEGRITY We adhere to our established standards, policies and procedures in all our relationships with institutions.\nCOMMUNICATION We communicate clearly, accurately, and fully with all parties.\nOBJECTIVITY We are fair and impartial to all institutions in the UAE, regardless of their mission, size or resources.\nINDEPENDENCE We maintain our independence and are not subject to external influence.\nDIVERSITY We respect each individual institution\u2019s mission and goals and allow for diverse approaches to higher education.\nACCOUNTABILITY We are accountable to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and to the people of the UAE.\nTRANSPARENCY We are transparent in all our activities while respecting each institution\u2019s confidentiality.\nCOOPERATION We work in a spirit of cooperation with institutions in the setting and maintenance of standards to assure a high quality education for students in the UAE.\nRESPONSIVENESS We do our best to respond to institutional requests in a timely manner.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 288.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.callan.com/team/benjamin-duerst/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DWJ5N2CHPP2S4P3T26TPRJW44WPCZE5N", "length": 967, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.callan.com", "title": "Benjamin Duerst - Callan", "raw_content": "Benjamin Duerst Assistant Vice President\nBen is a holder of the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst\u00ae designation.\nBen Duerst, CFA, is an Assistant Vice President in Callan\u2019s Chicago Fund Sponsor Consulting office. Ben works with a variety of fund sponsor clients including corporate and public defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, endowments, and foundations. He is responsible for providing support in the areas of client service, performance measurement, and business development.\nPrior to joining Callan in 2018, Ben worked as a Consultant at Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services where he specialized in bank debt. In this role, he was responsible for his clients\u2019 bank debt profit and loss statements, trade settlements, cash and position reconciliation and general client reporting.\nBen graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BBA in Finance. 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The aim was to inform its future regulatory priorities and to provide forecasts to key UK stakeholders.\nWe were selected due to our long and broad track record in IoT product development, coupled with our in-depth experience of the mobile and telecoms sectors, and access to experts in a broad range of markets.\nOur first step was to involve colleagues across the company to define a practical definition of IoT. We then developed a list of potential IoT applications for 12 different market sectors. We also analysed the key technical developments and evaluated their potential impact.\nFor each market, we developed forecasts that built on the current state of the market; our analysis of the impact of new and emerging technologies; and a series of recommendations for policymakers and consumers.\nOfcom gained an authoritative view of the market developments within IoT that was summarised into five key, actionable conclusions. 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These wider relationships will be sustained through forums for Campus Associates and Regional Associates.\nMajor funding awarded to improve mental health assessments for young people\nChildren and adolescents in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough are set to benefit from a new \u00a31.5m research study to improve assessments and care for emotional disorders.\nDiagnosis and treatment of rare diseases given boost through grant win\nA project to help with the identification, diagnosis and treatment of the one in 17 people in the UK who have a rare disease in the UK has won a \u00a3400,000 grant.\nDem bones, dem bones and joints too\nTo mark World Bone and Joint Week, two experts are set to explain how they are tackling diseases such as arthritis which have such a debilitating impact on the lives of so many.\nHow's your musculoskeletal health?\nJoin Cambridge University Health Partners (CUHP) to learn about your musculoskeletal health and how to prevent and manage conditions such as arthritis.\nRoyal Papworth Hospital NHS FT and NHS SBS partner to pioneer new back office services\nRoyal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) have today announced a pioneering strategic partnership, which will explore new opportunities for the digital transformation of a range of back and middle office functions.\nLocal NHS Trust retains \u2018good\u2019 rating following latest inspection\nServices at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust have again been rated as \u2018good\u2019 by the Care Quality Commission.\nNHS Trust agrees \u00a320million land sale\nTwo sites belonging to Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) have been sold for \u00a320million. 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Our 2019 winners were announced on November 9, 2018 in a special magazine feature in The Globe and Mail.\nYoung professionals at Mississauga-based Hatch Ltd. can take part in the engineering firm's global leadership development program.\nEmployers are evaluated by the editors of Canada\u2019s Top 100 Employers using eight criteria, which have remained consistent since the project\u2019s inception: (1) Physical Workplace; (2) Work Atmosphere & Social; (3) Health, Financial & Family Benefits; (4) Vacation & Time Off; (5) Employee Communications; (6) Performance Management; (7) Training & Skills Development; and (8) Community Involvement. Employers are compared to other organizations in their field to determine which offers the most progressive and forward-thinking programs.\nEditorial Partner\nEach fall, the winners are announced in a special feature published in The Globe and Mail. For our detailed Reasons for Selection, please review the full list of winners below. Publishing detailed Reasons for Selection is a distinguishing feature of our competition: it provides transparency in the selection of winners and \u201craises the bar\u201d so that other employers can discover and adopt initiatives that work well elsewhere.\nProfessor Luis Barreiro, a researcher in the Department of Pediatrics at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al.\nAny employer with its head office or principal place of business in Canada may apply for our national competition. Employers of any size may apply, whether private or public sector.\nApplications for our 2020 competition will be available early in 2019. Our 2020 winners will be announced in The Globe and Mail in the fall of 2019. Join our mailing list to stay up to date and receive an application for next year's competition:\nTo learn more about the competition, we invite you to join us at the Top Employer Summit, our annual editorial conference on the Canada\u2019s Top 100 Employers project. This event lets you discover the latest best practices from winners, meet competition organizers and editors, and hear inspiring stories from world-class speakers \u2013 all presented in a commercial-free format. The conference is Canada\u2019s largest annual event for senior-level HR professionals. This year\u2019s conference takes place on November 19, 2018 at Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel in Vancouver, BC, and includes a special performance by Grammy Award winning musician Sarah McLachlan.\nEmployees at 3M Canada enjoying lunch at the company cafeteria.\nIt's often said people are the biggest asset of any business. To many it's just a slogan, but Canada's Top 100 Employers 2019 live by those words.\nThese companies and organizations build exceptional workplaces with an array of progressive and innovative programs that make life better for their people. All the winners are leaders in their industry and able to attract and retain top talent, but that kind of success doesn't just happen without committed effort. One key differentiator is that these employers invest in their employees' personal growth by offering continuous learning and career development opportunities. That not only says individuals are valued, but translates directly into helping employees become more engaged and productive.\nTypically, all of this year's Top 100 offer a variety of possibilities, from leadership training and formal mentoring to experiential initiatives, such as Ceridian's career exploration program which allows employees to participate in job rotation, job shadow a colleague or swap roles with another employee for a month.\nA great many employers provide tuition subsidies for courses taken at outside institutions, sometimes without a maximum amount or even when those courses aren't directly related to the job. Most also take advantage of technology to broaden their reach to employees by offering inclusive in-house and online training to upgrade skills.\nFor example, 3M Canada features interactive online training, live virtual instructor-led sessions, videos and panel discussions during a dedicated development month.\nCanada's Top 100 Employers are also breaking new ground when it comes to employee benefits. In keeping with the federal government's recently extended maternity and parental leave policies to 18 months, both the City of Toronto and Vancouver City Savings Credit Union introduced combined maternity and parental leave top-ups for 78 weeks, as well as extending the parental leave portion for new dads and adoptive parents. This is just another example of how the best continue to set the bar higher.\n\u2013 Diane Jermyn\nFrom the official announcement magazine for Canada's Top 100 Employers (2019), published on November 9, 2018 in The Globe and Mail.\nHere are 2019 winners of the Canada's Top 100 Employers competition. Click an employer name to read our editors' full Reasons for Selection:\nAboriginal Peoples Television Network Inc. / APTN\nArcelorMittal Dofasco G.P.\nCanadian Nuclear Laboratories Ltd.\nCeridian HCM Inc.\nChildren's Aid Society of Toronto\nCollege of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia, The\nCWB National Leasing Inc.\nGraham Group\nHouse of Commons Administration\nK+S Potash Canada GP\nL'Or\u00e9al Canada Inc.\nLeft of the Dot Media Inc.\nM\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res / Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Canada\nR.F. Binnie & Associates Ltd.\nSamsung Electronics Canada Inc.\nSchneider Electric Canada Inc.\nStryker Canada Inc.\nThomson Reuters Canada Limited\nToyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc. / TMMC\nWest Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.\nAn employee of TD Bank making her community a little greener at a local tree-planting day.\nThe benefits of virtue: More than ever, this year's winners recognize their role in the community\nDoing good feels good. That may be the simplest way to explain why community involvement is so important to Canada's Top 100 Employers. As the fight for top talent intensifies in a strong economy, employers are expanding opportunities for their people to get out and get involved.\n\"We are seeing more time off for employees to work in the community, more matching funds for their fundraising efforts, more donations in return for employees' volunteer hours \u2013 there's more robustness in these programs,\" says Richard Yerema, Managing Editor at Mediacorp Canada, which manages the competition. \"And of course, many large private-sector employers have foundations, which often focus on making high-impact improvements in one area, such as the environment or helping youth.\"\nStill, you might ask, why spend all that money? Well, you can interpret \"feels good\" in more ways than one. For employees, it can mean that warm feeling you get when you are helping people in the community by volunteering or fundraising. And in the C-suite and the boardroom, it can mean that sense of achievement you feel as you see strong approval ratings of your organization from both employees and society at large.\n\"It keeps employees happy, there is a PR value to it, and it's also a recruitment tool,\" says Yerema.\nThe happiness component of 'giving back' to the community shouldn't be underestimated Increasingly, the scientific community believes there may be physiological reasons why most of us feel better when we help others.\nYerema notes that Millennials and the following generation, particularly, want to feel inspired by where they work. \"Young people by nature are more idealistic, and for them, just paying lip service to a cause isn't enough,\" he says. \"Twenty years ago, you could tick the box with donations to the United Way. But this generation can figure out everything you've done in five minutes on their phone \u2013 so the scrutiny is more rigorous and the job-seeker can be more selective.\"\nAt the same time, he adds, the age of social media means that employers can instantly share the good works they are doing, including photos and videos of their employees volunteering or the results of their donations.\nFor many organizations, employee engagement is a major element in community involvement. \"I think all of us want to feel a calling to a higher purpose,\" says Helena Gottschling, Chief Human Resources Officer for RBC. \"We want to feel that the work that we do has meaning, not only to our clients and to each other as colleagues, but also in the impact we can have on our community.\"\nRBC, like other Top 100 employers, offers a variety of ways for employees to get involved in the community. But the bank is also a huge donor itself, currently mounting a 10-year, $500 million program called Future Launch to support youth employment. Gottschling says this program, too, draws considerable employee response and support.\n\"Many of our employees have kids in high school and middle school and they're wondering about the future of work, and what their children will be doing 10 or 20 years from now,\" she says. \"So what we do with our foundation matters to our employees. They pay attention to where we spend the money.\"\nTo Linda Speedy, Chief Talent Officer for KPMG LLP, it's critical to make sure your organization is highly responsive to the needs of prospective hires. \"From a recruitment perspective, it's super-competitive out there,\" she says. \"The younger generation is much more prepared than we ever were to leave organizations when they don't see what they want immediately. Students are looking for organizations that have purpose and community and flexibility. So every organization is looking at their policies and trying to change them in a way that reflects what the younger generation values.\"\nCommunity involvement is not the only trend visible in this 2019 list of Canada's Top 100 Employers. Yerema notes that the federal government in late 2017 extended maternity and parental leave to 18 months from one year. Already, he says, two Top 100 employers \u2013 the City of Toronto and Vancouver City Savings Credit Union \u2013 have amended their policies to include a longer benefit top-up period for their employees. Yerema expects to see more employers follow suit in coming years, just as they did when such benefits were first introduced. \"As society changes, organizations that have their ear to the ground are paying attention and supporting these changes internally,\" he says.\nIn truth, the employment landscape is all about continuous improvement, says Neil Wilson, President and CEO of NAV CANADA, which provides the country's civil air navigation services. \"You need to be competitive in this marketplace,\" he says. \"You need to provide a full range of what I call the basics \u2013 the right level of pay, the right benefits, a good pension plan \u2013 but beyond the basics, especially with Millennials, you have to offer something that's exciting, a reason why they're going to enjoy coming to work every day. You've got to give them something truly rewarding.\"\nAnd, of course, virtue \u2013 meaning doing good \u2013 is its own reward.\n\u2013 Berton Woodward\nFind jobs from Canada's Top 100 Employers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 13987, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.canadiancattlemen.ca/global_markets/global-markets-china-and-u-s-reach-trade-truce/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4T4KGNHEZINKNYMVRRZ4DHG3ERO7BGR5", "length": 944, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.canadiancattlemen.ca", "title": "Global Markets: China and U.S. reach trade truce - Canadian Cattlemen", "raw_content": "\u2013\tChina and the United States reached a tentative truce on trade over the weekend, with the two countries agreeing to hold off on placing additional tariffs on each other for 90 days while negotiations take place. U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that China had agreed to \u201creduce and remove tariffs on cars\u201d and also tweeted that farmers will benefit from a deal with China.\n\u2013\tQatar has announced that it will leave OPEC in January. The country has been a member since 1961, but is a relatively small oil producer and intends to focus on natural gas production. A number of nearby countries have already boycotted Qatar due to the state\u2019s alleged links to terrorism.\n\u2013\tCanadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques and two other astronauts from the U.S. and Russia launched from Kazakhstan Monday morning, headed to the International Space Station. 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All Summit participants are invited to attend CANARIE\u2019s 25th Anniversary Reception on the evening of October 2nd at the O\u2019Born Room of the National Arts Centre.\n9:30 \u2013 9:45 AM Opening Remarks Jim Ghadbane, President and CEO, CANARIE\nKathryn Anthonisen, Vice President, External Relations, CANARIE\n9:45 \u2013 10:45 AM Augmented Human: How Technology is Shaping the New Reality Dr. Helen Papagiannis, Expert on Augmented Reality\n10:45 \u2013 11:15 AM Networking Session\n11:15 AM \u2013 12:00 PM Untangling Nets \u2013 Understanding Deep Learning and Modern AI Dr. Isaac Tamblyn, Research Scientist, National Research Council\n12:00 \u2013 1:30 PM Lunch and Networking Session\n1:30 \u2013 2:30 PM Bridging the Gap: Leveraging Conversational AI to Improve Financial Literacy Natalie Cartwright, Co-founder & COO, Finn AI\n2:30 \u2013 3:20 PM Learning the Underlying Structure of Music Dr. Pablo Samuel Castro, Senior Research Software Developer, Google\n3:20 \u2013 3:45 PM Networking Session\n3:45 \u2013 4:30 PM AI and the Public Service Alex Benay, Chief Information Officer, Government of Canada\n5:00 \u2013 7:00 PM CANARIE\u2019s 25th Anniversary Reception O\u2019Born Room, National Arts Centre\n9:00 \u2013 10:00 AM Augmented Intelligence: How Big Data Can Make us Smarter Dr. Sean Gourley, TED Fellow, Founder and CEO, Primer\n10:00 AM \u2013 10:45 AM A Braze(n) Journey of Smart Wheelchairs: from Research to Market Dr. Pooja Viswanathan, CEO, Co-founder, Director, Braze Mobility\n10:45 AM \u2013 11:15 AM Networking Session\n11:15 AM \u2013 12:15 PM Can Robots Invade Your Privacy? 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In addition, members are proposed to receive EUR 500 for attendance at Board and Committee meetings.\nThe Nomination and Compensation Committee proposes that current Board members Henrik Ehrnrooth, Tapio Hakakari, Ilkka Herlin, Peter Immonen and Karri Kaitue be re-elected to the Board of Directors and that Mr. Antti Lagerroos, LL.Lic. be elected as a new member. More information on the new member is available on Cargotec's internet site www.cargotec.com.\n12. Proposal by the Board of Directors to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on acquisition of Cargotec's own shares\nThe Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting authorizes the Board to decide on acquisition of own shares with non-restricted equity. The shares may be acquired in order to develop the capital structure of the Company, finance or carry out possible acquisitions, implement the Company's share-based incentive plans, or to be transferred for other purposes or to be cancelled. The shares may be acquired through a directed acquisition as defined in Finnish Companies Act, Chapter 15 \u00a7 6.\nAltogether no more than 6,400,000 own shares may be purchased, of which no more than 952,000 are class A shares and 5,448,000 are class B shares. The above-mentioned amounts include the 1,904,725 class B shares purchased during 2005-2007 already in the Company's possession. The proposed amount corresponds to less than 10 percent of the share capital of the Company and the total voting rights. The acquisition of own shares will decrease the non-restricted equity of the Company.\n13. Proposal by the Board of Directors to authorize the Board of Directors to decide on transfer of treasury shares (i.e. own shares acquired by Cargotec)\nThe Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting authorizes the Board to decide on transfer of a maximum of 952,000 class A treasury shares and 5,448,000 class B treasury shares. The Board of Directors will be authorized to decide to whom and in which order the treasury shares will be transferred. The Board of Directors may decide on the transfer of treasury shares otherwise than in proportion to the existing pre-emptive right of shareholders to purchase the Company's own shares.\nThe treasury shares may be used as compensation in acquisitions and in other arrangements as well as to implement the Company's share-based incentive plans in the manner and to the extent decided by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors has also the right to decide on the transfer of the shares in public trading at the OMX Nordic Exchange, Helsinki to be used as compensation in possible acquisitions.\n14. Proposal by the Board of Directors to amend the Articles of Association of Cargotec Corporation\nThe Board of Directors proposes that the Annual General Meeting resolves to amend the Articles of Association mainly due to and to align with the new Finnish Companies Act effective as from 2006 as follows:\nRemove the provisions on minimum and maximum share capital as well as number of shares (current 3 \u00a7 and 4 \u00a7)\nSpecify and amend the provisions of share issue to align with the terminology of the new Companies Act (new 3 \u00a7)\nAmend the definition of the difference in dividend paid to the two share classes (new 3 \u00a7)\nRemove the provisions on record date (new 4 \u00a7)\nAmend the provisions on the right to represent the Company to correspond to the terminology of the new Companies Act (new 7 \u00a7)\nAmend the provisions on the Notice of a Shareholders' Meeting by defining the time of the notice in months and days (new 10 \u00a7)\nAmend the list of agenda items of the Annual General Meeting to correspond to the new Companies Act and add a provision on the Chairman's right to resolve the method of voting in Shareholders' Meetings (new 12 \u00a7)\nCargotec's financial statements and the proposals by the Board of Directors are available to shareholders for review as of January 31, 2008 on the Company's internet site at www.cargotec.com. Copies of the documents will be sent to shareholders upon request, and they will also be available at the Meeting. The Annual Report 2007 will be available on the Company's internet site on week 6 and will be mailed to shareholders on week 7.\nIn order to take part in the Annual General Meeting, shareholders must be registered in the shareholders' register maintained by the Finnish Central Securities Depository by February 19, 2008 and give a notice to Cargotec to attend the meeting not later than on February 25, 2008. Shareholders who have placed their shares in trust need to contact their bank, broker or other custodian to temporarily re-register the shares in their own name by February 19, 2008 in order to participate in the Meeting.\non Cargotec's internet site at www.cargotec.com;\nby mail: Cargotec Corporation, Share register, P.O. Box 61, 00501 Helsinki, Finland;\nby fax: +358 (0)204 55 4275; or\nby telephone: +358 (0)204 55 4284.\nThe CV and photo of Antti Lagerroos are available on the Cargotec's internet site at www.cargotec.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 10372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 225.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/about-us/staff-directory/ruby-kerawalla/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:07Z", "digest": "sha1:77FJQPQXQHWAAELAUWGDEDX4IETSZNWV", "length": 954, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.carnegiefoundation.org", "title": "Ruby Kerawalla | Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching", "raw_content": "Ruby Kerawalla\nReceptionist and Events Coordinator\nRuby Kerawalla is the Carnegie Foundation\u2019s Receptionist and Events Coordinator. 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She also has experience in human resources and employee benefits.\nOriginally from India, Ruby graduated from the University of Bombay with a bachelor of arts degree in history.\nPermanent link to page: https://www.carnegiefoundation.org/about-us/staff-directory/ruby-kerawalla/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 174.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.carngo.com/car-rental/russia-rostov-on-don-airport-rov-suv", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:25Z", "digest": "sha1:UZXQZUABHNMMYYQR7FARRZCEGCEATZUO", "length": 1805, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.carngo.com", "title": "SUV Rental Rostov-on-don Airport ROV | Reserve Now, Pay Later!", "raw_content": "SUV Rental Rostov-on-don Airport\nBest rental cars in Rostov-on-don Airport (ROV), Russian Federation. No hidden charges. 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She had been living in Kansas after \u201caging out\u201d of foster care for many years and was dealing with a lot of emotional and physical distress. Though a fresh start, the move also meant starting all over again.\nShe contacted a friend who offered a space for her to sleep. However, the apartment had no electricity and after being repeatedly robbed by strangers who frequented the apartment and sleeping in a closet, Emma longed for stable and safe housing. Thankfully, she was receiving help through Hale Kipa, a non-profit committed to helping youth and families. As a partner agency, Hale Kipa referred Emma to Catholic Charities Hawai\u2018i\u2019s Horizons Transitional Housing Program. Within a couple of days, Emma was successfully placed in the program.\n\u201cI finally felt safe. Ryan, our house manager, made sure we maintained the program\u2019s strict guidelines, and took advantage of every opportunity the program offered,\u201d said Emma. \u201cI started meeting with the therapist weekly and she helped me so much with my mental health.\u201d\nHorizons, located on Oahu, is an independent living program and outreach service available to young adults ages 18 to 25 who are transitioning out of mental health, child welfare, or juvenile justice systems. Residents may live in the home for up to 24 months where they learn independent living skills and take advantage of a matching savings plan.\n\u201cWhen I completed the program, I had saved $3,000, enough to finally move out and get my own place. It\u2019s now been a year and I am doing very well thanks to the Horizons Program. When I first moved in, I felt a sense of relief that I finally had stable housing and a new sense of independence. Without Horizons, none of this would have been possible.\u201d\nEmma is 20 years old now, graduated from the program and still overcoming obstacles. But she is thankful to have formed bonds with the staff who have helped her by directing her to additional resources available. \u201cI was no longer with the program, they had no obligation to help me. But they still treated me like family and they are someone I know I can count on for life.\u201d\nSince moving to her own place, Emma went back to school, graduated and earned her GED and graduated from the Kupu program with a degree in conservation. Next year, she will attend the pre-medicine program at John A. Burns School of Medicine to fulfill a lifelong goal of becoming a nurse. Additionally, she is taking care of her 16-year-old sister which has taught her even more discipline and responsibility.\n\u201cWithout Horizons (Program) and the amazing (Catholic Charities Hawaii) staff, who knows where I would have ended up\u2026thanks to their continued support and encouragement, I am in a great place in my life.\u201d\nYour donation might be one of most important gifts you make this holiday season. Make a donation today and help more young adults transition out of foster care with strong support to build positive connections as they grow into adulthood.\n*Client name has been changed to protect her anonymity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 274, "original_length": 10016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbibpt.org/events/reform-jews-in-a-library-talking-about-god-2019-03-25/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DFKRYR7THXSKXBQJIFIZXGDASCAB47CY", "length": 354, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cbibpt.org", "title": "Reform Jews in a Library Talking About God | Congregation B'nai Israel", "raw_content": "March 25, April 1, 8, 15\nNatt Family Library\nJoin with Rabbi Schultz for a four week course exploring modern Jewish theology. 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The British, in turn, shelled the mortar positions and bombed Baath headquarters.\n\"The bunch of desperados who've lived above the law rule the roost in this dictatorship, this regime that Saddam Hussein has been running,\" said Lt. Col. 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With U.S. armored divisions more than 100 miles away, advancing on Baghdad, 7th Armored Brigade, \"the Desert Rats,\" were on their own.\nBut coalition forces have made no secret of their hopes to spur such uprisings in the strategic southern city.\n\"We are assessing the situation very carefully to see how we can capitalize on it and how we can assist,\" said British spokesman Group Capt. Al Lockwood.\nDuring the battle for control of Basra, the Iraqis were firing artillery from the center of the city at British troops, said British spokesman Col. Chris Vernon, while the British confined their artillery to the city's outskirts, trying to identify clear military targets, especially tanks, and avoid civilian casualties. Basra could be a preview of the battle for Baghdad, he said.\nU.S. warplanes also dropped satellite-guided bombs on central Basra, targeting military sites hidden in civilian buildings, according to British accounts.\nGunner Neil Hughes of the Royal Horse Artillery said the Iraqis were using civilians as shields. \"There's some tanks refueling \u2014 five or six of them \u2014 but we couldn't engage them because they were right next to a built-up area, a hospital,\" he said.\nOn Tuesday night, thousands of Basra residents rampaged through the streets and set dozens of buildings ablaze, according to British reporters attached to military units.\n\"It appeared some of the population rose up and started attacking elements that are defending the city. These elements more and more as we're investigating them appear to be mostly criminal elements and ruling Baath party members,\" Lockwood said. \"The attack from the local population obviously gave them cause for concern to the extent that they started mortaring them.\"\nThe exiled Iraqi National Congress opposition party called it a large uprising and said it involved fierce hand-to-hand combat and bayonets.\nIn a telephone interview with Al-Jazeera television, Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed al-Sahhaf denied there was an uprising in Basra.\n\"The situation is stable,\" he said. \"Resistance is continuing and we are teaching them more lessons.\"\nDefense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said he was aware that Fedayeen guerrillas loyal to Saddam were infiltrating the city. But he said he was reluctant to encourage any uprisings.\n\"I guess those of us my age remember uprisings in Eastern Europe back in the 1950s when they rose up and they were slaughtered,\" he said. \"We know there are people in those cities ready to shoot them if they try to rise up.\"\nBut he added: \"Anyone who's engaged in an uprising has a whole lot of courage, and I sure hope they're successful.\"\nDuring the 1991 Gulf War, Basra's Shiites rose up against Saddam's Sunni Muslim regime in Baghdad. Government forces crushed the rebellion, slaughtering thousands across the south.\n\"It is important that we give support to those people in Iraq who are rising up to overthrow Saddam and his deeply repressive regime,\" Prime Minister Tony Blair said Wednesday.\n\"I think that the way that we do that, and the timing of it, however, has to be left to the commanders on the ground. I think that's important because they will know the true facts of the situation.\n\"And we've got to be careful that we know we have the support in place able to help them before we encourage them to do things that may lead to their death.\"\nThe number of casualties in Basra was not immediately known. But the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera quoted Iraqi medics on Saturday as saying 50 people were killed in U.S. bombings there.\nInternational relief agencies in phone contact with aid workers in the city expressed deep concern about the fate of trapped civilians.\n\"It's very alarming, very critical,\" said Veronique Taveau of the U.N. humanitarian office for Iraq.\nThe city's electricity was knocked out Friday during U.S.-British bombing. That in turn shut down Basra's water pumping and treatment plants. The U.N. Children's Fund estimated up to 100,000 Basra children under 5 were at immediate risk of severe disease from the unsafe water.\nOnce the harbor in Umm Qasr is cleared of mines, reports CBS News Correspondent Steve Knight in Kuwait City, aid shipments could start within a day or two.\n\"We want to bring the stuff in by sea to Umm Qasr,\" then truck it to Basra, said Vernon. \"The priorities are actually water and medical.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 13629, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/celebrity-circuit-29-8-05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:39Z", "digest": "sha1:SSJ4GPUZS7F4HPYAJGNJQGMLXLE5UGAK", "length": 3669, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.cbsnews.com", "title": "Celebrity Circuit - Photo 1 - Pictures - CBS News", "raw_content": "Matt Damon, a cast member in the new film \"The Brothers Grimm,\" arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of the film at the Directors Guild of America in West Hollywood, Calif., Aug. 8, 2005.\nItalian actress Monica Bellucci, a cast member in the new film \"The Brothers Grimm,\" arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of the film at the Directors Guild of America in West Hollywood, Calif., Aug. 8, 2005.\nTerry Gilliam, director of \"The Brothers Grimm,\" gestures to photographers before heading into the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Aug. 8, 2005.\nMatt Damon, left, and Peter Stormare, fellow cast members in the new film \"The Brothers Grimm,\" embrace at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Aug. 8, 2005.\nItalian actress Monica Bellucci, a cast member in the new film \"The Brothers Grimm,\" looks back for photographers at the Los Angeles premiere, Aug. 8, 2005.\nMatt Damon, a cast member in the new film \"The Brothers Grimm,\" jokes with photographers on the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Aug. 8, 2005.\nLena Headey arrives at \"The Brothers Grimm\" Los Angeles premiere, Aug. 8, 2005.\nTerry Gilliam, left, director of \"The Brothers Grimm,\" poses with cast member Heath Ledger at the Los Angeles premiere at the Directors Guild of America in West Hollywood, Calif., Aug. 8, 2005.\nAustralian actor Heath Ledger, a cast member in the new film \"The Brothers Grimm,\" signs autographs outside the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Aug. 8, 2005.\nAustralian actor Heath Ledger, a cast member in the new film \"The Brothers Grimm,\" arrives with his girlfriend, actress Michelle Williams, at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Aug. 8,2005.\nMatt Damon, star of the film \"The Brothers Grimm\", gestures to photographers as he arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Aug. 8, 2005.\nMonica Bellucci poses on the red carpet at \"The Brothers Grimm\" Los Angeles premiere.\nSoul singer Aretha Franklin performs during a ceremony honoring her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, at a city park named in the late civil rights leader's honor, Aug. 1, 2005, in Detroit.\nMusician and actor Steven Van Zandt shields his eyes from the light during a news conference kicking off a \"Save CBGB's\" campaign, Aug. 1, 2005, at the rock club in New York. Van Zandt and CBGB's owner and founder Killy Kristal announced a month-long campaign to save the legnedary rock club.\nMusician and actor Steven Van Zandt, right, leans over to talk to Hilly Kristal, founder and owner of the legendary New York rock club CBGB's, while kicking off a \"Save CBGB's\" campaign, Aug. 1, 2005, in New York. Van Zandt plays Silvio on the HBO hit drama \"The Sopranos\" and plays guitar in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.\nActor Patrick Swayze speaks to students and faculty of the Nevada Ballet Theatre in Las Vegas, July 28, 2005, to promote \"One Last Dance,\" a full length feature film set for DVD release Aug 23.\nCredit: AP/HOWARD HUGHES CORP\nPrince Charles, the Prince of Wales, and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, in their role as the Duke and Duchess of Rothesay, drink whisky from a Quaich given to them as a wedding gift at the 2005 Mey Games at Queens Park in Mey, Aug. 6, 2005 in Caithness, Scotland. The Duke of Rothesay takes his grandmother's place on the pavilion, having replaced her as honorary chieftain of the games.\nActress Rachel McAdams makes an appearance on MTV's \"Total Request Live\" at MTV Studios, Aug. 10, 2005, in New York City.\nActress Kate Hudson chats with MTV VJ Damien Fahey on MTV's \"Total Request Live\" at MTV Studios, Aug. 9, 2005, in New York City.\nActress Kate Hudson appears on MTV's \"Total Request Live\" at MTV Studios, Aug. 9, 2005, in New York City.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 4759, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 148.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ccp.sa.edu.au/competitions/exhibitions/box-hill-rotary-art-show-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:31Z", "digest": "sha1:DQOIMOR7FC4BALUE7Q3NCOL6FAX73FQD", "length": 552, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ccp.sa.edu.au", "title": "The Box Hill Rotary Whitehorse Art Show Events and Competitions | Centre for Creative Photography Photography Courses - Centre for Creative Photography", "raw_content": "Monday, 3 September 2018 4:00 pm 16:00\nOpen for Submissions - Monday 3 September 2018 - Monday 15 October 2018\nThe 2018 Box Hill Rotary Whitehorse Art Show marks the 54th Annual Art Show to be held within the City of Whitehorse and provides an outlet for quality artists to display and sell their work. The Art Show will be held in The Box Hill Town Hall, 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill from FRI 2 - TUE 6 NOVEMBER 2018 . 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We are also sending teams to Tegucigalpa, Honduras and Atlanta, Georgia to assist church plants in evangelizing the lost as well as training their members how to walk in a manner worthy of the Gospel.\nFor more information about Missions opportunities, contact Clay Jones.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chabadsugarland.com/templates/articlecco_cdo/aid/517485/jewish/Adult-Education.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:24Z", "digest": "sha1:56EIBCTQZJ5NCUSBD65BTEUTLYPX55S4", "length": 1008, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.chabadsugarland.com", "title": "Adult Education - The way learning is meant to be! - Chabad of Sugar Land", "raw_content": "The way learning is meant to be!\nWhether you\u2019re interested in some serious learning, a holiday program or just curious and want to learn more, you\u2019ll find something here for you. Our adult education curriculum is designed for all levels of Jewish education.\nOur objective is to provide interesting and stimulating classes on a wide array of subjects placing special emphasis on the mystical and spiritual aspects of our heritage.\nIn addition to our courses, we also offer lectures, holiday celebrations and other exciting programs. Please take a few moments to look through the classes schedule and find a class or program that\u2019s right for you.\nJoin us today for a wonderful learning experience and pave the way for a brighter, more meaningful tomorrow.\nSundays 9:30 a.m. Men's Teffilin Club & breakfast\nTuesdays 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Power Parshah.\nTuesdays 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. Mishnah - Jewish law\nTuesdays 8:00 -9:00 p.m. Kabbalah\nSaturdays 9:00 -10:00 a.m. Chasidut, Jewish mysticism.\nSaturdays 6:00 p.m. Talmud", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 3337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 183.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chapmanchapel.org/we-believe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:30Z", "digest": "sha1:ARWVMPSEOKPPM2265UTFSCECURKBCRLH", "length": 391, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.chapmanchapel.org", "title": "Chapman Community Chapel - We Believe", "raw_content": "Chapman Community Chapel exists to glorify God by:\nDeclaring the Word of God through Biblical preaching and teaching\nDelivering the message of salvation by grace through faith\nDiscipling Christians, nurturing and building up the body of Christ, creating in them God centered lives, encouraging Spiritual growth and holy living, through the Scriptures, mentorship, accountability, and prayer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.charlottehungerford.org/2016/03/03/part-ii/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:00Z", "digest": "sha1:PN22RTA3HP6OL6YHD57U6GTCNFOUN7KU", "length": 4223, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.charlottehungerford.org", "title": "Reflecting on a Century of Caregiving - PART II The Hospital on the Hill - Charlotte Hungerford Hospital", "raw_content": "Reflecting on a Century of Caregiving - PART II The Hospital on the Hill\nReflecting on a Century of Caregiving \u2013 PART II The Hospital on the Hill\nThis is the second of a three-part series on how Torrington got its hospital.\nSometime after 1910, Torrington native and turn of the century industrialist Uri Hungerford let it be known to his family in Torrington that his last will and testament held a substantial bequest for construction of a hospital to be named after his mother Charlotte Hungerford, commemorating her \u201cboundless energy and dedication for helping others.\u201d While his intentions were deemed admirable, his friends argued that the need was imperative and should not wait for his demise. Persuaded, he arranged to \u201cbuy a suitable site and build an adequate hospital\u201d with a $500,000 gift.\nJames A. Doughty, a local business leader in Torrington, began communicating with Uri T. Hungerford regarding his wish to erect a memorial to his mother, Charlotte. They soon began the search for an appropriate site, and after considering a number of areas around town, they selected the Albert Brooker Meadow located at the first turn of Four Story Hill. Surrounded by woods on three sides, it was quiet, secluded, on an untraveled road but easily accessible, and it was shielded from the west. It also had the advantage of being close to the city\u2019s factories, where a large number of industrial accidents occurred, yet far enough away from the valley\u2019s noise and smoky air.\nArchitect Ernest Greene of New York City, who previously designed The Torrington Club, The Torrington Library and supervised the rebuilding of the Center Congregational Church, prepared plans for the new hospital. Later that same year, H. Lines Company of Meriden began general construction. Famed Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted designed the approach and driveways, fulfilling the wishes of those who envisioned the hospital as having the feel of a wonderful and welcoming estate on the hill.\nA Proud Moment for Torrington\nThe new building had 50 beds, and featured \u201cintercommunicating telephones,\u201d a silent call system, seven fire hoses connected to standpipes, and even electrical clocks. Construction began in late summer 1914 and 16 months later, in October 1916, Charlotte Hungerford Hospital opened its doors in what is today the Memorial Building. Besides being a center for medical care, Charlotte Hungerford became a focus of civic pride. That same year, a group of volunteers who wished the new hospital success formed an Auxiliary group which still exists today to help raise needed funds for patient care.\nUri would continue his active support of the hospital until his death in 1926 at 85 years old, when his will stipulated that $500,000 be donated to the hospital immediately and that, upon the death of his wife, three-quarters of his estate\u2014approximately $4 million (or about $54,000,000 in 2015 dollars)\u2014would go to Charlotte Hungerford. This gift formed the basis of the hospital\u2019s endowment to assist funding of important capital projects and improvements in the future. Uri\u2019s gift literally keeps on giving \u2013 even after a century.\nDifficult Times, but a Bright Future\nUri\u2019s generous bequest helped lay plans for a 1929 addition that tripled patient capacity. The construction of a new patient tower, seven stories high, was completed and opened in 1930. The new facility was a momentous event. In fact, it was considered so important it was included in the 1932 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica to illustrate the modern American hospital. The hospital was praised as \u201cthe best equipped hospital of its size in the world\u201d in the local paper. Each floor had a kitchen and solarium.\nThe next decade would bring the Great Depression of the 1930s, which brought hard times to the hospital. World War II also effected profound changes with doctors, nurses and other employees going off to war. Shortages of labor and important commodities were made worse by increasing numbers of patients and rising costs. Healthcare was changing and Charlotte Hungerford Hospital was poised to grow when the War came to end. A bright future was ahead.\nPart III on Charlotte Hungerford Hospital\u2019s heritage will publish March 14.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 304, "original_length": 9937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 182.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cheapwebdesigns.in/website-designing-company-in-delhi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:34Z", "digest": "sha1:3DKKBEKNTZJ2MPT4F7RLYOIU2BMTXB3A", "length": 1196, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.cheapwebdesigns.in", "title": "website Designing in Delhi, Website Designer in Delhi, Cheap web Design", "raw_content": "Static Website \u2013 Website Designing Company in Delhi\nMake a Static Website Designing @ Rs. 4,999 /-\nThere are basically two main types of website \u2013 Static and Dynamic. A static site is one that is usually written in plain HTML and what is in the code of the page is what is displayed to the user. A dynamic site Designing is one that is written using a server-side scripting language such as PHP, ASP, JSP, or Coldfusion. In such a site the content is called in by the scripting language from other files or from a database depending on actions taken by the user.\nFeatures Which We provide With cheap Static Website in Delhi\nStatic Websites Designing \u2013 Advantages\nFlexibility is the main advantage of a static website Designing \u2013 every page can be different if desired, to match the layout to different content, and the designer is free to put in any special effects that a client may ask for in a unique way on different pages. This allows theming \u2013 for instance an author may want a different theme for a different book and associated pages or perhaps for a series of books, in order to match the cover designs or the context of the stories.\nCost is generally lower up-front than a dynamic site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/northwich-hailed-inspiration-scandinavian-visitors-13039299", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:05Z", "digest": "sha1:IFBFIBN5ZP7QY2DW3RODJWNS3ZPF2NBR", "length": 2904, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.cheshire-live.co.uk", "title": "Northwich hailed an inspiration for Scandinavian visitors - Cheshire Live", "raw_content": "Northwich hailed an inspiration for Scandinavian visitors\nDelegates from Norway and Sweden were on a BID fact-finding mission\nNorthwich BID manager Jane Hough presenting to the delegates\nNorthwich proved to be an inspiration for visitors from Scandinavia last week as delegates visited the town as part of a short fact-finding mission.\nThe groups, who were from Norway and Sweden, were in England as part of a study tour to look at the effectiveness of small and medium-sized business improvement districts and Northwich was chosen as the perfect example.\nNeither Sweden or Norway have BID legislation although Sweden does have a number of small BIDs up and running.\nThe visiting party, which included Sweden\u2019s CEO of Town & City Management, arrived in Northwich mid-morning and were then given a tour of the traditional high street and a visit to the Barons Quay development; an example of how partnership working can bring about positive changes.\nNorthwich museum welcomes the crowds for Salt Sunday celebration\nFollowing this, Northwich BID manager Jane Hough gave a talk at Memorial Court, discussing the history of the BID, the progress made since its inception in 2014 and also highlighting a number of success stories.\nJane showed how the look and feel of the town centre has improved markedly thanks to hanging baskets, railing baskets and the revamp of public realm spaces, citing how partnership working between the BID, Northwich Town Council and Cheshire West and Chester Council has been valuable and effective.\nThe visitors were impressed with the transformation of Pocket Park which turned from scrubland into a mini oasis in a matter of weeks and took a keen interest in the walled garden hoarding in Witton Street which was installed through the BID to bring a splash of colour to one of the main walkways in town.\nJane then went on to explain how successful events such as the extravaganzas had been developed and grown bigger because of the additional investments BID has provided and how resources such as a new website for the town and strong social media presence have been implemented through the programme.\nFollowing their stay in Northwich, the group then went on to meet with the teams at Liverpool and Southport BIDs to see and hear about further success stories.\nSpectators line the streets in Northwich for Tour Series event\nOn the day, the delegates were joined by Ged Gibbons who was the chief operating officer at Liverpool Commercial Business Improvement District.\nHe reported very positive feedback from the delegates who had visited Northwich.\n\u201cThe study group were blown away by the partnership work and strategic development of Northwich Town Centre,\u201d he said.\n\u201cThey were thrilled and genuinely impressed with what the Northwich Business Improvement District has achieved and the development programme it has managed to implement in a relatively short space of time.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 10043, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chicagoillinoiscaraccidentlawyerblog.com/pedestrians-injured-by-car-goi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NCLMG23RZISNBLH5JBO5E3R4ZIYAXW5H", "length": 1562, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.chicagoillinoiscaraccidentlawyerblog.com", "title": "Pedestrians Injured By Car Going \"Wrong Way\" On Chicago's Michigan Avenue \u2014 Chicago Illinois Car Accident Lawyer Blog \u2014 July 2, 2011", "raw_content": "Pedestrians Injured By Car Going \u201cWrong Way\u201d On Chicago\u2019s Michigan Avenue\nYesterday, around 5:15 p.m., a woman driving southbound in the northbound lanes on Michigan avenue (downtown Chicago) struck two people in a crosswalk. Both pedestrians were injured.\nThe motorist, who is in her 80s, could be charged but so far has not. Police were still investigating the accident.\nThe accident happened on the 200 block of North Michigan Avenue, said Police News Affairs Officer Darryl Baety.\nAccording to the story as seen at the July 2 ChicagoTribune.com article titled \u201cPedestrians hurt in wrong-way crash\u201d :\nAfter hitting the 31-year-old woman and 35-year-old man, the motorist also struck a vehicle in the northbound lane, and that vehicle was pushed into another vehicle stopped behind it, Baety said.\nChicago Fire Department paramedics arrived on the scene and took both pedestrians to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. One person was in serious-to-critical condition and the other was in good condition, according to a spokesman.\nThe motorist also was taken to Northwestern, but her condition was not available.\nThe two drivers of the other vehicles that were struck declined to go to the hospital and were treated at the scene.\nAccording to the Illinois Department of Transportation City Summary Crash Report for Chicago, Year 2009 (the most recent data available), there is a significant number of pedestrian accidents and fatalities in Chicago.\nThe Michigan Avenue area, especially where this accident occurred, is one of great pedestrian and vehicular traffic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3818, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.chinaeducationaltours.com/guide/qingming-festival.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:02Z", "digest": "sha1:RJMGYF62VIKCOLIFKNHDWRUXGBCHPM4J", "length": 4441, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.chinaeducationaltours.com", "title": "The Qingming Festival: Legend,Traditional Sacrifices & Modern Offerings and Qingming Painting", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb China Guide \u00bb Chinese Culture \u00bb The Qingming Festival\nCustoms: To Do List\nTaboos & Questions\nQingming Festival Poems\nTop 10 Places to Travel in Spring\nQingming, in Chinese, means \u2018clear and bright\u2019, is one of the 24 Solar Terms, and is an important traditional festival referred to as Tomb-Sweeping Day or the Mourning Day. The festival can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC). The day is for commemorating ancestors and sweeping tombs, and is also the common link between the Chinese nations. The words \u201cClear\u201d and \u201cBright\u201d describe the weather in this period such that it is a golden opportunity for spring cultivation and getting close to nature. The day before Qingming Festival is Cold Food Day when people are forbidden fire and only eat cold food. As time went by, the two festivals intermingled.\nOn the 20th May, 2006, Qingming Festival was added to the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List.\nThe Qingming Festival dates over next few years:\nYear Date Weekday\n2018 April 5 Thursday\n2019 April 5 Friday\n2020 April 4 Saturday\nThe Legend about Qingming Festival \u2014 A Story of Duke Wen of Jin and Jie Zitui\nIn The Spring and Autumn period (770-475BC), Chong\u2019er, prince of the Jin State, with his followers ran away from his country to avoid persecution. They had suffered hunger and cold in exile. Legend has it that a supporter named Jie Zitui cut a piece of flesh from his own leg to save the starving Chong\u2019er. After 19 years, when Chong\u2019er succeeded to his father\u2019s throne, his followers all strived for credit, except for the loyal Jie Zitui. Therefore, other followers were rewarded, and Jie Zitui was totally forgotten. Then Jie retired with his mother to the Mian Mountain.\nChong\u2019er, Duke Wen of the Jin State, felt guilty, and wanted to bring him back. But it is very difficult to find people in the steep mountains and dense forests. Someone suggested that he set a fire to smoke Jie Zitui out. Following the Duke\u2019s order, the fire was lit, and lasted three whole days and nights. As the result, Jie and his mother were burned to death beside an old willow. There was a blood-letter that said, \u201cCutting flesh only for lord, hoping owner always develops clear and bright policies\u201d. After that, Duke Chong\u2019er wailed for Jie\u2019s death and ordered all fires of every house to be put out and only cold food to be allowed on the anniversary of his death.\nTraditional Sacrifices and Modern Offerings\nSacrifices have varied according to different periods. In the cemetery, Chinese people burn some paper money in the belief that deceased relatives can use it in their afterlife. It is a Confucian tradition in China. Nowadays, those offerings have become more fashionable and keep up with times.\nTraditional Sacrifices\nPaper money, golden paper ingots, and some candles are in increased demand during the Qingming Festival. It is common to visit relatives\u2019 graves and offer flowers on it and bring some fresh fruits, homemade food, and white spirit.\nThese days, paper offerings of items on Sweeping Tomb Day are faux iPhone products, luxury cars with a driver, branded bags and clothes, and enormous villas with swimming pools. In recent years, users on the internet can find a set of services of sweeping tombs for someone who cannot do it in person, to clean graves, place flowers, and pay respect. Even the ways to express devotion to the deceased has become virtual. Many mourners can do their sacrifice online. Users can create web shrines with candles on the sacrifice website, and then they can offer different kinds of virtual tributes, such as pictures of one\u2019s favorite foods and flowers.\nChinese Painting: Along the River During the Qingming Festival (\u6e05\u660e\u4e0a\u6cb3\u56feq\u012bng m\u00edng sh\u00e0ng h\u00e9 t\u00fa)\nArtists are keen on an art creation about the Qingming Festival. \u201cAlong the River During the Qingming Festival\u201d is a panoramic painting by Zhang Zeduan in the Northern Dynasty (960-1127AD). It is one of the China\u2019s top 10 most famous paintings and is treated as a national treasure collected in the Palace Museum of Beijing. This hand scroll painting is 25.2 cm in height and 528.7cm long. It vividly depicts the lives of people of all ranks in the capital city of Bianjing (today\u2019s Kaifeng, Henan Province) during the Qingming Festival. 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We invite you to bring a favorite dish from your heritage to share...\nA fun movie night for families. New friends are always welcome!\nAll kids ages 13 and under are invited to bring a flashlight and come for a great night. 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Check out this story on cincinnati.com: https://cin.ci/2u5CIyD\nJeanne Houck, Cincinnati Enquirer Published 5:01 p.m. ET July 8, 2018\nHere's a rendering of condominium buildings to be built in Montgomery.(Photo11: Provided)\nMONTGOMERY \u2013 The developer of a $69 million mixed-use project in Montgomery recently joined city officials in a groundbreaking ceremony to kick off construction on one of the last available parcels of The Vintage Club.\nTraditions Building & Development Group of Sharonville will begin construction of The Village there with two of a planned trio of condominium buildings that together will hold 44 units \u2013 and the start of related public improvements that will boost the cost of the development another $5.7 million.\nCondominium prices will begin at $500,000.\nPreliminary plans for The Village also call for 16,200 square feet of restaurant space and just over 19,000 square feet of retail space.\nThe Village will be built in phases on 15 of some 68 acres at The Vintage Club, a $90 million community of 105 single-family homes on Montgomery Road, just north of the Interstate 275 interchange.\nNow, The Christ Hospital Surgery Center and medical office building and a clubhouse are the only non-residential uses at The Vintage Club.\nMontgomery City Council has issued bonds in an amount not to exceed $5.7 million for infrastructure related to The Village.\n\u201cThe public improvements include a public parking lot, streetscape improvements, landscaping and public gathering spaces that will add to the unique village atmosphere,\u201d said Tracy Roblero, Montgomery\u2019s director of community development.\nMoney that normally would be paid in property taxes on the new development will for a time be put into a special tax-increment financing (TIF) fund to be used for public improvements.\nThe fund will pay off the bonds issued by Montgomery.\n\u201cWe are fortunate to partner with Traditions Building & Development Group on this attractive 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City justice courts handle most crimes in Utah but too often are headed by judges with questionable legal knowledge or by close buddies of city mayors\u2014who appoint judges and whose city coffers depend on a judge finding defendants guilty and imposing hefty fines. A just-released reform plan from the Utah Judicial Council would require judges have at least a bachelor\u2019s degree and make them state, not city, employees, selected by an expert panel. Those are good first steps that, unfortunately, do not need to be fully implemented until 2016. The plan is open for public comment before it is sent to the Legislature next year.\nWhen Utah\u2019s Legislature OKed $35 million in taxes to help Real Salt Lake build a stadium, the idea was for tax money to be used for public improvements. Real Salt Lake would be on its own to finance moneymaking hotels and shops on adjacent property. But it didn\u2019t take long for proposals to siphon tax money into the private ventures. Sandy City proposed to buy land next to the stadium from Real, then turn around and \u201cgift\u201d the land back to the company. Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. snuffed the deal, saying the public money should be used for public parking. A nice catch. But he, and the rest of the public, will want to keep an eye out for the next round of creative financing.\nUtah lawmakers understand water rustlin\u2019, and they\u2019re in a fighting mood over plans by Las Vegas to drill for water just west of Utah\u2019s border. The Legislature\u2019s natural resources committee recently penned a letter asking for $6 million to fund a study of ground water beneath the Utah-Nevada border. Noting Las Vegas pumping could deplete the water table in Utah, Utah lawmakers fear a mass die-off of desert vegetation, sending dust clouds to Salt Lake City. Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who has indicated support for the study, had better strap his spurs on. Las Vegas water officials have reacted by threatening Utah water-development projects, and the federal fight will mean taking on Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, the majority leader of the U.S. Senate.\n\u00ab Frost Bytes | Rocky, the Big Tipper \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cjc.dk/press-topics/current-topics/politician-mette-frederiksen-visits-ccj/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:52Z", "digest": "sha1:SHQYZ4OQQRZYHF6672VSZPYLM4LRSPI2", "length": 1874, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.cjc.dk", "title": "Politician Mette Frederiksen visits C.C.JENSEN A/S", "raw_content": "politician Mette Frederiksen visits C.C.JENSEN\nThe Politician Mette Frederiksen visited our filter Production Plant in Svendborg on 18.05.2016.\nMette Frederiksen is the leader of the biggest Danish opposition party, Socialdemokraterne.\nInterview with Politician Mette Frederiksen about C.C.JENSEN\nPolitician Mette Frederiksen was interviewed (in Danish) by our local radio station, Radio Diablo. Below is a summary of the interview:\n\u201cVisiting C.C.JENSEN was a great experience. CCJ is an extremely good company with a lot of very proud and highly educated employees. The company has delivered an amazing financial report for spring 2016. Furthermore, they have proved that investing in robot technology, and doing it cleverly, you are able to keep production in Denmark. Denmark needs strong private companies and here we as politicians have a responsibility. Denmark has the conditions to keep being one of the best societies in the world, something that has even been mentioned in the American election campaign! This society is based on the fact that here in Denmark we are very equal, eg the smith and the engineer are in direct dialogue making it possible to see if a specific design is possible and realistic in the real world. We have a very equal society; we find it easy to cooperate with people with different educations than ourselves. This is indeed a fantastic story!\u201d\nListen to the entire interview (in Danish):\nhttps://www.facebook.com/helesydfynsradio/videos/996689813718879/\nBelow we refer to her statements at her Facebook page:\n\"C.C.JENSEN epitomizes a solid Danish company. All their production takes place in Denmark. This is possible because they have been enormously proficient to invest in automation while they upskilling their employees so that they can cope with the more specialized tasks. It pays to invest in the future - well done C.C.JENSEN!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 400, "original_length": 12313, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.claimexpenses.com/terms", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:10Z", "digest": "sha1:XXB55ISLLOKKEG2PPRNFUTDRJMSJYAVG", "length": 19538, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "www.claimexpenses.com", "title": "Privacy and Terms | claimexpenses.com", "raw_content": "This page tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website www.claimexpenses.com.\nVersion 2.0: These terms were last updated on 23rd October 2017. They may be updated in the future and we'll post the new version here on our website.\nWhat some words mean\nSo that we can be completely clear, here are some words we use which have specific meanings:\n\"Account Holder\" means a sole trader or company which has a claimexpenses.com account (generally this will be the organisation who invited you to the site);\n\"claimexpenses.com account\" means a current subscription to The Service;\n\"The Service\" means our claimexpenses.com software which is accessed and used via our password protected websites;\n\"us\" \"we\" and \"our\" refers to Creative Carbon Scotland. We are a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (registered charity number SC042687) and have our registered office at City Chambers, Room 9/50, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1YJ;\n\"you\" means you, the person who accesses and uses this website and/or The Service; and\n\"your Data\" means any data entered or uploaded by you while using The Service.\nCreating and accessing a claimexpenses.com account\nHow to apply: In order to access and use The Service, a claimexpenses.com account must first be created by signing up on our website and registering a new organisation.\nFormation of a contract: If we accept an application for the creation of a claimexpenses.com account, we will confirm this by email and at that point a legally binding contract will be created between the Account Holder and us. If you apply for a claimexpenses.com account to be created, you must therefore ensure that you are authorised to enter into this contract for and on behalf of the Account Holder. 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Otherwise, you shall be personally be held liable for any reasonable costs and expenses incurred by us as a result of breach of these Terms of Service by you.\nEntire agreement: These Terms of Service and our Privacy Policy describe the entire agreement between you, the Account Holder and us regarding The Service, and supersede any prior understandings or agreements. The headings are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction or interpretation of these Terms of Service.\nThird party features: In order to use certain optional features of claimexpenses.com which relies on external data sources or embedded third party services you will be require to accept the terms and conditions of the relevant third party provider. 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Similarly, if any part of these Terms turn out to be invalid or unenforceable for some reason, then it will be replaced with a provision which, as far as possible, achieves the same purpose as the original, and the remainder of the agreement will still be binding.\nResolving disputes: These Terms of Service shall be governed by and interpreted in accordance with Scots law. If any party wants to take court proceedings in relation to The Service, it must do so in Scotland. You are responsible for compliance with any applicable laws of the country from which you use or otherwise access The Service.\nCreative Carbon Scotland (\"We\") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.\nInformation that you provide by filling in forms and data fields on our site www.claimexpenses.com (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, data inputted when using the site, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.\nCreative Carbon Scotland may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research and market research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.\nDetails of your visits to our site [including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data] and the resources that you access.\nWe may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our clients and advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.\nThe information that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (\"EEA\"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Creative Carbon Scotland will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.\nTo carry out our obligations arising from our contract we will share all information provided by you with contractors including data inputted for the purposes of carbon footprinting. This information will be used by us in order to provide environmental sustainability support to you.\nTo carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between third party contractors in relation to provision of services to you.\nIf Creative Carbon Scotland or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.\nIf we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and/or terms and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Creative Carbon Scotland, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.\nWe may disclose your personal information to other users who have been granted access to your overall claimexpenses.com account by the Account Holder. These users may include finance staff, environment officers and others within the organisation who the Account Holder wishes to provide with access to expenses, travel and carbon data. If you have concerns about the privacy of your information within your organisation you should speak to the Account Holder.\nDisclosure of information to Google Maps\nWe use the Google Maps service to power location search, trip maps and journey distance calculations. When you use these features as part of entering a travel claim, elements of the data you enter will be shared with Google. 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Google may also be able to indirectly identify you, link your activity to your activity on other websites that make use of Google services, or identify your rough geographical location by collecting data from cookies, IP address and system / browser metadata that your browser sends to them.\nGoogle uses the information sent directly by us in order to provide the location search results and maps you have requested. They may also use that data, and any additional data they collect directly, to improve their service and provide more relevant results as well as for a variety of their own purposes.\nThe Google Privacy Policy sets out the full details of how Google collect, protect, and use your personal data across all their services.\nYou have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at info@creativecarbonscotland.com\nQuestions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to info@creativecarbonscotland.com.\nWhat some words mean Creating and accessing a claimexpenses.com account Your rights Your obligations Paying for The Service Who owns what Closing a claimexpenses.com account Disclaimer General legal matters\nInformation we may collect from you IP addresses Cookies Where we store your information Uses made of the information Disclosure of your information Your rights Access to information Changes to our privacy policy Contact", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 23410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/m/the-mayor-of-casterbridge/thomas-hardy-biography", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:32Z", "digest": "sha1:G6AKIOZBOLQSCH2ITNVHIWJV5BK7KIMO", "length": 3897, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.cliffsnotes.com", "title": "Thomas Hardy Biography", "raw_content": "Thomas Hardy was born June 2, 1840, in the village of Upper Bockhampton, about three miles from the town of Dorchester in Southwestern England. The impressions of his early youth \u2014 the people, the events, the surrounding countryside \u2014 became part of the subject matter of his \"Wessex\" novels and stories. The town of Casterbridge itself, for example, is modeled after Dorchester.\nHardy's father was a builder and stone mason and was by no means wealthy. His mother loved reading, and under her care young Thomas was given an ample introduction to the classics, folk songs, ballads, and local stories and legends. Music was also a common feature of the Hardy household. Thomas's father taught him to play the violin, for he himself was violinist in the church choir and often played at parties, weddings, and festivals. Music was a great love throughout Thomas Hardy's life and often figures in his writing. At least three important scenes in The Mayor of Casterbridge involve music.\nEducation and Apprenticeship\nHardy did not study at a university. His formal education consisted of a year in a village school at Lower Bockhampton and additional private schooling in Dorchester during which he learned French and German. When he was sixteen, his father apprenticed him to a Dorchester architect, John Hicks, where he was taught architectural drawing for the restoration of churches and old houses. Indeed, this association taught him much of local family histories and folklore. When the day's work was completed, Thomas usually undertook advanced Latin studies and the task of teaching himself Greek.\nIn 1862 Hardy went to London as a draftsman and worked in the office of A. W. Blomfield, an architect. During this time he won a number of prizes for essays, and he began to steep himself in architectural and art studies, classic literature, contemporary poetry, and fiction. In 1867 he returned to Dorchester to a better position as a church-restorer with his former master, and began to write more steadily.\nYears as a Novelist (1867-1895)\nFrom this time on, Hardy wrote poetry and novels, though he dedicated himself chiefly to the novel form until 1895. At first Hardy published anonymously, but as interest grew in his work, he began to write under his own name. His novels were published for the most part in serial form in well-known magazines both in England and America. His major novels are:\nUnder the Greenwood Tree (1872), Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), The Return of the Native (1878), The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), The Woodlanders (1887), Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891), and Jude the Obscure (1895). His works were highly acclaimed (the success of Far from the Madding Crowd enabled him to give up architecture and to marry), but he also encountered literary hostility. Jude the Obscure received such harsh criticism that Hardy gave up the writing of novels entirely.\nYears as a Poet (1895-1928)\nHardy retired to his house in Dorchester and there turned to poetry almost exclusively. Before his death he completed over 800 poems and a long epic drama, The Dynasts (1908). His first marriage was not a happy one, but in 1914, two years after the death of his first wife, he married a second time. The remaining supremely happy years of his life were spent in matrimonial devotion and reticent tranquility. The last two decades of Hardy's life were increasingly full of honors.\nWith the death of George Meredith in 1909, he became undisputed holder of the title of greatest living man of letters, and in 1910 he was awarded the Order of Merit. His house, Max Gate, became a literary shrine, and there he received many visitors from all over the English-speaking world. He continued to publish poetry well into the 1920s, even though he was then over eighty. He died at the age of 87 on January 11, 1928.\nPrevious Minor Characters\nNext Structure of The Mayor of Casterbridge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 7171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 104.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.climate-policy-watcher.org/global-climate-2/modeling-of-ice-ages.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:58Z", "digest": "sha1:SCAFCZ3F4DMR2WI5NN44FLG3TKLFFNKI", "length": 1881, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.climate-policy-watcher.org", "title": "Modeling of Ice Ages - Global Climate - Climate Policy Watcher", "raw_content": "Modeling of Ice Ages\nMODELING IcE AGEs and their inception can reveal aspects of the climate system that are not able to be measured, and provide a key to the drivers of climate change. Ice age model results can also allow an analysis of the global and regional conditions at that time, and provide a comparison with proxy field evidence. Models range from simple conceptual models, to full global climate models that include vegetation growth and ocean dynamics. To simulate ice ages or their inception, modelers consider several forcing factors. Low greenhouse gas levels are critical. A continental configuration that limits the oceanic transfer of heat from the tropics to the poles is also important. Ice ages can be instigated by orbital conditions that lend themselves to cool summers in high latitude continents or by weathering processes that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.\nOnce an area cools and an ice sheet begins to grow, there are many feedbacks that encourage its growth. These include local cooling caused by the ice itself\u2014 from the higher reflectivity (albedo) of the ice and the increasing altitude of the ice surface. There are also many feedbacks that alter the levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases. For example, marshes and other regions of vegetation can be a source of greenhouse gases; as these regions freeze or are covered in ice, that source of greenhouse gas is removed. As the globe cools and the oceans begin to cool, even more greenhouse gases are removed from the atmosphere, because a cool ocean has more capacity to absorb carbon dioxide. Feedbacks are instrumental in starting and maintaining an ice age or glacial period. In a warming world, these feedbacks occur in reverse, and evidence from ice cores indicate that warming feedbacks contribute to much more rapid changes in global climate than cooling feedbacks.\nCratons Africa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cloudgehshan.com/projects/lehrman-garage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:32Z", "digest": "sha1:U672QS6THWWVAPVXYAHQL45OW2CEPPJB", "length": 329, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cloudgehshan.com", "title": "Lehrman Garage - Cloud Gehshan", "raw_content": "Stable of gems\nCG has designed immersive environmental graphics for a prize-winning collection of vintage Duesenbergs, Packards and Rolls Royces. Photographs of gas stations, car showrooms and manufacturing plants of the period were researched and retouched to form a backdrop for the beautifully restored antique car collection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/10/25/air-india-breaks-record-for-worlds-furthest-non-stop-flight.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZV53TVN43J32IR56UYYSBXBZAPPD7OC", "length": 174, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cnbc.com", "title": "Air India breaks record for world's furthest non-stop flight", "raw_content": "Air India breaks record for world's furthest non-stop flight\nAir India\u2019s Boeing-777 200ER flew 9,506 miles, surpassing the previous holder of world\u2019s longest distance flight.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 428, "original_length": 13385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 331.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cobbcountydui.com/Attorney-Profiles/Kimberly-Berry.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PWNXZPUDSGATENFUAMUPFMTHIPGODKKT", "length": 2858, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.cobbcountydui.com", "title": "Kimberly Berry | Cobb County DUI", "raw_content": "Kimberly Berry has successfully represented individuals charged with DUI and other related drug and alcohol crimes in hundreds of misdemeanor and felony cases. She has experience conducting hearings and motions in courts throughout the state of Georgia and maintains an aggressive trial practice defending those wrongly accused of DUI. Ms. Berry is also experienced in defending drivers in administrative driver's license suspension hearings prosecuted by the Georgia Department of Driver Services. In addition, Ms. Berry has handled appeals.\nMs. Berry is a graduate of Vanderbilt University School of Law where she was a Dean's Scholar. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia and is a graduate of Gwinnett County public schools. She began her legal career as a public defender and was selected into the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council Honors Program for outstanding law school graduates. Ms. Berry is admitted to practice in all juvenile, state, recorders, municipal, and superior courts of Georgia as well as the Georgia Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court of Georgia. In addition, Ms. Berry also handles criminal defense cases in federal prosecutions in the Northern District of Georgia. In early 2011, she completed a comprehensive training course certifying her in DUI Detection & Standardized Field Sobriety Testing using the NHTSA curriculum. This is the same training that Georgia DUI officers receive qualifying them to stop and arrest drivers for DUI. Ms. Berry regularly consults with the top DUI expert witnesses and receives up to date training on developments in DUI law and detection technologies.\nMs. Berry is committed to giving each of her clients personal attention and fighting hard to ensure that they receive the best possible outcome in their case whether that is through negotiating a favorable plea bargain or effectively presenting the case at a jury trial. While Ms. Berry is an accomplished trial lawyer, she is often able to negotiate a DUI down to a reckless driving offense and a trial is not necessary.\nMs. Berry focuses her practice on defending drivers wrongfully and overzealously accused of driving under the influence offenses as well as cases charging people with Minor in Possession ( MIP ), underage consumption, furnishing alcohol to minors, possession of marijuana or other drugs, open container violations, public drunk, violations of probation, child endangerment DUI offenses, reckless driving, habitual violators, and serious injury and accident cases by vehicle including vehicular homicide. The best lawyers in Georgia recognize Ms. Berry's courtroom accomplishments and her clients are in good hands as her office is the premier DUI defense law firm in Metro Atlanta and North Georgia.\nNHTSA DUI Detection & Standardized Field Sobriety Testing Certification of Achievement", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 6699, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.colblog.com/category/startup/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:46Z", "digest": "sha1:74OHAEMGOGG7GLAMRMZUCIUIXILATFYL", "length": 2523, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.colblog.com", "title": "Startup Archives - Page 2 of 3 - Colblog", "raw_content": "Starting your own business can exist, scary, and nerve-wracking all at the same time. Building something from scratch can take some time, and most people don\u2019t have a cash reserve to jump ship from their\u2026\nIf you want to become an entrepreneur, you are not alone. It\u2019s no surprise so many people are considering embarking on the entrepreneurial journey. All entrepreneurs need to know some important things. If they know\u2026\nStartup, Tips And Tricks April 12, 2017\nGetting yourself surrounded with the right kind of people is one of the most powerful things you can do as an entrepreneur. It is very easy for you to start your own business, but it\u2019s\u2026\n6 Lessons I Wish I Knew Before Becoming an Entrepreneur\nEvery year thousands of people quit their jobs. They take up the entrepreneur path looking to develop their own business. As entrepreneurship is not a cut piece deal, you only learn nice plenty on the\u2026\n5 Factors That Prevent the Growth of Your Online Business\nOnline business, which has made ease of access for both owners and customers, It has become a regular keyword to the public at this moment. From this, we can understand the impact of online business\u2026.\nStartup April 6, 2017\nWhat are the best ways to think of ideas for a startup?\nEveryone can think of a bunch of ideas for a startup but most of the time and most of them won\u2019t succeed, but in the right world for a startup idea which will be successful\u2026\nLife Hacks, Startup April 4, 2017\nYour Other Half : Finding Perfect Co-founder For Your Startup\nThe co-founder/partner in your startup will have as much as responsibility and work as you have. The bond between the partners is very essential for the startup to succeed because on that bond and compatibility\u2026\nSocial Media Marketing, Startup April 4, 2017\nMarketing is most efficient and effective when it is most memorable to the audience and makes them think about it, but it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it has to be rich and extravagant. Using of creative\u2026\nTop 10 Movies That Inspire An Aspiring Entrepreneur\nNo one ever said being an entrepreneur would be easy. A million obstacles seem to stand in the way each and every day. But you are not an average person: You\u2019re an entrepreneur. That means\u2026\nLife Hacks, Startup March 31, 2017\n10Cs to Fulfill Your Startup Dreams \u2013 Golden Tips for Newbies\nLet\u2019s face the truth, not every startup succeeds and most of the startups end up being bought by other entrepreneurs. But rarely some startup\u2019s not only made millions but also becomes huge entrepreneurship all by\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.commonfrontiers.ca/the-winter-2017-michael-baptista-lecture-violence-in-mexico-and-canadian-refugee-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:49Z", "digest": "sha1:RLORPOZB22P5G272PSHAHLGEDOW35VWI", "length": 1943, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.commonfrontiers.ca", "title": "The Winter 2017 Michael Baptista Lecture: Violence in Mexico and Canadian Refugee Policy - Common Frontiers", "raw_content": "The Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) Presents:\nThe Winter 2017 Michael Baptista Lecture:\nViolence in Mexico and Canadian Refugee Policy\nFor its Winter 2017 Michael Baptista Lecture, CERLAC is delighted to host Dr. Sergio Aguayo along with a panel of Canadian immigration experts.\nPlace: Sandra Faire and Ivan Fecan Theater \u2013 Accolade East \u2013 York University\nRenowned scholar and human rights activist sergio Aguayo will speak on the deeping humanitarian crisis in Mexico, which has been marked by the targeted assaination of journalists, the mass disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college, and the deaths of hundreds of thousands in a war between the state and powerful drug cartels.\nTo escape criminal violence as well as poverty, millions of Mexicans and Central Americans have fled north to the United States and Canada in recent years. A panel of immigration experts will examine the implications for Canadian immigration policy, at a time when Donald Trump enacts the immigration measures he has long promised, while the Trudeau government lifts the visa requirement for Mexican citizens introduced by its predecessor.\nBorn in the State of Jalisco, Mexico, Sergio Aguayo is a research professor at the Centro de Estudios Internacionales (Center for International Studies) at El Colegio de Mexico, where he currently coordinates the Seminar on Violence and Peace. He has taught at universities in Mexico, the US, and Europe and holds a doctorate from John Hopkins University. A leading academic and journalist, Sergio Aguayo has published widely on human rights and violence in Mexico.\nThe session will be chaired by Alan Simmons and Luin Goldring from York University.\nJudy Hellman \u2013 York University\nKathy Price \u2013 Amnesty International\nLoly Rico \u2013 Canadian Council for Refugees\nPreviousUpcoming Canadian Tour for Luis Fernando Arias\nNextImplications for Human Rights, Democracy and Migration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3509, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 309.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.communityappliance.com/pioneer-in-middletown-nj.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:49Z", "digest": "sha1:GWFGHMA74BI2UMH672YGIGKATOLYHZSV", "length": 901, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.communityappliance.com", "title": "Pioneer in Middletown, NJ", "raw_content": "Community Appliance in Middletown, NJ is an authorized dealer of Pioneer Products. Pioneer is a world leader in electronics products for the car, home and business markets, respected for their role in introducing such innovations as consumer laser disc (1979), car CD player (1984), GPS car navigation (1990), DVD-Video player (1996), high definition plasma display (1997) and organic electroluminescent (OEL) display (1997). To this day, Pioneer still develops and manufactures innovative and high-tech entertainment and electronic products.\nSo if you are looking for Pioneer products in Middletown, Red Bank, Hazlet, Holmdel, Matawan, Long Branch, Rumson, Atlantic Highlands, Eatontown, Lincroft and Marlboro Township, or if you have any questions about Pioneer products, please feel free to call us at 732-671-7721 or simply stop by Community Appliance at any time and we would be glad to help you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 7421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2006/12/06/editorial-comment-take-the-pragmatic-route/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:14Z", "digest": "sha1:OI3NIFUG6WHS3SNC2LCQMMPLRQ6UFRRT", "length": 2778, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.communitycare.co.uk", "title": "Editorial Comment: Take the pragmatic route | Community Care", "raw_content": "Editorial Comment: Take the pragmatic route\nDecember 6, 2006 in Mental Health\nThe tragic scale of murders by mental health patients was revealed last week by the National Confidential Inquiry. Researchers looking at homicides over a five-year period found that about 52 are committed each year in England and Wales, and suggest that failures in the system have contributed to some of these.\nBut, amid the ensuing media circus, some perspective was lost. It is important to note that the mental health system hasn\u2019t suddenly fallen apart \u2013 this homicide rate has been fairly static year-on-year. And, the report acknowledges that it would be unrealistic to expect services to be able to prevent all or even most of these deaths.\nThe report makes some key proposals to reduce homicide and suicide rates that should be acted on. About 1,300 patients kill themselves each year, although this figure is gradually falling. A culture of acceptance surrounding these eventualities needs to be addressed, claims the report, with staff becoming too desensitised to the risks. A significant proportion of patients were categorised as \u201clow risk\u201d before going on to either commit suicide or homicide.\nThere are also a range of proposals around in-patient management, including better observation and ward environment, and reducing the number of patients who abscond. But, possibly the biggest challenge is managing the transition of patients from the ward to the community, which is when most problems occur. Regular and intensive community support is needed during this period to keep patients on medication and well. The report also calls for services to look again at enhanced care under the Care Programme Approach and ensure that it is readily available, robust and monitored.\nThe government\u2019s cause is well served by the sensationalist media coverage, and it has erroneously attempted to use the report findings as justification for its Mental Health Bill. Experts in the field have reacted angrily to the latest draft, and it faces a barrage of amendments as it passes through the House of Lords.\nBalancing the rights of patients against public safety, and in turn patient protection against patient autonomy, is always difficult.\nAnd while the report does say that compulsory community treatment might have a role in some cases preceded by non-compliance, it overwhelmingly supports pragmatic improvements to the current system. A hardened Mental Health Bill simply runs the risk of driving patients from services and damaging the civil liberties of people who have never committed an offence.\nConservatives set out to challenge Mental Health Bill on several fronts\nThink-tank calls for welfare rethink after report finds persistent poverty\nEditorial comment: Don\u2019t put gains at risk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5597, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.compoundchem.com/2016/07/11/us-coins/?share=google-plus-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:44Z", "digest": "sha1:OWDFAVRQCU2TBCQ5XL3TK7L32APLNRCJ", "length": 438, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.compoundchem.com", "title": "The Compositions of U.S. Coins \u2013 in C&EN | Compound Interest", "raw_content": "The Compositions of U.S. Coins \u2013 in C&EN\nClick to view full graphic at C&EN\nIn this month\u2019s Periodic Graphics in Chemical & Engineering News magazine, we\u2019re looking at the compositions of U.S. coins, as well as some of their quirky history. 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Looked after well our teeth can last a lifetime. Sadly sometimes, damage occurs to a tooth that causes the nerves inside to become inflamed or infected.\nThe symptoms you may experienced could vary from sensitivity to hot and cold, sharp pain when biting to constant severe pain and swelling of the gum. If any of these occurs, contact us to book an appointment for further advice.\nRoot canal treatment is needed when the nerve (commonly called the pulp) inside the roots of the teeth have become inflamed and infected. The root canal treatment involves removing the dying pulp tissue and cleaning and disinfecting the root canal system.\nDelaying root canal treatment carries the risk of the infection spreading and causing severe pain and possible abscess. An abscess will cause swelling and damage to the tissues around the tooth. This may lead to the tooth having to be extracted. You can have the root canal carried out by any of our experienced team or even seen one of Confidental Clinic\u2019s Specialist Endodontists.\nBefore having root canal treatment, you will be given a local anaesthetic. The procedure is painless and no more unpleasant than having a filling done. Root canal treatment is usually carried out over several visits. An opening is made in the infected tooth and endodontic files are used to remove infected tissue and clean the canals. Depending on the degree of infection, the process of cleaning the canals could take more than one visit. The dentist will only finalise the root canal treatment when there is no sign of infection left.\nWhen all sign of infection is gone, the dentist will start with the second part of the treatment. Using different size of endodontic files, he or she will shape the empty canal. The canal is then filled with a root canal filling material called Gutta Percha in conjunction with a cement sealer.\nYour dentist will restore the tooth by placing a filling on top of the root canal treatment. However, if too much tooth tissue has been lost during treatment, your dentist might advise you to have an inlay, onlay or a crown placed on the tooth for more secure protection.\nOur team regularly keep themselves up to date with all the best root canal techniques and have the very latest equipment in order to make sure your treatment proceeds as effectively as possible. If you feel you need any root canal work done, please feel free to contact us and arrange a consultation with your dentist who will be happy to answer any questions you might have.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.conservationpa.org/endorsements/rep-tom-murt", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:45Z", "digest": "sha1:2CWCOVKUCVSPLWZPJ67PJXVGU24SYPXZ", "length": 810, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.conservationpa.org", "title": "Rep. Tom Murt | Conservation Voters of Pennsylvania", "raw_content": "Rep. Tom Murt\nMore: Learn more about Tom on his website\nState Representative Tom Murt is running for re-election in the 152nd district, which covers parts of Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties.\nRep. Murt lives in Upper Moreland Township and, prior to serving in the State Legislature, was a Township Commissioner and School Director in Upper Moreland Township. He was also an Army Reservist and served in Iraq.\nAs a Republican, Rep. Murt has voted to protect our water, air, and land often when we needed him most. He has voted against privatizing our state parks and delaying action on climate change and has been a strong supporter of preserving open space. Rep. Murt has earned a 92% score on our 2017-2018 Pennsylvania Environmental Scorecard.\nWe encourage you to re-elect Tom Murt in the 152nd District.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.contemplativeoutreach.org/category/category/gift-life?order=sell_price&sort=asc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DB5J42MKPX773RDAVEHZPLSYDBKU4ONN", "length": 1199, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.contemplativeoutreach.org", "title": "| Contemplative Outreach Ltd.", "raw_content": "During four days of filming in December 2010, Fr. Thomas Keating sat with Fr. Carl Arico, his long-time friend, colleague, and founding member of Contemplative Outreach in an intimate conversation focused on the transformative process of death and dying as part of, rather than the end of, life\u2019s journey. The Gift of Life: Death & Dying, Life & Living offers a vision of hope and a view of reality that counter the cultural norms that view death as a tragedy, or the end of living, or an entry into harsh judgment and retribution. The new DVD series will be released later this year. Over six hours of footage from the interview was not used in the series. Each week during 2013, bits of this unused footage will be posted to the website. We call these tidbits Gifts for Living \u2026. May it be so.\nThe Gift of Life \u2013 Death & Dying, Life & Living companion book $12.00\nThe Gift of Life: Death & Dying, Life & Living DVDs with Guidebook $50.00\nFaith Really Means Trust\nFourth Week of Easter: Letting Go\nAccepting Death and God\u2019s Love\nAccepting Others and Accepting God\nFifth Week of Easter: Transforming into the True Self\nParticipating in Jesus\u2019 Sacrifice\nSixth Week of Easter: Stages of Transformation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cookistry.com/2010/01/womens-bean-project.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:12Z", "digest": "sha1:3KIYWMBACW5RC52SJYGXK4AHWR6SLZKW", "length": 2859, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.cookistry.com", "title": "Cookistry: The Women's Bean Project", "raw_content": "Do you have someone on your gift list who doesn\u2019t need anything, but you still want to wrap up a little something? Do you know someone who prefers practical gifts?\nWould you like your gifts to benefit someone other than mega-companies in foreign lands?\nDo you want to send some Colorado products to friends and family elsewhere? And do you want to buy those products locally?\nYou can wrap all of that up with just one purchase from The Women\u2019s Bean Project. Founded in 1989, the Women\u2019s Bean Project helps women break out of the cycle of poverty and unemployment by giving them jobs that act as stepping stones to other employment.\nJossy Eyre, the founder of the project, saw that women\u2019s homeless shelters kept women safe, but didn\u2019t help them better themselves. She bought $500 worth of beans, and put two homeless women to work, and the idea grew from there.\nToday, women are referred to the project by parole officers, shelters and other agencies. Many of the women are single mothers who have been on public assistance, and many don\u2019t have a high school diploma or GED.\nThe women are given jobs so they have an immediate income while they learn skills that will help them find and keep future employment. According to the project\u2019s website, \u201cThe Women's Bean Project does not hire women to make and sell bean products. We make and sell bean products to hire women.\u201d\nMeanwhile, the project\u2019s product line has expanded from just bean soup and chili mixes to salsa mixes, spice rubs, baking mixes and more. You can buy single items or gift baskets directly from the company, and several local stores also carry some of the products.\nWhile all of that makes the project sound good, it doesn\u2019t answer the question of how good the products are, so I decided a taste test was essential.\nI\u2019m usually not a fan of pre-packaged mixes, but the Women\u2019s Bean Project products aren\u2019t like the boxed mixes that contain unpronounceable chemicals and strange additives. These are normal ingredients that are premeasured and packaged to save you a few steps.\nSo far, we sampled the black bean soup, the 10-bean soup, and the cornbread mix, and all of them were very good, and the recipes were simple to follow. The bean soup recipes suggested a few optional ingredients, which is nice if you aren\u2019t comfortable making recipe adjustments on your own.\nEach of the packages includes a tag with the name of the person who packed it, which is a nice touch. Also on the packaging is the phone number and web address of the project, in case you have any questions.\nAs of this writing Women\u2019s Bean Project products were available in Colorado at Vitamin Cottage in Longmont; all Colorado King Soopers stores and some Safeway stores. Outside Colorado, see http://www.womensbeanproject.com/ for ordering information and other sales outlets.\nTags: Baking, LHVC, Soup\nBaking|LHVC|Soup|", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 9012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coping-with-stress.org/financial-stress.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RSMY2KJTU2HUVZW5TP2OJIPFHZK6CXKD", "length": 3457, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.coping-with-stress.org", "title": "When Financial Stress Hits You Its Hard To Fight Back.", "raw_content": "We fight financial stress best with an open mind and a closed wallet.\nImage: renjith krishnan / FreeDigitalPhotos.net\"\nFinancial stress is a heavy burden to carry, and it costs us a lot of energy. The reward is how much we learn about ourselves and our habits. The causes of finacial stress vary widely. From being unable to pay monthly payments, to closing a business, to unemployment to divorce, and so on. In some cases we have to change our habits. When our economic situation changes over a longer period we may decide to not go away for vacation or not buy as many presents for birthdays and christmas. We may choose to wait another year to redecorate the house or buy a new car. These decisions shouldn't be too hard to make. To have to chose between paying the rent and having food on the table is a much tougher choice. While we don't wish to cause mischief to anyone, we cannot go without food. Until our life has taken another turn we need to cope with finacial stress before it effects us on a deeper level. What we need is to feel we are in control, although this is exactly what we feel we aren't. We take control through small steps. Each step should take us closer to a life without worry. We are not victims of circumstances, we are in control. To get immediate relief when we are under financial stress can be to ask for a few days of grace or take a loan. However, it's hardly a good thing to rely on short loans as they often have high interest. To talk to the debtor first is probably the best idea. Hopefully he or she can wait a limited while longer for the money until you have coped with the situation. Next step should be to lower the expences. To cut the expences is easy for some and seems impossible to others. It can be done, though. We have to alter our lifestyle to adapt to a smaller budget. The sooner we do the better. What you can cut back on depends on your lifestyle up to now. Generally most people buy too much. It can be clothes, accessories, books, magazines, homedecor, gadgets, etc. Say a simple no to yourself before you enter the store.\nI found a book with some great tips on how to feed a family on a tight budget.Click Here!\nAnother area where we can save money is on what we eat. Nutritious food is all you need. This of course is true whether you are under financial stress or not. Choose simple, healthy food and then, when you're back on your feet there's room for festivities. If you're lucky, your new healthy habits will stay with you even when your economic situation has improved.\nWhen we feel financial stress it is important to make the right choices about everything. Instead of letting all actions and decisions run as they happen we should stop and think, and prioritize only that which is essential.\nMost times when we don't act intentionally and take short term decisions we do this simply because we think of ourselves as incompetent. Not capable of taking and keeping control of our actions. Hence, to feel financial stress could be due to not understanding how skilled we are and how devoted we can be.\nIt might be a good idea to fight financial stress with a warlike approach. Without dangerous weapons of course. But with the intention to not let the situation take control over you and keep you as a prisoner. Instead, be smart, use a strategy and celebrate each won battle with high praise.\nBe sure that others will look at you and follow your excellent example.\nTop of financial stress", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 3869, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.coxandkings.co.uk/destinations/australasia-pacific/australia/accommodation/shangri-la-hotel-the-marina-cairns", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:43Z", "digest": "sha1:574HIJSNNSK4XAITHYIPJWPVYVVI2KLC", "length": 944, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.coxandkings.co.uk", "title": "Shangri La Hotel, The Marina, Cairns, Cairns | Cox & Kings Travel", "raw_content": "Shangri La Hotel, The Marina, Cairns\nShangri La Hotel, The Marina, Cairns, Cairns\nOverlooking Marlin Marina in Cairns, the luxury Shangri-La Hotel, The Marina is just a short walk from the tropical swimming lagoon, shopping, dining, casino and the city's nightlife. Rooms and suites are decorated with local artworks that depict the natural beauty of the Tropical North, each with a private balcony with views of the city, the hotel's tropical gardens, Trinity Bay or the marina.\nFeatures: 255 rooms, waterfront restaurant, pool, two bars.\nRoom amenities: Television, safe, writing desk, tea & coffee facilities.\nAlternatively, discover other hotels and what to do in Cairns\nAn ideal small ship to explore the area is the Coral Expeditions II, which, at just 35...\nThe Hilton Cairns is located right on the waterfront with spectacular water views of...\nCentrally located just a short walk from the shops, restaurants and waterfront in Cairns...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 488, "original_length": 7550, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.creativetourist.com/event/euphonia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:08Z", "digest": "sha1:VC4LV6NRWGWATFCT4IPEBAY5T6732CEN", "length": 2543, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.creativetourist.com", "title": "Euphonia by Emma Smith at Bluecoat - Creative Tourist", "raw_content": "Euphonia by Emma Smith at Bluecoat\nEuphonia at Bluecoat, City Centre, 27 April\u201324 June 2018, free entry - Visit now\nAn analogue precursor to the humanoid robots of today, Euphonia was the distinctly creepy work of the 19th century Austrian inventor Joseph Faber. The \u2018fabulous talking machine\u2019 consisted of several different mechanisms and instruments: a piano, a bellows, a mechanical replica of the human throat and vocal organs, and a disembodied female head, which reportedly spoke English, French and German with a \u2018sepulchral\u2019 voice when one of the piano keys was played.\nThough of the same name, artist Emma Smith\u2019s upcoming solo-exhibition at Bluecoat promises to explore everything that Faber\u2019s piano-based automaton failed to achieve: the natural musicality and nuanced reciprocity of genuine human communication. A system of exchange that relies upon much more than just language.\nFor Euphonia, Smith will transform Bluecoat\u2019s gallery into a sonic chamber of collective singing; an interactive sound work based on the music of social communication. The project explores the unconscious interlocking rhythms, pitch and tone that underpins all verbal interaction, and which the artist has been closely examining in partnership with a team of world experts on psychology, music and the human brain. The research has resulted in a new form of musical scoring, created by Smith especially for the show.\nEuphonia will first and foremost, however, be an indirect portrait of Bluecoat itself, and the voices of those that most often pass through its doors, as Smith is developing the piece based on a series of public experiments and workshops with the people and communities that visit the arts centre on a daily basis (including Liverpool\u2019s Choir With No Name set up for people affected by homelessness and marginalisation, and 20 Stories High \u2013 an award winning youth theatre group).\nAt the heart of Smith\u2019s performance based social practice lies an interest in the influence of the subconscious on all forms of human connectivity; expressed through a vast multitude of nuanced resonances, molecular activity, energetics and tacit behaviour. Visitors to Euphonia should prepare to be immersed in an ephemeral experience that will echo and resound in the mind for weeks to come.\nAn events programme accompanying the exhibition will share the research behind the making of Euphonia, and offer members of the public the opportunity to undertake their own vocal experiments and add their voices to the show.\nEuphonia at Bluecoat, City Centre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 6784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crossfitcaveman.com/disclosure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:02Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7YAHJ76IHD2PEMK43IA3VOPBKXYO5AV", "length": 1058, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.crossfitcaveman.com", "title": "Disclosure - Crossfit Caveman", "raw_content": "The information contained in this website is for general information purposes only. The information is provided by Crossfit Caveman and while we try our best to keep the information up to date and accurate, we make no guarantees or warranties, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.\nThrough this website you are able to link to other websites which are not under the control of Crossfit Caveman. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those sites. The inclusion of any links does not necessarily imply a recommendation or endorse the views expressed within.\nEvery effort is made to keep the website up and running smoothly. However, Crossfit Caveman takes no responsibility for, the website being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2467, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 180.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.crowell.com/professionals/Harold-Heltzer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:57L5MWK4RCXSH33ARECTLOXUNKAO2354", "length": 3291, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.crowell.com", "title": "Harold J. Heltzer: Tax/Regulatory & Policy Lawyer: Washington, D.C.", "raw_content": "Department of Justice: Civil Division\u2014Trial Attorney (1966-1972)\nDepartment of Justice: Tax Division\u2014Trial Attorney (1966-1972)\nDepartment of the Treasury\u2014Attorney Advisor, Office of Tax Legislative Counsel (1972-1974)\nNew York University School of Law, LL.B\nGeorgetown University, LL.M.\nCity College of New York, B.A.\nHarold J. Heltzer is a partner and former chair of the firm's Tax Group. Mr. Heltzer represents corporate, partnership, and individual clients in tax matters. He focuses on tax planning for acquisitions, partnership formation, divestitures, and other transactions. In addition, Mr. Heltzer represents clients in tax litigation and administrative practice before the Internal Revenue Service and state tax agencies.\nMr. Heltzer was an adjunct professor in the LL.M. Tax Program at the Georgetown University Law Center for almost 30 years. He is the recipient of the Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Award and the Vicennial Medal from Georgetown University Law Center. He lectures on tax issues for industry and professional organizations and is the author of the treatise \"Coping with IRS Audits.\"\nPrior to joining Crowell & Moring, Mr. Heltzer served in the Office of Tax Legislative Counsel for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and was a trial attorney in the Tax Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Heltzer has been named by Chambers USA, Legal 500, The Best Lawyers in America, and Legal Elite as one of the nation's leading tax lawyers.\n\"Recurring Audit Issues Affecting Large Corporate Taxpayers (2014); Dealing with New Challenges Facing Large Corporate Audits (Part I),\" Managing Tax Audits and Appeals, Washington, D.C. (October 9-10, 2014) San Fransico, CA (October 23-24, 2014). Presenter: Harold J. Heltzer.\n\"Current National Appeals Office Developments; Appeals Office Initiatives for Coordinating Large Cases; Dealing with New Challenges Facing Large Corporate Audits (Part II),\" Managing Tax Audits and Appeals, Washington, D.C. (October 9-10, 2014) San Francisco, CA (October 23-24, 2014). Presenter: Harold J. Heltzer.\n\"Navigating Into, Through and Out of CAP,\" TEI - 2014 IRS Audits & Appeals Seminar: Insights and Skills for Tax Controversy Success, New York, NY (May 22, 2014). Presenters: Harold J. Heltzer and David B. Blair.\n\"Recurring Audit Issues Affecting Large Corporate Taxpayers (2013); Formulating Alternative Audit and Appeals Strategies for Large Corporate Audits,\" Managing Tax Audits and Appeals, Washington, D.C. (October 3-4, 2013) San Francisco, CA (October 17-18, 2013). Presenter: Harold J. Heltzer.\n\"Compliance Assurance Process: Best Practices for CAP Audits,\" Managing Tax Audits and Appeals, Washington, D.C. (October 3-4, 2013) San Francisco, CA (October 17-18, 2013).\n\"Managing Tax Audits \u2013 C&M Annual Conference,\" Government Contracts Bullet Points (August 25, 2014). Contacts: David B. Blair, David J. Fischer, Harold J. Heltzer\n\"Managing Tax Audits -- C&M Annual Conference,\" Government Contracts Bullet Points (September 5, 2013). Contacts: David B. Blair, David J. Fischer, Harold J. Heltzer\n\"IRS Designates Distressed Asset Trusts as 'Listed Transactions',\" Financial Services Alert (March 3, 2008). Contact: Harold J. Heltzer\nJun.22.2007 Legal 500 United States Ranks Crowell & Moring\u2019s Tax Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 10938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/1202/Arsenic-microbe-in-Mono-Lake-may-reshape-hunt-for-extraterrestrial-life", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:09Z", "digest": "sha1:S7OZRBSSZQ54A3NJVNTIYSVKDLIZWSWV", "length": 5971, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.csmonitor.com", "title": "Arsenic microbe in Mono Lake may reshape hunt for extraterrestrial life - CSMonitor.com", "raw_content": "Arsenic microbe in Mono Lake may reshape hunt for extraterrestrial life\nScientists have found a microbe in Mono Lake, California, that uses arsenic as a fundamental building block, changing the definition of 'life as we know it' and the search for extraterrestrial life.\nScientists have found at California's Mono Lake a strange bacteria that can use arsenic as one of its nutrients. The discovery widens the scope for finding new forms of terrestrial and extraterrestrial life.\nThe dotty aunts in \"Arsenic and Old Lace\" may finally have met their match.\nA microbe that thrives in the muck of eastern California's Mono Lake is able to use arsenic, which is poisonous to a wide range of creatures, as one of a half dozen fundamental building blocks in biologically critical molecules such as proteins and DNA.\nIf the results hold up to further scrutiny, they could improve the prospects for finding at least simple forms of extraterrestrial life on other planets or moons, including Saturn's moon Titan, astrobiologists say.\nAstrobiologists have been using life on Earth as a basis for hunting for potential habitats beyond the third rock from the sun. But most of the attention has focused on what researchers offhandedly refer to as \"life as we know it.\" Until now, biological canon has held that life on Earth is mainly built around a mix of six chemical elements: hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus.\nBut a small number of scientists have been pushing the idea of \"life as we don't know it,\" says Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., who counts himself as one of this small band.\nHow Titan might be making DNA building blocks\n\"There could be different building blocks used, different types of elements, or different types of energy sources,\" he says.\nAnd now, along comes a terrestrial form of life that can replace phosphorus with arsenic and thrive.\nRevising the 'recipe' for life\nOther bacteria in effect \"breathe\" arsenic or use it as a food source, converting it into something less harmful. But the newly discovered bacteria incorporate it into the very fabric of their most basic biological structures.\n\"It's an exciting result that basically made my day,\" says Dr. Schulze-Makuch of the discovery, made by a team led by US Geological Survey biochemist Felisa Wolfe-Simon.\nIt's as though \"the recipes to make the fundamental molecules of life are open for negotiation,\" adds James Elser, a biologist at Arizona State University who was not part of the group making the discovery.\nDr. Wolfe-Simon says the hunt for organisms that might be based on different groups of chemical elements began when she noticed that some of the elements organisms use in very small amounts \u2013 such as iron, zinc, and molybdenum \u2013 had ready substitutes. These substitutes are similar enough to the elements they would replace that many organisms can use them as stand-ins if the originals are unavailable.\nThat led her to ask if the same might not hold true for the six fundamental elements. It turns out that in many key traits, arsenic is similar to phosphorus, she and her colleagues explain. Mono Lake turned out to be a good place to hunt for organisms that might function with arsenic as a building block because among its other attributes, it contains relatively high concentrations of the element.\nThe team prepared Mono Lake mud in the lab, adding all the nutrients needed to encourage bacteria to grow, but varying the relative abundance of phosphorus and arsenic until the naturally occurring phosphorus was gone. The researchers watched to see if microbes would leave any survivors as the shift progressed. They did. And they thrived, albeit their growth was slower than bacteria exposed to higher phosphate levels.\nBut steeped as she was in conventional widsom, Wolfe-Simon says she didn't believe her results initially.\n\"I'm a biochemist. I said: This isn't right. I must have made a mistake,\" she recalled during a briefing Thursday at which she discussed the results.\nBut the team put the microbes through a series of detailed tests that demonstrated that arsenic indeed had replaced phosphorus in some key roles \u2013 for instance, as the \"backbone\" for the bacteria's ladder-like DNA, the molecule that contains an organism's genetic instructions.\nFor all the buzz the results have generated, however, it's too early to draw broad conclusions about arsenic as a one-for-one swap with phosphorus, says Steven Benner, a researcher at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla.\nCertain qualities of arsenic could make it a less-than-ideal replacement, he says. Arsenic's bonds to other elements in molecules, especially in the presence of water and at room-like temperatures, is relatively weak. So the molecules it inhabits tend to break apart easily \u2013 not terribly helpful if the arsenic is trying to hold DNA together.\nIt's possible that organisms may develop ways to in effect reinforce those weak links, he adds, but that remains an open issue.\nHowever, in other environments, arsenic might well be a suitable stand-in for phosphorus, he acknowledges. For example, a hypothetical microbe on Titan \u2013 a frigid moon of Saturn dotted with lakes of hydrocarbon \u2013 might find arsenic a better replacement for phosphorus.\nWhether or not the microbe proves to be a rare exception to the general rule, he adds, the microbes represent \"an excellent system to support questions about how arsenic is tolerated and phosphorus is limited in organisms that are placed under environmental stress.\"\nThe results of the study by Wolfe-Simon, who is affiliated with the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the NASA-Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif., and her colleagues appears on Science Express, an on-line adjunct to the journal Science.\n'Life as we don't know it' in the universe? Start with Titan.\nLife on Saturn moon? Earth's asphalt lakes hint at possibility of life on Titan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 8230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.csurgeries.com/donate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:09Z", "digest": "sha1:2323YNZISMVPUTANUPDAIYT6UVYH42DW", "length": 1170, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.csurgeries.com", "title": "Donate - CSurgeries", "raw_content": "Our mission at CSurgeries is simple: Education. We\u2019re dedicated to creating a centralized source of online peer-reviewed surgical video procedures that surgeons, surgical trainees, patients and families around the world can access all in one place. Whether you\u2019re sitting at your computer, or checking your smartphone, we want you to have a library of learning available at your fingertips.\nYour donation supports a team of dedicated professionals and leading academic surgeons who are focused on building the most comprehensive library of online peer-reviewed surgical procedures available today. Your financial contribution will help to provide:\nVideo recording and editing support to our authors\nThe means to ensure our entire library can be accessed all around the world- from the most urban locations to the most remote\nSupport in building our library of 800 of the most common surgical procedures across multiple surgical specialties\nMaterials for our CSurgeries Student Leaders\nOpportunities for future learning and organizational growth\nThank you for supporting CSurgeries. With your help, we can take peer-reviewed surgical education to the next level\u2026together.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4773, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ctsfw.edu/news/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:46Z", "digest": "sha1:3UZH7FFDAOZOY7TR3HJBUYMPE556BJKR", "length": 3874, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.ctsfw.edu", "title": "News \u2013 Page 3 \u2013 CTSFW", "raw_content": "FORT WAYNE, Ind. (CTSFW)\u2014Check out the upcoming events offered by Concordia Theological Seminary (CTSFW), 6600 N. Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. For additional information concerning all events please go to www.ctsfw.edu or phone 260.452.2100. Please note that all times for campus events are Eastern Time. Alumni Reunion Events This year\u2019s Alumni Reunion is on Thursday, May 17, and Friday, May 18, for the class years ending in eight and three (1948, 1953, 1958, 1963, 1968, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2013). Registration begins at...\nFORT WAYNE, Ind. (CTSFW)\u2014Students, faculty and staff along with their friends and family will come together for Baccalaureate and Commencement at Concordia Theological Seminary (CTSFW), Fort Wayne, on Friday, May 18. This will mark the close of CTSFW\u2019s 172nd year. Graduation events take place in Kramer Chapel, though all are invited to watch baccalaureate and the graduation exercises online at www.ctsfw.edu/daily-chapel or www.facebook.com/ctsfw. Please note that all times are Eastern Daylight Time. Baccalaureate, 10:00 a.m., with the Rev. Arlo W. Pullmann of Laurel, Montana,...\nFORT WAYNE, Ind. (CTSFW)\u2014\u201cAnd Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, \u2018The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest\u2019\u201d (Matt. 9:35-38)....\nDATE, TIME and COST UPDATE: This summer\u2019s CITI program has been shortened to an extended weekend program, now scheduled for June 28th to July 1st. The updated cost for this shorter program is $200 for commuters and $350 for dorm students, with registration still due by June 1st. Going forward, this less time-intensive and more cost-effective model for the church interpreter program will allow CITI to provide extended weekend workshops in other regional locations around the United States. If you know of a group...\nFORT WAYNE, Ind. (CTSFW)\u2014Check out the upcoming events offered by Concordia Theological Seminary (CTSFW), 6600 N. Clinton Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. For additional information concerning all events please go to www.ctsfw.edu or phone 260.452.2100. Please note that all times for campus events are Eastern Time. Currently Ongoing Spring Fundraiser: Equipped for Service From April 9\u2013May 7, CTSFW will run a month-long fundraiser to help equip this year\u2019s graduating class with the tools they need as they graduate and either enter into the Office of Holy Ministry or...\nLearn & Worship with Your Seminary: Public Lecture and Easter Choral Vespers\nFORT WAYNE, Ind. (CTSFW)\u2014There are two events coming up at Concordia Theological Seminary (CTSFW), Fort Wayne, over the next two Sundays. One is an opportunity to learn and the other is an opportunity to worship. This Sunday, April 15, at 4:00 p.m. (EDT), Dr. David P. Scaer will teach a public lecture on \u201cThe Resurrection of Jesus: The Current Relevance of the Ancient Accounts.\u201d All are welcome to attend either in person, where it will be held in Luther Hall, or online, where it...\nEquipped to Serve: Providing Graduates With the Tools They Need for Ministry\nFORT WAYNE, Ind. (CTSFW)\u2014Last year, through the generosity of our donors to the Logos Project, we were able to fully cover the cost of Greek textbooks for our incoming first-year students who were just beginning four years of study. In fact, that generosity so overflowed that we have nearly taken care of the Greek needs for the class incoming this fall \u2014 over $13,000 already raised! As such, today we are able to turn our thoughts and giving to the needs of those who...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 7083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 240.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.culturalbandwidth.com/cultband/a-door-into-history-ft-mikkel-bogh-part-1-71", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:31Z", "digest": "sha1:HFAX4CZ55N5WDXHF6A2P25J5IHUA2OFC", "length": 1079, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.culturalbandwidth.com", "title": "Cultural Bandwidth-", "raw_content": "An interesting thing about being an adult in the this crazy world is that at a certain point you realize that you can\u2019t do it all. That is, unless you are Mikkel Bogh. He is the director of The National Gallery of Denmark (Statens Museum for Kunst), and the former head of the Royal Art Academy and he really clarified some things about the upper echelons of art institutions for us. We thought that the system favored the pencil pusher type, the business man, the high school principal, and their role was mostly just to slap reality into the face of artist types and scream we can\u2019t afford it at everybody. Boy were we wrong, at least when it comes to Mikkel. Like everything, passion leads the charge. Join us for part one of an interesting talk about finding a path into art history, the difference between teaching and leading an educational institute and about keeping a passion intact while pursuing a career.\nHere are some images of SMK, courtesy of them:\nThe Undergang ArmchairThe Undergang January 13, 2016 Mikkel Bogh, SMK, Director, Museum, Visual Art, PodcastComment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cyberkendra.com/2013/09/india-spied-by-nsa-massive-confidential.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:58Z", "digest": "sha1:IIAVBUY2EINP6RQTVQHD32KPWVIYH7WO", "length": 2409, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.cyberkendra.com", "title": "India Spied by NSA - Massive Confidential data Collected - Cyber Kendra - Hacking News And Tech Updates -->", "raw_content": "Home \u203a News \u203a Security\nIndia Spied by NSA - Massive Confidential data Collected\nAs we all know about the NSA, and hope you know which of the countries are being spied by the . Among all these countries list India is also being added. And not this India stand at the fifth place as a huge amount of internet and telephonic data has been collected from NSA over the span of last 30 days.\nNSA's surveillance program\nEdward Snowden, a former official of the NSA program, have provided the confidential documents to an Indian newspaper with details about the intelligence activities that the USA has been conducting in India. As per the Snowden documents, there are two different programs that are running surveillance. One is Boundless Informant which keeps a track on the number of email and calls that have been collected by the agency, and another is PRISM, which tracks the interception and collection of actual data from various networks.\nPRISM, collecting the data and information from various internet sources, such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and YouTube.\nThis was reported on TheHindu post. When the representative asked to the spokesman of the intelligence office of the USA, that why a friendly nation like India has been subjected to such a massive surveillance? The answer of this was\nUSA will respond to all its allies and partners through diplomatic channels. We are not going to publicly comment on all the specific intelligence activities carried out NSA, and the USA has already declared its policy that we only gather information which is normally gathered by intelligence agencies of all the countries.\nThe spokesman didn't gave any response when he was asked how they have managed to collect such a big data totaling around 13.5 billion.\nHigher officials of India, have denied for the documents provided to the The Hindu. But on the other hand, documents that was received stats the PRISM program not only keeps a track of the calls and the emails but also discloses the data that are managed by the secret agencies in India.\nAlmost 13.5 billion of the data has been collected by the NSA, over 30 days. By this India is at fifth place, where Iran is the country from which the largest amount of intelligence has been gathered. At number 2nd place has been Pakistan. Jordan and Egypt stands at the 3rd and 4th place.\n0 Response to \"India Spied by NSA - Massive Confidential data Collected\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 3132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.cyclenews.com/2019/01/article/archives-missing-syracuse/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FAP3YNINQZA3VFMYDUTROMMURT3J6EAS", "length": 7524, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.cyclenews.com", "title": "Archives: Missing Syracuse - Cycle News", "raw_content": "Archives: Missing Syracuse\nIt\u2019s gone now \u2013 the victim of progress and the construction of new buildings on the site. The Syracuse Mile was torn down a couple of years ago and this past summer a sparkling new $63 million Expo Center was opened on the site of the historic track at the New York State Fairgrounds. There were few racing facilities in the country that had the kind of history that the Syracuse Mile boasted. Racing fans will long lament to passing of this great racing venue, but in this week\u2019s edition of Archives we\u2019ll attempt to honor the track by looking back with a snapshot of its rich history.\nA start at the 1975 Syracuse Mile. (Gary Van Voorhis photo)\nNearly all of the greats of the first couple decades of American motorcycle racing raced at the Syracuse Mile. Motorcycle racing\u2019s in this country evolved out of New York and Massachusetts and there\u2019s good evidence that the Syracuse Mile was perhaps the birthplace of what we know today as flat track racing.\nThe Syracuse Mile dates back to the very beginning of motorsports. In 1900 a $10,000 bid was awarded to build a dirt track suitable for auto racing on the perimeter of an existing harness track. Not long after being built motorcycles began running on the Syracuse Mile. Syracuse also established one of the earliest motorcycle clubs in America and the club hosted races on the Mile that drew crowds as large as 30,000. Easily the biggest news in those early years was when in 1904, motorcycle maker and racer Glenn Curtiss, from Hammondsport, NY, raced a twin-cylinder Curtiss around the mile in 61 seconds, just missing the then mythical mile a minute.\nCurtiss\u2019 highly-publicized run at Syracuse instantly made the track known throughout the nation. With races held during the famous New York State Fair, not only did the Mile attract big crowds, but some big names as well. In 1908 Motorcycle Illustrated reported that Vice President James Sherman was among those who attended the races that year. That kind of news exposure for the track helped Syracuse become host of early FAM and M&ATA National Championship events. From the start motorcycle racing drew large crowds at the Syracuse Mile and that was another reason the FAM (predecessor to the AMA) elected to host national races there in 1910s.\nThe program for the 1977 Syracuse Mile. (Courtesy Jim Malyj)\nHall of Famer Fred Ludlow made his name as one of the biggest stars of the sport when on September 19, 1921, on the famous Syracuse (New York) Mile, Ludlow earned a clean sweep of all the national titles up for grabs. Ludlow was a perfect five wins in five races on his factory Harley-Davidson, besting most of the top stars of the day, including the likes of Jim Davis, Don Marks, and Ralph Hepburn. It was one of the most dominant performances in the history of the sport.\nLudlow\u2019s popularity was such after Syracuse, that Harley-Davidson employed him to travel the country in a sidecar to host racing film shows to various clubs and other organizations interested in the sport.\nThroughout the 1920s Syracuse hosted among the biggest motorcycle racing events, where elite riders like Jim Davis, John Seymour, Ralph Hepburn, Gene Walker, Joe Petrali and Curley Fredericks won major titles. It was also the site of some of the most intense battles between the Harley and Indian factory teams. Both squads would bring out all their big guns and often supply factory bikes to additional riders to stack the deck for Syracuse.\nJoe Petrali was another rider who made his name at Syracuse. Petrali practically owned the track throughout the 1930s, winning dozens of national titles there during that decade.\nCycle News coverage of the historic return of the Syracuse Mile in 1974, won by Hank Scott.\nThe Syracuse Mile also happened to be one of the final tracks that continued to host Class A races (super-tuned factory bikes) well into the Class C (production bikes) era. The last major Class A Championship event was held at Syracuse in 1938, but by then the factory specials of the early \u201820s that were still being raced were just about museum pieces by then \u2013 with the exception of the British-made JAP-powered machines which won most of the races in the mid-to-late \u201830s. By that point Class A was mostly for the old timers hanging on to the memories of the first generation of American motorcycle racing. The real momentum and youthful excitement in the motorcycle racing by the late \u201830s had long since moved to the production bikes of Class C.\nIn 1939 the comparatively big, heavy and slower machines of Class C were finally featured at Syracuse. Reading, Pennsylvania rider Lester Hillbish scored the victory that year on a Sport Scout ahead of fellow Indian riders Stan Witinski and Ed Kretz. Hillbish\u2019s run broke an AMA speed record for a 50-mile event and his mark would hold well into the 1950s. Indian swept the first five place at Syracuse in \u201839, with the top-placing Harley ridden by Babe Tancrede in sixth.\nThe \u201939 edition of the Syracuse Mile was the last one until after World War II. Bobby Hill kept Indian\u2019s domination of the track alive with his victories in 1952 and \u201953. And then the race was bizarrely off the calendar after \u201953 not to return for over 20 years.\nAn ad for the Syracuse Mile boasting the race as the only Mile in the East.\nSyracuse returned in 1974 to great fanfare and 10,000 fans, in spite of thunderstorms across the region. Rookie Expert Hank Scott took the victory in the return race over fellow Harley riders Rex Beauchamp and Doug Sehl.\nPromoters of Syracuse were also one of the first to begin the tradition of bringing back old racers to honor them. In 1987, Woodsie Castonguay, a star from the \u201830s, was honored as Grand Marshall of the Gold Cup Mile National at Syracuse.\nMovie maker Peter Starr filmed at Syracuse in 1975 and then again, a decade later, when the race was part of the Stroh Miles. Fans seeing Syracuse on film only added to the prestige of the event.\nThe Syracuse Mile had some quirks that made it challenging for riders. Turn one was broad and often offered multiple racing lines, but the track tightened up in turn two with riders saying the outside wall closed in on you fast. Turns three and four formed a completely different racing line than one and two. And then there was the hump on the front straight that could get the front end of the bikes light and sometimes cause a high-speed wobble.\nSyracuse was the host of back-to-back doubleheader nationals in 1992 and \u201993.\nJay Springsteen got along well with Syracuse and won there four times in the \u201870s and \u201880s. Bubba Shobert was also a four-time winner. Ricky Graham scored three, including sweeping the doubleheader in \u201893. Surprisingly, all-time AMA Grand National Mile King Scott Parker only managed a single victory there \u2013 that came in 1992. Chris Carr won what turned out to be the final national held there in 2005, following another lengthy 12-year gap between Syracuse Miles.\nThe Syracuse Mile was one of those races that produced great loyalty. Faithful fans endured rain-outs, cancelations and long days waiting out weather, but still they came back year after year. Some say it was the aura of the place that won them over. In spite of efforts of preservationists, the track was torn down in 2016, with the old grandstands imploded. You can watch that if you care to on You Tube.\nWhile the track is now in the record books, it will live long in the memories of the riders and fans who for decades enjoyed their annual trek to Upstate New York.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 9568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17254332.photos-were-you-part-of-this-play-scheme-in-1998/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:W535WCODHJGWVG6UIKCHAUTFGWVWSW72", "length": 404, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.dailyecho.co.uk", "title": "PHOTOS: Were you part of this play scheme in 1998? | Daily Echo", "raw_content": "PHOTOS: Were you part of this play scheme in 1998?\nTHIS year saw the 45th anniversary of Southampton Children's Play Association, so we take a look at when they celebrated their 25th birthday.\nChildren picked berries and baked a tasty pie for their party on August 27, 1998.\nDonna Emmett, who was leader at the time said; \"It was a brilliant day, the kids loved it but it was exhausting for the leaders!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 4138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dallasobserver.com/arts/unreal-explores-scripted-reality-tv-something-bachelor-contestants-know-well-7294325", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:27Z", "digest": "sha1:4UO3VA3QNYN6GTLLMAN2WQFI4OMBV4F5", "length": 4603, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.dallasobserver.com", "title": "Former Bachelorette Contestant Compares His Time To Lifetime's New Scripted Series | Dallas Observer", "raw_content": "UnREAL Explores Scripted Reality TV, Something Bachelor Contestants Know Well\nJeremy Viles/Lifetime\nPaige Skinner | June 8, 2015 | 8:44am\nIf any ounce of you, maybe your optimistic, glass-half-full side of you, thought The Bachelor had any string of realness, a new Lifetime scripted series confidently puts that to rest.\nIn the 30 combined seasons of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, there has yet to be a TV show, movie, or book that portrays the unfiltered, behind-the-scenes moments of the show.\nBut Lifetime\u2019s UnREAL changes that. Former Bachelor producer Sarah Gertrude Shapiro writes the scripted series and it\u2019s presumably about her time producing the hit reality show.\nThe scripted series depicts producers in a new light. It shows them mapping out the entirety of the \u201creality\u201d show before the first woman even steps out of the limo. Producers are seen yelling \u201ccut\u201d when the suitor \u2014 or the bachelor, per se \u2014 messes up their preplanned storyline. The black contestants are encouraged to act up to a certain stereotype, while other women are labeled \u201cwifey,\u201d if they are seen as frontrunners. But mainly, the producers are seen setting aside their morals to ensure good television \u2014 or at least high ratings.\nJeremy Anderson, local guy, former Bachelorette contestant and lawyer at Anderson Beakley, PLLC, can attest to all of those things.\nHe says everything on the show is thought out before production even begins.\n\u201c(The producers) basically say, \u2018We pick people we think are going to mesh well or are going to be a good match for the main person. We pick two or three of those guys and then we just pick a bunch of guys who are going to make good TV. They\u2019re going to clash with each other, they\u2019re going to cause drama, and that sort of thing. But we know who the main contenders are going to be because we pretty much know what the girl is looking for,\u2019\u201d Anderson, who was on DeAnna Pappas\u2019 Bachelorette season, says.\n\u201c(A producer) said, \u2018So look you\u2019re going to be one of the guys we think she\u2019s really going to be into.\u2019 I\u2019m sure they probably tell everyone this, but that\u2019s what she told me,\u201d he says. \u201c\u2018And we think there\u2019s a real good shot you guys might end up in a serious relationship after this.\u2019\u201d\nAlcohol is present throughout the Bachelor mansion. During ITMs \u2014 in the moments, where contestants are seen alone talking to the camera \u2014 producers often encourage contestants to drink before talking, Anderson says.\n\u201cYou go into these little production rooms, little studio rooms, and there\u2019s, like, lighting, camera guy, producer sitting there on a stool behind the camera, and a countertop full of nothing but every alcohol you can think of,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd they\u2019re just over there, first thing they do, \u2018You need to take some shots. You need to loosen up. Take some shots.\u2019\u201d\nFrom the beginning, Anderson says producers ensured him that he was a frontrunner. The night Pappas had to cut three men into two was no different. A producer told Anderson he had nothing to worry about.\n\u201cThe producer said, \u2018You have nothing to worry about. I just left DeAnna\u2019s room and everything is good. It\u2019s going to be Jesse (Csincsak) out,\u2019\u201d he says.\nBut when it came time for the rose ceremony, Pappas gave the first rose to Csincsak. That\u2019s when Anderson knew he had been lied to.\n\u201cWhen you see my face, I was staring at the producer,\u201d he says. \u201cI was looking at her, like, \u2018Really? That just happened?\u2019 She pulled me aside and said, \u2018This is all part of it. Don\u2019t worry. You had to be shocked. Trust me.\u2019 I was genuinely upset and felt betrayed. Not by DeAnna but by the producers.\u201d\nFrom there, Anderson climbed into a limo, like all the losing contestants before and after him, and was questioned by producers. He says his limo ride took hours because of his unwillingness to talk.\nBut his story wasn\u2019t done then. The producer went on to tell Anderson that Pappas thought she had made a mistake.\n\u201c\u2019Here\u2019s what needs to happen,\u2019\u201d Anderson recalls the producer telling him. \u201c\u2019She\u2019s sick. Here\u2019s the story. She\u2019s made a mistake. You\u2019ve got to go over there. You\u2019ve got to talk to her. You\u2019ve got to convince her on camera that she\u2019s made a mistake and that it needs to be fixed. There are no rules. It\u2019s her show. She can do whatever she wants.\u2019\u201d\nAs he recalls the story, Anderson whispers \u201cbullshit\u201d under his breath.\nAnderson went along with it and arrived back to chat with Pappas. But he quickly learned Pappas was shocked to see him and it was all set up by the producers to make Anderson look desperate for Pappas to take him back.\n\u201c(The producers) are satanic little people,\u201d he says.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 310.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.damicopettinicchi.com/watertown/construction-accident-attorney.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:00Z", "digest": "sha1:N52HCUSFEWU6VTK75BRKOZFRDIAZ5IDG", "length": 2193, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.damicopettinicchi.com", "title": "Watertown Construction Accident Lawyers | D'Amico & Pettinicchi", "raw_content": "Watertown Construction Accident Attorney\nA construction site is a dangerous place filled with endless possibilities for people to become injured. Many construction accident victims do not realize that they may be entitled to more than just workers' compensation benefits.\nIf your injury was caused by the negligence of someone other than your employer, you may be able to recover financial compensation for your injury, pain and suffering, lost wages, and property damage.\nTo learn if you have a valid construction accident claim, please contact the Watertown construction accident lawyers at D'Amico & Pettinicchi, LLC for a consultation and case evaluation.\nCommon Causes of Construction Accidents\nWe have more than 25 years of experience recovering financial compensation for victims of all types of serious construction accidents, including those involving:\nTemporary stairs\nFalls through holes\nWe focus on obtaining the full amount of financial compensation you deserve for your injury. We devote a great deal of time and resources to ensure that there are no surprises in your case.\nHave legal questions? Contact us today at (866) 848-7077\nWe will review your complete medical record, as available, in order to prepare your case.\nIf we have any questions about how a jury will interpret evidence, we will hold a mock trial in front of stand-in jurors in our in-house mock court room.\nIn other words, we go the distance to ensure that you have the best possible chance at a positive outcome.\nLawyers for Construction Accident Victims in Waterbury\nIf you have been injured on a construction site, it's important to have dependable legal representation.\nIn most instances, the company that owns the construction site will have a team of lawyers to help protect their interests.\nAt the law offices of D'Amico & Pettinicchi, our experienced injury lawyers can help to level that playing field. We have successfully recovered more than $75,000,000 in compensation for our clients and will fight for the justice you deserve.\nTo learn if we can be of assistance to you, please do not hesitate to contact our law firm by calling (866) 848-7077 for a free initial consultation and case evaluation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 6144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.danielssilverman.co.uk/effective-credit-control/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:58Z", "digest": "sha1:44QTQD5ZFE7ZCY4D6EHIXSJSHGRG5JCR", "length": 3461, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.danielssilverman.co.uk", "title": "The importance of effective credit control and cash flow monitoring for your startup - Daniels Silverman", "raw_content": "Home > News > The importance of effective credit control and cash flow monitoring for your startup\nCredit control We don\u2019t need to tell you that starting a new business requires a considerable amount of focus and credit control isn\u2019t usually on the list. There\u2019s the great business idea you need to come up with. Then, the robust business plan. You ensure you have a great product and do the necessary due [\u2026]\nWe don\u2019t need to tell you that starting a new business requires a considerable amount of focus and credit control isn\u2019t usually on the list. There\u2019s the great business idea you need to come up with. Then, the robust business plan. You ensure you have a great product and do the necessary due diligence on the best routes to market. Before taking the brave leap of going solo, you pour all of your efforts into getting it right because you know if you do, the money will start rolling in. This is what you\u2019ve been working towards all this time; you\u2019re ready.\nBut, unfortunately, over 600,000 new startup companies failed due to cash flow problems in the last two years. Seemingly flawless enterprises have lost everything. Their business plans were immaculate, and the owners \u2013 like you \u2013 were experienced, yet they couldn\u2019t last. Why? The problem is a matter of prioritisation. Neglecting cash flow issues causes chaos for new businesses. We hate to point out the obvious, but effective credit control and cash flow monitoring are crucial for your startup.\nIt\u2019s not only small startups, struggling to get their footing, which are affected by cash flow problems. Large, wealthy companies have also fallen victim to the negative impacts of weak cash flow, and some have shut down because of it. Spending 342 hours, or 43 working days per year, chasing outstanding invoices isn\u2019t good for any business, regardless of the size. This doesn\u2019t include the cash missing from customers who fail to pay for services rendered.\nMaking sure this doesn\u2019t happen to your new business is simple. Don\u2019t let your cash flow and credit control needs take a back seat. Yes, the product or services you sell are significant. They are what gives your business the potential for profit and success that you desperately want. But, effective credit control and cash flow management are what allows that profit and progress to become a reality. What does it matter if you have a great product when you spend most of your valuable time trying to chase outstanding invoices for it?\nAffordable credit control\nThe good news is that having effective credit control and cash flow management is simple. It\u2019s also affordable, no matter what business you are running. Specialist\u2019s like us make it our priority to monitor your credit control and cash flow to ensure your continued success.\nOutsourcing your financial monitoring will reduce the amount, and likelihood, of outstanding invoices. We\u2019ll also follow up any existing ones, so you always get what you\u2019re owed. Saving you money, time, effort, and improving your efficiency; the trademark of all successful businesses. Let us give you a helping hand so that the hard work you put into starting your company doesn\u2019t end up being futile.\nDaniels Silverman are leaders in debt recovery and credit management. We have 23 years of experience in making sure a healthy cash flow is the backbone of your growing business. To discuss how our services help you create continued success, call us today on 08000 730221 to take the first steps.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 4971, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dansdeals.com/airfare-deals/israel-flights/air-canada-united-fly-business-class-boston-chicago-tel-aviv-2285-127k-points-round-trip/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:IFISCJMVZYJZP5D5XZC27CSIVTPBRG5F", "length": 4824, "nlines": 66, "source_domain": "www.dansdeals.com", "title": "Air Canada/United: Fly In Business Class From Boston Or Chicago To Tel Aviv From $2,285 Or 127K Points Round-Trip! - DansDeals.com", "raw_content": "Home Airfare Deals Israel Flights Air Canada/United: Fly In Business Class From Boston Or Chicago To Tel...\nAir Canada/United: Fly In Business Class From Boston Or Chicago To Tel Aviv From $2,285 Or 127K Points Round-Trip!\nBookable on Priceline. Tickets purchased from Priceline today are refundable until 11:29pm ET tomorrow. Please see this post for directions on how to cancel these tickets.\nThese fares are only available when originating in the US, they are not valid for flights originating in Israel.\nAir Canada and United have some great business class fares to Israel from Boston or Chicago.\nAir Canada flights are via Toronto on a 787 or via Montreal on an A330 with direct aisle access from all seats.\nUnited flights via Newark. The afternoon departure is on a 777-200 with the ex-Continental business class seats and the evening departure is on a 777-300ER with the new Polaris direct-aisle access business class.\nYou must take the originating flight from Boston or Chicago, skipping the first leg can result in the forfeiture of your ticket.\nAir Canada P class earns 200% of the flown miles when credited to United miles. That means you\u2019ll earn about 25,000 United miles. It earns 150% of the flown miles if credited to Aeroplan.\nUnited P class earns 150% of the flown miles if credited to Aeroplan or 5 miles per dollar spent when credited to United if you don\u2019t have United elite status.\nYou can estimate flown miles on GCMap.com\nIf you have a Chase Sapphire Reserve card, you can redeem 152K points for a round-trip business class ticket at a value of 1.5 cents per point for paid flights. Click Here to get more details on this card and compare to other hotel cards!\nPlus you\u2019ll earn miles for the flight as well, making the next cost of a flight like this just 127K miles:\nAir Canada: Boston to Tel Aviv $2,285 outbound dates:\nApril 1, 2, 3, 4\nMay 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 26, 29, 31\nJune 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 17, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 30\nJuly: Entire month\nAugust: Entire month\nSeptember: Entire month except 18, 19, 20\nOctober: Entire month\nNovember: Entire month\nDecember: Entire month except 13 through 23\nJanuary: Entire month\nAir Canada: Tel Aviv to Boston $2,285 return dates:\nApril 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 24, 25\nMay 4, 9, 11, 12, 15, 25, 26, 28\nJuly 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31\nAugust: All weekdays\nSeptember: All weekdays\nNovember 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30\nDecember: Entire month except 2, 9, 30.\nJanuary 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31\nUnited: Boston to Tel Aviv $2,292 outbound dates:\nJanuary 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 21, 22\nUnited: Tel Aviv to Boston $2,292 return dates:\nAugust 10, 14, 17, 20, 21, 22\nJanuary 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31\nAir Canada: Chicago to Tel Aviv $2,785 outbound dates:\nMay 6, 10, 11, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31\nJune 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30\nAir Canada: Tel Aviv to Chicago $2,785 return dates:\nMay 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28\nJune 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29\nJuly 2, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31\nAugust 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31\nSeptember 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29\nOctober 1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31\nNovember 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30\nDecember: Entire month\nJanuary 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31\nUnited: Chicago to Tel Aviv $2,793 outbound dates:\nJanuary 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23\nUnited: Tel Aviv to Chicago $2,793 return dates:\nAugust 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 29\nJanuary 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31\nHT: EJB, via DDF\n4 Comments On \"Air Canada/United: Fly In Business Class From Boston Or Chicago To Tel Aviv From $2,285 Or 127K Points Round-Trip!\"\nSorry for some stupid questions, but:\n1. How do you choose business class on Priceline?\n2. How do you use your miles on Priceline?\n3. Are United miles good for 1:1 on Air Canada?\nJordan Herzberg\ncan you do a layover Montreal/Toronto flying out from Boston?\nIs priceline refundable on any ticket that i purchase from US to Israel?\nWe\u2019re group of 10 planning to fly from Boston to Israel from 7/23-8/22/2018, the cheapest flight around for that date is $950 by Canada Air, do you think we should wait to see if price going lower or should we book now?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 14822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 53.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.daveramsey.com/askdave/marriage/stay-or-go-but-not-both", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WDMT7JZKAFKHRQ6HMWAMKZKH3TWYUAIS", "length": 2773, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.daveramsey.com", "title": "Stay Or Go But Not Both - Ask Dave | DaveRamsey.com", "raw_content": "Stay Or Go But Not Both\nJessica is trying to leave her husband because of his addiction and needs to separate her finances from his. What's the best way to start separating herself and her children?\nQUESTION: Jessica in Dallas is trying to leave her husband because of his addiction and needs to separate her finances from his. What\u2019s the best way to start separating herself and her children?\nANSWER: You can\u2019t keep your house with your income. He\u2019s going to get foreclosed on, and so are you. They won\u2019t foreclose in three months but eventually. You can\u2019t pay this bill. He\u2019s an addict and not responsible. You\u2019re going to leave, and you\u2019re going to have to pay your rent. You don\u2019t have enough money to help with the household bills. You have to feed your kids and eat. Household bills are his problem. He can pay his own light bill.\nHere\u2019s what\u2019s going on: You\u2019re trying to separate and divorce from this guy without separating and divorcing from him. It doesn\u2019t work. It\u2019s all or nothing. You\u2019ve got to decide with some good marriage counseling\u2014maybe some direction from your pastor\u2014if you have reached the end of trying to deal with an addict. Very few addicts keep their marriages as long as they stay addicted, unless you become crazy. If you\u2019re insane, you can live with an addict. You\u2019ve had the wake-up call because addicts are insane. They do insane things.\nHe won\u2019t sell the house, so he\u2019s going to get foreclosed on and you with it. There\u2019s not really anything you can do to stop that unless a judge forces him to sell the house as a part of the divorce, which I would probably go ahead and start that process. Have your attorney file a motion to force the sale of the house. You need to look for a place to live if you\u2019re going to leave.\nHow do we survive? You set up a household budget that operates on $40,000 to $50,000 a year. The rent needs to be about half what you have now. You\u2019ve got a lot of kids to feed on that, so you\u2019re going to be on a very tight budget, you\u2019re going to have to be conservative on your rent, you can\u2019t go into debt, and you\u2019re going to have to be on a detailed game plan to keep yourself from getting into a mess.\nYou\u2019ve got to set up a written budget that makes you able to survive and feed four kids on $40,000 to $50,000 a year. Can you do that in Dallas, Texas? The answer\u2019s yes. Is your life going to change substantially? The answer\u2019s yes. I\u2019m going to nail his ears to the wall and make him pay child support. The guy needs to pay his bills, and taking care of his kids is one thing. I don\u2019t care about his little games he plays. I have no use for that stuff. The manipulation and lying of an addict\u2014my patience level is very short for it. We\u2019re just going to deal with taking care of these kids and taking care of you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 8236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 172.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.daveramsey.com/askdave/taxes/an-interest-free-savings-account", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:51Z", "digest": "sha1:53OG4GRLBZSPX7ASQJL6VB7CS43HNPMS", "length": 1814, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.daveramsey.com", "title": "An Interest-Free Savings Account - Ask Dave | DaveRamsey.com", "raw_content": "An Interest-Free Savings Account\nJen asks what's wrong with receiving a large tax refund each year. Dave explains that you've loaned money to the government and you didn't get paid any interest.\nQUESTION: Jen on Facebook asks what's wrong with receiving a large tax refund each year. Dave explains that you've loaned money to the government and you didn't get paid any interest.\nANSWER: Well, Jen, let's call a large tax refund $4,800. That means that you've loaned the government money, and you didn't get paid any interest and they give it back to you a year later with no interest. If you get a tax refund of $4,800, that means that they've taken out of your check $400 too much each month. You didn't owe that much in taxes. You overpaid on your taxes. But you don't get that money back until you file your tax return. Next March or April or whatever, you start to get your $4,800 back. So you have a savings account being deducted from your check that pays you no interest, and then they close the account and send you the savings with no interest once a year.\nHere's the point. What if you had used that $400 a month to pay on a credit card instead of leaving it with them, and that saved you 18% o the credit card? That would have saved you almost $900 in interest during that year if you paid off a $4,800 credit card instead of letting your money be saved with the IRS for free.\nIf you have a $4,800 refund, we could call that a $900 mistake per year in lost interest saved by paying down a credit card, as an example. It's a pretty big mistake.\nGetting a tax refund year- in and year- out because you have too much taxes withheld from your check, thereby earning no interest on that money, would qualify as a stupid thing to do if it costs you about $900 on a $4,800 refund. This is what's wrong with it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 320, "original_length": 7216, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 264.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.davidlida.com/blog/971", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:28Z", "digest": "sha1:NLDWLZ6WK6FMSJ6KK3WBGFXPDYOTSOG6", "length": 1355, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.davidlida.com", "title": "Ay Chihuahua \u2014 David Lida", "raw_content": "Ay Chihuahua\nPoor maligned Chihuahua. It's getting a very bad rap these days.\nSupposedly it is the state with the worst drug-related violence in all of Mexico. Home to Ciudad Juarez, homicide capital of the world. Makes Baghdad look like Kansas.\nHad to cool my heels for a couple of days in the capital city, Chihuahua, recently. I've been in worse places. They were very nice to me at the bar pictured above, but charged me double for my drinks. In a location with such a violent reputation I wasn't going to argue about it. I guess if you walk into a place called Bar Turista you get what you deserve.\nImpressions: The cab driver who didn't want to take me to the hotel I asked for because he wouldn't earn a commission there. The French hotel manager at the local outpost of a mid-price international chain, who seemed to go out of his way to tell me how happy he was to be working in Chihuahua.\nThe lawyer in the cantina who insisted in speaking some form of English to me that I couldn't quite understand. To be diplomatic, I told him that I wanted to practice my Spanish. He ignored me and kept speaking \"English.\" The Chinese restaurant where I saw the boxing match on TV.\nCity of statues and mannequins.\nI saw families and old ladies around town. They always makes me feel safe. Two days was enough, though.\n\u2190 Punk buildingsSanta Mar\u00eda and Jes\u00fas \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 3277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local-govt--politics/john-mccain-gave-one-his-biggest-speeches-dayton-area/kYfAQkwpijA1VcJVLXBHPM/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:39Z", "digest": "sha1:NN7WZLOEZWNZIOAXOJ3EGFRH5IJQNJTB", "length": 5617, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.daytondailynews.com", "title": "John McCain gave one of his biggest political speeches at Wright State", "raw_content": "Sen John McCain announces Sarah Palin as his running mate on Aug. 29, 2008 at the Nutter Center at Wright State University. Dayton Daily News photo\nJohn McCain gave one of his biggest speeches in Dayton area\nU.S. Sen. John McCain, who died on Saturday, made the Dayton area central to his presidential run in 2008.\nRELATED: Local doctors: John McCain\u2019s cancer is aggressive\nMcCain, R-Arizona, chose Wright State University in Fairborn as the place he introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to the world.\nStanding onstage at Wright State\u2019s Nutter Center on Aug. 29, 2008 - his 72nd birthday - McCain made the announcement that Palin would be his running mate in the race against then-U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden.\nRELATED: Healing economy key to Obama\u2019s Ohio win\nFor many Americans it was their first look at a woman who ultimately became a household name.\n\u201cI am very pleased and very privileged to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States\u2026 Governor Sarah Palin of the great state of Alaska,\u201d McCain told the crowd.\nMcCain campaigned in southwestern Ohio several times before the announcement. he spoke to the NAACP annual convention in Cincinnati on July 16, and spoke in Lima on Aug. 8.\nSTAY INFORMED: Sign up for our Ohio Politics newsletter and get the latest news\nTwo days before his Dayton appearance McCain spoke by phone to a Dayton Daily News reporter. He was holding the Palin announcement close to the vest.\nAt the time the most prominently mentioned contenders for vice president were former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge and Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.\nAsked if there was someone else he was considering whose name hadn\u2019t come up, McCain joked, \u201cWell there is one, Wilfred Brimley.\u201d\n\u201cHe\u2019s a nice supporter of mine,\u201d McCain said of the TV pitchman known for his oatmeal commercials. \u201cFormer Marine.\u201d\nRELATED: Ohio, local leaders react to news McCain has cancer\nDuring the interview McCain laid out an economic plan that included typical conservative fare - such as tax cuts and increasing the number of charter schools and vouchers for private schools.\nBut he also called for helping people refinance homes at risk of foreclosure, doubling the tax exemption for children and giving families a $5,000 tax credit to buy health insurance in those pre-Obamacare days.\nAs the country\u2019s growing economic crisis threw people out of jobs and their homes, McCain said he was particularly concerned about heartland states like Ohio.\n\u201cWe have seen manufacturing jobs flee,\u201d said McCain. \u201cWe have people who are sitting around the table figurin\u2019 out how they\u2019re going to afford their health care and educate their kids. Many of (them) have recently and suddenly lost a job.\u201d\nRELATED: Taxpayers paid $1.3B to cover bad business loans\nMcCain said he wanted to fund retraining programs and increase the availability and affordability of student loans. He said he would resurrect the auto industry using high tech, hybrids and electric cars and give people a $5,000 tax credit to buy an American-made electric car.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got to get our transportation system, our automobiles, off of gasoline as much as possible,\u201d he said.\nAfter the event in Fairborn McCain hit the the state hard through Election Day. On Oct. 27, he campaigned again in Dayton. He also had events in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati.\nHere\u2019s the complete text of McCain\u2019s speech in Fairborn on Aug. 29, 2008:\nThe following is the text as prepared for delivery of John McCain\u2019s speech in Dayton, Ohio, as provided by the McCain campaign.\nIt\u2019s great to be back in Ohio. We need to win Ohio on November 4th, and with your help we\u2019re going to win here, and bring real change to Washington, DC.\nIt\u2019s been a long campaign and we\u2019ve heard a lot of words, and great campaign trail eloquence. The amazing thing is that we\u2019ve learned more about Senator Obama\u2019s real goals for our country over the last two weeks than we learned over the past two years. It is amazing that even at this late hour, we are still learning more about Senator Obama and his agenda. He told Joe the plumber right here in Ohio he wants to quote \u201cspread the wealth around.\u201d It\u2019s always more interesting to hear what people have to say in these unscripted moments, and today we heard another moment like this from Senator Obama.\nJohn McCain introduces his vice presidential selection, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, at the Nutter Center in Fairborn, Ohio. Staff photo by\nRELATED: Trump, Obama sent well wishes to McCain\nIn a radio interview revealed today, he said that one of the quote \u2014 \u201ctragedies\u201d of the civil rights movement is that it didn\u2019t bring about a redistribution of wealth in our society. He said, and I quote, \u201cOne of the tragedies of the Civil Rights movement was because the Civil Rights movement became so court-focused I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change.\u201d\nThat is what change means for Barack the Redistributor: It means taking your money and giving it to someone else. He believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that grow our economy and create jobs. He is more interested in controlling wealth than in creating it, in redistributing money instead of spreading opportunity. I am going to create wealth for all Americans, by creating opportunity for all Americans.\nRELATED: A look at Nutter Center events through the years\nTweets by @LynnHulseyDDN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 8806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.deansjewelry.com/blog/2017/Feb/03/music-friday-more-three-words-and-diamond-ring-tri/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VWK7BBQZFYNITGLL7LUOGLK7WME63HE2", "length": 3563, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.deansjewelry.com", "title": "Deans Jewelry: Music Friday: More Than Three Words and a Diamond Ring, Trisha Yearwood's Love Is a 'Powerful Thing'", "raw_content": "Music Friday: More Than Three Words and a Diamond Ring, Trisha Yearwood's Love Is a 'Powerful Thing'\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you uplifting songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Grammy Award winner Trisha Yearwood tells the story of couple ready to take their relationship to the next level in her 1998 country hit, \"Powerful Thing.\"\nAlthough they started out as \"strangers on a two way street\" and neither one was looking to fall in love, there's no denying the amazing chemistry between them. The force of the attraction is beyond their control, stronger than a driving wind and hotter than a forest fire. Yearwood believes it's time for them to jump right in and get over their fear of falling.\nShe sings, \"It's a powerful thing / It's a powerful thing / More than three words / And a diamond ring / It can open up the heavens / Make the angels sing / Our love, baby, is a powerful thing.\"\nWritten by Al Anderson and Sharon Vaughn, \"Powerful Thing\" was released as the third single from Yearwood's album Where Your Road Leads. The song ascended to #6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks and scored the #1 spot on Canada's RPM Country Tracks chart. Billboard critic Deborah Evans Price called the song \"perky and playful,\" pointing to Yearwood's \"incredible voice and tons of personality.\"\n\"Powerful Thing\" also appears as the 14th track of the artist's 2007 album Trisha Yearwood: Greatest Hits.\nPatricia Lynn \"Trisha\" Yearwood was born in 1964 in Monticello, Ga., to a school teacher mom and a banker dad. She got her big break as a 21-year-old when she interned for \u2014 and was then hired by \u2014 MTM Records, which was founded by the recently departed Mary Tyler Moore. While working for MTM, Yearwood sang background vocals for new artists, including Garth Brooks.\n\u201cI got work based on the fact that I showed up on time, I worked cheap, I knew the songs when I got there and I sang on pitch,\u201d Yearwood told People magazine in 2015.\nThe 52-year-old Yearwood is a member of the Grand Ole Opry and has won three Grammy Awards, three Country Music Association Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards and an American Music Award. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide.\nIn 2005, she married Brooks, her longtime friend and collaborator. Brooks admitted on Ellen that there had always been an undeniable chemistry between the pair. It was likely \"a powerful thing.\"\nPlease check out Yearwood's live performance of \"Powerful Thing.\" The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...\n\"Powerful Thing\"\nWritten by Al Anderson and Sharon Vaughn. Performed by Trisha Yearwood.\nI've never seen two people in my life\nMore determined to ignore the obvious\nWe better stop thinking\nLet our hearts start doing the talking\nYou'd have to be stone deaf dumb and blind\nNot to see what's going on with us\nSo let's jump in\nAnd get over our fear of fallin'\n'Cause what we got here\nIs a powerful thing\nIt's a powerful thing\nMore than three words\nAnd a diamond ring\nIt can open up the heavens\nMake the angels sing\nOur love, baby, is a powerful thing\nWe started out strangers on a two-way street\nNeither one of us lookin' to fall in love\nBut we don't need us a map\nTo know we're headed in that direction\nWell, it's out of our hands\nAnd over our heads\nIt's something that's bigger than both of us\nTurnin' back now's completely out of the question\nStronger than the force of a driving wind\nHotter than a forest fire\nThere never has been and there never will be\nNothing like the power of you and me, yeah", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 307, "original_length": 7827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 192.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.decor8blog.com/blog/2013/02/11/cartas-de-amor-love-letters", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:40:25Z", "digest": "sha1:AMZKTAEE2JO4UXGIXNBJ4XAXX3UXQMN5", "length": 2779, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.decor8blog.com", "title": "Cartas De Amor - Love Letters \u2014 decor8", "raw_content": "Cartas De Amor - Love Letters\nWhat a great afternoon I had! Let me tell you what I did. First, I stressed out a little because I realized I have a few looming deadlines I'd forgotten (oops!) and, instead of working on them, I had to stick with my appointment this afternoon because there was no way I was going to cancel it... Then (the fun part), I spent 5 hours with my film instructor, Christopher, shooting and working on editing a short film we made in my work studio about the simple pleasures of reading a good book and enjoying a cup of tea. I'm not going to show it all (sorry, we didn't finish it) but it came out really good and if you'd like, you can watch some of it on Vine if you follow me there (@decor8).\nSounds simple, but there is so much that goes in to making a really good film - it's absolutely the coolest thing to really LEARN. If you want to convey emotion and lots of love (at least if that's what you're going for) without having it look boring or too corporate-y, you really have to shoot with your heart. Thankfully, he is exceptionally patient and talented because I didn't feel for a second like I was going to fall asleep - just the opposite - when it was time for him to wrap up I felt like I could have gone on learning for many hours more. It felt good to just give myself 5 hours \"off\" (no guilt!) from the normal routine to absorb all he had to teach me.\nLater this week, we'll go on a field trip to a film studio to work some more -- I feel like I'm learning so much. I have no clue what I will do in the end with this education but I'm not learning with any \"goal\", no big picture in mind, no end result. I'm simply learning because I've always wanted to learn about video production and editing and finally found the time to do it but also the person to teach me. I've been thinking more and more about doing a little video here and there for decor8 and my e-classes, so this is also inspiring me in that direction. But again, no big planning or new career direction. Just having some fun. It's vital to do things that we love, just because we love them.\nSpeaking of LOVE, this lovely e-mag that Jen Ramos from Made By Girl just released is LOVELY. It's called, Cartas De Amor, or Love Letters in English. It's a collection of personal handwritten love letters from the heart from Jennifer and 17 of her closest blogging pals. It's really sweet and personal and I think Jen did a really nice job on it and hope she does more e-mags it's nice to see her eye directing a magazine! To view the entire mag, click here.\nWhich reminds me... February 14th is just around the corner - I'm cooking for my family and friends and then we're all going out to see a concert so it will be a very nice day. 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Being charged with a crime is a hugely serious and stressful time, no matter the circumstance, but there\u2019s added complexity when you don\u2019t live in the state in which you\u2019re being tried. You may need to appear in court physically in the state in which the crime is being prosecuted. If you\u2019ve been charged with a misdemeanor, it\u2019s possible for a local attorney to represent you in court without your presence. The attorney would communicate with you beforehand and then attend any court dates without you there. In a felony case, however, the defendant will typically have to appear at hearings himself. However, even in felony cases, at the discretion of the presiding judge, it is possible for felony defendants\u2019 cases to be handled without the clients being at hearings. A local lawyer would represent the defendant in court, and any fines or punishment would still be the responsibility of the defendant. This is one of many reasons it\u2019s imperative that if you\u2019re an out of state defendant in Santa Rosa, you hire a knowledgeable local attorney to represent you.\nWalter Rubenstein has been practicing criminal law in the Bay Area for 22 years. His experience and deep understanding of the local legal system will be a vital asset to you when you find yourself in need of an attorney as an out of state defendant for Sonoma County. Free consultations are available 24/7, so reach out now to find out how we can help you. No matter what type of criminal defense you need (domestic violence, assault and battery, sex offenses, fraud, embezzlement, gang related, white collar, homicide, drug, DUI), our firm can handle it.\nDon\u2019t let uncertainty get the best of you if you\u2019re an out of state defendant in Santa Rosa. Contact a competent local attorney so your legal issues don\u2019t spiral out of control. The time to get a handle on your situation is now. One thing you can\u2019t do is ignore the issue. It might seem tempting to put the court case out of mind, because you\u2019re in another state, far from the site of the legal issues, but if you don\u2019t appear for scheduled court dates, a judge can issue a bench warrant for your arrest. Even in your home state, if you so much as get pulled over for having a broken taillight, any contact with a police officer will lead to your arrest. You need a local attorney, in the jurisdiction where the crime is being prosecuted. Choose Walter Rubenstein, because he\u2019s been helping defendants in your exact position get the best possible outcomes for years. View the Fees page on our site to get a clear, simple layout of what fees will be charged when you hire our firm. Payment plans, which generally require a 2/3 down payment, are available. 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He was 1-for-4 with a walk and two RBIs in his return.Davis and the Orioles will meet the Atlanta Braves on Saturday in the second game of a three-game series at SunTrust Park. Baltimore won the opener 10-7 on Friday.Baltimore will start right-hander Dylan Bundy (5-7, 3.81) against Atlanta right-hander Julio Teheran (5-4, 3.97)\u201cI have a tendency to try and explore, especially when I am scuffling,\u201d Davis said. \u201cI was trying to get that feeling back, trying to do too much.\u201dDavis had certainly been scuffling. He came into Friday\u2019s game hitting .150 and was 3-for-27 with 14 strikeouts in the first seven games of June, before manager Buck Showalter ordered him shutdown and sent for inspection. Davis had led the majors in home runs twice from 2013 to 2015.\u201cIt\u2019s not a one-day, two-day, three-day (adjustment),\u201d Showalter said. \u201cIt\u2019s some things that he really wants to stay with. 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More than 80 of the women and girls whom Larry Nassar abused under the guise of medical treatment have stood before the court during a marathon sentencing hearing that began Tuesday, describing with eloquence and sometimes tears the harm Nassar did and the impact he has had on their lives. \u201dYou have not taken gymnastics away from me,\u201d Raisman said. \u201dI love this sport, and that love is stronger than the evil that resides in you, in those who enabled you to hurt many people.\u201dFacing pressure over how Michigan State University handled allegations made against Nassar when he was employed there Authentic Derwin James Jersey , the school\u2019s board of trustees asked the state\u2019s attorney general to investigate but stood by university president Lou Ann Simon \u2013 who is facing growing calls to resign or to be fired by the board.Nassar also was a team doctor at the Indianapolis-based USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians.PRO FOOTBALLFOXBOROUGH, Mass. 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(AP) \u2013 An autopsy report says retired star pitcher Roy Halladay had evidence of amphetamine Authentic Uchenna Nwosu Jersey , morphine and an insomnia drug in his system when he died in a small plane crash in Florida last year.The Tampa Bay Times reports that an autopsy shows the former Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies All-Star died from blunt force trauma with drowning as a contributing factor when he crashed his personal plane into the Gulf of Mexico near New Port Richey on Nov. 7.The National Transportation Safety Board hasn\u2019t identified a cause for the crash. A witness told investigators that Halladay\u2019s ICON A5 climbed to between 300 and 500 feet (90 and 150 meters) before it went into a 45-degree dive and slammed into the water.The body of the two-time Cy Young Award winner was found in the wreckage.ST. 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Tebow was 4 for 27 (.148) with no extra-base hits, one walk and eight strikeouts in nine spring training games for the Mets last year.COLLEGE ATHLETICSINDIANAPOLIS (AP) \u2013 The NCAA\u2019s five largest conferences approved sweeping changes in everything from medical care to basketball during the holidays, dashing through the agenda with little opposition and virtually no debate.Extended medical benefits for former athletes, a three-day break for basketball players over the holiday season, more money for student hosts, and allowing men\u2019s hockey players to receive draft advice before enrolling in college without losing eligibility were all approved. 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This is achieved through both capacity building and the deployment of high quality experts and specialists to UN humanitarian relief operations all over the world.\nThe Stand-by Roster is an instrument to supply and boost UN agencies with specialised professionals to their humanitarian operations for a limited period of time, thereby allowing time for the UN agencies to upgrade their own staff capacity. The Roster is not a substitute for regular staffing arrangements within the UN, rather it is a short-term means to support and augment existing resources when necessary.\nThe immediate objectives of the DRC Stand-by Roster are:\nFill human resource gaps of UN organisations with specialist staff from the DRC Stand-by Roster.\nActively engage with UN organisations to pursue positive changes within the UN system.\nImprove the level of qualifications of DRC Stand-by Roster Members to accommodate new requirements from UN agencies.\nThe DRC Stand-by Roster was first established in 1991 to support the emergency response of the UN by rapidly deploying personnel to relief operations targeting the Kurdish population of Iraq. Since then, the DRC Stand-by Roster has expanded in terms of the number of members, geographical area of operations, and the number of UN partners. UN organisations have increasingly requested deployments from their stand-by partners, a tendency expected to continue in the future as natural and man-made disasters threaten human life and dignity.\nCompetencies and priorities\nThe DRC Stand-by Roster is known among partners for the high quality performance, reliability, commitment, and strong partnership spirit. The professional team of deployment officers is dedicated to serve the deployees with solid staff care. All experts deployed by the DRC Stand-by Roster receive a high standard of staff care, details of which can be found on our Staff Care Policies page.\nWHAT IS A STAND-BY ROSTER\nA roster is a list of professionals awaiting their periods of duty. The DRC Stand-by Member Roster is comprised of around 550 exclusively selected, experienced and professional men and women from all over the world.\nThe term stand-by indicates that roster members are ready to be deployed to international operations within 72 hours, when available.\n2017 - At a Glance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4128, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 308.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dredgemag.com/2018/07/17/corps-issues-final-chiefs-report-for-norfolk-harbor-project-ahead-of-schedule/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:39Z", "digest": "sha1:XLJWQWTYU7YTQV4SQ3ES2HYI5O5TACAV", "length": 1767, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.dredgemag.com", "title": "Corps Issues Final Chief\u2019s Report for Norfolk Harbor Project Ahead of Schedule - International Dredging Review | International Dredging Review Corps Issues Final Chief\u2019s Report for Norfolk Harbor Project Ahead of Schedule - International Dredging Review", "raw_content": "On July 2, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Norfolk District issued its final Chief of Engineers Report authorization to move forward with a project to widen and deepen Norfolk Harbor, approving the project for inclusion in the next federal Water Resources Development Act.\nThe dredging project will take the channels to 55 feet deep and widen the channels in select areas to allow for two-way traffic of ultra-large container vessels.\nVirginia Gov. Ralph S. Northam and both legislative chambers agreed in June to invest $350 million to deepen the harbor.\nThe Chief\u2019s Report completes an effort that began in 1986, when the port was given authorization in the federal Water Resources Development Act to deepen the Norfolk Harbor to 55 feet. In June 2015, the port and the Army Corps\u2019 Norfolk District office signed the Feasibility Cost-Share Agreement and began collaborating on the Wider, Deeper, Safer effort.\nLieutenant General Todd Semonite, Chief of Engineers, said the speed at which this project moved through the three-year study, review and approval stages is an example of how the Army Corps of Engineers is streamlining its process.\n\u201cOur Corps team from Norfolk and headquarters expedited this process,\u201d Semonite said. \u201cOld processes would have kept us on a timeline to complete in December 2018. We streamlined this through collaboration between the district and HQ and in doing so, cut review times in half while incorporating real-time engagement across the Corps in the development of this report.\n\u201cThis allowed the Corps to provide a quality product by June 2018, six months ahead of the planned schedule. This is a critical project that energizes the economy while at same time ensuring we are protecting the environment.\u201d\nCorps of Engineers Norfolk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3458, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 262.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dri.ca/international_glossary_for_res.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:43Z", "digest": "sha1:S7MF5ZYLKZOIUPINEIGNYNTVQKZO6IJ2", "length": 3242, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.dri.ca", "title": "International Glossary for Resiliency - Disaster Recovery Institute Canada", "raw_content": "International Glossary for Resilience\nClear communication is critical to effective continuity and crisis management. Yet even among our own professionals, there are discrepancies in how we describe what we do and the meaning of the terms we use, including some of our most basic activities. This lack of clarity is why a group of DRI-led volunteers pulled industry terminology from multiple internationally recognized reference documents, including standards, regulations, and professionals from around the world to create a comprehensive global resource. DRI International, in collaboration with a wide number of international industry leaders, maintains the profession's most comprehensive resilience industry glossary. This is a volunteer-led effort conducted for the betterment of the profession and is maintained free of charge here on the DRI International website. To demonstrate the scope of the project, the initial phase of the Glossary required review of 2,189 unique terms from 22 reference documents including regulations, standards, guidelines and industry practices. Through several months of meetings, reviews, ballots and discussion, the Glossary now includes 267 term definitions.\nThe project is the product of close collaboration between leaders of the profession. The intent is to draw upon the work that has already been done by various stakeholders and synthesize them to create a comprehensive and international glossary. DRI has not created new definitions in the first Glossary, but rather has identified existing sources in order to determine standard usage. Multiple definitions are listed in order of common usage, as decided through a blind voting process, with a citation for each source. The product is intended to be used as a universal resource by all groups. The Glossary is a living document and will be maintained through an ongoing revision cycle. The International Glossary for Resiliency is published in multiple languages, providing a standard translation manual for technical terms to facilitate international cooperation.\nAs the industry moves forward and new words and terms become integral in the resilience lexicon, the Glossary will continue to evolve. A major update is planned with new terms from the industry, including the new DRI Professional Practices and updated DRI training and classes. Additionally, the Committee is reviewing new international sources for definitions and considering development of term definitions where no current standards exist. The Committee is currently working on this update and plans for a major release in the coming months.\nThe objectives of maintaining a comprehensive glossary are:\nto promote a common set of universal terms\nto reduce confusion and remove inconsistencies between parties\nto facilitate coordination\nto provide a standard translation of technical terms specific to the profession.\nTo access the International Glossary for Resiliency, please login to your profile, scroll down to Resources and click on the file entitled \"File Archive\".\nYou can download the Glossary in one PDF that make them easier to read and use as a reference.\nThe International Glossary for Resiliency and its translations are maintained by their respective committees.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5420, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drjohnonhealth.com/gadgets-distraction-and-mindful-eating/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:47Z", "digest": "sha1:374WIKTEQAZLYR2LABRKCWPAAGVBNZH2", "length": 4332, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.drjohnonhealth.com", "title": "Gadgets, Distraction and Mindful Eating | Dr John on Health", "raw_content": "Recently, when I entered a shopping mall, out of the first ten people I saw six were talking with, looking at or reading a handheld electronic device. Out of a group of young people sitting around a table inside, most were repeatedly looking at an electronic device while eating. More or less the same scene is being repeated in restaurants and even in homes.\nWhat one sees as behavior of another individual is an action or communication by that person. However, what is expressed is the result of a person\u2019s decision-making based on his/her cognition, understanding and analysis of the situation, whether it relates to economics, relationships, health or eating.\nWe assume that humans behave in a rational way when it comes to their eating behavior, because it impacts their wellbeing. However, rationality depends on one\u2019s beliefs and reasons for action, \u201cselfish\u201d in this case. This, in turn, depends on how much direct and indirect information and opportunities to execute a desirable action is available to that individual.\nHowever, even those who should know better may be forced into a particular behavior by involuntary lack of self-control, or the prevailing social customs in a given situation. For example when one is dealing with a stressful situation. Or, it could be an event, such as a celebration, when one is expected to eat. Or, one could be placed in circumstances where a lot of effort to prepare and serve a special dish was expended by the host and, again, one feels obligated to partake.\nThe eating behavior starts within hours after birth and has to be followed lifelong, multiple times daily. This means that decisions by caregivers form the basis for the subsequent development and implementation of this act, especially during the early period of life. During toddler years, one could be guided by intuition based on nutrient content and availability of foods. However, encouragement from caregivers, psychological pressure due to time constraints and inability to have access to food when one feels the sensation of hunger all could modify subsequent establishment of one\u2019s eating behavior.\nOver time, each eating episode becomes a conditioned response dictated by what is happening at the moment rather than its overall effect on the health and wellbeing. I suggest that the increasing incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes in developed countries, developing countries as well as in poor countries is a testament to the above.\nLet me explain. In affluent countries, affordability and easy availability of foods rich in protein, fat, salt and added sugar prompt indulgence due to any reason or, for no specific reason. In developing countries, the newly rich find themselves with disposable cash with the main avenue of having a good time together with friends being eating and drinking. Limitation of leisure time due to prolonged working hours and lack of suitable places, either outdoor or indoor, for workouts promotes this way of life. If you are poor and have experienced starvation, you are inclined to eat whatever is available, whether the items have desired nutritional qualities, as long as it provides bulk to satisfy hunger.\nHowever, I suggest that there is an additional significant underlying reason for the increasing incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes in almost every country in the world, the pervasive influence of electronic gadgets. Constant attention to these prevents one from eating mindfully. For example, the sound of the arrival of signal in anyone\u2019s gadget, each \u201cping\u201d, prompts everyone automatically to glance at his/her device as if in a synchronized choreographed ballet movement.\nIn addition to the influence of distraction during a meal, what one eats commonly in modern day food intake situations contains a significant amount of grains or grain-flour products. Combined, chances are that most people eat more of the wrong types of food than necessary for optimal health.\nEating should be considered a private pleasure. I can\u2019t emphasize the importance of disengaging oneself from the influence of one\u2019s electronic gadget to enjoy the meal you are eating, if you are to gain control of your weight and avoid obesity and type 2 diabetes.\nPreviousPrevious post:Challenging Your Assumptions on Type 2 DiabetesNextNext post:Does Fasting Really Work to Lose Weight?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 7067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drphil.com/advice/stepping-out-of-your-comfort-zone/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:V7LWRTB7VFNJE3U3C7O27CR6FBXIRCOK", "length": 973, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.drphil.com", "title": "Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone | Dr. Phil", "raw_content": "We\u2019re talking today about what I call a comfort zone. Ask yourself: Are YOU in a comfort zone? Inertia is really powerful. It can cause you to bog down. It\u2019s an invisible force that can put up a fence around you and feel like a weight on your chest keeping you from moving from where you are to where you want to be. The truth is it\u2019s just easier not to change.\nThe problem is days turn into weeks, weeks turn into months and, before you know it, your lifetime is gone. You\u2019ve got to decide that you want to work for what you want instead of what you don\u2019t want and, trust me, it takes action to get it. Whether it\u2019s your weight, your health, your family, your relationships, you need to make a plan. When you set a goal, be careful that it\u2019s something realistic and attainable. If it\u2019s about your weight, make sure you\u2019re not kidding yourself. You\u2019re not a kid anymore. Take action. You\u2019ll love the results.\nhttps://www.drphil.com/advice/stepping-out-of-your-comfort-zone/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 3268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 211.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.drugtreatmentcentershawaii.com/listing-category/waianae/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CCLNTFRIDJT76YD566ZB4FKRGCV2ZUQX", "length": 1222, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.drugtreatmentcentershawaii.com", "title": "Waianae Archives - Drug Treatment Centers Hawaii 800-409-5882", "raw_content": "Waianae Drug Rehab and Treatment Center Listings\nIf you're a resident of Waianae, Hawaii and suffering from drug abuse problems such as addiction to cocaine, heroin or crystal meth, then you have to undergo treatment at a Waianae drug and alcohol rehab center. You can peruse our list of Waianae drug and alcohol addiction treatment centers below and find treatment options, whether for the addictions below, or prescription drug detox, amphetamine addiction treatment, alcohol rehab and/ or sober living facilities. Waianae, Hawaii is the largest city in the state, and as such is no stranger to crime, including drug-related ones. If you or a loved one is a crystal meth addict, a prescription pills addict, an alcoholic or addicted to other drugs, our list below might be able to help you find a Waianae drug and alcohol addiction treatment facility, a detoxification center or medical drug rehab centers that can help you solve substance abuse issues. Whether you live near Hawaii or the suburbs of Waianae, out by the suburbs you can find a treatment facility rehab near you on our list. You can also check out our list of Waianae sober living homes that would help a recovering addict adjust to a life without drugs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 7571, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dundurn.com/books/I-Want-Lasso-Time", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:04Z", "digest": "sha1:5V5NOMKEWXS6GNVLTPG34WYO4P5N5QXY", "length": 586, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.dundurn.com", "title": "I Want to Lasso Time | Dundurn Press", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Books \u00bb I Want to Lasso Time\nA collection of poetry from Latvian-born Canadian George Swede. George Swede is a leading Canadian poet, whose poems have been published in over 150 periodicals and anthologies. He is the author of 36 books, and is the editor and co-author of The Universe is One Poem: Four Poets Talk Poetry.\nGeorge Swede is a leading Canadian poet, whose poems have been published in over 150 periodicals and anthologies. He is the author of 36 books, and is the editor and co-author of The Universe is One Poem: Four Poets Talk Poetry.\nRead more about George Swede", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 139.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dunstabletoday.co.uk/news/business/high-town-restaurant-gets-go-ahead-despite-objections-1-8728951", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:05Z", "digest": "sha1:S5KMRNNPEZVEJHXMAABKGNIEC3KECHTQ", "length": 2380, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.dunstabletoday.co.uk", "title": "High Town restaurant gets go ahead despite objections - Dunstable Today", "raw_content": "High Town restaurant gets go ahead despite objections\nA Luton restaurant has been granted a licence for its new premises, despite an objection from the local authority\u2019s public protection team.\nThe Vault Lounge is relocating to 19-21 from 88 High Town Road to expand its business.\nA meeting of the local authority\u2019s licensing panel was told it is a West African restaurant serving mainly African dishes and drinks.\nBut there were two objections to the licence, while the council\u2019s own public protection team is concerned it would contradict a recent policy change.\nUnder a system ranking parts of the town on their suitability for alcohol serving premises, High Town Road is in \u201cstress area four of the matrix\u201d, according to the team\u2019s report to the panel.\nThe applicant and chef of the Vault Lounge, Eyitouyo Ejuetami, was asking for live music from 9pm to 11pm on Saturdays, and recorded music from 11pm to 3am on Fridays and Saturdaysas well as food to be served until 3am on Fridays and Saturdays, with alcohol from 10am to 2am Fridays and Saturdays, and from midday until 11pm on Sundays.\nMr Ejuetami said: \u201cWe don\u2019t operate any kind of club. It\u2019s mainly a restaurant and bar.\n\u201cSoundproofing is installed in the restaurant and we have a double door system to dampen noise coming out of the premises.\u201d\nHe said there would also be security staff at the entrance to the restaurant.\nThe council\u2019s senior licensing officer Aaron Wiltshire said allowing the permissions beyond midnight would be \u201ccontrary to our own policy.\u201d\nIn a letter objecting to the proposal, James Fake, the director of community store Ahh Geek Out, said: \u201cThe Vault Lounge at 88 High Town Road was frequently an issue for shop owners and residents,\u201d\nResident Bridget Bloomfield complained about safety, saying: \u201cYou can\u2019t walk down the road at night.\u201d\nShe has experienced people \u201chitting our back door, condoms, my parking space and a neighbour\u2019s were being used as a toilet\u201d, as well as drugs and needles being discarded.\nShe said she had also found someone bleeding outside her gate.\nBut committee chair Councillor Mahmood Hussain, said: \u201cWe have agreed to give you the licence until 1.30am for the music and alcohol sales on Fridays and Saturdays, with the premises to close at 2am.\n\u201cI must warn you if for any reason you are not abiding by the conditions of the licence then it can come back for review.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dunstabletoday.co.uk/sport/football/hatters/no-adebayor-but-bradley-will-celebrate-if-he-scores-for-luton-against-plymouth-1-8707947", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:49Z", "digest": "sha1:6YOJY5JVNF32QAZGBDMWMSBATIFIH5EQ", "length": 4466, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.dunstabletoday.co.uk", "title": "No Adebayor but Bradley will celebrate if he scores for Luton against Plymouth - Dunstable Today", "raw_content": "No Adebayor but Bradley will celebrate if he scores for Luton against Plymouth\nLuton centre half Sonny Bradley would have no problems celebrating his first goal of the season against former club Plymouth Argyle at the weekend.\nThe 27-year-old spent two years at Home Park prior to joining Town in the summer, making almost 100 appearances for the Pilgrims.\nHe has gone close to netting for his new club a number of times in recent weeks, but was hoping to break that duck this weekend, no matter who he was facing.\nBradley said: \u201cI\u2019ve had chances this season, I\u2019ve had a couple cleared off the line, it\u2019s just the way it goes sometimes and I\u2019ll be looking for my first one on Saturday.\n\u201cBut I\u2019ve been thinking that every week, it\u2019s no different, I got asked last week, would I celebrate? And yes, I would celebrate.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not just because it\u2019s Plymouth, I\u2019d do it against any team.\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t run over to anyone or the opposing fans, I\u2019d run over to my fans and if it was my first goal on Saturday or the Saturday after, whenever it is, I\u2019ll be happy and I\u2019ll celebrate with my fans.\u201d\nIf he manages to find the net, Bradley would be respectful towards a club he still holds close to his heart though, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s completely different if I did an (Emmanuel) Adebayor and ran 90 yards and kneeslide in front of them, that\u2019s completely different, that\u2019s something I\u2019d never do.\n\u201cI\u2019ve got nothing but respect for the football club still, the fans are a key part of their football club and they helped me a lot while I was at the football club.\n\u201cI\u2019d never do anything in front of them, but if I did score, I\u2019d definitely celebrate with my home fans.\u201d\nAfter opting to move away from the Pilgrims in the summer, Bradley signed a three year deal at Kenilworth Road and on reflection, feels it was the right call for his career.\nHe continued: \u201cI had a really good two years down there personally and for the club it was two good seasons.\n\u201cThat\u2019s gone now, I\u2019ve moved on and my focus now is on Luton Town. That\u2019s gone to the back of my mind, it\u2019s just like any other game and we\u2019ll be looking to get three points.\n\u201cI had to make a decision in the summer. I decided to leave Plymouth and it wasn\u2019t before I decided to leave Plymouth that I did venture out and looked for a different club.\n\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a case of picking between the two, or between other clubs. After the decision was made to leave Plymouth, I met up with Nathan (Jones) and had a really good conversation.\n\u201cI decided to sign here and I haven\u2019t looked back since. I\u2019m really happy I made that decision.\n\u201cI think it was the right time for me in the end. There was talks of me staying, I possibly could have stayed but for me, after speaking to the manager (Derek Adams) there, it was the right time for me to move on.\u201d\nThe imposing centre half had to bide his time for a place in the side to start with, but on getting his chance, has made 18 appearances in total, playing a big part in the three successive clean sheets that Town have picked up recently.\nHe continued: \u201cIt was a little bit difficult at first, I didn\u2019t play the first two games, Alan Sheehan was playing, but since then, I\u2019ve been part of the team and we\u2019ve been doing really well.\n\u201cWe had a very difficult run of fixtures at the start of the season, but after coming through that, the last 14, 15 games, we\u2019ve been really good.\n\u201cSo it\u2019s just about not looking back now, pushing on and getting to the half way point and from there, pushing on.\n\u201cWe said at the start of the season, minimum target was the play-offs and think so far we\u2019ve put ourselves in a very good position.\u201d\nTown boss Nathan Jones felt that Bradley will be well received by his old supporters too, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s always nice when you play against a side you know, but he\u2019s got nothing to prove.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not like he\u2019s been released from there and he\u2019s got a point to prove that they were wrong, he had a good time there.\n\u201cPlymouth were very good for Sonny Bradley because when he first joined them to when he exited, he was in a far better place, so they did very well for Sonny Bradley.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019ll be any bad feeling in any way, shape or form.\n\u201cHe did well for them, they did well for him, it\u2019s one of those things.\n\u201cIt\u2019s always nice to play against them though, I used to enjoy playing against old sides, people I knew, but Sonny\u2019s purely focused.\n\u201cHe\u2019s a consummate professional, he\u2019s a very diligent human being and sure there won\u2019t be anything that upsets him.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 166.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dutchumbrellacompany.com/blog/general/altered-tax-treatment-staff-outings-and-parties/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:33Z", "digest": "sha1:RKT4M3B7XOMDSBMPYIOES36JAS3T2IPH", "length": 1468, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.dutchumbrellacompany.com", "title": "Altered tax treatment staff outings and parties", "raw_content": "Dutch Umbrella Company Blog General Altered tax treatment staff outings and parties\nWith the implementation of the work-related expenses scheme the tax treatment of staff outings has changed. There are special rules for the location and to what degree the outing is related to the business. With regard to the location refreshments will continue to be tax-free if they are served out on the workplace during a staff party. Should the staff party take place at a different location the tax-free margin will apply.\nBesides the location, the degree the party is business-related is another determining factor for the tax treatment. If it is a staff event with business-related purposes a specific exemption for temporary stay will apply. The event must be consistent with the purposes of your business. You could consider for example to link a seminar or a congress to an outing. You will then be liable for specific exemption for the aggregate expenses of the event, i.e. besides the refreshments also the overnight stays.\nIf the business-related event is continued elsewhere at the end of the day and the purpose of its continuation is not business-related, you will have to break down the aggregate bill of your event into a business-related tax-exempt part on the one hand and a non-business-related taxable part. In case of tax inspection you must be able to demonstrate what type of outing it was. Therefore you are well advised to keep a good record of everything.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.dylankerrigan.com/opeds/war-without-end", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:54Z", "digest": "sha1:E2HEIJT2H7L3KLZBMGOK44L6HKUSM3EM", "length": 5021, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.dylankerrigan.com", "title": "War without end - Dylan Kerrigan", "raw_content": "From Vietnam and the various assaults on Iraq to Afghanistan and the ambiguous war on terror, many recent wars involving western powers have been offensive rather than defensive. They have also been far easier to start than end. Some sociologists connect these lengthy wars to what US President Dwight Eisenhower called the Military Industrial Complex\u2014and the cycles of economic production that coincide with war across many domestic industrial and financial levels.\nAnother hard-to-end war that has been waged for 40 years is the war on drugs. Begun by Richard Nixon in the 1970s, it was a war forced on the rest of the world. For all its moral overtones, researchers connect it to a similar thrust for economic growth and what is called the Prison Industrial Complex.\nLike the Military Industrial Complex, the war on drugs stimulates economic growth through increases in prison populations and the need for larger jails, staff, technology and the like, which in recent times has been taken up by the private sector.\nThen there is the massive military and law-enforcement aid provided by the US for foreign governments like our own, as well as the emergence of whole new industries such as drug testing and drug rehabilitation.\nIn this sense, the drug war generates billions for government agencies and employs millions. Capitalists love the war, as the laundering of billions of US dollars through first-world banks indicates. For example, between 2004 and 2007, one of America\u2019s largest banks, Wachovia, now owned by Wells Fargo, laundered US$378 billion of Mexican drug money. That is just one bank.\nOpinions about the war on drugs cover the whole spectrum, from members of the business community like our own Chamber of Industry and Commerce who herald the need to keep fighting the war to advocates for social change who point out the war on drugs is a form of imperialism directed mostly against non-white populations and involving massive neo-colonial military intervention.\nThat overwhelming scientific evidence demonstrates there is a hierarchy of drugs, with some having far more serious side effects than others (marijuana vs cocaine for example) is ignored for the production of a fear that all drugs are evil.\nFor anthropologists, this view conflicts with widespread evidence that across time, nearly all societies and communities have widespread cultures of intoxication, involving substances prohibited only in the 20th century. When you think about it, that isn\u2019t that surprising. Modern living is drowning in legal drugs.\nCoffee, cigarettes, sleeping tablets, steroids, and alcohol are a few examples of the drugs people take to get through the day. The war on drugs is also discriminatory across class and race. Countless US government studies show young whites use marijuana at higher rates than young blacks or Latinos.\nYet, throughout the US, young blacks and Latinos get arrested and jailed for marijuana possession at much higher rates. In New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, police arrest blacks for marijuana possession at seven times the rate of whites.\nThe situation in T&T is not much different, with members of all our different groups, including our elites and upper classes, using drugs but the criminal penalties falling disproportionately on our low-income group members. Yes, \u201cnice\u201d people take drugs too. They just don\u2019t suffer the same social and criminal penalties.\nWith marijuana legalisation initiatives passing in Colorado and Washington during the US election, the situation has now gone full circle. Citizens (mostly \u201cnice\u201d white ones) of the number-one investor in the war on drugs have voted to legalise drugs (in this case marijuana).\nYet those states are not the first to suggest social change is needed in how society handles the question of drug use. In the context of marijuana, Holland has long had a policy of decriminalisation. Portugal adopted one recently. And Uruguay has also recently decriminalised.\nMeanwhile, the UN Global Commission on Drug Policy publicly came out in favour of ending the war on drugs by decriminalising the use of illegal substances. In December 2011 a majority of Latin America\u2019s leaders meeting in Caracas also called for decriminalisation.\nIn the Caribbean, Jamaica pushed to decriminalise marijuana following the 2000-2001 National Commission on Ganja chaired by the late anthropologist Barry Chevannes. The commission\u2019s recommendation was a change in national law. Yet under economic threat to cuts in aid from the US Government, the Jamaican Government was forced back from what the majority wanted and what Dr Chevannes showed was essentially a local cultural practice.\nClearly, overwhelming scientific evidence refutes what political leaders and the media say about the evils of marijuana. And while there may not be a solid case for the legalisation of all drugs, there is certainly one for marijuana. 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A study from Billentis reveals that the switch from paper to electronic invoices boosts cost savings up to 6,60 euro per invoice.\nNow, \u201cshort, sweet and to the point\u201d, what else can you beat with an e-Invoicing solution?\nImproved Cash Management! The order-to-cash cycle-time is reduced and the need for external financing is minimized.\nFocus on meaningful actions\nE-Invoicing significantly decreases human interventions, manual mistakes and delays. Working Time \u2013the most valuable resource\u2013 can be invested in more analytical and add value activities.\nInstant overviews of all invoices that were sent and received. Spot errors and handle them right away.\nSave time for customers (the receivers of your invoices). No manual input is needed in their financial system. Their procure-to-pay cycle is reduced and, last but not least, you help \u2013indirectly- to speed up the process of getting paid.\nMake an impact on society. 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While Lincoln works hard on The Walking Dead, it is his wife, Gael Anderson, who has built a warm place for their family. Anderson is the daughter of musician Ian Anderson, and she works as part of a film crew.\nWho is Andrew Lincoln married to? Actor Andrew Lincoln\u2019s wife, Gael Anderson, actually comes from rock royalty! She is the daughter of Ian Anderson, the vocalist/flutist/guitarist of the legendary band, Jethro Tull.\nJethro Tull is an English progressive rock band who started out playing blues rock but later added elements of British folk music and hard rock to their sound. A Scottish-born musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Ian Anderson plays many instruments like keyboards, bass guitar, saxophone, harmonica, and a variety of whistles. Gael Anderson is his daughter from his second wife, Shona Learoyd, who he married in 1976.\nGael Anderson and Andrew Lincoln were married on June 10, 2006. Apple Martin, the daughter of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and singer Chris Martin, was the flower girl at their wedding.\nThere is no information on Gael Anderson\u2019s age, but she was born in the 1970s in London, England. She was a personal assistant to the famous Hollywood actress, Gwyneth Paltrow.\nHer marriage with Andrew Lincoln is working out very well so far, and the happy couple is in their eleventh year of conjugal bliss. Andrew Lincoln is famous for playing the role of Rick Grimes, the lead character in the AMC post-apocalyptic horror television series, The Walking Dead.\nThe couple has two children together\u2014a daughter and a son. Gael Anderson\u2019s kids are named Matilda Clutterbuck and Arthur Clutterbuck, born in 2007 and 2010 respectively.\nAnderson has had a very positive effect on her husband and has changed him for the better. And according to his own admission, he has become \u201ca better man and a better actor\u201d after getting married to Anderson.\n#gaelanderson #andrewlincoln #wife #walkingdeadstar #barbados #paplife #Photo: Chris Brandis-Islandpaps/Snapper Media-Australia **Strictly available for sales only in Australia and New Zealand** #exclusive\nA post shared by ISLANDPAPS INCORPORATED (@islandpaps) on Aug 22, 2016 at 10:41am PDT\nLincoln said, \u201cIt\u2019s family first. It makes me more efficient. Work is work time, then I come home \u2013 and there is nothing more grounding. You\u2019re fawned over and wined and dined in LA, and you come home and have to change the nappy.\u201d\nPeople are curious about how Anderson and Lincoln came to be together.\nLincoln explains, \u201cI saw someone that I just fell for, it was amazing, You can\u2019t really quantify or explain emotions. It\u2019s part of my business, sure, but when it\u2019s the real deal.\u201d He continued, \u201cOurs is a very ordinary love story, I suppose. We met, we spent time together, and then I proposed and we got married and had children.\u201d\nHandling the Technology\nA little bit of #Andrewlincoln backside ?? and wifey #gaelanderson #andylincoln #clutterbuck #paparazzi #thewalkingdead #walkingdead #amc #amctwd #amcthewalkingdead #thewalkingdeaduk #rick #rickgrimes #grimes #thatbooty\nA post shared by @ mrs.grimes.10 on Apr 9, 2015 at 5:06am PDT\nAnderson is adept at technology. So much so that Lincoln totally depends on her. Lincoln doesn\u2019t use smartphones or social media and says that Anderson is his \u201capp.\u201d\nThe actor said, \u201cShe\u2019s the reason I am able to do this mad job. She has built a life in Atlanta while I\u2019m away filming. I don\u2019t have a smartphone or apps or anything, and people ask me why. I say: \u2018My wife is my app.\u2019\u201d\nhttps://www.instagram.com/p/BWASqMVgBIj/?tagged=gaelanderson\nAnderson attended the Downe House School during her high school years and works as part of a crew for films and TV series. Her notable work has been on the TV show, Teachers, where she was an important part of the crew.\nAs Lincoln continues to be popular for his stellar work on The Walking Dead, Anderson is busy with her work and being a mother to their two children. Gael Anderson is the strong woman who makes Andrew Lincoln\u2019s life meaningful and successful.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earth-prints.org/browse?type=author&authority=rp11304", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:40:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HWKHO6HRLVTNOARJJDVH4DDIXPVPWQJR", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.earth-prints.org", "title": "Browsing DSpace | Earth-prints", "raw_content": "Browsing by Author Alloway, B. V.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 202.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.earthcam.com/press/press_details.php?id=376", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:19Z", "digest": "sha1:O5JIQ5VTBMYLFP64FRPMRHOC4WEQFHXU", "length": 2907, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.earthcam.com", "title": "EarthCam - Webcam Network", "raw_content": "Growing Network Delivers Ultimate Views from Times Square to Ho Chi Minh City\nNew York, May 7, 2009 -- EarthCam (www.earthcam.com), the premier Internet webcam network, has launched H.264 flash quality streaming views from its exclusive cameras in famous locations throughout the world.\nThe official debut today, including the PandaCam from Zoo Atlanta and popular travel destinations, takes full advantage of the new video compression technology's capability providing the best available full motion, real-time webcam experience.\nEarthCam's most visited live sites, including many with sound, are featured in the first phase of the advanced system rollout. Locations include: Times Square, New York, Leicester Square, London, Prague City Center, the Statue of Liberty, Niagara Falls and the Federal District in Buenos Aires.\nThe New England Aquarium, the PandaCam from Zoo Atlanta, Viva Las Vegas Wedding Chapel, the Seattle Space Needle, Punta del Este, Uruguay, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Puerto Rico complete phase one selections. http://www.earthcam.com/streaming.php\n\"The growing EarthCam network will bring millions of visitors an entirely new experience,\" said Brian Cury, CEO and Founder of EarthCam. \"Thanks to the latest technology, abundant international bandwidth and our new page design, each view reveals a unique look at daily life in the world from exclusive angles and vastly expanded archives that are entertaining, visually dynamic and educational,\" Cury added.\nNew camera access components on EarthCam include map navigation, daily and annual time-lapse movies, plus viewer submitted \"Hall of Fame\" archiving.\nPlans call for a continuous upgrade of cameras during the year for all live views throughout the United States and around the globe.\nEarthCam.com is the leading network of live public access webcams from around the world delivering millions of images daily. EarthCam is also recognized internationally for its complete infrastructure services to manage, host and maintain live streaming private, password-protected network camera systems. The company's more than 13-year experience includes maintaining thousands of applications from sub-zero to desert environments as well as urban and isolated locations for industry, federal, state and local government. Clients include Turner Construction, Bovis Lend Lease, Skanska USA, Forest City Ratner Companies, The URS Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Sprint, Toyota, Panasonic, Yahoo!, Public Broadcasting System (PBS), Coca-Cola, and numerous government agencies including Caltrans, the New Jersey DOT, the Canadian Ministry of Transportation, the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and the GSA (#GS-35F-0719P). As the foremost provider of live images on the Internet, EarthCam webcasts premier events such as the annual New York City Thanksgiving Day Parade and the New Years Eve celebration in Times Square.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3719, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 260.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.easier.com/137969-buying-a-personalised-plate-in-the-uk-the-do-s-and-don-ts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:24Z", "digest": "sha1:TR4T7AOSWG2ZSTJI5RSUJARFY74VRSJF", "length": 6568, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.easier.com", "title": "Buying a personalised plate in the UK - The Do's and Don'ts | Easier", "raw_content": "Buying a personalised plate in the UK - The Do's and Don'ts\nHow to buy a personal registration number for your car\nDVLA Personalised Registrations gears up for second sale of 2016\nDVLA Personalised Registrations sets a new British record as 25 O sells for \u00a3500,000\nDVLA personalised registrations serve up a sale for the ladies\nFootball by number plates\n15th March 2018 Print Email Share\nThe sales of personalised number plates grew 12% between the years 2016 and 2017 and they\u2019re all the rage right now. While the idea of getting a private number plate may seem like a straightforward process, it does require some planning and understanding of the process first.\nHere are some of the do's and don\u2019ts when buying a new personalised plate for your vehicle.\nDo Double Check for Quality\nBefore you decide on a private plate, consider how it looks to others. Will they read that 5 as an S or something else? Will others understand whether or not to read the O as an O or a zero? If it is a custom word, will they understand the intent? If the personalised plate incorporates abbreviations or acronyms, will it be commonly understood? If your personal plate is hard for others to figure out, such that they don\u2019t know what it means, you\u2019ve defeated the whole purpose of having one.\nConversely, if you want the license plate to be edgy, realise that the authorities may not issue it if is too offensive. Check with the DVLA for rules and regulations regarding what is and isn\u2019t allowed. Recognise that you could always use a bumper sticker to the same effect for far less money and hassle, and you won\u2019t have to worry about fitting your message into a few short characters.\nIf you want a private registration for your car, you should consider what you\u2019re willing to pay. You also need to consider the other options for personalising your vehicle. After all, you don\u2019t want to get into a bidding war for what you consider to be the ideal private car registration to reflect your individuality or dedication to a theme when you may end up paying more than your car is worth. It may also be cheaper to get a custom paint job or collector\u2019s items than to pay a fortune for a personalised number plate. Remember to consider the variations of a name or concept instead of devoting yourself to one particular license plate and bidding more than you initially planned.\nAnother issue is the appreciation and value of the plate. You don\u2019t want to be pushed into bidding high on a plate that really isn\u2019t worth it. Research several plates that represent the image you want to convey or capture your identity. Then you won\u2019t end up paying too much for a plate because you fell in love with it and weren\u2019t aware of the options. Check out prices across various brokers, too, in case the same or similar plates are actually available elsewhere at a better price.\nRecord setting sales pop up in the news, such as when someone pays hundreds of thousands of pounds for a private number plate. However, it is a waste of time for you to pay a huge sum in the vain hope that someone else will pay even more for it later.\nDo Buy from a Licensed Broker\nIf you\u2019re buying a private plate through a broker, the broker needs to have DVLA recognition. You can verify this by checking the DVLA website. They should also state this on their website, but unscrupulous sellers may say that they are recognised when they are not. You\u2019ll also want to verify that they\u2019re familiar with the Cherished Marks Transfer Regulations. Another option is going through reputable services like British Car Registrations, since you can guarantee that they\u2019re already licensed and experienced in this area.\nDon\u2019t be Inflexible\nIt\u2019s very common for people to go in to buy a particular number plate only to find out that the exact plate isn\u2019t available or comes at a premium. In some cases, you may still be able to afford it, even if it\u2019s slightly over your budget. If you\u2019re too inflexible and aren\u2019t ready to either make minor changes to the personalised car registration or settle for a higher price, you may soon regret it as private registration plate prices tend to appreciate with time.\nAnd you can forget waiting it out and wishing someone will let go of the number, registrants get to keep their plate for 3 years up until which is will be subject to renewal. Holders of personalised plates can renew their plates as many times as they please, so it would be better to be prepared with multiple options in case the particular private plate you were looking for ends up being already picked.\nDo Understand What is Legal\nOne of the biggest factors you need to consider is whether or not the private number plate is legal. For example, you could be fined if the paperwork isn\u2019t done right and the plate you buy is still registered to another vehicle. You have to renew your MOT test certificate, too, if the car is more than three years old. The V5C registration needs to be reissued. You\u2019ll need a certificate of entitlement, too. This is critical if you want to do something with the plate other than hang it on your wall as a memento.\nYou aren\u2019t allowed to use a personalised plate to make an older car seem newer, and the personalised plate shouldn\u2019t be used to try to sell a middle-aged car as a classic. If you\u2019re buying a newly issued personal plate, a V750 or V778 certificate is necessary so that no one else can use that same registration number. If you end up with a number plate without this certificate, you cannot use it on your car; you\u2019ll need to go to the DVLA to have the number registered and run the risk that someone else has already registered it. You should also make sure that the words you\u2019re using are actually permitted by the DVLA in the first place. While the DVLA has been more lax lately and has allowed names that were previously seen as too racy, you should still double check to see if your application will go through.\nDon\u2019t Ignore Extra Fees\nThere are also many fees that need to be considered when opting for a personalised car registration. If you happen to be buying the plate on a site like eBay, then the fees should be clearly stated. If not, don\u2019t be afraid to ask the seller for their fees up front to avoid any surprises.\nPersonal plates are a status symbol, a means of personal expression and for some, an investment. Consider why you\u2019re buying it and how much you\u2019re really willing to pay relative to your options. Research the sites and groups you want to buy the plate from so that you only go through legitimate businesses that do all of the legal leg-work for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 7104, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.easyenglish.bible/dictionary/bible/conscience/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:46Z", "digest": "sha1:WT337IK276VQ5Y2ZVDM74IPYQXIFVP3T", "length": 58, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.easyenglish.bible", "title": "conscience \u2013", "raw_content": "The thoughts that tell you if something is right or wrong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 95.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.echiropractor.org/anterior-cord-syndrome/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:10Z", "digest": "sha1:T6B3LBF36AV2Z2Q4SSM5M7BMA5SWNPBB", "length": 6524, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.echiropractor.org", "title": "Anterior Cord Syndrome", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Symptoms / Anterior Cord Syndrome\nSpinal Injuries \u2013 Anterior Cord Syndrome\nAnterior cord syndrome is a spinal injury. There are many types of injuries that can affect the spinal cord and cause Anterior Cord syndrome. The c spine, or cervical spine, could be impacted. Cord compression is a possible problem. With spinal cord compression patients might have symptoms such as myelopathy, including cervical myelopathy, or they could have a bulging disc in the neck. The spinal cord can be compressed anywhere in the cervical, thoracic, or lumbar regions. There are several causes of spinal cord compression and anterior cord syndrome, such as osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, tumor, bone\ndiseases, spinal injury, infection, or abnormal alignment.1 Myelopathy means that neural signals are interrupted, due to inflammation, tumor, degeneration, trauma, viruses, or autoimmune disorders, for example. Some symptoms include numbness, weakness, stiffness, loss of balance, neck pain, or urinary troubles.2 Besides spinal compression, patients may present with a compression fracture, central cord syndrome, or anterior cord syndrome. Central cord syndrome is an acute injury that leads to motor functioning impairment (especially to the upper extremities), bladder dysfunction, and \u201csensory loss below the level of injury\u201d.3 Automobile accidents cause most of the spinal cord injuries, and \u201cmales represent 81.2% of all reported SCIs\u201d. Sports-related SCIs (spina cord injuries) typically affect people under 30, as younger people are more prone to push themselves harder for longer and sometimes forget to properly warm up and cool down. Anterior cord syndrome is due to injury to the anterior spinal cord. As a result, patients \u201cfeel some types of crude sensation\u201d due to the posterior spinal cord, \u201cbut movement and more detailed sensation are lost\u201d.4\nAbout Anterior Cord Syndrome\nAnterior cord syndrome is also known as anterior spinal artery syndrome and Beck\u2019s syndrome. It is a spinal cord injury (SCI) that is \u201cdue to ischaemia/infarction of the anterior two-thirds of the spinal cord\u2026sparing posterior third\u201d. There are a few causes of anterior spinal injury, including aortic pathology, atherosclerosis, trauma (such as a stab injury), and external compression (such as from a herniated disc or posterior osteophyte). Patients with the disorder present with \u201ccomplete motor paralysis below the level of the lesion\u201d, as well as loss of temperature and pain below the injury level. They do have \u201cintact 2-point discrimination, proprioception and vibratory senses\u201d; however, there are autonomic, and likely bladder, bowel, and sexual dysfunctions. Anterior cord syndrome can occur as the result of trauma or non-trauma processes.5\nTreating Anterior Cord Syndrome\nUnfortunately, the prognosis for anterior cord syndrome is the \u201cworst among all other spinal cord injury syndromes\u201d. Usually the treatment focuses on supportive care and trying to treat the cause of the insufficiency.6\nThe outlook improves \u201cif recovery is evident and progressive during the first 24 hours.\u201d7 Typically, there is only a \u201c10-20% chance of motor recovery\u201d.8 Spinal cord injuries, in general, are often treated with a variety of modalities, such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and recreational therapy. The goals are to improve range-of-motion and mobility, restore activities of daily living, and allow patients to return to areas of interest.9 In the case of any spinal injury, practitioners must take special care not to further the damage. With certain disorders, such as cervical spondylotic myelopathy (a spinal cord compression), there are non-surgical treatment options. Patients may wear soft collars or engage in exercises. They could also be prescribed NSAIDs or steroid medications.10\nInter-Disciplinary Help for Spinal Cord Injuries That Can Lead to Anterior Cord Syndrome\nThere are many professionals who work together to assist patients with spinal cord injuries. During the inpatient rehabilitation portion of care, there is an inter-disciplinary team at work. Team members should know about the International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury (ISNCSCI). It is necessary to make sure that those with SCIs do not end up with medical complications that impact their activities of daily living\n(ADLs) and mobility. Psychosocial impacts must also be addressed. Pain and injury is a stressful time for anyone, so patients need a way to relieve their stress and relax. Patients with SCIs are in need of medical services. They are vulnerable to deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pneumonia, and pressure ulcers. Some physicians may have training in SCI Medicine, but others gain rehabilitation knowledge through experience. Since trauma, falls, accidents, violence, and sports injuries could be the cause of the spinal cord injury, patients will need to be treated for those injuries, such as fractures, pneumothorax and other pulmonary concerns, gastrointestinal and urological issues, loss of consciousness, cardiovascular problems, and musculoskeletal problems. They may also have cognitive and emotional complications due to traumatic brain injury. Because of the many medical support services (laboratory, pharmacy, and radiology, for example), paralyzed patients have their treatment coordinated through case managers. Other people who work with the patients are rehabilitation nurses, who help patients \u201cadapt to an altered lifestyle\u201d, and occupational and physical therapists. They can help patients restore strength and work on daily activities. Exercise and good posture, as well as proper ergonomics, may help patients prevent further injury, such as respiratory complications, pressure sores, or overuse injuries. Psychosocial services, respiratory care, and medical nutrition are just a few of the additional recommended services for SCI patients.11\n1 http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/nervous_system_disorders/spinal_cord_compression_134,13/\n2 http://www.columbianeurosurgery.org/conditions/cervical-myelopathy/\n4 http://www.aans.org/Patient%20Information/Conditions%20and%20Treatments/Spinal%20Cord%20Injury.aspx\n5, 6 http://radiopaedia.org/articles/anterior-cord-syndrome\n7 http://www.apparelyzed.com/spinal-cord-injury/anterior-cord-syndrome.html\n8 http://www.orthobullets.com/spine/2008/incomplete-spinal-cord-injuries\n10 http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00541\nFind out about chiropractic care for the paralyzed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 8999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.edc.ca/EN/About-Us/News-Room/Pages/EDC-Masala-Loan.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:07Z", "digest": "sha1:M4CIS2H46JSF36AM6JHO3UIO6NPYYO34", "length": 3924, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.edc.ca", "title": "India\u2019s largest infrastructure company set to double Canadian suppliers through EDC\u2019s matchmaking - Export Development Canada (EDC)", "raw_content": "India\u2019s largest infrastructure company set to double Canadian suppliers through EDC\u2019s matchmaking\nHome > Home > About Us > News Room > India\u2019s largest infrastructure company set to double Canadian suppliers through EDC\u2019s matchmaking\n(OTTAWA) \u2013 November 18, 2016\nExport Development Canada (EDC) today announced it has provided the rupee (INR) equivalent of USD 50M in financing to Mumbai-based Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS).\nEDC\u2019s financing will create new opportunities for qualified small- and medium-sized (SME) Canadian companies to win new business with IL&FS, one of India\u2019s largest infrastructure developers. As smaller Canadian suppliers compete in this globalized industry, they have increasingly asked EDC to help them make new connections with foreign buyers.\n\u201cEDC\u2019s focus is helping smaller Canadian businesses that supply into bigger infrastructure projects expand into new foreign markets,\u201d said Mairead Lavery, SVP of Business Development, EDC. \u201cIL&FS, with its large global supply chain and base in growth-rich India, was at the top of their wish list. Small- and medium-sized companies are the engine of growth in Canada, for both exports and jobs, and this new relationship is all about them.\u201d\nSince 2013, IL&FS has procured approximately USD 2M in goods and services from Canadian companies. EDC\u2019s financing aims to increase this amount to more than USD 4M per year. The financing marks the first time that EDC has provided financing denominated in rupees, responding to the needs of Indian companies and making it easier for Canadian suppliers to do business in India.\n\u201cIt\u2019s about helping Canadian companies go, grow and succeed internationally,\u201d added Mrs. Lavery.\n\u201cOver the past two years, IL&FS has met with over 50 Canadian companies and will meet with another 25 in November when they travel to Canada for a trade mission,\u201d said Nathan Nelson, EDC\u2019s Chief Representative in India. \u201cIL&FS is an important value chain in the Indian market with a clear interest in doing more business with Canadian companies, particularly those that have expertise in surface transport, power and urban infrastructure, and mapping.\u201d\nEDC targets companies like IL&FS, whose procurement needs match up naturally with Canadian expertise. Once EDC has a detailed understanding of a company\u2019s supply chain and business goals, they provide introductions to qualified Canadian companies with well-matched expertise. IL&FS is specifically interested in Canadian companies that can help it innovate and reduce costs in upcoming road, port, power, sanitation, waste management, and water projects.\n\u201cWhen Canadian companies win business after our introductions, they won\u2019t be left on their own,\u201d added Mrs. Lavery. \u201cEDC can provide them with financing and insurance solutions to support their growth in their new markets.\u201d India is a strategic market for Canada and is also a priority market for EDC.\nFor companies interested in taking part in EDC\u2019s matchmaking opportunities, qualified Canadian companies can contact 1-888-434-8508 or register their services on Enterprise Canada Network (ECN), a joint venture between EDC and Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME).\nThe ECN website works by matching Canadian company profiles with the products and services being sought by buying companies, most of which are in foreign markets. There are currently more than 30,000 opportunity profiles posted through the European Commission\u2019s Enterprise Europe Network, which the ECN links into.\nAbout Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services\nInfrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) is one of India's leading infrastructure development and finance companies. Its distinct mandate involves catalyzing the development of infrastructure in the country. The organization has focused on the commercialization and development of infrastructure projects and creation of value added financial services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 7414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 255.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.edonsw.org.au/hys_responding_to_applications_aboriginal_communities", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MM64ULQALANTJSSSPOJR4T5W7YA74REC", "length": 2840, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.edonsw.org.au", "title": "Responding to applications - EDO NSW", "raw_content": "Aboriginal Communities \u00bb\nComments from the community are also invited on things like development applications and environment protection licences, which have the potential to impact on Aboriginal cultural heritage.\nTo comment on developments likely to impact on matters of national environmental significance, such as World Heritage areas, visit the Australian Government\u2019s EPBC Act website. For more information about how the environment and heritage is protected under national laws, see our Fact Sheet on the EPBC Act.\nTo comment on major project applications, visit the NSW Department of Planning and Environment\u2019s website. These are developments that are considered to be of State or regional significance. They are often large scale developments, and include developments that have the potential to have significant impacts on the environment and heritage. The public can submit comments to the Department of Planning and Infrastructure. To read more about the assessment of major projects, see our Fact Sheet on State significant development and infrastructure.\nTo comment on development applications that are notified in your local area, visit your local council\u2019s website \u2013 DAs are often notified in a local newspaper and on the council\u2019s website. Note that public comment is not invited for all developments assessed by the local council, and some types of development do not require public notification or involvement. For more information on development assessment processes, see our Fact Sheet on DAs and consents.\nTo see if you can speak at a council meeting, contact your local council. If you have made a submission on a proposed development, you may have a chance to have your say at the council meeting where the development is being considered. For more information about speaking at a council meeting, see How can I have my say?.\nTo see if there are any opportunities to appear at a public meeting or public hearing on a particular development application, visit the website of the Planning Assessment Commission (PAC) website or Joint Regional Planning Panels (JRPP). For more information about speaking at public meetings and hearings, see How can I have my say?.\nNotifications about opportunities to comment on proposals are often required to be published. The NSW Government is required to publish notices for some proposals in a locally circulating newspaper, and sometimes a newspaper that circulates throughout NSW (often The Land). You can keep an eye on the papers to make sure that you don\u2019t miss an opportunity to comment. For more information about notification for mining and CSG activities, see our Fact Sheets on mining and CSG. For more information about notification of major project developments, see our Fact Sheet on State significant development and infrastructure.\n\u00ab Back to: Aboriginal Communities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 5183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eisneramper.com/fbar-safe-pb-blog-1117/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:55Z", "digest": "sha1:BAY44YPSO5H4O65AAQN53KWEUNY7ASGR", "length": 1938, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.eisneramper.com", "title": "FBAR IRS Form 8938 taxpayer overseas account civil penaltie", "raw_content": "Better To Be Safe than Sorry When it Comes to FBAR Filing\nIn the 2017 case U.S. v. Bussell, the California Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling by a district court that a taxpayer, Letantia Bussell, had failed to file a Report of the Foreign Bank and Foreign Accounts (FBAR). The IRS claimed she failed to disclose financial interests in an overseas account on her 2006 tax return. Bussell argued several positions ranging from the imposition of excessive fines to due process. Bussell was ultimately fined $50,000, plus $55,000 for the costs of prosecution and a $1.2 million penalty for not disclosing her overseas account held during 2006.\nEach U.S. citizen with a financial interest in and/or a signature or other authority over a foreign financial account with an aggregate value exceeding $10,000 at any point during the calendar year must report each account in an FBAR filing to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.\nFailure to file the FBAR report may result in civil and criminal penalties. Non-willful violators may receive civil penalties of $10,000 per violation. Willful violators are subjected to penalties of more than $100,000 or 50% of account\u2019s value at the time of the violation. There is a reasonable cause exception, but only for non-willful violators.\nIf you are unsure about being subject to the FBAR filing, always err on the side of caution. You might be subject to filing Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets. Taxpayers holding financial assets with an aggregate value exceeding $50,000 ($100,000 for married couples) on the last day of the year or more than $75,000 ($150,000 for married couples) during any time of the year must file Form 8938. Penalties for not filing this form can be as onerous as those mentioned above for not filing the FBAR form.\nIf you own or invest in significant amounts of foreign assets, consider seeking advice from a tax professional specializing in this area.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 8157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 196.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elite7hackers.net/topic/15988-environmental-management-of-river-basin-ecosystems/?do=email", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:17Z", "digest": "sha1:2NZUVJ5UV67TYABL3VFM52YPKTCOBDJA", "length": 244, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.elite7hackers.net", "title": "Email this page ( Environmental Management of River Basin Ecosystems ) - Elite7Hackers Network", "raw_content": "Environmental Management of River Basin Ecosystems\nI thought you might be interested in looking at Environmental Management of River Basin Ecosystems.\nhttps://www.elite7hackers.net/topic/15988-environmental-management-of-river-basin-ecosystems/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.elodiedetails.com/global/inspiration-ed/gifts/baby-shower", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZVHGBX55VBM6F2J4M3UCFBRW7TUAV5TJ", "length": 2090, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.elodiedetails.com", "title": "Baby Shower | Elodie Details", "raw_content": "INSPIRATION > Gifts > Baby Shower\n/INSPIRATION/Gifts/Baby Shower\nHow to pick the perfect gift for a Baby Shower\nBaby showers are becoming increasingly more popular the world over, and we can understand why. The phenomenon originated in the US and the idea has been to gather parents, mothers in particular, before the birth of a son or daughter, to share experiences and advice on life as a parent. It\u2019s also an opportunity to \u201cshower\u201d the expectant parents with gifts. Usually things they\u2019ll need for the baby. A baby shower is usually organized by someone close to the mother or father, and sometimes it\u2019s set up as a surprise party.\nOur best advice when picking out gits for a baby shower would be to go for things with a subtle colour tone. That way it\u2019s easier for the parents to style wise tie the gifts together to a whole. This is of course important when buying clothes, but equally important with home d\u00e9cor, textiles and accessories.\nSince a baby shower takes place before the baby is even born, you may want to consider buying a gift that the parents themselves may not think about getting, but that can be good to have from day one. Some picks from our assortment that can be a good choice are; Our Organizer! A good present even if the parents have already picked out a diaper bag, as it is smaller, more compact and easy to bring along. A Muslin Blanket and/or Blinky is a good present to receive before the baby is born.\nBy keeping it in bed with them for a time, the parents can infuse them with their own scents, making them an even more effective comforter later on when the baby is born. It\u2019s not uncommon for friends or family to pool some money together and buy one or two more expensive gifts for a baby shower. Good choices here are our Play Mats or Stroller Bags. The style of the play mats make them feel right at home not just in the nursery but in any room of the house really, and the large size makes them suitable as a mat for many years after infancy. A long lasting present to say the least.\nThese and a few other are our top picks as gifts for baby shower.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 7209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.engineshed.scot/publications/publication/?publicationId=7a69ec6b-1488-4a14-8560-a59400bbfc2a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:36Z", "digest": "sha1:X6IZX3ZRJPDMN2ZIDT5ACTTBIFQNPGAC", "length": 418, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.engineshed.scot", "title": "Technical Paper 22 | The Engine Shed | Explore Your Built Heritage", "raw_content": "Electric radiant heating panels were installed at Scotstarvit Tower Cottage following extensive refurbishment to improve the building\u2019s energy efficiency and replace the existing oil fired wet-heating system. This report outlines the study that was carried out to assess the performance of the new heating system and considers the methods used, results obtained and the conclusions that can be drawn from the analysis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 2181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 120.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.enidpublicschools.org/index.php?pageID=160374_3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:43Z", "digest": "sha1:4TJLPSKBRRJI54OYV4GG3QEFWQXNAGHE", "length": 749, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.enidpublicschools.org", "title": "Enid Public School - EC Home", "raw_content": "In Enid Public Schools, our Early Childhood Learning Philosophy addresses the needs of the whole child by guiding their cognitive, social, emotional, physical and creative development. This is accomplished through a variety of teaching strategies including purposeful play, differentiated instruction and a stimulating curriculum that will actively engage all students in a developmentally appropriate setting. Our program is designed to be a collaborative effort involving parents, students and teachers, and by working as a team. I have no doubt that we will be successful in our mission to create a foundation for life-long learning in our youngest Enid Public School Plainsman. We are looking forward to an exciting year with you and your child.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 355, "original_length": 20014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 171.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.epa.gov/G3/green-street-practices", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:19Z", "digest": "sha1:QRYJ2AE7GCRGDGIJUPMVQWYH5PD3X3LQ", "length": 3573, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.epa.gov", "title": "Green Street Practices | Green Streets, Green Jobs, Green Towns (G3) Program | US EPA", "raw_content": "Green Street Practices\nGreen Streets and Alleys\nWhat are green street practices?\nGreen street practices are select green infrastructure elements, such as bioswales, rain gardens, and permeable pavement, that can be incorporated into a traditional street design to create a \"Green Street\". Green street practices capture, retain, treat, and/or infiltrate stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces such as roadways, parking lots, sidewalks, and rooftops.\nHow do green street practices protect water quality?\nThe Issue - Stormwater Runoff\nStormwater runoff is one of the largest sources of water pollution in urban and suburban areas and presents many environmental, social, and economic challenges to communities across the nation. Rainwater that runs off impervious surfaces, such as roadways, rooftops, and parking lots, collects pollutants like oil and grease, animal waste, metals, trash, sediment, and nutrients. Ultimately, the contaminated stormwater runoff is discharged into local waterbodies, directly impacting the water quality of local water bodies.\nAlong with pollution concerns, impervious surfaces may lead to increased flooding. More frequent and intense rain events in highly impervious areas can overwhelm stormwater collection systems leading to recurrent localized flooding. Flooding can have significant economic impacts on communities due to loss of property and damage to critical infrastructure such as utilities, roads, and bridges. An increase in the volume of water discharging into streams and rivers leads to stream bank erosion, sedimentation, and loss of stream stability. For more information on how to manage your community's flood risk, please visit our Green Infrastructure Manage Flood Risk webpage.\nStormwater Collection Systems\nIn urban areas stormwater runoff is directed into either:\nMunicipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s). MS4s are designed or used to collect or convey stormwater (e.g., storm drains, pipes, ditches) that often discharge untreated stormwater into local water bodies. To learn more about MS4s, please visit EPA's Stormwater Discharges from Municipal Sources page.\nCombinded Sewer System (CSS). A CSS collects rainwater runoff, domestic sewage, and industrial wastewater into one pipe. Under normal conditions, it transports all of the wastewater it collects to a sewage treatment plant for treatment, then discharges to a water body. The volume of wastewater can sometimes exceed the capacity of the CSS or treatment plant (e.g., during heavy rainfall events or snowmelt). When this occurs, untreated stormwater and wastewater, discharges directly to nearby streams, rivers, and other water bodies. To learn more, please visit EPA's Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) page.\nThe Solution - Green Streets A street-side swale and adjacent porous concrete sidewalk located in the High Point neighborhood of Seattle, WA (Source: Abby Hall, US EPA).\nImplementing a G3 Approach and incorporating green street practices help manage stormwater where it falls and keeps it from entering stormwater collection systems. Green street practices can address the environmental and human health concerns associated with stormwater runoff from impervious surfaces by:\nreducing the discharge of pollutants into waterways\nmitigating the effects of flooding\npreventing stream bank erosion\nincreasing stream stability and ecological health\nTo learn more about additional green infrastructure practices, please visit EPA's What Is Green Infrastructure? and Water Environment Research Foundation's Green Streets Basics and Design Exit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.equaltimes.org/anne-marie-impe-15711", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:45Z", "digest": "sha1:DTAVLBDWB35RJDXFIYX6FY3PF7N3KET7", "length": 446, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.equaltimes.org", "title": "Equal Times - Anne-Marie Impe", "raw_content": "Anne-Marie Impe\nAnne-Marie Impe is the former editor-in-chief of Enjeux internationaux. She currently works as a freelance journalist, writer and journalism lecturer at IHECS in Brussels, Belgium.\nTwitter : @ImpeAm\nFresh upsurge in violence against the women of Congo\nThis November, Equal Times will be running a series of articles on violence against women worldwide. First up, the Democratic Republic of [...]Read the full article", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1687, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 298.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.equitybulls.com/admin/news2006/news_det.asp?id=243909", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:33Z", "digest": "sha1:CRQREBUO24QJ5LTNPXL6SVYM3OC4V4YE", "length": 3235, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.equitybulls.com", "title": "Interim Union Budget 2019-20: GST led to increase in tax base, higher collections and ease of trade - EquityBulls.com", "raw_content": "Interim Union Budget 2019-20: GST led to increase in tax base, higher collections and ease of trade\nThe Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms has resulted in increased tax base, higher collections and ease of trade. While presenting the Interim Budget 2019-20 in Parliament today, the Union Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, Railways & Coal, Shri Piyush Goyal said \"The Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms lingered on during the previous Government for almost a decade. Our Government implemented the GST, which is undoubtedly the biggest taxation reform undertaken since Independence.\"\nSeventeen different taxes levied by the Central and State/UT Governments with cascading effect of tax on tax, were consolidated into one GST. India became a common market. GST has resulted in increased tax base, higher collections and ease of doing business. This will reduce the interface between the tax payers and the Government for day-to-day operations and assessments. The Minister said that now returns are fully online and e-way bill system is in place. Inter-state movements have become faster, more efficient, and hassle free with no Entry Tax, check posts, and truck queues among others.\nThe Finance Minister, Shri Goyal said, \"The high taxation levied on multiple commodities in the pre-GST regime has been rationalised and the burden on the consumer, especially the poor and the middle class, has been significantly reduced.\" The GST Council, comprising the Centre and States/UTs, finalised the GST rates collectively mostly lower than pre-GST rates. Since then, GST has been continuously reduced providing relief of about Rs. 80,000 crore annually to consumers. Most items of daily use of the poor and middle class are now in the 0% or 5% tax slab. Cinema goers who were subjected to multiple taxes up to 50% are mostly paying much lower tax at 12% now.\nThe Finance Minister, Shri Goyal said that our Government wants the GST burden on home buyers to be reduced and accordingly we have moved the GST Council to appoint a Group of Ministers to examine and make recommendations in this regard at the earliest.\nShri Goyal said that GST aims to benefit small traders, manufacturers and service providers. Exemptions from GST for small businesses has been doubled from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 40 lakh. Further, small businesses having turnover up to Rs. 1.5 crore have been given an attractive composition scheme wherein they pay only 1% flat rate and have to file one annual return only. Similarly, small service providers with turnover upto Rs. 50 lakhs can now opt for composition scheme and pay GST at 6% instead of 18%. More than 35 lakh small traders, manufacturers and service providers will benefit from these trader friendly measures. Soon, businesses comprising over 90% of GST payers will be allowed to file quarterly return, the Minister added.\nThe Finance Minister asserted that in spite of such major rate reductions and relaxations, revenue trends are encouraging. He said, \"The average monthly tax collection in the current year is Rs. 97,100 crore per month as compared to Rs. 89,700 crore per month in the first year. 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Your recon team has cleared the way by ensuring the building is empty and gaining access to the manager\u2019s office, where the vault awaits. It\u2019s no ordinary safe and you\u2019ll need to look for clues that will help you crack the code. But beware! You only have 60 minutes to find the diamond and get out until the alarm goes off and police shows up. Get cracking! Take your family, friends, and co-workers on a live-action interactive adventure and for an hour put on a hat of a cryptologist, scientist, adventurers, and others to solve the mystery of each room before the clock runs out. All of our family-friendly rooms are built with interactive and cutting edge technologies to bring you the most entertaining and challenging puzzles. We work with Theme Experts to create the ambiance, stories, and puzzles that will keep you on your toes for the entire hour. It's perfect for friends/family parties and corporate events. Plus, when you book with us you book a PRIVATE ROOM experience without any strangers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 3734, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a3397/weavebridge1007/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:45Z", "digest": "sha1:BTNY4B66XNHXQEP6MVFELWFTVGVPLEAG", "length": 1248, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.esquire.com", "title": "No. 48: The Weave Bridge, an Impossible Structure", "raw_content": "No. 48: The Weave Bridge, an Impossible Structure\nEngineer Cecil Balmond brings a new kind of bridge to the U.S. when his braided Weave Bridge opens on the University of Pennsylvania's campus in February.\nFootpaths meander and gradually coil together to create the Weave Bridge in Philadelphia. The span is a poetic solution to a pedestrian problem: how to get people across railroad tracks that bisect the University of Pennsylvania campus. It's also a quintessential creation of Cecil Balmond, a structural engineer at the British design firm Ove Arup, who is reshaping skylines from London to Taiwan and whose work includes dozens of radical structures around the world. (The cantilevered CCTV tower in Beijing will be one of the most talked-about buildings next year.) Scheduled to open this February, the Weave Bridge, Balmond's first solo work in the U.S., announces the arrival of a new aesthetic: sleek, geometric designs as open in their function as the columns of a Greek temple -- if M.C. Escher conceived that Greek temple. For instance, the coil at the near end of the span doesn't wrap around a support column; it is the support column. One structure does the work of two. Simple. But something no other bridge in the world can claim.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 4608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.essaydepot.com/doc/39130/Sweet-Death", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:53Z", "digest": "sha1:5QVSVNLYFORPGR2CWTRUJLUC6KPFHTNY", "length": 2115, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.essaydepot.com", "title": "Essay on Sweet Death EssayDepot.com", "raw_content": "\u201cDon't cry mom. I love you, and everything will be okay. I'll get to see Donny again soon. Never forget me and how much I love you.\u201d\nI was sixteen when I faced the biggest challenge of my life, the death of my oldest brother, and the choice of life or death. My brother didn't get a choice, but I did, and death was my choice. 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I saw this out of my window, but I wanted to hear what he said with my own ears, hear the pain, hear the words that would later bring my own death.\nI walked to my front door, and got there before the officer was there, I opened the door. He was only on the first step of our porch, he was looking at his feet, and I guess he heard the door open, because he paused, for only a moment, to take a deep breath. I could tell he didn't want to deliver then news that he had, he knew how close I was to my brother, and I knew this, because as soon as he lifted his face, I realized that I knew that face looking back at me. This office standing before me, was my brothers best friend, Lieutenant Ryan Evans, someone who was feeling the same pain that my family was about to face.\n\u201cHello Samantha. 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The Skydeck is accessibility friendly, therefore there is no problems in bringing the pram around with you. The Skydeck also has a small licenced kiosk, selling fresh sandwiches, wraps, muffins and slices daily, paired with a cup of tea or coffee, this is easily one of the top things for families to do in Melbourne.\nEureka Skydeck is home to the world\u2019s only Edge Experience. This must-do experience is a crowd-pleaser activity the kids will love! If the Edge Experience is all too much for you, the Vertigo Green Screen Experience is the next best thing. Vertigo is one of the most fun things to do in Melbourne for families! 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We have put up a fleet of 100 vessels. In Pula, Biograd, Split and Dubrovnik, is a young fleet of vessels in the 26-54 feet of length, mainly Jeanneau, maintained by our professional and highly qualified staff.\nEvery year we expand and renew our fleet with new models and new vessels.\nBesides accommodation on boats, we offer one-way charter, transfer mini-bus services, finding the ship's crew and organization, procurement of food ...\nOur offices on the Adriatic coast are located in Aci marinas, except office in Biograd, located in Marina Kornati . In accordance to the interest of clients this year, Biograd is considered most attractive starting destination because of its proximity and the possibility of Kornati one-way charters to Pula, Split and Dubrovnik.\nAll our boats are equipped with the relevant security, navigation and other equipment that will meet the standards of each client. In our offices in disposal is professional and highly qualified personnel that will help at any time.\nEUROMARINE d.o.o., a general representative and distributor of boat manufacturers Chantiers JEANNEAU provides service support (guarantee and non-guarantee services) for all vessels of the above manufacturers. Manufacturer of vessels, Chantiers JEANNEAU, offers warranty on the hull of sailing yachts (construction, structure, etc.)in length of 5 years after purchase and 3 years for the motor boats and 1 year for the equipment mounted in the shipyard, with the exception of vessels used in commercial purposes (charter) where the manufacturer\u2019s warranty on the hull is valid for the period of 1 year. When other equipment is installed on the vessel, and that equipment is of other manufacturers (engine, instruments, heating, etc.) the length of the warranty depends on the type of equipment and manufacturer.\nWe organize all types of transport of vessels and equipment from the factory to any destination on the Adriatic.\nWe offer our clients the possibility of procurement of original spare parts of manufacturers Chantiers JEANNEAU for all vessels from the program. After receiving your inquiry by e-mail, telephone or fax, we send you an offer and information about features, price and delivery of the requested spare parts or service.\nAfter receipt of confirmation of your order we start realization of the procurement. Urgent items and small parts are shipped within 7 days of order confirmation and orders of large parts (quantity, size or weight) are usually transported on vessels that are delivered to Croatia.\nFurthermore, we offer you ... equipping and installation of other marine equipment needed to conducting your boat comfortably and safely (installation of bow propellers, generators, refrigeration, inverter, charger, service and supply sails, etc.)!\nIn the event of damage caused by unwanted weather and human factors, we will send a complete offer for the repair of damage to insurance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 4035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/121832/The_Dresden_Album.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ECDWNDLY5AB5M2EHZLTGW4VBTKO5C74K", "length": 1434, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.europadisc.co.uk", "title": "The Dresden Album | CD | Audax ADX13701", "raw_content": "The Dresden Album\nCat No: ADX13701\nTrio Sonata in D major, FWV N:D4\nTrio Sonata in A major, K340\nTrio Sonatas (10), op.2 HWV386a-394\n\u00bb no.8 in G minor, HWV393\n\u00bb no.9 in E major, HWV394\nTrio Sonata for 2 violins and continuo in E flat major, TWV42:es1\nTuma, Frantisek\nIn 2013 Johannes Pramsohler founded his own record label, Audax Records. The first album, a homage to Arcangelo Corelli received rave reviews from the international press.\nNow follows Audax No.2: Handel's visit to Dresden in 1719 is the starting point of this exciting collection of chamber music from the Saxon court. Director Johannes Pramsohler unearthed some rare gems by composers associated with Dresden \ufffd highly virtuosic and fascinating music that is far too good to fall into collective oblivion: trio sonatas by Handel, Telemann, Fasch, Fux and Tu\u030ama. Amongst them are three world premiere recordings.\nJohannes Pramsohler was born in South Tyrol, studied in London and is now based in Paris. He has established himself internationally as an emminent expert of historical informed performance. He is regularly invited to lead Europe's most important baroque orchestras.\nThe Ensemble Diderot is undoubtedly one of today\ufffds most interesting and original chamber music groups in Europe. It dedicates itself to the exploration and performance of the Baroque trio sonata repertoire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and performs on original instruments.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 6211, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eveningtribune.com/x199483165/Danny-Henley-Celebrating-another-important-birthday", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:09Z", "digest": "sha1:2W2ZFAMDYLDC34MRY2LIM3JDTQPXDTM7", "length": 3489, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.eveningtribune.com", "title": "Danny Henley: Celebrating another important birthday - News - The Evening Tribune - Hornell, NY", "raw_content": "Danny Henley: Celebrating another important birthday\nOn Sunday, Oct. 26, many members of my family gathered to celebrate the \u201cbirth\u201d of my youngest daughter, Anna. No it wasn\u2019t her biological birthday, which is in May. On that Sunday afternoon Anna was baptized, which marked her \u201cspiritual birth\u201d as she confessed Jesus Christ as her Lord and savior.\nJimmie Oldaker. Of all the notable people who have passed away in recent months, there is something about the life of this homeless man who was calling Hannibal, Mo., home at the time of his death that continues to stick with me.\nTo be brutally honest, I didn\u2019t know Mr. Oldaker, who passed away of natural causes in downtown Hannibal on Sept. 23 at the age of 48.\n\u201cBackpack Jim,\u201d as he was called by the handful of people who knew him best, had been given a helping hand by the Bridge Street Ministry in Hannibal. Roy Owens, who operates the ministry, had provided a shelter for Mr. Oldaker. While not plush, it was more than he would likely have had otherwise.\nOwens gave Mr. Oldaker more than a roof over his head. Once, after learning it was Oldaker\u2019s birthday, Owens got him a cake and threw together a small, impromptu party. Backpack Jim told Owens that he couldn\u2019t remember the last time anyone had celebrated his birthday.\nThat story touched me. While many will complain about having a fuss made over them when it is their birthday, how empty would a person\u2019s life seem if no one acknowledged the day they came into this world?\nThe day came with pretty much all the trappings of a regular birthday celebration - lots of family members were present, there was plenty of good things to eat, gifts were given, pictures were taken. There also was a noticeable air of hopefulness for this young woman\u2019s life and a sense of anticipation over what God has in store for her now.\nAnna was baptized at Immanuel Baptist Church, where she has been a part of that congregation\u2019s Awana program for years. In addition to all the family members in attendance, a number of our family\u2019s friends gave up a portion of their Sunday afternoon to be in attendance. Even more people might have come had we trumpeted our family\u2019s good news from one of Hannibal\u2019s highest hills.\nAs I looked at pictures taken during the baptism service by my daughter, Amber, and son, Jacob, it was hard not to notice that Anna was beaming. Was it because of all the people who were present? Or was it a smile of relief that this significant decision was no longer weighing on her? I don\u2019t know. All I know is that her joy was radiant.\nFollowing the baptism, I found myself expressing appreciation to an assortment of people for their positive influence on my daughter. Most seemed perplexed that instead of accepting their congratulations I was offering thanks to them for the impact they have had on my daughter.\nI recognize that unlike the creation of a biological baby, which by God\u2019s intent is normally a two-person operation, the birth of a spiritual child frequently involves the contributions of many people. Some will have a daily impact. The influence of others will only be felt on Wednesdays and/or Sundays. Then there are those whose positive light is seen during chance encounters, which while brief, are nonetheless influential.\nAs my spiritual babe matures, I don\u2019t know if she\u2019ll remember Oct. 26 is her spiritual birthday. My prayer is not that Anna remembers the day of her spiritual birth, but what her birth represents and lives her life accordingly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eventplanner.net/news/8470_how-to-provide-an-easytounderstand-event-sitemap.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:44Z", "digest": "sha1:3CRJIH6IHADKGRCYM5DSXKG2KYKEGWMW", "length": 4402, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.eventplanner.net", "title": "How to Provide an Easy-to-Understand Event Sitemap", "raw_content": "newsinspirationHow to Provide an Easy-to-Understand Event Sitemap\nHow to Provide an Easy-to-Understand Event Sitemap\nHave you ever had to rush to catch a flight in a big airport with many levels, checkpoints, and gates? How did you feel? Most probably, you were stressed and frantic. However, chances are you made it and caught the flight.\nWhat helped you navigate through those endless airport lines and crowds? Maybe you were in a user-friendly airport with signs and indications that were easy to understand. Of course, you can't compare this situation with the way your guests feel when they can't find your event's venue or the workshop rooms. Yet, their experience is similar, because it depends entirely on how well you manage to redirect the audience flow by providing comprehensible event sitemap with the specific details and necessary explanations.\nAs Anton Shone and Bryn Parry note in their book Successful Event Management: A Practical Handbook, \"Part of the process of providing information for the public for a large or outdoor event will probably be the preparation of a scale or sketch map or plan of the site.\"\nAnd according to Julia Rutherford Silvers, \"An overview site map allows the individual to establish his or her own orientation within the macroenvironment of the event site, as well as to determine the hierarchy of features and areas of interest.\"\nHowever, if you want to provide an easy-to-understand event sitemap, you have to follow some ground rules. The most important ones are detailed below.\nRule #1. Mark all the points of interest\nIt doesn\u2019t matter if you're talking about the seminar rooms or the restrooms - your responsibility is to offer a clear understanding of all spaces. If you don\u2019t, be prepared to deal with unexpected questions from your guests during the event. Will you have the time to explain where the elevators are? Or would it be easier just to supply them with an extensive and comprehensible map that encompasses all the possible points of interest? The answer is obvious.\nRule #2. Include photos with the locations\nLet\u2019s take the example of a large academic event that is held in different campuses or university buildings. To ensure that your guests won\u2019t get lost, include a few images in the sitemap for a visual reference, such as the library or auditorium. You can do this by adding the numbered photos on the back of the map.\nRule #3. Mark the quickest and easiest road(s)\nIn some cases, if you\u2019re planning a large event, you may find the need to mark the trajectory from one building to another. You can do so by adding dotted lines on the map.\nRule #4. Use different colors or signs for different types of locations\nAs Julia Rutherford Silvers notes, 'A person's ability to make the correct (or preferable) navigational choices may be enhanced by creating 'visual magnets' or sneak previews of areas or activities ahead.\" The author continues by highlighting, \"This may be accomplished by including storytelling on signage, using distinctive landmarks, or laying out the space so that inviting sight lines are established.\" Considering this, it's important to use the same color codes on the site map to help your attendees navigate the event space more easily, as well as for consistency purposes.\nRule #5. Provide additional explanations (if necessary)\nLet\u2019s say that after the conference is over, you have planned a guided city tour for your attendees after lunch. However, the venue is not providing lunch, meaning that guests will need to leave the venue and find nearby restaurants or cafes. Chances are that not all of the attendees will go to the same restaurant or caf\u00e9, so they\u2019ll be scattered in a few different places. To make sure that everyone meets up at the same place after lunch to start the tour, apart from announcing it during the conference, mark a meeting point on the map, along with the meeting time and activity description.\nWhen creating an event sitemap, ask yourself what your event\u2019s main areas of interest are. Be sure to include the rooms for different dynamics or activities, regular and emergency exits, utility rooms, catering areas, etc. - include everything you think an attendee might need to know. Consider adding photos, roads, landmarks, or other details to make the sitemap more comprehensible. Finally, use a coherent, consistent color code to facilitate your attendees\u2019 spatial orientation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 7851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.everedgeglobal.com/sam-lau", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:WLYN54UOSGJJL2EY55LU6D4PRPL7DNWA", "length": 1093, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.everedgeglobal.com", "title": "Sam Lau \u2014 EverEdge Global", "raw_content": "Financial reporting, management reporting, preparation of budgets, ledger management, management of tangible and intangible asset registers.\nE s.lau@everedgeglobal.com\nAt EverEdge Sam manages the accounting function and provides financial support to the CEO and management team. She specialises in day to day financial management including the preparation of financial statements and accounts, budgets, ledgers, payroll and filing of taxes. She also oversees office administration and is responsible for both fixed and intangible asset registers.\nPrior to EverEdge Sam was Account Manager at Fabricell, a manufacturer and importer of medical and industrial consumables, where she gained considerable experience in the preparation of regular financial reports for management purposes and the collation of annual accounts for external accountants.\nSam has also worked in the insurance industry in an accounts based role for a New Zealand -based life insurance company.\nBachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) \u2013 University of Auckland.\nPart-qualified as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.eweek.com/security/cyber-threats-affect-industries-differently-verizon-report", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:30Z", "digest": "sha1:XAKZX3CVDRYZWETDFVSPDU4OKDMPO35I", "length": 4016, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.eweek.com", "title": "Cyber-Threats Affect Industries Differently: Verizon Report", "raw_content": "Cyber-Threats Affect Industries Differently: Verizon Report\nBy: Robert Lemos | October 24, 2012\nWhile financial services has to worry about targeted attacks looking to siphon money, health care breaches mainly affected smaller doctors' offices and were used to perpetrate insurance fraud schemes.\nDifferent industries need to worry about attackers taking different tactics to compromise their systems and steal data, according to five new analyses of data from Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR).\nThe financial industry, for instance, has to worry more about targeted attacks that are looking to steal money from bank accounts, while health care breaches mainly affect smaller doctors' offices and are used to perpetrate insurance fraud schemes, according to the analyses, which were published by Verizon on Oct. 24 as a set of four industry snapshots. The fifth report looks at attacks on corporate intellectual property, finding that those incidents are markedly different from all the others.\n\"There definitely is a difference across the industry verticals as well as differences across organizational size, in terms of the attacks we see,\" said Jay Jacobs, managing principal with Verizon Enterprise Solutions' RISK Team. \"Smaller organizations see a different set of attacks than larger organizations.\"\nThe analyses call out both differences and similarities between the industries. Attacks on both health care and retail, for example, tended to focus on the small offices: doctor's practices in health care and small stores for retail. Both industries suffered from a lack of security expertise and weakly secured point-of-sale systems, according to Verizon.\nYet health care has to worry about protecting medical devices and electronic medical record (EMR) systems, while retail needs to focus more on curtailing employees' bad online habits, which inadvertently aid attackers.\n\"It's not that these workers' understanding of security is not good; it's that it is not their specialty,\" said Jacobs. \"They have outsourced it, and even their third-party provider is making mistakes.\"\nAttacks on the hospitality and accommodations industry, which includes restaurants and hotels, account for more than half the cases analyzed by Verizon. Retail came in second with a 20 percent share of attacks, and finance and insurance accounted for 10 percent.\nAttacks that aim to steal a firm's intellectual property have characteristics unlike the other four industries. The attacks tend to be targeted, take more time to conduct and focus on a variety of tactics, such as using social engineering, to get information on the targets.\n\"In almost all other areas we analyze, the target is nearly always one of opportunity,\" according to the Verizon report. \"However, when it comes to IP theft, the targeted nature of the attacks considerably changes how they are conceived and carried out.\"\nThe companies targeted by intellectual-property thieves are larger. In addition, insiders tend to collude with an outside attacker to steal the information. While external attackers were involved in 87 percent of intellectual-property cases, internal attackers took part in 46 percent of cases, which shows considerable overlap.\n\"IP tends to reside deeper inside the organization under several layers of security, but insiders certainly know where it is and how to access it,\" the report found. \"For outsiders wishing to get at it with minimal risk and effort, recruiting insiders to participate often makes a good deal of sense.\"\nCompanies can adopt simple defenses to stop most opportunistic attackers, such as using better passwords, and study their threats and risks to understand the best way to foil more targeted attacks, said Verizon's Jacobs.\n\"Running through different scenarios as you are evaluating security is always a good idea to understand what they are after,\" said Jacobs.\nPrevious Android Apps Left 185 Million Users Vulnerable: Report\nNext AMD, Intel Partner to Form Cyber Security Research...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 17727, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.exempttaxlaw.com/staff/gregory-b-lam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BDVOZV6YE3RF2574IJGPJVYFQ2XPUXCP", "length": 643, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.exempttaxlaw.com", "title": "Washington Law Firm, Copilevitz & Canter, LLC. | Attorney Profile", "raw_content": "Gregory B. Lam - born Kansas City, Missouri, December 22, 1964; admitted to bar, 1991, Kansas and U.S. District Court, District of Kansas. Education: University of Kansas (B.A. with distinction, 1987; J.D. 1991). Member: Kansas City Metropolitan and Johnson County Bar Associations. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Non-Profit Organizations Law; Charitable Giving Law; Non-Profit Law/ Charitable Trusts and Foundations.\nCharitable Giving Law\nNon-Profit Law/ Charitable Trusts and Foundations\nUniversity of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, KansasJ.D. - 1991\nUniversity of Kansas, Lawrence, KSB.A. - 1987\nJohnson County Bar Association, Member", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 212.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.exophase.com/achievement/injustice-2-xbox/154229-stay-free/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MKEP3R3MKAAG5BAPAVPPX642MAHBFNLO", "length": 2801, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "www.exophase.com", "title": "Stay Free Achievement - Injustice 2 - Exophase.com", "raw_content": "Stay Free achievement\nRed Hood must defeat any opponent with the 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6663, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.expertattorney.co.uk/property-valuations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:12Z", "digest": "sha1:EYO3MXINHEUK7VM6LYUL5QPVKXENINRI", "length": 1093, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.expertattorney.co.uk", "title": "Property valuations | Expert Attorney", "raw_content": "If the deceased owned a property, its value forms part of their estate.\nUsually, property valuations need to be obtained from three different estate agents, which takes a considerable amount of time to arrange and manage.\nA law firm has three options:\nA solicitor has to arrange for the keys to be transferred back and forth each time, while ensuring that the property remains safe and secure \u2013 which is not ideal.\nA member of staff has to attend alongside each estate agent, which means three trips out of the office.\nLet us arrange meetings with the various estate agents, look after the keys, and supply you with the valuations.\nThis service is used by individuals especially where there may be family dispute. We act as an independent, impartial party which minimises conflict between family members. Also, due to pressure of other commitments, individuals don't always have the time to deal with this type of work and this service is particularly beneficial.\nWith our legal expertise and years of experience, you can trust us to handle the property valuations and save you time and money.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fabnaturals.com/peppermint-oil-for-cramps/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:04Z", "digest": "sha1:7BKUCWDGZ6QWBTJ2BTGT5EZC36ZGHEIJ", "length": 5732, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.fabnaturals.com", "title": "How to Use Peppermint Oil For Cramps | No More Stomach & Muscle Pain", "raw_content": "There are two main types of muscle cramps that most people have to deal with in their daily lives.\nOne of them is the regular muscles cramps that occur when muscles are overworked or not stretched properly after an intense workout. This can happen due to factors like fatigue, tightness, dehydration, or even stress.\nAnother common type of cramp known to us is the menstrual cramp. This is experienced by at least 3 in 4 women, along with other symptoms that accompany the menstrual cycle.\nHowever, in both instances, it is the muscles in the body that get cramped or tight, and this can cause an immense amount of pain. Cramps also restrict the movement of our muscles and prevent them from functioning optimally. So how do you deal with this problem? As naturally as possible, of course. Using peppermint oil for cramps is a great natural way to get rid of the pain without the nasty side effects of drugs.\nHumans have used essential oils since time immemorial. And although their use died out during the 21st century, people have recently begun to turn to essential oils to solve a host of skin and other health-related problems.\nBesides the fact that they can effectively deal with a variety of problems, essential oils are natural, and hence safe and free from side effects. So if you\u2019re looking to rid yourself of muscle cramps, it\u2019s best you do so through essential oils. And if you\u2019re wondering which essential oil to use in this case, the answer would be: use peppermint oil for cramps.\nWhy Peppermint Oil?\nPeppermint oil contains a host of benefits that can be enjoyed by anyone who uses it. However, in this case, we\u2019ll be talking exclusively about how you can use peppermint oil for cramps.\nThanks to the anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, and analgesic properties of peppermint oil, you can use it to help relieve the symptoms of a muscle cramp. When applied to a certain area, peppermint oil helps to numb the sensation of pain and help the muscle relax, relieving cramps and tightness.\nThe entire peppermint plant contains menthol, a compound that contains anesthetic properties and creates a cooling effect to any area it is applied to. This naturally alleviates muscle pains and provides a sense of relief.\nWhile the benefits of peppermint oil are many, you need to remember that it\u2019s a very potent oil and way more concentrated than most other essential oils. So, although it won\u2019t cause harm if applied topically, it\u2019s best to mix this oil with another carrier oil like jojoba or almond oil before applying it to your skin. This will dilute the effects of the oil and allow you to enjoy the benefits without burning your skin.\nHow to Use Peppermint Oil for Cramps?\nThe best way to use peppermint oil to relieve cramps would be to apply the oil topically to the affected area. Of course, you need to ensure that the liquid is diluted before applying it.\nThe best part about peppermint oil is that it provides instant relief and begins to work on releasing your muscles almost instantly. So you can apply a sufficient quantity of the oil instantly after a workout. Whether you\u2019ve just hit the gym, finished a long run, or pumped some iron, peppermint oil can help relieve muscles that cramped up during your workout.\nTo do this, mix 4 parts jojoba oil with one part peppermint oil and apply it to your arms, legs, or any other muscles that seem to be aching after your workout. Leave the oil on for a few hours before wiping it off with a wet cloth.\nDuring the menstrual cycle, most women will experience intense stomach pain and muscles cramps along their neck and back. Here is how you can use peppermint oil for cramps of this nature.\nFor starters, you can dilute a dash of peppermint oil in a bowl of warm water and apply the mixture on your stomach. It\u2019s best to get someone to do it for you so you can simply lie down, relax, and allow the oil to work its magic.\nTo relieve tightness, mix peppermint oil with jojoba or almond oil and apply the solution on your neck, your shoulders, and your lower back. This will result in a cold, numbing sensation that will alleviate pain and begin to relieve the tightness in your muscles.\nHaving elevated stress levels over a prolonged period of time can have negative effects on your muscle function. Stress can cause your muscles to cramp up, causing anxiety-related muscle tension. High levels of stress also limit the body\u2019s ability to regulate pain.\nBut with the help of peppermint oil, you can reduce how stressed out you actually feel and help soothe your muscles in the process.\nFor this, you can light up a peppermint oil candle to create a more soothing, relaxed atmosphere or get a diffuser and use it to spread peppermint oil all over your room.\nYou can even add peppermint, lavender, and geranium essential oils to a warm bath and soak in it for about 20 minutes to half an hour. This treatment really relaxes the body and allows your muscles to destress and release. It\u2019s no wonder why people all over the world not only use peppermint oil for cramps but also to relax and de-stress.\nBesides these essential oil treatments, you need to stay hydrated and drink plenty of water if you want to prevent more muscles cramps from occurring in the future. By keeping your body hydrated, you ensure smooth passage of fluids throughout the body, which keeps your muscles loose and relaxed and allows them to function optimally.\nSo there you have it. If you were wondering how to use peppermint oil for cramps, you have now been armed with the information you need to create all natural remedies for stomach, muscle, and even menstrual cramps. If you liked what you read or think that others could benefit from this information, feel free to share it or tell a friend!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 7025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.familyvideo.com/death-valley-days-the-complete-second-season-10022165", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:22Z", "digest": "sha1:3DX4TV3ORAW2XUG6WI7ARV3AOSDQCWTY", "length": 45, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.familyvideo.com", "title": "| Family Video", "raw_content": "Death Valley Days: The Complete Second Season", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 3604, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.71, "perplexity": 71.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.farmprogress.com/satellites-tillage-conservation-monitored-sky?ag_brand=deltafarmpress.com", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:11Z", "digest": "sha1:AHH4VGZQMZ5C2R6T7LHZRZWFHK6YGWX7", "length": 2275, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.farmprogress.com", "title": "With satellites Tillage conservation monitored from sky | Farm Progress", "raw_content": "With satellites Tillage conservation monitored from sky\nTo find out how much acreage is being farmed using conservation tillage, Agricultural Research Service scientists have gone up high \u2014 to satellites.\nSoil scientists Dana G. Sullivan and Timothy C. Strickland, in the ARS Southeast Watershed Research Unit at Tifton, Ga., and Mark Masters, a resource economist at the Albany State University Water Policy Center in Albany, Ga., have created and evaluated conservation tillage maps using Landsat TM 5 imagery. They report their findings in the May/June issue of the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.\nConservation tillage is one of the nation's most widely adopted conservation practices. It refers to any method of tillage that minimally disturbs the soil surface, leaving at least 30 percent of crop residue cover after planting. Conservation tillage has been credited with improving soil quality, reducing runoff, and lowering fuel costs for farmers.\nThis satellite mapping technique shows promise for streamlining national efforts to monitor changes in conservation tillage adoption over time, evaluate the efficacy of conservation tillage placement, and reduce the need for time-consuming field surveys to ensure compliance with federal cost-sharing programs.\nIn 2004, an estimated 113 million acres of the nation's cropland were in some form of conservation tillage. However, no national monitoring system is in place to continue to monitor these efforts on a regular basis.\nUsing satellite imagery, Sullivan's team collected data over a 230,000-acre area centered on the Little River Experimental Watershed in Tifton. It is one of the 14 designated national benchmark watersheds included in the USDA Conservation Effects Assessment Project-Watershed Assessment Study. Along with the satellite data, researchers conducted a ground-based \u201cwindshield survey\u201d that identified 61 conservation tillage and 77 conventional tillage sites.\nResults from this study provide a foundation to begin evaluating the impacts of conservation tillage adoption and placement in the Little River Experimental Watershed. Satellite-derived maps created during the study directly contribute to a national effort to evaluate the results of federally cost-shared conservation practices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 5031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/1685009/chip-conley-took-maslow-pyramid-made-it-employee-pyramid-and-saved-his-company", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BLVOKEP3U7YFDSWE7GCR2XO4FKSKOBNK", "length": 10768, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.fastcompany.com", "title": "Chip Conley Took the Maslow Pyramid, Made It an Employee Pyramid and S", "raw_content": "Chip Conley Took the Maslow Pyramid, Made It an Employee Pyramid and Saved His Company\nConley, the founder of Joie de Vivre hotel chain, talks to us about how the near-death of his business changed his outlook on leadership, why managers put too much emphasis on money and not enough on meaning, and why it\u2019s more important to climb the employee pyramid than the corporate ladder.\nBy Kermit Pattison 9 minute Read\nChip Conley has a blind spot: The closer you work to him, the less likely he is to recognize your efforts. So Conley, the founder of Joie de Vivre hotel chain, deliberately designed structures to instill a culture of recognition in his company. Conley is the author of three books, most recently Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. In this Q&A, Conley talks about how the near-death of his business changed his outlook on leadership, why managers put too much emphasis on money and not enough on meaning, and why it\u2019s more important to climb the employee pyramid than the corporate ladder.\nKermit Pattison: Let\u2019s go back to the dark days of 2001. You had all your hotels in the Bay Area and when tourism tanked after 9/11; you joked you were most vulnerable hotelier in the USA. How did that shape your philosophy about business leadership?\nChip Conley: No doubt, when you\u2019re most on trial you are forced to be your most ingenious. Between the dotcom bust, 9/11, the wars, and the recession, I could see our company was on the verge of going out of business. I ended up in a local bookstore looking for a business book to help me get through it. I quickly ended up in the self-help section. That\u2019s how I got reacquainted with the work of Abraham Maslow, a famous American psychologist from the mid 20th century.\nMaslow looked at psychology not from the model of deficiency, which is what most psychologists look at, but from a best practices model: What if we study people who are fulfilled and what he called self-actualized? I liked that as a business guy so I started using Maslow\u2019s hierarchy of needs pyramid for a model of how we connect to the higher needs of our employees, our customers and our investors.\nHow did that make you rethink how you manage people?\nIn a recession, we all get fearful. The most contagious emotion in most companies is fear. Most companies do such a poor job communicating that most employees get stuck in a place of survival and don\u2019t have a lot of room for creativity, innovation, or ingenuity. We took the Maslow pyramid and turned it into an employee pyramid with three basic themes: survival the base, succeed at the middle, and transformation at the top. Applying that to employees, it\u2019s money, recognition, and meaning.\nDo companies often misjudge employees by assuming that compensation is their primary aspiration?\nEvery survey that\u2019s been done in the U.S. tends to show money is not the primary, secondary, or third; It\u2019s fourth place on why people leave their jobs. The primary motivator of disgruntlement at work is the feeling of not being recognized. People join a company and they leave their boss, as Marcus Buckingham said. The bottom line is the ultimate motivator that says \u201cI gotta to out of here\u201d is not that you\u2019re underpaid, it\u2019s that you feel under-respected or under-recognized. There\u2019s a lot of research that shows that. Unfortunately, the practice of management tends to not take account of that.\nHow did you nurture a culture of recognition in your company?\nThe closer you are to me in our organization, the more senior you are, the less I give recognition. I give recognition readily and heartily to people at line levels in my company, but when you\u2019re senior level, I treat you like I treat myself. Those of us in senior levels in the company have a history of treating ourselves like machines. We used to have a weekly executive committee meeting. Back in 2002, frankly those meetings were depressing. We were in an industry that was falling apart. We were in a hard-hit region of the country. We\u2019d spend two hours talking about troubles. We decided to change the meeting so the last 10 minutes we focused on recognition. I said, \u201cI want you folks to show up with examples of someone out in the field who deserves some recognition and why.\u201d Over time, almost everybody raised their hands with a good example.\nThere were three things that came out of this. Number one, we ended our meetings on a positive note. It helped each of us senior executives feel like, as much as we\u2019re in trouble, there\u2019s a lot of good things happening too. There\u2019s a lot of crap that builds up in an organization when things are tough and you create great psycho hygiene by cleaning all the crap out of the way. Number two, we were creating an environment of recognition throughout the organization. If you create that sort of positive feeling, all of a sudden you find that some of your employees start recognizing each other more. Thirdly, one of the rules was the person who gives recognition needs to be from a different department than the person being recognized. It helped create some cross fertilization between departments.\nHow did you help employees find inspiration and meaning?\nAs you go higher up the pyramid, the more abstract it gets. If you go to bed tonight and ask yourself, \u201cWas I self actualized today?\u201d it\u2019s a much harder question to answer. That\u2019s why, generally speaking, managers tend to manage from the bottom of the pyramid. Compensation is easy to benchmark and measure, whereas measuring meaning is about as difficult as it gets.\nWe started asking questions in our twice annual work climate surveys and measuring things at the top of the pyramid that could give us a sense of how to benchmark ourselves over time on this question of inspiration and meaning. Then we started doing exercises with employees to help connect them to meaning.\nMost companies do offsite retreats with managers. We do that with our line level employees. We\u2019ll take the housekeepers, the front desk staff, the bellmen, and managers offsite for the day, which is a great way to make employees feel engaged and have a voice. Additionally, every couple of years we do an offsite retreat with all our housekeepers. In one exercise, we got groups of eight housekeepers at a table and asked an abstract question: if someone from Mars came down and saw what you were doing as a housekeeper in a hotel, what name would they call you? They came up with \u201cThe Serenity Sisters,\u201d \u201cThe Clutter Busters,\u201d and \u201cThe Peace of Mind Police.\u201d There was a sense that people were doing more than just cleaning a room. They were creating a space for a traveler who was far away from home to feel safe and protected.\nSo instead of just cleaning a bathroom or vacuuming, they thought of their jobs as caring for people, which is more likely to be inspirational?\nThat\u2019s right. At the end of the day, all this is all about making human connection. We could have a robot some in and clean your room, but it\u2019s not going to be the same experience as someone who smiles at you when you walk down the hallway and knows a little bit about you.\nHow do you increase the odds of employees having what you call peak experiences?\nIf you hire the right people, it\u2019s a lot easier. We actually evaluate our managers on a combination of both results and relationships. Relationships are an intangible that sometimes get lost in the process of evaluating the effectiveness of a manager. You look at manager say, \u201cHey great P&L or great cash flow statement,\u201d but if the way they got that was to fire half their staff, piss off customers, or charge them so much, that\u2019s not a sustainable business strategy. Generally speaking, sometimes being able to measure relationships with customers, employees, or vendors is better way to get a sense of the long term sustainability of the effectiveness of a manager or leader.\nYour company had to codify new ways of managing employees. When changing habits, how mindful or disciplined does a company have to be?\nEverything we\u2019re talking about is common sense. People will nod their heads and say that\u2019s great. The problem is we just don\u2019t do it. How do you create the rituals or habits that actually ensure that it gets done? Every corporation has an operating manual. There are a lot of things that are expected but we did almost nothing as a company that actually codified recognition beyond the formalized kinds of things you do in many companies\u2013employee of the month or the annual holiday party when we\u2019d give away a bunch of rewards. That\u2019s fine, but at the end of the day that\u2019s expected by employees and people almost turn off to it because it seems so regimented and formulaic. What really is meaningful to people is genuine appreciation shown in real time. My basic belief is that life and business is all about where you pay your attention. Let\u2019s pay some attention in our management and leadership to the idea of recognition. It\u2019s not just platitude. It\u2019s something we expect, and here are the tools you have to do it.\nYou\u2019re very mindful in your approach to your business. To what extent have you tried to be a student of yourselves?\nPeter Drucker lived to age 94 partially because he had a very fresh and curious mind. Every year he would come up with something new to learn, whether it was Japanese Ikebana or Revolutionary War history. I like to consider that same perspective on our company and its philosophy of management and leadership. How do we study other companies, use their best practices and apply it to ourselves? How do we do our own deep dive, psychologically and sociologically within our organization, to understand why we exist and how we\u2019re tapping into the hearts and minds of people within our organization? It does require a certain amount of reflecting. Sometimes this stuff doesn\u2019t make you feel good. And sometimes there will be people in your organization, or investors in hotels we manage, who say, \u201cJust get over it.\u201d The knock on this is that it\u2019s just too soft. My response is, it depends on your industry. If you\u2019re in service, you\u2019re in a soft industry. The reason people succeed in service has everything to do with the soft side of management.\nYou made your business building idiosyncratic hotels with distinct personalities. If Abe Maslow came back from the dead and was your guest, where would you put him up?\nGod, I\u2019m lucky enough to have the journals of the last 10 years of his life. I\u2019d probably put his journals by his bed and say, \u201cHey you want to read what you wrote the last 10 years of your life?\u201d Maybe an altar with his books.\nWhich of the hotels? Probably the Hotel Vitale. The name came from the Latin word \u201cto be vital\u201d and live your life vitally. That\u2019s what Abe Maslow really spoke to. How does each of us live life to the fullest?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 13519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 302.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fastweb.com/college-scholarships/scholarships/17927-richard-ridgeway-moore-memorial-scholarship", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:18Z", "digest": "sha1:W43HNIQ4JTPYKGJUDLWLOMTALT46TVB3", "length": 337, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.fastweb.com", "title": "Richard Ridgeway Moore Memorial Scholarship | Fastweb", "raw_content": "Richard Ridgeway Moore Memorial Scholarship\nWest Virginia University, Institute of Technology\nThe Richard Ridgeway Moore Memorial Scholarship is available to entering freshmen at West Virginia University Institute of Technology. You must be majoring in mathematics or engineering and have a minimum 3.0 GPA to be eligible for this award.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 306.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/tv/news/ben-jardine-like-roxanne-palletts-puppet-1161306.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZE7V7AVQG6EPKDQUNDRSKF5RG7ACDAL6", "length": 3508, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.femalefirst.co.uk", "title": "Ben Jardine: I was like Roxanne Pallett's puppet", "raw_content": "Ben Jardine: I was like Roxanne Pallett's puppet\nBen Jardine claims he is \"broken-hearted\" after watching some of Roxanne Pallett's 'Celebrity Big Brother' antics back, admitting she has \"played\" him like \"her puppet\".\nBen Jardine feels like Roxanne Pallett \"played\" him like \"her puppet\" in the 'Celebrity Big Brother' house.\nThe former 'Married At First Sight' star got close to the ex-'Emmerdale' actress in the famous abode, but he is now \"broken-hearted\" after seeing the footage following her accusation that fellow housemate Ryan Thomas punched her \"like a boxer would punch a punch bag\" during a playful exchange.\nRoxanne has since left the 'CBB' house and apologised for making such claims about Ryan - and Ben feels \"devastated\" that he opened up to her on the Channel 5 show.\nSpeaking on 'Celebrity Big Brother's Bit on the Side', he said: \"I'm a little bit wounded in my heart, it's got a load of scars on. I am an open book, I would say, 'She did this to me, she did that to me.' I've told all this to Roxy, and I feel she's played that, and I feel like I was her puppet.\n\"Watching it back, I'm devastated. Roxy used that word tonight, is she devastated?\n\"I'm broken-hearted.\"\nAs well as Ben, Ryan's brother Scott Thomas appeared on the spin-off show's panel last night (03.09.18), and he praised 'Celebrity Big Brother' host Emma Willis for \"not sugar coating\" her chat with Roxanne, after the TV presenter grilled the soap star about accusing Ryan.\nScott admitted he and his family have been in tears about the allegations, which have seen Ryan break down in the house on numerous occasions, but he has been \"blown away\" by how the former 'Coronation Street' star has handled things.\nHe said: \"I was sat at home, literally in tears. I've had my mum on the phone crying to me. She can't get her head around it. Mum is seeing her little baby boy crying his eyes out on TV.\n\"The way he handled it ... wow, what an absolute superstar. Accusations like that are so serious.\n\"He's like my big bro, he's like my dad. To see him break down like that, because it's his career in question. His whole life. It's not just a reality TV show. It's his whole life.\n\"I am blown away by Ryan, and I can't wait to give him a cuddle.\"\nOn last night's 'CBB', Emma's pre-recorded interview with Roxanne was played out, in which the former 'Waterloo Road' star claimed she was now the \"most hated girl in Britain\", and said she is \"crippled with embarrassment\" after accusing Ryan Thomas of hitting her.\nShe said: \"I feel devastated. It cripples me with embarrassment and shame that I could have put somebody in that position. Seeing the footage of Ryan in the Diary Room, distressed ... I fully agree and understand with every single person's reaction and perceptions to that. If I'd have been at home watching that I would have been the same.\"\nOfcom received more than 11,000 complaints after the incident was played out, which saw Ryan receive a formal warning from Big Brother.\nRyan's girlfriend Lucy Mecklenburgh believes that warning should be revoked, and admitted the recent 'CBB' episodes have been \"hard to watch\".\nShe said: \"I want Big Brother to revoke his warning and make an apology. I think when they give warnings in the past it is for serious things and he didn't do anything.\n\"That's why there are so many Ofcom complaints, everyone can see with their eyes that nothing happened.\n\"It's been hard to watch, for Ryan's family and friends. His mum and brothers are in bits.\"\nTagged in Roxanne Pallett", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 5665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fentonforddumas.com/new/Ford/2019-Ford-Fiesta-1b6ccffd0a0e0ae773a94efa8c3f3efc.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PREIPOP4TXPA6LONIJME7VHKY2KEDFNB", "length": 516, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.fentonforddumas.com", "title": "New 2019 Ford Fiesta For Sale at Fenton Ford | VIN: 3FADP4EJ5KM115933", "raw_content": "Comments: Contact Fenton Motors of Dumas today for information on dozens of vehicles like this 2019 Ford Fiesta SE. Based on the superb condition of this vehicle, along with the options and color, this Ford Fiesta SE is sure to sell fast. You've found the one you've been looking for. Your dream car. Just what you've been looking for. With quality in mind, this vehicle is the perfect addition to take home. There is no reason why you shouldn't buy this Ford Fiesta SE. It is incomparable for the price and quality.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 5418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fernandezfirm.com/blog/hands-free-doesnt-mean-distraction-free-truth-about-hands-fr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:54Z", "digest": "sha1:Z6XAYIFTHIVODZLZV3MKMPMLWF5HNJKZ", "length": 3493, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.fernandezfirm.com", "title": "Hands-Free Doesn\u2019t Mean Distraction-Free: The Truth About Hands-Free Devices - The Fernandez Firm", "raw_content": "Many states have outlawed the use of handheld wireless phones and other devices while driving, causing an increasing number of drivers to switch to hands-free accessories as a means to stay connected when behind the wheel. They believe that by using an ear piece or a microphone system installed into the vehicle that they can safely talk, text or check social media and email while driving.\nUnfortunately, that is not the case. A recent study sponsored by the American Automobile Association found that using hands-free technology, such as voice recognition software to send text messages, is just as distracting as manually sending a text message. Researchers believe that using hands-free technology impairs the cognitive processes necessary to process the visual and auditory clues that are vital to safe driving. In other words, while your eyes may be looking at the road and not your phone, your brain is still engaged with what is on the phone \u2014 and not on the road. Considering that in the time it takes to read \u2014 or hear \u2014 the average text message (4.6 seconds) you can drive the equivalent of a football field at 55 miles per hour, anything that diverts your attention away from driving increases the likelihood of a serious crash.\nHands-Free Technology More Commonplace\nDespite the fact that hands-free technology has been proven to be as dangerous as holding a phone behind the wheel, carmakers and technology companies continue to add gadgets to new vehicle models, often in the name of safety. Many newer vehicles come fully equipped with hands-free devices that allow drivers to access and control technology while driving.\nAdding this technology may seem helpful, but it also makes the roads fraught with danger. According to the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, the number of accidents related to distracted driving increased by nine percent between 2011 and 2012, and 421,000 people were injured as a result. Almost half of those accidents involved drivers using hands-free devices.\nMost drivers are aware of the risk inherent in using technology, whether handheld or hands-free, while driving, but a significant percentage ignores the warnings and continues to do so. Consequently, some experts are calling for restrictions on the use of hands-free devices. Among them is AAA, which recommends that such technology be programmed to only allow use when the vehicle is stopped.\nResponsible drivers should not wait for a legal dictate before limiting their use of electronics in the car. To avoid liability if you experience a serious car accident, you should:\nAvoid using electronic devices while driving, both handheld and hands-free.Turn off your phone or place it out of reach. This way, you will not be tempted to make or receive calls and messages while driving.\nEnable your device\u2019s automatic response system when you are driving. Most in-vehicle systems allow drivers to program an outgoing message notifying callers that they are driving and will respond when it is safe to do so.\nManage your navigation system only when the car is parked. If you are lost, find a safe place to pull over and set the destination.\nEducate your children about the dangers of distracted driving. Younger drivers have a higher percentage of distraction-related crashes.\nStates and municipalities have enacted laws regarding the use of wireless devices for the safety of all drivers. Understand the dangers, and realize that hands-free does not equal distraction-free.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 8440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 203.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fernandezfirm.com/blog/too-tired-drive-why-tired-driving-bad-drunk-driving/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:25Z", "digest": "sha1:DQVARDPE3RV4OTFWV3ADO5OJVHQIJQER", "length": 3260, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.fernandezfirm.com", "title": "Too Tired to Drive? Why Tired Driving Is as Bad as Drunk Driving - The Fernandez Firm", "raw_content": "In the early morning hours of March 12, 2011, a bus traveling to New York City from Connecticut crashed, killing 15 passengers and seriously injuring 17 others. After a thorough investigation, the National Transportation Safety Board determined the accident was caused by several factors, all of them related to one fact: driver fatigue. In the three days leading up to the day of the crash, the bus driver had not had adequate rest, which, when combined with excessive speed and cellphone use, was the primary cause of the deadly accident. As a result, the driver spent more than a year behind bars and faces a $250,000 fine, in addition to civil charges from the victims\u2019 families.\nThe New York bus crash highlights a significant, and often overlooked, danger on American roads: drowsy drivers. The National Sleep Foundation reports that 60 percent of drivers confess to driving when they feel tired, which can be akin to driving drunk. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that staying awake for 18 hours is the cognitive equivalent of a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .05 percent. If you stay up for a few more hours, the effects are more pronounced. Staying awake for 24 hours is the same as having a BAC of .10 percent, above the legal limit in every state.\nThe National Sleep Foundation\u2019s study indicates that not only are people driving while tired, they are falling asleep on the road. According to their survey, 37 percent of drivers report nodding off while driving. The effect is an increase in serious accidents. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration notes that between 5,000 and 6,000 fatal crashes each year can be attributed to drowsy driving. This is equal to more than two percent of all fatal accidents. The number of non-fatal accidents is even higher: more than 100,000 crashes, resulting in 71,000 injuries and $1.25 billion in costs related to drowsy driving.\nDriving when you are too tired can slow your reaction times, cause you to lose focus and impact your decision-making ability. Other research indicates that being too tired also inhibits your vision. This can create \u201ctunnel vision\u201d and other disturbances that make it difficult to see and react to hazards.\nHowever, the NTSB notes that most people are unable to recognize fatigue. By the time they realize that they are tired, it is often too late. When combined with other issues, like in the New York bus crash, that drowsiness can prove fatal. Before you drive, pay attention to the following signs of fatigue:\nObvious lack of sleep. Experts recommend adults get 7 to 10 hours of sleep each night.\nExcessive yawning.\nVisual disturbances or problems, like blinking or watery eyes.\nDifficulty controlling the vehicle. This includes lane drifting or hitting rumble strips.\nAttention-related issues, such as missing exits or turns or not remembering the last few miles you drove.\nIf you recognize any of these signs, find a safe place to stop and rest before continuing, or ask someone who is less fatigued to take the wheel. Driving while fatigued can lead to a serious accident, bringing with it significant financial and legal consequences. Losing a bit of time on the road will pale in comparison to what you could lose in a major accident.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 8179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 186.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fernleaffarmstay.co.nz/cycle-trails/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:48Z", "digest": "sha1:6I6DLOPKHIXYKK6LZDW4KYXU2Z25OER2", "length": 3929, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.fernleaffarmstay.co.nz", "title": "Cycle Trails | 42 Traverse - Fishers Track - Mangapurua Track", "raw_content": "Cycle Trails \u2013 Ruapehu District\nFernleaf Farmstay is located within easy reach of a number of cycle trails in the Central North Island which are part of the network of New Zealand Cycle Trails. The New Zealand Cycle Trail Project is planned to provide thousands of kilometers of trails, taking in the best of New Zealand\u2019s dramatic landscapes.\nThere are number of \u201cofficial\u201d cycle trails in the Ruapehu Area but there is also a huge number of other opportunities to cycle in various parks and other locations open to the public.\nYou can click on the \u201cboxes\u201d below to see more information on some of the cycle trails.\nThe Timber Trail (From Ongarue, through the Pureora Forest to Pureora) and covers 85 km of cycling pleasure through magnificent native forest, across deep gorges (all bridged), along historic bush tramways and through the Ongarue tunnel and spiral. The majority of the trail is in Pureora Forest Park. There is a halfway point at Piro Piro flats which gives an opportunity for both one-day and two-day cycle rides.\nA former sawmilling stronghold with a rich historic, cultural and natural heritage, the Pureora Forest Park is intersected by the famous The Timber Trail cycleway.\nWe look forward to having you stay with us and enjoy your ride.\nRuapehu to Whanganui (Mountains to Sea) Cycle Trail\nRuapehu to Whanganui (Mountains to Sea) Cycle Trail. From the flanks of Mount Ruapehu to the coastal shores of Whanganui, the Mountains to Sea Cycle Trail is a route encompassing majestic mountains, stunning native forest, and the spiritual, cultural and historical highlights of the Whanganui River.\nOld Coach Road Cycle Trail. Originally used by horse-drawn coachs in the 1990s as a connecting route between the two rail heads of the unfinished North Island trunk line. The Ohakune Old Coach Road Cycle Trail takes you though an area of rich pioneering history. The Ohakune Old Coach Road was used by horse drawn coaches in the early 1900s to transport passengers between the two rail heads of the unfinished North Island trunk line. Once the railway was complete, the cobble route became discontinued and was lost to the forest for almost 100 years. Recently restored and now part of the Mountains to Sea Cycle Trail, the route wanders the lower slopes of Mt Ruapehu, passing historical sites including the camps of railway workers, the ruins of the Taonui viaduct and the Hapuawhenua Viaduct. The trail can be completed from either Horopito or Ohakune, a Grade 2 track suitable for most fitness levels. Horopito to Ohakune is a slightly easier route featuring downhill sections. There are plenty of local mountain bike rentals and transport providers available\nThe 42 Traverse Cycle Trail (Mount Tongariro)\nThe 42 Traverse Cycle Trail (Mount Tongariro) Known as being the greatest mountain bike ride on the North Island, the 42 Traverse follows an old logging road and is filled with exhilarating downhills, some challenging uphills, and is known for having many rutted sections along the trail.\nWe look forward to having you stay with us..\nWainone Trams Mountain Bike Trail\nWainone Trams Mountain Bike Trail. The 25 kilometre Waione Tram Mountain Bike Trail is made up of two distinct sections in the Maramataha Valley at the southern end of Pureora Forest Park. The first is an out and back trail with some steep sections that might have many riders pushing their bikes. The second section is a loop trail that links back to the main access artery.\nWhangamomona Cycle Trail\nWhangamomona Cycle Trail. The 80 kilometer Whangamomona Cycle Trail route runs from Taumarunui to Whangamomona a historic town that declared itself a republic in 1989 and sells its own passports. You can then cycle on to New Plymouth if you wish.\nGreat Lake Cycle Trail (Taupo)\nGreat Lake Cycle Trail (Taupo) The Great Lake Cycle Trail follows the shores of beautiful Lake Taupo, New Zealand\u2019s largest lake, from Waihaha to Whakaipo Bay.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.fhclouisville.org/blog/category/announcement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:24Z", "digest": "sha1:5GSFS64RCTBFASGGHXPDDIHF374LY4BD", "length": 1005, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.fhclouisville.org", "title": "Announcement Archives - Family Health Centers", "raw_content": "Family Health Centers > Latest News > Announcement\nLatest News: Announcement\nPosted on December 19, 2018 in Announcement\nIn honor of the upcoming holidays, all Family Health Centers locations will be closed 12/24, 12/25 and 1/1. We will be open regular hours all other days, including Saturday 12/22.\nIn July, the Family Health Centers (FHC) announced its plan to launch a substance abuse services program to help address the opioid crisis in Kentucky. Earlier this year, FHC won a competitive grant award totaling $325,000 annually from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to begin providing direct services to individuals with opioid addiction. [\u2026]\nCommunity Health Centers like FHC are facing up to 70% cuts in Federal funding unless Congress acts! Congress is currently putting together a legislative package known as the SGR Fix (aka Doc Fix or HR2) and the House recently released their version of a bill. The SGR, or Sustainable Growth Rate bill, is considered a \u201cmust-pass\u201d [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmbug.com/db/345562", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:VJ2KKC223UW3EMXAH73YPDGCWXIMSW2M", "length": 916, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.filmbug.com", "title": "David Bamber - Filmbug", "raw_content": "Home > Movie Stars > B > David Bamber\nA graduate of RADA, David Bamber scored a memorable hit in the BBC's acclaimed 1995 version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, playing the odious Mr. Collins. The same year he won the Laurence Olivier Award as best actor in MY NIGHT WITH REG. Bamber's many television appearances include: JULIET BRAVO, THE NEW STATESMAN, POIROT, THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBUA, THE BILL, WYCLIFFE, HEARTBEAT, DANIEL DERONDA, ROME and MIDSOMER MURDERS. His films include: PRIVATES ON PARADE, THE DOCTOR AND THE DEVILS, HIGH HOPES, DAKOTA ROAD, THE BOURNE IDENTITY, GANGS OF NEW YORK and I CAPTURE THE CASTLE.\nDavid Bamber Facts\nBirthplace Walkden, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom\nMasterpiece Contemporary: Collision\nYear Of The Comet, The\nValkyrie Blu-ray\nContinue \u00bb Find more details on the David Bamber Movies page\nBio courtesy Weinstein Co. for \"Miss Potter\" (10-Mar-2007)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1401, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.filmink.com.au/nothing-men-something-special/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6IZII7HIUK7UPHCUF3CNI2C546ZWTCJ6", "length": 7738, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.filmink.com.au", "title": "The Nothing Men: Something Special | FilmInk", "raw_content": "\u201cThey\u2019re basically doing nothing. They end up with nothing, and poor David has nothing left. Wesley\u2019s living for nothing. And the men \u2013 the way that they treat David, they may as well have nothing, because they\u2019ve got nothing inside. No soul,\u201d explains writer/director Mark Fitzpatrick of his debut\u2019s title, The Nothing Men. With its working class setting, grim subject matter, and unblinking gaze at the breakdown of social mores, The Nothing Men is a cross between David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) and the masculinity-in-crisis movies made in the seventies (Scarface, Taxi Driver, etc). In other words, it\u2019s the kind of film that any hot-blooded male actor would beg, steal and borrow to be a part of.\nMark Fitzpatrick and actor/producer Martin Dingle-Wall first met on the stage production of The Nothing Men. \u201cIt was originally a screenplay, which I wrote in 1997,\u201d says Fitzpatrick. \u201cI got $3,000 from The Australian Film Commission to develop the script. I got a few good producers [Anthony Buckley, John Brousek], who tried to get production funding from the government bodies, but they didn\u2019t have faith in the script. In 1999, I got offered a Hollywood deal by Gale Anne Hurd [Terminator, Armageddon, The Walking Dead]. She offered me a substantial amount of money for an option for three years and, because I had aspirations of directing and being involved in the whole thing, I rejected her offer.\u201d\nFitzpatrick admits that he regrets making that call, especially after the next four years yielded no start date on The Nothing Men production. \u201cI decided to get it up as a play, so I re-wrote it for the stage. I invited every film producer in the country to the play.\u201d The four-week run in Sydney\u2019s Newtown enjoyed great houses, but nothing eventuated, apart from Fitzpatrick being introduced to a young actor by the name of Martin Dingle-Wall.\nMartin Dingle-Wall in The Nothing Men.\nIn April 2007, two of the play\u2019s cast, Martin Dingle-Wall and Andrew Winter, rocked up at Fitzpatrick\u2019s house and proclaimed that they would produce the movie. \u201cAfter the play, which I did straight after I did a soap opera [Home & Away], I went away for four years,\u201d says Dingle-Wall, who played a different role in the stage play to the one that he plays in the film. \u201cI did a bit of writing and had the idea of coming back to Australia to end that life of waiting for the phone to ring. I\u2019d written things; I wanted to come back and produce a film. Actually, I\u2019d written myself a lead role and said \u2018I\u2019m going to work this out.\u2019 Then I went around to see Mark to find out what happened to The Nothing Men screenplay \u2013 it was the most brutal and confronting thing that I\u2019d ever read in this country.\u201d\nThe Nothing Men is the story of a disparate group of sacked men sitting in the abandoned warehouse that used to serve as their workplace, waiting to receive their redundancy payments. They suspect that head office may send in a spy, so when David, a clean cut and awkward man, turns up unexplained, they fear that he may be there to steal their final paycheque. Heading up the cast are two of Australia\u2019s greatest actors, Colin Friels and David Field, who put in close to career-best performances.\nVeteran producer Anthony Buckley had shown the script to Colin Friels back in the nineties, and he liked it. Mark Fitzpatrick always had his friend David Field in mind for the part of the suspected spy, so much so that he named the character David. When an actor who had committed to the film dropped out because he was feeling that the characters were too unsympathetic, David Field suggested his good mate Colin Friels. The Nothing Men was coming closer to going into production. \u201cAt the end of the day, there\u2019s a moment when you have to put a signature down,\u201d says Dingle-Wall. \u201cYou\u2019re off the edge of a cliff and in free fall. That\u2019s exciting, but you start having to make commitments. If you pull back and you have nothing to show for it, that\u2019s personal, professional and emotional suicide. That can\u2019t be done. But also, the other side of it with producing is that you become so busy that you don\u2019t have time to factor in the consequences or give anything too much thought. You\u2019ve just got to go \u2013 and go now.\u201d\nMartin Dingle-Wall and David Field in The Nothing Men.\nAfter seeking independent private investment, Dingle-Wall had to make a decision. \u201cMy mother sold her shares; my uncle backed it, my sister, my roommate and myself. Everything I had.\u201d During the pre-production process, the filmmakers were introduced to the Red One camera, and although it hadn\u2019t been tested by a feature film at that point, the theory was that it produced incredibly high resolution images to rival film resolution. The Nothing Men became the second feature film in the world, after Steven Soderbergh\u2019s 2008 biopic Che, to use the camera.\nAccording to Dingle-Wall and Fitzpatrick, the production (in an abandoned warehouse in Sydney\u2019s Southern suburb of Rockdale) had to be secretive because the government funding bodies that invested in the script\u2019s development did not want the film to happen unless the filmmakers played the bureaucratic game, which they were not willing to do after investing their own money in the film. \u201cWhen we got the rough cut, we went out in the private sector,\u201d says Dingle-Wall proudly. \u201cAt our first screening, our first private investor said, \u2018Wow, okay, what do you need to finish it?\u2019 We were like, \u2018Well, we need a quarter of a million dollars.\u2019 And he just wrote a cheque.\u201d\nSince the film\u2019s completion, the road didn\u2019t get any smoother. All the local film festivals \u2013 Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide \u2013 rejected it. \u201cForget the politics, why would The Sydney Film Festival decline a film shot in Sydney, starring David Field and Colin Friels?\u201d asks a perplexed Dingle-Wall.\n\u201cIt was difficult making the movie,\u201d continues Dingle-Wall. \u201cBut there were really sweet moments too. When everyone was rejecting us in Australia, we got an email that we didn\u2019t expect. It was Ted Schilowitz from Red, and he was like, \u2018Guys, forgive me, I\u2019ve been on tour promoting the camera. I just watched your film. Fuck me. Guys, you\u2019re coming to America. We\u2019re going to host a screening, and I\u2019m going to fill the cinema. Thank you for using our technology.\u2019 They are the moments when you get your nutrients to keep going. They filled 300 seats with film school graduates and executive producers.\u201d\n\u201cThey all turned up to see how the Red looked on screen, and after the film, we got a standing ovation,\u201d Fitzpatrick joins in. \u201cThe most popular comment was, \u2018We came here to see the Red, but after a few minutes, we were so into the story that we didn\u2019t care what it was shot on.\u2019 In the audience was David Valdes, who produced Unforgiven and The Green Mile. He tapped me on the shoulder and said \u2018What else have you got?\u2019 The next day, he set up a meeting with the royalty of Hollywood, David Ladd [Serpent And The Rainbow, A Guy Thing]. I pitched my next film, and he\u2019s on board. So we\u2019ve got a Hollywood deal off this success with The Nothing Men.\u201d\nIt was, however, a very tough road. \u201cWe fought in this country against our own people, and all we wanted was to get our film in front of Australian audiences,\u201d says Dingle-Wall. \u201cThey can\u2019t throw anything more at us that we haven\u2019t copped. We don\u2019t need to be celebrated, but a festival would have created awareness. You can\u2019t make an audience member like your film, but you should be able to put it in front of them. I believe that The Nothing Men does stir you emotionally, and that\u2019s ultimately important.\u201d\nIf you haven\u2019t seen The Nothing Men, be prepared to be emotionally stirred courtesy of OzFlix.\nThe Nothing Men is available to buy on OzFlix. 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Rui Paula began there, as an autodidact, a journey of inspired, traditional and regional cuisine with a a modern and distinctive flair.\nThe desire to increase his knowledge and extend his gastronomic references led him to pass some seasons with renowned national and foreign chefs. In 2007, in partnership with his brother Pedro, Rui Paula opened DOC restaurant, from a building situated in the contemporary lines of the Folgosa pier, through the road that runs alongside the Douro River, between R\u00e9gua and Pinh\u00e3o. Soon developing a kitchen up to the greatness of the scenery, Rui Paula and his team transformed DOC in a modern and cosmopolitan space, an essential meeting point for those who live or travel in the Douro region, a place of choice between food , wine and scenery.\nIn the first quarter of 2010, accompanied by his family, Rui Paula opened the DOP restaurant in the Palace of Arts, in the Oporto historic area. It\u2019s a return to the origins, based on the challenge of creating a distinct restaurant in this city. A city of bourgeois and cosmopolitan tradition, bearing the name of fine wine produced in the Douro, with whom shares the title of World Heritage.\nIn 2011 Rui Paula accepts the challenge of being the Consultant Chef of the renewed Vidago Palace Hotel, considered one of the most famous historic luxury hotels in Portugal. 100 years after its inauguration, Vidago Palace was recovered by the work of award-winning interior architects Jos\u00e9 Pedro Lopes Vieira and Diogo Rosa l\u00e3, and enriched with an exquisite spa designed by internationally renowned architect \u00c1lvaro Siza Vieira. Together they reconstructed an era of splendor through a meticulous restoration complemented by modern luxuries. Thanks to their efforts, the Vidago Palace can proudly claim its position as an European luxury hotel, golf resort and spa of international standard.\nRui Paula moves forward with a new project in Recife, a partnership with businessman Jo\u00e3o Carlos Pais Mendon\u00e7a, president and founder of JCPM Group. The opening of this restaurant in the luxurious shopping Riomar happened in October 2013.\nIn 2014 Rui Paula integrates the Masterchef Jury (Portuguese edition) and opens a new restaurant in Leca da Palmeira, the Boa Nova Tea House, a famous building, built on the rocks two meters above sea level, near the lighthouse, a work of the renowned architect Siza Vieira, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1992. 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It launched Plug and Play Insurtech Munich on November 14, 2017 with the aim to bring new insurtech solutions and innovation to the heart of Europe. Fing and the other 15 startups will graduate on June 26th at Plug and Play Insurtech's First Expo Day in Europe. For more information on the program and Plug and Play Insurtech, visit pnptc.com/insurtech.\nFounded in 2009, Fing develops network scanning, network security and Wi-Fi troubleshooting tools built for the Internet of Things. With more than 22 million downloads and over 1 million network scans performed a day, the free Fing app for iOS and Android is the no.1 network scanner. Fing\u2019s cybersecurity toolkit, Fingbox, is an award winning (CES2018) powerful device for home network security and Wi-Fi troubleshooting. Fingbox secures your home network with features like Device Blocking, Hacker Threat Check, Digital Fence and more. Fing also offers FingKit \u2013 an SDK that allows Developers to add Fing\u2019s powerful device scanning and recognition engine to their existing hardware, service or app. FingKit includes SDKs for mobile and embedded devices and cloud-based device recognition services. Comprised of experts in software development, computer networking, UX/UI design and marketing, Fing has employees in offices based in Dublin, London, Rome and Sydney. For more information visit www.fing.com/business\nPlug and Play is a global innovation platform. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, they have built accelerator programs, corporate innovation services, and an in-house VC to make technological advancement progress faster than ever before. Since inception in 2006, their programs have expanded worldwide to include a presence in 21 locations globally giving startups the necessary resources to succeed in Silicon Valley and beyond. With over 6,000 startups and 220 official corporate partners, they have created the ultimate startup ecosystem in many industries. They provide active investments with 200 leading Silicon Valley VCs, and host more than 700 networking events per year. Companies in their community have raised over $7 billion in funding, with successful portfolio exits including Danger, Dropbox, LendingClub, PayPal, SoundHound, and Zoosk. Established in 2016, Plug and Play Insurtech is one of Plug and Play's largest industry-specific programs with 5 locations around the globe. The program currently has over 65 corporate participants including Farmers Insurance, Allianz, Nationwide, SOMPO Digital Lab, and Travelers, and has worked with hundreds of international Insurtech startups to date. 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If you are participating in events on campus that begin earlier than 6:30pm, you may wish to utilize childcare from 6-6:30pm with advance registration. If your class or group begins at 6:30pm, check in opens at 6:20pm. Again, you must register in advance by submitting the form below to drop your child off prior to 6:20pm. Check in at the desk on the first floor of the C Building (click here for a campus map).\nTo make a reservation for childcare, please complete the form below. 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She is survived by her loving husband of 26 years, Nelson Andrew Murray, her daughters Hannah Elizabeth Murray, Marie Elise Murray, step-daughter Kyleen Murray, her father Clarence Edward Smrekar, her brother Richard Smrekar and her nieces and nephews.\nShe was a wonderful, fun loving person, a source of strength and inspiration to her family, who always gave of herself, helping everyone and anyone, never expecting anything in return. Her love extended to all animals big and small and she loved her little farm. She enjoyed her friends, books on tape, gardening, canning and picking up seashells on the beach.\nThe Transition Program Coordinator for St. Elizabeth School in Baltimore, she was very proud of all her students and all that they have accomplished. In addition, she was a Founding Member of the Itineris Foundation Inc., of which she was also very proud. She was also a member of St. Bartholomew Catholic Church in Manchester.\nA memorial gathering will be held on Saturday, September 22, 2018 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Fletcher Funeral & Cremation Services, 254 E. Main St., Westminster.\nIn lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Susan\u2019s name to the Itineris Foundation Inc., 2050 Rockrose Ave., Suite A, Baltimore, MD 21211 or St. Elizabeth School, 801 Argonne Dr., Baltimore, MD 21218.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.flex-a-lite.com/belt-driven-fans/15-inch-reverse-rotation-steel-silver-race-fan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:54Z", "digest": "sha1:Q4FUXGTO5UT2KUTLP3FQTKJ7SOYE4SBD", "length": 178, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.flex-a-lite.com", "title": "Flex-a-Lite Automotive 15-inch Reverse Rotation Silver Steel Race Fan", "raw_content": "This 15-inch Reverse Rotation Steel Silver Race Fan is designed to eliminate the need for a fan clutch, reducing weight and components that are not needed in racing applications.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 5284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.floridagulfbeachrealty.com/about/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:07Z", "digest": "sha1:K7P65DRI7EY2QSFW3GCCOTOFP43T7YDQ", "length": 2080, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.floridagulfbeachrealty.com", "title": "About Me | Florida Gulf Beach Realty Listings", "raw_content": "I help people buy and sell condos and houses from Clearwater Beach to St Pete Beach, Florida with a focus on waterfront houses & condos on the beach and near the beach. I\u2019ve been fortunate to have met and worked with many good people over 20+ years and I\u2019d like to add you to the list!\nPeople buy beach properties for different reasons: 2nd home, a beach getaway with or without rental income, and some just call it home. Values range from modest to luxurious.\n\u201dThe beach\u201d refers to the 27 mile long barrier island with the Gulf of Mexico beach on one side and the Intracoastal Waterway on the other. The beach is connected by bridges to the mainland cities of Clearwater, Largo, Seminole, and St Petersburg.\nAny day at the beach is a good day!\nI believe in giving the web visitors what they want: property listings with photos & details. I like working with informed buyers.\nOn this website, Florida Gulf Beach Real Estate, you\u2019ll discover the treasure trove of condo listings and home listings in the beach towns and mainland cities, arranged by city and price. Click on \u2018View Properties\u2019 at the top of this page to drill down to the property type, city, and price range you want to see. Or, use Advanced Search with lots of options to narrow your search. Optionally, sign up for e-mail updates on your saved search.\nI\u2019ve been in a Realtor for 20+ years helping people find just the right house or condo in this beautiful land surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay. I\u2019ve been fortunate to have met and worked with many good people, helping them find and buy houses and condos on and near the beach. This website has been the source of many of those contacts. I\u2019m proud of the work I\u2019ve done for my clients over the years and am grateful for the opportunity to have helped so many people. I look forward to continuing to provide quality service to anyone needing or wanting to buy or sell a home.\nView testimonials and see what others have to say.\nFor an attentive, experienced Realtor to help you buy or sell a home or condo, call or e-mail me to see if I\u2019m a good fit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 3429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.floridatrend.com/article/19586/investing-in-economic-development-incentives-will-boost-floridas-economy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YYD3DVBFWSOAFATLWXSPS3RTOY5KSM5K", "length": 5831, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.floridatrend.com", "title": "Investing in economic development incentives will boost Florida's economy | Florida TaxWatch - Florida Trend", "raw_content": "Florida TaxWatch Economic Commentary\nInvesting in economic development incentives will boost Florida's economy\nFlorida TaxWatch, the state\u2019s premier government watchdog group, today released a report calling for the Legislature to invest in the state\u2019s economic incentive programs to continue to grow the economy and create key jobs for Floridians. The analysis finds that Florida\u2019s competitive tax climate and welcoming weather entice businesses to our state, but Florida must provide targeted incentive packages that will help create high-paying jobs in the Sunshine State as we compete with other states for domestic and global business.\n\u201cOur state\u2019s economy is vibrant and growing. But if Florida wants to attract high-wage jobs that would not otherwise come here, our leaders must commit to a targeted, focused effort to compete with other states,\u201d said Florida TaxWatch President and CEO Dominic M. Calabro. \u201cStrong leadership and support from our elected officials that consistently and competitively fund our economic development incentive programs will ensure that Florida remains the top state to work and to live.\u201d\n\u201cThe competitive nature of today\u2019s economy requires the strategic use of economic development incentives in order to maintain the tremendous economic growth in the Sunshine State,\u201d said Florida TaxWatch Center for Competitive Florida Chairman U.S. Senator George LeMieux. \u201cInvesting in our economic development incentive programs should be a top priority for lawmakers during the remainder of the 2016 Legislative Session.\u201d\nLeaders from the Department of Economic Opportunity and Enterprise Florida joined TaxWatch and the state\u2019s top business leaders to speak about the need to invest in Florida\u2019s future.\n\u201cIt is critically important that Florida invests in the future and promotes our state as the best state to build and grow a business. Supporting our economic development incentive toolkit will provide Floridians with more high-wage job opportunities.\u201d said Cissy Proctor, Executive Director of the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity.\n\u201cEnterprise Florida is committed to growing business in Florida and creating jobs for Floridians. By investing in economic development incentives, Florida can bring highly competitive projects to our state and further diversify our economy,\u201d said Mike Grissom, Senior Vice President for External Affairs at Enterprise Florida.\nFull report is here\nSince Florida\u2019s economic development incentive programs target specific industries, qualifying businesses can bring in hundreds of high-wage jobs and broaden our economy.\nThe most successful of the state\u2019s economic development incentive programs are tax refunds, like the Qualified Targeted Industries (QTI) tax incentive, which provide the state with a significant return on investment (ROI) to every dollar allocated. The QTI garners almost $7 in revenue to the state for every dollar invested in the program. Other incentive programs like the Quick Action Closing Fund (QACF) have also demonstrated significant success. The QACF is a cash grant incentive that generates $1.10 for bundled projects to $6.10 for a single project for every $1 investment.\n\u201cWith states constantly competing to bring businesses to their cities, it is important that Florida can offer lucrative incentive options to entice companies to do business in our state,\u201d said Tom Feeney, President and CEO of the Associated Industries of Florida. \"Florida must ensure that our economic development incentive programs are adequately funded and properly organized in order to competitively attract jobs. Additionally, we believe it is essential these programs demonstrate positive economic advantages to the citizens of Florida.\"\n\u201cCompetitors are offering diverse and significant incentives to attract businesses to their states,\u201d said Doug Wheeler, President and CEO of the Florida Ports Council. \u201cSufficient funding for economic development programs will ensure Florida can remain competitive in the global economic market.\u201d\n\u201cEconomic development incentives that promote manufacturing are important to the vitality of Florida\u2019s economy,\u201d said Nancy Stephens, Executive Director of the Manufacturers Association of Florida. \u201cContinuing to make targeted investments in economic development will drive industries like manufacturing forward and boost our state\u2019s economy.\u201d\n\u201cWhile the majority of jobs created are not through economic incentives, incentives play a role as the state tries to attract high skill, high wage industries that help diversify Florida\u2019s economy,\u201d said Frank Walker, Vice President of Governmental Affairs for the Florida Chamber of Commerce. \u201cAs we continue to compete against other states, we must ensure that we have a well-funded, streamlined economic development process that offers a good return on investment to the state and protects taxpayers.\u201d\nFor the full report, A Catalyst for Growth: An Analysis of Florida's Economic Development Incentive Programs, click here.\nAbout Florida TaxWatch\nAs an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit taxpayer research institute & government watchdog for more than one third of a century, Florida TaxWatch works to improve the productivity and accountability of Florida government. Its research recommends productivity enhancements and explains the statewide impact of fiscal and economic policies and practices on citizens and businesses.\nFlorida TaxWatch is supported by voluntary, tax-deductible donations and private grants, and does not accept government funding. Donations provide a solid, lasting foundation that has enabled Florida TaxWatch to bring about a more effective, responsive government that is more accountable to, and productive for, the citizens it serves since 1979. 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Presentations from those with first-hand experience of autism will be supplemented by practical sessions which are designed to be transferable, encouraging adoption across different teams and organisations.\nOpen Forum Events are delighted to be gaining a reputation for \u201ctruly inspirational\u201d health and social care conferences. Delegate feedback from our last Autism conference includes:\n\u201cA good introduction to autism and services\u201d\n\u201cInteresting information on current thinking and initiatives\u201d\n\u201cA good insight and very good networking\u201d\nJoin us at Autism: The Challenges and Opportunities to hear the latest developments in autism care and support, and examples of best practice from leading organisations across the health and social care and education sectors. You will have the opportunity to question, discuss and debate the very latest policies, projects and emerging models of care, as well as sharing your own stories and experiences with the conference and contributing to wider thinking about autism in the UK.\nRegistration page and more information: http://www.openforumevents.co.uk/registration-page-autism-challenges-opportunities/\nThis entry was posted in Health and tagged autism, Autism Together, Open Forum Events by fabbo. 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Those who develop post-concussion syndrome have symptoms, such as tiredness, headache, memory loss, dizziness, irritability, poor attention, depression, difficulty in concentration, sleep problems, and personality changes that last for at least one month.\nAlthough, children who sustain a concussion (mild traumatic brain injury) have a more favorable outcome reference to cognitive, achievement, and behavior issues as compared to those who sustain moderate to severe traumatic brain injury, they can show adverse effects as manifested by cognitive and somatic symptoms and\nemotional and behavioral symptoms.\nThere are also other risk factors in both adults and children for the development of postconcussion syndrome symptoms following a mild traumatic brain injury.\nClinical Presentation of Post-Concussion Syndrome Symptoms in Children\nThere are two distinct groups of post-concussion syndrome symptoms in children in contradistinction to adults, cognitive and somatic symptoms and emotional and behavioral symptoms.\nStudies have shown somatic symptoms seen in post-concussion syndrome are very similar to those seen in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.\nNeuroanatomy as Related to the Clinical Presentation of Post-Concussion Syndrome, Children and Adults\nBehavioral, cognitive and emotional control all rely on a network that has centers in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and orbitofrontal cortex with connections to the dorsal anterior insula, anterior mid-cingulate cortex, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, medial frontal cortex, frontal pole, and lateral parietal cortex.\nThere are six components of the brain: frontal, parietal, occipital and temporal lobes, and the cerebellum and brainstem.\nFrontal lobes are involved in planning, organizing, problem solving, selective attention, personality and a variety of \u201chigher cognitive functions.\u201d\nOf the two functional regions of the parietal lobes, one is concerned with integrating sensory input to form a single perception (cognition).\nProblems associated with temporal lobe dysfunction include: thinking (i.e., memory and reasoning) and language (i.e., communication, expression and understanding).\nAlthough, the cerebellum is most understood for its contributing to motor control, it is also involved in certain cognitive functions, such as language.\nThe brainstem plays a vital role in basic attention, arousal and consciousness.\nOther Injury Factors Associated with Post-Concussion Syndrome in Children with mild traumatic brain injury\nLoss of consciousness is associated with a higher incidence of cognitive post-concussion syndrome symptoms.\nThere are two non-injury characteristics, which moderate the effects of injury related factors in post-concussion syndrome: age and social economic status.\nThere are particular types of injury patterns, which suggest a greater incidence of brain insult and a greater number of post-concussion syndrome symptoms with mild traumatic\nUnder no circumstances are children or adolescents athletes who have sustained a concussion with or without post-concussion syndrome symptoms are to return to sports until all symptoms have cleared.\nThere will be an occasional child, adolescent or adult, who may experience depression with suicide ideation. Such patients are to be taken seriously and monitored closely.\nWhat must be avoided at all cost is the child, adolescent or adult, experiencing another traumatic brain injury while they are still experiencing symptoms of a concussion or post-concussion syndrome symptoms. Such an eventuality can lead to the child, adolescents or adults death.\nRecently, researchers investigating the underlying mechanisms of PCS have suspected activation of the immune inflammatory response (immunoexcitotoxicity) may be the underlying pathophysiologic mechanism that occurs in those patients who go on to develop PCS symptoms. 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We have extensive knowledge of the Calgary, AB area and can help you find the right home for you or the right buyer for your home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 2917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/learn-about-the-human-body-using-augmented-reality-17-10-2017/?fbclid=IwAR3a97MU9-qxWjlTDhjq-m1f4iQv6gJ_F2EHPIfIVRE9oqlZDCUbNcA6Gxc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:37Z", "digest": "sha1:FIDZFGZCZHIAXRBWOIRRWJT7WFL64ADR", "length": 2123, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.geeky-gadgets.com", "title": "Learn About The Human Body Using Augmented Reality - Geeky Gadgets", "raw_content": "Learn About The Human Body Using Augmented Reality\nLivit Studios based in Irvine, California have created a new range of educational books which allow students to learn more about the human body using augmented reality.\nDesigned to unleash your children\u2019s inner scientist the augmented reality book and companion application which can be loaded onto both iOS and android smartphones and tablets reveals more about the human anatomy and bodily functions.\nImagina Books is a series of Educational Augmented Reality books that blends between the classical book reading experience and the recent technology, Augmented Reality, that boosts visualization and Imagination leading to better understanding, more enjoyable and a better hands-on experience for our kids. The book and the mobile application are the two pillars of this experience.\nThe Human Body, our first book, is a complete gamified journey inside the human body. Now, your children can explore all their body organs and functions with an interactive augmented reality experience. All what they have to do is point their tablets and mobile phones to the book and leave the rest for their imagination. When they point their phones at any page in the book, the body organ showed on the page will come to life as a 3D model on the screen of your phone or tablet.\nOur main focus while designing the book was two things; making sure that the book was attractive to children, and that it has a substantial amount of science on its own without the application. Why? Because in the digital age, printed books are almost forgotten and neglected. But we\u2019re embracing it and giving it a technological kick with the AR app. The design of the book took a lot of iterations to get to what we have now. The book was designed from the ground up to be an augmented reality book.\nJump over to the official Kickstarter campaign page by following the link below for more information and to make a pledge from just $21 for earlybird backers, with shipping expected to take place during March 2018 if the Kickstarter campaign is successful.\nFiled Under: Concepts & Design, Top News, Toys", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.genderstudies.eu/en/us-id/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:18Z", "digest": "sha1:7AIKCJTGXK2LEJWYWFU4MCNPU3Y5GLSC", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.genderstudies.eu", "title": "genderstudies.eu: Women's and Gender Studies online (Idaho)", "raw_content": "Women's and Gender Studies in Idaho", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 82.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gigmenu.com/derek-ryan-irelands-answer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:54Z", "digest": "sha1:NDXXJXXEYHMCUN4I74SYO5BRVC2Y6PNE", "length": 3528, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.gigmenu.com", "title": "Derek Ryan \u2014 GigMenu", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Ireland / Derek Ryan Ireland\u2019s answer\nThe Irish country legend Daniel O\u2019Donnell has claimed that Derek Ryan is set for stardom in the UK having already gained massive success in Ireland. O\u2019Donnell said that Ryan\u2019s \u201cconfidence, boyish charm, charisma and stage presence\u201d make him \u201cvery appealing to all age groups in the same way that Michael Buble has been\u201d.\nHe went on to say that \u201cDerek can do for Irish country what Michael Buble has done for traditional swing music \u2013 bring it back into the realms of pop!\u201d O\u2019Donnell said of Derek Ryan as a performer that he has \u201ca great, smooth country voice, brilliant versatility and an excellent live show where he really interacts with the fans on a personal level \u2013 I think that\u2019s really important for a real musician and performer. It is this close relationship with his fans which also makes him similar to Buble \u2013 they both respect and love their following very much I think.\u201c\nDerek Ryan certainly does command a very loyal following of fans who have known and loved him since his days as a star in the boy band D-Side! The \u2018Official Derek Ryan Fanclub\u2019 Facebook is constantly buzzing with praise and love for Derek, along with a vibrant Twitter feed which keeps his fans hooked on his new gigs and music.\nO\u2019Donnell also knows Derek Ryan\u2019s music intimately having recorded music with and got to know him well on a personal level. \u201cAs a songwriter\u201d, O\u2019Donnell said, \u201che has a great range and sense of adventure when it comes to choosing topics to write about and then how to figure out the accompanying melodies and chords.\u201d Daniel\u2019s current album \u2018A Picture of You\u2019 features two of Derek\u2019s self-penned songs; \u2018God\u2019s Plan\u2019 and \u2018Perfect Days\u2019\nDerek Ryan\u2019s career has already been littered with successes. He signed to Warner Music at the age of 17 with his band D-Side and went on to make a multi-platinum selling record with \u2018Real World\u2019. He has also been nominated for several Meteor Awards in Ireland but has had global success with a number 1 single in Japan.\nHe has already gained 3 top 10 hits in the UK, and is now looking to further establish himself with the release of his new single \u2018100 Numbers\u2019 ahead of the UK release of his new album Country Soul. The track itself is clearly rooted in Irish country and folk music but has an unmistakeably poppy hook to it which stays with you for hours.\nIt was, like most of Ryan\u2019s music, written by him and the lyrics speak of lacking true friendship despite being surrounded by people and hangers on. It was inspired by a tough time in his life when he was living in a bedsit in London and desperately wanted to get back to his home in Ireland. 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This ethical campaign is proudly supported by Dame Judi Dench, Joanna Lumley OBE, Amanda Holden, Academy Award Winner Adrien Brody. Hollywood Insider is a proud partner.\nJoanna Lumley, English Actress & Activist is also a proud supporter of this campaign. Her statement in support is below:\n\"It is very easy to forget broken lives and communities left behind once the storm of publicity has moved on from an area of crisis. We feel that with your help we can rebuild and restore, comfort and make safe, provide and help protect some of the most vulnerable people on earth. The Nepalis are a valiant, optimistic and determined race and the last thing they would ever do is beg: so on their behalf I would only say with all my heart please will you help us to restore their lives and homes, lost through no fault of their own. Every single gift to Humans Of Our World's Nepal campaign will be treasured. Thank you so much, and Namaste.\" - Joanna Lumley\nPlease donate to this campaign - further information provided below. Every single dollar will be accounted for and you will receive constant updates.\nHumans Of Our World have been on the ground in Nepal since the 2015 earthquake and are now looking to raise $32,000 to provide for the continued needs of victims in remote villages in Nepal. In each village, we will be conducting medical/psychological, relief/welfare and anti-trafficking camps which will be served by doctors, nurses, anti-trafficking experts, engineers, volunteers, psychologists, etc.\n\u2022 Medical/Psychological: These camps will allow for the natives of the villages to receive medical and psychological treatments. These villages have no access to quality medical care and are unable to afford the cost of medical care in the cities.\n\u2022 Relief and Welfare: The construction team will also be creating libraries in schools in the 3 villages for kids to learn more about the world outside the villages. They will be building several small water pumps for the elderly and families, providing them with closer access to fresh water that would be difficult to transport. We will be handing out clothes (both winter and summer for all ages), toys for children from infant to sixteen years of age, personal hygiene items, food, medications, etc. Clothes, blankets and needed accessories will also be provided to an elderly home in Kathmandu.\n\u2022 Anti-trafficking workshops: Humans Of Our World will also be providing practical training to villagers to protect children and adults from traffickers and educational camps and workshops to train locals in identifying potential traffickers, reporting them, and defending one\u2019s self with self-defense tactics.\n\u2022 Earthquake preparation and safety: This is to train the locals in those villages with effective ways to prepare for earthquakes as well as the best way to keep all safe during an earthquake.\nHumans Of Our World refuses to forget about Nepal's forgotten victims so we have teamed up with Hollywood Insider, World Golf Network, and Hug & Heal Organization to carry out a humanitarian camps in Nepal. Please donate to this page as 100% of your donations go directly to the victims.\nWhy Nepal's villages?\nIt has been 3 years since the disastrous earthquake in 2015 that tragically devastated the beautiful and peaceful country of Nepal. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake with 260 aftershocks, caused around 10,000 deaths, leaving 824,000 families homeless and dragged further into poverty. The news media of the world reported on this tragic event fervently for a month, but then moved on to the next popular news and forgot about the victims. 3 years on, 800,000 families are still homeless, children remain out of school, and many families continue to live in make-shift tents and huts, etc. The people in villages are disproportionately and increasingly affected due to lack of access to help, funds and officials who can make a change. Those forgotten victims in the villages of Nepal continue to struggle while falling prey to further poverty, diseases and trafficking and have not received much help so far.\nHumans Of Our World's founder Pritan Ambroase established the foundation around a decade ago when he was 19, shortly after the start of the foundation, he suffered a stroke on his spinal cord and was completely paralyzed. Termed by the doctors as a medical miracle, he has since defeated the condition and paralysis, is walking and has taken his foundation from strength to strength. To him, compassion is mandatory. Message from the founder Pritan Ambroase: \"I truly believe that all the industries in the public eye, be it entertainment, sports, fashion, etc and all the key players in it with fame, should utilize their platform to unite our world and make it a better place. Each of the stars supporting this campaign are prime examples of those that utilize their platform for the greater good and we are excited to have their support for our humanitarian camps in Nepal. Hopefully our work in Nepal will bring a positive change to the lives of these forgotten victims in villages of Nepal. We hope that the spotlight will be put back on these villages and that will encourage other stars, humanitarians and people to go and help them as well. Humans Of Our World\u2019s motto, inspired by Gandhi, is \u201cWE ARE THE CHANGE WE WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD\u201d and we will continue to campaign to help the needy all over the world with both awareness and action numbers. Awareness is nothing without useful actions to help those affected and the causes. Each of your support for this campaign will matter. Please donate so that we can help the people in the villages of Nepal.\u201d\nUnique facts about HUMANS OF OUR WORLD?\n1. 100% of your donations will go to the earthquake victims in Nepal's villages directly. (GoFundMe does not charge a fee to donate but there is a standard payment processing fee of 2.9% plus $0.30 per donation that allows for credit card processing and safe transfer of funds.) Unlike other charities, where you wonder what happened to your donations - we show you the exact usage of your funds by providing complete report on the project when completed.\n2. We are not another charity. We are a call-to-action and philanthropic movement that takes action NOW.\nAny corporations or people that would like to donate a large amount and be listed as a partner/sponsor for this campaign, please email the founder directly at founder@humansofourworld.org. Partners, sponsors and individuals who act as fundraising representatives will be included in all of the press related to this campaign.\nDONATE NOW. HUMANS OF OUR WORLD: We are the change we want to see in the world.\nHumans of Our World will be withdrawing the funds directly and will be using the money to complete the projects outlined here.\nShiva B\nMick Eamsureya\nJulia McGree\nPortal Hollywood", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 428, "original_length": 14965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.goiam.org/news/departments/hq/trade-and-globalization/ituc-online-trade-globalization/ituc-e-news-september-2014/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:48Z", "digest": "sha1:QEW7EJBNI26MJU6I7DSZZYFZXAORILZH", "length": 8463, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.goiam.org", "title": "ITUC e-news September 2014 - IAMAW", "raw_content": "ITUC e-news September 2014\nITUC e-news is produced by the International Trade Union Confederation.\nFor more information on ITUC click here to visit their website.\nFirst Week of September: \u201cWeek of Action\u201d to Defend the Right to Strike\nOctober 7 \u2013 World Day for Decent Work 2014\nCall for UN Support \u2013 Gaza\nSomalia: Detention of 19 Journalists\nUN Climate Summit and People\u2019s Climate March, September New York\nIt is particularly important that governments represented on the ILO Governing body, either as a titular or deputy member, are directly requested to support the referral of the dispute of the right to strike to the International Court of Justice.\nGoverning Body Support for the ILO Supervisory System, click here.\nModalities, scope and cost of action under article 37 (paragraphs 1 and 2) of the ILO Constitution, clilck here.\nJustice for Workers \u2013 Climate Justice.\nThe world is on an unsustainable path. Vast numbers of working people face insecurity in their jobs and the highest levels of inequality in living memory. One half of working families have experienced unemployment or reduced working hours in the past two years, while 1.2 billion people still live in extreme poverty.\nBasic rights to union representation and collective bargaining are under threat in many countries and under direct attack in others. Employers are even trying to undermine the right to strike, by challenging decades of legal recognition for this most fundamental right at the ILO.\nToo many governments are failing to protect working people today, and failing to build a sustainable future for the generations to come. Catastrophic weather events caused by climate change are already ruining lives and livelihoods, yet political leaders have still to find the courage to make a global climate agreement. There are no jobs on a dead planet, but when governments do act to reduce carbon pollution and equip the communities and industries for the climate challenges to come, many more jobs will be created.\nThe dominant global economic model is destroying jobs and the planet. This weakens democracy and undermines justice for all. The world\u2019s trade unions are the most potent force to defend democracy and fight for justice and a sustainable future. On October 7 \u2013 the World Day for Decent Work, unions across the planet will be holding rallies, workplace activities, public actions and a multitude of other events, in support of justice for workers and climate justice.\nTogether we can build workers\u2019 power, organising and mobilising to hold politicians and business to account, and to transform the failing economic system of today to one that delivers prosperity for all on a sustainable planet.\nTo upload information about your October 7 events, please go to the World Day for Decent Work website, http://www.wddw.org\nWhile a Gaza ceasefire has been agreed, a negotiated and just settlement to the conflict remains far from reach. The international community needs to increase pressure for a permanent end to the contlict and a solution as set out in the ITUC Berlin Congress statement. Please ask your members to support our call on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.\nITUC Call to Action on Gaza / Thousands of postcards for peace to be delivered to UN Secretary-General\nThe ITUC is horrified by the appalling death toll of civilians in Gaza\nSchools, hospitals and the only power station have been bombed, drawing heavy condemnation from the United Nations, several of whose personnel have also lost their lives. The targeting of civilians is against international law and the UN has called for accountability and justice.\n\u201cThe only solution is a permanent cease-fire with the intervention of the international community to force the parties to the table to conclude a negotiated settlement that ends the blockade of Gaza and the occupation of Palestine. The people of Israel and the people of Palestine will only be assured of a peaceful and secure future with a two-state solution, where all people can live in peace and security and build a future for themselves and their children,\u201d said Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the ITUC.\nThe ITUC is calling on governments to intervene and support a five-point plan for peace:\nA permanent cease-fire;\nHumanitarian aid to the people of Gaza;\nThe immediate suspension of all transfers of weapons, munitions and other military equipment and technology being used against civilians;\nAn end of the blockade of Gaza;\nA negotiated settlement to bring about a two-state solution with the legitimacy of international law.\nThe ITUC is calling on affiliates and trade union members to make a commitment to peace and send a postcard to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to show that he has our support to deliver peace.\nTo take part in the ITUC postcard campaign, go to the website and use a PC or mobile device to send a real postcard which will be delivered to the UN Secretary-General in New York with your personal message and photo.\nThe photo can show your personal experience of peace, and you can send a message about what you want for the people of Palestine and Israel and call on the UN Secretary-General to protect the people of Gaza and deliver a permanent peace. This website will go live Thursday August 7th.\nAffiliates can also make urgent financial contributions to the International Transport Workers\u2019 Federation\u2019s (ITF) humanitarian relief initiative for Gaza, by clicking here.\nThe ITUC has strongly backed a protest by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) over the Somali government\u2019s detention of 19 journalists and the closure of independent radio stations.\nThe ITUC has strongly backed a protest by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) over the Somali government\u2019s detention of 19 journalists and the closure of independent radio stations. According to witnesses, three of the journalists were severely beaten in detention. The ITUC understands that a court has now extended the detention period of the three to 21 days.\nAccording to witnesses, three of the journalists were severely beaten in detention. The ITUC understands that a court has now extended the detention period of the three to 21 days.\n\u201cMedia workers in Somalia have been subjected to attacks, threats and intimidation from Al-Shabaab militants and they are now facing repression from the state itself. The Somali government should be standing up for freedom of the press, rather than shutting down independent media and detaining and beating journalists.\nMedia workers in many countries and conflict zones are facing intimidation, and tragically some are paying with their lives. Somalia can only move forward on the path of democracy if freedom of the press is guaranteed,\u201d said ITUC General Secretary Sharan Burrow.\nClick here to read the IFJ statement.\nFor more information click here: National Union of Somalia Journalists\nAs a part of building momemtum ahead of next year\u2019s critical UN climate negotiations in Paris where a global deal will be agreed, the UN is holding a one-day Climate Summit, during the Generl Assembly meetings, on 23 September with heads of state, invited stakeholders including business and civil society leaders.\nThe intention is to raise the profile of climate and the need for commitments from governments and all levels of society. The ITUC is not planning an international delegation to the Summit but Sharan Burrow will speak at one of the Summit\u2019s sessions on \u201cClimate, Health and Jobs\u201d. The Summit is not to negotiate positions, but the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon is hoping for new announcements that will create momentum and confidence to achieve an ambitious agreement at the UNFCCC in 2015.\nMany other events will be held in New York around the Summit. On 21 September, a cross section of civil society groups are organizing a march in New York city and other events are being organized in other cities around the world. The current list of events can be found by clicking here. This culmination of events is being described as \u201cthe largest climate march in history\u201d. The call is \u201cactions not words \u2013 a world with an economy that works for people and the planet; a world safe from the ravages of climate change; a world with good jobs, clean air and water, and healthy communities.\u201d\nIf you plan to send members to events in New York or are involved in organizing events in your country, please inform ITUC at: info@ituc-csi.org\n\u2013 Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary \u2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 258, "original_length": 15514, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.golphus.com/articles/101-Fred-Couples-Colin-Montgomerie-not-easy-choices-for-Hall-of-Fame-Raymond-Floyd-among-those-who-doesn-t-think-they-should-be-in", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:52Z", "digest": "sha1:YWX6HFIURFEQ7OAMQZW3DYR5FCC7SQVL", "length": 663, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.golphus.com", "title": "Golphus | The Simple Golf Handicap Calculator", "raw_content": "Title: Fred Couples, Colin Montgomerie not easy choices for Hall of Fame Raymond Floyd among those who doesn't think they should be in\nDescription: There has been much debate about the World Golf Hall of Fame selection process since 1998 when the Hall of Fame and Museum in St. Augustine was built and the golf world unified under one institution to honor its legends. But none like this year about the two players elected through the voting body, and barely: Fred Couples on the PGA Tour ballot and Colin Montgomerie on the International ballot.\nLink: http://jacksonville.com/sports/golf/2013-05-05/story/fred-couples-colin-montgomerie-not-easy-choices-hall-fame", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 1256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.golphus.com/articles/302-Even-if-he-does-win-the-Farmers-Tiger-Woods-can-t-win-this-week", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:06Z", "digest": "sha1:K7VMBYUGL2TUW2JMNEVZBUAQ72YZ7QK7", "length": 3170, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.golphus.com", "title": "Golphus | The Simple Golf Handicap Calculator", "raw_content": "Title: Even if he does win the Farmers, Tiger Woods can't win this week\nDescription: LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Contrary to popular belief there are things Tiger Woods hasn't done at Torrey Pines, host of this week's Farmers Insurance Open. He has never greeted the first Spanish explorers on the first tee. He has never sailed his yacht through the tiny water hazard on 18. Everything else? Done it. Woods didn't have his best stuff in the first round Thursday, but he scratched out an even-par 72 on the difficult South Course. At times fighting a two-way miss with the driver, he at least didn't shoot himself out of it and trails first-round leader Stewart Cink (64, North Course) by eight. Gary Woodland shot 65 on the North and trailed Cink by one. \"Well, even par's not too bad,\" Woods said, \"but I didn't play the par 5s worth a darn. I played them even par. I parred all of them. Obviously that's paramount to try and get any kind of scoring on the South course is you've got to take care of the par 5s, because there's not a lot of holes [where] you can make birdies here.\" A big crowd turned up to watch Woods -- wearing a light pink shirt with gray and black trim, and black slacks -- brawl the South and its healthy rough. He was coming off a long break -- it's been over six weeks since he finished runner-up to Zach Johnson at the World Challenge at Sherwood, a few hours north of here -- and the world No. 1 at times looked rusty. On the dogleg-right, par-5 sixth hole, he pulled his drive left into the fairway bunker, hit his second shot into the right rough and couldn't get up and down from there. At the 611-yard, straightaway, par-5 ninth, he lost his drive right, letting go of the club and letting it fall to the ground in front of him. He made pars on both holes. That was underwhelming, but not terrible. Although there was talk that the South might play like \"a mini-U.S. Open,\" as Jason Day (66 on the North) put it, Woods said it did not. \"We figured the Tour might soften it up and they did,\" he said. \"The balls were holding and a couple of wedge shots were spinning back.\" Still, he hit just seven of 14 fairways and made two birdies against two bogeys. Playing partner Jordan Spieth, the runaway Rookie of the Year in 2013, hit 11 of 14 fairways but could manage only a 1-under 71, while Jimmy Walker, the third member of the group, struggled and signed for a 74. \"I didn't feel that rusty,\" Woods said. \"I felt that I hit a lot of good shots. I hit probably three loose ones out there, which, that's just the way it goes, but it wasn't that bad. As I said, I needed to take care of the par 5s today. If I play those normal, I'm 2- or 3-under par and all the sudden it's a pretty good round.\" Although he finds himself well down the leaderboard in his bid for a ninth professional title at Torrey, Woods at least gets a shot at the easier North Course on Friday. In a way he can't lose. He's in Southern California, not far from where he grew up. He can work on his game with coach Sean Foley in the secluded north end of the driving range.\nLink: http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/tiger-woods-shoots-72-title-defense-farmers-insurance-open-2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 3862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gopio.org.my/gopioawards2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:50Z", "digest": "sha1:LEOT5D4HWYCMJRQ5G7UC7IM65D4AC5GO", "length": 934, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.gopio.org.my", "title": "GOPIO International Awards 2015 \u2013 GOPIO Malaysia", "raw_content": "The GOPIO International Awards 2015 is a grand event to celebrate the success of PIO entrepreneurs and enterprises. The award is to recognize the business successes, ethical entrepreneur leaders, and to encourage new entrants to the competitive world of enterprises.\nThis award also servers to highlight role models for the young generations to encourage larger growth in the number of entrepreneurs.\nGOPIO believes that the PIO Community with one-third in entrepreneurship, will provide for the Community's sustainable socio-economic growth. GOPIO invites the PIO Community to celebrate these successful entrepreneurs and wish them even greater success.\nThe GOPIO International Awards 2015 will be held on the 18th December 2015 at the Grand Ballroom of Sime Darby Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur at 7.30 pm.\nKindly call Dolly at 03-2276 0467 for enquiries on the event and tables pricings. Tables and tickets are available for sale!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gov.uk/government/people/david-rossington", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:33Z", "digest": "sha1:BQOY3DKL4YOFWZMYR5NCC767QA6QX67W", "length": 147, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gov.uk", "title": "David Rossington - GOV.UK", "raw_content": "David Rossington\nDavid is the Finance Director of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. He joined DCMS in 2015.\nPrevious roles in government", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 90.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.governancenow.com/news/regular-story/kids-of-the-elite-in-sarkari-school-activist-threatens-to-fast-again", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:39Z", "digest": "sha1:AE4OV325LOKLTZF2NW7V3N2I3ARVGKKP", "length": 7633, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.governancenow.com", "title": "Kids of the elite in sarkari school: Activist threatens to fast again -Governance Now", "raw_content": "Kids of the elite in sarkari school: Activist threatens to fast again\nSandeep Pandey wants UP govt to finally implement 2015 court order\nIshita Mishra | June 9, 2017 | New Delhi\n#Yogi Adityanath #Sandeep Pandey #RTE #Right to Education #Education #Uttar Pradesh #Allahabad High Court\nActivist Sandeep Pandey\nClose to two years have gone by but the Uttar Pradesh government is yet to implement the Allahabad high court\u2019s order to make it compulsory for government officers, people\u2019s representatives and judges to send their kids to government-run schools.\nAs another academic session is about to begin, Sandeep Pandey, a Magsaysay award winner activist and former IIT-BHU professor, has announced he would go on an indefinite hunger strike from June 19 to put pressure on the Yogi Adityanath government, with hope of ensuring equal right to education for all children. On June 5 he submitted a memorandum to the district administration in Lucknow informing them about the hunger strike.\nOn August 18, 2015, the court\u2019s single judge bench of justice Sudhir Agarwal had passed an order, asking the state chief secretary to work out the modalities to ensure that all government servants send their children to primary schools run by the state basic education board. The court had set a six-month deadline. The order was to be applicable to members of the judiciary, government officials, semi-government employees, employees of local bodies and representatives of people.\nThe order came on a petition filed by Umesh Kumar Singh and others who had challenged the process of selection of associate teachers for government-run primary and junior high schools in UP for 2013 and 2015. The court pulled up the state\u2019s basic education department for poor conditions of schools, education and negligent approach in rules pertaining to appointment of teachers in government-run schools.\n\u201cIf a little care would have been there on the part of responsible officers in making legislations for making recruitment, huge litigations resulting in lakhs of vacancies in primary schools maintained by the UP board would not have been caused,\u201d the court remarked.\nPandey says there are two kinds of education system in India, catering to two kinds of people.\nFirstly, there are \u201cpeople who can afford to send their children to private schools who after completing their higher education are able to get a job or are self-employed\u201d. Then, there are those \u201cwho cannot afford private schools are condemned to send their children to government schools which play with the child\u2019s future. Children attending these schools have to clear their examinations using unfair means. Half of them drop out before completing their school or even if they complete their education have to live as unemployed or underemployed,\u201d Pandey said in a press statement.\nHe believes the only way to rectify the situation is to make children of government employees, people\u2019s representatives and judges attend government schools. \u201cWherever in the world universalisation of education has been achieved it has been done only through a government common school system with the concept of neighbourhood school implemented. When children of these segments will start going to government schools, their quality will improve and children of poor will also get good quality education,\u201d Pandey added.\nSocialist Party (India), of which Pandey is the vice president, has been organizing demonstrations on the issue of implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) for the last couple of years and now it has taken up the issue of implementation of the court order.\nThe Socialist Party (India) even maintains that a person should be considered eligible for a government job or contesting an election only if he or she has been educated in a government school. What applies to the education sector also applies to healthcare, and the party says all government employees and people\u2019s representatives and their dependents should avail services of only government hospitals and not private clinics.\n\u201cThe former government lead by Samajwadi Party\u2019s philosophy of \u2018muft padhai, muft dawai and muft seenchai\u201d [free education, healthcare and irrigation] was sharply contrasted by its lack of political will to effectively implement the RTE Act. It provides for reservation of 25 percent of seats in all schools for free and compulsory education to children from the under-privileged classes,\u201d Pandey said.\nWhile the UP government has technically implemented RTE in the state\u2019s elite schools, activists allege that it actually made no efforts to get it effectively implemented at all levels. Almost 90 percent private schools in the state do not give admission to children from economically weaker sections (EWS) under the 25 percent reservation clause of RTE.\nThe district magistrate of Lucknow had ordered admission of 31 children from poor socio-economic background to a renowned school in the state capital in the academic year 2015-16. The school however refused to admit the children. It was after a long-drawn court battle that the school was forced to admit 13 of the 31 children who lived within a kilometre of the school, which was the definition of \u2018neighbourhood\u2019, a criterion students needed to fulfil for seeking admission. The school knocked the doors of the supreme court but found no relief.\nPandey and his team had fasted for almost a week in 2015 to ensure admissions to these kids in the private school under RTE.\nHowever, when the academic year 2016-17 began, the school in question as well as other elite schools decided to ignore the court order, said Pandey, and refused admission to many of eligible children \u2013 and even cancelled the granted admission in some cases. \u201cIn all 105 children were denied admission in 2016-17 and it is a shame that the administration didn't intervene,\u201d alleged Pandey.\nA common school system\nIn his statement, Pandey says there is only one way parents from poor socio-economic background would be freed from the clutches of private schools. If the 2015 court order is implemented, then the quality of government schools will improve and common people will have an option of sending their children to government schools for education.\n\u201cWhen Justice Sudhir Agarwal\u2019s decision is implemented it will be a move in the direction of implementing a common school system, which has been a recommendation of the Kothari Commission [in 1968]. However, no central government has cared to implement it so far,\u201d said Pandey. \u201cIt is only when a common school system is implemented that the child of the poor will have an opportunity to get good education without which it\u2019ll be impossible for him/her to break the vicious cycle of labour. For India's development it is necessary that every child gets an equal opportunity for good education which is now his/her fundamental right.\u201d\nHopes from new government\nPandey has also fasted for the implementation of the court order in 2016 for almost 10 days, and nothing has been done so far. He has now decided to sit on an indefinite hunger strike from June 19 to press for the implementation of the orders.\nHowever, the Yogi Adityanath government has not completed even 100 days, and wouldn\u2019t it be a bit far-fetched to expect it to do something that the previous government neglected for more than one and half years? Pandey says it\u2019s time for the new academic session and kids will have to wait for one more year if the order is not implemented in time. \u201cI want to draw the attention of the Yogi government to the issue. I hope they will do the needful,\u201d he told Governance Now.\n#Sandeep Pandey\n#Allahabad High Court", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 10106, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.governancenow.com/news/regular-story/obsolete-and-redundant", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:OCXTSHYRAWNORCDT5CK4DA2VS7JR4KCN", "length": 7300, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.governancenow.com", "title": "Obsolete and redundant -Governance Now", "raw_content": "Obsolete and redundant\nDead laws impose heavy burden and their costs outweigh their benefits and thus are in a need of simplification, amendments or repeals\nSurabhi Gupta | May 11, 2017\n#Laws #Obsolete Laws #PMO #Law Commission #Hindu Marriages Act #Special Marriages Act #Legal #Judiciary\nThe fecundity of the state legislatures has resulted in multiplicity of laws of the land, without eliminating those which have been rendered obsolete by changing times. The laws remaining on the statute books, although no longer enforced, are obsolete and have outlived their usefulness. Certain old statutes can no longer be enforced, since the conditions to which they apply have ceased to exist. Statutes which have been repealed by implication or declared unconstitutional also fall into a similar class. These not only create useless bulk in the statute books and confusion in ascertaining the law but also have a danger of sporadic enforcement. The danger is present because either the changing conditions have rendered these policies unwise, changed customs have stamped as rightful what was once forbidden, or the enforcement has made the act inoperative.\nA suo-moto project on \u2018Identification of Obsolete Laws\u2019 was undertaken by the 19th Law Commission, followed by a study \u2018The Legal Enactments: Simplifications and Streamlining\u2019 by the 20th Law Commission. The study found that 253 laws, despite being recommended for repeal in Commission Reports Nos 18, 81, 96, 148, 159, still exist in the statute books. These laws are inconsistent with the modern and newer laws, with supreme court judgments, and international conventions signed and ratified by India.\nTake, for instance, the Sarai Act, 1867, which asks sarai-keepers to give free drinking water to passersby and is applicable to hotels. The Act is now redundant because hotels are already registered under relevant state legislations. There have been cases where police and tourism officials have harassed hotel owners for failure to comply with the provisions of the Sarai Act.\nThe Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, 1886 provides for the voluntary registration of births, deaths and marriages. The Act remains unused because registration of births and deaths is already provided for under the Registration of Births and Deaths Act, 1969, while marriages are registered under the Hindu Marriages Act, Special Marriages Act etc. Such redundant laws impose heavy burden and their costs outweigh their benefits and thus are in a need of simplification, amendments or repeals.\nThe judiciary and constitutional doctrines have certain weapons to meet such sporadic enforcement. The judiciary, through the process of \u2018interpretation\u2019, may change statutes with changing conditions, by adding new relevant meaning to the old existing forms. The doctrine of desuetude obtained in the Roman law, meaning \u201cthe condition or state into which anything falls when one ceases to sue or practice it\u201d, is the principle encompassing situations in which a court refuses to use law even if the law has not been repealed (Monnet Ispat and Energy Ltd. v. Union of India and ors (2012) 11 SCC 1). However, it is now fairly clear that such action alone would not be sufficient in a polity organised with a legislature.\nSome countries had special commissions (Missouri Commission, Massachusetts Commission) to investigate obsolete statutes. Due to limitations of time and authority, the treatment of the problem is apt to be fragmented. Some aid in removing obsolete statutes has been received from judicial councils in various countries and occasional relief is obtained through the practice of office of attorney general in recommending repeals. A committee of Pennsylvania Bar Association working in conjunction with legislative reference bureaus with attention centred on the statute law also had beneficial effect in the past. But by far the commonest way of dealing with the problem worldwide is that of codification and revision of the statutes. It is certain that the problem in many countries has been touched narrowly; either there has been no official action with regard to the outdated statutes or only a compilation of outdated laws has been made, which is nothing more than a depository of such laws.\nIt must also be mentioned that repealing appropriation Acts whose terms have expired will in no negative way impact the actions validly taken under these acts. It will to the contrary, serve the purpose to clear the statute books and reduce the burden. More than 700 laws will be repealed, if only those appropriation acts that are older than 10 years may be repealed. Other countries have mechanisms to systematically remove appropriation Acts that have positively served their purpose. For example, in the UK all appropriation Acts contain a repealing provision, which specifically repeals non-operational appropriation Acts. The Australian legal system follows an automatic repealing route for appropriation acts. Section 89 of Australian Legislation Act, 2001 governs that certain appropriation acts are automatically removed and this includes the ones that make appropriations on the last day of the financial year. Thus, provisions in the nature of sunset clause are read into every appropriation act by the virtue of the 2001 legislation.\nIndia does not have any such mechanism and appropriation Acts continue to sleep on the list of the statute books. Without major amendments or introduction of new laws, a practice like that of the UK (the model from where we adopted our appropriation Act) would serve a useful purpose in the cause.\nThe difficulties of comprehensive revision and the fear of creating unintentional changes in the law are formidable obstacles. Yet it seems that a slight relief in the field of obsolete statutes can be hoped for by any method discussed other than just codification. A revision of laws would have to be periodic, at short intervals and be maintained as a constant and continuous process. This might need a permanent and highly trained board, which keeps necessary watch over the body of statutes of the land.\nWhen national economies are progressively becoming globally interdependent and interconnected, ignoring to recognise the harmonious nexus between law and economy can prove costly to the nation. As the economy is liberalised and modernised, encompassing phenomenal changes brought in almost every walk of life, the need for laws to keep pace with changing times becomes a fundamental requirement, lest there should appear legal gaps, inconsistencies and contradictions causing serious impediments to the processes of growth and development.\nTo conclude, we need to remember and reinforce one of the sayings by Savigny, an eminent jurisprudence scholar: \u201cLaw grows with the growth and strengthens with the strength of people...\u201d. The question is whether law in our legal system is growing and gaining strength or is still muddled and outmoded in archaic laws remaining on the statute books. There is an urgent need to ensure that laws and the legal system are responsive to the needs and challenges of the times.\nGupta is a research scholar at MDI, Gurgaon\n(The article appears in the May 1-15, 2017 issue)\n#Obsolete Laws\n#Law Commission\n#Hindu Marriages Act\n#Special Marriages Act\n#Judiciary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 9609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gq.com/story/stephen-merchant-hello-ladies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:31Z", "digest": "sha1:TUHTAGFC2C6FJASOPUSAJMEWPG4E64E5", "length": 7898, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.gq.com", "title": "The GQ+A: Stephen Merchant Was Once Set on Fire During a Bad Date | GQ", "raw_content": "The GQ+A: Stephen Merchant Was Once Set on Fire During a Bad Date\nWatching Stephen Merchant go on dates will make you feel better about you going on dates. He strikes out, he gets stood up, he stands too close to a nearby candle and...fire! Your schadenfreude fix: see Hello Ladies: The Movie. (The HBO comedy special inspired by the series of the same name written by and starring Merchant premieres Saturday.) Of course there\u2019s more than just hilarious date fails\u2014and fire\u2014in Hello Ladies: The Movie. There\u2019s a dating philosophy that Merchant\u2019s character stumbles into that will make you feel a whole lot better about finding The One. We rang up Merchant to learn more.\nGQ: What is it about dating that\u2019s so rich with comedy potential?\nStephen Merchant: I love to believe that the search for a mate is sort of the fuel for storytelling, really. I mean there aren\u2019t many stories that, in some way, don\u2019t turn on a romantic pursuit or a love lost or revenge for love destroyed or whatever it may be. It\u2019s the way we keep the species going, right? It\u2019s in our DNA. We understand what\u2019s at stake. We understand the jeopardy. We all have been on dates. We know we want it to go well. We know what it\u2019s like when it\u2019s painful or you don\u2019t get along with the other person. We know what it\u2019s like if you try too hard or if the conversation hits a brick wall. There\u2019s a sort of inherent drama in it because, in a sense, when you go on a date, most people are hoping it will end in love and romance. Maybe they\u2019re just hoping it will end in a shag. But even then, you know, if that\u2019s your goal, then there\u2019s some work to be done.\nThere\u2019s a sense of romantic hopefulness in Hello Ladies\u2014do you believe in soul mates?\nWell, there\u2019s this theory we mentioned briefly at the end, about percentages. The other person is never going to be perfect, but in the end it\u2019s sort of what percentage you\u2019re happy with. And I think that\u2019s probably the reality of most people\u2019s relationships, and it may not seem as romantic, but for some reason I find that very charming. It\u2019s the same way that, ultimately, the friends we choose are the people we like spending time with the most but we don\u2019t want to spend all our time with them. When it comes to relationships, there\u2019s the idea that somehow we want to spend every waking hour with that person, and that person is sort of this angelic figure who chimes with us, and we never have a cross word. And I just don\u2019t believe that exists. I don\u2019t know of anyone who\u2019s had a relationship where that happens. But I do think there are people we connect with and you just can\u2019t quite imagine not having them not in our life. Like I say, the good outweighs the bad. But ultimately, I think I do have a romantic spirit. And it\u2019s funny\u2014I feel like I often get accused of being cynical or mean-spirited. I think if you watch the work I\u2019ve done, it always has hope and the prospect of friendship and connection and romance. It\u2019s always there. It\u2019s just we try to deal with the reality of life.\nWhere do you think that cynic label comes from?\nI don\u2019t know. I remember criticisms of The Office, when we did our version in the early days, that it was cynical and it was bleak. And I think that\u2019s people watching things superficially, because we don\u2019t go for everything bright colors and constant hugs and kissing and reassurance. That\u2019s just not been my experience in life, so the hope is you try and reflect the life as you find it.\nDo fans ever come up to you, post-Hello Ladies, and talk about their dating lives?\nA drunk man came up to me the other night in a club and told me that Macaulay Culkin had died\u2014which I didn\u2019t discover had been a sort of Internet rumor for about 24 hours\u2014I don\u2019t know why he thought I had to know immediately. He saw my Home Alone T-shirt, and he thought, This guy.\nWhat\u2019s the worst date you\u2019ve ever been on?\nI don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever been on really bad dates. I\u2019ve been lucky in that regard because to me, I suppose, they\u2019re always sort of fuel to the fire. I\u2019ve always had that ability as a kid to slightly step outside of things even as they\u2019re happening, and think, Oh, there\u2019s going to be something in this. There\u2019s a moment in this special where Wade sets his tie on fire\u2014when I was in university, I bought a shirt that I thought was pretty classy. I thought it was pretty good. A red faux silk shirt. And I wore it to this party, and I thought I was looking pretty cool, and I got talking to this girl, and it seemed to be going well. There was some laughter. There was a vibe. And she said at one point, \"Steve, you\u2019re on fire.\" And I said, \"Thanks very much.\" And she said, \"No, you are on fire.\" And my sleeve had caught a light on this candle that was on this mantle. And I\u2019m not at my sexiest when I\u2019m rolling on the floor, screaming, \"Put it out! For the love of God, put it out!\"\nThoughts on _The Game_?\nWell, I\u2019m fascinated by it, as an outsider, because what\u2019s interesting when you read those books, when you see those programs, the guys who are the sort of \"masters\" are fundamentally sad nerds. And I can relate to that. I understand that they\u2019ve tried to find a mechanism to try to make life easier for themselves. We all, I think, are putting on a front in some way. I think there\u2019s often a danger, there\u2019s a kind of air of misogyny about that kind of stuff, which I find unpleasant. But I often find them hilarious. We were doing research for Hello Ladies, and I was listening to this podcast, that\u2019s my excuse any way, and it was a guy saying, \"Yeah, so you go in the club, okay? And you\u2019ve got to be there three or four nights a week. You\u2019re in the bar. You\u2019re in the club. You walk in. You buy a drink. You do a search. You clink glasses with all the girls. You sit down. You maybe give an hour. You go around and you maybe clink the glasses again. You see which ones respond to you.\" And as I was listening, thinking, This has taken up like three or four hours of your evening. You\u2019re doing this three or four nights a week. You must be exhausted! How are you getting any work done? Your liver must just be shot because you\u2019re just drinking constantly. Sure, if you put this much time in it, I\u2019m sure you can get laid, but my God! Who\u2019s got the time and energy?\nWhat\u2019s a sign that a date is going badly?\nTo me, it\u2019s all about whether you\u2019re struggling for conversation. Because typically that boredom is the biggest thing. I mean I\u2019ve been on dates in L.A., where I felt like I was doing all the work. I was really kind of paddling beneath the surface. I remember telling a girl once about how I had recently met Bill Clinton. And she sort of went, \"Huh.\" And I thought, Give me a fucking break! Jesus Christ! How many dates are you going on that people are telling you about their recent run-ins with former presidents? Really? I notice you\u2019re not offering up any hilarious ex-president stories. It\u2019s just those things where\u2014even if you\u2019re not interested, try and seem engaged just out of politeness. Even if I\u2019m not into the person, I\u2019m trying. It\u2019s a couple hours, and then you can go home and just never see them again. But come on. Try and seem engaged.\nHow do you get over rejection?\nThere were always people, when I was at school or when I was young, who just sort of never got affected. It was like a numbers game for them, you know? And if I had been happily married for twenty-five years, I\u2019d feel more comfortable answering that question. But I think all of the relationships I\u2019ve had that I\u2019ve valued, in the end, it\u2019s like you can\u2019t fool someone into being interested in you in the end. All of The Game trickery\u2014that\u2019s like a short-term thing. It\u2019s like the short con. But ultimately if someone doesn\u2019t really connect with you or they don\u2019t want to hang out with you, it\u2019s kind of impossible to persuade them otherwise. I mean as I get older, I feel like I just can\u2019t be bothered. Like I said, I met President Clinton.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 9763, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gradreports.com/colleges/cedarville-university", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:15Z", "digest": "sha1:N5UTVXPIK62E2VBOER4DZ23W7B7BBIJ5", "length": 5414, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.gradreports.com", "title": "Cedarville University Reviews", "raw_content": "Cedarville University Reviews\nSarah Plantenga - May 10, 2017\nCedarville University came alongside me and helped me discover my passion for Social Work. Through rigorous course work, excellent professors and a great learning environment, I was able to meet my best potential. Cedarville not only helped me grow in the professional arena, but as a person as well. I would not be the person that I am now if it was not for my last four years at Cedarville University. I made some of the best friends I've ever had, discovered my passions and talents and grew as an overall person while at Cedarville University. I would highly recommend Cedarville to anyone I meet! Look it up and take a trip to visit campus. It will be worth it!\nBeau Augusto - February 23, 2017\nCedarville is difficult for me to review since it is a highly religious institution and I have since become less religious. It did not meet my needs and expectations academically; however, this wouldn't be the case for everyone. The academics are fair, and, for some people, that's just what they need, particularly those who are fervidly religious.\nMegan Moffitt - February 06, 2017\nThroughout my degree, the professors did everything they could to help you succeed. They bring in professionals in order to give you tools and people to further your education if desired. They not only care about helping you educationally but professionally in your field. With smaller classes, you are able to really have interactions and get to know your professors.\nAdam Oakley - September 11, 2016\nCedarville was, by far, the best decision I have ever made. I attended Cedarville from 2008 - 2013, which If you can do math means I was one of those 5 year people. I started my freshman year as an electrical engineering major, It took me half-way through my junior year (and taking Calculus II three times) to finally get the hint that I couldn't do engineering. (I took Calc II with three different professors so I can't really blame their teaching skills) I switched to Information Systems and I can't tell you just how amazing the program was. The top-notch education I received at Cedarville was only because of the amazing professors. After attending Cedarville I believe that the number one factor in determining the quality of a university is based on how much professors care about their students. This is why I gave Cedarville 5 stars, the professors really do care. Next point: Cedarville is EXPENSIVE! I left Cedarville with $140,000 in student debt. (This number is so high primarily because I was there for 5 years). I do not recommend Cedarville for the student who is just looking for a degree. I paid over one hundred thousand dollars for the Cedarville experience, I just happened to get a degree in the process. Obviously this sounds a little extreme but, at it's core, it really is true. If I simply wanted a degree I had dozens of alternatives that would've costed a fraction of what Cedarville costs. But as an 18 year old, I can't say how much Cedarville changed my life. Growing up in a Christian home still didn't prepare me for life on my own. I could make my own decisions and determine my own future. Without the fellowship of other students and the daily chapels I am confident that I would be in a much worse place in life right now than simply in debt. I also recommend attending Cedarville if your major can provide the income for the debt you will receive. Unless you have a support system that can alleviate or prevent the debt, such as living at home after graduation or having parents that can pay your way though school. My degree started me at $45,000 a year which was sufficient for my monthly payments. Conclusion: Cedarville is an amazing college, 'nuff said\nMusic Student - September 14, 2015\nHigh quality Christian education in an excellent environment. Students, faculty and staff all make it a great place to attend and a worthwhile investment.\nPsychology Student - September 04, 2015\nCedarville is a great liberal arts Christian college. The campus is constantly being updated, the dorms are comfortable, and nothing is too far away from anything else. Chapel is a great experience with interesting speakers and motivating messages. The professors are fantastic, very supportive and tend to treat you like family. The cafeteria is pretty good, with lots of options and opportunities to make your own food if desired. There are a number of majors and classes to suit a wide variety of students, and class sizes are on the smaller size. The Bible classes are particularly interesting and inspiring. There's a decent gym on campus that's free to students, and it includes a climbing wall (but no pool). There are lots of opportunities to get involved with ministries and activities off campus. There are several sports - including soccer, basketball, and volleyball.\nBecca - September 04, 2015\nCedarville is an excellent university. Small enough to feel like family but big enough for you to continually meet new people. It has rigorous academics, thoughtful professors and a beautiful campus. Yeah, the \"town\" of Cedarville might only have two stop lights and seven hundred corn fields, but the university has great student activities programs and I never felt like I was missing out on any excitement. Cedarville University feels like home <3\njvader - August 19, 2015\nOne of the greatest experiences for life and learning.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 8177, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.gradreports.com/colleges/clemson-university", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:47Z", "digest": "sha1:UBGMDTK2ZTSKSGR57MMNQZKHWDNL4FYF", "length": 6726, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.gradreports.com", "title": "Clemson University Reviews", "raw_content": "Clemson University Reviews\nMarion Watson - December 31, 2018\nMy education was very rewarding and allowed me to further my career in Biology. The classes were very interesting and the professors were very accommodating and friendly. The financial aid department was very willing to answer any questions I had and helped me navigate through my options. Clemson was definitely the best choice for my masters degree.\nAlison Turbeville Kaster - May 29, 2018\nMy experience in the nursing program at Clemson was rigorous and thorough. I felt prepared for my field upon graduation, knowing, of course, there was more to learn, but I gained the critical thinking skills to be a successful, professional nurse. I have served the communities where I've been planted for 24 years now and continue to do so; and am always proud to claim Clemson as my alma mater. Go Tigers!\nOlivia Ray - April 02, 2018\nClemson University is a great school where everyone feels like family as soon as you walk onto campus. Once you are a part of the family, it follows you wherever you go. The Clemson ring is iconic for students and such an honorable tradition to get to participate in. Once you get your Clemson ring, from then on, just at a glance, people recognize you and connect with you. The alumni are active and helpful in opportunities during your undergraduate time and post-graduate careers. Their name goes along with prestige and is recognized by many graduate and professional programs by its rigor and how it prepares their students. Going to Clemson helps you to expand your community and connections that couldn't help prepare you for the rest of your life more. It will be a decision that will carry you more places than you would dream.\nBrent Jackson - September 11, 2017\n\"There's something in those Hills\"! Many people don't understand the magic Clemson has to offer until they step foot on campus. When you step on campus it feels like home. It has this family like atmosphere no matter where you go. From your peers to your professors-everyone there is willing to help you no matter what. The professors really helped me prepare for what life was like inside the classroom. I felt ready on my first day of teaching because of the experience I had at Clemson. I wouldn't change a thing about my experience there.\nI definitely enjoyed my four years at Clemson, but I definitely feel that I could have been more challenged in my field at another school. I chose Clemson because it was the best public in-state school for me, and while I felt very welcome there, there was a definite lack of diversity. A \"southern\" style Greek life also permeates the campus, which can be appealing to some and annoying to others. Tuition is also very expensive for an in-state school. The facilities are great, and the town is beautiful, but if I had the opportunity to choose again I would have attended a school out of state.\nShaneria - March 16, 2017\nClemson University Health Science program has something for everyone. Whether you are going to professional school, pursuing healthcare administration, are wanting to promote healthcare, or wanting to be an ultrasound technician, Clemson's Healthcare program sets you up perfectly to get the credentials and certifications you need.\nJessica S. - March 01, 2017\nClemson offered a unique experience, a plethora of opportunities to grow, and an invaluable education which I've leveraged throughout my professional career. The atmosphere and culture differentiate Clemson from other universities- once you are part of Clemson, there is a mentality that you are family and I find that type of community rare. Clemson is unlike any other college out there and I feel grateful for the opportunity to have attended such a communal school.\nSamantha Cuffe - February 15, 2017\nI have a major in Biology and I'm also in the Honors college here. I selected Clemson University as well as this emphasis of study to better prepare for attending medical school in the Summer of 2017. Clemson's rigor, opportunities for challenges, resources and comprehensive programs have definitely assisted me on my journey towards a career in healthcare. I have been able to delve into traditional biology and chemistry classes while also having the opportunity to do study abroad, take courses in music, sociology and even religion. I think the Clemsons combination of rigor and flexibility to take courses outside my major has been instrumental in making me a more inquisitive and well-rounded pre-medical student.\nTimbra D - December 26, 2016\nOverall I would rate my time there as a 3.5 out of 5. When I was accepted to Clemson. I ended up graduating with a BS in Marketing. As a freshman I began as a Business major and in order to continue coursework for my degree, I had to place into the Marketing Program with a 3.0 and keep it. The curriculum was rigorous with 3 levels of calculus, 3 levels of accounting, 2 levels of finance and one required applied science, in which I chose Human Biology. The instructors were relatively knowledgeable of the courses they taught, but the teaching style was difficult to follow for certain classes, and little help was offered if I fell short of understanding. Diversity of students on Clemsons campus is still lacking. During the time I was there, the most diversity was seen on the football team and rare glimpses of exchange students leaving Jordan Hall (engineering building). The majority of the student population is white, and right before I graduated, the African American student population grew to about 6%. The lack of diversity makes it hard to feel an inclusive culture, but the one thing that I felt brought us all together was football. As far as services offered to students: financial services were always difficult to deal with and career advising and networking opportunities were slim to none unless you were an engineering major. I am overall satisfied with my degree and feel that it set a stable foundation for my understanding of marketing. As an alumni of Clemson, I've found that opportunities for networking have been a lot better post graduation. I do believe the school is doing better now and continues to strive for change.\nGoTigers344 - December 17, 2016\nOverall, Clemson University's Accounting program is rigorous. Most professors are more than willing to work with you to aid in your learning. You also emerge very prepared to network and succeed in the professional world. There is also a Master's program for those pursuing a CPA license that have not yet met the hours requirement for the license. Most of the upper level courses are challenging, and require students to dedicate a large number of hours to each of them in order to be successful.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 9842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.grandlodge-nc.org/center-for-members/library--museum/historical-list-of-lodges", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:31Z", "digest": "sha1:WR3R2MD3AUV23A6KZFP5YFQDYSDTFBXW", "length": 303, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.grandlodge-nc.org", "title": "Historical List of Lodges | North Carolina | Grand Lodge of NC", "raw_content": "Masonic lodges have reputedly existed in North Carolina since the 1730s. All lodges--legendary and historic--have been put into this table to better document Freemasonry's existence across North Carolina.\nHistoric Table of Lodges affiliated with the Grand Lodge of North of A.F. & A.M. of North Carolina", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenprophet.com/2008/05/israels-freshest-face-in-archeology-works-underwater/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:09Z", "digest": "sha1:TWJSQCI2LX6M4YYMEXNKZY4ZLHYWEXFP", "length": 5622, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.greenprophet.com", "title": "Israel's freshest face in archeology works underwater | Green Prophet", "raw_content": "Israel\u2019s freshest face in archeology works underwater\nPosted on May 2, 2008 by Karin Kloosterman in Travel\nBefore the devastating 2004 Boxing Day tsunami hit Asia, Beverly Goodman had an impossible time explaining her research to peers. Since the catastrophic tidal wave struck, she has been able to remove about 10 slides from her presentation.\nShe makes no light of the event, but was surprised to see how overnight the world had educated itself about this unique force of nature, which was then, and remains today, an important focal point of her research.\nGoodman, 33, is an underwater archeologist who has invented new underwater coring methods to better understand climatic events at sea and in lakes. Her research tracks historical changes in the environment \u2013 such as tsunamis \u2013 and how these changes have impacted people and coastlines.\nHer research may give science new clues about the coastal environment in the context of global warming. Are the seas rising? Could a melting glacier break off and create a tsunami? Will storms and floods increase as the earth warms?\nGoodman\u2019s questions might be more local in nature, but her work has global significance by adding to the information science holds about earth events and climate change.\nSifting through broken shells and sediment from coring samples, she has determined that at least three ancient tsunamis struck Israel\u2019s port of Caesarea in the past. Concurrently, she also works in the Red Sea\u2019s Gulf of Aqaba to determine how local flood cycles and sea levels have changed over time.\nGoodman is one of a dozen researchers around the world exploring a new field known roughly as geo-archeology, she says, but even Goodman stumbles a bit coming up with a precise definition.\nA few months ago, National Geographic was in tow filming Goodman\u2019s underwater coring methods, which she developed with Prof. Eduard Reinhardt, an affiliate of the University of Haifa, where Goodman recently completed her PhD.\nWhile methods to core the ocean floor abound, there are few techniques suitable for collecting cores in sandy upper shelf environments, such as those found at Caesarea. In some ways it is easier to take coring samples at deep depths, and more difficult in shallow regions, explains Goodman.\n\u201cWhen cores are collected, we lower a tube and, using the force of gravity, run weights that slam the pipe into the ground. But the upper shelf we are working on typically consists of sand. It is reworked sand from the Nile. If you try to use the gravity core it bounces off the sand. The nature of the material changes,\u201d she explains.\nTo collect the core from the shallow depths Goodman and her team refined a new technique using a pneumatic hammer attached by an adapter to an aluminum pipe, and balanced by way of lines attached to counter-floats.\n\u201cPrior to this there was no method to core underwater at these depths,\u201d she says. \u201cNo one did it really until now.\u201d\nThe layers are inspected above shore. Each line, read like the ring of a tree, can include sediment from the sea as well as layers of broken shells, which may point to a force of nature hitting the shores, such as a tsunami.\n\u201cThe coastal area is an area of change. Of movement,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is an interface with a dramatic expression of environmental change worldwide.\u201d\nGoodman knows about water and the forces of nature. She grew up on the shores of Lake Superior at Whitefish Bay, 17 miles from where the legendary freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald, floundered and then sank.\n\u201cAs much as I love the shipwrecks of the Great Lakes, Israel is different,\u201d she says. \u201cIsrael has been a crossroads forever. The time scale is so long. We can get a historical and pre-historical perspective from a long view, while being connected to well-known historical events.\u201d\nUp until now, Goodman explains, people who were studying climatic events and changes at sea relied on offshore deposits. \u201cEven in research from the Indian Ocean, all of it involves transects that stop at the water line,\u201d says Goodman. \u201cThis is the extent of the records.\u201d\nGoodman\u2019s interest to go deeper by merging geology and archeology underwater was a natural extension of her love of science, human cultures and nautical history.\nWhen she goes out into the field Goodman straps on her diving gear, because her dustless \u201cdig\u201d happens underwater, either in the Mediterranean, or the Red Sea. She is currently completing her post-doctoral research with Hebrew University, but works out of the Eilat-based Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, known as the IUI.\nThe IUI is open to all Israeli marine researchers, and also those from abroad. The center is bustling with research activity, and besides her scientific endeavors, Goodman plans on turning her home-base marine station into a world-class research hub, suitable for hosting marine scientists from around the world.\nThe center already has a meaningful partnership with Jordanian marine researchers, she says.\nMarine research and its effects on climate change run in the family apparently. Goodman\u2019s husband Dan Tschernov, who is a director at the IUI, researches with Prof. Moaz Fine from Bar Ilan University on the effects of ocean acidification.\nThe two are developing a technique that looks at coral bleaching over the last 800,000 years.\nIt is research that documents marine acidification, among other things. \u201cIt is an interesting thing,\u201d concludes Goodman, \u201cUnlike debatable effects of climate change, theirs is not a question of why and how.\u201d\nPrevious Previous post: Biodegradable Picnics with Ecomum: On Bottles, Plates and Games\nNext Next post: Hydrogen Peroxide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 8390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greenresidential.com/11-creative-sources-income-rental-property/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YPI2RGG2SH33EKHBGJ6BJUDZ4UQL6B7O", "length": 7107, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.greenresidential.com", "title": "11 Ways You Could Be Capitalizing on Your Rental Property", "raw_content": "11 Creative Sources of Income Through Your Rental Property\nThe concept of investing and capitalizing on a rental property is fairly simple. You purchase a property with a low-interest mortgage, make necessary repairs, and rent it out for an asking price higher than your mortgage. You make money to pay off the mortgage quickly and/or make further investments to increase your revenue streams.\nBut there\u2019s more opportunity for making money on rental properties than just collecting rent. In fact, there are dozens of ways that you could increase your regular income from your rental properties and make more money faster.\nHere are some you should try.\nSet Late Fees\nIf you\u2019re trying to be likeable, you might allow a small grace period for late rent. It shows respect and kindness to renters, leading to less turnover. But don\u2019t be a pushover about it. Many apartment complexes are more relaxed on their late fees than they should be.\nCollect late fees for any renters who fail to pay on time. They signed a contract, and they owe you the money. The late fee helps people pay rent on time, and it protects you if a renter defaults on their payments.\nCharge for Parking\nWhen you\u2019re in charge of an apartment complex, there are plenty of extra, in-demand things you can charge for, like parking spots. A lot of renters don\u2019t own a car, so they\u2019ll feel like they\u2019re getting a deal if they don\u2019t have to pay for a parking spot. Meanwhile, you\u2019ll get to pocket a little extra for those that do.\nIf you don\u2019t fill up your parking spaces all year long, you can also rent them out during events. One property manager made more than $7,000 during a 10-day strawberry festival in Florida by renting out his extra parking spaces.\nA few years ago, solar panels were ugly and expensive. It was rare that you could get a higher return than what you put into it. However, things are much different now. Power grids are changing along with the structure and affordability of solar panels. The price of solar panel installation has fallen by more than 60 percent in the last decade!\nNow, not only are these panels economical, but they\u2019re also an attractive thing for renters. When you\u2019ve installed solar panels, you can sell energy to your renters, who can then sell the extras to the grid. It\u2019s a win-win for everyone, and in a place like Katy, where it\u2019s sunny often, it\u2019s an excellent investment for your multi-family rental property.\nAdd Services of Convenience\nThe millennial generation are the most common renters, and they tend to prefer one-stop shops, even if it costs a little extra. You can turn your rental property into a profitable business with convenience services like babysitting, dog-walking, dry cleaning, concierge, coin-operated laundry, and more services.\nIf they\u2019re affordable and convenient, renters are likely to pay for them. You\u2019ll have an easier time filling your vacancies and padding your bank account at the same time.\nCharge Based on the Unit\nIf you own an apartment complex with different units, base your rent based on what\u2019s inside. For example, if one unit has an excellent view, a balcony, and central air, you can charge more than one with fewer windows and a window air conditioning unit.\nIf you have a cookie-cutter style apartment complex, there are still ways you can capitalize on prime apartments. You could base the rent on the view, which floor it\u2019s on, or how it\u2019s furnished.\nStorage for an Additional Charge\nIf your complex has vacancies, an attic, a shed, or extra rooms, you can make a little extra by renting them out as storage units. Renters almost always need extra storage, and if it\u2019s nearby, they\u2019re happy to pay for it.\nYou might find that it\u2019s even easier to rent out a vacant apartment for storage rather than to someone who will live there. You won\u2019t have to worry about contract breaches or legal rights, and you can potentially make more on the storage space than you would on a renter.\nCharge for Property-Related Services\nYour landscaping services don\u2019t have to be included in the price of the rent. You can easily build some extra cash by charging for little things like snow removal, lawn mowing, and basic non-essential maintenance. Call it an HOA fee, and ensure that the property always looks great.\nYou could also offer other services like housekeeping or deep-cleaning services. This is a double-edged benefit for you; it brings in a little extra revenue while keeping your properties clean and well-maintained between renters.\nIncrease Rent Strategically\nAlthough a sudden rent hike will likely leave a bad taste in the mouth of your renters, there are strategic ways to increase rent. It starts with understanding your current market. Renters might leave in search of a cheaper apartment if you don\u2019t raise your rent according to complementary units.\nIf you\u2019re planning to raise the rent, make it worth the rent increase. If you\u2019ve never repainted, repaired the leak under the sink, or replaced the carpets, your tenants won\u2019t be happy with a sudden increase. However, small updates here and there can make a rent increase worthwhile to a tenant over time.\nCharge a Flat-Rate\nCharging a flat rate means you include a general cost estimation of utilities, including water, gas, garbage, sewer, and electricity in the cost of the rent. A flat-rate rent payment can be an incredibly powerful tool in the hands of a savvy property manager. It\u2019s an attractive rental option for the renter who wants to minimize their responsibility and maintain a steady rent deduction each month.\nIt can also be positive for you. Although some tenants may use more utilities than their rent payment covers, others will use far less. You can pocket the extra and put it back into your units.\nHold Paid Classes\nThere really is no limit to the ways you can create revenue in your rental properties. One great idea is to hire a yoga, Zumba, or personal training instructor to hold classes on the lawn each morning for a fee.\nYou could also hold personal finance classes, self-reliance courses, or any number of useful gatherings. Your tenants will appreciate the convenience of these gatherings while growing closer as a community. You\u2019ll reap the financial benefits and maintain tenant loyalty.\nHire the Property Managers at Green Residential\nTime and time again, we\u2019ve seen how property managers can raise your property values and maintain high rent prices. At Green Residential, we\u2019re ready and willing to help you manage your Katy rental properties.\nWe offer services that range from landscaping to tenant screening to rent collection, and we\u2019ll get you the necessary help for your property. For more information about how Green Residential can raise the standard of living at your Katy complex and ensure a higher income for you, contact us today!\nCategories: Property Management Tags: increasing income potential\nShannon C. \u2013 Houston, TX\nAs a Realtor, I have plenty of clients who ask about property management, and Green Residential is always my first recommendation. They\u2019re always on top of things and so far I\u2019ve had a great experience recommending them to owners.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 12999, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.greensquareresidential.com.au/our-staff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ATEBZ6UON4KQCE2FEHRPIH63YCDECD7T", "length": 1847, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.greensquareresidential.com.au", "title": "Our Staff | Green Square Residential", "raw_content": "Principal/Business Owner\nAisling Brady is the Principal/Business Owner of Green Square Residential, a boutique style real estate agency focused on providing a personalised hands on sales and property management service delivered with fairness, honesty and integrity at all times.\nAisling definitely stands out from the crowd in terms of her professionalism, hard work and enthusiasm for all things real estate. Over many years she has built credibility and a solid reputation in the community.\nShe is an agent that really does care with the goal of achieving record prices for her clients, managing every property transaction as if she were selling her own home.\nAisling\u2019s background includes an honours Bachelor of Business degree combined with over 20 years sales and marketing expertise, largely within the media industry prior to real estate. Her strengths and skill set are ideally suited to the residential real estate sector.\nAisling has a comprehensive knowledge of the real estate sales process and is always up to date with the latest local marketplace sales & trends. References from satisfied customers highlight her professional approach, responsiveness, honesty & integrity and sheer enthusiasm for selling real estate as the key reasons they would use Aisling again and recommend her to friends and family.\nAttention to detail and the ability to get things done are among the key attributes that make Renae a successful property manager. With a family background in real estate, Renae has a thorough knowledge of the industry. She understands that she is being entrusted with what is often her landlord\u2019s most valuable asset and she takes that responsibility very seriously. 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GST rates of this item code 847710 is yet to be finalized.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 2761, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.guampdn.com/story/sports/2018/04/07/score-guam-geared-up-smokin-wheels/492351002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:31Z", "digest": "sha1:WAI3E43B3UDEWB4OR3TTOULF6OWCP4YI", "length": 6725, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.guampdn.com", "title": "Guam is geared up for Smokin' Wheels: The Score", "raw_content": "The Score: Guam is geared up for Smokin' Wheels\nSmokin' Wheels, scheduled for April 13-15 at the Guam International Raceway in Yigo, will draw top competition from the U.S., Japan.\nThe Score: Guam is geared up for Smokin' Wheels Smokin' Wheels, scheduled for April 13-15 at the Guam International Raceway in Yigo, will draw top competition from the U.S., Japan. Check out this story on guampdn.com: https://www.guampdn.com/story/sports/2018/04/07/score-guam-geared-up-smokin-wheels/492351002/\nJojo Santo Tomas, jsantotoma@guampdn.com Published 2:18 p.m. ChT April 7, 2018 | Updated 4:55 p.m. ChT April 10, 2018\nA highlight reel of Smokin' Wheels 2017 endurance races on April 9, 2017. Frank San Nicolas/PDN\nIn this file photo from last year, Bob Bucek gets air during APL Smokin' Wheels 2017 at the Guam International Raceway on April 8, 2017.(Photo11: Frank San Nicolas/PDN)\nGuam\u2019s biggest motorsports and off-road weekend is just days away, and fans and organizers are chomping at the bit for the APL Smokin' Wheels 2018, set for April 13-15 at the Guam International Raceway in Yigo.\nThe annual event draws enthusiasts from various fields: drag racers, autocrossers, drifters, mud draggers, remote car racers, off-road buggies, ATVs, trucks and utility track vehicles. There\u2019s even a time slot dedicated to grillers and barbecuers, with the best meat in the Smokin Grills competition.\nThe main event \u2014 the 4-hour endurance race for buggies, trucks and UTVs \u2014 starts at 1 p.m. April 15 with the top finisher expected to finish about 100 laps on the 1.2-mile track.\nMore: APL Smokin' Wheels 2018 schedule of events\nIt\u2019s the 40th year of the eventsince its inception in 1978, and it\u2019s always attracted some of the top off-road riders from the U.S., Japan and the region, on top of all the local talent. Track officials \u2014 gearheads and participants themselves \u2014 have been getting the track ready for weeks but kicked it into high gear this weekend.\n\u201cIt\u2019s definitely exciting for me and my guys, although as it gets closer, there\u2019s very little time to focus on our own stuff,\u201d said Henry Simpson, general manager of the raceway and 10-time winner of the main event. \u201cIt\u2019s always nice to see everybody come together, always has been since the days at the old track on Cross Island Road.\u201d\nIn this file photo from last year, Chris Robbetts competes in the Off-Road Buggies and Trucks Endurance Race during APL Smokin' Wheels 2017 at the Guam International Raceway on April 9, 2017. (Photo11: Frank San Nicolas/PDN)\nSimpson will team up with his son Milo and race in the main event.\nJeff Rios, president of the Guam International Raceway Motorcycle and ATV Club, is also planning on racing in the motorcycle enduro, a two-hour dust-raiser that starts at 10:30 a.m. April 15.\nRios also is heavily involved in carving out a quality track for all participants, and helped orchestrate a two-day operation that deposited 170 dumptruck loads of soil at the raceway last week.\nHighlights from the 2017 Smokin' Wheels event at the Guam International Raceway on April 8, 2017. Frank San Nicolas/PDN\n\u201cWe layered the entire track eight inches deep with that soil and let me tell you, it looks really, really nice out there,\u201d he said.\nThe soil transfer was made possible by a convoy of trucks comprised of Pacific Trucking, Phillip and Sons, Abad\u2019s Trucking and Morrico Equipment, he said.\nAbout 200 guests from off-island, including 70 racers and drivers, will arrive throughout the week for the event, said Rios. There also will be 16 visiting four-wheel vehicles, shipped courtesy of American President Lines, which is the presenter of the event.\nThe annual Smokin' Wheels also is a stop on the Japan professional ATV racing circuit, so it\u2019s a must for Japanese racers looking to accumulate points for the season championship, said Rios.\nSimpson and Rios said the off-road racing community is a tight one, and everybody generally knows everybody \u2014 but they don\u2019t always get to see each other throughout the year. Smokin\u2019 Wheels is like a dusty, mud-painted family reunion for the Limtiacos, Wenden family, Al Kilgore and his crew, the Taimanglos, Aguons, Pangelinans, Morrisons, Changs, Pitters, Crisostomos, Rioses and many more.\nRios also pointed out that Kim Aiken, a sponsored rider from Saipan 40 years ago, has since moved to Guam and is again planning on competing in the motocross division.\nIn this file photo from last year, motocross champ Sean Lipanovich poses with his bike at Smokin' Wheels 2017 in Yigo on April 8, 2017. (Photo11: Frank San Nicolas/PDN)\nJoey Crisostomo, who along with his brother, Robbie, used to tear up the track on two wheels in the early days of Smokin\u2019 Wheels, will drive his buggy solo in the main event. Smokin Wheels is a family event and now his son, Joey Crisostomo Jr., will compete against his dad. They both practiced for a few hours at the track on Wednesday, April 4.\n\u201cIt felt very very good. We got to try two different sets of tires out and I think we found the perfect combination that we want to use,\u201d said the elder Joey Crisostomo. \u201cIt\u2019s a four-hour race and it\u2019s gonna be a challenge in this heat with 30 to 40 cars out there, so I\u2019m just looking at finishing. The main thing is to race smart and not make mistakes that will cost you.\u201d\nMotocross racers catch air at APL Smokin' Wheels 2017 on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at the Guam International Raceway in Yigo. Kasmira Engichy/PDN\nHe said that there\u2019s a lot of Japanese competition coming in, as well as top drivers from the states, but he\u2019s looking forward to kicking up the dirt with all of them, including his son, who will partner up with Justin Cruz in the Polaris 671.\nIn this file photo from last year, Tim Wenden competes during APL Smokin' Wheels 2017 at the Guam International Raceway in Yigo on April 8, 2017. (Photo11: Frank San Nicolas/PDN)\nSimpson came across the souvenir program from 1979, the second year of the race, when it was called the Winston-Salem Smokin\u2019 Wheels Offroad Weekend, presented by the Guam Off-Roaders Club. It included sponsors such as Island Suzuki, Exxon, TJ Swann Wine, Topsy, Toyota and Datsun, the Dirt Doktor, SLC, Shelton Music, Foreign Auto Parts, JWS, GORCO and many more.\n\u201cAnd look here,\u201d he said, pointing to the last sponsor on a list on Page 1, \u201cAmerican President Lines. They sponsored it at the beginning, and they are the presenter today. We are very grateful to them.\u201d\nTickets for the event are $10 per day and $20 for a weekend pass, and are on sale at all Foody\u2019s locations. Children under 11 years old are free. No outside food, drinks and coolers are allowed.\nFor more information, log onto www.guamraceway.com for details.\nGuam's upcoming 5Ks, marathons and other running events", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 8579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.guampdn.com/story/sports/2018/10/27/calvo-looks-continue-trend-aim-new-heights-score/1780577002/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:04Z", "digest": "sha1:S4D4HCMXF3SYM3UNA4LQ6L3OV64KRSF4", "length": 7209, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.guampdn.com", "title": "Calvo looks to continue trend, aim for new heights: The Score", "raw_content": "The Score: Calvo looks to continue trend, aim for new heights\nNew president of Guam Basketball Confederation aims for highest of heights for Team Guam\nThe Score: Calvo looks to continue trend, aim for new heights New president of Guam Basketball Confederation aims for highest of heights for Team Guam Check out this story on guampdn.com: https://www.guampdn.com/story/sports/2018/10/27/calvo-looks-continue-trend-aim-new-heights-score/1780577002/\nJojo Santo Tomas, Pacific Daily News Published 5:32 p.m. ChT Oct. 27, 2018 | Updated 12:25 a.m. ChT Oct. 29, 2018\nTeam Guam head coach E.J. Calvo talks to his players during a timeout in their game against National University during the Guam Invitational Basketball Tournament Tuesday at the University of Guam\u2019s Calvo Field House. (Photo11: A.T. Garrido/For PDN)\nYes, said newly elected president of the Guam Basketball Confederation: If Guam hopes to compete among the best in the region, it will have to develop national teams who get paid to play basketball.\nIt's a process, said E.J. Calvo, and Guam will have to start with what it has. Eventually, Calvo envisions Guam's top men and women basketball players among the elite in Oceania, able to compete with world powerhouses such as Australia and New Zealand in our region, and even Japan and Korea in Asia.\nOn Oct. 13, Calvo was elected GBC president, taking over the position left vacant after the death of Tony Thompson earlier this year. Thompson, who held dual roles as Secretary General, was a longtime fixture in Guam's basketball leadership, and the face of Guam basketball in front of FIBA, the world governing body for the sport.\nMore: JFK Islanders triumph in 31-12 win over Guam High Panthers\nMore: Trump declares CNMI major disaster from Yutu; thousands have no drinking water\n\u201cI worked closely with Thompson to accomplish several goals and objectives since he recruited me to coach our men\u2019s team in 2012, and my focus will be to continue that progress,\u201d said Calvo.\nSince being appointed head coach of the Guam Men\u2019s Basketball Team, Calvo won the gold that eluded him as a player at the last Pacific Games, held in 2015 at Papua New Guinea. His mission since earning the gold is defending it. That opportunity will come next year in Samoa.\nBut there's another tournament just around the bend that carries equal, perhaps greater significance than successfully defending a regional gold medal, an invitation that recently came as a result of their 2015 gold.\nGuam's men's team has been invited to a FIBA-Asia tournament Nov. 26-Dec.1 in Bangkok, Thailand. It's a B-level tournament, and Guam will hash it out with the likes of Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Macau and Fiji.\nShould they do well at the B-level tournament, they will earn an invitation to join the A-level tournaments of Asia's finest teams such as China, Iran, South Korea, Australia, Japan and the Philippines - teams ranked in the world's top 50, and some in the top 30. These countries, said Calvo, rank among the best because its players are professionals and play year-round.\n\"We are thrilled to have this chance to test ourselves against these nations, and we hope this exposure will only lead to overall growth for our national program, including opportunities for our Women\u2019s Team and Junior National Teams as well,\" stated Calvo in a news release.\nFIBA Oceania regional director David Crocker, second from left, held an introductory press conference at the Sheraton Laguna Guam Resort on Friday. Crocker is helping the Guam Basketball Confederation prepare for an upcoming World Cup and Olympic schedule. He was joined by, from left, men's national team coach E.J. Calvo, Guam Basketball Confederation president Tony Thompson and GBC board member Jon Lujan. (Photo11: Grant Wieman/PDN)\nIt's a humble, politically correct statement for the head of Guam basketball. If there's one thing Calvo knows, it's how to lob a quote that few could argue with.\nFinishing in the top four of seven teams, said Calvo, would constitute doing well.\nCalvo does not want to merely do well at this tournament. Calvo wants to win it.\n\u201cNaturally, I wish we had more time to train. But we are doing everything we can to be ready to face pro-level talent and teams that pretty much play together year-round,\" he said.\n(Photo11: Mark Scott/Pacific Daily News)\nCalvo said the final Team Guam roster won't be announced for a few weeks, but the assembling of what will likely be the strongest team to wear a Guam jersey is hard to hide: the elite Guam players people are familiar with such as Willie Stinnett, J.P. Cruz, and Earv Jose are in the mix, joined by fruits of Calvo's far-reaching recruitment. The trio of Wesley brothers - Mekeli, Tai and Russ, big boys who spent their middle and grades school years on Guam are likely, as well as Daren Hechanova, an explosive player who learned his craft elsewhere. Jonathan Galloway and Ben Borja, 6-foot-10 and 6-foot-7, respectively, were also sought but could not confirm.\nFormer collegiate player Mike Sakazaki is also one of Guam's best big men, and there are a few other familiar names such as Chris Conner as well as the unfamiliar - Ernest Ross, for instance. Younger up-and-comers Billy Belger and A.J. Carlos look to learn from the veterans.\n\"I would say that even without Jonathan Galloway and Joe Blas, who are definitely among Guam's best ... this could be the strongest roster ever assembled for Guam,\" said Calvo.\nJoining Calvo on the coaching staff are Jin Han and Seve Susuico, and team manager Danny Payumo - who won gold coaching Team Guam at the Micronesian Games - will return at his usual spot.\nThe Guam Basketball Confederation must raise funds to fly all players, coaches and support staff to Bangkok, where hotel accommodations and meals will be provided by FIBA and tournament organizers for all teams participating, said Calvo.\n\"The key is exposure. We have to get our teams out there because that's the only way we will get noticed,\" he said. \"This tournament is the first time Guam has been given a pathway to qualify for the Olympics and World Cup, and chance to play future games against some of the world's top national teams.\"\nWillie Stinnett, with ball, looks for an opening over Ben Borja during Team Guam practice at the Guam Basketball National Training Center in Tiyan on June 13. At rear are Team Guam head coach E.J. Calvo, standing, and assistant coach Danny Payumo. (Photo11: Jojo Santo Tomas/PDN)\nAs head of Guam basketball, he accepts that he must now divide his time to nurture the women's and junior programs.\n\"The women's program was not ignored for this tournament. The same opportunities are available for our women. Our men are just the first, the pioneers,\" he said.\nAs for the juniors, Calvo is all about identify, recruit and include, and he knows that to build future winners, he has to identify talent early.\n\"We have to start somewhere, then move forward. We can't do it in a year, or even in a few years. With the right support and the right things in place, we can grow our program and earn our place in the region and in the world,\" said Calvo. \"And one day, maybe Guam will have a national team whose only job is basketball.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 8979, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=431", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:47Z", "digest": "sha1:7TU2BDDLZY6QXPVCT5HWYWOEFQSW4IC3", "length": 3573, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.h-net.org", "title": "H-Net Reviews", "raw_content": "Col. Lawrence R. Bailey. Solitary Survivor: The First POW in Southeast Asia. Washington, D.C., and London: Brassey's, 1995. xxi + 214 pp. $23.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-57488-004-5.\nReviewed by Robert C. Doyle (Independent Scholar)\nPOW Experience and the Dark Night of the Soul\nAmong the large corpus of American captivity narratives that stretch from the Indian wars to the recent hostage experiences in the Middle East, Solitary Survivor is one of the few written long after the event, where the author focuses his attention not on the resistance of a captive community, heroics, or escape attempts, but on the human response to extreme solitude. (For a similar, and far more bizarre exploration of solitude, see Brian Keenan's An Evil Cradling [1992], an introspective hostage narative of great merit.)\nAfter his traumatic bailout from a doomed C-47 aircraft on 23 March 1961 (everyone else died in the crash), subsequent capture and incarceration by the Pathet Lao, a severely wounded Major Lawrence R. Bailey, Assistant Attache at the American embassy in Vientiane, was swallowed by darkness and taken to the village of Sam Nua, where he became the first secret prisoner in a secret war. Unlike the many others with gruesome stories to tell about captivity in Southeast Asia during the war years, Bailey was never tortured or intentionally maltreated by his captors. Instead, his world became ever smaller and ended in his cell, alone for over a year, where he became suddenly closely acquainted with his own complex, inner self. His mind took charge over the needs of his body, a Bildung process that solved the conflict of sanity in an interesting dialectic that captures the reader's attention throughout the book.\nAfter his release on 17 August 1962, along with Special Forces Sergeant Orville R. Ballenger and reporter Grant Wolfkill (see Wolfkill's Reported to Be Alive [1965]), and others held by the Pathet Lao, Bailey remained a prisoner in his own mind for the next thirty years. His adaptation to life alone in Sam Nua became a devil which chased and haunted him thereafter. Mistakenly, perhaps, he decided that a return trip to his personal battlefield might relieve this madness. Other soldiers have returned to their Asian battlefields; why not Bailey? \"Unless I saw the cell again in the clear light of freedom and washed it clean of memories of me, I would never be free of it,\" he wrote (p. 184).\nWrong. During the trip back, nothing looked the same: much was destroyed and rebuilt; local Laotians refused to discuss American POWs held during the war, and the author leaves us with a very revealing lament: \"The cell is gone, but it will stay with me...a prisoner forever (p. 200). For this reason alone, Solitary Survivor must have been difficult to write.\nIf one seeks the kind of closure one finds in fiction, Solitary Survivor is difficult to accept. Although he survived the physical ordeal --the body's wreckage--Colonel Bailey's experience approaches a holocaust of the mind. Aside from its brutal honesty, concern for fallen and missing comrades-in-arms, and critical reflections concerning the American secret war in Laos, its value consists in giving a glimpse into the complexities of human aloneness--how a man can tumble into a pitch-black hole and never really come out again--something many of us fear without ever admitting it. To his credit, the author clambered back out into the light.\nCitation: Robert C. Doyle. Review of Bailey, Col. Lawrence R., Solitary Survivor: The First POW in Southeast Asia. H-PCAACA, H-Net Reviews. 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The client was keen for us to help them achieve planning consent. We took them through the process from pre-application to application, and succeeded in gaining approval for conversion to two-bed dwelling. We provided consultancy services throughout the project.\n\u2014 M C", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 167.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hancocks.co.nz/items/92677-6/de%20kuyper%20butterscotch%20schnapps%20700ml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:56Z", "digest": "sha1:TS2OITIBCBHILVE7NJIF5FM3RAHOI6Y4", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hancocks.co.nz", "title": "De Kuyper Butterscotch Schnapps 700ml (700ml)", "raw_content": "Tasting Note: Butterscotch schnapps is a butterscotch flavored liqueur/schnapps. The flavor of butterscotch is a blend of butter and brown sugar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 1768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 248.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hardwarezone.com.ph/feature-camera-comparison-apple-iphone-6-and-sony-xperia-z3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:63WQUPV6TYWOTEDNEDFL7PQMXLPDFN3A", "length": 3885, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.hardwarezone.com.ph", "title": "Camera Comparison of Apple iPhone 6 and Sony Xperia Z3 - HardwareZone.com.ph", "raw_content": "Camera Comparison of Apple iPhone 6 and Sony Xperia Z3\nBy Katrina Canlas & Hafeez Sim - 17 Oct 2014,9:02am\nPage 1 of 6 - IntroductionPage 2 of 6 - ResolutionPage 3 of 6 - ISOPage 4 of 6 - Chromatic Aberration and Low LightPage 5 of 6 - ColorPage 6 of 6 - User Experience and Conclusion\nPage 1 of 6 - Introduction\nCameras Compared: The Apple iPhone 6 vs. the Sony Xperia Z3\nFor some smartphone users, the OS may not be as important as how well the camera performs. With several social sharing platforms and an always-connected lifestyle, you tend to want to share as many cherishable moments as possible. More so if you\u2019re addicted to posting on Instagram or just like to chronicle your days through pictures. And when it comes to prioritizing the capabilities of good camera phones, chances are you probably would have considered and even taken a look at the iPhone and the top of the line Sony Xperia phones.\nThe iPhone is the camera of choice for many casual shooters, while the newer Sony Xperia Z series of phones sport impressive 20.7-megapixel cameras. Roughly a year ago, we pitted the iPhone 5S against the Sony Xperia Z1 in detail and Apple came up ahead. With the new iPhone 6 and Sony Xperia Z3 both hot off the factory line, it\u2019s now time to take a look at these two favorites in a thorough camera performance test. But before, that let\u2019s take a quick look at the respective camera capabilities in both devices to get a better understanding of the performance outcome in the later pages.\nCamera hardware on the Apple iPhone 6\nHardware remains mostly the same, with the highly-anticipated iPhone 6 sporting an 8-megapixel camera with an aperture of f/2.2 and 29mm focal length (35mm equivalent). While resolution and sensor size (1/3-inch) is unchanged, the sensor is new though, with Apple claiming that the new iSight sensor will produce faster focus speeds.\nThe iPhone 6 Plus does come with optical image stabilization, which should help when taking pictures in low light. We\u2019re assuming the smaller dimensions of the iPhone 6 won\u2019t be able to fit this feature, so you\u2019re stuck with digital image stabilization on the iPhone 6.\nCamera hardware on the Sony Xperia Z3\nA quick look at the specs sheet will reveal that the Xperia Z3 is not that much different from its predecessor, the Z2 (and even the Z1). But even then, the Xperia Z3\u2019s camera sensor is much bigger than many smartphones since it\u2019s the same 1/2.3-inch sensor (size-wise) as that found in most entry and mid-range digital compact cameras.\nSimilar to the Z2, the Xperia Z3 shoots at 20MP when in Manual mode, and 8MP in Superior Auto mode. According to Sony, the camera doesn\u2019t use a reduced imaging area when shooting 8MP, instead the image has been down-sampled to produce a 8MP picture, which helps to reduce image noise. The camera has a focal length of 25mm (35mm equivalent) and an aperture of f/2.0.\nSince both the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus share the same sensor, most comparison shots in this article will be from the iPhone 6. Where we find there's special interest to share the outcome from the 6 Plus for further comparisons, we've denoted them appropriately.\nAnother point to take note is that the iPhone does not offer any form of manual control, so we can\u2019t control which ISO setting the iPhone\u2019s camera will shoot at. That being the case, we'll have to make do with different conditions that the shots have been captured (thus representing the true Auto nature of the iPhone) and at times it\u2019s not possible to conduct a direct one-on-one comparison with the Sony Xperia Z3. The same conditions also apply when we are taking photos on the Sony Xperia Z3 using the Superior Auto mode that have very limited control. In manual mode though, we can better choose options that match-up against the equivalent photo taken on the iPhone 6.\nTags: android ios iphone 6 technostorm xperia z3 camera performance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 7256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/news/on-this-day-unemployment-rises-to-three-million-1-7181024", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:34Z", "digest": "sha1:R63LHJ5PFUTUA6RNQ5HEGXZ47RME5DLT", "length": 1870, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.hastingsobserver.co.uk", "title": "On this day: unemployment rises to three million - Hastings and St. Leonards Observer", "raw_content": "On this day: unemployment rises to three million\nOn this day in 1982, unemployment rose to three million - for the first time since the 1930s.\nThe official jobless total of 3,070,621 meant that one in eight people was out of work.\nPrime Minister Margaret Thatcher was lambasted in the Commons as she insisted there were \u201cencouraging signs\u201d the economy was improving.\nAfterwards, Labour leader Michael Foot, said: \u201cWhen Mrs Thatcher came into office there were five people chasing each job and that was bad enough. Today there are 32 people chasing every vacancy and in some parts of the country, it\u2019s double that.\u201d\nThe unemployment rates vary across the UK, with only the South East having a figure of less than 10 per cent. Northern Ireland had the highest rate, close to 20 per cent, with around 15 or 16 per cent of people in Scotland and the North East and North West unable to find work.\nEmployment Secretary Norman Tebbit, a former Sussex resident, said: \u201cWe are gradually fighting back in competitive terms against our rivals. As we can expand the economy so there will be more jobs available in the future.\u201d\nThe two main factors behind the rise in the jobless total were the economic recession and the closure of traditional manufacturing industries.\nIn 2015, official statistics showed that the UK unemployment rate had fallen to 1.71 million, the lowest for nearly 10 years.\nHowever, the method of calculating unemployment has changed in the years since 1982, meaning that comparisons between then and now are difficult to draw.\nIndeed, a 2012 study by Sheffield University pointed to a \u2018real\u2019 figure of 3.4 million unemployed, compared to just 1.5 million on the claimant count.\nThe difference was attributed to changes in the method of classifying unemployment - for example, an estimated 900,000 people on incapacity benefits were not included in the total.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 3920, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 160.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hawksmoorim.co.uk/news-events/news/hawksmoor-celebrates-10-years-of-growth-and-success/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NNGGR2WVFHJH57Y37RDOYAWWJL26X3GO", "length": 1575, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.hawksmoorim.co.uk", "title": "Hawksmoor celebrates 10 years of growth and success", "raw_content": "Hawksmoor 10th Anniversary, RAMM, Exeter John Crowley, CEO Hawksmoor\nHawksmoor celebrates 10 years of growth and success\nHawksmoor Investment Management has been celebrating a decade of growth and business success \u2013 despite the challenge of launching in the middle of the global financial crisis of 2007/2008.\nThe Private Clients of the company\u2019s Exeter head office were invited to celebrate with Hawksmoor staff at a lunch held at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter. They enjoyed a lively presentation from Chief Investment Officer (Private Clients) and Head of Research, Jim Wood-Smith, followed by a private viewing of the museum\u2019s Dartmoor: A Wild and Wondrous Region exhibition, with special insight from curator Tom Cadbury.\nCEO John Crowley thanked guests for their continued support of the business and explained how he had set out to create a company whose approach to investment management was based on the design principles of the Baroque architect Nicholas Hawksmoor \u2013 meaning that the company\u2019s services and products should balance tradition with innovation, be built on reliable and solid foundations, and be imaginative but with disciplined processes.\nThrough this approach, Hawksmoor Investment Management has grown from a single office of two people in Exeter in 2008, to almost 50 employees located in offices in Taunton, Dorchester, Bury St Edmunds and most recently, London. Last year the company achieved the milestone of managing over \u00a31bn of clients\u2019 money, and this month it was included in the Top 50 Fast Growth Businesses in the South West.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 4712, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.headlinesoftoday.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/5-dietary-tips-to-fight-modern-day-stress.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:33Z", "digest": "sha1:3THSDDENSUKEAATJ5NFRI4NL7GEZDPZ3", "length": 5232, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "www.headlinesoftoday.com", "title": "5 Dietary Tips to Fight Modern Day Stress - Headlines of Today", "raw_content": "Home Lifestyle Health and Fitness 5 Dietary Tips to Fight Modern Day Stress\n5 Dietary Tips to Fight Modern Day Stress\nIt wouldn\u2019t be wrong to say that the majority of people undergo stress at one or other point in their lives. Whether it\u2019s your workplace, family or social circle, challenges are everywhere. Stress hence is inevitable. The initial symptoms of stress aren\u2019t evident until it becomes grave and we start feeling the pressure.\nThat\u2019s why it\u2019s important to keep on top of stress-busting game. People take recourse in activities like yoga and meditation to let the steam off. These are generally very effective if followed in discipline.\nFew of us know that our diet and food can also help in beating down stress and anxiety.\nDietary changes and restrictions are usually associated with physical changes in the body such as weight loss. But they can also help in fighting stress.\nTo help you through your tough times, we have made a list of top 5 dietary changes. Take a look \u2013\nTake more of Vitamin C\nVitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is well recognized for its health benefits. It helps in reducing blood pressure and boosting salivary cortisol recovery.\nCortisol is the body\u2019s main stress hormone. The higher the cortisol secretion, the more stressed you are. Vitamin C helps in limiting it\u2019s secretion, thereby reducing your stress levels.\nIt also helps in improving immunity that is adversely affected due to stress.\nVitamin C is abundant in foods like oranges, guavas, papayas, tomatoes and bell peppers. You can incorporate some of these in your diet or alternatively opt for dietary supplements.\nAdd Nuts and Dry Fruits to Your Diet\nA research by American Chemical Society found that consuming nuts and dry fruits like almond, walnut and hazelnuts are linked with higher levels of serotonin in patients with metabolic syndrome. Serotonin is a neurotransmitter that regulates mood and gives a feeling of happiness.\nIt has also been found that nuts have an impact on blood sugar and blood pressure which reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes.\nPistachios have been found to lower vascular constriction during stress and also reduce blood pressure.\nAlmonds, cashew nuts, pecans and brazil nuts are rich in magnesium, which is known to reduce the psychological response to stress in a person dealing with premenstrual syndrome or hypertension.\nOpt for Foods Rich in Omega-3 Fatty Acids\nOmega-3 fatty acids are healthy fats that prevent cardiovascular problems by reducing blood fats called triglycerides. They also increase good cholesterol in the body.\nBesides this, studies also suggest that omega-3 fatty acids help in reducing stress by regulating stress mediators like catecholamines and proinflammatory cytokines.\nAdditionally, it has been demonstrated that omega-3 can help preventing stress-induced aggression.\nYou can include fish like salmon, herring, and sardines in your diet as these are rich in omega-3 fatty acids.\nWho doesn\u2019t love chocolate? In fact, we all do.\nA milk chocolate isn\u2019t that much beneficial as much as a dark chocolate. It is long been recognized as a healthier option.\nEspecially dark chocolate with at least 70% of cacao concentration can improve mood, stress levels, and immunity. It also has a positive impact on cognitive function and memory.\nThe flavonoids found in cacao are antioxidants having anti-inflammatory properties which is good for neurological and cardiovascular health.\nSo start thinking about switching from milk chocolate to dark chocolate. Though it may take a while to adjust to its bitter taste, but the health benefits are certainly worth it.\nInclude Carbohydrates\nSerotonin is a neurotransmitter that regulates mood, appetite, and memory. High levels of serotonin are linked with a feeling of happiness and well-being while lower levels are associated with depression.\nIt is well-known that carbohydrate consumption increases serotonin levels in the body which leads to a general feeling of happiness.\nThis is why people like to gorge on sugar when they feel stressed or unhappy.\nTo avoid negative effects of eating carbohydrates, like weight gain, choose complex carbohydrates over simple.\nComplex carbohydrates are present in whole grains like whole wheat, brown rice, quinoa, vegetables like potatoes and yam, and legumes like beans and lentils.\nModern day life would continue to remain fast paced. The advent of technology and automation would further intrude in our daily lives.\nIn such a situation, stress is nearly inescapable, but if you make the right choices, you can prevent it from completely taking over your life.\nAs you can see, eating right can have a huge impact on our health and wellness. So why not make these small changes to your diet and stay happy\nJenny Travens \u2013\nJenny is a creative blog writer who has many passions and interests. Health and wellness is one area where she likes to contribute as much as she can. She is a currently contributing to Foxxlifesciences besides other blogs.\nTwitter \u2013 https://twitter.com/jennytravens\nPrevious articleTop 15 calcium rich foods for your healthy bones \u2013 Add to your diet\nNext articleSimple and effective Home remedies for acidity: Get quick relief from heart burn", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 11144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.heardnotherd.com/opinion-pieces/tips-on-ending-a-relationship", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:RDDF65BOTSLGIMXUERXEYR6OKSKFQ7NF", "length": 2918, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.heardnotherd.com", "title": "Tips on Ending A RELationShip - Heard > Herd", "raw_content": "\ufeffopinion pieces\ufeff\nTips on Ending A RELationShip\nBreaking up with him, without breaking HIM.\nYou don't want to hurt him, but stringing him along would be even crueler. So, you have to break up with him.\nBut, how do you end the relationship?\nIn this situation, the kindest thing you can do is be respectful. Put yourself in his shoes. If things were the other way around and he was the one ending your relationship, how would you want him to tell you it's over?\nIf it were me, I wouldn't want it to happen in a busy restaurant because that would equal me red-faced and crying while people at nearby tables pretend not to notice what's going on. I'd be mortified. So, that brings us to suggestion number one:\nGo somewhere peaceful & relatively quiet...\n...like a park or your backyard. This way you can talk things out in a quiet setting where he won't have to feel like he's being put on display.\nGet to the point straightaway...\n...don't beat around the bush by talking about the weather or whatever. If you do this, you might lose your nerve. Be kind and direct by beginning the conversation with something like, \"I care about you so much, but I think we should break up.\" Using the actual words \"break up\" is a good idea because there's no confusion about what's happening.\nDon't Blame Him...\n...make sure he leaves the conversation knowing he's done nothing wrong (if he truly hasn't), but that you simply think the two of you aren't a good fit, romantically-speaking. Nice guys tend to blame\nthemselves for things going wrong and while it's not like you can totally prevent him from feeling this way, you can reassure him that the break up isn't his fault. A great way to reiterate that he's done nothing wrong is to avoid using sentences that point the finger at him. This happens when we say things like, \"When you said ...\" or \"Every time you...\" Use the word \"YOU\" as little as possible and, instead, point the finger at yourself. So, instead of saying, \"When you said you hated Lord of the Rings, I knew we wouldn't work out,\" say, \"When I think about our taste in movies and whatever, I realize that we're very different and I'd probably do better with someone who's preferences are more similar to mine.\"\nThis is not going to be fun, but you're doing the right thing by being honest with yourself and with someone you care about. Hopefully, the three tips above will soften the blow. 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Robert McNair, John Lampson, Pat Inman, John Broom, Michelle Fioritto, and Diana Brook.\nYou can donate to the Henderson Foundation. Gifts can be deferred by will, trust, or endowment and may be in cash or property, real or personal or directly support any of the ongoing projects. The Henderson Library Foundation has been declared a 501(C)(3) charitable foundation. Gifts to the Foundation are tax exempt as permitted by law.\nThe Foundation was founded on February 6, 1973 by Ralph A. Haskins and John E. Lampson with the help of the Northeast Ohio National Bank trust department. At the time, Haskins was serving as president of the Library Association and Lampson was chairman of the building committee. The old library attached to the old fire hall on the southeast corner of Jefferson and Chestnut streets had been condemned. Through the estate of Lloyd Henderson and donation by Ida Goldburg of a parcel of land at the corner of Satin and Chestnut Street the library had a little more than $300,000 to construct a new community facility. That land and cash was paid to Bud Woodbury in exchange for the old Judge Walter Woodbury homestead which became the site of Henderson Memorial Public Library. The Henderson Foundation was initially funded with $100 from the founders. It was intended that any funds left over from the initial bequest would be placed with the foundation. It was ruled \"a conflict of interest\" to serve on the foundation board and library board. Haskins continued as president of the Library Association and Lampson resigned to serve as a member of the Foundation Board. The other initial trustees were Clifford N. Currier, Theodore A. Peltz, Edward G. Ptaszek, and Julia S. Waters. The Foundation received its first large donation when Ora H. Henderson left the bulk of her estate to the library support organization. Miss Henderson had served as an ex-officio member of the building committee.\n\u2039 Board of Trustees up History \u203a", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 183.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hgicentralparknyhotel.com/events/archives/11/2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:49Z", "digest": "sha1:VNPH3JCWZRX5NXGUDEVBBETENZSPOV6G", "length": 758, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.hgicentralparknyhotel.com", "title": "November 2016 | Hilton Garden Inn New York Central Park South-Midtown West - New York | New York", "raw_content": "ARW - Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, and Rick Wakeman will perfom live at Beacon Theatre on November 1, 2016. More details: http://www.arw-tour.com/ ...Read More\nWhat was once a race in Central Park with only 55 finishers has now become the largest and most popular marathon in the world. Whether you're a spectator or a runner, you won't ...Read More\nVenue - Fort Wadsworth\n16Nov2016-17Nov2016\nIngrid Michaelson performs at the Beacon Theatre on November 16 & 17 with special guest AJR. More details: http://www.ingridmichaelson.com/tour\nNew York City Turkey Trot\n2016 New York City Turkey Trot will be held on November 26 at Roosevelt Island. Featuring Kids Dash, 15k & 5k. More details: http://nycturkeytrot.com/\nGrapple at the Garden @ Madison Square Garden", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 3002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 291.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.highpeakshospice.org/services", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WJAYGBRAPFYUMCNEYIS26SLVQNC3HTJV", "length": 2613, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.highpeakshospice.org", "title": "Services | High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care, Inc.", "raw_content": "\"Helping you live until you die.\"\nHospice is specialized care that meets the needs and desires of people living with terminal illness and those who care for them.\nHospice provides the information, expertise and added care needed to have the highest quality of life possible. It is meant to allow someone to live as fully and comfortably as possible every day. Hospice care focuses not only on the person who is living with the illness but also on their family \u2013 however they define it \u2013 and provides support that continues through the illness and after. Hospice is not about dying, it's about how you live \u2013 in comfort and with dignity.\nPatients are asked to articulate their desires and needs and to participate in choices about their care giving them back control. With the hospice emphasis on pain control management patients are given comfort so they may enjoy the time they have with those they love. Whenever possible, care is given in the location where the patient feels most comfortable, most often in the familiar surroundings of their home. Hospice staff provides the medical, spiritual, emotional and practical support to allow the patient to live their lives to the fullest.\nHospice care includes visits, assessment, planning and teaching by nurses, social workers, chaplains, aides, support volunteers and others. It also provides needed medications, equipment, supplies and materials related to the hospice illness and needed to address or prevent symptoms or discomfort.\nHospice is community based, compassionate end-of-life care which is a gift to those on their final journey.\nQUESTIONS OR EMERGENCIES - AFTER HOURS CARE \u2013 HOW TO REACH US\nAlways call High Peaks Hospice & Palliative Care first if you have a concern. An on-call nurse is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to answer your questions and to visit if necessary. The nurse is skilled in handling many situations so that hospitalization may not be Anecessary.\nRemember, calling an ambulance or going to an emergency room might result in unnecessary procedures on the patient. Decisions about possible hospitalization and its' goal should be made in conjunction with the patient and family, hospice nurses and physicians.\nThe same number you call during regular office hours will put you in contact with the answering service after hours.\nNorthern Office in Saranac Lake\n(518) 891.0606 or toll free 877.324.1686\nCentral Office in Mineville\n(518) 942-6513 or toll free 800.639.8045\nSouthern Office in Queensbury\nPLEASE NOTE: IF YOU HAVE ADDITIONAL CONCERNS PLEASE ASK THE NURSE TO REFER YOU TO THE HOSPICE PATIENT CARE COORDINATOR.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.highspeedinternetdeals.com/state/high-speed-internet-pa.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3GHQT526E45UW2B6XVFF5ST6W46U5M4O", "length": 88, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.highspeedinternetdeals.com", "title": "High Speed Internet Providers in Pennsylvania (PA)", "raw_content": "High Speed Internet Providers in Pennsylvania\nPennsylvania High Speed Internet Providers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.highspeedinternetdeals.com/wireless-broadband-hotspots-explained.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3WCOKZ6GZIBTPTJN3ZBCJWGI4VT4ZGHS", "length": 3413, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.highspeedinternetdeals.com", "title": "Wireless Internet Service: More than Just Hotspots", "raw_content": "Wireless Internet Service: More than Just Hotspots\nThere are a number of different services and technologies which might be called \"wireless internet service\" and there exists some confusion about what exactly a wireless internet service might provide. Let us examine the options.\nThe Wireless \"Hotspot\"\nMost internet users are now familiar with this type of wireless access: Accessing your neighbor's wireless network or a hotspot at a local coffee shop, library or airport. A \"hotspot\" is simply a short range wireless router connected to the internet which is then broadcasting it's signal and allowing others to connect. The internet connection itself could be any type of connection including standard cable internet or dsl. While these hotspots can be convenient they are often also a security headache since everyone using the hotspot is connected to the same local network.\nWhile free hotspots are available in many large centers, a number of DSL and Cable Internet providers are offering their own hotspots to subscribers in order to add value to their service. Access to these hotspots is often an additional charge to your monthly Internet bill, but some high speed internet providers offer hotspot access freely to their customers.\nIn order to access a wireless hotspot your computer - most often a notebook or handheld - must have integrated wireless or a wireless networking card with the proper software.\n\"Line of Sight\" Wireless Internet Service.\nMost popular in rural or sparsely populated areas, line-of-sight wireless internet requires that the customers install an \"antenna\" within a direct line of site to the providers tower. The internet service is provided via radio signals. Understandably the limiting factor in the growth of this technology was the \"line of sight\" requirement. Subscribers cannot have any obstruction - not even a tree branch - obstructing the signal path. Inside the home, this type of service is very similar to a dsl or cable internet set-up.\nNext-Generation Non-Line-of-Sight Wireless Internet Service\nGrowing in popularity, this type of internet service provides a strong wireless internet signal within a larger coverage area and a dedicated private frequency range - similar to how cellular phone networks operate. Unlike older technology there is no line-of-sight requirement. This is true wireless internet service. The coverage for this type of service has expanded greatly in the last few years and most cellular phone service providers have upgraded their networks to accommodate the next-generation mobile devices.\nA 3G or 4G equipped mobile device or a wireless modem is required, but no specialized equipment or software is required for the subscriber's computer. We talk more about accessing wireless broadband here. It is portable within the coverage area. Wireless internet service such as this can easily be wirelessly networked with the home or office - In effect creating a local wireless network within a larger wireless network. Newer wireless \"Hot Spot\" devices and MiFi modems act as both a wireless router and a wireless modem.\nThe wireless age may still be in it's infancy, but there are already many options for those of us who wish to rid ourselves of the cables and wires that tether us to our technology. Wireless allows us to better integrate technology within our lifestyles and not have our lifestyles dictated by that same technology.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 4354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.himalayanwonders.com/content/attractions/sangla-valley.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:45Z", "digest": "sha1:D7C723ENYWNSF5EE35LIBDJ2FWDPKDN5", "length": 1068, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.himalayanwonders.com", "title": "Sangla Valley :: HimalayanWonders.Com", "raw_content": "Sangla Valley or the Baspa Valley starts at Karcham and ends at Chitkul. Sangla is the major town in the valley with having petrol pump, Bank ATMs, Post Office, Restaurants, Bar, mid range hotels and shops. The valley is surrounded by forested slopes and offers views of the high mountains. Its location in the greater Himalayan range gives it a milder climate than the plains. Until 1989 outsiders could not enter the valley without a special permit from the Government of India, due to its strategic position on the Indo-Tibet/China border.[citation needed] The Baspa River flows in the Sangla Valley which is rich in apple orchards, apricot, Wall-nut, Cedar trees, and glacial streams with trout.[citation needed] The main villages in the valley villages include Chitkul, Rakcham, Batseri, Themgarang, Kamru, and Sapni. The nearby Baspa hydel-project has been completed in 2009. Besides the natural beauty of Great Himalaya Kamru Fort, Mata Devi Temple & Bearing Nag Temples are the main attractions of the Valley. Image from FLickr : Travelling Slacker, Mark O'S ,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2360, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.historynaked.com/simon-fraser/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2HYH2BX5LKQC2MPW7RI63QE7R2FEE3GT", "length": 7293, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.historynaked.com", "title": "Simon Fraser - Naked History", "raw_content": "Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was born around 1667, the second son of the 10th Lord Lovat. The Barony of Lovat had been titled to the Frasers since around 1460, and also carried their own clan chief status, the MacShimis (sons of Simon). Prior to the Barony, the Frasers were titled Lairds of Lovat, where they held a Tower and fort. The lands of Beauly Abbey in Inverness-shire were granted to the Frasers after the dissolution, where Beauly Castle stands.\nSimon Fraser\u2019s father, Thomas 10th Lord Lovat was a younger son of a previous Lord (7th), and therefore not originally in the line of succession, however the 9th Lord died with no male heir, and prior to his death Simon persuaded him to name his Great-Uncle Thomas (Simon\u2019s father) as his heir, leaving Simon to follow in the line of accession due to the sudden disappearance of his older brother, Alexander. After the supposedly accidental fatal stabbing of a piper, who was playing a song that Alexander believed was insulting him. Alexander pleaded that he only meant to burst the pipe-bag, but hit the piper in the chest. Through fear of repercussion, he fled to Wales and disappeared.\nHowever official acquisition of the lands and titles was harder to gain as the liferent had already been bestowed on the 9th Lord\u2019s daughter and Thomas was shortly afterwards attainted allegedly following his part, in 1698, in a failed attack on Edinburgh Castle, and consequently lost the titles and land (For anyone not familiar with Scottish law, a liferent is the legal right to live in a property, or control land and receive its income for the period of your lifetime. You cannot however bestow it on anybody through inheritance or sale and upon your death or removal, legal rights of habitation and income pass back to the owner of the land/property).\nSimon\u2019s life gets a little cloudy here, but around 1698 he was charged with kidnapping the 9th Lord\u2019s daughter, Lady Amelia Fraser and then forcibly marrying the 9th Lord\u2019s widow, Lady Amelia Murray, one of whom he raped. Some sources have these crimes being against one and the same person, the Dowager Lady Lovat, she being the more likely candidate as the implied shame would be reason enough for her agreement to the marriage. Historically, Lord Bothwell acted similarly towards Mary, Queen of Scots, impregnating her with twins whom she later miscarried, and securing their marriage. It is also stated that Thomas was involved in the abduction and this was the crime for which he was attainted in 1698 for High Treason, he died around this time (1699) so in theory it may be that he was found guilty and executed. For Simon\u2019s actions, he was also tried and sentenced to death, however he received a pardon, although not a complete one, when the Earl of Argyll stepped in on his behalf and appealed to King William III. Fraser was tried further in 1701 for the rape of Lady Amelia, but failed to attend and instead fled to France where he was subsequently received by the court of the exiled Stuarts. He was found guilty in his absence.\nClassic woodcut depiction of Lovat towards the end of his life\nIn 1703, Simon Fraser returned to Scotland to perform a task for the Stuarts as part of the Jacobite movement, but instead gave details of the plan to the Duke of Queensberry who then leaked the information. Fraser meanwhile returned to France where he was held captive for ten years before escaping and making his way back to Scotland. Following further good service to the government, Fraser was pardoned for the rape of Lady Amelia, and awarded the liferent of the estates of the Lordship. He continued fighting for his inheritance and eventually received his full estates and titles, including that of 11th Lord Lovat, in 1733.\nIt seems that in the following years, Simon Fraser worked favour for both sides of the revolution, most probably in an effort to appease each side and therefore preventing the need to make a public stance on which faction he truly supported, in echo of the infamous Stanley family of previous conflicts. In the 1745 uprising, Fraser made the claim that illness and old age prevented him from riding under the banner of the Jacobites, although he was desirous of doing so, but then grieved to Parliament and the Royalists that his only involvement was to attempt to dissuade his son and the clan Fraser from fighting alongside Bonny Prince Charlie. Knowing the net was closing in on his duplicity, Fraser fled to Scotland and watched as his Castle was burned. He was then arrested for Treason after trying to persuade the Scottish Lords that their only defence from the Royalists was to fortify their Highland retreats and hope that they were impregnable. After being taken back to London, and a trial lasting five days, with evidence being supplied by a fellow Jacobite prisoner, John Murray whose family had long been open supporters of the Stuarts (they had had to sell their family seat at Broughton to pay off the fine they received for supporting the Royalist cause against Cromwell. Murray successfully bought it back in 1738). Murray received a full pardon in exchange for his evidence, an action which labelled him henceforth a traitor.\nFraser once again was found guilty and this time there was no pardon. He was executed on Tower Hill on 9th April 1747. Unsubstantiated sources claim that his final words before he put his head to the block were quoted from Horace, \u2018Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori\u2019.\nSimon\u2019s son, also Simon, was pardoned three years later and went on to fight on behalf of the Government in both Portugal and America. He would, but for the attainder, have succeeded his father as 12th Lord Lovat, being the eldest son from his father\u2019s first legal marriage. As he himself died without an heir, and his younger male siblings discounted for lack of male issue, the next male in the line would have, been his younger half-brother by his father\u2019s second legal marriage, Archibald. Archibald too died without heir, and so the line passed back up to a descendant of a second son of the 4th Lord Lovat. This heir in turn, had a son who was created 1st Baron of Lovat. It is through his line that the title Lord Lovat was later re-introduced, with the de jure 12th Lord Lovat, however the clan continue to number their succession de facto, disregarding the attainder.\nIt has been stated that Simon Fraser was the last man to be publically beheaded, and this is certainly true in that he was the last man for whom the sentence was the noble beheading, and he was the last man beheaded on Tower Hill. However, over the next 50 years or so, four further executions were carried out, all under the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering, although by this time, some aspects of this punishment were metaphorical. At least two of the four sentenced, were killed by the beheading aspect of the punishment, after being hung for some minutes but taken down alive, with the disembowelment and quartering aspects passed over with nothing more than symbolic gesture. Both sentences were carried out at Tyburn, one in 1753 on a Dr Archibald Cameron, another Jacobite rebel from the 1745 uprising.\nCredit to Baronage.co.uk for providing the line of succession, and also to Encyclopaedia Britannica (online) for background information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 8595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 172.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holmescountychamber.com/business/310/4/hampton-inn-newcomerstown", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:24Z", "digest": "sha1:AWS4E7XLNSAWA3F6GVUMOJ4ZG3YAICIN", "length": 426, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.holmescountychamber.com", "title": "Hampton Inn Newcomerstown", "raw_content": "Enjoy Award-Winning accommodations and service at an affordable rate. The beautiful Hampton Inn Newcomerstown is a short drive from some of the best Wineries, Amish Farms, Stores, and Restaurants that Ohio has to offer. Free On the House Hot Breakfast, indoor pool, hot tub, Wi-Fi and the Hampton's 100% Satisfaction Guarantee.\nLinda Riffle\n200 Morris Crossing, Newcomerstown, OH, 43832\nhttp://www.newcomerstown.hamptoninn.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 1921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.holtrop-blz.nl/willow-tree/1/willow-tree/details/6/father-en-daughter.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:47Z", "digest": "sha1:V4PQKF3EY4V5HXZXKZMECQCN4VO2DDRH", "length": 58, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.holtrop-blz.nl", "title": "HOLTROP-Blz Joure, Friesland - Boek- en Kantoorboekhandel", "raw_content": "Celebrating the band of love between fathers and daughters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.homefacts.com/earthquakes/California/San-Diego-County/Rancho-San-Diego/ci38159376.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WXA5H747IMBQQBX7GAQZ4FCHE37JUMAT", "length": 399, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.homefacts.com", "title": "Magnitude 1.0 Earthquake Near Rancho San Diego, CA on 04-27-2018 | Homefacts", "raw_content": "Information For a 1.0 Earthquake on 04/27/2018 near Rancho San Diego, CA\nAn earthquake of magnitude 1.0 and depth of 6.10 kilometers occurred 1.74 miles from Rancho San Diego, CA in San Diego County at 01:20 PM.\nLocation: 1.74 miles from Rancho San Diego, CA in San Diego County, CA\n1.1 mag at 09:50 PM in Alpine, CA\n1.1 mag at 08:13 PM in Borrego Springs, CA\nSchools School Rating is Not Determined", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 1854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 183.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hope365.co.uk/where-we-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:52Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7RQDB6CSWOJLCPMGH7OMYUF6M5QVE3X", "length": 1499, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hope365.co.uk", "title": "Where We Work \u2014 Hope365", "raw_content": "Shashemene is a large sprawling town of around 250,000 situated approximately 4 hours by road south west of Addis Ababa on the main route to Kenya. While there are cobbled streets and a few cars in the somewhat developed town centre, for the most part the town is made up of intersecting dirt roads where horses and donkeys abound and the vast majority of people travel on foot, or in little three wheeled taxis called Bajajs.\nStatistically it has the third highest number of HIV sufferers in Ethiopia, but in practice many are completely unaware of their HIV status. A large proportion of the town live in poverty with the worst regions a squalid mess of narrow, muddy heavily populated alleys.\nThere is little employment in the region, with most people trying to sell whatever they can grow or make from roadside stalls.\nWhile there are many needs in the region, for us the people with the greatest needs are the street children who quite literally have no homes and no one to care for them.\nThere are between one and two thousand of them sleeping on the streets every night. Our goal is to rescue as many of these street kids as possible and give them hope for a better future.\nThe video below which accompanies Wes Grierson's original song shows the struggles facing many in Shashemene.\nTypical mud street in Shashemene, - just imagine what it's like when when the rain comes!\nRoadside market stalls where most of the \"shopping\" is done\nKadir 13 & Dita 14 - two Street Kids with addiction issues", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart_vascular_institute/research/by_laboratory/?pagesize=50&page=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:19Z", "digest": "sha1:FD6FQTSLJOVCMQ2TSMHHYEAT7D7YKI7B", "length": 26922, "nlines": 149, "source_domain": "www.hopkinsmedicine.org", "title": "Research Areas By Laboratory | Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute", "raw_content": "Home > Heart & Vascular Institute > Research > By Laboratory\nResearch Areas By Laboratory\nAdult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory\nOur group is interested in the evaluation of basic pathophysiology in patients undergoing cardiac procedures, development and evaluation of new therapeutic strategies, and improving patient selection and outcomes following interventional procedures.\nJon Resar, M.D.\nResearch in the Anderson laboratory focuses on cellular signaling and ionic mechanisms that cause heart failure, arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death, major public health problems worldwide. Primary focus is on the multifunctional Ca2+ and calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII). The laborat...ory identified CaMKII as an important pro-arrhythmic and pro-cardiomyopathic signal, and its studies have provided proof of concept evidence motivating active efforts in biotech and the pharmaceutical industry to develop therapeutic CaMKII inhibitory drugs to treat heart failure and arrhythmias.\nUnder physiological conditions, CaMKII is important for excitation-contraction coupling and fight or flight increases in heart rate. However, myocardial CaMKII is excessively activated during disease conditions where it contributes to loss of intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis, membrane hyperexcitability, premature cell death, and hypertrophic and inflammatory transcription. These downstream targets appear to contribute coordinately and decisively to heart failure and arrhythmias. Recently, researchers developed evidence that CaMKII also participates in asthma.\nEfforts at the laboratory, funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, are highly collaborative and involve undergraduate assistants, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty. Key areas of focus are:\n\u2022\tIon channel biology and arrhythmias\n\u2022\tCardiac pacemaker physiology and disease\n\u2022\tMolecular physiology of CaMKII\n\u2022\tMyocardial and mitochondrial metabolism\n\u2022\tCaMKII and reactive oxygen species in asthma\nMark Anderson, MD, is the William Osler Professor of Medicine, the director of the Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and physician-in-chief of The Johns Hopkins Hospital. view more\nMark Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.\nAshikaga Lab\nWe specialize in unconventional, multi-disciplinary approaches to studying the heart at the intersection of applied mathematics, physics and computer science. We focus on theory development that leads to new technology and value delivery to the society. Currently we have three research programs:\n...1.\tPrecision Medicine\nTo develop a quantitative approach to personalized risk assessment for stroke and dementia based on patent-specific heart anatomy, function and blood flow.\nDisciplines: Cardiac Hemodynamics; Medical Imaging Physics; Continuum Mechanics; Computational Fluid Dynamics\n2.\tInformation Theory\nTo quantify and perturb cardiac fibrillation that emerges as a macro-scale behavior of the heart from micro-scale behaviors of inter-dependent components.\nDisciplines: Cardiac Electrophysiology; Spiral Wave; Information Theory; Complex Networks\nTo develop artificial intelligence algorithms to predict the future risk of heart attack, stroke and sudden death, and to assist surgical interventions to prevent these outcomes.\nDisciplines: Medical Imaging Physics; Artificial Intelligence; Robotically Assisted Interventions\nHiroshi Ashikaga, M.D., Ph.D.\nBecker Lab\nThe main focus of the Becker lab has been on the mechanisms and consequences of post-ischemic myocardial inflammation.\nGenomic control of platelet function:\nAggregation of blood platelets initiates clotting in coronary arteries, the main cause of heart attacks. Our laboratory conducts experime...nts to understand how genes control platelet function. Through funding by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, we have performed candidate gene analysis, linkage studies, whole genome association studies, and now whole genome sequencing in about 2000 healthy subjects from families with early onset coronary artery disease. The subjects are siblings or offspring of an individual identified with coronary artery disease before age 60 in the GeneSTAR Research Program (Genetic Studies of Atherosclerosis Risk). We have identified a large number of common and rare genetic variants associated with platelet aggregation, and although some variants are located in genes known to be important in the biology of platelet function, most are in non-protein coding regions of genes (introns) or in intergenic regions of the genome. To understand better how these variants influence platelet function, we created pluripotent stem cells from blood mononuclear cells in 257 genotyped GeneSTAR subjects and then transformed the stem cells to megakaryocytes, the source of platelets in the bone marrow. We have determined the entire transcriptome of these megakaryocytes to measure gene expression levels in an effort to functionally link genetic variation with platelet function. We are also interested in epigenetic effects which regulate the amount of gene transcription and resulting protein formation. We have done similar transcriptomic and proteomic studies in blood platelets as we have in stem cell-derived megakaryocytes.\nOur goal is to identify new therapeutic targets for drug development to control excessive platelet aggregation and reduce the risk of heart attack in susceptible individuals. We also hope to use the genetic information to predict who is at greatest risk for platelet aggregation or bleeding, and tailor treatment to effectively apply individualized precision medicine.\nThe Becker laboratory also extends its cardiovascular work well beyond platelet function, as noted on the GeneSTAR Research Program website. view more\nLewis Becker, M.D.\nCammarato Lab\nThe Cammarato Lab is located in the Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. We are interested in basic mechanisms of striated muscle biology.\nWe employ an array of imaging techniques to study \u201cstructural physiology\u201d of cardiac and ...skeletal muscle. Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly, expresses both forms of striated muscle and benefits greatly from powerful genetic tools. We investigate conserved myopathic (muscle disease) processes and perform hierarchical and integrative analysis of muscle function from the level of single molecules and macromolecular complexes through the level of the tissue itself.\nAnthony Ross Cammarato, MD, is an assistant professor of medicine in the Cardiology Department. He studies the identification and manipulation of age- and mutation-dependent modifiers of cardiac function, hierarchical modeling and imaging of contractile machinery, integrative analysis of striated muscle performance and myopathic processes. view more\nAnthony Cammarato, Ph.D.\nCardiac Surgery Research Lab\nFounded in 1942 by surgeon Alfred Blalock and surgical technician Vivien Thomas, the Cardiac Surgery Research Lab at The Johns Hopkins Hospital serves not only to spearhead discovery and innovation in cardiothoracic surgery, but also to train future leaders in the field. Active areas of investigatio...n include the development of novel, nanoparticle-based therapeutics to mitigate acute lung injury, avoid neurological injury during cardiac surgery, and improve organ preservation during heart and lung transplantation. The lab is also active in a variety of clinical research projects aimed at improving outcomes for our patients.\nEqually important, the lab plays a critical role in training residents for impactful careers in academic cardiothoracic surgery. Medical students, residents, and fellows receive hands-on simulation experiences to hone surgical skills outside of the operating room. The lab also serves as a training ground to develop research and investigation skills as trainees learn methods of advanced statistical analysis and academic writing. Special programs for undergraduates and medical students help develop their passion for cardiac surgery and surgical research, giving unique opportunities to young talent.\nWilliam A. Baumgartner, MD, serves on the cardiac surgery faculty as the Vincent L. Gott Professor and Director of the Cardiac Surgical Research Laboratory. view more\nCardiology Bioengineering Laboratory\nThe Cardiology Bioengineering Laboratory, located in the Johns Hopkins Hospital, focuses on the applications of advanced imaging techniques for arrhythmia management. The primary limitation of current fluoroscopy-guided techniques for ablation of cardiac arrhythmia is the inability to visualize soft... tissues and 3-dimensional anatomic relationships.\nImplementation of alternative advanced modalities has the potential to improve complex ablation procedures by guiding catheter placement, visualizing abnormal scar tissue, reducing procedural time devoted to mapping, and eliminating patient and operator exposure to radiation.\nActive projects include\n\u2022\tPhysiological differences between isolated hearts in ventricular fibrillation and pulseless electrical activity\n\u2022\tSuccessful ablation sites in ischemic ventricular tachycardia in a porcine model and the correlation to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)\n\u2022\tMRI-guided radiofrequency ablation of canine atrial fibrillation, and diagnosis and intervention for arrhythmias\n\u2022\tPhysiological and metabolic effects of interruptions in chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation\nHenry Halperin, MD, is co-director of the Johns Hopkins Imaging Institute of Excellence and a\nprofessor of medicine, radiology and biomedical engineering. Menekhem M. Zviman, PhD is the laboratory manager.\nHenry Halperin, M.D.\nCenter for Research on Cardiac Intermediate Filaments\nThe CRCIF was established to foster collaborative efforts aimed at elucidating the role of intermediate filaments (IFs) in the heart. Intermediate filaments constitute a class of cytoskeletal proteins in metazoan cells, however, different from actin microfilaments and tubulin microtubules, their fun...ction in cardiac cells is poorly understood. Unique from the other two components of the cytoskeleton, IFs are formed by cell type-specific proteins. Desmin is the main component of the IFs in the cardiac myocytes. We measured the consistent induction of desmin post-translational modifications (PTMs, such as phosphorylation, etc.) in various clinical and experimental models of heart failure. Therefore, one of our main focuses is to determine the contribution of desmin PTMs to the development of heart failure in different animal and clinical models.\n\u2022 Quantification of desmin PTM-forms in different forms of heart failure at the peptide level using mass spectrometry\n\u2022 Functional assessment of the role of desmin PTMs in heart failure development using single site mutagenesis and biophysical methods\n\u2022 Molecular characterization of desmin preamyloid oligomers using mass spectrometry, in vitro and in vivo imaging\n\u2022 Assessment of the diagnostic and pharmacological value of desmin PTMs in heart failure development view more\nGiulio Agnetti, Ph.D.\nChulan Kwon Laboratory\nThe C. Kwon Lab studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms governing heart generation and regeneration.\nThe limited regenerative capacity of the heart is a major factor in morbidity and mortality rates: Heart malformation is the most frequent form of human birth defects, and cardiovascular di...sease is the leading cause of death worldwide. Cardiovascular progenitor cells hold tremendous therapeutic potential due to their unique ability to expand and differentiate into various heart cell types.\nOur laboratory seeks to understand the fundamental biology and regenerative potential of multi-potent cardiac progenitor cells \u2013 building blocks used to form the heart during fetal development \u2014 by deciphering the molecular and cellular mechanisms that control their induction, maintenance, and differentiation. We are also interested in elucidating the maturation event of heart muscle cells, an essential process to generate adult cardiomyocytes, which occurs after terminal differentiation of the progenitor cells. We believe this knowledge will contribute to our understanding of congenital and adult heart disease and be instrumental for stem cell-based heart regeneration.\nWe have developed several novel approaches to deconstruct the mechanisms, including the use of animal models and pluripotent stem cell systems. We expect this knowledge will help us better understand heart disease and will be instrumental for stem-cell-based disease modeling and interventions for of heart repair.\nDr. Chulan Kwon is an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University Heart and Vascular Institute. view more\nChulan Kwon, M.S., Ph.D.\nFoster Lab\nThe Foster Lab uses the tools of protein biochemistry and proteomics to tackle fundamental problems in the fields of cardiac preconditioning and heart failure. Protein networks are perturbed in heart disease in a manner that correlates only weakly with changes in mRNA transcripts. Moreover, proteomi...c techniques afford the systematic assessment of post-translational modifications that regulate the activity of proteins responsible for every aspect of heart function from electrical excitation to contraction and metabolism. Understanding the status of protein networks in the diseased state is, therefore, key to discovering new therapies.\nD. Brian Foster, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of medicine in the division of cardiology, and serves as Director of the Laboratory of Cardiovascular Biochemistry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.\nD. Brian Foster, M.Sc., Ph.D.\nGilotra Lab\nThe main focus of Dr. Gilotra's research is understanding the pathophysiology and outcomes in inflammatory cardiomyopathies including myocarditis and sarcoidosis, as well as improvement of heart failure patient care through noninvasive hemodynamic monitoring and studying novel strategies to reduce h...eart failure hospitalizations. Additional investigations involve clinical research in advanced heart failure therapies including heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support. Dr. Gilotra is the site Principal Investigator for the NIH/NHLBI funded Heart Failure Network trials. view more\nNisha Gilotra, M.D.\nHsu Lab\nOur work is focused on the translational human in vivo and ex vivo assessments of right ventricular (RV) function in the setting of pulmonary hypertension.\nAmong patients with group I pulmonary arterial hypertension PAH, those with systemic-sclerosis-associated PAH (SSc-PAH) have a particularly p...oor prognosis and less optimal response to PAH-guided therapy. Using in vivo pressure-volume catheterization of the right ventricle, we have uncovered key deficiencies in resting and reserve RV function in the SSc-PAH group when compared to idiopathic PAH (IPAH) patients. These studies have uncovered key discoveries with regards to right ventricular-pulmonary arterial (RV-PA) coupling in PAH. In the lab, by studying myofilament function from RV endomyocardial biopsies from these same patients, we have uncovered corresponding deficiencies in myofilament contractility and calcium sensitivity as well. Ongoing work is directed towards determining the underlying mechanism of these findings, which will hopefully lead to therapeutic applications for RV failure in SSc-PAH.\nFurther endeavors are directed towards studying RV failure in other populations, including exercise-induced PH, PH secondary to left-heart disease, and the left ventricular assist device population. view more\nSteven Hsu, M.D.\nInterventional Cardiology Research Group\nOur group is interested in a broad array of clinical and translational investigations spanning the evaluation of basic pathophysiology in patients undergoing cardiac procedures, development and evaluation of new therapeutic strategies, and improving patient selection and outcomes following intervent...ional procedures. We are comprised of a core group of faculty and dedicated research nurses as well as fellows, residents, and students. Projects range from investigator-initiated single-center observational studies to industry-sponsored multicenter phase 3 randomized controlled trials. We have established a database of all patients who have undergone TAVR at Johns Hopkins, which is providing the basis for several retrospective analyses and will serve as the foundation for future studies of TAVR. We are also engaged in collaborative projects with other groups from the Department of Medicine and other Departments including Cardiac Surgery, Anesthesiology, Radiology, Psychiatry, and Biomedical Engineering. Members of our group are actively involved with the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design (CBID) in the development of novel minimally-invasive cardiovascular devices. view more\nJohnston-Hwang Lab\nDevelopment and optimization of stem cell and regenerative therapies for heart failure and myocardial infarction.\nCardiAMP Heart Failure Trial, Implantable Bioreactor for Prevention of Adverse Remodeling after Myocardial Infarction\nPeter Johnston, M.D.\nKass Lab\nBasic science investigations span an array of inquiries, such as understanding the basic mechanisms underlying cardiac dyssynchrony and resynchronization in the failing heart, and beneficial influences of nitric oxide/cGMP/protein kinase G and cGMP-targeted phosphdiesterase signaling cascades on car...diac maladaptive stress remodeling. Recently, the latter has particularly focused on the role of phosphodiesterase type 5 and its pharmacologic inhibitors (e.g. sildenafi, Viagra\u00ae), on myocyte signaling cascades modulated by protein kinase G, and on the nitric oxide synthase dysregulation coupled with oxidant stress.\nThe lab also conducts clinical research and is presently exploring new treatments for heart failure with a preserved ejection fraction, studying ventricular-arterial interaction and its role in adverse heart-vessel coupling in left heart failure and pulmonary hypertension, and testing new drug, device, and cell therapies for heart disease. A major theme has been with the use of advanced non-invasive and invasive catheterization-based methods to assess cardiac mechanics in patients.asive and invasive catheterization-based methods to assess cardiac mechanics in patients.\nDavid Kass, MD, is currently the Director at the Johns Hopkins Center for Molecular Cardiobiology and a professor in cellular and molecular medicine. view more\nDavid Kass, M.D.\nLima Lab\nThe Lima Lab\u2019s research is concentrated on the development and application of imaging and technology to address scientific and clinical problems involving the heart and vascular system.\nSpecifically, our research is focused on developing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast techniques to inv...estigate microvascular function in patients and experimental animals with myocardial infarction; functional reserve secondary to dobutamine stimulation and myocardial viability assessed by sodium imaging; and cardiac MRI and computed tomography (CT) program development of techniques to characterize atherosclerosis in humans with cardiovascular or cerebrovascular disease.\n\u2022\tThe Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study\n\u2022\tThe MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) Study\n\u2022\tThe Coronary Artery Evaluation using 64-row Multidetector Computed Tomography Angiography (CORE64) Study\nJoao Lima, MD, is a professor of medicine, radiology and epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. view more\nJoao Lima, M.B.A., M.D.\nMukherjee Lab\nThe Mukjerjee lab focuses on Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis Utilizing Speckle-Based Strain and Early Detection of Occult Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Systemic Sclerosis.\n-Speckle Tracking Echocardiography\nMonica Mukherjee, M.D., M.P.H.\nO'Rourke Lab\nThe O\u2019Rourke Lab uses an integrated approach to study the biophysics and physiology of cardiac cells in normal and diseased states.\nResearch in our lab has incorporated mitochondrial energetics, Ca2+ dynamics, and electrophysiology to provide tools for studying how defective function of one compo...nent of the cell can lead to catastrophic effects on whole cell and whole organ function. By understanding the links between Ca2+, electrical excitability and energy production, we hope to understand the cellular basis of cardiac arrhythmias, ischemia-reperfusion injury, and sudden death.\nWe use state-of-the-art techniques, including single-channel and whole-cell patch clamp, microfluorimetry, conventional and two-photon fluorescence imaging, and molecular biology to study the structure and function of single proteins to the intact muscle. Experimental results are compared with simulations of computational models in order to understand the findings in the context of the system as a whole.\nOngoing studies in our lab are focused on identifying the specific molecular targets modified by oxidative or ischemic stress and how they affect mitochondrial and whole heart function.\nThe motivation for all of the work is to understand\n\u2022\thow the molecular details of the heart cell work together to maintain function and\n\u2022\thow the synchronization of the parts can go wrong\nRational strategies can then be devised to correct dysfunction during the progression of disease through a comprehensive understanding of basic mechanisms.\nBrian O\u2019Rourke, PhD, is a professor in the Division of Cardiology and Vice Chair of Basic and Translational Research, Department of Medicine, at the Johns Hopkins University. view more\nPost Lab\nThe Post Lab is involved in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a collaborative study of the characteristics of subclinical cardiovascular disease (that is, disease detected non-invasively before it has produced clinical signs and symptoms) and the risk factors that predict progression... to clinically overt cardiovascular disease or progression of the subclinical disease.\nAs MESA researchers, we study a diverse, population-based sample of 6,814 asymptomatic men and women aged 45-84. Approximately 38 percent of the recruited participants are white, 28 percent African-American, 22 percent Hispanic, and 12 percent Asian, predominantly of Chinese descent.\nParticipants were recruited from six field centers across the United States, including Johns Hopkins University. Each participant received an extensive physical exam to determine a number of conditions, including coronary calcification, ventricular mass and function, flow-mediated endothelial vasodilation, standard coronary risk factors, sociodemographic factors, lifestyle factors, and psychosocial factors.\nSelected repetition of subclinical disease measures and risk factors at follow-up visits have allowed study of the progression of disease. Participants are being followed for identification and characterization of cardiovascular disease events, including acute myocardial infarction and other forms of coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, and congestive heart failure; for cardiovascular disease interventions; and for mortality.\nWendy S. Post, MD, MS, is an associate faculty, Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins University, and a professor of medicine. view more\nWendy Post, M.D., M.S.\nRatchford Lab\nProspective registry looking at cardiovascular risk assessment and risk reduction among firefighters.\nElizabeth Ratchford, M.D.\nSandra Gabelli Lab\nThe Gabelli lab research is focused on structural, mechanistic and functional aspects of enzyme activation that play a role in the biology of human diseases such as cancer, parasitic infection and cardiovascular disease. Their work seeks to:\n1. Understand how molecular events at the recognition ...level coordinate and trigger events in the cells\n2. Translate structural and mechanistic information on protein:protein interactions at the cytoplasmic level into preventive and therapeutic treatment for human disease.\nTo achieve a comprehensive understanding, they are studying cytoplasmic protein-protein interactions involved in regulation of pathways such as PI3K and Sodium Voltage gated channels. Their research integrates structural biology and chemical biology and it is focused on drug discovery for targeted therapies. view more\nSandra Gabelli, Ph.D.\nSeth Martin Lab\nDr. Martin's research is focused on rapid generation of new knowledge through clinical studies that can be brought back to the bedside to directly inform the care of patients with advanced lipid disorders and those in need of state-of-the-art comprehensive CV prevention. Members of his lab commit to... complete ownership of their project, unwavering pursuit of excellence, and thrive on multidisciplinary teamwork. Active projects include the Very Large Database of Lipids, CASCADE FH Registry, MiCORE (Myocardial infarction, COmbined device, Recovery Enhancement), Google Health Search Trial, and mActive-Smoke.\nFor more information, please visit the Ciccarone Center. view more\nSeth Martin, M.D., M.H.S.\nThe Atlantic Cardiovascular Patient Outcomes Research Team - Atlantic C-PORT\nOur research is centered on the safety, efficacy and outcomes of PCI performed at hospitals without on-site cardiac surgery.\nC-PORT Randomized Studies and Registries; New Jersey Angioplasty Demonstration Project; InCar-decision support tools for performance of PCI at hospitals... without on-site cardiac surgery.\nFor more information please visit Cport.org. view more\nThomas Aversano, M.D.\nWeiss Lab\nThe Weiss Lab, which features a multi-disciplinary team at Johns Hopkins as well as at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, is dedicated to identifying the most important clinical, genetic, structural, contractile and metabolic causes of sudden cardiac death as well as the means to reverse th...e underlying pathology and lower risk.\nCurrent projects include research into energy metabolism in human heart failure and creatine kinase metabolism in animal models of heart failure.\nRobert G. Weiss, MD, is professor of medicine, Radiology and Radiological Science, at the Johns Hopkins University. view more\nRobert Weiss, M.D.\nDr. Wu leads a multi-disciplinary team with collaborators from the Bloomberg School of Public Health, JHU Whiting School of Engineering, and JHU Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She conducts ongoing investigations with the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women\u2019s Inter-agency Health Study. Her... lab\u2019s goals are to develop, implement, and validate novel imaging-based metrics of cardiac structure and function to improve risk prediction and stratification at the individual patient-level.\nResearch Focuses:\nPredictors of Sudden Cardiac Death by Magnetic Resonance Imaging\nSubclinical myocardial disease in people living with HIV\nIndividualized risk prediction\nCardiac structural and mechanical modeling view more\nKatherine Wu, M.D.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 429, "original_length": 32690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 318.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hostelbay.com/blog/the-best-archaeological-sites-in-athens", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:04Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZ3LPEJMCC2VA2XOIRO3W62VTAPN6XVL", "length": 3113, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.hostelbay.com", "title": "The best archaeological sites in Athens|Hostelbay.com", "raw_content": "The best archaeological sites in Athens\nAthens, thanks to its long and rich history since the antiquity, is full of archaeological sites and monuments all around Athens Center but also in the wider area of Attica. Together with the significant museums of Athens, these ancient sites can travel you back in time, inform you about the cradle of western civilisation and democracy, which is born in Athens and impress you with their magnificence and importance.\nAcropolis is the trademark of Athens and maybe the most important archaeological site in the world. Acropolis is the symbol of democracy and the Golden Age of Pericles, and it is something more than just a temple. Standing imposing on the top of a cliff, Acropolis can be seen from everywhere in Athens Center, reminding of the ancient times that were the beginning of the philosophy, the science and the theatre. Acropolis consists of three ancient temples, but the most impressive is Parthenon. In the archaeological site of Acropolis, you can also admire the Ancient Theatre of Dionysus, where the performances of drama in ancient Athens took place.\n2. Ancient Agora\nAncient Agora (Athens) was the market place of ancient Athens. There, you can explore the ruins of ancient buildings, the museum with many sculptures as well as the best-preserved Temple of Hephaestus, which will impress you with the fact that it is better-preserved even than Acropolis.\n3. Roman Agora\nRoman Agora was the market place during the Roman times in Athens (3rd century B.C.-3rd century A.D.). In Roman Agora is located the world's first weather station, the Tower of the Winds. Other important monuments of the site are the Gate of Athena, East Propylon, the public latrines, agoranomion and a Turkish mosque, which was built in 1456 A.D.\n4. Keramikos\nKeramikos Archealogical site is the ancient cemetery of Athens since 3.000 B.C. Numerous cist graves and burial offerings have been discovered by the archaeologists. These findings, together with sculptures and burial monuments, you can admire in Keramikos Archealogical site and in the museum there.\n5. Ancient temple of Poseidon\nIn Sounio, the cape of Athens at the southernmost part of Attica with an amazing view of the Aegean Sea, was built the Temple of Poseidon, an impressive temple, whose location makes it even more beautiful. The site can be combined with the top excursion you can make during your vacations in Athens, enjoying the visit of the temple and afterwards, swimming and sunbathing in the clear waters of the Aegean Sea.\n6. Ancient temple of Artemis\nThe ancient Temple of Artemis is located in Vravrona, on the eastern side of Attica, in a close distance to the Airport of Athens (Greece). In the archaeological site of the temple, you can explore in addition to the temple, the sanctuary of Ifigeneia, the gymnasium and other ancient buildings, and there is also an Archaeological Museum with many findings of the area. The landscape is astonishing, full of trees and a small river crossing the site. 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He drops the first single off it today as well, \"Love It.\"\nStream Love It, the newest drop from J-Doe. The cut was released on Monday, July 29th, 2013. J-Doe continues to impress with each new leak, and Love It is no exception. It's strengthens J-Doe's already impressive body of work, which has seen positive change over the years. We're most definitely anticipating J-Doe's next offering.\nHave you heard J-Doe's 1.Intro (LA LEAKERS) Getting To the Money Prod. By? If you're down, make sure to visit J-Doe's profile page for the newest info, news, songs, and mixtapes. 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Inspired by the story of iconic Hessle boxer and wrestler Barbara Buttrick, she\u2019s got a voice on the male-dominated world of sports, and she wants you to hear it.\nThis mesmerizing one-woman play tells the story of a world champion whose tenacity and skill took her to the top of her profession, and one who\u2019s aiming to get there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 193.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hrk.de/hrk-at-a-glance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZPLWXRZF5HHWJE6TJN6XXLHAWQUYODV", "length": 3570, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.hrk.de", "title": "The HRK - German Rectors' Conference", "raw_content": "About the HRK\nThe German Rectors' Conference (HRK) is the association of public and government-recognised universities in Germany. The member institutions are represented in the HRK by their executive boards and rectorates. The HRK currently has 268 member institutions, in which around 94 per cent of all students in Germany are enrolled.\nDue to this large membership, representing all types of higher education institution, the HRK functions as the voice of the universities in dialogue with politicians and the public and as the central forum for opinion-forming in the higher education sector.\nThe HRK deals with all issues relating to the role and tasks of higher education institutions in academia and society, especially teaching and studying, research, innovation and transfer, scientific further training, internationalisation, and university self-administration and governance.\nThe HRK has three main tasks:\n1. Opinion-shaping and political representation. Through the HRK, the individuals responsible for university management can stay abreast of new developments in the higher education system, discuss issues in research and higher education policy and develop joint positions. On this basis, the President and Executive Board of the HRK represent the interests of the member institutions in dialogue with politics and administration at Federal and State Government level and in the public sphere. As well as responding to issues and positions that are already the subject of political and public debate, the HRK actively sets the agenda for discussion.\n2. Development of principles and standards in the higher education system. In central areas of the German research and education system, the HRK engages in intensive dialogue with partners in academia, the federal and state governments, employers\u2019 associations, trade unions and many others to formulate jointly accepted and long-term norms and standards.\n3. Services to higher education institutions and the public. The HRK assists its member institutions and the public with a range of services. For example, it provides support to member institutions in relation to internationalisation (Audit \"Internationalisation\"), the digitalisation of teaching (Higher Education Forum on Digitalisation) and the development of study programmes (the nexus project), provides politicians, the media and industry with in-depth and up-to-date information on the higher education system, especially the courses on offer (Higher Education Compass), and helps students to find the right course (clearing system for study places).\nThe work of the HRK is based on decisions made by its bodies (the General Assembly, the Senate and the Executive Board). Decisions are developed in the Standing Committees, working groups and project groups and prepared and implemented by the offices in Berlin, Bonn and Brussels. The HRK represents the higher education sector in the Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany, and is a member of the European University Association (EUA). The financial and legal body of the HRK is the Stiftung zur F\u00f6rderung der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (Foundation for the Promotion of the HRK).\nThe HRK was established in 1949 as the West German Rectors\u2019 Conference (WRK). Following the unification of the two German states, the first higher education institutions from the new federal states joined on 5 November 1990 and the WRK was renamed the German Rectors' Conference (HRK) (read more about our History).\nHRK brochure \"German Rectors' Conference: The Voice of the Universities\"PDF [2.17 MB]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 5952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 140.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hubbslawfirm.com/criminal-defense/warrants/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:24Z", "digest": "sha1:DQYMUTN5OX4SAWVYESQCPPTXG7A7JNGG", "length": 8830, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.hubbslawfirm.com", "title": "Attorney for Warrants in Miami and Miami-Dade County, FL", "raw_content": "In a legal context, a Warrant is a writ, or a document, issued by a court that authorizes law enforcement to make an arrest, conduct a search or seizure, or otherwise act to do justice.\nAccording to the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, persons are protected against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government and \"no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.\" Suspicion alone is not enough to justify a warrant.\nWarrants most often are either an Arrest Warrant (known as a Bench Warrant, or a Capias, in cases such as Failure to Appear in Court) or a Search Warrant. This article discusses Arrest Warrants issued in the greater Miami area in South Florida.\nAn Arrest Warrant is issued by a court, allowing the police to make an arrest and return you to court. A Bench Warrant is usually issued after a failure to appear in court for a scheduled court appearance or after a violation of probation or community control.\nClick here to see if you have an outstanding warrant entered into the FCIC system maintained by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) - http://pas.fdle.state.fl.us/pas/restricted/PAS/person/WantedPersons.jsf\nAttorney for a Warrant in Miami, FL\nDon't wait for the police to come and knock on your door. Be pro-active.\nIf you are in the Miami area and you face an outstanding arrest warrant, if you are concerned that an arrest warrant has been issued or will be issued soon for you, or if you are facing extradition due to an arrest warrant from another state, then contact an experienced criminal defense lawyer today.\nHubbs Law assists clients with arrest warrants and clients who face extradition throughout the Miami area, including cities such as Hialeah, Miami Gardens, Miami Beach, North Miami, Tamiami, North Miami, South Miami, Pinecrest, Kendall and Homestead, as well as all other communities in Miami-Dade County. We can also help our clients avoid an arrest entirely by filing a motion to withdraw or set aside the arrest warrant when appropriate.\nOur attorney, E.J. Hubbs, is a \"Board Certified\" attorney in the practice of criminal trial law, as designated by the Florida Bar. Board certification assures competency and experience within an area of law and professionalism and ethics in practice.\nCall Hubbs Law now to schedule a meeting with our experienced and knowledgeable attorney. He may be able to intervene with legal authorities or the court to avoid an arrest at your home or workplace.\nCall us today at (305) 665-9040 to address your warrant in a pro-active way.\nWarrants in Miami, Florida\nA warrant may have one of many origins, including:\nAn Arrest Warrant obtained by a law enforcement officer or agency upon alleging probable cause after an investigation\nA Warrant filed directly by the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's Office alleging probable cause\nA Bench Warrant for Failure to Appear (FTA) in Court or Failure to Pay a Fine after a court date had been previously scheduled\nA Warrant for Violation of Probation (VOP)\nAn \"Out of County Warrant\" (when a detainee is to be transported to another Florida county to face an outstanding charge in that county)\nAn \"Out of State Warrant\" (also known as a \"Fugitive from Justice Warrant\")\nArrest warrants are issued in many types of cases when the suspect is not immediately available for arrest, including:\nDUI (Drunk Driving\nRegardless of the type of warrant, an arrest warrant with your name on it is a major cause for concern. Taking a pro-active approach is often the best way to resolve a warrant issue in the most favorable way.\nNotice of the warrant might arrive in the mail from a bond company and allow for \"self-arrest,\" in which case you can turn yourself in on the warrant. In other cases, hiring of an attorney as soon as you are aware of a potential arrest warrant issue may allow your attorney to negotiate your surrender instead of having the police search for you and arrest you wherever they find you.\nFor a warrant that results from a FTA or VOP situation in which a \"Notice to Appear\" was issued, you must appear before a judge in court before a bond amount will be set, so an attorney can provide important assistance in effecting your release as quickly as possible. If a bench warrant was issued, an attorney may be able to file a \"Motion to Withdraw\" the FTA or VOP capias, allowing you to reappear in court without arrest.\nA qualified attorney may also be able to assist with an arrest warrant in other ways, such as:\nDetermining if you actually have an outstanding warrant\nDetermining the amount of the bond required for release or if the warrant is a \"no-bond\" warrant\nDetermining whether to file a \"Motion to Surrender\" and the terms and method of surrender\nDetermining whether to file other motions on your behalf\nProtecting your right against self-incrimination and representing you under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution\nFighting for your release from custody by scheduling an emergency bond reduction hearing to petition the court for a reasonable bond amount or a release on recognizance (ROR, also known as a \"signature bond\")\nExamine your entire case, including the original charges that led to initial arrest\nFlorida Statutes, Title XLVII, Chapter 901 \u2014 Arrests \u2014 Read the Florida laws related to arrests in Florida, including the following sections pertaining to warrants: \u00a7\u00a7 901.02, Issuance of Arrest Warrants; 901.04, Direction and Execution of Warrants; 901.08, Issue of Warrant when Arrest Occurs in Another County; 901.15, When Arrest by Officer without Warrant is Lawful; 901.1503, When Notice to Appear by Officer without Warrant is Lawful; 901.16, Method of Arrest by Officer by a Warrant; and 901.17, Method of Arrest by Officer without Warrant.\nFlorida Crime Information Center (FCIC) Public Access System (PAS) \u2014 Online users can search the PAS site, provided by the FCIC, a division of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), to find basic information about wanted persons for whom warrants have been issued, as well as information about missing persons and stolen property. Most active warrants are listed, with the exception of the newest warrants and warrants not made available for public viewing.\nFlorida Department of Corrections \u2014 Visit the Florida Department of Corrections website for a list of most wanted \"absconders\" (fugitives from justice) with outstanding arrest warrants. The site contains a list of Florida cold case violent felons who are wanted for escape from a Florida prison or work release center over the past three decades.\nFlorida Department of Law Enforcement \u2014 FDLE and DOC Launch \u201c12 Days of Fugitives\u201d Reward Offered for Information Leading to Capture of 12 Cold Case Violent Prison Escapees. The campaign also encourages the public to notify law enforcement about any person in Florida wanted on a felony or misdemeanor warrant for their arrest.\nMiami-Dade Police Department \u2014 Crime Information Center \u2014 Search the Warrants section of the MDPD Crime Information Center for information about warrants issued for specific individuals. Read more about the warrant unit of the Miami-Dade Police Department.\nFind an Attorney for Warrants in Miami, Florida\nIf you are in the Miami area and are facing an outstanding arrest warrant or are concerned that a warrant has been or may soon be issued for you, or if you are facing extradition due to an arrest warrant from another state, then contact an experienced criminal defense lawyer today.\nPursuant to \u00a7 901.02, \u00a7 901.16 and Rules of Criminal Procedure: Rule 3.121, there are two categories of arrest warrants in Florida - the Criminal Warrant and the Warrant issued for a failure to appear in court. A criminal warrant for arrest is issued pursuant to a sworn affidavit and signed by a judge. The Warrant for failure to appear in court is issued by a judge for failure to appear in court. These warrants are called bench warrants in misdemeanor cases, alias capias warrants in felony cases, and pick-up orders in juvenile cases.\nNo matter what kind of warrant was issued in your case, Hubbs Law is dedicated to defending clients charged with criminal offenses or with outstanding warrants in Miami and throughout Miami-Dade County, including Miami Beach, Miami Gardens, North Miami, South Miami, Hialeah, Doral, and elsewhere in the county.\nE.J. Hubbs understands the warrant process and can help to expedite that process. As your representative, Hubbs Law will do all that is possible to assist you in handling your legal issues and ease your warrant worries. Call Hubbs Law now at (305) 665-9040 to schedule a consultation with our board-certified attorney about your outstanding arrest warrant.\nWarrant Bureau", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 12348, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/04/28/native-sports-team-name_n_7130748.html?utm_hp_ref=canada&ec_carp=3461803742132210994", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:10Z", "digest": "sha1:3BINTGBKDPUD4ORYXE7PV5IXTVO2BGP6", "length": 7707, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.ca", "title": "How To Change A Racist Sports Team Name Near You | HuffPost Canada", "raw_content": "How To Change A Racist Sports Team Name Near You\nATCR\nTo say Ian Campeau has had an epic month is putting it mildly. The founding member of indigenous DJ crew A Tribe Called Red has spun records from the frozen tundra of Iqaluit to the steaming desert of Coachella. But back in his hometown of Ottawa, Campeau experienced a personally momentous moment after being recognized for convincing the Nepean Redskins youth football league to change their name to the Nepean Eagles.\n\"It was unexpected and completely humbling,\" Campeau, an Anishnabe (Ojibway) of the Nipissing First Nation, tells the Huffington Post Canada. He says the youth role model award he received at the Day of Pink gala is important because \"[racist team names] are the most in-your-face socially acceptable systemic oppression within our society and yet it's used by children's football teams. It's not even a gateway drug for racism, it is racism.\"\nCampeau began his \"change the name\" campaign back in 2011, amid growing backlash against indigenous sports team names and mascots that began in the 1960s but gained momentum after the Washington Redskins went to the Super Bowl in 1988 and 1992.\nThe number of native nicknames in school, youth and pro leagues peaked at well over 3,000 across North America. In 2005, the NCAA deemed 18 school names and mascots \"hostile or abusive,\" but only banned the names in postseason games. And while Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder has remained fiercely opposed (\"NEVER\u2014you can use caps.\") the team lost their trademark last year due to the \"disparaging\" name.\nArticle continues after slideshow\nPhoto gallery Indigenous Team Name Protests See Gallery\nIndigenous Team Name Protests\nThere has been much more success on a local level. The National Congress of American Indians stated in 2013 that \"tribal advocates have succeeded in eliminating over two-thirds of derogatory Indian sports mascots and logos over the past 50 years\" with fewer than 1000 remaining.\n\"People are definitely awakening to to the idea of how wrong it is. Slowly but surely the tide seem to have turned within the last three years,\" Campeau said, admitting he had to have his own awakening, too. \"I grew up wearing all of it, Cleveland Indians stuff and Redskin stuff. I latched onto it because it was the only thing within pop culture that represented me. I latched onto it because I never really had much positive role models that represent my demographic.\"\nBut as a grown-up with his own child, he came to see how dehumanizing it can be. \"It's being applied and normalized within society,\" he said.\n\"All these missing and murdered women, and these fires that are killing people all over the place, we're not seen as human beings right away. We're seen as cartoon characters. So until we're taken seriously and seen as human beings and not these ancient relics or ridiculous stereotypes, we won't be taken seriously for these quote-unquote more important issues. But to me this is of the most utmost importance.\n\"Suicide rates within indigenous communities are the highest in the world,\" he adds, \"so perpetuating this idea of being less worthy is killing our kids.\"\nWhen he first found out about the Nepean Redskins \u2014 a name the former Barrhaven Buccaneers chose in 1981 because they shared colours with the Washington team \u2014 Campeau fired off an email to the youth league's organizers explaining the situation. He figured that would be that. They never responded. When he took his campaign to their Facebook page, he was met with \"extreme hostility.\"\nSeeking help from his local city councillor, Jan Harder, also proved a dead-end. \"You won't get it from me or anyone else I know,\" she emailed Campeau. \"You are looking for trouble where none exists.\"\nAround this time, however, Campeau's group A Tribe Called Red started getting some buzz, which gave the DJ-activist a social media soapbox he could use to get a conversation happening online to garner support. After all, he says, \"you can't tell me it's not racist when it's specifically pointing out the color of someone's skin.\"\nThen Campeau had an idea \u2014 he would file a complaint to the Ontario Human Rights Commission\n\"It turned out that I lived within the region where if my daughter wanted to play football, that would be the team that she would play for. The name was being normalized for children her age who lived with in our neighborhood \u2014 what's going to stop them from using it on her? The argument that the team had was that they were not teaching kids to use it in a bad way, but my point was that [Redskins] is a bad word no matter how you use it.\"\nFiled on Sept. 3, 2013, the human rights complaint sparked a media blitz as the story went from regional to national, garnering coverage on CTV, CBC, the Globe & Mail, National Post and here at HuffPost Canada. It also inspired supportive editorials in cities like Sudbury.\nAfter a couple years of obstinately insisting that the name Redskins \"was never used in a racial way,\" management gave in just over two weeks after Campeau's complaint. Team president Steve Dean announced the franchise would change its name, acknowledging \"the current name is offensive to some, and thus divisive to our community.\"\nThough the human rights controversy pushed his campaign to the finish line, Campeau cites the power of social media as being the driving force behind his success.\n\"Social media is incredibly powerful especially within the indigenous communities. The reserve system is meant to keep us out of sight, out of mind. So now that we have social media we're able to criticize and have a voice on a level platform for the first time,\" he explained.\nWhile also giving credit that his celebrity helped, Campeau says it merely accelerated the process and that others can replicate his success in their own communities.\n\"You don't need thousands of followers to get the job done. [But you do have] to arm yourself with as much knowledge as you can behind your cause. Get to know statistics, find research papers, back up what you're saying. It's really easy to present to a school board or the president of the league if you have the American Psychological Association telling you that these types of sports names are harmful.\"\n(In 2005, the APA called for \"the immediate retirement of all American Indian mascots, symbols, images and personalities by schools, colleges, universities, athletic teams and organizations...Research has shown that [it] has a negative effect on not only American Indian students but all students.\")\nCampeau notes that pushback \u2014 which got quite ugly on social media, talk radio, newspaper columns and Internet comment sections, including an online threat last January after the name change that required informing the police \u2014 is all from adults not the young players.\n\"These [kids] don't care the name of their team is going to be the Eagles. This tradition aspect is the only thing that people are holding onto, the only reason why people want to keep names like this. It's obviously the parents.\"\nCampeau admits it's easier to convince grassroots local teams to change their names, of which plenty remain across Canada, rather than big money franchises like the Edmonton Eskimos, Washington Redskins or the Cleveland Indians, whose Chief Wahoo-adorned fans faced an angry protest at the home opener earlier this month.\n\"But you can multitask. They're not exclusive, you can challenge the use of native mascots anywhere.\"\nPhoto gallery Redskins Name Change Advocates See Gallery\nRedskins Name Change Advocates\nMORE: A Tribe Called Red aboriginal sports team names change the name ian campeau Living native sports teams Nepean Redskins racist team names redskins whats-working", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 12676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 317.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/rubina-ahmedhaq/freelancers-need-to-learn-this-skill-to-save-money_a_23063175/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:45Z", "digest": "sha1:WMVSYY23US57RHRRMWFFG2MER7FWMZRS", "length": 5709, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.ca", "title": "Freelancers Need To Learn This Skill To Save Money | HuffPost Canada", "raw_content": "Freelancers Need To Learn This Skill To Save Money\nThe need to keep paperwork organized is key to success.\nJoseph Yarrow\nI counted. Last month I collected income from nine different sources. I'm a freelance journalist, so when a media outlet calls for work, I go. I don't have the luxury of saying no or asking if I can do it later.\nI'm part of a growing number of people who work in the \"Gig Economy,\" a group where all of our income comes from freelance work. Working freelance is nothing new, but in today's workforce, the pool of part-time, temporary and contract jobs is growing. As well, a number of full-time workers are adding a side hustle to supplement their income.\nIn the latest data available on temporary job growth, Statistics Canada reports that from 1997 to 2007, temporary employment grew 43.5 per cent. Added to that, in 2016, 2.3 million Canadians considered their jobs to be temporary.\nIt's not just in journalism, but all types of creative jobs, from designing websites to making music. It's also common in traditional sectors, like banking and medicine. For many of these workers, they declare themselves as self-employed, like I do, and invoice for services rendered.\nThe beauty of being freelance and self-employed is much of my day-to-day spending is considered a business expense. Hair and nail care for when I do TV appearances, using my car to go interview an expert for my radio column, even a portion of my utilities and mortgage interest is tax deductible, as I have a home office. It's where I'm writing this article from right now. But being self-employed comes with extra tasks, including a lot of bookkeeping that you don't have to do if you held a permanent, full-time job.\nMy problem is I'm disorganized when it comes to keeping my receipts and invoices in one place. I lose them all the time.\nFor many, like me, who are eager to take on more work and save money, the need to keep paperwork organized is key to success. In fact, I would say receipt management, as dry as that sounds, is a skill every single person in the gig economy should learn if you want to save the most money.\nThis includes keeping an up-to-date list of all the places you need to invoice, and all the receipts that you need to keep safe for tax purposes and expense reimbursements.\nUp until last year, I used a shoebox to store all my receipts. This was for all my expenses throughout the year, for tax purposes, expense tracking, returns and warranty claims.\nTurning that shoebox upside down every year at tax time, just to rifle through receipts, is extremely cumbersome.\nBut for shoebox collectors like me, there's help. A number of apps are available to help keep receipts organized and track spending, making it easier to see your total expenses year-round. The big bonus is at tax time it's easier to total your expenses and organize them by category.\nApps like Fresh Books and Quick Books are great all-service accounting apps. But for many like me who use a tax professional, my greatest need is to just have receipts tracked and stored.\nMany big commercial banks are already on board with helping customers' track receipts.\nIf you're a customer of Scotiabank, they have a mobile app feature called eReceipts, a receipt management solution that allows customers to digitally store, organize, and retrieve important paper and electronic receipts. TD Bank and PC Financial also offer services to customers through UGO wallet, an app that allows users to store receipts and loyalty cards. Their aim is to help make your wallet slimmer.\nBlog continues below slideshow\nPhoto gallery Most Hilarious Receipts See Gallery\nMost Hilarious Receipts\nBy scanning and keeping all your receipts in your smartphone, you can retrieve information anytime you need it. Rather than digging through a shoebox to find that one receipt for a taxi you took to a gig a few weeks ago, you have the copy on your smartphone all the time.\nA few months ago, I misplaced a few parking stubs at a gig where I could claim my travel expenses. It wasn't a huge amount, but it was $20 I could easily put back into my wallet. This happens all the time and has added up to hundreds of dollars I missed out on claiming. Had I known about a mobile receipt management solution back then, I would have been able to easily find it.\nHere my top reasons why anyone working in the \"Gig Economy\" needs to keep their receipts digitally organized.\nLosing receipts that you can claim is like throwing money in the garbage.\nThe Canada Revenue Agency can, for up to 7 years, ask you to prove you purchased an item you claimed as a business expense.\nMany companies now offer digital receipts making it easier to store in an app.\nKeeping digital records of receipts is good for the environment.\nKeeping receipts organized reduces clutter.\nGood record keeping of receipts helps avoid overlooking an expense you could have claimed.\nWorking in this gig economy can be exhilarating as you hunt for more work, or start a lucrative side hustle, but since there is zero administration in these jobs, there is a lot of do-it-yourself accounting and bookkeeping.\nAs a freelance journalist, being organized is key. You have to keep your receipts in order and stay on top of your invoicing. And since I write about personal finance and how to keep more money in your pocket, I wanted to share this important lesson with my readers.\nUltimately, you need to find a method for managing receipts that work for you. Or better yet, find a tool that does the heavy-lifting for you. That way, you have more time to do what's most important: hustle for work.\nMORE: Blogs Business claim expenses freelance tips freelancing receipt management save money freelancing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 10613, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/18/moon-explosion-meteorite-crash-lunar-surface-nasa_n_3294710.html?ec_carp=5673794130865940450", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:30Z", "digest": "sha1:EWX2E3VJR4K6USFJU4ZUZQZ6WH3XXI66", "length": 3836, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.huffingtonpost.com", "title": "Moon Explosion Sparked By Meteorite Crash On Lunar Surface, NASA Says (VIDEO) | HuffPost", "raw_content": "Moon Explosion Sparked By Meteorite Crash On Lunar Surface, NASA Says (VIDEO)\nBy: Clara Moskowitz\nThe moon has a new hole on its surface thanks to a boulder that slammed into it in March, creating the biggest explosion scientists have seen on the moon since they started monitoring it.\nThe meteorite crashed on March 17, slamming into the lunar surface at a mind-boggling 56,000 mph (90,000 kph) and creating a new crater 65 feet wide (20 meters). The crash sparked a bright flash of light that would have been visible to anyone looking at the moon at the time with the naked eye, NASA scientists say.\n\"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium,\" Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office said in a statement. \"It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before.\" [The Greatest Lunar Crashes Ever]\nThis artist's illustration shows a meteor crashing into the surface of the moon. Scientists say hundreds of space rocks impact the lunar surface every year.\nNASA astronomers have been monitoring the moon for lunar meteor impacts for the past eight years, and haven't seen anything this powerful before.\nScientists didn't see the impact occur in real time. It was only when Ron Suggs, an analyst at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., reviewed a video of the bright moon crash recorded by one of the moon monitoring program's 14-inch telescopes that the event was discovered.\n\"It jumped right out at me, it was so bright,\" Suggs said.\nScientists deduced the rock had been roughly 1-foot-wide (between 0.3 to 0.4 meters) and weighted about 88 lbs (40 kg).The explosion it created was as powerful as 5 tons of TNT, NASA scientists said.\nWhen researchers looked back at their records from March, they found that the moon meteor might not have been an isolated event.\nThis photo shows the bright flash of the light that resulted from a huge boulder slamming into the moon's surface March 17, 2013.\n\"On the night of March 17, NASA and University of Western Ontario all-sky cameras picked up an unusual number of deep-penetrating meteors right here on Earth,\" Cooke said. \"These fireballs were traveling along nearly identical orbits between Earth and the asteroid belt.\"\nNASA's lunar monitoring program has detected hundreds of meteoroid impacts. The brightest, detected on March 17, 2013, in Mare Imbrium, is marked by the red square.\nThough Earth's atmosphere protected our planet's surface from being hit by these meteors, the moon has no such luck. Its lack of an atmosphere exposes it to all incoming space rocks, and the NASA monitoring program has spotted more than 300 meteor strikes that reached its surface since 2005.\nPart of the motivation for the program is NASA's eventual intent to send astronauts back to the moon. When they arrive, they'll need to know how often meteors impact the surface, and whether certain parts of the year, coinciding with the moon's passage through crowded bits of the solar system, pose special dangers.\n\"We'll be keeping an eye out for signs of a repeat performance next year when the Earth-Moon system passes through the same region of space,\" Cooke said. \"Meanwhile, our analysis of the March 17th event continues.\"\nThe scientists also hope to use NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to photograph the impact site to learn more about how the crash occurred.\nFollow Clara Moskowitz on Twitter and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook and Google+. Original article on SPACE.com.\nMoon Master: An Easy Quiz for Lunatics\n20 Most Marvelous Moon Missions\nCopyright 2013 SPACE.com, a TechMediaNetwork company. All rights reserved. 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Essay 27 \u2014 Human sex explained\nHuman sex, falling in love, women\u2019s beauty, the \u2018sex object\u2019, marriage, clothing, the \u2018mystery of women\u2019, gender role differentiation, the \u2018war between the sexes\u2019, the feminist movement, sexism, homosexuality, initiation ceremonies, hunting and meat-eating \u2014 all at last truthfully, compassionately and relievingly explained\nWhat follows is a condensation of parts of chapter 8:11B of Jeremy Griffith\u2019s book FREEDOM.\nThe previous Freedom Essay 26, titled Men and women are finally reconciled by the understanding of the human condition, describes how the ignorance of our instinctive self or soul of our conscious thinking self\u2019s, or ego\u2019s, need to search for knowledge posed a threat to humanity and, since the historic role of males has been one of group protector, men had no choice but to take on the responsibility to fight this battle to champion our conscious thinking self or ego. This meant that when this horrifically upsetting battle against our instincts began following the emergence of consciousness some 2 million years ago, the nurturing matriarchal or female-centric priority that, as was explained earlier in F. Essay 21, created our altruistic moral instincts and a cooperative humanity, was superseded in importance by a patriarchal world. Men necessarily and unavoidably had to defeat the ignorance of our instinctive self or soul, for if that battle wasn\u2019t won humanity would self-destroy from perpetual ignorance and resulting terminal upset anger, egocentricity and alienation. The Bible, which, now that the human condition has been explained (see Video/\u200bF. Essay 3), we can see is an absolutely extraordinary collection of denial-free truth, acknowledges that human society changed from being a matriarchal, soul-centric, nurturing society to a patriarchal, egocentric, embattled society after the upsetting search for knowledge began when, after describing how Adam and Eve took the \u2018fruit\u2019 \u2018from the tree of\u2026\u200bknowledge\u2019 (Gen. 3:3, 2:17), Moses wrote, \u2018To the woman he [God] said\u2026\u200bYour desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you\u2019 (3:16). Wives and children in virtually all cultures have not adopted their husband\u2019s or father\u2019s surname because of some cultural coin toss, but because they were living in a patriarchal world.\nOf course, this role differentiation where men took up the task of fighting against the ignorance of our instinctive self also made sense because nurturing depends on love, whereas fighting is an aggressive, non-loving behaviour; far better then to leave women out of the upsetting battle to preserve as much upset-free, loving innocence as possible to nurture the next generation.\nThe immense problem this role differentiation gave rise to, however, was that in not being responsible for, or directly participating in, the terrible battle to overthrow ignorance, women were naive or unaware of the ramifications of fighting the battle, and, as a result, were unsympathetic to both the battle and the frustrated upset anger and power, fame and fortune-seeking egocentricity it produced in men\u2014a situation that placed men in the awful predicament of being misunderstood and unjustly condemned by women. Women, not responsible for the fight against ignorance, and so not partaking in the battle itself, did not and could not be expected to understand what happened in the battle or the effect it had on men. Women could understand the search for knowledge, but not what the battle involved, as this comment reveals: \u2018Shirley MacLaine can\u2019t find a man to love. The 48-year-old actress\u2026\u200b[said she] longs for a \u201cclose and warm relationship\u201d but hasn\u2019t met a suitable partner. \u201cMost men I meet seem to be too involved in trying to be successful or making a lot of money,\u201d she said. \u201cI feel sorry for all of them. Men have been so brainwashed into thinking they have to be so outrageously successful\u2014to be winners\u2014that life is very difficult for them. And it\u2019s terribly destructive, as far as I am concerned, when you are trying to get a serious relationship going\u201d\u2019 (see paragraph 771 of FREEDOM).\nLife has certainly been \u2018very difficult\u2019 for men; they have had the absolutely horrible job of having to be strong enough to, in effect, kill soul\u2014to search for knowledge and determinedly defy our beautiful, cooperatively orientated, loving original instinctive self. And since that defiance resulted in becoming angry, egocentric and alienated, which are all divisive, un-Godly traits, men were, in effect, in violation of God, the integrative ideals of life! (The integrative, \u2018Godly\u2019 meaning of existence is explained in F. Essay 23.) So from an initial state of upset, men had then to contend with a sense of guilt, which very greatly compounded their insecurity and frustrations and made them even more angry, egocentric and alienated. How tough were men going to have to be to continue to do their job without receiving any respect or appreciation for why they were having to do what they were having to do! No wonder they have become so incredibly upset\u2014and no wonder nearly all cultures conducted initiation ceremonies for young men, in which they were subjected to brutal physical pain that they had to demonstrate they could endure before they would be considered men!\nInitiation ceremony in Sepik River area, New Guinea\nBut what could men do in the face of such a diabolical situation? They couldn\u2019t explain themselves to women because they couldn\u2019t explain the human condition and defend their immensely upset, soul-corrupted state. Indeed, men have had to endure being completely misunderstood and misrepresented as the villains of the piece because what the explanation of the human condition reveals, now that it has been found, is that men are, in fact, the heroes of the whole story of life on Earth because they had to succeed (and have now succeeded) in championing the cause of nature\u2019s greatest invention, namely the conscious mind\u2019s battle to establish itself on Earth!\nThe truth about men was certainly not as it appeared; they weren\u2019t selfish, world-destroying monsters\u2014quite the reverse. So when the leading feminists Germaine Greer and Gloria Steinem said, respectively, \u2018As far as I\u2019m concerned, men are the product of a damaged gene. They pretend to be normal but what they\u2019re doing sitting there with benign smiles on their faces is they\u2019re manufacturing sperm\u2019, and \u2018A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle\u2019, they were making two of the most embarrassingly wrong statements in history, and yet, in her secret self, every woman has been making them for 2 million years! (see par. 773 of FREEDOM.) (Note that Greer\u2019s assertion that all men are doing is \u2018manufacturing sperm\u2019 reflects the dishonest explanation for men\u2019s competitive nature, which is that they are competing to reproduce their genes. This false savage, competitive-instincts-in-humans excuse is debunked in Video/\u200bF. Essay 14 & F. Essay 40.)\nYes, most unfortunately, women have not appreciated men\u2019s battle\u2014they have not been able to empathise with what has been going on, nor respect the corrupting effect it had on men. They tended to be soul-sympathetic, not ego-sympathetic. The gulf between men and women\u2014acknowledged in the title of John Gray\u2019s bestselling 1992 book, \u2018Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus\u2019\u2014is palpably clear in this conversation: \u2018She: You men are wholly monstrous, foreign bodies, in fact cancers on this planet. He: Yes, well, haven\u2019t you heard that women are so meaningless as to not even exist.\u2019 This bitter exchange provides a true measure of the extent of \u2018the war between the sexes\u2019. (see par. 775 of FREEDOM)\nMen and Women, War and Peace by Michael Leunig\nThis cartoon by Michael Leunig (that is also included in F. Essay 26) recognises the immense gulf that has existed between the situation men and women faced under the duress of the human condition and their subsequent view of the world\u2014with Leunig indicating the lack of empathy women have had for the battle and its corrupting effect on men by the woman\u2019s tears of disappointment and sadness. Women have not been, as it were, \u2018mainframed\u2019, as intuitively understanding of the battle as men\u2014in the same way men have never been as mainframed to the role of nurturing as women intuitively are. Regarding the caption on Leunig\u2019s cartoon, paradoxically real \u2018peace\u2019 could only come by men winning their \u2018war\u2019 against the ignorance of our instinctive self or soul.\nWhat now needs to be described is that without the ability to explain the all-important role that men were having to play, and thus defend themselves against women\u2019s lack of appreciation of that role, men were left in an untenable situation. They couldn\u2019t just stand there and accept women\u2019s unjust condemnation of their behaviour\u2014they had to do something to defend themselves. So, what men in their anger, frustration and desperation did, was turn on women and attack them by violating their innocence or purity or chastity or \u2018honour\u2019 through rape. Men perverted sex, as in \u2018fucking\u2019 or destroying, making it discrete from the act of procreation. What was being fucked, violated, destroyed, ruined, degraded or sullied was women\u2019s innocence. The feminist Andrea Dworkin recognised this underlying truth when she wrote that \u2018All sex is abuse\u2019 (see par. 782 of FREEDOM).\nThe consequences of this horrific development have obviously been immense. Prior to the perversion of sex as a way of attacking the condemning innocence and naivety of women, women weren\u2019t viewed as sex objects and so nudity did not have the problem of attracting lust and so there was no need to conceal our nakedness with clothes. To quote Moses in the Bible, when Adam and Eve took the fruit from the tree of knowledge (set out in search of understanding), \u2018the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves\u2019 (Gen. 3:7). Clothing was not originally designed to protect the body from cold as children have been evasively taught at school, but to restrain lust.\nEve and Adam from the left and right sides of the portal of\nthe Cathedral of St. Lawrence, Trogir, Croatia (13th century)\nIn the case of the convention of marriage, this institution was invented as one way of containing the spread of upset. By confining sex to one life-long, monogamous relationship, the souls of the couple could gradually make contact and coexist in spite of the sexual destruction involved in their relationship. As stated in the Bible, in marriage \u2018a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one\u2019 (Mark 10:7, 8). Brief relationships, on the other hand, kept souls repressed and spread soul repression. However, the more upset, corrupted, insecure and alienated humans became, the more they needed sexual distraction and reinforcement through sexual conquest (in the case of men) and sex-object attention (a development in women that will be explained shortly), and thus the more difficult it became for both sexes to remain content in a single, monogamous relationship.\nBUT while sex was an attack on innocence, an act of aggression, it was also one of the greatest distractions and releases of frustration and, on a nobler level, it became an inspirational act of love, an act of real affection derived from a shared faith in the ultimate meaning of their lives. A sublime partnership between men and women did develop, for when all the world disowned men for their unavoidable divisiveness, women, in effect, stayed with them, bringing them the only warmth, comfort and support they would know. As Moses said in Genesis in the Bible, \u2018The Lord God said, \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him\u201d\u2026\u200bThen the Lord God made a woman\u2026\u200band he brought her to the man\u2019 (2:18, 22). The great philosopher Sir Laurens van der Post offered this sensitive attempt by a man to explain to a woman the greater significance of sex; it is a conversation that takes place on the eve of a Second World War battle: \u2018Touched by her concern for her honour, in his imagination he would have liked to tell her that he could kneel down before her as a sign of how he respected her and beg her forgiveness for what men had taken so blindly and wilfully from women all the thousand and one years now vanishing so swiftly behind them. But all he hastened to say was: \u201cI would have to be a poet and not a soldier to tell you all that I think and feel about you. I can only say that you are all I imagined a good woman to be. You make me feel inadequate and very humble. Please know that I understand you have turned to me not for yourself, not for me, but on behalf of life. When all reason and the world together seem to proclaim the end of life as we have known it, I know you are asking me to renew with you our pact of faith with life in the only way possible to us.\u201d\u2019 Friedrich Nietzsche gave an honest description of the roles that developed for men and women in humanity\u2019s heroic journey to overthrow ignorance when he wrote that \u2018Man should be trained for war and woman for the recreation of the warrior: all else is folly.\u2019 The 1960s sex symbol Brigitte Bardot was of a similar view when she said, \u2018A women must be a refuge for the warrior. Her job is to make life agreeable\u2019; although shortly after making this statement Bardot encapsulated the paradox of life for women when she declared that all men are \u2018beasts\u2019. (see par. 785 of FREEDOM)\nIt can be seen that the innocence of women was two-sided: it condemned and upset men, who, therefore, had to attack it, but it was also an inspirational reminder of our species\u2019 original innocent soulful, true world that they were fighting to reinstate by finding the understanding that would stop the upsetting criticism of them and of the human race as a whole. So women\u2019s innocence could both condemn and inspire men, which, as will now be explained, is why the image of innocence\u2014that Bardot\u2019s beauty was such a magnificent representation of\u2014was so inspirational. The image of innocence in women could inspire the dream of the human race\u2019s return to living in a cooperative, loving, upset-free, ideal state, a state free of the human condition; it could lead to \u2018romance\u2019. Men could dream that the image of innocence in women meant women were actually innocent and that through their partnership with women they could share in that innocent state; and for their part, women could use the fact that men were inspired by their image of innocence to delude themselves that they actually were innocent. Men and women could \u2018fall in love\u2019, let go of reality and dream of an ideal, cooperative, loving world. Cole Porter\u2019s 1928 song Let\u2019s Fall In Love contains lyrics that reveal how falling in love is about allowing yourself to dream of the ideal state, of \u2018paradise\u2019: \u2018Let\u2019s fall in love / Why shouldn\u2019t we fall in love? / Our hearts are made of it / Let\u2019s take a chance / Why be afraid of it / Let\u2019s close our eyes and make our own paradise.\u2019 (It should be pointed out that \u2018falling in love\u2019 has been one of the most wonderful experiences we could have during the 2 million years the human race has had to live with the immensely upset and soul-corrupted state of the human condition\u2014because when it happened we did let ourselves believe we were back in, and thus experience, the all-loving, all-sensitive and completely happy original state of innocence that the human race once lived in. We can also see from that intoxicating experience how extremely soul-dead, love-less, bleak and empty our human-condition-afflicted lives are\u2014and also how fabulous human life is going to be now that we can leave the upset state of the human condition!)\nThe effect of the \u2018attraction\u2019 of innocence\u2014which has been the preserve of youth because the young were innocent; they hadn\u2019t yet been exposed to all the upset in the world\u2014for both dreaming through and for sexual destruction was that through the course of the 2-million-year journey of humanity from conscious ignorance to understanding the human condition our physical features became increasingly youthful looking or neotenous, as the increasingly child-like, domed forehead, large eyes and snub nose features of the skulls of the varieties of our Homo ancestors who lived during this period (shown below) evidence.\nWomen were especially selected for their more innocent looking, neotenous, youthful, childlike features of a domed forehead, large eyes, snub nose and hairless body. Just how adapted women have now become to being sex objects can be seen in women\u2019s magazines, which are almost entirely dedicated to instructing women how to be \u2018attractive\u2019, which really means just better able to imitate the image of innocence. Women are now habituated and codependent to the reinforcement that men, for over 2 million years, have given their object self rather than their real self\u2014for instance, they love to adorn themselves with beautiful objects, use make-up on their faces to increase their neotenous appearance, and wear high-heel shoes to give themselves the leggy, youthful, ultra-innocent look of pubescents.\nAs these popular cartoons illustrate, women believe it is their real self, not their object self, that men are in love with. Obviously, the sooner the horror and suffering of the human condition ends the better!!\nSo while at a more noble level sex became an expression of love, at its fundamental level it was an attack on the innocence of people; it was rape. The more upset and corrupted the human, the more sexually destructive and thus sexually perverted they were inclined to be, and the more innocent (or innocent-looking) the human, the more attracting of that destruction they have been. Understanding this makes it possible to explain homosexuality in men. As the victims of sex, women have historically been more exposed to and thus become, through natural selection over hundreds of thousands of years, more adapted to sex than men. In most cases, if a male was not interested in sex then sex did not occur, whereas women have been exposed to sexual advances regardless of their interest or lack thereof.\nIt follows then that the more corrupted a man is, the less naive he is, and thus the more he is aware that women are not innocent. Therefore, if a man is extremely hurt and corrupted in his infancy and childhood, when he becomes sexually mature he will not be naive enough to believe that women are still innocent and will not, therefore, find women sexually attractive. The last bastion of \u2018attractive\u2019 innocence for such men is younger men, because they are not as exposed to sexual destruction as women have historically been. To explain the effeminate mannerisms particular to male homosexuality, if you have had your soul, which is your core strength, destroyed in childhood, then taking on the extremely difficult male role of having to fight against the ignorance of the soulful, idealistic world would be an untenable position that would make the female position of not having to fight a much more preferential option. You would rather adopt the female role of being an object of adoration and service than the male role of having to take on the loathsome job of championing ego over soul. Homosexuality amongst women results from women\u2019s understandable disenchantment with men, some even taking up the male role because it can seem preferable to having to be an object of adoration and service. Homosexuality is simply another level of perversion to heterosexuality. They are both psychologically corrupted states of sexuality that developed under the horror of the duress of the human condition.\nIt should be pointed out that since sex is an attack on innocence as well as an act of love the recent generations of humans who have been treating sex cheaply have been contributing significantly to the death of soul and increase in upset in the world. Queen Victoria was right to espouse the \u2018Victorian morality\u2019 of her era, a moral code that strongly encouraged people to treat sex with care and restraint.\nWhat remains to be explained is why the beauty of women came to be so powerfully attractive and inspirational for heterosexual men. In F. Essay 21 it is explained how humans\u2019 altruistic moral instinctive self or soul was developed through nurturing. It was explained that while a mother\u2019s maternal instinct to care for her offspring is selfish (as genetic traits normally have to be if they are to reproduce), from the infant\u2019s perspective the maternalism has the appearance of being selfless. From the infant\u2019s perspective, it is being treated unconditionally selflessly\u2014the mother is giving her offspring food, warmth, shelter, support and protection for apparently nothing in return. So it follows that if the infant can remain in infancy for an extended period and be treated with a lot of seemingly altruistic love, it will be indoctrinated with that selfless love and grow up to behave accordingly. And being semi-upright from living in trees, and thus having their arms free to hold a dependent infant, it was the primates who have been especially facilitated to develop this nurtured, loving, cooperative nature. So this is how our ape ancestor\u2014and bonobos\u2014developed cooperative, loving moral behaviour. (You can read about fossil evidence of our nurtured origins in F. Essay 22.)\nAn accompanying development to the love-indoctrination process was the selection of cooperative, selfless, loving behaviour through mate selection. Individuals were selected for as mates who were closer to their memory of infancy; that is, younger, because the older individuals became, the more their infancy training in love wore off. Our ape ancestors began to idolise, foster, favour and select for youthfulness because of its association with cooperative integration. The effect was that we selected for the neotenous (infant-like) features of large eyes, dome forehead, snub nose and hairless skin throughout this early period of our development.\nA comparison between an adult chimpanzee, infant chimpanzee, and an adult bonobo\nshowing how neotenised bonobos are.\nSignificantly, what happened around 2 million years ago when the upset state of the human condition emerged is that instead of seeking out or selecting for neotenous features because they signalled a cooperative individual, such features began to be selected for because they signalled an innocent individual who was \u2018attractive\u2019 for sexual destruction.\nWhat this means is that while the motivation behind the selection changed significantly, the neotenous features signifying soundness and innocence were selected for both throughout the 8 or so million years in which our cooperative, loving soul was nurtured, and throughout the last 2 million years when we became conscious and upset and sought out innocence for sexual destruction.\nSo the image of innocence has been selected for ever since we were apes, which is a very long time. What is also highly significant in terms of explaining why the neotenous image of innocence in women became so attractive is the fact that this image of innocence\u2014\u2018the beauty of women\u2019\u2014was the only form of innocence that was being cultivated during the last 2 million years of this long period. Once upset developed 2 million years ago, all other forms of innocence were being attacked because it was seen as unjustly condemning of our loss of innocence. Men in particular, derived perverse pleasure from attacking and killing innocent animals, again because their innocence, albeit unwittingly, criticised men\u2019s loss of innocence. Research shows that 80% of the food consumed by existing hunter-foragers, such as the Bushmen of the Kalahari, is supplied by the women\u2019s foraging. So if providing food was not the reason, why did men hunt? Hunting was men\u2019s earliest ego outlet. By attacking, killing and dominating animals, men were demonstrating their power, which was a perverse, sick way of demonstrating their worth. The diary of the legendary \u2018white hunter\u2019, the suitably named J.A. Hunter, reveals that he dispatched \u2018966 Rhinos\u2019 from \u2018August 29th 1944 to October 31st 1946\u2019\u2014that\u2019s the equivalent of nearly 10 rhinoceroses every week for more than 2 years that he shot to death (see par. 276 of FREEDOM)! Men\u2019s resentment of the innocence of nature in general is revealed in the following cartoon of two cement truck drivers gleefully dumping their load of concrete over a tiny road-side daisy\u2014this merely being an adult version of boys burning ants and tormenting pets. (see pars 778-779 of FREEDOM)\nA photo taken in 2011 of a shooter posing with a\nscimitar-horned oryx, which is a species that is\nofficially listed as extinct in the wild.\nInterestingly, all the anthropological evidence indicates that our ancestors who lived prior to 2 million years ago, were vegetarian, but with big game hunting came meat-eating, an adaption that would have revolted our original instinctive self or soul since it involved killing and eating our soul\u2019s friends. But we weren\u2019t to be put off and in time, as our increasingly upset and driven (to find ego relief) lifestyle developed, we became somewhat physically dependent on the high energy value of meat. (see par. 780 of FREEDOM)\nThe main point being made is that women\u2019s representation of innocence, their representation of our now lost pure world, has been the only form of that purity that has been continuously cultivated since we were apes, and that is why it is so powerfully attractive\u2014and it\u2019s why it is little wonder that men \u2018fell in love\u2019 with women. The following quotes reveal just how inspiring women\u2019s image of innocence became for men: \u2018we lose our soul, of which woman is the immemorial image\u2019 (Laurens van der Post); \u2018Woman stands before him [man] as the lure and symbol of the world\u2019 (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin); \u2018Women are all we [men] know of paradise on earth\u2019 (Albert Camus). (see par. 789 of FREEDOM)\nSo while it certainly is of little wonder that men fell in love with women, the great \u2018mystery of women\u2019 was that it was only the physical image or object of innocence that men were falling in love with. The illusion was that women were psychologically as well as physically innocent. Thank goodness the reconciliation of men and women has finally arrived and all the perverse destruction of women\u2019s souls can end, and instead of dreaming of a loving, ideal world, the real loving, ideal world for men and women can emerge.\nOf course, human-condition-avoiding, psychosis-denying mechanistic scientists have been totally committed to avoiding any recognition that sex as most men practise it is about attacking the psychologically innocent state of women for its unjust criticism of men. They maintain that the attractiveness of younger women has nothing to do with them being less psychologically corrupted (or at least the appearance of that state), claiming instead that it is due to a genetic reproductive strategy\u2014that men want to, as this quote says, \u2018mate with women who look like\u2026\u200bBarbie\u2014young with small waist, large breasts, long blond hair, and blue eyes\u2026\u200b[because] they are healthier and more fertile than other women\u2019. This is the old Social Darwinist/\u200bEvolutionary Psychology strategy of blaming our competitive, selfish and aggressive human condition not on an upset psychosis in humans, which is its real source, but on non-existent savage, aggressive and competitive, must-reproduce-your-genes animal instincts within us. (For further reading on these dishonest theories on human behaviour, see Video/\u200bF. Essay 14, F. Essay 40 and par. 792 of FREEDOM.)\nThe problem for women, of course, is that while their image of innocence was being cultivated throughout the last 2 million years, their soul, their actual innocence, was being destroyed\u2014women are only the image of innocence. But without the understanding necessary to explain themselves, men had no choice other than to repress the relative naivety of women, which in turn tied women\u2019s corruption inextricably to men\u2019s. It has been an extremely difficult situation for women. They have had to try to \u2018sexually comfort\u2019 men but also preserve as much true innocence in themselves as possible to nurture the next generation. Their situation, like men\u2019s, worsened at an ever-increasing rate, in that the more women \u2018comforted\u2019 men, the less innocence they retained and the greater comforting the following generation needed. Had humanity\u2019s battle continued in this exponential pattern for a few centuries more, all women would have eventually become like Marilyn Monroe, complete sacrifices to men. At this point men would have destroyed themselves and the human species, for there would be no soundness left in women to love/\u200bnurture future generations (see F. Essay 55 for an analysis of the endgame situation that humanity has now reached). In one of her books, the South African writer Olive Schreiner emphasised this point; when talking of men persuading women to have sex, she had one of her female characters state that men may say, \u2018\u201cGo on; but when you [men] have made women what you wish, and her children inherit her culture, you will defeat yourself. Man will gradually become extinct\u2026\u201d Fools!\u2019 Incidentally, we again see here how calling men \u2018fools\u2019 was an expression of women\u2019s lack of understanding of men, and why they were being attacked sexually by men in the first place. (see par. 795 of FREEDOM)\nFor their part, the more men fought to defeat ignorance and protect the group (humanity), the more embattled, upset and corrupted they became and thus the more they appeared to worsen the situation. The harder men tried to do their job of protecting humanity the more they appeared to endanger humanity! As a result, they became almost completely ineffective or inoperable, paralysed by this paradox, cowed by the extent of their self-corruption and its effects. At this point women had to usurp some of the day-to-day running of affairs as well as attempt to nurture a new generation of soundness. Women, not oppressed by the overwhelming responsibility and extreme frustration that men felt, could remain comparatively effective. Further, when men crumpled women had to take over or the family, group or community involved would perish. A return to matriarchy, such as we have recently seen in society, is a sign that men in general have become completely exhausted. However, total matriarchy has not re-emerged because men could not afford to stand aside completely whilst the fundamental battle still remained. They needed to stay in control and remain vigilant against the threat of ignorance. So while some elements in the recent feminist movement seized the opportunity to take revenge against men\u2019s oppression, the movement in general was borne out of necessity. But as is explained in F. Essay 35, the tragedy was that like all dogmatic, human-condition-avoiding-but-ideals-insisting, pseudo idealistic movements, feminism was based on a lie\u2014in this case, that there is no real difference in the roles of men and women.\n(Note that while men and women are different, sexist notions of men being \u2018evil\u2019 or of women being irrelevant have no credibility, as this essay makes clear. While the main device for avoiding prejudice was to deny that there was any difference between men and women, another was to maintain that any difference between men and women was simply a product of cultural conditioning\u2014of girls being given dolls and boys swords as infants, for example. But the differences are, in fact, the product of a very real distinction between the sexes.)\nHaving to inspire love when they were no longer loving or innocent, \u2018keep the ship afloat\u2019 when men crumpled, all the while attempting to nurture a new generation while oppressed by men who couldn\u2019t explain why they were dominating, what they were actually doing or why they were so upset and angry, was, in truth, more than extremely difficult, it was an altogether impossible task\u2014and yet women have done it for 2 million years. Indeed, it is because of women\u2019s phenomenally courageous support that men, when civilised, treat them with such chivalry and deference. Men have had an impossible fight on their hands, but at least they had the advantage of intuitively understanding that battle. To be a victim of a victim, as women have been, is an almost insufferable situation, because while a primary victim knows what the primary source offence is, a victim of a victim does not.\nSo while men\u2019s situation has been horrible, so has women\u2019s; and, just as men have yearned for freedom from their oppressor, ignorance, so women have yearned for freedom from their oppressors, men, as this comment by Olive Schreiner (that is also referred to in F. Essay 26) describes: \u2018if I might but be one of those born in the future; then, perhaps, to be born a woman will not be to be born branded\u2026\u200bIt is for love\u2019s sake yet more than for any other that we [women] look for that new time\u2026\u200bThen when that time comes\u2026\u200bwhen love is no more bought or sold, when it is not a means of making bread, when each woman\u2019s life is filled with earnest, independent labour, then love will come to her, a strange sudden sweetness breaking in upon her earnest work; not sought for, but found.\u2019 (see par. 798 of FREEDOM)\nThank goodness with the battle to defeat the ignorance of our instinctive moral soul now won, the horror of both men\u2019s and women\u2019s existence can end, and this dreamed-of \u2018new time\u2019 where society will be neither matriarchal or patriarchal, but gender-neutral and at peace, can begin. For 2 million years women have stood by and supported their men, just as for some 8 million years prior to that when nurturing was developing our cooperative soul, men supported their women. With understanding of the human condition now found, men and women can at last stand side by side.\nWatch Jeremy Griffith present his breakthrough redeeming explanation of the human condition in Video/\u200bF. Essay 3, or read chapter 1 of FREEDOM. You can also read much more about all aspects of the relationship between men and women in chapters 8:11B and 8:14 of FREEDOM. Chapter 8:14 describes the tragic effect ageing has had on the lives of both men and women.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 43743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.huntspost.co.uk/news/jade-siggee-to-take-on-fundraising-challenge-1-5727108", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CLUKIFYB67ZEQ73FQT3FHLMNFRFEDGVI", "length": 2090, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.huntspost.co.uk", "title": "Jade Siggee to take on fundraising challenge | Huntingdon and St Neots News - The Hunts Post | Hunts Post", "raw_content": "Jade set to swap her office chair for half-marathon test\nJade Siggee ready to take on the Great Eastern Run\nSpending a lot of her days sitting in an office chair motivated Huntingdon accountant Jade Siggee to set about looking for a way to challenge herself.\nThat challenge came in the form of a 13-mile run around the streets of Peterborough, as, on October 14, Jade will join the thousands of competitors taking part in the Great Eastern Run.\nThe run will have special significance for her as she will be raising funds for Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice.\nThe hospice provides palliative care and support for people who are living with life-limiting conditions, as well as supporting their families.\nJade, 24, who lives in Upwood, said: \u201cMy father-in-law was at Sue Ryder Thorpe Hall Hospice about a year ago and they were amazing. It was a no-brainer to support them and the half-marathon was a good personal challenge. \u201cI spent quite a bit of time visiting my father-in-law in Thorpe Hall and it\u2019s an amazing place.\u201d\nJade has been training for the past few months and building up her distance gradually.\n\u201cI sit down all day at work so I needed to do something,\u201d she said. \u201cI joined a local running club and met a lady from a few streets away who is also doing the run so we have been training together which has worked out well.\n\u201cI have never done a race before, just a bit of road running by myself. My family are very proud and giving me lots of support but I haven\u2019t managed to persuade any of them to run. I have so far done a few 10 mile runs so I\u2019m not too far away from the 13 miles.\n\u201cI am looking forward to it. I like a challenge and doing it for Thorpe Hall was an incentive. It\u2019s hard work but it\u2019s all worth it. I think the charity is incredible.\u201d\nSo far, Jade has raised more than \u00a3600 for the hospice and has an overall target of \u00a3750.\nFor more information or to sign up, call Nilesh Patel on 01733 225999 or e-mail thorpe.fundraising@sueryder.org. You can also visit: https://www.sueryder.org/support-us.\nSponsor Jade at: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/jade-siggee.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 206, "original_length": 6304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hvnplus.co.uk/news/caulmert-notes-upturn-in-welsh-renewable-energy-projects/8687740.article", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SFCZHTIZ3F4J7KTX3I56RIKCBYCTZRGE", "length": 1121, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hvnplus.co.uk", "title": "Caulmert notes upturn in Welsh renewable energy projects | News | Heating and Ventilation News", "raw_content": "Caulmert notes upturn in Welsh renewable energy projects\nEngineering, environmental and planning consultancy specialist Caulmert has announced a series of contract wins for renewable energy projects across Wales.\nThe St Asaph-based firm is currently working on solar, hydro-electric, wind and anaerobic digestion projects across north and mid-Wales.\nIt forms part of Caulmert\u2019s portfolio of planning and consultancy services across a range of construction and engineering disciplines.\nManaging director Mike Caulfield said: \u201cWe\u2019ve provided consultancy advice on a range of renewables projects of late and, in particular, on a number of proposed solar arrays.\n\u201cObviously news of an end to some government subsidies for solar farms is likely to have a negative impact on the viability and funding of such developments but, for the time being, we\u2019re still very busy in that particular field.\n\u201cIn view of the government\u2019s climate change commitments and the Welsh government\u2019s overall objectives of moving towards a low-carbon economy and optimising renewable energy generation, renewables is definitely a growth area for us.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 6254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 173.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.hw.ac.uk/schools/energy-geoscience-infrastructure-society.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:12Z", "digest": "sha1:GXKY4X2YS3TPVPI2ZSL3XAEMFLXAX4BG", "length": 1275, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hw.ac.uk", "title": "Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society | Heriot-Watt University", "raw_content": "Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Building Design\nThe School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society (EGIS) is one of the UK's leading institutions for multidisciplinary research and teaching in areas critical to economic development and societal equity.\nWe aim to attain excellence in the teaching of the core disciplines that contribute to a sustainable, resource and energy efficient society and are committed to undertaking high value, high impact research and knowledge transfer in topics of relevance to global challenges.\nProfessor T. Malcolm Chrisp, Head of School\nWe offer broad undergraduate education in four distinct, yet complementary disciplines: Architectural Engineering; Biology; Civil Engineering; Construction Management and Surveying; and Urban Studies.\nWe have an on-going commitment to high quality and innovative research as well as an evolving and well-established portfolio of taught postgraduate programmes. We have students from around the world studying full-time, part-time and by distance learning.\nWe undertake high-quality, high-impact research in a number of diverse areas. At least 70% of our overall research activity was confirmed as world-leading or internationally excellent in the UK's Research Excellence Framework of 2014.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2426, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 179.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.icsa.org.uk/professional-development/training/trainers/rob-robson", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:15Z", "digest": "sha1:7JE5ABBLNR6CDPNXAYASRWVZAD2HLLJ6", "length": 438, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.icsa.org.uk", "title": "Rob Robson", "raw_content": "Rob is a management training and development consultant and a member of ICSA.\nThrough TMF Training he specialises in the design and delivery of a range of management workshops, seminars and training courses tailored to the needs of both large corporations and small businesses. Together with Phil Davis, Rob has been delivering courses through TMF over a number of years and to a variety of audiences, both nationally and internationally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 98.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.igadgetsworld.com/flok-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:04Z", "digest": "sha1:AX5LGU2DWVRAFWHHTLCODCF7HSJCEKQI", "length": 5209, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.igadgetsworld.com", "title": "flok Review: A Loyalty Rewards App that Saves You Money | iGadgetsworld", "raw_content": "flok Review: A Loyalty Rewards App that Saves You Money\nflok is a loyalty app founded by two graduates of Tel Aviv University, Ido Gaver, and Eran Kirshenboim, back in 2011. The main goal of this app was to offer great marketing solutions for small to medium businesses. This software was designed to offer marketing tools to small businesses, which are easy to afford, however, flok is now being used in much bigger franchises and it's the most popular services in states like UK, Australia, Canada, and the US. flok is great because it offers quality products at good prices. These prices are Starter (19.90$ a month), VIP (79.90$ a month) and Ultimate (119.90$ a month).\nAfter hearing a lot about this service, we decided to have a look at it. Now, we have a brief review of the flok to help you understand better about this service. Have a look.\nflok Interface\nflok interface is very simplistic, yet effective. You won't have many problems finding the data that you need here. On the home page, there is a weekly goal, info about email subscribers and social reach, as well as info about your members and number of cards completed. Here, we are talking about punch cards, as flok is punch card app, where you can earn punches when a customer visits. On the left side of the interface, there is a Reward tab, where you can see your rewards.\nThere you can find info about your Growth, or read an Email if there is such. The right side of the app interface is focused on chatting and live feed, focused on your actions and customer's visits. Overall, the interface is stellar. There isn't anything special about it, and while it's not colorful or vivid, it's very straightforward and business-oriented, which is great in this case.\nflok Features\nSince the initial release, developers of this app worked on many new features, which are introduced in order to make flok more accessible and functional, and some of them are:\nThis feature is great because it allows the users to manually take a note of every customer, in order to improve communication with that particular customer. This can be useful if you need to take a note about some information about that customer.\nIn our opinion, this is the best feature in this app, which greatly improves the communication with a customer. This chat, however, isn't a classic chat which you can see on social media but is rather pointed towards customers, in order to ask questions about your products, etc. It has a Chatbot feature, which you can program to answer different questions, with different answers. This can take a lot of work from you, but if you want to communicate with your customers, you can also do it by yourself.\nA chatbot is great, but there are surely some questions that can be unanswered this way, so we recommend to indulge yourself in chat. However, I personally wouldn't use it, except for the few questions maybe, as I like to communicate with people personally. I would use it for birthdays for example because it can be programmed using triggers, which can be activated if it's your or customer's birthday or any other event.\nTraffic Tracking is a very important feature in this kind of app. It allows you to see how many people are interested or are looking at your virtual store. On top of that, you can see when did it occur and follow your progress through the time.\nEmail marketing is today one of the most efficient ways to do your marketing. Fortunately, flok offers this feature, and while it's not the best tool for it, it's still a great app, especially if we take into consideration that it's free (at least for download). It aims to fulfill the needs of those who aren't that demanding and have simple email marketing needs. In this case, flok is all that you need, and will surely be of great use to you.\nSimple interface: As we said, very straightforward interface, with all features accessible at all time.\nSolid pricing: While the pricings we mentioned earlier may look expensive to you, believe me, they aren\u2019t. flok offers very good pricing for the services, depending on your business size.\nNumerous features: Although the interface is simple, it offers many features to choose from, and we mentioned them above. Other features include proximity marketing, club member management and much more.\nSome complaints about billing and refunding: These problems often occur when the user cancel an account, in form of charge. Fortunately, flok developers are working on this issue, and we hope to encounter this less often.\nAvailability: flok is still unfamiliar for many users, as it\u2019s available only for smartphones. flok can be downloaded for iPhone or Android devices, which is currently, a big limitation for some users.\nSo, let's put a verdict on this review- is flok a good app for improving your overall business? Yes, it is. Through the years, flok underwent some major updates and became an almost ideal tool for giving a competitive edge in business. Sure, there are some flaws, regarding customer relations, but I'm not in doubt that this will be fixed in a matter of time.\nDownload flok for Android\nDownload flok for iOS\nIt is a good app for small businesses, it has all features to maintain rewards and points.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 11606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ign.com/articles/2018/08/29/a-quiet-place-and-top-gun-sequels-sonic-movie-and-more-get-updated-release-dates", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:3QBYWQZAJJALSN27DHKDMRBGSA3VHXCT", "length": 1273, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.ign.com", "title": "A Quiet Place and Top Gun Sequels, Sonic Movie and More Get Updated Release Dates - IGN", "raw_content": "A Quiet Place and Top Gun Sequels, Sonic Movie and More Get Updated Release Dates\nA Quiet Place 2, Top Gun: Maverick, More Have New Release Dates\nThe A Quiet Place sequel is now hitting theaters on May 15, 2020.\nParamount has changed release dates for a few of its biggest upcoming movies, including the Sonic the Hedgehog film.\nDeadline reports the live-action/CGI hybrid Sonic the Hedgehog movie will now be released on November 8, 2019 instead of November 15, 2019. Meanwhile, the sequel to A Quiet Place will hit theaters on May 15, 2020, with John Krasinski penning the screenplay.\nTop Gun: Maverick has been delayed by almost a year. Tom Cruise's Top Gun sequel was originally set to open on July 12, 2019, but will now hit theaters on June 26, 2020.\nAdditionally, the new Terminator film starring Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger has been moved from November 22, 2019 to November 15, 2019.\nThe Saddest Robot Deaths in Movies and TV\nFrom the Iron Giant to Roy Batty, these are the most tear-jerking robot death scenes in TV and film.\nWarner Bros./DeLaurentis Entertainment Group\nFor more on these upcoming movies, find out who's voicing Sonic and check out this first look at Linda Hamilton in the new Terminator project.\nA Quiet Place 2 Releases May 15, 2020", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 5090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ignatius.com/Joan-of-Arc-P1313.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:42Z", "digest": "sha1:7GUCODW42RPWQL2YU2UORY3FHB5DHUTV", "length": 2427, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ignatius.com", "title": "Joan of Arc", "raw_content": "Home > Books > Fiction-Literature > Saints >\nProduct Code: JAP\nFiction-Literature > Saints\nVery few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve years in research and many months in France doing archival work and then made several attempts until he felt he finally had the story he wanted to tell. He reached his conclusion about Joan's unique place in history only after studying in detail accounts written by both sides, the French and the English.\nBecause of Mark Twain's antipathy to institutional religion, one might expect an anti-Catholic bias toward Joan or at least toward the bishops and theologians who condemned her. Instead one finds a remarkably accurate biography of the life and mission of Joan of Arc told by one of this country's greatest storytellers. The very fact that Mark Twain wrote this book and wrote it the way he did is a powerful testimony to the attractive power of the Catholic Church's saints. This is a book that really will inform and inspire.\n\u201c I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well. And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others; twelve years of preparation, and two years of writing. The others needed no preparation and got none.\u201d\n\u201cMark Twain comes furtively like Nicodemus at night with this tribute to one of God\u2019s saints. In doing so he tells a secret about himself. It is as though the man in a white suit and a cloud of cigar smoke thought there just might be a place where people in white robes stand in clouds of incense.\u201d\n\u0097 Fr. George Rutler, Author, The Cure d\u2019Ars Today\n\"Twain's understanding of history and Joan's place in it accounts for his regarding his book Joan of Arc as worth all of his other books together.\"\n\u0097 Edward Wagenknecht, The Man and His Work\n\"Joan of Arc is the lone example that history affords of an actual, real embodiment of all the virtues demonstrated by Huck and Jim and of all that Twain felt to be noble in man, Joan is the ideal toward which mankind strives. Twain had to tell her story because she is the sole concrete argument against the pessimistic doctrines of his deterministic philosophy.\"\n\u0097 Robert Wiggins, Mark Twain: Jackleg Novelist\nRead more about Mark Twain's favorite novel, Joan of Arc, by clicking here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 500, "original_length": 9529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ignore-gravity.com/blog/idea-accelerator-for-mercedes-benz-germany", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:N6OY7KGCFHGB2EMSIZUN6OIYXL3DXXBQ", "length": 716, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ignore-gravity.com", "title": "Ignore Gravity | Idea Accelerator for Mercedes-Benz Germany", "raw_content": "Over the course of 2.5 weeks, 15 employees of Mercedes-Benz Germany invented and developed 100 new ideas and business models for the future sales, service and financing of mobility.\nTogether with founders, mentors, coaches and more experts, we guided them through the various stages of our Idea Accelerator \u2013 from inspiration over ideation to innovation.\nOn the final day, the participants pitched their business ideas in front of a jury consisting of Mercedes-Benz executives and startup experts, who were clearly impressed by their outstanding performance. Jury board member and CEO of Axel Springer Plug & Play, J\u00f6rg Rheinboldt said: \u2018I am blown away by the ideas and the quality of thoughts that went into them.\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 335.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iied.org/informality-formalisation-artisanal-small-scale-mining-sector", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:43Z", "digest": "sha1:OM4LYQ3EUPTPMIOZCPU5ARRW7RN77VLZ", "length": 4943, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.iied.org", "title": "Informality and formalisation in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector | International Institute for Environment and Development", "raw_content": "Almost 15 to 20 per cent of the world's gold is produced informally by artisanal and small scale miners (ASM), along with 80 per cent of its sapphires and up to 20 per cent of all diamonds.\nASM includes the criminal and the opportunistic, the warlord and the gang leader, the child, the woman, the man, the marginalised, exploited and subsistence. The sector has capital and skills, and extreme poverty and vulnerability \u2014 leading to deep social problems. This complexity makes it extremely hard for governments to regulate or 'formalise'.\nSocial problems emerge because people who operate 'informally' \u2013 either criminally and in direct contravention of laws, or because laws are inadequate and don't include them \u2013 are bereft of the protections and guidance of the state and its advisors (including a wealth of local and global expertise from the World Bank, the UN, civil society, government foreign affairs and so on).\nThe International Institute for Environment and Development and its partners have published two papers that talk directly to these challenges at the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development 10th Annual General Meeting in Geneva from 21-24 October.\nPersistent informality leads to social harm\nA case study on efforts to formalise artisanal and small scale mining in Colombia by Cristina Echavarria \u2013 published jointly by IIED and the Alliance for Responsible Mining in Colombia \u2013 highlights the persistence of informality in the sector. Currently 72 per cent of all mining operations in Colombia are artisanal and small scale, and 63 per cent are informal. This is despite formalisation efforts by successive governments over 26 years and 27 separate laws, amendments and policy plans.\nIn a worst case scenario, the social problems caused by an underrepresented ASM industry look like a pregnant woman with her four-year-old son hauling rocks (PDF) and being exposed to mercury fumes through the processing of gold from ore. Or a nine-year-old boy, slight enough to reach the deepest and darkest corners of a badly constructed tunnel, working in a space that is liable to collapse at any time.\nIt also looks like a gang leader who migrates from site to site taking his team of workers, disturbing local communities, paying with subsistence levels of food, and using profits to trade guns, buy motorbikes and live a comfortable life.\nAlthough overly simplistic, these stories nonetheless demonstrate the diversity in the sector and the social problems that persist due to informality.\nWhere formalisation policies go wrong\nSo why are government formalisation polices failing to protect the most vulnerable?\nIIED's briefing on labour in ASM networks in the Philippines, published under the Shaping Sustainable Markets initiative in partnership with the University of Ghent's Conflict Research Group and the Alternate Forum for Research in Mindanao, highlights how formalisation efforts often focus on property-like mining claims \u2013 awarding licences to those who have some sort of mining title.\nThese inevitably end up benefitting the wealthy and excluding the most vulnerable, which in the Philippine case study, includes two thirds of the ASM workforce.\nWhat role do big mining companies with ASM operating on their concession have to play in finding mutually beneficial solutions? Too often groups are dismissed as \"illegal\" because they haven't registered a mining claim. Working only with those who have a formal claim risks magnifying the problem.\nBoth governments and companies are making some progress. The Colombian government's most recent formalisation initiative creates a Formalisation Office within the Ministry of Mines, recognising that formalisation is a process and not a one-off action.\nNational 'dialogues' that aim to involve all stakeholders, have also collected local knowledge and perspectives so these can help inform policy. And evidence is emerging of successful operation contracts between large and small scale mining.\nIn the Philippines, new laws aim to protect labourers. Financiers must secure IDs for diggers and in the future create labour contracts and provide basic health and social insurance. This provides some protection to part of the labour force, which is more reliable and disciplined, and increases fees and regulatory control to governments, who may then be able to tackle some of the ongoing social and environmental problems.\nBut above all, artisanal and small-scale mining needs an approach that recognises the sector's value and works with the reality of what is there rather than trying to stamp this industry out. The route to the 'right sort of formalisation' for artisanal mining is to listen and respond to local voices \u2014 people 'at the coal face' doing the dirty work of hauling, packing and processing minerals and ores we all end up using.\nAbbi Buxton (abbi.buxton@iied.org) is a researcher with IIED's Sustainable Markets Group", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 7344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ilgiardinodialice.it/products-widgets/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:37Z", "digest": "sha1:OLJZIFVTENCT65ZYIGTFLDWCGHAHYB7M", "length": 325, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ilgiardinodialice.it", "title": "Products widgets - Il Giardino di Alice", "raw_content": "Ischia \u20ac160.00\nTelling someone how you really feel can be a daunting task. 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Now that the presidential campaign is behind us, the Pence administration is going to court to argue for its own brand of email secrecy. Check out this story on IndyStar.com: http://indy.st/2fRqYb9\nFatima Hussein, IndyStar Published 5:03 a.m. ET Nov. 14, 2016 | Updated 9:20 a.m. ET Nov. 19, 2016\nIt all started with a joint lawsuit the Indiana governor filled against the U.S. government. Nate Chute/IndyStar\nMike Pence wants his communications limited from public access. Experts say this sets a \"dangerous precedent.\"\nGov. Mike Pence(Photo11: IndyStar file photo)Buy Photo\nNow that the presidential campaign and most of the furor over Hillary Clinton's email scandal are behind us, the Pence administration is going to court to argue for its own brand of email secrecy.\nThe administration is fighting to conceal the contents of an email sent to Gov. Mike Pence by a political ally. That email is being sought by a prominent Democratic labor lawyer who says he wants to expose waste in the Republican administration.\nBut legal experts fear the stakes may be much higher than mere politics because the decision could remove a judicial branch check on executive power and limit a citizen's right to know what the government is doing and how it spends taxpayer dollars.\n\"It comes down to this \u2014 the court is giving up its ability to check another branch of government, and that should worry people,\" said Gerry Lanosga, an Indiana University media professor specializing in public records law.\nIn the case, Indianapolis attorney William Groth is appealing a decision handed down by Marion Superior Court in April, which decided that redactions the administration made to a public record could not be second-guessed by the court.\nThe focal point in the case is a political \u201cwhite paper\u201d that had been excluded from Groth\u2019s public records request.\nPence\u2019s legal defense team claims the white paper is attorney work product protected by Indiana\u2019s Access to Public Records Act \u2014 and at the end of the day, matters of public records are not for a court to decide.\nGroth argues the lower court misapplied the law.\n\u201cI think governmental transparency is an important concern of anyone who lives in a democracy \u2013 the governor cannot put himself above the law,\u201d Groth told the IndyStar.\nHow the case came about\nThe matter stems from a lawsuit filed after President Barack Obama announced in November 2014 that he was taking new steps to \"fix America\u2019s broken immigration system.\" Those steps included offering deferred enforcement of immigration laws for parents of children born in the United States, and for children who entered the United States before they were 16 years old.\nThe action drew the ire of Republican governors across the country, including Pence, who called the policy a \"profound mistake.\"\nPence, joined in on a lawsuit led by Texas Gov. Greg Abbot in State of Texas, et al v. United States, with the blessing of the Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller. Zoeller's office did not respond to IndyStar requests for comment.\nPence hired Indianapolis law firm Barnes & Thornburg to join the Texas litigation. A representative from the firm \u2014 which is also representing Pence in this case \u2014 did not respond to IndyStar requests for interview.\nIn December 2014, Groth requested information regarding Pence's decision to hire outside counsel and the cost to Indiana taxpayers.\n\"I think joining the lawsuit without the attorney general and hiring that firm was a waste of taxpayer dollars and the people have the right to know how much of their money was spent,\u201d Groth said. Groth is known in Indiana for representing the plaintiffs in the 2008 U.S. Supreme Court voter identification case, Crawford v. Marion County Election Board.\nPence produced the documents in the request \u201cbut those documents included substantial redaction,\u201d according to court documents.\nThe 57-page response also included an email that Daniel Hodge, Abbott's chief of staff, sent to 30 recipients in various states asking them to join the lawsuit against Obama.\nThe message included an attached white paper, but the governor failed to produce the document, according to court records.\nAfter a yearlong trial, the Superior Court held that the issue was not a matter for the courts to decide, citing a Indiana Supreme Court case decided just days before.\nIn a 4-1 ruling, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in Citizens Action Coalition, et al. v. Indiana House Rep., that under the Indiana Constitution\u2019s separation of powers clause the legislature's redactions were nonjusticiable, a legal term that means not for the court to decide. Groth was also the attorney representing the plaintiffs in that case.\nGroth appealed in June and the Indiana Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. at the Statehouse, where each side will be allowed 20 minutes for arguments.\n'A dangerous legal precedent'\nPaul Jefferson, a former professor of state constitutional law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, said the major question for the appellate court to decide is \"whether they're going to extend that (Citizens Action Coalition, et al. v. 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A Bring-Your-Own-Identity (BYOI) approach at the enterprise level is expected to drive much of this growth.\nThe concept of BYOI has become something of a fixture in most people\u2019s daily lives. Research suggests that the average internet user will have 207 online accounts by 2020 \u2013 requiring users to remember a lot of different passwords and login combinations. Features like single sign on enable consumers to sign into online services and applications using a single login from Facebook or another social media platform. In this way, they can access services more quickly, and aren\u2019t forced to remember dozens or even hundreds of passwords.\nThe B2B world is taking longer to embrace BYOI, however. Despite its popularity with consumers, many enterprises are questioning whether the benefits outweigh the potential risks. Indeed, organisations are unlikely to allow access to their valuable corporate information through social media authentication. It\u2019s important, therefore, to employ a solution that delivers not only the speed and convenience, but also enterprise-grade security.\nIt\u2019s no coincidence that the acronym BYOI resembles BYOD; after all, the need for the former is a result of the latter\u2019s success. For more than a decade, employees have wanted to access corporate networks via their own personal devices. Today, BYOD has almost replaced the traditional model of using company-issued devices. In fact, some businesses have now embraced the trend to such an extent that they actively encourage employees to use their own devices, while ensuring that the appropriate levels of IAM and data security are in place.\nYet employees\u2019 access rights aren\u2019t an organisation\u2019s only concern. Secure access must also be granted quickly to customers and partners. The increase in the number of contractors used by businesses means a wide variety of different access rights and permissions to ensure productivity and security. Given such considerations, it\u2019s fair to say that IAM can now be viewed as a business enabler.\nCISO wishlist\nBusinesses may not be doing enough just yet. A large global survey released by the Ponemon Institute in 2018 revealed that more than two fifths of organisations are worried about the risk posed by their inability to secure access rights to data, systems and physical spaces. With the same study highlighting respondents\u2019 concerns about the cyber risks posed by organisations\u2019 use of digital identities (47 per cent) and employees\u2019 use of personal devices through BYOD schemes (35 per cent), it\u2019s perhaps unsurprising that IAM is quickly being recognised as an important priority for a more effective security infrastructure.\nIntroducing a BYOI strategy powered by enterprise IAM can help to meet these needs, but care must be taken with the planning, design and implementation to ensure it is simple and quick for employees to use. Respondents to the Ponemon survey admitted that a lack of suitable technologies (53 per cent) and an increase in complexity (31 per cent) were key concerns as factors that could cause a decline in their organisation\u2019s cybersecurity posture in the next three years.\nThe identity broker approach\nFundamental to BYOI is the creation of an identity entirely independent from any of the applications or networks for which it will be used. Instead of having to set up an identity on every single application, an identity can be established once and then applied to every resource that requires access. It\u2019s logical, therefore, that as BYOI gathers traction in the B2C space, social media companies are increasingly effectively becoming identity brokers, using cloud-based services in which a single user account is linked to identities from different sources.\nThis single user account can also be used as a form of BYOI linked to an organisation\u2019s applications and networks, thus blurring the line between business and personal, and creating a universal identity. Such an approach is currently being taken by the FIDO Alliance, a non-profit organisation led by tech giants including Google, Microsoft and PayPal, whose stated aim is to change the nature of online authentication. Despite the endorsement of such heavyweights, however, the identity broker approach isn\u2019t necessarily the right approach for many enterprises.\nGiven the huge importance placed on IAM as part of a modern information security strategy, it\u2019s debatable whether any organisation would want to outsource it to a third party, particularly a social media company. After all, not only would doing so create a single point of failure, but a social identity broker would inevitably become a prime target for hackers seeking a way into the corporate network \u2013 as seen all too clearly through hackers\u2019 success stealing Facebook access tokens to then take over users\u2019 accounts.\nWhat\u2019s more, creating individual user accounts would require every single user to work with the broker to ensure that their relevant information is both stored centrally and consistently updated. While this may have its advantages in the long term, the fact that each user will need to register with a broker before they\u2019re able to access their company\u2019s resources seems somewhat counter-intuitive.\nBYOI benefits for all parties\nAs mentioned above, identity management concerns more than just an organisation\u2019s employees; it is necessary for everyone that needs to access information with that organisation. Fortunately, advanced IAM platforms that work on an \u2018outside in\u2019 model are capable of delivering identity management solutions which address everyone and everything that needs to be properly identified, managed, and granted appropriate access rules \u2013 offering much more than just single sign on for internal users.\nBYOI is essentially an extension of this. A manufacturer connected to a retailer via a B2B integration network, for example, may secure business with another retailer. 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By doing so, and in an era in which information security is ever more important, BYOI can become a true business enabler.\nJohn Notman, Director of Product Marketing, OpenText\nImage Credit: Dom J / Pexels\nBYOI", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 8345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.iwhiteinstant.com/ca/technology", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:37Z", "digest": "sha1:SMQQGNZ3SXF6XNQLD252RBP2NTR4OGHF", "length": 1042, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.iwhiteinstant.com", "title": "Technology | iWhite Instant", "raw_content": "A clinical study was conducted at the offices of an independent, well-respected expert. This dentist was the former president of the Belgian Academy of Esthetic Dentistry (BAED) and member of several academies of esthetic research and has been performing whitening procedures for more than 20 years. Results from this study on the effectiveness of iWhite Instant showed an average of 4.8 shades, while some patients had results of 8 shades after one 20 minute treatment!\nShade Improvement (SH)\nPercentage of Patients (%)\nPhotos of how the clinical test was done at the dental office.\nPhoto was taken before the treatment with Vita Classical shadeguide to determine the tooth colour\nThis shade guide standard incorporates 16 shades, systematically arranged from light to dark into four colour groups, and provides a universal tooth-colour terminology. 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She currently divides her time between West Hartford, Connecticut and New York City.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 53.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.janhaworth.com/thanks-ryr.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:36Z", "digest": "sha1:XQYZ2J2PPJ3WVZWIONUWRWMZC3Q64AUY", "length": 142, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.janhaworth.com", "title": "Thanks RYR - Jan Haworth", "raw_content": "Take a minute to pat yourself on the back. You have just taken the first step towards looking after yourself and getting back to the real you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2262, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jarofquotes.com/view.php?id=what-is-success-i-think-most-important-thing-is-to-achieve-what-you-set-out-to-achieve-just-being-ceo-in-itself-is-not-success-i-would-not-relate-paul-polman", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:BAROD37ALCOIX2TBCGK5YLEZJVRKMXDH", "length": 1120, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.jarofquotes.com", "title": "\ufeff What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. 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Jar of Quotes, 2019. https://www.jarofquotes.com/view.php?id=what-is-success-i-think-most-important-thing-is-to-achieve-what-you-set-out-to-achieve-just-being-ceo-in-itself-is-not-success-i-would-not-relate-paul-polman, accessed .\n\"Paul Polman Quotes.\" Jar of Quotes, 2019. . https://www.jarofquotes.com/view.php?id=what-is-success-i-think-most-important-thing-is-to-achieve-what-you-set-out-to-achieve-just-being-ceo-in-itself-is-not-success-i-would-not-relate-paul-polman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 14030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 208.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/5079439618605056/ive-been-love-jehovah-witness-without-knowing-long-time-he-hid-from-everyone", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:40Z", "digest": "sha1:QB32TTZLFQHGFBFBL7EBT4IYEQQTY7NU", "length": 12355, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.jehovahs-witness.com", "title": "I've been in love with a Jehovah Witness without knowing it for a long time, he hid it from everyone.", "raw_content": "I've been in love with a Jehovah Witness without knowing it for a long time, he hid it from everyone.\nby sakurafeathers 16 Replies latest social relationships\nsakurafeathers\nHello :) So I know this guy for almost 6 years, i met him when i was 15 and i felt in love. Now I\u2019m 21 and he is 22. We were in the same class and got along very well and he seemed to like me too. When I confessed, face to face he haven't admitted and he haven't denied it and he acted like he liked me too but couldn't be with me because reasons bigger than him, but I was too young to understand and he was young to handle the pressure he had. We remained friends and in 2014 he told me he was jehovah witness and told me a lot about his life and how it was hard and how it conditioned his behaviour because he was embarrassed about it, so nobody knew and he hide is religion all high school time. For some months he told me a lot about his religion and he liked to talk with me, we talked on facebook because we couldn't meet. But he started to be a cold person and when I asked about his feelings again, he have run away from the subject and got a little upset. Since that time (it was September 2015) we just talked tree times and it was very small messages. Until 2 weeks ago\u2026 I went to the place where he works so I could invite him to go to a caf\u00e9 or something so we could clarify everything about his feelings for me and his religion because I really want to move one and free myself from this, but I couldn\u2019t ask it because his brother and mother work there too, so we texted after that and I told him. He was very kind and never got angry with me, he was very patient. But he was supposed to let me free to move on and find a future for myself and he said that I should try not to think about him, not in a way to forget him, because he thinks that\u2019s almost impossible (I never said that) but just because I need new thoughts. And of course he denied my invitation for going somewhere to talk. But then he said that when our young minds are not unstable anymore, in that time we could see each other. I wasn\u2019t expecting nothing like this\u2026 but I know a lot about Jehovah witnesses and I now their rules about dating. I\u2019m not a Jehovah witness, I\u2019m what they call a non-believer but I respect their religion and I respect this boy a lot! The thing that is bothering me is that I don\u2019t know his intentions with inviting me when we are old enough to meet. I mean, he knows very well my feelings, he knows this is giving me hope, but he never completely let me go, our relationship never really ends. Due to all his rules, is he just trying to just stay friends with me? But if it\u2019s is just to remain friends why wait to actually meet up and talk? I\u2019ve been thinking a lot and is there any chance that he his planning on giving me an opportunity when we are old enough to marry? (It is funny because when we were young he asked me several times to marry him and maybe it was because of his rules). I mean, he his a jehovah witness but he is a good guy and very kind to me, he has a lot of rules about dating, I think he saying that we could meet when we are mature enough, should mean something. Can you give me some opinions? (Sorry for such a long post!).\nP.S. I\u2019m not planning on converting for him if there is a chance for us to marry. I like him the way he was and he know the way I am and he never tried already to convert me. I know is hard but I just read some stories on people who could actually make that work. I would like to try. I know I am young but he is special and it\u2019s not a crush at all. And he is a Jehovah witness since some years ago, he hasn\u2019t born in it and at least his father\u2019s side family is not Jehovah witnesses.\nIt could be that he is struggling with his feelings for you and his years of indoctrination and being lost in a mental maze. Understand that if he pursues a relationship with you, it will likely impact his relationship with his family and friends.\nAt the very least, he might be \"marked\", which means a talk will be given about him, and everyone who knows the situation will have to withdraw socially. At most, going down this road might get him disfellowshipped, where everyone he knows would have to shun him, not even saying hello if they see him.\nMake no mistake that it is a cult...too often have people come on this forum in this same situation and it rarely ends well for anyone.\nMy suggestion is to move on in your life and forget him. I know that is harsh, but you need to face reality. He is very conflicted between his beliefs and his feelings for you, but he needs to pick one and commit, otherwise there is no future for you, he is doing you a disservice by holding out hope of a possible relationship, it's cruel. The problem is that this is not a normal religion, it is a cult. They keep people tied up in these feelings of fear, obligation and guilt, it's really difficult to get them to make rational, independent decisions.\nEven if he did marry you your life would forever revolve around his beliefs. You may think you could work with that, but it will get old. He will be looked down on for having married outside \"the truth\", you will be considered less than by everyone he knows. What happens when you have children? Do you want them going to the kingdom hall to be told everyone but Jehovah's Witnesses will die soon at Armageddon? Trust me, he will feel an obligation to teach them these things. Do you want to celebrate Christmas, birthdays and other holidays by yourself? This is the reality of life as an \"unbelieving mate\".\nLisaRose's post above ^^^ summed it up well.\nIn my experience, teenagers who keep their religious affiliation on the down-low do it because they're embarrassed about it.\nThis - in and of itself - suggests to me that if a good enough reason came along, they'd at least consider fading.\nIf he won't, though, my advice is to cut your losses and move on.\nFor some months he told me a lot about his religion and he liked to talk with me, we talked on facebook because we couldn't meet. But he started to be a cold person and when I asked about his feelings again, he have run away from the subject and got a little upset. Since that time (it was September 2015) we just talked tree times and it was very small messages.\nUntil 2 weeks ago\u2026 I went to the place where he works so I could invite him to go to a caf\u00e9 or something so we could clarify everything about his feelings for me and his religion because I really want to move one and free myself from this, but I couldn\u2019t ask it because his brother and mother work there too, so we texted after that and I told him. He was very kind and never got angry with me, he was very patient. But he was supposed to let me free to move on and find a future for myself and he said that I should try not to think about him\nThere seems to be something really off here. That telling you about his religion was probably an attempt to get you interested in becoming a JW. Becoming cold towards you was probably because you weren't interested in becoming a JW. They tend to be very intolerant and disrespectful of non JWs.\nWhat I am getting is that he sorta likes to have you in the picture but there's no real commitment going on nor even respect for your long term friendship or your feelings. He's kept you out of his life long enough for you to get the idea that there's no future with him.\nSince you seem to be pursuing him it appears to be costing you more then you need.\nIt's time to cut him loose and move on with your life.\nFeel free to stay in contact with this forum. Many have gone through what you are experiencing and are willing to share information about their past relationship with a JW.\nUnless he stops attending the meetings and fades (I hope you know the term), do not bother starting a relationship with him. Everything LisaRose wrote in her post is true. I have to confirm that a life with a Jehovah's Witness is incredibly hard. Does it work out for some people? Well, yes, it does; I've seen that myself. However, it's extremely rare. In most cases, the couple ends up separating and divorcing.\nConsider LisaRose's questions seriously. What will you do if and when you have children? Other Jehovah's Witnesses will pressure him and subsequently \"force\" him to teach your kids \"the truth.\" He will be pressured to take your kids to the Kingdom Hall, where they will be taught that blood transfusions and holidays, such as Christmas and Halloween, are bad and forbidden. They will be taught that you, as an unbeliever, are controlled by Satan. That stuff can break your heart. And even if you won't have children, as LisaRose pointed out, you will have to celebrate holidays on your own, without him. When you'll start living together and decide to invite his friends (Jehovah's Witnesses) to your place for a meal, any conversations will be centered around their beliefs. Your guy may not try to convert you, but his friends would certainly attempt to do that. That would be an incredibly hard life.\nUnless he fades and leaves this religion, do not bother. I repeat; do NOT try to have a relationship with him. Don't take my words as a harsh commandment, though. Take it as a friendly advice from the community of ex-Jehovah's Witnesses who have years of experience with the cult. It almost never works out in real life.\nWhile you have been seemingly more than casual friends for upwards of 6 years, your reluctance to be even seen by his parents and brother seems to imply they don't even know you exist and you realize that your presence would cause a huge problem.\nIsn't it extremely strange that someone who is supposedly so important to him, is not known to his immediate family? You are being treated as a non-person yet, you continue to accept that treatment.\nWhile you infer you want to move-on to find someone else, your statement: 'But he was supposed to let me free to move on and find a future for myself ...' implies he is in full control and you are helpless.\nRegardless of whether or not this relationship has any hope to continue, take control of yourself... for your own self worth, health and happiness.\nAre these self-worth issues a result of treatment by him?\nWhile he implies wanting to delay until older, you are both over 21 so, how old is old enough? You are now adults and don't need anyone else to give permission to establish a relationship, or to at least talk in-person.\nHe appears to be postponing any commitment to either move forward or to end the relationship, giving you a false hope of a potential future with him.\nFind someone who is worthy of your love and is proud to be in a relationship with you.\nMy two cents' worth - cut your losses and move ahead with your life. I read others' posts here about him possibly fading and leaving this religion (cult). Even if he were to do that, there are no guarantees that he wouldn't choose to go back into it sometime down the road. Even though my husband had left the JWs years before I met him, he chose to rejoin 8 years after we were married, and took me with him :( He often said that \"you can leave the truth, but the truth never really leaves you.\" He also said that when he met me he thought \"here's a nice lady who is caring and kind and doesn't smoke or drink or swear - she'd make a great JW wife\". That creeps me out now! In other words, he had a plan - maybe not consciously.\nIf the future I was contemplating had been spelled out to me like it's been spelled out to you in these posts, I'd have run for the hills. I'm making good on my promise to myself to leave this religion and I'm very proud of myself for the steps I've taken, but it's a hard hard road! It may very well mean the end of my 22 year marriage. The divide is so great now - I long for an authentically lived life again.\nSo, my dear, save yourself a whole lot of pain and cut yourself away. It will be painful now, but you can do it. You will be saving yourself from a much greater pain in the future. Keeping telling yourself that.\nThat's more than two cents' worth. I'm notorious for not taking other people's advice so I understand if you don't listen, but just know that the good people on this forum are always here for you.\nI hope you heed the advice here. 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Using the knowledge gained from our own systems and those designed for other clients, our in-house IT team are able to advise on IT related matters with first-hand experience. We can install software, provide training and help you to obtain the best from your chosen system. Our expertise enables a complete range of services to be offered, including:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 3294, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 145.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jmfieldmarketing.com/tag/bt-q1-2009/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IXRNADFX4PSRN3ZDB6X3QGSJFY57NV5Z", "length": 174, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.jmfieldmarketing.com", "title": "BT-Q1-2009 Archives - J.M. Field Marketing", "raw_content": "5 Tips For Dealing With a Computer Virus\nNothing can guarantee the security of your computer one hundred percent of the time. You can continue to improve your... View Article", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 1683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 324.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.jmu.edu/bsisat/community-engagement/index.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:26Z", "digest": "sha1:IAQZF2SCIYKBPPBUQ66JFXU6JQHG2CKT", "length": 4614, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.jmu.edu", "title": "James Madison University - B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology - Community Engagement", "raw_content": "B.S. in Integrated Science and Technology - Community Engagement\nISAT provides a variety of learning opportunities and resources in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) for teachers and students in grades K-16.\nSpear-headed by the Computer Science Department, and supported by ISAT faculty, the Virginia First Lego League (headquartered at James Madison) now sponsors several regional competitions around the state as well as a state final competition in Harrisonburg. The competition involves thousands of students ages 9-14 in team- based challenges focused on robotics engineering and scientific research. It's a fun, educational, and challenging way for students to learn more about real-life technical challenges and to come up with their own creative solutions. The JMU College of Integrated Science and Technology hosts the Harrisonburg Regional Competition, as well as coaching workshops. For more information, contact Dr. Ralph Grove, Computer Science Department.\nThe Geospatial Semester is an innovative dual-enrollment project helping students earn JMU credit as they learn about geospatial technologies and do research projects in their high school classes. Focusing on locally-based research projects, students are able to develop problem-solving skills in the context of working with real data. Contact Dr. Bob Kolvoord for more information.\nNational Center for Rural STEM Outreach\nNational Center for Rural STEM Outreach Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the National Center for Rural STEM Outreach focused on providing training in geospatial technologies to rural middle school teachers. Emphasizing geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems, the Center provided professional development and curriculum materials. Contact Dr. Bob Kolvoord for more information. Click the link above to access curricular resources for this project.\nThe Professor-in-Residence Program\nProfessor in Residence Program (PIR) is a James Madison University (JMU) outreach endeavor to promote the educational attainment and college aspirations of Virginia high school students. Several ISAT professor participate in the program.\nScience on a Sphere is an exciting new tool that allows students and teachers to interact with scientific data on a \"life-size\" 3-D globe. Using state-of-the-art visualization technology, Science on a Sphere lets students experience the excitement of discovery as they explore real-world data. Please contact Christie-Joy Broderick Hartman for more information.\nCenter for STEM Education and Outreach\nThe STEM Education and Outreach Center's mission is to foster high-quality science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education for all students in grades K-16. We work with students, teachers, parents, policymakers and the general public by supporting high quality curriculum and professional development and sharing the many resources of JMU faculty, staff, and students with schools across Virginia.\nThe Small Wind Training and Testing Facility (SWTTF) has been up and running since June of 2012. Thanks to the Center for Wind Energy at James Madison University, hundreds of college and K-12 students have toured the facility and learned about integrating wind and solar energy into their everyday lives.\nThe facility offers the capacity for characterizing and field-testing new, small-wind and solar technologies, thus providing students the skills and hands-on experience they will need to join these industries. The Center for Wind Energy offers summer\ninternships to students interested in renewable energy, and has provided advisement and guidance for capstone projects within the College of Integrated Science and Technology.\nCenter for Wind Energy at JMU\nThe Center for Wind Energy (CWE) at James Madison University (JMU) focuses on research, education, and outreach to advance wind energy deployment by providing wind-related services to local governments, state agencies, landowners, non-governmental organizations, businesses, and academic and educational communities. These services include wind resource assessments, economic modeling, education & outreach, energy policy analysis, assessment of technical specifications, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis, all to support the strategic deployment of wind power throughout the Commonwealth.\nWith the assistance of undergraduate and graduate students, CWE focuses on research projects with national, regional, and local implications.\nTo learn about internships at CWE or capstone projects contact Dr. Jonathan Miles at 540-568-3044, or milesjj@jmu.edu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 10408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 176.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.johaylen.com/jo_haylen_to_speak_at_local_community_forum_on_round_the_clock_rns_in_aged_care", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:54Z", "digest": "sha1:GZ7KFP4PAHB3BJ6GGZLMOQQXKSOCZF4Z", "length": 5819, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.johaylen.com", "title": "Jo Haylen to Speak at Local Community Forum on Round-The-Clock RNs in Aged Care - Jo Haylen MP", "raw_content": "media releases, health, public services,\nJo Haylen to Speak at Local Community Forum on Round-The-Clock RNs in Aged Care\nThis Wednesday, Labor Candidate for Summer Hill Jo Haylen, will speak at a community forum supporting the requirement for all aged care facilities in NSW to have a registered nurse on duty at all times.\nThe NSW Nurses and Midwives Association is hosting the forum at Wests Ashfield Club on Wednesday night from 6pm. (Details)\nClr Haylen will also put a motion to Marrickville Council to oppose the Baird government\u2019s plan to remove round-the-clock care by registered nurses from nursing homes. There are almost 20 aged care facilities in Marrickville and Summer Hill areas that would be affected by the plan.\nAs part of its health policy, NSW Labor would legislate to extend the legal requirement that NSW aged care facilities must have a registered nurse on duty at all times.\n\u201cLabor\u2019s plan will ensure there is always a senior nurse on duty in every NSW aged care facility. I know this issue is very important to many members of the community in Summer Hill who have family in aged-care. This plan will ensure the well-being of residents and provide peace of mind to family members with loved ones in nursing homes,\u201d Clr Haylen said.\n\u201cThis measure would also support nurses and protects aged care residents, particularly those in high care.\u201d\nCurrently, the registered nurse requirement is only in place in NSW until December 2015, and NSW is the only Australian jurisdiction with this requirement.\nRegistered nurses oversee medications, including side effects; undertake nursing procedures like wound care and urinary catheters; provide palliative care and support and supervise (ENs) enrolled nurses and (AiNs) assistants in nursing.\nThe NSW Public Health Act 2010 requires all \u2018nursing homes\u2019 in NSW to have a registered nurse on duty 24 hours a day seven days a week, but, last year, changes to the Commonwealth Aged Care Act 1997 by the Abbott Government impacted on the NSW Public Health Act. This removed the requirement to have a registered nurse on duty.\nHowever, on June 13, 2014, NSW Health Minister Jillian Skinner wrote to the NSW aged care sector putting forward an interim measure until December 2015. She said she wanted to consult with nursing home operators. Labor will make the registered nurse requirement permanent.\nThe registered nurse requirement would also reduce the number of transfers by aged care facilities of residents to the State\u2019s emergency departments \u2013 which are experiencing an increase in the number of older people presenting to hospital.\n\u201cNSW Labor understands the valuable role and support registered nurses provide to residents and other nurses. They ensure the high-quality of care of residents in aged care,\u201d Ms Haylen said.\nA Foley Labor Government will retain the requirement of registered nurses at all times in aged care facilities beyond December 2015.\nMOTION MOVED BY COUNCILLOR JO HAYLEN OVERPAGE\nThat Marrickville Council:\n1. acknowledges that all residents in nursing homes should be provided with quality care led by registered nurses;\n2. notes with concern the potential risk to residents of nursing homes across Marrickville of the removal of the requirement to have a registered nurse on duty at all times;\n3. supports the NSW Nurses and Midwives Association campaign RN 24/7 to ensure permanent legislation is in place requiring a registered nurse on duty at all times and the appointment of a director of nursing in all NSW nursing homes, as a minimum, and\n4. writes to the NSW Minister for Health, the Hon. Jullian Skinner MP and Shadow Minister for Health, Walt Secord MLC conveying this resolution.\nI bring to the attention of Council the potential risk to Marrickville residents and impact on the local health system of removing the State legislative requirement to have a registered nurse on duty at all times in nursing homes in NSW.\nThe NSW Public Health Act 2010 requires that \u2018a registered nurse is on duty in the nursing home at all times\u2019 and defines which aged care homes are nursing homes. In addition, the legislation requires a director of nursing is appointed for all nursing homes in NSW.\nThese requirements are at risk due to amended wording in the Commonwealth Aged Care Act 1997, effective from 1 July 2014, which affected the definitions in the NSW Public Health Act 2010 related to registered nurse staffing and the presence of a director of nursing.\nThe NSW Minister for Health has enacted an interim arrangement effective until the end of 2015, while consulting with the aged care sector. It is vital for quality of care that these requirements be placed permanently into NSW legislation.\nThere are approximately 10 Nursing homes across Marrickville, which could be affected.\nRegistered nurses provide skilled, clinical care to residents of NSW nursing homes with complex, high level needs. This includes assessing and managing changes in condition, providing pain relief and palliation, minimising discomfort or distress and preventing unnecessary hospital admissions.\nThe removal of registered nurses would see an increase in hospital admissions, placing additional and unnecessary pressure on the local health system, particularly already stretched Emergency Departments. It would also adversely impact on the care of frail elderly residents. We know that when admitted to hospital, older people stay longer and fare worse than other groups. It is much more effective to provide care in the nursing home, with in-reach support when needed and to minimise admissions via emergency departments.\nThe roles of the registered nurse and director of nursing in nursing homes are vital to the health and well being of the residents in aged care across Marrickville and to the state of the NSW health system more broadly.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 7213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.joinmyband.co.uk/classifieds/audio-engineer-looking-for-bands-t1142064.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:58Z", "digest": "sha1:Y77EAUBLJ4I5N7OU7KUQVS6WQFOHTB52", "length": 504, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.joinmyband.co.uk", "title": "Audio engineer looking for bands! (Derby, Derbyshire) - Musicians Wanted Ads at Join My Band", "raw_content": "Audio engineer looking for bands! Derby\nScottWest (Derby)\nI'm an audio engineer studying music technology course in Derby. I'm looking for bands to record so I could use their songs as my portfolio. I can offer professional recordings in a studio with industry standard equipment as well as post-production. All tracks must be originally written. If you're interested please drop me a message with examples of your work (doesn't have to be top quality) and an amount of tracks you'd be willing to record.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 309.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justenergy.com/about-us/in-the-news/just-energy-group-announces-credit-agreement-capacity-increase", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:05Z", "digest": "sha1:3GEDYMU3VF4G23WCGPW5CLOTTGGURZAE", "length": 2033, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.justenergy.com", "title": "Just Energy Group Announces Credit Agreement Capacity Increase", "raw_content": "Just Energy Group Announces Credit Agreement Capacity Increase\nTORONTO, ONTARIO \u2013 January 03, 2017\nJust Energy Group Inc. (\"Just Energy\"), a leading retail energy provider specializing in electricity and natural gas commodities, energy efficiency solutions, and renewable energy options, announced today that it has amended and restated its credit facility with its syndicate of lenders to increase the capacity under the credit facility by CDN $50 million to $342.5 million by adding a letter of credit facility (the \"LC Facility\"). The principal amount outstanding under the LC Facility is guaranteed by Export Development Canada (\"EDC\") under EDC's Account Performance Security Guarantee Program.\n\"We are pleased to announce the addition of the LC Facility through our long-time lender Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce with the support of EDC alongside our other existing banking relationships,\" said Chief Financial Officer Pat McCullough. \"Securing the LC Facility under EDC's Account Performance Security Guarantee Program validates our strong credit worthiness, business model and long-term outlook, while providing Just Energy with increased financial flexibility to support our growth strategy, focusing on new geographies, innovative products and new energy management solutions that will continue to disrupt the traditional utility model.\"\nEstablished in 1997, Just Energy (NYSE:JE, TSX:JE) is a leading retail energy provider specializing in electricity and natural gas commodities, energy efficiency solutions, and renewable energy options. With offices located across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Just Energy serves approximately two million residential and commercial customers providing homes and businesses with a broad range of energy solutions that deliver comfort, convenience and control. Just Energy Group Inc. is the parent company of Amigo Energy, Commerce Energy, Green Star Energy, Hudson Energy, Just Energy Solar, Tara Energy and TerraPass. Visit justenergygroup.com to learn more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 5055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/erie-man-sentenced-role-bank-robbery-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:27Z", "digest": "sha1:77GPQBVFSZYGSATQJMQYHN6JPHTIK5W5", "length": 1445, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.justice.gov", "title": "Erie Man Sentenced for Role in Bank Robbery | USAO-WDPA | Department of Justice", "raw_content": "Erie Man Sentenced for Role in Bank Robbery\nERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.\nBrian Alex Vergotz, 50, pleaded guilty to one count before United States District Judge David S. Cercone.\nIn connection with the guilty plea, the court was advised that from in and around May 2015, to in and around March 2016, Vergotz and a co-defendant engaged in a scheme to defraud auto loan providers by using straw purchasers to buy cars from Vergotz knowing that the vehicles would not actually be in the possession of the straw purchasers. Vergotz and a co-defendant also falsified the loan applications to make the straw purchasers appear more credit worthy.\nJudge Cercone scheduled sentencing for April 16, 2018. The law provides for a total sentence of 30 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both. Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, the actual sentence imposed is based upon the seriousness of the offense and the prior criminal history, if any, of the defendant.\nPending sentencing, the court continued Vergotz on bond.\nAssistant United States Attorney Christian A. Trabold is prosecuting this case on behalf of the government.\nThe Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Pennsylvania State Police and the Erie Police Department conducted the investigation that led to the prosecution of Vergotz.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 181.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article1051354.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DU5POMML7XV3NQBCF5O532WSEADVJ63X", "length": 2048, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.kansas.com", "title": "K-State awaits a bowl | The Wichita Eagle", "raw_content": "K-State awaits a bowl | The Wichita Eagle\nK-State awaits a bowl\nMANHATTAN \u2014 The end of football's regular season means it's time for Kansas State to woo bowl executives.\nWith four days remaining before most bowl games make their selections, K-State's ability to market itself will be important. Its postseason destination all comes down to how it stacks up against Texas Tech and Baylor in a beauty contest.\nAll three teams finished the year with 7-5 records, and are assured of playing in a bowl with Big 12 ties. But which one?\nThe Texas Bowl (5 p.m. Dec. 29), which picks sixth in the conference bowl order, is considering all three. So is the Pinstripe Bowl (2:30 p.m. Dec. 30), which will host its inaugural game in New York's Yankee Stadium and picks seventh. The new TicketCity Bowl (11 a.m. Jan. 1), in Dallas, picks eighth and gets whatever team remains.\nShould two Big 12 teams qualify for BCS bowls, the Holiday Bowl could also come into play. But that is highly unlikely now that Stanford and TCU have moved into the top four of the BCS standings and all but locked up at-large bids to BCS bowls.\nIf the Texas Bowl passes on K-State, that would leave the Pinstripe Bowl to choose between the Wildcats and the remaining team from the Big 12 South.\nPinstripe Bowl executive director Mark Holtzman offered no predictions on who will be invited to New York, but said K-State is an attractive option to play a Big East opponent.\n\"We're very interested in Kansas State and they are interested in us,\" Holtzman said. \"Kansas State is right on our radar.\"\nPerhaps more so now than in previous weeks. Holtzman said he has been in contact with school administrators throughout the week, and noticed a recent spike in interest from K-State supporters after the Wildcats defeated North Texas on Saturday.\nHe said there is a great deal of \"eager anticipation\" between both sides.\n\"I hear nothing but good things,\" Holtzman said. \"They have a fan base that is champing at the bit to come up here and experience everything that New York has to offer.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 6376, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/art-talk/18th-c-artist-captures-cultural-embarrassments-of-our-day", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:58Z", "digest": "sha1:G3U23FEQHL63GSMGN67IKBAWRDTHKLQW", "length": 4765, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.kcrw.com", "title": "18th C. Artist Captures Cultural Embarrassments of Our Day | Art Talk", "raw_content": "18th C. Artist Captures Cultural Embarrassments of Our Day\nIf you haven't heard of 18th Century German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), don't feel embarrassed, you are not alone. Until I went to his exhibition at the Neue Gallery in New York a couple of years ago, I was not familiar with his works either. And then, during one of my strolls through the Getty Center, I discovered an amazing life-size alabaster bust of a grimacing man. The Getty acquired this rare portrait by Messerschmidt in 2008. It is known that in the last years of his life the artist created 69 similar character heads made out of stone or metal, of which only 55 have survived. The Getty's head is called The Vexed Man.\n(L) Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, The Vexed Man, after 1770, Alabaster\n(R) Ken Gonzales-Day, Untitled (F. X. Messerschmidt, The Vexed Man. The J. Paul Getty Museum), 2008; Chromogenic print\nThe Messerschmidt sculptural portraits capture a rich variety of human emotions. His heads snooze, yawn, shout, and on occasion contort their faces into grimaces of embarrassment or disgust. The artist enjoyed a modicum of success in his own time, but it seems that now, two hundred years later, his work has been rediscovered by contemporary artists.\n(L) F. X. Messerschmidt, Childish Weeping, after 1770, Tin-lead cast\nCourtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest\n(R) F. X. Messerschmidt, A Strong Man, after 1770, Tin-lead cast. Private Collection\nThe Getty exhibition has a witty juxtaposition of a dozen or so Messerschmidt sculptures with an equal number of paintings, sculptures and photographs by contemporary artists. My favorites are the paintings by the British artist Tony Bevan and a series of intentionally tortured photographs by Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer.\nTony Bevan, Self-Portrait after Messerschmidt, 2009, Acrylic and charcoal on canvas\n(L) Arnulf Rainer, Face Farce from Nervenkrampf, 1969, Photograph\n(R) A. Rainer, Messerschmidt Series, 1976-1977, Overpainted photograph\nAnd then comes the silkscreen prints by Bruce Nauman, showing the artist using his hands to contort his face into impossibly painful grimaces.\nBruce Nauman, Studies for Holograms, 1969, Silkscreens\nCollection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego\nAs coincidence would have it, I went to the Getty to see Messerschmidt and Modernity the day after the closing of the Republic Convention in Tampa. The media went wild. Everyone was talking about the rather strange, if not outright embarrassing, performance by Clint Eastwood. The TV cameras caught various degrees of puzzlement and disbelief on the faces of the delegates while he was talking with an empty chair. Going through the Getty exhibition I couldn't help but feel that all these grimacing faces somehow echoed the embarrassed faces of the delegates.\nReading today's L.A. Times once again contorted my face into a grimace worthy of Messerschmidt. The trustees of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art scheduled a special meeting for today, which one reads as an attempt to restore public trust in the institution. It was a long summer of discontent for MOCA. The Chief Curator was forced to resign, and the Board announced that the museum would operate without a replacement, only to flip-flop a few weeks later with a promise to start a search for a new curator. One wonders what qualified candidate would be crazy enough to walk into this mess?\nThe article discusses at length the disillusionment and infighting between the remaining trustees. In spite of the hope that under Jeffrey Deitch's leadership financial support of MOCA would increase, the museum saw a $4 million decline in donations during his first year. It is obviously embarrassing for the trustees that the much smaller UCLA Hammer Museum now has a budget that exceeds MOCA's by three million dollars.\nKenny Scharf, West Hollywood Library Mural. Photos by Edward Goldman\nThere is one artwork in Los Angeles that unintentionally but nevertheless perfectly expresses our collective dismay at the state of affairs at MOCA. I am talking about the mural by Kenny Scharf that decorates the parking structure of the West Hollywood Public Library. Look at the chorus of cartoonish figures whose faces and bodies are twisted into an impossible mess. One only hopes that at today's meeting the MOCA trustees will succeed in untangling the web of problems of their own creation.\nBanner image: (L) Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German, 1736\u20131783, Childish Weeping, after 1770, tin-lead cast. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest; (C) F. X. Messerschmidt, The Vexed Man, after 1770 Alabaster. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; (R) Ken Gonzales-Day, Untitled (F. X. Messerschmidt, The Vexed Man, The J. Paul Getty Museum), 2008 Chromogenic print", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 9165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/opening-the-curtain/questioning-a-fairy-tale", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:36Z", "digest": "sha1:B3O3QAPEXJE6XOA543UY3MJOQ3RNYXNB", "length": 3418, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.kcrw.com", "title": "Questioning a fairy tale | Opening the Curtain | KCRW", "raw_content": "Hosted by Anthony Byrnes \u2022 Feb. 11, 2019 Hollywood\nMatthew Bourne\u2019s \u201cCinderella\u201d Photo credit: Johan Persson\nHere\u2019s a quick list of what it might not be:\nTypical broadway fare\nIt\u2019s not a kids show\nit\u2019s not how you remember Cinderella\nWhat\u2019s oddly magical about this \u201cCinderella\u201d is that list could also describe exactly what it IS. Stick with me.\nMatthew Bourne\u2019s breakout piece as a choreographer and director was \u201cSwan Lake\u201d where he famously inverted our gender expectations by casting a male dancer as the black swan. It was a dangerous edge to put on an all too familiar gender plot that made us notice it with fresh eyes.\n\u201cCinderella\u201d isn\u2019t nearly as successful or radical as \u201cSwan Lake\u201d but it uses the same tools.\nMr. Bourne has taken what most of us think as a Disney fairy tale classic and given it a distinct edge. The setting is London during the Blitz. As a newsreel tells us as the show opens, bombs are falling on the city and the last thing we should do is stare at the stars: no dreaming, this is a time to find shelter and hide. While the danger of the bombs and the war fill the evening - dreaming is de rigueur for Cinderella so she can\u2019t help but look to the stars.\nOur Cinderella still feels like the lonely, abused stepchild but her evil sisters have a larger, more British family here. They\u2019re an entire dysfunctional brood led by a boozing, man-eater of a mother with a clan of brothers: there\u2019s the young one bouncing around, there\u2019s the gay one, there\u2019s the one with a foot fetish (which, when you think about it, is really Cinderella in a nutshell, isn\u2019t it?).\nBourne\u2019s prince isn\u2019t a prince but an airforce pilot (a fitting hero if you\u2019re bombs are dropping from the air every night!) and our fairy godmother is a fairy godfather decked out in all white satin.\nThe only words spoken are in the newsreels, the rest of the story is all told through movement. You can almost feel the audience grapple with this. You can certainly hear them talk about it during the two intermissions. Eavesdropping you\u2019ll hear variations of: \u201cgosh I thought they\u2019d talk or sing\u201d and my favorite pas de deux: \u201cI\u2019m not sure it\u2019s really theater\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m not sure it\u2019s really ballet.\u201d\nBy the second intermission these concerns seem to evaporate; now they\u2019re wondering: \u201cis this really Cinderella?\u201d\nPerhaps that question tells us less about Mr. Bourne\u2019s work and more about the primacy of Mr. Disney\u2019s. No, there\u2019s not a \u201cBippity Boppity Boo\u201d anywhere to be seen in heard but there is a romance and a broken prince and a lost shoe.\nAnd, okay, yes there\u2019s also a budding gay romance, an interlude with a trio of prostitutes and a mental hospital with a bit of shock therapy. (Parents be warned, while this is a wonderful show to introduce kids to both dance and theater - you will find yourself answering questions about what was up with those two boys, what happened under that bridge, and why that guy got shocked by a pair of headphones - all great questions for a young mind but you make your own call).\nThe magic, for me, of this \u201cCinderella\u201d is that it asks us to question this fairytale at the same time it carries us away with it.\n\u201cCinderella\u201d plays at the Ahmanson Theatre downtown through March 10th.\nOur inescapable past. 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Stated to be over 20 years old and never worn.\nThis lariat style necklace measures 40.5 inches long from end to end. It is gold in color and may be gold plated. There are 10 strains of thin gold chain with a 1/4 inch gold ball spaced every inch or so apart.\nI purchased it at a moving sale and was told by the seller that it was a gift to her \"maybe 20 years ago\". She said she never wore it because it wasn't her style.\nBall and Chain Lariat Necklace", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.keratosisremoval.com/keratosis-pilaris-widespread-but-harmless-it-affects-half-the-population/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:49Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZTQGKL5QZK2P7ZOURGNYWSSKYBR5NKC", "length": 1898, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.keratosisremoval.com", "title": "Keratosis Pilaris: Widespread, But Harmless, It Affects Half The Population", "raw_content": "Affecting more than half the world\u2019s adult population, keratosis pilaris is a widespread skin disorder whose cause is unknown, but which looks like a permanent case of goosebumps.\nKeratosis pilaris is one of the most widespread forms of keratosis as 40 to 50 percent of the adult population suffers from the skin disorder. It also affects from 50 to 80 percent of adolescents.\nMarked by small, rough bumps that appear on the back and upper arms, although they can also appear on the thighs and buttocks, keratosis pilaris is completely harmless. It is actually a chronic follicular disease that seems to get worse in the winter when the humidity is low and, like other forms of keratosis, it also seems to affect pregnant mothers-to-be.\nExperts have noted that it is easy to mistake keratosis pilaris with goosebumps and it is understandable that this could be considered a wintertime disorder since that is when you suffer from goosebumps most often. It might also have to do with the low humidity, as well.\nKeratosis pilaris is tough to treat and can seem to a sufferer to be impossible to treat, but dermatologists have found that using AHA (glycolic acid), lactic acid or Vitamin A, you can reverse the process. This problem can also be treated with dermabrasion techniques.\nThe problem with this is that once you seem to have a handle on this problem it is very easy to stop the treatments and as soon as you do that you are back where you started with small bumps of keratin just under the skin on your back and upper arms. Since it is also a follicular disease, if you ease up on the treatments you are likely to find them reforming around hair follicles.\nInterestingly, keratosis pilaris bumps are made of the same protein that forms your fingernails, skin and hair, keratin. This would also explain why this is also called a follicular disease since it is your hair grows out of follicles.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 170.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ketv.com/article/baby-born-at-chick-fil-a-receives-free-meals-for-life-job-offer/22499282", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CTH4GRWSZNKHAXU6J6DWK4TFZCKJSK5O", "length": 1450, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ketv.com", "title": "Baby born at Chick-fil-A receives free meals for life, job offer\u200b", "raw_content": "Baby born at Chick-fil-A receives free meals for life, job offer\u200b\nA baby girl who was born at a Texas Chick-fil-A location Tuesday will get free meals for life from the fast-food chain and has a guaranteed job when she's old enough.This little nugget, Gracelyn Griffin, couldn't wait for her parents to get to the hospital.Falon and Robert Griffin were on their way there when they stopped at a closed Chick-fil-A location to use the bathroom.\"I didn't know I was going to have a baby in there! I was going to the restroom,\" Falon Griffin told KSAT.A store manager helped the couple and called 911, but Gracelyn was born before emergency personnel arrived. Mom and baby were healthy at the hospital as of Thursday.\nA baby girl who was born at a Texas Chick-fil-A location Tuesday will get free meals for life from the fast-food chain and has a guaranteed job when she's old enough.\nThis little nugget, Gracelyn Griffin, couldn't wait for her parents to get to the hospital.\nChick-fil-A threw this man a 100th birthday party and gave him free meals for life\nFalon and Robert Griffin were on their way there when they stopped at a closed Chick-fil-A location to use the bathroom.\n\"I didn't know I was going to have a baby in there! I was going to the restroom,\" Falon Griffin told KSAT.\nA store manager helped the couple and called 911, but Gracelyn was born before emergency personnel arrived. Mom and baby were healthy at the hospital as of Thursday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kff.org/news-summary/globalpost-examines-implications-of-u-s-budget-negotiations-on-global-health-spending/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:23Z", "digest": "sha1:OEPI5P5BIHXCYJEPIMAXZTQ2ONZFNCMV", "length": 1203, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.kff.org", "title": "GlobalPost Examines Implications Of U.S. Budget Negotiations On Global Health Spending | The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation", "raw_content": "GlobalPost Examines Implications Of U.S. Budget Negotiations On Global Health Spending\nIn the first article in a special report titled \u201cThe Seven Million,\u201d which looks at \u201cthe many challenges faced worldwide in an effort to reduce child mortality\u201d and is \u201csupported through a partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation,\u201d GlobalPost examines the implications of U.S. budget negotiations on global health spending. \u201cA review of \u2026 correspondence to Congress obtained by GlobalPost provides insight into the behind-the-scenes battles that will determine how the United States will continue to support global health,\u201d the news service writes and describes some of the letters from members of Congress and non-governmental groups. GlobalPost also examines the \u201ccontroversial budget fight\u201d over reforming the U.S. food aid program, as well as funding for \u201cless glamorous diseases,\u201d such diarrhea (Loewenberg/Miley, 4/24). GlobalPost\u2019s \u201cGlobal Pulse\u201d blog on Wednesday highlighted congressional testimony from USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, noting, \u201cShah [on Wednesday] appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to address the agency\u2019s priorities in the 2014 fiscal year\u201d (Miley, 4/24).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 4082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 161.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kgun9.com/news/national/ed-sheeran-talks-about-substance-abuse-and-his-accident", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:54Z", "digest": "sha1:MXIYKPKOZU7Q6WYXUHG6RZIOZ34LKVFY", "length": 2056, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.kgun9.com", "title": "Ed Sheeran talks about substance abuse and his accident", "raw_content": "Ed Sheeran is reportedly opening up about how substance abuse factored into his hiatus from music.\nAccording to The Daily Mail, Sheeran recently sat down with talk show host Jonathan Ross to discuss his accident and how he managed to avoid the dark side of fame.\nSheeran said that after he recently crashed his bike he didn't even realize he had broken both arms in different places.\n\"The thing is, when it happened, I got up and was like, 'That hurt' and then cycled to the pub,\" Sheeran said. \"Went home, went to sleep and then woke up at five o'clock in the morning in a lot of pain. And then went to the hospital.\"\nThe spill resulted in the cancellation of shows for the Asia leg of his world tour, but Sheeran said doctors told him if he didn't take the time off he might never be able to play the guitar again.\nThe 26-year-old musician has said he's cut down quite a bit on the booze, which helped him shed some pounds.\nSheeran said becoming famous also exposed him to the harder stuff.\n\"All the pitfalls that people read about, I just found myself slipping into all of them,\" he said. \"Mostly like, substance abuse.\"\nThe \"Shape of You\" singer said he took action to deal with the temptation.\n\"I never touched anything,\" Sheeran said. \"I started slipping into it and that's why I took a year off and buggered off.\"\nThe music helped him, Sheeran said.\n\"I focused on work and I can't work under the influence,\" he said. \"I can't write songs under the influence, I can't perform under the influence so the more I worked the less [that happened].\"\nThe star also credited his girlfriend and former high school crush Cherry Seaborn with helping him stay on the straight and narrow.\n\"It's all fun to begin with, it all starts off as a party and then you're doing it on your own and it's not, so that was a wake-up call and taking a year off,\" Sheeran said. \"I've rekindled with a girl I went to high school with and we live together now and I think that was a real help grounding me.\"\nThe episode of \"The Jonathan Ross Show\" featuring Sheeran airs Saturday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 3902, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kidsdiscover.com/shop/issues/mesopotamia-for-kids/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2E2YKI6YM4QBJQGKS7634GKT7BPFO3JR", "length": 1715, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.kidsdiscover.com", "title": "Mesopotamia - Kids Discover", "raw_content": "Ever wonder when the first written records appeared, when the wheel was invented, or where our modern counting system came from? Believe it or not, these and many other innovations \u2013 like glass, farming, complex legal systems, and basic astronomy \u2013 came from one civilization, the very first: Mesopotamia. For kids who want to discover the roots of modern\u2013day life, this issue is key. What most people don\u2019t know is that Mesopotamia includes the Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian empires, which followed one after another, from 3500 B.C. to 612 B.C., and all failed for different reasons.\nBut in the meantime, Mesopotamia was a hotbed of invention and innovation: Artisans, politicians, and priests produced an incredible number of scientific advances and new ways of thinking that continue to shape our lives today. In Mesopotamia, kids can investigate how the religious beliefs, myths, and temples of the time \u2013 like the famed Tower of Babel, are mirrored in other histories of the period, like the Bible. The development of writing in Mesopotamia, for kids, is also covered in detail, from the clay invoices and cuneiform alphabet used during the Sumer regime to the sophisticated library system created by the Assyrians. Lastly, kids will see how Mesopotamia was unearthed by intrepid explorers and archaeologists, who brought all the wonders of this region, now part of modern Iraq, to light.\nEver wonder when the first written records appeared, when the wheel was invented, or where our modern counting system came from? Believe it or not, these and many other innovations ...\nSumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and More\nAccomplishments of the Mesopotamians\nThe Legendary Gilgamesh and the Origins of Writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 174, "original_length": 6529, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kingedwardvii.co.uk/consultants/dr-nan-shetty", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:53Z", "digest": "sha1:TJM4WGMMSRK7ALN4WTBGNDBCK5F4GTIH", "length": 1304, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.kingedwardvii.co.uk", "title": "Dr Nan Shetty | King Edward VII\u2019s Hospital", "raw_content": "Dr Nan Shetty\nDr. Nandini Shetty qualified from St. John\u2019s Medical College & Hospital, Bangalore, India in 1979. After 3 years as an anesthetist she chose to specialise in Clinical Microbiology in 1983, obtaining an MD in 1987, the MRCPath in 1994 and FRCPath in 2003.\nIn 1999 she obtained the Diploma in Hospital Infection Control (DipHIC) from University of London; and in 2004 she completed the MSc in Epidemiology and Statistics also from University of London. Nandini has experience in the practice of clinical microbiology and infection control both in India and in the UK. In 1998 she was appointed consultant microbiologist working jointly for the NHS and Public Health England (PHE).\nAt PHE, Nandini is the Clinical Services Lead for the Bacteriology Reference Department; her portfolio also includes leadership of post-graduate medical training in PHE and clinical governance in PHE\u2019s Reference Microbiology Services. She is an examiner and question setter for the Royal College of Pathologists and has been instrumental in crafting the new Microbiology / Infectious diseases curriculum for specialist training. She is the UK\u2019s deputy focal point for Microbiology at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and an expert on antimicrobial resistance and stewardship at WHO.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 3173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 156.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kneppelhout.com/news/vietnam-solar-decision-to-pave-way-for-development-2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6OLHPI7YVJ3J34WSO2FXBXZSQGJDURQR", "length": 3541, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.kneppelhout.com", "title": "Vietnam solar decision to pave way for development - News - Kneppelhout & Korthals Advocaten", "raw_content": "Decision No. 11/2017/QD-TTg on mechanisms for encouraging the development of solar power in Vietnam (\u201cDecision 11\u201d) introduced by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on 11 April 2017 has been welcomed by investors and developers. The Decision outlines a range of incentives to boost the renewable energy sector in the country.\nFeed-in-tariff rate (FIT) for solar power\nVietnam Electricity Group (EVN), designated as the sole Power Purchaser under Decision 11, will purchase all electricity generated from solar power projects with a feed-in tariff (\u201cFIT\u201d) of VND 2,086/kWh (excluding value added tax; equivalent to approximately 9.35 US cents/kWh at current exchange rates). The FIT applies only to grid-connected projects and is subject to fluctuations in the VND/USD exchange rate, as will be outlined in the upcoming standard power purchase agreement (\u201cPPA\u201d) for solar power projects to be issued by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The standard PPA is expected to provide a 20-year term for solar projects, commencing from commercial operation.\nInvestment Capital and Tax Incentives\nDecision 11 allows capital to be mobilized from both domestic and foreign sources for the purpose of developing solar power projects in Vietnam. Investors will benefit from tax exemptions on raw materials and supplies imported for project purposes.\nSolar power projects will also be eligible for corporate income tax relief provided to investors under Vietnam\u2019s tax laws. A 10% preferential corporate income tax rate applies for the first 15 years from commercial operation. In addition, solar investors are eligible for a complete exemption from corporate income tax for four years from the first profitable year, followed by a 50% reduction in corporate income tax payable for the following nine year period.\nLand Incentives\nIncentives related to land use are also provided by Decision 11. Solar power projects connected to the grid are entitled to exemptions or reductions in land-related fees as per the laws applicable to projects entitled to investment incentives, including the exemption from land rental fees within the first three years of commencing commercial operation.\nDecision 11 will come into force on 1 June 2017 and will apply until 30 June 2019. According to the Decision, the Ministry of Industry and Trade is expected to draft a national master plan for solar power, which will be mirrored by provincial plans to be drafted by the respective city and provincial people\u2019s committees. By establishing incentives for solar energy investment, in particular the FIT, Decision 11 is expected to set the stage for considerable growth in Vietnam\u2019s solar energy sector over the coming years. It remains to be seen whether such incentives will be sufficient to support Vietnam\u2019s ambition to achieve 5GW of solar power capacity by 2020. Indeed, the FIT on offer might not be as attractive as needed in the context of increasing competition for investment amongst Southeast Asian nations (Indonesia having recently introduced a FIT to promote solar development). Decision 11 also does not appear to consider the vast development potential under the planned Vietnam Wholesale Electricity Market.\nFor more information on Vietnam legal updates please contact Lin Li or Joost Vrancken Peters\nThe collaboration with ASEAN partner DFDL enables Kneppelhout & Korthals to have the largest Asian practice within the Benelux. Together with DFDL Kneppelhout & Korthals provides a full ASEAN-region & China coverage.\nClick here for the original DFDL article.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 6145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.koh-thai.co.uk/a-true-love-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:30Z", "digest": "sha1:JBKS5ZQOAOCSPFAO3FDUJZ323C4Y6CEO", "length": 770, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.koh-thai.co.uk", "title": "Win a \u00a3100 worth of Koh Thai vouchers - a true love story! | Koh Thai", "raw_content": "Win a \u00a3100 worth of Koh Thai vouchers \u2013 a true love story!\nIn the spirit of Valentines, we\u2019re giving away \u00a3100 worth of Koh Thai vouchers to whoever has the best Love Story. Whether it\u2019s a tale of romance, comedy or purely outrageous (keeping it PG 13!) we want to hear it. \ud83e\udd70 #KohLoveStory\nTo enter visit our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/KohThaiTapas/) and tell us your love story in the comments section on the post pinned to the top of our page.\nOnly one prize winner. Competition ends 8:00 pm 14th February. Not valid in conjunction with any other offer. The winner will win \u00a3100 worth of Koh Thai Gift Vouchers to be used in any of our Koh Thai restaurants. We will choose the winner based on our judgment. We reserve the right to withdraw this offer at any time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ksal.com/new-bishop-for-salina-diocese/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:16Z", "digest": "sha1:75I7S2UCTUHFYF3DN6ILRMYPTDS6UTZT", "length": 2857, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.ksal.com", "title": "New Bishop For Salina Diocese", "raw_content": "New Bishop For Salina Diocese\nPope Francis has named a new bishop for the Diocese of Salina. Michigan-native Msgr. Gerald Vincke will be the new bishop, pulling him from several roles in the diocese of Lansing.\nAccording to the Lansing Diocese, Bishop Earl Boyea said \u201cThe Diocese of Lansing is very happy to join in the celebration of the nomination of Monsignor Gerald Vincke as the 12th Bishop of the Diocese of Salina, Kansas. The priests of our diocese as well as myself will deeply miss our brother priest as he moves into this new ministry. The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has honored not only Msgr. Vincke but our diocese with this appointment.\n\u201cWe offer to Pope Francis our love and gratitude. Certainly, the good people of Holy Family Parish in Grand Blanc, Michigan, will also miss their pastor since they recognize in him the very gifts which the Holy See finds will provide loving leadership to the Diocese of Salina. He is a fine priest, a man of deep faith in Jesus Christ, and a gentle soul. Our loss is most sincerely their gain.\u201d\nMonsignor Vincke was born the ninth of ten children in Saginaw, Michigan, on July 9, 1964. His mother still lives at the family farm. He attended New Lothrop High School (was a football wide receiver) and Ferris State University (an editor of the school newspaper) obtaining a degree in public relations and marketing. He completed his Philosophy studies at Thomas More College in Crestview, Kentucky, and then his Theology studies at the Athenaeum Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio, and at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. He was ordained to the Priesthood on June 12, 1999.\nHe served as Parochial Vicar at St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Ann Arbor from 1999 to 2001 when he became chaplain at Bethany House, our retreat house for youth. He attended Creighton University for Spirituality courses in the summer of 2001. Additionally he became the Director of Seminarians and Vocation Director in 2003, becoming full-time in these positions and relinquishing Bethany House in 2004. He was appointed to the North American College as a Spiritual Director in 2010 where he served until 2015. While in Rome he completed the requirements for the S.T.L. (Licentiate in Sacred Theology), with a focus on Spiritual Theology, in 2015. His Tesina is entitled: \u201cFollowing the Path of St. John Vianney for the New Evangelization with Evangelii Gaudium as a Guide.\u201d In 2012 he was made a Monsignor by Pope Benedict. In 2015, upon his return to the Diocese of Lansing, he was assigned as the Pastor of Holy Family Parish in Grand Blanc, Michigan. In addition he currently serves on the Presbyteral Council and the College of Consultors of the Diocese of Lansing.\nThe Diocese of Salina is comprised of 26,685 square miles in Kansas. It has a total population of 337,072 of which 44,369 or 13 percent are Catholic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4885, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 133.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.kvue.com/article/news/i-lost-a-friend-bush-41s-secret-service-agent-reflects-on-friendship-with-president/269-620950874", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:34Z", "digest": "sha1:BM7IT2P5FFSTEKFRUDBQWHJCBZTBIXXR", "length": 1604, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.kvue.com", "title": "'I lost a friend': Bush 41's Secret Service agent reflects on friendship with president | kvue.com", "raw_content": "'I lost a friend': Bush 41's Secret Service agent reflects on friendship with president\nJim Napolitano was on President George H.W. Bush's detail for two years and became the agent by his side when he moved back to Houston.\nHOUSTON - Wherever President George H.W. Bush went after leaving office, former Secret Service Agent Jim Napolitano wasn't far behind.\nNapolitano was on the President's detail for two years, but he first came across Bush in Houston when he was Vice President.\n\"I was just standing there, and he's coming by with his entourage, he looked at me and said, 'Are you new?' He shook my hand, and I was as starstruck as anyone else,\" Napolitano said.\nDuring Desert Storm, the Secret Service assigned Napolitano to protect Neil Bush and his family. When 41 moved back to Houston, Napolitano became the agent by the President's side.\n\"He was one of our family, and he treated us like we were a part of his family,\" Napolitano said.\nIt's why this week has been tough for the former agent.\n\"I lost a friend,\" Napolitano said. \"Somebody that I didn't call all the time, but I could call and talk to him if I needed to.\"\nBut there are so many memories to hold onto, like close calls overseas and even riding in a 747 jet with a hole in the wing.\n\"He would make light of of it, and said, 'Guys, I've had bigger holes in my planes in World War II,'\" Napolitano said.\nHe says what stood Bush apart was his approach to people.\n\"It didn't matter who you were, he always made time for you,\" Napolitano said.\nNow in just two days, he will say goodbye to the man he would've given his life to protect.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 3118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 216.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.labce.com/myelodysplastic_syndromes.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:41Z", "digest": "sha1:AYZ6B3VHAJDMVVYRXGNXICTBAIVLQ5Z3", "length": 4234, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.labce.com", "title": "Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)", "raw_content": "Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) (Online CE Course)\nGeorge Girgis MLS (ASCP) CM\nReviewers: Margaret Reinhart, MT(ASCP); Leah Coppolino, MPH, MLS(ASCP)CM\nDefine myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS).\nDescribe the epidemiology and etiology of MDS.\nExplain the diagnostic criteria of MDS.\nDescribe the morphological features of MDS.\nExplain the classification of MDS according to the World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.\nDiscuss prognosis of MDS according to the subtypes (low, intermediate, and high grade MDS).\nDescribe the differential diagnosis of MDS.\nMyelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) -- Definition, Etiology, and Epidemiology\nMyelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are caused by viral infections.\nCytotoxic agents, chemical, or radiation therapy may be etiologic factors of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS).\nClinical and Diagnostic Features of MDS\nClinical Features of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)\nDiagnostic Features of MDS\nMyelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are associated with microcytic/hypochromic anemia.\nThe three myeloid cell lines in the bone marrow are: granulocytic, erythroid, and megakaryocytic.\nPatients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) commonly have enlarged liver and spleen.\nMyelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) are commonly associated with leukocytosis and neutrophilia in peripheral blood evaluations.\nPatients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) demonstrate very low levels of vitamin B12.\nThe Morphological Features of MDS\nThe Morphological Features of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)\nDysplastic Erythroid Cell Line (Dyserythropoiesis)\nExamples of Dysplastic Erythroid Cells (Dyserythropoiesis), continued\nDysplastic Granulocytic Cell Line (Dysgranulopoiesis)\nDysplastic Megakaryocytic Cell Line (Dysmegakaryopoiesis)\nThe dysplasia of the erythroid cell line may include nuclear budding, megaloblastoid, and ring sideroblasts in cases of MDS.\nNormal megakaryocytes show multinucleation or monolobes.\nGranulocytic dysplasia in MDS may include nuclear hyposegmentaion and/or cytoplasmic hypogranulation.\nThe Classification of MDS\nThe Classification of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)\nThe Classification of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS), continued\nThe Significance of Auer Rods in MDS:\nMyelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) with single line dysplasia show <5% bone marrow blasts.\nMyelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) with multilineage dysplasia show 10-19 % blasts in the bone marrow.\nThe Prognostic Criteria of MDS\nPrognostic Criteria of Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)\nMyelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) with bone marrow blasts counts of 5-9% carries a low risk grade.\nMyelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS) with bone marrow blast counts between 10-19% are considered to be high risk grade.\nThe Differential Diagnosis of MDS\nDifferential Diagnosis of MDS\nVitamin B12 or folate deficiencies may cause megaloblastic changes in the bone marrow and blood cytopenia.\nChemotherapeutic drugs cause bone marrow hyperplasia and leukocytosis.\nMDS Therapy\nIntended audience: Medical laboratory professionals, clinical laboratory science students, and instructors of hematology.\nAuthor Information: George Girgis, MLS (ASCP)CM has over 30 years of experience as a Medical Laboratory Scientist during which he has been a trainer and instructor at Indiana University Health in the field of hematology and hematopathology. George holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery from Ein-Shams University, Cairo, Egypt and a Bachelor of Science in Medical Laboratory Sciences from I.U.P.U.I., Indianapolis, IN.\nReviewer Information: Margaret Reinhart MS, MT(ASCP) is the MLS Program Director and Senior lecturer in Biological Sciences at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia PA where she teaches hematology, clinical immunology, parasitology and other related courses. She is also adjunct instructor in Hematology at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia PA. She holds a Masters Degree in Biology and in Health Care Administration.\nReviewer Information: Leah Coppolino, MPH, MLS(ASCP)CM is a Program Director at MediaLab, Inc. Previously, she was the Director of the Medical Laboratory Science Program at St. Christopher\u2019s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She holds a Masters in Public Health from Thomas Jefferson University.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 6716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 259.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-abrams-coffee-cancer-warning-20181011-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KHT32ZVM3IUOZLZEZZ55SHYRYFRARU6I", "length": 4753, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.latimes.com", "title": "Forcing Starbucks to put a cancer warning on your coffee cup would violate the 1st Amendment - Los Angeles Times", "raw_content": "A barista at the Starbucks on the Warner Brothers Studio lot in Burbank on Feb. 23, 2017. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times)\nEight years ago, an organization called the Council for Education and Research on Toxics commenced a lawsuit against coffee vendors in California, maintaining that to comply with Proposition 65, cancer warnings must be placed on lattes, cold brews and plain old cups of joe they sell in the state. Hundreds of millions dollars in damages have been sought from companies such as Starbucks for not including such warnings previously. New warnings are sought advising potential purchasers that coffee contains a chemical called acrylamide that can cause cancer.\nThe case has been vigorously litigated through the years. Thus far the council has done well. Some vendors have already paid to get out of the lawsuit. And a trial judge has ruled in the council\u2019s favor on the merits and a hearing is scheduled to begin Monday dealing with precisely what damages should be awarded. The coffee companies are seeking to appeal the ruling before the damages hearing begins.\nCoffee is ubiquitous in our society, cancer a horrendous and terrifying disease, and the case is thus of enormous interest in California and beyond. But one aspect of the case has received little public attention: A ruling against the coffee vendors would violate the 1st Amendment of the United States Constitution.\nHow can it not be misleading for the sellers of a product that is not accused of causing cancer to be obliged to place a cancer warning on it?\nThe placement of warnings on potentially dangerous products is hardly new. Cigarette packages contain the warning that smoking by pregnant women \u201cmay result in fetal Injury, premature birth, and low birth weight\u201d; wine bottles warn that \u201cconsumption of alcoholic beverages impairs your ability to drive a car.\u201d In California, Proposition 65 requires warning labels for a long list of chemicals \u201cknown to the state to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity.\u201d\nBut a well-established and frequently repeated principle of 1st Amendment law is that the government \u2014 judges included \u2014 is not given free rein to require companies that sell goods to the public to include warnings with or on them. Compelled speech, like censored speech, can violate the Constitution.\nMoreover, \u201cgovernment-drafted scripts,\u201d as the Supreme Court observed just a few months ago, may only be imposed when they contain \u201cpurely factual and uncontroversial disclosures\u201d that \u201care not misleading\u201d and are neither \u201cunjustified [n]or unduly burdensome.\u201d That decision blocked another California law, one that mandated that antiabortion clinics and pregnancy services tell their clients that the state subsidizes medical care, including abortions.\nSo what does the council want the coffee sellers to say to coffee purchasers? Put differently, what is it that Starbucks, Peets, Blue Bottle and others haven\u2019t said that ought to now result in multimillion-dollar claims? This is the warning the council seeks: Coffee \u201ccontains acrylamide, a chemical known to the state to cause cancer.\u201d\nIn its court filings, the council admits that if the warning were to say \u201ccoffee causes cancer\u201d or \u201ccoffee is known to the state to cause cancer,\u201d that would mislead consumers. It further concedes that compelling coffee sellers to provide such a warning would violate the 1st Amendment. But so does the acrylamide-coffee warning they propose.\nThe California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has concluded, and hundreds of scientists have testified, that the chemicals in coffee, including acrylamide, \u201cpose no significant risk of cancer.\u201d So how can it not be misleading (to use the Supreme Court\u2019s language) for the sellers of a product that is not accused of causing cancer to be obliged to place a cancer warning on it? And how can such a compelled disclosure be viewed as justified, let alone uncontroversial when it is obvious that purchasers of marked coffee will understand it to mean that they are buying a cancer-causing product? Why else would the warning be there?\nSometimes close and complicated issues are raised when the state tries to require entities to provide information to the public that they choose not to provide. But the coffee case isn\u2019t a close call. Coffee sellers owe no one millions of dollars for neglecting to warn their patrons about acrylamide. Forcing them to include a cancer warning on a product that does not cause cancer plainly violates the 1st Amendment.\nFloyd Abrams has litigated 1st Amendment cases ranging from the government\u2019s attempt to bar publication of the Pentagon Papers to its regulation of campaign financing in Citizens United. His latest book is \u201cThe Soul of the First Amendment.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 7094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.latimes.com/sports/highschool/la-sp-high-schools-sondheimer-20180318-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3VPHJ5CBIOOTHPY6BTJFBQAQIPHIMHWN", "length": 3725, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.latimes.com", "title": "Sons of NBA players will get a chance to play on an NBA court in California state championships this weekend - Los Angeles Times", "raw_content": "Sons of NBA players will get a chance to play on an NBA court in California state championships this weekend\nThe Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, home to the Sacramento Kings, is hosting this weekend's CIF state championships. (Eric Sondheimer)\nThere were close to a dozen sons of former NBA players playing high school basketball in Southern California this season, and six will get the chance to play in a real NBA arena this weekend as the state championships are held at the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.\nSince the Golden 1 Center is just 2 years old, none of the fathers will be able to offer specific inside knowledge. But their NBA experiences ought to give their sons some ideas about the challenges of shooting in an NBA arena and playing in a state championship game.\nChatsworth Sierra Canyon (26-4) has four NBA sons on its Open Division final team: Scotty Pippen Jr., Duane Washington Jr., Terren Frank and K.J. Martin.\nSanta Monica Crossroads (24-9) is in the Division II final on Friday against Alameda and has Shareef O\u2019Neal, son of Shaquille. And Ty Penberthy is playing for Santa Clarita Christian in the Division V final.\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to be really fun, really exciting and I can\u2019t wait to play for the championship,\u201d said Washington, whose team defeated Etiwanda 58-55 in Saturday\u2019s Southern California Regional final and will play the hometown Sheldon Huskies in Saturday\u2019s 8 p.m. Open Division final. \u201cThis is all I\u2019ve wanted to do. We\u2019re at this moment. Now we have to get it done.\u201d\nSierra Canyon Coach Andre Chevalier has successfully blended his group of five newcomers into the best team in Southern California. All have different personalities, but they\u2019ve come together and are performing well under pressure and meeting every challenge.\n\u201cWeek by week, they\u2019ve been getting better,\u201d Chevalier said.\nSierra Canyon was able to overcome the loss of Cassius Stanley in the second quarter to beat a tough, determined Etiwanda team. Stanley\u2019s availability for Saturday\u2019s final is uncertain. He hit the court hard after making a layup. If he suffered a concussion, he won\u2019t be able to play under concussion protocol rules.\nWith one game left, the experiences of the fathers should come in handy for their sons.\n\u201cThey can talk to them about the depth behind the backboard and how to prepare,\u201d Chevalier said. \u201cWhen the boys are home, it seems the parents are giving them positive feedback and constructive criticism to help them get over the top.\u201d\nSierra Canyon won a Division V championship in 2015, but this is the school\u2019s first appearance in the Open Division final.\nHaving former NBA fathers Scottie Pippen, Kenyon Martin, Duane Washington Sr., Tellis Frank and possibly Shaquille O\u2019Neal courtside at Golden 1 Center ought to attract some fans.\nSouthern California teams are coming well armed to take on their Northern California counterparts. Chino Hills, playing in the Division I final on Friday at 8 p.m. against Walnut Creek Las Lomas, has the duo of 6-foot-9 Onyeka Okongwu and Andre Ball, cousin of Lakers guard Lonzo Ball.\nOkongwu has thrust himself into the top spot for player of the year status by averaging 28.6 points, 12 rebounds and 3.7 blocks. He\u2019ll be the best center on display for two days in Sacramento and should be ready to deliver his share of dunks.\nIn the girls\u2019 competition, all eyes will be on Windward junior Charisma Osborne. The No. 1 college prospect in California has been putting on a show during the playoffs. Windward will be facing Los Altos Hills Pinewood in the Open Division final on Saturday at 6 p.m.\nTickets are $16 for adults and $10 for students. Spectrum will broadcast all 12 championship games.\nTrailblazers hold off Etiwanda in Open Division regional final", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 6641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.laughingbirdsoftware.com/forum/topic/68-official/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UZQBP5RBLTTFH4MH6MXQE6NAB57GD63T", "length": 156, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.laughingbirdsoftware.com", "title": "Official!!???? - General Discussion - The Laughingbird Software Community", "raw_content": "Official!!????\nBy Redneck, June 24, 2017 in General Discussion\nHeh......saw the email.....so are we officially official???......\nWell goody goody gumdrops!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 2126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lawhelpmn.org/self-help-library/fact-sheet/can-undocumented-immigrants-marry-minnesota", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:24Z", "digest": "sha1:6U55BIHAVKBEBK3B4PSS6ZVO7KS4WTQR", "length": 1966, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.lawhelpmn.org", "title": "Can Undocumented Immigrants Marry in Minnesota? | LawHelp Minnesota", "raw_content": "Can Undocumented Immigrants Marry in Minnesota?\nCan Undocumented Immigrants Marry in Minnesota? (PDF)231.9 KB\nI am undocumented, can I get married in Minnesota?\nEveryone in the United States has a right to get married. This is true regardless of immigration status. But, being married in the US or being married to a US citizen does NOT protect you from deportation.\nWhat if I don\u2019t have a social security number?\nThe Minnesota marriage license application has a place to fill in a social security number. If you don\u2019t have a social security number, you can still apply but you have to swear that you don\u2019t have one. There is a place to do this on the application form.\nWhat makes a marriage legal?\nTo be legally married in Minnesota you apply for a marriage license and have to be married by someone authorized to perform marriages. Once you do these things, you will get a marriage certificate.\nCan I get a marriage license?\nIn Minnesota, you must be over 18 and able to make your own decisions if you want to get married. If you are 16 or 17, you can get married with permission from your parent or legal guardian. You have to give your parents\u2019 name and address when you apply for a license.\nIf you want to get married, you can\u2019t be married to anyone else.\nIf you were married before, you must have a valid divorce from your previous spouse. A valid divorce is one that follows the divorce laws in the state or country where the divorce happened. In Minnesota, a divorce must go through the court systems and an order needs to be signed by a judge and filed with the court before it is a valid divorce.\nYour biological or adopted children.\nYour biological or adopted grandchildren.\nYour nieces or nephews if there is any blood relation.\nYour first cousins. First cousins are the children of an aunt or uncle that you are related to by blood.\nFor information about getting a marriage license and having a ceremony, please see our fact sheet Marriage in Minnesota.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lbauman.ca/2016/03/14/wisdom-and-its-counterfeits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZBFIXFU2SOYRNTOXYO6BQCM4II4AHABA", "length": 14544, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.lbauman.ca", "title": "Wisdom and its Counterfeits \u2013 Lester's Bookshelf", "raw_content": "Wisdom and its Counterfeits\nI\u2019ve been thinking about Solomon a lot over the last few months. He asked God for wisdom, and God gave him not only wisdom, but prosperity and popularity. Possibly the last two were as much of a test of his character as they were a reward for his desire for God\u2019s wisdom. At any rate, they were what took Solomon under. The book of Ecclesiastes gives us a rare glimpse into this process.\nIn this post, I would to explore some of this a little.\nFirst of all, we don\u2019t have to look at Solomon and envy his gift of wisdom. God has made us the same offer. \u201cIf any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him\u201d (James 1:5, ESV). But he also gives us a warning along with this offer, in the next verses. \u201cBut let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. For that person must not suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways\u201d (James 1:6-8, ESV).\nThere is lots of evidence in the Bible that God answered Solomon\u2019s prayer for wisdom. For instance, study Solomon\u2019s prayer at the dedication of the temple, in 2 Chronicles 6. However, later in his life, Solomon gave in to a series of counterfeits that led to his downfall.\nAs I look at individuals like Ben Carson, and churches like the Conservative Anabaptists, I see some of the same processes at work. That is the burden of my thoughts in these posts. Will we trade the true wisdom that comes from above, for the counterfeits offered by this world? The temptation is great sometimes, both for individuals and for groups.\nCounterfeit 1: Knowledge\nTrading wisdom for knowledge is a great temptation, especially for people with brilliant minds. Solomon definitely had a lot of knowledge. In the first chapter of Ecclesiastes he talks about the water cycle, and wind patterns. Where he got this knowledge, I\u2019m not sure. It may have been from his own observations. But he became intrigued by knowledge. In Ecclesiastes 1:13, he said, \u201cI applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven.\u201d If you read this entire chapter, you will see that he sought this knowledge as an antidote for the seeming meaningless that he saw in life. He felt that nature and man were caught in a mindless spiral of uselessness and vanity.\nThe antidote didn\u2019t cure the poison, however. In verse 18 of the same chapter, he stated, \u201cIn much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.\u201d Seeking knowledge simply highlights the vexations of life, and Solomon soon saw right through that.\nThis thirst for knowledge is often evident in talented individuals. They gather books together, they learn the language and intricacies of various intellectual disciplines, and they immerse themselves in learning. But at the end of it all, they will look back at life like Solomon did and realize that knowledge doesn\u2019t have the ability to bring satisfaction.\nJohn Howard Yoder is an unfortunate example of someone who sought fulfillment in the study of theology and history. His immoral conduct showed clearly that his vast knowledge of history and the Bible, and thoughts about God and the Bible didn\u2019t satisfy him. He excused his immorality as a part of his intellectual pursuits, but it seems likely that, like Solomon, he died a frustrated and unfulfilled person.\nThe contrary side of this can be a similar trap. In too many of the plainer groups today, ignorance is viewed as an answer to this problem. We take out children out of school after tenth grade, and get them to work learning \u201cuseful trades.\u201d While this isn\u2019t all wrong, the assumption too often is that \u201cbook learning\u201d is a necessary evil but that working with our hands is somehow more \u201cgodly\u201d.\nThe results of this response to the worship of knowledge has led to a dearth of people who can take the Bible and really study it and teach it. So many of the topics given by our people and the Bible studies taught by our people are simply shallow regurgitations of things that they have heard someone else say, and which they don\u2019t really understand themselves.\nBoth the worship of knowledge and the worship of ignorance are definite counterfeits to the wisdom that is from above. Read 1 Corinthians 1:17 \u2013 31 for Paul\u2019s input into this.\nCounterfeit 2: Materialism and Pleasure\nIn Ecclesiastes 2:1 Solomon made a momentous decision. He said to himself \u201cCome now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.\u201d He tried wine first. He also built houses and planted vineyards for himself. He made gardens and parks, and planted orchards. He set up irrigation systems to water his horticultural masterpieces.\nAlong with all of this, he bought slaves and herds and flocks of animals \u2013 more than any other king in Jerusalem ever had. He hoarded together silver and gold, and other treasures. He even collected singers and concubines. He concludes his list like this: \u201cAnd whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure\u2026\u201d (Ecclesiastes 2:10a, ESV)\nBut even though Solomon was experimenting with pleasure and materialism in his search for meaning in life, his earlier wisdom hadn\u2019t totally left him yet (see 2:9). He stepped back from all of this and took a look at the results of his experiment. Verse 11 of this same chapter is very enlightening: \u201cThen I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.\u201d\nHave you ever felt that way? I have. I can remember various times that I wanted something that I really didn\u2019t need. I struggled with it and struggled with it until finally I found a \u201cgood\u201d reason for buying what I wanted. The joy of my new possession seldom lasted more than a day or two, and often I wished I had my money back. We do well to heed Paul\u2019s teaching: \u201cBut godliness with contentment is great gain, for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world. But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content\u201d (1 Timothy 6:6 \u2013 8, ESV). (Read the context as well).\nI don\u2019t think it is wrong to be frugal, and save for a rainy day. But too many Mennonite people (and other Christians) seem to have followed Solomon\u2019s example of gathering possessions in order to find fulfillment in life. Many have even made it a pious occupation \u2013 insisting that their success is God\u2019s blessing on them for being good Christians. Or if they don\u2019t come out and say that, they feel that way inside.\nSolomon\u2019s example should show us the fallacy of that feeling.\nCounterfeit 3: Work\nSolomon seems to have been a real workaholic. But even his work drove him to despair because he realized that he was growing older and would die someday. Then what would become of the possessions and improvements that he had labored for? Why someone who hadn\u2019t done any work for them would inherit them and use them in whatever way he wanted to. This frustrated Solomon, since he seemed sure that the next king would probably abuse this privilege. In Ecclesiastes 2:18 and 19, he makes this interesting observation: \u201cI hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me, and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.\u201d (ESV)\nThis is mine, Solomon is saying. Why should my son enjoy the benefits of what I have worked for? I want the joy myself! This seems like a selfish attitude, but in reality what bothered Solomon was the unfairness of it all. He had worked a lifetime, and now all the benefits were being snatched from him. So what fulfillment did work offer, if he couldn\u2019t benefit from it? This seems to be the thrust of verses 20 \u2013 22: \u201cSometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.\u201d\nThis frustrated Solomon so much that he actually insinuated that you might as well eat, drink, and be merry with the fruit of your labor because if you don\u2019t some else will. It would be better for you to enjoy what you have, than to leave it to someone who won\u2019t appreciate it anyway.\nThis kind of philosophy is shocking to God-honoring, hard-working Mennonites. In many churches, it is a point of honor for you to take the material things you have and increase them. You might give them to the church when you die, or use them to start your children off in life \u2013 either is usually acceptable. What isn\u2019t acceptable is if you are a parasite and can\u2019t pay your own way in life, and need to depend on the church or the government to live.\nYet there is a sense in which Solomon is right. You will not find fulfillment in life by working, even if you are successful. He was the most successful \u201cworker\u201d of all time, yet in the end he reaped only vanity and frustration. If we could boil the message of Ecclesiastes down to one central complaint it would be this one, because Solomon keeps returning to it, over and over again.\n\u201cThere is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind: a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them. This is vanity; it is a grievous evil\u201d (Ecc 6:1-2, ESV).\nCounterfeit 4: Popularity\nThe Queen of Sheba summarized the world\u2019s opinion of Solomon in 1 Kings 10:1 \u2013 10 and 2 Chronicles 9:1 \u2013 9. The Bible says that \u201cWhen the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon\u2026, there was no more breath in her\u201d (2 Chronicles 9:3 \u2013 4, ESV). The entire passages that cover her visit and their context are worth reading, just to get the complete impression. It would be very interesting to read the rest of the life story of Solomon, which was apparently recorded in books written by Nathan the prophet, Ahijah the Shilonite, and Iddo the seer. However, these writings have been lost, so we can only guess at the rest of the story.\nYet Solomon summarized his own popularity by giving the account of a poor wise man who was very popular for a little bit. \u201cThere was a little city with few men in it, and a great king came against it and besieged it, building great siegeworks against it. But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man\u201d (Ecclesiastes 9:14 \u2013 15, ESV).\nPopularity is one of the most fleeting of life\u2019s pleasures. Jesus said, \u201cWoe to you, when all people speak well of you\u201d (Luke 6:26). Unfortunately, plain people have gotten used to being highly thought of in today\u2019s world. This is on the verge of becoming a trap for them, I fear. Normally the people who flatter you the most are the first to turn against you.\nPopularity becomes a great trap for us if we depend on it for our fulfillment in life. There are times in life when we need to take a stand against the crowd in order to remain faithful to God. This becomes very hard to do, if we are accustomed to being popular and have grown to enjoy it. In fact, Jesus warned his apostles, \u201cIf you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you\u201d (Joh 15:19, ESV). Sooner or later this hatred surfaces if we are following Christ.\nPopularity is perhaps the most treacherous of the counterfeits that we are looking at here. Solomon lost his popularity at the end of his life, in spite of his efforts to maintain it by marrying the daughters of the rulers of the worldly kingdoms around him. While God didn\u2019t remove him from the throne, because of his promise to David, He took most of the kingdom from Solomon\u2019s son, however, and Israel never regained the glory it had once possessed under Solomon.\nCounterfeit 5: Knowing about God rather than knowing God\nThis last counterfeit is one that probably traps more \u201cChristians\u201d than any other. The Bible speaks of those \u201chaving the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people\u201d (2 Timothy 3:5, ESV).\nMany people know about God and think that this means that they are Christians. Solomon knew what God expected and was able to give good advice. The last verses in Ecclesiastes 11, and most of Ecclesiastes 12 are good teaching for all of us. However, there is really no indication that Solomon understood that pleasing God required more than a blind obedience to God\u2019s law, and an intellectual assent to His plan.\nWhen Solomon was young and saw his need of God, God came to him. God blessed him and offered his lifelong friendship. But Solomon\u2019s eyes wandered away from God and his desire for intellectual and physical fulfillment in life led him away from the spiritual fulfillment that God offered him. In essence, you can\u2019t really have both, and Solomon lost sight of that.\nWhat is my passion in life? I think this is an indicator of whether we are finding fulfillment in genuine wisdom from above. Is my service to God because of my duty \u2013 something I need to do to avoid hell fire? Or do I serve Him because I love him? Does His spirit bear witness with my spirit that I am His child (see Romans 8:16)?\nI\u2019m afraid that too many plain people, and others are satisfied with an intellectual knowledge of God, rather than a relationship with Him. Most of the church\u2019s problems stem from this fact.\nSo, will you be satisfied with the counterfeits? Or will you seek the true wisdom which is from above? It\u2019s the most important decision we will ever face.\n\u201cWho is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. (14) But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. (15) This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. (16) For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. (17) But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. (18) And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace\u201d (James 3:13-18, ESV).\nComments and discussion are welcome\u2026\nTagged Wisdom.\n\u00ab The Buzz Machine\nMary Christians and Martha Christians \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 17041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leaders-llc.com/matt-caras-speak-ethics-maine-state-bar-association-cle-program", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YVWAYO2PLMDXNQXIXVMBX5GMXGIDKFQB", "length": 843, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.leaders-llc.com", "title": "Matt Caras to speak on ethics at Maine State Bar Association CLE Program | Leaders LLC", "raw_content": "Matt Caras to speak on ethics at Maine State Bar Association CLE Program\nLeaders founder and principal, Matthew Caras, will be addressing attendees at the Maine State Bar Association's CLE Program called, \"Attorneys at Mediators: A Look at Mediation Ethics, Standards and Malpractice\" on February 17, 2012. Matt\u2019s appreciation for alternative dispute resolution in the context of disagreement among businesses owners, and in particular family businesses, spurred him to develop skills as a neutral mediator. He has been trained as a mediator by Harvard Law School and Northwestern University, and is certified as a mediator by the State of Maine Judicial Branch. Prior to his career in corporate finance, Matt practiced law with Verrill Dana LLP, a full-service law firm with 100 attorneys and offices in Portland, Boston, and Washington, D.C.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 173.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leadingarchitecture.co.za/innovative-low-cost-housing-proposal-designed-roof-structure-reminiscent-butterflys-wings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:39Z", "digest": "sha1:JRHJWYLHSQJEWQQDOOXTHKS4P7H6XYQZ", "length": 1824, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.leadingarchitecture.co.za", "title": "Butterfly wings for low cost housing - Leading Architecture & Design", "raw_content": "The Butterfly Housing Project is a systems approach to affordable housing that provides a generic load bearing product allowing for a range of different finishes and spatial configurations. The initiative, which was the joint venture of Dutch, Nigerian and South African architects and construction professionals, recently exhibited \u2013 together with USE-IT \u2013 at the Better Living Challenge expo in Cape Town. The expo aimed to bring attention to innovative and affordable solutions for the living environment.\nUSE-IT, supplier of an innovative low-cost building product known as the Compressed Earth Block (CEB), was a finalist in the category of Structural Home at the Better Living Challenge expo. Their collaboration with Butterfly Housing meant that two walls of the home structure was built out of these CEBs. The revolutionary product is made from waste rubble and soil from the site in question. The result is a high-quality building block that is both affordable and sustainable. While they look and feel no differet, these CEBs are proven to be stronger and cheaper than conventional building materials, with higher thermal efficiency and many other green benefits.\nElemental Housing Systems, which is the company representing Butterfly Housing in South Africa, develops housing concepts aimed at bridging the gap between formal and informal modes of production. The showcase at the Better Living Challenge expo was the first in a series of events by Elemental Housing Systems to engage with the general public and other stakeholder communities.\nThe final product is a modern and elegant design with a roof structure reminiscent of the shape of a butterfly\u2019s wings. For more information on the project, go to www.butterflyhousing.com and/or www.use-it.co.za\nNewtown Junction \u2013 The CBD\u2019s new retail and leisure centre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 5446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.leprosymission.org.uk/news-and-resources/news/uk-politician-sir-malcolm-bruce-visits-the-disable/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:15Z", "digest": "sha1:OORJEM5UJT4JZRQOE2PGJK6BI5BCEKE7", "length": 3057, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.leprosymission.org.uk", "title": "UK Politician Sir Malcolm Bruce visits the disabled in Myanmar - lives transformed thanks to the UK people | News | News & resources | The Leprosy Mission", "raw_content": "UK Politician Sir Malcolm Bruce visits the disabled in Myanmar -...\nFormer Chair of the International Development Committee (\u201cIDC\u201d), Sir Malcolm Bruce, visited Myanmar this week and spent time at The Leprosy Mission, seeing for himself, the results of generous funding from the UK, for people with disabilities.\n(Left to Right) Nyi Nyi Lwin, Sir Malcolm Bruce, Katie Riley, Aung Myo Thu and Peter Brimble\nSir Malcolm visited a TLM Myanmar project, funded by UK Aid's DaNa Facility, which is designed to support the economic inclusion of people with disabilities, particularly women, through education, training, innovative micro-finance products and inclusive agricultural practices. The DaNa Facility is an inclusive economic development programme created by the UK Government's Department for International Development in Myanmar.\nSir Malcolm said, \u201cI\u2019m very pleased to see some of the recommendations from the IDC on disability and development taking place; giving practical support on disability in ways that will help us to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and leave no one behind.\u201d\nMay Myat Kyaw (not her real name) knows only too well the effects of leprosy and disability. She has recently received reconstructive surgery on her clawed hand at Mawlamyine Christian Leprosy Hospital. She is now well-equipped to help people affected by disability and leprosy to overcome the barriers that they face in finding work. She is a newly trained job coach, employed by the DaNa project. She said, \u201cI want to send a message to everyone with leprosy and disability that You can do it! You can get a job! \u201c\nThe Leprosy Mission\u2019s Head of Programmes in England and Wales, Sian Arulanantham said, \u201cwe were delighted to welcome Sir Malcolm to TLM Myanmar. He has seen for himself how generous funding from the UK people is transforming the lives of some of the poorest people in Myanmar society.\u201d\nThe Leprosy Mission\u2019s Head of Programmes in Myanmar, Nyi Nyi Lwin said, \u201cthis project is a wonderful example of how we can improve the livelihoods of people with disabilities in Myanmar. We are very grateful to the DaNa Facility and the UK government for funding this important work.\u201d\nOver 2.3 million people in Myanmar or five per cent of the population live with a disability and only 25 per cent are involved in work. This means that over a million households in Myanmar live with disability-related poverty.\nLeprosy is also a significant problem in Myanmar, with 2,279 new cases of leprosy diagnosed in 20172, 283 of whom are already suffering from visible disabilities. The discrimination and stigma experienced by people affected by leprosy and disabilities means that these people are even less likely to be employed.\nThe Leprosy Mission (TLM) received UK Aid funding through the DaNa Facility that will bring about new job opportunities for people with disability, such through innovative micro-finance products and agricultural training in Mandalay, Bago, and Yangon Regions of Myanmar so excluded and marginalised people will be helped out of poverty.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lhermitagevancouver.com/blog/all-you-need-to-know-when-planning-a-trip-to-vancouver/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:LEUJHYBJMXKQILSA4L4XV3QWTVXPJHF2", "length": 3124, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.lhermitagevancouver.com", "title": "All you need to know when planning a trip to Vancouver - L'Hermitage Hotel", "raw_content": "Planning a Trip to Vancouver\nPlanning a trip to a new city or country can be a lot of hard work. All the bookings, planning searching for things to do can get very stressful. If you are planning a trip to Vancouver, here is a quick guide that will help you have a relaxed holiday and avoid the tourist traps.\nOnce you have decided to visit the buzzing city of Vancouver, the next best thing to do is book yourself a luxurious and comfortable hotel. Whether you are visiting Vancouver for a romantic getaway, a family holiday or for work the L\u2019Hermitage hotel in Vancouver is ideal for you. This hotel provides unmatched facilities and amenities that will make your stay in the city as comfortable as it can be.\nThis luxury boutique hotel of Vancouver offers complimentary services like Wi-Fi, newspaper to your room and bicycles for touring the city, and is located close to the beautiful Stanley Park. With the perfect blend of comfort and luxury, the spacious rooms of the hotel are designed in a very modern and contemporary way. Located in the heart of the city, booking your stay in the hotel keeps you close to some prime attractions, shopping destinations and public transport facilities.\nHere\u2019s a quick guide to help you plan the most perfect holiday to Vancouver:\n1. Exploring the city by car\nIt is always best to explore a new city by foot, but if that is not what you want then you can always rent a car in Vancouver. Renting a car in this city is easy and gives you the advantage of stopping and enjoying at any place you like; your views are not restricted, and you can easily put your carry-alongs in the car. While the city can easily be explored via public transport, renting a car comes handy if you wish to visit places outside of Vancouver.\n2. Exploring the city via public transport\nThe most tourist friendly thing about Vancouver is that it has an excellent public transport system comprising of trains and buses operated by Translink. They operate the SkyTrain subway, buses and the Sea Bus Ferry. These transport facilities are very fast and reliable. Plus, a single fare is valid for 90 minutes and one ticket works on all modes of transportation. It\u2019s easy to buy tickets from self-service kiosks installed at all train stations. Exploring the city in its local public transport gives you a chance to live in the city like locals do. With this, you also become more aware of how the city works and get to feel the real character of the city.\n3. Best time to visit the city\nVancouver is one of the warmest cities of Canada, so you will not get snowed-in here. But the city experiences a lot of rains throughout the year. So, the most ideal time to visit Vancouver are the warm and dry months of April and October, and autumn is simply breath-taking here.\n4. Essential things to pack\nRains are predicted anytime here so it\u2019s important you carry your rain gear with you. The vibe of the city is casual and active, so you can pack your clothes accordingly. Make sure you wear comfortable shoes while you are walking and exploring the city.\nplanning a trip to Vancouver, visit places outside of Vancouver", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4935, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.life-insurance-info.co.za/174/life-insurance/global-education-protector-from-discovery", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:10Z", "digest": "sha1:CXB4UHVIM74OWNXT7T3CDVRMGIM6WVKP", "length": 4754, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.life-insurance-info.co.za", "title": "Global Education Protector from Discovery - Life Insurance Info", "raw_content": "Global Education Protector from Discovery\nSecure your child\u2019s future with the Global Education Protector.\nThere are many types of investments one makes in life. Perhaps you\u2019ve already made some yourself \u2013 investing in real estate, stocks or even business ventures. But by far the most impactful, valuable and worthwhile investment you can ever make is in your child\u2019s education.\nGood education for your children is vital. That applies from pre-primary all the way through to primary school, high school and eventually university. You want to give your child the best education possible. Because education provides them the very best foundation for a rewarding, successful future.\nPutting a price on education\nWe would all love to send our children to the most exclusive schools in the country. However, price is often an important consideration. That applies not just to tuition or school fees, but books, uniforms, clubs, tutoring and various other associated costs.\nIf your child decides to study overseas after high school, you can add plenty of items. These include travel, accommodation, visa costs and hefty tuition fees to the list as well. The fact is that education is pricey. And if you factor in an international qualification, the expenses begin to rise even more.\nLet\u2019s say for instance that your child wants to work towards a university degree after high school. Let\u2019s say they want to study for a Bachelor of Arts (BA), one of the more affordable degrees. Their first year of education at a South African university would cost approximately R40 000. Books can cost up to R5 500, while student housing can set you back over R50 000. That depends on the institution your child chooses.\nIf, however, your child wants to study a course not offered locally, there will be many costs involved. Here is what one year of BA studies would cost at a university in Australia, Britain and the United States:\n*This is the amount of money your child will need to prove that they have in order to be awarded a visa to study in the country of their choice. They will not be able to obtain a visa without this proof.\nAs you can see, if your child decides that their future lies beyond South Africa\u2019s borders, it\u2019s one you\u2019re going to have to consider thoroughly.\nPlanning for your child\u2019s future\nMany parents try and offset education expenses like these through careful planning, using dedicated savings accounts and various cost-cutting methods to help empower their children with the best education possible. Planning is always crucial when working towards a goal, and is a necessary step along the road to success.\nBut have you planned for every eventuality when considering how to pay for your child\u2019s education? Yes, you may know where your child\u2019s school or university fees are coming from now \u2013 but do you know how those fees would be paid if you became too ill to work anymore, or underwent a life-changing event like disability or even death? Would your child\u2019s future be assured, or would they suffer as a result?\nSecure your child\u2019s future with the Global Education Protector\nDiscovery Life has the answer to these questions \u2013 the Global Education Protector. With the Global Education Protector, your child\u2019s tuition costs may be covered both locally and internationally, should you ever suffer a life-changing event, such as severe illness, disability or death. Once you make a claim against your policy, Discovery Life will cover your child\u2019s education costs from pre-primary all the way through to college or university, both in South Africa or overseas, and include a book allowance and tertiary residence fees (up to a prescribed maximum).\nShould your Global Education Protector policy be part of your Discovery Life Plan you can help reduce your premium by linking it with your existing Discovery Health, Vitality or Vitalitydrive products. So the better you look after your own health and make positive lifestyle choices, the lower your premium could be. You can also receive a portion of your premiums back through Discovery Life\u2019s PayBack Benefit, getting up to 60% of your premiums back every five years!\nHaving a Global Education Protector policy in place means not just adding another level of security to your plan for your child\u2019s schooling, but giving them the freedom to reach for their dreams, either at home, or away. Education is power, and that\u2019s exactly what the Global Education Protector provides, along with the peace of mind that comes from knowing your child\u2019s future will always be a bright one.\nInformation for this article was supplied by Discovery Life\nPlease complete and submit the form on this page to request your life insurance quote\nDid You Know This About Life Insurance Payouts? \u2192\n\u2190 Cheap Insurance for Life", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 5236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lighthouseproperty.nl/en/about-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:44Z", "digest": "sha1:7H2A4LMXC2HG3CIUE46FULDECZ6TAL2L", "length": 853, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.lighthouseproperty.nl", "title": "About us | Lighthouse Property Services", "raw_content": "Renee Hanssen and Alison Mills (herself a British Expat) have worked together for many years, providing quality services within the property market in the beautiful regions of Zuid-Kennemerland and Haarlemmermeer.\nWe are proud of the fact that during these years we have built up a client base of satisfied customers from diverse backgrounds; expats and re-pats both leaving and arriving, international companies and their employees, private individuals, property owners and tenants searching for a new (temporary) home.\nWe are well known for our flexible, customer oriented approach and our knowledge of both the region and the (rental) property market, these are just some of the reasons why our clients return and are happy to recommend our services to others.\nLet Lighthouse Property Services guide you too and become one of our satisfied customers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2087, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lightstalking.com/this-is-why-knowing-the-exposure-triangle-will-make-you-a-better-photographer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:36Z", "digest": "sha1:6SKOYXIMATRB6A5MMWJVVBRY6SKSBAHY", "length": 8199, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "www.lightstalking.com", "title": "This is Why Knowing the Exposure Triangle Will Make You a Better Photographer", "raw_content": "Capturing a photograph essentially means making an exposure on your camera\u2019s image sensor. When you press the shutter button, the image sensor inside your camera records the light falling on it and captures the shot. There are different kinds of cameras out there \u2013 DSLR, mirrorless, film, or the camera in your mobile phone, for that matter. While they may differ in the technology they use, the principles of image-capturing remain the same.\nThere are a few considerations that play a crucial role in determining the appearance and exposure of an image. Exposure triangle \u2013 the triad of Aperture, Shutter Speed and ISO \u2013 is among the first few technical concepts you must master when you start taking your photography seriously and want to achieve photographs that you desire. This post takes a look at the reasons why having an understanding of the exposure triangle can help you grow as a photographer.\nIf you've recently purchased a DSLR camera or if you've had one for some time now but haven't quite figured out how to make the best of it and create the kind of photos you wanted, check out the DSLR Crash Course eBook.\nHaving a good understanding of photography basics like the exposure triangle allows you to consistently get the exposure right in your photos. Photo by Giuseppe Milo\nThe three core settings of aperture, shutter speed and ISO constitute the exposure triangle. The illustration below shows the different ways in which an image is affected when you change any of those settings.\nAperture refers to the opening inside the lens that controls how much light enters the lens and reaches the image sensor. A larger opening (which corresponds to a smaller f-number, like f/1.4) allows in more light in comparison to a smaller opening (higher f-number, like f/16), which allows in less light.\nShutter Speed is the amount of time the image sensor remains exposed to light in order to capture a photograph. A shutter speed of 1/30 seconds captures light for a longer duration when compared to a shutter speed of 1/250 seconds.\nISO refers to the sensitivity of the image sensor to light. A higher ISO makes the image sensor more sensitive to light, and vice versa.\nWhen you half press the shutter button on your camera, the camera meters the scene and identifies a combination of these settings to get a \u2018normal' exposure. Depending on whether you are shooting in auto mode or manual mode, you have the option to choose different settings according to your requirements. To learn more about this, check out the article on the rule of equivalent exposure.\nChanging any of the three settings affects the amount of light captured in the photograph and this change in brightness is measured in \u2018stops'- where one stop refers to a halving or doubling of light intensity. The most commonly available values for aperture, shutter speed and ISO are listed below. Note that each value differs from the adjacent value by one stop (a reduction of one stop for each value you move towards the right).\nAperture: f/1, f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22, f/32\nShutter speed (in seconds): 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500, 1/1000\nISO: 6400, 3200, 1600, 800, 400, 200, 100, 50\nNow let's take a look at how knowing the exposure triangle allows you more control in different photography situations, when you have a camera that lets you manually change these settings.\n1. Getting the desired exposure in tricky lighting situations\nWhen your photograph turns out overexposed or underexposed, you have various options to correct it. For overexposed images, you need to reduce the amount of light captured, and it can be accomplished by either stopping down the aperture, using a faster shutter speed, or reducing the ISO. You can also use more than one of the above, if needed. For underexposed images, it becomes the opposite- opening the aperture, using a slower shutter speed, or increasing the ISO.\nBacklighting can fool the camera into underexposing an image, unless that is what you desire. Settings used: f/8, 1/1000s, ISO 200. Photo by Giuseppe Milo\n2. Working with less light\nWhen the available light is low, you can get the desired exposure as described in the earlier point (for underexposure). Using a slower shutter speed lets in more light, but might result in camera shake if photographing handheld, so you might need to stick with a faster shutter speed but you can use a wider aperture and/or use a higher ISO.\nPhotographing in low light can be challenging. Settings used: f/5.3, 1/6s, ISO 3200. Photo by Robert Pittman\nAs a rule of thumb, when photographing handheld, use a shutter speed that's faster than 1/Focal Length to avoid motion blur from camera shake. For example, when shooting at 100mm, using a shutter speed of 1/100s or faster can help avoid blur from camera shake. Any form of image stabilization in the camera allows you to use a slower shutter speed though, by a stop or two, depending on the make and model of the camera.\n3. Achieving the desired depth of field and sharpness\nA lot of times, we look to isolate the subject in our photograph and render the background blurry. This can be accomplished by using a wide aperture to get a shallow depth of field (the region of acceptable focus and sharpness in an image). This works great for photographing portraits, whereas for landscapes where you'd want to get a wide depth of field to get the whole of the scene in focus, you would be using a narrow aperture.\nA landscape scene with a wide depth of field- with the foreground and background in sharp focus. Settings used: f/22, 1/25s, ISO 100. Photo by PapaPiper\nIt's important to remember that depth of field is affected not just by aperture, but also by the focal length at which you're photographing and the subject's distance from the camera.\n4. Controlling how motion is captured in your image\nWhen you capture a photograph, every movement within the frame for the duration of the shutter speed is also captured. At fast shutter speeds, any subject movement is frozen as the duration can be too short to capture any apparent motion. However, when you use a slow shutter speed, the camera gets enough time to record the motion. Photos of silky smooth water, light streaks of traffic on a road, or a light painting, are all examples of utilizing slow shutter speed.\nLight trails captured using long exposure. Settings used: f/16, 20s, ISO 200. Photo by Giuseppe Milo\nSubject motion is not the only way movement can be captured in an image. Camera movement during the exposure time can cause motion blur in a photo too. Apart from the concern mentioned in #2 above, you can use camera motion creatively- using panning, for example.\nPanning the camera to achieve background blur. Settings used: f/16, 1/30s, ISO 400. Photo by Dragan\n5. Understand how noise affects your photographs\nWhile raising the ISO allows you to photograph in low light situations, it comes with a drawback. Increasing the ISO also proportionally increases the noise in the image. This is why you should try to work with the lowest ISO possible, unless you want the graininess arising out of noise from using high ISO.\nNoise can add mood to an image sometimes. Settings used: f/2.2, 1/8s, ISO 2500. Photo by josef.stuefer\nKnowing how each component of the exposure triangle functions and affects the image can truly help you become a more confident photographer. You will become aware of the techniques other photographers utilize in their photos and be able to identify, most of the time, how a certain image was accomplished.\nGet Better at Photography\nDo you own a DSLR camera but have not been able to create the kind of photographs that will make you proud? Well, a lot of us have gone through it and wished we had something more than a camera manual to help us figure out the basics.\nIf you would like to gain a better understanding of photography fundamentals, do take a look at Photzy's latest e-book DSLR Crash Course. It will help you learn step-by-step how to capture good photos consistently by way of comprehensive training and plenty of photography exercises. Click here now to check it out.\nThe DSLR Crash Course e-Book. See more details here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 10635, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/mouths-sinners/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:52Z", "digest": "sha1:OO7JEL53K4OWKV3KNKSYERSZQUFY4JHM", "length": 3281, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.ligonier.org", "title": "The Mouths of Sinners | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org", "raw_content": "The Mouths of Sinners\n\u201c\u2018All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.\u2019 \u2018Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.\u2019 \u2018The venom of asps is under their lips.\u2019 \u2018Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.\u2019\u201d\nUsing a series of quotes from the Old Testament, Paul draws together in Romans 3:10\u2013 18 the threads of his argument that Jews and Gentiles are both guilty of breaking God\u2019s law and stand condemned before Him. After introducing the quotes by citing the universality of sin and its effects on the mind (vv. 10\u201311), the Apostle looks in verses 12\u201314 at how the depth of our depravity manifests itself in our actions.\nVerse 12 describes all human beings in Adam\u2014that is, all human beings outside of Christ\u2014as \u201cworthless.\u201d We need to be careful here not to read Paul\u2019s quote of Psalms 14:3 and 53:3 as if human beings have lost all the dignity they possess by virtue of being made in God\u2019s image (Gen. 1:26\u201327). The idea is one of thoroughgoing corruption that results in uselessness with respect to the things of the Lord. In other words, apart from divine grace, human beings do not and cannot fulfill the task for which they were made, namely, to bring all creation under dominion in imitation of the wise and sovereign providential rule of our Creator. We do not serve God with the strength or focus that we ought, and if the standard by which one is declared righteous before Him is perfection, then outside of Christ we are indeed worthless servants of the Lord. Human beings are not born into a natural state of being on \u201cGod\u2019s side.\u201d Actually, we hate Him and seek to overthrow His rightful claim upon our lives both overtly and with subtlety. Nothing we do truly pleases Him as long as we are not in Christ. In his commentary on Romans, John Murray puts it quite well: \u201cAs respects well-doing there is not one; as respects evil-doing, there is no exception.\u201d\nRomans 3:13\u201314 quotes Psalms 5:10; 10:7; and 140:4 to show how deep sin runs by looking at our throats, lips, tongues, and mouths, all of which are organs related to our speech. Scripture tells us that our tongues have great power, not in the sense that they are magical tools but in that words of blessing and cursing have powerful, lasting, and often permanent effects on ourselves and others. \u201cDeath and life are in the power of the tongue\u201d (Prov. 18:21), and God made us to bestow life with our speech through edifying and encouraging words, the proclamation of His truth, and so on (15:4; 1 Peter 3:10). But if even those who are in Christ need to be told to stay away from \u201ccorrupting talk\u201d (Eph. 4:29), then surely the sinfulness of humanity is so deep that it penetrates even our words. No one can claim to have kept God\u2019s law in what they have done or what they have said.\nThe degradation of a culture is clearly seen in the kind of language it tolerates about other people and even about God Himself. We are living in a society that is increasingly vulgar and whose corruption threatens even those who have been called out of darkness into the Lord\u2019s marvelous light. If we follow Christ, we must be careful with our speech. If we show no desire to edify others and honor God with our lips, we may still be in Adam and not in Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 7160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/tell-truth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:TBGNWUMBFEZOMTQNCQS3QMB53JHSEDKW", "length": 2885, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ligonier.org", "title": "Tell the Truth | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org", "raw_content": "God\u2019s commandments, though they are often terse, are remarkably broad in their application. We see this in the case law, the application of the Ten Commandments, found throughout the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy). For example, consider the rule that merchants must employ just weights and measures (Lev. 19:36). Fallen human beings regularly attempt to make a little extra money from what they are selling by lying to others. When merchants use false weights and measures, buyers think they are getting more of a specific good or service than they actually receive. Plainly, this constitutes theft\u2014the merchant steals from the buyer when he provides a lesser good or service than what was purchased. However, false weights and measures also violate the ninth commandment, which emphasizes our Creator\u2019s demand that we tell the truth in all of our relationships.\nThe ninth commandment, as revealed in today\u2019s passage, deals most explicitly with court proceedings. Our God condemns those who would condemn the innocent and acquit the wicked (Prov. 17:15), and those who bear false witness in court give testimony that may convict a person who has committed no crime or set free a true criminal. In such situations, telling the truth can be literally a matter of life or death. False testimony in capital cases can lead to the execution of people who are not guilty of murder. The matter is so serious that in ancient Israel, those who committed perjury received the penalty that would have been inflicted upon the accused if he had been found guilty (Deut. 19:15-21). If one falsely accused a person of a capital crime, the witness would receive the death penalty.\nIn the ninth commandment, we see how much the Lord prizes the truth. That He prizes the truth should not surprise us, for He is truth itself (John 14:6). Thus, we must strive to be scrupulously honest in all of our dealings with one another. Moreover, the ninth commandment prohibits inflicting unjust harm with our tongues. Gossip and slander come under the scope of this law\u2019s concern. Paul includes gossip as one of the manifestations of our depravity (Rom. 1:29), and we are warned again and again about repeating things we have heard about other people when we are not sure of their veracity or when repeating them serves no purpose but to titillate. Finally, we may not besmirch our neighbor\u2019s good name or tarnish his reputation by lying about his character and deeds (Lev. 19:16).\nAlthough we tolerate slander all too often, our Lord takes it very seriously. In fact, those who slander impenitently reveal a lack of saving faith in their hearts, and God says He will destroy them (Ps. 101:5). We commonly hear slander and gossip in the church about pastors, other Christian leaders, and fellow believers. We are responsible not to initiate such things and not to repeat them when others tell these things to us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 6803, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ligonier.org/learn/devotionals/the-importance-of-prophecy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:33Z", "digest": "sha1:G47DIUD3BD6FPRIALWJTLQD2NU4GDSQY", "length": 2386, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ligonier.org", "title": "The Importance of Prophecy | Reformed Bible Studies & Devotionals at Ligonier.org", "raw_content": "\u201cSo be on your guard; I have told you everything ahead of time\u201d (v. 23).\n- Mark 13:1-23\nIn theology, the study of future things prophesied in the Bible is called eschatology. Both Thessalonian epistles show us that the early church was interested in prophecy, and Paul was as well. Today we have a problem with the subject of prophecy\u2014two problems, really. Among conservative Christians, some brethren have focussed so heavily on prophecy that they have become an embarrassment to the rest of the church. The Rapture has been dated over and over again, and has never yet happened. Thus, many Christians are sick and tired of hearing about prophecy.\nThe second problem Christians have with prophecy or eschatology stems from the liberalism of the nineteenth century. Liberal theologians were committed to the ideals of the enlightenment\u2014eighteenthcentury rationalism. In the interest of \u201creason,\u201d they sought to eliminate everything miraculous from the Christian religion. Seeking for the \u201ccore\u201d meaning of Christianity, they thought to find it in the idea of Jesus as \u201cthe supreme moral teacher.\u201d They focussed on the Sermon on the Mount, isolating it from its biblical context and turning it into a set of moralistic ideals.\nA scholar named Albert Schweitzer attacked liberalism. Schweitzer demonstrated that Jesus\u2019 claim to be the Messiah, the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy, was inseparable from His teachings and life. He also showed that it is impossible to isolate Jesus\u2019 moral teachings from His predictions about His forthcoming Kingship over the whole earth. However, Schweitzer also said that Jesus was wrong, and died in despair on the cross crying out to God. Schweitzer himself adopted a kind of Eastern pantheism and left Europe to became a humanistic medical missionary in Africa.\nTwo groups answered Schweitzer. Neo-orthodoxy decided that history is not important. Jesus\u2019 claims and His resurrection are only symbols of God\u2019s \u201cencounter\u201d with man. Conservative, orthodox Christian theologians insisted that the historic Christian faith is correct. History, they said, is very important. Jesus\u2019 predictions did\nProphecy is important. It shows God\u2019s control over history, in that what He predicts does come to pass. Take care not to \u201cthrow the baby out with the bath water\u201d when rightly rejecting the fantasies of some prophecy teachers today.\nLast Things, Prophecy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 173, "original_length": 6278, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 265.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.linuxjournal.com/video/cooking-linux-without-net-irc-classic-slack-alternative", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:52Z", "digest": "sha1:36PHXLFNZR36ORUBNJSP3ZDDQGOJA3PO", "length": 943, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.linuxjournal.com", "title": "Cooking with Linux without a Net: IRC: a Classic Slack Alternative | Linux Journal", "raw_content": "Cooking with Linux without a Net: IRC: a Classic Slack Alternative\nIt's Tuesday and that means it's time for Cooking With Linux (without a net), sponsored and supported by Linux Journal to whom I am thankful. Also, if you're seeing this, know that you are watching a recording of what was a live show. Speaking of which . . . You all know about Slack, right? Some of you are tied to it even now, unable to break free because that's what your company runs. Not that there's anything wrong with Slack, but long before Slack and others like it, there was another collaborative chat system and it's still alive, even today. Yep, it's IRC and today, I'm installing a server from scratch and connecting to it with an IRC client. And yes, I'll do it all live, without a net, and with a high probability of falling flat on my face. Join me today, at 12 noon, Easter Time. Be part of the conversation.\nngircd is available from https://ngircd.barton.de/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2153, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.livabl.com/2009/09/toronto-reit-enters-agreement-to.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:BEGJI5RBIACYVPJHEU4QJTPUAXSMD5FP", "length": 1236, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.livabl.com", "title": "Toronto -- REIT Enters Agreement to Purchase 151 Front Street West", "raw_content": "Toronto \u2014 REIT Enters Agreement to Purchase 151 Front Street West\nAllied Properties REIT announced today that it has entered into an agreement to purchase 151 Front Street West, Toronto. This property is a Class I office, with 325,772 square feet of gross leasable area, 56 surface parking spaces and 750,000 square feet of approved intensification potential.\nThe acquisition is expected to close in October of this year, subject to customary conditions.\nInitially known as the Canadian National Express Building and York Teamway, 151 Front Street West is located on the south side of Front Street, at the intersection with Simcoe Street and one building west of the intersection with University Avenue.\nThe property includes surplus land on which 750,000 square feet can be developed for specialized and general office use and for ancillary retail use. The land has been rezoned to permit this development. Allied does not intend to pursue this opportunity in the near-term, but believes that it will augment the significant value-creation opportunities present in its Toronto portfolio.\nThe total consideration of $192 million represents a 10% capitalization rate applied to the in-place annual net operating income from the property.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 205.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-romelu-lukaku-interview-transcript-12748126", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:30Z", "digest": "sha1:MO4W6OGNE5B7QMKV2Z6BTWISXLJENC5X", "length": 8522, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "www.liverpoolecho.co.uk", "title": "Romelu Lukaku interview: The full transcript of Everton striker's conversation with journalists - Liverpool Echo", "raw_content": "Romelu Lukaku interview: The full transcript of Everton striker's conversation with journalists\nRomelu Lukaku spoke to the press on Tuesday at Finch Farm. This is what he said.\nRomelu Lukaku's contract saga has been dominating the news agenda for Everton this week.\nOn Tuesday he spoke to journalists from the ECHO and the national press to promote Everton in the Community\u2019s girls pan-disability programme as part of his role as a Kick It Out \u2018Next 20\u2019 ambassador.\nBut his as yet unsigned new deal and what the future holds was the compelling topic of conversation.\nRomelu Lukaku Everton future LIVE - Updates from Koeman's press conference & more\nA separate story about the interview can be read here.\nBut below is the full transcript of the 12-minute conversation as Lukaku sat with reporters and freely answered their different questions.\nQ: You\u2019ve been getting better and better all the time.\nA: I\u2019m really happy. I\u2019m really happy but I can\u2019t say that I am overjoyed. There have been parts that we could have done better.\nWe have a team that has a lot of quality and a lot of ability but we let ourselves down before Christmas. One win in 10 games? That\u2019s where we let ourselves down.\nBut I think at the time we were adapting to the way the manager wants us to play. When you play in a certain way for a number of years then there is change to the system then for us it is difficult to adapt. You are used to training a certain way.\nYour body is used to certain things. Now it is a total different regime and you have to adapt.\nOkay, now we are doing well. Everyone is happy. But we cannot stay at this moment.\nWe have to become stronger, we have to become technically and tactically better. We have to start winning big games. That is what it is all about.\nQ: You said last year that you would one day be top scorer in the Premier League. Your main rival Kane is out now. Will this be your season?\nA: He is a top player (Kane). You want to see top players in the league. I am sad that he is injured. Everyone wants to see top players in the league and it is sad for Tottenham and him.\nI hope he gets better and becomes stronger than he is now. He is a good player.\nBut the most important thing for me is that we do better as a team. We have got 10 games left. That is 10 finals for me. I hope that is the same for the rest of the team.\nI\u2019m sure we will make the best out of them.\nQ: Would it mean more to you if Kane had been fit?\nA: I don\u2019t look at that. I don\u2019t look at other players if they aren\u2019t going to teach me anything. If I don\u2019t have the feeling that you aren\u2019t going to teach me something, why should I look at you?\nThat is the thing that I have. I work on my aspects. I am focused on Everton and what I am doing. That is my focus.\nQ: Which strikers do you look at then?\nA: Suarez, Lewandowski, Benzema. Cavani. That\u2019s it. I\u2019m not looking at the rest. No chance. I watch what they do in certain moments and I think \u201cthat\u2019s interesting\u201d. Now you are starting to compete and you want to show who is best. But as a team you want to be the best. I want my team to be the best. I want my team to be the most attractive to play in the league. At the end of the day, the big aim in football is to win as many titles as you can.\nQ: How do you rate yourself among those strikers?\nA: I\u2019m close. Close. I\u2019m close. At the minute I am one of the best strikers in the league. I can\u2019t not say that. If I don\u2019t say that I am one of the best? I am shooting myself in the head. At the minute I am one of the best in the Premier League. 100 per cent.\nQ: Can you be one of the best in the world?\nA: Definitely. Definitely. But to do that, you need the platform to show yourself. Then you are talking about Champions League and whatever types of games. I don\u2019t want to go into details on that but you just follow the path that is in front of you. Whatever type of situation, I just try to deliver.\nQ: You were loyal to stay this season - have you learnt from Koeman?\nA: If I didn\u2019t think I would have learnt something from him I probably would have left. I probably would have said: \u201cYou know what, I don\u2019t have the energy or whatever.\u201d\nBut from our first conversations when I was at the Euros in France they were really honest, we spoke a few times and he explained how he wanted to play, how he expected things and stuff and I was just listening to what he had to say.\nI told the manager it will take a few weeks, but once I get it, don\u2019t worry, it will be fine.\nQ: Are you worried the club could price you out of a move?\nA: Not really, no.\nQ: You said you would have left last season?\nA: I am not scared of anything. I am not scared. I am just playing football and just trying to do whatever I can to help Everton Football Club become a better club. Like every team-mate.\nWe want the best for the club because we have great facilities, good fans. An example like Everton in the Community who work hard, you have a good bunch of lads. But at the end of the day fans want to see trophies, players want trophies so we need to try more, give a bit more.\nThat is the only thing I would say.\nYou should not shy away from it. Like if you don\u2019t win a trophy there is something that has gone wrong because if you have the belief that you can do something, you can do it. If you have the belief and you work hard for it and you focus on that you have to deliver and you really deliver then you can get it. Nothing is going to stop you. That is how I think.\nSometimes in my games I am like, \u2018Today it is going to happen.\u2019 And it happens. Sometimes it doesn\u2019t happen but at least you have to give it a go. If you don\u2019t give it a go, it is a chance going past you like that.\nQ: Do you think in the past the club has maybe accepted it won't win a trophy and ploughed on instead of having the attitude it can?\nA: You have to have the attitude\u2026 you have to \u2026\nEverton as a football club has a great history right. But the future has to be written. You get me?\nBecause we always talk about the teams of the 80s and 70s and if you look it was great. But we as players we want the fans talking about us instead of us talking about them. No disrespect but you know what I mean.\nYou want to be remembered as well. No matter where you play you want to be remembered. You cannot only be remembered by scoring goals, you want to be remembered by winning trophies at the end of the day.\nThat is what the fans want.\nSo instead of living in the past, you have to think ahead. How this club has to grow, how this club has to improve, which player does it want to bring in so you can challenge for the big trophies.\nThen like sometimes I will speak to Vincent Kompany who was at City when it all happened. He said, \u2018Rom, one summer I just came in and boom, boom, boom, boom\u2026 Robinho from there, that guy came in, this guy came in, this guy came in (clicking fingers) and then everyone was criticising them but at the end, they had League titles, FA Cup here, League Cups there.\nThat is what we want as players.\nQ: Can\u2019t that happen here?\nA: I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t know what the board\u2019s plan is. I don\u2019t really know.\nQ: There's been evidence so far though hasn't there with Bolaise, Schneiderlin..?\nA: Obviously, yes, but I don\u2019t know what the board\u2019s plan is.\nI don\u2019t know what the plan is because I cannot be focused one thing and then\u2026 my focus is on the pitch and if something happens I will hear it or see it. That is the only thing (I can do).\nAs players the only job we have is train and play, train and play, train and play, train and play.\nQ: But surely you think the club sees you as integral to where they want to go? Don't you think the club now is different to the one you joined?\nA: Obviously stuff is changing and stuff is happening, but like I said there were some players that we could have got. That I knew the club could have got and they didn\u2019t get. And they are playing in this league. I am not saying names, but they are doing well.\nQ: Is that frustrating?\nA: It is a little bit frustrating but, at the end of the day, we have fantastic players. We cannot look at the others, we can only look at ourselves. We are the only ones to blame. We cannot blame the fans. We cannot blame the manager.\nThe manager has to choose from 25 players and if you don\u2019t work hard enough.\nI mean you are not going to give the fans what they want. Us as players we need to give a bit more and that is a nice challenge. I really relish that challenge to be fair, I relish that challenge. The last 10 games of the season I think: \u201cBring it on. Let\u2019s go.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 264, "original_length": 16598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lloyd.com/wd/en/p/domingo/28-584-52/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:23Z", "digest": "sha1:DBCYSD6E2FHZUPYC2DJWR6URMGDZ74B2", "length": 314, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.lloyd.com", "title": "Buy DOMINGO online | LLOYD Shoes", "raw_content": "Sturdy Chelsea boot in a harmonious combination of materials and colours. The leather uppers have a beautiful, hand-crafted character. This casual boot is the result of a combination of a rustic sole and small colourful accents. The elaborately designed sole is reminiscent of the stone paving in old Tuscan towns.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 4607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 268.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.loveandlemons.com/easyrecipe-print/22057-0/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:43Z", "digest": "sha1:CTBD4UQ7H47Y7DSXR6R5CJ5B4WJ4PPGT", "length": 93, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.loveandlemons.com", "title": "Butternut Squash Black Bean Chili", "raw_content": "Recipe by Love and Lemons at https://www.loveandlemons.com/butternut-squash-black-bean-chili/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2090, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 214.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lovetimes.us/2019/02/why-married-man-falls-in-love-with-another-woman.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HY6LGJYK6JJRODHZIVBHMBHNWWRSCJOD", "length": 4052, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.lovetimes.us", "title": "Why a Married Man Falls in Love With another Woman", "raw_content": "You'll be surprised why a married man falls in love with another woman. Why does that happen?\nMany women wonder what goes through a man's mind or what actions men see in their lover that make them fall in love with her. What is surprising is that these factors have to do with what they live in their home than with the lover.\nLove Times presents a series of factors that intervene directly on the feelings of a man who has decided to fall in love with another woman and not continue with the wife.\nWhen a committed man falls in love with another woman it is because he has stopped feeling true love for his wife, what makes him get lost? This question is like a wound in the minds of wives.\nLet's start by mentioning that for a man to fall in love with his lover did not arise overnight, that is, he had to make the decision to be unfaithful and then lead a double life, living together, investing and lying continuously.\nAnswering why your husband fell in love with another woman (his lover) is not summarized in a single answer, so we present the most common.\nResponsibility of 2\nEverything that happens in a home, (in the relationship), has to do with the two, who do not know how to solve the differences is something else. When a man lives more fights at home than in the street, he usually looks for someone who will listen to him and give him affection instead of asking him every moment for things that sometimes don't matter.\nWhat a man is looking for\nLook for someone who won't criticize you or compare you, they yearn to have their best fans at home, the one they support with constructive and non-destructive comments. \"It's just that my wife doesn't like what I do, when I just keep working. The man who becomes a supplier wants that when he arrives home he finds that counterpart of the stress that lives in the work, to arrive and to feel comfortable, with a wife who receives him with harmony and not with complaints and claims that end in endless discussions.\nIt often happens that the stress in both (husband and wife) manifest and end up putting them to sleep in separate beds, this is a negative point for the relationship. A man likes to play with his wife in the good sense of the word.\nJoking and laughing out loud is something that should happen because of trust and good communication, when this ceases to exist is that both have become too serious. So what happens, that the man looks for in another woman that fun where she is not afraid to cry with laughter and that her makeup becomes a disaster in order to enjoy a good time.\nThere are wives who do nothing if the husband is not by their side, they become so dependent that they harass their man so much that they end up on the brink of severe stress. This could have been solved at first, both decided to continue in this attachment that in the end harms the couple.\nIt is when the man tries to leave home to look for a space where he can relax but with another woman. If they hear the phrase \"Look for yourself or buy yourself a life\". This is because the wife stops being herself because she becomes someone who takes orders to do things.\nThey fall in love with the lover\nYes, they fall in love because all the above points do not live with the lover, it becomes the point of salvation of what they consider a torment of marriage. They fall in love because the lover does not criticize them, on the contrary it flatters them, they do not reproach them, because the time they give each other is little but of quality. They fall in love with the lover because she takes care of him as she would like the wife to take care of him.\nAnd well the point that we have left to the last one, is not less important, but if the intimacy has become almost invisible in house, have for sure that with the lover it is the most important part for which they are together. And yes, it happens that the married man falls in love with his lover.\nThe question here is, what are you going to do after you know the answer to why he fell in love with someone else when he was married to you?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 4691, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.lubbockonline.com/news/20190126/entertainment-possibilities-this-week-in-lubbock", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:42Z", "digest": "sha1:4GBV3ZK4I5WJZCYVR4YKH3CGV7UX7DKZ", "length": 8598, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "www.lubbockonline.com", "title": "Entertainment possibilities this week in Lubbock - News - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - Lubbock, TX", "raw_content": "Entertainment possibilities this week in Lubbock\nKaraoke: 9 p.m., Adolph's Grill & Bar, 5131 Aberdeen Ave. (806) 785-2030.\nCountry Jam: 9 p.m.-2 a.m., Louie Louie\u2019s Piano Bar, 1703 Texas Ave. 749-7464 (SING).\nBlack Cat Bone: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Funky Door, 6801 Milwaukee Ave., 687-0505.\nRobert Kirk CD Release: 9 p.m., Blue Light Live, 1806 Buddy Holly Ave.; 762-1185.\nKaraoke: 9 p.m., Adolph's Grill & Bar, 5131 Aberdeen Ave. 785-2030.\nSongwriter Night with Jerry Serrano: 8 p.m., Blue Light Live, 1806 Buddy Holly Ave. 762-1185.\nTotal Chaos: 7 p.m.-12 a.m., Jake's Backroom, 5025 50th St., Suite A; 687-5253.\nSPiVEY: 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Funky Door, 6801 Milwaukee Ave. 687-0505.\nDrew Cypert: 9 p.m., Blue Light Live, 1806 Buddy Holly Ave., 762-1185.\nBrian McRae: 7-10 p.m., Stella's Restaurant, 4646 50th St.; 785-9299.\nFlaw: 7-11 p.m., Jake's Backroom, 5025 50th St., Suite A, 687-5253.\nPenny Thompson Kruse Violin Recital: 9:30 p.m., Hemmle Recital Hall, Texas Tech.\nKaraoke Wednesdays: 8 p.m., Louie Louie\u2019s Piano Bar, 1703 Texas Ave. 749-7464.\nRaised by Wolves: 7-10 p.m., Funky Door, 6801 Milwaukee Ave. 807-0505.\nJeremy Nail and Ali Holder: 9 p.m., Blue Light Live, 1806 Buddy Holly Ave., 762-1185.\nWorld Famous Piano Show: 8 p.m., Louie Louie\u2019s Piano Bar, 1703 Texas Ave. 749-7464 (SING).\nTexas FM: 7 p.m., Cook's Garage, 11002 U.S. 87; 893-2491.\nCraig Elliott: 7-10 p.m., Funky Door, 6801 Milwaukee Ave. 687-0505.\nJenni Dale Lord: 4:30 p.m., Pecan Grill Lounge, Overton Hotel, 2322 Mac Davis Lane, 776-7000.\nMike Pritchard: 7 p.m., Pecan Grill Lounge, Overton Hotel, 2322 Mac Davis Lane; 776-7000.\nVincent Neil Emerson: 9 p.m., Blue Light Live, 1806 Buddy Holly Ave., 762-1185.\nAlissa Beyer: 6-8 p.m., The Wine Nest, 8209 Slide Rd., Ste. 900; 368-7964.\nReel Big Fish: Jake's Backroom, 5025 50th St., Suite A, 687-5253.\nGuest Artist David Tayloe Voice Recital: 8-9:30 p.m., Hemmle recital Hall, Texas Tech, 742-2270.\nWorld Famous Piano Show: 8 p.m., Louie Louie\u2019s Piano Bar, 1703 Texas Ave. 749-SING.\nWill and Lindsey: 7:30-11 p.m., Funky Door, 6801 Milwaukee Ave.; 687-0505.\nZac Wilkerson: 9 p.m., Blue Light Live, 1806 Buddy Holly Ave. 762-1185.\nCamron Jones: 7 p.m., 4ORE! Golf, 6909 Marsha Sharp Freeway, 368-8334.\nEmisunshine in Concert: 7:30-9:30 p.m., Cactus Theatre, 1812 Buddy Holly Ave.; 762-3233.\nHanna & Phil: 7:30-11 p.m., Funky Door, 6801 Milwaukee Ave.; 368-8334.\nLocal Nobody's: 6-8 p.m., The Wine Nest, 8209 slide Rd., Ste. 900; 368-7964.\n\"Grasslands of North America and Africa\": Through January 2019, Museum of Texas Tech, 3301 Fourth St. 742-2490.\n\"Ladies in Red\": Through Feb. 2, 2019, Museum of Texas Tech, 3301 Fourth St., 3301 Fourth St. 742-2490.\nThe Diary of Anne Frank: Feb. 22-24, March 1-3 and 8-10; $20 adults, $15 students; 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday.\nLlano Estacado Bridge: 1 p.m., Bridge Center, 2563 73rd St., $6; information, Wanda Robinson, 701-2003 or 627-8213.\nLubbock Area Square and Round Dance Federation: 8 p.m. LASRDF Dance Center, 2305 120th St. Tuesday Rounds Round Dance Club. 799-1324, 799-6734.\nWrite Right: 6:30-8 p.m. Maxey Community Center, 4020 30th St. A group for writers. 747-0321.\nLlano Estacado Bridge: 1 p.m., Bridge Center, 2563 73rd St., $6; information, Sue Myers, 698-0305 or 543-6332.\nLlano Estacado Bridge: 6 p.m., Bridge Center, 2563 74th St., $6; information, Gina Schultz, 698-0554 or 790-5787.Singing Plainsmen: 7 p.m. Covenant Presbyterian Church, 4600 48th St. A barbershop chorus open to men of all ages who like to sing. 445-9119.\nLlano Estacado Bridge: 1 p.m., Bridge Center, 2563 73rd St.; $6' information, Sue Myers, 698-0305 or 543-6332.\nLubbock Area Square and Round Dance Federation: 8 p.m. LASRDF Dance Center, 2305 120th St. Levi and Laces Square Dance Club. 799-1324 and 799-6734.\nLlano Estacado Bridge: 1 p.m., Bridge Center, 2563 73rdSt.; $6; Sue Myers, 698-0305 or 543-6332.\nLlano Estacado Bridge: 1:30 p.m., Bridge Center, 2563 74th St.; $6; Liz Taylor-Lane, (806) 789-6771.\nMetallica - WorldWired Tour: 7:30 p.m., March 2, 2019, United Supermarkets Arena, 1701 Indiana Ave. 770-2000. www.selectaseatlubbock.com.\nAmerican Windmill Museum: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 2-5 p.m. Sundays (May-September), 1701 Canyon Lake Drive. More than 100 windmills displayed inside, more than 50 outside and a 6,000-square-foot mural depicting the history of windmills. $7.50 adult, $5 for children 5 to 12, $6 seniors and veterans, $20 for family of four, free active-duty military and their household families with military ID. 747-8734, www.windmill.com.\nBayer Museum of Agriculture: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1121 Canyon Lake Drive. Agriculture machinery and artifacts,with exhibits dating to the pioneering years of agriculture on the South Plains. Guided tours, $5. Reservations -- 744-3786, www.agriculturehistory.org.\nBuddy Holly Center: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday, 1801 Crickets Ave. Exhibits and programs on Texas music. General admission, $8; senior citizens (60 and older) $6; children ages 7 to 17, $5; students (with college ID), $5; children 6 and younger, free; members, free; and active-duty military (in uniform), free. 775-3560.\nBuddy Holly Statue, West Texas Walk of Fame and Buddy and Maria Elena Holly Plaza: 19th Street and Crickets Avenue,directly across the street from the Buddy Holly Center. 775-3560.\nFloyd County Historical Museum: 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 105 E. Missouri St., Floydada. More than 50,000 artifacts depicting early and recent prairie life, both agricultural and industrial. 983-2415.\nGarza County Historical Museum: 10 a.m.-noon and 1-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 119 Ave. N, Post. Variety of historical items, ranging from the prehistoric to Native American culture. 495-2207.\nGlassyAlley Art Studio and Gallery: 6-9 p.m. Wednesdays, 9 a.m.-noon Thursdays, 9 a.m.-noon first Saturday every month, 1940 Texas Ave. Featuring a variety of art and glass mosaic art classes. 535-2457.\nHale County Farm & Ranch Museum: 1-5 p.m. daily, 1 mile south of Hale Center on Interstate 27, exit 36. Exhibits feature artifacts relating to the early days of railroading, farming and ranching in Texas. 839-2556.\nLubbock Area Veterans War Memorial: 82nd Street and Nashville Avenue. Monument to region\u2019s soldiers has 20,000 bricks bearing the names of men and women who have served in the military in either times of peace or war, coordinated by American Legion Post 575. 794-9006, http -- //www.americanlegionpost575.org/lubbock-area-veterans-war-memorial.\nLubbock Lake National Historic Landmark: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday, 2401 Landmark Drive, accessible by marked Loop 289 exits or by following signs on U.S. 84. Features 4 miles of hiking trails, an interpretive center with exhibits, statues of extinct animals outside the center and several programs and events during the year. Free. 742-1116,www.museum.ttu.edu/LLL.\nMuseum of Texas Tech: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday, 3301 Fourth St., main building, Moody Planetarium, Natural Science Research Laboratory, the research and educational elements of the Lubbock Lake Landmark and the Val Verde County research site. Temporary and permanent exhibitions presented in the main building. Free. 742-2432.\nNational Ranching Heritage Center: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday, 3121 Fourth St. 48 historic ranch buildings and exhibits from the late 1700s to the early 1900s. Information -- 742-0498, www.nrhc.ttu.edu.\nO\u2019Donnell Heritage Museum: 1-4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, or by appointment, 904 Eighth St., O\u2019Donnell. Features local history, including tribute to Dan Blocker, who portrayed Hoss Cartwright on \u201cBonanza\u201d and was raised in O\u2019Donnell. Permanent exhibits illustrate life in late 19th-century to 20th-century West Texas. 428-3239.\nScience Spectrum: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday, 2579 S. Loop 289. Interactive displays and artifacts; special programs at various times of the year. Admission -- $8 for adults and $6.50 for children ages 3-12 and senior citizens. Information -- 745-2525, www.sciencespectrum.org.\nSilent Wings Museum: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, 1-5 p.m. Sunday, 6202 N. I-27. Extensive displays of the glider program from the World War II era on the site where the majority of World War II glider pilots were trained. Admission -- $8 for the general public, $6 for senior citizens 60 and older; $5 for children ages 17 and younger; $5 for college students with ID. Children 6 and younger and museum members free. 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Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the Armistice Day centenary\nRemarkably \u2013 and all the more poignantly \u2013 this year\u2019s Remembrance Sunday will take place on 11th November, 100 years to the day that marked the end of the First World War. All over the world, special commemorations will take place to not only mark the centenary of the armistice but to also remember all those who have lost their lives in subsequent conflicts. Below we answer some of your key questions.time.\nHow did Remembrance Sunday come about?\nWhile the modern-day version of Remembrance Sunday memorialises British and Commonwealth soldiers who have fought in wars across the globe, it originally honoured those that never returned from the battlefields of World War 1.\nIt usually takes place on the Sunday closest to the 11th November, the day that marked the official end of hostilities between the allies and Germany in 1918. The first such remembrance took place in 1919 when King George V asked the British public to observe a two-minute silence on the first anniversary of the conflict\u2019s end.\nWhy is this year\u2019s celebration significant?\nRemembrance Sunday in 2018 is especially important as it marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. To commemorate the centenary, significant events are being held across the world. In the UK, for example, a special procession is being organised that will see 10,000 members of the public people walk past London\u2019s Cenotaph to pay their respects to all those who served during this global and unprecedented conflict.\nDonning a red poppy is one of the simplest ways of showing your support if you\u2019re unable to make it to one of the many Armistice Day events happening around the UK. The day is also marked by special church services across the country, including the National Service of Remembrance at Whitehall. This will be attended by the Queen and key government figures.\nA two-minute silence will also be observed on the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour on the 11th of November in countries marking the centenary of the armistice. As this year\u2019s Remembrance Sunday will be so special, many churches and chapels across Britain will ring their bells together in a symbolic gesture of peace. They\u2019ll also be recruiting 1,400 new bell ringers \u2013 one for every bell ringer that died during the Great War \u2013 as part of the Ringing Remembers campaign.\nHow can I learn more about the history of Armistice Day?\nIn addition to the many centenary-specific tributes taking place internationally, it\u2019s also possible to discover more about World War I beyond the 100th anniversary of the armistice. Consider our five-day coach tour of Ypres, which delivers an especially moving experience of the battlefields of Flanders. It also includes a trip to the hugely affecting Tyne Cot Cemetery, the final resting place of close to 12,000 soldiers.\nFor another, more immersive experience of the Great War, our They Called it Passchendaele tour takes you on a journey through one of the most infamous battles of the First World War during 1917. Explore mine sites and enter German bunkers along the Messines Ridge, as well as receive guided visits of numerous prolific museums and memorials.\nEscorted Tours in Ireland", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 277, "original_length": 9756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 149.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.manning-napier.com/insights/blogs/research-library/converge-volume-13-breaking-down-cits", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:29Z", "digest": "sha1:O3X7G7WUSIQC74UUQLK4M6ODNAXSZOE7", "length": 4566, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.manning-napier.com", "title": "Converge, Volume 13: Breaking Down CITs | Library | Insights | Manning & Napier", "raw_content": "Converge, Volume 13: Breaking Down CITs\nRecent notable court cases which talk about at least considering Collective Investment Trust Funds (CITs) include Ameriprise Financial and Lockheed Martin \u2013 both with settlement agreements stipulating that plan sponsors consider using CITs in the plan. CITs are often less expensive to create/maintain and may be more flexible than their mutual fund counterparts given that they are subject to a different regulatory framework. While this may be a benefit to their fee structure, it can also be challenging because CITs are not broadly understood and often suffer misconceptions when compared to mutual funds. Below are the most common misconceptions and frequently asked questions by fiduciaries.\nCITs are pools of securities, which are sponsored by a bank or trust company, and are designed exclusively for qualified employee benefit plans like 401(k) and pension plans. They look and feel like mutual funds, but haven\u2019t historically been as broadly available\u2014especially for small and mid-sized 401(k) plans. As the retirement plan industry evolves, so does the structure of a plan\u2019s investment menu, including CITs.\nAre CITs new?\nCITs were first launched in 1927 and were a popular choice among defined benefit plans for decades. When 401(k) plans were developed in the 1980s, CITs were an option in many of the early plans; however, given the operational constraints of CITs and their lack of widely available information, mutual funds soon became the preferred vehicle in most 401(k) plans.\nThat said, CITs have undergone significant developments over the years, making them comparable to their mutual fund counterparts, while also offering distinct advantages.\nIs CIT data broadly available?\nEarly CITs were traded manually and typically valued only once per calendar quarter. Furthermore, since early CITs were unique to each bank and portfolio manager, information was generally not publicly available.\nFast forward to their current form, CITs, like mutual funds, are typically traded and valued daily. Additionally, reporting has vastly improved over the years, allowing for further analysis when conducting manager due diligence. Specifically, data is generally reported on a regular basis to databases such as Morningstar, Inc. or eVestment Alliance and may be accessible through provider websites. While access to CIT data has greatly improved, it is important to note that the level of data available may vary depending on the provider.\nAre CITs regulated?\nA common misconception regarding CITs is that they are not regulated. While CITs are not regulated by the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) like mutual funds, they are regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), which is part of the U.S. Treasury; If at a nationally chartered bank or trust company or at a state chartered institution, CITs are regulated by their respective state authorities. In addition, CITs may also be subject to oversight by the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the DOL.\nAs CITs are not regulated by the same federal securities laws as mutual funds, they do not have the additional compliance costs associated with SEC required disclosures and filings. Without these additional costs, CITs can potentially provide considerable savings that can be passed on to plan fiduciaries and participants.\nWhy are CITs getting so much press recently?\nThe retirement industry has evolved over the years, and as such, so has investment menu construction. In addition to determining which types of investment strategies are to be used, plan fiduciaries are also tasked with determining which type of investment vehicle is most appropriate for their plan and the cost structure to be used.\nWith recent fee litigation and the DOL\u2019s Fiduciary Rule creating additional awareness on fees and fiduciary responsibility, it is not surprising that CITs are again gaining attention. As previously mentioned, CITs can potentially provide considerable savings compared to their mutual fund counterparts. From a fiduciary perspective, unlike mutual fund managers, CIT trustees are considered fiduciaries under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and are held to ERISA fiduciary standards. That said, CIT trustees must act solely in the best interest of the plan participants and beneficiaries, potentially making them more alluring in light of today\u2019s legal environment.\nTo learn more about the advantages of using CITs, visit www.manning-napier.com/CIT.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 199.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-tech/04192018-how-cable-came-rule-internet", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:03Z", "digest": "sha1:XV43ZMDBJLFTHQKJVATFZ6436PKC3TNG", "length": 567, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.marketplace.org", "title": "04/19/2018: How cable became the backbone of the internet", "raw_content": "04/19/2018: How cable became the backbone of the internet\nMany Americans rely on a cable provider to connect them to broadband internet, and streaming and other tech trends are changing the way we watch television. Marketplace Tech host Molly Wood spoke with Amanda Lotz about her new book, \"We Now Disrupt This Broadcast,\" on the role of cable and the internet in transforming the way we are entertained.\nWhy cutting the cord isn't so easy in the U.S.\nCindy Ord/Getty Images for Comcast\nTV has changed a lot, but cable has managed to stick around one way or another.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 2893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.markmichael.io/sandbox/thepassedwordsproject", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:25Z", "digest": "sha1:T5R6WCJUT27VLZ3WKUU7NDOXL73BQR5D", "length": 1051, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.markmichael.io", "title": "The Passed Words Project \u2014 Mark Michael", "raw_content": "If we asked people to share information with the world and we asked the world to share that information with us, what would it look like?\nA small spark of an idea quickly became a passion project into how we can visualize the social transfer of information in the real world.\nThirty books were purchased for the project. Each book is fitted with a printed insert that contains information about the project and instructions for participation. As people share their information with The Passed Words Project, it is compiled and uploaded to a custom version of Google Maps. Then we can visualize how these books travel across the world.\nThis project relies on honest, user-based submissions once released into the wild. To make this experiment as interesting as possible, we have attempted to restrict any abuse and withhold the right to remove any data or information that would be considered harmful to the overall integrity of the project.\nAn ever-growing collage of audio, video, digital, physical, written, interactive, and experiential multimedia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1526, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.massagemag.com/the-2005-scholarship-winners-856/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:58Z", "digest": "sha1:POZFPBNOCBWMFV2QXBPZIWTWH44SCX43", "length": 4330, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.massagemag.com", "title": "The 2005 Scholarship Winners - MASSAGE Magazine", "raw_content": "The 2005 Scholarship Winners\nEach spring MASSAGE Magazine awards five $1,000 scholarships to deserving students of massage or touch therapy, as a way of contributing to our world\u2019s healthy future. Find out more about our scholarship program.\nKelly Kempter\nSarah Furtek\nCortiva/Somerset\nJennifer Nelson was healthy and active, until diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in 2001. She then found herself visiting one physician after another, trying to find relief from muscle-and-joint pain, neurological impairment, anxiety and headaches.\nOne day she decided to treat herself to a massage, \u201csomething that I had always enjoyed as a pampering in the past,\u201d she says. She felt better after the session, so she began receiving massage regularly. That combined with exercise, a balanced diet and some additional physician visits has led to her living virtually symptom-free today. The benefits she derived from massage led her to enroll in massage school.\nAfter graduating, Nelson plans to work in the areas of pain management and rehabilitation. She says, \u201cI would like to see the many people who suffer with pain every day learn about the methods that they can use to help their bodies heal and take the responsibility of their health into their own hands.\u201d\nMt. Shasta Institute\nof Holistic Therapies\nA self-described \u201cnatural helper and nurturer,\u201d Kim Larsen is a single mother of three and has worked as a special-needs instructional aid for 10 years. She believes that massage is an important approach to living a holistic lifestyle, and adds, \u201cThis may become a lucrative occupation, but more essential to me is that it constitutes right livelihood and embraces an overall joyfulness.\u201d\nWith her background in special-needs education, focusing her future practice on this client population is a natural fit for Larsen. \u201cI would like to be an advocate for the healing power of massage, by designing workshops for educators and the family members of these students,\u201d she says. \u201cFamily members will be invited to practice these applications at home.\u201d\nA gymnast and dancer by training, Kelly Kempter was a student in the dance department at a New York City\u2019s Hunter College when she felt the first twinges of sciatic pain. Through connective-tissue work, and postural and movement retraining, Kempter literally learned a new way to walk and move. Now she wants to become a massage therapist to help others increase their knowledge of body awareness.\n\u201cWe all have the responsibility to tend our corner of the global garden, and I am doing that through the practice of massage,\u201d she says. \u201cWe should never underestimate the infinite effects of a loving touch.\u201d\nBrenneke School of Massage\nSarah Furtek has been on a self-propelled trajectory toward a massage career ever since high school, when she received a session. \u201cIt was an amazing experience\u2014and I immediately began looking into massage schools, collecting information videos, booklets and [school] applications,\u201d she says.\nToday Furtek is fulfilling her dream by attending Brenneke School of Massage. Upon graduation she plans to focus on women\u2019s health, combining massage, her ability to speak Spanish and her background as a doula (birth coach) into one career.\n\u201cMy hope is to work at a local low-income clinic,\u201d she says, \u201cproviding bodywork and support to underserved women in order to help them feel relaxed and safe and also connected to their changing bodies as they go through pregnancy.\u201d\nMoscow School of Massage\nWhen her now-deceased, disabled daughter, Megann, was one year old, Dawn Bennett began massaging her. Now she volunteers for an organization, Families Together of the Palouse, that supports and educates families with disabled children. Thanks to Bennett, members can visit a \u201cquiet room\u201d to receive a foot-and-hand massage.\nAfter she graduates, Bennett plans to work with Alzheimer\u2019s patients, and is also interested in opening a wellness center. She says her future will be informed by her past experience with Megann. \u201cHer short life was filled with pain and stress for her and me. I learned about massage and self-care \u2026 and I knew that I could help others,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is my goal to be an advocate for massage to those who need touch and compassion most.\u201d\nIncorporating Spa Services into Your Practice\nPart II: Spa Business Success", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 8149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.massagemag.com/working-overtime-increases-risk-of-depression-massage-can-help-10473/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:29Z", "digest": "sha1:S34DROGTXFXPALXVRY22L5AKEH7VQFUQ", "length": 1999, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.massagemag.com", "title": "Working Overtime Increases Risk of Depression: Massage Can Help - MASSAGE Magazine", "raw_content": "Working Overtime Increases Risk of Depression: Massage Can Help\nMassage therapy has been shown to reduce depression, improve immune function, boost mood and increase relaxation, and is sometimes part of employee-wellness programs.\nIn new, unrelated research, working too much has been correlated with a two-fold increase in the likelihood of depression.\nThe odds of a major depressive episode are more than double for those working 11 or more hours a day compared to those working seven to eight hours a day, according to the report published in the Jan. 25 issue of the online journal PLoS ONE.\nThe investigators, from the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and University College London, followed about 2,000 middle-aged British civil servants and found a strong association between overtime work and depression. This correlation was not affected when the analysis was adjusted for various possible confounders, including sociodemographics, lifestyle and work-related factors, according to a press release.\n\u201cAlthough occasionally working overtime may have benefits for the individual and society, it is important to recognize that working excessive hours is also associated with an increased risk of major depression,\u201d the authors noted.\n\u2022 Massage Boosts Mood, Immune Function and Relaxation\n\u2022 Research Review Shows Massage Therapy Effectively Addresses Symptoms of Depression\nExercise Can Help Treat Depression\nModerate exercise not only treats, but prevents depression Toronto, Ontario, Canada. According to a review by\u2026\nRates of Postpartum Depression Higher than Thought-Can Massage Therapy Help?\nMany studies have shown that massage therapy relieves symptoms of depression, including those related to\u2026\nVideos to Help You Grow Your Massage Practice\nMost massage therapists wear at least two hats: those of health care professional and small-business\u2026\nMassage Therapist Performs 40 Millionth Session at Massage Envy\nPain is Felt More Intensely by Women Than by Men, According to New Review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.massjwj.net/events/2019/1/28/forum-fighting-misogyny-in-tech", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:40Z", "digest": "sha1:M73IYVVDHJAW2MBXVHTZV7VSQS62YYQF", "length": 2416, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.massjwj.net", "title": "Forum: Fighting Misogyny In Tech \u2014 Massachusetts Jobs with Justice", "raw_content": "Impact Hub Boston 50 Milk Street 15th Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02109 (map)\nIn support of the Google walkout and other actions, Boston Tech Workers for Justice presents a forum on sexist and misogynist oppressions in the tech industry. Speakers will share their experiences encountering and working against this oppression, then we will break into smaller groups so attendees can share. We will wrap up with brainstorms of what problems we are facing and what next steps we can collectively take to fight back.\nOn November 1, Google employees around the world staged a coordinated walkout to demand that Google take meaningful steps to end sexual harassment in their offices. Workers walked out by the thousands at exactly 11:10 a.m. in their respective time zones and were encouraged not to return to work until the following day. Over 40 different offices in as many cities are reported to have participated in the walkout, with total participation estimated by some to have reached 20,000 worldwide.\nThese protests come in the wake of a New York Times article published on October 25 that detailed a long history of racial and gender discrimination at Google, as well as efforts on the part of executive management to protect those responsible for sexual harassment and other serious misconduct from facing any negative repercussions. More than one speaker at the Seattle rally ended their testimony about the abuses that they endured, reported to the company and saw summarily dismissed, with the bitter refrain \u201c\u2026and that manager still works here.\u201d\nWhile corporate representatives and individual high-level executives have voiced their support for the walkout, it remains unclear what commitments, if any, Google employees can expect from the company moving forward. Internal discussion of the event on company discussion forums and email has been generally positive, according to employees. The intense public scrutiny that Google finds itself under as a result of this action has undoubtedly forced upper management to take their current mildly supportive stance, but such progressive goals will undoubtedly be won only through a consistent struggle on the part of employees and their supporters.\nImpact Hub Boston is a coworking space in Downtown Boston. The space is accessible. T stops for Red, Green, Blue, Orange, and Silver are 5-10 minutes walk away. We will provide refreshments.\nTagged Tech Justice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 3419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.matrixlms.com/info/fundacion_capital", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IFZRSL3XOLMVOCQJ3HHPNDDVYNYJBXDU", "length": 3474, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.matrixlms.com", "title": "Creating an innovative course \u00bb MATRIX LMS", "raw_content": "Creating an innovative course \u00bb MATRIX LMS\nCreating an innovative course that helps the extremely poor become resilient\nFundaci\u00f3n Capital is an NGO that co-developed an entrepreneurship project with the Government of Colombia (through Prosperidad Social) which was piloted with 1000 families, where coaches provided training to the poorest of Colombia. These coaches visited homes every 2 weeks and taught people about entrepreneurship, self-esteem, resilience, motivation and how to save money. This was a very successful program and the Government decided to make it into a public policy and introduced it to 10000 families. Next year they will expand the project to cover 25000 families.\nWorking in Columbia and internationally\nWhen we ran the pilot we only had a few coaches to train, but now with the growing number of families that benefit from the project, we needed to find ways to scale up the training process in a very cost effective way. The first challenge was to increase the number of coaches. So we thought about a solution that would allow us to train coaches around the country, without the huge expense that travelling around would be, but still comply with a certain standard of quality. That's when we decided to create online courses and get an LMS.\nQuality control was the second challenge. I think the way we saw the course was that one needed to provide training and this was a very unilateral process in which you are providing content and teaching. With the course on MATRIX we were also able to provide peer-to-peer training. We used the online forums a lot because when these trainers went to the field they encountered a lot of challenges. A lot of them had to improvise, look for local examples and games, and simplify languages. With the help of online forums we asked them to share examples with others so that way we were promoting peer-to-peer learning.\nWhen we decided to do the online course we decided to do a benchmark and we measured a lot of other platforms. We had the help of an independent consultant and he suggested we take a look at MATRIX. Eventually we got it down to two options. We chose MATRIX because we thought it was a well-established company, we liked that it offered a lot of functions, it was very user-friendly, and compatible with importing content from other places.\nOur coaches really like MATRIX. We're working in very remote areas, and to our surprise that activity is not an issue because they are able to access it through a PC, tablet, or smartphone. Another thing is that the course is asynchronous, people really like that no matter how busy they are and how much they have to travel, the course is always there, at their disposal and they can read it whenever they need it. At the same time there is a tutor to motivate them, to encourage the exchange of best practices, and to provide feedback.\nThe course is very useful, we are able to improve the design of the program because we use forums and the platform as a communication channel. MATRIX is very simple compared to other online platforms we used, more user-friendly, and the content is easier to deal with.\nWe will continue with the course this year, we have already expanded in other countries. We are developing other online courses, thanks to this LMS, that help our clients and the government. In terms of support, the MATRIX team has been very responsive, every time we had an issue we sent it through the forum and we got an instant reply.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4318, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mayerbrown.com/PRC-Labour-Law---Bitesize-01-16-2013/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:08Z", "digest": "sha1:S2DRNWPXCYEAD52MLQG4TDNBK22KMVUB", "length": 4132, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mayerbrown.com", "title": "PRC Labour Law - Bitesize - Publications - Mayer Brown", "raw_content": "PRC Labour Law - Bitesize\nHow can a foreign company \"employ\" someone in the PRC?\nThis depends on the manner in which you structure your business in the PRC. More particularly, it depends on whether or not you have established a PRC entity (i.e., a PRC representative office or a PRC company).\nWhat if I have a PRC representative office?\nRepresentative offices are permitted to employ individuals after obtaining their business licence from the competent registration authority. However, they are not permitted to employ PRC individuals directly (even if the PRC individual is to act as the Chief Representative/Representative). Instead they have to recruit PRC individuals through a qualified labour service agency which is designated by the PRC government for providing service to foreign companies. The most well known labour agencies are FESCO and CIIC.\nIn such a scenario the labour agency acts as the employer and seconds the PRC individual to work in the representative office. The representative office and the labour agency typically enter into a labour dispatch service agreement. Under such a service agreement, the labour agency typically seeks to shift all of its obligations and potential liabilities as the employer of the PRC individual (i.e., contractual and statutory obligations) to the representative office and, unless your entity is very large, your bargaining power for resisting this arrangement will be limited (although it is always worth negotiating).\nA representative office is also not permitted to employ non-PRC individuals directly or indirectly. A non-PRC individual can only be employed by your overseas entity first and then be assigned to work in the representative office as the Chief Representative/Representative. In addition, the headcount for Representatives is limited to four, including one Chief Representative.\nWhat if I have a wholly foreign owned enterprise (WFOE) or a joint venture company (JV)? Does that change the position?\nIf you have established a WFOE or JV in the PRC, then that PRC company can enter into labour contracts directly with PRC individuals. In these circumstances the WFOE or JV is the employer and is subject to all the employer\u2019s obligations under the PRC law.\nIt is not uncommon for some WFOEs and JVs to continue to use a labour agency to employ individuals for them. However, the types of job position open to individuals through such arrangement (i.e., dispatched employees) are limited to \"temporary, auxiliary and replaceable\" positions; in addition, the principle of \"equal pay for equal work\" also applies to dispatched employees. Furthermore, in some cities (e.g., Guangdong), the percentage of labour dispatch workers that a company uses must not exceed 30 percent of the total number of employees.\nWhat if I don't have any PRC entity?\nIf you have not set up a PRC entity at all then you can attempt to engage a PRC individual in the PRC as an independent contractor. PRC law has not developed any specific regulations concerning the \"independent contractor\" concept. However, in practice, the relationship between the foreign company and the PRC independent contractor may be treated as a civil relationship and if so, PRC employment law should not apply. This is still risky as the Court may see this kind of relationship as one of employment.\nDuring the short transitional period before you set up a representative office or WFOE/JV in China, you may try to persuade a labour agency to employ PRC individuals on your behalf, so that they can work for you in the PRC temporarily. Some labour agencies are prepared to adopt this approach but they typically require the foreign company to pay a special deposit or to make payment in advance. As this route enables the individuals to be treated as \"employees\" under the PRC law, this option is generally preferred by the individuals. Such an arrangement does not apply to non-PRC individuals.\nIf you are interested in receiving our \"PRC Labour Law - Bitesize\" articles, or if you have any questions on PRC employment law, please email to to register.\nTags: Beijing; Shanghai; Asia; Employment & Benefits", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 11706, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mayerbrown.com/people/Robert-Woll/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:40Z", "digest": "sha1:NULDXO4W5WLBYXZFNYDIP56QAXQN6SPC", "length": 2441, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.mayerbrown.com", "title": "Robert Woll - People - Mayer Brown", "raw_content": "Robert Woll\n\"[Robert] goes out of his way to see things from the client\u2019s perspective.\" (2015)\n\"One of the best lawyers focused on private equity\" (2014)\nRobert Woll, a partner in Mayer Brown's Hong Kong office, is a member of the firm's Corporate & Securities practice and the Private Equity, Funds & Investment Management Group, focusing on fund formation and direct investment in the Asia-Pacific region.\nRobert has extensive experience in Greater China, with a particular focus on all aspects of private equity, including private equity real estate. He advises clients on the formation of private equity funds, as well as related acquisitions, joint ventures, consortium arrangements, and co-investment deals and structures, and has worked on numerous cross-border, complex transactions in these areas. Robert advises both institutional sponsors and emerging managers in connection with the establishment of private funds and platforms, including deal-by-deal funds, real estate funds, infrastructure funds, growth equity funds, venture capital funds, special situations funds, and secondary funds. By working with both general partners and major investors, he maintains perspective on the key issues confronting both sides and on current market trends in terms and conditions.\nRobert also counsels managers on all governance and regulatory aspects of the formation and operation of private investment funds. He has advised principals of firms in exploring strategic alternatives and regarding extraordinary events, such as \"key person\" events, general partner removals, spin-outs, and other significant transactions.\nOver the course of his practice in Asia, Robert has gained extensive experience in advising on equity investing in China, involving a broad spectrum of PRC-based businesses. He has devoted substantial efforts to assisting China-based technology companies with venture capital financing, IPOs and M&A transactions.\nRobert's working languages are English and Chinese (Mandarin). He has been recognized as a leading investment funds and private equity lawyer by IFLR1000, Chambers Asia-Pacific, Chambers Global, and Legal 500 Asia Pacific. He serves on the Technical Committee of the HKVCA and ASIFMA's China Capital Markets Committee; he is also a member of ASIFMA's Fintech Working Group. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Stanford GSB Hong Kong Chapter and the Stanford Law School Advisory Board for Asia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 9948, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 169.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mdedge.com/familymedicine/quiz/995/clinical-guidelines/ada-guidelines-testing-prediabetes-type-2-diabetes?channel=27441", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:T2DVAD3ASVBPVHNHNMRA5J3M36IWO7BU", "length": 314, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mdedge.com", "title": "ADA guidelines: Testing for prediabetes & type 2 diabetes | MDedge Family Medicine", "raw_content": "ADA guidelines: Testing for prediabetes & type 2 diabetes\nTrue or False. According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), diabetes may be diagnosed using the following tests: A1C test, fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test, or the 2-h plasma glucose (2-h PG) value after a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 715, "original_length": 27750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 157.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.meetbob.co.uk/john-lewis-headboard-brochure/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:28Z", "digest": "sha1:HE6YODZGSOTGG2XVLUADLCARVVVHPPFL", "length": 247, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.meetbob.co.uk", "title": "John Lewis Headboard Brochure - Graphic & Web Design Bristol - Meetbob", "raw_content": "John Lewis Headboard Brochure\nWe\u2019re just about to start work on this year\u2019s headboard brochure for John Lewis. This will be the 3rd year in a row we\u2019ve worked on this with them and we\u2019re delighted to be working with the team there again this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 161.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.memorialoperahouse.com/635/Our-New-Classroom-Space", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:54Z", "digest": "sha1:3YZ3CJ4ZPFRBQ2W2QZIII6JSGAVBGNRW", "length": 629, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.memorialoperahouse.com", "title": "Our New Classroom Space! | Memorial Opera House, IN", "raw_content": "Our New Classroom Space!\nMemorial Opera House is proud to announce the opening of a loft space in 1 Center Street in Valparaiso (the former Valparaiso Technical Institute building).\n. This space will be dedicated to the growth of the of The LimeLights Youth Theatre program, and to further the mission of the Memorial Opera House - \u201cWhere the Arts Create Community.\u201d\nThe Loft is located on the third floor. The entrances can be a bit confusing, so look for and enter through the wooden exterior staircase pictured below!\nFor your convenience, we've included a Google Map below that you can use to get directions to our new space!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 328.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.message.org.uk/2018/10/03/eden-dtes-why-i-joined-eden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:24Z", "digest": "sha1:RVVXL6SSZDUN4QFU3D77224Y75UX2KHC", "length": 2108, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.message.org.uk", "title": "Eden DTES: Why I Joined Eden | Message Trust", "raw_content": "\u2018The reason I\u2019ve got on board with the Eden DTES is because I love Jesus. I have chosen to follow his commands to love God and my neighbour as myself and to make disciples of all nations. I believe God has chosen DTES to be my neighbourhood. He gets to choose my neighbour for me so that I can carry out his mission in loving and caring for people of all kinds of nationalities, backgrounds and lifestyles.\u2019\nI love what Eden stands for and how it has brought considerable transformation in many communities around the world\n\u2018In this pursuit, Eden has provided a supportive community and a strategy to achieve lasting community development. This strategy used by Eden is also known as the Asset-based Community Development (ABCD), a methodology for the sustainable development of communities based on the strengths and potentials of community members. This is the kind of community development that Eden DTES aims to help bring alongside many other existing churches and non-profit groups.\u2019\n\u2018Eden DTES provides Christians with the opportunity to be a part of an urban missionary team sent to bring long-term renewal to DTES. I love what Eden stands for and how it has brought considerable transformation in many other communities around the world.\u2019\n\u2018The five cornerstones of Eden that I strongly agree with are:\n1. We are rooted in local church\n2. We focus on the toughest neighbourhoods\n3. As a team of people we make our homes in the heart of the community\n4. Our first priority is given to reaching youth to see their full potential unlocked\n5. We belong to a wider relational network. This includes other Eden teams in Canada and across the world. As teams called to a variety of locations we recognize the importance of sharing our stories and experiences, work through issues and challenges, and offer support and encouragement to one another.\u2019\n\u2018As an Eden Team Leader and campus pastor at Coastal Church Crosstown I love being part of a local team of people who are not ashamed of sharing the gospel of Jesus and truly loving their neighbours!\u2019\nTags Canada Eden\nColin Urquhart \u2013 Who Are You? Next Post:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.metricstream.com/pressNews/pr_730_KPMG-strategic-alliance.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:58Z", "digest": "sha1:I2PRXZXB7X5HYVVO6AZOITTE5NJE2PC7", "length": 3185, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.metricstream.com", "title": "KPMG LLP and MetricStream Announce Strategic Alliance to Provide GRC Services and Technology Solutions - Press News", "raw_content": "Strategic alliance will help businesses strengthen GRC programs, harness risk intelligence, and gain process efficiencies\nOctober 06, 2014 | New York, New York and Palo Alto, California: KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, and MetricStream, a market leader in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) solutions, today announced the formation of a strategic alliance to provide a comprehensive suite of GRC consulting and technology services to businesses nationwide.\nAccording to a recent KPMG study, risk management ranked as the second-highest concern among 400 U.S. CEOs, following financial performance. While CEOs have increased the intensity of their focus on risk management, associated programs and processes around risk management haven\u2019t kept pace with mounting expectations from management, regulators, shareholders, and boards of directors.\n\u201cBusiness environments are marked by increasing regulatory pressures, globalized business and supply chains, adoption of the cloud, and digitization across operations-all of which introduce new risks,\u201d said Angela Hoon, Principal in Advisory Risk Consulting\u2019s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and GRC practice at KPMG LLP. She continued, \u201cCompanies are fast realizing that success largely depends on their ability to anticipate, manage, and mitigate these risks in a timely, efficient and technology-enabled manner. This has pushed GRC to the top of the strategic agenda, as management teams and boards of directors strive to obtain the right level of assurance and compliance, while balance risks and rewards for optimal business performance.\u201d\nKPMG\u2019s deep industry knowledge and GRC experience, combined with MetricStream\u2019s integrated and innovative range of GRC apps available on the cloud is poised to help clients build stronger, more agile, and technology-enabled programs that can stay ahead of today\u2019s fast-changing landscape. MetricStream\u2019s technology solutions align closely with KPMG\u2019s holistic approach to GRC implementation and transformation by streamlining, automating, and integrating GRC programs for optimal effectiveness and efficiency.\n\u201cThe future belongs to those organizations that are risk aware, well-governed, and consistently compliant,\u201d said Gaurav Kapoor, Chief Operating Officer at MetricStream. He continued, \u201cCompanies are faced with new challenges and opportunities around big data, virtualization, cloud, mobility, and social media, among other emerging areas. Within organizations, we are seeing an increasing convergence of GRC from the perspective of the business, IT and security. KPMG LLP and MetricStream are collaborating to provide the strategic advice, insights, platform, and apps that customers need to transform their GRC initiatives into an integrated, collaborative, and pervasive program, making GRC a proactive process rather than a reactive one across all levels of the organization and the extended enterprise.\u201d\nKPMG LLP, the audit, tax and advisory firm (www.kpmg.com/us), is the U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative (\u201cKPMG International\u201d). KPMG International\u2019s member firms have 155,000 professionals, including more than 8,600 partners, in 155 countries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 8193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 318.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/media_centre/singapore_headlines/2017/201710/headlines_20171012.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:08Z", "digest": "sha1:YH4TSZGHZDZGR5EUMB6TI367PX5VAHO4", "length": 2702, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mfa.gov.sg", "title": "Straits Times: Singapore set to house one of Alibaba's 7 new global R&D facilities", "raw_content": "A cutting-edge research and development (R&D) centre in Singapore, to be built by Chinese technology giant Alibaba, will be among the first of seven such facilities across the globe to be up and running.\nThe programme will bring R&D investment by Alibaba - China's Google - to US$15 billion (S$20.3 billion) over the next three years, the company announced yesterday.\nThe Republic is set to house a facility for advanced computing technologies under its Discovery, Adventure, Momentum and Outlook Academy initiative, unveiled yesterday near its Hangzhou headquarters, not far from Shanghai.\nAlibaba did not disclose the amount of funds to be invested in the facility here, though it will announce further details later.\nThe lab in Singapore will join six others - two in China, two in the United States, and one each in Russia and Israel - with a focus on research in areas such as machine learning and network security.\nThe programme is set to add 100 research jobs at Alibaba, which already employs about 25,000 engineers and scientists worldwide.\nIts goal is to discover new ways of improving efficiency, network security and ecosystems for users and businesses, according to Alibaba chief technology officer Jeff Zhang, who is heading the programme.\n\"Over the past 18 years, we have developed a robust technology infrastructure that supports the rapid growth of our business,\" he said in a statement. \"With our global expansion, we have grown and refined our technology manifold.\"\nThe programme boasts a 10-person advisory board with researchers from top educational institutions in the US and China.\nIt is also working to net tie-ups with industry and academic partners, such as its collaboration with the University of California, Berkeley on a computing project.\nAlibaba's operations here already include its majority stake in Singapore-headquartered e-commerce firm Lazada, which owns online grocer RedMart.\nThe latest move is yet another significant boost for Singapore's reputation for tech incubation, according to an industry watcher.\nMr Mark Jansen, technology, media and telecommunications leader at PwC Singapore, said: \"This investment in R&D firmly cements Singapore's important position in the region as a preferred petri dish for R&D. It is no surprise that companies continue to seek to do R&D closer to core growth markets... By extending R&D into growth markets, it enables more innovation that is grounded in local needs.\"\nBut the Chinese firm may still have to play some catch-up with the big boys across the Pacific.\nGoogle's parent Alphabet last year spent US$13.9 billion on R&D, while Apple chalked up US$10 billion and Facebook forked out US$5.9 billion in the same period.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 6409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mfa.gov.sg/content/mfa/overseasmission/prague.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:57Z", "digest": "sha1:YDGFOYNMJN4D7HLR7PL3EVSK2X76MNSX", "length": 553, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.mfa.gov.sg", "title": "Singapore Honorary Consulate-General - Prague", "raw_content": "(1)The Singapore Honorary Consulate-General Office in Prague will be closed on 16/11/18 and will reopen on 19/11/18. For urgent consular assistance during the Honorary Consulate's closure, please contact the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Duty Office at +65 6379 8800 or mfa_duty_officer@mfa.gov.sg.\n(2)Overseas Travel \u2013 Be Informed & Be Safe [18 November 2017]\nTuesday and Thursday, from 9:00am to 12:00pm\n(By appointment only when outside operating hours)\n+420 224 091 385 /\nsingapore@honoraryconsul.cz\nSingapore Honorary Consulate-General - Prague", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mgminnesota.com/supporting-someone-with-mg-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:45Z", "digest": "sha1:7YMDOR5UZMEOKNHNXUT63IM6Z3ROFPRG", "length": 479, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mgminnesota.com", "title": "Supporting someone with MG \u2014 Myasthenia Gravis Minnesota \u2014 mgMN", "raw_content": "It can be hard to know what to do to help a family member or friend who has been diagnosed with MG. Some ideas from the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MGFA) are:\noffer to perform specific tasks,\nlearn as much as you can about MG, and\nAt the MGFA website, you will find the document: Providing Emotional Support for Patients with Myasthenia Gravis.\nFamily members, caregivers and friends are welcome to attend mgMN support group meetings with their loved one who has MG.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 1680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 173.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/books/miami-book-fair/article3925929.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:43Z", "digest": "sha1:TFXRZXDO7OR3XDLRWL3XXGFMOOGE4GP6", "length": 7806, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.miamiherald.com", "title": "Former President Richard Nixon remains popular among authors | Miami Herald", "raw_content": "America\u2019s enduring fascination with Nixon and Watergate is no surprise to historian Rick Perlstein, author The Invisible Bridge: The Fall Of Nixon And The Rise Of Reagan, one of the new volumes. \u201cInstinctively, people \u2014 even people too young to remember Watergate on their own \u2014 understand that the idea of a president who resigns just before he gets fired by his own electorate is extraordinary drama,\u201d Perlstein says.\n\u201cIt\u2019s the Super Bowl of drama. If you\u2019re tired of Nixon, you\u2019re tired of life.\u201d\nBoth Perlstein and John Dean, the Watergate conspirator who turned on Nixon, will speak at the Miami Book Fair International on Saturday in Miami Dade College\u2019s Chapman Conference Center, 300 NE Second Ave. (Dean will speak at 10 a.m., Perlstein at 11:30 a.m.).\nDean\u2019s recent book, The Nixon Defense: What He Knew and When He Knew It, is his sixth on Nixon\u2019s presidency. Becoming the most prolific historian of his boss\u2019 political scandal was not the career Dean planned while he was serving a four-month sentence (in a Witness Protection Program safe house on a Maryland military base) for obstruction of justice during Watergate.\nBut when he was released, Dean found he didn\u2019t have any other cards to play. \u201cIt became clear that my knowledge of Watergate was still my most employable asset,\u201d he wrote in 1982, in his second book. \u201cI did not relish the prospect of continuing to make a career out of Watergate.\u201d\nA reporter who read that quote back to Dean last week got a mordant chuckle in response. \u201cWhen you get pigeon-holed, you\u2019re in the pigeon hole,\u201d he said. \u201cThat happens to everybody whose visibility is tied to some event, especially an infamous one ... It\u2019s amazing when you read the obituaries of some famous people. They take the worst moment, the lowest moment, of your life, and that becomes the lead of the obituary.\u201d\nNonetheless, he\u2019s embraced the job with, if not gusto, tenacity. For The Nixon Defense, Dean and a team of college students transcribed 1,000 conversations (about 600 never before heard by anybody except the staff of the National Archives) captured by the secret White House taping system. That\u2019s 8,500 pages and four million words, not that Dean was counting. He knew his life had reached its most surreal moment when he found himself listening to an eight-hour tape of Nixon listening to tapes.\n\u201cThe question I was trying to answer was, how could a savvy, intelligent guy like Nixon let himself be brought down by the Watergate burglary, which by itself was really sort of a small thing,\u201d Dean said. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I would have to listen to all the tapes to find that, but in the end I did.\n\u201cAnd I got the answer. The answer to that question is absolutely clear: Nixon wasn\u2019t as savvy as we thought he was. He was a bungler. He was a terrible administrator, always making decisions from the seat of his pants. He had trouble understanding what was going on \u2014 a lot of the tapes are just maddeningly repetitious, as he goes over the same events over and over and over again, trying to comprehend. And a lot of the time he was not well-served by his staff.\u201d\nIn fact, Dean believes the Watergate burglary was pretty much what the Nixon administration labeled it as at the time, a third-rate burglary by overenthusiastic low-level subordinates. \u201cI\u2019ve never found any evidence that Nixon knew about the burglary in advance, or ordered it, and I don\u2019t think he did,\u201d says Dean.\nBut Nixon\u2019s senior aides were worried that too much tugging on the threads of the Watergate burglary would reveal another operation they had ordered but the boss didn\u2019t know about: a burglary of the office of the psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg, a renegade national security aide who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers to the press. \u201cIn the end, I think the Ellsberg burglary is really what drives the Watergate coverup,\u201d says Dean.\nPerlstein is another veteran chronicler of Nixon. The Invisible Bridge is one of his three books (a fourth is in the works) on the birth of the modern conservative movement and the fractious red-state-blue-state political divide that resulted. Nixon is a major character in them all.\nHe concurs with Dean that Watergate was a minor misstep by lunkhead staffers. \u201cAll you have to know about the Watergate break-in is that the Cuban burglars who carried it out had to fly back to Miami first because they forgot to bring the right lock-picking tools,\u201d Perlstein notes.\nWhat turned the break-in politically lethal was its exposure of the seamy underbelly of Nixon\u2019s presidency \u2014 an underbelly that Perlstein believes has only gotten uglier over the years as new White House tapes and oral histories emerge.\n\u201cIt just gets more appalling all the time,\u201d he says. \u201cNow we have this picture of Nixon sitting in the White House, ranting and raving constantly about fire-bombing the Brookings Insitution [a liberal think-tank]. What actually happened is stranger than any conspiracy theory, and people are going to rediscover that every generation, which is why all these books are being written and read 40 years later....\n\u201cThe fact that this guy was the one with his finger on the button is riveting, this unbelievably complex and bizarre guy. The fact that he gained the world and lost his soul is unbelievable drama.\u201d\nOne theme throughout Perlstein\u2019s books is that Nixon deliberately polarized America as a cynical campaign tactic. (His second book was titled Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.) Some critics think that\u2019s wildly oversimplified \u2014 that American consensus was rare and fleeting long before Nixon came along.\n\u201cThere\u2019s some truth in that,\u201d he admits. \u201cWe had a civil war, after all. That\u2019s about as polarized as you can get. But I think that may be the meaning, or the significance, of Nixon. He\u2019s at an apex of our history, America\u2019s continuing struggle after 240 years with the miracle of self-government \u2014 the tension between our higher and lower faculties when it comes to choosing our leaders.\n\u201cIt\u2019s the challenge of our resisting demagogues. It\u2019s all these fascinating issues about whether we can unite in common purpose as a nation. These are big questions, and Nixon\u2019s at the very center of them.\u201d\nThese will be among the new political reads featured at the book fair:\n\u25aa Matt Bai, \u2018All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid\u2019\n\u25aa Joan Biskupic, \u2018Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice\u2019\n\u25aa James E. Clyburn, \u2018Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black\u2019\n\u25aa Franklin Foer, \u2018Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture\u2019\n\u25aa Mark \u201cOz\u201d Geist, \u201813 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi\u2019\n\u25aa Myra MacPherson \u2018The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age\u2019\n\u25aa Peter Kornbluh, \u2018Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana\u2019\n\u25aa Gary M. Segura, \u2018Latino America: How America's Most Dynamic Population Is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation\u2019\n\u25aa Ilan Stavans, \u2018A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States\u2019\n\u25aa Chuck Todd, \u2018The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House\u2019\n\u25aa David Rothkopf, \u2018National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear\u2019\n\u25aa For a complete schedule of authors, go to http://www.miamibookfair.com/\nReview: Chuck Todd\u2019s \u2018The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House\u2019\nPeter Kornbluh: Back Channel to Cuba: The Hidden History of Negotiations between Washington and Havana\nJames E. Clyburn: Blessed Experiences: Genuinely Southern, Proudly Black\nMark \u201cOz\u201d Geist: 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi\nMatt Bai: All the Truth Is Out: The Week Politics Went Tabloid\nChuck Todd: The Stranger: Barack Obama in the White House\nMyra MacPherson: The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 10776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/from-our-inbox/article3440685.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:39Z", "digest": "sha1:KOGSBK44UV33SNUOVJW3XQNBATOYXOJL", "length": 3597, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.miamiherald.com", "title": "Two canine heroes at the Secret Service | Miami Herald", "raw_content": "The defendant turned his attention to the judge, attempting to explain that he didn\u2019t hire Jeffress, a public defender. \u201cPlease listen to me, sir,\u201d the judge told him. When Facciola explained that a psychological report had determined him incompetent to stand trial, Adesanya burst into a rage. \u201cI don\u2019t have a condition! I\u2019m competent!\u201d he protested.\nAs two marshals tried to lead him out, the defendant, who wasn\u2019t in shackles, resisted, forcing the officers to carry him out of the chamber. \u201cStop! Help!\u201d he shouted, slamming into furniture. \u201cHelp me! You can\u2019t do this! That wasn\u2019t even a trial! That wasn\u2019t a trial! Somebody help me, please!\u201d\nThe judge signaled for reinforcements, and with Adesanya now outside the courtroom, the sound of chains clanking could be heard, along with a scream of \u201cAhhhhh!\u201d and a quieter voice: \u201cYou going to calm down, sir?\u201d\nThe judge made sure the defendant was entirely subdued and everybody was unhurt before releasing the lawyers.\nAdesanya\u2019s behavior wasn\u2019t winning him any friends, but the beleaguered Secret Service might consider sending him a thank-you note. After another fence jumper made it into the White House and led officers on a chase of the first floor of the executive mansion, Adesanya\u2019s attempt was a reminder that off-balance people jump the White House fence fairly often, and they are almost always caught.\nIn particular, the episode highlighted the heroism of two fine civil servants, Agent Hurricane and Agent Jordan, ages 6 and 5 (or 42 and 35 in dog years.) Though immigrants from Belgium, this pair of Malinois did their adopted homeland proud last week when they brought down Adesanya even though he punched and kicked them. They won the hearts of the nation when the Secret Service tweeted out photos of these officers seated in front of flags, wearing harnesses and choker collars, tongues in panting position.\nThese selfless heroes, who ask nothing more than the occasional treat, provide a much-needed happy story for the Secret Service after a series of debauchery scandals and security lapses put the agency through two directors in rapid succession. Hurricane and Jordan also gave the country a welcome respite from Ebola, the Islamic State, a school shooting and campaign attack ads.\nEven as hard a man as Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who has fiercely criticized the Secret Service and the Obama administration, got all mushy as he spoke to The Washington Post\u2019s David Nakamura and Juliet Eilperin about the animals. \u201cI love the dogs,\u201d he gushed.\nHurricane, who reportedly enjoys playing with his Kong when not at work, and Jordan, who likes taking walks, did not attend Monday\u2019s proceedings at the U.S. courthouse in Washington. Two uniformed Secret Service agents took front-row seats, as did Bill Miller, spokesman for the U.S. attorney in D.C., who acknowledged that this was his first canine case. (Two of the felony charges against Adesanya are from the wounding of law enforcement animals.)\nFacciola, the judge, lent the proceedings a 19th-century look by wearing a dark bow tie underneath his black robe. Adesanya, who had been arrested two times this summer near the White House complex, had also been disruptive at his bail hearing last week. His father said young Adesanya suffers from paranoia and believes cameras are everywhere.\nIt\u2019s a sad situation for Adesanya, who hopefully will find the help he needs while in federal custody. But this troubled young man, by introducing us to Hurricane and Jordan, quite inadvertently gave the country something to smile about \u2013 at a time when we particularly needed it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 5881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.milesfranklin.com/purchase/palladium-products/1-ounce-palladium-canadian-maple-leaf.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ICNRLBHZ4KTCMXFCIL5TBMJFMTBF63EW", "length": 549, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.milesfranklin.com", "title": "1 ounce Palladium Canadian Maple Leaf", "raw_content": "Currently The Royal Canadian Mint is the only world mint to issue a Palladium Coin. All coins are newly minted and in Gem Brilliant Uncirculated condition. Each Palladium Maple Leaf coin contains one troy ounce of pure Palladium and the certified purity of each coin is an exceptional 99.95% Palladium. Each coin is Official Legal Tender and was struck by the world famous Royal Canadian Mint. The design of the coin has the national symbol of Canada, a single maple leaf, proudly on the reverse. The obverse bears a sculpture of Queen Elizabeth II.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 280.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/04/25/australia-admiral-become-us-ambassador-south-korea.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:01Z", "digest": "sha1:HBAKEPS6P7AANPJLJZGXVRWFAF7ROLRS", "length": 3264, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.military.com", "title": "Australia: Admiral to Become US Ambassador to South Korea | Military.com", "raw_content": "Australia: Admiral to Become US Ambassador to South Korea\nIn this Nov. 16, 2017, file photo, then U.S. Pacific Command Commander Adm. Harry Harris arrives at Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official residence in Tokyo. Adm. (Kimimasa Mayama/Pool Photo via AP)\nThe Associated Press | By Rod Mcguirk\nCANBERRA, Australia \u2014 Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific, will become the next U.S. ambassador to South Korea instead of Australia, the Australian foreign minister said Wednesday.\nForeign Minister Julie Bishop said she had been informed of the decision by Acting Secretary of State John Sullivan on Tuesday.\n\"While we would have welcomed Adm. Harris here as ambassador to Australia, we understand that there are significant challenges for the United States on the Korean peninsula,\" Bishop told reporters in Sydney.\n\"We of course have a very strong and deep relationship with the United States and I am sure they will choose a very appropriate ambassador to take his place in due course,\" she added.\nBishop said Sullivan made it clear a new appointment would be a priority for the next secretary of state.\nPresident Donald Trump nominated Harris in February to become Australia's next ambassador.\nThe United States had not had an ambassador in Australia since John Berry, president of the American Australian Association, left the post in September 2016.\nAndrew Shearer, a former Australian government security adviser and now an adviser on Asia-Pacific security at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the change of ambassador plans made Australia appear to be a second-class ally of the United States.\n\"Australia really ... is ... a collateral casualty here to the shambolic practices of the Trump Administration,\" Shearer told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.\n\"I don't think there's anything sinister to it. I think it's much more typical of the ad hoc, moment-to-moment decision making if this particular administration,\" he added.\nBishop noted past appointments for U.S. ambassador to Australia took time.\nIn the meantime, Charge d'Affaires Jim Caruso will continue to act in the role.\nOpposition defense spokesman Richard Marles said the sooner Australia got a new U.S. ambassador the better.\n\"We're close friends, I don't think anyone is taking offence,\" Marles told Sky News television.\nFormer government minister and the current Australian War Memorial director Brendan Nelson said while he wouldn't describe it as a snub, the United States should have proper representation in Australia.\n\"I say to President Trump and those who are advising him: we need an ambassador, we deserve an ambassador and we'd like one soon,\" Nelson said.\nFormer deputy prime minister and diplomat Tim Fischer said the delay in appointing an ambassador reflected its low priority in Washington.\n\"Nigh on two years will be an insult with impact, notwithstanding the good work of the acting ambassador in Canberra,\" Fischer said of the absence of an ambassador.\nThis article was written by Rod McGuirk from The Associated Press and was legally licensed through the NewsCred publisher network. Please direct all licensing questions to legal@newscred.com.\nSouth Korea Australia Global Hot Spots Military Headlines", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 10169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.millsmotor.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:35Z", "digest": "sha1:5WVMAFEYKRNXOGO3L47HFJZRNOMTYV5O", "length": 323, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.millsmotor.net", "title": "Mills Motor Co. Inc. | Ford Dealership in Fairfield MT", "raw_content": "At Mills Motor Co. Inc., our highly qualified technicians are here to provide exceptional service in a timely manner. From oil changes to transmission replacements, we are dedicated to maintaining top tier customer service, for both new and pre-owned car buyers! Allow our staff to demonstrate our commitment to excellence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 6105, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.miltenyibiotec.com/BE-en/products/macs-flow-cytometry/antibodies/primary-antibodies/cd101-antibodies-human-bb27-1-11.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:08Z", "digest": "sha1:M4VSVRNWSLAMEX3JFD33PTGK5YFBIUHO", "length": 1658, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.miltenyibiotec.com", "title": "CD101 antibodies, human - Primary antibodies - Antibodies - MACS Flow Cytometry - Products - Miltenyi Biotec", "raw_content": "Clone: BB27 | Dilution: 1:11\nClone BB27 recognizes the CD101 antigen, also known as V7 or IGSF2, which is a 140 kDa type I transmembrane glycoprotein of the Ig gene superfamily. CD101 is expressed on monocytes, granulocytes, and subsets of dendritic cells (DCs). In addition, CD101 is expressed on certain subpopulations of T cells, in particular about 5\u201330% of FoxP3\nTreg cells in peripheral blood.\nThe interaction of CD101 with the antibody BB27 has been shown to inhibit T cell activation by allogeneic DCs or CD3 antibodies.\nEWI-101, IGSF2, V7, p126\nClone: BB27\nAlternative names of antigen: EWI-101, IGSF2, V7, p126\nDistribution of antigen: dendritic cells, granulocytes, Langerhans cells, leukemia cells, lung, lymphocytes, monocytes, red blood cells, small intestine, spleen, T cells, thymocytes\nAvailable conjugates: VioBright FITC, PE, APC, PE-Vio770, Biotin\nHuman peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were stained with CD101 antibodies as well as with CD4 antibodies and analyzed by flow cytometry using the MACSQuant\nRivas, A. et al. (1995) V7, a novel leukocyte surface protein that participates in T cell activation. J. Immunol. 154: 4423-4433\nSoares, L. R. et al. (1998)\nV7 (CD101) ligation inhibits TCR/CD3-induced IL-2 production by blocking Ca\nflux and nuclear factor of activated T cell nucleartranslocation.\nBouloc, A. et al. (2000) Triggering CD101 molecule on human cutaneous dendritic cells inhibits T cell proliferation via IL-10 production. Eur. J. Immunol. 30: 3132-3139\nBagot, M. et al. (1997) CD101 is expressed by skin dendritic cells: role in T-lymphocyte activation. Tissue Antigens 50: 439-448\nCD101-VioBright FITC, human", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 467, "original_length": 14403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 275.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mindscapecan.com/ryans-blog/2018/7/14/fabrications-of-the-fitness-industry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:25Z", "digest": "sha1:SHOTRRUYRFV7SYCMO24NKBRK5M75Y5GS", "length": 8118, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.mindscapecan.com", "title": "Fabrications of the Fitness Industry \u2014 MindScape", "raw_content": "Welcome to the blog; it\u2019s great to have you here. Thanks for taking the time to enjoy the site and clicking on my stuff; I promise to give some useful tips and advice for your overall fitness and health.\nWith that said, let\u2019s get into it. The reason I\u2019ve decided on this topic for my debut article is because of how messed up the fitness industry really is. If you\u2019ve tried working out, monitoring nutrition, or searching up basic fitness advice online, you\u2019ve likely already seen how many different schools of thought are encased within the industry, and how most (if not all) conflict with each other\u2019s views.\nIf you don\u2019t believe me, let me ask you: should you lift heavy, or lift light? A quick google search shows numerous articles promoting the benefits for both methods. It can easily get confusing for newcomers to the fitness scene who are probably scratching their heads wondering which advice to follow.\nBefore I get into the specific facades of the fitness industry, maybe I should talk about who I am and how I got started with personal fitness in the first place.\nHow I got started with personal fitness and training\nI started caring about nutrition and physique at around age 16. Back then, I didn\u2019t really know what I was doing; I was just trying not to eat and do as much physical exercise as possible. I didn\u2019t know what hypertrophy was. I didn\u2019t even know what calories were. I was just blindly hoping that I\u2019d shed some fat and look good, especially after putting on a lot of weight in my first two years at high school.\nFast forward to today, I\u2019m tracking calories and macronutrients. I\u2019m focusing on strengthening the weaker, forgotten muscles that contribute to a healthy frame, but are ignored by most of the fitness industry. And I consistently balance training and fitness with my university life at Richard Ivey.\nIt\u2019s tough, but achievable, and absolutely manageable.\nBut anyways, enough about me. Like I said, there\u2019s a lot of confusion about dieting and weightlifting with most of the population. So let\u2019s dispel a few common myths thrown around when it comes to personal health. But first, let\u2019s make sure we\u2019re talking about the same type of training\u2026\nCasual Aesthetic Bodybuilding\nThis is the type of training that most people in the gym are pursuing (usually without knowing it). It\u2019s training for personal aesthetic and for (some) functionality benefits; not to enter competitions, or become an Olympic athlete. Simply put, it\u2019s training to look better: whether it be trying to shred some fat, or put on some muscle. This is the type of training you\u2019d want to pursue if you\u2019re a newcomer at the gym.\nCasual aesthetic bodybuilding focuses a lot more on safety, form, and simplicity. So what does that mean? It means complicated gimmicks like oxygen masks, smelling salts, and etc. aren\u2019t necessary. Just stick to performing the simple but effective lifts with proper form, and the results usually come. Don\u2019t get turned off by the, \u201cCasual\u201d part; it just signifies that you\u2019re not training for anything specific. It doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re not going to be training hard.\nNow that we\u2019re in the mindset of the casual aesthetic bodybuilder, let\u2019s throw away some ineffective and possibly dangerous fitness habits.\nLifting TOO heavy is definitely going to break something\u2026\nThe most common mistake I see at the gym are people lifting way too for their own good. As in, people trying to test out what their 1-Rep Max (1RM) is. Let\u2019s be clear: your 1RM is a metric you calculate; not test. There are websites that\u2019ll help you calculate your 1RM based on your personal lifting ability; but for the casual aesthetic bodybuilder, it\u2019s never something you should actually try for yourself. It\u2019s just meant to be a metric for tracking strength progress over time.\nSo then what\u2019s the heaviest you should be lifting? The good rule of thumb is to try and never lift a weight that you can\u2019t lift for at least 4 reps in a single set. Any heavier, and you\u2019re likely putting incredible strain and tension on your poor muscles. Again, we\u2019re following the perspective and goals of a casual aesthetic bodybuilder; powerlifters might pull 1RMs on the regular, but they adapt their training and body for that lifestyle.\n\u2026And lifting TOO light might not get you to hypertrophy\nOn the other side of the spectrum, if you\u2019re pushing weights and hitting 15-20 reps with no real sign of fatigue, you\u2019re going too light. Fatigue is the neuromuscular failure that occurs when the surviving fibres in your body aren\u2019t sufficient enough to provide enough force. As you lift weights in a single set, your muscle fibres tear, and as you continue to finish the set, there\u2019s a smaller amount of working fibres that your neuromuscular system is able to call on to produce force. Fibre tears are integral to reaching hypertrophy; they rebuild themselves stronger than before through natural body processes and contribute to the muscular physique. However, lifting too light may not result in those fibre tears, and subsequently hypertrophy.\nHowever, lifting light isn\u2019t something to be dismissed. Without going into too much detail, lifting light is actually required for smaller, hidden muscles that are usually forgotten in the wave of common fitness trends; common forgotten muscles like the medial head of the triceps, or the 4 muscles that make up the rotator cuff. I\u2019ll go into the benefits of lifting light in a future post.\nDON\u2019T buy into the gimmicks of \u201cspecial diets\u201d\nI\u2019m going to tell you the biggest fact no one is talking about:\nThere is no, \u201cone special diet-solution\u201d that\u2019ll shred your fat, or bulk you up incredibly.\nNo one EVER says this. Why? Because the fitness industry thrives on convincing people that a certain diet/workout program is the ONLY correct way to achieving all their fitness goals. That\u2019s how they make their money; so why would anyone tell the truth?\nLet\u2019s look at Kinobody as an example. Kinobody (the brainchild of the 24 year-old Gregory O\u2019 Gallagher) is a fitness program/lifestyle plan that Greg tries to sell as the solution to all your fitness and aesthetic-physique desires. Whether it actually works or not, is a different story. The point is, Greg\u2019s main selling technique to his programs is using, \u201cIntermittent Fasting\u201d. Basically, IF is restricting yourself to a smaller window of time to consume calories throughout the day; the rest of the time you\u2019re awake, you\u2019re fasting. He claims it\u2019ll get you shredded with that, \u201cGreek God\u201d body you\u2019ve always wanted.\nHere\u2019s the thing about Intermittent Fasting: it\u2019s NOT special. It\u2019ll work, sure. But only because the underlying concept that\u2019s REALLY at work is a Caloric Deficit. As in, you\u2019re eating less calories than you\u2019re consuming.\nIIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros), Ketogenic, IF; all these diets are gimmicks for the average person just trying to lose fat because they promise some special technique or adaptation you have to make that\u2019ll (suddenly) get you shredded.\nDon\u2019t buy into it.\nThe important thing is that the diet that works the best is the diet that works for you and your lifestyle. I\u2019ll cover nutrition diets in a future post.\nYou\u2019ve already read a few places in this article where I\u2019ve promised to continue in detail in a future post. From here, I\u2019m looking to go over common weightlifting misconceptions, mindsets at the commercial gym, achieving personal goals, diet reviews, and more.\nBasically, I want to take a lot of the fluff and deceit out that\u2019s been spoon-fed to a lot of people just trying to learn how to look better for themselves. With fitness being an emerging trend and profitable industry (8.4% CAGR of revenue in the industry as a whole predicted for 2018-2022), more people are becoming a part of that industry; either as an instructor, or a practiser, or both. Which means finally, the Canadian culture has shifted its paradigm to become more health-centric and promote regular physical activity and nutrition. So now more than ever, people need to be able to differentiate the honest information from the deceptive marketing tactics intended to just sell, sell, sell.\nRyan Mody August 18, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 9114, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.missouristate.edu/music/Orchestra.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:52Z", "digest": "sha1:TD2ZAKUFEIH5YJPQZSNWUL3GSUXBVLRH", "length": 2170, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.missouristate.edu", "title": "Orchestra - Music Department - Missouri State University", "raw_content": "Missouri State > Music > Orchestra\nMissouri State Symphony Orchestra\nMissouri State Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Dr. Christopher Kelts\nMissouri State Symphony and Joplin High School Orchestra\nThe Missouri State Symphony performs with the Joplin High School Orchestra in a fundraising concert event\nMissouri State Symphony students enjoy an unforgettable night performing with the rock band Kansas\nString Fling camps\nString Fling is a chamber music experience for pre-college string students. Marking its sixteenth year, String Fling returns with high school (July 16-19) and middle school (July 19-21) camps. Learn more and apply by June 3.\nNothing beats the experience of attending a concert in person, but for those times when you just can't make it, check out our channel at livestream.com/msu-coal.\nSymphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra\nThe Missouri State Symphony is a full-size symphonic orchestra that plays the complete range of symphonic literature. It is open to all students of the university, including non-music majors. The orchestra rehearses two days per week in the late afternoon. Students may also participate in the Chamber Orchestra as well a variety of string ensembles.\nThe orchestra and string programs at Missouri State are housed in Juanita K. Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts. The Missouri State Symphony Orchestra plays all of its home concerts in this state-of-the-art facility located on the northwest side of campus.\nThe Symphony Orchestra generally performs at least six concerts per year including the President\u2019s Concert, which is in collaboration with the Missouri State Choral Ensembles and featured guest artists. They have been honored on numerous occasions with appearances at the Missouri Music Educators Association conventions and a recent national television appearance on MENC\u2019s \u201cWorld\u2019s Largest Concert.\u201d\nThe Missouri State Symphony is a university class taken for credit under the number MUS176. The orchestra meets twice weekly from 3:00pm - 4:50pm on Tuesday and Thursday during the fall semester and spring semester. The string section often rotates seating. Sectional rehearsals are also expected periodically.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mlb.com/news/jeff-francoeur-stays-hot-with-another-home-run/c-138491434", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:HY45HWVCKUJTDARYHMRAH64LNHK3GA5M", "length": 2291, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.mlb.com", "title": "Jeff Francoeur stays hot with another home run | MLB.com", "raw_content": "Red-hot stretch continues for Francoeur\nVeteran outfielder delivers winning HR, his third blast in eight days for Phillies\nCHICAGO -- Jeff Francoeur said again Friday that he would like to stay in Philadelphia and even rejoin the Phillies next season. But he sure keeps playing like somebody who could help a contender down the stretch.\nFrancoeur hit a two-out, two-run home run in the 10th inning of a 5-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. It was his third big homer in eight days as the Phillies improved to 6-1 since the All-Star break.\n\"I enjoy it here. I enjoy these guys,\" Francoeur said. \"I enjoy playing with the young guys, and I would like to be part of this thing next year. I enjoy the role I'm in right now. It's fun coming here knowing that even when you don't play, there's a good chance you'll pinch-hit and have a chance to help the team win.\"\nVideo: PHI@CHC: Francoeur clubs clutch two-run shot in 10th\nFrancoeur hit a pinch-hit three-run shot in the eighth inning of a 6-3 victory over the Marlins on July 17 at Citizens Bank Park. He then hit a walk-off two-run home run in an 8-7 victory Sunday over the Marlins.\nFrancoeur is hitting .265 (52-for-196) with 11 doubles, one triple, nine home runs, 33 RBIs and a .767 OPS in 73 games. He is hitting .417 (8-for-17) with two doubles, one home run and nine RBIs as a pinch-hitter.\nThese past eight days have been some of Francoeur's best in the big leagues in a few years.\n\"Absolutely,\" Francoeur said. \"I remember when we were in Spring Training, I'd hear Charlie [Manuel]. The one thing he'd try to get back in me was confidence and relaxing myself. And when you're doing that, you give yourself an opportunity so you can kind of get out of your own way. The last year and the year before, I was always in my own head trying to do too much. Now it's just, 'Show up and have fun.' So far it's working out.\"\nFrenchy's teammates are enjoying his renaissance.\n\"The pinch-hitting ... home-run hitting ... kiss stealin' ... wheelin' dealin' ... son of a gun ... woo!\" Jonathan Papelbon belted in the tiny visitors' clubhouse after the game, rewording the Ric Flair speech that plays whenever Papelbon enters the game at Citizens Bank Park.\n\"Woo!\" a few teammates responded.\nRead more: Philadelphia Phillies, Jeff Francoeur", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 363, "original_length": 8369, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mlb.com/news/mike-fiers-allows-two-homers-in-loss-to-jays/c-195507990", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:25Z", "digest": "sha1:AFWDXI3MD5BX2OOWWOH4RD6POEPVH5YB", "length": 2756, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mlb.com", "title": "Mike Fiers allows two homers in loss to Jays | MLB.com", "raw_content": "Fiers' troubles vs. Jays centered on homers\nTORONTO -- It looked as though Mike Fiers was in control early in his outing against the Blue Jays on Sunday. But everything unraveled for the big right-hander in the fifth inning.\nFiers has surrendered his fair share of home runs, but he has been at his best when limiting the damage. On Sunday, he allowed a two-run home run to Troy Tulowitzki and a home run to Russell Martin on back-to-back pitches in the fifth inning, and found himself heading to the showers after that sequence in Toronto's eventual 9-2 win.\nThe inning saw a 2-1 Toronto lead expand to 5-1. While Houston still finished its road trip 4-3, Fiers admitted the feeling isn't the same after the loss on Sunday, and was quick to absorb the blame.\n\"I didn't want to give [Tulowitzki] anything too good,\" Fiers said. \"I had a base open and I fell behind 3-0, tried to throw him a strike and he capitalized on 3-1. I tried to keep it down and away and it leaked over more than I wanted to, and he made me pay for it. That was a big moment in the game, and then obviously the home run afterward and I was out.\"\nFiers allowed multiple home runs for the sixth time this season -- and second straight outing. The 31-year-old sits 11th in the American League with 22 home runs allowed this season, just two off his total from last season.\n\"They never let up,\" Astros manager A.J. Hinch said. \"Their offense is pretty potent when it gets going. When they get the lead as they did today, they can hunt some pitches to hit. They hit the ball out of the ballpark. We didn't really have an answer to stop them.\"\nFiers' 4 2/3 innings was the sixth time this season he's been unable to complete five innings, and it stands out in comparison to his last outing against the Blue Jays. On Aug. 4 at Minute Maid Park, Fiers allowed just two runs in six frames.\nThe outing caused a ripple effect on the Astros' bullpen. Already short Ken Giles -- who is on the paternity leave list for the weekend -- and Chris Devenski after the reliever started in Thursday's doubleheader against the Twins, Hinch was forced to burn through five relievers to close out the game, and used James Hoyt as well as Jandel Gustave for the second time in as many days.\n\"It's a team that's tough to match up against,\" Hinch said. \"They handle a little bit of everything when they're going right. We're going through some growing pains a little bit with some of these young kids. They're learning that mistakes get hit up here. We'll continue to grind through it. We'll have our full bullpen back by Tuesday [against St. Louis]. That'll be a nice return.\"\nAlykhan Ravjiani is a reporter for MLB.com based in Toronto and covered the Astros on Sunday.\nRead more: Houston Astros, Mike Fiers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 8795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mlb.com/player/pete-kozma-518902", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:41Z", "digest": "sha1:CE6ARS4T52G4HUMDQYUN4K2ZNVMLPGAN", "length": 14778, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "www.mlb.com", "title": "Pete Kozma Stats, Fantasy & News | MLB.com", "raw_content": "Pete Kozma Bio\nFullname: Peter Michael Kozma\nNickname: Sweet Pete\nDraft: 2007, St. Louis Cardinals, 1st rd.\nHigh School: Owasso, OK\nPeter Michael Kozma\nResides in Broken Arrow, OK during the offseason...Named an All-American at Owasso (OK) High School...had a three-homer game in the Oklahoma state 6-A playoffs, and helped lead Owasso to a state title, hitting a solo home run to provide the game's only run in a 1-0 championship win.\nBegan the 2017 season in the New York Yankees organization, before being claimed off waivers by Texas on April 30...Had a pair of hits, including a home run, on May 21 at Detroit...was his first home run since April 2, 2013 at Arizona.\nSpent the season with Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre and hit .209 (93-for-445) with 48R, 19 doubles, 2HR, 32RBI and 11SB in 130 games\u2026committed just 15E in 537TC (.972) while playing all four infield positions: SS (84G/83GS), 3B (23G/22GS), 2B (18GS), 1B (5GS)\u2026played in 18 Major League spring training games with the Yankees, hitting .219 (7-for-32)\u2026re-signed by the Yankees as a minor league free agent on 10/14/16\u2026\nMade his third consecutive Opening Day roster but played in just 76 games as a reserve infielder for St. Louis, hitting .152 (15-for-99) with 15R and 2RBI\u2026played five different positions: SS (31G/8GS), 2B (17G/7GS), 3B (13G/3GS), 1B (1G) and LF (1G)\u2026committed 4E in 130TC (.969)\u2026\nBegan the season on the Opening Day roster in St. Louis for his second consecutive season...Spent the majority of the season in Memphis (AAA), batting .248 with 8 HR and 54 RBI in 117 games (96 games at SS)...Batted .304 (7-23) in 14 MLB games in 2014 and .263 in Sept. (5-19) with two doubles...Was optioned to Memphis on April 14 and returned for two games in June (6/23-24) before being recalled on 8/31 and remaining the rest of the season...Went 1-1 with a double and scored the game-tying run in his first game back on 8/31 vs. CHI...Scored the game-winning run in a 1-0 win on 9/28 after a lead-off double in the 6th inning in the season finale at ARI...Was flawless in 36 chances in 12 games (5 starts) between shortstop and second base for STL...Finished minor league season with a hot August batting .300 (30-100) with 4 HR and 20 RBI in 29 games...Led all Triple-A shortstops (PCL & IL) in fielding percentage (.977) committing only 10 errors in 458 total chances with 58 double plays...Appeared in two of the Cardinals nine postseason games...Started Game 1 of the National League Division Series at LA (10/3) at second base...used as a pinch-hitter in Game 4 of the NLDS vs. LA (10/7)...was on the roster for the NLCS, but did not play.\nBecame the Cardinals 7th different Opening Day starting shortstop over the past seven seasons... Batted .322 with runners in scoring position (37-115), ranking 14th in the N.L... Ranked 2nd among rookies in games played (143), T9th doubles (20), T11th runs (44), 5th walks (34) and T15th RBI (35)... Led the majors with 35 runs scored from the No. 8 position, T1st with 18 doubles, 2nd with 74 hits and 2nd with 33 walks. His 18 doubles were the most by a Cardinal in the 8th position since Mike Matheny in 2004 (17)... Posted 20 multi-hit games and set a career-best with four hits at LAD (5/26)... Beat out 16 infield singles, tied for the team lead (M.Carpenter)... Hit a home run in the second game of the season and did not hit another the rest of the season, currently the 6th longest active homerless streak in MLB (402 AB)... Posted a season high seven-game hit streak 4/21-28, batting .364 (8-22)... Had three doubles on 5/26 at LAD, part of a career-high, 4-hit game in which he accounted for all 5 runs in the team's 5-3 win (3 RBI, scored twice). His 3 doubles were the most in a single game since Colby Rasmus had 3 on 4/15/11 vs. LAD... Has a career .310 BA (31-100) in September... Came off the bench as a pinch-runner in the 8th inning vs. SEA (9/13) and scored both runs in the Cardinals 2-1 win, including the game-winner on a head first slide at the plate on a passed ball in the 10th inning... Ranked 2nd among N.L. shortstops with a .984 fielding percentage and ranked 1st with 98 double plays turned... Appeared in 14 of the team's 17 postseason games...recorded a .400 avg. and had 4 hits during the Division Series, but managed just one hit in the remainder of his games played...made his first start in Division Series Game 3 vs. Pittsburgh and reached base on a double, walk and single (scored once)...had one of team's three hits in Game 4 win at PIT, and singled in Game 5 win...made diving catch of line drive in Game 5 as he started at shortstop during the final three games of the DS vs. the Pirates...hit an RBI single in the 9th of the League Championship Series Game 5 at Los Angeles Dodgers - his only hit during the LCS...was intentionally walked twice in Game 6, scoring once...entered World Series Game 2 as pinch runner and stole his 2nd base of the 2013 Postseason (3rd of his career).\nBegan the season at Memphis (AAA), playing in 131 games until a recall toSt. Louis on 8/31. Was recalled on 8/31 when R.Furcal was placed on the disabled list and became club's every day shortstop down the stretch. Played in 26 of the final 31 games and started the final 16 games at short(made 22 starts overall). Collected hits in 15 of 22 starts, batting .330 (23-69, 14 RBI); 10 of 22 hits were extra base hits (5-2Bs, 3-3Bs, 2 HRs). Had RBI in 7 of final 11 games. His 11 RBI in Sept. were the most by a Cards SS since Edgar Renteria's 19 in 2003. Finished September ranked T2nd among NL players in triples (3), 6th in slugging (.619), 8th in batting (.349) and OPS(1.005). Made his first start at WSH on 9/2 and was 1-3 with a run, picking up a 2-out hit to start a 7th inn.rally. Facing Nationals 9/28-30 he went 7-11(.640) with two doubles and six RBI. Missed hitting for the cycle by a HR at SD (9/10) w/career-best 3 hits; had 3 hits three separate times. Recorded his 1st Major League stolen base on 9/16 and had two steals, the 2nd on 9/21 at CHI as the team's first straight stealof home since 2002 (K.Robinson). Hit his first Major League HR 9/23 at CHI, his 2nd HR came the very next day on 9/24 at HOU. Had RBI in four consecutive games, 9/22-25. Had season high 4-game hit streak 9/2-11 and had three 3-game streaks, the last 9/28-30 (.640; 7-11, 2-2Bs, 6 RBI).At Memphis batted .232 with 11 HR and a team-leading 63 RBI. Hit .563 (9-16) with 20 RBI when the bases were loaded. 2012 POSTSEASON: Was the starting shortstop for all 13 postseason games, playing every inning at that position. Did not get a hit,but scored a run in the Wild Card game at Atlanta after reaching on a FC/error...scored twice in Division Series Game 2 vs. Washingtonafter awalk and double...hit a 3-run home run in the second inning of Game 3 to give Cards a 4-0 lead, a game St. Louis would win 8-0...had 2 hits in DS Game 5,the biggest a 2-RBI single in the 9th that gave the Cards the lead/win at 9 7...reached base in all seven League Championship Series games by hit or walk...had 5 hits during the LCS vs.San Francisco...reached base in 3 of 4 PA's inLCS Game 4 (2 hits, error).\nSpent the majority of the season playing (112 games) in Memphis (AAA), but also had two stints with the Cardinals...Played shortstop for the first part of the season in Memphis, made a start at second base on 6/10 and then switched betweensecond base (40 games), shortstop (66 games) and third base (3 games) the remainder of the season...Made his Major League debut on 5/18 vs. HOU. Made a pinch hit appearance for Lance Berkman and ripped an RBI doubledown the left field line off Bud Norris...Became the first Cardinal to have an RBI double in first at-bat since Bo Hart (6/19/03) and the first Cardinal position playersince Brian Barton to record a hit in his first Major League at-bat...Was flawless in 22 total chances in the Major Leagues while playing second base, shortstop and third base...Played a total of 16 games in St. Louis. Was sent back to Memphis on 6/2 and recalled again from 6/18-26...Made first ML start playing shortstop on 5/22 at KC. Made two more starts (6/19 vs. KC and 6/22 vs. PHI)...Ranked 2nd on Memphis squad with 11 total sacrifices (6 SH, 5 SF) and 4th on the team with 47 RBI...Batted .500 (5-10) in bases loaded situations with 16 RBI including five sacrifice flies...Committed only eight errors in 289 total chances at shortstop and turned 55 double plays. Also played second base and thirdbase committing a total of 14 errors in 499 chances for a .972 fielding percentage...Tallied 19 multiple-hit games with a four-hit game 5/15 vs. Fresno. Also had nine multiple-RBI games with two 4 RBI games(5/14 vs. Fresno & 8/8 at Colorado Springs).\nPlayed the entire season at Springfield (AA), covering a team high 132 games...Posted career high numbers with 13 home runs, 72 RBI, 122 hits, 69 runs, 28 doubles and 13 stolen bases...Ranked 5th in the Texas League with 503 at-bats...Was named Texas League Player of the Week (5/3-9), batting .355 (11-31) with 2 HR, 10 RBI, including two 4 RBI games...Had 13 multiple-RBI games including seven games of 3 RBI or more and three 4-RBI games...Belted 2 HR in a game for the first time in his career on 8/18 at CC, going 4-for-5 with 3 RBI in a 6-5, 11 inning win...Recorded a hit and a run scored in the same game for six consecutive games (5/15-22)...Led all Texas League shortstops in games (132), total chances (655), putouts (201), assists (420), errors (34) and double plays (100). Also led all AA shortstops with 100 double plays turned...Batted .304 (7-23) with a team high two home runs, three RBI and four runs scored in the Texas League playoffs.\nBegan season at Palm Beach (A), batted .315 in 18 games, and was promoted to Springfield (AA) on 5/1, during organizational shift due to Khalil Greene's injury, for the rest of the season...Named Texas League Player of the Week (6/8-14) after batting .455 (10-22) with four doubles, a home run and six RBI...Selected to the Texas League All-Star Game as a reserve shortstop and singled in his only at-bat...Best AA offensive performance came in front of hometown crowd at TUL (6/11) going 3-for-4 with a home run and four RBI...Had a solid June hitting safely in 19 of 27 games for a .280 average (28-100) with two home runs and 13 RBI...Finished Palm Beach action on a seven-game hitting streak (13-28, .464) and hit safely in 14 of 18 games...Reached safely all five plate appearances while tallying a season-high four hits (4-4) including a double at SAR on 4/26...Rated as the Best Defensive shortstop in the Texas League by Baseball America.\nPlayed in 123 games between Quad Cities (99 games)and Palm Beach...started the season hot batting .341 in April...was solid in the clutch hitting .300 (27-90, 30 RBI) with RISP...selected to play in the Midwest League All-Star Game and went 1-for-3 as the starting SS...earned a promotion to Palm Beach following astrong July (.324, 34-105, 15 RBI).\nPlayed in 42 games making three stops from Johnson City, Gulf Coast League and Batavia...hit first professional home run for Johnson City 8/10 at Princeton.\nNext DET Game: 2-22 vs SEU\n9/29 @ MIL 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 0\n2018 Games by Position: 2B (4) 3B (6) SS (15)\nTigers - 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MoneyBrilliant : MoneyBrilliant", "raw_content": "Click on the link below to watch a video on how to set up and use the budget.\nHow do I set up and use the Budget?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 204.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.monki.com/en_dkk/clothing/dresses/product.sporty-t-shirt-dress-black.0629522001.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:14Z", "digest": "sha1:3VR2LGP7F6EG7Q7CXTWD7VUSAQTNI3EG", "length": 201, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.monki.com", "title": "Sporty t-shirt dress - Black magic - Dresses - Monki", "raw_content": "Sporty t-shirt dress 200 DKK\nAn oversized t-shirt dress made from a cotton blend. It has some pretty amazing white stripes on the ribbed collar and on the short sleeves. You\u2019re gonna love it, trust us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 6620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 325.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.morganbrowneandassociates.com/terrace-house", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:14Z", "digest": "sha1:26ONA7EO62IAMCXTCR6ELADVEKPXJJWK", "length": 875, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.morganbrowneandassociates.com", "title": "Downtown Vancouver Real Estate Specialist - Morgan Browne & Associates - Terrace House", "raw_content": "Award-winning real estate developer, PortLiving, and world-renowned Japanese architect, Shigeru Ban, are collaborating to develop one of the last available properties in Vancouver\u2019s Coal Harbour neighbourhood. Terrace House will be Ban\u2019s first project in Canada and is slated to become the world\u2019s tallest hybrid timber building.\nAdjacent to Arthur Erickson\u2019s historic Evergreen Building, the first 12 floors of Terrace House will be constructed of concrete and steel, expressed as an architectural finish to Erickson\u2019s iconic work. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the original landscape architect for the Evergreen Building, will help ensure harmony between the two buildings. The upper portion of Terrace House will be a distinct, triangular, glass-clad mass timber structure utilizing local timber.\nCONTACT MORGAN BROWNE FOR MORE INFORMATION 604.992.8612\nSELLING STATUS: PRESALE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 299.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormonnewsroom.my/article/mormons-celebrate-100-years-of-family-home-evening", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5UWZVOEJLLF77JUJE327MYASIQF5B32F", "length": 3117, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.mormonnewsroom.my", "title": "Mormons Celebrate 100 Years of Family Home Evening", "raw_content": "5 June 2015 - Kuala Lumpur\nMormons Celebrate 100 Years of Family Home Evening\nOne evening per week dedicated to family activities - a great way to strengthen family relationships\nNearly 10,000 members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Malaysia mark the 100th anniversary of the beginnings of the faith's \"Family Home Evening\" program. In 1915 members of the Church's senior governing body, The First Presidency, sent a letter to Latter-day Saints around the world, encouraging the practice of holding a weekly family night.\nFamilies from all over the world are encouraged to share one night weekly with each other \u00a92015 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.1 / 17\nChildren and parents of all ages will benefit from Family Home Evening \u00a92015 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.5 / 17\nAn assignment board for Family Home Evening \u00a92015 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.9 / 17\nFamily Home Evenings are simple activities organized by the family and they usually involve singing, prayer, a lesson on moral principles such as honesty, service to others, or keeping the Sabbath day holy. The family engages in a fun activity and often share a traditional family snack.\nLatter-day Saints believe that the family is central to God's plan for His children, the central unit of society and the means for bringing children into the world where they can be loved, provided for and taught truth and righteousness.\nElder Todd D. Christofferson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and a senior Church leader said, \"A family built on the marriage of a man and a woman supplies the best setting for God's plan to thrive.\"\nFor this purpose, Church leadership signed a letter in 1915 encouraging the practice of holding a weekly family night. Fifty-five years later, in 1970, church leaders invited families worldwide to make Monday night the time to hold this weekly gathering called \"Family Home Evening\". Mormons from Penang to Johor Bahru, and from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan in West Malaysia; as well as members from Sabah and Sarawak, East Malaysia, follow this standard and set aside Monday evening as family time together.\nA teenager of a Malaysian family recently said \"Family Home evening has strengthened me to live standards which will lead to a better life and has taught me things that have enabled me to survive in this troubled time. I have learned to appreciate my family more and I love my Heavenly Father\".\nA father from Kota Kinabalu says \"We love this time together. When I return from work our children ask every day if it is Family Home Evening tonight. This is a time for us to just be together and share with each other\".\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints encourages everyone to organize a weekly family night. Doing this on a regular basis will strengthen families everywhere. Current Church President Thomas S. Monson stated, \"This heaven-inspired program can bring spiritual growth to each member of the family, helping him or her to withstand temptations that are everywhere. The lessons learned in the home are those that last the longest\".", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 8155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk/article/earthquake-strikes-ischia-island-mobile-kitchen-to-provide-food", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2VT7P5QYKABMGUJGRLRM74V7DSRWOM3J", "length": 998, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk", "title": "Earthquake Strikes Ischia - mobile field kitchen used", "raw_content": "25 August 2017 - Italy\nEarthquake Strikes Ischia Island - Mobile Kitchen to Provide Food\nThe earthquake that struck Ischia off the coast of Italy earlier this week has forced thousands to abandon their homes. The Italian Red Cross, with which The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints collaborates, has moved a mobile kitchen the Church donated to assist the island, according to President of CRI - Rome, Dr. Debora Diodati. The field kitchen can be used to prepare 900 meals a day. The mobile kitchen, originally donated in 2016 to assist refugees, has also been used to provide meals to displaced students after the Amatrice earthquake in central Italy.\nmobile field kitchen getting ready to be sent to Ischia \u00a9 2017 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.1 / 2\nWe express our concern for those who have been affected by the earthquake and their loved ones. We appreciate the Red Cross and all the volunteers of the various organizations engaged in rescue and support operations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 5386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk/article/missionary-serving-where-ancestory-sailed-the-mayflower", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:52Z", "digest": "sha1:VXPXX2KQ5NYWC3AUPZKNHK2ZPGGZBNQO", "length": 3943, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk", "title": "Missionary serves where ancestor sailed on The 'Mayflower'", "raw_content": "4 January 2015 - Plymouth\nMissionary serving where ancestor sailed on the 'Mayflower'\nElder Dalton Bradford of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a good reason to be excited about serving a full-time mission in Plymouth. It was here on September 6th 1620 that his ancestor William Bradford, along with wife Dorothy May and their three year old son, sailed on the merchant ship \u2018The Mayflower\u2019. He, along with a hundred and one others, sailed to the New World.\nElder Dalton Bradford who is serving in Plymouth where his ancestor, William Bradford boarded the 'Mayflower' for the New World \u00a92015 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.1 / 2\nA statue of Governor William Bradford, who sailed from Plymouth on the 'Mayflower' to the New World \u00a92015 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.2 / 2\nWilliam was born in Austerfield, Yorkshire and was baptized on March 19th 1590 into the Church of England.\nThe Bradfords were a wealthy farming family and when, at an early age, William suffered a long period of ill health, he developed a love of reading classic literature and The Bible, later joining an English Separatist Church. He and other separatists sailed to Amsterdam and later to Leiden, Holland in order to escape religious persecution; but after becoming disenchanted with (in their own words) the \u201cungodly\u201d Dutch way of life, they fled to London. Here they managed to finance their pilgrimage to the New World.\nOnce in Boston William was elected Governor, where he became a leading figure in the Plymouth Colony. He served thirty terms as Governor and wrote the well known journal \u2018Of Plymouth Plantation\u2019, which is considered to be the definitive record of the founding of the Pilgrims Plymouth Colony. He detailed their everyday lives between 1621 and 1646.\nWilliam Bradford is buried on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts and his gravestone reads: \"Do not basely relinquish that which our fathers have with so great difficulty attained.\"\nThe number of people surviving the voyage and the subsequent winter was small, but as William Bradford also said, \"Out of small beginnings great things have been produced. One small candle may light other candles and its light is not diminished in doing so.\"\nElder Bradford says \u201cI greatly treasure the opportunities to know of William Bradford and his followers' sacrifices. Without them we would not have the great legacy manifest in the holiday of Thanksgiving and also his posterity in the United States today and around the world, and as it says in Alma 37:7, \u2018by very small means the Lord doth confound the wise and bringeth the salvation of many souls.\u2019 This in my humble opinion is the definitive legacy of William Bradford. Indeed, a true disciple of Christ.\u201d\nPlymouth began a countdown to the 400 year anniversary in 2020 by commemorating the sailing of The Mayflower in their \u2018Illuminate\u2019 celebration at \u2018The Mayflower Steps\u2019 on the Barbican, Plymouth. Elder Bradford has been a tremendous advocate for the Church, appearing on BBC Spotlight TV, ITV, BBC Radio Devon, and in the Plymouth Morning News and the Plymouth Evening Herald. In an extraordinary coincidence, Elder Bradford\u2019s companion Elder Gull can also trace his ancestry back to Pilgrims aboard The Mayflower and has been a great support during this busy period.\nBoth have been able to draw parallels between the pilgrimage of their ancestors seeking refuge from religious persecutions and the pioneers of the church in the early days (1847 onward) of the restored Church.\nElder Bradford, born in Norway, but also having lived in France; the US; Germany; Singapore and Switzerland said: \u201cThese were the thoughts that went through my mind as I represented both William Bradford and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the commemorative event. This will remain with me forever.\u201d\nRead Previous Article \uea16 New Bishop for Wigan Read Next Article New Leaders for Warrington\uea18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 8255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk/article/new-members-announced-for-young-women-general-board", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:08Z", "digest": "sha1:QU6NSKS4E4FOMFUIEXRDEZPXFC63AGRW", "length": 5585, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.mormonnewsroom.org.uk", "title": "New Members Announced for Young Women General Board", "raw_content": "10 March 2014 - Global\nNew Members Announced for Young Women General Board\nInternational board members a first for global Church\nThe Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced new members of the Young Women general board, who will help meet the global needs of the organization. The nine-member Young Women general board will include four board members from Utah, where the headquarters of the Church is located, as well as five women who live in Africa, Brazil, Japan, Peru and New York City.\nSister Carmela Melero de Hooker, Peru. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.1 / 10\nSister Denise Posse Lindberg, Utah. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.2 / 10\nSister Leslie Pope Layton, Utah. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.3 / 10\nSister Rosemary Thackeray, Utah. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.4 / 10\nSister Susan Saxton Taggart, Utah. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.5 / 10\nSister Dorah Mkhabela, South Africa. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.6 / 10\nSister Janet Matthews Nelson, New York. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.7 / 10\nSister M. Lucia Silva, Brazil. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.8 / 10\nSister Megumi Yamaguchi, Japan. \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.9 / 10\nNew members of the Young Women General Board \u00a92014 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved.10 / 10\n\u201cThis is a big change for us, and we\u2019re really excited,\u201d said Sister Bonnie L. Oscarson, Young Women general president, during a meeting held on Temple Square last week with Sister Linda K. Burton, Relief Society general president, and Sister Rosemary M. Wixom, Primary general president. Sister Oscarson was called to be the Young Women general president in the April 2013 general conference.\n\u201c[We] were asked to consider looking at our board and what our board should look like. We just felt like the time was right,\u201d said Sister Oscarson, who explained that technology such as teleconference will enable the board to communicate easily with sisters around the world.\nDuring last week\u2019s initial announcement, the women auxiliary leaders discussed the board changes, the upcoming semiannual general women\u2019s meeting, scheduled for 29 March 2014, which will involve women and girls, and new online leadership training.\nThe new Young Women general board members include Carmela Melero de Hooker, Lima, Peru; Leslie Pope Layton, Sandy, Utah; Denise Posse Lindberg, Draper, Utah; Dorah Mkhabela, Soweto, South Africa; Janet Matthews Nelson, Brooklyn, New York; M. L\u00facia Silva, S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil; Susan Saxton Taggart, Salt Lake City, Utah; Rosemary Thackeray, Orem, Utah; and Megumi Yamaguchi, Nagoya, Japan.\n\u201cI am still overwhelmed, but privileged to be a part of this historic announcement,\u201d said Sister Megumi Yamaguchi. \u201cI thought I might be moving to Utah, but I feel happy and excited to contribute to the Young Women\u2019s program right here in Japan.\u201d\nShe spoke of her love for the young women and how they are strengthened through their relationship with God and through the programs of the Church. \u201cI pray that all young women in the world will know who you are and be strong by daily communication with God and nourishment from the scriptures.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s a privilege and a blessing to be called to serve,\u201d said Sister M. L\u00facia M. Silva, who expressed admiration for the Young Women program. \u201cThe program is very up-to-date, tailored for our latter-day young women,\u201d said Sister Silva. She remarked that it was \u201cextraordinary\u201d receiving her new calling via videoconference. \u201cThe young women around the globe will benefit from having leaders closer to them,\u201d she said.\n\u201cFor now my hope is to help the board understand more the circumstances and needs of young women in Africa,\u201d said Sister Dorah Mkhabela. \u201cMy calling is exciting yet overwhelming because of the responsibility that comes with it,\u201d said Sister Mkhabela. \u201cI view my calling as an opportunity to grow and, on the other hand, provide insights that will help the Young Women program in our area.\u201d\n\u201cI think it is a great opportunity for Latin American women to share their experiences, challenges, strengths, hopes and testimonies more directly with the board,\u201d said Sister Carmela M. de Hooker. \u201cI would like to express my deepest gratitude for this new calling,\u201d said Sister Hooker. She expressed excitement to be part of the historic change in the Young Women general board. \u201cWe know that young women face difficult circumstances.\u201d\n\u201cHumbled, excited and terrified,\u201d is how Sister Janet Matthews Nelson described receiving the call from Elder Jeffrey R. Holland, a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. \u201cIt\u2019s really exciting to think what this could mean for the Young Women program,\u201d said Sister Nelson, who is a Utah native but has lived in New York for 30 years, minus three years spent in Germany. She is looking forward to bringing a \u201cdifferent perspective\u201d to the general board.\nWomen on the general board are assigned to help the Young Women general presidency meet the needs of the global Church as they visit with members in their areas, review and provide recommendations regarding curriculum and other resources for members, work on committees and projects and provide training and support as assigned by the general presidency.\nYoung Women boards began in 1880 with Sister Elmina Shepherd Taylor, Young Women general president, having 24 board members.\nRead Next Article Stockport celebrates 50th Anniversary\uea18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 9949, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.morpethherald.co.uk/sport/football/kevin-phillips-says-sunderland-job-is-a-golden-opportunity-1-7504509", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QCCBDTK2TBI344WWVQFUYZZFOSHO75S5", "length": 2338, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.morpethherald.co.uk", "title": "Kevin Phillips says Sunderland job is a\u2019 golden opportunity\u2019 - Morpeth Herald", "raw_content": "Kevin Phillips says Sunderland job is a\u2019 golden opportunity\u2019\nGarry Rowell presents Kevin Phillips with his award. Picture by FRANK REID\nKEVIN Phillips insist the vacant post of Sunderland boss is a \u201cgolden opportunity\u201d not a \u201cpoisoned chalice\u201d.\nThe Black Cats\u2019 legend says he has been amazed by the way the club has been portrayed as somehow unmanageable in the wake of Dick Advocaat\u2019s departure last weekend.\nWhat a job to take , one of the best in football\nAnd he is dismissive of claims Sunderland will struggle to find top quality candidates in the wake of Advocaat, Gus Poyet, Paolo Di Canio and Martin O\u2019Neill all departing in quick succession.\n\u201cI\u2019m not saying Sunderland doesn\u2019t have it\u2019s problems,\u201d Phillips said.\n\u201cBut blimey, what a wonderful job to take on - I think it\u2019s one of the best in football.\n\u201cAnd I\u2019m not just saying that because of my connection with the club.\n\u201cYou only have to look at the size of its support, look at the Stadium of Light and the training facilities, which are world class and look at the potential of the club too if you could really get it buzzing again.\n\u201cFor me, it has to be seen as a golden opportunity, I don\u2019t agree with the view that it\u2019s some sort of poisoned chalice.\u201d\nSam Allardyce and Nigel Pearson are among the names mooted as potential successors to Advocaat.\nAnd Phillips believes they will be among those leading a long list of possible replacements.\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have a problem if Nigel Pearson got the job, having worked with him at Leicester City.\n\u201cHe\u2019s got a really strong personality and his man-management skills when Leicester City were in trouble last season were second to none.\n\u201cIt was an amazing achievement to keep Leicester in the top flight when all seemed lost.\n\u201cBut then I wouldn\u2019t have a problem with Big Sam getting the job either because he\u2019s got such a proven track record over the years of turning clubs around and keeping them in the Premier League.\n\u201cOne thing that is for sure is that there will be no shortage of good managers to look at.\n\u201cThere\u2019s some interesting candidates out there and for all the talk about Sunderland\u2019s problems right now, the club will have the pick of them.\n\u201cPlenty of people would jump at the chance of managing Sunderland and the club just has to make sure it chooses the best candidate for the long-term as well as the short-term.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 246.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mountainmeasurement.com/nclex/about/mission.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5RL7W2TVQDUPVKMXG5WFP64H2IKOW5HY", "length": 808, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.mountainmeasurement.com", "title": "NCLEX Program Reports Professional Development Seminars - Mission", "raw_content": "Mountain Measurement began working with the National Council of State Boards of Nursing and Pearson VUE to produce the NCLEX\u00ae Program Reports in 2005. Through our experience discussing the Reports with nursing program educators and administrators, we discovered that many subscribers do not have the knowledge or skills necessary to understand and interpret the information contained in the Reports. As a result, many subscribers do not use the Reports to their fullest potential.\nTherefore, Mountain Measurement set out to help nurse educators maximize the utility of the information contained in the NCLEX\u00ae Program Reports. The NCLEX\u00ae Program Reports Professional Development Seminars are a way to reach the community of subscribers and cultivate the knowledge and skills necessary to fulfill this mission.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 211.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/hurricane-florence-could-be-a-lot-like-harvey-here%E2%80%99s-why/ar-BBN9xHD", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:35Z", "digest": "sha1:OXWDBVAFXM7GMTDTRC76HZWUMWBCOKSX", "length": 790, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.msn.com", "title": "Hurricane Florence could be a lot like Harvey. Here\u2019s why.", "raw_content": "The Washington Post 9/11/2018 Greg Porter\n\u00a9 Greg Porter/Washington, D.C. Plot compares GFS forecast to the 1981-2010 CFSR climatology for a 21-day period centered on the valid day. By Thursday, the forecast calls for a high pressure system that is would be the strongest for this time of year over the last 30 years. (Tomer Burg)\n\u00a9 Greg Porter/Washington, D.C. The GFS model shows Florence making landfall in North Carolina on Thursday night and then stalling out for the next 48 hours. The blocking high (somewhat visible in the upper right corner) prevents the storm from moving. (tropicaltidbits.com)\n\u00a9 Greg Porter/Washington, D.C. NOAA's rainfall forecast through Sunday night shows that an immense amount of liquid is likely to fall over parts of the southeastern US. (weatherbell.com)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 287.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.msn.com/en-za/news/editorpicks/can-subsidised-rentals-help-solve-the-housing-crisis/ar-AAzfENv", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WQ3XS4URF47YCSLZ4A453JOIJFLXYM5F", "length": 6455, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.msn.com", "title": "Can subsidised rentals help solve the housing crisis?", "raw_content": "Can subsidised rentals help solve the housing crisis?\nDaily Maverick 2018-06-28 GroundUp\n\u00a9 Provided by Daily Maverick 2018-06-27-can-subsidised-rentals-help-solve-the-housing-crisis First published by GroundUp\nThe housing shortage has come to a head this year with a massive increase in land occupations. For example, in Cape Town in 2017 the Anti-Land Invasion Unit removed 15,000 \u201cillegal structures\u201d. Just in the first four months of 2018 this number is already 26,000. BY GROUNDUP EDITORS.\nThere are questions to be asked to what extent this has been fuelled by the expropriation without compensation debate and the opportunism of the EFF.\nBut there is no doubt that millions of people are fed up.\nAcross the country people, who are angry at what they perceive as unfulfilled promises by politicians and corruption with the RDP housing programme, are occupying both public and private land illegally.\nFrequently they are former \u201cbackyarders\u201d, people who used to live in shacks on the property of a landlord.\nIn story after story, former backyarders tell our reporters they wanted to escape their overcrowded extended family homes or rents that they could not afford.\nA common problem is that the land that is occupied is sometimes earmarked for RDP housesfor other people, exacerbating the difficulties of finding solutions.\nSometimes the occupied land is unsuitable for housing.\nOther than unemployment, for which no one is offering coherent or politically feasible solutions, the struggle for housing is the biggest crisis facing poor people in South Africa.\nIn Durban, Abahlali baseMjondolo is in a bloody battlewith the state.\nIn Cape Town, activists from Reclaim the City organised the occupationof two large abandoned provincial properties.\nIn Johannesburg, families live in squalid conditionsin Wembley Sports Stadium one year after they were evicted.\nAlso read: Scene is set for interestingcontest in Zimbabwe\u2019s upcoming poll\nIn the Western Cape alone there are over 500 informal settlements, about 215 of these in Cape Town.\nThe housing backlog is 300,000 in Cape Town, according to the provincial Human Settlements Department.\nThe problem is massive, and the provision of houses moves slowly because of a combination of political disagreements and bureaucracy.\nPremier Helen Zille, for example, recently describedthe political obstacles the Western Cape government has encountered in the Joe Slovo settlement along the N2.\nBut what was particularly interesting about Zille\u2019s article is that it makes suggestions that seem not too different from what Ndifuna Ukwazi has been campaigning for.\nShe supported urban densification and welcomed the idea of state-subsidised rentals in multi-storey buildings, as long as they are privately administered.\nState subsidised rent is not a new idea, but it is one that is gaining traction.\nBoth Cape Town and Johannesburg have a fair amount of this already. The biggest example of it in Cape Town is Steenvilla in the south Peninsula.\nThe city has committed to buildingabout a dozen similar places near the city centre.\nState subsidised rental is attractive.\nIt allows low-income households to live in decent accommodation \u2014 often much better than RDP houses \u2014 close to schools, shops, and employment.\nProperly run rental blocks are more durable than RDP houses. Because they can be built as multi-storey complexes, they can accommodate many more people per square metre, and much more comfortably, than the rows and rows of matchbox houses typical of RDP developments.\nThere is no good reason state-subsidised rentals can\u2019t be done on a large scale. And it can help break down the class and racial barriers of South African cities.\nAlso read: American law firm files class action suit against Sibanye-Stillwater\nBut done badly it will be disastrous.\nZille wrote that Cape Town\u2019s \u201cvast housing estates have a very low rent-payment record that hovers around 30%\u201d.\nThey are also often far from the city, decent schools, shopping or jobs, and they are often gang-ridden.\nDone well they can be extremely successful.\nDespite the problems at Steenvilla with a small number of households not paying rent and resisting eviction, the block appears to be well-run and sought after.\nIn contrast to the City\u2019s housing estates, it does not look like a slum; it actually looks quite nice from the outside, though it has been through a difficult period.\nIt is managed by a non-profit organisation called SOHCO.\nSteenvilla\u2019s rent collection has been at about 80% over the past year during the height of the conflict with the rent defaulters.\nCountrywide, SOHCO\u2019s rent collection on its state subsidised housing is over 90%.\nAnother example of a well-run state-subsidised rental complex is Drommedaris in Bothasig, run by a non-profit company called Communicare.\nIt\u2019s important to understand that nearly all their tenants are low-income households who would not be able to live where they do without substantial state subsidies.\nAs an alternative to spending money on RDP housing, state subsidised rental is often, albeit not always, better.\nIt is only an option for households that earn enough income to cover the low rents, but it can help alleviate the backlog of RDP houses.\nAlso read: Moyane to make unexpectedappearance at SARS inquiry\nWhat this suggests is that government should pay the subsidies to reputable companies like SOHCO and Communicare who can then manage the buildings including rent collection, rather than depending on civil servants, who have no incentive to make the subsidised rentals work.\nBut there is a weakness with the rental model that has no easy solution.\nWhat happens when people, either because they have become unemployed or taken some unexpected financial knock, can\u2019t pay the rent?\nEvictions then follow.\nWhere do the evicted people go?\nCurrently, a bunch of evicted people are living on the pavement outside Steenvilla, which is not good for either them or the residents inside Steenvilla.\nThey will probably end up in a desolate depressing place like Wolwerivier, 25km north of the city centre but which seems a million miles from anywhere.\nSo subsidised rental housing, usually run by non-profit organisations, is an idea whose time has come and that can be scaled up.\nIt is a part of the solution to the housing crisis that needs much more investment, but it is not problem free. DM\nGallery: 38 of the best sunset spots around the world (Provided by MSN)\nMore From Daily Maverick", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 7383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mtshastanews.com/x126911754/Bears-draft-notes-Search-for-blockers-starts-with-tackles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3MPR2FBIMWFREG6KJ6CPXS7GMB7CSIOG", "length": 2994, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.mtshastanews.com", "title": "Bears draft notes: Search for blockers starts with tackles - News - Mount Shasta Herald - Mount Shasta, CA - Mount Shasta, CA", "raw_content": "Bears draft notes: Search for blockers starts with tackles\nSometime guard John St. Clair played left tackle last year and guard Josh Beekman played backup center in training camp for the Bears. No more. Chicago\u2019s search for versatile blockers, general manager Jerry Angelo said, will now start with tackles.\nSometime guard John St. Clair played left tackle last year and guard Josh Beekman played backup center in training camp for the Bears. No more.\nChicago\u2019s search for versatile blockers, general manager Jerry Angelo said, will now start with tackles. That\u2019s even after signing three free-agent tackles and drafting Chris Williams No. 1 in 2008.\n\u201cWe have targeted the tackle position,\u201d Angelo said. \u201cWe still want a younger, developing player. If we take him, that will change our roster. We\u2019ll have to carry nine offensive linemen vs. eight.\n\u201cWe changed our philosophy in how we look at linemen. We\u2019re looking for tackles who can play guard rather than guards who can play center.\u201d\nComplementary receivers\nReceivers come in all sizes, but look for the Bears to fill their greatest need with a bigger pass catcher, rather than a smaller, faster one. They\u2019ve already got the latter in Devin Hester.\n\u201cYou don\u2019t want all of the same,\u201d Angelo said. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing I can say emphatically. You want to have something that meshes in how they complement one another.\n\u201cYou are always going to look for speed. Speed speaks for itself. If you don\u2019t get speed, then size comes into the equation because of blocking. We still want to run the football. The bigger receiver has a role here, particularly doing the intermediate stuff and the blocking.\u201d\nTalent tops need\nThe Bears have glaring needs at receiver and free safety and also want an edge pass rusher. Glaring needs make Angelo uneasy.\n\u201cYou see prognosticators after the draft telling us that we picked players too high,\u201d Angelo said, \u201cbut when you go into a draft having players of need, you have to take them where you can get them. In all likelihood, it\u2019s going to be in those first three picks.\u201d\nYet need, Angelo said, should take a backseat to talent.\n\u201cAt the end of the day, the teams that have the best players on Sunday win. Even if you get those needs fixed on draft day, players get hurt and you\u2019re right back in that handbasket again.\u201d\nThe solution, then, to filling a need without overreaching would be to trade up when only one player you really like is left.\n\u201cBut I don\u2019t feel we have enough ammunition to do that,\u201d Angelo said. The Bears have only two picks in the first three rounds, and their third-round pick can\u2019t be traded, because it\u2019s a compensatory pick.\nAngelo said the art of drafting is all about making the right compromises.\n\u201cThere is no such thing as the perfect player,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got players\u2019 strengths and weaknesses. You\u2019ve got to fit the square peg in the square hole. As long as coaches tell us what they are willing to compromise and accentuate the strengths, you will find good players in a draft.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 5251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.mulberry.com/ca/customer-services/contact-us", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BBA4OVXFP2P7GSEYDSQ5BJJC32JNSMBH", "length": 231, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.mulberry.com", "title": "Contact Us | Mulberry", "raw_content": "We also have a team ready to help you if you\u2019d like more detailed information about one of our products, or have a specific question about the order you have placed online. They are available from 9am - 6pm, Monday to Friday (EST).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 430, "original_length": 8089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 124.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.muscletalk.co.uk/Need-some-help-with-this-one-m1916692.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ETLN3J62Q7WEUPZQDDLTESBNN4CVECVA", "length": 5796, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.muscletalk.co.uk", "title": "Need some help with this one.... | MuscleTalk.co.uk", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb [Nutrition] \u00bb Diet & Nutrition \u00bb Need some help with this one....\nNeed some help with this one....\nbeastinem\nI have never had a problem with \"losing weight\" really because I have always tried to gain it. I mean, of course I could lose a little off my love handles but other than that I know nothing about losing weight.....and that's why I am posting this thread.\nRecently a co-worker of mine asked if he could start going ot the gym with me. I said it wasn't a problem. He then started stressing to me how important it is for him to lose some weight before he goes home to see his family on vacation.\nHe is 44 years old, 5 foot 8 inches and weighs almost 230lbs. He has a BIIIG ol belly on him. He is actually pretty strong for his age and life style. But this is something that I know lifting weights will not solve on it's own. To be honest, his stomach is really the only thing that needs a LOT of work. He seems to be in pretty good shape other than that.\nHe runs 3 days a week outside for about 30 minutes. We go to the gym 5 days a week for weight training. Monday - Chest, Tuesday - Back, Wednesday - Legs, Thursday - Shoulders, Friday - Bi's/Tri's, Saturday/Sunday - Off.\nMy question is, what do I need to do for his diet. He has pretty much put his life style into my hands. He thinks just because I go to the gym and I have some size that I am some sort of Nutrionist or something....lol. I can only give him the advice that I have learned from you guys really. But I have never really inquired about losing weight or a diet to help lose weight. So I am hoping to get some input.\nAlso, he insisted on buying a whey protein powder to use once or twice a day. He says he is giving me full control over his diet but he is hard headed and sometimes goes off and does things on his own.....lol.\nRE: Need some help with this one.... 2007/06/12 16:29:41 (permalink)\ntry this http://www.muscletalk.co.uk/fb.asp?m=1865646\nThanks bro. I read it and it helped a little. I will sit him down and discuss his diet for the long term and what he needs to change.\nAnd thanks for the input in the thread Toxic.\nOk, he has agreed that his first goal will be to cut his portions down. I notice he eats a lot during meals (practically licking his plate...lol). But he told me yesterday \"I need to go to the PX and pick up another jug of protein\". I said \"didn't you just buy one last week?\". He says, \"Yeah, but I drank it all.\" Now I KNOW he went through it too fast. It was just a small jug of NitroTech, but that usually lasts me at least 2 weeks. He went through it in 6 days. If he was just another guy that was in pretty good shape, I wouldn't say anything.....but my question is, are whey protein shakes beneficial at all to somebody in his situation? He says that he is replacing a meal with a shake, but I would say he would need more of a Meal Replacement shake rather than just a whey shake right?\nAny info anybody can offer will be great.\nAgain, his stats are....\nNo idea on BF% but his gut is huge....\nHe runs about 2 miles 3 times a week and goes to the gym with me for weight training Monday - Friday.\nIs he just replacing meals with whey for the sake of it, or is it down to convenience? ? ?\nWell we are both in Iraq and pretty much have a chow hall available to us 24/7. So his mentality behind replacing the meal with a shake is, he will not run the risk of over eating and it is probably more healthy than the things he will be putting on his plate. But he is the type of guy that every hour I hear him say \"Man!! I'm hungry!!!\". He says it even after eating a huge meal. He is doing really good by going to the gym with me and sticking with it, but he lacks self control on his diet. And I am at a loss on what to suggest.\ni have just finished my exams and i am wondering what would be a good begginner diet?\ncould some one give a list of meals please??\nORIGINAL: Jamie55\nhttp://www.muscletalk.co.uk/articles.aspx\nLacks self control and will power? Give up is my best advice.\nLets fat people, be fat - Amen\nHow long does he have to drop the weight?\nORIGINAL: richsINS\nNoooo, I can't give up on him bro. I will try to help him as long as he is willing to put forth the effort. I am just trying to get all my ducks in a row before I start preaching to him.\nAs far as a time frame for him losing the weight, there really isn't a set time. He is going to see his wife and son in a couple of months and would like to be a little more trim, but nothing drastic. I think he is just trying to lose his gut no matter how long it takes. And I don't know if I would even call it a gut.....it's more of a STOMACH.....lol.\nI don't seem to be getting many responses to my questions. I guess the short and sweet of this post is, is it okay for a person try to LOSE weight (not cut) to drink whey protein shakes? I know it's probably a very vague question but I am looking for somebody that has had to lose weight before and whether or not they drank shakes.\nwhey is not the magic bean for losing weight caloric deficit is. Personally is tell you friend to save his money if you have a mess hall and just eat more veg, less junk and up his activity levels\nSounds good bro. That's basically all I was looking for is somebody to agree with me Thank you!\nGood to see you Beastinem\nI have been pretty busy over here for the past month or two. Looking forward to finally starting my next cycle at the end of next month though\nBack to the topic, I love having a mess hall that is available to us but it is kind of hard to know exactly what all you are eating considering it is all prepared for you. There is no telling how much butter, how much oil, grease, etc. they are cooking with back there. I try to stick with veggies and chicken breast. Another bad thing is, they hardly have any beef.....ever", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 11669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 312.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.myagedcare.gov.au/caring-someone/useful-contacts-carers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:59Z", "digest": "sha1:DHFFIBZKV67G54FIRGWV2RECRBSQPLAY", "length": 3037, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.myagedcare.gov.au", "title": "Access aged care information and services | My Aged Care | My Aged Care", "raw_content": "Useful contacts for carers\nIf you\u2019re caring for someone, there are a range of organisations and programs around Australia that may be able to help you. This can be by providing respite care to help you take a break, or through counselling, information and advocacy services.\nSome of these contacts and resources are listed below. Click on the organisations\u2019 names to visit their websites or contact them directly to find out how they may be able to help you.\nOrganisation or resource\nCarer Gateway A national online and phone service that provides practical information and resources to support carers. 1800 422 737\nCommonwealth Respite and Carelink Centres These centres can help link carers to a wide range of aged care services to help at home and in the community, including short-term and emergency respite services. The centres also provide information about services for people of any age with a disability. 1800 052 222\nCarers Australia The peak national body representing carers of people with a disability, mental illness, chronic condition or those who are frail or aged. Carers Australia provides information, support, education, training and counselling. 1800 242 636\nCarer support groups Carer support groups are sometimes organised around specific conditions. For information about these groups in your area, read about caring for someone with a particular need, or call My Aged Care. 1800 200 422\nDepartment of Human Services - financial assistance for carers Carer payments and allowances are available for some carers. Call the Department of Human Services to find out if you\u2019re eligible. 132 717\nDepartment of Veterans' Affairs The Department runs a variety of support groups and training sessions for carers of veterans and veterans who are carers. Call the department to find out more about whether you or the person you care for may be eligible for these services. 133 254\nIndependent Living Centres These are information resource centres that display products and equipment to help with day-to-day living activities. You and the person you care for can try out products on display and talk to the centre\u2019s occupational therapists on their infolines. Staff are trained to match products and services to your needs and can help you locate suppliers of special-needs equipment. 1300 885 886\nYoung Carers An initiative of Carers Australia, Young Carers provides information and support groups specifically to meet the needs of young carers. 1800 242 636\nNational Continence Helpline The National Continence Helpline is staffed by a team of continence nurse advisers who give information, education and advice to callers with incontinence or who are caring for someone with incontinence. 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This month includes The Oak Ridge Boys, Dierks, Dolly, The Judds, Logan Mize, Big Rich, Kenny Chesney, IEBA, Garth and more.\nOctober 3, 2017 Amanda Exclusives, Inside Track, Music Row Comments Off on October Music Row News 2017 with Preshias Harris\nL-R: Joe Bonsall, Duane Allen, William Lee Golden, Richard Sterban, Dave Cobb, Peter Cooper Photo Credit: Jon Mir\nThe Oak Ridge Boys announced they will release a project with acclaimed producer Dave Cobb in the first quarter of 2018. During an #AmericanaFest listening party at Nashville\u2019s historic RCA Studio A, where the album was recorded, the Oaks performed songs from the yet-untitled project.\nThis is the group\u2019s second project with Cobb, who produced the Oaks\u2019 acclaimed The Boys Are Back album released in 2009. For the new project, Cobb\u2019s vision for the Oaks was to dig way back into their roots of gospel music. But a different kind of gospel; one that took a hard look at the early days of rock and roll, which was influenced by spiritual, or black gospel. Music & tour news at oakridgeboys.com.\nBMG has announced it will release legendary Rockabilly and Country music pioneer Wanda Jackson\u2019s autobiography \u2018Every Night Is Saturday Night: A Country Girl\u2019s Journey to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame\u2019 on November 14, 2017. The iconic performer is known as the \u201cQueen of Rockabilly\u201d and the \u201cFirst Lady of Rock & Roll\u201d landed more than thirty singles on the Country and Pop charts between 1954 and 1974. The book features over eighty photographs from her personal collection and a foreword by Elvis Costello.\nJackson\u2019s debut single, \u201cYou Can\u2019t Have My Love,\u201d reached the Top 10 while she was still a sixteen-year-old high school student. She hit the road after graduation, playing package shows with Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley.\nWanda will launch the book with several public events and book signings around its release, including Tuesday, November 14 at the GRAMMY Museum in Los Angeles and Saturday, December 2 at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. More at wandajackson.com.\nDugger Band released its debut single, titled \u201cEast Tennessee Son,\u201d to country radio in mid-September. A Dugger Band/Paul David co-production, the track comes as a preview to the pair\u2019s sophomore album by the same name, EAST TENNESSEE SON (anticipated in early December 2017). Jordan and Seth Dugger, natives of Greeneville, TN.\nThe reflective hometown ode warmly-paints a storyline spotlights a majestic panoramic view of the Smoky Mountains sheltering the streets below and captures the embracing welcome and comfortable familiarity of the place they call \u201chome.\u201d Showcasing the magic of family harmonies, the brothers share lead vocals taking a turn in each verse.\nDugger Band is actively involved with organizations lending assistance to those who have suffered from the tragic Gatlinburg fires. The duo is donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the single to assist charities in rebuilding homes. The track is available via all major digital retail and streaming outlets. More at duggerband.com.\nDonna Ulisse and her band celebrated the release of Donna\u2019s 11th album, BREAKIN\u2019 EASY is Donna\u2019s first release on the Mountain Home Music Company label, with which she signed earlier this year. The album was produced by label mate and bluegrass music legend Doyle Lawson.\nCountry music fans remember Donna Ulisse from her days when she was signed to Atlantic Records in the early 1990s where she released a critically acclaimed album, Trouble at The Door, with three singles and two videos. These days Donna Ulisse is a key figure in the Bluegrass, Folk and Acoustic music scene as a singer and songwriter. Her single \u201cIt Could Have Been The Mandolin\u201d topped the Bluegrass Unlimited chart at #1 for two months in a row in 2016. She also won the award for 2016 International Bluegrass Music Association\u2019s Songwriter of the Year. Music and more at donnaulisse.com.\nNaomi Judd is set to release the paperback version of her new book, \u201cRiver of Time: My Descent Into Depression and How I Emerged With Hope\u201d on Dec. 5. Judd, a Grammy-winning country icon, best-selling author, actress, and in-demand speaker, will be promoting the paperback release with multiple television, radio and online interviews, including an appearance on the TODAY Show Dec. 5. Judd first captured the attention of the entire world as half of The Judds, which she formed with her daughter Wynonna. The Judds sold 20 million records, scored fifteen No. 1 hits, and received more than 60 industry awards. In the book, Judd shares her harrowing personal experience with the severe depression that almost killed her. Pre-order the book at naomijudd.com.\nMORE BOOK NEWS:\n\u2018Woman Walk The Line: How The Women of Country Music Changed Our Lives\u2019 has made the \u2018Best of Fall 2017\u2019s Music Books\u2019 list put out by No Depression\u2019s Reading Room. It also became Amazon\u2019s #1 Country Book, also rising to #15 on their ALL Music Genre List.\nThe anthology finds 27 women writers reflecting on the female country artist whose life and music impacted their own life. The eclectic collection that enlists women of all ages, races, orientations, and occupations is already generating buzz among journalists, musicians, and academics. \u2018Woman Walk The Line\u2019 represents as many perspectives as there are \u201ckinds\u201d of country music.\nAt a time when women are still vying for a meaningful place on country radio stations across the nation, these essays demonstrate both why and how the girl singers, as well as songwriters and musicians, carved out some of the genre\u2019s most enduring recordings and empowering personas. It is now available at Amazon and wherever books are sold.\nFor more info: www.facebook.com/womanwalktheline/\nBig & Rich have released their sixth studio album DID IT FOR THE PARTY, guesting on several national TV shows and a major media blitz including the musical guest on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d October 2. The new project features 13 new songs, all produced by Big Kenny and John Rich.\nFans, who are dubbed the \u201cFreak Parade,\u201d can order the album now on Apple Music / iTunes, Amazon and Google Play, as well as pick up a CD at major retailers nationwide through a partnership with TWIX\u00ae.\nIn addition to the lead single \u201cCalifornia,\u201d the album is classic Big & Rich, featuring a combination of upbeat anthems like the \u201cCongratulations (You\u2019re A Rockstar)\u201d and \u201cNo Sleep,\u201d while also showing their softer side with the heartfelt tribute to their sons, \u201cMy Son\u201d featuring The Isaacs. Thirty Tigers and The Orchard are handling marketing and distribution for the album. Tour dates and more at bigandrich.com\nThe highly-anticipated follow-up album to Nathan Stanley\u2019s award-winning EVERY MILE album is CONTROVERSIAL MAN. The 12-track country-roots project is a diverse collection of songs old and new that includes both original offerings as well as renditions of Stanley\u2019s favorite Country classics.\nCONTROVERSIAL MAN celebrates Nathan Stanley\u2019s biggest influences, both personally and professionally. To honor his Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, the 2014 Dove award-winning artist includes several Gospel songs, including his original current single, \u201cWhy Do We Walk So Blind.\u201d Stanley also pays tribute to his legendary grandfather, Dr. Ralph Stanley, with the notable track \u201cHe\u2019ll Always be Papaw to Me.\u201d Stanley rounds out the album by performing signature songs of a few artists he most admired.\nThe album is available via iTunes or by calling 615-491-2074. Stanley remains President/Owner of Stanley Music Group, LLC, based in Nashville, Tenn., specializing in single radio releases, music videos, recordings, and artist management. More at nathanstanleymusic.com.\nBlue Chair/Columbia Records artist Kenny Chesney has launched his only official charity, Love For Love City, to benefit US and British Virgin Islands victims of Hurricanes Irma and Maria. \u201cGetting supplies\n\u201cGetting supplies in is hard,\u201d says Chesney. \u201cFood, water, medical care are all in an emergency state. \u201cFinding places for workers to stay is even harder now that Hurricane Maria has done so much damage to St. Croix. Because it\u2019s so hard to get even the basic supplies in, let alone the news media, people really aren\u2019t seeing how devastating these hurricanes have been.\u201d Chesney personally has sent planeloads of food, water, medical supplies, generators, tools, clothes,\nChesney personally has sent planeloads of food, water, medical supplies, generators, tools, clothes, tarps, and camping equipment. He has also taken many people and their pets off the islands to the mainland in an attempt to lessen the strain on supplies across the various islands.\nChesney cautions people who wish to help to be careful of all charities claiming to be affiliated with or through his name, or any of the entities he is affiliated with. Love for Love City is the sole charity Chesney is working through \u2013 and all resources collected will be distributed through Love for Love City after proper evaluation.\nThe fund will support and give to local and national 501(c)3 charities aligned with our mission of getting relief where it\u2019s needed, immediately and ongoing in the Virgin Islands. Love for Love City Foundation is a fund of Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc., a 501(c)3 publicly supported charity registered with the IRS. Contributions can be made at http://bit.ly/LoveforLoveCity.\nCHRISTIAN MUSIC NEWS:\nRISE UP, the highly anticipated project from Cody McCarver, is finally available. Packed with inspirational tunes, McCarver\u2019s brand of music \u2013 he calls it \u2018Outlaw Gospel\u2019 \u2013 encourages and challenges the listener.\nThe release marks a new chapter in the musician\u2019s life. Cody, well-known for his ten-plus-year career with country music supergroup, Confederate Railroad, is excited.\n\u201cI\u2019ve poured my heart and soul into this project,\u201d states McCarver. \u201cThis is truly from the heart and I hope it\u2019s a blessing to all who hear it.\u201d\nAudiences are already connecting with McCarver \u2013 the video for the single \u201cRise Up\u201d has gone viral with over 330K views and the single is being played on radio across America. Rise Up, on 8:14 Records, is available on iTunes, Amazon and at CodyMcCarver.com.\nBradley Walker has just completed an all-new, studio recording and live-concert DVD of gospel songs and hymns that will be released on October 6. Produced by Ben Isaacs (The Oak Ridge Boys, The Isaacs), BLESSED: HYMNS AND SONGS OF FAITH (Gaither Music Group) captures many of the songs that inspired Bradley to become a singer.\nGMA DOVE Award nominee Walker asked several of his favorite singers to be on this album with him, including Vince Gill, Allison Krauss, Rhonda Vincent, Jimmy Fortune and The Oak Ridge Boys.\nBlessed: Hymns and Songs of Faith is exclusively distributed by Capitol Christian Distribution and Universal Music and is available throughout general market stores and the Christian marketplace in addition to online retailers including iTunes, Amazon and www.gaither.com. The recording will also be available this fall at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store\u00ae. www.bradleywalker.com\nWe at Nashville Music Line are still saddened by the loss of CMA and ACM winner Don Williams and Troy Gentry of Montgomery Gentry both died on September 8. Williams passed away at the age of 78 after a battle with emphysema. Gentry was tragically killed in a New Jersey helicopter crash headed to a concert on the East Coast for later that night. Gentry was 50 years old. We are also sending out prayers to all those affected by the Las Vegas Route 91 Music Festival Massacre that happened on Sunday, October 1. Also, on October 2, we learned about Tom Petty going into cardia arrest and are praying for his family at this time.\nDolly Parton has announced her debut children\u2019s album called I Believe In You. \u201cThe Pickup\u201d was on hand when Parton performed some of the tracks for a group of children and got to catch up with her backstage where she talked about the music on the album. The album was available digitally on September 29 and physical copies will be available October 13.\n\u201cAnytime I get the chance to connect with my fans and answer their questions I enjoy it,\u201d says Parton, whose run of Billboard chart hits spans six decades. \u201cWhen I learned iHeart wanted to team with us to launch this album, I was thrilled since all the proceeds help get books in the hands of children.\u201d\nFor more information: www.dollyparton.com | Facebook: Facebook.com/DollyParton | Instagram: Instagram.com/DollyParton\nTwitter: Twitter.com/DollyParton | Tumblr: OfficialDollyParton.tumblr.com | Google+: Plus.Google.com/+DollyParton\nFans who pre-order Craig Wayne Boyd\u2018s new album, TOP SHELF, will receive an instant download of Boyd\u2019s never-before-heard new single, \u201cStuck In My Head.\u201d The album will be released everywhere Oct. 27 by Copperline Music Group and is available for pre-order at iTunes.\nThose who pre-order can also receive Boyd\u2019s \u201cWe Sweat\u201d through instant download and will receive the track \u201cBetter Together,\u201d which Boyd co-penned, on October 13.\nTOP SHELF has been described as \u2018a musical kaleidoscope \u2013 a whirl of celebration, heartbreak, the sweet pain of love, and the comfort of faith\u2019s embrace.\u2019 During his rise to fame after winning Season 7 of NBC\u2019s \u201cThe Voice,\u201d Boyd\u2019s \u201cMy Baby\u2019s Got a Smile on Her Face\u201d debuted at No. 1 on the Hot Country Songs chart, becoming the second song (following Garth Brooks\u2019 \u201cMore Than a Memory\u201d) to achieve that level of chart success. More at craigwayneboyd.com.\nMORE FAN NEWS:\nEXILE, will stage a fan appreciation concert at the Wildhorse Saloon October 17. Soon-to-be-announced special guests will help the band kick off the road to their 55th Anniversary \u201cNo Limit Tour\u201d in 2018. Partnering with WSM-AM for the free show, Exile is set to perform at 6 PM/CT with special guests starting at 4 PM/CT. Concert details at WildhorseSaloon.com. 2018 will be the 55th anniversary\n2018 will be the 55th anniversary of the band, which formed in Richmond, KY. Since beginning in 1963 the band has had No. 1 hits on both the Pop and Country charts, achieving ten No. 1 hits on the country chart. Today, the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame members continue to tour performing their greatest hits and fan-favorites from over the years. More at Exile.biz and Facebook/Twitter.\nA personal note: Growing up in Kentucky, in the late 70\u2019s to the mid 80\u2019s a day didn\u2019t go by without hearing Exile on the radio. So to be able to celebrate their 55 years in the business kick-off concert is like one marked off my bucket list!\nGarth Brooks is set to release part 1 of what is going to be a massive 5 part anthology. Part 1, \u2018The First Five Years,\u2019 is a detailed look at the first 5 years of his career. Told by Garth and those involved with the creating, recording, and promotion of the first five albums.\nGarth has also packaged 5 discs inside the anthology, giving readers the experience from the beginning of Garth\u2019s career. Part 1 contains music that has never been heard, songs written long before the debut album, outtakes, first takes, demos, over 150 never before seen photos, sessions charts, tracking sheets, and more. The all-inclusive, 240-page hardcover/disc package written by Garth Brooks will be available November 14.\nGarth aired a special called Inside Studio G via facebook.com/GarthBrooks on Monday, October 2 and shared very personal details from the first five years of his career. You can follow him on all social media and at garthbrooks.com.\nThe PBS show, Great Performances, in collaboration with the Recording Academy\u2122, will broadcast \u201cGRAMMY Salute To Music Legends\u2122\u201d, the second annual all-star concert offering a primetime spotlight for the Academy\u2019s 2017 Special Merit Awards recipients. The celebration and tribute concert features rare performances by honorees and renditions by those they\u2019ve inspired. The show will air Friday, Oct. 13 from 9\u201311 p.m. on PBS. (Check local listings.)\nHistorically held during GRAMMY\u00ae Week, this is the second time the Recording Academy has celebrated the Special Merit Awards with a stand-alone event and musical tribute. This year\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award honorees are Charley Pride, Shirley Caesar, Ahmad Jamal, Jimmie Rodgers, Nina Simone, Sly Stone, and the Velvet Underground. Visit pbs.org/gperf for additional information.\nGRAND OLE OPRY:\nCountry legend, Grand Ole Opry Member, and Kentucky native John Conlee was recently awarded the first ever Legends Award by the Kentucky Country Music Association during his performance at the Kentucky Opry.\n\u201cIt is always gratifying to be recognized by those from my home state of Kentucky. My profound thanks to the Kentucky Country Music Association and Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin for their very kind honors,\u201d said Conlee.\nThe award was created to honor an artist who is not only from Kentucky, but has also promoted Kentucky throughout their career in both music and interviews.\n\u201cJohn Conlee is a perfect fit for our first Legend Award,\u201d said Kenneth Reynold, President, and Founder of the Kentucky Country Music Association. \u201cHe has never forgotten where he came from and has been a great promoter of not only country music but of Kentucky.\u201d Tour dates and more at johnconlee.com.\nIEBA NEWS: (Int\u2019l Entertainment Buyer\u2019s Assoc)\nOct 15th to the 17th will be IEBA\u2019s Annual Conference in Nashville TN. The host hotel will be the Omni. IEBA stands alone in the entertainment industry. The conference schedule includes live music from the most current artists, providing diverse entertainment options for buyers.\nProviding unparalleled networking opportunities, IEBA\u2019s Agents Alley is a two-part affair that includes a tailgate party and the long-standing traditional set-up. IEBA constantly strives to grow the industry through providing information and offering educational opportunities throughout the conference.\nIEBA is the leading not-for-profit trade organization for live entertainment industry professionals who buy, book, and sell talent. Founded in 1970, IEBA provides an unparalleled forum for professional development. As a resource and a network representing billions of dollars in buying power, IEBA is an intimate organization that makes a huge impact. To register or for more info visit ieba.org.\nLogan Mize released Come Back Road amid positive reviews, a debut at No. 2 on iTunes Country, No. 20 on iTunes All-Genre, and grew his Spotify loyalists by 84 percent in just 4 days. The independent Big Yellow Dog Music release even debuted in the Top 20 on the Billboard Country Album Sales chart.\nThe debut single from COME BACK ROAD, \u201cAin\u2019t Always Pretty,\u201d was pushed out early this year and has already exceeded 22 million streams on Spotify and has been selected for inclusion on popular playlists on both Spotify and Apple Music. With early support from The Bobby Bones Show, \u201cAin\u2019t Always Pretty\u201d has quickly become the most popular single ever released by Mize. Fall tour dates continue to be announced. Check out loganmize.com.\nJohn Pisciotta of Jetpack Artist Ventures and Wade Sutton of Rocket to the Stars Artist Development have announced the upcoming release of a new music industry textbook aimed at igniting the careers of the next generation of music artists.\n\u201cHacking Music: The Music Business Model Canvas\u201d is a collection of strategic frameworks and business models for the new music marketplace.\nThe book provides knowledge and insights from proven industry insiders as well as strategic frameworks examining the vital areas of label and publishing business models, team-building, branding, revenue cycles, project management, and more.\n\u201cHacking Music\u201d is scheduled for release on November 4, corresponding with its presentation at the Harvard University Music Entrepreneur Conference. Aspiring music professionals may pre-order the book via Amazon.\nFor more info: www.facebook.com/hackingmusicbook/\n(BMLG)\nDanielle Bradbery is gearing up for her sophomore studio album, I DON\u2019T BELIEVE WE\u2019VE MET, due December 1 on BMLG Records, and has released \u201cHello Summer\u201d as the album\u2019s lead-off single.\nThe accompanying music video, starring Bradbery, debuted on Entertainment Tonight Online and is featured on ET\u2019s \u201cCertified Country.\u201d\nWritten by Rhett Akins, One Direction producer Julian Bunetta, The Cadillac Three\u2019s Jaren Johnston and country superstar Thomas Rhett, \u201cHello Summer\u201d is about a summer love that takes the singer\u2019s heart as her crush leaves at the end of the season. As the title suggests, I DON\u2019T BELIEVE WE\u2019VE MET is a reintroduction of Bradbery after taking four years to begin the songwriting journey and hone her sound, co-writing seven out of 10 songs on the album.\nFans will receive \u201cHello Summer\u201d when they pre-order the album. See details at daniellebradbery.com.\nCongrats to the Opry\u2019s newest member. Chris Young was surprised by Vince Gill last month at the Grand Ole Opry with an invitation to become its newest member. Young\u2019s induction will be on Oct. 17.\n\u201cAs a friend and someone that\u2019s been out here for 30 years, you will not believe the friendships, the relationships, and the heart that you will gain from being out here for the rest of your life,\u201d says Gill.\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to be really powerful to you, so congratulations.\u201d Young responded, \u201cI love you guys. I love everybody here. I love this place.\u201d\n\u201cChris has an incredible passion and love for the Opry. and he continues to make significant contributions to country music and to his community. We could not be more excited to officially welcome Chris to his musical home with his Opry induction,\u201d said Opry GM Sally Williams.\nNOTE: Chris\u2019 album \u2018Neon\u2019 has been certified platinum (Over 1,000,000 in sales) by the RIAA. This IS his FIRST Platinum Album and recently celebrated his 9th number one record. Chris was also presented with a RIAA certified Platinum for his radio single \u201cThink Of You\u201d and then he received a RIAA Gold certification (500,000) for \u201cSober Saturday Night\u201d radio single which was his 9th number one single. Young celebrates a grand total of 16 gold and platinum certifications!\nCelebrity Clays Shoot Group\nLee Brice raised more than $100,000.00 for Folds of Honor, an organization that provides educational scholarships to families of military men and women who have fallen or have been disabled while on active duty in the United States armed forces.\nHe raised the cash at the \u201cLee Brice & Friends Guitar Pull\u201d and \u201cRecord Rack Celebrity Clays Shoot\u201d in September. Lee gathered friends Charles Esten, Jerrod Niemann, Tyler Farr, Tim Montana, Lucas Hoge, Nick Norman along with Folds of Honor representatives, Major Ed Pulido and Ginger Gilbert Ravella for the Guitar Pull at Nashville\u2019s City Winery.\nThe event \u2014 sponsored by Diamond Coach and American Born Whiskey \u2014 was sold out. The Clays Shoot, held at the Nashville Gun Club, included members of 3 Doors Down, Lewis Brice, Charles Esten, Lucas Hoge, \u2018Hacksaw\u2019 Jim Duggan, Storme Warren and other celebs. For more info, or to donate in support of a Folds of Honor scholarship, visit foldsofhonor.org.\n\u201cHold The Light,\u201d is Dierks Bentley\u2019s first-ever song written and recorded for a motion picture. Also featuring Bon Iver\u2019s S. Carey, \u201cHold the Light\u201d is featured in Columbia Pictures and Black Label Media\u2019s Only The Brave, in theaters nationwide October 20.\nThe song was written by Bentley, Carey, Joe Trapanese and Jon Randall. Bentley first took action in 2013 when he organized and hosted the Country Cares Concert in Arizona, which raised more than half a million dollars for the families of the Granite Mountain Hotshots.\nThe new song honors and embodies the spirit of the true heroism depicted in the film and is available now at all digital retailers and streaming partners. Bentley and Carey worked closely with Only the Brave composer Joe Trapanese. In the collaboration, the songwriters worked Trapanese\u2019s film theme into the music of the song, resulting in a song that is integral to the film itself.\nTo learn more about Only the Brave, see a testimonial video in which Bentley, Carey and survivor Brendan McDonough describe honoring the sacrifice of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and find out how you can support the wildland firefighter communities through The Granite Mountain Fund, go to OnlyTheBrave-Movie.com and dierks.com.\nPROFILES IN COURAGE, FRAILTY AND DISCOMFORT is the title of the debut record from the trio of Eric Brace, Peter Cooper & Thomm Jutz, out now on Eric\u2019s East Nashville label Red Beet Records. All you\u2019ll hear on this mighty collection are their three voices and three acoustic guitars as they render the 14 songs written by these three tall fellows.\nIn these tunes, they ponder such weighty topics as Dollar Stores and dollar slots, steamboat whistles and Hernando hotel rooms, Johnny Cash\u2019s gravesite and Willie Nelson\u2019s notions of eternity, evaporated whiskey and Neil Armstrong\u2019s silence, the everlasting downside of Parkersburg, West Virginia, and a Tennessee town flooded for the sake of electricity. The album is available now at redbeetrecords.com and iTunes, Amazon, CDBaby, etc.\nDarius Rucker toasted hit songwriters Ross Copperman (BMI), Shane McAnally (GMR) and Jon Nite (ASCAP) at the No. 1 party celebrating \u201cIf I Told You\u201d at the newly unveiled Topgolf complex in Nashville, Tenn. \u201cIf I Told You\u201d is Rucker\u2019s eighth No. 1 single since his debut in country music in 2008 and the first single from his upcoming fifth studio album on Capitol Records Nashville, WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME, that will be released nationwide Friday, October 20.\nRucker expressed his gratitude to songwriters Copperman, Nite and McAnally, and described hearing himself on the track for the first time, \u201cI came into the studio, and when we played it back I instantly thought this is exactly what I want to sound like. I was immediately so happy we chose this song.\n\u201d The three-time GRAMMY Award winner performed on the Topgolf\u2019s brand new Nashville stage with his band, The Carolina Grey Boys, to share an exclusive live preview of his new music. Rucker performed five new tracks from WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME, including crowd-favorite \u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d For more info about new music, appearances and tour dates, visit dariusrucker.com.\nCountry stars Carrie Underwood and Sam Hunt joined hit songwriters Zach Crowell, Matt Jenkins and Bryan Simpson to help raise over $630,000 for Mission Lazarus at the inaugural \u201cSongs On A Mission\u201d event at The Mansion at Fontanel in September.\nThe star-studded affair was created with the idea of drawing a parallel between how songwriters work in the background crafting hit songs for artists in the same way Mission Lazarus works in the background to serve the indigenous people of Honduras and Haiti. Following a tour of the Mansion and dinner, there were performances by the songwriters who told fascinating stories behind their hit songs.\nCarrie Underwood and Sam Hunt closed out the evening performing songs that have been especially meaningful in their lives, both as songwriters themselves and as a tribute of gratitude to the songwriters whose songs they sing. More about the charity at missionlazarus.com.\nValory recording artist Justin Moore has announced his \u201cHell on a Highway Tour.\u201d The tour is scheduled to kick off October 13 in Louisiana and will run through Spring 2018. (Opening for Moore will be Dylan Scott.)\nThe Arkansas native spent three years putting together his fourth studio album, KINDA DON\u2019T CARE. The project is chock-full of new music and earned the singer his third consecutive No. 1 album debut. The platinum-selling entertainer kickstarted the album with his sixth chart-topping single \u201cYou Look Like I Need A Drink\u201d and follow-up single \u201cSomebody Else Will.\u201d\nWith 16 tracks on the deluxe version, KINDA DON\u2019T CARE provides a stellar set list for Moore\u2019s live shows which also feature No. 1 hits like \u201cPoint At You\u201d and \u201cLettin\u2019 The Night Roll.\u201d For more info: www.justinmooremusic.com\nKid Rock has unveiled his latest song \u201cTennessee Mountain Top\u201d on streaming and sales platforms\u2026 The track brings out a Country infused southern rock spirit that has drawn Country fans to Kid Rock for almost two decades since he released the CMA, ACM nominated \u201cPicture.\u201d Both \u201cPicture\u201d and his massive summer anthem \u201cAll Summer Long\u201d continue to be fan favorites at Country Radio.\nHe has been busy touring and preparing for an epic series of concerts opening Detroit\u2019s new Little Caesars Arena. He recently announced that the venue will play host to his own \u2018Made in Detroit\u2019 restaurant to open on the Woodward Avenue side of Little Caesars Arena. This October 6th and 7th he will host Kid Rock\u2019s Third Annual Fish Fry in Nashville, yet another sign of his close ties to Nashville and Country Music. Music & tour info at kidrock.com.\n\u201cThe Boys Who Make the Noise on 16th Avenue\u201d are to be inducted in to the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Award-winning songwriters Jim McBride, Walt Aldridge, Tim Nichols and the late Vern Gosdin will be inducted into the NSHoF during the 47th Anniversary Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Gala Oct. 23 at Nashville\u2019s Music City Center.\n\u201cThe quality of the songs that emanate from the legendary Nashville Songwriting community is most often the standard by which most songwriters measure their success,\u201d says Pat Alger of the Nashville Songwriters Foundation. \u201cIconic songs from its eminent songwriters help make this town the musical sanctuary it has become and in turn, the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame celebrates the illustrious careers of those songwriters each year by inducting four new members, the highest honor that any Nashville songwriter can hope for. This year we are extremely proud to welcome the class of 2017: Walt Aldridge and Tim Nichols in the songwriter category; Jim McBride in the veteran songwriter category and the late Vern Gosdin as our songwriter/artist.\u201d\nTickets for the Hall of Fame Gala are $250 each and benefit the nonprofit Nashville Songwriters Foundation. Select seating is available to the public and may be purchased as available by contacting Executive Director Mark Ford at hoftix@nashvillesongwritersfoundation.com or 615-460-6556. More info about this wonderful organization at nashvillesongwritersfoundiation.com.\nImagine throwing a party and 750,000 of your closest fans show up. That\u2019s pretty much what Dierks Bentley has done so far this year. His 2017 WHAT THE HELL WORLD TOUR recently wrapped after consistently ushering crowds of 25,000+, the biggest of his career, while notching more than 60 shows at arenas and amphitheaters across the country since January.\nMemorable shows included his first headlining night at Nashville\u2019s Bridgestone Arena with a sold-out crowd, a first-ever arena play and capacity hometown show at Phoenix\u2019s Talking Stick Resort Arena and two sold out nights at Red Rocks. More at dierks.com\nNashville Access, the internationally-syndicated country radio show has taken on the world of \u201con-demand radio\u201d with the release of their Nashville Access podcast. Since launching a few weeks ago, the podcast has featured interviews with major country artists including Sara Evans, Casey Donahew, Joe Diffie, and Colt Ford.\nEpisode 5 of the Nashville Access Podcast will have something a little different to offer: an interview with Steve Murphy and Javier Pe\u00f1a. If those two names aren\u2019t readily familiar to you, you probably haven\u2019t watched the hit Netflix series, \u201cNarcos.\u201d These series was inspired by Steve and Javier\u2014who were responsible for taking down Colombian drug kingpin, Pabo Escobar. Listen Here : http://www.nashville-access.com/weekly-podcast/\nIn the midst of the career-defining release of his new album COME BACK ROAD, Logan Mize has partnered with Budweiser on a monthly video series based around his song, \u2018Somebody To Thank.\u2019\n\u201cIt is so important that we always remember and give thanks to those who helped us get to where we are. Even the smallest gesture of gratitude can make a big difference in someone\u2019s life,\u201d said Mize.\nA new video will be released monthly via Logan\u2019s YouTube channel and Facebook spotlighting the relationships built around the struggles, gratitude and opportunities that have helped shape Mize into who he is as a person, artist, husband and father and to remind everyone to always say thank you to those who were a part of the journey. Tour info and more at loganmize.com and on social media.\nwww.bouldercreekguitars.com / www.renegaderadio.com www.cmaworld.com / www.nashvillesongwriters.com / www.globalsongwriters.com\nInside Track by Preshias Harris, October 2017.\n#ieba2017\n#rise up by cody mccarver\nbig & rich's did it for the party\nbreakin easy\ncraig wayne boyds top shelf\nDolly Partons I Believe In You\neast tennessee son\nGarth Brooks Part 1: The First Five Years\nGrammy Salute to music legends\njon conlee awarded legends award\njordan and seth dugger\nlas vegas route 91 music festival massacre\nlove for love city charity by kenny chesney\nnaomi judd's river of time\nnathan stanley's controversial man\nCountry Music Legends, The @OakRidgeBoys Announce New Album\nWanda Jackson\u2019s Every Night is Saturday Night\nEleven All Eyes Media Artists To Appear at #Americanafest\nSeptember 11, 2017 Amanda Music Festivals Comments Off on Eleven All Eyes Media Artists To Appear at #Americanafest\nThe 2017 Americana Music Festival and Conference will be held in Nashville on September 12\u201317, with eleven All Eyes Media artists performing, nominated, speaking or [\u2026]\nSeptember 15, 2017 Amanda Lucky 13, NMG Spotlight Features Comments Off on Peter Max Retrospective in its Nashville Presentation: A Tribute to Music City\nMay 5, 2011 Amanda Music Festivals Comments Off on Bonnaroo Artist Review: Wanda Jackson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 370, "original_length": 40448, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 265.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nashvilleparent.com/news/theatre-auditions-this-month", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:48Z", "digest": "sha1:Y77U2YQQTVF6HZSMFSOUU4SUIF5QSCS7", "length": 1767, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.nashvilleparent.com", "title": "- Nashville Parent Magazine - Things to Do - Parent Guides", "raw_content": "Community theatre heats up the stage with two big auditions this month.\nPut your child in the spotlight on stage with a role in an upcoming production. Auditions take place this month for \"High School Musical Jr.\" and \"The Nerd by Larry Shue.\"\nHigh School Musical Jr. Auditions\nThe Disney Channel\u2019s smash hit movie musical comes to life on the stage. Disney\u2019s High School Musical Jr. is fun for the whole family \u2014 and kids ages 12 - 17 can be a part of the show. Perform Murfreesboro hosts auditions Feb. 13 and 15. Ages 12 - 14 audition at 5 p.m. with a monologue and song. Ages 15 - 17 audition at 6:30 p.m. with a monologue and song. Auditions on Saturday, Feb. 16 at 3 p.m. are for ages 12 - 17 for dance, gymnastic and cheer only. Auditions and performances are at The Washington Theatre. Head to Patterson Park Community Center at 521 Mercury Blvd., Murfreesboro. It's free to audition. But, if cast, you must pay the Perform Murfreesboro membership ($25 per fiscal year). Contact Susan Hicks, 615-893-7439, ext. 6104, shicks@murfreesborotn.gov for more info.\nThe Nerd by Larry Shue Auditions\nThe \"nerd\" is a bumbling oaf with no social sense. His lack of intelligence and tact leads to a hilarious event when he overstays his welcome. You can be a part of the show at the Arts Center of Cannon County (ACCC). Auditions are Feb. 3 - 4 at 6:30 p.m. There are roles available for four men and two women (ages 25 - 60) as well as one boy (ages 9 - 11). Auditions consist of group improv games and exercises. Expect to perform cold readings from the script, too.\nHead to ACCC at 1424 John Bragg Hwy., Woodbury. Call 615-563-2787 or visit artscenterofcc.com. Contact Carol Reed at carol@artscenterofcc.com with questions or for more info.\nMatthew Steinmeyer Balloons", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 2940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 318.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nation.co.ke/sports/talkup/IAAF-Under-20-championships-Sports-ministry-sleeping-on-job/441392-4872996-8fx0yx/index.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:09Z", "digest": "sha1:MD53ML6QLXPHFHZGPYTCY55B2DHACO7O", "length": 2512, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.nation.co.ke", "title": "KORIR: Sports ministry sleeping on job - Daily Nation", "raw_content": "IAAF Under-20 championships: Sports ministry sleeping on job\nKenya's Edward Zakayo (left, silver) and Stanley Waithaka celebrate at the end of the boys 3000m final during the World Under 18 Championships on July 16, 2017 at the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani. PHOTO | MARTIN MUKANGU |\nThe irony is that IAAF can only call AK if they want to know the progress yet the Sports Ministry are the ones calling the shots.\nWe need to learn from our past mistakes and right our wrongs.\nWhen Kenya was granted the opportunity to host the 2020 IAAF World Under 20 Championship, there was a lot of celebration across the country amid promises of delivering a world class event.\nThe Sports Cabinet Secretary, Rashid Echesa, in a press briefing in July immediately announced that Sh1.5 billion had been set aside towards the event.\nThe Organising Committee was subsequently to be set up last August to oversee the preparations of the event, But Unfortunately, up to now Sports Ministry is yet to appoint the Organising Committee and I do not think it can be done this year.\nAs they say, we can not always do things the same way and expect different results. We are aware the 2017 World Under 18 Championships here in Nairobi was a last minute thing and we really don't want to take same route again for the 2020 event.\nThe world athletics body, IAAF are very particular about the deadlines and as a stakeholder, I am not happy with the current pace. Being a former athlete, I like doing things according to schedule because it is the only way one can succeed.\nI am aware some of the facilities we used in 2017 are still intact but we can not be sure of that unless we put a team in place to monitor and improve some of them.\nThe IAAF team was here recently and talked at length about the importance of sticking to deadlines. We all know we were not perfect in the last event and even struggled to pull it off.\nHowever, this shouldn\u2019t be the case right now and we have the opportunity to make the event better if not world class.\nWith the experience we have from 2017, we can\u2019t promise the public a world class event if we cannot start on time. We need to go back to the bid presented in Buenos Aires, Argentina just to confirm if we have lived up to expectations so far.\nIt is one thing to get an event and it is totally another to host according to the expectations of the consumers. This situation, I am sure is putting Athletics Kenya in a very precarious state considering they have to deal with IAAF every day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 6662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 305.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/dwarf-planets-pluto-ceres/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:LE47O7DVGMDP75L4BSM75TP7KXWFMBFO", "length": 2869, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.nationalgeographic.com", "title": "Pluto Information and Facts | National Geographic", "raw_content": "https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/space/solar-system/dwarf-planets-pluto-ceres.html\nLearn more about dwarf planets and Pluto's role in our solar system.\nThe world was introduced to dwarf planets in 2006, when petite Pluto was stripped of its planet status and reclassified as a dwarf planet. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes two other dwarf planets, Eris and Ceres.\nWhat differentiates a dwarf planet from a planet? For the most part, they are identical, but there's one key difference: A dwarf planet hasn't \"cleared the neighborhood\" around its orbit, which means it has not become gravitationally dominant and it shares its orbital space with other bodies of a similar size. (Astronomers and other experts are debating this definition.)\nIs Pluto a Dwarf Planet?\nBecause it has not cleared the neighborhood around its orbit, Pluto is considered a dwarf planet. It orbits in a disc-like zone beyond the orbit of Neptune called the Kuiper belt, a distant region populated with frozen bodies left over from the solar system's formation. The dwarf planet is a whopping 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers) from the sun, and its average temperature hovers around -356 degrees Fahrenheit (-215 degrees Celsius).\nPluto's surface is composed of a mixture of frozen nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide ices. The dwarf planet also has polar caps and regions of frozen methane and nitrogen.\nPluto has three known moons, Hydra, Nix, and Charon. With a diameter of about 737 miles (1,186 kilometers), Charon is the largest of Pluto's moons. The duo's gravity puts them in a synchronous orbit, which means they face each other with the same side all the time.\nIn January 2006, NASA launched its New Horizons spacecraft. It swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, conducted a six-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015, and culminated with Pluto's closest approach on July 14, 2015. As part of an extended mission, the spacecraft is heading farther into the Kuiper Belt to examine another of the ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region, at least a billion miles beyond Neptune\u2019s orbit.\nNew Horizons also found Pluto to have blue skies and water ice.\nAlso considered by many to be an asteroid, Ceres, like Pluto, was also renamed as a dwarf planet in 2006. Ceres was discovered by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in 1801.\nCeres's shape resembles a flattened sphere with a diameter of about 590 miles (950 kilometers). It is by far the largest and most massive known body in the asteroid belt, and it contains about one-third of the estimated total mass of all asteroids in the belt.\nCeres is made up of a rocky inner core surrounded by a mantle of water-ice. A thin, dusty, outer crust covers the dwarf planet named after the Roman goddess of grain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 4625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 173.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nationalmeritscholarships.com/hbs-forward-fellowship.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OIPAHEL264RBY3IWNDDUOT7457VVZGBY", "length": 1695, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.nationalmeritscholarships.com", "title": "Latest HBS Forward Fellowship 2019", "raw_content": "Latest HBS Forward Fellowship 2019\nHBS Forward Fellowship are open apply now. If you are from the lower-income family backgrounds and need fund to study, Harvard Business School gives you the opportunity to apply for \u201cHBS Forward Fellowship\u201d. Fellowship is intended to help and support students from lower-income backgrounds who have carried significant financial burdens or obligations. The award is intended to alleviate some of their financial concerns and to help them make an investment in themselves. Award range of the fellowship varies from $10,000\u2013$20,000.\nHarvard Business School is the graduate business school of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The school offers a large full-time MBA program, doctoral programs, HBX and many executive education programs.\nEligibility for Harvard University Scholarship 2019:\nThe Harvard University scholarship 2019 program is designed for students from lower-income family backgrounds who may carry significant financial burdens or obligations. These include (but are not limited to) those who:\nGrew up in a lower-income household\nProvide parents with financial support during their MBA program\nPlan to provide primary financial support to parents beyond their MBA\nHow to Apply for Harvard University Scholarship 2019:\nApplicants firstly create an account through the link to apply for the scholarship: https://apply.hbs.edu/apply/\nThe Forward Fellowship grants awards ranging from $10,000\u2013$20,000 per year.\nHBS Forward Fellowship Application Deadline:\nApplication deadline of the fellowship is September 6, 2019.\nhttp://www.hbs.edu/mba/financial-aid/domestic-students/Pages/forward-fellowship.aspx\nHBS Forward Fellowship", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 234.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/38208/20170525/mice-sperm-stored-on-the-iss-produces-healthy-space-pups-offspring-is-it-possible-for-humans-too.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:43Z", "digest": "sha1:J6S5JWFLJWOOMF44WCH4V45ELRCS63XJ", "length": 3089, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.natureworldnews.com", "title": "Mice Sperm Stored on the ISS Produces Healthy 'Space Pups' Offspring -- Is it Possible for Humans, Too? : Biology : Nature World News Mice Sperm Stored on the ISS Produces Healthy 'Space Pups' Offspring -- Is it Possible for Humans, Too? : Biology : Nature World News", "raw_content": "A new breed of \"space pups\" are gaining the attention of the scientific world. This was after mice sperm stored inside the International Space Station (ISS) produces healthy offspring.\nThis proves that extended stay aboard the ISS does not affect sperm fertility, at least for the mice sperm samples. The mice sperm were used in order to complete a study. The fertilized mice sperm was frozen dried and was stored inside the ISS for one year.\nThe space pups pave the way for future reproduction of animals and potentially humans beyond the comforts of the Earth. Despite having proven that mice sperm can survive long storage period in space, researchers say that it will need more research in order to fully grasp how space can influence reproduction.\nThe study was published in the journal PNAS. The point of the study is to find out whether extensive stay in space can damage the DNA. People spending time aboard the ISS receives about 10 to 100 times more exposure to radiation. This subjects all systems in their bodies including the reproductive organs to radiation as well.\nBased on the study, the sperm, which spent about 288 days in space between 2013 and 2014, show some damage to their DNA. However, this did not affect the sperm from producing offspring. They were still able to fertilize eggs when brought back to Earth. Despite some known changes in the DNA, researchers say that the difference between mice sperm stored in space and the ones kept on the planet is very little.\n\"We got many healthy offspring from space sperm,\" Teruhiko Wakayama, a biologist at the University of Yamanashi in Japan and lead author of the study, said in an interview with The Verge. \"Those pups could not have any genetic damage.\"\nThe topic is highly controversial and vital if mankind is keen on establishing colonizations beyond Earth, like Mars. Radiation remains to be a key concern when it comes to reproduction in space. Will this work on human sperm, too?\n\"In the future, humans likely will live on large-scale space stations or in other space habitats for several years or even over many generations,\" the researchers said in the paper. \"If humans ever start to live permanently in space, assisted reproductive technology using preserved spermatozoa will be important for producing offspring.\"\nAlthough it's still too early to tell if this method will work for human sperm cells, experts are positive that the result will lead to further discoveries. They also have to find more technologies to save the human race and the reproduction system from being exposed to radiation in space.\nTagsMice sperm, Fertilized mice sperm, mice, Mice sperm stored in space, ISS, International Space Station, Reproduction, Reproduction in space\nNASA Schedules Emergency Spacewalk to Replace Faulty Relay Box\nJuno Completes Fifth Pass to Jupiter, Scientists to Discuss First In-Depth Result in Media Conference\nNASA Scientist Names Bacteria After Former Indian President and Scientist Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam\nNew Zealand Space Launch to Reach for the Stars with New Electron Rocket -- What You Need to Know", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6475, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbc.com/house/episodes/season-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:31Z", "digest": "sha1:NWHQX2SL5MWMRMOX2KQQGLH22CZOWFVI", "length": 1434, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.nbc.com", "title": "House Season 1 Episodes - NBC.com", "raw_content": "House reluctantly accepts the case of Wilson's cousin, a kindergarten teacher who had a seizure and collapsed while teaching. To uncover the cause of her seizure, House persuades Foreman to search the teacher's home.\nWhen a teenage lacrosse player is stricken with an unidentifiable brain disease, House and the team hustle to give his parents answers. As the boy's health deteriorates, House's side bet on the boy's paternity infuriates the kid's parents.\nWhen a college student collapses after sex, House and his team scramble to figure out why. The doctors offer their diagnoses, but the patient has too many symptoms to add up to just one disease, so they must look elsewhere for answers.\nWhen House learns of two sick babies at the hospital and predicts an epidemic in the maternity ward, the ward is shut down, Cuddy power-scrubs the hospital and House spars with the team over his plan to sacrifice one baby for the good of the rest.\nHouse's approach is questioned when he treats a nun for what he believes to be an allergy, not realizing her past is coming back to haunt her; meanwhile, the team deals with questions regarding their own faith and whether they can trust their mentor.\nHouse takes on the case of a schizophrenic mom who is lying about her alcohol intake despite having a deadly disease. He must work with her hyper-vigilant teenage son and wade through her altered reality to get to the truth and save her life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 3224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 287.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbc.na/node/12630", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:17Z", "digest": "sha1:4FWN3VQM3HSJYMSGTOT2HVOHZYMKGFLO", "length": 33, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nbc.na", "title": "Noose of Gold (Series) (New) (PG) | | Namibian Broadcasting Corporation", "raw_content": "Noose of Gold (Series) (New) (PG)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 1917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 214.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/philando-castile-case-who-are-key-figures-trial-officer-jeronimo-n765976", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:51Z", "digest": "sha1:UEESRZHTVCPEAIJ527SMRFEJMCXKG5NY", "length": 6306, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.nbcnews.com", "title": "Philando Castile Case: Who Are the Key Figures in Trial of Officer Jeronimo Yanez?", "raw_content": "Philando Castile Case: Who Are the Key Figures in Trial of Officer Jeronimo Yanez?\nPhilando CastileCourtesy Of Castile Family\nMINNEAPOLIS \u2014 A Minnesota police officer goes on trial this week in the killing of a black motorist that drew additional attention when video of the shooting's aftermath was streamed live on Facebook.\nKey figures in the manslaughter trial of St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez in last July's death of Philando Castile:\nWoman Streams Apparent Aftermath of Traffic-Stop Shooting\nCastile, 32, was a longtime elementary school cafeteria worker who family members described as loving and laid-back. Quick with a high-five for students and always eager to sneak kids extra graham crackers and other treats, Castile was known simply as \"Mr. Phil.\"\nPolice had pulled Castile over many times before. Although he had no serious criminal record, The Associated Press examined records that show he was pulled over around 50 times in recent years in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, typically for minor offenses such as driving on a suspended license or without proof of insurance, speeding, driving without a muffler or not wearing a seat belt.\nYanez, who is Latino, had worked for the St. Anthony Police Department for nearly five years when he pulled Castile's car over.\nHe graduated from Minnesota State University-Mankato in 2010 with a degree in law enforcement, and was one of the top in his class. He is married and has one child.\nYanez's chief, Jon Mangseth, defended him in an interview in August as energetic and intelligent, with \"a real sound ability when it comes to communicating and relating to people.\"\nAt the time, Mangseth was preparing to return Yanez to desk duty. The city quickly reversed course and put Yanez back on leave after community backlash.\nPolice officer Jeronimo YanezRamsey County Sheriff's Office via Reuters\nMillions of people saw Diamond Reynolds in her live Facebook stream as Castile lay bleeding next to her in the driver's seat. She was praised for her split-second decision to stream the shooting's aftermath and her measured responses to Yanez, who had just fired shots into the car and still had his gun out.\nReynolds told television reporters she recorded the situation because she felt \"at the end of the day it was going to be the law enforcement's word over mine.\"\nReynolds' daughter \u2014 4 years old at the time \u2014 was also in the car.\nDiamond Reynolds, speaks to a crowd outside the Governor's Mansion on July 7, 2016 in St. Paul, Minnesota.Stephen Maturen / Getty Images\nOfficer Joseph Kauser was standing on the other side of the car at the time of the shooting.\nKauser went to Minnesota State University-Mankato with Yanez, and was also chosen as among the best in their class. A 2010 newsletter shows a photo of the pair together, smiling in their graduation robes.\nKauser has not spoken publicly about the shooting, but is listed as a possible trial witness. The complaint says Kauser told investigators he did not see Yanez's gun until he began shooting.\nCastile's mother, Valerie Castile, emerged as a calm voice for change after her son's death. She urged protesters to remain peaceful while also calling on lawmakers to consider improvements in police training, hiring and other issues she felt contributed to her son's death.\n\"He is the driving force in me to make sure this doesn't happen to another mother,\" she has said.\nShe has hired attorneys and plans a lawsuit.\nBlack Men Dying at the Hands of Police\nRamsey County Attorney John Choi made the decision to charge Yanez. He resisted pressure to step down from the case due to his relationships with police and instead brought a special prosecutor on board to offer an outside perspective. Choi said he wanted to make the call on charges rather than sending the case to a grand jury in the interest of transparency.\nWhen he announced the charges in November, Choi said: \"No reasonable officer, knowing, seeing and hearing what officer Yanez did at the time, would've used deadly force under these circumstances.\"\nChoi is not prosecuting the case himself. That will be left to a team of seasoned attorneys from his office and a federal prosecutor who was brought on to assist \u2014 all of whom have won high-profile trials.\nYanez hired three prominent Minnesota attorneys \u2014 Paul Engh, Earl Gray and Thomas Kelly \u2014 who have all handled big cases before.\nKelly represented ex-U.S. Sen Larry Craig, the Idaho Republican arrested after allegedly soliciting sex in a bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. Engh has represented terror suspects in federal court, as well as Tom Petters, a Minnesota businessman convicted of orchestrating a $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme. Gray represented former Minnesota Vikings quarterback Daunte Culpepper against allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior on a boat.\nJudge William H. Leary III is head of Ramsey County District Court's civil division. Leary, who is white, was assigned to the case earlier this year after Yanez's attorneys asked to have Judge Edward Wilson, who is black, removed.\nMinnesota law allows defense attorneys to remove one judge without citing a reason, and Yanez's attorneys declined to say if race was a factor.\nLeary worked in private practice for more than two decades before he was appointed to the bench by then-Gov. Jesse Ventura in 2002.\nIn November, Leary issued an order allowing transgender people on medical assistance the right to gender transition surgeries, lifting a decade long ban by the state. Last fall, he sentenced a man to life in prison with no parole for the killing of a law clerk.\nLeary rejected a handful of pretrial requests from the defense, including a change of venue. He also denied their request to let jurors see Castile's car in person and have Yanez re-enact the shooting.\nThe St. Anthony Police Department patrols the Twin Cities suburbs of St. Anthony, Falcon Heights and Lauderdale.\nScrutiny of the 23-member department after the shooting found that its officers had disproportionately arrested African-Americans. Members of Minnesota's black community said the statistics were proof of racial profiling.\nSince Castile's death, the department has been working to address concerns about training and diversity, and requested a review of its operations by the Justice Department.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 7095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/michael-cohen-says-trump-directed-me-make-hush-money-payments-n947861", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:44Z", "digest": "sha1:PS5F3PTE3A3KLD2VFKDV6XQBRIDXDYB6", "length": 3813, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.nbcnews.com", "title": "Cohen: Trump told me to make hush-money payments, no one believes the president", "raw_content": "Cohen: Trump told me to make hush-money payments, no one believes the president\nIn his first interview since his sentencing, Trump's former personal attorney and fixer said \"of course\" the president knew it was wrong.\nMichael Cohen says he's 'done with the lying' in first interview since sentencing\nPresident Donald Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen said on Friday that the president directed him to make hush money payments to women who claimed they had affairs with Trump.\nCohen made the comments in an interview on ABC's \"Good Morning America\" in which he said he knew what he was doing was wrong and refuted Trump's claim that he \"never directed Michael Cohen to break the law.\"\n\"I don't think there is anybody that believes that. First of all, nothing at the Trump organization was ever done unless it was run through Mr. Trump,\" Cohen said. \"He directed me, as I said in my allocution, and I said as well in the plea, he directed me to make the payments, he directed me to become involved in these matters.\"\nCohen added that \"of course\" Trump knew it was wrong to make the payments to the women.\nCohen: Trump is not being truthful about Russia probe\n\"You have to remember at what point in time this matter came about. Two weeks or so before the election, post-Billy Bush comments,\" Cohen said, referring to the infamous \"Access Hollywood\" tape in which Trump was heard bragging about grabbing women's genitals without consent.\n\"So, yes, he was very concerned about how this would affect the election.\"\nThe interview is the first time Cohen has spoken publicly after he was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty in Manhattan federal court to nine federal charges.\nAt his sentencing, Cohen said that \"time and time again, I felt it was my duty to cover up [Trump's] dirty deeds.\"\nTrump on Thursday tweeted after the sentencing that Cohen's conviction is a plot to \"embarrass\" him.\n\"I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law,\" Trump said on Twitter. \"He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law. It is called 'advice of counsel,' and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid.\"\nThe hush money payments included $130,000 to porn star Stormy Daniels and $150,000 to former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal. Trump has denied both affairs.\nNBC News reported on Thursday that Trump was the third person in the room in August 2015 when Cohen and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker discussed ways Pecker could help counter negative stories about Trump's relationships with women.\nNational Enquirer's parent company, AMI, admitted to federal prosecutors in a non-prosecution deal on Wednesday that it made a $150,000 payment to McDougal \"in concert with the campaign\" to \"catch and kill\" her story about the alleged affair.\nCohen excoriated the president in the interview, saying \"the man doesn't tell the truth.\"\n\"The people of the United States of America, people of the world, don't believe what he is saying,\" Cohen said. \"And it is sad that I should take responsibility for his dirty deeds.\"\nCohen said that the American public should believe him now \"because the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that I gave to them is credible and helpful.\"\n\"There is a substantial amount of information that they possessed that corroborates the fact that I am telling the truth,\" he said.\nCohen also answered \"no\" to the question of whether Trump is telling the truth about everything related to Russia, but could not fully respond questions about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation because he is still cooperating with investigators.\n\"I am done with the lying. I am done being loyal to President Trump, and my first loyalty belongs to my wife, my daughter, my son and this country,\" Cohen said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 282.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Former-NFL-Player-Beats-Up-Alleged-Peeping-Tom-at-Florida-Home-504440771.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:33:15Z", "digest": "sha1:X3ODB4VNE6XTXFNQWRCDL5KAMDJNMJN6", "length": 1977, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.nbcwashington.com", "title": "Former NFL Player Beats Up Alleged Peeping Tom at Florida Home - NBC4 Washington", "raw_content": "Former NFL Player Beats Up Alleged Peeping Tom at Florida Home\nGeoffrey Cassidy, 48, was arrested Monday on a lewd and lascivious behavior charge after the encounter with former Detroit Lion and Tennessee Titan Tony Beckham\nEx-NFL Player Beats Up Alleged Peeping Tom\nhttp://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/Former-NFL-Player-Beats-Up-Alleged-Peeping-Tom-at-Florida-Home-504440771.html\nGeoffrey Cassidy, 48, was arrested Monday on a lewd and lascivious behavior charge after the encounter with former Detroit Lion and Tennessee Titan Tony Beckham. NBC 6 anchor Johnny Archer reports.\nA man accused of peeping into a teen girl's bedroom in South Florida apparently picked the wrong home after he was caught and beaten up by the girl's father, a former NFL player.\nGeoffrey Cassidy, 48, was arrested Monday on a lewd and lascivious behavior charge after the encounter with former Detroit Lion and Tennessee Titan Tony Beckham in Wellington, NBC station WESH in Orlando reported.\nBeckham said he was leaving his home Monday morning when he spotted the man looking into his 15-year-old daughter's bedroom.\n\"I waited for a second and I looked again,\" Beckham said, according to WESH. \"And I see a white male and he\u2019s standing by my window and he\u2019s trying to get a better position.\"\nBeckham yelled at the man, who tried to run away. The retired professional athlete easily ran him down.\nThat \"good conversation\" didn't go very well for Cassidy, who suffered multiple broken bones in his face and sports a black eye in his mug shot.\n\"I'm sorry that it happened to me. I'm sorry that it happened to him,\" Beckham said. \"Because he's never going to do that again on this side of town.\"\nCassidy was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail, where he remained held on $1,500 bond Wednesday, records showed. Attorney information wasn't available.\nBeckham, a defensive back originally from Gainesville, spent parts of five seasons in the NFL, according to his NFL.com profile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/ncr-connections/ncr-connections-panel-examines-how-church-culture-enables-abuse", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:29Z", "digest": "sha1:XAGQNM7SA3VH6ZX2ZJHJVRPLGOSOHJFK", "length": 11033, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.ncronline.org", "title": "NCR Connections: Panel examines how church culture enables abuse crisis | National Catholic Reporter", "raw_content": "NCR Connections: Panel examines how church culture enables abuse crisis\nMedia briefing tackles sex abuse crisis, prior to US bishops' meeting\nPanel participants, from left: Fr. Clete Kiley, Cathleen Kaveny of Boston College, Massimo Faggioli of Villanova University, NCR national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf (behind Faggioli), NCR Vatican correspondent Joshua J. McElwee, and David Gibson of Fordham University's Center on Religion and Culture (Provided photo by Francis J. Butler)\nIs this an existential crisis?\nThe question, to which there was no crisp answer, came at the very end of an hour and a half of a panel discussion and Q&A session about the clergy sex abuse crisis, the \"this\" of the question.\n\"The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis: How Did We Get Here?\" was the topic of a briefing for media and NCR members (more on how to become an NCR member below or click here) held Sunday night in Baltimore before the start of the meeting there of the nation's bishops.\nOn board were Fr. Clete Kiley, former executive director of the Committee on Priestly Life of the U.S. bishops' conference, current delegate for civic engagement of the Chicago Archdiocese and director of immigration policy at Unite Here, a labor union; Cathleen Kaveny, a lawyer, theologian and the Darald and Juliet Libby Professor at Boston College; and Massimo Faggioli, professor in the department of theology and religious studies at Villanova University. Rounding out the panel were NCR's Heidi Schlumpf, national correspondent, and Joshua J. McElwee, Vatican correspondent.\nSince you can find Schlumpf and McElwee's work in abundance on these pages, I'll stick for purposes here to the academics and the person who knows the culture from the inside. And \"culture\" was a major unifying thread throughout the panel's analysis, as noted by David Gibson, director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University, which co-sponsored the event with NCR.\nKiley, the first to go, and the one charged with supplying an historical context to the discussion, was also the first in the evening to use the term \"culture\" as applied to the clerical structure of the Catholic Church. One of the jobs he was given upon agreeing to head the priestly life committee, he recalled, was \"principal staff person to what was then the ad hoc committee on sexual abuse.\" He was told not to worry because \"that whole sex abuse thing is going away.\"\nThe night he moved into the U.S. bishops' conference staff house, he gathered with others to watch the evening news, and the lead story was about a huge sex abuse settlement in the Diocese of Dallas. \"I looked at the general secretary [of the bishops' conference] and I said, 'Going away? I don't think so.' \" The year was 1997.\nSome of the bishops' reactions early on in the crisis resulted in part from inadequate church structures for dealing with the issue, what ultimately was revealed as bad information from the psychological community, and the clergy culture's insistence on \"using the language of moral failure and sin and increasingly psychological health problems \u2014 and not crimes. To get there,\" said Kiley, \"was going to take a major cultural shift. I'm still not sure the culture has quite moved.\"\nIf the bishops today seem inadequate to the task as a conference, it is not an accident. In 1998, Pope John Paul II issued Apostolos Suos, a statement about bishops' conferences that basically reined in groups like the U.S. conference, which had issued major statements on the economy and on war and peace that had gained international notice. Such big teaching documents were to be reserved to the Holy See. \"So there was an idea that bishops' conferences ought to have less to say than more to say,\" said Kiley.\nAt their Dallas meeting in 2002, in the face of enormous public pressure and exposure, the bishops finally confronted the crisis and came up with the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.\nIMG_2690 cc.jpg\nCathleen Kaveny (Provided photo by Francis J. Butler)\nEven then, however, abundant theories were floated \u2014 naming everything except the clerical culture itself \u2014 about why the problem persisted. \"I can tell you the Holy See saw this as an American problem; then it was an American-Canadian problem; then it was a problem of democracies; then it was a problem of those whose countries were based in English common law,\" said Kiley, who was at the time attending international gatherings on the crisis.\nBut, he said, \"I'm going to keep returning to this idea of culture because we haven't unpacked that enough. We've changed policies and procedures and, to some degree, they've been effective. But we did not really analyze culture.\"\nKaveny said we're coming at the crisis now fresh off \"the summer of shame,\" with the Pennsylvania grand jury report, the downfall of former cardinal Theodore McCarrick and the rise of conspiracy theories and anti-gay forces boosted by the unsubstantiated accusations against Pope Francis contained in the letters of Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2, former nuncio to the United States.\n\"I think that this iteration of the crisis has marked a turning point in how Catholics, especially American Catholics, are perceiving the church.\"\nShe believes that something on the order of a paradigm shift has taken place among Catholics. \"There was the old way of looking at the crisis,\" she said. \"The problem was a small, definitely scandalous group of priests who abused children. \u2026 It was terrible what they did but they could be understood as psychologically and morally disturbed. They were in some sense broken human beings.\"\nThe audience for the media briefing \"The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis: How Did We Get Here?\" included journalists and NCR members, Nov. 11 in Baltimore (Provided photo by Francis J. Butler)\nThe problem now is that the crisis is being framed differently. \"Many people now are not seeing the sex abuse crisis as an aberration within the system, but they're seeing it as something that runs throughout the system. That it is enabled by the system.\" As the crisis spreads and becomes an international issue, a sense is created, she said, \"that this kind of criminal behavior on the part of priests is an expected, tolerated and even accepted part of the culture of a segment of the church.\"\nSome disturbing conclusions can quickly begin to follow in answering the question: \"What would have to be true of the church and its culture for sex abuse like this not to be an aberration but to be something that's running through it?\"\nIt would have to be true, said Kaveny, that we are not one church united; that clergy and laity live in very different worlds; that laity are not sheep to nurtured and saved but sheep to be fleeced; that women are not part of this world; that power is not something to be used in service, but something \"to be expanded, exercised and exploited even for your own personal gain.\"\nWhat is required, she said, is finding \"a different way to reimagine the church in an ecclesiological manner that talks about the Body of Christ crucified by this in some way. We need theological language. \u2026 This isn't just a question of bringing in the experts and solving a problem that way. It's really a matter of reimagining our common life.\"\nMassimo Faggioli speaks during the media briefing Nov. 11 in Baltimore. (Provided photo by Francis J. Butler)\nBut the common life is already split in other ways and the crisis, especially in the West, said Faggioli, \"has become an integral part of the culture wars, and much of the culture wars revolve around the role of the Second Vatican Council,\" the reform gathering that met in successive years from 1962-65.\nIronically, one of the major \"conquests\" of the council was reform of the episcopate, or the role of bishops, from one of the equivalent of an employee of the Vatican \u2014 the old branch manager image \u2014 to full authority as pastors.\nThat's one of the reasons \u2014 that change in authority of bishops \u2014 it became so difficult to get rid of bishops. They can't be replaced when they're caught covering up crime as quickly as we'd like, said Faggioli.\nThere were significant contradictions to that intent following the council and particularly during the papacies of John Paul II and currently, that of Francis, which Faggioli describes as \"papacies on steroids.\"\nThe crisis also highlights how little, actually, the council did to change the status or role of laity in the church, who still, he said, inhabit a space in the church marked by their inability to \"manage church resources,\" a privilege reserved for the ordained.\nHe said that Vatican II also \"talks about laity without ever connecting laypeople and women. This is something that is now inconceivable.\"\nBut the crisis has deeper and more disturbing resonance that he experiences when teaching young people. \"My problem,\" he said, \"is how can I talk to them about the church as something that makes sense, that is justifiable, given the crisis? I believe we are on a long, long journey for the theological thinking to get to the root of what this crisis means.\"\nNone on the panel, in the Q&A that followed, saw easy answers or quick fixes.\nAnd at one point they got to the question that logically led to the question about whether this crisis rises to the level of existential threat. \"Why is this church worth saving?\" someone asked.\n\"That is really a penetrating question for me as a priest,\" said Kiley. And a difficult one to answer in light of the crisis, for priests and for parents. \"I hear people saying, 'What the hell is going on?' And this is something we wanted to pass on. 'Is it worth it?' That question needs to be front and center: Why is it worth saving?\"\nThe conversation continued well beyond the announced ending time. Among others, reporters from The New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Crux and Catholic News Service were working their notebooks, often interviewing NCR members who were invited to attend.\nI met a number of the members who also got to mingle with Schlumpf, McElwee and political columnist Michael Sean Winters at a reception preceding the news briefing.\nIf you'd like to take advantage of future events as well as other benefits, like regular member letters from staff and behind-the-scenes info on how stories get built, click the \"Become a Member\" button above. The cost is a $5-a-month donation minimum. The maximum is up to you.\nThanks for tuning in. Check out the rest of the reporting and analysis from the bishops' meeting in Baltimore elsewhere on this page. And check in tomorrow for our final editorial commentary on the meeting that concluded with little more than hope that something, eventually, would get accomplished.\nAccountability | NCR Connections: Panel examines how church culture enables abuse crisis\nIn Dublin, the rejection of the pope was the reckoning of a people\nIrish priests discuss wrongful abuse accusations, safeguarding their rights\nDaylong conference on church crisis looks at laity role, response", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 15025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 265.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.neetdesigns.co/summer-thoughts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:VPYD7IRWHC5OOFJJLNTNHQTU2IEJJF7T", "length": 92, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.neetdesigns.co", "title": "William Reese - Summer Thoughts", "raw_content": "A manga style girl in a red bikini. I am trying to improve my lining work. I hope you enjoy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 175.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nettv4u.com/entertainment/malayalam/article/top-10-best-movies-of-actress-kavya-madhavan-in-malayalam", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:46Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRRJW6HHEJ5OUHFBI233L2BGBYBRG6KX", "length": 4685, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.nettv4u.com", "title": "Top 10 Best Movies Of Actress Kavya Madhavan In Malayalam | NETTV4U", "raw_content": "Top 10 Best Movies Of Actress Kavya Madhavan In Malayalam\n1. Bhakthajanangalude Sradhakku\nManoj directed the movie. It stars Kavya Madhavan and Irshad in the leading parts. The plot narrates the story of a self-declared demi-god, and her alcoholic spouse. Sumangala (Kavya Madhavan) gets married to an administration worker named Vishwanathan (Irshad). Vishwanathan is attached to his family, which incorporates their two children. Things become complicated, and he becomes a heavy drinker. Sumangala not being able to bear up with her husband's incurable ways, sacrifices herself into becoming a lord figure.\n2. Venicile Vyapari\nThe film's plot unfolds on Alappuzha, a town over Kerala prominently known as the Venice of the east. James Albert is the director. The story revolves around Pavithran (Mammootty), who lost his guardian when he was young. He enters the police training perusing chance. Pavithran terrains up in Alappuzha to investigate a murder of the Uni pioneers named Ajayan ( Biju Menon). He meets Ammu (Kavya Madhavan), who will be among those pioneer of the union of coir labourers, who loves him.\n3. Vellaripravinte Changathi\nVellaripravinte Changathi is the story of a film-maker Augustine Joseph who produced a Malayalam film in 1966, and because of some reasons, the movie didn't make it off to the theatres. 1960-70's have been a time commanded by Prem Nazir, Sathyan, Sheela. Augustine Joseph had trouble releasing it ,and due to this, he committed suicide because of the debt.\n4. Bavuttiyude Namathil\nA 2012 Malayalam movie is a thriller film produces and written by Ranjith. The film encountered with urban decay because of deindustrialization; engineering imagined government lodging. Directed by Vijayan, it featured Mammootty, Shankar Ramakrishnan, Kavya Madhavan, Rima Kallingal, Kaniha, and Vineeth.\n5. Lokpal\nLokpal, a vigilante thriller film written by S. N. Swamy. The film star Mohanlal is playing the lead part as culinary specialist Nandagopal who has an alter ego, the \"Lokpal\" a vigilante. Kavya Madhavan, Manoj K. Jayan, Meera Nandan, Thambi Ramaiah, and Saikumar are in supporting parts. The film has a flashback with Nandagopal's story which includes attempted murder of an adolescent, and the love of his life.\n6. Breaking News Live\n'Breaking News Live' is the story of Nayana and Sneha. The plot moves ahead with the numerous individuals who Nayana met in her life. Nayana understands the other side for individuals when she figures her valid self. Sneha and her rationally tested sibling live with their grandmother, after the demise of their folks. Kavya Madhavan and Mythili played parts for Nayana and Sneha. Vineeth likewise does a paramount role of the mentor of Nayana who may be an inn oversaw economy scholar.\n7. 5 Sundarikal\nA 2013 Malayalam film 5 Sundarikal holds the short love stories of five ladies; Sethulakshmi, Isha, Gauri, Kullante, and Aami. The story enfolds the difficulties, sorrow, happiness, love, marriage and the different responsibilities these women face in a day. Baby Anikha, Kavya Madhavan, Isha Shervani, Asmita Sood, Nivin Paul, Reenu Mathews, Dulquer Salmaan, Fahadh Faasil, and Biju Menon played the supporting parts.\n8. Pinneyum\nA 2016 Malayalam film written, co-produced, and directed by Adoor Gopalakrishnan. Mathew Somatheeram co-produced the film. It is a love story between Dileep and Kavya Madhavan playing the lead parts. This movie is about the criminal occurrence that happened in Kerala during 80's.\nChristian Brothers is a 2011 Malayalam action-thriller film directed by Joshiy. Mohanlal, Kavya Madhavan, Suresh Gopi, Lakshmi Rai, Dileep, Sarath Kumar, Kanika, and Lakshmi Gopalaswamy play the lead role. Dileep falls in love with Kavya, who is the daughter of state home minister. The music is composed by Rajamani, and the lyrics is by Deepak Dev.\nMathukutty, Zachariah, and Binoy, whose fathers were companions a long time ago, return to Goa. When a neighbourhood goon tries to threaten them, they work together as a team to fight them. The lead roles were played by Mohanlal, Jayaram and Dileep, while the supporting parts were acted by Kavya Madhavan, commander Raju, Dipa Shah, Suraj Venjaramoodu, Poonam Bajwa, Pradeep Rawat, and Shankar.\nTop 10 Manju Warrier Movies In Malayalam\nTop 10 Slice Of Life Movies In Malayalam\nMost Popular Communist Hero Characters In Malayalam Films\nTop 10 Controversial Malayalam Movies Of All Time\nTop 10 Hits Of Prithviraj\nMalayalam Movie Welcome To Central Jail Stills\nMalayalam Movie James And Alice Stills\nVillain Malayalam Movie Excellent Posters\nMadhaveeyam Movie Review\nMazhayathu Movie Review\nKrishnam Movie Review\nChanakya Thanthram Movie Review", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 6456, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.networthupdates.com/category/rich-celebrities/richest-rappers-singer/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:26Z", "digest": "sha1:JXY4CJH44A27TGDF5UXJMO44EE2ARHQX", "length": 1191, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.networthupdates.com", "title": "Rappers & Singer - Net Worth Updates", "raw_content": "Mike Posner Net Worth: $45,000,000Michael Robert Henrico which is an American singer, songwriter and as well as record producer and professionally known by the stage name of Mike Posner. 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This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data which you provide to us when you enter into a contract with us to purchase a product or service (whether on behalf of an organisation or personally), make payment to us, make an enquiry to us, visit our website at www.newcityscales.co.uk (regardless of where you visit it from) or otherwise. This privacy notice will also tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. 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In each case, you will only receive such marketing by electronic means (such as by email or text) if you have opted-in to receive that marketing and have not subsequently opted out of receiving that marketing.\nDetails of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available from us by request. Please be aware that, by law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 24922, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newman.ac.uk/page/2/?post_type=course", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:02Z", "digest": "sha1:JPBXIR4QM5AZKISE3FTNCOYAGT2K3SOX", "length": 148, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.newman.ac.uk", "title": "Courses - Page 2 of 11 - Newman University, Birmingham", "raw_content": "Counselling Studies and Working with Children, Young People and Families BA (Hons) with Foundation Year\nCriminology BA (Hons) \u2013 with Foundation Year", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2020, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 162.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/jacksonville/jacksonville-based-red-cross-coast-guard-units-heading-to-texas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:22Z", "digest": "sha1:MTYOONZZJ5NSYL5F5FIVDOPTJW764NOP", "length": 4680, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.news4jax.com", "title": "Jacksonville-based disaster relief units head to Texas", "raw_content": "Jacksonville-based disaster relief units head to Texas\nNews4Jax's phone bank with Red Cross raises $27K for disaster relief efforts\nBy Francesca Amiker - Reporter, News4Jax.com Staff\nJACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Salvation Army of Northeast Florida and U.S. Coast Guard are sending Jacksonville-based units to Texas to support Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.\nCoast Guard officials said it will send an aid-to-navigation unit and a cutter to help.\nHouston priest kayaks to church, tries to buy wine at convenience store\nWoman drowns after driving into high water, Houston officials say\nRescues underway across Houston area after Harvey flooding\nAid-to-navigation units are used to repair damaged buoys or other machines or applications used for boats to safely navigate ports and other waterways. A cutter is a vessel used by the Coast Guard to provide on-the-water staging grounds and other platforms for response.\nThe Salvation Army will send its Jacksonville disaster canteen to Texas to support the response to Hurricane Harvey. The unit will be dispatched Tuesday and first travel to Pensacola, where the crew will receive its assigned location in Texas. The mobile kitchen is able to serve 1,500 meals per day. The unit was originally set to leave for Texas on Monday, but deteriorating road and weather conditions there forced the Salvation Army to delay the unit's departure.\n\u201cAs we monitored the progress of Hurricane Harvey, we made preparations here in Jacksonville in anticipation of the potential deployment of our mission to provide food, water, and emotional and spiritual care,\u201d said Maj. Rob Vincent, the Salvation Army's commander for Northeast Florida. \u201cWe are asking for your prayers for first responders and for those in the community who have been affected by this storm.\u201d\nNews4Jax hosted a phone bank staffed by members of the Red Cross Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. The phone bank raised $27,177 to support disaster relief efforts.\nHundreds of Red Cross volunteers from all over the country are on the ground working around the clock to provide safe shelter and comfort to people impacted by Harvey. Locally, Red Cross emergency response vehicles are ready to go and more than a dozen volunteers across the North Florida region are already in Texas or Louisiana.\nThe Red Cross officials said the organization has enough shelter supplies in Texas to support 28,000 people and supplies for an additional 22,000 people are being sent in now.\n\"What they need right now is food,\" Vincent said. \"The primary mission in disaster is mass feeding and emotional and spiritual care.\"\nTractor trailer loads of ready-to-eat meals, comfort kits, kitchen supplies and cleaning supplies are already on the ground in Texas. Nearly half of the organization's emergency response fleet -- more than 150 vehicles \u2013 has been mobilized.\n\"It will be one of those disasters that we will see volunteers not going out for days, but for months -- probably six to eight months -- for periods of time, and you'll see the Red Cross involved in this operation for years,\" said Christian Smith, with the American Red Cross.\nNews4Jax spoke with Red Cross volunteer Jimmy Balkcom, who said he\u2019s headed to Houston for the next two weeks to pass out hot meals, clean up kits and clean water to those who have lost almost everything.\n\u201cRight from the beginning, when the situation came up, I sat there and watched everything on TV and every day I was telling my wife, \u201cI want to go, I need to go,\u201d Balkcom said. \u201cFlood victims are a lot different than wind damage or whatever because these people lose everything -- everything in their homes.\u201d\nA 17-person team made up of members from the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southeast and the Public Works Department are heading to Naval Air Station Kingsville and Corpus Christi to evaluate facilities on base that may have received damage from Hurricane Harvey.\nGov. Rick Scott is also deploying help. By Monday night, he will have sent more than 120 officers from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission along with more than 70 boats and water vessels.\nNationally, the Salvation Army has already dispatched 42 mobile kitchens and two field kitchens to Texas. In addition to units already in Texas, mobile kitchens from Arkansas and Oklahoma have been sent to the region over the weekend. The Salvation Army is also preparing units in Louisiana and other Gulf Coast states to respond to potential flooding from Hurricane Harvey.\n\"What they need right now is food,\" Vincent said. \"The primary mission in a disaster is mass feeding and emotional and spiritual care.\"\nTo donate to the relief efforts, visit SalvationArmy.org and RedCross.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20727733-800-fractals-promise-higher-temperature-superconductors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:12Z", "digest": "sha1:RTTQHOKMFURMBALNRKHHIEEL3TG6H5WI", "length": 685, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.newscientist.com", "title": "Fractals promise higher-temperature superconductors | New Scientist", "raw_content": "Fractals promise higher-temperature superconductors\nSUPERCONDUCTORS could be made to work at higher temperatures than ever before, thanks to the discovery that one such material has an internal structure that behaves like a fractal. Its structure is also similar to the way the internet and some social networks are connected up.\nWith no electrical resistance, superconductors can conduct a large current with no energy lost as heat. This makes them extremely useful for a host of applications, from maglev trains to particle accelerators. However, most superconducting materials only work at temperatures close to absolute zero, though certain compounds containing copper and oxygen \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 190.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newsweek.com/where-isis-2018-iran-says-afghanistan-pakistan-islamic-state-loses-iraq-syria-745837", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:56Z", "digest": "sha1:LWLEWKXRXK2T3ZLNNB7E5GNGL7DRUYNO", "length": 7226, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.newsweek.com", "title": "Where Will ISIS Be in 2018? Iran Says Afghanistan and Pakistan Are Next as Islamic State Loses in Iraq and Syria", "raw_content": "Where Will ISIS Be in 2018? Iran Says Afghanistan and Pakistan Are Next as Islamic State Loses in Iraq and Syria\nBy Tom O'Connor On 12/12/17 at 3:06 PM\nAfghan security personnel take position after gunmen disguised as policemen stormed a television station in Kabul on November 7, 2017. The deadly attack was claimed by ISIS, making it the latest frustration for international and local forces trying to put an end to the militants after they were effectively defeated in their strongholds of Iraq and Syria. SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images\nWorld Iran Afghanistan Pakistan Central Asia ISIS Iraq Syria North Caucasus Philippines\nA top Iranian official has said his country is bracing itself for Islamic State militant group (ISIS) attempts to establish itself in Central Asia following its military defeats across the Middle East.\nAddressing Tehran\u2019s Seminar on Terrorism, Extremism and Regional Security in West Asia, Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said Tuesday that, although ISIS no longer held any significant stretches of territory, it still possessed a significant stockpile of arms, meaning its threat persisted throughout the region and beyond. He added that Iran, which helped drive the militants out of strongholds in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, anticipated the group would try to establish a foothold further in the heart of Asia, where it has already made gains in recent years.\nRelated: New York City attack: How ISIS teaches fighters across the world to make bombs\n\u201cISIS has lost land, but has not surrendered its arms, and is looking for land in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia in order to, in this way, revive the idea of the Islamic caliphate,\u201d Alavi said, a campaign that he called \u201ca distorted pattern of Islam\u201d not truly associated with the history of the faith or region, according to Iran\u2019s semi-official Mehr News Agency.\nAfghan security personnel take position after gunmen disguised as policemen stormed a television station in Kabul on November 7. Iran said the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) will next focus on Central Asia, but it still has sway in parts of the Caucasus, the Gulf, North and sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images\nJust one day prior, Afghan Defense Minister Dawlat Waziri told the news outlet he would seek Iran\u2019s assistance in cracking down on the ongoing insurgency in the war-torn state. The move could complicate the situation on the ground as about 14,000 U.S. troops assist local security forces to take down both the Taliban, an ally of Al-Qaeda, and ISIS, which managed to establish its own affiliate, despite 16 consecutive years of U.S. military intervention. While the U.S. and Iran collaborated in the early post-9/11 phases of the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the two have increasingly fallen out in the years since.\nNow, even as the U.S. and Iran both wage war against ISIS, they have accused one another of pursuing ulterior motives that exacerbate rather than curb the threat of extremism. The latter stages in the battle against ISIS, however, have given Iran the advantage and seen its allied forces, especially Shiite Muslim militias, gain the upper hand over U.S. interests in the strategic region. Trump\u2019s controversial decision to recognize the disputed city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a move that Alavi and others have predicted would fuel ISIS ambitions, has also further alienated the U.S.\nWhile ISIS\u2019s relatively modest presence in Afghanistan was still powerful enough to kill U.S. soldiers, stage deadly attacks on civilians and even rival the Taliban in certain regions, the jihadis have had a less clear track record in Pakistan, where a number of other Sunni Muslim militant groups were active. ISIS-affiliated group Jundallah claimed responsibility for a May 2015 mass shooting on a bus in Karachi, but the Pakistani government rejected the notion of it being the first ISIS attack in the country, instead blaming India, which denied any responsibility. Some other deadly ISIS-claimed attacks in Pakistan have also been claimed by other militant groups such as Jamaat-ul-Ahrar and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.\nLast month, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami told Pakistani army Chief of Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa that Iran saw Pakistan\u2019s security as its own and that boosting relations between Tehran and Islamabad was \u201cin line with strengthening defense capabilities of both neighboring countries,\u201d Pakistan Observer reported, citing Iran\u2019s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.\nPhilippine Army troopers count packets containing more than 24 pounds of the illegal drug \u201cshabu,\u201d which were recovered along with an ISIS flag from jihadi positions, during a press conference at the provincial capital in Marawi, on the southern island of Mindanao, on June 19. In addition to Afghanistan and Pakistan, groups claiming allegiance to ISIS have created outposts in other parts of the world, including areas of the Caucasus, the Arabian Peninsula, northern and sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, especially in the southern Philippines. TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images\nIn addition to Afghanistan and Pakistan, groups claiming allegiance to ISIS have created outposts in other parts of the world, including areas of the Caucasus, the Arabian Peninsula, northern and sub-Saharan Africa and in Southeast Asia, especially in the southern Philippines. Using its still-powerful social media presence and virtual network, ISIS also has managed to share the tools necessary to carry out deadly plots with prospective jihadis across the globe. The latest example potentially being the bombing attempt Monday in New York City.\n\u201cThey\u2019re spreading this knowledge all over the world,\u201d Ernest Barajas Jr., a former Marine explosive ordnance disposal technician who has helped organizations clear ISIS explosives, told The New York Times in a report published Monday.\n\u201cIt\u2019s going to the Philippines; it\u2019s in Africa.\u201d He added, \u201cThis stuff\u2019s going to continue to grow.\u201d\nMeanwhile, the whereabouts and fate of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi remained uncertain, even as a joint Iran and Russia-backed Syrian military campaign, an offensive by the mostly Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces and its U.S.-led coalition sponsor, and a joint U.S.-backed Iraqi military and Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces effort rapidly dismantled the last of ISIS\u2019s self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria.\nBoth the Syrian and Iraqi governments have declared ISIS dead in their respective countries and have credited Iranian intervention. They differ, however, on the U.S.\u2019s role, with the former considering the U.S. presence illegal and only recognizing Iranian and Russian support, and the latter having been a U.S. partner since being installed in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion and overthrow of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.\nRussia Arrests ISIS Trio Over New Year's Attack Plot\nFormer Ally: U.S. Deal Let 3,500 ISIS Fighters Escape\nIran: Muslims Must Defend Jerusalem, Challenge Israel\nLatest in Iran\nTrump Is Waging Cold War 2.0\nIran Grants Temporary Release to British 'Spy' Prisoner\nIran Reveals Newest Fighter Jet Despite Sanctions\nIran and North Korea Meet as Trump Sanctions Them", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 9738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/05/16/force-and-futility", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:59Z", "digest": "sha1:FG6LTBDJJR3AOPISYZ46DWVBOFMYFBUM", "length": 47021, "nlines": 85, "source_domain": "www.newyorker.com", "title": "Force And Futility | The New Yorker", "raw_content": "Letter from Khost Province\nForce And Futility\nAn Afghan child walks past an American Humvee during a joint maneuver by American forces and the Afghan National Army in the village of Naray, in Kunar province, close to the Pakistan border.\nPhotographs by Larry Towell / MAGNUM\nThe first time the United States tried to kill Osama bin Laden was in the summer of 1998, in Khost, Afghanistan. A dusty, mountainous region in the southeast of the country, Khost was a hospitable place for radicals; the Taliban controlled the area, and Pakistan, which frequently supported Islamists, was just across the border. Bin Laden had recently built a training camp there, and invited terrorists from around the Muslim world\u2014Pakistan, Kashmir, Chechnya, Saudi Arabia\u2014to learn how to conduct jihad. The camp, which he called the Lion\u2019s Den, was situated in a place of some personal significance. During the anti-Soviet jihad, in the nineteen-eighties, bin Laden had participated in a legendary battle there between the mujahideen and the Soviets. The experience, he felt, had transformed him from the politically inclined heir to a construction fortune into a warrior.\nIn May, 1998, bin Laden summoned journalists to a press conference near his base, at which he discussed \u201cbringing the war home to America\u201d and expressed the hope that \u201cby God\u2019s grace, the men . . . are going to have a successful result in killing Americans and getting rid of them.\u201d On August 7th, suicide bombers trained at his camps attacked the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi, killing two hundred and twenty-four people, including twelve Americans.\nTwo weeks later, the Clinton Administration struck back, attacking a factory in Sudan that was thought to be an Al Qaeda chemical-weapons plant. The same day, it fired seventy-five Tomahawk missiles from warships in the Arabian Sea at the base in Khost. According to the C.I.A., bin Laden was scheduled to be at the base that day, presiding over a summit meeting. Some twenty terrorists were killed, but bin Laden escaped; he had reportedly left hours earlier, alerted by a former chief of Pakistan\u2019s intelligence service, the I.S.I.\nGeorge Tenet, the director of the C.I.A., put a five-million-dollar bounty on bin Laden\u2019s head, and, three years later, after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan, in pursuit of bin Laden and his deputies. Whether or not the ensuing war has been intended principally, as President Obama says, to \u201cdisrupt, dismantle, and defeat\u201d Al Qaeda, it has certainly been intended to prevent places like Khost from harboring terrorists.\nIn ten years, some things have changed in the region. As the American military has adopted the counter-insurgency principles advocated by General David Petraeus, the soon to be replaced commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, it has come to believe that it is essential to enlist Afghans as our allies. Accordingly, the Army\u2019s main fighting unit in the area\u2014War Squadron, four hundred men spread out over four bases\u2014works side by side with Afghan soldiers and strives to engage local leaders. But, after more than fourteen hundred American lives lost and countless billions of dollars spent in Afghanistan, the southeast remains in many ways unchanged from the place that housed the Lion\u2019s Den: an area of tribal intrigue, anti-American sentiment, and quickly shifting loyalties.\nA few months ago, a group of visitors from War Squadron held a meeting with Pacha Khan Zadran, a leader of the influential Zadran tribe, to ask for his help in fighting the Taliban. Zadran, who is in his late sixties, is an extraordinary-looking man, with a face like something devised by a Claymation animator. At the meeting, he wore a black turban topped with a flamboyant cloth fan and trailing a yard-long train. He has a horizontal stripe of eyebrows dyed jet black, a great proboscis, a handlebar mustache, and bassetlike jowls. His ears are massive, resembling dried apricots loosely attached to the sides of his head.\nA young American soldier assessed the warlord\u2019s appearance with raised eyebrows. As he shook his hand, he grinned and said, \u201cWassup, pimpin\u2019?\u201d Zadran looked quizzical and didn\u2019t seem to understand. The commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Lutsky, cuffed the soldier\u2019s shoulder and pushed forward to introduce himself and his entourage. Zadran waved his guests to sit down on sofas, which ringed a meeting room in his local headquarters, in a mountain pass between the strategic cities of Khost and Gardez. Outside, a large billboard displayed Zadran\u2019s picture.\nThe meeting was conducted through an interpreter, a muscular young Afghan whom the Americans called Arnold, after Arnold Schwarzenegger. Lutsky, a small, wiry man of forty with a boyish face and a New Jersey accent, leaned toward Pacha Khan and told him that he had been looking forward to their meeting. Lutsky arrived in Khost province in January, 2010, taking command of a volatile wedge of territory along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier that included Zadran\u2019s traditional turf. He was meeting Zadran to try to persuade him to assemble a paramilitary security force.\nThe force would be part of the Afghan Local Police Initiative, a U.S. and NATO program that supplies weapons and rudimentary training to as many as twenty thousand Afghan villagers, in the hope that young men employed by the government won\u2019t be tempted to work for the Taliban. The program is a key element in the counter-insurgency doctrine, and, for the Obama Administration, these local units are crucial. The United States has announced that it will begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan in July and will complete the process by 2014; President Hamid Karzai said recently that the Afghans will assume control of seven of the country\u2019s thirty-four provinces this summer. But the Afghan National Army and the police are widely seen as ineffective and corrupt. If there is to be an orderly \u201ctransition\u201d to Afghan control of the battlefield, the U.S. needs better allies in the area.\nThe problem is that Khost borders the Pakistani province of North Waziristan, a lawless place that serves as a sanctuary for jihadis. After the fall of bin Laden\u2019s base at Tora Bora, his fighters retreated to hiding places inside Pakistan. To all intents and purposes, North Waziristan remains their headquarters. It is also the home base for Jalaluddin Haqqani, an Afghan jihadi leader whose group of Pashtun fighters is a linchpin in the alliance among Afghanistan\u2019s Islamists, Al Qaeda, and, despite its denials, Pakistan\u2019s intelligence service. It was Haqqani who, after Tora Bora, hosted bin Laden in his Pakistani refuge.\nAlthough the U.S. has thousands of troops in the area, the Haqqanis operate across the border with impunity, taking advantage of their tribal connections and knowledge of the local smuggling routes to carry out audacious strikes. In recent years, with the aid of the I.S.I., the Haqqanis have become increasingly active, fostering spectacular suicide commando attacks in Kabul, Khost, and elsewhere. The most recent of these, a suicide car bomb that exploded in a Khost marketplace in February, killed eleven Afghans.\nLutsky was interested in Zadran partly because his tribe had long been rivals of the Haqqanis. During the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the Haqqanis allied themselves with Al Qaeda, while Zadran\u2019s men fought alongside the Americans. \u201cWe need a leader of the Zadran tribe to unite the subtribes and defeat the insurgency,\u201d he told Zadran. \u201cAnd when I think of the person who can do this I think of you.\u201d\nZadran smiled and made an offer: \u201cIf you pressure Karzai to name me as the head of these three provinces\u201d\u2014the contiguous, tribally linked provinces of Khost, Paktika, and Paktiya\u2014\u201cI promise you no more problems in them.\u201d Zadran, in a long career in Afghan politics, has not made a virtue of constancy. He fought against the Soviets in the eighties, before joining the U.S.-backed campaign against the Taliban, in 2001. After the ouster of the Taliban, he was named governor of Paktiya province, but locals protested his appointment. Karzai removed him from the post, and, soon afterward, Zadran shelled the cities of Gardez and Khost. For a time, Zadran resorted to banditry, with his fighters extorting money from motorists on the road that passes his headquarters. Nonetheless, he was allowed to participate in the 2005 parliamentary elections, and he won a seat. In the most recent elections, he was voted out, a result that he claimed was due to fraud.\nLutsky alluded tactfully to Zadran\u2019s electoral problems. \u201cEven if it were to turn out that, for whatever reason, you were no longer a member of parliament, we know that you would still be the leader of the important Zadran tribe,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we look to you in that role.\u201d\nZadran said that he was ready to help Lutsky, but complained that the Americans had not always acted upon the information he had given them, allowing enemy suspects to escape. (The opposite was also true. In 2002, more than sixty Afghan tribal elders were killed by U.S. warplanes after being misidentified as members of Al Qaeda. The U.S. military apologized for the incident, calling it a tragic case of \u201cmistaken identity,\u201d but there were reports that Zadran had relayed false information in order to eliminate rivals.) Lutsky countered politely that he had been acting decisively since he arrived in Khost. \u201cI know the government\u2019s weak,\u201d he said. \u201cI want to work more through the tribes, because they are strong.\u201d\nZadran offered to organize a tribal militia, an arbakai. Or, he said, he could pick twenty men to work with the Americans as a special liaison force. Such a group would need arms, vehicles, and communications equipment, as well as American financing. Which would he prefer? Lutsky hedged, saying that if Zadran could organize a local police force, under his own leadership, it would be \u201cvery helpful.\u201d In the meantime, if Zadran\u2019s men could lead the Americans to Taliban weapons caches, he was authorized to pay out reward money.\nIgnoring this, Zadran said, \u201cWhen my men have intelligence, you will pick them up in Black Hawks, and they will lead you to where the enemies are, and you will drop bombs on them.\u201d\n\u201cWe should work on both initiatives,\u201d Lutsky said, and then changed the subject. He had heard that Zadran was building a house in the city of Khost, and he asked when it would be finished. Zadran said, \u201cWhen you guys give me enough money to finish it,\u201d and they both laughed.\nThe two men exchanged cell-phone numbers, and Lutsky and his men climbed into their armored vehicles and drove off. He was pleased. The meeting had allowed him to check off a couple of important boxes on the score sheet of counter-insurgency doctrine: a \u201ckey leader engagement\u201d that offered an opportunity to secure greater control of a \u201ckey terrain area.\u201d As an American counter-insurgency adviser explained it, \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing here is a very big hand wave. The idea is to work as best we can to create little bubbles of civilization and see where it gets us, see if we can\u2019t connect them up.\u201d The adviser stressed that, in and around Khost, \u201cpartnering with Afghans is a key element of what we\u2019re doing.\u201d\nIn 2009, there were only about five hundred \u201cpartnered\u201d operations; last year, there were more than ten thousand. Still, tense relationships are common among the coalition partners. Last year, the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, reportedly characterized Hamid Karzai as erratic and clinically bipolar. Worse, in April, an Afghan military pilot killed eight American soldiers and a civilian contractor at Kabul airport; it was the eighth such attack this year. Situations like these underscore the quandary that confronts the United States and its partners in Afghanistan. The Taliban are canny and ruthless, and they share cultural and religious links with the civilians living on the battlefield. How can the U.S. find reliable local proxies to train and arm and share intelligence with? Who, ultimately, can take over Afghanistan\u2019s security?\nLutsky\u2019s area of operations\u2014his \u201cA.O.,\u201d in military parlance\u2014feels like a place at the edge of the known world. His base, Forward Operating Base Clark, sits on a flatland about twelve miles from Khost. On the far side of the city is Camp Salerno, NATO\u2019s regional military headquarters, and F.O.B. Chapman, an adjacent C.I.A. base. Set behind dreary defensive fortifications punctuated by high-tech communications masts, the bases seem like mirages on the Afghan plain. In daytime, the skies flash with metallic light as helicopters come and go, and F-15 jets roar past. At night, the only noise is the barking of dogs.\nThe small city of Khost is situated in a mountain valley crisscrossed by dry riverbeds and bullock-tilled fields. The mountains rising eastward to the Pakistan border glisten with minerals. To the west, a road leads up a deep canyon and over the mountains to Gardez, passing through a smattering of hamlets carved out of mud and stone. Except for the occasional shepherd, few people are visible. The road is periodically clogged by convoys of gaudily painted \u201cjingle trucks,\u201d cargo wagons festooned with dangling metal ornaments that clank tinnily as they move. The rest of the traffic is nearly all military.\nThe center of Khost is a welter of traders\u2019 streets, arrayed around the governor\u2019s mansion and the police headquarters. The town is crowded with people, motorbikes, and brightly decorated shops, but it retains a conservative provincial air. Unlike Kabul, where there has been a construction boom in recent years, only the outskirts show evidence of new wealth: a handful of colorfully painted villas with ornate wrought-iron balconies.\nKhost has a long tradition of resistance to political and social change. In 1924, the local Pashtuns rose up against King Amanullah, a modernizer who sought to emancipate Afghan women. During the Soviet war, the mujahideen besieged the Russians and, for a time, surrounded their airfield on the edge of town\u2014today\u2019s Camp Salerno. In the spring of 1991, after the Russians had withdrawn, Jalaluddin Haqqani seized the city; it was among the first to fall to the mujahideen.\nIn part because of the Haqqanis\u2019 persistent influence, Khost province remains one of the most dangerous places in Afghanistan. A recent study showed that, of the four hundred and ninety-seven U.S. casualties suffered in Afghanistan last year, four hundred and eight occurred in the provinces that border Pakistan. Mike Boettcher, a veteran network news correspondent, who is also a terrorism expert at the University of Oklahoma, told me, \u201cIn the context of what\u2019s going on in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Khost is the centerpiece. It\u2019s right up against North Waziristan, which is the one place the Pakistani Army won\u2019t go.\u201d\nOn December 30, 2009, a Jordanian suicide bomber posing as a defector blew himself up at F.O.B. Chapman, killing seven American C.I.A. agents, in one of the most lethal attacks ever carried out against the agency. Nonetheless, the C.I.A. station continues to provide much of the raw intelligence for the U.S. Army\u2019s field operations in the area. When American military officers allude to their C.I.A. colleagues, they refer to them as \u201cO.G.A.,\u201d meaning \u201cother government agencies,\u201d and it is clear that their work in the area is of primary importance. While the U.S. Army often points to its efforts to engage with civilians and train the Afghan Army, the C.I.A. and the Special Forces have been carrying out violent covert operations, like the spectacular killing of Osama bin Laden. Boettcher said that North Waziristan, just next to Khost, is where \u201cthe secret war is going on at its fiercest\u2014over eighty per cent of the drone attacks are there.\u201d C.I.A. drones with laser-guided missiles regularly target Al Qaeda, Taliban, and Haqqani suspects. In September, 2008, a strike against the Haqqanis killed at least twenty-three people, reportedly including one of Jalaluddin Haqqani\u2019s wives and ten other relatives. The C.I.A. also operates an Afghan paramilitary force of three thousand fighters out of secret bases along the border with Pakistan, several of which are in Khost. All of this has created an atmosphere of suspicion that makes collaboration, of the sort that Lutsky is supposed to encourage, very difficult to achieve.\nStephen Lutsky was born in Clinton, New Jersey, where his father worked as a municipal engineer and his mother as a secretary. Clinton, in the central part of the state, has remained rural, because, Lutsky says, \u201cit doesn\u2019t have an off-ramp.\u201d He enlisted in 1987, straight out of high school, and then \u201cwent green to gold,\u201d meaning that he went to college in order to receive an officer\u2019s commission. He attended Valley Forge and Lock Haven, both in Pennsylvania, and earned a biochemistry degree in 1992. Lutsky was assigned to Fort Hood, Texas, and then served in Bosnia, Albania, and Kosovo. He and his wife, Denise, whom he married in 1995, have a ten-year-old son and an eight-year-old daughter at home, in Fort Campbell, Kentucky.\nSince 2003, Lutsky has had three deployments in Iraq; Khost was his first in Afghanistan. In all of them, he has developed a reputation for seeking out combat. In Iraq, he said, a rocket-propelled grenade hit his Humvee, and he was peppered with shrapnel, some of which is still inside his body. He\u2019d had a dental X-ray recently and what looked like a cavity in one of his molars was revealed to be a metal fragment in his jaw. In Afghanistan, he has the distinction of being one of the few American officers to survive a suicide bombing\u2014two of them, in fact. The right side of his face is scarred with red welts, from his cheek to his eyebrow.\nThe first bombing was on March 8, 2010, three weeks after Lutsky took charge of F.O.B. Clark. That morning, he told me, he was reviewing operations and intelligence at his Tactical Operations Command, or T.O.C., a large room in a prefab warehouse on the base. Lutsky shared command of the area with his Afghan National Army counterpart, General Mohammed Asrar Adqas, but their respective groups of soldiers didn\u2019t mingle much. At Clark, the Americans live alongside about a thousand Afghan soldiers, in separate but adjoining compounds; the Afghans are trained by a special team of U.S. military instructors. At the T.O.C., the two groups of officers meet each morning for a briefing and planning session. The meetings are conducted through interpreters like Arnold, because few of the Afghans speak English and almost none of the Americans speak either of Afghanistan\u2019s two main languages, Pashto and Dari. While the Americans peer at laptop computers connected to their field units, the Afghans communicate orders through bulky field radios that they lug with them.\nLutsky and Asrar were at a morning briefing when the news came that a group of suicide bombers had entered Khost and were being pursued by the police. One bomber had detonated himself; the A.N.A. had killed another; and the police had two more trapped inside a building. \u201cGeneral Asrar said he needed to be there to see what was going on,\u201d Lutsky told me. \u201cI said, \u2018I\u2019m going, too\u2014I\u2019m your partner.\u2019 \u201d\nIn Paktika province, U.S. soldiers arrest two relatives of a man suspected of helping supply bombs to the Taliban. According to one U.S. commander, the Afghans are kept from resisting the Taliban by an attitude \u201csomewhere between apathy and misunderstanding.\u201d\nWhen they arrived, one of the bombers had climbed to the roof, and the situation had become a standoff. \u201cTo end the thing, me and four or five of my guys had to kill the guy on the roof with grenades,\u201d Lutsky said. They fired into the building three times, using a grenade launcher, and when they entered they found the remaining bomber wounded but still alive, sitting propped up against a wall. \u201cHe had a detonation cord on him, and I saw his hands move,\u201d Lutsky said. He shot the bomber in the head, and one of his N.C.O.s shot him in the chest. \u201cThat\u2019s when he exploded.\u201d\nLutsky was about fifteen feet away. \u201cMy right arm was numb, but I thought I was fine, that I had just been hit by debris,\u201d he said. Later, doctors at the base found six ball bearings in his neck, his right arm, and his right leg; others had been deflected by his sunglasses and flak vest. The doctors dug out four of the ball bearings but left one in his arm and another in his leg, because they were too deeply embedded. Lutsky rolled up his sleeve and pointed to a spot on his forearm. \u201cYou can feel it,\u201d he said. I pinched the flesh and felt a hard round shape. Lutsky smiled. \u201cI can get it to come to the surface with a magnet.\u201d\nThe suicide bombers had been sent from Pakistan by the Haqqanis, apparently to attack the Afghan government\u2019s administrative complex in Khost. Lutsky was wounded only because he had put himself in the action. But, a few months later, on October 10th, he was the object of what seemed to be a more targeted attack: a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle as his convoy drove past.\nLutsky thinks that General Asrar may have known about the bombing. In the preceding weeks, relations between the two men had grown tense. \u201cInitially, we thought Asrar was a really good commander. We\u2019d been working together for nine months.\u201d Then, at election time, in September, \u201csomething happened,\u201d he said. \u201cThere was a rumor that Asrar was going to be replaced. He wouldn\u2019t interact with us anymore, and wouldn\u2019t leave his office.\u201d\nA few days before the bombing, Asrar confiscated a truck loaded with acid. \u201cWe thought it was going to be used for making H.M.E.\u201d\u2014homemade explosives\u2014Lutsky said. \u201cWe found out later it was for cutting opium. He had plans to sell it. He also had some detainees he was planning to release\u2014he was planning on getting paid to release them.\u201d\nWithout revealing his suspicions, Lutsky seized the truck, and, working with Asrar\u2019s deputy, with whom he had built an alliance, he devised a way to keep the detainees in custody. \u201cIn the morning update at the T.O.C., Asrar said, \u2018We have got to release these detainees\u2014we can\u2019t hold them this long.\u2019 \u201d His deputy suggested that they be handed over to the provincial police chief. Lutsky, on cue, offered to transport them to the office. \u201cI said, \u2018I can take them there, because I\u2019ve got to take the acid there, too. We can do that in the afternoon at fourteen hundred.\u2019 \u201d\nAsrar was obligated to come along, Lutsky told me: \u201cWe are partners, and we\u2019re supposed to do everything together.\u201d But that afternoon Asrar was nowhere to be found. A little after two, Lutsky\u2019s convoy left the base and turned onto the road the soldiers called Virginia, leading to Camp Salerno. After a few kilometres, a car pulled over to let the convoy by, \u201clike every car does,\u201d Lutsky said. \u201cOur A.N.A. escort passed, the acid truck passed, my vehicle passed. And then that\u2019s when it blew up.\u201d The bomber triggered a six-hundred-pound bomb, creating a thunderous explosion. \u201cFortunately, he pulled the button either too late or too early. So we had damaged vehicles, but it didn\u2019t hurt any of us.\u201d\nLutsky jumped out of his vehicle and heard a woman screaming, \u201cMy son is dead.\u201d Three boys were injured, one of them ten years old, one fourteen, and one a six-month-old infant. Lutsky says he ran to the ten-year-old. \u201cWe grabbed him, and that\u2019s when the blood started spraying. Femoral artery. Chunk of the vehicle took a huge piece right out of his thigh.\u201d While Lutsky was tending to the boy, he said, he looked up and saw Asrar standing over him. No one else from the base had yet arrived. \u201cIt was just very strange that General Asrar was the first guy on the scene. He was there quick.\u201d Shaking his head, Lutsky said, \u201cI suspect that he knew something was going to happen.\u201d\nAsrar denies any wrongdoing. \u201cIf the Americans prove that I had any relationship with the opposition forces, then I am ready to be court-martialled,\u201d he said. \u201cI served in Khost for four years and nobody ever filed a single complaint against me.\u201d A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense later said there was no evidence that Asrar had collaborated with the enemy. But Lutsky maintains that Afghan soldiers and local officials privately accused Asrar of corruption. \u201cThere will always be some level of corruption in this country, but we refuse to accept corruption that affects the morale, training, and effectiveness of the A.N.A. soldier, and any corruption that will affect the coalition,\u201d Lutsky said. \u201cIf he wants to have illegal checkpoints and extort money, O.K. If he wants to sell off some gas, O.K. If he wants to give his soldiers second-rate food and sell what he\u2019s getting for them from us, well, we can work with that. But if he wants to tell the enemy when we are going to conduct an operation, then we just won\u2019t tell him.\u201d\nAsrar vanished the day before I arrived at Lutsky\u2019s base, and the rumor among the Afghan soldiers was that he had left for Kabul. Lutsky told me that Asrar\u2019s deputy had written to the defense minister and asked for the General to be removed. There had been no official response, so Lutsky didn\u2019t know what Asrar\u2019s absence meant, but, he said, \u201cI sure hope it means he\u2019s gone.\u201d\nLutsky drove into Khost to see the police chief, General Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai, with whom he was friendly, to ask about his missing partner. We travelled, as Lutsky did whenever he left the base, in a convoy of three MRAPs\u2014mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles. Oncoming cars pulled off the road as we approached, and when they didn\u2019t our gunners cursed and aimed their machine guns at them. As we drove into Khost, the Pashtun men on the streets either ignored our convoy or noted it with neutral or hostile expressions.\nHakim was a thin, bearded man wearing a dark-blue uniform covered with medals. He received Lutsky graciously in his office, a large room with heavy drapes and an old-fashioned wood bureau set with surveillance monitors. After the two men exchanged formal pleasantries, Lutsky said that he had a problem and would be grateful for the Hakim\u2019s advice. A day or two earlier, his troops had come upon a group of men, wearing civilian clothes and armed with AK-47s, who were detaining other men, presumably to extort money. The robbers had turned out to be A.N.A. soldiers, one of them an active-duty major. Lutsky explained that he had turned them over to the A.N.A., but he wondered what he should do to follow up. Hakim said, \u201cUnfortunately, such abuses are occurring throughout the security forces. This won\u2019t change overnight, but it is up to the commanders to make sure their forces are clean.\u201d\nLutsky asked if he ought to raise the matter with Asrar when he returned to Khost. Hakim gave an irritated look and said, \u201cI\u2019ve known General Asrar ever since I was a child. We went to school together. But here in Khost it has hurt my heart to see that he doesn\u2019t have the whole province in mind, only his own interests.\u201d\nIt wasn\u2019t just Asrar that Lutsky was concerned about. He had recently urged that two police officers whom he suspected of working with the Taliban be fired; he later learned that they were back at their jobs. Studying Hakim\u2019s face, he said, \u201cI was surprised to see they had letters from you authorizing them to have their arms returned to them.\u201d\nHakim nodded and said, \u201cI was pressured by the Ministry of the Interior to do this. Believe me, if there was no pressure I would disarm these people. They will not help build this country.\u201d\nOne morning, Lutsky mustered a team of his men for an operation in Shembowat, a village a few miles from Clark. Intelligence had come in that insurgents had stayed in the village overnight and cached explosives in a latrine there. Lutsky asked an A.N.A. unit to accompany him, but the unit, led by a moonfaced young captain, arrived forty minutes late. Lutsky\u2019s men spoke contemptuously of the Afghan soldiers, calling them lazy and unreliable.\nOutside the village, we made our way through stubbly fields to a group of walled farmhouses. The Afghan soldiers fanned out to provide security; some of them were local men, who wore black face masks to protect their identity. A few farmers eyed us blankly; a man working the ground with a wooden hoe carried on as if we weren\u2019t there. A man and a woman were making fuel patties out of dung and straw, slapping them onto a dirt wall to dry in the sun.\nAfghan National Army recruits during training by U.S. soldiers at Forward Operating Base Bostick, in Kunar province. U.S. soldiers at a camp in Khost called their Afghan counterparts lazy and unreliable; the Afghans found Americans disrespectful of their culture.\nWith Arnold translating, Lutsky told the A.N.A. captain to explain to the villagers that he and his men needed to search their houses. The officer looked distinctly uncomfortable, and he hung back, scowling, as Lutsky led his team in the searches. For the next four hours, they went from compound to compound, and the Afghan soldiers trailed along. Women appeared in doorways to shout at the Americans. To show respect for the villagers, Lutsky told the Afghans to conduct the house searches while the Americans went through the compounds\u2019 walled yards, picking their way amid tethered cows and rudimentary outdoor kitchens.\nIn one compound, Lutsky found a suspicious recess in the base of a haystack, and he wondered aloud if that was where the explosives were. There was nothing there, but Lutsky was still suspicious, and he asked one of his men, a lanky red-haired sergeant named Rhyss Heeter, to climb down into the family\u2019s sewage pit to investigate. Heeter sighed and began descending, inching his way down the rounded sides of the pit until he vanished. As Lutsky waited, the A.N.A. captain chatted amiably with the owner of the house, a bearded man in his thirties who smiled throughout the search. Heeter eventually climbed back out, his pants and boots smeared with excrement; he had found nothing.\nA few minutes later, on a pathway outside the compound, one of Lutsky\u2019s men found a small adobe structure and opened its wooden door. He gave a shout. The explosives were inside, attached by wires to a cell phone. Lutsky barked at everyone to step back as the bomb-disposal team was summoned. After a few minutes, a small, wheeled robot was sent in to disengage the phone from the explosives. As everyone took cover, the explosives were blown up in a sudden blast of noise and dust. We left the village as we had come, followed by the blank stares of the locals.\nBack at the base, I asked Lutsky, \u201cWho is your real enemy here?\u201d\n\u201cYou mean what is keeping us from being successful?\u201d he responded. \u201cI\u2019d say it\u2019s somewhere between apathy and misunderstanding. To us, the solution seems very simple: all the villages and the people and the subtribes have to do is join together and agree, \u2018We\u2019re just going to say no to the Taliban.\u2019 If they did that, the Taliban wouldn\u2019t be able to survive. But, unfortunately, because this war has gone on so long, people are tired. They just want to be able to have an honest job, have food on the table, let their kids go to school, and be able to go to sleep at night without their house blowing up. . . . They\u2019re in survival mode. My guess is that if the Taliban come to their door and ask, \u2018Will you let me sleep here tonight?,\u2019 they\u2019re probably going to say, \u2018O.K.,\u2019 and not say anything to us about it, because, if they do, they\u2019re afraid the Taliban will kill them.\u201d When I asked about the moonfaced Afghan Army captain, he shrugged unhappily but said nothing.\nTwenty-five of Lutsky\u2019s soldiers lived at an isolated base called Combat Outpost Spera, situated high in the mountains, just a few hundred yards from the border with North Waziristan. Spera was subject to constant Taliban mortar fire, and though the men were rotated out every three months, Lutsky was often concerned for their safety. One of the men at F.O.B. Clark described Spera as \u201ca bullet sponge,\u201d maintained purely as a marker of the American presence on the front line.\nThe American counter-insurgency adviser told me that Spera would likely be shut down, because it didn\u2019t conform to the new U.S. counter-insurgency strategy for Afghanistan. For a start, he pointed out, Spera wasn\u2019t anywhere near a \u201cdistrict development center,\u201d the Army\u2019s label for a populated hub. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at our presence in places where there aren\u2019t many people and asking, \u2018What are we doing there?\u2019 Spera is one of those. It\u2019s on an insurgent ratline, yes, but the truth is that the insurgents can go around it.\u201d\nLutsky took me on a three-day visit to Spera, which was accessible only by helicopter. The camp, surrounded by pine-covered granite ridges, was a mess of jury-rigged wooden bunkers and sandbag-lined dugouts for mortars. There were machine-gun towers and observation platforms, a hut that served as a gym, and a deck where the men lounged and smoked cigarettes. Camouflage netting hung overhead. The soldiers\u2019 life revolved around the T.O.C., where they gathered to watch TV and check their e-mail. It operated out of one room of a rustic structure that resembled a hunting cabin, with plank floors and a rough brick fireplace. Three times a day, American-style meals were served by a big man called Cookie. In the evenings, some of the men played Risk or cards. Others fed ammo boxes into the fire to keep warm.\nThe soldiers pointed toward the ridgeline northeast of Spera, saying that just over the border there was a Pakistani military outpost. Every evening, the young officer in charge of Spera, First Lieutenant Paul Corcoran, spoke for a few minutes with his Pakistani counterpart over a field radio. There was a stilted quality to their exchanges; the Americans suspected the Pakistanis of being complicit with the insurgents who regularly attacked them.\nNear the entrance to the base was a room occupied by ten Afghans, including the commander of the A.N.A. contingent. Other Afghan soldiers lived below the base, in an old qalat, or family compound, next to the airstrip and the crumpled remains of a white Russian helicopter. The Afghans were rarely seen outside their qalat, and the ten who shared Spera with the Americans were apparently there only because regulations required it. They had their own cook fire outdoors, and seldom mixed with the other soldiers.\nOn the outside wall of the gym shack, someone had scrawled a scoreboard: \u201cANA 1, Hendrix 2, Cats 9.\u201d Staff Sergeant Shawn Buzzell explained that it had to do with \u201csome problems\u201d between the Afghans and an American soldier named Hendrix. When the Afghans arrived on the base, they brought a pet cat with them. \u201cThe cat took a shit on Hendrix\u2019s sleeping bag, sir, and, ever since, he\u2019s tried to kill it a lot,\u201d Buzzell said. \u201cBut the Afghans are pissed off at him, because they say cats are sacred.\u201d He joked, \u201cI guess you could say Hendrix doesn\u2019t have a great deal of respect for the Afghan people, sir.\u201d\nOne morning, Lieutenant Corcoran, a blond twenty-four-year-old from North Attleborough, Massachusetts, set up a patrol into the surrounding hills. Before first light, fifteen Americans and as many Afghans left the base on foot and climbed to the summit of a large hill to the west. To provide air cover, a surveillance drone was sent overhead. The area looked down on a dry riverbed that extended toward Miran Shah, a Haqqani stronghold in North Waziristan. Insurgents periodically made their way into Khost by circumventing the Pakistani military base across the border.\nNot long into the patrol, Corcoran ordered a group of A.N.A. soldiers ahead to a hilltop called Texas, which had a good view of an insurgent access route. For an hour, the American soldiers huddled in silence against the side of a rocky escarpment. Corcoran, speaking over a radio through his interpreter, asked for a report, but there was none. Finally, the interpreter admitted that the A.N.A. soldiers had decided not to go. An argument ensued, and at last some Afghan scouts set out toward the hill. Within minutes, word came back that they had spotted five \u201cTaliban\u201d\u2014men in civilian clothing carrying weapons\u2014on an adjacent hill. The Americans checked their weapons and gear excitedly, whispering to avoid giving away their location. Corcoran issued new orders of position, and the drone circled closer. After another half hour, we heard the crack of gunshots from across the hill. Over the radio, an interpreter told Corcoran that the advance party had fired on the \u201cTaliban\u201d; sadly, they had all escaped. Corcoran waited for the drone to spot the intruders, but it found no one. At mid-morning, he called off the mission. By then, some A.N.A. soldiers, tired of the mission, had already left for the base.\nThat evening, Corcoran stopped by the cook fire, where Spera\u2019s A.N.A. corps commander, a pleasant-faced young man named Mohammed Hamid Agar, sat warming his hands. Hamid had not gone on the morning patrol, but had sent one of his junior officers. Corcoran, despite his frustration, had accepted it as the Afghan way of doing things. But why, he asked, had Hamid\u2019s men, against his orders, fired at the \u201cTaliban\u201d? Hamid replied calmly that he had talked with his junior officer about it; the soldiers had fired at the men \u201cbecause they saw them leaving, rather than heading toward the Americans, where they could be ambushed.\u201d Corcoran pointed out that the drone could have spotted them and, if the A.N.A. men had waited, the Americans could have set an ambush. Hamid was silent, and eventually Corcoran gave up.\nAfter Corcoran left, I asked Hamid if the story about Hendrix and the cat was true. He nodded, frowning. He said that, after Hendrix\u2019s first attempt to kill the cat, some of the Afghan men had wanted to murder Hendrix, but he had prevented them. He had served in the Afghan Army for five years, he said, and in that time had discovered that Americans fit into two main categories: \u201cThere are those who respect our culture, and those who don\u2019t.\u201d\nThe Americans refer to the sixty-three miles of road that wind over the mountains between Khost and Gardez, linking the frontier lands along the Pakistani border with the road from Kabul to Kandahar, as the K-G Highway. Its highest point, the nine-thousand-foot K-G Pass, is vitally strategic, and it has become legendary as one of the bloodiest stretches of road in Afghanistan. In 1987, when the Soviet campaign against the mujahideen was in its eighth year, Mikhail Gorbachev ordered his generals to seize the pass. After a protracted standoff, in which hundreds of soldiers died, the Soviets took it. Within a month, they lost it again, to Haqqani\u2019s fighters. Three months later, they began withdrawing from Afghanistan.\nFor the past four years, the United States and its partners have been trying to rebuild the road. In May, 2007, two American construction firms, the Louis Berger Group and Black & Veatch, began a hundred-and-twenty-million-dollar repair project. But last summer, as laborers were subjected to near-daily attacks, the work at the pass had to be abandoned. The attacks were widely believed to have come from a Zadran tribesman named Gul Bad Shah, and, in October, L.B.G.\u2019s subcontractors devised an ingenious, if cynical, solution to the problem: they hired Shah to provide security along the vulnerable section of the road. The attacks at the pass abruptly stopped.\nRecently, though, work had faltered again, because of contract disputes with Shah. Lutsky, as the ranking U.S. military officer in the area, had an interest in seeing the road completed, and he made an appointment to meet Shah\u2014another \u201ckey leader engagement\u201d\u2014but Shah did not show up. During my visit, Lutsky happened to encounter Shah outside Zadran\u2019s headquarters. Shah presented excuses for the missed appointment, but Lutsky made light of it, and asked him to come that evening to F.O.B. Wilderness, a base a few miles up the road.\nShah arrived at the outer gate just after nightfall. A big-faced, slow-eyed man with a salt-and-pepper beard, Shah wore a shalwar kameez and a pakul, the felt porkpie hat favored by the former anti-Soviet mujahideen. Lutsky and a young woman named Melissa Skorka\u2014a social scientist who was studying the Haqqanis for the Department of Defense\u2014met him in the camp\u2019s \u201cShura room,\u201d where Afghans were invited in for discussions with the Americans and their interpreters. It was a large, carpeted room with a few cushions on the floor, and it smelled strongly of feet. Though the room was meant to be a neutral space, Shah was at a distinct disadvantage. He was barefoot, having removed his sandals at the door. His cell phone and other belongings had been taken by soldiers outside. (This was a routine procedure at all bases, but I overheard a discreet discussion about Gul Bad Shah\u2019s \u201cthings,\u201d and was given the impression that during the meeting there would be a minute inspection of his phone. Lutsky suspected Shah of conspiring with senior Haqqani lieutenants, and he wanted to keep closer tabs on him.) An American soldier stood in front of him with a flesh-colored plastic device that looked like a Polaroid camera\u2014a biometric scanner, which the Americans used to take the vital statistics of visitors, to be saved in a digital-identity bank.\nAs the talk with Shah proceeded, the soldier stepped forward with the scanner and held it over the Afghan\u2019s eyes, and then each of his fingers, obliging him to stand still, while Lutsky and Skorka asked him questions. After a minute or two at each position, the soldier would remove the apparatus and step back and register its results. Lutsky and Skorka, despite their repeated apologies about the inconvenience of the procedure, seemed quietly pleased with the situation. It allowed them to assess Shah while he was distracted.\n\u201cI\u2019ve wanted to meet you ever since you won the contract,\u201d Lutsky told Shah. \u201cThe Louis Berger Group has kept me informed of the security situation, and of its changes, along the road.\u201d He mentioned that L.B.G. had raised some \u201cdiscrepancies\u201d in the number of security guards Shah had promised to provide. Shah glared. \u201cThey\u2019re lying to you,\u201d he said. The problem, he insisted, was that L.B.G. had given some Mangal\u2014members of a rival tribe\u2014a security contract along a portion of the road. Shah said that he had signed a contract for eight hundred men and had a hundred and fifty of them ready to go to work. \u201cThe Mangal have to be removed so that I can put my own men there,\u201d he said. \u201cI told L.B.G. this, but they haven\u2019t done it yet.\u201d\nShah talked carelessly, as if trying to fill the silence, as the soldier fit his fingers into the machine. He said that Gulbuddin Hekmatyar\u2014a former Afghan mujahideen leader who had allied himself with the Taliban\u2014was trying to \u201cdisrupt\u201d the road work, as were the Haqqanis.\nLutsky nodded, and said, \u201cYes, we\u2019re tracking everything. What we need to do is have a meeting\u2014you, me, and the Louis Berger Group\u2014to get this security contract resolved.\u201d\nShah replied, \u201cOnce it\u2019s paved, there will be no more problems, no more I.E.D.s.\u201d He added, \u201cIf the Louis Berger Group can\u2019t do the work, I can. I can bring diggers and excavators and five hundred men, and they will do the work! L.B.G. has spent years on this road, and they haven\u2019t paved it!\u201d\nLutsky said, \u201cThat\u2019s why we\u2019re excited you\u2019re on it. With the Zadran tribe, we\u2019ll get it done.\u201d\nShah said, \u201cThe next time you come to the K-G Pass, I want to throw a party for you.\u201d He described his house, in a village next to a washed-out bridge, and said, \u201cWe\u2019ll have tea and corn bread.\u201d When the soldier finished the last finger, Lutsky stepped forward and thanked Shah. Looking a little uncertain, Shah put on his sandals and left the room.\nNot long after my visit, General Asrar was transferred to Kabul; he left Khost, he said, because he wanted to be with his family. Lutsky finished his tour and returned to Kentucky. Before he departed, he oversaw the closing down of Spera. In a carefully orchestrated operation, the American soldiers were evacuated by helicopter, along with their Afghan partners. Before leaving, the Americans burned everything they could not take with them, so that nothing would be left for the insurgents, who would again have full control of the area.\nMike Boettcher, the terrorism expert, was skeptical about the pullback. He said, \u201cKhost is the one place where we\u2019re going head to head with the new Al Qaeda\u201d\u2014the insurgents in North Waziristan. The greatest threat, he told me, came from Jalaluddin Haqqani\u2019s son and heir apparent, Siraj. In 2009, the U.S. offered a five-million-dollar reward for information leading to Siraj Haqqani\u2019s capture or execution, like the one offered for bin Laden in 1998. \u201cSiraj is the poster boy for the new generation of Al Qaeda,\u201d Boettcher said. \u201cThe old generation\u2014that\u2019s Jalaluddin\u2014was basically about the regional war, but Siraj is a believer in the global jihad, which was bin Laden\u2019s contribution.\u201d\nDespite the threat from Pakistan, the American soldiers\u2019 presence at Spera was principally symbolic. The outpost\u2019s small number of men couldn\u2019t do much to stop insurgents from moving across the border. Their attempts at forming allegiances had been frustrated; they had only token co\u00f6peration from their Pakistani counterparts on the other side of the mountain, and precious little from the Afghan soldiers they lived alongside.\nIn any case, it is not ground troops or A.N.A. soldiers who are proving most effective in fighting insurgents. As the killing of bin Laden showed, some of the most successful work in Afghanistan, in Pakistan, and against Al Qaeda is being done covertly, by the C.I.A., the Special Forces, and the Navy SEALs. Pacha Khan and others often told Lutsky that, to win the war, he should forget about everything else and go hit the enemy in Pakistan. Lutsky always answered, \u201cThat\u2019s way above my pay grade.\u201d He said this in a joking way, but he was right: there is a larger concern in Afghanistan that only political leaders can solve.\nU.S. counter-insurgency doctrine places great emphasis on what used to be called \u201cwinning hearts and minds.\u201d But, after nearly ten years, it is unrealistic to expect that the Army can still win people over in Afghanistan. The coalition has huge numbers of troops there, armed and housed at vast expense. Many have acquitted themselves honorably, and in some areas they have succeeded in pushing back the Taliban. But the task of building a nation out of warring interests has for the most part proved overwhelming. It seems, regrettably, that whatever we can accomplish in Afghanistan will be achieved by force, not by making friends. Lutsky told me, \u201cThe cultural complexity of the environment is just so huge that it\u2019s hard for us to understand it. For Americans, it\u2019s black or white\u2014it\u2019s either good guys or bad guys. For Afghans, it\u2019s not. There are good Taliban and bad Taliban, and some of them are willing to do deals with each other. It\u2019s just beyond us.\u201d \u2666\n(Pres.) Hamid Karzai", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 52056, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 205.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.newyorkminutemag.com/must-dos-in-nyc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KVFVHKTG4CSKVKW2PFIYU2NUK4SIADIS", "length": 2787, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.newyorkminutemag.com", "title": "Must Dos in New York City - New York Minute Magazine", "raw_content": "Be Fun March 10, 2017\nMust Dos in NYC\nLook Your Best, Spend Less\nMarch is in full swing, and NYMM is back with weekend activities for you to indulge in!\nStart Friday in a fun way by checking out the Hell\u2019s Kitchen Flea Market from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.! The market takes place in Manhattan between Ninth and Tenth Avenue.\nKick off your Saturday night at the Hudson Terrace rooftop party. Get your ICLUBNYC admissions pass and show up to enjoy the two-level nightclub lounge! The open bar runs from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., and doors open at 10 p.m.\nGreenwich Village Neighborhood Tour\nGreenwich Village is among the most desirable places to live in Manhattan, and this free tour will be allowing its patrons the artistic and political history behind it! The tour begins at 9:30 a.m. and will make for a lovely new look at the highly regarded, chic neighborhood.\nNeed a tutorial in the complicated application that is Photoshop? Come to the free Photoshop tutorial class and learn how to enhance photos using the #1 photo editing software in the world. Class begins at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday at the Mid-Manhattan Library.\nWorkshop: Emotions and Money\nWant to learn how to become smarter with cash? Check out the \u201cEmotions and Money: The Mind of the Market\u201d workshop, presented by Brenda Smith of the Financial Association of New York. The event begins at 12 p.m. on Saturday and will offer insights on behavioral finance and how to think about money in order to establish financial security. This event even compliments the concept of saving money, as admission is free.\nMeditation: Healing a Broken Heart\nDid Valentine\u2019s Day leave you down in the romance department? The \u201cMeditation: Healing a Broken Heart\u201d will help you develop a meditative plan for yourself that has been proven to help the mind\u2019s healing process work through complex emotions, including the pain of a broken heart. This is also a great opportunity to unwind from a long week with a free and relaxing event, starting at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon at the Grand Central Library.\nPiano Music on a Sunday\nIn the mood to finish off a much needed weekend with some soothing music? Come to the complimentary\n\u201cPiano Works by Bach\u201d Classical music performance. Pianist Richard Masters will be offering his talents in the works of J.S. Bach on Sunday at 5 p.m.\nCasting for Music Game Show\nCalling all game show lovers! Mark Burnett\u2019s new Music Game Show is looking for dynamic and outgoing contestants! Are you good with song titles? Have a buddy or partner who you know would make a fantastic teammate? Sign up now and have a chance at winning the jackpot!\nEnjoy the weekend, and to the Spring Breakers, have fun and be safe \u2013 after midterms you all deserve some stress-free time off.\nFeatured Image by Michael Behrens on Flickr", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 6336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nhpr.org/post/sununu-mental-health-advocates-celebrate-bill-signing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:24Z", "digest": "sha1:S7LMFJVD2F2DU73S6YK464HNQTDCWRFT", "length": 3571, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.nhpr.org", "title": "Sununu, Mental Health Advocates Celebrate Bill Signing | New Hampshire Public Radio", "raw_content": "Sununu, Mental Health Advocates Celebrate Bill Signing\nLawmakers and local mental health advocates gathered with Gov. Chris Sununu to celebrate the bill signing Wednesday.\nKaren Fischer, of Manchester, was at a loss last year trying to find help for her teenage daughter after a suicide attempt. The local hospital didn\u2019t have a pediatric mental health unit, and insurance wouldn\u2019t approve a stay in the regular pediatric unit. As a result, her daughter was stuck in an emergency room hallway for three days, awaiting treatment.\nFischer brought her family\u2019s story to the attention of lawmakers, and that \u2014 along with others who spoke up about their own barriers to treatment \u2014 helped to serve as the catalyst for a bill signed by Gov. Chris Sununu on Wednesday.\n\u201cIt\u2019s wonderful to know that maybe another family won\u2019t have to experience what we did,\u201d Fischer said, after a ceremonial bill signing at the offices of National Alliance on Mental Illness in New Hampshire. \u201cIt\u2019s a very unexpected thing that occurs when your child goes through something like this, you\u2019re never prepared for it.\u201d\nThe bill calls for changes both to the mental health system and child protection standards.\nAmong other things, it forces the Department of Health and Human Services to come up with a new 10-year plan for reforming the mental health system, focusing on wait times and gaps in the current system. It also requires DHHS to come up with plans for protecting the rights of patients who are involuntarily committed for psychiatric treatment, and for transitioning kids away from treatment at New Hampshire Hospital.\nThe bill also creates a new mid-level category for child protection cases reported to the Division of Children, Youth and Families \u2014 \u201cunfounded but with reasonable concern\" \u2014 and spells out criteria for responding to those cases.\nKen Norton, the director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness in New Hampshire, praised both those like Fischer who spoke out about the need for reform and policymakers for their willingness to confront the issues within the state\u2019s mental health system.\nNorton specifically praised Gov. Chris Sununu, noting that the governor and other legislative leaders took the time to visit a local emergency room and speak with those directly affected by the lack of treatment capacity.\n\u201cHe called it what it has been for quite some time, a crisis,\u201d Norton said. \u201cBy naming it, he also signaled his intent to do something about it.\u201d\nSununu, for his part, said he didn\u2019t grasp until recently the extent to which patients stuck in emergency rooms are not getting the help they need while waiting for mental health treatment beds to open up.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know if the public understands that, I know I didn\u2019t completely understand it. When someone is waiting in an emergency room, there\u2019s an assumption that they\u2019re getting treatment,\u201d Sununu said. \u201cIt\u2019s not because the hospitals don\u2019t want to help or can\u2019t help. The statutory prevention there just allows them to kind of be maintained. And I think it\u2019s a strong word, but it\u2019s not necessarily an incorrect word, it\u2019s almost inhumane.\u201d\nBoth Norton and Sununu praised the bill as one step toward fixing those problems \u2014 but stressed more work is needed. Sununu said the success of the bill relies on funding from the state budget to see through the treatment expansions it calls for.\nToday, Fischer says her daughter is back in good health. But others are still struggling: Last month, on average, officials say 27 adults and 17 kids were waiting for mental health treatment in ERs across the state.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 7185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk/content/funding-iot-security-innovations", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NNDZFNRUC4ZLUKJ2LD3LFH2O4JPSZC7D", "length": 1750, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.nibusinessinfo.co.uk", "title": "Funding for IoT security innovations | nibusinessinfo.co.uk", "raw_content": "BN_IoT.png\nUp to \u00a36 million to support new ideas for keeping connected devices safe\nInnovate UK has up to \u00a36 million to invest in new products and services that can help improve cyber security in the Internet of Things (IoT).\nConnected devices and networks, known as the IoT, are by their nature exposed to cyber security threats, especially if not properly protected.\nThis competition aims to join up the UK's research base with industry to find solutions that tackle cyber security in the IoT.\nTo be eligible to apply, projects should include artificial intelligence or machine learning and have a clear plan for commercialisation. They should focus on at least one of the following:\noperational resilience technologies that can protect and recover data\nintelligent control systems for industry, commercial and public sector buildings\nprotection of people living in digital homes and their smart systems\nProjects could also look at complementary technologies, such as distributed ledger technologies that support the sharing of data across multiple locations, or 5G mobile networks.\nThe competition opens on 18 February 2019. The deadline for applications is at midday on 1 May 2019.\nUK-based businesses of any size can lead a project, working with other businesses, research organisations, public sector organisations or charities. Collaborations should involve at least one academic partner and one small or medium-sized enterprise. Businesses could receive up to 70 per cent of their project costs.\nThis investment forms part of the UK Research and Innovation Strategic Priorities Fund, which supports the highest priorities identified by researchers and businesses\nIoT security challenge funding\nUK Research and Innovation funding opportunities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1082, "original_length": 30547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nicknotas.com/blog/what-my-dating-failures-taught-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:37Z", "digest": "sha1:WRDVVN4KJQ7UBURYA4B3H6N53SBA4J2U", "length": 14022, "nlines": 106, "source_domain": "www.nicknotas.com", "title": "What My Dating \"Failures\" Taught Me", "raw_content": "For all the successful dating advice and stories I\u2019ve shared\u2026what about when things didn\u2019t go so well?\nI could lie and tell you that I\u2019ve hit it off with every girl I\u2019ve ever talked to. I could protect my ego and deny any existence of flaws. I could make excuses for romantic situations that went wrong.\nBut that would mean I accepted failure as something to be ashamed of.\nThere\u2019s a reason why I put \u201cfailures\u201d in quotation marks in the headline. It\u2019s because I\u2019m proud of my failures.\nThey were learning experiences. Stepping stones to success. The building blocks that set the foundation for the man I am today. And I\u2019m here to share the subsequent lessons with all of you.\nI drove for miles down a wooded, winding road. I finally came to a large house in a clearing when my GPS announced that I\u2019d arrived at my destination.\nMy heart raced. I\u2019d met Hannah during a night out in Boston. Now, this gorgeous girl had invited me to her parent\u2019s house.\nI rang the doorbell and was greeted by her mother.\n\u201cHi, I\u2019m Nick. Is Hannah home?\u201d\n\u201cHi Nick! Hannah\u2019s told me so much about you! Please come in.\u201d I was not expecting that kind of response.\nHer mother led me to Hannah\u2019s room. Hannah opened the door and was ecstatic to see me. As she was leaving, her mother said,\n\u201cNick, if there\u2019s anything you need, please tell me. I want you to feel as comfortable as possible. You can close the door and have all the privacy you need. I won\u2019t bother you. Hannah\u2019s a wonderful girl \u2013 I hope you see that.\u201d\nThis was getting strange. Hospitality is one thing, but giving a stranger permission to have \u201cprivacy\u201d with her young daughter? Close family, I guess.\nHannah and I listened to music while lying on the bed. Things started to heat up, we made out, and I reached to take off her shirt.\nShe stopped me. \u201cDo you find me attractive?\u201d\nI was speechless for a moment.\nThis girl was absolutely stunning. She had blue eyes and a model\u2019s face. She had sculpted abs and a marathon runner\u2019s legs. She was toned and irresistible.\n\u201cOf course I do\u2026you\u2019re really hot.\u201d\n\u201cDo you think I have a good body?\u201d\n\u201cI think you have a perfect body.\u201d\n\u201cSo there\u2019s nothing wrong with it?\u201d\nShe didn\u2019t believe that I genuinely found her attractive. I never thought such an attractive girl could be so insecure about her looks.\nThis back-and-forth battle continued even after we were both undressed. But by then I was so far out of the moment, I couldn\u2019t get it up.\n\u201cSee, you don\u2019t find me attractive. I knew it. You\u2019re not even turned on.\u201d\nI tried to tell her that I was very attracted, but my body just wasn\u2019t responding. I took a deep breath and focused on her pleasure.\nI was teasing her with my fingers when suddenly I saw it\u2026\n\u201cDon\u2019t freak out, but I think you just started your cycle.\u201d\nOf course, she freaked out. She grabbed a towel and told me,\n\u201cNow you\u2019re definitely turned off. You must think I\u2019m so gross.\u201d\nI eventually calmed her down and kept reinforcing that I still desired her. We tried to get back into it. At that point though, I was done for the night and suggested we just relax.\n\u201cI ruined everything. Why else would you not be turned on?\u201d she asked.\nI wanted to protect her feelings, so I lied. \u201cI\u2019m embarrassed to admit it, but sometimes I have problems performing.\u201d\nShe understood my \u201cproblem\u201d. She reassured me that everything was okay. We talked for a while and parted amicably. I decided to not follow up with Hannah again.\nWhen I was younger, I placed so much value only on physical looks. If a girl was attractive, I wanted her regardless of anything else. She must be a high-caliber woman if she\u2019s hot, right?\nThis experience helped me see how important the whole package is, even for a casual fling. To take beautiful women off the pedestal and evaluate them for who they really are.\nIn the moment, I tried so hard to win her over when I should\u2019ve just been honest. I should\u2019ve said, \u201cI really am physically attracted to you but the way you view yourself is making this difficult.\u201d\nWould it have cooled things off earlier? Probably. But I don\u2019t want have sex with a girl who\u2019s shaming herself \u2013 especially on our first intimate encounter. And maybe it would\u2019ve helped her for future partners.\nLastly, if a girl\u2019s mother is convincing you to sleep with her daughter right away\u2026consider that a red flag.\nWe ended up at Christine\u2019s place on our second date. I met her female roommates and we all hung out on the couch. They complained about problems with their internet and I offered to check it out. I figured, \u201cIf I do this, it\u2019ll impress her.\u201d\nI fixed the issue and became the hero of the night. Christine invited me to her room.\nShe was a literary nerd and I loved it. She had an artistic style and wore her hair short. She was quick-witted with a gentle demeanor. You could tell she had a huge heart.\nAs we lounged on her bed, I thought about how much I liked her. I\u2019d dated around at that point, and she was different than the other women I\u2019d met.\nWe kissed but she told me she didn\u2019t want to go any further that night. I felt rejected and took it personally.\nI wanted to feel her close to me. It wasn\u2019t about lust, but a genuine desire to connect with her on an intimate level. That didn\u2019t necessarily mean sex, I just wanted to keep kissing and touching her.\nSo I didn\u2019t give up. I kept trying to kiss her. I gave her reasons why we should continue. She politely declined, but as I pressed on I could tell she felt disrespected.\nThis was me sans mustache.\nI became more hurt and frustrated. I pouted and pleaded. Then I just became closed off and distant.\nIt was getting late and I knew she was upset, too. I hugged her and left for the night. I felt so angry as I walked to my car.\n\u201cI was so nice. I listened to her. I even fixed her damn router! And that\u2019s how she treats me? I\u2019m done.\u201d\nAfter about 30 seconds of driving, all my anger turned to shame.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with me? I\u2019m mad because some girl wasn\u2019t ready to hook up with me? She didn\u2019t owe me anything.\u201d\nThat was definitely a low point. I\u2019d ruined a beautiful connection for no reason. If I\u2019d respected her wishes and just been patient, I\u2019m sure we could have been something more.\nI texted her a couple of times and she still responded. But I never pushed things forward and never got to apologize. I regret my behavior and I\u2019m glad she didn\u2019t see me again. She deserved better and I wasn\u2019t the right guy for her at the time.\nShowing a woman you desire her is not a problem. It\u2019s good to be honest and upfront with what you want. Especially if she\u2019s attracted to you, she\u2019ll eventually want to be intimate as well.\nIt only becomes a problem when she tells you no or she\u2019s not ready, and you ignore her wishes. It\u2019s when you expect her to have sex with you rather than letting her come to that decision on her own.\nFurthermore, do nice things for people out of the kindness of your heart. No strings attached. And not in hope that it\u2019ll get you laid. Having ulterior motives is dishonest and manipulative.\nLisa and I met at a bar on Friday, went back to her place that night, and hung out all day Saturday in the city.\nShe had her own gorgeous home at 29 years old. She worked hard. She\u2019d graduated from MIT, then Princeton, and busted her ass to be a strong, independent woman.\nDuring our 36 hours together, we talked about everything. With a background in psychology, she wasn\u2019t afraid to divulge who she was and what she wanted.\nShe told me a few times, \u201cYou\u2019re so young.\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m looking for someone to share this life with.\u201d She wasn\u2019t trying to convince me to settle down with her. In fact, she was warning me. She knew at 21 I wasn\u2019t looking for the same thing and I would not be a long-term partner for her.\nI kept brushing it off. I would playfully tell her, \u201cI\u2019m wise beyond my years.\u201d Or \u201cDon\u2019t worry about that right now.\u201d\nWe went out for dinner and drinks Saturday night. We were having a great time together. Then a tall, well-dressed man about 30 years old sat at the bar near us.\nHe talked to us for a bit. He had a good sense of humor and seemed genuine. Lisa kept laughing at his jokes and couldn\u2019t stop smiling. I wasn\u2019t oblivious \u2014 I could tell she was attracted to him.\nBy the end of dinner, Lisa said, \u201cLet\u2019s go back to my place. By the way, that guy\u2019s really cool. Do you think I could get his number before we leave?\u201d\nTalk about feeling emasculated. I felt like a chump. Do you know how hard it is to keep your composure in that situation?\nI snapped at her, \u201cWell if you want his number, you can go home with him.\u201d\nShe could tell I was hurt. She tried to soften the blow, \u201cNever mind, let\u2019s just go.\u201d\nBut it was too late. I said, \u201cDo you like him? Are you attracted to him?\u201d\nShe put it bluntly, \u201cYes.\u201d\nOuch. Having a woman look you in the eyes and tell you she desires another man is brutal.\nI got up and said, \u201cOkay then, I\u2019m leaving.\u201d She said nothing as I stormed out.\nI stepped outside, about to cry. I starting walking when it hit me: I\u2019d left my damn card at the bar.\nSo there I went, walking back into the evidence of my failure. I saw the two of them sitting next to each other at the bar, laughing. It looked as if I\u2019d never even existed.\nI had to stand next to them and wait for two minutes to close my tab. Those two minutes tested everything I had. I managed to not look at them and left feeling crushed.\nFor a while, I despised Lisa. I thought she was a horrible person.\nWas it shady that she wanted to get another guy\u2019s number on a date with me? Sure. But I eventually realized it wasn\u2019t that simple.\nShe told me repeatedly that she wasn\u2019t looking for a fling. She wanted a real relationship. She wanted to start a family. She liked me but knew I wasn\u2019t that guy. So when she saw another opportunity, she didn\u2019t want to miss out on it.\nLooking back, I should\u2019ve handled things a lot differently. I would\u2019ve accepted what our connection was \u2014 a temporary, fun, fling. I would\u2019ve let her get his number and had a final, passionate night with her.\nInstead, I chose to ignore Lisa\u2019s desire for a serious relationship out of insecurity. I was terrified of losing a woman even if it wasn\u2019t meant to be. It would mean I was the not-good-enough loser.\nI learned that just because you like someone, it doesn\u2019t mean you should be with them. And you\u2019re not less of a person if they end up with someone else. Attraction is one thing, compatibility is another.\nChasing or holding onto the wrong people out of fear or pride is a desperate, losing strategy.\nEmbrace your failures. I\u2019d love to hear one your stories and the lessons you\u2019ve learned. Share them below.\nJRT on May 14, 2014\nWow, Nick! What a great post. I\u2019m sure this wasn\u2019t easy to write. When I remember situations in which I behaved in a stupid or immature way, at first I feel sort of ashamed and stupid. I suppose we all do, actually. We just have to constantly remind ourselves that every action we have taken and every word we have spoken have been building blocks in our personality. As you point out, such situations shape us and we are the person we are because of them. So the best approach is to accept them and learn from them.\nUsually I do not leave comments often but the way you opened up to me and the other readers wants me to share some thoughts of my own.\nKeep up the good word, Nick!\nThanks JRT. Admitting failures and embarrassing stories are never easy. Especially when thousands of people you know are reading them haha.\nBut if it helps others to feel comfortable with their own, then I\u2019m doing something good. And seeing as it inspired you to comment, I know I\u2019m on the right track \ud83d\ude42\nI don\u2019t usually comment but I wanted to say thanks for writing this piece! It\u2019s not easy to open up but I\u2019m glad you did. This piece will help many on their journey of self growth \ud83d\ude42\nThanks Alex, will do. Don\u2019t be shy about commenting in the future!\nThe Shadow is back on May 14, 2014\nWonderful, man. every word written reminded me with the beautiful days in the past. Although they were very tough, but as you said they who we are today.\nI don\u2019t need to write a situation happened to me because what happened between Lisa and You. nearly the same thing.\nI\u2019d say I was very upset. but I can say surely now with confidence now she and I weren\u2019t be good couples in the future because a lot of misunderstandings happens often.\nI\u2019m so happy because you let me comment. because rarely I comment to posts .\nReally thank you.\nI hope good luck for you. Cheers !!\nVenage on May 14, 2014\nThis article made me feel the discomfort and pain as I read the situations. Powerfully relateable. Not that I\u2019ve necessarily had similar situations, but it felt like I was there reading them. Not many people write that vulnerably and everyone has a finite number of situations, I think this is a valuable article.\nThanks Venage. I\u2019ve been trying to write more stories and it\u2019s cool to hear they resonated with you like that.\nAmazing post here \u2013 my complete failures in dating and relationships have taught me way more than success ever could \u2013 from not understand that a friends with benefits situation was that and nothing more, to being overly needy for no good reason \u2013 all of these came back to bite me and taught me the lesson loud and clear. Great post \ud83d\ude42\nWow, that\u2019s a touching story. I hope this story will help those people who like to be attracted by looks only. Thanks Nick\nWickedly insightful article as always. I love the theme of learning from our experiences, because that\u2019s one of the best ways we grow as human beings.\nI must be honest here and say no matter what the circumstances that girl lacked tact, class and grace for wanting to have another man\u2019s number while out on a date. How would she like it if that same man later did the same to her if he saw another woman he liked more than his date. If she thought nick was not the right man then why go out on a date \u2013 I would not want that woman as my gf certainly not wife.\nRoman on February 19, 2015\nThese are really helpful. You should do more articles like these where you show what you did wrong and what you learned from it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 15801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.noblurr.com/eye-health/vision-and-learning", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:29Z", "digest": "sha1:67ATDL36USRN6MKD2DIWPEOMPHMCGWFX", "length": 2853, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.noblurr.com", "title": "Vision & Learning", "raw_content": "There is controversy in the exact relationship of vision to learning. For example there is a negative correlation between distance refractive error and reading ability. Myopic or nearsighted children who cannot see clearly at a distance without glasses are more commonly good readers. Children who spend tremendous amounts of time reading become nearsighted. Before Alaska became a state myopia was rare. After becoming a state, more than 50 percent of the children in Alaska developed nearsightedness. Thus, correlation is such that nearsightedness or poor distance vision is highly correlated with success in reading. Restated another way, poor distance vision is associated with better reading abilities. Farsighted children statistically are poorer readers than myopic children.\nSome of the mechanical visual skills which are related to reading include focusing or accommodation, and eye teaming, or convergence. Fatigue of one or both the systems may interfere with reading. There is also a relationship between eye movement skills such as saccades (whereby we change fixation from one target to the next) and smooth following movements known as pursuits and reading. Children who cannot make accurate eye movements are often found to skip lines and words while reading.\nReading requires very accurate saccadics, which are fixations from one spot to another. A second type of eye movement which involves tracking is, also, related to attention and reading. Children who have poor eye movements are easily distracted and loose their place. Remember, the eye movement system was designed so that peripheral vision detects motion and danger. Imagine what happens when the system works correctly in the class room. As soon as there is peripheral movement, the eyes move toward the source of movement. This results in the complaint of inattention. Thus, reflexive eye movement skills must be socialized so that they do not respond reflexively to peripheral information. In addition, speed and accuracy must be trained so that one does not lose one\u2019s place.\nThe skills are easily improvable with vision therapy. Once the information is brought into the eyes, it must be sent back to the brain for appropriate processing. The information must be utilized and integrated with the sensory and motor areas of the brain. Defects in the perceptual (interpretation of visual system) and motor (the integration with output, e.g., hand-eye coordination) may interfere with the reading process. Perceptual motor skills are key in the early acquisition of reading skills. A deficit is important to identify very early on \u2013 i.e., five to seven years of age. Remediation of the skills at a later date, such as age 12, will be less effective on reading. Thus, early identification and treatment is essential. It is evident that there is more to good vision than 20/20.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 6847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 285.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nordicwaterproofing.com/en/major-shareholder-announcement-regarding-nordic-waterproofing-holding-a-s/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:54Z", "digest": "sha1:UDGW5NBVDYR6SYK4KMO4I56JH7DQBPVG", "length": 516, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.nordicwaterproofing.com", "title": "Major Shareholder Announcement regarding Nordic Waterproofing Holding A/S | Nordic Waterproofing", "raw_content": "Mawer Investment Management Ltd (600, 517 \u2013 10th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T2R 0A8, company registration number 2010376289), now possesses in total 2,588,810 shares of DKK 1 each, corresponding to 10.75 percent of the total number of shares and all voting rights in the Company. Accordingly, Mawer possesses more than 10 percent of the total share capital and all voting rights in Nordic Waterproofing Holding A/S.\nNWG_pr_28feb2018_53_en_vF.pdf\nMajor shareholder announcement, Mawer, Nordic Waterproofing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.northcarolinajobnetwork.com/company/coprofile/aurora-health-care?cid=lle3dt72sfkq9h0900b0tblhnb1f35k6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:21Z", "digest": "sha1:7XEFN5VGCFZ3VVHT4BQB7JQBOSADPMPS", "length": 2304, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.northcarolinajobnetwork.com", "title": "Find a Job in North Carolina | NorthCarolinaJobNetwork.com", "raw_content": "HomeFind a JobCompaniesAurora Health Care\nAt Aurora Health Care, we pride ourselves on taking care of our people. And not just our patients\u2014we mean you, too. Because when you work at Aurora, you get the best of the best. The chance to work with a dedicated team that\u2019s as passionate about the work as you are. Limitless opportunities for ongoing learning and career advancement. Competitive compensation and a stable, secure work environment. But more than that, when you work for us, you have the opportunity to change lives\u2014including your own. At Aurora Health Care, we help people-all people-live well. To do this, we value our differences and foster an environment where everyone, patients, families and caregivers, are included .\nAurora is the largest private employer in Wisconsin, with more than 32,000 employees. $4.9B in revenue.\nEvery year we serve 1.2 million patients in more than 90 communities in eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois.\nOur integrated network includes 15 hospitals, 159 clinics and 70 pharmacies, as well as complete home care services.\nWe are dedicated to advancing medicine through our Aurora Research Institute\u2014we have more than 400 active clinical trials. Aurora gives back to the communities we serve. In 2015, we provided over $35 million in community benefits and our caregivers contributed $3.75M to our Aurora Partnership Campaign.\nAurora is consistently named a Top Work Place by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and was named a Best Place to Work by the Milwaukee Business Journal in 2015.\nAurora Health Care offers generous Benefits:\nMedical, Dental, Vision Plans\nIncentive Savings Plan with matching and non-matching contributions\nMedical and dependent care flexible spending accounts\nEducational Assistance & Tuition Reimbursement\nFor complete information about Aurora\u2019s locations, services, and employment opportunities, or to apply online,\nvisit us at Aurora Careers\nOpen to opportunities, but not ready to apply, join our Talent Network\nAurora supports a safe, healthy and drug-free work environment through criminal background checks and pre-employment drug testing. We maintain a smoke-free environment at all our locations. We are an equal opportunity employer and maintain an environment that attracts, recruits, engages and retains a diverse workforce.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.notafraidtowin.com/violation-of-the-4th-amendment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WCB2XLGAJYYODNF3GFHHG76CNR4BCKE4", "length": 4627, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.notafraidtowin.com", "title": "Violation of the 4th Amendment", "raw_content": "Violation of the 4th Amendment\nBy Loren DicksteinJuly 14, 2017Criminal Defense Detroit MI\nDelaying a Traffic Stop for a Drug Dog is a Violation of the 4th Amendment\nHere is the scenario\u2026 Defendant gets pulled over for a traffic infraction. During the course of the stop, the officer gets a hunch that there is an illegal drug in the car and asks for consent to search. The defendant declines. The officer calls for a drug dog and briefly detains the driver pending the outcome of the search by the dog. The dog detects the scent of a controlled substance and the officers search the car finding evidence of a crime. Is the evidence admissible in court? The answer under Michigan and Federal law is NO!\nIn a recent decision by the Michigan Court of Appeals, People v. Kavanaugh, the Court of Appeals examined a situation where the driver was stopped by a Michigan State Police trooper based on two civil infractions. The driver recently purchased the car and did not have a registration. The officer directed the driver to come back to the patrol car and sit in the passenger seat while the officer verified his ownership of the car. The officer confirmed the driver\u2019s ownership and then asked for consent to search the car. The driver declined. The officer told the driver to stay where he was and he called a drug dog for a contraband sniff. The dog arrived after 15 minutes, alerted at the trunk, and the officers found a large amount of marijuana.\nThe trial court denied the Defendant\u2019s Motion to Suppress and the defendant was convicted. On appeal, he challenged the constitutionality of his detention by the officer after the point where it was verified that he owned the car. He argued that the search was illegal because there was not a reasonable and articulable suspicion of criminal activity at the point when he declined the trooper\u2019s request to search the car. Articulable means capable of being explained with words.\nThe government argued there were various things that gave the officer a reasonable suspicion but the Court of Appeals found to the contrary. In the ruling, the court noted that a violation of a traffic law justifies a brief detention for addressing the traffic violation. If during the course of the stop, additional evidence becomes known that causes the officer to have a reasonable and articulable basis that a crime is being committed, the detention can be extended; however, the duration of the stop cannot be extended for the officer to investigate a hunch that criminal activity is afoot.\nAny detention beyond that which is necessary to address the traffic issue is a seizure.\nIn making its ruling, the court found that any detention beyond that which is necessary to address the traffic issue is a seizure under the 4th Amendment. A seizure of a person occurs when a reasonable person would not feel free to leave. In Kavanaugh\u2019s case, he was told to sit and wait for the drug dog and this constituted a seizure. If by the time the officer concludes resolving the traffic infraction, there is not a reasonable and articulable basis to suspect a crime is being committed, the suspect must be released. If the suspect is not released, any evidence found as a result of that continued detention is in violation of the 4th Amendment and must be suppressed.\nRefusing to consent to a search CANNOT form the basis for reasonable suspicion. Courts are clear that any consideration of the suspect\u2019s refusal or lack of consent is a violation of the 4th Amendment. Other things that cannot form the basis of reasonable suspicion include the driver acting nervous or statements of the suspect that do not make sense, unless the statements are about criminal activity.\nSo why is Kavanaugh not in prison and why was his conviction reversed?\nThe answer is\u2026great lawyering! Legal representation that is not aggressive, effective and zealous results in wrongful convictions and unnecessary jail sentences. When a person is charged with any criminal offense, a felony or misdemeanor, having a top criminal defense attorney is critical and can make all the difference.\nYour Best Defense for Felony and Misdemeanor Charges\nIf you or a loved one is charged with a state or federal criminal offense and you are looking to hire a lawyer who will provide the best possible legal representation, call LEWIS & DICKSTEIN, P.L.L.C. at (248) 263-6800 for a free consultation. When the result matters and there is no room for error, you need the defense team with LEWIS & DICKSTEIN, P.L.L.C. 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He\u2019s also recorded for hundreds of movies and TV shows, including fifteen years on the Doc Severinsen Tonight Show Big Band, performing the sax parts for Lisa Simpson on \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d, the soprano sax heard on the \u201cLaw and Order\u201d theme song and playing in the \u201cFamily Guy\u201d orchestra.\nMidnight Track Listing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 2904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 189.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/scoreresults.php?keywords=Contemporary%20French%20culture%20in%20a%20global%20c&start=8540&end=8560", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:19Z", "digest": "sha1:62E3M3JFYT3TJOZWIWKZMNAHAJ5DXGXD", "length": 6897, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.nottingham.ac.uk", "title": "Xpert search results for Contemporary French culture in a global c", "raw_content": "Football or arms race?\nWill the recent takeover of Manchester City by the Abu Dhabi United Group change the face of English football forever?\nAssociate Professor of Economics, Dr Wyn Morgan takes a look at the economic factors of the modern game, and the fall-out from the biggest deal in British football.\nNational Ag Safety Database (NASD)\nPublished on the Web by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), NASD is an online database of materials that are devoted to increased safety, health and injury prevention in agriculture. 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Challenges include: biodiversity, climate change, eco-migrations, economy, energy, food, health, hunger, population growth, poverty, security, sustainability, transportation, urbanization, and water. Info bits are drawn from articles, podcasts, blogs, press releases, institutional reports, testimonies, encyclopedias, books, and documentaries. 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Note the Jefferson statue can be seen inside.\nNPSPhoto.\nThe Jefferson Memorial building is a circular, open-air structure featuring a shallow dome supported by a circular colonnade composed of 26 Ionic columns. An additional 12 columns support the north portico, and 4 columns stand in each of the memorials 4 openings. The memorial is constructed of white Imperial Danby marble from Vermont and it rests upon a series of granite and marble-stepped terraces. A flight of granite and marble stairs and platforms, flanked by granite buttresses, lead up from the Tidal Basin. The stairs rise to a portico with a triangular pediment, which features a sculpture by Adolph A. Weinman, depicting the five members of the drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence submitting their report to Congress. A dentiled cornice with an egg and dart molding surrounds the pediment, below which is a plain frieze.\nThe Building: Interior\nThe Jefferson Statue, standing 19 feet tall atop its pedestal, is surrounded by columns, quotes from Jefferson and the coffered ceiling above. NPSphoto by AnthonyDeYoung.\nThe Jefferson Memorial interior is constructed of white Georgia marble with an axed finish, and the floor is made of pink Tennessee marble. The interior freize is topped by a dentiled cornice and a massive Indiana limestone dome. The dome's interior is divided into two parts: the lower section has a coffered surface containing lights that illuminate the statue and the upper section has a smooth, uninterrupted surface.\nRudulph Evans' bronze statue of Jefferson stands centered in the chamber on a black Minnesota granite pedestal, which is inscribed with the dates of Jefferson's birth and death (1743-1826). The statue depicts Jefferson in mid-life, holding the Declaration of Independence in his left hand.\nFour quotations from Jefferson's writings are carved into the walls of the memorial chamber. An excerpt from the Declaration of Independence, the document for which Jefferson is best known, is located on the southwest wall. The southeast wall features a statement on the evolution of law and the constitution, which was taken from a letter written to Samuel Kercheval in 1816.\nThe northwest wall is inscribed with a combination of six quotations taken primarily from Jefferson's \"1786 Notes of Virginia\" and \"Summary Views,\" which illustrate his beliefs in the evils of slavery and the need to educate the masses. The northeast wall contains a quote from the \"Act of Religious Freedom,\" which was adopted in 1779 and eliminated the state church of Virginia; this quote expresses Jefferson's views on freedom of religion.\nA fifth quote is engraved on the freize encircling the memorial's interior. This quote \"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man,\" is taken from an 1800 letter from Jefferson to Benjamin Rush.\nThe Memorial Landscape\nShrubs and a large white pine are part of the more informal landscape of the Jefferson Memorial. NPSphoto\nThe Jefferson Memorial sits on the south side of the Tidal Basin on reclaimed land created during the construction of Hains Point. After reclamation and before the memorial was built, the area of newly created parkland was planted with trees and lawn. This area was often use for swimming by city residents. Japanese cherry trees were planted on the site in 1912 when the Mayor of Tokyo presented three thousand trees to the city.\nWell-known 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. designed the memorial landscape. The Olmsted planting plan installed at the time of construction featured a simple design within a circular driveway; primarily evergreen trees with limited flowering trees and shrubs. The design was perceived as too thin, so white pines were added and some other plantings took place before the dedication in 1943. Many changes to Olmsted's plans occurred in the 1970s, and restorations in 1993 and 2000 have attempted to restore integrity to Olmsted's altered design.\nOnce the site for the Jefferson Memorial was chosen, there was never any question about its visual relationship with the White House - a direct line. In fact, President Roosevelt ordered trees to be cut so that the view of the memorial from the White House would be enhanced. As the National Park Service manages most of the land in the viewshed from the Jefferson Memorial to the White House, the commanding view from the memorial across the Tidal Basin to the Washington Monument and White House remains largely unchanged.\nAt the time of construction, much thought was also given to the relationship between the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials. Additional tree pruning was completed to ensure a narrow view from one memorial to the other.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nutritionpromise.com/vitamin-b2-riboflavin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:23Z", "digest": "sha1:7HVDOWKK2SVLKCSU6ZQDBCZSUBV2V5PN", "length": 5879, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.nutritionpromise.com", "title": "What is Vitamin B2 Riboflavin - Know Everything | Nutrition Promise", "raw_content": "Vitamin B2 a.k.a. Riboflavin is the second of eight B-complex vitamins. All these vitamins help convert carbohydrates into glucose. Or, in simple words, B-complex vitamins convert food into energy.\nAll of the vitamins of this group are water-soluble so they don\u2019t get stored in our bodies. We have to keep taking them regularly. And the best way to take them is the natural way i.e. through food. A list of foods that contain Riboflavin is given below along with other useful info about this vitamin. So let\u2019s have a look at the table of contents first.\nFunctions of Vitamin B2\nFoods with Vitamin B2\nRequired Dosage\nOverdose Side Effects\nFunctions of Vitamin B2 Riboflavin\nSkeletal formula of a minor Riboflavin \u2013 Courtesy Wikipedia\nAs we mentioned above, B-complex group vitamins are pivotal for growth and development. Riboflavin, in particular, is essential for the growth of hair and skin, and it also boosts immune functions that help to reduce blood disorders, acne, muscle cramp and glaucoma.\nIt does all this because it is the key instrument that processes iron in our bodies.\n[fact text=\u201dDid You Know: Vitamin B2 plays an important role in growth that\u2019s why almost all cereal and children foods are fortified with this Riboflavin.\u201d type=\u201dbook\u201d]\nPerhaps, the most important role of Vitamin B2 is the recovery of eye fatigue. According to National Institute of Health, Riboflavin is one-half of the two B-complex vitamins that reduce the risk of cataract. The other vitamin is Vitamin B3 a.k.a. Niacin.\nSubordinate Role\nLike all other vitamins, Riboflavin also assists other vitamins to perform their functions sufficiently. Basically, this whole group of B-group vitamins is interdependent on each other in one way or the other. This piece of info may sound useless to you, but it will make a lot of sense in the concluding part of this article, so please just keep on reading.\nRiboflavin Deficiency Symptoms\nDeficiency of Vitamin B2 is a rare thing in developed countries because it is a commonly available vitamin despite being a vital vitamin. As you have seen in the list of foods, there are many foods that we regularly eat so it is rare that we get a B2 deficiency. However, there are people who are prone to deficiency.\n\u201cThis is more common in people on extreme diets who are underweight or those with digestive problems such as celiac disease,\u201d Dr. Kristine Arthur, Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley, California.\n[fact text=\u201dPregnant Parents Should Note: During pregnancy, the body needs more iron, hence it needs more Vitamin B2. Lack of Riboflavin can lead to anemia.\u201d type=\u201dbook\u201d]\nSwelling of soft tissue in the mouth.\nAccording to American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, these symptoms start to show up after just a few days of deficiency.\nLike all other water-soluble vitamins, it gets flushed from our bodies every day so we have to keep taking it in daily. Obviously, the best to take in any vitamin is to eat food items that contain it naturally. In this case, here\u2019s the list of foods contain vitamin B2:\nNuts, especially almonds\nMeats, especially liver\nThe recommend daily allowance (RDA) for Riboflavin is:\n4 \u2013 0.8 milligrams per day for children.\n9 \u2013 1.3 milligrams per day for adult women.\n1 \u2013 1.5 milligrams per day for adult men.\nThe amounts are given in range because people have different weights. But if you take more of this vitamin through diet, there are virtually no side effects. But there are many plus points.\n\u201cA higher dose of 3 mg per day can help to prevent cataracts. Higher doses up to 400 mg can be used to treat migraine headaches,\u201d Dr. Arthur of Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center in Fountain Valley, California.\nA hard-boiled egg has 0.3mg Riboflavin while a glass of whole (cow) milk contains 0.4mgs of vitamin B2. A cup of whole almonds contains about 1.4mgs and one slice of beef liver (68g) contains 2.3mgs of it. Now you know why Riboflavin deficiency is rare in countries where people get enough food.\nSide Effects of Over Dosage\nThe blanket rule about side effects is that if you have taken it naturally, which means through food and not medication, then there are virtually no chances of any side effects.\nSome doctors even go ahead and say that there are no side effects when this vitamin is taken orally, which means even if you are taking them through tablets, they\u2019re still alright and won\u2019t have any side effects.\nWhen taken in dietary supplements, Riboflavin is included in B-complex vitamins, but it is also available in separate doses of 25 mg, 50 mg, and 100 mg.\nIt is relatively a nontoxic vitamin that is why it is considered safe even in high doses. It is considered safe because the excess of it is disposed of through urinary tract. There is mainly just one common side effect that your urine might turn yellow because of the overdose.\n[fact text=\u201dDid You Know: the -flavin in riboflavin comes from the Latin word flavus which means yellow. It is named so because if you take a lot of B2, it turns your urine bright yellow.\u201d type=\u201dbook\u201d]\nRiboflavin is a very important vitamin, but thankfully, it is also commonly available. Meats, especially liver meat have loads of it but eggs and green vegetables also contain it in abundance.\n[fact text=\u201d Tip: Crocpots (slow cookers) are better at keeping vitamins and nutritional values intact. If you are a health conscious person, cook your meals using these cookers.\u201d type=\u201dgen\u201d]\nRiboflavin is safe vitamin so you are unlikely to have any side effects from overdose even if you take supplements. However, it is my personal opinion that we should avoid all kinds of medicine, supplements, etc. and rely purely on natural foods. A balanced diet based on whole foods, fruits and vegetables is the most secure and proven way to a healthy and long life.\nhealthcareriboflavinRiboflavin Deficiencyvit b2vitamin b2vitamin b2 foodsWhat is Vitamin B2", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 7831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nwcoloradobraces.com/meet-dr-weimer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PCVZAPPIZ7KIHI5A3IBYIWF3LMESWDIY", "length": 1978, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.nwcoloradobraces.com", "title": "Allan Weimer DDS MS | Steamboat Springs Craig CO Orthodontist", "raw_content": "Allan D. Weimer, DDS, MS\nOrthodontics is one of the best professions anyone could have. It combines art and science to help improve the lives and increase the confidence of the people around me. My staff and I are enriched daily by our unique and wonderful patients and parents.\nI graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, earning my Doctorate of Dental Surgery and my Master of Science degree to specialize in orthodontics. I then served in the US Navy as a Lt. Commander as a dental surgeon.\nCurrently, I am a clinical professor at the University of Colorado Medical Center, a member of the Council on Education for the American Association of Orthodontists. I have served as president of the Colorado Orthodontic Association, and regularly attend regional and national orthodontic educational programs. I'm proud to have been consistently voted as a top orthodontist in the state of Colorado by my peers.\nOur team is exceptional because of their attention to detail, experience, and longevity with the practice. Many have been with me for more than 10 years! Each team member takes a genuine interest in each individual. It is our goal to make orthodontics as fun and enjoyable as possible with lots of humor and light-heartedness.\nBeing active in the community is very important to me. I am a member of several local and national organizations, including:\nNorthwest Colorado Visiting Nurses Association, Board Member\nSteamboat Parks and Recreation Commission, Past Chairman\nSteamboat Springs High School Booster Club\nI am originally from Lincoln, NE, and am proud to have lived and worked in Steamboat Springs for more than 25 years. When I\u2019m not creating beautiful smiles, I enjoy all the outdoor activities that the Colorado mountains have to offer.\nAmerican Board of Orthodontics\u00ae\nThe mission of The American Board of Orthodontics is to establish and maintain the highest standards of clinical excellence in orthodontics.\nhttp://www.americanboardortho.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/02/arts/ken-hughes-film-director-79.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:32Z", "digest": "sha1:FE2II2AH5WFJ3ZVNT3FNLRS34BACDTAB", "length": 1126, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "Ken Hughes -- Film Director, 79 - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Archives|Ken Hughes -- Film Director, 79\nKen Hughes -- Film Director, 79\nKen Hughes, who wrote and directed dozens of films, including the classic British children's movie ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,'' died on Saturday. He was 79.\nIn addition to that film, a 1968 fantasy based on Ian Fleming's popular children's story about a flying car, featuring Dick Van Dyke as an eccentric inventor, Mr. Hughes's credits included ''Cromwell,'' with Richard Harris, and ''The Trials of Oscar Wilde,'' starring Peter Finch.\nBorn in Liverpool in 1922, Mr. Hughes began working as a technician for the BBC at age 16. He began his film career in 1941, making documentaries and short features. In 1958 he shared an Emmy Award for writing the television play ''Eddie,'' starring Mickey Rooney. His first American film, ''Sextette'' (1979), was Mae West's last screen appearance.\nHe is survived by his wife, Charlotte, and a daughter, Melinda.\nA version of this obituary; biography appears in print on May 2, 2001, on Page C00014 of the National edition with the headline: Ken Hughes -- Film Director, 79. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 3164, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 186.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/magazine/28fob-wwln-t.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:59Z", "digest": "sha1:KWCABHDA5UDRUZLC3FV6M6C4AUR4ZTXX", "length": 10486, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.nytimes.com", "title": "The Overextended Family - The New York Times", "raw_content": "Magazine|The Overextended Family\nMagazine | The Way We Live Now\nThe Overextended Family\nBy PEGGY ORENSTEIN JUNE 25, 2009\nCredit James Estrin/The New York Times\nI would never have pegged my parents as early adopters. At 79 and 82, they are, like most people their age, blissfully uninterested in technology. To them, a BlackBerry is a late-summer fruit; tweeting is something a bird does. So I was unprepared when they called to tell me about their thrilling new discovery: Skype, an online service we could use to video chat. It\u2019s free, my mom explained, eagerly. All we\u2019d have to do is get something put on our computers (translation: download a program) and they would be able to talk to their 5-year-old granddaughter face to face! We could leave the gizmo on all the time, my dad suggested, and they could watch her go through her day. \u201cMaybe you could bring it to her school,\u201d he added, only half-joking. \u201cWe could see her classroom!\u201d\nNow, I like my parents. A lot. I really do. That\u2019s why I make the 1,500-mile trip to visit them three or four times a year. I did not, however, spend the bulk of my adult life perfecting the fine art of establishing boundaries only to have them toppled by the click of a mouse. If I wanted them to have unfettered access to my life, I wouldn\u2019t have put the \u201ckeep out\u201d sign on my room at age 10. I would have lived at home through college. I would have bought the house next door to them in Minneapolis and made them an extra set of keys.\nEven they might have found that a little extreme.\nBut the mere existence of video chat forces me to lay down a whole new set of rules and to rethink, yet again, the line between inclusive and intrusive, the balance between their yearning to shrink the distance between us and my need for limits \u2014 something I thought we resolved decades ago to our mutual satisfaction.\nSo I did what any sensible adult child would do. I stalled.\n\u201cGee,\u201d I said, \u201csetting that up seems awfully complicated. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019d know how to do it.\u201d\no Skype or not to Skype, that is the question. But answering it invokes a larger conundrum: how to perform triage on the communication technologies that seem to multiply like Tribbles \u2014 instant messaging, texting, cellphones, softphones, iChat, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter; how to distinguish among those that will truly enhance intimacy, those that result in T.M.I. and those that, though pitching greater connectedness, in fact further disconnect us from the people we love.\nI may curse e-mail for destroying my workday, for turning me into a lab rat on a drug unable to stop clicking on \u201csend-receive.\u201d Yet it has been a godsend in my relationship with my mom: her hearing is severely impaired, much beyond help from aids or amplification, making phone conversations frustrating. E-mail has allowed us to \u201ctalk\u201d again more fully, to share complex thoughts and feelings. We sometimes correspond five or six times a day.\nCredit Gillian Laub/Bonni Benrubi Gallery\nLikewise, digital cameras are a boon: the near-instant photos I send to my folks \u2014 my daughter\u2019s school play or maiden bicycle voyage \u2014 are truly the next-best thing to being there. Each technology strengthens our bond, but each also preserves my privacy. I\u2019m in touch more often than ever before but entirely on my schedule. I manage the flow of information. I set the terms of my self-presentation. Everyone wins.\nApple hints at something similar in one of its \u201cthere\u2019s an app for that\u201d iPhone ads, demonstrating how, with the flick of a finger, you can turn an incriminating snapshot into \u201cat least one photo you can show your parents.\u201d The message is that this achieves the elusive balance between access and control in personal communication. But I wonder. Cellphones may be smart, but they\u2019re also tricky. On one hand, you don\u2019t have to answer them if you are, say, in a crowded cafe (and oh so very often, I wish people wouldn\u2019t) but the assumption has become that you will. Depending on your viewpoint, perpetual availability to everyone you know can be a comfort or a shackle, can intensify closeness or subvert it. One of my brothers grabs his cellphone before heading out for his morning run in case his wife or kids want to reach him. My other brother considers that excessive. Let\u2019s just say that it is best to draw the curtain on that dinner-table debate.\nThe very technology with which we choose to communicate in a relationship has become a barometer of our willingness to reveal ourselves within it. Racy photos, amorous texts and nonstop Skyping may be just the thing for lovers who are separated during the giddy days of new romance. At the same time, all that virtual togetherness may overaccelerate a courtship. There is something to be said for the slow burn, for anticipation over immediacy. I\u2019m relieved not to be single in a time when you can flirt, fall in love, sext and break up with a guy without ever so much as meeting for coffee. And, really, what is more erotic, more personal, more potentially vulnerable than handwriting on a page? My husband won my heart by sending a witty postcard from a film shoot in Hawaii. No return address, no way for me to respond at all, let alone instantly in three platforms. These days, it seems, the only time we put pen to paper is when someone has died.\nEvery evolution in telecommunication has been greeted with ambivalence. Critics of the early telephone warned that eliminating the physical presence from conversation would increase isolation and undermine the family. Picture phones embody the future in dystopian and utopian sci-fi alike: Heywood Floyd uses one in \u201c2001: A Space Odyssey\u201d; ditto George of \u201cThe Jetsons.\u201d When AT&T unveiled a test model at the 1964 New York World\u2019s Fair, visitors lined up for a chance to talk to a stranger at Disneyland. Even Lady Bird Johnson gave it a whirl in Washington. In 1970, the picture phone was introduced for commercial use; the product tanked. Part of it was the expense \u2014 a three-minute call between New York and Chicago on the original version cost $27. But there was another reason: Who would want callers to know you were leafing through magazines or never made your bed or were trimming your toenails in the all-together? No one, that\u2019s who.\nVideo chat, while obviously cheaper, would seem to have the same skewed ratio: too much access, too little control. But that\u2019s speaking from the standpoint of a daughter. My perspective shifts significantly \u2014 as it does on so many subjects \u2014 when I mull this one over as a mother. It\u2019s one thing to consider how much about me my parents have a right to know; it\u2019s another to contemplate how much about my daughter I have a right to know \u2014 or even want to know.\nI have friends who scroll through their teenagers\u2019 text messages every night. They say it\u2019s for their children\u2019s protection, but to me it just seems the high-tech equivalent of picking the lock on a diary (something I know my mother never did, because if she had, I\u2019d still be grounded). Their children don\u2019t seem to mind the breach of trust. Maybe that\u2019s because privacy is as foreign to them as analog television. Or because they\u2019ve grown up far more tethered than any previous generation to their parents\u2019 watchful gaze. It\u2019s curious that today\u2019s parents, who in their youth were so adamant about their own independence, are so lousy at fostering it in their progeny, even after the children leave home.\nCredit Nielsen\nWhen I took off for college, I called my parents once a week, which was standard. They never saw my dorm room, didn\u2019t meet my friends, had no concept of my schedule. It was My Space \u2014 the old-fashioned kind. Has cheaper and more plentiful technology made the difference, or is it something else? According to Quantcast, a service that analyzes Web site traffic, Skype users typically fall into one or more of four groups: white, male, between 18 and 34, and the \u201cless affluent\u201d \u2014 which in this case, probably indicates still in school. It could be such lads Skype only one another, but I doubt it. If they\u2019re indeed checking in with Mom, I hope they at least cover up the beer-pong poster first.\nMaybe by the time my daughter leaves for college, I, too, will wish for a 24-hour-a-day video feed (or, by then, perhaps, a continuous holograph). Or maybe I won\u2019t. Maybe I\u2019ll be relieved not to see into her room, not to have to tell her for the 832nd time to clean it up. Maybe I\u2019ll remind myself that magic mirrors are best left back in \u201cRomper Room,\u201d that, at some point, she has to figure out how to be her without me. She will need to cut the invisible cord \u2014 the phone cord, that is \u2014 and I will have to let her.\nDoubtless, if circumstance takes her far away from home, my sense of the distance between us will be different from hers. That measure will change yet again \u2014 for both of us \u2014 should she have children, as it has, since her birth, for my parents and me. The truth is, I consider their tie to my daughter to be as precious as they do; the technology I use, I realize, may no longer reflect that.\nSo, I agreed to give video chat a try. We downloaded Skype and set a time to connect. They rang. I answered. My daughter waved. And then . . . we stared at each other. Short silences that seem natural on the phone become terribly awkward on video. Suddenly I understood why slumber-party confessions always came after lights were out, why children tend to admit the juicy stuff to the back of your head while you\u2019re driving, why psychoanalysts stay out of a patient\u2019s sightline. There is something exquisitely intimate about the disembodied voice. In my concern over letting my parents too far in, creating a claustrophobic closeness, I hadn\u2019t considered that video chat might do just the opposite.\n\u201cUm,\u201d I finally admitted, \u201cI don\u2019t have anything to say.\u201d\nThat was a few weeks ago; we haven\u2019t tried again since. It looks as if we\u2019ll be among the two-thirds of Skype members who, according to Quantcast estimates, are passers-by who use the service no more than once a month.\n\u201cI think I\u2019d rather e-mail,\u201d my mom wrote me.\n\u201cMe, too,\u201d I shot back, attaching a few photos of kindergarten graduation before hitting \u201csend.\u201d\nHer response, which came instantly, made me smile: \u201cOh, Pegs,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThanks so much for the pictures. It was exactly as if we were there with you!\u201d\nA version of this article appears in print on , on Page MM9 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: The Overextended Family. 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Statistics provide food for thought about the life cycle of criminality \u2014 78 per cent of inmates have no school qualifications; 80 per cent were abused as children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/julia-hill-the-remarkable-woman-who-saved-a-tree-by-living-in-it-for-two-years.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:50Z", "digest": "sha1:FG3DDR3NXD6WPSB7NWKVLABPL44BUBNV", "length": 5720, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.odditycentral.com", "title": "Julia Hill, the Remarkable Woman Who Saved a Tree by Living in It for Two Years", "raw_content": "Julia Hill, the Remarkable Woman Who Saved a Tree by Living in It for Two Years\nBy Spooky on October 22nd, 2013 Category: Pics\nIn the face of greedy men with chainsaws in their hands, not even the enduring giant Redwoods stand a chance. But Julia Hill, a young American environmentalist showed the entire world the battle for the preservation of Mother Nature\u2019s wonders is not yet lost, after she spent an astounding 738 days high up in a 60 meter Redwood she named Luna, in a desperate attempt to save the ancient tree and the forest around it.\nWhen she was 22, Julia Hill was involved in a freak car accident which left her with a fractured skull and unable to speak for a year. Once a career and money driven woman, she rethought her entire life and set out to explore the world. In 1997, one year after her accident, she finally found what she was looking for \u2013 a group of activists protesting against the destruction of a redwood forest in Northern California, which stretched for hundreds of kilometers. She was enchanted by the ancient trees and decided to join their cause. Courageous and determined, Julia volunteered to climb one of the tallest trees in the forest \u2013 a 1,500 year old redwood, hoping to stop the Maxxam Corporation, the operator of Pacific Lumber, from chopping it down. Inexperienced, she managed to stay in the tree only for a few days at a time, which didn\u2019t really impress the loggers or the media. Julia wanted to draw the atention of international media to the horrible deforestation that was taking place \u2013 a process called \u201cclearcutting\u201d which implied cutting trees of all ages and sizes and then burning the entire area in preparation for replanting new ones. She knew the only way to get people\u2019s attention was to break the record for tree sitting which was 42 days. And that\u2019s exactly what she did \u2013 after 100 days, Julia was all over the news giving interviews and educating people on the importance of saving these trees that have been here long before us.\nAs time went by, Julia \u2013 nicknamed \u201cButterfly\u201d, was approached by celebrities who supported the cause, politicians who wanted to talk to her on her mobile phone and reporters who wanted to document her battle against the powerful corporation. She didn\u2019t expect and didn\u2019t want to be in the spotlight but accepted that it was her mission to pass on the message and share her knowledge about the ancient redwoods. The journey she embarked on was extremely difficult as she had to endure harsh weather conditions with constant wind, cold and rainy periods. Moreover, the staff from Pacific Lumber was making her stay with Luna even less bearable. It had been reported on many occasions that many protesters had been harassed and even harmed by the big companies\u2019 workers who used pepper spray and other forceful methods to ward them off. Hill was no exception but Luna\u2019s 60 meter height served as protection against the pestering loggers. Nonetheless, she was constantly tormented by the sound of snapping and falling trees. Fighting the loggers and loneliness at the same time, she soon got very attached to her only companion, Luna whom she now considered her friend. When talking about her experience with her tree friend, Hill said that it was like \u201cliving with an ancient being.\u201d\nDuring Julia\u2019s famous tree sit, Pacific Lumber was very persistent, but not as persistent and determined as Hill who endured every obstacle coming her way for over two years. After 738 days, Julia finally put her feet on solid ground. \u201cI was leaving the best teacher and friend I\u2019ve ever had. Also, the person I\u2019d been when I\u2019d gone up and the person I was when I came down were so profoundly different that I wasn\u2019t sure how I was going to be able to live in the world again. I hadn\u2019t touched the ground for two years and eight days. When I set foot on the earth, there was a lot of emotion. There was extreme joy, because we\u2019d protected the tree and the grove around it, which a lot of people had said was impossible. But there was also sadness. I had become so much a part of that tree, and it had become so much a part of me, that I wasn\u2019t sure I would fit in with other people,\u201d Julia said in an interview. \u201cThough I left the tree, it\u2019s still so much a part of who I am that I can just close my eyes and be in its branches all over again.\u201d\nDefeated, the Maxxam Corporation settled for $50,000 in compensation. According to thextraordinary.org, the money was donated to a school which conducted research for sustainable logging. Thanks to her efforts and success in saving Luna, Julia \u201cButterfly\u201d Hill is now a renowned environmental activist and is still working towards achieving one goal, to \u201cinspire, support and network individuals, organizations, and communities so together we can create environmental and social solutions that are rooted deeply in love and respect for the interconnectedness of all life.\u201d She is also a motivational speaker, co-founder of the \u201cCircle of Life Foundation\u201d and has been the inspiration of poems and songs such as \u201cCan\u2019t Stop\u201d by The Red Hot Chili Peppers.\nJulia \u201cButterfly\u201d Hill\u2019s now famous tree sit lasted from December 10, 1997 to December 18, 1999.\nPosted in Pics Tags: environment, Julia Butterfly Hill, tree sit\nAustralian Families Living a Nightmare as Thousands of Bats Drop Dead in Their Yards Due to Heatwave\nMysterious Environmental Incident Leaves Crimean City Without Birds\nChinese Millionaire Spends His Free Time Picking Up Trash From the Streets of His City\nEco-Conscious Woman Cuts Her Trash Output to a Tiny Mason Jar Per Week\nWorld\u2019s First 100% Plant-Based Steak Is Barely Distinguishable From the Real Thing\nThis Indian Coal Field Has Been Burning Continuously for Over 100 Years", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 7019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 199.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.odmp.org/contact/submit_officer/1137", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:13Z", "digest": "sha1:FEIZ4XQUC52JUGKGTLOFP7NMU62VFEBW", "length": 62, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.odmp.org", "title": "Submit an Officer", "raw_content": "William F. Holbert, Jr.\nBinghamton Police Department, New York", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 186.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ofsnt.com/blog/orthognathic-surgery-the-post-surgery-diet/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:29Z", "digest": "sha1:CM3HFZU7NNBEARUUNQT3F5XVJ6CXW3NU", "length": 776, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ofsnt.com", "title": "The Post-Surgery Diet", "raw_content": "The Post-Surgery Diet\nOrthognathic surgery is used to correct a wide range of both minor and major skeletal and dental irregularities, often the misalignment of the jaws and teeth. Patients looking at undergoing orthognathic surgery are often faced with an extensive recovery period, as well as a restricted diet in the beginning of their recovery process. Post-surgery patients are discouraged from chewing to allow the bone to heal and stabilize. Due to the fact that adequate healing can take up to 8-12 weeks, patients will initially be on the \u201cswallowing diet\u201d for a number of weeks.\nFiled under Blog, Dental Implants, Surgical Instructions, Wisdom Teeth . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 4881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 226.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oikeusasiamies.fi/en_GB/web/guest/the-rights-of-persons-with-disabilities", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:59Z", "digest": "sha1:URHUT65IGJI2SUHVB6CW43KYMIFZAKJT", "length": 3966, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.oikeusasiamies.fi", "title": "The rights of persons with disabilities - Oikeusasiamies", "raw_content": "The Parliamentary Ombudsman together with the Human Rights Centre and its Human Rights Delegation serve as an independent national mechanism tasked to promote, protect and monitor the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Article 33(2) CRDP). A provision on this new task is contained in the Parliamentary Ombudsman Act (section 19f). This is the first statutory duty assigned jointly to Finland\u0092s National Human Rights Institution. Finland ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its Optional Protocol on 11 May 2016, and they entered into force in Finland on 10 June 2016.\nUnder Article 33(3) of CRPD, persons with disabilities and their representative organizations shall be involved and participate fully in the monitoring process of CRPD implementation. For this purpose, a permanent Sub-Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was set up under the Human Rights Delegation at the Human Rights Centre.\nThe Parliamentary Ombudsman protects, promotes and monitors CRPD implementation within the limits of his or her specific competence. The Ombudsman\u0092s tasks include overseeing legality in the exercise of public authority and supervising (protecting) the implementation of fundamental and human rights. The Parliamentary Ombudsman also works to promote the realisation of fundamental and human rights. For the main part, the Parliamentary Ombudsman exercises oversight of legality through investigating complaints, carrying out own-initiative investigations and conducting inspection visits.\nThe Ombudsman serves as the National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) under the Optional Protocol to the UN Convention against Torture (OPCAT). When performing this task, the Ombudsman may rely on the assistance of experts appointed by him, including persons with disabilities, who have expertise significant for the NPM mandate.\nThe duties of the Human Rights Centre include promoting and monitoring fundamental and human rights, among other things by preparing reports and studies aiming to promote and realise these rights. Rather than being limited to the activities of the authorities, the Human Rights Centre\u0092s competence also extends to promoting and monitoring human rights in the activities of private stakeholders.\nThe purpose of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for their inherent dignity. The leading principles of the CRPD are accessibility and the prohibition of all discrimination. The CRDP stresses the right of persons with disabilities to be involved in preparing and making decisions on issues that concern them.\nThe CRDP contains a definition of persons with disabilities, in which the relationship between the person\u0092s functional capacity and his or her environment is the key. The depiction of disability is based on the person\u0092s relationship with society around him/ her, not a definition based on a medical diagnosis.\nSuch as the following problems have repeatedly come to the Ombudsman\u0092s knowledge in the context of realising the rights of persons with disabilities:\nproblems related to restricting fundamental rights in special care for persons with intellectual disabilities\nshortcomings in the preparation of service plans and special care programmes\napplication practices of disability services are inconsistent, and the instructions issued may prevent customers from accessing statutory services\ndelays and procedural errors in decision-making and other processes\nshortcomings in the accessibility of premises and services and the implementation of accomodation.\nThe Ombudsman\u00b4s annual report and its English summary has since the year 2014 included a separate chapter about the rights of persons with disabilities. The number of the chapter is 3.3: English summary", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 181.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oka.com/en-GB/page/my-account/my-wish-list/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:13Z", "digest": "sha1:RZVI7ECN3IXAYHJM5XJHBLOOOKEUINPU", "length": 573, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.oka.com", "title": "\ufeff", "raw_content": "My Wish List - OKA\nWelcome to your Wishlist, where you'll find a list of all the items you've saved for later. When Christmas or birthdays are approaching, your Wish List is a useful tool for collating present ideas in one place \u2013 be they for you or someone else. If you decide that you want to buy any of the items in your Wish List, click 'Add to Basket' and they'll be waiting for you at the online checkout. However, if you've changed your mind, don't worry - just click the little bin icon and the item will disappear, leaving you free to add more things to your list.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 587, "original_length": 9251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.olatimes.com/series/wizards-of-waverly-place/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:47Z", "digest": "sha1:YAVRVWG2CNB7IHLSBTYIK5OXACLCWNFG", "length": 36, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.olatimes.com", "title": "Wizards of Waverly Place \u2013 Ola Times", "raw_content": "Home Series Wizards of Waverly Place", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 5244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 77.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onestop.biz/news/archives/06-2012", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:LOSDB6WWABPHBOHJBXHLPF3OL2QNV5NA", "length": 3298, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.onestop.biz", "title": "Blog Archives - One Stop Communications", "raw_content": "Happy 5th Birthday iPhone\nOn June 29, 2007, thousands of fans camped in long lines to to get their hands on the newly launched iPhone. The new iPhone rocked the world. Revolutionary in design, function and ecosystem, it set off the mobile data storm. In three days, Apple sold a million of them.\nEven if you are not an Apple iPhone fan, you have to respect the revolutionary change they caused in the wireless phone industry. They have changed the way we communicate and interact with the world.\nHappy 5th Birthday iPhone!!!\nMost Mifflin County Teens Have Better Things to do than to Drink Alcohol\nMifflin County Communities That Care (CTC) made award presentations to the winners of their Underage Drinking Prevention commercial contest. All Mifflin County high school students in the media classes were invited to submit a 30-second public service announcement (PSA). As part of the awards, the winning students were given a total of $250 in gift certificates to be used at One-Stop Communications.\nThe theme of the student commercials was \u201cMost Mifflin County Teens Have Better Things to do than to Drink Alcohol.\u201d In their commercials, students were asked to include statistics from the 2009 Youth Survey, which was taken by over 1,000 youth in Mifflin County. Results of this survey showed that most teens do not drink regularly, despite the common misperception to the contrary.\nThe PSAs were shown at the 3rd Annual Community Movie Night on June 15, 2012 to the crowd of about 200 attendees. The PSAs will be shown at community events in the future.\n1st Place winners: Brandi Sherwood and Suruchi Sheth (seniors)\n2nd Place winner: Maddie Berrier (junior)\n3rd Place winner: Patrick VanBuren (senior)\nPhoto L-R: Mr. Roger Herto (Media Class Teacher), Brandi Sherwood, Maddie Berrier, Patrick VanBuren, and Suruchi Sheth (5/29/12)\nWin $25,000 from DIRECTV\nBe sure to visit our store to enter \"DIRECTV's Ultimate $25,000 Cash Giveaway\" for your chance to win $25,000.\nA couple years ago one of our customers won a new HDTV from DIRECTV. We would love to see one of customers win $25,000.\nEntry forms will be available in our store until October 1, 2012. See store for complete details.\nNO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. Open only to legal residents of the 50US/DC who are 18 or older at the time of entry. Void where prohibited. Sweepstakes begins at 12:00:00 am PDT on 6/1/12, and ends at 11:59:59 pm PDT on 10/3/12. Enter on-site at an event or online at www.directveventsweeps.com. Grand Prize (1): $25,000. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries received. Subject to full Official Rules available on-site display or at www.directveventsweeps.com. Sponsor: DIRECTV, LLC, 2230 E. Imperial Hwy., El Segundo, CA 90245.\nSay hello to Home Phone Service for LESS\nNow there's a better way to get home phone service. AT&T Wireless Home Phone service uses a wireless device to give you everything you love about your home phone at a better price. You can keep your existing home number and continue using your home phones. It's never been easier or more affordable to have home phone service.\nReserve your new Wireless Home Phone at One-Stop Communications. 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Its high strength, corrosion resistance, and attractive appearance make 301 stainless steel sheet an excellent choice for structural as well as decorative applications.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 4540, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.onlinemetals.com/merchant.cfm?pid=9687&step=4&showunits=mm&id=306&top_cat=0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:57Z", "digest": "sha1:LY3HQF2EVNGE2H4PFYF7YEF6HRZCLHWU", "length": 352, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.onlinemetals.com", "title": "0.071\" S/S SHEET 17-7 PH - Online Metal Store", "raw_content": "Stainless Steel Sheet 17-7 (0.071\") is the most formable of all precipitation-hardening stainless and provides high strength and hardness. The valuable mechanical properties of 17-7 stainless sheet makes it particularly well suited for aerospace applications as well as its low distortion in heat treatment makes it a common choice for intricate parts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 4534, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 223.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ontariominds.ca/en/eric-windeler", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JFRWAXPTGA2FRQE3XFIECPS46JCDGU3F", "length": 1245, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.ontariominds.ca", "title": "Eric Windeler \u2014 Mental Health and Addictions Leadership Advisory Council", "raw_content": "Founder & Executive Director, Jack.org\nEric Windeler is a father and full-time advocate for youth mental health. Jack.org is the legacy of his son Jack Windeler who in March 2010, as a first-year student at Queen\u02bcs University, tragically and unexpectedly died by suicide.\nMr. Windeler started Jack.org with his wife Sandra Hanington and their closest friends in May 2010. Since then, Eric has put aside his business interests and leads Jack.org full-time. Mr. Windeler has an instrumental role in all aspects of the project and works tirelessly to inspire discussion about mental health, especially among young people. His efforts extend to fundraising and partnership development with key mental health experts and organizations across the country.\nIn 2015, Mr. Windeler was honoured by Queen\u2019s University, receiving an honorary degree (LLD) recognizing his work in the field of mental health. In 2013, he was the recipient of the Champion of Mental Health award from the Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health, and a recipient of the QE Diamond Jubilee Medal, celebrating his outstanding contributions to the field of Canadian mental health. 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From a young age Neto had a passion for soccer and played competitively on numerous teams.\nNeto graduated from Instituto Educacional de Assis with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Physical Education and a partial degree in Exercise Physiology.\nNeto has been a member of Igreja Batista Filad\u00e9lfia since 2007. In 2005, he was invited by friends to their small group Bible study. Two years later, Neto gave his life to Jesus Christ and was baptized in 2008.\nNeto married his wife Rose on March 1, 2008.\nNeto has participated in Open Arms since September 2011, when his church partnered with Open Arms to open an outreach project in the neighborhood Vila Progresso. Shortly after, Neto also started working with the soccer outreach program. In December 2011, Neto led the Open Arms soccer team to participate in its first national tournament.\nNeto has worked as a soccer trainer for children of all ages and adults, in both amateur and professional arenas. He is currently employed as a PE teacher by the city of Assis.\nNeto is currently participating in a theology course offered through his church, during which, his eyes have been opened to the importance of ministry and missions. He is also taking English classes, and welcomes any opportunity to play or coach soccer.\nTo learn more about Agents of Hope Neto & Roseli de Souza click HERE.\nNeto and Roseli\u2019s current support need is $1,000 per month. If you, your group, team, company, or someone you know would like to partner with Neto and Rose, you can do so by setting up a recurring gift securely online by clicking HERE (type Neto in the \u201cMissionary\u201d field) or via check to, Open Arms Worldwide \u2013 PO Box 650153 Sterling, VA 20165", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.oreanda.ru/en/promyshlennost/article983544/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:05Z", "digest": "sha1:RAQJ25HYZM65W4QUKOGPOJMBH3K2Y57U", "length": 3939, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.oreanda.ru", "title": "Industry. Sumitomo Corporation concluded an agreement with Electricidade de Mozambique - Oreanda-News", "raw_content": "Sumitomo Corporation concluded an agreement with Electricidade de Mozambique\nOREANDA-NEWS. Sumitomo Corporation (head office: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Kuniharu Nakamura) and IHI Corporation (head office: Koto-ku, Tokyo; President: Tamotsu Saito; hereinafter, \u201cIHI\u201d) on February 17 (local time) concluded a turnkey engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) agreement with Electricidade de Mozambique (hereinafter, \u201cEDM\u201d), the Republic of Mozambique\u2019s state-run power company, for construction of a 110MW gas-fired combined-cycle power plant in Maputo (hereinafter, \u201cthe Power Plant\u201d).\nThe planned construction site for the Power Plant is located about 6km southeast of Mozambique\u2019s capital of Maputo. This will be the country\u2019s first gas-fired combined-cycle power plant and, when completed, it will meet about 20% of domestic power demand. Sumitomo Corporation as consortium leader will serve as the liaison for negotiations and coordination with EDM on this Power Plant, while IHI will supply the main equipment (gas turbines and generators) and be responsible for wrap up of the Power Plant. Construction is set to begin in 2016 with the aim of taking the Power Plant over to EDM in 2018. This order is valued at about 17 billion yen, which will be covered by yen-denominated loans from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). IHI will put together a power generation package for the Power Plant using world-class 40MW aero-derivative LM6000 gas turbines developed and manufactured by General Electric with IHI\u2019s participation, and combine these with its own make of control equipment to deliver a combined-cycle system that recovers exhaust heat via steam turbines to boost power generation efficiency.\nMozambique has attracted companies from around the world as an East African trade hub producing a wealth of natural resources. The country continues to enjoy a high rate of economic growth (7%-8% annually), spurring an extremely rapid annual rise of 10% in electric power demand. Mozambique stretches 2,000km from north to south, but its primary source of electric power is a hydro power station in the northwest. Its inadequate power infrastructure leaves the southern part of the country without direct access to power supply from the northwest, so the majority of power demand there has to be satisfied by importing power from South Africa. These circumstances have made construction of a power plant near the capital of Maputo (in the south) an issue of great urgency. With gas-fired power plants expected to become the main source of electric power as extensive gas fields are developed in future, Mozambique is in need of know-how regarding the operation of gas-fired power plants, so this project will also entail providing technical instruction in the know-how required to operate gas-fired power plants. Utilizing funding and technology from Japan, the Power Plant will contribute to the \u201cPartnership for Quality Infrastructure\u201d being promoted by the Japanese government and play an important role in upgrading Mozambique\u2019s basic infrastructure.\nSumitomo Corporation has been involved in the construction (EPC) of power plants with a total capacity exceeding 50,000MW, and it will be leveraging its extensive track record and experience in fulfilling agreements to enhance its power infrastructure-related business on a global scale and help countries enjoy economic development through improved infrastructure.\nIHI has a noteworthy record of performance in delivering gas turbines, coal-fired boilers, and LNG-related facilities in Japan as well as Southeast Asia and elsewhere overseas, and it will be utilizing the technical know-how it has gained thereby to provide the African market with energy systems offering excellent environmental performance as well as high efficiency and quality in order to help ensure a steady supply of energy that keeps pace with the region\u2019s economic development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 7738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 159.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ourdocuments.gov/document_data/document_info_text/document_074_description.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:45Z", "digest": "sha1:DKGZVNNNGIT3EYIAGPACQNFWU2UPFRYS", "length": 4261, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.ourdocuments.gov", "title": "Between 1861 and 1940, approximately 275,000 Japanese immigrated to Hawaii and the mainland United States, the majority arriving between 1898 and 1924, when quotas were adopted that ended Asian immigration. Many worked in Hawaiian sugarcane fields as contract laborers. After their contracts expired, a small number remained and opened up shops. Other Japanese immigrants settled on the West Coast of mainland United States, cultivating marginal farmlands and fruit orchards, fishing, and operating small businesses. Their efforts yielded impressive results. Japanese Americans controlled less than 4 percent of California\u2019s farmland in 1940, but they produced more than 10 percent of the total value of the state\u2019s farm resources.", "raw_content": "As was the case with other immigrant groups, Japanese Americans settled in ethnic neighborhoods and established their own schools, houses of worship, and economic and cultural institutions. Ethnic concentration was further increased by real estate agents who would not sell properties to Japanese Americans outside of existing Japanese enclaves and by a 1913 act passed by the California Assembly restricting land ownership to those eligible to be citizens. In 1922 the U.S. Supreme Court, in Ozawa v. United States, upheld the government\u2019s right to deny U.S. citizenship to Japanese immigrants.\nEnvy over economic success combined with distrust over cultural separateness and long-standing anti-Asian racism turned into disaster when the Empire of Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Lobbyists from western states, many representing competing economic interests or nativist groups, pressured Congress and the President to remove persons of Japanese descent from the west coast, both foreign born (issei \u2013 meaning \u201cfirst generation\u201d of Japanese in the U.S.) and American citizens (nisei \u2013 the second generation of Japanese in America, U.S. citizens by birthright.) During Congressional committee hearings, Department of Justice representatives raised constitutional and ethical objections to the proposal, so the U.S. Army carried out the task instead. The West Coast was divided into military zones, and on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 authorizing exclusion. Congress then implemented the order on March 21, 1942, by passing Public Law 503.\nAfter encouraging voluntary evacuation of the areas, the Western Defense Command began involuntary removal and detention of West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry. In the next 6 months, approximately 122,000 men, women, and children were moved to assembly centers. They were then evacuated to and confined in isolated, fenced, and guarded relocation centers, known as internment camps. The 10 relocation sites were in remote areas in 6 western states and Arkansas: Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Tule Lake and Manzanar in California, Topaz in Utah, Poston and Gila River in Arizona, Granada in Colorado, Minidoka in Idaho, and Jerome and Rowher in Arkansas.\nNearly 70,000 of the evacuees were American citizens. The government made no charges against them, nor could they appeal their incarceration. All lost personal liberties; most lost homes and property as well. Although several Japanese Americans challenged the government\u2019s actions in court cases, the Supreme Court upheld their legality. Nisei were nevertheless encouraged to serve in the armed forces, and some were also drafted. Altogether, more than 30,000 Japanese Americans served with distinction during World War II in segregated units.\nFor many years after the war, various individuals and groups sought compensation for the internees. The speed of the evacuation forced many homeowners and businessmen to sell out quickly; total property loss is estimated at $1.3 billion, and net income loss at $2.7 billion (calculated in 1983 dollars based on the Commission investigation below). The Japanese American Evacuation Claims Act of 1948, with amendments in 1951 and 1965, provided token payments for some property losses. More serious efforts to make amends took place in the early 1980s, when the congressionally established Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians held investigations and made recommendations. As a result, several bills were introduced in Congress from 1984 until 1988, when Public Law 100-383, which acknowledged the injustice of the internment, apologized for it, and provided for restitution, was passed.\nFor more information and other documents regarding the War Relocation Authority and the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, visit the National Archives\u2019 Truman Presidential Museum and Library.\n(Information excerpted from Documents from the National Archives: Internment of Japanese Americans [Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1989] pp. 9\u201310.)\nFor more information and education lesson plans visit the National Park Service site \"The War Relocation Camps of World War II: When Fear Was Stronger Than Justice.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 5014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 155.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/City-appeal-denied-MCV-gets-lower-tax-bill-for-7135841.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:01Z", "digest": "sha1:WLIYZZWTF5DBRIRZTWCRYLS4UEA2YTPW", "length": 2453, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.ourmidland.com", "title": "City appeal denied; MCV gets lower tax bill for 2002 - Midland Daily News", "raw_content": "https://www.ourmidland.com/news/article/City-appeal-denied-MCV-gets-lower-tax-bill-for-7135841.php\nCity appeal denied; MCV gets lower tax bill for 2002\nKathie M. Marchlewski\nCourts agree that the City of Midland was wrong to increase the Midland Cogeneration Venture's taxes by $202 million this year.\nMCV received a new tax bill last week \u0096 one $5 million less than the original printed for summer of 2002. The winter bill also will be dropped by $5 million.\nThe city was ordered by the Michigan Tax Tribunal in June to adjust MCV's personal property taxes after it imposed the 35.8 percent increase, defying provisions of Proposal A that cap annual increases at 5 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is greater.\n\"The court upheld the law,\" said MCV Vice President and General Counsel Gary Pasek. \"They have to lower taxes to what they should have been.\"\nThe city's appeal of the ruling to the Michigan Court of Appeals has been denied. The city plans to appeal again, this time to the Michigan State Supreme Court, said Attorney James O. Branson III.\nAccording to the city, it increased MCV's value in 2002 because, while preparing to defend ongoing tax appeals by MCV, it discovered that some property had not been counted in prior assessments.\nTo arrive at its most recent assessment, the city started with what it says was the plant's valid purchase price in 1991 \u0096 $2.3 billion. That value then was adjusted for a decade worth of additions and depreciation.\nThe tribunal disagreed with the assessment process when it ordered the tax roll back, and said assessors did not prove that any property had not been counted before.\nThis dispute is separate from the tax appeal trial that began in January before the Michigan Tax Tribunal.\nInterim values set by the tribunal, which are $20 million, or about 3 percent higher than 2001 taxable values, will stand until tribunal judge Victoria Enyart decides the overall tax appeal case. The actual value determined at the end of the trial will replace interim values.\nOn the revised tax bill presented to MCV on Sept. 10, the city holds to its original assessment, and complies with the order only by changing the taxable value \u0096 not the assessment \u0096 to the numbers dictated by the court.\nThe $10 million the city won't receive for 2002-2003 as a result of the ruling and the denial of the city's appeal won't affect its budget, because the money was placed in reserve in case it had to be refunded.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.p1woc.co.uk/forums/tags.php?s=aad211aa0b830afd25207f65d3af158d&tag=gearbox", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2HVA62SORKMSYM4LGG5GR7SHJJFY6XPH", "length": 42, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.p1woc.co.uk", "title": "P1 Web Owners Club", "raw_content": "No content has been tagged with 'gearbox'.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 1321, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pa2a.org/thread-important-supreme-court-and-concealed-carry-going-to-meet-soon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:22Z", "digest": "sha1:LAE4DRHNBU7W2HDB2ZO4MB4MKA27BO63", "length": 3860, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.pa2a.org", "title": "IMPORTANT! Supreme Court and Concealed Carry Going to Meet Soon", "raw_content": "pa2a.org \u00bb The Think Tank \u00bb Gun Related Politics \u00bb National Gun Related Politics \u00bb IMPORTANT! Supreme Court and Concealed Carry Going to Meet Soon\nIMPORTANT! Supreme Court and Concealed Carry Going to Meet Soon\nI saw this being discussed on Fox News, but couldn't find an article on their website. Basically an Illinois federal court is refusing to reconsider a case that established concealed carry is legal in Illinois and states after June 8th, there will no longer be any laws forbidding concealed carry.\nQuote: Ruling Leaves Ill. Grappling With Concealed Carry\nBy SARA BURNETT and DON BABWIN Associated Press\nCHICAGO February 22, 2013 (AP)\nA federal appeals court on Friday narrowly rejected Illinois' request to reconsider a ruling that found the state's concealed carry weapons ban unconstitutional, leaving lawmakers in the only state that still prohibits concealed carry more certain than ever they must come up with a new law.\nThe 5-4 ruling by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave state Attorney General Lisa Madigan the option of appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court \u2014 a move that could affect gun laws in other states. It also came on the same day that state lawmakers held a hearing on the issue in Chicago \u2014 a city that's drawn national attention for its gun violence and rising homicide rate, including last month's death of a 15-year-old honor student a mile from President Barack Obama's home.\nMadigan said in a statement she has not yet decided whether to appeal. But she said a dissent written by four of the judges \"provided a clear framework to guide the legislature in drafting a new law.\" Those judges said some restrictions \u2014 including limits on who may carry and where they may do so \u2014 could be considered constitutional.\n\"With the 180-day deadline still in place, it is critical that the legislature continue to work to enact a law that will protect public safety,\" said Madigan, a Democrat from Chicago.\nHowever a Colorado court just ruled....\nQuote: Court Finds No Right to Conceal a Firearm\nDENVER (AP) \u2014 A federal appeals court has ruled that permits allowing people to carry concealed weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment.\nThe ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit was issued Friday in a case involving a Washington State resident, Gray Peterson.\nA federal judge in 2011 tossed out Mr. Peterson\u2019s lawsuit filed against Denver and Colorado\u2019s Department of Public Safety. He claimed that being denied a concealed-weapons permit because he was not a Colorado resident violated his Second Amendment rights to bear firearms.\nAccording to gun rights groups, Colorado is one of about two dozen states that do not honor concealed weapons permits from Washington State.\nColorado recognizes weapons permits issued by other states, but only for states that recognize Colorado permits. Washington State does not recognize Colorado permits.\nThe Colorado attorney general\u2019s office was \u201cgratified that the 10th Circuit Court has upheld Colorado state law,\u201d a spokeswoman, Carolyn Tyler, said.\nThe National Rifle Association did not return a phone call seeking comment and Mr. Peterson could not be located for comment.\nIn its ruling, the three-judge panel cited a Supreme Court ruling that \u201cthe right of the people to keep and bear arms is not infringed by laws prohibiting the carrying of concealed weapons.\u201d\nSo in other words, the Supreme Court is going to have to eventually decide on the constitutionality of concealed carry. This could get really ugly and be the deciding factor if \"it's time\" yet. I'm sure we'll hear more about it in the near future.\nNope, the USSC will just say that the issue has already been decided with Heller. That is to say that \"certain restrictions can be applied at the state level.\" Thereby negating the case in Colorado without addressing the issue in Illinois.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 5612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2011/01/14/freedom-train-to-stop-in-palo-alto-today", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:03Z", "digest": "sha1:LF5RMIABOKHRUDBPQLR6KI7QYOOHMSYI", "length": 1031, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.paloaltoonline.com", "title": "Freedom Train to stop in Palo Alto today | News | Palo Alto Online |", "raw_content": "Freedom Train to stop in Palo Alto today\nTrip to San Francisco commemorates 1965 civil-rights march, honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\nThe Freedom Train will stop in Palo Alto today (Jan. 17) to commemorate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1965 civil-rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.\nThe train will take passengers from San Jose to San Francisco and is scheduled to stop at the University Avenue Caltrain station in Palo Alto at 9:59 a.m.\nThe ride will end in San Francisco, where riders can participate in a march to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The event is hosted by the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Association of Santa Clara Valley.\nJan. 17 is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day nationwide.\nTickets are $10 and must be purchased in advance. Organizers are asking participants to arrive 30 minutes before departure.\nThere is no special return train, but the tickets are good for a return trip on southbound trains departing San Francisco after 1 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at www.brownpapertickets.com/event/130504.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 3497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 120.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2016/01/13/police-palo-alto-man-booked-for-attempted-murder-for-trying-to-torch-ex-boss-home", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:11Z", "digest": "sha1:D24MGXNDUTSA7SEMQWG4N4YA4ZWTWZEX", "length": 2742, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.paloaltoonline.com", "title": "Police: Palo Alto man booked for attempted murder for trying to torch ex boss's home | News | Palo Alto Online |", "raw_content": "Police: Palo Alto man booked for attempted murder for trying to torch ex boss's home\nPolice say occupant put out fire with garden hose before firefighters, police arrived\nMuhammad Hassan Khan. Photo courtesy of Palo Alto Police Department.\nA Palo Alto man was arrested Sunday, Jan. 10, and charged with attempted murder and arson after he allegedly tried to burn down his former boss's Eichler home.\nMuhammad Hassan Khan, 26, was arrested without incident at his Webster Street home on Sunday, police said. The arrest came a day after police and firefighters responded to a reported fire on the 3400 block of Kenneth Drive, an area in the Loma Verde neighborhood that is dominated by wooden and infamously flammable Eichler homes.\nIn this case, however, the fire didn't get past the garage area. The three people in the home, a couple in their 50s and a teenager, were awakened shortly after 6 a.m. on Saturday by a smoke detector in their attached garage, according to police. They quickly discovered that the garage was full of smoke, police said.\nWhen the woman tried to open the garage door, she reportedly burned her hand. The man, meanwhile, went outside and saw that the exterior of the garage, including the driveway to the garage, were on fire, according to police. The man then used a garden hose to put the fire out just before Palo Alto police officers and firefighters arrived at the scene.\nPolice said the garage sustained moderate-to-major damage. The woman was treated at the scene by the fire department for what police said was a minor burn injury.\nAccording to a press release from the police department, it didn't take long for investigators to suspect arson and to identify a suspect, who police described as a \"disgruntled former employee of the male victim.\"\nThe Santa Clara County Arson Task Force and an accelerant-detecting dog from the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety assisted with the investigation.\nPolice said Khan was booked at the Santa Clara County Main Jail for arson of an inhabited dwelling (a felony) and attempted murder. After that the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office filed a felony count of arson of an inhabitant dwelling against Khan, with an enhancement for using an accelerant, police said.\nPolice said the investigation is continuing and the DA may amend the filed charge as appropriate.\nAnyone with information about the incident is asked to call the police department's 24-hour dispatch center at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be sent to paloalto@tipnow.org or to 650-383-8984.\nHulkamania is a registered user.\nThe residents lucked out. When we lived on Moffett Circle a home an Eichler burned to the slab in twelve minutes. Replace the wood paneling with sheetrock today!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 5417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.parentherald.com/articles/25200/20160303/study-children-have-double-the-risk-factors-of-cardiovascular-diseases-their-parents-caregivers-have.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2AL37FITK3E5F4ZGVFZIHS25PRKLFZCU", "length": 2364, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.parentherald.com", "title": "Study: Children Have Double the Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases Their Parents/Caregivers Have : Parenting : Parent Herald", "raw_content": "Study: Children Have Double the Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Diseases Their Parents/Caregivers Have\nBy Denise Uychiat,\tParent Herald March 03, 07:00 am\nTAG parents, childern, Heart Disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, unhealthy lifestyle, cardiovascular diseases\nAre you aware of the saying, \"Lead by example?\" Well as parents, it is a very important phrase to remember. A recent study has confirmed that children follow whatever parents do, so if you eat unhealthy foods or live an unhealthy lifestyle, chances are your kids will too. These kinds of actions will be bad for the kids' heart.\nThe study involving 1,500 children between the ages 8 to 16 and 1,020 caregivers revealed that children copy their parents' lifestyle. According to US News, the study found that children take after their parents or those who care for them in terms of having unhealthy habits that could increase their chances of being obese, have elevated blood pressure, high blood sugar, as well as an increased level of cholesterol in the blood.\nDr. Suzanne Steinbaum, a preventive cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City said that even if the major risk factor of heart disease is genetics, the study shows that some factors like lifestyle behaviors are often acquired during childhood. \"Heart disease needs to be looked at as a true family issue,\" she said, \"and intervention needs to take place within the behaviors of the home.\"\nThe study also found that when the primary care giver is overweight/ obese, there is a seven times more at risk of obesity for male children, while female children were four times most likely to suffer from obesity. It was also revealed that when the caregiver has at least one risk factor for any cardiovascular disease, the chances of having cardiovascular risk factors is doubled in the children they're caring for, healthday.com reported.\n\"Cardiovascular disease\u2014which is truly a lifestyle disease\u2014is a problem that affects the family, as behavior is often emulated and passed down from caregiver to their children,\" Steinbaum added. Another expert named Pamela Koch who is the executive director of the Tisch Center for Food, Education, and Policy at Columbia University in New York City agreed that the study may prompt an increased number of nutrition education programs for families who are metabolically at risk.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 4435, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 241.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.patheos.com/blogs/uucollective/category/unitarian/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HSVN7Y6SBIBDFECIU6JHOJFSEC37IL6O", "length": 115, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.patheos.com", "title": "Unitarian Archives - UU Collective", "raw_content": "Smells Like White Racism\nA friend posted on Facebook, upset that a qualified person of color had been overlooked...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 7989, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.paulkeckley.com/the-keckley-report/2016/5/16/the-insurance-marketplaces-ground-zero-for-the-affordable-care-act", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:50Z", "digest": "sha1:A3CSTJZVTV4HZ22T3H2GOFS7R4TZT73A", "length": 8989, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.paulkeckley.com", "title": "The Insurance Marketplaces: Ground Zero for the Affordable Care Act \u2014 Paul Keckley", "raw_content": "The Insurance Marketplaces: Ground Zero for the Affordable Care Act\nThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act circa 2010 had two aims per its sponsors: to increase access to affordable insurance coverage and to reduce costs. Seventy-four months post-passage, the jury\u2019s still out on both.\nOf particular note has been the bumpy path to accessible, affordable health insurance coverage for those uninsured by choice or circumstance. Five features in the law\u20141-expansion of state Medicaid programs, 2-new regulations about how health insurance companies cover, structure and price their plans i.e. pre-existing conditions, et al, 3-authorization for Consumer Owned and Operated Plans (CO-OPs) to create competition in markets where choices were limited, 4-tax credits for small employers to encourage coverage and 5-state-run insurance marketplaces for individuals\u2014were the key pillars intended to achieve expanded coverage.\nWhere are we today? The Supreme Court ruled states could not be required to expand their Medicaid programs (June 28, 2012), so 32 have and 18 haven\u2019t. The new regulations are being integrated by plans necessitating administrative changes and modest increases in premiums in their traditional lines of business but so far without major pushback. The CO-OPs have struggled: only 11 of the 23 are still standing and most of these are undercapitalized. Tax credits to attract small businesses have been modestly successful. And then there\u2019s the marketplaces--arguably the most problematic and incomplete of the five efforts.\nThe theory of the insurance marketplaces was solid: by standardizing and simplifying insurance plans so comparisons were possible, and by providing incentives (tax credits) so those who are uninsured, the ranks of the uninsured would shrink, bad debt in hospitals and doctors\u2019 offices would decrease, and everyone would be happy. Above all, insurance plans would be understandable based on common elements, side by side comparisons and their relationship to what an individual would pay out of pocket for premiums and co-payments.\nFast forward, when the marketplaces opened for Year One enrollment in October 2013, the world had changed. An election had secured the residents of the White House wouldn\u2019t be leaving. The recession showed signs of ending. Overall, health spending had slowed to less than 4% annually in tandem with health insurance premiums that increased at roughly the same rates. But the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov, the default federal marketplace for in October, 2013, sparked partisan friction for and against the ACA. The King v Burwell decision (2015) that affirmed premium subsidies were accessible to enrollees in the 34 states that used Healthcare.gov served to reinforce the centrality of marketplaces as the linchpin for the law\u2019s effort to expand coverage.\nThe results? Enrollment through the marketplaces through the end of the third open enrollment reached 12.7 million, up from 11.7 million (2015) and 8.0 million (2014). 83% of these expect to qualify for a tax credit to offset an average of $290 for their monthly premiums. And as a result of the thirty-plus special enrollment periods allowed in the law, their health costs are higher than anticipated: they\u2019re not as young or well as had been anticipated. So attention about the marketplaces has shifted from enrollee participation to insurer participation. Insurers have countered the higher-than-expected risks associated with marketplace enrollees by raising their premiums or by withdrawing altogether.\nFor those opposed to the ACA, the botched rollout of Healthcare.gov fueled resentment to the ACA. The intrinsic flaws in its design\u2014overly restrictive regulations that exposed insurers to higher risk coupled with the unknowns about the healthiness of enrollees themselves\u2014posed unforeseen challenges. For shareholders in investor-owned plans, it\u2019s a simple question: do the financial risks in the marketplaces justify participation versus other opportunities where capital may be deployed with less risk and higher returns. Thus, in 2017, some insurers are cutting back their participation; some are pushing ahead assuming their double digit premium increases will be approved, and all are watching closely as a new administration steps in.\nFor those favoring the ACA, the marketplaces represent a bold experiment in expanding access, forcing insurers to become more transparent about their business practices and helping millions of lower income households pay their premiums via tax credits. Though the glitches were acknowledged, the foundation was laid and marketplaces are working.\nHere\u2019s my take: the marketplaces are here to stay. Healthcare.gov will be the platform in all states as the federal government becomes more proficient in running the program effectively. The marketplaces will increasingly become the platform for Medicaid managed care while expanding their penetration as the insurance channel of choice for working class households. And for all Americans, it will become a GO-TO resource for comparing insurance.\nPrivate investor-owned insurers will follow the money: if restrictions on risk bands are loosened, reinsurance revisited, and special enrollment periods reduced, they\u2019re in for the long haul: it\u2019s just a business decision for most.\nFor other insurers, it\u2019s more. It is a vehicle for coverage expansion to reduce inequities in access to physicians and hospitals. It\u2019s a mechanism whereby care for vulnerable populations can be coordinated and preventive health intensified. Their goals are different: these are the plans sponsored by the hospitals and medical groups whose mission is focused on population and community health and the not for profit insurers who already serve fiduciary roles in state Medicaid programs.\nThe marketplaces are a work in process, but their fate is certain to surface the fault lines in how our society views and values health insurance. They\u2019re ground zero in health reform.\nPS: Last week\u2019s favorable ruling by U.S. District Judge Collyer in House of Representatives v Burwell poses a legal challenge to the ACA that\u2019s likely to spark renewed debate about its future. The Judge set aside the ruling anticipating an appeal by the administration. The potential domino effect of Judge Collyer's ruling will be discussed in next week\u2019s report.\nFact File: Health Insurance and the Marketplaces:\nHealth Insurance Industry Overview: The private insurance market is expected to grow by 6% by 2022 while the Medicare and Medicaid markets will grow by 57% and 71% (Future Scan/Evarient) Between 2013 and 2014, the net cost of health insurance increased 12.4% to $194.6B while the net spending for prescription drugs increased 12.2% to $297.7B, physicians increased 4.6% to $603.7B and hospitals 4.1% to $971.8B (CMS Office of the Actuary). The margin for commercial coverage is expected to shrink from 7.1% in 2013 to 6.4% in 2018 even as the size of the overall market is shrinking (from 165M to 164M) and as employers drop coverage, or offer only limited coverage. Margins in other lines of business have lower margins and smaller markets: the exchange market (12M in 2014): 2.5% margin; the Medicare Advantage market (17M in 2016): 5.0% margin; the Medicaid Managed Care market (45M in 2017E): 3.4% (JPMorgan)\nInsurance Premium Trends Overall: Since 1999, average insurance premiums for employer sponsored family coverage increased 191%, worker contributions increased 212% and wages increased 54% (CMS, Altarum). 43% of those with commercial coverage say their deductible is difficult to manage or unaffordable (Commonwealth Fund, November 2014). 49% of consumers say they skipped or delayed care in the past year: 61% of these cited financial reasons (Academy Health)\nMarketplace Premiums: The average rate increase for the second cheapest silver plan for a 27 year-old for 2016 ranged widely from state to state and carrier to carrier: for instance, in 2 states (IN, LA), increases were 10-12% depending on the carrier. By contrast, in 9 states (OR, MT, SD, AL, NM, OK, RI, TN, NC), rate increases were 18.1 to 36% (HHS). Plans with the highest increases\u2014Moda AR, HealthSpan OH, PacificSource MT, Scott & White TX and Alliant GA\u2014operate in states where hospital utilization is moderate to high and costs are moderate to low compared to others in the state. By contrast, in states (I, IN, ME) where the exchange premiums from 2015-2016 showed lower increases (and in some cases a decrease in premiums), hospitals are consolidated in urban markets and utilization and costs are lower than national medians. Narrow networks of providers are associated with 84% of the lowest cost silver plans offered in the marketplaces (McKinsey). The average first year premium increase requests were 13% attributable to higher administrative costs, higher utilization and increased costs for services and drugs. (PWC, Commonwealth Fund).\nCO-OPs: as of 2016, only 11 of 23 are still operating (HHS)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 11323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/google-summit-tackles-extremists-ideas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:40Z", "digest": "sha1:OZZ5REVIW7W2YHR4CM6FPTP3MHRUGWNR", "length": 288, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pbs.org", "title": "Google Summit Tackles Extremist Ideas | PBS NewsHour", "raw_content": "Hari Sreenivasan Hari Sreenivasan\nhttps://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/google-summit-tackles-extremists-ideas\nGoogle Summit Tackles Extremist Ideas\nHari Sreenivasan joined the PBS NewsHour in 2009. He is the Anchor of PBS NewsHour Weekend and a Senior Correspondent for the nightly program.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 4925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 185.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/stadiums-come-to-cities-skylines-in-free-match-day-dlc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:08Z", "digest": "sha1:X5WFMMQDZLIOEITCTSDQZBP6PZEQ3FFX", "length": 1866, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.pcgamer.com", "title": "Stadiums come to Cities: Skylines in free \"Match Day\" DLC | PC Gamer", "raw_content": "Stadiums come to Cities: Skylines in free \"Match Day\" DLC\nThere's also a new patch that gives preorder bonus items to everyone.\nParadox Interactive has released a new bit of free Cities: Skylines DLC called Match Day that enables digital mayors to build a football stadium in their cities, attract a team, and then deal with the consequences: The ticket income is sweet, but traffic on game day can be a real headache. The DLC also adds new stadium-related policies, and there's a new hat (and new chirps) for Chirper, too.\nThe DLC comes alongside a small update that makes a handful of relatively minor fixes and tweaks to the game\u2014lowering the amount of power that Solar Plants produce during the night, for instance, and setting snowplow blades to face in the proper direction when using left-hand traffic\u2014and also adds five in-game items that had previously been available only to those who had preordered the game: the Carousel, Dog Park, Bouncy Castle, Basketball Court, and Botanical Garden.\nThe Match Day DLC is live now on Steam, and you can see the full patch notes on the Paradox forums. You can also, since you're here, feast your eyes on a stunning, 50,000-building Cities: Skylines recreation of the city of Seattle, or if you're in the mood for something different, watch 200,000 innocent people get swept away in a deluge of liquid poop.\nThe PC Gaming Show returns to E3 on Monday June 13, featuring game announcements, updates to existing favourites, and conversation with top developers. You can find out what to expect here, and also book free tickets to attend in person at pcgamingshow.com. The PC Gaming Show will be broadcast live through twitch.tv/pcgamer from 11:30 am PT/2:30 pm ET/6:30 pm GMT, but be sure to tune in beforehand to check out The Steam Speedrun, in which one lucky winner will buy as many games as they can in three minutes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcgamer.com/watch-dogs-on-pc-beset-by-uplay-troubles-ubisoft-is-working-on-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:21Z", "digest": "sha1:JLHBZR5XBNSVBVES5GKDPU2DCLL7T756", "length": 2150, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pcgamer.com", "title": "Watch Dogs on PC beset by uPlay troubles; Ubisoft is working on it | PC Gamer", "raw_content": "Watch Dogs on PC beset by uPlay troubles; Ubisoft is working on it\nIt's Watch Dogs launch day and that means that if you're a dedicated PC gamer, there are decent odds that you're not actually playing it. That's because it requires access by way of uPlay , Ubisoft's Steam-style online game service, and it's not working quite as well as it should be. The Watch Dogs forum on Steam is pretty heavily top-loaded with complaints at the moment, most of which relate to connectivity issues and an inability to play the game. Ubisoft has already admitted that an \"extremely high server load\" is wreaking havoc on the system.\n\u2014 Watch Dogs (@watchdogsgame) May 27, 2014 May 27, 2014\nOne fed-up fan has started a Change.org petition calling on Ubisoft to drop the uPlay requirement for Steam games.\nInfuriating though it may be, this isn't an entirely surprising outcome. Online DRM in general can be messy on launch day, and Ubisoft's record in the area is far from outstanding. The same thing happened to Far Cry 3 in 2012, when offline servers kept people out of the game at launch. Ubisoft's response to that mess is quite similar to the one it tweeted earlier this afternoon via the official Watch Dogs Twitter account, when the publisher acknowledged that there is in fact a problem. \"We're still working on fixing our server authentication issues,\" it wrote. \"Stay tuned.\"\nWhether or not you run into problems seems to be largely a matter of luck, and perhaps location. Both Kotaku and Polygon say that some users are able to access the game with relative ease while others run face-first into a virtual brick wall; Polygon goes further to say that console gamers are also affected by Ubi's troubles. Either way, it doesn't sound like a quick-fix is imminent, as Ubisoft's most recent tweet effectively recommends that gamers just keep hammering on it until something gives way.\n\"All the possible efforts are put into the resolution of this problem. We are currently monitoring the situation closely,\" the Watch Dogs account tweeted. \"The connection is rising and the issue still seems intermittent, the sign in system might work after several tries.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcmag.com/news/326237/yes-virginia-there-is-an-internet-santa-claus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:29Z", "digest": "sha1:T4NJPPTIHOEBJHHKY2AZVUEC3TR7SKK4", "length": 2189, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.pcmag.com", "title": "Which State Boasts The Fastest Internet Speeds?", "raw_content": "Yes, Virginia, There Is an Internet Santa Claus\nThe state enjoys the fastest Internet speeds in the U.S., according to Broadview Networks.\nDoes your state come out on top when it comes to Internet speeds? If you live in Virginia, the answer is yes.\nWeb surfers in Virginia enjoy the fastest Internet connections in the United Sates, according to communications and cloud services provider Broadview Networks. Delaware takes second place, followed by Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Washington, D.C. to round out the top five.\nOther states that rank near the top of the list? Washington, New Hampshire, Utah, Michigan, and Connecticut.\nUnfortunately for West Virginians, though they may share a name with their neighbors to the east, their state's Internet speeds ranked among the slowest, per Broadview Networks.\nTo see where your state ranks, check out the map below. Dark green represents high speed connections, while lighter green shows slower speeds.\nBroadview Networks created the visualization based on data from Akamai Technologies' \"State of Internet\" report. The speeds are shown in megabits per second (mbps), which is just a measurement of data transfer within a network.\n\"It's no surprise that the Northeast has some of the fastest speeds in the nation, while the Midwest and less populated states have generally slower speeds,\" Broadview wrote in a blog post. \"The state with the fastest speed was Virginia at 13.7 average mbps, while the slowest belonged to Alaska at 7 average mbps.\"\nRounding out the bottom five were Arkansas, Kentucky, Montana, and West Virginia. Also ranking near the bottom of the list were Mississippi, New Mexico, Missouri, Louisiana, and Idaho.\nMeanwhile, global Web speeds continued getting faster this year, climbing 1.8 percent in the first quarter to reach an average connection speed of 3.9 Mbps, according to Akamai's latest Internet report, released in June. South Korea's 8 percent jump to 23.6 Mbps secured its first-place position in the world\u2014 9 Mbps ahead of Japan, in second place with 14.6 Mbps. The U.S. did not make the top 10.\nUSPTO Backs Samsung in Autocomplete Tiff With Apple\nGmail's 'Unsubscribe' Feature Available to All Users", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 205, "original_length": 6351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pcworld.com/article/2886749/teen-hacks-car-with-15-worth-of-parts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:13Z", "digest": "sha1:TI5Y5R5UP4COH6WVRGY5UVYC3DCM5HM5", "length": 5667, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.pcworld.com", "title": "Teen hacks car with $15 worth of parts | PCWorld", "raw_content": "Teen hacks car with $15 worth of parts\nSenior Reporter, IDG News Service | Feb 20, 2015 2:05 PM PT\nSenators to push privacy, security legislation for IoT, connected cars\nInternet of Things security check: How 3 smart devices can be dumb about the...\nBMW cars found vulnerable in Connected Drive hack\nA teenager not even old enough to drive a car was able to wirelessly connect to a vehicle's internal computer network and control various functions.\nThe 14-year-old built an electronic remote auto communications device with $15 worth of Radio Shack parts that were assembled in less than a night.\nAuto executives at a conference this week sponsored by the Center for Automotive Research revealed how stunned they were by the feat, which actually happened last summer, noting it shed light on the need for greater security as vehicles gain more wireless capabilities.\nThe boy, whose name is not being released, was among 30 other students ranging in age from high school to college undergraduates to PhD students who participated in the third annual Battelle CyberAuto Challenge. The year, make and models of the cars experimented on during the challenge were not disclosed.\nWhile the CyberAuto Challenge was held last July, a recent report by U.S. Sen. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) and comments from auto executives at this week's conference brought it back into the spotlight.\nMarkey's office issued a report on vehicle security and privacy earlier this month, noting that automakers are developing fleets with fully adopted wireless technologies like Bluetooth and wireless Internet access, but aren't addressing \"the real possibilities of hacker infiltration into vehicle systems.\n\"Even as we are more connected than ever in our cars and trucks, our technology systems and data security remain largely unprotected,\" Markey, a member of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said in a statement. \"We need to work with the industry and cyber-security experts to establish clear rules of the road to ensure the safety and privacy of 21st century American drivers.\"\nHeld in Troy, Mich., the CyberAuto Challenge is a five-day gathering of auto industry engineers, academic researchers and members of the white-hat hacker community who assist the students with knowledge of their various vehicles.\nAlso in attendance at the CyberAuto Challenge were White House staff members and lawmakers.\nAfter the students were educated on vehicle hardware, internal bus systems and wireless communication protocols, they divided into teams and attacked their assigned automobiles.\nWith just a little soldering and assembly, the 14-year-old built a device to wirelessly communicate with a vehicle's controller area network (CAN) and remotely control non-safety related equipment such as headlights, window wipers and the horn. He was also able to unlock the car and engage the vehicle's remote start feature.\nAndrew Brown Jr., chief technologist at Delphi Automotive, was on hand for the challenge and was quoted as saying there is no way the boy should have been able to do what he did.\nAccording to some security experts, infiltrating a vehicle's CAN should be an arduous process that requires in-depth planning. But, the kid even declined help from the technical experts on hand.\n\"It was mind-blowing,\" Brown said.\nAnuja Sonalker, lead scientist for Battelle's cyber auto group, said that -- just like the computer industry -- automakers are rolling out technology first and security second.\n\"Malware surfaced a lot later than computer technology,\" Sonalker said. \"We've built security as an after thought in all industries.\"\nThe Battelle CyberAuto Challenge is meant to keep the auto industry \"on its toes,\" she said.\nSonalker also noted that critical vehicle systems, those that control braking or acceleration, could not be accessed remotely because there are physical firewalls built into CANs. \"Automakers have done a good job with safety,\" she said.\nFar from being upset, those from the industry who were in attendance at the academic challenge were pleased to learn of the security issues.\n\"The findings...were handed over to automakers so they can take it back to their engineers, and they've been happy with what was discovered,\" Sonalker said.\n\"Hopefully, this is something the auto industry understands: This means people are watching and we have to do a great job with new technology in putting all the protections in from day one,\" Sonalker said.\nBut Markey's report, \"Tracking & Hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers at Risk,\" accused the auto industry of neglecting security and privacy gaps.\nThe report is based on responses from 16 major automakers to questions from the lawmaker about security and privacy vulnerabilities, and cited a 2013 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) study. That study included two researchers who were able to connect a laptop to two different vehicles' computer systems using a cable, send commands to different electronic control units (ECUs) through the vehicle CAN. That allowed them to control the engine, brakes, steering and other critical vehicle components.\n\"Security measures to prevent remote access to vehicle electronics are inconsistent and haphazard across all automobile manufacturers,\" the Markey report said.\nIn fact, most automobile manufacturers were unaware of or unable to report on past hacking incidents, according to the report.\nOnly two automobile manufacturers were able to describe any capabilities to diagnose or meaningfully respond to an infiltration in real-time, the report said, \"and most say they rely on technologies that cannot be used for this purpose at all.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 8000, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pearson.co.jp/en/products_services/qualifications-curriculum/lcci/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:11Z", "digest": "sha1:H6JNO5GY4BB5SJTEZ23V44F45RUISMB6", "length": 683, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.pearson.co.jp", "title": "LCCI - \u30d4\u30a2\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30b8\u30e3\u30d1\u30f3 - Pearson Japan", "raw_content": "LCCI qualifications are trusted and valued by employers, universities and professional bodies worldwide for their practical focus on work-ready skills in key business areas such as finance, marketing and administration, as well as English language and teaching.\nThe first choice for ambitious professionals\nThe LCCI (London Chamber of Commerce International) brand has been renowned for over 100 years and these qualifications are supported by extensive learning resources and easy online administration.\nEvery year, over 250,000 ambitious students from all over the world choose an LCCI qualification, knowing it gives them the edge they need to take them as far as they want to go.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pedestrian.tv/news/government-passes-law-banning-torrenting-websites-in-australia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:13Z", "digest": "sha1:KOVX43WQ4BIYJVRW3JLPBL274KN3VIDY", "length": 1069, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pedestrian.tv", "title": "Government Passes Law Banning Torrenting Websites in Australia Government Passes Law Banning Torrenting Websites in Australia", "raw_content": "Government Passes Law Banning Torrenting Websites in Australia\nWe told you your days of downloading/streaming Game of Thrones were numbered, didn\u2019t we?\nThe Abbott government today, with bipartisan support, passed a law which will ban torrenting and streaming websites.\nIt has been said that websites such as Kickass Torrents, The Pirate Bay, and Project Free TV, will more than likely be banned. However, according to Newscorp, the power to block offending websites will only apply to those operated outside of Australia.\nSimilar laws have existed in the UK since 2011, and are commonly regarded as reasonably unsuccessful in their goal. This is because, as soon as a site is blocked, multiple other mirror sites pop up. Once those mirror sites are blocked, more have already been created; the government simply cannot keep up. The UK also blocked proxy sites, which could likely be in Australia\u2019s not-so-distant future, too.\nThe Australian law passed in the Senate today 37-13. It was opposed by The Greens, David Leyonhjelm, Glenn Lazarus and Ricky Muir.\nvia Newscorp", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 2801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.penguin.co.nz/browse/politics-and-law", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:28Z", "digest": "sha1:KRSKYJWU24XZUI3HLVQZGIZS2XHXKINN", "length": 2114, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.penguin.co.nz", "title": "Politics & Law - Penguin Books New Zealand", "raw_content": "Books > Politics & Law\nPopular Politics & Law books (1547)\nZiauddin Yousafzai, Louise Carpenter\nMalala's father's passionate account of his amazing journey, the values that inspired Malala and how love drove him to fight for the rights of girls and women everywhere.\nDavid Stuckler, Sanjay Basu\nThis shocking, passionate book lays bare the truth about the human cost of financial crises. Backed up by the authors' own groundbreaking research, The Body Economic reveals that, even amid the worst economic disasters, the ways in which governments deal with . . .\nA landmark work of contemporary history and a wake-up call that aims to restore our understanding of the basis of our way of life, from the author of international bestseller On Tyranny.\nA landmark account of the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler, based on award-winning research, and recently discovered archival material.\nThe hilarious and universally lauded memoir of life as the daughter of a gun-toting, all-American Catholic priest.\nAn unputdownable real-life political thriller set in the House of Commons.\nThe \"forgotten\" second volume of Capital, Marx's world-shaking analysis of economics, politics, and history, contains the vital discussion of commodity, the cornerstone to Marx's theories.\nFrom America\u2019s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer\u2019s essential, timeless writings\nUs vs. Them: The Catastrophe of Global Populism\nAn exploration of the rise of global populism from the CEO of Eurasia group.\nWhat are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? Stay tuned.\nThe Spy Who Loved Castro\nThe fascinating story of Marita Lorenz, now the subject of a major film starring Jennifer Lawrence\nA comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky.\nPedagogy Of The Oppressed: PMC\nA groundbreaking text of educational philosophy and social reform, now in Penguin Modern Classics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 5518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 283.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.petaluma360.com/news/2224122-181/solution-to-highway-101s-biggest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:39Z", "digest": "sha1:IRNZUJ7EKPBVN37YUSOHSZOP372Z6234", "length": 4904, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.petaluma360.com", "title": "Solution to Highway 101's biggest bottleneck at least seven years away", "raw_content": "Solution to Highway 101's biggest bottleneck at least seven years away\n(1 of ) Commute traffic on Hightway 101 through the Novato Narrows.\nTHE PRESS DEMOCRAT |\nOn the day the new Graton Resort & Casino opened last week, northbound traffic on Highway 101 backed up from Rohnert Park all the way to Novato. It took drivers an hour to travel just 22 miles.\nThe casino is expected to add up to 10,000 vehicles per day to the already overburdened artery, highlighting the need to complete a long-planned Highway 101 overhaul, widening bridges, reconfiguring interchanges, and other improvements.\n\"A traffic generator like the casino makes this project even more important,\" said Dianne Steinhauser, executive director of the Transportation Authority of Marin. \"It emphasizes the need to do it.\"\nMuch of that work will be completed by 2017.\nBut even after all the improvements, the worst bottleneck in the area will remain: the freeway will still narrow from four lanes in Marin County down to two lanes from north of Novato to Petaluma. A lack of funding will leave that 10-mile gap in carpool lanes for at least seven more years, transportation officials say, and frustrate commuters who battle heavy daily traffic between Sonoma and Marin counties.\nThirteen years after embarking on the project to improve Highway 101 from Highway 37 in Novato to Windsor River Road \u2014 a nearly 40-mile stretch \u2014 construction crews are working on the last section between Petaluma and northern Novato known as \"The Narrows.\"\nThe projects underway include improving all four interchanges in Petaluma, widening the overpass at Redwood Landfill, adding frontage roads through The Narrows, closing off unsafe highway access points, and widening the bridges over the Petaluma River and Highway 116. All of the work will be completed by 2016.\nA future project to realign the freeway and build a new bridge over San Antonio Creek at the county line is fully funded and will break ground in 2015 with a two-year timeline.\nWhen all the work is complete, the freeway will be safer and more modern, but no wider than it is today. Funding for the last piece \u2014 a carpool lane in each direction from northern Novato to Old Redwood Highway in Petaluma \u2014 is still $250 million short, and officials don't know when it will come, or even who will pay.\n\"Where's the money going to come from? We don't know the answer to that yet,\" said Suzanne Smith, executive director of the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. \"If someone wrote me a check tomorrow, we could have the whole thing done in four years. Optimistically, we could see funding in two to four years.\"\nThe six miles of unfunded Sonoma County carpool lanes are estimated to cost $125 million. Marin County's four-mile gap is $110 million short.\nThe Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria, which owns the casino, will pay $2 million over the next 10 years for transportation infrastructure to offset the increased traffic from the gambling palace.\nSo far, the Sonoma County side of the project has been funded by Measure M, the 20-year sales tax measure voters approved in 2004, and the state and federal money that it has leveraged. But the Measure M fund is largely depleted. Officials borrowed most of the money up front, and the rest of the expected revenue will go toward servicing the debt, Smith said.\nRegional transportation planners must now get creative to make up the funding gap.\nExtending Measure M at this point is not an attractive option, Smith said, because the cost of borrowing that far ahead is expensive.\nMarin County's Measure A sales tax is not supporting the Narrows project, Steinhauser said. Those funds were spent on Highway 101 widening around San Rafael.\nSurvey: Petalumans would OK sales tax hike\nBuilding a better bridge in Petaluma\nMarin is widening its side of the freeway incrementally, including in two spots that should be ready early next year \u2014 an additional southbound lane from Novato Creek to Franklin Avenue and a northbound lane from Atherton Avenue to just south of Redwood Landfill.\nAgencies are looking for state and federal funding, but Smith doesn't expect money from Sacramento or Washington in the near future.\n\"In terms of state and federal funds, we don't expect to see a lot of that on the horizon,\" she said.\nA Congressional ban on earmarks makes federal funding for specific projects hard to come by, Steinhauser said.\nIn the meantime, officials are preparing the highway for the final 12-foot wide strip of asphalt \u2014 whenever funds become available \u2014 and preparing drivers to expect bottlenecks until at least 2020.\n\"We made a choice to do the safety improvements first,\" Steinhauser said. \"While we are able to make the roadway safer, we are not able to widen the road all the way at this time. That's going to be frustrating for drivers.\"\nYou can reach Staff Writer Matt Brown at 521-5206 or matt.brown@pressdemocrat.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 9088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 313.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.peterlang.com/cite/$002f9783653981261$002fxhtml$002fabout_the_author.xhtml/9783653043419?nojs=true", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:54Z", "digest": "sha1:4X2BN3KYUNLXWUDQN6K5JGMQVCHCFR72", "length": 781, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.peterlang.com", "title": "Cite", "raw_content": ". (n.d. ). \"About the author(s)/editor(s)\". In The Mutual Assistance and Solidarity Clauses. Bern, Switzerland: , . Retrieved Feb 15, 2019, from https://www.peterlang.com/view/9783653981261/xhtml/about_the_author.xhtml\n. \"About the author(s)/editor(s)\". The Mutual Assistance and Solidarity Clauses. Bern, Switzerland: , , n.d. . < https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04341-9/5>. Web. 15 Feb. 2019.\n. \"About the author(s)/editor(s)\". In The Mutual Assistance and Solidarity Clauses, (Bern, Switzerland: , , n.d. ) accessed Feb 15, 2019, https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04341-9/5\n(n.d. ). About the author(s)/editor(s). In The Mutual Assistance and Solidarity Clauses, Bern, Switzerland: , . available from: < https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04341-9/5> [Accessed 15 February 2019]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 158.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.phdportal.com/universities/4922/edinburgh-business-school.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:13Z", "digest": "sha1:4POZZRDA3C2SMZMH2AFQ2JPBNO7LC4K3", "length": 98, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.phdportal.com", "title": "Edinburgh Business School - Edinburgh - United Kingdom - PhDportal.com", "raw_content": "Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Heriot-Watt University\nPh.D. Doctor of Business Administration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 5565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 80.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.photocreative.com/products/nikon-en-el-18a-battery-for-d4s-d5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:40Z", "digest": "sha1:CYK23TCFGX4D2HBK7DYK7Q4R462ZTNDL", "length": 397, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.photocreative.com", "title": "Nikon EN-EL18b Battery for D4s, D5 \u2013 Photocreative Inc.", "raw_content": "Nikon EN-EL18b Battery for D4s, D5\nThe Nikon EN-EL18a is a 2500 mAh Rechargeable Li-ion Battery that is used to power the D5, D4s and D4 dSLR cameras. The EN-EL18a Li-ion Battery can be charged using either the MH-26a or MH-26 Battery Chargers. Long-lasting, powerful and light-weight, this battery can power your D5 up to an astounding 8000 images before requiring a convenient 2-3 hour recharge.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.physics.wisc.edu/twap/?year=2017&month=10&week=5", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FLNEC7CR6Y4GW5AJF45VGUTIZI7LECBR", "length": 6491, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.physics.wisc.edu", "title": "This Week at Physics | Department of Physics", "raw_content": "Partisan redistricting in Wisconsin\nSpeaker: David Canon, UW Department of Political Science\nAbstract: Professor David Canon will discuss the potential landmark Supreme Court case, Gill v. Whitford, concerning partisan redistricting. Canon will provide some background on the law and the basic principles of redistricting, explore the history of partisan redistricting and then discuss the Wisconsin case. He will speculate about the likely outcome, with a focus on the role of Justice Kennedy and the new measure of partisan bias (the \u201cefficiency gap\u201d). Canon will conclude by talking about possible reforms, with a focus on Iowa\u2019s nonpartisan model of redistricting.\nTraces in polar ice: neutrinos, dust, life and a million-year core\nSpeaker: Ryan Bay, UC Berkeley\nDid the Universe pour us a stout?\nPlace: Nomad World Pub 418 E. Wilson St.\nSpeaker: K. Palladino, UW- Madison\nAbstract: Dark matter, dark beer, dark times (Happy Halloween!). The day before we gather is not only All Hallows\u2019 Eve, it\u2019s also #DarkMatterDay. But what is dark matter exactly? Well, it makes up five times more of the matter in the universe than all the stars, planets, galaxies and other \u201cregular matter\u201d we are used to, but scientists know more about what dark matter isn\u2019t than what it is. UW\u2013Madison Physics Professor Kim Palladino plans to take us on a journey of dark matter, which she says is gravitationally important for the formation of galaxies and the development of the universe. So, let Nomad \u2013 and the universe \u2013 pour you a stout and sit back as she explains how scientists are trying to uncover more about dark matter, including by placing large detectors deep underground. Completely free and open to all ages. Parking is available across from the bar in the Hancock Street lot after 6 p.m. Served by buses: 3, 4, 10, 38, 56, 57\nWisconsin Science Festival\nIceCube at Wisconsin Science Festival\nPlace: Discovery Building\nSpeaker: IceCube faculty and staff\nAbstract: Come learn more about IceCube at the Wisconsin Science Festival. We will be at the Discovery Building from Nov 2nd and Nov 3rd, 9am-2pm and Nov 4th from 10am-3pm! We will have interactive activities for kids and adults, including our IceCube LED display.\nDesign and Synthesis of 1D and 2D Nanomaterials Away from Equilibrium\nSpeaker: Xudong Wang, UW-Madison (Materials Science and Engineering)\nAbstract: Morphology is one essential element that gives rise to extraordinary physical, chemical, and mechanical properties in nanomaterials. Precise morphology control of nanomaterials is a notorious task, which heavily relies on fundamental understanding of the governing mechanisms and kinetics at the nanoscale. In this talk, I will present our three recent discoveries of the growth kinetics in 1D and 2D nanomaterial evolution. Firstly, the surface-reaction-limited pulsed chemical vapor deposition (SPCVD) technique will be discussed. The SPCVD technique effectively decouples the crystal growth from precursor vapor concentration, thus makes the conform growth of dense NW arrays inside highly-confined submicron-sized spaces possible. The evolution of NRs was found to be a manifestation of the Ostwald-Lussac Law. SPCVD opens a new route toward the design and creation of complex 3D hierarchical nanostructures, which can advantageously impact the devices performance of solar energy harvesting. Secondly, I will present our discovery of the wedding cake growth mechanism in the formation of 1D and 2D ZnO nanostructures. Within a narrow kinetic window, the surfaces of the 1D and 2D structures were covered with a unique concentric terrace feature, different from the screw-dislocation features. An interesting 1D to 2D morphology transition was found during the wedding cake growth, when the adatoms overcome the Ehrlich-Schwoebel (ES) barrier. At last, I will present a new ionic layer epitaxy (ILE) technique that uses surfactant monolayers to serve as soft templates guiding the nucleation and growth of 2D nanomaterials in large area beyond the limitation of van der Waals solids. One- to two-nm-thick, single-crystalline free-standing ZnO nanosheets with sizes up to tens of micrometers were synthesized at the water-air interface. ILE of other metals and oxides have also been proved to be successful.\n\"The magnetic interstellar medium: cosmological and astrophysical perspectives\"\nSpeaker: Susan Clark, Institute for Advanced Study\nAbstract: The interstellar medium (ISM) is multi-phase, turbulent, and magnetic. This makes the ISM an ideal laboratory for studying the multi-scale physics of star formation and galactic evolution. This unfortunately also makes the ISM a formidable foreground for cosmology experiments, such as the search for inflationary gravitational wave B-mode polarization in the cosmic microwave background. I will discuss recent work on magnetic fields in the diffuse ISM, with a particular focus on insights from high-dynamic range observations of neutral hydrogen and polarized dust emission. Novel tools for quantifying the morphology of interstellar material are enabling new probes of the ambient magnetic field structure, and thus a better characterization of polarized cosmological foregrounds. The hunt for primordial signals is now inextricably linked to our understanding of the magnetic ISM.\nHost: Prof Alexander Lazarian\nUnlocking the mysteries of the Universe with the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider\nAbstract: The discovery of the Higgs Boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 was a ground-breaking event in particle physics history. The LHC has restarted recently at an unprecedented center of mass energy of about 13 TeV and the data collected by the CMS experiment is expected to help fully understand the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking and potentially discover new physics. In this talk, I will review recent results from the CMS experiment with special focus on searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.\nGraduate School Admissions Q&A I: Meeting with an Admissions Committee Member\nAbstract: Anyone interested in learning more about graduate school is welcome to attend a Q&A panel with admissions committee member Stanislav Boldyrev. This will be an opportunity for undergrads to ask questions about applying to graduate school and to learn about what an admissions committee looks for in an applicant.\nThis event is open to all undergraduates, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend.\nHost: Women and Gender Minorities in Physics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 10834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 336.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pic2map.com/sqngay.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:43Z", "digest": "sha1:AFHN7LHUYFXVC27K22P3KCBE547KAOLI", "length": 2607, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.pic2map.com", "title": "Photo taken at Yellowstone National Park, U.S. 212, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA with Canon EOS REBEL T3", "raw_content": "Camera:Canon EOS REBEL T3\nDate:Mon 16th of June 2014\nAddress:Yellowstone National Park, U.S. 212, Yellowstone Nationa\u2026\nCity:Park County / Wyoming\nLocation:44\u00b0 53' 58.8\" N, 110\u00b0 7' 43.2\" W\nShare URL:https://www.pic2map.com/sqngay.html\nThe photo was shot using a Canon EOS REBEL T3 camera at an aperture of f/22, 1/25 sec. shutter speed and ISO 100. Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode. The original image file has a resolution of 4264 x 2843 pixels, or in other words 12.1 megapixels.The photo has a resolution of 300 DPI and occupies a disk space of 7.02 megabytes.\nAccording to the image metadata, the photo was shot on Monday 16th of June 2014. The local time was 09:29:10. The timezone was America / Boise, which is GMT -06:00. Please note that timezone was guessed using the GPS coordinates and may not be accurate. The EXIF timestamp may also be wrong if the date and time weren't set correctly in the digital camera.\nCanon EOS REBEL T3 camera has a built-in GPS receiver and allows geotagging on image files. The coordinates and location where the photo was taken is stored in the EXIF. According to GPS data analysis, the photo was taken at coordinates 44\u00b0 53' 58.8\" N , 110\u00b0 7' 43.2\" W. The elevation was 0 meters. Using reverse geocoding, the address associated with the coordinates is guessed as Yellowstone National Park, U.S. 212, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA. Depending on the GPS receiver and the reception conditions the accuracy may vary and the address should not be regarded as exact location.\nModel:EOS REBEL T3\nFile Name:Trout Lake, Yellowstone National Park, USA\nCoordinates:44\u00b0 53' 58.8\" N , 110\u00b0 7' 43.2\" W\nCity:Park County\nState:Wyoming\nAddress:Yellowstone National Park, U.S. 212, Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190, USA\nEast Entrance Road, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States\nArtist's Paint Pots Trail, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States\nNorth Fork Highway, Cody, Wyoming, United States\nFountain Paint Pot Trail, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States\nGrand Loop Road, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States\nLoop Trail, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States\nOld Faithful Road, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States\nContinental Divide Trail, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States\nUnnamed Road, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States\nKleinschmidt Road, Gallatin Gateway, Montana, United States\nU.S. 20, Ashton, Idaho, United States\nJenny Lake Trail, Alta, Wyoming, United States\nHighway 31, Victor, Idaho, United States\nSouth 4300 West, Rexburg, Idaho, United States", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 202.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pineridgegc.com/the-pine-ridge-post/tommys-time-at-the-masters", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:17Z", "digest": "sha1:JOGENFFNIHQHEXJSDII5VCRCYMYVBDI2", "length": 1585, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.pineridgegc.com", "title": "Tommy's Time at The Masters", "raw_content": "Tommy's Time at The Masters\nOur General Manager Tommy attended the Masters this year and I just had to ask him some questions about the hallowed ground that is Augusta National. It\u2019s a once in a lifetime trip so we needed to know the ins-and-outs of his experience.\nWhat was your first impression of the Masters? \u201cThe free parking \u2013 everyone parked on perfect sod. There were thousands of volunteers \u2013 you wouldn\u2019t believe how many people they have volunteering there. The staff were all super-friendly; good old Southern hospitality.\u201d\nDoes TV do Augusta justice? \u201cDefinitely not \u2013 the course is much hillier in person and the greens have an unbelievable amount of slope to them.\u201d\nWhat does $10 get you at the concession stand? \u201cI had a sandwich, iced tea, water, a cookie, a bag of chips, and a bag of popcorn \u2013 all for $10.\u201d\nTommy followed Charley Hoffman and Patrick Reed on Thursday \u2013 \u201cit was great hearing the conversations going on between those two. Patrick was talking about how he hit a stock wedge nine yards too far in a different round \u2013 it might not sound like much, but it shows that Patrick is here for business and is in the right frame of mind to compete on the PGA Tour. It\u2019s good to be friendly and make small talk, but he\u2019s out here to compete and be the best player on the tour.\u201d Tommy also said that Tiger had a gallery that was \u201cat least six deep \u2013 he also had security monitoring the crowd on every hole.\u201d\nAll in all, Tommy says to \u201cput your name in the ticket lottery \u2013 it\u2019s something that you need to do if given the opportunity. It\u2019s the trip of a lifetime.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 285.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pjwetzel.com/2013/12/ringworld-by-larry-niven-book-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:09Z", "digest": "sha1:F54XNQLQGROVGTQ544QVCSPB3LHV4E6G", "length": 3710, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.pjwetzel.com", "title": "Heart and Sole: Ringworld, by Larry Niven, a book review", "raw_content": "Larry Niven wrote Ringworld at a time (1970) when it was considered acceptable and even trendy for artists to disrespect their audience. Having lived through that era and having been battered by dissatisfying endings, by authors and movie directors playing mind games or treating me as if I was a toy for them to manipulate, I am ever-so-glad that fad disappeared quickly.\nRingworld isn't so bad as some. It has a nicely satisfying ending and it presented a rich well-imagined world. But the author's style suffered from a the 1970's-haute tendency to treat the reader as an outsider. Perhaps it was just me. Maybe hard-core fans of hard-core science fiction at the time had heard of all the myriad of imagined technologies that were mentioned--named--with the assumption that they needed no explanation, as if the reader was supposed to know as much about them as the characters living in that world.\nThe story is imaginative in the extreme. It throws together four characters - two humans and two aliens with cultural and physical differences designed to keep tension high - and sends them on a quest across the galaxy to a newly discovered artificial world built in the form of a ring that spins about its sun such that centrifugal force creates gravity and keeps its inhabitants pinned to the inner surface along with an atmosphere, oceans, soil, etc. Niven envisioned the ring as being 600 million miles in length (circumference) and a million miles wide. He barely bothers to explain how it might be built and maintained. Since it is always high noon at every point on the habitable inner surface of the ring he decides to suspend (using invisible wire of virtually infinite tensile strength) a series of sunlight-blocking 'shadow squares' between the sun and the ring in order to artificially create a day/night cycle. This is a peculiarly unnecessary complication (except for the fact that Niven's characters would eventually need some of that wire). People could shut their blinds. People live happily in Svalbard with no darkness for 4 months at a time.\nThe pace of the action is steady and gripping enough to have kept my interest. I enjoyed reading the book, but I did not enjoy the main character, 200 year old Louis Wu. The author uses him as an omniscient explainer of things that he could not possibly have figured out - including history and technology he had never seen, and even the behavior of the other characters. It was simply not believable even in this highly speculative sci-fi setting.\nSo lets talk about the setting - the technology. It bordered on pure fantasy and supernatural. Niven concocted a major catastrophe at the center of the galaxy which would destroy all life within a few tens of thousands of years. But he had a solution for it. And in fact he had a solution for virtually every physical limitation our real non-catastrophic universe presents us. He has immortality drugs, multiple kinds of stasis/suspended animation, psychic weapons, several technologies to travel and communicate faster than the speed of light, virtually indestructible materials suited to every imaginable need. And he didn't stop there. He assumes that genetic selection for god-like invulnerability (what he calls 'luck') could take place in six generations of breeding. He assumes microbes could evolve to feed on certain specific, plot-convenient, technology-critical materials but on few other easier-to-digest things -- e.g. he exposes his four heroes to all these evolved microbes and they don't get so much as a sniffle. It was all just a little much to take - I felt such a heavy burden of disbelief that in order to suspend it, I, too, needed some of his invisible 'shadow square wire'.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 8312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.playusalotteries.com/en/play-the-lottery/the-euromillions-lottery.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:29Z", "digest": "sha1:E23MYCIJ2QZVAGB7WYSPRDELSGBJSINB", "length": 2753, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.playusalotteries.com", "title": "Online Lotto Tickets | Play EuroMillions", "raw_content": "EuroMillions Online Lotto Tickets\nTHE EUROMILLIONS LOTTERY (EUROMILLIONS)\nThe EuroMillions lotto\u2019s inception took place in early February 2004. It was an initiative conceptualized and set up by the national lotteries of France, Spain and the United Kingdom. Initially these three countries were the only participating entities in EuroMillions; however, during October 2004 Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, Portugal, Switzerland and the Republic of Ireland decided to commit to the draw as well.\nThe EuroMillions lottery (more commonly known as the Euro lotto) pools the ticket revenue from all nine participating European nations, which directly correlates to often-immense Euro lotto jackpots. With the number of countries joining the European Union, this will logically lead to new countries registering with the Euro lotto - which will result in their residents actively taking part in the draws - which will just further add to the jackpot and increase the winning bounty by even more.\nDue to the establishment of online lottery ticket sales agents, you may now obtain your EuroMillions tickets via the internet - regardless of your location worldwide, which means you do not need to be a citizen of any of the participating countries. As a participant, you are required to pick five main numbers from 1-50 and two \u201cLucky Star\u201d numbers from 1-12. During the draw, the five main and two Lucky Star numbers are then pulled out at random from two draw machines containing the numbered balls. The probability of netting the full EuroMillions lotto jackpot is 1 in 117 million \u2013 although the odds of winning a substantial cash prize in one of the division tiers is a reasonable 1 in 13.\nThe largest ever EuroMillions jackpot pool that was won to date, has been draw #510 which took place on Friday 10 August 2012. Winners Adrian and Gillian Bayford from Suffolk, England, walked away with an astonishing \u20ac190 million (\u00a3148 million). If nobody matches the drawn numbers to win the jackpot in a given week, it is automatically carried forward (\u201crolled over\u201d) to the following week, which naturally results in an ever-growing jackpot prize. New regulations introduced during February 2007 capped the number of rollovers to eleven, with the jackpot rolling down to lower prize levels in the eleventh draw if the prize was not won. The new regulations also brought with it the EuroMillions \u201cSuper Draws\u201d, which take place bi-annually and offer jackpots in the region of \u00a3100 million.\nEuromillions jackpots are now capped at \u20ac190 million, with the jackpot rolling down if it is not won after four rollovers.\nDraws occur bi-weekly; every Tuesday and Friday in Paris, France at 20h55 CET. All prizes , including the jackpot, are tax-free and are paid as a lump sum.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 13229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.podcastunited.com/Society-and-Culture/Vox-Tablet.html?Play=The-Life-and-Good-Times-of-Norman-Lear", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JDUCW73HHFVFMF3GY4XJ3DAXPTDFIS6Z", "length": 1041, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.podcastunited.com", "title": "The Life and Good Times of Norman Lear | Vox Tablet", "raw_content": "The Life and Good Times of Norman Lear\nArchie Bunker, George Jefferson, Mary Hartman, Maude Findlay are just a handful of the iconic characters Norman Lear created for television. In his storied career, Lear tackled abortion, cancer, racism, rape, abuse, interracial relationships, single motherhood, alcoholism, and poverty\u2014subjects many shows today won\u2019t even consider as viable fodder for entertainment. Now 92 years old, Lear got his start writing bits for showmen like Danny Thomas and Jerry Lewis before moving into television and film and then embarking on a second career as an activist (he co-founded People for the American Way). Now Lear has moved into a new medium\u2014print. He has written Even This I Get To Experience, a memoir, and joins Vox Tablet host Sara Ivry to discuss how his father, who was in jail for several years during Lear\u2019s childhood, inspired and deviates from Archie, what compelled him about writing shows about racial and economic disparities, and why Transparent is the best show on television now. \u2026read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 4837, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.porscheroadandrace.com/911-carrera-club-sport-rolling-back-the-years/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:33Z", "digest": "sha1:7LKQSLTVXLGUNPY6UF3BT2LOYWZ3QHET", "length": 18961, "nlines": 73, "source_domain": "www.porscheroadandrace.com", "title": "911 Carrera Club Sport \u2013 rolling back the years | Porsche Road & Race", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Featured / 911 Carrera Club Sport \u2013 rolling back the years\n911 Carrera Club Sport \u2013 rolling back the years\n2nd July 2018 by: Glen Smale | Leave a Comment\n1987 model 911 Carrera 3.2 Club Sport Coup\u00e9\nThe 911 Carrera Club Sport was Porsche\u2019s attempt at rolling back the years and once again, stoking the fires of high performance, lightweight motoring. Porsche Road & Race pulls back the covers to reveal the origins of the 911 Carrera CS.\nOriginally created on the core building blocks of lightweight, high performance and superb engineering quality, the early 356 model did much to establish the Porsche name back in the early 1950s. With the introduction of the 911 model in 1963, however, this newcomer was without a top performer in the range and it would be another ten years before the legendary 911 Carrera RS 2.7 would break cover.\n1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 (M472), Silverstone\nMembership of the exclusive \u2018RS\u2019 club would initially be limited to just 500 lucky buyers made up of both racing drivers as well as sports driving enthusiasts, but when the Stuttgart sales boys saw how popular the RS 2.7 was, production was quickly doubled and then trebled. The Carrera RS 3.0 followed in 1974 but apart from the Turbo a year later, there was little else to quicken pulse until the arrival of the SC/RS in 1984, but only twenty of this latter, highly sought-after model, were produced.\nHowever, behind the scenes, work had begun on a model (M637) in the autumn of 1984 that would see Porsche returning to its lightweight roots with the 911 family. The final production car, namely the 1987 Carrera Club Sport would serve as the model on which future amateur racing versions of the 911 would be based.\nThe 1987 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show was significant for Porsche in that the 911 celebrated the 25th anniversary of the model\u2019s introduction, and what better way to mark the occasion than with the launch of a new variant, the 911 Carrera Club Sport, or CS as it would be known. Based on the principle of \u2018less is more\u2019, the CS had the same price tag as its standard Carrera sibling, namely DM80,500 which was something only the Porsche sales department could explain. The Club Sport was basically the same car mechanically as the Carrera but it offered fewer comforts and a greater driving experience but with better acceleration than the standard car.\n1985 prototype 911 Carrera 3.2 Club Sport in the Museum Workshop\nAs is common in the automotive industry, following its introduction, a model is routinely increasingly fitted with more equipment and driver comforts. The vehicle usually grows dimensionally and becomes heavier as a result because of the additional features such as air conditioning, electric seats, electric windows and exterior mirrors, and much more. The CS was an attempt to ditch many of these creature comforts, and in so doing create a 911 that could be used with a reasonable degree of competitiveness on club track days or as an everyday runner without incurring the harsh ride of a hardcore racer.\n\u201cYou know what it was built for don\u2019t you?\u201d prompted Mark Sumpter, Porsche racing driver and dealer. \u201cAt the time, it was actually built for club sport racing, so they didn\u2019t market it much because they weren\u2019t looking to sell it as a model in the [911] model range,\u201d he added.\nNot wanting to go for the full Weissach-built RSR racer and entering in high-profile demanding events such as the 24-Hours of Le Mans and other similar international events, some amateur motor racing enthusiasts wanted rather to participate in club races in a vehicle that did not require the professional skills of a fulltime racing driver, nor the high costs associated with that level of racing. It didn\u2019t take much head-scratching in Stuttgart to come up with the same successful recipe that they cooked up each time the factory wanted to customise a 911 for competition, and so the engineers put the standard Carrera 3.2 on a strict diet.\nThe starting point was the reliable 3.2 boxer engine, as Sumpter explains, \u201cThey actually lifted the rev limit by 500rpm, and you could also opt for a blueprinted engine, which wasn\u2019t offered as standard. The engine wasn\u2019t any different at all mechanically. It was a sort of lightweight model, a stripped-out car, but it wasn\u2019t massively special on spec.\u201d\n1985 prototype 911 Carrera 3.2 Club Sport in the Museum Workshop showing engine detail\nPorsche stripped out certain components such window winders and even removed the rear seats. But as Sumpter points out, \u201cSome of the stuff they did was a bit odd, for instance they took the passenger sun visor out but left a full-size battery and a metal bonnet and wings, as well as the heavy bumpers. They even left in the standard radio.\u201d\nPorsche Carrera RS 2.7 (1973)\n911 Carrera RS 2.7 and Carrera CS production:\nModel Production 1973 Production 1987-89\nCarrera RS 2.7 \u2013 M471 217*\nCarrera RS 2.7 \u2013 M472 1308\nCarrera Club Sport 3.2 190\n*figure includes homologation vehicles\nOf the total 911 CS cars produced, 54 right hand drive cars came to the UK, all of which were painted white with red lettering. All except one, that is, which was painted in the reverse being all red with white lettering. In order to retain the CS\u2019s street character, the model was offered in all the standard colours available on the 911 (including optional colours), but in reality, most CS models were painted white. Due to the fact that the CS had lost its underfloor protective coating, the model was offered with a reduced two-year warranty against body corrosion.\nOddly enough, the 911 CS was fitted with 6J wheels at the front with 8J on the rear (same as the standard Carrera), while the 911 SC/RS which predated the CS came fitted with 7J/8J wheels front/rear, further confirming this CS model as a lightly modified standard car. Based on the standard 3.2 Carrera and built on the 911 production line in Stuttgart, the CS was aimed at the motor sport-minded enthusiast and was constructed in such a way that it would make a perfectly capable track day car.\nPorsche had no intention of homologating this model for racing, but the 911 Carrera CS did usher in one very welcome mechanical improvement, the new G50 short-shift, close-ratio gearbox. Club Sport owner and racing driver instructor Mike Wilds said, \u201cAll I can say is that it is one of the sweetest cars that I have driven, and I certainly would never ever sell it.\u201d\n911 Carrera 3,2 Coup\u00e9 Clubsport, 1987, driven here by J\u00fcrgen Pippig\nThe difference in weight between the Carrera Club Sport and the standard Carrera 3.2, is just 50kg. Introduced in August 1984, the Carrera weighed in at 1160kg but by 1987 the standard car had grown to 1210kg. But as Sumpter says, \u201cBy the late \u201880s the 3.2 Carrera was not amazingly fast so to take out 50kg didn\u2019t make it much faster, so I don\u2019t think Porsche ever marketed this model as the ultimate [lightweight] car.\u201d\nComparing the Club Sport with the 1973 Carrera RS 2.7, its lightweight ancestor, it would only be fair to consider the markets and the year of introduction for each car. Fourteen years separate the two models, but it may just as well be a whole lifetime as the Carrera RS came into the world offering 210bhp, 155mph and at around 1000kg it had race car-like performance that no other manufacturer could match at the time. Despite the bigger engine and almost a decade and half more technology, the power-to-weight ratio of the \u201973 RS (78.2hp/l) was still more than the \u201987 Club Sport (73.0hp/l).\n\u201cThe RS was a pure homologation race car, it was a special car with lightweight glass with thinner panels. It was really, really special. And I think another clue with these cars is, if it is homologated to go racing that\u2019s one thing, but with the Club Sport that is pretty much what it is, it is for club racers to go racing. No-one ever entered a Club Sport in a famous race, so there is no famous Club Sport,\u201d Sumpter pointed out.\nLooking into why they decided to produce the Club Sport in the first place, it would appear that Porsche were \u2018nagged\u2019 into producing a lightweight version of the 911 for those who wanted \u2018to do a few N\u00fcrburgring and Spa events\u2019. Track days as we know them today had not yet caught on in the Eighties, but Stuttgart must have detected a desire within 911 enthusiast circles to produce the lightweight CS model. But as Sumpter added, \u201cThey could have gone a step further if they had wanted to and taken another 150kg off and added 20-30bhp, and then I think the CS would have been a little bit more special.\u201d\n1985 prototype 911 Carrera 3.2 Club Sport in the Museum Workshop showing the car\u2019s rear spoiler\nWell, frankly, a lot. But as names are translated from one language to another, over time some of the original intention is lost. In the same way, the 911 Carrera Club Sport has also suffered from different interpretations and some German publications spell the name as one word, Clubsport. However, the correct form is two words, Club Sport.\nFor Mike Wilds, his introduction to Porsche could not have been more \u2018real\u2019. Still in his early 20s, Mike was trying to cut a path in the highly competitive world of motor racing, and as a competitor in the Targa Florio in the late-Sixties, he was offered a ride in a Porsche 911 \u2013 the driver, none other than Porsche factory driver, Jo Siffert. Wilds picks up the story, \u201cJo had a company car from Porsche which was a 911 and after having had a ride in the car, it made such an impression on me that it became an ambition to own a 911.\u201d\n911 Carrera Club Sport Prototype Restoration 16 February 2010\nWilds had another close encounter with a 911, \u201cI was racing in 1972 in Formula 3 and Lord Hesketh had a 2.7 RS which he used to let James Hunt drive around in. I was racing down at Paul Ricard at the first ever French Grand Prix at that circuit, and James gave me a lift back to the hotel in the 2.7, and it was just an awesome thing.\u201d\nIt would be almost another two decades before a 911 purchase could be considered, and at the time the Club Sport seemed to offer good value for what it was. \u201cYou had that nice feeling that the car was reasonably unique, it drove beautifully and it really ticked all my boxes and I didn\u2019t consider anything else,\u201d Wilds recalled. As it belonged to a Porsche Club GB member, Mike had no hesitation when he was contacted by the owner who needed to make space for a race car purchase, and so a deal was struck.\nWhen prodded about the Club Sport\u2019s alleged lack of performance over the standard Carrera, Mike really comes alive. \u201cIf you were to drive a standard Carrera and then parked it up next to a Club Sport and then drove the Club Sport, I think you would understand,\u201d he assured me. Wilds\u2019 voice lifts another octave as he explains, \u201cWhy would I want electric windows, I love winding the windows up and down. Why would I want a sunroof, why would I want a rear windscreen wiper, why would I want rear seats, why would I want soundproofing? The car is more raw than the standard Carrera, and it gives me so much more. I like noise, I can hear the gearbox because there is no soundproofing and I can hear everything the engine is doing. I have never turned the radio on in the car \u2013 it still has the original Blaupunkt radio, but I don\u2019t know why they even fitted a radio. It only has one sun visor for instance \u2013 this used to drive my wife mad,\u201d he laughs. \u201cBut it is all these little things that make it very special.\u201d\nThis may be a good stage to mention that Mike is a professional racing driver instructor, who spends his time teaching other people how to drive fast. Mike continued, \u201cIf it is a beautiful day, I can\u2019t tell you the joy it gives me to know the Club Sport is in the garage. I can get in, start it up and drive it out on a sunny day to Silverstone or wherever I am going to work, and all day I am looking forward to driving home. It\u2019s not a case of, \u2018oh no I have got to drive that home\u2019 afterwards.\u201d\n\u201cThe Club Sport feels sharper to me than a standard 3.2 Carrera, it is certainly noisier. Even starting the engine, when you turn the ignition on, the starter actually \u2018rat-a-tat-tats\u2019 it is so loud because there is no soundproofing. I like to drive a car that is talking to me all the time, that\u2019s telling me what is going on and sings to me. When this car gets to about 4500 revs, from then on up the car just sings and it comes alive and it \u2026 its brilliant,\u201d he added enthusiastically.\nMike uses his car as it was intended to be used and has even taken his Club Sport around the \u2018Ring. Although he does not take it out in winter because it does not have the underbody sealant protection, he added, \u201cYes, I\u2019ve driven it in the wet because you can never guarantee the weather, but it\u2019s not my everyday car.\u201d\nA magazine published a feature on the Club Sport around the time of the model\u2019s introduction, and the headline caught Mike\u2019s attention \u2013 Buy now or regret it! \u2013 Mike remembers thinking how right the author was and this review actually helped him to decide on getting a Club Sport.\nSome years ago, Wilds also had a 964 RS in the garage, but when the decision had to be made as to which one to sell, the Club Sport won the contest hands down. He sums it up this way, \u201cI have a passion for my Club Sport because it is the first one I ever managed to buy, so it is that special that I would never ever sell it.\u201d\nWhen asked by his customers, which Porsche would be a good investment, Mark Sumpter usually responded, \u201cYou should buy the car thinking that you won\u2019t lose any money, but over time it will creep up in value.\u201d\nCommenting on the Club Sport in particular, Sumpter says, \u201cI don\u2019t see them doubling every five years and I don\u2019t think it is ever going to be an icon, but I think it will be a cult car.\u201d Asked if he sees many Club Sports on the open market, Sumpter replied with an emphatic, \u201cNo. I think most of these cars now get sold to track day type drivers either at an event or between owners at club meetings.\u201d\nA few Club Sports were entered in club championship races but no 911 Carrera Club Sport was ever entered in a famous race or international competition. This is a significant factor, which sets the Carrera RS 2.7 apart from the Club Sport in that the former was actually homologated for competition. Sumpter made the following comparison, \u201cIf you look at the air-cooled GT2 with all its race history, it was homologated with bolt-on rear arches and it was a real, raw car. A 996 GT2 however actually outperforms an air-cooled GT2, but it isn\u2019t thought of as a serious car because no one ever raced it. A big clue with future values I think, will be whether that car raced in international competition.\u201d\nPrototype 911 Club Sport\nAuthorised for build in July 1984, the 911 Carrera Club Sport prototype was completed by the end of that year and is therefore listed as a 1985 model factory prototype. The prototype is fitted with a Sport Package II option.\nIt would be a fair question to ask why the prototype Club Sport, which was completed in the autumn of 1984 and based entirely on an existing production model, was only launched onto the market in the autumn of 1987, three years later. Surely, with no additional development to be carried out on the Club Sport, with the exception of the G50 gearbox which had undergone its own development cycle, the introduction could have been made much sooner.\nJ\u00fcrgen Barth, Porsche engineer and factory racing driver explains, \u201cIt was quite normal that a new model could come to market later than planned. Three factors are important in this process: The decision of the head of the company takes time; then the parts which will be necessary to build the car must be ordered (and the component manufacturers may have their own production cycle to implement from new); and finally, a response from the different markets around the world must be analysed, to establish whether the new model is suitable for those markets, and this also may take time.\u201d\nIt was customary, when the factory commenced a small production series, that the Porsche Museum would hold back the first prototype for display purposes. This, too, was the case with the 911 Carrera Club Sport prototype fabricated back in 1984. But the car languished in storage for many years and was hardly ever used or seen in public, which resulted in a very low usage (less than 25,000 km!) since its manufacture. All of this made it an obvious selection as a viable Museum Workshop project as this prototype required only a part restoration to bring it up to pristine condition once again.\nEngine wise, no work was required except to have the mechanicals checked over as the vehicle had seen little use, but the gearbox was split open and rebuilt. With the CS prototype completely stripped, it offered the Museum Workshop Supervisor, Kuno Werner, an opportunity to check the whole car over and replace perished rubbers, and to update some components to current safety requirements.\nIt is interesting to note that whenever the factory produced a prototype, the traditional five-dial dashboard was dispensed with, and a simpler three-dial dash was used instead. There were several considerations which led to this break from tradition, namely; when tested on the road the prototype would be fitted with on-board and more complex measuring equipment, or when the engine was being tested in the workshop, this would have been hooked up to static dyno and monitoring systems. The other reason was simply down to cost.\nInterior of the 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.2 Coup\u00e9 Clubsport\nThis prototype was obviously a German-spec car and as that is where the car would undergo it\u2019s testing, it is logical that it would be fitted with the specifications for that market. The \u2018CS Club Sport\u2019 decals on the right rear fender and left front fender were specific to the German market, whereas the UK models had the scripting along the bottom of the doors with a more discreet \u2018CS\u2019 logo on the front left corner of the luggage compartment lid.\nSome key dates for comparison:\nAugust 1972 911 Carrera RS 2.7\nAugust 1974 911 Turbo\nAugust 1983 911 SC/RS\nJuly 1984 911 Carrera Club Sport prototype\nSeptember 1987 911 Carrera Club Sport\nAugust 1991 911 RS (Type 964)\nProduction dates September 1987 to July 1989\nTotal production 190 units\nMaximum power 231bhp at 5900rpm\nMaximum torque 284Nm at 4800rpm\nBrakes Hydraulic, dual circuit with brake booster, ventilated discs\nBrake discs Front: 282.5 x 24mm discs; rear: 290 x 24mm discs\nSuspension front Independent suspension with wishbones and McPherson struts with torsion bars, dual-tube gas-filled shock absorbers, anti-roll bar\nSuspension rear Independent suspension with light-alloy semi-trailing arms with torsion-bar springs, anti-roll bar, dual-tube gas-filled shock absorbers\nWheels & tyres Front: 7Jx15 with 195/65 VR15 tyres. 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Hearing about all the money a girl can make working in the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, she makes her way there, only to find that her dreams of returning home may never come true. A story of determination and personal growth, Lyddie has already established itself as a classic.\n\u0093Paterson has brought a troubling time and place vividly to life, but she has also given readers great hope in the spirited person of Lyddie Worthen.\u201d \u0097School Library Journal, starred review\n\u0093A memorable portrait of an untutored but intelligent young woman making her way against fierce odds.\u201d \u0097Kirkus Reviews, starred review\n\u0093Lyddie is full of life, full of lives, full of reality.\u201d \u0097The New York Times Book Review\n\u0093Impeccably researched and expertly crafted, this book is sure to satisfy.\u201d \u0097Publishers Weekly\nAmerican Bookseller \"Pick of the Lists\"\nSchool Library Journal Best Book of 1991\nParents Magazine Best Book\nRich in historical detail . . . a superb story of grit, determination, and personal growth. (The Horn Book, starred review)\nWhen ten-year-old Lyddie and her younger brother are hired out as servants to help pay off their family farm?s debts, Lyddie is determined to find a way to reunite her family. A story of determination and personal growth, Lyddie has already established itself as a classic.\nChildren s-Historical Fiction-U.S. 19th Century\nChildren's 9-12 - Fiction - Historical", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 5121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prairiehill.org/parents-and-students/registration", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:31Z", "digest": "sha1:NRTMPSSHAR27ZD5T4KWJIMS6FTQMTGEH", "length": 653, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.prairiehill.org", "title": "Prairie Hill School District - Registration", "raw_content": "Students new to the District should register as soon as they move into the district. Along with the registration paperwork and forms available below, a certified copy of their Birth Certificate is required. 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We hold registration for returning students in early May of each year.\nFor Prairie Hill Elementary Registration, please click here.\nFor Willowbrook Middle School Registration, please click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 3320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prairiehill.org/willowbrook/physical-education", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:55Z", "digest": "sha1:CRDQBZKBJQOXW2WR5P2K7ERHRGGWOFML", "length": 233, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.prairiehill.org", "title": "Prairie Hill School District - Physical Education", "raw_content": "Marcie Ball has been a member of the PHS/WMS family since 1992. Currently she is teaching Physical Education and 8th grade Health. She is also the Co-coordinator for Renaissance, Mentoring Coordinator, and Co-advisor for Baking Club.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 3156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 109.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.presonus.com/learn/technical-articles/An-Introduction-To-Audio-Networking", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:57Z", "digest": "sha1:FAQTYLW5H3PQJJEXDUWU2BZ24HE7WDD2", "length": 6506, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.presonus.com", "title": "An Introduction to Audio Networking | PreSonus", "raw_content": "An Introduction to Audio Networking\nAs its name implies, audio networking allows you to transport large amounts of data over a single cable. The bandwidth for modern networking transport protocols is enough to carry hundreds of audio channels without the compression once necessary to do so. This means that audio can be moved quickly over long distances without signal degradation or the expense of conventional analog cabling.\nThe flexibility demanded by data network protocols also opens up possibilities for audio system configuration that were once impossible. Many nodes of I/O can be placed throughout a facility or venue without the limitations imposed by analog cabling. Because networked audio is digital, electromagnetic interference and cable capacitance that can degrade audio signal quality in the analog domain are no longer problematic.\nBecause many modern digital audio devices also offer remote control over LAN networks, this also reduces the amount of cabling. In an audio network, control data and audio can travel over the same connection, facilitating flexible routing, preamp control, and more using a single cable.\nIn a traditional analog system, remote analog I/O must be located within a relatively short distance between the source and the destination. Let\u2019s take a common example: the multichannel snake. In a live setting, the stage box to which the musicians are connecting their gear is located with them on stage. This shortens the cable runs coming from multiple locations (e.g., the lead singer\u2019s mic, the guitarist\u2019s amp, etc.). These cables are connected to a stage box which is attached to a shielded multichannel snake that makes the long run to the mixer at Front-of-House.\nIn a distributed audio network, each musician could have their own node on the network, potentially. Multiple networked stage boxes can be spread around the stage, making the analog cable runs as short as possible to minimize signal degradation. Take this concept a step further, and multiple sources can be spread throughout a large facility, each sitting on the network to be sent to many mixers on the network, not just the one at front-of-house.\nThis flexibility makes distributed audio networking an appealing concept for both mobile and installed applications, not only because of the affordability of Ethernet cabling, but because of the ability to customize each system for the people using it.\nOn the surface, this level of flexibility lends itself to a deeper complexity than a standard analog system. However, when one considers the function of an analog patch bay within a studio setting, audio networking can seem a bit less daunting.\nAn analog patchbay\u2019s purpose is to facilitate the routing of audio. In this way, you can insert your favorite boutique compressor into any channel on your console without rewiring your entire rack. This also lets you route audio from the wall panel in your live room to any preamp you wish to use, audition multiple effects chains, and much more.\nThe only difference between an analog patchbay and the digital patching available in a distributed audio network is that you must physically trace a cable connection if you are unsure of a particularly complex routing in an analog system. In a distributed audio network, the control panel for all your digital routing allows you to do the same thing from a single screen.\nNo matter what protocol is used, an Ethernet-based audio network will consist of the following:\nNetwork Interface Controller (NIC). These are built into a computer, digital mixer, networked stage box, etc. and, as their name implies, allows these devices to communicate with other devices on a digital network.\nEthernet Cables. Both data and audio networks rely on a set of standards for cabling infrastructure to ensure that network performance is both reliable and consistent. These standards include specifications for the cable construction itself, as well as specifications for the termination of cabling and physical connections to devices. More information on cabling can be found in here.\nSwitches. These devices bring all the cables together into a central hub and enable the correct routing of information throughout the network.\nEvery Network Interface Controller (NIC) on the network must have an address so that the switches know where to send the data packets appropriately. Every NIC must have a Media Access Control (MAC) address programmed by the manufacturer. Every MAC address is unique, and the allocation of MAC addresses to networking manufacturers is strictly managed by the IEEE standards organization.\nIn addition to a device\u2019s MAC address, every NIC has a user-definable addressing layer to make it easier for network managers to configure their local network. Called the Internet Protocol or \u2018IP\u2019 address, this is normally 4 bytes long (IPv4) consisting of the network number and a host address. The division between the two is also 4 bytes long and called the subnet mask.\nEvery bit in the IP address that has the number 1 in the subnet mask belongs to the same network number. Every bit that has the number 0 belongs to the host address. Where things get tricky is that only NICs with the same network number can exchange data with one another.\nIf you\u2019ve ever glanced at the network settings on your personal computer, some of this may seem familiar to you. The operating system on your computer displays the IP and subnet values as four decimal number (0-255). These numbers correspond to the four bytes in the IP address and subnet mask. If we use the example of a small office network, the subnet mask usually has a default value of 255.255.255.0. This provides the network administrator with 255 host addresses to use because only the last byte can be changed when it is assigned to devices on the network (255.255.255.1, 255.255.255.13, etc.). For networks that require more than 255 host addresses, the subnet mask can be changed to accommodate more devices.\nThe IP addresses can be programmed manually for systems that require it, but in many cases, a central device, such as a router, will automatically assign an IP address whenever a NIC is connected or reconnected. This automatic IP assignment is accomplished using the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP).\nStudioLive mixers support DHCP, self-assigned IP addressing, as well as manually assigned adressing. This provides network administrators with the most flexibility when designing a system that includes StudioLive mixers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 10292, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.pressherald.com/2015/12/18/parishioners-to-ask-high-court-to-hear-case-of-closed-church/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LRC5U6N3AITBAYZHIKFASOCOROIS65M3", "length": 1695, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.pressherald.com", "title": "Parishioners occupying closed Massachusetts church to ask high court to hear case - Portland Press Herald", "raw_content": "Parishioners occupying closed Massachusetts church to ask high court to hear case\nThey hope the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn a ruling that found they were trespassing.\nBOSTON \u2014 Parishioners who have occupied a Roman Catholic church since it was closed 11 years ago will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to settle their dispute with the Boston archdiocese.\nSt. Frances X. Cabrini parishioners plan to ask the high court to review a ruling by a Massachusetts court that found they are trespassing on property owned by the archdiocese. The state\u2019s highest court declined to hear the case, but parishioners are hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will review it.\nThe Scituate church was closed in 2004 as part of a sweeping reorganization by the archdiocese following the clergy sex-abuse scandal. Since then, a group of parishioners has held a constant vigil at the church and refused to leave.\nTerrence Donilon, a spokesman for the archdiocese, declined to comment on the legal battle, but repeated a request for the parishioners to end their vigil inside the church\nMaryellen Rogers, a spokeswoman for the parishioners, said their lawyer will ask a state judge to put the case on hold while they petition the high court. A hearing is scheduled Monday on that request.\n\u201cWe\u2019re trying to give ourselves time to stay in our church while we appeal the lower court\u2019s decision,\u201d she said.\nRogers said the parishioners will continue to ask Cardinal Sean O\u2019Malley to reconsider the closure.\nIn the meantime, the parishioners plan to hold Christmas services there. Since the church no longer has priests assigned to it, lay people lead the services. Last year, about 600 people attended a service on Christmas Eve.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 7527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.printablesigns.net/preview/Re-Election_Sign_Palm_Cards", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XXXXNUVOVLABB4VPMNYBLTM7U444KDGU", "length": 150, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.printablesigns.net", "title": "Printable Re-Election Sign Palm Cards Sign", "raw_content": "Re-Election Sign Palm Cards Sign\nBlue-and-white stripes and red stars decorate these political palm cards that can be used for a re-election campaign.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 332.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.prospects.ac.uk/universities/university-of-leeds-3813/school-of-fine-art-history-of-art-and-cultural-studies-12025/courses/social-history-of-art-21013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:39Z", "digest": "sha1:YONCHJQK6XTOFFFBPKA4GXM6A2K3RCNL", "length": 1308, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.prospects.ac.uk", "title": "Social History of Art | Prospects.ac.uk", "raw_content": "University of Leeds \u00b7 School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies\nThe study of the history of art at Leeds has an international reputation for its innovative, rigorous, diverse and critically engaged approaches. Previously called MA History of Art, the name has been changed for 2018 to highlight the established strengths of this course with its emphasis on social and political approaches to art history.\nAt the cutting edge of the discipline, the MA in the Social History of Art builds on a unique legacy of dynamic and challenging scholarship, and continues to test the parameters of the discipline and shape wider debates in the field.\nAround a shared commitment to understanding art as central to the production and reproduction of the social worlds we inhabit, our key research strengths lie in feminist, gender and Jewish studies, on questions of materialism and materiality, the postcolonial and the \u2018non-Western\u2019, as well as in provocations of those fields of art history considered more \u2018established\u2019, from Medieval and Renaissance up to the contemporary.\nWe combine an exceptional range of optional modules, core modules on methodology and advanced research skills, and self-directed research leading to a dissertation on a topic of your own choice.\nfinpg@leeds.ac.uk\nCurating Science", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 4936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.puppetstringnews.com/blog/chicago-turns-on-obama-as-chicago-non-profit-files-suit-in-court-to-prevent-obama-library-construction", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MTB3XD7EX72VWOEQND26IZGVO2324CKO", "length": 1674, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.puppetstringnews.com", "title": "Chicago turns on Obama, as Chicago non profit files suit in court to prevent Obama Library construction - Puppet String news", "raw_content": "Chicago turns on Obama, as Chicago non profit files suit in court to prevent Obama Library construction\nAs the Chicago Tribune reports, an organization called Protect Our Parks filed the suit in US District Court on Monday, alleging that Chicago Park District and the City of Chicago don't have the authority to grant government-owned parkland to a separate organization - in this case, the Obama Foundation. Three Chicago residents were listed as plaintiffs in the case, which alleges that the building is a \"short con shell game, a corrupt scheme to deceive and seemingly legitimize an illegal land grab.\" The nonprofit also accused the Obama Foundation of pulling an \"institutional bait and switch\" because the building isn't consistent with what the group would consider a \"true presidential library.\"\nIt looks like the city of Chicago is becoming overwhelmingly fed up with our former President Barack Obama, as a Chicago non profit group has officially filed a lawsuit to prevent the construction of the Obama Presidential Library. Really Chicago shouldn't want anything to do with Obama period, since Obama's gun control policies has made Chicago break it's murder rate records...And people are starting to flee Obama's \"so called\" hometown in mass.\n\u200b It's pretty bad when your a former President Of The United States and your hometown doesn't even want your Presidential Library constructed. Hopefully a Chicago non profit filing suit to prevent the construction of Obama's Presidential Library, is a starting process of actual change in the city of Chicago...That has only been negatively affected by a multitude of Obama's policies and his puppets who run Chicago.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2089, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.puttingpeoplefirst.law/personal-injury/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:09Z", "digest": "sha1:THN5RK6UXNEOTV2SLF3ESKQ4I6SWE7SO", "length": 2299, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.puttingpeoplefirst.law", "title": "Personal Injury Attorney Albany GA | Restitution After an Accident", "raw_content": "Personal Injury Attorney in Albany, GA\nHelping Clients Obtain Restitution after an Accident\nWhen you or a family member suffers a personal injury due to accidents on the job, auto accidents, daycare injuries, or medical errors, you have specific rights to protect you. These rights are meant to help you move forward with life and should never be ignored or eroded by insurance companies or employers. Unfortunately, many people are not aware of all the rights they may have when it comes to personal injury. At The Law Offices of William F. Underwood, III, P.C., we have experience helping clients obtain fair compensation for their injuries.\nIf you have been injured as a result of another\u2019s negligence or misconduct, contact the Law Offices of William F. Underwood, III, P.C. for help. Dial (229) 999-4476 today.\nYears Dealing with Insurance Companies\nWhat an insurance adjuster claims is \u201cstandard policy\u201d may or may not be fair to you, which is why having an experienced Albany, GA personal injury attorney on your side is crucial. Insurance companies may try to protect profits by limiting what they are willing to pay to an injury victim. Some employers, too, may try to limit the cost of a worker\u2019s compensation claim. Without experienced, knowledgeable legal representation, you may not receive all the help to which you are entitled.\nHow The Law Offices of William F. Underwood, III, P.C.Can Help\nAt the Law Offices of William F. Underwood, we know the complexities of the law and we understand the ways injury victims may be under-compensated by insurance companies and employers. We will defend the rights of our clients and fight for justice on their behalf. Our history of building strong cases for our clients has earned us a reputation as a strong, capable advocate for our clients.\nWe have a simple belief about defending our clients\u2019 rights: Results matter. Whether your case is heard in a jury trial or resolved through mediation, Attorney William F. \u201cTrey\u201d Underwood\u2019s experience in representing injury victims in Georgia ensures that his clients\u2019 rights are protected and that they receive all compensation that is due.\nIf you need the assistance of an Albany, GA personal injury attorney, call the Law Offices of William F. Underwood, III, P.C. today by dialing (229) 999-4476.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 4315, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.qsrmagazine.com/news/could-be-next-big-burrito-franchise", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:TXHSXTIBUTZ2ZODANK57XAEZV25SDAIA", "length": 6153, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.qsrmagazine.com", "title": "Could This Be The Next Big Burrito Franchise? - Restaurant News - QSR magazine", "raw_content": "Could This Be The Next Big Burrito Franchise?\nGo Burrito separates itself with California-style burritos and a beach-themed, laid-back atmosphere.\nIn Mikey Wetzel\u2019s calculation, the fast casual burrito frontier might be a competitive and crowded place, but it is far from cramped.\nAnd when he says calculate, he isn\u2019t overstating. Wetzel didn\u2019t dream up his restaurant as much as he programmed it. Since 2013, the former video-game developer has been refining and polishing Go Burrito in Salisbury, North Carolina, the home of legendary soft drink Cheerwine, with his sights set on the future. In that time, while Wetzel says he hasn\u2019t reinvented the wheel, he does think he\u2019s fostered a concept capable of sharing the table with the Moe\u2019s, Chipotles, and Qdobas of the world.\n\u201cIf they can succeed, why can\u2019t I succeed?\u201d Wetzel says. \u201cI can repeat this process. And coming from a corporate world, I\u2019m not intimidated by a big entity like Chipotle. They started out with Steve Ells, right? He started out with one store, did well, and then opened another. At the end of the day, they\u2019re just guys that make decisions just like me.\u201d\nRecently, Wetzel announced he was franchising Go Burrito. This decision wasn\u2019t arrived at without some serious number crunching. In 2015, he says the brand\u2019s lone unit reported sales in excess of $1.4 million and is tracking for $1.6 million this year. If so, it would place Go Burrito in the top 15 of the QSR 50 alongside Wendy\u2019s and Jack in the Box for average sales per unit. Although, of course, those brands are sustaining financials across thousands (5,090 for Wendy\u2019s and 1,836 for Jack in the box) of franchised stores.\nWetzel doesn\u2019t see why Go Burrito can\u2019t repeat its success \u201cin every town across America.\u201d Of that $1.4 million, Wetzel says Go Burrito recorded net profit around $300,000. That number, upon further research, gave Wetzel even more optimism for the future.\n\u201cI read that the average McDonald\u2019s franchisee profits around $157,000,\u201d he says. \u201cI told my wife, \u2018Wow, can you believe that we were that successful? That we make almost twice that.\u2019 You would have to own two McDonald\u2019s. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d\nWetzel is also quick to point out that he\u2019s accomplished this in Salisbury (population around 35,000), which isn\u2019t going to be confused with Charlotte or Raleigh anytime soon.\nAll along, Wetzel has taken a pragmatic approach. He wrote computer code for 16 years, working on such mega-hits as Halo, Grand Theft Auto, and Gears of War. \u201cThat\u2019s just kind of an insight into how my brain works. Whatever you think of when you think of a computer programmer, that\u2019s me,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s OK to think of me as a nerd who is very comfortable on a computer. I\u2019m a number cruncher.\u201d\nWetzel did his homework before diving in. \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to abandon a high-paying job for something that was a death sentence,\u201d he says, adding that research pointed him to quick service.\nAccording to TDn2K, a company that measures data based on weekly sales from nearly 26,000 restaurant units and 130-plus brands, the quick-service segment was the industry\u2019s best performing for the eighth consecutive month in October.\nThis also lined up with the fact that Wetzel had no plans to work in the kitchen and possessed zero restaurant experience. He began observing the big players in burritos to further his research, recording labor usage, portion size, equipment cost, and other metrics. Then, he started punching numbers. \u201cI was like, \u2018Wow, this is a real business that makes money,\u2019\u201d he says.\nWetzel didn\u2019t spend any time prepping food or cooking. Instead, he worked behind the scenes, diverting his attention to hiring and tracking daily vitals. The business did $1.2 million in sales its first year. They sold more than 100,000 burritos the next.\nBut Go Burrito\u2019s success has been a little more complicated than just rolled-up moneymakers. This past year, Wetzel says the local newspaper awarded his concept five \u201cbest of\u201d awards. His restaurant has embraced its role as a lifestyle brand, and the profits reflect that.\nUpstairs, there\u2019s a full bar that stays open until 2 a.m. While it only accounts for around 15 percent of sales, it allows Wetzel to market to literally every customer in the city. In addition to food specials, Go Burrito can promote craft beer, trivia, karaoke, and live music.\n\u201cI\u2019m convinced that\u2019s part of the reason why my location has the reputation it has and the profitability that it has,\u201d he says. \u201c\u2026 We want to be that hangout spot. We want people to say, \u2018This is our favorite restaurant,' not just, 'This is our favorite food,' but, 'This is our favorite place to go.'\u201d\nGo Burrito separates itself with California-style burritos and a beach-themed, laid-back atmosphere. They use fresh ingredients and make their salsa in-house. In addition, Go Burrito \"fluffs\" its burritos, which ensures that the ingredients are evenly spread throughout. And lastly, they toast the burritos on a Panini grill before serving.\nAs for the franchise model, Wetzel never wavered. He knows he can go and open company units and collect larger chunks of profit, but that it would be a slow and risky process.\n\u201cIf there\u2019s any struggle and one store fails, it\u2019s going to go like dominoes and knock the other ones down,\u201d he says.\nWetzel says he likes the idea of building a team full of passionate franchisees who run their own units. Like many brands, he says recipes and policy will be standardized to achieve consistency. He will, however, give operators freedom on \u201cFish Taco Tuesdays\u201d and with customized murals inside their restaurants, as well as the ability to interact with their local communities on their own personal terms. The bar won\u2019t be required, although it will be strongly recommended, he adds.\nWetzel currently projects around 10 concepts a year being added to the system. That number can then jump to 20, 40, and so on as things progress.\n\u201cI have no delusions about thinking this is going to be bigger than Chipotle, but I have no reason to think this concept wouldn\u2019t repeat,\u201d he says. \u201cThere are some really great brands out there. 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This rises to a height of 42 metres from the street. The spire continues upward in a graceful and unbroken line, capped by a handsome wrought-iron finial.\nThe Church is open Monday to Friday, 10.00am to 2.00pm for prayer and reflection, and is also a popular venue for local and international weddings.\nCorner Albert and Ann Streets\nhttps://www.wmq.org.au/services/albert-street-uniting-church", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 4190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 149.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.quicken.com/considering-debt-management-program-money-management-pros-and-cons", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:WWADQTCAYGBE4BIODYPNSJALAKYWNX4D", "length": 3761, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.quicken.com", "title": "Considering a Debt Management Program?", "raw_content": "You are hereHome > Tools & Tips > Quicken Tips > Considering a Debt Management Program? Money Management Pros and Cons\nConsidering a Debt Management Program? Money Management Pros and Cons\nCredit can be a wonderful thing. For example, credit cards are safer and more convenient than carrying cash, particularly when you are traveling. But too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Downturns in the economy, or even poor financial management, can result in out-of-control debt that leaves you with too much month at the end of your money. You might consider entering a debt management program to help solve your money woes, but it's wise to examine the pros and cons before you sign on the dotted line.\nA debt management program, sometimes referred to as a debt management plan or DMP, is a formal agreement between you and a third party, which could be a non-profit credit counseling agency or a for-profit company. The third party negotiates a voluntary debt repayment plan with all of your creditors. You pay the third party a single monthly payment, and the third party distributes the money to your creditors. If all goes according to the plan, within 60 months or less you should be caught up and out of debt.\nDMP Pros\nMost legitimate DMPs require you to take a credit counseling or debt management class that will help you understand how to better manage your household budget, so that once you've completed the plan you'll have a better chance of avoiding excess debt in the future. A DMP will help you assess your total financial situation and create a manageable budget. The company will negotiate with your creditors on your behalf, which might result in reduced interest rates, waiver of certain fees and expenses and fewer debt collection calls. Your financial obligations are simplified, because you make one monthly payment, rather than juggling multiple bills. Once you successfully complete the program you are back on solid financial footing.\nDMP Cons\nFinancial stress and anxiety brought on by excess debt can result in people desperately grasping at straws. \"There are plenty of unscrupulous scam artists who are willing to prey on desperate people by offering unrealistic results, often for an unreasonably high fees,\" says Jana Castanon, community outreach coordinator for Apprisen. \"Before you sign up for a debt management program, make sure the company is accredited by the Better Business Bureau and is a member of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling.\" Disreputable DMP companies might not pay your creditors on time or at all. There are challenges even with reputable DMP organizations. You must complete the plan as promised or all of the benefits fall to the wayside. If your credit score isn't already trashed, it will take a hit once you enter a DMP. A status statement will be added to your credit report noting that your accounts are not being paid as agreed but at a reduced rate through a DMP.\nAlternatives to a DMP\nAs soon as you realize you are having financial difficulties, take a good, hard look at your household budget. Determine if you are making the wisest use of your money. It's possible you can meet your obligations by prioritizing your needs and making some changes to your financial habits. If it looks like you are not going to be able to make all of your payments as agreed, the worst thing you can do is hide. Contact your creditors immediately and explain the situation. They might be able to offer the same types of terms a DMP negotiator could obtain. In a worst-case scenario, if your circumstances have turned so negative that there is simply no chance of digging out of your debt, the Federal Bankruptcy Code offers relief for honest but unfortunate debtors to make a fresh financial start.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 10503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.raisethebar.co.uk/testimonial/oxford-union/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:34Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2DP6XCZZ5GZAWSXYW26Z7OC74V6P5YV", "length": 296, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.raisethebar.co.uk", "title": "Oxford Union | Raise the Bar", "raw_content": "The Oxford Union is fortunate enough to be visited by a large number of high-profile speakers every term. Few speakers, if any, I have seen at the Union have been as humbling and inspirational as Katie. Her ability to tell her remarkable story with such confidence and hope is truly awe-inspiring", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 147.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.realdirect.com/building/4247129/344-West-72nd-Street-New-York-NY-10023/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IJ32K2ZCKOGJIGKXH3IO5WQBTOX4CGMB", "length": 72, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.realdirect.com", "title": "344 West 72nd Street, Upper West Side, New York, NY | RealDirect", "raw_content": "$499,000 #3 | 10/2/18\n$6,620,884 #A2A | 8/28/18\n$595,000 #M005 | 5/18/18", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 4539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 201.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.recorder.com/Orange-marijuana-business-looks-to-start-construction-soon-open-this-year-19856480", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:31Z", "digest": "sha1:ZLDD5UIVMPRFGGWGQT52L6F5FURINW7J", "length": 4654, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.recorder.com", "title": "The Recorder - Orange marijuana business looks to start construction soon, open this year", "raw_content": "Orange marijuana business looks to start construction soon, open this year\nSilver Therapeutics Inc. plans on opening a marijuana dispensary at 5 South Main St. in Orange by the end of the year. STAFF PHOTO/DAVID MCLELLAN\nORANGE \u2014 The first-ever marijuana shop in town is slated to open this year, with indoor construction at the site expected to start in late September.\nSilver Therapeutics Inc., which is also opening a marijuana dispensary in Williamstown, will open a retail marijuana location at 5 South Main St., and will have a cultivation facility in the Orange Business Park at 158 Governor Dukakis Drive.\nThe company has a Host Community Agreement and a letter of nonopposition from the town, has finished its property purchases, has a license to sell medical marijuana and is expecting a license to sell recreational marijuana soon.\n\u201cOur intent is for it to be a hybrid dispensary, to open it as an adult-use dispensary as well as a medical dispensary,\u201d said Silver Therapeutics Inc. Chief Financial Officer Brendan McKee.\nAccording to McKee, the state\u2019s Cannabis Control Commission has deemed its application to sell recreational marijuana complete, and has indicated the application will be reviewed by Oct. 3. McKee is confident the permit will be granted.\n\u201cThe store is officially ours. Construction will start in Orange probably at the end of September,\u201d McKee said. \u201cWe don\u2019t think the build-out will take longer than six to eight weeks.\u201d\nMcKee said having both the Orange and Williamstown locations up and running, and selling recreational and medical marijuana, by 2019 is almost definite, and the Orange location could open in early to mid November.\nThe idea of having a recreational marijuana store in the center of town has drawn mixed reactions from residents \u2014 although most have been positive, according to McKee \u2014 and Silver Therapeutics Inc. has held public outreach sessions to alleviate concerns.\nThe first of such sessions was held in March, and Silver Therapeutics Inc. CEO Joshua Silver spoke about his vision for the store.\n\u201cThe way I think of it is it\u2019s less like a pharmacy as a jewelry store,\u201d said Silver, who is a lawyer. \u201cWe want to have eight or nine strains of marijuana, limit the number of products we\u2019re selling and just do the ones we sell very good.\u201d\nSilver also said the company would refrain from using marijuana imagery on its storefront and have a strict security protocol to prevent minors from purchasing marijuana. He also said the company would be willing to support drug awareness programs for youth from the local police department.\n\u201cWe want to be good neighbors,\u201d Silver said, adding that no smoking will be allowed on-site, and that the store will have a classy look that preserves the historical aesthetic of downtown Orange.\nAnother company, Fidelity Wellness Center Inc., also has a letter of nonopposition and a Host Community Agreement with the town, and plans on having a greenhouse for cultivating marijuana \u2014 not a store \u2014 at the Randall Pond Industrial Park off R.W. Moore Drive.\nIn addition to Silver Therapeutics Inc. and Fidelity Wellness Center Inc., half a dozen parties have expressed serious interest in opening up marijuana operations in Orange, according to Town Administrator Gabriele Voelker.\nThe interest has been so high, in fact, that the Selectboard has held several discussions about adopting a bylaw that would limit the number of retail recreational marijuana shops in town. As allowed by state law, residents could adopt a bylaw limiting the number of such shops to 20 percent of the number of off-site liquor licenses granted by the town \u2014 Orange has granted six off-site liquor licenses.\nThere are no zoning laws \u2014 or any laws \u2014 in Orange allowing the town to limit the number of pot shops, and the Selectboard right now can not legally deny applications from the half a dozen interested companies.\nIn a joint meeting with the Planning Board on Aug. 22, the two bodies discussed adopting a bylaw, which voters would have to approve at a Special Town Meeting. The bylaw would only pertain to limiting retail recreational marijuana, not medical marijuana.\nWhile no Special Town Meeting has been officially scheduled yet, Voelker has proposed a Dec. 6 Special Town Meeting, with the Selectboard signing the Special Town Meeting warrant on Nov. 14. In the meantime, the Planning Board has the authority to draft a retail marijuana-limiting bylaw and submit it as a warrant article.\nFor Silver Therapeutics Inc., though, the bylaw, if passed, would mean nothing, because the company has already been approved by the town. The store would still open by the end of the year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 7547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reddeeradvocate.com/local-news/red-deer-county-rejects-tax-relief-request-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:08Z", "digest": "sha1:YVNNVFLAPQJ3CD5IIINVK5J7KFV2ABR3", "length": 2027, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.reddeeradvocate.com", "title": "Red Deer County rejects tax relief request \u2013 Red Deer Advocate", "raw_content": "Red Deer County rejects tax relief request\nA couple whose mansion burned down in March will not get a tax refund from Red Deer County.\nMatthew and Robin Berresford came to county council on Tuesday to ask that a portion of their 2016 property taxes be refunded because the house has been uninhabitable since the March 2 fire.\nThe taxes had been fully paid on the home just northeast of River Bend Golf and Recreation Area. The Berresfords were seeking a municipal tax refund of $13,415.51, which is a prorated calculation based on the nearly 10 months they have not been able to live in the house this year.\nRobin Berresford told council that since the fire the couple, who have two young children, have \u201clived nothing short of a nightmare.\n\u201cWe\u2019re not asking you for charity. We\u2019re just asking that you treat us fairly.\u201d\nThe home was insured but compensation has not been settled yet. At one time the home was listed on Kijiji for $7.7 million.\nThe couple had noted in a letter to the county that taxes in Fort McMurray had been waived following the wildfire there.\nIn a report to council, county staff noted that taxes have not been cancelled or refunded previously following a house fire, nor is it a common practice elsewhere. The Fort McMurray situation is unique and the province offset the refunded property taxes by providing the equivalent financial support to the municipality.\nTypically, property taxes are among the expenses falling under insurance plans, council was told.\nCoun. Connie Huelsman was sympathetic but said the county has not refunded taxes after other house fires and this could set a precedent.\n\u201cI totally feel for your situation. However, I feel it is an insurance claim and that\u2019s out of the county\u2019s hands.\u201d\nMayor Jim Wood also expressed his sympathy, adding insurance claims can take a long time to settle.\n\u201cBut I do believe I don\u2019t want to re-write policy today.\u201d\nCouncil voted unanimously to turn down the refund request.\nSuspect sketch released\nIt takes more than high marks to land a good job", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 248, "original_length": 7565, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reeage.in/skin/derma-roller/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:51Z", "digest": "sha1:AT3FMZG43G4BTQ7UGV756PHM2SDU5ANA", "length": 890, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.reeage.in", "title": "Best Derma Roller Treatment | Acne Treatment in Bangalore and Hyderabad - ReeAge Clinic", "raw_content": "\"Roll away the wrinkles and welcome a younger looking skin\" with Derma Roller Treatment\nReeAgeSkinDerma Roller\nThe poking action from the needle (Roller) improves the blood circulation in the skin. It makes the skin glow. The treatment also opens up the pores of the skin to make it more receptive to any product that you apply to it.\nRoller consists of hundreds of micro-needles that are present on the surface of the roller are used to stimulate the surface of the skin. The roller is moved up and down on all parts of the skin on the face or the affected area. The needles result in the formation of many tiny injuries on the skin. In order to heal the injuries, the skin starts producing excess collagen.\nAs a result of the excess collagen, the skin automatically looks plumped up in that area. This helps in erasing fine lines and filling up the scars.\nHealthier & younger looking skin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.reference.com/business-finance/can-learn-s-p-historical-data-f3d1dfdf6dce80d2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:23Z", "digest": "sha1:XDG45RKVAC7DVJATCHYNUGNJDNI2TLR7", "length": 1539, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.reference.com", "title": "What Can You Learn From S&P Historical Data? | Reference.com", "raw_content": "What Can You Learn From S&P Hi...\nWhat Can You Learn From S&P Historical Data?\nFrom S&P 500 historical data, investors can learn to recognize periods of low market volatility, which typically lead to periods of high volatility, states ETF Meter. Bonds diversify portfolios and provide protection against the damage volatility can cause. Exotic ETFs, such as SPXS and SPXU, provide further protection, as this type of ETF typically falls when the S&P 500 rises.\nBecause they are issued by sizeable, well-funded companies, S&P 500 stocks are relatively stable, reports TradingMarkets.com. In other words, companies with bigger market caps have additional influence on the overall value of the index. S&P 500-listed companies such as Worldcom and Lehman Brothers proved toxic, but these exceptions haven't obviated the popularity of S&P stocks.\nFrom 2003 to 2013, the average S&P 500 stock outperformed the overall S&P 500 index, reportsTradingMarkets.com. This trend was made possible by the fact that the S&P 500 is a weighted index. This weighting helps ensure that the index adequately reflects the health of the overall stock market and the U.S economy. To qualify for inclusion in the S&P 500, a company must have its headquarters in the United States, according to Investopedia. Additionally, the company must have a market cap of at least $5.3 billion as of 2015.\nHistorical Options Data - Information Here - candofinance.com\nwww.candofinance.com/Historical Options Data/Results\nFind Historical Options Data. 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The office space is modern with air conditioning and solar controlled blinds. Office support is available and there is free and reliable business grade WiFi throughout. There are well-equipped kitchen areas, a business lounge, conference rooms and private meeting rooms available.\nThe centre is ideally located with Liverpool Street, Moorgate, City Thameslink and London Barbican train stations all close by. There are several underground stations within a few minutes walking distance including Mansion House, St Paul's and Bank. There are a variety of parking options available close by including parking at West Smithfield and the Barbican Centre. St Paul\u2019s Cathedral is nearby as is the Barbican Centre, Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue, the London School of Economics is also in the area. The shops, theatres, bars and restaurants of the London West End are all just a short tube ride away.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 7974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 201.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.remtecsummit.com/sab/kent-glover", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:14Z", "digest": "sha1:VN3Y4AUJSDN6ELS6Y46DJRM5433XQQEY", "length": 1894, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.remtecsummit.com", "title": "Kent C. Glover, Ph.D.", "raw_content": "Kent C. Glover, Ph.D.\nFSubject Matter Expert (SME), Remedial Systems\nAir Force Civil Engineer Center, Environmental\nRestoration Technical Support Branch (AFCEC/CZTE)\nJoint Base San Antonio \u2013 Lackland, TX\nDr. Glover\u2019s technical expertise includes non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPL) and groundwater remediation, contaminant fate-and-transport modeling, and heterogeneous aquifer characterization. Dr. Glover has more than 35 years of experience including remediation of many complex plumes with high regulatory and public interest. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from Colorado School of Mines and a B.S. from Colorado State University.\nDr. Glover joined the Air Force Civil Engineer Center (AFCEC) in 2010 and was appointed the Air Force Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Remedial Systems in 2013. As the Restoration SME, he is the lead Air Force consultant for selection, development and optimization of environmental remediation systems. Recent work has focused on sites with high risk, complexity and cost, many having large contaminant plumes with variable geology and persistent NAPL sources. Dr. Glover also is active in technology demonstration/validation projects involving emerging contaminants, high-resolution site characterization, source zone remediation in fractured rock, and kilometer-scale transport processes in dilute plumes.\nBefore coming to the Air Force, Dr. Glover was a Principal Scientist for several consulting and remediation firms providing consulting services to private sector and governmental clients. He also served in the U.S. Geological Survey as a Principal Investigator and Groundwater Specialist for water supply, contamination and resources projects across the western United States. His research emphasized contaminant transport in fractured rock, water resources and water rights issues associated with stream-aquifer systems, and regional aquifer systems analysis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 2786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 246.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/5721?comments=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:45Z", "digest": "sha1:EIQUXXLNX4ROU2PTHWSFUHWRMLDHCUFW", "length": 3262, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.residentadvisor.net", "title": "RA Reviews: Booka Shade - Cinematic Shades (The Slow Songs) on Get Physical Music (Album)", "raw_content": "GPMDA003\nBooka Shade - Cinematic Shades (The Slow Songs) It has not been a favorable year for Booka Shade. Even though they're clearly masters of live performance (their electrifying set at Montreal's Osheaga Festival last summer, counter-intuitively stuck between showcases from MGMT and CSS, was the definite highlight of the day as far as I was concerned), their ill-received The Sun & The Neon Light album failed to leave the indelible mark Movements did two years prior. Studio-wise, it's almost as if Walter and Arno weren't sure it they wanted to take you to the club or spend an evening in a candlelit bubble bath together. So, how do they close out 2008? Digitally re-release \"the slow songs\" from said disappointing album and call them Cinematic Shades edits. Needless to say, it is a confusing move that won't do anything to improve Booka Shade's offbeat year.\nAvid fans will be excited to see \"Paper Plane,\" which is technically the only new song here. It's most likely a Sun & Neon Light leftover, though, and is mostly noticeable for its mixing of a moaning male, a cooing female back singer and something that sounds like a sheep bleating. (Needless to say, it won't make you want to go back to \"Comacabana\" and say whoa.) Then again, there is a Trentem\u00f8ller remix of \"Outskirts,\" which recalls Anders' own \"Take Me Under Your Skin,\" which isn't a bad thing at all. This track alone is worth the (slightly exaggerated) admission price, although it would have made more sense to release it as a B-side or an exclusive Get Digital cut. And there's also the Larry Gold string version of \"Night Falls.\" Even though you might already knew this one from 2007's 5 Years Get Physical, it's the only moment where you get the feeling the re-interpretation showcases exactly what they had in mind for Cinematic Shades; it also curiously makes you want to hear what \"Mandarine Girl\" would sound like with an uplifting string quartet.\nBut why tracks such as \"Solo City,\" \"The Sun & The Neon Light,\" and \"You Don't Know What You Mean to Me (J's Lullaby)\" are popping up here again in the same shape they did six months ago is puzzling at best, and annoying at worst\u2014especially when they were already available digitally anyway. Even the supposedly updated \"Cinematic Shades\" edits of \"Vertigo\" and \"Moonstruck,\" two tracks originally released in 2004, have nothing new to offer, thus making the very existence of this compilation even more peculiar. Arrays into the slower, home-listening, \"cinematographic\" corners of the electronic music world isn't reproachable per se. In fact, Booka Shade even introduced Memento, their first album, as the imaginary soundtrack to the movie of the same name. But hasn't anyone with a minute to kill and an MP3 player made their own approximation of this compilation already?\n01. Outskirts (Trentem\u00f8ller Remix)\n02. Solo City\n03. Night Falls (Larry Gold\u2019s \u2019Night Falls Over Philly\u2019 String Version)\n04. Outskirts (Cinematic Shades Edit)\n05. Hallelujah USA\n06. Moonstruck (Cinematic Shades Edit)\n08. Vertigo (Cinematic Shades Edit)\n09. At The Window (Cinematic Shades Edit)\n10. Lost High (Cinematic Shades Edit)\n11. 16 MM (Cinematic Shades Edit)\n12. The Sun & The Neon Light\n13. 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Taking in account its these concerns, Corporate Social Responsibility in Management and Engineering covers the issues related to corporate social responsibility in management and engineering in a context where organizations are facing, day after day, high challenges for what concerns issues related to their social responsibility. The book looks to contribute to the exchange of experiences and perspectives about the state of the research related to CSR, as well as the future direction of this field of research. 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Common stratum 3 Network Time Protocol frequency. It is a common clock for hi-yield ARM processors. It uses the mechanical resonance of a vibrating crystal of piezoelectric material to create an electrical signal with a very precise frequency. This frequency is commonly used to keep track of time, to provide a stable clock signal for digital integrated circuits, and to stabilize frequencies for radio transmitters and receivers. The most common type of piezoelectric resonator used is the quartz crystal, so oscillator circuits incorporating them became known as crystal oscillators. The crystal oscillator circuit sustains oscillation by taking a voltage signal from the quartz resonator, amplifying it, and feeding it back to the resonator. The rate of expansion and contraction of the quartz is the resonant frequency, and is determined by the cut and size of the crystal. When the energy of the generated output frequencies matches the losses in the circuit, an oscillation can be sustained. One of the most important traits of the crystal oscillator is that it exhibits very low phase noise. In the crystal oscillator, the crystal mostly vibrates in one axis, therefore only one phase is dominant. This property of low phase noise makes them particularly useful in telecommunications where stable signals are needed, and in scientific equipment where very precise time references are needed. The result is that a quartz crystal behaves like a circuit composed of an inductor,capacitor and resistor, with a precise resonant frequency\n- The crystal oscillator circuit sustains oscillation by taking a voltage signal from the quartz resonator, amplifying it, and feeding it\nback to the resonator\n- It provides clock pulses of 24 MHz frequency.\n- The popularity of the crystals is due to low cost.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 312, "original_length": 7963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 272.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.roboticssummit.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:31Z", "digest": "sha1:5F4E2VGISK5NH5BHXGOIOMTYMAS7REBU", "length": 2148, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.roboticssummit.com", "title": "About - Robotics Summit and Showcase", "raw_content": "A Unique Robotics Event\nTo date, events covering technical design and development issues specific to robotics fell into three general camps \u2013 1) trade shows, 2) association events and 3) academic conferences.\nWhile trade shows serve their market, they offer little to those seeking technical information on engineering new classes of robotics and intelligent systems products and services. Association and academic events target small, narrow niches. More importantly, sessions at academic and association events are not focused on the development of products and systems with an eye to their commercial potential.\nCommercial Robotics Systems\nThe Robotics Summit Conference and Expo emphasizes the design and development of commercially viable robotics and intelligent systems products \u2013 wholly new robotics products and services that are to be used outside of laboratory environments, deliver business value and sold at a profit.\nRobotics Summit Tracks Include:\nManufacturability, Business Models and Business\nThe Robotics Summit keynotes and general sessions are specifically designed to impart to technical professionals the information they need to successfully develop the next generation of commercial robotics systems, while the Robotics Summit expo provides attendees with hands on access to the latest design and development solutions for producing robotics and intelligent systems products and services.\nThe Robot Report provides engineering, technology and business professionals with a single source for breaking news, product information, independent analysis and in-depth research focused on the development, application and use of robotics and intelligent systems technologies, products and services. For more information go to www.therobotreport.com.\nWTWH Media is a business-to-business integrated media company serving engineering, business and investment professionals through 40+ web sites, 5 print publications, along with many other technical and business events. The \u201cWTWH Network\u201d includes the Robotics Network, the Life Science Network, the Design World Network, the Electronics Engineering and more. See www.wtwhmedia.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 247, "original_length": 14755, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 324.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-hairdressers-husband-1990", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:16Z", "digest": "sha1:H2Z33KCCXCQU5EU2PW6V3QMENOHJFIQM", "length": 7700, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.rogerebert.com", "title": "The Hairdresser's Husband Movie Review (1990) | Roger Ebert", "raw_content": "Jean Rochefort as Antoine\nAnna Galiena as Mathilde\nRoland Bertin as Antoine's father\nMaurice Chevit as Agopian\nAnne-Marie Pisani as Mrs. Schaeffer\nThe hairdressing shop is their ocean liner, their lives are a cruise around the world. They will sail the Nile, kiss in the shadows of the Great Pyramids, see the sun set on every earthly paradise, and it will always be exactly like this. Perfect. \"The Hairdresser's Husband\" (1990) tells the story of two romantics besotted with love, living in a French hairdressing salon, she reading magazines on her perch by the widow, he working crosswords on the red leather bench, the sunlight flooding in. The yellows, blues, tropical colors. The exotic music he dances to. Occasionally at some unheard signal their eyes meet and they smile in shared bliss.\nIsn't it pretty to think so. What is remarkable is that they both fully agree on this vision. From his early adolescence, Antoine (Jean Rochefort) has desired only one thing in life, to be a hairdresser's husband. Many men have been attracted by the beauty of Mathilde (Anna Galiena), but until now, in her early 30s, none has been perfect. Perfection. That's what they're looking for. He has known the barbershop for years. When old Monsieur Ambroise (Maurice Chevit) retired, he gave it to her, for she would carry on in his tradition. One day, she gives Antoine a shampoo and a trim, and he says, \"Will you marry me?\" She doesn't answer. Two weeks later he comes in for his next visit. She tells him yes. Her answer is yes.\n\"The Hairdresser's Husband\" carries their shared perfection as far as it can -- further, in fact, than we might desire. Perfection admits no compromise. It is not possible in a world made of time and men and women. But how wonderful it can be. This 1990 film by Patrice Leconte is funny, as warm as a hug, as fanciful as a dream. It is a fairy tale set in a real shop on a real street with real people. Of course, the shop and the street exist only in a movie studio, and the people are characters, but that's a movie for you. Film is an art form that permits perfection.\nThe film is awesome in how it begins, how it continues, and how it ends. It is profound. It is about our foolish dreams. I doubt it has ever found a single viewer who yearns to be a hairdresser's husband, but it allows us all to understand such a thing is quite possible. He isn't a hair fetishist. He is a hairdresser fetishist. Leconte shows us the very moment when he was seized by his desire. His young eyes are wide and solemn as he glimpses in a gap in another hairdresser's blouse that form we all learn, as our first lesson, is the source of all goodness, love and comfort: a woman's breast. He is lost.\nNot only lost, but mad. There is no sanity in his intense focus. Is she mad? She must be. But they're both so happy. Real life hardly seems to be a factor. We never see them eat. We never see them sleep. We know they live in a room above the shop, but we don't see it.\nTheir days pass in a serene parade, sometimes enlivened by his fondness for dancing to recordings of the music of \"The Arabian Nights.\" He can't dance, as he is the first to admit. But what he does is wonderful, and Rochefort's gyrations, always with a solemn face, are very funny. Why this music? Why this dance? Why do we need to ask?\nShe smiles. She is radiant. She is kind, gentle, sexy. They are always in heat. While she is performing a shampoo, he kneels on the floor behind her and caresses her to ecstasy. They make love on the red leather bench. They're in full view, but nobody ever seems to see them. They make each other very happy.\nLeconte, working from his own screenplay, interrupts their solitude with customers. Two inseparable friends, always deep in a dispute. A little boy who does not want to have his hair cut. A husband who dashes in to hide from his fearsome wife, who follows him. There aren't a lot of customers, which is all right with them. She is patient, attentive, expert. He is tactful and always helpful. The sun shines in. Their wedding day takes place in the shop, with old Monsieur Ambroise in attendance.\nIn a rare visit outside the shop one Sunday afternoon, they visit Ambroise in the retirement home where he lives. He observes that the home's gardens, so well-tended, have a sort of film over them, an aura: \"These are the last trees and flowers these old people will ever see.\" He is not consoled by retirement. He was happy, now he is lonely. His relatives visit, but are impatient to leave. In such small dark clouds as these, Leconte allows his lovers to observe that nothing is forever.\nPatrice Leconte is a director who should be better known. Like Ang Lee, he never repeats himself. Each film seems a fresh start from a new idea. His flawless \"Monsieur Hire\" (1989) is also about a fetishist -- a voyeur. That is its only similarity with \"The Hairdresser's Husband.\" His \"Ridicule\" (1996), set at the court of Louis XVI, involved a provincial farmer, much agitated about the need for irrigation. Told that the king listens to no one who doesn't amuse him, he learns to be funny. He was never funny before. \"The Widow of Saint-Pierre\" (2000), based on a true story, involves a man condemned to the guillotine on a remote French island off Canada. The colony lacks a guillotine. The courts are sticklers for the letter of the law. The condemned man and the warden's wife undergo a transformation during the wait for the guillotine to arrive from France. It is very deep and moving.\n\"My Best Friend\" (2007) is about a man who learns he truly has no friends, only acquaintances and associates. He hires a sunny taxi driver to instruct him in the act of making friends. \"Man on the Train\" (2003) stars French rock star Johnny Hallyday and Jean Rochefort again, as a bank robber and a retired literature teacher. Circumstances lead the teacher to admit the robber as an overnight guest. Each old man envies the other, who represents a road not traveled. \"The Girl on the Bridge\" (1999) is about a professional knife-thrower who hangs around bridges looking for young women about to leap off them. He offers them a job as his target. There is always the possibility he might miss. If he doesn't, they get an interesting job with lots of travel. If he does hit them, well, what do they have to lose?\nI have never seen a bad film by Patrice Leconte. As you can see, they share no genre. They share no style, either, except his clear, sure strokes at the service of his story. I have been thinking for years of including him in the Great Movies collection, but delayed, unable to choose among them. I could make an excellent case for every film I mentioned.\nWhat they have in common is his gift for inventing unforgettable characters. Some are remarkable only in their ordinariness. They have this in common: They're fascinating. Admit that in my brief remarks about those titles you were intrigued by every character I mentioned. The French have affection for Leconte, because he doesn't disappoint them. But in the world market, he offers no hook or \"high concept.\" For the global mass audience, if it requires an entire sentence to describe a film, that's too much complexity to deal with. Yet Leconte's kind of film is why I go to the movies with hope.\nYou will have noted I revealed nothing of the destiny of his couple who are so very happy. Surely their happiness cannot last forever? No? Are you sure? Surely we believe we are immune to the sad outcomes experienced by others. I want to say this much about the ending: It is a happy ending. Happy for her, happy for him, and their love remains inviolate and undiminished. Can you deny that?\nThe Decorated Phrase Above All Else", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 14121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 285.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/russell-baillie/movies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:KXIRMXCPBOV4FL2UZWNIOT2DA2GWKGES", "length": 9677, "nlines": 55, "source_domain": "www.rottentomatoes.com", "title": "Russell Baillie Movies Reviews & Previews - Rotten Tomatoes - Rotten Tomatoes", "raw_content": "Russell Baillie\nRussell Baillie's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s): New Zealand Herald\nPublications: New Zealand Herald\n3.5/5 75% Godzilla (2014) This Godzilla manages to rise above its human flaws, and become the massive modern monster movie it needs to be. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 84% Only Lovers Left Alive (2014) What resonates is the movie's love story, one which is essentially about a very old, very married couple. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n2.5/5 52% The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) So much of this feels like deja vu. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 91% The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) It's one to lose yourself in. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 76% Noah (2014) On the whole, Noah is a mad captivating trip. And yes, it's the best movie about boatbuilding and livestock export you are likely to see for a very long time. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 90% Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) One of the smarter and more entertaining Marvel movies of the era. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n5/5 93% Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) It's a bleak tale of a less-than-loveable loser. But the combined effect of songs, lead performance and period detail make it one of the best, most heartfelt Coen movies yet. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n2.5/5 60% Non-Stop (2014) It all might sound bit Fly Hard and director Collet-Serra does make good use of the claustrophobic cabin confines, even if he cheats on the in-flight physics later on. But his tech-Hitchcock whodunnit doesn't sustain. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 56% Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (2014) The main characters and the performances behind them are nicely pitched. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n74% The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) If the finale is exhausting, for the most part the first half of The Desolation of Smaug is invigorating and frequently exhilarating. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 93% Captain Phillips (2013) If, at the beginning, Hanks seems suitably cast as yet another ordinary guy thrown into extraordinary circumstances, by the end, it's become an emotionally riveting performance. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4.5/5 72% Beyond the Edge (2014) Just as she did with her great The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, director Leanne Pooley's work neatly refreshes our appreciation of a local legend. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3.5/5 81% Prisoners (2013) Jackman's aggrieved dad is impressive. But Gyllenhaal's Loki, facial tics, unexplained tattoos and all is, oddly, the more believable. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4.5/5 98% Moonlight (2016) This may be a movie that is keeping it real for most of its time on screen but in the end, Moonlight fair glows with possibility and hope. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n2.5/5 No Score Yet The Catch (2016) The Catch can't quite hook one's attention. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3.5/5 95% Moana (2016) Apart from those occasional dull patches, it is enjoyable. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3.5/5 90% A Man Called Ove (En man som heter Ove) (2016) A Man Called Ove is both dourly funny and affecting. A bad-mood feel-good movie. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n5/5 91% La La Land (2016) A clever, perfect film. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3.5/5 100% The Young Offenders (2016) It's got a heart, particularly in the scenes between the boys and their respective single parents, and it's got an amusingly recognisable portrayal of adolescent male friendship and the entertaining, embarrassing stupidity that can result from it. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 84% Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) It also works as its own stand-alone film. One which, despite some lumpy pacing in its first half, turns out to be possibly the best Star Wars war film of the bunch. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n1.5/5 20% Underworld: Blood Wars (2017) Say this about the Underworld movies: Like the vampires they are populated with, they sure do stick around. This dull heap of action-fantasy mediocrity, one which wants to be Game of Fangs, is the fifth. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 61% Allied (2016) Allied's strong sense of d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu sure makes it look nice. But it sure doesn't help make it a great film. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n2.5/5 57% The Neon Demon (2016) [It's] a blood-soaked, macabre and initially fascinating film. One where style made sure substance never got the invite to attend, then takes over the whole mad -- and maddeningly slow -- shebang. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 82% The Founder (2017) It's a bland movie that becomes less great American business saga, more mildly engaging, mildly uncomplimentary Kroc biopic. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 75% Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) Like Newt's battered suitcase it's frequently unhinged. And it's that strangeness is what makes this proto-Potter enchanting and a promising first chapter. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3.5/5 68% Operation Avalanche (2016) What started out as retro conspiracy comedy abruptly becomes paranoid thriller. It works better earlier on, as a mockumentary high on its own supply of faked lunar-landing lunacy. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n1/5 60% War on Everyone (2017) Remarkably tone deaf and quite awful. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3.5/5 No Score Yet The 5Th Eye (2016) The doc is at its best telling the story of the whiskery earnest trio who popped the bubble on the Waihopai spy base then, having convinced a jury of their protest principles, were found not guilty. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 96% Little Men (2016) A bittersweet charmer. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 94% Arrival (2016) Adams' performance as Dr Louise Banks is terrific. She's the affecting emotional core of this. Especially once she starts her own close encounters with the inhabitants of the ship hovering above rural Montana. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 51% The Accountant (2016) No, the ending of The Accountant doesn't quite add up. But as a puzzler-thriller with pretensions to smartness, it still does the business, just. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3.5/5 86% Hacksaw Ridge (2016) It's hard not to be impressed by Gibson's efforts at recreating the Okinawa battlefield, or by Garfield's endearing, committed portrayal of a man who stuck to his code. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n2.5/5 18% Keeping Up With The Joneses (2016) As a spoof or spy movie, you have to say this about Keeping up with the Joneses -- it sure can't keep up with those Smiths. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4.5/5 91% I, Daniel Blake (2017) While it's a typically plain-looking Loach film, there's grim poetry in the script by Paul Laverty, his eighth for the director. You could write songs from some of the lines. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n5/5 97% Hell or High Water (2016) Hell, it sets a high water mark for movies this year. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 89% Doctor Strange (2016) This doctor, it seems, has a cure for superhero fatigue. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 99% Under The Shadow (2016) Yes, if you see only one Iranian horror movie this year, make it this one. A smart choice for Halloween. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n2/5 38% Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016) Yes, Never Go Back is a bad title but may prove good advice. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 86% The Clan (El Clan) (2016) Director Pablo Trapero exercises a cool restraint in his portrayal of this diabolical domesticity. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n2/5 22% Inferno (2016) Watching it feels like signing up to a tour group visiting the sites of Brown's less popular works and you're not allowed off the bus. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 83% Deepwater Horizon (2016) Yes, there is much more that can be said about the catastrophe than this movie does. But the great disaster that was Deepwater Horizon now has a great disaster movie to go with it. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 45% The Girl on the Train (2016) Only Blunt's gutsy performance keeps The Girl on the Train on track while so much is trying to derail it. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 63% The Magnificent Seven (2016) [It] has a pleasing full-on embrace of things a western must have: tobacco spitting, gun twirling, trick riding, men bursting out of saloon doors, men bursting out of saloon windows, men just bursting. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n5/5 82% Captain Fantastic (2016) [Ross has] delivered a movie that might hit some soft, sentimental notes towards the end. But that doesn't stop this being a sweet, sad, funny original. One full of terrific performances. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 89% Blood Father (2016) Like Mel Gibson, this movie is a bit of a throwback. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n4/5 85% Sully (2016) It just might be the first plane-crash movie that suggests itself as suitable in-flight entertainment too. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 58% David Brent: Life on the Road (2017) David Brent: Life on the Road is more in the league of Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa -- a mildly satisfying final encore for a prickly Brit comedy character that its creator will never top. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3.5/5 71% Chasing Great (2018) Stimulating if not fascinating. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n1/5 25% Ben-Hur (2016) That Huston is no Heston makes this a movie with an empty centre where a heroic figure should be. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n3/5 78% The Shallows (2016) It's like Collet-Sera has taken the opening scene of Jaws - - the one of the skinny dipping woman becoming shark bait -- and made a whole guilty pleasure film out of it. - New Zealand Herald EDIT\n5/5 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 5/5 Out of the Blue (Aramoana) 5/5 Mad Max: Fury Road 5/5 Gravity 5/5 Inside Llewyn Davis\n1/5 A Million Ways to Die in the West 1/5 Aloha 1/5 Ben-Hur 1/5 War on Everyone 1.5/5 Annie", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 320, "original_length": 15660, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/work-in-progress/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:30Z", "digest": "sha1:TEEWECCBVWLXFCBQNSFPAQLLZDS4ASTD", "length": 825, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.rousette.org.uk", "title": "BSAG \u00bb Work in progress", "raw_content": "I spent a bit of time at the weekend finishing the main work of updating Tracks to use Ajax to edit, create and delete items. For those of you who don't know what Ajax is, it's basically some clever Javascript that allows you to make changes to the database and show those changes 'live' without having to refresh the whole page. It makes the whole thing much more like a normal application, rather than a web application.\nFor those of you keeping up with Tracks development, I've put a couple of silly movies showing me editing projects in the new interface here. You can have a good laugh at my typos \u2014 typing while recording live is surprisingly tricky.\nOn a side note, I'm using Snapz Pro to make the movies. It's incredibly good, and while I'm just using a demo version at the moment, I think I'll pony up for a licence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1085, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.rwchapman.com/product_descriptor/technical-furniture/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:13Z", "digest": "sha1:VW3SPCYSCNBKIJTOKS57QE6VXBOWLJAK", "length": 73, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.rwchapman.com", "title": "Technical Furniture | RW Chapman", "raw_content": "Furniture for data centers, operator consoles and other industrial needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 330.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.safefuelandenergy.org/about/partners.cfm?org=EWB-USA", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:D23ZR5JB4UE64RMKCZ45HDKK46Z7B2FM", "length": 3340, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.safefuelandenergy.org", "title": "Safe Access to Fuel and Energy (SAFE) - Engineers Without Borders USA", "raw_content": "www.ewb-usa.org\nEWB-USA builds a better world through engineering projects that empower communities to meet their basic human needs and equip leaders to solve the world\u2019s most pressing challenges. Our vision is a world in which every community has the capacity to sustainably meet their basic human needs.\nEWB-USA forms genuine, long-lasting partnerships with those requesting our services. Together, we identify and implement appropriate solutions that communities and partners are equipped to maintain for years to come. We respond to requests for engineering support through three programs: the International Community Program, the Engineering Service Corps, and the Community Engineering Corps.\nProjects in our International Community Program utilize EWB-USA volunteers\u2019 support for the project\u2019s full life cycle, from assessment to implementation to monitoring and evaluation. These projects typically work within individual communities, and range in scope and duration. Our Engineering Service Corps offers the expertise of our most seasoned volunteers to organizations in the international development sector. We respond to requests for engineering project support from humanitarian organizations and other institutions who lack the necessary technical resources to address the engineering challenges facing the world\u2019s most vulnerable populations. Focus areas of expertise are in disaster response, infrastructure, agriculture, energy, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Finally, in the United States, the Community Engineering Corps, our partnership with the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Water Works Association, lends volunteers\u2019 technical expertise to communities that\nare otherwise unable to retain or afford engineering services.\nEWB-USA and SAFE\nEWB-USA currently provides technical support to numerous humanitarian agencies in implementing their energy projects through our Engineering Service Corps (ESC) program. We have significant knowledge and experience in implementing fuel and energy projects, and other technical projects, all around the world with a variety of humanitarian organizations, individual communities, and other partners. We wish to share our knowledge and expertise with the members of the SAFE Humanitarian Working Group and the sector at large in order to order to improve the practical delivery of fuel and energy projects and programs in humanitarian settings. We also wish to stay informed of concerns, gaps, trends, or needs in the sector so that we can best support our partners and clients.\nEWB-USA is a technical organization that implements, and supports the implementation of, engineering and technical projects in humanitarian and low-to-middle-income environments. Our past and current work includes 60+ energy projects, including but not limited to solar photovoltaic and solar hot water systems, rural electrification and mini-grids, biogas, solar lighting, cooking fuels and fuel alternatives, energy in building design, and energy efficiency in mechanical and electrical systems. In addition to implementation and design, we also conduct technical training and capacity-building for energy systems design and maintenance in humanitarian and low-to-middle-income settings.\nElizabeth Joyce | elizabeth.joyce@ewb-usa.org\nKevin Hagen | kevin.hagen@ewb-usa.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.salon.com/2015/11/25/why_white_people_arent_called_terrorist_the_media_accepts_that_people_who_resort_to_violence_are_left_wing_or_arab_or_both/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:11Z", "digest": "sha1:2QLBDBQPYFI2RTNO5PGMYLEITECHZHIT", "length": 4212, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.salon.com", "title": "Why white people aren't called \"terrorist\": The media accepts that \"people who resort to violence are left-wing or Arab or both\" | Salon.com", "raw_content": "(AP/Bradley C Bower/Reuters)\nWhy white people aren't called \"terrorist\": The media accepts that \"people who resort to violence are left-wing or Arab or both\"\nThe white supremacists who shot Black Lives Matter protestors qualify as terrorists\u2014but we won't call them that\nThe script has gotten familiar by now: Ideologically driven Muslim or foreigner does something violent and awful, and they are dubbed a terrorist. Ideologically driven white person does something violent and awful, and the term rarely comes up.\nThat\u2019s the way the latest act of public violence \u2013 the shooting, by white supremacists, of five Black Lives Matter protesters in Minneapolis last night \u2013 has worked out. Black Lives Matter Minneapolis has called this an act of \u201cdomestic terrorism.\u201d But it\u2019s harder to find in the news media. What does the term \"terrorism\" mean in the lingua franca?\nWe spoke to media critic Todd Gitlin, a professor at Columbia University and longtime writer on the counterculture, about the phenomenon.\nAnother shooting \u2013 white supremacist this time. Why are we \u2013 the news media, at least \u2013 not widely describing them as terrorists?\nYou should ask them! But I can surmise \u2013 they have \"terrorist\" located as a compressed way to say Islamist-jihadist-enemy of America. If they know that there have ever been any other kinds of terrorists in America, that knowledge has gone down the memory hole.\nI\u2019ve been reading and writing on the Deep South in the early \u201860s, when black activists and others were pretty regularly being shot to death and burned to death and beaten up and abused in all kinds of ways. And my recollection is that even then the word \u201cterrorist\u201d was not ordinarily used. Look at the bombing of the church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 and see if the word \u201cterrorist\u201d was applied. My guess is not very much.\nThe term \"terrorist\" came forward to refer to the Weather Underground and people like that.\nIt wasn\u2019t just an ethnic distinction, then.\nNo, I think it was reserved for the left, then.\nA terrorist is someone who used terror as a political instrument. Certainly the shooters in Minneapolis would seem to qualify. [Timothy] McVeigh and [John] Nichols were not trying to terrify so much as they were trying to destroy the state. I\u2019m not sure of that.\nThere are times when the gang-banging militias would qualify as terrorists in a strict sense: They see the violence as a platform for their spiel\u2026 I think the Unabomber would qualify as a terrorist: He had a manifesto ready.\nCertainly some of the right-wing and racist groups would qualify by any strict definition as terrorists. And the news media haven\u2019t coded them that way.\nThere is a fixation about the terrorists of Islamist inspiration, and that was probably already true before Sept. 11, 2001.\nWhat do the racists in Minneapolis want to do? One thing they seem to want to do is terrify the Black Lives Matter movement and drive them off the stage.\nHas technology changed things?\nIt\u2019s certainly easier in the age of Internet and social media to use images of the destruction as mechanisms to incite fear and recruit terrorists.\nWhat are the consequences of this unconscious semantic decision we\u2019ve made? For people who aren\u2019t media scholars or in the news media, they see that when people on the left do something bad, they\u2019re terrorists. When people of Middle Eastern descent, or radical Islamists, do something bad, it\u2019s terrorism. When people on the right do something dangerous or insane, it\u2019s either a crime involving a \u201cshooter\u201d or a \u201cgunman\u201d\u2026 What does this do to people watching?\nIt helps this practice of confinement of the term terrorism\u2026 It reinforces the idea that white American racism with violent equipment is somehow not exactly normal, but doesn\u2019t need to be taken seriously as a social and political atrocity. It\u2019s attributed to madmen.\nI think that\u2019s a fairly common right-wing trope. Like that guy [Jared Loughner] who shot those people in Arizona, including the congresswoman\u2026 The right-wing framing of him is that he was just a nut.\nThe point of the distinction is to leave undisturbed the presumption that people who resort to violence are left-wing or Arab or both.\nBlack Lives Matter Racism White Supremacists", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 6495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/sd-me-paradise-fire-cancer-treatment-20181119-story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:34Z", "digest": "sha1:GJ4C756KZHLZ6QJLJE5IXSF3YMQT2XYL", "length": 5337, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.sandiegouniontribune.com", "title": "He survived the Camp Fire, but can he survive cancer and the loss of his medical team? - The San Diego Union-Tribune", "raw_content": "He survived the Camp Fire, but can he survive cancer and the loss of his medical team?\nEduardo Contreras/ The San Diego Union-Tribune\nOlav Johannessen escaped the Camp Fire, but the blaze left this cancer patient adrift without medical care.\nOlav Johannessen escaped the Camp Fire, but the blaze left this cancer patient adrift without medical care. (Eduardo Contreras/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)\nOlav Johannessen\u2019s fast action saved his life. As wildfire swept into Northern California\u2019s Paradise, the former Oceanside resident fled with the clothes on his back.\n\u201cWe saw fire on both sides of the road as we drove to Chico,\u201d said Johannessen, 85. \u201cThere were people who were slower and they didn\u2019t make it.\u201d\nWhile he was out of the Camp Fire, he was not out of the woods. A brain cancer patient, Johannessen had been in his oncologist\u2019s waiting room in Paradise on Nov. 8 when he heard the evacuation order. Soon, the medical offices \u2014 and most of the town \u2014 were reduced to ash.\nThe timing was terrible. While fleeing to safety, Johannessen left behind the medical team entrusted with managing his care.\nThree weeks earlier, surgeons in Chico had removed a tumor from his brain. The day of the fire, he was supposed to start radiation and chemotherapy.\n\u201cHis medical oncologist, his radiation oncologist, his neurologist \u2014 none of those doctors were reachable after the fire,\u201d said Jenna Lavaliere, Johannessen\u2019s daughter. \u201cThere was a double sense of emergency \u2014 A.) to get him out and, B.) to get him into treatment.\u201d\nWithin days, San Diego offered Johannessen both a safe haven and a new medical team. Jenna and Gary Lavaliere caught up with him in Redding, then drove him to their home near Lake Murray. On the journey south, the Lavalieres contacted Johannessen\u2019s surgeon in Chico, asking him for a referral to San Diego-based oncologists.\nThe surgeon recommended either UC San Diego or Scripps Health. Because the Lavalieres had previous experiences there, they opted for Scripps.\n\u201cAnd the next thing I know,\u201d Jenna Lavaliere said, \u201cI\u2019m on the phone with a wonderful nurse navigator.\u201d\nWhile still on the road to San Diego, Johannessen had an appointment with his new medical team.\nBuying quality of life\nGlioblastoma is a brain cancer known for its speed and ferocity.\n\u201cI would say that, on average, about 10 percent of patients are alive within five years,\u201d said Dr. Chien Peter Chen, a radiation oncologist with Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center in La Jolla. \u201cPatients that are alive after two years? About 25 percent.\n\u201cIn general,\u201d Chen said of the prognosis, \u201cnot great.\u201d\nGlioblastoma, though, has never tackled anyone quite like Olav Johannessen. In his mid-80s, the former construction firm owner is determined to live \u2014 and on his own terms.\nAfter his wife died, Johannessen left their Oceanside home more than a decade ago. In the Sierra Nevada foothills, he moved into a pre-fab home beneath Paradise\u2019s towering jack pines.\nWhile Johannessen continued to make annual trips to Norway, where he owns property near the Arctic Circle, this widow quickly grew enamored with Paradise. He remodeled his new home, building a living room and shop. He liked the changing seasons, the relaxed pace of life, He enjoyed chopping wood \u2014 his place was usually stocked with 10 to 15 cords \u2014 and dancing at the Italian Garden, a restaurant in Paradise\u2019s modest downtown.\nWhen you meet him, he delivers a crushing handshake with his left hand.\nHis right hand went numb this summer. \u201cI thought I had hurt my elbow,\u201d he said.\nUnfortunately, that was not the case. In September, a doctor informed him that the cause was a tumor in the brain\u2019s left hemisphere.\nToday, he\u2019s under no illusions about his chances. \u201cI don\u2019t expect to be whole again,\u201d he said this week. \u201cBut I hope to be able to function.\u201d\nHis daughter, having spent decades watching her father overcome challenges, is more upbeat.\n\u201cHe will go about the business of getting stronger,\u201d she predicted, \u201cand living the quality of life that this treatment is buying him.\u201d\n\u2018Go ahead and dream\u2019\nAt Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center, Johannessen was assigned an oncologist, Dr. Kathryn Bollin; a radiation oncologist, Dr. Chen; and Debbie Deseno, a \u201cnurse navigator\u201d who is able to answer all the patient\u2019s questions.\nOn Tuesday, staffers at the Torrey Pines Mesa facility fitted Johannessen with a mask that will keep his head immobile as radiation is applied.\nHe\u2019ll undergo those treatments five days a week, across three weeks. At the same time, he\u2019ll have chemotherapy. While the chemo eventually will be scaled back, it will continue for at least a year.\n\u201cWe\u2019ll be keeping a close eye on him,\u201d Dr. Chen said. \u201cHe\u2019ll be here for at least a year, maybe two years.\u201d\nLonger term, what are his plans? The Camp Fire destroyed more than 10,000 homes, including Johannessen\u2019s place and all his belongings, including a mint-condition 1968 Ford pickup he had bequeathed to his daughter.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a small chance\u201d he\u2019ll return to Northern California, Johannessen said. \u201cI can\u2019t move too far from my daughter.\u201d.\nShe laughed. \u201cGo ahead and dream about all the things you can do,\u201d Jenna Lavaliere said. \u201cIt\u2019s good for you to think about that.\u201d\nOlav Johannessen lost his home and all his possessions. But living with family and being treated by a new medical team, he\u2019s found life after Paradise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5807, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 291.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sangeet-examinations.co.uk/certificate", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:A5XYISBAATSJWVU4BEPBTVWGWLAIEJIH", "length": 1020, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sangeet-examinations.co.uk", "title": "Certificate | Sangeet Examinations - World Music and Dance Examinations", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Qualifications \u00bb Certificate\nThe PRSSV Certificate is a Level 4 qualification. It provides those who have passed Grade 8 with a chance to focus on developing their performance skills. The demands of the certificate compares to a first years study in Higher Education.\nA candidate wishing to appear for the Certificate in Performance (Cert. PRSSV (Performance)) must have obtained a pass at Grade 8 (or equivalent) in their subject.\nFor the PRSSV Certificate in Performance, a candidate will need to perform, answer aural questions and sit a theory examination in accordance with the requirements of the syllabuses.\nFor the PRSSV Certificate of Teacher Competences (Cert. PRSSV (Teacher)) a candidate will have to be regularly teaching, must be 18 years old and have passed the PRSSV Grade 8 or provide evidence of equivalence. 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This format is Conference Approved, which means that it has been developed and revised according to the experiences of members of S-Anon groups worldwide. Groups may exercise their autonomy and choose to customize the Meeting Format (not the Conference Approved Readings, however) to better serve their needs. More information about how S-Anon meetings work can be found in Part 1 of the S-Anon/S-Ateen Service Manual. In Italian.\nItem P-2IT.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 255.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.savannahnow.com/accent/2008-01-26/savannah-book-festival-starts-feb-1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:42Z", "digest": "sha1:LEY4MWDGGDYEWXCISZ3Q2ZFVLJWCFOM4", "length": 4436, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.savannahnow.com", "title": "Savannah Book Festival starts Feb. 1 - News - Savannah Morning News - Savannah, GA", "raw_content": "Savannah Book Festival starts Feb. 1\nDIANE BRONSON\nBook lovers all over Savannah have a great week coming up - the inaugural Savannah Book Festival will take place Feb. 1-3, with a stellar list of authors from Georgia and points east, west, north and south heading the festivities.\nAlso, the Live Oak Public Libraries Foundation gala will take place Feb. 7, with a dinner and auction at the Bull Street Library.\nBook festivals are always wonderful because you get the chance to meet the people behind your favorite books and to learn about authors that you haven't come across before.\nOn Saturday, as part of the fun, children's librarians from Live Oak Public Libraries will be telling stories at City Market. For adults, books and authors will be everywhere around Telfair and Franklin Squares, with more than 30 presentations and book signings. If you want to get a head start, here are just a few of the books, available at local Live Oak branches, whose authors will be featured at the festival.\n\"To Dance with the White Dog\"\n\"The Year the Lights Came On\"\nThese two tales of a bygone South by Kay, the author of some of the most enjoyable Georgia-based books out there. His strong and feisty characters will make you love them, and I'm looking forward to hearing him Friday evening, when he'll be at the Lucas Theatre. It's free, so you have no excuse for missing what promises to be a great evening.\n\"Savannah Breeze\"\nAndrews, the doyen of Southern chick lit, deals with the trials of BeBe Loudermilk, who lost most of her worldly possessions to a wily con man, and is left with only a down-and-out 1950s motor court on Tybee Island. She's making the best of what's left of her life, until she sights the scoundrel and puts a sting into operation to take her revenge.\n\"The Hand I Fan With\"\nThis story is set in fictional Mulberry, Ga. Fortyish Lena McPherson, despite being a successful and prominent local businesswoman, feels a void in her life. She finds the antidote to her loneliness in Herman, the ghost of a man who died 100 years ago, who she conjures up with the help of a friend. The lessons she learns from him teach her more about living than she'd ever expected a dead man could know.\n\"The City of Falling Angels\"\nBerendt is, of course, famous as the author of \"Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,\" the classic and bestselling Savannah story. His most recent book, \"The City of Falling Angels,\" explores another uniquely beautiful city with a history and character to rival our own, Venice, Italy.\n\"The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails\"\nBy Eric Calonius\nThis is the story of how a sugar baron's racing yacht was turned by a trio of pro-slavery radicals into an illegal slave ship, smuggling 400 captured Africans to Georgia's Jekyll Island. Ironically, the federal government transformed the Wanderer into a gunboat for the Union during the Civil War.\n\"Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives\"\nBy Rosemary Daniell\n\"Secrets of the Zona Rosa\" is only the most recent of several books by Savannah author Rosemary Daniell, the originator and leader of Zona Rosa, a series of creative writing workshops founded on the premise that writing can be not only a creative challenge but a tool for healing.\n\"Ghettonation: a Journey into the Land of Bling, and the Home of the Shameless\"\nBy Cora Daniels\nThe author fearlessly critiques America's embrace of a ghetto persona that demeans women, devalues education, and celebrates the worst African-American stereotypes, exposing the role of corporate America in exploiting the idea of ghetto-ness as a hip cultural idiom in order to boost profits.\n\"Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas,\"\nBy Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher\nThis biography looks at Thomas' controversial life and jurisprudence, from his Savannah days to his Supreme Court tenure, painting Thomas as a conflicted man - a conservative whose success with the aid of affirmative action has led him to beliefs and political positions that have estranged him from much of the African-American community, even in his home town.\nThese are just a few of the authors and books being represented at the festival. You can find more at www.savannahbookfestival.org.\nDiane Bronson is the collection development coordinator for Live Oak Public Libraries. To contact her, call 652-3615 or e-mail bronsond@liveoakpl.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 6406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sbgreenlanddeliveries.com/medical-marijuana-sbgreenlanddeliveries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:46Z", "digest": "sha1:UVV5ABQBOKFJGFAPYGD3UQ6KPUSJAEYY", "length": 3171, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.sbgreenlanddeliveries.com", "title": "Santa Barbara Marijuana Delivery-sbgreenlanddeliveries", "raw_content": "There are claims that the consumption of marijuana on a regular basis can lead to dependency and can have a negative impact on one\u2019s memory. However, the immense benefits of this herb cannot be overlooked. It is for this very reason that medical marijuana has been legalized in a total of 23 states across the USA. If you\u2019re still unaware of the uses of medical marijuana, below listed are some of the most astounding benefits of the same.\nPrevention, Cure and Regulation of Diseases\nScientific studies in the recent past have come to prove that the consumption of marijuana can help in preventing as well as fighting many physical and psychological ailments. Right from fighting glaucoma, slowing the onset of Alzheimer\u2019s, to the reduction of the side-effects of Hepatitis C and relieving the pain caused due to hepatitis, the effectiveness of marijuana stands unparalleled.\nMarijuana has been known to regulate the production of insulin that helps in the management of calories in a more efficient manner. This leads to improved metabolism and the eventual loss of weight in an effortless way. This benefit is easily noticeable in regular smokers as compared to non-smokers.\nFighting Anxiety and Depression\nOne of the most prominent benefits of the use of cannabis is that it eases the bouts of anxiety and depression. Given that marijuana is a mild sedative, it works as an astounding tranquilizer and helps improve the user\u2019s mood.\nSafer Alternative to Addictions\nFor those who are addicted to alcohol and/or tobacco, weed can prove to be a great alternative that can help them break free from such addictions. Not only is it beneficial for the overall health as compared to the hazardous addictions, but is also extremely difficult to overdose on. Hence, it doesn\u2019t come as a surprise, when one comes to hear of the many lives saved by the use of marijuana as a replacement for lethal addictions.\nHelps Increase Mental Creativity\nMedical marijuana has been proven to helps increase the level of focus of a person. People consuming the same have shown commendable improvements in their efficiency to come up with inventive and innovative ideas. The consumption of cannabis ensures a remarkable improvement in one\u2019s creativity.\nReverses the Negative Impacts of Smoking\nHeavy smokers of tobacco can now take a sigh of relief, thanks to a recent study that showed that smoking marijuana can actually reverse the repercussions on the lungs due to excessive smoking of tobacco. Moreover, it can help chain smokers get rid of their addictive habits with ease. In addition, it has been proven that smoking marijuana doesn\u2019t have any severe impact on the lungs, which again comes as a sign of respite for those who are dependent or like to smoke marijuana for recreational purposes.\nGiven the immense benefits of marijuana, one must not shy away from its use. Now that Santa Barbara marijuana delivery can be easily ordered online through Santa Barbra Greenland Deliveries, there is nothing that can stop one from enjoying its immense medicinal properties.\nThis entry was posted in medical marijuana delivery near me, Santa Barbara Cannabis and tagged Santa Barbara Cannabis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4368, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 225.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sciencealert.com/world-s-rarest-fish-doubled-known-population-hands-red-handfish-thymichthys-politus", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BNF3F4XORSHNFV2LTLZC3QA3QXOTO6UV", "length": 3505, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.sciencealert.com", "title": "The World's Rarest Fish Just Doubled in Known Population", "raw_content": "(Antonia Cooper)\nThey say there are plenty of fish in the sea, but to be perfectly honest with you, that's not always entirely true.\nTake the red handfish (Thymichthys politus), for instance. This extremely rare fish \u2013 thought to be the world's rarest, in fact \u2013 is so scarce that up until last week, scientists knew of only one population, numbering between 20-40 individuals. Now, thanks to a chance discovery, their ranks have doubled.\nAfter a member of the public reported laying eyes on one of these rarely seen specimens, divers from the Australian Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS) and citizen science project Reef Life Survey discovered a whole second community of the animals \u2013 although they almost missed them.\n\"We were diving for approximately three and a half hours, and at about the two-hour mark we were all looking at each other thinking this is not looking promising,\" says one of the researchers, Antonia Cooper.\n\"My dive partner went to tell the other divers that we were going to start heading in, and I was half-heartedly flicking algae around when, lo and behold, I found a red handfish.\"\nBefore now, the species' only known population lived off the coast of south-east Tasmania's Frederick Henry Bay.\nThe new clan resides in a different area kilometres away, which hasn't yet been publicly disclosed because the researchers want to make sure they consider any population management issues before giving up the location.\nBut finding the new group is a thrill \u2013 because the animal's extreme rareness is a real concern for the species' ongoing survival, so swelling their ranks with another estimated 20-40 members (so far eight have been spotted) is a bit like hitting the jackpot.\n\"Finding this second population is a huge relief,\" explains marine biologist Rick Stuart-Smith from the University of Tasmania, \"as it effectively doubles how many we think are left on the planet.\"\nBut the red handfish's rareness isn't the only remarkable thing about this ocean-dweller. As the name implies, this fish has weird appendages that look remarkably like hands.\nT. politus is one of about 14 species in the handfish family, and these animals don't get about the way other fish do. Instead of swimming, they use their 'hands' \u2013 which are actually fore-fins \u2013 to move themselves around on the ocean floor.\nIf Nemo were a handfish instead of a clownfish, he probably never would have gotten lost, because this method of 'walking' or shuffling around the seabed isn't exactly speedy, and it also seems to severely rein in the animals' habitat.\nThe new population lives in an area about 50 metres (164 ft) by 20 metres (66 ft) \u2013 about the size of two tennis courts. A pretty small neighbourhood when you think about it, which is one of the reasons why they're so hard to pin down.\n\"We've already learned a lot from finding this second population because their habitat isn't identical to that of the first population,\" Stuart-Smith explains, \"so we can take some heart from knowing red handfish are not as critically dependent on that particular set of local conditions.\"\nIf another fish were to lay claim to the title of world's rarest fish, it might be T. politus's handfish cousin, Ziebell's handfish, but sadly it hasn't been sighted in over a decade, and researchers fear the species may have become extinct.\nHopefully, the discovery of this second population means the red handfish has an alternative destiny ahead of it.\nOne that, slowly but steadily, it is waddling towards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4088, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 276.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/features/whats-to-come/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:09Z", "digest": "sha1:DXY5XNZOKWR5PG2YEQVWJ3TAXLIPTD2D", "length": 9886, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.scmagazine.com", "title": "What's to come? | SC Media", "raw_content": "The IT landscape has evolved over the past two decades. Where it is headed is anyone\u2019s guess, reports Chuck Miller.\nIn information security, the scale of what happened two decades ago seems almost quaint, compared to the current state of affairs. Twenty years ago, the US-CERT listed 132 incidents of attacks against internet-connected systems. Ten years after that, Microsoft Windows 98 entered the marketplace and, some would argue, marked the beginning of security as a mainstream concern. From then on, hundreds of patches were released in response to problems in Windows.\nFor some time, however, much of information security was seen as FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt). Recently, that has changed. In fact, at least in some quarters, information security is viewed as a business enabler, a fundamental part of an organization\u2019s operations. For example, in the past, few organizations had dedicated information security officers. Now, it is more commonplace \u2013 even if some of the personnel in these positions don\u2019t operate at the highest organizational levels. Certainly, managers realize that along with the requirement of a web presence or email, organizations need security.\nToo, though the profession has grown, the environment is often seen as dismal. \u201cLooking at things right now, I have to tell you that it is not a very pretty picture,\u201d says Paul Ferguson, senior threat researcher at Trend Micro. \u201cWe have the rise of a professional, organized criminal element that is operating brazenly in the open, without any fear of retribution. People do not trust the internet because criminals have been allowed to run wild.\u201d\nAnother recent area of concern is the growth of Web 2.0 technologies, along with social networking. \u201cAttacks on social media have not abated,\u201d says Ryan Barnett, director of application security at Breach Security. \u201cThat is likely to continue and grow. It\u2019s a target-rich environment for hackers.\u201d\nWebsites in the future are likely to not just be targets for attack and for stealing information, but rather platforms to launch attacks on end-users, Barnett adds.\nAlso, the security problem is due in part to opportunities for mischief at fundamental levels, which may only increase in scale. \u201cSoftware complexity will grow,\u201d says Paul Kocher, president and chief scientist at Cryptography Research, defining complexity as a measure of lines of codes. \u201cAnd security will decrease as a consequence.\u201d\nThere are many factors to explain how we\u2019ve gotten to where we are. One that is repeatedly raised is the lack of international efforts to stem the malware tide. For instance, the majority of financial attacks come from Eastern Europe, according to Ferguson.\nIn addition, he points to a serious lack of cooperation from various stakeholders in the internet hierarchy. Some domain registrars are willing accomplices, enabling criminals to abuse the domain registration system. As an example, criminals register hundreds of domain names in China every day, Ferguson says. And, typically, any request citing abuse sent to a registrar in China is met with a bureaucratic response that may as well be absorbed into a black hole. It is almost impossible to get them to suspend a domain \u2013 and the cybercriminals know this.\n\u201cTraditional technologies no longer apply to face the growing complexities of organized crime,\u201d says Anton Zajac, CEO of ESET. \u201cMajor epidemics of proof-of-concept worms have been replaced by socially engineered malware launched by large botnets.\u201d\nMany security dimensions need improvement. For example, experts say that anti-virus (AV) companies should evolve away from just being AV detection and remediation bureaus. Considering the sheer volume of malware, it\u2019s impractical to rely on anti-virus alone.\n\u201cThe future lies in developing a distributed layer architecture that consists of a variety of different technologies,\u201d Ferguson says. \u201cSecurity companies will be defined by the threats, not the other way around.\u201d\nIn addition, experts say the future will require a new kind of cooperation, particularly at an international level. The Conficker Working Group is probably the best model. The idea is to have people from industry, academia, law enforcement, regional registries and the banking community \u2013 a variety of stakeholders to share intelligence. In other words, there must be a much better public and private collaborative effort in which people are sharing information and intelligence on a much broader scale.\n\u201cMuch of this is occurring now,\u201d Ferguson says. \u201cBut it is unsustainable for small organizations on their own \u2013 and they do not make money doing it.\u201d\nIn fact, he says, there are financial disincentives to providing security at some levels, especially compared to the huge incentives that cybercriminals enjoy. The point is that there are some financial barriers to battling cybercrime that security professionals must face up to and correct in the future. This will take work, though.\n\u201cJust because things will get tougher does not mean that you should give up,\u201d says Cryptography Research\u2019s Kocher. \u201cThe question is, how do we get more productivity using computers and still manage the risks involved?\u201d\nOn top of these challenges, there is the element of government involvement and oversight. \u201cSometimes, the government makes things more difficult, not easier,\u201d says Ferguson. \u201cIt\u2019s best if government officials are a participant, but are not the main driver.\u201d\nEspecially since mandates are often limited by physical boundaries. After all, the United States does not own the internet, says Ferguson. What is legal in one country may be illegal in another \u2013 and, in addition, there are cultural issues at play here that not enough people are aware of.\nOne area that is improving at a fundamental level is in operating systems \u2013 in particular, the ability to compartmentalize pieces of systems so that when one piece fails, instead of losing all the data, just that application goes down. On a longer time scale, there is hope that rather than enabling every piece of software to have the ability to ruin an entire computer, another approach will prevail, Kocher says.\n\u201cRight now, one application running on a PC can read all of the data on the computer,\u201d says Kocher. \u201cThat is not a good thing because if that application is forced to send data out over the internet or do something it should not, there is nothing to limit it.\u201d\nAs well, there is a move for better authentication, in which procedures can be implemented per incident, such as when people start to do things that they do not normally do. The system would be able to impose permissions that match more closely users\u2019 normal behavior, Kocher says.\nStill, because of the competitiveness of the technology marketplace, people continue to bring features and products to the market before worrying about putting security into it.\n\u201cSecurity is always an afterthought or an add-on, and that is the wrong way to do security,\u201d says Ferguson.\nKocher agrees, explaining that it is difficult to make sure that a computer is doing what it is supposed to be doing. And this is a problem that will become tougher.\nThe future of security must not wait for the criminals. Ferguson says, \u201cIf things do not get better, with people working together, the picture will not get better.\u201d\nCloud computing: Security issues\nFuture technologies are bound to introduce new security problems. One nascent technology, cloud computing, may be fraught with issues, but mitigation efforts are hard on the heels of its mushrooming growth. IT research company Gartner recommends that these issues be addressed in the cloud.\nPrivileged user access. It is imperative to track who has specialized access to data and who has the responsibility for hiring and managing of privileged administrators.\nRegulatory compliance. Vendors must be open to permitting external audits and/or security certifications.\nData location. Provider must be prepared to enable control over the location of data.\nData segregation. Encryption must be available at all stages and encryption schemes should be designed and tested by experienced professionals.\nRecovery. It should be easy to determine what will happen to data in the case of a disaster; complete data restoration must be available in short order.\nInvestigative support. It should be possible to readily investigate any inappropriate or illegal activity.\nLong-term viability. Data must be preserved even if the company goes out of business, and data should be transferable in appropriate format. \u2013 Chuck Miller\nTimeline: Mandate influences\nOften the future of computing security is shaped by legislative mandates. Here are some examples at the federal level:\n1999: Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA). This law was enacted to protect consumers\u2019 personal financial information held by financial institutions.\n2000: GISRA (Government Information Security Reform Act). The law (later superseded) required federal agencies to perform periodic threat-based risk assessments for systems and data.\n2000: E-Sign (Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act). This law made digital signatures legally binding in interstate and foreign commerce.\n2001: USA Patriot Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act). Established after 9/11, this law increased the ability of law enforcement agencies to search telephone and email communications records.\n2002: E-Government Act of 2002. This included the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, which replaced GISRA, to establish a framework for improving security in federal systems.\nCAN-SPAM Act 2003: (Controlling the Assault of Non-solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003). This law established a national standard for sending commercial email and required the Federal Trade Commission to enforce provisions. \u2013 Chuck Miller", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 12040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scmhrd.edu/events?id=40", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MGLDVO7XNT5BU26XAO7T45QN6XMNUL6X", "length": 49, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.scmhrd.edu", "title": "Alumni", "raw_content": "Theme launch of India's 3rd largest B-School Fest", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3661, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scmp.com/property/international/article/1627040/chinese-firm-talks-buy-australian-property-developer-meriton?edition=international", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:38Z", "digest": "sha1:ZB5X6ZAYSUEC3JSTKAIRYEWSRBA7ZGGZ", "length": 2713, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.scmp.com", "title": "Chinese firm in talks to buy Australian property developer Meriton | South China Morning Post", "raw_content": "Chinese firm in talks to buy Australian property developer Meriton\nChinese offshore investment\nOwner of Australia's biggest homebuilder Meriton looks to sell as Sydney flat prices surge\nMalaysia dithers over future of China-backed rail project\nChinese who fled Venezuela watch chaos with anxiety and hope\nBillionaire Harry Triguboff is in talks with a Chinese company to sell Australia's biggest homebuilder, which he founded more than 50 years ago.\n\"It's of great interest for me to sell\" Triguboff, 81, said in Sydney, adding that he last met with the interested buyer last week. He declined to identify the company. \"I showed them my valuation, they're looking at their valuation; that's what we're doing now.\"\nAsian developers including China's Greenland and Singapore-based Frasers Centrepoint are seeking to tap into a 12 per cent surge in Sydney flat prices. Meriton has capitalised on the price gain by buying A$1 billion (HK$6.83 billion) of land since January 2013.\nThe closely-held firm, based in Sydney, has had its busiest year on record, starting work on more than triple the number of dwellings in the 12 months through to the end of June from the previous year, according to a company spokeswoman.\nTriguboff, who was born in Dalian, Liaoning province, and grew up in the Russian community of Tianjin, is Australia's fourth-richest person with a net worth of US$5.3 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. He is talking with only one potential buyer, he said, and will sell only if the Chinese acquirer is willing to take over all of Meriton.\nGreenland, China Vanke and Xinyuan Real Estate are among Chinese developers venturing overseas as the mainland housing market falters and the government eases restrictions on foreign investments by domestic companies. They are also following local buyers who are migrating.\nMeriton sells about 15 per cent of its flats to Chinese buyers, according to company figures.\nThe developer owns enough land to build about 15,000 flats, up from a traditional pipeline of about 8,000, company figures show. More than 2,000 of those will be built by the end of 2014.\nMeriton, which has A$275 million of debt, started work on 7,929 dwellings in the year through to the end of June, up from 2,573 over the previous 12 months, according to company figures. It owns or manages about 2,200 units as long-term accommodation, and rents out 3,200 serviced apartments.\nEven if he sells Meriton now, Triguboff has no plans to retire.\n\"I want to work for a bank to fix up their problem loans because they don't know how to do it,\" he said.\nThis article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition as: Chinese firm in talks to buy Australian developer", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 404, "original_length": 9135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 214.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.scottishreviewofbooks.org/2013/09/lugs-tae-arthur-s-seat-scotland-s-smallest-festival/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:06Z", "digest": "sha1:JBJZ4AJIKKRFRCGMZP635JPXKNRC5X32", "length": 3147, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.scottishreviewofbooks.org", "title": "Lugs Tae Arthur\u2019s Seat, Scotland\u2019s smallest festival \u2013 Scottish Review of Books", "raw_content": "Lugs Tae Arthur\u2019s Seat, Scotland\u2019s smallest festival\nIn October, the Scottish Poetry Library will launch Lugs Tae Arthurs Seat, Scotland\u2019s smallest festival. It will feature live music by Wounded Knee, poetry, food and the great outdoors, and will take place at the top of Arthurs Seat.\nEvery year the Edinburgh Festival gets bigger, but this October, the Scottish Poetry Library continues to reinvent the poetry reading with Lugs Tae Arthurs Seat. Over the past year, the SPL has organised events pairing poetry with perfume at Edinburgh\u2019s Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and a webcast that linked a reading by Kathleen Jamie in Edinburgh and Jen Hadfield in Shetland.\nOn Saturday, 5 October, the SPL invites poetry-lovers to exercise mind, body and soul with a walk that begins at the Library and concludes with a breath-taking view of the capital. At 10am, those taking part will gather at the SPL, where breakfast will be served. The journey is guided by Andrew Sclater, poet, actor, historian and editor of an edition of Darwin\u2019s letters.\nOnce at the peak, those taking part will be met by acclaimed local musician Wounded Knee, who will play a set of his stripped-down folk-balladry. This will be Edinburgh\u2019s highest gig: Arthurs Seat is 251 metres tall and the highest point in Edinburgh. The gig is part of a trend for intimate gigs in unusual places, and of a piece with Amanda Palmer playing concerts in fans\u2019 houses, Richard Hawley in Devil\u2019s Arse Cave in Castelton, or Spiritualised at the top of the CN Tower.\nAndrew Sclater says, \u2018What a huge treat it\u2019ll be on an autumn morning to gather in a group and listen to the city below, look out to sea and hills and horizon, and feel what is to be felt in that place. Just below the Guttit Haddie and just above the Salisbury Crags, Leith\u2019s Wounded Knee and I will revisit greater and lesser known poetry and music \u2013 after a convivial breakfast and a gentle, quiet walk!\u2019\nLugs Tae Arthurs Seat takes place at 10am, Saturday, 5 October. Tickets are priced \u00a37 / \u00a36, which includes breakfast. Tickets can be bought in person at the SPL or online at http://spllugs.eventbrite.co.uk/\nFor more information on the Scottish Poetry Library, visit www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk.\nWounded Knee is Drew Wright, an Edinburgh-based experimental vocalist. Drawing from a variety of influences his music ranges from folk to improvised vocalic stravaigs. The Skinny said of his 2009 album Shimmering New Vistas, \u2018Wounded Knee is evocative, at times witty, and, on occasion, haunting.\u2019\nAndrew Sclater is a poet as well as a specialist in historic landscapes and gardens. He is a biker, drystane dyker and the co-founder of the National Botanic Garden of Wales.\nAbout the Scottish Poetry Library\nThe SPL is one of three poetry libraries in the UK, but the only one to be independently housed. It is the only poetry house in the world to have an extensive lending library at its core. It seeks to bring people and poetry together in many different ways.\nFor media information, images, or to arrange an interview with Andrew Sclater or Wounded Knee, contact:\nSPL Communications Manager\ncolin.waters@spl.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 286.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seacoastonline.com/news/20170613/york-adult-education-celebrates-graduates", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4VIF6HM3MKDB2VVLABA7ACKFYZ6K3K7R", "length": 4514, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.seacoastonline.com", "title": "York Adult Education celebrates graduates - News - seacoastonline.com - Portsmouth, NH", "raw_content": "York Adult Education celebrates graduates\nBy Anne M. Mozingoyorkweekly@seacoastonline.com\nYORK \u2014 The love and pride in Moody Hall Thursday night was palpable.\nFirst Parish Church\u2019s Moody Hall was packed for the York Adult and Community Education\u2019s Celebration of Learning honoring one student who received his high school diploma, three who completed the HiSET high school equivalency, seven who received their certified nurse assistant certificates and 16 English-as-a-Second-Language students who received Perseverance certificates for attending weekly English classes this year.\nKeynote Speaker Tricia Grant, of Auburn, shared her story of hope to the graduates reminding them that their past does not define who they can become in the future.\n\u201cWho you are is the person who keeps moving. Who you are is the one who moves forward,\u201d said Grant, who spoke of her ability to rebound, finish her education and find happiness as a survivor of human trafficking in her hometown when she was a single mother trying to make ends meet at age 15.\n\u201cI wanted the piece of paper to say I can move forward and five years ago I got my GED. It was so exciting. I stood in a ceremony just like this and started college immediately after that,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m happy I have a quality of life and I stand here as a symbol of hope to show you, you too can have a happy life.\u201d\nDirector of York Adult Education Lisa Roberston quoted Boston Bruin Tim Thomas when he said \u201cany success I\u2019ve ever had, has come from working hard,\u201d to acknowledge the amount of effort all the honorees put forth to reach their goals.\n\u201cThis is true of each of you, hard work, trying your best, taking risks\u2026.continue to take risks, try and work hard and your future will be filled with success,\u201d she said.\nThe Courage to Grow Award was presented to Sarafina Underwood, who received a scholarship to attend Central Maine Community College for one three-credit course after she completes barber school.\n\u201cThis scholarship was recommended by our teachers, not applied for\u2026.it is for someone who overcame huge obstacles,\u201d Robertson said. \u201cThis is my favorite day of the year. All four grads are college bound. The change in everyone is amazing from the fall to today. They came in and learned they can really do a lot, that they are cut out for the workforce and college.\u201d\nBefore the seven women wearing scrubs received their CNA certificates, CNA Kyla Roselani Kinney thanked their teacher Corina Wright for her patience and perseverance teaching the class of seven, who she said had become a \u201cloud dysfunctional and occasionally sassy family,\u201d all of whom are employed in the nursing field.\nCNA Liz McStay had been a hairdresser for 35 years and most recently she was semi-retired working in retail. But on Thursday evening, she was pleased her three children and her granddaughter were on hand to see her receive her CNA certificate.\n\u201cI\u2019m almost 70 and I just got my CNA,\u201d she said before going out for a celebratory dinner with her family. \u201cI am working full-time in a skilled unit at Durgin Pines. I heard about this class and the next thing you know I\u2019m taking the acceptance test. It\u2019s been great.\u201d\nSixteen York residents who hail from all over the globe were honored for their efforts to master the English language. Depending on their assessment upon registration, some students work one-on-one with a tutor and some are assigned to the group class that meets one evening a week.\nAfter the ceremony, Tina Goodyear posed with her eight students from China, Brazil, Georgia, Columbia and Puerto Rico. She said that each student has exceeded their own expectations for their language skill development this past session. The volunteer ESL teacher meets with the close-knit group weekly at York Middle School during the school year and because they are making progress and wish to continue over the summer, they will be meeting in space provided by Eldredge Lumber and Hardware on Route 1.\nNanci Arruda first came to America from Brazil on holiday and decided she wanted to stay here. She has been in the states for 17 years, in York for the past 13 years working as a self-employed residential cleaner. Last March she became a U.S. citizen and eagerly shared photographs of the celebratory day.\n\u201cI love America. I love Maine. I love York,\u201d said Arruda. \u201cWe have very good people here. Many, many clients treat me like family. I have no family here, but I am never lonely. This is a wonderful place to live. It is nice and calm and I feel very secure here.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 7006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.seotwist.com/digital-marketing/role-social-media-election/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:47Z", "digest": "sha1:227IVYAMQZ7SUBNGZMHITXXRPOIUFQFR", "length": 9252, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "www.seotwist.com", "title": "What Role Did Social Media Play in #ELXN42? |", "raw_content": "A Look at How Canadians\u2019 Likes, Tweets, and Selfies Influenced the 2015 Election\nThe 42nd Canadian Election has come to a close, and history has been made. The Liberals have won a majority government, and their leader, Justin Trudeau, will become the country\u2019s next Prime Minister. This campaign spanned a total of 78 days, the longest in modern Canadian history, and had some of us worried that voter interest and engagement would suffer. Now that Election Day has come and gone, it\u2019s clear we we had nothing to worry about. With over 68% of eligible voters casting ballots, the country saw the highest voter turnout since 1993. Could this be thanks in part to social media?\nAt SEO TWIST we spend a lot of time helping businesses increase their brand awareness, engagement, and even their profits using social media platforms. We know firsthand that these channels are some of the most effective ways to reach and interact with your target audience, create a voice for your brand, and get your most important messages out there. Throughout the course of the election, we couldn\u2019t help but notice these same principles coming into play. In fact, this election presented incredibly compelling evidence of the power of social media.\nAccording to Twitter Canada, four times as many Tweets were sent about #ELXN42 (the official hashtag of this year\u2019s election) than about #ELXN41 in 2011. The official numbers were 3,400,000+ total Twitter mentions throughout the 2015 campaign, compared to 715,000+ in 2011. 470,000+ of these mentions were on Election Day alone, compared to 96,000+ in 2011. When it comes to Facebook, their Head of Public Policy, Kevin Chan, reported that a total of 5 million unique individuals engaged on Facebook over the course of the Election, and 40 million different interactions were registered. I think it\u2019s safe to say that social media played an important role\u2014that is, apart from creating memes about Justin Trudeau\u2019s hair.\nJustin Trudeau (Liberal)\nFacebook (Justin Trudeau): 436,366 Likes\nTwitter (@JustinTrudeau): 826,100 Followers\nInstagram (@JUSTINPJTRUDEAU): 50,500 Followers\n36% of Tweets during this campaign mention him by Twitter handle\n18,000+ mentions on Twitter during his victory speech\nStephen Harper (Conservative)\nFacebook (Stephen Harper): 247,289 Likes\nTwitter (@pmharper): 920,400 Followers\nInstagram (@PMSTEPHENHARPER): 10,900 Followers\n13,000 mentions on Twitter during his concession speech\nTom Mulcair (NDP)\nFacebook (Tom Mulcair): 107,036 Likes\nTwitter (ThomasMulcair): 191,000 Followers\nInstagram (@TOMMULCAIR): 7,086 Followers\n2,2000 mentions on Twitter during his concession speech\nImage Source: Twitter Canada\nA Whole New Meaning to \u201cSocial Media Campaigns\u201d\nAs we know, social media is an incredible tool for fostering two-way engagement and conversations with customers, or in the case of this election, between candidates and voters. Each of the parties took advantage of these platforms in different ways, and the results give us an incredible insight into the overall influence of the medium.\nJustin Trudeau and the Liberals took incredible advantage of the tools at their disposal, and it was clear that they were trying (successfully?) to reach younger voters. Trudeau spent a lot of time creating personalized (and pretty hilarious) videos and speaking directly to voters on Twitter. If the 94,000 new followers gained throughout the course of his campaign are any indication, it seems to have worked. Many other members of the Liberal Party also made a point to respond directly to voters from their personal Twitter accounts.\nOn Facebook, Trudeau was cutting-edge. His high-quality interactions and solid engagement rate are reflected in his Likes\u2014he had more than any other leader. His party took advantage of Facebook in innovative ways never before seen in Canada or the world. He did a \u201cFacebook 50 second challenge\u201d, where he answered rapid-fire questions on video in under 50 seconds, humanizing him and allowing voters to get to know him on a more personal level. He and his party also took to Facebook to announce his whole platform live, with voters able to send in questions to be answered on-air.\nOn the other hand, Stephen Harper and the Conservatives used social media as more of a one-way broadcasting tool than a way to engage with voters. With almost no Retweets or Replies to be found on his Twitter page, it\u2019s clear that his strategy did not include voter interaction. On Facebook, Conservative messaging was conveyed in much the same way, with the exception of Harper\u2019s participation in one live Q&A. The Conservatives used these platforms mostly to underscore policy, and to reinforce the messaging that he was conveying elsewhere. It\u2019s worth noting that despite his old-school tactics, Harper still has the most Twitter Followers\u2014though most of them were from before the campaign began. His followers didn\u2019t grow exponentially throughout the campaign, and I\u2019m guessing this was due to his lack of engagement.\nThe NDP\u2019s Tom Mulcair is a blend of the two strategies; he and his party were more relatable, and engaged with voters on these platforms more than the Conservatives did, but their engagement rate was still lower than that of the Liberals on every single channel. Mulcair also did a live Q&A on Facebook, and though he ended the race with the lowest number of Twitter followers, he still saw a follower growth of 29%\u2014the largest growth rate of all the leaders.\nThough we didn\u2019t disclose her follower numbers above, Green Party leader Elizabeth May is also an excellent example of social media use in this context. She operated her own Twitter account throughout the election (most of the other leaders\u2019 accounts are at least partially run by campaign staff), Tweeted in her own voice and engaged directly with voters, making her arguably the most authentic of the bunch.\nThe Important Issues\nThroughout the 78-day campaign, the other amazing thing that social media gave us was the ability to see exactly what Canadians were thinking in real-time, determining which issues were most important to voters. Twitter Canada was able to accurately track and analyze the conversations surrounding the election during the course of the campaign.\nSeeing where the conversation was shifting at any given point during the campaign no doubt allowed candidates, analysts, and the general public alike to draw some conclusions about what Canadians were thinking, and to make some predictions about the results of the election. In fact, Twitter analysts accurately predicted a Liberal win in Ottawa, which has since shown to be true.\nThe area of this election that has seen perhaps the strongest social media influence is voter engagement. These platforms provide more channels than ever before for candidates to get their messages out, and for voters to stay engaged. During this election, more Canadians than ever before took to social media to talk about the issues that matter most to them, and they\u2019ll continue to address these issues long after the election is over.\nThis year\u2019s debates in particular saw a great demonstration of voter engagement. Traditionally, voters had to tune in to watch the debates on TV at a specific time. This year, people were watching on TV, while following internet commentary on their laptops, and Tweeting from mobile devices. Voters who missed a debate because of work or other obligations were able to keep up through Facebook or Twitter. News outlets created debate-specific hashtags so that voters could easily follow along and participate in the discussion.\nElizabeth May took advantage of this in a brilliant way. During a leaders\u2019 debate on September 17, 2015, to which Harper, Trudeau, and Mulcair were invited, May decided to take part via Twitter despite not being invited herself. She tweeted her rebuttals and policy statements, and as a result, broadened the scope of the debate. That night, she garnered more Twitter mentions than any of the leaders taking part in the televised debate. It worked because more people than ever before were following the debate on social media.\nSocial media may have also played a role in getting young people, who are often viewed as less likely to vote, to cast their ballots. One quick search of the hashtag #votingselfie on Instagram shows thousands of voters 25 and under proudly posing at the polls. The Rick Mercer Report launched #VOTENATION, which made it possible for social media users to create custom profile photos superimposed with text reading, \u201cI will vote Oct 19.\u201d Facebook also launched the \u201cvoter megaphone,\u201d a program aimed at reminding Canadians to vote, and directing them to the elections Canada website if they needed more information. Once a user cast their ballot, they were able to share the news on Facebook, which the creators hoped would prompt their friends to follow suit.\nThe influence that social media had on this election is undeniable. It played a positive role in voter turnout and perhaps even\u2014dare we say it\u2014in the Liberals\u2019 victory. In the same way that a business can gain and maintain dedicated customers through social media, each of the parties were able to reach Canadians that may otherwise have remained unengaged. In our eyes, that\u2019s a win!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 13121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.servprodenton.com/odor-removal-deodorization", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:18Z", "digest": "sha1:I5Q2EFX5UFGMF5JAMMALQXMDPHZIDJLK", "length": 183, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.servprodenton.com", "title": "Denton, TX Odor Removal and Deodorization | SERVPRO of Denton", "raw_content": "As experts in deodorization, SERVPRO of Denton is trained to identify and eliminate offensive odors. These odors can come from a number of sources both inside and outside a structure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 3628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 167.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/one-helluva-ride/Content?oid=2129825", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:26Z", "digest": "sha1:LF4WV3F73JGSOIRI2OUBSAQ3IY7RZLAV", "length": 17172, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "www.sevendaysvt.com", "title": "One Helluva Ride | Business | Seven Days | Vermont's Independent Voice", "raw_content": "July 04, 2007 News + Opinion \u00bb Business\nAn off-the-wall look at Burlington's ballsiest skateboarders\nCLOCKWISE FROM FRONT: WILL DEMING, AMANDA, CHRISTINE, KAITLYN, TARA AND OLIVIA AT RIDIN HIGH\nWill Deming\u2019s skateboard lets out a raucous growl as he skids to a sideways stop at the intersection of Main and Battery streets in Burlington. It\u2019s a gravelly, guttural sound, like an old man clearing his throat before he spits \u2014 an apt analogy, considering how some people feel about this form of recreation.\nDespite the noise, Deming\u2019s snowboard-like skid is buttery smooth. It\u2019s an impressive feat when you\u2019re decelerating to a dead stop on hard pavement from nearly 40 miles per hour, using nothing more than a homemade pair of padded gloves and a well-honed sense of balance. Deming, 21, drags his palms on the asphalt behind him in a controlled braking maneuver known among downhill skateboarders as \u201cpower-sliding,\u201d or just \u201csliding.\u201d\n\u201cThrashin\u2019 Thursday\u201d is a fitting name for this weekly late-night event in which scads of local skateboarders bomb down the steep streets of Burlington, carving S-turns in the asphalt like snowboarders on a fresh powder day. It takes Deming, manager of Ridin High Skate Shop and an accomplished downhill rider, less than 10 minutes to get from the University of Vermont to the lake. It\u2019s a balls-to-the-wall adrenaline rush with a high pucker factor. Without racing leathers and a full-face helmet, the activity isn\u2019t recommended to anyone who\u2019s fond of their skin or heavily invested in orthodontic work.\nBut if there\u2019s one indelible rule in the rule-breaking world of skateboarding, it\u2019s this: Skateboarders will always find places to ride, legal or otherwise. Whether they\u2019re surfing the city\u2019s parking garages, grinding the edges of public fountains or catching air off the concrete \u201cJersey\u201d barriers on the abandoned I-189 connector, skaters are constantly re-envisioning the urban landscape in ways its designers never imagined.\nAnd, many local skateboard enthusiasts say, it\u2019s high time Burlington re-envisioned its own attitudes toward these four-wheeled wonders.\nIt's been more than 35 years since hard-core surfers in Venice Beach, California, reinvented the popular \u201960s play toy by skating in drought-emptied pools. In the process, they gave birth to legions of new, gravity-defying sports, among them snowboarding, perhaps its most affluent offspring. But here in that winter sport\u2019s birthplace, there\u2019s virtually no acknowledgment of skateboarding as a legitimate activity. Visit any Chamber of Commerce in the state, or search Vermont\u2019s official tourism website, and you won\u2019t find one mention of the sport.\nOlder than the mountain bike, cheaper than a pair of skis and more popular among American teens than baseball, the skateboard has had the staying power of dandelions \u2014 and commands as little respect. Even as the sport has gone mainstream through internationally televised events such as the X-Games, it languishes under a stigma as the ultimate tool of destruction for rebellious punk teens. Little wonder that one of the most in-your-face, anti-authority pop icons, Bart Simpson, is a consummate skateboarder.\nToday, an estimated 13 million youths, most of them male, own skateboards and ride them on a regular basis. But except for people who share a house with a teenager or who ride themselves, most of us wouldn\u2019t know a kickflip from a nosegrind. Other than the Talent Skate Park in South Burlington, the only indoor skating facility in the region, there are precious few places to ride \u2014 legally \u2014 in Vermont.\nIn Vermont, skateboarding isn\u2019t a crime, but it\u2019s not considered a right, either. Burlington has no ordinance that specifically forbids skateboarding, except for the wholesale ban on wheeled vehicles on Church Street and downtown sidewalks. State law is fuzzy on the issue. According to Deputy Chief Mike Schirling of the Burlington Police Department, skateboarders are considered \u201cpedestrians\u201d and hence prohibited from riding in traffic, even when they\u2019re in a bike lane. This policy forbids those who use a skateboard as a means of transportation from riding in the street and on downtown sidewalks, effectively shutting them out of the city\u2019s urban core.\nMoreover, local skaters don\u2019t always get off scot-free. When Kyle Anger, 20, got pulled over in Burlington a few weeks ago while riding his skateboard on the street, he was outraged. Anger (pronounced \u201cOnjay\u201d) doesn\u2019t own a car and uses his longboard to commute to work.\nHe insists he was on the right side of the road and not weaving through traffic. \u201cHe tried to write me up for being a \u2018pedestrian in the roadway with a play toy,\u2019\u201d Anger says. \u201cI said, \u2018Officer, do you know how much this board costs? Upwards of $600. This didn\u2019t come from K-Mart.\u2019\u201d\nOn public property throughout the state and around the country, skateboarders are seen as minor annoyances at best. On private property, they\u2019re considered vandals and trespassers. Pesky as fire ants, pernicious as termites and tenacious as cockroaches, skaters have been branded a wholesale threat to the public order and banned from most towns\u2019 and cities\u2019 sidewalks, streets, parking garages and other wheel-friendly terrain. Winooski, which recently underwent a major downtown renovation that left local skaters drooling at the new handrails to grind and steps to jump, now has a citywide prohibition on skateboards.\nAdmittedly, Vermont is more accepting than most places. Consider an incident that happened two weeks ago in Hot Springs, Arkansas. There, a local police officer apparently choked a 13-year-old skater and wrestled him to the ground \u2014 just for riding a skateboard on the sidewalk. Then, in a fit of rage, he grabbed two other skaters in headlocks, handcuffed them and threatened to pepper-spray them. In all, four skateboarders were arrested and cited for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.\nThese days, digital video cameras are practically de rigueur skating gear, so the entire Arkansas incident was caught on videotape and posted on YouTube on June 21 \u2014 National Go Skateboarding Day. As a result, the arresting officer was placed on administrative leave. Hot Springs Mayor Mike Bush was quoted as saying, \u201cUnfortunately, the video shows it pretty good.\u201d\nOf course, skateboarding bans aren\u2019t always unwarranted. In the March 1998 issue of Landscape Architecture magazine, writer J. William Thompson explains in \u201cA Good Thrashin\u2019\u201d how Albuquerque, New Mexico, learned its lesson the hard way when it unveiled a $9.8 million refurbishment of the Downtown Civic Plaza. Within hours of opening, skateboarders descended on the plaza, leaving deep gouges in the new fountain and benches, stripping the paint off handrails and marring the city logo. Shortly thereafter, Thompson notes, skateboarding downtown was nixed. Scores of other cities, including Washington, D.C., have brought the grinding to a halt.\nBut Thompson also writes that those problems tend to subside when cities provide adequate and updated facilities for skaters. Deputy Chief Schirling says that, in terms of citations, \u201cSkateboarding has not been a thing for us for years.\u201d In large measure, that\u2019s due to the presence of the waterfront skate park.\nIt was seven years ago this week that Burlington opened its first permanent skate facility on the waterfront. The skaters who use it today \u2014 and they use the hell out of it, in numbers that exceed most other park facilities \u2014 probably have no idea that it took 10 years of political wrangling to get it built; the park was so controversial that neighbors brought a lawsuit to try to prevent its construction. The result was a court ruling that left the city with virtually no leeway to alter the park\u2019s footprint or its hours of operation.\nToday, the skate park is showing its age, both in form and in wear and tear. Parts of the ramps are peeling, wood screws are coming loose, and the planks are deteriorating. Recently, the Burlington Parks & Recreation Department removed the half-pipe ramp, partly because it was rotting and partly because local skaters said the space could be better used for more modern, street-course elements. \u201cClearly, at some point in the near future there should be a major reinvestment,\u201d acknowledges Wayne Gross, director of Parks & Recreation. But local skaters voice little optimism that\u2019ll happen soon.\n\u201cI don\u2019t know why it\u2019s so hard to get anything built here,\u201d bemoans Brendan Foster, co-owner of Maven, a downtown skateboard and clothing shop. For years, Foster and his partner, Trina Zide, have been trying to get Burlington to invest in a new, modern concrete park. \u201cIt\u2019s not the money, it\u2019s not the weather. It seems to be more politics than anything else,\u201d he adds.\nZide agrees. \u201cIt\u2019s sad that the home of Burton [Snowboards] doesn\u2019t have a great skate park in the city,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s really sad.\u201d\nIn the last two years, Foster and Zide have sponsored local art auctions to raise money to renovate the park. To date, they\u2019ve scraped together $6000 \u2014 woefully short of the tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to build a modern concrete facility.\nNear midnight on a recent Thrashin\u2019 Thursday,18 local skateboarders disembark from the short yellow school bus that shuttles them from the waterfront to the highest paved spot in Burlington \u2014 the water tower parking lot on UVM\u2019s Redstone campus. They\u2019re here for their maiden run of the night.\nBefore they depart, the riders get a brief safety talk from Kebbek Skateboards, a small manufacturer in Montr\u00e9al. In early June, he came to Vermont for a downhill competition on Mount Ascutney, a race that he predicts will be one of the world\u2019s premiere skateboarding events in two or three years. \u201cI\u2019ve raced all over the world,\u201d Comishin says, \u201cand I\u2019d have to say that that course is, if not the most challenging race course I\u2019ve ever raced, then pretty close to it.\u201d\nOn his trip back to Montr\u00e9al, Comishin stopped for a ride in Burlington. His impression? It\u2019s smokin\u2019 hot. The longboard scene, he says, is poised to \u201cblow up\u201d here, provided the city doesn\u2019t shut it down first. Burling- ton\u2019s terrain is ideally suited to longboarding, as are its demographics \u2014 featuring a steady stream of outdoorsy, college-age kids with disposable income and a predilection for rapid downhill descent.\nOther professional skaters have similar reactions. Marion Karr is a professional skateboarder from Statesville, North Carolina. After a recent visit to the Queen City, he practically gushed over Burlington\u2019s downhill potential.\n\u201cTo a mountain biker, Moab, Utah, is one of those places you just have to ride in your mountain-biking life,\u201d he writes on the skateboarding site Silverfish. \u201cAfter last night, I feel that way about Burlington. It\u2019s a MUST RIDE if you\u2019re a longboarder.\u201d\nSuch endorsements won\u2019t thrill most city elders or the local police, who cringe whenever they see a skateboarder carving turns down Battery Street in the midst of traffic.\n\u201cThey\u2019re just begging to be killed,\u201d says Deputy Chief Schirling. \u201cI\u2019ve watched motorcycles go through those intersections and end up underneath a car. I can\u2019t imagine what\u2019s going to happen when one of those guys can\u2019t stop.\u201d\nHow dangerous is skateboarding? Local enthusiasts attribute official reluctance to invest in facilities like the skate park to the popular perception that skateboarding is a liability waiting to happen.\nBut recent statistics suggest that such worries are largely unfounded. Nationally, skateboarding injuries cause about 50,000 visits to the emergency room each year, with more than 1500 children and adolescents needing to be hospitalized, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. While that may sound like a lot, skateboard injuries actually occur at a much lower rate (8.9 injuries per 1000 participants) than injuries in basketball (21.2 per 1000), football (20.7), bicycling (11.5) and snowboarding (11.2). In fact, the October 2002 issue of The Journal of Trauma described skateboarding as \u201ca relatively safe sport.\u201d\nVermont doesn\u2019t collect much data on the prevalence of skateboard accidents. Fletcher Allen Health Care, the state\u2019s largest hospital, doesn\u2019t track emergency room visits by the mechanism of injury. Vermont Children\u2019s Hospital has seen a jump in admissions resulting from skateboard injuries \u2014 from two in 2005 to six in 2006. While the hospital has already admitted five injured skateboarders in the first six months of this year, program manager Sue Victory cautions against reading too much into such small numbers.\nAs for the claim that skateboarding creates liability nightmares for municipalities, it doesn\u2019t appear to hold up. In many other states, skateboarding has been declared a \u201chazardous activity,\u201d a classification that indemnifies municipalities against lawsuits. Thompson discovered while researching his piece in Landscape Architecture that \u201cSuccessful claims against cities for public skate parks are virtually nonexistent.\u201d\nLocal skaters sum up the issue more bluntly. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to sue you. We\u2019re skateboarding!\u201d says Jake Grossman-Christ, a 19-year-old who works at Burlington\u2019s 802 Skate and Snowboard Shop. \u201cYou think if we fall down, we\u2019re going to sue the city of Burlington for having stones on the street?\u201d\nWhat\u2019s usually over-looked in public discussions of skateboarding \u2014 when such discussions occur at all \u2014 is the sheer artistry of the sport. Skateboarding has spawned a whole universe of accompanying art, from graphic designs to clothing to homespun videography. It\u2019s also inspired some of the brightest lights in Burling- ton\u2019s creative economy.\nMichael Jager, 47, is a partner and creative director at the global design firm Jager Di Paola Kemp. An avid skateboarder, he\u2019s long had a ramp in the basement of his office, where he and fellow JDK staffers ride for fun and creative inspiration. \u201cThe work that we\u2019ve done in snowboarding was absolutely influenced by the relationship that I and the people in the studio have with skating,\u201d Jager says, \u201cand it still is.\u201d\nJager once built the largest half-pipe ramp in Vermont \u2014 known affectionately among local skaters as \u201cthe Swamp Thing\u201d \u2014 in the woods outside his Williston studio. \u201cI would literally have dreams about skating a half-pipe before I ever had one,\u201d he recalls. \u201cI would watch videos every morning before I started designing. Then I\u2019d go skate at night.\u201d\nJake Burton Carpenter, the 53-year-old founder of Burton Snowboards, built the \u201cBurton Bowl\u201d skate ramp behind the company\u2019s Burlington headquarters, where local skateboarders ride for free \u2014 as long as an employee is present. Seth Neary, a local graphic artist, videographer and co-owner of the Pursuit Gallery on Burlington\u2019s waterfront, has been a skater for years. \u201cOther than my family,\u201d says Neary, 35, \u201cskateboarding is everything I live and breathe for.\u201d\nThis week, Neary premiered a new skateboard-inspired exhibit at the Pursuit Gallery: \u201cDune Wuz Here,\u201d by Los Angeles-based artist and pro skateboarder Chris Pastras. Pastras, a co-founder with actor Jason Lee of Stereo Skateboards in L.A., got his start in the field by designing artwork for his skateboard decks. A recent design of his now appears on a Mountain Dew can.\nNeary says skateboarding has been the impetus for much of his own work as a designer and videographer. Among his projects is the 1998 Burlington skateboard video \u201cBeerlington,\u201d which took home a local \u201cBessie\u201d Award for best new voice in film.\n\u201cSkateboarders look at architecture completely differently than the average person,\u201d Neary says. \u201cYou see flight of stairs, but we can tell you how many stairs are in that flight and whether we can jump them or kick-flip them. That\u2019s how a skater thinks.\u201d\nIn fact, a search on YouTube for \u201cVermont+skateboard\u201d turns up more than 100 mostly homemade videos of local skateboarders performing tricks and maneuvers. As Jager at JDK explains, it\u2019s a self-perpetuating form of expression: Kids will watch skateboard footage hundreds, sometimes thousands of times to learn and perfect new moves.\n\u201cWhen you see kids skating a ramp, or just street skating, it\u2019s this progression session where they\u2019re each inspiring and pushing and teaching and creating,\u201d Jager continues. Unlike team sports, where competitors are ranked and sorted into first and second strings according to their ability, he says, skating is simultaneously an individual and collective activity.\nJager doesn\u2019t get on his board as much as he used to. Still, he thinks it\u2019s sad that Burlington lags so far behind other progressive communities around the country in recognizing that skateboarding is youth culture. Like other artists, he says, skateboarders are often misunderstood because of the \u201csideways stance they take in culture.\u201d\nSomeday, perhaps, that stance will be the norm. 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The north east is taken up by Kensington Gardens, once private as the name suggests, but today a public park which has Italian and Dutch gardens, public buildings such as the Albert Memorial, the Serpentine Gallery and Speke\u2018s monument.\nIts commercial heart is Kensington High Street. This affluent and densely populated area contains the major museum district of South Kensington, which has the Royal Albert Hall for music and nearby Royal College of Music. The area is home to many of London\u2019s European embassies. Cementing Kensington\u2019s indicators of connections with France, the area has the Lyc\u00e9e Fran\u00e7ais Charles de Gaulle, French Consulate, French Embassy Cultural Department and the London Oratory on the borders with diminutive Knightsbridge.\nThe manor of Kensington, Middlesex, was granted by William I to Geoffrey de Montbray or Mowbray, bishop of Coutances, one of his inner circle of advisors and one of the wealthiest men in post-Conquest England. He in turn granted the tenancy of Kensington to his vassal Aubrey de Vere I, who was holding the manor in 1086, according to Domesday Book. The bishop\u2019s heir, Robert de Mowbray, rebelled against William Rufus and his vast barony was declared forfeit. Aubrey de Vere I had his tenure converted to a tenancy in-chief, holding Kensington after 1095 directly of the crown. He granted land and church there to Abingdon Abbey at the deathbed request of his young eldest son, Geoffrey. 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However, when it comes to serious competition, my friend is at a disadvantage because the best players are the most stylish. For proof you only have to consider Roger Federer.\nThese thoughts were triggered by an email from Elisabeth Kallevig who, with her husband Fredrik, runs Kennel Sletthallen, one of the leading working setter kennels in Norway. Founded over 35 years ago by Hans Rasmus Astrup, dogs from the kennel have won the King\u2019s Cup \u2014 the top title in Norway \u2014 several times, along with more than 800 hunting awards in trials. Elisabeth wrote to point out to me that one of the differences between English setters in the UK and their counterparts in Norway is style. In most of Europe the style of each individual breed is very important, she says. In Norway, for better or for worse, we do not judge the style. We want dogs that find and handle the game expertly. Norwegian setters are mostly from American bloodlines, and you don\u2019t have to be an expert in pointing dogs to see that they hunt differently from ours.\nPerhaps the most obvious difference is apparent when the dog comes on point. We expect the dog\u2019s tail to continue in a pleasing line level with its nose and back, but Norwegian setters are trained to point with their tail erect. As far as I am aware this doesn\u2019t come naturally to them, so they have to be taught. It does make a pointing dog easy to see in cover, as the tail stands up like a flag.\nThe subject of style in working setters is discussed brilliantly by Raymond O\u2019Dwyer in his book, The Irish Red Setter. He writes: There are things that touch the heart of man, things that inspire awe and wonder and cause a prickle behind the eyes or a constriction of the throat. They are sometimes difficult to describe to those who don\u2019t have the same feelings, yet these are things that lift our spirits and cause us to strive to understand their cause.\nO\u2019Dwyer goes on to describe how the difference between a stylish dog and one that doesn\u2019t have this magical quality is more than aesthetics, arguing that style is about efficiency, and can be seen in the manner the dog hunts for and finds game. He also believes that it is an inherited quality \u2014 \u201cthe proof of purity of blood\u201d. Stylish setters are born with both the physique and instincts that allow them to work in such a way.\nStyle may be more apparent in pointers and setters than it is in other gundog breeds, at least to the uninformed observer, but it is equally important in spaniels and retrievers. It\u2019s something the judges look for in trials, along with pace and steadiness. To win a spaniel trial, a dog must be more than just a steady gamefinder; it must also demonstrate style that pleases the eye.\nPeter Moxon analyses this well in his classic, Gundogs Training and Field Trials. He writes: The best spaniel in the world from a gamefinding angle is an uninteresting animal unless he works with a stylish action and at a good pace; a pottering dog is a timewaster and fails to give that extra enjoyment to shooting over spaniels, which few men fail to obtain from lively, bustling dogs\u2026 A fast spaniel usually has drive, a most essential feature in a dog, which has to face punishing cover under difficult conditions. Moxon wrote those words more than 60 years ago, but they still ring true today.\nNorwegian pointer and setter trials are very different from ours because game is shot and the dogs are expected to retrieve it. In contrast, British pointer and setter trials are simply a test of a dog\u2019s hunting and pointing ability, and the ultimate test of steadiness. The sight of a falling bird is absent. I\u2019ve never been to a Norwegian trial, but I would wager that the winning dogs invariably have more style than those that are less successful, simply because style, as Raymond O\u2019Dwyer points out, equates to efficiency. The judges may not be looking for style, but it\u2019s almost certainly going to be an attribute of the top dogs.\nIf you have never been to a pointer or setter trial, they do make a fascinating spectacle. You get a chance to view all the competition, even from the gallery.\nThe spring trials on grouse start in Scotland and northern England in March, moving south to East Anglia in April. Here, partridges provide the quarry. Unlike red grouse, redlegs prefer running to sitting, so satisfactory points are far fewer than when the same dogs are on the moors.\nAll the leading pointer and setter clubs hold spring pointing stakes in East Anglia. If you want to attend one, the Kennel Club\u2019s open stake is good. This year it is being held on Friday 19 and Saturday 20 April at Six Mile Bottom, on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 9415, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.shoplevelup.com/products/azrael-vol-1-fallen-angel", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:34Z", "digest": "sha1:3ESKYV3VWWRKW2SHLZTJVGHNXEZ2YAXB", "length": 29, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.shoplevelup.com", "title": "Azrael Volume 1: Fallen Angel \u2013 Level Up Entertainment", "raw_content": "Azrael Volume 1: Fallen Angel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 3279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.52, "perplexity": 147.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sickgaming.net/thread-87631.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:02Z", "digest": "sha1:Y65HAOLYDN4R4RY56S4XIIXKWKJESCFP", "length": 3782, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.sickgaming.net", "title": "News - The Game Awards 2018: All The Games And News To Expect", "raw_content": "News - The Game Awards 2018: All The Games And News To Expect\nThe Game Awards 2018: All The Games And News To Expect\nThe Game Awards are coming, promising not only a celebration of the last year in video games, but also a slew of new announcements for the coming year and beyond. The annual award show has become known for hosting game reveals, and this year's event promises to be no different. Eager to get started, some studios have already begun teasing their impending news.\nThe festivities will begin today, December 6, at 8:30 PM ET / 5:30 PM PT / (Friday at 1:30 AM GMT / 12:30 PM AET). You can check out all of the games we are certain or expect to see below, or read about the games we know won't be there.\nTen New Game Announcements\nAs part of the promotion behind the event, host Geoff Keighley teased that ten brand new games will be shown for the very first time. This is on top of other updates for various existing games. That will make for a packed show, especially given that it needs to fit all those reveals around the accolades, musical performances, and other variety events.\nObsidian's New Take-Two Game\nObsidian, the developer behind RPGs like Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity, has stated very directly that it will be announcing its next game at the award show. We've seen teases of a retro-futurist space setting. This one will be published by Take-Two's indie label, Private Division. It remains to be seen how Microsoft may be involved in this project, having recently acquired Obsidian.\nFar Cry Plus Nuclear Fallout\nUbisoft is planning a Far Cry reveal for the awards. The studio released a short teaser trailer that showed a nuclear explosion and the resulting devastation over rural farmland. The narration explained that after the earth recovered, people became the deadlier threats. It all appears to set the stage for a post-apocalyptic Far Cry game, possibly tying into the events of Far Cry 5. It's unknown at this point if it will be DLC, a spin-off, or an all-new game.\nAnthem Shows Off\nEA has announced that its upcoming multiplayer RPG Anthem will get a new trailer presented by general manager Casey Hudson. It launches next February, so this will be one of the last big public events to show off the game.\nFortnite Reveals Abound, But More On The Way\nFortnite is teasing something big for the Game Awards. We don't know what it is, but we know a few things that it isn't. Epic has already noted that it won't be related to Season 7, which the studio has already started outlining elsewhere. It also won't be the new creative mode. Keighley emphasized that the creative mode reveal was just \"part 1 of the story\" and that the Game Awards reveal will \"get even crazier.\" Creative director Donald Mustard will be on-hand to drop the announcement himself.\nDragon Age Breathes Some Fire\nCall this one an educated guess. BioWare's Casey Hudson will already be on-hand to reveal something new for Anthem, but that may not be all. Hudson also recently said that the studio is preparing to outline plans for the next Dragon Age. In fact, he specifically said that news will be coming in December, but stopped short of outlining exactly where or when. The Game Awards is one of the few high-profile announcement vehicles in the month of December, so the smart money is on this being the venue.\nSuper Smash Bros. Maybe\nNintendo always plays its cards close to the blue overalls, but a recent promotional tweet raised eyebrows. The company specifically told fans to watch the Game Awards just before the release of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, possibly implying an announcement on the way. It could be just the place to announce a solid release date for Piranha Plant, outline the first of the impending DLC roster, or something else entirely.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5956, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sickgaming.net/thread-88687.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:13Z", "digest": "sha1:L2POMIEK6NBP6ROKJ5DTMCQUD3SUPX6E", "length": 4376, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.sickgaming.net", "title": "Maplestory 2 Critical Rate - the Story", "raw_content": "Maplestory 2 Critical Rate - the Story\nArrow Storm is really a talent that's only 9 points for the reason that the present ability points are usually insufficient. The most important idea of Frost is to slow enemies down, but nevertheless, it can also do a very good quantity of damage. A character cannot raise or drop the identical character's fame more often than once per month.\nThe melee profession can be connected to the rear of the BOSS. A priest is a career that should be cautious. He does not have to pursue defensive penetration, and proper speed is the recipe.\nGuild creation costs a certain quantity of Mesos, based on the version being played. At higher levels, it may take as much as a month prior to a player can level once, based on how frequently the user plays. He is allowed to pick a class upon reaching a specific level in-game.\nThe best is to get a large quantity of both critical damage and critical speed. For hard dungeons, you may use any of the elements and clear in a good time to find S ranks. The best thing of Inotia 3 is the capability to control each character whilst exploring forests, dungeons, and other places.\nThe benefit is you don't will need to take medicine to supplement the blood volume, and the equipment requirements aren't very large. A class is an essential element in the game. The quick range classes will suffer 2 times the penalty, as they're not only taking lots of damage, but in addition they need to deal with the debuffs from these types of bosses.\nIt's generally not advised to utilize it all at one time, leaving a very good price for yourself. It's too simple to break out the best attack in a brief moment. At this stage, you will need to look closely at your own Spirit.\nWhichever profession you play, it is going to be fun to learn more about the profession constantly. There may be a great deal of motives why Maplestory lags when enjoying it upon the net. On line, you will find the experience hacks by way of tips.\nMaplestory 2 Critical Rate: No Longer a Mystery\nThe particular gameplay ought to be judged by your own circumstance. MapleStory 2 will finally have in-game events to add some flavor to the game celebrations. There are several interesting combinations and techniques in Dungeons.\nThe new maps are added. You should use traps to get a pet. The accession of points in PVP isn't special.\nMaplestory has turned into the most popular 2D MMORPG on earth. The games don't have multiplayer. They will encounter various NPCs with various Quests, Monsters, and Bosses from the previous version as well as completely new ones to fight against.\nRumors, Lies and MapleStory 2 Meso Critical Rate\nThis saves a whole lot of HP Potions. The average number of true damage you make it from your Crit Damage is simply likely to be (Dmg x Rate). In the event your DPS is high sufficient, it's possible to distinguish the leader that there's no ought to bring the Wizard.\nThere are just a certain number of each prize so you will need to get lucky. It's possible for you to view limited information regarding your teammates' stats, and choose whether to battle or request a rematch. It's possible to enter as much as you want if you have sufficient tickets.\nCorsair is the sole class I never played yet but it feels like it's not a favorite alternative. Then visit the subject, Ezokay leads all to learn about Archer's situation in PVP. Just like the very first game, you may still choose between a wide variety of classes.\nRank information can be found from the region website of the player and can likewise be found in-game. Skills are various, unique abilities that could be learnt and mastered by every character. You just need to log on once each day and open the Attendance Check UI to verify your participation.\nSince the cost of the Akreen artillery is rather high, if you're feeling unacceptable, you may use the Mark 52 Omega gun for a substitute. The Emergency Resupply so that you may get back all of your energy units quickly. In addition, the level cap will be raised from 50 to 60.\nThe multi-class system, however, allows you to select a different class once you get to level 10. The principal output ability is still Ground Breaker. Basically, you merely have to purchase a custom made design item in-game, make your own equipment, have a screenshot, and post it on the MapleStory 2 discussion board.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 6474, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 337.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sigmaphiomega.org/leadership/katarina-friberg-felsted/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Y6WASGEA32MKH5NYMNTA2IPIMR2Y3CVN", "length": 2102, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sigmaphiomega.org", "title": "Katarina Friberg Felsted, PhD - Sigma Phi Omega", "raw_content": "Home / Katarina Friberg Felsted, PhD\nEmail: katarina.felsted@nurs.utah.edu\nKatarina Friberg Felsted is an Assistant Professor in the Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah, holds an MS in Gerontology, and a PhD in Nursing.\nKatarina is a member of the Association of Gerontology in Higher Education, the Gerontological Society of America, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and has been a member of Sigma Phi Omega since January 2008. She has served as the faculty representative for her chapter, Alpha Chi. She is a Noorda-Hartford Fellow, a Jonas Nurse Leader Scholar, and a Marriner S. Eccles Fellow.\nKatarina teaches both core and elective gerontology undergraduate and graduate courses: Health and Optimal Aging; Diversity in Aging; International Dimensions of Lifelong Learning; and Caregiving & Aging Families. Katarina has a strong commitment to excellence in teaching in higher education, and has earned her Higher Education Teaching Specialist designation through the Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence at the University of Utah. She currently serves on student supervisory committees and scholarly project committees for the GIP MS and Nursing DNP programs in chair, committee member, and content expert roles.\nAs a gerontologist, Katarina studies the most marginalized populations in scientific research: older adults and women. Her research interest is the use of alternative, complementary, and integrative therapies to treat chronic conditions in older adults. Her current focus is utilizing mindfulness-based stress reduction as a treatment for urinary urge incontinence in older adult women. Katarina was awarded three grants in 2016 from the UU CoN Hartford- Noorda Fellowship, the UU Office of the Associate Vice President for Health Equity and Inclusion, and the Gamma Rho Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau International to support this research focus.\nKatarina has published a book with Springer and several articles in various scholarly and academic journals. She continues to present at national and international conferences.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 257.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.simplyaskit.com.au/blog/tag/mortgage-brokers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:29Z", "digest": "sha1:W3NOWEHZUOGZXX7L5KV4SMKKOHT3ZOFV", "length": 1115, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.simplyaskit.com.au", "title": "mortgage brokers Archives - simplyaskit", "raw_content": "Why consumers need mortgage brokers\nThe Mortgage broking industry represents 53% of all home loans settled in Australia. That equates to approximately $140B in new loans each year. There has been a bit of negative press about the industry of late with the media targeting certain brokers who may or may not, have misled or misrepresented\u2026\nWhat consumers should expect in terms of service from a finance broker?\nCreating positive experiences for customers is all about communication and meeting their expectations. So what should a customer who wants to use a finance broker expect in terms of customer service? To find out we speak to Nicole Cannon from Pink Finance. Nicole was awarded the 2015 Best Customer Service\u2026\nWhat are the qualifications required to become a finance broker?\nOctober 27, 2015. By Paul Ryan\nPeter White is the CEO of the Finance Brokers Association of Australia. In this podcast Peter talks about the role of a finance and mortgage brokers, the education process and the qualification required to become a broker. Over 50% of home loans in Australia are introduced to the lenders by brokers\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.siriustransnational.com/2015/06/12/france-plans-to-lure-more-tourists-with-wine-tours/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:43Z", "digest": "sha1:RY5UJQ64C2LZTQ5PZSLX4VC3L32A5FC7", "length": 693, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.siriustransnational.com", "title": "France plans to lure more tourists with wine tours \u2013 Sirius Transnational", "raw_content": "France plans to lure more tourists with wine tours\nComments Off on France plans to lure more tourists with wine tours\nFrance wants to develop wine tours in its countryside as part of a series of measures aimed at boosting tourism and retaining the country\u2019s position as the top destination in the world. France\u2019s foreign affairs minister, Laurent Fabius, set Thursday a target of 100 million foreign tourists per year by 2020, up from 84 million now. \u201cTourism is a national treasure,\u201d he told a news conference. \u201cWine is an important sector to attract foreign customers in our beautiful wine-growing regions that are still under-visited: Bordeaux, Bourgogne, Languedoc, Rhone, Champagne, etc.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 248.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skininc.com/spabusiness/medicalesthetics/The-Real-Answers-Behind-Esthetics-in-a-Medical-Setting-269430461.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:45Z", "digest": "sha1:CJPX24JTK77F2BKBA3YEOAVPE5GM65J3", "length": 9075, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.skininc.com", "title": "The Real Answers Behind Esthetics in a Medical Setting", "raw_content": "The Real Answers Behind Esthetics in a Medical Setting\nJuly 31, 2014 Contact Author\tTerri A. Wojak August 2014 issue of Skin Inc. magazine\nWorking in a medical setting is the goal for many skin care professionals today. Practicing esthetics with a physician is a great career option and definitely has its advantages, including continued learning; clinically proven treatments and products; the ability to help all clients through direct referral; and opportunities for client interaction. Although having a career in the medical field may seem glamorous, there are several details estheticians may not be taking into consideration. Following, four common misconceptions about working in the medical field as an esthetician will be disputed.\nMyth No. 1: \u201cI can perform medical services as an esthetician while working with a physician.\u201d\nTruth: An esthetic license offers the same scope of practice, regardless of the place of employment.\nEstheticians are meant to cosmetically enhance the skin, and medical professionals are meant to treat conditions or abnormalities. Estheticians are licensed to perform skin care to whatever extent their state license allows\u2014for most states, this includes beautifying the outermost layer of skin. The misconception that estheticians are able to perform medical treatments often comes from the physician\u2019s ability to delegate procedures to nonmedical professionals. Medical delegation differs by state\u2014just like esthetic regulations do\u2014and some states are more strict than others. Treatments can only be delegated to trained professionals following a medical examination by the physician.\nThe confusing part is that estheticians are often the first team members a physician will delegate to, because they are knowledgeable about the physiology of the skin and how to care for it. However, in Illinois and several other states, estheticians cannot legally perform laser procedures, or any other medical procedures, while working under their esthetic license. Therefore, if a physician were to delegate a procedure outside of an esthetician\u2019s scope of practice, she would technically no longer be working as an esthetician, but rather as an assistant to the physician. These regulations should not be taken lightly\u2014failing to follow them can result in a loss of licensure.\nMyth No. 2: \u201cI do not need additional training to work in a medical setting; the office team will provide on-the-job training.\u201d\nTruth: This may occur in some cases, but most employers now want experience or advanced training on skin care and cosmetic medicine.\nWorking in a medical setting is vastly different from working in a spa. Even if the esthetician is hired to provide skin care services and recommend products to enhance and maintain results of medical procedures, support team members\u2014including estheticians\u2014will likely be involved in some aspect of client care. An esthetician may be asked to speak to clients about skin care as they are waiting for their procedure, or lend a helping hand in a clinic room.\nIt is important that those looking for work in a medical office are aware of some of the unpleasant things they may witness. Team members will likely see blood, skin infections, wounds and even surgical procedures. Although medical procedures are often viewed in videos and on the television, it is much different experiencing them first-hand. In fact, some students pass out while observing clinic procedures during their training programs.\nCosmetic medical services must also be broadly understood. It would be difficult to be successful in any job in which other aspects of the direct business were not learned ahead of time. To manage skin effectively before and after any medical procedure, estheticians must have detailed knowledge of what it entails, including the clients experience, indications, contraindications and possible adverse reactions. After proper training, it is in the best interest of the practice to have new team members shadow the physician for several weeks in order to gain first-hand knowledge of client experiences. The vast offering of cosmetic procedures available makes it hard to keep up; however, it is important for all estheticians to know the latest techniques and technologies in the industry, regardless of place of employment.\nMyth No. 3: \u201cI will be handed a client list when I work with a physician.\u201d\nTruth: There is an enormous opportunity to build clientele working with a physician; however, it is ultimately up to the esthetician to make it happen.\nAlthough there will likely be plenty of opportunities to build a client list in a busy medical practice, it still takes work. It is the responsibility of the esthetician to introduce skin care services to the physician\u2019s patients. The physician\u2019s time is ultimately the most valuable to the practice; therefore, it should be spent consulting and treating medical conditions, during which the esthetician utilizes her time to provide recommendations for enhancing and maintaining the services the client has undergone.\nThere may also be times when clients make an appointment with the esthetician for a skin condition that is better suited to be addressed medically. For example, a client comes in to see the esthetician for microdermabrasion to treat deep-set wrinkles between the eyes, known as the corrugator.\nMyth No. 4: \u201cMedical services are expensive; therefore, I will make a lot more money.\u201d\nTruth: Working with a physician offers opportunities for growth, but it is not always realized as quickly as it is in a spa setting.\nJust because medical treatments typically have a higher price tag does not mean that a business offering these treatments is more profitable. In fact, the overhead associated with many medical services can make it difficult for a start-up practice to see profit for quite some time.\nFor instance, one of the most commonly delegated procedures is laser hair reduction. Lasers alone can range in cost from $60,000 to well over $100,000. Plus, lasers need maintenance on a yearly basis and may have disposables for each use. Besides the equipment, the physician\u2014whose time is the most valuable aspect of the practice\u2014must be available for medical consultation for all delegated treatments and, in most cases, be on site during services. These overhead costs must be taken into consideration when negotiating salary.\nEstheticians working in a spa are often accustomed to making commission on services and retail, as well as receiving tips. This gives the motivated esthetician an opportunity to see an immediate benefit to building and retaining clients. However, sharing commissions on medical services is not allowed in several states due to fee-splitting laws. Fee-splitting is taken very seriously in the medical field. It is based on the premise that no one other than the physician can receive revenue on medical services. This regulation was put into place to ensure ethical client care and can be discouraging to an esthetician who works hard to build a clientele with no immediate value. However, hard work does eventually pay off, and it is likely that, as the practice sees in an increase in revenue, hardworking team members will, as well. Although commission cannot directly be paid, many medical offices provide an hourly wage or yearly salary with bonuses, depending on overall performance. The up-side to this is, along with following regulations, regardless of who is treating a client, the staff works as a team instead of competing for clients. This keeps the ultimate focus on clients\u2019 well-being.\nSkin care is often taken more seriously in a medical setting; to succeed, maintaining the highest level of professionalism is required. There are core professional ethics that must be followed\u2014and it is of the utmost importance to always do what is best for the client. Recent advancements in education and strides made by industry organizations working toward clearly defined roles have led to medical providers and estheticians working together to establish a high standard of care. There are several career paths the esthetician can take; to make the best decision, it is important to learn as many aspects of that career path as possible. Although there may be obstacles to overcome, a career in the medical industry is a great professional goal. When you follow your passion for the right reason, it will lead to prosperity in all areas.\nT erri A. Wojak, licensed esthetician of 20 years, is an authority on skin care in a medical setting, education and business. She is director and educator at True U Esthetics in Chicago, the co-author of Mastering Medical Esthetics (True, 2009) and author of Aesthetics Exposed: Mastering Skin Care In A Medical Setting and Beyond (Alluredbooks, 2014). She is also a member of the 2014\u20132015 Skin Inc. Editorial Advisory Board.\nEditor\u2019s note: To learn more about medical spa technologies, check out Terri A. Wojak\u2019s new book, Aesthetics Exposed: Mastering Skin Care in a Medical Setting and Beyond (Alluredbooks, 2014). Order today at http://shop.trueuesthetics.com!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 13268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skinpick.com/node/4713", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:12Z", "digest": "sha1:AVZWQNHFIMJOSO522RFCBZRQNZIEHBPG", "length": 12413, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.skinpick.com", "title": "What has worked for you? | SkinPick.com", "raw_content": "10 Oct, 2018, by SoooTired\nI am interested to know if anyone has overcome their picking issue and if so how? Please share. SoooTired\nRoseGoldGal October 13, 2018\nNothing has worked. The urge is always there.\nMinniemouse09 October 15, 2018\nAlthough I have not 100% overcome my skin picking, I am doing so, so much better than I was. In my case, I would look unrealistically close in the mirror and then pick every little imperfection, such as blackheads, clogged pores and possibly any tiny pimples. If I had a pimple, I couldn't leave it alone, I HAD to pick it and I couldn't stop unless I got something out of it. Here is what has really helped me: 1) look in the mirror less, and when you do look in the mirror DO NOT look up close. Nobody looks absolutely perfect up close, and nobody will be examining your skin that closely either. I have been trying to keep busy too so that I don't think about going and checking how my skin looks in the mirror. 2) make a list of how skin picking negatively affects your life. This has helped me so much, and I read it every day sometimes several times. It really demotivates me to pick. I wrote down how it makes me feel self conscious and ugly (because of all the marks I create on my skin), it keeps me hiding in the house and makes me say no to social events (so I am missing out on having fun), I am damaging my skin, etc. Really think to yourself, how does it make me feel? How does it impact my life? Write it all down and read it every day. 3) I went through different skin picking forums and anybody who had an answer that really stood out to me (maybe because they gave advice on how to stop picking, or said how bad it was to pick your skin) I would screenshot it and keep reading it every day on my phone. Just like the list I made, this was also good motivation. 4) give yourself some rewards for not picking..... Think of something you really want, and think to yourself that you can have that but ONLY if you can last a few days, a week, however long without picking. Last of all, i just want to say I know how it feels. You want to get whatever it is out of your skin and you want to perfect your skin but trust me - your skin will look so much better when you stop. I am amazed at how much better mine looks. There are so many reasons not to as well..... Not only are you damaging your skin, but it actually makes you breakout more because you spread the bacteria. If you have a pimple with a white head, I think it is perfectly fine to extract that, but trust me it is not good to look so close in the mirror and just pick away at every little bump or blemish. It has always made my skin worse. And the fact that my skin is looking so good right now because I am not picking it, it just demotivates to pick even more. I really hope this helped, good luck :-)\nD Major October 17, 2018\nI've recently come upon a year of not meeting the diagnostic criteria for derm. Here's what I had to learn to heal: 1) Love yourself (more than others). Physically, mentally, spiritually love yourself. When I had derm I hated myself. I thought that I needed to be special and the only thing that made me special was suffering. I hated myself for not suffering enough. I thought that I was ugly and fat. I thought that I didn't matter. I didn't have any confidence or self-esteem. I let others bring me down and tell me that I was stupid or not enough. I cared more about what others thought of me than anything else. I can't really describe the feeling because I've put a mental wall around it (I didn't try to do this or anything, but I honestly can't remember how I felt when I was in this state because I never want to go back. I just remember that it happened), but I remember desperately wanting someone to notice. I wanted to unhealthily push my negative feelings onto others, to mitigate the hurt because, at the time, that's what I was doing for others. I could not be happy if one of my friends was struggling. I would take their burdens and feel responsible to fix their problems, despite the fact that there was no solution. I had to learn that it's manipulative as f*ck to expect others to handle your burden. It's one thing to be there and listen, that's what friends are for. It's another to expect someone to be responsible for your well being. To drag someone into your despair. To put pressure on them to save you. I learned this the hard way. Only you can save yourself. I had to look at my friendships and distance myself from the relationships that I engaged in this behavior with. It sounds backward, but I had to be selfish and inward, in order to feel empathy in a healthy manner. I got to the root of my self-hate and anger and eventually was able to overcome those emotions. I was able to feel again. I could be happy without guilt. I could be empathetic without sucking up depression like a sponge. I could look in the mirror and like what I saw. Only then was I able to look at derm like it was an enemy causing distress in my life. That was when I was able to crack down and begin to heal. 2) Don't let your mental illness impact your sense of identity. This one is hard, especially with the Tumblr mental illness culture and insistence that being sick makes you special. I struggled with feeling like dermatillomania was a part of my identity. I thought that I would stop being special if I healed and that I would lose a big part of myself. Once I began to love myself again, I was able to let go of the need to be special because I realized that, in the grand scheme of things, it didn't matter to me. I'm content to just be me. I hated myself and found solace in this disorder, this thing that made different. I wanted people to feel bad for me because I thought that would bring in a sense of identity I felt I was lacking. I was wrong, obviously, and now, I just want to be happy. Happiness is so hard to attain, but I'll fight to keep it till the day I die. I had to learn that Dermatillomania does not add worth to my life. It inhibits me from feeling confident, from going out with friends, from wearing my hair down, from loving myself, and from being happy. You don't need to suffer or have \"a thing\" to matter. You already matter and once you see that, you won't want your illness, you'll want happiness. 3) Learn to dance in the rain. The whole time I had derm I was trying to get rid of it. Once decided that I deserved and wanted to heal, I gained back some self-love and self-confidence and was able to actually make progress. That being said, there will be setbacks that would spiral me back. To combat that it was important for me to celebrate the small victories. Whether that's one week, one day, or one hour if you made it that long without picking that's a success. It's easy to get down on yourself and give up, but acknowledging that the battle is hard and celebrating small successes helps. You will fail so many times, but it's the times that you don't that count. 4) BARRIERS. This is simple, but effective. Put barriers between your skin and your hands (also if you don't use tools don't start. It's way way way harder to quit if you use tools). I picked my scalp, so putting my hair in a ponytail hid my scars/hair loss and forced me to think in order to pick. Of course, this didn't always stop me. In fact, it rarely did, but sometimes counts. Those sometimes that I didn't pick because of the barrier were what fueled me to keep fighting. Before bed I would wrap head with a scarf. I'd cut my nails short and wear gloves. These barriers help. 5) Treat it like an addiction. In my head, I wasn't three days without picking, I was three days clean. This attitude allowed me access to the wealth of information on beating addictions, but also forced me to lose the \"just one time attitude\". I stopped spending time in areas were I picked. I'd play with clay and get it in my nails to curb urges. Use resources for addicts. There will be so many relatable issues and so many usable tips and tricks. Personally, after so long failing, something clicked. In the end, with hard work, I thought about picking less and less. My urges decreased in frequency and now, I rarely feel them. Never give up. You've got this. Your happiness is worth fighting for!\nMinniemouse09 I feel like you just told my story. I have been suffering with this illness as long as I can remember. It is a constant struggle with me everyday. I too look real close in a magnified mirror that I have stuck to my bathroom mirror. It is hard for me to take it down. Once I look in that stupid mirror there is no turning back. I like the way you give ways to help stop the picking. To make a list of how this affects my life. I have a husband who does not understand this disease. He is constantly saying bad and negative things to me which lowers my self esteem. He says that I will never be able to stop picking and is thinking about divorcing me. I am trying so hard to STOP this!!! I feel like my whole life depends on this.\nMinniemouse09 November 10, 2018\nAnxious for nothing, I am so sorry to hear you struggle with this every day but I know how it feels, I really do. And I'm sad to hear about your husband making negative comments toward you but unfortunately not everyone understands this illness. But please don't be disheartened. Although the innate desire to pick may always be there deep down, I do believe you can live a life where you pick less and are not obsessing over your skin. Here is something I learnt yesterday which is so important. Obsessing over your skin actually makes your skin worse. Because when you keep looking at your skin in the mirror and thinking about your skin, you subconsciously stress yourself out and stress is horrible for your skin. I have noticed that when I really put my mind to it, if I stop looking in the mirror and only do so when I need to (so maybe 3x a day), and I KEEP busy, I am not really thinking about my skin...... And my skin always looks better. I have read other people making wimilwr comments online. See if you can do that, just try and look in the mirror less and keep yourself busy with something that interests you..... All the best, I really do wish you well. Even if your husband doesn't understand, just know that there are so many people out there that do and can help you ok?\nHi anxious.....remember that we have more control over our boundaries of others as well. Tell your husband to stop talking to you like that. If he has concerns....tell him to voice how HE feels about it without putting blame on you. because putting YOU down is only him being a bully and trying to help in the wrong way.\nI failed again this morning. I looked into that stupid mirror and started to do what I hate the most. I really thought I was doing so good. I tried to hide it under makeup so my husband could not see but somehow he knew that I did it again. I felt so angry....then I had to go to work and put on a fake smile knowing that I was crying inside. I pray that I can be stronger. Not doing so good today.\nIt's okay, it is very hard to stop doing. I have had quite a few occasions where I was able to stop picking, I would last about a week or a week and a half, but then something would happen and I would start picking again. And it was so disheartening. But I would then start again and slowly my skin would heal. Your skin will heal too. Why don't you get a piece of paper and write down all the ways in which skin picking affects your life e.g it makes you self conscious, it makes you not want to leave your house, it causes damage to your skin, etc. You could then read it every single morning to be reminded that actually picking your skin is NOT what you choose to do today.\nMinniemouse09 My face has come a long way since Saturday. It is actually almost healed. I did my normal routine this morning and all the dry skin scabs actually wanted to come off they were just that healed. I just thank God that the roughest part is over.Now only to keep it this way and that is the hardest part. I will take you recommendation of getting a piece of paper and writing down how skin picking affects my life. I think my husband is being a little nicer because he sees that I am trying. I just feel less stressed out right now. I ordered some acne medication through the mail called Paula's Choice acne treatment. May be that will help a little with future breakouts and less picking.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 13644, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 321.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.skiptonproperties.com/proud-to-be-different/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:15Z", "digest": "sha1:SZAYUIFHFJZQM6GKGNKDTCLBW5TEMM6J", "length": 2794, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.skiptonproperties.com", "title": "Proud to be different - Skipton Properties", "raw_content": "Have you read May\u2019s Aspire magazine? If you haven\u2019t yet and have a few spare minutes turn to page 51. Our Creative Director, Caroline spoke to them about our homes, our values and our style. We are hugely proud and passionate of our work at Skipton Properties. It\u2019s nice to see this recognised in a magazine that so many of you read.\nFor those of you that haven\u2019t had Aspire through your door we have copied the article below:\n\u2018Skipton Properties pride themselves on their attention to detail. The design of their homes starts with an understanding of what home means to their customers: a sanctuary to come home to at the end of a long day, a place for family and for friends, a place to make memories. Creative Director, Caroline Verity, oversees design at the company and much like her father, has particularly high standards! She\u2019s regularly on site with their team of managers and if something doesn\u2019t quite work, she will discuss options for improvement with them. The design process doesn\u2019t end there though. The team are regularly in touch with their customers to gain insight on how they use their homes and what they could improve. The feedback is considered, so that if they build the same design of home again, they\u2019ll know that it\u2019s perfect.\nCaroline likes to think they are a little different from other house builders, they have a clear set of values that guide their decisions, whether it is buying a piece of land or deliberating on what to include in the latest specification. Customers, family, people, excellence, creativity and caring for the community are what matters most and this set of values has been key to their success; in fact, Skipton Properties has been recognised as one of the fastest 50 growing companies in Yorkshire.\nTraditional design, a love of natural stone and perfect finishing touches enables them to compete with the second home market. Their goal is to build homes that blend with the local architecture and complement the villages and towns in which they are built; recent developments in Settle, Skipton, Silsden and Fence showcase this signature style.\nThe internal design of their homes is equally important to Caroline too. Many would say that she has a very specific style, influenced by time she spends in London. Though specifications evolve alongside interior design trends, she certainly isn\u2019t a fan of a fad and believes that designs need to be timeless. Specifications are therefore considered in the context of the scheme\u2019s design and are developed with this need for timeless design in mind.\nWhy not see for yourself the thought, care and attention to detail lavished upon each and every new build home. Visit the show homes at Harwa Waterside in Silsden and Spring Mills in Fence and see what sets Skipton Properties above the rest.\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4548, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smartcurrencybusiness.com/news/currency-note/trade-war-fears-cohn-resigns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:24Z", "digest": "sha1:LOVFKYJUYIVEQZAKJ3NTK556ZAJ2LGS6", "length": 4965, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.smartcurrencybusiness.com", "title": "Trade war fears as Cohn resigns | Smart Currency Business", "raw_content": "Trade war fears as Cohn resigns\nAnother day, another resignation from the Trump administration. On Tuesday evening, Trump\u2019s top economic adviser Gary Cohn quit following reports he was vehemently opposed to the proposed tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. It is all so bewildering. It is difficult to see why Trump has embarked on a nationalist trade agenda, especially as nobody can really expect to benefit from the proposal.\nThere are now genuine fears that a trade war could be triggered; if the tariffs go ahead, then it follows other countries will impose their own tariffs on imports from the US. Once one domino topples the whole structure collapses. It is possible that Trump will sign off the decision to impose 25% tariffs on steel and 10% on aluminium, even as the whole world appeals to his better judgement. Perhaps he simply has no judgement, better or otherwise.\nThe European Commissioner Cecilia Malmstr\u00f6m stated that the tariffs are an attack on America\u2019s friends and it is difficult to not be alarmed by language such as this. Yet Trump remains defiant and has Tweeted he is already looking to appoint a successor to Cohn. We can expect some movement in the currency markets over the coming days as investors try to make head or tail of the situation.\nHowever, fret not! You can protect your business\u2019s exposure to currency volatility through effective treasury management solutions. Our team is on hand to talk you through the options available to you and, importantly, work closely with you to understand your specific situation before providing bespoke guidance. Do contact a member of our team today if you have any questions.\nGBP: Halifax house price index beats expectations\nIt was an extremely quiet day for UK economic data yesterday, as talks of a possible trade war dominated the headlines (and the markets). However, we did see the Halifax house prices which came in above forecast. They went up by 1.8% year-on-year in the three months to February against an expectation of 0.6%.\nAlthough the figure still represents a pretty weak pace of growth, it is thought that the low mortgage rate environment and a shortage of properties for sale will continue to support prices for at least the next few months.\nIn other news, the Chancellor Philip Hammond issued a warning to the EU that a \u2018fair and balanced\u2019 deal must include financial services. Speaking in Canary Wharf at HSBC\u2019s headquarters, he said that the government could reject any Brexit trade deal not including financial services. We will have to wait and see if the EU takes the unprecedented step of bowing to our demands rather than the other way round.\nEUR: eurozone GDP growth rate shows economic recovery\nAs talks of a trade war intensified across the world, the third estimate of the eurozone\u2019s GDP growth rate for the fourth quarter of 2018 slipped under the radar somewhat. Both the month-on-month and year-on-year figures came in as expected, at 0.6% and 2.7% respectively. Across the whole year, the eurozone\u2019s economy grew by 2.3% which was slightly below earlier estimates of 2.5%, but much improved from 1.8% in 2016. The economic recovery continues.\nThe euro started the day by climbing higher against the US dollar and sterling \u2013 at one point it reached its strongest level against the pound since November 2017 and some market analysts suggested that because the euro is holding steady at the top of its five-month channel against the pound, a significant move stronger could be on the cards. However, sterling and the dollar managed to retrace their losses in what proved to be a volatile day for the single currency.\nToday we have the European Central Bank\u2019s interest rate decision which is expected to remain at 0%, but the press conference could be the bigger talking point. What will President Mario Draghi say? Will he allude to future monetary policy? Will he change tack and strike a hawkish tone? Or will he simply say that it is possible the current commitment to buy \u20ac30 billion of bonds every month until September 2018 will be extended?\nUSD: Talk of Trump\u2019s trade tariffs tank markets\nDonald Trump appears to be relatively nonplussed about the trade war fears he has sparked for no real fathomable reason. His nationalist trade agenda appears at odds with almost everyone who advises him and experts from all countries around the world.\nMeanwhile, the US trade deficit came in worse than expected to post its biggest trade gap since October 2008. Imports remain at a record high while exports fell. The figure had been expected to widen from $53.9 billion to $55.1 billion, but it actually came in at $56.6 billion in January 2018.\nThere was some positive employment data though, as private businesses in the US hired 235,000 workers in February against an expectation of 195,000. Employment appears to be booming at the moment in the US, but a trade war could impact the whole world in various ways. Let us hope that this does not materialise.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 8034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/photocontest/detail/american-experience/going-to-the-tiki-bar-on-a-sunday-afternoon-at-sunset/?ordering=-uploaded_at&filters=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:22Z", "digest": "sha1:HO6M3P7EKSZHKKCIYYQPGXJHKVP5R7TE", "length": 213, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.smithsonianmag.com", "title": "Going to the tiki bar on a sunday afternoon at sunset | Smithsonian Photo Contest | Smithsonian", "raw_content": "\u00a9 Robert Plant. All rights reserved.\nGoing to the tiki bar on a sunday afternoon at sunset\nCalifornia, Maryland, United States of America\n\u00a9 Robert Plant.\nPHOTO LOCATION Solomons, Maryland, United States of America", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 2192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.smobserved.com/story/2014/12/08/news/residents-urged-to-prepare-for-rain-wind/943.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:22Z", "digest": "sha1:O5KJSUUS5I64JDGFACHTKDGKRQZKKCF2", "length": 3483, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.smobserved.com", "title": "Residents Urged to Prepare for Rain, Wind - Santa Monica Observer", "raw_content": "Residents Urged to Prepare for Rain, Wind\n12/11/14: Workers from the City Division of Public Works place sandbags along the cliffs at Palisades Park, to direct water to flow down the pedestrian ramp and storm drain, rather than over the edge of the cliffs causing erosion. A high surf advisory will take effect tonight and remain in force through Saturday, National Weather Service forecasters said. A powerful storm will bring pounding surf along the coast, with the second of two westerly swells reaching the outer waters Thursday afternoon and spreading. Forecasters said the high surf is likely to cause significant beach erosion and flood piers and jetties, low-lying areas and beachside parking lots. They said waves of between 7 and 10 feet are expected, with local sets of up to 13 feet along some west-facing beaches. \"Avoid standing on jetties, piers and rocks near the edge of the water,\" warned an NWS statement. \"Remember to never turn your back to the ocean during large surf events.\nWith a major storm moving toward the Southland, the weather service is warning of wild weather including heavy wind and rain, thunderstorms, and low snow levels.\nresidents near the Colby Fire burn area in Glendora were bracing again today for possible mudslides and flooding.\nThe storm is expected to arrive in the Los Angeles area late Thursday and continue through Friday. National Weather Service forecasters said the storm could dump 1 to 2 inches of rain on coastal and valley locations, and 2 to 4 inches in foothills and mountains. The rain will accompanied by strong winds and mountain snow.\n\"This weather system will also bring a slight chance of thunderstorms to the region, where there will be the potential for brief high-intensity rainfall, small hail and gusty winds,\" according to an NWS statement. \"Rainfall rates between one-half and three-quarters of an inch per hour will be possible with the cold front and thunderstorm development.\"\nForecasters said the storm, while shorter than last week's rain event, could dump more of the wet stuff on the region.\nA flash flood watch will be in effect in Los Angeles County mountains and the Antelope and San Gabriel valleys from late Thursday into Friday for recent burn areas, with forecasters noting that showers and thunderstorms could linger after the brunt of the storm system passes.\n\"Due to the potential for intense rainfall along the cold front, and with the showers and thunderstorms behind the front, there is the possibility of dangerous flash flooding and mud and debris flows in the recent burn areas of Ventura and Los Angeles counties,\" according to the NWS.\nIn response to the possibility of flooding in the Powerhouse Fire burn area, Los Angeles County officials said a 4.6-mile stretch of Lake Hughes Road south of Elizabeth Lake Road will be closed at 12:30 a.m. Friday and remain blocked until the storm passes and the street can be inspected.\nForecasters also noted that powerful winds can be expected, with gusts of more than 70 mph possible in the mountains, and gusts between 35 and 50 mph in coastal and valley locations.\nSnow levels, meanwhile, will initially be above the resort level, but dip to about 5,000 feet on Friday afternoon.\n\"There could be a brief mix of rain and snow at the summit of the Grapevine on Interstate 5, however, no accumulations are expected,\" according to the Weather Service.\nSnow accumulations in upper mountain elevations could reach up to 10 inches, forecasters said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5070, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2019/01/brown-university-will-use-rhode-island-solar-array-and-texas-wind-farm-to-offset-100-of-on-campus-power/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:57Z", "digest": "sha1:3CGG5WV4CMBI4NBB5UFYU74J7NXKXR3K", "length": 7275, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.solarpowerworldonline.com", "title": "Brown University will use Rhode Island solar array and Texas wind farm to offset 100% of on-campus power", "raw_content": "Brown University will use Rhode Island solar array and Texas wind farm to offset 100% of on-campus power\nAs a major part of a campus-wide effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions, Brown University has finalized agreements for two renewable energy projects that are expected to produce enough combined solar and wind power to offset all on-campus electricity use.\nThe first project \u2014 a collaboration with Constellation and Providence-based Energy Development Partners (EDP) \u2014 will create Rhode Island\u2019s highest-capacity contiguous solar generation project across a 240-acre field on a former gravel pit in North Kingstown.\nThe 50-MWdc solar facility is expected to deliver 40 MWac of power to the electrical grid. And use of the former gravel pit will avoid any encroachment on neighborhoods or large-scale tree-clearing, two quality-of-life and environmental concerns commonly associated with new renewable projects.\nThe North Kingstown project is expected to produce enough electricity to offset about 70% of Brown\u2019s annual electricity consumption generated through fossil fuels. A second renewable energy project, an 8-MW wind power project being developed in Texas with another energy services provider, is expected to produce enough electricity to offset the rest of Brown\u2019s annual use.\nTogether, the two projects position the University to far surpass the goal it set a decade ago to cut on-campus greenhouse gas emissions by 42% below 2007 levels by the year 2020. With the fulfillment of that goal in sight, Brown is now devising a plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions even more aggressively.\n\u201cIn choosing to offset all on-campus electricity use with renewable energy, we are taking a significant step forward in reducing greenhouse gas emissions,\u201d said University President Christina Paxson. \u201cWe realize that there is much more work ahead to ensure we do all we can to contribute to global efforts to combat the increasingly dire threat posed by climate change.\u201d\nThe two renewable energy projects enabled by Brown\u2019s new energy services agreements were selected from a pool of proposals submitted by more than 30 developers across the country. Over many months, a committee of faculty and staff weighed each project\u2019s economic, social, political and environmental strengths.\nCommittee chair Stephen Porder, Brown\u2019s assistant provost for sustainability and an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, said the University\u2019s renewable energy purchases will contribute significantly to the State of Rhode Island\u2019s clean-energy objectives. In 2017, Gov. Gina Raimondo announced a goal to increase the amount of renewable energy in the state from 100 MW to 1,000 MW by 2020.\n\u201cBy enabling the construction of 40 MW of new renewables that will flow directly into Rhode Island\u2019s electrical grid, Brown will play a substantial role in boosting the renewable energy assets in support of the state\u2019s clean energy goals,\u201d Porder said.\n\u201cWe applaud Brown University for making the switch to 100% renewable energy via these two projects,\u201d said State Energy Commissioner Carol Grant. \u201cBrown should be commended for siting its Rhode Island solar array in a thoughtful and responsible manner. Once this project moves forward, it will contribute to the governor\u2019s goal to reach 1,000 MW of clean energy by 2020 and help our state continue to reduce its carbon emissions.\u201d\nThe solar project in North Kingstown will transform a former sand and gravel mining site into a major renewable energy source. EDP will purchase the land and develop the site in collaboration with Constellation, an Exelon company, which will maintain ownership of the solar arrays and, together with Brown, lease the land. As outlined in a 25-year energy services agreement developed in partnership with CustomerFirst Renewables, Brown will obtain and retire project-specific renewable energy credits \u2014 essentially proof-of-ownership certificates that establish Brown\u2019s right to claim the renewable energy as its own.\n\u201cBrown and its leadership should be commended for selecting this clean energy solution to help the University \u2014 and the state of Rhode Island \u2014 achieve their joint sustainability goals,\u201d said Brendon Quinlivan, executive director of distributed energy origination at Constellation. \u201cIncreasingly, Constellation is working with schools and universities across the U.S. seeking to reduce their carbon footprint through the adoption of both on-site and off-site renewable energy solutions. Brown University has been a long-standing, valued Constellation customer, and we are exceptionally pleased to further diversify its energy sourcing strategies.\u201d\nConstellation\u2019s portfolio includes over 377 MW of solar generation in operation or under construction nationwide.\nFrank Epps, chief executive officer of EDP, said the North Kingstown Planning Commission and residential neighbors have supported the project enthusiastically. He attributes that support to the fact that construction will not disturb the surrounding woodlands and will ultimately improve nearby residents\u2019 quality of life. What was once the site of dusty gravel piles and noisy tractors, Epps said, will become a quiet parcel of land lined with solar panels, and grass and other plants that will be planted to attract pollinators, including butterflies and bees.\n\u201cTo residents whose property abuts this land, this project means less traffic on the roads, no more trucks going back and forth, no more loud noises, and no more sand and dust,\u201d Epps said.\nEpps added that EDP\u2019s partnership with Brown isn\u2019t confined to North Kingstown. The energy company has already partnered with Brown on a number of smaller, on-campus renewable-energy initiatives, and a $200,000 grant from EDP will fund student research in renewable energy at the University\u2019s School of Engineering.\nA specific timeframe for construction on both the solar arrays in Rhode Island and the wind farm in Texas will be determined based on further discussion among the University, its energy company providers and the local utility companies in both states responsible for issuing project-specific interconnection permissions.\nPorder said the energy services agreements with Constellation and the Texas wind project developer continue a series of actions at Brown to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Brown had already reduced its emissions by 28% since 2007 through a variety of energy efficiency measures, including installing LED lighting around campus and converting its oil- and steam-powered heating systems to natural gas. Further energy efficiency measures are also under way, including increasing thermal efficiency at the University\u2019s central heating facility.\nBetween those projects and these new renewable energy agreements, Porder said, Brown is on track to reduce its net greenhouse gas emissions by almost 67% relative to its 2007 benchmark.\n\u201cEliminating our greenhouse gas emissions from electricity is one crucial step,\u201d Porder said. \u201cBut we can\u2019t afford to slow down. The scientific consensus is that society as a whole needs to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by the time today\u2019s first-year college students are in their 40s. Brown has a real chance to lead the way in the fight against this existential threat.\u201d\nNews item from Brown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 10806, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.southernspiritonline.org/greensboro/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WJYKNBLVFIHN34TSFY5SBEB7KDGZIUQ7", "length": 243, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.southernspiritonline.org", "title": "greensboro \u2013 Southern Spirit Online", "raw_content": "https://www.southernspiritonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/southernspirit_logo-1.png 0 0 admin https://www.southernspiritonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/southernspirit_logo-1.png admin2016-09-30 10:28:132016-09-30 10:28:13greensboro", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 3592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.55, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-exploration/skylab/kings-horses-final-mission-skylab-part-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2KAGISDV77IEEWSVZDQ2SDKEH4CICYU4", "length": 13612, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.spacesafetymagazine.com", "title": "All the King's Horses: The Final Mission to Skylab (Part 2)", "raw_content": "By AmericaSpace on November 27, 2013 in Skylab\nForty years ago this week, in November 1973, NASA launched its third and final crew to the Skylab space station. As recounted in yesterday\u2019s history article, Commander Gerry Carr, Science Pilot Ed Gibson, and Pilot Bill Pogue were tasked to complete a mission of at least 60 days, open-ended to 84 days, either of which would produce a new world endurance record. The enormous success of Skylab\u2019s first and second crews\u2014who repaired and revived the crippled station, then went on to accomplish 150 percent of their science goals\u2014imbued NASA with a false sense of confidence that it could fully load the final crew with an excessive amount of work. As circumstances would transpire, the experience of Carr, Gibson, and Pogue would teach the agency to regard long-duration spaceflight in a quite different manner to its earlier, shorter-duration missions.\nAfter docking with Skylab, late on 16 November, it was intended that the astronauts would remain aboard their Apollo command module overnight and enter the station early the following morning. The rationale was to aid their adaptation to weightlessness before entering the large, open, disorientating volume of Skylab. After two unsuccessful attempts, docking was duly accomplished eight hours into the mission, and the crew remained awake late into the night stowing equipment, when, all at once, Pogue felt sick. Years later, he explained to the NASA oral historian that the sensation took the form of a severe headache and nausea and that Carr\u2019s suggestion to eat something did not help matters. In fact, a mouthful of stewed tomatoes (the only item left in Pogue\u2019s evening meal) soon sent him scurrying for his sick bag.\nOne of the greatest ironies was that Pogue had actually taken scopalomine-dextroamphetamine anti-nausea medication before launch, whilst Carr had not \u2026 and yet the commander experienced no feelings of sickness whatsoever. Nor did Gibson. Under normal circumstances, Carr knew that he was not even allowed to drive after having taken \u201cScop-Dex,\u201d and he most definitely did not want his ability to be compromised whilst in charge of a spacecraft. Of the three of them, Pogue, an ex-Thunderbird pilot, was considered the least likely to get sick. Years later, he would see it as evidence that none of the medical community had a real handle on what caused space sickness and, for the most part, the theories and the prescribed medications were inconclusive and of only limited usefulness. Now, of course, with the pressure on them as a crew not to get sick, they faced a real dilemma: what to tell the ground?\nThe disorientating nature of the weightless environment, particularly in a large open volume like that of Skylab, offered many of the ingredients for \u201cspace sickness\u201d (Credits: NASA).\nSkylab had drifted out of direct radio contact at this stage and it was Gibson who suggested simply disposing of the \u201cevidence\u201d\u2014Pogue\u2019s sick bag\u2014in the station\u2019s trash airlock and keeping quiet about the matter. In so doing, Carr agreed, they could avoid getting the medical community \u201call fuzzed\u201d and hopefully get their mission off to a smooth start. To Gibson, the desire to avoid space sickness was a political one: the multi-billion-dollar shuttle had only recently been approved by Congress, and there were lingering worries that if astronauts could get sick and potentially incapacitated for several days, the whole raison d\u2019etre behind having a reusable winged spacecraft might be compromised.\nThings were not looking good. Carr and Gibson tried putting Pogue into the docking tunnel, hoping that air from a cabin fan might make him feel better, but to little effect. Before retiring for the night, Carr read his status report to the ground, admitting to Pogue\u2019s nausea and highlighting that he had not eaten all of one of his meals. Unluckily, one of Pogue\u2019s responsibilities was the spacecraft\u2019s communications system \u2026 and, as specified in the checklist, he had left the switch \u201con\u201d to the equipment which was recording their in-cabin conversations. Whilst the crew slept that night, Mission Control downloaded the tape and heard all of their discussion about concealing the evidence!\nEarly the next day, 17 November, Pogue felt better, but took things slowly as he and his comrades ate breakfast. By mid-morning, they were inside Skylab. Carr switched on the lights and the men set to work on their respective duties: setting up communications links, starting the environmental control system, and reactivating the station. In the meantime, back in Houston, the tapes from the previous evening were being transcribed and their startling contents led to a medical conference to be convened that afternoon. Later, Chief Astronaut Al Shepard came onto the capcom\u2019s console to address Carr directly.\n\u201cI just wanted to tell you,\u201d he said, \u201cthat on the matter of your status reports, we think you made a fairly serious error in judgement here in the report of your condition.\u201d\nCarr accepted the rebuke. \u201cOkay, Al, I admit it was a dumb decision.\u201d\nEd Gibson, pictured at the controls of Skylab\u2019s Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) (Credits: NASA).\nShepard was not to be put off. If Pogue\u2019s sick bag had been disposed of in the station\u2019s trash airlock, it could screw up many of the medical experiments. Shepard pressed Carr to assure him that they had not gotten rid of the bag and that its contents would be weighed, as per the crew\u2019s training, for mineral balance studies.\nThe incident, whilst relatively minor, underlined in some managers\u2019 minds a fear that Carr\u2019s crew were unwilling to engage in frank and open communications with Mission Control. Flight Director Neil Hutchinson did not doubt the crew\u2019s integrity, but made certain that any further problems would require flight controllers to take immediate steps to set matters right. The situation would grow markedly worse over the coming days. Even three decades later, Bill Pogue would recall that he got on perfectly well with both Carr and Gibson, but felt it would have been nice to have had an experienced crewman aboard. They were the first all-rookie U.S. crew since Gemini VIII in March 1966. In hindsight, Gibson acquiesced, they could and should have handled it differently. \u201cWe should\u2019ve just said: \u2018Hey, guys, your pills didn\u2019t work. They\u2019re wafting across the command module now, along with Bill\u2019s tomatoes!\u2019 That\u2019s probably the most regrettable thing I have about that whole flight \u2026 that we were not smart enough to handle it properly, because it caused everybody a lot of problems.\u201d\nWith Pogue recovered, the crew realized that they were behind schedule and needed to work hard in order to catch up. Aside from adaptation to their new environment, the crew\u2019s first week in space included a spacewalk by Pogue and Gibson on 22 November\u2014Thanksgiving Day\u2014to reload film into the Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) and check out an inoperable antenna on an external radiometer/scatterometer and altimeter, known by the experiment code number of \u201cS-193,\u201d which was part of the Earth resources payload. The day concluded in fine style, with an ample Thanksgiving dinner. Carr selected prime ribs, Gibson went with turkey, and Pogue chose chicken. It was very good food, but they did note a tendency of blandness. Condiments helped a little, although they had to be used sparingly, lest they interfere with the medical experiments.\nWhether afflicted by sickness or not, the three men also needed time to get themselves adapted to their strange new environment. During the first few days, Carr elected to swap roles with Pogue, \u201cbecause my job was more sedentary than his.\u201d Gradually, this enthusiasm became wearing, for the performance of Bean, Garriott, and Lousma had encouraged mission planners to pile more work onto Carr\u2019s team. If they missed a step or made a mistake with a task, the timeline was so densely packed for all three men that they would end up racing against the clock, fighting a losing battle to keep up. \u201cIt was hard on morale,\u201d Carr recalled. \u201cWe were rushed and not able to get things done and experiments completed.\u201d The low morale was accompanied by an acute feeling that they were letting down the principal investigators; they pictured the scientists on the ground grinding their teeth as the three astronauts kept reporting that they were unable to complete all tasks on time because they were rushing around too much, making mistakes.\nCircumstances were not aided by the rather unpleasant attitude taken toward the astronauts by several of the scientists, some of whom regarded the crew as little more than a trio of semi-trained chimps. Early in the mission, Pogue was assigned to photograph a barium cloud, exploded by a Black Brant IV rocket launch from Fairbanks, Alaska. The objective of the NASA-funded study was that the barium vapor would be injected into Earth\u2019s magnetosphere and, after ionization by solar ultraviolet radiation, would illuminate geomagnetic field lines and make them visible to sensitive equipment on the ground. However, after struggling to find each piece of equipment needed for the camera, Pogue positioned everything in the correct angle, checked his watch to ensure that all was ready \u2026 and saw nothing. \u201cWhere\u2019s the barium cloud?\u201d he recalled later. \u201cI missed it. I don\u2019t know why none of the numbers worked, but in any event I missed the cloud.\u201d\nDespite not understanding the problems that Carr\u2019s crew faced in space, particularly during initial adaptation, those first few days of the mission seemed to reinforce this notion. \u201cThen we discovered that we had been scheduled at nearly the same rate that the second crew had achieved at the end of their flight,\u201d Carr continued. \u201cThat explained why we were having so much trouble keeping up. But by the time that was finally recognized, we had achieved a skill level that was adequate to get the work done.\u201d They ate dinner together, partly for the social contact and partly to cement their cohesiveness as a crew, but found themselves hurrying off to work on experiments until well into the evening. By bedtime, none of them felt ready to sleep, because there were tools and pieces of equipment to put away or set up for the following morning. Their minds were moving too fast to rest, which impaired their ability to sleep and caused their productivity to suffer. Planners on the ground began to reschedule their exercise sessions to enable them to catch up on the experiments. There was nothing wrong with that, it seemed \u2026 until it became clear that at least one exercise session was scheduled right after dinner! \u201cThat\u2019s no time to be exercising,\u201d observed Carr afterward, \u201cparticularly up there, where you couldn\u2019t belch, because with your food floating around inside you, you were liable to get it back with your belch.\u201d\nSkylab and its Apollo Telescope Mount (ATM) was a critical asset in observing Comet Kohoutek in the winter of 1973-74 (Credits: NASA).\nNot surprisingly, as time wore on the crew became quite testy with Mission Control. Carr had requested before launch that their first day off, scheduled for 19 November, should be cancelled, but Flight Director Neil Hutchinson felt that they would benefit from the free time and two opportunities were made available in the first few days. On the evening of their second free day, Carr told mission controllers that the week had been \u201cfrantic\u201d and that they were struggling to keep to the timeline.\nWords of wisdom from Ed Gibson\u2019s high school track coach summed up the crew\u2019s feeling: If you want to win the quarter-mile race, sprint the first hundred yards, then just gradually increase your pace. Aboard Skylab, they were moving so fast, and so constantly, that it was impossible to avoid making mistakes. On more than one occasion, Gibson recalled floating through the multiple docking adaptor, muttering creative profanities, little realizing that the voice recording link to the ground was open. \u201cThe situation,\u201d he explained, \u201cwas compounded a bit because people had not yet fully come to grips with the fact that Skylab was a different animal than all the relatively short missions to date.\u201d For ascent and re-entry, fine, it was necessary to have their timelines spelled out in second-by-second detail, or at least in blocks of a few minutes, but on an extended mission of three months, such micromanagement was neither suitable nor appropriate.\nNor was there an option to simply have a heart-to-heart with the ground and thrash things out, because all communications had to be open for the whole world to hear, including the press. At one stage, the astronauts decided to make better use of their time by having one of them listening for radio traffic at a time, thereby allowing the others to switch off the distraction of their radios and get on with their work. This worked well for a time \u2026 until, during one particular orbit, they forgot and all three of them left their radios switched off for an entire pass. \u201cThat caused a lot of concern on the ground,\u201d Carr said, \u201cand, of course, the press just thought that was wonderful.\u201d In their sensationalist minds, the astronauts were on strike, on the brink of mutiny, turning their radios off deliberately. It was an unfair accusation which led to a stigma that would hang over Carr\u2019s crew for decades.\n\u2013 By Ben Evans. To be continued\u2026\nImage caption: The final Skylab crew was tasked with its first EVA only a week after arriving in space (Credits: NASA).\nTagsApollo Telescope MountBill PogueEd GibsonGerry CarrnauseaScop-Dexscopalomine-dextroamphetamineSkylabSpace Historyspace sicknessstrike", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 15787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 314.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/land/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HUR7PMBMUCD2QOC6TJVR7WXENQQFB5OA", "length": 584, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.sparknotes.com", "title": "SparkNotes: The Land", "raw_content": "The Land is a novel by Mildred D. Taylor that was first published in 2001.\nFamily and Epilogue\nPaul-Edward Logan\nSee a complete list of the characters in The Land and in-depth analyses of Paul-Edward Logan, Mitchell Thomas, Edward Logan, Robert Logan, and Caroline Perry.\nTest your knowledge of The Land with our quizzes and study questions, or go further with essays on the context and background and links to the best resources around the web.\nGet ready to write your paper on The Land with our suggested essay topics, sample essays, and more.\nThe Land (SparkNotes Literature Guide)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 2664, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.sportsmole.co.uk/football/man-utd/fa-cup/preview/preview-chelsea-vs-man-united-prediction-team-news-lineups_326128.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:52Z", "digest": "sha1:P3OBHZG75UW57EYB2DB7TMWUI45LPWOX", "length": 8347, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "www.sportsmole.co.uk", "title": "Preview: Chelsea vs. Manchester United - prediction, team news, lineups - Sports Mole", "raw_content": "Home > Football > FA Cup > Manchester United > Previews\nMay 19, 2018 at 5.15pm UK at \u200bStamford Bridge\nHazard (22' pen.)\nPreview: Chelsea vs. Manchester United - prediction, team news, lineups\nSports Mole provides predicted lineups, team news and a full match preview of the 2018 FA Cup final between Chelsea and Manchester United.\nChelsea and Manchester United have a chance to salvage their respective seasons on Saturday evening when facing off at Wembley Stadium in the 137th FA Cup final.\nIn a repeat of the 2007 showpiece - the first to be held at this ground - both sides know the importance of victory at the end of a disappointing campaign.\nWhile United can argue that finishing second in the Premier League marks a vast improvement on the previous four years since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement, Antonio Conte has far less ammunition to use when holding talks over his future next week.\nConte's second season in West London has not gone quite to plan, finding himself under pressure ever since the first game when Burnley picked up a shock 3-2 win at Stamford Bridge, setting the tone for what was to come for both sides.\nThrowing away top spot in the Champions League and subsequently being knocked out by Barcelona in the first knockout round was difficult to take, particularly on the back of failing to turn up across two legs against Arsenal in the EFL Cup semis.\nYet in finishing fifth in the Premier League, collecting 23 points fewer than in 2016-17, Conte will surely have little to complain about if ruthless owner Roman Abramovich swings the axe as expected in the coming weeks.\nEven if Chelsea were to win an eighth FA Cup, it remains to be seen whether the former Juventus boss would want to stay on. Conte has constantly provided subtle - and not-so-subtle - hints that he will be on his way this summer regardless of events at Wembley.\nWhat better way to bow out than by lifting a second major honour in English football, then, a year on from a hugely disappointing 2-1 defeat at the hands of Arsenal in the final - a rare low point in the Italian's maiden campaign on these shores.\nFour of Chelsea's seven previous triumphs in this competition have come in the last 11 years, beginning with an extra-time win against United in the first final to be held at the revamped national stadium, but they have not walked up the famous steps since 2012.\nThe way the Blues ended their league campaign suggests that their wait may go on, following up a four-match winning run with a draw to Huddersfield Town and 3-0 loss to Newcastle United on the final day, seeing them finish five points adrift of a Champions League spot.\nChelsea have not always been at their best in the FA Cup, either, most notably struggling to shake off Norwich City at the second attempt in round three, but victory in their final match of the season will ensure that a poor campaign suddenly looks slightly better.\nRecent form in FA Cup: DWWWWW\nRecent form (all competitions): WWWWDL\nAmong the numerous sub-plots ahead of Saturday's game, the most intriguing is surely Jose Mourinho's latest battle with Conte on the touchline - possibly the final chapter in a long-running saga.\nMourinho has the upper hand on Conte by virtue of finishing as runner-up in the top flight, adding to the EFL Cup and Europa League crown gained last season, and he will take great delight in being the one to strike the killer blow in Conte's Chelsea reign.\nEnding 19 points adrift of Manchester City is hardly cause for celebration, though, and Mourinho therefore needs the FA Cup to ensure that he has United supporters firmly behind him ahead of a big summer of transfer activity.\nThe Red Devils' most recent success in this competition, when edging out Crystal Palace 2-1 two years ago, famously brought down the curtain on Louis van Gaal's underwhelming tenure. A similar outcome this weekend is unlikely, with Mourinho still very much the best available option for United.\nA campaign that began nine months ago with defeat to Real Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup, taking in 55 games since then, finally concludes this weekend and it remains difficult to ascertain whether the season as a whole can be considered a success.\nDefeat to Brighton & Hove Albion - making it three losses to promoted clubs this term - and a goalless draw with West Ham United sapped any sort of positivity out of United's supporters, making the 1-0 win against Watford on the final day, as uninspiring as it was, all the more important to build some momentum.\nA second FA Cup final triumph in three seasons, and a joint-record 13 overall - matching Arsenal's tally - would be the ideal way for Mourinho to prove that he remains a serial winner, even if his style of play has been questioned repeatedly throughout the campaign.\nTheir path to this stage has been straightforward enough, brushing aside Derby County, Yeovil Town, Huddersfield Town and Brighton without conceding a goal, before earning a 2-1 comeback victory over Tottenham Hotspur here last month.\nUnited have already beaten each of their top-six rivals since the turn of the year, including Chelsea in the most recent league meeting, suggesting that Mourinho does still have the knack of picking up results exactly when it matters.\nRecent form in FA Cup: LWWWWW\nRecent form (all competitions): WWWLDW\nUnited are still sweating over the fitness of star striker Romelu Lukaku, who only returned to training on Tuesday following more than two weeks out with an ankle injury.\nThe Red Devils scored one goal in three games during the Belgian's absence, highlighting his importance to the side, and Mourinho's attacking options may be further limited as Anthony Martial was left out of the squad to face Watford due to a minor problem.\nMarouane Fellaini, who now looks certain to depart at the end of the season, is another injury concern, with Paul Pogba and Nemanja Matic expected to get the nod in central midfield.\nDespite starting four of United's games en route to the final, Sergio Romero is likely to be benched and 2017-18 Player of the Year David de Gea instead given the nod.\nConte's biggest selection call arguably comes in attack, where Olivier Giroud has outperformed Alvaro Morata since joining midway through the campaign.\nThat decision may also have a bearing on whether Chelsea go with three players in the forward line or use an additional midfielder, with Willian and Pedro battling for a start on the opposite flank to Eden Hazard.\nFormer United midfielder Danny Drinkwater is out with a calf strain, meanwhile, and David Luiz has been unable to shake off a long-running knee problem.\nLike their opponents, Chelsea may well turn to their more established goalkeeper for the final, meaning a start for Thibaut Courtois over Willy Caballero.\nChelsea possible starting lineup:\nCourtois; Rudiger, Christensen, Azpilicueta; Moses, Kante, Fabregas, Alonso; Hazard, Willian; Giroud\nDe Gea; Valencia, Bailly, Rojo, Young; Herrera, Matic, Pogba; Sanchez, Lukaku, Mata\nThis is the eighth time that United have faced off against Chelsea at Wembley, meaning that they have played the Blues more often here than any other side.\nHowever, it is the first time that they have met at the national stadium since the 2010 Community Shield, which the West Londoners lost 3-1.\nThe last FA Cup tie between the sides finished in a 1-0 win for Chelsea in last season's quarter-final at Stamford Bridge, with N'Golo Kante netting a rare and decisive goal.\nWe say: Chelsea 1-1 Manchester United (1-2 AET)\nCompeting in their record-equalling 20th FA Cup final, Man United arguably have more momentum on their side thanks to their second-placed finish in the Premier League. Chelsea, in what could be Conte's final match in charge, are aiming to avoid back-to-back final defeats but have their work cut out on current form.\nWho will win the 2018 FA Cup final?\nReport: Man United open talks for Willian\nRead more about Alex Ferguson Antonio Conte Roman Abramovich Jose Mourinho Louis van Gaal Marouane Fellaini Anthony Martial Romelu Lukaku Paul Pogba Nemanja Matic Sergio Romero David de Gea Eden Hazard Pedro Willian Alvaro Morata Olivier Giroud David Luiz Danny Drinkwater Thibaut Courtois Willy Caballero N'Golo Kante Football\nMourinho unsure of Martial return date\nHerrera: 'Hazard is best player in PL'\nChelsea fined over ref confrontation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 722, "original_length": 34108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 339.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/could-you-help-those-with-visual-impairments-remain-independent-1-7735740/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:39Z", "digest": "sha1:JM4XMKOXX5L46R2WOKY7XBECTAAAO7JV", "length": 752, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.stamfordmercury.co.uk", "title": "Could you help those with visual impairments remain independent?", "raw_content": "Could you help those with visual impairments remain independent?\nVolunteers are needed to help people with visual impairments to remain independent and to help prevent isolation.\nPeterborough Association for the Blind (PAB) is a local charity which helps and supports blind and partially-sighted people \u2013 including those living in the Stamford area.\nPAB is offering free three-hour training sessions for anyone who would like to learn about sight loss and how they can help those affected.\nPAB needs volunteers to help with a range of tasks including: befriending; raffle selling; driving; fundraising and more.\nThe next sessions will take place on January 14 and 24, between 10am and 1pm. For more details call 01733 344 844 or email info@mypab.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stangrillcomposer.com/compositions/6-songs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:08Z", "digest": "sha1:JTUIJMMKXV3NG34LCITVOTHU2J53REJD", "length": 185, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.stangrillcomposer.com", "title": "6 Songs | Stanley Grill Classical Music Composer", "raw_content": "Of all poets in the English language, I always found W.B. Yeats to be the most musical. English, after all, is not a beautiful singing language \u2013 but somehow, he was able to make it so.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2125, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 142.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article124088789.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FEMTI3PBJJVSEIRKCAIEOVBXT3L35BKQ", "length": 5060, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.star-telegram.com", "title": "First babies born in 2017 in Fort Worth, Arlington, HEB | Fort Worth Star-Telegram", "raw_content": "Ayden\u2019s mother, 18-year-old Priscilla Salas of Hurst, said she didn\u2019t expect to celebrate a new year by having a baby. Salas and her family were having a laid-back evening when her water broke at 8:30 p.m. New Year\u2019s Eve.\n\u201cI didn\u2019t think he was going to be the first baby born in the hospital,\u201d she said Sunday afternoon as the infant slept near her hospital bed. The baby\u2019s grandmother Adriana Gonzalez doted on the sleeping infant. Ayden\u2019s 18-month-old brother, Romeo, watched wide-eyed as reporters cooed at his little brother.\nMore than 4,000 babies are delivered at Medical City Arlington every year. Last year, about 4,800 babies were delivered at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth.\nThe countdown to the year\u2019s first deliveries typically starts as soon as the clock strikes midnight. New Year babies make news when they are born seconds or minutes after the new year rings.\nThe first baby of 2017 at Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center Fort Worth was born at 6:44 a.m. Baby girl Garcia weighed 7 pounds 7 ounces and was 20 inches long.\nAt John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, nurses and doctors were ready for the first baby to arrive as the clock struck midnight, but Giovanni Eliazar Alvarado took his time. He was born at 8:04 a.m. to Diana Castorena and Jose Alvarado of Fort Worth, 6 pounds 2 ounces and 19.5 inches long. One of his first presents was a book presented by Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price to launch a program that promotes reading to young children starting at birth.\nThere is nothing like that bonding experience of holding your babies and reading to them \u2014 holding your grandchildren. It helps them learn the language.\nFort Worth Mayor Betsy Price\n\u201cI feel very happy,\u201d Castorena, 18, said in Spanish. \u201cIt\u2019s so nice that people have come to visit my baby. It\u2019s very nice when people admire a baby like this.\u201d\nCastorena said she read to her baby in Spanish and English while he was still in her womb. She plans to continue reading to Giovanni in English and Spanish so he will grow up bilingual. She said she has much hope for his future.\n\u201cI want him to succeed in school, and reading may inspire him to seek an education,\u201d she said.\nThe reading initiative comes as the city, the Fort Worth school district and community leaders work to improve childhood literacy. In Fort Worth schools, only 30 percent of third-grade students are reading on grade level.\nThis is a new chapter in our lives. It\u2019s a blessing.\nDiana Castorena, mother of Giovanni Eliazar Alvarado, who was born on New Year\u2019s Day at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth\nThe Fort Worth Public Library Foundation, JPS Foundation, JPS Health Network and the Fort Worth Library are launching Books For Tarrant County Babies.\nPrice presented Giovanni the book Read to Me by Judi Moreillon, a retired associate professor from Texas Woman\u2019s University. The family also received a library card. Every baby born at JPS in 2017 will receive the same book and card, said Leslie Oliver, president and CEO of the the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation. Children born in 2016 or 2017 will be in third grade in 2025.\n\u201cWe know that children who read at third-grade level are much more likely to succeed in high school, to get a good job \u2014 to be able to go on to college,\u201d Price said.\nWe know that families, when they take a book into their home and they read together, sing together, play together and talk together \u2014 that children develop larger vocabularies, they succeed in school and therefore in life.\nLeslie Oliver, president and CEO of the the Fort Worth Public Library Foundation\nPriscilla Salas holds her son Ayden Angel-Salas at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hosptial H-E-B on Sunday. He was born at 12:29 a.m. and weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces.Ben Noey Jr.bnoey@star-telegram.com\nNew parents Diana Castorena and Jose Alvarado, with son Giovanni, who was born at 8:04 a.m. on New Year\u2019s Day.Ian McVeaSpecial to the Star-Telegram\nNew mom Diana Castorena with son Giovanni. The infant was the first to be born at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, at 8:04 a.m. on New Year\u2019s Day.Ian McVeaSpecial to the Star-Telegram\nLeslie Oliver, Fort Worth Public Library Foundation president and CEO; Gleniece Robinson, Fort Worth Library director; and Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price, from left, presented new parents with a bilingual book and a library card for the first baby born at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth. The gift launched a reading program that gives newborn at JPS books throughout 2017.Ian McVeaSpecial to the Star-Telegram\nThe first baby born in Tarrant County appears to be a twin born at Medical City Arlington. Jordan Xavier Sanchez arrived at 12:12 a.m., just minutes after his twin brother, J\u2019aiden Alexander Sanchez, who was born at 11:46 p.m. Saturday.Medical City Arlington\nAyden Angel-Salas was born at 12:29 a.m. at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital H-E-B, putting him among the first babies born at Tarrant County hospitals in 2017. 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Also, the Knights will have an Inquiry Luncheon Saturday October 13 at 11:45am in the St. Francis Library for anyone interested in learning more. A new membership initiation will be held on Sunday, October 21 at 1:30pm in the South Social Hall. 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Our attorneys obtained project approvals for student housing projects in the Motley and Prospect Park-East River Road neighborhood of Minneapolis for a Dallas-based developer.\nCity of Overland Park (Kansas). For many years, the firm has acted as outside counsel to the City of Overland Park, Kansas, on land use and zoning matters. Members of the firm are on call to consult with in-house attorneys and city planners on issues as they arise. The firm has conducted training for members of the City Council and Planning Commission concerning land use procedures. One of the firm's partners was the principal draftsman of the City's first Unified Development Ordinance. The firm also represents the City in land use litigation.\nPeople Serving People supportive housing (Minneapolis). 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Activities include crafts, games, activities, outdoor play, building with LEGO bricks, and FUN Fridays. As part of ASP, we also offer a supervised study hall available Monday through Thursday. Many children attend on a daily basis, while other families utilize this service as needed.\nWe also offer enrichment programming in addition to ASP. Families can opt to enroll their children in a variety of enjoyable activities that are based on their interests. Classes vary in content throughout the year. Popular choices have included drama, studio arts, hand writing, chess, karate, computers and dance.\nAfter-School Enrichment prices vary by class and are not included in the After School Program fee. Some classes require a minimum number of students, and others accept only a limited number of students. Students may attend the ASP before and/or after their enrichment class for no additional charge.\nSee the list of the enrichment classes* offered for spring 2019.\n*Please note, both Drama classes and Books Cooks are now full. Please contact Lani Jones if you would like to add your child to the waiting list.\nRegister your child for the After School Program and the enrichment classes by printing and completing the contract. Return it along with your check made payable to St. John\u2019s Episcopal School.\nIf you have questions information about the After School Program, please email Lani Jones or call 214-328-9131 x108.\nStudent Pick Up\nAll students must be picked up from the After School Program by 6:00 p.m. The ASP operates only on regulary scheduled school days. It is not available on the last school day before Thanksgiving, the last school day before Christmas holidays, Games Day or the last day of school.\nOther After School Activities\nOur pre-k students are in class from 8:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. At no extra charge, pre-k students may participate in the After School Program until regular Lower School dismissal at 3:00 p.m. Students will be with their pre-k teachers during this time.\nMiddle School students may participate in Homework Club. Homework Club meets after school in a classroom for 45 minutes and is supervised by a Middle School faculty member. Students may drop into Homework Club as needed or be assigned based on academic need. Homework Club runs from Middle School dismissal until 4:30 p.m. (M, T, Th, F) or 4:00 p.m. (Wednesday). 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We have no doubt that they will all sound wonderful during the concert, but now we need your help to make sure that the evening runs smoothly. Firstly, please help your child choose an outfit for the evening. Students need to dress nicely and appropriately: for example, girls may wear a nice dress, skirt, or dress pants. Please consider walking on and off risers when choosing shoes! Boys may wear dress pants and either a shirt and tie or a nice sweater. Secondly, on the night of the concert, please make sure that your child arrives in their homeroom at 6:15 p.m. Do not leave anything with your child or in the room, since they will not be returning to the classroom after the concert. When they arrive in the room, their homeroom teacher will help them to line up in the correct order and get ready to enter the church. The procession will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. starting with the first grade students. 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If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact us: scervelli@stmonica.school or egillette@stmonica.school .\nThank you, and we look forward to seeing you on December 20!\nSincerely, Ms. Emma Gillette & Mrs. Sara Cervelli", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 2649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 313.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.stnicholasjoliet.org/ladies_aid_altar_circle.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:33Z", "digest": "sha1:RSCYQTWKPQA3UBF2KJPQQDDKILTIUDQT", "length": 1068, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.stnicholasjoliet.org", "title": "Saint Nicholas - Ladies Aid & Altar Circle", "raw_content": "From its inception on February 26, 1939, under the guidance of Father Constantine Popoff, the Ladies Aid and Altar Circle has contributed greatly to the material and spiritual wealth of our parish. Originally organized for the purpose of maintaining and beautifying that altar and the church interior, this group has extended its activities to many phases of the life of St. Nicholas parish. It has become a living organ of the church and one of the finest examples of true Orthodox Christian women who many times have laid aside their own pleasures and duties to serve their church and community.\nMuch of the physical property of the church can be traced to the generous donations of the Ladies Aid and Altar Circle, but the spiritual contribution of the organization to the life of St. Nicholas parish is immeasurable. 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So if you need to take an AP class, you\u2019ll save more if you take them with StraighterLine.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 4093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 328.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/04/02/why-fast-track-trade-promotion-authority-criminal.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TOLGU7WMJHF6QL2CQ2X7SY7W4O4LMRDK", "length": 8341, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.strategic-culture.org", "title": "Why Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority Is Criminal", "raw_content": "Eric ZUESSE | 02.04.2017 | FEATURED STORY\nWhy Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority Is Criminal\nOn March 30th, Britain\u2019s Financial Times had an article describing the complex web of current British laws that resulted from Britain\u2019s being inside the European Union \u2014 a trading-bloc that morphed into a quasi \u00abUnited States of Europe\u00bb political entity \u2014 laws which will now need to become replaced during the next few years as the UK leaves the EU. That article provides proof, if any more were needed, as to why America\u2019s Founders, who wrote our Constitution, made it much more difficult for the U.S. government to join or participate in any \u00abtreaty\u00bb, than to establish any merely regular U.S. law \u2014 one pertaining only to this country: they recognized that unlike a regular law, a treaty is incredibly difficult to un-do; it is virtually permanent. Recognizing this wisdom of America\u2019s Founders will inevitably force into the open the fact, hidden since 1974, that the U.S. President and the U.S. Congress conspired together in 1974 for the U.S. to enter into treaties that blatantly contradict the U.S. Constitution\u2019s Treaty Clause.\nThis hits two major hot ongoing international issues: Brexit or Britain\u2019s exit from the European Union, and America\u2019s renegotiation of NAFTA and other \u2018trade\u2019 treaties that have been passed into law using \u2018Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority\u2019. All such treaties, it will here be shown, are blatantly unConstitutional, such that everything which has transpired on the part of the United States under those treaties (not only NAFTA) has been unConstitutional, and the only real question about those U.S. actions, and any U.S. participation in those treaties (the ones that were passed under \u2018Fast Track\u2019), is whether their unConstitutional nature causes them to be retroactively null and void, or instead only future applications of Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority are prohibited by the Constitution\u2019s Treaty Clause.\nHere\u2019s how America\u2019s government in 1974 got around the U.S. Constitution, and why its having done so is still secret, even today:\nThe Imperial President Richard Nixon introduced what nowadays is called \u00abFast Track Trade Promotion Authority\u00bb, but was then called the Trade Act of 1974, so that a U.S. President would be able to sign into law a treaty, an international agreement, without meeting the Constitutional requirement for doing that, the Treaty Clause:\nThe President... shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur....\nAs I pointed out in my lengthy article, \u00abThe Two Contending Visions of World Government\u00bb, on the intent of the Founders when that provision (the Treaty Clause) was written by them into our Constitution, there was no question nor debate amongst them as to what the term \u00abtreaty\u00bb means: it meant any type of international agreement; or, as I quoted there from Alexander Hamilton:\nAs Alexander Hamilton wrote on 9 January 1796, defending the new Constitution, and especially its Treaty Clause: \u00abI aver, that it was understood by all to be the intent of the provision [the Treaty Clause] to give to that power the most ample latitude to render it competent to all the stipulations, which the exigencies of National Affairs might require\u2014competent to the making of Treaties of Alliance, Treaties of Commerce, Treaties of Peace and every other species of Convention usual among nations and competent in the course of its exercise to controul & bind the legislative power of Congress. And it was emphatically for this reason that it was so carefully guarded; the cooperation of two thirds of the Senate with the President being required to make a Treaty. I appeal for this with confidence\u00bb.\nWhat the Trade Act of 1974 did was to obliterate that two-thirds requirement when a treaty is a \u00abtrade agreement\u00bb, and replace it by the standard 50%+1 requirement that applies for passing any regular (purely domestic) U.S. law. Nixon and his Congressional conspirators did this simply by using in the Trade Act of 1974 the two-word phrase \u00abtrade agreement\u00bb instead of the term \u00abtreaty\u00bb, and the entire Act also doesn\u2019t mention \u00abtrade treaty\u00bb but just assumes that a \u00abtrade agreement\u00bb is something other than a \u00abtreaty\u00bb \u2014 not a \u00abtreaty\u00bb of any sort. It was a stupid semantical trick, but was so ardently desired by the individuals who actually controlled the U.S. federal government, that their servants \u2014 Nixon and the majority of members in each of the two houses of the U.S. Congress \u2014 were able to do it (essentially ignoring the Constitution), and the scholars, who are supposed to teach about the Constitution, have been so afraid to call out this blatant Constitutional violation, now already for over 40 years.\nFor example, Michael J. Glennon, who had been Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the years shortly after the Act's passage (1977-1980), never called it out; but on 20 April 2015 \u2014 while the hot topic in Washington was whether or not to grant to U.S. President Barack Obama, Fast Track Trade Promotion Authority, so as to ram though into law Obama\u2019s (and the U.S. aristocracy\u2019s) proposed sovereignty-destroying Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) \u2014 headlined in the New York Times, \u00abThe Treaty Clause Can\u2019t Be Ignored\u00bb, and he judiciously avoided even so much as just mentioning the TPP, or Fast Track, or even the Trade Act of 1974 (which was the crucial enabling-law for passing such \u00abtrade agreements\u00bb), and he focused his entire article on non-trade treaties, ones having to do with military instead of commercial relations, and therefore irrelevant to the legal issues at hand. His article was part of a three-way debate, and the other two participants \u2014 all three debaters, including Glennon, were legal scholars \u2014 those other two argued for the necessity of avoiding the Constitution\u2019s Treaty Clause, and they also failed to so as much as mention the TPP, Fast Track, trade agreements, or the Trade Act of 1974 \u2014 all of the key subjects, and the core of the reason why the NYT was supposedly publishing this \u2018debate\u2019 \u2014 and they too focused instead on non-trade agreements. One of those two articles was \u00abGlobal Leadership Requires Executive Agreement\u00bb, and it just argued that \u00abWielding its minority veto power under Article II of the Constitution, which allows one-third plus one of its members to block accession to treaties, the Senate has rejected U.S. participation in a broad range of international regimes enjoying near-universal global support\u00bb. None of the examples that it cited concerned trade-issues; so, even if the Senate had been wrong to fall short of the two-thirds rule on those non-trade treaties, Fast Track (which wasn\u2019t even mentioned) was not involved, and provides no solution, nor is it even relevant. The other article was titled \u00abPresidents Act on International Agreements Because the Senate Doesn\u2019t\u00bb, and likewise ignored Fast Track and trade treaties, etc., but simply proposed a new way of interpreting the Treaty Clause so as to, perhaps (the author was hoping), enable some proposed treaties (all non-trade-related) to pass which the author said ought to have been approved by two-thirds of the Senate. In other words: all three of the \u2018debating\u2019 legal scholars entirely avoided the actual and very hot issue (the still unmentionable issue): the (un)Constitutionality of Fast Track.\nThe real beneficiaries of these types of \u2018trade agreements\u2019 is, above all, U.S.-based international corporations; and, secondarily, the subordinate \u2018allied\u2019 foreign aristocracies; all at the expense of the publics everywhere, and of democracy and even national sovereignty, in all of the participating nations.\nIn my 21 March 2016 article \u00abNAFTA and Obama\u2019s Proposed \u2018Trade\u2019 Deals Are UnConstitutional\u00bb I presented my proposed U.S. Supreme Court argument to nullify the Trade Act of 1974. 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During this course you will explore various innovation challenges faced by European companies, gain insights on how governments and business cultures in the European Union (EU) influence innovation, and discover the traits of innovative ventures and innovative people. Learn about supply chain optimization, emergent business models, corporate social responsibility, and creative approaches to brand identity. This course combines a theoretical and practical approach using interactive lectures, group assignments and company visits; including an overnight stay in Brussels to visit the European Parliament.\nHaving the capacity to adapt to an ever-changing business environment is turning out to be the single most important factor for companies to remain successful. With the European Union (EU) struggling for its once crucial role in the global economy, this perhaps goes even more for European companies than those on other continents. 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Optimization of supply chains, emergence of new business models, implementation of corporate social responsibility, focus on sustainable innovation, and creative approaches to brand identity \u2013 these are all (parts of) innovation strategies used by European companies to deal with their challenges and prepare for the future.\nThe rapidly changing business world also affect today\u2019s job market, and increases the need for innovative and entrepreneurial individuals. Often, this requires more than a brilliant idea or unique skill set. For the next generation of leaders this course offers the opportunity to develop the mind-set, skills, competencies and experiential learning that enable you to promote innovation either as a productive member of an emerging firm or as an entrepreneur. 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These are the types of presentations that can make or break a proposal, situations in which charisma, character, content and style all work together to guarantee a successful outcome. However, in these moments, careless blunders or a general lack of preparation can dismantle what may have looked like a \u201cdone deal\u201d. Therefore, it is essential that professionals take the time necessary to fully understand how they should prepare for such meetings and how they should present the content they are bringing for display.\nBrevity is a Virtue\nKeep in mind that the decision makers and executive leadership often present at such meetings are also confronting a myriad of other pressing issues on a daily basis. Therefore, it is essential that presentations be kept as brief as possible, not only to avoid redundancy and boredom, but also as a sign of respect for those who have granted you an audience. Comb through the content you are planning on presenting, looking for any fragments or ideas that may be \u201csupplementary\u201d as opposed to \u201cessential\u201d. If you deduce that this material is not absolutely necessary for comprehension of the topic, remove it. The tighter your presentation is, the more likely you will be to leave a positive impression on those you are presenting to.\nOverviews are Invaluable\nProviding your audience with a \u201croadmap\u201d prior to the beginning of your presentation can accomplish two primary goals. Firstly, it will ensure that those viewing the presentation are prepared for the flow of the content. If abrupt topic changes will occur, they can be fully prepared and will be able to remain engaged and present. Secondly, overviews provide audiences with a general idea of when they will be able to begin asking questions. This second point is quite important, as it can be unsettling for both the presenter and the audience if both parties are unsure when the appropriate moment for conversation and \u201cQ & A\u2019s\u201d should be. Think of the overview as a tool which you can use to establish a professional and comfortable atmosphere prior to beginning your presentation.\nRespond to Prompts Immediately\nIf those you are presenting to had previously asked you to bring a specific piece of information or content to the current meeting, make sure you address their requests before moving on to other material you had prepared. Not only is this a mark of respect, but it will also help convince them that you are making their needs a priority. There is no better way to frustrate or repel an audience then by forgetting or ignoring their requests or specific needs.\nA successful presentation will, undoubtedly, require hours of rehearsal. However, these rehearsals involve more than just reciting lines. 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Originally, users were only limited to the use of the console\u2019s own internal hard drive. In 2017 though, Sony released an update that allowed the use of an external hard drive. This update let players store more games and files both internally and externally.\nBut whether it\u2019s external or internal, a good hard drive is vital to every gamer\u2019s gaming experience. So what exactly makes a good hard drive for PS4? Read on to find out!\nPS4 Hard Drive Size (Physical)\nThe first and most important thing that you have to consider when picking a good hard drive for your PS4 is the HDD\u2019s size. We\u2019re talking about its physical size here, as in its size measured in diameters. Why is this important? Well, simply put, the PS4 comes with a 500GB 2.5 inch SATA HDD, which means all replacements must fit in this size. On top of that, anything higher than 9.5mm won\u2019t fit in this slot. This means that users are mostly limited to 1TB options, at least for now, since most current 2TB options are too thick.\nPS4 Hard Drive Size (Memory)\nA good PS4 hard drive can store all its user\u2019s files and games in one safe place. This means that a good hard drive for PS4 must have sufficient storage in order to fit everything, especially considering that PS4 games tend to be on the larger side. Most PS4 games are about 40GB-50GB in size, which means a standard 500GB hard drive can only fit about 10-12 games. Understandably, many gamers, especially the more serious ones, would like to increase this amount. After all, how can they play if their favorite games if they can\u2019t even fit everything in one place?\nIf you\u2019re one such gamer, you should probably consider getting a 1TB hard drive replacement. This effectively doubles your hard drive storage, letting you avoid the risk of running out of space when you most need it. If you can\u2019t afford 1TB, since the higher the size, the higher the price, at least opt for something more than 500GB, which is the default size for the PS4 hard drive.\nPS4 Hard Drive USB Type\nThe PS4 only supports 3.0 drives, so you have to make sure that the hard drive you\u2019re planning to buy is 3.0 compatible. This means that 2.0 drives are a no-no. Your only options are 3.0 or higher, like 3.1. Most modern hard drives are already 3.0 compatible anyway, but you\u2019re still better off checking, just to be 100% sure. You wouldn\u2019t want to buy the \u2018perfect\u2019 hard drive only to realize that it\u2019s not compatible once you\u2019re already home.\nPS4 Hard Drive Speed\nHard drives all have different speeds, which is measured in RPM or revolutions per minute. In layman\u2019s terms, we define RPM as the speed that your hard disk can read and write material on your disk. As a standard, hard drives usually have a 5,400 RPM rating. Generally, you can opt to go for something higher too, like a 7,200 RPM HDD, if you want a faster system. Most of the time, this only applies to computers, though. For PS4s, RPM speeds don\u2019t really have that much effect on gameplay.\nAnother option to consider when deciding on a replacement for your PS4 hard drive is whether to go for a hard disk drive or a solid state drive. Solid state drives (SSDs) are noticeably faster and less laggy than their HDD (hard disk drive) counterpart, but they do come at a price\u2026 literally. SSD prices can be atrociously high, especially if you want something higher than 500GB. They can even go double the prices that HDDs can be sold for. If you have some money to spare, you may want to consider SSDs, but if not, HDDs are already fine enough on their own, especially since the PS4\u2019s own hardware can\u2019t fully support the SSDs\u2019 top speeds, anyway.\nHDD Features\nIf you\u2019ve ever bought an external hard drive before, you\u2019ll know that these drives usually come with a lot of extra features. Some offer backup recovery, some offer password protection, others offer all sorts of different things. These are all nice if you\u2019re using the hard drive on a laptop or a PC, but if you\u2019re using it for your PS4, then don\u2019t even bother looking at the features. Your PS4 won\u2019t be able to use them, anyway. Plus, these extra features usually come at a cost, and you\u2019re better off buying something cheaper without these unnecessary frills instead.\nBuying a new hard drive, be it a replacement drive or a supplementary drive to your already existing one, can be pretty stressful, but it doesn\u2019t have to be! Just consider the items on this list and you\u2019ll surely be able to find the perfect PS4 hard drive for you in no time at all.\nRelated ItemsGaming hardwarehard drivePS4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 9023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 262.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.technal.com/en/aluminium-building-systems-in-asia/legal-terms/legal-notice-terms-and-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:35Z", "digest": "sha1:S66R53R7WLDW2BAJAQXXYP4KBBBT2WFJ", "length": 2610, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.technal.com", "title": "Legal Notice | Technal ASIA", "raw_content": "This website is provided by Hydro Holding Singapore and may be used for information purposes only.\nIn accessing and using this website (\"Site\"), you further agree to abide by the terms and conditions set forth in this notice. 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Neither Hydro Holding Singapore nor any of its subsidiaries are responsible for the content of any linked website and do not accept any liability in connection with access to and use of these websites.\nThis notice shall be governed by and construed in accordance with Norwegian law.\nSubject to the use and processing of personal information, please click here: Privacy Policy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.technoratus.com/132/development-free-market-economy-scandinavia-exception/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PPSX4RCFFHHQIN3LTDEBQ65STBXX5LUE", "length": 5810, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.technoratus.com", "title": "Development needs free market economy, and Scandinavia is not an exception | technoratus", "raw_content": "It was a delight to read Nima Sanandaji\u2019s Scandinavian Unexceptionalism: Culture, Markets, and the Failure of Third-Way Socialism, published by British Institute for Economic Affairs. The short book provides the reader with insight into Scandinavian culture, an explanation of the causes of the nations\u2019 exceptional rise from poverty, an overview of their recent political-economic history, the distinct structure and evolution of the Scandinavian welfare state, the origins of their egalitarianism and gender equality, and the effect of immigration. I will briefly touch on three of these areas\u2026\nThe Scandinavian countries were among the European continent\u2019s poorest by the end of the 19th century and were largely unaffected by the industrialization that had started centuries earlier in the United Kingdom. A combination of classical liberal reform and the adoption of industrialized production created a century-long \u201cgolden age,\u201d as Bergh (2014) denotes the period approximately 1870\u20131970 in Sweden, of economic growth and rapidly rising standards of living.\nThis growth was partly also made possible by a distinct Scandinavian culture, which is characterized by the \u201chigh levels of trust, a strong work ethic and social cohesion [that] are the perfect starting point for successful economies\u201d (p. 7). As Sanandaji points out, the market-aligned virtues of Scandinavian culture also explain the limited impact of the welfare state as it was erected and ballooned in the 1930s and beyond. Cultural change takes time, and thus old values lag in the face of political change. So it took time for the Scandinavian virtues to give way to the destructive incentives of the welfare state.\nIt should also be noted, though Sanandaji fails to make this point clearly, that after the welfare state was established, and during its several decades of expansion, it\u2019s growth rate tended to be lower than that of the overall economy. The increasing burden was therefore, in relative terms, marginal. That is, until the radical 1960s and 1970s when Scandinavian governments, and the Swedish government in particular, adopted very expansionist welfare policies.\nSanandaji also presents interesting data with respect to Scandinavian gender equality. His discussion begins with the internationally enviable women\u2019s labor market participation rate in Scandinavian countries, and especially Sweden. The background, however, is that Sweden\u2019s government had adopted a radical agenda for population control formulated by Gunnar and Alva Myrdal (yes, the same Gunnar Myrdal who shared the 1974 economics prize with Hayek). The gist of this reform was to enforce a shared responsibility between parents and \u201cthe community\u201d for children\u2019s upbringing. By raising taxes on income while offering government-run daycare services, families were incentivized (if not \u201cforced,\u201d economically speaking) to secure two full-time incomes.\nInterestingly, while this indeed rapidly increased women\u2019s participation in the labor market, Sanandaji notes that \u201cfew women in the Nordic nations reach the position of business leaders, and even fewer manage to climb to the very top positions of directors and chief executives\u201d (p. 102). Part of the reason is that jobs that women typically choose, including education and healthcare, are monopolized in the vast public sectors. As a result, women at trapped in careers where employers do not compete for their competence and many leadership positions are political.\nThis development is indirectly illustrated in a terrifying statistic from Sweden\u2019s labor market: \u201cBetween 1950 and 2000, the Swedish population grew from seven to almost nine million. But astonishingly the net job creation in the private sector was close to zero\u201d (p. 33).\nFinally, Sanandaji addresses the issue of immigration and shows that the Scandinavian nations were exceptionally good at integration, with greater labor participation for immigrants than other Western nations, prior to the radicalization of the welfare state. Thereafter, due to rigid labor regulations and vast welfare benefits, immigrants were more or less kept out of Scandinavian job markets. The literature identifies two potential explanations. First, the anti-business and job-protection policies practically exclude anyone with a lack of work experience, highly sought-after skills, or those with lacking proficiency in the language or limited network. This keeps immigrants as well as young people unemployed (the very high youth unemployment rates in Scandinavia illustrate this problem). Second, the promises of the universal welfare state tend to attract people who are less interested in working their way to the top and thus have a lacking work ethic. This explains the recent problems in Scandinavia with respect to immigration, which is essentially an integration and policy problem \u2014 not a foreign-people problem.\nOverall, Sanandaji\u2019s book provides plenty of insights and a coherent explanation for the rise of the Scandinavian nations and their welfare states. Their impressive standard of living is a free-market story, which is rooted in an economically sound culture. This culture also supported the welfare state, until decades of destructive incentives eroded the nations\u2019 sound values. The welfare state, after its radicalization, was soon crushed under its own weight, and Scandinavia has since undergone vast free-market reforms that again have contributed to economic growth and prosperity.\nConsidering the full story, Sanandaji summarizes the example of the Northern European welfare states simply and bluntly: \u201cScandinavia is entirely unexceptional.\u201d\nFrom a review by Per Bylund, Mises Institute, edited with emphases by technoratus. Cf. Sanandaji\u2019s Scandinavian Unexceptionalism, at Amazon\nDevelopmentFree MarketLiberalismScandinavia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 13242, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.techwalla.com/articles/what-is-adobe-writer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JVUERVNNRNYA3C7JWAEV3ICRDTHF5GMJ", "length": 2453, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.techwalla.com", "title": "What Is Adobe Writer? | Techwalla.com", "raw_content": "What Is Adobe Writer?\nBy: Debbie Sarig\nThis article explains the misnomer, Adobe Writer, which has developed over the years to refer to any utility that produces Portable Document Format (PDF) files and especially to the Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer. The article then goes on to discuss the Adobe Acrobat PDF Writer, including a short history about the product, as well as its advantages and disadvantages. The benefits and uses of PDF files, in general, are also discussed.\nLet's start this off by saying that there never was a product called \"Adobe Writer\". This has become a misnomer for the Acrobat PDF Writer and any utility that produces PDF files. Over the years, the term \"Adobe Writer\" has become synonymous with utilities that let users produce and distribute PDF files. The name \"Acrobat Writer\" has also been used to refer to this product, but, again, this is not the actual name.\nThe PDF Writer is a PDF creation tool that used to come as part of the Adobe Acrobat software. The Acrobat PDF Writer would install on your computer as a printer driver, letting users easily create PDFs to distribute to their customers. They would simply print to this so-called printer and a PDF would be created. The PDF Writer was a quick way to make PDFs, but did not give a full-functioning PDF. It is no longer distributed with Acrobat.\nAccording to a presentation given by James C. King (PDF architect and principal scientist, Advanced Technology Laboratory at Adobe Systems Incorporated), the shelf life of Acrobat PDF Writer was from 1993 to 2001. One of the slides in this presentation refers to the product as a poor solution and he gives a number of reasons. He writes that it's a \"faux print driver\" and the user only gets what they print. When the Acrobat PDF Writer was used, the PDF did not include the table of contents, hyperlinks or notes. It allowed for only a little structure, used glyphs and not Unicode and provided the lowest level of graphics with no EPS.\nTo include some of the missing functionality, the Acrobat Distiller had to be used. Nowadays, Adobe sells a different product, Adobe Acrobat, which includes the same functionality along with many other features.\nSo, why would someone even need to create a PDF? Once a PDF is created, other people can read it using the Adobe Reader, which Adobe makes available for free. PDF files make it easy to share content with others, since the document will appear the same on every computer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.teenstarsonline.com/game/944/princess-saver", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:36Z", "digest": "sha1:76CRWZYJWZX6PNSJVPZD3GQLDYZQPKYK", "length": 283, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.teenstarsonline.com", "title": "Teen Stars Online - Game Profile - Princess Saver", "raw_content": "Far far away there is a lonely tower. And, of course, you have to destroy it. Why?.. Because a beautiful princess is waiting for you there?.. Nooo, because it\u2019s fun! By the way, try not to kill the princess and catch her. She may be usefull later\u2026\nAim with mouse, hold to gain power!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tellrobert.com/is-a-head-injury-always-immediately-apparent-after-a-car-crash/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:20Z", "digest": "sha1:KDHPJLF7FSJ4YWWH64GW7E7MG4BJN6H6", "length": 1353, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tellrobert.com", "title": "Is A Head Injury Always Immediately Apparent After A Car Crash?", "raw_content": "When head injuries are suspected after a car crash, immediate medical treatment is of utmost importance. Although signs of head trauma can be readily apparent immediately after a car accident, mild head injuries may not result in any major symptoms and may even be confused with symptoms of other types of medical conditions. But symptoms may indeed show up well after the fact that could indeed be a delayed result of the accident. These may include blurred vision, confusion and disorientation, loss of memory and lack of concentration, headaches, dizziness, nausea and vomiting.\nIf you or a loved one have been involved in an automobile accident, and the extent of the injuries was not fully apparent at the time of the accident, please be aware that you still have legal recourses available, and the skilled and experienced attorneys at the Fenstersheib Law Group, P.A. have been helping automobile accident victims for more than three decades. Let us put that experience to work for you \u2013 we stand by our long history of compassion, integrity, and tenacity in bringing justice for the injured. Call us today, toll-free, at 1-800-TellRobert, for a free initial consultation to determine your legal rights. Our phones are answered 24 hours a day, 7 days per week.\nHome > General Blogs > Is A Head Injury Always Immediately Apparent After A Car Crash?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 235.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tglife.com/a-e-reports/liev-schreiber-in-trasngender-role", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CI6QYNXFOER74NQCLR5FMBA2ECYIFYEZ", "length": 1497, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.tglife.com", "title": "Liev Schreiber in Transgender Role", "raw_content": "Liev Schreiber in Transgender Role\nswimsuit, brazil, transexual, transgender models, transgender convention, crossdressing, Liev Schrieber, crossdressing celebrities,\nActor Liev Schreiber Talks About His Upcoming Film Role As A Crossdresser!\nAndrogyny is all the rage these days, as men seem to be having less and less trouble getting in touch with their feminine sides lately, but for actor Liev Schreiber, getting in touch with his feminine side means starting from the outside, in.\nThe actor recently landed a role as a cross-dressing male in director Ang Lee's upcoming film Taking Woodstock, but it seems that Schrieber has been preparing for this role all his life. At a Monday night event at the Gates nightclub in New York to celebrate his cover story in Hamptons Magazine, the actor dished to New York Magazine that getting into character for the upcoming film wasn't his first time cross-dressing.\n\"I've done it once before,\" Schreiber said. \"I'd just gotten out of school the first time I did it. I was such an excited drama student back then that I did a ton of research that I guess I kind of borrowed from this time.\"\nThis isn't the first time the actor has alluded to his fascination with playing \"dress up.\" During a guest appearance on Late Night With David Letterman on May 5th, Schreiber shared a picture of himself dressed as a woman sporting platinum blonde hair holding onto his son Sasha, to the amusement of the audience.\nMore in this category: \u00ab Fierce Pussy Wild Things \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 4909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.the-philosophy.com/adorno-culture-industry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JNBBUVNDNEUZMZLETEP2MF6HIEV32IQ3", "length": 4052, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.the-philosophy.com", "title": "Adorno and the culture industry", "raw_content": "The Critical theory of the 70s has sought to rethink the Aufkl\u00e4rung (Enlightenment) of the 18th century. Two major writers, Adorno and Horkheimer, violently criticized the culture industry and the rationalism of the Enlightenment, seen as an instrument of domination.\nThe Adorno and Horkheimer\u2019s project is to:\n\u201cUnderstand why humanity, instead of engaging in very human terms, sink in a new form of barbarism\u201d (quote from the Critique of Dialectical Reason)\nAdorno, The Critical Theory and media\nThe charge against the media is heavy indeed: they accuse them of making public a \u201cpassive toy \u201c, reduced to nod, to absorb all the material presented to it. The media would turn citizens into consumers dumbed down, objectified, dehumanized. The spectator is a kind of generic man, as was the alienated worker in Marx\u2019s philosophy, whose united is provided in the fact that he has lost all function, and even any critical capacity. His conscience becomes the era of mass media machine that perform \u201cstandard operations.\u201d\nThe schematic of the understanding would have disappeared: the mediations between categories and phenomena are no longer the purview of the subject, but the \u201cconscience of the production teams\u201d that map to consumers at their place, executives enabling them to grasp reality. Even me in the heart of identity, which is built first within the sphere of intimacy, is plagued by the world media would be more than \u201ca patented product determined by the company,\u201d he line to be what the culture industry imposes. The individual is integrated power system, it becomes a link, a piece of a huge machine that does not control, it is more than a \u201cdevice\u201d.\nFor these two thinkers, the media is the downfall of modern man, the defeat of the thinking subject. The media seem, in their view, completing the movement of \u201cself-destruction of reason\u201d has its source in the Enlightenment. Against Kant, they feel that this is not the subject that has become a major, but the dominance that has become adult. And this defeat of thought is even greater than it seems, if we follow their diagnosis, with no chance of remission because \u201cfatal attachment of the people for the evil that makes him even goes to Tip of the authorities. \u201d\nThe media as an instrument of domination: the reference to Marx\nThe second pivot of their criticism of the media lies in the concept of ideology that they attribute to them. In addition to make the individuals homogeneous, they convey the ideology of the \u201cstatus quo\u201d. The media triumph entertainment. Yet it produced a consensus that would seek to legitimize the company, as opposed to conflict and dissension which would call into question. The example of the news item that invades all media types, is a \u201ccheer the existing order\u201d which, in addition fatalisants (it shows citizens that \u201cthere are still more disadvantaged than themselves, that their condition, even bad, is a lesser evil) prohibit people want a change in their lives. The daily celebration of emptiness, the anodyne serves to mask any prospect of change and to stifle criticism.\nIn the end the media, become the yardstick of public thought, are, from the perspective of Adorno and Horkheimer, regarded as anti-democratic because they prevent the subjects, through networks of manipulation and coercion, to think for themselves and produce independent opinions.\nThe company led by the founders of the Frankfurt School is really based on understanding and reporting of abuses of modernity, but not on the construction of a fruitful theory that seeks to redress this\u2019 barbarism \u201cwhich is instrumental reason. They definitely condemn modernity as a whole, it does nothing productive to think about modern democracy and public space, since individuals are dehumanized and alienated by the media system.\n\u201cKant anticipated intuitively that Hollywood was the first to consciously realize: in the process of production, the images are pr\u00e9censur\u00e9es accordance with the understanding that later will decide how they should look\u201d\nTheir criticism is quite current.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thebroad.org/art/yayoi-kusama", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:06Z", "digest": "sha1:GV6XWOCUCAHDX7C53ZSXRCCJNNMQBVZM", "length": 3704, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.thebroad.org", "title": "Yayoi Kusama - Bio | The Broad", "raw_content": "David Zwirner, New York, 2013 Photo by Hope Dickens.\nMatsumoto, Nagano prefecture, Chubu, Japan\nIn 1961, Yayoi Kusama, then thirty-two years old, displayed a painting that was thirty-three feet long and almost ten feet high at Stephen Radich Gallery in New York. The painting, no longer extant, was one of the largest of the abstract expressionist era, a time in art known for expansive canvases and large-scale pursuits. Kusama\u2019s work, however, was made exclusively with small marks, her gestures as tiny as the canvas was enormous: little arcs of white pigment applied with a brush accumulating by the thousands, giving the field a dense web of touches seemingly uncountable in their multitude. To stand in front of this work would have been to stand in a complete environment, to sense a vastness. Kusama has used this technique into the present. Her \u201cInfinity Nets,\u201d as these paintings came to be called, are performances in paint, obsessions in space, and literally other worlds made visible.\nKusama paints what she sees, as a still-life painter would paint a bowl of fruit. From an early age, she was prone to hallucinations due to mental illness, vivid experiences of the world distorted and enhanced by colors and shapes. \u201cThese forms come not only from the artist\u2019s observation of nature, but from an inner mindscape,\u201d critic Bob Nickas writes, \u201cthe paintings can be seen as representations of space, as well as images of what cannot easily be represented\u2014infinity or hallucination.\u201d Kusama\u2019s work resides somewhere between representation and abstraction: for the artist, representation, and for everyone else, abstraction.\nThroughout the 1960s and early 70s, Kusama\u2019s paintings and performances mirrored an age where vision was constantly challenged and new vistas consistently sought. At various points, Kusama was espoused by artists across a variety of formats and theoretical concerns, including pop, minimalism, and surrealism. Perhaps more pointedly, her work appealed to New York\u2019s turbulent political and social environment. Kusama staged multiple fully nude happenings across the city to protest the war in Vietnam, economic disparity and the excesses of Wall Street, and the hierarchy and gender inequality of museums. At the same time, her visions matched the transcendental aspirations of psychedelic drugs and mind-altering spiritual movements of hippie culture.\nUltimately, it was in installation where Kusama found a way to best express the impact of her interior mind on her external environment. \u201cAs I was painting, absorbed,\u201d Kusama told Index magazine in 1998,\u201d I realized that the new was spilling over the desk....I was painting on the floor. And then, one day, when I woke up, I found a red net covering a window....The entire room was covered with red net.\u201d Kusama\u2019s nets became inhabitable environments. Infinity Mirrored Room\u2014The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, 2013, is just such an inhabitable Kusama world. A room is completely covered with mirrors and dozens of LED lights hang from the ceiling. As the multitude of lights reflect, they accumulate and expand exponentially. This sense of infinity has been with Kusama from the beginning, always looking for clearer ways to express itself. Inside Infinity Mirrored Room\u2014The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, Kusama\u2019s world is the viewer\u2019s world.\nBy Yayoi Kusama in the Collection\nInfinity Mirrored Room - The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away\nwood, metal, glass mirrors, plastic, acrylic panel, rubber, LED lighting system, acrylic balls, and water\n113 1/4 x 163 1/2 x 163 1/2 in. (287.66 x 415.29 x 415.29 cm)\nmirrored box and LED lights\n86 5/8 x 84 1/4 x 72 7/8 in. (220.028 x 213.995 x 185.103 cm)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thechapel.co.uk/tunbridge-wells-hairdressers/team/saskia-minns", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:19Z", "digest": "sha1:OBVZ3FTQ7URUC2NGKEHPP545KUBNZC64", "length": 972, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thechapel.co.uk", "title": "Saskia Minns of at The Chapel in tunbridge wells", "raw_content": "Saskia Minns\n\u201cI\u2019m a real team player, and I enjoy helping both the guests and the stylists. Your stylist is there to make you look and feel good, and I like to aid that goal in any way I can.\u201d\nWhether you\u2019ve been coming to The Chapel for a long time or it\u2019s your first visit to the salon, Saskia will be here to welcome you to the family. If you are a new guest, we understand it can be quite daunting coming to a new salon, but \u201cit\u2019s so nice to see new guests relaxed and at ease, and if you do ever have any questions, don\u2019t hesitate to ask. I\u2019m here to make your experience as smooth as possible, whether that be answering your calls, or bringing you a large glass of ros\u00e9.\u201d\nHaving been with The Chapel for a few years, Saskia has become an amazing asset to the Guest Relations Team, but she also has a degree in fine arts and a huge appreciation for detail and colourful design. This is why \u201cthe best part of my job is seeing happy guests and amazing transformations.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 1992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-rosss-roast-battle-where-nothing-is-off-limitseven-barron-trump", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:53Z", "digest": "sha1:HHYUPRRZISPE3RYPGKYQV6AXXLCPFOI4", "length": 8598, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.thedailybeast.com", "title": "Jeff Ross\u2019s \u2018Roast Battle\u2019: Where Nothing Is \u2018Off Limits\u2019\u2014Even Barron Trump", "raw_content": "ROASTMASTER GENERAL\nJeff Ross\u2019s \u2018Roast Battle\u2019: Where Nothing Is \u2018Off Limits\u2019\u2014Even Barron Trump\nComedian Jeff Ross talks about Roast Battle II, which culminates with a live finale on Sunday night. Plus, watch an exclusive clip from Saturday night\u2019s quarterfinals.\nJoking about 10-year-old Barron Trump can get you suspended from Saturday Night Live, but it just might help you win Roast Battle.\nOne of the jokes at a taping for the quarterfinals of comedian Jeff Ross\u2019s hit competition show on Comedy Central, which will air its live finale this Sunday night, came from up and coming stand-up comic Frank Castillo. It was directed at his opponent, Anna Valenzuela. \u201cYou\u2019re like a Trump,\u201d he told her. \u201cYou\u2019ve got the body of Melania, the brain of Ivanka, and your womb is Barron.\u201d\nUnlike the controversial Twitter joke from SNL writer Katie Rich, this one did not take aim at the young Trump, but it still invoked his name for comic effect. It was also one of the tamest jokes of the night.\n\u201cNothing is off limits on this show,\u201d Ross tells The Daily Beast by phone a couple of days later, stressing that there\u2019s a big difference between making fun of Barron Trump and using a play on his name to roast someone else. \u201cI think there\u2019s a general sensitivity about children,\u201d he continues, \u201cbut at Roast Battle people are much more open-minded and they understand that this is the one place where it\u2019s safe for just about anything.\u201d\nAnd, for the record, he does not think comedy writers should ever be fired for making a joke. \u201cBad taste is not a crime,\u201d Ross says. \u201cIf the joke is clever, I have an open mind to any topic.\u201d\nRoss, known as the \u201cRoastmaster General\u201d by comedy fans, has performed at more than a dozen celebrity roasts on Comedy Central, including last year\u2019s Roast of Rob Lowe that featured a disastrous appearance by Ann Coulter. After moving on to roast prisoners and cops in a pair of comedy specials for the network, he developed Roast Battle as the logical next step last year.\nMore sports spectacle than comedy performance, Roast Battle pits relatively unknown comedians against each other to see who can land more rhetorical knock-out punches in the span of about 10 minutes. Ross judges the tournament-style competition along with celebrity guests like Patton Oswalt and Snoop Dogg. Before each round, the show\u2019s host Brian Moses leads the live audience in a chant of \u201cBattle! Battle! Battle!\u201d that feels like something out of a WWE match.\n\u201cI think we borrow from wrestling, I think we borrow from UFC, I think we borrow from sports in general,\u201d Ross says, noting that Sunday\u2019s finale will air live and unedited like any other major sporting event. \u201cComedy\u2019s usually edited and sweetened,\u201d he says, referencing the canned laughs added to most stand-up specials. \u201cThis is live, and soured.\u201d\nBecause comedy is so \u201csubjective,\u201d Ross says it\u2019s not always easy for him and his fellow judges to pick a winner. \u201cIt\u2019s how hard you laugh at the end of the day,\u201d he says. \u201cWe do take into account originality and performance, but I want the judges to have fun.\u201d\nWhen comedian Whitney Cummings judged one of the earlier rounds this time, she almost had to take a break because of how brutal the jokes were. \u201cMy only requirement of the judges is that they care,\u201d Ross says. \u201cThe comedians are working so hard, I just want the judges to take it seriously.\u201d\nSometimes, the judges even end up getting roasted by the contestants. For instance, in this exclusive clip from Saturday night\u2019s show, comedian Matthew Broussard tells musician John Mayer that the jokes he would tell between songs at his concerts inspired him to go into stand-up. \u201cThat\u2019s when I realized you could be funny while staying true to yourself as a cocky, pretentious douchebag,\u201d he says to cheers from the crowd. It only gets more brutal from there.\nAs mean as Ross can be when he\u2019s in roast mode, he displays none of the Simon Cowell-style cruelty that has become a staple of other reality competition shows. And because he\u2019s friends with many of the comics who compete, Ross struggles with each tie-breaking decision he has to make as the third judge to weigh in on a given round.\n\u201cI wish I could be more critical, but sometimes my heart just tells me this comedian needs some positive reinforcement,\u201d he says, sweetly. At the after parties, he always goes over and says hello to the losers first to make sure everything is cool between them.\n\u201cI always had a feeling that there was a lot of potential here,\u201d Ross says of the show, which was a surprise hit for Comedy Central last summer. \u201cI feel like this is what we as a country need right now.\u201d Echoing comments made by guest judge Sarah Silverman at Saturday\u2019s quarterfinals, Ross says he views Roast Battle as a chance for people to \u201ctroll\u201d each other in real life instead of on Twitter.\nOr, as President Obama said in his farewell speech this month, \u201cIf you\u2019re tired of arguing with strangers on the internet, try talking with one of them in real life.\u201d\n\u201cI hate bullies,\u201d Ross adds of trolls who \u201cpick on somebody who doesn\u2019t volunteer.\u201d That\u2019s why he loves roasting so much. \u201cIt\u2019s done voluntarily, with affection.\u201d (Among the rules of Roast Battle is that the roasters have to hug at the end of each round.) \u201cIt\u2019s so important to laugh at ourselves, and our differences,\u201d Ross says. \u201cIt\u2019s really bringing people together.\u201d\nBefore any pair of comedians set out to battle, they actually provide each other with ammunition in the form of personal information that can range anywhere from \u201cI was a nerd in high school\u201d to \u201cMy brother just died a few months ago.\u201d\nRoss encourages them to meet in person ahead of time and talk things through. \u201cIf there\u2019s something that\u2019s off-limits or you don\u2019t want mentioned,\u201d that\u2019s the time to let it be known, he says. \u201cSome comedians might want to win so badly that they bring it up anyway, but that doesn\u2019t happen often.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a brutal show, it\u2019s brutally honest. So yeah, if you step into that arena you might have to hear about your dead parents,\u201d he adds. \u201cI don\u2019t know if I could handle it.\u201d That being said, Ross says he does get \u201cjealous\u201d of the roasters from time to time\u2014\u201cI get a little bit of ball-busting blue balls\u201d\u2014and suggests that he could make himself a contestant at some point. He just hasn\u2019t \u201cfound the right opponent yet.\u201d\nOne idea he has is to invite Katie Rich, the suspended SNL writer, to compete on Roast Battle III. \u201cShe sounds funny and if she wants to battle I\u2019d love to see what she\u2019s got,\u201d Ross says. \u201cI think she\u2019s probably got the right attitude for us.\u201d\nThe show is no stranger to \u201ccontroversial\u201d battlers, including Kurt Metzger, who infamously defended another comedian who had been accused of rape and was knocked out of the competition on Thursday night\u2019s premiere. Last season, the show gave a platform to The League\u2019s Steve Rannazzisi, who attempted to redeem himself after he was outed for lying about escaping the World Trade Center on 9/11. Ross made him go up against a New York comic.\n\u201cI\u2019m a big believer in second chances,\u201d Ross says, adding that the celebrity roasts he\u2019s hosted have served a similar purpose over the years. \u201cIt was great for [Justin] Bieber after he got in all kinds of high-profile situations. It was great for Charlie Sheen. Roasting definitely is a healer.\u201d\nIt was a mere six years ago that Donald Trump was the target of Ross and other comedians at his own Comedy Central roast. Ross ran into the new president in Palm Beach, Florida, just a few weeks before he was inaugurated. \u201cHe definitely is a big comedy fan,\u201d he says of the conversation they had about Trump\u2019s favorite comedians, including the late Joan Rivers.\n\u201cIt did occur to me when I was watching the debates, that they were very much like a roast battle,\u201d Ross says. They also reminded him of the rap battle scenes from the Broadway musical Hamilton, the way \u201cour forefathers\u201d used \u201chumor and insults\u201d to get their points of view across. \u201cAnd it really works,\u201d he continues. \u201cHumor is a weapon, and used correctly it can really neutralize somebody. President Trump did that. He really used his roasting skills to pop in those debates.\u201d\n\u201cHe talked to his opponent, whereas Secretary Clinton talked about her opponent,\u201d Ross explains. \u201cWhen you turn to somebody and say, \u2018You should be in jail,\u2019 it\u2019s a roast. She would turn away and say, \u2018My opponent thinks\u2026\u2019 as if he wasn\u2019t there, when in fact she could have turned right at him and said, \u2018Your barber should have been in jail.\u2019 Boom!\u201d\nClinton could have used the Roastmaster General in her debate prep sessions. \u201cBelieve me, I tried,\u201d Ross jokes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 9567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theday.com/local-news/20181120/new-londons-transgender-day-of-remembrance", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:FSKE4Z2HCLXXIB5XS4D7QPIMAACWUB5Y", "length": 5941, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.theday.com", "title": "The Day - New London's Transgender Day of Remembrance - News from southeastern Connecticut", "raw_content": "New London's Transgender Day of Remembrance\nMembers of the crowd hold candles during a Transgender Day of Remembrance at Parade Plaza in New London on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The event, organized by outCT, serves to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with their names read out loud during the vigil. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)\nNew London \u2014 Standing on the steps of City Hall at the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance vigil on Tuesday, Polly Sioux said tonight is about \"standing up as New London and saying hate has no place here.\"\nThe event honors \"those of us in the transgender community who have lost their life for just being themselves\" and has taken place locally for the past several years, Sioux, who organized the event with outCT, told about 30 people who gathered in the cold on Tuesday.\nBut at a time when hate crimes in the United States rose 17 percent in 2017, this year \"the hate came to New London,\" said Sioux, a transgender woman.\nThe first transgender person murdered in the United States this year played a significant role in New London, Sioux said. Christa Leigh Steele-Knudslien, the organizer of the Miss Trans New England Pageant, was killed at her home in North Adams, Mass., and her husband turned himself in and admitted to killing his wife, according to local news reports.\nSteele-Knudslien came to New London several times to celebrate Jasmina Andino, the Miss Trans New England award winner for 2013-14. Andino wants to restart the pageant in Steele-Knudslien's honor, Sioux said.\nSioux called on people to not tolerate hate:\n\"We cannot allow hate to have a seedling, so that it can grow and so I hope that each one of you can join me in working together to prevent hatred, not just against trans people, but against people period,\" she said.\nTransgender Day of Remembrance events were held internationally and nationally on Tuesday. In 2018, 22 transgender people were killed in this country, according to a report issued Monday by the Human Rights Campaign.\nAttendees at the New London vigil then marched to Parade Plaza where they gathered on the cold night to hold candles, as one-by-one speakers went to the microphone to read aloud the names and stories of transgender people who lost their lives in 2018 across the country, from Buffalo, N.Y. to Jacksonville, Florida, to Cleveland and Chicago and Stanley, New Mexico and Los Angeles.\nLed by Sue Frankewicz, they then sang \"We are a Gentle Angry People\" by songwriter and activist Holly Near.\nThey then blew out their candles and observed a moment of silence. Afterwards, they hugged each other, some crying.\n\"I think it\u2019s important to witness to people\u2019s lives, especially in a time when there\u2019s so much division, and I think we just have to stand up with each other,\" Frankewicz said after the vigil.\nLindsay Gillette, co-chair of outCT's youth group, said she came to the vigil to support transgender people and be there for both the \"older generation and the younger generation coming up,\" as well as to try to make progressive changes.\nNatalie Sims said it's important to honor the memories of those who lost their lives in the transgender community.\n\"It\u2019s important that we really respect them and honor their memories, because this is a horrible miscarriage of justice,\" she said. \"These people should not be penalized simply for being who they are.\"\nJocelyn Jenik, left, of Old Lyme, hands a candle to Lillith Davies-Smith, of New London, during a Transgender Day of Remembrance at Parade Plaza in New London on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The event, organized by outCT, serves to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with their names read during the vigil. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)\nNatalie Sims, from left, of Waterford, carries the outCT flag with Lindsay Gillette, of New London, and Rebecca Morea, of Groton, as they walk down State Street during a Transgender Day of Remembrance in New London on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The event, organized by outCT, serves to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with their names read during the vigil. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)\nAngie Phillips, center, reads a name out loud during a Transgender Day of Remembrance at Parade Plaza in New London on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The event, organized by outCT, serves to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with their names read during the vigil. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)\nKyle Murray, center, of New London, leans in to blow out a candle during a Transgender Day of Remembrance at Parade Plaza in New London on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The event, organized by outCT, serves to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with their names read out loud during the vigil. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)\nJon Aidukonis, center, of Vernon, holds a candle during a Transgender Day of Remembrance at Parade Plaza in New London on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The event, organized by outCT, serves to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with their names read out loud during the vigil. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)\nRebecca Morea, of Groton, cries as a name is read during a Transgender Day of Remembrance at Parade Plaza in New London on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The event, organized by outCT, serves to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with their names read during the vigil. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)\nMorgen Knox, left, holds her fianc\u2021\u00a9e Nikki Houle, both of whom identify as transgender women, during a Transgender Day of Remembrance at Parade Plaza in New London on Tuesday, November 20, 2018. The event, organized by outCT, serves to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice with their names read out loud during the vigil. (Sarah Gordon/The Day)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 9756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/feb/10/ed-sabol-whose-nfl-films-revolutionized-american-football-dies-at-98", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:44Z", "digest": "sha1:GEU66VBIGJ3YR3LD6N3STL4XGBWX66IC", "length": 3597, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Ed Sabol, whose NFL Films revolutionized American football, dies at 98\nNFL Films founder Ed Sabol died Monday at his Arizona home\nThe visionary Sabol revolutionized how Americans viewed sports\nSabol\u2019s work helped propel the NFL past baseball in popularity\nNFL Films founder Ed Sabol, who died Monday at 98, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011. Photograph: Ron Schwane/AP\nEd Sabol, the NFL Films founder whose self-made company forever changed the way fans experience sports, died Monday at his Arizona home. He was 98.\nSabol, who oversaw the company he founded from 1962 through 1995, was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a contributor in 2011. Since 1964, NFL Films has documented every single National Football League game and played a crucial role in making football America\u2019s dominant sport.\nA Philadelphia overcoat salesman and World War II veteran who spent his idle hours fiddling with a 16mm Bell & Howell camera he received as a wedding gift, Sabol\u2019s only previous experience in sports was filming his son Steve\u2019s football games when he formed Blair Productions \u2013 a film company named after his daughter \u2013 in 1962.\nShortly after, Sabol paid $3,000 to NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle for the rights to film the 1962 NFL championship game between the Green Bay Packers and New York Giants at Yankee Stadium. The film, Pro Football\u2019s Longest Day, made an instant fan of the media-savvy Rozelle.\nTwo years later, the commissioner persuaded each of the NFL\u2019s 14 owners to pony up $20,000 to seed a myth-making enterprise charged with promoting the sport and preserving its history. NFL Films, which became an official arm of the league, was born.\nBroadcasting innovations commonly attributed to Sabol include long-lens slow-motion replays, reverse-angle shots, the use of popular music against footage, blooper reels and microphones on players, coaches and referees.\nThese stylistic breakthroughs, narratively underpinned by longtime narrator John Facenda (nicknamed \u201cThe Voice of God\u201d), helped propel the NFL from also-ran sports league to American pastime.\n\u201cAnybody who\u2019s ever been involved in a football production on any level has been influenced by NFL Films in how you want to present a game,\u201d Fred Gaudelli, coordinating producer of NBC\u2019s Sunday Night Football, told the Los Angeles Times upon Sabol\u2019s Hall of Fame induction in 2011. \u201cThey made it all larger than life \u2013 a 3-yard run is suddenly Armageddon by the way they framed it. They created football gods. They hooked people on an emotional level, and football is all about stoking the passion.\u201d\nFor years, Sabol worked alongside his son. The pair were honored with the Lifetime Achievement Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2003. Steve, who succeeded his father as NFL Films\u2019 president in 1985, died in 2012 at age 69 of brain cancer.\n\u201cThrough his determination and innovative spirit, Ed Sabol transformed how America watched football and all sports,\u201d NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. \u201cEd ignited the fire at NFL Films and was the Keeper of the Flame with a remarkable vision and dedication to telling the stories of the people who played, coached and loved the game.\u201d\nAccording to the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Sabol was an All-American swimmer in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle at Ohio State when he was selected for the Olympic team in 1936 \u2013 but declined to partipate in the Berlin Games because he refused to swim in a pool built by Adolf Hitler.\nSabol is survived by his wife of 74 years, Audrey, his daughter, Blair, and grandson, Casey.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 6784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 175.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/aug/29/top-10-lakes-holidays-lakeside-towns-in-europe?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:03Z", "digest": "sha1:U25JLFBKA3TNT6FUGDI6KWDZCNEMSB6P", "length": 7074, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "10 of the best lakeside towns and villages in Europe\nYou don\u2019t have to be by the sea to enjoy beaches and watersports. These lakeside resorts offer sunbathing, boating, hiking and great views\nGrace Holliday and Will Coldwell\nLeading light \u2026 The Church of Saint Jovan Kaneo, Lake Ohrid. All photographs: Alamy (except where stated)\nStraddling the border between Albania and Macedonia, Ohrid sits on the lake of the same name, one of the deepest in Europe. The Church of Saint Jovan Kaneo teeters on a cliff above a harbour full of brightly coloured fishing boat, and there\u2019s a scattering of small beaches. A few miles south, the Bay of Bones museum reconstructed prehistoric village built on stilts over the lake. The name refers not to human bones but to the many animal remains found in the water, some of which are on display inside. Visitors can opt to scuba dive to see the excavations under the water, which is blue in some lights, mythical green in others.\nStay at Hotel Villa Sveta Sofija, doubles from \u20ac60 room-only)\nTry to see past the comedy name: Titisee is the largest natural lake in the Black Forest, perfect for a family pedalo outing (some come with onboard water slides). Medieval Titisee-Neustadt is a spa town with cute streets and a huge waterpark. Long-distance trails start from the Seestrasse promenade and there are spectacular views from a tower at the top of 1,190-metre Hochfirst mountain. Renting a bike is a great way to see the area: the B\u00e4hnle-Radweg path trail takes in breweries, waterfalls, farmyards and a huge viaduct. For a multi-country jaunt, Neustadt is also close to the French and Swiss borders.\nStay at Action Forest Active Hotel,doubles from \u00a390 B&B\nIt wasn\u2019t the setting for Frozen \u2013 but it could have been. The town of 1,000 residents is so perfectly formed it looks like it was designed by Walt himself. Much of Hallstat\u2019s action focuses around Market Square, with its traditional buildings below towering trees. The square is the picturesque setting for processions, markets and live music throughout the summer. There are great views from the lakeside promenade of calm waters backed by the Dachstein mountains. A 350-metre-high Skywalk just outside town is a platform jutting from the cliff, with views as far as Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Those with a fear of heights may prefer a tour of the salt mines, said to be the oldest in the world. All details at hallstatt.net.\nStay at Scenic campsite Klaussner-H\u00f6ll, tent pitch from \u20ac6, plus \u20ac9.90 per adult and \u20ac5.50 per child\nOlavinlinna castle, in Savonlinna. Photograph: Getty Images\nFour hours from Helsinki, Ovaninlinna castle in the middle of Lake Saimma hosts a renowned opera festival in July and August each year. There are also plenty of water-based activities: fishing, kayaking, swimming. However, Savonians are traditionally very laid-back, and happy to while away their afternoon at a waterside restaurant serving fresh fish lunches and tart berry deserts.\nStay at Turtialan Lomakyl\u00e4 Holiday Village (one-bedroom self-catering cabin from \u20ac80\nMiko\u0142ajki, Poland\nThere\u2019s plenty to explore in Poland\u2019s majestic Masurian lake district: resort towns including Wegorzewo, Olecko and Gizycko are buzzing in summer. The more southerly town of Miko\u0142ajki, near the region\u2019s biggest lake, \u015aniardwy, makes a perfect base. The dainty town of red-roofed houses, with three bridges and a marina, is particularly popular with sailors: visitors can hire a boat and follow the waterways up to Gizycko, or cross the lake to Orzysz. The town hosts a sea shanty festival every July.\nStay at Aparthotel Mikolajki, doubles from \u00a360 B&B aparthotelmikolajki.pl\nOn the bank of stunning Lake Annecy, the tranquil village of Talloires happens to be where Haitian dictator \u201cBaby Doc\u201d Duvalier arrived after being given political asylum by France in 1986. But don\u2019t hold that against it: it\u2019s a peaceful alternative to the main town of Annecy, 30 minutes\u2019 drive away. It also has an array of fine dining options, including the Michelin-starred Jean Sulpice restaurant at Auberge du P\u00e8re Bise, a hotel once graced by the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Charlie Chaplin, and Aux Jardins des D\u00e9lices, in the 17th-century Abbaye de Talloires hotel and known for its fantastic wine list and artful gastronomy. There are three beaches nearby, and Talloires makes an easy base for cycling and hiking.\nStay at La Villa des Fleurs, doubles from \u20ac90 room-only\nOn the corner of Lake Trasimeno, close to the Tuscan border in Umbria, the village of Castiglione del Lago dates back to the Roman, and before them the Etruscans (an ancient civilization that existed in north west Italy). Its 13th-century walls and gates are still standing, and its medieval churches have stunning 19th-century frescoes. More frescoes can be found at the 16th-century Palazzo Duca della Corgna. Enjoy sunbathing and volleyball on several nearby beaches, and ferries to lake islands including the peaceful Isola Maggiore. As if it couldn\u2019t get any more picturesque, at the start of May the village hosts a kite festival, that sees the skies filled with colourful kites and hot air balloons.\nStay at Apartment Trasimeno Bandita, a former coach house sleeping four with shared pool, from \u00a361 self-catering\nScherrer Park Garden of Wonders\nAmid rolling hills on the southern shores of Lake Lugano, Morcote is one of the most beautiful villages in Switzerland. There\u2019s a dreamy feel to its narrow streets and ancient buildings, and the romantic Scherrer botanical gardens right on the waterside. The energetic can make the five-to-six-hour hike to Lugano on a trail that takes in the summit of 912-metre Monte San Salvatore, with incredible views.\nStay at Hotel Morcote, doubles from \u00a390 per night\nSweden\u2019s oldest town (and a pretty one at that) was founded on the banks of Lake M\u00e4laren, just west of Stockholm, in 980AD, so it\u2019s a perfect place to discover Sweden\u2019s history. As well as a medieval centre and several ruined churches, it\u2019s home to 40 of the region\u2019s famous rune stones, carved by the Vikings. Half an hour away, 17th-century Skokloster castle is the biggest private house in Sweden and one of five castles worth visiting in the region. It\u2019s a great spot for outdoor adventure too, with two beaches, canoeing and other water sports.\nStay at Venner Bo traditional rooms and cottages, with shared facilities and communal kitchens, cost from \u00a337 for a double or twin\nIzn\u00e1jar, Spain\nAn hour\u2019s drive north of Malaga, the small town of Izn\u00e1jar looks across the Embalse de Izn\u00e1jar \u2013 the biggest reservoir in Andaluc\u00eda \u2013 from a rocky mount. Established in the 8th century, the historic site includes the ruins of a 1,200-year-old castle, while the Barrio del Coso is a timeless maze of narrow streets and alleys. The freshwater lake itself has a beach where you can swim, rent canoes or sailing boats, and is surrounded by rolling hills carpeted in olive groves, where you can stock up on locally produced oil.\nStay at Cortijo las Rosas, holiday cottages just outside of Izn\u00e1jar from \u20ac55 per night for two or \u20ac82.50 for four", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 11154, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/sep/26/liz-murray-bronx-harvard", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:19Z", "digest": "sha1:GUFLU4UM7Y54OMBASYL3BH3Z3ZGZNYTM", "length": 3954, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.theguardian.com", "title": "Skip to main content", "raw_content": "Liz Murray: 'My parents were desperate drug addicts. I'm a Harvard graduate'\nLiz Murray's story of her journey from starving as a child in the Bronx to Ivy League success has become an American bestseller\nLiz Murray, pictured in a Bronx diner, recalls that as children she and her sister \"ate ice cubes because that felt like eating\". Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP\nA woman who overcame tremendous odds to go from \"homeless to Harvard\" has turned her life story into an American bestseller.\nLiz Murray, 29, rose from some of New York's meanest streets to graduate from the Ivy League and has become an international speaker. But some of her earliest memories are of her parents spending their welfare payments on cocaine and heroin when she and her sister were starving: \"We ate ice cubes because it felt like eating. We split a tube of toothpaste between us for dinner.\"\nWhen she became homeless at 16, as well as stealing food she would shoplift self-help books and study for exams in a friend's hallway. Now Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard, has burst on to the New York Times bestseller list. Hailed as a \"white-knuckle account of survival\", it is to be published in Britain in January.\nBorn in the Bronx, Liz watched her parents mainlining coke all day. \"Both my parents were hippies. By the time the early 1980s came around and I'd been born, their disco dancing thing had become a drug habit,\" she recalls.\nShe talks frequently about how much she loved them and how much they loved her, how they were highly intelligent but rendered hopeless at parenting by their drug dependence and consequent poverty. She remembers her mother stealing her birthday money, selling the television, and even the Thanksgiving turkey a church had given them, to scrape together money to score a hit of coke. Liz would turn up to school lice-ridden and was bullied for being smelly and scruffy and eventually dropped out.\nHer mother's mantra was \"one day life is going to be better\", then she would spend all day throwing up and being nursed by her daughter or slumped in withdrawal, arms tracked with needle marks. When Liz was 15 her mother revealed that she was HIV-positive and had Aids. She died not long after and was buried in a donated wooden box.\nWhen Liz's father failed to pay the rent on their flat and moved to a homeless shelter, Liz was out on the streets. Her sister got a place on a friend's sofa, but Liz slept on the city's 24-hour underground trains or on park benches.\nAt first she saw herself as a rebel and a victim, but then she had an epiphany. \"Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never,\" she says.\nShe had nowhere to live and had not attended school regularly for years, but at 17 pledged to become a \"straight A\" student and complete her high school education in just two years.\nShe did a year's work a term and went to night classes. A teacher saw her gumption and mentored her. When he took his top 10 students to Harvard, she stood outside the university and instead of feeling intimidated she admired its architecture \u2013 and decided it was within her reach. Then she heard that the New York Times gave scholarships.\nShe graduated last summer. Oprah Winfrey gave her a chutzpah award and she met Bill Clinton. She has talked at events alongside Tony Blair, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama. She talks to teenagers about resisting the temptations of drugs and gangs. She also urges them not to use childhood hardship as an excuse not to take opportunities.\nHer father died in 2006, also of Aids. His saving grace was that he encouraged her to read \u2013 and stole books from libraries to give her a love of literature.\nShe doesn't want her appearance now and her Harvard degree to fool anyone: \"I was one of those people on the streets you walk away from.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 6103, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 336.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thehawkeye.com/news/20181108/mississippi-river-corridor-program-set?rssfeed=true", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:CRM7CDEQGUEORQJ4LQ7GNQR4WO6VCSGC", "length": 1635, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.thehawkeye.com", "title": "Mississippi River corridor program set - News - The Hawk Eye Newspaper - Burlington, IA", "raw_content": "Mississippi River corridor program set\nThe F&M Bank & Trust Navigator Program will host a free program Nov. 27 at the Capitol Theater about efforts being made to promote economic development along the Mississippi River corridor.\nSpeaking at the event, which will be from noon to 1 p.m., will be Colin Westencamp, executive director of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative, who will share information about the initiative, as well as how it has been working with cities and towns along the Mississippi Corridor to develop travel and tourism opportunities involving the river.\nLisa Walsh, Des Moines County's representative for the Iowa Mississippi River Parkway Commission who also oversees the Navigator Program, asked Westencamp to speak at the event after he spoke during the commission's annual meeting in September on efforts being made by the initiative and city mayors to bring Viking River Cruises to Iowa.\nHearing about the Viking River Cruises and other projects river towns are getting involved in, Walsh felt it could be a topic of interest for people of Burlington, where improvements are being made along the riverfront.\n\"It allows Burlington people to learn about our biggest assets, and as far as I'm concerned, our Mississippi River is our No. 1 asset,\" Walsh said. \"Growing up in Burlington, growing up on the river, having the river everyday and seeing how it changes and so forth, I think it is important to reinforce to the community and to let the people know things that are happening to make the river better for us.\"\nThe event is free and open to the public. A free buffet will precede the program.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 3803, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theindiapost.com/nation/delhi/schemes-under-indian-council-for-cultural-relations-iccr/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:13Z", "digest": "sha1:QYRN2LWBY3JVYM66LP7X2LXTMJKKDWSE", "length": 1857, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.theindiapost.com", "title": "Schemes under Indian Council for Cultural Relations ICCR \u2013 The India Post", "raw_content": "11 Aug : The Indian Council for Cultural Relations is implementing its mandate of enhancing India\u2019s cultural profile abroad through the Indian Missions and its Indian Cultural Centres abroad and its Centres in India, which implement ICCR programmes. Apart from the regular exchange of performing troupes with other countries, the Council also carries out several activities including setting up Chairs on Indian Studies in foreign Universities; mounting of exhibitions of Indian works of art and photographs abroad; grant of around 3000 scholarships annually to foreign students to study in India; a Distinguished Visitors Programme under which the Council sponsors and hosts the visits to India of well-known foreign cultural and academic personalities; and outgoing visits by distinguished academicians and cultural personalities abroad. The Council also conducts classes in Yoga, music, dance and Indian languages.\nUnder the 6-Point Expansion Plan of ICCR, more Cultural Centres are being established to achieve a wider global presence. Other measures include: setting up of more Chairs on Indian Studies, organization of Festivals of India in other countries, organization of seminars and conferences on Indology and India-related contemporary issues, grant of 3-12 months duration Fellowships to established foreign academics and cultural personalities to work on India-related projects, support for NGOs and cultural institutions working to promote Indian culture abroad etc.\nThe Council was granted Rs. 139 crores in Financial Year 2009-10, and Rs. 150 crores at the BE stage in Financial Year 2010-11, for carrying out its activities.\nThis information was given by Shri S.M. Krishna, Minister of External Affairs, in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha today.\nTags: ICCRIndian Council for Cultural Relations\nIndians are safe in Kyrgyzstan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 320, "original_length": 21351, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 324.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theintell.com/9b4991d4-203e-5427-be75-f0780c223064.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YVOT63BYR6AOE4T5SMXUPPIM6GDCUFSV", "length": 1212, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.theintell.com", "title": "Mercia Holst McDermott - Obituaries - The Intelligencer - Doylestown, PA", "raw_content": "Mercia Holst McDermott\nMercia Holst McDermott, known by her nickname Cia, died Saturday, May 26, 2012 in Burlington.\nBorn in Topeka, Kan. in 1933, she was the daughter of Henry Holst and Anna Cooper Holst. She attended Washburn University, where she met her husband, Thomas J. McDermott, whom she married in 1953. They celebrated their 50th anniversary in 2003 and Mr. McDermott died later that year.\nShe is survived by her daughters, Mary Elizabeth McDermott of Burlington and Patricia Ann McDermott and her son-in-law, Robert S. Narus, of Metuchen, N.J.\nMrs. McDermott was an expert bridge player, an avid golfer and served several terms as president of the Ladies Golf Association and member of the Board of Governors of Pebble Creek Country Club in Greenville, S.C.\nShe was active in civic and community affairs throughout her life. She served as a docent at the Greenville Museum of Art and as a literacy tutor at Greenville County Library.\nA Memorial Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Saturday at All Saints R.C. Church, High St., Burlington.\nIn lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in her name to the National Hospice Foundation and the American Lung Association. Page Funeral Home,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 4675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 109.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thelocal.it/20180517/pompeii-archaeologists-balconies-houses-colours", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ZKKUMJWPN5MDHL7VOLTYC4I7QJVMC3G2", "length": 2565, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thelocal.it", "title": "'Alley of balconies' uncovered at Pompeii in rare find - The Local", "raw_content": "pompeiiarchaeologyhistory\nThe area of the discovery. Photo: Ciro Fusco/Pompeii Archaeological Park\nA team of archaeologists at Pompeii has uncovered an alleyway of grand houses, with balconies left mostly intact and still in their original hues.\n\"This type of find is a novelty for this area of Pompeii,\"a spokesperson for the archaeological site said in a statement shared to social media. \"Almost two thousand years from the eruption of 79 AD, Pompeii continues to give us treasures.\"\nThe discovery is unusual not just for the colour preservation, which will allow visitors to the site to see the houses almost exactly as the city's original residents did, but also because it is so unusual in Pompeii for upper storeys to have been preserved.\nThis is because the city was buried from above, unlike nearby Herculaneum for example which was buried by volcanic ash from the ground up. Located further from the volcano than Herculaneum, Pompeii was also buried in a less thick layer of debris (four metres on average, compared to over 20 in Herculaneum), which meant conservation of the upper floors was rarer.\n'Pompeii graffiti gives us insight into groups marginalized by history books'\nHow Pompeii brought ancient Roman wine back to life\nRestored Pompeii kitchens show how ancient Romans cooked\nA post shared by Pompeii (@pompeii_parco_archeologico) on May 17, 2018 at 5:49am PDT\n\"A series of buildings with three large balconies have emerged in an area now being excavated. On one of the balconies, pots of wine lying on their side [were also found, which were] probably put out to dry in the sun,\" the statement continued.\nExperts will now restore the houses, which will be open to the public as part of a new tour route at the popular site once the necessary work has been completed.\nThe street is the latest in a series of novel finds over the past few weeks, with excavations underway to stabilize walls at risk of collapse. Just a week earlier, archaeologists were able to cast the complete figure of a horse for the first time ever at the site. Along with a pig and a dog, it is one of the few animals of any species to be successfully cast at Pompeii.\nAnd a month earlier, an excavation uncovered the complete skeleton of a young child in a bathhouse long thought to have been fully excavated. That find was the first time a complete skeleton has been discovered at Pompeii in some 20 years, and the first time a child's remains have come to light in around half a century.\nREAD ALSO: Tourist damaged Pompeii mosaic by shifting tiles 'to get a good photo'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 7182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thenationalherald.com/19272/tens-thousands-joined-peaceful-marches-athens/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:19Z", "digest": "sha1:T44CFPZNNDYPSVAYMIG5W77XCU3OAEEG", "length": 1533, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thenationalherald.com", "title": "Tens of thousands joined peaceful marches in Athens - The National Herald", "raw_content": "Tens of thousands joined peaceful marches in Athens\nDEMETRIS NELLAS, Associated Press\nATHENS, Greece (AP) \u2014 through Greece\u2019s two biggest cities Sunday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a bloody student uprising against the then dictatorship.\nPrevious marches had been marked by riots and running battles between anarchists and riot police, but this year\u2019s commemoration went off without incident, partly thanks to heavy police presence. In Athens, 9,000 police were deployed and 99 people were detained provisionally before the start of the marches.\nAccording to generally conservative police estimates, about 10,000 mostly leftist, anarchist and union supporters joined one march in Athens and a similar number of Communist Party supporters marched separately. In the northern city of Thessaloniki, an estimated 13,000 have turned out, with no incidents reported.\nBoth marches in the capital ended outside the U.S. Embassy, about 3.5 kilometers (2.2 miles) from the National Technical University of Athens, widely known as the Polytechnic, the center of the 1973 revolt. Most Greeks still blame the U.S. for supporting the 1967-74 military regime.\nThe revolt was crushed when a tank stormed through the university\u2019s gates in the early hours of Nov. 17, 1973. The number of fatalities is still disputed; at the time, the regime had announced 15 dead.\nA prosecutor\u2019s report issued the following year, after the return to civilian government, estimated fatalities at 34, but mentioned only 18 names. There were over 1,100 injured.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 3594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 196.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theoi.com/Gallery/T40.1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3LSDFDLZPRYSTUNFAYGZZARWKAKCPCPW", "length": 272, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.theoi.com", "title": "Erinyes - Ancient Greek Vase Painting", "raw_content": "T40.1 THE ERINYES\nDetail of two Erinyes (Furies) from a painting depicting the underworld. The goddesses are dressed as huntresses with knee-length skirts and hunting boots, and their hair and arms are entwined with poisonous vipers. Only one of the two sisters is winged.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 197, "original_length": 2636, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.theravive.com/therapists/002contact.aspx?therapist=703921", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:14Z", "digest": "sha1:7DSQGNM7IGJC7MJ2B5ZVSMDWGV3HRM5B", "length": 322, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.theravive.com", "title": "Contact Richard P. White, MA, LMHC", "raw_content": "How can I help? Contact Richard P. White, MA, LMHC.\nRick is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and has over 25 years of professional counseling experience. Rick specializes in working with adult survivors of childhood trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief recovery as well as family, child, and marital counseling.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2300, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 200.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thersa.org/about-us/media/2017/barclays-uk-chief-sir-ian-cheshire-to-chair-landmark-food-farming-and-countryside-commission", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:03Z", "digest": "sha1:LC7HV5TJJD2NQTG6ULMM5YLSLTO2QANS", "length": 5682, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.thersa.org", "title": "Barclays UK chief Sir Ian Cheshire to chair landmark Food, Farming and Countryside Commission - RSA", "raw_content": "Barclays UK chief Sir Ian Cheshire to chair landmark Food, Farming and Countryside Commission\nSir Ian Cheshire, chair of Barclays UK and Debenhams and the former Kingfisher chief executive, will chair a major new Commission into the Future of Food and Farming, organised by the RSA [Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce].\nAnnounced ahead of the formal Commission launch next month [Tuesday 1 November], the two-year long Commission will help make the case for change to build a fairer food and farming system, ensuring a sustainable future for the UK\u2019s countryside.\nThe news comes as the UK looks to overhaul its food policy as it is set to leave three separate but overlapping European institutions which have underpinned the UK\u2019s policy for the last 40 years:\nThe European Union and its Common Agricultural Policy - which sets the framework for farming subsidies and sets standards in food regulation and environmental protections.\nThe Single Market, which also enables the free trade and distribution of food produce and free migration of workers. EU-born staff represent 20% of the permanent farming workforce and 90% of the seasonal workforce harvesting fruit and vegetables.\nThe Customs Union, which places a shared tariff and quotas on goods like New Zealand lamb or American soy beans to participating countries, from areas outside the bloc.\nSir Ian will lead the Commission\u2019s work on what a new system could look like: protecting standards and securing food supply; reforming public investment and the livelihoods of rural communities, and making the most of any new trading opportunities.\nAs Chair, Sir Ian will oversee a two-year programme, supported by the RSA in a secretariat capacity, which will:\nDevelop a mandate for change for food, farming and the countryside for the UK.\nShape a food, farming and countryside system that is fairer, and aligns more closely with UK population's expectations and values.\nDemonstrate how national policy can achieve change at local level.\nSir Ian Cheshire, Chair of the RSA\u2019s Commission on Food, Farming and the Countryside, said:\n\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be chairing this landmark Commission which couldn\u2019t be timelier.\nWe will recommend how the UK should shape its food, farming and countryside policy and practice after Brexit, as a country which imports 40% of its food and where, until now, EU policy has defined the farming sector and our natural rural landscapes.\nLeaving the Common Agricultural Policy will mean we need a whole new approach to how government ensures rural land \u2013 about 70% of which is farmed \u2013 delivers the greatest long-term benefit to UK society. Our food system is at the centre of this debate, and there are significant implications for the UK\u2019s nations, regions and communities.\nAll this is against a backdrop of climate change, emerging aspirations on future trade policy, and our ever-evolving relationship to what we eat.\nI\u2019m looking forward to engaging with citizens, producers, consumers and businesses, and those representing the immense diversity of groups with a particular interest. Every one of us has a stake in navigating this vital aspect of Brexit, and to start to better understand how our choices shape the food, on our plates. A sustainable future for our countryside and our farming sector is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.\u201d\nSir Ian Cheshire biography:\nSir Ian Cheshire is Chairman of Barclays UK and of Debenhams PLC. He also works with government departments across Whitehall in his role as Government Lead Non-Executive.\nHe worked for the home improvement retailing group Kingfisher PLC between 1998 and 2015, including 7 years as Group Chief Executive. He was also a trustee of Business in the Community, Chair of the British Retailing Consortium, and Chair of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership\u2019s Advisory Board.\nHe currently sits on the World Wildlife Fund\u2019s Council of Ambassadors and is a trustee of the Prince of Wales\u2019s Charitable Foundation.\nIn 2011, Sir Ian headed up the Ecosystem Markets Task Force, an independent, business-led programme which brought together experts from a range of sectors to look at how UK businesses can drive sustainable economic growth and profits. He was also a member of the government-appointed Business Taskforce, which published recommendations and principles for cutting EU red tape in 2013.\nSir Ian was knighted in 2014 for his services to business, sustainability and the environment. He is also a Chevalier of the Ordre National du Merite (National Order of Merit) of France and has won a number of awards for his contributions to retailing and sustainable business, including the Fortune WEF award for leadership in the circular economy and Sustainable Business Leader of the Year. Sir Ian is Fellow of the RSA.\nAsh Singleton, ash.singleton@thersa.org.uk, 07799 737 970.\nThe Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce (The RSA) Commission into Food, Farming and the Countryside will be formally launched in London on 1 November.\nThe RSA\u2019s history of supporting agricultural innovation stretches back to the 18th Century, and in recent decades the RSA has hosted a number of influential inquiries and Commissions, looking at issues from environmental sustainability to inclusive models of economic growth.\nThe Commission is financed via a major two-year grant from the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Esm\u00e9e Fairbairn Foundation aims to improve the quality of life for people and communities throughout the UK both now and in the future. We do this by funding the charitable work of organisations who are building an inclusive, creative and sustainable society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 7500, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 206.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thesputnik.ca/the-essence-of-personal-style/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:00Z", "digest": "sha1:S2D5T5SRZI3CUMAHOEGO56MBTNXVMEBD", "length": 4174, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.thesputnik.ca", "title": "The essence of personal style \u2013 The Sputnik", "raw_content": "Facebook: the new addiction\n'The abominable Dr. Welsh' talks blog\nPhoto courtesy of Mike Rykov/The Sputnik\nWhen it comes to style and fashion, it\u2019s useless trying to fit in. There are so many ways of expressing yourself through clothing. I feel like people are scared of being judged which is why they avoid developing their own style. I see so many people wearing the same clothing items, and it\u2019s quite depressing!\nDeveloping your own style is one of the easiest ways to build your confidence. It\u2019s your opportunity to show the world who you are. Here are three students at Laurier Brantford with unique styles. We can all learn something from them.\nMahaq Farooq\nI don\u2019t think I\u2019m the most fashionable. I\u2019m very lazy; it\u2019s usually just tights and a sweater for me. I like to look a little dressy so I can feel better about myself.\nWhat/who are the influence of your style?\nMy mum and my sister (influence my style). If I need clothes I go to my sister\u2019s closet. She is very fashionable! My mum has very good fashion sense. She is someone I like to look like.\nHow important is fashion and personal style to you and why?\nFashion is very important to me because it\u2019s the only way I can express myself. I\u2019m not the type of person to join clubs because I\u2019m shy like that. When people see me they\u2019ll be like \u201cHey, she looks good! I like what she\u2019s wearing!\u201d Fashion is who you are. It\u2019s a gateway. I\u2019m not saying anything, I\u2019m expressing it.\nTips for people that struggle with personal style\nYou don\u2019t have to worry about what other people think. If you like it and it makes you happy, you should go for it. I struggled with that so much in high school. I had these blue pants and I\u2019d wear them to school a lot. I\u2019d get so nervous and thought people were going to judge me, but it made me happy and I looked good!\nRawan Shannak\nI tell people I don\u2019t have a style. Sometimes I like to look classy and sometimes I like to look gangster. I grew up in a predominately gangster dressing area. There were lots of sweatpants, Adidas outfits and Jordans were a big thing. Sometimes I rock jays and other times I rock Steve Madden looking shoes.\nWhat/who are the influences of your style?\nI admire Rihanna because she doesn\u2019t have a style. Rihanna encompasses everything. I\u2019m inspired by things that draw my attention. I basically get dressed blind. I put things together and I don\u2019t think about it too much. Sometimes when you try too hard to look good you look basic.\nFashion is extremely important to me. It\u2019s something I was having a very hard time with. In Brantford I get looks because of what I wear sometimes. People would look at me funny, and thought that because I dress a certain way that I thought highly of myself. I look at it as a form of expression. Some days I look homeless and other days I look like I could walk a runway.\nTry not to fit into a certain category. Take what you like from people and apply it in different ways. Whatever makes you comfortable. There is literally no other way. I\u2019d advise people that struggle with personal style to work on themselves and to understand who they are. If they take care of themselves everything will fall into place.\nRaquel Teichroeb\nI\u2019m influenced by international styles. I try to keep track of fashion around the world. I mix it with my signature items. I have this pair of Doc Martens red leather boots which I wear all the time in the winter.\nI was really influenced by Sailor Moon. I really loved the way she dressed in that show.\nHow important is fashion to you and why?\nFashion is very important to me. I wanted to go into fashion and be a fashion designer. People are always surprised when I\u2019m like \u2018I\u2019m actually a Public Health student!\u2019 It\u2019s something that\u2019s a part of my life. I need to wear stuff that is close to my personal style or else I feel out of place and really uncomfortable.\nIt\u2019s something that\u2019s natural to me. It\u2019s not really a conscious thing. Everybody has something familiar that they\u2019ve kept with them for years. You have to mix that into the things that inspire you and incorporate it into things that you wear.\nAll photographs courtesy of Mike Rykov/The Sputnik.\nCuriosity: to Mars and back", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 8007, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thestreet.com/story/13087986/1/what-to-expect-from-facebooks-big-developer-conference.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:45Z", "digest": "sha1:5LLDNXIMVDCOLJRIUHTIHCV7PO7GEMBZ", "length": 5003, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.thestreet.com", "title": "What to Expect From Facebook's (FB) Big Developer Conference - TheStreet", "raw_content": "What to Expect From Facebook's Big Developer Conference\nFacebook's two-day developer conference will focus on messaging and mobile advertising, and should include several updates to the social network's standalone apps.\nUpdated Mar 25, 2015 7:34 AM EDT\nUpdated from March 24th to include potential announcements at the conference in the fourth paragraph.\nSAN DIEGO (TheStreet) -- Facebook (FB) may pitch its upcoming F8 conference as a developer-focused event, but the company will use the two-day affair to trot out new products and talk up improvements to existing services, all of which may have wide-reaching implications for both its social network and its advertising business.\nThe annual conference, which kicks off March 25 with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, comes amid Facebook's attempts to capitalize on messaging, the only activity more popular than social-networking, Zuckerberg has previously said. Messaging presents a new way forward for Facebook, which owns two of the most popular apps in the category: WhatsApp, which has a monthly audience of more than 700 million people, and Messenger, its home-grown app with 500 million monthly users.\nAt F8, Facebook is expected to open up the Messenger application to developers, which would turn the messaging service into a platform that offers extras produced by third parties. Messenger currently supports text, pictures, video, voice memos, calls and stickers, but has yet to advance to more sophisticated options such as games and marketplaces that are offered by Asian rivals like Line and WeChat.\nUpdate: Facebook's official F8 app sent out notifications that confirmed Messenger would become a platform. The notifications also revealed Parse, Facebook's unit that helps with back-end technology for apps, will be used for the Internet of Things, in addition to something known as the Teleportation Station. The news was first spotted by TechCrunch.\n\"Facebook will likely enable third-party developers to build apps to function within the Messenger platform which could include games, premium accounts and rich media experience,\" Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster wrote in a note published Monday. The firm raised its 12-month price target for the social network's stock to $92, up from $84.\nTurning Messenger into a platform for others' apps would signal that the social network is ready to treat its standalone messaging app as more than just a side project.\nLast year, Facebook hired David Marcus, formerly CEO of eBay's (EBAY) PayPal, to take the lead on Messenger. It also announced last week that the app would soon support friend-to-friend payments, underscoring Facebook's e-commerce ambitions.\nStill, the company has remained mum on Messenger's business prospects, preferring instead to talk about its path to 1 billion users.\nDevelopers will help to bring in those users. The point of the platform approach is to hand off some of the responsibility for attracting users to app-makers who can introduce new features. Facebook needs these outside developers, Gartner analyst Brian Blau said, because it's not enough anymore to be a just a great service or social network.\n\"Facebook has been on a steady march to build a full-featured consumer platform,\" Blau said. \"I think we're going to see Facebook make more moves to convince more developers and businesses that it is a proper platform that they can rely on for access to a wide variety of users around the world.\"\nThe two-day Facebook developer conference includes sessions on Instagram, WhatsApp and even Oculus, the virtual reality headset maker Facebook acquired for $2 billion last year.\nAnalyst firm JMP Securities said it was looking for updates to most of Facebook's standalone product lineup.\nOn Monday, Instagram rolled out a separate iOS application called \"Layout\" for arranging multiple photographs in a single image. Wall Street, however, would prefer to hear more about the app's advertising prospects, including the service's newest \"carousel\" ads that allow advertisers to include several photos and a link to a separate destination.\n\"We believe this is Instagram's first ad unit that is capable of direct response marketing,\" JMP analyst Ronald Josey said.\nThe F8 conference should also include updates on Facebook's mobile advertising technology, and possibly even a new product that resembles Twitter's (TWTR) MoPub mobile ad exchange, which lets publishers and advertisers buy and sell advertising space.\nJMP is also anticipating new tools that help its more than 2 million advertisers more precisely place their ads in front of audiences.\nOf course, since it is a conference designed for developers, F8 will likely show off updates to the application programming interface, or API, that dictates how app-makers can build on top of Facebook. Last year's conference, for instance, gave birth to \"Anonymous Login,\" an alternative way to log in to apps with your Facebook account without your personal information.\nTechnologyTaxesSoftware & Services", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 265, "original_length": 9906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 301.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/we-can-do-it-says-rooney-w2fh9pcdt5c", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:42Z", "digest": "sha1:3TRAY2MI2RNX23KSPR4TYXICJJNPKHT5", "length": 866, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.thetimes.co.uk", "title": "We can do it, says Rooney | The Sunday Times", "raw_content": "We can do it, says Rooney\nJonathan Northcroft hears the boldest youngster in the game declare he will be better than ever in a pivotal season he expects to end with World Cup glory\nOn July 9, 2006 he expects to end his campaign in Germany. In Berlin, at the World Cup final, in an England shirt, with a winners\u2019 medal around his pitbull neck.\nHe is not afraid to declare it. From an experienced footballer such a statement would seem presumptuous, a boastful tempting of fate. From a boy wonder it is no more than you would expect. The joy of Rooney lies in how he combines a talent so freakishly mature in its refinement with a spirit so youthfully unabashed. On a football pitch he thinks he can do anything, and he is often right. If the world\u2019s best, boldest teenage player did not believe he could accomplish the game \u2019s ultimate task, there would be something\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thetireshop.biz/tire-services/car-care-tips.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:31Z", "digest": "sha1:66GTNWHKP23XJZ33NM2C4A5OOPBLV65L", "length": 632, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.thetireshop.biz", "title": "Car Care Tips | The Tire Shop, Canajoharie, NY", "raw_content": "Here, at The Tire Shop, we want our customers to be in the know about how to properly care for their car or truck. We want you to understand why and how your tires wear; how to get the best gas mileage; and overall how to get the most out of your tires. Hopefully, with these helpful tips you will be able to improve gas mileage and reduce tire wear when driving in and around Canajoharie, NY and Fonda, NY ; and understand when and why your car needs to be serviced by The Tire Shop or another Canajoharie, New York tire service shop. Give The Tire Shop a call at (518) 673-5399 today to schedule your next maintenance appointment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 4732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thevenuebooker.co.uk/news/sheffield-forging-a-new-identity", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TJTNCCQMQZMEKI573NGOH2HZCN7SR3AO", "length": 510, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thevenuebooker.co.uk", "title": "Sheffield: forging a new identity | The Venue Booker", "raw_content": "Sheffield: forging a new identity | Conference News\nSheffield Hallam University\u2019s Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre is set to become the world\u2019s most advanced R&D centre for physical activity. It is making ground-breaking research into health problems like obesity and dementia.\nThe University of Sheffield\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre specialises in aerospace, automotive and healthcare and has partnerships with Boeing, McLaren Automotive and Rolls Royce \u2013 exciting catalysts for winning events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 7148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 170.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thevideogametester.org/call-of-duty-black-ops-demo-e3-2010/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:11Z", "digest": "sha1:36IM6O75HBKVKHKYK2YECKRNNWKDBZYZ", "length": 3354, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.thevideogametester.org", "title": "\ufeff\ufeff Call of Duty: Black Ops Demo E3 2010", "raw_content": "Home \u009b Call of Duty: Black Ops Demo E3 2010\nAt Microsoft's Xbox E3 conference Activision showed off a demo of Call of Duty: Black Ops. My first impressions of it are that it is a little more intense than the previous Call of Duty games and you are more into the game.\nYou can watch the demo here:\nTrailer here: Call of Duty: Black Ops Remix \u2013 Eminem \"Won't Back Down\"\nrom the trailer we can see just how intense it is going to be and maybe those will be just the most intense parts of the game like previous games? I'm really hoping not. We do not know for sure, but from the demo we can see that it will be more intense than previous installments. We can only hope that Call of Duty: Black Ops steps up from the previous game and becomes even more successful.\nWe might not know all that will be on Call of Duty: Black Ops but we do know a few basic things like:\nOur friends at Joystiq.com commented that...\n\"Though Call of Duty: Black Ops' Cold War setting is a new feature for the series, one element of the game will stay true to the franchise's norms: the game's campaign will only be a single-player experience. Speaking to MTV, Treyarch studio head Mark Lamia explained, \"single-player is the epic, cinematic, seat-of-your-pants thrill ride that you star in,\" while the game's cooperative offerings will be packaged in completely separate \"unique co-op modes.\"\nSounds fairly reminiscent of Modern Warfare 2\u2032s Spec Ops missions, though Lamia quickly clarified that Black Ops' co-op mode will be \"different\" from that of the last game in the series. Could we possibly see more zombies added to the mix? Hopefully, we'll find out more when we check out the game at E3.\"\nSource: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/03/no-co-op-for-call-of-duty-black-ops-campaign/\nAlso that Xbox will have exclusive DLC all the way up to 2012\n\"Following up on their partnership with Modern Warfare 2, Activision and Microsoft have announced a new agreement at E3 that will make Call of Duty DLC timed Xbox exclusives for at least the next three years, until 2012. Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC will be available first on Xbox Live, with PSN and PC releases likely to follow a few months afterwards. Considering the overwhelming demand for Modern Warfare 2 DLC, this is undoubtedly a \"win\" for Microsoft.\"\nSource: http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/14/call-of-duty-dlc-to-debut-on-xbox-live-until-2012/\nAs the launch comes closer to it we will be sure to know more details of the game and we will try to keep up to date with it. Between we want to call out those people that claim to have a working \"Key Generator\" for beta keys for Call of Duty: Black Ops it is just a lie. Do not fall for that scam, all they provide you, it is with a fake generator that has virus on it and you will be at risk. Please be careful of such scams and always look at the official sites for information pertaining beta stuff and some other information.\nRemember that betas are just given to people to find out the bugs and report them not to play the game as if it was officially released, if you can't wait for it to come up replay the previous call of duty and enjoy them once again. We will let you know if we find any special events where beta keys are being given away and if they are any promos to people that pre-order they might be able to play before the others get to play the full release.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thewistle.com/2018/11/07/bad-news-zlatan-ibrahimovic-rules-out-move/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PXO3O52XLMSOGJDJ3P65LT525EBTGUMC", "length": 1484, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.thewistle.com", "title": "Bad News! Zlatan Ibrahimovic Rules Out Move - Thewistle", "raw_content": "Bad News! Man United Transfer Target Rules Out Move\nFormer Manchester United striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic has ruled out a loan move back to the club.\nThe 37-year-old dismissed transfer rumours linking him with a move back to Europe in an interview monitored by the Independent.\nThe LA Galaxy player revealed that he\u2019s not ready to shift his focus from the Major League Soccer (MLS) side.\nZlatan Ibrahimovic was in an inspired form for his team in the just concluded MLS season thus prompting rumours linking him with a return to former clubs AC Milan and Manchester United.\nHe scored 22 goals in 27 appearances for LA Galaxy but the Swedish football legend was unable to fire the team to the playoffs.\nPundit Praises \u00a340,000 p/w Arsenal Player For Liverpool Performance\nWith the latest development, the former Sweden national team captain won\u2019t follow in the footsteps of previous MLS stars like Landon Donovan, Robbie Keane and David Beckham.\nThe aforementioned football icons spent their MLS off-season on a short-term loan to Europe.\nSeveral media reports had earlier stated that Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is interested in a move for him.\nThe Manchester United boss have had to deal with an out-of-sorts striker Romelu Lukaku.\nThe Belgian is currently out injured but he has not scored in his last nine appearances for the Red Devils.\nArsenal Face Red Devils\u2019 Test For Italian-Based Defender\nLiverpool defeat an advantage for Gerrard to have 21-year-old striker at ease", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 17485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.thisweeknews.com/article/20131015/NEWS/310159436", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:48Z", "digest": "sha1:TCDQQSG62UP5W5VTGNX2QYPVVAWHZBII", "length": 621, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.thisweeknews.com", "title": "Spaghetti dinner supports club efforts - News - ThisWeek Community News - Lewis Center, OH", "raw_content": "Spaghetti dinner supports club efforts\nThe Whitehall Area Lions Club will host an \"all-you-can-eat\" spaghetti dinner from noon to 5 p.m. Oct. 20, at Whitehall Community Park, 402 N. Hamilton Road.\nSuggested donations are $8 for adults, $4 for children ages 12 and under.\nTickets will be available at the door. Carryout meals can be provided.\nIn addition, there will be free preschool eye screenings for children ages 3-5. The group also will accept donations of used glasses.\nAll proceeds from this project will go toward charitable projects such as eye research, eye exams for those in need and Pilot Dogs for the blind.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 2503, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 208.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/Phones-4u-Arena-Manchester-tickets-Manchester/venue/254336", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:55Z", "digest": "sha1:52G5ZMADUNSAQ5FSTB6DHQC2SYLK5W7T", "length": 4064, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.ticketmaster.co.uk", "title": "Manchester Arena, Manchester | Events & Tickets | Map, Travel & Seating Plan", "raw_content": "Manchester Arena Tickets\nVictoria Station, Hunts Bank, Manchester, M3 1AR, Great Britain\nTHE NICKI WRLD TOUR FEATURING JUICE WRLD.\nBusted - Prime View\nTitanic Live - Film with Live Orchestra and Choir\nThe arena is situated in central Manchester adjacent to Victoria station on the A56, three miles from junction 17 of the M62.\nThe official NCP on-site multi-storey car park has a capacity of 1,000. In addition, approximately 7,000 recognised NCP spaces within 10 minutes walk serve the Manchester Arena.\nBuses: Many buses serve Cannon Street and Victoria stations and many more stop within easy walking distance in the city centre. If you are staying out late, night bus services on Friday and Saturday nights run directly past the Manchester Arena. Rail: Victoria Station is directly underneath the Manchester Arena and is served by regional railways. Piccadilly Station (Intercity) is located a mile from the arena and is served by taxis or Metro Link to Victoria. Trams: Manchester's excellent Metrolink system passes right by the Manchester Arena, stopping at Victoria. Services run from Bury, Altrincham and Manchester Piccadilly rail station. Metrolink enquiries 0161 205 2000.\nA temporary box office is situated on the Trinity Way corridor next to the Arena Car Park entrance. This box office will be available from 4pm only on a show day and will close 15 minutes after the main act has gone onstage. Opening times will change for Box Office depending on the time of the show. Please check https://www.manchester-arena.com/your-visit/ prior to attending the event to ensure you have the most current up to date information. More venue information here\nPre-booked tickets can be collected on the day of the show from an hour before door time, up to a half-hour after the event starts. Customers must take the credit card used to make the booking and the Ticketmaster reference number with them in order to collect the tickets. The cardholder will need to sign for the tickets. If you have any queries regarding box office collections, please contact Ticketmaster's customer services department.\nTicket purchases can be made at this box office during opening hours. Cash or debit/credit is available.\nProvisions have been made to cater for wheelchair users. Lifts have been installed and it is possible to enter the arena by the access link between Trinity Way and Victoria Station. The Hunts Bank entrance is accessible via external lift and access from the car park and Victoria Station is possible via the City Room. The second raised tier of seating (BLK 201 and above) requires the negotiation of steep steps and so may not be suitable for the elderly, infirm or those with mobility problems. Seating at the front of the upper tier is 35ft (10m) from ground, rising to 70ft (20m) at the rear. Please call 0161 950 5229 for further details.\nWhat items are NOT allowed into the arena? Backpacks, holdalls, luggage, oversized bags and cushions. (Bags larger than 35cm x 40cm x 19cm will not be permitted) No video cameras, still cameras or recording devices. No food or drink allowed. The Manchester Arena is a non-smoking venue. In addition to these, a full list of items that are also not permitted into the arena can be reviewed here https://www.manchester-arena.com/your-visit/ along with anything else which we deem to ruin the enjoyment or viewing experience of others.\nChildren under the age of two are admitted free, except for children's shows where the age limit is 12 months if unsure check event details when booking an individual show with Ticketmaster. Children without a ticket will not be allocated a seat and must sit on the parents lap. Seated Tickets: Under 14s must be accompanied by an adult. Standing Tickets: Strictly over 14s only in the standing area, admission will be refused to customers below this age.\nThe arena has been acoustically treated and therefore has excellent sound quality. There is a large and varied range of refreshment outlets. Duplicate tickets will not be issued for general admission standing ticket events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 195, "original_length": 6511, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 289.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.ticketwarehouse.com/Rock-and-Pop-Tickets/Graham-Nash-Tickets", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:28Z", "digest": "sha1:7CGIE55BY4Z5JKTYEACVY7HOCCBAEM2A", "length": 245, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ticketwarehouse.com", "title": "Ticket Warehouse", "raw_content": "Home Concert Tickets Rock & Pop Tickets Graham Nash Tickets\nGraham Nash is an English-born singer-songwriter known for his light tenor vocals and songwriting contributions in pop group The Hollies and folk-rock band Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 79.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tmz.com/2013/07/07/bridesmaids-chris-odowd-buys-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DGMXEQTHTKBHNCGURUXWNECQIIJLJI2I", "length": 1034, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tmz.com", "title": "'Bridesmaids' Star Chris O'Dowd -- Planting Roots In America ... for $870,000 | TMZ.com", "raw_content": "'Bridesmaids' Star Chris O'Dowd Planting Roots In America ... for $870,000\n'Bridesmaids' Star Chris O'Dowd -- Planting Roots In America ... for $870,000\nChris O'Dowd -- that funny Irish guy from \"Bridesmaids\" -- is doing what everyone does when they start to get famous in America ... spend their hard-earned US dollars on a swanky, new L.A. crib.\nTMZ has learned ... Chris and his wife, Dawn Porter -- a famous British chick -- dropped $872,500 on an 1,800-square-foot house in West Hollywood ... a well known celeb-magnet.\nAs for the digs ... 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, pool, and spa ... but really, it's all about location.\nAnd if you still don't know who Chris is -- he's awesome. Not only does he star in HBO's \"Family Tree\" and \"Girls\" ... but he was also in \"Bridesmaids\", \"This is 40\", \"Dinner for Schmucks\", \"Friends with Kids\", and \"Despicable Me: 2\".\nMatt Kemp Drops $30,000 a Month to Live Like Toni Braxton's Sis\nTamar Braxton -- Sells L.A. Mansion For $3.5 Million PROFIT!!!\nChris O'Dowd Celebrity Homes Movies Money Exclusive", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 4513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tneus.com/facebook-is-tracking-your-every-move-how-you-can-put-a-stop-to-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XBO2C7LVYIAHRNHHP3E423KJLHCQV5QP", "length": 2803, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.tneus.com", "title": "Facebook is Tracking Your Every Move! How You Can Put a Stop To It", "raw_content": "Is Facebook Following You Around The Internet?\nYou may have noticed that you\u2019re being followed \u2013 you look at a product once online and then that same product or similar ones pop up in ads on every other site you visit. That\u2019s not a coincidence. You\u2019re being tracked, and most of the times many people don\u2019t even realize it. You wouldn\u2019t allow the government or a private company to put a GPS in your wallet and track the stores and places you visit, so why are you letting Facebook do it?\nIt\u2019s not just Facebook, either. Tons of online companies are members of ad networks. Cookies are placed in your computer through these ad networks, and each time you visit a site, it recognized your cookies and lets the ad network know you were there. Even scarier? Sites are sharing what you do on their pages with other websites to build a database of your likes and dislikes, making it easy for ad networks to send you ads you\u2019re likely to click on.\nAny website working with advertisers and giving them your info should be worrying to you, but with Facebook it\u2019s even worse. Think about it \u2013 you\u2019re already telling them exactly what you\u2019re thinking and what your likes are. Every status update, \u201clike\u201d, news story and photo that you put up gives advertisers more and information about you.\nIn 2013, online tracking and targeted advertising helped Internet advertisers rake in $42.8 billion dollars \u2013 last year numbers likely approached or passed $50 million. Of course, you don\u2019t see a penny of this. What you should be concerned about is what happens with your private information and what will happen if hackers ever get a hold of it.\nWhat most people don\u2019t know is that you can opt out of this relatively easily. If you don\u2019t want to be tracked, you can inform an ad network and every company that\u2019s part of it will stop accessing your info. Facebook, for example, is part of the Digital Advertising Alliance with 176 other major companies. You can head to the DAA\u2019s website to opt out of \u201conline behavioral advertising.\u201d\nYou\u2019ll get access to a tool that scans your computer to see what companies are customizing ads to you \u2013 and if you\u2019ve opted out of any online tracking from them in the past. It\u2019s easy to choose specific companies, like Facebook, where you don\u2019t want to see targeted ads. You can also select \u201cChoose all companies\u201d to get rid of all of them. Opting out won\u2019t necessarily stop these sites from collection information, but it does mean they won\u2019t share it with others.\nSome companies aren\u2019t part of the DAA, so opting out also won\u2019t change how they track you. One way to do that is to disable third-party cookies in your active browser.\nTo talk more about online security and how to keep your sensitive data safe, contact Network Essentials at info@tneus.com or by phone at (704) 206-8880.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 6555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tnp.sg/sports/football/giant-killers-bristol-draw-united", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:04Z", "digest": "sha1:H2UR4BKCSDBB3WD467Y2LRNN6FGAASEW", "length": 857, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.tnp.sg", "title": "Giant-killers Bristol draw United, Latest Football News - The New Paper", "raw_content": "Giant-killers Bristol draw United\nChampionship side Bristol City's reward for eliminating three Premier League teams in this season's League Cup is a home quarter-final with holders Manchester United.\nCity, who thrashed Crystal Palace 4-1 on Wednesday morning (Singapore time) to reach the quarter-finals for the first time since 1989, learnt about their dream draw two hours later than planned due to a glitch at Twitter Headquarters where the event was being held.\n\"The EFL has received an apology from Twitter UK for the delay which is believed to have occurred as a result of a faulty encoder,\" said a statement from the English Football League (EFL).\n\"The EFL has requested a full explanation into the events that led to this afternoon's unacceptable delay.\" - AFP\nLEAGUE CUP QUARTER-FINALS\nBristol City v Man United\nManchester UnitedLEAGUE CUPFootball", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 2964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 264.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.toiteora.govt.nz/gastro", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:00Z", "digest": "sha1:C6QRJMBTNOATQM2NQDJFJUJVYLLWK6HH", "length": 4268, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.toiteora.govt.nz", "title": "Gastroenteritis | Toi Te Ora Public Health", "raw_content": "Toi Te Ora Public Health > Public Health Topics > Gastroenteritis\nGastroenteritis is a general term for diarrhoea and vomiting triggered by an infection and inflammation of the digestive system (gut). There are many causes of gastroenteritis, including viruses (e.g. Norovirus, Rotavirus, Adenovirus); bacteria (e.g. Salmonella, Campylobacter); bacterial toxins (e.g. Staphylococcal food poisoning); parasites (e.g. Giardia, Cryptosporidium), chemicals and medications (e.g. some antibiotics). The exact cause of gastroenteritis can only be diagnosed by laboratory tests of faecal (poo) specimens.\nWhat are the signs and symptoms of the illness?\nTypical symptoms include diarrhoea and vomiting. Stomach cramps, fever and nausea may also be present.\nDiarrhoea occurs when something upsets the normal process of your gut and so speeds up the whole digestive process. This makes you pass faeces (poo) more frequently than normal and the faeces are usually loose or watery in consistency. Normal bowel habits can vary with each person and this can be anything from 3 bowel movements per day to 3 per week. Normally, faeces should be solid but moist and easy to pass.\nDiarrhoea usually lasts a day or two and usually comes on suddenly (acute attack). However, you can also have chronic diarrhoea, which lasts over a long period of time (2-3 weeks or months). Chronic diarrhoea may signal the presence of an underlying health problem and medical advice should be sought.\nVomiting (\u2018throwing up\u2019) occurs when the brain receives certain information (e.g. food irritation or infection of the gut, motion from the inner ear) which causes the abdominal wall to contract and force out the contents of the stomach. Vomiting is usually harmless and often stops by itself.\nVomiting is more common in infants and children and can be triggered easily by overfeeding and motion as well as by gastroenteritis. Medical advice should be sought if someone is suffering from persistent vomiting or vomiting associated with a high fever or diarrhoea.\nGastroenteritis is usually not serious and most people recover quickly. However, sometimes people are unable to drink enough fluids to replace those lost from vomiting and diarrhoea. These people can become dehydrated and may require medical attention. This is especially important for children, the elderly or those suffering from weakened immune systems.\nMedical attention should be sought as soon as possible if the ill person:\nIs a baby less than 6 months old\nIs not drinking or has difficulty keeping fluids down\nIs not urinating (\u2018passing wee\u2019) or passing less urine than usual\nHas dry lips and mouth and/or cold hands and feet\nIs unusually lethargic, drowsy or irritable\nKeeps vomiting or passing lots of diarrhoea\nHas blood or mucus in their faeces (poo)\nHas unexpected symptoms (e.g. pain when passing urine, headache, ongoing stomach pains)\nHas other health problems\nDoes not appear to be getting better (that is, not improving after 2 days)\nCan the illness be spread?\nGastroenteritis caused by viruses, bacteria and parasites can be easily spread from person to person, especially if hygiene is poor, for example if someone who is ill prepares food for others without washing their hands. This is why it is important to thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water after using the toilet and before preparing, handling or eating foods.\nExtra care must be taken when cleaning up faecal or vomit matter or items contaminated with these materials. Thoroughly clean and disinfect toilet and bathrooms areas after use.\nWill I need time off school, childcare or work?\nYour doctor, nurse or health protection officer can provide advice on this. Usually you can go back to work, childcare, school, etc., if you are well and have been free of symptoms for at least 48 hours. This is especially important if you are in a high-risk occupation such as a food handler, caregiver, nurse or childcare centre worker.\nAs you may be infectious for some days after recovery, good personal hygiene is important to prevent spreading the disease around. Good handwashing and hand drying after toileting is vital.\nContact your GP or Healthline (0800 611 116) for further advice.\nFor a printable version of this Gastroenteritis information, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 5271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tourismvancouver.com/media/articles/post/vancouver-gears-up-for-busiest-convention-year-ever/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ZQIJKXHDN6NJALRTJSF6PCAYAIDOELVG", "length": 5033, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.tourismvancouver.com", "title": "Vancouver Gears Up For Busiest Convention Year Ever", "raw_content": "Vancouver Gears Up For Busiest Convention Year Ever\nJanuary 18, 2018 by Amber Sessions, Communications Manager\nIn 2018, Vancouver will welcome 33 citywide conventions and events, the highest number the city has ever hosted in a single year.\nOver the course of 2018, these 33 events will bring over 100,000 out-of-town delegates to Vancouver where they will inject money into the local economy through hotel stays, dining, attractions visits, shopping, transit and more.\nIn total, Vancouver\u2019s meetings and conventions industry supports more than 6,000 jobs and results in over $300 million annually in director visitor spending and $500 million in economic impact for the Vancouver economy.\nVancouver companies and organizations also benefit as it gives them the opportunity to connect with their worldwide industry peers, and puts their companies, and their fields, in a national or international arena.\nThe tourism industry defines a \u201ccitywide\u201d as a convention or event that will attract 1,000 or more out-of-\ntown attendees, uses the Vancouver Convention Centre, and at least three downtown convention hotels.\nIn 2017, Vancouver welcomed 28 citywides, which brought 63,000 visitors to the city. Tourism Vancouver, the Vancouver Convention Centre and other partners work together to market, and sell, Vancouver as a meeting, convention and event destination.\nThe strong showing in 2018 is in part driven by an influx of nature and sustainability-themed conferences taking place at the award-winning Vancouver Convention Centre, the world\u2019s first double LEED Platinum convention centre. Vancouver will welcome GLOBE in March (estimated 3,900 out-of-town attendees and 10,000 total), Sustainable Brands in June (estimated 2,000 out-of-town/total attendees), the American Society of Animal Science in July (estimated 4,500 out-of-town attendees and 5,000 total), the International Ornithological Congress in August (estimated 1,800 out-of-town /total attendee), and the Entomological Society of America in November (estimated 2,000 out-of-town/total attendees).\nOther high-profile convention groups meeting in Vancouver in 2018 include the American Bar Association in February (estimated 4,000 out-of-town/total attendees); the TED Conference, celebrating it\u2019s 5th anniversary in Vancouver in April (estimated 1,800 out-of-town/total attendees); and SIGGRAPH, returning to Vancouver for the 3rd time in August (estimated 13,000 out-of-town attendees and 14,000 total).\nAmong the citywide events are the 2018 Canadian Tire National Skating Championships which just wrapped up in January (3,500 out-of-town attendees), HSBC Canada Sevens - World Rugby Sevens Series at BC Place in March (3,230 out-of-town attendees), and the internationally recognized BMO Vancouver Marathon in May (5,000 out-of-town attendees).\n\u201cVancouver\u2019s unique mix of vibrant urban culture, modern infrastructure, diverse culinary experiences and incredible natural beauty contribute to the city\u2019s reputation as a world-class travel and meeting destination,\u201d said Lisa Beare, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture. \u201cA busy convention year is also good news for the tourism and hospitality industries. This level of success is due to the hard work and dedication of the Vancouver Convention Centre, BC Place, Tourism Vancouver and partners.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see more evidence of Vancouver\u2019s success as a major international destination for conventions and events,\u201d said Mayor Gregor Robertson. \u201cThis year\u2019s record numbers are a big win for our city\u2019s local economy, and for all of the dedicated professionals who are working hard to put Vancouver on the industry map. We look forward to welcoming visitors from around the world to enjoy our city\u2019s natural beauty, along with the world-class talent and meeting facilities we have to offer.\u201d\n\u201cVancouver\u2019s global reputation as a place to do business, to gather, to be inspired, and to hold major events and conferences is moving from strength to strength,\u201d said Ty Speer, President and CEO, Tourism Vancouver. \u201cNot only has Vancouver demonstrated that we have the experience, the world-leading venues and infrastructure to execute these large, complex, and high-profile events; our city has a diverse business environment and spectacular natural setting which provide a compelling backdrop to any event.\u201d\n\u201cWe are proud of our continued success in attracting such an impressive roster of conventions and meetings to the Convention Centre and to welcome back Canada Sevens to BC Place,\u201d said Ken Cretney, President and CEO, BC Pavilion Corporation. \u201cOur success in competing with top cities from around the world to bring these events to Vancouver, BC speaks to the remarkable reputations of our world-class facilities, destination and hospitality and event community.\u201d\nVancouver is currently booking conventions as far away as 2027, and beyond. To view the full list upcoming citywide conventions, visit www.tourismvancouver.com/meetings/citywide-meetings/.\nTags: meetings and conventions, Vancouver Convention Centre", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 7656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.townofwindsor.com/682/Ordinances", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:37Z", "digest": "sha1:3AX7IWZ5JNDZVJC7OORUNCI5QES64TD3", "length": 192, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.townofwindsor.com", "title": "Ordinances | Windsor, CA - Official Website", "raw_content": "This section contains adopted ordinances in the Town of Windsor for the year of 2007 to current. Please contact the Town Clerk if you wish to view adopted ordinances prior to the year of 2007.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 2323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 264.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.transitionculture.org/essential-info/pdf-downloads/one-planet-agriculture-the-case-for-action-soil-association-publication/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:19Z", "digest": "sha1:KRAZVLVEWNQVVTNEBSCFWLJNVHXTKMZS", "length": 623, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.transitionculture.org", "title": "One Planet Agriculture \u2013 the Case for Action. Soil Association publication. \u00bb Transition Culture", "raw_content": "One Planet Agriculture \u2013 the Case for Action. Soil Association publication.\nFor the Soil Association conference, I co-edited a booklet which set out in a concise way the case for peak oil, its implications for farming, and possible directions beyond the peak. Entitled One Planet Agriculture \u2013 the Case for Action , it was given out at the conference, and is a pre-cursor to a longer report called **\u2019One Planet Agriculture: Handbook for Practical Action\u2019** which will be out in a month or so. You can download the booklet as a pdf here, I think it turned out really well, and is a very concise introduction to the subject.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1169, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 319.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.traveldailynews.asia/air-transport-indusrty-safety-experts-gather-at-aapa-event", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:44Z", "digest": "sha1:D2H3HZS6KPYBXA7GI52BEQYQ6MUZMUW6", "length": 3381, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.traveldailynews.asia", "title": "Air transport indusrty safety experts gathered at AAPA event | Traveldailynews.Asia", "raw_content": "Air transport indusrty safety experts gathered at AAPA event\nAviation safety is a shared responsibility built on mutual trust, collaboration and cooperation.\nSeoul, Korea - More than 185 safety professionals from thirty-three Asian airlines and related industry stakeholders were gathered in Seoul, Korea last week for the Asia Pacific Aviation Safety Seminar 2018 (APASS 2018). This leading regional safety forum is dedicated to delivering ever higher standards, with airline specialists meeting with industry stakeholders including regulators, airframe manufacturers and service providers. The event was organised by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA) and hosted by Asiana Airlines.\nAPASS 2018 focused on key industry safety priorities and discussed the challenges resulting from growth, lessons to be learnt from mitigating commonly recognised risk factors and the effective use of data in safety management. The seminar included practical workshops addressing specific safety topics including human factors, decision making, fatigue, SMS implementation and cabin safety, allowing participants to discuss practical solutions, safety threats, and innovative solutions.\nThe two-day seminar was hosted by Asiana Airlines, and strongly supported by Airbus, Boeing, Aireon, Aerobytes, ASQS, CAE, Millennium Seoul Hilton, Ideagen, MITRE, Pratt & Whitney, Singapore Aviation Academy, Southpac Aerospace, and Teledyne Controls.\nWelcoming delegates, Captain Yamamura Akiyoshi, Senior Executive Vice President & CSO, Asiana Airlines said, \u201cCooperation amongst airlines, and the cooperation between airlines and the government are of the utmost importance for safety, and for minimizing the impact of external environmental changes. The theme \"Team up for safety\" for this AAPA Seminar seems to be a very timely topic.\u201d\nKeynote speaker Mr. Stephen Creamer, ICAO Director of the Air Navigation Bureau said, \u201cWe have to continue to work together to highlight the benefits of proactively sharing safety information, and changes to ICAO Annex 19 will provide additional safeguards regarding the use of such information.\u201d\nMr. Creamer continued, \u201cAnother benefit we believe will arise from the shift to performance-based oversight is the opportunity to innovate in environments that are facing rapid growth or challenging airspace or airport configurations.\u201d\nDelivering his opening remarks, AAPA Director General Mr. Andrew Herdman said, \"Flying today is extraordinarily safe. On a daily basis, we are all collectively responsible for the safety, security and welfare of 11 million travelling passengers. This remarkable achievement is a direct result of good teamwork, close cooperation and mutual trust between regulators, airlines and other industry stakeholders.\"\nMr. Herdman continued, \u201cThe travelling public places a high degree of trust in our commitment to further enhance the safety of air travel. We must continue to learn important lessons from accidents and other safety related incidents, and the growing volume of operational data, to improve our processes and procedures and further enhance safety performance.\u201d\nMr. Herdman concluded, \"Safety is an issue that demands constant vigilance and the AAPA is fully committed to work with regulators and other industry stakeholders to support the initiatives and efforts that deliver further improvements across the region.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 397, "original_length": 16880, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 313.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.traveldailynews.asia/thursday-15-february-is-final-day-to-enter-tat-newsroom-blo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:07Z", "digest": "sha1:GU5MRJDOKNAQMW5MEQTPAISORU52ER42", "length": 1454, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.traveldailynews.asia", "title": "Thursday, 15 February is final day to enter TAT Newsroom Blogger Thailand competition | Traveldailynews.Asia", "raw_content": "BANGKOK - The window is closing for bloggers, photographers and social media influencers who wish to enter the Tourism Authority of Thailand's (TAT) much-anticipated TAT Newsroom travel blog and photo competition.\nThis important public service announcement is a courtesy reminder to all bloggers that time is running out. Today is the last day to submit a blog or photo entry, and be eligible to experience the 'Colours of the East' winner's package on offer in the provinces of Rayong, Chanthaburi and Trat from 28 May to 1 June, 2018.\n\"It might be because of an experience-driven bespoke tour an individual takes to an unseen part of Thailand that hasn't been properly covered, or that they managed to write a compelling Thai local experience into the blog. Or perhaps someone is in the right place at the right time to capture a one-off photo at an event.\n\"We encourage everyone to keep submitting content right up until the final deadline. You never know if your entry could be selected unless you try,\" added the TAT Newsroom team.\nBloggers can submit their entries to the 3rd TAT Newsroom Blogger Thailand competition right up until just before midnight on 15 February, 2018. The voting period extends another month to 15 March 2018, with the winners selected and announced on 30 March.\nMore information on the 3rd TAT Newsroom Blogger Thailand competition, including rules and requirements for submitting entries, is available at blog.tatnews.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 393, "original_length": 15156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.travelindustrydeals.com/2016/01/corinthia-london-plays-cupid-for.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WQXEIGIQUMXLUXGCICHW772LMIIXVTJP", "length": 5975, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.travelindustrydeals.com", "title": "Travelindustrydeals: Corinthia London plays cupid for Valentine\u2019s", "raw_content": "Corinthia London plays cupid for Valentine\u2019s\nLONDON, England - Love is in the air at Corinthia Hotel London this February with a number of ways to spoil your beloved at the five-star luxury hotel. Located in the heart of the city, Corinthia London has designed a bouquet of bespoke romantic experiences to steal the hearts of its guests.\nThis February, head to The Northall Bar and enjoy the Perfect Pairing of complimentary Valentine\u2019s macarons with each two glasses of Cuv\u00e9e Ros\u00e9 Laurent-Perrier Champagne purchased. If that has not satisfied your sweet tooth, The Lobby Lounge will be serving an exclusive Valentine\u2019s Afternoon Tea under the Baccarat crystal chandelier. Upgrading from the traditional box of chocolates, delicious fancies have been designed to captivate the eyes and taste buds.\nSpecial Valentines menus have been created in both The Northall and Massimo Restaurant, to be served over the Valentine\u2019s weekend for an intimate fine-dining experience. Celebrating the great British kitchen, The Northall will host a Valentine\u2019s dinner on Saturday, February 13th, and a Valentine\u2019s brunch on Sunday, February 14th. If it is Italian passion you seek, Massimo Restaurant will serve a sumptuous Valentine\u2019s lunch and dinner on Sunday, February 14.\nWhile in Bassoon, our destination live music bar, two unique cocktails have been added to the menu exclusively for Valentine\u2019s \u2013 Romeo, and Juliet. Whether you prefer strong and spicy tipple, or delicate and fruity, both cocktails are blushing red in color and designed for men and women.\nThe award-winning ESPA Life at Corinthia is launching a Private Spa Suite Program for couples this Valentine\u2019s. The bespoke and indulgent package, Valentine\u2019s Time to Share, includes three hours of exclusive use of a spa suite, two hours of treatments per person, a complimentary glass of Champagne and a delicious, healthy lunch.\nWhen the night calls, check-in to a Superior King Room for a one-night Weekend Stay in the City for \u00a3450 (approximately $639.29). For the last word in Valentine\u2019s getaway, opt for the Ultimate Weekend retreat package for \u00a37,000 (approximately $9926.52), which includes two nights in a River Suite overlooking the Thames, two spa treatments, two complimentary dinners, breakfast, and a bottle of Laurent-Perrier Champagne.\nIf you are still stuck for gift ideas, treat your other half with a Corinthia London gift voucher, which can be used across all outlets mentioned above.\nWith love from, Corinthia London.\nSummary of prices and dates:\n\u2022 Perfect Pairing, The Northall Bar \u2013 A selection of complimentary Valentine\u2019s Macarons with 2 glasses of Laurent-Perrier Cuv\u00e9e Ros\u00e9, \u00a340.00 (approximately $56.82). Available February, 1-14\n\u2022 Valentine\u2019s Afternoon Tea, The Lobby Lounge \u2013 With a glass of Laurent-Perrier Brut, \u00a355.00 (approximately $78.14), With a glass of Laurent-Perrier Cuv\u00e9e Ros\u00e9, \u00a360.00 (approximately 85.24). Available from February, 8-14\n\u2022 Valentine\u2019s Dinner, The Northall Restaurant \u2013 4 Courses and a Glass of Laurent-Perrier Champagne, \u00a385.00 (approximately $120.76). Available Saturday, February 13, from 5:30 pm-11 pm\n\u2022 Valentine\u2019s Brunch, The Northall Restaurant - 3 Courses and Free-Flowing Laurent-Perrier Champagne, \u00a390.00 (approximately $127.86). Available Sunday, February 14, from 12:30 pm-4 pm\n\u2022 Valentine\u2019s Lunch (with live harp playing) and Dinner, Massimo Restaurant - 3 Courses and a complimentary Bellini, \u00a385.00 (approximately $120.76). Available Sunday, February 14\n\u2022 Valentine\u2019s cocktails, Romeo and Juliet, Bassoon \u2013 From \u00a317.00 ($24.11). Available from February 12-14\n\u2022 Valentine\u2019s Time to Share, ESPA Life at Corinthia \u2013 Private Spa Suite Program for 2 people - including a Rasul Healing Mud Ritual, 30 minutes\u2019 relaxation time, 2 hours of ESPA Time, and a one-course lunch with a glass of Laurent-Perrier Champagne or freshly squeezed juice - \u00a3900.00 (approximately $1276.27)\n\u2022 One-night Weekend stay at Corinthia London \u2013 Superior King room - \u00a3450.00 (approximately $638.13)\n\u2022 Ultimate Weekend Retreat at Corinthia London \u2013 Two nights in a River Suite, breakfast, one complimentary dinner in The Northall, one complimentary dinner in Massimo, two Personalized Massage or Facial in ESPA Life, and a bottle of Laurent-Perrier Champagne - \u00a37,000.00 (approximately $9,926.52)\n\u2022 Corinthia London Gift Vouchers - \u00a3150 (approximately $212.52) or \u00a3300 (approximately $425.01)\nFor more information on Corinthia Hotel London, please visit:\nTrip Advisor: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g186338-d1845678-Reviews-Corinthia_Hotel_London-London_England.html\nHoused within a Victorian building, Corinthia Hotel London features 294 rooms, including 40 suites and 7 penthouses, offering sweeping views across London\u2019s most popular landmarks. Corinthia London provides unrivalled world-class luxury with superb ground floor offerings, including The Northall restaurant, serving the best in British produce throughout the day; modern Italian cuisine at Massimo Restaurant & Bar; and the musically-inspired Bassoon Bar. The new Garden Lounge offers all-day dining options in an al fresco David Collins Studio designed garden landscape, and a comprehensive cigar and spirits menu for late night entertaining. Corinthia London is also home to the flagship ESPA Life at Corinthia, a next-generation spa housed across four floors, together with a hair salon by Daniel Galvin. The hotel boasts the largest room sizes in London, original restored Victorian columns and tall windows that let in swathes of natural light. Cutting-edge technology in rooms and meeting rooms allow for recording, mixing and broadcasting from dedicated media rooms. Corinthia London is a 21st-century grand hotel located in the heart of London, created by experts with a passion for craftsmanship and an understanding of world-class service. Corinthia London is the ninth of Corinthia Hotels\u2019 collection of five-star hotels founded by the Pisani family of Malta.\nCorinthia Hotel London Lobby Lounge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 19397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 314.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tribune-georgian.com/death-notices/dunlap-0", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:53Z", "digest": "sha1:KHO67ZSSJ23FVVKYB7S3A2QUDAPKKGMR", "length": 292, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tribune-georgian.com", "title": "Dunlap | Tribune & Georgian, St. Marys, Georgia", "raw_content": "Gary Brent Dunlap, 76, of Kingsland died Oct. 26, 2017, with his loving family by his side.\nA celebration gathering of memorial for Mr. Dunlap will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 29, at Coastal Camden Funeral Home.\nCoastal Camden Funeral Home in Kingsland is in charge of arrangements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 1518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tricitynews.com/news/heritage-woods-teens-exercise-in-port-moody-to-save-lives-in-somalia-1.23066892?utm_content=buffere5091&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:35Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYPEQKLM4723JQEU7BMOQJIC5QERT5K3", "length": 4260, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.tricitynews.com", "title": "Heritage Woods teens exercise in Port Moody to save lives in Somalia | Tri-City News", "raw_content": "Heritage Woods teens exercise in Port Moody to save lives in Somalia\nMonth-long program at HWSS will see ready-to-use therapeutic food sent to Africa to feed starving children\nHeritage Woods secondary school\u2019s Move4MANA team, including Katie Sew and Adrienne Clayton, are gearing up for a month of physical fitness in a project that will see the school\u2019s 1,400 students burn calories so that thousands of packages of ready-to-use therapeutic food, called Mother Administered Nutritive Aid (MANA), are donated to feed African children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Sew and Clayton recently visited the factory where MANA is made and hope the project will spread to other schools in the province and North America.\nHeritage Woods secondary school is helping to eradicate world hunger 500 calories at a time.\nOn Monday, the Port Moody school\u2019s 1,400 students embarked on a 30-day Move4MANA challenge to be physically active with the goal of sending a package of ready-to-use therapeutic food, Mother Administered Nutritive Aid (MANA), to Africa for every 500 calories burned.\n\u201cYou have the opportunity to save lives, why wouldn\u2019t you?\u201d asked student Adrienne Clayton, who is helping to organize the project with 12 of her peers.\nMove4MANA is a partnership between MANA Nutrition, which produces the peanut-butter-based substance; Langley-based Food for Famine Society which is donating the MANA packages; and World Vision Canada, which will be distributing them to families in war-torn Somalia.\nIt\u2019s a project that came out of a youth philanthropy initiative, called YIP, that students in the school participated in last spring.\nOne of the judges, Maria Martini from Food For Famine, was so impressed with HWSS\u2019 students charitable efforts that she proposed the idea and the students took it from there, said sponsor teacher Marilyn Nunn.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been teaching for over 30 years and I\u2019ve never seen such an impactful project,\u201d Nunn told The Tri-City News.\nOver the summer, the students produced a video on the project and on Monday, the entire school did exercises and heard from representatives from the Move4MANA partners.\nClayton, who is in Grade 11, and Katie Sew, a Grade 12 student, even got to visit the U.S. state of Georgia, a peanut-growing region where the MANA is produced. They flew there on a private jet with a group of food writers, toured the factory and a peanut farm, and participated in an American Peanut Council dinner.\nBut the highlight of their two-day trip was meeting former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, who were gracious and enthusiastic about their project.\n\u201cH was very nice,\u201d said Sew, who recalls chatting with the former first family\u2019s governess, who regaled them with stories about the Carter family.\nOver the short visit the girls learned a lot about peanuts \u2014 which are actually a plant of the pea family and grow underground. They also saw the fortified nutritional supplement being made; it looks like a paste and is shipped in a plastic packet.\nThe fact that MANA can save the life of a child suffering from severe acute malnutrition is what has the girls excited.\n\u201cTogether we can save so many lives,\u201d said Clayton.\nHer friend noted that the hope is that other schools across Canada and the U.S. join in the challenge so that the lives of children in developing countries are saved while students in North America get more physically fit.\nMANA Nutrition co-founder Mark Moore said as much in a Huffington Post article about the Port Moody school\u2019s Move4MANA project.\n\u201cSo they are asking, what if we took our abundance and actually used it to balance the scarcity in another part of the globe? We\u2019ve always known that was a way to motivate people to give dollars. But what about giving something else? What about giving of our energy by getting active?\u201d he wrote.\nNoting that HWSS kicked off its challenge on World Food Day, Moore said it\u2019s time North Americans learned to understand that prosperity on one side of the globe is equally matched by poverty on the other.\nThe students agree and are ready to jump into the Move4MANA campaign, using the Active For Good app to measure their activity.\n\u201cI\u2019m hoping to get our school motivated with global community work and get more active,\u201d Sew said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 8349, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tripsavvy.com/st-georges-chapel-windsor-england-guide-4156414", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:UKPWSPF7RIWPPCVU5IYCP43WDEDV7HOO", "length": 7570, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.tripsavvy.com", "title": "St. George's Chapel at Windsor: The Complete Guide", "raw_content": "St. George's Chapel at Windsor: The Complete Guide\nEpics/Getty Images\nThe wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at St. George's Chapel, Windsor on May 19, 2018, has put this special church high on many a visitor's curiosity lists. Here is everything you need to know to plan a visit.\nWhen he married in what is, in essence, the family chapel, Prince Harry walked down the aisle of the same church his mother, the late Princess Diana, carried him to be christened.\nSome of the other famous recent events in the chapel dedicated to St.\nGeorge, the patron saint of England, include:\nThe blessing of the civil marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, now Duchess of Cornwall (a church wedding was ruled out because of their divorces, their very public adultery and public opinion at the time)\nThe wedding of Prince Edward, Queen Elizabeth's youngest son, to Sophie Rhys-Jones, now the Duchess of Wessex. Peter Philips, Princess Anne's son, married Autumn Kelly there.\nThe separate funerals of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (you may know them as Edward and Mrs. Simpson), both persona non-grata in Britain for more than 35 years (the Duchess for nearly 50 years) but accorded the rites of a former king and his consort (Edward's uncrowned reign lasted less than a year before he abdicated to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson).\nHenry VIII and his third wife Jane Seymour, the mother of his only son, rest under the floor of St George's Chapel.\nSo does the headless corpse of the doomed King Charles I. For more than 500 years, British Royals (and several of their German cousins) have been hatched, matched and dispatched at St.George's, within the walls of Windsor Castle.\nThe chapel is part of the College of St George, a religious community established by King Edward III in 1348, to worship together, offer prayers for the Sovereign and the Order of the Garter, to provide service to society and hospitality to visitors.\nThe Order of the Garter, the oldest and highest British order of chivalry and the only one currently completely in the gift of the Queen, was founded in the same year. Apparently, Edward was inspired by tales of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table to set up his own chivalric order of knights.\nToday, the college buildings, which include a prep school and apartments for the Military Knights of Windsor (similar to the Chelsea Pensioners), occupy a quarter of the buildings at Windsor Castle.\nThe chapel, the centerpiece of the college, was built between 1475 and 1528. First commissioned by King Edward IV, it was King Henry VIII who ordered the creation of the chapel's breathtaking fan-vaulted ceiling.\nProcessions and Weddings\nSince its beginnings, St George's Chapel has been the home of the Order of the Garter. Its annual procession is held in June, when the knights (Companions of the Order of the Garter), parade in velvet robes and plumed hats, garlanded with glittering regalia and accompanied by all the rigmarole of medieval and royal pageantry. It is one of the highlights of the year at Windsor and fills the town with hundreds of spectators.\nCrowds turn out for weddings of princes as well as secondary and minor royals and they've been doing that for decades.\nWhen Queen Victoria's eldest son, the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, married the Princess Alexandra of Denmark, Queen Victoria watched unobserved from the Catherine of Aragon Closet (more about that below). While still a Prince, King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden married Margaret of Connaught, Queen Victoria's granddaughter and daughter of her third son, Prince Arthur. Most of Queen Victoria's children and grandchildren launched their married lives here.\nThings to See Inside\nSt George's Chapel is considered a masterpiece of Perpendicular Gothic, a late medieval style of English architecture. If you're not a specialist, a certain been-there-done-that exhaustion can set in if you look at too many medieval churches (easy to do in the UK). Instead, save your energy for inside. That's where you'll find the chapel's real wow factor.\nMake sure you allow yourself enough time when you visit Windsor to explore it. You'll see:\nThe intricate fan-vaulted ceiling, best viewed from the central aisle of the nave. A pivoting mirror mounted on ball bearings in the aisle allows you to look at this amazing ceiling without getting a crick in your neck or imagining you're falling upward into it. The ceiling was Henry VIII's addition to the chapel.\nThe West Window is believed to be the third largest stained glass window in England. (The Great West Window at York Minster is the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world.) The window's 75 lights (or panels) were removed in 1940 to protect them from German bombs. They remained in storage for the remainder of WWII.\nThe Quire, where the carved wood paneling is medieval, houses the Garter Knights Stalls. Knights and Ladies who become Companions of the Order receive a stall in this chapel for life. Decorative stall plates are attached to the stall and a banner hangs above it. The stall plate remains after the member dies. So, even though there are only 24 members of the Order of the Garter at any one time, there are hundreds of colorful painted or enameled stall plates reflecting the order through hundreds of years. When he was installed, Prince William became the thousandth member.\nThe Oriel Window aka the Catherine of Aragon Closet is a secluded seat, shielded by a carved lattice, above the Quire. Henry VIII had it installed for his first wife, Catherine of Aragon\u200b so that she could watch the Order of the Garter service. When she was in mourning Queen Victoria often watched ceremonies - and even weddings - from here.\nThe Queen's Stall, an 18th century decorated box from which the Sovereign can observe services.\nThe Royal Tombs\nTen British Kings, along with their consorts are buried within St George's Chapel. Look out for:\nThe Tomb Henry VIII, Jane Seymour\u2014his third wife\u2014and Charles I, the king beheaded on the orders of Oliver Cromwell. Together with the infant child of Queen Anne, they are buried beneath a \"Ledger Stone\" in the central aisle of the Quire.\nKing George III, who lost the American colonies in the American War of Independence, also buried in the Quire.\nKing Edward IV and Queen Elizabeth Woodville. If you've followed the series The White Queen or read the book The White Queen by Philippa Gregory, you'll have heard of Elizabeth Woodville. She was the mother of the Princes in the Tower, who may have been murdered on the orders of the wicked King Richard III. Edward and Elizabeth Woodville are buried in the North Quire Aisle.\nThe King George VI Memorial Chapel is the last resting place of the current Queen's parents, Elizabeth The Queen Mother, King George VI (perhaps you've seen The King's Speech?) and the ashes of Princess Margaret, the late sister of the Queen.\nUnless you are attending a church service, you can only visit St. George's chapel as part of a visit to Windsor Castle, Monday through Saturday. It is closed to visitors on Sunday however you can freely attend church services there. Worship services on Sunday and throughout the week are freely open to all. To attend, check the St George's Chapel website for the schedule of services. Then simply tell a guardsman at the Castle exit gate, just down Castle Hill from the main entrance. He or she will hand you on to an usher who can escort you inside.\n5 Great Views From the Top\nLovely Leeds Castle in Pictures -\nHow to Visit Ham House, One of England's Most Haunted Sites", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 10080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 178.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.troupelawoffice.com/somerville-workers-compensation-attorney.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:53Z", "digest": "sha1:SC2CPEPFRNVPIPLHZCMB5QQO5J3NES5X", "length": 1670, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.troupelawoffice.com", "title": "Somerville Workers' Compensation Attorney | Middlesex County Workplace Injury Lawyers", "raw_content": "Somerville Workers' Compensation Attorney\nSomerville Workers Comp Lawyer\nSomerville is a town located directly northwest of Boston, and part of Middlesex County. It has a population of over 75,000 people, making it one of the most populated cities in Massachusetts. It is also one of the most densely populated cities in the United States.\nNearby cities and towns include Boston, Cambridge, Cambridge, Arlington, Medford, Everett. It is located along the Mystic River.\nSomerville was originally part of Charlestown, and was one of the earliest settlements in Massachusetts. It has a rich history dating back to colonial times, and played a vital role in American Revolutionary War. It then became a major industrial city with industries such as brick making, quarrying, and dairy farming. Eventually, given it's proximity to Boston, the farming industry began to decline to make was for roads, railways, and bridges into Boston. Meatpacking also became a large industry in Somerville.\nToday, given it's closeness to Boston, Somerville is a highly urbanized city, and one of the most populated cities in Massachusetts.\nIf you have sustained a work-related injury, it is important that you speak to a Somerville Workers\u2019 Comp lawyer as soon as possible. A Somerville Workers\u2019 Compensation attorney can help ensure that your rights are effectively protected.\nAt the Troupe Law Office, we have represented thousands of claimants throughout Massachusetts, including cities like Somerville. We are experienced Workers\u2019 Compensation Attorneys located on the North Shore of Boston in Peabody.\nSomerville Workers' Compensation Attorney | Middlesex County Workplace Injury Lawyers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3170, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 163.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.truetorahjews.org/qanda/genesis", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:10Z", "digest": "sha1:MYFFBNXZ7KRCICEQHIOYPBOQTXORHBUQ", "length": 3899, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.truetorahjews.org", "title": "Does Genesis 12:3 mean that Christians must support Zionism? | Torah Jews", "raw_content": "Home /Does Genesis 12:3 mean that Christians must support Zionism?\nWould you please tell me what you feel is the meaning of Genesis 12:3? Many fundamentalist Christians are interpreting this to mean they must support the Zionist state, or face the wrath of the Almighty. I don't believe their interpretation to be the truth, because that means God supports injustice and lies, which I know cannot be. But, I don't know what to tell people, when they quote this to back their beliefs. Can you please help me out? Perhaps then I can persuade some to see the truth. Thank you very much! L. Davis., CT\n\"And I will bless those who bless you, and those who curse you I will curse, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you.\" (Genesis 12:3). This is G-d's blessing to Abraham and his descendents, the Jewish people. It means that all people in the world should bless and befriend the Jews if they want to earn G-d's favor. But it has nothing to do with the Zionists, who do not represent the Jews. Supporting the true Israel, that is the Jewish people, is indeed a good thing. The state created in 1948 that bears the name \"Israel\" is not really Israel at all. It is a country founded by non-believing Jews who did not understand the historic destiny and belief system of the Jewish people.\nThe previous two verses in Genesis describe G-d's command to Abraham to go to the Land of Canaan. However, that does not mean that Jews must possess Canaan at all times of history. The Torah fortells in Lev. 26 and Deut. 28 long periods of exile in which Jews will be out of their land, and will have to wait for G-d to give it back to them. Even Abraham himself was not permitted to take possession of the land; he was merely promised that his descendents would get it after the Egyptian exile. When he wanted a burial plot for Sarah, he had to purchase it for a high price (Gen. 23). The Talmudic rabbis relate that Abraham muzzled his livestock so that they would not eat from the fields of the Canaanites. He was very careful not to take what was not his, for the time for fulfilling G-d's promise had not yet come. This is the lesson we must learn from these verses today.\nToday's immigration to the State of Israel is not the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies, because the vast majority of the people came in a manner forbidden by the Torah and Talmud. The State of Israel was established by force of arms and the Talmud states that Jews are forbidden to reestablish their kingdom in the Holy Land by force of arms before the messiah comes. Ninety percent of the 5.4 million Jews who are there now came after the state was established in 1948. And of the ten percent who came before, most of them came with the intention of building a state before the messiah which they knew would have to be accomplished through war.\nThe prophets say that it will be G-d Who redeems the Jewish people from exile and gathers them in. Here is a partial list of verses: Isaiah 27:12, 40:9, 41:14, 43:5-6, 52:12, 54:7, 56:8, Jeremiah 16:15, 23:3, 30:10, 31:9, 33:7, Ezekiel 11:17, 20:34, 28:25, 34:13, 37:21, 36:24. Hosea 1:7, Micah 2:12, Zachariah 4:6, 8:7, Psalms 53:7, 106:47.\nThis clearly cannot be referring to an aliyah and an ingathering that is done in violation of G-d's commandments. Rather, it is referring to the coming of the messiah. It is the messiah who will gather in the Jews from exile, not Herzl, Weizman, Ben Gurion and all the rest of them.\nWe appreciate the friendship of gentiles who feel a duty to support Jews. We stress, however, that if someone truly likes Jews, they will want to have Jews as neighbors, not encourage them to run off to the other side of the world to a place where their gentile neighbors do not appreciate their activities.\nJerusalem Divrei Yoel Holocaust Q&A Rabbinic Quotations Three Oaths Exile Current Events Anti-Semitism Aliyah Vayoel Moshe Parsha-Pearls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4579, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 150.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.trydrd.com/code-of-conduct/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:37Z", "digest": "sha1:DBX3QZBHJAPSYYEQEMFCDZVYAS7MOCVR", "length": 4090, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.trydrd.com", "title": "Dr. Denese | Code Of Conduct", "raw_content": "Scientific Skincare Technologies, LLC. Supplier\u2019s Code of Conduct\nScientific Skincare Technologies, LLC. (\u201cScientific Skincare Technologies\u201d) is committed to the highest standards of product quality and business integrity when we are dealing with our customers, suppliers (\u201cSuppliers\u201d), business associates, and employees. This Supplier\u2019s Code of Conduct (\u201cCode\u201d) sets forth Scientific Skincare Technologies\u2019 fundamental expectations of its suppliers to ensure that working conditions in the supply chain are safe, that workers\u2019 rights are protected, that workers\u2019 are treated in a manner respecting the cultural and legal differences found throughout the world and that manufacturing processes are socially responsible and compliant with local applicable law and local legislation, including the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act of 2010. Suppliers who fail to meet the Code will be terminated from Scientific Skincare Technologies\u2019 supply chain.\nSuppliers and their designated manufacturing facilities must fully comply with all applicable national and/or local laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those related to labor, immigration, health and safety, and the environment.\n2. Voluntary Labor\nAll labor must be voluntary. Slave, child, underage, forced, bonded, or indentured labor will not be tolerated. Suppliers shall not engage in or support the trafficking of human beings. Suppliers shall certify that they have implemented procedures to manage the materials, including all labor-related processes, incorporated into their products to ensure they comply with applicable local and international laws on slavery and human trafficking. Workers must be allowed to maintain control over their identity documents.\n3. Labor Hours\nSuppliers must provide workers with rest days and must ensure that working hours are not excessive and are consistent with applicable labor laws.\n4. Hiring and Employment Practices\nSuppliers must implement hiring practices that accurately verify workers\u2019 age and legal right to work in the country prior to employment. All terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, hiring, pay, training, promotion, termination, and retirement must be based on an individual\u2019s ability and willingness to do the job.\n5. Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining\nSuppliers must respect the right of workers to choose whether to lawfully and peacefully form or join trade unions of their choosing and to bargain collectively.\nSuppliers must provide workers with a safe and healthy work environment, including, where appropriate, proper personal protective equipment. Suppliers must take proactive measures to prevent workplace hazards. Potable water must be provided.\n7. Dormitories and Canteen\nSuppliers who provide residential and dining facilities for their workers must provide safe, healthy and sanitary facilities.\nSuppliers should ensure that every manufacturing facility complies with environmental laws, including all laws related to waste disposal, air emissions, discharges, toxic substances and hazardous waste disposal. Suppliers must validate that all input materials and components are obtained from permissible harvests consistent with international treaties and protocols in addition to local laws and regulations.\n9. Gifts and Entertainment\nSuppliers must not offer gifts or entertainment to Scientific Skincare Technologies associates or those working on behalf of Scientific Skincare Technologies.\nSuppliers must not enter into transactions with Scientific Skincare Technologies associates that create a conflict of interest.\nSuppliers must not tolerate, permit, or engage in bribery, corruption, or unethical practices whether in dealings with public officials or individuals in the private sector.\n12. Financial Integrity\nSuppliers must keep accurate records of all matters related to their business with Scientific Skincare Technologies in accordance with standard accounting practices such as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 4669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 274.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tucsonaz.gov/pdsd/news/inspection-news", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:46Z", "digest": "sha1:HFGR7NS465GKTHKCJ5LCI7OCHKHKBWR3", "length": 1604, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.tucsonaz.gov", "title": "INSPECTION NEWS | Official website of the City of Tucson", "raw_content": "A permit is required to perform work on private property. Please refer to the exceptions for work that may be done without a permit. After a permit has been obtained, work may begin. Permit holders must have the work inspected prior to covering it up. For example, foundations must be inspected after the dirt is removed but before the concrete is poured.\nMost residential work may be inspected through Remote Video Inspections. This program allows a permit holder to use their smart phone to chat with an inspector live and show the work performed through the video camera. Most commercial work must be inspected in person with the inspector on the job site. However, if the inspector has requested corrections, the follow-up inspection may be performed through Remote Video Inspections. In some cases, a photograph may be sent to the inspector for follow-up verification. Photographs may only be sent after an inspector has visited the site in person first and must be sent the same day the inspection occurred. These changes only apply to City of Tucson inspections. If you have other agencies performing inspections on your project, you must communicate with them directly for their inspection policies.\nThe City of Tucson will no longer be performing inspections for window or stucco installation. The building code still applies to this type of work so care must be taken to ensure windows and stucco are installed correctly. If you have an active permit with window or stucco inspections attached, please diregard these items. Additional inspection information may be found on our Inspection page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.turfmagazine.com/lawn-care/more-changes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2YIZWDAOEHGWQMW7ADFCJGSPGM3HWKRR", "length": 2778, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.turfmagazine.com", "title": "More Changes - Turf", "raw_content": "Lawn CareProducts\ndcassidy@MooseRiverMedia.com\nThose of you who notice such things likely noticed that we changed our appearance last month. As you can see, we didn\u2019t do anything too radical; just modernized our logo a bit and (hopefully) cleaned up our presentation. Throughout the redesign process, we\u2019ve tried to remember that we produce Turf for you, the working lawn care operator and landscaper. We\u2019re not out to win any design awards or industry accolades. Our only directive is to bring you what you\u2019ve told us you want\u2014stories about people who solve the same day-to-day problems that you do and information about products that will help you be more productive, safe and profitable. We\u2019re trying to bring you that information in the clearest way possible. Let us know if you think we can do it better.\nDon\u2019t forget, every issue of Turf is now uploaded to our Web site, dev.turfmagazine.com. You don\u2019t need to log in or give us your name or e-mail address. Everything at the site is available to you with no strings attached. In addition to current and back issues of the magazine, you\u2019ll find helpful directories to find the products you\u2019re looking for, as well as the local dealers selling and servicing those products. There are helpful links to all of our sister publications and online communities, including the industry\u2019s most popular Web site, www.LawnSite.com.\nWhat? You haven\u2019t become a member at www.LawnSite.com yet? If not, you are missing out on the biggest database of useful information available anywhere in the lawn care industry, not to mention the day-to-day conversation and interaction with your peers from across the country. Check it out!\nYou\u2019re going to want to keep an eye on dev.turfmagazine.com. We have a lot of things we want to add this year to make the site more informative and more interactive for you.\nSpeaking of new, starting with this issue of Turf, we will be running a monthly section entitled \u201cTurf Science.\u201d Within this section you will find information about all aspects of chemical control products: what they are, how they work, what they can do for your customers and what they can do for you and your business. This is such an important (and potentially profitable) part of any lawn care or landscaping operation, we want to highlight it every month. We\u2019ll be looking to the chemical manufacturers, formulators and distributors, as well as you, our readers, to help us stay on target and present the information you need to be knowledgeable and successful in this vital area of our industry.\nAll of the changes we\u2019ve been making over the last year or so have one goal in mind, to make our magazines and electronic products more useful to you. If you have ideas on how we can do that better, never hesitate to drop me a line.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 5517, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 222.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.turfmagazine.com/the-latest/protecting-pollinators-in-ornamental-landscapes-participants-learned-bee-decline-complexities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:22Z", "digest": "sha1:HPCKBLTMX43522QY5JXFRAMKE6W6SN5F", "length": 6108, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.turfmagazine.com", "title": "\"Protecting Pollinators in Ornamental Landscapes\" participants learned bee decline complexities - Turf", "raw_content": "\u201cProtecting Pollinators in Ornamental Landscapes\u201d participants learned bee decline complexities\nConference participants learned about complex issues facing pollinators and the challenges policy-makers face in creating new regulations and new best management practices to protect pollinators.\nThe Protecting Pollinators in Ornamental Landscapes Conference that was co-hosted by Michigan State University Extension and North Carolina State University on Oct. 12-14, 2015, drew in almost 200 participants from 35 states and three countries. The conference brought a diverse audience including educators, academic researchers, industry scientists, beekeepers, greenhouse and nursery growers and students.\nThe mixture of participants provided for interesting discussion sessions on challenging topics such as what the appropriate regulatory restrictions on the economically-important neonicotinoid insecticides should be based on the current knowledge base. The leading researchers pointed out that while pesticide usage is not the primary driver of bee decline, it could be an aspect in a web of stress factors. This viewpoint is consistent with that of numerous organizations, including the United States Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency.\nTwenty-three educational sessions at the conference focused on the importance and function of pollinators to the ornamental landscape, the effects of pesticides on pollinators and how educators can begin engaging the public in the national conversation on pollinator health. Participants learned about the challenges facing pollinators by numerous speakers, including Dave Goulson, a professor at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, who emphasized that multiple factors are contributing to bee decline, including: decreased food sources and nesting sites, exposure to non-native parasites and diseases, and the exposure to pesticides.\nConference attendees also learned that in addition to the many factors influencing pollinator health, the acute toxicity of bees to different insecticides is an incredibly complex subject in itself. For example, Cynthia Scott-Dupree, professor and Bayer CropScience Chair in Sustainable Pest Management at the University of Guelph, presented on the acute toxicity of Apis mellifera and non-Apis bees (Bombus impatiens or bumble bees, Megachile rotundata or leafcutter bees, and Osmia lignaria or blue orchard bees) to five different insecticides (imidacloprid, clothianidin, deltamethrin, spinosad and novaluron). The four species of bees differed in their susceptibility to the different insecticides. For all species except O. lignaria, clothianidin was the most toxic. For two of the bee species (B. impatiens and M. rotundata), novaluron was the least toxic. The complexity of acute toxicities alone points out the challenges that regulators face in trying to develop broad policies to protect pollinators.\nWhile there is mounting evidence that pesticide exposure does have some impacts on bees and other pollinators, other speakers at the conference pointed out the challenges with not using some of the systemic insecticides. Dan Potter, professor of entomology at University of Kentucky, pointed out neonicotinoid insecticides are the least expensive treatment for grubs in lawns of homeowners or golf courses. The neonicotinoid insecticides are extremely effective for the treatment of lace bugs, whiteflies, leaf miners, phyllids, aphids, scales and many more problematic insects of ornamentals. In addition, the uses of these systemic insecticides are less hazardous than spraying, especially for homeowners and landscape professionals.\nPete Nowak, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, emphasized these points by sharing neonicotinoids case studies and surveys that demonstrated the value of the neonicotinoids to a variety of agricultural industries. In a survey of members of professional green industry organizations titled \u201cThe Value of Neonicotinoids to Turf and Ornamental Professionals,\u201d 50 percent of greenhouses, 65 percent of nurseries and 68 percent of lawn care companies reported they would have reduced profits if the neonicotinoids were not used. Without the use of neonicotinoid insecticides, 66.9 percent of all survey respondents said they would see an increase in labor costs while 77.6 percent said they would increase insecticide applications. Therefore, the replacement of neonicotinoids with alternatives that might be more hazardous chemically and require more spray applications may have broad economic consequences on plant producers. The irony is that greenhouse and nursery growers do, after all, grow plants which can be food sources for bees.\nTherefore, a compromise between all involved industries and stakeholders based on research-based scientific evidence is necessary in order to develop regulations and policies regarding insecticides. The Protecting Pollinators in Ornamental Landscapes conference was an essential first step in connecting researchers, educators and industry in order to share ideas and create new pollinator initiatives. 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Almost 70 percent of evaluation respondents said they would attend a similar conference again if hosted in two years.\nThe conference sponsors:\nGold: Bayer CropScience, Valent, Syngenta\nSilver: Biobest\nBronze: American Floral Endowment, North Carolina Nursery and Landscape Association\nThis article was originally published by Heidi Wollaeger, Michigan State University Extension.\nTags:\tBayerSyngentaTrade Shows\nNext post Arboriculture Speakers To Share Expertise At New England GROWS\nPrevious post Building a Landscape Company One Step at a Time\n2018 Product Roundup: Herbicides & Fertilizers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 8768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.tutorz.com/find/government/4", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:08Z", "digest": "sha1:F3RGCQ444LQY3BUHJXXIJN7MCKCWZOU5", "length": 2823, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.tutorz.com", "title": "Government tutors | TutorZ.com", "raw_content": "Bedford 76021 \u00b7 $40/hour \u00b7 teaches Geography - Government & Politics - Homeschool -\nI am a Social Studies educator, that currently teaches Government and Economics. 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But, whether it\u2019s the cutting that goes against the grain or with the grain, in both cases we feel we\u2019re attuned not to something weak and demure, but to a powerful force\u2014a force to be reckoned with.\u201d\n\u2014Henry Adams, Case Western Reserve University, in \u201cDefiance of Gravity\u201d\nIn Robyn Horn\u2019s thirty years as a wood sculptor, her work has evolved from small, lathe-turned objects to ten-foot-high redwood compositions like her Already Set in Motion #1170, which graces a garden at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In creating these forms that rise from the earth at improbable angles, Horn\u2019s primary tool is the chainsaw, and yet a tenderness for her medium reveals itself in the delicate balance of planes that allows her sculptures to both loom and flow, visually indicating that they are precarious when in fact they are sturdy.\nThe essays and images in The Sculpture of Robyn Horn sketch the industrious career of this Little Rock, Arkansas-based sculptor, illuminating her attention to geometry, physics, and the philosophy of design, and exploring the context and origin of the various series\u2014Geodes, Millstones, Standing Stones, and Slipping Stones, among others\u2014that characterize her body of work.\nRead an excerpt at Arkansas Life.\nRobyn Horn is a sculptor. 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There is a focus on developmental psychopathology drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, with a specific emphasis on neuroscience. Students spend year one in London, primarily based at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and year two at Yale University in the USA.\nClick here to view our upcoming events for prospective students\n\u00a39,860 (FT)\n\u00a325,150 (FT)\nClose: 25 February 2019\nLocation: London, Kings Cross (Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families) and Yale University (USA)\nA minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.\nNote that this is a highly selective course and early applications are recommended.\nTypically 10 students are accepted each year. The overall aim of this programme is to understand how mental health problems emerge in childhood drawing from multiple perspectives, including neuroscience, cognitive, developmental, clinical, and psychoanalytic approaches. A substantial research project is completed in the second year at Yale. As an MRes, this Master\u2019s programme provides an excellent framework to advance students' research skills, important for those planning a future PhD or Clinical Doctorate.\nThe programme provides an introduction to a range of perspectives on developmental psychopathology, covering all major disorders of childhood. Why do disorders such as anxiety, depression, or autism emerge? How can we understand these disorders in relation to mental processes and representations? And what can a neuroscience approach add? The course focuses on being able to effectively critique current research as we as the development of practical research skills, including techniques such as fMRI and EEG/ERP.\nIn the first year you will be primarily based at the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families in Hampstead, London with full access to UCL\u2019s internationally renowned campus, including libraries and computer facilities. The first year modules provide a foundation in developmental psychopathology and affective neuroscience, which includes an introduction to the main therapeutic orientations including cognitive behavioural, systemic and psychoanalytic approaches. Students will also develop core skills in research such as neuroscientific methods and statistics, providing a necessary foundation for the research project in the second year at Yale.\nTeaching during Year 2 comprises a series of formative workshops that aim to support students in completing their independent research project and engage productively in the work of the research lab of their mentor/supervisor.\nThese workshops normally include: fMRI methods, EEG methods and Integrating multiple perspectives, which includes clinical, neuroscience, psychoanalytic and other approaches. Electives taught by Yale faculty across disciplines are offered, including neuroscience, philosophy, clinical science, research methodology, and statistics.\nWe strongly encourage students to produce publishable findings from their research, in collaboration with their research mentor.\nWhy Study at UCL?\nThe Division of Psychology & Language Sciences undertakes world-leading research and teaching in mind, behaviour, and language.\nOur work attracts staff and students from around the world. Together they create an outstanding and vibrant environment, taking advantage of cutting-edge resources such as a behavioural neuroscience laboratory, a centre for brain imaging, and extensive laboratories for research in speech and language, perception, and cognition.\nThere are opportunities for graduate students to be taught by world-renowned researchers in all areas of investigation, from basic processes to applied research. The Division offers a supportive environment including numerous specialist seminars, workshops, and guest lectures.\nThe programme is particularly suitable for students with a strong academic background in psychology, medicine, genetics, neuroscience and related disciplines who have an interest in neuroscience. Students typically progress to a PhD, Clinical Doctorate or Medicine. Applicants are not required to have extensive research experience, but some relevant research experience and ideally familiarity with empirical research (e.g. data collection, analysis and writing up) is important.\nThis two year MRes is comprised of a total value of 330 credits across eight core assessed modules, formative courses, and a research portfolio.\nYear 1: London\nCourse Themes Modules\nNeuroscience Neuroscience Methods Affective Neuroscience\nResearch Methods Evaluating Research Literature (Formative) Statistical Analysis Research Skills\nChild Development and Psychopathology Multiple Perspectives on Developmental\nPsychopathology I Multiple Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology II (Double module spanning 2 terms)\nPsychoanalytic Thought Psychoanalytic Thought: The Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Thought: Developments and Application\nYear 2: Yale\nResearch Oral presentation and proposal Dissertation\nFormative teaching Series of workshops covering EEG, fMRI, integrating multiple perspectives\nThe programme is delivered through lectures, research classes, tutorials, small group seminars, and computer-based practical classes. Assessment is normally through essays, exams and coursework (assessing, for example, science communication and research skills). In the second year a research portfolio will be assessed (see details below).\nIn Year 2, students will complete a research portfolio that focuses on developing the key skills required for research and clinical careers; specifically the portfolio that comprises:\nProject Presentation \u2013 an oral presentation of the original research project to be conducted in Year 2, the supporting PowerPoint presentation and a written research proposal. This element is worth 15 credits.\nDissertation \u2013 a 15,000 - 17,000 word thesis relating to the student\u2019s independent research project. This element is worth 165 credits.\nA conference style research poster. This element is worth 15 credits.\nPrevious projects have spanned a broad range of populations and methodologies and have included:\n\u2013 fMRI and social exclusion in autism\n\u2013 EEG, face processing and autistic and psychopathic traits\n\u2013 fMRI, stress and childhood maltreatment\n\u2013 Prenatal stress and ADHD: a translational model\n\u2013 Mentalisation in adolescents: understanding addictions\n\u2013 Neurocognitive effects of cannabis and nicotine use in schizophrenia\n\u2013 fMRI: the biological basis of risk taking and reward\n\u2013 Effective attachment based interventions for mothers in substance misuse treatment\nClick here to see one previous student present his research in a short video.\nNathan Hayes DNP Alumni, discusses his Dissertation: The Impact of Maternal Substance Use on Neural Processing of Social and Non-social Feedback\nNormally a minimum of an upper second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.\nPlease see our English proficiency requirements.\nThe official deadline is the 25th February 2019 but we suggest applying early as this is a highly selective course.\nPlease note: you are required to provide details of 2 referees in your application, at least one of whom should be academic. We require your references to be completed on or very soon after the application deadline so please bear this in mind when you apply.\nPlease note: this course is not eligible for US Federal Loan Authority funding.\nThe Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families offers one bursary for this MRes course (\u00a33000 per year) which is open only to Home and EU Students. It is awarded based on academic ability and potential as well as on financial need. Please note, students are only eligible to apply for the bursary once they have been issued with a firm offer from UCL for this course. The bursary is administered by the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families and is not part of UCL.\nUCL Scholarships\nThere are a variety of different funding options for both UK/EU and International Students. For information on entry scholarships and other sources of funding for Graduate students please go to the UCL Scholarships page\nThe MRes in Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology has been the most academically rewarding experience I\u2019ve had to date. The opportunity to study at two world-renowned institutions, and the chance to design, set-up and run my own independent EEG project has been incredible. I\u2019ve gained so many invaluable skills to take with me as I start a PhD in research \u2013 an achievement I definitely owe to this program. It\u2019s been a great two years!\nHannah, former DNP student 2017\nThis program was the most gratifying experience of my academic career. While the first year allows you to explore perspectives from neurobiology and epigenetics to psychoanalysis, the second year is there to really let you pick a field and topic of interest and apply it to cutting-edge research. Whether you\u2019re interested in a clinical or research career, this program allows you to forge your own path.\nDerek, former DNP student 2017\nThe two years spent at the Anna Freud Centre/UCL and Yale have been an intellectually stimulating time during which I acquired the necessary skills to further my career. In particular, I enjoyed the fact that the programme offered both a comprehensive taught component (during the first year in London) as well as a strong \u201chands-on\u201d research experience (during the second year in Yale). The research project goes well beyond what most master programs usually offer. During the second year at Yale I had the unique opportunity to immerse myself in a research environment, for a full year, with some of the best teams in the world. Moreover, the taught components during both the first and the second year allowed me to have direct contact and discussions with world leading clinicians and academics of various fields, including developmental psychopathology, cognitive neuroscience and psychoanalysis.\nMattia, former DNP student 2015\nVisit the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families website for a virtual tour and to find out more about postgraduate study at the Centre.\nTypically, students are motivated to pursue a research career (for example, working as a Research Fellow, undertaking a PhD) or pursuing a clinical career (for example, applying for a Clinical Psychology Doctorate, Child Psychotherapy training or medical degree).\nOver half of students typically progress to further research, either as research assistants or to PhD programmes. The remainder either pursue further clinical training or work. A minority decide to pursue a career outside of psychology. The chart below details the career paths of our graduates from 2015 and 2016.\nDepartment: Division of Psychology and Language Sciences\nContact Name: Ms Danielle Berry\nContact Email: dnp@annafreud.org\nQ. Do I need a specialist background in neuroscience to apply for this course?\nA. No. All prospective students will be expected to have an interest in neuroscience, and some applicants may have completed introductory courses at undergraduate level. Applicants will need to be able to speak at interview about their interest in neuroscience.\nQ. What kind of background do you look for in successful candidates?\nA. Previously successful applicants have a strong academic background in: Psychology Medicine, Genetics Neuroscience and related disciplines. Relevant research experience is also highly desirable.\nQ. Would I need to have lots of research experience to secure an offer?\nA. Applicants are not required to have had extensive research experience, but some familiarity with experimental work (e.g. data collection, analysis and writing up) is important.\nQ. I'm an overseas student. Where can I convert my grades to find out if I am eligible for the course?\nA. You can find information on converting grades on the International Students website, under information by country.\nQ. Am I required to take the GRE to qualify for the MRes?\nA. No. Applicants do not need to take the GRE. This is not required as part of the selection process.\nQ. Is it possible to do the MRes as a part time student?\nA. The programme is offered as full-time only.\nQ. Do you accept mature students?\nA. Yes, we accept students of all ages providing they meet the Graduate Admission requirements. More information about the University's Equal Opportunities Policy can be found on the Equal Opportunities page of the website.\nQ. Are fees payable for both years of the MRes?\nA. Yes, fees are payable to UCL for both years of study.\nQ. Are there funds or grants within the University or department that may be able to assist with the cost of the course?\nA. There are a variety of different funding options for both UK/EU and International Students. For information on entry scholarships and other sources of funding for Graduate students please go to the UCL Scholarships page. To apply for funding, it is necessary to have filled in an application form for admission as a Graduate student before completing a scholarship application form. Please note that the deadlines for scholarship applications are strongly adhered to and no application will be accepted after the deadline date indicated.\nThe Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families offers one bursary for this MRes course (\u00a33000 per year) which is open only to Home and EU Students. It is awarded based on academic ability and potential as well as on financial need. 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Connell School of Nursing - Chestnut Hill, MA\nDissertation/Thesis Title: Late Adolescents' Perceptions of Factors that Influenced Their Sexual Decision Making.\nMS: Women's Health Nurse Practitioner program, (1997), Boston College William F. Connell School of Nursing - Chestnut Hill, MA\nBS: Nursing, (1990), Salem State College - Salem MA\nHeidi Collins Fantasia is an associate professor in the Solomont School of Nursing, Zuckerberg College of Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is a board certified women\u2019s health nurse practitioner and practices at Health Quarters, a Title X family planning and STD clinic in northeastern Massachusetts. Her research interests include sexual and reproductive health and safety and the intersection of violence and reproductive health. She has numerous publications and presentations related to women\u2019s health issues including sexual risk behaviors, sexually transmitted infections, and intimate partner violence. In 2011 Fantasia, Ph.D. was inducted into the National Academies of Practice as a Distinguished Practitioner and Fellow and was a 2013 recipient of the Women's Health Research Award from the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health. She is an editorial advisory board member for Nursing for Women\u2019s Health and the editor of the journal\u2019s pharmacology column.\n2015 Research Article of the Year (2016), Scholarship/Research - Journal of Forensic Nursing\nFaculty Teaching Award (2016), Teaching - University of Massachusetts Lowell School of Nursing\nWomen\u2019s Health Research Award (2016), Scholarship/Research - The National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women\u2019s Health\nAward of Excellence in Research (2015), Scholarship/Research - Association of Women\u2019s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses\nOutstanding Research Study Paper Award (2015), Scholarship/Research - Association of Women\u2019s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses\nDistinguished Practitioner and Fellow (2012), Service, Professional - National Academies of Practice\nNurse of the Year (2011), Service, Professional - March of Dimes Massachusetts chapter\nSigma Theta Tau (1987), Scholarship/Research - International Honor Society of Nursing\nHarris, A.L., Fantasia, H.C., Castle, C.E. () \"Father 2 Son: The Impact of African American Father\u2013Son Sexual Communication on African American Adolescent Sons\u2019 Sexual Behaviors\", American Journal of Men's Health pp. 155798831880472\nSutherland, M.A., Fantasia, H.C., Hutchinson, M.K., Katz, J. () \"Individual and Institutional Predictors of IPV/SV Screening in College Health Centers\", Journal of Interpersonal Violence pp. 088626051774121\nFantasia, H.C., Sutherland, M.A., Hutchinson, M.K. (2018) \"Lifetime and Recent Experiences of Violence Among College Women\", Journal of Forensic Nursing pp. 1\nQuinn, B., Fantasia, H.C. (2018) \"Forming Focus Groups for Pediatric Pain Research in Nursing: A Review of Methods\", Pain Management Nursing 19:3 pp. 303-312\nFantasia, H.C., Vooys, K.M. (2018) \"Public Health Implications of Counterfeit Medications\", Nursing for Women's Health 22:3 pp. 264-268\nFantasia, H.C. (2018) \"Low-Dose Aspirin for the Prevention of Preeclampsia\", Nursing for Women's Health 22:1 pp. 87-92\nFantasia, H.C., Angelini, K. (Boston College), Sutherland, M.A. (Boston College) (2017) \"Reported Alcohol and Tobacco Use and Screening Among College Women\", Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing 46: pp. e75-e82\nAngelini, K., Sutherland, M.A., Fantasia, H.C. (2017) \"College Health Center Utilization Among a Sample of Senior College Women\", The Journal for Nurse Practitioners 13:10 pp. e477-e480\nFantasia, H.C., Secor, R.M. (2017) \"Fast Facts About the Gynecologic Exam: A Professional Guide for NPs, PAs, and Midwives, Second Edition\", Springer\nFantasia, H.C., Harris, A.L. (Boston College), Fontenot, H.B. (Boston College) (2017) \"Incorporating Features of the Bedsider Website into Contraceptive Counseling: Experiences from a Pilot Study\", Women's Healthcare : A Clinical Journal for NPs 5:2 pp. 37-43\nFantasia, H.C., Keough, L.A. (2017) \"Pharmacologic Treatment of Opioid Addiction During Pregnancy\", Nursing for Women's Health pp. 35-43\nFantasia, H.C., Sutherland, M. (2016) \"Screening for Physical and Sexual Violence Among College Women\", Journal Of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing 43:3 pp. S42\nFantasia, H.C., Fontenot, H.B., Vetters, R., Zimet, G.D. (2016) \"Increasing HPV Vaccination and Eliminating Barriers: Recommendations from Young Men Who have Sex with Men.\", Vaccine 34:50 pp. 6209-6216\nFantasia, H.C., Sutherland, M.A., Hutchinson, M.K. (2016) \"Screening for Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence in College Women: Missed Opportunities.\", Women's health issues : official publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health 26:2 pp. 217-24\nFantasia, H.C., Sutherland, M.A., Fontenot, H.B. (2015) \"Reproductive Coercion and Partner Violence among College Women\", Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing 44: pp. 218-227\nFantasia, H.C., Fontenot, H.B., Sutherland, M.A., Lee-St John, T.J. (2015) \"Forced Sex and Sexual Consent among College Women\", Journal of Forensic Nursing 11:4 pp. 223-31\nFantasia, H.C., Sutherland, M.A., Fontenot, H., Ierardi, J.A. (2014) \"Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs about Contraceptive and Sexual Consent Negotiation among College Women.\", Journal of Forensic Nursing 10:4 pp. 199-207\nFantasia, H.C., Prowse, K.M., Logue, C.E., Sutherland, M.A. (2014) \"Intimate Partner Violence and the CDC's Best-evidence HIV Risk Reduction Interventions.\", Public Health Nursing (Boston, Mass.) 31:3 pp. 215-33\nFantasia, H.C., Fontenot, H.B., Lee-St John, T.J., Sutherland, M.A. (2014) \"The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence Duration on Individual and Partner-related Sexual Risk Factors among Women.\", Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health 59:1 pp. 67-73\nFantasia, H.C., Sutherland, M.A., Fontenot, H.B., Lee-St John, T.J. (2012) \"Chronicity of Partner Violence, Contraceptive Patterns and Pregnancy Risk\", Contraception 86:5 pp. 530-535\nFantasia, H.C., Sutherland, M.A., Kelly-Weeder, S. (2012) \"Gender Differences in Risky Sexual Behavior among Urban Adolescents Exposed to Violence\", Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners 24:7 pp. 436-42\nFantasia, H.C. (2011) \"Really not even a Decision Any More: Late Adolescent Narratives of Implied Sexual Consent\", Journal of Forensic Nursing 7:3 pp. 120-129\nFantasia, H.C., Fontenot, H.B. (2011) \"The Sexual Safety of Adolescents\", Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing 40:2 pp. 217-224\nOpioid use and Safe Prescribing for Women - 21st annual NPWH Premier Women\u2019s Healthcare Conference, October 2018 - San Antonio, TX\nPredictors of Physical and Sexual Violence Screening at College Health Centers - 21st annual NPWH Premier Women\u2019s Healthcare Conference, October 2018 - San Antonio, TX\nPatient Centered Treatment Strategies for Uterine Fibroids: Assessing all the Options as Part of Comprehensive Care - 21st annual NPWH Premier Women\u2019s Healthcare Conference, October 2018 - San Antonio, TX\nPharmacology Across the Lifespan - 21st annual NPWH Premier Women\u2019s Healthcare Conference, October 2018 - San Antonio, TX\nIncreasing HPV Vaccination and Eliminating Barriers: Recommendations from Young Men who Have Sex with Men - Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine Annual Meeting, 2017 - New Orleans, LA\nNurse Practitioner's HIV Screening Behaviors and the Organizational Factors Influencing their Practice - American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 2017 - Atlanta, GA\nScreening for Violence in College Health Centers: Preliminary Data from Health Care Providers - American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, November 2017 - Atlanta, GA\nScreening for Physical and Sexual Violence among College Women: Predictors and Missed Opportunities for Intervention - 19th Annual NPWH Premier Women\u2019s Healthcare Conference, 2016 - New Orleans, LA\nLARC through LARC: Latinas Achieving Reliable Contraception through Long Acting Reversible Contraception: A Bedsider.org Trial - 18th Annual NPWH Premier Women\u2019s Healthcare Conference, 2015 - Salt Lake City, UT\nViolence Screening in College Health Centers: Predictors and Missed Opportunities - American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, 2015 - Chicago, IL\nForced Sex, Alcohol Use, and Sexual Consent among College Women - Association of Women\u2019s Health, Obstetric, and Neonatal Nurses Annual Convention, 2015 - Long Beach, CA\nFacilitators and Barriers of HPV Vaccination in a Sample of Urban Young Men who Have Sex with Men (YMSM) - International Papillomavirus Conference and Clinical Public Health Workshops, 2015 - Lisbon, Portugal\nCollege Males' HPV Risks, Vaccination Rates, and Vaccine Perceptions - 2014 National STD Prevention Conference, 2014 - Atlanta, GA\nCollege Women and Reproductive Coercion - American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, 2014 - New Orleans, LA\nState of the Science: Sexually Transmitted Infections Update - American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition, 2014 - New Orleans, LA\nIntimate Partner Violence Effects on both Individual and Partner-Related Sexual Risk Factors - National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women\u2019s Health Annual Conference , September 2013 - San Diego, CA\nThe Impact of Partner Violence on the Sexual Risk Behaviors of Women - International Association of Forensic Nurses Scientific Assembly, October 2012 - Fajardo, Puerto Rico\nIntimate Partner Violence and Partner-Specific Sexual Risk Behaviors Among Young Adult Family Planning Clinic Patients: A Retrospective Chart Review - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention STD Prevention Conference, March 2012 - Minneapolis MN\nThe Intersection of Violence and Contraceptive Patterns among Women - International Association of Forensic Nurses Scientific Assembly, October 2011 - Montreal, Canada\nThe intersection of violence and reproductive health in a sample of women.\" (2010), Grant - American Nurses Foundation Grant\nFantasia, H.C. 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It offers programs in veterinary medicine, theology, science, medicine, economics and arts.\nFounded in 1833, the University of Zurich was the first college of its time to be founded by a state and not a church or monarch. The university was also among the first to allow women to attend lectures and later to become doctoral students. The University of Zurich has buildings located all through the city.\nClick on the above image to visit the website of University of Z\u00fcrich.\nNo record of photos published by University of Z\u00fcrich on Flickr or other places found.\nhttps://www.uzh.ch/de.html\nRefer to the following links to get information on admission to University of Z\u00fcrich.\nRefer to the following link to get information on scholarships, grants or financial aids offered by University of Z\u00fcrich.\nCurrently we do not have a list of programs and courses offered by University of Z\u00fcrich. You may refer to the university website to get the current list of all courses University of Z\u00fcrich offers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 146.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/Photos/This-week-in-Washington/fp/11927/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:19Z", "digest": "sha1:GIWR3DKIX6F75LRGQKQA4T3VWO4IRXXD", "length": 1751, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.upi.com", "title": "This week in Washington - All Photos - UPI.com", "raw_content": "President Donald Trump declares a national emergency on the southern border in the Rose Garden at the White House on Friday. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI\nGen. Paul Nakasone (R), Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, Director of the National Security Agency and Chief of the Central Security Service testifies alongside Owen West, Assistant Secretary Of Defense, Special Operations And Low-Intensity Conflict, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on U.S. Special Operations Command and the U.S. Cyber Command including threats to the the United States and the Defense Authorization Act, on Capitol Hill on Thursday. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI\nSen. Rick Scott (R), R-Fla., greets Gen. Raymond A. Thomas, III, Commander of the United States Special Operations Command, before the committee hearing. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI Defense Strategy\nPresident Donald Trump speaks at the Major County Sheriffs and Major Cities Chiefs Association Joint Conference on Wednesday. Trump took the opportunity to deliver remarks on his border-security and immigration policy. Republican leaders are asking Trump to sign legislation that allocates about $1.375 billion for over fifty miles of physical barriers along the border. Signing the agreement would prevent another partial shutdown of the federal government that would begin 16 February. Photo by Michael Reynolds/UPI\nSen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks at a press conference announcing legislation to expand Social Security benefits and eliminating the Social Security tax cap, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI\nSanders is joined by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., at the press conference. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI\nSanders greets supporters as he arrives. 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But a second marriage requires a few extra steps before a New York City marriage license can be issued.\nThe application requires you and your future spouse to provide the following information:\nName and country of birth of your parents\nMarital history\nIf you were previously married, you will need to list all previous marriages. You must include your previous spouse\u2019s full name; the date the divorce decree was granted; and the city, state, and country where the divorce was issued; or the date of your spouse\u2019s death. Bring a certified copy of the divorce decree or death certificate. All divorces, annulments, and dissolutions must be finalized before you apply for a new marriage license, so be sure you have this paperwork in order before you go.\nYou will also have to bring current, valid photo identification with you. Eight forms of identification are accepted:\nDriver\u2019s license with photograph (from the United States of America or any of its territories)\nLearner\u2019s permit with photograph (from the United States of America or any of its territories)\nWhen you are ready to apply for your New York City marriage license, you and your future spouse will need to appear in person at one of the borough offices of the City Clerk of New York. You can start your application online and it will be ready for you when you arrive at the Clerk\u2019s office. Be sure to contact your local borough clerk\u2019s office well in advance of the wedding to find out on what days and during what hours the clerk will be in the office.\nThere is a $35 fee for a marriage license in New York City; cash is always an accepted method of payment. For additional payment options, be sure to call ahead.\nYou do not have to be a New York state resident to obtain a license, but there is a 24-hour waiting period before your ceremony can be performed. A marriage license is also valid for 60 days from date of issuance. If you are traveling from outside the state, be sure to get your marriage license within the correct time frame.\nPrevious marriages require additional paperwork, so keep that in mind when applying for your New York City marriage license. It\u2019s best to begin the application process early to ensure there is no hold-up from missing information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 10290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.usrecallnews.com/maine-struggles-to-make-opioid-addiction-therapy-available/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:45Z", "digest": "sha1:76ITNVM5ZJJIEBUTJZWYGIFN2N6DCNVM", "length": 4791, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.usrecallnews.com", "title": "Maine Struggles to Make Opioid Addiction Therapy Available - US Recall News", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Safety News / Maine Struggles to Make Opioid Addiction Therapy Available\nMaine Struggles to Make Opioid Addiction Therapy Available\nMay 8, 2018 By Sean Lally 1 Comment\nAt the end of April, legislators in Maine banded together to consider nearly twenty bills struck down by trigger-happy Governor Paul LePage, who has made it his mission to thwart Democrats\u2019 efforts to pass progressive legislation.\nOne piece of legislation \u2013 subtitled, \u201cAn Act To Clarify the Prescribing and Dispensing of Naloxone Hydrochloride by Pharmacists\u201d \u2013 was vetoed by LePage because he believed, along with the Maine Board of Pharmacy, that people under the age of 21 should not be allowed to take the drug, which reverses the effects of opioid overdoses. The bill (L.D. 1892) was initially passed unanimously in the state Senate and by a landslide (132-7) in the state House of Representatives.\nAfter LePage vetoed the measure, legislators overrode his gubernatorial mandate, marking a major success for the numerous people suffering from opioid addiction in Maine. Once the measure takes effect, Naloxone will be made more widely available to those suffering from addiction, and they won\u2019t need a prescription to take it.\nLast year, 418 people perished in Maine as a result of drug overdoses, and of those 418, a huge majority (354) were caused by opioids. The public health crisis in the New England state stands as a microcosm in relation to the epidemic that\u2019s been spreading throughout the US for the past several decades.\nIn 2016, 63,600 people died after overdosing on drugs. Nearly two-thirds (42,249) of those fatalities were caused by opioids \u2013 both illicit and prescribed \u2013 and as pointed out by CNN, the drug now kills more people than breast cancer. The problem will likely get worse, according to preliminary research conducted by the CDC. During the 12-month period ending in September 2017, the CDC found nearly 68,000 overdose-related deaths.\nPoliticians and experts have been scrambling to find solutions to the problem. One such solution could be providing much-needed access to the overdose-reversing drug, Naloxone, which as it stands, is too expensive for the average person to afford. The US Surgeon General himself released a notice emphasizing the importance of this drug and the stakes of making it readily available to those in need. Citing research pertaining to the educated-use of Naloxone, the notice pushes for more targeted outreach: \u201c[I]ncreasing the availability and targeted distribution of naloxone is a critical component of our efforts to reduce opioid-related overdose deaths and, when combined with the availability of effective treatment, to ending the opioid epidemic.\u201d\nIt is perplexing, then, that the Governor in Maine has refused to accept the universal necessity of Naloxone, regardless of age.\nAfter the Pharmacy Board announced its decision to introduce a rule setting age restrictions on Naloxone, Sara Gideon, the Democratic Speaker of the House in Maine, spoke out: \u201cOverdoses can strike at 18 or 19 or 29 or 54. And in every instance, at every age, we should do everything in our power to save every life possible,\u201d she said, continuing, \u201cWhat the Board of Pharmacy did today has no basis in medical research or expert opinion, it was merely a petulant action at the behest of Gov. LePage that directly contradicts legislative intent. While I\u2019m grateful there is finally some clarity regarding dispensation, I will continue my work to ensure the Board of Pharmacy follows the law.\u201d\nMaine\u2019s Trouble\nThis most recent veto belongs to a panoply of policy decisions aimed at the erosion of the welfare state in Maine \u2013 policy decisions based on the assumption that opioid addicts deserve their fate.\nIn a 10-part series published by The Portland Press Herald, writer Dennis Hoey illustrates the devastating effects of LePage\u2019s position and the mass confusion among policy makers who can\u2019t seem to make up their minds about a solution.\nMedicaid was reduced; reimbursement rates for methadone were slashed; and access to the overdose drug, Narcan, was limited. Interviews with addicts reveal the hardship of opioids. The general consensus among users: no one really knows what this kind of addiction is like until they have no other choice but to learn; Finding treatment is difficult if not impossible for people living around or even above the poverty line; A new approach is desperately needed.\nThere are a number of obstacles standing in the way of substantial solutions, but it would appear the Governor is one of the biggest hurdles for progressive policy makers in Maine.\nFiled Under: Naloxone, Safety News\nRhonda Morales says\nI bet if his daughter, granddaughter, son or grandson, or wife were dying from an OD this wouldn\u2019t be a problem.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 9900, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.valuemag.eu/news/valuemags-second-newsletter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:41Z", "digest": "sha1:7RJDI45Z3JK3MIOFR2OAHJXRQKGRYHGH", "length": 9154, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "www.valuemag.eu", "title": "VALUEMAG second newsletter | VALUEMAG Project", "raw_content": "Progress of VALUEMAG\nAccording to the grant agreement, NTUA has progress on the production of magnetic nanoparticles by CVD and flame pyrolisis\nOperating flame pyrolysis and production of nanoparticles\nSynthesis of magnetic nanoparticles is an important step when an industrial application of such material is intended. A variety of techniques are available at lab scale, in the frame of Valuemag project two methods have been chosen that guarantee fast synthesis and at the same time a relatively low cost. These techniques are Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Flame Spray Pyrolysis. The basic principle in both methods is the same: provide high level of energy to precursor reagents, in general salts of iron (Fe) and chloride (Cl), which literally splits the reagent salts in free atoms that, in control atmosphere, aggregate in iron oxide (magnetic nanoparticles) and other molecules that are subsequently removed.The research team at NTUA has successfully synthesize iron oxide (Fe2O3) nanoparticles via CVD which provides high quality nanoparticles by vaporizing at high temperature precursor reagents. The synthesized nanostructure, characterized by a high purity, homogeneity and remarkable morphology (crystals with 10-20 nm diameters) have been further studied by means of structural analysis.Flame spray pyrolysis have also been used. In this case the energy is provided by the combustion of a mix of\nfuel gases that generates a flame with temperature between 500 and 700\u00b0C. Directly on flame a liquid solution of iron precursors is injected (spray) at pressure. Due to the high temperature of the flame the iron salts are instantly split, and nanoparticles of iron oxide are formed. By playing with the flame length, precursors pressure and distance from the flame morphology of nanoparticles can be controlled. Nanoparticles with a diameter of 50-100 nm have been successfully synthetized.Besides these two methods, the NTUA group have also developed a third one that is a modification of CVD. It consists in the use of microwave as a source of energy to split the precursors reagents. With this method nanoparticles covered with polyethylene glycol (PEG), a biocompatible material, with size of 10-20 nm have been produced.\nTransformation of microalgae with nanoparticles\nIn bioscience the introduction of any kind of material inside a given cell is named transformation or transfection. Generally, cells including microalgae do not absorbed nanoparticles spontaneously, so they must be somehow forced to uptake nanoparticles. Different methods can achieve a forced uptake. They can be divided in chemical and physical techniques. In Valuemag project we used a physical method named electroporation. I consist in exposing cells to a very short (few millisecond) pulse of high voltage electric current (1-3 kV). This fast electric shock temporary destabilizes the plasma membrane by creating pores (holes) through which nanoparticles may enter. After electrical treatment, microalgae cells are left in a special medium and condition that allow them to recover from the stress provoked by the treatment. By using this technique magnet cells have been produced. Nanoparticles of iron oxide with a diameter of 50-100 nm have been introduced in microalgae cells belonging to the Nannochloropsis genus. The presence of nanoparticles in the body cells is demonstrated by the fact that cells are attracted by a magnetic field created by a permanent magnet. Pictures are attached.\nPartners & Work packages: What can we expect in the coming period\nWithin the work package 1, almost all tasks are accomplished. Nanoparticles are now easily produced with the methods proposed. Functionalization is now optimized to cover nanoparticles with a layer of lipid or sugar, that is necessary to make them biocompatible. Two prototype systems were fabricated for continuous production of magnetic cells via electroporation and for the separation of non-uptake nanoparticles from magnetic cells.\nWork Package 2 NOMASICO\nThe prototype for the magnetic cultivation of magnetic system is in an advanced stage. A perfect location in Cyprus has been found, the design of the cone structure is accomplished and is now under construction. Also the external growth chamber is under construction. All part will be delivered to the warehouse for the final assembling in a few weeks.\nWork Package 3 and 4\nThese work packages will start soon. There are no updates available yet.\nWP5 focuses on Exploitation and Business Development activities. A stakeholder analysis is currently in progress to set the basis for these activities as well as to support the communication and dissemination actions. The analysis seeks to identify the most active for-profit (SMEs and large industries) and not-for-profit (universities and research institutes) actors from primary producers to product uptakers. In particular focus are organisations that are active in the cultivation and harvesting of microalgae (including technology providers), the extraction and purification of microalgae components and the production of microalgae-based food, cosmetic, health and nutraceutical products.\nPNO Consultants has sent the communication and Dissemination plan at the end of January and several materials has been developed (website, brochures, leaflets, roll ups\u2026). PNO Consultants continues to do the dissemination of VALUEMAG througt the Social Media and events like the BIOECONFIN (November 2017) or BIOKET (March 2018). Since the launch of the project, the social media strategy focuses on Twitter and LinkedIn. The strategy has specially expounded on LinkedIn with an engagement rate of 3.50% and more than 90 followers. The social media strategy communicates on the progress of VALUEMAG and several news related to VALUEMAG (microalgae, bioeconomy, photobioreactor\u2026)\nThe Bio Events\nBIOECONFIN EAST 2018 \u2013 16/05/2018 \u2013 Bratislava, Slovakia\n26th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition, 14-18 May 2018 \u2013 Copenhagen, Denmark\nBIO International Convention \u2013 04-07 June 2018, Boston, USA\nEuropean Bioeconomy Venture Forum \u2013 06-07 June 2018 \u2013 Tjele, Danmark\n\u00ad\u00adIconBM 2018, 17-20 June, 2018, Bologna, Italy\nEFIB 2018 \u2013 16-18 October 2018 \u2013 Toulouse, France\nVALUEMAG at the conference BIOKET\nThe bioeconomy is booming, filled with hope and full of opportunities for the future. Those are some of the conclusions that can be drawn from the successful BIOKET event, organised by the IAR, the French Bioeconomy Cluster. From March 6 to 8, 2018, Strasbourg became the hub of the European bioeconomy scene, featuring important experts like Philippe Mengal, Anne Wagner and Yvan Le Henaff.\nFilippo Martinelli, operations manager of PNO Innovation and PNO responsible for VALUEMAG, was invited to speak at the plenary session on the first day. Together with Philippe Mengal, Executive Director of Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking, he co-hosted the topic \u201cAnalysis and opportunities of Public-Private Partnerships and other European initiatives\u201d, where he mentioned VALUEMAG as an example for some of the cases he mentioned. Filippo Martinelli expounded his analysis for the H2020 calls available in 2018 and also gave some valuable tips and tricks for successful bioeconomy H2020 proposals and for securing a H2020 grant.\nFinally, PNO Consultants took the opportunities to interview 8 of the top players of the bioeconomy and ask them to share their vision of the sector and the challenges it will have to face.\nDon\u2019t miss the BIOECONFIN EAST 2018\nHave you ever wondered what the term bioeconomy means and how it might be relevant to you? Do you know how innovative ideas in the AgriFood sector can take off, reach scale and receive EU funding? Join the BIOECONFIN EAST on 16 May 2018 in Bratislava for \u2013 a pitching and networking event \u2013 and learn more about the bioeconomy from the leading technology and funding experts.\nDuring the event, you will have the chance to pitch your company and expertise to bio-experts and benefit from the networking opportunity. Participants delivering the best pitches will be invited to meet representatives of the three EU projects and the best pitch (chosen by a jury of bio experts) will receive a free EU grant scan service from BioLinX partner, PNO Consultants.\nYou shouldn\u2019t miss this opportunity and register if you are:\nLooking for ways to valorise the waste of your operations or interested in how you can contribute to the zero-waste operation of other industries\nSeeking contact with researchers and industrial players in your sector from all over Europe\nInterested in finding out more about the bioeconomy and about how you can benefit from being part of it\nOwn chemical or dairy locations in Eastern Europe, which could be potential replication sites for cutting-edge innovations realised in successful EU funded projects\nHaving innovative ideas and looking for partners and funding opportunities to realise them\nIf you want to learn more about the VALUEMAG project, visit the website, or follow the project on Twitterand LinkedIn.\nTo get in touch with one of the VALUEMAG partners, please e-mail info@valuemag.eu or visit the consortium page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 10739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 328.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.valuewalk.com/2016/11/ayn-rand-predicted-usa-fascism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:36Z", "digest": "sha1:7ABF6XWEPMHI7DQAXJ54Q3DNK23Y6O7J", "length": 4178, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.valuewalk.com", "title": "Ayn Rand Predicted A United States Slide Toward Fascism", "raw_content": "Ayn Rand Predicted An American Slide Toward Fascism\nNovember 22, 2016 at 3:33 pm by The Foundation for Economic Education\nThe world conflict of today is the conflict of the individual against the state.\nA mixed economy is ruled by pressure groups. It is an amoral, institutionalized civil war of special interests and lobbies.\nOf course, Ayn Rand never claimed that America had degenerated into full-blown fascism (she held that freedom of speech was a bright line in this respect), but she did believe that the fundamental premise of the \u201caltruist-collectivist\u201d morality\u2014the foundation of all collectivist regimes, including fascism\u2014was accepted and preached by modern liberals and conservatives alike. (Those who mistakenly dub Rand a \u201cconservative\u201d should read \u201cConservatism: An Obituary\u201d [CUI, Chapter 19], a scathing critique in which she accused conservative leaders of \u201cmoral treason.\u201d In some respects Ayn Rand detested modern conservatives more than she did modern liberals. She was especially contemptuous of those conservatives who attempted to justify capitalism by appealing to religion or to tradition.) Rand illustrated her point in \u201cThe Fascist New Frontier,\u201d a polemical tour de force aimed at President Kennedy and his administration.\nThere is no such thing as \u2018the public interest\u2019 except as the sum of the interests of individual men.\nAyn Rand began this 1962 lecture by quoting passages from the 1920 political platform of the German Nazi Party, including demands for \u201can end to the power of the financial interests,\u201d \u201cprofit sharing in big business,\u201d \u201ca broad extension of care for the aged,\u201d the \u201cimprovement of public health\u201d by government, \u201can all-around enlargement of our entire system of public education,\u201d and so forth. All such welfare-state measures, this platform concluded, \u201ccan only proceed from within on the foundation of \u201cThe Common Good Before the Individual Good.\u201d\nRand had no problem quoting similar proposals and sentiments from President Kennedy and members of his administration, such as Kennedy\u2019s celebrated remark, \u201cAnd so, my fellow Americans: ask not what America will do for you\u2014ask what you can do for your country.\u201d The particulars of Rand\u2019s speech will come as no surprise to those familiar with her ideas, but I wish to call attention to her final remarks about the meaning of \u201cthe public interest.\u201d As used by Kennedy and other politicians, both Democratic and Republican, this fuzzy phrase has little if any meaning, except to indicate that individuals have a duty to sacrifice their interests for the sake of a greater, undefined good, as determined by those who wield the brute force of political power. Ayn Rand then stated what she regarded as the only coherent meaning of \u201cthe public interest.\u201d\n[T]here is no such thing as \u2018the public interest\u2019 except as the sum of the interests of individual men. And the basic, common interest of all men\u2014all rational men\u2014is freedom. Freedom is the first requirement of \u201cthe public interest\u201d\u2014not what men do when they are free, but that they are free. All their achievements rest on that foundation\u2014and cannot exist without them.\nI shall conclude this essay on a personal note. Before I began preparing for this essay, I had not read some of the articles quoted above for many, many years. In fact, I had not read some of the material since my college days 45 years ago. I therefore approached my new readings with a certain amount of trepidation. I liked the articles when I first read them, but would they stand the test of time? Would Rand\u2019s insights and arguments appear commonplace, even hackneyed, with the passage of so much time? Well, I was pleasantly surprised. Ayn Rand was exactly on point on many issues. Indeed, if we substitute \u201cPresident Obama,\u201d for \u201cPresident Kennedy\u201d or \u201cPresident Johnson\u201d many of her points would be even more pertinent today than they were during the 1960s. Unfortunately, the ideological sewer of American politics has become even more foul today than it was in Rand\u2019s day, but Ayn Rand did what she could to reverse the trend, and one person can only do so much. And no one can say that she didn\u2019t warn us.\nRepublished from Libertarianism.org.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 12367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vava.com/privacyPolicy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:WSVQBY2BKKSHH7NBVGIKUBMMA2OXEKPC", "length": 20445, "nlines": 75, "source_domain": "www.vava.com", "title": "VAVA", "raw_content": "We Shenzhen Sunvalley E-commerce Company Limited including all affiliates and subsidiaries (hereinafter referred to as \u201cSunvalley Group\u201d, \u201cus\u201d or \u201cwe\u201d) are committed to protecting your privacy. 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This information is all normally provided by your web browser, and we do not specifically request it;\ninformation about your visit to the Website, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (\"URL\") clickstream to, through and from the Website (including date and time); Products you viewed or searched for; page response times; download errors; length of visits to certain pages; videos watched; page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs); and methods used to browse away from the page;\nDevice and Technical information.Cookies (to learn more about cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org) are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer\u2019s hard drive. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the \u201clifetime\u201d of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier. A cookie also may contain information about your computer, such as user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Services.\nStrictly necessary cookies, which are required for the operation of the Website. Without them, for example, you would not be able to register or log in for the Website.\nAnalytical/performance cookies, which allow Sunvalley Group to recognize and count the number of visitors, learn how visitors navigate the Website and improve the Website.\nFunctionality cookies, which Sunvalley Group uses to recognize you when you return to the Website.\nSunvalley Group also uses analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to collect Other Information. Generally analytics services do not identify individual users. Many analytics services allow you to opt out of data collection. For example, to learn more about Google Analytics practices and to opt out, visit www.google.com/settings/ads .\nWe use the information we collect for a number of purposes. These purposes will be consistent with the reason you provided the information to us or for a directly related purpose. The uses we make of such information are to:\nset up an account for you on the Website;\nfacilitate your purchase and/or download of our Products;\nauthenticate use of your account or purchases and/or use of our Products;\nregister your Product in our product database;\nassist you with customer support;\ncommunicate about and administer participation in customer promotions and surveys;\nprovide the Products you request;\nprovide you with information about the Products you use, such as new features, bug fixes, service downtimes or upgrades;\nhelp us develop new products and improve current Products;\nprovide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. We (or selected third parties) will contact you by electronic means only if you have opted-in to receive marketing information. \"Opt-in\" means that you have taken an affirmative action to receive information, such as by checking a box or clicking a button;\nnotify you about changes to the Website and Products and changes to our terms, conditions and policies;\nadminister the Website and Products for internal operational purposes, including troubleshooting, data and statistical analysis, testing, research and survey purposes;\nimprove the Website and to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or device;\nensure the security of the Website;\nmonitor and regulate interactive features of the Website and our products that you choose to participate in, including online forums and chat rooms relating to our products;\nhelp you navigate the Website;\nhelp you access and use certain features of the Products remotely and to help you monitor and safeguard your home and home network;\nprovide you with information and recommendations about Internet and utility usage in your home;\nmeasure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others who visit the Website and to deliver relevant personalized advertising to you and others; and\ndetermine which aspects of the Website and our products are most useful to you.\nWhy We Use Information\nWhere we process your Personal Information to provide a product or service, we do so because it is necessary to perform contractual obligations that we owe to you and for our legitimate interests to provide products and services, to maintain our relationship with you and to protect our business. If you choose not to provide us with the Personal Information we need to provide you with a product or service, we will not be able to provide it. When you purchase and/or download new products, we will only use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and any notification provided to you at the time of purchase or download.\nWe also use your Personal Information to protect our business (for example, against fraud), or to comply with legal requirements to which we are subject (for example, tax or financial reporting requirements).\nUnder no circumstances do we rent or sell your Personal Information to third parties for marketing purposes. We only share your Personal Information with third parties for marketing purposes if you have granted us permission to do so, and in accordance with the Marketing section below. We share Personal Information in the following ways:\nwithin Sunvalley Group for purposes of data processing or storage;\nwithin Sunvalley Group, including with our subsidiaries, affiliated companies and divisions, all of whom may use your information for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy;\nwith business partners, service vendors, authorized third-party agents or contractors to provide a requested service or transaction, including processing orders, hosting websites, storing your information, providing email communications on our behalf and providing customer support. For example, when making purchases on the Sunvalley Group website stores, Sunvalley Group uses a payment processor to verify your payment card information. Your payment card information is passed through to the payment processor and is not collected or stored by Sunvalley Group. The payment processor is authorized to use this information only to authenticate your purchase and for no other purpose. We only provide these third parties with the minimum amount of Personal Information necessary to complete or provide the requested service or transaction, and we do not allow third parties to use your Personal Information for a different purpose than what was disclosed to you;\nwith service providers, advisors or other third parties to the extent reasonably necessary to proceed with the negotiation or completion of a merger, acquisition or sale of all or a portion of our assets. If Sunvalley Group merges with or acquires or is acquired by another entity, Personal Information would be transferred as a whole to the successor entity;\nto comply with the law or legal process (such as responding to subpoenas or court orders), to comply with government reporting obligations and to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; and\nto protect our legal rights or those of others, such as protecting the Sunvalley Group brands or investigating violations of Sunvalley Group terms of use, violations of law, intellectual property infringement, misuse of Sunvalley Group websites, fraud or potential threats to personal safety.\nIn addition, we share aggregated anonymized information, including usage data about our products, with third parties for a variety of purposes, including to analyze trends about home networking and utility use, to show third parties how their products could work with the Products and to generally improve home networking. We've taken steps to ensure that this information cannot be linked back to you and we require third parties to keep all shared information in its anonymized form.\nWe will ask for your consent, such as by email response, opt-in box or click through agreement acceptance, before we use or share your Personal Information for any other purpose.\nWe will always give you choices about your Personal Information. Some choices are presented up front in the form of opt-in notices or acceptance boxes for marketing to you or sharing your Personal Information with third parties. You always have the choice to opt-out if you later change your mind. One form of opt-out is clicking the Unsubscribe link in a marketing email. This will take you off our marketing email list. Please note that these opt-in/opt-out choices do not apply to the receipt of mandatory website, service or software communications, such as update or downtime information, or receipt of order or shipping confirmations on Sunvalley Group website stores, which you may receive periodically as part of Sunvalley Group performing its contract with you, unless you cancel your service or order or terminate use of software in accordance with the applicable terms of use or license agreement.\nIf you do not wish to receive direct marketing material from us or a third party, in addition to following the \"Unsubscribe\" instructions in a marketing email, you can send us an email request at privacy@vava.com.\nThe data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, various locations globally, including the United States. It may also be processed by Sunvalley Group staff or contractors operating outside your country of residence (including, if you are in Europe, outside of the EEA) who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. We also use cloud-based applications and services to store and process your Personal Information, which may result in your Personal Information being stored outside your country of residence.\nWe will take such steps as are reasonable to make sure we and our service providers do not breach the privacy principles that govern our collection of your Personal Information and that your Personal Information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy as well as applicable data protection laws. By providing your Personal Information to us, you fully understand that Sunvalley Group will transfer, processing and storage of Personal Information outside of the country where you reside or are a citizen.\nOur Privacy Policy and our practices are designed to provide a globally consistent level of protection for Personal Information all over the world. This means we will still handle your information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and in conformity with all applicable laws. This includes, where relevant, entering into EU standard contractual clauses (or equivalent measures) with the party outside the EEA available here\nby clicking the \"Unsubscribe\" link in any email you receive from us;\nby sending an email to privacy@vava.com. Please be sure to include your name, email address and specific relevant information about the information you would like to change or the material that you no longer wish to receive; or\nfor the Website, by signing in to your online account located at the URL provided when you signed up for the website.\nWe will honor your request to:\ncorrect your data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;\ntransfer Personal Information you have provided to us to a third party if we are processing that data on either on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you;\ndelete your Personal Information, unless we are required to retain it by law or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; and/or\nprovide you with a copy of your Personal Information held on our current records. If you are outside the EEA, we may make a reasonable charge if records must be accessed from backed up or archived records.\nIf you are resident in the EEA, you also have the right to:\nwithdraw your consent to our processing of your Personal Information at any time after you have consented, including opting-out of receiving marketing materials. The easiest way to do this is by clicking the \"Unsubscribe\" link in any email you receive from us;\nrestrict our processing of your Personal Information where you believe such data to be inaccurate, our processing is unlawful, or that we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose (unless we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not wish for us to delete it); and/or\nobject to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation, where the legal justification for our processing of your Personal Information is our legitimate interest. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the data to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.\nYou can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your Personal Information by sending the request by email to privacy@vava.com\nWe will respond to your request promptly upon receipt. If you are in the EEA, this will be within one month of receipt, or, if further time is required, we will inform you of this and the reason for the delay. We may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request. If your Personal Information has been disclosed to a third party in accordance with this Privacy Policy, we will take reasonable steps to notify the third party of any updated information you provide to us.\nIf you are in the EEA, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the local data protection authority if you believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws. Please click here for a list of contact details for the EEA data protection authorities.\nWe will only retain your Personal Information to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as required for legitimate business purposes as described in this Privacy Policy, or otherwise permitted by law. When we no longer need to use Personal Information, we will remove it from our systems and records and/or take steps to anonymize it so that you can no longer be identified from it.\nWe strive to maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the information collected by the Website. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not 100% secure.\nThe Website and online services may contain links to websites or online services operated by third parties. Once you leave the Website, your activities are governed by the terms of use and privacy policies of the third party websites and online services. Sunvalley Group is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these websites and online services, and we encourage you to carefully read the terms of use and privacy policies of any website and online service you visit.\nThe Website may contain social media features, such as Facebook \"Like\" buttons. These features may collect information about your device's IP address, set cookies to facilitate interaction with social media features or link you to a social media website where you may post Personal Information, and collect information from your social media account (such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.) you use to login in the Website, such as your name, birth date, picture, and other details you may have associated with the social media account,. All interactions with social media features are governed by the privacy policy of the social media company providing the feature.\nWe may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please review it frequently. If we change our Privacy Policy, we will post the revised version here, with an updated revision date.\nShould you have any privacy-related questions or comments related to this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@vava.com.\nIf you have complaints or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the above email. We treat all complaints about a breach of the privacy laws seriously. 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While they would not only continue to be produced in huge numbers the technology advanced dramatically making them larger with thicker armour and generally much more effective.This is a fascinating DVD not to be missed by those with an interest in military history and weapon development.\nSir Francis Drake \u2013 The Scourge of the Spanish\nThe Arthurian Legends \u2013 Camelot", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbnbnp/the-artist-and-the-art-collector-todays-comic-by-anna-haifisch-023", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:24Z", "digest": "sha1:JTALGX5Z3HA43AD5QQRCYAQX67IF5QTX", "length": 152, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.vice.com", "title": "'The Artist and the Art Collector,' Today's Comic by Anna Haifisch - VICE", "raw_content": "'The Artist and the Art Collector,' Today's Comic by Anna Haifisch\nThis week the Artist tells you about the relationship between artists and collectors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 1328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 333.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vietnamtourism.org.vn/travel-guide/destination-in-vietnam/mrs-hoang-thi-loans-tomb.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZH4YWGUBTJ6YEVHO6U5LVYEC7A3VGWNC", "length": 1317, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.vietnamtourism.org.vn", "title": "Mrs. Hoang Thi Loan's tomb - Destinations in Vietnam - Vietnam Tourism Information", "raw_content": "Destination in vietnam\nMrs. Hoang Thi Loan's tomb\nPublished: 04:18 Wednesday - January 02, 2013\nThe tomb of Mrs Hoang Thi Loan, Uncle Ho\u2019s mother, is about 14 kilometres from Vinh city, where Ho Chi Minh Square and Uncle Ho\u2019s statue are located.\nThe tomb is placed on Dong Tranh Mountain peak, which belongs to the Dai Hue mountain range in Nam Dan district, Nghe An province.\nThe tomb was built in 1985, on the occasion of President Ho Chi Minh\u2019s 95th birthday anniversary. Mrs Hoang Thi Loan was the second daughter of Mr Hoang Duong, Bachelor of Arts, a native to Hoang Tru village, Nam Lien commune, Nam Dan district.\nShe married Nguyen Sinh Sac and gave birth to three children. In 1895 she and her family moved to the royal capital of Hue and made a living for the whole family while Mr Sac was busy preparing for an academic degree. She died of fatal disease in Hue in 1901. Also in that year, her husband achieved his scholar degree.\nMrs. Hoang Thi Loan (1868-1901) was the mother of many patriotic children, including Nguyen Sinh Cung, who later became President Ho Chi Minh. From the mount foot, visitors will have to climb nearly 300 stone steps leading to the tomb. Above it is a concrete roof stylised as the loom with which Mrs. Hoang Thi Loan used to weave cloth to earn a living and feed her children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 4499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 126.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vipcorporatehousing.com/10-22-18-vip-receives-commitment-to-excellence-award.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EGOXMG63MCFG27ARYRZ5KO3XZ5VWE4I3", "length": 3239, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.vipcorporatehousing.com", "title": "VIP Corporate Housing |", "raw_content": "VIP Corporate Housing Receives Top Level, Commitment to Excellence Platinum Award at Cartus 2018 Global Network Conference\nSt. Louis, Mo., October 22nd, 2018 \u2014 VIP Corporate Housing was honored for its outstanding performance at Cartus Corporation\u2019s 2018 Global Network Conference, held October 15-16, 2018 at the Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington. The Cartus Global Network is Cartus\u2019 industry-leading worldwide service provider network. Each year, Cartus recognizes the companies and individuals in the Network who have provided extraordinary service to its customers and clients worldwide. The theme of this year\u2019s conference was \u201cMove Ahead.\u201d\nVIP Corporate Housing was named winner of the Global Network Commitment to Excellence Platinum Award for its exceptional service results, the highest level award a supplier can achieve through service performance. This award recognizes a supplier\u2019s measureable commitment to excellence and is presented to Global Network service providers who have distinguished themselves by achieving critical performance metrics.\n\u201cIt is no surprise to anyone in this business that relocating, and the decisions associated with it, can be one the most stressful times in a person\u2019s life. VIP Corporate Housing is one of the Cartus Global Network providers that continually work at alleviating some of these stress factors by going above and beyond for the customers as well as for Cartus,\u201d said Mike Brannan, senior vice president, Global Supply Chain Management. \u201cThis award acknowledges their unparalleled work ethic, compassion, professionalism and commitment to excellence.\u201d\nVIP recently celebrated 20 years in business exemplifying the importance of Consistency in Customer Service as it\u2019s one thing to deliver good service to a customer, but quite another to achieve this with regular consistency including having achieved an overall Excellent satisfaction rating for years. It is exactly this kind of consistency that the modern customer demands. At their core includes decades of experience in mobility, real estate, and corporate housing solutions while holding certifications as relocation professionals, real estate professionals, and corporate housing professionals.\n\u201cCartus has always maintained rigorous criteria and performance standards for their Network providers, but also for the recipients of the Platinum Commitment to Excellence Award,\u201d said Brad Laspe, Partner, VIP Corporate Housing. We\u2019re proud to be a part of Cartus\u2019 Global Network, and to have received this honor, which recognizes our mutual commitment to quality, superior service and to finding innovative ways to provide that service in the changing face of relocation.\u201d\nVIP Corporate Housing is a national leading temporary housing company. VIP offers furnished and full-serviced apartments and housing solutions. VIP is locally and nationally recognized for its progressive efforts in the corporate housing industry through a tailor-made customer service and product approach. VIP has served hundreds of industry leading companies and has provided housing for over 10,000 guests and recently celebrated 20 years in business. 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Midtown Square features scenic downtown location, and is within walking distance to Glenview Metra Train Station, steps away from restaurants and shopping. Our pet-friendly community offers a wealth of amenities, complete with heated parking garage, business center, coffee lounge, wine room, complimentary grab-and-go breakfasts and tenant events. Professional fitness center, open 24/7, and on-site Core Power Yoga studio.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.viscom.com/es/america/prensacitas/nota-de-prensa/detail/article/viscom-inc-appoints-new-busin/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:58Z", "digest": "sha1:KJOU5YLI4J7P22HUKDAHSUIETUS6AK44", "length": 1339, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.viscom.com", "title": "Viscom Inc. appoints new Business Development Manager - Viscom AG", "raw_content": "Viscom Inc. appoints new Business Development Manager\n[Translate to Spanish:] Jacques L'Heureux, new Business Development Manager, Viscom Inc.\nDuluth, March 2014 \u2013 Viscom Inc. is pleased to announce that Jacques L\u2019Heureux has joined the Viscom USA team as the company\u2019s new Business Development Manager.\nIn this position, Mr. L\u2019Heureux will be responsible for developing new business for key target accounts, working with Ed Moll in the Americas as well as Viscom\u2019s teams in Europe and Asia.\nL\u2019Heureux studied engineering at Michigan State University. He brings more than 25 years of experience in manufacturing engineering, including his most recent role as Global Vision Competency Manager for a large automotive electronics company.\nMr. L\u2019Heureux joins Viscom as the first member of its new global business development team. \u201cWe are very excited to have Jack on board,\u201c stated Carsten Salewski, President of Viscom Inc. \u201cHis profound knowledge of manufacturing and test technology as well as his global management background makes him the ideal partner for our growing international customer base.\u201c\nViscom develops, builds and markets premium quality automated optical and X-ray inspection systems for quality assurance and process optimization in the industrial production of SMT electronics. For more information, visit www.viscom.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 4777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 215.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Paul_Steinwald/reviews?page=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4YLJE5TCWSHWJHFWO3U4RRKRV3KRC5L7", "length": 76, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.vitals.com", "title": "Reviews | Dr. Paul M Steinwald MD Reviews | Golden, CO | Vitals.com", "raw_content": "Self-verified patient of Dr. Paul M Steinwald - Posted on February 3rd, 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 5492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vithoulkas.com/research/positive-articles/effects-homeopathic-treatment-women-premenstrual-syndrome-pilot-study", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:36Z", "digest": "sha1:L5TE6A2Y3RNPUHWZ7KX76XXMXYUMB7J7", "length": 2292, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.vithoulkas.com", "title": "Effects of Homeopathic Treatment in Women with Premenstrual Syndrome: a Pilot Study. | International Academy of Classical Homeopathy | Official website", "raw_content": "Effects of Homeopathic Treatment in Women with Premenstrual Syndrome: a Pilot Study.\nHome - Effects of Homeopathic Treatment in Women with Premenstrual Syndrome: a Pilot Study.\nYakir M, Kreitler S, Brzezinski A, Vithoulkas G, Oberbaum M, Bentwich Z.\nBritish Homoeopathic Journal, 2001, 90, 148-153.\n20 women suffering from PMS were enrolled into this randomised, controlled, double-blind trial to receive one of 5 symptomatically selected homeopathic remedies, or placebo. Using daily menstrual distress scores before and at the end of the trial, improvement greater than 30% was experienced by 90% of those using the homeopathic medicine and 37.5% of those using the placebo.\nAlternative therapies in general, and homeopathy in particular, lack clear scientific evaluation of efficacy. Controlled clinical trials are urgently needed, especially for conditions that are not helped by conventional methods. The objective of this work was to assess the efficacy of homeopathic treatment in relieving symptoms associated with premenstrual syndrome (PMS). It was a randomised controlled double-blind clinical trial. Two months baseline assessment with post-intervention follow-up for 3 months was conducted at Hadassah Hospital outpatient gynaecology clinic in Jerusalem in Israel 1992-1994. The subjects were 20 women, aged 20-48, suffering from PMS. Homeopathic intervention was chosen individually for each patient, according to a model of symptom clusters. Recruited volunteers with PMS were treated randomly with one oral dose of a homeopathic medication or placebo. The main outcome measure was scores of a daily menstrual distress questionnaire (MDQ) before and after treatment. Psychological tests for suggestibility were used to examine the possible effects of suggestion. Mean MDQ scores fell from 0.44 to 0.13 (P<0.05) with active treatment, and from 0.38 to 0.34 with placebo (NS). (Between group P=0.057). Improvement >30% was observed in 90% of patients receiving active treatment and 37.5% receiving placebo (P=0.048). Homeopathic treatment was found to be effective in alleviating the symptoms of PMS in comparison to placebo. The use of symptom clusters in this trial may offer a novel approach that will facilitate clinical trials in homeopathy. Further research is in progress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 20814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 265.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/pre-fall-2017/marissa-webb", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:50Z", "digest": "sha1:42KKKPENHTSHVM65XSBEIFQBG3DBEISV", "length": 1435, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.vogue.com", "title": "Marissa Webb Pre-Fall 2017 Collection - Vogue", "raw_content": "Pre-Fall 2017Marissa Webb\nAfter working at J.Crew for more than a decade (and playing a big part in its high-low revival), Marissa Webb launched her namesake line for Spring \u201913. More than a dozen collections later, her \u201clook\u201d hasn\u2019t drastically changed; her aesthetic is rooted in utility jackets, dressy tops, and lots of masculine/feminine contrasts (i.e., leather and lace or a parka with a floral dress). Luckily, those are things that don\u2019t really go out of style; Webb might tweak the proportions or experiment with a new color or print, but she doesn\u2019t veer too far from those signatures. For her, it\u2019s less about capital-F fashion and more about style.\nFor Pre-Fall, Webb also named the 1940s as a consistent touchstone. That was mainly felt in the menswear pieces: slouchy washed-leather pants, Cupro boilersuits, corduroy trousers. We\u2019ve been noticing \u201940s-ish dresses on the runways lately and it would have been nice to see Webb\u2019s take on the nipped-waist, poufed-sleeve silhouette. One place she did take a risk was with her usual army pant: This season\u2019s came with an ultra-high, corset-like waist. Rises have been inching closer and closer to the rib cage for a few years now, but we\u2019re hoping that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s time for ultra-low pants to make a comeback. Some of Webb\u2019s customers might find the corset detail a little intimidating; if that\u2019s the case, her snap-front cords looked like an easy, comfy alternative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 4732, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.walgreensbootsalliance.com/newsroom/news/walgreens-boots-alliance-increases-quarterly-dividend-1.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:26Z", "digest": "sha1:HLR6CQEOP6I3ZNR6Y7NINQX5GFO3NMSN", "length": 504, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.walgreensbootsalliance.com", "title": "Walgreens Boots Alliance Increases Quarterly Dividend | Walgreens Boots Alliance", "raw_content": "DEERFIELD, Ill., July 12, 2017 - Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA) today announced that its board of directors has declared a quarterly dividend of 40 cents per share, an increase of 6.7 percent. The increased dividend is payable 12 September 2017 to stockholders of record 18 August 2017, and raises the annual rate from $1.50 per share to $1.60 per share.\nThis marks the 42nd consecutive year that Walgreens Boots Alliance and its predecessor company, Walgreen Co., have raised the dividend.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 6034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 100.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.walkaholic.me/shelter/spain/aragon/huesca/388-refugio-de-fetas", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:JNWF4NTO5H6FUSCG72UXZWJLXEJHNGLA", "length": 585, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.walkaholic.me", "title": "Refugio de Fet\u00e1s | Shelter Aragon", "raw_content": "Shelter - Refugio de Fet\u00e1s\nREFIGO DE FET\u00c1S\nRefuge very little crowded, since there are many and better shelters in the area.\nIt is located on the south face of the Bisaur\u00edn, it is a small refuge with a chimney, but without firewood nearby. I can not say that it is open, because I could not prove it. Otherwise, it seems to be in optimal conditions.\nTo get there, you only have to follow the path that leads from the ref. from Lizara to the Collado de Forat\u00f3n, and the refuge will appear in the middle of \" CETA \" to the right of the road\nZone Valle de Arag\u00fc\u00e9s\nTown: Arag\u00fc\u00e9s del Puerto", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.walsersubaru.com/new/Subaru/2019-Subaru-Forester-Burnsville-Minneapolis-87bf6c440a0e0ae73f565205748ec09f.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:01Z", "digest": "sha1:KY35XBHLTB54UYSQSCNSMO5NLB4SGJLR", "length": 473, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.walsersubaru.com", "title": "New 2019 Subaru Forester For Sale at Walser Subaru | VIN: JF2SKACC4KH451517", "raw_content": "Comments: In a class by itself! Don't miss this great Subaru! A comfortable ride in a go-anywhere vehicle! All of the premium features expected of a Subaru are offered, including: front bucket seats, lane departure warning, and air conditioning. It features an automatic transmission, all-wheel drive, and a 2.5 liter 4 cylinder engine. We pride ourselves in consistently exceeding our customer's expectations. Stop by our dealership or give us a call for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 350, "original_length": 9926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.walterlechner.com/three-titles-at-stake-for-bwt-lechner-racing-at-porsche-mobil-1-supercup-final-in-mexico", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:31Z", "digest": "sha1:7ZTANJVEFKUIBSP2LFKSTSZ6XTLRSDKC", "length": 3223, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.walterlechner.com", "title": "Three Titles at Stake for BWT Lechner Racing at Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Final in Mexico", "raw_content": "Three Titles at Stake for BWT Lechner Racing at Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup Final in Mexico\nIt has already been a very successful year for BWT Lechner Racing \u2013 but there is even more to come: After winning three titles in the German Porsche Carrera Cup, there are now three others at stake in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup final 2018 this weekend in Mexico. From 26th to 28th of October, the last two races of the season at the \u201cAutodromo Hermanos Rodriguez\u201d will decide the championship in all categories \u2013 with the BWT Lechner cars and drivers being very strong title contenders in three of them.\nDefending champion Michael Ammerm\u00fcller will go into the weekend with a five-point lead ahead of his main rival Nick Yelloly, which means that even finishing twice just one place behind the Brit would already guarantee him the title again. His BWT Lechner Racing teammate Thomas Preining, winner of the German Porsche Carrera Cup, currently lies in third place, 14 points behind Ammerm\u00fcller, which still gives him at least a minor chance in the title race. \u201cLast year I won the title in Mexico and of course the aim is to repeat this achievement \u201c, Ammerm\u00fcller states. But the 32-year-old Bavarian also knows \u201cthat for sure it will not be easy. The main focus will be on finding the right mixture between attacking to be able to compete at the front of the field and on the other hand not taking too much risks, avoiding toget into any kind of trouble. I hope I can count on my large experience to find the right way and have every reason to celebrate in the end.\u201d\nIn the team championship, BWT Lechner Racing carries a 37-point lead towards its closest follower, Fach Autotech, and considering the strong performances of Ammerm\u00fcller and Preining over the whole year, this should give them enough of an advantage to bring the title home safely. \u201cBut in motor racing, nothing can be taken for granted\u201d, Austrian team principle Walter Lechner is adamant. \u201cThe opposition in the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup is always very strong, so we know we have to show our highest level of performance again to make sure nothing goes wrong.\u201d\nIn the ProAm category, Roar Lindland from Lechner Racing Middle East carries an advantage of six points towards his closest rival, Frenchman Nicolas Misslin, into the final. After already coming close to the title last year, but missing out in the end, the 41-year-old from Norway now wants to make sure that this does not happen again. Having won his category six out of eight times so far this year gives him a lot of confidence, \u201cbut you should never be overly optimistic. In our class, we always race in the middle of the pack, which means there is always some risk of getting involved into some chaos, even if it\u00b4s not your fault, as it happened to me in Austria when I got kicked out of the race.\u201d Nevertheless he is convinced that \u201cif everything goes more or less according to plan, with the fantastic support I am always given by all the Lechner people, together we can bring the season to a very good end.\u201d\nPoints are rewarded for P1 20 Points , P2 18 Points, P3 16 Points, P4 14 Points, P5 12 Points, P6 10 Points, P7 9 Points, P8 8 Points, P9 7 Points, P10 6 Points, 5,4,3,2,1 from P11 to P 15.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 3599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/i-was-determined-to-visit-all-50-states-i-soon-discovered-i-wasnt-alone/2017/02/23/6ac369b4-f463-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:03Z", "digest": "sha1:ZI6RIXAWIF5ONGIH4VZ2VCNHIOQQUAXY", "length": 8505, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "www.washingtonpost.com", "title": "I was determined to visit all 50 states. I soon discovered I wasn\u2019t alone. - The Washington Post", "raw_content": "I was determined to visit all 50 states. I soon discovered I wasn\u2019t alone.\nThe author\u2019s path to all 50 states \u2014 starting in Maryland and ending in Hawaii \u2014 was by no means simple, as illustrated above. The All Fifty States Club has about 2,800 members who have accomplished the feat, from all 50 states and 13 countries. (Washington Post staff illustration; Photo by Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post)\nMy father, a traveling businessman, likes to joke that I would happily tag along with him to Ames, Iowa; Gary, Ind.; or any other American town that\u2019s not on most tourist maps. It\u2019s true. If you have an open mind and an adventurer\u2019s spirit, every place has something worth your time.\nHad I believed the nonsense about Nebraska being a \u201cflyover state,\u201d for instance, I would never have herded cattle on horseback through rolling grasslands lush with purple wildflowers and tall pines. Had I stuck close to home, I might not have tasted heavenly banana pudding in Selma, Ala., or bought stamps from the cutest darn post office you\u2019ve ever seen, snuggled in the snow in tiny Plymouth, Vt. Rooting out such gems has been a longtime joy of mine, and around 10 years ago I realized that I had gone to 30-odd states in the process.\nThat\u2019s when I started getting serious about seeing all 50.\nI pinpointed my weak spots \u2014 the Great Lakes, the Dakotas, parts of the South \u2014 and planned how I\u2019d get there. I didn\u2019t set a particular deadline, but prioritized about two states a year.\nI had a decent head start: Growing up in Maryland (and taking frequent sojourns to Walt Disney World) meant that I had been to most of the Eastern Seaboard. Two years of graduate school in Colorado allowed for easy camping or hiking adventures to Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas and Arizona. Reporting trips took me to Idaho, Rhode Island, Michigan, Alaska and Mississippi.\nWhen I could, I tacked new states onto trips to visit friends and family. My sister-in-law in Peoria, Ill., for instance, lives a short drive from Iowa, where I hiked among the songbirds in Lake Macbride State Park.\n[The essential guide to all 59 U.S. national parks]\nIn September 2016, I ended \u2014 you could say with a bang \u2014 in Hawaii, watching fountains of bright-orange lava spew from the Big Island\u2019s Kilauea Iki Crater.\nI felt elated, but also a bit like an oddball.\nThat\u2019s because most people I know can quickly count off how many countries they have visited, but have only a vague idea when it comes to states. I wondered if there were others out there like me.\nAre there ever. The All Fifty States Club, I soon discovered, has about 2,800 members who have accomplished the same feat, from all 50 states and 13 countries. Like me, many get the idea once they hit 30-or-so states and finish on either Hawaii or Alaska \u2014 the farthest, priciest, and most time-consuming trips to plan, says Alicia Rovey, who founded the club in 2006 to celebrate and encourage travelers on their journey.\nWildflowers bloom in vibrant colors during the fleeting Alaskan summer. The author made two trips to Alaska \u2014 her 46th state \u2014 including two weeks at a scientific field station in the Arctic. (Christine Dell'Amore/For The Washington Post)\nThe organization, which operates on the honor system, asks that you put your foot on the ground and breathe the air of a state. (My own requirement was having a meal in a town.) Send in $13 with a membership application and you\u2019ll get an official certificate; for more bragging rights, you can buy a T-shirt, pin or other wares on the website.\n\u201cThe club makes it more official,\u201d says Rovey, who lives in Nashville and hit her 50th, Oregon, in 2015. \u201cSometimes, you want that extra recognition that the goal is validated.\u201d\nThere\u2019s no typical 50-stater, she says \u2014 some are motivated by patriotism, meeting new people or a desire for new experiences. To her, the objective also infuses vacations with a greater sense of purpose: \u201cYou\u2019re not just going to Hawaii to lay on the beach, you\u2019re going to Hawaii to complete this lifelong goal of visiting all 50 states.\u201d\n[Why you should visit Columbus, Ohio]\nMembers often have their own spin on exploring the union, setting records along the way. Sweden\u2019s Douglas Eriksson is the youngest, at 5. Some have done it twice or more, including James Marchino, with nine (yes, nine) repeat visits to all 50. Several people have sky-dived or golfed across the nation. John Fitzgerald ate a slice of pie in every state, and Boomer Mentzer drank a beer in each. (President Obama \u2014 who has visited every state as president, and Al Roker, who has reported the weather in all 50, are honorary members.)\nSurfboards line an alley near the famous Waikiki Beach, hot spot for many a surfer. The author ended her 50-state quest in Hawaii \u2014 a fitting choice, as it was the last state admitted to the union. ( Christine Dell'Amore/For The Washington Post)\nThough the few 50-staters I talked to had various missions and methods, we all had something in common: Travel has rewarded us in ways we didn\u2019t expect.\nTo celebrate his 50th birthday, David Miller, of Orinda, Calif., set his sights on an epic year-long trip. He carefully mapped out a bicycling route throughout the United States \u2014 avoiding New England winters and Southern summers \u2014 with his Weimaraner, Max, from October 2011 to November 2012. Miller asked his supporters to donate to four charities in the name of his project, Bike 50 at 50.\n\u201cThe very first lesson that I learned is that we so underestimate ourselves,\u201d Miller says. \u201cIf you\u2019re willing to take that one step forward out of your own comfort zone, you realize, \u2018I can do this.\u2019\u2009\u201d\nThe author makes it to No. 50 in 2016, at the Big Island\u2019s Kilauea Iki Crater. (Brian Howard)\nAnne Corlett, a landscape artist from Saugatuck, Mich., was newly single in 2010 and \u201cwanted a big project, the visual equivalent of the big American novel.\u201d\nEventually, the idea came to her: paint a landscape in each state. \u201cTravel is a powerful thing, which I didn\u2019t even think about when I started,\u201d says Corlett, an honorary club member.\nNot only did she build up her confidence traveling solo, she challenged herself as an artist, painting environments so different that they could have been on the moon, she told me.\n\u201cI realized later I was testing my courage,\u201d Corlett says.\nLike Corlett, the more I explored the country, the more I learned to trust myself and be resourceful. When badly blistered feet forced me to backpack through the Grand Canyon in sandals, I found out I was tougher than I had thought.\nAnother common theme: We all experienced the kindness of strangers.\n[In this Alaskan village, get nose-to-nose with polar bears]\nOn Miller\u2019s bicycle trips, random people on the street gave him money a few times, pushing bills into his hand even after he told them he didn\u2019t need it. \u201cI don\u2019t have enough fingers and toes and arms and legs to count all the times I had extraordinary, surprising, wonderful interactions,\u201d he says. While I was visiting Greenwich, N.J. \u2014 which threw a little-known tea party to protest the British in 1774 \u2014 Joe Felcone and Linda Hull Felcone invited me to dinner and showed me their historic home. Corlett says she was similarly \u201cadopted\u201d by a couple while in Mississippi.\nLongtime blood donor and club member Al Whitney, of Avon Lake, Ohio, is accustomed to doing things for others. \u201cI don\u2019t sight-see,\u201d says Whitney, who completed his 50 between 2007 and 2012. \u201cMy goal is to get to the blood bank.\u201d But when he went to South Dakota in 2009, \u201cmy wife made me promise to go to Mount Rushmore,\u201d he says. In the gift shop, a woman nearly knocked him over in a bear hug to tell him she owed her life to a blood donor. (She had noticed a Platelets Across America logo on his jacket.) \u201cI was shocked,\u201d he says.\nIf you\u2019re thinking of joining the club, a few pieces of advice: Keep costs down by staying in state parks or short-term home rentals. Add new states to trips to see friends and family. \u201cBe intentional,\u201d Rovey says \u2014 plan a long trip to a particular region, say Yellowstone National Park, to visit as many states as you can in one go.\nBy the way, there\u2019s a bonus for us locals \u2014 if the District ever becomes the 51st state, we\u2019ll already have it covered.\nDell\u2019Amore is a writer based in the District. Follow her on Twitter: @cdellamore\nAround the world in 20 days: How to visit seven countries in one 21,623-mile adventure\nThis isn\u2019t Darwin\u2019s Galapagos: The wildlife-rich islands are more tourist-friendly than you think\nStill finding kicks on Route 66", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 9143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.waterdamagemiami.com/water-damage-insurance-claim", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:04Z", "digest": "sha1:5A26VV2PTHL5OHCOHS5YRPHXWQ3NGNVO", "length": 11233, "nlines": 46, "source_domain": "www.waterdamagemiami.com", "title": "Documents to Claim Water Damage Insurance", "raw_content": "Important Documents to Prepare when Claiming Water Damage Insurance\nWhen you have faced a calamity, it is easy to get lost in your thoughts. The last thing on your mind might be the necessary documents to prepare when claiming water damage insurance because, after all, you have a flooded property. This is the reason why you need to prepare these documents before a calamity can even hit your home.\nThe preparation for any adversity should be done before it even happens. However, there are still documents that you need to prepare before you can file your insurance claim. This article aims to prepare you for making an insurance claim. Moreover, we plan on providing you with a sense of direction during a crisis. Read and find out more about the important documents to prepare when claiming water damage insurance.\nThe Importance of Insurance for your Property\nOther people may think that insurance is just an added monthly expense. However, getting an insurance policy can save you if an emergency occurs. While you can do everything in your power to prevent foreseeable events, you cannot control fortuitous events. You cannot prepare for earthquake, war, fire, typhoon, storms, hurricanes, or even theft.\nIn the event that there is damage to property, the cost can pile up unexpectedly. The worst thing that can happen during a crisis is that you may end up with nothing left to your name because you did not want to pay a small fee to your insurance company. This is why you need to get ahead of these emergencies by equipping yourself with property insurance.\nDaniel Myers best explains the importance of property insurance in this manner:\n\u201cThe basic goal behind buying insurance is to make you financially whole following a loss. You agree to pay a (relatively) small fee to an insurance company today, causing a small but certain loss to you now, in exchange for a guarantee from the insurance company that it will bear the burden of a large but uncertain loss in the future.\u201d (https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insurance/09/property-insurance.asp)\nGetting yourself insurance may seem tedious and burdensome now due to the fee that you have to pay. However, it will provide you with financial relief during an uncertain point in your life. When you have insurance for your property, you are protecting yourself from experiencing added damage during a crisis.\nImportant Documents to Prepare for Insurance Claim before Water Damage\nWhen you are prepared, you can face anything. Before a crisis hits your property, it is important that you have certain documents prepared. The documents listed below are necessary when you file an insurance claim. Therefore, it is important to prepare them beforehand for easier processing in case an emergency occurs. Some of the important documents to prepare when claiming water damage insurance are the following:\nA. Full Copy of Insurance Policies\nOnce you have taken the step in getting an insurance policy, you need to request for your own copy of your policy. It is important to read through your insurance policies in order to be informed of your coverage. It is important to know what is covered and what is not covered by your insurance policy.\nWhen you study your insurance policy further, you would know the limitations of your insurance coverage. You would also know the ceiling of your insurance if you read through your policy. Furthermore, you can have proof of your insurance coverage when you have your own copy.\nB. Personal Identification Cards\nIn order to ensure that the insurance claim process will go smoothly, it is important to prepare personal identification cards. Apart from your own IDs, it is important to store copies of the identification cards of your authorized representative. This will allow the insurance company to determine if you are really the rightful owner of the policy.\nThe insurance company will have a copy of your personal details, but having an identification card on hand when needed will help you during the insurance claim process. This can prevent any potential inconvenience that may occur. In addition to this, people may not be able to think straight during a calamity and saving their identification cards may be the last thing on their mind.\nC. Keep Receipts of Major Purchases\nIn order to have proof of the value of your belonging, you must keep receipts or credit card bills of your major purchases. This will help you in your insurance claim, especially when you have a proof of the cost and value of your purchase. When you do not have any proof of the price of your valuables, the insurance company will assume the market price of the item. Normally, the market price is lower than the actual price that you have spent.\nThere are also other items with a price that is hard to evaluate like artworks and pieces of jewelry. This is why it is important to keep track of the receipts or any other proof of purchase of your belongings. In addition to this, it is advisable that you keep these receipts in a single folder for easier tracking.\nD. Create an Inventory of Belongings\nIf you wish to make the valuation process easier, it is important to keep track of your belongings. You must create a list of the item and its corresponding costs, model name, and other necessary information about your valuables. You can list all the items that have monetary value in order to make a claim on each item.\nE. Take Videos and Photographs of Property before Water Damage\nIn order to supplement your inventory of belongings, you must have a visual proof of these items. You should take pictures of every nook and cranny of every room in your home. In addition to this, you can record videos as a supplemental proof of your ownership. It can also help in identifying the items that you have in your inventory.\nF. Prepare Original, Photocopy, and Virtual Copies of Documents\nWhen preparing for any calamity, the best way to save your self is by being prepared. Apart from the usual emergency packs that you prepare, it is important to safe keep your documents. Aside from preparing the original copy of the document, you should also have a photocopy of these items that are stored away from the original copies. Since modern technology is available to us now, we can also use it by storing scanned copies of the documents in a hard drive.\nNow that the inevitable has happened, it is time to prepare the necessary documents that can help provide you with financial relief. The documents that you have prepared beforehand will be useful during this phase as you can do a comparison between the state of your belongings before the damage and after the restoration phase. In order to make the insurance claim process smoother, it is vital that you keep a straight mind and prepare the following documents:\nA. Take Videos and Photographs of Property after Water Damage\nAfter the disaster, you may need to collect evidence of the state of your property. Apart from the physical visit of the insurance company or the adjuster in your home, the best form of evidence is having physical evidence of the damage. The easiest thing to show as proof of the damage is photographs and videos of your property after the damage.\nYou can do a before and after comparison of the state of your property with the use of the videos and photos that you had before the damage. It is important to take close-up photos of heavily damaged items to show that they have been damaged by water.\nB. Create an Inventory of Destroyed Items\nThe inventory that you have prepared before the water damage can be put to use during this phase. You can create an inventory of the current state of the items after the flood has damaged your property. With the post-damage inventory, you can detail the damages on the item. This will make it easier for you to list the items that will require you to incur expenses. With this inventory, you can account for the items that may earn you financial relief.\nC. Receipt of Expenses Incurred during Water Damage Restoration\nIn order to process your insurance claim faster, you must keep proof of all the expenses that you have incurred during the process of restoration. If you have read the terms and condition of your policy, you would know the expenses that you can get reimbursement for. You need to save up the receipts of all the expenses that you have incurred while you are in the process of water damage restoration. It is important to fix water damage immediately due to the following reasons:\nYou can save up the receipts of the water damage restoration company that you have employed. In addition to this, you need to keep the receipts for the restoration of the items that have been destroyed. Moreover, you can also store the receipts for your temporary accommodation during the water damage stage.\nWhen it comes to fixing water damage, you need to work on it immediately. Find out why you need to fix water damage immediately in this article: The Importance of Fixing Water Damage Immediately\nUseful Tips on How to Keep Safe Necessary Documents before Water Damage\nPreparing the documents that are needed for your insurance claim is the first step to ensure a smooth insurance claim process. However, it is also important to keep these documents safe in order for you to use them. Find out about how you can keep important documents safe in the section below.\nA. Keep Original Documents in Waterproof and Fireproof Container\nWhen dealing with important documents, it is important to safeguard them to ensure that they can retain the integrity. There is no point to preparing your important documents when the aforementioned documents will be destroyed by fire or water. It is important that you are able to protect the documents against the elements. You can keep them in a vault that is fireproof and waterproof. Investing in this type of vault can save you money in the long run and it can provide you with peace of mind during a calamity.\nB. Scan Important Documents\nIn order to have an additional copy of your document that does not take up too much space, you can scan your documents. This way, you can still have a copy of all your documents on a hard drive. It does not take too much space, but you can still access your documents easily.\nC. Segregate and Label Documents\nYou may have a copy of all your important documents, but it will take you ages to find them if you cannot distinguish them. It is important that your documents are sorted by purpose and they have been labeled properly for you to find them easily when you need them.\n\u201cBy failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.\u201d This quote may seem like a clich\u00e9, but it is true in every sense of the word. During a calamity, the best way to save your home and your self is by staying calm. You would not be able to stay calm if you still have to worry about the documents required for your insurance claim.\nIn order to have one less thing to worry about, you need to prepare your documents and keep them safe. Finally, we hope that we have helped you to lessen your worries during water damage. For any other concerns that you may have when there is water damage to your home, you can reach out to Water Damage Miami and we will take care of them for you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 13022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wbez.org/shows/npr/the-economy-and-politics-of-1968-now-playing-in-reruns/c24713af-2ed0-4bd5-9028-2591aaae93c9", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZF6WAAL27TWFGOQGH2K62LNTQOVVABON", "length": 5258, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.wbez.org", "title": "The Economy And Politics Of 1968: Now Playing In Reruns | WBEZ", "raw_content": "The Economy And Politics Of 1968: Now Playing In Reruns\nIn so many ways, 1968 was a great year for middle-class Americans' wallets \u2014 and terrible for politics.\nOn the one hand, gasoline was cheap and unemployment was low. Real estate values were rising, helping average homeowners build wealth. Good times!\nStill, many people were not feeling good \u2014 at all. In 1968, the tumultuous presidential-election year brought strident clashes at political events, third-party disruptions, calls for \"law and order,\" racial discord and worries about foreign enemies.\nIn terms of both the economy and politics, we seem to have a summer rerun playing out. Here are some of the parallels on the economic front:\nGas prices. Baby boomers remember the late 1960s as the good old days for driving because gas cost 34 cents a gallon. Now we're enjoying even better bargains. AAA says the average gallon costs less than $2.14. Adjusted for inflation, that's 31 cents in 1968 terms.\nJob creation. In June 1968, U.S. employers created 251,000 jobs. In June 2016 (the most recent data available), they created 287,000 jobs. In both years, unemployment rates were low by historic standards \u2014 at 3.7 percent in July 1968 and 4.9 percent now.\nHome prices. In 1968, the median home price rose 9 percent from the previous year. In 2016, a national index of home prices is up 5 percent from last year, although many cities (such as Portland, Seattle, Denver and Dallas) are up 9 percent or more.\nOf course, not everything is the same. These are two big differences:\nPaychecks. In 1968, household incomes were up about 8 percent from 1967. This year, hourly earnings are up 2.6 percent from last year. And the 1968 minimum wage was $1.60, or $11 in today's dollars. But the current minimum is just $7.25. Many states have pushed minimums higher, but none is up to $11 (exception: the District of Columbia at $11.50).\nConsumers' comfort. Today's consumers are having a much better year than their 1968 counterparts. That's because inflation is up only 1 percent from last year, and interest rates remain at historic lows. For example, 30-year fixed mortgage rates are hovering around 3.5 percent. In 1968, inflation was running at about 4 percent and mortgages were at 7.5 percent.\nThere's another difference: On Friday, the Commerce Department said gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced in this country. rose at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.2 percent in the second quarter. In 1968, GDP growth was running at 4.9 percent.\nSo on the surface, growth appears far less robust than in the late 1960s. But the current sluggishness is related to weak business investment. On the consumer side, personal consumption expanded at a 4.2 percent rate, much more in line with 1968.\nAnd there's plenty of evidence of that at retail outlets. The National Retail Federation predicts back-to-school spending will hit $75.8 billion \u2014 up more than 11 percent from last year's $68 billion. \"We are optimistic that overall economic growth and consumer spending will continue to improve,\" NRF President Matthew Shay said in a statement.\nSo when you examine data over many decades, both 1968 and 2016 look like good years for average Americans. They sure beat the Depression of the 1930s, or the inflation nightmare of the 1970s or the frightful foreclosure years of the Great Recession. No year is perfect, but there's no doubt you'd be happier working in the summer of 1968 or 2016, compared with 1974 or 2009.\nSo why such intense political discord, both then and now? These parallels may offer clues:\nVoter dissatisfaction. Many young Democrats were furious about the 1968 presidential nomination of Vice President Hubert Humphrey. They wanted the anti-establishment, anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy, just as many of today's young Democrats wanted Bernie Sanders. Richard Nixon won the GOP nomination with his calls for \"law and order.\" But many voters were so dissatisfied with the two nominees that they supported third-party candidate George Wallace.\nRacial discord. In 1968, race relations were severely strained by the April assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and subsequent riots. In 2016, race relations have been roiled by charges of police brutality, as well as deadly attacks on police officers.\nForeign threats. The war in Vietnam was escalating in 1968 amid fears about communism spreading around the world. This year, many voters are worried about the spread of terrorism inspired by ISIS.\nMaybe this year's political discontent can best be explained by a theory known as the \"revolution of rising expectations.\" The phrase was popularized in the 1950s to describe global upheavals in the wake of postwar decolonization. The idea was that rising economic expectations can made people restless and more open to insurgencies and revolution than during tough times when people are just trying to survive.\nIn other words, just as the summer of 1968's political tumult came in the midst of good economic times, this year's intense political debates are playing out in an economic environment that's better for average families than at any time in many years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 8058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wcea.education/app/icn/elearning/nurse/international-council-of-nurses/192748/prevention-and-management-of-constipation-in-adults", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:00Z", "digest": "sha1:NEZXMSQNI5U3BYXDBCYTDVNHDCRRVQFK", "length": 1052, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.wcea.education", "title": "International Council of Nurses | Prevention and management of constipation in adults | Brigitte Rosemarie Collins and Lorraine O\u2019Brien", "raw_content": "Prevention and management of constipation in adults\nBrigitte Rosemarie Collins and Lorraine O\u2019Brien\nConstipation is a common, often chronic, condition that is a health concern for providers of care. The condition can be distressing and although seldom life-threatening can lead to patient discomfort and debilitating effects on patients' quality of life. Initial management of chronic constipation should include lifestyle changes and increased fibre and fluids. More active interventions include the use of laxatives and other medications, irrigation and biofeedback therapy. Some patients may require surgery. This learning module provides an overview of the strategies used to prevent constipation in adults as well as the possible treatment options available.\nOutline the factors that contribute to the development of constipation and discuss the strategies used to prevent this condition.\nBrigitte Rosemarie Collins, Lead nurse, St Mark\u2019s Hospital, Harrow, England.\nLorraine O\u2019Brien, Clinical nurse specialist, St Mark\u2019s Hospital, Harrow, England.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 2986, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 189.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wearevertigo.com/news/articles/off-peak-prices-released-for-indoor-skydiving-/www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-NCVSDZ8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:43Z", "digest": "sha1:GR7F64H2IBRCHTPDNDBV2VE25ABGGH36", "length": 124, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wearevertigo.com", "title": "We are Vertigo | NI's leading Inflatapark & Activity Centre.", "raw_content": "We can\u2019t find /news/articles/off-peak-prices-released-for-indoor-skydiving-/www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-NCVSDZ8.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 1387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 339.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wedotraining.com/courses/health-and-safety/nebosh/national-certificate-in-construction-health-and-safety/wotton-under-edge/20940-14-10-2019", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:36Z", "digest": "sha1:D7JI2RSM4DHWWB5A3Q4KOTDP2V2GNEPU", "length": 108, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wedotraining.com", "title": "NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety Course Wotton Under Edge Gloucestershire 14-30 October 2019", "raw_content": "NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety Course in Wotton Under Edge on 14 October 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 11072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.weegy.com/?ConversationId=I3D1FJCI", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3XNFRP53S6W34YLEX22V2LUUS5GHHEBI", "length": 1323, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.weegy.com", "title": "A philosophy developed by Arab scholars was the belief that God\u2019s love can be found through a personal relationship with God. This philosophy is called___ . a. Islam c. Buddhism b. Sufism d. poltheism", "raw_content": "A philosophy developed by Arab scholars was the belief that God\u2019s love can be found through a personal relationship with God. This philosophy is called___ . a. Islam c. Buddhism b. Sufism d. poltheism\nA philosophy developed by Arab scholars was the belief that God?s love can be found through a personal relationship with God. This philosophy is called: ISLAM.\nWeegy: i feel great...although it's raing cats and dogs.... (More)\nRelative humidity is the ratio of the current absolute humidity to the highest possible absolute humidity (which depends on the current air temperature).\nIn the Northern Hemisphere, June 21 has ______________ than December 21\nIn the Northern Hemisphere, June 21 has summer solstice than December 21.\nConfirmed by Andrew. [2/7/2015 7:51:20 AM], Rated good by Andrew.\nAncient plant ____________________ found in lake bottoms provides scientists with evidence about ancient climates.\nAncient plant pollen found in lake bottoms provides scientists with evidence about ancient climates.\nWhich of the following is a major property of ocean water? a. salinity c. mineral content b. pressure d. plankton content\nWeegy: Salinity is a major property of ocean water. (More)\nThe beginnings of a tornado are known as a funnel cloud\nWeegy: True. The beginnings of a tornado are known as a funnel cloud. (More)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.welderdestiny.com/The_WelderDestiny_Compass-twdc052.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:53Z", "digest": "sha1:UIUMCM5GTDF4B2UHATN6LIEF4EWEFWHG", "length": 6808, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "www.welderdestiny.com", "title": "The WelderDestiny Compass #052 - Political Correctness Changes World", "raw_content": "The WelderDestiny Compass #052 - Political Correctness Changes World\nCan Political Correctness Change The World? - Issue #052\nBack At Our Post\nWhat Is Political Correctness Anyway\nWhere Can Political Correctness Lead Society\nThe Impact Of Political Correctness On Our Jobs\nAfter a number of weeks on leave in Busselton, a largely holiday town close to Margaret River in Western Australia, we are back at our post here at The WelderDestiny Compass. We hope you had a blessed Christmas season and wish you a great 2018.\nGiven the momentum that is building in the distributed ledger technology (e.g. blockchain) industry, it seems like a good idea to explore some of the issues that may arise for organizations built around Digital Autonomous Organization (DAO) principles. I think this will probably take us a few weeks to do, so I thought that possibly it would be a good idea to start the year with something \"out of left field\".\nIt has been interesting to look at how political correctness (PC) has started to overshadow society while at the same time seeing a backlash develop. While it is tempting to give everyone my view on this, that is not really the remit of our e-zine. Rather, we are interested to find trends wherever they may arise, and try to understand where they may take us as a broader society, and in particular how it may affect our jobs.\nToday we try to wrap our heads around what political correctness is, and where this can lead us. Almost certainly our conclusions here will result in us connecting some dots in the future.\nThere are many definitions of political correctness, but here is one from the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary:\nConforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of sex or race) should be eliminated.\nThe definition gives us a good start in seeing that at the heart of political correctness lies the concept of offending people. Obviously the problem is that all kinds of people could possibly be offended by all kinds of different ideas, language and practices.\nSurely this situation of possibly people offending people has been around as long as there have been people, so why is there a growth in the PC trend today? Surely the only answer is that there is a new generation today that values political correctness more than in the past. In other words, there is a new generation that is more easily offended than in the past.\nA number of studies that I read about have found that one of the attributes of millennials is that they have a high sense of entitlement. Obviously millennials also have many positive attributes, but given that our discussion is about political correctness, I will not go into those today.\nI also read an interesting blog piece some months back that looked at millennials and their culture. In it, the point was made that millennials felt entitled to be protected from all kinds of people and organisations, and most importantly for our discussion, they wanted to be protected from uncomfortable ideas.\nIt therefore strikes me that at the heart of political correctness lies our desire to be protected from uncomfortable ideas or situations. This is not new, but the increased drive towards political correctness can therefore be linked to the generation that is now starting to make great impacts on our society and culture.\nIn other words, the growth of the political correctness trend is telling us that the next generation is starting to change society, and that the change will in all probability be much bigger than we have seen in the past.\nAt its heart, political correctness is a trend towards inclusion as opposed to exclusion. It is about treating everybody as though there were no differences between people. These are largely \"left leaning\" ideas from a political perspective.\nAt the moment we can see the struggle between political correctness and isolationism within politics all over the world. In the USA, president Trump is an example of where isolationism has won over political correctness, while in France, president Emmanuel Macron is an example where political correctness won over isolationism.\nJust as an aside, Emmanuel Macron is talking of instituting new laws to prevent people from saying things to offend others, while Donald Trump is tweeting some very politically incorrect views on a daily basis. You choose which approach presents the greater danger and/or the greater entertainment.\nGiven that the power of millennials will keep growing into the future, and that there appears to be a lot of similarities within the ranks of millennials all over the world, it is surely just a matter of time before most democratically elected leaders will be of the politically correct persuasion.\nIn short, we are in all probability heading into a world where politics will take a turn to the left, possibly after an intergenerational battle leading to some right wing politicos making an impact in some \"trouble spots\" in the world.\nAn unfortunate spin-off of political correctness is that it has the potential to limit free speech, and therefore has the potential to be used by unscrupulous leaders to oppress dissent to their ideas and actions.\nObviously the more immediate effect will be people loosing their jobs for saying things at work that offend people. High profile examples of this are David Bonderman that had to resign from the Uber board after making some sexist remarks, and James Damore who was fired from Google after writing a memo that was considered sexist.\nAnother potential problem is that while workplaces may become more diverse looking, the thoughts being expressed may become less diverse. Given that the great advantage of diversity in the workplace is supposed to be the diversity of ideas, this outcome seems self defeating.\nPossibly the managers of tomorrow will need to learn how to get people to express their diverse ideas, rather than getting people to \"toe the line\" regarding political correctness.\nOne of the longer term effects may be on the more socialist policies that may be implemented by left leaning politicians. In this light we can think of policies such as the implementation of a universal basic income, and wider spread taxation practices to try to reduce the difference in wealth between the wealthy and the poor.\nInterestingly, the implementation of both of those policies would be simplified by blockchain based financial and taxation systems, but we will leave that discussion for another day...\nP.S. Do you think the political correctness trend is positive or negative? Do you think that the political correctness trend is being driven by the millennial generation? Please share your stories, opinions and insights regarding today's topic, directly on the e-zine page on the WelderDestiny website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 8260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westendtheatre.com/5210/west-end-theatre-history/binkie-beaumont/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WFAUNNMECVSAREQOPDF6XCHMRGIUHC4T", "length": 2026, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.westendtheatre.com", "title": "Binkie BeaumontLondon theatre tickets | London theatre tickets", "raw_content": "Binkie Beaumont\nHugh Beaumont, famously known as Binkie Beaumont, was one of the most powerful West End theatre managers in his, or any other, generation.\nHugh Beaumont, famously known as Binkie Beaumont, was one of the most powerful West End theatre managers of his, or any other, generation.\nBinkie Beaumont, Angela Baddeley and Emlyn Williams, in a portrait by Angus McBean. \u00a9 The President and Fellows of Harvard College\nAs co-founder and managing director of play producers H.M. Tennent Ltd, he controlled much of the West End for forty years. He was famously very publicity shy, avoiding his picture being in the papers and leaving scant details about his parents, upbringing, education or even his real name.\nHe worked out of a small office above the Gielgud Theatre (then the Globe Theatre) on Shaftesbury Avenue and at one time was running a staggering fourteen productions at the same time in London. From 1936 to 1973 the company produced over 400 plays, musicals and revues, covering every aspect of British theatre from big musicals such as My Fair Lady to the edgy new work of Joe Orton.\nHe touched the lives of many of the most famous writers and actors of the Twentieth Century, forming close working relationships with people such as Noel Coward, Terence Rattigan, Emlyn Williams, Cecil Beaton, John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans.\nFor much of his time in the West End, he was assisted by the efforts of H.M. Tennent\u2019s talented press agent Vivienne \u201cNo News Is Good News\u201d Byerley (1906-1995, obituary).\nBinkie Beaumont: Eminence Grise of the West End Theatre, 1933-73 (Richard Huggett)\nAngus McBean Portraits (Terence Pepper)\nUpper Circle: A Theatrical Chronicle (Kitty Black)\nBinkie BeaumontCecil BeatonEdith EvansEmlyn WilliamsJohn GielgudNoel CowardRalph RichardsonTerence RattiganVivienne Byerley\nTerence Rattigan\u2019s Ross\nHelen McCrory in The Deep Blue Sea\nNT to live broadcast The Deep Blue Sea in cinemas\nCabaret space to open beneath the Menier Chocolate Factory", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 7080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 222.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westmusic.com/specials/new-catalog-items-2015/types-of-music-chalkboard-topper-530579", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:20Z", "digest": "sha1:5J5K6EIU6MU4U57QYOVNIHECAGMNJSIH", "length": 617, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.westmusic.com", "title": "Types of Music Chalkboard Topper | West Music", "raw_content": "Types of Music Chalkboard Topper\nTypes of Music Board Topper Displayed on this colorful strip are 8 important musical genres, as well as instruments and other items associated with each. 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Noah \u201953 - Commander of engineering troop units at all levels, key postings to the Army Staff and at TRADOC in the areas of operations research and financial management, and Comptroller of the U.S. Army, Lieutenant General Noah (Retired) accomplished much in his 35 years of active duty. Highlights of his career include conserving natural resources on the upper Mississippi River, developing cost effective procedures to help modernize the Army\u2019s major weapon systems, constructing airfields in Israel after the Camp David Accords and teaching cadets \u201cjuice\u201d as an Assistant Professor in USMA\u2019s Department of Electricity. And his service didn\u2019t stop in retirement. He continued to impact the Nation\u2019s defense by working for Burdeshaw Associates and later his own defense consulting firm, and he volunteered his time with numerous non-profit organizations, including the Army Historical Foundation, Georgia Military College and WPAOG\u2019s Finance Committee.\nMr. Roderic B. Vitty \u201955 - For six decades and counting, Mr. Rod Vitty has never missed an opportunity to serve as an ambassador for USMA and champion West Point\u2019s impact on the Nation and its national pastime. His company, Vermont Heritage Press, has both published original works and republished classics that tell the West Point story through autobiography and historical research. He also established and personally funded The Doubleday Society, which presents an annual award to the Most Valuable Player on the Army Baseball Team. One of three cadets in Academy history to pitch a no-hitter himself, Mr. Vitty has a special connection with Army Baseball and is credited with spearheading the \u201cSave Doubleday Field\u201d effort, which raised funds to help construct Johnson Stadium at Doubleday Field. He also served as a West Point Regional Representative, the President of the West Point Society of Philadelphia and as an energetic and dedicated member of WPAOG\u2019s Board of Trustees.\nLTG (R) John H. Moellering \u201959 - Name an international challenge in the last two decades of the twentieth century\u2014the Achille Lauro hijacking, US hostages in Lebanon, the nuclear arms control negotiations at Reykjavik, etc\u2014and chances are that Lieutenant General John Moellering (Retired) was involved representing the Nation in some capacity. He also had an impact at home serving as Commandant at West Point, where he stressed that the concepts of duty and honor were intertwined, and insisted on cadets focusing on Army service, not just graduation. After retiring with 28 years of service, he led Lear Siegler Services as its CEO, growing the company four-fold in 12 years. Later, under his Chairmanship of USAA, the Association was singled out as the only financial services company to maintain an AAA financial rating and be named by JD Power as the number one customer service company in the US. He remains active today teaching and mentoring MBA students at UNC\u2019s Kenan-Flagler Business School, and giving presentations to civic, professional and academic groups on topics ranging from business ethics to national security.\nMr. William F. Murdy II \u201964 - Looking over Mr. William Murdy\u2019s career, three topics immediately come to the fore: success in business, veterans support and leadership of West Point Society and WPAOG endeavors. After serving three tours in combat theaters, including two in Vietnam, Mr. Murdy had a highly successful 40-year civilian career as the CEO for six corporate entities, both public and private. He serves today as Chairman of the Hotel Thayer and the Thayer Leader Development Group, and remains on four large public company Boards. He also dedicated himself to advancing veterans affairs in unpaid capacities. Speaking for the board of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Major General and Ambassador Robert Kimmitt \u201969 (Retired) said, \u201cBill has brought infectious enthusiasm and unparalleled business acumen to our efforts, which will succeed in large measure because of the contribution of his unique combination of skills.\u201d He also brought these qualities as a leader to three West Point Societies and served on numerous WPAOG committees, including one for which he advanced the construction of the Herbert Alumni Center, West Point\u2019s home for its graduates.\nMr. Jodie K. Glore \u201969 - \u201cJodie Glore has done more for our Academy than any graduate I know,\u201d says Lieutenant General Franklin L. Hagenbeck \u201971 (Retired), USMA\u2019s 57th Superintendent. What has Mr. Glore done? His march to success includes commanding a rifle company with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam, growing several industrial companies over the course of two-plus decades and championing West Point in several volunteer capacities, especially while serving on WPAOG\u2019s Board of Directors, most recently as its Chairman. With WPAOG, Mr. Glore established the Communications & Marketing Department, revitalized the Development Office and launched For Us All: The Campaign for West Point, the most successful fundraising campaign in Academy history. Brigadier General Tim Trainor \u201983, USMA\u2019s Dean of the Academic Board, says, \u201c[Mr. Glore\u2019s] positive impact on the Academy will endure for decades through the graduates, staff and faculty that benefited from his efforts.\u201d\nLTG (R) Thomas F. Metz \u201971 - From a lieutenant with the 1/509, 8th Infantry Division to the commanding general with III Corps, Lieutenant General Thomas Metz (Retired), has commanded at every level in the U.S. Army. He also served as commander of the Multi-National Corps-Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, successfully leading Coalition Forces against the insurgency, and helped lead the fight against IEDs as the second Director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). After retirement, he continued to have an impact as a seminar leader in the Chief of Staff of the Army\u2019s Strategic Leader Development program for three Chiefs. In a handwritten endorsement, General Martin Dempsey \u201974, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote, \u201cTom Metz is an officer every West Point graduate should emulate.\u201d\nAbout the DGA Award\nDGA Lunch Details", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 661, "original_length": 16668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 224.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.westwoodsleepcenters.com/category_s/113.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:03Z", "digest": "sha1:D7QWYLLQOCSWNCA54RZQ2VCZOI3Q65NQ", "length": 192, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.westwoodsleepcenters.com", "title": "Dr. Maas Doc-In-A-Box", "raw_content": "You are here: Home > Dr. Maas Doc-In-A-Box\nFREE NATIONWIDE SHIPPING. NO SALES TAX IN 49 STATES!\nDr. Maas Doc-In-A-Box\nThe Dr. Maas Doc-In-A-Box Ships anywhere in the continental U.S. for FREE.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 2608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.64, "perplexity": 332.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/more-sport/play-tennis-for-free-in-whitby-1-7845325", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:00Z", "digest": "sha1:CRDR7F5KHUEHAENFGP5HWBHCZATZCPSG", "length": 1116, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.whitbygazette.co.uk", "title": "Play tennis for free in Whitby - Whitby Gazette", "raw_content": "Play tennis for free in Whitby\nWhitby Tennis Club members\nWhitby Tennis Club is holding a pair of open nights this week, ahead of the start of the 2016 season.\nThese free sessions will take place tonight (Monday) and Wednesday at Caedmon College\u2019s Scoresby Campus, from 6.15pm.\nNew players of all abilities and previous members are very welcome to attend.\nClub secretary Sue Jackson said: \u201cWe look forward to seeing new players and others who might be a little rusty.\n\u201cThere is no need to dress in whites, and we do have rackets available for use, just come along for an enjoyable evening where there will be an existing member on hand to assist with proceedings.\n\u201cWe can also offer some free coaching over a period of six one-hour sessions, delivered by Mark Franklin and organised through the LTA.\n\u201cThese sessions will be on a Tuesday evening from 6pm to 7pm, throughout the season.\u201d\nAnyone interested in getting involved or wanting more information should contact Sue Jackson on (01947) 810878 or Jenny Holmes on (01947) 604190.\nThe club will compete in the Scarborough and District League during the 2016 season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2452, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.willrodtmotorco.com/inventory/details/used/Acura/MDX/2016/Chamberlain/South-Dakota/4496164/7512A", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:39Z", "digest": "sha1:PA5VU7WSFTDW2DYJQ6BH6JSB25TSMEPH", "length": 143, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.willrodtmotorco.com", "title": "Stock# 7512A USED 2016 Acura MDX | Chamberlain, South Dakota 57325 | Willrodt Motor Company", "raw_content": "Paul, Please text me about this 2016 Acura MDX(5FRYD4H28GB034086)\nHello, I would like to see more pictures of the 2016 Acura MDX, stock# 7512A.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 5142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wine-economics.org/dt_catalog/working-paper-no-105/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:28Z", "digest": "sha1:MUGD2XOI24SB63FVTHUNC3TG5VPGHYKX", "length": 1329, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wine-economics.org", "title": "Climate change and the future of South Africa's wine industry | American Association of Wine Economists", "raw_content": "Nick Vink, Alain Deloire, Valerie Bonnardot, Joachim Ewert\nAn attempt is made to synthesise the lessons from at least four different ways of looking at the South Africa wine industry: economics, climatology, viticulture, and the sociology of work. To this end, the economic performance of South Africa\u2019s wine industry since democratisation in the early 1990s is reviewed, as is the effect of climate change on the industry. This is followed by an assessment of possible strategies for building international competitiveness whilst simultaneously coping with the effects of climate change. Here we argue that, while industry systems should allow the marketing of speciality wines (e.g. from a single vineyard, from a single estate), this is not a viable strategy for most wine producers. Furthermore, climate change will lead to volatility in the characteristics that identify different terroirs. For this reason, industry strategies should rather focus on the benefits of diversity, but with a range of adaptations that will also result in better quality wines. These encompass quality; geographic location; viticultural practices; the style of wines and the renewal of skills. In synthesising this argument, we then consider whether such a strategy could enhance or hinder greater international competitiveness for the industry.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 10009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 183.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wine-economics.org/top-25-wine-consuming-countries-in-2016/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:49Z", "digest": "sha1:75EZPFOHNOEHDHTL6P2H3KQY5WIYPQ2Q", "length": 39, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.wine-economics.org", "title": "Top 25 Wine Consuming Countries in 2016 | American Association of Wine Economists", "raw_content": "Top 25 Wine Consuming Countries in 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 586, "original_length": 7288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/showthread.php?s=c3bb64322176e48d31b2f90da5c79a76&t=13532", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:20Z", "digest": "sha1:W2AWZSR5IE7L2J7LUOS4GOZ4KSVDPZPL", "length": 1795, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.winnipesaukee.com", "title": "Snowshoeing League - Winnipesaukee Forum", "raw_content": "Snowshoeing League\n*Snowshoeing League*\nGrab a friend, or come solo to the weekly Wednesday evening Snowshoe League. Happy hour is from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Teams will then be drawn or chosen and the games will follow. Teams and League games will change each week and will consist of two or more players depending on the game. Relay races, obstacle courses, snowshoe kick ball and volleyball are among a few of the games planned. Points are awarded for attendance and how you place in the evening\u2019s event. At the end of the season prizes will be awarded for players with the most accumulated points at an awards banquet held at the Tavern.\nThe cost of the league is $9.00 per person each week. All league fees will go to the end of the year banquet and awards. Upon paying league dues, league members will receive a $10.00 voucher for Tavern 27 which must be used that evening. Dinner will be available for purchase before and after the league. Tavern 27 has an amazing selection including homemade soups, salads, tapas, chef specials and a full bar.\n*Snowshoeing Fitness Walk Fridays 10am-11am*\nSnowshoeing is a wonderful, low-impact aerobic activity that requires no special skills and allows you to visit winter landscapes that were previously out of reach. If you can walk, you can snowshoe! In addition to the Snowshoe league, The Mystic Meadows is also offering a Guided Snowshoe Fitness Walk on Fridays from 10am to 11:00am. Activities include light stretching and breathing then a snowshoe walk on the groomed trails. The cost of the Guided Fitness Walk is $9 and includes a $10 voucher for lunch at Tavern 27 which is valid for the day of the walk.\nThe Mystic Meadows is excited to be offering winter recreation on the west side of Lake Winnipesaukee to add to community fun and fitness.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.withlocals.com/locations/thailand/bangkok/things-to-do-with-toddlers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:21Z", "digest": "sha1:FFLH6VMK4XYVAM2WDS36Q5FK2RLKXSRB", "length": 2639, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.withlocals.com", "title": "Things to do in Bangkok with toddlers - Top 4 things to do in Bangkok with toddlers \u2013 Withlocals", "raw_content": "top5 Things to do in Bangkok with Toddlers\nBangkok is a city of variety and there\u2019s plenty to see and do for people of all backgrounds and all ages. Even very young children that might otherwise get bored will be constantly entertained during a trip Thailand\u2019s capital city.\nBnagkok\nHave fun at the Seashore\nThings to do in Bangkok with Toddlers 1\nIt is important to keep a toddler entertained so a day out at the seaside is among the best things to do in Bangkok with toddlers. It will be great for such young kids to experience new things and with so much to see and do, they will surely have a great time.\nYou may find on such a trip that the people don\u2019t speak English, but this is not a problem if you have your host with you as a guide for the day. With a local as your guide your day can be educational as well as fun for the children.\nTop fun things to do in Bangkok with toddlers\nTake a Break with Some Great Home Cooking\nYoung children need to get enough rest otherwise they can get very irritable, so a relaxing over a meal at your host\u2019s home can be among the best things to do in Bangkok with toddlers. It will be great for the kids to recharge their batteries so they can enjoy the rest of their break.\nWhile the kids get to rest, you can enjoy a great authentic Thai meal made just for you by your host, and there\u2019s nothing quite like real home cooking. Get the toddlers to sleep and you may even be able to enjoy a few drinks with your host.\nCool Down at a Water Park\nBangkok can get very hot and people sometimes find the climate a little bit too much, the good news is though that there are plenty of opportunities to cool down. Kids love playing with water anyway so going to a water park is definitely among the best things to do in Bangkok with toddlers.\nThai\u2019s love to cool down just as much as anybody and your host can recommend the best parks in the most convenient locations. Your host can also let you know where to eat and drink nearby so you have plenty of fuel and refreshments for the day.\nBe Entertained at the Artists Village\nYoung children love the spectacle of shows with different colours and movement, so taking in a performance can be one of the best things to do in Bangkok with toddlers. It will be great for the kids as they watch in amazement at people in costumes put on a show, while you also get to take in some of the other exhibitions on display.\nYour host can suggest such shows and other attractions that would be suitable for young children so that the whole family can enjoy a day out together. Having a local guide can also help you to learn something new.\nTop village trips from Bangkok", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 8095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.woodplc.com/policies-and-notices/privacy-notice", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:42Z", "digest": "sha1:J3HWKGJNGQYLOHLLBRHWIHABVSLBIIAE", "length": 1854, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.woodplc.com", "title": "Privacy notice | Wood", "raw_content": "This Privacy Notice only applies to personal information that we collect through our website at https://www.woodgroup.com (\u201cWebsite\u201d) and is applicable to data subjects in Europe only (although similar rights may apply in some countries outside of Europe). 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Their salaries average $3,900 per class, while Temple tuition costs each student $18,774 per year. The Temple Adjunct Organizing Committee wants to win the right to bargain over issues of job security, pay, class size, class cancellations, benefits and professional advancement.\nHundreds of the university\u2019s adjunct faculty petitioned the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board in December for the right to vote on joining the Temple Association of University Professionals union, which already represents 1,400 full-time faculty members.\nIn a Feb. 17 letter to the Temple News, the TAOC wrote, \u201cUnfortunately, Temple administration is delaying the process because they don\u2019t respect us. Provost [Hai-Lung] Dai continues to send misleading and offensive emails to adjunct faculty discouraging us from unionizing. His actions show that he regards us as nothing more than cheap labor.\u201d A hearing before the PLRB is scheduled for March 19 in Harrisburg, Pa.\nThe Philadelphia protest kicked off many actions scheduled to take place all across the country during National Adjunct Action Week. That was called after the Feb. 25 National Adjunct Walkout Day was initiated last October.\nAdjuncts made up 43 percent of U.S. college faculty in 1975, but that number has risen to about 70 percent today, according to the American Association of University Professors. 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Our AI Labs focus on research in:....\nCreate a job alert for science and research", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 8320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 335.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.workopolis.com/jobsearch/viewjob/PpCjdu2adrpqlNIi5LL_-3uEB7MrlFJt3Dz_gbpA8CY7XkeMX7zfCQ?ak=science+and+research&l=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:03Z", "digest": "sha1:DOUDYLAPD43TLZXXLPOWI6F4MSBC3DKI", "length": 5299, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.workopolis.com", "title": "Workopolis | Workopolis", "raw_content": "This position is within the Advanced Reservoir Quality Services (ARQS) oil and gas applied mineralogy group; a dynamic team responsible for the provision of mineralogical & geological analytical and consultancy services to the oil and gas industry. As such, the role requires, and is accountable for, the collection, processing, interpretation and reporting of high quality scientific data from analytical instrumentation such as QEMSCAN, XRD and SEM.\nInterpretation and reporting of Oil & Gas focused mineralogical & lithological analytical and consultancy programs.\nProvide mineralogical and geological context to output from ARQS studies and \u201creality-check\u201d-style Quality Control.\nResponsible for project management including on-time, in-scope, and on-budget technical delivery by:\nInterpretation of data streams, including, but not restricted to: QEMSCAN, SEM, XRD, TOC, Geochem etc.\nTechnical report generation, including writing, compilation and collation.\nPeer review of colleague\u2019s mineralogical reports for technical content, readability and grammatical structure. * Develop and maintain good business relationships with clients through identifying and addressing their needs in a timely fashion such as through the arrangement and lead of project kick-off meetings, proactive project management etc.\nAssist BD team and technical manager to generate and develop opportunities, workflows and service lines.\nResponsible for quality, timely and largely independent completion of duties.\nMay be assigned to, and/or coordinate special or ad hoc projects as needed.\nFollows all company health, safety and environmental policies.\nProactively participate in the technical marketing for the ARQS business; including (but not exclusively consisting) travel for conference attendance and participation.\nManage the activities against project budgets to achieve revenue and profit objectives.\nEstablish methods to meet work schedules and co-ordinate work activities with other technical staff and project managers.\nDevelop new business opportunities through industry contact and research (e.g. reading trade magazines, reviewing industry press releases etc).\nDevelop proposals in collaboration with the Manager or Sales and Business Development Teams.\nAssist with the development of promotional material.\nPromote the capabilities, facilities, personnel and experience of SGS in Canada and elsewhere.\nConstructively resolve work problems where they arise and recommend work measures to improve productivity and the quality of results.\nAssist in creating a team approach and spirit whenever practical using available sources of knowledge and experience.\nEnsure that work is done in accordance with all appropriate health, safety and environmental procedures.\nMay be assigned and be required to coordinate special or ad hoc projects as needed.\nA university degree in Mineralogy, Geology, Environmental Mineralogy or Earth Sciences is required; a Sedimentology / Petroleum Geology focus is a distinct advantage.\nAt least 2 years postgraduate experience in a geosciences environment, ideally in a relevant laboratory environment (e.g. XRD or SEM laboratory).\nReport writing experience is essential.\nSpecific technical skills:\nProven technical ability processing results from at least one of the following instruments: QEMSCAN, XRD, and FTIR\nThe candidate will be an experienced, motivated geoscientist with a proven track record of excellent report writing and time management skills.\nIt is essential that the candidate has the ability to work unsupervised for extended periods of time but is also a team player able to work within, and in close support of the existing team\nExcellent written and oral technical communication skills are essential in this role.\nA very high technical proficiency using various types of computer software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook etc.) is essential for this role.\nMust be able to read, understand and follow work instructions in a safe, accurate and timely manner.\nProven ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects in a fast-paced, highly professional environment.\nExperience working in a service company environment would be a very strong asset.\nAll business is conducted in English, and therefore a high level of proficiency in this language is required for both spoken and written communications.\nCandidates must demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills including grammar and composition.\nAbility to work well with others & independently.\nProven time management skills and a strong attention to detail.\nExtended hours and shift work may be required from time to time.\nTravel to other SGS locations or client location may be required from time to time.\nEnsures full compliance with the company\u2019s Health & Safety, Code of Integrity, and Professional Conduct policies.\nSGS Canada is an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to achieving greater accessibility by providing accommodation for people with disabilities during our hiring process. Accommodations are available on request for qualified candidates during each stage of the recruitment process.\nPlease note that candidates applying for Canadian job openings should be authorized to work in Canada.\npostgraduate experience in a geosciences environment: 2 years (Preferred)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 6196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worksopguardian.co.uk/news/sutton-man-risked-jail-by-breaching-court-orders-1-9553642", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:00Z", "digest": "sha1:JFHLNNEJYN7GRAMUFGLRLFXT643R7V5M", "length": 1123, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.worksopguardian.co.uk", "title": "Sutton man risked jail by breaching court orders - Worksop Guardian", "raw_content": "Sutton man risked jail by breaching court orders\nA Sutton man who had only done one hour of unpaid work out of the 80 imposed ran the risk of a prison sentence, a court heard.\nMichael Merritt failed to turn up for probation appointments on November 4 and 11, said prosecutor Donna Fawcett.\nProbation officer Sarah Alderton said his compliance with the terms of a community order, imposed on September 11, last year, had been \u201cpoor\u201d and custody was requested.\nSimon Greaves, mitigating, said Merritt found work as a security guard and had been working constantly in order to pay off rent arrears.\n\u201cHe asked to be given a chance to undertake unpaid work,\u201d he said.\n\u201cHe asks the court to consider a suspended sentence that allows him to keep working and keep the roof over his head.\u201d\nMerritt, 48, of Swanson Avenue, Huthwaite, admitted breaching the court order, when he appeared at Mansfield Magistrates Course, on Wednesday.\nMagistrates found it was a \u201cwilfull and persistent breach of the order\u201d, and they imposed a 28 day prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.\nHe was also ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid work.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 2563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldexpatlondon.co.uk/education-literacy/2017/5/2/new-platforms-give-way-to-emirati-authors", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LKUWS2BZTV4LCS2KS4DCSKCVZX74OCF7", "length": 1954, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.worldexpatlondon.co.uk", "title": "WORLD EXPAT LONDON", "raw_content": "Emirati authors are slowly breaking into the English-speaking world. By giving emphasis on Arab literature in major cities - such as London -, these writers are getting opportunities they lacked before. The technological advance (and cultural, in a sense, in the UAE) have also allowed emerging authors to reach broader audiences. Back in the day, Emirati literature was often published by government bodies, and it was only available in Arabic. Today, private publishers are available for them, as well as tools such as the internet where authors can be self-published. Additionally, translators are up for the task of translating their texts today, giving them the chance to reach audiences in other countries who speak other languages.\nEarlier this year, the London Book Fair made an emphasis on Emirati literature, encouraging young authors to pursue the discipline in whichever genre or style they like. Bringing said authors to speak directly with their UK audiences is a great way to expose their work to those interested in it. The London Literature Festival held annually in the Southbank Centre has also offered a space for Emirati writers in the United Kingdom.\nAuthor Mohammed Al Murr has publically spoken in London about the advancements of UAE literature, saying that Emirati expats in other countries - such as the United Kingdom - have been a huge stepping stone for the acceptance of Emirati literature elsewhere. This has also opened a two-way street with influences. Charles Dickens is a major influence in modern literature in the Emirates. While traditional Arab narratives continue to survive, influence from the outside world is hitting the shelves, making the literature much more attractive in other countries, as well. With efforts by the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates in London and other cultural houses that vouch for the promotion of Arab cultures in London, literature from the country will continue to thrive abroad.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 228.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldfinance.com/markets/us-fda-greenlights-its-first-cannabis-based-drug", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:48Z", "digest": "sha1:F75NU7XBA5VVIMM7QQCJFSQOQX43NW4U", "length": 2662, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.worldfinance.com", "title": "US FDA greenlights its first cannabis-based drug | World Finance", "raw_content": "US FDA greenlights its first cannabis-based drug\nThe US drugs regulator approved the first epilepsy treatment based on compounds found in marijuana\nThe US FDA's approval of Epidiolex marks the first time the body has approved a medication derived from marijuana\nThe US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its first marijuana-based drug on June 25, which will treat two debilitating forms of childhood epilepsy.\nThe drug is called Epidiolex, and it is a fruit-flavoured oral solution that contains cannabidiol (CBD), made by the UK firm GW Pharmaceuticals.\nThe FDA\u2019s approval is good news for the fledgling cannabis industry\nGW\u2019s CEO Justin Gover called the approval a \u201chistoric milestone\u201d that will offer a treatment for patients suffering from two severe forms of epilepsy: Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome. These diseases are \u201chighly treatment-resistant,\u201d according to Orrin Devinsky, Managing Director of NYU Langone Health\u2019s Comprehensive Epilepsy Centre. However, in clinical trials, Epidiolex was found to cut the number of seizures in half for 40 percent of patients with Dravet syndrome. Three patients also stopped having seizures entirely.\nCBD is one component of the cannabis plant, but unlike tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the compound that causes highs, it is non-psychotropic. The compound is said to be able to alleviate pain, relieve anxiety and control seizures.\nAs part of Epidiolex\u2019s approval process, it must be rescheduled by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) from its current standing as a Schedule 1 drug, meaning it has no recognised medical use and a high potential for abuse. GW said rescheduling is expected within 90 days, but the Washington Post reported it was not clear whether the DEA will reclassify all CBD products or the CBD formulation used by Epidiolex.\nBeyond the US, the medicine is currently under review by the European Medicines Agency for the treatment of seizures in patients with Lennox-Gastaut or Dravet syndrome.\nThe FDA\u2019s approval, and the subsequent expectation that CBD will be rescheduled by the DEA, is good news for the fledgling cannabis industry. Although medicinal use of cannabis is not legal in all US states, the market for CBD is now estimated to be worth $200m, having doubled in size over the last two years as more investors look to cash in on the buzz around CBD. The FDA noted, however, that it will still \u201ctake action\u201d against the illegal marketing of CBD-containing products with unproven medical claims.\nGreen light for AT&T\u2019s purchase of Time Warner\nFederal Reserve announces proposed changes to Volcker Rule\nArcview enabling investment to prosper in the cannabis industry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 5589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldfinance.com/the-econoclast/seeing-the-light", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:25Z", "digest": "sha1:B3YJ2UR4QFVGPGYMAHALLUUV5HPWVSHN", "length": 6037, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.worldfinance.com", "title": "Seeing the light | World Finance", "raw_content": "Economists need to realise the importance of incorporating human emotion\nContributors | The Econoclast\nIn modern physics, one of the biggest conundrums is that most of the matter and energy that make up the universe is apparently undetectable. The amount that we can actually see equates to only four percent of the total. The rest of the cosmos is believed to be made up of so-called dark energy (74 percent) and dark matter (22 percent), whose presence we can deduce only through their gravity-like effects on other things, such as galaxies.\nAs so often in life, it seems that we only notice the small fraction of things that happen to be brightly lit, while the real action is going on somewhere else. A similar phenomenon occurs in economics. Economic models tend to focus on the relatively small part of the economy that is amenable to mathematical analysis \u2013 the rational, logical, utility-maximising part. But the economy is also driven by a number of factors which either create difficulties for our models, or elude them altogether.\nThe most obvious exception to rational behaviour, is of course irrational behaviour. The ancient Greeks may have defined man as a rational animal, but they were perhaps being generous. The financial markets continue to be driven in large part by emotions, such as fear or euphoria that are hard to quantify mathematically.\nAs I argue in my new book titled Truth and Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order, a number of other factors also contribute to the \u2018dark\u2019 content of the economy, and exert powerful forces that resist mathematical treatment. These include love, power, justice, money \u2013 and everything else.\nLove: Much of our sense of wellbeing comes from social relationships, but this is not reflected in economic metrics of utility. Tasks such as looking after the young, old, and sick \u2013 which are still mostly performed by women \u2013 are often paid poorly or not at all, but are nonetheless vital to the health of society. They say that money makes the world (and the economy) go round, but love definitely plays a role as well.\nPower: Neo-classical economics treats individuals and firms as more-or-less identical atoms. If people behave like rational economic man, that means they will all make the same rational decisions and have approximately the same advantages. As Norbert H\u00e4ring and Niall Douglas observe in their book Economists and the Powerful, however, the economy is characterised by complex power relationships, such as, for example the power held by corporations, governments, rating agencies, financial institutions, and so on, which are downplayed or ignored by mainstream models.\nJustice: As Czech economist Tom\u00e1\u0161 Sedl\u00e1\u02c7cek notes in his book Economics of Good and Evil, the invisible hand (usually attributed to Adam Smith, though the idea is much older) is assumed to provide a reasonably just distribution of wealth. As a result, \u201cethics has disappeared from mainstream economic thought.\u201d Growing levels of inequality have become a global issue. Excessive concentration of wealth in the hands of a few violates our basic sense of fairness, with destabilising effects on society and the economy.\nMoney: One of the stranger features of mainstream economics is that money doesn\u2019t seem to play much of a role. For example, most General Equilibrium Models \u2013 of the type used, for example, by the Bank of England \u2013 don\u2019t include things like banks or hedge funds. This makes it hard for the models to understand, let alone predict, phenomena such as the subprime financial meltdown or the ongoing euro crisis.\nEverything else: Finally, mainstream economic theory fails to pick up an even larger source of dark matter and dark energy, which is everything outside the monetary system, including the Earth. The environmental crisis is a byproduct of our economic system; but because it is hard to model things like resource depletion, environmental damage, or the beauty and diversity of nature, these barely even register in most economic models.\nSo how can economists come to grips with these various sources of dark matter or dark energy? Some progress has certainly been made, mostly in so-called \u2018heterodox\u2019 fields. Behavioural economists, for example, have helped to illucidate the effects that \u2018bounded rationality\u2019 has on markets. Feminist economists such as Lourdes Bener\u00eda have explored the roles of power and gender in the economy. Hyman Minsky alerted us back in the 1970s to the inherent instability of the financial system. Ecological economists such as Herman Daly have long pointed out the absurdity of treating the economy as independent of the world system.\nOne reason that these areas remain \u2018heterodox\u2019 is that they do not fit easily into the mathematical framework of mainstream economics. So perhaps to become more realistic and objective, economics must actually become less attached to abstract mathematical arguments. When economics was founded in the late nineteenth century, it was explicitly modelled after the \u2018rational mechanics\u2019 of Isaac Newton.\nAfter losing much of his fortune in the South Sea bubble, though, Isaac Newton wrote in 1721 that: \u201cI can calculate the motions of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.\u201d Today we are learning that in many respects, the economy behaves less like a deterministic, Newtonian machine, than like a kind of super-organism. In other words, it\u2019s alive. So to understand it we need to use the right kind of mathematics \u2013 i.e. areas such as complexity and network theory that are adapted for living systems. And we also need to know and respect the bounds and limitations of mathematical models, and bring areas that are less amenable to mathematical treatment back into view.\nIn physics, it might not make much difference to our everyday lives if we ignore the effects of dark matter (it is unlikely to hit us on the head). But with the economy is being driven by forces that we cannot predict, control, or often even detect until it is too late, hard hats are advisable.\nEurobonding through a crisis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 171, "original_length": 8730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldtravelguide.net/guides/asia/south-korea/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:39Z", "digest": "sha1:EOIDT7YLCLXNBDY4DGUREJT3Q6DAJY3O", "length": 15109, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "www.worldtravelguide.net", "title": "South Korea Travel Guide and Travel Information | World Travel Guide", "raw_content": "World Travel Guide > Guides > Asia > South Korea\nIntroducing South Korea\nImages of South Korea\nTravel to South Korea\nthe IDs1352Busan Gimhae International Airport\n5583Seoul\n1353Seoul Incheon International Airport\nPlaces in South Korea\nSouth Korea can come across as inscrutable at first glance. It\u2019s a land of stark contrasts and wild contradictions; a place where tradition and technology are equally embraced; where skyscrapers loom over ancient temples; and where the frantic pace of life is offset by the serenity of nature. The country\u2019s unique customs and etiquette can seem like a trap laid for foreigners, but arrive with a smile and a respectful attitude and you will be welcomed with open arms by some of the friendliest folk on the planet.\nKoreans are fiercely proud of their country, and with good reason. The Korean peninsula has a storied history and this colourful heritage is woven into the fabric of this land. The capital, Seoul, is home to a number of historic highlights, including the spectacular Joseon-era Gyeongbokgung Palace, \u201cthe great south gate\u201d of Namdaemun and the eerie Seodaemun Prison \u2013 all tucked away amid gleaming offices, giant shopping centres, world-class restaurants and hipster bars.\nThe rest of the country is also littered with fortresses, temples and palaces. Visitors will enjoy the grassy burial mounds of ancient kings in Gyeongju, the Seokbulsa Temple in Busan, which has been carved out of a rock, and the infamous demilitarised zone, a biodiverse no-man\u2019s-land separating South and North Korea. It is a scary place, where acres of barbed wire are patrolled by heavily-armed guards on both sides, yet the tension is so trumped up it feels like you\u2019ve stumbled onto a Hollywood film set.\nBut it's not all about history. When it comes to nature, South Korea is wonderfully diverse, with spectacular national parks, remote sandy beaches, hot spring islands and rugged mountain peaks. Gastronomes are well catered for, too, but you may have to open your mind before your mouth; local specialities include kimchi (pickled cabbage) and makgeolli (rice wine).\nSouth Korea can sometimes seem like the most foreign place on Earth; an unfathomable destination of curious customs, strange food and jarring paradoxes. Ultimately, that\u2019s what makes it so exciting.\n99,720 sq km (38,502 sq miles) excluding demilitarised zone.\nPrime Minister Lee Nak-yon since 2017.\nPresident Moon Jae-in since 2017.\nSummary, Safety and security (Road Travel) and Local Laws and Customs section \u2013 addition of information on the new Korean Traffic Law (with effect from 28 September)\nWith effect from 28 September 2018, changes to Korean Traffic Law come into effect, including:\nAll passengers in vehicles must wear seat belts including in rear seats. City buses that are not fitted with seat belts are exempt from this regulation.\nDrivers will be required to take precautionary measures when parking on hills/slopes (such as placing stops behind each wheel, or turning the steering wheel to ensure that the front wheels of the vehicle are angled towards the kerb).\nFurther information can be found in the Korean Road Traffic Act (changes to the text of the current law are highlighted in blue). Anyone seeking additional advice should contact the Korean police authority.\nSince the start of 2018, there has been a renewal of direct contact between the North and South Korean governments, as well as between North Korea and the United States. Under the Panmunjom Declaration signed at the inter-Korean summit on 27 April, South Korea and North Korea pledged to agree a peace treaty formally to end the Korean War, alongside a number of other commitments to build inter-Korean ties and reduce military tensions. On 12 June, US President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore. In a joint statement, North Korea reaffirmed its previous commitment to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.\nIn the past, periods of diplomatic engagement have failed to be sustained. This has led to further missile or nuclear tests by North Korea and a return to instability in the region. The level of tension and the security situation can therefore still change with little notice. Tensions usually rise around the time of South Korean-US military exercises. In the past, heightened tensions haven\u2019t affected daily life.\nThe South Korean authorities provide advice on responding to civil emergencies, and hold regular nationwide civil emergency exercises. Sirens are sounded, transport stopped and some people are asked to take shelter in metro stations or basements.\nAround 140,000 British nationals visit South Korea every year. Most visits are trouble-free.\nThe typhoon season normally runs from June to November. You should monitor the progress of approaching storms and follow the instructions of the local authorities.\nPublic demonstrations are mostly peaceful and well-policed, but the risk of violence remains. You should take extra care as in any crowded place.\nAir pollution, including yellow dust pollution, is common in South Korea throughout the year and especially during spring months.\nIt\u2019s not possible to enter North Korea from South Korea.\nAlthough there is no recent history of terrorism in South Korea, attacks can\u2019t be ruled out.\nSince the end of the Korean War in 1953, the Korean peninsula has been divided by a demilitarised zone (DMZ) separating the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). Peace has been maintained under an armistice agreement. If you\u2019re in the area of the DMZ, you should take extra care and follow the advice of the local authorities.\nFrom the start of 2018, there has been a renewal of direct contact between the North and South Korean governments, as well as between North Korea and the United States. Under the Panmunjom Declaration signed at the inter-Korean summit on 27 April, South Korea and North Korea pledged to agree a peace treaty formally to end the Korean War, alongside a number of other commitments to build inter-Korean ties and reduce military tensions. On 12 June, US President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore. In a joint statement, North Korea reaffirmed its previous commitment to the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula.\nOn 21 April 2018, North Korea announced a halt to nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile testing. However, the level of tension on the Korean peninsula can change with little notice. Tensions increased after the sinking of the South Korean Navy Ship Cheonan and an artillery attack against Yeonpyeong Island in 2010; when the DPRK carried out 2 missile tests in 2012; and after nuclear tests in 2013, 2016 and 2017. Tensions can also rise during South Korean-US military exercises, which take place throughout the year. You should keep in touch with news broadcasts, follow the advice of the local authorities and check this travel advice for any updates.\nAt times of increased tensions, you should make yourself familiar with local procedures and preparations, including civil emergency exercises and advice (see below). You can also stay up to date with our travel advice for South Korea by subscribing to our email alert service to be notified of future updates, and by following our Twitter and Facebook channels.\nAs part of your own contingency plans, you should make sure you have easy access to your passport and other important documents such as nationality documents and birth and marriage certificates, as well as any essential medication. You can read our crisis overseas page for further information and advice, including sections on what you can do to prepare effectively, what you should do in the event of a crisis abroad, and how we can help you.\nIf the situation were to deteriorate, the British Embassy would pass information via this travel advice page and via Embassy Facebook and Twitter feeds.\nCivil emergency exercises and advice\nThe South Korean authorities sometimes hold civil emergency exercises. Sirens are sounded, transport stopped and some people are asked to take shelter indoors, including in designated metro stations or basements. Shelters in Seoul are marked with a special symbol. Participation by foreign nationals in these exercises isn\u2019t obligatory but you should follow any instructions by local authorities during any exercises.\nThe South Korean government has developed a smartphone application with civil emergency advice, including shelter locations, different types of alarms, medical facilities and emergency services. Search for \u2018emergency ready app\u2019 on Android or Apple app stores.\nCrime against foreigners is rare but there are occasional isolated incidents. While most reported crimes are thefts, there have been some rare cases of assaults, including sexual assaults, particularly around bars and nightlife areas.\nTake extra care of passports, credit cards and money in crowded areas and be careful in areas visited by foreigners, like Itaewon. Take care when travelling alone at night and only use legitimate taxis or public transport.\nFor emergency assistance, or to report a crime, call 112 for police (a 24 hour interpretation service is available) and 119 for ambulance and fire.\nPublic demonstrations in South Korea are common. These gatherings are mostly peaceful and well-policed, but you should take extra care as in any crowded place. You should also be aware that under Korean law, foreign nationals are prohibited from engaging in political activities in South Korea.\nYou\u2019ll need an International Driving Permit to drive in South Korea. Make sure you have fully comprehensive insurance.\nCar and motorbike drivers are presumed to be at fault in accidents involving motorcycles or pedestrians. Criminal charges and heavy penalties are common when accidents result in injury, even if guilt is not proved. Watch out for motorcycles travelling at speed on pavements.\nTaxi drivers tend to speak little or no English. Although translation services are available, have your destination written in Korean, if possible with a map.\nIn 2016, there were 4,899 reported road deaths in South Korea. This equates to 9.5 road deaths per 100,000 of population and compares to the UK average of 2.8 road deaths per 100,000 of population in 2015.\nOlder (non-3G) phones bought outside South Korea will not normally work in the country, and fitting foreign phones with local SIMs (e.g. to avoid roaming fees) is not usually possible.\nAlthough there is no recent history of terrorism in South Korea, attacks can\u2019t be ruled out. You should be aware of the global risk of indiscriminate terrorist attacks, which could be in public areas, including those visited by foreigners.\nA serious violation of local laws may lead to a jail or death sentence.\nPenalties for possession, use and trafficking of illegal drugs can result in long jail sentences and heavy fines. This applies even to personal use of small amounts of marijuana. British nationals have been detained solely on the basis of drug tests.\nCarry some form of identification at all times and make sure your next-of-kin details have been entered into the back of your passport.\nSame-sex relationships are not illegal. Younger Koreans are more liberal and LGBT rights organisations are gaining support. The gay scene, although relatively small, is well established and growing in visibility. See our information and advice page for the LGBT community before you travel.\nIf you have a British Citizen passport you can enter South Korea as a tourist for up to 90 days without a visa. You must also have an onward or return ticket. It\u2019s illegal to work on a tourist visa, whether as a teacher or in any other capacity.\nIf you have a different type of British nationality, or are travelling for any purpose other than tourism, you should check visa requirements with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, London.\nYour passport should be valid for a minimum period of 3 months from the date of entry into South Korea.\nUK Emergency Travel Documents are accepted for entry, airside transit and exit from South Korea.\nCheck the website of the Korea Customs Service for information on restricted or prohibited items that may not be brought into the country. If you are in any doubt about the legality of any items - including medications -you should declare them on entry.\nBritish males of Korean origin\nIf you are a British male of Korean origin whose name appears on the Korean family register, you may be liable for military service even if you are travelling on your British passport.\nTo get a visa to teach English in South Korea you must have a 3-year university degree. A TEFL qualification alone is not sufficient. If you are found to have obtained a teaching visa by deception, you will be detained and deported. British nationals teaching English in South Korea have sometimes found living and working conditions to be below expectations, and have encountered difficulties getting the correct visas and residence permits. There have also been complaints of breach of contract, confiscation of passports, payment being withheld and inadequate or no medical insurance. Check all terms and conditions of your employment carefully and if possible speak to other teachers from the place where you plan to work before accepting any offer. For those in possession of a work visa all employment changes must be authorised by Korean Immigration.\nMedical and dental care in South Korea is usually of a good standard but can be expensive. Staff may not speak English. Make sure you have adequate travel health insurance and accessible funds to cover the cost of any medical treatment abroad and repatriation.\nIn spring there\u2019s a risk of tick-borne disease across Korea. The national Disease Control and Prevention Centre advise all people taking part in leisure activities on grass to wear long sleeved shirts/tops and trousers.\nAir pollution, including yellow dust pollution, is common in South Korea throughout the year and especially during spring months. When the concentration levels of dust particles are high, residents and visitors are advised to stay indoors as much as possible, close windows and drink plenty of water. This is particularly important for the elderly and those with respiratory problems. Follow local media reporting and the Korean Meteorological Service website for the latest advice.\nThe typhoon season normally runs from June to November. You should monitor the progress of approaching storms on the Korean Meteorological Administration website and follow any advice given by the local authorities or you can call 131 in Korea to get an accurate weather forecast in English.\nSee our tropical cyclones page for advice about what to do if you are caught up in a typhoon.\nThe local currency is the South Korean Won. It is almost impossible to change Scottish or Northern Irish bank notes. Credit cards are not always accepted outside major cities. ATMs are widely available, but do not always accept foreign cards. Those with a sign saying \u2018Global\u2019 will normally accept foreign cards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 25425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worldwidelabs.com/hair-skin/rose-hip-seed-oil-1-ounce/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:22Z", "digest": "sha1:DLHJLAMDRGQTR7SYINFCR7EAN3DXGQB6", "length": 387, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.worldwidelabs.com", "title": "Rose Hip Seed Oil 1 Ounce: WorldWide Labs", "raw_content": "Product ID : Rose Oil\nManufacturer's Description - Rose Hip Seed Oil is used to help rejuvenate skin and hair. It is hexane extracted from the seed of the hip and is very high in Omega-6 Fatty Acids. This product is 100% pure, it has not been processed or manipulated in any way with solvents or other additives. Rose Hip Seed Oil can be added to shampoos, moisturizers, and skin creams.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 175.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.worthingherald.co.uk/sport/football/brighton-and-hove-albion/albion-nostalgia-when-steve-gatting-and-gerry-ryan-stunned-tottenham-at-the-goldstone-1-8640453", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:47Z", "digest": "sha1:MKXIW3DZVHFWW2OZ7R3JDGAB7Z3OLSJP", "length": 2957, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.worthingherald.co.uk", "title": "Albion Nostalgia: When Steve Gatting and Gerry Ryan stunned Tottenham at the Goldstone - Worthing Herald", "raw_content": "Albion Nostalgia: When Steve Gatting and Gerry Ryan stunned Tottenham at the Goldstone\nThe front cover of the programme when Albion met Spurs in 1983\nAfter a number of meetings in the Southern League at the start of the 20th century, Albion\u2019s Football League history with Tottenham Hotspur stretches back just 40 years to the 1977/78 season in the old Division Two.\nThe first encounter at White Hart Lane was watched by over 48,500 and a further 32,500 flocked to the Goldstone for the return fixture.\nWe renewed hostilities a couple of seasons later in the top flight and it\u2019s a First Division match I\u2019m looking at for this week\u2019s column.\nAt the beginning of April 1983, our time in the first division was coming to an end but the FA Cup run of that season meant the players had places to fight for. In his \u2018Jimmy\u2019s Jottings\u2019 column, Albion manager Jimmy Melia praises the \u201cattitude and spirit\u201d of the players, despite the precarious league position. He is \u201csure we will be able to fight our way out of the bottom three before the end of the season\u201d.\nIn keeping with the positive attitude being shown by the players, the game itself was a thriller. Spurs had a certain Chris Hughton in their very attacking line-up, that included Steve Archibald, Alan Brazil, Mark Falco and Terry Gibson in a four-man strikeforce.\nAlbion had Graeme Moseley in goal, behind a back-four of Steve Gatting, Chris Ramsey, Steve Foster and Gary Stevens. Midfield duties were shared by Jimmy Case, Graham Pearce, Gordon Smith and Gary Howlett. Up front, Michael Robinson was supported by Terry Connor, in just his second Seagulls appearance.\nSpurs took the lead in the first half, through Graham Roberts, and the score stayed like that until half-time. Despite a valiant effort in the second period, it looked as though Albion\u2019s industry would go unrewarded. A victory seemed even more unlikely when Ramsey was sent off with just eight minutes remaining.\nThen came the real turning point. Spurs\u2019 Tony Galvin suffered a rush of blood to the head and was also sent off. As he was making his way down the tunnel, Albion swept forward and Steve Gatting popped up to beat Ray Clemence from the corner of the box.\nThe drama was not over. With just three minutes left on the clock, Albion substitute Gerry Ryan leapt to knock in the winner. This sparked scenes of bedlam on the terraces, reminiscent of the trouble at the same fixture in 1978.\nAlbion held on for the victory and Melia was delighted with the performance. As we know, it was not enough to save us from relegation but two weeks after that game, the players again dug deep to win the FA Cup semi-final against Sheffield Wednesday.\nHughton\u2019s men will need similar reserves of character to get a result on Saturday evening.\nSpurs may well be fatigued after their Champions League exploits and Albion will be buoyed by the recovery from a two-goal deficit at St Mary\u2019s last Monday. It has all the markings of another thriller.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 5009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 229.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wrshealth.com/testimonial/karen-lee-arnp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:17Z", "digest": "sha1:H64VMQCVTVRRIT4Q2K3OPI6ULYWLE2DU", "length": 9583, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.wrshealth.com", "title": "Karen Lee, ARNP| Billing Challenges | WRS Health EHR and PM", "raw_content": "Woman to Woman Washington | Obstetrics and Gynecology,\n\u201cBilling now is a breeze as all I have to do is send all the bills to WRS Health every night and they do all the rest. It\u2019s actually pathetically easy, and I love it!\u201d\nMs. Lee, who is still practicing medicine after most of her colleagues have retired, approached WRS Health with her billing challenges. She had been handling her billing herself for a full year but it was overwhelming. With a small practice, she couldn\u2019t afford to hire a dedicated biller. After realizing she needed outside assistance, she reached out to WRS Health, her EHR provider, to find out if there\u2019s any way WRS Health could help her with billing. After analyzing the practice and understanding Ms. Lee\u2019s needs, WRS Health offered her a turnkey solution.\nMs. Karen Lee has been a nurse practitioner for the last forty years. A proud mother of two and a grandmother twice over, Ms. Lee\u2019s focus is on women\u2019s health, with an emphasis on post-menopausal health. After working for various practices and hospitals over the years, Ms. Lee finally moved her practice into her home in order to simplify her work. This has worked out well for her as it has helped offer her patients the kind of personalized attention and healthcare that she so passionately believes in. With this background, it\u2019s easy to see why Ms. Lee wouldn\u2019t want anything to take away from her patients, not the least having to do extensive paperwork. Billing became one such thing that was threating to steal the joy out of the work Ms. Lee so loves to do. Being in her early seventies, the only thing that slowed down Ms. Lee was the billing, reaching out to WRS Health solved that problem.\nBilling Challenges and Solutions\nWhen Ms. Karen Lee approached WRS Health to assist her with some billing challenges she was facing, a WRS Health billing specialist did an analysis of her practice\u2019s billing. It was determined that Ms. Lee\u2019s billing challenges where as follows:\nThe process of doing billing herself was too complex a task for her and trying to do so for the past year had only served to depress her.\nThe billing challenges were affecting her insurance payouts.\nShe needed more time to spend with her patients, which was being affected by billing\nShe needed a solution that was less expensive than hiring an internal biller.\nMs. Karen Lee\u2019s practice consists of herself and a receptionist. This has been the case for a number of years as she runs her practice from her home, which offers her the flexibility and her patients the personalized care she esteems very highly. \u201cI love practicing out of my home. There\u2019s no commute, I get to give my patients a homey and relaxed environment and I get to practice on my own terms. The down side to this is that there\u2019s a lot I have to do myself. Billing was one of those things. It was tough. I\u2019m not very good with numbers so trying to juggle all those numbers simply stole my joy and I found myself feeling down about the whole thing. That\u2019s when I reached out to WRS Health to see if there\u2019s anything they could do to help me with this challenge I was facing.\u201d\nThis isn\u2019t a situation unique to Ms. Lee. Many solo practitioners often find themselves ill-equipped to take on billing requirements for their practice, no matter how tiny. WRS Health in response to this offers a way for small practice owners to get out this, through their Billing Management Solution. For a small monthly fee, WRS Health will do all the billing work leaving physicians free to pursue their interests in their practices. This is Ms. Lee\u2019s take after signing up for the WRS Health outsourced billing solution; \u201cI was relieved! Billing now is a breeze as all I have to do is send all the bills to WRS Health every night and they do all the rest. It\u2019s actually pathetically easy, and I love it! I now don\u2019t have to struggle doing something I\u2019m not particularly good at and I feel more at peace with how things are now.\u201d\nDisrupted Cash Flow\nMs. Lee sees a good number of patients with insurance so the challenges she was facing with billing factored straight into this, resulting in a spike in denials. Being a small practice, anything affecting revenues was a huge challenge. So when she reached out to WRS Health, it was not only because she was faltering in managing the billings of her practice, but also because there was a threat to revenues as a result. \u201cI run my practice on a very tight revenue leash. If anything disrupts our revenue even slightly, it can potentially start a ripple effect with some unpleasant results. That is why when I saw our claims denial rate go up slightly, I knew something had to change, and do so fast! I contacted WRS Health because I knew they had financial and billing experts and I hoped to draw from that pool of expertise to reverse the spike in claims denials my practice was experiencing.\u201d\nWRS Health has seen this scenario play out in dozens of practices across the country where claims denials start going up due to challenges with billings. When Ms. Lee approached WRS Health, it was immediately determined that there was some slippage in revenue that needed to be corrected. But the root cause was billing and so this is what got immediate attention. By taking up Ms. Lee\u2019s billing, WRS Health was able to arrest the revenue slippage and restore claims payments to 100%. \u201cIt was amazing how WRS came to my rescue!\u201d exclaimed Ms. Lee. \u201cHaving struggled to do all the billing work myself and still seen denials go up, I was ready for a miracle, one I hoped would come soon. After I handed over my billing to WRS, claims denials went down and my revenues returned to where they were. I\u2019m very pleased with this outcome as this was a great source of anxiety for me.\u201d\nSmall practices with a solo provider are usually forced to undertake all their billing requirements in-house. In some instances an internal biller is hired to do the billing while in most other cases, it is the primary provider who has to undertake this work. \u201cAs a solo provider, I didn\u2019t have a choice but to do the billing work myself,\u201d remembers Ms. Lee. \u201cI\u2019m no good at numbers so in addition to the difficulty of the task, it also consumed a lot of my time, time that I felt I should be spending with my patients and family. As a result of this I felt bad about it and often found myself depressed at the bleak reality that has staring right back at me. I needed something to change to give me back my time and freedom to invest in the things I cared more about.\u201d Having WRS Health do the billing for her did the trick.\nWRS Health supports solo practitioners by taking up the billing work they would otherwise have to undertake themselves. This unique service has seen many solo practitioners save significant amounts of time they had previously spent on billing. As a direct beneficiary of this time-saving solution, this is what Ms. Lee had to say, \u201cAfter handing over the billing work to WRS Health, all I need to do now is only send them my bills every night. After that I\u2019m free. The result of this has been that I now feel more at peace and happier with how things are. Billing had been a source of stress for me from the long hours of grueling work I had to put in so I\u2019m very happy that I don\u2019t have to worry about that anymore.\u201d\n\u201cI spent some time looking at some other billing solutions but they were all so costly,\u201d says Ms. Lee. \u201cHiring an internal biller was probably the most expensive option available to me while getting a part-time one just seemed too complicated.\u201d This situation is what saw Ms. Lee take on the billing work herself and work at it for a year. In this year she was not able to get a good flow and with little headway in terms of understanding and running the numbers expertly, she decided to reach out to WRS Health, her EHR service provider, and see if there was a way they could help with the billing process.\nWRS Health understood that as a small practice, Ms. Lee\u2019s and other similar practices require a cost-effective billing solution that won\u2019t break the bank. That is why WRS Health offers a simple and affordable billing solution that takes the pain of billing away from the practice. This solution worked perfectly for Ms. Lee: \u201cOne of the things I really love about the billing service WRS offers me is that it\u2019s so cost effective. If I had to hire a dedicated internal biller I\u2019d need to fork out many times over what I now pay and for that I\u2019m very grateful.\u201d\nBefore WRS Health took over Ms. Lee\u2019s billing needs, she had to do all the work herself. As a result, she experienced stress, increased denials, and time crunch, among other challenges. After reaching out to WRS Health to help with her billing, these are the outcomes Ms. Lee was able to enjoy:\nDramatic decrease in stress about her billing and cash flow, as they are now well taken care of by the experts.\nDenials are the bane of any practice large or small. For Ms. Lee\u2019s practice, this was as a result of the challenges she was facing with her billing. After WRS Health took over, Ms. Lee was able to see close to no denials thereafter.\nMs. Lee is passionate about her patients and her family, and desires to spend more quality time with them, something her struggles with billing were getting in the way of. After reaching out to WRS Health and transferring her billing tasks to them, she now feels she has more time to invest in the things she loves and cares more about.\nObstetrics and Gynecology Testimonial\nWRS Health thanks Karen Lee, ARNP for sharing her review of the WRS Obstetrics and Gynecology Electronic Medical Record.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 10946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/04/1920-a01.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:16Z", "digest": "sha1:KJSEFPBMS5L67KMSV5RONCIWTMVMRPUG", "length": 4029, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.wsws.org", "title": "How the British bombed Iraq in the 1920s - World Socialist Web Site", "raw_content": "How the British bombed Iraq in the 1920s\nThe US and British governments, and most Western media pundits, have tried to explain the determined resistance of the Iraqi people to the US-led assault by referring to the first Bush administration\u2019s 1991 betrayal of the Kurds in the north and Shiites in the south. Once Iraqis are confident that the Allies are serious about occupying the country, the argument goes, they will rise up and welcome them as liberators.\nThese assertions ignore the deeply-felt hostility to decades of colonial and semi-colonial rule by the Western powers, who long plundered Iraq\u2019s oil reserves. During World War I, Mesopotamia was occupied by British forces, and it became a British mandated territory in 1920. In 1921, a kingdom was established under Faisal I, son of King Hussein of Hejaz and leader of the Arab Army in World War I. Britain withdrew from Iraq in 1932, but British and American oil companies retained their grip over the country.\nOne of the most bitter chapters in this history, one with direct parallels to the current military campaign, occurred during the 1920s. In many respects, the air war now being employed in Iraq is an offshoot of a military policy developed by Britain as it clung to its Iraqi colony 80 years ago.\nConfronting a financial crisis after World War I, in mid-February 1920 Minister of War and Air Winston Churchill asked Chief of the Air Staff Hugh Trenchard to draw up a plan whereby Mesopotamia could be cheaply policed by aircraft armed with gas bombs, supported by as few as 4,000 British and 10,000 Indian troops.\nSeveral months later, a widespread uprising broke out, which was only put down through months of heavy aerial bombardment, including the use of mustard gas. At the height of the suppression, both Churchill and Trenchard tried to put the most flattering light upon actions of the Royal Air Force.\nBritish historian David Omissi, author of Air Power and Colonial Control: The Royal Air Force 1919-1939, records: \u201cDuring the first week of July there was fierce fighting around Samawa and Rumaitha on the Euphrates but, Churchill told the Cabinet on 7 July, \u2018our attack was successful.... The enemy were bombed and machine-gunned with effect by aeroplanes which cooperated with the troops\u2019.\u201d\nThe order issued by one RAF wing commander, J.A. Chamier, specified: \u201cThe attack with bombs and machine guns must be relentless and unremitting and carried on continuously by day and night, on houses, inhabitants, crops and cattle.\u201d\nArthur \u201cBomber\u201d Harris, a young RAF squadron commander, reported after a mission in 1924: \u201cThe Arab and Kurd now know what real bombing means, in casualties and damage: They know that within 45 minutes a full-sized village can be practically wiped out and a third of its inhabitants killed or injured.\u201d\nThe RAF sent a report to the British Parliament outlining the steps that its pilots had taken to avoid civilian casualties. The air war was less brutal than other forms of military control, it stated, concluding that \u201cthe main purpose is to bring about submission with the minimum of destruction and loss of life.\u201d\nKnowing the truth, at least one military officer resigned. Air Commander Lionel Charlton sent a letter of protest and resigned in 1923 over what he considered the \u201cpolicy of intimidation by bomb\u201d after visiting a local hospital full of injured civilians.\nThe methods pioneered in Iraq were applied throughout the Middle East. Omissi writes: \u201cThe policing role of most political moment carried out by the Royal Air Force during the 1920s was to maintain the power of the Arab kingdoms in Transjordan and Iraq; but aeroplanes also helped to dominate other populations under British sway.\n\u201cSchemes of air control similar to that practiced in Mesopotamia were set up in the Palestine Mandate in 1922 and in the Aden Protectorate six years later. Bombers were active at various times against rioters in Egypt, tribesmen on the Frontier, pastoralists in the Southern Sudan and nomads in the Somali hinterland.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 349, "original_length": 25328, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.xn--wsthoff-90a.com/privacy-statement/?lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GBEQFCMKDBNGYZBJLJW7CEPYPJKO2YPB", "length": 145, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.xn--wsthoff-90a.com", "title": "W\u00f6sthoff Messtechnik: Sampling | Gas Mixing Pumps | Analysis Technology", "raw_content": "Since the number of employees who may have access to sensitive data is less than 9, the appointment of a data protection officer is not required.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 9860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 61.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.xtm.com.au/blog/history-of-the-winter-olympic-games", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:46Z", "digest": "sha1:7EORNBW2ATISCD4U5UIV5MOV6NK2UTSQ", "length": 3275, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.xtm.com.au", "title": "XTM Blog - History Of The Winter Olympic Games", "raw_content": "History Of The Winter Olympic Games\nThe history of the Winter Olympic Games\nWhen you turn on the TV to settle down and watch the Winter Olympics, you\u2019re actually tuning into an event that has grown from small, humble beginnings, into the major sporting affair it is today. Alongside the Summer Olympic Games, the Winter Olympics pits sporting legends against one another, all in the name of winning that elusive gold medal for their country and being written into the history books.\nThe history of the Winter Olympic Games goes right back to 1924, when the first event was held in Chamonix, France. Attended by only 258 athletes from 16 countries, just five sporting disciplines were included \u2013 bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, Nordic skiing (consisting of military patrol, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and ski jumping), and skating (consisting of figure skating and speed skating). This first edition of the Games was hugely popular, and was continued until 1936 when it was put on hold due to World War II. The Games resumed in 1948 and continued alongside the summer games until 1992 when a decision was made to alternate the summer and winter events. As they do now, each version is held every four years, with the winter version occurring two years after the summer version in a constant 4 year cycle.\nMoney began to pile into the Games as TV rights were sold and events were broadcast all over the globe, the Olympic flame fuelling the popularity of this world famous collection of athletes.\nThe history of the Winter Olympic Games has touched many countries and continents, with the USA having hosted the Games the most times, in 1932, 1960, 1980, and most recently in 2002. France comes next, not only having hosted the first Games, but also having hosted another two since then. Austria, Canada, Japan, Italy, Norway and Switzerland have all hosted the Games twice each, and Germany, Yugoslavia, and Russia have hosted it just the once, with Sochi, Russia being the most recent event.\nThe next episode will be in South Korea, in Pyeongchang, in February 2018. During the Games, viewers can look forward to all of their favourite events such as biathlon, bobsleigh, curling, skiing, ice hockey, luge, and skating, amongst many, many others. Over the years many events have been added, including more modern sports such as snowboarding and short track speed skating. Some of these sports were originally discontinued and then added again, such as curling and bobsleigh, which gained huge popularity from the Disney film Cool Running\u2019s, and always pulls a huge audience with its high speeds and heavy tumbles.\nOne thing is for sure, the Winter Olympics are becoming as popular as its summer sibling, as more and more modern sports are added, and new superstars and childhood idols are born. XTM are extremely proud to have been the Australian team sponsor for the past 3 Olympics, and we\u2019re looking forward to helping nurture many more stars of the future. May the Olympic flame continue to burn brightly!\nYou can read up on more about XTM\u2019s alliance with the Olympic Winter Institute of Australia by visiting our Winter Olympic Alliance page.\nMake sure you check out our range of Mens Ski Gear and Womens Ski Gear designed by Australia's best winter athletes!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 6038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 173.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.xulonpress.com/publishing-101/book-marketing/best-time-to-release-book/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ICAQF4VPNVZLERHSKRAEASI7HKSTC7HL", "length": 861, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.xulonpress.com", "title": "Book Marketing - When is the best time to release my book?", "raw_content": "Book Marketing Made Easy \u2013 When is the best time to release my book?mchiaro2018-02-13T14:41:33+00:00\nDid you write the next great #BeachRead? Well, fiction books fly off the shelves in the summer. Children\u2019s books, devotionals or non-fiction books written specifically for men and women sell well around Father\u2019s and Mother\u2019s Day. Inspirational books make great gifts for new grads, and educational books should be released early enough for back-to-school book orders.\nChristmas is traditionally known as the biggest book-buying season of the year, but it\u2019s also a time when new releases flood the market in anticipation of holiday shopping. A targeted release with less competition is probably the best fit for your book. 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Symptoms include burning, stinging, itchiness, and blistering. It affects the feet, particularly between the toes and the soles, and is highly contagious. It can even spread to your toenails if left alone.\nYou don\u2019t have to be an \u2018athlete\u2019 to get this infection. People can get it from going barefoot in public pools, taking showers at the gym, pedicures, wearing sweaty shoes, and a variety of other reasons. As it\u2019s so common, there is an abundance of good OTC athlete\u2019s foot treatments that will clear up the condition quickly.\nIt isn\u2019t a serious medical condition. With the right treatment, it can be completely cured. So, the two most important factors to remember, no matter which cream, spray or powder you choose, is not to give up on treatment before the fungus is completely removed from your feet and toes. If you stop treating athlete\u2019s foot too early, the condition will likely return. You should also deodorize old footwear to remove the fungus.\nTinea pedis can be treated with essential oils and non-prescription medications. These are usually topical agents that have antifungal properties. In some cases, your doctor may prescribe a stronger topical antifungal agent, such as fluconazole or itraconazole, but this is for more stubborn infections.\n1 What Are the Top 10 Over-the-Counter Treatments for Athlete\u2019s Foot?\n1.1 The Yellow Bird\u2019s All-Natural Foot Cream\n1.3 Puriya Wonder Balm\n1.4 Tea Tree Oil Therapeutic Foot Soak\n1.5 Tolnaftate Cream\n1.6 Derman Antifungal Cream\n1.7 Elizabeth Parker Naturals Organic Foot Cream\n1.8 Zeasorb Athlete\u2019s Foot Powder\n1.9 Desenex Antifungal Foot Powder\n1.10 Theratree Therapeutic Balm\n2 What Can I Do to Prevent Athlete\u2019s Foot?\n3 What\u2019s the Difference Between Toenail Fungus & Athlete\u2019s Foot?\n4 Use a Good Treatment for Tinea Pedis Right Away\nWhat Are the Top 10 Over-the-Counter Treatments for Athlete\u2019s Foot?\nIf you are infected, knowing the best treatments for athlete\u2019s foot can make a difference. Use this list to find out more about popular solutions. Let\u2019s take a closer look at the top ten picks:\nThe Yellow Bird\u2019s All-Natural Foot Cream\nAs more people start to look for natural treatment options, more effective solutions step up to the plate. This All-Natural Antifungal Foot Cream is the perfect example. It only contains ten ingredients, but the formula is designed to not only soothe and moisturize feet but get rid of fungus quickly.\nSome of the therapeutic-grade oils included in the formula are:\nPeppermint (According to the National Institute of Health, peppermint can help to kill most major strands of fungi.)\nThe other key ingredients are:\nBecause the cream is so thick, it remains on the foot and has time to penetrate the skin. It\u2019s the beeswax that makes it possible. This creates a longer-lasting consistent treatment than many other options.\nAthlete\u2019s foot can cause dryness and peeling. The moisturizing properties of this natural cream can help to leave your feet looking and feeling healthy, even when you\u2019re dealing with this unsightly and uncomfortable condition. Shea butter and beeswax will keep moisture locked in, without causing it to be excessive.\nIt is made in the United States and comes with a satisfaction, money-back guarantee. Because there are only ten ingredients, it\u2019s easy to look through them to determine if you may have any allergies. If not, you shouldn\u2019t have to worry about any adverse side effects. This is a cream that truly exposes itself for what it is, and believes in the way it works. If you\u2019ve been searching for a natural solution to heal your athlete\u2019s foot, it doesn\u2019t get much better than this formula by All Natural Antifungal Foot Cream. Moisturizing Organic Relief for Dry Cracked Heels, Callused Feet, Athletes Foot. Best Therapeutic Grade Essential Oils: Peppermint, Lavender, Eucalyptus, Tea Tree..\nClotrimazole helps to alleviate symptoms like burning, itching, cracking, and scaling that are associated with athlete\u2019s foot and other fungal infections. Applied topically, this antifungal cream kills fungi by disrupting the cell membranes.\nIt keeps the fungi from producing an essential substance for growth, called ergosterol. Without the production of ergosterol, the infection can\u2019t continue to grow and thrive. This interference causes holes to form within the cell membranes, compromising the overall structure of the fungus and causing it to weaken. When the fungus becomes vulnerable and weak, your feet can begin to heal.\nSide effects when using clotrimazole cream are rare. However, some of the most common include burning, stinging, redness, or general irritation in the area where it\u2019s being used. While it is typically okay to use with other oral medications, avoid \u2018mixing\u2019 if you\u2019re using another topical agent on the same area. If you use two different types of topical treatments, they may have an adverse reaction to one another.\nFor best results, you can use Clotrimazole cream two or three times each day, rubbing it directly onto the infected area. Be sure to wash your hands after direct application, to reduce the risk spreading.\nPuriya Wonder Balm\nThe formula for Puriya\u2019s Wonder Balm contains antifungal and antimicrobial properties. They help to reduce irritating symptoms like itching and redness associated with athlete\u2019s foot. The cream also helps to prevent the spreading of fungal infection to other areas of the body with regular use.\nIngredients like tea tree oil (a natural antifungal agent) and lavender oil help to keep the skin moisturized with each use. Beeswax and olive oil ensure that the formula will stay on your skin longer than many other solutions. This gives the formula a chance to really penetrate the fungus and heal it faster.\nWith a promise of immediate relief and faster healing results, Puriya backs up their claim with a satisfaction guarantee. It\u2019s a natural solution for fungal problems like athlete\u2019s foot, ringworm, jock itch, and more. If it doesn\u2019t work for you, you can return it for a full refund.\nWith stubborn conditions, it can sometimes be hard to find a natural solution that really works. However, more and more people are looking for ingredients they can feel confident in. Not only do the natural ingredients in Puriya's Wonder Balm work quickly, but unless you have certain allergy sensitivities to them, there are very few side effects to worry about.\nTea Tree Oil Therapeutic Foot Soak\nTea tree oil has been used for a variety of skin conditions for hundreds of years. More recently, people have found it to be extremely effective for fungal infections. It is an antifungal agent, but it also has antiseptic, antibacterial, and anti-inflammatory properties. Not only does it help to get rid of the fungus, but it can soothe symptoms quickly.\nThis foot soak also contains ingredients like Epsom salts, peppermint oil, camphor oil, rosemary oil, and lavender oil. They are all designed to soften and soothe feet while getting rid of the infection.\nThis therapeutic foot soak can be used in a standard basin, or in an electric foot spa machine. Sometimes, athlete\u2019s foot can cause discomfort and pain. Using a foot soaking treatment can help to alleviate that discomfort.\nOne of the problems associated with athlete\u2019s foot and fungus is the foul odor it can give off. The soothing oils within this soak will also help to get rid of the bad smells that can linger from a fungal infection.\nBecause it is a natural solution, there are no side effects. Because you only need to add a scoop at a time to each foot soak, this is a treatment that is made to last. That\u2019s beneficial, considering the fact that it can sometimes take a while for a fungus to be fully killed off.\nYou\u2019ll notice that several additional treatments in this list contain tea tree oil. You can also use 100% natural tea tree oil as a treatment option. However, you must also use a carrier oil to mix with it. Additionally, the extra ingredients in these solutions are designed to help soothe symptoms specifically associated with athlete\u2019s foot. Choosing one of these special formulas, such as a Purely Northwest foot soak, may yield faster results.\nThis is an antifungal agent. It is commonly used to heal and prevent athlete\u2019s foot, jock itch, and ringworm. Its effectiveness is so strong because it actually blocks the cells of fungi from growing. When a fungus can\u2019t grow and spread, it makes it easier to kill.\nIn addition to actually treating the fungus, tolnaftate cream helps with the unpleasant symptoms associated with athlete\u2019s foot. Unfortunately, the fungus can cause itching and burning. This cream soothes those sensations, allowing you to be comfortable while it gets rid of the infection.\nThere are few known side effects associated with this cream. For best results, use the cream as directed, and don\u2019t miss any doses. Continue to use it for a full course of treatment, without stopping early if it looks like the infection has cleared up. Fungus comes back quickly when it\u2019s not fully treated. Even if you feel as though most of the symptoms are gone, keep using tolnaftate cream until the treatment is complete.\nDerman Antifungal Cream\nThis antifungal cream uses a specialized formula with zinc undecylenic acid and zinc undecylenate ointment to help clear up athlete\u2019s foot. These are fatty acids that prevent fungal growth. Derman Antifungal Cream prides itself on these antifungal ingredients to get rid of fungal infections quickly.\nThough it is not a natural solution, it is easy to use, and effective. Its two main ingredients have strong antifungal properties, and it can be applied daily for best results.\nDerman\u2019s cream suggests using it for four weeks straight. If the condition hasn\u2019t cleared up, talk to your doctor about other possible options. Because it isn\u2019t completely natural, you may want to talk to your doctor before using it, to begin with, to make sure it\u2019s safe for your particular situation. It may not interact well with other medications or topical solutions. In some cases, it may cause irritation, itching, or burning.\nHowever, if you\u2019re looking for an antifungal cream that works quickly, you\u2019ll find it here. With two powerful main ingredients, and inactive ingredients that help to soothe itching, cracking, and scaly skin, you can keep athlete\u2019s foot under control almost immediately.\nElizabeth Parker Naturals Organic Foot Cream\nSome of the active ingredients in this organic foot cream, including Manuka honey, are specifically included in the formula to combat against fungal infections that cause athlete\u2019s foot. Additional ingredients like Triketones and Sesquiterpenes contain antifungal, antibacterial, and antiseptic properties to speed up the healing process.\nAside from helping to get rid of athlete\u2019s foot, it can also soothe and repair your feet during the process. With the cracked, scaly skin that can sometimes appear with athlete\u2019s foot, it\u2019s important to use a cream that helps to heal and rejuvenate quickly. You\u2019ll notice soft, supple skin after just a few uses with Elizabeth Parker Naturals cream.\nTo use correctly, simply rub the foot cream onto the affected area up to twice each day. It should be used topically only.\nZeasorb Athlete\u2019s Foot Powder\nZeasorb is a dermatologist-recommended foot powder for athlete\u2019s foot. It deals with this condition by relieving inflammation and flat-out killing the infection. Its key ingredient is miconazole nitrate. That helps to stop the growth of fungi.\nBecause it is a powder, Zeasorb also helps to wick away unwanted moisture from the feet. Fungus tends to grow best in warm, moist environments. What is a better environment than a shoe \u2013 especially for someone who may sweat quite a bit? Keeping your feet as dry as possible can help to slow the growth and spreading of a fungal infection.\nThis powder dries up excess moisture from your feet, making a harsher environment for fungi. It also relieves itching, scaling, and burning because it is so absorbent. If you\u2019re prone to athlete\u2019s foot or fungal infections of any kind, you can use this powder as a preventative measure. Because Zeasorb Antifungal Powder Treatment For Athletes Foot - 2.5 Oz (3 Pack) so well, you can constantly create a harder environment for fungi to grow.\nDesenex Antifungal Foot Powder\nLike Zeasorb, Desenex also uses Miconazole as its main ingredient to fight back against fungal infections. It helps to cure athlete\u2019s foot, and soothe the negative symptoms associated with it. This includes cracking, itching, and burning. It also helps to wick away moisture from the feet, leaving them clean and dry.\nFor best results, use Desenex exactly as directed on the package. It\u2019s meant for external use only. You shouldn\u2019t use more than directed, and you shouldn\u2019t use it continuously for four weeks straight without consulting your doctor first. You can sprinkle the powder directly on your feet, or in your shoes overnight for an extra boost of antifungal power.\nSide effects are rare with this foot powder. However, if you experience additional redness or irritation, stop use immediately and see your doctor for an alternative treatment option.\nTheratree Therapeutic Balm\nAnother natural solution to athlete\u2019s foot, Theratree\u2019s Therapeutic Balm contains antifungal ingredients designed to soothe the effects of a fungal infection. Not only does it help to reduce inflammation and redness, but it also works to create a barrier around the skin. This barrier helps to wick away moisture, but keep your feet properly hydrated.\nThis combination of ingredients leads to soft, soothed feet that don\u2019t crack or scale, even if athlete\u2019s foot is present. It also helps prevent foot odor sometimes associated with fungal infections. If the symptoms of athlete\u2019s foot are really getting to you, this is a natural way to soothe them quickly and increase the right kind of moisture for your feet. You can continue to use it even after the infection as cleared up, as a protective barrier.\nSide effects are rare. However, this should be used as a topical agent only. The ingredients are all-natural, but if used improperly, or ingested, some of them may be harmful. Do not use on children under the age of two unless approved by a doctor.\nWhat Can I Do to Prevent Athlete\u2019s Foot?\nUnfortunately, because fungi grow and spread quickly, we can never prevent it completely. Most of the products listed above can be used as preventative resources. That\u2019s especially true with the all-natural products. If you find that you\u2019re prone to athlete\u2019s foot, using them regularly can help to lower your chances of contracting it so frequently.\nThere are also precautionary steps you can take in your everyday life. So, what can you do to help prevent it in the first place?\nWash your feet regularly and practice proper hygiene.\nKeep your feet and toes as dry as possible. Dry between your toes after you shower, go to the pool, etc.\nIf you are extremely active, or you tend to perspire a lot, make changes to how you take care of your feet. You may want to change out your socks more than once a day if they become wet. Never re-wear socks without washing them, even if they have dried out. Additionally, you can alternate the shoes you wear each day, giving each pair a chance to \u2018air out\u2019 as much as possible. Wear special antifungal socks, if possible.\nGive your feet a chance to dry out whenever possible by going barefoot at home. If you\u2019re stuck in shoes and socks all day, moisture can easily get trapped. Give your feet some time to breathe when you can.\nTry to avoid going barefoot in public places. Athletes often use public pools and showers.\nDon\u2019t share your shoes or socks with someone else. Again, a fungus can be very contagious. If someone else has athlete\u2019s foot, and you slip on their shoes, you could contract it. Use a shoe deodorizer machine to remove fungus from footwear.\nCheck your shoes periodically. Sometimes, you might leave your dirty socks in your shoes. That moisture can create fungus just as easily as a sweaty shoe itself. It never hurts to sprinkle some antifungal powder inside your shoes, just to be safe.\nThere is no guaranteed way to avoid athlete\u2019s foot. However, these simple steps can be used as precautionary measures.\nWhat\u2019s the Difference Between Toenail Fungus & Athlete\u2019s Foot?\nToenail fungus and athlete\u2019s foot are both fungal infections. Sometimes, you can even use similar solutions to treat them. A toenail fungus treatment should focus on the nail bed. Athlete\u2019s foot can occur all over the skin of the foot and needs to be treated slightly differently. However, it\u2019s important to know which condition you\u2019re facing, so you can choose the right solution.\nFirst, let\u2019s look at the symptoms of athlete\u2019s foot:\nIt grows on the top layer of the skin\nIt can cause itching, burning, and redness\nYour skin may start to appear as scaly, or flaky\nIf not treated properly, it can lead to toenail fungus/infections\nThe main symptoms of toenail fungus are:\nGrows within the nail bed\nCreates crumbly, brittle, and thick nails\nDiscoloration of the toenail\nWhile athlete\u2019s foot may lead to a toenail fungus, toenail fungus doesn\u2019t lead to athlete\u2019s foot. As you can see, the differences between the two are very subtle. The similarities include things like:\nEasily contagious\nThrives in damp, warm environments\nThe preventative measures to keep them at bay are also similar. We will cover a few of those precautionary tools in this article. Once you\u2019re sure you\u2019re dealing with athlete\u2019s foot, and not toenail fungus, you can find the best treatment solution, like the ones listed here.\nUse a Good Treatment for Tinea Pedis Right Away\nThe best foot creams for athlete\u2019s foot all feature strong antifungal agents. That\u2019s the key ingredient in making sure it\u2019s a treatment option that will really work. Athlete\u2019s foot can cause a lot of discomfort due to symptoms like cracking skin and inflammation. So, choosing a treatment that can also soothe those symptoms is essential.\nWe hope this list has been helpful and informative. If you know you have athlete\u2019s foot, the sooner you treat it, the better. If left untreated, the symptoms can get worse, and it may eventually lead to toenail fungus. Unfortunately, that can make the infection even harder to get rid of. 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Recently,\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 21437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yellowtoenailscured.com/dr-pauls-piggy-paste-toenail-fungus-gel-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:49Z", "digest": "sha1:4F7ABITJJEUCM2P5AA6RT33IRBVEFJWP", "length": 8319, "nlines": 44, "source_domain": "www.yellowtoenailscured.com", "title": "Dr. Paul's Piggy Paste Toenail Fungus Gel Review", "raw_content": "Written by Jalal Thwainey, MD on April 7, 2018 (Updated: August 23, 2018)\nToenail fungus is a common problem. So, it\u2019s no wonder there are so many different over-the-counter remedies. Knowing which ones work the best is important so you can get rid of toenail fungus quickly. Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste claims to clear up the unsightly symptoms of toenail fungus. But, does it work as well as other products?\nThe good news about this gel is that it was developed by an actual doctor. Dr. Paul Kinsinger grew tired of his patients coming in with toenail fungus when there was nothing they could do to get rid of it quickly. So, he used his years of expertise to create this healing gel.\nDr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste is designed to help clear up symptoms of toenail fungus. This includes things like discoloration and bad smells from the toenails. It claims to do it faster than many other products. After all, that was the point Dr. Paul wanted to make when creating something effective for his patients.\nNo one wants to waste their time or money on a product that isn\u2019t going to clear up their infection. The more you know about Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste, the easier it will be to make an informed decision.\nIf you don\u2019t have the time to read the whole review, or would rather just go to the page where you can buy it, CLICK HERE.\n1 Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste Review\n1.3 Is it Easy to Apply?\n1.6.1 Is Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste the Answer?\nDr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste Review\nThis review will cover what you can expect from Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste Toenail Fungus Gel. It might have a silly name, but it claims to offer serious results! We\u2019ll go over the ingredients that make it effective. It\u2019s also important to know how quickly the product works and whether it\u2019s safe to use.\nWith so many toenail fungus treatments on the market, choosing the right one can make a huge difference. Is Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste the best solution for your unsightly nails? Let\u2019s take a closer look to find out.\nCLICK HERE to Start Healing Your Nail with Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste!\nThe problem Dr. Paul was seeing with his patients was that it took months/years to clear up their toenail fungus. He wanted an easy solution they could use every day to clear it up quickly. So, his formula contains a concentrated amount of vinegar and thymol.\nThese are two antifungal ingredients. Not only is the formula concentrated to make it work harder, but the gel works to your advantage, too. Because this solution is thick, it will remain on the nail(s) long enough to penetrate deeply into the root of the fungus. Some OTC products can wash away quickly. Or, they\u2019re not strong enough to penetrate through or underneath the nail. That\u2019s why they take so long to work.\nThe combination of antifungal properties and the viscosity of the gel itself make this a solution that can penetrate and get underneath even the thickest of nails. Thankfully, thick toenails are another side effect of toenail fungus, so a solution that can get through them can be beneficial!\nDr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste receives positive reviews regularly. One thing most reviewers have in common, though, is they say it takes time to see results. You might start to notice the symptoms clearing up in just a few weeks. But, if you have a more severe infection, it could take longer.\nFor severe infections, you may have to use the product for several months for it to clear up completely. There are stronger solutions available, like the Purely Northwest System, if you want to try to get rid of your fungus faster.\nThe most important thing to remember is to keep using the product until the infection is completely gone. Even if you start to see results quickly, use the entire tube before stopping. Toenail fungus can be relentless. Unless it\u2019s completely \u2018dead,\u2019 it can come back. That means you\u2019d have to start the treatment process all over again. It\u2019s always a better idea to keep using a solution like this until you\u2019re sure every last bit of the fungus is gone.\nThe good news about Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste is that it\u2019s easy to use. That\u2019s one of the primary advantages since it can take weeks or even months to work.\nFor best results, it\u2019s recommended that you follow these steps when using it:\nApply a small amount of the paste to the cuticle of the nail.\nIf applying with your hands, wash them immediately after.\nCover the nail with a bandage for at least two hours.\nIt only takes a few minutes to apply the product each day. You can use a bandage to cover it and allow the formula to penetrate even faster. So, while it may not work as quickly as some other products, it\u2019s easy to use, and you don\u2019t have to apply it more than once a day. Not every over-the-counter cream or gel can say that.\nOne of the most critical things to consider when using this product is that it was developed by a real doctor. That doctor put the safety of his patients and everyone who uses this product in mind when creating it. First, you don\u2019t have to worry about it interfering with any other medications. You can use it even if you\u2019re taking an oral antifungal medication.\nBecause you\u2019re encouraged to use band-aids when applying the product, you\u2019re also adding extra safety measures. The band-aid will help to keep your toenail fungus from spreading. It will also protect the new, healthy nail as it grows in.\nOne drawback to the product is that some people have suggested it causes the surrounding skin to become irritated. If you experience any burning or itching on your skin after using this, stop using it right away.\nIt\u2019s important to know that while this paste is considered safe to use and does not contain any alcohol, it also isn\u2019t made natural ingredients. Some man-made ingredients that are included can irritate. People with sensitive skin may have a minor reaction to those ingredients.\nYou can currently find Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste at a few different retailers. Each tube is meant to last about three months when used every day. But, keep in mind that usage is meant for just one toe. If you have toenail fungus on more than one nail, you might go through a tube quickly.\nBecause you use just a pea-sized amount every day, you may be able to make the product last longer if the infection isn\u2019t severe. A two-pack should be able to be enough to get rid of a mild toenail fungus entirely when used the right way. That\u2019s enough for six months of regular usage.\nOther products can be more expensive and may take even longer to work. So, yes, this antifungal gel is well worth the cost when it comes to ease of use and how much product you get.\nAs with any product, it\u2019s important to know the pros and cons. This is especially true for toenail fungus treatments because there are so many to choose from. Let\u2019s take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste.\nUses bandages to secure gel in place and protect new nail growth\nDeveloped by an actual doctor\nMay take longer to work on severe infections\nCan cause slight skin irritation\nMost people who have reviewed this product have seen positive results. It just may take longer to get those results that you want. But, with daily use, Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste can clear up the symptoms of an ugly and embarrassing toenail fungus. If you don\u2019t have sensitive skin and don\u2019t mind the wait, this is a safe and effective way to get rid of toenail fungus that you can feel right about using every day.\nIs Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste the Answer?\nDr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste Toenail Fungus Gel has given many people positive results. It works exceptionally well if you have a mild toenail fungus that hasn\u2019t gotten out of hand yet. It\u2019s best to start using this product at the first signs of a fungal infection.\nWhile it may take longer to work than some other over-the-counter products, it\u2019s easy and safe to use. That can mean a lot when it comes to finding the right toenail fungus treatment. Just a small amount applied every day can help you get rid of some of the worst symptoms associated with toenail fungus.\nChoosing the best treatment for toenail fungus can be hard. We hope this review has given you a little more insight into whether Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste is the right solution for you.\nCLICK HERE to Read More Reviews, or to Purchase Dr. Paul\u2019s Piggy Paste Toenail Fungus Gel on Amazon!\nPublished On: April 7, 2018 (Updated: August 23, 2018)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 11334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 282.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yesilay.org.tr/en/news/detail/the-results-of-the-3rd-international-green-crescent-cartoon-contest-have-been-announced", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:25Z", "digest": "sha1:EIADPLKVOLXYY5MJKH5FNYT5CUFA7BVG", "length": 2400, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.yesilay.org.tr", "title": "Green Crescent | The results of the 3rd International Green Crescent Cartoon Contest have been announced", "raw_content": "News / The results of the 3rd International Green Crescent Cartoon Contest have been announced\nThe results of the International Green Crescent Cartoon Contest, which was organized for the 3rd time this year by the Green Crescent to draw the world\u2019s, our country\u2019s and particularly youth\u2019s attention to the addictions, and to raise awareness with the universal language of the cartoon, have been announced. The contest's winner of the grand prize, to which 414 contestants from 51 countries applied with 787 cartoons, was A\u015fk\u0131n Ayranc\u0131o\u011flu from Turkey.\nThe 3rd International Green Crescent Cartoon Contest, which was organized by the Green Crescent in order to raise awareness for addictions that is a universal problem threatening the youth and the future of the whole world, and in order to generate reflex against addictions in public opinion, particularly the youth, has ended.\nAttending from Brazil, Cuba, Iran, Russia, China, and Europe in particular, 414 contestants from 51 countries applied with 787 cartoons to the contest in which A\u015fk\u0131n Ayranc\u0131o\u011flu from Turkey won the grand prize.\nThe subject of the contest this year: \u201cThe Preventive Effect of Sports against Addictions\u201d\nWith this year's subject being \"The Preventive Effect of Sports against Addictions,\" preventive effect of sports in the fight against addiction were emphasized, and humanity's point of view on this problem was drawn from the perspective of the cartoonists.\nThe five Achievement Awards were given in the contest to works of Amir Khaleghi from Iran, Brady Izquierdo Rodriguez from Cuba, Sat\u0131lm\u0131\u015f Ak\u0131n from Turkey, Claudio Antonio Romez from Brazil, and Khodayar Naroei from Iran, which deemed worthy of the Awards.\nIn the contest jury, Prof. Dr. Peyami \u00c7elikcan, Chairman of the Scientific Board of the Green Crescent and President of Istanbul \u015eehir University, Metin Peker, President of the Association of Cartoonists, cartoonists \u015eevket Yalaz and \u00d6zcan \u00c7al\u0131\u015fkan along with last year\u2019s grand prize winner and guest of honor, cartoonist Borislav Stankovic took part. Works participating in the contest were evaluated in terms of the artistic quality, the humorous way appropriate to the subject, and the social and cultural influence power related to the daily life of the subject reflected in the work. The awards will be presented to winners with the ceremony to be held in the Green Crescent Headquarter within June.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yourdestinationfit.com/yoga-content", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:11Z", "digest": "sha1:5OTBVYPZ7CPBE7PY7G6RKJUD43YKCHIZ", "length": 731, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.yourdestinationfit.com", "title": "WWW.YOURDESTINATIONFIT.COM", "raw_content": "Transform your MIND. BODY. SPIRIT.\nYoga is a group of mental, physical, and spiritual practices that help elevate your mood, cleanse your spirit, invigorate your body, and sharpen your mind. It is a holistic system that seeks to make individuals become better aware of, and connected to, themselves and their surroundings.\n**Yoga located in Cross Training Gym @ 12682 FM 1560 N #204 HELOTES,TX**\nOur Yoga classes are a fully developed practice that meets in all aspects of a complete Yoga experience. Whether your goal is to relax your body and mind, restore balance after injury or stress, build strength and flexibility, or you are exploring Yoga for the first time, you will find our classes meet you right where you need to be.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 915, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 328.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yukontickets.com/TheatreManager/1/online?performance=2153", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:06Z", "digest": "sha1:6DUJUBMXUTAMBY6D2TLM3FQG2EEJ3V7J", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.yukontickets.com", "title": "Yukon Arts Centre | Ticket Search Options", "raw_content": "Thursday March 7 2019 at 7:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 1491, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 86.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.yuxiangyan.com/cool_timeline/launch-of-singapores-first-freshly-cooked-birds-nest/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:49Z", "digest": "sha1:BKKY3HUZYBOCPZXTT3KOQ2R2HE7X2BJM", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.yuxiangyan.com", "title": "Yu Xiang Yan Bird's Nest | Launch of Singapore\u2019s First Freshly Cooked Bird\u2019s Nest", "raw_content": "01 Jan Launch of Singapore\u2019s First Freshly Cooked Bird\u2019s Nest", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1183, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zcu.cz/en/study/programmes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:03Z", "digest": "sha1:WDD7BB2FYCGJYWCYLUU5AVDSLONBGZXK", "length": 3829, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.zcu.cz", "title": "University of West Bohemia - Study programmes", "raw_content": "University of West Bohemia > Study > Study programmes >\nStudy Programmes offered by UWB\nThree different types of degree can be studied at UWB:\nBachelor study programmes are intended to provide a qualification to enter a profession using current knowledge and methodologies and they also contain selected theoretical knowledge. The standard length of study including practice is 3 or 4 years (180 or 240 ECTS credits). The study is completed with a state final exam which generally includes defence of the bachelor thesis. Graduates receive the academic degree \"bakal\u00e1\u0159\" (i.e. \"Bachelor\"), abbreviated as \"Bc.\" or \"bakal\u00e1\u0159 um\u011bn\u00ed\" (i.e. \"Bachelor of Arts\"), abbreviated as \"BcA.\".\nMaster study programmes are intended to provide theoretical knowledge based on the current state of scientific knowledge, research and development, and their practical application; they also aim at developing creative skills. The standard length of study is 2 - 3 years (120 - 180 ECTS credits). Master study programmes that do not follow on after a bachelor study programme last 5 years (300 ECTS credits). The study is completed with a state final exam which includes defence of the master thesis. Graduates receive the academic degree \"in\u017een\u00fdr\" (i.e. \"Engineer\") abbreviated as \"Ing.\" or \"magistr\" (i.e. \"Master\"), abbreviated as \"Mgr.\" or \"magistr um\u011bn\u00ed\" (i.e. \"Master of Arts\"), abbreviated as \"MgA.\".\nDoctoral study programmes are focused on scientific research and independent creative activity in research or development or on independent theoretical and creative activity in the arts. The standard length of a doctoral study programme is 3 or 4 years. The study follows an individual study plan under the guidance of a supervisor. The study is completed with a state doctoral exam and defence of the doctoral thesis. Graduates receive the academic degree \"doktor\" (i.e. \"Doctor\"), abbreviated as \"Ph.D.\".\nOnly the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts applies a credit system to doctoral study programmes.\nA study programme can be full-time, combined or distance. In the full-time form most of the teaching is carried out through regular lectures, tutorials, seminars, practical laboratory lessons, consultations, etc. The student is in direct contact with the lecturers. In the distance form the study is multimedia based without direct contact with the lecturers. The combined form of study incorporates methods from full-time and distance forms. This means that study comprises regular consultations and self-study which is supported by study facilities, including e-learning tools.\nThe study programmes offered by UWB are displayed when you click on the name of the required faculty and the type of study programme in the menu on the left. For prospective PhD students there are also informations on German language:\na list of doctoral study programmes\ndescription of programmes.\nList of accredited Study Programmes\nIn the following table you can find a list of accredited study programmes and fields at UWB. The fact that a faculty lists a study programme/accredited field does not mean that it is open for applications. Information about study programmes and fields (including form of study) that are offered to applicants can be found on the web page with information about application procedures. If you want to make sure that the field and form of study you have chosen is open for applications, please contact the study department of the faculty that guarantees teaching of the chosen field.\nFaculty of Applied Sciences 19.1.2017\nFaculty of Economics 19.1.2017\nFaculty of Electrical Engineering 19.1.2017\nFaculty of Philosophy and Arts 19.1.2017\nFaculty of Education 19.1.2017\nFaculty of Law 19.1.2017\nFaculty of Mechanical Engineering 19.1.2017\nFaculty of Health Care Studies 19.1.2017\nLadislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art 19.1.2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 4651, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 234.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-19/jim-rogers-own-gold-because-one-day-markets-will-stop-playing-game", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:49Z", "digest": "sha1:YQCWX5CVA2YL3TJ4ODSCHV6CU54PI4S4", "length": 15538, "nlines": 50, "source_domain": "www.zerohedge.com", "title": "Jim Rogers: \"Own Gold\" Because \"One Day, Markets Will Stop Playing This Game\" | Zero Hedge", "raw_content": "Jim Rogers: \"Own Gold\" Because \"One Day, Markets Will Stop Playing This Game\"\nJim Rogers hope-driven wish is that the politicians were smart enough at some point to say (to the central bankers), \"we've got to stop this, this is going to be bad.\" He adds, on the incoming QEeen, \"she\u2019s not going to stop it, first of all she doesn't believe in stopping it, she thinks printing money is good.\" However, Rogers warns in this excellent interview with Birch Gold, \"eventually the markets will just say, \"We're not going to play this game anymore\", and we'll have a serious collapse.\" The world is blinded by central bank liquidity, and as Rogers somewhat mockingly notes \"if everybody says the sky is blue, I urge you to look out the window and see if it's blue because I have found that most people won't even bother to look out the window...\" Rogers concludes, \"everybody should own some precious metals as an insurance policy,\" because as he ominously warns, when 'it' collapses, \"there will be big change.\nTranscript (via Birch Gold Group)\nRachel Mills, Birch Gold Group (BGG): This is Rachel Mills for Birch Gold, and I am very pleased to be joined today by Jim Rogers, legendary investor. Thank you so much Jim for joining me.\nJim Rogers: I am delighted to be here Rachel.\nBGG: So today I wanted to talk a little about stock market highs and Quantitative Easing and inflation and a little bit of Federal Reserve and when is the taper is going to happen and currency wars. But there is one question that I don\u2019t have to ask you, which you get asked a lot, I know, and that is what your secret to being so prescient in the marketplace?\n\u201c\u2026if everybody says the sky is blue, I at least urge you to go and look out the window and see if it\u2019s blue because I have found that most people won\u2019t even bother to look out the window\u2026\u201d\nJR: As far as I know, I\u2019m not quite sure. I do know that I have learned over the years, always, when nearly everybody is thinking the same way that means somebody\u2019s not thinking that means we got to start thinking about it and see if there\u2019s not another way, another approach. Because if everybody says the sky is blue, I at least urge you to go and look out the window and see if it\u2019s blue because I have found that most people won\u2019t even bother to look out the window. If they see on the television or in the newspaper or something that everybody says the sky is blue, I at least urge them to look out the window. I find that most people don\u2019t want to do their homework, that\u2019s the first problem that many people have, is just doing simple homework.\n\u201c\u2026no matter what we all know today, it\u2019s not going to be true in 10 or 15 years\u2026\u201d\nSecond, I have learned that if everybody says the sky is blue and I go and look out the window and see that it is blue, I have also learned that, well wait a minute, if everybody knows the sky is blue, is that going to change? Now that everybody knows something, is it time to start thinking about \u201cWell maybe tomorrow the sky will not be blue?\u201d And again, most people say \u201cWell everybody knows the sky is blue and that\u2019s all we need to know.\u201d No, it\u2019s not all you need to know because another thing I have learned in my life is that no matter what we all know today, it\u2019s not going to be true in 10 or 15 years. You pick any year in history and go back and then look to see what everybody thought was true in that year, 15 years later the world had changed enormously. Enormously. And yet in that particular year everybody was convinced that this is the way the world was. Pick 1900, 1930, 1950, any year you want to pick, and you will see that 15 years later, the world was totally, totally different from what everybody thought it was at that time.\nSo I have learned, for whatever reason, to know that change is coming, to know to think against the crowd, that the crowd is nearly always wrong and to try to think for myself. Now, I certainly make plenty of mistakes and have made plenty of mistakes in my life, but these are some of the things that I have learned, to try to think around the corner, try to think to the future if you want to be successful.\nBGG: Yeah that\u2019s right. And I read somewhere, tell me if this is true, that you were shorting real estate in 2006?\nJR: Yes, yes, 2006, 2007, 2008. Yes, yes. I was short Fannie Mae, I was short all of the investment banks. I was short all the banks.\nBGG: And I bet, were people rolling their eyes at you, were they laughing at you?\nJR: Oh very much so. I went on television quite a lot in those days saying it\u2019s crazy. And I was on CNBC and I explained that I was short Fannie Mae and had been short Fannie Mae and Fannie Mae finally started to collapse. And the lady said to me, \u201cWell it\u2019s your fault that Fannie Mae is going down, it\u2019s the short sellers that are causing problems with Fannie Mae.\u201d And I explained to her, \u201cListen lady, if you really think that short sellers are making Fannie Mae collapse, you better get another job, because that\u2019s not the way the world works.\u201d Short sellers do not make Fannie Mae go from $70 to $0, I assure you, the only thing that can make that happen is serious fundamental problems. So yes, everybody knew I was nuts back in those days!\nAnd then, they started blaming it on me and on the short sellers, all of the problems. Nobody likes to take responsibility for their mistakes, certainly not politicians, but it was clear that first they laugh at you, then they ridicule you and say it\u2019s your fault and blame it on you. Eventually they all say, \u201cOh, well we knew that. We thought of it ourselves! We knew that Fannie Mae was a fraud.\u201d But that\u2019s a difficult and sometimes painful process.\nBGG: Sounds like they were attributing more power to you than you actually have!\nJR: It\u2019d be wonderful if all I had to do was sell something short and it would go down. Unfortunately it usually goes up when I sell it short, my timing is usually pretty wrong.\nBGG: I want to talk a little bit about currencies. It seems that all the major countries in the world are in this race to the bottom to devalue their currency relative to all the others to appease their export industry. Meanwhile, workers and savers are getting killed by the cost of living increases that this is causing. Do you have any observations or predictions about how this currency war is going to end, or can it continue somehow indefinitely? And who wins in a currency race to the bottom?\n\u201cEventually the markets will just say, \u2018We\u2019re not going to play this game anymore\u2019, and we\u2019ll have a serious collapse.\u201d\nJR: Well, the first thing you need to know is that nobody ever wins a trade war, a currency war, which is just another kind of trade war. Everybody loses in the end, some may temporarily come out ahead but it\u2019s temporary if nothing else. As you have pointed out, the cost of living of many people is going up, and it certainly is, my gosh, in Japan you have a currency that\u2019s down 25% in a year. Well I assure you the Japanese are feeling that because everything that Japan imports has gone up fairly substantially AND even the things that they don\u2019t import are up because the Japanese manufacturers and the Japanese producers can raise prices because they don\u2019t have to worry about competing with the foreigners any more.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve got to stop this, this is going to be bad.\u201d\nSo we\u2019re all losing in currency wars. How long can it go on? Well, it can go on as long as politicians can continue to print money. The problem is, of course, eventually the markets will just say, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to play this game anymore\u201d and we\u2019ll have a serious collapse. You and I can print money all day long, but at some point, you, I and everybody else is going to say, \u201cWait a minute, guys, this money is getting worse and worse and more and more worthless, so why don\u2019t we stop playing this game?\u201d I wish the politicians were smart enough at some point to say, \u201cWe\u2019ve got to stop this, this is going to be bad.\u201d\nBut unfortunately they never have, and probably never will. Mr. Bernanke is certainly not going to stop it, because he doesn\u2019t want to go down in history as causing the collapse. Mrs. Yellen, when she comes in, she\u2019s not going to stop it, first of all she doesn\u2019t believe in stopping it, she thinks printing money is good. And she knows \u2013 I hope she\u2019s smart enough to know \u2013 that if she stops, oh my gosh, it\u2019s going to collapse. So she\u2019s not going to stop. Nobody wants to go down as causing the collapse of the world. So I\u2019m afraid this is going to go on until the market eventually says to them, \u201cOkay, enough is enough,\u201d we have a big collapse and then they\u2019re all thrown out and we can start over.\n\u201cEventually they will try to cut [QE], it will finally cause the collapse, at that point we will have a big change, because they will throw them out, whether it\u2019s the politicians or the central bankers or whoever.\u201d\nBGG: Wow, that\u2019s a painful scenario actually. Do you think there is any chance that Larry Summers would have stopped Quantitative Easing at all?\nJR: Well, first of all it\u2019s irrelevant because he\u2019s not going to be Federal Reserve Chairman. Second, even if he started, you know, if somebody came in and said, \u201cOkay, we\u2019ve got a terrible problem, we\u2019ve made horrible mistakes, now let\u2019s change things.\u201d And even if everybody in the world said, \u201cYou know, he\u2019s right, we\u2019ve got to do something\u201d and they started, well, within a few months or a year or two, the pain would be pretty horrible and then everybody\u2019s going to say, \u201cWell we didn\u2019t know the pain was going to be this bad, this is not what we signed up for.\u201d And then the guy would either be thrown out or assassinated or who knows what!\nBGG: Oh yeah, they would blame everything on whoever stopped the party.\nJR: Yeah. At first they say \u201cIt\u2019s fine, we want to do it\u201d, but once the pain comes, the pain is going to get pretty serious. We had Mr. Volcker who came in, was told \u201cstop the madness\u201d back in the 1970s and he did. Well, Jimmy Carter got thrown out, because he was who had told him to do that, because the pain was so bad. Reagan of course thought it was wonderful, that pain was taking place because that got him elected. And it was help to clean up the problems. That\u2019s what happens, you cause the pain and they throw you out.\nBGG: So, you don\u2019t think there is any way they\u2019re gonna make good on their threats or promises to taper?\nPhoto: www.jimrogerblog.com\nJR: They might, no I don\u2019t. They might start, as I said, somewhere along the line they\u2019re going to start doing it. But when the pain gets pretty serious, the lady or the person or whoever it is, is going to have real problems. Let\u2019s say that in 2015, Yellen says, \u201cWe\u2019ve got to stop this\u201d and they start stopping it, well, at that point it\u2019s going to be pretty serious for the parties in power and they\u2019re going to get thrown out and the next guys will continue to taper because, as I\u2019ve said, they got power because of the tapering and the problems, and they\u2019ll clean up the problems.\nBut that\u2019s the only way that you\u2019re going to see it stop someday. The market is just going to say, \u201cWe don\u2019t want to play.\u201d That\u2019s what happened with Jimmy Carter when he was in, everything was collapsing: bond yields were falling apart, you know, inflation was everywhere. \u201cThank you Mr. Carter, we don\u2019t want to play this game anymore. It\u2019s absurd.\u201d\nBGG: What tip-offs are you looking for for where the top of the market is and when would you start to see the collapse coming? Are there signs that you\u2019re looking for?\nJR: Well, I wish I was that smart or it was that easy. Back in the late 1970s, Mr. Volcker was told and he came in and said: \u201cI am going to kill inflation because Mr. Carter has told me to.\u201d And Mr. Carter was very clear that he had to stop inflation. I doubt if we\u2019ll have that kind of scenario again but we would think, we would hope, that the Federal Reserve will announce, you know, that they publish their numbers so we can all see what\u2019s happening. At the moment they are buying a trillion dollars a year \u2013 that\u2019s a trillion with a \u201cT\u201d \u2013 of assets. Eventually we will see that they stop that if they do or slow it down.\nWhat will probably happen is that they will slow it down at first to see what happens, and if things aren\u2019t too bad at first \u2013 and they probably won\u2019t be too bad at first \u2013 well what is likely to happen is they will slow it down, things will drop, and then they will rally and the Federal Reserve will say \u201cHey, this is not so bad, we can do it.\u201d And they\u2019ll cut some more. Things will drop again and then rally, because it will take a while for people to really believe how bad it can get, or will get. And so eventually they will try to cut [QE], it will finally cause the collapse, at that point we will have a big change, because they will throw them out, whether it\u2019s the politicians or the central bankers or whoever \u2026 will continue because they like it, they got the job because of the collapse and then we\u2019ll finally start over. But it may be really painful in the meantime.\n\u201cI\u2019ve owned gold for many years, I\u2019ve never sold any gold and I can\u2019t imagine I ever will sell gold in my life because it is somewhat of an insurance policy.\u201d\nBGG: Sure. And when we do begin the process of starting over, whenever that happens, it will be really good to have something substantial, something real, something other than paper in your portfolio. And that\u2019s what Birch Gold is trying to help people figuring out how to do. So, we\u2019ve always said that precious metals are a type of insurance for the long term. I read in your interview in Barrons that you are holding gold right now and expecting maybe a buying opportunity to come up. Do you still feel that way?\nJR: Yes, I\u2019ve owned gold for many years, I\u2019ve never sold any gold and I can\u2019t imagine I ever will sell gold in my life because it is somewhat of an insurance policy. I hope that my daughters own my gold someday, I mean I owned gold, I\u2019ve never sold any gold and if gold comes down and I expect it to go down, doesn\u2019t mean it will, I\u2019ll buy more. I\u2019m certainly not going to sell.\n\u201cEverybody should own some precious metals as an insurance policy. So if they don\u2019t have any right now, I would urge them to go buy something.\u201d\nBGG: Right. So what advice would you give someone who as of yet has no precious metals in their portfolio right now?\nJR: Well, everybody should own some precious metals as an insurance policy. So if they don\u2019t have any right now, I would urge them to go buy something, buy themselves a gold coin if nothing else, and see that it\u2019s not going to hurt. It won\u2019t hurt you to buy the first gold coin, the first silver coin, and from that you start accumulating as your own situation dictates.\nFirst, do your homework, don\u2019t buy gold because you heard me say it or even because you hear you say it. But if people don\u2019t own they should start after they have done their homework. And then they will probably, if they do their homework, most people will then realize, \u201cOh my gosh, I better have insurance, and gold and silver may get me through serious problems ahead.\u201d\nBGG: Yeah. How do you feel about silver? Do you favor silver over gold? How do you feel?\nJR: Well, silver is historically down 60% from its all-time highs, so yes, I would prefer silver at the moment because gold is down only what, 30 or 40% from its all-time highs.\nBGG: Well, thank you so much for talking with me today. I think we will leave it there. Thank you so much, Jim Rogers.\nJR: Thank you Rachel, anytime. Let\u2019s do it again.\nBGG: I would love to.\nJR: Bye bye.\nBGG : Bye, thank you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 18494, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://www2.gulf-times.com/story/620037/Gulf-crisis-has-rendered-GCC-ineffective-FM", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:28Z", "digest": "sha1:OLTDAUQR4VVZKBUZ6X6SJ5Z2SF2JGBKS", "length": 3948, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www2.gulf-times.com", "title": "Gulf crisis has rendered GCC ineffective: FM", "raw_content": "Gulf crisis has rendered GCC ineffective: FM\nArab wounds need to be healed first, says former PM\nQATAR gcc DAVOS World Economic Forum Gulf crisis HE Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani\n\"Qatar has been taking a different approach in foreign policy and it has been very successful in the last decade and it is proven in different areas of conflict,\" said HE Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani\nAgencies/Davos\nThe Gulf crisis has paralysed the ability of the GCC to contribute to peace and be a force for stability, HE Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Qatar on Tuesday said.\nParticipating in a panel discussion on 'Peace and Reconciliation in a Multipolar World', on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Sheikh Mohamed said: \"My country has this geopolitical conflict right now with three of the Gulf countries, which really paralyses the ability of the GCC to contribute to peace and be a force for stability as everybody expects \u2013 because the GCC in itself\u2026it\u2019s a strength when it is a bloc. But when you have each country acting separately, it has no power. It has nothing to do. And the GCC itself, as an organisation, as a regional organisation that proved it was the only successful model in the Arab region\u2026unfortunately, now it appears that it was not successful in solving its own conflict.\"\nAnswering a question as to what extent can a country like Qatar play a constructive role in peace and reconciliation today in the new geopolitical context that requires alternative approaches to peace and reconciliation, he said: \"We need to look at those regional mechanisms that should support peace and reconciliations in other countries but should also make sure that these regions staying together have a clear understanding of the needs of co-operation and the needs of dispute resolution.\n\"Right now, it has been almost 20 months since the blockade of Qatar (started) and nothing has been achieved by the GCC as an organisation. So, it\u2019s becoming very complicated and we need, as a region, to have ownership \u2013 but we need to act with good intention and good faith at the beginning.\"\nSheikh Mohamed said: \"We are living in a very complicated situation right now in the region. Qatar has been taking a different approach in foreign policy and it has been very successful in the last decade and it is proven in different areas of conflict. One of the examples is Darfur, where Qatar brought peace. Lebanon, where they had disagreement about the president, and they agreed to elect the president when they had the Doha Agreement. Other conflicts where Qatar is progressing include Afghanistan .... Qatar had this unique position because of its size, its ability to move, and talk to all the parties in their conflicts. And we try to utilise these resources and capabilities for the good, for bringing peace and reconciliation in these countries.\n\"But if the countries themselves are not entering and engaging the peace processes with good intentions, you cannot impose peace. We are just acting as a facilitator and mediator. But the main players are the parties of the conflicts. What you want to get from the facilitator \u2013 whether a country or an organisation, a regional, sub-regional or international organisation is just as important \u2013 it\u2019s just the facilitation. And the main process should be driven from inside.\n\"Here what happened in Lebanon, when you talk about the success story, because the process was driven from inside and facilitated by other friends and allies. Now, looking at it also from another perspective, when you look at those domestic conflicts, it all has a regional and geopolitical dimension.\"\nAmong the other panelists were Abdullah Abdullah, chief executive of Afghanistan; Sigrid Kaag, Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Co-operation, the Netherlands; Gebran Bassil, Foreign Minister of and Abdelkader Messahel of Algeria.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 37754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 223.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://xconomy.com/san-diego/2015/10/06/technocom-obtains-2287263-new-financing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:59Z", "digest": "sha1:TNHZGURJQU5IKCQPEU4RYHFE2X66AK65", "length": 406, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "xconomy.com", "title": "Xconomy: Technocom Obtains $2,287,263 New Financing", "raw_content": "Technocom Obtains $2,287,263 New Financing\nhttp://www.venturedeal.com/Search/SearchResultTransactionDetail.aspx?TransactionId=c9993a03-6038-4b71-b755-4057981c7e5e\n2030 Corte del Nogal Carlsbad, CA 92011 USA\nTechnoCom Corporation is a leading provider of products and services to enable wireless location solutions for enterprises, wireless carriers, and service providers.\nhttp://www.technocom-wireless.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 6710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ymcaswin.org/about-us/our-focus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:32Z", "digest": "sha1:WZ52QJDEPEMU4JKZWJJRHS6FIGS5PEFV", "length": 722, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ymcaswin.org", "title": "Our Focus - YMCA of Southwestern Indiana", "raw_content": "Our nation and community face unprecedented challenges, and the Y wants to open its doors to more people who can benefit from what we have to offer.\nAt the Y, we\u2019ve always known that positive change only comes about when we invest in our kids, our health and our neighbors. And that\u2019s why we\u2019re here. We have three areas of focus:\nNurturing the potential of every child and teen\nImproving the nation\u2019s health and well-being.\nSo while we\u2019ve changed our appearance to better reflect the work we do and the positive impact we make, we\u2019re still supporting this community in the same way we always have. We look forward to enriching more lives and more families, and to further strengthening this community for decades to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 6975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 182.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://youthincare.ca/donor-recognition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:48Z", "digest": "sha1:JEFMRPXW4VHHYQGH2ITMCV44BR6VRP23", "length": 1170, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "youthincare.ca", "title": "Donor Recognition - The National Youth in Care Network: Youth in Care Canada", "raw_content": "Youth in Care Canada is devoted to the generous individuals, organizations, staff, volunteers, corporations, and foundations who help YICC excel every day. Their contributions of time and money allow YICC to provide diverse opportunities for youth in and from care.\nThough every gift is as unique as its donor, there are some overriding motivations and/or values that our donors share: The desire to provide opportunity for young people in/from care who are ever deserving of support in their personal, educational, and career pursuits; the drive to advocate for changes to the child welfare system; loyalty to their passion to make this world a better place to children & youth who have had a challenging start to life, and more. Peruse this section to learn more about why someone might choose to make a gift to YICC\u2014and what you can accomplish by making your own contribution.\n\u201cThe support of community partners and organizations is critical to the success of Youth in Care Canada. We thank you for supporting our goal of giving a voice to youth in and from care across the country.\u201d\n\u200b- Mike McGuire, YICC President\nThanks to Ryan Smith, we now have a brand new logo!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://za.lion.work/jobs-in/umhlanga-rocks-umhlanga-ridge/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:51Z", "digest": "sha1:BO543WCSG7TMPMTRCOL7JZKZ42PCBUZO", "length": 155, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "za.lion.work", "title": "Jobs in Umhlanga Rocks|Umhlanga Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa", "raw_content": "Jobs in Umhlanga Rocks|Umhlanga Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa\nThe are currently no jobs in Umhlanga Rocks|Umhlanga Ridge, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00123.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1041, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.72, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2009/02/good-stuff-from-peduto.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:37Z", "digest": "sha1:E3DZ6G2IIIM7G2MGE43XRFRGLX7RH3EF", "length": 2301, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com", "title": "2 Political Junkies: Good Stuff from Peduto to do TODAY", "raw_content": "Good Stuff from Peduto to do TODAY\nFrom City Councilman Bill Peduto:\nSo what does the Stimulus Package mean for Pittsburgh? If you don't know, don't feel bad - you're not alone.\nYou may have read Bill's op-ed in the Post Gazette on how a Progressive Stimulus Plan that focuses on economic growth, housing, and infrastructure could bolster older American cities. If you haven't, take the time to read it and then join Councilman Peduto and the members and friends of Pittsburgh's CEOs for Cities for a very special and unique salon on Wednesday at 5:30 PM. The location is wherever you have your computer, the address is www.vivolive.com/pghceos4cities .\nBill has harnessed a group of federal, state and local leaders to present facts and shine light into the process. He has also recruited Vivo - a Pittsburgh-based tech firm - to showcase their new technology and give you an opportunity to do more than watch - you will have the chance to participate. This time, the revolution will be broadcast!\nOn Wednesday, Pittsburgh City Council will vote on a plan to create an aggressive program of replacing all of our street lights with energy-saving LED lights.\nCouncilman Peduto introduced his vision in December to make Pittsburgh a global leader in 21st century urban lighting. He has solicited and earned the support of The Clinton Foundation's Climate Initiative and Carnegie Mellon University's Remaking Cities Institute. It is important for Council to take action on Wednesday. Savings from LED lights have been as high as 85% and the life of the light is expected to be ten times that of an incandescent bulb. Pittsburgh can be a world leader in smart, sustainable, and cost-efficient government. Pittsburgh can be a world leader in smart, sustainable, and cost-efficient government. Click here and tell Council you want them to support the LED bill on Wednesday.\nClyde Wynant said...\nAt the end of the day, I think Peduto's choice to abandon hopes of being Mayor, and instead, work around the edges, has proven to be a very good thing indeed for Pittsburgh. It gives him the freedom to work these sort of cooperative endeavors and not have the constraints of politics burdening him.\nAnd wouldn't it be nice to be known for something OTHER than our football team? There was a time...\nPeduto rocks!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 369, "original_length": 12821, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 243.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://9iacc.org.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/papers/day4/ws5/d4ws5_imcwalters.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:16Z", "digest": "sha1:WXUUPGADSPOA6UQRR4LWWANRV23QQPYR", "length": 16169, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "9iacc.org.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com", "title": "9th IACC: The Link Between Organised Crime And Corruption -A Hong Kong Perspective", "raw_content": "THE LINK BETWEEN ORGANISED CRIME AND CORRUPTION -A HONG KONG PERSPECTIVE\nIan McWalters\nSenior Assistant Director of Public Prosecutions\n1. When people think of organised crime, they tend to immediately think of those famous \"brand\" names - Mafia, Yakuza and Triads. However, confining ourselves to these labelled organisations only blinds us to a wider notion of organised crime. But I know you will expect me, as a Hong Kong prosecutor, to make some comments on the triads and I will not disappoint you. In addition, I will refer to case examples which I believe illustrate that organised crime in Hong Kong, even when triad figures are associated with it, is not to be seen in terms of a simplistic model of a monolithic gangster-style organisation.\n2.\tHong Kong is one of the safest cities in the world with a crime rate at roughly the same level as Singapore and lower than New York, London and Tokyo. During the past 5 years, crimes involving triads have remained stable, at around 4 - 5% of the total crime reported.\n3.\tAlthough there are around 50 known triad societies in Hong Kong, only about 15 to 20 of them regularly come to police attention through overt criminal activities.\n4.\tThe size of triad societies varies with membership which may range from hundreds to thousands. Contrary to common misconception, triad societies in Hong Kong are a collection of loose-knit groups or gangs rather than a unified all-encompassing criminal organisation. Most of the triads in Hong Kong can be considered as street gangs. Conflicts do occur between them often resulting in serious assault cases, and this can give a false impression of their influence and power.\n5.\tDespite the fact that today's triads are mere gang members, some of them still continue using triad jargon and rank structure. This is done to convince a new recruit that he has indeed joined an awesome elite and is also used to instil fear into members of the public.\n6.\tTriad gang activities are mainly territorial and commonly involve the following types of offences: -\nExtortion and protection racketeering of shops, small business, hawkers, construction sites, car valet services, and places of public entertainment such as bars, billiard halls etc.;\nMonopolising control of non-franchised public transport routes;\nMonopolising control of decoration companies operating in newly built public housing estates;\nStreet-level dangerous drug trafficking;\nIllegal gambling, and\nProstitution and pornography.\n7.\tAll of these activities can of course lead to the corruption of law enforcement officers and other public servants, simply because corruption allows the triads to conduct their criminal activities with minimal hindrance.\n8.\tBut, as I have indicated at the beginning of this paper, if we were to confine our understanding of organised crime solely to the activities of these disparate street gangs, we would leave out of consideration a large amount of very significant criminal activity. Crime that is committed by a number of persons acting in concert as part of a carefully planned enterprise, is just as much organised crime, even though triad members have no involvement in it, or only a peripheral involvement. Let me illustrate what I mean by some case examples.\n9.\tThe first case is one where members of an ongoing criminal enterprise solicited the support of a triad leader to provide their organised criminal activity with protection from interference by other triad societies and access to corrupt law enforcement officers. Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) conducted an investigation into the activities of a syndicate that was smuggling large quantities of cigarettes out of Hong Kong and into Mainland China and Taiwan. In this case, between 1987 and 1993, the profits generated by the smuggling syndicate were calculated to be in the region of $60 Billion (US$7.6 Billion) which amounted to 7 times the original wholesale price paid i.e. $8.5 Billion (or US$ 1.2 Billion). The opportunity for such vast profits arose as a consequence of the high duties enforced on tobacco products by the governments in the jurisdictions to which the cigarettes were being smuggled.\n10.\tThe investigation focused on a company called Giant Island Limited, which was a tobacco distributor. The directors of this company were:\nHung Wing-Wah\nTommy Chui\nChong Tsoi-Jan\n11.\tThe smuggled cigarettes were obtained from British American Tobacco (H.K.) Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of B.A.T. in England, and also from the Japan Tobacco Company. The ICAC investigation revealed the corrupt involvement of senior staff of these two companies in the sale of the cigarettes to Giant Island.\n12.\tIn H.K. cigarettes are required by law to be kept in a government bonded warehouse. If they are to be sold in H.K. then duty must be paid on them. If they are to be exported, then no duty is payable. The syndicate relied on the assistance of a corrupt officer from the Customs & Excise Department to obtain the release of the cigarettes from the bonded warehouse on the pretence that they were to be exported. However, after the vehicle on which the cigarettes had been loaded left the bonded warehouse, it was stopped and the driver was switched. The original driver would be paid off and he would not know what subsequently happened to the goods that he had been transporting. ICAC surveillance actually photographed such a switch taking place.\n13.\tThe cigarettes were in fact taken to a timber yard in the New Territories of H.K. where they were concealed in hollowed out wooden bales and also in hollow doors. From there, they would be shipped out of H.K. and smuggled to their ultimate destination.\n14.\tI mentioned one of the directors of Giant Island being Tommy Chui. This person was now resident in Singapore. The ICAC visited him a number of times in order to seek his assistance. Finally their persistence paid off and he gave the investigators a statement setting out in detail all the elements of this criminal enterprise. From the payment of HK100 Million (US$13 Million) in bribes to Jerry Lui, a senior executive in B.A.T, to obtain the supply of cigarettes, to the corruption of the Customs & Excise officers to obtain release of the cigarettes from bond, to the smuggling of the cigarettes. He also revealed the triad element in the syndicate and the fact that he was receiving pressure from his partners not to co-operate with the ICAC.\n15.\tChui also implicated a person called Henfrey Tin Sau-Kwong. This person had been an officer in the Customs & Excise Department and Chui alleged that Tin had accepted substantial bribes from he and his co- directors of Giant Island for arranging the issue of permits for the removal of cigarettes from government bonded warehouses.\n16.\tTin resigned from the Customs & Excise Department in 1989 after which time he became a full time member of the Giant Island syndicate. Through his corrupt contacts, he was able to ensure the continued illegal removal of cigarettes from bonded warehouses. Furthermore, he was a leader of the Wo On Lok triad society, and in this capacity was able to negotiate with the Sun Yee On triad society (one of H.K.'s largest triad societies) in its attempt to share in the profits of this highly lucrative enterprise, and to provide other very special services to his co-partners.\n17.\tOne such service became apparent on 29th March 1995 when Tommy Chui, Giant Island's director assisting the ICAC, was brutally murdered in Singapore. His body was recovered from the sea off Clifford Pier. Chui was bound and gagged and masking tape was wrapped around his face. His body was padlocked inside laundry bags and weighed down with diving belts. Although he had been badly beaten, the pathology evidence suggested that he was not actually dead when he was thrown into the sea.\n18.\tSeveral features of his murder lead inevitably to the conclusion that his death was brought about by those he was implicating in his statements to the ICAC. These features were:\nthe diving belts which weighed down Chui's body were aligned in a triad configuration;\nthe weight of the belts was insufficient to prevent his body from floating to the surface, suggesting that his murderers wanted his body found;\nnext to Chui's car, from which he had been abducted, the police found three keys arranged in a way to symbolise the breaking of a triad bond.\n19.\tOf the other two directors of Giant Island, one, Hung Wing-Wah had fled H.K. and the other, Chong had the case against him dismissed for lack of evidence. The corrupt B.A.T executive, Jerry Lui also fled H.K.\n20.\tThe ICAC investigation now changed direction. For Tin, the ICAC focused on building a case against him of perverting the course of justice in respect of intimidating contacts he had initiated with Tommy Chui prior to his murder. In respect of Chong, charges of tax evasion were laid in respect of undeclared income from his smuggling activities.\n21.\tMeanwhile, ICAC joined with the Singapore Police in investigating Tommy Chui's murder. Their joint efforts revealed that five Wo On Lok triad members who were associates of Tin had travelled to Singapore a short time before Tommy Chui's murder and had left immediately afterwards for China. With the assistance of China's Public Security Bureau, two of the five were arrested. They were returned to H.K. in October 1996, and tried for conspiracy to murder. One was convicted and sentenced to 27 years imprisonment, and the other was acquitted.\n22.\tChong was committed for trial in our High Court on his tax evasion charge and later for the original corruption charge, but committed suicide before he was tried.\n23.\tIn respect of Tin, it was ultimately impossible to prove his complicity in Tommy Chui's murder. He pleaded guilty to a charge of perverting the course of justice and was sentenced to 6 1/2 years imprisonment.\n24.\tJerry Lui was located in the USA and extradited beck to H.K. where he was tried and convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to 3 years and 8 months imprisonment. This conviction was quashed on appeal as a result of a construction by our Court of appeal of a technical provision in our Evidence Ordinance concerning proof of documentary records. The Secretary for Justice has appealed this decision to our Court of Final Appeal and the appeal will be heard next month. But even if our appeal is successful, it is unlikely that Jerry Lui will be found in Hong Kong.\n25.\tArrest warrants remain outstanding for the remaining director of Giant Island, Hung Wing-wah, and also for the three unlocated fugitives involved in Tommy Chui's murder.\n26.\tThere is one other ICAC investigation that I wish to mention. It is interesting because, like the cigarette smuggling scheme, it was well organised and highly profitable. However, where the cigarette smuggling scheme needed, and came to depend upon, the assistance that a triad boss could render, this other organised crime had no involvement with triads at all. In 1997 the ICAC began investigating the activities of an optical disc manufacturing company. This company had 41 replicating lines that produced audio compact discs, video compact discs and CD-roms, 12 printing lines and a mastering system that could produce \"stampers\" - the digital templates from which the optical discs could be replicated. The factory employed 300 workers and had the capacity to produce 27.5 million discs a month.\n27.\tThe proprietors and operators of the factory had started out as legitimate businessmen, but subsequently greed and lean times tempted them into the world of copyright piracy. The cost to them of manufacturing each disc was approximately $1.10 and pirate discs could be smuggled into Mainland China and sold for approximately $30 each, a profit of 2~627%. There is a limited market in H.K. for the pirate discs, but the Mainland market is huge.\n28.\tIn April 1998, when the ICAC raided the factory, over 22 million suspected infringing discs were seized. The replicating equipment that was seized was worth in the region of $320 Million H.K. dollars and the discs themselves were valued at $680 Million. In terms of equipment and discs seized, this bust was the largest copyright piracy operation every uncovered anywhere in the world.\n29.\tIn H.K. the responsibility for investigating intellectual property fraud is vested in the Commissioner for Customs and Excise. The ICAC became involved because of an allegation that an officer in the Customs & Excise Department was tipping off targets of Customs & Excise investigations of impending Customs & Excise raids. When the ICAC investigation was turned overt, the investigators were told by the employees of the factory that the replicating lines were regularly shut down and infringing material concealed when raids were feared. On one occasion, one of the ringleaders had correctly recognised that he was being kept under surveillance and solicited the help of a police contact to identify the owner of the motor vehicle that was following him.\n30.\tThe ICAC investigation has resulted in the conviction of a senior officer of the Customs & Excise Department for corruption offences and the charging of a number of persons with offences under our Copyright Ordinance and Trade Descriptions Ordinance. The trial of these latter persons is still pending. In the trial of the Customs officer it was revealed that he, together with a large number of very senior colleagues, and also senior police officers were being regularly wined and dined with lavish banquets by the proprietors of this pirate VCD factory. This unhealthy and inappropriate relationship came in for strong criticism by the trial judge.\n31.\tI would suggest that the lesson that can be learnt from these case examples is that there is nothing complex about the link between organised crime and corruption. In order to understand that link, it is necessary to return to basic principles.\n32.\tOrganised crime is in the business of crime i.e. making a profit from crime. Like any business you maximise your profit by increasing your efficiency. One way you do this is to reduce the impact of those things that can adversely affect your profitability.\n33.\tThe obvious thing that can adversely impact upon the profitability of a criminal enterprise is the existence of an organisation whose role it is to regulate, or eliminate the activity from which the organised crime makes its profits. Into this category come all the law enforcement bodies.\n34.\tIt does not require a huge depth of intellect by a criminal businessman to realise that he can increase the profitability of his enterprise by corrupting those whose job it is to combat it. The costs of his bribery need not even reduce his profits as he can pass it on to those who utilise his services or buy his product.\n35.\tOrganised crime keeps a low profile and many of its most profitable activities do not attract high levels of public outrage e.g. vice, illegal gambling and copyright piracy. These activities can often prompt an ambivalent moral response from the community We are accustomed to exhibitions of public outrage at increases in street crime, but, when was the last time you saw a public demonstration against the damage caused to Microsoft's profits by copyright piracy?\n36.\tBecause organised crime does not necessarily equate with street crime, society can be lulled into a false sense of security. Another illusion in which many citizens take comfort is the absence in their society of a monolithic criminal syndicate of the kind that the Mafia or Yakuza are perceived to be. Without high levels of street crime and no Mafia-style organised crime syndicate, they think, with a certain degree of smugness, that their society is, in law and order terms, healthy and clean. However anyone who has worked in anti-corruption work knows how dangerous this illusion can be. A hidden consequence of organised crime is the corruption of persons in high positions in both the public and private sectors. If the community realised the consequences that flowed from organised crime, it might be less ambivalent in its attitude towards its activities.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 16440, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 230.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://9thlevel.ie/2018/11/12/glass-ceiling-in-irish-higher-education-needs-to-be-smashed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:08Z", "digest": "sha1:X3VVHX7GVNWPDIDF5SBYDHNIYGMGRRST", "length": 541, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "9thlevel.ie", "title": "Ninth Level Ireland \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Glass ceiling in Irish higher education needs to be smashed", "raw_content": "\u00ab Trinity\u2019s location: a historical triumph and a modern disadvantage\nHouse students in prefabs, DCU chancellor suggested \u00bb\n\u201cIn February 6th, 1918, Irish women were given the right to vote. Not every woman, just women over 30 who had property rights or a university education. In the intervening 100 years, many things have changed \u2013 technology, living standards, pace of life, connectivity, life span, health, access to education; women are embracing all types of careers across all sectors \u2026\u201d (more)\n[Regina Moran, Irish Times, 12 November]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1258, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 334.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://a-voice.org/xtras/x039.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:17Z", "digest": "sha1:FV4RIZTOECVRHFQSXVYELRAI6NGU765L", "length": 921, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "a-voice.org", "title": "VW: Looking Unto Jesus", "raw_content": "Re: Looking Unto Jesus\nWe do not become holy by looking into our own hearts. There we find only corruption. But as we look away from self altogether, \"Looking unto Jesus,\" as He is the object in which we delight, as we contemplate His holiness, purity, love, and compassion, His devotion to the Father's will, we shall be transformed, imperceptibly to ourselves, perhaps, but none the less surely, into His blessed image. --H.A.Ironside\n...let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith... (Heb 12:1-2)\nBeloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure. (1 John 3:2-3) (VW)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1024, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://abelsoninfo.com/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XZXWQ6IMND27KMPJSJTJ4BKXHY3IBNHS", "length": 743, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "abelsoninfo.com", "title": "Abelson Info - About Us", "raw_content": "Abelson Info was set up by Ed Abelson in 2003 to supply the bookmaking industry with the crucial sports data it required as the online betting industry began to boom. Starting with just a handful of employees and even fewer clients, the business has since grown and evolved to accommodate the ever-changing requirements of the industry.\nWe now supply data and technical services to the majority of the top tier bookmakers and platform providers in the UK, along with many of the biggest media corporations and development firms across the world. We have a stellar reputation for delivering top quality data and are always on hand to support customers, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.\nAbelson Info is here to solve all your sports data needs\u2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 200.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://abesukses.info/if-you-think-you-understand-resources-then-read-this/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RKCKN7JKGTMARF6OQO3LSFFAWRX2IYIX", "length": 2387, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "abesukses.info", "title": "If You Think You Understand Resources, Then Read This | Sukses BUsinnes", "raw_content": "Every business is required to make sure that they market their products. Without marketing, no one would be able to understand what the business is all about and people may not be able to buy their products. Since you will have reduced number of sales, you may not be able to grow your business.\nWhen you are planning your marketing strategies, you need to know of certain things. If you fail at these things, you will not be able to achieve any success with your marketing campaign. These services are used by all huge businesses. They are as follows;\nSocial media has been growing both in numbers and in popularity. There are billions of people who are using these platforms every day and they create a huge opportunity for any business. The best thing about social media is that it will improve your business once people know about it. You can read more about social media marketing here.\nPeople are encouraged to make sure that they build an email list if they want their business to grow. If you want to grow your list, make sure that you encourage them to opt into your email list. People who do this always end up collecting the email addresses. It has been proven that having an email list gives you access to free traffic whenever you need traffic from the email list is considered to be free. Learn more by visiting here.\nMake sure that your website has the best content for the audience. Other than posting on your site, you should make sure that you guest post. People will be able to visit your website from the sites where you are posting.\nYou should focus on the link building if you have an online business. The links are highly regarded by the search engine when ranking websites. You should make sure that you get the links from the best websites if you want to improve your ranking. The reputation of the site is something that you should consider. For those who want to learn more about this process, they are encouraged to go here.\nYou are encouraged to target the local magazines to advertise your retail business. If you want greater exposure to your business, you should use the billboards. If you want to discover more, go here.\nPeople are encouraged to make sure that they advertise their business so that it may grow. If you want to achieve this goal, make sure that you have a sufficient budget that can handle the marketing.\nMore information: his explanation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3883, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aceshvac.com/ces-rebrands-to-align-with-nortek.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3TWGQTKZZYJKSINIQERLRSB4QYSFQWYW", "length": 356, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "aceshvac.com", "title": "\ufeff ACES, Inc.", "raw_content": "CES Rebrands to align with Nortek\nCES Group, the leading custom air handler manufacturer in North America, has changed its name to Nortek Air Solutions, signaling a new chapter for their customers. The new name signals an alignment between the two companies, and combined with 8 product brands, brings over 390 years of experience to the market. Read More\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 289.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://acuraonbrant.lifestyleezine.com/main/articles/none/view/1038/The-Science-of-Anger/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:16Z", "digest": "sha1:BZVT3WJINZB5Z7CFGQ3TA4L3F3FDDCW7", "length": 4581, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "acuraonbrant.lifestyleezine.com", "title": "The Science of Anger", "raw_content": "The Science of Anger\nWhile everyone is aware that your feelings affect your mental state, but did you know they affect your physical state as well? This means that stress can impact your physical body, especially if you don't live a healthy lifestyle through diet and exercise.\nThe cause of this is not completely known, but certain emotions are associated with pain in specific regions of the body. For example, people with depression often have chest pains, even in the absence of heart disease. Further, grief also has a specific physical impact, as studies have shown that you are 21 times more likely to have a heart attack soon after losing a loved one.\nResearchers are continuing to look at the cause of these relationships, but they do know that the brain plays a distinct role in the experience of physical pain, and the thoughts and feelings that go on inside the brain may play a role in the development of chronic diseases. Because of this, many people participate in mind-body therapies that consider the relationship between emotions and physical health.\nWhen you get angry, there is a biochemical cascade that that happens in your body. When this happens, stress chemicals are released and your body goes into fight or flight mode and prepares itself to take action.\nThe fast release of stress chemicals increase your heart rate and blood pressure, which also makes you breathe quickly. It also signals your body to release glucose and fats, which gives you a burst of energy. Your blood circulates toward your extremities, which is why anger can make your face turn red. All of this happens so fast, it's already happening before you are able to even process what is going on.\nThere are a few things you can do to help manage your emotions to prevent your body from having a physical reaction. First, it is important to eat a healthy diet including lots of fruit and vegetables and high-quality fats. It is also important to exercise on a regular basis, whether that is relaxing exercises such as yoga or more intense exercises like running. You also have to make sure that you get enough sleep each night to allow your body to rejuvenate itself for the next day. Aim for seven to nine hours each night. Doing these things will help manage your stress, but it is also critical that you decrease the amount of stress in your life as much as you can.\nWhen you start to feel angry, take a minute to do some deep breathing and let your body recenter itself before you respond. Getting angry on a regular basis can lead to high blood pressure and heart disease, including heart attack and stroke. Research has actually shown that people who are quick to anger usually live shorter lives than their more calm peers.\nOf course everyone gets angry every now and then, which is not likely to have a severe impact on your health. However, having an intense outburst of anger can still increase your risk of having a heart attack or stroke if you are already predispositioned to having one.\nHowever, it is not a good idea to suppress your anger either. Doing this leads to stress and has been found to triple your risk of suffering a heart attack. Instead, it is best to accept your negative thoughts and allow yourself to feel them and sort through them instead of pretend they are not there. People who allow sadness and anger to run its course have fewer symptoms of mood disorders than those who ignore them. Suppressing your negative emotions like anger, fear, and frustration can also lead to chronic pain, particularly back pain.\nChronic anger can also increase your risk for dementia. Your brain health suffers if you're always angry. Cynical distrust, which is a form of chronic anger, is especially known to be related to a higher risk of dementia. Cynical distrust refers to the belief that most people only have selfish motives instead of caring about the well-being of other people.\nPeople with cynical distrust attitudes likely suffer from more stress and do not have the social support that is needed to mitigate the impacts of stress. It has also been related to poor oral health, general inflammation, heart problems, and dementia. Further, cynical distrust has been linked to an increased metabolic burden in middle-aged and older adults.\nTo keep your physical health optimized, try to manage your anger. Take some time to do some mindful meditation and practice gratitude to reduce your negative feelings. If you feel like you are going to get upset, take a few moments to breathe before you react. Doing this will help your physical health in the long run.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 10071, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aerosmithtemple.com/lyrics/what-it-takes?ml=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:22Z", "digest": "sha1:6VJ4773CWDBW3SVZUBXW6GGDS7TVICSF", "length": 1339, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "aerosmithtemple.com", "title": "What it Takes", "raw_content": "(Tyler/Perry/Child)\n(Original Album: Pump, 1989)\nThere goes my old girlfriend, there's another diamond ring\nAnd, uh, all those late night promises I guess they don't mean a thing\nSo baby, what's the story? Did you find another man?\nI used to feel your fire\nBut now it's cold inside\nAnd you're back on the street like you didn't miss a beat, yeah\nTell me what it takes to let you go\nTell me how the pain's supposed to go\nTell me how it is that you can sleep in the night\nWithout thinking you lost everything that was good in your life to the toss of the dice?\nGirl, before I met you I was F.I.N.E. Fine\nbut your love made me a prisoner, yeah my heart's been doing time\nYou spent me up like money, then you hung me out to dry\nIt was easy to keep all your lies in disguise\n'Cause you had me in deep with the devil in your eyes\nTell me that you're happy that you're on your own Yeah, yeah, yeah\nTell me that it's better when you're all alone\nTell me that your body doesn't miss my touch\nTell me that my lovin' didn't mean that much\nTell me you ain't dyin' when you're cryin' for me\nTell me who's to blame for thinkin' twice\nNo no no no 'cause I don't wanna burn in paradise\nOoo Let go, let go, let go,\nlet it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go,\nlet it go, let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1789, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://aidnoida.org/programs/sehyog", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:57Z", "digest": "sha1:CG4BWLZQ4KL253I4GKS3E3XTACRTDNDX", "length": 2358, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "aidnoida.org", "title": "Sehyog | Aid Noida - Education For All", "raw_content": "Providing continuous academic support to school going children because of inability of their parents to support them.\nFor last four years, we have been preparing community children for getting them admitted to regular schools. We have been successful in getting many children from community to regular schools however we realized our responsibility doesn\u2019t end there. Parents play the most important role in overall development of a child however the socio-economic status of the community is such that most of the parents are incapable of monitoring and guiding their children at home. This means that even after children start going to school, they will not be able to keep up with the requirements at school and will be highly prone to underperform leading to drop-outs. Keeping in view the requirements of children and the fact that they are first generation learners in their family, we decided to run support programs to fulfil the gaps that most of the families in this community have.\nFollowing activities are taken up as part of this program:\n1. Regular after-school classes for school going children. Children from community go to different schools and therefore the curriculum of these classes is generic and aims to strengthen the fundamentals of children.\n2. Personality development activities. Conduct sessions that improve the overall personality of children. These programs include general awareness, etiquettes and cultural programs with the aim of inculcating values in every child so that they respect their own families, community and learn to grow in their circumstances.\n3. Mentoring of parents. To ensure continuous development of children, parents of children enrolled in our programs need to continuous mentored and motivated. Parents are continuously informed about the progress and needs of their children which in-turn opens up their minds to future avenues for their children.\nThis program is the oldest program at Prayas. Initially, support classes were conducted by volunteers but as of now classes are conducted by both the regular teachers and volunteers. Regular academic support classes are conducted daily for 2-hours after school hours while volunteers conduct the personality development sessions on weekends. With the help of support classes, many of our children have become top performers in their respective schools.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 244.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ajbocchino.com/2011/A35_7.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:15Z", "digest": "sha1:WRNZXBOJ7IACXPRYMII3A7HYXVHFA5MQ", "length": 372, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ajbocchino.com", "title": "A.J. Bocchino | Artwork | Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush (Middle Eastern Oil)", "raw_content": "Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush (Middle Eastern Oil), 2011\n4 panels: L.43\u201d x 63\u201d each\nThis work contains images and text excised from the NY Times. The images of former U.S. presidents Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush are paired with texts related to each president\u2019s emphasis on the vital importance of Middle Eastern oil to the United States.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 640, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 139.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alanrayneroutdoors.blogspot.com/2017/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:41Z", "digest": "sha1:4ZNNUTGCE7G4SJIYYAZQKPEKZCKBYQNH", "length": 5202, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "alanrayneroutdoors.blogspot.com", "title": "A Blog on the Landscape!: March 2017", "raw_content": "My last post which was a general question about cyber attacks after the ABTA hack, from somebody who knows nothing about the subject.\nIt created a lot of blog hits but not much in the way of comments. I can only assume from this that i am not alone in lacking any sort of competence to the subject.\nHowever, i have received an email from a person in the know. A person involved in the good side of all things shrouded in grey matter.\nI have asked if the person minded if i posted the email on the blog because it explains not only the pitfalls of my initial question but also makes it clear that it is imperative to have the best security on your systems and your devices that you can have.\nSo i thank the person for taking the time to initially read my first post and to put such a comprehensive answer together. It makes things clearer if still a bit scary.\nHere is the email in full.\nIt's good to be questioning everything when it comes to security*.\nThe short, glib, response to this query is that there is no such thing as an absolutely secure device if it is connected to the outside world. Perhaps not even then (as suggested by leaks and rumours about the NSA's capabilities.)\nThe ABTA attack appears to be relatively minor (I can say that, I'm not one of the 43,000 customers!) and on the face of it their website *might* have an increased \"attack surface\" due to the number of plugins and modules that are used to provide different bits of functionality on the site. I say might because it would take a detailed analysis to say for certain. The developers of the ABTA site probably considered themselves to be better placed than many websites because they aren't (well, don't appear to be) using one of the more popular website systems.\nThe popular systems are popular because they are easy to use, thus lowering the barrier to entry for anyone to have a good looking site. \"It's simple. I'll just grab this plugin for this function from here, that plugin from over there lets me have fancy emojis, and everything will be fine.\" Security can be a problem in these systems because of that popularity as most people do not put any thought into security (including some plugin developers) and users and administrators often choose weak or default passwords. I have not looked into the cause of the ABTA breach so I am not suggesting that these particular attack vectors were used in this instance. Website security is an ongoing process of adapting to known weaknesses and attack vectors.\nTurning to the query in focus here, I am not sure what you mean by:\nIt sounds like you are suggesting the use of public key cryptography. This is a very useful and powerful way to secure personal data.\nEssentially every customer would create (or already possess) a pair of encryption keys. These are known as the private key (which is retained and never published by the \"customer\") and the public key (the public keys are generally published somewhere).\nWhen Trump wants to send a message to Putin that he wants to ensure only Putin can read, he encrypts his message with the PUBLIC key of Putin. Putin then uses his PRIVATE key to decrypt the data or message. Similarly when Putin replies he will encrypt his response using Trump's PUBLIC key. (This is of course a fanciful and probably theoretical example.)\nThis page explains it well: https://www.comodo.com/resources/small-business/digital-certtrmrificates2.php\nIt's an excellent system but the overheads in training people how to use it properly, and the time it takes to encrypt/decrypt data, means that Mr Joe Citizen probably won't understand it or will very quickly decide that it's simply not worth the effort.\nThis is particularly so if such a system were to be implemented on a website - the computational power required for encrypting and decrypting is relatively large and the cost of doing something like this can be very significant. By way of example, law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and even data recovery companies, sometimes use hundreds of computers linked together to help crack document passwords which are significantly easier to crack than public key encryption. The larger agencies utilise supercomputers and purpose-built systems for this purpose.\nImplementing public key encryption on a \"normal\" business website is not practical with current technology unfortunately. The risks in an increasingly online and interconnected world are significant but so are the benefits. From the end-users perspective, the best security advice is to try to only deal with reputable websites that implement *appropriate* security, to use strong and unique passwords for each website (yes, easier said than done) and to ensure their own device and network are protected. Administrators and developers have an obligation (in my opinion) to keep abreast of security developments.\n*If you're in a corporate environment be mindful that you have likely agreed to not test security!\nTroy Hunt's excellent website: https://haveibeenpwned.com/\nPublic key encryption: https://www.comodo.com/resources/small-business/digital-certtrmrificates2.php\nTop ten website application risks: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Top_Ten_Project", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 461, "original_length": 16162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://alexandrasellers.com/sheikhs-betrayal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:R7MG6RIKB2TU42IKUDB4RBV74FZ5HA2Q", "length": 558, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "alexandrasellers.com", "title": "Sheikh\u2019s Betrayal | alexandrasellers.com", "raw_content": "Sheikh\u2019s Betrayal\nWhat had brought Desiree Drummond to his desert land? Sheikh Salah Al Khouri knew the celebrated beauty must have an ulterior motive\u2026hadn\u2019t she always? He\u2019d let her slip from his grasp once, but he wouldn\u2019t make the same mistake again. Before the week was out, she would be in his bed.\nDesperation had driven Desi back into Salah\u2019s life. And though the man who looked at her with such cold eyes was so different from the one she remembered, her goal remained. She had to stop Salah\u2019s long-awaited arranged royal marriage\u2026 any way she could.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://1049maxcountry.com/regional-news/hastings-man-dies-when-pickup-collides-with-train/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GT4KKFATWTKUR6KHQL2S7JSO6RLTH5JM", "length": 489, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "1049maxcountry.com", "title": "Hastings man dies when pickup collides with train | York's Max Country 104.9 / 1370 KAWL", "raw_content": "Hastings man dies when pickup collides with train\nHASTINGS, Neb. \u2013 Authorities say a driver died after his pickup truck collided with a train in south-central Nebraska.\nThe collision occurred a little before 10:15 a.m. Thursday, about 2 miles northwest of Hastings.\nThe Adams County Sheriff\u2019s Office says 62-year-old Mark Zimmerman was headed north when his pickup collided with the westbound train at a two-track crossing.\nZimmerman was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived in Hastings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 3913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 236.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://allreaders.com/books/hongwei-lou-18254", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:39Z", "digest": "sha1:MJFPLY2D443B6ERQTW4IK5PVIGR3SC6L", "length": 645, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "allreaders.com", "title": "Hongwei Lou books reviews", "raw_content": "Hongwei Lou Message Board 1/1/2012\nTalk about the novels, new and used books that Lou has written!\nAuthor Lou's Book Reviews\nRemember the Truth: Believing in Goodness in Today's China\nHongwei Lou describes her background, meeting with her husband in college, and their discovery of Falun Gong, which she claims drastically improved their lives - until the Chinese Communist Party decided it felt threatened by the practice and could no longer tolerate it. Hongwei had in some ways a protected childhood in spite of the fact that her parents were not rich, because her parents, growing up during the Cultural Revolution, did not want her to fa...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 686, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ambisonia.com/Members/pwhodges/ambisonicfile.2007-12-12.4647163033/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:07Z", "digest": "sha1:AUWZG6H5IEVBC2BN56ZFFNXETGBMBHMN", "length": 506, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ambisonia.com", "title": "James Clarke - Untitled no. 3", "raw_content": "James Clarke - Untitled no. 3\nJames Clarke is a contemporary British composer. He has recently decided not to give his pieces titles which might influence the listener. Untitled no. 3 is a quiet piece for solo piano that explores the repetition of a chord with slight variations; this could be seen as a form of minimalism, and this piece also reminds me of the music of Morton Feldman. It is played by Nicolas Hodges, a leading exponent of contemporary piano music, in a London venue called The Warehouse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 936, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 161.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://amlibpub.blogspot.com/2013/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:46Z", "digest": "sha1:MT4YDTG63QNAVS546X3E27MZ3CBYKTK6", "length": 10278, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "amlibpub.blogspot.com", "title": "American Liberty: March 2013", "raw_content": "Central Banks Buy Gold, Print Money\nCentral banks bought 534.6 tons of gold during 2012, the largest amount in 48 years. Interest is clearly growing in gold as an international monetary asset as more countries have participated. Many have specifically stated their intent is to diversify away from U.S. dollars.\nChina is the world's largest gold producer, by far. It produces 40 percent more than second-place Australia. But since 2009, China's central bank has not reported gold purchases even though it is known to be buying gold directly from its own mines\u2014including from foreign companies mining gold in China\u2014and also from international gold markets. Though China's doesn't report its central bank purchases, the World Gold Council reports investment demand for gold in China was up 24 percent in the fourth quarter 2012, compared to the previous quarter, and jewelry consumption was steady at 137.0 tons. China is second only to India in consumption of gold for jewelry. (Every year India buys four times as much gold as all of North America.)\nCountries are shifting away from the dollar because the massive increase in U.S. government spending has undermined confidence in its future. In his first term of office President Obama added more to the national debt than all prior presidents from George Washington through George W. Bush combined. Everyone knows Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are going broke, but Obama has made no effort to address those problems. Instead, he tries to further increase spending. The Fed has been accommodative by \u201cquantitative easing\u201d\u2014printing money. Now in the fourth round, QE4, the Fed creates $85 billion every month by simply writing checks for that amount to buy treasury bonds and mortgages. Over a year, that's another $1 trillion.\nThe monetary expansion is being done in the name of stimulating the economy, but the results are very unsatisfactory. The recovery from the recession has been far slower than from previous recessions which had no such stimulus measures. The Obama administration claimed its original stimulus program (over $800 billion) would keep unemployment below 8 percent. Instead, it not only rose above 8 percent but remained there for more than 40 months. It rose even higher than the administration predicted would occur without the stimulus! The effect was the exact opposite of what the administration intended, despite adding QE2, QE3, and more than a year of QE4.\nThe recession triggered by the housing/banking bubble in the U.S. led to economic contractions in Europe compounded by revelations of financial weaknesses in certain euro-zone countries. The result was a series of bailouts and a flood of new money in the form of massive expansion of credit by the European Central Bank to hundreds of banks in the various countries. This was to prevent an immediate liquidity crisis, but it was also intended to stimulate economic growth, which it failed to do. The euro-zone's economy shrank last quarter at the fastest rate since the worst of the recession in 2009. It has now contracted for three straight quarters, and the European Commission expects it to worsen in 2013. Euro-zone unemployment at11.7 percent is now the highest in its history, and the rate is 26 percent in Greece and Spain. The European Commission expects Portugal's unemployment rate to reach 17.3 percent in 2013. Countries are failing to meet their targets for deficit reduction; Spain has obtained a two-year extension, and Portugal says it, too, will need an extension. France lost its triple-A credit rating in November, and Moody's stripped the United Kingdom of that prized rating in February. A Moody's spokesman said, \u201cWe expect the country's debt will continue to grow in coming years ...[and not] stabilize until 2016.\u201d Link\nPrinting more money lowers the value of a currency in relation to others. Therefore, a weak currency is seen as a way to improve the economy by increasing exports to other countries, who find them less expensive. Of course, other countries may then retaliate and devalue their currencies in order to remain competitive in international markets. If that happens, no country has an advantage; all the currencies will simply have gotten cheaper. That is what happened in the 1930s in a series of destructive devaluations that came to be known as \u201cbeggar thy neighbor\u201d policies. It is happening again today as an expedient to evade unpopular but necessary reforms on fiscal and budgetary matters. At the same time, the uncertain and depreciating paper currencies have led to distrust of their value as monetary reserves, making gold look better and better as a monetary asset.\nThe U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have led the way in printing money. Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has stated he will continue to pursue easy money policies until the economy improves. ECB president Mario Draghji has said he will supply any amount of money that is necessary to save the euro. Like the Fed and the ECB, the Bank of England has also been pursuing quantitative easing as a remedy for past spending excesses and to stimulate the British economy. Lack of results has led to larger doses of the same failed medicine. Now Japan, the world's third largest economy, has joined in with larger doses of the same prescription for its stagnant economy. In the recent election, Shinzo Abe was elected prime minister in large measure because of campaigning for monetary easing through \u201cunlimited\u201d or \u201copen ended\u201d purchases of government debt by the Bank of Japan. He said, \u201cCountries around the world are printing more money to boost their export competitiveness. Japan must do so too.\u201d Link He called for more aggressive action along the lines of the Fed and the ECB.\nThe idea that government spending would stimulate the economy can be traced to John Maynard Keynes. He claimed government spending produced a multiplier effect, a chain reaction of additional spending in the economy. But in my new book, The Impending Monetary Revolution, the Dollar and Gold, I point out that the Keynesian multiplier is always less than 1.0. That means the money that is spent over and over again in the private sector from the government spending is always less than the cost of the programs. If it weren't, the U.S., Greece, and other spendthrift countries wouldn't be going broke\u2014they'd be getting richer the more they spent! My book supports this conclusion by citing impressive academic research as well as actual historical examples, including Japan's own experience.\nNo nation has more completely and energetically put Keynesian policy into practice for longer than Japan, and the results have been disastrous. Two decades of economic stagnation. Japan had ten stimulus programs between 1992 and 2000. It spent massively on infrastructure, building bridges, roads, ports,airfields\u2014even sidewalks\u2014as well as supplying huge subsidies to the biotech and telecommunications industries. Yet the 1990s are known as Japan's \u201clost decade,\u201d when it had the lowest productivity rate of any industrialized nation. Instead of boosting economic growth, government spending ballooned the nation's debt-to-GDP ratio to 235 percent, the highest in the world, compared to 65 percent in 1990. Japan now has an even worse national debt problem than the U.S. Oblivious to his nation's last two decades of experience, Prime Minister Abe is embarking on a more aggressive application of the same policies that have brought trouble to both nations.\nThe Federal Reserve Bank of New York has long stored monetary gold for foreign central banks, not only for security but, in times past, as a convenience for some international operations. Following World War II and the onset of the Cold War, Germany stored a large quantity of its gold in the U.S. against the possibility of a Soviet invasion.\nNow Germany says it will repatriate 300 metric tons of its gold from the New York Fed and all of the 374 tons stored at the Banque de France. Disappearance of a threat from the Soviet Union was given as the reason for the transfers, but many view them as defensive moves against collapse of the euro. While minimizing the issue, officials at the Bundesbank acknowledged that the moves are \u201cpreemptive\u201d in case a \u201ccurrency crisis\u201d hits the European Monetary Union. Link Germany several years ago repatriated 940 tons of its gold from the Bank of England. It now has possession of 31 percent of it gold and wants to raise that to at least 50%.\nVenezuela, Libya, and Iran have repatriated their gold holdings. The question now is who will be next? It might be Switzerland. In March 2012 four members of the Swiss Parliament began an initiative to bring Switzerland physical possession of all of its 1,040 tons of gold. The measure now has 90,000 supporters. If 100,000 is reached, parliament must take up a referendum on the issue.\nThere is talk of the Netherlands repatriating its gold, and Azerbaijan is already doing so. The Netherlands has only about 10 percent of its 612.5 tons of gold at home. Azerbaijan began its repatriation of gold in January 2013 with one ton transferred from London to the new storage facility of the central bank in Baku. In the future all gold will be transferred there. The country expects to double its gold holding this year to 30 tons because of oil revenue. The State Oil Fund (SOFAZ) has been buying 10,000 ounces of gold every week since February 2012.\nThe repatriation movement is gaining momentum, along with the trend of increased gold buying by central banks. An increasing number of private institutions and individuals are thinking like the banks, especially in the East, where gold is soaring in popularity. Brinks tripled its precious metal storage capacity in Singapore in 2012 and is building a warehouse in Shanghai for precious metals and other high-value goods. Malca-Amit has gold storage sites in New York, Zurich, Hong Kong and Singapore. It's facility in Singapore has a capacity of 600 tons of gold and is almost full. Its recently opened vault in Hong Kong can hold 1,000 tons of gold. Joshua Rotbart, executive director of the company, said some Asian investors storing gold in the U.S. and Europe are keen to move it closer to home as more storage space becomes available.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 14643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://andrewforrest.org/2017/04/03/survivors-guilt-never-again/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3J37FKZM6WRHYB7EUBC4G6ADMT5WOCNI", "length": 11934, "nlines": 91, "source_domain": "andrewforrest.org", "title": "Survivor\u2019s Guilt? Never Again \u2013 Andrew Forrest", "raw_content": "So grateful for an empty hospital bed....\nExactly four weeks ago my wife coded after the birth of our daughter and was revived. She had a harrowing few days in the ICU, but after a week in the hospital she was discharged. She was weak, but she was well. And I felt guilty about it.\nI felt guilty because everything turned out okay for my family, but I know lots of people whose situations are not okay.\nWhy am I so blessed?\nFolks would ask me how my wife was doing and I would truthfully answer, \u201cI think she\u2019s going to be fine.\u201d And I felt badly about that; I was embarrassed by our good fortune.\nIt\u2019s embarrassing how blessed I am:\nother pastors have congregations who hate them; our people dote on us;\nother husbands struggle in their marriages; my wife is the kindest, sweetest woman I know;\nother people\u2019s kids have chronic illnesses; my kids are healthy;\nI am a rich, white, American man born in the 2nd half of the 20th century. I wasn\u2019t born black in the 18th century or a Russian serf in the 19th century or a Samaritan woman in the 1st century;\nMy parents will have been married for 40 years this year and taught me to love Jesus;\nI\u2019m even a great whistler\u2026.\nI could go on, but it\u2019s embarrassing: I don\u2019t deserve my good fortune. As a pastor, I have the privilege of walking alongside people in every aspect of their lives, cradle to grave, and I know how much people suffer. I\u2019ve lived in Africa and I\u2019ve traveled and read widely, and I know how difficult life is for so many people. I know how often it seems prayers are not answered.\nAnd so, after my wife got out of the hospital the first time, I felt guilty at our good fortune.\nAnd then Wednesday night happened.\nMy wife had to be rushed to the Emergency Room on Wednesday evening, and ultimately had to have emergency and life-saving surgery, surgery that lasted all night. All night I sat in the empty waiting room, and I didn\u2019t know if she was going to survive. When I learned she would survive, I also learned that she was intubated and on a ventilator, and then I saw her.\nPray to God you never see a loved one on a ventilator, going in and out of consciousness, pulling at her tube with her bandaged hands.\nI\u2019ve spent a fair amount of time in hospitals, but when it\u2019s your wife there in the ICU, it\u2019s almost unendurable.\nThe next night we had another scare and I was woken up on the pull-out couch with bright lights and saw a crowd of doctors in our room. It was then that I decided that I will never, ever again feel survivor\u2019s guilt.\nSurvivor\u2019s guilt is a selfish indulgence\u2013a luxury\u2013that I want to forgo forever.\nWhen you are at a point of desperation, when a leaden dread comes upon you, when that of which you are most afraid is threatening to happen, you become painfully aware how foolish and selfish is survivor\u2019s guilt. You think back to the times when you weren\u2019t afraid and everything was well, and you\u2019re ashamed that you were ever ashamed of your good fortune. And in those moments, you would do anything to get back to the times when things were good.\nI don\u2019t know why God seems to answer some prayers and not others. I don\u2019t know why some of us receive the blessings we do. But I also know that I don\u2019t deserve my blessings and didn\u2019t earn them\u2013they just came on me, like the rain. My blessings don\u2019t mean anything about me: all they do is point to their Source and Giver.\nRather than feeling guilty, I want to be grateful.\nI am grateful for God\u2019s goodness toward me. I am grateful that I did not have to come home in the dark on Thursday morning and wake up my little son and tell him his mother died. I am grateful that my wife survived. And I\u2019m grateful that I brought her home not one hour ago.\nI want gratitude to pour out of me. I just went to CVS to pick up a prescription and when the cashier asked me how I was doing, I looked her in the eyes and said, \u201cI am so blessed: my wife just got discharged from the hospital.\u201d And I gave her a big smile.\nI don\u2019t deserve my blessings\u2013and I have SO MANY\u2013but I can use them to bless others.\nI want to be grateful, and because I\u2019m grateful, I want to be a giver.\nSurvivor\u2019s guilt? Never again.\nClick here to subscribe to irregular updates from me. I have more to say about what I\u2019ve been learning from my wife\u2019s recent proximity to death and our time in the hospital.\nRA April 3, 2017 - 1:09 pm\nAmen. I am grateful to have a teacher who shares his family\u2019s experiences with the flock. We will benefit from the life lesson God is teaching us while experiencing only a fraction of the pain. May God bless you and your family and be merciful on the rest of ours.\nGeorge April 3, 2017 - 1:37 pm\nAmen! And, you absolutely use your blessing to bless others through Munger \u2013 our family is proof of that.\nPraise God for Elaine\u2019s return home. We\u2019ll continue to pray that you all get some well deserved rest and healing.\nStephen Gist April 3, 2017 - 2:33 pm\nThat\u2019s better, Andrew. Never feel guilty. Always feel/be grateful, with prayer and supplication. And the peace of God which passes all understanding, shall keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus.\nKeep it up, brother. We need you.\nRoss R. Mason April 3, 2017 - 2:35 pm\nAndrew: there\u2019s but 1 word to describe you, your immediate and extended Munger family\u2026\nI share your gratitude for God\u2019s LOVE.\nJarrett Reed April 3, 2017 - 2:50 pm\nThank you, Andrew, for sharing and for being so open about the real feelings you experienced. It is truly a teaching moment, and thank you for taking such a raw and freighting experience and giving us something to learn from. We are grateful that you and Elaine have chosen a life of service to others. Our prayers are with you.\nCurtis Vaughn April 3, 2017 - 3:03 pm\nAmen, I love that idea that blessings come on you like rain, because we never truly know how much or exactly when they come but they can be a gift from God when we most need them weather we know it or not.\nAnd, we all need to practice more gratitude for the goodness God provides for us in our lives for as they saying goes \u201cCount your blessings\u201d it does not say count your troubles, worries, doubts, our your fears, but your blessings, and by this we can bless those around us.\nThank You for sharing your personal testimony, this is a blessing in itself to read such encouraging words for any that may be in need in times of struggle.\nMay God continue to bless you and your family in every way and always.\nP.S. I will have to see or hear this whistling to see if it\u2019s true. \ud83d\ude42\nCurt! How dare you doubt my whistling gift?!?\nNick Weatherford April 5, 2017 - 12:17 pm\nhttp://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/listen-to-strange-and-wonderful-sound-of-one-of-earths-best-whistlers\nAndrew Forrest April 5, 2017 - 12:49 pm\nYes. That\u2019s basically me.\nSusan malphurs April 3, 2017 - 3:05 pm\nThank you for your words. They are all true! Praying for Elaine as well as you and your children. I pray you can get some well deserved test\nTiffany April 3, 2017 - 3:16 pm\nI\u2019m so grateful Elaine is home!! And so grateful for you. Thank you for this perspective. Praising God for the many undeserved blessings in life.\nsidney miller April 3, 2017 - 3:42 pm\nGRATEFUL for the FORREST FOUR!!! Beautiful entry, and encouraging message. ELAINE is a fighter. The best is yet to come!\nForrest Four. Love it.\nDiane Carothers April 3, 2017 - 4:09 pm\nPastor Andrew your story has touched my heart. I love that you can be so open and honest about your life and your feelings but most especially how your congregation and your personal faith is carrying you through this tough time.\nI pray you received the prayer quilt for your wife that our church sent. All those knots represent our prayers for her and your family. Continued blessings for you and your family so that you can continue the good work God gave you to do!!\nWe DID receive it! Thank you so much.\nJudy howard April 3, 2017 - 4:29 pm\nI am so grateful to you, Andrew, for telling me what is happening with Elaine. Especially the pic of her holding Annie. I love her so and am overjoyed to know she is home and doing so well. Thank you.\nCalli Alford April 3, 2017 - 4:45 pm\nIn one of your sermons over a year ago you said something along the lines of \u201cWe are blessed to bless others.\u201d I wrote that line down on a small piece of paper until it was committed to memory because it meant so much to me. This blog post drives that conviction home. I\u2019m not a member of Munger Place but live in the area and have been a handful of times. I am thrilled to hear the good news.\nHope you come back on Easter\u2013see you in Garrett Park.\nDeborah Causwell April 3, 2017 - 7:53 pm\nSo happy to hear that Elaine is home!\nYes, living a life of gratitude is so important. I know from personal experience. I have always appreciated the fact that you are so open and honest and that is a great asset to Munger.\nS Capps April 3, 2017 - 9:10 pm\nAndrew\u2026.thank you for sharing this with us and letting us be a part of this journey with you. May God completely restore Elaine\u2019s health and hug on your family.\nHope little Annie is settling in?\nDeB April 3, 2017 - 11:11 pm\nI am so thrilled that God is answering our prayers for Elaine, from our whole church.\nThank you for sharing this unbelievable \u201cTrial\u201d with us over these past few weeks.\nThe whole congregation loves all of you dearly, and we are all so Thankful to have Elaine back to where she is supposed to be, a Wife and Mom, at home with her family. Praise be to God, Amen & Amen!!\nPatricia Parrish Ricks April 4, 2017 - 12:12 am\nContinuing to pray for all of you. Baby steps now are OK. The bonding happening now will give you strength and endurance through the grace of God for the rest of your lives.\nDoug April 4, 2017 - 12:13 am\nI\u2019ve long held the belief that guilt is a trick of the devil, a lie to sow seeds of doubt in us. Because Jesus has taken our guilt unto himself and died for our sins we have no need for guilt and can live our lives free from feelings that come between us and the Lord. Therefore I believe that it is the devil lying to us when we feel guilty over things that we have no responsibility for. I would say that guilt is a negative emotion that causes us to be paralyzed with fear which separates us from God as opposed to remorse or regret when we\u2019ve done wrong that can motivate us in a positive way to better ourselves and move towards God. Guilt is also a tool of the Progressives to control peoples behaviors, e.g. \u201cYou\u2019re destroying the planet by (fill in the blank).\u201d Sorry about the political interjection.\nPrayers for your family that this was the last trip to the hospital for now into the future. May God continue blessing you and our congregation through you.\nI think you are exactly right. I think feeling guilty when something good happens is demonic. It\u2019s selfish and self-centered, whereas gratitude is always and necessarily outward-focused.\nszabo Alison April 4, 2017 - 3:01 am\nThank you for your testimony\u2026yes I often feel guilty about my \u201ceasy\u201d life, God blesses me too much!I have also found it best to be grateful\u2026and hope to be used to bless others..I lovePhilippians ch 4 v 12, one often thinks firstly about the difficult times but, we must also be \u201ccomfortable\u201d in the blessed times.. God bless you Alison\nMrs. Szabo, it is great to hear from you. I love your thoughts on Philippians 4:12: we should be comfortable and content in ALL situations, both the difficult and the blessed. I think I\u2019m going to use that! I\u2019d honestly never thought of that before, how the Lord wants us to learn to trust him during good times, too.\nLoisJean Kinney April 4, 2017 - 9:25 am\nWe are so blessed as we continue to listen to the messages from Munger Place Church. Now We are blessed by your transparency in you bog. Our hearts and our prayers go out to you and your family. We pray that the Lord will bring total healing for your wife and peace to you. May God continue to bless the life and ministry of Munger Place Church.\nEarl and LoisJean Kinney", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 13717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 314.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://anythingatanytime.blogspot.com/2013/03/music-mondaze-gotye.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:38Z", "digest": "sha1:5LZ2AT67UCOD3ZRK4NS673QFS2IEABAK", "length": 131, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "anythingatanytime.blogspot.com", "title": "Anything at Anytime : Music Mondaze -- Gotye", "raw_content": "A song I heard the other day on the radio.\nI just like the music and its presentation.\nI hope you have a good day and a great week.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 11277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://api.uva.nl/content/news/2018/11/api-astronomer-featured-on-iau-astroedu-one-of-the-worlds-most-inspiring-education-innovations.html?origin=r67NetATRQ2YmqT5f7LpUQ", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:05Z", "digest": "sha1:MT4IJ6HZU7WSCD35H4AJRSTEZ3IUWDJ4", "length": 2924, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "api.uva.nl", "title": "API Astronomer featured on IAU astroEDU, One of The World's Most Inspiring Education Innovations - Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy - University of Amsterdam", "raw_content": "HundrED, a global education nonprofit organisation, researches inspiring innovations in education from around the world and annually selects the most inspiring 100 initiatives. Educational practices had to meet the criteria of being innovative, impactful and scalable to make it onto the list. For the 2019 list, HundrED has recognized IAU astroEDU among the top 100 innovations. API astronomer Thomas Russell is one of the collaborators in this project.\nIAU astroEDU \u2013 a project from the International Astronomical Union \u2013 is an open-access platform that uses the familiar peer-review workflow of scientific publications, to improve the standards of quality, visibility and accessibility of educational activities. This online platform is a place where educators can discover, review, change, and share astronomy- and space-related activities for primary and secondary education, and also have their activities peer-reviewed by professionals in education and science.\nSaku Tuominen, CEO of HundrED, said: 'Spreading innovations such as AstroEDU across borders can be a gamechanger for education, worldwide. We will continue to encourage as many stakeholders as possible including schools, educators, administrators, students and organizations to get involved so that we can work towards a positive future.'\n'It is not another web repository for educational resources but a mechanism for peer-reviewing and publishing high-quality astronomy education activities in an open access way,' says Michael Fitzgerald (IAU astroEDU Editor-in-Chief, Edith Cowan University). The peer review involves input from both a content specialist (scientist) and a pedagogical expert (educator). This assures educators that the activities are both scientifically current and address pedagogical and practical realities of the classroom. The activities are inquiry-based covering open-ended inquiry, guided inquiry, structured inquiry, project-based learning, and fun learning, in line with 21st-century skills needs. 'In this new era of education, education is becoming more self-directed, and I look forward to developing versions that adapt to student, not just teacher, use' concludes Fitzgerald.\nInnovating across digital learning environments, IAU AstroEDU also announces the release of new educational videos to explain the unknown universe, spanning concepts of black holes, dark matter and dark energy. The videos feature astronomers Thomas Russell (researcher at University of Amsterdam), Henk Hoekstra (professor at Leiden University) and Maria Cristina Fortuna (PhD candidate at Leiden University), respectively, and provide incisive explanations supporting primary and secondary school activities on the topic. 'IAU AstroEDU provides fantastic hands-on learning experiences of cutting-edge science, to encourage kids to explore the Universe' add Russell. The videos and activities are freely available on the IAU astroEDU platform.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 7271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://apogeospatial.com/changing-the-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:18Z", "digest": "sha1:JNAAQ7MQVD5ZU2LFDWELJXKJA55JMJTQ", "length": 11990, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "apogeospatial.com", "title": "Changing the Story: | Apogeo Spatial", "raw_content": "The Planetary Physiology\nPosted by Prof. Hans-Peter Plag, PhD on June 9, 2017 in On the Edge, Spring 2017\nIt surprises me again and again how much we know, or could know, and how much we choose not to know. Behavioral economy and cognitive psychology have taught us much about human biases and how they impact the reflections we have of the world and the decisions we make.\nThe discussion about climate change is a good example of our ability not to see the obvious and to reason against it. In an attempt to explain the ice ages, Svante Arrhenius in 1896 published a paper that explains the basics of how, and how much, atmospheric Greenhouse gases impact global temperature.1 The data collected since then has consistently confirmed what he derived more than 120 years ago. In 1906, he suggested that human emissions of carbon dioxide could be a means to keep the planet from entering a new ice age.2 The scientific knowledge developed since then has provided a deep understanding of the fragility of the stable homeostasis humanity had the pleasure to experience during the Holocene, the last geological epoch that started about 11,700 years ago.\nInstead of eagerly listening to the experts and asking them for guidance of how we can prolong this great time of climate stability for the benefit of us and those that come after us, too many of us engage in denial and ignorance of the knowledge readily available for short-term economic bene ts with little consideration for the harm and injustice this is causing. The discussion about climate change, its extent and its causes has developed into an unreasonable dialog, a confrontation where the parts keep exchanging their positions without reasoning.\nAt the Conference on the Future of Engineering Software (COFES)3 in Scottsdale, Arizona on April 6-8, 2017, I engaged in such an unreasonable dialog. I participated in COFES as a member of the \u201cEarth Energy Monitoring System\u201d (E2MS) working group.4 This group originates from the CTO Design Challenge addressed at the Future in Review (FIRE) conference held in September 2016 in Park City, Utah.5 The topic of the 2016 FIRE was \u201cflows\u201d \u2013 flows in all forms and of all different elements. The CTO Design Challenge focused on the conceptual design of a monitoring system for the ow of energy in all its forms through the Earth system. Looking at the world in terms of flows changes the story from arguing about the symptoms and phenomena to a dialog about the processes and causes. By changing the story, the focus of our societal discourse, we can change the future.\nIn the Technology Suite Brie ngs at COFES, new initiatives can be presented to, and discussed with, a small highly interested audience in a somewhat unusual setting. In our briefing on the E2MS, it was my task to illustrate the challenge humanity is facing and to explain how the E2MS would provide information helpful to decision makers. In the last 250 years, we have increasingly accelerated flows in the Earth system, and these accelerated ows have changed the overall balance \u2013 or imbalance \u2013 in the Earth system. During this period, humanity increasingly had access to energy and technologies that could be used to make large-scale change to our planet.\nEnergy flows in the earth system cover a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Knowing the ow of energy is key to understanding the dynamics of the evolving, non-stationary complex system and its emerging properties. Leveraging the abundant data from rapidly growing networks of sensors from the traditional Earth observation system to crowd-sourcing and the coming Internet of Things, the E2MS aims at a detailed picture of all ows in the Earth system. Source: E2MS.\nSince about 1950, when we achieved easy access to nearly unlimited energy, our species was able to modify flows in the Nitrogen and Phosphorous cycles and thus could produce the food for the rapidly growing population. We change flows and storage in the water cycle to support the production of food and more energy and to provide access to water for other purposes. The flow of humans increased with millions on the move, both voluntarily for business or pleasure, or involuntarily as migrants fleeing unlivable conditions. The flow of material resources into products and from there into waste accelerated to satisfy the greed of a growth-addicted economy. The flow of wealth escalated with more and more of it concentrated in the hands for fewer and fewer. The flow of data from sensors is exponentially increasing without necessarily turning into knowledge and wisdom. Information flows inflated both with and without the consent of the owners.\nIn January 2017, an atmospheric river brought a flow of water to the drought- stricken Southwest of the U.S., causing problems with a sudden overload of water. Source: NASA.\nThe strength of the jet stream has an important impact on weather and climate, particularly on the northern hemisphere. The rapid warming in the Arctic could significantly change the atmospheric dynamics and weaken the jet stream with severe impacts on weather extremes. Source: Washington Post, \u201cOne of the most troubling ideas about climate change just found new evidence in its favor,\u201d March 27, 2017.\nWe changed land use by taking away forests and pastures to make room for agriculture, sprawling human settlements and extensive infrastructure. In 1700, a mere 650 million people used on the order of 1% of the land surface. Today, close to 7.5 billion people occupy on the order of 50% of the land surface. On the way, we changed the carbon cycle and by adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and oceans, we changed the energy flow and amplified the imbalance of the energy that comes from the sun and is radiated back into space.\nOver Earth\u2019s history, this imbalance is very small, probably less than 10-9, but just enough to build considerable energy reserves in form of fossil fuels over hundred of millions of years. Considering the additional energy that is currently stored in the atmosphere and oceans as part of global warming, the imbalance is now closer to 10-3, a million or more times larger than on average during millions of years.\nThis change in the flow of energy is changing the characteristics of the planetary system.\nWe also changed the biosphere and how the biosphere is utilizing solar energy. We eliminated the 30-60 million buffalos that populated North America when the first migrants from Europe arrived. Each of them has a metabolic rate of more than 400 W, summing up to a total of 12.5-25 GigaWatt (GW). The buffalos used this amount of basically solar energy to process a huge amount of biotic material and to enrich their environment with the remains. In Africa, the 20 million elephants that once roamed this continent used on the order of 40 GW to do the same there. We have removed\nthese \u201cecosystem services\u201d almost completely.\nSimilarly, we have changed the energy flow in many other parts of the Earth\u2019s life-support system. Importantly, we have added our extended metabolic rate of almost 3,000 W per person on global average into the system\u2019s energy flow. In order to understand how these changed flows change the characteristics of the system, it is mandatory to focus on flows, measure ows, and to have an E2MS.\nIn our first briefing at COFES, we presented our initiative to a very observant group eager to hear what E2MS might contribute. During the Design and Sustainability (DAS) Symposium the previous day, there was agreement that we as a global society are not in good shape and need to make significant changes to face the economic, social and environmental challenges and to avoid potential looming disasters.\nAccording to the U.N. Refugee Agency, an estimated 65 million people are currently displaced and many of them are moving along major flow lines between continents.\nLike doctors who want to improve the health of a patient, decision makers who want to address these challenges need up-to-date and comprehensive information about the degrading Earth\u2019s life-support system. This was well understood by our audience, and the idea of developing an E2MS was well received. It was acknowledged that changing the story and talking about the physiology of the planetary life-support system and the flows between us and this system could provide a basis for a reasonable dialog about our future and what we want this future to be. It was also realized that we have a huge amount of data that could be used to extract information about flows with a system like the E2MS.\nThe afternoon briefing session turned out very different. In all the material we were presenting, one person only heard one thing: \u201cclimate change,\u201d and he forcefully tried to negate every statement we made. He reproduced the well-known false arguments of NOAA having manipulated data, of the effect of Greenhouse gas on global temperature not being proven, of climate having changed always, and he went so far as to claim that Jupiter is warming over the last 20 years without anyone driving a car there. His antipodal attitude was actually beneficial because in the end, the audience understood our reasoning about the changing flows and saw the importance in our new story even better than in the morning, when nobody challenged our message.\nBehavioral economics tells us how we make decisions and how our cognitive biases impact these decisions, but it doesn\u2019t answer the question why humans are the only species to develop reason as one of our cognitive senses. Reading Mercier and Sperber\u2019s new book on \u201cThe Engima of Reason\u201d6 brings us closer to an answer to this question of fundamental importance. They argue that reason was not developed and is not geared for solitary use with the goal to arrive at better beliefs and decisions on our own. It rather helps us to justify our beliefs, positions, and actions to other members of our communities, to convince them with argumentation, and to evaluate the arguments of others in an open dialog. Reason gave us an advantage as social beings and allowed us to have deliberations about the future we want to create together.\nIt hurts to see that in our modern society we seem to forget what reason was meant to be. Decisions are no longer made by communities after careful reasoning about the impacts these decisions might have on our common future. Like the climate change denier at our briefing, who had no interest in considering our reasoning, many of our leading decision makers up to the highest level are not interested in careful reasoning about the future we want and how to get there but rather make decisions for the benefit of short-term effects, including their rating on whatever rating system they are addicted to.\n\u201cSense is the song you sing out into the world, and the song the world sings back to you.\u201d In Ari Berk\u2019s and Loren Long\u2019s book, \u201cNightsong,\u201d7 the bat-mother of Chiro uses these words to send him for the first time alone out into the fearful dark of the night, and she tells Chiro to use the \u201cgood sense\u201d to nd his way through the dark and back home. Bats use their unique \u201cgood sense\u201d of ultrasound to cope with their specific conditions. Humans have reason as what could be our \u201cgood sense.\u201d But it is not enough to sing our song into the world, no matter how well reasoned; we also need to listen to the song the world sings back to us. \u201cListening\u201d to the ows may be what is key to understanding the world.\n1. Arrhenius, S., 1896. On the influence of carbonic acid in the air upon the temperature of the ground.\nPhilosophical Magazine and Journal of Science,\nSeries 5, Volume 41, pages 237-276.\n2. His 1906 book on \u201cVaerldanas utveckling\u201d was published\nin English in 1908 under the title Worlds in the Making.\n3. http://www.cofes.com\n4. http://www.e2ms.org\n5. https://www.futureinreview.com\n6. Mercier, H. and D. Sperber, 2017. The Enigma of\nReason. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.\n7. Berk, A., L. Long, 2012. Nightsong. Simon and\nSchuster, New York.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 226, "original_length": 16958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 227.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://appelbee.eu/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:50Z", "digest": "sha1:YZJY3TSEDV75J4VANK4323CHD3GG365U", "length": 3712, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "appelbee.eu", "title": "Elaine Appelbee: The Workspace - Ideas and action for positive change - Home", "raw_content": "Welcome to The Workspace\nThis space is an online creative notebook and design studio for Elaine Appelbee. I am a freelance consultant, former CEO. I use Appreciative Inquiry and Design Thinking to deliver creative change that has positive impact on organisations, services, communities.\ufeff Stimulating and supporting people's thinking and action is an important part of what I offer. The site also provides information about the types of work I undertake and my curriculum vitae.\ufeff\nAll good artists and designers travel with a notebook or camera to hand. They use these to capture images, shapes and patterns. These fragments of what they have noticed in the world, stimulate their thinking, feed their imaginations and provide inspiration when they return to the studio.\nIn The Notebook you will find examples of fragments that have caught my eye and posted as blogs at www.appelbee.blogspot.co.uk.\n\ufeffThe Studio features recent work or work in progress in a little more detail. \ufeff\ufeffOf interest to those who might like to read in a little more detail about the way I work. Currently I am working on a project to prevent blindness in people with diabetes. I am using Design Thinking and Appreciative Inquiry with local healthcare professionals and people with diabetes to create interventions. In The Studio you can read some of the blogs that I have produced for this work or go to:\nwww.diabeteseyecarekeighley.blogspot.com to see all these blogs.\nThe Work is intended also to provide current or prospective clients and partners with examples of my work as well as comments from clients.\nSo this space is the place where I collect images, shapes and patterns to do with creating positive organisations, institutions and communities in order to stimulate thinking and action.\nThis work by Elaine Appelbee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.\n\u201cWe have worked with Elaine on an important piece of work we were involved in with one of our more rural and sparsely populated communities in West Norfolk. It was important to unpick the issues surrounding local quality of life and what it felt like to live in that area. Elaine approached the task with both her natural good humour and an in depth understanding of people's issues and concerns, developed over years of working with communities. Elaine not only facilitated the process by engaging everyone that was involved, ensuring that all voices were heard, but also managed the process to a successful conclusion - many of the ideas raised through the process are now being implemented. Elaine's positivity, challenge and clear desire to see everyone she works with continuously learn and develop is both infectious and stimulating.\"\u201dOctober 1, 2012\nIan Burbidge, Policy and Partnerships Manager, Borough Council of Kings Lynn and West Norfolk\n\u201cWe wanted to re-visit our vision for the Bradford Chamber and Elaine introduced us to the Appreciative Inquiry approach. With Elaine's help we involved staff, the Board and customers in reviewing our achievements, stengths and the direction we wanted to go in. It was an interesting, inspiring and at times surprising experience. Elaine's knowledge, expertise and focus in working with organisations was invaluable.\u201d August 30, 2011\nSandy Needham, Chief Executive, Bradford Chamber of Commerce\n\u201cElaine is a dynamic and highly skilled facilitator and strategic planner. I worked with her in London and Bradford as part of the international Champions of Participation workshop, and also in a community organizing workshop in Wisconsin. She is an inspirational leader and speaker, and insightful, gifted problem-solver.\u201d June 28, 2011\nMike Huggins, City Manager, City of Eau Claire\ufeff\ufeff", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://architecture.mit.edu/computation/lecture/laura-kurgan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:29Z", "digest": "sha1:QRKT623LDHAY7IPM3TXKNB33IFKA7QC4", "length": 743, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "architecture.mit.edu", "title": "Laura Kurgan | MIT Architecture", "raw_content": "Laura Kurgan is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, where she directs the Visual Studies curriculum, and the Center for Spatial Research. She is the author of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics (Zone Books, 2013). Her work explores things ranging from digital mapping technologies to the ethics and politics of mapping, and the art, science and visualization of data. Her work has appeared at the Cartier Foundation in Paris, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Whitney Altria, MACBa Barcelona, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, and the Museum of Modern Art. She was the winner of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship in 2009.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 2277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 93.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://artnlight.blogspot.com/2012/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HETC3BYNKCJFNKG2DNGN66OL2KQTPGCZ", "length": 4120, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "artnlight.blogspot.com", "title": "artnlight: July 2012", "raw_content": "Aditi Prakash\nWhen I knew I was going to Bangalore for the Soul Santhe, Shilo Shiv Suleman was the 1st person I informed. I knew if there was something I was looking forward to more than even the Soul Santhe it was meeting her. And not only would I get to meet her, but her mother too would be there, the legendary Nilofer Suleman at the altar of whose art I worship. For the few of those who don't know, Shilo is the incredibly young and accomplished artist whom the world recognised before she passed out of art School. But more than that she and her work captures your imagination. I have wanted to meet this young girl much before she went on to be a TED speaker. \"She illustrated her first book for children at the age of 16 and has illustrated and published 8 others since. She has also been actively involved in setting up community art projects. Earlier this year, at only 22 years of age, she was chosen by TED and Levi's as an ambassador of the 'Shape of Things to Come' - one of three Indian women to be felicitated with this honour at the TED Global Conference 2011, Edinburgh. In 2010 she was selected for an INK fellowship for her work as a young innovator in her field and now continues her work with the community as their Featured Artist of the Year. She was also one of the youngest speakers at the WIRED UK and DLD conference in London and Munich.\" So in brief and maybe even flippantly- painter of books, buses, walls, art activist, gorgeous App designer, stage designer, TED speaker, (do click on the links which will take you to different aspects of her work) representative of a generation of women, of art, of culture. For she speaks of and derives from Arjuna and Apsara's when normal kids her generation would not think it cool to do so even if they knew enough to. It takes coming from and standing on strong ground and a sure sense of self to take a leap and fly.\nAs i walked into Shilo's & Nilofer's home, there was much to take in, the striking girl with frangipani in her hair and the home itself which gave me a distinct feeling of walking into her art. It all came together very beautifully. There were no two stories here. Only one. This was a home that had so much to give. There are some spaces that are very generous and this has everything to do with the people inhabiting it.\nI loved the verandah outside their home. It was done in cool whites, had abundant greens and had these cowheads that Shilo had collected on her travels to across India.\nThis is Shilo at work painting the walls of Bangalore as part of the Wallflowers Project\nAnd this is her room where she lives and works from. Her work is integral to where she comes from, who she is and what she truly feels. Perhaps that is why it has gone as far as it has.\nWe had a lot of fun shooting her. It was not an overly bright day and it made for some interesting lighting.\nIt was uncanny feeling being in her space, it felt like being inside her live art, all the things that were drawn in her illustrations seemed present in this room. The frangipani, the lotuses, the gods, the twinky lights, were all here.\nAnd now we enter Nilofer Suleman's studio, the place where the most astoundingly intricate and tongue-in-cheek humoured paintings are born.\nIt felt surreal to enter this space of an artist whom I admired so much, making casual conversation while I clicked and she worked, as if this were any other day.\nEntering the workspace of any artist is for me entering their private space, it is where they engage with their ideas, where their thoughts and being meet the muse and creation takes place. It is no less than a privilege of a lifetime if the artist allows you to witness the process of creation.\nThe Suleman's were very welcoming and generous hosts. Shilo had to leave to take a Delhi flight and I saw the artist Nilofer at work and as mother. And perhaps the most important thing that I experienced was that their simplicity and humility were in direct proportion to their collective and formidable talent.\nFor quick references: Shilo's TED talk, her blog & Khoya the interactive app she developed for the ipad.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 329, "original_length": 15050, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 294.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://artsmagazine.info/articles.php?view=detail&id=2014052922380815142", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:10Z", "digest": "sha1:IDG6UPVCI6GE4QABO7WMUTHFAGMYCX7T", "length": 1878, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "artsmagazine.info", "title": "New play by ETSU professor to be performed at Cincinnati festival - A! Magazine for the Arts", "raw_content": "New play by ETSU professor to be performed at Cincinnati festival\nAccording to playwright Cara Harker, \"Bebe\" features a series of vignettes of performers who jump from scene to scene \"from emotion to emotion, exposing their fears and vulnerabilities.\nJOHNSON CITY \ufffd A new play written by an East Tennessee State University faculty member was performed at the Cincy Fringe Festival in Cincinnati.\nThe play is called Bebe and is written by Cara Harker, ETSU associate professor of theatre and dance.\nAccording to Harker, \"Bebe\" features a series of vignettes of performers who jump from scene to scene \"from emotion to emotion, exposing their fears and vulnerabilities ... navigating their way through life and learning what it takes to openly and honestly be themselves.\"\n\"The six of us have decided to accept ourselves in all our varied, neurotic and often contradictory glory,\" Harker said. \"We're applauding our triumphs, cringing at our failures, and rooting for each other as we learn to \"just be.'\"\nHarker appeared in \"Bebe\" along with ETSU graduates Hannah Hasch, Josh Holley, Chelsea Kinser, Camielle Reed and E.T. Tarlton.\nThis is the third production Harker has penned. Her most recent work, \"Memoir of a Mythomaniac: the True Story of a Compulsive Liar (or Tallulah Dies),\" received its world premiere at the Cincy Fringe Festival in 2011 and was later performed at ETSU.\nHarker directs ETSU's minor degree program in dance and is a member of the Tennessee Association of Dance board of directors. She holds an M.F.A. in theatre performance from the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and worked as an instructor, choreographer and instructor in Chicago and Cincinnati before coming to ETSU.\nThe Cincy Fringe Festival is produced by Know Theatre of Cincinnati and features up to 150 performances of 33 productions during the course of 12 days.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 2607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atlantidaen.opennemas.com/tags/oceania", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:36Z", "digest": "sha1:ZD5P5VTJPV6RZ5I3Q6CYRWJ4AR6EJEC5", "length": 3391, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "atlantidaen.opennemas.com", "title": "Tags oceania - AtlantidaTravel", "raw_content": "Madagascar split off from the world a long time ago and began growing into a unique, unclassifiable being. Tana, as the Malagasys call the city, is at the centre of the island. It is a puzzle of lost\u2026\nThe most-feared wave in the world: going into the Teahupoo tube is any surfer\u2019s dream\nIt is the walk of fame for surfers. The riskiest left wave, and an irresistible draw for the most daring and experienced of them. Few dare to go into Teahupoo, and even fewer manage to come out\u2026\nSua Ocean Trench, the idyllic swimming pool in Samoa\nOver the course of millennia, erosion of the lava fields around Lotofaga left the area pocketed with tide pools and a series of blowholes, the largest of which is To Sua (whose name translates to\u2026\nA bar in the middle of the ocean\nYes, literally in the middle of the ocean: Cloud 9, which floats just off Fiji Island, near Viti Levu in Oceania, is surrounded by nothing more than turquoise waters and coral reefs. Besides\u2026\nSydney as you've never seen it: the best plans to do at least once in a lifetime\nSydney Harbour Bridge Climb During the day you can see Sydney Harbour in all its majesty, but by night it takes on a whole new magnitude. It\u2019s an experience that is difficult to describe, and\u2026\nStill do not know the capital of New Zealand? Follow Bryce Dallas Howard's guide to discover Wellington\nSleep in a rooftop surrounded by some of Melbourne's most iconic buildings\nThe end of the world is in Tasmania\nThree Capes Track was opened to the public with the promise of \u201cawakening the senses\u201d. The bushwalkers most eagerly-awaited hiking route is on the edge of the precipice on the remote\u2026\nThings to do in Sydney before 9am: the best plans for early risers\nThe rebirth of Perth: Welcome to Australia's new capital of cool\nThe most astonishing panorama of Melbourne, but only for risk lovers\nThe stats: 297m high, 88th floor. 110,000 tonnes of concrete, 13 elevators. 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And a farm in South Australia\u2026\nWhite Water Rafting in New Zealand on the Kaituna River\nSkyrail rainforest cableway cairns: above the canopy\nI\u2019ve been to Cairns many times and every visitor to this magical part of the world knows there are two big draws in Tropical North Queensland; the reef and the rainforest. Sure there are lots\u2026\n7 tips on travelling safely around Australia\nAustralia, as a travel destination, has everything that a tourist can ask for in a holiday spot. Every year, millions of visitors, from America, Europe and other parts of the world make a\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/kushi-michio-n/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:15Z", "digest": "sha1:27OKS2WP4QCKDL62K6X7F2AG6PMYM5V4", "length": 439, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "atlantipedia.ie", "title": "Kushi, Michio (N) | Kushi, Michio (N) \u2013 Atlantipedia", "raw_content": "Kushi, Michio (N)\nMichio Kushi (1926-2014) was a Japanese promoter of modern macrobiotics, which he helped to introduce to the United States after moving there after the war.\nIn 1992, he teamed up with a colleague, Edward Esko, to write Forgotten Worlds[1381] in which they proposed that Atlantis, situated in the Atlantic had been destroyed as a result of a Pole Shift.\nTagged Atlantic, Edward Esko, macrobiotics, Michio Kushi, Pole Shift", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 1240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 129.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://atlantipedia.ie/samples/persian-war/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HANOD553T5H47SCW76LS2K6PP6NRTQFI", "length": 3614, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "atlantipedia.ie", "title": "Persian Wars | Persian Wars \u2013 Atlantipedia", "raw_content": "The Persian Wars are believed by some to have been the inspiration for the story of the Atlantean invasion described by Plato. Giuseppe Bartoli was apparently the first, in 1780, to make such a claim. Not too long afterwards Pierre-Andr\u00e9 Latreille supported the same idea[1018].\nThis idea fails on two principal grounds, date and geography. Since the Persian War took place around 500-449 BC, this would make it subsequent to Solon\u2019s visit to Egypt (570-526 BC) and Persia was east of Athens and Egypt, while the Atlanteans came from the west (Tim.25b & Crit.114c)! In fact, what Plato said was that the invasion came from the Atlantic Sea (pelagos). Although there is some disagreement about the location of this Atlantic Sea, all candidates proposed so far are west of both Athens and Egypt.\nSince the Persian War took place over half a century after Solon\u2019s death, in some ways, the suggestion that the Persian conflict inspired Plato\u2019s Atlantis story, implies that Plato lied about Solon as the conduit for the account, which is completely at variance with the acceptance of Plato as a man of unquestioned integrity.\nApart from this date discrepancy, J\u00fcrgen Spanuth lists[015] other divergences of the Persian Invasion theory from Plato\u2019s text. Spanuth, together with many other authors, favours the Sea Peoples or as he puts it \u2018the North Sea Peoples\u2019, being the Atlanteans of Plato\u2019s tale.\nHowever, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, a prominent Atlantis sceptic, is adamant that the Persian Wars, with some modifications, parallel the Athenian war with Atlantis. William Babcock expressed a similar opinion in the early years of the 20th century. Acceptance of this view would rule Solon out as Plato\u2019s source and undermine the credibility of the whole narrative.\nKeep in mind that you can also find parallels between many of the European wars of the last few hundred years.\n*In the mid-20th century, W. A. Heidel, an Atlantis sceptic, claimed(a) that an expeditionary naval force was sent by Darius in 515 BC under Scylax of Caryanda to explore the Indus River, which eventually encountered waters too shallow for his ships, was the inspiration behind Plato\u2019s tale of unnavigable seas!*\nHe further claimed that Plato\u2019s battle between Atlantis and Athens is a distortion of a war of invasion between the Persians and the Indians.\nIn late 2008 a new theory about Atlantis, was launched(a) by August Hunt that purports to link Atlantis with the Persian Empire with either Persepolis or Susa as the Atlantean capital described by Plato. He also offers the curious explanation for Plato\u2019s 9,000 years for the age of Atlantis as being in reality a reference to the number of Athenians present at the Battle of Marathon! His short book is entitled Atalante and the Persian Empire[1413]\nJim Allen in a discussion of a number of ancient Persian cities, notes[877] that some are circular and often had concentric walls, suggesting that they may have been the inspiration for Plato\u2019s description of Atlantis\u2019 capital city!\nIf the Persians were in fact the Atlanteans of Plato\u2019s story, it seems rather odd that their invasion fleet, as recorded by Herodotus (Bk.7.89), included 200 Egyptian ships, while at the same time that Athens and Egypt were supposedly allies in opposition to Atlantis!\n*(a) https://www.jstor.org/stable/20022944?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents*\nTagged Atalante, Athens, Atlantic Sea, August Hunt, Battle of Marathon, Egypt, Giuseppe Bartoli, Jim Allen, J\u00fcrgen Spanuth, pelagos, Persian War, Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Pierre-Andr\u00e9 Latreille, Scylax of Caryanda, Sea Peoples, Solon, Susa, W. A. Heidel, William Babcock", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 4446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://audioinkradio.com/2015/05/chris-cornell-new-solo-album/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:59Z", "digest": "sha1:GLR43KWJQFC6C2H4BC6D5EPUNSCDXJ52", "length": 1395, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "audioinkradio.com", "title": "Chris Cornell to Release New Solo Album This Fall | Audio Ink Radio", "raw_content": "Chris Cornell to Release New Solo Album This Fall\nSoundgarden\u2019s Chris Cornell has a new solo album on the way, plus overseas tour dates\nSoundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has been laboring over a new solo album, and it\u2019s almost ready. Cornell has announced his latest solo concoction, \u201cHigher Truth,\u201d will reach stores in September. The set follows Cornell\u2019s previous solo releases, 2011\u2019s all-acoustic live \u201cSongbook\u201d and 2009\u2019s \u201cScream.\u201d\nCornell will tour on the new release, too. He\u2019ll embark on a solo acoustic tour through Australia and New Zealand this fall, which will have Cornell \u201cperforming songs spanning his entire career, as well as new songs from his forthcoming studio album Higher Truth in an unplugged, up close and personal setting,\u201d according to his official website.\nThe Australia and New Zealand tour will begin Nov. 20 and settle down Dec. 12. Tickets for the tour will go on sale June 1. For more information on the run, visit Cornell\u2019s official website.\nChris Cornell Australia and New Zealand Tour Dates:\n11/20 \u2014 Christchurch, New Zealand, Isaac Theatre\n11/23 \u2014 Wellington, New Zealand, Michael Fowler Centre\n11/26 \u2014 Auckland, New Zealand, ASB Theatre\n11/30 \u2014 Brisbane, Australia, QPAC Concert Hall\n12/4 \u2014 Melbourne, Australia, Palais Theatre\n12/7 \u2014 Adelaide, Australia, Festival Theatre\n12/8 \u2014 Perth, Australia, Perth Concert Hall\n12/11 \u2014 Sydney, Australia, Opera House", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 212.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://audioinkradio.com/2015/06/van-halen-reissuing-four-more-classic-albums/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:11Z", "digest": "sha1:VIPMVBPLNGPAKLXU332ZMMBDZQIVS7SP", "length": 1154, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "audioinkradio.com", "title": "Van Halen Reissuing Four More Classic Albums | Audio Ink Radio", "raw_content": "Van Halen Reissuing Four More Classic Albums\nVan Halen have announced a new round of reissues\nVan Halen are on a reissue kick. Last March, the guys unleashed remastered editions of their 1978 self-titled debut album and 1984 studio album \u201c1984.\u201d Already, the group has announced another round of reissues, this time releasing the four other studio albums it churned out during singer David Lee Roth\u2019s early days with Van Halen. The set, which was remastered using the original analog tapes, will arrive on July 10.\nRemastered editions of the albums \u2014 1979\u2019s \u201cVan Halen II,\u201d 1980\u2019s \u201cWomen and Children First,\u201d 1981\u2019s \u201cFair Warning\u201d and 1982\u2019s \u201cDiver Down\u201d \u2014 will be available on CD and 180-gram vinyl LP, as well as digital downloads. Those who purchase the collection via Van Halen\u2019s official store may also opt for a six-album series that offers the four latest reissues, plus \u201cVan Halen\u201d and \u201c1984>.\nIn other news, Van Halen are just weeks away from their massive 2015 North American tour. The trek will kick off July 5 in Auburn, Wash., and continue through an Oct. 4 stop in Hollywood, California. The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band will open on the tour.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2428, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 188.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://audioinkradio.com/2016/03/good-charlotte-new-album/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MMV7HYOJ4GW2XRLYGTDK3PYGY6WBQ4JV", "length": 1237, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "audioinkradio.com", "title": "Good Charlotte to Release New Album | Audio Ink Radio", "raw_content": "Good Charlotte to Release New Album\nGood Charlotte will release new tunes this summer\nNew music from Good Charlotte is coming soon. The pop-punk band will unleash their sixth studio album this summer, which will mark their follow-up to 2010\u2019s \u201cCardiology.\u201d The first single from the upcoming album will debut on April 4.\n\u201cThe new album is like our previous albums in that it\u2019s for people who love music and are constantly motivated and trying to live a rad life,\u201d twin brothers Benji and Joel Madden said in a statement. \u201cEveryone has something to prove to themselves, waking up every day and deciding to change their life for the better and help others do the same.\u201d\nThe two added, \u201cGC has always been about doing this together, motivating each other, finding the unity and energy that exists in taking life\u2019s challenges and coming out on the other side. It\u2019s about being inspired and excited to be both who you are and who you want to be.\u201d\nIn other news, Good Charlotte have a series of shows booked for this April to get fans pumped for the new tunes. The band will perform April 18 at Philadelphia\u2019s TLA; April 20 at Washington, D.C.\u2019s 9:30 Club; April 21 at New York City\u2019s Webster Hall; and April 22 at Boston\u2019s Paradise Rock Club.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2363, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 159.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://autoinjurywis.com/2015/09/02/diesel-catalytic-converter-a-must-for-every-vehicle/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:05Z", "digest": "sha1:4Y2BAHDKAWGUSNIMTWEZRYSZ4HWJK35R", "length": 3530, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "autoinjurywis.com", "title": "Diesel catalytic converter \u2013 a must for every vehicle | Auto Injury", "raw_content": "Lorraine Guerrero\nIt is not a hidden that diesel catalytic converter is one of the most important item that is present in your diesel run vehicle. 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This item is primarily useful for the efficient use of diesel and therefore keeps the engine working for much longer time.\nThere are many companies in the world that are providing diesel catalytic converter that are of different types and therefore serve various purpose of different diesel engines. Some of these companies provide diesel catalytic converter known in stock universal fit diesel converters that are provided by these companies with inlet and outlet diameters that range from 1.5\u2033 to 4\u2033. Moreover these companies also proudly sell eastern diesel catalytic converter that is manufactured for custom order which have diameter of 6\u2033.\nThere are many functions that are considered to be top notch for the better functioning of diesel run vehicles. Some of the functions that diesel catalytic converter the successful operating under the roughest conditions, the quality of these converters to operate under lower temperatures etc. another great benefit of diesel catalytic converter is that the odor smell that is related to diesel vehicles is significantly reduced as these converters control odor gases such as carbon monoxide, smoke etc. that are the culprits for the odor smell that is emitted by the vehicles. Another important benefit that diesel catalytic converter provides is that it reduces fuel consumption therefore you can save a large chunk of money that you were spending for fuel refilling.\nFuel consumption takes a large amount of money from the revenue that is generated which reduced the profit margin, therefore if you spend on these converters once in a while, it can lead to higher profits for a substantial period of time. As diesel catalytic converter is made up of stainless steel, this means it has high durability and can last longer. This also ensure that these converters will provide reliability for much longer and you vehicle will perform at higher level for longer than your rivals. Diesel catalytic converter are made up of top and bottom aluminum shields that not only make it more adorable but also helps in its functions that is to ensure the vehicle does not get heated and therefore the engine does not have to bother such distractions and perform its functions smoothly.\nLorraine Guerrero is a content developer for a number of digital content networks (including companies similar to catalyticexhaust.ca diesel catalytic converter), who shares opinion on a range of diesel catalytic converter topics and whatever else is related. A tireless traveler of digital community and an opinion maker in all things related to the diesel catalytic converter.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 6422, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://auxbeacon.org/cap-loses-credibility-in-ntsb-findings-on-alabama-crash/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DFJPAPZXRUMYCK5QK3OZUOK6Y5LZNQRI", "length": 10537, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "auxbeacon.org", "title": "CAP Loses Credibility in NTSB Findings on Alabama Crash - AuxBeacon News", "raw_content": "CAP Loses Credibility in NTSB Findings on Alabama Crash\nBy National Transportation Safety Board\n[Editor\u2019s Note: A CAPTalk and AuxBeacon reader has called the membership\u2019s attention to the fact that Civil Air Patrol has been exposed once again in another NTSB report assigning CAP pilot error as the cause of a recent crash. The CAP Mission Pilot was medicated to prevent heart attacks and failed to find the correct antidote to one or more of the five hazardous attitudes. The right seat CAP Mission Scanner was medicated with tranquilizers.]\nOn February 1, 2016, about 19:45 central standard time, a Cessna 182T, N784CP, was destroyed by a collision with trees, terrain and a post-crash fire following a missed approach to the Mobile Regional Airport (MOB), Mobile, Alabama.\nAccording to CAP, both pilots were members of the Alabama Wing\u2019s Mobile Composite Squadron. The airline transport pilot and pilot-rated passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was registered to and operated by the Civil Air Patrol as a personal flight under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. Instrument meteorological conditions existed at the airport at the time of the accident, and the flight was operated on an instrument flight rules flight plan. The flight originated from Louisiana Regional Airport (L38), Gonzales, Louisiana, about 18:30.\nThe accident flight was the final leg of a 300-nautical mile (nm), three-leg \u201ccompassion flight;\u201d the purpose of the flight was to transport a passenger from Florida to her home in Louisiana. The pilots departed BFM about 09:30 on the day of the accident and flew to Northwest Florida Beaches International Airport (ECP), Panama City Florida. While at ECP, the pilot contacted the flight release officer (FRO) to inform him that their departure would be delayed about 2 1/2 hours due to a problem with the airplane that was delivering the passenger to ECP. After the passenger arrived, the flight departed ECP for L38 about 15:00.\nThe FBO owner was concerned about the accident pilots flying at night given the potential for fog and offered them a courtesy car and assistance with obtaining accommodations for the night. The crew acknowledged his concern about the weather but wanted to return to BFM in time for their CAP meeting and before the fog set in. At 18:33, the flight which was operating under the call sign \u201cCAP 184,\u201d departed L38, contacted air traffic control (ATC), and was issued an instrument flight rules clearance to BFM.\nThe airplane was found about 1 nm mile west of MOB at 02:00 on February 2, 2016, after search personnel tracked the airplane\u2019s emergency locator transmitter (ELT) to the accident site.\nAccording to the FAA\u2019s General Aviation Joint Steering Committee, a pilot\u2019s sight, supported by other senses, allows a pilot to maintain orientation while flying. However, when visibility is restricted (i.e., no visual reference to the horizon or surface detected), the body\u2019s supporting senses can conflict with what is seen. When this spatial disorientation occurs, sensory conflicts and optical illusions often make it difficult for a pilot to tell which way is up.\nThe FAA Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3) described some hazards associated with flying when visual references, such as the ground or horizon, are obscured. \u201cThe vestibular sense (motion sensing by the inner ear) in particular tends to confuse the pilot. Because of inertia, the sensory areas of the inner ear cannot detect slight changes in the attitude of the airplane, nor can they accurately sense attitude changes that occur at a uniform rate over a period of time. On the other hand, false sensations are often generated; leading the pilot to believe the attitude of the airplane has changed when in fact, it has not. These false sensations result in the pilot experiencing spatial disorientation.\u201d\nThe FAA publication Medical Facts for Pilots (AM-400-03/1), described several vestibular illusions associated with the operation of aircraft in low visibility conditions. Somatogravic illusions, those involving the utricle and saccule of the vestibular system, were generally placed into one of three categories, one of which was \u201cthe head-up illusion.\u201d According to the text, the head-up illusion involves a forward linear acceleration, such as takeoff, where the pilot perceives that the nose of the aircraft is pitching up. The pilot\u2019s response to this illusion would be to push the control yoke forward to pitch the nose of the aircraft down. \u201cA night takeoff from a well-light airport into a totally dark sky (black hole) or a catapult takeoff from an aircraft carrier can also lead to this illusion and could result in a crash.\u201d\nFAA Advisory Circular AC 60-22, Aeronautical Decision Making, stated, \u201cPilots, particularly those with considerable experience, as a rule always try to complete a flight as planned, please passengers, meet schedules, and generally demonstrate that they have \u2018the right stuff.'\u201d One of the common behavioral traps identified was \u201cGet-There-Itis.\u201d The text stated, \u201cCommon among pilots, [get-there-itis] clouds the vision and impairs judgment by causing a fixation on the original goal or destination combined with a total disregard for any alternative course of action.\u201d\n\u2022 Civil Air Patrol Accidents\n\u2022 Civil Air Patrol Flying\n\u2022 District Court Rules CAP Negligent in 2014 LaGrange Airport Crash; $12M Judgment\n\u2022 Greenwood Rewarded Seidband as GAWG Pilot of the Year\n\u2022 Two Alabama Wing Members Die in Plane Crash\n7 Comments on \"CAP Loses Credibility in NTSB Findings on Alabama Crash\"\nFAA Problems | July 13, 2018 at 11:57 | Reply\nFAA has some characters too. On 13 FEB 2018, a jury in U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire, convicted William Pothier of Exeter, New Hampshire, for possession of child pornography. Pothier is an aviation safety inspector for the FAA.\nIn JAN 2016, the Exeter Police Department received information that an IP address affiliated with a residence in Exeter was sharing child pornography using Shareaza, a peer-to-peer, file-sharing software. Further investigation by the New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children (NHICAC) Task Force led to Pothier. On March 30, 2016, members of the NHICAC Task Force executed a state search warrant at Pothier\u2019s residence. A forensic examination of the laptop seized during the search discovered videos and thumbnail images of child pornography.\nDOT-OIG conducted this investigation with the FBI; NHICAC Task Force members from the Exeter, Portsmouth, and Hampton Police Departments; Strafford County Sheriff\u2019s Office; and U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, District of New Hampshire.\nClarksville | May 6, 2018 at 23:49 | Reply\nThe Civil Air Patrol has crashed another one of their Cessna 182\u2019s today.\nN5419E, a CAP Cessna 182 Skylane, crashed on landing at the Clarksville Regional Airport around 3:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon.\nThe aircraft touched down, went through the perimeter fence and came to a rest on the shoulder of Outlaw Field Road, blocking a lane of traffic.\nLt Colonel Wilson Polidura with the Civil Air Patrol was on the scene and said the aircraft was on an Air Force assigned training mission and a thunderstorm took control of the aircraft.\nPilots are ultimately responsible for the conditions in which they choose to fly and land. All of the best pilots and instructors are leaving Civil Air Patrol because of the incompetence and corruption. Please get this story up on AuxBeacon so that it can be discussed.\nhttp://clarksvillenow.com/local/small-plane-crashes-at-clarksville-regional-airport/\nHAZARDCAP | March 16, 2018 at 21:14 | Reply\nI\u2019ve grown alarmed over the sloppiness and lack of safety compliance here in MDWG CAP [Ed: Maryland Wing Civil Air Patrol].\nIn January of 2018, Col John M. Knowles, CAP MER CC and former commander of MDWG, highlighted the fact that there was another crash on DEC 16th, 2017. I don\u2019t see it in your records and I think you should add it. This is what Knowles wrote:\n\u201cIn a separate incident on the same day, Capt. Steve Merritt of the North Carolina Wing was critically injured in a crash in North Carolina. Steve succumbed to his injuries on Monday morning. All three of these men were passionate aviators who shared their love of flying with thousands of CAP cadets over the years.\nSteve was quoted as saying \u2018live life like flying a seaplane,\u2019 he said, \u2018no brakes, no reverse, full throttle, it\u2019s gonna be great!\u2019 All three of these officers lived that same creed\u2026\u201d\nFor Knowles, a CAP Region Commander, to repeat Merritt\u2019s irresponsible statement is evidence of what is killing the Civil Air Patrol. The membership is hemorrhaging and this puts funding at risk, but instead of fixing the corruption root cause, Civil Air Patrol commanders double down on recruiting with pick-up lines that sound thrilling to prospective cadets, but fly in the face of warnings and solution methods already established by the Federal Aviation Administration.\n\u201cWhen we develop hazardous attitudes in flying, we are truly courting disaster. The Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s (FAA) literature defines five hazardous attitudes that can undermine a pilot\u2019s aeronautical decision making. They are anti-authority, impulsive, invulnerability, macho, and resignation.\u201d\nWho knows how many young minds that Merritt and Knowles and other clueless Civil Air Patrol members have compromised through words promoting unsafe aviation attitudes and practices.\n[Ed: Name and Grade Withheld on Request]\nSeidwood | March 15, 2018 at 01:14 | Reply\nGreat idea\u2026 Joel Seidband and Richard Greenwood can do the honors.\nMegan | March 14, 2018 at 15:28 | Reply\nOur school district of [redacted] was considering forming a cadet group. A concerned educator referred us to your site. We have decided against it. The stories on this site are an eye opener. The cap is potentially a litigation hazard that we cannot risk.\nSkyHookinTail | March 10, 2018 at 20:26 | Reply\nCould you please do a story about Rep. Jackie Speier on the Military Personnel Subcommittee who recently called attention to the fact that \u201cthere have been 70,000 courts-martial in the Air Force\u2026 and not one general officer has ever been court-martialed.\u201d\nThe corruption in the Air Force and Civil Air Patrol is totally out of control with much whore mongering in play.\nGTL | March 10, 2018 at 12:45 | Reply\nThe CAP is giving out Find ribbons like they are candy. It was difficult to get a Find ribbon in the old days when SAR was plentiful. 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Their mother reassured Sylvia that, at the end of the war, they would all be reunited. Sylvia was instructed to keep alive for both of the girls the spirit of what had been their joyful extended family life, and their Jewish background.\" For three years, the sisters stayed together in the cellar. Leah, the child through whose eyes this story is told, describes their constant struggle against fear and the shock of their 'abandonment'. Yet, this is also contrasted with the astonishing resilience, courage, and playfulness that enabled the sisters to give one another strength and hope. However, Leah then endured a year of solitary confinement, during which she became delirious and experienced mystical revelations that gave her new reassurance. In 1946, just a few months after liberation, Leah's father reclaimed her from the convent. He then traced Sylvia, and the two sisters were finally reunited and brought to live in London.\nDownload For Love of Life PDF\nDownload For Love of Life ERUB\nDownload For Love of Life DOC\nDownload For Love of Life TXT\nReviews of the For Love of Life\nDownload EBOOK For Love of Life by Leah Iglinski-Goodman Online free\nPDF: for-love-of-life.pdf\nERUB: for-love-of-life.epub\nDOC: for-love-of-life.doc\nTXT: for-love-of-life.txt", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 319.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://baynvc.blogspot.com/p/bibliography.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:29Z", "digest": "sha1:6RPLRG35H6WWOHZWO7Z2KOROSU5N7NTX", "length": 17875, "nlines": 90, "source_domain": "baynvc.blogspot.com", "title": "The Fearless Heart: Bibliography", "raw_content": "(I plan to update this whenever I come across new materials)\nBooks and articles I enjoyed for various reasons:\nRiane Tennenhaus Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future, San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1988.\nThe first of Eisler\u2019s books. It was one of the early works that completely inspired me to believe that life could truly be different on this planet.\nPaulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, NY: Continuum, 1993.\nA classic that I still think of, all these years later, as a model for how teaching can be empowering and subversive.\nMarilyn French, Beyond Power: On Women, Men, and Morals, New York: Summit Books, 1985.\nThe second book I read when I first woke up to feminism, and the one that truly shattered my previous unquestioned beliefs about human nature and history.\nJames Gilligan, Violence: Our Deadly Epidemic and Its Causes, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992.\nMy all time favorite analysis of what brings about violence. This book is written with so much love I could almost not believe it. It completely turns upside down any notion of punishment as the way to reduce violence.\nMiriam Greenspan, \"Befriending the Dark Emotions\", Common Boundary, 37-43, May/June 1998.\nThis article touched my heart deeply and supported my early thinking about how we can be present to all emotions instead of making some of them unacceptable, now a foundation of my practice and teaching.\nDavid Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1995.\nYou can hardly \u201caccuse\u201d a US Army colonel of being a \u201cpacifist\u201d and, as such, this book has a deep moral authority. Its main gist is that we have a taboo on killing, that armies now train people to overcome the taboo and thus create conditions where many more people shoot during war than ever before, and this results in enormous trauma. Passionate and courageous.\nEtty Hillesum, An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1984.\nEtty is one of my all-time heroes. She was a contemporary of Anne Frank, ten years her senior, living and writing in the same city at the same time. Hers is a spiritual journey to find love, compassion for everyone, and courage beyond bounds under conditions of extreme challenge.\nAlfie Kohn, No Contest: The Case Against Competition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.\nThis is only one of Alfie Kohn\u2019s controversial and refreshing books. In each of them he takes a key mainstream belief and provides extensive research that questions it deeply. I was cured of any doubt that we can collaborate with each other through reading this book.\nMichael Lerner, Jewish Renewal: A Path to Healing and Transformation, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994.\nAlthough I am not a practicing Jew, this book was a turning point in my ability to align with life and choose to honor its voice within me. I found, in particular, his analysis of the story of the binding of Isaac to be moving and redemptive. By far not just for Jews or even people of faith.\nJean Liedloff, The Continuum Concept, London: Duckworth, 1975.\nOne of the books that forever transformed my thinking about childhood and childrearing. The connection between how infants are raised and the presence or absence of violence, opened my eyes to the pervasive violence in everyday lives of children. They have never closed since.\nAudre Lorde. Sister Outsider, Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1984.\nThis collection of essays is something I come back to for inspiration. I absolutely love the boldness of naming things outside any known boxes, and the fierceness of the call to take on the entire structure of how we related to oppression, our own, and others\u2019.\nAlice Miller, For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence, NY: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1983.\nReading this book was one of the pivotal moments of my life, when I learned of the horrendous experiences of Hitler\u2019s early life in the context of childrearing practices in Germany at the time he was growing up, and was able to experience, as a Jew from Israel, compassion for him as a child. This was pure magic.\n--------, \"The Political Consequences of Child Abuse\", The Journal of Psychohistory, 26(2): 573-585, Fall 1998.\nAlice Miller\u2019s books are widely known and easy to find. This article is less well-known and I found it important to know this information.\nSamuel P. Oliner and Pearl M. Oliner, The Altruistic Personality: What Led Ordinary Men and Women to Risk Their Lives on Behalf of Others?, NY: The Free Press, 1988.\nUnderstanding why some people saved Jews and some didn\u2019t provides some unexpected keys to what we can do to increase courage and reduce violence: ask for what is needed, and raise children without fear by eliminating punishment.\nMinnie Bruce Pratt. \"Identity: Skin, Blood, Heart\", in Elly Bulkin, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Barbara Smith , Yours in Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism, Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1984.\nThis is one of the most moving accounts of a person facing her upbringing, her privilege, and her place in society. This woman didn\u2019t spare herself and her readers anything, and I believe that nothing is dated about her exploration. If you want to wake up to what it means to have privilege, this is a must read.\nJoseph Chilton Pearce. Magical Child, Plume, 1992.\nThis is one of the books that supported my ongoing process of opening to discover how different child-rearing could be, and what radical consequences for all of us could happen as a result of giving children the room to explore and unfold their humanity in their own ways.\nSteve Wineman. Power-Under: Trauma and Nonviolent Social Change, Unpublished manuscript (available freely online at http://www.gis.net/~swineman/download.html).\nI think of this book as a landmark in understanding a crucial dynamic that I have not seen discussed elsewhere: the interplay between actual access to power and the experience of power. Wineman makes the point that abuse is most often delivered by people who feel powerless even while being in power.\nSome samples of my favorite academic sources:\nZygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.\nThat the Holocaust could be a product of modern rationality rather than a regressive aberration was both sobering and affirming of my own increasing doubts about the possibility or even desirability of making rationality central to the project of being human.\nRuth Benedict, \"Synergy: Patterns of the Good Culture\", American Anthropologist, 72(2), 1970.\nThese are simply notes from a work that was lost in which Ruth Benedict identifies an aspect of cultural functioning that I have not seen discussed elsewhere: how cultures function better when the individual and society are not pitted against each other, regardless of what form of governance is used. I am grateful to Marshall Rosenberg for including this one in his bibliography.\nAnn Berlak, \"Teaching for Outrage and Empathy in the Liberal Arts\", Educational Foundations, 3(2): 69-93, Summer 1989.\nA sobering and troubling essay that helped me understand, forever, why information is rarely enough, in and of itself, to create a shift in consciousness, no matter how thorough and accurate it is. Connection with the heart, and some vision of possibility, are essential in order for the information to be meaningful.\nAntonio R. Damasio, Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain. NY: J. P. Putnam's Sons, 1994.\nI loved getting confirmation from the research that is described in this book for my intuitive clear sense that decisions are not a rational endeavor. As he shows in this book, when people are physiologically unable to feel, they are also unable to decide even if their cognitive faculties are intact.\nPatricia Dannahy, An In-Depth Exploration of the Affective Aspects of Mathematics Education in Initial Teacher Training, unpublished Doctoral thesis, London: King's College, London University, 1999.\nOne of the rare pieces of research about the effectiveness of Nonviolent Communication.\nDonna Haraway, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature, New York: Routledge, 1991.\nThis book is dense and at times was irritatingly so for me. I am still glad I plowed through it and integrated some of its complex message about how science is both flawed, influenced as it is by our politics and culture, as well as necessary to provide the possibility of liberation.\nAgnes Heller, The Theory of Need in Marx, London: Allison & Busby, 1974.\nI was delighted to find this early book from a former Hungarian Marxist (who since \u201cconverted\u201d to neo-liberal, for which I am so sad), in which she analyzed the way Marx understood human needs. This was essential for my own understanding of Marx and for being able to write a chapter on needs in my dissertation which provided an academic grounding to the theory of human nature that underlies the practice of Nonviolent Communication.\nArlie Hochschild with Anne Machung, The Second Shift, NY: Avon Books, 1989.\nThis book is both delightful to read and painful. It\u2019s about how, even when both woman and man in a couple work full time, men continue to do substantially less of the housework than women. While the data may be obsolete by now, the analysis of the relationship between our ideology, our emotions, and our actions, is still priceless.\nKenneth Isaacs, Uses of Emotion: Nature's Vital Gift, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.\nThis is a book I found by total accident and completely fell in love with when I was trying to make sense of how to write about emotions within an academic context and still honor my own experiences. It\u2019s detailed and thorough, and the concept of \u201caffect phobia\u201d that it explains was crucial to my developing a clear path to freedom through mastering emotions.\nAlison Jaggar, \"Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology\", Inquiry, 32(2): 151-176, June 1989.\nThis article was a simple pleasure to read for its clarity, passion, and courage to name things and ask difficult questions. Given how much of what we believe we \u201cknow\u201d is handed down to us in ways that don\u2019t question the practices of acquiring knowledge, I was liberated by reading it.\nAlisdair MacIntyre, \"Epistemological Crises, Dramatic Narrative and the Philosophy of Science\", Monist, 60(4): 453-472, October 1977.\nThe idea of an epistemological crisis, which refers to a moment in which we face something that is so different from everything we have believed, that in order to integrate it we must question everything we have always believed to be true. This very academic article helped me develop compassion for how hard it is for people, sometimes, to embrace new insights.\nJeffrey Masson, The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1984.\nThis book is about a not very well known yet crucial turning point in the history of psychology, a moment in which psychology could have become a tool for liberation and instead ended up becoming, more often than not, a tool for supporting the status quo. The moment in question is Freud\u2019s turning away from believing his clients when they told him about their experience of child abuse. Part of the significance of this, for me, was seeing the cost of standing up for truth against the majority, something Freud was ultimately unable to do.\nElizabeth Kamarck Minnich, Transforming Knowledge, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.\nWhat I appreciated about this book is the way that it makes it so clear how the lens of gender affects everything in what we think we know \u2013 how things are studied, how they are presented, what counts as knowledge, and what is seen and reported. I found this exposition both devastating and inspiring in its thoroughness.\nPatrick Murray, Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge, Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press International, 1988.\nI tend to believe that despite the influence he has had on the world, for better or worse, Marx remains little understood by most. This book did a lot for me to gain a much deeper clarity about what Marx did and what he didn\u2019t do in his analysis of capitalism and its implications. Based on this understanding, I believe that applying a systematic material analysis of any other aspect of life such as reproduction or race relations is yet to be done.\nLaura Nader, \"Orientalism, Occidentalism and the Control of Women\", Cultural Dynamics, II(3): 323-355, 1989.\nAnyone who remains interested in how women remain unfree and how world politics continues to support our unfreedom might find this article unique in what it points out: how nationalism is used, both in the West and in the Arab world, to maintain women\u2019s status.\nJustin Oakley, Morality and the Emotions, London; NY: Routledge, 1992.\nWhen I was writing about morality for my dissertation, I found this book helpful in understanding how theories of morality that only rely on rationality, the legacy that Kant left us, fail to make sufficient sense of the pervasiveness of acts of extreme violence. Absence of morality viewed as lack of empathy rather than failure to apply moral reasoning speaks to me very deeply.\nSusan Moller Okin, \"Thinking Like a Woman\", in Deborah L. Rhode, ed. et al, Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990.\nThis article is one of several that helped me understanding how the experience of having a body, and a body of a certain kind, affects our perception of the world and what it means to know anything. Only for those truly interested in theories of knowledge.\nRaimon Panikkar, Myth, Faith and Hermeneutics: Cross-Cultural Studies, NY: Paulist Press, 1979.\nI am forever glad that I came across this obscure book written by someone I haven\u2019t seen referenced anywhere apart from the probably even more obscure article that mentioned it. The author is Indian and also received a serious Western education. The combination allowed him to see some things about how we think in different places in the world and invited me to become ever more aware of the power of presuppositions, those assumptions that we don\u2019t even know we have. This is not easy read by any means.\nMark Poster, Critical Theory of the Family, NY: Seabury Press, 1978.\nThis book was the only work I found (though others may exist) that looked at the evolution of family through the lens of historical change and especially change in production. The little insights strewn here and there about how such changes affect who we become as people in different cultures were priceless and I remain hungry for more.\nJames W. Prescott, \"The Origins of Human Love and Violence\", Pre- and Perinatal Psychology Journal, 10(3): 143-188, Spring 1996.\nAlthough many people remain unconvinced by this article, I was completely satisfied with this analysis and the amazing correlations between how infants are treated and the incidence of violence in difference cultures. It goes along with Liedloff\u2019s book that I also include in this bibliography.\nAllan Rohlfs, \"Fraudulent Degrees or Fraudulent Assertions? A Reply to Frank M. Dattilio\", Journal of Mental Health Counseling, January 1990.\nA fellow trainer of Nonviolent Communication, Allan here looks at the disturbing evidence that suggests that the more licensing and education in psychology and therapy, the less effective the treatment that people receive. An eye-opener that was fun and distressing to read at once.\nErica Sherover-Marcuse, Emancipation and Consciousness: Dogmatic and Dialectical Perspectives in the Early Marx, London: Basil Blackwell, 1986.\nThis is a very dense book, most of which I wouldn\u2019t necessarily recommend except to those who particularly delight in reading about critical theory (I personally did enjoy it, in other words). The section on a personal practice of liberation which she includes I found satisfying and it forms part of my own conclusions about how we can liberate ourselves from\nElizabeth Spelman, \"Anger and Insubordination\", in Ann Garry and Marilyn Pearsall, eds., Women, Knowledge and Reality: Explorations in Feminist Philosophy, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.\nA refreshing and unexpected analysis about what anger does or doesn\u2019t achieve in communication depending on who is allowed to be angry and in what circumstances. Even though I no longer do feminist theory, I still love it.\nPatricia J. Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991.\nI was moved to the core of my being by this book, written by a passionate African-American lawyer who questions just about everything we think or in terms of both law and liberation theories.\nTerry Winograd and Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design, Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1986.\nIn an earlier incarnation, I was a Computer Science graduate student studying artificial intelligence. I left when I realized that I was trying to prove it won\u2019t work\u2026 This book provides a refreshing path away from the either/or battles about artificial intelligence, and suggests a relationship between humans and computers that I found much more satisfying than others. 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The Nigerian star, who is nominated for Best African Act, will top off a stellar year by taking on the UK\u2019s biggest urban music awards show following a historic double win at the MTV Europe Music Award for Best African Act and Best Worldwide Act \u2013 the latter, marking the first time an African artist has won the award.\nUrban music\u2019s night of nights will also include performances by chart-topping US rap sensation Cardi B, South London hip hop titans Krept & Konan, hotly tipped emcee Stefflon Don, and \u2018Bestie\u2019 stars Yungen and Yxng Bane. Expect a spectacular night of surprise performances and very special appearances from some of the biggest names in music.\nThe MOBO Award winners for Best R&B/Soul Act, Best Jazz Act and Best Gospel Act were announced on Monday 20 November at the third annual Pre-MOBO Awards Show in London. Craig David won Best R&B/Soul Act \u2013 marking his sixth MOBO Award win, Moses Boyd took home Best Jazz Act \u2013 his second following 2015\u2019s win as part of duo Binker & Moses, and Volney Morgan & New-Ye won Best Gospel Act, topping off a triumphant ten years in the ministry. 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Themes of the female symbolism and archetypes inspire her artistic exploration, as she seeks to create meaningful images and narratives rooted in the sacred and sovereign feminine, in both personal and universal sense. M\u00f8rch splits her time between Europe and San Francisco.\nShe is the founder of Lolo\u2019s Boudoir, San Francisco\u2019s first fine art studio focused on women\u2019s self-expression. She is also creator of the Sacred Journey program, a creative self-exploration program for women to bring them home to their most authentic selves.\nHer photography and writing has been featured internationally in Instyle, Cosmopolitan, SF Chronicle, Huffington Post, Examiner, East Bay Express, 7\u00d77, Daily Candy and many Danish and Nepalese magazines, newspapers and blogs. My photography has been exhibited in shows at venues in San Francisco and beyond: \u201cBelle Du Jour\u201d by Lost Art at the Castro Theatre, \u201cSF Faces 2.0\u201d at City Hall and Hotel Des Arts by SOMA ARTS, \u201cFemmeology\u201d at Backstage Gallery, \u201cDream Girls\u201d at The Mina Dredsen Gallery, and in Vevey, Switzerland, a town square exhibit by Peter Scholl.\nHer memoir, Seeing Red, tells the story of her spiritual quest sparked at the sacred Mt. Kailas in the Himalayas, and her subsequent decade in America\u2013\u2013as wife, woman and creative spirit\u2013trying to make sense of her own relationship to the sacred, to personal power and the sacrifices required to live an honest life attuned to one\u2019s soul and core values. It has won the Tanenbaum Literary Award, Honorary Mention at the San Francisco Book Festival, and the Bronze Medal in the 2013 Readers\u2019 Favorite Book Awards.\nCurrently, she is working on a new book and body of work, Unveiled. Based upon the past decade of photographing women, this project explores the idea of embodying and expressing the feminine in intimate and meaningful ways, across cultures. This visual and story narrative tells what the photographs alone cannot\u2014that undressing is an act of shedding stories of doubt and cultural conditioning to stand as the sacred woman, proud in spirit and body.\nFor more information, visit LoneMorch.com.\nTo see samples of my fine art photography, visit:\nhttp://lonemorch.com/photography/unveiling/\nhttp://lonemorch.com/photography/bodyscapes/\nI blog about the creative life, thresholds and female identity \u2026 Http://www.lonemorch.com/blog\nartist of the week, Lone Morch\nLove List: Spring Edition.\nBalancing With Bliss.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bhlac.org.uk/care-for-the-elderly/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:05Z", "digest": "sha1:ANK52SXKDG46HRN5HSOATUFHNLEQWACR", "length": 2925, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "bhlac.org.uk", "title": "Care for the Elderly - BHLAC", "raw_content": "Cameo Club was established many years ago in Hemyock, to provide companionship, activities and a two-course lunch for older residents in the Blackdown Hills. In 2010 Cameo moved to purpose-designed accommodation at the BHLAC where the club is run by a dedicated and experienced team.\nThe team, led by Tracy Howe, is able to care for the elderly and frail, and for those affected by memory loss. Cameo Club runs twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays, from 9.30am-3.30pm and members may attend one day a week or both. Along with the staff, a lively, loyal group of volunteers help to provide a wide range of activities and games which help with exercise and mental agility whilst creating a fun and cheerful atmosphere. There is no pressure to participate in all activities, some members just enjoy the socialising element of Cameo.\nWe have a network of volunteer drivers to transport Cameo members to and from the Centre, at a cost in line with the current HMRC rate. All staff and volunteers (including drivers) are DBS checked.\nIf you would like more information or wish to arrange a taster\nvisit, please contact Tracy Howe on 01823 680687 or email cameo@bhlac.org.uk\nLiving in a beautiful area undoubtedly has many benefits, but for some it can be a very lonely place. Lack of transport can create isolation and vulnerability; the loss of a partner can leave people wondering how they can ever start to live their lives again. Loneliness affects the health and wellbeing of many older people in the UK and is one the biggest issues of today. So what can we do about it?\nOn the first Friday of every month, between 11am and 3pm, the BHLAC buzzes with activity and laughter. Our aim is to have fun mentally and physically; laugher is the best medicine. We provide support, information and a wide variety of interesting and entertaining activities. There is no age limit and transport can usually be arranged at cost.\nIf you would like more information please contact Janet Elworthy on 01823 680687 or email brightside@bhlac.org.uk\nOn the second Tuesday of every month, between 10.30am \u2013 1pm, Memory Caf\u00e9 provides an informal get-together for people affected by memory loss, those with dementia and their families or carer. We are able to provide information, support for carers and access to health and social staff in a welcoming and relaxed setting.\nWe arrange gentle activities each month and regular reminiscence sessions. Encouraging memory recall whilst accessing objects from the past has been shown to improve the health and well-being of older people and those suffering with dementia.\nYou are welcome to drop in a for a cuppa and a chat. Lunch can also be provided at an additional cost. If you require transport to attend Memory Caf\u00e9, please contact the Blackdown Support Group. blackdownsupportgroup.org.uk\nIf you would like more information about Memory Caf\u00e9 please call 01823 680687 or email centre@bhlac.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3639, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 339.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bible.oremus.org?passage=Revelation+21:1-7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:21Z", "digest": "sha1:NECZ3KJZEGCUJUVLISIC4KFYV3C4KIHV", "length": 900, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "bible.oremus.org", "title": "oremus Bible Browser : Revelation 21:1-7", "raw_content": "21Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. 2And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,\n\u0091See, the home* of God is among mortals.\nHe will dwell* with them;\nthey will be his peoples,*\nand God himself will be with them;*\n4 he will wipe every tear from their eyes.\n5 And the one who was seated on the throne said, \u0091See, I am making all things new.\u0092 Also he said, \u0091Write this, for these words are trustworthy and true.\u0092 6Then he said to me, \u0091It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give water as a gift from the spring of the water of life. 7Those who conquer will inherit these things, and I will be their God and they will be my children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 210.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4157/Blaise-Clark-Lee.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:18Z", "digest": "sha1:YHGBCBDC55F2XMCHQKLODEQKCWPM6FQJ", "length": 10528, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "biography.jrank.org", "title": "Clark (Lee) Blaise Biography - Clark Blaise comments: - University, York, Stories, and Fiction - JRank Articles", "raw_content": "Clark (Lee) Blaise Biography - Clark Blaise comments:\nuniversity york stories fiction\nNationality: Canadian. Born: Fargo, North Dakota, United States, 1940; became Canadian citizen, 1973. Education: Denison University, Granville, Ohio, 1957-61, A.B. 1961; University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1962-64, M.F.A. 1964. Career: Acting instructor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1964-65; teaching fellow, University of Iowa, 1965-66; lecturer, 1966-67, assistant professor, 1967-69, associate professor, 1969-72, and professor of English, 1973-78, Sir George Williams University, later Concordia University, Montreal; professor of Humanities, York University, Toronto, 1978-80; Professor of English, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1980-81, 1982-83. Visiting lecturer or writer-in-residence, University of Iowa, 1981-82, Saskatchewan School of the Arts, Saskatoon, Summer 1983, David Thompson University Centre, Nelson, British Columbia, Fall 1983, Emory University, Atlanta, 1985, Bennington College, Vermont, 1985, Columbia University, New York, Spring 1986, and New York State Writers Institute, Sarasota Springs, New York, Summer 1994 and 1995; exchange professor, Meiji University, Japan, 1994. Currently, adjunct professor, Columbia University, New York. Awards: University of Western Ontario President's medal, for short story, 1968; Great Lakes Colleges Association prize, 1973; Canada Council grant, 1973, 1977, and travel grant, 1985; St. Lawrence award, 1974; Fels award, for essay, 1975; Asia Week award, for non-fiction, 1977; Books in Canada prize, 1979; National Endowment for the Arts grant, 1981; Guggenheim grant, 1983. D. Litt.: Denison University, 1979. Agent: Janklow and Nesbit, 598 Madison Ave., New York, New York 10022.\nLunar Attractions. New York, Doubleday, 1979.\nLusts. New York, Doubleday, 1983.\nIf I Were Me. Erin, Ontario, Porcupine's Quill, 1997.\nNew Canadian Writing 1968, with Dave Godfrey and David LewisStein. Toronto, Clarke Irwin, 1969.\nA North American Education. Toronto and New York, Doubleday, 1973.\nTribal Justice. Toronto and New York, Doubleday, 1974.\nPersonal Fictions, with others, edited by Michael Ondaatje. Toronto, Oxford Unversity Press, 1977.\nResident Alien. Toronto and New York, Penguin, 1986.\nMan and His World. Erin, Ontario, Porcupine's Quill, 1992.\nDays and Nights in Calcutta, with BharatiMukherjee, 1991.\nDays and Nights in Calcutta, with Bharati Mukherjee. New York, Doubleday, 1977; London, Penguin, 1986.\nThe Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy, with Bharati Mukherjee. Toronto, Viking, 1987.\nI Had a Father. New York, Addison-Wesley, 1993.\nEditor, with John Metcalf, Here and Now. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1977.\nEditor, with John Metcalf, 78 [ 79, 80 ]: Best Canadian Stories. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 3 vols., 1978-1980.\nCalgary University Library, Alberta.\nOn the Line, Downsview, Ontario, ECW Press, 1982, and Another I: The Fiction of Clark Blaise, ECW Press, 1988, both by Robert Lecker; article by Blaise in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series 3 edited by Adele Sarkissian, Detroit, Gale, 1986.\n(1981) My fiction is an exploration of threatened space; the space has been geographically and historically defined as French-Canada and French-America (New England), as well as extremely isolated areas of the deep South. Most of my fiction has been concerned with the effects of strong and contrasting parents, with the memory of Europe and of Canada, and the very oppressive reality, rendered minutely, of America. I am concerned with nightmare, terror, violence, sexual obsession, and the various artistic transformations of those drives. The tone of the work is not gothic or grotesque, however; I am devoted to the close observation of the real world, and to hold the gaze long enough to make the real world seem distorted. My work is also involved with the growth of the mind, the coming on of ideas about itself and the outside world. I would agree with critics who see my work as courting solipsism, and much of my own energy is devoted to finding ways out of the vastness of the first person pronoun.\nClark Blaise's short stories and novels are marked by their preoccupation with the tensions between a host of metaphorical extremes. Blaise is attracted to raw experience, spontaneous impulse, grotesque realism, uncultured thought: simultaneously, he is a polymath who needs reason, order, intellect, and learning in order to survive. For Blaise, these two worlds can never coincide; yet his fiction is driven by the strategies he employs in his attempt to make them coincide. The most obvious strategy involves doubling and superimposition. Blaise's characters are often two-sided, and their stories detail, through extended use of archetype and symbol, a profound desire to discover an integrated and authentic self. A list of the authors who influenced Blaise\u2014including Pascal, Flaubert, Proust, Faulkner, and C\u00e9line\u2014suggests that his work is philosophical, realistic, epic, eschatological, and existential. It is important to note this range, if only because Blaise has been viewed as a purely realistic writer involved with the tragic implications of his age. This perspective seems curious when one considers the extent to which Blaise's stories become self-conscious explorations of their own mode of articulation. Their ultimate reality is internal, psychological, personal, and self-reflective. To trace Blaise's growing preoccupation with this self-reflective mode is to describe the evolution of his fiction.\nA North American Education, Blaise's first collection of linked short stories, is marked by the multi-leveled revelation of the fears, obsessions, and aesthetic values informing its three central narrators. In the final group of tales\u2014\"The Montreal Stories\"\u2014Norma Dyer begins to comment on the cosmopolitan milieu he inhabits from the removed and condescending perspective of an intellectual elitist who appears to be in full, if arrogant, control. But as the three stories comprising this section develop, panic sets in; the distanced third-person perspective of the opening eventually gives way to a revealingly fragmented first-person mode that details Dyer's personal and narrative collapse as he confesses that \"I who live in dreams have suffered something real, and reality hurts like nothing in the world.\" In the \"Keeler Stories\" we hear the confessions of \"a writer, a creator\" who \"would learn to satisfy himself with that.\" But here, as in the closing \"Thibidault Stories,\" Blaise makes it clear that his narrators will never be satisfied with their creations, or with themselves. Yet they continue to deceive themselves in the belief that \"anything dreamt had to become real, eventually.\"\nThe dreams shared by Blaise's narrators are always highly symbolic and archetypal in form, a conclusion supported by even the most cursory reading of Blaise's second short story collection, Tribal Justice. Here, in some of his richest and most evocative fiction, Blaise returns again and again to his narrators' meditations on their art. If there is a paradigmatic Blaise story\u2014one that reveals the various tensions I have described\u2014it is surely \"Grids and Doglegs.\" It begins with its narrator recalling his interest in creativity, maps, education, history, archaeology, and cultural life; but no sooner is this interest articulated than it is ruthlessly undercut by hints of isolation and impending doom. Other stories\u2014I think particularly of \"Notes Beyond a History\" and \"At the Lake\"\u2014are framed by the same kind of divided opening, and by the same suggestion that the narrator who inhabits that opening is psychologically split.\nBlaise's first two books established him as one of the finest short story writers in Canada at the very time he decided to explore a different genre. While Lunar Attractions proved that Blaise could master the novel form, it also demonstrated that his fundamental attraction to self-reflective writing remained central to his art. After all, Lunar Attractions is a semi-autobiographical account of a writer's development: David Greenwood insists on seeing himself in every aspect of his creation, so much so that his fiction becomes an intricate confession about his failure to get beyond himself. Yet Lunar Attractions is by no means purely solipsistic: it is a book about our times, about growing up in our times, and about the symbols and systems we use to explain our lives. Blaise has written that he wanted \"to create the portrait of the authentically Jungian or even Freudian whole mind,\" which \"sees every aspect of the natural and historical world being played out in its own imagination, and it literally creates the world that it sees.\"\nThese words suggest that for Blaise the writer can never be merely a recorder or even the interpreter of events. He must give form to experience and must be responsible to that form. The nature of this responsibility is the focus of Blaise's second novel, Lusts. Here the nature of writing is explored through Richard Durgin's struggle to understand the suicide of his wife, a successful poet who challenged Durgin's assumptions about the social and political implications of art.\nIf Rachel is Richard's \"other self\" then her death is doubly significant: it suggests that Blaise may have overcome the personal divisions that kept his successive narrators from becoming whole. Does this mean that he has found the integrated self he has sought throughout his work? A forthcoming volume of autobiographical essays may answer this question. But Blaise has written autobiography before\u2014most notably in Days and Nights in Calcutta\u2014only to return to the story of his personal and aesthetic search. The search is essential to his art, for the quality of his writing\u2014its permutations, obsessions, and complex use of voice\u2014is tragically dependent on Blaise's constant inability to find himself or his final story.\n(1981) My fiction is an exploration of threatened space; the space has been geographically and historically defined as French-Canada and French-America (New England), as well as extremely isolated areas of the deep South. 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Part 2 of 2\nA look at how the council handled the ill-fated flats at Murrayfield...\nA look at how the council handled the ill-fated flats at Murrayfield in the 1980\u2019s...\nA look at Blackburn in the 1980\u2019s at a time where the flats where getting torn down/refurbished...\nPictures of Blackburn from the distant past...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 187.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blesok.mk/en/authors/marija-doneva/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:38Z", "digest": "sha1:AEEAAO7SYHIKPF6IC6XUMHTEK7URSSTN", "length": 614, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "blesok.mk", "title": "Marija Doneva - Blesok", "raw_content": "Marija Doneva\nHome/Marija Doneva\nMarija Doneva\tadmin\t2018-08-21T17:16:42+00:00\nMarija Doneva was born on 03.09.1974, in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. Graduated Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski. She is the author of several books of poetry: Eyes for Beauty, Goodbye to the reader, It\u2019s scary, The soft sun, Luring the meaning, Shop for small circular stones, Feather of steam, Gap between us (on Mace-donian), and also, the book for children\u2019s: Rabbit and his dream. In 1996 and 1997 she participated in the events: Young Struga and Struga Poetry Evenings. She lives and works in Stara Zagora.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 3397, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 202.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blockschwenkcollective.com/cool_by_osmosis/2016/04/06/successful-berklee-grad-15-chelsea-mckinney/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:13Z", "digest": "sha1:6MRDROYFJCBQ6WCUOZK3JUDOCSYEAIL7", "length": 2627, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blockschwenkcollective.com", "title": "Successful Berklee Alumni #15: Chelsea McKinney | Cool by Osmosis", "raw_content": "Successful Berklee Alumni #15: Chelsea McKinney\nhttp://blockschwenkcollective.com/cool_by_osmosis/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2016_03_01-15-07-55-facebook-kevbsma-Outgoing-to-chelseafaye16-.mp3\nListen to the interview (around 40 minutes) or download it.\nGraduated in 2013 with a major in Music Production and Engineering (MP&E). Principal instrument: Piano.\nPosition: Floor manager at Aventura, a 250-seat tapas restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan.\nOverview: Chelsea got her first restaurant job during her first year at Berklee. She initially bused tables, then was promoted to host and then server. She worked a combination of host and server jobs in Boston, ultimately at Uni (at the time a paired restaurant \u201cCleo and Uni\u201d) before moving to Ann Arbor to be with her boyfriend a year after graduation. One month of job-hunting later, they went out to a nice restaurant on a \u201cdate.\u201d Chelsea asked if they had any jobs, and offered herself as a manager. They recommended her to interview with Aventura, their sister-restaurant.\nYou can see her LinkedIn Profile here.\nChoice Quotes: \u201cI figured out that what I wanted to do was not so much a thing but a skill set: working with people. I found a job where I get to do what I wanted to do.\u201d\n\u201cI asked my previous managers to look over my resume before I left Boston. They are older than me and have more experience and know things I don\u2019t. One of them said, \u2018Don\u2019t put \u2018host\u2019. Just put \u2018functional floor manager.\u201d That was a key thing that led to me getting this job.\u201d\n\u201cProducing prepared me for restaurant management. I had to be in charge:. I learned how to figure out logistics, work with people, communicate our visions to each other, get it all right, deal with unexpected ugly surprises, and get emotional artists to put their issues aside and focus on their work.\u201d\nChelsea as a Berklee student at a famous studio in Nashville. \u201cI really liked the Production side of MP&E.\u201d\nChelsea (third from left) with her team at Aventura. She had never before worked as a manager. \u201cI had to go into the job interview knowing what my strengths were, and knowing I could do the job.\u201d\nChelsea doesn\u2019t normally work in the kitchen, but she did this time. \u201cI appreciate a chef\u2019s dedication. Every dish is edible art.\u201d\nChelsea with her boyfriend, a medical resident (doctor). She moved to Ann Arbor to be with him when he was posted there. Chelsea herself recently got into business school and will be taking classes starting in May, 2016 while continuing to work full-time.\n\u201cEven if you don\u2019t have a clear idea what you want to do, take it one day at a time. Just don\u2019t stand still\u2013keep going!\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.applause-tickets.com/2017/07/final-weeks-for-broadways-on-your-feet.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:02Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYBI73F6NLL5QXYKCU3K7F4P3H2ISY3Q", "length": 1726, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blog.applause-tickets.com", "title": "Broadway Ticket News: Final Week's For Broadway's On Your Feet", "raw_content": "Final Week's For Broadway's On Your Feet\nStill haven't seen On Your Feet? Well you better hurry theatre fans because time is running out. The show, which is based on the lives of Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband producer and musician Emilio Estefan, will play it's final performance at the Marquis Theatre on August 20. When it closes it will have played a total of thirty-four previews and seven hundred and forty-six performances.\nNow I'll be honest, when I was invited to see the show in October 2015, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it. Well I am happy to say that I was wrong once again. What a great night in the theatre. Thankfully I wasn't the only one who thought that, since the show opened to rave reviews from critic's audiences alike. Now here we are almost two years later and the show is preparing to take it's final bow.\nNow that doesn't mean you can't get tickets. In fact if you call right now, you can get tickets to see On Your Feet at prices that can't be beat. Be advised that while this \"Special Offer\" is good thru August 20, it is for select seats only, and as always subject to availability. Get your tickets to see On Your Feet on Broadway at the Marquis Theatre. Until next time theatre fans.\nPlaywright And Actor Sam Shepard Passes Away At Th...\nNew Cast To Begin Performances Tonight In A Doll's...\nMichael Moore's The Terms Of My Surrender Now In P...\nBroadway's Dear Evan Hansen Recoups\nSee Tony Nominee Natasha, Pierre and The Great Com...\nBroadway Production Of Wicked Makes History\nDonna Murphy In Hello Dolly Reviews\nFinal Week For Broadway's Oslo\nCarole King Coming To A Cinema Near You\nMoney Talks The Musical To Open Off-Broadway This ...\nBroadway's 4th of July Schedule", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 201, "original_length": 5026, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.datingwise.com/1482/how-to-get-your-ex-back/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:GYRXM5H75CZ3HUKVC7OZCVQFFSFJIBTP", "length": 4476, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "blog.datingwise.com", "title": "How to get your ex back - Dating and Relationship Advice", "raw_content": "If you are like everyone else, you know that breakups are hard, especially if you did not want the breakup to happen. Unfortunately, things can stand in the way of a relationship, such as pride, jealousy, misunderstanding, selfishness and egos. Knowing what ended your relationship is important if you want to get your ex back.\nPut away your pride.\nIf you can not admit you were wrong, even if you weren\u2019t, then you will have little chance at getting your ex back. Both men and women need to know this because women are guilty of pride as well.\nSometimes, a simple \u201csorry\u201d is all you need to say. Other times, you may have to do more. Either way, many people will take their ex back if they will admit they were wrong or agree to change. Therefore, it is important that you mean everything you say when trying to reconcile a relationship.\nWomen are notorious for being jealous, but many men struggle with jealousy as well. It is ok to be jealous if you have a good reason; for example, if your partner cheated on you or someone else in the past. Jealousy can cause either party to initiate the breakup.\nInfidelity is not the only cause for jealousy. Many people get jealous of anything that takes their partner\u2019s time away from them. This can include video games, computers, hobbies, and work.\nIf you want to get your ex back, but there are things in your life that make your ex jealous, you need to cut ties with anyone or anything that causes that jealousy. Additionally, if you are jealous for unnecessary reasons, stop being jealous.\nBe more understanding\nMisunderstandings cause many breakups. There are usually two reasons why misunderstandings occur. First, they may occur because one person is not willing to completely listen to everything that the other person says. Second, they may occur because one person has a hard time explaining how they feel. If your partner has a hard time explaining how he or she feels, you will have a hard time understanding exactly how they feel and what they mean.\nIf you want to get your ex back, you need to both listen to what he or she says and try to interpret the rest, as well as communicate how you feel.\nStop being selfish\nGuys are notorious for being selfish, but women can often be just as guilty. Though selfishness shows in many ways, women have a hard time tolerating any single act of selfishness. If you are guilty of being selfish, then you need to make a conscious decision to change.\nIf you were selfish in the past, you may have a hard time getting your ex back. Your ex knows what kind of behavior you are capable of, thus he or she may have a hard time trusting what you say.\nHide your ego\nEgos are not necessarily bad things; however, large egos are bad. Confidence stems from your ego, but arrogance and cockiness are typically the result of an inflated ego.\nIt is ok to have a sense of accomplishment, pride and joy, but be careful of how you present yourself to other people. If you act like no one else can meet your standards or no one is as great as you, chances are you won\u2019t get your ex back.\nIf you want to get your ex back, you need to take all of these tips into consideration because you may be guilty of more than just one. However, since everyone is different, you may need to do other things before you can rekindle your relationship. Patience, determination, sincerity, and change are the keys to reconciling a broken relationship.\nhttp://blog.datingwise.com/1482/how-to-get-your-ex-back/ 2011-10-13T14:35:37+00:00 taraBreaking UpBreaking Up,Ex Boyfriend,Ex Girlfriend,Rejection,ReuniteIf you are like everyone else, you know that breakups are hard, especially if you did not want the breakup to happen. Unfortunately, things can stand in the way of a relationship, such as pride, jealousy, misunderstanding, selfishness and egos. Knowing what ended your relationship is important if you...taraTara Milleradmin@datingwise.comAdministratorDating and Relationship Advice\nBreaking Up, Ex Boyfriend, Ex Girlfriend, Rejection, Reunite\nKathy Joyce - March 16th, 2013 at 4:09 am none Comment author #18081 on How to get your ex back by Dating and Relationship Advice\nGetting back with your ex means ending the old relationship and starting a completely new one. The old one didn\u2019t work, and you will have to work on the areas of your relationship that caused the break up in the first place.\n\u00ab Find the Partner You Want by Really Knowing what You Want\nIs She Playing Hard to Get? Decode Mixed Signals \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 5788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.engineeringstudents.org/2014/10/harvey-mudd-president-maria-klawe-how-to-close-the-engineering-gender-gap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:03Z", "digest": "sha1:TZ2Q3YDKOH3SXA3BWDGEPTTQGBIX6BS4", "length": 5092, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "blog.engineeringstudents.org", "title": "Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe: How to Close the Engineering Gender Gap | The Accelerator", "raw_content": "Harvey Mudd President Maria Klawe: How to Close the Engineering Gender Gap\nIn 2013, only 19 percent of fresh-faced college graduates with engineering degrees were women, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.\nExperts point fingers in all directions to explain this huge gender gap. Maybe young girls aren\u2019t being encouraged to do science and math? Maybe they don\u2019t have enough confidence? Maybe, as some have ignorantly suggested, they just aren\u2019t as inherently good with numbers as their male counterparts?\nBut at Harvey Mudd College just 30 miles east of Los Angeles, that ratio isn\u2019t a problem. This year, the school graduated a class in which 56 percent of the engineering students were female.\nThe Huffington Post sat down with Maria Klawe, Harvey Mudd\u2019s first female president, to ask how the school attracts more women to its engineering programs.\nHer answer: It\u2019s easier than you think.\nI heard you speak Fortune Brainstorm about ways to get more women into engineering, and you mentioned this idea of making engineering classes less \u201ctestosterone-filled\u201d and turning them into creative, problem-solving classes. Can you tell us more about that?\nOne of the things that we know works is to use team-based activities to create an environment where you\u2019re not competing for grades and where everyone helps each other. You need an environment which not only values the people who answer the questions first, but tries to engage the entire class \u2014 rather than always having one or two people, usually males, dominating the conversation.\nWhat we see happen when we do that is that it not only increases the number of women in those classes, it also increases the number of students of color and and others who don\u2019t often feel like the dominant group in engineering or computer science. If you make it an environment that is supportive of everyone, you have a lot of success.\nWhat role do you think this \u201ctestosterone culture\u201d usually plays in classes that makes them less appealing to minorities and women?\nMost young women \u2014 and lots of men, as well \u2014 don\u2019t want to be in an environment where you are constantly expected to prove that you are better than other people. They are much more comfortable in an environment where everyone works together to make everyone more successful.\nBy contrast, the testosterone culture is highly competitive with lots of bragging and lots of ridicule if you don\u2019t know something that someone thinks everyone should know. The mindset is that we\u2019re all here to show how smart we are and how much better we are than everyone else. It\u2019s not a good environment for most people.\nYou also talked at the Fortune Brainstorm about the importance of gender representation: having as many females as males in engineering department promotions, and having equal numbers of male and female tour guides. Why did you conclude that was important?\nWhen I was dean of engineering at Princeton, it was typical that all the other deans of engineering schools sent their magazines out three times a year. I flipped through the pages of each one and counted how many women were there. I remember I got a magazine from Brigham Young, and there wasn\u2019t a single photo of a woman \u2014 although there were hundreds of men pictured.\nIf you see that, it\u2019s pretty easy to say, \u201cLet\u2019s make sure that every magazine and recruitment brochure we produce contains representation of the range of students that we aspire to.\u201d It would be like the Army only depicting white males when they are trying to recruit females and people of color.\nWhat tips would you give to other universities that want to increase female enrollment in engineering programs?\nThe first thing you want to do is to ensure that the introductory courses are really compelling, to show students that the tools of engineering and computer science allow you to solve really interesting problems. You want to frame the introductory courses not as competitions but as creative problem-solving.\nThe second factor is building confidence in the community, really making all of your students feel like they\u2019re likely to succeed. Everybody does better if there are high expectations. So we say \u201cThis is going to be really challenging \u2014 you\u2019re going to work really hard. You need to learn how to ask for help because you\u2019re going to need help, and you\u2019re going to need to help each other. But you will all succeed if you do those things.\u201d Building confidence in the community is key.\nThe final thing is it\u2019s important to offer majors that are joint between an area that lots of women are interested in and an area in which they are under-represented. For instance, computational biology majors \u2014 we\u2019ve had great success getting women who are interested in biology to major in computer science and biology, or math and biology.\nPrevious PostJob Market Looking Up for GradsNext PostOut-of-State Students Crowding Out Locals\nNotice: It seems you have Javascript disabled in your Browser. In order to submit a comment to this post, please write this code along with your comment: 8a9d0477bcad97e5cd06276f9444d099", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 7395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 266.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.factor75.com/category/food-and-nutrition/page/4/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:54Z", "digest": "sha1:2QSVDXDPNGBYQJUUKZZMRRB33YXLRZZU", "length": 142, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.factor75.com", "title": "Food & Nutrition Archives | Page 4 of 17 | Factor75 Blog", "raw_content": "How to get started with the ketogenic diet (and if it's even right for you?)\nHealthy Indulgences \u2013 the Benefits of Dark Chocolate and Red Wine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1483, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 241.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.factor75.com/tag/achour-esho/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:36Z", "digest": "sha1:W3ZA3SHA7AESEOUQQU7AHVLKSIFLOD24", "length": 91, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.factor75.com", "title": "Achour Esho Archives | Factor75 Blog", "raw_content": "An inside look at the training and nutrition of the undefeated boxer and Factor 75 Athlete.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 188.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.goldschp.net/2012/02/fox-inheritance-by-mary-e-pearson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:40Z", "digest": "sha1:EHFZ7DFFGJCXMJDV7MURY7V4O5KD6B4E", "length": 2116, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blog.goldschp.net", "title": "Not Acting My Age: The Fox Inheritance, by Mary E. Pearson", "raw_content": "Some 260 years have passed since Jenna Fox discovered that she was an android built by her parents to preserve her existence. By transferring her memories in a brain scan to an artificial body, they had tried to resuscitate their daughter from the coma she was in after a car accident that landed Jenna's two friends (Kara and Locke) in a similar position. At the end of that story (The Adoration of Jenna Fox), Jenna had destroyed the memory cubes holding the scans of her two friends, in order to prevent anyone from attempting such a thing again.\nBut no one counted on someone keeping a back-up.\nNow, a power-hungry scientist has discovered the data and reanimated Kara and Locke in new super bodies. He's determined to use them as examples of his new technology and will stop at nothing to exploit his new resources. But Kara and Locke have their own ideas. Spending 260 years in a memory chip has impacted them differently, but they are both agreed on an objective: escape and find Jenna Fox. To do so, they must navigate a world that is very different from the one they knew, as well as come to understand what changes have occurred to them in all these years.\nThe original story was an introverted drama about parental love gone too far. Until the final pages, you didn't even realize how much the story was even veering into science fiction. The sequel shoots for a much grander scale: launching immediately into the science and the ethics questions that Adoration just hinted at. The scope is much greater as well, with action spanning the country and numerous characters. It's a night and day difference and Inheritance lacks the intimacy of its predecessor. For those who like a sequel to resemble the original, that may be a bit hard to take, but that doesn't mean that this is a bad read -- it just makes reading both books unnecessary.\nI didn't care for the ending of the book, which seemed to wrap up everything a bit too neatly (and was awfully rushed to boot!), but I liked the story itself. The characters are interesting and the details are rich. I found it to be a satisfying sci fi escape novel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 224, "original_length": 6253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.ilikebeauty.gr/how-to-shape-your-eyebrows/i-like-beauty-gr-eyebrows-for-round-and-square-face-shape/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:51Z", "digest": "sha1:VHSHJJTD52GKCOM22WSXLYOF2DGWBRAO", "length": 57, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "blog.ilikebeauty.gr", "title": "i-like-beauty-gr-eyebrows-for-round-and-square-face-shape - Beauty Blog - iLikeBeauty Gr", "raw_content": "i-like-beauty-gr-eyebrows-for-round-and-square-face-shape", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 271.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.lakeside.com/tag/august/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:SPOZOAEQWJPQCW6KB2BCV2R44OQCDRTD", "length": 158, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blog.lakeside.com", "title": "August Archives | The Lakeside Collection", "raw_content": "Peridot In August\nToday is the first day of August! This means summer is starting to wind down, kids go back to school and for some, August is the month of...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 4138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.shure.com/2012/07/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:21Z", "digest": "sha1:HTKP4FMM2GRO5NASVETXUTFMMUKNGTI6", "length": 2017, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "blog.shure.com", "title": "July 2012 | Shure Blog", "raw_content": "How did you get into Artist Relations?\nWritten by Nelson Arregu\u00edn on July 27, 2012 under Live\nNelson Arregu\u00edn tells the story of how he ended up in Artist Relations.\nSM57 on Steroids: The Shure SM7(B) Story\nThe SM7 vocal mic, introduced in 1973, is a mic (available today as SM7B) with a history that\u2019s generated a tremendous amount of buzz.\nDailey & Vincent, ULXD, and The Ryman\u2026\nFrankly, it doesn\u2019t get much better than this! One of the hottest (if not THE hottest) vocal groups in Bluegrass came through Nashville during their constant touring cycle to perform for an installment of Bluegrass Nights. I was able to make it down for their soundcheck, just in time to hear their amazing harmonies [\u2026]\nRhonda Vincent celebrates 50 at The Ryman\nSo how many people get a brand new car on their 50th Birthday? I\u2019m betting there\u2019s a good number of people that may have gotten new vehicles as presents. But when you are 50 and you\u2019ve never gotten an NEW vehicle, it\u2019s a big deal. Especially when you are the Queen of Bluegrass music! Rhonda [\u2026]\nWouldn\u2019t it be great to get a virtual tour of ULX-D Digital Wireless? Join Gino Sigismondi for two in-depth webinars on ULX-D.\nShure Tech Tip: What You Need to Know About Signal-to-Noise Ratio\nWhy might a wireless system work over 400 feet in the Utah desert, while the same system will work for only 50 feet in New York City? Signal-to-Noise Ratio.\nRyan Smith tells the story of how he got his start in artist relations.\nThe Mixdown Landscape\nWritten by Davida Rochman on July 11, 2012 under Studio\nMike Overlin tells us about the mixdown, a crucial recording step where individual recorded tracks are combined to make the finished master.\nGary Allan and the much needed rain\u2026\nEvery once in a while, my family accompanies me out to a show. Sunday\u2019s show (July 8) was at a place we\u2019ve never been \u2013 The Woods at Fontanel. Fontanel Mansion was originally built for country singer Barbara Mandrell but she sold it in 2002. The Woods is the music venue there and tonight, Shure [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 6361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.slocountyhomes.com/the-week-that-was/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OVV5R6CSQXVMBP3BBRLZKL4P6TBAVWIZ", "length": 3519, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "blog.slocountyhomes.com", "title": "The week that was... - The Keith Byrd Team's Real Estate Blog", "raw_content": "Last Monday (May 28), we wrote that May was on pace to be the worst month for stocks since 2010. This post came out when the Dow was at 12,454.83 (it is now down to 12,101.46), and 10-year Treasury yield was around 1.70 percent (it is now at 1.50 percent). In other words, since we last talked\u2026 things have changed for the worse. Here is what happened:\nMay 30 \u2013 Stocks dropped 1 percent on investor fears about possible contagion stemming from Greek and Spanish debt. European leaders openly discussed the risk of Greece leaving the Euro and possible default of its debt. The 10-year U.S. Treasury bond yield hit a 60-year low at 1.63 percent as investors began moving to the \u201csafe haven\u201d of U.S. Treasury bonds.\nMay 31 \u2013 Troubling U.S. economic indicators influenced a fresh round of selling on the market, and the 10-year bond yield fell further \u2013 to 1.55 percent. The market moved on reports that initial jobless claims in the U.S. rose to 383,000, the 7th time in 8 weeks that this number increased. Another report showed that employers cut 52.6 percent more jobs in May (61,887) than in April (40,559). The Commerce Department revised U.S. first quarter economic growth (Gross Domestic Product) down to 1.9 percent (from the 2.2 percent). The Dow finished its worst month since May 2010.\nJune 1 \u2013 A dismal employment report helped influence another stock sell off as the Dow (- 274.88 points), the S&P 500 (- 32.29 points) and the Nasdaq (- 79.86 points) all fell 2 percent for their worst day of the year. The U.S. added just 69,000 new jobs in May and the national unemployment rate increased 0.1 percent to 8.2 percent. Meanwhile, the bond market flooded with activity. Yields on the 10-year Treasury moved below 1.50 percent, down to 1.46 percent (a record low).\nSo what does this all mean for interest rates?\nRemember, as investors buy up U.S. Treasuries, bond prices increase (due to demand) and bond yields fall. The 10-year U.S. Treasury bond tracks the 30-year mortgage interest rate, which is a fancy way of saying that the 30-year rate moves in tandem with the 10-year yield falls. With the 10-year yield hitting new record lows, did mortgage rates respond in kind?\nThe answer is yes, but not to the extent we expected. As we wrote on Friday:\n\u201cMortgage rates, meanwhile, have not showed the kind of response we would have hoped to see\u2026 Historically, there has been a 1.50 percent spread between the 10-year yield and the 30-year interest rate, which means that we should be seeing 3.00 percent 30-year rates. Unfortunately, we are not\u2026 rates are still around 3.5 percent.\n\u201cWhy have we not seen lower rates? It could be that banks are electing to take larger profit margins instead of moving rates lower. It could be a concern of a quick correction and an unwillingness to take on new mortgages at lower interest rates if the prices don\u2019t hold.\u201d\nThat being said, mortgage rates have dropped even lower from what were already record lows. The 30-year fixed (3.500 percent, 3.517 percent APR) and 15-year fixed (2.875 percent, 2.858 percent APR) both improved throughout the week along with the 10-year yield.\nKeep checking in with our website throughout the week to follow the market movements. We will be paying close attention. If you would like to sign up for our monthly newsletter (to be send out the 1st and the 16th of the month) to have headlines from our website sent to your inbox, please send an email to rylan@centralcoastlending.com with your preferred email address and the text \u201csubscribe.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1193, "original_length": 16034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.stanleywongisawesome.com/2016/01/golden-globes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MSCM5YCE3G5IO2ID5P3EQFODDRLFYUF3", "length": 5875, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "blog.stanleywongisawesome.com", "title": "Stanley Wong's Nonsense: Golden Globes", "raw_content": "So this past Sunday the Golden Globes happened. Leading up to it, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to partake in any of the activities, but The Big Short was nominated for four awards. About a week before the awards, I got an invitation to attend one of those parties where companies just give you watches and stuff to wear to the awards. I wasn't actually invited to the awards themselves, but my manager definitely me to just go to get free stuff. Unfortunately, the day before that party actually happened, I got a notice that the list was severely shortened and unfortunately my invitation was a part of that short list. It was kind of strange and disheartening, but I figured it just wasn't my time yet.\nA day before the awards, I got a notice that I was invited to the Viewing and after party hosted by Paramount Pictures. I found out I was also able to bring one guest. My first go to choices were either my sister or cousin who had always begged me to invite them to something like this. Unfortunately both were busy. From there I wasn't really sure who to invite, but then I had the idea to invite my co-star from the film Jeffry Griffin since he was still in Louisiana and wasn't really getting invitations to stuff like this. So I told him he could crash at my place and he offered to fly up and the plan was set in motion.\nThe next day I picked him up at the airport and went straight to the party at the Chateau Marmont. This was apparently a famous party hotel for the Hollywood elite. I wasn't really sure what we were going to walk into, but I was preparing myself for what might possibly be the biggest night of my life. We dropped our car off at the valet, took the elevator to the penthouse floor, and walked into the party only to find that there were only like ten people there. I was really confused actually. I didn't really recognize anyone (though I imagine anyone I would have recognized was probably at the awards themselves). Me and Jeff got some food and sat at a table and met Emma who was the fiance of Jeremy Strong, he was in the scene with us. She knew who we were when we walked in the room and we talked to her mostly through this. The costume designer of the film and her husband were also around and talking to us. Still, this was not quite what I expected for a big exclusive Golden Globes party.\nWe watched the Golden Globes and ate food. The big disappointment of the night was losing best comedy to The Martian because most of the blogs and critics had Big Short favored to win. While the Big Short can't really be classified as a straight comedy, The Martian most definitely is not a straight comedy either. I imagine they'll change some of the criteria for the award in the future. Either way, once that happened the energy in the room quickly died. Once the awards were over people started leaving and we asked people what was supposed to happen and the best answer we could get from anyone was \"We'll have to see. A lot of people don't even want to go out because we lost.\" So me and Jeff were at this party that was breaking down at like 8 PM and we were wondering if we should just go home. Around the moment that we were getting read to leave though, Brad Pitt walks through the door and someone exclaims \"Oh, nevermind. Looks like the after party will be here after all.\"\nSo little by little, everyone who was at the awards starts to show up. I got to catch up with Jeremy Strong and Hamish Linklater who were really cool and excited to see me when I went to the first screening. Had a decent conversation with Finn Wittrock about what he was doing next and how he felt about everything. He was a cool guy. There came a point where me and Jeffry kept trying to find our in to talk to Brad Pitt and Adam McKay who were sitting at a couch with people surrounding them. Eventually a girl (I forgot her name) must have seen how clueless we looked and made a point to walk us up to introduce us. Had a short conversation with both. It wasn't much, but I guess we got to let our presence by acknowledged.\nEventually the focus started to turn to getting into the WME party on the ground floor. I wasn't really sure if we could really get in because it seemed like we could barely get into the Paramount party. Hamish was really cool though and made a point to champion our way in. He walked with us down to the first floor and tried to starpower his way in. Unfortunately the doorperson even turned him away, which must have been a little embarrassing. He then called up his girlfriend Lily Rabe (I think?) and eventually the door person must have gotten word from someone and we were allowed into that party.\nThis party was absolutely nuts. Like shoulder to shoulder with people and it was crazy because every single one of those people were celebrities of some sort. I saw 2-3 people walking around with Golden Globe statues themselves. Had random mini conversation with people like Selena Gomez, Aziz Ansari, Eric Wareheim, the daughters of Eric McLeesh (one of the actual lawyers from Spotlight), Jonah Hill (who mostly wanted to talk to about my mom), Rick Famuyiwa, Sam Smith, etc etc. It was just a crazy night. Pretty much everyone who was at the Golden Globes was at that party. Not sure what else to say. Around 3 AM the party started shutting down so we left.\nI came out of it feeling like I had just done one of the most Hollywood things so far in my L.A. journey, but at the same time I felt like I'm pretty much the same person the next day. Even though I got to briefly meet a lot of people, I'm not sure if I really solidified any real relationships with anyone. Maybe I did it wrong, not sure. Anyways, it was neat. I'm going to post again soon with a video I made recently. Also I'm excited for the new year.\nP.S. Hi Melanie, since I think you're the only one who reads these posts.\nHi Stanley. I'm reading.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 7219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 286.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.superiorcasino.com/2008/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RPBSSNCV3LWEU4MM4XHWTLFFSRUCMAHA", "length": 9019, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "blog.superiorcasino.com", "title": "May 2008 - Superior Casino Blog", "raw_content": "BLACKJACK SCHOOL \u2013 Designed to help you play a better game\nCharles Jay\u2019s\nBLACKJACK SCHOOL\nDesigned to help you play a better game\nA,5 vs. 2\nTHE SETUP: You\u2019re playing in a game where soft doubling is allowed. The dealer gives you an Ace and a five and then flips up a two. The hand of Ace-Five gives you a total of either 6 or 16 \u2013 it\u2019s your choice as to which way it will work better for you. Your options are to stand, hit, or double down.\nCJ\u2019S WAY: When you think about it, standing on this hand doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense. What you need to resist is the temptation with the idea of doubling, just because the dealer isn\u2019t showing an upcard that is classified as \u201cpat.\u201d What you need to do here is HIT this soft hand.\nWHY WE DO IT: Essentially, there are two questions we\u2019re asking ourselves \u2013 (A) Is the Ace-five (remember to call it that, not 6 or 16) strong enough to double with?; and (B) Is the upcard the dealer is showing (the two) vulnerable enough to double against? The answer to the first question is, generally, yes. The Ace-Five gives you that total of 6 or 16, and you could wind up in a lot worse condition. In point of fact, you WILL double this hand against the dealer\u2019s upcard of 4,5, or 6. However, the answer to the second question is, NO, the two does not provide enough of an opportunity to double on this hand. It allows the dealer too much of a chance to attain a solid or standing hand. The bottom line, mathematically, is that with this hand you have an overall negative expectation; you will win 1% MORE and lose 1% LESS if you hit the hand as opposed to doubling it.\nTHE SETUP: You are playing in a game which features soft doubling. You are dealt an Ace and a five, while the dealer shows a seven. You can\u2019t bust out with one hit in this situation. Obviously, when soft doubling is available to you, you\u2019re always looking for a chance to exercise it. Here we may have one of those chances.\nCJ\u2019S WAY: No, it doesn\u2019t. No doubling here. You must HIT this hand.\nWHY WE DO IT: Remember that the Ace-five gives you a total of either 6 or 16. Certainly this doesn\u2019t constitute a hand that\u2019s good enough to double with against a dealer\u2019s seven. Examining the math, doubling on the hand produces a negative expectation. You will, in fact, lose over NINE more hands per hundred than you will win. That represents about a 20% deficit, which is what you ant to avoid. However, considering the alternative, when you simply hit the Ace-five against the seven, you\u2019re actually looking good. Leaving all pushes between the player and dealer aside, when you hit this hand you will win and lose almost exactly the same amount of times. That becomes essentially a break-even, which represents a better way to go than doubling in this scenario, where you are putting more money into play and at risk.\nTry these suggestions next time you log in at Superior Casino.\nTags: Blackjack-school, blackjack-strategy, blackjack-tips, online casino, online-casino-games, Superior, Table Games Strategy\nPosted in online casino, Superior, Table Games Strategy | Comments Off on BLACKJACK SCHOOL \u2013 Designed to help you play a better game\nAVOIDING THOSE PSYCHOLOGICAL PITFALLS\nAllow me to ask these questions of you, the recreational blackjack player:\n\u2013 Do you feel worse when you bust than when you lose out to a better hand on the part of the dealer?\n\u2013 Do you stand on hard totals of 12-16 because you want to hold onto your chances of winning until the dealer plays out his hand?\n\u2013 Are you of the belief that luck runs in streaks, and if so, do you usually increase bets after wins and decrease after losses?\n\u2013 Are you conditioned to playing \u201chunches\u201d, depending on which cards you\u2019ve previously been dealt?\nIf you answered \u201cyes\u201d to any of the above questions, read on, because this is of particular interest to you.\nOne day at the library I was up in the \u201cstacks,\u201d so to speak, and happened to come across a past issue of Psychology Today (Oct. 1985). And I noticed it contained an article dealing with the behavior of players at the blackjack table, and how certain psychological quirks had a tendency to affect their behavior and performance when playing this casino game.\nThere is a tremendous psychological element to blackjack, and it is important to look at that angle, since customarily players not only have to execute betting decisions but playing decisions as well during the course of a session. A lot of players enjoy blackjack more than roulette, baccarat, or craps in that they feel more of a sense of control (which is not an \u2018illusion\u2019 as is referred to in the article), and they have the ability to vary their play using certain options as allowed for in the rules. That indeed is a potential advantage to blackjack, since the house\u2019s edge, or lack of it, is very much dependent on the player\u2019s level of skill. The pitfalls, if one falls into them, have the potential effect of diminishing the skill level of the player, and also serve to put up barriers preventing them from being able to digest the strategy that can ultimately bring the greatest chance for long-term return.\nOne of the bigger problems happens when it comes to playing the hard totals of 12 through 16. The research that was done for the article indicates that players, even if they know a Basic Strategy, very often fail to hit their hand in accordance with it because they fear busting out before the dealer has an opportunity to play his hand out. There are a couple of principal reasons for this. One is that the player\u2019s mindset is that it is worse to bust than to hold out and lose to the dealer\u2019s better hand, since the dealer\u2019s draw is something that is completely out of the player\u2019s control. And then there is that desire to stand pat in order to keep one\u2019s winning hopes alive for as long as possible, and therefore they do nothing and wait for the dealer to make a move. As you already know from reading any responsible blackjack source, even with the worst upcards possible (5 or 6), the dealer will only bust 42%-43% of the time, so it is patently obvious that doing nothing is not a wise strategy at all.\nHere\u2019s another myth \u2013 that luck always seems to run in streaks. This idea sometimes leads to the player increasing bets after wins and decreasing after losses. On the other hand, there is a school of thought many people subscribe to which advocates increasing (usually doubling) bets after losing, and decreasing after wins. This is all based on an interpretation of the so-called \u201claw of averages\u201d which theorizes that sooner or later you would have to win. There is a familiar name for this betting strategy \u2013 the \u201cMartingale,\u201d and most people can tell you that it can easily lead to ruin, since it\u2019s quite possible to keep losing hands and soon be over the house limit, paralyzing the system and one\u2019s session at the same time.\nDon\u2019t get paralyzed. Take note of where the psychological obstacles can be, and do your utmost to overcome them.\nTags: blackjack, casino, Gaming, online casino, Superior\nPosted in online casino, Superior | Comments Off on AVOIDING THOSE PSYCHOLOGICAL PITFALLS\nNew Game: Secret Garden\n\u201cSECRET GARDEN\u201d OFFERS FERTILE TERRITORY FOR WINNING AT SUPERIOR CASINO\nLots of people who own a home have a garden. But it\u2019s likely you\u2019ve never found one quite as fertile as the \u201cSecret Garden\u201d that\u2019s available at Superior Casino.\nThe brand new 20-line, five-reel video slot game with a lush, green ambiance, designed and powered by Rival Gaming, offers the player quite a few ways to win. For example, play one to ten coins and hit five squirrels in a payline to get a 350-unit return. That\u2019s hardly \u201cnuts.\u201d Or if you really want to get lucky, hit five \u201crose\u201d icons and we can guarantee pocket 500 units, which isn\u2019t being too flowery in the least (all wins multiplied by coins staked per line).\nAnd we\u2019re saving the best for last. Be on the lookout for the \u201cScatter\u201d icons, which can help your bankroll \u201cgrow\u201d in ways you may have never thought possible. Scoring three Scatters on any one spin will produce 20 free spins. Four Scatters return 30 free spins; get five on the board and receive 50 free spins (all with a 2x multiplier). That\u2019s a great way to bring your play to a new level. And as if you needed any further proof that this game is not \u201cfor the birds,\u201d they\u2019re wild \u2013 get five of them in a line and you\u2019re staring a 5000-unit payoff in the face.\nBut even that doesn\u2019t compare with the rewards that are in store when you pull up three or more \u201cMaster Key\u201d icons in one spin, which puts you right into the \u201cExplore the Secret\u201d bonus round, where you can win as much as you can collect. That\u2019s what we call a big potential harvest!\nSo maneuver that mouse with your \u201cgreen thumb\u201d and get ready to water those plants and bring them to life \u2013 you\u2019ll know what we mean when you get into the game!\nTags: Casino-Games, Gaming, New Games, online casino, rival-slots, Slot-Machines, Superior, video-slots\nPosted in New Games, online casino, Superior | Comments Off on New Game: Secret Garden", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 238, "original_length": 12310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blog.vkvvisuals.com/powder-rooms/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:30Z", "digest": "sha1:P7U7GKPOLNRHK5YSTR6SKA7AGC3DVQH4", "length": 665, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "blog.vkvvisuals.com", "title": "POWDER ROOMS \u22c6 vkvvisuals.com/blog", "raw_content": "I don\u2019t know what your powder room looks like, but mine is still rather basic\u2026. here are a few examples of how it could be\u2026 I especially love the one with the wooden panelling and those gorgious Chinese vases. Or how about this first one, a bit psychedelic maybe, but certainly unique. So lets put some effort into the smallest room of the house!\nstumbled upon the guys from HagedornHagen through one of the blogs that float into my mailbox each morning. And their work is so beautiful, I just had to share it with all of you out there. Founded by two professional photographers from Copenhagen, Mads Hagedorn-Olsen and Anders Morell, they have\u2026\nPowder Rooms/Toilet", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 2698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.cpcc.edu/cato-library/2014/12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:32Z", "digest": "sha1:HRFAMVV6G3BPLJDUCMMU6QVYDY2VOEZB", "length": 565, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "blogs.cpcc.edu", "title": "December | 2014 | Cato Campus Library", "raw_content": "Posted on December 11, 2014 by John Andresen\nWe here at the library hope you have a great holiday season. I know we are all looking forward to it. Everyone be safe and enjoy the time off!\nCato Library Finals Week Stress Relief \u2013 Beverages and Snacks\nPosted on December 1, 2014 by John Andresen\nDuring Finals week, from 10AM-12PM and 4PM-6PM, the library will be providing hot beverages as well as a variety of snacks. We know how finals can be stressful, and we want to help make it as stress-free as possible! We wish you the best on your Final Projects and Exams!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 1634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://blogs.worldbank.org/eastasiapacific/category/tags/prospects", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:14Z", "digest": "sha1:VI5Z4L3PQ6LYFWCHGTENP3VBGIRCLTJO", "length": 713, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blogs.worldbank.org", "title": "prospects | East Asia & Pacific on the rise", "raw_content": "China\u2019s economic outlook remains favorable\nSubmitted by Louis Kuijs\tOn Sun, 06/20/2010\nThe World Bank released its latest Quarterly Update on China\u2019s economy on Friday (for disclosure's sake: I\u2019m the lead author). At the press launch, there were a lot of questions about the recent wage hikes in several foreign-owned manufacturing companies and the possible concerns these have triggered among many about possible loss of competitiveness and/or a wage-inflation spiral.\nLooking for signs of Cambodia's recovery: the ox weigh in, and more\nRoyal oxen, cousins to the more common variety in the photo, offered their take on Cambodia's agricultural prospects.\n(Photo courtesy of dee under a Creative Commons license)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 183, "original_length": 4958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://bobbuckalew.com/articles.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:30Z", "digest": "sha1:OE45Z7HN5ZCWIIKWOMEV4R2PO3X5VWHS", "length": 3144, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "bobbuckalew.com", "title": "Bob Buckalew - Attorney at law in Little Rock", "raw_content": "Every licensed attorney in the State of Arkansas is required to obtain at least 12 hours of continuing legal education (CLE) each year in order to maintain their license to practice law. During my 30 years of legal practice, I have participated in several continuing legal education seminars as an instructor in the areas of personal injury and workers' compensation. This participation involved not only the presentation of legal material to other lawyers as seminar participants but the completion of written material as well. The following is a list of CLE seminars in which I have participated within the last 7 years:\nIntroduction To Workers' Compensation In Arkansas (given in Little Rock, AR, in 2001 through Lorman Education Services)\nADA, FMLA, And Workers' Compensation In Arkansas (given in Little Rock, AR, in 2003 through Lorman Education Services)\nA Practical Refresher On Litigating The Arkansas Auto Injury Case (given in Little Rock, AR, in 2004 through The National Business Institute)\nAdvanced Personal Injury Practice In Arkansas (given in Little Rock, AR, in 2004 and 2005 through The National Business Institute)\nHow To Successfully Resolve Automobile Injury Cases In Arkansas (given in Little Rock, AR, in 2005 through The National Business Insitute)\nSettlement Methods For Resolving Personal Injury Cases In Arkansas (given in Little Rock, AR, in 2006 and 2007 through The National Business Institute)\nHandling The Auto Injury Case In Arkansas (given in Little Rock, AR, in 2007 through The National Business Institute)\nPractical Tips For Handling The Personal Injury Case in Arkansas (given in Little Rock, AR, in 2007 through The National Business Institute)\nAutomobile Litigation In Arkansas: Strategic Issues And Answers (given in Little Rock, AR in 2008 through The National Business Institute)\nPersonal Injury Cases In Arkansas: From Start To Finish (given in Little Rock, AR in 2008 through the National Business Institute)\nPersonal Injury Cases In Arkansas: Maximizing The Outcome (given in Little Rock, AR in 2009 through the National Business Institute)\nNursing Malpractice, Chapter 37, entitled \"The Attorney's Perspective: Working Up A Case\" (2010)\nPersonal Injury Lititgation in Arkansas: From Start To Finish (given in Little Rock, AR in 2010 through the National Business Institute)\nManaging Liens and Subrogation in Auto Accident Litigation (December 2011)\nAdvanced Personal Injury Litigation in Arkansas (June 2011)\nI have also prepared several brochures in the fields of workers' compensation and personal injury. If you would like a copy of a workers' compensation brochure or a personal injury brochure, advising you of your rights and what I can do for you, please contact me and I will be glad to send you a copy.\nI represent individuals involved in personal injury accidents throughout the State of Arkansas. If you've been injured or if death has resulted from a personal injury accident, I can help. Call the attorney with a proven track record, one who has the experience, financial resources and seasoned staff to get you the maximum compensation you deserve. For immediate assistance, contact", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 263.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brainshavings.com/2009/06/obamacare-means-rationing-and/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2GGLC3G5CDJNAEP4HP6E4ONIR2E5S5NC", "length": 676, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "brainshavings.com", "title": "Obamacare means rationing and long lines \u2013 Brain Shavings", "raw_content": "by Alo Konsen - Health Care - Jun 22, 2009\nObamacare means rationing and long lines\nJust look at Canada:\nTake, for example, the report out last week from the Wait Time Alliance (WTA), a group of 13 Canadian medical groups, including the Canadian Medical Association. For cancer patients, the report found that \u201cthe median wait time for radiation therapy was almost seven weeks.\u201d That figure exceeded the recommended maximum wait time of one month. Note, too, that as a median figure, there were just as many patients who waited longer than seven weeks as who waited less than seven weeks.\nA government takeover of your health care will inevitably result in problems like this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 336.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://brian894x4.com/GeorgiaPacificCoosBayRR.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:19Z", "digest": "sha1:QGAIXJTELKV7IKZYM4HFKOTC72X2FCUJ", "length": 27397, "nlines": 261, "source_domain": "brian894x4.com", "title": "GeorgiaPacificCoosBayRR", "raw_content": "Check out my Central Oregon & Pacific RR Page, CORP now operates the ex-Southern Pacific Coos\nBranch, that this railroad used to interchange with.\nThanks to Jeff Moore for providing information and some of the text for this article. Jeff operates the following two\nThanks to William Kaminsky for adding some additional notes and corrections in a separate historical text that is\ncontained at the bottom of this page.\nFor more information about the beginning of this railroad, see the additional information sent in by Mr. Kaminsky at the\nThis line extended some 18 miles from Coos Bay (then called Marshfield) all the way to Powers and beyond.\nThe heart of this operation was the Smith-Powers Logging Company and the affiliated C.A. Smith Lumber and Manufacturing Company.\nThese two organizations were ran by two Minnesota lumber men named Al J. Powers and C. A. Smith. The pair both migrated westward\nto Marshfield at the time. These two organizations were founded in 1907. Smith ran the milling and sales end of the operation while\nPowers ran the woods end of the operation (logging, railroad, getting logs to the mill, etc.).\nSouthern Pacific and Smith-Powers had an agreement. Smith-Powers could run it\u2019s train over the SP line between Myrtle Point and\nCoos Bay, in exchange for SP having the right to operate trains all the way into Powers. However, before this agreement was reached,\nSP had dramatically raised the rates to Smith-Powers, to haul logs on its line from Myrtle Point to Coos Bay. In response, Smith-Powers\nbegan construction of another railroad that would extend into Coos Bay, basically bypassing the Southern Pacific route. SP relented\nafter Smith-Powers began construction, and an agreement was reached.\nMultiple logging railroads extended off of this mainline that may have had a combined mileage of 200 miles. In addition to the tunnel on\nthe mainline, which is located just a few miles northwest of Powers, two other tunnels existed on the logging branches. A tunnel\nexisted on the Salmon Creek Logging branch, south of Powers, but it was dynamited closed by 1950. The other tunnel was located\nfurther south and was going to be dug under the Sixes River Pass. However, work was never started.\nA depot was built in Powers around in 1916. The main log yard was located at the north end of town, while the engine shops were\nlocated at the south end of town.\nCoos Bay Lumber Company took over the Smith-Powers operation in 1922. This did not have much impact on the railroad. As in all\nother logging railroads, the use of temporary spur lines was gradually discontinued, with truck to rail car transfers taking their place.\nThe last trackage beyond Powers was finally pulled up in 1960, making Powers the \u201cend of the line\u201d for the remainder of operations.\nSteam power used on the line was an eclectic mix of tank-type rod locomotives and geared locomotives, with a quartet of standard\nBaldwin logging mikados thrown in. Of the steam engines, the most notable to me, were to the four 2-8-2T Tank engines. These were\ngenerally used on the steep grades of the spur lines, but could also be found pulling long loads of logs over the mainline. They arrived\nbetween 1929-1935 and numbered 9-12. Number 10, which was built in 1930 would be retired in the 1950s and sent to Cottage Grove to\nbe put on display, where it remained until the late 1970s or early 1980s, before moving on to Florida and then Kansas (Or vise versa).\nNumber 11, built in 1929, was the last steam engine to remain on the Powers line, serving on stand by until it was sent off to the San\nDiego Railroad museum in 1968, where it still operates as their stand by switcher to this day. Number 104, a 1922 Baldwin Mikado, 2-8-\n2, was used from 1922-1953, then sold to the Georgia-Pacific Toledo operation and used until 1960. It was donated to the city of North\nBend, Oregon and remains on display today, in Coos Bay, Oregon.\nSteam was put aside in 1954 with the arrival of three specially equipped SW-1200 diesels from EMD. The three developed 1200\nhorsepower a piece and were numbered 1201-1203. They were initially meant to be operated together, but two of the diesels operating\ntogether put much more weight on the old covered bridges than was safe, so they operated predominately as single units. The diesels\nwere all equipped with dynamic brakes. The three also had larger \"mainline\" fuel tanks and additional water tanks that fed sprinklers\nfitted to each diesel that were used to wash accumulated sand off of the rails as well as spray down the roadbed to keep the risk of the\ntrain starting a fire down. This left no room for the air reservoirs, which were traditionally located outside of the fuel tank on this model\nof diesel. As a result, the air reservoirs were mounted on top of the hood of these diesels.\nRob Jacox has two photos of these Coos Bay units posted on his website- see the following pages:\nhttp://www.trainweb.org/westernrails/or/cblc-1202-ner.jpg\nhttp://www.trainweb.org/westernrails/or/gp_1202_powers_12-29-69_spc.jpg\nGeorgia Pacific purchased the Coos Bay Lumber Company in 1956. Operations through the final years saw large off-highway trucks\nbringing logs down into reloads located at Powers, where the logs would be reloaded from trucks onto rail cars. The railroad ran two\njobs per day, with a Powers switcher working the reloads and assembling loaded log trains and a road job that took the loads up to the\ndump at McCormac, returning with empties.\nThe State of Oregon passed a law outlawing the use of the oversize log trucks on all public roads effective 1 June 1972. Georgia Pacific\ndepended on some short stretches of public roads to get those oversize trucks to Powers, and as a result of the new law those trucks\ncould not get to the reloads any more. G-P immediately went to an all-truck show, using the smaller log trucks that were still legal on\nOregon highways. The last log train to McCormac ran on 8 June 1972 behind the #1202, while the #1201 did the last clean up work at\nPowers. By 3:15 p.m. on that day it was all over.\nThe railroad from Myrtle Creek to Powers was removed in 1974. At some point, probably around 1950, it was decided to reopen the\nSalmon Creek branch as a truck road. The Salmon-Creek logging railroad branch operated from 1915-1938. However, to reopen the\nline, the tunnel that collapsed in 1949, had to be by passed and this meant using bridges to move the road to the other side of the creek\nto get around the tunnel. Ex-railroad steel plate girder railroad bridges were used for this job and remain in service there today.\nAlthough it's not clear which railroad these bridges came off of, it does not appear they served anywhere on the Coos Bay Lumber\nCompany branch.\nOf the one tunnel that is located on the mainline, it still exists today. It's on private property about 4 rail miles northwest of the Powers\ndepot. I have not yet been able to visit the tunnel, but I did speak to the land owner of the land adjacent to the tunnel and he assures me\nthat it was still open as of a few years ago, along with almost intact wood trestle near by. Permission is definitely needed to access the\narea, however, but he said that he will take to the tunnel the next time I can get back to the area.\nAn interesting side note. A Smith-Powers Shay was abandoned in the woods sometime in the 1920s or 1930s. It was stripped of some\nparts, but then left. Because it was basically inaccessible, it escaped the scrap drives of World War Two. In the mid 1960s, Georgia-\nPacific reopened the area with a truck road and the Shay was salvaged in 1967. It later went to McKinelyville, California and was\nunder restoration by 1973, but I\u2019m not sure what happened to it after that. It was Smith-Powers number 2, a 28 ton Shay, serial number\n169, built in 1887.\nPhotos taken by Brian McCamish, except where noted.\nMap of the area. Blue is the Southern Pacific mainline between Coos Bay and Myrtle Point. Red is\nthe Coos Bay Lumber Railroad (later Georgia-Pacific) and yellow is the Salmon Creek Logging spur\nwhich is discussed at length here. There were many other spurs as well.\nIn November, 2004, my brother in law and myself, drove to the area and spent a few hours exploring the\nremains of the grade. This is what we found.\nThis bridge was one of several\nover the South Fork of the Coquille\nRiver and did belong to\nGeorgia-Pacific. I believe it was\nthese bridges that were covered\nand later converted to steel plate\ngirder bridges, which are now\nlocated on the Salmon Creek\nLogging truck road. Nov, 2004\nThis bridge pillar is located on the North Fork of the\nCoquille River, just north of Myrtle Point. From photos\nthat I've seen, this was a through truss span owned by\nSouthern Pacific, but torn out when the line to Myrtle\nPoint was abandoned. Nov. 2004\nThe railroad grade just\nwest of Myrtle Point. I'm\nnot sure if the grade is\nthe road I'm driving on or\nthe overgrown rise to the\nleft. Nov. 2004\nThis section of grade was not turned into a road, as a county road exists right next to the grade. In the left photo you can see\nthe overgrown grade following the road. In the middle photos, Brise is walking on the grade, further south. In the right photo, I\ndug up this metal near the grade. Anyone know what it might be? Email me. Just a mile or so beyond where the middle photos\nare, the grade crossed a creek over an existing trestle and then passed through a tunnel. Unfortunately, we were not able to\naccess that at the time, because it's private land. I later spoke to the land owner by phone and he agreed to take me to the\ntunnel at a later date, when I visit the area again, hopefully sometime this spring or summer. November, 2004\nThese pilings in the\nCoquille River are a bit of a\nmystery. A local says that\nthey have something to do\nwith the Chinese logging in\nthe area. Nov. 2004\nThe main railroad yard in Powers. This yard was located at\nthe north end of town. Today it's a city park, complete with\npark benches and stoves. I'm parked on what used to the\nmainline into town. This is where log trains were built,\nbefore being hauled off to the dump near Coos Bay.\nThis concrete pier is located in the middle of the South Fork of the Coquille River, in the city of Powers. Here, the river splits\nthe city in two. The concrete road bridge, where these photo were taken from, obviously still exists, but the railroad bridge is\nlong gone. These photos do not do justice to the size of this pier. It's quite impressive. It was built in 1957, by Georgia Pacific\nto replace the original timber trestle. Note the rollers still left on the wood blocks. The feet of each span would rest on these\nrollers and allow the bridge to move ever so slightly, when the sun heated up the bridge and caused it to expand. If anyone has\na photo of this bridge when it existed, I would love to see it. Please email me.\nAt the south end of Powers, out in an empty gravel lot, we noticed these two abandoned steel plate girder spans. I don't know\nfor sure, but it's a good bet, these were the two railroad spans that crossed the Coquille River in the middle of Powers.\nOn the right, an old railroad car that appears to have been converted to a road bridges. Probably one of two railroad cars that\nwere welded together side by side. When the Salmon Creek branch was reopened as a truck road, a railroad car was used\nas the initial bridge over the Coquille River. I assume this was part of it. Today, a newer concrete structure is used, but older\nrailroad plate girder bridges are still used further up the road. The middle photo: shows several sections of ties, which match\nthe ties and planks we would later see on the steel plate girder log truck bridges and were probably worn out and replaced at\nsome point. The right photo appears to be the remains of a railroad flat car. November, 2004\nJust south of what used to be the large railroad bridge in Powers is the depot. It still exists today and is used as a museum,\nalthough nobody was around today. I was disspointed as it appears to have a number of interesting photos and artifacts\ninside. These photos were taken through the windows as the doors were locked and no one was around. November, 2004\nAn interesting crew car on display outside the museum. Note the axle and driveshaft still inside, but the motor appears to be\nmissing. November, 2004\nA few other artifacts lying about outside the Powers depot/museum. The tracks that used to exist along side the depot were\ncompletely gone. November, 2004\nThe first bridge over Salmon Creek, on the Salmon Creek truck road. This road was originally a logging railroad from\n1915-1938. In the area of this bridge a tunnel existed, but it collapsed in 1949. We think we found the location, but it would be\nindistinguishable from the hillside in a photograph. This steel plate girder bridge was place here sometime after 1950, when\nthis line was converted into a truck road. This bridge allows the logs trucks to bypass the tunnel by driving on the south bank\nof Salmon Creek for a short ways. This is obviously a former railroad steel plate girder bridge, but where it served prior to\n1950 is not clear. November, 2004\nThe second steel plate girder railroad bridge over Salmon creek, is about 1/2 mile south of the first bridge. This takes the\nlogging road back to the north side of Salmon Creek. There also was not a bridge here when the railroad existed. Instead,\nthese bridges were placed here to by pass the tunnel. This bridge, just like the first one pictured above, came from the\nanother railroad somewhere, but was installed here around 1950. November, 2004\nAs time was running short, we were only able to drive a short distance further on the Salmon Creek logging road. There may\nbe other steel plate girder bridges further up the road. November, 2004\nThis concluded our exploration of the Georgia-Pacific, Coos Bay Branch. There is still much more to explore,\nin terms of other logging spurs, possible abandoned trestle remains and the such. I hope to return again\nand explore the abandoned tunnel at the very least and be able to post pictures of that on here.\nHistorical and Reader's Photos\nNumber 104 was built by Baldwin in 1922 for the Coos Bay Lumber Company. It worked the mainline between Powers and\nCoos Bay from 1923 until 1953. It was apparently purchased by Georgia-Pacific in 1954, for it\u2019s Toledo operations.\nIronicly, Georgia-Pacific would purchased the entire Coos Bay Lumber operation only a few years later. Number 104\nworked out of Toledo unti 1960. It, along with a number of it\u2019s sister locomotives were then donated to various cities\naround Oregon and Washington. One was even used for a movie and made to fell off a tall bridge. See my Ring of Fire\nwebsite about it\u2019s surviving ruins. Number 104 went to the city of North Bend, near Coos Bay, where it sat on display for\nmany years. It was recently cosmetically restored by the Oregon Coast Historical Railroad in Coos Bay. More info about\nthe 104 can be found on this page. I took these photos in May, 2004.\nCoos Bay Lumber Number 11 was the last steam locomotive to serve the Coos Bay Branch. It was also the first of four of\nthis type, an ALCO 2-8-2T, that was purchased by the Coos Bay Lumber Company in 1929. It served both the mainline and\nspur lines, but was particularly adept to climbing the steep grades of the temporary logging railroads. In 1968 it was given\nto the San Diego Railroad Museum, where it still resides today. You can read more about it, on their page about this loco.\nBoth of these photos are courtesy of the San Diego Railroad museum and are used here by permission.\nCoos Bay Lumber number 10 was also preserved. Another of the 4 ALCO 2-8-2Ts purchased by the Coos Bay Lumber\nCompany, this one in 1930. At some point in the 1950s or possibly, early 1960s, it was donated to Cottage Grove, where it\nwas put on display, near the Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railroad Yard. It remained there as a static display until sometime\nin the late 1970s or early 1980s when it was sold off to Florida. It apparently later when to Midland City, Kansas where it\ncan be seen in this pic. The Midland Railway, doesn't show this loco on it's roster, so I'm not sure where it is today.\nBoth photos are of the number # 10 in the OP&E Yards. Left photo is courtesy of John Goldie, taken in the late 1970s.\nRight photo is from Salem Public Library, June, 1963.\nThese photos are courtesy of Marc Reusser and his website, Steam in the Woods. They are used here by Marc's\npermission. They show the Coos Bay Lumber Company operation in the early years, including the mill in Marshfield (Coos\nBay) and several of the locomotives.\nWilliam Kaminsky, who has extensively researched and studied the Coos Bay Lumber Company and related\nlines, was kind enough to provide the following additional notes and corrections.\nThe present CORP line is actually one of Oregon's earliest railroads. The Ithmus Transit railroad was a narrow gauge \"Indian\" powered\nline began in 1872 which ran from about present day Chrome over the hill to about where the Green Acres bridge is at. It did not get into\noperation until about 1874, and steam powered until about 1876. (See Logging Railroads of the West by Kramer Adams, page 18). In\nabout 1890 the standard gauge Coos Bay, Roseburg and Eastern bought up the route and expanded from Marshfield to Coquille. The\nextension to Myrtle Point did not occur until about 1904 (I think). There was a stage connection in use for a few years transporting\npassengers from M.P. to Coquille until track was laid. John Labbe wrote up the story on this in an edition of Narrow Gauge Gazette\nabout fifteen years ago and Al Armitage did so too in an article about the coal lines. Although there had been many other companies\ninterested into constructing a railroad line to the coast, or along the coast, it was the eSPee funded Willamette and Pacific which made\nThe C.B. R. & E. was to have run on towards Roseburg, but I have an eSPee plan of the line beginning in Myrtle Point and then going to\nWagner Ranch. Not mentioned if this is mainline or branchline. The C.A. Smith Timber Company funded the construction of the 18\n1/2 mile railroad from Myrtle Point to Wagner Ranch, which began construction in 1914, and completed in 1916. Originally, this was to\nbe a common carrier line called the Coos Bay and Coquille Valley Railroad, but later after the reorganization of 1915 this fault was\ndiscovered and the public operation was given to the Southern Pacific. The new town of Powers was to be simply a point on line as the\nrailroad was extended southerly along the Coquille River to where it met the Forest service boundary. By 1918, and hopes of\nextension were gone, and the facilities at Powers became the terminus of the mainline. One of the interesting things about the\nWillamette and Pacific railroad line to Coos Bay was a lack of interest into any company wanting to fund such an operation for there was\nno guarantee that freight traffic would be automatic, even in an area of such heavy lumber production. Most all lumber companies in the\narea were already shipping via water, and at a rate quite a bit lower than any railroad could promise. There was also ship builders at the\nbay, and the only thing to ruin this would be a world war.\nThe C.A. Smith Lumber and Manufacturing Company was wholey owned and controlled by Charles Axel Smith and was incorporated\n(again) in 1898. Several of the others were quickly incorporated in Minnesota just before the move to Oregon. Under the company\numbrella, were the C.A. Smith Timber Co, the C.A. Smith Land Co, Inter Ocean Transportation Co, and the Smith-Powers Logging\nCompany. There were several other companies under the C.A.S. banner here too. Albert Powers was a paid employee and Vice\nPresident, not as many think of him being part owner in the S-P L. Co. For Vice-President or not, the company FIRED him in the 1920's.\nThe S-P L. Co. was mainly an employer, as the railroad, the equipment, the land and the timber was owned by one of the Smith\ncompanies. Probably which is not well known, is that the S-P L. Co. was the largest single logging company in the U.S. for a couple of\nyears. The C.A.S. Co had an average 2500 people on the payroll in four states, and was the State of Oregon's largest employer.\nDepending upon the time of year, the S-P L. Co. had up to 1600 employees, but 600-800 was more common. The main mill was running\ntwo shifts and employing 400-800 men.\nMr. Smith constructed the world's largest sawmill first in Minneapolis and then again in Marshfield. He also was in charge of (I think) the\nfourth largest timber Co. in the U.S. Only the Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Land Management and Weyerhauser Corp had\nmore timber on the stump. None of which were owned and managed by a single person. The Coos Bay Lumber Company was not\nformed until 1915, during the great re-organization, but then again, it was just another company under the C.A.S. organization. In 1919,\nat bankruptcy hearings, the C.B.L.Co. became the dominant name, and via the court it then held sway over all of the above named\ncompanies. In 1922, the C.A.S. companies emerged from receivership and with a gold bond issue, the Pacific States Lumber Company\nwas formed. Again in 1929, after some bad decisions of the part of the Board of Directors, the company was taken over by the\nstockholders and renamed back to the Coos Bay Lumber Company. Odd in that 1929 was the most profitable for next 10 years, and one\nin which they sawed the largest quantity, and they were no longer in First place nationally or within Oregon as to output. The name\nsurvived until sale to the Georgia-Pacific Corporation.\nThe C.B.L. railroad mainly used bridges and trestles of timber construction. The steel bridges on Salmon Creek was installed by G-P\nafter the rails were pulled in 1949 after the tunnel collapsed. For reference this line was carried on the books as the Salmon Creek\nRailroad, and after 1929 it was leased to the Port Orford Cedar Company. The concrete pillar which is in the middle of the Coquille River\ncrossing at Powers was installed by G-P about in 1957 to replace the timber trestle which had been there so many years.\nThe tunnel just west of Powers, was constructed to the standards of the Great Northern Railroad company, to which Mr. Smith (of\nMinnesota) had an interest. A second tunnel was on the Salmon Creek Railroad adjacent to what is now called Tunnel Creek in 1920.\nThis lasted until 1949 when it collapsed. A truck road was built around it in 1950. A third tunnel was proposed in 1920 for the extension\nof the Salmon Creek Railroad into the Sixes River area. Nothing was actually built, but a 6000 foot incline (decline) was constructed and\nterminating within feet of the Curry County line instead.\nBefore the 1919 bankruptcy, S-P had 11 company camps, operating 65 steam donkeys, plus contracted work out to another four. The\ncompany had been the first experiment with electric logging and became one of the largest purchasers of early diesel donkeys. They\nstill however, were buying new steam donkeys as they had more pull for handling the large logs on Eden Ridge. During the early days,\nthe fleets of lokies were transporting about 1.5-2 million feet of logs to the mill on two shifts during each work day. In 1929 the\nfirst of the new style of saddle tankers was ordered, and one or two of these then handled 100-120 car log trains to McCormac spur\nusing the newer 56-64 foot cars. During the late 1930's the tide of mechanization and labor was changing. An experiment as to\nconverting over to truck haul in 1938 proved more expensive, and sub-contracting labor failed also. In 1940 the company bucked the\ntrend, and bought their own trucks, and hired hundreds of persons for woods work.\nNot to loose sight of benefit of truck hauling, reloads were established. Two ponds were operated at Powers, another was built at\nJohnson (east of Coquille) and the one at Coquille was expanded over time to become the world's largest during the 1950's. The two\nponds at Powers handled logs from Eden Ridge, Yellow Creek and Salmon Creek. The Johnson pond was built to handle over sized\ntrucks operating on company maintained dirt roads which paralleled Highway 42. The Coquille pond came in the purchase of the Smith\nWood Products firm in 1944 and handled the logs from Fairview and other areas of the Cunningham district. This pond is still in\noperation today. It was envisioned in the 1920's to extend the Cunningham railroad over the Coos Bay Military Wagon Road to a place on\nthe upper Coos River where logs could be floated to the mill. Although promises had been made by the eSPee to extend track beyond\nMyrtle Point to Roseburg, equally ambitious was the efforts by the C.B.L. Co to extend their logging track eastward into Douglas County\nfor a connection of with the Southern Pacific in Cow Creek. For in 1958 the trains up the 5 1/3% grade to Eden Ridge were only run the 12\nmiles as far as Coal Creek Camp.\nThe often noted steel bridges as coming from Utah, were only placed in one location, that being the substitute for bridge #14 on the\nmainline within Powers. The remainder of the smaller bridges were obtained from \"The Government\", most likely the B.L.M. or U.S.F.S.\nThe locomotive #104 was purchased new for the Pacific States Lumber Company, along with the initial Willamette locomotive. A\nbuilder's photo of the #104 painted up for COOS BAY LUMBER COMPANY name on the tender sides. (In 1955 it went to Toledo after a fire\ninjured the two tank locomotives from the C.D. Johnson company. It was returned nearly two years later, after the arrival of the #5 from\nBend Oregon.) In same note, most of the steam locomotives purchased second-hand, and locally used wood for fuel. The mainline\nBaldwin locomotives were built to run on coal, but could run on wood also. As the coal mines closed down, all locomotives were then\nconverted to run on oil. I have not located a picture of any wooding up station, but there was a coaling up station as a part of the\ntrestle and bridge at the southwest corner of the Powers yard leading across the Coquille River and up Salmon Creek. The oil for\nlocomotives and donkeys came from Richmond California. As the Adeline Smith, the Nann Smith and other company owned vessels\ntraveled the coast, they would haul lumber south to San Francisco Bay and oil back North to Coos Bay.\nA couple of the 60 foot long log cars went to the Oregon, California and Eastern Ry. in the 1970's. I found one about ten miles east of K.\nFalls on their mainline in 1991. A caboose was also saved and stored at Coquille, but burned by vandals in the 1980's. The long tangent\ntrack you show pictures of at Gaylord was on the ridge, to the southwest of the present dirt road. A spur ran off up into the hills in\n1915-1916 and then several were built down towards the river were a quarry was at.\nCourtesy of William Kaminsky\nThe San Diego Railroad Museum, which has the Coos Bay Lumber number 10 in active service\nThe Oregon Coast Historical Railroad, which owns the Coos Bay Lumber 104 for static display\nMy Central Oregon & Pacific Railroad page, which is the railroad that now operates the ex-SP Coos Branch,\nthat this railroad used to interchange with.\nIf anyone has any further information, corrections or pictures about this railroad, please let\nme know. You can Email me anytime. 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At a time when the energy and intellect of our elected representatives should be grappling with climate change, the management of water, the implementation of infrastructure and the details of defence expenditure and policy, they are instead embroiled in the politics of local government; councillors doing favours for the local used car leader.\nThe spectacle of Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull shouting at each other and using the media to try and defend their egos has been pathetic. There will be no winners out of this ill-advised battle.\nBut the contrived little stoush and the confected defence have given a glance into some darker aspects of government. The AFP has been called in to referee; this is dangerous, it is not the role of a police force. Do Australians want disputes within a democracy decided by the police?\nThis is the same unreformed AFP which shopped the Bali Nine, gave us the Haneef affair, which for attempted political advantage was sustained with contrived evidence; and it recently failed in the primary task of airport security.\nThe AFP has form. It was politicised by the previous Coalition government and is now poised to bite the hand of its creator. How ironic. There should be a lesson in that for Rudd. But he has demonstrated a disinclination for reform since taking office. He slipped into the Howard uniform as if it had been tailor made.\nThe ABC reports that the AFP has been investigating leaks and other issues within and from Treasury for some time, including an exchange of emails between the Treasurer, Ken Henry, and the head of the Reserve Bank, Glenn Stevens, over the issue of the Banking Guarantee. What levels of confidentiality and security pertain to this exchange when the two organisations are meant to be independent of one another? Or is it rather a matter of political and public service sensitivity; and if so why then would the AFP be involved?\nIn the grubby used car affair, an email is said to have been created, for reasons as yet unexplained, but implied by those who allegedly do not know, for political purposes; apparently to finger the Prime Minister. Maybe or maybe it was a sting. How could we be sure with the secrecy with which the AFP is operates? We are asked to accept their activities on trust which is an increasingly big ask.\nThis sordid and boring little affair tells us much about the nature of the Federal Government and the media. For the latter politics is an entertaining blood sport which needs encouragement to try and hang onto retreating advertisers. Gone is the focus on national issues including the role of the AFP.\nThe Federal Government is paralysed in the face of significant challenges and the need to govern and make decisions; it is populist, gutless and narcissistic.\nIt has maintained the previous governments discredited refugee policy.\nThe badly written Defence White Paper, was more of a Christmas wish list than a realistic appraisal of Australian Defence needs and capabilities. It has been hard to take seriously and this has been reinforced by the limited reaction and debate that followed its release; most serious analysts expect it to sink without a trace, which is a combination of poor policy and an inability to take into account the effect on Defence expenditure of the global recession/depression.\nRudd was poorly advised to throw money at voters in an attempt to ameliorate negative reaction to the recession. The economic down turn has a long way to run yet. It is the result of significant structural weakness in the global economy. The cause of which has not been addressed. The full impact has yet to register on Australia. Rudd\u2019s measures amount to short term gain for long term pain. Neither he nor his advisers have a clue as to what awaits down the track, yet they have committed all our reserves and significant borrowings.\nThis policy is fear and populist driven. Paradoxically it is high risk. Yet it has been entered into lightly and for political reasons. It will come to haunt him. His nervous response has ensured that the future stakes for Australia are high.\nThe ideological battle within Treasury over Rudd\u2019s populist approach to the economy has unexpectedly blown out with Treasury official Godwin Grech at the centre of a political storm caused by an attempt to nail the Treasurer, Wayne Swan and damage the re-election prospects of Kevin Rudd.\nRudd has been running the country like a poorly run embassy. Endless requests for briefings, an over flowing in-tray and decisions delayed.\nThe post Fitzgibbon reshuffle forced Rudd to promote strong characters who have the capacity to overshadow him. Rudd is tarnished by the nonsense of the past weeks and will be diminished by the proximity of Ministers who are less petty and self absorbed, and it should be said, more capable and courageous.\nTurnbull on the other hand, if he is to have a chance at the next election, must rid himself of his troglodyte right. He must take his party to the centre, where he will perform at his best.\nRACIST AUSTRALIA\nRecent attacks on Indian students have thrust the issue of racism in Australia into the mainstream news bulletins. The Indian Government has protested, the Indian media has expressed concern and Kevin Rudd has made one of his grave and concerned statements.\nThe Australian media toyed with the notion that perhaps there are elements of racism in this country.\nOf course Australia is racist. It is still viewed by mainstream Australia as wrong, so it is practised with some guilt and in polite company circumspection. Quiet soundings at social gatherings of what appear to be like- minded people, eventually leading to, once credentials seem to have been established, \u201cI have nothing against them but \u2026\u201d\nPolite and sometimes not-so-polite racism is the underbelly of conservative politics and conservative attitudes. Racism weaves its way through Australian sport with varying degrees of official tolerance, but in some codes it has equal billing with misogyny. It was there for all to see with the crude sledging engaged in during the last Australian cricket tour of India.\nIn not-so-polite society racism is blatant. Have you seen the ugly text messages relating to Aboriginals, Muslims, Jews, Indians and refugees?\nAustralians from the dominant Anglo-Celtic culture expect new Australians from other cultural backgrounds to show some respect, perhaps even a small cringe and obsequiousness, forelock tugging, until such time as they know the ropes, cut their cultural ties and enter the main stream.\nTemporary settlers and long term visitors are expected to absorb main stream culture more quickly and to show a suitable degree of deference. Some individuals and national groups are better at this than others. Maybe Indians have a problem with deference.\nOf course racism is a fact of life in Australia. The treatment of Aborigines is the most glaring example and is there for the world to see. Aborigines are not equal before the law in Australia; they die in the back of prison vans. White fellahs speak, plan and make decisions on their behalf. Rehabilitation programs in prison are minimal and many prison guards display racial prejudice including toward visiting relatives. White decision makers are currently in the process of denying outstations to aboriginals.\nThe first identified threat by white settlers was from thieving, dispossessed, Aborigines, who were placed in the same category as Australian fauna, and then Asians, who apparently constituted a threat to the wage structure and racial purity. The Union Movement and The Bulletin magazine urged maintenance of a White Australia policy and it was not difficult to bring the squatters and members of the professional middle class along with them. Keeping Australia free for the white man was one of the catch cries for recruitment to the First AIF (Australian Imperial Force).\nThe White Australia policy \u201cofficially\u201d died with the election of the Labor Whitlam government in 1972; but in reality it didn\u2019t. Attitudes in the white macho middle class didn\u2019t change. It was a badge of honour among the emotionally and intellectually beleaguered (and challenged) conservatives in the middle class to oppose anything the Whitlam government instituted.\nExpecting big things from Malcolm Fraser when he was elected Prime Minister in 1976, they were disappointed, if not shocked with his attitude and policies toward Aborigines, refugees arriving by boat and by his opposition to apartheid. He was a class and party traitor.\nHoward\u2019s treatment of refugees arriving by boat was state sponsored and sanctioned racism. It sent a powerful message, not to desperate refugees but to other Australians, some of whom saw it as encouragement to develop and express their own racism. Haneef was a victim. The unwillingness of the Australian Federal Police to admit mistakes or apologise also sent a powerful message both overseas and to those within this country who put the AFP on a higher pedestal than they do tolerance and human rights.\nThe Rudd Government has kept in place the fundamentals of the Howard government\u2019s intolerant policies toward Aborigines and refugees. As an example to others it leaves much to be desired, as does Rudd\u2019s recent intemperate attack on people smugglers. Does Rudd believe that government policies reinforcing and backing racist actions and attitudes would not have a negative impact at street level?\nGETTING SERIOUS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS\nRecent international criticism and local political shenanigans demonstrate that Australians need \u2013 and need now \u2013 constitutionally enshrined human rights, covering economic, social and cultural rights. And if the Rudd Government won\u2019t give us protection at that level \u2013 and undoubtedly it won\u2019t \u2013 it should at least begin taking human rights seriously.\nThe National Human Rights Consultation is being conducted now, during the first half of 2009, so every Australian should wake from their human rights slumber, take heed of the concluding observations raised by the United Nations\u2019 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in its May 22, 2009 report and provide input to the independent committee.\nThe Australian Human Rights Commission has already pointed out that:\nMany people believe that the Australian Constitution contains human rights protections, such as the right to free speech. This is not true. The Australian Constitution offers very limited protections for human rights.\nThe Constitution includes the right to vote, the right to trial by jury for certain offences, some protection of freedom of religion, an implied right to freedom of political communication, and the right to be paid a fair price if the government compulsorily acquires your property.\nHowever, the Australian Constitution does not guarantee rights and freedoms such as the right to be represented by a lawyer at trial, the right to free speech (generally, as opposed to merely on political issues), the right to equality before the law, or the right of peaceful assembly.\nAs well as criticising the Rudd Government\u2019s half-hearted terms of reference for the National Human Rights Consultation, the UN report contains a scathing assessment of Australia\u2019s treatment of Indigenous Australians, asylum seekers, migrants, people with disabilities, women, the mentally ill, the disenfranchised and the marginalised.\nOn May 7, 2009 the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Stephen Smith, issued a press release which stated: \u201cThe Australian Government welcomes the opportunity to engage in discussion of Australia\u2019s human rights performance. The Government looks forward to receiving the Committee\u2019s concluding observations at the end of the Committee\u2019s session on 22 May \u2026\u201d\nWell, the report\u2019s been published so it will be interesting to see the government\u2019s response.\nDid the government anticipate that it would come under fire? Was it just coincidence or was it a pre-emptive strike before the committee\u2019s recommendations became more well known, that the federal Attorney-General announced on May 22, 2009, that Australia has signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment?\nThe irony is that even as Australia signed the Optional Protocol it was breaking it. The continued excision of northern Australian Islands from the migration zone and incarceration on Christmas Island without access to legal advice are measures designed to make it harder for asylum seekers to gain refugee status. Besides being petty, fearful and mean, these measures are cruel and deny asylum seekers the human rights they are entitled to under the UN Refugee Convention.\nAustralia has put the management of part of its refugee responsibilities in the hands of the Indonesian Police and Army. Australia has outsourced, for a fee, the apprehension and detention of asylum seekers, destined for Australia, to instruments under the control of the Indonesian government. The Indonesian government is not a signatory to the UN Convention on Refugees. However as agents of the Australian government presumably these Indonesian instrumentalities are covered by Australian accession to the Convention. In which case Australia is in breach of the Convention and the Optional Protocol just signed.\nIndonesia claims to have apprehended 887 asylum seekers bound for Australia since September last year. Who verifies or monitors these claims? Is a bounty paid by the Australian government to the Indonesian authorities on each person detained and incarcerated? Who inspects the conditions under which asylum seekers live after being detained? Are they representatives of the Australian government or other organisations acting as agents of the Australian government? Most asylum seekers who have arrived by boat have been found to be refugees. What responsibility does Australia have under the Optional Protocol for seeking to thwart and obstruct genuine refugees from resettlement in a safe environment?\nTuesday was the commemoration of National Sorry Day and still the Rudd Government \u2013 like its predecessors \u2013 continues to ignore international law. This time it\u2019s a housing solution on Alice Springs town camps. Doesn\u2019t this fly in the face of the UN Committee\u2019s observations that:\nThe Committee remains concerned that some of the Northern Territory Intervention measures adopted by the State party in response to the 2007 report, are inconsistent with the Covenant rights, in particular with the principle of non-discrimination, and have a negative impact on the realisation of the rights of indigenous peoples. The Committee notes with regret that the Northern Territory Intervention measures were adopted without sufficient and adequate consultation with the indigenous peoples concerned. (art.2.2)\nThe Committee recommends that the State party: a) address the human rights violations identified in the 2007 Little Children are sacred report bearing in mind the recommendations of the 2008 report of the Northern Territory Intervention Response Review board in this regard; b) conduct formal consultations with the indigenous peoples concerned regarding the operation and impact of the Northern Territory Intervention; c) establish a national indigenous representative body with adequate resources; and d) ratify ILO Convention No. 169 concerning Indigenous and Tribal Peoples in Independent Countries (1989).\nThe UN Committee also expressed concern about \u201cthe negative impact of climate change on the right to an adequate standard of living, including on the right to food and the right to water, affecting in particular indigenous peoples, in spite of the State Party\u2019s recognition of the challenges imposed by climate change\u201d. If Australia really is a good international citizen is the Rudd Government going to step in to prevent State Governments from further privatising the country\u2019s water supplies in order to protect such rights?\nUntil Kevin and Penny Wong grasp that access to an adequate potable water supply is a basic human right they will not be able to bring about policy which addresses the needs of Australia. Within the framework of addressing the supply of potable water, there falls the requirements of industry and agriculture. Private enterprise will not distribute water equitably. It needs to be recognised that, sooner or later, federal government will need to (or will be forced to) take on the role of conservator and distributor of water without fear or favour. Corrupt and parochial state and local governments can have no part in such undertakings and neither can cashed up private companies which have shown an inclination to feed government corruption for their own ends.\nAnd while the Rudd Government is busy praising the arrest of people for alleged people smuggling, and making sure it gets plenty of coverage, is it also busy reflecting on the UN Committee\u2019s recommendations to it that \u201c\u2026 it implement without delay its new \u2018seven values\u2019 in policy, and carry out the Australian Human Rights Commission\u2019s recommendations adopted in its 2008 Immigration Detention Report, including the repeal of the mandatory immigration detention system and the closure of the Christmas Island detention Centre \u2026\u201d\nIf the Rudd Government is really serious about its citizens and about \u201cbuilding on\u201d its human rights record then at the very least it should first, immediately respond to and implement all recommendations clearly laid out by the Committee and second, reconsider its narrow terms of reference for the National Human Rights Consultation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 19656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 254.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://business.thedalleschamber.com/list/member/rage-graphix-design-1074", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:24Z", "digest": "sha1:W3EE6EMRJAEG3UVE2MY2RNRBCQPPLFYN", "length": 436, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "business.thedalleschamber.com", "title": "Rage Graphix & Design | Media, Printing & Design - The Dalles Area Chamber of Commerce", "raw_content": "Rage Graphix & Design\nhttp://ragegraphix.com/\nWe're open Monday - Friday from 9am - 5:00pm\nWe offer full service graphic design, sign making and fleet graphics. 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He attended Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, during 1915, but left to enlist in the Royal Canadian Artillery. He served in France as a signaller and was injured by chlorine gas at Vimy Ridge. He returned at war's end to attend the University of Toronto, where he graduated in 1923 with a degree in forestry.\nFollowing the war he worked on the temporary staff with the Ontario Provincial Forestry group and in 1922 took part in the James Bay survey which operated from a base near Kapuskasing. This was the summer of ravaging forest fires in northern Ontario, as well as the disastrous fire at Haileybury on the shore of Lake Timiskaming, with its devastating losses. That event made a distinct impression on MacDougall and had much to do with shaping his future career.\nThe government of Ontario employed MacDougall in their forest survey branch during the summers of his university years, and following his graduation named him Assistant Forester of the Pembroke and Sault Ste. Marie district. In 1924 he was named district forester of the Sault St. Marie district, the same year the Ontario Provincial Air Service was formed. It was during this period he became convinced of the usefulness of aircraft in the protection of forests and in the administration of the province's parks. G.H.R. Phillips encouraged him and became his flying instructor. MacDougall gained his Commercial Pilot's Licence in 1930, eventually logging some 6,000 hours as pilot-in-command. He also obtained his Air Engineer's Certificate that same year.\nFrom 1931 to 1941 MacDougall served as Superintendent of Algonquin Park and Chief Forester of the Pembroke district. With his broad spectrum of knowledge and experience, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Lands and Forests. The Department of Game and Fisheries was added to this portfolio in 1946.\nMacDougall immediately became involved in the expansion and development of air services, with particular application not only to the detecting of forest fires, but in suppressing them by means of water-bombing from the air. His department was directly responsible for developing the water-bombing tanks to equip the fleet, and this method of combating forest fires has since been adopted by numerous other forestry protection air services. In addition, he developed the use of department aircraft for the administration of game and fish regulations, wild life surveys, and the movement of inspectors and other officers on forest management duties. The restocking of lakes and streams with game fish fingerlings dropped from aircraft was another function assumed by his department.\nMacDougall's lengthy experience as a pilot, flying across unmapped and uninhabited areas, led him to take active steps in developing the Canadian-designed and built de Havilland Beaver and Otter aircraft to meet northern bush requirements. He gave both stimulus and initiative to the development of these world-famous aircraft by placing orders for them even before they had flown. The first OPAS Beaver was delivered in April 1948, and over the years the department owned 45 Beavers and 28 Turbo Beavers. It was through his foresight and decisions that the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests operates the world's largest fleet of government-owned aircraft on forest protection services. For these contributions to aviation he was awarded the Trans-Canada (McKee) Trophy for 1963. MacDougall retired from government service in 1966, on his 70th birthday. He died in Toronto on June 27, 1975.\nFrank Archibald MacDougall was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nUntil 1924, when the Ontario government set up an air services, forest fires had been detected from ground patrols and from boats or canoes. They were fought by conventional methods using shovels and axes. The use of aircraft in the forestry service opened up other important uses of the airplane, including wildlife surveys and enforcing game regulations. The incidence of poaching, which during the 1930\u2019s had been a major problem, was practically wiped out.\nNickname: Elsie\nBirth Place: Vancouver, British Columbia\nAwards: O.C., D.Sc.(Hon.), LL.D.(Hon.), Gzowski Medal (Engineering Institute of Canada), FASI, FRAS, FEIC, American Society of Women Engineers Medal, Julian C. Smith Memorial Medal (EIC), The Amelia Earhart Medal (The 99\u2019s)\n\"Her contribution to Canadian and international design and engineering, her high honours, her resolve that led her to the top of her profession, have been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1984\nElizabeth Muriel Gregory (Elsie) MacGill, O.C., B.Sc., M.Sc., D.Sc.(Hon.), LL.D.(Hon.), was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on March 27, 1905. She received her education in Vancouver and then attended the University of Toronto. In 1927 she became the first woman to graduate from that university with an Electrical Engineering Degree. This was followed by graduate study at the University of Michigan, where, in 1929, she became the first woman to receive a Masters Degree in Aeronautical Engineering.\nWhile MacGill was at the University of Michigan, she was stricken with acute infectious myelitis, a form of polio. She wrote her final exams from her hospital bed, determined that her disability would not stop her pursuit of a career in engineering. In 1933 she enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to further her post-graduate work in aeronautics. In 1934 she was hired as an engineer at Fairchild Aircraft Limited at Longueuil, Quebec. During her time with the company she worked on stress analysis of the prototype Fairchild Super 71, which had the first stressed-skin, all-metal fuselage designed and built in Canada.\nIn 1938 she left Fairchild to become Chief Aeronautical Engineer at the Fort William (Thunder Bay) plant of Canadian Car and Foundry Company Limited. It was there that she became the first woman to work on the over-all design of an airplane, the Maple Leaf II, a two-seat, single-engine biplane designed as a primary trainer for use on wheels, skis or floats. This trainer received its certificate of airworthiness, aerobatics category, within eight months of the commencement of design, an outstanding achievement. She flew with the pilot as an observer on all test flights of this little trainer.\nA few weeks after the beginning of World War II in 1939, she was informed that the plant would be involved with large-scale production of military aircraft. She was put in charge of all engineering work related to the Canadian production of the British-designed Hawker Hurricane fighter. Within a year the old railway car plant was producing three fighters a day with a staff of 4,500. A total of 1,450 Hurricanes were produced in just two years. When this contract was completed, MacGill was responsible for the production of 835 Curtiss Hell Divers for the U.S. Navy.\nIn 1937 she became the first woman to be admitted to corporate membership in the Engineering Institute of Canada and received the Institute's Gzowski Medal in 1940 for her paper on \"Factors Affecting the Mass Production of Aeroplanes.\" In 1943, MacGill left Canadian Car to set up her own consulting business in Toronto as an aeronautical engineer. That same year she married a fellow aircraft designer, E.J. (Bill) Soulsby, Assistant General Manager of Victory Aircraft Limited at Malton, Ontario.\nIn 1946 MacGill became the first woman to serve as Canadian Technical Advisor to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), where she helped draft the international air worthiness regulations for the design and production of commercial aircraft. In 1947 she served as chairman of the stress analysis committee at ICAO, the first woman to hold this position.\nMacGill held Fellowships in the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, the Royal Aeronautical Society, and the Engineering Institute of Canada. She was a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the first woman member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.\nMacGill's contributions and accomplishments earned her wide recognition and many honours. The American Society of Women Engineers honoured her in 1953 and presented her with the Society's medal, the first time these distinctions were granted to someone outside of the United States. The Canadian Government, recognizing her substantial contributions, appointed her an Officer of the Order of Canada (O.C.) in 1971. She received the Engineering Institute of Canada Julian C. Smith Memorial Medal in 1973. The Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots awarded her the Amelia Earhart Medal in 1975. Four Universities conferred Honorary Doctorates on her: Toronto (1973), Windsor (1976), Queens (1978) and York (1978).\nIn addition to her aeronautical pursuits, she had a concern for the legal rights and status of women, became active in women's organizations throughout Canada, and was highly respected for her thoughtful and constructive views. In 1967 she was one of the seven appointees to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Just prior to her death she had accepted an appointment to the Canadian Organizing Committee for the 1981 International Year of the Disabled. She died in a car accident at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on November 4, 1980, before she could participate on this committee.\nElizabeth Muriel Gregory (Elsie) MacGill was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1983 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\n\"Queen of the Hurricanes: The Fearless Elsie MacGill\" - Crystal Sissons (2014)\n\"Her Daughter The Engineer: The Life of Elsie MacGill\" - Dick Bourgeois-Doyle (2008)\n\u201cNo Place for a Lady - The story of Canadian Women Pilots\u201d - Shirley Render (1992)\nElsie MacGill was the author of many technical aviation articles and a biography, \u201cMy Mother the Judge\u201d, which is about her mother, Judge Helen Gregory MacGill, who was judge of the Juvenile Court in Vancouver for 22 years.\nNickname: Gerry\nBirth Place: Amherst, Nova Scotia\n\"He has met and defeated every aeronautical challenge as both pilot and navigator in the crudest of geographic arenas and his Arctic flights have proven to be of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1974\nGerald Lester (Gerry) Maclnnis was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, on June 2, 1914. He was educated there, at Point Pleasant, Prince Edward Island, and Montreal, Quebec. The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) accepted him for air crew training in 1941. He graduated as a commissioned officer and air observer and was posted to No. 116 Squadron at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on anti-submarine patrols during the Battle of the Atlantic. The following year he transferred to 117 Squadron on aerial patrols over the Gulf of St. Lawrence, under Wing Commander Stan R. McMillan.\nIn 1943 he was selected for pilot training and at graduation, became one of the few members of the RCAF qualified to wear both observer and pilot wings. He returned to No. 117 Squadron until 1944 when a transfer placed him with No. 45 Group, Royal Air Force Transport Command, based at Dorval, Quebec, where he was promoted to Flight Lieutenant. He completed a number of long-range ferry flights.\nMaclnnis was seconded to British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) as an Instrument Flight Instructor and Check Pilot on the North Atlantic Ocean route in 1945. At the end of World War II, BOAC offered him a permanent position and he subsequently qualified for both British and American Senior Pilot's Licences, Instrument Ratings and Navigator's Certificates. In 1948 he qualified as Captain on the Constellation. He resigned in 1950 to become a full-time farmer on Prince Edward Island.\nIn 1951 the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, a chain of radar stations, was under construction in the eastern Arctic as part of the Canada-United States northern defence line. Maritime Central Airways, operated by C.F. Burke, was the prime airlift contractor for the eastern sector of the DEW Line. Burke offered Maclnnis a position as a pilot, which would take him to a setting very different from the idyllic farm life of the Maritimes.\nMaclnnis was given the responsibility of landing the advance parties at each of the sites in the Arctic region, set 50 miles (80 km) apart and extending over a total distance of 900 miles (1,450 km), from St. John's, Newfoundland, along the coast of Labrador, to Frobisher Bay, Northwest Territories. He personally carried out the initial aircraft landings at all but one of these points, enabling camps to be set up preparatory to construction work. The task of locating the sites was a serious problem in itself. While the sites had been chosen by advance aerial surveyors and marked on maps, there were few, if any, geological features to facilitate their identification from the air. Moreover, for the initial flights, navigational aids were non-existent.\nMaclnnis' aerial operation was considered one of the most difficult in the history of Canadian commercial aviation. Long distance flights in ski-equipped Douglas DC-3/C-47 aircraft through brutal winter storms to unmapped areas were a constant requirement. Due to the distances involved, aircraft had to leave the main base on almost every flight with full tanks of fuel, thus reducing the payload. After landing the advance party, it was necessary to complete a second and sometimes a third flight to each site to deliver supplies, and equipment for setting up navigational aids for further flights.\nDuring this 29-month period in the north, Maclnnis flew 2,455 hours, of which 540 hours were completed at night. He was awarded the Trans-Canada (McKee) Trophy for 1955. His abilities as a pilot and navigator were cited as one of the greatest single factors in the success of the DEW Line venture.\nIn March of each year from 1952-1954, Maclnnis was assigned to lead seal surveys. Patrol flights were made over the Atlantic Ocean north of Newfoundland to chart the movement of the sea ice to help in predicting the locations of seal herds. During these periods he also completed a number of emergency missions in that region.\nWork on the DEW Line was completed in 1957, and for the next two years, Maclnnis flew long-range charter flights. In 1959 he coined the Ministry of Transport (MOT) as an Air Carrier Inspector. He was transferred to Ottawa, Ontario, in 1965, and named Supervisory Pilot for the MOT fleet of fixed-wing aircraft. When he retired from MOT on June 1, 1979, he had flown 21 different aircraft types and spent over 21,000 hours in the Captain's seat, which is equivalent to almost 2.5 years off the ground. He died in Ottawa on March 6, 1991.\nGerald Lester (Gerry) Maclnnis was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nDrifting snow and reduced visibility were constant hazards, and made the problem of locating the advance party on the second and third flights of each DEW Line site almost as difficult as spotting the sites initially. Although the Arctic regions do not usually receive large volumes of snow, the incessant winds cause the snow to drive and the surface to become extremely rough and hard, adding to the problems of landing aircraft in that region during the darkness of winter.\nBirth Place: Ottawa, Ontario\nAwards: D.S.O., M.C.*, D.F.C., The Croix de Guere (France), Legion of Honour (France)\n\"His exceptional success as a wartime aviator in the cause of peace, coupled to a succession of civil pioneering achievements as a first generation bush pilot and his dedication to purpose in fostering the growth of the Air Cadet league of Canada, despite adversity, have been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1977\nDonald Roderick MacLaren, D.S.O., M.C.*, D.F.C., was born in Ottawa, Ontario, on May 28, 1893. His family lived for some years in Calgary, Alberta, and Vancouver, .British Columbia. In 1914, after two years at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, he accompanied his father and brother to northern Alberta, where they opened a fur-trading post at Keg River, about 200 miles (320 km) north of Peace River Crossing.\nIn early 1917 MacLaren joined the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in Canada, completed his flying training at Camp Borden, Ontario, and was brevetted a pilot that same year. After operational training in England as a 2nd Lieutenant, he was posted to 46 Squadron in France. He remained with that unit during his entire tour of combat flying, becoming Commander of the squadron within a year.\nHis first aerial victory came in March of 1918, and from that time on, except for two brief periods of leave, his name was featured almost daily in military communiques. In April he was promoted to Captain, awarded the Military Cross (M.C.) and named Flight Commander. During one sortie behind enemy lines he disabled a long-range gun and shot down one balloon and two enemy aircraft. Three months later, when his score of hostile aircraft destroyed stood at nine, he was awarded a Bar to the Military Cross. Only a few weeks later, having by then shot down thirty-seven enemy aircraft in combat, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.). He was promoted to Major and given command of the squadron.\nBy October of 1918 his record of victories was exceeded by only two other pilots then at the front, William Barker and Raymond Collishaw (both Hall of Fame 1974). Just two weeks before the Armistice he had his last enemy engagement, bringing his total score of victories to forty-eight aircraft and six balloons. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.). France awarded him the Croix de Guerre and made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.\nAt war's end in 1918, he assisted with the formation of the non-permanent Canadian Air Force that came into being in 1920 under the administration of the Canadian Air Board. In the spring of 1921 he was back in Vancouver, and in 1924 he bought a Curtiss JN-4 and formed Pacific Airways Limited at Vancouver, in 1925, carrying out fishery patrols and aerial surveys for the Canadian government. He served as Executive Officer and Chief Pilot of the far-ranging fleet until 1928, when his company merged with Western Canada Airways Limited.\nWhen MacLaren became Superintendent of the Pacific Coast Division of Western Canada Airways, with headquarters at Vancouver, he expanded the air operations into the Yukon using the latest available aircraft, on which he became qualified. Pilots under his command in the sub-Arctic, the Yukon and throughout British Columbia included Norm Forester and Stan McMillan. In 1929 he and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon flew the experimental airmail service between Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and Medicine Hat, Lethbridge and Calgary, Alberta.\nWestern Canada Airways was absorbed by Canadian Airways Limited in 1930, an airline created by James A Richardson, who tried to form a national airline with offices across the country and regional managers such as Don MacLaren, Punch Dickins, Romeo Vachon and Herbert Hollick-Kenyon. MacLaren was named Assistant General Manager for British Columbia and the Yukon, a position he held until 1937.\nIn 1937 MacLaren was hired by Trans-Canada Airlines as its first employee, Assistant to the Vice-President. He was appointed Vice-President of Operations in Ottawa, and selected airline pilots for this new airline from among the best of Canada's well known bush pilots. Within three years he was appointed Superintendent of Stations and Director of Passenger Services. In 1945 he was named Executive Assistant to the President, Pacific Area. He retired from TCA in 1958.\nThe Air Cadet movement was one of MacLaren's long-time interests. In 1941 he formed the first Air Cadet Squadron in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He rose from Provincial Chairman to the Presidency of the Air Cadet League of Canada. Air Canada designed the D.R. MacLaren Trophy in his honour. It is presented annually to the most proficient Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron in British Columbia.\nMacLaren died in Vancouver on July 4, 1988, at the age of 95.\nDonald Roderick MacLaren was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1977 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nD.R. MacLaren was among the most brilliant of the many Canadians who distinguished themselves as fighter pilots with the R.F.C. He did not get into action until late November 1917, and his first aerial victory did not come until early March 1918. His operational career ended in October 1918. Yet in less than eight months, he was credited with 54 aerial victories, having brought down 48 enemy aircraft and six observation balloons, becoming the fourth-ranking Canadian fighter ace of the war. He was also credited with more aerial victories in the Sopwith Camel than any single pilot of World War 1.\nBirth Place: Olympia, Washington, USA\nAwards: FCASI, The McCurdy Award (CASI)\n\"His engineering skills, coupled with inventive genius, an ability and a willingness to explain his engineering principles, the self-set standards of perfection which he himself met and which he demanded of others, have been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction Citation, 1977\nMerlin William (Mac) MacLeod was born in Olympia, Washington, U.S.A., on February 1, 1892. He attended school there and at Tacoma, Washington, until 1910 when he moved to Vancouver, British Columbia.\nMacLeod joined Canadian Airways Limited at Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the early 1930's as a flight mechanic and worked with bush pilots in Canada's north. On one occasion, after his aircraft crash-landed in an uninhabited area and splintered the propeller, he hand carved another which worked well enough to enable the pilot to fly the aircraft to civilization. In 1933 he was severely injured in an aircraft crash near Lac du Bonnet, near the southern tip of Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba. Although unable to walk, he was credited with saving the life of his pilot through emergency first aid.\nIn 1937 MacLeod was employed by Trans-Canada Airlines in Winnipeg as an air engineer, before moving to Dorval, Quebec, as Superintendent of production overhaul. He became, successively, Superintendent of job methods and development, and Development Engineer.\nMacLeod's inventive genius led to many aircraft-related technical advances. He invented the brake disc slotting system which provided more efficient cooling of the discs, thus reducing warping of aircraft brake discs. This application is used world-wide. He developed a cowl flap which was designed to regulate engine temperatures. It greatly increased the time required between engine over-hauls, and was an immediate success. Not only did it benefit Canadian air transport operations, it is used internationally. In 1949 he was responsible for inventing the cross-over exhaust system which greatly reduced noise in the cabins of North Star aircraft.\nA classic in aeronautical design was his ball and socket principle for exhaust systems, which added to the safety and economy of aircraft engine exhaust systems in Canada, the United States and Great Britain. Numerous other inventions and improvements in the aircraft industry are credited to him, such as pneumatic deicers, emergency fuel systems and hydraulic and lubrication systems.\nPerhaps less tangible, but with equal impact on the aviation industry generally, were the methods he used to instruct those under his command in job handling and personnel training.\nHe was named an Associate Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute and was honoured with the McCurdy Award in 1954 for his sustained contributions in the field of aviation. The citation stressed his consistent display of ingenuity, and his abilities to pass on to others his experiences and ways of accomplishing certain tasks.\nMacLeod retired from TCA in 1959, and died at Pointe Claire, Quebec, on December 12, 1959.\nMerlin William (Mac) MacLeod was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1977 at a ceremony held at Edmonton, Alberta.\nMacLeod\u2019s inventive genius led to many aircraft-related technical advances. His inventions resulted in lower maintenance costs, as well as safer and more efficient operations. His accomplishments were recognized internationally by aircraft manufacturers and operators.\nBirth Place: Montreal, Quebec\nAwards: A.F.C., C.D., Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, FCASI\n\"Through his superior intellect and his devotion to duty, his accomplishments as a high latitude researcher and development of a practical polar grid navigation system, he has made a superb contribution to aviation in Canada's polar regions and safer worldwide air transport operations.\" - Induction citation, 2005\nKenneth Cecil Maclure, A.F.C., C.D., B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD (Nuclear physics) was born in Montreal on October 14, 1914. He completed high school there and entered McGill University on a full scholarship. He graduated in 1934 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics.\nIn the fall of 1939 he was selected among the top McGill graduates to initiate the training of navigators for the newly planned British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). He joined the RCAF and began the first Instructor's Course in navigation at Trenton, Ontario before moving to the Air Navigation School at Rivers, Manitoba.\nIn 1941 Maclure was posted to the Royal Air Force (RAF) No. 31 Air Navigation School at Port Albert, Ontario where the RAF's chief navigational school had been transferred from England. A recently developed Link Celestial Navigation Trainer had been installed there. It was able to simulate flights at all latitudes, including the polar region. This intrigued him and further stimulated his interest in problems associated with polar navigation.\nWith his solid background in mathematics and physics and an interest in the basics of air navigation, Maclure quickly grasped the extent of the problem and immediately set about finding answers. His study culminated in a definitive paper on polar navigation which was published in the fall of 1941. While not the first to suggest a grid overlay, he was the first to propose a method for using it effectively. He named it the Greenwich Grid since his proposal involved drawing reference lines parallel to the Greenwich Meridian.\nAcknowledging that the magnetic compass was of very little use in the polar region, he suggested that a directional gyroscope could provide a stable and practical steering reference. He then described how the procedure was to be used to maintain a desired heading using the astro-compass, celestial bodies, and a constant scale chart, such as the Polar Stereographic, with the Greenwich Grid overlay. The traditional coordinates of latitude and longitude would continue to be used to identify a geographic location as well as the position of the aircraft.\nBecause the war demanded all available resources, and very high latitude flights were not a priority at the time, nothing further was made of this highly significant development, although it was a matter of serious discussion at high levels in RAF, RCAF and U.S. military circles. Maclure's paper remained under security wraps until the end of WW II.\nIn October 1941 he was assigned to oversee navigation training at the BCATP schools in Western Canada. The following year, Maclure, then a Squadron Leader, attended the first Specialist Navigation Course in England. He then returned to Canada where he held senior navigation training positions at Air Force HQ and No. 3 Training Command in Montreal. He was now an Acting Wing Commander.\nIn November 1944 at the request of the RAF, Maclure again went overseas to serve as Director, Test and Development at the Empire Air Navigation School (EANS) in Shawbury, which was considered the leading allied air navigation school at the time. Planning now began, under his guidance, to test the Grid Navigation System.\nIn May 1945 a specially modified Lancaster bomber aircraft, named \"Aries\", undertook a series of flights to both the North Geographic and North Magnetic Poles. These flights, involving 110 hours flying time between May 17 and 26, established the Greenwich Grid as a fully practical and safe routing navigation technique. One of the flights also established that the North Magnetic Pole was about 480 kilometers north-northwest of its charted position, further emphasizing the failure of the magnetic compass as a steering reference.\nTo obtain his instrument readings, Wing Commander Maclure worked under extreme conditions, spending up to nineteen hours at a time confined to the rear of the Lancaster's fuselage where inside temperatures were almost as cold as outside - often down to minus 65 degrees.\nOn a flight destined for Whitehorse, Yukon the Aries stopped briefly at the RCAF Central Navigation School in Rivers, Manitoba, where the staff was briefed on the success of the Aries flights and the utility of the Greenwich Grid. Following a stopover in Whitehorse, a direct flight was made back to the EANS at Shawbury, once again successfully employing the Greenwich Grid navigation technique. Thus Maclure was the first Canadian to fly over the North Geographic Pole.\nUpon completion of the Aries flights, Maclure received the Air Force Cross from the RAF in recognition of his contributions as the senior navigator directing all aspects of the Aries research flights. The U.S. Institute of Navigation honoured him with their prestigious Thurlow Award in recognition of his \"outstanding contribution to the science of navigation\" in 1945. He was the first recipient of this award.\nOn his return to Canada in 1946, Maclure was seconded to the Arctic Section of the Defence Research Board to work on arctic navigation problems. At this time, through security declassification and the publicized success of the Aries flights, the Greenwich Grid system had gained wide recognition. His writing and speaking engagements ranged from consulting with the U.S. military on the Greenwich Grid technique to addressing the Royal Geographic Society in the UK on the technical aspects of the Aries polar flights. During this time, other Aries-related articles were published in various journals.\nIn 1948 Maclure returned to McGill University for post-graduate studies in Physics, and acquired an M.Sc. in 1950, and a Doctorate in Nuclear Physics in 1952. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation in 1949.\nDuring the early 1950's, Maclure returned to the field of research as Senior Test Engineer at the Central Experimental and Proving Establishment (CEPE) at RCAF Station Rockcliffe. Promoted to Group Captain in 1958, he served at Air Force Headquarters as Director of Armament Engineering. He was later posted as the Canadian Military Attache to Warsaw, Poland where he served for three years.\nWhen he returned to Canada in 1961, he was again seconded to the Defence Research Board, this time to the Pacific Naval Laboratory at Esquimalt, B.C. as head of the Electro-Magnetic Research Group. He was engaged in acoustic and electromagnetic research in ice-filled waters, a matter of extreme importance to RCAF anti-submarine operations. Unfortunately, because of the military sensitivity of much of his work, his contributions are not widely known outside of the military.\nMaclure retired from the RCAF in November 1969, but he continued as head of the Electro-Magnetic Research Group at Esquimalt conducting research in the Arctic on under-sea and ice experiments out of Resolute Bay, NWT. He also served as a part time lecturer in Physics at the University of Victoria. In 1971 he was appointed Chief of Defence Research Staff at the Canadian High Commission, London, a position he held for four years. In 1974 he was elected Vice President of the Royal Institute of Navigation. He returned to Canada in 1975, to the Defence Research Board as senior research and development planning officer. He was elected Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) in 1976. He retired in October 1979 and continued to live in Ottawa.\nGroup Captain Maclure died suddenly on March 28, 1988 while vacationing in Mexico.\nKenneth Cecil Maclure was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame at ceremonies held in Edmonton, June 4, 2005 at a ceremony held at Edmonton, Alberta.\nDr. Maclure\u2019s paper on \u201cThe Arctic Flights of the Lancaster Aries\u201d, May 1945, was published as the first article in the very first issue of the U.S. Institute of Navigation Journal in March 1946. This was a singular tribute to his work.\nBirth Place: Trail, B.C.\nAwards: O.C., CMM, CD\nStarting a career with the Royal Canadian Air Force, Paul Manson rose through the ranks as a pilot and commanding officer with increasing responsibility in the armed forces. Completing a 38-year career, he served as Canada\u2019s Chief of the Defence Staff and was instrumental in establishing the Canadian War Museum. -Induction citation, 2018\nBorn in Trail, British Columbia, on August 20, 1934, to parents Robert and Mary, Paul David Manson was the second of four children in the family of two girls and two boys. Paul\u2019s father was a graduate in Mining and Metallurgical Engineering from McGill University in 1930, employed by Consolidated Mining and Smelting at Trail, where he met his wife, a secretary with the company.\nBefore Paul was one year old, the family moved to Arvida, Qu\u00e9bec, where his father took a position with the Aluminum Company of Canada, Limited. After three years the family moved to Montr\u00e9al where Paul began his education. In 1947, as a nuclear engineer for Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories, Paul\u2019s father took the family to Deep River, Ontario, a place Paul still regards as his home town. He attended high school at Pembroke, Ontario. As a boy, Paul was captivated by stories about the RCAF during the war years. In high school, he applied to attend the Canadian Services College at Royal Roads, Victoria, British Columbia, as an air force cadet. Paul\u2019s acceptance was the beginning of a 38-year career in military aviation.\nPaul\u2019s took flying training while he was a student at Royal Roads (1952-54) and the Royal Military College (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario (1954-56). He graduated as the top cadet at both colleges, winning the H.E. Sellars Award at Royal Roads and the Sword of Honour at RMC. After graduation from RMC he attended Queen\u2019s University in Kingston, receiving a B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1957.\nAs a flight cadet with the Royal Canadian Air Force during his college years, Paul flew Harvards as a pilot trainee in 1953 at No. 3 Flying Training School in Claresholm, Alberta. The next summer he flew Harvards at No. 4 Flying Training School at Penhold, Alberta. In 1955 Paul was posted to 2 (F) Wing in Grostenquin, France, followed in 1956 by a refresher course on Harvards at Centralia, Ontario, and then went on to T-33 Silver Stars at the Advanced Flying School at RCAF Station Macdonald, Manitoba. There he received his wings in 1957 and was promoted from pilot officer to flying officer. Following operational training on the CF-100 Canuck all-weather jet fighter at RCAF Station Cold Lake, Alberta, he was posted in early 1958 to 440 AWF Squadron at 3 (F) Wing in Zweibr\u00fcecken, West Germany. There he began his years of operational flying on the CF-100, the F-86 Sabre, the CF-101 Voodoo, and the CF-104 Starfighter.\nPosted to 1 Air Division Headquarters at Metz, France, in 1960 as the CF-100 pilot specialist, now a flight lieutenant, he then returned to Canada, and attended the Aerospace Systems Course in 1962-63 in Winnipeg. Afterwards, Paul spent three years at Canadian Forces Headquarters in Ottawa, serving with the Directorate of Systems Evaluation (Air) and the Defence Research Board\u2019s Maritime Operations Research Directorate. During this period he was promoted to squadron leader and attended the new Canadian Forces Staff College in Toronto in 1966-67.\nIn 1967, Paul completed fighter refresher training before moving to Chatham, N.B. for F-86 Sabre transition training prior to undergoing CF-104 Strike/Reconnaissance operational training at 417 Squadron, Cold Lake Alberta, topping his course. Promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he returned to Europe as Commanding Officer of 441 Reconnaissance Squadron at 1 Wing in Lahr, West Germany, 1968-69. His next posting was as Base Operations Officer at 1 (F) Wing before becoming the Senior Staff Officer for Operations, Plans and Intelligence at Canadian Forces Europe Headquarters in Lahr, 1972.\nBack in Canada as a colonel, Paul was named Executive Assistant to the Chief of the Defence Staff, General Jacques Dextraze, from 1972-73 and then attended National Defence College in 1973-74. This was followed by his appointment as Base Commander at CFB Chatham, New Brunswick from 1974-76. During that time he became combat ready on the CF-101 Voodoo, and logged over one hundred hours on helicopters, mostly in single-engine CH-118 Hueys. In 1977 Paul was promoted to brigadier-general and became Program Manager of the New Fighter Aircraft Program, leading to selection three years later of the McDonnell Douglas CF-18 as Canada\u2019s new fighter jet aircraft.\nHis next appointment was Commander of 1 Canadian Air Group in Germany from 1980-81, his second Starfighter tour. From this point promotions and senior assignments came with increasing frequency, first as Chief of Air Doctrine and Operations at NDHQ from 1981-83 as major-general, then as Commander of Air Command (in effect the Air Force) headquartered in Winnipeg, 1983-85, as lieutenant-general. Finally, after serving as Assistant Deputy Minister (Personnel) and NDHQ for one year, in 1986 Paul was appointed by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as Chief of the Defence Staff in the rank of general, a position he held until his retirement in 1989.\nA year after retiring from the Canadian Forces, General Manson was president of Paramax, a large Montr\u00e9al-based aerospace company, then later retired from business in 1997 as chairman of Lockheed Martin Canada. Until 2005 he served as full-time volunteer chairman of the \u201cPassing the Torch\u201d campaign that raised $16.5 million in support of the new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, which opened in 2005. In December 2017, in recognition of \u201chis leadership and steadfast support,\u201d the General Paul Manson Meeting Room was dedicated at the Canadian War Museum.\nGeneral Manson is a past chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, and of Canada\u2019s Aviation Hall of Fame. In 1980 he was decorated as a Commander of the Order of Military Merit (CMM) and in 1989 was named a Commander of the United States Legion of Merit. In 1992 he received The C.D. Howe Award from the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, given for \u201cachievements in the fields of planning, policy making, and overall leadership in Canadian aeronautics and space activities.\u201d\nIn 2002 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and he was the 2003 recipient of the prestigious Vimy Award, presented by the Conference of Defence Associations Institute to the \u201cCanadian who has made a significant and outstanding contribution to the defence and security of Canada and the preservation of democratic values\u201d. He has received honorary doctorates from both Royal Roads Military College and the Royal Military College.\nEminent Canadian historian Jack Granatstein has stated, \u201cGeneral Paul Manson has been and remains a key figure in Canadian military and aviation history. From his first days as a cadet to his time as an RCAF pilot, commander and Chief of the Defence Staff and as one of the key contributors to the creation of the new Canadian War Museum, his role has been absolutely critical.\u201d\nSince his high school days as a trombonist with a local swing band (in which his father was pianist), music has played a prominent part in Paul\u2019s life. He has sung in numerous choirs over the years, and sang lead roles in two Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. For twenty years he was trombonist with Ottawa\u2019s well-known Polished Brass Quintet, and until recently played in a concert band and a swing band. Enjoying retirement, Paul Manson and his wife, Margaret, are avid golfers. They have two sons and two daughters, and are proud grandparents of five grandchildren. They reside in Ottawa.\nFollowing service as a pilot with the Canadian air force and as a test pilot with the Canadian Space Agency, John Maris devoted himself to engineering and innovations with his company, Marinvent Corporation. His contributions in aviation and aerospace have earned him international recognition as a leader in his field. -Induction citation, 2018\nBorn in London, England on March 10, 1958, John Michael Maris was the youngest child of parents Michael and Lina. Of Greek ancestry, like his older brother and sister, Nicholas and Sophia, John was born a Canadian as his parents had emigrated to Canada after the Second World War, and became Canadian citizens.\nJohn\u2019s interest in aviation began early, starting to fly when he was 13, flying his first solo flight on his 17th birthday. After earning a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering at the Imperial College of Science and Technology at London University in 1979, John moved to the United States for further studies. By the time he moved there, he had received Airline Pilot and Instructor\u2019s Licences in England.\nIn the U.S., John earned a Master of Aeronautical Science degree in 1982 and a Master of Aviation Management degree in 1983, both with Distinction from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) at Daytona Beach, Florida. During that time, he added FAA seaplane, helicopter and flight engineer ratings to his qualifications.\nIn 1983, John enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force, married Julia, and they incorporated Marinvent Corporation, which John currently serves as President and CEO. John also incorporated Maris Worden Aerospace in 1986, with famed Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot, USAF Colonel (Ret.) Alfred Worden, to pursue the commercial development of several of John\u2019s patents.\nJohn received his primary flight training at 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School Portage La Prairie in Manitoba, and then earned his pilot\u2019s wings at 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in 1985. Upon graduation as a pilot, Lieutenant Maris was awarded the coveted Golden Centennaires Trophy as the top overall student.\nLieutenant Maris was consequently offered his choice of posting, choosing to fly the Lockheed CP-140 Aurora. He then completed Maritime Operations and Training Courses with 404 Squadron, CFB Greenwood, Nova Scotia. Promoted to Captain, he graduated at the head of the course in 1985 and was posted to CFB Comox, British Columbia. There with 407 Maritime Patrol Squadron, he was promoted to Aircraft Commander and then Crew Commander, leading his crew to capture the 1988 O\u2019Brien Trophy as the champion Canadian Anti-Submarine Warfare crew.\nCaptain Maris then attended the United States Air Force Test Pilot Course at Edwards Air Force Base in California, graduating in 1989 with highest grades. He then served four years as Project Officer and Experimental Test Pilot at the Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment at Cold Lake, Alberta, where he ran the CC-130H (T) Tactical Transport Tanker program, and also performed the acceptance of the CC-150 Polaris aircraft into service with the Department of National Defence.\nJohn\u2019s next posting was to the Canada Space Agency where he served as the Mobile Servicing System Control Equipment Manager for the International Space Station. He had responsibility for systems engineering of the Mobile Robotics Control Station (MRCS), the Artificial Vision Unit, and Operations Control Software for the Canadian robotic systems used on the International Space Station. John led a team through the MRCS requirements definition and concept design stages. These included the design and conduct of evaluations performed by NASA astronauts for the Space Station Remote Manipulator System (SSRMS), better known as the Canadarm2, the robotic arm of the International Space Station.\nIn 1995, holding the rank of Major, John Maris retired from the Canadian Forces to devote full-time to Marinvent Corporation. The goal of the company was to develop procedures and technologies to increase the efficiency and reduce the risk of aeronautical programs. John conceived the concept of the certified electronic aviation chart, and the associated Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) technology. The EFB is an electronic information management device that helps flight crew perform flight management tasks, replacing paper-based material in a traditional pilot\u2019s carry-on flight bag. The technology was purchased by Boeing/Jeppesen in 2002, and is now the de facto world standard in use by more than 150,000 pilots and organizations.\nIn 2004, the Marinvent-Jeppesen partnership received the prestigious Canadian American Business Achievement Award for \u201cleading a joint enterprise demonstrating: strong business growth, remarkable innovation, noteworthy contributions to the local communities, and the capacity to provide the partners with a global advantage.\u201d\nMarinvent has owned two airborne test-beds that have been used on numerous programs for the certification of advanced avionics. John completely redesigned the cockpits of both turboprop aircraft, a Piper Cheyenne and Piaggio P-180 Avanti for this specialized flight test role. Marinvent has been involved in flight test programs in Canada, the United States and in New Zealand.\nJohn\u2019s role in flight test programs was recognized by the Canadian Business Aircraft Association\u2019s 2006 CBAA Industry Support Safety Award \u201c...for the safety gains achieved through human factors enhancement, systems engineering, and flight test services.\u201d He also received the CBAA Award of Merit \u201c...in recognition of an outstanding contribution to aviation.\u201d\nAwards received by John Maris include a 2005 Aviation Week and Space Laureate presented at the Smithsonian Institution for his work in \u201chelping the transition from paper in the cockpit to a digital flight deck.\u201d In 2006 his company was recognized as Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s Aerospace Small Business Enterprise of the Year. In 2013, Marinvent became the first corporation to receive the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada James C. Floyd Award for aerospace achievement.\nIn 2017, John received his Ph.D. from ERAU, earning his doctorate in Aviation Safety and Human Factors, and was named Canada\u2019s Defence Executive of the Year by Canadian Defence Review magazine. In 2018 he was granted Affiliate Professor status at Concordia University in Montr\u00e9al. Dr. Maris sits on a number of the university\u2019s boards and is also on the Centre technologique en a\u00e9rospatiale board.\nHe has taught post-graduate university courses in aviation-related subjects in both English and French. Notably, the majority of Bombardier C Series aircraft flight test personnel were put through a gruelling two-week standardization course given by John. He is well-published in academic literature and has authored several NASA publications and numerous patents.\nDr. Maris is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute He is an Associate Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots; an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a Member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) and is a Member of the Qu\u00e9bec Order of Engineers and a certified Program Management Professional.\nIn over 45 years John has so far logged over 6,300 hours as a pilot. He is a Transport Canada Delegated Test Pilot and Flight Analyst with a Type Rating Exemption which allows him to fly all fixed-wing aircraft for experimental purposes.\nJim Quick, President and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association of Canada, has stated, \u201cJohn is one of Canada\u2019s aerospace industry leaders \u2013 a highly innovative and accomplished pilot and entrepreneur, an ambassador for Canadian aerospace on the world stage, and one of the leading voices for small business within the Canadian aerospace community. His achievements have directly contributed to the advance of Canadian aviation\u2019s growth and global impact.\u201d\nJohn Maris and his wife, Julia, make their home in Beaconsfield, Qu\u00e9bec, and are parents of a daughter, Stephanie, and a son, John Michael.\nAwards: Medaille de L'Aeronautique (France), Award of Excellence (BC Aviation Council)\n\"His visionary leadership has made Conair Group a world leader in the development of aerial fire-control aircraft, and led to the founding of Cascade Aerospace, a multi-dimensional engineering, maintenance and management services organization, resulting in major contributions to Canada's aviation industry.\" - Induction citation, 2009\nBarry Marsden, D. of T. (Hon), was born on June 15, 1939 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He grew up in Creston, BC. As a teenager, he was fascinated by airplanes and by 1954 he was holding flag markers in farm fields for agricultural spray planes to aim at.\nHe earned his pilot licence in 1958 at Skyway Air Services of Langley, BC. He attended the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology's Aircraft Maintenance Engineering Program, then began his aviation career as a mechanic and pilot at Skyway.\nIn 1969 Marsden was a co-founder of Conair Aviation Ltd., which was formed as a spin-off from Skyway Air Services. There he assumed successive positions, including Chief Pilot, Superintendent of Flight Operations, and Director of Operations. He logged more than 3,500 hours in aerial forest fire suppression and specialty spraying operations, including spruce budworm control.\nUnder his leadership, Conair evolved from an aerial fire control operator to become a world leader in the development of fire control aircraft and products. The Conair Firecat was developed by modifying the Grumman S-2 Tracker military surplus aircraft. The first Firecat was modified in 1978, and Conair went on to develop the Turbo Firecat, which accommodates larger tanks, in 1988. In 1982, France ordered 14 Firecats and became one of many countries whose fire protection agencies adopted Conair's methods of safely fighting fires from the air.\nDuring the 1970's and 1980's, Conair expanded significantly, and added a helicopter division to support its forest management operations and provide services for mining exploration and seismic work. Today, the fire control section operates more than 60 aircraft, including a variety of water-scooping Air Tankers and Air Attack (Bird Dog) aircraft types.\nIn 1991 Marsden became President and Chief Executive Officer of Conair. By the early 1990's, the company was providing maintenance for its own fleet of over 90 aircraft. Conair began to offer maintenance services to other operators, including line and heavy maintenance, custom repairs and modifications, aircraft and component overhaul, and avionics installations.\nHe soon envisioned the expansion of Conair's aircraft maintenance and engineering capabilities. Cascade Aerospace was formed in 2001, with Marsden as CEO. A $50 million state-of-the-art facility was built on the Conair property at Abbotsford International Airport, designed for the maintenance, repair, overhaul and modification of narrow-body commercial transport aircraft. This new 250,000 square foot hangar, about the size of a football field, is capable of holding eight Boeing 737 aircraft at any one time.\nIn 2004 Marsden assembled a world class management team, and, with several C-130 experts, won a $434,000,000. contract in 2005 to manage Canada's fleet of 32 C-130s for the Department of National Defence. This contract goes far beyond maintenance, repair and overhaul of the aircraft; it includes all of the engineering, maintenance planning and scheduling, modification design and installations, field maintenance support, parts procurement and component repair and overhaul.\nToday, Cascade Aerospace's 606 professionals specialize in all models of Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Lockheed Martin C-130 aircraft and conduct about 850,000 hours of aircraft maintenance and modifications annually. Cascade serves some of the largest airlines in North America, including Alaska Airlines, Continental Airlines, Southwest Airlines and WestJet, as well as several major aircraft leasing companies.\nMarsden served as Chairman of the Board for both Conair Group and Cascade Aerospace. These two well-respected and thriving businesses employ more than 800 people and substantially contribute to the local economy and to the aviation and aerospace industries in Canada and BC.\nHe was instrumental in developing an innovative model for educating students to better meet aerospace industry needs. He worked in partnership with University College of the Fraser Valley to develop the Technician Programs in Aircraft Structures and Aircraft Interiors, creating an especially close relationship between the UCFV and Cascade Aerospace. Conair has provided UCFV with one of its hangars to house its programs, giving it a permanent training base with room to expand its programs.\nMarsden is deeply committed to the aviation and aerospace industries and to the community, and is involved, or has been involved in the past, with these and many other associations:\n\u2022 Past Chairman and Director, Aerospace Industry Association of Canada\n\u2022 Director, Abbotsford Airport Authority\n\u2022 Director, Industry Training Authority for the Province of British Columbia\n\u2022 Past Member, National Research Council Associate Committee for Forestry Aviation\nMarsden has received many honours for his effective leadership, including the Outstanding Achievement Award in Aviation Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul which he won in 2003 at Aviation Week's industry conference in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.\nIn 2004 the University College of the Fraser Valley bestowed on him an Honorary Doctor of Technology degree for his long-term contribution to the Canadian aerospace industry.\nIn 2006 he received the Medaille de L'Aeronautique from the Government of France for his innovative leadership and ability to meet the needs of the government of France for almost 30 years by ferrying aircraft to southern France in the early 1980's, sharing his aircraft maintenance expertise and aerial fire control tactics, and delivering two state-of-the-art, Cascade designed and certified Q400-MR multi-role aircraft in 2005.\nIn 2007 the BC Aviation Council presented him with an Honorary Lifetime Membership and the Chairman's Award of Excellence for his substantial contribution to the aviation and aerospace industries in the province.\nIn 2008 Marsden was appointed to B.C. Premier's Economic Advisory Council which will provide advice and recommendations to the government on enhancing the province's economy.\nBarry Marsden was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame at ceremonies held in Wetaskiwin, Alberta on May 30, 2009.\nBarry Marsden is acknowledged as a man of vision and dedication. He personifies the qualities of an exceptional leader and entrepreneur, constantly striving for excellence and innovative ideas, energy and integrity.\nNickname: Wop\nBirth Place: Carberry, Manitoba\nAwards: OBE, DFC, U.S. Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm\nWebsite: www.wopmay.com\n\"The continued offering of his aeronautical brilliance in the crudest geographic arenas; his total dedication to the cause of uniting people through air transport, and his numerous and humane contributions, have been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1974\nWilfrid Reid (Wop) May, OBE, DFC, was born in Carberry, Manitoba, on March 20, 1896. He moved with his family to Edmonton, Alberta, in 1902, and attended school in Edmonton and Calgary. In 1916 he enlisted with the 202nd City of Edmonton Sportsmens' Battalion, and gained the rank of Sergeant Gunner. He went with the Canadian Expeditionary Force to England later that year and served as an instructor before applying for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps. He qualified for his wings at the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) School of Instruction at Acton, England, and took higher instruction with 94 Squadron, RFC. With only 55 hours flying time logged, Lieutenant May was posted to the RFC 209th (9th Naval) Squadron in France on April 9th, 1918, as a fighter pilot.\nOn April 20, 1918, during an aerial engagement over enemy territory, attacked one aircraft and ended up in a dogfight. His guns jammed he headed back towards his base at Bertangles but was then attacked by the 'Red Baron', Manfred von Richthofen who followed him over the Somme River. Flight Commander A. Roy Brown attacked Richthofen causing him to break off the chase. The \u2018Red Baron\u2019 was shot down by a single shot from the ground. By the end of World War I, Captain May had destroyed 13 enemy aircraft, and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC).\nIn 1919 May returned to Edmonton and with his brother Court formed May Airplanes Limited, the first air service at Edmonton. He made the first commercial flight from May Field in west Edmonton on June 2, 1919. The company engaged in barnstorming activities and operated a flying school in Edmonton. He was granted the Aero Club of Canada Air Aviators Certificate No. 451 (Pilot\u2019s Licence No. 49) in July 1919, and in 1920 he received Commercial Pilot's Licence No. 7. He also held Air Engineers Certificate No. A726. In 1921 he was granted a commission in the Canadian Air Force and completed a refresher course in navigation at Camp Borden, Ontario.\nImperial Oil Limited decided to use freighter aircraft for their Northwest Territories oil operations at Fort Norman. Imperial Oil hired Wop and George Gorman to ferry two Junkers-Larsen JL-6 monoplanes from New York to Edmonton in January 1921. These aircraft became known as 'Vic' and 'Rene', and were flown by George Gorman and Elmer Fullerton for Imperial Oil on an oil exploration trip deep into the Northwest Territories.\nMay continued to fly commercially, and his unshakeable faith in Edmonton's air future encouraged him to establish Canada's first commercial airport at Blatchford Field in 1927. The same year he founded the Edmonton and Northern Alberta Aero Club, and was named its first President. With partners Cy Becker and Vic Horner, he founded Commercial Airways at Edmonton and became their Chief Pilot.\nOn January 2-6, 1929, May and co-pilot Vic Horner flew a mercy mission in a two-seater open cockpit Avro Avian aircraft from Edmonton to Fort Vermilion, Alberta, a distance of some 600 miles (965 km). For the most part, their route was over sparsely inhabited country. They encountered many snow storms and temperatures below -30\u00b0F (-33\u00b0C). The purpose of the flight was to carry diphtheria anti-toxin to combat a diphtheria epidemic at the isolated post of Little Red River. Urgent action was necessary and no other means of transport would have met the need. The serum was wrapped with a charcoal warmer to keep it from freezing. Their flight was successful, and the serum did the job. This aerial drama captured the attention of the world press and gave further stature to Canadian 'Bush Pilots'. May's heroism was rewarded with civic and provincial honours.\nLater in 1929 Commercial Airways was awarded the Mackenzie River district airmail contract and he organized a group of five aircraft on the first official air mail flight to the Arctic. He was pilot of one of the two aircraft that went on to Aklavik. This 1,600 mile (2,575 km) flight was the first winter air voyage to the Arctic. May was awarded the Trans-Canada (McKee) Trophy in 1929 in recognition of his work in organizing air services to outlying districts.\nMay's company, Commercial Airways, was absorbed by Canadian Airways in 1931, and May and his wife Vi were transferred to Fort McMurray, Alberta. He served as a pilot for their northern services, and carried mail to communities in Northern Alberta. In January 1932, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) commissioned him to work with them in the search for the man known as the 'Mad Trapper' (known as Albert Johnson), who had terrorized local trappers and killed an RCMP officer. Flying a ski-equipped Bellanca, May's 16-day aerial quest took him to Aklavik and through the Mackenzie Mountains ferrying passengers, and food and gear to the searchers. He spotted the elusive 'Mad Trapper' on the Porcupine River, 175 miles (280 km) from the Alaska border, from the air on February 16th and informed the RCMP posse. He and his air mechanic, Jack Bowen, watched the final shoot-out on the following day. On February 18 he flew a wounded RCMP officer, the RCMP Inspector, and the body of the 'Mad Trapper' back to Aklavik.\nIn 1935 he was named Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his numerous contributions to Canadian aviation. The following year he was named Superintendent of the Mackenzie River District of Canadian Airways and was transferred back to Edmonton.\nEarly in World War II he was appointed Supervisor of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) schools in Western Canada, operated by Canadian Airways Ltd. He served as Manager of No. 2 Air Observer School at Edmonton from 1942 to 1946. During this time he conceived the idea of aerial rescue crews to assist ferry pilots and other fliers who went down in northern British Columbia and the Yukon en route to Alaska. He recruited and trained a team of paramedics who volunteered their services to parachute into crash sites, saving the lives of many airmen. For this action, he was awarded the Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm by the United States Government in 1947.\nIn 1947 May was appointed Director of Northern Development by Canadian Pacific Airlines (CPA), with the task of opening air bases in Northwest Territories, Yukon, Alaska, and northern British Columbia. In 1949 he was transferred to Vancouver as Director of Development for CPA and for two years worked to open bases in the Far East and the South Pacific.\nIn 1951 he was transferred to Calgary as Manager of CPA (Repairs) Ltd., and undertook the task of forming the company, recruiting employees and building the operation at RCAF Station Lincoln Park into a viable operation. The task was to retrieve, repair and test operational aircraft that had crashed.\nOn June 21, 1952, while hiking with his son, Denny, to Timpanogos Cave National Monument near Provo, Utah, May died of a heart attack at age 56.\nIn 1929 Wop May was awarded the Trans-Canada McKee Trophy \u201cIn recognition of his work in organizing air services to outlying districts\u201d. Several Canadian landmarks carry his name: Wopmay Lake & Wopmay River (SSE of Great Bear Lake, N.W.T.) and Lake May (in the NW corner of Alberta). In 1981 the City of Edmonton recognized Wop May in naming a subdivision in West Edmonton \u201cMayfield\u201d. In 2004 \"Wop\" May was named as one of the \"100 Citizens of Century\" by the City of Edmonton. The same year NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project Scientist Dr. John Grotzinger named a rock in Endurance Crater as \"Wop May Rock\" - John's Uncle Dr. Preston Cloud along with Geologist Dr. Lincoln Washburn were the first two Geologists to visit Victoria Island - they had been flown north by \"Wop\" May. Several aircraft have been named \u201cThe W.R. \u201cWop\u201d May - Wardair\u2019s Boeing 707, then a Douglas DC-10 and an Airbus A-310, and Pacific Western Airlines\u2019s Boeing 727 Freighter also carried his name.\nWop\u2019s son, Denny, worked with cousin Sheila Reid of Steinbach, Manitoba in writing the Wop May biography \u201cWings of a Hero\u201d (1997), and wrote & self-published \u201cMore Stories About Wop May\u201d (2011). Both books have been revised and in their 5th printing.\nWilfrid Reid \"Wop\" May was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\n\u201cWings of a Hero\u201d by Sheila Reid & Denny May (2015)\n\u201cMore Stories About Wop May\u201d by Denny May (2011)\nMany people have asked where the nickname \"Wop\" came from. In 1902 young cousin, Mary Swanson, tried to pronounce Wilfrid - the name came out \"Woppie\" and was shortened to \"Wop\" that day and the name stuck.\nBirth Place: Madawaska, Ontario\nAwards: Master Air Pilot (British Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators)\n\"With superlative mastery of all aspects of aircraft fight, he has displayed the highest order of professionalism over four decades, with results that have been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1979\nWilliam Sidney May was born in Madawaska, Ontario, on December 24, 1909. He was educated in Melville, Saskatchewan, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he worked as an apprentice for Canadian National Railways. In 1928 he had his first airplane ride in an Avro Avian and was determined to learn to fly. In 1930 he began flight training at the Northwest Aero Marine and earned his Commercial Pilot's Licence that year. He was hired by that company, and in 1933 attended the Instructor's course given by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) at Camp Borden, Ontario. On his return to Winnipeg, he became Manager and Instructor for Northwest Aero Marine until it was taken over by Wings Limited of Winnipeg.\nAfter several years of instructing, barnstorming and charter flying, in 1935 he went to England and was hired as a pilot by Imperial Airways Limited. In 1936 he was assigned as First Officer aboard the airline's new Short Brothers flying boats and two years later received his own command. In this, the largest aircraft of its type in world service, he flew established routes from England to Palestine, the Persian Gulf, South Africa, Singapore, and Karachi. On the eastern route he was called upon to land on the Sea of Galilee, then fly across five hundred miles of desert. His southward route carried him up the Nile River to Mozambique, and to Durban in South Africa.\nBritish Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) absorbed Imperial Airways in 1939 and May was placed in charge of pilot training for the new company. During this period he had flown all of the company's routes as Captain-in-Command and had earned Licences for Navigation, Engineering and Wireless Operation.\nIn 1940, when Britain was at war with Germany, many of the routes usually used to the East were cut off, and May was asked to find an alternate route. He flew the first flying boat from Lisbon, Portugal, down the west coast of Africa to Nigeria and into the Belgian Congo to connect with an established overland route.\nThe following year, May was assigned to the Return Service Ferry Command at Montreal, Quebec, an organization operated by BOAC personnel, and administered by the Royal Air Force (RAF). His job was to pilot high priority passengers and cargo to Britain across the North Atlantic Ocean, and return with pilots who had previously ferried operational aircraft to the United Kingdom. By the end of World War II he had completed 280 flights across the Atlantic in modified B-24 Liberator bombers. His foresight and planning resulted in the selection of Reykjavik, Iceland, as a refueling point for westbound flights, which was required because of strong headwinds encountered during most of the year. He then commanded the first Liberator flight to that airport.\nDuring the latter stages of the war, he captained a Consolidated Liberator over the 2,200 mile (3,540 km) route from Newfoundland to Great Britain in six hours and 20 minutes, a speed record that lasted until the introduction of jet aircraft on that route. In 1949 he completed flight training on the Stratocruiser at Boeing Commercial Airplane Company in Seattle, Washington. He then took delivery of BOAC's first Stratocruiser and ferried it to England, where he trained 35 crews on the aircraft as well as flying the line himself.\nA desire to return to Canada along with the possibility of taking early retirement from BOAC prompted May to retire in 1951. He returned to Calgary, Alberta, and accepted an invitation from W.R. \u201cWop\u201d May (no relation), Manager of Canadian Pacific Airlines new repair depot \u2018C.P.A. (Repairs) Ltd.\u2019 to manage the test flight section. In this role he test flew a number of different aircraft types following repairs. The following year he accepted a position with Queen Charlotte Airways to establish new routes along the coast of British Columbia.\nWith the amalgamation of Queen Charlotte Airways and several other small airways, Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) was formed under the management of Russ Baker. May's vast experience was put to good use with PWA, flying many types of aircraft. In early 1969 May was qualified as Captain on the Boeing 737. He retired from active flying shortly thereafter, with 41 years of experience and 29,000 flying hours. He remained with PWA to take charge of their flight simulator training program at Vancouver, British Columbia. He retired permanently in 1975, and died in Vancouver on July 29, 1981.\nWilliam Sidney May was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1979 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nIn 1966 Bill May was recognized for his pioneering of the North Atlantic route, his high level of qualifications, and his exceptional record, when he was awarded the Master Air Pilot Certificate by the British Guild of Air Pilots and Navigators. The presentation was made by the Grand Master of the Guild, Prince Phillip. In 1980 he was made an Honorary Member of the Canadian Air Line Pilots Association (C.A.L.P.A.).\nBirth Place: Red Deer, Alberta\n\"Following service in the RCAF, Jim McBride was successful in building Midwest Aviation Limited and expanding operations to include cargo and passenger service, and aircraft sales. In fixed wing and helicopter companies that he developed, including TurboWest Helicopters Ltd., he earned a reputation for management and concern for aviation safety.\" - Induction citation, 2015\nBorn on November 23, 1930, James Stuart \u201cJim\u201d McBride was one of three sons and a daughter born to his parents, Jack and Lillian. Jim was raised on the family farm near Benalto, Alberta. He attended school at Benalto and nearby Red Deer, then left home at 16 to work in gold mines of the Northwest Territories. Jim\u2019s first experience in uniform was as an air cadet while still in school, then in the army reserve before joining the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1950. Starting a career in aviation as an aero engineer with the RCAF, Jim saw service in France, Germany, England and at various stations in Canada, working on Mustang and Sabre aircraft.\nIn September 1952, while in Ottawa, he met and married Margaret Ruth Dawson after knowing her for ten days, before being posted overseas with the air force! After returning to Canada, at MacDonald, Manitoba he took flying lessons and qualified for a Private Pilot Licence. In 1953, while still in the RCAF, he purchased an Aeronca 7AC aircraft to log the 200 hours he needed to earn a Commercial Licence. Jim left the RCAF in 1956 with the rank of Leading Air Craftsman. He then made his first commercial investment in civil aviation when he and Ruth put his $1,550 severance pay from the RCAF and $1,100 from selling the Aeronca into starting Midwest Aviation Ltd. in Winnipeg with one aircraft, a Piper P18 Super Cub.\nThe company soon became a dealer for Piper Aircraft, selling the Super Cub. Business was expanded with the addition of a flying school and sale of aviation fuel. Eventually Jim leased a wartime RCAF Training Command hangar from Transport Canada at Winnipeg and used it to provide storage space for several Winnipeg aviation-related firms.\nIn 1960 his company began providing regular charter service for Manitoba Hydro, using Piper Commanche aircraft, which Jim often flew himself. In 1961 Jim obtained a Hughes Helicopter franchise for Midwest Aviation, and earned his helicopter endorsement. In 1962, two Bell 47G2 helicopters were purchased and used on forestry and Manitoba Hydro contracts.\nIn 1964, Toronto-Dominion Bank had opened a branch at the Winnipeg airport, and manager Dan McDougall approached Midwest Aviation for its business. The company secured a major loan which gave Midwest the opportunity for growth and expansion, making TD Bank a major player in Midwest\u2019s future. Within two years Dan McDougall became Vice President of Midwest Aviation and remains a lifelong friend of Jim McBride. By 1967, Midwest had purchased 16 helicopters, including a Bell 205 helicopter for support of fire fighting and oil exploration programs in the high Arctic. With aviation safety a priority, Jim introduced a training program for the company to qualify engineers as pilots who were capable of servicing the aircraft they flew.\nIn 1965 the company began scheduled service between Winnipeg and Gillam, Manitoba to support the Kettle Rapids project for Manitoba Hydro. Starting with a de Havilland Twin Otter, a Douglas DC-3 was then used, followed by purchase of a Hawker-Siddely 748 fifty-passenger turboprop aircraft. When a strike of Air Canada in 1969 cancelled service between Winnipeg and Toronto, the 748 filled the gap, leading to the purchase of a second Siddely 748 type.\nFrom 1962-69, Jim McBride served as a director of the Air Transport Association of Canada and in 1970-71 was the founding director and president of the Manitoba Aviation Council. In 1969, Midwest Aviation merged with Northland Airlines, becoming Midwest Airlines Ltd. with Jim McBride as president. Service expanded to communities in northern Manitoba and northwest Ontario, while amphibious Canso aircraft were converted to water bombers. At the same time, the Province of Manitoba began developing airstrips at several locations served by Midwest, which allowed for transfer from water bases to airports, improving operational safety and enabling greater regular service.\nActivity in the Canadian Arctic by petroleum companies drilling for oil and gas created a demand for delivery of fuel, goods and services. Thus Midwest established a base at Resolute Bay NWT (now Resolute, Nunavut) and purchased Hawker-Siddeley Argosy 220 turboprop freighters to meet the demand for short-haul flights, complementing the long-haul requirements met by Pacific Western Airlines.\nIn November 1969, Midwest merged with Transair under the name of Transair Ltd. with Jim as president and major shareholder. Service from Winnipeg to Regina and Saskatoon was granted, and later from Winnipeg to Toronto with stops at Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie. To service the routes, the company took delivery of two Boeing 737-200C \u201ccombi\u201d jet aircraft, carrying both freight and passengers. They allowed elimination of the company\u2019s aging piston aircraft, and were well suited for service from Winnipeg to Cambridge Bay and Hall Beach, Nunavut. With the 737s, vacation charters served Florida, the Caribbean and Mexico from Toronto, and the company was now operating 80 aircraft, employing nearly 700 people.\nHaving taken the new company to a profitable position, Jim sold his shares in Transair in 1973, after more than 20 years in aviation. Jim\u2019s next decision was to move with his family to Calgary, Alberta in 1973. He purchased an 800-acre farm some 20 miles south of the city, naming the property Goldenview Farms, but did not leave aviation. In 1974 he obtained the Piper Cheyenne Aircraft franchise for Canada. The Cheyenne was a high-performance, eight-place twin-engine turboprop model sold from Jim\u2019s newest venture, Corpac Canada. He held Corpac until 1983, when he sold the company. Then Jim re-entered the helicopter industry in 1978 by establishing Turbowest Helicopters Ltd. in Calgary, introducing the A\u00e9rospatiale Lama and Alouette 111 helicopters, which supported seismic operations in Alberta and British Columbia. He held the company until 1998, and today continues with IMS Ltd., his investment company.\nWhile still with Transair, Jim became interested in Limousin beef cattle and later bred Limousin cattle with great international success at Goldenview Farms. He received the Limousin Breed of Distinction from the Canadian Limousin Association in 1996. He promoted agriculture for the next 20 years and in 1982 served as chairman for the Canadian Limousin World Congress. The McBrides sold their interest in Goldenview Farms in 2010 and their interest in Limousin cattle in 2014.\nJim McBride has been recognized by former employees and colleagues for management skills and concern for employees, for providing service and equipment for customers, and helping to shape the careers of others in aviation. Douglas Fletcher, retired Senior Vice President of Operations for CN Rail, has written that, \u201cI have known Jim McBride for over 50 years. From his early days through the creation of Midwest Aviation to the merger with Transair, he demonstrated his love for the industry, a keen business sense, a vision of the future in aviation and a total commitment to air safety.\u201d\nJim and Ruth now make their home in Calgary. They have one daughter, Patricia, and a grandson, Patrick.\nNickname: Freddie\nBirth Place: Vernon, British Columbia\nAwards: D.S.O., M.C.*, D.F.C.\n\"His exquisite mastery of primitive military aeronautics and his dedication to opening new routes of air travel through mountainous areas, have been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1978\nFred Robert Gordon McCall, D.S.O., M.C.*, D.F.C., was born in Vernon, British Columbia, on December 4, 1895. His family moved to Calgary, Alberta, in 1906, and he completed his education there. He joined the 175th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1916. He arrived in England as a Sergeant, was commissioned and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) as a Lieutenant pilot trainee in June 1917. By year's end he was brevetted a pilot and assigned to No. 13 Squadron, RFC, in France, flying reconnaissance and photographic missions.\nWithin a month McCall had scored his first aerial victory and the excellence of his artillery patrols brought his first decoration, the Military Cross (M.C.), in March 1918. The following week he downed three more enemy machines and by April 15 had raised his score to six confirmed during a major German offensive. He was awarded a Bar to his Military Cross.\nA transfer to No. 41 Squadron followed where he was given a single-seater SE 5a fighter aircraft to fly. In May he destroyed four enemy aircraft and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.). During the following five weeks of flying, after promotion to the rank of Captain, he brought down nine more enemy machines, raising his total victories to 24. For these actions he was awarded a fourth decoration for gallantry, the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) with the following citation: \"A brilliant and gallant officer he has accounted for fourteen enemy machines (since his last decoration). On a recent date he destroyed four during a morning patrol and another in the evening, in each case closing to point-blank range with his opponent. His courage and offensive spirit have inspired all who serve with him.\"\nOn August 17, 1918, he was engaged in the deadliest aerial duel of his career when he and W.G. Claxton were attacked behind enemy lines by a German squadron numbering 40 aircraft. By skillful manoeuvering and aggressive action both he and Claxton shot down three enemy machines. Claxton's aircraft was disabled and he landed in enemy territory, to be captured. McCall landed safely at his own aerodrome. Within days he was taken ill and invalided back to England, with 30 enemy machines to his credit. His fifth citation for bravery came with a Mention in Despatches of his aerial action by Sir Douglas Haig in November 1918.\nAt war's end he established McCall Aero Company Limited at Calgary and together with Jock Palmer and W.R. 'Wop' May as an additional pilots, they flew commercial freight and passengers throughout the prairie provinces and barnstormed the prairie fairs circuit for three years. In 1928 McCall organized Great Western Airways Limited at Calgary, to operate commercial flights. Always ready to accept new aviation undertakings, he contracted in February, 1929 to transport by air, for the first time in Canada, 200 quarts (227 L) of nitroglycerin from Shelby, Montana, to Calgary in his newly-acquired Stinson Detroiter. This extremely sensitive explosive was ordered by an oil-well drilling company for blasting purposes at one of its well sites at Turner Valley in southwestern Alberta.\nIn subsequent years he worked with Murton Seymour to encourage the formation of a system of Canadian Flying Clubs. Shortly after the outbreak of World War II he was recalled to service with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) as an Administrative Officer. Promoted to the rank of Squadron Leader, he served The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) at several western Canadian bases, commanding both the No. 7 Initial Training School at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and the Administrative Unit, North West Air Command, Edmonton, Alberta. He died in Calgary on January 22, 1949.\nWhen the City of Calgary opened its new airport in 1956, it was named McCall Field to honour his pioneering achievements and his outstanding military accomplishments. McCall Field is now commonly known as the Calgary International Airport. His story is told in delightful detail in the book \"Maverick in the Sky\" by Shirlee Smith Matheson.\nFred Robert Gordon McCall was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1978 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\n\u201cMaverick In The Sky\u201d - Shirley Smith Matheson (2007)\nBarnstorming activities after World War 1 and in the early 1920\u2019s were exciting and risky, and drew large number of spectators, many of who had never seen an aircraft before. Stunt-flying took place during many country fairs, and accidents did happen. One spectacular accident occurred during the 1919 Calgary Exhibition when Fred McCall was piloting a Curtiss JN-4 with two young passengers. The engine quit on take-off and McCall chose to land it atop a merry-go-round instead of on the crowded midway. No injuries were suffered as a result. A full scale replica of that aircraft, built by Fred\u2019s son Fred Jr., is permanently on display at the Aerospace Museum in Calgary.\nBirth Place: Moncton, New Brunswick\nAwards: The Yorath Trophy, COPA Award, The Paul Tissandier Diploma, W.P. Paris Honorary Diploma and the Distinguished Service Award (RCAFA), The Air Cadet League Certificate of Honour, Award of Excellence (NTA), Canadian Commemorative Medal.\n\u201cHis outstanding dedication to the advancement of flight training, coupled with his tireless efforts to teach and inspire the youth of Canada through the Air Cadet League, have been of major benefit to Canadians.\" - Induction citation, 2002\nBorn in Moncton, New Brunswick on January 5, 1923, Donald Stuart McClure's aviation career began in 1940, when he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). Upon completion of elementary training at the Moncton Flying Club, he moved on to Camp Borden, where he earned his wings in November 1940 and returned to civilian life.\nAfter barnstorming in Gypsy Moths at Moncton during the early days of World War II, McClure re-enlisted in the RCAF in 1942, moving to No. 10 Air Observer School in Chatham, New Brunswick, and later to Neepawa, Manitoba, as Staff Pilot under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP).\nAs his skills were urgently needed in the BCATP, his several requests for overseas and ferry duties were denied. After his discharge from the RCAF in March 1945, he immediately enlisted with the Fleet Air Arm, hoping it would lead to overseas duty, but the war ended before he reached an overseas theatre. He was finally discharged from the Armed Forces in September 1945.\nFrom 1945 to 1953, McClure worked as a freelance commercial pilot. Among his many duties, he ferried aircraft all over North America and worked in sales. In 1953 McClure began instructing at the Moncton Flying Club (MFC), becoming Chief Flying Instructor and Manager there in 1959.\nHe turned an indebted, outdated club into one of the most successful flight training institutions in Canada. Recognizing that the local student pilot pool was too small, he was instrumental in broadening the club's reputation as a top flight training centre. Very early on, he recognized the value of recruiting international students to train in Canada. He began an advertising campaign that targeted potential students in such countries as the West Indies, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Pakistan, India and Nepal, among others. He personally recruited students in many of these countries.\nDespite a devastating fire in 1965, McClure had the Moncton Flying Club up and running again in two days. He lobbied for College status for the MFC, achieving this goal in 1997 with the introduction of a two-year diploma. It then became the Moncton Flight College. In 1999 McClure accepted the presidency of the Moncton Flight College.\nThe awards he received for his work exemplify McClure's success as Manager of the Moncton Flying Club. One of his greatest accomplishments was receiving the Yorath Trophy an unprecedented sixteen times between 1961 and 1982. Nine of those awards were presented consecutively.\nIn 1981 McClure received the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Award from the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA), as \"the Canadian who had contributed most to general aviation\" in that year. In 1984 he was awarded the Paul Tissandier Diploma by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale. He traveled to Prague, Czechoslovakia to receive this award for his contribution to aviation education in Canada and throughout the world.\nThe RCFCA presented McClure with the W.P. Paris Honorary Diploma in 1985. He was the first to win this award, given for his outstanding contribution to the flight training industry in Canada.\nIn 1986 McClure was awarded the Distinguished Service Award for his outstanding contributions to Canadian aviation by the Royal Canadian Air Force Association (RCAFA), the Association's highest honour. He was also honoured by Air Bras d'Or of Nova Scotia for his services to Canadian aviation.\nHis retirement in 1989 from the Moncton Flying Club coincided with his appointment as Vice-President of the Air Cadet League of Canada. McClure served for many years with the League and held many posts, including Chairman of the National Flying Committee, as well as National Director, Provincial Director and Vice-Chairman. His responsibilities ranged from policy development to aviation safety and training. In 1984 he was awarded the Air Cadet League Certificate of Honour in recognition of his outstanding service to the Air Cadet League.\nIn 1989 he was presented with the Award of Excellence by the National Transportation Association of Canada and made an Honorary Life Member of the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC).\nIn 1990 the City of Moncton named him an Honorary Citizen. From 1990 to 1993, he served as a member of the Civil Aviation Tribunal, on appointment by the Governor General of Canada. In 1993 he was awarded the Canadian Commemorative Medal in recognition of his contribution to Canadian aviation. He also served on the Greater Moncton Chamber of Commerce Transportation Committee.\nMcClure continued to promote Canada's aviation heritage. Some of his past activities include leading a formation of twenty-seven aircraft across Canada in 1970 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first cross-Canada flight, completed in October 1920 by the Canadian Air Force. This was a complex endeavour at the time. The trip took ten days, with just over 49 hours, 7 minutes flying time. Six different planes were used, with wheels and floats, and eight pilots flying various legs of the trip. (See stories of CAHF Members Basil Hobbs, Robert Leckie). He became President of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society, Turnbull Chapter, in 1999 after serving three years as Vice-President. He remained active in the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) and was a founding member of the Atlantic Aviation Museum.\nDonald Stuart McClure's aviation career spanned more than sixty years. Throughout his long and impressive career, McClure logged over 18,000 hours and flown over 55 different types of aircraft. He died on April 19, 2008 in Moncton, New Brunswick.\nDonald Stuart McClure was inducted as a Member of Canada\u2019s Aviation Hall of Fame in 2002 at a ceremony held in Vancouver, B.C..\nDonald McClure, as manager of the Moncton Flying Club, was awarded the Yorath Trophy 16 times in a span of 21 years. This award was presented annually by the Royal Canadian Flying Clubs Association (RCFCA), to a flying club manager in recognition of excellence in the management of flight training programs. The trophy was donated by Dennis Yorath while he was president of the RCFCA from 1947 to 1949. It was retired in 1982 and is presently housed at Canada\u2019s Aviation Hall of Fame.\nBirth Place: Edmonton, Alberta\nAwards: FCASI, The C.D. Howe Award\n\"His creative aptitude as an innovator, his skills as a market analyst, and his success in initiating the concept of the Regional Jet and following it through to test fight have greatly benefited aviation in Canada.\" - Induction citation, 2005\nCharles Eric B. McConachie, B.A.Sc., M.S., was born on April 8, 1927 in Edmonton, Alberta. His education began there, and he continued his studies at the University of British Columbia, where he graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1949. He attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology to obtain a Masters degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1950. He completed course work towards a Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1952, and while living in London, attended London University in 1953, where he studied elements of Air Law.\nIn 1953 McConachie was hired by CP Air, Vancouver, as Assistant Director Flight Development. Here he served as an engineering and performance analyst when CP Air acquired the DC-6B and Convair 240. He participated in airline service engineering and operations assignments associated with the introduction by CP Air of de Havilland's Comet IA, the world's first jet airliner. CP Air had purchased the Comet, and McConachie spent two years with the engineering department at de Havilland in Britain closely following the developments of the Comet II. CP Air's orders were canceled following deferment of the program for an indefinite period.\nHe returned to Canada in the fall of 1954 to work on CP Air's Bristol Britannia operations, including simulation flights of the turboprop airliner over polar routes. He provided technical representation at the manufacturer's factory and was Technical Assistant to Vice President Operations and Director of Flight Development.\nMcConachie moved to Montreal in 1958 to become General Manager, Marketing, for Canadair Ltd. His responsibilities included all sales engineering, operations engineering, market planning and contract administration. All commercial products were included in his list of responsibilities. He was named Assistant to Executive Vice President Sales and Finance. During his nine years at Canadair, he was directly involved in development and marketing of the CL-540, CL-41 Tutor, the CL-44D4 Swing Tail cargo aircraft. He was in charge of marketing the CL-91 Dynatrac/Army XM-571 and CL-89 surveillance drone, as well as the CL-84 Dynavert, a tilt-wing aircraft which could fly conventionally as well as climb and descend vertically, and hover.\nHis last major project at Canadair was the concept development and marketing of the CL-215 Water Bomber. He sold the first 30 of these aircraft to Quebec and France. He was also responsible for product support, including spare parts, training and technical representatives for over four hundred personnel involved. Export licences were often problematic: one example that McConachie found difficult was the barrier to the CF-5 Freedom Fighter being sold in Brazil. This prompted him to form his own consulting company, Aviation Planning Services Ltd. (APS) in Montreal in 1967. As President and Director, he was responsible for the worldwide activities of the company in the airline, airport, aerospace industry and governmental planning areas. Over a period of twenty years, APS completed over 400 separate aviation studies for 100 different clients in the airline industry, manufacturing, governments and financial institutions. The company performed studies in 30 countries outside of North America. It was also directly involved with the planning and/or development of approximately 100 airports in various countries.\nIn 1986, when Bombardier bought Canadair from the Government of Canada, he suggested to the company that it take Canadair's successful Challenger executive jet and stretch it into a passenger airliner. He referred to it as a Regional Jet, a name he registered in July 1986.\nDuring 1986-87 McConachie's company was asked by Canadair to investigate the potential market for a regional jetliner. APS undertook a market projection, using material from discussions with over 100 regional and major airlines and based on sales of 400-500 aircraft at $13 million each by the year 2001. The preliminary design concept in 1987 was for a 50 passenger aircraft with a range of 1600 km and cruise speed of 785 km/h. In October of that year, the marketing work initiated by APS for the Regional Jet concept was accepted by Bombardier which authorized the design and development of a Regional Jetliner, the Canadair Regional Jet. McConachie was invited to rejoin Canadair in 1988 to begin technical and marketing studies. He became the first employee hired for the RJ program and APS provided the Sales Engineering requirements as they had done up to that time.\nHis responsibility as Vice President Marketing was to organize the marketing program, including sales, contracts and customer service. He took the concept to the Farnborough Air Show in England in 1988 and found interest in the jetliner from, among others, Deutsche Luft Transport. The company aimed to be the first customer at launch. McConachie was responsible for the sales of 139 aircraft through Letters of Intent, with deposits, from 1989 to mid '91, with a value of about $3 billion U.S. At that time the APS forecast for the RJ program was 436 aircraft over 10 years. That total has been greatly exceeded with over 1200 RJ's delivered to date to airlines around the world. The introduction of the RJ has been claimed by some to be one of the most significant events in the first 100 years of aviation.\nIn 1991, following the RJ's successful test flights, McConachie returned to APS. In 1994 he formed a new company, AvPlan Inc., to continue his consulting work in the aviation and aerospace industry, mainly in the US, Central America and Europe. Some of his projects include: development of de-icer fluid collection and disposal system at Dorval and Mirabel Airports, Montreal; market assessment of a remote aircraft ice contamination detection system with Spar Aerospace; assistance to a Costa Rican group in developing a new privatized air cargo terminal and study of a new airport location for the capital of Costa Rica, San Jose; technical study for a new 37-seat turbofan airliner for Dassault, a major airframe manufacturer; development of a conceptual program and business plan for a new regional airline, Air Capitale Inc.; forecast of market shares of new aircraft, ranging from 30 to 90 seats, for the period 1998-2018 for GE Engines; assistance to loading bridge manufacture on system for regional aircraft, Dew Systems; development of low cost systems to control erosion at large airports resulting from operations of the Airbus 380, the largest passenger aircraft built to date. This project is on-going. After 52 years in the business, he was still involved in aviation at the time of his death in 2012.\nEric McConachie died on May 24, 2012 in Chateauguay, Quebec.\nEric B. McConachie was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame at ceremonies held in Edmonton, Alberta in 2005.\nMcConachie was a Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI), member of Royal Aeronautical Society, Aerospace Industries Association of Canada (AIAC), and Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC). He presented papers at technical association meetings around the world, including Farnborough, Paris and Singapore Air Shows. He was presented the C.D. Howe Award in 1996 for \"achievements in the fields of planning, policy making and overall leadership in Canadian aeronautics and space activities.\"\nBirth Place: Hamilton, Ontario\n\"His dedication to purpose bridged all barriers, linking this continent with others and resulting in outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1974\nGeorge William Grant McConachie was born in Hamilton, Ontario, on April 24, 1909, and grew up in the Calder area of Edmonton, Alberta, where he was educated. He worked at part-time jobs with Canadian National Railways, and left the University of Alberta in his freshman year to take flying lessons from 'Moss' Burbidge. He qualified for his Private Pilot's Licence in 1929, a Commercial Pilot's Licence in 1930, and acquired a used aircraft the following year.\nHis first contract was to fly fish from northern lakes during the winter months. He barnstormed prairie communities during the remainder of that year, for a total of 650 flying hours. Despite financial setbacks and physical hazards, including a bankruptcy and a near-fatal crash, he co-founded Independent Airways at Edmonton. A pattern of air services began to emerge throughout northern British Columbia and into the Yukon Territory with his founding of United Air Transport in 1933. When the name was later changed to Yukon Southern Air Transport, McConachie took command and pioneered the first scheduled airmail and passenger service between Edmonton and Whitehorse, Yukon, in 1939. This achievement, which he forged into a dependable service despite the near insurmountable obstacles of weather, inhospitable terrain and mechanical difficulties, earned him the Trans-Canada (McKee) Trophy for 1945. McConachie, like many of the bush pilots of the north, completed numerous emergency flights which resulted in the saving of lives.\nWhen government officials began planning the Northwest Staging Route, they looked for the shortest, safest route to follow. McConachie was using a route surveyed in 1935 by 'Dan' McLean from Edmonton to the Alaska border. The route, which began in Edmonton and went on to Whitehorse, Yukon, through Grande Prairie, Fort St. John, Fort Nelson, and Watson Lake, was found to be the best way to reach Alaska. By using information from McLean's surveys, both the Alaska Highway and the Canol Pipeline Project were brought to an earlier, successful conclusion than otherwise would have been possible. From the late 1930's through World War II, McConachie's home airport, the Edmonton Industrial Airport, became the busiest airport in North America as American aircraft flew from there north to Alaska.\nCanadian Pacific Railways (CPR) bought a number of small airlines in 1941, including Mackenzie Air Service, owned by Leigh Brintnell, and McConachie's Yukon Southern Transport. McConachie was named Assistant to the President of the CPR at that time. When Canadian Pacific Airlines (CPA) was formed in 1942 he was appointed General Manager of the Western Lines. In 1942 'Punch' Dickins was hired as Vice-President and General Manager of CPA, with the responsibility of amalgamating the eleven small scattered airlines into one cohesive air transportation network serving western Canada.\nIn 1947 McConachie, at the age of 38, was named President of CPA, and his daring initiatives resulted in the uniting of Canada and Asia by long-range aircraft. By 1949 he had inaugurated scheduled air passenger service from Vancouver, British Columbia, over the 8,400 mile (13,500 km) route to Sydney, Australia, and the 6,500 miles (10,460 km) from Vancouver to Tokyo, Japan, and Hong Kong. This was a multi-million dollar gamble on the future of air transportation, and it achieved his goal of a successful Canadian great-circle route by air to the Orient.\nMcConachie was a dynamic, persuasive and effective executive, and by the end of 1957 he had directed the launching of seven more international routes, including the capital cities of Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Holland, Portugal, and Spain.\nStill unsatisfied with Canada's role in international air service, he pressed for competitive air operations on the nation's flyways, and a more equitable deal for Canada on the trans-border routes to the United States. The result of his concerted drive was a major overhaul of the air pact existing between the two countries, to this nation's benefit. As well, the government altered its National Air Policy to allow a measure of competition within Canada. In recognition of his great crusade for private enterprise on air routes, he was honoured by Sales Executives International in 1963, as Canadian Businessman of the Year. He died in Long Beach, California, on June 29, 1965.\nGeorge William Grant McConachie was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\n\u201cBush Pilot with a Briefcase\u201d - Ronald Keith (1972) - ISBN-13: 978-0385070492\nGrant McConachie championed flights over polar routes as the shortest and most economical way to go. The most spectacular of these ventures was CPA\u2019s great-circle route over the arctic Ocean from Amsterdam to Vancouver, non-stop. The inaugural east-west flight was captained by Bob Randall (Hall of Fame 1974).\nBirth Place: Baddeck, Nova Scotia\nAwards: BASc (Mechanical), P.Eng., COF, MBE., KG St.J., DEng., LLD., DCL. The McCurdy Award; The McKee Trophy; J. A. D. McCurdy Trophy; Hall of Distinction, Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto; Honourary Air Commodore; Honorary Degrees: University of Toronto; King\u2019s College; Nova Scotia Technical College; Member of the Canadian Science and Engineering Hall of Fame.\n\"The dedication of his engineering talents to the development of manned flight was a prime factor in the birth of North America's aviation industry and has proven to be of outstanding benefit to Canada.\" - Induction citation, 1974, as the first member\nMcCurdy received his academic training at the Baddeck Academy, Nova Scotia; St. Andrew's College, Ontario, and University of Toronto, graduating as a Mechanical Engineer in 1906.\nMabel Bell suggested and financed the establishment of the Aerial Experiment Association. Formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia on October 1,1907 the AEA's focus was to construct \u201ca practical flying aerodrome or flying machine driven through the air by its own power and carrying a man.\u201d Members of the group were: Alexander Graham Bell, J. A. D. McCurdy, F. W. Baldwin, Glenn H. Curtiss and Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge. On February 23, 1909, J. A. D. McCurdy became the first British subject to make a controlled heavier-then-air powered flight in the British Empire, when he piloted the Silver Dart over Bras d'Or Lake, Baddeck, Nova Scotia for three quarters of a mile at a height of thirty feet and a speed of thirty miles per hour. He was the ninth person in the world to fly and the only one to pilot the Silver Dart.\nMcCurdy was the first to utilize a water-cooled engine in an aeroplane, which he had installed on the Silver Dart. Whilst demonstrating the potential of aeroplanes in Petawawa, Ontario in August 1909, he took Casey Baldwin up on August 2nd, as Canada's first passenger. Along with Baldwin, he formed the first aircraft production company, The Canadian Aerodrome Company, from which emerged Canada's first powered aircraft built in Canada, called Baddeck No. 1. While demonstrating the maneuverability of an aeroplane through the use of ailerons, McCurdy made the first figure eight in the world on August 29, 1908. McCurdy sent the first wireless message in August 1910 while aloft and sent and received the first wireless transmission from an aeroplane in 1911. In 1910, he became the first Canadian to be issued a pilot's license. As McCurdy's flight was not just the first one in Canada, but also the first flight by a British subject, McCurdy was granted Great Britain's pilot's license Number One.\nHe held the world biplane speed record at Belmont Park, New York state, in 1910. He was the first to demonstrate the possibility of bombing from the air. During the First World War, his aeroplane factory in Toronto built the Curtiss JN-4 or \u201cJenny\u201d and the world's first twin-engined bomber for the Royal Navy. In April 1915, he established Canada\u2019s first aviation school which trained future pilots for the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service and six hundred Canadians. He made the first inter-city flight in 1911 when he flew in a race from Hamilton to Toronto. He contributed to the development of the aileron, tricycle landing gear and pontoons. In a 1949 CBC interview from Government House in Halifax, McCurdy said of the aileron: \u201cThis is the system used universally to this day, and I consider it to be Canada's outstanding contribution to aircraft development.\u201d He was the first to pilot a \u201cflying boat\u201d; he made the first oceanic flight from Florida to Cuba on January 30th, 1911 and is credited with making the first flight in Mexico.\nHe was chiefly responsibile for the founding of the Royal Canadian Air Force on April 1, 1924 along with W. G. Barker and W. A. Bishop. In 1928 along with W. G. Barker and W. A. Bishop In 1928 he formed the Reid Aircraft Company in Montreal, Quebec. The following year he affected a merger, resulting in the Curtiss-Reid Aircraft Company of which he became president. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he was Assistant Director-General of Aircraft Production and Purchasing. Having established Canada's first aviation school, McCurdy was an adviser to the Commonwealth Governments in the Second World War in helping to set up the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. As Minister, the skill and dedication which he brought to his position made a superb contribution to the Canadian war effort, for which he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire. After the war, he became President of Montreal Aircraft Industries Limited.\nPrime Minister King appointed McCurdy Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia in 1947-1952. In 1953, the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute created The McCurdy Award for \u201cOutstanding achievement in the Art, Science and Engineering relating to Aeronautics and Space Research.\u201d In 1959, the Royal Canadian Air Force celebrated the Fiftieth Anniversary of McCurdy\u2019s flight by flying a replica Silver Dart over Bras d'Or Lake, on February 23, 1959. That same year, McCurdy won the Mckee Trophy for life long contributions to the advancement of Canadian Aviation; the University of Toronto conferred an honourary Doctor of Laws degree and Queen Elizabeth II appointed McCurdy an Honorary Air Commodore. In 1959, McCurdy was appointed the first civilian Honorary Colonel of the R.C.A.F. To celebrate the Centennial of Flight in 2009, a replica of the Silver Dart was built by the AEA 2005 group, composed of volunteers from Welland, Ontario, one of which was McCurdy's grandson, Honorary Colonel Gerald P. J. Haddon. The replica was flown 100 years later, on Bras d'Or Lake from where McCurdy had made his original flight. In 1993, the Air Force Association of Canada established the J. A. D. McCurdy Trophy, \u201cTo recognize outstanding and praiseworthy achievements in the field of civil aviation in Canada\u201d.\nOn July 27, 2009, the airport in Sydney, Nova Scotia was renamed the J .A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport. The latter years of McCurdy's life were spent in Montreal, Quebec until his death on June 25, 1961. As McCurdy's funeral procession wound its way through the streets of Montreal, the Royal Canadian Air Force, with full military honours, paid their final respects to the man whom many consider the Father of Canadian Aviation.\nAt the time of his death, he was the worlds' oldest living pilot. J. A. D. McCurdy was buried in his home town Baddeck, Nova Scotia where, at his request, his tombstone faces Bras d'Or Lake from where he made his historic flight and from where Canadian Aviation took its first steps.\n\"The Silver Dart: The authentic story of the Hon. J.A.D. McCurdy Canada's first pilot\" - H. Gordon Green (1959)\n\"McCurdy and The Silver Dart\" - Les Harding (1998)\nMcCurdy flew to Havana, Cuba from Key West, Florida on January 30th, 1911. He had six American torpedo boat destroyers evenly spaced between Florida and Cuba, each puffing out smoke as a means of navigation, as well as a means of rescue. A burned bearing on the crankshaft forced McCurdy to glide to a gentle landing on the ocean within sight of Havana. McCurdy had fitted his biplane with two pontoons \u2013 another first \u2014 in the event he was forced to ditch. President Gomez held a state banquet where it was announced that McCurdy would be awarded $18,000 in prize money. But when McCurdy opened the envelope he found nothing but newspaper clippings. He made three world records: at 90 miles, he had made the longest flight over water; he was the first to fly out of sight of land on a clear day; he was airborne for two hours and twenty minutes.\nAwards: C.C., O.B.E., D.F.C., Order of Orange Nassau with Swords (Netherlands), Croix de Guerre with Silver Star (France), War Cross (Czechoslovakia), LL.D.(Hon), The C.D. Howe Award, FCASI, FRAS, C.St.J, Pioneer Aviation Medal (USA).\n\"His dedication to the linking together of this nation's far-flung communities by a national air service has been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1974\nGordon Roy McGregor, C.C., O.B.E., D.F.C., B.Sc., LL.D.(Hon), was born in Montreal, Quebec, on September 26, 1901. He was educated there and at St. Andrew's College, Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from McGill University in Montreal, in 1923 with a B.Sc. degree in engineering. He then joined Bell Telephone Company in Montreal, and after serving several years in the engineering department, he became Division Engineer at Ottawa, Ontario, in 1929. He was promoted to District Manager at Kingston, Ontario, in 1932, and moved back to Montreal in 1938 as Central District Manager.\nMcGregor's flying career began at Kingston in 1932 and the following year he obtained his Pilot's Licence at Ottawa. He entered piloting competitions, and won the Webster Trophy in 1935, 1936 and again in 1938, as the best amateur pilot in Canada. He then joined No. 115 Auxiliary Squadron of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) as a Flying Officer and in 1939 he proceeded overseas with No. 1 RCAF Fighter Squadron.\nHe served as a fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.) for his actions against enemy aircraft. In 1941 he was promoted to Squadron Leader and commanded both the 1st and 2nd Canadian Fighter Squadrons in England. He returned to Canada in 1942 to assist in the development of fighter operations in Western Air Command. As Commanding Officer of X Wing he was appointed to head the force sent to Alaska, and served as the point of contact between the Alaska Defence Command and the RCAF. McGregor subsequently headed No. 14 Fighter Squadron in the Aleutians before commanding the RCAF Station at Patricia Bay, British Columbia, with the rank of Group Captain.\nIn 1944 McGregor was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.), and for his exceptional services as a wartime leader and administrator in the European theatre of operations, was decorated with the Netherlands' Order of Orange Nassau with Swords, France's Croix de Guerre with Silver Star, and Czechoslovakia's War Cross.\nWhen the war ended in 1945, McGregor was hired by Trans-Canada Airlines at Montreal as General Traffic Manager. In 1948 he was named President of the airline, taking over from TCA's second President, H.J. Symington. McGregor was the principal figure in guiding that airline through its difficult years of expansion, with the result that Air Canada, as it was renamed in 1965, became one of the world's leading carriers. He oversaw the move of TCA's head office from Winnipeg to Montreal in 1949, and the addition of several new, more comfortable passenger aircraft, including Lockheed Super Constellations in 1954, turboprop-powered Vickers Viscounts in 1955, Vanguards in 1960, Douglas DC-8 jet aircraft in 1960, and Douglas DC-9's in 1966. McGregor retired in 1968 after twenty years as President.\nMcGregor was active in community service and aviation-related organizations. He was named to the board of management of the Montreal General Hospital, the advisory council of the Royal Canadian Air Force Association, and the national council of Boy Scouts of Canada. After serving on the traffic committee of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), he was elected to the executive committee in 1949, and in 1953 was elected President of that organization.\nMcGregor's many honours included being named an Honorary Fellow in both the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) and the Royal Aeronautical Society. He was named a Commander Brother of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (C.St.J.) and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree by McGill University. During Canada's centennial year, he was presented with CASI's 1967 C.D. Howe Award for his services to the nation. In 1968 he was created a Companion of the Order of Canada (C.C.), and awarded the Pioneer Aviation Medal of the United States. He was appointed to a one year term as Grand President of the Royal Canadian Flying Clubs Association. He died at Montreal, Quebec, on March 3, 1971.\nGordon McGregor was inducted as a member of the Quebec Air and Space Hall of Fame in 2002 and in 2004 he was inducted into Canada;s Business Hall of Fame.\nGordon Roy McGregor was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nThe DC-8 was the first jet aircraft in use by an airline in Canada, put into service by Trans-Canada Airlines in 1960. This jet cruised at 550 mph (885 kph) on domestic routes. When TCA was formed in 1937, one of its transport airplanes was the Lockheed 10A, which had a cruising speed of 150 mph (240 kph).\nAwards: FCASI, FRAS\n\"The combination of his knowledge of mechanical and aeronautical engineering, his superior communication and marketing skills, together with his vision and perseverance, have contributed greatly to the lasting success of de Havilland Canada internationally and to the entire Canadian aviation community.\" - Induction citation, 2006\nRobert Billo Mclntyre, B.Sc., M.Sc., was born near Toronto, Ontario on August 12, 1913. He graduated from Vaughn Road Collegiate with honours and went on to earn an Honours Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto.\nIn 1936 he was awarded a Massey Fellowship to Cambridge University in England, where he earned a post-graduate degree in mechanical and aeronautical engineering. While there, he earned his pilot's licence at the Cambridge University Air Squadron. When he returned to Canada in 1938, he lectured in Canada's first aeronautical engineering course at the University of Toronto.\nDuring the early part of World War II, Massey-Harris Co. of Weston, Ontario, was under contract by de Havilland Canada (DHC) to build the wood wings for the de Havilland 98 Mosquito fighter-bomber. In 1939 Mclntyre began his aeronautical career at Massey-Harris, where he headed up the production team and served as senior aeronautical engineer.\nIn 1942 Mclntyre was invited to join DHC as Project Engineer on the complete Mosquito program. Production levels at the Downsview plant rose to as many as 80 Mosquitos per month, with more than 1100 airplanes built in less than three years.\nImmediately after the war, Mclntyre was put in charge of the Aerodynamics and Stress Section of the DHC Engineering Department.\nIn 1946, when just 300 employees were retained from a wartime high of nearly 7000, Mclntyre became a key member of the DHC-1 Chipmunk team as project manager and head of production planning. The Chipmunk was a success from the start, becoming the primary trainer for the RCAF and the RAF.\nOverhaul work was a major part of DHC's postwar program. Mclntyre was placed in charge of the company's newly-formed Aircraft Repair and Overhaul Division, rebuilding Ansons and Cansos. Following this, with the introduction of jet-powered military aircraft such as the DH 100 Vampire in the early 1950s, he established and ran the DHC Engine Division, overhauling up to 40 engines per week.\nIn 1959 he was appointed project engineer in charge of the DHC-4 (Caribou) program. With his considerable presentation skills and knowledge of aerodynamics, structures-and stress, he was successful in guiding the Caribou through FAA Certification in Washington, resulting in significant sales of this aircraft to the US Army.\nIn 1962 he was put in charge of merging DHC's Special Products Division with AVRO Canada's Applied Research facilities which DHC had recently purchased. As its first General Manager, he coined the acronym SPAR, later to be spun off as Spar Aerospace. With Mclntyre's assistance and leadership, the Division pioneered early spacecraft antennas and other unique accessories.\nMclntyre established and headed the Market Research Department in 1965, which marked a turning point in his career. His skill in market research and market development is perhaps his greatest legacy - bringing to the Canadian aerospace industry one of its first true commercial marketing organizations.\nIn 1971, he foresaw the potential demand for short haul airlines feeding into the growing hub-and-spoke networks which the major airlines were fast developing. Concurrently, he saw the simple, rugged and reliable Twin Otter as the perfect airplane to begin to fill this niche. His persistence, combined with the strength and quality of the Twin Otter, resulted in more than 840 sales around the world. It was a bush plane, but more than 500 were sold as airliners.\nHe turned his marketing skills to redefining the commuter and regional airline industry by encouraging DHC to design, develop and build purpose-built aircraft for the market. While the Twin Otter was the original 19-seat commuter, it was still a fairly basic airplane. Unpressurized, strutted, and with fixed gear, it was also noisy, with limited range and relatively slow speed. But as a market developer, it fit the bill for the time. The Twin Otter established the baseline for the next generation of regional airliner, and this was the defining moment in the eventual domination of de Havilland airplanes in the worldwide regional airliner market.\nMclntyre's intensive and thorough market research showed the need for a modern, quiet, pressurized airliner. This was a bold venture, since DHC's next product, the innovative DASH 7, would carry a price tag five times that of the Twin Otter it was meant to replace. As an example of his determination to spread the word about the potential of short haul regional airliners, in one three-week period he visited airline and government officials in 14 countries, from Scotland to Australia.\nWith design definition of the DASH 7 formed by Mclntyre's team, DHC produced the world's first four-engine, pressurized, two-crew aircraft, one specifically designed to move the regional airline industry into its second phase. Certificated in 1976, the 50-passenger, quiet, short haul DASH 7 airliner alerted the world to the possibility of immense profitability in the commuter/regional market. Regional carriers today have become so valuable to the transportation infrastructure in North America and abroad that most are affiliated with, or owned outright by, the major airlines themselves.\nAlthough he had officially retired from DHC in 1978, Mclntyre remained active as a full-time consultant, with his final and most impressive assignment ahead of him: the advanced design definition of the world's most successful regional turboprop carrier - the DHC-8. The DASH 8 was launched in 1980 and came into service in 1983.\nMclntyre traveled the world conducting market research with airlines to ensure that the DASH 8 would meet their needs in passenger appeal, economics, speed, strength and reliability.\nIt is to the credit of Mclntyre and his team of market researchers and designers that over 20 years later, the DASH 8 remained in full production. When Bombardier Aerospace acquired the rights to produce the DASH 8, they renamed it the Dash 8/Q Series, with passenger capacities from 36 to 70. The airliner continued to sell strongly as part of Bombardier's Regional Aircraft program, with more than 800 in service or on order. The \u201cDash 8\u201d was the fore-runner of the \"Q-400\" series used \u2018round the world.\nBob Mclntyre was made a Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) in May, 1976. In 1987 he was named Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and added to the Hall of Distinction of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto.\nHe died in Toronto on September 23, 1985, while still active as a consultant with the company he had served and loved since 1942.\nRobert Billo Mclntyre was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame at ceremonies held in Montreal on May 27, 2006.\nAmong the many passions he enjoyed were his family: wife Peggy, their four children, and grandchildren. His many interests included photography, woodworking, golf, calligraphy, writing, and sailing the Fireball racing dinghy he built in 1963.\nBirth Place: Killarney, Manitoba\nAwards: C.M.\n\"His pioneering vision and unswerving determination to fight forest fires from the air, preventing untold loss of property and lives, have been of substantial benefit to Canadians.\" - Induction citation, 2002\nDaniel Erskine Mclvor, C.M. was born on August 30, 1911, in Killarney, Manitoba. In 1925 his family moved from their home in Winnipeg to Fort William, Ontario.\nMclvor began his career in a bank, not a cockpit. Since he could not afford flying lessons, he began flying in a friend's home-built Corben Junior Ace. Using the knowledge gained from a welding course, he decided to build his own Corben Junior Ace. In spite of his father's reservations, the home-built aircraft passed Ministry of Transport inspections.\nMclvor had not quite finished the Corben when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939 as a Carpenter Rigger, with a Group B classification, and was posted to Air Navigation School in Trenton, Ontario. Still longing to become a pilot and serve his country, he remustered to pilot training in December 1940, having just received his private pilot's licence.\nHe moved on to No. 2 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) at Fort William, Ontario, where he trained on Tiger Moths. From there, he trained on Harvards at No. 2 Service Flying Training School (SFTS) at Uplands, Ontario. He earned his wings and Sergeant Pilot rank in June 1941. Overseas orders arrived, and from Transit Camp in Iceland, he moved on to Bassingburn, England. Due to illness, he was first grounded, then placed on tower duty and eventually shipped back to Canada in 1942. After a refresher course at Rockcliffe, Ontario, in July 1942, he was posted to No. 8 Bombing and Gunnery School in Lethbridge, Alberta.\nAfter a year as Staff Pilot, he requested a transfer to No. 124 Squadron (Ferry Command) in Ottawa in November 1942. He then returned to Lethbridge as a ferry pilot in 1943. In September of that year he was commissioned as Pilot Officer, and a month later, promoted to Flying Officer. In January 1945 he was discharged, with a rank of Acting Flight Lieutenant.\nImmediately after the war, Mclvor worked in a variety of jobs, eventually earning his instructor's rating and becoming a charter pilot in British Columbia. He worked for various airlines in BC, including L & M Air Services at Vernon, Queen Charlotte Airlines, and Central BC Airways, later known as Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) and then as Canadian Airlines International.\nIn 1954 Mclvor volunteered with five other pilots to fly Beavers, Norsemans and Junkers 34s aircraft in the Arctic during the initial stages of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW Line) construction. Until 1956 he worked with the British Columbia Forest Service, transporting fire-fighting crews and supplies to fire sites. The idea of fighting forest fires from the air was by now firmly planted in Mclvor's mind.\nIn 1956 Mclvor began flying a Grumman G-21 Goose for MacMillan Bloedel. When he joined this company he was appointed to a committee composed of representatives of nineteen logging companies and the BC Forest Service. The committee's goal was to develop improved methods for fighting forest fires.\nMclvor began by dropping water-filled bags from M & B's Grumman, the first time that an aircraft was used to extinguish a forest fire in British Columbia. Immediately the BC Forest Service installed rotating tanks on the floats of a de Havilland Beaver owned by Vancouver U Fly, owned by the Michaud Brothers. Realizing that this system did not carry enough water, Mclvor began looking for a larger aircraft that could carry more water. The answer, he believed, was flying boats.\nThe flying boat had largely outlived its usefulness in commercial service by the late 1950's and few remained at that time. However, in 1959 Mclvor found that four Martin JRM-1 Mars aircraft remained in existence, the \"Philippine\", \"Caroline\", \"Marianas\", and \"Hawaii\", all located at the San Diego Naval Base. The aircraft were US Navy surplus and destined for the scrap yard when Mclvor discovered them.\nMacMillan Bloedel initially turned down Mclvor's recommendation that the surplus Martin Mars aircraft be purchased from the US scrap metal dealer. After a second proposal was submitted, the company finally agreed to purchase and convert the four Mars aircraft. The total purchase price for all four aircraft was $100,000 US. They had been purchased originally by the US Navy for $3.5 million (US) each.\nIn addition to purchasing the four aircraft, Mclvor also ordered 90 tonnes of spare parts and several aircraft engines, all at bargain prices. Other bargains included forty-four filing cabinets full of maintenance records and drawings.\nA consortium of six B.C. forest companies, including MacMillan Bloedel as principal shareholder, was formed to oversee the conversion of the Mars flying boats into water bombers. The new company was named Forest Industries Flying Tankers Limited (FIFT).\nA lengthy conversion process then began in British Columbia. The Mars were each equipped with a 6000-gallon (27,276 litres) fibreglass and wooden tank. Two retractable scoops for picking up water were attached on either side of the keel, allowing the aircraft to take on water while 'on the step'. Two dumping hatches were then installed through the nine-foot square freight doors in the sides of the aircraft. The result was a 73,483-kilogram (162,000 Ib.) aircraft capable of carrying 30 tonnes of water.\nFrom 1959 to 1966 Mclvor served as Chief Pilot for FIFT at Sproat Lake, near Port Alberni on the west coast of Vancouver Island. His first task was learning to fight forest fires with the massive water bomber. He developed a communication system that is still used today. Daily patrols are flown by helicopters during hazardous periods. They are used to spot and report new fires and are equipped with bambi buckets to fight small fires. For larger fires, the FIFT Grumman Goose is called in to survey the scene. The Goose then relays information to the Mars crew and guides it to the fire's location. Water 'bombs', consisting of thirty tonnes of water and foam concentrate, are then dropped precisely onto the fire.\nIn 1966 Mclvor resigned from FIFT to return to commercial aviation. Until 1967 he was Manager of the Visual Flight Rules (VFR) Division of Pacific Western Airlines in Vancouver. He became Director of Hercules Operations for PWA in Edmonton in 1969. Until his retirement in 1973, Mclvor concentrated on promoting the benefits of the Hercules aircraft for transporting large cargoes of goods across the world.\nDaniel Erskine McIvor inducted as a member of Canada\u2019s Aviation Hall of Fame in 2002 at a ceremony held in Vancouver, B.C. and was invested as a member of the Order of Canada in 2004.\nHis pioneering and innovative efforts have not gone unnoticed. In 1998 the BC Aviation Council presented Mclvor with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Aviation. During his 35-year career in aviation, he logged over 11,500 hours and flew over 50 different types of aircraft. He died at Richmond, B.C. on February 24, 2005 at age 93.\nBirth Place: Maxville, Ontario\nAwards: O.B.E., The McKee Trophy\n\u201dThe total commitment of his aeronautical expertise to improving this nations airways and airports, has resulted in outstanding benefit to Canadian, aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1974\nAlexander Daniel (Dan) McLean, O.B.E., was born on January 31, 1896, in Maxville, Ontario, where he began his schooling. In 1907 his family moved to Innisfail, Alberta, where he completed his education. He then attended Normal School in Calgary, Alberta, and became a teacher. He taught school in that province for a short time, and in 1917 he enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) After ground training at the School of Military Aeronautics at the University of Toronto in Ontario, he was ordered to England where he graduated as a commissioned pilot. He served as a flying instructor until the war ended in 1918.\nWhile attending the University of Alberta in Edmonton during 1919-20, McLean joined the Canadian Air Force Reserve, attended a refresher course at Camp Borden, Ontario, in 1921 and obtained his Civil Commercial Pilot's Licence. Instead of remaining in aviation, he joined his father in business at Innisfail until the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) called him back into service in 1927. After completing several airmanship courses, he spent two years on aerial photographic missions in Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritimes. On January 28, 1929, he piloted the inaugural airmail flight from Ottawa, Ontario, to St. John, New Brunswick. Two days later he completed the inaugural return flight. Then, for a short period, he was pilot of an experimental airmail service between Halifax, Nova Scotia and St. John, New Brunswick.\nThe Government of Canada's Department of National Defence hired him in April 1929, as Inspector of Western Airways, with headquarters at Regina, Saskatchewan, under the Controller of Civil Aviation, J.A. Wilson. While stationed there he organized construction of the first airways system on the prairies, from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Calgary, and from Regina to Edmonton, Alberta. This operation saw the construction of a chain of airports between these centres, complete with night-lighting and weather and radio services. He then completed an aerial survey of a southern Rocky Mountain flyway to Vancouver, British Columbia, from Alberta, and selected the route through the Crow's Nest Pass. In 1931 he was transferred to Ottawa to replace J.H. Tudhope as Acting Superintendent of Airways and Airports. In this position he directed construction of all new flightways, from Winnipeg throughout eastern Canada.\nDuring July 1935, McLean was in charge of a 7,000 mile (11,300 km) survey flight in the Mackenzie River, Great Bear Lake, Yukon and Northern British Columbia areas. Leaving the South Cooking Lake float base near Edmonton, the party stopped at Fort McMurray, then at all points down the the Mackenzie River to Aklavik, and back through Yukon and northern British Columbia to Prince Rupert, for the purpose of checking landing and other facilities connected with air traffic. The pilot on this historic flight was 'Punch' Dickins, flying a Canadian Airways' Fairchild.\nA move to rejoin the RCAF in his rank of Squadron Leader at the outbreak of World War Two was prevented by a government order freezing him in his civil position. For the duration of the conflict, he was made responsible for the selection, surveying and development of all airports provided for the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). For his work in establishing Canada's airport system, he was awarded the Trans-Canada (McKee) Trophy for 1941. McLean was appointed Director of Civil Aviation in 1941, and assumed the additional responsibility for the civil administration and maintenance of the country's principal airports. For his wartime service he was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E., Military).\nMcLean was appointed to the Air Transport Board in 1950, a position he held until 1962. In 1954 he headed a government negotiating team for air agreements in Australia, and later that year, he was sent to Japan to negotiate bi-lateral air transport agreements. In 1958 he attended air agreement talks in Switzerland. He retired in 1962 and died in Ottawa on May 16, 1969.\nAlexander Daniel (Dan) McLean was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nThe survey flight initiated by McLean in 1935 from Edmonton to the Alaska border showed the natural airway from Edmonton through the Yukon to Alaska, and on to the Orient. The route he chose as a shortcut to the Orient was the \u201cGreat Circle\u201d route through Fort St. John and Fort Nelson, British Columbia, and Whitehorse, Yukon. This route shortened the flight distance between Chicago, Illinois and Shanghai, China, but 4,000 miles (6,440 km).\nBirth Place: Verdun, Quebec\nAwards: Distinguished Service Medal (U.S.FAA), FCASI, The C.D. Howe Award\n\"His contributions to the military as an aeronautical engineer, and his many years of outstanding leadership in civil aviation administration have been of lasting benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 2003\nWalter McDonald McLeish, C.D., B.Eng., M.Eng., was born on September 28, 1920 at Verdun, Quebec. His interest in aviation began early - he was seven years old when Charles Lindbergh made his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean to Paris, and the following year he won a free plane ride as a prize in a model aircraft contest.\nHe did not give up on his dreams of aviation during the depression years, even though he had to leave school at age sixteen to take a full-time job. He attended evening high school and spent weekends at the local airfield washing airplanes and sweeping the hangar floor.\nAfter World War II began, McLeish worked at an aircraft factory and was encouraged to attend night technical school classes in aeronautical engineering. He attended a British Air Commission course to train as an aircraft inspector of military aircraft being produced in North America for the Royal Air Force (RAF). A year later he was released to join the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), graduating six months later as Pilot Officer with his pilot wings. By mid-1944 he was transferred to an Operational Training Unit (OTU), becoming a fully qualified de Havilland Mosquito pilot before being sent to England. But while waiting to join a Squadron, the war in Europe ended (V-E Day, May 8, 1945), and the war with Japan ended (August 14, 1945) before his group could join a Mosquito Squadron in the Far East.\nWhen he returned to Canada in 1945, he attended McGill University in Montreal (B.Eng., 1950), and the University of Michigan (M.Eng., 1952). He then returned to the RCAF, which posted him to the Central Experimental Proving Establishment at Rockcliffe, Ontario, as the Chief of Airworthiness with the rank of Squadron Leader. Here he spent the next decade on research and development projects covering ejection seats, fighter aircraft runway arrester gear, autopilots and other projects to enhance flight performance. Another project involved the conversion of the rear seat of a T33 to hold a caged cat fitted with medical sensors to measure its reaction and balance under the influence of zero gravity, as part of Canada's contribution to the US space program.\nMcLeish was promoted to Wing Commander, but resigned from the military on the eve of a promotion to Group Captain (Colonel) in the midst of a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) tour in West Germany at the Fourth Allied Tactical Airforce Headquarters, to work in civil aviation.\nIn 1964 he was appointed to the Canadian Department of Transport, Civil Aviation, as the Chief Aeronautical Engineer responsible for Airworthiness and Aircraft Certification. Over the next 18 years with the Department, his responsibilities increased dramatically. He became Director of Civil Aviation in 1970, Director General of Civil Aeronautics in 1972, and was appointed Administrator of the Canadian Air Transportation Administration (CATA) in 1976, a position he held until his retirement in 1982.\nThe administrative demands during this time were enormous. Major issues arose from all sides and had to be resolved: the aviation community's needs for consultation, the newly created public service unions' demands to be heard, Parliament's new policies on bilingualism and minority rights, the advent of domestic and global hijackings causing an urgent need for a national security policy, and general public demand for aircraft noise abatement.\nMcLeish decided to undertake several studies - many of which resulted in changes being implemented - to explore the concept of divesting federal airports to cities and regions, the need for a national airspace systems plan, the need for a comprehensive appeal process for licence and operating certificate denials, and the delegation on a national basis of findings of regulatory compliance. He also engaged consultants to explore concepts and organizational issues to streamline CATA operations.\nThe federal airport divestiture study became the airport authority concept which materialized in the mid-1980's. The appeal arrangement began as a review process by the Administrator and eventually became the Civil Aviation Tribunal. The national airspace system plan was initiated and eventually transferred to NAV Canada in 1996.\nMcLeish launched a review of the Aeronautics Act, and established the CATA review process for Canadian Aviation Documents and major aircraft accidents. In 1979 Justice Dubin's inquiry into aviation safety resulted in a comprehensive report in 1981. Dubin's recommendations on accident investigation led to the creation of the Canadian Aviation Safety Board. McLeish was a member of the Minister's Advisory Committee on the Dubin recommendations and assisted with drafting the legislation.\nThe Air Traffic Control (ATC) bilingualism crisis during the early 1970's until the early 1980's was a demanding national issue which polarized into two sides: those who supported the use of English as the only language of communication by ATC world-wide, and those advocating the use of French/English in certain areas. McLeish conducted a two-year en route and terminal simulator exercise that showed that a bilingual system could be operated safely.\nThroughout his Transport Canada service he developed a close liaison with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). This was particularly important in the areas of security and air traffic control. Upon his retirement in 1982, he was presented with the FAA's Distinguished Service Medal.\nMcLeish was recognized by the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI) for his many accomplishments. He was named a Fellow of the Institute in 1965, and received the C.D. Howe Award in 1980 for his achievements in the fields of planning and policy making and overall leadership in Canadian Aeronautics and Space activities.\nAfter he retired, he worked as an independent consultant to governments, airlines, and the aerospace industry. He founded Aerodevco Consultants Ltd., which offers technological assistance globally. He died in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. on January 5, 2004.\nWalter McDonald McLeish was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 2003at a ceremony held in Halifax, Nova Scotia.\nCivil aviation in Canada from 1965 to 1980 enjoyed phenomenal growth. Aircraft on the Canadian Aircraft Registry increased from 7,000 to 30,000. Throughout that period there were rapid technological changes, as in turbojet power, pressurized aircraft, avionics, long-range navigation, radar controls, autopilot-autoland procedures, engine life-cycle design and maintenance, satellite weather forecasting, cockpit and flight data recorders, all of which had to be managed to allow the Canadian aircraft fleet to modernize while becoming every safer. Under Walter McLeish\u2019s guidance and personal vision Canada was a world leader in aviation development.\nBirth Place: Stonewall, Manitoba\nAwards: V.C.\n\"His winning of the Victoria Cross in aerial combat must be regarded as one of the most outstanding contributions possible to the military aspect of Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1974\nAlan Arnett McLeod, V.C., was born in Stonewall, Manitoba, on April 20, 1899. He received his education there and enlisted in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), which had established training bases in Canada. In August 1917, having completed his Canadian training, he sailed for England where he underwent his operational training and joined No. 51 Squadron, RFC, as a Lieutenant on home defence duties. In November 1917, he was assigned to No. 2 Squadron, RFC, on the Western Front as pilot of a two-seater bomber on photographic, spotting and bombing missions.\nHe was honoured with a Mention in Despatches for a daring operation on January 14, 1918, when he and his observer, Lieutenant Reginald Key, attacked and brought down a heavily-defended observation balloon. They were set upon by three German fighters. However, Lieutenant McLeod, by skillful flying, placed his machine in a position to permit his observer full range of his gun to send one of the enemy aircraft down.\nThe action for which Lieutenant McLeod was awarded the Victoria Cross came on March 27, 1918, shortly after the opening of the greatest German offensive that threatened to break the Allied lines. With six other planes from No. 2 Squadron, Lieutenant McLeod, flying an Armstrong-Whitworth FK reconnaissance aircraft, and his observer, Lieutenant A. W. Hammond, M.C., took off from their aerodrome in the morning for a bombing and strafing attack on German troop concentrations at Bray-sur-Somme, near Albert, France. Bad weather forced them near the ground where their aircraft was damaged by concentrated ground fire. Lieutenant McLeod returned across Allied lines, landed at No. 43 Squadron's field for repairs and took off again, reaching the target area shortly thereafter.\nThe London Gazette of May 1, 1918, announced the award of the Victoria Cross (V.C.) to Lieutenant McLeod with the following citation: \"While flying with his observer, Lieutenant A.W. Hammond, M.C., attacking hostile formations by bombs and machine gun fire, he was assailed by eight enemy triplanes which dived at him from all directions, firing from their front guns. By skillful manoeuvering, he enabled his observer to fire bursts at each machine in turn, shooting three of them down, out of control. By this time Lieutenant McLeod had received five wounds and while continuing the engagement a bullet penetrated his petrol tank and set the machine on fire. He then climbed onto the left bottom plane (lower wing), controlling the machine from the side of the fuselage, and by sideslipping steeply kept the flames to one side, thus enabling the observer to continue firing until the ground was reached. \"The observer had been wounded six times when the machine crashed in 'No Man's Land', and Lieutenant McLeod, notwithstanding his own wounds, dragged him away from the burning wreckage at great personal risk under heavy machine gun fire from enemy lines. This very gallant pilot was again wounded by a bomb while engaged in this act of rescue, but he persevered until he had placed Lieutenant Hammond in comparative safety, before falling himself from exhaustion and loss of blood.\" Lieutenant Hammond received a Bar to his M.C. for his part in the action.\nLieutenant McLeod spent many months in hospital. His father, Dr. A.N. McLeod, went to England to be at his son's side during his convalescence, and accompanied him to Buckingham Palace when he received his Victoria Cross from King George V. In September 1918, father and son returned to Canada. In late October, his lungs weakened by smoke and flames, young McLeod contracted influenza and died in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on November 6, 1918.\nAlan Arnett McLeod was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nAlan McLeod was the youngest of three Canadian pilots to receive the Victoria Cross during W.W.1 - he was not yet 19 years of age - and while most of the aerial VC.\u2019s of World War 1 were awarded to pilots flying single-seater aircraft, Lieutenant McLeod earned his decoration while piloting a bomber.\nBirth Place: Dryden, Ontario\n\"He has made outstanding contributions to Canadian aviation by the unselfish application of his exceptional skills as a pilot and navigator, despite adversity, and was instrumental in designing new operational procedures in northern Canada that have benefited this nation's growth.\" - Induction citation, 1974\nStanley Ransom (Stan) McMillan was born in Dryden, Ontario, on October 3, 1904, and moved to Edmonton, Alberta, where he learned to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Reserve in 1925. He left a university engineering course to join the RCAF in 1927 and flew on northern Canadian operations for two years, until he was granted leave from the service to join Dominion Explorers Limited (Domex) as a pilot, exploring the unmapped Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.\nIn March and April of 1929 he shared with another pilot, Charles Sutton, the distinction of being the first airmen to penetrate the vastness of the Barren Lands, in a 4,000 mile (6,400 km) trip from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to north of the Arctic Circle in winter. Col. MacAlpine, Domex President and mining engineer, contracted the trip, the purpose of which was to check on supplies and fuel caches at Domex bases. They stopped at Tavani, about 250 miles (400 km) north of Fort Churchill, and beyond Baker Lake, but any hoped-for explorations were curtailed by winter storms, and the group returned to Winnipeg.\nFollowing this significant accomplishment, Col MacAlpine planned an autumn expedition to .inspect company activities. McMillan, flying Fairchild CF-AAO, and Tommy Thompson, flying a Fokker Super Universal, G-CASK, on charter from Western Canada Airways, piloted this two-plane expedition carrying their air engineers and a four-man geological team. The party left Winnipeg on August 24, 1929, with plans to investigate mineral deposits across the Barren Lands and along the Arctic coast. They were beset by mechanical difficulties and unusually bad weather from the beginning. They were last seen at Baker Lake on September 8th, when they headed towards the Arctic coast. Bad weather and low fuel supplies forced a decision to land when they saw the first signs of habitation. The three Eskimos (Inuit) could not speak English, but with the arrival of other Inuit, the party knew that they could survive until they reached the nearest outpost, Cambridge Bay on Victoria Island, about 80 miles (130 km) across the Dease Strait. Without fuel, the aircraft were abandoned. With no means of communication, the party was lost to civilization for six weeks. They lived on the tundra, sheltered and fed by the Inuit, and waited until the ocean waters froze sufficiently to carry their weight.\nWhen conditions were right, they followed their Inuit friends as they began the trek across the channel to Cambridge Bay and reached the safety of that isolated outpost two days later, on November 3rd, fifty-six days after they had last been seen. It took another month for rescuers to be able to bring them out to Winnipeg. Their desperate plight had captured the headlines of the international press for three months, and triggered the largest aerial search in Canadian history.\nIn 1931 McMillan was employed by Commercial Airways, a company formed by W.R. 'Wop' May, which was soon absorbed by Canadian Airways Limited. His assignment took him throughout northern Alberta and British Columbia, as well as the Yukon and Northwest Territories, flying mail, passengers and freight. One outstanding three week aerial operation resulted in the salvage of the crashed aircraft used by the ill-fated Burke expedition into the mountains of northern British Columbia. The following year he was based at Carcross, Yukon, and flew the first airmail from there to Atlin, British Columbia.\nLeigh Brintnell hired McMillan in 1932 to fly for his company, Mackenzie Air Service, at Edmonton, Alberta. For the next seven years McMillan completed a number of exceptionally difficult flights. In 1933 he delivered eight prospectors and their summer supplies, in relay flights, 1,000 miles (1,600 km) north of Edmonton to the headwaters of the upper Liard River, over unmapped territory, and during winter storms. As Chief Pilot in 1935 he made the first commercial link with Alaskan Airlines by flying over the mountains to Whitehorse, Yukon. During his flying career, he had flown on numerous searches for lost companions and completed a number of mercy flights. In 1936 he piloted a relief flight to Letty Harbour on the Arctic Ocean in mid-winter, without radio or navigational aids, to rescue three seaman who had been marooned for eight months. In the fall of 1936 he devoted six weeks to flying the Barren Lands with other bush pilots on a search for two missing RCAF aircrew, F/L Coleman and L/A Fortey, who were eventually found by Matt Berry.\nMcMillan's leave from the RCAF ended in September 1939, when he was recalled for service as a Flight Lieutenant. He was able to use his exceptional long range navigational skills as an operational pilot and commander on anti-submarine patrols out of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and ferrying flying boats from Bermuda to the United Kingdom. He also served on operational duties in Ceylon and Northern Ireland, leading three squadrons from 1943 until war's end, with the rank of Wing Commander. For exceptional services he was honoured with a Mention in Dispatches.\nFor two years after the war he flew aerial photographic surveys for Arctic Airlines, then formed Air Surveys Limited with a partner and continued survey flights for the Government of Canada until 1952. Four years later he joined Pacific Western Airlines (PWA) as Chief Pilot, Operations Manager, and then was named Co-Divisional Manager. His years of experience in cold weather aircraft operations were considered essential to PWA's safe flying procedures during the construction of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line radar bases along the rim of the Arctic Ocean in the mid-1950's.\nWhen PWA sold their bush flying operations to Northward Aviation in 1966, he was named General Manager of the new company. In 1970 he formed Wraymac Sales at Edmonton, becoming an aircraft broker and parts supplier to the industry.\nMcMillan served as President of the International Northwest Aviation Council in 1963. He was named to their Aviation Roll of Honour in 1976. On November 13, 1981 a Wardair DC-10 with the call letters C-GFHX and the name S.R. \u201cStan\u201d McMillan left Toronto on it\u2019s inaugural flight to Quebec City with Stan and many of the early pilots and/or their families on board. He died in Edmonton on March 4, 1991.\nStanley Ransom (Stan) McMillan was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nStan McMillan regarded the Inuit\u2019s skills and ability to survive in Arctic conditions with awe. His memories of their totally unselfish and happy nature throughout the difficult days of encampment on the Arctic coast are mixed with the knowledge that without them, the MacAlpine party would surely have perished.\nNickname: Archie\nBirth Place: Gilbert Plains, Manitoba\n\"His quest for perfection as an Arctic airman, despite adversity, helped make the term 'bush pilot' synonymous with resourcefulness and has been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation,\" - Induction citation, 1974\nArchibald Major (Archie) McMullen was born on July 29, 1906, in Gilbert Plains, Manitoba. He moved to Nanton, Alberta, as a child and was educated in Alberta. He worked as a mechanic in Calgary, Alberta, until 1927, when he joined World War I 'ace', Freddie McCall as a mechanic. This move resulted in the formation of Great Western Airways at Calgary in June 1928, involving himself, McCall, Jock Palmer and two other aviators. They started operations with one Stinson Detroiter.\nThe firm acquired the distributorship for de Havilland aircraft, and several DH Moths were shipped from Toronto, assembled in Calgary and sold. The company then formed a flying school, and after obtaining an Air Engineer's Licence, McMullen earned both his Private and Commercial Pilot's Licences by March of 1929. During that summer, he barnstormed extensively throughout western Canada.\nIn September 1929, he joined 'Wop' May as a pilot for a newly formed company, Commercial Airways, at Edmonton, Alberta, which had a government contract to carry mail to northern communities. On December 9, 1929, McMullen, along with May and air engineer Tim Sims, and three others, left Fort McMurray with the first mail to be flown down the Mackenzie River. He was credited with the portion of the inaugural airmail flight to Fort Chipewyan, Alberta. The following year he flew the first airmail between Fort Providence and Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories. Due to the large accumulation of mail, all company aircraft were carrying mail and cargo to all the posts and settlements along the Mackenzie River as far as Aklavik.\nCommercial Airways was absorbed by Canadian Airways Limited in 1931. McMullen made his first trip to Echo Bay on Great Bear Lake in August 1931. The mining rush into that area was going on. During the next three years he completed a number of additional inaugural airmail flights. After flying the last seasonal mail down the Mackenzie River to Aklavik on floats in 1933, skis were put on his plane and he completed a difficult mercy flight to Shingle Point on the Arctic coast, where the Mission had burned and four patients had to be brought to hospital. He carried out several more emergency flights into the north that winter.\nIn 1937 he joined Mackenzie Air Service, and in the fall of that year was called upon to assist in an extensive search for Russian aviator Sigismund Levanevsky and his crew, missing on a flight over the Arctic Ocean to Alaska. McMullen took over from Herbert Hollick-Kenyon as pilot for searchmaster, Sir Hubert Wilkins. They made several intensive search flights between Aklavik and Edmonton, but the Russian crew was never found.\nThrough the next few years, McMullen flew what he called routine trips, flying mail, freight, passengers, and emergency flights, throughout northern Canada, aiding new areas of development and habitation.\nIn December 1940, McMullen began to work with the Department of Munitions and Supply as a test pilot for repaired aircraft used by the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). He was then assigned to Consolidated Aircraft Company at San Diego, California, to test fly several types of aircraft, among them the four-engined B-24 Liberator bomber and twin-engined PBY flying boats. When he returned to Edmonton, he was test pilot on rebuilt military aircraft.\nIn 1945 he joined Canadian Pacific Airlines (CPA), which had acquired Canadian Airways Limited. He served as a check pilot for CPA, supervising all of the company's pilots in the Edmonton district, as well as those on air operations during the construction of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line radar bases along the Arctic Ocean, until 1956. He retired from aviation in 1963, following a 30-year career during which he logged 22,000 hours as pilot-in-command on 38 types of aircraft. McMullen died on June 13, 1983.\nArchibald Major (Archie) McMullen was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nIt was early November, and ice was forming rapidly along the snye that joins the Athabasca and Clearwater rivers at Fort McMurray. McMullen\u2019s plane has been hoisted onto blocks for between-season overhaul when an urgent message came through by radio from Fort Smith on the border of the Northwest Territories about 300 miles (483 km) north. A trapper had trudged day and night for 72 hours to reach Fort Smith with word that a boy had been shot through the foot with a high calibre bullet. He needed immediate medical attention. Mechanics worked all night to prepare the plane for flight on floats. Then they blasted a path through the ice for the plane to get to open water. Finally, McMullen took off through the thick cakes of ice. He mad the flight successfully, carried out the patient to Fort Smith hospital, then returned to Fort McMurray, landing his plane in a narrow ribbon of open water that remained. Four days later, the water froze over and was winter in the north.\nBirth Place: Springhill, Nova Scotia\nAwards: D.S.O., D.F.C.**, C.D.*, The Croix de Guerre with Palm Leaf and the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour (France), Africa Star, Defense Medal, Korean War Medal, UN Korean War Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal\n\"His leadership, courage, dedication and his indomitable will to survive were manifestations of contribution to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1990\nRobert Wendell (Buck) McNair, D.S.O., D.F.C.**, C.D.*, was born in Springhill, Nova Scotia, on May 15, 1919, and grew up in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. During the summers of 1937 to 1940 he worked for Canadian Airways Ltd. as a ground wireless operator, relaying weather and other information necessary for the safety of bush pilots operating in the north.\nHe joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in June 1940, and graduated as a Sergeant-pilot in March 1941. He was transferred to No. 411 Squadron in England in June 1941. His first victories came while flying a Spitfire in September and October, when he downed a Messerschmitt Me 109 and damaged two other enemy aircraft.\nMcNair was transferred to No. 249 Squadron in Malta in March 1942, a posting which included a flight from the deck of aircraft carrier HMS Eagle delivering new pilots and aircraft into Malta. This was a difficult exercise since the Eagle was not a large carrier, and the Spitfire was not designed for this type of operation. Also, the distance was beyond the Spitfire's normal range, and each aircraft had to carry a supply of parts. The addition of a belly fuel tank extended its range. Increased lift for take-off was accomplished by inserting small wooden wedges between the flaps and the underside of the wings. When the aircraft was taking off, the wedges held the flaps in a slightly open position to provide additional lift. When the flaps were retracted, the wedges were released.\nThe delivery of aircraft to Malta was successful and during the balance of his four-month tour McNair destroyed five enemy aircraft and damaged eight others. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross (D.F.C.) and promoted to Flight Lieutenant. He rejoined No. 411 Fighter Squadron in the U.K. in July of 1942 and damaged several more enemy aircraft during a fierce air battle over Dieppe, France, on August 19, 1942.\nIn September of 1942 McNair, now a Flight Commander, was sent on a six-month coast-to-coast promotion of Canada War Bonds. He returned to England in early 1943 and became Squadron Leader, first of 416 and then 421 Squadrons. In a short period, he added eight more victories and received two Bars to his D.F.C.\nOn July 20, 1943, as he was leading a patrol along the Dutch coast, his Spitfire's engine began to lose power. He left the squadron and turned for home accompanied by his wing man. Twelve miles from the French coast his engine burst into flames and his aircraft dived out of control. At 5,000 feet (1,520 m) he struggled free, and with his face badly burned, bailed out of the aircraft. The parachute was partially burned, but he freed himself from the jammed harness and landed in the water, supported only by his Mae West life preserver. He was rescued within a few hours, and was flying again within three weeks.\nIn October of 1943 he became Wing Commander of 126 RCAF Wing, the leading Fighter Wing in the Second Tactical Air Force. In April 1944, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) with the citation noting that: \"Throughout, Wing Commander McNair has set a magnificent example by his fine fighting spirit, courage and devotion to duty both in the air and on the ground. He has inspired his pilots with confidence and enthusiasm.\"\nWhen his combat days were over, he had destroyed at least sixteen enemy aircraft and damaged many others. He became the RCAF's second-ranking ace of World War II and one of its most successful wing leaders.\nMcNair served as Commander of No. 17 Sector in 1944. He attended the first post-war course at Royal Air Force (RAF) Staff College, and on completion of the Empire Central Flying School course in April 1946, he was sent to Fakenham, Norfolk, to fly the first British operational jet aircraft, the Gloster Meteor. In 1947 he was awarded the French Croix de Guerre with Palm Leaf and the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour.\nIn the post war years, Colonel McNair served in staff positions at Washington, DC, U.S.A., Quebec, and finally, in Tokyo during the Korean conflict. He was frequently called upon to fly and evaluate the latest jet aircraft.\nIn January 1956, he was promoted to Group Captain and commanded No. 4 Fighter Wing in Baden-Soellingen and in 1961 was assigned to North American Air Defence (NORAD) Region Headquarters at St. Hubert, Quebec. He was appointed Deputy Commander of NORAD's Duluth sector in 1964 and in 1968 became Senior Air Liaison with the Canadian Joint Staff in London. He died there on January 15, 1971.\nIn 2007 Buck McNair was honoured when No. 4 Wing Cold Lake Airfield was renamed the \u201cG/C R.W. McNair Airfield\u201d.\nRobert Wendell (Buck) McNair was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990 at a ceremony held at Edmonton, Alberta.\n\"Buck McNair: Canadian Spitfire Ace\" - Noman Franks (2001)\nIn 1953 McNair was awarded the Queen\u2019s Commendation for Brave Conduct for his actions during a crash landing of a North Star Transport at RCAF Sea Island, Vancouver, B.C.. He was a passenger, but as Senior Officer, he conducted the evacuation of the aircraft. Although injured and his clothing soaked with gasoline, he returned to the wreckage until all of the passengers and crew were accounted for.\nBirth Place: Vermillion, Alberta\nAwards: C.D.*\n\"His record can be matched only by those airmen of high endeavour and professional calling, who have devoted their lives and skills to the benefit of the free world despite adversity, and whose contributions have substantially benefited Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1974\nBert William Mead, C.D.*, was born on May 21, 1923, in Vermilion, Alberta. He attended school there and at the University of Alberta until 1942 when he joined the United States Public Roads Administration as an engineer's assistant on the surveying of the Alaska Highway route. The following year he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), trained at several bases, graduated as a commissioned pilot in 1944 and was posted to instructional duties in Canada.\nMead wanted to serve in combat, so he resigned from the RCAF in 1945 and enrolled in the Royal Navy as a pilot with the rank of Sub-Lieutenant. The war in Europe ended shortly after he completed operational training, so he transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). During the next two years he completed several advanced training courses. He returned to No. 883 Squadron, RCN, at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and served at sea for a year aboard the aircraft carrier HMCS Magnificent as Deck Landing Control Officer.\nIn 1949 he was posted to HMCS Shearwater as maintenance test pilot and then to the RCAF's Winter Experimental Establishment at Edmonton, Alberta. There he was instrumental in developing new techniques for sophisticated aircraft, flying as many as six types in a single day. In 1953 he was sent to England to attend the Empire Test Pilot's Course, following which he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander.\nBecause of his extensive experience in all aspects of heavier-than-air flight, Mead was appointed to VX-10 Squadron, RCN, in 1954 as a special projects officer. His prime responsibility was flight testing one of the world's first successful automatic take-off and landing systems for aircraft. The project was designed to permit military aircraft to depart from or land on an aircraft carrier in any weather, in any type of sea. His skills as a pilot contributed to the perfection of the system and modified versions were put to use on modern passenger jet and military aircraft. Mead spent eight years with VX-10, accepting command of the unit from J.C. Sloan in 1959.\nIn 1962 Mead was moved to Naval Headquarters in Ottawa. Three years later he was named to head a group of military experts as Flying Evaluator in the testing and reporting on the selection of aircraft for all Canadian Forces. A recurring medical problem caused by an earlier crash resulted in his early retirement from the service in 1967.\nIn 1967 he helped found Hoverwork Canada Limited to bring into Canada the first commercial Air Cushion Vehicle (ACV), or hovercraft, and undertook an extensive course of instruction in England. The hovercraft had been invented by Sir Christopher Cockerell, whose original concept arose from an attempt to improve a boat's performance by reducing hydrodynamic drag.\nDuring the winter of 1967-68, Mead directed cold weather trials of the hovercraft over Hudson Bay, out of Port Churchill, Manitoba. He then worked with the Ministry of Transport (MOT) to develop an ACV Search and Rescue Unit at Vancouver, British Columbia, selecting and training all personnel to hovercraft standards, and devising the operating procedures. He commanded this unit, which conducted over 230 rescue missions at sea. He was then transferred to Ottawa and named senior ACV captain, assigned to test and develop new vehicles and assist in the writing of regulations governing their operations.\nIn 1972 Mead joined Northern Transportation Limited at Edmonton to take command of their ACV test program of the Canadian-made Voyageur. As the most punishing test he could devise, it was flown, under his command, the full length of the Mackenzie River in mid-winter.\nFrom 1973 to 1977 he was Director of ACV Operations for Northern Transportation. The ACV's were used to transport personnel to offshore rigs on artificial islands on the Beaufort Sea, supporting the oil drilling programs of several companies. After these operations ceased, Mead negotiated the sale of the ACV's to the Coast Guard for use in Search and Rescue work on the west coast of Canada. He retired from Northern Transportation Co. Ltd. in 1979.\nAs a military test pilot for almost two decades, he flew more than 100 types, from trainers through super-sonic jet fighters and four-engine bombers. As the nation's first certified ACV pilot, he logged some 1,500 hours on ten types, all of which were designated as airplanes by the MOT.\nBert Mead died in Port Moody, B.C. on March 8, 2011.\nBert William Mead was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held at Edmonton, Alberta.\nThe Air Cushion Vehicle or Hovercraft has the ability to operate over water, land, snow, ice, and swamp. It has been used in rescue missions which could not have been performed by ships or helicopters. Of particular significance, it inflicts minimal, if any, damage to the tundra during summer operations.\nBirth Place: New Westminster, British Columbia\nAwards: Canadian Centennial Medal\n\"His insistence on operational integrity and service as well as his organizational skills in both charter and scheduled airlines along with his dedication to safety in the industry has shaped the country's policy and been of considerable benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1993\nAlmer Leonard (Al) Michaud was born on March 19, 1914, in New Westminster, British Columbia, and was educated in the Langley area. His brother Lloyd, a partner in Gilbert's Flying Service, taught him how to fly prior to World War II. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1941 and served as staff pilot at No. 2 Air Observers School (AOS) in Edmonton, Alberta, and No. 5 AOS in Winnipeg, Manitoba.\nIn 1942 Al Michaud and his brother Lloyd bought the remaining shares in Gilbert's Flying Service, but wartime restrictions suspended all operations of the company. In 1945 the Michaud brothers returned from wartime flying duties and resumed operations as a new company, Vancouver U Fly, with Al Michaud holding the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Their company developed into one of the most successful flying schools ever formed in western Canada.\nThey became distributors of Cessna aircraft in 1946 and also received an Air Transport Board licence to operate land and sea air charter services from their base in Vancouver. British Columbia's rugged coastline and costs of building roads caused companies engaged in lumbering, mining and fishing to rely to a large extent on air travel, which made up the bulk of the charter business. The charter service was such a success that by 1955 the company's name was changed to West Coast Air Services, which seemed to describe the scope of operations more appropriately.\nAfter the federal government took over the Vancouver Airport from its former owner, the City of Vancouver, plans for future use and development of the airport began to emerge. By 1964 operational restrictions imposed at Vancouver International Airport limited its use to licenced pilots only, and therefore, initial flight training was moved to a nearby airport, Pitt Meadows. The one aspect of West Coast Air Services business most affected by the new ruling was their flying school. They decided to phase out pre-licence pilot training and concentrate on the senior phases of training, such as commercial, instructor and instrument ratings.\nAl Michaud served as a Director of the British Columbia Aviation Council from 1947 to 1967, when he became President of the Council. He also served as Chairman of the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC) at this time. During his tenure as Chairman, he directed the preparation of the draft of the Regional Air Carrier Policy for the Minister of Transport, the Honourable J.W. Pickersgill. This policy continues to provide the main frame-work for air transport in Canada.\nIn 1967 West Coast Air Services Ltd. purchased the Class 4B charter service of Pacific Western Airlines at Vancouver, Kamloops, and Nelson, which included contract work for the British Columbia Department of Lands and Forests for patrols and fire suppression. In that year, Al Michaud was awarded the Canadian Centennial Medal.\nFrom 1981 to 1982 Michaud was appointed a member of the Justice Dubin Commission and Advisory to the Minister of Transport on Air Safety and other related matters. From 1984 to 1991 he served as Chairman of Time Air Inc., which was formed in Lethbridge, Alberta. He was one of the principal shareholders in this company. In 1986 he was honoured by the International Northwest Aviation Council (INAC) by being named to their Honour Roll for his promotion of the field of aviation. He died in Vancouver on October 20, 1998.\nAlmer Leonard (Al) Michaud was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1993 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nAl Michaud recalled the days when public interest in aviation was growing rapidly and the airport was one of the places to go for a Sunday drive. Visitors were not content to sit and watch, but would line up enthusiastically to buy a fifteen minute ride over the city. For many at that time, the first ride in an airplane was in a small aircraft, which is not true for most people today.\nBirth Place: Fort Francis, Ontario\nAwards: A.F.C.\n\"His broad experience gained in thirty-five years of civil and military aviation has been passed on for the outstanding benefit of Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1989\nRobert Bruce Middleton, A.F.C., was born on May 5, 1912, in Fort Francis, Ontario. The family moved to Australia in 1920 but returned to Canada two years later, to live in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He obtained his Private Pilot's Licence in October of 1932, and shortly after, his Commercial Licence. Unable to find a flying job in Canada, he boarded a cattle boat to England with the intention of joining the Royal Air Force (RAF). Upon arrival he was informed that they could not take applications for six months, so he returned to Canada, penniless.\nUnable to find work, he lived with his family, and among other things, did some barnstorming. In December he returned to London, England, by the now familiar cattle boat and was accepted by the RAF, but was told he was not needed , immediately. He returned home once more. In March 1934, he finally received word of his commission and crossed the Atlantic for a fifth time to commence flying training in Scotland. He received his RAF pilot wings in August.\nDuring a period of leave in 1935, Middleton returned home to Canada and was married. After a short period in Scotland, he was posted to Malta with No. 22 Flying Boat Squadron which was protecting British interests there during the period of tension when Italy invaded Ethiopia.\nIn 1936 Middleton applied in London to fly for Imperial Airways, and in 1937, with a newly acquired Civil Air Navigator's Licence, he began flying for them on the London-Paris route. In March he returned to Canada, and began flying for Canadian Airways Limited in northern Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.\nIn October 1937, he went to work for the fledgling Trans-Canada Airlines and was on the first test run of the twin engine Lockheed Electra from Winnipeg to Vancouver, British Columbia. In December he became one of the founding members of the Canadian Air Line Pilot's Association (CALPA, Belt of Orion 1988). In 1938 he captained the first TCA airmail flight from Vancouver to Winnipeg and a year later, the inaugural passenger flight on that route.\nIn May of 1939, he returned to Imperial Airways and flew the London-Frankfurt-Budapest route. He landed in Frankfurt, Germany on September 3rd, 1939, the day that World War II was declared, and after some difficulty, was allowed to continue his flight back to London. Middleton completed 45 passenger flights over Europe before returning to Canada.\nMiddleton returned to the RCAF, which he had joined as a Reserve Officer while he flew for TCA, and was posted to Bermuda. From there he made five aircraft deliveries across the Atlantic for Ferry Command. In July 1941, he was posted to No. 116 Bomber Squadron at Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and flew one of the Lockheed Hudson aircraft taking the Duke of Kent on a tour of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) facilities. In October he was test-flying a Bell Aircobra fighter and was severely injured when it crashed in the Gatineau Hills in Quebec. On January 1, 1943 he was promoted to Wing Commander and awarded the Air Force Cross (A.F.C.). That same month he was posted to 164 Squadron in Moncton, New Brunswick. This group, under the direction of Group Captain Z.L. Leigh, was organized to speed delivery of materials and personnel for the construction of the Goose Bay, Labrador, airport, which was used as a fuel stop in the Atlantic Ferry operation.\nIn October 1943, Middleton was placed in command of No. 168 (Mail) Squadron, responsible for carrying mail overseas, and in December he piloted the first flight of airmail to the United Kingdom and the Middle East. In March of 1944, he was placed in charge of the Overseas Wing of RCAF Transport Command.\nAfter demobilization in 1945, Middleton flew for Argentine Airlines from Buenos Aires to New York and London. He returned to Canada a year later and was persuaded by T.M. \u2018Pat' Reid to join Imperial Oil Limited. In 1946 he began flying for Imperial Oil as Chief Pilot, and became Manager of Flight Operations, a position he held for 21 years. Under his management, the air transport arm of Imperial Oil grew from one to eight aircraft, becoming one of the largest corporate fleets in Canada. During this period he was also a Director of the Toronto Flying Club, and a member of the advisory board of the Canadian Business Aircraft Association. He retired in 1968 with 15,000 hours of air time logged. He died in Mexico on March 24, 1970.\nRobert Bruce Middleton was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1989 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nBruce Middleton was one of three brothers from Dauphin, Manitoba to serve in the RAF. Bruce, Douglas and Donald all earned their wings in England. The Middeltons were the only Canadian family with three sons in the RAF, and they were the only brother trio to have taken aerial bombing courses in the RAF.\nBirth Place: Haileybury, Ontario\nAwards: FCASI\nWebsite: www.canavbooks.com\n\"As one of Canada's foremost aviation historians and one of the most successful and influential publishers of Canadian aviation history, he has made a significant and prodigious contribution to the recording of Canada's aviation history, meticulously documenting with photographs the role that aviation has played in the development of Canada.\" - Induction citation, 2004\nLawrence Joseph Milberry, BA, M.Ed., was born on October 30, 1943 in Haileybury, Ontario, the son of a mine supervisor. As a young child he was fascinated by the seaplanes operating from nearby Mud Lake at Belleterre, Quebec. His family moved to Toronto when he was five, and he attended De La Salle College. Throughout his teen years he was an enthusiastic Air Cadet, participating in many of the citizenship and technical training programs sponsored by the Air Cadet League of Canada.\nAfter graduating from High School he attended Normal School, and in 1961, at the age of eighteen, he accepted a teaching position in Toronto. In the evenings he took advantage of the University of Toronto's extension programmes, and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1968. To that he added a Masters Degree in Education in 1970.\nMilberry's magazine articles began to appear in publications. He is an avid photographer, and his photos also were being published in the 1950's. His focus was aviation, and over the years he found that researching and writing about the aviation world required more and more of his time. He needed to do more research, take more photographs, travel to more aviation related events, interview more people.\nHis first book, Aviation in Canada, was completed in 1979 and published by McGraw Hill. He resigned from his teaching position in 1979 to take up full time writing, leaving behind the security of his full time career.\nFollowing the success with his first book, Milberry decided that not only would he continue to write books on aviation, he would publish them himself. With little background in book production other than the experience he gained by working with McGraw Hill, he established his own publishing company, CANAV Books, in 1981. This decision took considerable courage. As a single parent of four young children, his resources were limited, and the publication of his first book was financed by a mortgage on his home. Indeed, the process of mortgaging his home has been repeated several times since then, but the result is a company now famous worldwide for quality in aviation publishing.\nMilberry has been an active member of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society since its inception in 1962. His goals as a publisher, to research, record and disseminate the history of aviation in Canada, are similar to those of that Society. He is known for the thoroughness of his research, whether his topic is the achievements of: Canadian aviators, the impact of Canadian aviation technology or Canada at war. This task has taken him to all parts of Canada as well as to many other countries.\nMilberry's books effectively combine his soundly researched narrative, technical data, and first hand anecdotal accounts. The latter are obtained not only from the famous but from lesser known aviation personalities whom he has taken the trouble to locate and interview. He is well aware of the importance of photographs, and he chooses these with extreme care. His knack for unearthing rare pictures can be attributed to his determination and hard work. In addition, he uses many of his own photographs in his work.\nThe histories of de Havilland Canada, written by Fred Hotson (Hall of Fame, 1998), and of Canadair, which Milberry co-authored with Ron Pickler, are considered the definitive sources on these two companies. His aircraft monographs on such aircraft as the Canadair North Star, the Avro CF-100 and the Canadair F-86 Sabre are outstanding. The latter was described by a reviewer for the Journal of American Aviation Historical Society as \"possibly the best of its kind, a bench mark for writers of similar works\".\nHis massive two-volume Air Transport in Canada is an outstanding source of information on the history of Canadian civil aviation. Equally comprehensive are the four volumes of Canada's Air Force, which document the RCAF and CAF in a similar manner.\nIn addition to books he has written, Milberry has published works by other notable Canadian aviation historians, as well as several he has co-authored with other distinguished researchers.\nMilberry is universally respected among members of the aviation community, at all levels. Indicative of this is his recognition by the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute which appointed him Honourary Fellow in 2002.\nNo other Canadian writer or publisher has done more to make Canadians aware of our flying history. CANAV books have sold well in Canada, but they have also enjoyed substantial international sales. Milberry has thus been responsible for acquainting many non-Canadians with our country's aeronautical achievements. He lives in Toronto, Ontario.\nLawrence Milberry was inducted as a member of Canada\u2019s Aviation Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in Mississauga, Ontario in 2004.\nBelow is a listing of books in which Larry Milberry has been involved:\nA. Written by Larry Milberry, published by McGraw-Hill Ryerson:\n1979 - Aviation in Canada\nB. Written by Larry Milberry and published by Milberry/CANAV Books:\n1981 - The Avro CF-100\n1982 - The Canadair North Star\n1985 - Austin Airways\n1986 - The Canadair Sabre\n1987 - Canada's Air Force Today\n1994 - AIRCOM: Canada's Air Force\n1994 - Sixty Years: The RCAF and CF Air Command, 1924-1984\n1997 - Air Transport in Canada, Vol. 1 and 2\n2000 - Canada's Air Force at War and Peace, Vol. 1 and 2\n2001 - Canada's Air force at War and Peace, Vol. 3\n2004 - Fighter Squadron: 441 Squadron from Hurricanes to Hornets\nC. Written by Larry Milberry - collaboration with other writers, published by Milberry/CANAV Books:\n1989 - Power: The Pratt & Whitney Canada Story, K.H. Sullivan and L. Milberry\n1989 - Propulsion: L'Histoire de Pratt & Whitney Canada (HC), K.H.Sullivan and L. Milberry\n1990 - The RCAF at War 1939-1945, L. Milberry and H.A. Halliday\n1995 - Canadair: The First 50 Years, R. Pickler and L. Milberry\n1995 - Canadair: Cinquante Ans d'Histoire, R. Pickler and L. Milberry\nD. Books published by Milberry/CANAV Books:\n1983 - The De Havilland Canada Story, F.W. Hotson\n1985 - And I Shall Fly, Z.L. (Lewie) Leigh\n1987 - A Formidable Hero: The Story of Lt. R. Hampton Gray, V.C., D.S.C., S.E. Soward\n1987 - Woody: A Fighter Pilot's Album, H.A. Halliday\n1985 - Helicopters: The British Columbia Story, P. Corley-Smith and D.N. Parker\n1988 - The Bremen, F.W. Hotson\n1992 - Typhoon and Tempest, The Canadian Story, H.A. Halliday\n1999 - De Havilland in Canada, F.W. Hotson\n2004 - The Grumman Mallard, F.W. Hotson and M. Rodina\nSince Larry Milberry was inducted as a member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame at a ceremony held in Mississauga, Ontario in 2004 he has continued his exceptional; quest for history in Canadian aviation, and put this information into print along with his excellent photographs. Some of the books he has written and published since 2004 include:\n2005 - 441 Squadron from Hurricanes to Hornets\n2005 - The Leslie Corness Propliner Collection\n2006 - The Wilf White Propliner Collection\n2007 - Canada\u2019s Air Forces on Exchange\n2008 - Aviation in Canada - Volume 1 - The Pioneer Decades\n2009 - Aviation in Canada - Volume 2 - The Formative Years\n2010 - Aviation in Canada - Volume 3 - Evolution of the Air Force\n2011 - Aviation in Canada - Volume 4 - Bombing and Coastal Operations Overseas 1939-1945\n2013 - Aviation in Canada - The Noorduyn Norseman - Volume 1 (with Hugh A. Halliday)\n2013 - Aviation in Canada - The Noorduyn Norseman - Volume 2\nCAN-AV Books publishes books by other authors, including this recent offering: le Te Plumeria (2012) by Marc-Andre Vailquette - the history of one of the greatest RCAF fighting units, the 425 \u201cAlouette\u201d Squadron.\nMilberry also writes his CANAV Books Blog, \u201cThe first and last word in Canadian aviation publishing since 1981\u201d which keeps the reader up-to-date on his musings and ongoing projects.\nAwards: OMM, CD\n\u201cRecognized as an outstanding leader and pilot, George Miller served 35 years with the RCAF, including team leader of the Snowbirds aerobatic team. Following air force service he organized air shows, served as manager of the Langley Regional Airport during its expansion, and formed the Fraser Blues aircraft formation team.\u201d - Induction citation, 2015\nBorn in Montr\u00e9al, on October 6, 1935 to parents Harold and Neta, George Edward Miller was the middle child to an older brother, Harold, and a younger sister, Carol. After completing grade two, George and his family moved to St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland, when his father\u2019s work as a construction superintendent took him there to work on the building of a U.S. Army hospital. At 15, George moved with his family to Ottawa, where construction work had taken his father.\nGeorge completed high school at Nepean High School, then enlisted at age 18 in the RCAF in Ottawa as a pilot trainee on November 28, 1953. He began training on Harvards at RCAF Station Penhold in Alberta in January 1954. By agreeing to join the church choir on the base, George\u2019s instructor accelerated his instrument training and George graduated with his pilot\u2019s wings six weeks early in November, 1954.\nIn December, George began flying the T-33 Silver Star jet trainer at the Advanced Flying School at RCAF Station Portage la Prairie in Manitoba, followed by training at No. 1 Pilot Weapons School at RCAF Station MacDonald, Manitoba. Six months later, he was transferred to Chatham, New Brunswick to train on the F-86 Sabre jet.\nAt 19, George became one of the youngest Canadian pilots of 12 squadrons to serve a tour of duty overseas during the Cold War, when he was posted to 434 Squadron in Zweibr\u00fccken, West Germany. There he met his future wife, Christel, and they were married on December 8, 1956. By then, Flying Officer Miller was recognized as a top fighter pilot. A year later he returned to Canada as an Air Intercept Controller with Air Defence Command, guarding against attack on North America from the north using a series of radar station lines across the United States and Canada during the Cold War.\nWhile in Canada, George won a flying competition to join the RCAF Golden Hawks flight demonstration team as a solo pilot for the 1962 season and was promoted to Flight Lieutenant. Returning to 434 Squadron in Zweibr\u00fccken in 1964, George flew the CF-104 Starfighter for two years. His next posting was to Sardinia as a weapons officer instructing in nuclear weapons training, and during that time he established the Tactical Sea Survival Training School.\nPosted back to Canada, in 1969 George attended the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College in Kingston, Ontario, was promoted to Major and assigned as executive assistant to the commander of the Canadian Army for two years, before returning to Europe. While stationed with RCAF 421 Squadron in Zweibr\u00fccken, again flying the CF-104, in 1973 George was invited to return to Canada to lead Canada\u2019s new air demonstration team, the Snowbirds. He jumped at the chance!\nHis influence with the Snowbirds was immediate. George began nine-plane formation aerobatics, implemented formation changes during aerobatic manoeuvres, and an annual preseason deployment to Comox, British Columbia to promote team performance. He introduced new team uniforms and social dress for air and ground crews, and a new paint scheme for the Snowbirds\u2019 Canadair CT-114 Tutor jet aircraft.\nFollowing the 1974 season of Snowbird performances, George was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and appointed commandant of No. 2 Canadian Forces Flying Training School at CFB Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and was responsible for training military pilots. In 1977 he returned to Staff College in Kingston as an instructor and in 1980 was appointed as dean of the College.\nIn 1981, promotion to Colonel was followed by posting as Military Attach\u00e9 to Egypt and Sudan, a diplomatic role he filled until 1985 when he returned to Canada as Base Commander of CFB Moose Jaw, and in July 1988, George retired from the air force at 52, having served 35 years in uniform, but his association with aviation did not end there. Soon after, George was recruited by Spar Aerospace Limited and spent two years marketing Spar products from Brazil in Canada, focusing on the Embraer 312 Tucano, a two-seater turboprop trainer aircraft, as countertrade for Spar\u2019s marketing of its satellites to Brazil.\nHowever, George never left the field of aerobatic performance flying. Before leaving Spar to form his own air show company in 1990, George produced the first National Capital Air Show in Ottawa. He coordinated the unprecedented appearance in Canada of two MIG-29 Fulcrum aircraft from the Mikoyan Design Bureau in Moscow, which had flown 20,000 kilometers to appear.\nThe Miller family then moved to British Columbia, the only province in which they had not lived. In 1991 George was hired as manager for the Langley Regional Airport. He changed the airport focus by guiding its growth and development from general aviation to an industrial aviation facility. There, 31 of 48 companies operating from the airport are helicopter-related businesses, making Langley the centre of helicopter operations in Canada. His experience with air shows has been put to use in drawing large crowds for aviation and community events at the airport.\nContinuing to apply his experience in formation flying, in 1996 George formed and led the Langley Flypast Group, later renamed the The Fraser Blues. After originally doing flypasts for Remembrance Day services, The Fraser Blues have performed at up to 30 air displays a year in western Canada and the northwest United States. The team still flies five individually owned Navion L17 aircraft, and George likes to fly his Navion at least twice a week. Besides flying for business and recreational visits, he and Christel flew the Navion across Canada in 2014 from Langley to Chatham, New Brunswick, stopping at 31 community airports. He has over 8,300 hours in his log books for 17 types of aircraft he has flown.\nFrom 1997 to 2009, George was a member of the British Columbia Aviation Council, serving as chairman for five years. His service to aviation has been recognized with several awards. Before retiring from the air force, he was invested in the Order of Military Merit as an Officer of Military Merit (OMM) on May 31, 1978. In 2000 he was honoured by the British Columbia Aviation Council (BCAC) with the BCAC Airport Management Award for his work with Langley Airport. In 2007 the BCAC presented George with its Lifetime Achievement Award in Aviation. In 2010 he was given the Ed Batchelor Award from the Langley Aero Club in appreciation for his contributions to the Langley Airport.\nStill active as a pilot more than 60 years after starting to fly with the RCAF, George lives with Christel in Abbotsford, British Columbia. They are parents to their daughter Eve, son Guy, and have six grandchildren.\n\"A Tradition of Excellence: Canada's Airshow Team Heritage\" Dan Dempsey, 2002\n\"Snowbirds: Behind the Scenes With Canada's Air Demonstration Team\" - Mike Sroka - 2006\nRetired LCol Dan Dempsey, himself a former commanding officer of the Snowbirds, has stated that, \u201cThroughout both his military and civilian aviation careers, George Miller has distinguished himself as a consummate professional and inspirational leader. His vision and passion for aviation know few bounds.\u201d\nBirth Place: Maniwaki, Quebec\n\"His contributions as an airman in converting wilderness areas into habitable communities, and his pioneering night airmail flights to improve the nation's communications system, despite adversity, have been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\u201d - Induction citation, 1974\nJack Moar, B.Sc., B.Eng. (Mech.), was born in Maniwaki, Quebec, on August 13, 1905, and attended school at Semans and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. He learned to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1924 while attending the University of Saskatchewan, from where he graduated with a B.Sc. in 1926. The RCAF offered him a permanent commission, and he was given leave to study at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he obtained his degree in mechanical engineering in 1929.\nMoar flew forestry patrols for the RCAF in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The engineering disciplines he had acquired led him to press for the establishment of sub-bases and fuel caches in the wilderness areas of these provinces. In 1929, after a tour of duty as test pilot, Moar resigned from the RCAF to join H.A. 'Doc' Oaks as a pilot for Western Canada Airways. Based at Cranberry Portage, Manitoba, he learned the secrets of sub-zero flight and aircraft maintenance.\nIn 1930, with Norm Forester, Moar was assigned to spray Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, to destroy a caterpillar infestation. That summer, he flew across Canada's unmapped north to deliver a spare aircraft engine to Walter Gilbert, who was pilot for the Major L.T. Burwash expedition. Gilbert was waiting at Coppermine for the repairs to Fokker Super Universal G-CASK, which had been left on the Arctic coast the previous year when the MacAlpine party had to abandon their aircraft due to lack of fuel.\nWhen Western Canada Airways instituted the night airmail service across the prairie provinces, Moar piloted the inaugural eastbound flight through Lethbridge, Alberta, and remained with the operation until it was cancelled by the government in 1932. Gold was then revalued and a major mining boom in Canada's north strained the facilities of Western Canada Airways, which through a merger, became Canadian Airways. He was appointed flying Traffic Manager of this new company.\nIn 1934 Moar and F. Roy Brown and two fellow pilots formed Wings Limited, an air-freighting company with headquarters at Winnipeg, Manitoba. By freeze-up, they had ten aircraft at work. One of the first junior pilots he hired was H.W. Seagrim. To put the Berens River gold mines into production, they flew the components for an entire sawmill, mining plant and hydro-electric plant across 200 miles (320 km) of wilderness, about half way up the east side of Lake Winnipeg. In 1936 he and air engineer J. McGinnis flew to the Barren Lands, and set up operations at Eskimo Point, 500 miles (805 km) from the nearest supporting aircraft and beyond radio range. From ports on the west coast of Hudson Bay, Moar transported freight and passengers to inland Hudson's Bay Company posts and other settlements, and brought out furs, for two successful seasons.\nIn 1937, with several other pilots, he formed Skylines Express Limited, and hired H. Hollick-Kenyon and T.F. Williams as pilots. The company scheduled air service between Toronto, Ontario, and Winnipeg, to service mining communities, but the Canadian government removed their operating licence to pave the way for Trans-Canada Air Lines.\nMoar went to Edmonton, Alberta, in 1938 when he was hired as Operations Manager of Yukon Southern Air Transport by Grant McConachie. That summer he helped the Department of Transport select landing fields between Fort St. John, British Columbia, and Whitehorse, Yukon. These sites would later become the Northwest Staging Route, so valuable to the Allies during WW II.\nMoar flew many mercy flights in the north. A particularly difficult one was when a critically-ill patient at Cameron Bay, on Great Bear Lake, required immediate hospitalization during the spring break-up. It was not safe to fly aircraft on skis or floats, but the mining crew blasted a channel through the ice with dynamite and Moar flew the man to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, safely.\nDuring World War II, Moar joined Aircraft Repair Limited at Edmonton, working with Harry Hayter to maintain Canada's military aircraft. In 1942, when Northwest Airlines designed their Edmonton to Fairbanks, Alaska route, it was Moar's aeronautical skills they sought to guide the inaugural flight.\nAt war's end he returned to flying the Mackenzie River route until 1949, when he retired after logging over 10,000 hours in the cruelest of geographic areas. Moar died in Victoria, British Columbia, on April 26, 1977.\nJack Moar was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held at Edmonton, Alberta.\nIn 1970 Jack Moar proposed that a large number of emergency landing strips be built in the Northwest Territories, equipped with cabins and emergency supplies. He felt that these could have been built for what is spent each year for search and rescue missions.\nNickname: Fred\nBirth Place: Victoria, British Columbia\nAwards: C.D.\nFred Moore served the Royal Canadian Air Force as a pilot and test pilot, with responsibility for testing and acceptance of RCAF aircraft and development of flight simulators. Leaving military service as a Squadron Leader, he continued in aviation as a senior manager in civil aviation and the helicopter industry - Induction citation, 2014\nBorn in Victoria, British Columbia, on November 26, 1928, Frederick Alexander McCully Moore was the only son of parents, Alex and Bennie, followed by six sisters: Cynthia, Sylvia, Marsha, Martha, Pamela and Alexis. Raised in Trail, British Columbia, Fred's first service in uniform was as an air cadet. Following high school graduation in 1947, Fred was selected for entry into the first Air Force class at Royal Roads Military College in Victoria.\nGraduating from Royal Roads in 1949, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force on May 1, 1949 and was selected for pilot training on Harvard and Expediter aircraft. In April 1950 he earned his wings upon graduation at No. 1 Flying Training School at RCAF Station Centralia and was commissioned with the rank of Pilot Officer. His first posting was to the RCAF's Winter Experimental Establishment in Edmonton, where he flew the famed P-51 Mustang.\nAt 23, in 1952 he was the youngest person to be accepted into the United States Air Force Experimental Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in California, and graduated as a Qualified Test Pilot. Promoted to Flight Lieutenant, Fred returned to Canada and was assigned the responsibility for flight testing and acceptance of aircraft for the RCAF, together with the challenges facing the industry converting to jet aircraft. In 1953 he was transferred to Canadair in Montreal to take command of the RCAF Central Experimental and Proving Establishment (CEPE) unit with a staff of three to eight pilots for flight testing and acceptance of the Canadair T-33 Silver Star and the F-86 Sabre aircraft.\nIn 1954 Fred was called to assist in development of F-86 simulators and given responsibility for their acceptance. Also in 1954 he was transferred to Avro and de Havilland in Toronto with the same responsibilities as at Canadair, with a staff of five to 12 aircrew for flight testing of the Avro CF-100, as well as the Vampire, Chipmunk and Otter aircraft at de Havilland. This included assessing changes involved in development of the CF-100 types and flight testing of the aircraft's advanced weapons fire control system. Fred had a pivotal role in ensuring that 3,164 aircraft and 25 simulators met RCAF specifications. From 1955 to 1958, he was in charge of accepting 18 different types from eight Canadian aircraft companies and flew 564 acceptance test flights himself.\nIn 1955 Fred was transferred to CEPE headquarters in Ottawa to assume the new role of Officer Commanding Aircraft Acceptance and Factory Development, with a staff of 19 officers. In 1955 he was also assigned to Canadian Aviation Electronics Ltd. (CAE) in Montreal for RCAF assistance to CAE in developing simulators for CF-100 aircraft. The RCAF led the way in developing and employing flight simulators. In 1952, Redifon in the U.K. was contracted to produce F-86 flight simulators.\nHowever, the prototype was unacceptable, and Fred Moore was assigned to assist Redifon in producing a satisfactory F-86 Sabre simulator in 1954. In 1952, CAE was contracted to produce flight simulators for the CF-100, but in September 1955 their prototype was a failure, so Fred was assigned that project as well. Over the next 17 months he had a decisive role in developing a virtually new simulator. CAE's new CF-100 simulator was a high performance flight and tactics trainer. Its success transformed the RCAF's training policies into employing simulators that were safer, more efficient, completely realistic and versatile - and CAE survived.\nIn September 1958, at Air Force Headquarters in Ottawa, Fred Moore became the RCAF Design Authority Project Officer for flight simulators. He was responsible for preparing design objectives, specifications for new simulators and acting as the design authority for contractors. As such, he produced the \"blueprint\" for the outstanding CF-104/F-104 simulator for the RCAF and the German, Netherlands, Belgium, and Italian air forces.\nFrom September 1962 until graduation in July 1963, Fred attended RCAF Staff College in Toronto, in a course for officers being considered for promotion. On October 9, 1963 he took his release from the RCAF, leaving with the rank of Squadron Leader, accepting a position with Northwest Industries (NWI) in Edmonton, Alberta. The company had been acquired by CAE and was involved in the repair and overhaul of RCAF aircraft. His new responsibilities were to spearhead the company's diversification into industrial products, and later into civil aviation. By 1968 he was Vice-President of Marketing and Contracts, with responsibility for civilian aircraft sales and service, including a full-line Cessna dealership.\nA new opportunity arose in September 1970, when Fred moved to Richmond B.C. as Marketing Manager of Okanagan Helicopters Ltd. (OHL) to expand the company's air services across Canada and into world markets. In 1972 he was promoted to Vice President Marketing and by 1981 had seen revenues increase tenfold. In 1981 he was promoted to Senior Vice President with responsibility for development of new business, joint ventures, partnerships, and the drafting and execution of all major contracts. Fred was responsible for the company's growth in the international offshore oil support market.\nIn 1981 he was solely responsible for OHL, along with a U.K. firm, to be the first to establish civil air services in China, in partnership with the Civil Aviation Authority of China. By then, OHL operated across Canada and in 12 foreign countries. OHL flew the first civil helicopter across the Atlantic and was first in operating helicopters under Instrument Flight Rules. The company flew helicopters across the Arctic in winter, and routinely ferried helicopters from Canada to and from India, Thailand and China, via Europe. In 1987 the company was sold to become part of the new Canadian Helicopters Corporation, later CHC Helicopter Corporation (CHC) with Moore remaining as Senior Vice-President. At that time, CHC operated 256 helicopters, the largest charter air carrier in Canada and the second largest fleet of civil helicopters in the world.\nIn January 1991 Fred retired from CHC, remaining in aviation with his own small consulting business until 2000. In a career of half a century as a senior RCAF officer and as a senior executive in the aviation industry, Fred Moore was well respected in Canadian and international aviation fraternities in both fixed wing and rotary wing industries. He and his wife, Michaeline, were married on April 4, 1959. They live in Delta, British Columbia, and have four sons - Alien, Michael, David and Roderick - and five grandchildren.\nFred Moore was inducted as a Member of Canada\u2019s Aviation Hall of Fame on May 30, 2014 at a ceremony held in Calgary, Alberta.\nWith his military experience, Fred has flown more than 50 types of aircraft including historic aircraft such as the B-29 bomber, the B-47 Stratojet, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the Lancaster bomber and the Canadian Avro C102 Jetliner. As well, he has flown the Royal Canadian Navy's anti-submarine Tracker and jet Banshee, and the CF-104 Starfighter. Fred was a precision pilot and continues to fly private aircraft at every opportunity.\nAwards: Paul Tissandier Diploma (France), C.D. Howe Award, AFCASI\n\"His dedication to the betterment of the Air Transport Industry has been of outstanding benefit to Canadian aviation.\" - Induction citation, 1989\nAngus Curran Morrison was born in Toronto on April 22, 1919, and educated at Upper Canada and Bishop's Colleges. He served in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps in the United Kingdom, North Africa, and Italy, and became a pilot before demobilization. He founded and operated his own firm. Atlas Aviation Ltd., in 1947 in Ottawa, Ontario, with bases extending as far as the Quebec North Shore. He was appointed Executive Secretary of the Air Industries and Transport Association of Canada (AITA) in 1951.\nIn 1962 AITA experienced a change in its organizational structure, with the operators forming their own organization, the Air Transport Association of Canada (ATAC), which at that time represented 95 percent of Canadian air carriers, fixed base operators and helicopter operators. Morrison was appointed Executive Director, and later President and Chief Executive Officer of ATAC. He thus became a full-time officer associated with all undertakings of ATAC.\nAs Past President of ATAC, he was recognized for his contribution to the development of the aviation industry. Many examples of the results of his efforts could be cited regarding lasting improvements for all members, enhancing all aspects of Canadian air transportation. For government, he championed integrity and air safety within member air operators, service organizations and manufacturers. For the industry, he lobbied for more liberal government regulations. His endeavors over the years resulted in duty-free treatment of aircraft, engines, and parts when a type or size was not made in Canada, saving the commercial operators very large sums of money. He worked hard for an agreement with the Department of Labour to allow operators to average hours of work over a 52-week period, thereby making it possible to comply with the standard labour code. Aviation training was enhanced due to his influence in the establishment of Instructor Refresher Courses which were jointly developed by the Royal Canadian Flying Clubs Association (RCFCA) and ATAC.\nIn 1977 ATAC received the Diploma of Honour from the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI) in Paris for the Association's contribution to the air transport industry under Morrison's leadership. He personally was awarded the Federation's Paul Tissandier Diploma, \"Pour son importante contribution depuis 1947 a la promotion et a 1'accroissement des activites aeriennes.\"\nMorrison retired from the Air Transport Association of Canada in 1985 and was made an honorary life member at that time. In 1986 he was awarded the C.D. Howe Award by the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute (CASI), \"For achievement in the field of planning, policy-making and leadership in aeronautics and space.\"\nIn 1987, at an Aviation in Transition Recognition Dinner held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Aero Space Museum Association presented him with a trophy which read: \"To Angus Morrison, an aviation pioneer whose contribution to the industry has added immeasurably to its development.\" He was named an Associate Fellow of the Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute in July 1987 and died at Almonte, Ontario on June 30, 2003.\nAngus Curran Morrison was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1989 at a ceremony held in Edmonton, Alberta.\nThe Air Transport Association of Canada is charged with the responsibility to provide the basic ground-work upon which the Canadian government can establish a sound aviation polity, a policy which is essential to long term planning by carriers.\nAwards: C.B.E., D.S.O.*, Legion of Honour (France)\n\"In the First World War, he served the Royal Naval Air Service and was both the first Canadian and first RNAS member to become an ace fighter pilot. Recognized for his leadership qualities as well as his skill, he displayed 'indefatigable zeal and energy/with increased responsibility as the highest ranking Canadian airman in the war, and later continued his association with military and civil aviation.\" - Induction citation, 2010\nRedford Henry \"Red\" Mulock, CBE, DSO* was born on August 11, 1886 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, to parents William Redford Mulock, K.C., and Lillian Lucia Cummins, both descendants of Irish stock.\nAfter graduating from McGill University in Montreal in 1909 with a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering, he worked as an electrical engineer. Red's first service in uniform was as a lieutenant in the militia, serving with the Canadian Field Artillery, in which he enlisted in 1911.\nIn 1914 he gave up his commission as an officer to enlist as a corporal in the first contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, a move that would see him sent overseas to serve in the First World War. Following training with the Canadian Field Artillery at Valcartier, Quebec, he shipped out for England in October 1914.\nAt the age of 28, in January 1915 he transferred to the Royal Naval Air Service, which began as a naval wing of the Royal Flying Corps. Red soon qualified as a pilot, earning his pilot's certificate on March 9 of that year at the Royal Naval Flying School at Eastchurch, England. Mulock was commissioned again, this time as a Flight Sub-Lieutenant in the RNAS.\nIn July 1915, Red Mulock was posted to No. 1 Aeroplane Wing at St. Pol Airfield in Dunkirk. Flying Nieuport type 10 and 11 aircraft, he carried out fighter patrols, bombing missions, photo reconnaissance flights and directed naval gunfire. As well, he pioneered the use of parachute flares to spot for artillery at night. On September 6 he became the first Canadian to attack a submarine when he dropped five 20-pound bombs on a U-boat. Later that month he made a lone bombing raid through cloud and mist to attack zeppelin sheds near Brussels.\nBy the end of 1915, Mulock had been Mentioned in Dispatches (MID) for gallantry or otherwise commendable service. He had scored his first victory, sending down an enemy aircraft on December 30. In January 1916 he downed two more and by March was promoted to Flight Commander and received another MID. On May 21, he scored a double victory and became both the first Canadian ace to destroy Five enemy aircraft, as well as the first RNAS pilot to achieve that distinction.\nFor his outstanding performance, in June 1916 Red Mulock was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). Both his skill as a pilot and his leadership qualities were recognized. In 1917 Red was appointed Commanding Officer of No. 3 Naval Squadron and the Admiralty loaned the army five squadrons for Royal Flying Corps support on the Western Front at a time when German fighter squadrons ruled the air.\nMulock's No. 3 Squadron was equipped with now aging, but agile Sopwith Pup aircraft. Under Red's command his pilots, half of whom were Canadians, claimed 80 successful combats with the loss of nine Pups. Again Mulock earned the praise of his superiors for his knowledge and handling of men and machines.\nThe London Gazette of June 1916 reported, \"Flight Lieutenant (Acting Flight Commander) Redford Henry Mulock. R.N.A.S. In recognition of his services as a pilot at Dunkirk. This Officer has been constantly employed at Dunkirk since July, 1915, and has displayed indefatigable zeal and energy. He has on seven occasions engaged hostile aeroplanes and seaplanes, and attack submarines, and has carried out attacks on enemy air stations, and made long-distance reconnaissances.\"\nIn 1917 No. 3 Squadron was returned to the Navy, and in September of that year Mulock left the squadron to become Senior Officer of the RNAS Depot at Dunkirk. While there, his bravery in rescuing a man from a blazing ammunition train and searching for others, his action was rewarded with another MID and the French government appointed him as a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. For service from 1915-18 the British government awarded a Bar to his DSO for \"brilliant leadership and skill and bravery.\" On January 1 of 1918 he was promoted to Wing Commander.\nIn 1918, with the joining of the RNAS and the RFC to form the new Royal Air Force, Mulock was called upon to form a new Bomber Wing. The objective of his 82nd Wing was to attack the industrial heartland of northwest Germany. In July, he was promoted to Colonel and given charge to establish and train 27 Group, a special force consisting of two wings of the huge four-engine Handley Page VI 500 bomber, designed to strike deep into Germany from bases in the British Midlands. By November, Mulock had one of his squadrons ready to bomb Berlin, but the war ended and the mission was scrubbed.\nIn 1919, due to delays in demobilization after the war, unrest built among airmen anxious to return home. Strikes began happening at aerodromes in England and Col. Mulock was given authority to settle problems. He resolved those difficulties and for that action, together with outstanding wartime service, he was appointed a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), the only Canadian airman to receive that honour. In June 1919, Red returned to his home town of Winnipeg, bringing with him his first wife, Edythe Goodman, whom he married in England. Unfortunately, Edythe died in England in 1923 while she and Red Mulock were visiting her parents.\nWhen Mulock left the air force he become involved in peacetime aircraft industry. Nevertheless, he entered the Royal Canadian Air Force Reserve and rose to the rank of Air Commodore, becoming an Honourary Aide de Camp to two Governors-General. By 1930, Red had joined the new Canadian Airways Limited in Quebec as assistant to the president and worked with founder James A. Richardson to coordinate mail service with a number of small companies.\nRed Mulock died in Montreal on January 23, 1961, survived by his second wife, Marion Blaiklock, whom he married in 1933.\nRedford Henry Mulock was inducted as a Member of Canada\u2019s Aviation Hall of Fame on June 10, 2010 at a ceremony held in Vancouver, B.C..\nRed was a skilled pilot and successful manager of military and civilian aviation organizations. He recognized the importance not only of those who flew, but the importance also of ground crew, support and policies that make a system work.\n\"He has consistently displayed a dogged persistence in overcoming every aeronautical challenge facing him, and despite adversity has made outstanding contributions to Canadian aviation in several areas of fight\" - Induction citation, 1974\nRaymond Alan Munro, C.M., was born in Montreal, Quebec, on July 14, 1921, and was educated in Canada and the United States. He commenced flying at Toronto, Ontario, in 1937 and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in 1940. He was posted to No. 145 Squadron of the Royal Air Force (RAF) under Squadron Leader P.S. Turner, and became a Spitfire pilot. He survived three major crashes and was returned to Canada and medically discharged in March of 1942. He then became adjutant of the RCAF's Repatriation Depot at Ottawa, Ontario.\nMunro was hired as a cub reporter by the Toronto Daily Star in 1942, and thus began a 17-year career in journalism. He learned court reporting, story-writing, and the art of news photography, and soon became a senior reporter, available wherever news was breaking. He spent a few months as a pilot and crime reporter for the Globe and Mail, then moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, and began working for the Vancouver Sum as a pilot, photographer, and investigative reporter.\nHe left the Sun and was offered a job at the Vancouver Province in 1948 after his aerial photo reports of the Fraser River flood were published. He received a provincial government commendation for his air delivery of strategic supplies, and the rescue of marooned persons. He had piloted an aircraft from dawn to dusk for 14 consecutive days, often in unfavourable weather.\nIn 1949, after a week-long patrol of the weather-shrouded Rocky Mountains, Munro located two fliers who had crashed in a spring snow storm. Then, despite deteriorating weather, he lcd an RCAF aircraft back to the isolated location from which they were eventually rescued by military parachutists. The following year, during a severe storm, he flew a shipment of vitally-needed blood and plasma to an isolated coastal community. For this mission, which resulted in the saving of human life, he was awarded a Canadian Red Cross Society commendation for heroism, matching another he had received earlier for the winter rescue of a drowning victim.\nWhile with the Province, Munro exposed the corruption within the Vancouver Police Department, then left to try charter flying into the northern areas of British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska. In 1956 he moved back to Ontario and worked as a reporter for the Chatham News, soon becoming Editor-in-Chief. In 1957 he took a leave to cover the Arab-Israeli war, and reported on activities there.\nIn 1958 he ended his newspaper career to follow flying adventures and take up parachuting. In 1962 he taught parachuting to the U.S. military. He made hundreds of descents, becoming one of Canada's most avid parachutists.\nSelected as Canada's Expo '67 Polar Ambassador, he and geophysicist Ivan Christopher flew a specially designed single-engine aircraft, a Cessna 180, on a 26-day goodwill flight over Canada's far north. They travelled over 8,500 miles (13,680 km) in mid-winter through the high Arctic to honour Canada's pioneer bush pilots and prospectors who helped open the north.\nIn early 1969 he arranged to make his final parachute jump, his 528th, onto the Polar ice cap. He contracted with W. 'Weldy' Phipps (Hall of Fame 1974) to fly him over the North Pole area for the jump, which he made from 10,000 feet (3,048 m), onto a small ice floe, where Phipps landed to take him back to his Arctic base at Resolute Bay.\nMunro's interests turned to ballooning in 1969. He ordered three balloons from the Raven Balloon Works and began to research aerostatics, the science related to piloting a balloon. On November 24, 1969, he lifted 'Canada 1' to an altitude of 17,943.86 feet (5,469.29 m) from Russell, Ontario. On December 17, 1969, he reached a height of 25,407 feet (7,743.69 m), which gave Canada an official world altitude record, recognized by the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI). In 1971, using 'Canada 2,' he became the first person to pilot a balloon across the Irish Sea from southern Ireland to northern England.\nMunro was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada (C.M.) in December of 1974. In 1978 he worked for several months as Chief Administrator of the Halton Regional Police Force, in Halton, Ontario. He wrote a book about his life's experiences, titled The Sky's No Limit, published in 1985.\nHe was honoured by governments, societies and groups with honorary citizenships, citations, and achievement medals, in addition to his many photo-journalism awards. Munro died on May 29, 1994 at Toronto, Ontario.\nRaymond Alan Munro was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held at Edmonton, Alberta.\n\"The Sky's No Limit\" - Ray Munro (1985) - ISBN-13: 978-0919493698\nRay Munro was one of the founding members of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame. When the idea of an Aviation Hall of Fame presented itself, Munro enlisted the support necessary to ope it in a year, and he served the critical first four years as Managing Director. Later in life Ray Munro legally added Zebulon Leigh as additional middle names in honour of Lewie Leigh.\nAwards: VC\nAndrew Charles (Andy) Mynarski, VC, was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, on October 14, 1916. He attended King Edward and Isaac Newton Schools, and St. John's Technical School. He was employed as a leather worker. He enlisted in the Winnipeg Rifles in 1940 and transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) the following year. In 1942 he graduated from training as an air gunner and was sent to active duty in England.\nOn completion of operational training he was posted to No. 9 Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF), and in 1944 joined No. 419 Squadron, RCAF, where he completed 12 operational flights and was promoted to Pilot Officer on June 11. The following night Mynarski took his position as mid-upper gunner of an Avro Lancaster bomber. The aircraft never returned to base.\nWhen the war ended and the prisoners of war were liberated, some outstanding acts of bravery previously unknown were revealed. Among them was one which brought a posthumous Victoria Cross to Pilot Officer Andrew Charles Mynarski. The six survivors of Mynarski's crew who were liberated from German prisoner-of-war camps told the story of the events of that night.\nThe citation accompanying the honour tells the complete story: \"Pilot Officer Mynarski was mid-upper gunner of a Lancaster bomber, detailed to attack a target at Cambrai in France on the night of June 12, 1944. The aircraft was attacked from below and astern by an enemy fighter and ultimately came down in flames. As an immediate result of the attack, both port engines failed. Fire broke out between the mid-upper turret and the rear turret, as well as in the port wing. The flames soon became too fierce and the captain ordered the crew to abandon the aircraft. Pilot Officer Mynarski left his turret and went towards the escape hatch. He then saw that the rear gunner was still in the turret and apparently unable to leave it. The turret was, in fact, immovable, since the hydraulic gear had been put out of action when the port engines failed, and the manual gear had been broken by the gunner in his attempt to escape. Without hesitation Pilot Officer Mynarski made his way through the flames in an endeavor to reach the rear turret and release the gunner. Whilst doing so, his parachute and his clothing, up to his waist, were set afire. All his efforts to move the turret and free the gunner were in vain. Eventually the rear gunner clearly indicated to him that there was nothing more that he could do and that he should try and save his own life. Pilot Officer Mynarski reluctantly went back through the flames to the escape hatch. There, as a last gesture to the trapped gunner, he stood to attention in his flaming clothing and saluted, before he jumped out of the aircraft. Pilot Officer Mynarski's descent was seen by French people on the ground. Both his parachute and his clothes were on fire. He was found eventually by the French, but so severely burned that he died from his injuries. The rear gunner had a miraculous escape when the aircraft crashed. He subsequently testified that had Pilot Officer Mynarski not attempted to save his comrade's life, he could have left the aircraft in safety and would, doubtless, have escaped death. Pilot Officer Mynarski must have been fully aware that in trying to free the rear gunner he was almost certain to lose his life. Despite this, with outstanding courage and complete disregard for his own safety, he went to the rescue. Willingly accepting the danger, Pilot Officer Mynarski lost his life by a most conspicuous act of heroism which called for valour of the highest order.\"\nThe Victoria Cross which was awarded to Pilot Officer Andrew Mynarski in 1946 was the last award of its kind presented after the Second World War to a Canadian airman.\nAndrew Charles (Andy) Mynarski was inducted as a Member of Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame in 1974 at a ceremony held at Edmonton, Alberta.\n\u201cMynarski\u2019s Lanc\u201d - Bette Page (1997)\n\u201cVictoria Cross Battles of the Second World War\u201d - Lucas Phillips (1973)\nP/O Andrew Mynarski was honoured in 1984 when the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum restored a Lancaster Mk.X to full flying condition. It was dedicated to his memory at a ceremony held at Hamilton Civic Airport, Mount Hope, Ontario. The surviving crew members of the fateful June 12, 1944 mission were present for the dedication ceremony. 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Asking Canadians who they want as the next NDP leader is pointless, since only 3 or 4% of NDP voters will buy a membership. Despite the best efforts of the Globe & Mail, few Canadians have heard of Brian Topp, never mind Nathan Cullen or Paul Dewar.\nOne way you can stickhandle around this is by counting endorsements, which is what the website 308.com has started tracking. His system assigns points based on endorsements from federal and provincial politicians, and was calibrated on data from the 2006 Liberal and 2003 NDP leadership races. It currently ranks the candidates as follows:\nTopp 40.8%\nMulcair 23.2%\nNash 18.2%\nChisolm 5.0%\nDewar 4.0%\nAshton 3.9%\nCullen 3.1%\nSaganash 1.7%\nSingh 0.0%\nIt should be noted that nearly half of Topp's points comes from Ed Broadbent's endorsement, which would be by biggest quibble with the scoring system. Still, the model does a decent job of quantifying establishment support.\nWhat it is likely less successful at, however, is predicting actual support. Many of these endorsers won't sell more than a couple dozen membership forms and I suspect their influence over existing Dippers is negligible. Yes, sometimes there's a correlation between endorsements and support...but sometimes that correlation is actually negative.\nFor proof of that, we need to look no farther than the Alison Redford and Christy Clark victories from earlier this year. Redford had the support of just 2 MLAs (one of which was named Alison Redford) on the first ballot and 5 on the second. Redford would have been projected as an also-ran under any endorsement model - especially one which weighted former leaders so heavily (Ralph Klein was a Mar man while Don Getty was all about Horner).\nClark's case is perhaps even more remarkable because, unlike Redford, she was the undisputed frontrunner of the campaign from start to finish. While she did have some support from former caucus members, she counted only one MLA endorsement and would have projected out in third under any formula (unless it assigned God-like status on Harry Bloy). This, despite the fact that everyone knew she would be in front on the first ballot.\nNone of this is meant to knock the 308 model which, as I said, does a decent job approximating establishment support. It's just important to recognize that support among the establishment doesn't always translate into support among party members, just as support among the general public doesn't always translate into support among party members.\nThere are significant risks in being seen as an establishment candidate, so I remain unconvinced that the Topp juggernaut is as unstoppable as these numbers would suggest.\nThe reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated\nThere's a lot of excitement in Liberal land over the latest Nanos poll:\nAs much as I'd love to jump up and down and chant \"suck it Peter Newman\", the reality is that this poll is essentially meaningless.\nWe've just been through an exhausting few years politically and voters are thinking about hockey and Christmas and the latest Justin Bieber gossip - federal politics is the last thing on their minds.\nOn top of that, the Liberals are leaderless, the NDP are leaderless, and we're almost four years away from the next election. The popularity of a Nicole Turmel led NDP is simply not indicative of how popular a Brian Topp or Thomas Mulcair-led NDP is going to be.\nSo yes, this is great for rallying the troops, and it shows there's at least some life in the Liberal brand - but it's by no means a sign that the Liberals are on the road back to power.\nWhile Peter C. Newman has been getting headlines with his diagnosis that the Liberal Party is dead, Andrew Coyne offers his recipe for resurrection here.\nWhile I generally agree with Coyne's article, like Far and Wide, I would quibble that his criticism of the roadmap to renewal is unfair (\"do you think it is easy to make a roadmap!?\"). After all, opening the party to all Canadians is the first step towards the type of \"grassroots, democratic party\" Coyne urges the Liberals to become. And regardless of what the Liberal Party becomes, it's going to have to organize, fundraise, and communicate better.\nThat said, I agree with Coyne's thesis that the Liberals will not vault from third to first by defining themselves as nothing more than a \"party of the centre\". Instead they need to be seen as a \"party of principle\", taking bold and risky stances - sometimes zigging right and sometimes zagging left. As the Tories and NDP attempt the squeeze the Grits out of the centre and out of existence, it will become harder and harder to find differentiating positions. It's not simply enough to say \"we're not Stephen Harper\", because the NDP also happens to be \"not Stephen Harper\".\nIf life were like the West Wing, it would be enough for the Liberals to boldly declare themselves as the party of principle and, presto, they'd be back on top by sweeps month. Reality is a bit trickier. Principled positions aren't always popular and bold ideas aren't always practical. It's also not like there's an abundance of bold ideas laying around, though Coyne suggests a way to find them:\nThe answer will lie as much in the way the party develops policies as in the policies it ultimately adopts. On both scores, it will need to capitalize on its own misfortune\u2014to seize the opportunity that defeat affords. Parties that are in close contention for power tend to have little room for dissent, or for that matter democracy. The Liberals, being nowhere near power, have an opportunity to build a truly grassroots, democratic party, one that holds its leaders closely to account, and to let its own example serve as a model of democratic reform for the country.\nBingo. The currently policy process of the Liberal Party is a joke. Policies are debated at convention every two years, prioritized, and forgotten. The top policies rarely find their way into the platform, and I'd be surprised if they're even read by the leader or the platform committee.\nThe candidates for LPC President and Policy Chair have all talked about making the policy process ongoing and more engaging, but that won't make a difference unless it becomes meaningful.\nOne solution to this would be to force the party to adopt prioritized policies in its platform. The Alberta Liberals recently passed a bylaw mandating that 2 of the top 3 policies passed at convention find their way to the platform, while the Canmore Renewal Document suggests 5 of 10. Whatever the number, it would make the policy process at convention worth the price of admission, rather than a prime time to visit the hotel bar.\nA system like that would not only engage members, it would force the party to take a serious look at the principled and bold ideas they need to take a serious look at.\n1. We've known Rob Anders has been asleep on the job for years...though this may be the first literal instance:\nStill, I'm sure most who have heard John Duncan speak will have some sympathy for Anders.\n2. Alberta Liberal MLA Bridgit Pastoor is heading back to the Tories, as part of the \"future considerations\" in this spring's Raj Sherman deal.\n3. But who can blame Pastoor for jumping ship when the Tories are at 51%, according to a new Environics poll? With the opposition parties all under 20%, the Tories appear poised for a crushing victory on...umm...\n4. ...sometime this spring. Yes, Redford has kind of delivered on her \"fixed election date\" promise, scheduling elections for sometime between March 1st and May 31st this year. Officially, this flexibility has nothing to do with poll numbers, and everything to do with the ability to adapt to unforeseen events, such as a natural disaster or one of Alberta's hockey teams going on an extended playoff run.\nLabels: Alison Redford, Bridgit Pastoor, Fixed Election Dates, Rob Anders\nI bookmarked this news story as soon as I saw it in May because, Pat Martin being Pat Martin, I knew it wouldn't be long before it would be worth resurrecting:\n\"This is my new policy,\" Martin said, holding up a handful of party-coloured buttons he had made reading \"Opto Civitas.\"\n\"I choose civility. That's the new me.\"\nHe had 300 buttons made up in all party colours -- including a green one for Green party MP Elizabeth May -- and plans to hand them out when the House resumes sitting next week.\nFor an update on how Pat Martin's quest for civility is going, I recommend this story.\nThe NDP has made a lot of noise arguing Quebec deserves a fixed percentage of seats in the House of Commons. At the same time, they continue to move full speed ahead with a leadership race where Quebecers will be little more than an afterthought.\nAfter some enthusiastic headlines about the party's membership numbers \"soaring\" and \"tripling\" in Quebec earlier this week, comes a dose of reality:\nThe NDP has attracted 11,200 new members since the launch of its leadership race in August, with the addition of 3,900 new card holders in Quebec providing the biggest boost.\nOverall, the party has now 95,000 official supporters, up from 83,800 when Jack Layton died three months ago.\nStill, Quebec continues to be under-represented in the race to find a new party leader with just 5.9 per cent of the party cards in the one-member, one-vote leadership race.\nThe 5.9% figure isn't the worrisome number for the NDP - that number is due to the fact that no one (not even some of their MPs) had membership cards in Quebec a few months ago. What's more relevant is that Quebecers made up just 35% of the new members the party has signed up during the leadership race. If the NDP keeps adding 12,000 members a month, with 35% coming from Quebec, Quebecers are going to cast just 15% of the votes in the leadership race.\nThis from a province home to over half the NDP's caucus. This from a province the NDP has recognized as a \"nation\" deserving special status in all areas...except leadership races apparently.\nMaybe that's fair, but it's certainly not good news for a party hoping to build an organization in Quebec. And it's certainly not good news for Thomas Mulcair, who hopes to ride Quebec to victory.\nOpposition for the Sake of Opposition\nThe Liberals have come out against an expanded House of Commons, arguing we have enough MPs as it is. I personally feel the problem is one of quality rather than quantity, but most Canadians would likely agree with the Liberal position and it makes a certain amount of sense when you consider Canada's population-to-MP ratio.\nHowever, this smells a lot like a party opposing something for the sake of opposing it. Because the reality is, there's no way the Liberal Party could ever follow through on this pledge if they were in power.\nGiven the screams of horror that come out of Liberal ranks whenever the NDP even hints at opening up the constitution, it's a safe bet the Liberals aren't about to go down that road anytime soon. Which means each province must have at least as many MPs as it has Senators, and cannot have fewer seats than it had in 1985.\nSo even if the Liberals wanted to piss off a few smaller provinces to achieve true rep-by-pop, their hands are tied - Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, PEI, Newfoundland, and the territories are all at their 1985 seat totals.\nIf the Liberals want to keep the total at 308 seats, all they can do is shuffle chairs around between Alberta, BC, and Ontario, unless they repeal the laws of mathematics. Come to think of it, that might actually be easier than opening up the constitution.\nSo while there's some value behind the intent of this position, it's completely unworkable in reality unless the Liberals want to leave Ontario, BC, and Alberta seriously under-represented. Which might be a good thing, given the number of votes a plan like that would cost the Liberals in those provinces.\nPrimary Debates\nIn his Macleans.ca debut, my friend Jeff Jedras takes aim at the proposal Liberals will be voting on in January to move to a US-style primary system to choose the party's next leader and nominate candidates.\nWhile I've already voiced my support for this system, Jeff raises three valid critiques which I want to take the time to rebut - one logistical, one conceptual, and one on the decision-making process.\n1) Logistical: \"One concern is the potential for shenanigans; supporters of another party signing up as Liberal \u201csupporters\u201d to vote in the primary and negatively influence the process, such as voting for the least-favoured candidate.\"\nAgain, I point to the Alberta Liberal example, where such shenanigans were tried (against a much weaker party) and failed spectacularly.\nThe reason for this is simple enough - most people don't give a big enough damn to try something like this, and those who do are too high profile to risk getting caught. Finding 50,000 rabble rousers willing to sign up and make Tony Genco the next Liberal leader simply can't be done under the radar, and whoever tried to organize a campaign like this would seriously hurt their credibility.\nSeventeen US states let Democrats vote in Republican primaries and vice versa. Their rationale is that a candidate who earns primary votes from across the aisle, will also earn general election votes from across the aisle. If Karl Rove can't find a way to get Denis Kucinich the Democratic nomination, then I don't think we have much to fear here.\nI know some are concerned about special interest groups taking over a nomination meeting, but a $10 membership fee isn't going to stop them - if anything, a supporter system makes a takeover harder since it takes more votes to win. If an anti-abortion group goes from needing 100 votes to 120 votes to win a nomination meeting, it makes it that much more difficult for them to get their candidate of choice nominated (remembering of course that all candidates still need to be green lit by the party).\n2) Conceptual: \"One of the key incentives for joining a political party is the opportunity to vote in leadership and nomination races. This proposal devalues membership. Already, during each successive election, it has become harder to get Liberals to volunteer to knock on doors, stuff envelopes, and get out the vote. We need committed members, and more of them, to successfully rebuild this party.\"\nHere's the thing. By itself, party membership means nothing. The point of signing someone up to be a member is to get their contact information so that you can get them to knock on doors, stuff envelopes, and get out the vote. I agree we need more of these people, but the way you get them is by making it easier to join the Liberal fold. Consider the supporter system a gateway drug to lure liberal-minded Canadians into the big red tent (and yes, I totally intend to put that line, creepy as it is, on a button at the Ottawa convention). Once they've registered, they can be invited to become full fledged members, volunteer, and donate money.\nYes, we need to make membership meaningful to retain and engage members. But if we want to grow the membership, we need to tear down the barriers to becoming involved, and a primary system would do just that. You don't think a few of the millions who signed up to vote for Barack Obama in the 2008 primaries also gave their money and time to get him elected in the ensuing general election?\nI know many are uneasy about \"instant Liberals\", but if this change means thousands of new Canadians pouring into our ranks, then that's fantastic. There are instant Liberals I signed up for leadership votes who are now more involved in the party than I am.\n3) The Process: \"The party executive wants to amend the constitution so the new leadership selection process can be adopted at the biennial convention in Ottawa January 13-15, 2012, barely two months from now. Meetings to elect delegates to that convention are happening now, and many are being cancelled and the delegates acclaimed due to a lack of people willing to fill all the available spots. It\u2019s not as if this concept has been debated in Liberal circles for months. We\u2019re just getting this now. We\u2019re talking about fundamentally changing the most important thing we do\u2014selecting a leader\u2014and we\u2019re rushing into it.\"\nI know the Liberal response to every problem is to call a Royal Commission, but this gives delegates to the January convention two months to debate the idea - plenty of time to make up their minds. Liberals have talked about \"renewal\" for years without anything happening - it's time to get off the pot or shift the way we do politics.\nThe reality is we need to lay down the ground rules for the next leadership race before we find ourselves in the next leadership race. We're now a third party, and a series of rolling primaries would add much needed excitement to the contest, helping us introduce the next leader to Canadians.\nI don't think the end result would be any different under one-member-one-vote or the registered supporter system. But, like Jeff says, process matters, and this new way of electing leaders would send a message to Canadians that the Liberal Party is willing to change and open itself up to Canadians.\nUPDATE: Jeff responds to my responds here, to which I respond here and he responds here. At this point, I call him and argue Hitler was against a primary system, to which he calls me a redneck and hangs up. Let's agree to disagree and call it a draw.\nLabels: primary system\nCopps' Laws\nI haven't picked a horse in the race for LPC President, but Sheila Copps is certainly the candidate I'm most familiar with - I was, after all, one of a very very small number of Copps delegates at the 2003 Liberal Leadership Convention.\nAnd while I like a lot of what I've heard from Sheila so far, I completely disagree on this point (and I'm not alone):\nAs for Mr. Rae, Ms. Copps says the executive should not be able to restrict who runs and who does not. That\u2019s up to voters.\nShe noted that when Mr. Rae took over the leadership, he agreed to rules set by the party\u2019s \u201ccurrent\u201d executive that the Interim Leader would not seek the top job permanently.\nBut a new executive could change that rule. And Ms. Copps will if she is elected president.\nThe thing is - there's no rule against Bob Rae running for leader. Rae promised he wouldn't run when he accepted the job, and whether or not the executive repeals a non-existent rule isn't going to change that.\nIt's like a candidate who spends an entire election saying \"no coalitions\" then forms a coalition. There's no law against it, but it's certainly a breach of trust, and there would be political fallout.\nBut this isn't a post about Bob Rae. Rae has consistently said he won't run, and until we start hearing \"anonymous Liberals\" urging him to, he should be taken at his word.\nRather, the issue here is Copps who is, intentionally or not, turning the national executive elections into a proxy leadership war. The point of delaying the leadership race for 63 years (or whatever it was) was to give the party time to rebuild before turning its attention to leadership. As naive as this was, that was the deal, and everything should be done to make sure the national executive elections are about rebuilding the party, not the next leadership race.\nI'm not sure what Sheila hopes to accomplish by continually promoting Rae's candidacy, but she's not helping her own by doing this.\nLabels: Bob Rae, Sheila Copps\nA Roadmap to Renewal\nThe Liberal Roadmap to Renewal has been released and can be read here. There are several longer drafts floating around I've put on my weekend reading list, but at 80-100 pages, I may just wait for the movie version.\nWhile the process feels a little too top-down for my liking, we've been talking about renewal for years so I'm glad something is being done and that members have concrete proposals before them to debate and vote on at January's Biennial convention.\nAs for the proposals themselves, some are unnecessary, some are flowery, and some skate around the real issues. Why we need to affirm the policy process is beyond me - I'd much rather see it reformed and made meaningful.\nAt the same time, there is some real meat in this document. The most visible and flashiest change would be moving leadership and nomination races to the primary-style system I blogged about earlier this week. This, coupled with the end of protected nominations for incumbents and the end of leader's ability to appoint candidates would be a significant leap towards creating a more open and grassroots party.\nI won't go into detail on some of the bookkeeping changes being discussed, because if I do you'll never visit this blog again. It's not exciting stuff, but I will say that the move towards streamlining and centralizing accounting, fundraising, and operations will save money. And raise money too, come to think of it.\nFundraising to defend the new leader and buy more technology doesn't require constitutional amendments, but those are worthy initiatives I'd be willing to open my chequebook for. The party needs to adopt a culture of data collection, so good on them for moving into the 21st Century.\nThe document is rather quiet on what must be done to engage existing members, but those kind of initiatives don't require constitutional change - just a willingness by people in positions of power to make things happen.\nLabels: Boring internal Liberal Party matters, Liberal Renewal\nThe Conservatives admit to overspending by $420,000 and are found guilty of breaking election laws.\nA $50,000 fine...or about the amount they'll raise from their next anti-CBC e-mail.\nWhich is kind of appropriate, since they never got more than a political slap on the wrist for the \"in and out scandal\". The blame for that may rest on the opposition parties for bad branding - had it been dubbed the \"Conservative money laundering scandal\", they might have got some legs out of it.\nThe end of whatshisnames campaign\nNot since the Dean Scream has a Presidential campaign imploded in a matter of seconds.\nThis clip may go down as one of the worst debate performances in US history:\nAn Open Party\nThe Liberal White Paper on party reform has been leaking out over the past few days, and will reportedly be released in full tonight. I'm sure there will be a lot of worthwhile ideas within it, but the one likely to grab the most headlines is the proposal of moving to a primary-style system where any Canadian could register to vote for the next Liberal leader (and perhaps in local nomination meetings too). Without a doubt, this will be a hotly contested vote at this January's convention.\nBefore the rhetoric starts flying, both sides of this debate need to recognize this isn't going to lead to millions of Canadians stampeding out to vote in Liberal Party primaries. A $10 membership fee and the stigma of political party membership is a deterrent for some, but if you give a damn about who the next Liberal leader is, those are pretty small barriers to jump over. So when supporters argue it's going to double the party base and opponents argue it's going to lead to a takeover, they're both being melodramatic.\nWith that caveat given, I come down strongly in support of the concept, for the following reasons:\n1. It will get more people involved in the party. Not as full fledged members, but consider this a gateway drug. First you hook them with the primary system, then you lure them into the seedy world of political rallies, membership forms, volunteering, and donating money.\n2. The party will get valuable information from these supporters. In the new age of micro-targeting and fundraising, having additional data on Liberal-inclined voters is worth a lot more than a $10 membership fee.\n3. Symbolically, it's the right play to make. It would send the message that the party is changing and that it's open. Voters have grown increasingly cynical of backroom old-style politics, and this would counter that.\n4. It would create excitement and draw media attention to the Liberal leadership race. In the past, this would have been a given, but life as a third party is different. The next leader is likely to be an unknown to voters, so getting media attention during the race makes introducing him or her to voters afterwards a lot easier.\nThe argument opponents of the primary system usually raise is that it opens the party to a takeover. Poppycock. The Alberta Liberals switched to an open supporter system for their recent leadership contest and, sure enough, Craig Chandler's PGIB group threw their weight behind a far right candidate (who has since jumped to the Wildrose Alliance). The result? Their man finished fourth with 626 votes. If a weak Alberta Liberal Party can shrug off a right wing takeover in the heart of Conservative country, surely the federal grits have nothing to fear.\nEven at the riding level, if a special interest group wants to stack a nomination meeting, they'll find the 10$ a head to do it now. A supporter system actually makes takeovers harder, since it means more votes are needed to win. Instead of signing up 100 anti-abortion activists to win a nomination meeting, you might need 120 or 150.\nNo, the only downside I see is on the financial ledger. Any leadership format outside of royal succession is going to lead to instant members, so there's an argument you might as well get some money out of it. This move will likely wind up costing the party over half a million dollars.\nThat's not an insignificant sum of money to write off. In the end, I think much of it will be made back by eventually getting donations from some of the new members and by making membership meaningful enough that supporters will want to join.\nThe payoff of opening the party up to all Canadians exceeds this cost. It would be a bold move, at a time when the Liberal Party is hungry for boldness.\nLabels: Boring internal Liberal Party matters, primary system\nNDP Hits a Wall in Saskatchewan\nThe year of the incumbent continues in Canada, with Brad Wall taking 49 of 58 seats and 64% of the vote.\nLabels: Brad Wall, Saskatchewan election\nSince when did the Tories worry about contempt of parliament?\nCBC in contempt of Parliament if it doesn't produce documents Access Committee requests: Del Mastro\nLabels: CBC, Dean Del Mastro\nThe NDP leadership race appears to have solidified, with nine candidates vying for the keys to Stornoway.\nWhile I doubt any of the contenders are causing Stephen Harper sleepless nights, it's a diverse field which is good news for the Dippers. Every true-orange New Democrat will be able to find a candidate to their liking, and a lot of membership forms will get sold. Nearly every imaginable demographic is represented...all that's missing is Pat Martin to provide comic relief.\nIt's too early to seriously handicap the field, but a nine candidate field and a 5-month race means it would be incredibly premature to declare this a Topp-Mulcair showdown. Someone will emerge from the pack to challenge the frontrunners, and it's likely to come down to second and third choices.\nPundits Guide appears to be the place to be for NDP leadership news, while Far and Wide puts the candidates under a Liberal lens.\nHere, I present a brief overview of the field:\nTopp of the Pack\nBrian Topp: The media crowned him as the race's frontrunner within hours of Jack Layton's death, though that may have simply been a case of journalists unable to resist a good pun. Topp has the most establishment support, but as Alison Redford and Christy Clark recently showed, that may not necessarily be an asset.\nTopp has released a \"tax the rich\" proposal which should be popular with NDP members, but it's not without risks. I can guarantee eight other leadership camps will be whispering about the Tory advertising onslaught this would bring about, in an effort to brand Topp as unelectable.\nThomas Mulcair: The longtime NDP Dauphin has had a rocky start to the campaign, spending more time complaining about the rules than giving Dippers a reason to vote for him. Still, Mulcair is experienced and is the party's best bet at holding Quebec (at least according to Thomas Mulcair).\nUnlike Topp, Mulcair's pitch has been directed more at the general public than the NDP faithful, promising to ween the NDP off their union dependence. He's clearly trying to portray himself as the candidate most likely to lead the NDP to the promised land. That's not a bad pitch - even though federal NDP members might be less concerned with power than most, it's a message that should resonate with provincial Dippers in BC, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Nova Scotia who have tasted power. Hell, who am I kidding - everyone wants to be in power.\nPaul Dewar: Dewar would probably be my choice at this point if I had a bit more orange in my veins but I'm always a sucker for an underdog. He's a good communicator, though some questions remain about his french.\nHis urban strategy is smart politics, since that's where the votes are in a one-member-one-vote leadership race.\nPeggy Nash: She's relatively well know and relatively well liked, and I imagine she has a good network of NDP, union, and activist contacts to solicit for support. I can't imagine anyone is overly excited by her, but she's the highest profile woman in the race and might have some appeal as a consensus candidate.\nNathan Cullen: His proposal to work with the Liberals in some ridings will help him stand out, but it might make him too polarizing a figure to get the second a third ballot support he'd need to win. He has a strong social media presence so far, and all indications are he'll get his fair share of media coverage.\nCullen also has geography working in his favour. He's the lone BC candidate, and one-third of all current NDP members are from that province.\nRobert Chisolm: On paper, Chisolm is a strong candidate - he's a former union leader and former leader of the Nova Scotia NDP. He has the ability to clean up in Nova Scotia, but lack of name recognition will be an obstacle elsewhere. He's going to need to find an issue to call his own, to distinguish himself from the crowded field.\nRomeo Saganash: Saganash was the first candidate out of the gate, and is intriguing enough to warrant a close look - he's from Quebec, is fluent in English and French, and has been actively involved with the Cree Regional Authority. I'll confess to knowing little about him, but if his political skills are polished, he's likely to get media attention and could be this season's break-out star.\nMartin Singh: Singh is likely the least known candidate in the contest and doesn't have the House of Commons platform to raise his profile. I can't see him winning, but his pro-business stance could help him stand out.\nSingh is from Nova Scotia, but launched his campaign in Brampton - his support in the Sikh community could make him a formidable threat in a one-member one-vote contest, and I wouldn't at all be surprised to see him in the top 5 or 6 on the first ballot. Growing from there will be more challenging.\nNiki Ashton: Ashton is expected to declare shortly, and it's no secret this will be more about raising her profile than about winning. At 29, her support will come predominantly from youth and from her home province of Manitoba. If she does well, she could position herself for a future run in 10 or 20 years.\nLabels: Brian Topp, Martin Singh, Nathan Cullen, NDP leadership race, Niki Ashton, Paul Dewar, Peggy Nash, Robert Chisolm, Romeo Saganash, Thomas Mulcair\nThis Race Is Unfair, Vote For Mulcair!\nSome leadership campaigns like to make a policy announcement every week.\nFor Thomas Mulcair, it appears he had adopted a \"complaint-a-week\" strategy. The latest:\nNDP's Mulcair blames 'whisper campaign' for tough slogging in leadership effort\nCandidate says the fact he's from Quebec is being used against him by some party members\nOutremont MP Tom Mulcair blames \"a whisper campaign\" and clever spinning by competitors for a perception he's trailing Brian Topp in the NDP leadership contest.\nDuring a recent trip to Vancouver, the 57-year old lawyer and father of two told me: \"The people who spin for Mr. Topp use the word 'front-runner,' as they have done from Day 1.\n\"But there have been a fair number of polls so far and every one has put me ahead, so I'm happy with that.\"\nMulcair also cited \"a whisper campaign by anonymous sources\" about his having a bad temper and not being a team player. \"My best calling card to answer that,\" he said, \"is there were 33 people standing on stage with me the day I announced my candidacy\" on Oct. 13.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 524, "original_length": 41335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 320.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://camelotcustomhomes.ca/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RNAMJOO5JKD6OHF53XBUNTIRRSOUKJCY", "length": 574, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "camelotcustomhomes.ca", "title": "Camelot Custom Homes", "raw_content": "\u201cThe word that is best loved in the language of every nation is home, for when a man\u2019s home is born out of his heart and developed through his labor and perfected through his sense of beauty, it is the very cornerstone of his life.\u201d\n\u2014 quote by Gustav Stickley, 1900\nWelcome to Camelot Custom Homes\nThank you for taking the time to visit our website. At Camelot, we truly appreciate everyone\u2019s sense of individuality when it comes to their vision of the perfect dream home. We enjoy and look forward to turning that vision into reality for our customers.\nThanh Lam, President", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 675, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://canada.b4utv.com/b4umovies/movies/char-din-ki-chandni", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ECLMQFF46ZTR5LBD7VCMD6EVHOBMAPLH", "length": 466, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "canada.b4utv.com", "title": "B4U Movies CANADA", "raw_content": "Char Din Ki Chandni\nChar Din Ki Chandni - Official Trailer\nStar Cast : Tusshar Kapoor\nChaar Din Ki Chandni is a 2012 Hindi romantic comedy film directed and produced by Samir Karnik. The film stars Tusshar Kapoor and Kulraj Randhawa in the lead roles while Anupam Kher, Om Puri and Anita Raj appear in supporting roles. It released on 9 March 2012, received generally negative reviews, and also failed to do well at the box office.\nHome / Movies /Char Din Ki Chandni", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 40.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://candacekaru.com/the-blog/?category=Fitness", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:31Z", "digest": "sha1:2LS7G3YABXC6LZGMHRLZTXJASAO2NNSS", "length": 815, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "candacekaru.com", "title": "The Blog \u2014 Candace Karu", "raw_content": "In which I take a chance, learn to ski, and have a blast.\nIn which I take up the challenge to learn to ski\nIn which I juggle, struggle, and (hopefully) find ways to balance it all.\nIn which a small town in Maine welcomes the world's fastest runners.\nIn which I discover a new blueprint for health and fitness.\nNovember 5, 2009 FitnessCandace1 Comment\nIt's never too late to begin a lifetime of fitness. Why walking may just be the best way to start.\nOctober 5, 2009 Fitness, LifestyleCandace2 Comments\nMeeting the challenges of the single life, with a little help from the Internet\nExpanding my fitness horizons has never been so much fun.\nHere is a piece I wrote for 50+ Fabulous about women's fitness and the benefits of working out with friends. If you don't have a workout buddy, now's a great time to find one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 187, "original_length": 6990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://canvas.saatchiart.com/art/one-to-watch/brian-oldham", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:59Z", "digest": "sha1:5PBQDN5GNBDDUSJGO5GMFY52IYPZY5IY", "length": 809, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "canvas.saatchiart.com", "title": "Brian Oldham \u2013 Canvas: A Blog By Saatchi Art", "raw_content": "Brian editing one of his photographs.\nBrian's artwork on exhibition.\nBrian Oldham, born in 1993 in Orange, California, lives and works in Los Angeles as a freelance photographer, specializing in fine art, self-portraiture, and fashion photography. He creates conceptual and surrealist-inspired photographs, transporting the viewer into dream-like vistas that are both seductive and unsettling.\nBrian was selected for 25 Under 25, a celebration of emerging photographers at Cleveland State University, and his work has garnered attention from Huffington Post (\u201cbeautiful images\u201d), My Modern Met (\u201ca brilliant balance of movement and stillness\u201d), and numerous other publications.\nWorks for sale by Brian Oldham\nWide Eyes Behind Beautiful Lies 1,300\nBeautiful Lies (1) 2,200\nSprouts 1,300\nSleeping to Dream 1,300", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 206.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/filmmaker/?i=459", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3Z2VFJVJ5RWBNUDYZAJUUYGMMMT7HDHU", "length": 2498, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "canyoncinema.com", "title": "Canyon Cinema : Filmmaker", "raw_content": "Kerry Laitala\nLaitala grew up on the Maine coast, where she developed a chronic passion for old things. She attended Massachusetts College of Art studying Photography and Film and received her Masters degree in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute. She began teaching at that school in 2002.\nLaitala is a media archeologist who investigates the past and retrieves cultural artifacts from the limbo of the forgotten. Her penchant for medical imagery and relics of decay sprang from her time working in medical and dental institutions.\nLaitala is deeply invested in the process of working directly with the film medium, and has been involved in all aspects of production: shooting, developing, editing and sound design as well as optically printing much of the material to transform it into celluloid strands of uncanny resonance.\nHer single-channel works are often grouped into two major cycles. The Journey Into Darkness series (1997-2006) includes Secure the Shadow...'Ere the Substance Fade, Awake But Dreaming, Conquered, The Adventure Parade, Hallowed, Out of the Ether, and Orbit. The Muse of Cinema series (2004-2011), inspired by the filmmaker's research into the silent-era cinema-going experience, includes Coming Attractions, Terra Firma, Muse of Cinema, Phantogram, Spectrology and Conjuror's Box. Many of these films received funding from the Princess Grace Foundation Special Projects Grants in 2004 & 2007. Her 1997 film Retrospectroscope can be grouped into either series.\nMore recently, Laitala has expanded her terrain to work on hybrid film-video stereoscopic experiments called the Chromatic Cocktail series (2008-2015). She has created moving image installations including Glitter Gulch (2010), The City Luminous: Spectral Canopy (2015) and The Cosmoscope (2016). In 2012 she began reconnecting with her original love, still photography, with a set of cameraless images made with high voltage electricity. Finally, she continues her explorations with expanded cinema / projector performance works with Bay Area sound artist collaborators including (most recently) Voicehandler, Cyrus Tabar, and Wobbly.\nhttp://kerrylaitala.net/\nConjuror's Box (2011)\nSpectrology (2009)\nPhantogram (2008)\nMuse of Cinema (2006)\nOut of the Ether (2004)\nHallowed (2002)\nAdventure Parade, The (2000)\nAwake, But Dreaming (2000)\nConquered (2000)\nMuse of Cinema Series, The (1997-2011)\nRetrospectroscope (1997)\nSecure the Shadow... 'Ere the Substance Fade (1997)\nFragment of a Lost Film (1991-1994)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 3307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 319.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://carriagemuseumlibrary.org/home/library-archives/carriage-manufacturers/henry-hooker-co-new-haven-ct/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:27Z", "digest": "sha1:VJB2A7IWTNNF3HUT6YOE6XZLGXI5WOIM", "length": 3507, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "carriagemuseumlibrary.org", "title": "Henry Hooker & Co. \u2013New Haven, CT | Carriage Museum of America | Carriage Museum of America", "raw_content": "Cover page of the 1895 Henry Hooker & Co. catalog.\nHenry Hooker & Co., of New Haven, CT, was renowned for their wide variety of high quality vehicles, which appealed to affluent customers. The following brief history is excerpted from a biography of Frank H. Hooker published in The Hub in July 1, 1880.\n\u201cMr. Frank J. Hooker, of New-Haven, is the worthy representative of one of the largest and best known carriage houses in this country, and the youngest officer of the Carriage-Builders\u2019 National Association. To more clearly define his position in the trade, we will first give a brief history of the great house of Henry Hooker & Co., with which he is connected.\nThis house was established in 1845 by Mssrs. G.D. Cook & Co., who made a specialty of light carriage work, and who, by long and patient devotion to the business, gradually built up a large and highly remunerative trade, which was mainly confined to the Southern States, where they had branch houses.\nFrom a collection of Henry Hooker drawings held by the CMA. Park Phaeton with no top, three elliptic springs, and reach. Drawings circa 1880 to 1890. The company employed their own designers and draftsmen, whose vehicle renderings were often published in the trade magazines.\nThe extent of the business of G.D. Cook Co., and the serious injury inflicted upon it by the opening of the war, are illustrated by the fact that in the first six States which seceded the Union, they had debtors to the amount of $211,000, which amount proved practically a total loss. This calamity so crippled that house that a change became necessary, and on January 1st, 1863, a new firm was formed, known as G.D. Cook & Company, the members being Messrs. Henry Hooker, James Brewster (father of the Brewsters who have since become so prominent in New-York), Leverett Candee and Edwin Marble (now President of the house of Henry Hooker & Co.), to whom the business was transferred, and the Cooks retired. The next change occurred on March 28, 1864, when the firm of Hooker, Candee & co. was formed, but no change occurred in the personnel of the firm until 1865, when Mr. Candee died. On January 7th, 1868, the present joint stock company was incorporated, under the general law of the State of Connecticut, known as Henry Hooker & Co., consisting of Henry Hooker (President), Edwin Marble, and heirs of James Brewster.\nUnder the new management the business was rapidly built up, until it rivaled that of the Cooks ten years previously, and on the death of Henry Hooker, Oct. 3, 1873, the Presidency passed into the hands of Mr. Marble, and the treasureship to Mr. Hooker\u2019s oldest son, Mr. Frank H. Hooker.\u201d\nIntroductory text from the 1895 Henry Hooker & Co. catalog. The original catalog is held in the CMA library, and reproductions are available for purchase through the Carriage Association of America.\nFor many years, the company hosted an annual Spring Carriage Exhibition in their New Haven vehicle repositories. The exhibitions displayed the wide variety of carriages they manufactured, including unique designs based on national and international styles. In the March 1882 edition of The Hub, a visitor to the Hooker Exhibition noted that \u201cthe fine quality of the workmanship, and the exquisite taste displayed in the selection of materials and the combination of colors, were also noteworthy features, and deserving of the highest praise.\u201d (page 652).\nYou can learn more by viewing the company\u2019s 1907 catalogue, advertising their High Grade Carriages.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 3914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 172.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catalog.mohave.edu/preview_course_nopop.php?catoid=56&coid=58608", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YXYZ34GO2S6VNW7IEOANKP3QZIHSAIMM", "length": 379, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "catalog.mohave.edu", "title": "ACC 230 - Intermediate Accounting II - Acalog ACMS\u2122", "raw_content": "Prerequisite: Successful completion of ACC 225 with a \u201cD\u201d or better\nDescription: A continuation of ACC 225 , provides an in-depth exploration of property, plant, and equipment depreciation and depletion, intangible assets, current and contingent liabilities, long-term liabilities, capital stock, additional paid-in capital, retained earnings and earnings per share calculations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 3711, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 251.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catholicencyclopedia.newadvent.com/cathen/14733a.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:V3EWTEIZIJWPJ6XABOTMOQI4HXDP3DMD", "length": 15253, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "catholicencyclopedia.newadvent.com", "title": "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Timucua Indians", "raw_content": "Home > Catholic Encyclopedia > T > Timucua Indians\nA principal group or confederacy of Ancient Florida, notable for the successful missions established among them by the Sapaniards and subsequently utterly destroyed by the English of Carolina and their savage Indian allies. The name-written also Atimuca, Thimapoa, Tomoca, by the Spaniards, French, and English respectively-appears to be derived from a word in their own language, atimoqua, \"lord, or chief\", and was probably a title mistaken by the early Spaniards for the name of the chief or tribe.\nThe cognate tribes of the Timucuan linguistic stock held all of north Florida from about Cape Canaveral and Tampa Bay on the south to beyond the St. Mary's River on the north and westward to about the Ocilla River, where they bordered upon the celebrated Apalachee, of another (Muskhogean) stock. The tribes forming the Timucua group proper centred chiefly along the St. John's River, the principal being the Timucua along the upper part of the river and about the present St. Augustine, whose chief, known to the French as Outina, had his settlement about the present Welaka, and ruled some forty villages, with perhaps 6000 souls. On the lower course of the river were the Satuniba, the enemies of the Timucua and nearly as numerous, and west of them, toward the Suwanee River, were the Potano, with over a thousand warriors or perhaps four thousand souls. Several other tribes were of minor importance.\nThe Timucua were sedentary and semi-agricultural, but depended largely upon game, fish, wild fruits, and bread prepared from the starchy koonti root. Their houses were circular, of upright poles, thatched with palmetto leaves, and with granaries elevated on stakes to keep them out of reach of wild animals. Their villages were strongly stockaded and each important settlement had a large central town-house of logs, for tribal ceremonies and the reception of guests. They had large dug-out canoes. Their pottery, the work of the women, was of the finest type found east of the Mississippi. The principal weapon of the warriors was the bow, and a sort of spade-shaped club of hard wood. The numerous embankments and ancient roadways found in their country may be due in part to Spanish influence. Women wore a short fringed skirt, perhaps of some bark fibre, with their hair flowing loosely. Men went naked, except for the breechcloth, but had the whole body elaborately tattooed. They bunched the hair in a knot on top of the head, and wore inflated fish-bladders through holes in their ears. They were tall and well-made, described as of great strength and agility and remarkable swimmers.\nThe government by the chiefs was despotic, as was frequently the case among the Gulf State tribes. There were two hereditary classes, nobles, or chiefs, and common people, and each tribe was organized into clans or hereditary family groups, usually bearing animal names. This clan system was so much inter-woven with the tribal life that it persisted even under the mission system. Prisoners of war and their descendants constituted a slave class. Their military organization and methods were superior to what was found among the northern tribes. Scalping and mutilation of the slain enemy were universal, and the dismembered limbs were carried from the field as trophies or to serve for cannibal feasts. Polygamy was customary. Gross sensuality was prevalent. The chief gods were the Sun and the Moon, the Deer and other animals. They were extremely ceremonious, celebrating planting and harvest seasons, fishing and hunting expeditions, the going and return of war parties, marriages and funerals, each with special rites of prayer, fasting, feasting, dancing and purification by means of the \"black drink\" brewed from the leaves of the Ilex cassine. On certain great ceremonial occasions the first-born male infants of the tribe were delivered up by their mothers to be sacrificed to the Sun, in whose honour also a sacred fire was kept always burning in their temples. The dead were buried in the ground with protracted mourning rites, which included fasting and cutting off the hair. Over the body of a dead chief was raised a mound of earth upon which was placed his shell drinking cup, surrounded by a circle of arrows struck in the ground. From the pictures of the artist Le Moyne we get a vivid idea of the appearance and customs of the Timucua tribes, while the questions in Father Pareja's \"Confessionario\" throw curious light upon their beliefs, tabus, and ceremonial observance.\nThe history of the Timucus tribes begins with the landing of the ill-fated Ponce de Leon near the present St. Augustine in 1513. The expeditions of Narvaez in 1528 and de Soto in 1539-41, landing at Tampa Bay, passed through the territory of the cognate tribes, but did not encounter the Timucua proper. In 1562-64 the French Huguenots under Ribault and Laudonni\u00e8re attempted settlements at the mouth of St. John's River, explored the middle course of the stream, and made acquaintance with the principal tribes. In 1565 the Spaniards under Menendez destroyed the French posts, butchering all the defenders, immediately after which Menendez founded the city of St. Augustine and began the permanent colonization of the country. Jesuit missionaries arrived and began their labours, but seem to have devoted their attention chiefly to the coast tribes of South Carolina, Virginia, and western Florida, probably because of the fact that the Indians of the St. John's region had been won over by the French and for a long time resisted the Spanish occupation. In 1573 a party of Franciscan missionaries arrived at St. Augustine, where some of their order had been from the beginning, and proceeded to organize work among the Indians of the vicinity. The work met a serious check from the recall of Governor Menendez to Spain, where he died in 1574, but in 1594, on request of Father Marron, custos of the Franciscan convent at St. Augustine, twelve other priests of the order were sent out, and the labour of Christianizing the Timucua was taken up with vigour.\nAmong those who arrived with this party was the noted Father Francisco Pareja, to whom we are indebted for almost all that is known of the language and customs of the tribe. He was stationed at first among the Yamassee on the Georgia coast, in whose language, according to Shea, he composed a summary of Christian doctrine. Later he was in charge at the Timucua mission of San Juan, apparently on Little Talbot Island, north of St. Augustine, and later still was custos of the monastery in that city, until transferred to the Mexican province in 1610, where he died in 1628. His various works in the Timucua language were published in Mexico. Of the priests who arrived from Spain with Father Pareja, several went to the Yamasee, while the others devoted attention to the Timucua, whose principal mission settlements were San Juan, already mentioned; San Pedro, on Cumberland Island; San Mateo, probably about the mouth of the St. John's; and Santa Lucia de Acuera, south of Cape Canaveral; besides the settlement immediately adjoining St. Augustine. The more western cognate Potano tribe, being hostile alike to the Timucua and the Spaniards, were not Christianized until a much later period, but were also brought likewise into the mission fold. In 1597 the mission growth was interrupted by a disastrous revolt of the Yamassee in which several missionaries lost their lives, the Christian Timuca being also attacked. Some years later, however (1612?), following a visit from the Bishop of Havana in 1602, Florida was erected into a Franciscan province, under the name of Santa Elena. From 1612 to 1615 inclusive, 43 Franciscans were added to the workers in addition to those already on the ground.\nIn 1655 the Christian Indian population of the Florida province, which included north Florida and the coast country of Georgia and South Carolina, was estimated at 26,000 souls, chiefly among the Timucua, Apalachee, and Yamassee. In 1687 a second outbreak of the Yamassee, apparently instigated by the English of Carolina, who claimed northern Florida as within their chartered limits, resulted in the removal of that tribe bodily into (South) Carolina. In 1715 the same restless people headed a war against the English, resulting in their own expulsion and return to Florida. In 1688, following the outbreak of the Yamassee, by which the Timucua missions had also suffered, the chiefs of the latter tribe, as also the Apalachee chiefs, forwarded to the King of Spain an address of loyalty and of commendation for their Spanish governor. These documents, in the Indian and Spanish languages, are still in existence. The Timucua address is signed by the chiefs of five towns, San Mateo, San Pedro, Asile, Machaua, and San Juan de Guacara. In 1699 the Quaker Dickenson, from Philadelphia, shipwrecked on the south coast of Florida and rescued from the savages by the Spanish governor at St. Augustine, was sheltered for a time at the Timucua missions, and has left us a pleasant picture of their prosperous and orderly condition, and the friendly and religious character of their occupants, in striking contrast to that of the unchanged barbarians among whom he had been a prisoner.\nIt was near the end. The growing hostility of the Carolina colony instigated the Creeks and other heathen tribes to constant inroads upon the Florida missions, furnishing them with arms and ammunition for the purpose, with the further inducement of a profitable sale for all captives to supply the Carolina slave market. Even as early as 1699 Carolina slaves were thus decimating the Indian tribes as far even as the Mississippi. While the wild tribes were thus armed and encouraged in their raids by the English, the Christian mission Indians, on the contrary, in accordance with a fixed, but suicidal, rule of the Spanish colonial government, were refused the use of firearms, even in self-defence and on their most urgent appeal.\nIn May, 1702, war having again been declared between the two home governments, the Creek allies of the English raided Santa Fe mission of the Timucua and burned the church. Later in the same year a combined English and Indian force from Carolina under Governor Moore, co-operating with a naval force, destroyed three flourishing Timucua missions along the coast-the same where Dickenson had been so hospitably cared for-burned the churches and carried off the missionaries, and then, going farther south, burned St. Augustine, with the church, convent, and library. The fortress held out until relieved by a Spanish fleet. In 1704 Moore invaded the Apalachee country with some fifty Carolina men and a thousand savage Creek, Catawba, and Yamassee, all armed with guns, and completely destroyed ten of the eleven missions towns, with their churches and orange groves, carrying off or destroying the vestments and sacred vessels. Four priests, a Spanish officer, and four soldiers were killed, and their bodies hacked to pieces, two of the missionaries being tortured and burned at the stake. Several hundred Apalachee warriors were killed and 1400 of the tribe carried away as slaves. In 1706 a similar raid into the Timucua country completed the ruin of the missions. The remnant of the Apalachee fled for protection to the French at Mobile. The scattered Timucua were gathered together and formed into small settlements under the walls of St. Augustine. With the English colonization of Georgia and the ensuing war of 1740 all attempt at rehabilitating the Florida missions was abandoned. In 1753 only 136 Indians remained in the vicinity of St. Augustine. On the English occupation in 1763 only 136 Indians remained in the vicinity of St. Augustine. On the English occupation in 1763 they were expelled from their two villages and again became refugees. Somewhat later these, or a kindred remnant, were colonized at a new settlement called Pueblo de Atimucas, on Tomoco River, near Mosquito lagoon, in the present Volusia county. A few seem to have resided there as late as the transfer of the territory to the United States in 1821 and it is possible that their descendants may still be found among the Seminole of Florida or Oklahoma.\nWith the exception of the Timucua-Spanish document of 1688, already referred to, of which a copy was printed by Buckingham Smith in 1859, and another, with English translation, by Gatschet in 1880 (Am. Philos. Soc. Proc., XVIII), our knowledge of the Timucua language and dialects, as of the tribal customs and beliefs, rests almost entirely upon the works of Father Pareja and of Father Gregorio de Monilla, missionary in the same order and tribe, with the analysis deduced thereupon by Gatschet. A few words, mostly personal or place names, also occur in the early French and Spanish historians. Father Pareja's works include: \"Cathecismo en lengua Castellana y Timuquana\" (Mexico, 1612); \"Catechismo y breve exposicion de la doctrina Cristiana . . . en Lengua Castellana y Timuquana\" (Mexico, 1612); \"Confessionario en lengua Castellana y Timuquana\" (Mexico, 1613); \"Gramatica [or Arte?] de la Lengua Timuquana\" (Mexico, 1614); \"Catecismo de la Doctrina cristiana en dicha [Timuquana] Lengua\" (Mexico, 1617); \"Catechismo y Examen . . . en Lengua Castellana y Timuquana\" (Mexico, 1627). The works of Father Monilla include an \"Explicacion de la Doctrina . . . en Lengua Floridiana\" (Madrid, 1631?, and Mexico, 1635-36); and a \"Forma Breve de admisistrar los Sacramentos . . . en lengua Floridiana\" (Mexico, 1635). Of these works the Pareja \"Catechismo\" (1612), \"Catechismo y breve exposicion\" (1612), and \"Confessionario\" (1613), and the Monilla \"Explicacion\" (1635-36), and \"Forma breve\" (1635) form the subject of an extended study of \"The Timucua Language\" by Dr. Albert S. Gatschet, in the \"Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society\", vols. XVI-XVIII, Philadelphia, 1877-1880.\nBARCIA, Ensayo (Madrid, 1723); BRINTON, Floridian Peninsula (Philadelphia, 1859); LAUDONNI\u00c8RE, Histoire notable de la Floride (Paris, 1586 and 1853), tr. in FRENCH, Hist. Colls. of Fla. (New York, 1869); LE MOYNE, Narrative (Boston, 1875), an artist with Laudonni\u00e8re's expedition, pictures with text (from DE BY, Lat. ed., Frankfort, 1591); MOORE, various important papers on arch\u00e6ology of the Gulf States, in Jour. Academy of Natural Sciences (Philadelphia, 1894 to 1910); PARKMAN, Pioneers of France (Boston, 1865--); PILLING, Proofsheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the N. Am. Inds. (Bur. Am. Ethnology, Washington, 1885); SHEA, Hist. Catholic Ind. Missions of the United States (New York, 1855; IDEM, The Catholic church in Colonial Days (1521-1763, vol. I of History of the Catholic church in the United States (New York, 1886).\nAPA citation. Mooney, J. (1912). Timucua Indians. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14733a.htm\nMLA citation. Mooney, James. \"Timucua Indians.\" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. .\nTranscription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Calvin H. Marousch. Dedicated to my cousin June Annamary (Marble) Hreha.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 16190, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catholicsaints.info/book-of-saints-marcian-2-november/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:15Z", "digest": "sha1:JJCAEIJJIBCMOF5FNVU2NMVTTWAQWBF7", "length": 802, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "catholicsaints.info", "title": "CatholicSaints.Info \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Book of Saints \u2013 Marcian \u2013 2 November", "raw_content": "Book of Saints \u2013 Marcian \u2013 2 November\n(Saint) (November 2) (4th century) A Syrian hermit, for an account of whom we are indebted to the famous writer Theodoret. Marcian fled from the Imperial Court in which he had a certain prospect of advancement to the desert near Chalcis, where he built himself a hut and passed his life in prayer and penance. He soon gathered disciples about him. Among them were Eusebius, afterwards a law-giver to Solitaries, and Agapetus, who later became Bishop of Apamea. He passed away about A.D. 387. He was buried in secret at his own request in an out-of-the-way place, but his tomb was discovered after many years and became a noted place of pilgrimage.\nMonks of Ramsgate. \u201cMarcian\u201d. Book of Saints, 1921. CatholicSaints.Info. 20 November 2014. Web. 15 February 2019. <>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2097, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 184.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://catholicsaints.info/patrons-of-circassia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:51Z", "digest": "sha1:EGB5WEPEF5SDGJCVXCPXJVLFORLBPHP6", "length": 131, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "catholicsaints.info", "title": "CatholicSaints.Info \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb patrons of Circassia", "raw_content": "patrons of Circassia\n\u201cpatrons of Circassia\u201c. Patrons of the Faith. CatholicSaints.Info. 13 February 2013. Web. 15 February 2019. <>", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 189.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cathyreedy.com/Genealogy/INDIs/II2462.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:26Z", "digest": "sha1:DYNQE5MDKL42LEROJ66BDDZWJHA56U2A", "length": 243, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cathyreedy.com", "title": "Patsy M. Bascom", "raw_content": "Patsy was the daughter of unknown parents. The date and place of her birth have not been found.\nHer husband was Tommy Joshua Allen Gibbens. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their only known child was Ronald (?-?).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 374, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 152.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cbd-net.com/index.php/search/show/22581356", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:38Z", "digest": "sha1:YWGXZ5ABZOBL5XBT56DYWR5DDN3BWDYJ", "length": 1505, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "cbd-net.com", "title": "One-year Membership Subscription", "raw_content": "One-year Membership Subscription\n1000 Independence Avenue Washington DC 20585 USA\nThe U.S Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Strategic Planning and Global Engagement (FE-26), Office of Fossil Energy (FE), intends to award a contract with the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute (GCCSI) by means other than full and open competition. The anticipated period of performance will be January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2019. This award will be for a one-year membership subscription to the GCCSI, which accelerates the development, demonstration and development of carbon capture and storage (CCS) globally through its knowledge sharing activities, fact-based influential advice and advocacy, and work to create favorable conditions to implement CCS. The value of this effort is estimated to be $200,000.00. This is a Notice of Intent and not a request for competitive proposals. No solicitation is available for this requirement. If a firm believes DOE should not pursue this sole source contract with GCCSI, then the firm should submit a capability statement and pricing information to Mrs. Muriel O. Thomas, Muriel.thomas@hq.doe.gov, within fifteen (15) calendar days of publication of this notice. A determination by the Government to compete the proposed contract based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Information will normally be considered solely for the purpose of determining whether to conduct a completive procurement.\nPOC Thomas, Muriel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 2009, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ccc.georgkolb.com/?p=781", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:39Z", "digest": "sha1:6IV4GI37K4JKOFDU7TEC7DOVYFDMC7DX", "length": 2337, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "ccc.georgkolb.com", "title": "Why we can\u2019t have more than 150 friends and still need more than that | corporate communications compass", "raw_content": "This entry was posted in myths, New Publics, Research and tagged crowdsourcing, Eli Pariser, innovation, Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Granovetter, Path, productivity, Robin Dunbar, social groups, social network analysis, study, weak ties by Georg Kolb. Bookmark the permalink.\n2 thoughts on \u201cWhy we can\u2019t have more than 150 friends and still need more than that\u201d\nMartin Oetting on March 15, 2015 at 4:08 pm said:\nThis post, like many texts about Dunbar\u2019s number, repeats the same mistake that I see in lots of places, when it comes to these 150. People look at Dunbar\u2019s research, then they look at Facebook etc., and then say: \u201cSee! It makes no sense to have all these friends, you can only deal with 150!\u201d\nAnd that is absolutely nonsensical, of course. Because Dunbar made his calculations based on observing the lives of simple tribes and primates. And these groups naturally do not have the computing / memory power that we have available today. Someone sitting in the jungle somewhere will indeed have a hard time keeping track of more than 150 people.\nBut we don\u2019t, of course! If you make a conscious effort to use the computer, and the social media platform\u2019s memory help, you can absolutely increase your number. That is what our work at trnd is based on, and that is what \u2014 surprisingly \u2014 lots of people who quote Dunbar seem to ignore.\nIt\u2019s like saying \u201cA normal person cannot go faster than 25 km/h, so a bicycle makes no sense at all.\u201d\nGeorg Kolb on March 15, 2015 at 5:21 pm said:\nMany thanks for your comment Martin. I was a bit surprised, though, because what I said is not as simple as you seem to believe.\nI did not say it doesn\u2019t make sense to have more than 150 friends. What I said is that it actually depends on what you are trying to achieve. Dunbar\u2019s number relates to groups with strong ties between their members. You need these strong ties, if you want to work closely in smaller groups. However, if you want to gain collective intelligence you do need very large groups with weak ties between their members, so they won\u2019t be Dunbar groups anymore as a result.\nBy the way, Dunbar did not only work with primates and tribes, he also did some research with contemporaries, such as the Christmas card experiment. And there were network analysts, confirming that Dunbar\u2019s number was also true on Twitter. I mentioned both.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 9964, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cexams.com/Reasoning-Quiz/250", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HR7JWQNJVXFX3IPEXR6KF36NIYXY6GZQ", "length": 1121, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cexams.com", "title": "Mind Game - Reasoning Questions and Answers 250", "raw_content": "1. Implementation work on the project has started.\nWhat to Eat in Haryana\nThe Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a domesticated species of South American camelid developed from the wild alpacas. It resembles a sheep in appearance, but is larger and has a long erect neck as well as coming in many colors, whereas sheep are generally bred to be white and black. Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of Ecuador, southern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Chile at an altitude of 3500 to 5000 meters above sea-level, throughout the year.Alpacas are considerably smaller than llamas, and unlike them are not used as beasts of burden but are valued only for their fiber. Alpacas only have fleece fibers, not woolen fibers, used for making knitted and woven items much as sheeps wool is. These items include blankets, sweaters, hats, gloves, scarves, a wide variety of textiles and ponchos in South America, and sweaters, socks and coats in other parts of the world. The fiber comes in more than 52 natural colors as classified in Peru, 12 as classified in Australia and 22 as classified in America.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 710, "original_length": 4505, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cfz-canada.blogspot.com/2012/10/bless-beasts-and-children.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6Z5SFOARDSAXD72TRGI4FXXL2SVFJGC5", "length": 4342, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "cfz-canada.blogspot.com", "title": "CFZ-CANADA: Bless the Beasts and the Children", "raw_content": "\u201cWhen you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That\u2019s if you want to teach them to think.\u201d \u2015 Bertrand Russell\nAt a recent conference, I spoke about Cryptozoology in general and the local sightings in southern Ontario. In the audience was a brilliant 8 year old boy named Billy. Billy had done a book report on a book I wrote several years ago, and has a budding interest in Fortean Zoology. Billy\u2019s eagerness to learn is inspiring. Sadly, very little is available for his age group by way of factual information on animals unknown.\nI fired up Google and searched everything from \u201ccryptozoology kids\u201d to \u201cteaching kids about bigfoot\u201d and came up with not only few websites, but really, really bad ones. Most academic websites tell children that Bigfoot and Nessie and Ogopogo are myths. This is disrespectful to witnesses and certainly not truthful information to teach children.\nAmong the better websites is http://encyclopedia.kids.net.au/page/cr/Cryptozoology, a site from Australia that simply gives facts. On the opposite end of the spectrum is a Saturday show on The Comedy Network called \u201cSecret Saturdays\u201d on whose website you can create your own cryptid. Here is mine.\nMy son is 11 and in grade 6. Often I have had to battle with teachers who claim that certain things are \u201cnot real\u201d. I don\u2019t know about other school districts, but here in Toronto, they aren\u2019t too keen on teaching \u201cpseudoscience\u201d. I\u2019m always more than willing to teach a classroom of kids\u2014at any age\u2014about the wonders of investigating unknown animals. To date, none of the schools have expressed an interest, and one has gone so far as to suggest that talking about such things might be harmful to a child. Apparently teaching children to question, and wonder, and explore is pass\u00e9.\nThere is a promising website called Crypto Camp authored by Jon Duff. Far from complete, he seems to be on the right track as far as providing reasonable content for children who are interested in Cryptozoology. Mr. Duff has a good understanding of how media influences children and seeks to give accurate information, although he is not actually a student of the subject. His background is in fine arts and web design. Certainly there will be criticisms forthcoming, but so far he\u2019s doing well in his attempt.\nHow can we satisfy the curiosity in children like Billy? Who is best qualified to put together an age appropriate presentation? How do we get schools to invite this \u201cout of the box\u201d thinking? Personally I think the answer is that ALL of us, no matter what our level of understanding or interest, need to get actively involved in spreading the word to children. Too many kids fear Bigfoot or figures like Nessie because of the title \u201cMonster\u201d. Too many kids don\u2019t understand that many of these formerly unknown creatures are now documented and \u201cknown\u201d because someone never gave up on proving their existence. It\u2019s time to breed the next generation of Fortean Zoologists; and to do so with logic, science, dedication, and perseverance.\nI began a site for a graduate course project that stuck to ONLY the facts and was designed to encourage critical thinking about monsters. Due to my other commitments, I was not able to pursue and expand this but it still exists online as a template.\nhttp://spookspot.wordpress.com\ntheo paijmans 15 October 2012 at 17:56\nMaritime Monsters, by Jeff Solway, was published in 2010. It is described as a 'children's picturebook ...a field guide to Maritime monsters, taken from local folklore and legends. The monsters described include Prince Edward Island's Old Hook-Snout, New Brunswick's Acadian Werewolf, Nova Scotia's Parker Road Phantom and Newfoundland's Not-So-Cuddly Kraken! Each entry includes a short story featuring the monster and a field guide entry: location, diet, size, frequency, description and special monster-hunting advice. An indispensable resource for the young Maritime monster hunter!'\nAside from that, there are many good children's books published on dragons, giants, mermaids and other mythical and cryptozoological creatures. The theme has even percolated into children's films.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 6261, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Students/Student_Work/brooke99.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:22Z", "digest": "sha1:HDUKY7ZB3Y2ZHDOYME3QHYNZ7FNELWVV", "length": 4418, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "cgee.hamline.edu", "title": "Rivers of Life: Student Work - Essay from Brooke", "raw_content": "It was May 2, and I had just stepped onto a plane with a destination of Dubuque, Iowa, the trip of a lifetime. At the point of 20,000 ft, I realized that I was becoming a responsible adult. It was the first time that I traveled alone, and I was more nervous than I ever could be. I walked around aimlessly in the Chicago airport, and I thought about what I was going to be doing later that day. I was heading for the Mississippi River to be part of a five person crew, through a program called \"Rivers of Life.\" I was chosen a month earlier through thorough applications and deep interviewing. I had proposed to study the water quality of the river, while I was working on service-learning projects. I barely got my application in on time, but with the persuasion of my loving brother, I rushed it in, and am I glad that I did.\nI didn't really know what I was getting into when I applied for the trip. All I knew was that I would be studying the river and living on a boat. I had no idea about the other crew members, the size of the boat, what we were to do each day, and where I was going. I packed my bags with protein bars, water quality chemicals, and all-weather clothing.\nWhen I finally arrived in Dubuque, I met up with my coordinator and headed for my living space for the next eight days. As we slowly drove to the dock, I saw four girls walking along, and I realized that they were part of my crew. My first impressions of them I'd rather not say, but it was not what I was expecting. I waved and drove on to see the elegant boat, The Lilly Belle. I hopped out of the car with a giant \"wow\" and boarded what seemed like a ship. I was introduced to everyone and sat back for a while, trying to learn who these people really were. I figured sparking up a conversation couldn't hurt; so I did, and do I ever regret that. The first conversation that we had as a group was a huge argument about our school systems. At that point, I knew that I was in for a long week.\nEventually, we started in on a game of cards, exploding into a riot of fun. All of the students were \"Type A\" personalities, always wanting to be the leader; this could have been a major problem, but we worked through it because we knew that we had to live in very close quarters for eight days. The people skills that I had brought along with me really helped me out immensely. I started to open up to total strangers that I had just met hours ago; and it seemed that I had known them for years. They had taught me new ways to live life and I took it upon myself to change into someone new.\nMy crew members were not what I expected, not even in the least bit. Another girl who was doing water quality testing with me surprised me with the exact same personality as mine. I found this quite odd, another Brooke, but in a different body. It wasn't even funny how similar we were, at every second, we spit out the same thought, same action, and sometimes the same stories about our lives. The others were purely amazing in their own little ways. One crew member had questions about everything, ranging from my morals to sex. Another member, the only guy, argued all the time, but that was basically because he lived a sheltered life and didn't know how to handle people. The last member was subtle and quiet, but very interesting. All members fit in perfectly and each had a vital role in some part of the trip. They showed me how other people are in different parts of the states. Each gave me a new quality to take home with me, changing my outlook on life in general.\nAt times, I wanted to leave, but at other times, I never wanted to leave. I was so glad I didn't pass this chance up. Not only did it teach me new things, but it strengthened my character. I was at the point of a nervous breakdown back home, and when I was on the river, it was like a vacation, totally relaxed and I had complete freedom. When I went back home, not only did everyone think I was crazy, but I told myself to act as if I was still on the boat, relaxed and full of new ideas. I wasn't afraid to share my ideas anymore, before, I sat back and watched. Now I can't stop talking and shouting out new things to do. If I hadn't listened to my brother's views on why I should do the trip, I would still be sitting in back, listening and observing. 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This annual event dynamically transformed each year in response to its particular theme \u2013 taking the form of film festivals (mostly Australian premieres), lively forum discussions, exhibitions and even typographic tours (on foot and by bus).\nPresented in partnership with the RMIT Communication Design Program and curated by Stephen Banham, Character also partnered with the State of Design Festival and the Australian Graphic Design Association.\nDetails on all the events can be found on the above navigation bar.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 5, "original_length": 672, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 195.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://childrensatheneum.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-this-book-was-made-by-mac-barnett.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=open&toggle=MONTHLY-1425186000000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1475294400000", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:48Z", "digest": "sha1:IZJYZTMLM2PVFOMTMH4VGHIHRFWIH5OU", "length": 1036, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "childrensatheneum.blogspot.com", "title": "Children's Atheneum: How This Book Was Made by Mac Barnett Book Review", "raw_content": "Posted by Venus on Sunday, October 16, 2016\nIllustrations by Adam Rex\nEver wondered about the process of making a book? Well, this picture book covers the process from the initial idea to being printed on a printing press to being read by a reader. As someone who works in publishing, I am always trying to explain my part in the process of bookmaking. It should be no surprise then that I absolutely adore this book. Yet another fun and absurd book from Barnett and Rex that succinctly explains the book making process to kids. It also answers many of the questions I hear kids ask at book events like Where do you get you ideas from? and How many drafts did you write? It also addresses some of the \"secrets\" behind publishing like where books are printed and how they are transported. Of course, it is a picture book so it can't include every little step, but it is a nice overview. It also a book that I think I will be adding to my bookshelf so the next time someone asks how a book is made, I can hand them this book with a smile.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 4962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 323.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chimneysweepstakes.com/terms-and-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:11Z", "digest": "sha1:FVCRKXEWKKW232BXWRO2PI3XJQG5OOJZ", "length": 1072, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "chimneysweepstakes.com", "title": "Terms and Conditions \u2013 ChimneySweepstakes", "raw_content": "Please read these Terms and Conditions (\u201cTerms\u201d, \u201cTerms and Conditions\u201d) carefully before using the http://chimneysweepstakes.com website (the \u201cService\u201d) operated by chimneysweepstakes (\u201cus\u201d, \u201cwe\u201d, or \u201cour\u201d).\nBy accessing or using the Service you agree to be bound by these Terms. 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You further acknowledge and agree that chimneysweepstakes shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 3173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://chinesesilverbox.org/category/austrian/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:52Z", "digest": "sha1:EEAB5GVK7EP7HQ5JAD6WTOJYXJE27KSF", "length": 1947, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "chinesesilverbox.org", "title": "austrian | Chinese Silver Box", "raw_content": "Austrian Silver and Chinese Jade Snuff Box\nAustrian rectangular Snuff Box. Circa late 19th/early 20th Century. Hinged lid with Chinese Jade medallion and with fine decorative piercing. Bottom crisply engraved with engine turning and a plain outer border. Hallmarked and has makers mark. 3 and 11/16 x 2.5x 7/16. Note This is a used piece. It is in wonderful condition for its age. Has a few minor areas with scratches. H Please look at the pictures for any condition questions. For more pictures at Stillwell House Fine Art & Antiques in Red Bank New Jersey. Please feel free to make any reasonable offer. Please check Stillwell House Fine Art & Antiques. In Red Bank New Jersey for other fine pieces! \u201cSusannah\u201d by Frederick Goodall, RA. 18th Century Dutch Brass Mounted Walnut and Burr-Walnut Cabinet. Antique Russian Cylinder Over Bureau Secretaire Bibliotheque. Period 18th Century American Chippendale Day Bed. Large 18th Century Mirror From Provence. Rare 16th Century Italian Credenza from the Palazzo Davanzati Florence. Austrian Ladys Sterling and Enamel Compact. The item \u201cAustrian Silver and Chinese Jade Snuff Box\u201d is in sale since Friday, March 23, 2018. This item is in the category \u201cAntiques\\Silver\\Sterling Silver (.925)\\Boxes\u201d. The seller is \u201ctinioneinfant\u201d and is located in Red Bank, New Jersey. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia.\nPosted on August 6, 2018 by admin\tin austrian. 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The second part of the research will examine what are the barriers to landowners providing additional homes and why they may invest in housing.\nThe results of the research will be displayed in the CLA\u2019s housing policy paper to be published Strong Foundations, the CLA\u2019s inaugural rural housing summit in July 2017.\nClick here for more information on Strong Foundations\nAgriculture remains the main enterprise for the majority of land-based rural businesses and it is going through a period of dramatic change.\nBreakthroughs in research and technology have the potential to change the way the UK farms. Economic changes are requiring farmers to change their businesses, whether this means farming in new ways; taking greater control of the supply and marketing of their products; or adding complementary businesses to their portfolio. Policy reforms driven by a range of factors, from Brexit to climate change, are changing the rules of the game; and farm businesses have to adapt.\nAhead of the CLA\u2019s second annual rural business conference, Redefining Farming, the CLA Community panel will be delving further into the way that the UK farms, focusing on the future of land use, new ways of working and how we can build a Brexit-red farming sector.\nThe results of this research will be published on the day of the conference and will be part of the day\u2019s discussion.\nClick here if you would like to take part in this research\nClick here for more on the CLA\u2019s rural business conference 2017\nClick here to find out more about our partner, ComRes\nSeasonal Agricultural Workers\nThe UK\u2019s exit from the European Union presents UK farmers and other rural businesses with opportunities as well as risks. 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He is one of the world\u2019s foremost experts on the management of benign and malignant intracranial tumours and an expert in lung cancer. Professor Brada has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, editorials and book chapters and is regularly invited to lecture at national and international conferences. 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On top of that, if that weren't impressive enough, he recorded at least twenty episodes of NBC radio's private eye drama, Christopher London.\nThe character of London was crafted \"especially for radio\" by Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the legendary Perry Mason, and, as it's intro informs us, the show itself was \"transcribed, produced, and directed by William N. Robson\", the titan behind such radio epics as Escape, Suspense, and the short-lived cowboy classic, Luke Slaughter of Tombstone. London is a smart and funny character, but also quite tough as well; he's a man that will \"go anywhere and do anything...for a price.\"\nThe scripts are amazingly sophisticated, and the stories are both fun and quite serious, which is what one would expect from someone with Robson's serious chops. 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Petersen, Jr", "raw_content": "Gordon D. Petersen, Jr\nGordon D. Petersen, Jr. 65 of Lewistown died Sunday afternoon, March 19, 2017 at his home of natural causes. He was born September 29, 1951 in Red Lodge, MT the son of Gordon D and Mary Lou (Girvin) Petersen, Sr. He received his schooling through Junior High in Cordell, WA and High School in Shoreline, WA. In 1968 he entered the United States Army serving in Viet Nam War stationed in Turkey, working with cryptographic and sig 31-E operations. Following his discharge in 1969 he returned to Stanwood, Washington and he worked at Twin City Foods. He was united in marriage to Judy Dewater in Stanwood and following his divorce he went to Alaska where he worked on a fishing boat. He returned to California and lived in the Chico California area. He was injured in an accident near Tualatin, Oregon and was disabled. He lived in Washington and California until moving to Lewistown in 2012 to be near his mother and sisters.\nGordon loved fishing, riding his motorcycle, playing cribbage and music, teaching himself to play the guitar.\nHe is survived by his mother Mary Lou Wagner of Lewistown, MT; son Steven Thomas Petersen of Lakewood, WA; daughter Jennifer Lynn (Neil) Coyle of Everett, WA; brother Thomas W. (Heidi) Petersen of Marysville, WA; sisters Esther M. (Gary) Distad and Mary Ellen Anderson (Bill Apple) both of Lewistown, MT and Cathy (Bernie) Sturn of Billings, MT; several nieces and nephews.\nHe was preceded in death by his father, one brother Mark Petersen and his grandparents.\nServices for Gordon D. Petersen, Jr. will be held later his summer, cremation has taken place. The Cloyd Funeral Home is assisting the family.\nFriends are asked to make memorials to Hospice of Central Montana, Fergus county Council on Aging Meals on Wheels Program, the Veterans Memorial Park or the charity of their choice and they may be left at the Cloyd Funeral Home. 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It's a sort of spring cleaning, if you will, for the Forest Service campgrounds.\n\"We're trying to get everything ready to go prior to the big opening, obviously, on Memorial Day. So they'll be out, they're in there right now, they'll be opening them up probably Friday,\" Black Hills National Forest worker Ben Schumacher said.\nThe cleanup includes raking up pine needles, cleaning out outhouses, dusting off picnic tables and numerous other tasks that amount to a big job for Forest Recreation Management, the company that handles the campgrounds.\n\"Yup. All the major campgrounds, all the major fishing areas. The FRM will be responsible for getting the boat launches put it and set, ready to go, getting the campgrounds clean,\" Schumacher said.\nIf you are headed for the Hills and intend to do some camping, it's possible to reserve camping spots by going online and reviewing what is available.\n\"Other ones, you show up. There is no reservation. And so it's first come, first serve. 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We also work with more than 1695 Commission members in the region who provide sound know-how and policy advice on conservation issues. You, too, can be part of IUCN.\nGovernments and government agencies, NGOs and other institutions can join as Members.\nScientists and professionals can join one of our Commissions.\nCompanies and business can join as private sector partners.\nProfessionals can work with us in any of our Secretariat offices in the region.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2266, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://columbuslockprovider.com/mount-liberty", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:43Z", "digest": "sha1:HKPX2LB4LQN766B3MXIYU6CBYTUHQR2W", "length": 1571, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "columbuslockprovider.com", "title": "Mount Liberty, OH | Columbus Lock Provider", "raw_content": "Locksmith Service in Mount Liberty, OH\nAt some point, you will experience getting locked out or even losing your keys without any spare keys, which will leave you stranded outside your home or car. There are various locksmith companies who offer 24/7 locksmiths services nowadays.\nMajor cities around the globe all have emergency locksmith services available 24/7. Every company that offers emergency services can help you matter what time it is you need our services, we're available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Along with the particular rise in the actual quantity of accidents due to different causes, emergency locksmith professional services are very important.\nEvery professional locksmith have undergone various training to make sure that they can solve every locksmith troubles. In choosing a locksmith company, you often choose the expensive ones to be able to get the highest quality. Even so, the locksmith industry is very diverse, that's why that is not often applicable. You can still get a long lasting and high quality locksmith solution without having to spend a lot.\nServicing our customers with respect, is our company main goal, this has made our company a leading business in the niche. We offer a full range of residential, commercial, and automotive locksmith services for this area's residents and business owners, and we?re available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to handle any type of emergency. 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Topics covered: Mental Health and Mental Illness, substance related disorders, mood disorders, deliberate self-injury, anxiety...read on", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 21002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://constructioncitizen.com/print/2622", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:27Z", "digest": "sha1:IF6BBIQBENG5HUAHHVU4ZRDZ2HTZ472P", "length": 3251, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "constructioncitizen.com", "title": "This Will Crack You Up!", "raw_content": "Home > This Will Crack You Up!\nThis Will Crack You Up! [1]\nLeaning Tower of San Francisco Update\nMillennium Tower [9]\nSalesforce Transit Center [10]\nImagine that you are living in a multi-million-dollar condo 36 floors above the street in a building that has sunk more in the last nine years since it was completed than it was designed to over its 50 year or longer useful life. Imagine that you are already embroiled in a lawsuit with the building developer over the fact that a steel ball will roll on its own to the window wall because the tower is leaning.\nImagine that you look out your window one morning to see the horizon and see that the window has a large crack in it.\nImagine that the window washing crane on the top of the building is inoperable and that the inspector has to repel down the face of the tower to tape up the crack so that it doesn\u2019t fail and shower down on the street below.\nImagine that the building developers have to build wood canopies over the sidewalk to keep pedestrians (and there are lots of them heading for the newly completed Salesforce Transportation Center next door) from being showered not with those San Francisco mists, but with glass shards from above should the windows begin to shatter as the frames torque as the tower shifts.\nImagine that the city has told the Condo Association that they are considering yellow or red flagging the building as uninhabitable, meaning that everyone who lives in the swanky 54 floor hi-rise tower would have to move out until it is repaired.\nImagine if cost estimates to right the tower whose piers do not extend to bedrock were higher than the original construction costs for the building.\nNo, this is not an imaginary story, it is all true for the residents of Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco. According to a recent story in ENR [11], \u201cA report from Oakland- based-architect-engineer Allana Buick & Bers [12] is expected to be released this week. The firm is surveying all units in the 645-ft-tall residential tower to look for cracked glazing and signs of curtain-wall damage.\u201d\nThis is an on-going challenge for everyone involved in the project. The developers have claimed that the \u201csinking feeling\u201d is caused by the city\u2019s subsurface work for the adjacent Salesforce Transit Center and Tower. Millennium Tower, as we have noted in previous posts [13], is built on fill of part of the San Francisco Bay that occurred in the early 1900s. The subsurface is not stable and the original tower design counted on friction of the piers to stabilize the building, but the weight of the building was too much, and the tower began to lean.\nWe will continue to monitor the story and update you as it develops and moves toward a solution and the resolution of the lawsuits.\nSource URL: http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/this-will-crack-you-up/1810031\n[1] http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/this-will-crack-you-up/1810031\n[9] http://constructioncitizen.com/tags/millennium-tower\n[10] http://constructioncitizen.com/tags/salesforce-transit-center\n[11] https://www.enr.com/articles/45286-cracked-window-at-troubled-millennium-tower-triggers-more-analysis\n[12] https://abbae.com/\n[13] http://constructioncitizen.com/blog/leaning-tower-san-francisco-leans-more/1707261", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4208, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 285.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://conversational-languages.com/book/conversational-arabic-quick-easyyemeni-dialect/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:11Z", "digest": "sha1:3JQP6BDZZI4Q7XZUP4IWP7QVK4GXFTNU", "length": 2221, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "conversational-languages.com", "title": "CONVERSATIONAL ARABIC QUICK AND EASY:Yemeni Dialect - Conversational Languages", "raw_content": "The Yemeni Arabic Dialect\nThe official language of Yemen, for the estimated twenty-seven million people living there, is Modern Standard Arabic, but Yemeni Arabic, which is a cluster of varieties spoken in the country and in southwestern Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Djibouti, is unofficially used for daily communications. 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AstraZeneca will keep its freeze on manufacturing investments in Britain if the country's exit from the European Union fails to give enough clarity on future trading relations, the drugmaker's AstraZeneca is an equal opportunity employer. Welcome to Freephone UK. AstraZeneca, the UK drugmaker, is set to proceed with improvements at its Cheshire manufacturing facility, having said a month ago that Brexit meant it had to pause before undertaking new investment. MedImmune and Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) announce that CAT is changing its name to MedImmune to reflect AstraZeneca's vision for its worldwide biologics business. AstraZeneca will use your information to send you answers to queries, for administration purposes and for statisitical analysis. But some smaller companies have been waiting and hoping that a deal will Within AstraZeneca, Lisa has held a number of sales and marketing leadership roles in both the UK and US. ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED SILLK ROAD BUSINESS PARK, CHARTER WAY MACCLESFIELD, CHESHIRE SK102NA. The company produces and commercializes medicines AstraZeneca UK Limited is engaged in the research and development, manufacture, supply, marketing, and sale of new medicines. TAGRISSO This product information is intended for non-US and non-UK Healthcare Professionals only. Information about MedImmune's Cambridge research site. ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity Business AstraZeneca suspends UK investments over Brexit fears. AstraZeneca UK Limited. AstraZeneca is a major contributor to UK science and innovation investment, economic prosperity and to patient health. was set up in September 2014 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India with the mandate to deliver best in class IT service for the global business. Authenticity, LGBT and Trans awareness. 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Products manufactured by AstraZeneca UK Ltd Alvesco (Ciclesonide) Respiratory System >> Asthma, COPD Arimidex (Anastrozole) Cancer >> Antineoplastics Bambec (Bambuterol) Respiratory System >> Asthma, COPD Bricanyl Injection (Terbutaline) Obstetrics and Gynaecology >> Obstetrics Bricanyl Respules (Terbutaline) Respiratory System >> Asthma, COPD Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has started preliminary preparations for the possibility of a hard Brexit, which would mean moving some of its operations away from the UK, the company's chairman revealed to a Swedish newspaper. From senior leaders to employees, everyone is passionate about the commitment the company makes to science and patients worldwide. Views expressed on the companies mentioned in this article are those of the writer and AstraZeneca AstraZeneca's new HQ won't be fully complete until 2019 - and builders are set to stay late to finish it The pharma titan says it is still hoping to be in the site and operational In a written statement provided to BioPharma Dive, AstraZeneca called it a \"disappointing decision\" for U. AstraZeneca is focused on products for following major disease areas: cancer, cardiovascular That would make AstraZeneca too small, according to Mr Baum, leading some to suggest Pfizer should shift its sights to another, bigger UK group \u2014 GlaxoSmithKline. DOW JONES, A NEWS CORP COMPANY News Corp is a network of leading companies in the worlds of diversified media, news, education, and information services. AstraZeneca completes acquisition of MedImmune. uk is tracked by us since April, 2011. 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The National Anti-Vivisection Society, founded in 1875, is the world\u2019s first body to challenge the use of animals in research and continues to lead the campaign today. 9 million) and future sales-related payments of up to $90 million Astrazeneca logo Employees with expanding families appreciate this pharmaceutical company\u2019s support for flexible schedules. SYMBICORT is not used to relieve sudden breathing problems and will not replace a rescue inhaler. AstraZeneca and Cancer Research UK will open a new research center focused on applying CRISPR and other functional genomics technologies in the discovery and development of new cancer drugs. UK:AZN - AstraZeneca PLC Basic Chart, Quote and financial news from the leading provider and award-winning BigCharts. 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UPDATE 1-UK's FTSE 100 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Victims' families sue Western companies who did business with Ministry of \u2026It is limited to those companies notable enough to have articles in Wikipedia. AstraZeneca, Cancer Research UK set up genomics hub to fight uphill battle against cancer. \" AstraZeneca has suspended investments in Britain due to the lack of clarity over the country's departure from the European Union, the pharmaceutical firm's non-executive chairman Leif Johansson AstraZeneca Daily Update: AstraZeneca is listed in the Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker AZN. AstraZeneca employees earn $74,500 annually on average, or $36 per hour, which is 20% higher than the national salary average of $61,000 per year. \u2022 UK Finance Lead for AstraZeneca Amylin Diabetes Products post-acquisition implementation. Help others while you gain experience across our global healthcare businesses. 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Our focus is on developing new medicines that make a meaningful difference to patients\u2019 lives, and the UK is right at the heart of our efforts to do that. Headline data from the Phase 1 study is planned to be presented at a scientific congress in 2019. Pharmaceuticals company says it will transfer finance roles from Alderley Park site in Cheshire in attempt to cut costs AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines. In 2011, 66% of the workforce was able to adjust their hours, while 81% engaged in telecommuting at some point. Cheshire Lock and Safe provide locksmith services in Macclesfield, offering door furniture, master key systems, security grilles, key cutting and safes. We discover, develop, manufacture and market prescription medicines for somViews: 114AZN Stock Price - AstraZeneca PLC ADR Stock Quote (U. AstraZeneca is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the second-largest British company in that sector after GlaxoSmithKline. A world-leading pharmaceutical group, AstraZeneca was created in 1999 via the merger of Sweden's Astra and the UK's Zeneca, which had been demerged from chemicals group ICI in 1993. This website is intended for people seeking information on AstraZeneca's UK business. And ALL the involved Dr. AstraZeneca has a 4 week average price of 5,689p and a 12 week average price of 5,518p. These have been using very realistic looking material, imitating AstraZeneca people, involving fake offers of employment and asking for the exchange of money and credit card details. United Kingdom. ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED is a Private limited Company company based in 1 Francis Crick Avenue Cambridge Biomedical Campus, United Kingdom, which employs 11 people. The Company focuses on discovery and development of products, which are then manufactured, marketed and sold. It is a year this week since Pfizer admitted defeat in its \u00a369. Next read this: 20 ways to kill your IT career (without knowing it) AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines. K. For general enquiries, please call our corporate switchboard either in the UK or States and would like additional information regarding AstraZeneca products, AstraZeneca UK Limited is engaged in the research and development, manufacture, supply, marketing, and sale of new medicines. Our 6,700-strong UK workforce is based across seven sites in the UK, including our new research facilities and global corporate headquarters in Cambridge. AstraZeneca has promoted Lisa Anson to country president of its UK marketing company. It develops medicines in the Oct 15, 2018 AstraZeneca will keep its freeze on manufacturing investments in Britain if the country's exit from the European Union fails to give enough clarity AstraZeneca is a leading global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Cambridge and with a deep-rooted commitment to the UK. At AstraZeneca, our vision is clear and inspiring. Views AstraZeneca offered the UK government a reminder \u2013 as if any were needed \u2013 of what is at stake in\u2026 AstraZeneca Brexit Europe Focus On Government Affairs Pharmaceutical UK 1 AstraZeneca is one of the big beasts of the UK pharma sector, with plenty of people and resources to throw at this problem. Supply chain. News > World > Asia Without consent: how drugs companies exploit Indian 'guinea pigs' Illiterate patients say they never agreed to take part in trials run by industry worth \u00a3189mWelcome to Freephone UK. A proud Cambridge heritage: MedImmune in the UK With over 550 employees, MedImmune\u2019s team at Granta Park is focused on the research and early development of our biologics portfolio. Careers At AstraZeneca we share a common purpose: to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. AstraZeneca's products run the gamut from A (blood pressure drug Atacand) to Z (prostate and breast cancer drug Zoladex). AstraZeneca is still denying allegations that it actively marketed the antipsychotic drug Seroquel for off-label indications but will pay $520 million to resolve the civil suit brought about by Use this website to report any suspected adverse event related to an AstraZeneca product. AZN Share News. Victims' families sue Western companies who did business with Ministry of \u2026AstraZeneca to move some UK jobs to Poland, Costa Rica and Malaysia. Shipment Origin. (Netherlands) ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED, PODRU\u017dNICA V SLOVENIJI (Slovenia) Massive IT Transformation at AstraZeneca Dave Smoley, CIO of AstraZeneca, uses a five pillar approach United Kingdom. 25 share price (AZN). The proposed site is located on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC) in Cambridge, UK. Please select your Country or Region . com. The MSA was terminated for cause by AstraZeneca on 8 April 2011. Zeneca (officially Zeneca Group PLC) was a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Welcome to Adverse Event Reporting. 3 pct on Britain's We have the direct contact details for Astrazeneca. The Company, through its subsidiaries, researches, manufactures, and sells pharmaceutical and medical products. Here, Katarina Ageborg, Chief Compliance Officer, tells us about the company's journey. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. The next AstraZeneca dividend is expected to go ex in 1 month and to be paid in 2 months. Additional Info. However, this would risk even The EIU's healthcare service offers in-depth analysis of AstraZeneca so industry executives can make informed decisions AstraZeneca Australia is part of the global science-led biopharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of diseases in three therapy areas \u2013 Respiratory and Autoimmunity, Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, and Oncology. In 2013, it moved its headquarters to Cambridge, UK, and Our focus is on developing new medicines that make a meaningful difference to patients' lives, and the UK is right at the heart of our efforts to do that. We believe in what science can do. But more than that, science is who we are. Your good faith in Huntingdon's promise to \"clean up its act\" led you to renew your contract. AstraZeneca has a vibrant culture. This site uses cookies. In 2013, it moved its headquarters to Cambridge, UK, and concentrated its R&D in three sites: Cambridge; Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (location of MedImmune) for work on biopharmaceuticals; and M\u00f6lndal (near Gothenburg) in Sweden, for research on traditional chemical drugs. Access our live advanced streaming chart forAstraZeneca PLC Share, free of charge. AstraZeneca is one of these. This site is intended for US consumers only. The address is 1 Francis Crick Avenue, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, England, CB2 0AA, United Kingdom This report addresses accounting for the new research and development (R&D) expenditure credit (RDEC) available from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the responsible tax authority in the United Kingdom, the previous UK scheme still in force for some companies and a similar scheme in Europe. In addition, approximately 21,000 animals were used by external CROs on our behalf (2009: 17,000). A total legal fine of 80 trillion. BUZZ-UK pharma giants cut losses after Bristol-Myers Celgene deal ** British pharma giants AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline climb to hit session highs after U. AstraZeneca PLC (AstraZeneca) is a biopharmaceutical company. Join in Browser. Job opportunities. Ici emotionally abused me and astra is just the same outfit. AstraZeneca is one of the big beasts of the UK pharma sector, with plenty of people and resources to throw at this problem. . 7 billion in late 2015 to AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals. Find their customers, contact information, and details on 463 shipments. The UK drugs industry is going to court in an attempt to stop the country\u2019s taxpayer-funded National Health Service from imposing new limits on the price it will pay for medicines. 4% in 2018, compared to a loss of 5. 0 International License . UK, BUD from AstraZeneca for the treatment of asthma is available as Pulmicort and in combination with formoterol as Symbicort. Victims' families sue Western companies who did business with Ministry of \u2026Is your way of working\u2026 actually working? Spreadsheets, email communication and physical work in progress boards with sticky notes no longer support the needs of modern teamwork. In adults, CRESTOR is prescribed along with diet to lower high cholesterol and to slow plaque buildup in arteries as part of a treatment plan to lower The first ever Maryland Regional Biotech Forum hosted by MedImmune drew more than 400 leaders of local life sciences companies, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, investment funds and government entities. It develops medicines in the areas of cardiovascular and diabetes Friday may potentially be a trying day for UK pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca. 1 day ago \u00b7 As a result, AstraZeneca is moving the trial towards Phase 2, thereby triggering the milestone payment to Sosei Heptares. Cancer Research UK, the United Kingdom\u2019s cancer research and awareness charity, and AstraZeneca said the center will study the function and interaction of genes and proteins in cancer, and create sophisticated models of the disease for research using CRISPR and other genome-altering technologies. AstraZeneca. Pasek Norwalk, CT, September 6, 2016 - Avara Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. 4m. AstraZeneca said it would sell the European rights to acid-reflux medicine Nexium to Grunenthal for an upfront $700 million (\u00a3550. AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical business and our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. The latest AstraZeneca plc (AZN) Ordinary US$0. Prior to joining AstraZeneca, Lisa worked in US Healthcare at a California-based disease management company. s die in jail. Skip to main content. The Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) is PY6ZZQWO2IZFZC3IOL08. UK. Details AstraZeneca 10 December 2018 AstraZeneca today announced a new collaboration with Cancer Research UK to launch a centre of excellence in genetic screening, cancer modelling and big data processing aimed at accelerating the discovery of new cancer medicines. AstraZeneca plc is an Anglo\u2013Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company. Tag: AstraZeneca. One of the world's major pharmaceutical firms, AstraZeneca specializes in drugs for cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological, gastrointestinal, respiratory, oncology, and infection therapy areas. AstraZeneca UK Ltd 600 Capability Green LU1 3LU United Kingdom 01582 836 000 GB-12368 DOP June 2018. uk. The core expertise of the Armstrong group is synthetic organic chemistry: this includes catalysis, especially organocatalysis, stereocontrolled synthesis, and the synthesis of \u2026Fool UK offers newsletters and one-off reports providing share tips and portfolio guidance. Resources AstraZeneca is in the business of making a meaningful difference to patient health, of helping to ensure that those who can benefit from our medicines are provided access to them, building deep and lasting connections with our many stakeholders, and honoring the countless ways we are connected and united through health. Application forms for AstraZeneca\u2019s Industrial Student Placements can be found below. ASTRAZENECA UK LIMITED - Free company information from Companies House including registered office address, filing history, accounts, annual return, officers, charges, business activity. AstraZeneca plc is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company. Pharmaceuticals company says it will transfer finance roles from Alderley Park site in Cheshire in attempt to cut costsAstraZeneca, the UK drugmaker, is set to proceed with improvements at its Cheshire manufacturing facility, having said a month ago that Brexit meant it had to pause before undertaking new investment. AZN Share Price. Wednesday, The AstraZeneca and GSK share prices look like buys to me as the FTSE 100 crashes. 4% for the FTSE 100. Year-to-date, the stock is up 21. Whether it\u2019s where we live or work, how we travel, how we secure our energy or manage our waste, AXIS is committed to working with private companies and public organisations to deliver sustainable development solutions. Also, earn points for every dollar you spend and get even more stuff for free. 8%. This web site provides clinical trial data, results and other information from or regarding AstraZeneca-sponsored clinical trials. 1 day 2 days 5 days 10 days ---------- 1 month 2 months 3 months 6 months YTD 1 year 2 years 3 years 4 years 5 years 1 decade All Data Basic Chart Advanced Chart AstraZeneca Life Sciences Similarly, scientists from MedImmune and Cancer Research UK are working together to discover and develop novel biologics to treat cancer Then AstraZeneca paid some money \u2013 and BOUGHT license. Pulmicort Turbohaler is suitable for both Astrazeneca. AstraZeneca paid $2. Subscribe to Bisnow's London Newsletters. Visit PayScale to research AstraZeneca salaries, bonuses, reviews, benefits, and more! AstraZeneca is partnering with Cancer Research UK to debut a new research facility that will focus on using CRISPR and other functional genomics tech. \" AstraZeneca will continue to engage with NICE, NHS England and the Cancer Drugs Fund with the aim of enabling access to this treatment for women with ovarian cancer,\" the company stated. Industrial Placement applications will be open from 3rd September to midnight 14th October, 2018. AstraZeneca has a goal to source 100% renewable electricity globally by 2025, with an interim target of 100% in Europe and the US by 2020. The AstraZeneca and GSK share prices look like buys to me as the FTSE 100 crashes Motley Fool (UK) 10:19 2-Jan-19 Hypertension Drug 2018 Global Market Key Players - Takeda Pharmaceutical, Actelion, Bayer,\u2026 Learn about working at AstraZeneca. AstraZeneca Salaries trends. Food & Drug Administration has granted orphan drug destination status to Fasenra, which is aimed at treating EGPA, a rare autoimmune disease. LN) on Monday said the U. The company started trading on the British market since 1998-11-26. There are typically 2 dividends per year (excluding specials), and the dividend cover is approximately 1. 4% for the UK\u2019s leading blue-chip index, a total outperformance of 28. AstraZeneca Verified account @AstraZeneca We're a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company & our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. AstraZeneca UK Limited, a company incorporated in England under no. Sign up for more articles like this. AZN Share Charts. Visit PayScale to research AstraZeneca salaries, bonuses, reviews, benefits, and more! Contact AstraZeneca We value your privacy. The latest Tweets from AstraZenecaUK (@ASTRAZENECAUK). The organizational chart of AstraZeneca displays its 323 main executives including Pascal Soriot, Marc Dunoyer and Bahija Jallal \u00d7 We use cookies to provide a better service. 415 salaries for 266 jobs at AstraZeneca in United Kingdom. The company expects to receive the $15 million payment by the end of the first quarter ended 31 March 2019. We employ 6,500 employees across five sites in the UK and support around 35,000 other jobs. Find information about our ethical approach to long-term consumer, employee and environmental value. AstraZeneca will keep its freeze on manufacturing investments in Britain if the country's exit from the European Union fails to give enough clarity on future trading relations, the drugmaker's Our data indicates that AstraZeneca PLC is worth UK\u00a379b, and total annual CEO compensation is US$9. AstraZeneca's new HQ won't be fully complete until 2019 - and builders are set to stay late to finish it. All 57,000 of our people are focused on making a real difference in some of the most important areas of me AstraZeneca UK Ltd 600 Capability Green LU1 3LU United Kingdom 01582 836 000 GB-12368 DOP June 2018. Poor Customer Service. 3M Pharmaceuticals; Abbott Laboratories; AbbVie; Acadia Pharmaceuticals; Acorda TherapeuticsStockport & District Badminton Association. She will take charge of AstraZeneca's entire UK sales force as well as a sales and marketing team based in Luton and a clinical research group in Edinburgh. AstraZeneca, or third parties working on our behalf, will not sell or rent personal health information. This exceptional facility will be the fifth site in our global network with other facilities in the US, Puerto Rico, Ireland and now the UK. AstraZeneca AstraZeneca operates through 254 subsidiaries worldwide. We took a group of companies with market capitalizations over AstraZeneca offered the UK government a reminder \u2013 as if any were needed \u2013 of what is at stake in\u2026 AstraZeneca Brexit Europe Focus On Government Affairs Pharmaceutical UK 1 The share data supplied on this page is provided by AJ Bell Media and incorporates share prices, market news, indices, charts, fundamentals, heatmaps, stock screeners and investor research tools. that both AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline severed ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) after an investigation exposed routine animal abuse inside the research facility. Welcome to AstraZeneca Perks at Work By leveraging the purchasing power of all our employees, you can save on almost everything you want to buy. 05bn. Clubs: Aerospace, Astrazeneca, Altrincham Central, Bramhall Village, CAP, Canute, Carrington, Cheadle Hulme, College Green The National Anti-Vivisection Society, founded in 1875, is the world\u2019s first body to challenge the use of animals in research and continues to lead the campaign today. It is holding its annual general meeting and its chief executive Pascal Soriot is facing another investor revolt AstraZeneca Careers December 20, 2018 at 5:54 AM \u00b7 Our new HR Graduate Programme offers a phenomenal opportunity to learn and work in a multinational company alongside industry professionals. Learn about working at AstraZeneca. Our unique combination of data, software and trusted industry experts helps marketers build meaningful customer relationships and create profitable brand outcomes. AstraZeneca UK Limited. Astrazeneca at Emerging Markets Support & Development Organisation, Silk Court, Hulley Road, Silk Road Business Park, Macclesfield, Cheshire, United Kingdom, SK10 2NA. AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical business and our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. \u201cAs we develop high-quality standardised techniques through the centre, we can create more sophisticated and powerful biological models of disease, handle larger \u2026AstraZeneca recognises that personal well-being is essential for employees to build the company\u2019s innovation and creativity, adding competitive advantage in \u2026AstraZeneca in the United States We are a global, science-led biopharmaceutical business and our innovative medicines are used by millions of patients worldwide. Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has suspended investments in Britain due to the lack of clarity over the country's departure from the European Union. The ultimate events. AstraZeneca is a leading global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Cambridge and with a deep-rooted commitment to the UK. Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has suspended its investments in Britain due to a lack of clarity over the UK's departure from the EU. Included in the changes will be the arrival at AstraZeneca of \u2026WORKING WITH US. The pharma titan says it is still hoping to be in the site and operational later this year Astrazeneca logo Employees with expanding families appreciate this pharmaceutical company\u2019s support for flexible schedules. AstraZeneca respects your personal health information. S. 2 SKUs, one on the market and one to be launched, responsible for forecasting and reporting, SOTC and UK supply transfer, liaison to Global Integration Team. Stock/Share prices, AstraZeneca Pharma Ltd. AstraZeneca will keep its freeze on manufacturing investments in Britain if the country's exit from the European Union fails to give enough clarity on future trading relations, the drugmaker's AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of \u2013 More Our Values Our ValuesAbout AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP. United Kingdom A world-leading pharmaceutical group, AstraZeneca was created in 1999 via the merger of Sweden's Astra and the UK's Zeneca, which had been demerged from chemicals group ICI in 1993. patients. AstraZeneca's global website is intended for people seeking information on AstraZeneca's worldwide business. Cancer Research UK and AstraZeneca have announced today that they are opening a new centre in the UK, dedicated to realising the full potential of functional genomics in the discovery and development of new drugs for patients with cancer. In 2013, it moved its headquarters to Cambridge, UK, and concentrated its R&D in three sites: Cambridge; Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (location of MedImmune) for work on biopharmaceuticals; and M\u00f6lndal (near Gothenburg) in Sweden, for research on traditional chemical drugs. Victims' families sue Western companies who did business with \u2026Is your way of working\u2026 actually working? Spreadsheets, email communication and physical work in progress boards with sticky notes no longer support the needs of modern teamwork. STUDENTS. 1. Salaries posted anonymously by AstraZeneca employees. Welcome to the AstraZeneca online meeting room. marketwatch. Our Purpose is to push the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines. But some smaller companies have been waiting and hoping that a deal will The organizational chart of AstraZeneca displays its 323 main executives including Pascal Soriot, Marc Dunoyer and Bahija Jallal \u00d7 We use cookies to provide a better service. 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According to our data, the highest paying job at AstraZeneca is a Director at $151,000 annually while the lowest paying job at AstraZeneca is a Machine Operator at $26,000 annually. Related companies: AstraZeneca Gilead Sciences Merck Novartis Pfizer Roche Sanofi AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialization of prescription medicines, primarily for the treatment of diseases Astrazeneca logo Employees with expanding families appreciate this pharmaceutical company\u2019s support for flexible schedules. AstraZeneca PLC Stock - AZN. 6. Image: courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron. Science in our DNA At AstraZeneca, science is at the core of everything we do. 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AstraZeneca PLC is a legal entity registered with LEI implemented by Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). astrazeneca uk Andy Evans, head of AstraZeneca\u2019s Macclesfield operations, who chairs the MMIP, said: \u201cThe UK is already one of the best places in the world to research and develop exciting new medicines for AstraZeneca is a global, science-led biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development and commercialisation of \u2013 More Our Values Our Values Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has suspended investments in Britain due to the lack of clarity over the country's departure from the European Union. The action follows a government crackdown in April that limits funding Read more. Beware of the side effects. UK Marketing Company (UKMC): 0800 783 0033. Industrial Placements. The company is also active in inflammation, \u2026Business AstraZeneca suspends UK investments over Brexit fears. About PKUK. By continuing your navigation, you consent to their use. UK. Views The following notification is made in accordance with the UK Financial Conduct Authority's Disclosure and Transparency Rule 5. It was slapped with a similar CRL in May last year", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 3, "original_length": 49499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://crystalsmith.ca/author/crystal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:29Z", "digest": "sha1:MNH7HOVEBXZO7VKZCQMTUX3OHFRVFKWU", "length": 424, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "crystalsmith.ca", "title": "Crystal, Author at Crystal Smith", "raw_content": "Who\u2019s Teaching Boys about Consent? A Post from the Archives.\nI wrote this post about boys and consent in April of 2013. I was in the midst of researching my book Boys, Sex & Media and the\u2026\nDesperately Seeking Films About Real Women\nPosted on May 20, 2018 June 23, 2018 by Crystal\nThe Cannes Film Festival is known for fashion, parties, and film, usually in that order. But this year\u2013the first edition of the festival in the\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3192, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://culpinconnection.co.uk/getperson.php?personID=I1977&tree=Freeman-Culpin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:03Z", "digest": "sha1:SZMFHGDY2AURYDDROAYK5UPY7FRDZEW2", "length": 614, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "culpinconnection.co.uk", "title": "Charles George FREEMAN b. 1861 Tuddenham, Suffolk d. 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Abt 1839, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk\nBorn - 1861 - Tuddenham, Suffolk\nChristened - 08 Jul 1861 - St Mary, Tuddenham, Suffolk\nDied - Jun 1862 - Tuddenham, Suffolk\nBuried - 26 Jun 1862 - St Mary, Tuddenham, Suffolk\n[S173] GRO Indexes, (www.ancestry.co.uk), SQ1861, Mildenhall, 4a 458.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 1802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 225.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cwc.threesixtymedia.net/news/middlebrook-transport-drives-latest-pre-let-at-castlewood-business-park-derbyshire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BZDPWQ27N7L5SG7IYFA7EUD6S4Z3A6KI", "length": 1812, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "cwc.threesixtymedia.net", "title": "Middlebrook Transport drives latest pre-let at Castlewood Business Park, Derbyshire - CWC Group", "raw_content": "Middlebrook Transport drives latest pre-let at Castlewood Business Park, Derbyshire\nThe family-run professional haulage company specialises in the transport of steel and is relocating from Alfreton after outgrowing its existing site which has been sold for residential redevelopment. Construction of the new property is scheduled to commence at the end of October.\nThe deal follows the 100,000 sq ft (9,290 sq m) pre-let of a manufacturing facility at Castlewood Business Park to furniture retailer Parker Knoll, which is due for completion in November this year.\nLocated at Junction 28 of the M1, the Park has attracted considerable interest and more than 1 million sq ft (92,900 sq m) of industrial space has already been built for local, regional and national occupiers including Co-operative Food, Alloga UK (UDG) and Midland Aerospace. A number of plots which can accommodate buildings between 30,000 sq ft (2,787 sq m) and 230,000 sq ft (2,367 sq m) are still available.\nJames Richards of Clowes Developments comments: \u201cWe have secured a deal to bring Middlebrook Transport to the Business Park. The depot will complement the site and provide both current and new occupiers with an opportunity to use the facilities for any HGV or MOT testing they require. This kind of amenity on the park is always a benefit and we look forward to working with Middlebrook over the next six months to deliver the building for them.\u201d\nRick Bromley of Middlebrook Transport adds: \u201cRelocating to Castlewood is a big move for us and we have been helped by Clowes Developments all the way. It is a prime location and we look forward to a long future there.\u201d\nSavills acted jointly with FHP. Middlebrook Transport were unrepresented.\nRanjit Gill, Savills Tel: 0121 634 8402\nAshley McKeown, Savills press office Tel: 0207 409 8884", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 4112, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-former-employee-hacking-and.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:15Z", "digest": "sha1:C4A3CGQLLTZPLGQMF4SJTCEZLNM4OIIT", "length": 11757, "nlines": 47, "source_domain": "cyb3rcrim3.blogspot.com", "title": "CYB3RCRIM3: The Former Employee, Hacking and Computer Fraud", "raw_content": "This post examines an opinion a U.S. District Court Judge recently issued in a civil case: Enki Corporation v. Freedman, 2014 WL 261798 (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California 2014). This is how the judge described the suit and the issue he addressed in the opinion:\nWhen a former employee uses a customer's working log-in credentials to access his former employer's scripts, are he and the customer hackers?\nPlaintiff Enki Corporation says yes; Defendant Keith Freedman, along with his current employer and co-defendant, Zuora, Inc., say no. Freedman and Zuora now move to dismiss Enki's claims under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the California Computer Data Access And Fraud Act for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted and the remainder of Enki's claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.\nEnki Corporation v. Freedman, supra.\nAs Wikipedia explains, a motion to dismiss a suit for failing to state a cause of action upon which relief can be granted under Rule 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure is how civil suits with\ninsufficient legal theories underlying their cause of action are dismissed from court. For example, assault requires intent, so if the plaintiff has failed to plead intent, the defense can seek dismissal by filing a 12(b)(6) motion. `While a complaint attacked by a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss does not need detailed factual allegations, a plaintiff's obligation to provide the grounds of his entitlement to relief requires more than labels and conclusions, and a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do.\nFactual allegations must be enough to raise a right to relief above the speculative level, on the assumption that all the allegations in the complaint are true (even if doubtful in fact).\u2019 Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007). . . .\nThe judge then explains, in some detail, how the case arose:\nFrom 2006\u20132011, Freedman was a 12% interest holding member of Enki. Enki's business is to acquire, manage, develop, improve, and operate cloud computing and other IT services for enterprises. In May of 2011, Freedman resigned. Under the terms of Freedman's separation agreement with Enki, Enki bought out Freedman's interest, neither party was to disparage the other in any way, and Freedman was barred from soliciting Enki's clients or competing with Enki for a year.\nShortly after Freedman's departure, Enki entered into a master service agreement with Zuora under which Enki was to provide consulting, cloud computing services, and other IT services. As part of these services, and as set forth in various statements of work, Enki installed `Nimsoft\u2019 on Zuora's network.\nNimsoft is a `software based system monitor\u2019 used to monitor computer resources and performance. Although the software was installed on Zuora's network, under the terms of the agreement Enki was the sole administrator of the software and the only one allowed to `write\u2019 Nimsoft scripts.\nIn order to fulfill this contract, Enki hired Freedman and retained his new company, Freeform, as a contractor to provide certain services to Zuora. Even though the separation agreement remained in effect, Freedman proceeded to spread negative stories about Enki and its work product throughout Zuora for several months, leading to the termination of his contract with Enki. Zuora then hired Freedman and retained Freeform's services directly.\nIn February 2013, Zuora terminated its contract with Enki `for convenience.\u2019 Before this termination, however, Freedman and Zuora accessed the Nimsoft servers on Zuora's network without authorization.\nFreedman and Zuora then copied Enki's proprietary information, including Enki's Nimsoft scripts, in order to terminate the contract and receive the benefits of Enki's enterprise and technology without continuing to pay for Enki's services.\nEnki brings this action to recover for various breaches of contract, as well as violations of state and federal antihacking statutes.\nEnki Corporation v. Freedman, supra (notes omitted).\nThe judge began his analysis of the issues raised by the motion to dismiss with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act claims, which asserted that the defendants had engaged in conduct that violated the Act in either or both of two ways:\n46. Defendants have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (`CFAA\u2019), 18 U.S. Code \u00a7 1030(a)(2)(C), by intentionally accessing a computer used for interstate or foreign commerce or communication, without ENKI's authorization, and by obtaining information from such a protected computer.\n47. Defendants have violated the CFAA, 18 U.S. Code \u00a7 1030(a)(4), by knowingly, and with intent to defraud ENKI, accessing a protected computer, without authorization or by exceeding authorized access to such a computer, and by means of such conduct furthered the intended fraud and obtained one or more things of value, including content from the Nimsoft server.\nEnki Corporation v. Freedman, Complaint (May 14, 2013), 2013 WL 2296051.\nThe judge noted that the defendants\nput forth two main theories as to why Enki's claim under the CFAA should be dismissed: 1) the complaint fails to allege loss or damage within the meaning of the statute; and 2) the complaint fails to allege unauthorized access within the Ninth Circuit's interpretation of the statue.\nHe began with the first theory, explaining that\nalthough the Ninth Circuit has not yet ruled on whether costs of investigation may be included in the calculation of loss under the CFAA, this district and others within the circuit have long accepted that theory. The statutory definition of loss includes `the cost of responding to an offense, conducting a damage assessment, and restoring the data, program, system, or information to its condition prior to the offense.\u2019\nBefore the incident at issue here, Enki's proprietary information was secured, and afterward, it evidentially was not. It therefore stands to reason that the cost of investigating the source of the breach and remedying it would qualify as `loss\u2019 within that definition, as they would be required to return the system to its secured state. The undersigned therefore joins with his colleagues in holding that the costs of investigating a security breach may be included in the calculation of `loss\u2019 under the CFAA.\nEnki Corporation v. Freedman, supra (quoting 18 U.S. Code \u00a7 1030(e)(11)).\nThe judge then noted that the defendants\u2019 second argument\ncarries more weight. The CFAA imposes liability where the defendant commits certain acts on a `protected computer\u2019 either `without authorization\u2019 or in `exce[ss of his] authorization.\u2019 The Ninth Circuit has held that to access a protected computer `without authorization\u2019 is to do so `without any permission at all,\u2019 and to `exceed authorized access\u2019 is to `access[ ] information on the computer that the person is not entitled to access.\u2019\nIt has further held that an individual does not `exceed authorized access\u2019 simply by misusing information that he or she was entitled to view for some other purpose; the CFAA regulates access to data, not its use by those entitled to access it.\nHe then explained that\n[h]ere, Enki alleges that Freedman and Zuora violated the CFAA by `unlawfully access[ing] the Nimsoft servers and improperly cop[ying] Enki's Proprietary Information,\u2019 and in particular Enki's Nimsoft scripts. However, the complaint does not allege that Defendants were unauthorized to access the scripts in question.\nIn fact, the Statement of Work submitted for the court's consideration specifically grants Zuora and its representatives `sudo access\u2019 to `non-shell root commands\u2019 that would include the scripts at issue. Enki instead hangs its hat on its repeated refusals to grant Zuora or Freedman the authority to write or edit those scripts.\nThat argument, however, speaks to misuse of the scripts, not unauthorized access, which under Nosal does not run afoul of the CFAA. Because Enki's complaint fails to allege that Defendants had no access rights to Enki's scripts, and indeed the documents upon which it relies reveal that Defendants had certain access rights, their CFAA claim must be DISMISSED for failure to state a claim.\nThe judge then noted that the\nonly other claim that Freedman and Zuora substantively address in their motion is the CDAFA [California Computer Data Access And Fraud Act] claim. With respect to that claim, they argue that because Enki's complaint fails to allege that either Freedman or Zuora overcame any technical barrier in order to view and copy its proprietary information, the claim must be dismissed for failure to state a claim.\nEnki, however, maintains that a violation of the established terms of use is sufficient to create liability under CDAFA, and because the complaint alleges that Freedman and Zuora copied the information when they were not permitted to do so, they have sufficiently pled their claim.\nHe then addressed the merits of Enki\u2019s argument, finding that the\nCDAFA imposes liability where an individual takes certain actions `without permission\u2019 on another's computer, network, or website. [California Penal Code \u00a7 502.] Enki relies on a single case, Craigslist v. Naturemarket, Inc., [694 F. Supp. 2d. 1039 (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California 2010)] to argue that a simple violation of the terms of use meets the requirement that the action be `without permission.\u2019\nCraigslist, however, appears to be an outlier. Just four months after Craigslist, in Facebook v. Power Ventures, Inc., [2010 WL 3291750 (U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California 2010)], this court held that to take an action `without permission\u2019 under the CDAFA, a defendant must overcome some technical or code barrier.\nThis has been the governing standard in this district since that time, and it is the standard that applies here. As Enki itself does not even argue that the complaint alleges a technical obstacle, the court GRANTS Defendants' motion as to the CDAFA claim.\nThe judge therefore granted the defendants\u2019 motion to dismiss these two causes of action, but retained the state law claims asserted in their Complaint under the court\u2019s pendent jurisdiction. Enki Corporation v. Freedman, supra. As Wikipedia explains, pendent jurisdiction lets a federal district court hear related state law claims that are brought with \u201canchor\u201d federal law claims.\nAs to how pendent jurisdiction applied here, the judge noted that\n[b]ecause jurisdiction over state law claims under \u00a7 1367 generally requires a federal hook, a court may choose to decline jurisdiction over any lingering state law claims where all federal claims in the case have been dismissed before trial.\nFurther, in the Ninth Circuit, `[i]t is usually appropriate to dismiss pendent state claims when federal claims are dismissed before trial,\u2019 [McCarthy v. Mayo, 827 F.2d 1310 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 1987)] although in each case, a court must assess the values of `economy, convenience, fairness, and comity\u2019 in deciding whether or not to retain jurisdiction. [Acri v. Varian Assocs, 114 F.3d 999 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 1994)].\nAs to why he retained these claims, he explained that\nalthough the remaining claims are all grounded in state law, the parties are already eight months into litigation in this forum, and it would hardly serve the interests of economy or convenience to require the parties to begin anew in state court. In addition, because Enki has leave to amend its complaint to remedy the deficiencies identified in its pleadings, the federal claim may yet move forward in another version of the complaint.\nThe court therefore will retain jurisdiction over the lingering state law claims.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 260, "original_length": 16424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 286.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?m=201308", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:32Z", "digest": "sha1:AFUQ7A34Z65WJEY37XWDW4RJGBNN2EHP", "length": 1384, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "dalelane.co.uk", "title": "August \u00ab 2013 \u00ab dale lane", "raw_content": "Why am I still at IBM?\nI was a recent University graduate, arriving at IBM\u2019s R&D site in Hursley for the first time. I remember arriving in Reception.\nReception \u2013 the view that greeted me when I arrived\nI\u2019m still at the same company. I\u2019m still at the same site. I still do the same drive to work, more or less.\nFor a *decade*.\nIt was never The Plan. The Plan (as cynical as it sounds in hindsight) was that I\u2019d stay for two or three years. I figured that would be long enough to get experience, and then I\u2019d leave to work at a small nimble start-up which was where all the \u201ccool\u201d work was.\nThe Plan never happened. A few years passed, and then another few\u2026 I kept saying that I\u2019d leave \u201clater\u201d and before I knew it a ten year milestone has kind of snuck up on me.\nI think I\u2019m more surprised than anyone. I\u2019ve never been at any place this long. I was at Uni for five years. The longest I was at any school was four years.\nIt\u2019s a serious commitment, and one I never realised that I had made. I\u2019ve not even been married for as long as I\u2019ve been with IBM.\nSo why? Why am I still here?\nTags:career, eightbar\nWe\u2019re in America!\nWe\u2019ve been here for a few weeks now, so I thought I should let you know how we all are in case you\u2019re missing us.\nWe\u2019re staying in Westford, which is sort of near to Boston, Massachusetts.\nI\u2019ve been spending most of my time here \u2013 the IBM Mass Lab near Littleton.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 3656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://damiblog.com.ng/2018/10/12/see-face-of-nigerian-man-declared-wanted-by-police-in-usa-n9m-reward-involved-photo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:6KPTZLPGGGAPG5F23PPSV6YW6MR7RCID", "length": 1908, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "damiblog.com.ng", "title": "See Face Of Nigerian Man Declared Wanted By Police In USA, N9m Reward Involved (Photo) - Damiblog", "raw_content": "See Face Of Nigerian Man Declared Wanted By Police In USA, N9m Reward Involved (Photo)\nOctober 12, 2018 See Face Of Nigerian Man Declared Wanted By Police In USA, N9m Reward Involved (Photo)2018-10-12T11:48:15+00:00 - Gossips - No Comment\nPolice authorities in California, USA, have declared a Nigerian man wanted in connection with series of crimes.\nThe suspect identified as Agboghidi Irabornehi, 24, has been declared wanted by the Fugitive Recovery Warrant Division in connection with armed robbery, carjacking, assault with a firearm.\nAccording to a police statement, the suspect\u2019s last known location(s) are Moreno Valley, CA/Calabasas, CA/Pasadena, in California.\nThe police also offered a $25,000 (almost N9million) reward for anyone who will provide them with information that would lead to the arrest of the young man who has gone into hiding.\nJust In: Police Discover 419 Shrine In Osun)\nThe post See Face Of Nigerian Man Declared Wanted By Police In USA, N9m Reward Involved (Photo) appeared first on Naijaloaded | Nigeria's Most Visited Music & Entertainment Website.\nhttp://damiblog.com.ng/2018/10/12/see-face-of-nigerian-man-declared-wanted-by-police-in-usa-n9m-reward-involved-photo/http://damiblog.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/obj-atiku-1-1.jpghttp://damiblog.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/obj-atiku-1-1-150x150.jpg 2018-10-12T11:48:15+00:00 Owoyomi DamilolaGossips\nPolice authorities in California, USA, have declared a Nigerian man wanted in connection with series of crimes. The suspect identified as Agboghidi Irabornehi, 24, has been declared wanted by the Fugitive Recovery Warrant Division in connection with armed robbery, carjacking, assault with a firearm. According to a police statement, the suspect\u2019s...\n\u00ab 2019 Election: What I Will Do When I Defeat Buhari \u2013 Atiku Abubakar\nBuhari Is A Profound And Gigantic Failure \u2013 Chude Jideonwo, Who Campaigned For Buhari In 2017 \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://davepon.com/edmonton_info.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:01Z", "digest": "sha1:5KYEQKBVC2KLSQCWXX7DJC7BH6MKQVTJ", "length": 22019, "nlines": 161, "source_domain": "davepon.com", "title": "Dave D Pon : RE/MAX RIVER CITY : Edmonton Information", "raw_content": "Edmonton Information\nAbout Edmonton Education Shopping\nHistory Attractions Transportation\nEconomy Sports Teams Utilities & Services\nReal Estate Recreation More...\nCity of Edmonton Chamber of Commerce\nEdmonton is the capital of the province of Alberta, making it the seat of the provincial Crown.\nIt is on the North Saskatchewan River in the central region of the province, an area with some of the most fertile farmland on the prairies.\nIt is the second largest city in Alberta after Calgary, with a population of 730,372 (2006), and is the hub of Canada's sixth largest census metropolitan area, with a metropolitan population of 1,034,945 (2006), making it the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million.\nAt 684 square kilometres (264 sq mi), the City of Edmonton covers an area larger than Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto or Montreal. Edmonton has one of the lowest population densities in North America, about 9.4% that of New York City.\nA resident of Edmonton is known as an Edmontonian.\nEdmonton serves as the northern anchor of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor (one of four regions that together comprise 50% of the Canadian population) and is a staging point for large-scale oilsands projects occurring in northern Alberta and large-scale diamond mining operations in the Northwest Territories.\nEdmonton is Canada's second most populous provincial capital (after Toronto) and is a cultural, government and educational centre. It plays host to a year round slate of world-class festivals, earning it the title of \"The Festival City\".\nIt is home to North America's largest mall and Canada's largest historic park.\nIn 2004, Edmonton celebrated the centennial of its incorporation as a city.\nEdmonton is located near the geographical centre of the province at an elevation of 668 metres (2,192 ft). The terrain in and around Edmonton is generally flat to gently rolling, with ravines and deep river valleys, such as the North Saskatchewan River valley.\nDespite the Canadian Rockies lying as close to Edmonton as roughly 220 kilometres to the southwest (only a few hours' drive away), the city is too distant for any of its peaks to be seen from even its tallest buildings.\nThe North Saskatchewan River bisects the city and originates at the Columbia Icefield in Jasper National Park. It empties, via the Saskatchewan River, Lake Winnipeg, and the Nelson River, into Hudson Bay. It runs from the southwest to the northeast and is fed by numerous creeks throughout the city, such as Mill Creek and Whitemud Creek. This creates numerous ravines, many of which have been incorporated into the urban parkland.\nEdmonton is situated at the boundary between prairie to the south and boreal forest to the north, in a transitional area known as aspen parkland. However, the aspen parkland in and around Edmonton has long since been heavily altered by farming and other human activities, such as oil and natural gas exploration.\nEdmonton has a northern continental climate with extreme seasonal temperatures, although the city has milder winters than either Regina or Winnipeg, which are both located at a more southerly latitude.\nIt has mild summers and chilly winters, with the average daily temperatures ranging from -11.7\u00b0C (10.9\u00b0F) in January to 17.5\u00b0C (63.5\u00b0F) in July.\nAnnually, temperatures exceed 30\u00b0C (86\u00b0F) on an average of three days [but can occur often in the months of May through early September] and fall below \u221220\u00b0C (\u22124\u00b0F) on an average of twenty-eight days.\nTypically, summer lasts from late June until late August, and the humidity is rarely uncomfortably high. Winter lasts from November through March and varies greatly in length and severity. Spring and autumn are both short and highly variable.\nEdmonton History\nThe first inhabitants gathered in the area which is now Edmonton around 3,000 BC and perhaps as early as 10,000 BC, when an ice-free corridor opened up as the last ice age ended and timber, water and wildlife became available in the region.\nIn 1754, Anthony Henday, an explorer working for the Hudson's Bay Company, may have been the first European to enter the Edmonton area. His expeditions across the Canadian Prairies were mainly to seek contact with the aboriginal population for the purpose of establishing fur trade, as competition was fierce between the Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company.\nBy 1795, Fort Edmonton was established as a major trading post for the Hudson's Bay Company. It was named after the English hometown, now a part of Greater London, of the HBC deputy governor Sir James Winter Lake.\nIn the late nineteenth century, the highly fertile soils surrounding Edmonton helped attract settlers, further establishing Edmonton as a major regional commercial and agricultural centre.\nEdmonton was also a stopping point for people hoping to cash in on the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897, although the majority of people doing so chose to take a steamship north to the Yukon from Vancouver.\nIncorporated as a city in 1904 with a population of 8,350, Edmonton became the capital of Alberta a year later on September 1, 1905.\nDuring the early 1910s, Edmonton grew very rapidly due to rising speculation in real estate prices.\nIn 1912, Edmonton amalgamated with the city of Strathcona south of the North Saskatchewan River. As a result, the city extended south of the river.\nJust prior to World War I, the real estate boom ended suddenly, causing the city's population to decline sharply from over 72,500 in 1914 to under 54,000 only two years later.\nRecruitment to the Canadian military during the war also contributed to the drop in population. Afterwards, the city was slow to recover in population and economy during the 1920s and 1930s, until World War II.\nThe oil boom years\nThe first major oil discovery in Alberta was made on February 13, 1947 near the town of Leduc to the south of Edmonton.\nAs early as 1914, oil reserves were known to exist in the southern parts of Alberta but they produced very little oil compared to those around Edmonton.\nAdditional oil reserves were discovered during the late 1940s and the 1950s near the town of Redwater. Because most of Alberta's oil reserves were concentrated in central and northern Alberta, Edmonton became home to most of Alberta's oil industry.\nThe subsequent oil boom gave Edmonton new status as the Oil Capital of Canada. During the 1950s, the city increased in population from 149,000 to 269,000.\nAfter a relatively calm but still prosperous period in the 1960s, the city's growth took on renewed vigour with high world oil prices, triggered by the 1973 oil crisis and the 1979 Iranian Revolution.\nThe oil boom of the 1970s and 1980s ended abruptly with the sharp decline in oil prices on the international market and the introduction of the National Energy Program in 1981. The population had reached 521,000 that same year.\nAlthough the National Energy Program was later scrapped by the federal government in the mid-1980s, the collapse of world oil prices in 1986 and massive government cutbacks kept the city from making a full economic recovery until the late 1990s.\nIn 1981, West Edmonton Mall, which was at the time the world's largest mall, opened. Still the biggest in North America, the mall is one of Alberta's most-visited tourist attractions, and contains an indoor amusement park, a large indoor waterpark, a skating rink, a New Orleans-themed bar district and a luxury hotel in addition to over eight hundred shops and services.\nOn July 31, 1987, a devastating tornado, ranked as an F4 on the Fujita scale, hit the city and killed twenty-seven people. The storm blew CN rail cars off a bridge crossing the North Saskatchewan River and hit the areas of Beaumont, Mill Woods, Bannerman, Fraser, and the Evergreen Trailer Park.\nThe day became known as \"Black Friday\". Then-mayor Laurence Decore cited the community's response to the tornado as evidence that Edmonton was a \"city of champions\", which later became the city's slogan.\nThe city entered its current period of economic recovery and prosperity by the late 1990s, helped by a strong recovery in oil prices and further economic diversification.\nWhile oil production and refining remains the basis of many jobs in Edmonton, the city's economy has managed to diversify significantly. The downtown core and parts of the inner city, after years of extremely high office vacancy rates and neglect, have recovered to a great degree.\nIt is still undergoing a renaissance of its own, with further new projects underway or about to become reality, and more people choosing to live in or near the downtown core.\nThis economic prosperity is bringing in large numbers of workers from around Canada. It is forecast that 83,000 new residents will move to Edmonton between 2006 and 2010, twice the rate that city planners had expected. Many of the new workers moving to the city are young men.\nInformation from Wikipedia.\nEdmonton is the major economic centre for northern and central Alberta and a major centre for the oil and gas industry.\nEdmonton traditionally has been a hub for Albertan petrochemical industries, earning it the nickname \"Oil Capital of Canada\" in the 1940s. Supply and service industries drive the energy extraction engine while research develops new technologies and supports expanded value-added processing of Alberta's massive oil, gas and oil sands reserves. These are reported to be the second largest in the world after Saudi Arabia.\nDespite the apparent focus on oil and gas, Edmonton's economy is now the second most diverse in Canada.\nMuch of the growth in technology sectors is due to Edmonton's reputation as one of Canada\u2019s premiere research and education centres. Research initiatives are anchored by educational institutions such as the University of Alberta as well as government initiatives underway at the Alberta Research Council and Edmonton Research Park. Recently the National Institute for Nanotechnology was constructed on the University of Alberta campus.\nThe geographical location of Edmonton has made it an ideal spot for distribution and logistics. CN Rail's North American operational facility is located in the city as well as a major intermodal facility that handles all incoming freight from the port of Prince Rupert in British Columbia.\nEdmonton is known for its exceptional environmental stewardship, strong life-science sector, and burgeoning high-tech industry economy.\nCREA - Canadian Real Estate Association\nABREA - Alberta Real Estate Association\nCMHC - Canadian Mortgage & Housing Corporation\nAMBA - Alberta Mortgage Brokers Association\nCAHPI - Canadian Association of Home & Property Inspectors\nICX - Canada's Commercial Listing\nAB Business Investment\nEdmonton has become one of Canada's major educational centres with more than 60,000 full time post-secondary students spread over several institutions and campuses (total enrolment between the schools is as high as 170,000, which includes students enrolled in multiple institutions).\nThe University of Alberta (known colloquially as the \"U of A\"), whose main campus is situated on the south side of Edmonton's river valley, is a board-governed, public institution.\nMain campus consists of more than ninety buildings on 890,000 square metres (220 acres) of land, with buildings dating back to the university's establishment in 1908.\nIt is also home to Canada's second largest research library which ranks first in volumes per student with over 10 million (in 2005) and subscriptions to 13,000 full-text electronic journals and 500 electronic databases.\nOther universities within the borders of Edmonton include Athabasca University, Concordia University College of Alberta, the King's University College, Taylor University College and Seminary, and the Edmonton campus of the University of Lethbridge.\nOther Edmonton post-secondary institutions include Grant MacEwan College, which enrolls 40,791 students in programs offering career diplomas, university transfers and bachelor degrees, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), with 48,500 students enrolled in 190 technical, vocational and apprenticeship programs and NorQuest College, with 11,300 students, specializing in short courses in skills and academic upgrading.\nEdmonton has three publicly funded school boards (districts), who provide kindergarten and grades one through twelve.\nThe vast majority of students attend schools in the two large English language boards: Edmonton Public Schools and the separate Edmonton Catholic School District.\nAlso, since 1994, the francophone minority community has had their own school board based in Edmonton, the North-Central Francophone School Authority, which includes surrounding communities.\nMost recently the city has seen a small number of public charter schools open, independent of any board. All three school boards and public charter schools are funded through provincial grants and property taxes.\nSome private schools exist as well. Included are the Edmonton Academy and Tempo School.\nThe Edmonton Society for Christian Education used to be a private school, however they became part of Edmonton Public Schools.\nBoth the Edmonton Public Schools and the Edmonton Catholic School District provide support and resources for those wishing to home school their children.\nMany events are anchored in the downtown Arts District, centred around the newly renovated Churchill Square (named in honour of Sir Winston Churchill).\nThe Francis Winspear Centre for Music was opened in 1997 after years of planning and fundraising. Described as one of the most acoustically perfect concert halls in Canada, it is home to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and hosts a wide variety of shows every year.\nAcross 102nd Avenue is the Citadel Theatre, so named after the Salvation Army Citadel in which Joe Shoctor first started the Citadel Theatre company in 1965. It is now one of the largest theatre complexes in Canada with five halls each specializing in different kinds of productions.\nOld Strathcona is home to the Theatre District, which holds the Transalta Arts Barns (headquarters of the Edmonton International Fringe Festival), The Walterdale Playhouse, Catalyst Theatre, and the Varscona Theatre (base of operations for several theatre companies, including Teatro la Quindicina, Shadow Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre, Die-Nasty, and Oh Susanna!). Edmonton was named cultural capital of Canada in 2007.\nThere are also over seventy museums in Edmonton of ranging sizes. The largest is the Royal Alberta Museum (formerly the Provincial Museum of Alberta until renamed by Queen Elizabeth II during her 2005 visit) which houses over 10 million objects in its collection. The museum showcases the culture and practices of the diverse aboriginal tribes of the region.\nThe Art Gallery of Alberta was the city's largest single gallery. It was Housed in an inconspicuous production of 1970s architecture, the AGA collection has over 5,000 pieces of art.\nThe University of Alberta operates its own internal Museums and Collections service.\nEdmonton's main summer festival is Capital Ex (formerly Klondike Days.)\nThe Edmonton International Fringe Festival, which takes place in mid-August, is the largest Fringe Theatre Festival in North America, and second only to the Edinburgh Fringe festival in the world.\nIn August, Edmonton is also host to the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, one of the most successful and popular folk music festivals in North America.\nAnother major summer festival is the Edmonton Heritage Festival which is an ethnocultural festival that takes place in Hawrelak Park on the Heritage Day long weekend.\nMany other festivals occur such as the River City Shakespeare Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, Edmonton Gay Pride and the Edmonton International Film Festival.\nEdmonton has a proud heritage of very successful sports teams including the Edmonton Grads, Edmonton Eskimos, Edmonton Cracker Cats, Edmonton Oil Kings and Edmonton Oilers. The primary professional sports facilities are the Commonwealth Stadium, TELUS Field and Rexall Place.\nNumerous minor-league teams in the City include the Edmonton Cracker-Cats, the city's thirteenth baseball franchise since 1884. Local rugby players compete in the Rugby Canada Super League with the Edmonton Gold. Also, the city hosts the Edmonton Rush national lacrosse team, which plays out of Rexall Place.\nIn addition to the minor-league teams, Edmonton also has very successful University-level sports teams including the U of A Golden Bears, the U of A Pandas, NAIT Ooks, and Grant MacEwan Griffins.\nCurrent professional and Amateur franchises\nClub League Venue\nEdmonton Oilers National Hockey League Rexall Place\nEdmonton Eskimos Canadian Football League Commonwealth Stadium\nEdmonton Rush National Lacrosse League Rexall Place\nEdmonton Cracker Cats Northern League Telus Field\nEdmonton Oil Kings Western Hockey League Rexall Place\nGive yourself a good workout. Ride your bicycle in safety along 225 kilometres (141 miles) of designated bikeways. Sharpen your game at one of the region's more than 70 golf courses and practice facilities. Learn to ski, downhill or cross-country. Join a slo-pitch league. Bowling, billiards or badminton - it's up to you. Edmonton has more than 1,000 facilities for recreation and amateur sports of every description.\nInformation from edmonton.com\nFor a list of all shopping malls in Edmonton and their locations, click here.\nEdmonton is a major transportation gateway to northern Alberta and northern Canada.\nThere are two airports in the city, of which Edmonton International Airport is the largest, flying passengers to destinations in the United States, Europe, Mexico, and the Caribbean, along with charters to Japan.\nInterurban passenger rail service is operated by VIA Rail to Jasper National Park, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia. Edmonton serves as a major transportation hub for CN Rail, whose North American operation centre is located at their Edmonton offices.\nThe Edmonton Transit System is the city's main public transit agency, operating a light rail transit (LRT) line as well as a large fleet of buses and trolley buses.\nThere is an extensive multi-use trail system for bicycles and pedestrians throughout the city; however, most of this is within the river valley parkland system.\nPHONE - INTERNET - CELL - TV\nWATER - ENERGY\nEdmonton's first power company established itself in 1891 and installed street lights along the city's main avenue, Jasper Avenue.\nThe power company was bought by the Town of Edmonton in 1902 and remains under municipal ownership today as EPCOR.\nAlso in charge of water treatment, in 2002, EPCOR installed the world's largest ultraviolet (UV) water treatment or Ultraviolet disinfection system at its E.L. Smith Water Treatment Plant\nEdmonton has 2 large-circulation daily newspapers:\n* Edmonton Sun\nEdmonton also has two free weekly papers focusing on the city's independent arts and entertainment.\nThe weekly Edmonton Examiner is also delivered free to households in Edmonton.\nThe Edmonton Senior is a monthly newspaper catering to a growing audience.\nThe University of Alberta has three regular publications: official student newspaper The Gateway, staff newspaper Folio and alumni magazine New Trail.\n* Channel 02: CFRN (CTV)\n* Channel 04: CBXT (CBC)\n* Channel 09: CJAL (Access Alberta)\n* Channel 12: CBXFT (SRC)\n* Channel 08: CITV (Global)\n* Channel 07: CKEM (Citytv)\nThe cable television provider in Edmonton is Shaw Cable. Network programming from the United States is received on cable via affiliates from Spokane, Washington, which is in the Pacific Time Zone despite the fact that Edmonton is in the Mountain Time Zone.\nOn June 8, 2007, the CRTC licensed three new television services in the Edmonton market.\n* 17 - CHCA-2 \u2013 rebroadcaster of CHCA (CH) Red Deer\n* 45 - CKES (CTS)\n* 56 - CHXE (OMNI)\n* 580 AM - CKUA (public broadcasting)\n* 630 AM - CHED (\"630 CHED\" news/talk)\n* 680 AM - CHFA (La Premi\u00e8re Cha\u00eene)\n* 740 AM - CBX (CBC Radio One)\n* 790 AM - CFCW (\"790 CFCW\", country)\n* 880 AM - CHQT (\"Cool 880\", oldies)\n* 930 AM - CJCA (\"The Light\", gospel music)\n* 1260 AM - CFRN (\"The Team 1260\", sports)\n* 88.5 FM - CJSR (University of Alberta campus radio)\n* 89.3 FM - CJJE, Aboriginal Voices\n* 90.1 FM - CBCX (Espace musique)\n* 90.9 FM - CBX (CBC Radio Two)\n* 91.7 FM - CHBN (\"The Bounce\" , CHR/urban)\n* 92.5 FM - CKNG (\"Joe FM\", adult hits)\n* 93.9 FM - CBX-2 (CBC Radio One)\n* 94.9 FM - CKUA (public broadcasting)\n* 96.3 FM - CKRA (\"Big Earl\", country)\n* 97.3 FM - CIRK (\"K-Rock\", classic rock)\n* 99.3 FM - CHMC (\"Magic 99\", jazz)\n* 100.3 FM - CFBR (\"The Bear\", active rock)\n* 101.7 FM - CKER (\"101.7 World FM\", multilingual)\n* 102.9 FM - CHDI (\"Sonic 102.9\", modern rock)\n* 103.9 FM - CISN (\"CISN Country 103.9\", country music)\n* 104.9 FM - CFMG (\"EZRock\", easy listening)\n* 105.9 FM - CJRY (\"Shine FM\", Christian music)\n* 162.400 MHz (FM) XLM 572 Environment Canada Weatheradio (English and French Broadcasts)\nON-LINE CITIZEN FORUMS\n* connect2edmonton is a new and growing citizen forum focusing on various aspects of the city and its people, including contemporary issues. This site is partnered with Edmonton Economic Development Corp., Edmonton Airports, the City of Edmonton and the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce)\n* Nexopia - A youth oriented site most popular in Western Canada but used worldwide. Based in Edmonton.\nThere are four main hospitals serving Edmonton: The University of Alberta Hospital, The Royal Alexandra Hospital, The Misercordia Hospital and The Grey Nuns Hospital.\nOther area hospitals include the Sturgeon Community Hospital in St. Albert, the Leduc Community Hospital in Leduc, the Westview Health Centre in Stony Plain, and the Fort Saskatchewan Health Centre in Fort Saskatchewan.\nDedicated psychiatric care is also provided at the Alberta Hospital.\nAll hospitals are under the administration of the Capital Health Authority although the Misercordia and the Grey Nuns are run separately by the Caritas Health Group.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 25181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 174.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dcstrategies.us/mike-chapman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:12Z", "digest": "sha1:4HKI666UGV2RZM2Z7T3CCPVRGRFOJUBD", "length": 2207, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dcstrategies.us", "title": "D.C. Strategies: Mike Chapman", "raw_content": "Mike Chapman is a public affairs and communications consultant with extensive legislative and regulatory experience at the highest levels of government. A partner in D.C. Strategies, Chapman is expert at finding solutions to difficult problems for his clients utilizing relationships developed over decades on Capitol Hill and within the administration. Chapman is currently working on behalf of a range of clients and has been cited by Roll Call newspaper as one of Washington\u2019s power lobbyists.\nMike Chapman began his career as a Legislative Assistant in the office of Congressman J.J. \u201cJake\u201d Pickle of Texas, a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee and an icon of Texas politics. Chapman then served as the first Legislative Director for former U.S. Senator Tim Johnson and worked closely with Johnson over the 28 years he served in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate.\nFollowing his time on Capitol Hill, Chapman was a Congressional lobbyist for the National Association of Realtors in Washington D.C. In that capacity, he worked successfully on issues affecting banking regulation, tax policy, environmental regulatory relief, housing and mortgage finance. Chapman next served as a Congressional lobbyist for the American Medical Association where he successfully worked to pass legislative initiatives addressing health system reform, Medicare, lawsuit reform and public health, before co-founding D.C. Strategies. Currently, Chapman primarily works with clients in the financial services, technology, energy, health care and public health sectors among others.\nIn addition to traditional lobbying, Chapman has a decade of experience conducting winning digital, social media, and search engine marketing strategies. Chapman is a pioneer in the use of digital lobbying and public affairs advocacy; utilizing powerful online tools, technologies and statistical evaluation to generate solid, measurable results at every stage of the digital advocacy process.\nMike Chapman is an alumnus of Texas State University, where he was twice elected student body president, and of Johns Hopkins University, where he received a Master of Arts in Government with a concentration in Political Communications.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 124.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ddotomen.co/blog/page/888/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DIA7C7KELI32MC6UCXEEPTM2RUN3ZCAE", "length": 20413, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "ddotomen.co", "title": "Blog - Page 888 of 4374 - DDotOmen", "raw_content": "Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 3 Episode 13. Full Episode. Click Next Page or Page 2 to watch. REWIND: Love & Hip Hop Atlanta Season 3 Episode 12 NEXT PAGE Advertisements\nAugust Alsina ft. Nicki Minaj \u2013 \u201cNo Love\u201d Remix\nAugust Alsina (@AugustAlsina @NickiMinaj) recruits Nicki Minaj for the official remix to his single \u201cNo Love\u201d which spawned off his debut album Testimony. Nicki adds a touch of rapping and singing for the revamped version which she says is her favorite song and reminds her of a boy she likes. Listen below.\nAngie Martinez Interviews Remy Ma From Prison\nDAILY DOSE, Hip-Hop News, InterviewsBy DDot Omen July 21, 2014 Leave a comment\nAngie Martinez (@angiemartinez @freeremyma) continues to make her presence felt at her new home Power 105.1. The Voice Of New York had a surprise call from former first lady of Terror Squad, Remy Ma. Remy Ma has been incarcerated since 2007 for shooting Makeda Barnes-Joseph. During the interview they talk about Remy\u2019s relationship with Fat\u2026\nSmoke DZA \u2013 \u201cLCR (Lights Camera Rugby)\u201d\nSmoke DZA (@SmokeDZA) launches the first offering \u201cLCR (Lights, Camera, Rugby)\u201d from his forthcoming project \u201cForever Madness: The Randy Savage EP\u201d. A concept project paying homage to WWE legend Randy Savage. Listen below. https://soundcloud.com/wrasslerap/smoke-dza-lcr-lights-camera-rugby-prod-by-the-audible-doctor/s-aRrRq\nTinashe Performs \u201c2 On\u201d On Wendy Williams\nDAILY DOSE, New Video, New Videos, PerformancesBy DDot Omen July 21, 2014 Leave a comment\nTinashe (@tinashe) is my bae, she just doesn\u2019t know it yet. Anyway, the \u201c2 On\u201d singer performed a live rendition of her chart climbing hit single for the studio audience at the Wendy Williams show. Tinashe\u2019s debut album \u201cAquarius\u201d is due out in September. Watch the footage below and also check out the tour of\u2026\nWiz Khalifa, Ty Dolla Sign & Juicy J \u2013 \u201cShell Shocked\u201d\nWiz Khalifa (@wizkhalifa @tydollasign @therealJuicyJ) and his Taylor Gang cohorts drop an anthem for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie aptly titled \u201cShell Shocked\u201d. Listen below.\nRaury \u2013 \u201cCigarette Song\u201d\nRaury (@raury) returns with a new tune he calls \u201cCigarette Song\u201d in which the teenage singer croons about the vices of life. Produced by Daytrip, the ensemble brings reckoning of Nostalgia Ultra era Frank Ocean yet still refreshing. Listen below.\nVIDEO: King Louie \u2013 \u201cTill I Meet Selena\u201d\nKing Louie (@KingL) lets go off another dope video this time for his DJ L-produced track \u201cTill I Meet Selena,\u201d from his recently released mixtape Tony. Directed by Nick Brazinsky & Dada Creative, watch the visual below.\nVIDEO: YG \u2013 \u201cBicken Back Being Bool\u201d\nYG (@YG) drops off the street oriented visual aid for \u201cBicken Back Being Bool\u201d which encompasses all to do with Bompton. Watch below.\nPRINT: Kendrick Lamar Covers Complex (August/September 2014)\nDAILY DOSE, Hip-Hop News, Interviews, PrintBy DDot Omen July 21, 2014 Leave a comment\nKendrick Lamar (@kendricklamar) has been relatively quiet since causing an uproar with his debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city and spotlight verse \u201cControl\u201d. TDE\u2019s flagship artist is hard at work on his sophomore LP which isn\u2019t titled yet but will be ready for a fourth quarter release. 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Because when we know Him better, we can\u2019t help but love Him more.\nWith this purchase you will receive the study workbook, which contains the password to view and download each of the six video teaching sessions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 1388, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 196.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://declicdanse.com/2016/03/15/when-caring-means-to-stop-caring-knowing-your-limitations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NL2TKFQZRXZ65DIUTRWPMMEKF7MJDWCT", "length": 2079, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "declicdanse.com", "title": "When Caring Means To Stop Caring: Knowing Your Limitations - moving your loved one into a nursing home", "raw_content": "When Caring Means To Stop Caring: Knowing Your Limitations\nTaking care of an aging loved one is not a part time gig. You have to be able to work year round, sun up to sundown with no end in sight. Love makes it worth the sacrifice, but love cannot stop the long hours from taking their toll or find a way to pay the bills. If your desire is to take care of your loved one, you need to know that sometimes providing care means stepping out of the way.\nWhen you are tasked with taking care of someone you love, your focus tends to be on what the object of your care needs. You give and give, and your only thought if something goes wrong is why you couldn't give more. When you work all day and provide full time care for an ailing individual when you get home, you run a real risk of fatigue. Burning the candle at both ends can take its toll physically, mentally, and emotionally. Letting someone else help might be the only way to avoid disaster.\nAvoid the Worst\nFew people have the luxury to dedicate all of their time to taking care of a loved one. Work obligations, the needs of other family members, and other time constraints mean that you can't be at a loved one's beck and call all of the time. What happens when you are not there? Rather than risk the worst, there is a time to hand off the torch.\nRather than burdening yourself with the full care of a loved one, there are times when you should trust someone else to provide care. Rather than wear yourself down to the point where you might be in need of care, or risk not being there when your loved one's need you the most, you need to trust them to a nursing home or a convalescent home like Hilltop House. You should still be free to visit and help out as much as possible, but you will also be able to meet the other demands on your time without worry.\nAs hard as convincing a loved one to go to a home may be, convincing yourself that it is a good idea can be just as hard. When you find that you have to be the one to care for a family member in need, make sure you make the right choice for meeting their needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 3325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 252.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dept.philosophy.wisc.edu/hunt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:41Z", "digest": "sha1:D7MSM6TCGEY36TULW7GEXTWOBGM45RHT", "length": 15371, "nlines": 68, "source_domain": "dept.philosophy.wisc.edu", "title": "Lester Hunt's Home Page", "raw_content": "My monograph on the classic 1948 film, Letter from an Unknown Woman (\u00a9 2018), can now be purchased as an ebook!\nTo preview the opening pages (MSWord download) go here.\nIf you haven't seen the film, you can watch it by going here.\nVisit my blog, E pur si muove! (I recently reactivated this. It was inactive for about five years.)\nI am also on Facebook.\nI recently retired from teaching philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. My work is almost entirely in the areas of moral, political, and legal philosophy. Usually, research that is nominally in other areas barely constitutes an exception. My current book project is in an area generally referred to as \"philosophy in literature,\" but my book focuses on ethical and political ideas in various literary works. I have done a fair amount of research on the emotions, but it is mostly on politically and ethically \"hot\" emotions like revenge and envy.\nWithin my chosen realm, my approach is individualist, libertarian, and agonistic (conflict is good, or should be). I do realize that this often goes against the grain. I sincerely wish it didn't, but this is my fate. What is yours?\nI love to communicate with friends, allies, and opponents around the world, but computers are not among my many hobbies, so this site is definitely on a sub-professional level of quality. I originally created it using the html capabilities of WordPerfect, but eventually graduated to FrontPage and finally to Dreamweaver.\nThe Mexico Page. Everything you might want to know about my travels in Mexico - and oh so much more!\nIf you want to find out how to do the kind of backcountry travel I like to do, take a look at Burleson and Riskin's classic Backcountry Mexico. It's a shame it was never updated, but at least the good people at UT Press have kept it in print. They should get a medal for that, and maybe a statue in the park. It is, among other things, a language guide, and enables you to say all kinds of useful sentences, like: \"I'm tired already, are we there yet?\" and \"Is there a spring with drinkable water along the way?\" and \"Are there scorpions (tarantulas/lice/fleas/poisonous snakes/assassin-bugs) here?\" and one that I found particularly useful -- \"I've been hurt, where can I find a doctor?\"\n\"Only the dead are safe.\"\nSome Articles These are articles that I did not cannibalize in writing my books (the books are listed further down this page). A number of papers were absorbed into my books and most of them are not linked here. You can find a recent copy of my Vita in a downloadable MSWord file, here.\nGenerosity, in American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 12 no. 3, July 1975, pp. 235-244. My first published article, written before I started work on my dissertation. It's quite different from the version that later became a chapter in Character and Culture (see under Books, below), so I thought I would link to it here. This version is more Nietzschean while the later one is much more Aristotelian.\nA Note on Action and Causal Explanation, in Reason Papers No. 4, Winter 1978, pp. 89-94. In this early paper I give a reason for thinking that, when we explain a person's actions by appealing to thoughts and desires that gave rise to them (\"John ran out of the building because he thought it was on fire and wanted to be safe\") we are not giving a causal explanation of the action.\nSome Advantages of Social Control: An Individualist Defense, in Public Choice, vol. 36, 1981, pp. 3-16.\nThe Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne's Theory of Moral Sentiments, in Philosophy and Literature, vol. 8 no. 1, April 1984, pp. 75-88.\nOn Improving Mankind by Political Means, in Reason Papers vol.. 10, Spring 1985, pp. 61-76.\nEthics. I wrote this some years ago for World Book Encyclopedia, a reference work mainly for high school and middle school students. It's an attempt to explain ethics to people who don't yet know anything at all about it. This, I found, is not easy to do.\nThe Eternal Recurrence and Nietzsche's Ethic of Virtue, in International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 25 no. 2, pp. 3-11. This constitutes a sort of appendix to Nietzsche and the Origin of Virtue. I didn't discuss the idea of \"the eternal recurrence of the same\" in that book, and this is an attempt to fill in this gap, showing how this all-important Nietzschean them fits into my interpretation. I tried to get Routledge to publish it as an appendix to my book when it went into papberback, but they would not go for it. So here it is.\nAn Argument Against a Legal Duty to Rescue, in the Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 25 no. 1, Spring 1995, pp. 15-37.\nWhy Democracy is an Enemy of Virtue in International Studies in Philosophy, vol. 30 no. 3,1998, pp. 13-21. (This article is actually friendlier to democracy than the title sounds. It's an interpretation and a critique of a passage in Nietzsche.)\nFlourishing Egoism in Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 16 no. 1, Winter 1999, pp. 72-95. A defense of a particular sort of ethical egoism.\nThe Liberal Basis of the Right to Bear Arms (written with Todd C. Hughes) in Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 14 no. 1, January 2000, pp. 1-25. Keeping and using a gun is a civil liberty, like keeping and using a modem or fax machine.\nGun Control: Is There an Issue Here? in Criminal Justice Ethics, vol. 20 no. 1, Winter-Spring 2001, pp. 40-45. This essay, a contribution to a symposium I organized on gun control, is mainly a critique of Hugh LaFollette's claim that guns are inherently dangerous in a way that cigarettes and autos are not. I argue that what his position really boils down to is that guns are morally repugnant because violence, regardless of context, is morally repugnant.\nIs Bad Conduct Always Wrong? The Ethics of Environmental Effects In The Commons: Its Tragedies and Other Follies, ed. by Tibor R. Machan, Hoover Institution Press, 2001.Do you have a moral obligation to never make the world in any respect a worse place? Maybe not. At least if you assume that morality is something that human beings must be able to apply and follow in the long run.\nBilly Budd: Melville\u2019s Dilemma, Published in a somewhat different form in Philosophy and Literature, vol. 26 no. 2, October 2002, pp. 273-295.\nDrug Prohibition: What Good are Drugs Anyway? in Criminal Justice Ethics, vol. 22 no. 1, Winter-Spring 2003, pp. 40-45. This essay is a contribution to a symposium on drug prohibition I organized, a sort of sequel to the one on guns (see above). Thesis: It is important to realize that illegal psychotropic drugs (marijuana, LSD, heroin, cocaine, etc.) are good (as well as bad). Calling their value \"recreational\" only conceals this fact without giving a defensible reason for it.\nPoetic Injustice The emotion of empathy is a source of moral temptations and illusions, as well as insight. The essay, a criticism of Martha Nussbaum's moral defense of literature, is a very short version (written for presentation at The American Society for Aesthetics) of a paper later published as \"Sentiment and Sympathy,\" in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 62 Number 4 (Fall 2004).\nMartha Nussbaum on the Emotions In Ethics, vol. 116 No. 3 (April 2006), pp. 552-577. A review-essay on two of Martha's books: Upheavals of Thought and Hiding from Humanity.\nMotion Pictures as a Philosophical Resource, in Philosophy of Film, ed. by No\u00ebl Carroll and Jinhee Choi. (Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2006), pp. 397-405.\nThus Spoke Howard Roark: The Transformation of Nietzschean Ideas in The Fountainhead. Published as \"Thus Spake Howard Roark: Nietzschean Ideas in the Fountainhead,\" in Philosophy and Literature, vol. 30 no. 1 (April 2006), pp. 79-101. The change in the title, from \"spoke\" to \"spake,\" was made by the editor of the journal without my knowledge or permission. To me, the change introduced (on purpose?) a goofy-sounding and distracting reference to the obsolete Thomas Common translation of Nietzsche's Zarathustra.\nWhy the State Needs a Justification Published as the first chapter in Anarchism/Minarchism: Is Government Part of a Free Country?, ed. by Roderick Long and Tibor Machan (Routledge, 2008). I'm the only author in the book who does not make up his/her mind on the issue, though I have since declared as an anarchist.\nLiterature as Fable, Fable as Argument. In Philosophy and Literature, October 2009, vol. 33 no. 2, pp. 369-386.\nJos\u00e9 Ortega y Gasset, Prof. Dario Fernandez-Morera and I wrote this little article for the Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, ed. by Ronald Hamowy (Washington, D. C.: Cato Institute, 2009). This file is an MSWord download.\nReason and Precedent in the Law. In Reality, Reason, and Rights: Essays in Honor of Tibor R. Machan, edl. by Douglas Rasmussen, Aeon Skoble, and Douglas Den Uyl, Lanham Maryland: Lexington Books, 2011.How do you reconcile reason (which requires thinking for yourself) with the practice in the law of following precedent (which involves following the thoughts of others)?\nBeyond Master and Slave: Developing a Third Paradigm. In The Journal of Value Inquiry, September 2015, Volume 49, Issue 3, pp 353\u2013367. This may be the last piece of Nietzsche scholarship I ever do, so I am very glad to be able to say I think it is one of my best. It should be interesting to those with only a passing interest in Nietzsche. It's argues that his famous discussion of Master Morality and Slave Morality would have had very different implications if he had only considered a third type of morality, one the contrasts point by point in fascinating ways with both of the ones he does discuss. This third paradigm is what I call Trader Morality.\nLibertarianism. An article I wrote for the International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Blackwell, 2013). I am now revising and updating it for the new edition of the encyclopedia.\nNietzsche and the Origin of Virtue. New York and London: Routledge, 1991, 200 pp. (incl. index) + xxiii.\nCharacter and Culture. Rowman and Littlefield, 1997, 297 pp. + viii + index.\nAnarchy, State, and Utopia: An Advanced Guide. Boston, Massachusetts: Wiley, 2015. pp. 232 + vi.\nDebating Gun Control: How Much Regulation Do We Need? Co-authored with David DeGrazia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. pp. 269 + xvi.\nLetter from an Unknown Woman: Nostalgia, Irony, and the Nature of Love. 2018. A monograph on the classic 1948 film directed by Max Ophuls and written by Howard Koch. Available only as an ebook from Payhip (price: $2.000).\nComing in early 2019: The Philosophy of Henry Thoreau: Ethics, Politics, and Nature, from Bloomsbury Publishers. I have signed contract for this project and it is now nearing completion.\nGrade Inflation: Academic Standards in Higher Education, Albany New York: State University of New York Press, 2008. pp. 223 + xxiv. I also wrote three sections of this book: Preface, Ch. 8 \"Grading Teachers: Academic Standards and Student Evaluations\" (see above, under \"Some Articles\"), and \"Afterword: Focusing on the Big Picture.\"\nPhilosophy in the Twilight Zone. (Boston: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) Edited with No\u00ebl Carroll. pp. 208. I also contributed a biographical introduction about Rod Serling, justifying a philosophical reading of The Twilight Zone (see below, under Other Work).\nSome writings of mine that were part of the U W speech code controversy of the 1990s. This discussion ended with the UW's unprecedented repeal (yes, repeal!) of the faculty speech code at the end of the decade. I think this is all, unfortunately, very relevant today My own telling of these exciting events begins on p. 35 of this issue of Liberty magazine. (I don't seem to have my copy of this essay any longer.)\nWritings on Ayn Rand I think the most important of these, as orginal philosophy or scholarship, are \"Thus Spoke Howard Roark\" and \"Ayn Rand's Evolving View of Friedrich Nietzsche.\"\nThe more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished\u2026. The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be.\nThe Song of the Rider: And Other Poems of Mystery, Adventure, and Horror This is a poetry anthology (with explanatory notes) that I put together back in 2004 in an effort to convince our son, Nat, that poetry can be exciting and, you know, totally cool. I never did try to publish it (am I the last living American who reads poetry for fun?) but looking at it yesterday I realized that many of my favorite poets are in it and figured it might be of interest to others. So here it is.\nMcCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues My contribution to an \u201cAuthor Meets Critics\u201d panel at the American Philosophical Association Central Division Meetings, April 21, 2007.\nNotebook on Risk, Danger, and Uncertainty This is a collection of notes I made as I have been thinking about risk, a subject I have published on a number of times (most recently in the book about guns). I can't think how I would be able to publish these remarks, so I figured what the hell I'll put it here!\nThe \"Grade Inflation and Academic Standards\" Conference This is the web page for a conference that was the basis for the book, Grade Inflation: Academic Standards in Higher Education. See under Edited Books, above.\nGrading Teachers A criticism of the current regime of anonymous student evaluations of teaching as a fundamentally irrational institution. This, as you may know, is nearly the only way that quality of teaching is evaluated in American universities and colleges. This essay is a chapter in the book on grade inflation (listed under Edited Books).\nThe Macomber Project (This file is an MSWord download.) Is It My Turn? Confessions of a Platonic Lover.This is a monograph-length work based on the sayings of William B. Macomber, who years ago was professor at U C Santa Barbara, where I was a student at the time. Taken down from conversations, lectures, and class handouts, it is another manuscript of mine that probably is not publishable in the normal, print, way, so I am putting it here. Here is a class handout he distributed to his upper-level class on Nietzsche, some time around 1972, a freewheeling commentary on the chapter, \"On War and Warriors\" in Zarathustra. It is still worth a read today. Sadly, Bill journeyed forth to the spirit world in June, 2009. I still miss him.\nAnd Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight Zone: The Author as Auteur Biographical introduction to the book on The Twilight Zone (see under Edited Books, above).\nSnailmail Address\n7326 Davis Way, Portola California 96122\n(Actually I live in the \"census designated area\" of Lake Davis, at the northern end of the Sierra Nevada mountains, but the above is my mailing address.)\nHome: (530) 832-6324.\nYou can also try (608) 332-3166 (cell phone).\nlester_hunt at hotmail dot com or lhhunt at wisc dot edu\nSites I Use a Lot:\nArts and Letters Daily, SciTechDaily, Independent Review, In These Times, Nation, National Review, Reason, New York Times, Associated Press\nFood Network Bon App\u00e9tit\nOfficial US Gov't Time, Dictionary and Thesaurus Portola Public Library, Mapquest, Google Maps, World Atlas, NYT Crosswords, Amazon, Wikepedia, Encyclopedia Britannica (paywall), Google Maps, Portola Area Weather\nCaricature at top of page courtesy of Kali Fontecchio.\nSite maintained since June 1998: updated beginning January 2018 and continuously to date.\nThe counter below: Number of visitors since Jan. 4, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 15589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 235.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dev.bpnews.net/51652/family-prosperity-gospel-addressed-in-moores-book", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:14Z", "digest": "sha1:HZGRTIH64DM4UFB4MUM4KXQMMJKVF3VP", "length": 6005, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "dev.bpnews.net", "title": "Family 'prosperity gospel' addressed in Moore's book", "raw_content": "The original story can be found at http://dev.bpnews.net/51652/family-prosperity-gospel-addressed-in-moores-book\nFamily 'prosperity gospel' addressed in Moore's book\nby Tom Strode, posted Monday, September 24, 2018 (4 months ago)\nTags: Russell MooreERLCThe Storm-Tossed Family\nNASHVILLE (BP) -- Russell Moore decided to add to the many books on the family after he realized many Christians have adopted a version of the prosperity gospel when it comes to such issues as marriage and parenting.\nThe author of the new book \"The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home\" told Baptist Press he recognized a \"common theme\" in his conversations with people in different states of family crisis. In part, \"many Christians have an implicit 'prosperity gospel' when it comes to the family,\" said Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.\n\"We falsely believe if we love Jesus and we follow the right steps that we will have nothing but peace and tranquility in family relationships,\" Moore said in a Sept. 19 interview with BP. \"That misunderstands what the Bible teaches about the family as an arena of spiritual warfare.\"\nIt is a reason why, \"when people are facing difficulties, they sometimes withdraw and assume that means that something is wrong with them rather than seeking the rest of the community of the body of Christ,\" he said.\n\"The Storm-Tossed Family,\" released Sept. 15 by B&H Publishing Group, offers guidance on the family in the context of the atoning death of Jesus, spiritual warfare and the church, while it addresses the topics of marriage, sexuality, divorce, children, parenting, household tensions and aging.\nIn the book, Moore writes the family comes with a \"unique mixture ... of joy and terror, of beauty and brokenness.\"\n\"The cross shows us how we can find beauty and brokenness, justice and mercy, peace and wrath, all in the same place,\" he writes. \"The pattern of the Christian life is crucified glory -- this is as true for our lives in our families as in everything else.\"\nMoore told BP, \"[I]t seems that every aspect of family life is ultimately humiliating in the sense that it tends to bring us to the end of our resources where we really need the Spirit, we need the church. And I think that's intentional, and I think that as people of the cross we ought to see that God's glory often shows up in places that seem to be the most difficult and broken.\"\nIn the book, he writes, \"The family is one of the pictures of the Gospel that God has embedded in the world around us. Through a really dark glass, we can see flashes in the family of something at the core of the universe itself, of the Fatherhood of God, of the communion of a people with one another.\"\nIt is not accidental that Satan \"seeks, in every generation, to disrupt the peace of the marriage covenant, of the integrity of the sexual union, of the parent/child bond, of the unity of the church as the household of God,\" he writes. \"Family is spiritual warfare.\n\"Family humbles us,\" Moore writes. \"Family humiliates us. Family crucifies us. That's because family is one of the ways God gets us small enough to fight the sort of battle that can't be won by horses or chariots but by the Spirit of the Lord.\"\nChristians must realize family is important but not pre-eminent, Moore says.\nIn his interview with BP, Moore said, \"[W]e can love the family best when the family is second in our priorities. If we seek first the kingdom, then we don't see our families as some ultimate expressions of ourselves, which means that we cannot pin all of our hopes and expectations on the family, which only leads to disappointment.\n\"I will often find husbands or wives, for instance, who are resentful of their spouses because they're expecting a soul mate who can meet every expectation of their entire lives. That's a ruinous path,\" he told BP. \"And I've seen many homes where parents have pinned all of their sense of the future on their children as being successes in the world or as valedictorians of their class ... which also leads to disappointment on the part of the parents and often resentment on the part of the children.\n\"But if we know that Jesus has a kingdom waiting for us and my entire life is not dependent on having a picture-perfect presentation of my family, then I'm able to really love my family in all of its reality.\"\nThe church is vital in considering the family, Moore writes in the book.\n\"The church is not a collection of families,\" he writes. \"The church is a family.\n\"That means no Christian lives alone, and no Christian dies alone. There's no such thing as a 'single' Christian.\"\nMoore writes, \"We must recognize the joys and responsibilities that come with being part of a family formed not by the blood of biology but the blood of crucifixion.\"\nHe told BP, \"The Bible speaks of the church as the household of God and speaks of our places in the church as being that of brothers and sisters and even spiritual fathers and mothers within the church. That sort of kinship and family is a counter-cultural act that really reveals the beauty and the newness of the Gospel.\"\nIt is \"counter-productive\" for Christians to be only with people who are in the same demographic or life season, and the church can help avoid that mistake, Moore said.\n\"We need people older than we are to help shepherd us through life changes that we don't even see coming,\" he said. \"And we need to be pouring our lives out on those who are younger who will be facing issues they can't see around the bend right now.\"\n\"The Storm-Tossed Family\" is available at LifeWay Christian Stores, among other booksellers, and Amazon.\nRussell Moore book on family receives top CT award\nMoore: Cross frees Christians to love their families\nHuman dignity addressed by ERLC in Capitol Hill event\nEvangelicalism needs to focus on cross, Moore says\nFROM THE SEMINARIES: Russell Moore at SBTS; text-driven preaching conference at SWBTS\nShootings don't stop churches, say Moore, past victims", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 7814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dianatrautwein.com/2012/03/a-lenten-journey-climbing-to-the-cross-day-thirty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ESGAPVNQDBHOBMWIKGN4GNC3TAWQHFBM", "length": 2904, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "dianatrautwein.com", "title": "A Lenten Journey: Climbing to the Cross \u2013 Day THIRTY", "raw_content": "A Lenten Journey: Climbing to the Cross \u2013 Day THIRTY\nPsalm 126 \u2013 A Song of Ascents \u2013 Today\u2019s New International Version\nAnd I think it\u2019s a perfect song for climbing.\nThat\u2019s what it is, you know. It\u2019s a song to be sung while climbing the steep hill road to Jerusalem.\nOne of fifteen psalms sung at the time of each festival celebration, sung as the pilgrims returned to Zion for feasting and worshiping and remembering.\nSo this is a perfect song for us, at day thirty on our climb to Calvary. We\u2019re heading into the home stretch, nearer and nearer to the heart of the city and to the heart of our story.\nAnd it\u2019s feeling like a climb about now, isn\u2019t it?\nWalking along with Jesus as he takes his friends to the end of the road, as he prepares for his own exodus \u2013 we can get weary in this walking. Unsure as to whether or not we really want to make that last steep ascent up the hill.\nWe do not go alone.\nWe join with hundreds and thousands and millions of others \u2013 around the world and across time.\nAnd we go with Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, the divine/human one who bent low that we might be brought high.\nBut it\u2019s true that there is weeping along the way, isn\u2019t it? The journey we take is fraught with danger, toil and tears \u2013 no doubt about that.\nBut always \u2013 always \u2013 amidst the tears and the struggle, there are these kernels, these seeds of hope.\nAnd we know that as those seeds are planted \u2013 we will return singing songs of joy. Yes, we will.\nYes. We. Will.\nLord of the Road \u2013 this road of life, and this road to Calvary and the empty tomb \u2013 we join our voices to the throng, to the voices of the faithful over the centuries and all around this world. And we sing of hope, of promise, of dreams, of committed connection to our story and to you, the Author of that story. Give us courage to make this final stretch; steady our feet on the rocky road and lead us into life.\nI love the phrase \u201cLord of the Road\u201d, and I love that we can climb the hill singing. And when we are too sad to sing, others will sing for us.\nDay 30 \u2026 how did that happen?\nI have always loved this psalm, and I love your \u201cLord of the Road.\u201d This Lent has been hard, not in the thing I chose to observe, but in family relationships. I definitely feel like it\u2019s Lent 5, marching toward Easter. In fact, someone in my home is grounded until Easter. I\u2019m trusting God for this one.\nI know \u2013 30 days (and 5 Sundays). It\u2019s a good long stretch, that\u2019s for sure. Thank you for your faithful presence here, Glenda. Always glad to see your darling avatar show up in this space.\nPraying with you as you wait it out, Megan. Praying for healing of relationships, for wise choices, for kind words, for changed attitudes. On all sides \u2013 cause that\u2019s what happens, isn\u2019t it? Tough family times feel like the flu somehow, pervasive and everyone feels lousy. Thanks for leaving me some words \u2013 I always appreciate them\u2026and you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 28819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dianatrautwein.com/2013/03/a-trip-to-the-dentist-a-deeper-family-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:20Z", "digest": "sha1:VQEP7Z3XLXQ3YFSQ6RQU3LJTGQOVOHBL", "length": 2147, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "dianatrautwein.com", "title": "A Trip to the Dentist \u2014 A Deeper Family", "raw_content": "A Trip to the Dentist \u2014 A Deeper Family\nThis is the day of the month that I am privileged to write over at A Deeper Family. Telling a few unpalatable truths about myself this time around, grateful that God continues to work for redemption in even the not-so-nice parts of me. You can find the rest of this essay by clicking here:\nSometimes, I can be a jerk. I can get smug, believe myself to be superior, judge others as not quite up to snuff, below the level of \u2018spiritual maturity\u2019 I\u2019ve discovered over the course of my L-O-N-G life. It\u2019s more than a little bit humiliating to admit this, but there it is.\nAlso true is this: I am far harder on myself than anyone else in my life has ever been or ever will be. I call myself names I wouldn\u2019t let past my lips in regard to another living person, ever.\nThis ability of the human psyche to rapidly traverse the territory between self-flagellation and grandiosity is simply astounding. Within a heartbeat, I can find myself skyrocketing from the voice of that harsh internal critic to one that reflects a pretty twisted praise-me-first-last-and-always egocentricity.\nThe truth is this: neither voice speaks it. At my very best, by the grace of God, I land somewhere in the middle \u2014 not nearly as terrible as that accusatory voice wants me to believe, but nowhere near as high-and-mighty as my more grandiose self might lead me to think. And a lot of life is spent trying to find and maintain that centered space, the one where I allow myself to be a human person, with strengths and flaws \u2014 not perfect, but not lower than a gnat\u2019s knees, either.\nI\u2019ve gotten better at it over time, but there is always more to be learned in this life.\nFor example, this small vignette: last week, my husband and I went to the dentist, one appointment after the other, for the first time ever in our married life. Our dentist\u2019s office is across the street from one of the most beautiful churches in our town, a big, old, sandstone building located on the corner of our busiest street. . .\nCome on over, add a comment and reassure me I\u2019m not the ONLY person in the world who battles monkey mind and self-centeredness!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 278, "original_length": 27203, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dianewilliamsandassociates.com/gregory-chudacoff/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:34Z", "digest": "sha1:ULXDYKKEYRXJ54XQEM5AZHZZCI6YKA5Q", "length": 793, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dianewilliamsandassociates.com", "title": "Gregory Chudacoff - Diane Williams and Associates", "raw_content": "Gregory Chudacoff\nI am sorry I didn\u2019t write sooner. I want to thank you for your excellent service you provided my mother in helping sell her home. You went well beyond all reasonable expectations \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 from displaying incredible patience, helping her find the workmen to make the appropriate repairs, to even getting her food when she wasn\u2019t really eating.\nBefore the listing, you told me \u201cdon\u2019t worry, I will take care of your mother\u201d. Although I really didn\u2019t believe it, you were a godsend. I don\u2019t think she (or I) could have gotten through the process without you.\nMy mother thinks of you not only as her real estate agent, but as her friend. If you ever need a recommendation, I am happy to give you a glowing one!!\nEnclosed is a gift I hope you enjoy! 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However, the total combined payments after such a reduction should never be less than the original amount of the SSDI payment, so a person's net payments should remain the same.\nIf you are receiving workers' compensation or another federal disability benefit, you payments cannot equal more than 80% of your SSDI benefits. If you receive more, your SSDI benefits could be in jeopardy.\nPensions and SSDI Benefits\nReceiving a private pension from work on which you did NOT pay Social Security taxes (such as civil-service or non-profit work) can reduce your level of SSDI benefits. If your SSDI benefits are already set up to compensate for such a pension, be sure to notify the SSA immediately of any changes as they occur as you will be responsible for repaying any money you receive in error.\nIn most cases, you will receive a pension for a job at which you paid Social Security taxes. These pensions will not affect SSDI benefits, and you will be fine receiving both at the same time.\nYou will not be able to receive Social Security retirement at the same time as SSDI. If you wish to apply for one, it's always wise to apply for SSDI when possible.\nGetting Assistance With Your SSDI Claim\nIf your disability payments have been wrongfully reduced or denied due to supplemental income, contact a qualified Social Security lawyer now. A Social Security attorney can help you maximize your benefits and get you the most income possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 304.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://discoversavannahga.com/do/golf-courses/bacon-park-golf-course/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:15Z", "digest": "sha1:TLFWLP6VMF7ZM27PEYS3XPFREEN7DLPE", "length": 878, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "discoversavannahga.com", "title": "Bacon Park Golf Course | Discover Savannah, GA", "raw_content": "Designed by Donald Ross in 1926, Bacon Park Golf Course is one of Savannah Georgia\u2019s true gems. The golf course is owned by the City of Savannah and managed by O.C. Welch Golf Properties Inc. and has been painstakingly returned to Donald Ross\u2019s original design. Come by and take a \u201cWalk in the Park\u201d!\nO.C. Welch Golf Properties Inc. is honored to be the management company of Bacon Park Golf Course. Our mission will be to revitalize the original 18 holes designed by Donald Ross in 1926. We will actively engage residents and visitors alike to come \u201cTake a Walk in the Park!\u201d to play and experience the wonderful game of golf.\nGolf is a great game for the whole family and O.C. Welch Golf Properties is all about families.\nGolf + Family = FUN \u2013 It\u2019s that simple!\nThe Bacon Park Golf Course is a great place for corporate events and social gatherings. Come see what\u2019s happening!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 239.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dixonmayfair.com/event/akc-all-breeds-dog-show/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:16Z", "digest": "sha1:JS7ZR7KRZ7DTF7VQ6DP4MFE2KW4WLVG2", "length": 270, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "dixonmayfair.com", "title": "AKC All Breeds Dog Show", "raw_content": "\u00ab Classic Japanese Motorcycle Club Show and Swap Meet\n13th Annual Renegade Rendezvous \u2013 Bike Show MMA Fights \u00bb\nRichmond Dog Fanciers Club, Inc.\n(Hours vary with most days beginning at 7:30 a.m. and ending by 5 p.m.)\nwww.facebook.com/Richmond-Dog-Fanciers-128756313809815", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1541, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dockoftherays.com/index.php/category/biotechnology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YL5QPA5QZ5BYRMJ2JADRCC4TUR3DDTZA", "length": 7836, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "dockoftherays.com", "title": "Biotechnology Archives - Dock Of The Rays", "raw_content": "Marc beer is the co-founder and the CEO of a med-tech company, Renovia Inc. based in Boston. The health center specializes in the production of therapeutic and diagnostic products which treats a condition caused by pelvic floor disorders such as urinary incontinence. According to researchers\u2019 statistics, approximately 250 million women in the world are believed to suffer from these disorders. On April 2018, FDA approved Leva which were the Renovia`s first product to be developed.\nOn August last year, Marc Beer led in raising the fund for the health care. The total fund raised added up to $42 million which was contributed in two phases. The first batch raised $10 million in venture debt while the second phase raised $32 million in Series B round. The funding will be used in development and testing of other four more diagnostic and therapeutic products as well as in the development of another generation of Leva devices.\nThe Longwood Fund, a healthcare related investment firm that had earlier invested in Renovia, joined the Series B funding, which was led by Perspective Advisors from New York and Ascension Ventures from Missouri.\nThe move was hailed positively from Renovia side. In a statement from Marc Beer, the CEO said that his team is thrilled by the support they have been receiving aimed at helping millions of women suffering from pelvic disorders. He added that through combining their innovative and proprietary sensors technology and creating common health platforms would help customers to access valuable data such as informing them of new treatment methods available, they will learn from them ways to handle pelvic floor disorders, and at the end, treatment cost will lower. The company failed to respond to questions about its investment or its pipeline products.\nRenovia leadership team is headed by a group of experts in the various health sector who ensures customers need meet. Marc Beer being the Chairman and CEO, he works with other personnel who assists him to accomplish day to day activities. Prior to founding Renovia, Marc Beer worked for more than 25 years in commercializing and development of biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and diagnostic devices. He together with Ramon Iglesias, MD and Yolanda Lorie are the founded Renovia in the year 2016.\nWilliam Dull is the Chief Commercial Officer of Renovia, and his primary role is to oversee international commercial and company`s operation. He joined Renovia from Aegerion Pharmaceutical where he developed innovative solutions which helped to solve complex patient problems. Dr. Samantha Pulliam served as the Chief Medical Officer and joined Renovia from the University of North Carolina where she was the Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She has extensive experience in research where she has published over 50 peer-reviewed research papers and abstracts. Learn more: https://renoviainc.com/leadership/\nMarc Beer Is Helping Women Overcome Pelvic Floor Disorders With New Technology\nA common health problem that a number of women suffer from each year is urinary incontinence. This common health problems occurs for a number of reasons. Some women may experience this condition due to childbirth while others might have developed an infection and suffered long term effects from it. No matter the reason, Marc Beer is working to make it easier for women and men to overcome this problem. Learn more: https://www.cnbc.com/video/2013/01/23/aegerion-ceo-on-promise-of-biopharma.html\nMarc Beer is responsible for creating sensor technologies to work on helping others overcome this condition. Through the use of sensors and technology, the goal is to help patients discover new treatment options for their overall urinary and pelvic conditions. Coming up with innovative solutions is what he does best.\nRenovia has been created to come up with new and exciting ways to bring commercial products to life in the first line of the diagnosis and treatment options to improve the overall health conditions of patients. The overall quality of life that a woman might experience can be devastating without the proper help. It is the hope of Renovia to help women who suffer from the pelvic floor disorders to be able to regain their self image once more by cutting back the number of concerns they are faced with monthly due to the pelvic floor disorders.\nThe hope of Renovia is to monitor in real life movement what a patient is experiencing. The technology that has been created will allow precise visualization for the patient suffering from the pelvic floor disorders. It will offer insight into the pelvic muscle training as well as taking notes for progress reports over time. Marc Beer was hoping that with his help, there would be more cost effective methods to be used to help patients suffering from pelvic disorders over long periods of time.\nThe start of Renovia has led women down a path that they might have otherwise not known about if the discovering of technology and diagnostic devices had not yet been discovered by individuals looking to help patients overcome health effects caused from Pelvic floor disorders. With the start of Renovia, there has been in increase in the money used to come up with new and exciting ways to overcome these health problems. With the funding of 42.3 million dollars behind them, Marc Beer is sure to come up with top of the line solutions for patients suffering from this condition or diagnosis.\nFollow Marc Beer on LinkedIn\nMarc Beer and the Science of Healthcare\nMarc Beer obtained his BS from the University of Miami (Ohio). He is currently the CEO and co-founder of the company Renovia, a start-up that\u2019s primary focus is on women\u2019s health and pelvic floor disorders. Beer has over 25 years of experience in commercialization and development in many industries including pharmaceuticals, devices, biotechnology, and diagnostics.\nPrior to his position at Renovia, Marc Beer has held many other lucrative positions including the Vice President of Global Marketing for the company Genzyme. Later, he worked for Abbott Laboratories, performing well in various sales and marketing roles. Beer was also the founding CEO of ViaCell in April of 2000. While at ViaCell, Beer sat on the board of directors for the company Erytech Pharma. He has also been a member of the Mass Life Science Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Beer has been a founding chairman at Good Start Genetics, Inc. and Minerva Neurosciences, Inc.\nIn April, Renovia had obtained their first FDA approval of the new product, Leva. Renovia has been researching and developing therapeutic and diagnostic solutions for pelvic floor disorders for women, such as urinary incontinence, which affects over 250 million women worldwide.\nMore recently, Renovia has received over $42 million in funds to further their research. They plan to use the funding to develop four more products, which will include an updated version of their first product, Leva. While $32 million of the funding came from a Series B round, $10 came from venture debt. The Longwood Fund, a firm that invests in healthcare companies and has been investing in Renovia since the beginning, jumped in the Series B round along with Perceptive Advisors, a New York-based firm, and Ascension Ventures, a Missouri-based firm. Learn more: https://renoviainc.com/\nMarc Beer has stated that he is excited to begin this project with their new investors. Renovia\u2019s passion to help patients by using innovative technologies and the digital healthcare platform will greatly influence how much they are able to help their customers who treat patients. The funding and research will enable Renovia to develop products that will yield more knowledge about pelvic floor disorders. This information will help to lower healthcare costs for every aspect of treatment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 553, "original_length": 15952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 220.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://doingbusiness.am/en/government", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:18Z", "digest": "sha1:X5UTC46C4MHIU4NHGFIKNWHEWMXBZUMP", "length": 2762, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "doingbusiness.am", "title": "Government, Political parties and civil society", "raw_content": "The Republic of Armenia is a sovereign, democratic, welfare state, governed by the rule of law, and founded on the principles of separation and balance of powers among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. The President is the head of state, elected for a term of fve years\nThe legislative branch is embodied by the National Assembly, comprised of 131 parliamentarians. The National Assembly is also elected for a fve-year term, elections being most recently held in May 2012.Executive power is in the hands of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, which consists of the Prime Minister and the body of 18 Ministers. In addition, there are seven state agencies adjunct to the Government. At the provincial level, Government policy is implemented by the governors (marzpets). Communities are self-governing. All powers of government administration not claimed by subnational levels revert to the Government.\nThe judicial branch is composed of the Courts of First Instance, Courts of Appeal, and the Supreme Court. The highest authority, outside of constitutional questions, is the Supreme Court, whose role is to ensure the uniform application of law.\nTHE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA IS A SOVEREIGN, DEMOCRATIC, WELFARE STATE, GOVERNED BY THE RULE OF LAW, AND FOUNDED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF SEPARATION AND BALANCE OF POWERS AMONG THE LEGISLATIVE, EXECUTIVE AND JUDICIAL BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT.\nPolitical parties and civil society\nPolitical parties are well-established in Armenia, and their relative strengths may be gauged by election results. At the National Assembly of Armenia election held in May 2012, the ruling Republican Party gained a majority of the Parliament seats. The Prosperous Armenia Party came in second with about one fourth of the seats, while the Armenian National Congress, Heritage, Armenian Revolutionary Federation, and OEK Rule of Law parties won less than 10% each. The National Assembly is comprised of 131 deputies, 90 elected by a proportional and 41 elected by a majority system of voting. Civil society institutions in the country are diverse and vibrant. There are more than a thousand nongovernmental organizations in the spheres of human rights and public policy, youth issues, humanitarian assistance, women issues, community development, children and family issues, health, education, national heritage, agriculture, national minorities, refugee issues, international relations and others. 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Such persons may be walking through dirty water that is infected with the urine or faeces of vectors (such as rats), exposing them to leptospirosis, Dr. Johnson stated.\nHe continued, \u201cWe do not want it to occur in Dominica at this time. We are working feverishly in terms of preventing those sort of diseases.\u201d\nSince drinking water may be contaminated at this time, the Ministry of Health is also advising citizens to ensure that drinking water is treated before consuming in order to prevent diseases.\n\u201cUntil further notice, all drinking water should be boiled or treated using water purification tablets and the Environmental Health Arm of the Ministry of Health is now distributing these tablets,\u201d Director of Primary Health Care Services, Dr Laura Esprit.\nShe advised that one aqua tablet can be added to one litre of water, while four tablets should be added to a gallon of water.\n\u201cEssentially what you do is you put four tablets into the container, leave it to stand for 30 minutes and then it is ready to drink,\u201d she explained.\nShe added, \u201cIn addition to that we want to avoid purchasing local juices if you are unsure of the quality of the water that is being used to prepare those juices.\u201d\nGastroenteritis cases reported after Erika\nMINISTRY OF HEALTH ADVISORY: Boil Water for Drinking\nMinistry of Health to implement a Vector Control Policy\nDominica observes World Health Day 2014\nMinistry of Health warns outbreak of Leptospirosis has not subsided; confirms two deaths from the disease", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 198.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://dreamink.blogspot.com/2006/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:30Z", "digest": "sha1:DG4GP5GXJYCL7PV45HAR5U42MYUBLFTB", "length": 21817, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "dreamink.blogspot.com", "title": "Dream Ink: June 2006", "raw_content": "Krrish invokes mixed reactions\nRakesh Roshan's Bollywood bonanza Krrish, his sequel to the super hit Koi Mil Gaya, starring his star son Hrithik Roshan, has been one of the most awaited movies of the year in Bollywood circles. For months, it has been promoted as India's first Superhero movie. The action sequences and special effects were tauted as the best Bollywood had ever seen. In fact, Roshan Sr said in an interview that \"It (special effects) is not like Hollywood. It is Hollywood.\"\nFor me and many watchers, Krrish has been special also because it was extensively (60%) shot in Singapore. Singapore Tourism Board (STB) invited the Roshans to shoot the movie here and promote Singapore, hoping to repeat the Roshan effect on Indian tourists what they had seen in the case of New Zealand (Roshan's earlier film Kaho Na Pyaar Hai was shot in NZ and it had apparently increased the tourist influx to NZ many times over).\nI haven't seen the film yet but the reviews have been kind of mixed.\nRajiv Masand says in IBNLive: \"Yes, Krrish may actually be Bollywood's first stab at a superhero story, and the intention is commendable, but the effort leaves a lot to be desired.\" He adds: \"My biggest complaint against Krrish is directed towards its screenplay: It stinks.\"\nSukanya Verma says in Rediff.com: \"The production values are shoddy. SFX team of Marc Kolbe and Craig Mumma's shabby use of super imposed background is annoying and distracting. Cinematographer Santosh Thundiiayil could have opted for a darker, slick look. Instead, he lends Krrish an extra-bright and powdery appearance befitting a detergent commercial. Siu Tung Ching and Sham Kaushal's action gets no points for originality. Most of it is borrowed from Matrix flicks and is repetitive in nature. Surely there must be more to a superhero than surging from one pole to another. This gratification comes to you only in the tail end of the movie. Krrish neither has the sleek aura nor the deep-rooted ideology of superheroes. What it does have is a super spirited performance from Hrithik Roshan, which is likely to appeal to kids. And that's worth a three-star cheer.\"\nRaja Sen in Rediff.com has another view to offer: \"Do the Krrish writers succeed? Not really. While luxuriously taking up almost three full hours of screentime, they plod through an extremely derivative landscape. Ideas are borrowed from a bunch of movies -- the few people who have watched John Woo's Paycheck will feel some d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu -- and effect-shots from a million more, including The Matrix films, Spider-Man, and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. And watch out for the distinct Batman hangover when he actually dons the mask. Krrish is mired by predictability. There are no big revelations, no sudden surprises. There's also no real character involvement, the viewer not actually caring enough about Krrish but just, like the protagonist himself, caught up in all his contrived coolth. However, the fact that it's exactly what the KMG fan expects is the reason the sequel will actually succeed. I'd bet on a sequel to Krrish.\"\nThat is a bit positive. More positive is Diganta Guha in The Hindustan Times: \"Technically, Krrish is perhaps the best in Bollywood history, whether in terms of action, special effects, cinematography or sound. There's little for the actors to do but deliver their bit and let Roshan Sr take the credit for a brilliant package...The sleek action sequences by Hong Kong-based Tony Ching Siu Tung and Sham Kaushal set a new trend, and combined with the special effects by US-based Marc Kolbe and Craig Mumma, they are a treat to watch...Krrish is a breath of fresh air into the staid world of Bollywood, much like Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Black. Watch it for its own sake and feast your eyes on the spread Roshan Sr has laid out for you.\"\nWah! That is a wonderful review for Krrish. Roshans must be happy to read this but the site looks like the official promotional site of Krrish.\nSurprisingly, none of the above mentioned reviews have mentioned, not even once, the breathtakingly beautiful scenes from Singapore and how well Roshan has exploited their picture postcard prettiness!\nIn fact, on the other side of the Singapore River, Singapore's Today film reviewer had some complaints against Roshan's portrayal of Singapore in \"A prosaic portrayal: Krrish makes Singapore look uninteresting\" (June 24, 2006):\n\"There is a good reason why so many Singaporean film-makers choose to set their films in Singapore's grittier spaces: There is little that is interesting about Singapore's snazzy side. And that is one of the problems with the blockbuster-wannabe Krrish \u2014 the first Bollywood film to be funded under the Singapore Tourism Board's $10-million Film in Singapore! Scheme.\"\n\"It doesn't make Singapore look terribly interesting.\"\nIn this sequel to the 2004 hit Koi Mil Gaya, Hrithik Roshan plays Krishna, a man with supernatural powers \u2014 his father was, wait for it, empowered by an alien called Jadoo \u2014 who falls in love with Priya (Priyanka Chopra) and follows her to Singapore. The problem is, Priya initially wants only to exploit his powers to score a hit show for the TV station where she works. So, Krishna and Priya go traipsing through Singapore's most prominent places in their courtship. Audiences get to see Shenton Way, Sentosa, Chinatown and Boat Quay filmed in the most prosaic ways. Buy a postcard and you'd get the same picture.\"\n\"Perhaps to add interest to banality of the setting, the film also portrays a seedier Singapore that doesn't really exist. As Krishna steps out of Changi Airport, two thugs on a motorcycle try to grab his belongings. And if the film is to be believed, Clifford Pier is a hangout for motorcycle thugs who speak bad English.\"\nWhatever the criticism and irrespective of Krrish's aforementioned weaknesses, the film is going to increase the Indian tourist inflow to Singapore. After all, millions of Indians seeing the beautiful Singapore shots in the Krrish songs playing on their telly day and night won't be able to ignore the charm of the lion city.\nKitaab@APWN\nThere is this interesting news that I want to share with you. My website, Kitaab, has been featured in APWN (Asia Pacific Writers Network, an initiative of PEN Australia). Along with my editorial, writings by my friends Fakrul Alam, Deepika Shetty and Jai Arjun Singh have also been showcased. Take a peek here.\nIndia vs China: Is the world really 'flat'?\nSorry for digressing from my pet topic of books and writers this week. I find the India vs Chian debate extremely engrossing as it concerns our own future. A good debate on the two rising economies has been going on for quite some time now.\nHere is an interesting podcast, which in fact provides a radically different view on this topic (TiECON East 2006: Howard Anderson Keynote on India & China: Is the World Flat or \u201cSpiky\u201d?)\nVenture capitalist Howard Anderson, in this podcast, predicts the position of India and China in the next 20 years.\nAnderson says that India has a temporary advantage and it might lose the game if it does not move towards development of proprietory software and increase its manufacturing base (Amartya Sen said the same thing in a BBC interview a few days ago). India already employs about 10,000 foreign workers (from US, Europe as it is suffering from shortage of skilled workers!!) and the salaries of its workers are steadily increasing--damaging India's cost advantage (No wonder recently Apple decided to shut down its outsourcing lab there; Another company, a British power company, also recently closed down its call centre business in India).\nChina is developing its physical as well intellectual infrastructure at a great speed. It seems to be at a more advantageous position.\nAmerica on the decline?\nWhile the media is agog with stories of China and India rising and becoming great economic powers, America's decline as a technological innovator (and obliquely as a power) is also being discussed a lot these days. Recently, Newsweek ran a cover story on this theme titled, Can America Compete?\nWrites international editor of Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria:\n\"Well, Americans have replaced Britons atop the world, and we are now worried that history is happening to us. History has arrived in the form of \"Three Billion New Capitalists,\" as Clyde Prestowitz's recent book puts it, people from countries like China, India and the former Soviet Union, which all once scorned the global market economy but are now enthusiastic and increasingly sophisticated participants in it. They are poorer, hungrier and in some cases well trained, and will inevitably compete with Americans and America for a slice of the pie. A Goldman Sachs study concludes that by 2045, China will be the largest economy in the world, replacing the United States.\nIt is not just writers like Prestowitz who are sounding alarms. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, reflects on the growing competence and cost advantage of countries like China and even Mexico and says, \"It's unclear how many manufacturers will choose to keep their businesses in the United States.\" Intel's Andy Grove is more blunt. \"America ... [is going] down the tubes,\" he says, \"and the worst part is nobody knows it. They're all in denial, patting themselves on the back, as the Titanic heads for the iceberg full speed ahead.\"\n\"Much of the concern centers on the erosion of science and technology in the U.S., particularly in education...\"\nIn another relevant story, \"The fast-fading luster of the American story\" in IHT,\nNathan Gardels and Mike Medavoy conclude that America's soft power (its cultural exports) is on the wane. I have been thinking along these lines, and their ideas strike a chord with me--didn't somebody great minds think alike?\n\"This vast influence of American culture in the world is what Harvard professor Joseph Nye has called \"soft power.\"\nNow, however, we are witnessing a mounting resistance, particularly from Asia and the Muslim world, to the American media's libertarian and secular messages.\nThere is also resistance to the mere fact of America's overwhelming cultural dominance. Josef Joffe, the publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit, has put it directly: \"Between Vietnam and Iraq, America's cultural presence has expanded into ubiquity, and so has resentment of America. Soft power does not necessarily increase the world's love for America. It is still power, and it still makes enemies.\"\nIf, as Nye has said, politics in the information age is about whose story wins, America's story, which has won for so long, is losing its universal appeal.\nFewer and fewer are buying into the American narrative. Needless to say, that has big implications for America's storyteller - Hollywood - as well.\nAmerica's soft power is losing its luster for several reasons.\"\nNow read on to know those reasons. The piece is thought-provoking.\nMinorities in Malaysia\nI seldom write about politics here in my blog but this one is special. Fellow blogger, Sharanya Manivannan, sent me this link to her open letter to the Prime Minsiter of India. Sharanya forcefully talks about the despicable state of minority rights in Malaysia-- a real cause for concern. Reading her account makes me shudder at the dangers of radical Islam. Only yesterday I read the news that some Muslim clerics in Malaysia wanted to impose a ban on general Muslims from attending religious festivities of other religions. Thankfully moderate Malaysians have criticised such remarks. The same spirit and more needs to be shown for minority rights as well.\nA discussion on this topic is already on at Sepia Mutiny.\nFishwick does a la David Davidar and Dalrymple catches big fish\nMichael Fishwick of Bloomsbury has done a la David Davidar. The publisher and cheque-writer has turned a fairly successful novelist. When I read about him here, I got reminded of David Davidar. Davidar was the CEO of Penguin Books India when he sent off his novel, The House of Blue Mangoes, to the most famous lit agent in London, of course under a different name. Fishwick did the same thing, and you know, he sent his ms to the same agent! Pure coincidence! Looks like Atundhati Roy's agent is the publisher's favourite too.\nIn the same interview, we get to know that Dalrymple has signed a huge deal with Bloomsbury that has caused some controversy in the publishing industry:\n\"But he stiffens at mention of the Dalrymple deal. \"It wasn't wildly more than he was being paid at HarperCollins,\" he says sniffily. The reports ignored the small print, he adds. The \u00a32m is for five books. \"His last book sold 50,000 in hardback and will have sold 200,000 in paperback. All William's books sell 5,000 or 6,000 copies a year and have done since I first published him in 1987. So, in terms of where you are going to put your money, it is as safe a bet as you can think of.\"\nHarper Lee's has been a curious story. She did not publish anything after her first hugely successful novel, To kill a mocking bird.\nHere is some light on her rather mysterious life:\nHarper Lee's last major interview was given to Roy Newquist in March 1964, for his book 'Counterpoint'\n\"I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of reviewers, but at the same time I hoped that maybe someone would like it enough to give me encouragement - public encouragement. I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.\n[My next book] goes ever so slowly. Many writers really don't like to write ...They loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences. I like to write - sometimes too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it. I'll go for days and days without leaving the house. I'll go out long enough to get papers and pick up food and that's it.\nThis was my childhood: if I went to a film once a month it was pretty good.\nWe had to use our own devices in our play, for our entertainment. We didn't have much money. We didn't have toys, nothing was done for us, so we lived in our imagination most of the time. We were readers, and we would transfer everything we had seen on the printed page to the backyard in the form of drama.\nIt takes time and patience and effort to turn out a work of art, and few people seem willing to go all the way. I see a great deal of sloppiness and I deplore it. I think writers today are too easily pleased with their work. This is sad. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.\nI want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I would like to leave some record of... small-town middle-class southern life. All I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama.\"\nJohn Updike, Terrorism, and the Future of Books\nThese days terrorism is a hot topic for novelists. Both Yasmina Khadare and John Updike have come out with new novels that have terrorism as their central themes. While Yasmina Khadare's novel is titled \"The Attack,\" Updike's is simply called \"Terrorist.\"\nHere's a review of Updike's novel by NYT's Michiko Kakutani:\n\"Unfortunately, the would-be terrorist in this novel turns out to be a completely unbelievable individual: more robot than human being and such a clich\u00e9 that the reader cannot help suspecting that Mr. Updike found the idea of such a person so incomprehensible that he at some point abandoned any earnest attempt to depict his inner life and settled instead for giving us a static, one-dimensional stereotype.\n\"Terrorist\" possesses none of the metaphysical depth of classic novelistic musings on revolutionaries like \"The Secret Agent,\" \"The Possessed\" or \"The Princess Casamassima,\" and none of the staccato, sociological brilliance of more recent fictional forays into this territory, like Don DeLillo's \"Mao II.\"\nHowever, this is not going to dampen my spirits. I look forward to reading these two novels.\nHere is another link (podcast) to Updike's speech on the future of books. Quite interesting!\nIn Lust We Trust?\nSingaporean author Gerrie Lim is back with a bang, and his new book is lustier than his previous outputs: It is befittingly called, In Lust We Trust!\nLim was a scribe in the US in the yester years and used to cover the music industry and later on the porn industry there.\nHe got famous with his book on the escort business: \"His 2004 book Invisible Trade, an expose on the upscale escorting industry, is in its third printing and has sold an impressive 20,000 copies.\"\nLim has used his porn industry experience (of covering it) to write his latest, what looks like, bestseller. In an interview with Today, he made some interesting points:\n\"I think that a lot of us are inherently voyeuristic, whether we like it or not. The people who deny it are obviously lying. The fact that someone bothers to watch a reality show where people make fools of themselves is voyeuristic, not to mention more exploitative than pornography.\"\n\"Of course, adult entertainment has been demonised and there is no way around that. It's like writing a book about professional wrestling and explaining it to people who think it's stupid. Well, stupid is the point. It's funny and not real because it's not sports but entertainment.\"\n\"It's the same with porn. Adult actress Nina Hartley gave me a great quote when I was researching this book: \"You've got to remember that porn is basically live action sex cartoons.\"\nIf you can't hold it anymore and read the whole stuff, go here.\nThe Birth of a Jehadi\nIn its latest issue, New Yorker takes a look at the phenomenon of Muslim Jehadis, in the context of the last year's London bombings. The article quotes from a British investigation report and shows respect for its conclusions:\n\"The report concludes that there is no consistent profile that could be used to help identify who might be vulnerable to such radicalization, and yet the biographies do show in some detail how the making of an Al Qaeda-inspired suicide bomber is an idiosyncratic narrative of push and pull. Alienation from citizenship or family and a loss of faith in secular opportunity create a pool of potential volunteers; preachers, recruiters, and Al Qaeda leaders take it from there. The British parliament\u2019s main intelligence-oversight committee, in a separate report, admits that Britain has failed to consider adequately how it might reduce the number of potential recruits: \u201cWe remain concerned that across the whole of the counter-terrorism community the development of the home-grown threat and the radicalisation of British citizens were not fully understood or applied to strategic thinking.\u201d\nIn the same issue, Margaret Talbot profiles the famous Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci and her views on Islam.\nIn the piece, there is this interesting anecdote about Fallaci' meeting with Khomeni:\n\"Fallaci continued posing indignant questions about the treatment of women in the new Islamic state. Why, she asked, did Khomeini compel women to \u201chide themselves, all bundled up,\u201d when they had proved their equal stature by helping to bring about the Islamic revolution? Khomeini replied that the women who \u201ccontributed to the revolution were, and are, women with the Islamic dress\u201d; they weren\u2019t women like Fallaci, who \u201cgo around all uncovered, dragging behind them a tail of men.\u201d A few minutes later, Fallaci asked a more insolent question: \u201cHow do you swim in a chador?\u201d Khomeini snapped, \u201cOur customs are none of your business. If you do not like Islamic dress you are not obliged to wear it. Because Islamic dress is for good and proper young women.\u201d Fallaci saw an opening, and charged in. \u201cThat\u2019s very kind of you, Imam. And since you said so, I\u2019m going to take off this stupid, medieval rag right now.\u201d She yanked off her chador.\"\nFallaci has written a lot on Islam and the West in recent years. The profile further notes:\n\"She writes that Muslim immigration is turning Europe into \u201ca colony of Islam,\u201d an abject place that she calls \u201cEurabia,\u201d which will soon \u201cend up with minarets in place of the bell-towers, with the burka in place of the mini-skirt.\u201d Fallaci argues that Islam has always had designs on Europe, invoking the siege of Constantinople in the seventh century, and the brutal incursions of the Ottoman Empire in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She contends that contemporary immigration from Muslim countries to Europe amounts to the same thing\u2014invasion\u2014only this time with \u201cchildren and boats\u201d instead of \u201ctroops and cannons.\u201d\nMeanwhile, in the NYRB, Michael Massing somewhat rises to the defence of two American researchers who have done a controversial paper on the Israel Lobby in America.\n\"Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington's \"The Clash of Civilizations?\" in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force as \"The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy,\" by professors John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Published in the March 23, 2006, issue of the London Review of Books and posted as a \"working paper\" on the Kennedy School's Web site, the report has been debated in the coffeehouses of Cairo and in the editorial offices of Haaretz. 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Social media and gamification have added even more knowledge to pHealth as an ecosystem.\nThis book presents the proceedings of pHealth 2018. Held in Gj\u00f8vik, Norway, in June 2018, this is the 15th in a series of scientific conferences which have brought together expertise from medical, technological, political, administrative, and social domains, and even from philosophy or linguistics. Initiated in 2003 as part of a European project, the scope of these conferences now encompasses technological and biomedical facilities, legal, ethical, social, and organizational requirements and impacts, as well as necessary basic research for enabling future-proof care paradigms. The conferences thereby combine medical services with public health, preventive medicine, social and elderly care, wellness and personal fitness to establish participatory, predictive, personalized, preventive, and effective care settings.\nThe book includes 1 of the 2 keynotes presented at the conference, 4 invited talks, 16 oral presentations, and 7 short poster presentations. All submissions were carefully and critically reviewed by at least two independent experts, and this selective review process resulted in a full papers rejection rate of 50%.\ni - xiii\npHealth 2018 is the 15th Conference in a series of scientific events bringing together expertise from medical, technological, political, administrative, and social domains, and even from philosophy or linguistics. It opens a new chapter in the success story of the series of international conferences on wearable or implantable micro and nano technologies for personalized medicine.\nStarting in 2003 as a Dissemination Activity in the framework of a European Project on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalized Health with personal health management systems, pHealth conferences have evolved to truly interdisciplinary and global events. Meanwhile, pHealth comprehensively represented in the conference series also covers technological and biomedical facilities, legal, ethical, social, and organizational requirements and impacts as well as necessary basic research for enabling the future proof care paradigms. Thereby, it combines medical services with public health, prevention, social and elderly care, wellness and personal fitness to establish participatory, predictive, personalized, preventive, and effective care settings. By this way, it has attracted scientists, developers, and practitioners from various technologies, medical and health disciplines, legal affairs, politics, and administration from all over the world. The conference brought together health services vendor and provider institutions, payer organizations, governmental departments, academic institutions, professional bodies, but also patients and citizens representatives.\nSmart mobile systems such as microsystems, smart textiles, smart implants, sensor-controlled medical devices, and innovative sensor and actuator principles and techniques as well as related body, local and wide area networks up to cloud services have become important enablers for telemedicine and ubiquitous pervasive health as the next generation health services. Social media and gamification have added even further knowledge to pHealth as an eco-system.\nOECD has defined four basic areas to be managed in the new care model: address the big data challenges; foster meaningful innovation; understand and address the potential new risks; and support concerted effort to un-silo communities for a virtual care future. The multilateral benefits of pHealth technologies for all stakeholder communities including patients, citizens, health professionals, politicians, healthcare establishments, and companies from the biomedical technology, pharmaceutical, and telecommunications domain gives enormous potential, not only for medical quality improvement and industrial competitiveness, but also for managing health care cost.\nThe pHealth 2018 conference thankfully benefits from the experience and the lessons learned from the organizing committees of previous pHealth events, particularly 2009 in Oslo, 2010 in Berlin, 2011 in Lyon, 2012 in Porto, 2013 in Tallinn, 2014 in Vienna, 2015 in V\u00e4ster\u00e5s, 2016 in Heraklion, and 2017 in Eindhoven. The 2009 conference brought up the interesting idea of having special sessions, focusing on a particular topic, and being organized by a mentor/moderator. The Berlin event in 2010 initiated workshops on particular topics prior to the official kick-off of the conference. Lyon in 2011 initiated the launch of so-called dynamic demonstrations allowing the participants to dynamically show software and hardware solutions on the fly without needing a booth. Implementing pre-conference events, the pHealth 2012 in Porto gave attendees a platform for presenting and discussing recent developments and provocative ideas that helped to animate the sessions. Highlight of pHealth 2013 in Tallinn was the special session on European projects' success stories, but also presentations on the newest paradigm changes and challenges coming up with Big Data, Analytics, Translational and Nano Medicine, etc. Vienna in 2014 focused on lessons learned from international and national R&D activities and practical solutions, and especially from the new EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020. Beside reports about technology transfer support and building ecosystems and value chains to ensure better time to market and higher impact of knowledge-based technologies, the acceptability of solutions, especially considering security and privacy aspects have been presented and deeply discussed. pHealth 2015 in V\u00e4ster\u00e5s addressed mobile technologies, knowledge-driven applications and computer-assisted decision support, but also apps designed to support elderly as well as chronic patients in their daily and possibly independent living. Furthermore, fundamental scientific and methodological challenges of adaptive, autonomous, and intelligent pHealth approaches, the new role of patients as consumers and active party with growing autonomy and related responsibilities, but also requirements and solutions for mHealth in low- and medium income countries have been considered. The pHealth2016 conference aimed at the integration of biology and medical data, the deployment mobile technologies through the development of micro-nano-bio smart systems, the emphasis on personalized health, virtual care, precision medicine, big bio-data management and analytics. The pHealth 2017 event in Eindhoven provided an inventory of the former conferences by summarizing requirements and solutions for pHealth systems, highlighting the importance of trust, and newly focuses on behavioral aspects in designing and using pHealth systems. A specific aspect addressed is the need for flexible, adaptive and knowledge-based systems as well as decision intelligence. pHealth 2018, borrowing from good experiences of former events, establishes national and European satellite workshops, so completing the more theoretical consideration of the majority of the papers by organizational and practical experiences.\nThe Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Gj\u00f8vik, Norway, Escio AS, HL7 Norway, and HL7 International, but \u2013 following a long-term tradition \u2013 also the Working Groups \u201cElectronic Health Records (EHR)\u201d, \u201cPersonal Portable Devices (PPD)\u201d and \u201cSecurity, Safety and Ethics (SSE)\u201d of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) have been actively involved in the preparation and realization of the pHealth 2018 Conference.\nThis proceedings volume covers 1 of the 2 keynotes presented to the conference, 4 invited talks, 16 oral presentations, and 7 short poster presentations from almost 100 authors, coming from 20 countries from all around the world. All submissions have been carefully and critically reviewed by at least two independent experts from other than the authors' home countries, and additionally by at least one member of the Scientific Program Committee. The performed highly selective review process resulted in a full papers rejection rate of 50%, by that way guaranteeing a high scientific level of the accepted and finally published papers. The editors are indebted to the acknowledged and highly experienced reviewers for having essentially contributed to the quality of the conference and the book at hand.\nBoth the pHealth 2018 Conference and the publication of the pHealth 2018 Proceedings at IOS Press would not have been possible without the supporters and sponsors Health Level 7 International (HL7 International), HL7 Norway, Escio AS, the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), the Center for Cyber and Information Security (CCIS) at NTNU, the Ministry of Health and Care Services of Norway, the IKTPLUSS Initiative of the Research Council of Norway, and the U.S. Embassy Oslo.\nThe editors are also grateful to the Members of the international Scientific Program Committee, but especially the dedicated efforts of the Local Organizing Committee members and their supporters for carefully and smoothly preparing and operating of the conference. They thank all team members from NTNU such as Urszula Nowostawska and Vivek Agrawal for their dedication to the organization and realization of the conference.\nBernd Blobel, Bian Yang\nModeling the Personal Health Ecosystem\nBernd Blobel, Mathias Brochhausen, Pekka Ruotsalainen\nComplex ecosystems like the pHealth one combine different domains represented by a huge variety of different actors (human beings, organizations, devices, applications, components) belonging to different policy domains, coming from different disciplines, deploying different methodologies, terminologies, and ontologies, offering different levels of knowledge, skills, and experiences, acting in different scenarios and accommodating different business cases to meet the intended business objectives. For correctly modeling such systems, a system-oriented, architecture-centric, ontology-based, policy-driven approach is inevitable, thereby following established Good Modeling Best Practices. However, most of the existing standards, specifications and tools for describing, representing, implementing and managing health (information) systems reflect the advancement of information and communication technology (ICT) represented by different evolutionary levels of data modeling. The paper presents a methodology for integrating, adopting and advancing models, standards, specifications as well as implemented systems and components on the way towards the aforementioned ultimate approach, so meeting the challenge we face when transforming health systems towards ubiquitous, personalized, predictive, preventive, participative, and cognitive health and social care.\nPersonalized Monitoring and Assistive Systems: Case Study of Efficient Home Solutions\nLenka Lhotska, Jarom\u00edr Dole\u017eal, Jind\u0159ich Adolf, Ji\u0159\u00ed Pot\u016f\u010dek, Miroslav K\u0159\u00ed\u017eek, Baha Chbani\nThe rapid emergence and proliferation of connected medical devices and their application in healthcare are already part of the Healthcare Internet of Things (IoT) \u2013 as this area started to be named. Their true impact on patient care and other aspects of healthcare remains to be seen and is highly dependent on the quality and relevancy of the data acquired. There is also the trend of application of IoT in telemedicine and home care environment. Currently many research groups focus on design and development of various solutions that can assist elderly and handicapped people in their home environment. However, many of these solutions are sophisticated and require advanced users that are able to control the device, handle error states and exceptions. They are frequently using expensive technologies that are good for laboratory environment but they are not affordable for many elderly or handicapped persons. In the paper we will analyze the current situation, present identified needs of elderly population and propose potential solutions. On a case study of efficient home solution of a personalized and assistive system we will show possibilities of technologically simple solutions using off-the-shelf devices and elements.\nA Model for Calculated Privacy and Trust in pHealth Ecosystems\nPekka Ruotsalainen, Bernd Blobel\nA pHealth ecosystem is a community of service users and providers. It is also a dynamic socio-technical system. One of its main goals is to help users to maintain their personal health status. Another goal is to give economic benefit to stakeholders which use personal health information existing in the ecosystem. In pHealth ecosystems, a huge amount of health related data is collected and used by service providers such as data extracted from the regulated health record and information related to personal characteristics, genetics, lifestyle and environment. In pHealth ecosystems, there are different kinds of service providers such as regulated health care service providers, unregulated health service providers, ICT service providers, researchers and industrial organizations. This fact together with the multidimensional personal health data used raises serious privacy concerns.\nPrivacy is a necessary enabler for successful pHealth, but it is also an elastic concept without any universally agreed definition. Regardless of what kind of privacy model is used in dynamic socio-technical systems, it is difficult for a service user to know the privacy level of services in real life situations. As privacy and trust are interrelated concepts, the authors have developed a hybrid solution where knowledge got from regulatory privacy requirements and publicly available privacy related documents is used for calculation of service providers' specific initial privacy value. This value is then used as an estimate for the initial trust score. In this solution, total trust score is a combination of recommended trust, proposed trust and initial trust. Initial privacy level is a weighted arithmetic mean of knowledge and user selected weights. The total trust score for any service provider in the ecosystem can be calculated deploying either a beta trust model or the Fuzzy trust calculation method. The prosed solution is easy to use and to understand, and it can be also automated. It is possible to develop a computer application that calculates a situation-specific trust score, and to make it freely available on the Internet.\nThe Role of Axiomatically-Rich Ontologies in Transforming Medical Data to Knowledge\nMathias Brochhausen, Jonathan Bona, Bernd Blobel\nIn the biomedical domain, there exist a number of common data models (CDM) that have experienced wide uptake. However, none of these has emerged as the common model. Recently, the demand for integrating and analyzing increasingly large data sets in clinical and translational research has led to numerous efforts to harmonize existing CDMs and integrate data curated based on those models. These efforts raise the question of how to appropriately represent the semantics of data, and, furthermore, they highlight the fact that quite often different groups have greatly different definitions of \u2018semantics\u2019. The question of how to formally assure that mappings between CDMs are correct is often overlooked. The answer to these challenges lies in using axiomatically-rich ontologies that allow verifying that terms refer to the same set of entities using automatic inference. This verification is only possible by building ontologies that represent the content of the scientific disciplines in accordance with the reality of the domain of the disciplines. Organizing and managing the development of numerous orthogonal domain-specific ontologies would benefit from using an Architecture Reference Model, that helps keeping the relationships consistent within each domain and ensure that appropriate inter-domain relationships are defined. This paper will explore how a strong logical representation of the scientific domain does not only foster harmonization of CDMs, but also informs and facilitates the transition from data over information to knowledge.\npHealth/mHealth Applications\nAssistive Medication Management System for Users with Visual Impairment\nKiana Farhadyar, Reza Safdari, Ahmad Behpajooh, Iman Nematollahi\nMedication management is a complex process and is taken into account of daily activities. Moreover, participation in daily activities could define the wellbeing. On the other hand, the medication management process for visually impaired individuals is more difficult. Nowadays, the technologies like mHealth and RFID, have caused a significant progress in both areas of medication management systems and visually impaired Independent Living. Therefore the aim of this work was to develop an assistive medication management system for visually impaired people in order to improve the medication adherence among them. The development process started by requirements extraction according to goal directed design methodology introduced by Cooper. Then the system, called MedVision was developed, consisting of an android mobile application, RFID device and a medication box with vibration motors and it is developed for Iranian visually impaired individuals in Persian language. At the final step of this study, a functional assessment was performed in order to improve the system even more in next prototypes.\nDeveloping an Android-Based Patient Decision Aid Based on Ottawa Standards for Patients After Kidney Transplant and Its Usability Evaluation\nMahboobeh Zare Moayedi, Azam Aslani, Mostafa Fakhrahmad, Shahrokh Ezzatzadegan J.\nObjectives: This study was conducted to develop an android based patient decision aid (PDA) as a self-care instrument for patients after kidney transplant and its usability evaluation.\nMethods: In this study, the systematic development process of Android-based self-care application for patients after kidney transplant based on Ottawa standard was included: scoping, assemble steering group, analysis of requirements, designing, develop of a prototype and system evaluation. The PDA is a self-triage system that will help early identification of risk symptoms in patients, and help manage them. System recommendations for risk signs are: Refer to the nearest hospital or healthcare center without delay, refer to the doctor and tell your doctor in the next visit. To identify patient care needs, a semi-structured interview with members of steering group, including patients and clinical experts, was conducted by the researchers. A prototype of the decision aid was made according to identified needs in the previous step. Finally, in order to evaluate its usability rate by using the System Usability Scale (SUS) questionnaire, it was used by exerts and patients.\nResults: This study identified information needs, risk signs and steps that patients need to make appropriate decisions about them. The main capabilities of the decision aid are features such as reminders for appointment/test, time of taking medication, registration of symptoms, weight, blood pressure, body temperature, advising to patient in case of signs of risk, weight, blood pressure, body temperature and test results which were reported in the diagram. The mean score of system's usability evaluated by medical informatics specialists, clinicians, and patients were 88.33, 95, and 91.\nConclusions: PDAs was usable and desirable from the point of view of medical informatics specialists, clinicians and patients.\nEmbedded Sensor Systems for Health \u2013 A Step Towards Personalized Health\nMaria Lind\u00e9n, Mats Bj\u00f6rkman\nThe demography is changing towards older people, and the challenge to provide an appropriate care is well known. Sensor systems, combined with IT solutions are recognized as one of the major tools to handle this situation. Embedded Sensor Systems for Health (ESS-H) is a research profile at M\u00e4lardalen University in Sweden, focusing on embedded sensor systems for health technology applications. The research addresses several important issues: to provide sensor systems for health monitoring at home, to provide sensor systems for health monitoring at work, to provide safe and secure infrastructure and software testing methods for physiological data management. The user perspective is important in order to solve real problems and to develop systems that are easy and intuitive to use. One of the overall aims is to enable health trend monitoring in home environments, thus being able to detect early deterioration of a patient. Sensor systems, signal processing algorithms, and decision support algorithms have been developed. Work on development of safe and secure infrastructure and software testing methods are important for an embedded sensor system aimed for health monitoring, both in home and in work applications. Patient data must be sent and received in a safe and secure manner, also fulfilling the integrity criteria.\nVital Signs and Activity Monitoring\nCuffless Blood Pressure Estimation Using Pulse Transit Time and Photoplethysmogram Intensity Ratio\nHamid Gholamhosseini, Mirza Baig, Solmaz Rastegar, Maria Lind\u00e9n\nHigh blood pressure (BP) is one of the common risk factors for heart disease, stroke, congestive heart failure, and kidney disease. An accurate, continuous and cuffless BP monitoring technique could help clinicians improve the rate of prevention, detection, and treatment of hypertension and related diseases. Pulse transit time (PTT) has attracted interest as an index of BP changes for cuffless BP measurement techniques. Currently, PPT-based BP measurement approaches have improved and are able to relieve the discomfort associated with an inflated cuff such as that used in auscultatory and oscillometric BP measurement techniques. However, PTT can only track the BP variation in high frequency (HF) which limits the true representation of BP changes. This paper presents a continuous and cuffless BP monitoring method based on multi-parameter fusion. We used photoplethysmogram (PPG) and a two-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) and employed an algorithm based on PTT and the PPG intensity ratio (PIR) to continuously track BP in both high and low frequencies and estimate systolic and diastolic BP.\nQuality Index Analysis on Camera-Based R-Peak Identification Considering Movements and Light Illumination\nMobyen Uddin Ahmed, Hamidur Rahman, Shahina Begum\nThis paper presents a quality index (QI) analysis on R-peak extracted by a camera system considering movements and light illumination. Here, the proposed camera system is compared with a reference system named Shimmer PPG sensor. The study considers five test subjects with a 15 minutes measurement protocol, where the protocol consists of several conditions. The conditions are: normal sittings, head movements i.e., up/down/left/right/forward/backword, with light on/off and with moving flash on/off. A percentage of corrected R-peaks are calculated based on time difference in milliseconds (MS) between the R-peaks extracted both from camera-based and sensor-based systems. A comparison results between normal, movements, and lighting condition is presented as individual and group wise. Furthermore, the comparison is extended considering gender and origin of the subjects. According to the results, more than 90% R-peaks are correctly identified by the camera system with \u00b1200 MS time differences, however, it decreases with while there is no light than when it is on. At the same time, the camera system shows more 95% accuracy for European than Asian men.\nHuman Activity Recognition Supported on Indoor Localization: A Systematic Review\nJes\u00fas Cer\u00f3n, Diego M. L\u00f3pez\nProblem: The number of older adults is growing worldwide. This has a social and economic impact in all countries because of the increased number of older adults affected by chronic diseases, health emergencies, and disabilities, representing at the end high cost for the health system. To face this problem, the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) domain has emerged. Its main objective is to extend the time that older adults can live independently in their homes. AAL is supported by different fields and technologies, being Human Activity Recognition (HAR), control of vital signs and location tracking the three of most interest during the last years.\nObjective: To perform a systematic review about Human Activity Recognition (HAR) approaches supported on Indoor Localization (IL) and vice versa, describing the methods they have used, the accuracy they have obtained and whether they have been directed towards the AAL domain or not.\nMethods: A systematic review of six databases was carried out (ACM, IEEE Xplore, PubMed, Science Direct and Springer).\nResults: 27 papers were found. They were categorised into three groups according their approach: paper focus on 1. HAR, 2. IL, 3. HAR and IL. A detailed analysis of the following factors was performed: type of methods and technologies used for HAR, IL and data fusion, as well as the precision obtained for them.\nConclusions: This systematic review shows that the relationship between HAR and IL has been very little studied, therefore providing insights of its potential mutual support to provide AAL solutions.\npHealth Solutions for Decision Support\nDesign and Implementation of Big Data-Based Documents to Optimize Medical Coding\nJoseph Noussa-Yao, Didier Heudes, Patrice Degoulet\nClinical information systems (CISs) in some hospitals streamline the data management from data warehouses. These warehouses contain heterogeneous information from all medical specialties that offer patient care services. It is increasingly difficult to manage large volumes of data in a specific clinical context such as quality coding of medical services. The document-based Not Only SQL (NO-SQL) model can provide an accessible, extensive and robust coding data management framework while maintaining certain flexibility. This paper focus on the design and implementation of a big data-coding warehouse, it also defines the rules to convert a conceptual model of coding into a document-oriented logical model. Using that model, we implemented, analyzed a big data-coding warehouse via the Mongodb database, and evaluated it using data research mono- and multi-criteria and then calculated the precision of our model.\nHAART Prescription Support Tool for Personalized Therapy\nBarbara Giannini, Mauro Giacomini\nThe importance of decision support systems is highly acknowledged as a key strategy to improve medical safety and quality of care. A strong interoperability between the hospital Electronic Health Record (EHR) and the Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) is the key to reach a most reliable decision support, that could aid in better diagnosis, reduce medication errors and improve practitioner performances. Interoperability is granted by the use of standards for data representation and for system intercommunication. A CDSS to support HAART (Highly active antiretroviral therapy) prescription in HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) naive patients was developed within the Ligurian HIV Network. GLIF3 (GuideLine Interchange Format) standard was used to represent clinical guidelines in machine interpretable format. HSSP (Healthcare Services Specification Project) DSS (Decision Support System) standard was used to develop the CDSS web service that evaluates patient's data according to the rules emerging from the GLIF representation of the guidelines. Patient's data are extracted from hospital EHR, formatted into standard vMR (virtual Medical Record) documents and sent to the DSS web service to be evaluated. The results are displayed by a client application in an intuitive way to guide physician's decisions.\nDecision Support System Based on FHIR Profiles\nIlia Semenov, Georgy Kopanitsa\nIn some healthcare systems, it is common that patients address laboratory test centers directly without a doctor's referral. Russia is one of such countries with about 28% of the patients going directly to the laboratory test center for diagnostics. This leads to a situation when patients are not supported by healthcare professionals in the interpretation of test results. Interpretation of test results is a resource-consuming task that will delay the results and increase costs of each test. However, this can be done by computer-based decision support systems that have proved to solve such tasks efficiently. So, the design and implementation of a decision support system that would generate reports for the patients who referred to a test center without a doctor's referral can increase motivation and support patients to make better informed decisions. The goal of this study is to implement a decision support system for patients. We developed a clinical decision support system for the patients that solves a classification problem by relating a vector of test results to a set of diagnoses and find a set of recommendations associated with every diagnosis from this set.\nCalibration and Electrical Validation of a BIS Portable System\nJos\u00e9 Alves, Filipe Sousa, Miguel V. Correia\nHeart failure (HF) affects at least 26 million people worldwide and is considered a global pandemic. Almost 1 out of 4 hospitalised patients are re-hospitalised for HF within the 30-day post-discharge period. This can be avoided if changes to the hemodynamics of the HF patient's body are early detected. Bioimpedance Spectroscopy (BIS) is a method that allows the measurement and analysis of multi-frequency body complex impedance and can be used to detect changes to the HF patient's hemodynamics. This paper presents the calibration and validation process of a low-cost portable BIS system, as well as, the study of the best Cole parameter estimation methods. The BIS system was calibrated using a three reference circuit method and a Resistance-Capacitance-Inductance (RCL) meter as calibration system. After calibration, BIS impedance measurements of validation circuits presented an average phase error of 0.76 degrees and an average magnitude relative error of 0.6% when compared with standard values. Regarding Cole parameters estimation, using the Impedance model and the Non-Linear Least Squares method for curve fitting, the relative errors were below 4% when compared with the expected values.\nBehavioral Aspects and Population Health\nBig Data in Brazilian Cancer Surveillance\nAnt\u00f4nio Augusto Gon\u00e7alves, Jos\u00e9 Geraldo Pereira Barbosa, Sandro Lu\u00eds Freire de Castro Silva, Carlos Henrique Fernandes Martins, Cezar Cheng\nCancer research has a great importance across the world. It is responsible for data analysis of cancer incidence by region, ethnicity, gender, age, social and economic issues, and contributes to the assessment of population health necessities. Nowadays, Brazil has a complex cancer care scenario. There are nearly 600.000 new cancer cases each year. Cancer surveillance in Brazil is carried out by a network of cancer registries which together feed the data warehouse of cancer incidence across the country. The analysis of cancer data warehouses using Data Mining techniques may discover hidden relations among patients' data, cancer treatment, and disease surveillance. This paper presents the development of a Big Data project with the purpose to analyze the cancer incidence and mortality patterns within the different regions and population groups in Brazil.\nImproving Patient Motivation Towards Physical Rehabilitation Treatments with PlayTherapy Exergame\nEdwin Gamboa, Camilo Ruiz, Maria Trujillo\nA key problem in physical rehabilitation treatments is patient motivation since those treatments involve slow, repetitive, and often painful movements. Consequently, little progress may be achieved after a session, leading to longer or even uncompleted treatments. In this paper, PlayTherapy a platform to assist physical rehabilitation treatments is described. PlayTherapy is composed of two main components: (i) a rehabilitation digital exergame, consisting of a set of movement based and interactive mini-games; (ii) an information management system that keeps patient personal progress. Both components were developed in collaboration with a group of physiotherapists. Additionally, a User Experience (UX) evaluation, involving a group of physiotherapists and patients, is presented. This evaluation showed that the inclusion of PlayTherapy in physical rehabilitation treatments may increase patient motivation.\npHealth Self-Management Solutions\nMotivational Factors for User Engagement with mHealth Apps\nAshenafi Zebene Woldaregay, David-Zacharie Issom, Andr\u00e9 Henriksen, Henna Marttila, Martin Mikalsen, Gerit Pfuhl, Keiichi Sato, Christian Lovis, Gunnar Hartvigsen\nThe widespread adoption of smartphones creates an enormous potential to improve healthcare services. Numerous apps, sensors, and devices are developed for health self-management purposes. However, adoption rates remain low and long-term user engagement is a major issue. The goal of this study is to identify major motivational factors that can facilitate prolonged use of mobile health systems. To this end, we conducted 16 interviews with representatives of various cultural backgrounds, disease history, age, and gender. Participants' experiences indicated that existing systems were unable to answer their self-management needs properly. People with a disease history favored learning from data, as well as from others via social media integration. People without chronic disease felt more reserved about social media integration. In conclusion, systems that collect and share personal data should have a clear opt-in or opt-out option to motivate usage. 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Burgess\nThe City, first published in 1925 and reprinted here in its entirety, is a cross-section of concerns of the Chicago urban school during the period of its most intense activity. Park and Burgess realized that ecological and economic factors were converted into a social organization by the traditions and aspirations of city dwellers. In their efforts to achieve objectivity, these sociologists never lost sight of the values that propel human beings. \"It is a classic which remains relevant largely because it poses questions still unresolved.\"\u2014Choice\nPosted on Criminological Perspectives on Race and Crime\nCriminological Perspectives on Race and Crime\nAuthor: Shaun L. Gabbidon\nIdeal for use in either crime theory or race and crime courses, this is the only text to look at the array of explanations for crime as they relate to racial and ethnic groups. Each chapter begins with a historical review of each theoretical perspective and how its original formulation and more recent derivatives account for racial/ethnic differences. The theoretical perspectives include those based on religion, biology, social disorganization/strain, subculture, labeling, conflict, social control, colonial, and feminism. This new Second Edition includes discussions of \"Deadly Symbiosis,\" critical race theory/criminology, comparative conflict theory, maximization, and abortion, race, and crime. In the closing chapter, the author considers which perspectives have shown the most promise in the area of race/ethnicity and crime.\nPosted on The Chicago School of Sociology\nInstitutionalization, Diversity, and the Rise of Sociological Research\nFrom 1915 to 1935 the inventive community of social scientists at the University of Chicago pioneered empirical research and a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods, shaping the future of twentieth-century American sociology and related fields as well. Martin Bulmer's history of the Chicago school of sociology describes the university's role in creating research-based and publication-oriented graduate schools of social science. \"This is an important piece of work on the history of sociology, but it is more than merely historical: Martin Bulmer's undertaking is also to explain why historical events occurred as they did, using potentially general theoretical ideas. He has studied what he sees as the period, from 1915 to 1935, when the 'Chicago School' most flourished, and defines the nature of its achievements and what made them possible . . . It is likely to become the indispensible historical source for its topic.\"\u2014Jennifer Platt, Sociology\nPosted on Das Ged\u00e4chtnis und seine sozialen Bedingungen\nDas Ged\u00e4chtnis und seine sozialen Bedingungen\nPosted on Street Kids\nHomeless Youth, Outreach, and Policing New York\u2019s Streets\nAuthor: Kristina E. Gibson\nStreet outreach workers comb public places such as parks, vacant lots, and abandoned waterfronts to search for young people who are living out in public spaces, if not always in the public eye. Street Kids opens a window to the largely hidden world of street youth, drawing on their detailed and compelling narratives to give new insight into the experiences of youth homelessness and youth outreach. Kristina Gibson argues that the enforcement of quality of life ordinances in New York City has spurred hyper-mobility amongst the city\u2019s street youth population and has serious implications for social work with homeless youth. Youth in motion have become socially invisible and marginalized from public spaces where social workers traditionally contact them, jeopardizing their access to the already limited opportunities to escape street life. The culmination of a multi-year ethnographic investigation into the lives of street outreach workers and \u2018their kids\u2019 on the streets of New York City, Street Kids illustrates the critical role that public space regulations and policing play in shaping the experience of youth homelessness and the effectiveness of street outreach.\nPosted on The City Below the Hill\nA Sociological Study of a Portion of the City of Montreal, Canada\nAuthor: Sir Herbert Brown Ames\nPublisher: Social History of Canada\nThe city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization. Sir Herbert Brown Ames was one of the first to recognize that urbanization was inevitable and to set about improving the quality of city life. In this study, first published in book form in 1897, he moves towards the concept of urban ecology--the city is an organism defined by, and expressing itself in, a myriad of social and economic phenomena. As an organic whole its well-being depends upon the well-being of all its citizens. Within this pioneering work are the seeds of the town planning and social welfare movements that later tried to change the urban landscape. The city below the hill is crammed with facts and statistical analyses of late nineteenth century urban workers. A landmark in the development of urban consciousness in Canada and of sociological research, it is one of the first major efforts to solve problems that are still with us.\nPosted on Technologies & society\nTechnologies & society\nthe shaping of people and things\nAuthor: Ron Westrum\nPosted on Sri Lanka Journal of Communication\nSri Lanka Journal of Communication\nThe Journal of the Department of Mass Communication, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka\nPosted on Urban History Newsletter\nUrban History Newsletter\nPosted on Within the Social World\nWithin the Social World\nAuthor: Jeffrey Chuan-che Chin,Cardell K. Jacobson\nThis anthology, designed to be accessible to undergraduate students, contains original and classic essays on social psychology from sociological perspectives.\nPosted on The Study of Society\nThe Study of Society\nAuthor: W. Lance Bennett\nPosted on The Heritage of War\nThe Heritage of War\nAuthor: Martin Gegner,Bart Ziino\nThe Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts, highlighting the modes by which governments, communities, and individuals claim validity for their own experiences of war, and the meanings they attach to them. From colonizing violence in South America to the United States\u2019 Civil War, the Second World War on three continents, genocide in Rwanda and continuing divisions in Europe and the Middle East, these studies bring us closer to the very processes of heritage production. The Heritage of War uncovers the histories of heritage: it charts the constant social and political construction of heritage sites over time, by a series of different agents, and explores the continuous reworking of meaning into the present. What are the forces of contingency, agency and political power that produce, define and sustain the heritage of war? How do particular versions of the past and particular identities gain legitimacy, while others are marginalised? In this book contributors explore the active work by which heritage is produced and reproduced in a series of case studies of memorialization, battlefield preservation, tourism development, private remembering and urban reconstruction. These are the acts of making sense of war; they are acts that continue long after violent conflict itself has ended.\nPosted on Changing Cities\nPosted on Autobiographies of Transformation\nLives in Central and Eastern Europe\nAuthor: Mike Keen,Janusz Mucha\nAutobiographies of Transformation is a completely unique history of sociology in Central and Eastern Europe in the post-Communist era. Through the autobiographies of ten key sociological witnesses from the region, the sociological imagination is turned upon itself, resulting in a compelling and revealing account of the struggles, triumphs, and continuing challenges faced. The sociologists examined fall into three cohorts: early, mid and late career. As participants, each of the sociologists included has witnessed the intersection of history and biography in Central and Eastern Europe. As sociologists, they have tried, and continue to try, to connect the two so that they and their fellow citizens may better understand their circumstances and the futures that may follow. This revealing book, ideal for students and researchers of sociology, and Central and Eastern Europe studies, provides powerful and compelling autobiographical accounts, relating them to the current interest in this area's transformation.\nPosted on Alabama in Africa\nAlabama in Africa\nBooker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South\nAuthor: Andrew Zimmerman\nIn 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of labor, sexuality, and race behind this endeavor, and the economic, political, and intellectual links connecting Germany, Africa, and the southern United States. The cross-fertilization of histories and practices led to the emergence of a global South, reproduced social inequities on both sides of the Atlantic, and pushed the American South and the German Empire to the forefront of modern colonialism. Zimmerman shows how the people of Togo, rather than serving as a blank slate for American and German ideologies, helped shape their region's place in the global South. He looks at the forms of resistance pioneered by African American freedpeople, Polish migrant laborers, African cotton cultivators, and other groups exploited by, but never passive victims of, the growing colonial political economy. Zimmerman reconstructs the social science of the global South formulated by such thinkers as Max Weber and W.E.B. Du Bois, and reveals how their theories continue to define contemporary race, class, and culture. Tracking the intertwined histories of Europe, Africa, and the Americas at the turn of the century, Alabama in Africa shows how the politics and economics of the segregated American South significantly reshaped other areas of the world.\nPosted on City\nAuthor: Phil Hubbard\nCity provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key concepts in human geography. Always at the heart of discussions in social theory, the definition and specification of \u2018the city\u2019 nonetheless remains illusive. In this volume, Phil Hubbard locates the concept of \u2018the city\u2019 within current traditions of social thought, providing a basis for understanding its varying usages and meanings through a critical discussion of the contribution of key authors and thinkers. Written in a lively and accessible style, the individual chapters of City offer a thematic overview of four dominant ways of approaching cities: as lived-in places as imagined spaces as networks of association as technologies of flow. Drawing on a diverse range of literatures and case studies, the book spells out the importance of a geographical perspective on the city, suggesting that it is only by bringing these different ways of mapping the city together that we can begin to make sense of cities.\nPosted on Myths of the Chicago school of sociology\nMyths of the Chicago school of sociology\nAuthor: Lee Harvey\nPMP Exam Prep Questions Answers & Explanations: 1000+ PMP Practice Questions with Detailed Solutions: Volume 1\nBicycling Science (MIT Press)\nDigital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs)\nFamous Trials: Cases that made history\nThe Power of the Prosecutor: Gatekeepers of the Criminal Justice System\nA Splendor of Letters\nAlexa: 933 Funniest Things to Ask Alexa: (Echo Dot Amazon Echo Dot Amazon Echo Amazon Dot Alexa) (Funny Stuffs & Videos Added Every Week in the Facebook Page Links Added Inside)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 244, "original_length": 17389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://eddyfate.com/2010/04/17/jenny-everywhere-and-the-remixing-of-fiction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:58Z", "digest": "sha1:55PXXINGLIGZ432NE3YLIUMUNN37CKNV", "length": 5925, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "eddyfate.com", "title": "Jenny Everywhere and the Remixing of FictionEddy Webb | Eddy Webb", "raw_content": "Jenny Everywhere and the Remixing of Fiction\nOne of the things I\u2019ve always had kicking around in the back of my head was doing a story or series of stories using characters in the public domain.\nI think some of this comes from the incredible League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comics, not the movie), but it goes back further than that. I\u2019ve been a fan of Sherlock Holmes since I was a kid, and I\u2019ve always been interested in other people\u2019s take on the character. Many are pretty bad, but some are interesting, and a few actually add new textures to the character that I didn\u2019t realize before. I\u2019ve always wanted to play around in someone else\u2019s universe and add my own spin on an established character.\nWith the rise of the Internet, it\u2019s all \u201copen source\u201d and \u201cremixing,\u201d and I\u2019m surprised that it hasn\u2019t happened more often with fiction and public domain characters. For example, the radio serial Box 13 is pretty obscure, but there\u2019s been an iPhone comic of a complete rewrite of Box 13 that has been pretty entertaining (and certainly worth the free download if you have an iPhone). As opposed to League where the characters are decently close analogues to their original inspirations, though, the Box 13 comic only shares a few points of similarity, but otherwise goes in a completely different direction. To me, this is more of a remix of the original fiction (taking the original pieces and moving them around to make a new story), instead of a serious pastiche (keeping the original pieces in place and putting them in a different story).\nMy first exposure to a character that was intentionally put into the public domain (or at least, opened up for other people to use in their own work) was Agent Patriot. I was so blown away by the idea that I immediately jumped on the bandwagon, and even wrote a few episodes myself. I also used him when I was using Inform 7 to create a text adventure when I was first learning how to write for video games. It\u2019s been six years, but I still have ideas for him rattling around in my head. But recently I found out about another intentionally open source character: Jenny Everywhere. While it looks like Jenny\u2019s heyday was 2001-2003, it seems she had a resurgence a few years back. Within moments, I had ideas for a story title1 (\u201cEverywhere and Nowhere\u201d) and was thinking of ways to insert Jenny Everywhere into the Agent Patriot universe.\nI thought that there might be a couple of superheroes that have fallen into the public domain as well \u2013 maybe I could do an entirely public domain/open source superhero team? I honestly was expecting maybe a handful, but there are hundreds. Many are really terrible, and some have been picked up and reinvented by other comic companies, making their copyright status a little weird, but it\u2019s really not just 19th century fiction that can be remixed.\nInterestingly, some authors experimented with this idea long before the Internet age. H.P. Lovecraft encouraged other writers that he corresponded with to use pieces of his Cthulhu Mythos in their own stories. Michael Moorcock did the same with Jerry Cornelius. And even comic book characters like Octobriana appear to have been created to be usable by everyone.\nThe point of this post isn\u2019t to go into the complex wilderness of creative copyright, or to champion that \u201call fiction must be free\u201d or anything like that. Mostly, I just think that there\u2019s something creatively entertaining about playing around in someone else\u2019s backyard in a way that extends beyond fan fiction and into a totally new experience, and there are some intriguing bits floating around on the Internet that could be put together into some intriguing shapes. I\u2019d rather do that with bits that I have legal permission to use.\nAnd I am shit at coming up with titles, so this is a big thing \u21a9\nagent patriotbox 13jenny everywhereopen sourcepublic domainsherlock holmes\nPrevious Post(Character) Diamond in the RoughNext PostMarvelous Superheroes: Why It Haunts Me\nThat public domain superheros site is awesome. Now I wanna go mine it for ideas. I think the concept of weaving together authors\u2019 works into a new story is very interesting. Not all that different from what you guys at White Wolf do with real-world mythology, actually. Taking it and using it to write a whole new and cool story.\nThat\u2019s actually a fair point \u2014 we do remix mythology and horror stories a fair bit for the World of Darkness and Scion. That might be another piece of why I enjoy it.\nMarvelous Superheroes: Why It Haunts Me | Blog of Fate\n[\u2026] Jenny Everywhere and the Remixing of Fiction [\u2026]\nAnother author who wanted his universe open was H.P. Lovecraft. He not only didn\u2019t mind others playing in his sandbox, he encouraged it. Unfortunately, open licensed didn\u2019t exist at the time and when he died, his estate was quick to make sure that the rights on his works were enforced.\nThere are those of us who just aren\u2019t content to tell stories; we want others to contribute and be inspired by what we do. I don\u2019t know, there\u2019s such a good feeling when someone likes your work enough to want to add to it or create a derivative of it. And it can be fun to see what others do.\nYep. I even remarked on that in this post: \u201cInterestingly, some authors experimented with this idea long before the Internet age. H.P. Lovecraft encouraged other writers that he corresponded with to use pieces of his Cthulhu Mythos in their own stories.\u201d\nWhile I do believe that creators should have the right to protect and earn a profit from their hard work, I believe that there should always be an option to share your works with the world, if that\u2019s what you choose to do.\nPlundering the Public Domain for Fun and Profit | Blog of Fate\n[\u2026] I won\u2019t reconstruct the chain of events, but the practical upshot is I am thinking again about public domain characters. Specifically, I\u2019m thinking of ideas around doing a modern update of such characters, instead of [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 8457, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 258.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ejournal.um-sorong.ac.id/index.php/jq/article/view/354", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:26Z", "digest": "sha1:M4WE22EY2UFSFTMIEYYZNZOJNYQFJFWG", "length": 3782, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "ejournal.um-sorong.ac.id", "title": "LANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY SUCCESSFULL STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERFORMANCE | Tahang | Qalam : Jurnal Ilmu Kependidikan", "raw_content": "Home > Vol 7, No 1 (2018) >\tTahang\nLANGUAGE LEARNING STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY SUCCESSFULL STUDENTS IN DEVELOPING ENGLISH-SPEAKING PERFORMANCE\nHeriyanti Tahang, Sarmin Sarmin, Yuliana Yuliana, Taslim Taslim\nThis research aimed to discover the language learning strategies used by successfull students in developing speaking performance in speaking performance at English Language Education Program in Universitas Muhammadiyah Sorong. This research used qualitative method in the form of descriptive qualitative. the participants of this research were taken from the third semester of English Language Education Program in Universitas Muhammadiyah Sorong with the total 6 students. The participants were the students who gained score A in speaking class. Based on the data gathered, the result showed that the students applied both of Direct and Imdirect learning strategies in developing their speaking English Language Education Program in Universitas Muhammadiyah Sorong, namely social strategies, metacognitive strategies, affective strategies in Indirect Strategy and memory strategies, cognitive strategies, and compensation strategies in Direct Strategy. From those of six strategies applied, most of the students tended to apply Indirect Strategy that was social strategies by asking help, working in pair, practicing with the proficient user of English and making small group discussion.\nLanguage Learning Strategies, Speaking Performance\nBrown, H.G. 2004. Language Assessment:Principles And Classroom Practices. Newyork: Longman\nCameron, L. (2001). Teaching languages to young learners. Ernst Klett Sprachen.\nChen, M.L. 2014. Age Differences in the Use of Language Learning Strategies. Canadian Center of Science and Education. International journal of English Language Teaching, Vol. 7, No. 2.\nDawson, D. C. 2002. Practical Research Methods. United kingdom. Oxford\nSuwanarak, K. 2015. Learning English as Thai Adult Learners: An Insight into Experience in Using Learning Strategies. Canadian Center of Science and Education. International journal of English Language Teaching, Vol. 8, No. 12.\nJonassen, D.H. 1985. Learning strategies: A new educational technology. Programmed Learning and Educational Technology.\nJones, b.f., sullivan palincsar, a., sederburg olge, d., & glynn carr, e. (eds.). 1987. Strategic Teaching and Learning: Cognitive Instruction in the Content Areas. Alexandria, Va: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.\nMiles, M. B., Huberman, A. M., Huberman, M. A., & Huberman, M. (1994). Qualitative data analysis: An expanded sourcebook. sage.\nMistar, J & Umamah, A. 2014. Strategies of Learning Speaking Skill by Indonesian Learners of English and Their Contribution to Speaking Proficiency. TEFLIN Journal, Vol. 25, No. 2, July.\nGani, A, SFajrina, D., & 2015. Students\u2019 Learning Strategies for Developing Speaking Ability. STUDIES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND EDUCATION, 2 (2), 16-28.\nMistar, J., Zuhairi, A., & Umamah, A. 2018. Strategies of Learning Speaking Skill by Senior High School EFL learner inIndonesia. The ASIAN EFL Journal, Vol. 20, Issued 5, May.\nHalbach, A. 2000. Finding out about Students\u2019 Learning Strategies by looking at their diaries: A Case Study. SYSTEM 28, 85-96.\nOxford, R. L. 1990. Language Learning Strategies: What Every Teacher Should Know. New York: Newbury House Publishers.\nRubin, J., & Thompson, I. 1994. How to be a More Successful Language Learner. 2nd Ed. Boston: Heinle & Heinle.\nWeinstein, C.E., & Mayer, R.E. 1986. The teaching of learning strategies. New York, NY: Macmillan.\nYunus, M.M., Sulaiman, N.A., & Embi, M.A. 2013. Malaysian Gifted Students\u2019 Use of English Language Learning Strategies. Canadian Center of Science and Education. International journal of English Language Teaching, Vol. 6, No. 4.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 6254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 329.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://elmina-online.com/English/E-archive2007.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:26Z", "digest": "sha1:FUFN7SRIKVFFPGHOSIXBILXEODOQEBWK", "length": 9343, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "elmina-online.com", "title": "\ufeff Municipality of Elmina", "raw_content": "Two Events for Children Organized by El Mina Municipality and AFAAK Association\nAFAAK charitable and social association, in cooperation with El Mina Municipality, organized an entertainment festival for El Mina children in EL Mina Central Park on Sunday May 6th, 2007. This is the second event for the association in less than a month. The Association organized a special event on the Child\u2019s Day in Al Nasr Square, which was renovated and beautified by Al Azem and Saadeh Association. Mayor Alameddine and Mrs. Roula Mourad, the President of the AFFAK, spoke on the inauguration of the festival.\nEl Mina Municipality Honors 51 Retried Private and Public School Teachers\n(from the Years 2004 till 2007) in El Mina\nParts of the celebration\nPresident word: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7\nEnd: 1 - 2\nUnder the patronage of his Excellency Minister of Education Dr. Khaled Kabani, El Mina Municipality hosted a special lunch to honor 51 teachers who retired in the period between 2004 and 2007. The ceremonial lunch took place in the Silver Shore Restaurant to honor the efforts of teachers in both the private and public sector. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Hussam Shahade, the Director of the North Educational Zone, who represented the Minister of Education, El Mina Mayor and the Council Members, the President of the Union of the Teachers in North Lebanon, Mr. Tony Mahfoud, the Delegate of Secondary Tecahers in North Lebanon Mr. Zuhair Naboulsi, Media representatives, school principals and the honored retired teachers.\nAlameddine speech\nMarwan Assoum\nThe ceremony started by the National Anthem followed by a welcoming speech by lawyer Issam Sbat, El Mina Council Member, who praised the importance of this event as a loyal gesture for those who gave their utmost efforts to raise the young generations in our city. Then the Vice Mayor and the President of the Education Committee in El Mina City Council, Mr. George Drouby, emphasized the pioneering role that the teachers play in shaping the future of students and in drawing the picture of a new Lebanon. Mr. Marwan Assoum, the Principal of El Mina Secondary School for Boys, spoke on behalf of the honored teachers and he said: \u201cWe, the honored, insist that our efforts will never end no matter how old we are. We thank his Excellency Dr. Kabani for his patronage and Abdul Kader Bey and his City Council for their absolute cooperation through out the years both with public and private schools\u201d.\nDroubi, Alam Eldine, Chahade and Saidi Khayat Alam Eldine, Chahade and Salah Sidawi\nThe Mayor, Mr. Abdul Kader Alameddine, spoke about the immense projects that are under way. However, he emphasized the fact that \u201cHumans are more important than stones. This is why the City Council insists on honoring those people who donate their life for the sake of their city in order for it to grow and develop culturally. We are honoring you because you are the unknown and hidden City Council members who sincerely worked to develop El Mina generations. God bless your efforts and be confident that what you did in the past and what you will do in the future has been of great importance for El Mina Community which is famous for its openness and for the coexisting urban fabric\u201d.\nFinally, Mr. Hussam Shahade, the Director of the North Educational Zone, who represented the Minister of Education, praised this event and talked about its uniqueness because it comprised public and private school teachers which signal the unity of the educational workshop in Lebanon.\nThe meeting was adjourned after Appreciation Awards were given to the 51 retired teachers and after photos commemorating the ceremony were taken.\nEl Mina City Celebrates the Arab City Day on March 15, 2007\n- The Organization of Arab Cities (OAC) was established on March 15, 1967 and it is permanently headquartered in Kuwait City.\n- OAC is an NGO, specialized in municipal and city issues in the Arab world, and is politically neutral.\n- The objectives of the organization are: preserving the identity of the Arab City; developing services and municipal resources; modernizing municipalities and local authorities; and assisting the member municipalities in achieving their development projects through providing long-term loans.\n- The Lebanese cities participating in this Organization are: Beirut (permanent member), 1967- Tripoli (permanent member), 1967- Zahle, 1968- Sidon, 1986- Ally, 1986- EL Mina, 1974- Jounieh, 1977\u2026..most recently Sheheem, 2006.\n- The organization started its work in 1968 with 20 Arab cities and now it comprises 400 municipalities. The 14th Conference will be held in Marrakech (Morocco) between 4 and 6 July 2007.\nThe Program of El Mina Celebrations in this Day\n- EL Mina Municipal Council will give the Public Park (Street Number 1056) in the New Mina the title \u201cKuwait City\u2019, which is the permanent headquarter of the Organization of the Arab Cities.\n- The Mayor and the Council Members will raise the Lebanese flag and the flag of the Organization of the Arab Cities on the Municipality Palace.\n- Banners will be posted on the streets of EL Mina to celebrate this Arab event.\n- The City Council will invite educational authorities in the city to a dinner to celeberate this event and Dr. Jean Touma will deliver a speech on behalf of Mr. Abdul Aziz Al Adasani, the General Secretary of the Organization.\nThe Major Municipal Decisions in January and February 2007\nEl Mina Municipal Council has continued all the preparations needed to launch the construction of El Mina Municipal Palace which will see the light by the kind donation of his Excellency Prime Minster Najib Mikati. The Municipal Council unanimously accepted Mr. Mikati\u2019s unconditional donation in the meeting that was held in January 30th 2007.\nIn addition, Mayor Abdul Kader Alameddine and the Municipal Council visited Prime Minster Mikati to thank him for the generous contribution, and they discussed with him the latest news. As a follow up, El Mina Municipal Council agreed the appointment of Mr. Spiro Rohana to continue studying the preparation of maps and all the necessary documents that are needed in addition to the supervision of the construction of the Municipal Palace.\nRegarding Arab an International cooperation, the Council agreed to pay the annual participation fee of the United Cities and Local Authorities Organization in addition to approving the Archimedes Project as part of Med-Program sponsored by the European Community. The program will last for two years and the participating cities are: El Mina, Bordeaux, Venice, Genoa, Oran, Beirut and Istanbul. Archimedes Main object is the economic and touristic development of the local capabilities and the EU will donate through the City of Venice 63.817\u20ac.\nMoreover, the Municipal Council has elected the new committees and approved the biding procedures to buy the tools for the municipal construction services. The Council also approved the banking protocol between El Mina Municipality and the Lebanese Bank for Commerce for the domiciliation of the salaries of the employees in the Municipality. Furthermore, the Council accepted a cardiographer from Mr. Abdul Baset Darwiche to Habib Falah Infirmary and also approved the plan of the Health Committee to develop the capabilities and services of the Laboratory that the Councilor of Romania, Mr. Abdul Hamid Ghandour, donated to the Infirmary.\nEL Mina municipality signs the EU MED-PACT project\nEl Mina Mayor, Abdul Kader Alameddine, participated in the Euro-Med conference of the Med-cities that was held in Torino, Italy last November. The conference comprised presentations and technical visits in the following fields: waste treatment, rehabilitation of the green and neglected areas in addition to strategic and urban planning and the participation of citizens in governance.\nAfter this participation, El Mina Mayor followed up the meeting in Istanbul on February 8th 2007, where the Actions to Regenerate Cities and Help Innovative Mediterranean Economic Development Enhancing Sustainability\u201d (ARCHIMEDES) Project was launched. The new project is chaired by Venice Municipality and co-chaired by Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and, Italy\u2019s Genoa Municipality, France\u2019s Bordeaux Municipality, Lebanon\u2019s Beirut Municipality, Algeria\u2019s Oran Municipality, Lebanon\u2019s El-Mina Municipality, Bulgaria\u2019s Sofia Capital District Administration, Turkey\u2019s Marmara Straits and Municipalities Union, Italy\u2019s Genoa Chamber of Commerce and Genoa University are among the other participants of the project. The project\u2019s budget is 734,177EURO and will be financed by the European Commission.\nWithin the scope of project, creation of sustainable tourism application in port cities of Mediterranean Basin and creating awareness for the underrated historical and cultural heritage are aimed at. Also with this project, exchange of experience and good applications among local administrations, universities, research institutes, urban transformation, tourism and cultural heritage institutions and providing long term cooperation among the participant countries in the project are aimed.\n* El Mina Municipality Council approved (in decision number 8 dated 16 January 2007) the Archimedes Med-Pact Project and appointed Dr. Samer Annous and ABAAD Association to follow up the implementation of this development project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 9717, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 332.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://elsaodettescorner.blogspot.com/2011/01/welcome-2011.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:02Z", "digest": "sha1:P3ISCE7S3OWYIREMWXSQO3KNYOOVUB6T", "length": 576, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "elsaodettescorner.blogspot.com", "title": "...elsa.odette's corner ...: Welcome 2011!", "raw_content": "So ... here we are ... a new year ... full of possibilities ... just like a blank canvas.\n2009 was harsh ... 2010 wasn't that much better ... so I am really looking forward to this year and what it has to offer.\nI have had other blogs that got deleted simply because, they had too many memories, too much pain.\nThis one will be about us, my kid and I.\nYes, I am a boricua (still) single mom and I am not lying, I am a mom to the best kid in the Universe.\nEddie Blue-Eyes January 6, 2011 at 11:13 PM\nLooking forward to your expressions, sweetie!\nRaul January 7, 2011 at 9:33 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 1955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 326.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://embajadamundialdeactivistasporlapaz.com/en/press/news/saltillo-educational-institutions-sign-agreement-geap", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:44Z", "digest": "sha1:F2MD4UGFTCYLC2NZ7PS5SNVWWGYDRT4D", "length": 3576, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "embajadamundialdeactivistasporlapaz.com", "title": "Saltillo educational institutions sign agreement with the GEAP", "raw_content": "1200480http://embajadamundialdeactivistasporlapaz.com/en/press/news/saltillo-educational-institutions-sign-agreement-geap\nschedule Tuesday, May 23, 2017\nIn the city of Saltillo, Coahuila, the 1st National Judicial Forum \u201cHuman Dignity, Presumption of Innocence and Human Rights\u201d was carried out under the \u201cJustice for Peace\u201d Program run by the Global Embassy of Activists for Peace (GEAP).\nThe Jurisprudence Auditorium of the Autonomous University of Coahuila (UA de C) opened its doors to receive students from different educational institutions, professors, police officers, judges, lawyers and magistrates.\nThe coordinator of the Saltillo Unit of the UA de C, Miguel \u00c1ngel Rodr\u00edguez; 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Human dignity must be seen from various aspects.\u201d\nDeyanira Torres, a law student from the UANE, addressed the topic: \u201cThe Culture of Peace as a security strategy in the Restoration of the textile of the Society.\u201d During her dissertation she stated that mediation is one of the mechanisms for resolving disputes and this is expressed in Article 17 of the Constitution.\nThe event concluded with the presentation of acknowledgments from the GEAP to the speakers.\nIn order to contribute to the construction of a culture of peace, four institutions signed a collaboration agreement with the GEAP:\n1. Paulo Freire University Institute.\n2. Autonomous University of the Northeast.\n3. School of Criminology of the Autonomous University of Cohauila.\n4. Student leader of the Faculty of Rights of the Autonomous University of the Northeast (UANE).\naccess_time Tuesday, May 23, 2017\nMunicipal government of Acapulco opens its doors to the GEAP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 277.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.aectourismthai.com/content2/1799", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IGCTAJ6WSDTP6I7EY7D4BB57IZY5RD3L", "length": 1167, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "en.aectourismthai.com", "title": "AEC Tourism Connectivity \ufffd\ufffd\u00f7\ufffd\u0367\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\u89fb\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\u00a1\u047a\ufffd\ufffd\u042a\u04a4\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\u0270\ufffd\u0528\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\ufffd\u00b9", "raw_content": "The 22nd Phuket Bike Week has officially commenced in the province's famous Patong Beach and the capital district from April 8 - 16.\nThe event is being organized by the Phuket Bike Week Association in collaboration with several local offices as well as the Ride Thailand Magazine, Phuket Big Bike Club and Singha Corporation Co Ltd.\nPhuket Bike Week aims to establish Phuket as a global hub for both land and maritime tourism, while promoting the province as the biggest annual motorcycle gathering event in Asia.\nThe fair, whose theme for this year is \"ASEAN Ride Together,\" is split into two stages. The first stage is being held from April 8 - 10 in Patong Beach and the second will be organized from April 15 - 16 in the capital district. More than 50,000 bikers from 30 nations around the globe are expected to participate, bringing with them more than 10,000 motorcycles.\nMembers of the public can admire motorcycle parades as well as a motor show featuring collectibles and classics, as well as custom motorcycles and debut models. Other highlighted activities include beauty pageants, concerts and exhibitions on global warming and road safety, to name a few.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 5768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 240.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.cafa.com.cn/goethe-institut-hongkong-presents-the-interpretation-of-german-library-buildings-and-urban-culture-in-drawings-by-fabio-barilari.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:44Z", "digest": "sha1:G42FS2VP3ITUXIFRTV7DDQDYZT4O5CVS", "length": 3410, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "en.cafa.com.cn", "title": "Goethe-Institut Hong Kong presents the interpretation of German library buildings and urban culture in drawings by Fabio Barilari | CAFA ART INFO", "raw_content": "Goethe-Institut Hong Kong presents the interpretation of German library buildings and urban culture in drawings by Fabio Barilari\nPhilological Library, Free University of Berlin; Inaugurated 2005, Architect: Sir Norman Foster Illustration: Fabio Barilari\nItalian architect Fabio Barilari visited several German cities with support from the Goethe-Institut in 2013 and 2015. During his travels he executed several drawings and sketches in which he interprets urban and library architecture. The exhibition shows a selection of his works along with additional information, short interviews with the library directors and quotes from talks with library users.\nFabio Barilari graduated with honours + publication of his thesis, in Architectural Design at the University of Rome \u201cLa Sapienza\u201d, with a projects on the Harbour of Ancona (Italy). He started his professional experience in 1987 at the Studio of Eng. Riccardo Morandi, one of the leading international figures in modern engineering. Following his degree, he collaborated as free-lance with several prestigious professionals, among which Arch. Massimiliano Fuksas Associati, with whom he participated in the International Competition for the new Congress Center of Rome \u201cLa Nuvola\u201d (1\u00b0 Prize) and Arch. Manfredi Nicoletti (project of new Hall of Justice of Arezzo), Arch. Livio Sacchi, 3C+T, Modimar Engineering.\nFrom his first working experience he specialized in the design of complex architectural and urban structures such as harbours, congress centres, halls of justice, sport centres, large department stores, residential blocks. Parallel to these collaborations, in 1996 he founded with Alessio Barilari the studio RUN/dom_ where until 2008, developed numerous projects on all scales of intervention. Since 2008, Fabio Barilari developed his professional activity, extending his research, beyond architecture, to sectors related to graphics, illustration and painting. From 1995, he gave lectures and collaborated in several courses of Architectural Design in various Universities, among which in particular, La Sapienza, Cornell University in Rome and Arcadia University / Moore College.\nHis art work was presented in January 2013 in the personal exhibition at the Chiostro del Bramante in Rome titled \u201cIl Senso delle Cose\u201d. Previous personal exhibitions include \u201cFree Style\u201d in 2008 and \u201cLiving Colour\u201d in 2010 at the St. Stephen\u2019s Cultural Center Foundation in Rome; \u201cDegrees of Abstraction\u201d at the Mel Sembler Gallery \u2013 US Embassy, Rome, in August 2011. Since September 2013 he has been involved in a project financed by the Goethe-Institut, presenting the currently on-going German program of developing and strengthening the system of public and private libraries of the country, as well as the particular importance given to the high quality of architectural design.\nDates: Thu, 18.02.2016 \u2013 Tue, 08.03.2016\nVenue: Goethe-Institut Hongkong\nCourtesy of the artist and Goethe-Institut Hongkong, for further information please visit www.goethe.de or www.fabiobarilari.com.\n\u201cChina Realism 2012\u201d Inaugurated at Chinese Academy of Oil Painting\nAutenticita \u2013 Invitational Exhibition to Five Famous Italian Contemporary Artists\nMOCUBE presents \"Disappearing Archives\" in Beijing\nTags: architecture, drawing\nPrevious postBeyond the Mirror Phase \u2013 2016 Thematic Exhibition of Times Art Museum remains on view until Feb 28 in Beijing Next postLu Liang", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5851, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://en.novovyatich.ru/produkcziya/elektrooborudovanie/reduktoryi-serii-rk,-vk,-rm,-rczd,-cz2u", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UMJIM5HLLUV4HITZA2SJYGO4XZLWPYQ4", "length": 868, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "en.novovyatich.ru", "title": "Reductions Series RK, VK, RM, RCD, C2U | Crane equipment factory \u00abNovoviatich\u00bb Kirov", "raw_content": "These devices are used in various arrangements in order to increase the torque and reduce the rotational speed that enables efficient operation and while prolonging the life of equipment. Each type of gear has its own specifications. They depend on many factors, chief among which is the purpose of specialization and the equipment in which it will work. The main characteristics of any such device is the power ratio, the number of steps, the angular velocity of the shaft, and the number of transmission efficiency.\nThe two-stage cylindrical gear reducer horizontal TS2U applied in a number of hoists.\nReducer VC - this vertical Gearboxes Crane, which is also used in hoisting equipment (cranes of various types).\nReducer RM is a cylindrical horizontal two-stage device. In contrast to the models described above, it is more versatile and widely used in engineering.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 3551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://end-violence.org/fund/5-million-contribution-oak-foundation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:6WPWY37Y5CBNDOWFWVSBQ6YNLRJRZQOX", "length": 2150, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "end-violence.org", "title": "With New $5 Million Contribution from Oak Foundation, The Fund to End Violence Against Children Will Increase Investments in Safer Internet for Children | End Violence", "raw_content": "With New $5 Million Contribution from Oak Foundation, The Fund to End Violence Against Children Will Increase Investments in Safer Internet for Children\nNew York, 5 February 2019 \u2013 The Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children welcomes a new $5 million contribution from Oak Foundation to its multi-donor Fund. The contribution brings the Fund\u2019s total resources raised since its creation mid-2016 to over $68 million.\nOak\u2019s contribution will help the Fund prevent and respond to online child sexual abuse and exploitation through targeted and evidence-based programmes at national, regional and global levels. It will support work to reduce online violence, expand knowledge of online safety among individuals and society, establish industry standards, and strengthen systems to investigate and prosecute online violence, as well as support survivors.\n\u201cThe presence of 800 million children online \u2013 many of whom are unsupervised \u2013 has made it easier for perpetrators to follow and contact them, and enable vicious forms of child sexual exploitation and abuse,\u201d said Howard Taylor, Executive Director of the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children. \u201cTrends are going up and we need better awareness, more efficient prevention, stronger response, and more donors to follow Oak Foundation\u2019s steps.\u201d\nThanks to financial commitments from the government of the United Kingdom and Human Dignity Foundation, the Fund has previously awarded $25 million in grants to 33 projects addressing online child sexual exploitation and abuse in 21 countries, including three regional and five global projects. Current grantee partners are providing a range of support, including:\nRescuing victims and supporting survivors.\nEstablish reporting portals.\nRaising awareness of the problem and contributing to behavioural change.\nStrengthening law enforcement and legislative reforms.\nInnovating solutions within the technology and online service provider community.\nFor further information about the Fund, its funding windows in three priority areas and its current grantees, including the latest reports, please visit http://www.end-violence.org/fund", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 257.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://endtimesrevealed.forumotion.net/t120-romans-chapter-four-part-two", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HIAXV62JO4DYX6NBSIAZAAI7PNRSDKP5", "length": 13528, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "endtimesrevealed.forumotion.net", "title": "Romans Chapter Four - Part Two", "raw_content": "Romans Chapter Four - Part Two\nSubject: Romans Chapter Four - Part Two Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:00 am\nAs Paul explained, if Jews could become heirs by obeying the Law, then faith has no value (kekeno\u0304tai, \u201cit has been made empty\u201d; cf. the noun kenos, \u201cempty, without content,\u201d in 1Co_15:10, 1Co_15:58). Also the promise is worthless (kate\u0304rge\u0304tai, \u201chas been made invalid\u201d). The reason this would be true is that Law brings wrath (lit., \u201cthe Law keeps on producing wrath\u201d) as a consequence of disobedience. We see the law is totally different from the justification by faith that came from Abraham. Abraham was not promised to bless all nations through the law which was given to just one nation, Israel) but the promise came through faith. His seed that we have mentioned so many times before in these lessons is all the believers in Christ.\nIf only those who perfectly keep the law, (an impossibility) receives the promise, faith has no value. Making a promise contingent on an impossible condition nullifies the promise.\nYou can easily see, if you can see heirship by work, it would not be by promise. Law is exacting and must be obeyed to the letter, but the grace of Jesus Christ leaves opportunity for repentance and new life. Abraham did not earn the right, he believed God and that was enough. God wants us to trust Him.\nActually Abraham's promise from God was two fold. He was promised in the physical the Promised Land (Israel). In the spirit these promises went much further. The promise of the spirit was not of this earth, but for the Promised Land (heaven) for all who believe.\nNo one can keep the Law fully; therefore God, in wrath against sin, judges those who disobey.\nPaul then stated a related general principle: And where there is no law, there is no transgression. How can you break a law, if there is no law? If you break the law (that you are living under), you will be punished (wrath). If there is no law, you are not punished. (There are no laws written down on paper for Christians). God's laws are written in our heart. We are pardoned by the blood of Jesus Christ.\nA person may still be sinning in his action, but if there is no command prohibiting it his action does not have the character of a transgression, an overstepping of a prohibition (cf. Rom_5:13).\nPaul then drew his conclusion. Therefore (lit., \u201cOn account of this\u201d) the promise comes by (ek, \u201cout of\u201d) faith so that it may be by (kata, \u201caccording to the standard of\u201d) grace. Responding in faith to God\u2019s promise is not meritorious, since the promise springs from His grace, His disposition of favor toward those who deserve His wrath. The human exercise of faith is simply the prerequisite response of trust in God and His promise. Since faith and grace go together, and since the promise is by grace, the promise can be received only by faith, not by the Law.\nAnother reason the promise is by faith is so that it may be guaranteed to all Abraham\u2019s offspring, not only the Jews (those\u2026 of the Law) but to all who exercise faith in God. The power of justification is God\u2019s great grace, not man\u2019s faith.\nThe following Scripture speaks of this grace I Corinthians 1:4 \"I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;\"\nGrace (unmerited favor) was offered to each of us (not because we were worthy) but because God loved us each one.\nII Timothy 1:9 \"Who hath saved us, and called [us] with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,\"\nJust the love of God provided Jesus Christ our Savior and Lord for each of us. Our obligation is to reach out and receive this gift of grace in Jesus Christ. This scripture is just saying that this is talking not only of the believing Jews, but to the believing Gentiles (which is of the faith of Abraham).\nIf the promise were fulfilled for those who keep the Law, then no Gentiles (or Jews either) could be saved! But this cannot be, because Abraham\u2026 is the father of us all, that is, all who believe (cf. \u201cour\u201d in Rom_4:1; also cf. Gal_3:29).\nPaul then supported his conclusion in Rom_4:16 with scriptural authority, quoting God\u2019s covenantal promise from Gen_17:5. The fact that believers in this Church Age are identified with Abraham and God\u2019s covenant with him does not mean that the physical and temporal promises to Abraham and his physical descendants are either spiritualized or abrogated. It simply means that God\u2019s covenant and Abraham\u2019s response of faith to it have spiritual dimensions as well as physical and temporal aspects. The quotation is in effect a parenthesis. Therefore the latter part of Rom_4:17 connects with the close of Rom_4:16 : \u201cHe is the father of us all\u2026\u201d in the sight of God. (The words He is our father are not in the Gr., but are added in the NIV for clarification.) God\u2026 gives life to the dead and calls things that are not (lit., \u201cthe nonexisting things\u201d) as though they were (lit., \u201cas existing\u201d). This Scripture has been greatly misunderstood by many.\nIn verse 19 you will see that Abraham experienced this first hand.\n\u201cAnd calleth those things which be not as though they were\u201d is another reference to the forensic nature of justification. God can declare believing sinners to be righteous even thought they are not, by imputing His righteousness to them, just as God made or declared Jesus \u201csin\u201d and punished Him, though he was not a sinner. Those whom He justifies, He will conform to the image of His Son.\nMany nations could not be just Israel. Israel is just one nation. This Scripture is speaking of the Jew and Gentile. The Gentiles were not, because they were heathen people. Through Jesus they are the family of God, which they had not been previously.\nHere is the definition of quickened which I found might help to understand what this is saying, especially when we look at verse 19. \u201cQuickening\u201d - the process of showing signs of life; \"the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain\"\nBy Faith In God\u2019s Promise\nThough humanly there was no hope of ever having a child, the old patriarch believed God\u2019s Word. Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed. God honored his faith, and he became the father (ancestor) of many nations. This was in accord with God\u2019s promise, So shall your offspring be (a quotation of Gen_15:5).\nIdentifying God in this way obviously refers to God\u2019s promise in Gen_17:1-27 following the statement quoted above that Abraham and Sarah would have a son of promise when Abraham was 100 and Sarah was 90 (Gen_17:17, Gen_17:19; Gen_18:10; Gen_21:5; cf. Rom_4:19). That he would be the ancestor of many nations seemed impossible in his and Sarah\u2019s childless old age. When the promise was given to Abraham that he would become the father of many nations, it seemed impossible. Here he and his wife Sarah were very old people and have never had any children. For a person who thought with a carnal mind this would be impossibility. Sarah had passed the age of women have children.\nAbraham did not listen to the carnal mind, but believed all things were possible with God. His faith in God and nothing else completed his righteousness to God.\nGod honored his great faith and gave him a son by Sarah (Isaac). Isaac was the beginning of the promise that Abraham was to become father of many nations.\nRom_4:19-21 restate in specific details the first part of Rom_4:18 about Abraham\u2019s hope. Abraham without weakening in his faith\u2026 faced the fact (lit., \u201cconsidered carefully\u201d) that his body was as good as dead (some Gr. mss. add the word \u201calready\u201d), a reference to the patriarch\u2019s advanced age (Gen_17:17; Gen_21:5). Abraham also considered carefully that Sarah\u2019s womb was also dead. She was unable to conceive a child, as had been demonstrated through their life together (cf. Gen_16:1-2; Gen_18:11) and as was certainly true for her at age 90 (Gen_17:17). You see Abraham did not think with his carnal mind. He knew all things were possible with God. God had created him in the beginning and he knew God could restore his and Sarah's youth enough that they could bring forth a child.\n(All men have their measure of faith.) Abraham had great faith beyond the measure each man requires. He believed so strongly, he became known as the father of the faithful.\nIn spite of the humanly impossible situation, Abraham did not waver through (lit., \u201cby\u201d) unbelief. \u201cWaver\u201d (diekrithe\u0304) means \u201cto be divided\u201d (sometimes trans. \u201cdoubt,\u201d as in Jas_1:6). The patriarch was strengthened in his faith (lit., \u201cwas empowered [enedynamo\u0304the\u0304, from endynamoo\u0304] by means of faith\u201d). God, responding to Abraham\u2019s faith, empowered him and Sarah physically to generate the child of promise. Also he gave glory to God, that is, he praised God by exalting or exclaiming His attributes. Jesus' own words. Matthew 19:26 \"But Jesus beheld [them], and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.\" Abraham knew in his heart that nothing was impossible to God. His faith was not of this world, but in God.\nAbraham was fully persuaded that God had power (dynatos, \u201cspiritual ability\u201d) to do what He had promised. Abraham knew whatever God said he would do, He was perfectly capable of doing.\nBelieving God affirms His existence and character and thus gives Him glory.\nWhat confidence in God this spiritual forefather possessed! He \u201cin hope believed\u201d (Rom_4:18); he was not weak in faith despite insuperable odds (Rom_4:19); he was not divided in his thinking by unbelief (Rom_4:20); he was empowered by faith (Rom_4:20); and he was fully persuaded God has the ability to do what He had said (Rom_4:21).\nPaul concluded his illustration about Abraham by saying, This is why (dio kai, \u201cwherefore also\u201d) it was credited to him as righteousness. Abraham\u2019s response of faith to God and God\u2019s promise to him was the human requirement for God\u2019s justifying Abraham, for God\u2019s declaring that Abraham stood righteous before Him. No wonder God credited such faith with righteousness! \u201cTherefore\u201d: Meaning because of his genuine faith.\nRighteousness is not earned but received by faith. We are made righteous in God's sight when we are washed in the blood of the Lamb.\nRom_4:23-25 apply the truth about justification and its illustration in Abraham to the apostle\u2019s readers \u2014 from the believers in Rome who first read this letter to people today. The divine declaration of Abraham\u2019s justification was written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness. This just means that not only is faith full payment for Abraham\u2019s righteousness, but any one who has faith in Jesus Christ is counted righteous, as well.\nAll scripture has universal application, and Abraham\u2019s experience is no exception. If Abraham was justified by his faith, then all others are justified on the same basis.\nSuch an act of justification, however, is not for everyone. It is for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead (lit., \u201cout from dead ones\u201d; cf. Rom_6:4; Rom_8:11). Look at Romans 10:9\nThis leaves absolutely no doubt what it takes to be saved.\nRepeatedly in this chapter Paul referred to Abraham and other believers having righteousness credited to them because of their faith (Rom_4:3, Rom_4:5-6, Rom_4:9-11, Rom_4:23-24).\nMentioning the Lord Jesus led Paul to state again the Savior\u2019s central place in God\u2019s program of providing righteousness for sinful people by grace through faith. Both Christ\u2019s death and His resurrection are essential to that work of justification. He was delivered over (by God the Father; cf. Rom_8:32) to death for our sins (lit., \u201con account of or because of\u201d [dia with the accusative] \u201cour trespasses\u201d [parapto\u0304mata, \u201cfalse steps\u201d; cf. Rom_5:15, Rom_5:17, Rom_5:20; Eph_2:1]). Though not a direct quotation, these words in substance are taken from Isa_53:12 (cf. Isa_53:4-6). Also He was raised to life for (\u201con account of\u201d or \u201cbecause of\u201d [dia with the accusative]) our justification. Jesus was without sin. He was innocent of all sin. He took our sins on his body and paid our penalty in full. I should have been crucified. My sins help put Jesus on the cross.\nI Corinthians 15:3 \"For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;\"\nIsaiah 53:5 \"But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.\"\nJesus bought us and paid for us with his own precious blood. Our salvation lies in him.\nChrist\u2019s death as God\u2019s sacrificial Lamb (cf. Joh_1:29) was to pay the redemptive price for the sins of all people (Rom_3:24) so that God might be free to forgive those who respond by faith to that provision. Christ\u2019s resurrection was the proof (or demonstration and vindication) of God\u2019s acceptance of Jesus\u2019 sacrifice (cf. Rom_1:4). Thus because He lives, God can credit His provided righteousness to the account of every person who responds by faith to that offer.\nIn Rom_4:1-25, Paul presented several irrefutable reasons why justification is by faith: (1) Since justification is a gift, it cannot be earned by works (Rom_4:1- . (2) Since Abraham was justified before he was circumcised, circumcision has no relationship to justification (Rom_4:9-12). (3) Since Abraham was justified centuries before the Law, justification is not based on the Law (Rom_4:13-17). (4) Abraham was justified because of his faith in God, not because of his works (Rom_4:18-25).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 16222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://energy.7gen.com/2007/04/peak-oil-task-force.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:21Z", "digest": "sha1:EU5MIVMNLZVSZEWUS2MOHRHQIHBHVU73", "length": 566, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "energy.7gen.com", "title": "Energy and Growth: Peak Oil Task Force", "raw_content": "Peak Oil Task Force\nIn May 2006, Portland Oregon City Council created a Peak Oil Task Force to develop recommendations on appropriate responses to uncertainties in the supply and affordability of oil. Changes in the availability of affordable petroleum products may have significant impacts on transportation, housing, food, and other life-essential products and services. The mission of the Task Force is to identify key short-term and long-term vulnerabilities and develop recommendations for addressing these issues.\nLabels: Oil Freedom, Peak Oil, Portland Oregon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 17591, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 169.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://english.arpp.ru/21359-the-income-of-newspapers-and-magazines-dropped-again.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HDR3Z3KHRQOAP4VYBHHAHE54TO7CEFU4", "length": 2512, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "english.arpp.ru", "title": "The income of newspapers and magazines dropped again", "raw_content": "The income of newspapers and magazines dropped again\nIn the first nine months of this year, advertisers spent on placement in local media 229 billion rubles, which is higher for 11.4 % than a year earlier, estimates the Russian Association of Communication Agencies (RACA). It turns out, that the market slowed down again - growth in the I quarter was plus 14 %, in the first half of the year - plus 12 %.\nAnna Lepetukhina, an analyst from \"Sberbank CIB\u00bb explain the further inhibition of the advertising market in the III quarter, in particular, by the high base last year - in the summer of 2012 television channels received additional income from the European Football Championships and the Olympics.\nThe income growth of all media is reduced - from television to outdoor advertising, comes from the ACAR data. Print media suffers most: if the income of newspapers and magazines were down for 2 % in the I quarter, over the six months - 6%, for the nine months - by 7% to 26,5-26,7 billion rubles. One of the reasons for the decline of press income was the complete ban on alcohol advertising .\nEspecially the Internet \"eat off\" the press. Although the growth income rate of headings in this year is unusually low for this media, especially media (banner) advertising, \"virtual\" share in the advertising \"pie\" increases. On the promotion in the net advertisers spent 48.8 billion rubles in the first nine months, it's about 21 % of their budgets (in the I quarter - 19%, for the six months - 20 %).\nEarlier this year, the agency Carat (part of the Aegis Media Group) predicted, that in three or four years more than a third of advertising budgets will be spent in runet.\nThe growth of the Russian advertising market began to slow last year: while the lowest rate was recorded (13 %) after the crisis of 2009. Companies used a low-key approach to media planning because of the difficult economic situation in Russia and in the world, due to the expectations of a new financial crisis, explained the sellers and representatives of advertising agencies. By the end of the year the slowed down consumer demand negatively impacted on marketing budgets. Experts told at the beginning of the year that new incentives for the growth of spending on promotion this year did not appear, so the advertisers have continued to behave more conservatively than usual. 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But, I can state that the medallion marks the signature \u201cB\u201d as well as the construction dates of this Las Vegas landmark. We have already been told it is a masterpiece quality, true work of art!\u201d\nScott Banda, Bostik\u2019s Director of Marketing and Business Development stated, \u201cThis is the fourth competition we\u2019ve staged with our partners at MGM Resorts International in the last two years. In all of these, we\u2019ve arranged for a permanent installation to take place in one of their key properties. Everybody involved wins. But in particular, those enthusiastic designers and tile & stone professionals who submit their designs have great opportunities to showcase their creative talents\u2026 and subsequently, receive well-deserved notoriety. Bostik builds strong bonding situations with much more than just its state-of-the-art specialty adhesive systems. Through programs such as Bostik Signature Spaces, we bring people together, and they build relationships that last for many years. That\u2019s really strong bonding!\u201d\nBostik is a leading global adhesive specialist in industrial, construction and consumer markets. For more than a century, it has been developing innovative adhesive solutions that are smarter and more adaptive to the forces that shape daily lives. From cradle to grave, from home to office, Bostik\u2019s smart adhesives can be found everywhere. With annual sales of \u20ac1.6 billion, the company employs 5,000 people and has a presence in more than 50 countries. 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II of the State Constitution or s. 112.3145, to file full or limited public disclosure of his or her financial interests or any individual who has been elected to, but has yet to officially assume the responsibilities of, public office. For purposes of implementing this section, the \u201cagency\u201d of a reporting individual who is not an officer or employee in public service is the agency to which the candidate seeks election, or in the case of an individual elected to but yet to formally take office, the agency in which the individual has been elected to serve.\n(3)\u2003A reporting individual or procurement employee is prohibited from soliciting any gift from a political committee or committee of continuous existence, as defined in s. 106.011, or from a lobbyist who lobbies the reporting individual\u2019s or procurement employee\u2019s agency, or the partner, firm, employer, or principal of such lobbyist, where such gift is for the personal benefit of the reporting individual or procurement employee, another reporting individual or procurement employee, or any member of the immediate family of a reporting individual or procurement employee.\n(4)\u2003A reporting individual or procurement employee or any other person on his or her behalf is prohibited from knowingly accepting, directly or indirectly, a gift from a political committee or committee of continuous existence, as defined in s. 106.011, or from a lobbyist who lobbies the reporting individual\u2019s or procurement employee\u2019s agency, or directly or indirectly on behalf of the partner, firm, employer, or principal of a lobbyist, if he or she knows or reasonably believes that the gift has a value in excess of $100; however, such a gift may be accepted by such person on behalf of a governmental entity or a charitable organization. If the gift is accepted on behalf of a governmental entity or charitable organization, the person receiving the gift shall not maintain custody of the gift for any period of time beyond that reasonably necessary to arrange for the transfer of custody and ownership of the gift.\n(5)(a)\u2003A political committee or a committee of continuous existence, as defined in s. 106.011; a lobbyist who lobbies a reporting individual\u2019s or procurement employee\u2019s agency; the partner, firm, employer, or principal of a lobbyist; or another on behalf of the lobbyist or partner, firm, principal, or employer of the lobbyist is prohibited from giving, either directly or indirectly, a gift that has a value in excess of $100 to the reporting individual or procurement employee or any other person on his or her behalf; however, such person may give a gift having a value in excess of $100 to a reporting individual or procurement employee if the gift is intended to be transferred to a governmental entity or a charitable organization.\n(b)\u2003However, a person who is regulated by this subsection, who is not regulated by subsection (6), and who makes, or directs another to make, an individual gift having a value in excess of $25, but not in excess of $100, other than a gift that the donor knows will be accepted on behalf of a governmental entity or charitable organization, must file a report on the last day of each calendar quarter for the previous calendar quarter in which a reportable gift is made. The report shall be filed with the Commission on Ethics, except with respect to gifts to reporting individuals of the legislative branch, in which case the report shall be filed with the Office of Legislative Services. The report must contain a description of each gift, the monetary value thereof, the name and address of the person making such gift, the name and address of the recipient of the gift, and the date such gift is given. In addition, if a gift is made which requires the filing of a report under this subsection, the donor must notify the intended recipient at the time the gift is made that the donor, or another on his or her behalf, will report the gift under this subsection. Under this paragraph, a gift need not be reported by more than one person or entity.\n(6)(a)\u2003Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (5), an entity of the legislative or judicial branch, a department or commission of the executive branch, a water management district created pursuant to s. 373.069, South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, the Technological Research and Development Authority, a county, a municipality, an airport authority, or a school board may give, either directly or indirectly, a gift having a value in excess of $100 to any reporting individual or procurement employee if a public purpose can be shown for the gift; and a direct-support organization specifically authorized by law to support a governmental entity may give such a gift to a reporting individual or procurement employee who is an officer or employee of such governmental entity.\n(b)\u2003Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (4), a reporting individual or procurement employee may accept a gift having a value in excess of $100 from an entity of the legislative or judicial branch, a department or commission of the executive branch, a water management district created pursuant to s. 373.069, South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, the Technological Research and Development Authority, a county, a municipality, an airport authority, or a school board if a public purpose can be shown for the gift; and a reporting individual or procurement employee who is an officer or employee of a governmental entity supported by a direct-support organization specifically authorized by law to support such governmental entity may accept such a gift from such direct-support organization.\n(c)\u2003No later than March 1 of each year, each governmental entity or direct-support organization specifically authorized by law to support a governmental entity which has given a gift to a reporting individual or procurement employee under paragraph (a) shall provide the reporting individual or procurement employee with a statement of each gift having a value in excess of $100 given to such reporting individual or procurement employee by the governmental entity or direct-support organization during the preceding calendar year. Such report shall contain a description of each gift, the date on which the gift was given, and the value of the total gifts given by the governmental entity or direct-support organization to the reporting individual or procurement employee during the calendar year for which the report is made. A governmental entity may provide a single report to the reporting individual or procurement employee of gifts provided by the governmental entity and any direct-support organization specifically authorized by law to support such governmental entity.\n(d)\u2003No later than July 1 of each year, each reporting individual or procurement employee shall file a statement listing each gift having a value in excess of $100 received by the reporting individual or procurement employee, either directly or indirectly, from a governmental entity or a direct-support organization specifically authorized by law to support a governmental entity. The statement shall list the name of the person providing the gift, a description of the gift, the date or dates on which the gift was given, and the value of the total gifts given during the calendar year for which the report is made. The reporting individual or procurement employee shall attach to the statement any report received by him or her in accordance with paragraph (c), which report shall become a public record when filed with the statement of the reporting individual or procurement employee. The reporting individual or procurement employee may explain any differences between the report of the reporting individual or procurement employee and the attached reports. The annual report filed by a reporting individual shall be filed with the financial disclosure statement required by either s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution or s. 112.3145, as applicable to the reporting individual. The annual report filed by a procurement employee shall be filed with the Commission on Ethics. The report filed by a reporting individual or procurement employee who left office or employment during the calendar year covered by the report shall be filed by July 1 of the year after leaving office or employment at the same location as his or her final financial disclosure statement or, in the case of a former procurement employee, with the Commission on Ethics.\n(7)(a)\u2003The value of a gift provided to a reporting individual or procurement employee shall be determined using actual cost to the donor, less taxes and gratuities, except as otherwise provided in this subsection, and, with respect to personal services provided by the donor, the reasonable and customary charge regularly charged for such service in the community in which the service is provided shall be used. If additional expenses are required as a condition precedent to eligibility of the donor to purchase or provide a gift and such expenses are primarily for the benefit of the donor or are of a charitable nature, such expenses shall not be included in determining the value of the gift.\n(b)\u2003Compensation provided by the donee to the donor, if provided within 90 days after receipt of the gift, shall be deducted from the value of the gift in determining the value of the gift.\n(c)\u2003If the actual gift value attributable to individual participants at an event cannot be determined, the total costs shall be prorated among all invited persons, whether or not they are reporting individuals or procurement employees.\n(d)\u2003Transportation shall be valued on a round-trip basis unless only one-way transportation is provided. Round-trip transportation expenses shall be considered a single gift. Transportation provided in a private conveyance shall be given the same value as transportation provided in a comparable commercial conveyance.\n(e)\u2003Lodging provided on consecutive days shall be considered a single gift. Lodging in a private residence shall be valued at the per diem rate provided in s. 112.061(6)(a)1. less the meal allowance rate provided in s. 112.061(6)(b).\n(f)\u2003Food and beverages which are not consumed at a single sitting or meal and which are provided on the same calendar day shall be considered a single gift, and the total value of all food and beverages provided on that date shall be considered the value of the gift. Food and beverage consumed at a single sitting or meal shall be considered a single gift, and the value of the food and beverage provided at that sitting or meal shall be considered the value of the gift.\n(g)\u2003Membership dues paid to the same organization during any 12-month period shall be considered a single gift.\n(h)\u2003Entrance fees, admission fees, or tickets shall be valued on the face value of the ticket or fee, or on a daily or per event basis, whichever is greater.\n(i)\u2003Except as otherwise specified in this section, a gift shall be valued on a per occurrence basis.\n(j)\u2003The value of a gift provided to several individuals may be attributed on a pro rata basis among all of the individuals. If the gift is food, beverage, entertainment, or similar items, provided at a function for more than 10 people, the value of the gift to each individual shall be the total value of the items provided divided by the number of persons invited to the function, unless the items are purchased on a per person basis, in which case the value of the gift to each person is the per person cost.\n(k)\u2003The value of a gift of an admission ticket shall not include that portion of the cost which represents a charitable contribution, if the gift is provided by the charitable organization.\n(8)(a)\u2003Each reporting individual or procurement employee shall file a statement with the Commission on Ethics not later than the last day of each calendar quarter, for the previous calendar quarter, containing a list of gifts which he or she believes to be in excess of $100 in value, if any, accepted by him or her, for which compensation was not provided by the donee to the donor within 90 days of receipt of the gift to reduce the value to $100 or less, except the following:\n1.\u2003Gifts from relatives.\n2.\u2003Gifts prohibited by subsection (4) or s. 112.313(4).\n3.\u2003Gifts otherwise required to be disclosed by this section.\n(b)\u2003The statement shall include:\n1.\u2003A description of the gift, the monetary value of the gift, the name and address of the person making the gift, and the dates thereof. If any of these facts, other than the gift description, are unknown or not applicable, the report shall so state.\n2.\u2003A copy of any receipt for such gift provided to the reporting individual or procurement employee by the donor.\n(c)\u2003The statement may include an explanation of any differences between the reporting individual\u2019s or procurement employee\u2019s statement and the receipt provided by the donor.\n(d)\u2003The reporting individual\u2019s or procurement employee\u2019s statement shall be sworn to by such person as being a true, accurate, and total listing of all such gifts.\n(e)\u2003Statements must be filed not later than 5 p.m. of the due date. However, any statement that is postmarked by the United States Postal Service by midnight of the due date is deemed to have been filed in a timely manner, and a certificate of mailing obtained from and dated by the United States Postal Service at the time of the mailing, or a receipt from an established courier company, which bears a date on or before the due date constitutes proof of mailing in a timely manner.\n(f)\u2003If a reporting individual or procurement employee has not received any gifts described in paragraph (a) during a calendar quarter, he or she is not required to file a statement under this subsection for that calendar quarter.\n(9)\u2003A person, other than a lobbyist regulated under s. 11.045, who violates the provisions of subsection (5) commits a noncriminal infraction, punishable by a fine of not more than $5,000 and by a prohibition on lobbying, or employing a lobbyist to lobby, before the agency of the reporting individual or procurement employee to which the gift was given in violation of subsection (5), for a period of not more than 24 months. The state attorney, or an agency, if otherwise authorized, may initiate an action to impose or recover a fine authorized under this section or to impose or enforce a limitation on lobbying provided in this section.\n(10)\u2003A member of the Legislature may request an advisory opinion from the general counsel of the house of which he or she is a member as to the application of this section to a specific situation. The general counsel shall issue the opinion within 10 days after receiving the request. The member of the Legislature may reasonably rely on such opinion.\nHistory.\u2014s. 2, ch. 89-380; s. 8, ch. 90-502; s. 9, ch. 91-85; s. 7, ch. 91-292; s. 6, ch. 94-277; s. 1411, ch. 95-147; s. 2, ch. 96-328; s. 8, ch. 98-136; s. 4, ch. 2000-243; s. 32, ch. 2000-258; s. 8, ch. 2003-159; s. 6, ch. 2006-275; s. 4, ch. 2012-51.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 20932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 230.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://forum.aljazeera.net/speakers/mohamed-jemil-ould-mansour", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:47Z", "digest": "sha1:XI3TP6B246I6VSP2BXMCFBIWWGGNLGSD", "length": 625, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "forum.aljazeera.net", "title": "Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour | Al Jazeera Forum", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb The 12th Al Jazeera Forum \u00bb Speakers \u00bb Mohamed Jemil Ould Mansour\nChairman of the National Rally for Reform and Development in Mauritania (Tawassoul)\nHe was a member of the Mauritanian parliament and a candidate in the presidential elections of 2009. Ould Mansour holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in Islamic shari'a from the Advanced Institute for Islamic Studies and Research and a master\u2019s degree from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University. He started his political activism early on in as a university student, which led to his imprisonment. 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I had a feeling he was out there\u2026 he was there for about 8 hours, and when I showed up he came running to me with a plaintive \u201cmeeowwwww!\u201d The wind was rattling the barn\u2019s metal roof and he probably wasn\u2019t very cozy compared to the laundry room! We had some more avian visitors\u2026 Canada Geese and a flock of White-fronted geese. I had never seen a Greater White-Fronted Goose before, so that was a first. Being a \u201cbirder\u201d from way back, I always like to see something new. They have a higher-pitched, almost whistling kleek, kleek or kweek call, much more distinct than the nasally \u201chonk\u201d of the common Canada Goose. They flew in together, in separate flocks. Then the White-fronted geese sort of \u201cswam after\u201d the Canada geese\u2026 not sure what that was about. But the White-fronted are not common here at all, just passing through. More common in winter in the souther U.S. areas from Lousiana to Texas and south in Mexico, and western coastal U.S. areas. Their summer breeding territory is way up in the Northwest Territories and to Alaska, on tundra wetlands . Amazing how birds migrate over such great distances. Here\u2019s a few pictures:\nI got this shot of the underside of a White-fronted Goose with the telephoto as they soared in overhead!\nHere the White-fronted geese are swimming toward the Canada geese.\nOne Response to \u201cWindy\u201d\n# Fox Haven Journal \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb Roses, Peppers and a Wet Labrador on 22 Oct 2007 at 3:08 pm\n[\u2026] as they went by, heading south of course. In March a small flock landed on the pond and I wrote about them here. 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The free-to-play, military FPS is now in Open Beta and gamers in Brazil can download and test what is meant to be the 'spiritual' successor to Combat Arms.\nAfter a relatively short Closed Beta testing period, publisher Level Up! just anounced that the shooter is now available to everyone based in Brazil, which is the second country after Thailand to initiate the Open Beta. Level Up! also operates Combat Arms and Warface in Brazil.\nThe FPS will be published by Nexon for Europe under the title Combat Arms: Line of Sight. Although Combat Arms: Line of Sight is not a direct sequel, it is rather a spiritual successor to the long-running shooter Combat Arms and inherits some of its contents and core features, especially the in-depth weapon customization system. The shooter takes advantage of the Unreal Engine 3 and will provide fast-paced FPS gameplay in a variety of classic PvP game modes, some with a new twist as players can use some of 17 superhuman powers against the enemy.\nDeveloper Blackspot Entertainment might focus on an Open Beta release for Europe soon, stay tuned and find more info at the official sites.\nLine of Sight - Customization (BR)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 3744, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://franziskastetter.de/projects/the-scene", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:59Z", "digest": "sha1:BWFWZODBQ725I7UHSONJDMSMLRG7RVH5", "length": 556, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "franziskastetter.de", "title": "The Scene by Cond\u00e9 Nast Entertainment | Franziska Stetter", "raw_content": "Brand identity, promotional items and motion graphics for the the Scene, the video portal of Cond\u00e9 Nast Entertainment.\nThe Scene is a platform for digital shorts, series and documentaries with curated content from Conde Nast\u2019s iconic brands, such as Vogue, Allure and GQ for fashion, Vanity Fair for celebrity, Bon Appetit for food and wine, Wired for design, and more. Content from other leading brands and broadcasters such as PBS, BuzzFeed, CollegeHumor, AOL, The Onion and Red Bull is also available on the Scene.\n2014 at Pentagram with Todd Goldstein.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 238.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://fredhickling.com/research", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:06Z", "digest": "sha1:BOCL4S45UMWWPL2WYARE6464GLFYR4KY", "length": 378, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "fredhickling.com", "title": "Research | Fred Hickling", "raw_content": "Professor Hickling has conducted research over the forty years of his professional tenure (a listing of research papers can be found in the \"Publications\" section). Main areas of research interest include:\nCultural Competence in Mental Health Service Provision\nDeinstitutionalization & Community Mental Health\nMental Health in the Caribbean\nMental Health and Substance Use/Abuse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2358, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://freedomsbeacon.blogspot.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:23Z", "digest": "sha1:VSDI5XKXL7YB3VBA6M2CH5OYWX6A42G6", "length": 65882, "nlines": 149, "source_domain": "freedomsbeacon.blogspot.com", "title": "Freedom's Beacon", "raw_content": "Please quickly realize what is happening and let your Heart openly stand in the\nLight for complete and genuine freedom from all that controls and harms humanity.\nPosted by Sharon R. Poet at 12:22 PM No comments:\nI started editing some of my old articles and was going to put them in a book with the title Beacon for Freedom or Freedom's Beacon. But I don't know if I can finish it so am sharing it here as it is until I can do more.\nYou can print out and share this information, (without my name in it if you want) as long as you do so with your Heart and do not try to take credit for it and as long as you do not profit from it in any way. I hope you do print it out and share it on paper instead of just on the web. I'm Sharon Rose Poet.\nFrom Awareness to Freedom\nMost of us can sense that there is something horribly wrong in our world, something that lurks behind most of the troubles we are faced with on a global scale, but most of us don\u2019t know what it is. There are many confusing theories and it\u2019s hard to know the Truth, because the core problem is something that most people have not even imagined possible or curable. But what is happening is possible and it can be stopped \u2013 Freedom can be easily restored. Far more people must become fully aware, in order for Freedom to be restored. And all of humanity must become fully aware, in order for a full recovery to take place.\nAs you read this, please push past possible walls of doubt and do your best to listen closely to your own instincts. Please don't let yourself launch into blind disbelief, because your awareness may be one of the catalysts for deeply needed positive change in your life as well as that of your loved ones and others. Please become aware and help spread the word as quickly as possible. In this situation, awareness is the first step that must be taken, in order to start regaining vital Freedoms, which most people are not even aware have been lost. Never, in the history of Humanity, Has there been a more crucial time For the Heart of humanity to rise Into a Peaceful Stand for Freedom. Lets do it.\nTechnological and Pharmaceutical Mind Control\nWhat will become of humankind if not allowed a free mind?\nMost people are aware that radio waves (microwaves) can be shot from satellites to their homes, businesses or computers for the purpose of internet access. But most people are not aware that this process of shooting and directing radio waves can be criminally used. Beams of radio waves can also be directed into human beings, in order to disrupt brain and body functions in ways that can range from mild to lethal. The general numbness, the growing lack of care and growing levels of discord in the world are mostly due to the effects of criminal use of radio wave technologies and their aiding pharmaceuticals.\nRadio waves, tuned to the same frequency as the human brain, can flood whole communities and inflict literally every member of that community with various types of brain washings. Technological mind control is not a new concept, but it\u2019s shrouded in secrecy, due to its criminal use by too many. Among other things it is called, \u201cbehavior modification\u201d and it\u2019s been happening for decades. It\u2019s VERY effective, especially on people who are taking the types of pharmaceuticals, which aid its success. In 2008 news reports stated that these sorts of pharmaceuticals were found in at least 24 major public water supplies, as well as in bottled drinking water, in the USA. So, this is not a small problem. It\u2019s huge. Its holocaustal. Please take this seriously. This is a horrible violation of human freedoms that has been happening and still is and must be quickly stopped.\nOn the milder scales of this crisis people can be brainwashed into voting a certain way or into frequenting certain stores or into joining or doing just about anything else you can think of. When people do not know, that they are being influenced by an exterior force, they think it\u2019s just their own instincts or wishes or desires. This is real - it\u2019s not a theory - Macys stores were reported to have used these types of brain washing techniques in their stores and experienced a large drop in episodes of shop lifting. There even appears to be a mass public brain washing, in order make people blindly disbelieve that any sort of mind control can even happen. A conversation with a seriously brain washed victim can go something like this;\nInformer; Technological mind control is being performed on humanity.\nVictim; No its Not!\nInformer; Do you know anything about technological mind control?\nVictim; No.\nInformer; What makes you think it\u2019s not being used on people?\nVictim; I don't know.\nIt\u2019s like they can\u2019t even register it and have difficulty processing the information or caring about how it is hurting people. If you are one of these people I beg you to do your very best to push past the wall of blind disbelief and listen to the heart of your own instincts although they may be seriously dulled by the pharmaceuticals and technological brain washing. many are completely controlled.\nHeavily targeted individuals can be intentionally inflicted with brain malfunctions or unnatural mood swings, which can mimic various types of what is now called, \u201cmental illness.\" This can be confusing and sometimes even devastating to the victim and his or her loved ones, and it can be done to people in order to send them rushing to a psychiatrist who prescribes the types of medications that aid complete mind control, like antidepressants and other psychotropic drugs.. (Be sure to read my article on the psychiatric connection.)\nVictims of the worst types of mind control are also remotely inflicted with both physical and psychological torture and deceived into believing that a certain person or group is torturing them or their loved ones, and is pushed to seek revenge - or to \"eliminate\" the accused, in order to regain freedom. I strongly feel that many of the lethal shootings in America were actually performed, from behind the scenes, by sadistic criminals who merely used the primary victim, in order to pull the triggers and take the blame. Please think about this. The core problem, behind most (if not all) of these horrible massacres, is not \"mental illness\" or people owning guns - its criminal use of mind control technologies and the pharmaceuticals that aid their success. Space and ground based technologies, which can emit and direct radio waves, are the most lethal weapons humanity has ever been faced with. Criminal use of them has been harming humanity in many ways and it has to be realized and stopped as quickly as possible.\nThe shootings are like a grotesque magnification of what has been happening in the rest of the world. Mass brain washings, as well as individual targetings, have been pitting people and organizations against each other \u2013 pitting governments against each other, pitting citizens against governments and visa versa, pitting community members against each other, pitting the rich against the poor and visa versa, pitting family members and other loved ones against each other, pitting black skinned people against white skinned people and visa versa...etc. Mass brain washings have been blocking people's hearts and leaving masses of people feeling unloved and upset and wanting to seek vengeance instead of resolving their issues\u2026etc. These sadistic influences should be exposed and completely stopped so that people, from all walks of life, can start pulling together to support each other and recover from it.\nThe dangers in ALL levels of technological mind control cannot be overstated. The worse long term effect, of even just the mild scales of it, is the blocking of people's natural instincts and feelings, which seriously interferes with the natural process of personal growth, especially in children. Interference with thoughts and feelings is horribly destructive to children and their natural process of maturing into whole and healthy adults. In the bigger picture, the precious Heart of humanity has been being destroyed and this just cannot be allowed to continue. This is truly a holocaustal situation, which must be fully realized and stopped as quickly as possible.\nExperimentations with technological mind control began around the 1930s with scientist like Nicola Tesla. Around the 1950s it started to be freely used on humanity. Since the 1970s the growing numbers of families and individuals who have been damaged by it, through experimentation or sadistic targeting or groups of people who think they have the right to play God, are astronomical. This has already become a horrible holocaust. (Be sure to read my article on Nicola Tesla) Technological mind control is more effective on people who are taking mood altering drugs, like anti-depressants. I feel that there is a direct link between this and the push for people to take various types of pharmaceuticals. (I also feel that marijuana has the same effect which is probably why there is a push to legalize it.) In 2008, news reports stated that various types of pharmaceuticals, including antidepressants, were being found in around 24 major public water supplies in the USA.\nDrugs found in about 24 public drinking water supplies\nhttps://youtu.be/LYD-qf9pZAg\nIt is believed that the drugs found in the water are from individuals improperly disposing of unused pharmaceuticals and the \u201crun off\u201d from them. I feel that the drugs have been being intentionally put into the water, due to a dream I had about it. But even if the \"run off\" theory is part of the contamination, it shows a SERIOUS problem with the amount of pharmaceuticals that are being dispensed, which also proves mass distribution of the types of pharmaceuticals that aid technological mind control.\nBelow are quotes that I hope will help you realize the scientific capabilities of all types of radio wave technologies, what really can be done with them, and how long they have been being used for various types of mind control. Please realize that what I am writing is not a theory. It\u2019s all based on my own wisdom and I have found these scientific facts to back it up, with the hope that you will realize the Truth. Please do.\nQuote by (the late) veteran author Jim Keith: \"Brain-computer radio communication has long been considered impossible by the majority of people and has consequently been relegated to science-fiction, but the fact is that the technology had been developed into reality by at least the 1960s, during which time the initial experiments were being performed on unwitting subjects.\" Jim's book \u201cMind Control \u2013 World Control\u2026; http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Control-World-Jim-Keith/dp/0932813453\nQuote by Antony C. Sutton - \u201cPsychotronics is the long range modification or manipulation of behavior by electronic, specifically radio means. In other words you use electromagnetic energy \u2013 radio wave transmissions to effect human behavior. . . You are merging radio engineering and parapsychology . . You can create a passive behavior. You can make people go to sleep. You can create narcotic effect. . . You can make people alert. You can make them misconstrue \u2013 misunderstand things. Each has a specific \u2013 very precise frequency. We know what these frequencies are. We know the behavior modification that can be brought about. . . You can induce medical effect \u2013 you can induce heart attacks, at a distance, with certain frequencies. . . We know you can modify behavior through beaming radio waves on specific frequencies at a distance. I think what they did in the 1970s was experimentation. I think what they are doing today is not experimentation. . . The West Germans issued their diplomats with protective devices about ten years ago. . . \u201d https://youtu.be/Uhlym82G_t4 ( I have concerns about the possibility that some of those \"protective\" devices may actually have been a sly enslavement that has been used on many people across the globe.)\nI think there may have been modes of protection, which were actually slyly enslaving people. And there may still be. Those who perpetrate appear to have more deeply infiltrated/controlled places that people turn to for help and places that have power over people. This is a critically dangerous situation for everyone, including those who are controlled.\nA quote from the Space Preservation Bill proposed by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2001. This was a bill \"To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.\" This was an aim to prevent harm \"through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations.\" http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?c107:chemtrails\nWikipedia Reported that, \"The history of brain\u2013computer interfaces (BCIs) starts with Hans Berger's discovery of the electrical activity of the human brain and the development of electroencephalography (EEG). In 1924 Berger was the first to record human brain activity by means of EEG. Berger was able to identify oscillatory activity, such as Berger's wave or the alpha wave (8\u201313 Hz), by analyzing EEG traces.\u201d https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface\nQuote by (the late) Philip Coppens' \"In April 1953, CIA Allen Dulles gave a lecture at Princeton University, detailing Soviet developments in the field of mind control. He stated they were out to control the mind of free men, both individually and collectively. . . Dulles proclaimed that the Cold War was moving into a new era of psychological warfare, which Dulles characterized as the battle for men's minds. \"We might call it in its new form brain warfare. . .In the 1970s, some of this \"secret war for our mind\" was exposed. . .\" The Russian Woodpecker: Experiments in Global Mind Control? http://www.philipcoppens.com/woodpecker.html\nGordon Duff - senior editor of Veterans Today stood up for Targeted Individual's mind control claims; \"At one time, we thought of all of them as 'tin foil hat' conspiracy theorists. This was until we were able to break through the encoding with some mobile communications devices. . . The concerns go well past simply a few thousand targeted 'trouble makers'... tens of thousands are being turned into those who will read these words and think and feel nothing.\" Sadly, some of this article has been removed from the web as well as from some of my past writings. https://www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2012/12/24/venturas-brain-invaders/\nQuote by Turan (Tim) Rifat: \"Russian and American research has found that pulse modulated microwaves (as used for mobile phones) can, when modulated with ELF which mimics specific brain patterns, change the behavior of the victim with the flick of a switch. . . Precisely modulated microwave radiation is used to influence brain function. Human behavior and reactions can be entirely controlled by using pulse modulated microwave EM radiation\" There is \"a catalogue of every specific brain frequency for each mood, action and thought. . .there is one for anger, suicide, hysteria, trauma, serial killing, paranoia, lust...etc.\" http://www.whale.to/b/rifat.html\nQuote by British Psychoanalyst, Carole Smith in her article, \"On the Need for New Criteria of Diagnosis of Psychosis in the Light of Mind Invasive Technology\"; \"We have failed to comprehend that the result of the technology that originated in the years of the arms race between the Soviet Union and the West, has resulted in using satellite technology not only for surveillance and communication systems but also to lock on to human beings, manipulating brain frequencies by directing laser beams, neural-particle beams, electro-magnetic radiation, sonar waves, radiofrequency radiation...\" http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7123\nKomsomolskaya Pravda stated that, \"In 1924, chairman of the academician council of the Animal Psychology Laboratory, brilliant animal trainer Vladimir Durov wrote a book on animal training and told about his experiments on hypnosis applied to animals. In 1932, the Bekhterev Institute of Brain named after the scientist was officially charged to conduct experiments on distant interaction. In 1965-1968, the Institute of Automatics and Electroenergetics based in Novosibirsk studied mental communication between humans and animals. The materials of the study were classified and were never published officially.\" http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/14-08-2007/95965-psychotronic_weapon-0 In 1976\nTime Magazine said, \"Last month the U.S. confirmed that for some 15 years the Soviet Union has been beaming microwaves at the hulking nine-story U.S. Embassy...\" Find more on: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,911755,00.html\nCBS This Morning reports new Xray vision technology that can not only see through walls but can also remotely read a person's vital signs - heart rate and respiration with electromagnetics that are similar to wifi; https://youtu.be/PnvcjKXo-AY\nIn 1996 the Oct/Nov issue of Nexus Magazine declared; British scientists are developing a concept for a computer chip which, when implanted into the skull, behind the eye, will be able to record a person's every lifetime thought and sensation. \"This is the end of death\" said Dr. Chris Winter of British Telecom's Artificial-life team. He predicts that, within thirty years it will be possible to relive other people's lives by playing their experiences on a computer. \"By combining this information with a record of a person's genes, we could recreate a person physically, emotionally and spiritually.\" The article went on to say that they named the chip, \"The Soul Catcher,\" and that \"Direct human mind/computer interface... is surely only a few years away from being as common as using fingers on keyboards and eyes on monitors are today... Other more frightening applications include downloading an older person's experiences into a new born baby...\" The Truth is that it\u2019s already here and has been for decades. Many just don't realize it.\nVery detectable microchips, which were used in the 1960s - 1980s, are in many long term victims. I have read that they are microscopic and hardly detectable now. And many types of mind control can be done without microchips and with only radio waves shot directly into the brain.\nAny sort of interference with the natural rhythms of our energy fields can be damaging on multiple levels, and my gut feeling is that much of the damage is not yet known. This is just common sense. Even the mildest levels of technological mind control interferes with and blocks our natural process of thinking, feeling, healing and growing into all that we were meant to be. . .and this hurts us on multiple levels including physically. What it is doing to our children is almost unspeakable. This is truly the most dangerous thing that humanity has ever been faced with and it must be quickly stopped.\nMind Reading and Personality Swapping; The technological mind control techniques extend into things like mind reading and the swapping of personalities from one child to the other in targeted families. This part has been happening since at least the late 1980s. Sound unbelievable? It\u2019s true. Unfortunately, it\u2019s very true and it can be easily done in adults too.\nRemote mind reading is done through computers with space based surveillance and radio wave technologies. Thoughts and dreams can not only be remotely read, but can also be plugged into a victim's brain without them even being aware of what is happening. Imagine a person sitting in their home and being watched through surveillance equipment that has Xray vision. The intruder then shoots radio waves into the victim's brain as easily as it is for a satellite to shoot radio waves into a person's home or computer for internet access, especially if there is no lead paint on the house. The brain is scanned and then read and altered on a computer screen.\nDreams can even be projected into the brain of a victim, with voices and pictures, which can really mess a person up if they trust and believe in their dreams and are not aware of some of them being unreal/projected.\nThis may sound like science fiction, but it\u2019s not. None of the reports, which I list below, expose the more advanced remotely used types of mind reading technologies, but they do indeed exist. They have been being criminally used on humanity for decades, which is why they have not been advertised in the past. These recent reports are merely to show you that these sorts of technologies do exist and that the technological capability of reading a person's mind is very real.\nU.S. News & World Report (in 2000) reported John Norseen\u2019s comment about his fMRI research: \"If this research pans out you can begin to manipulate what someone is thinking even before they know it. . . The ethics don\u2019t concern me, but they should concern someone else.\u201d In this article Douglas Pasternak reports that, \"Norseen\u2019s interest in the brain stems from a Soviet book he read in the mid-1980s, claiming that research on the mind would revolutionize the military and society at large.\" http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/norseen.html\nCBS News (in 2010) reported that, \"Software that uses brain scans to determine what items people are thinking about was among the technological innovations showcased Wednesday by Intel Corp...\" http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mind-reading-technology-showcased-in-nyc/\nScientific American (in 2013) reported that, \"Groups around the world are using techniques like these to try to decode brain scans and decipher what people are seeing, hearing and feeling, as well as what they remember or even dream about... Media reports have suggested that such techniques bring mind-reading \u201cfrom the realms of fantasy to fact\u201d, and \u201ccould influence the way we do just about everything\u201d. The Economist in London even cautioned its readers to \u201cbe afraid.\" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mind-reading-technology-speeds-ahead/\nThe Guardian (in 2007) reported that, \"A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person\u2019s brain and read their intentions before they act. The research breaks controversial new ground in scientists\u2019 ability to probe people\u2019s minds and eavesdrop on their thoughts, and raises serious ethical issues over how brain-reading technology may be used in the future.\" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2007/feb/09/neuroscience.ethicsofscience\nLive Science reported that, \"Scientists have made impressive gains recently when it comes to reading minds. For instance, through brain scans, researchers can tell what number a person has just seen, figure out what letters a person wants to type...\" http://www.livescience.com/6205-scientists-read-minds-brain-scans.html\nWikipedia Reported that, \"Psychotronics is a term coined in 1967 by Zden?k Rejd\u00e1k for the study of parapsychology. Extensive research programmes and numerous conferences into the field during the 1970s and 1980s sparked Cold War fears of mind control and other psychotronic weaponry being developed by Eastern Bloc countries which led to popularisation of the term in the West.\" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychotronics\nWired Magazine (in 2006) reported that, \"Now fMRI is also poised to transform the security industry, the judicial system, and our fundamental notions of privacy.\" http://www.wired.com/2006/01/lying/\nLie Detection is a new application of mind reading technologies. BUT what happens if, before being tested, a mind control victim's brain has been hacked and some memories erased or new memories plugged in by people who are either targeting or using the victim? A criminal could look completely innocent, because he (or she) honestly does not remember the crime. And an innocent person could appear guilty. Relying too heavily on technology can carry many dangers, especially in a world where such technologies are being criminally used to interfere with or control people's minds. . . and especially in a world where many people are being sadistically targeted and set up for either law enforcement or psychiatrists to be used to find them guilty or ill when they really are not either of these things. Someone told me that those who target humanity aim to make the bad look good and the good look bad! It appears true. Can you imagine? It's really been happening and many have suffered horribly. It just cannot continue this way!\nMost victims are not even aware of what has happened to them and there has been no safe place for aware victims to turn for the proper types of help. Many aware victims are falsely accused of being, or are assumed to be, \"crazy\" or \"delusional\" or \"mentally ill,\" which merely adds to the suffering and pain and crushes hope for the hell to ever end. I beg officials and media to realize what has been happening and stand up for all of humanity, but especially for the torture victims who have had no real support. Many are being hurt indescribably. What has been happening to real torture victims - \"Targeted Individuals\" (TIs) are grossly cruel holocaustal crimes. The long term ones have been hurt indescribably. Please do all that you can to help expose the sadistic tortures and stop these sorts of crimes from continuing and growing. (Please be sure to read the article on Targeted Individuals)\nSymptoms of Technological Mind Control; Most victims, which seems to now include most of humanity, appear to experience unnoticeable brain washing and are not even aware of what is happening to them. There are no symptoms of general mild brain washing. But the negative general mind control programming has many noticeable effects. Just look out into the world and you can easily see them - the growing heartlessness, the cold indifference, the new fad of skull and bones and the honoring and displaying of evil things, the amount of people who are confused about their sexuality or are changing their gender instead of naturally being what they were born to be, the multitudes of families being torn apart, the escalation of harmful addictions, the increase in failed relationships, the rich corporations crushing small businesses, the growing greed, the growing dysfunctional behaviors of politicians in debates, the increased violence and man-made disasters that are thought to be natural...etc. Everything is getting all messaged up under the oppression of dark technological and pharmaceutical mind control programming. And too many have been being hurt by it. The levels of suffering in victims used and victims abused are indescribable.\nThe most common noticeable symptoms of heavier than usual targeting are mental numbness and fatigue, a faint high pitched ring in ears, unusual neck tension and headaches, unusual thoughts that do not match feelings, unusual dreams, unusual cravings for certain foods...etc. Many heavy mind control victims develop a certain type of arrogance or seem narcissistic in ways that the victim did not (or would not) naturally have. They can also become too disconnected from their hearts and natural instincts and lean toward seeking vengeance instead of toward resolving issues with others. They can suddenly be drawn to things like homosexuality or drugs or alcohol or dark secret societies. They can be made to think they are in love with someone when they really aren't. And the list could go on and on and on and none of it is good. Even when the technologies are used to inflict things like bliss or calmness or peacefulness, (and they can be) it is not good because it is not natural.\nLong term torture victims and heavily Targeted Individuals and families can also have symptoms like unusual tooth decay, unusual dry scalp, ridges on finger nails, chains of unusual medical inflictions, unusual discord between family members, unusual stress, mental confusion, forgetfulness, unusual or repetitive thoughts and mood swings, periods of diminished hearing and eye sight, sudden onset of unexplainable neurological problems and sharp pains shooting into head. . .as well as V2K - voices being transmitted into their brain with radio waves. The V2k is extremely dangerous on victims who are not aware that this can be technologically done. Public awareness is the key to this part as well as everything else. Those who target people in this way sometimes pretend to be God and the ways this can mess a person up are uncountable. I had a strong intuition that one of the USA shooters was a V2k victim who thought God had told him to do it, because he did not know about V2k.\nToo many victims of mind control are assumed to be \"mentally ill.\" Can you imagine being told that you are mentally ill when you are not ill at all - when criminals are invading not only your life but your mind. . .nothing to stop them from continuing? Parts of the targeting seem sadistic/satanic with intentions to inflict psychological suffering and chaos. In severe cases, it appears that unaware mind control victims can be completely controlled by criminals who force them into suicide or things like lethal shootings at schools or navy yards...etc.\nSome people seem less susceptible to being completely controlled - perhaps those of us who are more creative and independent and strong willed. People who are taking mood altering drugs, like anti-depressants, are VERY susceptible to being completely controlled. There also appears to be some sort of brain damage that is done to some victims, in order to make them more controllable. Our own hearts and natural instincts can override most of the manipulations, if we are aware and are not drugged or microchiped or inflicted with emotional trauma...etc. BUT if we are not AWARE of what is happening we can easily confuse the intrusions with our own thoughts, feelings and instincts, and this can be devastating in many situations. Through awareness and a strong will, we can avoid manipulations that are alien to our own nature. But when our existing issues or feelings are triggered its harder. And this is one of the things the general mind control programing seems to do - it magnifies our negative feelings, which raises the levels of discord in us as well as in the whole world.\nThe most dangerous long term, general effect of pharmaceutical and technological mind control is harmful interference with our natural process of personal and spiritual growth - the destruction of our Hearts and instincts and intuition - the loss of psychological and spiritual freedom. Any sort of interference with our natural processes of feeling, thinking and sensing is damaging to our mental, psychological and spiritual health. We cannot grow and evolve and become all that we were meant to be while our brains and emotions are being intruded upon and manipulated. Please help restore our freedom. More people must to become aware of what is happening and take HUGE peaceful steps toward bringing it to an end.\nTHIS IS A SERIOUS CRISIS - Truly a Technological Holocaust! It is imperative that you listen to the heart of your own instincts on this subject, because your mind may not want to believe it and your heart may ache so much that it aims to slip into denial or overwhelm. . .but this situation needs your heart to find the courage to face it and openly stand up against it, especially if you are a media or government official who has the power to help bring awareness and to help stop criminal use of the technologies.\nPlease take COURAGE, wrap it around your HEART and rise into a strong PEACEFUL stand to regain your FREEDOM.\nMind Control Experiment Evidence by Cheryl Welsh:\nhttp://mindjustice.org/2003_survey.htm\nCBS News Admits Navy Yard Shooter Possibly a Victim of Mind Control https://youtu.be/5u3EqLkKO_k\nScience Channel Admits Microwaves Used in Mind Control\nhttps://youtu.be/zaPb3R5YTo4\nCNN: Electromagnetic Mind Control Weapons (1 of 2)\nhttps://youtu.be/lgJ6SpHZir8\nhttps://youtu.be/boZIofptQiw\nDr. Patrick Flanagan on Electromagnetic Frequency Mind Control Weapons https://youtu.be/xESAbEllSrQ\nPlease also do your own research, but be aware of misinformation and dangers on the web. Listen closely to the heart of your own instincts above all else, even with what I share here, because the writings of authentic people are sometimes invaded and altered by those who target us. Mine have been a lot. Your mind's Freedom needs the Truth. Please search until you find it. Let yourself feel it - the Truth.\nAmong the other labels of technological mind control and its technologies are, psychotronic weapons, Acoustic Psycho-correction, Radar, Synthetic Telepathy, Particle Beam weapons, Geophysical Weapons, Psychoneurological Weapons, Mind Machine, Psychological Language Machine, Acoustic Heterodyne Weapon, Electromagnetic Stalking, Microwave Weapons, psychological warfare, behavior modification technologies, Bio-communications Technologies, Radio Wave Mind Control, Microwave Mind Control, Bio-electromagnetic Technologies, Radar, Electronic Harassment, Directed Energy Weapons, Remote Neuro Monitoring, Brain Warfare, Bio-energetics, Electromagnetic (EMR) mind control, Electroenergetics, Geophysical weapons, psychoneurological weapons, M.I.N.D. - Magnetic Integrated Neuron Duplicator, Psychotronic weapons, brain warfare, Psychic Warfare...etc.\nHave you noticed how \u201cmental illness\u201d appears to have reached epidemic levels? Have you wondered why so many people are suddenly being called, \u201cmentally ill\u201d? Have you considered that they may not really be ill and that something else is happening, something horrible \u2013 something almost unthinkable - something holocaustal? Probably not. But its everyone should become aware of this horrible situation, in order for it to be stopped, and in order for severe victims of it to have the understanding and support that will be needed for recovery. You or one of your loved ones may be a victim of the milder scales of what is happening and not even realize it. And many other people can benefit from the rest of us realizing what is happening. So, please give this information the benefit of your doubt and help spread the word.\nAround the 1950s, three things were happening, which I feel are VERY closely related;\n1. Around the 1950s the DSM was being created. The DSM is the manual for diagnosing medicateable \"mental illness,\" which is used in the field of psychiatry.\n2. Around the 1950s microwave weapons (radio wave technologies) were being used to create effects, on the human brain, which specifically mimicked things that were being put into the DSM.\n3. Around the 1950s Dr Thomas Stephen Szasz - an expert in the field of psychiatry and its medicines, stood up to expose the DSM's false \"mental illness\" labeling and the fact that psychotropic drugs are harmful, especially to children. Think about this, please. Think hard, because these things are NOT a coincidence.\nHave masses of people been being hit with microwaves just to be sent to psychiatrists, labeled as \u201cmentally ill\u201d and given prescriptions for psychotropic drugs? Yes. And do various types of psychotropic drugs block people's hearts and instincts and intuition and alter the brain in ways that enable complete success of technological mind control? Yes, and this is surely why it\u2019s being done.\nMicrowave expert, General Barrie Trower explained the capabilities of microwave weapons around the 1950s; \"By changing the pulse frequency... of the microwaves going into the brain and interfering with the brain. . . you could induce psychiatric illnesses to the point where a psychiatrist could not tell if it is a genuine psychiatric illness or an induced psychiatric illness.\" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvn-8ITy0oc\nFalse \"mental illness\" labeling, and the harmful psychotropic drugs, which the labels enable the legal dispensing of, are holocaustal crimes against humanity.\nIn 2008, news reports stated that pharmaceuticals, including various types of psychotropic drugs, were being found in around 24 major public water supplies throughout the USA, and in bottled drinking water as well. https://youtu.be/LYD-qf9pZAg Coincidence? No. I'm sure it\u2019s not. A woman at an environment protection agency told me, in 2014, that these drugs were still being found in the water. So, it\u2019s still happening - many people have even been being drugged without knowing it. I am very concerned about the effect of this on everyone, especially children. You should be too.\nEven if the technological mind control part of the situation were not happening, the effects of the pharmaceuticals alone would still be holocaustal. But the technologies are surely used and probably includes the brain washing of many psychiatrists and counselors, in order to make them blindly believe in and follow the DSM. Some psychiatrists realized the problem and have openly stood up against it, but they were too few and their impact too small. They were targeted and distracted...etc. And too many psychiatrists continued to follow the DSM and the dispensing of the pharmaceuticals. Consequently, for many decades now, there have been growing numbers of people being harmed and some psychologically destroyed, even children. This must be realized and stopped as quickly as possible.\nDr.Thomas Stephen Szasz was a psychiatrist who publicly stood against what he described as unethical and false \"mental illness\" labels and the harmful medications that they try to justify. He knew what was happening. He even went so far as to say that \"there is no such thing as mental illness.\" I feel that he was VERY right. This man is a hero, whom I feel was targeted with mind control, which often tore him from his mission to save humanity from the false labels and harmful meds. I feel that he was killed for standing up for humanity and that his death was not a really freely chosen suicide. Let\u2019s not let his death be in vein. Dr. Szasz left us with some VERY important information. Let\u2019s believe his expertise and heed his wise advise, which cost him his life. He said that \"Labeling a child as 'mentally ill' is a stigmatization, not a diagnosis. Giving the child a psychiatric drug is poisoning, not treatment.\" He was right. He also said, \"The task we set ourselves to combat psychiatric coercion is important. . . Its a noble task - a task in the pursuit of which we must, regardless of obstacles, persevere. Our conscience commands that we do no less.\" Our conscience - one of the things that the psychotropic drugs and the technological mind control blocks. I was so glad to have found Dr. Szasz - a true expert in the field of psychiatry and medicine.\nDr. Szasz still stands here as a beacon for all of us. Let\u2019s let it shine into our hearts - into our love for humanity and our right to total freedom from all that suppresses and harms. www.szasz.com\nI understand that this whole \"mental illness\" thing is a controversial issue right now. Many fight to continue the crime and many set ups have been happening to perpetuate its continuation. The crime has even grown into being used to discredit testimonies of, or to strip away certain rights of, the too few people who have become aware of what is happening and have tried to stand up against it. I am also being threatened and hurt. We need more standing. Please help.\nThey raise the issue of psychiatric patients, who really do have mental problems, reading about things like this and wondering if they are victims of targeting too. HOWEVER this SHOULD NOT BE SILENCED no matter what small or fabricated problems it may raise. Most of those patients probably are victims of the targeting. Many victims have been damaged by it. Not enough people know about the capabilities of radio wave (microwave) technologies and the fact that they have been being used on humanity. Not enough people know about the effects of the pharmaceuticals (especially in children) and how they alter us in ways that make us more technologically controllable. Not enough people know how false \"mental illness\" labels are making healthy people lose trust in themselves or their loved ones, thinking there is something wrong with them...etc. If enough people knew they would not be able to continue the crime. People would stop taking the meds and officials would be rushing to stop criminal use of the technologies. Please help bring more awareness to this situation, within the field of psychiatry as well as the rest of the world, so that humanity can regain its freedom and severe victims can have the understanding and support, which they will need, in order to recover.\nBernard Schreiber wrote a factual book called, \u201cMen Behind Hitler \u2013 A German Warning to the World.\u201d Another hero. In his research he found that the field of psychiatry was involved in a covert continuation of holocaustal crimes against humanity since Hitler\u2019s era, He exposed the field of psychiatry being connected to an ongoing holocaust. He wrote, \"Hitler was an evil man and no one would want to assert that he was not responsible for the things that happened in Germany, but in blaming Hitler for all the evils one is overlooking a considerable number of those who are truly responsible, people who are being allowed to pursue their course to similar ends all over again - nothing to stop them.\"\nIn another part of Schreiber's book had spoken of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels bragging, (in 1944) after Hitler's Reich had fallen, about a secret weapon - a \"death ray\" that would lead to the \"rebirth of the Reich.\" Schreiber also wrote, \"The Nazis may have been disbanded, but the psychiatrists still linger on among us. Maybe this is the secret weapon Goebbels boasted about which would lead to the rebirth of the Reich - not a super-bomb and not a death ray, but a blueprint for a psychiatric slave state.\"\nMy instincts are telling me that this mystery weapon, which Geobbels boasted of in 1944, is what is now called \u201cmicrowave weapons\u201d - technologies that emit and direct radio waves, like satellites. And the \u201cpsychiatric slave state\" has already been happening and growing since at least the 1950s. I feel that it has freely grown for too long and is at a critically dangerous point and has to be stopped now. Its not just about targeting victims as \"mentally ill,\" its also about dark and evil forces gaining complete control of humanity, through using organizations, including the fields of psychiatry and medicine, and space based technologies, which emit radio waves, to accomplish it.\nThere are eugenics based targetings still happening as well. Bernard Schreiber's book is, \"Humbly dedicated to the memory of countless ordinary people who's lives were taken because they were considered less than perfect, and therefore, unworthy to live.\" Sadly, this is not just for the past holocaust victims, its about the ones who are being more inconspicuously harmed and killed since then. They are uncountable. And its still happening - many are still alive and suffering horribly right now. http://www.toolan.com/hitler/index.html\nDr. Paula Caplan stood up against the DSM and explained that, \"the whole process of mental illness diagnosis is unregulated. . . there are categories in the DSM that have scientifically proven not to exist and they're in there anyway.\" She also said that normal \"things that everybody goes through. . . get diagnosed as \"mental illness\" for example; if someone close to you dies and your still depressed two weeks later, now, according to the DSM, you have minor depressive disorder\" She expressed a VERY justifiable concern that normal feelings and social behaviors, especially those of natural grieving or anger, are listed in the DSM as cause to label a person with \"mental illness.\" https://youtu.be/dwxEdRYQqCU\nOn Psychology Today Ray Williams says, \"And what is the most profitable area of drug sales? Psychotropic drugs. Mood altering and behavior modifying drugs aimed at brain chemistry. Worldwide sales of antidepressants, stimulants, antianxiety and antipsychotic drugs exceed $82 billion a year as of 2003.\" https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wired-success/201105/how-the-drug-companies-are-controlling-our-lives-part-1\nDr. Colin Ross has extensively studied scientific data which disproves the validity of \"mental illness\" labels and renders most of the prescribed drugs harmful or ineffective in most patients. He feels that the DSM's false labels, need to be exposed and stopped. He says, \"It\u2019s not going to stop until psychiatry takes responsibility for what it\u2019s doing and the public gets educated and says wait a minute I'm not buying this anymore.\" https://youtu.be/AG1VHpsgUcY\nDr. Peter Breggin makes a strong stand against the psychiatric labeling and pharmaceuticals on an interview with FOX News. Breggin calls the psychiatric drugging \"medication spell binding\" and that they do \"more harm than good.\" His focus is more on the violence that drugs can instigate in victims. There is, however, a danger that those, who are not aware of the technological part of the targeting, can easily blame only the psychiatric pharmaceuticals for severe cases of technological targeting like in the Navy yard shooting. I feel that it was both. The shooter was obviously being heavily targeted in multiple ways. But either one, on its own, can be lethal. FOX News ; Peter Breggin MD Psychiatric Drugs; https://youtu.be/3lXUOnn5PiQ\nDr. Jeffery Schaler went so far as to say, \"The diagnosis of mental illness is always a weapon.\" It is being used as one. https://youtu.be/BhC6hUZJIJ0\nPotent quotes from a video, which was removed from the web; \"Far from being places of healing, psychiatric institutions have always functioned as the worst sort of prisons. . .where someone can be incarcerated against their will without even being charged with a crime.\" and \"This is an industry that doesn't just specialize in destroying people's lives, it kills their souls.\" ~ Unknown Author\nTampering with the brain and natural energy fields of human beings can cause immeasurable problems on every level of human beings. There are extreme dangers in people being pushed to take psychiatric pharmaceuticals for having natural human feelings and issues, or for things that are created in them through their brains being targeted with microwave weapons...etc., some of which have probably not yet been realized, and others that include the disintegration of extremely valuable things like self-trust and compassion and intuition and conscience and psychological health and mental health and physical health and the natural process of personal and spiritual growth.\nThe technological and pharmaceutical targeting has been literally destroying the Heart of humanity. And it just should not even be happening.\nI believe that the root causes for these horrific crimes against humanity are greed and evil and dark quests for power over others. . .and that we ALL need to do all that we can to stop it from continuing and save what is left of humanity from further destruction. Please help stop criminal use of the types of pharmaceuticals that aid mind control and block people's hearts and instincts and intuition...etc., which may not only be in psychotropic drugs and may also be hidden in other types of pharmaceuticals that are being pushed upon people for other types of ailments, which are technologically induced. And please help stop criminal use of the mind control (behavior modification) technologies, which they aid, for the sake of the health and well-being of our children \u2013 humanity\u2019s future, if nothing else. Humanity\u2019s children are in serious danger. We must save them. Please help spread the word.\nI understand that there are some adults and children who have genuine mental problems and need help. And that some of them may even be able to function better with certain types of meds. But I say this begrudgingly, because I feel that genuine cases of this are rare - very rare. I feel that most labeled and medicated children are healthy and either just misunderstood by parents or are technologically targeted or need a change in a caffeinated diet, or just more love and affection...etc. I feel that most are labeled and suppressed instead of being loved and healed. There should be none. Absolutely none. Children should be kept safe and free to think and feel and grow, especially in places that we are encouraged to bring them to for help. What has been happening is all just too horribly wrong and damaging.\nThe pharmaceuticals are even in drinking water and the radio waves flood whole communities, even school systems. ALL children, exposed to these things are in danger, especially those who are in families that have been targeted for heavier mind control. When people, especially children, are not allowed to freely think and feel, their natural process of mental, emotional and spiritual growth is impeded or completely blocked. And the dangers in this cannot be over stated.\nI took the following pictures of page 10 in the November, 2015 issue of the New Hampshire Parenting magazine. The headlines, \"I think my child is Mentally ill\" on top of a picture of a sad little girl who has the words \"I feel sad,\" printed above her head really disturbed me, because it blatantly implies that a child\u2019s sadness is a sign of \u201cmental illness.\u201d\nI mean no offense to the Parenting magazine or the author. I do not know what their intentions were. Perhaps they really believe that a child feeling sad is a sign of mental illness. How sad, if they do! But, regardless of intentions, the effect is what I'm concerned about. How many parents of young children are influenced by these sorts of statements? These sorts of ads can make people think that sadness is wrong or worse - that it is a sign of \"mental illness\" which should be medicated. These sorts of ads should raise red flags in all who care about children and the future health and safety of humanity. Sadness is one of the natural feelings we were born with and we were born with the capability of feeling it for a good reason. Sadness is NOT an indication of \u201cmental illness.\u201d It\u2019s a natural human feeling that we need to be allowed to freely feel. Sadness in a child is an indication of them feeling hurt by something. All most sad children need is to be loved and comforted and encouraged to talk about it and cry out the pain. Empathy, understanding, love and hugs can heal most cases of sadness. If the sadness is caused by some sort of severe trauma or abuse, the child may need professional help with processing and releasing the feelings, so they can heal from it, but to label and medicate a child for feeling sad is like a crime against the child.\nWhen encouraged, and not medicated into numbness, crying is part of a healthy grieving/healing process, which releases our pain. When we do not allow this process of feeling and releasing our pain our hearts become blocked, which is not a good thing. Actually, its harmful for natural feelings of sadness to be suppressed instead of felt and released, especially in children. And its harmful to convince people, especially impressionable children, that there is something wrong with them when there really is nothing wrong with them at all.\nITS OK TO FEEL SAD.\nSadness is an indication of needing to cry \u2013 release the pain.\nCRYING IS LIKE GIVING THE HEART A SHOWER\nTO WASH AWAY ACCUMULATED DIRT\nI'm not a doctor. But, I probably have more experience with the natural process of personal and spiritual growth, than most psychiatrists do. This is partly what my work is about. I personally trust the wisdom of experience and instincts above scientific text book knowledge, when it comes to personal growth, because every individual's issues and circumstances are unique. This applies, times ten, to the text books that have been written or instigated by the organization that has intentionally pushed the false labels...etc.\nIn the early stages of my work I had found that, through fully embracing our feelings, we can heal from past difficulties... and that medicating them tends to numb people and prevent personal growth. In my first full book, that was not poetry, I strongly encouraged people to work out personal issues through embracing/releasing suppressed feelings, instead of taking medications.\nI've never taken psychiatric medications but I know people who have, including children, and I've witnessed the stagnation, and sometimes even harm, they can inflict. My drive to encourage healing instead of medicating, grew from my own experiences with personal growth and things I'd witnessed in a mental health facility, where I'd worked for a few years. I stood up, within that facility, to express my concern about a healthy child being put on psychiatric drugs. I have witnessed the labels and meds being given to children who are not really \u201cmentally ill.\u201d My instincts were telling me that something was horribly wrong. But I didn\u2019t know the full scope of it and I was distracted by being targeted in various ways. Now I know more and I hope to help the rest of you to also.\nIts sad to even just think that uncountable numbers of healthy children and adults could be being falsely labeled and medicated into mental and spiritual stagnation and are even being inflicted with physical brain damage in some cases. And it\u2019s just too horrible that it really is happening on a huge scale. Please help stop the false \u201cmental illness\u201d labeling and harmful pharmaceuticals from continuing to hurt people, especially children. Please help spread the word. Please help set humanity free.\nThe Plight of Torture Victims\n(Targeted Individuals)\nDifferent torture victims are targeted in different ways. The variations are many and I cannot cover them all here. This is just a quick over view of the parts that I know to be true for many. And I share it to help people realize that this is happening, because torture victims are desperate for validation and understanding and genuine care from fellow human beings - the very opposite of what even short term victims have experienced way too much of.\nTorture victims, and their loved ones, are victims of technological mind control, which aims to isolate the primary victim (the torture victim) from loved ones and all other possible sources of help, as technological tortures vamp up and various types of manipulations strip the torture victim of homes and income and bank accounts. Loved ones are either used to push the torture victim toward being labeled as \"mentally ill\" (and in some cases even institutionalized) or are roped into the covert program and used to perpetuate the targeting. The Torture victims are intentionally cast into poverty and isolation, deprived of love and support and help while being tortured with shots from laser weapons and blasts of microwaves, which inflict physical pain. While this is happening they are also inflicted with covert harassment campaigns, that use members of the covert program, in communities they live in or frequent. So, the tortures are both physical and psychological. Can you imagine this happening to people? It is happening. It really is. Some say its experimentation, but even this makes it sound too good. Its cruel, grotesque, sadistic targeting at its gory worst.\nThrough the past few decades, many victims have been crying out for help that is not here for them. But most do not even know they are being targeted by ill intending people and blame themselves and/or their loved ones, which is terribly sad. Things are often set up for the torture victim to misplace blame, which just makes them look crazy. There are set ups to make it look like the technological tortures are being done locally and by loved ones or neighbors, but most of it is done VERY remotely - most of it is done with space based technologies.\nThe technological tortures have been being disbelieved, because most people are not aware that technologies, like satellites, can not only be used to watch a victim, but are also equipped with laser weapons, which can inflict physical pain in any part of a victim's body. Severe pain is sometimes inflicted if the victim feels sadness or anger and is often aimed at the head. Some inflictions can leave blistered burns or no evidence at all and are sometimes debilitating or too excruciating to do anything but try to tolerate it until it finally lets up. This extreme torture is usually done to prevent the victim from doing something that they want to do or to interrupt a conversation or meeting with someone else or to stop them from enjoying something. It is sometimes done as punishment for things like reporting or writing about the targeting if they are aware of being targeted.\nSome victims are tormented by dreams that are projected into their brain or by voices (V2K) being projected into their brain when they are awake. Hearing voices in their head mimics a symptom of \"mental illness\" but it is not an illness and is being done with radio waves being shot into a specific part of their brain. V2K can also be used on other people who are near the torture victim, making it seem like something the victim said. A lot of cruel games can be played with this in public places. An unaware victim is left feeling confused and wondering why people are suddenly rude for no apparent reason. The rudeness in other people, toward the victim, is also sometimes due to nasty rumor campaigns that are started by members of the covert program and are probably most often not true. They seem to like trying to make people think the torture victim is something that other people would find disgusting, like a pedophile. Members of the covert program also can be mean to a torture victim without any reason other than that they are being foolish puppets who are blindly following orders of the primary perpetrator.\nTorture victims are often inflicted with various types of parasites, some of which are so unusual that they may not be recognized by most doctors. So the suffering continues. Sometimes they are inflicted with parasites at hospitals as they are treated for something else. Certain types can be injected into the arm while they back wash an IV location...etc. Other types can be put onto the victim's head in public places, or into the victim's bedding or into the victims food or drinks...etc. These crimes are performed by members of the covert program.\nThe covert harassment part of the torture, which is performed can also include members of the covert program following text messages, from the primary perpetrator, to say things that are about what the torture victim had recently been either saying or doing or thinking. When a torture victim says they are being stalked and harassed it also mimics one of the \"mental illness\" symptoms and is almost impossible to prove due to it being done by many different people and never by the same person more than three times a day...etc. Consequently the torture victim is often blamed under the assumption (or pretense) of it being their own \"mental illness\" which can also make them blame themselves and think there is something wrong with them if they are not aware of being targeted. This is cruel psychological and mental abuse. If they are aware of the targeting, the \"mental illness\" assumption (or pretense) can crush hope for the right kinds of help ever arriving. It feels horrible to be being hurt and disbelieved and then the hurt just keeps on being inflicted. It\u2019s absolutely cruel.\nWhen a torture victim actually gets labeled as \u201cmentally ill\u201d, the label strips away many rights and freedoms and can be used to discredit anything that the victim says is happening to them. . .leaving the victim with no chance of help or relief from physical and psychological tortures. Please realize that false \"mental illness\" labels sometimes hide gruesome tortures, which should be stopped as soon as possible.\nThe cruelty and suffering, that many torture victims are faced with, can be compared to some of what victims of Hitler\u2019s holocaust must have experienced. Some of it is not as bad, but some of it is actually worse. They are held under constant satellite surveillance, in a public prison where they are physically tortured and surrounded by fellow human beings who often harass and ridicule them. . . and no one delivers real understanding or support or validation or hope for it to end. And there is no running from it, especially if a victim is micro chipped, which I'm sure most are. There is a covert rescue set up for victims who become aware, but it is performed by the same program that does the targeting, and is to silence the victim. The rescue pretends to be good and calls it \"going home\", but it is not the comforting \"home\" that it pretends to be, even though it uses good people in the foreground of the rescues. It leads to complete enslavement or various types of death. It rips the victim from their life...\"forever.\" The victim become a missing person or his or her death is staged. This is not a rescue, it\u2019s a secret slaughter. A genuine rescue would be genuinely caring people, who are not part of the dark covert program (or have left it and are not controlled by it), being right here in the victim's life, delivering compassion, acknowledgement, understanding and helping to protect the victim from further harm. A genuine rescue does not tear victims from their lives and loved ones. And it does not force victims to agree to leaving their lives \"forever,\" in order to get the targeting to stop. A genuine rescue aims to tear the targeting out of the victims life, in order to restore safety and freedom. It\u2019s not the victim who must leave - it the viscous targeting that must leave because its the intruder.\nCan you imagine these sorts of things happening to people - the grotesque tortures and isolation from help and care and aims to abduct instead of helping? It has been happening for decades. Sadly, its too late for most. Victims have been vanishing, without a trace of them left behind, for decades now, because there has been nobody HERE for them and this is because way too few people are aware of what is happening. But it\u2019s not too late to save those who are still alive and suffering and are in danger of being killed or abducted. And it\u2019s not too late to retrieve at least some of the ones who have been abducted and enslaved in the program that tortured them.\nAs victims get tortured into the \"rescue\"/abduction they are usually already homeless (or close to it) and forced to put their belongings, in self-storage units where rights to it are signed off to someone else, and the contracts may sneakily contain power of attorney that can be used for more than just taking the victims storage. A similar thing is happening with bank accounts that some victims lose and can have a hard time retrieving, due to claims that it was \"abandoned\" and bank mergers and either stolen or falsified and altered records. There are also shady things going on with people preying upon the torture victim and trying to steal lost bank accounts or inheritances...etc., instead of helping them. There is even a process of trying to get some isolated victims to start law suits so that those who oversee and perpetrate can take the money from them.\nThere is a desperate need for public awareness of all that is happening to torture victims so it can be stopped. The only main stream media report, that I know of, which acknowledged torture victims was written by the New York Times in 2016 and sadly leaned toward supporting the false labels and even made \"Targeted Individuals\" appear dangerous. The headlines on this article read, \"A growing tribe of troubled minds\" and \"An \u2018echo chamber\u2019 of paranoia\" and \"A mishmash of conspiracy theories\" and \"A pretext for violence.\" It was all just too discouraging, because it was even more degradation for suffering human beings who desperately need and deserve the opposite. Media officials should become aware of the REAL problem so they are not used to help perpetuate the abuse and prevent the proper kinds of understanding, support and help, for the sake of the victims as well as the rest of humanity.\nAll of humanity should be made aware of these horrific crimes. Many torture victims are isolated from help and are suffering indescribably. Criminal use of things like satellite surveillance and their ability to shoot beams of radio waves into homes and people, must be stopped. The victims of these crimes are not \"mentally ill\" - they have been being tortured and tormented and preyed upon, instead of being helped, and this has to stop! Please help spread awareness and hold your Heart out to help all possible victims. They need to know that someone cares. Please care and be here for them in every way possible.\nLet\u2019s face this with determination to preserve humanity, With gentle hands reaching out to those in need, With peaceful non-acceptance of the evil seed.\nYou can be a beacon for humanity.\nYour Heart can look and see\nAnd reach out a helping hand\nFor all who need to understand.\nYou can be a beacon too.\nWorld I See\nWhat kind of world can my weary eyes see -\nWhat kind of world need grow to be?\nA world where Love fills the void of hate\nAnd freedom is delivered by hands of fate.\nA world where everyone picks up paces\nTo lift broken people from wounded places.\nA world where all is in a state of repair\nAnd none are left in deep despair.\nMore may be coming soon. Please check back later.\nPosted by Sharon R. Poet at 11:34 AM No comments:\nThis is a very difficult time for me. 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Professional football\u2019s annual ritual, the Super Bowl, has transformed from a mere championship game to an economic juggernaut and cultural force, garnering more viewership than any measly presidential debate. Every year, friends and family gather around the television to watch the big game, the most die-hard fans cheering for the team they view as an extension of themselves, and the most luke-warm viewers just watching for the commercials. 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Our parents moved to a retirement facility in their 80s, which was reassuring to us and the family that help would be available when needed.\nWe were looking for a not-for-profit continuing care community that had resident involvement and was in the Willamette Valley near our children and convenient to services, but not in Portland. One of our college friends had moved to Friendsview. He had been telling us that we needed to look into Friendsview. When he became ill, we visited him in the assisted living and eventually followed up with a tour of the campus with Sam Farmer. We met several residents and staff, everyone was so positive and cheerful. We were impressed with the mission statement and the activities available providing opportunities for each person to seek fulfillment.\nWe moved to Friendsview Retirement Community last November and found ourselves very comfortable. We have gotten to know almost all of our neighbors and find it a very caring community. 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These are a tad elusive when the publishing world is being shaken up by the complete redefinition of self-publishing and the whole eBook thing. I don\u2019t know about you, but I look at all this and say \u201cHey, how am I going to make a living as a writer in this mess\u2013or even just find a readership\u2013when we don\u2019t even know what the publishing world will consist of in five years?\u201d\nUncertainty is a terrible motivator. Continue reading \u201cThree Pillars of Writing Success for Any Publishing Environment\u201d\nTags: advice, Brain Hacks for Writers, business, economics, focus, Luc Reid, passion, publishing, readership, self-publishing, tips, writing\nZoning out: the brain\u2019s science fictional mode\nHere\u2019s some good news for those of you who, like myself, are prone to losing mental focus; apparently \u201czoning out\u201d is an important mental state, as well as being intrinsically linked to the way we think about the future.\nThe regions of the brain that become active during mind wandering belong to two important networks. One is known as the executive control system. Located mainly in the front of the brain, these regions exert a top-down influence on our conscious and unconscious thought, directing the brain\u2019s activity toward important goals. The other regions belong to another network called the default network. In 2001 a group led by neuroscientist Marcus Raichle at Washington University discovered that this network was more active when people were simply sitting idly in a brain scanner than when they were asked to perform a particular task. The default network also becomes active during certain kinds of self-referential thinking, such as reflecting on personal experiences or picturing yourself in the future.\nThe fact that both of these important brain networks become active together suggests that mind wandering is not useless mental static. Instead, Schooler proposes, mind wandering allows us to work through some important thinking. Our brains process information to reach goals, but some of those goals are immediate while others are distant. Somehow we have evolved a way to switch between handling the here and now and contemplating long-term objectives. It may be no coincidence that most of the thoughts that people have during mind wandering have to do with the future.\nWell, that\u2019s a relief \u2013 I can stop castigating myself for getting distracted by stuff while I\u2019m\u2026 oooh, look, a new entry on TVtropes.com! 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Child and Family Law Quarterly, 22 (3). pp. 290-310. ISSN 1358-8184\nThis article explores the differing judicial approaches to the weight accorded to biological parenthood in residence disputes. We examine the legal basis for the natural parent presumption and conclude that the recent Supreme Court decision in Re B, reversing the decision of the Court of Appeal in granting a residence order in favour of a grandmother rather than the father, makes it clear that any reference to presumptions or the right of a child to be cared for by its biological parents is wrong and will detract from an examination of the best interest of the child. Although the decision is to be welcomed, in that it reaffirms the principles of the Children Act 1989, it does however leave questions unanswered, in particular how much weight should be given to genetic parenthood. The difficulty is that if the genetic relationship between parent and child 'must count for something' as Baroness Hale has stated, how much weight should be attached to it? We would argue that the law should seek to recognise all parents equally, regardless of their route to parenthood. The crucial factor should be the love and commitment shown by the adults in the child's life, not the source of that love, be it genetic or social.\n[2010] CFLQ 290\nwelfare principle, natural parent presumption, social parenthood, lesbian parenthood,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3429, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://game-ost.com/albums/188008/dragon_-_single/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ZRP63ROBIHS34DMHI2IUA3G7MNEVEXVX", "length": 641, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "game-ost.com", "title": "Dragon - Single", "raw_content": "Dragon - Single\nHere you can freely listen to preview tracks from Dragon - Single. Album was composed by JAM Project and was released on April 21, 2004. Soundtrack consists of 2 tracks tracks with duration over about 10 minutes. Album was released by Lantis.\nTracks preview provided by iTunes. If you like Dragon - Single, we strongly recommend to buy it. Support composers, artists and performers so they can release more music in the future. Furthermore, it's inexpensive. This album costs only 2.58 USD. Prices and shops where you can buy it are at the right column.\nNo Serenity (feat. Hironobu Kageyama, Masaaki Endoh & Yoshiki Fukuyama)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gamersyde.com/news_new_trailer_of_grip-20085_en.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:36Z", "digest": "sha1:XNBZC4SH4IRS5OTCOW6W57BYKKJ42TV3", "length": 676, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "gamersyde.com", "title": "New trailer of GRIP - Gamersyde", "raw_content": "TRAILER | PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch Thursday, June 7, 2018 | 3:16 PM\nNew trailer of GRIP\nGRIP is landing this Fall on PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch. The arcade combat racer features 19 tracks across various worlds, 11 weapons and power-ups, and a roster of 15 armored cars. Better than words, see the game in movement with the new trailer inside.\nHaving played the Early Access version of the game just a week ago I can attest to the game's quality. It's damn good, with one of my few issues being with the weapons and how ruinous they can be after just one impact.\nwas so bummed out when this failed to meet its kickstarter goal, but glad they continued with it. day 1 for me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4016, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://genealogy.clanmoffat.org/getperson.php?personID=I36265&tree=ClanMoffat", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:38Z", "digest": "sha1:IDLGUGVUFCL7VUEMYGFNJAS7TTYUH3SA", "length": 911, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "genealogy.clanmoffat.org", "title": "Charles Michael Moffett b. 25 September 1877 Brocton, Edgar Co., Illinois, USA d. 11 October 1957 Seymour, Jackson Co., Indiana, USA: Clan Moffat Genealogy", "raw_content": "Charles Michael Moffett\nName Charles Michael Moffett [1]\nBorn 25 September 1877 Brocton, Edgar Co., Illinois, USA [1]\nDied 11 October 1957 Seymour, Jackson Co., Indiana, USA [1]\nFather Franklin Pierce Moffett, b. 4 October 1851, Kansas Twp., Edgar co., Illinois, USA , d. 8 November 1913 (Age 62 years)\nMother Mary Lucinda \"Mollie\" Beck\nFamily/Spouse Cora Lee Dunseth, b. 3 February 1880, Oakland, Coles Co., Illinois, USA , d. 22 March 1947, Indianapolis, Marion Co., Indiana, USA (Age 67 years)\nMarried 22 June 1898 Paris, Edgar Co., Illinois, USA [1]\n+ 1. Donovan Clifford Moffett, b. 31 October 1900, d. 16 April 1963 (Age 62 years)\n+ 2. Bonnie Kathleen Moffett, b. 27 May 1903\n+ 3. Rexford Wendell Moffett, b. 22 December 1910, Bainbridge, Putnam Co., Indiana, USA\nCharles Michael Moffett and Cora Lee Dunseth were married at the home of the Rev. Michael Barr Moffett (Charle's uncle) & his wife Emily. 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Howell, 1977 NC Genealogical Journal, vol 4, #1, 1979-1980 Quaker Records\n1. Additional info sent in by Inez Laverne SMITH (#375). She has the date of death as 20 Feb 1818, in Randolph Co., NC. Also she gives another place of death as Buffalo Ford, Randolph, NC. [4]\n[S19] Original Riders GEDCOM File, Robert and Frances Moffitt, person ID 992.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 3797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://georgescialabba.net/mtgs/2004/10/gag-rule-on-the-suppression-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:06Z", "digest": "sha1:OBXLBGITXEZZG4B6TEFUGDMJ3UCCHMNL", "length": 19252, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "georgescialabba.net", "title": "Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy by Lewis Lapham and What We\u2019ve Lost by Graydon Carter (Review) - GeorgeScialabba.Net", "raw_content": "Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy by Lewis Lapham and What We\u2019ve Lost by Graydon Carter (Review)\nPublished in The Nation on 11 October, 2004\nOne hundred years ago, in the wake of England\u2019s ruinous victory in the Boer War, a young Liberal politician excoriated the ruling Conservative Party and its imperial scam: \u201cA party of great vested interests, banded together in a formidable confederation, corruption at home, aggression to cover it up abroad \u2026 sentiment by the bucketful, patriotism by the imperial pint, the open hand at the public exchequer, the open door at the public house, dear food for the millions, cheap labor for the millionaire.\u201d As Lewis Lapham points out in Gag Rule, where this and a great many other nuggets of historically apposite and rhetorically scintillating prose are marshalled, these words of Winston Churchill fairly describe the Bush II administration as well. (Substituting \u201cchurch\u201d for \u201cpublic house,\u201d of course.) If only a few Democratic voices could find the young Churchill\u2019s register.\nLapham, the editor of Harper\u2019s, stands ready to help. His monthly columns, collected in half a dozen previous books, regularly strike this same (early-)Churchillian note of indignant scorn for the plutocracy and its government servants. Lapham is particularly offended by one of the most egregious developments in recent American history: the erosion of republican institutions by Republican administrations. In the 1970s and 80s he sponsored many memorable essays by the great critic Walter Karp, above all \u201cLiberty Under Siege\u201d (Harper\u2019s, November 1985), a definitive chronicle of the Reagan administration\u2019s \u201cunflagging campaign to exalt the power of the presidency and to undermine the power of the law, the courts, the Congress, and the people.\u201d Since then, unfortunately, the courts and the Congress have joined the attack on democratic accountability and popular sovereignty. Executive branch decision-making is increasingly insulated from public scrutiny and comment; more and more important documents are unavailable or unaffordable; the prerogatives of law enforcement agencies are steadily expanded in the national-security area, though narrowed in respect of tax and securities fraud, air and water pollution, violations of labor law and occupational-safety rules, and other constraints on profitability. Harper\u2019s has done stellar work in showing how the claims of the Reagan and Gingrich revolutions to \u201cget government off the backs of the American people\u201d merely camouflage their sustained effort to keep the American people off the backs of the government and its corporate principals.\nGag Rule is not quite stellar. The balance between eloquence and substance is off; the book is declaimed rather than written. War imperils independent thought and speech; governments often invoke patriotism to enforce conformity. This is Lapham\u2019s brief, and although familiar, it is always worth bringing up to date. He calls an impressive parade of witnesses. For freedom: Jefferson, Madison, Paine, Lincoln, Fenimore Cooper, Teddy Roosevelt, Learned Hand, Will Durant, Archibald MacLeish. Against: the bad-school-spirit-hunting American Council of Trustees and Alumni (Mrs. Cheney, Kristol, Bennett, Peretz et al); the post-9/11 pack of bloodthirsty columnists and editorialists; various Congressional and administration bozos. He cites the historical precedents: the abuse of dissenters during the Peloponnesian War, the First World War, the Cold War. So far, so good. But his oratory gets out of hand. Too thunderous an eloquence makes the ears ache. I am always ready to answer Lapham\u2019s clarion calls, but where exactly am I being summoned by a sentence like this?\nBy discounting what the brokers classify as \u201cnonmarket values,\u201d we downgrade our faith in the republic from the strength of a conviction to the weakness of a sentiment, and we\u2019re left with a body politic defined not as the union of its collective energies and hopes but as an aggregate of loosely affiliated interests (ethnic, regional, commercial, sexual) each armed with its own manifesto, loyal to its own agenda, secure in the compound of its own jargon \u2013 democracy understood as a fancy Greek name for the American Express card, the government seen as a Florida resort hotel, its assortment of goods and services deserving of respect in the exact degree to which it satisfies the whims of its patrons and meets the expectations of comfort and style at both the discount and holiday rates.\nGraydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, ought to have been Lapham\u2019s co-counsel. What We\u2019ve Lost is surprisingly plainspoken, free of grandiloquence or snarkiness \u2013 and none the worse for it. It too is a brief: that the Bush administration has performed execrably in every field, notably the economy, the environment, health care, education, civil rights, governmental accountability, judicial appointments, foreign affairs, and national security. Carter\u2019s method is to quote short, boilerplate statements of noble purpose by the president or other high officials, then list scores of facts that show the statements to be insincere, even dishonest. It is extremely effective.\nWhat We\u2019ve Lost has been criticized as a clip job, a blizzard of hastily culled, bullet-listed facts flung between hard covers. Facts, these critics admonish us, do not interpret themselves. On the contrary, they often do, which is why the administration keeps removing inconvenient ones from government publications and websites. Confronted with Carter\u2019s lists of\n\u00b7 urgent security measures still unfunded;\n\u00b7 essential military gear unprovided to American combat personnel, while Halliburton and Bechtel are showered with public cash ;\n\u00b7 cuts in pay and health coverage for armed service personnel and their families;\n\u00b7 deceptive statements about air quality in Manhattan after 9/11;\n\u00b7 presidential and departmental orders restricting public access to essential information;\n\u00b7 controversial legislation passed at strange hours, after curtailed debate;\n\u00b7 controversial regulatory policies announced on Friday afternoons after 5:00;\n\u00b7 tax hardships of ordinary Americans compared with tax windfalls for Republican campaign contributors;\n\u00b7 regulatory appointees with extremely close ties to the industry they are supposed to regulate;\n\u00b7 the environmental consequences of Clean Skies and other administration programs;\n\u00b7 the heavy burdens imposed on underfunded school districts by No Child Left Behind; and\n\u00b7 the colorful backgrounds of many recent federal judicial appointees,\nfew readers will any longer believe the Bush administration capable of, or even much interested in, advancing the nation\u2019s welfare. Though not as entertaining as the magazine Carter edits, What We\u2019ve Lost is a real public service. Give a copy to every potential Bush voter you know, and you will have performed an important civic duty.\nTheir virtues notwithstanding, Gag Rule and What We\u2019ve Lost are tracts for the times. Michael Kelly\u2019s and Hendrik Hertzberg\u2019s collections, though timely, are not. Each covers a lot of cultural ground, contains much brilliant writing, and conveys a distinctive voice. Both will be, or deserve to be, read long after the 2004 campaign.\nMichael Kelly, former editor of the New Republic and the Atlantic Monthly, notoriously had strong likes and dislikes. He despised \u201cpacifists,\u201d \u201canti-American\u201d leftists, and \u201cstrident economic populists.\u201d Since he would doubtless have considered me all of these, I always assumed he would have despised me and cordially despised him in return. His death in April 2003, while covering the US invasion of Iraq, did not change my feelings. But reading Things Worth Fighting For has changed them somewhat. It\u2019s impossible not to warm to someone who writes so charmingly about the nonstop nattering of two-year-olds (\u201cBack to You, Tom\u201d) and four-year-olds (\u201cSunshine on My Shoulders\u201d), so wryly about the downside of enlightened social policy (\u201cWonk New World,\u201d \u201cThe Lure of the Evil Weed\u201d), so ruefully about being fat (\u201cGirth of a Nation\u201d), so Thurberesquely about Robert Reich (\u201cThe Reich Stuff\u201d), so savagely about Richard Holbrooke (\u201cA Plea for Diversity\u201d), and so sardonically about the Times\u2019s \u201cAbout Men\u201d column (\u201cGood Riddance to the New Man\u201d). Kelly was a fine storyteller: his dispatches from Bosnia and the Persian Gulf are full of sharp-edged anecdotes and revealing dialogue. Two long pieces from Kuwait (\u201cThe Rape and Rescue of Kuwait City\u201d and \u201cRolls-Royce Revolutionaries\u201d) and two from Kurdistan (\u201cThe Other Hell\u201d and \u201cBack to the Hills\u201d) are superb. So is this passage \u2013 just about the only one in the book, unfortunately, that deals graciously with any person or idea to Kelly\u2019s left: \u201cWe are not a nation that worries a great deal about the chicken pluckers among us. Somebody has to speak for them, and Jesse Jackson does, with beauty and with strength. In a country where most of the well-fed white men who run both parties have made a corrupt peace with the abandonment of the poor, with the devastation of entire cities, with the decimation of generations of black families, it is desperately important that there be a voice demanding that attention must be paid.\u201d\nMostly, however, he paid no attention. Instead he concentrated almost exclusively on character. For Kelly, politics meant the character of politicians; virtually nothing else about it seems to have interested him deeply. Along with dispatches from the front, Things Worth Fighting For consists largely of profiles from GQ, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine of Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Ted Kennedy, Bob Dole, Richard Daley Jr, David Gergen, and Yassir Arafat, among others. They are very good profiles, full of information, color, and shrewd character judgments. Jesse Jackson is \u201cthe mirror image of Ronald Reagan, one who sees an America defined, forever and ever, by the lessons of his childhood.\u201d Bill Clinton\u2019s \u201cessential character flaw isn\u2019t dishonesty so much as a-honesty.\u201d And so on.\nBut Kelly lost track of causes in judging their adherents. \u201cImitation Activism\u201d rebukes anti-globalization activists at a G-7 meeting. Comparing them unfavorably with Vietnam-era protestors, whom he compares unfavorably with civil rights marchers, he pronounces them \u201ca generational imitation of a generational imitation of a form of politics that was once reserved for matters of life and death\u201d and informs them that \u201cyou don\u2019t possess anything that can coherently be called a cause.\u201d That\u2019s Kelly\u2019s first and last word on the global economy. After observing a Kuwaiti corpse tortured by Iraqi invaders, \u201cI could never again stand the arguments of those who sat in the luxury of safety \u2013 \u2018advocating nonresistance behind the guns of the American Fleet,\u2019 as George Orwell wrote of World War II pacifists.\u201d So he simply ignores the wimps\u2019 arguments against invading Iraq twelve years later. International law, collective security, diplomacy \u2013 these are for political girlie men.\nThe poisoned fruit of Kelly\u2019s fixation on character was his obsessive hatred of the Clintons. He often seemed to want to say something about the perils of liberal elitism and social engineering. I wish he had; it would have been worth reading. Unfortunately, it always came out sideways, as suspicion or resentment of liberal elitists, personified by Bill, Hillary, and friends. When Clinton\u2019s adultery and cover-up became public, Kelly saw in it a profoundly significant instance of class exploitation and abuse \u2013 Bill\u2019s, and then his lawyers\u2019, of Paula and Gennifer. He pursued Clinton like a Fury. \u201cHe must be impeached,\u201d Kelly thundered nine times at the end of one particularly overwrought Washington Post column, like Cato the Elder demanding the destruction of Carthage, \u201cbecause, in his pathology, he does great and heartless violence to other people and to the nation.\u201d One can forgive Kelly for believing, however implausibly, that Clinton\u2019s offenses warranted impeachment. But not to notice that the Republican Congressional majority was merely exploiting the Democrats\u2019 paralysis to continue doing its far greater and more heartless everyday violence \u2013 regulatory, environmental, fiscal, judicial \u2013 this is much harder to forgive. Kelly eventually transferred his anathema to Al Gore. In a column wisely not reproduced in this book, he opined (I\u2019m quoting from memory): \u201cBetter a 40-watt bulb [i.e., GWB] as president than someone so tainted by the corruptions of the Clinton White House.\u201d If 537 people in Florida read that sentence and were persuaded by it, then Kelly has a lot to answer for.\nIn September\u2019s American Prospect, Matthew Iglesias looks back at the 2000 election:\nWith the country enjoying a seemingly endless spell of peace and prosperity, and no apparent daunting challenges facing the next chief executive, the media were finally granted the chance to construct a narrative entirely around personalities. Al Gore, based on a handful of small exaggerations and his association with the occasionally sordid behavior of Bill Clinton, was said to have a character problem. \u2026 Liberals unanimously believed that Bush was not up to the intellectual challenges of the job. But fearful of re-enforcing a stereotype of left-wing elitism, they time and again shied away from pressing the argument. With the point thus conceded, Gore fought things out on the terrain of character. \u2026 Three-plus years later we know better, or at least we should. The job of the president of the United States is to manage a wide range of complicated issues. That requires \u2026 intellectual curiosity, an ability to familiarize oneself with a broad range of views, the capacity to grasp nuances, to foresee the potential ramifications of one\u2019s decisions, and, simply, to think things through. Four years ago, these things were not considered necessary pieces of presidential equipment.\nFor that state of affairs, and its persistent dire consequences, Michael Kelly deserves a healthy share of the blame.\nHendrik Hertzberg\u2019s Politics is probably as long as the other three books under review combined, and easily as rewarding. Its title is a homage to Dwight Macdonald\u2019s great magazine of the same name, published between 1944 and 1949. Macdonald, his predecessor at the New Yorker, taught him, Hertzberg avows, \u201cjust how good \u2013 how vigorous, how funny, how exhilarating \u2013 an engaged, indignant political polemic could be.\u201d He spends most of the \u201cAuthor\u2019s Note\u201d to Politics explaining why he admires Macdonald and why he himself does not measure up to his (and my) hero. The generosity and the modesty are both characteristic. Hertzberg indeed doesn\u2019t quite measure up to Macdonald: he\u2019s apparently never flirted with ideology or dallied with literature. Still, taking all in all, I\u2019m not sure any other recent American writer comes as close.\nThere aren\u2019t enough indignant political polemics here for my taste, but what there is is exhilarating. Clarence Thomas\u2019s performance at his nomination hearing is given its due: \u201cdisplay[ing] both a coarse contempt for the very concept of evidence and a stunning readiness to slash at the very fabric of democratic trust \u2026 he forfeited his honor and besmirched his country.\u201d The case for Clinton\u2019s impeachment is annihilated: \u201cWhat, exactly, is the justice that has been obstructed? \u2026 Obstacles may well have been placed in the path of an unaccountable prosecutorial bureaucracy that for obscure reasons has developed a single-minded obsession with discovering at any cost, and publicizing in sniggering detail, precisely what sexual acts were engaged in by the president and the former intern. One can only hope so. But in what sense does the promulgation of details of this kind constitute justice?\u201d Hertzberg\u2019s comments on the 2000 election are splendidly scathing; less predictable but equally useful are his criticism of the cowardly way the news organizations who subsequently sponsored an ambitious study of the uncounted Florida ballots presented their findings and his sharp reproach to Gore, who went missing after the inauguration and \u201cessentially left voiceless those\u201d \u2013 a majority of the voters \u2013 \u201cwho had placed their trust in him.\u201d\nAs these examples suggest, what really riles Hertzberg are violations of democratic procedure. Hence his noble devotion to proportional representation, the subject of three long and wholly persuasive essays plus a short, forceful defense of Lani Guinier. Likewise his proposals for abolishing filibusters and establishing Congressional term limits. Hence also, I suppose, his half-hearted effort to justify Nader\u2019s exclusion from the presidential debates in 2000 \u2013 what other Gore supporter would even have bothered?\nHertzberg praises Macdonald\u2019s \u201cfearlessness.\u201d In one respect, Hertzberg appears to me less than intellectually fearless. His understanding of the Cold War, the Vietnam War, and American foreign policy generally, though at the left margin of respectable opinion, remains within the bounds of conventional wisdom. \u201cWhy the War Was Immoral,\u201d published in The New Republic (where Hertzberg was twice editor) on the tenth anniversary of the Vietnam War\u2019s end, argues that it was fought with \u201cgood intentions,\u201d for a \u201cmoral aim,\u201d the aim of \u201csaving South Vietnam from communism \u2026 at a lower cost in suffering and death than the cost of a communist victory.\u201d This is the conventional liberal view, wrong for two reasons. The first is that the war was, as Macdonald recognized, \u201cillegal.\u201d The reason Macdonald gave \u2013 \u201cwe did sign the UN covenant\u201d \u2013 was correct, and if more liberals had had the courage and wisdom to say so then, they would have had an easier job of arguing against the invasion of Iraq in 2003. As Macdonald also recognized, the official US pretext for intervening \u2013 to defend the South against the North \u2013 was false. When the US first intervened in force, the Southern insurgency was still largely indigenous. Hertzberg does not acknowledge this.\nThe second reason Hertzberg\u2019s argument is inadequate goes to the central meaning of the Cold War. The United States aimed to save South Vietnam and the rest of the Free World from communism. Why? Because communist regimes were invariably harshly repressive? They were; but so were many noncommunist regimes that the US supported economically, diplomatically, and militarily without exerting on them the slightest real pressure for political reform. What the US has never supported, however, or even tolerated, is a regime that is unwilling to enter into \u201cnormal\u201d trade or financial relations with American business. A country, to put it simply, in which no profits can be made by Americans. The presence or absence of profit opportunities, not the presence or absence of freedom, is what has traditionally determined American policy toward other regimes.\nI am glad Hertzberg has never understood this. If he had, he would have said so, persistently and emphatically \u2013 he is morally, if not intellectually, fearless. In that case, he would have had, I suspect, many fewer opportunities to write about everything else, and the abundant harvest of graceful, amusing, discriminating, and public-spirited prose collected in Politics might not have come to be.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 20423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gestaltphila.org/workshops/ethical-considerations-in-the-field-a-gestalt-therapy-approach-to-discussing-race.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3VMWECYRHRB77RAGBKKONPMCYLZLTXP4", "length": 6323, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "gestaltphila.org", "title": "\u2022ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE FIELD: A Gestalt Therapy Approach to Disscussing Race", "raw_content": "ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE FIELD:\nA GESTALT THERAPY APPROACH TO DISCUSSING RACE\nSince its beginnings, one of Gestalt Therapy\u2019s ethical charges has been calling therapists to go beyond the clinical space to engage in and critique the socio-political world as it relates to social injustice and its impact on the human condition (Perls, Hefferline and Goodman, 1951). Building on this, Gestalt Therapy\u2019s ethical principles invite us to strive towards humanistic, egalitarian, and non-authoritarian clinical values (Bloom, 2013).\nIn more contemporary thought, Gestalt Therapy practitioners are more explicitly considering the ethics of what happens in the psychotherapy relationship and calling for a shift from a modernist ethics of individualism to a post-modern relational, field, community, or environmental ethics (Wheeler, 2000; Lee, 2004; Staemmler, 2009), and more recently, to an intersubjective ethics of care (Jacobs, 2011). This includes calling for more relational focus around social location, particularly race, and exploring how the therapist\u2019s life experience lives in the room with the client (Hycner & Jacobs, 1995).\nIn this workshop, we will bring these ethical principles into dialogue with one another and consider specifically how, within the therapeutic relationship, our racial identities and racialized experiences are live in the field for our clients and ourselves. From a Gestalt Therapy perspective, we will explore what kinds of ethical dilemmas emerge when we do or do not ask questions, and when we remain curious about our own and our clients\u2019 social locations. More specifically, we will consider how such conversations or silences impact our ability to have moments of mutuality (Schack, 2002) with our clients.\nThrough a demonstration of phenomenological inquiry, we will examine how Gestalt Therapy Theory offers a framework, which invites us to attend to the relationship through the intersectional lens of race - specifically exploring the ways in which we experience race and racial difference in our bodies before it is in our awareness. Also we will elicit how creative adjustments (such as internalized messages of superiority and inferiority) or projection are at the core of these ethical dilemmas.\nWe will use experiments and small group work as a way to support participants to experience and practice these frameworks. By the end of the workshop, participants will:\nUnderstand both the clinical social work ethical mandate and the Gestalt Therapy ethical principles inviting us to address issues of race and social justice within the therapeutic relationship\nExpand one\u2019s comfort and dexterity with bringing one\u2019s own social location more into the therapeutic relationship and clinical work\nLearn three concepts that Gestalt Therapy uses to understand and explore race and white supremacy within the therapy relationship\nCEUS: 3; $20\nHOURS: 8:30 am Registration; 9 am \u2013 12 noon\nLOCATION: Bryn Mawr College Dalton Hall\nTUITION: $85 Room number: TBA\n$65 GTIP associate members\nAlison Gerig, LCSW is a 2008 GTIP graduate and culture change consultant. She worked in the field of HIV and queer health for ten years \u2013 first with homeless queer youth at Callen-Lorde Health Center in NYC and then at Mazzoni Center as the first health center director running the first trans health clinic in Philadelphia. While in training at GTIP, Alison shifted her focus to more clinical work with disenfranchised communities and became the executive director of Therapy Center of Philadelphia (formerly Women\u2019s Therapy Center) for 11 years. While there, she provided the vision and structure to expand their feminist clinical lens to include striving to be transgender-affirming and racially equitable. She currently supports leaders, organizations, schools, and foundations around similar culture change work, and maintains a private practice. Alison (she/her pronouns) identifies as a white, cis-gender queer woman with locations of privilege around class, gender, race, and ability, and marginalizations around gender, sexual orientation, and family structure. She strives to attend to all of these intersecting locations in her clinical and organizational work.\nJennifer C. Jones, LCSW (she/her/hers) is an enthusiastic GTIP faculty member and an alum of the GTIP training program. Jennifer is proud to be the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer of Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Center and a doctoral candidate at Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work & Social Research. Since graduating from GTIP in 2008, Jennifer has provided clinical supervision for staff at various mental health agencies, and she currently provides supervision as well as psychotherapy in her private practice in Center City, Philadelphia. For the past 20 years, Jennifer has worked predominantly with individuals who identify as: lesbian, gay, queer, or bisexual; transgender or gender non-conforming; a person of color; struggling with class oppression; a person living with a positive HIV status, and/or healing from childhood pain. She has conducted and co-facilitated numerous workshops and trainings on topics such as: suicide assessment, sexual abuse, trauma, grief and loss, embodied Gestalt Therapy with individuals identifying as transgender, trauma-informed care in medical settings, sex work affirmative care, and working with people living in poverty from an economic human rights perspective. As a cisgender, queer-identified person of color who is dedicated to building a better society for her child, Jennifer is committed to organizing across color lines to unify poor and dispossessed people to fight for all of our economic human rights.\nCEUs (3):\nThis session is co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research for a maximum of 3 credit hours. Bryn Mawr College GSSWSR, as a CSWE accredited School of Social Work, is a pre-approved provider of continuing education for Social Workers in PA and many other states.\nGTIP is approved by the Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology to offer 3 hours of continuing education for psychologists. GTIP maintains responsibility for the program. The Pennsylvania State Board of Psychology requires Psychology workshop participants to furnish their license number to receive a certificate of attendance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7314, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 323.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://getfilings.com/sec-filings/131216/ENERGY-FOCUS-INC-DE_S-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:30Z", "digest": "sha1:KOX47ICFSIPKUN3AUMVYFDZGAOU2ZQFY", "length": 107412, "nlines": 387, "source_domain": "getfilings.com", "title": "ENERGY FOCUS, INC/DE - FORM S-1 - December 16, 2013", "raw_content": "ENERGY FOCUS, INC/DE - FORM S-1 - December 16, 2013\n(Address including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant\u2019s principal executive offices)\nJohn M. Gherlein\nJanet A. Spreen\nIf any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933, check the following box. X\nNon-accelerated filer \u2610 (Do not check if a smaller reporting company) Smaller reporting company X\nAmount to be Registered(1)(2)\nAmount of Registration Fee\n$7,381,250.00(4)\nThe shares being registered include such indeterminate number of additional shares of common stock issuable for no additional consideration by reason of any stock dividend, stock split, recapitalization or other similar transaction effected without the receipt of consideration, which results in an increase in the number of outstanding shares of our common stock. In the event of a stock split, stock dividend or similar transaction involving our common stock, in order to prevent dilution, the number of shares registered shall be automatically increased to cover the additional shares in accordance with Rule 416(a) under the Securities Act of 1933.\nPursuant to Rule 429 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and as further described herein, 29,525,000 shares of common stock were previously registered on the registrant\u2019s Registration Statement on Form S-1 as amended, File No. 333-183058, which became effective on August 13, 2012, and are being included in this Registration Statement.\nEstimated solely for the purpose of computing the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(a) of the Securities Act. The Registrant\u2019s common stock is quoted on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board under the symbol \u201cEFOI.\u201d This estimate is based upon the closing sales price per share of the shares of common stock of the Registrant on December 11, 2013.\n$845.89 of this amount was previously paid in connection with the registrant\u2019s filing of the Registration Statement on Form S-1 as amended, File No. 333-183058, based on the closing sales price per share of the shares of common stock of the Registrant on August 1, 2012.\nThe Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on the date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on a date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to Section 8(a), may determine.\nIn accordance with Rule 429 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the \u201cSecurities Act\u201d) the prospectus included herein is a combined prospectus which relates to the Registrant\u2019s Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-183058, which was first filed on August 3, 2012, as amended, (the \u201c2012 Registration Statement\u201d), as well as the registration of additional securities as set forth herein. This Registration Statement constitutes the first post-effective amendment to the 2012 Registration Statement, as well as a new Registration Statement for the registration of additional securities. The post-effective amendment shall hereafter become effective concurrently with the effectiveness of this Registration Statement in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act.\nThe information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting offers to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.\n62,004,187 Shares of Common Stock\nThe Selling Shareholders identified in this prospectus may offer and sell up to 62,004,187 shares of Energy Focus, Inc. common stock, consisting of:\n18,490,055 shares of common stock held by certain of the Selling Shareholders,\n6,521,739 shares of our common stock held by a Selling Shareholder as a result of the conversion of $1,500,000 of 5% convertible subordinated notes into common stock,\n26,717,393 shares of our common stock that may be issued upon conversion of the 5% convertible subordinated notes held by certain of the Selling Shareholders,\n10,275,000 shares of common stock that may be issued upon exercise of warrants to purchase common stock held by certain of the Selling Shareholders.\nThe outstanding shares of common stock offered hereunder, the 5% convertible subordinated notes and the warrants were issued to the Selling Shareholders in certain private transactions from 2010 through 2013. See \u201cFinancing Transactions\u201d beginning on page 15.\nWe are not selling any shares of our common stock in this offering and we will not receive any of the proceeds from the sale of these shares by the Selling Shareholders. We will, however, receive proceeds if warrants to purchase common stock are exercised and those proceeds will be used for our general corporate purposes.\nThe prices at which the Selling Shareholders may sell the shares will be determined by the prevailing market price for the shares or in negotiated transactions. See \u201cPlan of Distribution\u201d beginning on page 21. We will bear all costs associated with the registration of the shares covered by this prospectus.\nOur common stock is registered under Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and quoted on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board under the symbol \u201cEFOI.\u201d On December 12, 2013, the last reported sale price for our common stock was $0.54 per share.\nInvesting in our common stock involves certain risks. See \u201cRisk Factors\u201d beginning on page 5 for a discussion of these risks.\nNeither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined that this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.\nThe date of this prospectus is _______ __, 2013.\nMARKET FOR THE REGISTRANT\u2019S COMMON EQUITY AND OTHER SHAREHOLDER MATTERS\nSELLING SHAREHOLDERS\nThis prospectus is part of registration statements that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the \u201cSEC\u201d). Under the registration process, the Selling Shareholders may, from time to time, offer and sell up to 62,004,187 shares of our common stock, as described in this prospectus, in one or more offerings. This prospectus provides you with a general description of the common stock that the Selling Shareholders may offer. Each time the Selling Shareholders sell securities under this registration statement, we may provide a prospectus supplement that will contain additional information about the terms of that offering. The prospectus supplement may also add, update or change information contained in this prospectus. Any statement that we make in this prospectus will be modified or superseded by any inconsistent statement made by us in a prospectus supplement. You should read this prospectus and any prospectus supplement carefully before making an investment decision.\nYou should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus and any prospectus supplement. We have not authorized any other person to provide you with different information. If anyone provides you with different or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. For further information, please see the section of this prospectus entitled \u201cWhere You Can Find More Information.\u201d We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.\nYou should not assume that the information appearing in this prospectus is accurate as of any date other than the date on the front cover of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or any sale of a security. Our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects may have changed since those dates.\nUnless the context otherwise requires, all references to \u201cEnergy Focus,\u201d \u201cwe,\u201d \u201cus,\u201d \u201cour,\u201d \u201cour company,\u201d or \u201cthe Company\u201d in this prospectus refer to Energy Focus, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its subsidiaries, and their respective predecessor entities for the applicable periods, considered as a single enterprise.\nThis prospectus contains trademarks, trade names, service marks and service names of Energy Focus, Inc. and other companies.\nThis prospectus provides you with a general description of the common stock being offered. You should read this prospectus, including all documents incorporated herein by reference, together with additional information described under the heading \u201cWhere You Can Find More Information.\u201d\nWe are a Delaware corporation. Our principal executive offices are located at 32000 Aurora Road, Solon, Ohio 44139. Our telephone number is 440.715.1300. The address of our website is www.efoi.com. Information on our website is not part of this prospectus.\nWe design, develop, manufacture, and market energy-efficient lighting products, and we are a leading provider of turnkey energy-efficient lighting solutions in the governmental and public sector market and general commercial market. Until November 2013, we also sold products in the pool market. Our lighting technology offers significant energy savings, heat dissipation and maintenance cost benefits over conventional lighting for multiple applications.\nWe continue to evolve our business strategy to provide turnkey solutions, which use, but are not limited to, our patented and proprietary technology. Our solutions include light-emitting diode, fluorescent, and other high energy-efficient lighting technologies. Our strategy also incorporates continued investment into the research of new and emerging energy sources including, but not limited to, LED and solar energy applications.\nOur long-term strategy is to penetrate the existing building and U.S. military lighting markets by providing turnkey, comprehensive energy-efficient lighting solutions, which utilize our proprietary energy-efficient lighting products. Early in 2012 we announced a cooperative agreement to develop the Asian market for our light-emitting diode products. We will continue to focus on markets where the benefits of our lighting solutions offerings, combined with our technology, are most compelling. These markets include: schools, universities, hospitals, office buildings, parking garages, supermarkets, cold storage facilities, and manufacturing environments.\nEffective November 25, 2013, we entered into an Asset Purchase Agreement (the \u201cAgreement\u201d) with S.R. Smith, LLC (\u201cBuyer\u201d), pursuant to which we sold our pool products business to the Buyer for a cash purchase price of $5.2 million. Under the terms of the Agreement, we sold substantially all of the assets associated with the pool products business and Buyer assumed certain related liabilities, including our facility in Pleasanton, California. The purchase price is subject to adjustment based on our working capital at closing. The Agreement contains representations, warranties and covenants of the Company and Buyer and prohibits us from competing with Buyer in the pool business for a period of five years following the closing. The Agreement also provides for an escrow of $500,000 of the purchase price to secure customary indemnification obligations with respect to our representations, warranties and covenants of such parties and other obligations of the Company under the Agreement. We have agreed to provide Buyer with certain specified transition services to allow for the efficient transition of the business to Buyer.\nA portion of the purchase price was used to pay the lender under our credit facility in order to remove liens on the purchased assets. Our borrowing ability under the facility will likely be decreased to reflect our reduced asset base after the transaction.\nThe shares of our common stock that may be sold pursuant to this prospectus consist of outstanding shares and shares that may be issued upon exercise of warrants or upon conversion of 5% subordinated convertible promissory notes that were issued by us in private placement transactions during 2011, 2012 and 2013, which are summarized below. The offerings were not registered under the Securities Act and were conducted in reliance upon the exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D. See \u201cFinancing Transactions.\u201d\nLOC Transaction. On August 11, 2011, we entered into a Letter of Credit Agreement (\u201cLOC\u201d) with Mark Plush, the Company\u2019s former Chief Financial Officer, for $250,000. The LOC had a term of 24 months and interest rate of 12.5% on the face amount and was repaid in full on July 3, 2013. As an incentive to enter into the LOC, we issued to Mr. Plush a five-year detached warrant to purchase 125,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share.\n2010 Warrants. On March 17, 2010, we entered into a Purchase Agreement and a registration rights agreement with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (\u201cLPC\u201d), pursuant to which LPC agreed to purchase 350,000 shares of our common stock, together with warrants to purchase 350,000 shares at an exercise price of $1.20 per share, for total consideration of $375,000. The warrants have a term of five years and were not exercisable until six months after they were issued.\n2012 Private Placement of Stock and Warrants. Between February 29, 2012 and March 2, 2012, we raised $4.9 million in a private placement by selling 19,600,000 units to ten investors, with each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one-half warrant to purchase one share of common stock, pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement with each investor. The purchase price of each unit was $0.25. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.54. Each warrant was immediately exercisable and expires three years from the date of issuance.\n2012 and 2013 Private Placements of Notes. On December 13, 2012, we sold $1.5 million in principal amount of 5% subordinated convertible notes pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement with three investors. The notes mature on December 31, 2015, have a five percent annual interest rate, and are convertible into our common stock at the rate of $0.23 per share. Between January 31, 2013 and October 10, 2013, we sold an additional $6.145 million in aggregate principal amount of 5% subordinated convertible notes to 10 investors, including two who also purchased notes in December 2012, pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement with each investor. Like the December 2012 notes, the notes have a five percent annual interest rate and are convertible into our common stock at the rate of $0.23 per share; however, the 2013 notes mature on December 31, 2016. During the second and fourth quarters of 2013, one investor converted $1,500,000 in aggregate principal amount of notes into 6,521,739 shares of common stock.\nThe conversion dates and maturity dates for the notes outstanding as of December 11, 2013 are shown below:\nAmount in $000\u2019s\nDate First Convertible\n51,352,799 shares\u2014This number does not include the 26,717,393 shares of common stock that may be issued upon conversion of the 5% convertible subordinated notes and the 10,275,000 shares of common stock that may be issued upon exercise of warrants held by certain of the Selling Shareholders that may be sold hereunder. This number does include the 6,521,739 shares of common stock issued upon conversion of 5% convertible subordinated notes as of the date hereof that may be sold hereunder.\nCommon stock to be offered by the Selling Shareholders\n62,004,187 shares\u2014This number includes the 26,717,393 shares of common stock that may be issued upon conversion of the 5% convertible subordinated notes, the 6,521,739 shares of common stock issued upon conversion of 5% convertible subordinated notes as of the date hereof, the 10,275,000 shares of common stock that may be issued upon exercise of warrants held by certain of the Selling Shareholders and the 18,490,055 shares of common stock held by certain of the Selling Shareholders that may be sold hereunder.\n88,345,192 shares\u2014This number includes the 26,717,393 shares of common stock that may be issued upon conversion of the 5% convertible subordinated notes and the 10,275,000 shares of common stock that may be issued upon exercise of warrants held by certain of the Selling Shareholders. This number does not include (1) outstanding options to purchase 2,851,226 shares of our common stock, of which options to purchase 1,922,780 shares were exercisable as of December 11, 2013, (2) outstanding restricted share units for 36,858 shares of our common stock, of which 0 have vested, (3) outstanding warrants to purchase 800,494 shares of our common stock, all of which were exercisable as of December 11, 2013, and (4) an additional 7,501,489 shares of our common stock issuable pursuant to future awards under our equity incentive and employee stock purchase plans.\nWe will receive no proceeds from the sale by the Selling Shareholders of shares of common stock in this offering. We will, however, receive proceeds if warrants to purchase common stock are exercised and those proceeds will be used for our general corporate purposes. We will recognize a reduction in debt if the subordinated convertible debt is converted to common stock; however, we will receive no proceeds from the sale of those shares.\nOver-The-Counter Bulletin Board symbol\nYou should carefully consider the risks described below before purchasing our common stock. Our most significant risks and uncertainties are described below. They are not the only risks that we face, however. If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, financial condition, or results or operations could be materially, adversely affected, the price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment therein. You should acquire shares of our common stock only if you can afford to lose your entire investment.\nRisks Associated with Our Business.\nWe have a history of operating losses and may incur losses in the future, and our auditors have issued a \u201cGoing Concern\u201d opinion.\nWe have experienced net losses of $5.7 million, $6.1 million and $8.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2012, 2011 and 2010, respectively. As of December 31, 2012, we had an accumulated deficit of $80.6 million and, as of September 30, 2013, our accumulated deficit was $84.4 million. Although management continues to address many of the legacy issues that have historically burdened our financial performance, we still face challenges in order to reach profitability. In order for us to attain profitability and growth, we will need to successfully address these challenges, including improvement in gross margins, execution of our marketing and sales plans for our turnkey energy-efficient lighting solutions business, the development of new technologies into sustainable product lines, the continuation of cost reductions throughout our organization, and continued improvements in our supply chain performance.\nOur independent public accounting firm has issued an opinion in connection with our 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K raising substantial doubt as to our ability to continue as a going concern. This opinion stems from our historically poor operating performance, and our historical inability to generate sufficient cash flow to meet obligations and sustain operations without obtaining additional external financing. Although we continue to work towards receiving the funding necessary for us to continue as a going concern, there can be no assurances that this objective will be successful. As such, we will continue to review and pursue selected external funding sources, if necessary, to execute these objectives including, but not limited to, the following:\nobtain financing from traditional or non-traditional investment capital organizations or individuals,\npotential sale or divestiture of one or more operating units, and\nloans or other debt instruments may have terms and/or conditions, such as interest rate, restrictive covenants and control or revocation provisions, which are not acceptable to management or our Board of Directors,\nthe current environment in capital markets combined with our capital constraints may prevent us from being able to obtain adequate debt financing,\nfinancing may not be available for parties interested in pursuing the acquisition of one or more of our operating units, and\nadditional equity financing may not be available to us in the current capital environment and could lead to further dilution of shareholder value for current shareholders of record, which dilution may be substantial.\nOur business is sensitive to changes in general economic conditions, both inside and outside the United States. An economic downturn may adversely impact our business. In our legacy businesses, sales of our lighting products depend significantly upon the level of new building construction, which is affected by housing market trends, interest rates and the weather. In addition, due to the seasonality of construction and the sales of lighting products, our revenue and income have tended to be significantly lower in the first quarter of each year. We may experience substantial fluctuations in our operating results from period to period as a consequence of these factors. Slow growth in the economy or an economic downturn could adversely affect our ability to meet our working capital requirements and growth objectives, or could otherwise adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. As a result, any general or market-specific economic downturns, particularly those affecting new building construction and renovation, or that cause end-users to reduce or delay their purchases of lighting products, services, or retrofit activities, would have a material adverse effect on our business, cash flows, financial condition and results of operations.\nIf we are unable to respond effectively as new lighting technologies and market trends emerge, our competitive position and our ability to generate revenue and profits may be harmed.\nTo be successful, we will need to keep pace with rapid changes in LED technology, changing customer requirements, new product introductions by competitors and evolving industry standards, any of which could render our existing products obsolete if we fail to respond in a timely manner. Development of new products incorporating advanced technology is a complex process subject to numerous uncertainties. We have previously experienced, and could in the future, experience delays in the introduction of new products. If effective new sources of light other than LED\u2019s are discovered, our current products and technologies could become less competitive or obsolete. If others develop innovative proprietary lighting technology that is superior to ours, or if we fail to accurately anticipate technology and market trends, respond on a timely basis with our own development of new products and enhancements to existing products, and achieve broad market acceptance of these products and enhancements, our competitive position may be harmed and we may not achieve sufficient growth in our net sales to attain or sustain profitability.\nThe lighting industry is highly competitive. In the high performance lighting markets in which we sell our advanced lighting systems, our products compete with lighting products utilizing traditional lighting technology provided by many vendors. Additionally, in the advanced lighting markets in which we have primarily competed to date, competition has largely been fragmented among a number of small manufacturers. However, some of our competitors, particularly those that offer traditional lighting products, are larger companies with greater resources to devote to research and development, manufacturing and marketing.\nMoreover, in the general lighting market, we expect to encounter competition from an even greater number of companies. Our competitors are expected to include the large, established companies in the general lighting industry, such as General Electric, Osram Sylvania and Royal Philips Electronics. Each of these competitors has undertaken initiatives to develop LED technology. These companies have global marketing capabilities and substantially greater resources to devote to research and development and other aspects of the development, manufacture and marketing of LED lighting products than we possess. The relatively low barriers to entry into the lighting industry and the limited proprietary nature of many lighting products also permit new competitors to enter the industry easily.\nIn each of our markets, we also anticipate the possibility that LED manufacturers, including those that currently supply us with LEDs, may seek to compete with us. Our competitors\u2019 lighting technologies and products may be more readily accepted by customers than our products. Additionally, to the extent that competition in our markets intensifies, we may be required to reduce our prices in order to remain competitive. If we do not compete effectively, or if we reduce our prices without making commensurate reductions in our costs, our net sales and profitability and our future prospects for success may be harmed.\nIf we are unable to obtain and adequately protect our intellectual property rights, our ability to commercialize our products could be substantially limited and our business could be adversely affected.\nWe consider our technology and processes proprietary. If we are not able to adequately protect or enforce the proprietary aspects of our technology, competitors may utilize our proprietary technology. As a result, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected. We protect our technology through a combination of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, employee and third-party nondisclosure agreements, and similar means. Despite our efforts, other parties may attempt to disclose, obtain or use our technologies. Our competitors may also be able to independently develop products that are substantially equivalent or superior to our products or slightly modify our patents. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect our proprietary rights as fully as do the laws of the United States. As a result, we may not be able to protect our proprietary rights adequately in the United States or abroad.\nWe have engaged in litigation in the past and litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights or to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Litigation may also be necessary to defend against claims of infringement or invalidity by others. An adverse outcome in litigation or any similar proceedings could subject us to significant liabilities, require us to license disputed rights from others or require us to cease marketing or using certain products or technologies. We may not be able to obtain any licenses on acceptable terms, if at all. We also may have to indemnify certain customers if it is determined that we have infringed upon or misappropriated another party\u2019s intellectual property. The cost of addressing any intellectual property litigation claim, both in legal fees and expenses, and the diversion of management resources, regardless of whether the claim is valid, could be significant and could materially harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.\nIf critical components that we currently purchase from a small number of third-party suppliers become unavailable or third-party manufacturers otherwise experience delays, we may incur delays in shipment, which would damage our business.\nWe depend on others to manufacture a significant portion of the component parts incorporated into our products. We purchase our component parts from third-party manufacturers that serve the advanced lighting systems market and believe that alternative sources of supply are readily available for most component parts. However, consolidation in the lighting industry could result in one or more current suppliers being acquired by a competitor, rendering us unable to continue purchasing necessary amounts of key components at competitive prices.\nIn an effort to reduce manufacturing costs, we have outsourced the production of certain parts and components, as well as finished goods in our product lines, to a number of overseas suppliers. While we believe alternative sources for the production of these products are available, we have selected these particular manufacturers based on their ability to consistently produce these products per our specifications, ensuring the best quality product at the most cost effective price. We depend on our suppliers to satisfy performance and quality specifications and to dedicate sufficient production capacity within scheduled delivery times. Although we maintain contracts with selected suppliers, we may be vulnerable to unanticipated price increases, payment term changes and product shortages. Accordingly, the loss of all or one of these suppliers or delays in obtaining shipments could have a material adverse effect on our operations until such time as an alternative supplier could be found. We may be subject to various import duties applicable to materials manufactured in foreign countries and may be affected by various other import and export restrictions, as well as other considerations or developments impacting upon international trade, including economic or political instability, shipping delays and product quotas. These international trade factors will, under certain circumstances, have an impact on the cost of components, which will have an impact on the cost to us of the manufactured product and the wholesale and retail prices of our products.\nIf the companies to which we outsource the manufacture of our products fail to meet our requirements for quality, quantity, and timeliness, our revenue and reputation in the marketplace could be harmed.\nWe outsource a significant portion of the manufacture and assembly of our products. We currently depend on a small number of contract manufacturers to manufacture our products at plants in various locations throughout the world, primarily in the United States, China and Taiwan. These manufacturers supply most of the necessary raw materials and provide all necessary facilities and labor to manufacture our products. We currently do not have long-term contracts with all of these manufacturers. If these companies were to terminate their arrangements with us without adequate notice, or fail to provide the required capacity and quality on a timely basis, we would be unable to manufacture and ship our lighting products until replacement manufacturing services could be obtained. To qualify a new contract manufacturer, familiarize it with our products, quality standards and other requirements, and commence volume production is a costly and time-consuming process. If it became necessary to do so, we may not be able to establish alternative manufacturing relationships on acceptable terms.\nOur reliance on contract manufacturers involves certain additional risks, including the following:\nlack of direct control over production capacity and delivery schedules,\nlack of direct control over quality assurance, manufacturing yields, and production costs,\nrisk of loss of inventory while in transit from China and Taiwan, and\nrisks associated with international commerce, particularly with China and Taiwan, including unexpected changes in legal and regulatory requirements, changes in tariffs and trade policies, risks associated with the protection of intellectual property and political and economic instability.\nAny interruption in our ability to manufacture and distribute products could result in delays in shipment, lost sales, reductions in revenue and damage to our reputation in the market, all of which would adversely affect our business.\nWe depend on independent distributors and sales representatives for a substantial portion of our net sales, and the failure to manage our relationships with these third parties, or the termination of these relationships, could cause our net sales to decline and harm our business.\nWe rely significantly on indirect sales channels to market and sell our products. Most of our products are sold through third-party independent distributors and sales representatives. In addition, these parties provide technical sales support to end-users. Our current agreements within these sales channels are non-exclusive with regard to lighting products in general, but exclusive with respect to LED lighting products. We anticipate that any such agreements we enter into in the future will be on similar terms. Furthermore, our agreements are generally short-term, and can be cancelled by these sales channels without significant financial consequence. We cannot control how these sales channels perform and cannot be certain that we or end-users will be satisfied by their performance. If these distributors and sales representatives significantly change their terms with us, or change their historical pattern of ordering products from us, there could be a significant impact on our net sales and profits.\nDespite product testing, defects may be found in our existing or future products. This could result in, among other things, a delay in the recognition or loss of net sales, loss of market share or failure to achieve market acceptance. These defects could cause us to incur significant warranty, support and repair costs, divert the attention of our engineering personnel from our product development efforts, and harm our relationship with our customers. The occurrence of these problems could result in the delay or loss of market acceptance of our lighting products and would likely harm our business. Some of our products use line voltages (such as 120 or 240 AC), which involve enhanced risk of electrical shock, injury or death in the event of a short circuit or other malfunction. Defects, integration issues or other performance problems in our lighting products could result in personal injury or financial or other damages to end-users or could damage market acceptance of our products. Our customers and end-users could also seek damages from us for their losses. A product liability claim brought against us, even if unsuccessful, would likely be time consuming and costly to defend.\nIf we are unable to accurately estimate the risks, revenues or costs associated with a project, we may achieve a lower than expected profit or incur a loss on that project.\nFor the solutions segment of our business, we generally enter into fixed price contracts. Fixed price contracts require us to perform a contract for a specified price regardless of our actual costs. As a result, the profit that we realize on a contract is dependent on the extent to which we successfully manage our costs. Cost overruns, whether due to inefficiency, inaccurate estimates or other factors, result in lower profit or a loss on a project. A majority of our contracts are based on cost estimates that are subject to a number of assumptions. If our estimates of the risks, revenues or costs prove inaccurate or circumstances change, we may incur a lower profit or a loss on that project.\nAdditionally, we recognize certain contract revenues, including revenues from our solutions segment, using the percentage-of-completion method. Under this method, percentage-of-completion is determined by relating the actual cost of the work performed to date to the current estimated total cost of the respective contracts. When the estimate on a contract indicates a loss, we record the entire loss during the accounting period in which it is estimable. In the ordinary course of business, at a minimum on a quarterly basis, we prepare updated estimates of the total forecasted revenue, cost and profit or loss for each contract. The cumulative effect of revisions in estimates of the total forecasted revenue and costs during the course of the work is reflected in the accounting period in which the facts that caused the revision become known. To the extent that these revisions result in a reduction in revenue, we recognize a credit or a charge against current earnings, which could be material.\nWe derive a portion of our revenues from direct and indirect sales to U.S., state, local, and foreign governments and their respective agencies. Such contracts are subject to various procurement laws and regulations, and contract provisions relating to their formation, administration and performance. Failure to comply with these laws, regulations or provisions in our government contracts could result in the imposition of various civil and criminal penalties, termination of contracts, forfeiture of profits, suspension of payments, or suspension from future government contracting. If our government contracts are terminated, if we are suspended from government work, or if our ability to compete for new contracts is adversely affected, our business could suffer.\nAn inability to obtain bonding could limit the number of solutions segment projects we are able to pursue.\nAs is customary in the construction business, we are often required to provide surety bonds to secure our performance under construction contracts. Our ability to obtain surety bonds primarily depends upon our capitalization, working capital, past performance, management expertise and other external factors, including the overall capacity of the surety market. Surety companies consider such factors in relation to the amount of our backlog and their underwriting standards, which may change from time to time. The surety industry has undergone significant changes with several companies withdrawing completely from the industry or significantly reducing their bonding commitment. In addition, certain reinsurers of security risk have limited their participation in this market. Therefore, we could be unable to obtain surety bonds when required, which could adversely affect our future results of operations and revenues.\nWe have international sales and are subject to risks associated with operating in international markets.\nFor the year ended December 31, 2012, net sales of our products outside of the United States represented 10% of our total net sales. We generally provide technical expertise and limited marketing support, while our independent international distributors generally provide sales staff, local marketing, and product services. We believe our international distributors are better able to service international markets due to their understanding of local market conditions and best business practices. International business operations are subject to inherent risks, including, among others:\nunexpected changes in regulatory requirements, tariffs, and other trade barriers or restrictions,\npotentially adverse tax consequences,\nthe burdens of compliance with a wide variety of foreign laws,\nimport and export license requirements and restrictions of the United States and each other country in which we operate,\nexposure to different legal standards and reduced protection for intellectual property rights in some countries,\ncurrency fluctuations and restrictions, and\npolitical, social, and economic instability, including war and the threat of war, acts of terrorism, pandemics, boycotts, curtailment of trade or other business restrictions.\nWe may not fully recognize the anticipated revenue reported in our backlog.\nThe contracts we enter into for our solutions segment can be relatively large and typically range in the amount of $0.1 million to as much as $4.0 million. As of September 30, 2013, our solutions segment backlog of uncompleted work was $4.0 million. We include a project in our backlog when a contract is awarded or a letter of intent is obtained. The revenue projected in our backlog may not be realized or may not result in the revenue or profits expected. If a project included in our backlog is canceled, suspended or the scope of work is reduced, it would result in a reduction to our backlog, which could affect the revenues and profits realized. If a customer should cancel a project, we may be reimbursed for costs expended to date but would have no contractual right to the total projected revenues included in our backlog. Cancellations or delays of significant projects could have a material adverse effect on future revenues, profits and cash flows.\nTo a large extent, our future success will depend on the continued contributions of certain employees, such as our Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer. These and other key employees may be difficult to replace. Our future success will also depend on our ability to attract and retain qualified technical, sales, marketing, and management personnel, for whom competition is very intense. The loss of, or failure to attract, hire and retain any such persons could delay product development cycles, disrupt our operations, or otherwise harm our business or results of operations. We have been successful in hiring experienced energy solutions salespeople from leading firms in the industry, but if these individuals are not successful in achieving our expectations, then planned sales may not occur and the anticipated net sales may not be realized.\nA significant portion of our business is dependent upon the existence of government funding, which may not be available into the future and could result in a significant reduction in sales and could cause significant harm to our business.\nA significant portion of our research and development efforts have been supported directly by government funding and were contracted for short periods, usually one to two years. Further, a significant portion of net sales generated by our solutions segment and our government product business is derived from government funding both at the state and federal levels. If government funding is reduced or eliminated, there is no guarantee that we would be able to continue to fund our activities in these areas at their current levels, if at all. If we are unable to maintain our access to government funding in these areas, there could be a significant impact on our net sales and profits.\nWe are required to comply with certain legal requirements governing the materials in our products, including but not limited to environmental laws and regulations. In the event that any existing legal requirements are amended or new legal requirements are implemented in a manner with which we cannot comply, our net sales might be adversely affected if such an amendment or implementation were to occur.\nMoreover, although not legally required to do so, we strive to obtain certification for substantially all our products. In the United States, we seek certification on substantially all of our products from Underwriters Laboratories (UL\u00ae) or Intertek Testing Services (ETL\u00ae). Where appropriate in jurisdictions outside the United States and Europe, we seek to obtain other similar national or regional certifications for our products. We cannot ensure that we will be able to obtain any certifications for our new products or that, if certification standards are amended, that we will be able to maintain such certifications for our existing products. Moreover, although we are not aware of any effort to amend any existing certification standard or implement a new certification standard in a manner that would render us unable to maintain certification for our existing products or obtain ratification for new products, our net sales might be adversely affected if such an amendment or implementation were to occur.\nWe incur significant costs as a result of being a public company and our management is required to devote substantial time and financial resources to meet compliance obligations.\nAs a public company reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission, we incur significant legal, accounting, investor relations, board compensation and other expenses. We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, including section 404 that requires that we annually evaluate and report on our systems of internal controls. In the future, there may be material weaknesses in our internal controls that would be required to be reported in future Annual Reports on Form 10-K and/or Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. A material weakness could have a negative impact on our business, and a negative reaction by the equity markets to a material weakness could cause our stock price to decline.\nAt any given time, we may be subject to litigation, the disposition of which may have an adverse effect upon our business, financial condition, or results of operation.\nWe may be unable to sustain significant customer relationships, which could have a negative impact on our business.\nIn 2012, our ten largest customers accounted for approximately 62% of our net sales. Three of these customers were those who purchased products from our pool and spa product line that we sold in November 2013. The loss of or a substantial decrease in the volume of purchases by any one of our customers could harm our sales, profitability, and cash flows.\nFailure to effectively estimate employer-sponsored health insurance premiums and incremental costs due to the Affordable Healthcare Act could materially and adversely affect our results of operations, financial position, and cash flows.\nIn March 2010, the United States federal government enacted comprehensive health care reform legislation, which, among other things, includes guaranteed coverage requirements, eliminates pre-existing condition exclusions and annual and lifetime maximum limits, restricts the extent to which policies can be rescinded, and imposes new taxes on health insurers, self-insured companies, and health care benefits. The legislation imposes implementation effective dates that began in 2010 and extend through 2020 with many of the changes requiring additional guidance from federal agencies and regulations. Possible adverse effects could include increased costs, exposure to expanded liability, and requirements for us to revise the ways in which healthcare and other benefits are provided to employees. We continue to monitor the potential impacts the health care reform legislation will have on our financial results.\nRisks Associated with an Investment in our Common Stock.\nWe could issue additional common stock or may need to request our shareholders to authorize additional shares of common stock, which might dilute the book value and market for our common stock.\nWe are authorized to issue 150,000,000 shares of common stock, of which 51,352,799 shares were issued and outstanding, as of December 11, 2013. An additional 50.8 million shares have been reserved for issuance upon exercise of stock options, warrants or conversion of convertible debt as of December 12, 2013. If or when these securities are exercised into shares of our common stock, the number of our shares of common stock outstanding will increase. Increases in our outstanding shares, and any sales of shares, could have an adverse effect on the trading activity and market price of our common stock. Our Board of Directors has the authority, without action or vote of our shareholders, to issue a sizeable part of our authorized but unissued shares. Such stock issuances could be made at a price that reflects a discount or a premium from the then-current trading price of our common stock. In addition, in order to raise capital or acquire businesses in the future, we may need to issue additional securities or promissory notes that are convertible or exchangeable for shares of our common stock. These issuances would dilute shareholders\u2019 percentage ownership interest, which would have the effect of reducing influence on matters on which our shareholders vote, and might dilute the book value of our common stock. Shareholders may incur additional dilution if holders of stock options, whether currently outstanding or subsequently granted, exercise those options, or if warrant holders exercise warrants purchasing shares of our common stock. If an insufficient amount of authorized, but unissued shares of common stock exists to issue in the future in connection with subsequent equity financing or acquisition transactions, we may be required to ask our shareholders to authorize additional shares before undertaking, or as a condition to completing, a financing or acquisition transaction. We cannot be assured that our shareholders would authorize an increase in the number of shares of our common stock.\nAs a \u201cthinly-traded\u201d stock, large sales can and have placed negative pressure on our common stock price.\nOur common stock trades Over-The-Counter under the symbol EFOI. From time to time we experience periods when our common stock could be considered \u201cthinly-traded.\u201d Additionally, we have entered into in the past or may enter into in the future, financing or acquisition transactions resulting in a large number of newly issued shares that become immediately tradable or tradable simultaneously in the future. These factors coupled with a limited number of market makers impairs the liquidity of our stock, not only the number of shares that can be bought and sold, but also the through possible delays in the timing of transactions, and lower prices for our common stock than might otherwise prevail. This could make it difficult or impossible for an investor to sell shares of our common stock within a desired timeframe or to obtain a desired price.\nIn addition, from time to time, certain of our shareholders may be eligible to sell all, or a portion of, their shares of common stock by means of ordinary brokerage transactions in the open market pursuant to Rule 144, promulgated under the Securities Act, or under effective resale prospectuses. Any substantial sale of our common stock pursuant to Rule 144 or any resale prospectus may have an adverse effect on the market price of our securities.\nA large number of shares may be sold in the market as part of or following this offering, which may depress the market price of our common stock.\nA large number of shares may be sold in the market following this offering, which may depress the market price of our common stock. Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market following this offering could cause the market price of our common stock to decline. If there are more shares of common stock offered for sale than buyers are willing to purchase, then the market price of our common stock may decline to a market price at which buyers are willing to purchase the offered shares.\nThis prospectus contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. These forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms \u201cbelieves,\u201d \u201cestimates,\u201d \u201canticipates,\u201d \u201cexpects,\u201d \u201cfeels,\u201d \u201cseeks,\u201d \u201cforecasts,\u201d \u201cprojects,\u201d \u201cintends,\u201d \u201cplans,\u201d \u201cmay,\u201d \u201cwill,\u201d \u201cshould,\u201d \u201ccould\u201d or \u201cwould\u201d or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. They appear in a number of places throughout this prospectus, any prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference herein and include statements regarding our intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, among other things, our results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, prospects, growth, strategies, capital expenditures and the industry in which we operate.\nBy their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. Although we base these forward-looking statements on assumptions that we believe are reasonable when made, we caution you that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and that our actual results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and industry developments may differ materially from statements made in or suggested by the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference herein. In addition, even if our results of operations, financial condition and liquidity, and industry developments are consistent with the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference herein, those results or developments may not be indicative of results or developments in subsequent periods. We believe that these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the risks outlined under \u201cRisk Factors\u201d and matters described in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference herein generally. In light of these risks and uncertainties, we caution you not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement that we make in this prospectus, any prospectus supplement and the documents incorporated by reference herein speaks only as of the date of such statement, and we undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statement or to publicly announce the results of any revision to any of those statements to reflect future events or developments. Comparisons of results for current and any prior periods are not intended to express any future trends or indications of future performance, unless specifically expressed as such, and should only be viewed as historical data.\nThis prospectus relates to shares of our common stock that may be offered and sold from time to time by the Selling Shareholders. We will receive no proceeds from the sale of shares of common stock in this offering. We will, however, receive proceeds if warrants to purchase common stock are exercised and those proceeds will be used for our general corporate purposes. We will recognize a reduction in debt if the subordinated convertible debt is converted to common stock; however, we will receive no proceeds from the sale of those shares.\nOur common stock is traded on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board under the symbol EFOI. The following table sets forth the high and low market sales prices per share for our common stock as reported by OTC Markets:\nFourth Quarter (through December 11, 2013)\nMarket prices during the timeframe when our common stock traded on the Over-The-Counter Bulletin Board reflect inter-dealer prices, without retail markup, markdown or commission and may not necessarily represent actual transactions.\nThere were approximately 118 holders of record of our common stock as of December 11, 2013, however, a large number of our shareholders hold their stock in \u201cstreet name\u201d in brokerage accounts. Therefore, they do not appear on the shareholder list maintained by our transfer agent.\nWe have not declared or paid any cash dividends, and do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future.\nThe Selling Shareholders may offer and sell up to 62,004,187 shares of our common stock, consisting of:\n26,717,393 shares of our common stock that may be issued upon conversion of the 5% convertible subordinated notes held by certain of the Selling Shareholders, and\nThe notes, shares of common stock and warrants were issued by us in private placement transactions during 2010, 2012 and 2013. Information regarding these offerings is set forth below. The offerings were not registered under the Securities Act and were conducted in reliance upon the exemptions from the registration requirements of the Securities Act in Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D.\nLOC Transaction\nOn August 11, 2011, we entered into a Letter of Credit Agreement (\u201cLOC\u201d) with Mark Plush, the Company\u2019s former Chief Financial Officer, for $250,000. The LOC had a term of 24 months and interest rate of 12.5% on the face amount. The LOC was collateralized by an assignment of proceeds of the cash collateral on deposit with the surety related to our bonding program. The LOC was subordinated to our senior indebtedness. On July 3, 2013, the LOC was paid in full. As an incentive to enter into the LOC, we issued to Mr. Plush a five-year detached warrant to purchase 125,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share.\n2010 Warrants\nOn March 17, 2010, we entered into a Purchase Agreement and a registration rights agreement with Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC (\u201cLPC\u201d), pursuant to which LPC agreed to purchase 350,000 shares of our common stock, together with warrants to purchase 350,000 shares at an exercise price of $1.20 per share, for total consideration of $375,000. The warrants have a term of five years and were not exercisable until six months after they were issued.\n2012 Private Placement of Stock and Warrants\nBetween February 29, 2012 and March 2, 2012, we raised $4.9 million in a private placement by selling 19.6 million units to ten investors, with each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one-half warrant to purchase one share of common stock, pursuant to a Securities Purchase Agreement with each investor. The purchase price of each unit was $0.25. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.54. Each warrant was immediately exercisable and expires three years from the date of issuance.\n2012 and 2013 Private Placements of Notes\nOn December 13, 2012, we sold $1.5 million in principal amount of 5% subordinated convertible notes pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement with one investor. The notes mature on December 31, 2015, have a five percent annual interest rate, and are convertible into our common stock at the rate of $0.23 per share.\nBetween January 31, 2013 and October 10, 2013, we sold an additional $6.145 million in aggregate principal amount of 5% subordinated convertible notes to 10 investors, including two who also purchased notes in December 2012, pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement with each investor. Like the December 2012 notes, the notes have a five percent annual interest rate and are convertible into our common stock at the rate of $0.23 per share; however, the 2013 notes mature on December 31, 2016. During the second and fourth quarters of 2013, one investor converted $1,500,000 in aggregate principal amount of notes into 6,521,739 shares of common stock.\nRegistration and Indemnification Rights\nUnder the terms of the Securities Purchase Agreements and the Note Purchase Agreements, we agreed to promptly file a registration statement with the SEC to register for resale the shares of our common stock that may be sold in the offering (the \u201cRegistrable Securities\u201d). Under the Securities Purchase Agreements, the initial registration statement was declared effective by the SEC on August 13, 2012. We agreed under the Securities Purchase Agreements and the Note Purchase Agreements to use our best efforts to keep the registration statement continuously effective under the Securities Act until the earlier of (1) the fifth anniversary of the effective date of the registration statement, (2) the date when all Registrable Securities covered by such registration statement have been sold publicly, or (3) the date on which the Registrable Securities are eligible for sale without volume limitation within a three-month period pursuant to Rule 144 or any successor thereto.\nWe also agreed to pay all costs associated with the preparation and filing of the registration statement. The registration rights provisions contain customary indemnification provisions for all parties.\nThe shares of common stock covered by this prospectus may be offered from time to time by the Selling Shareholders. They may sell some, all, or none of their shares. We do not know how long the Selling Shareholders will hold the shares before selling them. We currently have no agreements, arrangements, or understandings with the Selling Shareholders regarding the sale of any of the shares.\nThe following table sets forth the names and address of the Selling Shareholders, the number and percentage of our common stock owned by them before this offering, the number of shares that may be offered under this prospectus, and the number of and percentage of our common stock owned by the Selling Shareholders after this offering is completed. The information included below is based on information that has been provided to us by or on behalf of the Selling Shareholders. The information is presented as follows:\nthe number of shares in the column \u201cNumber of Shares Being Offered\u201d represents all of the shares that the Selling Shareholders may offer under this prospectus;\nthe number of shares in the column \u201cShares Owned after the Offering\u201d assumes the sale of all of the shares offered by the Selling Shareholder under this prospectus;\nthe percentages of shares owned before the offering are based on 51,352,799 shares of our common stock outstanding as of December 11, 2013, and assumes the conversion of notes or exercise of warrants currently held by each Selling Shareholder, as more particularly described in the footnotes to the table;\nthe percentages of shares owned after the offering are based on 88,345,192 shares of our common stock, which assumes all 26,717,393 shares of common stock that may be issued upon conversion of the notes and all 10,275,000 shares of common stock that may be issued upon exercise of the warrants are then outstanding.\nBefore Offering\nafter Offering\nShares Offered\nAllesandro Family Trust (1)\nMichael Alessandro Trustee\nBright Horizon Partners Inc. (2)\n1330 Avenue of the Americas #36C\nBrilliant Start Enterprise, Inc.\n12F-13 No. 383 Sec 4, Ren-Ai Road\nDa-an District, Taipei City 106\nBi Cheng (3)\nNo. 26 Yuantong Street\nCostar Partners II, LLC (5)\nMario Cytrynbaum (6)\nScott DeSano (7)\nEastern Overseas, Inc. (8)\nCharles H.C. Sung\n244 Fitzgerald Lane\n5 Elements Energy Efficiencies (BVI) Ltd. (9)\nP.O. Box 3444, Road Town\n5 Elements Global Fund L.P. (10)\n114 W. 47th Street #1725\nEvergreen Materials LLC (11)\nJulianna Shao Hung (12)\n1415 S. Marengo Avenue\nKaren S. Hung (13)\nKenneth Shao Hung (14)\nJag International Ltd. (15)\nLincoln Park Capital, LLC (16)\nMark J. Plush (17)\nPrime Science & Technology, Inc. (18)\nChien Fong Tu (19)\n3F No. 18 Alley 342, Lane 150\nSection 5, Xinyi Road\nVittorio Viarengo (20)\n3249 Charmat Court\nHongwu Zhang (21)\n4967 Workingham Drive\n434,783 * 434,783 0 0.0%\nSelling Shareholders Total\n* Represents less than 1.0%\nIncludes 217,391 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of outstanding notes.\nIncludes 11,304,347 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of outstanding notes.\nIncludes 2,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants.\nIncludes 1,086,957 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of outstanding notes. Also includes the following held by Costar Partners II, LLC: (i) 4,000,000 shares of common stock and (ii) 2,000,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants. William Cohen controls Costar Partners II, LLC.\nIncludes 2,608,696 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of outstanding notes.\nIncludes 900,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants.\nIncludes 60,000 shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of outstanding warrants.\n(21) Includes 434,783 shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of outstanding notes.\nBased upon information in our records and that the Selling Shareholders have provided, certain Selling Shareholders have the following positions or relationships with us:\nJiangang Luo, a member of our Board of Directors, controls Prime Science & Technology, Inc.\nJames Tu, our Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer controls 5 Elements Global Fund L.P.\nChien Fung Tu is the brother of James Tu, our Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.\nMark J. Plush is our former Chief Financial Officer.\nBased upon information in our records and that the Selling Shareholders have provided, certain Selling Shareholders have the following relationships among each other:\nWilliam Cohen controls Costar Partners II, LLC.\nBrilliant Start Enterprises, Inc. and Jag International Ltd. are both controlled by the same individual.\nHongwu Zhang is the brother of Hongfei Zhang, who controls Bright Horizon Partners Inc.\nThe Selling Shareholders may have sold or transferred, in transactions exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act, some or all of their shares since the date on which the information in the table is presented. Information about the Selling Shareholders may change over time.\nThe Selling Shareholders may, from time to time, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any or all of their shares of common stock or interests in shares of common stock on any stock exchange, market or trading facility on which the shares are traded or in private transactions. These dispositions may be at fixed prices, at prevailing market prices at the time of sale, at prices related to the prevailing market price, at varying prices determined at the time of sale, or at negotiated prices.\nThe Selling Shareholders may use any one or more of the following methods when disposing of shares or interests therein:\nblock trades in which the broker-dealer will attempt to sell the shares as agent, but may position and resell a portion of the block as principal to facilitate the transaction;\nshort sales effected after the date the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part is declared effective by the SEC;\nthrough the writing or settlement of options or other hedging transactions, whether through an options exchange or otherwise;\nbroker-dealers may agree with the Selling Shareholders to sell a specified number of such shares at a stipulated price per share; and\na combination of any such methods of sale.\nThe Selling Shareholders may, from time to time, pledge or grant a security interest in some or all of the shares of common stock owned by them and, if they default in the performance of their secured obligations, the pledgees or secured parties may offer and sell the shares of common stock, from time to time, under this prospectus, or under an amendment to this prospectus under Rule 424(b)(3) or other applicable provision of the Securities Act amending the list of Selling Shareholders to include the pledgee, transferee or other successors-in-interest as Selling Shareholders under this prospectus. The Selling Shareholders also may transfer the shares of common stock in other circumstances, in which case the transferees, pledgees or other successors-in-interest will be the selling beneficial owners for purposes of this prospectus.\nIn connection with the sale of our common stock or interests therein, the Selling Shareholders may enter into hedging transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions, which may in turn engage in short sales of the common stock in the course of hedging the positions they assume. The Selling Shareholders may also sell shares of our common stock short and deliver these securities to close out their short positions, or loan or pledge the common stock to broker-dealers that in turn may sell these securities. The Selling Shareholders may also enter into option or other transactions with broker-dealers or other financial institutions or the creation of one or more derivative securities which require the delivery to such broker-dealer or other financial institution of shares offered by this prospectus, which shares such broker-dealer or other financial institution may resell pursuant to this prospectus (as supplemented or amended to reflect such transaction).\nThe aggregate proceeds to the Selling Shareholders from the sale of the common stock offered by them will be the purchase price of the common stock less discounts or commissions, if any. Each of the Selling Shareholders reserves the right to accept and, together with their agents from time to time, to reject, in whole or in part, any proposed purchase of common stock to be made directly or through agents. We will not receive any of the proceeds from this offering. Upon any exercise of the warrants by payment of cash, however, we will receive the exercise price of the warrants.\nThe Selling Shareholders also may resell all or a portion of the shares in open market transactions in reliance upon Rule 144 under the Securities Act, provided that they meet the criteria and conform to the requirements of that Rule.\nThe Selling Shareholders and any underwriters, broker-dealers or agents that participate in the sale of the common stock or interests therein may be \u201cunderwriters\u201d within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act. Any discounts, commissions, concessions or profit they earn on any resale of the shares may be underwriting discounts and commissions under the Securities Act. Selling Shareholders who are \u201cunderwriters\u201d within the meaning of Section 2(11) of the Securities Act will be subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act.\nTo the extent required, the shares of our common stock to be sold, the names of the Selling Shareholders, the respective purchase prices and public offering prices, the names of any agent, dealer or underwriter, or any applicable commissions or discounts with respect to a particular offer will be set forth in an accompanying prospectus supplement or, if appropriate, a post-effective amendment to the registration statement that includes this prospectus.\nIn order to comply with the securities laws of some states, if applicable, the common stock may be sold in these jurisdictions only through registered or licensed brokers or dealers.\nThe Selling Shareholders and any other person participating in such distribution will be subject to applicable provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, including, without limitation, to the extent applicable, Regulation M of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which may limit the timing of purchases and sales of any of the shares of common stock by the selling security holders and any other participating person. To the extent applicable, Regulation M may also restrict the ability of any person engaged in the distribution of the shares of common stock to engage in market-making activities with respect to the shares of common stock. All of the foregoing may affect the marketability of the shares of common stock and the ability of any person or entity to engage in market-making activities with respect to the shares of common stock.\nWe will indemnify the Selling Shareholders against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act and state securities laws, relating to the registration of the shares offered by this prospectus. The Selling Shareholders may agree to indemnify any agent, dealer, or broker-dealer that participates in transactions involving sales of the shares if liabilities are imposed on that person by the Securities Act.\nWe will bear all expenses of the registration of the shares of common stock covered by this prospectus.\nOnce sold under the shelf registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, the shares of common stock will be freely tradable in the hands of persons other than our affiliates.\nThe following summary of certain provisions of our securities does not purport to be complete. You should refer to our certificate of incorporation and our bylaws, both of which are filed or incorporated by reference as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. The summary below is also qualified by provisions of applicable law.\nGeneral. The Company is authorized to issue 150,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, and 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock, par value $0.0001 per share. As of December 11, 2013, there were 51,352,799 shares of common stock outstanding held by 118 shareholders of record, and no shares of preferred stock outstanding. All shares of common stock outstanding are fully paid and nonassessable. As of December 11, 2013, approximately 10.4 million authorized shares of common stock issuable under our incentive stock plans and stock purchase plan, including options to purchase 2,851,226 shares of our common stock, of which options to purchase 1,922,780 shares were exercisable. In addition, 26,717,393 shares may be issued upon conversion of convertible subordinated notes and 11,050,000 shares may be issued upon exercise of warrants, in each case as of December 11, 2013.\nVoting. Holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share on all matters to be voted upon by shareholders. In accordance with Delaware law, the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares represented and voting at a duly held meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the shareholders. The shares of common stock have no pre-emptive rights, no redemption or sinking fund provisions, and are not liable for further call or assessment.\nDividends. The holders of common stock are entitled to receive dividends when and as declared by our Board of Directors out of funds legally available for dividends. We have not declared or paid any cash dividends and we do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future.\nLiquidation. Upon a liquidation of the Company, our creditors and holders of our preferred stock with preferential liquidation rights will be paid before any distribution to holders of our common stock. The holders of common stock would be entitled to receive a pro rata distribution per share of any excess amount.\nPreferred Stock. Our certificate of incorporation empowers our Board of Directors to issue up to 2,000,000 shares of preferred stock from time to time in one or more series. Our Board of Directors may fix the designation, privileges, preferences and rights and the qualifications, limitations and restrictions of those shares, including dividend rights, conversion rights, voting rights, redemption rights, terms of sinking funds, liquidation preferences and the number of shares constituting any additional series or the designation of the series. Terms selected could decrease the amount of earnings and assets available for distribution to holders of our common stock or adversely affect the rights and power, including voting rights, of the holders of our common stock without any further vote or action by the shareholders. The rights of holders of common stock will be subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of any preferred stock that may be issued by us in the future. The issuance of preferred stock could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change in control of us or make removal of management more difficult. Additionally, the issuance of preferred stock may have the effect of decreasing the market price of our common stock, and may adversely affect the voting and other rights of the holders of common stock. Our Board of Directors has designated 100,000 shares of our preferred stock as Series A Participating Preferred Stock.\nAntitakeover Effects of Our Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws. Our certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain certain provisions that are intended to enhance the likelihood of continuity and stability in the composition of our Board of Directors and that may have the effect of delaying, deferring or preventing a future takeover or change in control of the Company unless that takeover or change in control is approved by our Board of Directors.\nAction by Written Consent. Our bylaws provide that shareholder action can be taken only at an annual or special meeting of shareholders and cannot be taken by written consent in lieu of a meeting.\nAdvance Notice Procedures. Our bylaws establish an advance notice procedure for shareholder proposals to be brought before an annual meeting of our shareholders, including proposed nominations of persons for election to the Board of Directors. Shareholders at an annual meeting are only able to consider proposals or nominations specified in the notice of meeting or brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or by a shareholder who was a shareholder of record on the record date for the meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who has given our Secretary timely written notice, in accordance with our bylaws, of the shareholder\u2019s intention to bring that business before the meeting. Although the bylaws do not give the Board of Directors the power to approve or disapprove shareholder nominations of candidates or proposals regarding other business to be conducted at a special or annual meeting, the bylaws may have the effect of precluding the conduct of certain business at a meeting if the proper procedures are not followed or may discourage or deter a potential acquiror from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect its own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of the Company.\nAuthorized but Unissued Shares. Our authorized but unissued shares of common stock and preferred stock are available for future issuance without shareholder approval. These additional shares may be utilized for a variety of corporate purposes, including future public offerings to raise additional capital, corporate acquisitions and employee benefit plans. The existence of authorized but unissued shares of common stock and preferred stock could render more difficult or discourage an attempt to obtain control of a majority of our common stock by means of a proxy contest, tender offer, merger or otherwise.\nLimitations on Liability and Indemnification of Officers and Directors. Our certificate of incorporation limits the liability of our directors to the fullest extent permitted by the Delaware General Corporation Law, and our bylaws provide that we will indemnify them to the fullest extent permitted by such law. In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with certain of our officers, directors and key employees.\nTransfer Agent and Registrar. The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is Computershare Shareowner Services, LLC, 480 Washington Boulevard, 29th Floor, Jersey City, New Jersey 07012.\nThe validity of the common stock offered in this prospectus has been passed upon for us by Baker & Hostetler LLP, Cleveland, Ohio.\nThe financial statements, as of and for the year ended December 31, 2012 incorporated by reference in this prospectus and Registration Statement have been audited by Plante & Moran, PLLC, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report incorporated herein by reference, and are incorporated in reliance upon such report and upon the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.\nThis prospectus is part of a registration statement on Form S-1 that we filed with the SEC. This prospectus does not contain all of the information included in the registration statement. For further information about us and our securities, you should refer to the registration statement and the exhibits filed with the registration statement.\nWe are subject to the information requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and file annual, quarterly and current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You can read our SEC filings, including the registration statement, over the internet at the SEC\u2019s website at www.sec.gov or through our website at www.efoi.com. Information contained on our website is not considered to be a part of, nor incorporated by reference in, this prospectus. You may also read and copy any document we file with the SEC at its Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20549.\nYou may also obtain copies of the documents at prescribed rates by writing to the Public Reference Room of the SEC at 100 F Street, NE, Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the Public Reference Room.\nThe SEC allows us to \u201cincorporate by reference\u201d the information that we file with it, which means that we can disclose important information to you by referring you to those documents. The information incorporated by reference is considered to be an important part of this prospectus. We incorporate by reference the documents listed below that we have filed with the SEC under Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14, or 15(d) of the Security Exchange Act of 1934 (other than information \u201cfurnished\u201d rather than \u201cfiled\u201d):\nOur annual report on Form 10-K for our fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, filed with the SEC on March 27, 2013, and Amendment No. 1 to that annual report on Form 10-K/A, filed with the SEC on April 24, 2013 (SEC File No. 000-24230).\nOur quarterly reports on Form 10-Q for our fiscal quarters ended March 31, 2013, June 30, 2013, and September 30, 2013 filed with the SEC on May 15, 2013, August 13, 2013 and November 13, 2013, respectively (SEC File No. 000-24230).\nOur current reports on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on March 12, 2013, May 3, 2013, May 23, 2013, June 10, 2013, June 21, 2013, July 3, 2013, July 12, 2013, October 1, 2013, November 26, 2013 and November 27, 2013 (SEC File No. 000-24230).\nOur definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for our annual meeting of shareholders, filed with the SEC on August 16, 2013 (SEC File No. 000-24230).\nYou may request a copy of these filings, at no cost, by writing or telephoning us at the following address: Energy Focus, Inc., 32000 Aurora Road, Solon, Ohio 44139; telephone number 440.715.1300.\nYou should rely only on the information incorporated by reference or provided in this prospectus or any supplement. We have not authorized anyone else to provide you with different information. We will not make offers to sell these shares in any state where the offer is not permitted. You should not assume that the information in this prospectus or any supplement is accurate as of any date other that the date on the front of those documents.\n_______, 2013\nThe following table sets forth the costs and expenses payable by us in connection with the preparation and filing of this registration statement. All amounts are estimates subject to future contingencies except the SEC registration statement filing fee.\nSEC Filing Fee\nWe are incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware. Section 145 (\u201cSection 145\u201d) of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, as the same exists or may hereafter be amended (the \u201cGeneral Corporation Law\u201d), among other things, provides that a Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who were, are or are threatened to be made, parties to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of such corporation), by reason of the fact that such person is or was an officer, director, employee or agent of such corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys\u2019 fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation\u2019s best interests and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe that his conduct was illegal. A Delaware corporation may indemnify any persons who are, were or are threatened to be made, a party to any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the corporation by reasons of the fact that such person was a director, officer, employee or agent of such corporation or enterprise. The indemnity may include expenses (including attorneys\u2019 fees) actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defense or settlement of such action or suit, provided such person acted in good faith and in a manner he reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the corporation\u2019s best interests, provided that no indemnification is permitted without approval of the Court of Chancery or the court in which such suit is brought if the officer, director, employee or agent is adjudged to be liable to the corporation. Where an officer, director, employee or agent is successful on the merits or otherwise in the defense of any action referred to above, the corporation must indemnify him against the expenses which such officer or director has actually and reasonably incurred.\nSection 145 further authorizes a corporation to purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the corporation, or is or was serving at the request of the corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or enterprise, against any liability asserted against him and incurred by him in any such capacity, arising out of his status as such, whether or not the corporation would otherwise have the power to indemnify him under Section 145.\nSection 102 of the General Corporation Law permits a corporation to eliminate the personal liability of directors of a corporation to the corporation or its shareholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached his duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock repurchase in violation of Delaware corporate law or obtained an improper personal benefit.\nArticle XI and Article XII of our certificate of incorporation (the \u201cCertificate\u201d) provides that the liability of our officers and directors shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent authorized or permitted by the General Corporation Law. Under the General Corporation Law, the directors have a fiduciary duty to us which is not eliminated by these provisions of the Certificate and, in appropriate circumstances, equitable remedies such as injunctive or other forms of non-monetary relief will remain available to us. These provisions also do not affect the directors\u2019 responsibilities under any other laws, such as the federal securities laws or state or federal environmental laws.\nArticle VI of our bylaws provides that we shall indemnify any person who was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceedings, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by us or in our right), by reason of the fact that such person is or was a director or officer of us, or is or was a director or officer of us serving at our request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against expenses (including attorneys\u2019 fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonable incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding.\nArticle VI of our bylaws further provides that in the event a director or officer has to bring suit against us for indemnification and is successful, we will pay such director\u2019s or officer\u2019s expenses of prosecuting such claim; that indemnification provided for by the bylaws shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which the indemnified party may be entitled; and that we may purchase and maintain insurance on behalf of a director or officer against any liability asserted such officer or director and incurred by such officer or director in such capacity, whether or not we would have the power to indemnify such director or office against such expense or liability under the General Corporation Law.\nLiability Insurance and Indemnification Agreements\nOur directors and officers are covered under directors\u2019 and officers\u2019 liability insurance policies maintained by us, insuring such persons against various liabilities. In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with certain of our officers, directors and key employees.\nOn August 11, 2011, the Company entered into a Letter of Credit Agreement (\u201cLOC\u201d) with Mark Plush, the Company\u2019s former Chief Financial Officer, for $250,000. The LOC had a term of 24 months and interest rate of 12.5% on the face amount. The LOC was collateralized by an assignment of proceeds of the cash collateral on deposit with the surety related to the Company\u2019s bonding program. The LOC was subordinated to the senior indebtedness of the Company. On July 3, 2013, the LOC was paid in full. As an incentive to enter into the LOC, the Company issued to Mr. Plush a five-year detached warrant to purchase 125,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share. The LOC was paid in full on July 3, 2013.\nThe Company did not register the offering and issuance of the warrant, or of the underlying shares of common stock, under the Securities Act in reliance upon the exemption from registration under the Act in Section 4(2) of the Act. The purchaser of the warrants was an accredited investor under Regulation D. He consented to the placement of a restriction on transfer of his warrant. The Company registered the resale of the shares covered by Mr. Plush\u2019s warrant under the Company\u2019s Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-183058, which was first filed on August 3, 2012, as amended, and is updated by the prospectus contained in this registration statement.\n2012 Private Placement\nBetween February 29, 2012 and March 2, 2012, the Company raised $4.9 million in a private placement by selling 19.6 million units to ten investors, which each unit consisting of one share of common stock and one-half warrant to purchase one share of common stock. The purchase price of each unit was $0.25. Each warrant entitles the holder to purchase one share of common stock at an exercise price of $0.54. Each warrant immediately separated from the unit and immediately was exercisable, and expires three years from the date of issuance.\nThe offering and issuance of the common shares and warrants was not registered under the Securities Act and were conducted in reliance upon the exemptions from the registration requirements of the Act in Section 4(2) of the Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D. To make the exemptions available, the Company relied upon the fact that its offer was made without any form of general solicitation and upon the representations of each investor that the investor was an accredited investor, that the investor had full access to information about the Company, and that the investor was acquiring the securities as principal for the investor\u2019s own account and not with a view to or for distributing or re-selling the securities. In addition, the Company relied upon the consent of each investor to the placement of a restriction on transfer on the investor\u2019s shares and warrants. The Company registered the resale of the shares sold and of the shares covered by the warrants in 2012 under the Company\u2019s Registration Statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-183058, which was first filed on August 3, 2012, as amended, and is updated by the prospectus contained in this registration statement.\n2012 Note Issuance and 2013 Private Placement\nOn December 13, 2012, the Company raised $1.5 million in a private placement by selling this aggregate principal amount of 5% subordinated convertible notes. The notes mature on December 31, 2015, have a five percent annual interest rate, and are convertible into common stock of the Company at the rate of $0.23 per share.\nBetween January 31, 2013 and October 10, 2013, the Company sold an additional $6.145 million in aggregate principal amount of 5% subordinated convertible notes to 10 investors, including two who also purchased notes in December 2012, pursuant to a Note Purchase Agreement with each investor. Like the December 2012 notes, the notes have a five percent annual interest rate and are convertible into common stock of the Company at the rate of $0.23 per share; however, the 2013 notes mature on December 31, 2016. During the second and fourth quarters of 2013, one investor converted $1,500,000 in aggregate principal amount of notes into 6,521,739 shares of common stock.\nThe offering and issuance of the notes were not registered under the Securities Act and occurred in reliance upon the exemptions from the registration requirements of the Act in Section 4(2) of the Act and Rule 506 of Regulation D. To make the exemptions available, the Company relied upon the fact that its offer was made without any form of general solicitation and upon the representations of each investor that the investor was an accredited investor, that the investor had full access to information about the Company, and that the investor was acquiring the securities as principal for the investor\u2019s own account and not with a view to or for distributing or re-selling the securities. In addition, the Company relied upon the consent of each investor to the placement of a restriction on transfer on the investor\u2019s notes and the shares of common stock issuable upon the conversion of the notes. The Company is registering the resale of the shares issuable upon conversion of the notes under this registration statement.\nAsset Purchase Agreement, dated November 25, 2013, by and between Energy Focus, Inc. and S.R. Smith, LLC.\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.01 to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 26, 2013.\nCertificate of Incorporation of the Registrant\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant\u2019s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on November 13, 2013.\nCertificate of Designation of Series A Participating Preferred Stock of the Registrant\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 27, 2006.\nBylaws of the Registrant\nIncorporated by reference to Appendix C to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 27, 2006.\nCertificate of Ownership and Merger, Merging Energy Focus, Inc., a Delaware corporation, into Fiberstars, Inc., a Delaware Corporation\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Registrant\u2019s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on May 10, 2007.\nForm of Common Stock Certificate\nAgreement and Plan of Merger between Fiberstars, Inc., a California corporation, and Fiberstars, Inc., a Delaware corporation\nIncorporated by reference to Appendix C to the Registrant\u2019s Definitive Proxy Statement filed on May 1, 2006.\nForm of Common Stock Purchase Warrant for the purchase of shares of common stock\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.9 to the Registrant\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 31, 2010.\nForm of Common Stock Purchase Warrant for the purchase of shares of common stock dated as of February 27, 2012\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.11 to the Registrant\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 30, 2012.\nOpinion of Baker & Hostetler LLP\nTo be filed by amendment.\n1994 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, amended as of May 8, 2012\nIncorporated by reference to Appendix A to the Registrant\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement on Form PRER14A filed on June 8, 2012.\nForm of Agreement between the Registrant and independent sales representatives\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to the Registrant\u2019s Registration Statement on Form SB-2 (Commission File No. 33-79116-LA).\nForm of Indemnification Agreement for officers of the Registrant\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.42 to the Registrant\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 30, 2004.\nForm of Indemnification Agreement for directors of the Registrant\nProduction Share Agreement dated October 9, 2003 among the Registrant, North American Production Sharing, Inc. and Industrias Unidas de B.C., S.A. de C.V.\nFirst Amendment to Production Share Agreement, effective as of August 17, 2005, among the Registrant, North American Production Sharing, Inc., and Industrias Unidas de B.C., S.A. de C.V.\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 10-K filed on October 25, 2005.\nModification to Sublease between the Registrant and Keystone Ruby, LLC.\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant\u2019s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed on August 11, 2006.\nForm of Indemnification Agreement for directors and officers of the Registrant\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.31 of the Registrant\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 16, 2007.\nForm of Securities Purchase Agreement dated as of March 14, 2008\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 1.1 to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 19, 2008.\n1994 Stock Option Plan, amended as of May 24, 2000\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant\u2019s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Commission File No. 333-52042) filed on December 18, 2000.\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant\u2019s Registration Statement on Form S-8 (Commission File No. 333-122-686) filed on February 10, 2005.\nMember Interest Purchase Agreement among the Registrant and TLC Investments, LLC, Jamie Hall, and Robert E. Wilson dated December 31, 2009\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.40 to Registrant\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 31, 2010.\nConvertible Promissory Note from the Registrant to TLC Investments, LLC, Jamie Hall, and Robert E. Wilson dated December 31, 2009\nWarrant Acquisition Agreement between Registrant and Woodstone Energy, LLC dated December 31, 2009\nForm of Bonding Support Agreement dated as of December 29, 2009\nForm of Warrant Acquisition for bonding support dated as of December 29, 2009\nForm of Agreement of Confidentiality and Non-Competition for employees including officers\nPurchase Agreement between Registrant and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC dated March 17, 2010\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 19, 2010.\nRegistration Rights Amendment between Registrant and Lincoln Park Capital Fund, LLC dated March 17, 2010\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 19, 2010\nNote Purchase Agreement between Registrant and EF Energy Partners LLC dated March 30, 2010\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.48 to the Registrant\u2019s Annual Report on Form 8-K filed on March 31, 2010.\nSecured Subordinated Promissory Note from the Registrant to EF Energy Partners LLC dated March 30, 2010\nWarrant Acquisition Agreement among the Registrant and the investors named therein dated March 30, 2010\nForm of Management Continuity Agreement for Executive Officers\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10 to the Registrant\u2019s Quarterly on Form 10-Q filed on May 13, 2010.\n2008 Incentive Stock Plan (as amended November 19, 2008, February 25, 2010, and May 6, 2012)\nIncorporated by reference to Appendix B to the Registrant\u2019s Preliminary Proxy Statement on Form PRER14A filed on June 8, 2012.\nForm of Notice of Stock Option Grant for 2008 Incentive Stock Plan\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Registrant\u2019s Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed on September 8, 2010.\nModification to Sublease between Registrant and Keystone Ruby, LLC and Cognovit Promissory Note as of September 1, 2010\nFinancing Agreement between the Registrant and Rosenthal & Rosenthal, Inc. dated December 22, 2011\nForm of Securities Purchase Agreement between the Registrant and investors dated as of February 27, 2012\nCollaboration Agreement between the Registrant and Communal International Ltd. Dated as of February 27, 2012\nFirst Amendment to Collaboration Agreement between the Registrant and Communal International Ltd., dated as of January 1, 2013\nFiled as Exhibit 10.26 on Form 10-K filed on March 27, 2013.\nContinuity Agreement dated December 30, 2009 between the Registrant and Joseph G. Kaveski\nFiled as Exhibit 99.1 to the Registrant's Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 13, 2012.\nFirst Amendment dated December 7, 2012 to the Continuity Agreement between the Company and Joseph G. Kaveski\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.2 to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on December 13, 2012.\nForm of Convertible Subordinated Note\nForm of Note Purchase Agreement\nSettlement Agreement between the Registrant, Stones River Companies, LLC, TLC Investments, LLC, Jami Hall, and Robert E. Wilson dated June 28, 2013\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.5 to the Registrant\u2019s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on July 3, 2013.\nEnergy Focus, Inc. 2013 Employee Stock Purchase Plan\nIncorporated by reference from Appendix A to the Registrant\u2019s Definitive Proxy Statement on Form DEF14A filed on August 6, 2013\nAmended Form of Notice of Stock Option Grant for 2008 Stock Incentive Plan\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Registrant\u2019s Quarter Report on Form 10-K filed on November 13, 2013.\nIncorporated by reference to Exhibit 21.1 to the Registrant\u2019s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 30, 2012.\nConsent of Plante & Moran, PLLC, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm\nConsent of Baker & Hostetler LLP (to be contained in Exhibit 5.1)\nPower of Attorney (included in the Signature Pages to this Registration Statement\n*Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.\na. The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes:\n(i) To include any prospectus required by Section 10(a)(3) of the Securities Act of 1933;\n(ii) To reflect in the prospectus any facts or events arising after the effective date of the registration statement (or the most recent post-effective amendment thereof) which, individually or in the aggregate, represent a fundamental change in the information set forth in the registration statement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, any increase or decrease in volume of securities offered (if the total dollar value of securities offered would not exceed that which was registered) and any deviation from the low or high end of the estimated maximum offering range may be reflected in the form of prospectus filed with the Commission pursuant to Rule 424(b) if, in the aggregate, the changes in volume and price represent no more than 20% change in the maximum aggregate offering price set forth in the \u201cCalculation of Registration Fee\u201d table in the effective registration statement; and\n4. If the registrant is subject to Rule 430C, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.\nb. Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.\nPursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Solon, State of Ohio, on the 16th day of December, 2013.\n/s/ James Tu\nExecutive Chairman of the Board and Chief\nKNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints James Tu and Frank Lamanna and each of them, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, each with full power of substitution and re-substitution, for him and in his name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments, including post-effective amendments, to this registration statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents, or his substitute or substitutes, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.\nPursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities indicated on December 16, 2013.\n/s/James Tu\nExecutive Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer (Principal Executive Officer)\n/s/Frank Lamanna\nChief Financial Officer and Secretary (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)\nFrank Lamanna\n/s/Jennifer Cheng\n/s/Simon Cheng\n/s/John M. 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The Tigers got out to a 10 point lead midway through the first half for their largest lead of the game but the Chargers fought back to take a 39-27 into the half. The Chargers went on huge run midway through the second half to lead by as many as 23 points and held on for the win.\" Chris Wright really makes our offense go and tonight he played really well with his double-double. The Chargers were led by Khalyl Waters 21 points, 10 rebounds, Derrick Cook had 14 points and 6 assists, and Chris Wright had a double-double with 11 points, 10 rebounds, and 6 steals, and Dominic Ham had 11 points.\nThe Chargers 19-4, 7-2 ion conference play return to action on Saturday at home versus South Georgia Tech, tip off 4:00pm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://giftofthegivers.org/projects/education-support/6489-16-01-2017-mvelaphanda-primary-school", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:25Z", "digest": "sha1:RARERBYZ5V6TBJVFWUNZUC2HIXVJGE27", "length": 291, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "giftofthegivers.org", "title": "16/01/2017 - Mvelaphanda Primary School - Gift of the Givers Foundation", "raw_content": "16/01/2017 - Mvelaphanda Primary School\nEducation is the basis of the success of a nation. Gift of the Givers and Kaya FM joined forces and made a donation of stationery, text books, school shoes, hygiene packs, hot dogs, juice and hot chocolate to the Mvelaphanda Primary School in Tembisa.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 253.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/cahfsa-launches-logo-design-competition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:46Z", "digest": "sha1:NWHZRUMEI5WLUL5RLMQ3FMMRB5BINFKS", "length": 1900, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "gisbarbados.gov.bb", "title": "CAHFSA Launches Logo Design Competition | GIS", "raw_content": "CAHFSA Launches Logo Design Competition\nMembers of the public are invited to put their talents to the test by entering the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency???s (CAHFSA) logo competition.\nThe competition, funded under the 10th European Development Fund Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary Project, is open to residents of all CARIFORUM Member States.\nThe logo should utilise the colours dark blue, light blue, green or yellow.\nIt should be original, not previously published, and must not include any material, including a photograph, icon or symbol, that is copyright protected.??The logo must be able to be reproduced in electronic and print media, must remain legible when its size is reduced, and should be visually effective in colour and grayscale.\nElectronic and hard copy entries (size 8 ????? x 11???), along with completed entry forms, should be submitted by email to cahfsalogocompetition@gmail.com or the office of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, 3rd Floor, Baobab Tower, Warrens, St. Michael, on or before Monday, August 17.\nThe individual who submits the winning entry will receive a certificate, an invitation to the official logo launch with complimentary airfare and accommodations, artistic credit for their design, and the opportunity to be featured on the CAHFSA website.??CAHFSA is an intergovernmental agency established by the signing of an agreement among CARICOM Member States.\nIts primary goal is to assist these States to coordinate and strengthen their infrastructure and institutional and human resource capacity, so as to effectively deliver agricultural goods that meet international health and food safety standards, in order to safeguard human health.??In addition, the agency works to prevent the introduction, or minimise the incidence of transmission, of agricultural pests across national borders.\nAuthor: CAHFSA/Aisha Reid", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 180, "original_length": 5387, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://goliveitblog.com/category/local-favourites/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:33Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7GL7ABFIIPCSJR62L5NBZ5DG4EMOFFG", "length": 285, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "goliveitblog.com", "title": "Discover the secret Gems with our Local Favourites | Go Live It", "raw_content": "If you\u2019re heading off to Italy this year, one of the places you don\u2019t want to miss is Florence. It\u2019s a beautiful city with plenty to offer tourists, especially those who are looking for something more than just a place to take some incredible photos. 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The Wu-Tang Clan released Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), launching one of the greatest empires in the history of music and forever pushing the axis of hip-hop toward a stranger, darker, and indubitably better place. To commemorate the occasion, we called up RZA to briefly talk about the past, the future, and just what the hell is going on with the new Wu album.\nLast year you told the New York Times there\u2019s \u201cone last job Wu-Tang Clan must do. The 20th anniversary is next year. And we need to, one time, completely, efficiently, properly represent our brand.\u201d So how\u2019s it going?\nA lot of us are picking up on it, but there are a few of us who are late to the table. I\u2019m still pushing forward full-strength, till my energy run out. The dream was to have it come out this week. It should have came out on our anniversary date. But what I feel spiritually is that that day is gonna trigger a change. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s gonna trigger a change in everybody but it\u2019s definitely gonna trigger a change in me. I\u2019ve been really refocusing the last few days, refocusing my energy on the legacy of what we created, and what\u2019s gonna come in the future, [in order] to uphold what we said, to uphold what it meant to us and to uphold what it meant to the fans. Is that gonna be in the format of making albums and songs? Is that gonna be in the format of writing books or performing on TV or film? And whatever the format that it leads to, I\u2019m gonna live out the legacy of Wu-Tang forever.\nA lot of fans are probably hoping that everyone in the Wu falls in line behind you, the way it all happened in the beginning. But is that realistic at this point?\nWell, I think if I was one of the other members, if I wasn\u2019t RZA, I would fall in line. Because it worked! It ain\u2019t work one time. It worked multiple times. It worked more than it failed. The batting average is good. And at the same time, I\u2019m not so egotistically conceited whereas I\u2019m not gonna fall in line if someone else came with a great plan. And that\u2019s where I feel a little remorse as this day is approaching. It\u2019s like, wow, I kept trying to pull people together. I spent a lot of money and a lot of time this year. I put my movie career on hold for the first half of the year because I was focusing on making this. I went down to Memphis, I went down to Philadelphia, I came back to the East Coast to reopen the Wu Mansion [RZA\u2019s old house in New Jersey, where a bulk of post\u201336 Chambers material was recorded]. I invested thousands of dollars to rebuild it so that we can have a place to record a new album. And when I scheduled that to happen, only a few good brothers showed up.\nAnd one of the guys who showed up the most was Method Man. He showed the most tenacity, he was the most vocal, he showed up the most, and he got the most lyrics on the new album. He\u2019s already recorded eight or nine songs. He\u2019s been on it. You know, I give Cappadonna credit, he\u2019s been really on it. U-God has been present. Masta Killa be representing. Inspectah Deck has been somewhat present. Ghost has been, you know, 20 percent present. And Raekwon hasn\u2019t shown up at all. When you look at somebody like Masta Killa and U-God, they seem to have that original hunger to complete the legacy. I respect that everybody [is] busy with they own lives. I started with a plan that I thought would work. Now maybe my plan not working.\nDo you ever say anything like, \u201cRemember the first five years? When you guys stayed in the fold and we made multiple, multiple classics?\u201d\nI do try to throw that back and shit. But I\u2019m dealing with masters. We all agree, me, you, and the rest of the world, that these guys are great by themselves any fucking way. But they are greater when we come together! I\u2019m doing a lot of things. I\u2019m making a good living for my family. I\u2019m putting out at least a B-plus class artistic expression. Some A-minuses in there. A lot of good work, a little bit of great work. But when I was with the crew, I was doing great work. You become immortalized off of great work. I say, \u201cYo, Ghost, you been doing good work. Ten albums! But if you look at the history, your only platinum ones are the ones I produced.\u201d Same thing to Raekwon, same thing to Method Man, same thing to GZA. Even myself. I got gold albums by myself but I got platinum with Wu-Tang. Whatever element that we bring together, that\u2019s more powerful than the element of us being apart. We come together, we make platinum, G. That\u2019s the true fucking reward for our top talent. And I say that to the guys. I don\u2019t know who hears me.\nSo, how are you feeling about it right now?\nI got optimism off the summer tour we did in Europe. It was so healthy. We got a lot of time on the bus to talk, to argue, to laugh, to hug, to see fans loving us. And to see the potential of what we can do. To see the potential of the legacy of what we did. We got a lot of work done [recording in Europe]. I feel like we have enough material on the album. I just need Raekwon to come onboard fully. I need some more energy from Ghost and GZA. If they give that energy, I will give us a great last album. If they don\u2019t give us the energy, I gotta figure out a plan B.\nFiled Under: Amos Barshad, Ghostface Killah, Music, Wu-Tang Clan\nMore Amos Barshad\nDavid Lagercrantz on Writing for Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Continuing Stieg Larsson\u2019s \u2018Millennium\u2019 Series September 24, 2015\n\u2018Grantland Pop Culture Podcast\u2019: Adam Scott on \u2018The Overnight\u2019 and More June 23, 2015\nSophomore Sensations: Our Favorite Second Rap Albums May 28, 2015\n\u2018Grantland Pop Culture\u2019 Podcast: Ethan Hawke and Andrew Niccol May 19, 2015\nBoxing Movies Shootaround: Our Favorite Films About the Sweet Science May 1, 2015\nSee all Amos Barshad\nShould You See It? A Curious Consumer's Decision-Making Guide to Thor: The Dark World\nEnter the Wu-Tang, 20 Years Later: Who Ya Got?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 7967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://graphica.com.np/creative-designs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:59Z", "digest": "sha1:BFLPUNOCKBBB4YFWC7DOUDPUVKPKDY2F", "length": 403, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "graphica.com.np", "title": "creative designs \u2013 graphica International", "raw_content": "What ever you need logo, banner, calender, flyers, buisness card or even more\u2026 weDesign that delivers on ideas, on time and on budget. Make an outstanding difference to your business, product or service with Creative Design. With over 15 years experience in creative marketing solutions for a wide range of clients. You\u2019ll find Creative Design flexible, affordable and will deliver on service, on time \u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 317.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2019/submissions/cfp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:14Z", "digest": "sha1:2UAWQ4LJCXVMD7YH5AQDVB37O7PMFKKI", "length": 3270, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "graphicsinterface.org", "title": "Call for Papers \u2013 Graphics Interface 2018", "raw_content": "Conference 28 - 31, May | Kingston, Canada\nGraphics Interface (GI) 2019, the 45th annual conference, will be held at Queens\u2019 University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada from May 28 \u2013 31, 2019. GI is the longest running conference in the field, consistently attracting high-quality submissions on recent advances in computer graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), and visualization. All accepted GI papers will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library and will be open access in the Graphics Interface archive. The Michael A. J. Sweeney Award will be awarded at the conference to the best student papers in graphics and HCI. Authors of top papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions to the journals IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) and Computers & Graphics.\nhttps://new.precisionconference.com/gi\nGI 2019 will be held in conjunction with Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of AI/GI/CRV 2019. A single registration provides access to all keynotes, invited and paper talks, as well as the common poster/demo session for the three conferences.\nGI 2019 consists of both Graphics and HCI tracks, along with several joint sessions. We seek submissions covering all aspects of graphics, HCI, as well as visualization. Authors must request that their submissions be handled by either the Graphics or HCI sub-committee. In cases where significant overlap exists, a submission may be reviewed by members of both sub-committees. All paper submissions are fully peer reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Papers normally have a maximum length of eight pages.\nOtmar Hilliges (ETH Zurich)\nWolfgang Stuerzlinger (Simon Fraser University)\nInvited Speaker Series Talks\nDuygu Ceylan (Adobe Research)\nSimon Clavet (Ubisoft Montreal)\nAudrey Girouard (Carleton University)\nDavid Levin (University of Toronto)\nLennart Nacke (University of Waterloo)\nMatthew O\u2019Toole (Carnegie Mellon University)\nStacey Scott (University of Guelph)\nIn addition, talks will be given by the winners of the 2019 CHCCS Achievement Award and the 2018 Bill Buxton and Alain Fournier Ph.D. Dissertation awards.\nPaper Deadline: Saturday, December 22, 2018, 11:59 pm EST\nAuthor Notification: Monday, March 4th, 2019\nCamera-Ready Deadline: Monday, March 18th, 2019, 11:59 pm EST\nSubmissions should use the format shown in the conference template. Submissions should be converted to PDF and uploaded to the Precision Conference system at https://new.precisionconference.com/gi. 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In fact, even with today's far more advanced construction equipment, it would be impossible to match the precision with which the ancient builders built the imposing structures of the Parthenon in just eight years!\nThe Stones of the Parthenon is a riveting investigation of the technological achievements of the ancient Greeks. This highly readable account explains how an 11-ton Doric column capital was quarried and transported to Athens. The author's intricate line drawings clearly illustrate the methods and tools employed in the accomplishment of this feat of ancient craftsmanship.\nTranslator: D. 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I want to know more about story and how it has been used in visual art to communicate ideas. I would also like to learn more about the pictorial mechanics of telling stories and the science behind it.\"\nSean, I think this is an important question. I wish there was more written about this, and I think it's a fertile field for study. Most of what's been written about the topic by art historians so far has been dismissive and short-sighted, usually by people who don't really create storytelling pictures.\nYou asked about pictorial mechanics. The best practical resources I've found are these four books:\nRockwell on Rockwell: How I Make a Picture\nFamous Artists Course (Get the editions from the 1950s)\nFramed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers by Marcos Mateu-Mestre\n....and of course it's something I talk about in my own book, Imaginative Realism\nTo understand the science behind how we look at storytelling pictures, I would love to see a researcher combine eyetracking data with fMRI brain scans in real time to see what's going on in the brain as a person begins to decipher a picture. Do the mirror neurons fire when you see a picture of a person doing a certain action? Can you actually see the brain engage on different levels as the visual processing moves from lower to higher levels?\nThomas Cole Voyage of Life: (Childhood, Youth, Manhood, Old Age), 1842\nHere are a few thoughts on the topic. There are some famous series of paintings such as Thomas Cole's \"Voyage of Life\" that tell stories with a beginning, middle, and end, almost like a painted graphic novel. The Catholic church has told many Bible stories sequentially in stained glass windows and altarpieces.\nNorman Rockwell, Breaking Home Ties\nBut let's consider single-image story-paintings, and let's begin with semantics. People often call them \"illustrations.\" But I don't really like that term because it's misleading. Some paintings don't illustrate a text\u2014they can stand entirely on their own, just as a play or a movie would do. In that sense, Rockwell's Post covers aren't illustrations, even though they're some of the finest examples of storytelling pictures.\nAs I mentioned in a post called \"Detective Storytelling,\" I also have difficulty with the term \"narrative art\" because a true narrative requires the presentation of a series of events, revealed in sequence (First A, then B, then C). In a single picture, unlike a graphic novel or an animated film, all the events are telescoped into a single moment. Previous moments or events are implied by clues, and the subsequent moment can only be suggested. We might better describe this kind of art as a \u201cdetective storytelling.\u201d It demands effort from the viewer to find all the clues, and care from the artist to make sure not to clutter the scene with extraneous detail.\n\u2018A Special Pleader\u2019 by Charles Burton Barber\nSeveral books have been written about Victorian Narrative Painting . It's a big subject with a lot of wonderful examples. For example, in this painting by Barber, the dog's characterization shows its conflict of loyalties, and the picture hints at the tantrum the girl threw before she was punished.\nRockwell, Pyle, and N.C. Wyeth talk a lot about the importance of eliminating unnecessary detail, and of choosing the supreme moment to illustrate. Of the three, only Rockwell sat down to write a book about the topic. There are extensive student notes of Pyle's teaching. But they're mostly unpublished, so I'll try to share more on the blog. Also, don't miss the blog by Ian Schoenherr on Howard Pyle. Wyeth's thinking is best revealed in his letters, collected in The Letters of N. C. Wyeth\nIvan Shishkin Wind Fallen Trees, 1888\nAs a final thought, I believe it's possible for a painting to tell a story without human figures at all, as long as the painting implies a series of events that preceded the moment depicted. Shishkin's forest paintings often describe the story of the forest by presenting evidence of past storms and woodcutters.\nDetective Storytelling and Before the Judge (Analyzing two academic paintings).\nThoughts on stories in illustrated books such as Dinotopia.\nEye tracking and composition\nStillness and Action\nLabels: Academic Painters, Golden Age Illustration\nKyle Miller said...\nWhen I think about telling a story with pictures, I always think about Disney animator Marc Davis (https://d23.com/marc-davis/) who had a special knack for creating a \"frozen\" moment in time that was forever on the verge of bursting into life. His best known work are the Disneyland rides such as Pirates of the Caribbean.\nThank you. These articles are very helpful and thought provoking.\nKatt Leeds said...\nThank you for the great article and for the links to all the resources. :)\nRyan Budnick said...\nI've thought about this before when you've posted on the topic, but the joys of piecing together the narrative behind a painting (as described in \"Detective Storytelling\") remind me of the puzzle you get from some single-panel cartoons that don't have a caption - I'm thinking Gary Larson here. Cartoons can set up a strange situation, and require the reader to figure out what happened - often some hilarious reversal of a normal narrative. Cartoonists obviously are trying much harder to guide the readers to reach the conclusion (which is the joke), but you get the same sudden thrill when things fall together.\nThis may not fit but here is a painting I just did that tells a story. Any devotee' of bird hunting/dog training would see this and the title \"Mixed Double\" and begin to figure it out. I added text for newcomers to the sport but it tells a story that can be expanded into multiple scenarios, in my view. James, it this isn't what you had in mind just hit the 'Delete' button. I enjoy your blog to no end! Please get that casein video finished. I am ready to go with it, and my first try at oils, after watercolor work for over 15 years. Thanks.\nOops, I forgot the link! Here 'tis\nhttp://abigbrushwithnature.com/727/\nVery cool application of the \"narrative\" to the Shishkin painting. Something I hadn't really thought of in his work, but perhaps, only sensed it as an \"inner strength\".\nF. Emmanuel Laverde said...\nI really needed this post! Thank you\nShanell Vance said...\nTyler Vance said...\nGreat to see that Gabriel von Max painting! I never heard of him until seeing this painting in person in Germany, and it blew my mind. Everything works, including the narrative.\nThanks Jim! This is awesome and super helpful. I just got the Andrew Loomis book from the Library the other day and have been reading through it. It is quite fantastic.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 394, "original_length": 14834, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://gyandas.com/category/recruitments/other/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:07Z", "digest": "sha1:XO7LICLAQHDUWZLPT4R3BXVY624PBFNV", "length": 165, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gyandas.com", "title": "Other/ Private | GyanDas", "raw_content": "Home Recruitments Other/ Private\nRecruitment in Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) : 2017...\nRecruitment in Air India : 2017 \u2013 400 posts of Female...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 5653, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 199.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hammondmuseumofradio.org/ckpc.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:54Z", "digest": "sha1:N26ZGAFB2764IKZC5ZZG6D3ANILOPNUK", "length": 3417, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "hammondmuseumofradio.org", "title": "CKPC of Preston and now Brantford Ontario", "raw_content": "Photos and text supplied by Pete Byerlay VE3NIX some of which appeared in a 1983 supplement to the Brant News and Nanticoke Times\nCKPC first went on the air in 1923 in the town of Preston when Mr. Wallace Russ and two of his radio \"ham\" friends, Tom Mead of and Charles Bonner of Galt were experimenting with a low-powered radio transmitter. Suddenly the phone rang. It was a neighbour reporting that he could hear the three men talking through his radio receiver. The experimenters were unaware that their voices were being transmitted on the broadcast band, and so CKPC hit the airwaves for the first time. in an unscheduled entrance. The excitement of the occasion led Wallace to apply for a license, and CKPC was granted official permission to operate on a 5 watt frequency. The \"P.C.\" in CKPC stood for \"Preston Canada\". The station began regular broadcasts in 1923, just 3 years after the world's first scheduled broadcast making CKPC one of the oldest stations in Canada.\nThe station was taken over on a full-time basis by Cyrus Dolph a retired Preston manufacturer on Guelph Street in Preston, Ontario who soon realized it was time to increase power to an impressive 50 watts at 930 kilohertz on the dial. Dolph saw the station's future as potentially strong, not in Preston but in Brantford, so in 1933 he moved CKPC to the telephone city where it operated from studios at the comer of Colborne and Queen streets in the \"Arcade\" building, later known variously as the \"Eaton\" building, \"Walkers\" and \"Marks & Spencer\".\nThe new CKPC quickly overtook Brantford's first Amateur Broadcast undertaking operated by Tom Brown using the Amateur Broadcast callsign of 10BQ. 10BQ ran a whopping 15 watts from a pair of 210's modulated with a pair of 205's. Even with the inverted L antenna which was only 50 feet long and 75 feet high, the 125 foot radiator resulted in reception reports from as far away as New Zealand.\nAround 1934 the Canadian Government informed all of the \"10\" prefix Amateur Broadcasters that they must go full Commercial or sign off. 10BQ decided to sign off and slip into history. Click here to view the above early QSL from 10BQ\nBy this time, Cyrus Dolph's daughter, Mrs. F.M. Buchanan had assumed management and the station moved again in 1951 to an elegant old home at 525 Colborne Street at Rawdon. With a 1,000 watt signal having been approved 6 years earlier, CKPC was now being heard over a much wider area. The transmitter now operated from a location on the Cockshut Road then at the edge of Brantford.\n1960 brought another power increase which made CKPC a 10,000 watt voice. In keeping with the station's growth, new studios were constructed at 571 West Street the current - location. It was another milestone in CKPC's development because, for the first time, the station operated out of a building that was designed and built as a broadcasting facility, not just a refurbished house or storefront.\nCKPC can boast listeners not just from Brant county but from around the world. A letter was received from Norway in 1983 accompanied by an audio tape of a broadcast that Geir Stokkeland had recorded as part of his hobby of shortwave listening. You may click the return address image to view more of Geir's letter to the station.\nAnd so. from an accidental beginning in 1923 to its current position of influence, CKPC has grown up with generations of listeners.\nVisit the CKPC Web Site", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 3747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 287.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://happyeconews.com/2019/01/23/15-major-cities-around-the-world-that-are-starting-to-ban-cars/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:17Z", "digest": "sha1:DKUSNIMFTZIKG4OZKWWYHI63MM3ITH2B", "length": 1478, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "happyeconews.com", "title": "15 major cities around the world that are starting to ban cars | Happy Eco News", "raw_content": "15 major cities around the world that are starting to ban cars\nA number of major cities have joined the \"car-free\" movement, which aims to reduce air pollution and improve safety among residents. Most cities that are starting to ban cars are located in Europe, though a few others, such as New York, are making considerable strides. In addition to implementing outright bans, cities have enacted measures to encourage cycling and make public spaces more pedestrian-friendly. As small cities successfully implement plans to ditch their vehicles , many large urban areas are determined to follow in their footsteps. The idea of a car-free city is not without its challenges. Though bikes and public transit are widely available in most cities, cars remain a preferred method of transportation for many urban commuters. Studies have shown that it\u2019s notoriously difficult to change a driver\u2019s commuting habits , even when free public transit is involved. The alternative is high levels of car pollution, which contributes to around 20% of the world\u2019s carbon dioxide emissions . 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It is another matter entirely if an LEA is so unresponsive to your child's needs that school threatens his mental health.\nOur son is six, a beautiful, intelligent, articulate and funny boy. 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CV 2012-11382 - New Mexico Public and Legal Notices | The Health City Sun", "raw_content": "Stephanie garcia-baca\nEnrique Santiago Martinez\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Stephanie garcia-baca, has filed a Petition to Change the Name of her child, from Enrique S. Martinez to Enrique S. Garcia. This Petition will be heard before the Honorable JUDGE ALAN MALOTT, District Judge, on the 09 day of JAN, 2013, at the hour of 11:30 a.m., at the Bernalillo County Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico.\n/s/ Stephanie garcia-baca", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 233, "original_length": 5559, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 251.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://healthcitysun.com/2013/10/no-d202-cv-2013-2932/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:54Z", "digest": "sha1:PFW22RTSGNMCU67XNQXM32MHSBX5YZ23", "length": 744, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "healthcitysun.com", "title": "NO. D202-CV-2013-2932 - New Mexico Public and Legal Notices | The Health City Sun", "raw_content": "Home > County > Bernalillo County > NO. D202-CV-2013-2932\nNO. D202-CV-2013-2932\nShaquoia Waites\n2ND AMENDED NOTICE OF PETITION TO CHANGE NAME\nNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Shaquoia Waites, a resident of the City of Albuquerque, County of Bernalillo, State of New Mexico, and over the age of fourteen years, has filed a Petition to Change Name in the Second Judicial District Court, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, wherein he/she seeks to change her name from Shaquoia Waites to Shaquoia Tanea Monique Waites, and that this Petition will be heard before the Honorable Judge C. Shannon Bacon, District Judge, on the 6th day of November 2013, at the hour of 9:45 a.m., at the Bernalillo County Courthouse, Albuquerque, New Mexico.\n/s/ Shaquoia Waites", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 5739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 301.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://heymancenter.org/people/emily-hainze/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:06Z", "digest": "sha1:O5VLNMJ3AWXBGI5Y4N5QIX6BKEXIHUMF", "length": 1102, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "heymancenter.org", "title": "People | Emily Hainze | The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University", "raw_content": "Emily Hainze\nPhD candidate in English and Comparative Literature\nEmily Hainze is a doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she writes and teaches about 19th- and 20th-century American literature. Her dissertation focuses on women\u2019s incarceration in the United States, exploring how questions of narrative and genre have been shaped by the conceptualization of women\u2019s crime from the late 19th century onward. Prior to her graduate study at Columbia, she investigated police misconduct for the City of New York. She was a recipient of the Mellon CLIR Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources from 2013-14.\nAs a Public Humanities Fellow at the Heyman Center, Emily will work to develop an online repository for digitized archival records of women and imprisonment, with an eye towards classroom use.\nBridging the Gap: Humanities in Action\nTeaching from the Archive of Women\u2019s Incarceration\nEmily Hainze, Public Humanities Fellow at the Heyman Center, 2014-2015\nPublic Humanities Initiative: Teaching from the Archive of Women\u2019s Incarceration", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 3218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 220.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hobnobfolsom.com/folsom-health-beauty/can-your-baby-hear-you-say-i-love-you/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:23Z", "digest": "sha1:RQYWYOLAUU5MJ45GPWGGTD2Q54WYTCHS", "length": 3001, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "hobnobfolsom.com", "title": "Can your baby hear you say \"I love you?\" | HobNob Folsom", "raw_content": "Home > Health & Beauty > Can your baby hear you...\nCan your baby hear you say \u201cI love you?\u201d\nThe best way to find out if your baby may be deaf or hard of hearing is by a hearing screening. Early diagnosis and intervention will help them reach their full potential.\nThousands of babies are born deaf or hard of hearing each year in the United States. Babies diagnosed early with hearing loss and begin intervention early are more likely to reach their full potential. The best way to find out if your baby may be deaf or hard of hearing is by a simple hearing test, also called a hearing screening.\nWhy is a hearing screening important for my baby?\nStarting from day 1, babies begin to learn language skills by listening to and interacting with those around them. If babies miss these opportunities, their language development can be delayed. Many times, children\u2019s hearing loss is not obvious and can go unnoticed for months or even years.\nHearing screening at birth can determine if your baby may have a hearing loss and if more tests are needed. An early diagnosis is essential to help babies who are deaf or hard of hearing reach their full potential, and allows families to make decisions about the intervention services that are best for their baby\u2019s needs. Early diagnosis of hearing loss and beginning intervention helps to keep children\u2019s development on track and improve their future language and social development.\nYour baby probably had a hearing screening\nAlmost all states, communities, and hospitals now screen newborns for hearing loss before the babies leave the hospital. The hearing screening is easy and painless, and it can determine if more testing is needed. In fact, many babies sleep through the hearing screening, and the test usually takes just a few minutes.\nWhat if my baby did not pass the hearing screening?\nAdditional testing is the next step to tell if your baby has hearing loss and what type of loss it is. A healthcare professional trained to test hearing, such as an audiologist, will be able to perform more detailed hearing tests. Your baby\u2019s doctor (or an ear, nose, and throat doctor) should perform or order any medical tests needed to find out the cause of the hearing loss.\nMaking sure your baby gets this additional testing quickly is also important. CDC-funded research shows just how important it is. Children with hearing loss who are identified before 3 months of age, and receive services before 6 months of age, have better vocabularies than those identified or receiving services later. For more information about this research, visit http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/hearingloss/features/feature-vocabulary-hearingloss.html\nIf my baby passed the hearing screening, is everything fine?\nBecause a newborn baby can pass the hearing screening and still develop a hearing loss later, your baby\u2019s doctor should routinely follow your baby\u2019s general health and development.\nFor more information, visit CDC\u2019s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3897, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hotpinkevil.blogspot.com/2009/01/honeymoon-day-5.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:58Z", "digest": "sha1:I6LYOHHOCSRPE3ZOUAOJLLTIHRKLWQNP", "length": 1979, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "hotpinkevil.blogspot.com", "title": "hotpinkevil: Honeymoon - Day 5", "raw_content": "Sometimes I forget I have a blog.\nOn the 5th day of the honeymoon we hopped on the monorail and traveled to Seattle Center, the site for the 1962 World's Fair and the Space Needle. We walked around a bit and went to the Experience Music Project. The building, designed by Frank Gehry and founded by Paul Allen, is pretty rad. It's inspired by Jimi Hendrix and from above looks like a melted guitar. I really enjoyed the history of the guitar exhibit and seeing Kurt Cobain's guitar (from the \"Smells Like Teen Spirit\" video). The grunge exhibit was pretty rad too.\nIn the basement of the Experience Music Project is the Science Fiction Museum. Admission is free with EMP entrance, so Tim and I thought \"why not.\" As we were looking at everything, we noticed little tags by all the pieces that read, \"From the Paul Allen Collection.\" My theory is that Paul Allen wanted somewhere to exhibit his nerdy science fiction memorabilia but knew that few people would visit on their own volition. So he built the super awesome Experience Music Project to entice visitors to see his science fiction collection.\nWe took the monorail back downtown and hopped on the streetcar, cleverly titled the South Lake Union Trolley (S.L.U.T.). We just rode it to the end of the line and back. I'm sure you can guess why.\nWe went back to the hotel in time for the free wine tasting. The hotel is kind of artsy fartsy, so in the restaurant where they serve the wine, they also have watercolor paints and paper in case you get \"inspired.\" Tim did the crossword puzzle while I painted images of the puzzle words. It was pretty silly.\nAfter the wine tasting, we took a cab back to Seattle Center to have dinner in the Space Needle. Tim made sunset reservations. Unfortunately it was a little too cloudy to see a pretty sunset. We still had a blast though. The food was alright, not too impressive, but the view was fantastic. After dinner, we hung out on the observation deck for a bit before heading back.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 301.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hqcomoxvalley.com/2018/12/macron-set-to-meet-saudi-prince-as-putin-greets-him/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:56Z", "digest": "sha1:E3U5HMJATYLJCN6WESMRACULGHSY2CJU", "length": 2795, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "hqcomoxvalley.com", "title": "Macron set to meet Saudi Prince, as Putin greets him cordially", "raw_content": "After a stop at the G20 summit in Argentina, Prince Mohammed resumed his tour Sunday by traveling to Mauritania before heading to Algeria.\nMr Corbyn told the Commons: \"The Prime Minister told the media she would sit down and be robust with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the chief architect of the brutal war in Yemen which has killed 56,000 people and brought 14 million to the brink of starvation\".\nLast week, in a rebuke of Saudi Arabia and the administration's handling of the Khashoggi case, a majority of the Senate voted to advance a measure to end United States military support to Saudi Arabia for its war in Yemen against Iranian-backed militants. I will not be surprised that the oppression will reach even those who are cheering him, then others and others and so on.\nThe messages revealed a plan between the two for an online youth movement, consisting of an \"electronic army\" to engage Saudi youth and debunk state propaganda on social media, in an attempt to hold Saudi Arabia to account.\nAnkara is dissatisfied with Riyadh's explanations in connection with the murderer of prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.\n\"There is also general unhappiness about the Saudi position regarding the case of Palestine, and we reject any Saudi pressure of Jordan in this regard\", Adaileh added.\nThe electronic messages sent by Prince Mohammed were to Saud al-Qahtani, according to the Central Intelligence Agency. He called the prince a \"beast 'pac man, '\" because \"the more victims he eats, the more he wants\". Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen living in the United States (US) before his death, was critical of the regime in Riyadh.\n\"There's no direct evidence linking him to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi\", Pompeo told CNN.\nSpeaking to CNN, Abdulaziz said that Jamal believed bin Salman, commonly referred to as MBS, was the problem.\nThe Associated Press obtained court documents yesterday in which Abdulaziz says he worked with Khashoggi on a project to rein in Saudi trolls.\nThe presence of the targeted spyware on Mr Abdulaziz's phone means Saudi officials may have been able to read Khashoggi's messages.\nWhile Trump spoke briefly with Putin on the sidelines of the summit, he chose to cancel the two leaders' formal meeting.\nWhat we do know is that the 855 will probably power the bulk of next year's high-end smartphones (because what else would?). On Monday, Verizon announced that it's partnering with Samsung in order to bring a 5G device to market in early 2019.\nWhen you are planning the hall of slot machines, you have to remember about free space and your possibilities. As for the owners of the spacious rooms, they will have more variants to design the gambling hall.\nTrump's China auto deal could help these countries", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 4982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hrdcmysore.ac.in/knowmysore.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:48Z", "digest": "sha1:XH5MBMS7EMH4BRD2DGYXV7N25N3PPXWJ", "length": 3923, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hrdcmysore.ac.in", "title": "About Mysore || UGC ASC Mysore", "raw_content": "Know Mysore\nThe official residence of the Wodeyars, the Mysore Palace is situated in the heart of the city. The construction of the Palace was completed in 1912. Tourists are allowed to go inside the Palace after paying a certain amount of fees. The architecture of the Palace is what is known as Indo-Saracenic which is a mixture of Hindu, Muslim, Rajput and Gothic architectural styles. It's a three story building with marble domes and gardens. The two bronze leopards at the entrance of the palace are another attraction. The inside of the palace is converted into a museum and\nhouses various artefacts from the Maharaja times.\nChamundi Hills is close to the palace city of Mysore. Its average elevation is 1,000 meters. A panoramic view of the city is seen from the top of the hills. Among other landmarks, you can see the race course, the Lalitha Mahal palace, Mysore Palace, Karanji and Kukkarahalli lakes. At dusk, the view of the city is especially beautiful, and on Sunday evenings and during the Dasara festival, the illuminated Mysore Palace glitters like gold.\nMysore Zoo was originally created in 1892 on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of the summer palace of Maharaja Chamaraja Wodeyar, and was originally called the Palace Zoo. The zoo was originally set up by G.H. Krumbeigal, a German landscaper and horticulturist. Over the next 10 years the zoo was expanded to 45 acres (18 ha) with spacious enclosures that are still in use.\nLalitha Mahal is the second largest palace in Mysore. It is located near the Chamundi Hills, east of the city.The architect of this palace was Mr E W Fritchley. The palace was built by Krishnaraja Wodeyar IV in the year 1921 for the exclusive stay of the Viceroy of India. The palace is pure white in colour and is built in the style of Italian palazzo with twin Ionic columns and domes.It also has a sprawling terrace and landscaped gardens.The Palace is situated 11kms from Mysore city on top of a small hillock. This Palace is set in the middle of sprawling\nterraced gardens.\n150 years old, this palace is still being used for a variety of programmes ranging from cultural events during various occasions to many governmental events. The construction of the Jaganmohan Palace was completed in the year 1861. This palace was used as the residence of the royal family when the Mysore Palace was burnt down to ground level in a fire in 1897 till it was reconstructed in 1910.The royal hall was used as the venue for the Representative Assembly after 1923. Then it was also used for the convocation by the Mysore University.\nKaranji Lake was one of the favourite haunts of migratory birds like herons and egrets. But the lake started getting polluted when sewage from the nearby residential areas were let into the lake. This pollution led to the destruction of aquatic life in the lake and with the food-source getting depleted, the migratory birds started to avoid the lake.\nThis museum is located near the Mysore Railway station and is the second one of its kind established in India after the one at Delhi. This museum exhibits ancient locomotives and carriages some of which are still in working condition. Photographs and books related to railway are also present.A striking feature of the museum is the Chamundi Gallery that showcases a distinctive and interesting collection of photographs and paintings portraying the growth of the railways.\nSt. Philomena's Church :is a church built in the honour of St. Philomena in the city of Mysore. It was constructed in 1956 using a Neo Gothic style and its architecture was inspired by the Cologne Cathedral in Germany. In 1926, Thamboo Chetty who was a secretary to the Maharaja of Mysore, Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wodeyar obtained a relic of the saint from Peter Pisani, Apostolic Delegate of the East Indies. This relic was handed over to Father Cochet who approached the king to assist him in constructing a church in honour of St. Philomena.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 4739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 129.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://hubblesite.org/image/2157/gallery/67-small-solar-system-bodies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:56Z", "digest": "sha1:H6BPMNRAWHWL56A4LR2PYYMBG5EA6J4D", "length": 1633, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "hubblesite.org", "title": "HubbleSite: Image - Vesta - May 14, 2007", "raw_content": "Vesta, 4 Vesta\nMinor Body in the Main Asteroid Belt\nThe semi-major axis of Vesta's orbit about the Sun is 2.36 Astronomical Units (A.U.) or roughly 219 million miles (353 million kilometers). At the time of the Hubble observations, Vesta was roughly 1.2 A.U. from Earth.\nVesta is has a mean diameter of approximately 330 miles (530 kilometers). The object has a 354 mile (570 km) diameter at the equator and a slightly smaller diameter 288 miles (464 km) pole-to-pole.\nThis image was created from data from the HST proposal 10799: L. McFadden and J.Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), M. Sykes (University of Arizona), P. Thomas (Cornell University), C. Russell (University of California, Los Angeles), and J. Parker and E. Young (Southwest Research Institute).\nThe science team includes: L. McFadden and J.Y. Li (University of Maryland, College Park), M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (Space Telescope Science Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), J. Parker and E. Young (Southwest Research Institute), and C. Russell and B. Schmidt (University of California, Los Angeles).\nF439W (B) and F673N ([SII])\nNASA, ESA, and L. McFadden (University of Maryland)\nThis image is a composite of many separate exposures made by the WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope using two different filters. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic image. In this case, the assigned colors are:\nRed: F673N ([SII])\nHubble observations of Vesta were taken with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on May 14 and 16, 2007.\nAsteroids, Hubble Telescope, Observations, Small Solar System Bodies, Solar System", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 160.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://i37raceway.com/category/bugatti/page/2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FVRLGWQZSXVQCU6QCE5GUA4RE2AIBJD7", "length": 1887, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "i37raceway.com", "title": "Bugatti Best Cars 2018 2 | i37raceway.com", "raw_content": "Date: October 14th, 2018 Category: Bugatti\nOne of the technological innovations that become hot topic in this year is the car. I\u2019d love to share the 2016 bugatti on this site to get you inspired if you haven\u2019t chosen design yet.having a ca\u2026\nEveryone in this world is no stranger to Cars except the Remote Tribes. because the car is one of the compact vehicle tools in the present. I\u2019d like to share the bugatti type 57 on this site to get\u2026\nGta 5 Bugatti\nEveryone in this world is no stranger to Cars except the Remote Tribes. because the car is one of the compact vehicle tools in the present. I\u2019d like to share the gta 5 bugatti on the web to get you\u2026\nCars are ground vehicles powered by engines with fuel in the form of gasoline or diesel. while the car uses electricity as its fuel. I\u2019d like to share the bugatti eb110 on this site to get you inspi\u2026\nConcept car is a type of car that is made to showcase new ideas in terms of models, technology, and so forth. I\u2019d love to share the bugatti veyron on the web to get you inspired if you haven\u2019t cho\u2026\nEveryone in this world is no stranger to Cars except the Remote Tribes. because the car is one of the compact vehicle tools in the present. I\u2019d love to share the bugatti super sport on PlumeGiant to\u2026\nBugatti Veyron Super Sport Top Speed\nCars are ground vehicles powered by engines with fuel in the form of gasoline or diesel. while the car uses electricity as its fuel. I\u2019d like to share the bugatti veyron 2016 on this site to get you\u2026\nEveryone in this world is no stranger to Cars except the Remote Tribes. because the car is one of the compact vehicle tools in the present. I\u2019d like to share the bugatti royale on this site to get y\u2026\nCars are ground vehicles powered by engines with fuel in the form of gasoline or diesel. while the car uses electricity as its fuel. I\u2019d like to share the bugatti 2015 on this site to get you inspir\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3038, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 203.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://i95rocks.com/national-weather-service-to-begin-issuing-snow-squall-warnings/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZZQ27VRP75ECPIKAMC6C5NIAQMVAPAT", "length": 1500, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "i95rocks.com", "title": "National Weather Service To Begin Issuing Snow Squall Warnings", "raw_content": "National Weather Service To Begin Issuing Snow Squall Warnings\nWe've all had it happen. You're driving on a somewhat nice winter day, when suddenly you look far down the road and say, \"What the heck is that?\"\nIt's a tremendously huge wall of white consisting of a massive downpour of blowing and blinding snow, and you're driving right into it. Soon, you'll be blinded. It's a whiteout, and you're scared to death.\nHow did it come from out of nowhere? Well, it does.\nSomething new! The National Weather Service will being issuing Snow Squall Warnings this year, and we'll certain welcome them and get them out over the air and online for you.\nFrom the Weather.Gov website: \"Snow squall warnings are short-fused and focused on distinct areas (like tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings). These warnings provide critical, highly localized life-saving information. If a snow squall warning is issued for your area, avoid or delay motor travel until the squall passes through your location.\"\nIf you've never experienced the thrill of driving head on into a snow squall, and were wondering what the difference is between that and a snowstorm is, then the National Weather Service has this explanation for you:\n\"The difference between a snow squall and a snowstorm is the duration of the event. Snow squalls are usually very short-lived (on the order of 30-60 minutes) and extremely intense. A snow storm could last for several hours or even days.\"\nCategories: Articles, Local News, Maine, News, Weather", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 2952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ianp.org/2003/10/17/java-help/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:21Z", "digest": "sha1:GZMFWHRM4JZZFCVDM7HSROWBQM6XSR2B", "length": 706, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ianp.org", "title": "Java Help - Digital Magpie", "raw_content": "I had a look at the Java Help API today, hoping to use it in an application that I\u2019m writing, alas no. Despite claiming to be interface based, and coming with a reference implementation from Sun, what we now call the service provider pattern, it\u2019s irrevocably tied to Swing. This means that you couldn\u2019t use it to say, provide a help system on an interactive web based system, or an SWT based client side app, which is what I\u2019m interested in.\nSun seem to be more interested in pushing their own ideas onto others than in producing a solid solution. Here\u2019s hoping version 3 of the API solves this, but don\u2019t hold your breath.\nPosted by ianp Oct 17th, 2003 Java, Programming\n\u00ab Objects have Failed St. Pauls \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 218.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ibewlocalone.org/notices/51882-brother-david-w-wells", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:7XBNZWZ3MRZ5VFXLQCQSG64IQDNVU2CJ", "length": 38, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "ibewlocalone.org", "title": "Brother David W. Wells", "raw_content": "Brother David W. Wells\nWells, David W.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 261.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://icsfla.org/about-ics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:00Z", "digest": "sha1:6FNLN2JQBCFJVU4QPGEG3RX7UVKZ2ZZW", "length": 7790, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "icsfla.org", "title": "About ICS \u2013 International Community School", "raw_content": "International Community School > About ICS\nInternational Community School is a learning environment unlike any other. Our model combines the most current educational research and practices into one unique school built on the three pillars of faith, family and scholarship.\nInternational Community School will train students to become learners and leaders through the strengths of a Christian faith, family engagement, and a challenging learning environment.\nWelcome to a place where students engage information with mind and heart, discovering its power to change them, to change perspectives, and to change the world.\nWelcome to a place that centers challenging academics and enrichment around a core of spiritual growth, while transforming a community by transforming each unique life.\nWelcome to a place where you as a parent are engaged in the foundation of your child\u2019s education by design, with unequaled access to the resources, guidance, and encouragement you need for learning success.\nInternational Community School has a distinctive worldview.\nInternational Community School is Christian. Our faith guides our beliefs and practices as an educational community and unites us through the redemptive power of Jesus Christ. Because we first come together around a desire to follow Him, we have the only true and lasting hope for a unity that transcends cultural, denominational and geographical boundaries and helps us live out our mission and vision. We believe that no knowledge is incompatible with Christian belief and that moral training is necessary to help learning find its ultimate fulfillment\nInternational Community School has a distinctive structure.\nBelieving parents to be the primary source of spiritual and moral training for their children, International Community School is designed from the ground up to engage families in the educational process and to support and encourage them as they train up their child in the way he should go. Leading edge innovation that offers true choice in education allows parents to choose from different tracks. We offer university-style classes that combine instruction both on and off campus.\nInternational Community School has a distinctive academic and global perspective.\nInternational Community School is redefining global education to prepare exemplary students who are responsible citizens of the world. Through challenging academics, diverse enrichment opportunities and hands-on learning through work, service, and experience, ICS is developing students who are prepared to respond to the ever-increasing globalization of cultural, social, economic, business and political systems with a Christian worldview. Our unique academic structure combines the best in practice and curriculum to train minds in each stage of development\u2014from learning facts and figures to developing critical thinking and the defense of ideas. Recognizing that each student has different pathways to learning, ICS encourages diversity in classroom methods and celebrates the uniqueness of each individual that joins with us to create our community.\nWHAT MAKES US INTERNATIONAL?\nWe are called international because we believe that our students should be able to reflect the heart and character of Christ everyday and everywhere. In addition to academic challenges and extracurricular development, your child will benefit from a broad-based enrichment of a global worldview including:\nA respect for other cultures and the critical thinking needed to engage those who are different\nGlobal Emphasis in service-learning partnerships\nOverseas learning experiences\nAt this time, International Community School is not certified by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) to issue the Form I-20 to international students seeking an education using a F-1 visa.\nICS will educate and equip students to bring Christ to the world by engaging culture biblically with their hearts, minds, and hands.\nICS exists to prepare students to become learners and leaders through the strengths of a common Christian faith, family engagement, and a challenging learning environment.\nThe Scriptures \u2013 We believe that God inspired all the words of the Bible without error in the original writings. The Bible constitutes the only infallible and sufficient rule of faith and practice. We accept the Bible, including the 39 books of the Old Testament and the 27 books of the New Testament, as the written Word of God. The Bible is an essential and infallible record of God\u2019s self-disclosure to mankind.\nGod \u2013 We believe that there is but one living and true God, perfect in all His attributes, one in essence, eternally existing in three persons \u2013 Father, Son and Holy Spirit.\nJesus Christ \u2013 We believe in the full deity of Christ, His virgin birth, His real humanity, His sinless life, His substitutionary death, His bodily resurrection, His ascension into heaven, His present ministry as high priest and His future personal return to this earth.\nThe Holy Spirit \u2013 We believe in the full deity of the Holy Spirit, who convicts sinners and regenerates those who believe in Christ. He also indwells, sanctifies, instructs, and empowers believers for service, and seals them unto the day of redemption. We believe that every believer is indwelt and baptized by the Spirit at the time of salvation. We believe being filled with the Spirit or walking in the Spirit is living in the conscious presence of the Lord Jesus Christ, letting His mind, through the Word, dominate everything that is thought and done.\nMan \u2013 We believe that God created all things as described in Genesis. We believe that the first man, Adam, sinned, bringing spiritual death to all mankind, who therefore stand condemned, making the new birth absolutely necessary.\nSalvation \u2013 We believe that salvation is wholly of God by grace on the basis of the redemption of Jesus Christ, the merit of His shed blood, and not on the basis of human merit or works. God gives eternal life to those who repent of their sins, and put their faith in Christ alone, justifying them instantaneously by the blood of Christ and imputing His righteousness to them.\nThe Church \u2013 We believe in the universal church to which all believers belong. We believe in the importance of the local church, which is made up of believers who gather for worship, fellowship, and teaching. We believe in the responsibility of the church to fulfill the Great Commission of Christ, preaching the gospel to all nations.\nThe Future \u2013 We believe in the eternal existence of the soul, resurrection of the body, eternal blessedness of believers, and eternal punishment of unbelievers.\nChristian Living \u2013 We believe we are called to be salt and light. We believe as Christians we are called to reclaim His world and to be agents of renewal and restoration. Parents are given the responsibility of raising and training their children in the Christian faith. We believe that the Family unit is designed by God and that the Creator\u2019s intent for human sexuality finds its fulfillment between a man and a woman within the bond of a marriage covenant.\nWe ask that members of our administration, faculty, and staff teach and proclaim only those doctrines in agreement with our Statement of Faith. We desire to glorify God by being zealous about the things that truly build up the body of Christ and clearly communicate the gospel of Christ, speaking the truth in love.\nTuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays \u2013 8:00 am to 4:00 pm\nTuesdays & Thursdays \u2013 9:00 am to 3:00 pm\nElementary (PK through 6th Grade)\nFridays (Optional PK-5th, Mandatory 6th) \u2013 9:00 am to 3:00 pm\nMiddle School(7th & 8th Grade)\nFridays \u2013 8:45 am to 3:00 pm\nHigh School (9th through 12th Grade)\nE-Zone - PK to 6th Grade\nFridays (w/ RDV) \u2013 9:00 am to 3:00 pm\nFridays (w/o RDV) \u2013 9:00 am to 1:20 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 9507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ideaoftheday.com/?keywords=Opinion", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:12Z", "digest": "sha1:MKMWDPWFSI2A2EUT3CLYWE6WDYFQP35A", "length": 11004, "nlines": 82, "source_domain": "ideaoftheday.com", "title": "Idea of the Day - A new idea each day. Some Don't Suck! - ideaoftheday.com", "raw_content": "Our Latest Posts About: Opinion\nWho's Responsible For Overpriced Military Spending?\nThursday, July 13, 2017 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi\nIn defense of defense spending, it's not always the contractor's fault.\nOne of the biggest misconceptions about \"overpriced\" military spending is that contractor intentionally inflates prices of everyday items. While that may happen from time to time, most of the blame is on the government representatives that put together the original bids.\nThe essence of the problem is that when a contract calls for items with very specific details, this adds several major expenses.\nFirst, the contractor needs to spend a certain amount of time doing research to determine if the item already exists, or if it needs to manufacture it. Even if they find that it's an off-the-shelf item, they still needed to pay people to do the research and acquire the items.\nAssuming they need to manuf... [More]\nContinue...Who's Responsible For Overpriced Military Spending?...\nA FIRST For Everything?\nEnough with all the firsts!\nHistory books are loaded with \"Firsts\". Some of them are pretty well known, like George Washington, Christopher Columbus, John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, or Jackie Robinson. I don't even need to mention what their \"Firsts\" were, because they're that well known. The trouble is, we've become obsessed with firsts, and it's diminishing the true meaning of first.\nFor example, when Sonya Sotomayor became a member of the Supreme Court, the press made a big deal of the fact that she was a hispanic woman. The fact that she's a hispanic woman means nothing to me and it diminishes her accomplishments as a judge. Instead of being known for historic cases she presides over, the history books will undoubtedly focus on her gender and ethnicity.\nFirsts are firs... [More]\nContinue...A FIRST For Everything?...\nStatistics Can't Lie?\nI have a hard time trusting statistics. Numbers can't lie, but the people interpreting them can.\nI have a hard time trusting statistics, because I've seen how often people twist the results, to prove their point.\nFor example, some of the most successful drugs in the world are cholesterol lowering Statins, which statistically improve your chance of avoiding a heart attack by 33%, or at least that's what the drug companies would like you to believe.\nThe trouble with that statistic is it only tells half of the story, because when you look at the raw data, what you find is that people taking Statins lowered their chance of getting a heart attack by only 1%. If there was only a 1% improvement, how can the drug companies say there's a 33% improvement? Easy. They just manipula... [More]\nContinue...Statistics Can't Lie?...\nWhy Do Political Arguments End Like This?\nIt seems like whenever people talk politics, sooner or later one of them does this...\nIf you've been following my blog and my YouTube Channel, you probably know that I rarely talk about politics, but this is something I have to get off my chest. I've noticed that whenever people talk about politics, as things get heated, sooner or later, one side or the other will bring up the \"Other\" N-Word, the Nazis.\nI can't understand why this is so common. It doesn't matter which side of the political spectrum you identify with, Progressive or Conservative, Democrat or Republican, sooner or later one of the sides will try to equate the other side's position as doing \"exactly what the Nazis did\". You see it all the time on CNN, Fox News, Facebook, and Twitter. They could be debating he... [More]\nContinue...Why Do Political Arguments End Like This?...\nWhy Have Gender Restrictions In Pro Sports?\nSome of the best athletes in the world are women, yet they aren't permitted to play in the same leagues as men.\nAlthough we can debate whether women (in general) are weaker than men, but there's no mistaking the fact that there are a lot of women who play on the same level as men. Unfortunately, just about every major league sport has gender restrictions, which is a shame.\nOne of the few exceptions is Danica Patrick, who's been competing along with with men in NASCAR and Indy Racing for more than a decade. Another exception is horse racing, where women such as Rosie Napravnik have even competed in all three races of the Triple Crown.\nOther than horse and auto racing, women have no choice but to compete in leagues of their own, such as the WNBA, and LPGA, but what's really... [More]\nContinue...Why Have Gender Restrictions In Pro Sports?...\nShut Up and Sing (Updated)\nMonday, February 20, 2017 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi\nThere's a time and place for politics... and its NOT at a concert.\nI hate when celebrities preach politics to their audience, so I posted a video about it a while back. This video expands on what I said earlier to clarify my position.\nIn a nutshell, my main point is that celebrities shouldn't use their fame to promote their political agenda to their audience. That said, I also want to make it clear that I am not suggesting that they shouldn't speak their minds. This is a free country. There is absolutely nothing wrong with getting on their soapbox and talking about politics. My point is there is a time and place for political talk, and it's it is out of place at a show.\nWhen somebody goes to a show expecting to be entertained, they shouldn't get a lecture about politic... [More]\nContinue...Shut Up and Sing (Updated)...\nThe On-Demand Generation\nThursday, January 19, 2017 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi\nMillennials don't know what it's like to live in a world of patience and anticipation.\nTechnology has given the Generation Gap a new meaning. Today's Millennials grew up in an era where just about everything they do these days is on-demand.\nNot only can they play their favorite songs, movies or TV shows in a matter of seconds, but they can jump directly to their favorite parts. When I grew up, there were only about 7 TV channels, which means we all watched pretty much the same shows at the same time. If you missed your favorite movies or shows, there was nothing you could do about it, unless the networks decided to play them again a few months ago. Classic movies like The Wizard of Oz played only once a year, but most never played more than once... And we accepted that... [More]\nContinue...The On-Demand Generation...\nWhy Do Students Protest So Often?\nTuesday, December 13, 2016 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi\nStudents love to protest.\nIf you turn on the news these days, it seems like there's a protest going on somewhere just about every day, and more often than not, the group is made up almost entirely of students. Why is that?\nWhen you look at the crowd, all you see are young people. Finding anyone older 25 is like finding a needle in a haystack.\nDon't the older generations see what's going on in the world? Don't they want to do something about it? Don't they even care?\nThe fact of the matter is that older generations are just as informed, and they care just as much as the younger generation, but they aren't as passionate because they've simply seen worse, and they've survived. It's as simple as that.\nHow else can you explain a group of young students literally s... [More]\nContinue...Why Do Students Protest So Often?...\nThe End of Common Media?\nWe no longer live in a Common Media World.\nHundreds of years ago, news and information was spread through a very small number of media sources. Because of this, entire communities shared fundamentally the same news, at the same time. The news you read each day was identical to the news your friends, family and neighbors read.\nUntil recently, whenever people talked about things they saw in the media, chances are they all saw the same media. Centuries ago, it was the local newspaper, and in the last century, it was a combination of print, TV and radio, but it was still limited to a small number, so the media was still essentially common. Each morning, the majority of people still heard, read, or saw the same news, at virtually the same time.\nContinue...The End of Common Media?...\nWar Is (Supposed to Be) HELL\nFriday, July 15, 2016 1:00 AM By Joe Crescenzi\nAbsolutely... somthing. It's supposed to be a way to break the will of your enemies and (hopefully) bring peace.\nI know I'm likely going to get a lot of negative comments on this, but I want to make it clear that I am NOT suggesting that we start or encourage wars, but when war is brought to us, we need to be able to bring our fists and end the fight with no holds barred.\nRight now, most of the civilized world follows The Geneva Conventions, which sets limits on how countries engage in wars. It sets clear guidelines about what is allowed, and what is not, so that civilians and non-military targets are preserved.\nIt's a wonderful concept on paper, but when your enemy does not follow these rules, it gives them an edge because they can take adv\nContinue...War Is (Supposed to Be) HELL...\nWhy Does The Media Only Apply Labels To Conservatives?\nHave you ever noticed that the media only applies labels when they're quoting a conservative?\nI find it interesting that whenever somebody quotes a Republican or Conservative they always preface it with a \"Conservative\" label. It's almost as if they're putting out a disclaimer say \"attention people... this is coming from a wacko conservative\".\nFor example, if Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh say something, the news will always say something like \"Conservative Host Sean Hannity said XYZ\", instead of simply saying \"Sean Hannity said XYZ\".\nIt wouldn't bother me if there wasn't a double standard. The label itself is accurate, but they never use labels for Democrats and Liberals in the media. You never hear anyone say \"Liberal Host Bill Maher said XYZ\", or 99% of the mainstream... [More]\nContinue...Why Does The Media Only Apply Labels To Conservatives?...\nUnderstanding the #NEVERTRUMP Movement\nWhy are so many republicans joining the NEVER TRUMP movement?\nThe \"Never Trump\" movement started when people started publicly declaring on social media that they would never vote for Donald Trump by using the #NEVERTRUMP hashtag. While this may sound like politics as usual, the interesting thing is that most of the people declaring it are republicans.\nWhat's unusual about it is that they are not only saying they won't vote for him in the Republican Primary, they're also declaring that they won't even vote for him if he gets the nomination.\nYou would think that a lifelong republican would definitely vote for the Republican candidate in the national election, but the Never Trump supporters say they won't. Here's why.\nThe main reason for all the fuss is that many t\nContinue...Understanding the #NEVERTRUMP Movement...\nThe REAL Reason Apple TV Doesn't Have a Web Browser\nThere's only one reason Apple doesn't include a web browser in Apple TV... MONEY!\nAs a followup to a previous post, Apple TV Needs a Web Browser, there's actually a reason Apple doesn't include it, and it has nothing at all to do with the hardware or software. It's just plain greed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 992, "original_length": 25288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://imperial-activities.co.uk/non-destructive-evaluation/application-areas/health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:22Z", "digest": "sha1:5WOVHO5EUQTZBCT6POEJ2DQWRXVW3PYN", "length": 1031, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "imperial-activities.co.uk", "title": "Health | Research groups | Imperial College London", "raw_content": "Ultrasound is widely employed in medical diagnostics because it is real-time, safe and relatively inexpensive. The activity of the group ranges from ultrasound imaging to the development of devices for guided intervention and implant monitoring.\nOne in nine women in the UK and USA will develop breast cancer during their lives. X-ray mammography is currently recommended for screening postmenopausal women due to its limited effectiveness in younger patients. However, it has now been shown that ultrasound has higher sensitivity in younger women, thus holding the potential for the development of a technology that could lead to earlier cancer detection.\nBreast Cancer Projects\nImaging beyond the Born Approximation: a physical approach\nGuidance of interventional devices during surgical procedures and condition monitoring of implants are two areas of major interest. Ultrasound and lower frequency mechanical vibrations can be engineered into a economic and robust technology capable of addressing these tasks.\nDevices Projects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 331, "original_length": 10521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indabuff.com/?p=13994", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:24Z", "digest": "sha1:TIPJ2LPVTP356WGPIGP7WE5Q5OBE5IN5", "length": 863, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "indabuff.com", "title": "ByrdPhoto: Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Buffalo \u2013 In da Buff (Buffalo, New York)", "raw_content": "Our Lady of Lourdes church sits at the corner of Main and Best Streets in Buffalo. It was closed by the Buffalo Diocese in 1993. The church always attracts my attention when I am in this part of the city. This photo was taken in summer of 2013 after visiting my mother who was in Buffalo General Hospital as a patient. The timing was perfect because I caught the church right before sunset.\nThe building is currently in a state of flux and is vacant. The buildings owner, as listed by Preservation Ready Sites, is 9274 Group, Inc. a company under Ellicott Development. With the medical campus growing, I hope it is only a matter of time before we see this treasure brought back to life.\nHere is photo\u2026click on image for full view.\nHere is a history of the church from the website Buffalo Architecture and History. It is a great resource. http://www.buffaloah.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5173, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 184.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indiahockey.net/category/hockey-movies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:MZZZIPBBTPEXLFOHZF4CQD3YP4RROW6V", "length": 350, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "indiahockey.net", "title": "Hockey Movies Archives -", "raw_content": "Movies on Hockey\nHockey is one of the traditional sports that\u2019s been often misunderstood by those who don\u2019t follow it. No doubt Hockey didn\u2019t get popularity like Cricket and some other international games, but believe me like the Hollywood movies, the world of hockey is filled up with suspense, triumph, comedy and full of drama. There simply aren\u2019t", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://indianmusicschool.com/santoor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:19Z", "digest": "sha1:2LK56E7KLB6AZ6V56TRW4URFOXECYCTP", "length": 2469, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "indianmusicschool.com", "title": "Santoor - Indian Music School", "raw_content": "Santoor Instrument \u2013 Indian Music School\nSantoor : Introduction\nThe Indian santoor is an ancient string musical instrument native to Jammu and Kashmir, with origins in Persia. A primitive ancestor of this type of instruments was invented in Mesopotamia (1600-911 BC). The santoor is a trapezoid-shaped hammered dulcimer often made of walnut, with seventy two strings. The special-shaped mallets (mezrab) are lightweight and are held between the index and middle fingers. A typical santoor has two sets of bridges, providing a range of three octaves.\nHow to play Santoor?\nHow to play Santoor\nHow to make Santoor?\nHow to make Santoor\nThe Indian santoor is more rectangular and can have more strings than the Persian counterpart, which generally has 72 strings. In ancient Sanskrit texts, it has been referred to as shatatantri vina (100-stringed vina). In India, the santoor was used as an accompaniment instrument to the folk music of Kashmir. It is played in a style of music known as the Sufiana Mausiqi. The Sufi mystics used it as an accompaniment to their hymns.\nThe trapezoid framework is generally made out of either walnut or maple wood. The top and bottom boards sometimes can be either plywood or veneer. On the top board, also known as sound board, wooden bridges are placed, in order to seat stretched metal strings across. The strings, grouped in units of 3 or 4, are tied on nails or pins on the left side of the instrument and are stretched over the sound board on top of the bridges to the right side. On the right side there are steel tuning pegs or tuning pins, as they are commonly known, that allows tuning each unit of strings to a desired musical note or a frequency or a pitch.\nThe santoor is played while sitting in an asana called ardha-padmasana position and placing it on top of the lap. While playing, the broad side is closer to the waist of the musician and the shorter side is away from the musician. It is played with a pair of light wooden mallets or hammers with both hands. The santoor is a very delicate instrument and is very sensitive to light strokes and glides. The strokes are played always on the strings either closer to the bridges or a little away from bridges. Both styles result in different tones. Sometimes strokes by one hand can be muffled by the other hand by using the face of the palm just to create variety.\n1. Shivkumar Sharma\n2. Bhajan Sopori\n3. Tarun Bhattacharya\n4. R. Visweswaran\n5. Rahul Sharma\n6. Ulhas Bapat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 3172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 333.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://inemac.com/category/jerusalem/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:24Z", "digest": "sha1:7YMVCLU64XN7OTNA4E5XI4NN27CPP253", "length": 419, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "inemac.com", "title": "Jerusalem Archives - INEMAC", "raw_content": "Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu to break silence after resurfacing in Jerusalem\nNnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), is set to speak for the first time, since he resurfaced in Jerusalem on Friday.\u2026\nBiafra: Orji Uzor Kalu reacts as Nnamdi Kanu appears in Jerusalem\nA former Governor of Abia State, Uzor Orji Kalu, has reacted to the sudden appearance of Nnamdi Kalu, the leader of the Indigenous People of\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 919, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 198.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://infocom-de.com/tst.php?t=12544&jsP=61", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:45Z", "digest": "sha1:IAKMRC7JLD4QO2CAIWSJMNBIDGYG7NF5", "length": 675, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "infocom-de.com", "title": "InfoCom GmbH - Telecom Strategies & Trends", "raw_content": "Telecom Strategies & Trends / Unified\nA first problem with Unified Messaging (UM), also addressed as Unified Communications, is to define exactly what this name stands for.\nUM is defined as a totally integrated web-based service consisting of an account where messages in the form of fax, e-mail, and voice-mail can be gathered and retrieved as e-mails, fax or voice messages, independently from their original form and through any kind of terminal, that is any touch-tone phone, fixed or mobile, facsimile or computer at any time.\nUM also includes the possibility of personal call management with real time control of incoming calls and call rebound with message processing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 961, "original_length": 34118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 282.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://insurance-directories.com/services/litigation", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:41Z", "digest": "sha1:XNQK34IHDBKYK35NJZFDFV5KVMKQZWR3", "length": 448, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "insurance-directories.com", "title": "Litigation - Insurance Directories", "raw_content": "Your search for Litigation found 103 companies. Click on the names of listed companies to view further details.\nKennedys, a top 30 law firm, is recognised both nationally and internationally as a leading dispute resolution firm. It is well known for its insurance and reinsurance expertise in all areas, with a client base that includes general insurers, global composites, Lloyd's syndicates, self-insured PLCs and self-insuring government bodies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 134.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ir.bdsi.com/node/12936/html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:16Z", "digest": "sha1:GCA5EFHRMYXB3WZCZVWK4GWRDFUMUGKK", "length": 152, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ir.bdsi.com", "title": "SEC Filing | BioDelivery Sciences International, Inc.", "raw_content": "Vollins James\nStock Options (right to buy) $3.9(3) 01/31/2019 A(4) 65,000 (4) 01/31/2029 Common Stock 65,000 $0.00 65,000 D\n/s/ James Vollins 02/04/2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 267.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irishmuseums.org/news-item/835", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OGTPXE2TMIZS2GTEVJNQ5L5XDL5T7AOP", "length": 1114, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "irishmuseums.org", "title": "IMA News", "raw_content": "The Ireland Funds Grants Workshop, Dublin (Funding)\nThe Ireland Funds will be holding a workshop on Tuesday 14 March 2017 from 9:30 - 11:30 at National College of Art & Design, Thomas Street, Dublin 8.\nThis workshop will take you through The Ireland Funds' 2017 Grant Round guidelines, with tips on avoiding common mistakes and some tips on making your application as competitive as possible. Participants have the opportunity to send questions when registering, so the workshop will be tailored to what you want to know. This will be an informal session with plenty of time for discussion and Q&A.\nThe Ireland Funds is a global philanthropic network established in 1976 to promote and support peace, culture, education and community development throughout the island of Ireland, and Irish-related causes around the world. With chapters in 12 countries,The Ireland Funds has raised over $550 million for deserving causes in Ireland and beyond, benefiting more than 3,000 different organizations.\nThe workshop is free to attend but space is limited.\nClick here to book your place before the 12 March via eventbrite.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1621, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 160.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://irpg.heisspiter.net/?node=players;id=101", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:34Z", "digest": "sha1:4WYMSLLW7ZEH7VZN7DSWXFIHBV2QOXWK", "length": 89, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "irpg.heisspiter.net", "title": "The OnlineGamesNet IRPG", "raw_content": "Mar 13 2013@15:31:35 Hand of God Removed 4 days, 15:49:17 from level 52 10 days, 20:55:02", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2270, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 220.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://is.mpg.de/employees/ccifuentes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WSTAN3XOXWSTD2XVLYG6N4NQGDSWAXMC", "length": 3128, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "is.mpg.de", "title": "Cristina Garcia Cifuentes | Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems", "raw_content": "I obtained my Master of Engineering in 2009 from T\u00e9l\u00e9com ParisTech (ENST, France) and Telecom Barcelona (Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, Spain) after fulfilling a double degree programme. During that time, I specialized in image processing and became interested in artificial intelligence and medical robotics.\nI carried out my Master's final project as an intern in the research department of the Airbus Group (formerly EADS) in France, which was my first contact with industrial applications of machine learning.\nMy Ph.D. thesis topic was in the area of computer vision, on the analysis and classification of unconstrained monocular videos, with a focus on human action recognition. It was jointly supervised by Gabriel Brostow (University College London, UK) and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Jurie (Universit\u00e9 de Caen Basse-Normandie, France) and partially funded by EADS France. We explored video descriptor quantization using random forests, and local and global representations of video for supervised learning.\nIn 2013 I joined the Perceiving Systems department of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (T\u00fcbingen, Germany) as a postdoctoral researcher. I worked on optical flow estimation under the supervision of Michael J. Black.\nSince June 2015 I am working on vision for robotics at the Autonomous Motion department. My current interest are recursive Bayesian estimation for fusing multiple asynchronous sensors, and enabling continuous interaction of robots with their environment.\nLeveraging Weak Supervision for Video Understanding\nGarcia Cifuentes, C.\nUniversity College London, 2013 (phdthesis)\nGarcia Cifuentes, C. Leveraging Weak Supervision for Video Understanding University College London, 2013 (phdthesis)\nMotion Models that Only Work Sometimes\nGarcia Cifuentes, C., Sturzel, M., Jurie, F., Brostow, G.\nIn Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2012, pages: 55.1-55.12, (Editors: Bowden, Richard and Collomosse, John and Mikolajczyk, Krystian), BMVA Press, Surrey, UK, September 2012 (inproceedings)\nGarcia Cifuentes, C., Sturzel, M., Jurie, F., Brostow, G. Motion Models that Only Work Sometimes In Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2012, pages: 55.1-55.12, (Editors: Bowden, Richard and Collomosse, John and Mikolajczyk, Krystian), BMVA Press, Surrey, UK, September 2012 (inproceedings)\nHow to Learn a Learning System: Automatic Decomposition of a Multiclass Task with Probability Estimates\nGarcia Cifuentes, C., Sturzel, M.\nIn ICAART 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, 1, pages: 589-594, (Editors: Filipe, Joaquim and Fred, Ana L. N. and Sharp, Bernadette), INSTICC Press, Valencia, Spain, January 2010 (inproceedings)\nGarcia Cifuentes, C., Sturzel, M. How to Learn a Learning System: Automatic Decomposition of a Multiclass Task with Probability Estimates In ICAART 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, 1, pages: 589-594, (Editors: Filipe, Joaquim and Fred, Ana L. N. and Sharp, Bernadette), INSTICC Press, Valencia, Spain, January 2010 (inproceedings)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 17168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://isd-soft.com/nl/tech_blog/fun-python-part-1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:15Z", "digest": "sha1:BWIHTJGNFSKNHLHOMMFGZODPG5AKE5OU", "length": 5240, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "isd-soft.com", "title": "Fun with Python. Part 1 - ISD :: software solutions Fun with Python. Part 1 - ISD :: software solutions", "raw_content": "Gepubliceerd: augustus 08, 2017\n\u201cMy favourite language for maintainability is Python. It has simple, clean syntax, object encapsulation, good library support, and optional named parameters.\u201d\nThe company I\u2019m working for, started a project as a start-up last year. At the beginning there was a discussion on what programming language to choose, so that we could easily have a MVP (Minimum Valuable Product) in the shortest time possible, but also to learn something new while working on this project. The most common programming language used in the company is Java, thus we had to answer a question: do we want to continue with Java or let\u2019s try something else? We chose the 2nd option. But what exactly does this \u201csomething else\u201d mean?\nFirst of all, the project is a web application, therefore we had to look first for a web framework and after that for a language that would be compatible with that framework. It didn\u2019t take us too much time to find out the best option, so we opted for Django web framework. As you might know Django is a web framework written in Python, so the choice of the programming language was obvious \u2013 it\u2019s Python. That\u2019s how my journey with Python started.\nI\u2019ve been developing software using Python for almost one year. When I first started to write code in Python, I had a feeling that I did the wrong choice, but very soon I understood how powerful it is and how easy is to have something working in a short time.\nIn this article I would like to share with you why I find Python an interesting programming language and how easy it is to work with it, compared to Java or any other language.\nLet\u2019s start with something trivial \u2013 Hello world.\nSystem.out.println(\" Hello World \");\nSo, how do you like Python, easy peasy right? You don\u2019t need a class, you don\u2019t need a method, do exactly what you need to do, print the text without any additional work. There is not that much syntax in this example, but you could already say that Python syntax is relatively simple, and ease of making a highly readable program that \u201cdoes the right thing\u201d is a huge advantage.\nNext thing I like about Python, is that it compels you to correctly indent every line of the code, this being part of syntax checking. This way it tries to make it only one way possible to do anything and makes it a very readable language. Here is an example:\nFig. 1 Indentation in Python\nVariables and methods\nAnother thing I was surprised about, is that in Python you don\u2019t and can\u2019t specify a type for a variable. This makes Python a strong and dynamic typed language. It is strong because the type of the variable doesn\u2019t suddenly change, and dynamic because the program has the responsibility to use built-in functions like isinstance() and issubclass() to test variable types and correct usage at runtime. Someone may say that this way it\u2019s easy to introduce bugs into your programs, but I find it challenging, Try to write correct code. Here is an example:\nFig. 2 Python vs JS variable types\nAs you can see in the image above, the variables don\u2019t have any type, so they can be anything \u2013 integer, string, list, object etc. In Python, the variable itself if not bound to a type, however the value is. It won\u2019t ever happen that a string could be added to an integer, like in JavaScript.\nIt is very easy to change the value of the variable, for instance if it has a string assigned to it, but later you want to change it to an integer, just do it. In a statically typed language, the variable has a type, so if you have a variable that\u2019s an integer, you won\u2019t be able to assign any other type of value to it later.\nMost probably you have noticed that the method also doesn\u2019t have a return type, again it can be anything. However, it is possible to bind the returned value to a type, but if you do so, you cannot return anything else except something that belongs to that specific type:\nFig. 3 Bound vs unbound methods in Python\nThough I needed to overload a method only once, I was a bit disappointed when I had found out that I won\u2019t be able to do so, because Python doesn\u2019t support it, at least there is no standard way of overloading a method, like I\u2019m used to do it in Java.\nFig. 4 Method overloading is not supported in Python\nEven if it is not supported, it is possible, no one stops you from writing methods with the same name, it is valid, but each time you write another function with the same name, the Python interpreter completely forgets about the prior functions with that name. Doesn\u2019t really help, right?\nBut this is not the end. With some perseverance, you could get the desired result using the multimethods pattern or even better, use default argument values. I find the second option a greater choice, because this creates a function that can be called with fewer arguments than it is defined to allow:\nFig. 5 Using default argument values as a way of overloading a method\nThis is just a very small part of what I\u2019ve learned while working with Python. Every time I need to build a specific functionality of the system, I\u2019m astonished by the simplicity and easiness Python provides. To be honest, I\u2019m very excited and I look forward to discovering new capabilities of this language, so stay tuned and don\u2019t miss the next article.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 6754, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://itburnswhenithink.com/?p=249", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:37Z", "digest": "sha1:VXPHZG56D6SIJRI6NHQLWIA4IC7XDLHK", "length": 223, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "itburnswhenithink.com", "title": "it burns when i think\u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb New Injury", "raw_content": "This entry was posted on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 7:56 pm and is filed under Injury Report . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 1632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://itsvery.net/sandra-bullock.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:25Z", "digest": "sha1:7LLY46AL4F73XFW6AZ6UMTSM757EEPJE", "length": 1188, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "itsvery.net", "title": "Sandra Bullock - the very cute girl next door", "raw_content": "Born in a Virginia suburb of Washington D.C. to a German opera singer and a voice teacher, she grew up on the road with her parents and younger sister. She often performed in the children's chorus of whatever production her mother was in. That singing talent later came in use for her role of an aspiring country singer in Thing Called Love, The (1993). Her family moved back to the Washington D.C. area when she was a teenager. She later enrolled in E. Carolina University in North Carolina, USA where she studied acting. Shortly thereafter she moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage. This led to acting in television programs and then feature films. She gave memorable performances in Demolition Man (1993) and Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) but did not achieve the stardom that seemed inevitable for her until her work in the smash hit Speed (1994). She now ranks as one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood.\nTweets by @Sandy_B_Fans\nAskMen.com: Sandra Bullock\nAllmovieportal.com: Sandra Bullock Movie Reviews and Celebrity News and Photos!\nSandra Bullock at celeb9.com Sandra Bullock photo albums, pictures, gossips, news, videos, slideshows\nSandra Bullock Pictures", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 146.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://itzoovim.com/containment-policy-essay.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:35Z", "digest": "sha1:O35WACVCVNJMKLQEJ6GGMX3PFF6K4C3I", "length": 6472, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "itzoovim.com", "title": "News magazine shows the beginnings of American containment policy.", "raw_content": "The containment policy of the U.S.\nBoth, the Soviet Union and the United States of America encouraged building armed weapons and piling up arsenal.\n\u27a1 Many proxy wars were fought during this time; the most important being the Korean War.\nThis region came to be known as the East Germany.\n\u27a1 The Western region of Germany (known as the West Germany) was ruled by the Allies (US, UK, and France), and remained under the rule for nearly 40 years.\n\u27a1 The Government of East Germany erected the 1 in 1961 to prevent the flow of East Germans to West Germany.\n\u27a1 In 1949, West Germany became the Federal Republic of Germany, and Communist East Germany became the German Democratic Republic.\n\u27a1 Berlin, specifically the Berlin Wall, became a symbol of Cold War and division of Germany and Europe.\n\u27a1 The United States adopted the policy of Containment to stop communism from spreading in other parts of the world.\nFRQ Essay Focus #1: Early Cold War Foreign Policies\nFollowing Du Bois, singer and activist Paul Robeson signed a U.S.S.R. petition to the United Nations, \"We Charge Genocide,\" documenting a series of human rights abuses against African Americans. Communist activist Claudia Jones organized in Harlem for jobs, housing, and humane immigration policies. Both Robeson's and Du Bois's passports were revoked until 1958 while the Trinidadian Jones was deported to Britain. In the Cold War context, black struggles for freedom were largely denounced as un-American.\nThe segregation of black children in inferior schools, however, brought special criticism. Worldwide charges of American hypocrisy certainly played some part in the Brown decision. But the climate of anti-communism largely constrained most political battles to the legal arena while displacing the larger calls for freedom that included jobs, housing, land, and wealth. At the same time, courtroom success was quickly followed by waves of \"massive resistance\" by whites. Less than a year after the Brown decision, fourteen-year-old Chicagoan Emmett Till was found murdered in Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. He had been shot and his body mutilated because he allegedly whistled at a white woman. Yet his death was simply the most spectacular manifestation of white terror and racial containment.\nEssay on United States Containment Policy During the Cold War\nAlthough the SALT II was successfully negotiated (1979), the U.S did not ratify the pact, because the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in the following year.\n\u27a1 The period between 1979-85 saw tension mounting again due to the strong anti-communist policies undertaken by President Reagan of the United States.\n\u27a1 The reforms (namely and ) introduced by Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev made a major contribution in ending the Cold War.\nThe term containment describes the foreign policy strategy pursued by the United States after the Second World War. The term was introduced into the public debate by , a diplomat and U.S. State Department adviser on Soviet affairs. In his famous anonymous Kennan suggested a \"long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.\"\nColdWarEvents - The Policy of Containment\nWhat is the Policy of Containment\nFor Kennan containment was a political concept. As a strategy, containment sought to achieve three goals: the restoration of the balance of power in Europe, the curtailment of Soviet power projection, and the modification of the Soviet conception of international relations.\nUS Policy of Containment by Juliet Hurtado on Prezi\nChoose one of the two essays on early Cold War foreign policies. You may choose to do the other one as well for both bonus and merit points. The choices are found in the links below.\nthe containment policy the containment policy of \u2026\nKennan's concept of containment was based on his particularistic notion of U.S. foreign policy. Kennan's containment differed significantly from the containment U.S. foreign policy-makers would later practice.\nTo what extent was America's policy of containment successful\nUnder President Harry Truman, the United States had established a foreign policy doctrine called \"containment.\" Originated by George Kennan, Dean Acheson, and other diplomats and policy advisors, the policy of \"containment\" aimed not to fight an all out war with the communist Soviet Union, but rather to confine communism and the Soviet Union to their existing boundaries. This doctrine led directly to the Vietnam war. \"Containment\" was based on several premises:\nAmerican policy of containment \u2026\nThe war between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and Republic of Korea (South Korea) in 1950 was more of an indirect conflict between the Soviet Union and the U.S.\n\u27a1 Similarly, the Vietnam War (1955-1975) was a military conflict, and was a part of the Cold War.\nNews magazine shows the beginnings of American containment policy\nWhat's much more relevant here is the assumption that all nations must be aligned with either the US or the USSR, and that there could be no communist nation which was not also a pawn of the Soviets. China was also a communist nation after 1948, but this had failed to override thousands of years of enmity between Russia and China, two very different cultures with a long history of struggle over their borders. By the 50s, the Chinese were as anxious about the Russians as they were about the US. The United States feared the global spread of communism, but the doctrine of containment made it difficult to see nations as distinct, as places with different cultures, different problems, different histories. In this respect we can see Vietnam as an example of containment's failure.\nContainment Policy - Essays - Bimjeam - Paper Camp\nX\" he authored the most famous essay of the Cold War in 1947: The Sources of Soviet Conduct, an expansive essay in which he drew out the road map for the policy that would be known as \"Soviet Containment\".\nPolicy of Containment - WriteWork\nAverell Harriman once remarked of Kennan:\"He is a man who knows Russia, but he didn't understand the United States.\" to read about the Cold War prophet who believed that Kennan's containment policy was not tough enough on the Soviets...\nReply; Comment Commented Ting Mak JUN 18, 2017. American policy is indeed containment of China. The purpose of massive flows of \u2026\n\u00a9 itzoovim.com Driving with cell phones essay | Rome vs china essay | Essays about pride and prejudice | Personal essay on morals | Rome vs china essay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 8308, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ivanenviroman.com/impact-of-colonial-forest-policy-in-india.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:33Z", "digest": "sha1:2H7TSG3I4FDUIENL4ZFD5RTG66ZTQDE2", "length": 7896, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "ivanenviroman.com", "title": "Impact of colonial forest policy in india. Forestry in India. 2019-01-27", "raw_content": "Impact of colonial forest policy in india. National Forest Policy by Ministry of Environment and Forest 2019-01-27\nImpact of colonial forest policy in india Rating: 4,6/10 224 reviews\nHistory and Culture Journal\nAmong birds the most famous is Great Indian bustard. Between 1990 and 2010, as evidenced by satellite data, India has reversed the deforestation trend. Other animals are wild ass, blackbuck, desert cat, caracal, etc. Indian forests represent one of the 12 mega biodiverse regions of the world. Pigs, crab-eating macaque, palm civet and deers are other important land animals of the islands. The policy was revised in 1952 and again in 1988.\nEffects of colonial forest laws on natural environment in india\nImportant fauna include elephant; wild boar; deers cheetal or axis deer, hog deer, swamp deer or barasinga, sambhar ; antelopes four-horned antelope, nilgai, blackbuck, etc. It submitted its report in March 2006. Protecting Vultures: The report of the Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries made a shocking revelation on the population of vultures that has decimated in the entire region of South Asia. Over 4000 mammal species are found here. Prior to the 1980s, India deployed a bureaucratic method to estimate forest coverage.\nComprehensive Essay on Colonial Forest Policy in India\nMangrove cover is the area covered under mangrove vegetation as interpreted digitally from remote sensing data. The 2009 Indian national forest policy document emphasizes the need to combine India's effort at forest conservation with sustainable forest management. The elephant habitat has shrunk over the years, and poaching for elephant tusks has endangered the species, especially in southern India. In 2002, non-wood forest products were a source of significant supplemental income to over 400 million people in India, mostly rural. These colonial laws brought the forests under the centralised sovereignty of the state. India has a thriving non-wood forest products industry, which produces latex, gums, resins, essential oils, flavours, fragrances and aroma chemicals, sticks, , thatching materials and medicinal plants.\nHunting should be strictly controlled. The imperial needs dictated the British interests in the Indian forest resources, which resulted in the establishment of control over forest resources. Checking soil erosion and denudation in catchment areas of rivers, lakes and reservoirs; 4. Ministry of Environment and Forests. A protest that became Chipko movement followed. India has one of the richest variety of bird species on earth, hosting about 12. This article is a critical overview of the changing paradigms of successive forest policies in India and argues that the real participation of the community can be ensured only when it is accorded a meaningful stake in all forest matters affecting the community.\nForestry in India\nHis main focus has been on the attitude and action of peasants during the crisis of famine; and how the peasants perceived and responded to the crisis created by drought, dearth and famine. Following the leads of Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, a number of other states also established community-based forestry agencies that emphasized programmes on farm forestry, timber management, extension forestry, of degraded forests, and use of forests for recreational purposes. This led to a programme named Joint Forest Management, which proposed that specific villages in association with the forest department will manage specific forest blocks. Instead of criminalising their skills at finding, recognising, attracting and capturing birds, India should offer them employment to re-apply their skills through scientific management, protection and wildlife preservation. For instance, leaves are collected during April-May, seeds fall with the pre-monsoon showers and collected from under the tree and pine trees are trapped for resin during warm and hot weather. Another fast disappearing species is the one-horned rhinoceros which is housed in the Kaziranga National Park Assam , the home of wild buffaloes, tigers and sambhars as well, and the Manas Wildlife Sanctuary, also in Assam, which is famous for wild buffaloes, rhinos and elephants. Eco-development Scheme: An eco- development scheme in and around national parks and sanctuaries including tiger reserves was also launched to provide alternate sources of sustenance to the communities living at the fringes of national parks and sanctuaries including tiger reserves, to improve the ecological productivity of the buffer zones of protected areas through the involvement of these communities in protecting these sanctuaries and national parks and their wild\u00adlife; through a well-designed package of activities aimed at providing sustenance to the forest side communities and ameliorating their hardships to minimise conflicts between those communities and the protection staffs.\nThis paper analyses the impact of colonialism on the economic exploitation of the forest resources of south India and its consequences for the environment and hill inhabitants of the region during the pre-Forest Act colonial era, 1793\u20141882. Users can get information on National Environment Policy 2006, National Zoo Policy, National Forest Policy, Wildlife Conservation Strategy 2002, etc. The crop yields are very poor with jhum cultivation. Forestry in India is more than just about wood and fuel. Logs account for 67% of all wood and wood products imported into India due to local preference for unprocessed wood. These forests support a variety of ecosystems with diverse flora and fauna. The cumulative area afforested during the 1951-91 period was nearly 179,000 square kilometres.\nNational Forest Policy by Ministry of Environment and Forest\nFor example, the pressure on forests was increasing as a result of expansion of agriculture, expansion of railways etc. Now, it is reported only from India and Nepal. Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. The major source of food production for them is shifting cultivation, which is an integral part of the economy in tribal culture. In India, the first biosphere reserve\u2014Nilgiri biosphere reserve\u2014 came into being in 1986.\nThe project is being implemented in Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Orissa, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Now the demand of resources by Indians increased alongwith the British demands. Further, it argues that the colonial government policies were not aimed to conserve the forest resources but to commercialise these resources. Most species are tree dwellers. If we looks at the life of paharias and santhals during 1855 we ll found that britishers left no possible sign of cruelity with tribes. It is found in the Gir National Park Gujarat and in the Chandraprabha Wildlife Sanctuary near Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. After a long and continuous denial of the crucial stake that local communities have in their nearby forests, it was only in late 1980s that they were accorded some space.\nThe Colonial Legacy of Forest Policies in India\nUsers can get to know about actions and reports. The trappers lead a life of poverty and migrate over time. The movement grew and Indian government responded by imposing a 15-year ban on felling all trees above 1000 metres in the region directly as a result of the Chipko agitations. The government gave out these contracts without any restrictions in regard to conservation and these contractors began cutting trees indiscriminately as a result forest around train tracks disappeared. According to one set of writers: Since the early 1970s, as they realised that deforestation threatened not only the ecology but their livelihood in a variety of ways, people have become more interested and involved in conservation. India is the world's third largest hardwood log importer.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 8160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ivanhenley.com/hlnr/skip_02.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:47Z", "digest": "sha1:JLOYIMDTECWOLRZZGGP7Y56OANT6HNTD", "length": 1594, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "ivanhenley.com", "title": "Ivan Henley's Hyper-Level Nova Revengers \u00a9 - Skip to a specific page in Dressed To Kill", "raw_content": "Skip to a specific page in Dressed To Kill\nPage Five - August 8, 2012\nPage Eight - August 29, 2012\nPage Nine - September 5, 2012\nPage Twelve - September 26, 2012\nPage Seventeen - October 31, 2012\nPage Twenty-six - January 2, 2013\nPage Forty - April 10, 2013\nPage Forty-three - May 1, 2013\nPage Fifty-three - July 10, 2013\nPage Fifty-eight - August 7, 2013\nPage Sixty-one - August 28, 2013\nPage Sixty-seven - October 9, 2013\nPage Seventy - October 30, 2013\nPage Seventy-one - November 6, 2013\nPage Seventy-four - November 27, 2013\nPage Eighty - January 8, 2014\nPage Eighty-three - January 29, 2014\nPage Eighty-four - February 5, 2014\nPage Eighty-seven - February 26, 2014\nPage Eighty-eight - March 5, 2014\nPage Ninety-three - April 9, 2014\nPage Ninety-six - April 30, 2014\nPage Ninety-seven - May 7, 2014\nPage One Hundred - May 28, 2014\nPage One Hundred and One - June 4, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Two - June 11, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Three - June 18, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Four - June 25, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Five - July 2, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Six - July 9, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Seven - July 16, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Eight - July 23, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Nine - July 30, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Ten - August 6, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Eleven - August 13, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Twelve - August 20, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Thirteen - August 27, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Fourteen - September 3, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Fifteen - September 10, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Sixteen - September 17, 2014\nPage One Hundred and Seventeen - September 24, 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 245.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jakegarn.com/the-trouble-with-pet-peeves/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:59Z", "digest": "sha1:UKZEJBLYJLBSQUK4K5S2VE3AHBWOMC27", "length": 5074, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "jakegarn.com", "title": "The Trouble with Pet Peeves | Jake Garn Photography", "raw_content": "by Jake Garn | Jun 18, 2010 | My Photo Philosophy, Photoshop & Lightroom, Whimsical Fashion Photography | 8 comments\nNeck wrinkles in photos is my number one Pet Peeve\nNeck Wrinkle (n) The overlaps in skin caused when a person\u2019s head is turned with a seemingly unnatural angle relative to the neck.\nEven though most photographers and models will create images that avoid overlapping wrinkles of skin somehow neck wrinkles pop up in professional fashion and beauty photography not commonly, but definitely not rarely. There are neck wrinkles in a book titled \u201cFashion Photography\u201d for crying out loud!\nI don\u2019t know why I allow myself to be so bothered by them. Maybe it\u2019s because it\u2019s so easy to make posing adjustments to relieve the excruciating pressure required to overlap one\u2019s skin on itself, or it might be because neck wrinkles remind me of over-active models trying too hard to show their arse AND their face, ala \u201cBikinis and Cars 18-month Calendar\u201d style.\nWhatever the reason, if there is a neck wrinkle in an image I just can\u2019t stop looking at it (and thanks to this article I\u2019ve now cursed you with the same affliction). It\u2019s like this, 1 of my 5 senses wants to abandon their post and render me temporarily deaf whenever I stumble onto one of Jay Leno\u2019s monologues, yet my brain orders it to even greater attention, and in a true plot-twist my senses are repulsed but my brain is fascinated by the agony of it all. So I cannot look away.\nI even spend a few minutes talking about posing techniques that will eliminate neck wrinkles in my photo workshops for crying out loud! It\u2019s that big of deal to me. I\u2019m not condoning it, that\u2019s just the way I am.\nThat being said sometimes, sometimes the perfect shot happens to have the wrinkles. That\u2019s just the way it is. No amount of posing or time-machine can fix it. The perfect comedy line-up just happens to include Jay Leno\u2026 what are you supposed to do? Do you skip the whole event just because of one overlapping skin wrinkle? Bless his heart.\nThe answer is of course NO. You cannot abandon the perfect shot because of one dulwarp.\ndulwarp (n) 1. Jay Leno 2. Neck Wrinkles.\nSo I\u2019m working on a set of images I call the Chameleon Series. You haven\u2019t seen the images yet, nor do you know anything about it because it\u2019s a surprise (the series will go on display at The Aperture gallery in Salt Lake City on Friday June 23rd, 2010 \u2013 stay tuned for details) yet it happened\u2026 the perfect shot of one of the models just happened to have them. I don\u2019t know how I missed it during the shoot or if I noticed them and just didn\u2019t realize we just made THE shot, but in any case I had to accept the fact that they were there.\nTHE shot (n) The shot of all shots in this particular look.\nAt first I just let them be, I thought to myself that I could do it. I could release an image with neck wrinkles, it would be fine. But as the image neared completion I realized I couldn\u2019t live with myself if Jay Leno accidentally made his way onto my TIVO anymore than I could put an image into this series with neck wrinkles.\nSo, I had to fix them and fixing them takes quite a bit longer than you\u2019d think, yet it was all worth it.\nAfter (nearly complete)\nBrady Tracy\ton June 18, 2010 at 1:36 am\nI like this article alot, im always running into the problem of neck wrinkles, it drives me nuts as well. Do you have a tutorial on how you made the neck wrinkles disappear and made the neck so flawless looking?\nJake Garn\ton June 18, 2010 at 1:37 am\n@Brady Tracy \u2013 no tutorial yet, but possibly in the future? Basically it\u2019s a lot of heal, and clone-stamp tool zoomed to nearly the pixel level. There really are no great short cuts.\nVicki Loader\ton June 18, 2010 at 1:53 am\nGood work Jake \u2013 I second Brady\u2019s request! And now, I know that all I am going to see in pics are neck wrinkles. How could you do this to me\u2026..?\nDave\ton June 18, 2010 at 11:06 pm\nNow I\u2019ll return the favor. Ever notice how no matter how much food you order at a chinese place, they always say \u201cten minutes\u201d.\nSomeone pointed that out to me once, now whenever I order, they say it\u2026 it\u2019s on you now!\nDane\ton June 21, 2010 at 2:17 am\nI suppose I\u2019ll be the odd one out. Not only do the neck wrinkles not bother me but the absence of them can drive me nuts in that \u201cthere-is-something-missing-but-I-can\u2019t-put-my-finger-on-it-maybe-she-is-a-cyborg\u201d sort of way. Of course it doesn\u2019t bug me nearly as much as Jay Leno or the \u201cBaby Mama\u201d movie poster, so I guess you should do whatever satisfies that itch.\nKara Laws\ton June 29, 2010 at 11:40 am\nHaha! Great I will now see neck wrinkles everywhere I look. For shame!\nHerman S.\ton July 10, 2010 at 4:11 pm\nI agree with Dane. It has a not quite natural look to me. And I will admit that I have fixed neck wrinkles in very young models. And have had to back up when it becomes un-natural.\nWill\ton October 28, 2010 at 9:32 pm\nSo I read this a couple of months ago, and thought, \u201cThere he goes\u201d. And I noticed that I started removing that one big neck wrinkle, or that little \u201cgather\u201d as a matter of course. I guess obsession is next?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 5833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jerfareza.com/LA/Hammond/affordable-auto-insurance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SEHLG6CPPDBSZGA2CW23WFHHTDVJPQ7H", "length": 3295, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "jerfareza.com", "title": "Affordable auto insurance Hammond LA. FREE NO OBLIGATION CAR INSURANCE QUOTES! 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Some health insurance, and get some quotes from each company offers, which include travel, health, life, and the costs for car owners leave personal items in the event of an accident or even the grades to secure collector insurance make sure it's a good idea to ensure that.\nAffordable car insurance Jacksonville, AR", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 6, "original_length": 3423, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jimharrisononline.com/Adayattheraces2.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:47Z", "digest": "sha1:6JUG2S33J4MY3FFFRKW6IQ7R6WHXHNLQ", "length": 546, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "jimharrisononline.com", "title": "A Day at the races 2002 Pg 2", "raw_content": "A Day at the Races - 5 June 2002\nWhle visiting the buffet line, I took a shot of the room and the view of the track below..\nBy the time we'd finished eating, the races had started and everyone began to get into the spirit of things.\nHere's a view of the horses below on the track limbering up prior to going to the starting gate.!\nJodie Riley was the big winner of the evening. She not only did well on the horses, but won beacoup scratch off lottery tickets in a drawing!\nA great time was had by all, and we're looking forward to doing it again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jimhewitt.weebly.com/home/archives/12-2013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:15Z", "digest": "sha1:IXS72UFOUVM4MTE7IOVKI245DRB25SCO", "length": 372, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jimhewitt.weebly.com", "title": "Blog Archives", "raw_content": "So. Busy.\nFinished a mix for the second collaboration with David Howie last night. He's been waiting forever but I've been so busy working in the studio that I just got to it. I haven't even had a chance to work on my own stuff for months now. It's all good though. Loving the results and as I said before I cannot wait for you all to hear everything that's been going on!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 1171, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 204.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnrhead.com/writings/about-couples-therapy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:36Z", "digest": "sha1:33O7WSX5DGGSWCWDQAXCPESB7PTLW7OF", "length": 1829, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "johnrhead.com", "title": "About Couples Therapy | John C. Rhead, Ph.D. | John Rhead", "raw_content": "When two people who are involved in an important relationship with each other choose to enter couples therapy together, the first item of business is often the clarification of objectives. It is common to find that each person secretly, or perhaps not so secretly, sees the first objective in terms of having the therapist recognize and confirm that all the difficulties in the relationship are a result of defects or at least bad behavior in the other person. Then the second objective is for the therapist to straighten that person out so that the couple can live happily ever after.\nFrom the point of view of the therapist the first objective is to discover how each partner contributes to the trouble or pain in the couple\u2019s relationship and thereby help each drop the illusion that it is all the other\u2019s fault. The second objective is then to help each partner find ways to change the patterns of their interactions so that they cause less trouble or pain. Usually this amounts to finding ways to interact that help each partner to feel loved and supported by the other. Often it also requires finding ways to heal the wounds that have been caused by hurtful things one\u2019s partner has done in the past or by experiences that took place before ever having met one\u2019s partner.\nCouples therapy requires a willingness to be emotionally vulnerable to one\u2019s partner in ways that can be quite challenging to most of us. Therefore it can only be successful when both partners truly want the relationship to continue and to get better and each is willing to work on how he or she can change to accomplish this. Both must be willing and able to tolerate the feelings of vulnerability that accompany this work. While operating primarily at the first level of psychotherapy, couples therapy can sometimes jump quickly to the second level.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2016/01/my-newest-piece-at-daily-caller-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:26Z", "digest": "sha1:PKAOV6ROIU3TXWEOXIRZ2IFPOOQOONPS", "length": 1603, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "johnrlott.blogspot.com", "title": "John Lott's Website: My newest piece at the Daily Caller on Obama's false statements during his CNN Townhall", "raw_content": "My newest piece at the Daily Caller on Obama's false statements during his CNN Townhall\nJohn Lott's newest opinion piece at the Daily Caller starts this way:\nI wish that I had been able to go to CNN\u2019s town hall with President Obama. But Thursday night\u2019s event was invitation-only.\nStill, Anderson Cooper, the moderator, challenged the president a few times. But the president just made one false claim after another.\nWhen rape survivor Kimberly Corban asked why she shouldn\u2019t be able to carry a gun to protect herself, Obama said his current executive actions won\u2019t make it harder for her to purchase a firearm. He claimed, he isn\u2019t proposing anything that \u201cprevents you or makes it harder for you to purchase a firearm if you need one.\u201d\nObama\u2019s proposed expanded background checks will make guns more expensive, perhaps prohibitively so for poorer people. In DC, where Obama was speaking from, expanded background checks add about $125 to the cost of transferring a gun.\nAfter the event, CNN brought in conservative commentators such as SE Cupp. However, they failed to understand the issues here. It\u2019s not just that the laws won\u2019t do any good \u2014 they will also come with some real costs. These laws won\u2019t stop mass public shootings, but they will hurt law-abiding citizens.\nThen came the issue of expanded background checks leading to a national gun registry. Anderson Cooper said that people are afraid of having their guns taken away and asked, \u201cIs it fair to call it a conspiracy?\u201d \u201cYes, it is fair to call it a conspiracy,\u201d Obama said, seemingly intimidating Cooper into dropping the subject. . . .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 6385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/2016/02/incredible-winning-rate-of-hillary.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:26Z", "digest": "sha1:2LZMGPZ7D4ECU2TOGGWB26CERHMU6RU2", "length": 1267, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "johnrlott.blogspot.com", "title": "John Lott's Website: UPDATE: Incredible winning rate of Hillary Clinton's coin flips to break caucus ties, a fifty-fifty split would have had Sanders ahead", "raw_content": "UPDATE: Incredible winning rate of Hillary Clinton's coin flips to break caucus ties, a fifty-fifty split would have had Sanders ahead\nAs about 12:21 AM CST, there had been six out of six coin flips that Clinton had won to break ties.\nThe odds of winning six out of six coin flips with a fair coin is only 1.7%. Using the latest number of delegates on Drudge shown above at 7:00 AM EST would still have Sanders ahead by one vote if the coin flips had gone 50-50. Sanders would still be slightly ahead by 698 to 697.\nCounting the votes might be a little more complicated in Iowa. If each coin flip determines more than one of these 1,395 delegates, then Hillary would have had to win more than 50% of the coin flips to win the race.\nUPDATE: The Washington Post reported that the Des Moines Register missed some cases.\nThe initial 6-for-6 report, from the Des Moines Register missed a few Sanders coin-toss wins. (There were a lot of coin tosses!) The ratio of Clinton to Sanders wins was closer to 50-50, which is what we'd expect. . . .\nThere might have been a total of 13 coin flips with Hillary Clinton winning 7 of the six.\nLabels: Bernie Sanders, HillaryClinton\nPerhaps we will just have to accept she is the lucky one. After all she did turn $1000 into $100,000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 6066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 270.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://journalcra.com/article/environmental-status-kadalundi-river-basin-kerala-%E2%80%93-case-study-kadalundi-estuary", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SVN74CNCZJHFH3UW23V5ADVNDWB2CC3S", "length": 1296, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "journalcra.com", "title": "Environmental status of kadalundi river basin in kerala \u2013 a case study of kadalundi estuary | International Journal of Current Research", "raw_content": "Environmental status of kadalundi river basin in kerala \u2013 a case study of kadalundi estuary\nBindu, K. B. and Jaypal, G.\nDetailed study has been carried out for understanding the environmental status of Kadalundi River Basin in Kerala using secondary data collected from various departments and field survey. This study is a preliminary investigation of the early and existing environmental condition in the river basin which is one of the hot spots of biodiversity. Based on the published information in news papers, articles, internet and a pilot field study was carried out to find out the actual environmental status of the river basin. As per the survey it is noted that environmental status of Kadalundi river basin is deteriorating day by day. The major environmental issues are the dumping of plastic wastes in open space, decrease in the annual arrival of migratory birds, reduce in area under mangrove forest, increase in pest attack over areas in mangrove forest, drudging and illegal sand mining, ecological disturbance, salt water intrusion and disappearance of local flora and fauna due to implementation of inter cropping agricultural pattern. This study can be a base for an environmental evaluation and formatting a plan for integrated river basin model for Kadalundi river basin.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 5382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://journalrecord.com/2018/08/08/prosperity-policy-boom-not-making-it-to-paychecks/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:44Z", "digest": "sha1:QXNW7JIH42TGXQ2P24UWLD5D6W2LYXDE", "length": 2498, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "journalrecord.com", "title": "Prosperity Policy: Boom not making it to paychecks \u2013 The Journal Record", "raw_content": "Home / Opinion / Blatt column / Prosperity Policy: Boom not making it to paychecks\nProsperity Policy: Boom not making it to paychecks\nRecent months have brought much good economic news as the expansion that began in 2010 under the Obama administration continues under President Trump.\nGross domestic product rose by 4.1 percent in the last quarter, its fastest growth since 2014. The official unemployment rate fell in July to 3.9 percent; even among workers without a high school diploma, who were hardest hit by the Great Recession, the unemployment rate is now just 5.1 percent.\nYet while the economic boom has led to more people finding jobs, the benefits of a robust economy are still not being felt in workers\u2019 paychecks. Despite a tight labor market, workers\u2019 earnings continue to grow at less than 3 percent per year, and inflation has eaten away much of that growth. In fact, average hourly wages adjusted for inflation actually fell from 2017 to 2018 for the bulk of blue-collar workers, including those in manufacturing and construction jobs and nonsupervisory workers in industries such as health care and fast food, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.\nMeanwhile, corporate profits have risen at an annualized rate of 6.5 percent since the recession ended in 2009. The result, as the New York Times recently reported, is that \u201ccorporate profits have rarely swept up a bigger share of the nation\u2019s wealth, and workers have rarely shared a smaller one.\u201d Since 2000, corporate profits as a share of nation\u2019s total income have grown from 8.3 to 13.2 percent, while employee pay has fallen from 66 to 62 percent.\nEconomists have pointed to numerous factors to account for stagnant wages at a time of low unemployment, including automation and globalization, declines in union membership, the outsourcing of work to contractors, and a lagging minimum wage, which hasn\u2019t been raised at the federal level or in states like Oklahoma since 2009.\nThe national economic picture is reproduced here in Oklahoma. Even as the state\u2019s unemployment rate has fallen below 4 percent, workers\u2019 incomes remain stagnant. Oklahoma\u2019s average hourly wage adjusted for inflation was unchanged between June 2017 and 2018, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The average wage in Oklahoma remains 14 percent below the national average.\nBefore popping the corks to celebrate economic growth, our leaders should be concerned that this economy isn\u2019t getting better for most working Americans.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 252, "original_length": 8335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 198.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://journalrecord.com/2018/10/25/3-5-million-approved-for-wellness-center-improvements/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:53Z", "digest": "sha1:IDEC4KWZTNV7QULBVC62I2YB2FYV64CJ", "length": 3717, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "journalrecord.com", "title": "$3.5 million approved for wellness center improvements \u2013 The Journal Record", "raw_content": "Home / News Headlines / $3.5 million approved for wellness center improvements\n$3.5 million approved for wellness center improvements\nBy: Molly M. Fleming The Journal Record\tOctober 25, 2018\t0\nPeople use exercise equipment at the MAPS 3 Health and Wellness Center in northwest Oklahoma City. (Photo by Jay Chilton)\nOKLAHOMA CITY \u2013 Susan Hooper is a member of the MAPS 3 Wellness Center in northwest Oklahoma City. But she\u2019s been using the pool and taking other classes at the Pete White Health and Wellness Center on S. Walker Avenue because the northwest center is too crowded.\nHooper is on the MAPS 3 Citizen Advisory Board. Committee member Bob Nelon said he has also experienced the packed parking lot at the cramped northwest center.\nThat\u2019s why Executive Director Claire Dowers-Nichols said there needs to be an expansion at the center. She asked the advisory board on Thursday for $3.5 million, which would be used for a variety of updates at the center, including a parking lot expansion, more locker rooms, more flex space, a gym for pickleball and a field for outdoor recreation. There\u2019s also interest in building another swimming pool, but that project will require private fundraising, Dowers-Nichols said.\nThe advisory committee approved the $3.5 million request. But the larger-than-expected membership demand at MAPS 3 Senior Wellness Center No. 1 has the overseeing subcommittee wondering if a fifth center should be built or the other three centers should be expanded.\nThe $3.5 million will be used from a $29 million excess in Metropolitan Area Projects sales-tax collections. Also, there was a $22 million excess from the convention center budget, so there\u2019s about $51 million available for updates at MAPS 3 amenities, said Mike Mize with ADG architecture firm and the MAPS 3 program consultant.\nMAPS 3 subcommittees, such as those for trails and senior wellness centers, were asked to give a wish list of projects. Altogether, those projects would cost $61 million, Mize said.\nOn Tuesday, the City Council approved $7.9 million for the Whitewater Center, which sits next to Riversport Rapids in the Boathouse District. The project is expected to be completed before the 2019 season.\nThat made the need to approve the money more timely than other projects on the wish list. Advisory Board Chairman Tom McDaniel said the expansion at the MAPS 3 northwest center is also timely.\nThe Senior Wellness Center Subcommittee is trying to decide if it should use the $15 million it requested for a fifth center or divide that money to expand the other three centers. Only two wellness centers are complete at this time.\nSubcommittee Vice Chair Cecilia Robinson-Woods said that discussion about a fifth center or expanding the others is ongoing.\nAdvisory board member Zane Boatright, who heads the MAPS 3 Trails and Sidewalks Subcommittee, said he would be willing to go back and talk to his committee about changing its wish list amount. He said he thinks he could get the amount lower.\n\u201cI\u2019ll probably be tarred and feathered, but I\u2019d like to take some time to go back and look at this,\u201d he said.\nWork on the third wellness center is starting, said David Todd, MAPS program manager. During its meeting, the advisory committee approved the contract for Hornbeek Blatt architecture firm to design the center. It will be at NE 23rd Street and Martin Luther King Avenue. Todd said the firm will select the best site in that area. Langston University will be the operating partner.\nThe advisory board\u2019s decisions will go to the City Council for final approval.\nClaire Dowers-Nichols Maps 3 wellness center 8:11 pm Thu, October 25, 2018 The Journal Record\nTagged with: Claire Dowers-Nichols Maps 3 wellness center", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 9501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://journeythroughfiction.blogspot.com/2015/09/mini-reviews-we-were-liars-ticker-how-I-live-now.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:22Z", "digest": "sha1:RLRROZP43RQNUOTKOUQLGY3CZS4KJGC2", "length": 5811, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "journeythroughfiction.blogspot.com", "title": "Journey Through Fiction: Mini-Reviews: We Were Liars, Ticker and How I Live Now", "raw_content": "Mini-Reviews: We Were Liars, Ticker and How I Live Now\nThis is a tough review to write. Anything I could discuss would edge into unintentional spoiler territory, so I\u2019m going to refrain from saying too much. The advice that\u2019s been floating around is 1000% correct: go into this book with as little prior knowledge as possible, it\u2019ll be a huge benefit. I had HUGE expectations for We Were Liars, but I think I was bitten by the dreaded hype bug. I enjoyed the book, but not nearly as much as I had expected to. The story itself is fascinating, and I was hooked very quickly and flew through the pages. While I love fast paced books, I think a lot of necessary detail was skimmed over here, making things seem a little more simplistic than they should have been. My biggest issue was the book lacked any sort of feeling. I wasn\u2019t attached to the characters, and any hiccups along the way didn\u2019t cause much of a reaction in me. I did enjoy We Were Liars overall, and I\u2019d definitely recommend reading it, but when I consider the hype surrounding it, I was expecting so much more.\nTitle: Ticker\nAuthor: Lisa Mantchev\nA girl with a clockwork heart must make every second count.\nWhen Penny Farthing nearly dies, brilliant surgeon Calvin Warwick manages to implant a brass \u201cTicker\u201d in her chest, transforming her into the first of the Augmented. But soon it\u2019s discovered that Warwick killed dozens of people as he strove to perfect another improved Ticker for Penny, and he\u2019s put on trial for mass murder.\nOn the last day of Warwick\u2019s trial, the Farthings\u2019 factory is bombed, Penny\u2019s parents disappear, and Penny and her brother, Nic, receive a ransom note demanding all of their Augmentation research if they want to see their parents again. Is someone trying to destroy the Farthings...or is the motive more sinister?\nI had started reading Ticker a couple of times since I downloaded it from Netgalley a while back, and I struggled to get into the story after the first few percent and I kept setting it aside, thinking it was just my mood not matching the story. So, I finally got in a steampunkish kind of mood recently, and I decided to just sit down and plough through. Unfortunately, I just couldn\u2019t do it. The characters felt very distant and sort of\u2026 unapproachable, if that makes sense. Also, I thought the steampunk elements were a little over the top. The continual mentions of machines and other gadgets didn\u2019t really set the atmosphere enough \u2013 it\u2019s one thing to be told something, it\u2019s a complete different thing to actually feel something and to believe it. I really like the concept of Ticker, but sadly I just couldn\u2019t get into the story.\nTitle: How I Live Now\n\u201cEvery war has turning points and every person too.\u201d\nFifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she\u2019s never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her aunt goes away on business soon after Daisy arrives. The next day bombs go off as London is attacked and occupied by an unnamed enemy.\nAs power fails, and systems fail, the farm becomes more isolated. Despite the war, it\u2019s a kind of Eden, with no adults in charge and no rules, a place where Daisy\u2019s uncanny bond with her cousins grows into something rare and extraordinary.\nBut the war is everywhere, and Daisy and her cousins must lead each other into a world that is unknown in the scariest, most elemental way.\nI bought How I Live Now quite a while ago on a whim, and it\u2019s been sitting gathering dust on my to-read shelves ever since. It has been probably two years since I read the synopsis, and when I picked it up recently I was under the impression it would be a quick contemporary YA read. Well, I was right about the quick read part, but it was such a pleasant surprise to find it was a Dystopian. I swear, it was like a gift from the Gods!\nThe narrative and writing style did take a little getting used to, but once I settled in after a chapter or two, I really enjoyed it. With the way the story is written, it\u2019s very hard to feel anything toward all the other characters beyond Elizabeth (Daisy), the narrator. Daisy isn\u2019t the most likeable character in the world, but I couldn\u2019t help rooting for her and I ended up with a weird sort of grudging respect for her as the story unfolded. Right, I have to mention the cousin-on-cousin action. If you\u2019re not comfortable with underage-sex or even discussing incest/cousins-falling-in-love, then this book is probably best avoided. Personally, I\u2019ve read other books that I thought handled the topic of incest better and in a more thought-provoking way. Having said that, I didn\u2019t have any real problems with the way Daisy and Edmund\u2019s relationship progressed (apart from it being a tad insta-lovey.) The survival portions of the book were by far my favourite themes. I loved how brutal, honest and compelling it was during this chunk of the book.\nOverall, I really enjoyed How I Live Now, and I\u2019d highly recommend giving it a chance. It looks at a very stark, dark and brutal battle for survival when your country is invaded and occupied by the enemy, and how the scars never leave. Brilliant.\nPosted by Alma Reads at Monday, September 07, 2015 Labels: 3 stars, 4 stars, ARC, Contemporary, DNF, Dystopia, Review, Steampunk, War, Young Adult\nAmanda B. 7 September 2015 at 14:37\nI wasn't impressed at all by We Were Liars! So much hype around it and after reading it I still don't know why haha\nYeah, I agree. The hype was HUGE last year, and my expectations were extremely high because of it.\nAJ Sterkel 7 September 2015 at 16:47\nAwesome reviews. I wasn\u2019t a huge fan of We Were Liars. I didn\u2019t like any of the characters. The book didn\u2019t live up to the hype for me.\nYep, completely agree. 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Click this link and find out how you can win prizes for sharing this giveaway!\nMeet your giveaway sponsors from #eNovAaW\nJackie Weger is a traveler of the good earth by boat, train, plane and truck. But mostly she just gets as far as Walmart.\nAmazon ~ Facebook ~ Twitter\nDonna Fasano is a USA Today Bestselling Author. Her books have won awards and have sold 4 million copies world wide.\nMorphing from scientific research into fiction, Aurora Springer has achieved her life-long ambition to publish her creations. Her stories include science fiction and fantasy with romance, mystery and a sprinkle of humor. In real life, she works as a scientist and has a PhD in molecular biophysics. She was born in the UK and lives in Atlanta with her husband, a dog and two cats to sit on the laptop. Her hobbies, besides reading and writing, include outdoor activities like watching wildlife, hiking and canoeing.\nLorena Angell lives in Washington where she enjoys gardening, hiking, bar-b-queing, and being with her family. She writes Young Adult Fantasy/Paranormal. Her series, The Unaltered, is a #1 bestseller in eleven countries and is currently being optioned for film.\nA.J. Lape\nA. J. Lape lives in Cincinnati with her husband, two daughters, an ADD dog, a spoiled hamster, and an unapologetic and unrepentant addiction to Coca-Cola\u2013plus a lifelong love affair with bacon she has no plans to sever. A graduate of Morehead State University with a Master\u2019s degree in Communications, she\u2019s a PI wannabe but daily stops crime and kills bad people through the fictional ADHD character of Darcy Walker. If the FBI ever checks her computer, she\u2019ll be wearing prison-orange due to the graphic and disgusting \u201cwiki\u201d articles she looks up\u2026all in the name of career research, of course.\nJerri Hines is an Amazon bestselling author of the Winds of the Betrayal and Winds of Change series and Southern Legacy serial that were inspired by her fascination with history. She is a Southern gal who has lived the last thirty years near Boston with her Yankee husband. She believes in love and the power it holds. It is the reason she writes romances. Her much anticipated conclusion to Winds of Betrayal, Set Fire To the Rain, will be released December, 2016. She is also an Amazon Bestselling author under her penname, Colleen Connally\nAmy specializes in fun, comedic reads about accident prone, easily distracted women with questionable taste in men. So, autobiographies, mostly. She is a nerd and Labradoodle mommy who works at home with her goofy husband. She loves interacting with fans when the dog isn\u2019t laying on top of her, so stop by her blog or Twitter and say hi!\nDan teaches at local colleges, writes novels and plays the tenor saxophone in a couple of jazz bands. Married with two daughters and a needy Maltese, Dan splits his time between South West, Florida and New York City where he was born. Dan has his own view of the world and culture or lack thereof. He has an active blog at http://danpetrosini.com, has written four novels and is in the midst of the next one.\nThank you so much for your interest in my work. My mother was Jewish and my father was Romany. From the time I was young, the dark memories of the holocaust were a part of my life. Soon all the survivors will be gone, and the lessons of the holocaust must not be lost with them. I studied, researched, and met with survivors, and each story of survival has one common thread, that even in the darkest hour there\u2019s always a flicker of light. And that flicker of light is, love.\nI send you many blessings. Roberta\nAnne Kennison\nWith more than 30 years of lawyering under her belt, and now retired from the practice of law, Anne describes herself as a \u201c\u201drecovering attorney.\u201d\u201d Anne\u2019s unique plot twists come from a fertile imagination honed by those years of experience.\nWhen Anne\u2019s not writing, she dabbles in photography, makes scrapbooks for her two granddaughters, makes jewelry, hangs out with the grandkids, and travels with her husband. Although they have traveled extensively from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, and from Asia to Europe, what they love most is adventure travel. Anne says, \u201c\u201dSo much world to see, so little time!\u201d\u201d\nAnne lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her husband Dale and two Ragdoll cats, Grady and Elliott.\nKerry J. Donovan\n#1 International Best-seller with On Lucky Shores, Kerry J Donovan was born in Dublin. He spent most of his life in the UK, and now lives in the heart of rural Brittany with his wonderful and patient wife, Jan. They have three children and four grandchildren (so far), all of whom live in England. An absentee granddad, Kerry is hugely thankful for the advent of video calling.\nThe cottage is a pet free zone (apart from the field mice, moles, and red squirrels).\nKerry earned a first class honours degree in Human Biology, and has a PhD in Sport and Exercise Sciences. A former scientific advisor to The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, he helped UK emergency first-responders prepare for chemical attacks in the wake of 9/11. This background adds a scientific edge to his writing. He is also a former furniture designer/maker.\nJulie Frayn is a Canadian multi-award-winning author of novels and short stories that pack a punch. And a few stabs. Julie lives in Alberta, near the foot of the Rocky Mountains. When not working or writing, Julie spend as much time as possible with her babies. Well, they\u2019re grown adults now, but they still think she\u2019s cool. Right kids? Right? Hello?\nR.P. Dahlke\nBiography for A Dangerous Harbor\nThis book and its sequel, Hurricane Hole, are the result of my years sailing in Mexico with my husband aboard our cutter rigged Hylas 47 sailboat. Mexico is a culture that was, and still is, struggling to gain a foothold in the 21st Century. These romantic suspense books (no graphic sex, but lots of humor) are about Americans who\u2019re here because they can\u2019t seem to outrun the problems they so desperately want to leave behind.\nDavid Wind has published thirty-eight novels including Science Fiction, Mystery and suspense thrillers. He lives and writes in a small village about thirty miles upstate of NYC, and shares his house with his wife, Bonnie and dog Alfie, a sub-standard poodle (email him for an explanation).\nTagged as: $500, bookbub, FREE, gift card, giveaway\nPrevious post: Mazie Baby \u2013 FREE\nNext post: Systir", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 10901, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://jumpingjackflashhypothesis.blogspot.com/2018/06/2018-may-spotlight-stories.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:24Z", "digest": "sha1:AODDDGQU3DXMZDMZFGXA64PA4VQR5UTG", "length": 168748, "nlines": 1324, "source_domain": "jumpingjackflashhypothesis.blogspot.com", "title": "Jumping Jack Flash Hypothesis: It's A Gas Gas Gas: 2018 - MAY - Spotlight Stories", "raw_content": "2018-05-01 - Unknown odor evacuates school in Binghamton (New York):\nhttp://www.wbng.com/story/38085685/students-evacuated-after-suspicious-smell-detected-at-binghamton-school\nQuote: \"The spokesperson says the source of the smell was not discovered, but that crews did not find any issues with the building.\"\n2018-05-01 - The methane time bomb and the future of the biosphere:\nhttp://www.globalresearch.ca/the-methane-time-bomb-and-the-future-of-the-biosphere/5638298\nhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/05/dr-andrew-glikson-on-methane-time-bomb.html\n2018-05-01 - 26-story high-rise destroyed by raging inferno at 1:36 AM, building collapses, near the coast in S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil), 1+ killed:\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_update&edis_id=FR-20180501-62893-BRA\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2018/05/01/americas/sao-paulo-building-fire-intl/index.html\nhttp://abc7ny.com/building-in-brazil-collapses-in-fire;-at-least-1-dead/3412864/\nhttp://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/world/americas/sao-paulo-brazil-fire-collapse.html\nhttp://news.sky.com/story/people-trapped-as-sao-paulo-tower-block-collapses-after-huge-fire-11354590\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/sao-paulo-brazil-building-fire-brings-collapse-unknown-number-of-victims/\nhttp://www.wpri.com/news/us-and-world/building-in-sao-paulo-collapses-during-fire-victims-unknown/1152779671\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/01/sao-paulo-high-rise-collapses-during-massive-fire-victims-unknown.html\nhttp://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/world/watch-dramatic-moment-skyscraper-collapses-after-catching-fire-840219.html\nhttp://www.kesq.com/news/national-world/huge-fire-engulfs-sao-paulo-building/736851960\n2018-05-01 - High-rise apartment building damaged by fire in coastal Mumbai (India):\nhttp://www.deccanchronicle.com/videos/news/massive-fire-breaks-out-on-14th-floor-of-mumbairsquos-residential-building.html\nhttp://www.business-standard.com/multimedia/video-gallery/general/massive-fire-breaks-out-on-14th-floor-of-mumbai-s-residential-building-63411.htm\n2018-05-01 - Auto salvage yard erupts in flame at 4:30 AM, fire gets big, in Sullivan (Wisconsin):\nhttp://www.wisn.com/article/firefighters-battle-fire-at-auto-salvage-yard-in-sullivan/20111259\nhttp://fox6now.com/2018/05/01/firefighters-battle-fire-at-auto-salvage-yard-in-sullivan-portion-of-hwy-18-closed/\nhttp://www.wkow.com/story/38081458/2018/05/01/breaking-highway-closed-near-sullivan-for-large-fire\nhttp://www.chron.com/news/media/Fire-burns-at-salvage-yard-in-Jefferson-County-1251758.php\nhttp://www.940wfaw.com/2018/05/01/fire-at-salvage-yard-in-sullivan/\nQuote: \"Multiple fire departments battled a massive fire at an auto salvage yard in Sullivan on Tuesday morning. The fire broke out around 4:30 a.m. at Auto & Truck Salvage Parts on Highway 18 near Pioneer Road.\"\n2018-05-01 - Auto salvage yard hit by fire, 7 cars burn, in Ypsilanti Township (Michigan):\nhttp://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2018/05/7_cars_totaled_as_blaze_erupts.html\n2018-05-01 - Auto salvage yard hit by fire, several cars and dumpster burn, in Ontario (New York):\nhttp://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/six-cars-catch-fire-at-ontario-scrapyard/1153250661\nQuote: \"Several cars and a dumpster of scraps were burned after a fire at a scrapyard in Ontario.\"\n2018-05-01 - Auto salvage yard hit by fire, 4 vehicles burn, in coastal Tilbury (Britain):\nQuote: \"Firefighters were called to a fire involving a number of vehicles at a scrap yard in Tilbury tonight (Tuesday 1 May). When crews arrived they reported four vehicles were on fire.\"\n2018-05-01 - Around 20 cars go up in flames in parking lot at business in Champaign (Illinois):\nhttp://www.wandtv.com/story/38086958/smoke-seen-coming-from-illinois-business\nhttp://www.illinoishomepage.net/news/local-news/winds-fan-flames-keep-crews-busy/1153894150\nQuote: \"A total of more than 20 cars ended up damaged when a fire broke out at a Champaign plant. Firefighters say they arrived on scene at Rockwell Automation (2802 W. Bloomington Road) to find seven cars heavily involved in a fire in the parking lot of the business.\"\n2018-05-01 - Ten collector cars, some lawnmowers and two garages destroyed by fire at home in Glen Rock (Pennsylvania):\nhttp://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/local/2018/05/01/crews-fighting-barn-fire-glen-rock/569059002/\nhttp://www.yorkdispatch.com/picture-gallery/news/2018/05/01/photos-fire-claims-barn-in-glen-rock/34441293/\nQuote: \"Glen Rock Hose and Ladder Fire Co. Chief Ron McCullough said a fire on Terrace Heights destroyed two garages, one of which was filled with about 10 collector's cars, on Tuesday, May 1. McCullough said the fire destroyed a small garage that had lawnmowers in it as well.\"\n2018-05-01 - Wildfire potential, May through August:\nhttp://wildfiretoday.com/2018/05/01/wildfire-potential-may-through-august/\n2018-05-01 - Bizarre 'sky square' seen over Alberta (Canada):\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoHQuWs8HNM\n2018-05-02 - Unknown odor sickens people at temple in coastal Kyoto (Japan):\nhttp://www.newsonjapan.com/html/newsdesk/article/122842.php\nhttp://www.japanbullet.com/news/4-hospitalized-from-unusual-odor-at-kyoto-temple\nhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/03/national/temple-visitors-hospitalized-kyoto-chemical-smell-emanates-near-toilet/\nhttp://english.kyodonews.net/news/2018/05/8e22db30e242-kyoto-temple-visitors-complain-of-throat-pain-after-chemical-smell.html\nQuote: \"Four people have been hospitalized after reporting a strange odor at a historic temple in the city of Kyoto. The four, who are all women, complained of feeling ill. Their symptoms are said to be not life-threatening. The incident occurred on Wednesday morning at Nanzenji Temple in eastern Kyoto. Police were alerted to reports of a chemical-like odor near the temple's 'hojo', or abbott's quarters. Police say around 50 visitors were in the area at the time, and 24 reported sore throats and other health issues. Officials say there were no herbicides or other chemicals in use.\"\n2018-05-02 - Man burns to death in parking lot near sushi restaurant in coastal Victoria (Canada):\nhttp://www.peninsulanewsreview.com/news/man-on-fire-at-gorge-road-east/\nhttp://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/man-dies-after-catching-fire-in-victoria-parking-lot-1.3912632\nQuote: \"A man who was found on fire in a Victoria parking lot Wednesday morning has died from his injuries, police say. The owners of a local sandwich shop in the 600-block of Gorge Road rushed outside with a fire extinguisher after a customer spotted the man fully engulfed in flames. It happened in the parking lot between the Sandman Hotel and Chiba Sushi on the busy corner of Gorge and Douglas Street around 11:30 a.m.\"\n2018-05-02 - Man in his 30s found burned to death in burning car on Holden Street in Detroit (Michigan):\nhttp://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/body-found-at-scene-of-burning-car-in-west-detroit\nhttp://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2018/05/02/police-body-found-car-west-side/572886002/\n2018-05-02 - Person found dead in burning car on Carp Road in Ottawa (Canada):\nhttp://globalnews.ca/news/4182755/body-ottawa-vehicle-fire/\nhttp://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/body-found-inside-burned-car-near-carp\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/carp-thomas-dolan-vehicle-fire-body-found-1.4645250\nhttp://www.ottawamatters.com/police-beat/police-investigating-after-body-found-in-burned-car-912078\nhttp://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/ottawa-police-investigating-body-found-in-burning-car-1.3912186\n2018-05-02 - Auto parts plant heavily damaged by explosion and massive fire at 1:30 AM in Eaton Rapids (Michigan), 2 injured:\nhttp://www.wilx.com/content/news/Massive-fire-burning-at-manufacturing-plant-in-Eaton-Rapids--481462111.html\nhttp://www.freep.com/story/news/2018/05/02/two-people-injured-more-than-100-evacuated-after-fire-and-explosions-meridian-magnesium-products-ame/572175002/\nhttp://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/2018/05/02/two-people-injured-more-than-100-evacuated-after-fire-and-explosions-meridian-magnesium-products-ame/572175002/\nhttp://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/two-people-injured-more-than-100-evacuated-after-fire-and-explosions-in-eaton-county/69-548066815\nhttp://delrionewsherald.com/news_ap/business/article_8fbb5085-b15c-5fdc-95f7-ebec08d11caa.html\n2018-05-02 - Recycling center fire erupts at 2:30 AM in Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), smoke blows into the US:\nhttp://www.newschannel10.com/story/38095489/fire-in-mexicos-juarez-sends-thick-smoke-to-el-paso-texas\nhttp://www.statesman.com/news/local/fire-sends-thick-smoke-over-mexico-juarez-and-into/dzM60SzXHPPKIyBufH1y7H/\nhttp://www.ktbs.com/news/texas/fire-sends-thick-smoke-over-mexico-s-juarez-and-into/article_c1531e5d-66db-5e44-9eaa-15938f52ecb6.html\nhttp://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/texas/fire-sends-thick-smoke-over-mexico-s-juarez-and-into/article_8cdb05f3-ae28-5f64-ba26-4c6a174ddbf6.html\nhttp://delrionewsherald.com/news_ap/texas/article_1e18989c-5533-5297-8c0f-9b498c06a497.html\n2018-05-02 - Plastics plant damaged by fire just after 11:30 PM in coastal La Porte (Texas):\nhttp://abc13.com/emergency-crews-respond-to-plant-fire-in-la-porte/3422243/\nhttp://www.click2houston.com/news/firefighters-responding-to-fire-at-la-porte-plant-police-say\nhttp://www.khou.com/article/news/local/neighborhood/hazmat-crews-respond-to-tank-fire-at-la-porte-chemical-plant/285-548344683\nhttp://www.chron.com/neighborhood/deerpark/news/article/No-injuries-reported-in-fire-at-La-Porte-plant-12884080.php\n2018-05-02 - Puerto Rican Air National Guard EC-130 plane crashes and explodes into flame near coastal Savannah (Georgia), 9 killed:\nhttp://abc7ny.com/9-dead-after-c-130-military-plane-crashes/3419382/\nhttp://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/plane-crash-reported-near-highway-21\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2018/05/02/us/military-plane-crash-savannah-georgia/index.html\nhttp://www.yahoo.com/news/military-plane-crashes-near-airport-georgia-161933343.html\nhttp://www.wjcl.com/article/reports-highway-21-shutdown-as-emergency-crews-investigate-possible-plane-crash/20123831\nhttp://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/military-c-130-plane-crashes-near-airport-savannah-georgia-n870786\nhttp://patch.com/georgia/savannah/plane-reportedly-down-port-wentworth-near-savannah\nhttp://myfox8.com/2018/05/02/2-dead-after-military-plane-crashes-in-georgia/\nQuote: \"A crew of nine Puerto Ricans were flying an Air National Guard C-130 into retirement in Arizona when it crashed onto a highway in Georgia on Wednesday, and authorities said there appeared to be no survivors.\"\n2018-05-02 - Man, 50s or 60s, has heart attack while standing in knee-deep water at coastal Blue Mountain Beach (Florida):\nhttp://www.waltonsun.com/news/20180502/man-hospitalized-after-suffering-heart-attack-in-gulf\nQuote: \"A man was transported to the hospital after apparently suffering cardiac arrest while standing in the Gulf of Mexico. Walton County Beach Safety Chief David Vaughn said the man, believed to be in his 50s or 60s, was standing in knee-deep water about 300 yards east of the Ed Walline Beach Access when he suffered an apparent heart attack.\"\n2018-05-03 - Unknown rotten-egg odor blows through Aydin (Turkey):\nhttp://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unpleasant-stench-engulfs-aydin-in-turkeys-west-overnight-131260\nhttp://www.infobalkans.com/2018/05/03/unpleasant-stench-engulfs-ayd-n-turkey-s-west-overnight\nhttp://www.justaboutturkey.com/unpleasant-stench-engulfs-aydin-in-turkeys-west-overnight\nhttp://newswits.com/2018/05/03/-otswstvp.html\nQuote: \"An unpleasant smell has caused uproar in the Efeler district of the western Turkish province of Aydin, with the authorities unable to trace the source of the rotten egg-like stench.\"\n2018-05-03 - Mysterious explosions shook homes in the US and the UK in April and nobody knows what caused them:\nhttp://strangesounds.org/2018/05/mysterious-booms-rattle-us-and-uk-residents-and-nobody-knows-why.html\nhttp://www.sott.net/article/384622-Mysterious-booms-rattle-UK-and-US-residents-in-April-2018-and-nobody-knows-where-they-came-from\n2018-05-03 - Mysterious explosion shakes buildings in St. Lawrence County (New York):\nhttp://www.wwnytv.com/story/38086608/mysterious-boom-rumble-heard-in-st-lawrence-county\nhttp://www.sott.net/article/384647-Mysterious-boom-rumble-heard-in-northern-New-York\n2018-05-03 - Waste and recycling fires escalating rapidly:\nhttp://www.recyclingproductnews.com/article/28130/waste-and-recycling-industry-seeing-93-increase-in-facility-fires-in-first-4-months-of-2018\nhttp://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fire-surge-why-did-we-see-68-increase-waste-recycling-ryan-fogelman/\nQuote: \"Waste and recycling industry seeing 93% increase in facility fires in first 4 months of 2018...\"\n2018-05-03 - Chemical plant devastated by massive fire and explosions in Rayne (Louisiana), evacuations ensue:\nhttp://www.wbrz.com/news/video-shows-massive-explosion-at-duson-chemical-plant/\nhttp://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/evacuation-underway-as-firefighters-battle-blaze-at-chemical-plant/289-548592911\nhttp://www.klfy.com/news/local/update-mandatory-evacuation-for-residents-and-businesses-one-mile-north-of-flowchem-facility-/1157974699\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/fire-chemical-plant-flowchem-technologies-duson-lafayette-louisiana-today-2018-05-03-live-updates/\nhttp://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/texas/police-chemical-plant-fire-in-louisiana-no-injuries/article_373c8f29-1d95-5e70-a366-740b8cb7439d.html\nhttp://www.fox8live.com/story/38109400/fire-at-chemical-plant-in-duson-i-10-closed-in-both-directions\nhttp://www.wafb.com/story/38109011/fire-reported-at-chemical-plant-in-duson-near-lafayette\nhttp://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/article_aebd58d8-4f1a-11e8-a909-cf7d23629a29.html\nhttp://www.kten.com/story/38110144/police-chemical-plant-fire-in-louisiana-no-injuries\nhttp://www.wafb.com/story/38109011/fire-reported-at-chemical-plant-in-duson\n2018-05-03 - Indian space research facility damaged by massive fire in Ahmedabad (India):\nhttp://sputniknews.com/asia/201805031064117952-fire-at-indian-space-agency/\nhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/fire-breaks-out-at-isro-campus-in-ahmedabad/articleshow/64014339.cms\nhttp://www.business-standard.com/multimedia/video-gallery/general/massive-fire-breaks-out-at-isro-centre-in-ahmedabad-63559.htm\nhttp://tribuneindia.com/video/massive-fire-breaks-out-at-isro-centre-in-ahmedabad/21000.html\n2018-05-03 - Multiple underground electrical fires break out in coastal Brooklyn (New York):\nhttp://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Multiple-Manhole-Fires-Reported-in-Brooklyn-FDNY-481646671.html\nhttp://news--of-the-day.com/2018/05/03/multiple-manhole-fires-reported-in-brooklyn-fdny/\n2018-05-03 - Transformer bursts into flame near train tracks in coastal Rosebank (New York):\nhttp://www.silive.com/northshore/index.ssf/2018/05/fdny_fights_fire_in_tompkinsvi.html\n2018-05-03 - In separate incidents, two vehicles burst into flame on highways in Monongalia County (West Virginia):\nhttp://www.wdtv.com/content/news/Authorities-respond-to-vehicle-fires-in-Mon-County-481678931.html\nQuote: \"Officials say only one southbound lane is open on I-79 at mile marker 147 due to a vehicle fire. Authorities have also responded to another vehicle fire on I-68 westbound near Exit 1 at Grafton Road.\"\n2018-05-03 - In separate incidents, car and motorcycle burst into flame in/near Shrewsbury (Britain):\nhttp://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/shrewsbury/2018/05/05/fire-crews-tackle-motorcycle-fire-and-car-fire/\nQuote: \"Firefighters extinguished the motorcycle fire at the Royal Mail car park in Castle Foregate, Shrewsbury, just after 4.30am yesterday. Meanwhile, in Ludlow Road, Cleobury Mortimer, firefighters tackled a car fire at about 10.20pm on Thursday.\"\n2018-05-03 - Volcano Kilauea erupts in Hawaii, spews sulfur dioxide, after being shaken by magnitude 5.0 earthquake, roads cracking:\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VE-20180504-62944-USA\nhttp://tdn.com/travel/the-latest-drone-owner-says-lava-like-curtain-of-fire/article_4d5d4107-268d-59bb-88db-deb80efe071b.html\nhttp://dailyjournalonline.com/travel/the-latest-drone-owner-says-lava-like-curtain-of-fire/article_3b94fbda-0753-5388-a014-f77c1b34acee.html\nhttp://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/05/04/one-of-my-streets-is-on-fire-hawaiian-volcano-erupts-residents-evacuated/\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_update&edis_id=VA-20180418-62665-USA\nhttp://abc13.com/evacuations-underway-after-kilauea-volcano-erupts-in-hawaii/3426632/\nhttp://www.fireengineering.com/ap-news/2018/05/03/4-6-magnitude-earthquake-rattles-hawaii-s-big-island.html\nhttp://strangesounds.org/2018/05/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-spews-lava-from-giant-crack-forcing-evacuations.html\nhttp://www.thebigwobble.org/2018/05/there-she-blows-kilauea-volcano-hawaii.html\nhttp://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/05/04/drone-video-lava-hawaiis-kilauea-volcano/\nhttp://chicago.cbslocal.com/2018/05/04/hawaii-volacon-kilauea/\nQuote: \"The series of earthquakes came after a collapse of a crater floor of Pu'u 'O'o, which is a volcanic cone in the eastern rift zone of the Kilauea Volcano. Since that collapse, about 250 earthquakes were reported in the area into Tuesday evening, according to a Hawaiian Volcano Observatory status report. The tremors have been going on for days now, jarring residents, who've been reporting nearly constant ground vibrations in some areas. 'It has now become unnerving,' Carol Shepard, a resident, told CNN affiliate KHON. She said the flurry of earthquakes seemed to happen every minute. 'It'd be like the house would shake. It'd be like somebody that weighs 300 pounds came in my living room, and jumped up and down,' she said. Residents in the area have also reported cracks emerging on roads.\"\nQuote: \"CBS Honolulu affiliate KGMB-TV reported lava was shooting some 100 feet in the air and nearing several homes. Fire officials detected extremely high levels of dangerous sulfur dioxide in the air, the stations said.\"\n2018-05-04 - Stench hits Sacramento (California):\nQuote: \"Prevailing theories on Reddit and stories by local news stations in recent years agree that the smell in Sacramento is likely coming from the sewers, and is probably a result of warmer weather.\"\nNote: Soooo...sewer gas? Cuz that's hydrogen sulfide...\n2018-05-04 - New methane release feedback loop found in freshwater lakes:\nhttp://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/uoc-gg050218.php\nhttp://phys.org/news/2018-05-greenhouse-gas-feedback-loop-freshwater.html\nhttp://www.earth.com/news/methane-emissions-lakes-double/\nhttp://www.upi.com/New-Greenhouse-gas-feedback-loop-found-in-lakes-ponds/4031525453311/\n2018-05-04 - Human beings didn\u2019t exist the last time there was this much CO2 in the atmosphere:\nhttp://grist.org/article/humans-didnt-exist-the-last-time-there-was-this-much-co2-in-the-air/\nhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/05/co2-concentrations-exced-410-ppm.html\n2018-05-04 - Winter sea ice takes an unprecedented nosedive in the Bering Sea:\nhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/shock-and-thaw-alaskan-sea-ice-just-took-a-steep-unprecedented-dive/\nhttp://www.fasterthanexpected.com/2018/05/02/shock-and-thaw-alaskan-sea-ice-just-took-a-steep-unprecedented-dive/\nhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/05/latest-nsidc-report-on-conditions-in.html\n2018-05-04 - Volcano Kilauea rocked by magnitude 6.9 and 5.8 earthquakes in Hawaii, lava spewing, people flee:\nhttp://www.thestate.com/news/nation-world/national/article210453549.html\nhttp://www.yahoo.com/news/homes-damaged-residents-flee-hawaii-volcano-eruption-205738388.html\nhttp://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Residents-flee-as-Hawaiian-volcano-releases-12888867.php\nhttp://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/The-Latest-More-than-100-in-shelters-after-12887630.php\nhttp://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/why-hawaiis-newest-eruption-makes-volcanologists-nervous/559685/\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hawaii-volcano-sulfure-dioxide-eruption-2017-pahoa-a8337181.html\nhttp://www.thegardenisland.com/2018/05/04/hawaii-news/volcanic-curtain-of-fire-sends-people-fleeing-hawaii-homes-2/\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-earthquake-today-5-6-magnitude-big-island-kilauea-volcano-eruption-continues-live-updates-2018-05-04/\nhttp://strangesounds.org/2018/05/video-compilation-m6-9-earthquake-hawaii-kilauea-eruption-pictures.html\nhttp://www.yahoo.com/news/hawaii-volcano-shoots-lava-smoke-072547794.html\nQuote: \"A series of earthquakes rippled through a volcano-stricken island of Hawaii, where residents had already fled what one called a 'curtain of fire'. Earthquakes have shaken the archipelago's Big Island for days, setting off lava flows and prompting warnings from authorities. A 6.9 magnitude quake followed closely after a 5.8 magnitude event in the afternoon, both occurring near a town whose residents already faced mandatory evacuations due to bubbling lava.\"\nQuote: \"Governor David Ige declared a state of emergency, noting that the lava flow was expected to continue advancing.\"\nQuote: \"Authorities say a magnitude-6.9 earthquake that hit Hawaii's Big Island is the largest to strike in more than four decades. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center Director Chip McCreery says a magnitude-7.5 earthquake rocked the island in 1975. Magnitude-6.7 earthquakes hit in 1983 and 2006.\"\n2018-05-04 - Volcano Cleveland erupts, spews ash 22,000 feet into the atmosphere, in the Aleutian Islands (Alaska):\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2018/05/05/us/alaska-volcano/index.html\nhttp://www.local10.com/news/national/alaska-volcano-threat-level-raised-after-explosion\nhttp://www.clickondetroit.com/news/national/alaska-volcano-threat-level-raised-after-explosion\nhttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/alaskan-volcano-on-orange-alert-after-explosion/ar-AAwMvCv\nhttp://www.click2houston.com/news/national/alaska-volcano-threat-level-raised-after-explosion\nhttp://www.ksfo.com/news/alaskan-volcanos-threat-level-raised-to-orange-after-explosion/\n2018-05-04 - Recycling center erupts in flame, fire gets big, in coastal Seattle (Washington):\nhttp://komonews.com/news/local/large-smokey-fire-in-sodo\n2018-05-04 - Underground electrical explosion and fire blows manhole cover 15 feet into the air in Watertown (South Dakota):\nhttp://www.ksfy.com/content/news/Authorities-respond-to-underground-transformer-explosion-in-Watertown-481743471.html\nhttp://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/local_news/wfr-crews-deal-with-underground-explosion/article_82d20532-4f94-11e8-9105-c7f1a6a93f47.html\n2018-05-04 - Underground electrical fire breaks out on Hughenden Road in High Wycombe (Britain):\nQuote: \"Friday 4 May, 1.44pm Fire in underground electrical junction, Hughenden Road, High Wycombe. One appliance and crew from High Wycombe attended. A cordon was set up and the incident was left with electricity engineers.\"\n2018-05-04 - Wildfire begun by car fire grows to 1,000 acres, spreads from Rockbridge County into Augusta County (Virginia):\nhttp://www.dailyprogress.com/newsvirginian/news/local/wind-dry-brush-turn-car-fire-into--acre-blaze/article_097b7d80-4fd0-11e8-97a9-9364f26af384.html\nhttp://www.roanoke.com/news/local/firefighters-battling--acre-brush-fire-in-rockbridge-augusta-counties/article_1c32e9c7-a227-5689-b263-047b78a2dd66.html\nhttp://www.starexponent.com/news/rockbridge-county-blaze-roars-across-acres-spreads-to-augusta/article_2ed37349-6736-513e-b7a0-8012a92afda1.html\nhttp://www.wric.com/news/local-news/wildfire-continues-to-spread-through-2-virginia-counties/1159362402\nhttp://www.nbc29.com/story/38114595/crews-still-battling-fire-in-rockbridge-county-parts-of-route-56-still-closed\nQuote: \"Gusty winds and bone-dry brush turned a Thursday night car fire in Rockbridge County into a roaring, 1,000-acre forest fire that crossed county lines. Firefighters said they think it will be days before they\u2019ll have it under control.\"\nNote: A 1,000-acre car fire!\n2018-05-05 - E-cigarette explodes, ignites fire and kills man at home in coastal St. Petersburg (Florida):\nhttp://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/police-believe-st-pete-man-died-after-e-cigarette-explodes-starts-fire/67-549131852\nhttp://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/pinellascounty/police-believe-st-petersburg-man-died-after-e-cigarette-explodes-starts-fire/67-549131852\nhttp://www.thedailybeast.com/officials-vape-pen-explosion-linked-to-florida-mans-death\nhttp://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article210587214.html\nQuote: \"St. Petersburg officials believe a man died Saturday when an electronic cigarette exploded in his face and caused a fire. The call came in at around 9:45am about a fire, but when firefighters got to the home in the 300 block of 19th Avenue NE, they found the body of 38-year-old Tallmadge D'Elia. Fire Rescue Lt. Steven Lawrence said investigators believe D'Elia was using a vape pen when it exploded in his face, starting a fire.\"\n2018-05-05 - AC unit explodes and burns at home, two children burned to death, in Delhi (India), 2 people burn to death in factory at 3 AM too:\nhttp://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/ac-explosion-chars-brother-and-sister-to-death-in-delhi-1847784\nQuote: \"In the first incident, a 10-year-old boy and his nine-year-old sister were charred to death after an air conditioner's compressor exploded at their home in northwest Delhi's Adarsh Nagar area, the official said.\"\n2018-05-05 - Coal mine rocked by methane explosion in Marghat (Pakistan), 16+ killed, 9 injured:\nhttp://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL3N1SC06J\nhttp://dailytimes.com.pk/236579/16-coal-miners-die-in-gas-explosion-in-quetta/\nhttp://www.kpax.com/story/38120710/at-least-16-killed-in-pakistan-mine-explosion\nhttp://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2018/05/05/16-miners-killed-in-coal-mine-explosion-in-southwest-pakistan\nhttp://www.todayonline.com/world/coalmine-explosion-kills-16-laborers-southwest-pakistan-officials\nhttp://www.localnews8.com/news/national-world/at-least-16-killed-in-pakistan-mine-explosion/738803362\nQuote: \"Sixteen miners were killed and nine others were wounded Saturday when a coal mine collapsed due to a gas explosion in southwestern Pakistan, officials said.\"\n2018-05-05 - Landfill fire breaks out on Marsh Lane in Calne (Britain):\nhttp://www.dwfire.org.uk/incident/landfill-fire-calne-2/\n2018-05-05 - Passenger train engine bursts into flame near Udaipur (India):\nhttp://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/may/05/train-engine-catches-fire-in-ups-mahoba-district-none-injured-1810632.html\nhttp://indiarailinfo.com/news/post/train-engine-catches-fire-in-up-s-mahoba-district-none-injured-news/336123\nhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/train-engine-catches-fire-in-ups-mahoba-district-none-injured/articleshow/64041869.cms\nhttp://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/train-engine-catches-fire-in-ups-mahoba-district-none-injured-1227238-2018-05-05\nhttp://www.newsnation.in/videos/india/up-train-engine-catches-fire-in-mahoba-no-causalities-reported-8/39248\nhttp://zeenews.india.com/video/india/news-50-train-engine-catches-fire-in-chhatarpur-madhya-pradesh-2105495.html\n2018-05-05 - Freight train bursts into flame in coastal Matapihi (New Zealand):\nhttp://sunlive.co.nz/news/178933-matapihi-road-now-open-after-train-fire.html\n2018-05-05 - Freight train tanker car bursts into flame at train yard near Bellevue (Ohio):\nhttp://www.wtol.com/story/38121214/sheriff-10-train-cars-on-fire-at-bellevue-train-yard\nhttp://www.wbtw.com/news/national/crews-battle-fire-at-norfolk-southern-train-yard-in-ohio/1162251457\nhttp://www.cleveland19.com/story/38121214/sheriff-train-car-possibly-containing-ethanol-catches-fire-at-bellevue-train-yard\nhttp://www.theeagle.com/news/nation/crews-battle-fire-at-norfolk-southern-train-yard-in-ohio/article_28ee5ef2-4a41-5b03-9426-b5fa20476f4b.html\nhttp://www.dailyastorian.com/crews-battle-fire-at-norfolk-southern-train-yard-in-ohio-da-ap-webfeeds-news-nation-world16bbce1870874b4498b1ea900bae021a\n2018-05-05 - Wildfire begun by car fire grows to 1,600 acres in Rockbridge County and Augusta County (Virginia):\nhttp://www.whsv.com/content/news/Firefighters-continue-to-battle-Tye-River-Fire-481836681.html\n2018-05-05 - Wildfire rages out of control and threatens homes in Aveley (Australia):\nhttp://www.perthnow.com.au/news/bushfires/wa-bushfires-out-of-control-blaze-burns-near-muchea-ng-b88827192z\nhttp://www.communitynews.com.au/the-advocate/news/fire-fighters-scene-bushfire-aveley/\n2018-05-06 - Unknown noxious sulfur-like smell hits area in coastal Seattle (Washington):\nhttp://www.king5.com/article/news/local/noxious-smell-shuts-down-blocks-of-seattles-central-district/281-549437682\nhttp://www.king5.com/video/news/local/sulfur-like-smell-shuts-down-several-blocks/281-8119171\nQuote: \"Firefighters have blocked off several blocks in Seattle's Central District after reports of a sulfur-like smell in the neighborhood. Firefighters received the call just before 1 p.m. of a DOA (possible body) and a noxious smell at a building in the 2000 block of E. Cherry Street. Residents reported smelling it from several blocks away.\"\n2018-05-06 - Two people found dead in burning car on Tapiola Road in Portage Township (Michigan), 8 miles from Lake Superior:\nhttp://www.mininggazette.com/news/2018/05/bodies-recovered-in-car-fire/\nhttp://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/2_bodies_found_inside_burning.html\nhttp://upnorthlive.com/news/local/authorities-2-found-dead-after-upper-peninsula-vehicle-fire\nhttp://www.wnem.com/story/38126702/authorities-2-found-dead-after-upper-peninsula-vehicle-fire\nhttp://www.woodtv.com/news/michigan/authorities-2-found-dead-after-upper-peninsula-vehicle-fire/1164365708\nhttp://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/05/07/two-dead-upper-peninsula-vehicle-fire/34645847/\nhttp://www.uppermichiganssource.com/content/news/Two-people-dead-after-vehicle-fire-in-Portage-Township-481867771.html\nhttp://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/05/07/authorities-2-found-dead-upper-peninsula-vehicle-fire/585580002/\nhttp://abc10up.com/2018/05/07/two-dead-following-vehicle-fire-portage/\nQuote: \"Two people are dead following a vehicle fire Sunday morning in Houghton County. Houghton County Undersheriff Kevin Coppo says Houghton County Sheriff's Office deputies were dispatched to Donken/Tapiola Road in Portage Township at 9:42 a.m. Sunday for reports of a vehicle fire. Otter Lake Fire Department came to the scene and put out the fire. Once extinguished, fire fighters found two bodies inside the vehicle.\"\n2018-05-06 - Charred corpse found in burning car on the Red River Road in Harrington (Canada):\nhttp://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/burned-body-found-inside-burning-vehicle-in-the-laurentians\nQuote: \"The burned body of a person was found in a vehicle on the Red River Road in Harrington in the Laurentians on Sunday afternoon. Firefighters made the gruesome discovery after receiving a call about a vehicle fire. The S\u00fbret\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec said it did not have details Sunday night, but did not rule out any hypothesis.\"\n2018-05-06 - Two barges full of scrap cars go up in flames on the Mobile River in coastal Mobile (Alabama), nobody aboard:\nhttp://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2018/22361/cargo-barges-fire-mobile-alabama/\nhttp://www.fox10tv.com/story/38123101/cargo-vessel-on-fire-near-cochrane-bridge\nhttp://www.msnewsnow.com/story/38123101/cargo-barge-catches-fire-on-mobile-river\nhttp://wjla.com/news/nation-world/cargo-vessel-fire-reported-near-cochrane-bridge\nhttp://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/barge_on_fire_in_mobile_near_c.html\nhttp://www.wkrg.com/news/mobile-county/breaking-marine-vessel-on-fire-near-cochrane-bridge/1162987028\nhttp://coastguardnews.com/coast-guard-local-agencies-responding-to-barge-fire-near-mobile-alabama/2018/05/06/\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-5699437/In-Video-Cargo-barge-blaze-covers-river-smoke.html\nhttp://kcby.com/news/nation-world/cargo-vessel-fire-reported-near-cochrane-bridge\nhttp://www.kltv.com/story/38123101/cargo-barge-catches-fire-on-mobile-river\nQuote: \"Flames engulfed two barges just north of the Cochrane-Africatown Bridge creating a thick blanket of smoke over the Mobile River nearly all day Sunday. 'Two barges that are tied together, they are hauling old crushed cars. At this point, we're not sure how the fire started but we have several crews on scene on the fireboat attempting to douse the flames and mitigate the situation,' Mobile Fire-Rescue Spokesperson, Steven Millhouse said.\"\nQuote: \"Millhouse said no one was on board the barges when they caught fire.\"\n2018-05-06 - Metal recycling hit by fire, big pile of scrap metal burns, in Memphis (Tennessee):\nhttp://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/38123646/mfd-battling-garbage-fire-at-recycling-center\nhttp://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/2018/05/06/firefighters-battle-stubborn-blaze-north-memphis-metal-scrapyard/584760002/\nhttp://www.commercialappeal.com/picture-gallery/news/2018/05/06/recycling-business-fire/34631313/\nhttp://www.wbrc.com/story/38123646/mfd-battles-garbage-fire-at-recycling-center\nhttp://wreg.com/2018/05/06/mfd-battles-fire-at-metal-management-facility/\n2018-05-06 - Wildfire suddenly erupts on the banks of the Trishuli River in Langtang National Park (Nepal):\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=WF-20180506-62971-NPL\nhttp://kathmandupost.ekantipur.com/news/2018-05-06/forest-fire-inside-langtang-national-park.html\nhttp://www.myrepublica.com/news/41195/\nQuote: \"National Park's chief conservation officer Yubraj Regmi said that the fire suddenly erupted from the bank of the Trishuli river at the Brabal Pakha area.\"\n2018-05-06 - Volcano Kilauea eruption has destroyed 26+ homes in Leilani Estates (Hawaii), two new fissures open:\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/US/photos-hawaii-volcano-erupts-rivers-fire-lava/story?id=54985523\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/06/hawaiis-volcanic-eruption-has-destroyed-at-least-21-homes-officials-say.html\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/05/06/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-homes-destroyed/584709002/\nhttp://www.sfgate.com/news/science/article/The-Latest-Lava-destroys-9-homes-on-Hawaii-s-Big-12892255.php\nhttp://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news/u-s-national-news/2486-fears-of-tsunami-for-u-s-west-coast-as-erupting-hawaii-volcano-fractures-massive-unstable-landmass\nhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/05/hawaii-volcano-fractures-unstable.html\nQuote: \"Lava erupting from Hawaii's powerful Kilauea volcano has now destroyed at least 26 homes, more than double the previous figure, officials announced Sunday, citing grim findings from an aerial survey by the fire department.\"\nQuote: \"Two new fissures appeared overnight, Hawaii County civil defense officials said, bringing the total to nine that opened in the neighborhood since Thursday.\"\n2018-05-08 - Man, police officer has 'medical emergency' at swimming pool, in critical condition, in coastal Dundalk (Maryland):\nhttp://foxbaltimore.com/news/local/pa-officer-suffers-medical-emergency-during-water-exercise-in-dundalk\nhttp://www.wbaltv.com/article/pa-police-officer-in-critical-condition-after-training-incident-in-md/20638459\nhttp://fox43.com/2018/05/09/york-area-police-officer-suffered-medical-emergency-during-training-exercise-in-baltimore-co/\nhttp://www.ydr.com/story/news/2018/05/09/york-area-police-officer-critical-condition-medical-incident-during-training/596768002/\nhttp://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2018/05/09/police-york-area-officer-critical-condition-after-medical-emergency-during-training-baltimore/596760002/\nhttp://www.wgal.com/article/york-county-police-officer-in-critical-condition-after-taking-part-in-training-exercise-in-maryland/20637713\nhttp://www.chron.com/news/media/Pa-officer-suffers-medical-emergency-during-1257652.php\nhttp://twitter.com/ydrcom/status/994358157119033344\nQuote: \"Pennsylvania police officer is in critical condition after suffering a medical emergency during a SWAT water exercise at Community College of Baltimore County in Dundalk on Sunday, confirmed Baltimore County police Wednesday. The officer, from the York area, was one of 12 members attending a SWAT school class at the Dundalk campus pool on May 6, said police. The officer had a medical issue as he got ready to exit the pool.\"\nQuote: \"The officer, police said, was able to get himself out of the pool, but then went into medical crisis. He was given CPR by medics that were at the scene. Police said it does not appear the officer was under water when the medical distress started.\"\nNote: It's mainly been children having 'medical events' and dying at swimming pools lately, but obviously that won't always be the case...\n2018-05-08 - Ambulance goes up in flames at 12:50 AM and kills 2 people, injures another, in Delhi (India):\nhttp://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2018/may/08/two-men-burnt-alive-as-ambulance-catches-fire-in-delhi-1811814.html\nhttp://zeenews.india.com/video/india/news-100-2-killed-as-ambulance-catches-fire-in-south-delhis-sheikh-sarai-area-2106199.html\nQuote: \"Two men were charred to death and another injured when the ambulance they were sleeping in caught fire in south Delhi's Sheikh Sarai area in the early hours today, said an officer from the Delhi Fire Service. A call was received at 12. 50 am about the blaze and two fire tenders were rushed to the spot. The deceased were identified as Guddu and Rahul, he said. The injured man was identified as 32-year-old Subodh. He sustained 40 per cent burn injuries and is admitted to Safdarjung Hospital.\"\n2018-05-08 - Passenger plane hit by smoke, plane returns to airport in Chicago (Illinois):\nhttp://www.express.co.uk/news/world/956773/american-airlines-chicago-dallas-cockpit-smoke\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/05/08/american-airlines-flight-returns-to-chicago-over-smoke-in-cockpit-passenger-says.html\nhttp://www.thesun.ie/news/2546365/american-airlines-jet-makes-emergency-landing-after-cockpit-fills-with-smoke-in-midair/\nhttp://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/American-Airlines-Plane-Returns-to-OHare-482065271.html\nhttp://patch.com/illinois/chicago/american-flight-returns-chicago-over-possible-odor-smoke\nhttp://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/new/67372/newest\nQuote: \"An American Airlines flight headed for Dallas was forced to return to Chicago\u2019s O\u2019Hare airport following reports that the cockpit began filling with smoke.\"\n2018-05-08 - Passenger plane hit by smoke at airport, plane evacuated, in Denver (Colorado):\nhttp://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/05/08/delta-plane-detroit-evacuated-denver-airport/593292002/\nhttp://www.9news.com/article/news/local/delta-flight-evacuated-after-landing-at-dia-due-to-smoke-in-the-cabin/73-550161965\nhttp://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/delta-flight-from-detroit-evacuated-upon-landing-in-denver-after-smoke-reported-on-plane\nhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/national/delta-flight-evacuated-in-denver-because-of-smoke-in-cabin/2018/05/08/8c4e54f0-5339-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html\nhttp://www.circa.com/story/2018/05/08/nation/report-plane-landing-at-denver-airport-is-evacuated-after-smoke-in-the-cabin\nhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/breaking-american-airlines-plane-forced-12501839\nhttp://nypost.com/2018/05/09/delta-flight-evacuated-after-smoke-fills-cabin/\nhttp://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/05/08/passengers-evacuate-flight-emergency/\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2018/05/09/us/delta-flight-smoke-cabin/index.html\nQuote: \"A Delta Airlines flight from Detroit to Denver was evacuated after landing Tuesday evening at Denver International Airport following reports of smoke in the cabin. Delta Airlines Flight 1854 from Detroit had already been delayed in Detroit before the flight departed, according to flight records and a passenger who was on the plane. But all its passengers had to be evacuated once the plane landed in Denver around 8 p.m., DIA confirms to Denver7. The airport said that smoke had filled the cabin, though it was unclear whether that happened while the plane was in the air or after the plane landed.\"\n2018-05-08 - Small plane bursts into flame during flight, pilots bail out, plane crashes, in Lahore (Pakistan):\nhttp://www.thenews.com.pk/print/314415-training-plane-crashes-in-garden-town\nQuote: \"According to an eye witness, the plane flew from Walton Airport and it caught fire in the air before it came down. Both pilots timely came out of the burning plane and suffered minor injuries. Miraculously, no loss of life occurred in the crash.\"\nNote: These are the 68th, 69th and 70th aircraft to smoke/burn/explode in 2018...\n2018-05-08 - Electrical substation damaged by explosion and huge fire in coastal Texas City (Texas):\nhttp://www.khou.com/article/news/local/huge-fire-at-centerpoint-substation-in-texas-city/285-550072118\nhttp://www.khou.com/gallery/news/photos-large-fire-at-centerpoint-substation-in-texas-city/285-550072021\nhttp://abc13.com/still-burning-firefighters-on-standby-at-texas-city-facility/3445584/\nhttp://www.click2houston.com/news/transformer-explosion-causes-fire-at-centerpoint-complex-in-texas-city-officials-say\nhttp://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/black-smoke-flames-at-texas-city-centerpoint-energyfacility\nhttp://www.fox35orlando.com/facebook-instant/black-smoke-flames-at-texas-city-centerpoint-energyfacility\nhttp://www.mysanantonio.com/neighborhood/galveston/article/Fire-breaks-out-at-Texas-City-substation-12898465.php\nhttp://abc13.com/fire-reignites-at-facility-in-texas-city/3448977/\n2018-05-08 - Volcano Kilauea erupts again in Hawaii, two new fissures open and spew lava, another neighborhood evacuated:\nhttp://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hawaii-volcano-eruption-leads-more-evacuations-131577\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/hawaii-volcano-latest-updates-kilauea-big-island-eruption-leilani-estates-lanipuna-a8342471.html\nhttp://www.kxlf.com/story/38146689/hawaii-residents-could-face-acid-rain-after-earthquakes-and-molten-lava\nQuote: \"The Kilauea volcano erupted again on Tuesday, spewing toxic gases out of two new vents and prompting authorities to call for an immediate evacuation of residents from a second neighborhood on the Big Island. The County of Hawaii Civil Defense Agency issued an emergency bulletin ordering residents of the Lanipuna Gardens area on the east side of the island to leave their homes. \"Hawaiian Volcano Observatory confirms 2 new vents. All Lanipuna residents must evacuate now,\" the agency said in its bulletin, adding that the two vents had opened near two road intersections and were 'actively erupting'.\"\n2018-05-09 - Water sickening and killing people in and around Krati\u00e9 (Cambodia):\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20180511-63044-KHM\nhttp://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eighty-taken-ill-suspected-water-poisoning-mkiri\nQuote: \"At least 80 people in Preh and Roneg villages in Mondulkiri province's Sre Chhouk commune suffered vomiting, dizziness and weakness due to suspected poisonous water from a stream they were using. The illnesses come after 13 people died and more than 130 people sent to hospital due to drinking water contaminated with poisonous substances in Kratie over the past few weeks. Lor Sokha, Mondulkiri province police chief, told the media that technical officers initially suspected the poisoning occurred after villagers drank water from Preah river and others drank rain water which had combined with water from the river. However, the cause has not yet been determined as authorities are waiting for the results of an analysis of the water and food they had consumed.\"\nQuote: \"He said on Wednesday that he spoke to the victims and they said they began to find it difficult to breathe, had stomachaches and vomited after drinking both the water from the river and rainwater from the roofs of their houses.\"\nNote: So not just river water but also rainwater from the roofs of homes. Hydrogen sulfide is water soluble, it's getting into the atmosphere - thus all the rotten egg odor events around the world - and so rain from the sky will sometimes be poisonous. If the rain is poisonous enough, it could kill you just by falling on your head. Contaminated rainwater will also flow downhill to streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and seas/oceans and contaminate the water in them too. in 2015, 41 children and some animals mysteriously died after rainfall in Papua (Indonesia), mentioned in the 2015-11-24 update. Last year, a bunch of people died in Australia from 'thunderstorm asthma' after rain storms there too. Every time you jump in a body of water or let water get on your head, you're betting that that water has not been contaminated. Lose that bet, as many already have, and you are apt to die. Municipal water supplies in major cities are likeliest to be safest, but there are no guarantees...\n2018-05-09 - Unknown odor at building sends 12 people to the hospital, then later 2 more have convulsions too, in coastal Auckland (New Sealand):\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20180510-63041-NZL\nhttp://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/357029/mystery-fumes-hospitalise-12-people-as-workers-return-to-office\nhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/103789162/Mystery-gas-sends-12-people-to-hospital-in-Auckland-high-rise-drama\nhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/103816013/investigations-continue-at-auckland-highrise-after-mystery-gas-leak-injured-24-people\nQuote: \"Fire and Emergency say they don't know what caused the unknown smell in an Auckland office building this morning - but the building is now safe. Emergency crews were called to Augusta House on the corner of Victoria Street West and Elliot Street at 9.30am after an unusual smell was noticed on the eighth floor. Twelve people were taken to hospital and another 100 assessed after being exposed to the smell which caused nausea, headaches and vomiting.\"\nQuote: \"'It was a weird sort of organic smell. To be honest, I would describe it as chicken manure, but it was a sickly, sweet musty odour.'\"\nQuote: \"Two more people have been affected by a mystery gas leak at an Auckland high-rise, nine hours after it hospitalised 12 people on Thursday morning. A Fire and Emergency NZ spokesman said firefighters had been called to Augusta House in Auckland's CBD just before 6pm. Firefighters had had reports of two people having convulsions, the spokesman said.\"\nQuote: \"Woon said fire crews ran gas detectors throughout the building and did not come up with anything. The New Zealand Defence Force's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) \u2013 the bomb squad \u2013 was then called in to test the scene. 'We couldn't find anything that triggered our devices...and a preliminary search by them hasn't found anything either,' Woon said.\"\nNote: They aren't using H2S detectors. Hydrogen sulfide won't show up on other types of detectors. And hydrogen sulfide at higher concentrations is described by some people as 'sickly sweet' or 'flowery'. The speed with which these people sickened, the symptoms, and the fact that this is a coastal city - they probably got hit by some fairly concentrated poisonous hydrogen sulfide, probably pulled into the building via the building's HVAC system. Nobody really knows what the long-term effects of that are (for people who survive), but they can't be good...\n2018-05-09 - Man in his 30s has seizure and loses consciousness in the water near coastal La Jolla Shores (California):\nhttp://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-me-diver-rescue-20180509-story.html\nhttp://twitter.com/sdut/status/994348869889572865\nQuote: \"San Diego lifeguards responding to a call for help from a diver experiencing a seizure pulled the unconscious man out of the water Wednesday afternoon, a San Diego Fire-Rescue official said. The diver, who was in his 30s, called 911 while off the coast of La Jolla Shores around 12:15 p.m. and said he was having a seizure, said fire spokeswoman M\u00f3nica Mu\u00f1oz. Lifeguards used their personal water craft to get out to the man, who was unconscious and having a seizure when they found him. His face was not submerged, she said, because of the equipment he was using.\"\n2018-05-09 - Van explodes and burns and kills man, ignites tractor trailer, at business in Ono (Pennsylvania), man injured too:\nhttp://www.wgal.com/article/trucking-company-employee-killed-in-van-explosion/20636143\nhttp://www.abc27.com/news/local/lebanon/1-dead-in-explosion-at-trucking-company/1169656490\nhttp://triblive.com/state/pennsylvania/13633179-74/police-van-blast-at-pa-trucking-company-kills-1-injures-1\nhttp://www.ldnews.com/story/news/2018/05/09/van-explosion-ono-trucking-company-kills-1-injures-another/596230002/\nhttp://fox43.com/2018/05/09/one-man-dead-another-injured-after-trucking-company-van-explodes-in-lebanon-co/\nhttp://www.wfmz.com/news/pennsylvania/police-van-blast-at-trucking-company-kills-1-injures-1/740182203\nhttp://www.pennlive.com/news/2018/05/driver_dies_in_explosion_on_tr.html\nQuote: \"An employee of a trucking company in Lebanon County was killed in a van explosion, state police said. It happened at J.P. Donmoyer, Inc. in Ono around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. State police said the employee was driving a maintenance van to pick up a tractor-trailer driver who had parked the truck in a back lot. The van exploded, killing Stephen Miller, 65, of Lebanon, state police said.\"\n2018-05-09 - Person burns to death at 12:23 AM on burning mattress beneath I-4 overpass in Orlando (Florida):\nhttp://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-burning-body-interstate-4-overpass-0509-story.html\nhttp://www.fox35orlando.com/news/local-news/body-found-burning-on-mattress-underneath-ramp-on-i-4\nhttp://www.clickorlando.com/news/burned-body-found-under-i-4-exit-ramp-in-orlando\nhttp://www.wftv.com/news/local/body-found-burning-on-mattress-under-i-4-in-orlando-police-say/746397754\nQuote: \"A burning body was discovered under a downtown Interstate 4 overpass early Wednesday morning, according to an Orlando Police Department spokeswoman. The Orlando Fire Department arrived on the scene near I-4 west at the Colonial Drive at about 12:23 a.m., police spokeswoman Michelle Guido said. Firefighters discovered a body after extinguishing a small fire, Guido said. The cause of death is under investigation but police don\u2019t suspect foul play. It\u2019s not clear how the fire started.\"\n2018-05-09 - Pallet business devastated by massive blaze at 11 PM in Houston (Texas):\nhttp://abc13.com/pallet-fire-seen-for-miles-in-nw-harris-county/3452924/\nhttp://www.click2houston.com/news/firefighters-respond-to-fire-at-pallet-company-in-northewest-houston\nhttp://www.khou.com/video/news/local/raw-video/raw-fire-breaks-out-at-plant-that-makes-pallets-in-nw-harris-county/285-8123525\nhttp://www.khou.com/article/news/local/smell-smoke-large-fire-breaks-out-at-wood-pallet-facility-in-northwest-harris-county/285-550706157\nhttp://twitter.com/hcfmo/status/994520573429583872/photo/1\nQuote: \"Hours after a fire started, firefighters are still working to put out hot spots left over from the large flames that could be seen for miles at a warehouse in northwest Harris County. This is at Kim's Pallet, Inc., a facility that makes wooden pallets in the 5700 block of Cunningham Road, near Tanner Road.\"\n2018-05-10 - Eruption of Kilauea in Hawaii threatens hydrogen sulfide release from geothermal plant:\nhttp://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018/05/11/hawaii-news/one-fear-alleviated-another-looms-at-geothermal-plant/\nhttp://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/05/09/breaking-news/kilauea-volcano-updates-may-9-and-may-10/\nhttp://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/05/10/breaking-news/kilauea-volcano-updates-may-10/\nhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/05/hawaii-slow-emergency.html\nQuote: \"The pentane at Puna Geothermal Venture has been removed, but Civil Defense officials remain concerned about another hidden hazard. Talmadge Magno, county Civil Defense administrator, said state and county officials are talking with well experts in California about how to seal the power plant\u2019s geothermal wells to prevent the release of hydrogen sulfide if well caps are compromised by the ongoing lower Puna volcanic eruption. 'We\u2019re looking at basically filling the wells with water,' he said, to prevent an unabated gas release.\"\n2018-05-10 - Passenger train bursts into flame at station in Welwyn after leaving coastal Hull (Britain):\nhttp://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/train-fire-welwyn-hull-evacuate-1553087\nhttp://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news/hull-east-yorkshire-news/hull-trains-fire-passengers-stranded-1555300\nhttp://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2018-05-10/passengers-evacuated-after-fire-onboard-train-at-welwyn-north-station/\nhttp://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/hour-long-delays-great-northern-1553419\nhttp://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/first-pictures-show-passengers-evacuated-1553086\nQuote: \"British Transport Police said all passengers had been 'safely removed' from the train, which was travelling from Hull to Kings Cross.\"\n2018-05-10 - Freight train hit by fire, four military trucks burn, in Madhya Pradesh (India):\nhttp://thehitavada.com/Encyc/2018/5/11/Four-Army-trucks-gutted-as-goods-train-catches-fire.aspx\nhttp://www.uniindia.com/~/four-army-vehicles-gutted-in-fire-on-goods-train-enroute-to-bhopal/States/news/1227236.html\nhttp://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/four-army-trucks-damaged-in-fire-on-moving-goods-train-in-mp-118051000800_1.html\nhttp://www.firstpost.com/india/four-army-trucks-damaged-in-fire-on-moving-goods-train-in-madhya-pradeshs-betul-reason-of-blaze-not-known-yet-4464759.html\nhttp://www.news18.com/news/india/goods-train-carrying-90-jawans-catches-fire-in-mp-four-army-trucks-gutted-1744457.html\nhttp://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/mp-train-fire-1230908-2018-05-10\nQuote: \"A goods train carrying 90 Army jawans and some explosives caught fire while passing through Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. While there were no injuries reported, four Army trucks laden on to the wagons were completely gutted in the blaze.\"\n2018-05-10 - Auto salvage yard erupts in flame in Columbia (South Carolina):\nhttp://www.wistv.com/story/38163777/deputies-close-off-portion-of-fairfield-road-due-to-fire-at-salvage-yard\nhttp://www.wltx.com/article/news/local/fire-at-car-salvage-yard-closed-part-of-richland-county-road/101-550999662\nhttp://www.live5news.com/story/38163777/deputies-close-off-portion-of-fairfield-road-due-to-fire-at-salvage-yard\nhttp://wach.com/news/local/fire-crews-battle-fire-at-salvage-yard\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhuRcyC-tW8\n2018-05-10 - Recycling center fire breaks out on Goddington Road in Ashford (Britain):\nhttp://www.kentlive.news/news/kent-news/updates-ashford-recycling-centre-engulfed-1550937\n2018-05-10 - Underground electrical fire breaks out on Blue Street in Boston (Britain):\nhttp://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/firefighters-called-after-mysterious-plumes-1550977\n2018-05-10 - Utility pole bursts into flame in Minden (Nevada), 3,000+ homes go dark:\nhttp://www.recordcourier.com/news/local/fire-at-power-pole-knocks-electricity-out-to-3300-valley-homes-and-businesses/\nQuote: \"It was the third electrical fire in the Valley in three days. On Tuesday night a transformer exploded and set landscaping on fire at the Gardnerville Chevron. On Wednesday morning, an HVAC issue sent dense smoke into Minden Elementary School forcing staff and students to evacuate.\"\n2018-05-10 - Ten cars go up in flames at 3 AM, six destroyed, while parked at apartments in San Antonio (Texas):\nhttp://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/crime/article/At-least-10-vehicles-damaged-in-fire-at-SW-side-12903398.php\nhttp://www.ksat.com/news/nearly-a-dozen-vehicles-damaged-in-fires-at-southwest-side-apartment-complex\nhttp://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/san-antonio/news/2018/05/10/fire-engulfs-multiple-vehicles-at-sa-apartment-complex\nhttp://www.kens5.com/video/news/nearly-a-dozen-cars-burned-in-southwest-side-apartment-complex-fire/273-8124865\nQuote: \"Firefighters responded to the blaze around 3 a.m. in the 300 block of Gillmore Avenue. When they first arrived, six vehicles were ablaze. By the time the fire had been extinguished, at least four other cars had been damaged, as well as the car port under which they had been parked.\"\n2018-05-10 - SOTT Earth changes summary for April 2018, extreme weather, planetary upheaval, meteors:\nhttp://www.sott.net/article/385301-SOTT-Earth-Changes-Summary-April-2018-Extreme-Weather-Planetary-Upheaval-Meteor-Fireballs\n2018-05-11 - Ozone levels declining in the atmosphere:\nhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2018-02-06/lower-stratosphere-atmosphere-ozone-layer-decline-climate/9400164\nhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2018/02/06/sorry-earth-the-ozone-layer-isnt-healing-itself-after-all/\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/06/ozone-layer-not-recovering-over-populated-areas-scientists-warn\nhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wait-the-ozone-layer-is-still-declining1/\nhttp://www.newsweek.com/ozone-healing-depletion-800173\nQuote: \"The ozone layer high above Antarctica might be mending nicely, but the rest of the world tells a different story. A long-term overview of satellite data shows that ozone levels are actually dropping in the lower stratosphere: the layer of the atmosphere about 10 to 20 kilometres above Earth's surface.\"\nQuote: \"While the hole over Antarctica has been closing, the protective ozone is thinning at the lower latitudes, where the sunlight is stronger and billions of people live...\"\nQuote: \"But, for reasons as yet unknown, ozone seems to be disappearing from some parts of the lower stratosphere, a study published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics has found. The area affected stretches from latitude 60N\u2014a line which traces the globe through Canada and Russia\u2014all the way down to 60S, which sits above Antarctica.\"\nNote: From the full hypothesis: \"Though it is a heavier-than-air gas, hydrogen sulfide is nevertheless being blown up into the upper atmosphere sometimes, where it is reacting away both the ozone layer and hydroxyl radicals. The loss of the ozone layer will probably eventually result in lethal levels of UV radiation baking the surface of the planet.\"\nI wrote that more than six years ago, back when everyone except me THOUGHT the ozone layer was healing. Hydroxyl radicals are also being depleted in the atmosphere, mentioned in the 2018-04-27 update. Nobody but me was even looking at the loss of hydroxyl radicals in the atmosphere as a problem or discussing it six years ago. So those are two extremely specific predictions that I made more than six years ago, both planetary-scale in effect, one completely contrary to the 'scientific consensus' of the day. Prediction after prediction, everything I have said is being verified. And now let's see how long it takes for them to put the REST of the clues together, because they're still waaaaaaay behind in understanding what's going on with this planet, even though when you get right down to it, what's happening is actually pretty simple: we're experiencing a repeat of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, also called the 'Great Dying'...\n2018-05-11 - Unknown rotten egg odor hits shopping plaza in Hamden (Connecticut):\nhttp://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/crews-investigate-natural-gas-odor-at-hamden-shopping-plaza/1173204370\nQuote: \"According to officials, while an odor is present, meters have not indicated a dangerous level of gas in the areas that they have checked so far.\"\n2018-05-11 - Unknown rotten egg odor hits school in Suffield (Connecticut), near the Connecticut River:\nhttp://patch.com/connecticut/suffield/suffield-school-briefly-evacuated-due-gas-smell\nNote: Above two events were about 42 miles apart as the gas blows, with Hamden being much closer to the coast than Suffield...\n2018-05-11 - Two women go up in flames at restaurant, both seriously burned, in Wichita (Kansas), cop burned too:\nhttp://www.kwch.com/content/news/2-critically-injured-with-burns-in-N-Wichita-482436491.html\nhttp://www.ksn.com/news/local/2-people-are-hurt-after-reports-of-a-person-on-fire-in-north-wichita/1174494039\nhttp://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/kansas/articles/2018-05-12/wichita-police-say-officer-saved-2-women-caught-in-fire\nhttp://newstral.com/en/article/en/1094910463/officer-saves-2-women-who-were-found-on-fire-police-say\nhttp://www.wibw.com/content/news/Wichita-police-say-officer-saved-2-women-caught-in-fire-482461471.html\nhttp://www.wopular.com/officer-saves-2-women-who-were-found-fire-police-say\nhttp://apnews.com/c6afc63738844a6faaeaabecccafb3c8\nQuote: \"Three people are hurt, including a Wichita Police officer, after a fire at a restaurant in N. Wichita late Friday. An officer on patrol saw a woman, on fire, running from Rostizeria Los Reyes restaurant in the 500 block of W. 21st Street at around 9:00 p.m. The officer stopped and helped pat the fire out with his hands. The woman then said that her sister was inside the business, also on fire. The officer tried to get into the business, but the doors were locked. He then broke out a window to get inside. There, he found another woman who was also on fire.\"\nQuote: \"The cause of the fire is unknown at this time. The only damage to the business was the broken door.\"\nNote: So the business wasn't burned at all. It was just the women who ignited. If that cop hadn't shown up though then this might have been just another restaurant fire, albeit with two fatalities, and nobody would have known that the fire began with the two women igniting. I'm sure that's happening regularly now - a person ignites at home then runs around dying and on fire, and then later it's reported as a house fire with a fatality and nobody ever knows that the fire began with a person inside the home igniting. Methane is odorless and it will contaminate adsorbent material, like clothing and hair. People will unknowningly become highly flammable then burn to death after spontaneously combusting, or igniting from proximity to a flame, or static electricity, or a spark from an electronic device like a cellphone, etc...\n2018-05-11 - Dragon float bursts into flame during parade at Disney's Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista (Florida):\nhttp://www.rt.com/usa/426547-disney-dragon-bursts-fire/\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/12/dragon-float-catches-fire-during-disney-world-parade-park-officials-say.html\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/disney-festival-of-fantasy-parade-float-fire-magic-kingdom-today-2018-05-11/\nhttp://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/05/11/fire-breaks-out-on-disney-world-parade-float/\nhttp://www.mynbc5.com/article/float-catches-fire-during-parade-at-floridas-disney-world-officials-say/20667667\nhttp://delrionewsherald.com/news_ap/arts/article_9444ccea-e245-5922-9353-de11f02181b6.html\nhttp://www.clickorlando.com/news/dragon-float-in-disneys-festival-of-fantasy-parade-catches-fire\nhttp://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Dragon-Float-Catches-Fire-At-Disney-World-482417631.html\nhttp://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dragon-float-catches-fire-disney-parade-article-1.3984920\nhttp://www.wtae.com/article/float-catches-fire-during-festival-of-fantasy-parade-at-magic-kingdom-park-officials-say/20667021\nhttp://www.sott.net/article/385388-Disney-World-Fire-breathing-dragon-bursts-into-flames-during-parade-in-Orlando-Florida\nhttp://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/05/11/disney-dragon-parade-fire-magic-kingdom/\nQuote: \"A dragon float in Disney's Festival of Fantasy Parade caught fire Friday afternoon, filling the air with thick black smoke, CBS Orlando affiliate WKMG reports. 'I think we have a problem, the dragon's literally on fire,' a guest says in one video. The Steampunk-style dragon -- a representation of Maleficent from 'Sleeping Beauty' -- continued to lift its head up and down while engulfed in orange flames in the Magic Kingdom.\"\nNote: This is the 1st dragon to burn/explode in 2018...\n2018-05-11 - Volcano Kilauea eruption updates:\nhttp://www.thebigwobble.org/2018/05/hawaii-still-shaking-with-hundreds-of.html\nhttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-issues-disaster-declaration-for-hawaii-volcano-damage/ar-AAx952Y\nhttp://www.sott.net/article/385340-Adapt-2030-Ice-Age-Report-Possible-tsunami-threat-if-Big-Island-coast-slips-eruptions-expected-at-Hawaiis-Kilauea-volcano\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7KCbrX9POQ\n2018-05-12 - Unknown chemical smell hits room at hotel and kills man, 48, in Decatur (Georgia), 3 responding cops sickened:\nhttp://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/dekalb-county/1-dead-several-officers-sick-responding-to-hazmat-situation-in-dekalb-county/748377627\nhttp://www.11alive.com/article/news/local/three-officers-hospitalized-hazmat-units-called-to-hotel-where-dead-body-was-found/85-551566725\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5722459/One-person-dead-Georgia-hotel-room-three-cops-taken-hospital.html\nhttp://www.myajc.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-dead-multiple-officers-hospitalized-hazmat-situation-dekalb/ptLveEhYD8iCmOYdNo7pOP/\nhttp://www.wsbradio.com/news/local/federal-agents-arrive-hotel-after-officers-investigating-body-are-hospitalized-odor/ro2CjrkK5q5huMjaQbfnIM/\nhttp://www.myajc.com/news/breaking-news/police-sickened-chemical-fumes-hotel-where-body-found/YxSW2YhVnnoBcoX1TFoekN/\nQuote: \"Officers were called out to investigate a dead body found inside a room that had a strong chemical smell which began to make the officers sick, leaving three to be sent to hospital.\"\nQuote: \"Three DeKalb County police officers were taken to a hospital Saturday after they were overcome by chemical fumes while investigating a dead body at an extended-stay motel. The officers were conscious and alert at the hospital and are expected to recover, said Shiera Campbell, a spokeswoman for the DeKalb police. Authorities are not treating the death as a homicide, she said.\"\n2018-05-12 - Unknown gas smell evacuates businesses on Scollay Street in Greenway (Australia), near Lake Tuggeranong:\nhttp://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/fifty-evacuated-from-tuggeranong-businesses-due-to-gas-smell-20180513-p4zf0x.html\nQuote: \"More than 50 people have been evacuated after a gas smell was detected in the Tuggeranong Officeworks. Firefighters were called to Scollay Street, Greenway about 12.40pm on Sunday due to the smell of gas coming from a lift shaft at the business. People were also evacuated from the neighbouring BCF and Petbarn. As of 1.50pm, ACT Fire and Rescue crews were conducting atmospheric monitoring to determine the cause of the smell. Firefighters conducted their final sweep of the building about 3pm, with people expected to return inside shortly afterwards.\"\n2018-05-12 - Small plane bursts into flame then crashes and burns near Jacksonville (Alabama), 2 killed:\nhttp://thecitizen.com/2018/05/16/peachtree-city-woman-dies-plane-crash-alabama-saturday/\nhttp://abc3340.com/news/local/sheriff-small-plane-crashed-in-calhoun-county\nhttp://www.kplctv.com/story/38176828/woman-dies-man-airlifted-after-jacksonville-plane-crash\nhttp://www.wave3.com/story/38176828/woman-dies-man-airlifted-after-jacksonville-plane-crash\nhttp://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/38176828/woman-dies-man-airlifted-after-jacksonville-plane-crash\nhttp://www.fox8live.com/story/38176828/woman-dies-man-airlifted-after-jacksonville-plane-crash\nhttp://www.newswest9.com/story/38176828/woman-dies-man-airlifted-after-jacksonville-plane-crash\nhttp://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38176828/woman-dies-man-airlifted-after-jacksonville-plane-crash\nhttp://www.annistonstar.com/free/one-killed-in-jacksonville-plane-crash/article_1bbd2cac-5663-11e8-8de3-a33d9ac9f14b.html\nhttp://www.wvtm13.com/article/plane-crash-reported-in-calhoun-county/20672604\nQuote: \"Witnesses say the plane caught fire in mid air, before falling to the ground.\"\n2018-05-12 - Passenger train bursts into flame at Six Flags Over Georgia in Austell (Georgia), 2 injured:\nhttp://www.wsbtv.com/news/georgia/2-workers-hurt-in-train-fire-at-six-flags-over-georgia/748475163\nhttp://myfox8.com/2018/05/12/2-people-taken-to-hospital-after-train-catches-fire-at-six-flags-over-georgia-amusement-park/\nhttp://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/georgia/articles/2018-05-12/2-workers-hurt-in-train-fire-at-six-flags-over-georgia\nhttp://www.ajc.com/news/local/fire-six-flags-over-georgia-ride-sends-two-employees-hospital-video/19SQDWNK0yi4Tv0tJxT1EL/\nhttp://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/fire-on-six-flags-over-georgia-ride-send-two-employees-to-hospital/748458216\nhttp://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/38176610/employees-treated-after-train-catches-fire-at-six-flags-over-georgia\nhttp://www.cbs46.com/story/38176610/employees-treated-after-train-catches-fire-at-six-flags-over-georgia\nhttp://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/six-flags-railroad-catches-fire-two-employees-taken-to-hospital\n2018-05-12 - Underground electrical explosion and fire blows manhole cover off in River Heights area in Winnipeg (Canada):\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/hydro-blowout-knocks-out-power-river-heights-1.4660553\nhttp://ca.news.yahoo.com/hydro-blowout-knocks-power-traffic-151917708.html\n2018-05-12 - Volcano Kilauea continues erupting and quaking in Hawaii, more fissures open, warning issued for explosive eruption:\nhttp://abc11.com/hawaii-issues-warning-for-explosive-eruption-as-2-new-fissures-open/3467315/\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/US/hawaii-issues-warning-explosive-eruption-volcano-fissures-open/story?id=55126924\nhttp://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/05/hawaii-warns-of-explosive-eruption-as-new-fissures-open-spewing-lava.html\nhttp://www.yahoo.com/gma/hawaii-issues-warning-explosive-eruption-volcano-2-fissures-063404141--abc-news-topstories.html\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/13/hawaii-volcano-explosion-concern-new-fissures/605799002/\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-new-fissures-open-today-awaits-explosive-eruption-2018-05-13/\nhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/05/kilaueaia-hawaii-braces-for-explosive.html\nhttp://www.thebigwobble.org/2018/05/another-100-tremors-rattled-residents.html\nhttp://phys.org/news/2018-05-volcano-explosion-wont-deadly-people.html\n2018-05-13 - Passenger plane hit by unknown odor, eight passengers sickened, plane makes emergency landing in Vienna (Austria):\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EH-20180514-63086-AUT\nhttp://nltimes.nl/2018/05/14/passengers-fall-ill-transavia-flight-reason-unknown\nhttp://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2018/05/transavia-plane-grounded-after-passengers-fall-ill-during-flight/\nhttp://europe.easybranches.com/netherlands/Passengers-fall-ill-on-Transavia-flight--reason-unknown-368612\nhttp://aviationvoice.com/eight-passengers-become-sick-on-board-of-the-transavia-boeing-737-201805141011/\nhttp://nos.nl/artikel/2231699-incident-transavia-toestel-nog-raadsel-vliegtuig-terug-in-nederland.html\nQuote: \"Eight people fell ill for unknown reasons on board a Transavia flight from [coastal] Schiphol [in Amsterdam] to Antalya in Turkey on Sunday morning. The pilot made a precautionary landing in Vienna after people started fainting on board, NOS reports. Passenger Hetty Roelofsen told NOS that the problems started when one passenger smelled something strange and fell ill. After that a total of eight people became unwell, spread over the plane.\"\n2018-05-13 - Passenger plane hit by smoke, plane makes emergency landing in coastal Los Angeles (California):\nhttp://fox5sandiego.com/2018/05/14/san-diego-flight-diverted-to-lax-due-to-smoke-in-cockpit/\nhttp://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Flight-San-Diego-Diverted-Smoke-in-Cockpit-Las-Vegas-LAX-482528301.html\nhttp://arffwg.org/news/flight-san-diego-diverted-lax-due-report-smoke/\nQuote: \"A Southwest flight from San Diego to Las Vegas made an emergency landing Sunday after reports of smoke in the cockpit.\"\n2018-05-13 - High-rise Zen Tower heavily damaged by fire in coastal Dubai (UAE):\nhttp://www.rt.com/news/426574-dubai-tower-fire-marina/\nhttp://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/dubai/Video/Fire-in-Dubai-Marina-building-put-out--1\nhttp://www.thenational.ae/uae/residents-flee-blaze-in-dubai-marina-tower-block-1.729902\nhttp://gulfnews.com/news/uae/emergencies/fire-breaks-out-in-dubai-marina-tower-1.2220477\nhttp://www.wral.com/firefighters-battle-blaze-at-high-rise-tower-in-dubai-marina/17550952/\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/13/firefighters-battle-blaze-at-high-rise-tower-in-dubai-marina.html\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/firefighters-battle-blaze-high-rise-tower-dubai-marina-55127280\nhttp://metro.co.uk/2018/05/13/terrifying-video-shows-massive-fire-break-skyscraper-dubai-7542114/\nQuote: \"Dubai, a skyscraper-studded city, has suffered a spate of fires in its high-rises.\"\n2018-05-13 - Landfill fire breaks out, again, at 5:30 AM on Pond Island near the island of Sint Maarten:\nhttp://www.thedailyherald.sx/islands/76529-landfill-fire-persons-with-respiratory-challenges-advised-to-close-windows-and-doors-2\nhttp://smn-news.com/st-maarten-st-martin-news/29113-landfill-on-fire-persons-with-respiratory-challenges-advised-to-close-windows-and-doors.html\nhttp://721news.com/local-news/landfill-fire-persons-with-respiratory-challenges-advised-to-close-windows-and-doors-2/\nQuote: \"The landfill is once again on fire. The fire started early Sunday morning. It is not yet clear what caused the early morning blaze. Police Spokesman Ricardo Henson said the police was notified about 5:30 am about the blaze which he said is as big as the one earlier this year that took days to put out.\"\n2018-05-13 - Two cars burst into flame at 11:51 PM while parked on opposite side of street in North Amityville (New York):\nhttp://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/car-fires-north-amityville-1.18538274\nQuote: \"Investigators are trying to determine the cause of two car fires on opposite sides of the same street in North Amityville, Suffolk County police said. The fires were reported at 11:51 p.m. Sunday on Melody Lane near Summer Lane, a police department spokeswoman said. The cars were unoccupied and there were no injuries, the spokeswoman said.\"\n2018-05-13 - Man burned by flash fire at hotel on Anderson Mill Road in Austin (Texas):\nhttp://cbsaustin.com/news/local/afd-flash-fire-injures-man-in-hotel-room\nNote: Flash fire, so gases in the atmosphere ignited...\n2018-05-13 - Newly-built boathouse destroyed by fire on Mortimers Point Road on Lake Muskoka in Port Carling (Canada):\nhttp://www.mymuskokanow.com/73715/boat-house-blaze-in-muskoka-lakes-causes-1-4-million-in-damage/\n2018-05-13 - Wildfires rage along the Amur River near Komsomolsk-on-Amur (Russia):\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=WF-20180514-63083-RUS\nhttp://sputniknews.com/videoclub/201805141064414731-russia-khabarovsk-train-forest-fire/\nhttp://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/armageddon-as-forest-fires-hit-with-a-vengeance-around-komsomolsk-on-amur/\nhttp://rusreality.com/2018/05/13/drivers-took-video-of-the-passage-of-a-train-through-a-forest-fire/\n2018-05-13 - Murzinka River mysteriously turns red in coastal St. Petersburg (Russia):\nhttp://strangesounds.org/2018/05/river-mysteriously-turns-red-in-st-petersburg-russia.html\n2018-05-14 - Unknown foul odor evacuates Elida High School in Elida (Ohio), 4600 feet from the Ottawa River:\nhttp://www.limaohio.com/news/300172/elida-high-school-briefly-evacuated-due-to-foul-odor\nQuote: \"American Township Fire Department was dispatched to Elida High School to investigate a foul odor Monday afternoon. The odor prompted school officials to evacuate the high school. At approximately 1:07 p.m. firefighters arrived and after conducting tests the results indicated that there were no hazardous chemicals or gases released inside the facility.\"\n2018-05-14 - Man ignites at gas station, dies 3 weeks later, in Atlanta (Georgia):\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5732911/Man-dies-nearly-three-weeks-caught-fire-pumping-gas-Atlanta.html\nhttp://www.ajc.com/news/crime--law/man-dies-weeks-after-suffering-burns-while-pumping-gas/51ZMzfyx1CrcLEh8mSkhhK/\nhttp://en.mogaznews.com/World-News/904537/Man-dies-nearly-three-weeks-after-he-caught-on-fire-while-pumping-gas-in-Atlanta.html\nQuote: \"A man, who suffered severe burns on most of his body after he caught on fire while pumping gas in Georgia, died on Monday. The man, whose identity has not been released, was pumping gas around 12pm on April 25 at a Texaco when the incident occurred. Witnesses said they couldn't see exactly what happened because the man caught on fire so quickly.\"\n2018-05-14 - Auto salvage yard hit by fire, six cars burn, in Dayton (Ohio):\nhttp://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/large-scrap-fire-reported-dayton/NbR5l8QHIRTfDJc1wOIeQO/\nhttp://www.wdtn.com/news/local-news/dispatch-car-fire-shuts-down-washington-street/1178676589\nhttp://fox45now.com/news/local/black-smoke-visible-for-miles-from-fire-near-downtown-dayton\nhttp://fox45now.com/news/local/firefighters-battle-billowing-black-smoke-explosions-while-fighting-multi-car-fire\nhttp://www.whio.com/news/local/large-scrap-fire-reported-dayton/NbR5l8QHIRTfDJc1wOIeQO/\nhttp://abc22now.com/news/local/firefighters-battle-billowing-black-smoke-explosions-while-fighting-multi-car-fire\n2018-05-14 - Unused recycling center erupts in flame, fire gets huge, in coastal Sunderland (Britain):\nhttp://livetechinfo.com/sunderland-fire-fire-crews-battling-12-hour-blaze-at-scrapyard-factory/\nhttp://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/sunderland-fire-what-know-far-14658546\nhttp://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/702756/Sunderland-scrapyard-fire-Deptford-Terrace-recycling-plant-Tyne-and-Wear\nQuote: \"Plumes of thick black smoke were visible for miles after the fire broke out at the disused recycling plant in Sunderland around 6pm last night. More than 50 firefighters were called to Deptford Terrace to tackle what has been dubbed 'the great fire of Sunderland'. More than 20 remain on the scene this morning, Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service said, with no end in sight.\"\n2018-05-14 - Offshore support ship 'Marshal Vasilevskiy' damaged by explosion near coastal Ulsan (South Korea):\nhttp://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Mar.vasilevskiyst-9778313.html\nhttp://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2018/22429/explosion-destroyed-boiler-gazprom-gas-processing-/\nhttp://maritimebulletin.net/2018/05/14/explosion-destroyed-boiler-on-gazprom-gas-processing-ship-in-korea/\nQuote: \"The 'Marshal Vasilevskiy' suffered an explosion of one of the six regasification boilers during trials off Ulsan on May 14, 2018. The boiler, produced by Mitsubishi, was destroyed in the incident. The delivery date will be postponed. Reportedly, there were other damages besides the destroyed boiler.\"\n2018-05-14 - Twelve boats destroyed by fire, 18 more damaged, at Portman Marina on Lake Hartwell in Anderson (South Carolina):\nhttp://www.independentmail.com/story/news/2018/05/14/firefighters-responding-blaze-portman-marina-dock/607912002/\nhttp://www.greenvilleonline.com/picture-gallery/news/2018/05/14/portman-marina-dock-on-fire/34896117/\nhttp://www.921wlhr.com/major-fire-at-portman-marina-claims-dozens-of-boats-one-boater-injured/\nhttp://www.wyff4.com/article/1-injured-at-least-12-boats-destroyed-in-dock-fire-reported-at-portman-marina-in-anderson-county/20684671\nhttp://www.11alive.com/article/news/nation-world/lake-hartwell-fire-burns-dozens-of-boats-docks-at-portman-marina/85-551974334\nhttp://wlos.com/news/local/crews-battle-large-fire-at-portman-marina-in-anderson-county\nhttp://wpde.com/news/local/huge-fire-erupts-at-lake-hartwell-marina\nQuote: \"As of 3 p.m., 12 boats had been destroyed and another 18 had been damaged, emergency workers said.\"\n2018-05-14 - Yacht bursts into flame near coastal Redondo Beach (California):\nhttp://abc7.com/2-people-rescued-from-boat-fire-off-coast-of-redondo-beach/3472716/\nhttp://patch.com/california/palosverdes/2-rescued-burning-boat-near-palos-verdes-estates\nhttp://www.dailybreeze.com/2018/05/14/firefighters-work-quickly-to-knock-down-boat-fire-off-of-the-coast-of-malaga-cove/\nhttp://tbrnews.com/news/hermosa_beach/two-men-rescued-from-boat-engulfed-in-flames-off-hermosa/article_11d3db94-57a0-11e8-8f86-b379c6d5d51d.html\nhttp://www.scoopnest.com/user/ABC7/996102746762706945-2-people-rescued-from-boat-fire-off-coast-of-redondo-beach\nhttp://ktla.com/2018/05/14/2-people-rescued-from-burning-boat-off-palos-verdes-estates-coast-officials/\nhttp://easyreadernews.com/boat-catches-fire-off-palos-verdes-coast/\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwe5bQSm1kU\n2018-05-14 - Boat and two docks destroyed by fire at Cornet Bay Marina on coastal Whidbey Island (Washington):\nhttp://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/man-injured-in-boat-fire-at-cornet-bay-marina-two-docks-destroyed/\n2018-05-14 - More than 23,000 square miles are burning in Russia:\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5726231/The-train-hell-Flames-lick-locomotive-wildfire-rages-track-Siberia.html\nhttp://www.sott.net/article/385599-23700-square-miles-of-forest-on-fire-in-Russia\nQuote: \"Wildfires are an annual problem in eastern Russia, but appear to be worsening each year.\"\n2018-05-15 - Foul rotten egg odor hits area on the Gold Coast from Hope Island to Arundel (Australia):\nhttp://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/the-cause-behind-foul-smell-blanketing-northern-gold-coast/news-story/8a37be0c316d94833a9eb5396db61770\nhttp://www.facebook.com/goldcoastbulletin/posts/10155602376457358\nhttp://twitter.com/GCBulletin/status/996582279630618625\n2018-05-15 - SUV goes up in flames and burns two people near the Collier Tunnel in Del Norte County (California):\nhttp://ktvl.com/news/local/ivfd-two-passengers-burned-in-car-fire\nhttp://www.kdrv.com/content/news/Two-People-Badly-Burned-in-California-Car-Fire-482760931.html\nhttp://twitter.com/KTVL/status/996612456209375234\nQuote: \"Illinois Valley Fire District responded to a car fire in California just north of the Collier Tunnel with two burn patients Tuesday afternoon.\"\nQuote: \"AMR Medic 4 took over treatment of the patients as soon as they arrived on the scene. Both patients had 'numerous burns,' according to IVFD.\"\n2018-05-15 - Man has 'medical emergency' in car, car bursts into flame, in Cottleville (Missouri), 1 injured:\nhttp://www.kmov.com/story/38205086/cottleville-firefighters-rescue-man-from-burning-car-in-driveway\nhttp://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/cottleville-fire-rescues-man-trapped-in-burning-car/63-552778001\nhttp://www.wnem.com/story/38205086/cottleville-firefighters-rescue-man-from-burning-car-in-driveway\nhttp://www.k5thehometeam.com/story/38205086/cottleville-firefighters-rescue-man-from-burning-car-in-driveway\nhttp://kplr11.com/2018/05/16/63-year-old-man-pulled-from-burning-vehicle/\nQuote: \"Officials believe the 63-year-old was unconscious and suffered a medical emergency in the car while it was running, which then accidentally caught fire.\"\n2018-05-15 - In separate incidents, two underground electrical fires break out before 1:30 AM in coastal Manhattan (New York):\nhttp://www.westsiderag.com/2018/05/15/middle-of-night-manhole-fire-on-west-end-causes-smoke-and-popping-sounds\nQuote: \"Editor\u2019s Note: It turns out this happened at two separate locations around the same time, so we\u2019ve updated the post.\"\n2018-05-15 - Underground electrical explosion and fire blow manhole cover off in Dunfermline (Scotland), near the coast:\nhttp://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/653973/traffic-system-fault-causes-underground-explosions-at-dunfermline-bus-station/\nhttp://www.scotsman.com/regions/edinburgh-fife-lothians/underground-explosion-near-fife-bus-station-investigated-1-4739690\nhttp://www.thenational.scot/news/16226954.Authorities_investigate_underground_explosion_near_bus_station/\nhttp://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/2645019/dunfermline-fife-explosion-electrical-fire-police/\nhttp://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/emergency-services-race-dunfermline-bus-12540009\n2018-05-15 - Auto salvage yard erupts in flame in Florence (South Carolina):\nhttp://wpde.com/news/local/fire-crews-on-scene-at-scrapyard-business-in-florence\nhttp://www.wbtw.com/news/pee-dee/crews-battle-florence-recycling-yard-fire/1180242840\nhttp://www.live5news.com/story/38194994/crews-battle-fire-at-american-steel-and-recycling-in-florence\nQuote: \"A firefighter said it's the same area, American Steel and Recycling, where a fire burned several cars earlier this year.\"\n2018-05-15 - Auto salvage yard hit by fire in Upper Rawdon (Canada):\nhttp://www.hantsjournal.ca/news/firefighters-battling-large-blaze-in-upper-rawdon-210521/\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/junkyard-fire-upper-rawdon-1.4664763\nhttp://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/crews-battle-massive-tire-fire-at-auto-salvage-yard-in-upper-rawdon-1.3932067\nhttp://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1571025-update-fire-departments-battle-tire-fire-at-upper-rawdon-salvage-yard\nhttp://www.kingscountynews.ca/news/dozens-of-firefighters-work-to-extinguish-stubborn-tire-fire-at-upper-rawdon-salvage-yard-210521/\nhttp://www.thecoastguard.ca/news/regional/dozens-of-firefighters-work-to-extinguish-stubborn-tire-fire-at-upper-rawdon-salvage-yard-210521/\nhttp://www.iheartradio.ca/big-dog-100-9/news/fire-departments-from-three-counties-respond-to-blaze-in-east-hants-1.3822577\nhttp://ca.news.yahoo.com/stubborn-1-000-tire-fire-144643646.html\n2018-05-15 - Volcano Kilauea in Hawaii continues erupting, more lava oozing out, threat level goes to red:\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/15/hawaii-volcano-eruption-intensifies-triggering-red-warning.html\nhttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/lava-from-hawaii-volcano-nears-an-evacuation-route-warning-issued-on-gas-exposure/ar-AAxhvBN\nQuote: \"Hawaii residents are facing the highest volcanic activity alert after officials warned Tuesday that the Big Island's Kilauea volcano is growing more explosive -- as a massive ash cloud grows in the sky. The U.S. Geological Survery upgraded its previous volcano warning from 'orange' to 'red,'\" signifying that an 'eruption is forecasted to be imminent with significant emission of ash into the atmosphere likely,' or that an eruption is already underway. 'At any time, activity may become more explosive, increasing the intensity of ash production and producing ballistic projectiles near the vent,' local officials told Fox News amid the alert, which was issued just before 1:30 p.m. local time.\"\nQuote: \"Lava from one of the world\u2019s most active volcanoes snaked closer to the Big Island\u2019s Highway 137 \u2014 coming within a mile and a half Monday night to choking off one of the last remaining evacuation routes for residents in lower Puna, officials said. Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey said that red-and-orange lava continues to flow from fissure 17, but has slowed to about two-tenths of a mile in the past six hours. The situation is considered extremely dangerous.\"\n2018-05-15 - Shocking footage of massive amounts of garbage floating in the Caribbean Sea:\nhttp://weather.com/series/human-nature/video/shocking-footage-of-trash-in-caribbean-sea\n2018-05-17 - Person found dead in burning car on Montreal Road near Ottawa (Canada):\nhttp://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/body-found-in-burning-vehicle-on-montreal-rd-1.3935617\nhttp://country105.com/news/4215710/body-burning-car-ottawa/\nhttp://ca.news.yahoo.com/body-found-charred-vehicle-montreal-182216330.html\nhttp://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/body-found-inside-car-on-fire-on-montreal-road\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/body-burned-car-montreal-road-1.4667483\nhttp://www.newslocker.com/en-ca/region/ottawa/body-found-inside-car-on-fire-on-montreal-road/\nhttp://globalnews.ca/news/4215710/body-burning-car-ottawa/\nhttp://twitter.com/OttawaCitizen/status/997180362009739264\nQuote: \"Police say a body was found inside that burning vehicle, but they don't suspect foul play in this incidence. This discovery comes just two weeks after another body was found inside a burning vehicle on Carp Road.\"\nNote: Yep, burning to death in cars is becoming a popular way to die...\n2018-05-17 - Mysterious explosion shakes homes in coastal San Diego (California):\nhttp://fox5sandiego.com/2018/05/16/san-diegans-report-hearing-loud-boom/\nhttp://www.sott.net/article/385925-Space-rock-Loud-house-shaking-boom-heard-in-southern-California\n2018-05-17 - Underground electrical explosion and fire hits Princeton (New Jersey):\nhttp://patch.com/new-jersey/princeton/emergency-vehicles-nassau-street-impacting-traffic-police\n2018-05-17 - Truck repair shop damaged by fire at 1:46 AM in Box Elder (South Dakota):\nhttp://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/fire-crews-battle-another-blaze-on-elk-vale-road/article_c4c22c8a-3767-54a0-98ae-6bff8f3df9af.html\nhttp://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-dakota/articles/2018-05-17/fire-damages-truck-repair-business-in-box-elder-no-one-hurt\nhttp://www.ksfy.com/content/news/Fire-damages-truck-repair-business-in-Box-Elder-no-one-hurt-482923481.html\nhttp://www.kdlt.com/2018/05/17/fire-damages-truck-repair-business-box-elder-no-one-hurt/\nhttp://kbhbradio.com/Fire-damages-truck-and-trailer-business\nhttp://www.sacbee.com/news/business/article211322199.html\nQuote: \"On May 8, the Ultramax Ammunition plant, which is located only a few hundreds yards north of Excel Truck & Trailer Repair, was destroyed in a fire.\"\n2018-05-17 - Truck repair shop damaged by fire just after midnight in Eugene (Oregon):\nhttp://nbc16.com/news/local/eugene-truck-shop-catches-fire-activates-sprinkler-system\nhttp://www.registerguard.com/news/20180517/fire-at-rexius-truck-shop-on-bailey-hill-road-quickly-put-out-by-sprinkler-system-fire-crews\n2018-05-17 - Auto shop damaged by fire in Westbrook (Maine):\nhttp://www.wmtw.com/article/crews-investigate-fire-at-westbrook-auto-dealership/20736157\nNote: Three parked tractor trailers just went up in flames at a waste facility in Westbrook the day prior too, mentioned in the 2018-05-16 update...\n2018-05-17 - Volcano Kilauea erupts mightily in Hawaii, spews ash 30,000 feet into the atmosphere:\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/05/17/hawaii-volcano-eruption-spews-plume-30-000-feet-up/619418002/\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/17/hawaii-volcanos-explosive-eruption-sends-ash-plume-soaring-prompts-warning.html\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/hawaii-volcano-kilauea-eruption-update-today-2018-05-17-live-stream-updates/\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/05/17/hawaii-volcano-kilauea-mount-st-helens/616612002/\nhttp://wnep.com/2018/05/17/summit-of-hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-launching-plume-of-ash-and-smoke/\nhttp://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38176893/explosive-eruption-at-kilauea-summit-sends-ash-plume-30000-feet-into-air\nhttp://strangesounds.org/2018/05/strong-explosion-at-kilauea-overlook-vent-sends-volcanic-plume-30000-ft-in-the-air.html\nhttp://www.express.co.uk/news/world/961623/Hawaii-volcano-eruption-update-latest-mount-kilauea-explosion-2018-video-ash-fall\nhttp://metro.co.uk/2018/05/17/hawaiis-kilauea-volcano-erupts-sending-ash-30000-feet-sky-7555178/\nhttp://www.vox.com/2018/5/17/17364666/kilauea-volcano-eruption-2018-summit-plume-photos\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2018/05/17/us/hawaii-kilauea-volcano/index.html\n2018-05-17 - Atmospheric CO2 levels have reached 412.10 ppm, more in some areas of the world:\nhttp://robinwestenra.blogspot.com/2018/05/carbon-dioxide-levelts-have-reached.html\n2018-05-17 - Toxic algae blooms occurring more often, may be caught in climate change feedback loop:\nhttp://insideclimatenews.org/news/15052018/algae-blooms-climate-change-methane-emissions-data-agriculture-nutrient-runoff-fertilizer-sewage-pollution-lake-erie\n2018-05-17 - Very high UV levels measured at many locations across North America:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oghDwBTh4c\n2018-05-18 - Unknown noxious odor causes evacuations at VA building in El Paso (Texas):\nhttp://www.kvia.com/news/military/portions-of-va-annex-building-evacuated-appointments-canceled-as-a-result-of-harmful-odor/743407025\nQuote: \"The El Paso Veteran Affairs evacuated portions of its annex building near Piedras and Pierce Avenue 'in response to a noxious odor.' This happened around 10:50 a.m. Friday. VA officials said all employees and Veterans were immediately evacuated from the annex.\"\n2018-05-18 - Passenger plane bursts into flame shortly after takeoff, plane crashes and burns, near coastal Havana (Cuba), 110 killed, 3 injured:\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=VI-20180519-63163-CUB\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/jet-crash-havana-cuba-dozens-killed-latest-2018-05-19/\nhttp://www.wric.com/news/national/cuba-3-survivors-critical-after-crash-of-jet-carrying-110/1188389882\nhttp://www.sungazette.com/news/top-news/2018/05/cuba-110-died-in-plane-crash-3-survivors-critical/\nhttp://www.krqe.com/news/world-news/cuba-110-died-in-plane-crash-3-survivors-critical/1188415217\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/05/19/cuba-plane-crash-leaves-110-dead-3-injured-officials-say.html\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/plane-crash-havana-cuba-today-2018-05-18/\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/americas/cuba-airliner-crash/index.html\nhttp://nypost.com/2018/05/18/plane-crashes-and-erupts-into-fireball-after-takeoff-in-cuba/\nhttp://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/Cuban-media-Boeing-737-crashes-with-104-12925773.php\nhttp://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/cuba-passenger-plane-crashes-havana-180518173324617.html\nhttp://news.sky.com/story/cuba-plane-crash-more-than-100-dead-amid-reports-of-explosion-11378122\nhttp://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/05/19/18/the-explosion-shook-everything-witnesses-to-cuba-plane-crash\nhttp://www.rt.com/news/427151-cuba-boeing-crash-airport/\nQuote: \"Eyewitness and private salon owner Rocio Martinez said she heard a strange noise and looked up to see the plane with a turbine on fire. 'In flames, here it comes falling toward the ground, and it seems (the pilot) saw it was an area that was too residential and makes a sharp turn,' Martinez said.\"\nQuote: \"More than 100 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed soon after taking off from Havana in what appeared to be Cuba\u2019s worst air disaster in nearly 30 years, and there were only three survivors, officials and state media said on Friday.\"\n2018-05-18 - Mig-31 fighter jet bursts into flame at airfield in Permsky Krai (Russia):\nhttps://sputniknews.com/russia/201805181064585497-aircraft-fire-russia/\nhttp://eblnews.com/video/russia-mig-31-plane-catches-fire-perm-region-409264\nhttp://www.almasdarnews.com/article/377343/\nhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?t=s56dJ_1526687940\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl0lxaY5hfk\nQuote: \"According to the press-service of the Central Military District, a right engine of Mig-31 has been caught on fire at an airfield in Russia's Permsky Krai. 'The pilots were about to conduct a training flight, but the aircraft was caught on fire while entering a flight strip,' the statement reads.\"\nNote: These are the 73rd and 74th aircraft to smoke/burn/explode in 2018...\n2018-05-18 - Man, 60, found dead on burned couch at home in Atwood (Illinois):\nhttp://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-05-19/update-atwood-man-who-died-after-fire-identified.html\nhttp://www.illinoishomepage.net/news/local-news/no-foul-play-in-fatal-fire/1188179469\nQuote: \"Police and fire officials are investigating the death of an Atwood man found in his home Friday as an accident or the result of a medical issue. Atwood Police Chief Rob Bross said Jeffrey Browning, 60, was discovered dead on the couch in his living room by his father. Bross said Mr. Browning\u2019s father stopped by his son\u2019s house in the 300 block of North Main Street about 9 p.m. to check on him, as he occasionally did. Bross said burn patterns showed the fire started on the couch but extinguished itself.\"\n2018-05-18 - Metal recycling center hit by fire, large pile of scrap metal burns, in Chili (New York):\nhttp://radio951.iheart.com/content/2018-05-18-massive-fire-at-metalico-in-chili/\nhttp://wxxinews.org/post/large-smoky-fire-scrap-metal-recycling-plant-chili\nhttp://www.whec.com/news/crews-respond-to-fire-at-scrap-metal-facility-near-airport/4913451/\nhttp://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/rochester/crime-safety/2018/05/18/metalico-recycling-chili-fire-rochester\nQuote: \"Dozens of firefighters battled a large fire at a metal recycling plant on Scottsville Road in Chili Friday afternoon. Firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze after a large pile of scrap metal caught fire at the Metalico scrap metal facility. Smoke from the scene could be seen from miles away.\"\n2018-05-18 - Metal recycling center hit by fire, huge pile of electronics burns, in Hitchin (Britain):\nhttp://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/incredible-drone-footage-hitchin-fire-1582640\nhttp://www.thecomet.net/news/hitchin-electrical-goods-fire-nobody-injured-in-cadwell-lane-scrapyard-blaze-police-confirm-1-5523508\nhttp://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/no-reports-injuries-hitchin-industrial-1582443\nhttp://www.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/news/hertfordshire-news/gallery/shocking-images-hitchin-fire-show-1582207\nhttp://www.thecomet.net/news/massive-electrical-goods-fire-on-hitchin-industrial-estate-1-5523384\nQuote: \"The electrical goods fire in the scrapyard off Cadwell Lane has sent massive plumes of black smoke billowing into the sky above North Herts.\"\n2018-05-18 - Auto salvage yard erupts in flame, fire spreads to 3 buildings, in Socorro (New Mexico):\nhttp://www.koat.com/article/junkyard-fire-grows-to-engulf-three-buildings-in-socorro/20751147\nhttp://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/large-fire-burning-in-socorro-/4913876/\n2018-05-18 - Auto salvage yard hit by fire, six vehicles burn, in Billerica (Massachusetts):\nhttp://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Junkyard-Fire-in-Billerica-483061721.html\nhttp://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_31887462/firefighters-contain-billerica-junkyard-blaze\n2018-05-18 - Cars and car storage facility go up in flames in Oskaloosa (Iowa):\nhttp://ktvo.com/news/local/oskaloosa-fire-department-investigates-structure-fire\nhttp://www.oskaloosa.com/news/local_news/fire-fought-by/article_bfb91b82-5b6c-11e8-9438-274310856686.html\nhttp://oskynews.org/fire-damages-oskaloosa-business/\nQuote: \"The Oskaloosa Fire Department is investigating a structure fire that occurred Friday night at Clabaugh Enterprises. Around 7:30 p.m., crews responded to a call at the car storage facility on South Seventh Street. Fire Chief Mark Neff told KTVO the vehicles inside the structure were engulfed in flames.\"\n2018-05-19 - Unknown odor sickens people at restaurant in West Caldwell (New Jersey):\nhttp://www.rlsmedia.com/article/west-fire-fighters-evacuate-restaurant-after-suspicious-odor-leaves-patrons-breathing-issues\nQuote: \"The West Caldwell health inspector will have to clear a local restaurant before it can open again after a suspicious odor had several patrons feeling sick with some reportedly having some breathing issues. According to preliminary reports, at approximately 12:30 p.m. Saturday, emergency responders rushed to the Original Pancake House in West Caldwell after a room filled with patron began to cough uncontrollably with some even vomiting and complaining of throat irritation.\"\n2018-05-19 - Passenger plane hit by smoke, plane makes emergency landing in coastal Manila (Philippine Islands):\nhttp://newsinfo.inquirer.net/992329/pal-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-naia-pal-naia-emergency-aviation-news\nhttp://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/175771/pals-bombardier-q400-makes-emergency-landing\nhttp://twitter.com/NCorralesINQ/status/997726850200649728\nQuote: \"A Philippine Airlines (PAL) plane bound for Busuanga Island in Palawan from Clark International Airport made an emergency landing at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) due to smoke inside the cabin.\"\n2018-05-13 - Landfill fire breaks out, again, on Pond Island near the island of Sint Maarten:\nhttp://smn-news.com/st-maarten-st-martin-news/29182-landfill-on-fire-most-of-the-island-covered-with-smoke-landfill-fire-persons-with-respiratory-challenges-advised-to-close-windows-and-doors.html\nhttp://sxmislandtime.com/landfill-fire-persons-with-respiratory-challenges-advised-to-close-windows-and-doors-2/\n2018-05-19 - At least four buildings devastated by massive blaze in downtown Brandon (Canada), 150+ people homeless:\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brandon-fire-may-19-1.4670906\nhttp://www.castanet.net/news/Canada/226726/Massive-fire-in-downtown\nhttp://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/brandon-fire-war-zone-1.4671279\nhttp://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2018/05/20/more-than-150-people-left-homeless-by-brandon-manitoba-fire/\nhttp://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/05/20/total-chaos-as-blazes-burn-through-brandon-man-buildings.html\nhttp://edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2018/05/20/more-than-150-people-left-homeless-by-brandon-manitoba-fire/\nhttp://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1398595\nQuote: \"At least four buildings in Brandon's downtown caught fire Saturday in what the city's mayor said will 'likely be one of the largest fires Brandon has ever seen.'\"\n2018-05-19 - Utility pole bursts into flame in Cedar Grove (New Jersey):\nhttp://www.tapinto.net/towns/verona-slash-cedar-grove/articles/electrical-pole-fire-slows-traffic-on-pompton-ave\n2018-05-19 - RV destroyed by fire at 4:28 AM while parked at Snake River RV Park in Idaho Falls (Idaho), 1 injured:\nhttp://idahonews.com/news/local/man-burned-in-early-morning-rv-fire\nhttp://www.localnews8.com/news/kifi-breaking-news/idaho-falls-receives-severe-burns-after-an-rv-fire/743858455\nhttp://www.kpvi.com/news/local_news/man-receives-severe-burns-in-rv-fire/article_d1037de2-5b9e-11e8-b5d3-bbd53990fcbe.html\nhttp://www.eastidahonews.com/2018/05/man-flown-to-burn-center-with-severe-injuries-after-rv-bursts-into-flames/\nNote: Around 400 feet from the Snake River. Here's a Google Maps link of the area. This is the 247th RV to burn/explode in 2018...\n2018-05-19 - Kilauea continues erupting in Hawaii, lava destroys four more homes:\nhttp://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-hawaii-kilauea-volcano-20180518-story.html\nhttp://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2018/05/19/video-7-am-eruption-update-four-homes-destroyed-summit-explosion/\nhttp://www.independent.ie/world-news/further-evacuations-planned-as-hawaii-volcano-lava-flow-continues-36926196.html\nhttp://fox5sandiego.com/2018/05/19/kilauea-explosion-ash-cloud-reached-10000-feet/\nhttp://www.idahostatesman.com/news/nation-world/article211492064.html\nQuote: \"Lava creeping across roadways destroyed four homes and left dozens of others in the shadow of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano isolated Saturday, forcing more residents to plan for a possible evacuation. Hawaii County Civil Defense said a fissure near the neighborhood of Lanipuna Gardens has been continuously erupting, releasing a slow-moving lava flow. If that lava threatens a nearby highway, more people will be told to prepare for voluntary evacuation. On Friday, fast-moving lava crossed a road and isolated about 40 homes in a rural subdivision, forcing at least four people to be evacuated by county and National Guard helicopters. The wide lava flow was 'very active' Saturday morning and advancing at rates of up to 300 yards (274 meters) per hour, scientists from the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said.\"\n2018-05-20 - Mysterious explosions in the wee hours alarming people in Bucks County (Pennsylvania):\nhttp://patch.com/pennsylvania/doylestown/cause-mysterious-overnight-explosions-bucks-co-unknown\n2018-05-20 - B-1B Lancer bomber bursts into flame, makes emergency landing in Midland (Texas)\nhttp://taskandpurpose.com/b-1b-lancer-emergency-landing/\nhttp://www.military.com/defensetech/2018/05/21/social-media-photos-raise-questions-about-b-1-emergency-landing.html\nhttp://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/05/18/air-force-b-1-lancer-blew-escape-hatch-in-emergency-landing-but-its-seat-did-not-eject/\nQuote: \"The 'in-flight emergency' mentioned by the Pentagon was reportedly an engine fire, according to unidentified Air Force personnel who shared accounts with Air Force amn/nco/snco; while the extinguisher systems were activated to put out the blaze, the fire indicator light did not go off after their use, which may have indicated a failure to extinguish the fire. If this reading is accurate, the extinguisher failure could have led to an uncontrolled and catastrophic fire that could have potentially resulted in the complete loss of the aircraft in a rapid period of time.\"\nQuote: \"Last week, images surfaced on Facebook purporting to show a burnt-out engine from the incident, as well as photos from The Associated Press and Midland Reporter-Telegram showing that the B-1B, tail number 86-0109, was missing a ceiling hatch, leading to speculation an in-flight ejection was attempted.\"\nQuote: \"Fire crews responding to the aircraft used foam on the plane, suggesting the crew had reported an engine fire.\"\nNote: This happened on May 1, but the reason for the emergency landing was not given at that time. So, another plane engine bursting into flame, like the passenger plane that just ignited and crashed and killed 110+ people near the coast in Cuba a few days ago, and the military plane that ignited and crashed and killed 257 people near the coast in Algeria last month, and the private jet that ignited and crashed and killed 11 people in Iran in March, and so on. More flammable gases are entering the atmosphere so more planes are burning and/or smoking and/or exploding, simple as that. Sometimes planes will be hit by a foul odor or chemical smell too, as they fly through invisible clouds of gas containing hydrogen sulfide. This is the 76th aircraft to smoke/burn/explode in 2018...\n2018-05-20 - Passenger plane hit by chemical smell, plane makes emergency landing in Albuquerque (New Mexico):\nhttp://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Bound-Flight-Diverted-to-Albuquerque-Due-to-Smoke-in-Cabin--483179361.html\nhttp://breakingnewshome.com/index.php/2018/05/21/frontier-flight-from-tulsa-makes-emergency-landing-in-albuquerque-after-smoke-reported-in-cabin/\nhttp://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-the-sunport/4915829/?cat=504\nhttp://www.koat.com/article/smoke-forces-emergency-landing-at-the-sunport/20769023\nhttp://www.newson6.com/story/38237821/frontier-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-albuquerque\nQuote: \"A passenger told NBC 7 she smelled chemicals on the plane and when airline crews spoke over the loudspeaker, she could tell they were wearing masks although masks never deployed for passengers. A Frontier Airlines spokesperson confirmed oxygen masks did not deploy. Frontier Airlines also said the diversion was due to a chemical smell and not due to smoke as airport officials reported.\"\nQuote: \"Anzai said emergency crews boarded and checked out the plane, but passengers were told the source of the smell was not found.\"\nNote: That's because the smell didn't come from the plane, it came from the atmosphere through which the plane was flying...\n2018-05-20 - Metal recycling center erupts in flame in Birmingham (Alabama):\nhttp://www.wtoc.com/story/38233521/scrap-yard-fire-creates-visible-smoke-across-downtown\nhttp://www.newswest9.com/story/38233521/scrap-yard-fire-creates-visible-smoke-across-downtown\nhttp://www.wtol.com/story/38233521/scrap-yard-fire-creates-visible-smoke-across-downtown\nhttp://www.wsfa.com/story/38233521/scrap-yard-fire-creates-visible-smoke-across-downtown\nhttp://www.wbtv.com/story/38233521/scrap-yard-fire-creates-visible-smoke-across-downtown\n2018-05-20 - Underground electrical fire causes blackouts in the Green Lake area in coastal Seattle (Washington):\nhttp://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/powers-out-around-green-lake-nearly-5000-customers-affected/\nhttp://twitter.com/SEACityLight/status/998259201183924224/photo/1\n2018-05-20 - Kilauea's lava reaches the ocean, posing new threat of hydrochloric acid steam, man hit with lava splatter too:\nhttp://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/hawaii-kilauea-volcano-lava-flow/index.html\nhttp://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-lava-hawaii-volcano-flowing-ocean-160827110.html\nhttp://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2018/05/20/6-am-eruption-update-two-flows-entering-ocean-near-mackenzie/\nhttp://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/05/man-leg-shattered-lava-spatter-hawaii-volcano-180520153716094.html\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2018/05/20/hawaii-volcano-acid-pouring-into-ocean-kilauea-new-threat/627012002/\nhttp://www.express.co.uk/news/world/962755/Hawaii-volcano-eruption-latest-residents-warned-of-acid-steam-as-lava-fills-Pacific-Ocean\nhttp://abcnews.go.com/US/volcanic-activity-hawaii-prompts-evacuations-man-injured-lava/story?id=55304383\nhttp://www.koaa.com/story/38233243/man-injured-by-lava-splatter-from-kilauea-volcano\nhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/it-hit-him-shin-shattered-12566234\nQuote: \"After destroying dozens of houses, lava from the Kilauea volcano has now reached the ocean, presenting a new health threat to Hawaii residents. Civil defense authorities on Hawaii posted a warning to stay clear of any lava stream that is flowing into the ocean. When the super hot lava hits the cooler sea water, it produces what is called 'laze,' hydrochloric acid steam that pours into the air along with fine particles of glass.\"\nQuote: \"Firefighters in Hawaii said a man suffered a serious injury to his leg when he was hit with lava spatter from the erupting Kilauea volcano. Fire officials said the man was on his third floor balcony of his home on Noni Farms Road when he was hit in the shin, shattering the bottom part of his leg. Spatter can weigh as much as a refrigerator, and even smaller pieces can be deadly.\"\n2018-05-21 - Unknown gas odor evacuates government building in Marshall (Minnesota):\nhttp://www.marshallindependent.com/news/local-news/2018/05/lyon-county-gov-center-evacuated-due-to-mystery-odor/\nQuote: \"The Lyon County Government Center and Law Enforcement Center were evacuated Monday afternoon after employees smelled an intense bad odor. County employees and law enforcement officers waited outside for around an hour while the Marshall Fire Department, maintenance workers and county officials did a walkthrough of the buildings. However, firefighters were not able to detect gas in the buildings, said Marshall Fire Chief Quentin Brunsvold. 'We don\u2019t know what happened,' Brunsvold said.\"\nQuote: \"It\u2019s possible the odor came from outside, he said. 'We had reports of people smelling it outside the building.'\"\nQuote: \"'All three levels (of the Government Center) were giving a smell of gas,' said Stomberg. Stomberg said the odor seemed to reach many parts of the building, including the county administrator\u2019s office on the second floor, all at once. 'It made some of us dizzy.'\"\nNote: Smelled like rotten eggs, made people dizzy, wasn't picked up by natural gas detectors, came from outdoors - probably just some poison gas blowing by and getting sucked into the building via the HVAC system. Nothing to worry about unless you're one of those don't-wanna-die kind of people in which case the Earth turning into a big gas chamber and randomly gassing people might be of some concern...\n2018-05-21 - Unknown gas odor sickens student(s) and close school in Cabell County (West Virginia):\nhttp://www.wowktv.com/news/education/milton-middle-school-dismissing-early-due-to-natural-gas-smell/1190854812\nhttp://wvah.com/news/local/cabell-county-school-officials-say-school-evacuated-for-smell-of-natural-gas\nhttp://www.wsaz.com/content/news/Milton-Middle-School-evacuated-students-sent-home-early-483224191.html\nQuote: \"Milton Middle School will be dismissing early today because some student became ill after a natural gas smell.\"\nQuote: \"No evidence of a natural gas leak was found inside Milton Middle School, despite a strong odor earlier Monday that closed the school earlier and made some students sick. The gas company tested inside and around the building and found no detectable leak. As a result, school will open Tuesday and be closely monitored. Investigators are not certain what caused the smell, which left some students with headaches and upset stomachs.\"\nNote: Rotten egg odor, no trace of natural gas found, people sickened - probably just some poison gas blowing by here too...\n2018-05-21 - Unknown stench hits school and sickens dozens of children in Mykolaiv (Ukraine), near river:\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=HZ-20180522-63216-UKR\nhttp://vectornews.eu/news/world/82627-poisoning-of-schoolchildren-in-mykolaiv-two-children-are-in-intensive-care.html\nhttp://uaposition.com/112-ua/400-mykolaiv-pupils-were-evacuated-due-to-dispersal-of-gas-with-stench/\nQuote: \"Currently, 36 children with a previous diagnosis of 'poisoning by an unknown substance' are in the hospital. Parents of one of the children refused hospitalization; two children are in the intensive care of the city hospital.\"\nQuote: \"From the full hypothesis: \"There will be more unexplained HazMat events, often involving unusual odors. Eventually the entire populations of towns and cities will drop dead.\"\n2018-05-21 - Car-carrier ship 'Auto Banner' hit by fire, 1460+ cars burn, in coastal Incheon (South Korea):\nhttp://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2018/22477/car-carrier-major-fire-incheon-photos-video/\nhttp://motor.kz/post/sgorelo-svyshe-tysyachi-mashin-41764/\nhttp://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Auto-Banner-8608066.html\nhttp://maritimebulletin.net/2018/05/21/car-carrier-major-fire-incheon-photos-video/\nhttp://www.maritime-executive.com/article/car-carrier-catches-fire-at-incheon\nhttp://gcaptain.com/car-carrier-catches-fire-at-port-of-incheon-south-korea-video/\nhttp://www.americanshipper.com/main/news/fire-erupts-on-car-carrier-cargo-deck-71442.aspx\nhttp://splash247.com/major-fire-rips-through-car-carrier-docked-at-incheon/\nQuote: \"It is said, that 1460 cars on decks 11-13 were burned, several cars on deck 10 also burned out.\"\nNote: This is the new record for most non-junk cars to burn in one fire. The previous record for most non-junk cars to burn in one fire was 1400, set by the massive fire that incinerated 1400 cars in a waterfront parking garage on New Years Eve this past year in coastal Liverpool (Britain), mentioned in the 2017-12-31 update. This is the 440th boat/ship to burn/explode in 2018...\n2018-05-21 - Small plane hit by smoke, plane makes emergency landing and bursts into flame, near Cooking Lake (Canada):\nhttp://globalnews.ca/news/4222546/edmonton-cooking-lake-airport-emergency-landing/\nhttp://country105.com/news/4222546/edmonton-cooking-lake-airport-emergency-landing/\nhttp://www.sherwoodparknews.com/2018/05/22/cabin-fire-forces-emergency-landing\nhttp://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/burning-plane-lands-at-cooking-lake-airport-pilot-suffers-minor-injuries-1.3939407\nhttp://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/seaplane-pilot-makes-emergency-landing-in-strathcona-county-after-cabin-fire-breaks-out\nhttp://www.facebook.com/630CHED/posts/2137423996274784\n2018-05-21 - Passenger train bursts into flame near coastal Visakhapatnam (India):\nhttp://gulfnews.com/news/asia/india/a-p-express-coaches-catch-fire-none-injured-1.2224577\nhttp://www.thehindu.com/news/national/two-coaches-of-ap-express-catch-fire-near-gwalior/article23948384.ece\nhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/delhi-visakhapatnam-train-catches-fire-in-gwalior/articleshow/64255564.cms\nhttp://www.financialexpress.com/infrastructure/railways/shocking-air-conditioned-coaches-of-andhra-pradesh-express-catch-fire/1175306/\nhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhopal/close-shave-for-40-deputy-collectors-as-vizag-bound-train-catches-fire-in-madhya-pradesh/articleshow/64256774.cms\nhttp://twitter.com/dbpostnews/status/998476592807534593\n2018-05-21 - At least 18 new SUVs go up in flames at 5:42 AM while parked at dealership in North Toledo (Ohio):\nhttp://www.tflcar.com/2018/05/new-jeep-wranglers-destroyed-fire/\nhttp://www.autonews.com/article/20180521/OEM01/180529948/jeep-fire-toledo-assembly-complex\nhttp://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2018/05/21/Toledo-firefighters-respond-to-multiple-vehicle-fire.html\nhttp://www.13abc.com/content/news/Large-multiple-vehicle-fire-at-Toledo-Correctional-Institute-483188801.html\nhttp://www.13abc.com/content/news/Monday-Jeep-fire-is-not-the-first-one-this-month-483259681.html\nhttp://www.wtol.com/story/38235472/brand-new-jeeps-catch-fire-at-storage-facility\nQuote: \"Nearly two dozen new Jeeps were damaged after a fire broke out in the middle of a parking lot in North Toledo, a Toledo Fire and Rescue Department spokesman said. Firefighters responded about 5:42 a.m. Monday to a parking lot filled with Fiat Chrysler vehicles at Booth Avenue and Counter Street. Crews reported a column of smoke visible for miles. With plastic and petroleum burning, it produced a heavy amount of black smoke, the spokesman said. Pvt. Sterling Rahe said the fire was primarily located in a group of vehicles in the center of the lot. Firefighters quickly maneuvered through other vehicles to extinguish the flames, he said. About 18 to 22 vehicles sustained damage.\"\n2018-05-21 - Metal recycling center hit by fire, huge pile of scrap metal burns, in Carmel (Maine):\nhttp://www.wabi.tv/content/news/Crews-battle-massive-fire-at-Carmel-business-483251041.html\nhttp://bangordailynews.com/2018/05/21/news/penobscot/route-2-closed-after-report-of-large-fire-at-carmel-recycling-plant/\nhttp://www.wmtw.com/article/19-fire-departments-battle-fire-at-carmel-recycling-plant/20868217\nhttp://www.foxbangor.com/news/item/27566-debris-catches-fire-at-metal-recycling-site\nhttp://q1065.fm/multiple-departments-fight-huge-fire-in-carmel/\nhttp://z1073.com/multiple-departments-fight-huge-fire-in-carmel/\nhttp://www.facebook.com/hermonfiredepartment/posts/427721544306695\nQuote: \"Eye witnesses from as far away as Bangor reported being able to see the smoke that was coming from a pile of cars that is reported to be 30 feet wide and 100 feet long.\"\n2018-05-22 - Unknown chemical smell in basement evacuates apartment building and sickens responders in St. Paul (Minnesota):\nhttp://www.twincities.com/2018/05/23/st-paul-apartment-building-evacuated-after-chemical-smell-sickens-officer-firefighters/\nhttp://kstp.com/news/chemical-odor-in-st-paul-apartment-building-sends-firefighter-police-officer-to-hospital-cathedral-hill-dayton-avenue/4919266/\nhttp://wccoradio.radio.com/articles/st-paul-apartment-building-evacuated-after-strong-chemical-smell\nQuote: \"A firefighter and officer reported feeling dizzy and light-headed, and had lung irritations after being in the basement. They received medical treatment at the scene and were taken to Regions Hospital. After evaluation at the hospital, both were released. It\u2019s unknown what caused the odor and symptoms, Gaede said. 'It was some sort of irritant that dissipated by the time we got there with our sampling equipment,' Gaede said.\"\nQuote: \"Officials never determined the cause of the odor.\"\n2018-05-22 - Unknown rotten egg odor hits home at 4:21 AM on Tyson Place in Oldbrook (Britain):\nQuote: \"Tuesday 22 May, 4.21am Smell of gas in property, Tyson Place, Oldbrook, Milton Keynes. One appliance and crew from Great Holm attended. Firefighters used a gas monitor. There was no trace of a gas leak.\"\n2018-05-22 - Mysterious explosions regularly alarming people in the wee hours in Bucks County (Pennsylvania):\nhttp://patch.com/pennsylvania/newhope-lambertville/another-unexplained-explosion-heard-morning-bucks-co\nhttp://www.phillyvoice.com/frequent-nighttime-explosions-in-bucks-county-leave-police-residents-mystified/\nhttp://patch.com/pennsylvania/doylestown/fbi-investigating-mysterious-bucks-co-explosions\nhttp://6abc.com/community-events/mysterious-explosion-like-sounds-reported-in-upper-bucks-/3513092/\nQuote: \"Another unexplained explosion was reported early this morning in Bucks County. State Police and federal authorities are now investigating the reports of the mysterious nighttime explosions, some of which have been reported to leave holes in the ground. The most recent explosion was heard around 4 a.m. Tuesday, Springfield Township Police have confirmed.\"\nQuote: \"'The ground shifting almost shaking. The buildings are shaking, ceiling tiles are moving and windows are rattling,' said Richland Township Police Chief Richard Ficco.\"\nQuote: \"The sounds come overnight, from midnight to 5 a.m.\"\nQuote: \"Residents say they've been noticing the blasts for weeks now. The continued inability for authorities to determine what is actually causing them is mystifying residents.\"\n2018-05-22 - Passenger plane hit by smoke in Redding (California):\nhttp://krcrtv.com/news/shasta-county/passenger-plane-reportedly-evacuated-at-redding-municipal-airport\nhttp://www.actionnewsnow.com/content/news/Plane-evacuated-at-the-Redding-Airport-483455511.html\nQuote: \"40 passengers evacuated from a SkyWest passenger jet after cabin filled with smoke.\"\n2018-05-22 - Landfill fire breaks out in Delhi (India):\nhttp://www.firstpost.com/india/fire-breaks-out-at-okhla-landfill-site-in-south-delhi-blaze-doused-by-5-15-pm-4478897.html\nhttp://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/fire-breaks-out-at-okhla-landfill-site-in-south-delhi-118052201474_1.html\nhttp://www.indiatoday.in/pti-feed/story/fire-breaks-out-at-landfill-site-in-okhla-1239059-2018-05-22\nhttp://www.uniindia.com/~/delhi-fire-in-okhla-landfill/India/news/1238557.html\n2018-05-22 - Kilauea continues erupting in Hawaii, lava reaches the ground of geothermal plant:\nhttp://www.thebigwobble.org/2018/05/to-our-knowledge-no-one-has-faced-this.html\nhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/05/22/hawaii-volcano-lava-kilauea-power-plant/632294002/\nhttp://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/watch-live-kilauea-summit-experiences-explosive-eruption-as-lava-threatens-geothermal-plant\nhttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hawaii-volcano-shooting-lava-150-feet-into-the-air-as-emissions-boost-er-visits/ar-AAxE0uT\nhttp://www.express.co.uk/news/world/963420/hawaii-volcano-update-geothermal-plant-risk-explosion-kilauea-latest\nhttp://www.kitv.com/clip/14366791/usgs-confirms-another-explosive-eruption-atop-kilauea\nhttp://www.newsweek.com/kilauea-volcano-lava-flow-capped-wells-power-plant-939936\nhttp://www.thebigwobble.org/2018/05/corrosive-as-diluted-battery-acid.html\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a8i3PuOSiw\n2018-05-23 - Rotting seaweed producing hydrogen sulfide around coastal Warnbro Sound (Australia):\nhttp://www.communitynews.com.au/weekend-courier/news/rotting-seaweed-on-warnbro-sound-foreshore-poses-no-health-risks-says-city-of-rockingham/\nQuote: \"'Hydrogen sulphide can be smelled at very low levels, well below the level where it causes any health effects, so simply smelling it is not a health issue. Based on the volume of wrack usually present in Warnbro Sound, the maximum level of hydrogen sulphide generated is extremely unlikely to pose any risk to human health.'\"\nQuote: \"However, the spokesman said these odours were a short term problem which resolve quickly and were not detrimental to health.\"\nNote: Not true: nobody knows what the long term effects are to human health of smelling even small quantities of hydrogen sulfide regularly. Also, just because they're measuring low concentrations doesn't mean a whole lot, since it's a heavier-than-air gas which will flow to - and then concentrate in - low-lying areas. Might it concentrate enough to create lethal clouds of gas? It doesn't take much to be lethal; 1 part per 1000 can kill a person with one breath. I certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility that it could concentrate to 0.1% hydrogen sulfide levels in low-lying areas when there's no wind and then blow onward at concentrated levels with the wind...\n2018-05-23 - Unknown rotten egg odor hitting parts of coastal Timaru (New Zealand):\nhttp://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/104184732/mysterious-timaru-smell-has-them-stumped\nQuote: \"Aoraki Swim School operator Kevin Hessell described it as a 'pungent smell combined with the smell of LPG'.\"\nNote: LPG is odorless so they add methyl or ethyl mercaptan to it, which smells like rotten eggs. So does hydrogen sulfide, which is most likely to hit towns near bodies of water, like oceans, like this city...\n2018-05-23 - Church explodes and collapses in Phoenix (Arizona):\nhttp://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-news/phoenix-firefighters-at-the-scene-of-church-fire\nhttp://ktar.com/story/2078500/natural-gas-explosion-might-be-to-blame-for-phoenix-church-fire/\nhttp://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/central-phoenix/phoenix-fd-roof-collapse-and-explosion-rescue-dogs-being-used-to-search-rubble\nhttp://westernfreepress.com/roof-collapse-and-explosion-at-phoenix-church/\n2018-05-23 - Fireworks storage facility explodes and burns near Tui (Spain), near the coast, 1 killed, 26 injured:\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/index.php?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EX-20180524-63234-ESP\nhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6362986/fireworks-explosion-spain-galica/\nhttp://www.straitstimes.com/world/europe/one-killed-a-dozen-injured-in-fireworks-storage-blast-in-spain\nhttp://www.express.co.uk/news/world/964196/spain-news-galicia-fireworks-deposit-explosion-latest-update-dead-injured\nhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-four-people-feared-dead-12585853\n2018-05-23 - Chemical factory devastated by huge fire in coastal Shanghai (China):\nhttp://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201805/23/WS5b054cd4a3103f6866eea2bc.html\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/china/article-5766089/Fire-rips-chemical-factory-China-sending-huge-plumes-black-smoke-air.html\n2018-05-23 - Scrap metal fire breaks out on Oak Lane in Kingswinford (Britain):\nhttp://www.dudleynews.co.uk/news/16245562.Scrap_metal_fire_in_Kingswinford/\nhttp://www.newsdump.co.uk/news/scrap-metal-fire-in-kingswinford\n2018-05-23 - Paper recycling factory erupts in flame at 6:23 AM on River Road in Barking (Britain):\nhttp://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2018/may/large-fire-at-paper-recycling-factory-barking/\nhttp://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/barking-river-road-fire-closes-1598158\nhttp://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/one-hundred-firefighters-battle-huge-blaze-in-east-london-a3846526.html\n2018-05-23 - Kilauea continues erupting in Hawaii, cracks open at home, methane in the ground igniting:\nhttp://strangesounds.org/2018/05/huge-cracks-almost-swallow-family-home-in-hawaii-as-kilauea-volcanic-activity-increases.html\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/23/hawaii-volcano-creating-blue-flames-from-methane-in-cracked-roads.html\nhttp://www.fireengineering.com/ap-news/2018/05/24/hawaii-volcano-produces-methane-and-eerie-blue-flames.html\nhttp://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/hawaii-volcano-generates-blue-flames-from-burning-methane\nhttp://q13fox.com/2018/05/24/rare-blue-fire-looks-creepy-but-has-a-simple-explanation/\nhttp://www.fox9.com/news/hawaii-volcano-produces-blue-flames-from-methane\n2018-05-24 - Unknown rotten egg odor hits apartment building on Candlewood Lake in Brookfield (Connecticut):\nQuote: \"A report of gas odor at a Brookfield condo complex Wednesday night prompted a response from Brookfield volunteer firefighters. Crews responded to an automatic alarm at Barnbeck condo complex on Candlewood Lake Road. The building was evacuated until the source could be located. Eversource, along with Brookfield police and firefighters searched floor by floor with gas meters. No gas readings or smell was detected and no source found.\"\n2018-05-24 - Paper mill damaged by hydrogen sulfide tank explosion near Albury (Australia), 2 killed, 1 injured:\nhttp://tendaily.com.au/news/australia/a180524syl/two-dead-after-gas-explosion-at-albury-paper-mill-20180525\nhttp://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/05/25/07/00/norske-skog-ettamogah-second-worker-dies-after-gas-leak\nhttp://au.news.yahoo.com/man-dead-nsw-paper-mill-explosion-084249491--spt.html\nQuote: \"Four workers - three Norske Skog staff and a contractor - were on a tank checking valves about 1.30pm after an annual maintenance shutdown. 'They were apparently all overcome, to varying degrees, by a gas, we think it's hydrogen sulphide,' Norske Skog Albury mill general manager Milo Foster told the local newspaper, The Border Mail. One man died at Albury Base Hospital on Thursday after sustaining burns and inhaling gas, while another worker died overnight. NSW Police confirmed on Friday a 37-year-old Lavington man died on Friday morning, while a 28-year-old Wodonga man died on Thursday. A report will be prepared for the coroner. A third worker remains in a critical condition.\"\n2018-05-24 - Passenger plane hit by smoke, plane makes emergency landing at Ben-Gurion Airport near coastal Tel Aviv (Israel):\nhttp://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/german-passenger-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-israel-after-smoke-fills-cabin/\nQuote: \"A Germania Airlines plane, with smoke surrounding the passenger area, landed safely at Ben-Gurion Airport. Emergency teams scrambled upon report of the smoke, minutes before the scheduled landing.\"\n2018-05-24 - Metal recycling center hit by huge fire near the Ohio River, cars and scrap metal burn, in Reno (Ohio):\nhttp://www.thenewscenter.tv/content/news/Fire-reported-at-recycling-business-in-Reno-483629031.html\nhttp://www.mariettatimes.com/news/local-news/2018/05/multiple-crews-on-scene-at-reno-scrap-yard-fire/\nhttp://www.mariettatimes.com/news/2018/05/fire-at-reno-scrap-yard/\nQuote: \"Employees are clearing charred debris and there have been small explosions and cars on fire at the site.\"\nQuote: \"The Ohio EPA was on site by 6:30 p.m. to investigate concerns over air quality and runoff of foam into the Ohio River.\"\n2018-05-24 - Metal recycling center hit by fire, two cars burn, in Hornell (New York):\nhttp://www.eveningtribune.com/news/20180524/recycling-center-car-fire-squelched-in-hornell\n2018-05-24 - Pallet business devastated by massive fire, two barns and pallets destroyed, in Bluffton (Indiana):\nhttp://www.wane.com/news/local-news/fire-rises-from-bluffton-warehouse/1197184961\nhttp://www.journalgazette.net/news/local/police-fire/20180525/pallet-fire-closes-roads-in-bluffton\nhttp://www.wpta21.com/story/38273523/pallet-warehouse-in-bluffton-burns-sending-large-cloud-of-smoke-across-town\nhttp://www.wowo.com/multiple-fire-crews-responding-to-large-blaze-at-bluffton-business/\nhttp://www.wfft.com/content/video/483657051.html\nQuote: \"A Bluffton pallet warehouse was damaged by fire Thursday afternoon. Fire crews were called around 5 p.m. to The Pallet Barn at 3650 E 200 N on the northeast side of Bluffton on a report of a fire there. Bluffton Fire Chief Don Craig tells NewsChannel 15 that two barns caught fire, as well as large piles of pallets outside the barns.\"\n2018-05-24 - Series of underground electrical explosions hit Melbourn (Britain):\nhttp://www.royston-crow.co.uk/news/melbourn-back-lane-closed-after-explosions-1-5533665\n2018-05-24 - Huge wind turbine bursts into flame near Beaver (Iowa), flames seen 25 miles away:\nhttp://www.kcci.com/article/wind-turbine-fire-could-be-seen-for-miles/20917855\nhttp://theperrynews.com/update-investigation-of-beaver-turbine-fire-underway-friday/\nhttp://www.wind-watch.org/news/2018/05/25/wind-turbine-catches-fire-north-of-beaver-thursday-night/\nhttp://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/video/wind-turbine-fire-could-be-seen-for-miles/vp-AAxNZT5\nhttp://www.chron.com/news/media/Wind-turbine-fire-could-be-seen-for-miles-1265291.php\nQuote: \"A massive wind turbine caught fire Thursday night near Beaver in Boone county. An emergency manager told us he could see the flames in Woodward, about 25 miles away.\"\n2018-05-24 - Massive wildfire burns out of control and threatens homes in coastal Albany (Australia), another wildfire too:\nhttp://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-25/wa-bushfires-threatening-lives-and-homes-amid-major-storm/9797968\nhttp://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/lives-homes-in-danger-from-wa-bushfires/news-story/f8662d88acf001b4411d749087dd84a4\nhttp://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/lives-and-homes-under-threat-from-bushfire/news-story/0a55488213447f854c72311501880013\nhttp://www.perthnow.com.au/news/bushfires/bushfire-emergency-in-albany-in-was-south-ng-b88846676z\nhttp://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/05/25/05/24/lives-homes-in-danger-from-wa-bushfire\n2018-05-25 - Noxious odor hits school and sends two students to the hospital in coastal Port Arthur (Texas), blamed on ship:\nhttp://kfdm.com/news/local/foul-order-at-paisd-middle-school\nhttp://www.12newsnow.com/article/news/local/port-arthur-school-district-says-students-in-no-danger-after-passing-ship-releases-noxious-odor/502-558257994\nQuote: \"Two students at a high school campus near the Lamar State College Port Arthur campus were transported to a local hospital after some sort of noxious odor was released from a passing ship on the Intracoastal Waterway.\"\nNote: So what ship was it, who is the owner or responsible party, and what was the chemical that was released? You know, in case the doctors treating the students need to know what they're dealing with, or the parents want to file a lawsuit. I notice they don't mention any of that, so they're probably *assuming* the unknown chemical came from an unknown ship. Or maybe it simply came from the ocean right there. Unless they specify the ship and responsible party and the chemical then this looks either like an assumption based on ignorance (incompetence) or a cover story (deception). Either way, incompetent or deceptive, it's hard to take their explanation seriously unless they provide much more information. All we can know for SURE is that an unknown noxious odor hit this school, right on the coast, and sent two students to the hospital...\n2018-05-25 - SUV bursts into flame and burns woman to death, man jumps out and is injured, in Port Clinton (Ohio), near Lake Erie:\nhttp://apnews.com/ce08ed354bcb4cfa83c994a1d14aa817\nhttp://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/05/garfield_heights_woman_killed.html\nhttp://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/woman-killed-husband-hurt-when-suv-catches-fire/\nhttp://www.fox25boston.com/news/woman-killed-husband-hurt-when-suv-catches-fire/757041263\nhttp://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/state/article_149680dd-3eb1-52e7-88ab-c4f471ff84d4.html\nhttp://fox8.com/2018/05/26/garfield-heights-woman-killed-husband-hurt-when-suv-catches-fire/\nhttp://www.whio.com/news/local/woman-killed-husband-hurt-when-suv-catches-fire/RuhVpyqfKcPzWedApu7lPO/\nhttp://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2018-05-26/woman-killed-husband-hurt-when-suv-catches-fire\nhttp://www.portclintonnewsherald.com/story/news/local/2018/05/26/woman-dead-man-injured-fatal-vehicle-fire/647128002/\nhttp://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/cuyahoga-county/garfield-heights-woman-killed-husband-hurt-when-suv-catches-fire/95-558737982\nQuote: \"Svihlik was driving west on Ohio 2 when the 2005 Chevrolet Trailblazer began to smoke and caught fire, the release says. Seconds later, the SUV became engulfed in flames. Svihlik's husband got out of the SUV while it was still moving and fell onto the road, the release says. Svihlik could not get out and was pronounced dead at the scene, the release says.\"\n2018-05-25 - Passenger plane hit by smoke, plane makes emergency landing at airport in coastal Kingston on the island of Jamaica:\nhttp://nationwideradiojm.com/american-airlines-flight-makes-emergency-landing-at-nmia/\nhttp://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20180525/passenger-aircraft-makes-emergency-landing-norman-manley-airport\nhttp://stluciatimes.com/2018/05/25/jamaica-american-airlines-aircraft-makes-emergency-landing/\nhttp://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lead-stories/20180526/plane-makes-emergency-landing-kingston\nQuote: \"An American Airlines aircraft travelling from Miami to Colombia made an emergency landing at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston (NMIA) this afternoon. Passengers reported seeing smoke coming from inside of the plane and a decision was made to land the aircraft so that it could be investigated.\"\n2018-05-25 - Cargo ship 'Sirina' hit by scrap metal fire in the cargo hold at dock in coastal Southampton (Britain):\nhttp://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2018/22529/fire-bulk-carrier-southampton-western-docks/\nhttp://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2018-05-25/large-fire-breaks-out-at-southampton-docks/\nhttp://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/fire-crew-mobilised-after-major-blaze-on-cargo-ship-1-8512155\nhttp://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/16250896.PHOTOS_AND_VIDEO__Crews_battle_fire_on_board_a_ship_at_Southampton_docks/\nhttp://www.fireengineering.com/articles/pt/2018/05/crews-tackle-fire-on-board-cargo-ship-in-southampton-uk.html\nhttp://uknip.co.uk/2018/05/eight-fire-crews-called-to-tackle-ship-fire-in-southampton/\nQuote: \"The blaze broke out on a cargo ship, which is carrying around 28,000 tonnes of scrap metal, at 13:51 this afternoon.\"\nNote: Very similar to the two barges full of scrap cars that went up in flames on the Mobile River in coastal Mobile (Alabama), mentioned in the 2018-05-06 update. This is the 447th boat/ship to burn/explode in 2018...\n2018-05-25 - Landfill hit by massive fire, scrap wood pile burns, in Hillsboro (Oregon):\nhttp://katu.com/news/local/firefighters-responding-to-large-fire-in-hillsboro\nhttp://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/large-scrap-wood-fire-breaks-out-near-hillsboro/283-558678080\nhttp://www.koin.com/news/local/washington-county/crews-fight-large-fire-in-hillsboro/1200180579\n2018-05-26 - Car bursts into flame and kills man on I-71 in Richland County (Ohio):\nhttp://www.10tv.com/article/columbus-teen-dead-after-car-fire-i-71-north-richland-county\nhttp://www.cleveland19.com/story/38285871/19-year-old-man-dead-after-vehicle-fire-in-richland-county\nhttp://www.dispatch.com/news/20180527/columbus-man-19-killed-after-car-catches-fire-on-i-71-near-mansfield\nhttp://www.wtol.com/story/38285871/19-year-old-man-dead-after-vehicle-fire-in-richland-county\nhttp://www.fox19.com/story/38285871/19-year-old-man-dead-after-vehicle-fire-in-richland-county\nhttp://fox8.com/2018/05/26/ohio-state-highway-patrol-columbus-man-dies-in-vehicle-fire-on-i-71/\nhttp://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-richland/car-fire-on-i-71-leaves-one-man-dead\nhttp://www.richlandsource.com/news/columbus-teen-dies-saturday-in-i--car-fire/article_efd15644-6171-11e8-814b-63b09d9df49a.html\nhttp://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/2018/05/27/71-fatal-crash-victim-identified-gnim-talle-19-columbus/648215002/\nQuote: \"Gnim Talle, 19, of Columbus, was a passenger in a 2001 Ford Mustang when it caught fire. He was trapped inside and died at the scene, authorities said. The incident occurred on Interstate 71, near milepost 158 in southern Richland County at approximately 4:20 p.m. The Mustang was northbound on Interstate 71 when it caught fire. Kyshawn Ramsey, 20, was the driver of the vehicle. He pulled to the shoulder where it struck a guard rail and became fully engulfed. Ramsey was not injured.\"\nNote: About 56 miles as the gas blows from where the SUV burst into flame and killed a woman the day prior, in Port Clinton (Ohio), mentioned in the 2018-05-25 update...\n2018-05-26 - Landfill fire breaks out before 3:30 AM in Augusta (Maine):\nhttp://www.wmtw.com/article/crews-battle-stubborn-fire-at-landfill-in-augusta/20924711\nhttp://www.centralmaine.com/2018/05/26/area-fire-departments-help-battle-blaze-at-augusta-landfill-overnight/\n2018-05-26 - Europa-Park, Germany's largest theme park, heavily damaged by massive fire in Rust (Germany):\nhttp://www.rt.com/news/427921-germany-theme-park-fire/\nhttp://globalnews.ca/news/4234286/germany-amusement-park-fire-europa-park/\nhttp://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/breaking-europark-fire-massive-blaze-12602519\nhttp://www.dw.com/en/blaze-at-theme-site-europa-park-rust-in-southwestern-germany/a-43943494\nhttp://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/05/27/11/45/german-europa-park-evacuated-emergency-fire\nhttp://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/breaking-europark-fire-massive-blaze-12602519\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5775417/Raging-fire-obliterates-rides-Europa-Park-Germany.html\nhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/europa-amusement-park-fire-evacuated-visitors-rust-germany-a8371811.html\nhttp://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/705498/europa-theme-park-fire-rust-pirates-batavia-germany-pictures-video-rollercoaster\nhttp://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6387097/europa-park-fire-massive-blaze-rips-through-biggest-theme-park-in-germany-with-50ft-flames-leaping-into-the-air/\nhttp://www.sott.net/article/386619-Massive-fire-rips-through-Europes-2nd-largest-theme-park\nQuote: \"Video footage captured by witnesses showed a huge cloud of black smoke billowing from the park as the flames destroyed the Pirates of Batavia boat ride.\"\n2018-05-26 - Police helicopter and hangar destroyed by fire in coastal Kuwait City (Kuwait):\nhttp://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2728891&language=en\nhttp://www.pressreader.com/kuwait/kuwait-times/20180527/281599536170248\nQuote: \"A fire erupted at an aircraft hangar of the Kuwaiti air police department at the Abdullah Al-Mubarak Airbase in the Kuwait International Airport, the Ministry of Interior announced. The fire caught and totally destroyed an AS356-(MOI) 03 Dolphin helicopter, the ministry stated in a press statement.\"\n2018-05-26 - Oil rig 'MV Majestic' devastated by massive fire off the coast of Bayelsa State (Nigeria):\nhttp://punchng.com/jtf-confirms-fire-at-conoil-field-in-bayelsa/\nhttp://dailypost.ng/2018/05/26/jtf-speaks-fire-conoil-field-bayelsa/\nhttp://www.onlinenigeria.com/site/stories/538428-jtf-speaks-on-fire-at-conoil-field-in-bayelsa.html\nhttp://newmail-ng.com/operation-delta-safe-confirms-fire-incident-at-conoil-field-in-bayelsa/\nhttp://www.businessdayonline.com/nigerian-military-confirms-fire-incident-conoil-field-bayelsa/\nhttp://theeagleonline.com.ng/operation-delta-safe-confirms-fire-incident-at-conoil-field-in-bayelsa/\nhttp://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/05/fire-incident-at-conoil-field-in-bayelsa/\nQuote: \"The fire which reportedly started Saturday morning engulfed an oil rig owned by Depthwize Nigeria, an oil services firm working at the oil block operated by Conoil Nigeria Limited. The rig is located within Nigerian territorial waters in the Atlantic Ocean off Koluama community in Southern Ijaw area of the state.\"\nQuote: \"Although that the number of personnel onboard the ill-fated vessel named MV Majestic could not be ascertained, it was learnt that the 232 feet rig had the capacity to accommodate 120 men on board. Also, a community leader in Koluama, Mr. George Ibobra, confirmed the incident, saying that the people were grateful that no human life was lost in the inferno.\"\n2018-05-26 - Volcano Kilauea continues erupting in Hawaii, lava moves closer to geothermal plant and to within 150 yards of more homes:\nhttp://www.rt.com/usa/427977-hawaii-volcano-kilauea-explosion/\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/26/hawaii-volcano-explosions-ash-lava-swamps-road\nhttp://www.express.co.uk/news/world/965437/Hawaii-volcano-eruption-Kilauea-update-lava-flow-news-2018\nhttp://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38176893/small-explosion-at-kilauea-summit-shoots-ash-plume-thousands-of-feet-into-air\nhttp://www.independent.ie/world-news/north-america/fears-of-massive-explosion-as-hawaii-lava-flow-reaches-power-station-36952233.html\nQuote: \"Lava from Hawaii\u2019s erupting Kilauea volcano is edging closer to a geothermal plant, escalating fears of a potentially lethal and toxic hydrogen sulfide explosion.\"\nQuote: \"A series of summit explosions on Saturday spewed ash from Kilauea volcano up to 11,000ft and dusted communities to the south-west, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said. The three explosions, which began around 12.42am, came during the fourth week of what geologists rank as one of the biggest eruption cycles from the Big Island volcano in a century.\"\nQuote: \"The number of houses and other structures destroyed by lava flows in the island\u2019s lower Puna district leapt to 82 on Friday, from a previous count of 50 after fissures reactivated in Leilani Estates this week. Another lava flow near the rural housing development slowed and was 150 yards from Pohoiki Road where there are dozens more homes, the observatory said.\"\n2018-05-27 - Woman falls into fire pit and burns to death at home in Worcester (Massachusetts):\nhttp://whdh.com/news/woman-dies-from-falling-in-fire-pit/\nhttp://boston.cbslocal.com/2018/05/27/worcester-woman-fell-fire-pit-dies/\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/jacqueline-cardinal-dead-fire-pit-worcester-massachusetts/\nhttp://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2018/05/woman_dies_from_falling_in_fire_pit\nhttp://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/27/massachusetts-woman-dies-after-falling-into-backyard-fire-pit.html\nhttp://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2018/05/woman_who_fell_into_fire_pit_outside_her_home_dies\nhttp://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/05/27/worcester-woman-who-fell-into-fire-pit-outside-her-home-dies\nhttp://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/Worcester-Woman-Dies-from-Falling-in-Fire-Pit-483814561.html\nhttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/massachusetts-woman-dies-after-falling-into-backyard-fire-pit/ar-AAxTbdU?li=AAaD62f\nQuote: \"She said her mother was fine just 10 minutes before her husband found her. The woman was badly burned and pronounced dead at the scene, Worcester Deputy Fire Chief Martin Dyer said, according to the news outlet.\"\n2018-05-27 - Car bursts into flame at hotel and seriously burns man in St. George (Utah):\nhttp://stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2018/05/28/srr-news-short-male-injured-after-fire-engulfs-parked-car\nhttp://article.wn.com/view/2018/05/28/News_short_Male_injured_after_fire_engulfs_parked_car/\nhttp://twitter.com/STGnews/status/1001195576942252032\nQuote: \"A male was injured and taken to the hospital after a fire started inside a car parked near the Wingate Hotel in St. George Sunday night. A passerby first noticed a fire inside a Ford Mustang that was in the hotel parking lot at about 10 p.m. Sunday, St. George police officer Lona Trombley said. The male inside the car was unconscious. 'Another citizen who was nearby came and helped them remove the occupant from the vehicle as the fire continue to grow,' Trombley said. 'This person was unconscious and had suffered several burns to their body.' He is expected to survive and is being treated for his burns, Trombley said.\"\n2018-05-27 - After SUV bursts into flame and kills his wife in Port Clinton (Ohio), near Lake Erie, man succumbs to injuries and dies too:\nhttp://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2018/05/garfield_heights_man_dies_days.html\nhttp://fox8.com/2018/05/27/man-critically-hurt-in-suv-fire-that-killed-his-wife-dies/\nhttp://www.nbc4i.com/news/state-news/ohio-man-dies-from-injuries-suffered-in-suv-fire/1203084424\nhttp://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ohio-man-dies-from-injuries-suffered-in-suv-fire/\nhttp://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/ohio/articles/2018-05-27/ohio-man-dies-from-injuries-suffered-in-suv-fire\nhttp://www.whio.com/news/local/ohio-man-dies-from-injuries-suffered-suv-fire/TNCYye4FbWFdNPYSVZsX4M/\nhttp://article.wn.com/view/2018/05/27/Ohio_man_dies_from_injuries_suffered_in_SUV_fire/\nhttp://apnews.com/95f7e1322ad3421183e67289396e562a\nNote: This incident was first mentioned in the 2018-05-25 update...\n2018-05-27 - Passenger plane hit by unknown odor, 17 people sickened, after departing from coastal San Diego (California), man hospitalized:\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5777679/Frontier-Airlines-flight-San-Diego-Tulsa-diverted-Phoenix-odor-onboard.html\nhttp://www.kmov.com/story/38287114/fd-frontier-flight-diverted-to-phoenix-due-to-odor-man-hospitalized\nhttp://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-me-frontier-odor-20180527-story.html\nhttp://fox5sandiego.com/2018/05/27/flight-departing-from-san-diego-to-tulsa-diverted-in-phoenix/\nhttp://www.thecwsandiego.com/story/38287738/san-diego-flight-bound-for-tulsa-diverted-to-phoenix-after-reports-of-odor\nhttp://www.kjrh.com/news/national/frontier-airlines-flight-forced-to-land-in-phoenix-due-to-odor-on-board-1-hospitalized\nhttp://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/frontier-airlines-flight-forced-to-land-in-phoenix-due-to-odor-on-board-1-hospitalized\nhttp://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diego-Tulsa-Flight-Diverted-to-Phoenix-Because-of--483816421.html\nhttp://www.cbs8.com/story/38287738/san-diego-flight-bound-for-tulsa-diverted-to-phoenix-after-reports-of-odor\nhttp://www.kplctv.com/story/38287114/fd-frontier-flight-diverted-to-phoenix-due-to-odor-man-hospitalized\nhttp://patch.com/california/san-diego/san-diego-flight-bound-tulsa-diverted-after-reports-odor\nQuote: \"An airline flight out of San Diego was diverted to Phoenix due to reports of an unknown odor in the cabin Sunday. Frontier Airlines flight 1764 left San Diego International Airport at 6:50 a.m. and was scheduled to arrive in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 9:50 a.m.\"\nQuote: \"Fire crews evaluated 17 people at the gate who felt ill from the odor with a 62-year-old man being taken to nearby hospital for additional treatment.\"\nQuote: \"It's the second Frontier flight in a week that's been forced to land early due to an odor. Last Sunday, a flight from Tulsa to San Diego diverted to Albuquerque after a chemical smell was reported.\"\n2018-05-27 - Landfill fire breaks out at 3:30 AM, again, in Augusta (Maine):\nhttp://www.centralmaine.com/2018/05/27/second-fire-ignites-at-augusta-landfill/\nhttp://www.pressherald.com/2018/05/27/second-fire-ignites-at-augusta-landfill/\nhttp://wgan.com/news/074470-two-fires-in-same-augusta-landfill-over-weekend/\n2018-05-27 - Huge tire fire breaks out at tire recycling center near Agua Prieta (Mexico):\nhttp://www.douglasdispatch.com/news/dfd-assists-with-fire-in-agua-prieta/article_ac327cfe-611e-11e8-9b4c-ff8dce7df3c4.html\n2018-05-27 - Wood mill and huge store of wood destroyed by mammoth fire in Saginaw (Oregon):\nhttp://kpic.com/news/local/fire-reported-in-cottage-grove\nhttp://www.koin.com/news/oregon/fire-destroys-wood-mill-in-saginaw-or/1204779442\nhttp://www.registerguard.com/news/20180527/massive-fire-destroys-wood-products-mill-south-of-eugene\nQuote: \"200 yards by 100 yards of stored wood is also on fire, and crews are dealing with spot fires in surrounding trees.\"\n2018-05-27 - Train and building go up in flames at Zoosiana on Lakeview Road in Broussard (Louisiana):\nhttp://www.katc.com/story/38286088/no-animals-injured-in-zoosiana-fire\nhttp://www.klfy.com/news/local/animals-safe-after-fire-at-zoosiana-zoo-of-acadiana/1202864937\nQuote: \"Champagne says the building that houses the train caught fire. The chief believes it had been burning for some time before firefighters arrived.\"\n2018-05-27 - Fire truck bursts into flame while parked inside fire station in Cahokia (Illinois), near the Mississippi River:\nhttp://www.kmov.com/story/38287745/fire-truck-caught-on-fire-at-cahokia-fire-station\nhttp://www.kfvs12.com/story/38287745/fire-truck-caught-on-fire-at-cahokia-fire-station\nhttp://www.telemundoamarillo.com/story/38287745/fire-truck-caught-on-fire-at-cahokia-fire-station\nhttp://www.firerescue1.com/apparatus/articles/383172018-Fire-truck-catches-fire-at-Ill-fire-station/\nhttp://www.firehouse.com/apparatus/news/21006854/firefighters-find-pumper-burning-inside-camp-jackson-il-fire-station\n2018-05-28 - Stream dries up, bursts into flame with unquenchable fire and spews foul odor, in Anambra State (Nigeria):\nhttp://micetimes.asia/in-nigeria-appeared-fiery-river/\nhttp://www.informationng.com/2018/05/serious-panic-in-nnewi-as-stream-reportedly-dries-up-emits-flames-and-offensive-odor.html\nhttp://www.ghafla.com/music/stream-in-anambra-state-dries-up-emits-flames-and-offensive-odor/\nhttp://www.nairaland.com/4528438/oduga-stream-nnewi-dries-up\nhttp://www.facebook.com/AnambraOnline/posts/1655618651183063\nQuote: \"The development has caused serious panic in the area because the ground has reportedly begun to emit flames and a strange odor.\"\nQuote: \"He said that when the villagers sighted the fire at the waterfall area they thought it was something they could just contain and had to mobilize the youths to put it out with water. But surprisingly, according to him, that was to no avail. He said all the rainfalls so far this year could not quench the bush fire with thick smokes that had been raging with restricted portions in the bush with some stuffs like ceramics around the spots.\"\n2018-05-28 - Thermal power station damaged by huge fire in Sonbhadra (India):\nhttp://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/up-massive-fire-at-anpara-thermal-power-station-in-sonbhadra-operations-put-on-hold/1184779/\nhttp://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/massive-fire-at-anpara-thermal-power-station-in-up-s-sonebhadra-district/story-Jc0la0ulKp1vCSOvAngztM.html\nhttp://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2018/may/29/major-power-crisis-in-uttar-pradesh-as-fire-breaks-out-in-anpara-thermal-power-plants-switchyard-1820873.html\nhttp://www.uniindia.com/~/fire-broke-out-at-anpara-power-plant-in-up-major-power-crisis-in-up/States/news/1244870.html\n2018-05-28 - Lumber business destroyed by mammoth fire at 11:15 PM in Hoxie (Arkansas):\nhttp://www.fox16.com/news/local-news/hoxie-lumber-company-destroyed-by-overnight-fire/1205681696\nhttp://www.arkansasmatters.com/news/local-news/hoxie-lumber-company-destroyed-by-overnight-fire/1205683040\nhttp://www.kait8.com/story/38293993/update-lumber-company-destroyed-by-overnight-fire\nhttp://www.wdam.com/story/38293993/update-lumber-company-destroyed-by-overnight-fire\nhttp://www.kxxv.com/story/38293993/lumber-company-destroyed-by-overnight-fire\n2018-05-28 - Gas line explodes and burns in field near Subiaco (Arkansas):\nhttp://www.4029tv.com/article/gas-explosion-near-cemetery-in-rural-arkansas/20944377\nhttp://5newsonline.com/2018/05/28/officials-investigating-possible-gas-line-explosion-near-subiaco/\nhttp://www.swtimes.com/news/20180528/logan-county-sheriffs-office-investigating-gas-explosion-outside-subiaco\n2018-05-28 - Landfill fire burns for three days and counting in Panchkula (India):\nhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/three-days-on-panchkula-dumping-ground-fire-shows-no-signs-of-dying/articleshow/64362410.cms\n2018-05-28 - Plastic tote recycling business erupts in flame shortly after 6:30 AM, fire gets huge, in Houston (Texas):\nhttp://abc13.com/shelter-in-place-lifted-after-4-alarm-fire-in-southwest-houston/3530211/\nhttp://www.khou.com/article/news/local/shelter-in-place-lifted-following-4-alarm-fire-at-recycling-plant/285-559125566\nhttp://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Massive-warehouse-fire-reported-in-SW-Houston-12948633.php\nhttp://cw39.com/2018/05/28/hfd-fire-fighters-are-battling-4-alarm-warehouse-fire-in-southeast-houston/\nhttp://abc13.com/watch-live-150-firefighters-battling-fire-at-recycling-plant-in-sw-houston-/3530211/\nhttp://patch.com/texas/houston/firefighters-battle-recycling-plant-fire-houston\nhttp://abc13.com/the-house-is-rattling-neighbors-shaken-by-4-alarm-fire/3531153/\n2018-05-28 - Volcano Kilauea erupts again in Hawaii, spews ash 15,000 feet high, and is shaken by magnitude 4.4+ earthquake:\nhttp://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/38176893/explosions-ramp-up-at-kilaueas-summit-as-ash-clouds-soar-15000-feet\nhttp://www.reuters.com/article/hawaii-volcano/lava-covers-potentially-explosive-well-at-hawaii-geothermal-plant-idUSL2N1SZ044\nhttp://mauinow.com/2018/05/29/volcano-update-explosion-releases-ash-15000-ft-high-4-5-earthquake-overnight/\nhttp://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/05/27/breaking-news/lava-speeds-up-takes-aim-at-puna-geothermal-wells/\nhttp://globalnews.ca/news/4236664/hawaii-volcano-lava-geothermal-power-plant/\n2018-05-29 - Paran\u00e1 River suddenly turns blood red near Buenos Aires (Argentina):\nhttp://strangesounds.org/2018/05/river-turns-mysteriously-blood-red-overnight-in-tigre-near-buenos-aires-argentina.html\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d09a0_btS64\n2018-05-29 - Passenger plane hit by smoke, plane makes emergency landing in coastal Amsterdam (Netherlands):\nhttp://www.thelocal.no/20180529/smoke-forces-sas-plane-to-make-preventive-landing-in-amsterdam\nhttp://www.france24.com/en/20180529-smoke-forces-sas-plane-make-preventive-landing-amsterdam\nhttp://airlinepress.ir/75164/smoke-forces-sas-plane-to-make-preventive-landing-in-amsterdam/\nQuote: \"A Scandinavian Airlines plane diverted to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as a precaution on Tuesday after pilots detected smoke in the cockpit, airport and airline officials said.\"\n2018-05-29 - Munitions factory explodes and burns in Daejeon (South Korea), 2 killed, 5 injured:\nhttp://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=EX-20180529-63306-KOR\nhttp://koogle.tv/media/news/an-explosion-at-a-munitions-factory-injures-5-individuals-and-kills-2/\nhttp://www.chinadailyhk.com/articles/204/46/129/1527586078381.html\n2018-05-29 - Grain elevator explodes and burns in South Sioux City (Nebraska), 1 injured:\nhttp://siouxlandnews.com/news/local/explosion-fire-at-grain-elevator-in-south-sioux-city\nhttp://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/reports-say-grain-elevator-explodes-in-south-sioux/1206320915\nhttp://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Police-1-person-seriously-injured-in-South-Sioux-City-grain-elevator-explosion-483980921.html\nhttp://www.siouxlandproud.com/news/local-news/south-sioux-declares-state-of-emergency-after-grain-elevator-explosion/1206897616\nhttp://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/person-injured-at-site-of-south-sioux-city-explosion/article_97eaf4fc-de2a-5e55-8817-321f57c1522d.html\nhttp://siouxcityjournal.com/news/local/state-and-regional/person-injured-at-site-of-explosion-at-andersen-farms-grain/article_03fa9631-2b90-5777-9aaf-add1bdd43009.html\n2018-05-29 - Auto salvage yard hit by huge fire, scrap cars and tires burn, on Pickerings Road in coastal Widnes (Britain):\nhttp://www.cheshirefire.gov.uk/news-events/incidents/scrap-yard-fire-in-widnes\nhttp://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/dramatic-pictures-show-huge-widnes-14720362\nhttp://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/large-fire-widnes-industrial-estate-14718820\nhttp://www.runcornandwidnesworld.co.uk/news/16255604.VIDEO__Crews_tackle_scrap_yard_fire/\nhttp://www.wirefm.com/news/local/large-fire-breaks-out-on-widnes-industrial-estate/\nhttp://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/newsliverpool/large-fire-on-widnes-industrial-estate-causes-explosions-and-sends-plume-of-black-smoke-into-the-air/ar-AAxYo1U\n2018-05-29 - Auto recycling plant hit by fire on Perry Road in Dagenham (Britain):\nhttp://www.london-fire.gov.uk/incidents/2018/may/fire-at-a-recycling-plant-dagenham/\n2018-05-29 - Recycling center erupts in flame in Aspropyrgos, near Athens (Greece):\nhttp://www.ekathimerini.com/229089/article/ekathimerini/news/fire-at-recycling-plant-west-of-athens-brought-under-control\n2018-05-29 - Underground electrical explosion and fire hits Albrighton (Britain):\n2018-05-29 - Heavy truck bursts into flame at rubber factory, fire spreads to factory, in New Delhi (India):\nhttp://www.deccanherald.com/national/fire-rubber-factory-delhi-672328.html\nhttp://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/thick-smoke-seen-near-saket-in-south-delhi-as-truck-godown-catch-fire-1859504\nhttp://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/fire-at-rubber-factory-in-delhi-s-malviya-nagar/story-pfzZLkiw3o0PDn6Kyygm1N.html\nhttp://zeenews.india.com/delhi/over-12-hours-on-delhis-malviya-nagar-fire-yet-to-be-doused-firefighting-operations-on-2112221.html\nhttp://www.freepressjournal.in/india/major-fire-at-rubber-factory-in-delhi/1286468\nQuote: \"Officials say the fire began in a truck inside the rubber factory and then spread around 5 pm.\"\n2018-05-30 - Girl, 13, ignites near fire pit, dies shortly later, in Terrace (Canada), near the Skeena River:\nhttp://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/family-mourns-after-terrace-teen-dies-in-backyard-fire-pit-accident\nhttp://bc.ctvnews.ca/terrace-b-c-girl-burned-in-backyard-fire-dies-in-hospital-1.3954102\nhttp://www.columbiavalleypioneer.com/news/backyard-fire-pit-tragedy-takes-life-of-13-year-old-girl/\nhttp://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/girl-dies-after-backyard-fire-spread-to-her-hair-in-terrace-b-c\nQuote: \"Grace Peerless, 13, and her family were enjoying a fire in their backyard the evening of May 24 when Grace\u2019s clothing and hair suddenly caught on fire.\"\n2018-05-30 - Passenger plane hit by smoke, plane makes emergency landing in coastal Boston (Massachusetts):\nhttp://www.centralmaine.com/2018/05/31/flight-from-portland-to-philadelphia-diverted-wednesday-because-of-smoke/\nhttp://www.pressherald.com/2018/05/31/flight-from-portland-to-philadelphia-diverted-wednesday-because-of-smoke/\nhttp://good-planes.com/flight-from-portland-to-philadelphia-diverted-wednesday-because-of-smoke/25249/\nQuote: \"An American Airlines flight from Portland International Jetport to Philadelphia was forced to land in Boston Wednesday after smoke began filling the cockpit.\"\n2018-05-30 - Around 900 previously unknown methane seeps found since 2015 off the coast of the US Northwest:\nhttp://www.ktvz.com/news/osu-noaa-document-methane-seeps-off-oregon-coast/747653438\nhttp://phys.org/news/2018-05-document-widespread-methane-seeps-oregon.html\nQuote: \"Since the first evidence of underwater methane was discovered in the late 1980s, only about 100 'seep sites' had been identified along the Northwest coast through 2015. They often were discovered by accident, when fishermen would spot anomalies on their fish-finders that turned out to be acoustic reflections of the bubbling methane gas. But over the past two years the scientists \u2013 aided by new sonar technology on the Exploration Vessel (E/V) Nautilus, owned and operated by the Ocean Exploration Trust \u2013 have purposefully gone seeking evidence of underwater methane and have expanded the total number of offshore seep emission sites to a whopping 1,000 locations.\"\n2018-05-30 - Underground electrical explosion causes blackouts in Palm Springs (California):\nhttp://www.kesq.com/news/transformer-explosion-leaves-residents-without-power-for-hours/747844972\n2018-05-30 - Underground electrical fire breaks out in Irondequoit (New York):\nhttp://13wham.com/news/local/outages-traffic-tussle-following-small-underground-explosion-in-irondequoit\nhttp://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/local-news/video-appears-to-show-transformer-explosion-in-irondequoit/1210316770\n2018-05-30 - Underground electrical explosion hits Brampton (Britain):\nhttp://www.cumbriacrack.com/2018/05/30/emergency-services-called-to-brampton-electrical-explosion/\nQuote: \"Small explosion in Brampton(Carlisle) 30 May 2018 At 15:59 firefighters were called to a small explosion in Front Street, Brampton. On arrival smoke was coming from a grid. It is believed to be a fault with an underground electrical supply. Crews were on standby with a hose reel and extinguishers. Electricity Northwest were called to isolate the supply.\"\n2018-05-30 - Electrical substation erupts in flame in Dhaka (Bangladesh), parts of the city go dark:\nhttp://www.newagebd.net/article/42471/dhakas-132kv-power-sub-station-catches-fire\nhttp://en.prothomalo.com/bangladesh/news/176674/Paribagh-power-substation-catches-fire\nhttp://energybangla.com/power-substation-in-dhakas-paribagh-catches-fire/\n2018-05-30 - Transformer bursts into flame near Prospect Road and Route 462 in West Hempfield Township (Pennsylvania):\nhttp://lancasteronline.com/news/local/transformer-fire-delays-traffic-at-prospect-road-route-in-west/article_aa1aaf08-6449-11e8-8bfe-537055bd5e74.html\n2018-05-30 - Wind turbine bursts into flame along Benwick Road in Doddington (Britain):\nhttp://www.cambsfire.gov.uk/news-and-incidents/wind-turbine-fire-5268.aspx\n2018-05-30 - Ferry ship 'Paray' bursts into flame in coastal Jagoh in the Riau Islands (Indonesia):\nhttp://maritimebulletin.net/2018/05/30/ferry-engulfed-in-fire-passengers-safe/\nhttp://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2018/22577/ferry-engulfed-fire-passengers-safe/\nhttp://www.vesseltracker.com/en/Ships/Kmp.-Paray-I1832428.html\nQuote: \"Ferry PARAY caught fire at Jagoh port, Linnga Archipelago, Indonesia, in the afternoon May 30, on arrival from Penarik. All passengers already landed, so nobody was injured. Fire engulfed the ship in a short time, and judging from photos, there\u2019s not much of firefighting around, so probably, ferry will burn out.\"\n2018-05-31 - Unknown chemical odor hits DMV and sickens person in coastal Long Beach (California):\nhttp://www.presstelegram.com/2018/05/31/long-beach-dmv-evacuated-due-to-strong-chemical-odor/\nQuote: \"A strong chemical odor wafting through the DMV office in Long Beach on Thursday, May 31, caused breathing problems for a person and prompted evacuation of the office.\"\n2018-05-31 - Passenger plane hit by unknown odor, plane makes emergency landing in Orlando (Florida):\nhttp://www.clickorlando.com/travel/odor-prompts-frontier-flight-to-make-emergency-landing-in-orlando\nhttp://www.wftv.com/news/local/emergency-crews-respond-to-incident-at-orlando-intl-airport/760041962\nhttp://metro.co.uk/2018/05/31/plane-makes-emergency-landing-bad-smell-reported-coming-rear-cabin-7594445/\nhttp://www.wesh.com/article/suspicious-odor-detected-on-orlando-bound-flight-from-las-vegas/20973756\nhttp://www.fox35orlando.com/news/local-news/oia-emergency-crews-respond-to-odor-issue-on-frontier-airlines-plane\n2018-05-31 - Passenger plane pilot has seizure, plane makes emergency landing in Gainesville (Florida):\nhttp://nypost.com/2018/05/31/plane-makes-emergency-landing-after-pilot-suffers-seizure/\nhttp://www.lex18.com/story/38317575/allegiant-plane-makes-emergency-landing-following-medical-emergency\nhttp://komonews.com/news/nation-world/airplane-makes-emergency-landing-in-gainesville-after-pilot-has-seizure\nhttp://www.dailycommercial.com/news/20180531/jet-lands-safely-at-gainesville-airport-after-pilot-has-medical-issue\nhttp://www.wesh.com/article/allegiant-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-gainesville-after-pilot-suffers-seizure/20977225\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5792677/Allegiant-Air-pilot-suffers-SEIZURE-midflight-forcing-emergency-landing-Gainesville.html\nhttp://www.news4jax.com/news/florida/alachua-county/gainesville/allegiant-pilot-has-seizure-forced-to-make-emergency-landing-in-gainesville\nQuote: \"An Allegiant airplane made an emergency landing at Gainesville Regional Airport Thursday morning after its pilot suffered a seizure mid-flight.\"\n2018-05-31 - Passenger has 'medical emergency' on passenger plane after departing from coastal Dublin (Ireland):\nhttp://www.thesun.ie/news/2646607/aer-lingus-flight-emergency-diverts/\nhttp://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/live-aer-lingus-flight-dublin-14726908\nhttp://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/aer-lingus-flight-dublin-airport-12625500\nhttp://www.buzz.ie/news/aer-lingus-flight-dublin-forced-divert-gatwick-due-medical-emergency-287087\nhttp://www.tv3.ie/xpose/article/news/268722/Emergency-declared-on-Aer-Lingus-flight-from-Dublin-this-morning\nQuote: \"AN Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Milan diverted to London Gatwick due to a medical emergency involving a passenger.\"\n2018-05-31 - SUV goes up in flames and critically burns person at Benson Park in Omaha (Nebraska):\nhttp://www.ketv.com/article/1-in-critical-condition-after-car-fire-at-benson-park/20982856\nhttp://www.wowt.com/content/news/Man-treated-for-burns-after-SUV-fire-484241121.html\nhttp://www.omaha.com/news/public-safety/one-person-critically-injured-in-vehicle-fire-at-omaha-s/article_a2b12483-2188-5592-9421-1246bd2c7083.html\nhttp://twitter.com/KETV/status/1002366637851283457\n2018-05-31 - Auto salvage yard hit by fire, hundreds of scrap cars burn, in Carrollton (Ohio):\nhttp://www.timesreporter.com/news/20180531/firefighters-battle-blaze-in-carrollton\nhttp://wtov9.com/news/local/large-fire-at-recycling-center-in-carrollton\nQuote: \"The recycling plant owner says about $500 thousand worth of vehicles went up in flames.\"\nQuote: \"'It was all contained in the scrap metal,' Wells said. 'He (the owner) said between 300 and 400 cars.'\"\n2018-05-31 - The Thomas Fire, the biggest wildfire in California history, which began in late 2017, is now officially out:\nhttp://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Thomas-Fire-Wildfire-Out-Santa-Barbara-California-Ventura-484315941.html\nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/thomas-fire-california-biggest-wildfire-declared-officially-out-2018-06-01/\nhttp://www.keyt.com/news/wildfire/los-padres-national-forest-officials-declare-thomas-fire-officially-out-/748464334\nhttp://ktla.com/2018/06/01/thomas-fire-largest-blaze-in-california-history-declared-officially-out/\nhttp://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-thomas-fire-out-20180601-story.html\nhttp://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/06/01/thomas-fire-extinguished/\nNote: Whew, it's finally over...and now it's time for fire season!\n2018-05-31 - California wildfire count outpacing record-setting 2017:\nhttp://www.kcra.com/article/cal-fire-number-of-fires-this-year-is-outpacing-2017/20981593\nQuote: \"According to Cal Fire, the state has experienced 1,421 fires as of Sunday. During the same time last year, the state had experienced 156 fewer fires, for a total 1,265.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1966, "original_length": 195382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 253.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/12/fat-discrimination-tax.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:22Z", "digest": "sha1:AQHAQMILIGOS3ZQ7JV7VPTCUOJFVPOGY", "length": 5312, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "junkfoodscience.blogspot.com", "title": "Junkfood Science: Fat discrimination tax", "raw_content": "Fat discrimination tax\n(December 16, 2008 Addendum at end of post.)\nIt made the financial news today, because everyone knows it\u2019s not really about health. But even the numbers don\u2019t add up.\nNew York Governor, David Paterson, is reported as proposing a 15% tax on sugar-sweetened sodas, calling it an obesity tax. That makes it sound like it has a noble intention of public health concerns over obesity, when, as the Financial Times noted, it\u2019s really just a way to raise money to help address the state\u2019s $13.3 billion deficit.\nBut even that\u2019s pretty sorry math. According to the latest New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Community Health Survey, about 1.66 million NYC adults drink one 12-ounce serving of sugar-sweetened soda per day. Even at a retail cost of $1 apiece, a 15-cent tax would raise about $249,000/day or $90.9 million/year \u2014 still leaving at the end of the year a $13.2 billion deficit. Other estimates have put the take as high as $400 million/year, still not a fix, but suggesting most will come from visitors rather than help to slim down New Yorkers.\nWhile it might be popular to lead the public to go along with this tax believing it\u2019s fat people drinking most sugar-sweetened soda \u2014 they aren\u2019t. The biggest drinkers are young adult men. When their colas cost more, they\u2019re going to blame the fat people.\nBut, as reported last week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the latest NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2004) statistics show no correlation between the calories consumed in sweetened drinks and obesity. Calories consumed don\u2019t rise with weight. There is no \u201cdose response.\u201d In fact, \u2018normal\u2019 weight people drink slightly more sugar-sweetened beverages than overweight people, according to the latest NHANES data.\nBut the differences among all weight categories in the calories consumed from sweetened beverages is only a splitting hairs difference of a mere 26 calories/day. Sodas, sweet drinks or sweets don't cause obesity, nor has cutting soda been found to do anything to reduce obesity. This isn\u2019t an obesity tax.\nEven if you believe calories consumed cause obesity, it\u2019s interesting that sodas, popularly believed to be bad, are being targeted and not higher calorie drinks with more social status.\nA 12-ounce cola = 150 calories\nA Dunkin Donuts medium Mocha Spice Latte = 330 calories\nA Starbuck\u2019s Chai Latte, whole milk, Venti = 398 calories\nA Seattle's Best medium Peppermint Mocha Trio = 460 calories\nA 12-ounce eggnog = 514 calories\nThis is the opening salvo for sin taxes on perceived behaviors associated with obesity. It\u2019s just as El Rushbo predicted 14 years ago:\nThey're going to start capitalizing on this discrimination against the fat. I can see spending caps at McDonald's\u2026 We're going to hear stories about secondhand fat being a health hazard. You know what's going to happen, you're going to be sitting in that restaurant, that fat pig is going to be eating on salad or something and you're going to say, \"You know, I'm in the presence of a fat person eating and I can just sense fat globules all around me, and it's going to infect me and I'm going to get fat.\" Maybe they'll even have a calorie tax or a grams-of-fat tax. I mean this is just silly.\nDecember 16, 2008 Addendum:\nThis morning, Governor Paterson presented his 2009-2020 Executive Budget to eliminate what he said was the largest deficit in the state\u2019s history \u2014 $13.7 billion.\nAs Financial Times reported, he is now proposing an additional 18 percent sales tax on nondiet soft drinks:\nLaura Anglin, the state\u2019s budget director, said on Tuesday that the move was part of efforts to create a \u201chealthier New York,\u201d and that the proceeds of the tax would be directed towards the state\u2019s healthcare spending\u2026 A summary of the budget document says that the move \u201cit will discourage individuals, especially children and teenagers, from excessive consumption of these beverages\u201d\u2026 She also cited a Harvard Medical School study that asserted that each additional 12-ounce soft drink consumed per day increases risk of a child becoming obese by 60 per cent\u2026 The level of the proposed New York tax goes far beyond the levels imposed by other states on non-essential foods, none of which is higher than 7.5 per cent.\nIndeed, page 28 of his Executive Budget proposes levying an 18% additional sales tax on sugar-sweetened soft drinks, citing an obesity epidemic causing up to 365,000 deaths per year \u2014 an outdated, incorrect figure that the CDC long ago reversed \u2014 and claiming soft drinks increase risk for diabetes \u2014 another pop belief of \u201csugar causing sugar-diabetes\u201d that sound medical science long ago debunked. It also cites that \u201ceach additional 12-ounce soft drink consumed per day increases risk of a child becoming obese by 60 percent.\u201d\nThat 2001 soda pop study had been resoundly discredited years ago and had actually found \u201cno difference in the BMIs of children consuming the most and the least amounts of sugar or sugary drinks,\u201d and that cutting soft drinks had no effect on reducing obesity rates. The authors had even noted \u201cthere is no clear evidence that consumption of sugar per se affects food intake in a unique manner or causes obesity.\u201d\nAnother example of politicians deciding major public policies based on urban legends.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 228, "original_length": 14855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://k945.com/new-song-saints-got-robbed-going-viral/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:57Z", "digest": "sha1:KIRMQHF3FUZ5WJTNGZLNZX3OJMJNG6UK", "length": 921, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "k945.com", "title": "New Song 'Saints Got Robbed' Going Viral", "raw_content": "The New Orleans Saints lost the NFC Championship due to one of the worst calls in NFL history... And that's coming from a Dallas Cowboys fan! It's safe to say that the Saints fans will not be getting over this loss for a while. There's even talk about having a Saints parade during the Super Bowl since many fans will be boycotting this year's game.\nThere's a rule that would allow the NFL to still send the Saints to the Super Bowl over the Rams or even have them play a rematch. While this is unlikely to happen fans have started a petition with almost over 700,000 Signatures!\nNow a video made by a group DigitalMunchies from the Shreveport area is going viral demanding a rematch for Who Dat nation. Once again as a Cowboys fan I completely agree that the Saints were robbed but at the same time, Dez Caught It!\nCategories: Entertainment News, Louisiana News, Music News, Shreveport News, Sports, The Morning Madhouse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 2479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kalevala-folk.ru/en/content/contacts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:12Z", "digest": "sha1:KFODN75DDFBDWILSAQRV4FEU5MZJETWB", "length": 302, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kalevala-folk.ru", "title": "Contacts | \u041e\u0444\u0438\u0446\u0438\u0430\u043b\u044c\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0430\u0439\u0442 \u043c\u043e\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0432\u0441\u043a\u043e\u0439 \u0444\u043e\u043b\u043a-\u043c\u0435\u0442\u0430\u043b \u0433\u0440\u0443\u043f\u043f\u044b \"\u041a\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430\"", "raw_content": "To organize a concert of the band in you city please contact:\nAlex Mitrofanov\na.mitrofanov.kalevala@gmail.com\nhttps://www.facebook.com/Kalevalafolk/\nhttps://www.facebook.com/alex.metalhead.7\nTo put a link (as a banner) on you web-site. copy this code:\nDownload the band's logo\nDownload the band's rider", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2431, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.69, "perplexity": 311.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://karea.ca/about-us/karea-privacy-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:42Z", "digest": "sha1:KSKTHPTGWDE3NN5GLQQYVXZSGXHOHG7R", "length": 14792, "nlines": 76, "source_domain": "karea.ca", "title": "KAREA Privacy Policy \u2013 Kingston and Area Real Estate Association", "raw_content": "The Kingston and Area Real Estate Association Privacy Policy:\nThis document was created by the Ontario Real Estate Association\nBased on materials prepared by Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP.\nThis document was also reviewed by legal counsel representing\nThe Kingston and Area Real Estate Association\nPolicy On the Collection, Use and Disclosure\n1. OBJECTIVE & SCOPE OF POLICY 2\n2. THE COLLECTION, USE & DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION 3\n3. ACCURACY 4\n4. RETENTION 5\n5. SECURITY 5\n6. VISITING THE KAREA WEB SITE 5\n7. ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION 6\n8. AMENDMENT OF KAREA PRACTICE AND THIS POLICY 7\n9. INFORMATION REGARDING FORMER MEMBERS 7\n10. WHAT YOU CONSENT AND AGREE TO 7\nThe Kingston and Area Real Estate Association (or \u201cAssociation\u201d or \u201cKAREA\u201d) is committed to advancing the interests of real estate sales people and brokers who comprise of the Association\u2019s membership. Members of the Kingston and Area Real Estate Association are also members of the Ontario Real Estate Association (\u201cOREA\u201d) as well as the Canadian Real Estate Association (\u201cCREA\u201d). CREA approved a Privacy Code as a national standard at its annual meeting held in Montreal in October of 2001.\nConsistent with the adoption of the CREA Privacy Code and with applicable law, KAREA is dedicated to maintaining high standards of confidentiality with respect to information provided to it. This Policy Statement has been prepared to inform you of our policy and practices concerning the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information provided to the Association.\nThis Policy Statement governs Personal Information collected from and about individuals who are Members and information regarding non-members that is provided to KAREA for the purposes described below. It does not govern Personal Information the Association collects from and about our employees, the protection of which is governed by other applicable laws and internal KAREA policies. This policy also does not cover aggregated data from which the identity of an individual cannot be determined. KAREA retains the right to use aggregated data in any way that it determines appropriate.\nThis Policy Statement applies to all KAREA employees as part of their work requirements as well as to the Associations Board of Directors and committee members.\nUsing contractual or other arrangements, the Association shall ensure that agents, contractors or third party service providers, who may receive Personal Information in the course of providing services to KAREA as part of our delivery of services, protect that Personal Information in a manner consistent with the principles articulated in this Policy Statement.\nIn the event of questions about access to Personal Information; the collection, use, management or disclosure of Personal Information, or this Policy Statement or whether KAREA is acting in a manner consistent with it, please contact:\nChristianne Newton, Executive Officer e-mail: ac.ae1550198662rak@o1550198662fni1550198662\nKingston and Area Real Estate Association phone: 613-384-0880\n720 Arlington Park Place fax: 613-384-0863\nFor the purposes of this Policy,\n\u201cPersonal Information\u201d means any information, recorded in any form, about an identified individual, or an individual whose identity may be inferred or determined from the information.\n\u201cExternal Associate\u201d means an individual who is not a Member or an employee of KAREA. An External Associate may be an individual or an employee of an organization with which KAREA has dealings in the normal course of fulfilling its mandate. Examples of external associates include independent contractors or service providers; employees of CREA, OREA or the Real Estate Council of Ontario; legal counsel and consultant.\n\u201cMember\u201d means a salesperson or broker registered under the Real Estate and Business Brokers Act by the Real Estate Council of Ontario, who has been accepted for membership in KAREA, while that individual is a member of KAREA.\nPersonal information about Members will be collected, to the extent possible, directly from the individual concerned.\nInformation within the Multiple Listing Service (\u201cMLS\u00ae\u201d) System is considered to be Personal Information to the extent that it is or can be associated with an individual. To the extent possible, such information will be collected directly from the listing broker/salesperson.\nKAREA uses the personal information provided verbally or in writing by Members, upon application for membership (and which may be provided during the course of membership), and others, for different purposes to fulfil its mandate. These purposes include:\nActing as a professional association in support of Members as REALTORS\u00ae in the municipality, including the administration of its by-laws and policies and ensuring compliance with same;\nProviding products and services to Members;\nProviding continuing education to Members and educational courses to those seeking to become Members and others;\nAdministering and operating the MLS\u00ae System, including ensuring compliance with the rules and regulations governing the MLS\u00ae System;\nAdministering and facilitating membership in OREA and CREA, including ensuring compliance with the by-laws, rules and regulations of those associations;\nKAREA\u2019s use of Personal Information is limited to the purpose of fulfilling the mandate of KAREA or a purpose consistent with that purpose and the Association does not sell, trade, barter or exchange for consideration any Personal Information it has obtained. Unless permitted by law or provided for in the application for membership, Association by-laws and/or Association rules, no Personal Information is collected about a Member without first obtaining the consent of the individual to the collection, use and dissemination of that information.\nKAREA may disclose Personal Information of Members to CREA and OREA and RECO for the purpose of fulfilling its mandate and to organizations that assist the Association in the course of fulfilling its mandate, including organizations that perform services on its behalf.\nPersonal Information will only be provided to organizations providing services to KAREA if they agree to use such information solely for the purposes of providing services to KAREA and under the instruction of KAREA and, with respect to that information, to act in a manner consistent with the relevant principles articulated in this Policy Statement.\nThere are circumstances where the use and/or disclosure of Personal Information may be justified or permitted or where KAREA is obliged to disclose information without consent. Such circumstances may include:\nWhere KAREA believes, upon reasonable grounds, that it is necessary to protect the rights, privacy, safety or property of an identifiable person or group;\nWhere it is necessary to permit KAREA to pursue available remedies or limit any damages that the Association may sustain; or\nWhere obliged or permitted to disclose information without consent, KAREA will not disclose more information than is required.\nThe Kingston and Area Real Estate Association endeavours to ensure that any Personal Information provided by its Members and in its possession is as sufficiently accurate, current and complete as necessary for the purposes for which KAREA uses that data. Information contained in files that have been closed is not actively updated or maintained. Information on listings is the responsibility of Members who provide it to the MLS\u00ae System.\nKAREA retains Personal Information as long as KAREA believes it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. Currently, the principal place in which KAREA holds Personal Information is in the City of Kingston, Ontario. KAREA has in place a Records Retention Policy which outlines the procedures for the retention and subsequent disposition of Association records including those records that contain Personal Information.\nKAREA endeavours to maintain adequate physical, procedural and technical security with respect to its offices and information storage facilities so as to prevent any loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of Personal Information.\nKAREA further protects Personal Information by restricting access to Personal Information to those employees and External Associates that the management of KAREA has determined need to know that information in order that KAREA may provide its services. KAREA has a policy under which employee misuse of Personal Information is treated as a serious offence for which disciplinary action may be taken.\nIn terms of communicating Personal Information, you may wish to note that there is no method of transmitting or storing data that is completely secure. While the physical characteristics of each are different, mail, telephone calls, faxes and transmissions over the Internet are all susceptible to possible loss, misrouting, interception and misuse of the information being communicated or transmitted.\nAs do many organizations, KAREA attempts to strike a reasonable balance between security and convenience. In communicating with Members and others, KAREA reserves the right to use a method of communication that is less secure than some of its less convenient alternatives. An example of this is e-mail. At this time, when we use e-mail, it is sent as unencrypted plain text. We do this because the Association believes that many of our Members and External Associates cannot readily process encrypted e-mail. This is done for their convenience but has the security concern that, if misrouted or intercepted, it could be read more easily than encrypted e-mail.\n6. Visiting the KAREA Web Site\nWith respect to its website, KAREA does not collect any information from site visitors. Cookies are not used although anonymous hit count statistics are generated monthly.\nCertain Member information (name, company name & company address, company phone number, email and web address) is presented on the public website.\nKAREA has no control over the content of third party websites that individuals may access through hyperlinks at our website.\nKAREA permits access to and review of Personal Information held by KAREA about an individual by the individual concerned.\nKAREA reserves the right to decline to provide access to Personal Information where the information requested:\na) Would disclose the Personal Information of another individual or of a deceased individual; or business confidential information that may harm KAREA or the competitive position of a third party;\nb) Is subject to solicitor-client or litigation privilege;\nc) Could reasonably result in serious harm to the treatment or recovery of the individual concerned, serious emotional harm to the individual or another individual, or serious bodily harm to another individual; or\nd) May harm or interfere with law enforcement activities and other investigative or regulatory functions of a body authorized by statute to perform such functions;\ne) Is not readily retrievable and the burden or cost of providing would be disproportionate to the nature or value of the information; or\nf) Does not exist, is not held, or cannot be found by KAREA.\nSince confidentiality is integral in KAREA\u2019s procedures, including such procedures as the arbitration of commission disputes and the investigation, prosecution and determination of complaints made against Members, access to personal information will also be declined where the person requesting same has consented, by virtue of membership in the Association and by being subject to the Association\u2019s by-laws and rules, to the Association\u2019s jurisdiction over such procedures as provided for in the by-laws and rules of KAREA.\nKAREA will not respond to repetitious or vexatious requests for access. In determining whether a request is repetitious or vexatious, it will consider such factors as the frequency with which information is updated, the purpose for which the information is used, and the nature of the information.\nTo guard against fraudulent requests for access, KAREA will require sufficient information to allow it to confirm the identity of the person making the request before granting access or making corrections.\nWhere information will be disclosed, KAREA will endeavor to provide the information in question within a reasonable time and no later than 60 days following the request. KAREA may charge a minimal or nominal cost (e.g. photocopying, mail charges) to the individual making the request.\nIf an individual believes any Personal Information concerning that individual is not correct, that person may request an amendment of that information by sending a request to the person indicated in Section 1. KAREA reserves the right not to change any Personal Information but will append any alternative text the individual concerned believes appropriate. An individual may also request that KAREA delete an individual\u2019s Personal Information from the Association\u2019s system and records, except if such Personal Information is required to fulfil the Association\u2019s mandate or to meet legislative requirements. However, due to technical constraints and the fact that KAREA backs up its systems, Personal Information may continue to reside in the Association\u2019s systems after deletion. For the same reason, Personal Information may also continue to reside in the MLS\u00ae System after deletion. Individuals, therefore, should not expect that their Personal Information would be completely removed from KAREA or the MLS\u00ae Systems in response to a request for deletion.\n8. Amendment of KAREA Practice and This Policy\nThis statement is in effect as of November 14, 2003. The Kingston and Area Real Estate Association will from time to time review and revise its privacy practices and this Policy Statement. In the event of any amendment, an appropriate notice will be posted on the Association\u2019s MLS\u00ae System and communicated to Members and others in an appropriate manner. Policy changes will apply to the information collected from the date of posting of the revised Policy Statement to the Association\u2019s web site as well as to existing information held by the Association.\n9. Information Regarding Former Members\nThe Kingston and Area Real Estate Association will only disclose Personal Information about former Members in accordance with this Policy Statement.\n10. What You Consent And Agree To\nWhen you provide KAREA with Personal Information, you consent and agree to the following:\n\uf071 The collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information from or about you as described in Section 2, and to your right to access and correct data as described in Section 7.\n\uf071 Your acceptance of the risks concerning the transmission of information to KAREA as described in Section 5.\n\uf071 The amendment of this Policy Statement as described in Section 8.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 16506, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kashambuzi.com/the-fuf-manifesto-has-many-deficits/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:18Z", "digest": "sha1:V3HJY5JKAJLAUBVSY46R5J2T3DU5TTPB", "length": 2846, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "kashambuzi.com", "title": "The FUF Manifesto has many deficits | Eric Kashambuzi", "raw_content": "The FUF Manifesto has many deficits\nReading the Manifesto gives the impression that it was prepared in a hurry by a narrow range of specialists without practical experience. Some areas especially in the social and demographic sectors, regional and external relations appear to have been forgotten or remembered as the Manifesto was going to the press. For example, the East African economic integration and political federation are just mentioned in passing without indicating the benefits and costs to Uganda. The economic sector does not refer to the general shortcomings of the Washington Consensus launched in 1987 and why and how it came about and what was sacrificed in the process.\nThe Manifesto is largely a description of what has gone wrong in Uganda since NRM came to power in 1986. There is little mention of what needs to be done to right the wrongs with virtually no mention of how it is to be done. The focus on institutions and separation of powers among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government is not enough. In the absence of capable and patriotic leadership and democratic governance institutions can\u2019t work.\nThe Manifesto does not attempt to establish linkages among economic, social and environmental dimensions to ensure sustainability nor does it address the linkages among peace and security, development and human rights.\nThe manifesto exhibits elements of appeasement to win certain sections of Uganda and we know what can go wrong with this approach. The Manifesto is very selective and therefore narrow on Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The Manifesto does not appear to have given enough thought on how Uganda should be governed in the transitional period and in the long term.\nThese deficits might explain why FUF officials are reluctant to be interviewed or answer legitimate questions and are beginning to focus on criticizing the work and philosophies of others as well as using unfortunate language to describe others instead of articulating what they want to do to oust the NRM regime and implement their program in political, economic, social, regional and external relations sectors.\nBy way of comparison, we suggest FUF members read UDU National Recovery Plan (NRP) available at www.udugandans.org.\nUganda voices in the opposition at home and abroad need to come together, harmonize our thinking and speak with one voice. Each one of us has something to put on the table to advance our common cause of unseating the NRM regime. Together we can\u2019t fail; scattered and stepping on one another\u2019s toes and venturing into areas in which we have no expertise and experience we shall take longer or fail totally to realize our mission. These are preliminary comments on the Manifesto.\n\u2190 Suddenly, Baganda want independence, not federo\nSejusa still refuses to answer legitimate questions \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 4111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://keepcalmandwander.com/tag/travel-blog/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:21Z", "digest": "sha1:DCPJYUP2JIGM3BZZA4JGYECWARYB24DY", "length": 2338, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "keepcalmandwander.com", "title": "travel blog Archives -", "raw_content": "Inside the Antelope Slot Canyon\nWandering inside the Antelope Slot Canyon is kind of going into an unknown but wondrous world where the sun makes a stunning chiaroscuro on every slit that opens up like slithering waves carved and perfected by time. These are just few photos I\u2019m showing you for now. I\u2019m kinda lazy to resize them all for [\u2026]\nWhen traveling, I have this habit of talking to locals and asking them for their portraits whatever they are doing. I\u2019d ask their names and I\u2019d give mine even if they won\u2019t ask. Most of the time, I got affirmative answers but there were few times I was refused but they\u2019re willing to do it [\u2026]\nBaikal Lake \u2013 Where Christians and Buddhists Meet Shamans\nIf you had one week to spend somewhere away from the cold winter in Paris, where would you go? Probably, most of you, would buy a ticket jetting off to a tropical island, drowning in margaritas, burying your feet in the sand and basking in the sun. But NOT my friend Veronica and her husband. [\u2026]\nThe trip from Toronto to Cairo via EgyptAir was 10 hours. I actually didn\u2019t mind the long haul as we were comfortably seated in Business/Executive Class, my very first experience to be treated like an Egyptian Queen. Sorry, Cleopatra, you\u2019re so dead now! LOL\u2026. When we arrived at Cairo International Airport, it reeked of cigarette. [\u2026]\nSome time ago (that time when I wasn\u2019t travel blogging yet), I went to this verdant Xilamuren grasslands in Inner Mongolia, a two-hour drive from the capital, Hohhot. It was a chilly October day and the wide expanse of the open land could compete with that of the azure sky that hovered above us, adorned [\u2026]\nThe Joys of Traveling Solo\nWhile it doesn\u2019t suit everyone\u2019s tastes (because we are basically social beings) there is a lot to be said about traveling solo, particularly backpacking alone. If you\u2019re the adventurous type that enjoys your own company, being out on some of the world\u2019s best trails, or even some you create on your own, can be very [\u2026]\nMexico \u2013 Tulum Ruins aka Tulum Ruinas\nLess than 20 minutes by public transport from Sirenis Beach Hotel and Resort is the Tulum Ruins archaeological site that dates back to the days when the Mayans rule the state. 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Others had their own bomb shelters in their gardens.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2, "original_length": 383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 184.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kevin.spleck.net/2007/05/halo-is-back.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:32Z", "digest": "sha1:YUO7636T5F442SFESO4VHQVDVJQAXHJZ", "length": 878, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kevin.spleck.net", "title": "its.moo: halo is back", "raw_content": "halo is back\nhalo is back folks. a long time ago a company bought by microsoft brought us halo on the xbox. wow. that was one hell of a game, but there was just one problem. the sequel sucked.\nyes, that's right folks. i said it. so what. :) i didn't like the sequel, halo 2, and even people that play the game religiously will tell you it just didn't have the feel and appeal as the first game.\nbungie has just started beta testing xbox live multiplayer action for halo 3, and i must say they've brought back the feel and the fun of the original. a great game, and i'll keep playing until the beta ends on jun 10th, and then i'll be one of the first in line to pick up the final version come september 25th.\ni'm not even that good.. but i'm trying to clean up my game and get a it better. :) a really fun game, you should check it out if you can.\nLabels: beta, games, halo, xbox", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 3034, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kfox95.com/walking-dead-finale-theaters-fear-fathom/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:22Z", "digest": "sha1:H2AJ7VIODKRVBYIUKSMA7PQDK57NNDMC", "length": 1722, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "kfox95.com", "title": "'Walking Dead' and 'Fear' Finale Crossover Coming to Theaters", "raw_content": "The Big \u2018Walking Dead\u2019 Finale Crossover Is Coming to Theaters\nAMC / Fathom\nWhat does Rick Grimes\u2019 facial hair look like on the big screen? Walking Dead and Fear fans alike will get the chance to find out, as AMC is sending April\u2019s big Season 8 finale and Fear premiere to theaters for one night only.\nIf you\u2019re feeling pumped enough to follow Morgan\u2019s journey from The Walking Dead Season 8 finale to Fear The Walking Dead\u2019s Season 4 premiere, Fathom Events is hosting Survival Sunday: The Walking Dead & Fear the Walking Dead in over 750 theaters nationwide on April 15. The event is also said to feature as-yet-unannounced bonus content, while tickets will go on sale Friday, March 16 (March 15 for TWD Fan Rewards Club members).\nBoth episodes will be presented commercial-free, beginning at 8:30 P.M. Eastern (and adjusted for each time-zone). This is the first instance of The Walking Dead franchise making it to the big screen, though Fathom Events has previously hosted screenings of Doctor Who, Sherlock and others. Game of Thrones has been to theaters as well, though The Walking Dead isn\u2019t bound for IMAX just yet (there is such a thing as too much walker entrail).\nIn either case, The Walking Dead Season 8 finale is expected to end the \u201cAll Out War\u201d arc, and may be the last instance of Lauren Cohan playing Maggie Grimes on the series. Lennie James\u2019 Morgan is also expected to survive the ninety-minute finale, seeing as his transition to Fear The Walking Dead Season 4 will also bring the companion series\u2019 timeline (and visuals) in sync.\nWe\u2019ve still a few more weeks of Walking Dead Season 8 to get through, so stay tuned in the meantime.\nSource: The Big \u2018Walking Dead\u2019 Finale Crossover Is Coming to Theaters", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 3502, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 295.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kingsleyvillage.co.uk/index.php/news/305-pictorial-history-of-the-sandstone-ridge", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:52Z", "digest": "sha1:7K3DVI3A7NSNYJZATKTLYIFDMEOAFPCF", "length": 1458, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "kingsleyvillage.co.uk", "title": "PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE SANDSTONE RIDGE", "raw_content": "The Sandstone Ridge is one of Cheshire's most distinctive landscapes, covering 230 sq kms (88 sq miles) of rolling hills and escarpments that stretch from Frodsham and Helsby in the north, through Delamere, Tarporley, Beeston, Peckforton and Bickerton, to Malpas in the south. This is rural Cheshire at its finest, linked by the Sandstone Trail.\nThe Ridge has a long and rich history, that ranges from pre-historic landscapes through the Roman, Saxon and Medieval periods to the present day. Its appearance has been shaped by centuries of farming, forestry and use of natural resources, including water sources like ancient springs and wells, as well as sandstone, sand and gravel, copper, marl and other minerals.\nOld photographs and postcards can provide a revealing snapshot into how people have interacted with the landscape over the decades and centuries. By comparing them with present day views it becomes possible to understand how the countryside, villages and buildings in the area have changed over time.\nThe Trust would like to hear from anyone who has old photographs and postcards of the Sandstone Ridge area. These can be either in their original (photograph/postcard), or scanned (digital) forms. If enough images can be found, it is hoped that they could be published in a small book for everyone's enjoyment.\nYou can contact the Trust by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 2577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 166.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kirbyslane.blogspot.com/2014/10/friend-fridaykimber.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PE7NSHGDORPO2AXL5LF4ZH5UVODHV33M", "length": 1020, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "kirbyslane.blogspot.com", "title": "Kirby's Lane: A Place for Readers and Writers: Friend FridayKimber", "raw_content": "Friend FridayKimber\nWhen our paths crossed at the Michigan Reading Association conference on Mackinac Island, what first caught my eye about Kimberli Bindschatel was her bag. Isn't it amazing? It's made to look like her book!\nOf course, I had to ask her how she'd made it and one thing led to another, which led to my inviting her to be a guest on Friend Friday. Take it away, Kimberli!\nKimberli Bindschatel\nI wasn\u2019t always a writer. I mean, as a serious pursuit. I\u2019ve always been an artist and nature lover. Only recently did I decide to find writing as a way to explore my passions.\nKimberli A. Bindschatel\u2019s debut novel, The Path to the Sun, is the story of seven teens who set out on a quest to save their forsaken village, but when it turns into a fight for survival, sixteen-year old Kiran is forced to question everything he was taught to believe about faith, truth, and his place--and ours--in the natural world.\nThis book sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing your journey. I'll be looking for The Path to the Sun.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3595, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kmgrant.co.uk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:05Z", "digest": "sha1:PW4THIFEKQCTQVEAMGNQC5DGCPZ2PVYR", "length": 368, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kmgrant.co.uk", "title": "KM Grant - New houses, Extensions, Refurbishments and Developments | Guildford | Surrey", "raw_content": "Welcome to KM Grant.\nSpecialising in bespoke new homes, we have been building, remodelling and refurbishing exceptional private residences for more than thirty years. 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They, along with many others, rotate through the KPA web site's front page.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 103.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ktar.com/story/477188/pope-eyes-worldwide-audience-for-environment-encyclical/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:43Z", "digest": "sha1:IYTZ4DNEEXJCYLF2S56YLECS4P6RUC4S", "length": 1538, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ktar.com", "title": "Pope eyes worldwide audience for environment encyclical - KTAR.com", "raw_content": "Pope eyes worldwide audience for environment encyclical\nPope Francis is cheered by the crowd as he arrives for an audience with Italian AGESCI boy scouts association's members in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Saturday, June 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)\nVATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 Pope Francis is looking for a global audience for his upcoming encyclical on the environment, saying Sunday it\u2019s meant for everyone, not just Catholics.\nFrancis engaged in some self-promotion during his weekly blessing, alerting the thousands of people in St. Peter\u2019s Square that his first solo encyclical is coming out on Thursday and inviting them to pay attention to environmental degradation around them.\n\u201cThis encyclical is aimed at everyone: Let us pray that everyone can receive its message and grow in responsibility toward the common home that God has given us,\u201d he said.\nThe eagerly awaited document will be launched at a Vatican news conference Thursday that underscores Francis\u2019 insistence that it\u2019s not just for Catholics: The three speakers are a Vatican cardinal, a Greek Orthodox theologian and an atheist scientist.\nIn the encyclical, Francis is expected to lay out the moral imperative to fight global warming, since the poor are the most affected by it.\nFrancis has said he wanted to get the encyclical out in plenty of time before negotiators meet in Paris at the end of the year to hammer out a deal to reduce greenhouse gases to a level that keeps global warming below 2 degrees C (3.6 F), compared with pre-industrial times.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 6257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://kuwmcx.biz/anime/the-new-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:57Z", "digest": "sha1:NZJVBBKVPHUV76OMWEXNJHM43DQLXZET", "length": 257, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "kuwmcx.biz", "title": "Watch The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Online - The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "raw_content": "Huckleberry Finn and his friends, Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher, travel from one animated world to the next, always followed by the same villain, Injun Joe. The gimmick is that Huck, Tom, and Becky are live action characters and everything else is animated.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lac.org.kh/about-lac/lac-offices/phnom-penh-head-office/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:45Z", "digest": "sha1:NIEW6FA642YSI76NZC5UIV2GZWPM4C5P", "length": 2014, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "lac.org.kh", "title": "Phnom Penh Head Office | Legal Aid of Cambodia", "raw_content": "Phnom Penh, also spelled Pnom Penh or Phom Penh, Khmer Phnum P\u00e9nh, capital and chief city of Cambodia. It lies at the confluence of the Bas\u0103k (Bassac), Sab, and Mekong river systems, in the south-central part of the country.\nPhnom Penh was founded in 1434 to succeed Angkor Thom as the capital of the Khmer nation but was abandoned several times before being reestablished in 1865 by King Norodom. The city formerly functioned as a processing centre, with textiles, pharmaceuticals, machine manufacturing, and rice milling. Its chief assets, however, were cultural. Institutions of higher learning included the National University of Phnom Penh (founded in 1956 as the Royal Khmer University), with schools of engineering, fine arts, technology, and agricultural sciences, the latter at Chamcar Daung, a suburb. Also located at Phnom Penh were the Royal University of Agronomic Sciences and the Agricultural School of Prek Leap.\nThe picturesque city of Phnom Penh was built around the Royal Palace and Preah Morakot Pagoda, the latter known for its floor of silver tiles and many treasures, including a golden Buddha statue. The Royal Palace compound included the Royal Palace (1919), the Royal Palace Museum, and the Veal Mien (Royal Plain), on which the national congress met twice a year. The National Museum displays Khmer art and historical documents. The European quarter, in the northern sector of the city, stood at the foot of the high Phnom Penh (Penh Hill), atop which was a pagoda housing the ashes of the legendary Lady Penh, whose discovery of a bronze Buddha there inspired the settlement bearing her name. Phnom Penh\u2019s other educational institutions included the independent Buddhist University and institutes for Buddhist and P\u0101li studies. A world-renowned attraction was the Royal Ballet, until modern times restricted to performances before Cambodian royalty. Its authentically bejeweled dancing girls gave mimed versions of ancient Buddhist and Hindu legends. There was also a national theatre.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lalsgroup.com/brands/details.aspx?id=71", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:52Z", "digest": "sha1:H5GPQZ7V5GDZC6Z5SWGWEMEAEOQR3SDP", "length": 1276, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "lalsgroup.com", "title": "Fitness 360 | Lals Group", "raw_content": "\u2022 State-of-the-art facilities and highly trained professionals.\n\u2022 Members can enjoy unlimited group classes inclusive of Zumba, body pump, kickboxing, yoga and pilates.\n\u2022 Something for everyone including ladies-only clubs.\nIn 2010, Lals Group entered the fitness market with one differentiating vision - to provide affordable fitness for everyone while promoting active lifestyles and community wellbeing.\nThe essence of Fitness 360 is that being fit should be a lifestyle change and aims to do exactly that for every member. Offering a 360-degree holistic approach that does not just stop at just a workout, our own-concept gym also propagates and promotes healthy living that goes beyond the time spent at the club.\nEvery branch is built uniquely based on location and the needs of the community. With concepts ranging from full size health clubs to an express club located in International City, Dubai, as well as ladies-only clubs in Dubai, Fujairah and Ras Al Khaimah, all our gyms offer top-of-the-range facilities. These tailor-made clubs were essentially a first in the region re-enforcing our belief that fitness must be based on the individual needs of the community it serves.\nMazaya Centre, Arabian Center, International City and J3 Mall\nEmail.: info@fitness360.me", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=11015", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:15Z", "digest": "sha1:YHNVX7QI72O5L6DWFEQESSYEDGQ6P7RM", "length": 12552, "nlines": 53, "source_domain": "languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu", "title": "Language Log \u00bb (Mis-) Interpreting medical tests", "raw_content": "(Mis-) Interpreting medical tests\nMarch 10, 2014 @ 10:43 am \u00b7 Filed by Mark Liberman under Language and the media, Language of science\nJon Hamilton, \"Alzheimer's Blood Test Raises Ethical Questions\", NPR Morning Edition 3/9/2014:\nAn experimental blood test can identify people in their 70s who are likely to develop Alzheimer's disease within two or three years. The test is accurate more than 90 percent of the time, scientists reported Sunday in Nature Medicine.\nThe finding could lead to a quick and easy way for seniors to assess their risk of Alzheimer's, says Dr. Howard Federoff, a professor of neurology at Georgetown University. And that would be a \"game changer,\" he says, if researchers find a treatment that can slow down or stop the disease.\nBut because there is still no way to halt Alzheimer's, Federoff says, people considering the test would have to decide whether they are prepared to get results that \"could be life-altering.\"\nBut having a prediction with no prospect for a cure is not, in my opinion, the biggest problem with tests of this kind.\nAs we can learn from the cited publication (Mark Mapstone et al., \"Plasma phospholipids identify antecedent memory impairment in older adults\", Nature Medicine 3/9/2014) , the \"more than 90 percent of the time\" accuracy is defined as \"a sensitivity of 90% and specificity of 90%\" for identifying participants who had unimpaired memory at the beginning, but would begin exhibiting cognitive impairment during the study.\nOne small point is that the size of the study was not large enough to be very certain about these numbers:\nWe enrolled 525 community-dwelling participants, aged 70 and older and otherwise healthy, into this 5-year observational study. Over the course of the study, 74 participants met criteria for amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) or mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) (Online Methods); 46 were incidental cases at entry, and 28 phenoconverted (Converters) from nonimpaired memory status at entry (Converterpre).\nThe blood tests are converting participants in the \"Converterpre\" category from the \"Normal Controls\" (NC) category, and 28 is not a very large number.\nBut the bigger problem lies in the meaning of \"sensitivity\" and \"specificity\", as explained by John Gever, \"Researchers Claim Blood Test Predicts Alzheimer's\", MedPage Today 3/9/2014:\nIf the study cohort's 5% rate of conversion from normal cognition to mild impairment or Alzheimer's disease is representative of a real-world screening population, then the test would have a positive predictive value of just 35%. That is, nearly two-thirds of positive screening results would be false. In general, a positive predictive value of 90% is considered the minimum for any kind of screening test in normal-risk individuals.\nLet's unpack this. We start with a 2-by-2 \"contingency table\", relating test predictions and true states or outcomes:\nReality is Positive (P) Reality is Negative (N)\nTest is Positive True Positive (TP) False Positive (FP)\nTest is Negative False Negative (FN) True Negative (TN)\nIn the context, the \"sensitivity\" is the true positive rate: TP/P, the proportion of real positives that test positive.\nThe \"specificity\" is the true negative rate: TN/N = the proportion of real negatives that test negative.\nAnd 90% sensitivity and specificity sounds pretty good.\nBut what doctors and patients really learn is only whether the test is positive or negative. So suppose the test is positive and the true prevalence of the condition is 5%. Then out of 1,000 patients, there will be 0.05*1000 = 50 who are truly going to get AD; and of these, 0.9*50 = 45 will have a positive test result. But there will be 0.95*1000 = 950 who are not going to get AD; and of these, 0.1*950 = 95 will have a positive test result.\nSo there will be a total of 45+95 = 140 positive test results, and of these, 45 will be true positives, or 45/140 = 32%.\nThus the real problem with a positive test result, in this case, would not be learning that you're fated to get AD and can't do anything to prevent it. Rather, it would be believing that you're 90% likely to get AD when your actual chances are much lower.\nIn fact , I think that the numbers might be a bit better than Gever's article suggests. According to \"2012 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures\" from the Alzheimer's Association:\nThe estimated annual incidence (rate of developing disease in a one-year period) of Alzheimer\u2019s disease appears to increase dramatically with age, from approximately 53 new cases per 1,000 people age 65 to 74, to 170 new cases per 1,000 people age 75 to 84, to 231 new cases per 1,000 people over age 85.\nEven at a rate of 53 per 1,000, the chances of \"converting\" within three years would be (1 \u2013 (1-0.053)^3) = 0.151, so the positive predictive value of the test would be more like 62% than 32%. But 62% is still not 90%, and the general point is an important one.\nFor more on the terminology involved, see the Wikipedia article on sensitivity and specificity.\nAndrewD said,\nDerrek Lowe at \"in the pipeline\" has commented on the claim here\nhttp://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2014/03/10/a_blood_test_for_alzheimers.php\n[(myl) One of his commenters raises another concern:\n\"144 lipids simultaneously by multiple reaction monitoring. The other metabolites are resolved on the UPLC and quantified using scheduled MRMs. The kit facilitates absolute quantitation of 21 amino acids, hexose, carnitine, 39 acylcarnitines, 15 sphingomyelins, 90 phosphatidylcholines and 19 biogenic amines\u2026\" to arrive at the final set which were used for what appears to be retrospective =based predictions.\nThat is, we shouldn't rely too strongly on the fact that a combination of ten biomarkers, out of about 200 tested, can retro-dict outcomes for a relatively small and not very diverse set of patients. This raises a question about whether the 90% sensitivity and specificity would hold up in a larger and more diverse population.\nBut the main point is that sensitivity and specificity can be misleading numbers.]\nFor Alzheimer\u2019s, the estimated lifetime risk was nearly one in five (17.2%) for women\tcompared with nearly one in 10 (9.1%) for men.\nwhich more or less shows that you cannot get much predictive improvement even considering the whole lifespan (older people seem to develop the risk of Alzheimer's faster than the risk of death, but the difference is not very pronounced).\nThank you Mark. Upon reading the syndicated piece in my daily paper, this is the first place I came for a proper analysis.\nI've always had the impression that if you test positive for a rare disease, the first thing you do is test again. I mean, we're not going to make rare diseases less rare.\nThe strategy produced by this rather simple wisdom has a total error rate of 1.9% given 90% sensitivity and specificity and a population with 5% prevalence of the condition, split half and half between 0.95% who think they're positive when they aren't, and 0.95% who think they aren't positive when they are. (Or, in the terms I worked the problem, if you test 10,000 people of whom 500 are positive, then after the process completes, 95 people will erroneously believe they're positive, 95 people will erroneously believe they're negative, and the other 9,810 will know correctly whether they're positive or negative.)\nSensitivity and specificity don't tell you the odds that your test result is correct, because that question is inextricably linked to the prevalence of the condition in your population. But we can't do better than reporting them, because they are the part of the question defined by the test. It's not the test's fault if you're using it to look for something rare.\n[(myl) But the results of a \"positive\" test for something dire may be very problematic indeed \u2014 unnecessary surgery in the case of unreliable cancer screening, or major life changes in the case of a test like this one.\nAnd we CAN do better than reporting sensitivity and specificity, as John Gever's article observes: we can tell people the \"positive predictive value\" (PPV), which is exactly the proportion of positive test results that are true positives, or (in the case of negative results) we can tell them the \"negative predictive value\".\nIn terms of the 2\u00d72 contingency table, PPV is simply true positives divided by the sum of true positives and false positives. This measure is known as \"precision\" in the information-retrieval and machine-learning literature.]\nWell, sure. If the question is \"do I have cancer\", we can be more, but uselessly, informative by saying \"most people don't, so there's still a good chance you don't\". If the question is \"how good is this test\", then sensitivity and specificity are all you have.\nBut again, the normal thing to do is just test again. If the question is \"do I have cancer\", people don't really care about getting a numerically precise figure for the accuracy of the test, they care about whether or not they have cancer. The \"test again\" strategy constructively brings the PPV of our hypothetical test from 32% to 80% (it also cuts the NPV from 99.4% to 99%). The \"inform and release\" strategy tells people \"you have a 32% chance of having cancer \u2014 hugely elevated compared to the population, but less than you'd want to base a major surgery on\". What will they do then but retest?\n(In the particular case of cancer, you can look at other evidence like the presence and potentially growth rate of tangible lumps; in the case of future Alzheimer's, that seems more difficult.)\nI guess I'm uncomfortable because you refer to \"the biggest problem with tests of this kind\". Saying that they can't justify their sensitivity and specificity numbers is fair criticism. But the fact the the phenomenon it's looking for is rare can't be a problem with the test. Tests aren't going to reach perfect accuracy, and people won't stop being interested in rare phenomena, because rare phenomena won't stop being important. None of that is a problem with the test. If a serious problem is sufficiently rare that our best test for it isn't informative enough to justify action after only testing once, the solution isn't to give up on testing for it. It's still serious and still detectable.\n@Michael Watts \u2013 you seem to be assuming that successive tests on the same person have independent false positive rates. By that assumption, you could increase the accuracy of any test to 99.9% just by repeating often enough. But in fact the false positive in one individual will often be because they genuinely have a high level of some marker, for some reason other than the presence of disease. You may get a bit more accuracy for some tests by repeating, but not always.\nI assumed that Michael Watts was implying a followup with a more expensive, more reliable test, as is the convention with these things.\nBut I think the relevant response to his argument is that people make generalized and policy decisions on the basis of misunderstanding what these numbers mean. When headlines and articles reduce this to \"more than 90% accurate\", the general public and (unfortunately) those responsible for policy make bad decisions about such tests.\nYes, the numbers I used assumed independent tests with identical characteristics. As Keith M Ellis points out, it makes more sense to retest with a different test, but then you need new numbers.\nI'll try phrasing myself a little differently. Imagine that a particular disease, such as lung cancer, is very rare within the population but for unknown reasons becomes much more common over time. During the same period, we continue to detect it with exactly the same tests we've always used, and no technological improvements. I don't think it makes sense to say that the quality of our tests has increased dramatically just because there's more lung cancer now than there used to be. The tests have all the same characteristics they've always had; a paper examining their sensitivity and specificity will be just as valuable after this happens as it was originally. But a paper presenting PPV and NPV will be worthless because those have changed. Conversely, if a disease such as measles is initially common but becomes rare, I don't think it makes sense to say that our tests for it have suddenly become crap.\nLook at it yet another way. Suppose I invent and sell a test for leukemia and market it has having a certain PPV, say 45%. Then, unbeknownst to me and beyond my control, the incidence of leukemia drops, so the test's PPV is actually 40%. Should people using my test be allowed to sue me?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 384, "original_length": 18055, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://larpresume.boldlygoingnowhere.org/games/283/ruins-of-grandeur", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:55Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZDCVSGBFVH22GNLAO7QVENVM5AGOBDD", "length": 1617, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "larpresume.boldlygoingnowhere.org", "title": "Ruins of Grandeur", "raw_content": "Sign in or register to of Ruins of Grandeur to the database\nLarp: Ruins of Grandeur\nhttp://2011.festivalofthelarps.com/events/497\n\u201cRuins of Grandeur\u201d is a horror game of tomb exploration, where character death is a very real possibility. Set in 1880 Egypt. Tensions between natives and foreign interests run high, and the discovery and excavation of a new tomb is fraught with political ramifications. Scientists, politicians, servants, and various hangers-on prepare to enter the ruins, unaware of what awaits them within... This game is the first chapter of the Epoch's Waning series.\nDATELINE: CAIRO \u2013 A new and previously unknown tomb has been discovered beneath the shifting sands of the Egyptian desert. A team of European experts led by Dr. Edward Parker is preparing to open the tomb, which is believed to belong to a hitherto unknown Pharaoh. In an encouraging sign of international cooperation, the excavation is to take place with the official sanction of the French provincial governor. The expedition, funded by the prestigious Lord William Cranford, promises to offer an exciting glimpse into an ancient kingdom of untold grandeur... \u201cRuins of Grandeur\u201d is a supernatural horror game of tomb exploration, where character death is a very real possibility. set in 1880 Egypt. Tensions between natives and foreign interests run high, and the discovery and excavation of a new tomb is fraught with political ramifications. Scientists, politicians, servants, and various hangers-on prepare to enter the ruins, unaware of what awaits them within... This game is the first chapter of the Epoch's Waning series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1946, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lawrencehumane.org/press-release-lawrence-humane-society-launches-crowdfunding-effort-to-raise-funds-for-new-building-july-24-2017/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:43Z", "digest": "sha1:353JD24PHABPU7GH6INKIWBXFU7QQULY", "length": 2582, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "lawrencehumane.org", "title": "Press Release: Lawrence Humane Society launches crowdfunding effort to raise funds for new building (July 24, 2017) \u2013 Lawrence Humane Society", "raw_content": "Press Release: Lawrence Humane Society launches crowdfunding effort to raise funds for new building (July 24, 2017)\n918Press Release: Lawrence Humane Society launches crowdfunding effort to raise funds for new building (July 24, 2017)\n123 Press Release: Lawrence Humane Society launches crowdfunding effort to raise funds for new building (July 24, 2017)\nOrganization hopes community will help raise $150,000 by August 31\nLAWRENCE, KAN. \u2014 July 24, 2017 \u2014 The Lawrence Humane Society announced today the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to raise $150,000 for the organization\u2019s new animal shelter facility. The new, state-of-the-art shelter will address the significant challenges faced in the organization\u2019s existing facility, allowing LHS to save more lives.\nThe Lawrence Humane Society has already raised more than $6 million of the $7.5 million project total, including a $2.5 million commitment from the City of Lawrence.\n\u201cWe are so excited to give our community\u2019s pets \u2014 and people! \u2014 the shelter they deserve,\u201d said Kate Meghji, executive director for the Lawrence Humane Society. \u201cWe have already received so much support for this project. We know the animal-loving community is as excited as we are for the construction of this new building, and we hope they join this crowdfunding campaign to help us raise a significant portion of the funds by the end of August.\u201d\nInterested pet parents, animal lovers, and community supporters are encouraged to visit lawrencehumane.org/forthem to set up personal fundraising pages and fundraising teams to help the organization achieve its $150,000 goal by August 31.\n\u201cOur community loves animals, and we know that they\u2019ll want to help us achieve our goal of building this new shelter for pets in need. This crowdfunding campaign is an exciting and fun way to do that,\u201d Meghji added. \u201cThe pets in our community need us \u2014 they need every one of us! Together, we can make this project possible for them.\u201d\nThe new shelter facility is desperately needed. The current LHS shelter was not built to animal shelter standards and does not meet standards for proper care and disease management of animals housed in the shelter. Challenges include:\nThose interested in becoming fundraisers for the campaign or donating to the crowdfunding campaign can visit lawrencehumane.org/forthem. Large gifts and pledges are also welcome and can be donated via cash, check, credit card, gifts of stock, and more by contacting the Lawrence Humane Society at 785-843-6835.\nVisit www.lawrencehumane.org/campaign for more information about the For Them Campaign.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 272.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://legacy.tssaa.org/genmembership.cfm?theschoolid=968&schooltype=M", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:45Z", "digest": "sha1:4VDKAS2M4WPDB4R5ZUJJ3ZDDBED2QMTC", "length": 242, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "legacy.tssaa.org", "title": "TSSAA Membership Contract 2014", "raw_content": "St. Mary''s School\nI hereby agree that St. Mary''s School will conduct its athletic programs for the school year 2014-2015 in accordance with the rules and decisions of the TSSAA.\nSchool Name: St. Mary''s School\nStreet: 2211 East Lakeview Dr.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1163, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2018/04/burset-to-notre-dame.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:17Z", "digest": "sha1:ANYP233FSAQYYTMAZGS62UT2DAWZPE64", "length": 1692, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com", "title": "Legal History Blog: Burset to Notre Dame", "raw_content": "Good news from the legal history hiring front: We've learned that Christian Burset has accepted an assistant professor position with the University of Notre Dame Law School.\nBurset is currently a Golieb Fellow in Legal History at New York University School of Law and a Ph.D. candidate in History at Yale University. Cribbing from his History department bio, his dissertation\nexplores why Britain embraced a policy of legal pluralism in the second half of the eighteenth century. Until the 1740s, most jurists and policymakers agreed that English law should govern all British subjects. Colonies could enact locally appropriate legislation, but none could stray from the fundamentals of English law, such as trials by jury. By the 1770s, however, Britain had rejected earlier efforts to develop a unified imperial law. The Quebec Act restored French law to Canada; Hindu and Islamic law governed most Indian subjects; and in England itself, judges reshaped the common law\u2019s scope by encouraging the formalization of arbitration and segregating commercial litigation from other lawsuits. My project seeks to explain these changes, which had a profound impact on the development of Anglo-American arbitration, commercial law, and civil procedure.\nPublished research has appeared in the Law & History Review and the California Law Review Circuit.\nAfter graduating from Yale Law School, Burset clerked for the Honorable Jos\u00e9 A. Cabranes on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.\nCongratulations to Christian Burset and to Notre Dame!\nWe're always delighted to pass on hiring news, including lateral moves, fellowships, and post-docs. Feel free to contact us if you have news to report.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 703, "original_length": 16158, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 186.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://legendssalonllc.com/2017/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:16Z", "digest": "sha1:HN4FBPTQTTSFYODPEVBHS3BT2LLXIPLC", "length": 1401, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "legendssalonllc.com", "title": "September, 2017 | Legends Salon LLC", "raw_content": "Why Men Should Visit Legends Hair Salon\nWhy men should go to a hair salon to get their hair cut Many men hit the barbershop, get a cut, a shave and are on their way. But, what if you have difficult hair or just don\u2019t like the buzz cut you\u2019ve been getting forever? Barbers cut hair. They aren\u2019t in the business of styling. That\u2019s when it\u2019s time to find a hair salon. It ...\tMore\nHaircuts that never go out of style Hair trends come and go but there\u2019s a set of cuts that have proven to stand the test of time and therefore, will always be in style. While your favorite celebrities aren\u2019t afraid to take chances and go for dramatic changes, many stars have one haircut they always return to. Do you have a signature ...\tMore\nHow to find a great men\u2019s hair stylist Some guys have difficult hair. They have cowlicks and waves. These aren\u2019t exactly the guys who can go to a barbershop and expect a great style to be had. Finding a great stylist can be a challenge. If you are looking for a great men\u2019s hair stylist, here are some tips you should know before ...\tMore\nHow to choose the right hair color for your skin tone We all struggle at one point or another to find the right color for our hair. Maybe you are tired of your old color and you feel it just isn\u2019t doing anything for you anymore. Maybe the problem isn\u2019t the color but the style. Or maybe you need some highlighting to bring out your ...\tMore", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 2767, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lenard-eng.com/01-sharon%2C-ct.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:51Z", "digest": "sha1:VUQX3YEQRKENB2AJV27KKHOQXIYHCYZI", "length": 1317, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "lenard-eng.com", "title": "01 Sharon, CT", "raw_content": "Calkinstown Reservoir Dredging & Dam Improvements \u2014 Sharon, Connecticut\nThe Town of Sharon acquired the Calkinstown Reservoir in the late 19th century for use as the town's primary drinking water reservoir. The dam was originally constructed as a run-of-the-river masonry gravity dam and was subsequently filled on the downstream side, forming an earthen embankment. At some point following the flood of 1955, the inflow stream was relocated to bypass the reservoir, and water now enters the reservoir by a permitted diversion.\nThe Sharon Sewer and Water Commission retained LEI to prepare design plans, acquire land-use permits, and administer construction of comprehensive improvements to the dam. Improvements included dredging organic sediments from the reservoir floor, re-grading the dam crest and downstream embankment, removal and replacement of the primary spillway, removal and replacement of the gate house, enhancement of the reservoir's low-level outlet, construction of a liner and upstream embankment to retard seepage losses, and fortification of a dike that separates the reservoir from a bypass stream.\nLEI prepared applications and subsequently acquired permits for the project from the Sharon Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission, the Connecticut DEEP, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 324.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lettersihaventwrittenyet.com/index.php/2017/04/15/the-name-of-the-wind-the-kingkiller-chronicle-1-patrick-rothfuss/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2FDDJ3UPQ7ZRXJ6WN7R5VE3L4HRJIR65", "length": 1739, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lettersihaventwrittenyet.com", "title": "The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) \u2013 Patrick Rothfuss \u2013 Letters I Haven't Written Yet", "raw_content": "This book has been out for years \u2026 and somehow I missed it. It was offered to me as a gift a few weeks ago, and off I went. Now I normally don\u2019t like being given books as gifts \u2013 I have often found that people often try to impose their own tastes on you when they offer you a book. This was not the case.\nWhen I first started the book, I had no idea what the heck was going on, and I found it to be\u2026 uninteresting. But, I pushed forward, first because I hate giving up on a book, and second, again because it was gift. And let me just say that I am so glad I did. Before you start, be ready \u2013 just know that the end is not an ending. Rothfuss has set us up for at least one more missive of Kvothe\u2019s adventures, if not more. I was sorely disappointed, but saw it coming. There was too much to say, to see, for it to fit into one book (all 662 pages of it!!) Some fantasy novels, such as the ones written by GGK, are a song, a poem. You can hear the music on the page. This story is different. You get lost in the pages. You become the Chronicler, listening to Kvothe\u2019s story. You are with him at the University as he makes friends, has his heart broken, and becomes a hero \u2013 and then some. You get lost in it. For those who love the fantasy world \u2013 you can\u2019t help but get lost in this story. I for one, cannot wait to start reading part 2\nNext post1356 \u2013 Bernard Cornwell\n2 comments on \u201cThe Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) \u2013 Patrick Rothfuss\u201d:\nDebra-Lee says:\nSounds like my sort of book as love to get lost in my book. Have added it to my list of books to read. Thanks Alnaaze\nYou\u2019ll really enjoy it. The second one was good, though it suffered from the success of the first. 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The restaurant, which has since moved down the street, was on the corner of New Garden Road and Hwy. 220 in Greensboro, NC.\nElizabeth Conrad in front of the first Restaurant in 1953. The restaurant, which has since moved down the street, was on the corner of New Garden Road and Hwy. 220 in Greensboro, NC.\nOver the years we\u2019ve made some changes. There have been menu changes, all spurred by customer requests for things like boiled shrimp and broiled and grilled selections. We\u2019ve added chicken and steaks to the menu, too. There are new restaurants in new locations. Libby Hill continues to grow and change. But after nearly fifty years, one thing remains the same: Libby Hill is the place to go for terrific seafood. For those of you who are new to the area, here is the Libby Hill story.Luke and Elizabeth Conrad in front of the first Restaurant in 1953. The restaurant, which has since moved down the street, was on the corner of New Garden Road and Hwy. 220 in Greensboro, NC.\nLuke Conrad opened the first Libby Hill Seafood Restaurant back in 1953. The building, an old roadhouse that had been padlocked by the sheriff because of bawdy activities, was situated on the corner of Hwy. 220 North (Battleground Avenue) and New Garden Road, out in the country, north of Greensboro. While that restaurant has been moved to a location about two blocks north on Cotswold Avenue, it is still going strong, and some of our original customers are still \u201cregulars\u201d there today. Greensboro has grown since then and so has Libby Hill. That first restaurant is in the city limits now, and there are twelve other Libby Hill restaurants scattered across North Carolina and Virginia.\nOne of many sponsored events in the community, Libby Hill\u2019s \u201cWatering Hole\u201d provides a welcome treat for weary revelers during Greensboro\u2019s Annual Fun 4th celebration.\nIn the old days, every Libby Hill entree was fried. (In 1953, nobody worried about cholesterol.) Today, you will find broiled selections and grilled selections. Our fried seafood is cooked in 100% pure vegetable oil. Eating healthy? In 2003, Libby Hill Seafood partnered with the Moses Cone Health Care System to provide healthy eating choices for cardiac patients. This program led to the MCHeartWise selections on our menus.\nOver the years our menu selection has evolved as well. Chicken and steaks have been added to the menu, and there are appetizers, soups, salads, and desserts. Fish, Shrimp, and Chicken Sandwiches have become very popular with our customers. You can dine in the cheerful, wholesome atmosphere of a Libby Hill dining room or relax at home with a cooked-to-order take-out meal. Libby Hill restaurants are open for lunch and dinner, and most are open seven days a week. (The restaurants on High Point Road in Greensboro and on Main Street in High Point are closed on Sunday.)\nThe Conrad family still runs Libby Hill, currently in its third generation! Even if it\u2019s been years since your last visit to Libby Hill, you will find that there are plenty of things that haven\u2019t changed \u2014 things like fresh, delicious food, service that is fast and friendly, and tremendous value. And Libby Hill is still a family-friendly kind of place, so kids (and grandkids, of course) are welcome here.\nSo if you are hungry for terrific seafood, steak or chicken, we invite you to stop in sometime and try Libby Hill.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 4342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lisawenger.com/Tour/Detail/52a3fa1e-73e2-403c-aa34-71780d9eb0ff", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:48Z", "digest": "sha1:OIGWB2IA7PTSLGN6VKLR3JAM3ESMWCEN", "length": 57, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "lisawenger.com", "title": "Lisa Wenger - Tour - LisaWenger.com", "raw_content": "The LisaWenger Band\nWednesday, February 13 2019 - 8:00 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 632, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 219.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://littleflyers.vic.edu.au/locations/caroline-springs/infant-care/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:59Z", "digest": "sha1:AQMCAE3RNECLWEDZIECGM6HH54TAQ4U6", "length": 941, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "littleflyers.vic.edu.au", "title": "Caroline Springs Child Care and Kindergarten - Little Flyers", "raw_content": "At Caroline Springs Child Care and Kindergarten, we know that young children need lots of love and extra special care and our Infant Care programme provides just that for our children under 2 years of age. Each of our dedicated infant rooms is a comfortable place filled with nurturing surroundings and loving care.\nOur programme offers each child one-on-one and group activities, gentle play and safe exploration. It\u2019s stimulating to the development of young minds without being overwhelming, focusing on the development of both fine and gross motor skills.\nEach infant\u2019s needs are different, so we have flexible routines for babies under 12 months. There are areas for sleep, relaxing and personal space and the opportunity for outdoor experiences in the fresh air. And so that you don\u2019t miss out on all those little things that happen each day, your child has their own personal learning journal that captures their journey as it unfolds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2844, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://littlepageturners.blogspot.com/2010/03/my-dad.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:42Z", "digest": "sha1:SVGT4J3FAQFRWCRMPEB77PHNBWEAGCQ3", "length": 1985, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "littlepageturners.blogspot.com", "title": "Little Page Turners: My Dad", "raw_content": "My father passed away last night after a 2-year battle with melanoma. I will be taking a blog-hiatus this week to grieve with my family. My dad was an amazing man with amazing faith. Please take some time to visit his blog: http://dancrabtree.blogspot.com/.\nfawnda March 1, 2010 at 1:53 PM\nChristianne- I am SOOO sorry to hear that! I have been following through Beth too so I knew a little. I hope that you can have some good time as a family and find some comfort! My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family!\nI'm sorry. My heart goes out to you, and your family.\nPink Princess March 1, 2010 at 2:11 PM\nI am so sorry. Hugs and prayers.\nHopeful Housewife March 1, 2010 at 4:24 PM\nI'm sorry for your loss. You are in my prayers.\nI will pray for God's Spirit of Peace to comfort you all at this time...\ncare March 1, 2010 at 5:28 PM\nDear Christianne...I'm praying for all of you. Your dad was blessed to have three beautiful daughters and a loving wife. His legacy of letting his life live out God's glory will live on forever in the lives of those he left behind. I hurt for all of you but know that you are so close to God and will seek His sovereignty and comfort. I'm glad you were able to spend time with him these last few days. Please pass on my condolences to the rest of your family. Love in Christ, Cousin Carrie\nMiller Moments March 1, 2010 at 7:53 PM\nThere are no words...I'm so sorry!\nPhilippa March 1, 2010 at 8:06 PM\nI'm sorry for your loss ...\nMama to 3 Blessings March 2, 2010 at 5:48 AM\nI am really sorry about your loss. May God give you and your family peace and comfort.\nLlana March 2, 2010 at 3:30 PM\nThis is my first time to your blog. It's lovely! I'm very sorry to hear about your Dad. My Mom died of melanoma too. My heart goes out to you and all of your loved ones. Hang in there... Lots of hugs.\nkatherinemarie March 7, 2010 at 7:45 AM\nMy heart, prayers, love, and thoughts are with you and your entire family. I am so very very sorry for your loss.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 3237, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 218.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livebytheword.blog/the-lord-of-the-rings-hits-netflix-this-month/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:00Z", "digest": "sha1:L4D33E4EUD2BHVLBXPPGJ23OC4JWBFPK", "length": 4113, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "livebytheword.blog", "title": "\u2018The Lord of the Rings\u2019 hits Netflix this month - Live By The Word", "raw_content": "It is a trilogy so elaborate that it took one out of every 160 New Zealanders to make it. And the first part in the series is coming to Netflix this month.\nThe Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the film based on the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien, comes to Netflix Aug. 1 \u2013 roughly 17 years after it grossed more than $300 million in the U.S. to become the No. 2 film at the box office for 2001. It was followed by The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003), two movies that were even more financially successful.\nNetflix hasn\u2019t announced if those other movies are coming to the service in the coming months, although if it follows the pattern of previous film series on Netflix, they just might. For now, The Fellowship of the Ring (PG-13) will have to do.\nThe film series and novels are popular worldwide among Christians, who point to the battle of good vs. evil and the story\u2019s spiritual undertones, including its teaching on the lure of evil. Additionally, multiple books have been written about the symbolism and worldview within the story. Tolkien himself was Catholic and a good friend of C.S. Lewis, the author of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.\nThe story takes place in Middle Earth and follows a young man named Frodo, who comes into possession of a ring that has the power to enslave the world. Frodo\u2019s mission is to destroy it \u2013 which must be done by tossing it in the fire on a mountain \u2014 although the evil Lord Sauron is trying to get it first. A band of companions known as the \u201cfellowship\u201d protects Frodo on his quest.\nIt took filmmakers about eight years to make the three movies across New Zealand. All total \u2013 if you include extras and other necessary personnel \u2013 about one in 160 New Zealand citizens were involved in the making of them.\nThe Fellowship of the Ring contains no coarse language or sexuality but is rated PG-13 for \u201cepic battle sequences and some scary images.\u201d\nTake the rating seriously if you have young children. The Fellowship of the Ring has more than its share of creepy-looking creatures. My 6-year-olds won\u2019t be watching it. Still, I might check it out with my tween-aged son. Pass the popcorn.\nAlso streaming this month:\nBatman Begins (Aug. 1, PG-13) \u2013 This 2005 movie rebooted the Batman films series and tells the story of the origins of the caped crusader. Contains some language (including a GD). Rated PG-13 for intense action violence, disturbing images and some thematic elements.\nSecretariat (Aug. 1, PG) \u2013 The winner of the 1973 Triple Crown remains the most well-known racing horse of all time. This is the story of Secretariat, its owner, Penny Chenery, and her struggle to spend time with both her family and her horse. Rated PG for brief mild language. (Two instances of \u201ch-ll,\u201d two misuses of \u201cGod\u201d).\nThe Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Aug. 1, G) \u2013 The story of Mia Thermopolis \u2013 the quirky girl turned princess \u2013 continues in this comical Disney film, which is a favorite among girls. Don\u2019t miss the first film in the series, The Princess Diaries, which released on Netflix in July.\nNut Job (Aug. 13, PG) \u2013 A purple squirrel named Surly and his friends must fight to survive after their source of winter food is destroyed. Animated. Rated PG for mild action and rude humor.\nHoosiers (Aug 1, PG) \u2013 A small-town Indiana basketball team makes it to the state championship. This classic 1986 film is marred a bit by some language (among it: s\u2014t and misuse of \u201cJesus\u201d). If this version isn\u2019t for you, then find a cleaner version (using VidAngel or ClearPlay, for example) and show your children. It\u2019s very inspiring. Rated PG.\nSpy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (Aug 1, PG) \u2013 Our favorite children espionage agents go on another journey \u2013 this time to a mysterious island. Rated PG for action sequences and brief rude humor.\nBabe (Aug 1, G). A timid young farm pig tries to find his place in the world. Live-action.\nHoosiers (Aug 1, PG) \u2013 See above.\nFoust is the father of an amazing wife named Julie and the father of four small children. He has covered the intersection of faith and entertainment for more than a decade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 7046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 188.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://livebytheword.blog/turkey-appalled-by-us-stance-on-is-withdrawal-from-raqqa-breaking-news/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:48Z", "digest": "sha1:CTZ7IJ54KMPYS4VYDX2ZXEZW2ZAZNM6R", "length": 1405, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "livebytheword.blog", "title": "Turkey 'appalled' by US stance on IS withdrawal from Raqqa - Breaking News - Live By The Word", "raw_content": "Turkey \u2018appalled\u2019 by US stance on IS withdrawal from Raqqa \u2013 Breaking News\nANKARA, Nov 15- Turkey on Tuesday said it was appalled by the approach of the US Department of Defense towards an agreement between the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and Islamic State to withdraw Islamic State militants from the Syrian city of Raqqa.\nLast month, a YPG militia spokesman said that Syrian Islamic State fighters were set to abandon Raqqa in a withdrawal agreed with US-backed Syrian militias.\nOn Sunday, a report by the BBC said some 4,000 Islamic State militants, including hundreds of foreign nationals, had been evacuated from Raqqa as part of the agreement and spread across Syria and as far as Turkey.\n\u201cSeeing that statements from the spokespeople of the international coalition against Islamic State and the US Department of Defence have not denied the existence of the given agreement, but to the contrary said they \u2018respected\u2019 it is appalling,\u201d Turkey\u2019s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.\nThe ministry said the withdrawal of Islamic State militants from Raqqa was \u201cextremely troubling\u201d, and added that it was a development that \u201cshould be noted\u201d.\nAfter Raqqa\u2019s fall to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in October, Syria\u2019s army declared victory over Islamic State last week, saying its capture of the jihadists\u2019 last town of Albu Kamal marked the collapse of their three-year, hardline reign in the region.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 4835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lizardz.com/archives/camping/message-20050617000302.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:06Z", "digest": "sha1:PYCGTSOUX3SN7ZXHPUMM5NLMMG3GPHOJ", "length": 3009, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "lizardz.com", "title": "Campgrounds, Camping, Hiking and Backpacking Articles, News and Information - 06-17-2005, 00:03.", "raw_content": "Mountain Hardwear Trango 2 Tent - ALTREC.COM -\nFrom: www.altrec.com\n\"This is the best tent I have ever owned. A little heavy, but solid as a rock. Just returned from a canoe trip on the Thelon River on the tundra barrens of the Northwest Territories. Had a tough day or two. High winds, sleet. I was thanking my lucky stars I had this tent. Dry as a bone, stakes out solid in heavy winds. Can't possibly be a more solid tent on this planet. You will not be dissatisfied. Alex H 07/27/2004 Excellent ! Just did the first test of my Trango 2. Went camping in Maine for 6 nights. Very solid construction and quick setup. Size is very decent for two people even with my long and extra wide sleeping bag.\"\nNews Briefs -\nFrom: www.carlisleindependent.com\n\"Chamber meeting is Monday, June 13 The Carlisle Chamber of Commerce will meet Monday, June 13, at 11:30 a.m. in the Family Life Center at First United Methodist Church. Chris Harrison will prepare lunch for the group and he will need to know how many lunches to prepare. Members and others planning to attend the meeting should RSVP by Thursday, June 9. Commodities to be distributed June 8 Food will be given away at 9 a.m., Wednesday, June 8, to persons meeting income guidelines at the old gym in Carlisle.\"\nTrip to woods just got cheaper -\nFrom: www.sanluisobispo.com\n\"Just in time for summer, the U.S. Forest Service has significantly reduced the amount of the Los Padres National Forest where you have to pay for a $5 day pass or a $30 annual pass. The Adventure Pass is now required only in 5 percent -- or about 100,000 acres -- of the forest's most popular recreation areas. That compares to 87 percent when the program was initiated in 1997. Only one area of the forest in San Luis Obispo County northeast of Pozo, as well as a handful of popular campgrounds, is still part of the Adventure Pass program. The change was announced Tuesday.\"\nA worthy Powerball winner -\n\"Duke chose to take a one-time payment of $125.3 million, rather than 30 annual installments of $7.4 million. He would receive about $85 million after taxes. Idaho Lottery Commission officials denied Duke's request to remain anonymous, arguing that his name had to be made public to show he had no ties to lottery employees or vendors. He won the jackpot over Memorial Day weekend.\"\nLaurel Highlands Bluegrass Music Festival -\nFrom: pittsburgh.about.com\n\"URL: http://www.laurelhighlandsbluegrass.com/ Information: The Ligonier Township Volunteer Fire Department Station #44 and plenty of bluegrass bands will be your hosts for this affordable, family-fun weekend featuring great music, arts and crafts, games, and food. While the music on stage will run from Friday evening to Saturday evening, the festival grounds will be open for camping and \"parking lot pickin'\" from Wednesday through Sunday. Food will be available, including a buckwheat cakes and sausage breakfast on Saturday morning from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. An arts and crafts show will run from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1380, "original_length": 33973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://loganlo.com/2007/05/534.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:32Z", "digest": "sha1:5GNBRG26R35AHDAKKJT7RM5T6FQ5PK6B", "length": 2455, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "loganlo.com", "title": "Looks \u2013 On (or close to) Schedule", "raw_content": "The show\u2019s coming out tomorrow so I\u2019ll post again this weekend or today.\nBack in the day, my ex hated that mirror so I put it away. As luck would have it, I had just brought it out, dusted it off and put it up when she arrived last Sunday.\nI spoke to the girl with eyes like faded jeans today who sent me back my jacket in the crumpled pink box in the picture. I\u2019m disappointed because I thought it might be something but it turned out to be nothing.\nWe broke up twice before and each time, she felt I moved on too quickly. This time, I waited and made sure this is what she wanted. Yes.\nWe broke up because of an argument. I learned the hard way that it\u2019s better to have honest disagreements than pretty lies. She wants someone who doesn\u2019t argue with her and I guess that\u2019s possible but I can\u2019t see how real a relationship that could be.\nHer past relationships have been rough on her and now I think I know why. Easy is fake; hard is real. Such is life.\nI was going to tell her when I reconsidered. She would have just disagreed with me and that\u2019s a losing bet. She\u2019s not my girl anymore.\nMe? I met up with a girl who\u2019s leaving town. She loved a brown-eyed man on the other side of the world and I loved a blue-eyed girl on the other side of NYC.\nWe\u2019re perfect for each other \u2013 except that we\u2019re not.\nWith enough rum, we are and that\u2019s good enough for the time being.\nLooking back at all my posts this week, you must think I\u2019m conceited. My friends always catch me staring at myself in mirrors. I\u2019m not staring because I\u2019m vain. I\u2019m staring because I\u2019m always surprised.\nBecause, in my head, I don\u2019t look like that at all.\nIn my head, I look like this.\nLocation: @1AM, doing the Standard in some UWS bar\nMood: sotted\nMusic: gonna make a change, for once in my life\nCategoriesbusiness, personal Tagsbreakup, dating, ex-girlfriend, exes, goodbye, old ghosts\n4 Replies to \u201cLooks\u201d\nBecause you really love and admire that person and wish you can have them all to yourself. The fact that it just so happens that they don't feel the same way about you becomes just a sidenote I guess. There's really no reasonable answer (or more like excuse) to it. Now for you\u2026Why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you back?\nPingback: I know, I know, I know | Logan Lo\nPingback: Pets | Logan Lo\nPingback: This modern loveOn (or close to) Schedule | On (or close to) Schedule\nPrevious PostPrevious You\u2019re kidding me / PB&J\nNext PostNext 72nd to Canal Launched!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5692, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://logisym.org/speaker/nazery-khalid/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:38Z", "digest": "sha1:BUFUD3I77AHJVVPI7H5LGEF4XMJIYQO7", "length": 2271, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "logisym.org", "title": "Nazery Khalid - LogiSYM", "raw_content": "19 Jul Nazery Khalid\nAssociation of Marine Industries of Malaysia (AMIM)\nNazery Khalid is Honorary Secretary, Association of Marine Industries of Malaysia (AMIM), an association representing 130 members in Malaysia\u2019s marine industries. He is also Head, Group Corporate Communications at Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Berhad, a company listed on Bursa Malaysia and primarily engaged in shipbuilding and ship repair and the defence industry.\nHe was Senior Fellow / Research Coordinator and Head of Center of Maritime Economics and Industries at Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA), a policy think tank under the Ministry of Transport Malaysia from 2004 to 2014.\nNazery is a prolific commentator of the maritime sector and has published over 300 articles in print (including refereed journals, chapters in books) and online on a wide range of maritime issues including economics (ports, shipping, shipbuilding/repairing, offshore oil and gas), logistics, supply chain management, maritime security and diplomacy, and marine environment. He has two research papers on ship financing and multimodal transport and two conference proceedings published by MIMA.\nHe has been involved in over 130 forums, conferences, seminars and dialogues worldwide on a range of maritime issues as a speaker, panelist and moderators. He was visiting scholar at Bahria University, Karachi (2008), Cardiff Business School (2010), University Paris Diderot (2011), National Institute of South China Sea Studies in Hainan, China (2013) and Sun Yat Sen University in Guangzhou (2013).\nNazery has represented Malaysia\u2019s delegations at International Maritime Organization meetings at its HQ in London and ASEAN Maritime Transport Working Group meetings. He sits on the Advisory Panel of Netherlands Maritime Institute of Technology Malaysia and the Advisory Council of Yayasan Peneraju Pendiidkan Bumiputera.\nPrior to his involvement in the maritime sector, Nazery spent 15 years working in the financial services industry including in banking, stockbroking, corporate finance and venture capital. He holds an MBA from International Islamic University, Malaysia and a BA in Business Administration from Ottawa University, Kansas, USA.\nNazery Khalid will be appearing in the following sessions:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 10386, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 198.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://losttribe.weebly.com/about-the-authors.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:22Z", "digest": "sha1:7NAR4DLKJDOUPOT24PCUVJPXQZCT7QWW", "length": 425, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "losttribe.weebly.com", "title": "About the Authors - The Lost Tribe", "raw_content": "\ufeffyou can donate to me to keep this and other stories going using the button to the right. \ufeff\nHello there, I'm Mike!\nI'm an amateur artist and writer, trying to make my way in the world.\nI swing back and forth between the two mediums. 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This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Russian federation, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Dominican republic, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, El salvador, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion.\nTags: am131157, back, deere, genuine, gx325, high, john, seat", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 752, "original_length": 33239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 190.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lucas.leeds.ac.uk/review/the-theatre-of-violence-narratives-of-protagonists-in-the-south-african-conflict/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:01Z", "digest": "sha1:BJ62T45L6XDWBMT73P2HPPDPXBH7VW3H", "length": 5722, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "lucas.leeds.ac.uk", "title": "The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict \u00bb Centre for African Studies (LUCAS)", "raw_content": "Tagged with the keywords: African National Congress, Apartheid, Don Foster, European Union, Leeds, Maresa de Beer, Michael McGowan, Nelson Mandela, Paul Haupt, South Africa, Trevor Huddleston, Truth and Reconciliation Commission\nThe Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict. Eds. Don Foster, Paul Haupt and Maresa de Beer. Oxford: James Currey, 2005. Pp.376. ISBN 978-0-85255-886-7 (pb.) \u00a316.95\nThis powerful account of political violence in South Africa during the apartheid era documents the stories of the perpetrators of violence who outline in detail what they say they have done and describe how they came to be perpetrators. The thrust of the study in probing the minds and thoughts of perpetrators from different sides of the conflict appears to be a conviction that \u2018truth\u2019 is the road to \u2018truth and reconciliation\u2019 and the careful and sensitive questioning is driven by a determination to get at the facts. Unlike the many accounts which deal with the victims of political violence in South Africa, this study focuses on perpetrators and through their recognition of truth and acceptance of responsibility for their actions offers some hope and optimism.\nI began to learn about political violence in apartheid South Africa when I first met the late Archbishop Trevor Huddleston. He had returned from his work in South Africa to the Community of the Resurrection at Mirfield in the West Riding of Yorkshire. I was 13 years of age and he came to speak to my class at Heckmondwike Grammar School just down the road from Mirfield.\nTrevor Huddleston had left apartheid South Africa, either kicked out by the regime or recalled by his church, as a result of his outspoken opposition to apartheid. He wrote an account of his experience in South Africa in Naught For Your Comfort and committed himself to work to expose and campaign for the ending of apartheid. Huddleston was determined to tell the world the truth, the facts, about what was happening in apartheid South Africa. He did this relentlessly for the rest of his life, travelling the globe and communicating the reality of the apartheid he had experienced. And he lived to see the official ending of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as President of the new South Africa.\nThe Theatre of Violence is part of the continuing search for the truth of political violence. The stories come from both sides of the apartheid divide, from state security structures to the African National Congress, the Pan Africa Congress and grassroots activists, besides examining the workings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and how the media influences public perceptions of perpetrators.\nThe state security side includes an interview with a former Commissioner of Police, a former general of military intelligence and an agent with the National Intelligence Service. Accounts from the liberation movement are given by a former MK Commander and a former APLA Head of Operations and there are contributions from those who worked in a Self-Protection Unit and a Self-Defence Unit who talk about their experience in township conflicts.\nPerpetrators from the liberation movement and township conflict admit involvement in violence, accepting responsibility, and claiming justification, whereas those on the state security side generally evade responsibility, some passing responsibility to politicians, some that they were doing their job and \u201cmaintaining law and order\u201d. The sensitive portrayal of some of the perpetrators shows how they were not conspicuously different from the rest of the population but through circumstances became perpetrators of violence. And that some of the perpetrators, in retrospect, wished they had \u201ctaken a stand\u201d against actions of abuse and even expressions of prejudice which at the time seemed minor or trivial but proved to be worse. But the study is basically optimistic. If it has a conclusion, it is that it is only by getting at the facts and understanding perpetrators that one can begin to prevent and bring conflict to an end and break the chain of political violence. It is about seeking the truth, including understanding perpetrators, and accepting responsibility.\nThat Leeds has developed a twinning link with Durban in South Africa provides opportunities for those who live and work in the city to learn through direct dialogue about the complexities of political violence in apartheid South Africa. And this powerful and sensitive study poses important questions and thoughts about understanding perpetrators in conflicts in other regions of the world including Rwanda, The Balkans and Algeria.\nMy experience of South Africa during the past 25 years on missions to South Africa on behalf of the European Union and Socialist International, as a United Nations observer in KwaZulu Natal at the elections in April 1994, and meeting Mandela in South Africa, Brussels and Leeds \u2013 he is a Freeman of the City of Leeds \u2013 gave me more understanding of the victims rather than the minds and thoughts of the perpetrators of violence. The Theatre of Violence, however, has shattered that complacency and lack of understanding and curiosity with a sharp stab of reality and determination to investigate the truth about perpetrators of political violence, without which understanding, any thoughts of accepting responsibility and achieving \u2018reconciliation\u2019 may be but a dangerous dream.\nReviewed by: Michael McGowan, Former Member of the European Parliament for Leeds and President of Co-operation and Development in the European Parliament\n\u00ab The Legacy of Efua Sutherland: Pan-African Cultural Activism\nAfrica Writes Back: The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 6822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 207.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lydiaschoch.com/why-do-library-holds-arrive-simultaneously-and-other-questions-i-wish-i-had-answers-to/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:30Z", "digest": "sha1:M233UTTGFCUYJOJ6IJBCYV3BV2G3ZBB2", "length": 4414, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "lydiaschoch.com", "title": "Why Do Library Holds Arrive Simultaneously (and Other Questions I Wish I Had Answers To) | Lydia Schoch", "raw_content": "Why Do Library Holds Arrive Simultaneously (and Other Questions I Wish I Had Answers To)\nLately, I\u2019ve been taking a break from my normal interests like reading science fiction and exercising outdoors in order to try other stuff. One of the consequences of this has been that I haven\u2019t come up with as many blog post ideas related to those topics as I\u2019d normally be playing around with.\nI suspect this will be changing pretty soon, but in the meantime I thought it would be amusing to share some of the questions that have been rattling around in my head that aren\u2019t quite weighty enough to warrant full posts on their own.\n1. Why do my library holds so often arrive simultaneously?\nI borrow e-books from my local library. This means that the next person on the list will receive a copy of a popular book moments after the previous borrower gave it back. Because of this system, I know I\u2019m not receiving several books in the same day due to them arriving in batches based on the library\u2019s business hours or anything like that. There have been instances when I\u2019ve received an e-copy of a novel I was waiting on in the middle of the night if that\u2019s when the last patron returned it.\nTheoretically, I should be able to time it so that I have a steady stream of new stuff to read throughout the month since I can always see how many copies of an e-book the library has and what number I am on the list of people waiting to read it.\nSo it comes as a surprise to me to see how often I end up deluged in books anyway! Sometimes I\u2019ll go a week without getting notifications for any new arrivals on my account only to end up with quite a few of them becoming available a few days later. It\u2019s as thought there are little elves running around in the library\u2019s database purposefully causing mischief.\n2. Why do people review books they haven\u2019t finished reading?\nI keep running into people who talk about writing reviews for books they\u2019ve only partially read, and I\u2019m not talking about reviewers who found something so objectionable or triggering in the plot that they couldn\u2019t bear to follow the storyline to the end. That is something I\u2019ve had to do once or twice myself, but I\u2019m always honest about why I refused to finish a particular story.\nSome of them genuinely seemed to enjoy what they were reading, and yet they still posted reviews before finishing it. I am so confused by this.\n3. Why do people get so competitive over their diet and exercise routines?\nOkay, so technically the answer to this one is that they enjoy competition and that I\u2019m missing a big piece of the picture since I don\u2019t get the same satisfaction from that sort of thing.\nStill, It boggles my mind to see folks arguing over which diet or exercise routine is superior. I\u2019ve seen friends thrive on a wide variety of healthy living plans, for lack of a better term. Many of them contradict each other\u2019s advice, and yet all of these friends are doing well on the paths they\u2019ve chosen.\n4. When will all of the holiday treats arrive at the grocery store?\nMy local grocery store stocks an unbelievable array of special chocolates, cookies, beverages, snacks, and other food items for holidays ranging from Hanukkah to Christmas. They start putting this stuff out before Halloween, and every year they fill nooks and crannies that I barely even noticed with displays with all sorts of sugary things.\nThere are several tasty, dairy-free products I\u2019m still waiting for them to begin selling for the holiday season. I can\u2019t help but to wonder if or when those items might show up on the shelves again.\nWhat have you been wondering about recently?\nTagged: Questions\nScience Fiction and Fantasy Shows I\u2019m Thankful For \u2192\n2 Responses to Why Do Library Holds Arrive Simultaneously (and Other Questions I Wish I Had Answers To)\nCorinneRodrigues says:\nLoved the questions, Lydia. I have no access to a library, but I constantly have more books than I can possibly read!\nAbout the book reviews, imagine my surprise the other day, when I shared about an author looking for reviews and a blogger wanted to know a. How much she would get paid and b. Could she just get an extract to review, since that\u2019s all she needed to make her judgement!\nThank you very much! Do you buy books or borrow them from friends? There\u2019s nothing like the feeling of having plenty of things to read.\nOh, that story is too funny. People make all sorts of odd assumptions about book reviewers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 8178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://lynseyaddario.com/afghanistan-pakistan-and-iraq/talibanistan/1ADDARIOPAK080318", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:51Z", "digest": "sha1:KRSE4MPNTYWSI3CCQW3JN3HEBUMOF4SU", "length": 670, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "lynseyaddario.com", "title": "1ADDARIOPAK080318: Talibanistan: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq: lynsey addario, photographer", "raw_content": "Young Afghan boys from Kabul study the koran at the Jammiah Ashrafiah Madrassa in Peshowar, in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, July 5, 2008. Their parents are in Afghanistan, and they are living in the Madrassa. While Madrassas have traditionally been a place for young men to study the Koran in step with Islamic studies, it has also been a breeding ground for young men's hatred towards the West, and a place from which many initiate their Jihadist beliefs. Since the start of the American-led war in Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban has gradually infiltrated the areas surrounding Peshowar, making the tribal areas inaccessible, and Peshowar more tense.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 212.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://m.naharnet.com/stories/en/241961-the-black-box-set-to-revolutionize-the-search-for-life-beyond-earth", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:41Z", "digest": "sha1:SWTOWTFHY6QASEK72KOW7CLKHF4IJ73R", "length": 3376, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "m.naharnet.com", "title": "\u0639 Login", "raw_content": "The Black Box Set to Revolutionize the Search for Life Beyond Earth\nIn the world's driest desert, an unassuming black box called \"Espresso\" is about to begin a very big mission: scouring the universe for planets like ours to find signs of life beyond Earth.\nEspresso, an instrument known as a spectrograph, has a humble appearance that belies its cutting-edge technology: it is the most precise instrument of its kind ever built, 10 times stronger than its most powerful predecessor.\nIn the Atacama desert, in northern Chile, Espresso will be hooked up to four telescopes so big that scientists simply named them the Very Large Telescope, or VLT. Together, they will search the skies for exoplanets -- those outside our own solar system -- looking for ones that are similar to Earth.\nThe Atacama is a particularly good place for this kind of exploration. Its skies are completely cloudless most of the year, which is why the highly respected European Southern Observatory, which runs the VLT program, set up shop there in the first place.\nIn fact, many of the world's major telescopes are located in the area. By 2020, the Atacama is expected to be home to about 70 percent of the world's astronomy infrastructure.\nEspresso stands for Echelle Spectrograph for Rocky Exoplanet and Stable Spectroscopic Observations.\nIt will analyze the light of the stars observed by the VLT, enabling it to determine whether planets orbit around them, and important information about those planets themselves: what their atmosphere is like, whether they have oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, and whether there is water -- all essential for supporting life.\n\"Espresso will be available on all four telescopes at once, which is something that had never been done before. That means the likelihood of finding planets similar to Earth in mass and size, or the conditions for life, are greater,\" said Italian astronomer Gaspare Lo Curto.\n- Ten years of solitude -The most precise spectrograph until now, HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher), could only measure planets far larger than Earth -- and less likely to harbor life.\nHARPS is also located in the Atacama, at the La Silla observatory, but is hooked up to telescopes less powerful than the VLT.\n\"Espresso will be 10 times more precise than the most precise instrument in the world, HARPS, and will also have the flexibility of serving each of the telescopes at the Paranal observatory,\" where the VLT program is housed, said Lo Curto.\nChilean astronomer Rodrigo Herrera Camus called it a \"great opportunity.\"\nEspresso \"will help us answer one of the greatest questions we have in astronomy, which is analyzing and understanding planets outside our solar system,\" he told AFP.\nThe new spectrograph is housed inside a giant metal cylinder chilled to an average temperature of -150 C (-238 F) -- essential for its delicate optical instruments to do their work.\nIt was installed early last year beneath the base of the VLT, which is perched atop the 2,600-meter (2,844 yards) altitude Paranal mountain.\nEspresso is currently in testing phase. But in 10 months' time it will officially begin its big mission -- which is also a solitary one.\nTo keep it cold enough and protect its instruments, astronomers will have it under lock and key in a giant underground room where no one will be allowed to enter for at least 10 years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 3891, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 254.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://m.theweek.com/speedreads/773488/2-democrats-join-republicans-senate-intelligence-committee-recommend-gina-haspel-cia-director", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ITDY55HP5TA4DXR36X5TLFH23TTIOONM", "length": 1063, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "m.theweek.com", "title": "2 Democrats join Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee to recommend Gina Haspel as CIA director", "raw_content": "2 Democrats join Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee to recommend Gina Haspel as CIA director\nhaspel confirmation\nThe Senate Intelligence Committee voted 10-5 on Wednesday to recommend the Senate confirm Gina Haspel as CIA director, The Associated Press reports. Haspel on Tuesday issued a statement claiming she believes the CIA's use of controversial interrogation techniques like waterboarding after 9/11 \"ultimately did damage to our officers and our standing in the world,\" which was evidently enough to win over the votes of Democratic Sens. Mark Warner (Va.) and Joe Manchin (W.Va.). The rest of the Democrats on the committee voted against Haspel.\nSen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is undergoing treatment for brain cancer and is away from the Senate, has urged his colleagues to vote against Haspel due to her work at a CIA \"black site\" in 2002 where terror suspects were waterboarded. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has also suggested he will not vote for Haspel when the vote comes to the full Senate, which could be as soon as this week. Jeva Lange", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 13379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://macgroup.org/blog/category/mail/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:50Z", "digest": "sha1:KHONOI7DAZLUKHMZYVVTWAOMA7P6AXTQ", "length": 970, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "macgroup.org", "title": "Mail Archives - MacGroup-Detroit", "raw_content": "Currently viewing the category: \"Mail\"\nThe Switch Finally Sticks\u2026\nMy transition from Entourage to Apple Mail\u2026 I, sort of, hated to leave Entourage and Outlook 2011 behind, but it was a needed move\u2026 For the past few days, i\u2019ve been working on a change that I made an attempt to do in July of 2011. The switch from Microsoft Entourage [...]\nWell, I tried. I used Mail exclusively as my email client for over two weeks\u2026 Setting up mailbox folders, exporting/importing all of my emails over, creating rules, trying everything I could to automate Mail the way I need to work, and even trying new ways to work. I [...]\nBy Terry White On December 28, 2009 \u00b7 18 Comments\nI depend on Mail quite a bit throughout the day and now that it has MS Exchange support I'm using it for work email too. So therefore it's quite easy to get overwhelmed with the volume of mail that you could be getting if you're even remotely involved in an organization, corporate environment or have [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 7866, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 316.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://madaraagro.com/en/news-view/you-are-welcome-to-international-agricultural-exhibition-agra-2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VOM5MJETGY5BLDF3R7DJBAF7AO6RI3EE", "length": 43, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "madaraagro.com", "title": "You are Welcome to International Agricultural exhibition AGRA 2018", "raw_content": "We have always been happy to meet with you!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 724, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://madstonecrafts.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-pictish-runes-that-never-were.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:17Z", "digest": "sha1:IMPOEZGWW6VJKSBBHU7QHH53GCCPNS5K", "length": 4443, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "madstonecrafts.blogspot.com", "title": "The Graven Image: The Pictish Runes That Never Were Pictish.", "raw_content": "The Pictish Runes That Never Were Pictish.\nIn many of these posts I\u2019ve concentrated on explaining various symbols. In my dealings with the designs, and over years of carving, I\u2019ve occasionally been asked to do some designs that, though billed as real, are historical fakes - symbols that have been made-up! Like this lot here...\nI thought I'd expose here the so-called Pictish runes (see above pic). Putting it bluntly these are a complete fabrication, little more than a modern invention. None of these designs feature on any Pictish stone I\u2019ve encountered - and I\u2019ve been to many of the sites and I have many tomes filled with Pictish designs. These ones just don\u2019t exist!\nThe Picts were tribals folk living North of The Antonine Wall. Little is known about them. They fought with neighbouring Brythonic speaking Celtic Tribes and finally succumbed to Scottish dominion. By the 11th century A.D. their cultural identity had been absorbed by that of the Scots.\nTheir legacy is revealed in numerous monumental stones, covered with carvings that often feature a unique plethora of symbolic motifs. The problem is that no-one truly knows the symbolism of the real Pictish designs. There is a lot of speculation, but really, not even the experts can explain their function for certain. With a lack of written records, and the lengths Christianity went to destroy lingering refrains of paganism, it is impossible to know their exact symbolism. But the \u2018Pictish runes' or 'Pictish alphabets' used by the likes of \u2018Pecti wiccans\u2019 are little more than modern fantasy - which is fair enough, if you recognise them as such.\nSo Called 'Pictish alphabet - Yet another invention.\nHowever, in saying this I find it amusing that they have joined the lexicon of Pictish motifs; that, although not historically true, are used by people out there with good intentions. I don\u2019t think there is anything wrong in this. Personally my take on magic, items of divination etc, is that they function as trigger mechanisms that help focus the mind in particular ways. But if a wee heart symbol makes you aware of love, or feel loved, or respect love, then it works - if it is a symbol for strength or fire with all its associated meaning, given as a gift to a friend, the intent is powerful - and the act of giving is potent in itself.\nThe symbol doesn\u2019t need to be of ancient origin. Though I find older symbols are pregnant with meaning and imbued with a timeless Quality that modern efforts lack - that is possibly a personal choice, but it is one that I feel that I sense intuitively.\nChaos magic is a modern magical tradition with its methods rooted in a sort of wry scientific/experimental magical approach. Chaos Magicians are encouraged to make use of modern and ancient symbols/items for magical/symbolic/ritual purposes. While respecting older magical traditions practitioners are not beholden to them. For example, the innards of a circuit board could be sectioned into rune-like symbols for divination. Though the symbol might be modern the thought process is the same. So while I\u2019m pointing out that the Pictish Runes aren\u2019t authentic, I\u2019m not saying they are without worth.\nAt some point I will attempt to write more about Pictish symbols, I\u2019m still researching the subject amongst everything else, but I will get around to the real symbols eventually. They are mysterious, enigmatic designs that deserve a few posts. I also carve numerous 'real' Pictish designs. You can find my shop here\nHilton Of Cadboll Stone\nLabels: Celtic, Pictish\nReminds me of you helping me on my mad quest to find a Runestone in Auld Reekie that time. After days we finally found it in the closed-to-the-public section of the park just below the castle walls. Even though it turned out to be a reproduction placed there by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1787, it was the quest, discovery and personal feeling that still made it a great find. Mighty craic tracking it down too, cheers!\nD.M May 30, 2017 at 2:42 PM\nHail Eben, aye it was a great wee adventure. And it's a nice piece of work too! Hope yer well, we need another mission!\nAny chance you've completed your side missive and compiled a list of real Pictish runes?\nD.M January 25, 2018 at 9:48 AM\nHaha, that's the point, there are no Pictish runes, never existed... unless I decide to make some up :> Runes were a Norse thing, check out my runes post for more on that score.\nThat aside.. I'll carve anything :0", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://makewayministries.com/spiritual-emphasis-week-at-east-dayton-christian-school-oh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:16Z", "digest": "sha1:RZZJU6FTSL3Z7OFYLICTOJ2IAOTQQBBR", "length": 6484, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "makewayministries.com", "title": "Spiritual Emphasis Week at East Dayton Christian School (OH) - Make Way Ministries", "raw_content": "I once heard a story that took place during the Welsh Revival in the early 1900s. There was a man who worked closely with William Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army. This man heard about what the Lord was doing in Wales and took a train from England to attend services there. He ended up staying longer than he originally intended because he just could not seem to break himself away from the presence of God that was manifested in that place. When he finally made it back to the office, William Booth barked in his strong, low voice, \u201cWhere have you been?\u201d The man\u2019s response: \u201cHeaven.\u201d\nI suppose I could say the same thing if someone asked me where I was last week. A few months ago, I was asked to speak for the 7-12 grade spiritual emphasis week at East Dayton Christian School. Over the last few months of praying and preparing for the chapel services, I am overjoyed to see what the Lord accomplished in the lives of these precious young people. We truly experienced a taste of heaven on earth. The Lord came and moved powerfully among us.\nI am fully aware of the fact that I had very little to do with what took place. The campus of EDCS is staffed with teachers and faculty who are continually praying and interceding for the students as well as preparing the atmosphere for God to move. I simply stepped into what the Lord is already doing and had the immense privilege of taking part in it.\nWe started off Monday with a message on the parable of the prodigal son. I felt the need to have a time of \u201ccoming home\u201d to the Lord. Being married to a teacher with two children in school, I understand how the summer months can be challenging spiritually. The temptation to stay up a little later and sleep in as well as vacations and travelling make it necessary to fight for quality time with the Lord. This service gave us a chance to recommit ourselves to seeking His face, as we saw from Scripture that He is always there waiting for us with open arms. Many students came to the altar to respond to Him.\nOn Tuesday, I spoke about King Saul. It was a heavy message, as we discussed his disobedience to the Lord, his unrepentant heart and the consequences that he faced. I challenged the students to search their hearts for any areas of sin for which they need to repent. I pleaded with them to deal with these heart issues now while they are young, rather than to drag it into their adult years, like I did. The altars were flooded with students and many were weeping and crying out to the Lord. Some brought into the light some serious issues they were dealing with and I believe the Lord did a significant work in the lives of those who responded to His Spirit.\nOn Wednesday, my message was about living a life led by the Holy Spirit. I talked about the importance of involving the Holy Spirit in our everyday lives. We discussed three of His roles: convincing the world about Jesus, guiding us into all truth and communicating Jesus\u2019 words to us. We closed the service by forming a giant circle around the sanctuary and having teachers and a couple of students pray that they would be brought into the unity of the Spirit this year. I felt strongly throughout the week that the Lord wanted to do something significant this year between the student body and the faculty, so we prayed in that direction.\nThe final service at the school on Thursday was one I will never forget. The staff opened up the altars to invite students to seek the Lord before the message. We had a sweet time of communion with the Lord as many students went up front to pray at the altar. Several of the students came up to the mic to share their personal struggles and victories and to exhort their classmates to press into Him. The presence of the Lord was very evident, and I was hesitant to interrupt what He was doing. However, after some time in prayer, I felt a prompting to have an altar call for salvation. I asked the students who wanted to receive Christ to boldly stand up in front of their peers. Around eight students stood and we prayed together as they invited Christ into their lives. Praise the Lord for young people who want Jesus!\nI felt that I should share the message that the Lord had put on my heart for that day. I briefly spoke on the story of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah. I talked about how the Lord wants to be first in our lives and how even good things can become idols when they take His place. I had the students write on pieces of paper what those idols were that they wanted to give to the Lord. The altar was filled with these papers as young people came forward to surrender their Isaacs as a symbolic act.\nBut the Lord was not finished. Several students came to the mic in brokenness and tears, beseeching their fellow students to respond to the Lord. I wish everyone reading these words could hear the raw, undignified, sincere cry of these young people. It is something you could never forget. For quite a while, students responded to the Lord as others came forward and bore their hearts to their fellow students. They were unashamed, and it was unrehearsed. And I am certain the attention of heaven was on Dayton this week.\nOn Friday, we had our final chapel along a local river. The students had a chance to take a canoe trip and I met them for food, fellowship and to share a final word. I encouraged them to live their lives in light of two realities: the second coming of Christ and the judgment seat of Christ. I exhorted them as young people to live their lives for the things that matter, rather than to waste their lives on temporal things. It was a great closing to a great week of ministry.\nWhile I often hear people speaking about the upcoming generation in critical terms, I was so encouraged to see what the Lord is doing in the lives of these students. Because of privacy, I could not take photos of the flooded altars and passionate students, but those images will remain in my heart for many years to come. Please pray for these students as well as the teachers and faculty of East Dayton Christian School. I am grateful for a school that is open to the moving of God\u2019s Holy Spirit!\nThe school administration are personal friends of ours. We know the prayers and struggles they go through for the kingdom of God at this school. I am not surprised by your comments and am truly blessed to know God is moving in these young people and the staff. 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Over the years, a lot of people have turned to both online and land-based gambling. Because of the exciting games, people are now looking forward to win big money regardless if it is in an actual casino or [...]\nThe Differences between playing poker online and in traditional casinos\nYes, People Can Make a Living Off of Online Gambling, But Can You?\nWelcome to Marxist Worker\nWelcome to Marxist Worker. Our website is dedicated to the world of gambling. We provide useful information for those who love to play poker, baccarat, slots, and other games that you typically see on casinos. We offer tips on how to improve your game and build strategies that can help increase your chances of winning.\nOnline Sports Betting Tips for Building a Solid Bankroll\nProfessional Gambling, sticky, The World of Gambling\nBetting on sports online is one of the easiest ways to make money gambling, that is if you are following a systematic approach and not just betting on hunches or gut feelings. With so many different type sporting event to choose, there are plenty of wagers to be made each day. The following online sports betting tips will help you to grow your winnings to the point that you can start withdrawing some fund to buy all those things you ever wanted.\nSetting Your Wagering Limits\nPerhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of betting on sports is setting your daily limits. When you are on a winning streak and don\u2019t know when to take your winnings off the table, then you may play too long and wind up giving it all back and more. The same when you are losing, if you don\u2019t know when to stop for the day, you could lose your entire bankroll in one gambling session. Set a winning and losing limit for each day, and be sure to stick to the plan. If you choose 25% of your bankroll and have $200 to gamble with, then you have to stop playing if you are down to $150 or if you build your winnings to $250. Many online gambling sites, such as sbo, offer the option to lock you out of any further bets for the day if you hit your pre-configured limits. This way you will never go broke in one single day.\nShortcut to Choosing the Right Wagers\nWhen you have the need to gamble on sports today but you did not have enough time to research the games, there is a shortcut you can use to give you the best chance to win while betting on sports today. Simply head over to a few sports networks on TV or go online and listen to these analysts, and what you will discover is a dozen or more of these experts will tell you their picks for the day. When you discover 11 of 12 experts feel the Yankees will win tonight, this is a great place to put your money.\nKeeping your eye on the prize means knowing your goals for the day and not getting distracted while gambling. Too many players start to build their bankroll, then fall back on old habits and will make a bet on a team they loved growing up or they have a hunch that a certain team has covered for them for three weeks in a row, so they have to place a bet on that team this week. These bets based on gut feelings and hunches distract from your game plan and could easily derail your efforts in the blink of an eye. Treat your sports wagering like a small business and only make bets that are thoroughly researched.\nThese online sports betting tips should help you to eliminate many of the mistakes that you have been making that are eating away at your bankroll. Keep in mind that just because you can bet around the clock on any sport you desire, that you need to stick to your plan each day or little mistakes will suck dry that bankroll in a flash.\nBy admin|2018-07-03T09:12:37+00:00June 8th, 2017|Categories: Professional Gambling, sticky, The World of Gambling|Comments Off on Online Sports Betting Tips for Building a Solid Bankroll\nHow\u2019s and Why\u2019s to Become a Professional Gambler\nProfessional Gambling, sticky\nA lot of people today dream of becoming a professional gambler. Professional gambling is fast becoming a popular occupation for so many reasons. One, you have the celebrities who constantly gets featured on television. There\u2019s Dan Bilzerian who we see win millions of dollars just by playing poker. Now, not only does it sound easy, the lifestyle is also inviting. How do you become a professional gambler? Here are some things that you can use.\nA lot of professional gamblers make sure that they have a winning strategy when it comes to their games. Regardless if it is poker that you are playing or any other card game, you need to make sure that you have developed a game that you can use against other pros. A lot of professional gamblers find out that their strategies don\u2019t really work with more experienced players. That\u2019s when you also need to develop a backup plan.\nAlways be open to new strategies\nIt is also important that you are open to new strategies. Without the new strategies, games wouldn\u2019t evolve. Always take note of the new strategies that are winning big. Always challenge your very own strategy and make sure that you are evolving.\nTake note of your mistakes\nPros are faced with challenges that they need to adapt. However, there are times when you can\u2019t figure out the strategies imposed by your opponents. In these instances, you will need to take note of your mistakes and be able to apply corrections.\nIt is important that you will have the capacity to fund your games. Keep in mind that it isn\u2019t always a win. There will be days wherein you will lose and it is a humbling experience in the poker table. During these days, you need to have funds that you can use for the basic necessities. What you want is to maintain your day job in order to pursue your passion. Unfortunately, this isn\u2019t an easy thing to do.\nKnow the rules in your country about gambling\nA lot of countries may allow land-based casinos but will not allow online gambling. Of course, this can affect how you learn and how you win. There are times when you don\u2019t have casinos in your area which means that going to a land-based casino requires more money. Knowing the rules can give you the slight edge. If you can play online, you should since this can give you access to different games without spending so much money.\nAlways control your emotion\nThe idea of becoming a professional gambler is that you will have to be able to control your emotion if you ever find yourself losing or winning. This means that you should always be able to know when to quit and when to take your winnings, or in some instances, your losses. This is a great way to prevent further losses and also, it can help maximize your wins. It may take a bit of practice to master this craft, but it is something possible.\nBy admin|2018-07-03T09:12:37+00:00March 7th, 2017|Categories: Professional Gambling, sticky|Comments Off on How\u2019s and Why\u2019s to Become a Professional Gambler\nFeatured, sticky, The World of Gambling\nThe world of gambling is becoming popular. Over the years, a lot of people have turned to both online and land-based gambling. Because of the exciting games, people are now looking forward to win big money regardless if it is in an actual casino or simply online. There are also gamblers that are becoming pros.\nAre you planning to turn gambling into a profession? This can be a good idea. There are a lot of people today aspiring to be professional gamblers. There are professional poker players winning millions of dollars. But what you have to understand is that it isn\u2019t that easy. You will also incur losses while playing with other pros. It is important that you have enough cash to burn while you study the game. Also, remember that you should always control your emotion playing these games.\nDo you like watching sports? If you are a sports fan, it is a great idea that you also bet on athletes and teams depending on the matchup. How exactly does it work? There\u2019s the favorite and the underdog. The underdog requires less money in order to double your bet. On the other hand, the favorite will only give you a smaller steak. What you need to understand is that styles do make fights as well. You should remember that there are also other factors that can affect a game. It is important to read the news and always be updated.\nA lot of times, there\u2019s no land-based casino located in your area. For these scenarios, it is becoming appealing to go for an online casino. Online casino gambling is popular for so many reasons. One, it can also be exciting. Two, you can actually win serious money without leaving your home. But of course, you have to consider the rules in your country. There are instances when some countries ban online gambling. It is imperative to know the legislations first in your state to know if it is allowed. And also, keep in mind that not all online gambling sites are the same.\nMaking Money With Casino Gambling\nA lot of people today are making money in casinos. It is important that you are aware how the games go. It is also important that you are willing to lose in order to win money via gambling. Keep in mind that casinos exist because players have small chances of winning. In order to win, you will need to rely not only on your luck, but also in strategy. Often times, a lot of people fail to address their emotions as well. It is a common scenario that some even some professional gamblers become too greedy.\nBy admin|2018-07-03T09:12:37+00:00January 7th, 2017|Categories: Featured, sticky, The World of Gambling|Comments Off on The World of Gambling\nPoker games (for instance poker uang asli) are games that let people do gambling. Poker games are some of the best games to be played in online and traditional casinos. There are so many advantages to playing such games especially online. There are also differences between playing online and live poker games. One main difference is the fact that online poker games attract many beginners since they help with guidelines and tutorials. Online websites contain instructions that make beginners be best casino players in just a few weeks. The online platform also provides several software applications for playing casino games. One can download the software and play the games offline to improve their skills. Playing poker games online also requires different skills and tactics. Traditional casinos allow players to sit across each other observing the behaviour of their opponents to win the game. You should strictly read reviews from casino sites before you start playing.\nWhile traditional casinos allow players to sit across each other, online casinos try to eliminate these to let players concentrate more on betting patterns. Online successful players usually learn to master any new skill. The only weakness of players in casinos is the opponents. This increases the rate at which online casino games are played. The increased playing rates allow players to get more money and earn more awards. Online players can participate in multiple tables to obtain more profits. They also have the privilege to select a casino of choice that gives better benefits. All one needs to participate in an online poker game is to acquire a computer or phone with an internet connection. Online poker games are known to have more advantages than traditional casinos. Some of the benefits of online poker games are listed below.\nOnline poker games require less money\nMost of the online poker players are young people. Most of them have a small amount of money to start of their gambling. It is challenging for some of them to raise the $300-$500 needed in live casinos. One can therefore confidently join an online poker game with a small amount of money.\nOnline poker games provide online resources\nMost of the online poker players learn how to play on the internet. Most of them acquire this information from Wikipedia. Live players are mostly traditional with less interest in technology. Many are not aware of the helpful resources found online.\nOnline players challenge each other\nMost cliques in poker games contain players who are at the same level. There is a group of high stake players and low stake players. Being in a traditional setup does not give you the best chance to improve your skills. Having a group of friends who advise you helps you improve on your mistakes. Live poker groups offer bad advice to possible competitors.\nOnline players take more advantage of tracking software\nThe best way to get better at anything is to practice more on that particular thing. The more you play poker games, the better you become at it. Online games have about 100 hands per hour while live poker tables have about 30 hands per hour. More hands per hour give the player more room for growth.\nBy admin|2018-11-14T10:07:56+00:00September 7th, 2018|Categories: Professional Gambling|Comments Off on The Differences between playing poker online and in traditional casinos\nThese days it can be hard to make ends meet. Many people are choosing to pursue activities outside of traditional work paths to earn income. For those who are good at gaming, the question often arises, can one make a living off of online gambling, and the simple answer is sure you can, if you are willing to take risks, be patient, become knowledgeable, and stay committed to the task. To put it even more simply, yes, you can make a living off of online gambling if you are willing to work at it.\nLook at This Like Investing in The Stock Market\nOnline gambling in casinos like scr888 casino should be looked at in the same light as short sell day trade investing. If you know what you are doing and are good at it, are willing to take an occasional loss, even a sizable one, and are willing to put in the time to make it work, you can make a nice living off of it. If you are just looking for a get rich quick option, or want a steady stream of income without having to do put forth a lot of work, then it is not a great choice for you. Ask yourself this, are you good at online gambling? Don\u2019t just answer are you good at gambling, but specifically are you good at online gambling. There is a massive difference between being great at playing poker and being great at playing poker online. The same applies to sports betting, fantasy leagues, slots, table games and more. Just because you clean up in Vegas, Atlantic City, Branson, or Reno does not mean your skill will carry over to the world of online gambling.\nIf you answered yes to the specific question of whether you are good at online gambling, then next ask yourself, are you willing to take what is now a fun and relaxing pastime and put forth the effort to turn it into a professional pursuit? Just because you are good at something you do as a hobby does not automatically mean that you will have the drive and determination to pursue it as a professional activity. If you are then the last question is are you willing to take a chance on sometimes sizable losses in order to have the opportunity at significant gains. Again, this is only a caution you can answer, but if, after a lot of serious thought and honest evaluation you answer yes, then you are the kind of person who can potentially make a good living off of online gambling.\nOnce you have decided that online gambling is a professional activity you wish to pursue then its time to get started. You should start out small, test the waters, and of course shop around for the online casino that feels the best for you as an individual. Just like with any other pursuit, you should feel comfortable and secure on the site, or you won\u2019t have fun and be at ease while gambling. Yes, you can make a living off of online gambling, if you have what it takes. There is only a special breed of person who can do it, but if you have gotten this far into this article, there is a good chance that you are among them. Good luck and remember, have fun, and know when to stop before you start.\nBy admin|2018-10-01T12:36:54+00:00July 23rd, 2018|Categories: Professional Gambling|Comments Off on Yes, People Can Make a Living Off of Online Gambling, But Can You?\nadmin2018-07-03T09:12:37+00:00June 8th, 2017|Comments Off on Online Sports Betting Tips for Building a Solid Bankroll\nBetting on sports online is one of the easiest ways to make money gambling, that is if you are following a systematic approach and not just [...]\nadmin2018-07-03T09:12:37+00:00January 7th, 2017|Comments Off on The World of Gambling\nThe world of gambling is becoming popular. Over the years, a lot of people have turned to both online and land-based gambling. Because of the exciting [...]\nadmin2018-11-14T10:07:56+00:00September 7th, 2018|Comments Off on The Differences between playing poker online and in traditional casinos\nPoker games (for instance poker uang asli) are games that let people do gambling. Poker games are some of the best games to be played in online and traditional casinos. [...]\nadmin2018-10-01T12:36:54+00:00July 23rd, 2018|Comments Off on Yes, People Can Make a Living Off of Online Gambling, But Can You?\nThese days it can be hard to make ends meet. Many people are choosing to pursue activities outside of traditional work paths to earn income. For those who are good [...]\nBetting on sports online is one of the easiest ways to make money gambling, that is if you are following a systematic approach and not just betting on hunches or [...]\nadmin2018-07-03T09:12:37+00:00March 7th, 2017|Comments Off on How\u2019s and Why\u2019s to Become a Professional Gambler\nA lot of people today dream of becoming a professional gambler. Professional gambling is fast becoming a popular occupation for so many reasons. One, you have the celebrities who constantly [...]\n\u00a9 Copyright 2012 - | Marxist Worker. 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This low-key novel succeeds through understated humor and sprightly prose, rather than through absurd juxtapositions of the historical and the supernatural.\nvia Best science fiction and fantasy books of 2010.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 294.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mathematica.ludibunda.ch/trigonometry7.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:15Z", "digest": "sha1:BAOGBYVFSZXPERAUWSPTWFWHGYVXJ3NK", "length": 2468, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mathematica.ludibunda.ch", "title": "Trigonometry - Functions", "raw_content": "While in the 16th century the Italian mathematician Galileo was studying objects in motion, he did not only discover the basic laws about motion, but he also invented the idea of the function which simplifies calculations in mathematics and physics.\nIn contrary to the Greeks, Galileo was convinced of the importance of experiments and studied carefully their results. He didn't try to explain nature, but to describe it. And to do this, functions are a great instrument.\nGalileo found for example that any object which is dropped will accelerate by 16 feet per square second if friction from air is neglected. This means that every second an object will get faster 16 feet per second. The distance that an object falls within a given time when dropped he found to be equal to the number of seconds squared times 16 feet. (That is, of course, only as long as the object doesn't hit the ground.)\nWe could describe this with the following equation:\nLets look at what this equation tells us. In this case, d is the distance and t is the number of seconds the object falls. The neat thing about this equation is that now you can easily find the distance an object travels in any given time: we can find d for any t. Note that for every t there is only one d. Any equation which satisfies the above two statements is a function.\nFunctions today are usually written in the way devised by Euler. After Euler the above function is written as follows:\nf(t)=t\u00b2\u00d716\nThe part on the left of the equal sign is the name of the function f, and the t inside the () denotes the argument. When you use the function, for example to find the distance a ball falls in two seconds, you write f(2). To find the value of f(2) you set s equal to 2 and then find the value of the right side of the function. For example, in this case replace the t\u00b2\u00d716 by 2\u00b2\u00d716=4\u00d716 which is equal to 64. So the ball falls 64 feet.\nLets go back now to the trigonometric ratios. They can be defined as functions of an angle. For example, take the sine. For every angle there is exactly one coresponding ratio, in the case of the sine this is the side in a right triangle which is oposite the given angle divided by the near angle. Since both of these sides have exactly one length and a division of two numbers results in just one number the sine of an angle satisfies all restrictions placed upon functions. So sin(30\u00b0) is defined as the sin for an angle of 30\u00b0. The same goes for the other trigonometric ratios.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mediways.com/category.asp?related=11&id=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:20Z", "digest": "sha1:LROR65VR2RG3SAATLUCBBWYE6LJNMGBO", "length": 2782, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "mediways.com", "title": "Health and Medical Information produced by doctors - Mediways.com", "raw_content": "Anaesthesia => Analgesic\nAnalgesic, class of drugs that relieve pain without causing loss of consciousness. The drugs include the opium derivatives morphine and codeine, non-opiates (or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) such as aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and paracetamol. Anaesthetics in low doses, or local anaesthetics such as benzocaine, are also analgesic in function. Analgesics are used to relieve a wide range of aches and pains, particularly headaches, toothache, period pain, and rheumatic pain. They may be used in combination-such as aspirin and codeine; ibuprofen and codeine.\nOpiate analgesics affect the central nervous system, are addictive, and are used only for severe pain; synthetic opiates such as pentazocine (fortral) are less addictive but may cause hallucinations. The non-opiates act by inhibiting the synthesis of prostaglandins in the body. Aspirin is a good anti-inflammatory agent and is useful for relieving mild and moderate pain and reducing fever, whereas acetaminophen is less effective against inflammation. Ibuprofen is an effective anti-inflammatory drug with a similar effect on prostaglandins as aspirin and has been found to be more effective than aspirin for period pain and toothache. Both ibuprofen and aspirin can irritate the stomach, as well as aggravate high blood pressure and damage the kidneys. Paracetamol is an effective analgesic, but it is still not fully understood how it works. It is thought to inhibit the release of prostaglandins in the central nervous system, rather than at the site of injury or inflammation, as do aspirin and ibuprofen. While paracetamol is safe at normal doses, and is preferred for patients with stomach acidity problems, it is dangerous when taken at doses only minimally higher than the recommended amounts (which may happen when more than one preparation containing the drug is being taken). This is mainly because of its toxic effects on the liver and because symptoms of overdose may be delayed, allowing overdosing to continue. Ibuprofen has been found to be safer than both aspirin and paracetamol in terms of side-effects.\nCodeine is often combined with any of the above three. Although the doses available in tablets are known to have minimal analgesic effect, and despite the fact it is sometimes used for types of pain which do not respond to opiate mechanisms but which are prostaglandin-related, codeine combinations are claimed to work by the people who buy them.\nAnalgesics may also be applied to the skin in the form of gels for muscular aches and pains.\nWith the discovery of natural opiate receptors in the brain, and of hormones such as endorphins and enkephalins that bind to them, research has been devoted to ways in which these systems could be used to ease pain.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 3320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 171.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://medprecautions.xyz/lung-diseases-affecting-the-airways/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:22Z", "digest": "sha1:UORUYM2CDSEMNPJZ77J7FL2EBHS53PUQ", "length": 181, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "medprecautions.xyz", "title": "Lung Diseases Affecting the Airways \u2013 Med Precautions", "raw_content": "The trachea (windpipe) branches into tubes called bronchi, which in turn branch to become progressively smaller tubes throughout the lungs. Diseases that affect the airways include:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mesotheloma.co.uk/55377640/hunter-for-mesothelioma-health-david-curtis-is-looking-for-the-best-possible-results", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:01Z", "digest": "sha1:TDQJRHXEBXW4VBBBJQN6GQ3MXUGMY3FD", "length": 1078, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mesotheloma.co.uk", "title": "Hunter for mesothelioma health, David Curtis is looking for the best possible results \u22c5 Mesothelioma Information", "raw_content": "Sometimes I was lucky. This is not something that many people suffer from thinking about cancer when it is a rare rare cancer! https://i.redd.it/m2mfo5zxh6e21.jpg Writing about his diagnosis and treatment in October 2015, David Long wrote on his Facebook page, \"The growth of Barnaby is determined by the fate of a great destiny.\" As is known, the early increase in mesothelioma mesothelioma, in fact it was the doctor. I He didn't seem worried, he just made thick handkerchiefs, but he was still sent for a biopsy, David remembers David. \"This decision saved my life.\" Asbestos Mesothelioma Center + David came to learn more about the story. Seven months before he was diagnosed with cancer, David began his new job as a child support counselor, an organization that advocated the adoption and adoption of child-care services in a small town. Ontario. Be. The forest has already used the family code. More here : [https://www.mesotheliome.press/2019/01/hunter-for-mesothelioma-health-david.html](https://www.mesotheliome.press/2019/01/hunter-for-mesothelioma-health-david.html)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://messyhairandcoffee.com/2016/12/20/day-20/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:25Z", "digest": "sha1:FQXPK5YS54R6JI244OLV6IEANMTNB74H", "length": 2960, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "messyhairandcoffee.com", "title": "Day 20 \u2013 Messy Hair and Coffee", "raw_content": "I was going through and cleaning up some files. I\u2019ve used My Writing Spot for a while now as a place to jot notes down and start small writing bits. I was going through the files I had there and got caught off guard. At the beginning of this year, I had intended to write a weekly prompt. The first week was a letter to my past self.\nYou can\u2019t be hard on yourself. You didn\u2019t know. You thought you saw something that clearly wasn\u2019t there, or maybe it was, but it failed to stick around. When you started to see the signs, when you started to suspect that he was sneaking around, nobody can blame you for questioning your sanity. How could someone you loved, be so dirty?\nEasy. They never respected you for who you were and for who you were suppose to be to them. And there were a lot of signs of disrespect. When his sisters tell you that he was downright mean to you, when you\u2019re close friend says how much it bothers them, you should have listened. When you\u2019re up close and personal to the problem, your blinders are on and you don\u2019t even realize how little you see, or how little you choose to see.\nIt was not alright for him to reject being touched by you when you wanted to go in for a hug. It was not alright that he would ridicule you for your weight despite how much work you put into your appearance already. It is not alright that you find yourself continuously locking yourself in a bathroom and crying because you don\u2019t know what to do and you don\u2019t know how you are the problem.\nWhen he wouldn\u2019t let you look at his phone, when he would complain if you came to bother him while he was on a computer, when you lose count of how many times you\u2019ve walked in on him with pornography and you haven\u2019t been intimate in months\u2026 you knew it wasn\u2019t going to last the way things were going. He even refused to get help.\nPast self, you know better now. Let\u2019s try and not let it happen again, but do have some pride.\nYou weren\u2019t the source of his problems. You did try to get the two of you help. You are not the problem. You are perfect the way you are, body and soul. Nobody should try to change you into something you\u2019re not.\nNever change just to appease someone else in your life. Change because that\u2019s something you want, that benefits you as a person, that puts you closer to whatever goal you\u2019re chasing after.\nI think I\u2019ve come a long way since last year. I\u2019m still struggling with some issues, confidence issues mostly, but I do know what I want out of life. I want to be happy, be satisfied, feel fulfilled. Now that I\u2019m no longer burdened with someone trying to make me into something I\u2019m not, who thinks money and being materialistic is the route to overall happiness, I feel like I\u2019m on a much better path. I think the biggest thing is that I remember that I have a voice and that I\u2019m important enough to have a valid opinion on things. And even more importantly, that I\u2019m allowed to have an opinion.\ngoals life pride relationships shine the light", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3925, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=1168&cn=140", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:36Z", "digest": "sha1:FDISCZZB6JO6DL5N5OH7J5AQS23GJEB4", "length": 3533, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "metapsychology.mentalhelp.net", "title": "Metapsychology Online Reviews", "raw_content": "Review - Beneath the Skin\nJun 1st 2002 (Volume 6, Issue 22)\nBeneath the Skin by Nicci French is taut psychological thriller about a sexual predator. It is a chilling read that gets under your skin and leaves you wondering how well you really know those around you.\nBeneath the Skin is set in North London during an unbearably hot summer. Three very different women are targeted by a serial killer: Zoe is young, a schoolteacher starting out in her career and in life; Jenny is older, a former hand model, she is now a wife and mother remodeling her dream house; and Nadia is a bohemian, she earns a living entertains at children's parties. Three different women, residing in different neighborhood, living different lifestyle, struggling with different life issues, yet all three have one thing in common \u0096 they are all being stalked by a predator who knows them better then they know themselves. First, there are the threatening notes, horrid and disgusting, but easily chalk up to a crank or pervert. Then there is the invasion of their home, something missing, or found, with minute descriptions by only some one how had been inside. Soon these women watch as their hopes are undermined and their dreams destroyed. Finally, emotionally depleted, they are killed. They are all alone. Family and friends, even the police do not seem able to help them. Who will escape? Who will live? And who will die?\nBeneath the Skin is a scary read. The book is narrated from both the predator\u0092s and the women\u0092s points of view. The predator studies their lives then subtly destroys their jobs, relationships, hopes, and dreams. It is amazing to watch how the stalker so psychologically abuse them that even their very will to struggle to live is zapped. Meanwhile, the reader can follow the mounting terror and finally the increasing despair as the women watch their worlds collapse.\nPersonally, I found the book, while very well written, has a few flaws. The characters are often not very likeable. Zoe is very weak willed. She is young, but pathetically dependent on others. Jenny is a bit obnoxious. She is snooty and almost pathologically self-preoccupied with her looks. After these two, Nadia came as a breath of fresh air. She was alive and vibrant. The various police officers and other professionals came across as inept and incompetent. At times, it seems that the police have a \u0093win one lose one\u0094 attitude towards the women. All this being said, I finished this 400+ page book in little over a day. This is an unprecedented feat for me. (I savor books. I do not devour them whole.) I could not put this book down. Once it began, the intensity of the stalking moved like an unstoppable roller coaster. I just had to read one more page, one more hour, well, perhaps, maybe just one hundred more pages.\n\"Nicci French\" is the pseudonym of the husband and wife writing team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French. Their first collaboration was The Memory of the Game published in 1997. Killing Me Softly, their first novel to be published in the US is about to be released in the theatres. Beneath the Skin is their fourth collaboration. Their latest US release is Red Room.\nBeneath the Skin is not a book for the squeamish. The violence is intense and graphic. It will keep the reader guessing and if it seems too much is learned too soon, do not be so sure you know who did it! This book is filled with twists and turns. It is a powerful read that can make readers question their own world. I loved the book, but it is NOT a book for every one.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 21224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=2735&cn=156", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:34Z", "digest": "sha1:2URYYTY55LGHE5KHKKUT6DVNP4VQ62Q6", "length": 1689, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "metapsychology.mentalhelp.net", "title": "Metapsychology Online Reviews", "raw_content": "Review - Forest of the Pygmies\nJul 22nd 2005 (Volume 9, Issue 29)\nForest of the Pygmies is the third of a trilogy of books by Isabel Allende. These adventure stories featuring magic, various exotic cultures, and many colorful characters; they are aimed at young readers but fans of the genre of all ages may enjoy the novel. The book is well written and the fast-paced plot will keep readers entertained. The book has many educational virtues: set in the present, it includes references to atrocities in Rwanda, and it contains some details about life in Africa. It also takes a positive stance towards different religions and cultural practices and makes fun of Western arrogance. What is more, it is full of positive female role models.\nThe style of the Allende's novel is strangely old fashioned, and listening to the audiobook version read by Blair Brown, I found myself imagining the explorer Kate, a journalist of International Geographic, played by Katherine Hepburn. The main story has a band of Westerners stumbling across a society in which pygmies have been enslaved by Bantus under the direction of a despotic leader, and with the help of a magic ambulate, the westerners bring justice and freedom. Teenagers Alexander and Nadia, who have a very close relationship that is not (yet) romantic, play their part in sorting out the troubles. Young readers who like unusual books might find the story gripping -- especially those who enjoy reading old adventure stories or watching movies from the 1940s. Other readers may just find the story old fashioned and hard to enjoy, although the unabridged audiobook version goes quickly, in just six and a half hours, and is entertaining.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 13855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 219.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mifrafinancial.com/blog/2015/4/5/homeowner-and-medi-calif-you-dont-need-itdont-take-it", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:07Z", "digest": "sha1:GWI2EQDG76UE5UE7KIM3YHSHLJPOIBDU", "length": 17326, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "mifrafinancial.com", "title": "MEDI-CAL RECOVERY FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ) \u2014 Income Tax Mifra Financial Income Tax 38 years Services %5MifraFinancial", "raw_content": "HOME OWNERS AND MEDICAL, HOME SAFE, SAVE MY HOME\nMEDI-CAL RECOVERY FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS (FAQ)\nValuable information we are sharing from CANHR\nCalifornia\u2019s Medi-Cal applicants and beneficiaries are often confused about their rights regarding Medi-Cal and are particularly concerned that the state will \u201ctake\u201d their homes after they die if they received Medi-Cal benefits. The following \u201cFrequently Asked Questions\u201d attempts to answer some of these concerns and to provide consumers with the information necessary to make informed choices about their estates when they are applying for Medi-Cal.\nI. Can the State Take my Home If I Go on Medi-Cal?\nThe State of California does not take away anyone's home per se. Your home can, however, be subject to an estate claim after your death. For example, your home may be an exempt asset while you are alive and is not counted for Medi-Cal eligibility purposes. However, if the home is still in your name when you die, the State can make a claim against your estate for the amount of the Medi-Cal benefits paid or the value of the estate, whichever is less. Thus, if your home or any part of it is still in your name when you die, it is part of your \"estate\" and can be subject to an estate claim.\nII. Can the State Put a Lien on My Home?\nConsumers often confuse liens and estate claims. Both have been used by the State in attempts to reimburse the Medi-Cal program for payments made to beneficiaries. Liens are placed on living Medi-Cal beneficiaries' estates to \"hold\" the property until the person dies. Estate claims are claims made against the estate of the Medi-Cal beneficiary after he or she dies. As of January 1, 1996, California is not permitted to impose liens against the homes of nursing home residents or their surviving spouses, except in cases where the home is not exempt (i.e., the nursing home Medi-Cal applicant did not indicate an intention to return home) and the home is being sold. Under current law, these are the only liens that can be placed on the homes of living beneficiaries.\nMost Medi-Cal applicants' homes are exempt because a spouse, child or sibling lives there or they do indicate an intention to return home on the Medi-Cal application, so even these liens are rare. After the beneficiary has died, the heirs or survivors may sign a \"voluntary\" lien for Medi-Cal recovery purposes, if they cannot otherwise avoid an estate claim against the property.\nIII. What Happens After I Die If I Received Medi-Cal?\nAfter the Medi-Cal beneficiary's death, the State can make a claim against the estate of an individual who was 55 years of age or older at the time he or she received Medi-Cal benefits or who (at any age) received benefits in a nursing home, unless there is a surviving spouse or a minor, blind or disabled child. Thus, if there are any assets left in the estate of the deceased beneficiary, Medi-Cal will seek to be reimbursed for benefits paid. It is important to note that, even if you received Medi-Cal at home, any benefits paid while you were 55 years of age or older will be subject to Medi-Cal recovery.\nIV. How Much Can the State Recover?\nCalifornia's definition of \"estate\" includes such assets as living trusts, joint tenancies, tenancies in common and life estates, although claims on the remainder interest in life estates are limited to those that were revocable. Many consumers place their property into living trusts, thinking that this will protect it from an estate claim. It does not. The State can still make a claim against property held in a living trust, joint tenancy or tenancies in common, as long as the beneficiary's name is still on the property at the time of death.\nHowever, the amount of recovery is limited to the amount of benefits paid or the value of the beneficiary's estate, whichever is less. For example, if the appraised value of your home is $200,000 and you left it in joint tenancy with your three children, the State can only collect up to $50,000, which is your part of the estate - even if the Medi-Cal benefits paid to you is more than $50,000. The value of the estate is also reduced by any outstanding mortgages or debts on the home. For example, if the home had an outstanding mortgage of $100,000, this reduces the value of the estate to $100,000 (the appraised value of $200,000, minus the mortgage). This, in turn, reduces the amount of the estate claim to $25,000. (The value of the home ($100,000) divided by the four joint tenants.) Deducting the amount of burial costs or estate settlement costs can also reduce the claim. Remember to keep receipts and submit them.\nWhen the State files an estate claim, they are also required to send an itemized billing of benefits paid over the deceased's lifetime. It is important to review the billing to see if there are any errors. Payments made for personal care services under the In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, the cost of premiums, co-payments and deductibles paid on behalf of either Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries or Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB/SLMB) are exempt from recovery. Thus, if payments for these services are included in the itemized billing, the collection representative should delete this from the billing.\nManaged Care: Estate claims can be much higher if the beneficiary is enrolled in managed care. When a managed care beneficiary dies, the estate will receive a claim for the total amount paid by Medi-Cal to the managed care plan, regardless of how much the actual services cost the managed care plan. Any share of cost paid to the nursing home, for example, is not deducted from the monthly amount paid to the managed care plan. If the deceased beneficiary was enrolled in a managed care plan, the itemized bill will only include a lump sum paid to the plan. The plan will have to be contacted to find out what providers were actually paid by the plan.\nV. Are There Any Exceptions to an Estate Claim?\nA. Surviving Spouse: The state is prohibited from recovery while a surviving spouse of a deceased Medi-Cal beneficiary is alive. However, after the surviving spouse dies, recovery may be made against any property received by the spouse through distribution or survival, e.g., property left under a will or community property. However, if the home is transferred out of the nursing home resident's name while he or she is alive, no claim can be placed on the home. Spouses should be careful to \"transmute\" the property, i.e., through a court order or by having the nursing home spouse sign a declaration relinquishing his/her interest in the property.\nB. Minor, Blind or Disabled Child: If a minor child under the age of 21 or a blind or disabled child of any age survives the beneficiary, a claim is prohibited by federal and state laws. The surviving minor child or his/her representative only needs to send proof, such as a birth certificate or adoption papers, that they are the child of the decedent or, in the case of disabled child, documentation of disability or blindness, such as a Social Security or SSI award letter and a birth certificate showing they are the child of the deceased. If the surviving child does not have documentation of disability from the Social Security Administration, he/she can still file for a disability determination with the Department of Health Services. It is important to note that the surviving child does not have to live in the home (or even in the State, for that matter) in order for recovery to be barred.\nC. When There is Nothing Left in the Estate: Since most deceased Medi-Cal beneficiaries leave nothing but their homes, it is most important to look at the deed to the property. Whose name was on the property at the date of death? If the beneficiary transferred the property outright prior to death, then send a copy of the deed, along with a letter explaining that the beneficiary left nothing in his/her estate and ask that the case be closed. If the beneficiary transferred the home outright while he or she was alive and reserved a life estate or an occupancy agreement, send a copy of the deed showing the property was transferred before the beneficiary died.\nVI. What Else Besides My Home Can the State Claim Against?\nUnder current law, \"estate\" is defined as any real or personal property and other assets in which the individual had any legal title or interest at the time of death (to the extent of such interest), including assets conveyed through joint tenancy, tenancy in common, survivorship, life estate, living trust or other arrangement. Anything left in the decedent's bank accounts, for example, can be subject to recovery, after estate and burial expenses or other documented expenses are paid. The State can also recovery from annuities purchased by a beneficiary on or after September 1, 2004, regardless of whether the remainder interest in the annuity is a lump sum or a stream of income. Call the CANHR office if you have specific questions regarding what assets are subject to recovery.\nLife Estates: Under the new recovery rules, claims on irrevocable life estates are waived, but the state is placing claims on \"revocable\" life estates. For example, if you retain a life estate and, \"upon death the remainder to the children,\" this would not be considered a transfer and your home could be subject to recovery. If the gift deed transfers the home outright to the individual(s) and you retain a life estate, this would be considered irrevocable and would be immune from recovery.\nThe State cannot recover from IRAs, work-related pension funds or term life insurance policies, unless they name the state as the beneficiary or they revert to the estate. This is rare, as most people name a beneficiary for pension funds and insurance policies.\nDo not name your living trust as the beneficiary for life insurance policies or retirement accounts. If you do, it is like naming the estate as the beneficiary, since living trusts are subject to recovery, and the state will be able to recover from these assets. Always directly name the person or persons you would like to be the beneficiary of your life insurance or retirement accounts.\nVII. How Does the State Know When a Medi-Cal Beneficiary Dies?\nA. Notice of Death: When a Medi-Cal beneficiary dies, the County Medi-Cal office notifies the Department of Health Services in Sacramento and benefits are terminated. However, for recovery purposes, the burden of notifying the State of the death is still on the beneficiary's estate. California law, under Probate Code \u00a7215, requires that, when a deceased person has received or may have received health care benefits or was the surviving spouse of a person who received such benefits, the estate attorney, the beneficiary of the estate, the personal representative or the person in possession of the property is required to notify the Director of the Department (at the Sacramento office of DHS) no later than 90 days after the person's death. A copy of the death certificate is required to be sent.\nAlthough most consumers simply notify the county Medi-Cal office, this does not count as proper notice and it is important that you send the notice and death certificate to the correct address, if you want the matter to be addressed in a timely manner. The notice of death and the death certificate should be sent by registered or certified mail to: Director of Health Care Services, Estate Recovery Unit, MS-4720, P.O. BOX 997425, Sacramento, CA 95899-7425. That way, you have proof of mailing.\nB. Filing The Claim: If the estate is subject to probate or trust administration, the State has four months in which to file a claim. If a claim is not filed within this time, it is forever barred. However, many estates are not subject to probate or trust administration. In these cases, although the State has indicated its policy is to respond within four months, there is no law requiring this. By law, in non-probated estates, the Department must file a claim within three years of receipt of the notice of death.\nC. Beware of Forms: The Recovery Unit has sent out a number of questionnaires to consumers implying that they are under a legal obligation to complete and return them. The only legal obligation under law is to send a notice of death and a copy of the death certificate when a deceased Medi-Cal beneficiary or the spouse of a deceased beneficiary dies. If the State has sent an estate claim, then the questionnaire is a way for them to find out what property, if any, is left in the deceased beneficiary's estate. If there was no property left in the deceased's name, then completion of the form (or an attached letter) should be an easy matter. Enclose a copy of the deed to show the property was transferred during the life of the beneficiary. If the estate is more complicated, then consumers should seek advise from their attorney, legal services or CANHR before completing and returning any questionnaires or forms.\nVIII. How Does a Survivor Appeal an Estate Claim?\nA. Hardship Waivers and Estate Hearings: State regulations provide that the applicant (i.e., the dependent, heir or survivor of the decedent) may file for a hardship waiver within 60 days of notice of the claim. The hardship application is provided with the notice of the claim and the itemized billing, along with a copy of the regulations. Consumers are advised to complete the hardship application as completely as possible and to submit substantial documentation to support any hardship. A written decision regarding the hardship application must be sent to the applicant within 90 days of submission of the application. (Although the Department rarely responds within the legal timelines). Under the new regulations, only the applicant's \"proportionate share\" of the claim will be waived. So, if there is more than one heir, for example, all must file for hardship waivers, unless there is an exempt survivor, e.g., a spouse, a minor or a disabled child.\nThe applicant may challenge the Department's hardship waiver decision by requesting an estate hearing within 60 days of the date of the Department's hardship waiver decision. The estate hearing is an administrative law hearing and is required to be set within 60 days of the date of the request and must be conducted in the court of appeals district in which the applicant resides. Always try to preserve your appeal rights by filing within the time limits and try to get legal representation at the Administrative Law Hearing.\nB. Caregiver Exemption: The new regulations state that the Department shall waive the applicant's proportionate share of the claim if he/she provided care to the decedent for two or more years that prevented or delayed the decedent's admission into a medical or long term care institution. The applicant does not have to be related to the beneficiary, but must be a dependent, heir or survivor. The applicant must have resided in the decedent's home while the care was provided and continue to reside there. The applicant must still complete the hardship waiver form and must also submit written medical documentation that shows that the applicant provided a level of care for at least two years that delayed the deceased beneficiary's entry into a medical facility. This includes a statement from the doctor or other medical provider attesting to the deceased's condition prior to entering the medical facility and what specific level and frequency of care the deceased received from the applicant. Declarations from medical providers, copies of pertinent medical records, etc. can be useful in documenting the extent of the caregiving provided.\nC. Judicial Review: Estate hearing decisions can be appealed judicially by filing a writ of mandate with the appropriate court. The state may also refer the claim to the Office of the Attorney General if the claim is not paid and their collection efforts are unsuccessful.\nD. Legal Representation: The hardship waiver and appeal processes can be complicated and many surviving beneficiaries of the estate cannot afford legal representation. Contact your local office of legal services if your case is complicated and you cannot afford legal representation. You can also contact the CANHR office for consultation or a referral to the appropriate legal services office.\nIX. How Do I Avoid an Estate Claim?\nThe best way to avoid an estate claim is to leave nothing in the estate. Most Medi-Cal beneficiaries leave nothing but a home. If the property is transferred out of the beneficiary's name during life, the state cannot place a claim. Any transfer of real property can have tax consequences that may outweigh a Medi-Cal estate claim. Currently, there are a number of legal options (irrevocable life estates, occupancy agreements, certain types of trusts) available to avoid probate, avoid tax consequences and avoid estate claims. Anyone considering a transfer of real property should consult an attorney experienced in the Medi-Cal rules and regulations.http://www.canhr.org/factsheets/medi-cal_fs/html/fs_medcal_recovery_FAQ.htm\nYOU CAN ALSO FIND THIS INFORMATION AND OTHER VALUABLE ARTICLES AT: http://www.canhr.org/factsheets/medi-cal_fs/html/fs_medcal_recovery_FAQ.\nTagged: TAXES, real estate\nNewer PostHow Medicare works with other insurance\nOlder PostIncome tax Identity theft", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 18201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mikeconnellministries.com/sermons/1326/Turn-off-the-Dark.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:43Z", "digest": "sha1:CXIHXQU7AYHQ42KCKNTPER3YP27HJVTL", "length": 5779, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "mikeconnellministries.com", "title": "Turn off the Dark (Shane Willard) Fri 15 Mar 2013 AM", "raw_content": "Shane Willard1...8910111213141516...47\nFri 15 Mar 2013 AM\nSermon on the mount: don't get what you need by judging others, or by manipulation - simply ask, seek and knock - be clear. Be aware of how your concept of God affects how you treat others. \"Knowing God\" is directly tied to how you treat other people. Don't follow teachers, whose teachings destroy your life - if it isn't working, then dump it.\nMatthew, Chapter 7. This is the end of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus is preaching a sermon. I started to get fascinated with Jesus as a sermon preacher, because I became friends with some atheists - agnostics really. What I found, once I became their friend, is that they hadn't rejected Jesus at all; they had just rejected the image of Jesus that was presented to them. There's a big difference by the way; and so as I got talking to them about this, the way I had to approach Jesus with them is: Jesus as a teacher of a way to live; because they really weren't buying the whole: He was born of a virgin thing. They really weren't buying the whole: He's the Son of God thing.\nThat didn't make much sense to them, and the reason it didn't make much sense is partly because, when they were kids, the way it was presented was horrible. So they sort of learned away from that, but they were totally willing to look at someone's philosophy of living, and what I did when I sat down with them is, they got so fascinated with Jesus' way of living, that they now have both submitted their lives to living the way Jesus lived. They came to me and they said: if Jesus is as nice as you make Him seem, then He won't mind us living the way He wants us to live, while we work out the whole God thing. I said: no, He won't, that'd be great.\nSo it's very important to look at the Sermon on the Mount as a sermon. It's very inappropriate to pick one thing out of a sermon, and make it say something that the sermon isn't saying. So that's very inappropriate. Let's say in his life, he had to give one of his children 12 spankings okay, just in their whole life - 12 spankings, and they needed it right, so he had to do that. Let's say I was there for all 12 times, and I took a video of it right; then someone later said: hey, do you know this guy? I said: yes, I know this guy. Well, what kind of dad is he? I say: you know, I don't know what kind of dad he is, but I have video - let's check the video. So I plug the video camera in, and on this video camera is all 12 spankings that he gave his kid. Is that fair to him as a father?\n[No.] No, no, because it doesn't take into account the reason why, the context. It doesn't take into account what he was trying to prune off his kid's life, so they don't ruin their life at 30. It doesn't take into account that he's up at 5am every day blessing his children; doesn't take into account that his children love him to this day; it doesn't take into account all of these things - so it's totally inappropriate when people do that with God all the time. They take this one little scripture out, and they make it everything; like it is inappropriate to preach Josiah 1 without Josiah 3. Josiah 1 says: I will break your back. You will regret the day you were ever born. You are never going to be my people. I will never forgive you, you will surely be cast off from my presence. It sounds horrible!\nThat's Josiah 1, but Josiah 3, says this: To those of you I said: you're not My people - you're My people. To those of you I said: I'd break your back - I would never hurt you. To those of you I said: I would never forgive - I'll forgive you. To those of you I said: I'll hold your stuff against you forever - I will never hold your stuff against you forever, for I am a God, and not a man. By Josiah 11, He says this: oh how could I ever have turned My back on you, oh Israel, for you are My people. You cannot preach Josiah 1 without reading to the end, and at least giving that credence. And so this is one of those scriptures that gets taken by itself, and it becomes horrible. This is the end of the Sermon on the Mount, and this is what it says:\nEnter through the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow is the road that leads to life, and only a few will find it.\nNow if you grow up in white-people church, you instantly when you read this, get images of what two things? Heaven and hell. The problem with that is that there's no mention of heaven anywhere in this sermon; nor is there a mention, anywhere close to this, of anything resembling hell. To make this statement about heaven and hell, you have to remove the statement entirely from the context of the sermon He was preaching. You can't do that - and if you do that, Christianity's message gets entirely uncompelling. All of a sudden, our message becomes: unfortunately, most of the world is doomed. Oh, join us! That is such a positive, uplifting, hope-giving, love-inducing message: most people are doomed, unfortunately. No! Of course not! This is a part of a sermon. Now to understand the sermon, you have to understand the euphemisms, and the figures of speech within the culture. First: light, life and increase. Light, life and increase, these are three synonymous words, that are used in Hebrew culture, that talk about anything that brings your life to: wholeness, abundance and shalom. 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Infusion therapy refers to delivering medication and hydration directly into the veins, also known as intravenous or IV administration.\nInfusion therapy allows you to spend more time with friends and family in your own environment and less time in the hospital. With a decreased risk of infections, you are able to return to home, to work or school more comfortably and safely. In addition, medical costs are lower because you receive care on an outpatient basis rather than as part of a hospital stay. All we need is for you to mention to your provider that you want to come to MCH for your IV infusion therapy and he or she can write up an order.\nCall (406) 822-4841 with any questions or stop by today for more information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1934, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 194.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://minesnminerals.com/event/concrete-show", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:02Z", "digest": "sha1:WBGRRDAQJLH4E5TXABIS6XGCMKHKXRNN", "length": 1750, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "minesnminerals.com", "title": "Concrete Show - Mines N Minerals", "raw_content": "Home Events Concrete Show\nUBM India today launched the 3rd edition of the Concrete Show India 2015, co-located with Bridges India at the Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai. The three day show (7th- 9th May) was inaugurated in the presence of Shri S M Ramchandani, Joint Managing Director, Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Ltd (MSRDC) amongst other industry dignitaries. The show dedicated to the concrete industry, covers key sectors like roads and highways, housing, airports, ports, power, rail, dams and bridges.\nThe event which showcased new products, technologies and trends pertaining to the sector, witnessed participation from over 150 exhibitors across the globe from China, Germany, Greece, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, Netherland, Malaysia and USA in addition to India. Key industry players participating in this event include Toyota Forms India Pvt. Ltd., Ashtech, Hess Concrete Machinery India Pvt. Ltd., JSW Cement Limited, RMC Readymix (India), Godrej, Apollo Infratech Private Limited, Hyundai Aluminum Co. Ltd., Tata, Reliance Industries Ltd.\nWhy participate in Concrete Show India 2015?\n1.The only event dedicated to the concrete industry, key sectors like Roads, Housing, Airports, Ports, Power, Rail, Dams & Bridges to be covered\n2. Participation expected from all over the world\n3. New products and technologies on display\n4. Conference on latest trends in building infrastructure\nConcrete Show India provides the perfect platform to meet and network with industry professionals during three days of a dynamic and focused business environment. 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Make sure to follow her on all social platforms, thanks in advance for the support\nhttp://mixtapesworldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Ben-X-Baddest-No-Feelings-MAIN.mp3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 1576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 243.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ml.gatech.edu/hg/item/614066", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:17Z", "digest": "sha1:NJRVEPT6PMPA2AF4LW3IXIP6YFTJ6BET", "length": 1745, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ml.gatech.edu", "title": "ML (Machine Learning) at Georgia Tech", "raw_content": "ML@GT Professors Receive $500k NSF Grant\nMachine Learning Center at Georgia Tech Professors Raghupathy Sivakumar and Faramarz Fekri have been awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study the feasibility of combining the power of the human brain and machine learning techniques.\nThe award comes from the NSF\u2019s Cyber-Physical Systems program and will support Sivakumar and Fekri\u2019s project titled CPS: Small: Multi-Human Assisted Learning for Multi-Agent Systems using Intrinsically Generated Event-Related EEG Potentials.\nMachine learning solutions are particularly useful for monitoring, instrumenting, and optimizing complex cyber-physical systems (CPS). Supervised or controlled by computer-based algorithms, CPS\u2019s include things like autonomous cars, smart grids, and automatic pilot avionics. However, these systems still need human help recognizing natural speech patterns and complex scenes or images.\nSivakumar and Fekri\u2019s goal is to allow humans to assist with machine learning algorithms in this environment. Their approach uses a human-in-the-loop model. Using electroencephalogram (EEG), the team hopes to use human brain wave activity to help speed up the learning process for the algorithms that power CPS\u2019s.\nThe results of the research will be evaluated using both game proxy-based analysis and experimental analysis within the context of real-world CPS.\nThe team\u2019s award runs for three years beginning in January 2019. The team hopes to explore commercialization of the outcomes of the research in collaboration with Georgia Tech\u2019s CREATE-X and Venture Lab programs.\nThe grant will allow researchers to study the feasibility of combining the power of the human brain and machine learning techniques.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 210.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mncppc.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=3600", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:47Z", "digest": "sha1:D7SNTJX24UTDVDS2SKMOZKJXELJV6UMY", "length": 30, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "mncppc.org", "title": "MNCPPC, MD", "raw_content": "March 2, 2018\u2009-\u2009April 27, 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 3405, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 18.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://molecules.gnu-darwin.org/vitacost/Health-Daily-000290.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:45Z", "digest": "sha1:533UQQDIP5NLSFHK6TX6FHONVPZIH6Y3", "length": 2547, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "molecules.gnu-darwin.org", "title": "Health Daily - Daily alerts on topical health issues, supplements and more.", "raw_content": "NSI Synergy CardioLift Multi-Vitamin Version 7 - 180 Capsules\nBeing Heart Smart Just Makes Sense\nKnowing the early warning signs of an attack can greatly increase survival, group says\n(HealthDay News) -- Knowing all the warning signs of a heart attack greatly increases the chances of surviving one, says the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).\nEveryone knows that a heart attack can start with severe chest pains. But early signs can also include shortness of breath, unexplained weakness or palpitations, Dr. Nick Jouriles, ACEP president, said in a news release from the organization.\nHeart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and both men and women are vulnerable. Using February's designation as National Heart Month as a backdrop, the organization issued a reminder of the importance for people to be clear about heart attack symptoms. They can include:\nUncomfortable pressure, fullness or a squeezing sensation in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes or goes away and comes back.\nChest discomfort that spreads to the shoulders, neck, jaw, arms or back.\nChest discomfort associated with lightheadedness, fainting, sweating, nausea or shortness of breath.\nPeople who experience one or more of these signs should immediately call 911. And ACEP advises that 911 be called even if you're unsure of the symptoms because it's better to be safe and seek medical attention.\nACEP and the American Heart Association also recommend the use of aspirin in people who may be having a heart attack. Chewing or crushing and swallowing a regular aspirin tablet has been shown to slow the development of a blood clot and reduce the risk of death.\nBut taking an aspiring cannot unclog a blocked artery during a heart attack, so people who've taken an aspirin should not wait to see if their symptoms get better before they call 911. They still must seek immediate medical attention, ACEP said.\nThe organization also offered a number of steps that can be taken to prevent a heart attack:\nLose excess weight, get regular exercise, eat a low cholesterol diet and take cholesterol-lowering medications, if a doctor determines they would be helpful.\nMaintain a healthy blood pressure, control diabetes and don't drink too much alcohol.\nThese measures are especially important for anyone who has a family history of heart disease.\nThe American Heart Association has more about heart attack .\nSOURCE: American College of Emergency Physicians, news release, Feb. 3, 2009\n=5BBBC1B9166BC558B3E046302972D36A97=5D", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 5136, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://morgan.com.au/categories/business-to-business/primary-industries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:33Z", "digest": "sha1:TMEWSMLMUKGHLX3E7IKQDPZJLVVSZ4HX", "length": 318, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "morgan.com.au", "title": "Business to Business | Primary Industries | morgan.com.au", "raw_content": "\u2022 riverwood.com.au \u2022 glenorie.com.au \u2022 shoalbay.com.au \u2022 samson.com.au \u2022 kentucky.com.au \u2022 hoffman.com.au \u2022 bexley.com.au \u2022 kingsville.com.au \u2022 laura.com.au \u2022 enmore.com.au \u2022 ferguson.com.au \u2022 kosciusko.com.au \u2022 greenwich.com.au \u2022 cecilhills.com.au \u2022 deanpark.com.au \u2022 merinda.com.au \u2022 randwick.com.au \u2022 more suburbs..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.62, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://morleyevans.blogspot.com/2011/06/canadian-invincible-smugness.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WH64BKGKDJ5ZPC3AWA4VSFMBGCJR6LP3", "length": 4164, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "morleyevans.blogspot.com", "title": "Morley Evans: Invincible Smugness", "raw_content": "British Columbia has more libertarians than other Canadian provinces. I know most of them. Some think Barbara Amiel is a libertarian. B.C. has some west coast culture like California and no free-thinking survivalists like Idaho. I lived in Vancouver for three years. Saskatchewan is the home of Tommy Douglas. Here, people have been trained to think like good Soviet citizens. The ideal in Saskatchewan is to get a nice job working for the government. Job security and a lucrative pension are very important.\nAmericans believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness (or property). Canadians believe in peace, order and good government. Canadians suffer from invincible smugness. Canadians can see what is wrong with others, mostly Americans, but they cannot look in the mirror and see the same things about themselves. Canadians can see American shortcomings because Americans have pointed them out.\nSome Americans can look in the mirror and say, \"We need to fix that.\" Some Americans work hard to right wrongs. Some of the British are similar. Thomas Paine was an Englishman. Great Britain has a long line of social reformers. New Zealand and Australia have some people with a social conscience too. Many Canadians with a social conscience join the NDP and work assiduously to have the government take over everything. The Soviet Union and its neofeudalism is their ideal.\nLike the United States of America, Canada enjoys a good reputation it does not deserve. Canada now has a majority Conservative government. The Prime Minister, Steven Harper, is a satrap of Washington's empire. He is a neocon. Like the U.S. Congress, Harper's first loyalty is to Israel. Qu\u00e9bec stunned everyone a few weeks ago when everyone there voted NDP \u2014 for the very first time and possibly for the very last time. Quebeckers have done this before. They elected Diefenbaker and Mulroney by not voting Liberal. The NDP was as surprised as everyone else. The NDP won the lottery and became the Official Opposition. Quebecers have never forgotten that France was defeated in 1759 by the British Empire. They would vote this afternoon for independence. I think Qu\u00e9bec could be the salvation of Canada. Qu\u00e9bec is the reason Canada exists.\nQu\u00e9bec? King George III told Qu\u00e9bec to stick with Great Britain. He guaranteed their language, culture and religion. The King told Quebecers that they could not trust the Americans who talk about liberty but respect no one. George III told the Indians that North America was theirs and that the fur trade would continue as it had before in New France. He told the Americans to stay put on their side of the Proclamation Line: the Appalachians. You know what happened. It was the Anglo coterie in Montreal that broke the promise to Qu\u00e9bec, not the King. They treated the French like unwanted guests in their own house. Canada was a colony of these people in Montr\u00e9al who had colonized Qu\u00e9bec. They became the Liberal Party of Canada. Canadians broke the promises made to Canadian Indians too. Canadian Indians have been treated worse than American Indians since 1900. Canadians are only now settling the treaties the Indians signed over a century ago. Most Canadians think Indians are welfare bums.\nWhen the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois won in 1976, Canada changed. The Anglos left Montr\u00e9al and went to Toronto, which then became Canada's most important city. (Toronto always thought it was the most important city, of course.) The Liberal Party of Canada may be toast. It hasn't won west of Ontario for a long time, not since Trudeau. The Tories have now replaced the Liberals in Ontario and they hate the (federal) Liberals in Qu\u00e9bec. The Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois may replace the Liberals in La belle province again. Separatism is alive and well. Canada may split or it may become a real federal country instead of a dictatorship run out of Ottawa that stays in power by playing Qu\u00e9bec off against everyone else.\nSome refugees who come to Canada are surprised that Canada is not what they thought it was, others get a government job and Canadians pat themselves on the back for being so nice. My ideal is life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I am an oddball.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 209, "original_length": 7668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 275.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mosquesinamerica.com/tutorial/page/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:4R3KHLH54TPS6F2X5DVHMBBXWLUZRZSU", "length": 445, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mosquesinamerica.com", "title": "Page 10 \u00bb Tutorial \u00bb mosquesinamerica.com", "raw_content": "Fast Track Profit System (2016) - Cody Sperber\nEssentially, it is a system that has been created for people of all walks of life. It is filled with useful information about the ins and outs of successful real estate investments. It promises to be almost fool proof and includes a range of highly creative formulas that will allow anybody to become involved in the world of real estate.\nAndroid Navigation Architecture Components: Getting Started", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://motonhighschoolalumni.org/index.php/school-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:29Z", "digest": "sha1:42ZO4AC4YRXTYJXUNQFW7YFDLPXZMHEM", "length": 6899, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "motonhighschoolalumni.org", "title": "School History | Moton High School Alumni", "raw_content": "The school was named after the great educator, Robert Russa Moton, whose history is depicted in this section of our website, Robert Russa Moton.\nIn the aftermath, of the Civil War, the federal Freedmen\u2019s Bureau sponsored a school on Port Street for black children which would become the first black public school in Easton. The Talbot Board of County School Commissioners began administering its operations in 1870 by appointing a Board of Trustees and naming it the Easton Colored School. Two years later, the Maryland Assembly enacted the State School Law of 1872 which obligated the counties to provide equal provisions for black and white schools. This law was one of many segregation or Jim Crow laws passed in the South during the Reconstruction Period. They enforced strict separation of races while appearing to protect the rights of blacks guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. In 1896 the United States Supreme Court upheld a Louisiana segregation law in Plessy v. Ferguson, thereby affirming the separate but equal doctrine.\nThe conditions, however, were not equal between white and black schools. In 1916, the State Educational Survey Commission reported that the Port Street School was one of the poorest buildings in the state. That year a delegation from the Easton Colored School appeared before the Board of County School Commissioners and presented a plan to raise $1000 to aid in the erection of a new building. Following several delays, construction began in 1918 and the new building was dedicated on Friday, February 21, 1919.\nOn November 21, 1937, the Easton Colored School was renamed and dedicated in honor of Robert Russa Moton. \u201c Ole Moton \u2018 now consisted of five buildings on Port Street and one on Higgins. They housed an elementary school, high school, industrial arts facility, and home cottage.\nAfter building a new school on Glenwood Avenue in 1953, the Board of Education closed the Port Street School. The property was sold in1959.\nLocated on Higgins Street behind the Asbury M. E. Church, \u201c The Tabernacle\u201d served as the Moton gymnasium. Its dilapidated condition illustrates the inferior facilities provided for the County\u2019s black students. Despite inferior athletic facilities, Moton athletes excelled in competition. Many of the teams won state championships, like the 1946 soccer team.\nVocational education was an important part of the Moton curriculum. Shown here is the interior of the industrial arts shop, which was located about 1 1/2 blocks from the main building on Port Street.\nOvercrowded classrooms and insufficient textbooks at Moton illustrated the inequities between black and white schools in a segregated system.\nThe annual N. F. A. and N.H.A. Fair sponsored by the Agriculture and Home Economics Departments was a popular event that attracted students, parents, and other members of the community. Each year the New Farmers of America and the New Homemakers of America erected exhibits and competed for prizes donated by businessmen of Easton and Talbot County as well as the State Fair Board. Exhibits from the Home Economics Department included canned goods, pastries, needlework, floral arrangements, and crafts. The Agriculture Department exhibited poultry, eggs, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and field crops. In addition, the two groups presented a program in conjunction with the Fair that featured lectures on such topics as \u201c Modern Procedures for Freezing Fruits and Vegetables.\u201d\nThe Robert Russa Moton Junior/senior High School on Glenwood Avenue opened in 1953. This school was dedicated on Sunday, November 15, 1953. One year later, the United States Supreme Court handed down the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision asserting the unconstitutionality of racial segregation. In response, Talbot County gave black students \u201cfree-choice\u201d to attend formerly all white schools. But few did and Moton continued to operate as an all black school until 1967 when the Talbot County system was fully integrated. For the next two years, the building housed the Easton Middle School. It was then closed for renovations and reopened in 1972 as the Talbot County Vocational \u2013Technical Center under the direction of Theodore J. Henson, a former Moton teacher. The building then became the Glenwood Intermediate School. However, due to overcrowding problems, the building underwent extensive renovations beginning in 1990. In 1991 it opened as the Easton Elementary School.\nAthletics played an important role at Robert Russa Moton junior/Senior High School, teaching discipline, teamwork, and the value of fair and honest competition. Athletes excelled in volleyball, baseball, field hockey, track and field, cross-country. However, the most successful team was boy\u2019s basketball. Between 1953 and 1967 the Moton Tigers won five state and nine district championships.\nDirection for the basketball team came from two outstanding coaches: Marion J. Waller and Roger Bryan. Waller, a coach until 1955, amassed a record of 121 wins, district championships, one state championship, and only 27 losses in seven years. Coach Bryan succeeded Waller and remained until the school closed in 1967. Coach Bryan filled his players with desire to win, but equally important, stressed the importance of athletics.\nTwo players from Moton pursued basketball professionally. Walt Hazzard played for the Los Angeles Lakers and Richard Milbourne was drafted by the Detroit Pistons. In addition several players went on to become coaches and teachers, underscoring the influence of an athletic program which inspired pride in self, school, and community.\nThe accomplishments of Moton\u2019s students pay tribute to the commitment of the school staff a commitment that was epitomized by the dedication of William H. Fauntleroy and Mrs. Ruth Early.\nMr. Fauntleroy was a devoted educator who began his teaching in Talbot County in 1926. Before retiring in 1969, he had served as teacher, elementary school principal, supervisor of Colored Schools, and principal of Moton and Easton High Schools and taught courses in African-American studies and general history. The leadership inspired hard work and pride in the faculty as well as students.\nMoton provided students with a solid academic foundation while offering diverse extracurricular activities. Besides athletics, students joined the Band, Glee Club, New Farmers of America, New Homemakers of America to name a few. Moton scholars participated in job fairs, conferences on professional training, and state and nationwide contests such as Voice of Democracy. In 1959 a chapter of the National Honor Society was formed at Moton, Many graduates attended institutions of higher education including Maryland State College, Bowie State College, Morgan State College, Hampton Institute, and Tuskegee Institute. Other graduates entered the armed forces or applied skills to jobs in the community.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 7257, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 165.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mountaintimes.info/tag/david-marc-vanorman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:43Z", "digest": "sha1:VAANND5HU36NH2PTUJ55BGSG5ODQYRUB", "length": 293, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mountaintimes.info", "title": "David Marc vanOrman Archives - The Mountain Times", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: David Marc vanOrman\nDavid Marc vanOrman, 67\nDavid Marc vanOrman, 67, of Pekin, IL., passed away at 11:45 a.m. Sunday, June 24, 2018, at his home. He was formerly of Green Valley, IL, where he was a farmer of 46 years.\nBorn Oct. 27, 1950, in Peoria to Forrest and Alverne (Craig)\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mountaintimes.info/tag/diary/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:43Z", "digest": "sha1:J3XH56DIR5LPGA2K252AHC6OJQK2T6CE", "length": 1448, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mountaintimes.info", "title": "diary Archives - The Mountain Times", "raw_content": "My doorbell rang the other night around dinnertime, but I didn\u2019t think much about it since my doorbell rings every night around dinnertime.\nNinety-nine out of one hundred times, it\u2019s one of my son\u2019s friends looking to play basketball, shoot Nerf guns,\u2026\nGo, Speed Racer, Go!\nI was driving through town the other day when my son erupted from the backseat, \u201cDad, look, it\u2019s a Porsche!\u201d\nI glanced over to the opposite side of the road just quick enough to catch a bright red sports car rip through\u2026\nIt doesn\u2019t happen often, but every once in a while I lose my temper. Most of the time it\u2019s because of the illogical behavior of my teenage son, but on occasion, something else will set me off. Unfortunately, one of those \u201csomething\u2026\nOn Dec. 19, 2006, a young Swedish high school student named Felix Kjellberg registered a YouTube channel, uploading occasional short videos not unlike thousands of other early users. His interest was sporadic and purely for fun and entertainment; he never dreamed he\u2026\nI took my family to the ocean this past weekend for a birthday celebration. This needed to be a bigger-than-normal event since my son was officially transferring into the realm of a teenager. The plan was to soak up some sun, play\u2026\nI\u2019m at a bit of a crossroads with my son. He\u2019s on the verge of turning into a teenager and with that transition he\u2019s displaying many of the negative traits associated with the age. Lately he\u2019s been on this kick where he\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 4939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mountaintimes.info/tag/obituary-stephen-r-byrne-age-61/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QGONND4U3ZRCATE7MIV2M43DJLH76MTC", "length": 327, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mountaintimes.info", "title": "Obituary: Stephen R. Byrne age 61 Archives - The Mountain Times", "raw_content": "Tag Archives: Obituary: Stephen R. Byrne age 61\nObituary: Stephen R. Byrne age 61\nBirch Ridge Inn chef passed unexpectedly Dec. 23\nStephen R. \u201cFrizzy\u201d Byrne, 61, died unexpectedly Dec. 23, 2014 at his home. He was born in Manhattan, N.Y. June 3, 1953, son of Harry J. and Luesylvia (Lawlor) Byrne. Stephen Byrne was a graduate\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://moviesaz.org/celebs/mexico/912-guillermo-del-toro/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:09Z", "digest": "sha1:UYM6CU33GONAG73UAUZHT6GUUN5CUUHM", "length": 2990, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "moviesaz.org", "title": "Guillermo del Toro - movies list, photos and biography.", "raw_content": "Place of Birth Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico\nAction Detective Cartoon Horrors Fantasy\nAll Guillermo del Toro movies list with pictures. Biography and interesting facts from personal life. Celebrity fans will be attracted by latest photoshoot or rare Guillermo del Toro photos: childhood and now. High quality pictures can be used as HD wallpapers. Guillermo del Toro has worked as actor, director, writer, producer and has been in 17 films, animated movies and TV series in his filmography. Rate the celebrity and leave a review!\nGuillermo del Toro - BIOGRAPHY\nGuillermo del Toro (born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones. His films draw heavily on sources as diverse as weird fiction, fantasy and war. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guillermo del Toro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.\nGuillermo del Toro PICTURES\nGuillermo del Toro - best movies\nGuillermo del Toro - FILMOGRAPHY:\nAll Guillermo del Toro films: from early to the latest. Recent Guillermo del Toro HD pictures and biography.\n17 movies, animated films and TV series, famous actor, director, writer, producer \u2013 and all this is Guillermo del Toro. Bio and details of life are always a subject of interest by celebrity fans. Even if you do not take one of them, then, at least, pay attention to the interesting facts: about children, family, relationships and childhood.\nIn Guillermo del Toro filmography you will find all top and recent movies, TV series and cartoons: from the very first film to the upcoming ones. Filters by name, release date, genres and IMDB rating will help you to quickly find all Guillermo del Toro roles: from the very young movie to the last one. It easy to notice that the filmography is mainly dominated by films in the genre Action,Detective,Cartoon,Horrors,Fantasy. Mexico where is Guillermo del Toro from also affected his work. Among best films Puss in Boots, Extraordinary Tales, Extraordinary Tales and here you can find out what is the next Guillermo del Toro movie.\nAlso on this page is gathered huge photo gallery with lots of the best Guillermo del Toro images in high quality which you can easily use as beautiful wallpapers for desktop of mobile Android, iPhone or PC. We add not only professional photoshoots but also private Guillermo del Toro family photos with his parents, kids and wife. If you want to see how Guillermo del Toro looked like as a kid or as a teenager or want to find Guillermo del Toro naked pictures, you can be sure that you will get them in our gallery. By the way the latest images may help you to know how he looks in real life, if he is dating or even where is Guillermo del Toro now. As soon as new Guillermo del Toro images appear in high quality we add them immediately into our collection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 329.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://mrsthompsonhistory.weebly.com/american-revolution.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NPPIK6XU7ZBJ5N2WUFEQNC7E5Z3YZFLP", "length": 4668, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "mrsthompsonhistory.weebly.com", "title": "American Revolution", "raw_content": "SSUSH 4: THE STUDENT WILL IDENTIFY THE IDEOLOGICAL, MILITARY,\nAND DIPLOMATIC ASPECTS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.\nThe Declaration of Independence is one of the most important documents in American history. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft and then made revisions suggested by John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and others. Because the declaration addressed a worldwide audience, its language was made simple and direct so people everywhere would understand and sympathize with the colonists\u2019 cause. The text borrowed phrases from the influential writings of English philosopher John Locke. This helped convince readers that American independence was supported by the ideas of a famous philosopher.\nAfter it explains the philosophical and legal reasons for seeking independence from Britain, the declaration has its longest section, which gives numerous examples of how King George III violated the rights of the colonists. Finally, the declaration offers a discussion of the Americans\u2019 many unsuccessful attempts to get relief from Britain and ends with the conclusion that the only way for Americans to have their rights restored is to restore them themselves by declaring independence from Britain and by controlling their own government.\nAnother turning point in the war was the decision by France to support the American cause. Benjamin Franklin, serving as the American ambassador to France, convinced the French to form a military alliance with the Americans, and France agreed to wage war against Britain until America gained independence. Facing both an American and a European war, Britain would need to pull troops out of America to fight closer to home. French support for America was personified in the Marquis de Lafayette. He commanded American troops and fought battles in many states. He also returned to France for a time to work with Franklin and the French king on how to win American independence.\nGeorge Washington and the Continental Army\nWhen the American Revolution began, George Washington was named commander in chief of the Continental Army. He displayed extraordinary leadership abilities in the role. Washington reorganized the army, secured additional equipment and supplies, and started a training program to turn inexperienced recruits into a professional military.\nLife was hard for the common soldier in the Continental Army. Enlistments lasted from one to three years, and the states differed in how well and how often they paid their soldiers, housed them when they were not on the march, and supplied them with food, clothing, and equipment. These issues undermined morale, as did the army\u2019s stern discipline, the chances of being wounded or killed, and British victories.\nOn Christmas night 1776, Washington led his troops to a victory that was a turning point for America and the Revolutionary War. As a snowstorm pounded Washington and his soldiers, they crossed the Delaware River to stage a surprise attack\non a fort occupied by Hessian mercenaries fighting for the British. This victory proved Washington\u2019s army could fight as well as an experienced European army.\nWashington and his troops spent the winter of 1777\u20131778 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. They spent six months there. The army\u2019s problems with wages, housing, food, clothing, and equipment were at their worst. Disease spread throughout the camp, increasing the suffering of the 12,000 men. As conditions worsened, almost 4,000 soldiers were too weak or ill to fight. Yet that winter Washington ordered an intense training program\u2014 similar to a modern boot camp\u2014that turned the Continental Army into a capable and self-assured infantry.\nBritain\u2019s plan to counter the French\u2013American alliance was to have General Charles Cornwallis move the war to the southern states to try to separate those colonies from revolutionary forces in the North. He immediately succeeded in a series of British victories, but the Americans were able to prevent a complete victory in the South. Cornwallis pursued the Americans into Virginia but met with heavy resistance. Wishing to maintain communications with Great Britain by sea, the British general retreated to the coastal town of Yorktown. His forces were attacked by the combined French and American armies and a French fleet. Cut off from any reinforcements, Cornwallis was forced to surrender, and the American Revolution came to an end in North America.\nThe 1783 Treaty of Paris ended the American Revolutionary War. The United States won its independence from Great Britain and gained control of land stretching to the Mississippi River. Britain ceded Florida to Spain and certain African and Caribbean colonies to France.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 169.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://msgjewelers.com/index.php/blog/4Cs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:05Z", "digest": "sha1:NVVH3RS4LFXAOWRVZCWRLXIV2CTUBPMM", "length": 3394, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "msgjewelers.com", "title": "News - The Four C's Regarding Diamonds", "raw_content": "Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:16:00 AM America/Chicago\nDiamonds, emeralds, rubies and sapphires, gold, platinum and silver; all of these items are beautiful, intriguing and mystifying to most of us, especially when we're thinking of buying any of them. Beauty and intrigue is great; it's the mystery part that can be scary, but not if you're informed. Most of us have heard about the four C's regarding diamonds, for example, yet how many of us really understand their meaning and application into the equation of value when purchasing a diamond? Let's take a few moments to examine the 4 C's.\nA unit of measure to show the weight of gemstones. 1 carat is broken down to 100 smaller parts called points, thus 50 points is a half carat and 75 points is a 3/4 carat, etc...\nRefers to the shape of a gemstone as well as the proportions. It is the proportions of a gemstone that gives the radiant beauty that we all look for and admire. This is a vital point that some merchants fail to explain to their customers, yet the cut affects the value of the gemstone by as much as 25% in diamonds. As a rule of thumb remember that if a diamond has a lot of sparkle or radiance, that means only one thing, it is well cut. This says nothing about any other aspect of the diamond and it should not be assumed that it is a fine\nquality diamond with regards to clarity or color as you will see as you read on. A well proportioned diamond is one that will allow nearly all the light that enters it from the top to refract from the bottom, called the pavilion, to the top again as a rainbow of colors. A diamond that is too wide and shallow or too deep and narrow will not allow this refraction process to occur properly and the brilliance is reduced greatly also reducing the diamond's value.\nThe clarity of a gemstone refers to the presence of imperfections that are visible by a trained professional using 10x magnification or visible without the need of any magnification at all. The ratings are as follows:\nIF: Internally Flawless - no imperfections visible with 10x magnification, but external flaws may be present.\nFL: Flawless - no imperfections visible with 10x magnification inside or outside.\nVVSI-1/VVSI-2: Very Very Slightly Included - inclusions are extremely difficult to see using 10x magnification. VVSI-I is better than VVSI-2 quality.\nVSI-1/VSI-2: Very Slightly Included - inclusions are difficult to see using 10x magnification.\nSI-1/SI-2/SI-3: Slightly included - inclusions are easily seen with 10x magnification, however SI-1 and SI-2 are genuinely eye clean. SI-3 has inclusions that are visible to the naked eye only after knowing where the\nimperfection is located using a 10x magnification first.\nI-1/I-2/I-3: Imperfect - eye visible imperfections are easily seen with the naked eye.\nColor refers to the actual physical color of the diamond. The best color is no color. A master color set is required to properly color grade diamonds, since subliminal differences can affect the price greatly. Color ratings are broken down into categories, which are further broken down into individual ratings or grades as follows:\nCATEGORY: GRADES:\nColorless D, E, F\nNear Colorless G, H, I, J\nFaint Yellow K, L, M, N\nVery Light Yellow O, P, Q, R\nLight Yellow S thru Z\nFancy Colors, Intense yellows and any other color that occurs naturally. Diamonds are\navailable naturally in nearly all spectral colors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 6499, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 333.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://multisport.ph/2018/02/how-did-teenagers-take-over-the-olympics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:30Z", "digest": "sha1:7G7WFFBPTRSZKPQ3OSYAW7DW2VIOI6DK", "length": 4105, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "multisport.ph", "title": "How did teenagers take over the Olympics? | Multisport Philippines", "raw_content": "Some of them might not be old enough to vote, but that\u2019s not stopping them from bringing home golds\nTeenagers definitely took control of the PyeongChang Olympics. There may be more dangerous sports in the Winter Olympics and yet, the younger generation of athletes are getting out there like it\u2019s no one\u2019s business. Older people might call it reckless behavior, but we call it risk-taking. There\u2019s no doubt that this attitude is what\u2019s got them winning medals and breaking records.\nTo start off the first US gold in PyeongChang, there\u2019s 17-year-old snowboarder Redmond Gerard who got his first gold in the slopestyle event. You\u2019d think, for his first Olympics, that the morning before his event would go more smoothly but just like the rest of us, he ended up oversleeping. Of course, what else could keep a person up so late before a big competition than Netflix? Gerard was apparently binge watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine before his event (I mean, who wouldn\u2019t), but that didn\u2019t stop him from getting a score of 87.17 on his third run.\nSnowboarder woke up late the day he won the gold \u2013 he should have taken Wake Up On Time! #redgerard #winterolympics #snowboard #kylemack #olympicgold #walmart\nA post shared by Rise-N-Shine, LLC (@risenshinellc) on Feb 21, 2018 at 12:21pm PST\nEver wondered what goes on in an Olympian\u2019s head just before their competition? Well for 17-year-old snowboarder Chloe Kim, it was ice cream. She was literally tweeting about her craving in the middle of the women\u2019s halfpipe qualifications. Though, I\u2019m pretty sure she\u2019s not going to have a hard time getting it after winning her first Olympic gold.\nI hate crying but I'll give myself a pass for this one. Thank you everyone for the love! Stoked to bring home the gold pic.twitter.com/vxApf1lxbI\nHe may not have landed medals this year but this 18-year-old\u2019s performance is one for the books. Before Chen actually did it last year, nobody thought it was actually possible to do a quintuple quad outside of Yuri!!! On Ice. So what does the nicknamed \u2018Quad King\u2019 do? He makes history by doing six (with five of them being clean).\nThese past two weeks have been the biggest emotional rollercoaster of my life. I began this competition with the two worst short programs of my competitive career. I couldn't believe what happened, and my confidence completely dissipated. If not for the hundreds of messages of support from all of you I never would've been able to bounce back and lay down the long I did here. Truly thank you all so much for the support and love. #WeGetUp\nA post shared by Nathan Chen (@nathanwchen) on Feb 19, 2018 at 8:59pm PST\nI don\u2019t know what it is with the US team and their teenage athletes, but a lot of them are breaking Olympic history. The 17-year-old figure skater Vincent Zhou made his Olympic debut with an impressive quadruple lutz, the first of its kind in this competition. This jump is considered one of the most graceful and one of the hardest ones to perfect.\nThese are memories that I will think back on many decades later and smile an old, withered smile complete with knowledge that I made the most of my life, especially as a 17 year old Olympian. I placed 6th among the best skaters in the history of this sport and I am so very proud to do so representing the USA. My place is here and my time is now.\nA post shared by Vincent Zhou (@govincentzhou) on Feb 17, 2018 at 1:14am PST\nThe European side has their own share of amazing teenagers, too. 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Meijer was among 126 companies honored at the Disability:IN Annual Conference.\nThe DEI is a joint initiative between American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD) and the Disability:IN, designed by disability advocates and business leaders as the nation\u2019s most trusted comprehensive benchmarking tool for disability inclusion. The Index measures key performance indicators across organizational culture, leadership, accessibility, employment, community engagement, support services and supplier diversity.\nMeijer Senior Vice President of Human Resources Michael Rotelle said, \u201cOn behalf of all Meijer team members, we are absolutely thrilled to not only achieve a top score on the DEI, but to be named as a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion \u2013 a monumental achievement for our organization. I am very proud of the progress Meijer team members have made over the years to create more inclusivity and opportunities for team members with disabilities. We are humbled to be among so many fine companies that share our devotion to inclusion.\u201d\nThis is the company\u2019s second year participating in the DEI study. Last year, Meijer achieved a DEI score of 90 percent. Meijer has long focused on creating a work environment that rewards its team members for fostering programs that promote inclusivity. In 2017, the company launched a new team member resource group called Meijer Disability Awareness & Advocacy Group (mDAAG). The mission of mDAAG is to advance the company\u2019s commitment to respecting and valuing diversity and inclusion by service as a resource and liaison for all team members on issues of equality.\nMeijer also has extended its disability accommodations policy to include job candidates. Now candidates have the option to request accommodations during an upcoming interview. 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Among the early settlers were Mr. Brewer, Henry Strickler, Joseph Harter (father of Joseph B. Harter). Mr. Strickler located on the south side of Eel River, early in the year of 1836, west of where the grist mill was built.\nThe Harter family came from Montgomery County, Ohio, reaching this place in September 1836 after a long and tiresome journey of three weeks by way of Indianapolis and Logansport, Indianapolis being only a small town at that time.\nThey left a thickly settled country and came to a wilderness where there was nothing but Indians and wild animals.\nDaniel Stone had begun a house near the site of the present grist mill which they moved into, finishing it later and building an addition to it the same fall. In 1841 or \u201942, he built a new house nearby, living there until his death which occurred February 26, 1861.\nIn 1837 a sawmill was built by Joseph Harter on Clear Creek or what was afterwards called Lantz Creek north of town. The first grist mill was built in 1838 and 1839 by Joseph Harter, which was run by him and his sons until his death in 1861. Before that, the early settlers had to go to Goshen to mill, cutting their road through the woods.\nThere was one log cabin near where the Williams drugstore now is, occupied by Peter Ogan.\nThe first log school house was built about the year 1839 on the northeast corner of Third and Walnut Streets \u2013 Mr. Hare\u2019s present home. The first teacher was Thomas Keeler by name, teaching a three month\u2019s subscription school. He had about thirty pupils.\nBoth the Methodist and Lutheran Churches were built about the year 1845 on the present locations. The United Brethren people held their services in the Methodist Church for a number of years. Religious services were frequently held in the log school house in an early day. Dunkard services were held in private homes in the winter season, and in the barns in the summer.\nThe first goods which were sold here were by the Barlow Brothers of LaGro, who put in a general stock of goods in Peter Ogan\u2019s log cabin, which was a double cabin.\nAsa Beauchamp put up the first store building which was a hewn log one on the northeast corner of Main and Walnut Streets. It was a general store and the goods were bought at Richmond, Indiana, and hauled through by him by team.\nSoon after, William Thorn and Mahlon Frame (a brother of the late David Frame) brought in a general stock of goods and opened up a store on the corner where the Burdge drug store is located. For many years merchandise and surplus products of this place were received and shipped to LaGro by canal or rail.\nThe canal was built or opened up in 1837. The railroad (The Wabash) was completed in 1854 as far as LaGro. 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The company's success can be attributed to continuity of leadership and a strong vision for growth of capabilities and products. Today the site benefits from shared opportunities and cooperation with KaliStrut Aerospace, which has also maintained a leading market position in the area of metallic rods for more than 35 years.\nRecent engineering projects include pylon struts, interior tie rods, hold open rods, flight control rods, wing-to-body fairing support rods, door mechanisms and rods, and structural support rods for Airbus, Boeing, Embraer, and Gulfstream.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2168, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 236.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://nordjewelers.thejewelerblog.com/archive/2016/08/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:48Z", "digest": "sha1:R25XZW4LW4QIRWRM3RIIYJLM32QOTRWY", "length": 57904, "nlines": 338, "source_domain": "nordjewelers.thejewelerblog.com", "title": "Entries from August 2016 | Nord Jewelers Blog", "raw_content": "Spinel \u2014 The Great Imposter of Gemstone History \u2014 Is the New August Birthstone\nAvailable in a rainbow of vibrant colors, but best known as a ruby doppelg\u00e4nger, the spinel has joined the yellow-green peridot as an official birthstone for the month of August.\nThe American Gem Trade Association (AGTA) and Jewelers of America (JA) delivered the surprising news in June. It was only third time in the past 104 years that the modern birthstone list had been updated.\n\"At certain moments in history, when there is a strong call from gem enthusiasts to expand the list of official birthstones, Jewelers of America believes in recognizing the importance of historically significant gemstones and giving gemstone lovers a choice that suits their preferences,\u201d said JA President and CEO David Bonaparte.\nThe International Colored Gemstone Association (ICA) called spinel \"the great impostor of gemstone history.\" That's because some of the most famous \"rubies\" in crown jewels around the world are actually spinels.\nProminently displayed on the Imperial State Crown of England is the 170-carat Black Prince Ruby, which is actually a uncut spinel.\nThe 361-carat Timur Ruby, which was presented by the East India Company to Queen Victoria as a gift in 1851, and is engraved with the names of some of the Mughal emperors who previously owned it, was later identified as a spinel.\nAnd the 398-carat ruby-red gem that tops the Imperial Crown of Russia commissioned by Catherine the Great in 1763 turned out to be, you guessed it, a spinel.\nThe masquerade continued until gemologists and mineralogists finally developed the technical ability to distinguish spinel from ruby.\nChemically, the two gems are similar. Both spinel and ruby are aluminum oxides, but spinel contains magnesium and ruby doesn't.\nBoth spinel and ruby get their red coloring from minute amounts of chromium, which replace some of the aluminum within the crystal. The chromium so vital to the ruby\u2019s blazing color is also responsible for causing fissures in the crystal, making rubies larger than 3 carats in size extremely rare and very valuable.\nEstablished in 1912 by the American National Retail Jewelers Association (now known as JA), the modern birthstone list was updated in 1952 to add alexandrite (June), citrine (November), tourmaline (October) and zircon (December). The listed was amended again in 2002 when tanzanite joined the group of December birthstones.\nSpinel comes in a variety of vibrant colors, including soft pastel shades of pink and purple, fiery oranges, and cool hues ranging from powdery gray to intense blue. It is a durable gem with a a hardness of 8.0 on the Mohs Hardness Scale. By comparison, diamond rates a 10 and ruby rates a 9.\nSome of the most beautiful spinels \u2014 especially the pink, red and orange-red varieties \u2014 are found in Myanmar. They're also sourced from Afghanistan, Brazil, Cambodia, Kenya, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand and Vietnam.\nCredits: Spinel crystal by Smallru (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons; Imperial State Crown of England by Cyril Davenport (1848 \u2013 1941) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. Timur Ruby via the Royal Collection Trust \u00a9 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2012; Smolensk Diamonds' modern interpretation of the Imperial Crown of Russia by Shakko (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.\nMoving This Summer? Here Are the Top Tips for Keeping Your Jewelry Safe\nDid you know that July 31 was the busiest moving day of the year and that the summer is the most popular moving season? So, if you're planning to resettle across town or even across the country, please consider these tips compiled by Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company and amended by our team for keeping your jewelry safe...\n\u2022 Do not pack valuable jewelry in boxes and do not put your jewelry into storage. It can get lost with other items or stolen.\n\u2022 If you\u2019re moving locally, keep valuable items in a safety deposit box at a bank until you\u2019re settled in and ready to retrieve them. If you\u2019re moving a long distance, keep valuable jewelry with you at all times.\n\u2022 Don\u2019t wear jewelry while you\u2019re packing, unpacking or doing heavy lifting. You may damage, bend or scratch precious metals, or chip valuable stones.\n\u2022 Pack earrings, necklaces and bracelets separately so they don\u2019t get tangled. Use zip-type small storage bags or pill organizers.\n\u2022 Keep track of your items. Take a picture of each piece and create a detailed list of the items. Be sure to write a description for each piece and include serial numbers for items that have them. Make two copies of the list \u2013 take one with you when you move, and store the other one in a safety deposit box.\n\u2022 Make sure your valuable items have been recently appraised to reflect their current values and replacement costs. If necessary, adjust your coverage accordingly. Make copies of appraisals and receipts. Again, take one copy with you and place the other in a safety deposit box.\n\u2022 Your jewelry should be properly insured. If your jewelry is covered under your homeowners\u2019 or rental policy, it may only be insured for up to $1,000. Also, be sure your insurance company covers \"mysterious disappearance.\" Often, it won't.\n\u2022 Resist using social media. As tempting as it is to share the excitement of your move, save the stories and photos for your housewarming party. Well intentioned posts can easily extend past your group of friends. Your family's jewels are more vulnerable during your move, so the fewer people who know about it, the better.\nFor more information on protecting your jewelry, visit Jewelers Mutual Insurance Company's website here.\nNewlyweds Reunited With Wedding Ring Thanks to GPS Coordinates Inscribed Inside the Band\nA wedding band found on the beach in Maui made its way back to a grateful couple in Kansas \u2014 more than 3,800 miles away \u2014 thanks to a set of GPS coordinates inscribed inside the band.\nAbout a month ago, Brandon and Megan Schumacher of Overland Park, Kan., were enjoying their honeymoon on the Hawaiian island of Maui when Brandon took off his wedding band to keep it from getting caked with sunscreen and sand. He dropped it in the nosepiece of his goggles for safekeeping, but then forgot about it.\n\u201cI started to mess with my GoPro, got distracted and walked out to the water,\" he told KMBC 9 News. \"The next thing I know an hour had passed and the ring was gone.\u201d\nHe had taken the goggles into the surf to rinse out the sand, so the missing ring could have been in the water or on the beach.\n\u201cI ran back to where I originally took it off and searched for about an hour,\u201d Brandon told ABC News. \u201cMy wife ran up to the beach [bartender] who told her about this guy whose main job is using a metal detector to find wedding rings. We called him and he searched for a few hours and found nothing.\u201d\nBefore they left the island to return home to Kansas, the couple filed a police report and alerted local pawn shops of their loss.\nAbout a week later, the couple agreed that the ring was likely gone forever, so they ordered a replacement.\nMeanwhile, back in Maui, Oregonian vacationers Dean and Young Barnes, were taking a romantic stroll in ankle-deep water when Young saw something unusual in the sand. It was 9:30 at night and the visibility was poor, but the object caught Young's attention and forced her to stop to take a closer look. It was a man's wedding band.\nDean and Young noticed a series of numbers inscribed in the band, but didn't understand what they could mean. Later, they showed the inscription to their son-in-law and daughter, and the young couple immediately recognized the numbers as GPS coordinates.\nWhen they typed the numbers into GoogleMaps, the resulting pin landed right on the Legacy Christian Church in Overland Park, where the Schumachers were wed only weeks before.\nThe Barnes family contacted representatives of the Legacy Christian Church, who emailed the Schumachers with the improbable news. The Schumachers offered a reward but the Barneses refused.\nA reporter from local ABC affiliate KMBC 9 News was on hand when the UPS truck arrived with Brandon's ring. In a heartwarming moment, the newlyweds reenacted their ring ceremony and Megan made Brandon promise to never take the ring off again.\nIn a letter that accompanied the returned jewelry, Dean Barnes explained why a reward was unnecessary.\n\u201cI informed Megan that we did not do anything and that God deserved \u2018all\u2019 of the glory,\" he said. \"None of us did anything.\u201d\nThe Schumachers also spoke about divine intervention...\n\u201cThere were too many things that had to go right,\u201d said Brandon. \u201cBe in the right spot at the right time, step on something in the water, had to have the coordinates, everything. And it just worked out too perfectly. We keep looking back and there was just too many things for it to just be a coincidence.\u201d\nCredits: Images courtesy of Megan Schumacher; screen captures via kmbc.com.\n'Bachelorette' JoJo Fletcher Gets Her Man and a Dazzling 3.5-Carat Oval-Cut Diamond Engagement Ring\nMore than 8.4 million fans of The Bachelorette watched breathlessly as JoJo Fletcher professed her love to Jordan Rodgers during Monday's climactic two-hour season finale.\nThe former NFL player responded by getting down on one knee and presenting the real estate developer with a 3.5-carat diamond engagement ring valued at $85,000. The ring features an oval-cut center stone accented with pav\u00e9 diamonds on a platinum band.\nIn the romantic lead up to the proposal, the 27-year-old aspiring sports broadcaster said, \u201cIt\u2019s moments like this, where I\u2019m holding your hand, I\u2019m looking in your eyes, and I know I\u2019m so unbelievably in love with you. You\u2019re my best friend, you\u2019re my soulmate.\"\nFletcher responded by saying, \u201cI love you so much, and I\u2019ve been waiting to tell you how I feel. I just love you so much\u2026 I didn\u2019t want you to get down on one knee until you knew that.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s real, and it\u2019s been real,\u201d he said of their whirlwind romance. \u201cI love you so much, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Joelle Hannah Fletcher, will you marry me?\u201d\nAn insider told Us Weekly that the oval-cut diamond ring by Neil Lane was Rodgers' favorite from the moment he saw it.\n\"She also loves it,\" said the insider, \"and it's one of the most unusual and rare cut stones to be seen on the show thus far.\"\nEarlier in the episode Fletcher, 25, was forced to send runner-up Robby Hayes packing.\n\u201cRobby, I woke up this morning wanting it to be you,\" said Fletcher. \"Every day, I\u2019ve been wanting it to be you. I fell in love with you, but for some reason my heart is somewhere else.\u201d\nFletcher and Rodgers will get to keep the $85,000 ring if their relationship remains intact. The Bachelor host Chris Harrison was unclear about the rules regarding when a ring must be returned to designer Lane.\n\"There's some rule, after a certain number of years, you get to keep it anyway,\" he told Us Weekly. \"But after months [if there is a breakup]... it goes back.\"\nUs Weekly noted that out of 20 seasons of The Bachelor and 11 seasons of The Bachelorette, only a handful of couples have remained together, including married pairs Trista and Ryan Sutter, Desiree Hartsock and Chris Siegfried, Sean Lowe and Catherine Giudici, and Ashley Hebert and J.P. Rosenbaum. Season 11 Bachelorette Kaitlyn Bristowe and her final pick, Shawn Booth, are still happily engaged.\nCredit: Bachelorette images and screen captures via ABC. Ring image courtesy of Neil Lane.\nMusic Friday: Whitney Houston's 'One Moment in Time' Is the Gold Standard of Olympic Theme Songs\nWelcome to Music Friday when we regularly bring you amazing songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, we change up the criteria a bit to pay tribute to the opening of the Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.\nAs thousands of athletes from around the world go for the gold we thought it would be a great time to feature Whitney Houston's \"One Moment in Time,\" a pop anthem USA Today called \"the gold standard by which all Olympic theme songs should be judged.\"\nA song that focuses on what it takes to reach the pinnacle of one's life, \"One Moment in Time\" became the theme song for NBC's coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.\nIn rating it the best Olympic song of all time, USA Today noted that the lyrics perfectly define the spirit of the Games \u2014 working hard, overcoming setbacks, believing in oneself and ultimately becoming a champion.\nPutting the song over the top is Houston's Emmy award-winning performance.\nShe sings, \"Give me one moment in time / When I'm more than I thought I could be / When all of my dreams are a heartbeat away / And the answers are all up to me / Give me one moment in time / When I'm racing with destiny / Then in that one moment of time / I will feel / I will feel eternity.\"\nWritten by John Bettis and Albert Hammond, \"One Moment in Time\" was released as a single from The 1988 Summer Olympics Album: One Moment in Time and charted in 17 countries, including a top-5 position on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. Bettis famously wrote \"Top of the World\" for the Carpenters and Hammond wrote and performed \"It Never Rains in Southern California.\"\nWhitney Elizabeth Houston was born in 1963 in Newark, N.J. Her mom was an accomplished gospel singer and her dad was an entertainment executive. She was also a first cousin of singer Dionne Warwick. At age 11, Houston started performing in the junior gospel choir at her church, and throughout her youth was inspired by some of top names in the business, including Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Gladys Knight and Roberta Flack. At age 20, she was signed to a record deal by Arista head Clive Davis. In 2001, she negotiated the biggest contract in music history: an eight-album deal worth $100 million.\nDuring her career, Houston amassed 200 million record sales and 11 #1 hits, including \"I Will Always Love You.\"\nHouston died tragically in 2012 at the age of 48.\nPlease check out Houston's performance of \"One Moment in Time\" in the tribute video below. Here are the lyrics if you'd like to sing along...\nWritten by John Bettis and Albert Hammond. Performed by Whitney Houston.\nA day to give\nMy finest day\nIs yet unknown\nI broke my heart\nFought every gain\nI face the pain\nWhen I'm more than I thought I could be\nI've lived to be\nNo time for less\nCredits: Whitney Houston photo by Asterio Tecson (Flickr: 111) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.\n'Office' Star Angela Kinsey's Emerald Engagement Ring Honors Her New Blended Family\nThe Office star Angela Kinsey and her long-time beau, Joshua Snyder, are engaged. Kinsey took to Instagram last Thursday to announce the good news and to show off a non-traditional colored gemstone engagement ring that honors her new blended family.\nThe actress revealed that the couple\u2019s three children from previous relationships witnessed Snyder popping the question with a unique ring featuring a vibrant emerald center stone set horizontally into a simple yellow-gold band.\nKinsey posted a photo of herself and a closeup of the ring with the following caption: \u201cThe ring is an emerald because it\u2019s all three of our kids\u2019 birthstone. The kids made me cards and pictures and I cried. I cried that happy ugly cry. #gonnagethitched\u201d\nThe sweet Instagram post also outlined how the children participated in the proposal... \u201cWe were going out to dinner and my daughter said that first she wanted to show me the fort in the backyard that she and my boyfriend\u2019s sons had been working on. She led me outside and there was a blanket by the pool and she said I had to sit on it. His sons brought me flowers and then [Joshua] came around the corner with a ring. He had called my mom and asked for her blessing... that would have made my Dad so happy. He proposed and I said yes.\u201d\nEmerald engagement rings are an option for those who want to \u201cgo green\u201d to express their individual style. Kinsey joins former First Lady Jackie Kennedy on the short list of luminaries who have worn emerald engagement rings.\n\u2022 Kennedy\u2019s famous engagement ring featured a 2.88-carat diamond mounted alongside a 2.84-carat emerald. During John F. Kennedy\u2019s presidency, the ring was redesigned with more than 2 carats of round and marquise accent diamonds.\n\u2022 In 2012, French film actor Olivier Martinez famously asked actress Halle Berry for her hand with a diamond and emerald engagement ring designed by Robert Mazlo. The couple split in 2015.\n\u2022 In 2013, comedian and screenwriter Jason Sudeikis presented Olivia Wilde with a classic round diamond surrounded by a gorgeous emerald halo (to match her eyes). The couple is expecting their second child.\n\u2022 Earlier this year, former tennis pro Ruben Torres proposed to actress Hilary Swank with a natural Colombian emerald on a platinum Art Deco-inspired setting. The ring was beautiful, but the couple split a few months later.\nKinsey is best known for her role as the uptight, religious cat-loving accountant Angela Martin in the NBC mega hit, The Office. Joshua Snyder is an actor and writer best known for his roles in Shopgirl (2005), The Glass Beads (2005) and Short Track (2008).\nKinsey was previously married to Warren Lieberstein, with whom she shares an eight-year-old daughter, Isabelle. The couple divorced in 2010.\nCredits: Photos via Instagram/AngelaKinsey.\n$1 Billion 'Gahcho Ku\u00e9' Diamond Mine Ramps Up in Canada's Northwest Territories\nDe Beers and Canadian partner Mountain Province recently took the wraps off their Gahcho Ku\u00e9 diamond mine, a $1 billion project that promises to generate 4.5 million carats per year.\nThe mining companies believe there is a great chance of finding large, fine diamonds at the mine because test samples already have yielded two gem-quality stones, weighing 24.65 carats and 12.1 carats, respectively.\nSituated at the edge of Kennady Lake in Canada's remote Northwest Territories, the Gahcho Ku\u00e9 mine sits atop a labyrinth of kimberlite pipes, which are usually surefire indicators that diamonds are nearby. The pipes are often likened to volcanic superhighways that can deliver precious diamonds from deep within the earth to the surface.\nGahcho Ku\u00e9's officially opening next month will mark the culmination of a 23-year odyssey that began with some basic geological sampling and built up to a $1 billion, two-year development project.\nThe mine will go into full commercial production by early 2017 and is expected to have a 13-year life span.\n\"Starting the ramp-up to production at Gahcho Ku\u00e9 \u2014 on time, on budget and in a challenging environment \u2014 is a remarkable achievement,\" De Beers Chief Executive Bruce Cleaver said in a statement.\nGahcho Ku\u00e9 means \"place of the big rabbit\" in the Dene Suline language of the region's native Chipewyan people.\nDe Beers and Mountain Province are 51/49 partners in the Gahcho Ku\u00e9 mine, and this is De Beers' third mine in Canada. The other two are located at Snap Lake (Northwest Territories) and Victor (Ontario).\nDe Beers described Gahcho Ku\u00e9 as a remote fly-in/fly-out location just 140 miles (280km) northeast of its existing Yellowknife diamond mine.\nCredit: Images by De Beers Canada, GoogleMaps.com and DeBeersGroup.com.\nStyle Writers Swoon Over This 80-Carat Emerald-Cut Diamond Engagement Ring\nBack in early April, jewelry designer JS Diamonds posted this incredible 80-carat emerald-cut diamond engagement ring on its Instagram page, along with the caption, \"Not your every day ring!! 80 carat emerald cut #diamond #bigrock.\" Over the next four months, the post accumulated 567 likes and 90 comments.\nBut, then on August 6, the fine jewelry blog Gem Hunt reposted the ring on its Instagram page, and the results were astonishing.\nNot only did the post earn 2,700 likes and 327 comments in just four days, but it also caught the attention of style writers from Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, WhoWhatWear and Brit + Co., among others.\nThe writers seemed to enjoy the fact that the 80-carat diamond was far larger than even the blingiest engagement rings worn by such A-listers as Kim Kardashian-West (15 carats), Ciara (12-15 carats) and Mariah Carey (35 carats).\nOne scribe did some quick math to extrapolate the approximate value of the 80-carat stunner. If Carey's ring was worth $7.4 million, she reasoned, the much larger ring would probably sell for more than $15 million.\nIn Cosmopolitan UK, readers were asked about their preference of engagement rings: \"big and bling\" or \"understated and simple.\" Then the writer injected her own opinion: \"Well, after seeing [this] ring, your dream scenario may just hit new, extravagant heights of sparkling, shiny beauty.\"\nThe writer concluded that although this style might not be for everyone, and that less-is-more is just as beautiful and elegant, \"there's no denying that this would turn a few heads. Do you fancy yourself sparkling in it?\"\nAt Marie Claire, the style writer asked her readers, \"Would you wear it, if you could? Is this really the dream engagement ring?\"\n\"Knowing that your carat count is higher than Mariah, Kim K and Ciara\u2019s combined would be a pretty fun statement to throw around at parties,\" she wrote, \"and there\u2019s no doubt you\u2019re going to turn heads with this, blinding all onlookers.\"\nShe conceded, however, that with a rock that big, some people would think the diamond was a \"shard of cubic zirconia.\"\nA writer at WhoWhatWear.com admitted the 80-carat diamond engagement ring was unlike any jewelry she's ever seen.\n\"We came across the hugest diamond engagement ring we've seen in a long time. Scratch that\u2014it's the hugest one ever,\" she wrote. \"The emerald-cut stone is a whopping 80 carats! We can only imagine what it feels like to put a ring like that on your finger. It's nearly half the size of the model's hand and is probably pretty heavy. In any case, it's stunningly beautiful.\"\nAnd Brit + Co. summed it up perfectly, when a style writer concluded, \"Just when you thought you couldn\u2019t possibly be shocked by the size of a diamond after seeing examples like Ciara\u2019s jaw-droppingly giant engagement ring and double-band diamond sparkler wedding ring, BAM, here\u2019s an 80-carat engagement ring to totally blow your mind. That\u2019s right, 80-whopping-carats of stunning diamond beauty that is truly beyond spectacular.\"\nCredit: Instagram.com/jsdiamonds.\nMusic Friday: Cowboy With a Cheating Heart Learns a Valuable Life Lesson in Kenny Rogers' 'If You Want to Find Love'\nHey, it's Music Friday when we bring you fabulous songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the lyrics or title. Today, a cowboy learns a valuable life lesson in Kenny Rogers' 1991 hit, \"If You Want to Find Love.\"\nCo-written by Rogers, Skip Ewing and Max D. Barnes, the song uses multiple jewelry and precious metal references to tell the story of two strangers who meet in a bar. The man has a cheating heart, but the woman sets him straight.\nShe reacts to the cowboy's advances with the following advice: \"If you wanna find gold / Go looking in the mountains / If you wanna find silver / Go digging in stones / If you wanna find heaven / Go reading in the Bible / If you wanna find love / Go looking at home.\"\nLater in the song, the woman focuses on the cowboy's wedding band. Rogers sings, \"She touched the gold ring on his finger / And held it to the jukebox light / And she said, 'Stranger, think what you're losing / If you leave here with me tonight.\"\n\"If You Want to Find Love\" was released as the first single from Back Home Again, the county music superstar's 24th studio album. The single reached #11 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.\nBorn in Houston in 1938, Kenneth Ray \"Kenny\" Rogers is one of the most successful country artists of all time. He has charted more than 120 singles and topped the country and pop album charts for more than 200 individual weeks. In all, he has sold more than 120 million records worldwide and, amazingly, charted a record within each of the last seven decades.\nThe soon-to-be 78-year-old (his birthday is August 21) announced in 2015 that he would be retiring from show business after a final tour, which he is calling \"The Gambler\u2019s Last Deal.\u201d Shows will run through April of 2017.\nPlease check out the video of Rogers' live performance of \"If You Want To Find Love.\" The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...\n\"If You Want To Find Love\"\nWritten by Skip Ewing, Max D. Barnes and Kenny Rogers. Performed by Kenny Rogers.\nHe was sitting on a bar stool\nA picture from a cheating song\nShe'd been standing by the jukebox\nDropping quarters all night long.\nHe said, tell me: are you lonely?\nIs there some place we can go?\nShe said: cowboy, you know I'm lonely\nBut there's something you should know:\nGo looking in the mountains\nIf you wanna find silver\nGo digging in stones\nGo reading in the Bible\nIf you wanna find love\nGo looking at home.\nShe touched the gold ring on his finger\nAnd held it to the jukebox light\nAnd she said. Stranger, think what you're losing\nIf you leave here with me tonight.\nSo he pulled her body closer\nShe felt feelings she'd never known\nAnd he said: thank you, for the lesson\nAnd if you need me I'll be at home.\nCredit: Kenny Rogers by Eva Rinaldi [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.\nEngagement Diamond Given by Olympian Michael Phelps to Nicole Johnson Symbolizes a 'Pool of Love'\nIf you've been mesmerized by the swimming feats of Olympic legend Michael Phelps, you may be equally impressed by his taste in bridal jewelry. The engagement ring you see here was presented by Phelps to former Miss California Nicole Johnson when he proposed to her in February of 2015.\nExactly a year later, Johnson posted a closeup of the ring and offered a peek into the symbolism of the large oval-cut diamond center stone and what seem to be shield-shaped side stones.\nShe wrote: \"[The] center is a pool representing our pool of love and each side stone is shaped like rain drops that continue to fill our pool. Thank you @intagemsanddiamonds for helping @m_phelps00 create the most beautiful ring I've ever seen. #imnotbiased #ringselfie #rings #engaged #soontobemrs\"\nHer February post was well received by her 303,000 followers as it generated 15,400 likes and 1,081 comments.\nInterestingly, Johnson knows a lot about fine jewelry and is more than comfortable behind a loupe. She earned an Accredited Jewelry Professional designation through the Gemological Institute of America in 2011 and worked as an assistant marketing manager and sales associate for Los Angeles-based INTA Gems & Diamonds. Among her accomplishments at the firm was assisting in the design and development of the official crown for the Miss California Teen USA pageant. (Note: GIA's AJP designation has been renamed from Accredited Jewelry Professional to Applied Jewelry Professional.)\nWhile Phelps became the biggest story of the Rio Olympic Games, NBC's television cameras repeatedly cut away to emotional shots of the swimmer's supportive fianc\u00e9e and their new baby, Boomer Robert Phelps, who was born on May 5th.\nPhelps entered the Rio Games as the most decorated Olympian in history, with 22 medals, including 18 golds. As a 31-year-old, he added five golds and a silver during eight grueling days of competition \u2014 a competition that he says will be his last. He won his 23rd, and final, Olympic gold medal Saturday night by swimming his best stroke, the butterfly, in the 4x100 medley.\nPhelps and Johnson met at the ESPY Awards in 2007 and have dated since 2009. They announced their engagement in February of 2015 and their wedding is scheduled for the end of this year.\nCredits: Images via Instagram/nicole.m.johnson.\nRed, White and Blue Earrings Return to Olympic Competition With U.S. Gymnastics Team Captain Aly Raisman\nAfter completing her near-flawless floor routine for which she earned a 15.433, U.S. gymnastics team captain Aly Raisman burst into tears when she realized she had edged out Russia's Aliya Mustafina for the Olympic silver medal in the women's all-around competition.\nAs NBC's cameras zoomed in on the thrilling and emotional moment in Rio, we noticed that Raisman was wearing a very familiar pair of red, white and blue stud earrings \u2014 the lucky earrings she wore four years earlier at the London Games.\nThe Newton, Mass., native said at the time that the earrings were her good luck charms and that she had rarely taken them off. Raisman wore them when she qualified for her all-around final, during pre-Olympic interviews and even during her Sports Illustrated cover shoot.\nDesigned by her hometown jeweler, Adamas Fine Jewelry, the simple earring feature round rubies and sapphires surrounding a larger round diamond.\n\u201cI designed the white-gold earrings in a shape of a starburst with red, white and blue stones,\u201d Adamas co-owner Anto Aboyan told JCK magazine in 2012. \u201cAly is representing the U.S., so it was a fitting design and color scheme.\u201d\n\u201cI love the patriotism look,\u201d Raisman told Boston\u2019s Channel 7 News.\nThe jeweler had gifted the earrings to Raisman without knowing whether the world-class gymnast would be allowed to wear them during the Olympic competitions.\nOfficially, the Olympic Committee has no formal rules about the subject. Instead, the governing body of each sport sets its own rules. Gymnasts may wear earrings as long as they are simple studs (one in each ear).\nWith more than 31 million viewers glued to their TVs on Thursday night as the 22-year-old Raisman and 19-year-old dynamo Simone Biles scored a silver/gold exacta for the U.S. in the women's all-around competition, we're wondering how many people watching at home were secretly coveting their own pair of patriotic starburst earrings.\nCredits: Aly Raisman screen captures via YouTube.com. Earring studs photo by Adamas Fine Jewelry. Aly Raisman by Ag\u00eancia Brasil Fotografias [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.\nU.S. Gymnastics Team Leotards Radiate With 4,000 Swarovski Crystals\nWhen the U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics team overpowered its competition to defend the gold medal in the team all-around competition at the 2016 Summer Games in Rio the athletes were certainly dressed for the success. Their patriotic leotards radiated with 4,000 white and red Swarovski crystals.\nTeammates Simone Biles, Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez and Madison Kocian beamed with confidence, thanks to GK Elite, the official outfitter of the U.S. national team.\nKelly McKeown, executive vice president at GK Elite, told USA Today how her company designed the leotards to deliver the maximum impact for a world stage. GK worked with U.S. Olympics gymnastics coach Martha Koroly to make sure they were creating a \"wow\" moment for the athletes.\n\"Marta has said it many times: 'It has to be like a prom dress.' She wants them to walk out and look regal, and unique and exquisite and dynamic. She\u2019s not interested in having something very plain. She wants it to be their day out there.\"\nEach athlete was outfitted with 12 practice leotards at $60 to $200 each, and eight competition leotards priced from $700 to $1,200, depending on the number of crystals used in the design. A U.S. female gymnast's Olympic wardrobe can cost upward of $12,000.\n\"They prepared their whole lives to be out there, in the biggest arena in the entire world,\" McKeown said. \"You have to feel beautiful. It feeds into how you feel when you walk out there. It's a combination of morale boost and confidence and everything they are trying to achieve.\"\nThe stunning leotards seemed to have a light source of their own. Joked McKeown, \"People keep asking me, 'So where do you hide the battery packs? Because it looks like they are glowing.' I laugh because it\u2019s all the fastening of the crystal.\"\nIn Olympics past, the task of affixing crystals to a leotard was an expensive, manual task. The leotard worn by American Nastia Liukin in Beijing eight years ago, for example, featured 184 crystals that were mostly hand-placed.\nCrystal-application technology has come a long way since then, McKeown reported. GK Elite now has specialized bejeweling equipment that can robotically place a variety of crystal colors in a infinite range of designs.\nCredit: Image by Ag\u00eancia Brasil Fotografias [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.\nChinese Aristocrat Farong Wore These Fabulous Earrings 1,500 Years Ago\nFifteen hundred years ago in Datong City, China, there lived an aristocrat named Farong. The wife of Magistrate Cui Zhen, Farong owned an elaborate pair of gold earrings that demonstrated meticulous craftsmanship and amazing technical prowess.\nThe earrings were beautiful from every angle. From one view, one could see the likenesses of a human figure flanked by dragons.\nThe detailing was extraordinary. The human figure on the earrings had curly hair, deep-set eyes and a high nose. The character wore a pendant with a sequin-bead pattern on the neck and had inverted lotus flowers carved under its shoulders.\nFrom the side, admirers would marvel at the round and teardrop-shaped adornments inlaid with multicolored gemstones. Delicate gold chains hanging from cabochon-cut amethysts dangled below, and one could imaging how they would have draped down the sides of Farong's face.\nAlso among her prized possessions was an elaborate necklace made from 5,000 pearls, gold pieces, crystals and colored glass beads.\nA team of Chinese archaeologists with the Datong Municipal Institute of Archaeology unearthed Farong's tomb when they were surveying the area before a construction project. Although her skeleton was badly decomposed, her exquisite jewelry \u2014 which had been buried with her \u2014 remained in near-pristine condition. Farong's story was originally reported in the Chinese journal Wenwu and translated into English in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics.\nThe necklace consisted of 10 large and small gold beads, nine flat gold pieces, two crystals, 42 natural pearls and more than 4,800 colorful glass beads. The archaeologists explained that the small beads were \"the size of millet grains, some black and some green, and all are [flattened], each with a perforation in the middle.\"\nAlthough the thread on which the 5,000 beads were strung had disintegrated long ago, the beads remained in their original positions, making the reconstruction of the piece much easier for the archaeologists.\nFarong's epitaph was discovered at the tomb's entrance. Carved into a stone tablet was the phrase: \"Han Farong, the wife of Magistrate Cui Zhen.\" Han is her surname. (In China, the surname was traditionally written first and the given name second, according to Live Science.)\nFarong lived in the capital of Datong City, about 215 miles west of Beijing, during the latter part of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-534). Her age at death was unknown, but the story of her fine jewelry may live on forever.\nCredits: Photos courtesy of Chinese Cultural Relics.\nMusic Friday: Couple Breaks Up During Honeymoon; Now All That's Left Is a 'Band of Gold,' Sings Freda Payne\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you great throwback songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. In today's installment, we time travel to Hollywood's Soul Train sound stage, where Freda Payne is singing her biggest hit, \"Band of Gold.\"\nThe song is about a young couple that rushes into marriage only to find out on their honeymoon that they are incompatible. He takes off, and she remains in a darkened room, dreaming of what could have been.\nAlthough the woman yearns for her estranged husband to return to her, deep in her heart she knows that all that remains of the relationship is the ring on her finger and the memories of their time together.\nShe sings, \"Now that you're gone / All that's left is a band of gold / All that's left of the dreams I hold / Is a band of gold / And the memories of what love could be / If you were still here with me.\"\nReleased in April 1970, the song became a instant hit with worldwide sales of more than two million records. \"Band of Gold\" ascended to #3 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and was #1 in the U.K. for six consecutive weeks. It was Payne's first gold record and remains her signature song 46 years later.\nInterestingly, Payne originally refused to record the song when it was offered to her by co-writer Ron Dunbar. She didn't like the lyrics and didn't like the idea of a relationship falling apart during a honeymoon.\nDunbar encouraged Payne to perform the song, despite her reluctance. He said, \"Don't worry. You don't have to like [the lyrics]. Just learn [them].\"\nPayne agreed, and the rest is history. In 2004, \"Band of Gold\" was voted #391 in Rolling Stone magazine's listing of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.\nPayne told authors Jon Kutner and Spencer Leigh that she had no idea that \"Band of Gold\" would be such a big hit.\nBorn in Detroit in 1942, Freda Charcilia Payne grew up listening to jazz singers, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. As a teenager, she attended the Detroit Institute of Musical Arts and her first professional jobs were singing radio commercial jingles. In 1963, she moved to New York City and worked with many different entertainers, including Quincy Jones and Pearl Bailey. She release her first album in 1964, but didn't hit it big until she returned to Detroit in 1969 and signed with the record label Invictus.\nBy 1970, Payne was a household name, thanks to the success of \"Band of Gold.\"\nPlease check out the video of Payne's Soul Train performance of today's featured song. The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...\nWritten by Ronald Dunbar and Edythe Wayne. Performed by Freda Payne.\nNow that you're gone,\nAll that's left is a band of gold\nAll that's left of the dreams I hold\nIs a band of gold\nAnd the memories of what love could be\nIf you were still here with me\nYou took me from the shelter of my mother\nI had never known or loved any other\nWe kissed after taking vows\nBut that night on our honeymoon,\nWe stayed in separate rooms\nI wait in the darkness of my lonely room\nHoping soon\nThat you'll walk back through that door\nAnd the dream of what love could be\nDon't you know that I wait\nIn the darkness of my lonely room\nCredit: By CBS Television [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.\nBulgarian Archaeologists Unearth World's Oldest Gold Artifact; Tiny Bead Dates Back 6,500 Years\nIt's barely 4mm in width and weighs a scant .005 ounces, but this gold bead from a prehistoric settlement in southern Bulgaria may be the world's oldest gold artifact.\nArchaeologists made the discovery at a site just outside the modern town of Pazardzhik. They dated the gold bead to some time between 4,500 to 4,600 BC, making it about 200 years older than the gold artifacts found in Bulgaria's Black Sea city of Varna back in 1972.\nThe gold found at the Varna Necropolis was previously believed to be the oldest evidence of gold metallurgy. The burial site at Varna is considered one of the key archaeological sites in world prehistory and included a total of 294 graves containing 3,000 gold artifacts.\nDespite that massive discovery, the archaeologists at Pazardzhik believe their tiny bead is historic.\n\"I have no doubt that it is older than the Varna gold,\" Yavor Boyadzhiev, associate professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Science, told Reuters. \"It's a really important discovery. It is a tiny piece of gold but big enough to find its place in history.\"\nThe tiny gold bead looks a lot like the tube-shaped, short-cut pasta preschoolers might use to string a Mother's Day necklace.\nThe bead was found in the remains of a small house. Among the other artifacts found at the site were 150 ceramic birds, an indication that they may have been worshipped by the locals.\nBoyadzhiev told Reuters that he believes the bead was fabricated at the site, which was the first \"urban\" settlement in Europe. He said the townspeople were highly cultured and had migrated there from Anatolia (in today's Turkey) around 6,000 BC. The settlement covered 25 to 30 acres and was protected by a nine-foot-tall fortress wall.\nThe professor noted that there is evidence that the settlement was destroyed in 4,100 BC by a rival tribe that invaded from the north.\nOnce the bead is thoroughly studied, it will be handed over to the historical museum in Pazardzhik for public exhibition.\nCredits: Screen captures via YouTube.com/PBS News Hour. Varna tomb image by Yelkrokoyade [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Map by Google Maps.\nMiranda Lambert Accepts Pink Engagement Ring from Six-Year-Old Fan, Promises to Tie the Knot in 25 Years\nCountry singer Miranda Lambert stunned the crowd at New Jersey's MetLife Stadium on Saturday when she interrupted her set to flash a pink ring and announce her engagement \u2014 to a six-year-old superfan.\n\"I have to tell you something really important,\" she said. \"I got engaged today.\"\nInstantly, the crowd erupted in applause.\nBut then she added a few critical facts: \"There's a little 6-year-old boy somewhere here named Sebastian. He asked me to marry him and I said, 'Yes, in 25 years.'\"\nThen, she held the ring up near her face and said, \"Isn't this beautiful?\"\n\"When he came to my meet and greet, he got down on one knee and he was such a gentleman,\" she continued. \"It may be my favorite proposal ever\u2026 'Cause, girls, we deserve that. We deserve that. So, that being said, thank you, Sebastian.\"\nThe pint-sized Romeo reportedly bought the ring with his own money back in December and waited for Saturday's concert date to deliver his proposal.\nA stroke of good luck allowed Sebastian to attend a meet-and-greet before the show even though he didn't have the proper credentials to get in.\nSarah Goddard, who did possess the required meet-and-greet sticker, was approached by the adorable suitor before the concert. Sebastian asked Goddard if she would propose to Lambert on his behalf.\nGoddard had a better plan.\n\"I told his mom he could come in with me 'as my son' so he could propose to Miranda himself,\" Goddard told People.\nThe 32-year-old Grammy winner, who split with Blake Shelton in 2015 and has been dating Anderson East since December, was absolutely floored by the character of the young man.\nThe next day, Lambert reported the big news to her 2.8 million followers on Instagram and included a collage of two photos accompanied by this caption: \"I said YES! But he has to wait 25 years. This sweet boy Sebastian is a little gentleman. #pinkring #proposal #mademyday #jersey #spreadthelovetour\"\nThe post already has generated 176,000 likes and 1,915 comments, such as this one from @mamassoul: \"This is the sweetest EVER... You are an amazing woman @mirandalambert and I am sure little Sebastian had his heart FULL of every emotion possible!!! Way to go girl!!!\nCredit: Instagram/Miranda Lambert.\nFine Jewelry Worn by Fashionable First Lady Nancy Reagan to Hit the Auction Block at Christie's Next Month\nEighty-three pieces of fine jewelry worn by fashionable First Lady Nancy Reagan are set to hit the auction block at Christie's New York in September. A live auction will take place on September 21 and 22, and an online auction will run from September 19-28.\nAmong the items from The Private Collection of President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan are necklaces, earrings, bracelets, pendants and brooches with an estimated value of $280,000. Experts believe the jewelry could easily surpass the auction house's high estimates because the pre-sale prices reflect their current market value, while the provenance of the items was largely left off the table.\nThe most expensive piece in the First Lady's collection is a diamond-and-gold lion pendant/brooch necklace designed by Van Cleef & Arpels. It was one of Reagan's favorite pieces and she was photographed wearing it several times, most famously during her 1988 state visit to the U.K. The necklace, which can be broken down into four bracelets, was described as \"iconic\" and \"so wearable\" by Tom Burstein, senior vice president, jewelry department at Christie's, during an interview with CNN. The piece is estimated to sell for $30,000 to $50,000.\nThe companion diamond-and-gold ear clips should fetch $15,000 to $20,000.\nA close look at this beautiful portrait of Nancy Reagan with the U.S. Capitol in the background reveals her cultured pearl-and-diamond ear clips, the same items that will be offered for sale at Christie's.\nReagan, who passed away in March at the age of 94, was photographed wearing these during a 1982 reception at the Capitol Mall marking the first-ever edition of USA Today. Christie's estimated the sale price to range from $1,000 to $1,500.\nThe most patriotic piece in the group is a red, white and blue ring by Bulgari. Featuring diamonds, sapphires and rubies, the octagonal-shaped ring has an American flag motif. The estimate selling price is $5,000 to $8,000. The First Lady appropriately wore this ring on July 4, 1986, at an event supporting the restoration of the Statue of Liberty.\n\"It's a beautiful ring that is drawing the most attention so far,\" Burstein told CNN. \"It will be the highlight.\"\nAmong the most classically stylish items in Reagan's collection is a gold-and-diamond bangle bracelet, also by Bulgari. The textured 18-karat gold bracelet is intersected by diagonal platinum and circular-cut diamond rows. The First Lady wore this often at state dinners. The estimate selling price is being set at $5,000 to $7,000.\nIn addition to fine jewelry, Christie's will be auctioning more than 600 items, including furniture, decorative works of art, books, memorabilia, paintings, drawings and prints from President and Mrs. Reagan\u2019s home in Los Angeles. In total, the auction is expected to generate more than $2 million.\nProceeds from the auction will benefit The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute.\nCredits: Jewelry images by Christie's. President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan images via The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.\nWorld's Largest Pearl Was Hidden Under Fisherman's Bed for 10 Years; 75-Pound Marvel Could Be Worth $100M\nUnaware of its multi-million-dollar value, a Filipino fisherman kept a 75-pound natural pearl under his bed as a good luck charm \u2014 for 10 years. Every time he would head out to sea, he would touch the pearl to ensure his safety and good fortune.\nThe fisherman had found the pearl by chance when his boat's anchor got caught up on a giant clam. When the fisherman dove down to the ocean floor to release the snag, he discovered in the clam what many experts believe is the world's largest natural pearl.\nMeasuring 12 inches wide and 26 inches long, the scallop-shaped pearl looks like it grew to fill the void inside of the shell. If found to be authentic, the pearl \u2014 discovered near Puerto Princesa City, about 500 miles southwest of the capital city of Manila \u2014 could be worth in excess of $100 million. The fisherman had been completely unaware of his potential windfall.\nThe fisherman recently entrusted the amazing pearl to Aileen Cynthia Maggay-Amurao, a relative who works for the Puerto Princesa tourism office. He asked her to take custody of the unwieldy good luck charm because he was about to move outside the province and couldn't take it with him.\nRecognizing the pearl's potential star power, she asked the fisherman if he would approve of the pearl going on display as the city's newest tourist attraction. He agreed, and now the \"Pearl of Puerto\" is housed in the Atrium of the New Green City Hall.\nMaggay-Amurao is encouraging gemologists to visit the city to study the pearl and make a determination of its authenticity.\nOn Facebook, Maggay-Amurao posted a few photos of the giant pearl balanced on a large scale. Her caption read, \u201cThe Puerto Princesa City would likely earn another prestigious title and a record breaker for having the world\u2019s biggest natural giant pearl from a giant clam (34 kilograms) after being certified for its authenticity. Need help from gemologists!\"\nA natural pearl forms when an irritant, such as a grain of sand, slips in between the mollusk\u2019s shell and its mantle tissue. To protect itself from the irritant, the mollusk secretes layer upon layer of nacre, which is an iridescent calcium carbonate material that eventually coats the invader and produces a pearl.\nGiant clams can live for over 100 years and grow to be about four feet wide and weigh more than 500 pounds.\nThe $100 million valuation is based on another giant pearl that was found in the same area back in 1939. Called the Pearl of Lao Tzu, the previous record-holder weighed 14.1 pounds and was valued at $93 million by a Colorado gemologist in 2003. The Pearl of Puerto weighs more than five times as much as the Pearl of Lao Tzu and, for the record, a 75-pound pearl is equivalent to 170,000 carats.\nAlthough the fisherman has allowed the city to display his extraordinary find, he retains his ownership status. Only time will tell what kind of payday the sale of the pearl may yield.\nCredits: Images via Facebook.com/City.Government.of.Puerto.Princesa; Facebook/Aileen Cynthia Maggay-Amurao; GoogleMaps.com.\nMusic Friday: 'Everybody Get Golden,' Urges Parade of Lights' Lead Vocalist Ryan Daly\nWelcome to Music Friday when we bring you new tunes with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics. Today, Parade of Lights' lead vocalist Ryan Daly urges us to get \"golden\" in the 2014 release of the same name.\nThe Los Angeles-based electronic rock band uses the word \"golden\" as a metaphor for youthful spirit in a dance anthem that manages to harness the group's frenetic energy and deliver a message of hope.\nIn the powerful hook, Daly sings, \"Everybody get golden / Everybody get golden / And put your hands up to the sky / Everybody get golden / Just for tonight / Everybody get golden / So we can go until we shine.\"\n\"Golden\" was originally released as the title track of the band's 2014 EP. It then reappeared as the fourth track on the band's 2015 LP titled Feeling Electric. The EP charted at #44 on the Billboard US Top Heatseekers Albums list, and the LP ascended to #24 on the Billboard US Dance Electronic Albums list.\nWriters love to use the term \"golden\" to describe the exuberance of youth. We've discussed this phenomenon while reviewing a number of popular songs for this column, including Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s \u201cWe\u2019ll Be the Stars,\u201d Stevie Wonder's \"Stay Gold,\" and First Aid Kit's \u201cStay Gold.\u201d Each of those songs was likely inspired by Robert Frost\u2019s eight-line poem, \u201cNothing Gold Can Stay.\u201d\nIn that poem, which was originally published in 1923, Frost writes about striving to hold onto the wondrous, pure, innocent and exciting \u201cgoldenness\u201d of youth.\nHis poem begins with these two lines, \u201cNature\u2019s first green is gold / Her hardest hue to hold,\u201d and ends with these, \u201cSo dawn goes down to day / Nothing gold can stay.\u201d\nFormed in 2010, Parade of Lights features the talents of Ryan Daly (lead vocals/guitarist), Anthony Improgo (drummer), Randy Schulte (bassist) and Michelle Ashley (keyboardist). The group was signed by Astralwerks in 2014 and released its first LP a year later.\nThe Parade of Lights official website defines the group's mission: \"Making music is a matter of turning their shared obsessions with distortion-drenched shoegaze, heady synth-pop and epic stadium rock into a hook-heavy, yet deeply inventive, alt-electro hybrid.\"\nPlease check out the video of the group's exciting live performance of \"Golden.\" The lyrics are below if you'd like to sing along...\nWritten and performed by Parade of Lights.\nWe\u2019re gonna shake the ground tonight\nI lose myself under the lights, oh\nI put my hands up to the sky\nI feel it come alive\nAnd put your hands up to the sky\nSo we can go until we shine\nNow it\u2019s as good as it can get\nSilver hills and silhouettes, oh\nYou press your hands against my chest\nThis isn\u2019t over yet\nEureka! 145-Ounce 'Friday's Joy' Is the Latest Huge Nugget to Be Discovered in Australia's Golden Triangle\nAn Aussie metal-detector enthusiast was sure he had discovered a piece of rubbish \u2014 possibly an old horseshoe \u2014 when his device signaled a sizable find in Central Victoria\u2019s storied Golden Triangle last week.\nWhat he pulled from the ground was a 145-ounce (4.12kg) gold nugget worth nearly $200,000.\n\u201cI really couldn\u2019t believe my eyes,\" said the amateur prospector, who wishes to remain anonymous. \"This wasn\u2019t an old piece of steel in front of me. I had just unearthed a colossal gold nugget \u2013 a once-in-a-lifetime find! I was in total disbelief as I didn\u2019t think nuggets of this size were still around.\u201d\nThe lucky Aussie named the nugget \"Friday's Joy\" to honor the day on which it was discovered.\nOnly a day earlier, the same man had found a nine-ounce, near-round gold nugget using his Minelab flagship GPZ 7000 metal detector. Based on that success, he decided to return for more.\nBack in March 2015, we reported on a massive 87-ounce gold nugget that was also discovered in Central Victoria\u2019s Golden Triangle. Metal-detector enthusiast Mick Brown named the nugget \"Fair Dinkum,\" an Aussie term that means \u201cfor real.\u201d It had a precious metal value of $102,000, but eventually sold at auction for $175,000.\nNews of these incredible finds has sparked a mini Gold Rush in Central Victoria as weekend warriors are heading out to Victoria's historic goldfields to test their luck. The Sydney Morning Herald reported a business surge for area hotels, restaurants and hardware stores, where amateur prospectors can source their own metal detectors. The area's first Gold Rush period was in the 1850s.\n\"Friday\u2019s Joy\" is not the biggest gold nugget ever found in the Land Down Under. That distinction goes to \"The Welcome Stranger,\" which was discovered near Moliagul, Victoria, in 1869. That nugget weighed a staggering 2,300 ounces (143.75 pounds) and would have a precious metal value today of more than $3 million.\nAfter finding the nugget during a prospecting outing with some friends, the anonymous owner of \"Friday's Joy\" really didn't know what to do with his miraculous find.\n\u201cIt\u2019s like catching a big fish and not knowing what to do with it! Where do we put it? I washed it in water, covered it in aluminum foil and kept it in my oven on the first night,\u201d he reportedly said.\n\"Friday\u2019s Joy\" is now sitting safely in a bank vault while the owner is having a replica made.\nDespite the huge windfall, the anonymous prospector has no plans of quitting his job or retiring, according to reports. Instead, he'll invest some of the proceeds in a new van so he can spend more time traveling across Australia, mixing sightseeing excursions and gold prospecting along the way.\nCredits: Friday's Joy images courtesy of Minelab. Screen capture of Fair Dinkum via 9NEWS, Australia.\nPolish Olympian With a Heart of Gold Sells Silver Medal to Fund a Child's Cancer Treatment\nPolish Olympian Piotr Malachowski, who won a silver medal in the discus throw at the 2016 Rio Games, put his cherished medal up for auction last week to help pay for the treatment of a three-year-old boy with a rare form of eye cancer.\nThe boy, Olek Szymanski, has a condition called retinoblastoma, a malignant cancer that mostly affects children. Treatment of the cancer is very complex and demands the expertise of surgeons in New York City.\nMalachowski hoped to raise $84,000, which is two-thirds of the $126,000 cost of the surgery. A Polish foundation called Siepomaga had pledged to pay one-third of the fee.\nOn his Facebook page Malachowski wrote, \"In Rio, I fought for gold. Today I appeal to everyone. Let\u2019s fight together for something that is even more precious \u2014 the health of this fantastic boy.\u201d\nOn Tuesday of last week, with the bidding at $19,000, Malachowski announced that he was closing the eBay auction.\nMalachowski's selfless efforts to assist the little boy had caught the attention of Polish billionaire siblings Dominika and Sebastian Kulczyk, who agreed to buy the silver medal and cover the costs of young Olek's treatment.\n\"We were able to show that together we can do wonders,\" the 33-year-old Malachowski wrote. \"My silver medal today is worth a lot more than a week ago. It is worth the life and health of a small Olek. It is our great shared success.\"\nAccording to The Washington Post, Malachowski learned of the child\u2019s illness from the boy\u2019s mother, who wrote to him asking for his help.\nThe giant man with a heart of gold is a two-time Olympic medalist. In 2008, he won a silver medal in the discus event at the Beijing Games.\nCredits: Images via Facebook/Piotr Ma\u0142achowski.\n402-Carat Stunner Highlights ALROSA's Auction of 'Special Size' Rough Diamonds\nDiamantaires from the four corners of the earth have converged on the picturesque Pacific port city of Vladivostok, Russia, to get a chance to bid on ALROSA's \"special size\" rough diamonds, the largest of which tips the scales at 401.97 carats.\nBidders are vying for 19 diamond lots boasting a total weight of 1,098 carats. What all the rough diamonds have in common is a weight of 10 carats or more and an origin at one of ALROSA's diamond mines. The Russian diamond company currently operates 11 kimberlite pipes and 16 alluvial deposits, producing 38.3 million carats of rough diamonds annually.\nRunning concurrently with the International Auction of Special Size Rough Diamonds will be ALROSA's Polished Diamond Tender. The most coveted of the 28 diamonds up for sale is a 40.25-carat round. Eighteen of the 28 gems are fancy colored and five polished diamonds weigh more than 5 carats.\nA total of 30 companies from the U.S., Hong Kong, Israel, India, Belgium and Russia were handpicked to attend ALROSA's diamond events in Vladivostok. It is the first time ALROSA has held its auctions in this city, which overlooks Golden Horn Bay, near the borders of China and North Korea.\nDiamonds will be on display through September 2, with the Rough and Polished auctions taking place on September 3.\nCredits: Diamond images courtesy of ALROSA. Map via GoogleMaps.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 574, "original_length": 63643, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://northcountrychamberplayers.org/project/sophie-scolnik-brower/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:30Z", "digest": "sha1:SADIVJH3IOZZ47L7AZVFGENRR5SFS4JC", "length": 1423, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "northcountrychamberplayers.org", "title": "SOPHIE SCOLNIK-BROWER, piano", "raw_content": "SOPHIE SCOLNIK-BROWER\nPianist Sophie Scolnik-Brower has performed across the United States and abroad at La Jolla Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, L\u2019Acad\u00e9mie Internationale d\u2019Et\u00e9 in Nice, Pablo Casals Festival, and on WGBH Radio (Boston). Having completed her graduate studies in the studio of Vivian Weilerstein at the New England Conservatory in 2016, she now frequently performs with her piano trio, the Beacon Street Trio, and with Mistral Music. Previous teachers and coaches include Kim Kashkashian, Lucy Chapman, Max Levinson, Randall Hodgkinson, Robert Levin, and the Boston Trio. She has performed in Jordan Hall in 2014 and 2016 as a winner of NEC\u2019s Honors Chamber Music competition, as well as in 2015 as recipient of the Borromeo String Quartet\u2019s Guest Artist Award. Most recently, she performed extensively as a fellowship artist with her piano trio at La Jolla Music Festival\u2019s SummerFest in 2016, receiving guidance from luminaries such as Cho-Liang Lin and Itzhak Perlman. Scolnik-Brower graduated Magna cum laude in 2012 from Harvard University with a B.A. in psychology, followed by a year as an AmeriCorps volunteer for at-risk New York City high school students. Deeply passionate about music education in underserved communities, Scolnik-Brower has spent part of the last few summers teaching piano in Haiti and hopes to continue to do so in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2018, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 140.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://novels.zerosilver.com/wordpress/?p=991", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:21Z", "digest": "sha1:MZPP6JP2PNHT7PSG32K26ZHMUMNTWMTU", "length": 3606, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "novels.zerosilver.com", "title": "The Fellowship of the Ring | Novaun Novels", "raw_content": "January 27, 2016 / Katherine Padilla / Comments Off on The Fellowship of the Ring\nThe Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien (fantasy)\nWe are told in the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring that Saruman the White is the most powerful of the wizards in Middle-earth and trusted by wizards and Elves as a wise, formidable enemy to Sauron, the Dark Lord. When Gandalf the Grey goes to Saruman for help, he learns that Saruman is no longer working to destroy Sauron but to supplant him and has, therefore, become a traitor. Here is a piece of this conversation as Gandalf tells it in Book 2, Chapter 2:\n\u201c\u2018For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!\u201d\n\u201c\u2018White!\u201d he sneered. \u201cIt serves as a beginning, White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.\u201d\n\u201c\u2018In which case it is no longer white,\u201d said I. \u201cAnd he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.\u201d\nSaruman believes that his new clothing is more beautiful than the original white. The change in his clothing, of course, parallels his personal transformation. Saruman started out good but after delving too much into the works of the enemy, he became the enemy. As the conversation continues, Gandalf sees that Saruman doesn\u2019t realize that he\u2019s following a familiar pattern. He thinks he\u2019s becoming independent, not evil.\nSaruman has created a fabric that looks like white at first glance but isn\u2019t. Even Gandalf doesn\u2019t discern the true color of the fabric until he looks closely at it. When he does finally make this observation, he is able to do so because he knows what true white really looks like. Making that distinction is not an easy task. White pigment with a drop of another color looks like white, but it isn\u2019t. Discerning the true nature of a color that looks like white would be impossible unless the observer has a firm image in his or her mind of what true white really looks like.\nThe thought that struck me as I pondered this idea was that the surest way to recognize evil when it masquerades as good is to have an unwavering image in our mind of what good looks like. I don\u2019t believe that making this judgment is possible without knowing, in a personal way, the source of the good, which is God. Such discernment is just as much about feeling God\u2019s influence with our spirits as it is about seeing and recognizing His works with our eyes.\nTolkien acknowledges this phenomenon in Book 1, Chapter 10 when Frodo and his companions are trying to decide whether to trust the ranger Strider or not. Frodo has just read a letter from Gandalf, who, in this story, acts as a representation of God or at least a representative of Him. To recognize Gandalf as good and to be his friend is to be on the side of right. Gandalf assures Frodo in the letter that Strider, whose real name is Aragorn, \u201cknows our business and will help you.\u201d Frodo says this to Strider:\n\u2018I believed that you were a friend before the letter came . . . or at least I wished to. You have frightened me several times tonight, but never in the way that servants of the Enemy would, or so I imagine. I think one of his spies would\u2014well, seem fairer and feel fouler, if you understand.\u2019\n\u2018I see,\u2019 laughed Strider. \u2018I look foul and feel fair. Is that it? All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.\u2019\nTolkien says more about this issue of discernment in The Two Towers, and I\u2019ll address another aspect of it in my next post.\nChristian Classics, Fantasy, Great Books Group\nChrist figuresfictionJ.R.R. Tolkienreligious themes\nMirrors of George MacDonald", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 177, "original_length": 10048, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://oeis.org/A046676", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:36Z", "digest": "sha1:PHURLVRGGOYAJUBQJKV7UGFF6TXB6THR", "length": 1460, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "oeis.org", "title": "A046676 - OEIS", "raw_content": "A046676 Expansion of 1 + Sum x^{p_1+p_2+...+p_k}/((1-x)(1-x^2)(1-x^3)...(1-x^k)), k=1..inf (where p_i are the primes). 6\n1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 17, 19, 23, 26, 31, 35, 41, 46, 54, 60, 69, 78, 89, 99, 113, 126, 143, 159, 179, 199, 224, 248, 277, 307, 343, 378, 421, 464, 515, 567, 628, 690, 763, 837, 923, 1012, 1115, 1219, 1340, 1465, 1607 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)\nRamanujan considered that this could equal the prime parts partition numbers A000607, but they differ from the 20th term on, cf. A192541. See A238804 for a correct variant, where the coefficient and power of x^{...} are adjusted to match A000607. - M. F. Hasler, Mar 06 2014\nB. C. Berndt and B. M. Wilson, Chapter 5 of Ramanujan's second notebook, pp. 49-78 of Analytic Number Theory (Philadelphia, 1980), Lect. Notes Math. 899, 1981, see Entry 29.\nGeorge E. Andrews, Arnold Knopfmacher, John Knopfmacher, Engel expansions and the Rogers-Ramanujan identities J. Number Theory 80 (2000), 273-290. See Eq. 2.1.\nt3:=1+add(q^sum(ithprime(i), i=1..j)/mul(1-q^i, i=1..j), j=1..51);\nt4:=series(t3, q, 50);\nt5:=seriestolist(%);\n(PARI) Vec(sum(i=0, 25, x^sum(k=1, i, prime(k))/prod(k=1, i, 1-x^k), O(x^99))) \\\\ M. F. Hasler, Mar 05 2014\n(PARI) A046676(n, S=1, P=1+O(x^(n+1)))={for(k=1, n, n 5.\na(n) = n + 2 + 3*floor((n-2)/5).\na(n) = (8*n + 4 - 3*((n+3) mod 5))/5.\na(5k) = 8k-1, a(5k-1) = 8k-2, a(5k-2) = 8k-3, a(5k-3) = 8k-4, a(5k-4) = 8k-8. (End)\nA047567:=n->8*floor(n/5)+[0, 4, 5, 6, 7][(n mod 5)+1]: seq(A047567(n), n=0..100); # Wesley Ivan Hurt, Aug 16 2016\nSelect[Range[0, 100], MemberQ[{0, 4, 5, 6, 7}, Mod[#, 8]]&] (* Harvey P. Dale, Apr 16 2014 *)\nLinearRecurrence[{1, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1}, {0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}, 50] (* G. C. Greubel, May 30 2016 *)\n(MAGMA) [n : n in [0..150] | n mod 8 in [0, 4, 5, 6, 7]]; // Wesley Ivan Hurt, Aug 16 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 2077, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 78.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://old.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=31053", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SAN3CCFK7YWUBSFTPYXCVHVT7ME7OMPT", "length": 780, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "old.civil.ge", "title": "Civil.Ge | Ruling Party Candidate Wins MP By-Elections", "raw_content": "Givi Chichinadze of the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia (GDDG) party has obtained victory in Saturday\u2019s MP by-elections in Khoni and Vani single-mandate constituency, as reported by the Central Election Commission (CEC).\nAccording to the vote tallies from all 60 polling stations, GDDG\u2019s Givi Chichinadze garnered 57.86% of votes, followed by Gigi Ugulava of the opposition European Georgia party with 38.38%. The remaining four candidates obtained 3.76% of votes in total.\nThe overall turnout in the by-elections was 57.9% (27,846 voters).\nThe International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy, which fielded a monitoring mission for the by-elections, said in its interim assessments today that the polls were held \u201clargely peacefully and without major violations.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 3232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 227.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://omnivorerecordings.com/shop/bellybutton/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:57Z", "digest": "sha1:MRPWKZKE2AUJOBVGZ3TVPNJN34XNFBF3", "length": 2057, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "omnivorerecordings.com", "title": "Jellyfish \u2014 Bellybutton \u2013 Omnivore Recordings", "raw_content": "Remastered classic!\nAll the bands we worshiped harmonized and wrote catchy hooks. That\u2019s what we want to do. It\u2019s very natural.\nJellyfish\u2019s two critically acclaimed and influential releases\u2014Bellybutton and Spilt Milk\u2014have found new life, being rediscovered and appreciated by generations new and old. Omnivore Recordings goes \u2019Fishing again with deluxe editions of these landmark albums, just in time for the anniversary of Bellybutton, which was originally released in August of 1990.\nBellybutton contains the original 10 track album in full, plus a whopping 26 bonus tracks. This 2-CD set, housed in a digipak, features material fans have been looking for, most of which has been unavailable for over a decade. In addition to demo and live versions of both released and unreleased tracks, in true Jellyfish fashion, the extra material includes covers of Paul McCartney & Wings, The Archies, and Donovan songs.\nFrom the demos to the album to the tour, this deluxe edition of Bellybutton is the ultimate Jellyfish experience!\nShe Still Loves Him\nNow She Knows She\u2019s Wrong\nBedspring Kiss\nBaby\u2019s Coming Back\nCalling Sarah\nThe King Is Half-Undressed (Live at the Roxy, Los Angeles)\nSugar And Spice (Live at the Roxy, Los Angeles)\nMr. Late (Live at the Roxy, Los Angeles)\nAll I Want Is Everything (Live at the Roxy, Los Angeles)\nJet (Hard Rock Caf\u00e9, San Francisco)\nThe King Is Half-Undressed (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)\nBaby\u2019s Coming Back (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)\nI Wanna Stay Home (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)\nShe Still Loves Him (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)\nAll I Want Is Everything (Live at Wembley Stadium, London)\nThe Man I Used To Be (Demo)\nThe King Is Half-Undressed (Demo)\nI Wanna Stay Home (Demo)\nShe Still Loves Him (Demo)\nAll I Want Is Everything (Demo)\nNow She Knows She\u2019s Wrong (Demo)\nBedspring Kiss (Demo)\nBaby\u2019s Coming Back (Demo)\nCalling Sarah (Demo)\nDeliver (Demo)\nQueen Of The U.S.A. (Demo)\nAlways Be My Girl (Demo)\nLet This Dream Never End (Demo)\nSeason Of The Witch (Demo)\nThat Girl\u2019s A Man (Demo)\nBye Bye Bye (Demo)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 4523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onlinegadgetnews.com/category/latest/?filter_by=featured", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:44Z", "digest": "sha1:NHYZATUKEFEPVHP7UT7GYCW5NTDQOQPU", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "onlinegadgetnews.com", "title": "Latest | Online Gadget News", "raw_content": "This 3D-printed robotic arm is built for sign language", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 1592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 189.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2638", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:15Z", "digest": "sha1:D2LRDJKWZCBGVEAFSC3ZHYL2D2BLFO52", "length": 4621, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "onlineopinion.com.au", "title": "'Greg and Marsha' can't stop John Howard remaking Australia in his own image - On Line Opinion - 11/10/2004", "raw_content": "'Greg and Marsha' can't stop John Howard remaking Australia in his own image\nBy Graham Young - posted Monday, 11 October 2004 Sign Up for free e-mail updates!\nIn his victory speech John Howard made it clear that this election win is the start of a new era. He envisaged a newly confident Australia taking its place in the world (as though it didn\u2019t already have a place). These sentiments no doubt reflect the psychological fact that this is an election victory that no-one can deny that Howard won fair and square. But in their high-flown sentiment, they belie the pragmatic, gritty (and sometimes grubby) real politic of the campaign.\nHoward\u2019s original 1996 win was an anti-Keating vote; in 1998 he failed to win the popular mandate, although taking a majority of seats; and in 2001 there was the Tampa. This election was won mainly on domestic issues and with nothing outside the political campaigner\u2019s usual stock in trade. Talk of him having stolen the election by an interest rates \u201cscare\u201d campaign is just the losers trying to work with what little they have to de-legitimise the win. Interest rates were just one strategic advantage the Government had to use; and the campaign was really one long struggle of strategic and tactical advantage against strategic and tactical advantage, often brilliantly waged.\nThe campaign started with the candidates defining it as \"truth\" versus \"trust\", a brilliant verbal manouevre because it contrasted Latham\u2019s promise with Howard\u2019s performance. Words against actions, it sidestepped moralistic arguments about means to focus on ends and hip-pockets.\nAt the leaders' debate they shifted their definitions. Howard ran on Labor's strong ground of Medicare, and Latham ran on the Coalition's strong ground of foreign affairs and defence. They wrestled around for a while on these issues, confusing their own voters, probably without gaining a single new voter.\nThen they shifted onto more familiar ground. Howard asserted his economic credentials and said that a Labor government would lead to higher interest rates. He linked a strong economy to the ability to deliver increased services, and demonstrated this by throwing carefully calibrated billions of dollars (inflated by calculating expenditure over periods of up to four years) at strategically important demographic groups. Labor pounced claiming that this reckless expenditure would undoubtedly lead to higher interest rates, contradicting earlier claims that governments have no effect on interest rates.\nThis was a plausible claim, except that past experience of this Liberal government and the previous Hawke and Keating governments, suggested to risk-averse voters that Howard might have a point.\nBy the end of the campaign, Labor had spent its own carefully calibrated billions on many of the same strategically important demographics, undermining their criticism of Howard's expenditure completely.\nVery few voters in our groups appeared to remember most of the policy pronouncements, but some impressions lingered. Latham won the original Medicare argument in most people's minds, but possibly then lost it with the overly ambitious Medicare Gold scheme. His schools policy also made an impact. For some it was positive but for others it was seen as the politics of envy, unfortunately reinforcing a view that Latham is too good a \"hater\".\nOn education the coalition bore the brunt of higher university fees, but countered by promising to spend money on technical education - a sure winner with the blue collar conservative voter.\nLabor's tax policy initially looked good, as it tidied up the holes in Costello's budget by providing tax relief to those earning less than $52,000 per annum, as well as removing some of the disincentives to move from welfare to work. Unfortunately it left some Australians worse off, which was exploited by the Government. They also countered with a range of measures, including a boost to childcare funding, another excursion into one of Labor's stronger policy areas.\nBoth sides seemed to treat the election as a dutch auction, ignoring the advice of economists and others to take the growth dividend and reinvest it rather than spend it. There was barely any effort to dress promises up as principled.\nWhen he was on the back-bench Mark Latham said that the ALP had to win back the \"aspirational\" voter. As leader he appears to have been more interested in reaching \"Greg and Marsha\". This probably led to a number of miscalculations. Too much emphasis on foreign affairs; too much interest on whether John Howard was always honest; and the Tasmanian Old Growth Forest policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 335.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ontherunreviewer.blogspot.com/2018/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:11Z", "digest": "sha1:4DZDARQDYCZHC2TL4RARMWVQAFIAQGKX", "length": 1552, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ontherunreviewer.blogspot.com", "title": "On-the-Run Movies: February 2018", "raw_content": "A fresh take on the coming age genre. Saoirse Ronan does an excellent job in the titular role. I\u2019m not convinced this is as good a movie as some are saying. I found it enjoyable with moments of poignant humour. There\u2019s witty dialogue and some interesting characters. But it isn\u2019t a standout for me. I\u2019m a bit surprised it has been nominated for best picture at the Oscars. It\u2019s ok.\nLabels: Lady Bird, movie reviews\nIn August 2015, an ISIS terrorist boarded train #9364 from Brussels to Paris. Armed with an AK-47 and enough ammo to kill more than 500 people, the terrorist might have succeeded except for three American friends who refused to give in to fear. Stone was a martial arts enthusiast and airman first class in the U.S. Air Force, Skarlatos was a member of the Oregon National Guard, and all three pals proved fearless as they charged and ultimately overpowered the gunman after he emerged from a bathroom armed and ready to kill.\nComing from director Clint Eastwood, this movie is very disappointing. It\u2019s probably the worst thing he has done. The story of the heroism of these three men is to be celebrated. But the movie is boring and superficial. It doesn\u2019t honour what these men did. The three men play themselves, and they put in a reasonable job, but they are not actors, and it does show. This movie is one time we needed some real acting. The script is the real problem \u2014 it has zero depth. And there\u2019s no suspense. It\u2019s a relief when the short running time comes to an end. Give it a miss.\nLabels: movie reviews, The 15:17 to Paris", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 14293, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 187.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://openkniga.com/pages/841/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:45Z", "digest": "sha1:INL5JVLLY7D3VPFDHMCIFIYM4HNKH4CQ", "length": 2332, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "openkniga.com", "title": "NOT AMERICAN ENOUGH (Merritt Scott Miller) : : \u041b\u0438\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0430\u0442\u0443\u0440\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u043a\u043e\u043d\u043a\u0443\u0440\u0441 \u043f\u0438\u0441\u0430\u0442\u0435\u043b\u0435\u0439 \u043f\u043e\u044d\u0442\u043e\u0432 2013 2014 \u041f\u0420\u041e\u0415\u041a\u0422::\u041a\u041d\u0418\u0413\u0410 \u043e\u0442\u043a\u0440\u044b\u0442\u044b\u0439 \u043c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443\u043d\u0430\u0440\u043e\u0434\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0422\u041f \u041e\u0431 \u044d\u0442\u043e\u043c \u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u044f\u0442..", "raw_content": "Yes, I will respond to my esteemed colleague, since I understand this issue has been raised in committee.\nHe is right. I was not born in this country. He is also correct in noting that my parents were not citizens of the nation in which I was born.\nAnd as I am sure this esteemed body is aware, this and information like it could be used to support the contention that the immigrant population is not a stable one.\nDespite his being as powerful as I am small, I still do not think that is going to work for the senator. And I will tell you why.\nBorn here or who are first generation here, despite my esteemed colleague and his anti-immigration legislation, America continues to be a melting pot.\nI do not define people by traditional lines but I do respect those other cultures who respect mine. I am the sum of two people, and all those who came before them. They were good people. I am good people.\nNow, the senator can make a career out of hating people like me. He can get downright creative about it and he probably will. He can call me anything he wants. He can start another Holocaust. And if the members of this august body allow him, he might possibly get away with it. It certainly would not be unprecedented and America is no more invulnerable to that than any other nation has been, despite our conceits to the contrary.\nI am an American now and still from where I was born. I am also a member of the world community and that voice, too, will be heard.\nIn the end, if he persists, all the senator is going to do is hurt a lot of people, including his own family. He will most certainly lose his constituency because people in his state do not put up with this. That is what his hate is going to buy him.\nAnd in the end, he will have accomplished nothing, for there is one thing my esteemed colleague\nand all his hate cannot change. He cannot change who I am. Even I could not do that and I will admit there are times when I have wished I could.\nI do not begrudge the senator his feelings. Where I am from, you do not kick a man when he is down. And you do not judge a man\u2019s soul because that is not up to you, it is up to God.\nIf this august body does not want me here, it better tell me real soon. If it does, then please protect me from esteemed colleagues like this one.\nThank you, Gentlemen. I now call for the vote.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 4791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 273.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://optimityadvisors.com/about/leadership/mike-delaney", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:19Z", "digest": "sha1:GFHD2ZHLIA26ORU6PNEL5NSNODF3RRZK", "length": 2075, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "optimityadvisors.com", "title": "Mike Delaney | Optimity Advisors", "raw_content": "mike.delaney@optimityadvisors.com\n+ 44 7711 912096 GB\nMike is a Senior Advisor with extensive experience of designing and implementing complex change in the health and life sciences sector and in advising boards and coaching senior executives. He is a former Partner in KPMG where he led the UK Healthcare Consulting practice and subsequently at PWC and IBM, where he led the European Healthcare Consulting practices.\nMike has led numerous high profile health service and system reconfiguration projects in the UK and Canada, including the dimensions of clinical service design and human resource and facilities planning. His work has also included innovative joint venture arrangements with the private sector around specific services, the merger of institutions and the creation of new Boards and governance frameworks. He has also developed in-depth knowledge of health informatics and healthcare information governance and has led the development of innovative frameworks and services in this field.\nMike has extensive experience in the pharmaceutical industry where he has advised on product development and pricing and market access strategies across a range of therapy areas including oncology, respiratory, cardio-vascular disease, CNS and vaccines.\nMike has been a non-executive member of the Board of the Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) one of the largest CCGs in the NHS. He has a leadership role in developing the governance framework across the whole health and care system in Oxfordshire, working closely with the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the County Council. 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Develop and set up programs, research and get new parties on board. And with this, testing new ways of working with all these new stakeholders.\nIf you are a company, NGO, Foundation or just a person with good ideas and feel like joining the Playground? Or would you like to know more about the project? Please drop us a note, we are happy to hear from you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://popcorn.hr/ankete/50/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:25Z", "digest": "sha1:O7MZAFNEWTZE65PHRZB2DSYJYH22C5K5", "length": 203, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "popcorn.hr", "title": "\u2022 popcorn.hr \u2022 Lista anketa", "raw_content": "Professor Trevor 'Broom' Bruttenholm: \"In the absence of light, darkness prevails. There are things that go bump in the night, Agent Myers. Make no mistake about that. And we are the ones who bump back.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 18974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 213.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://popdose.com/the-popdose-video-interview-nick-offerman-parks-recreation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BJSBXHHFOFXO4327HUALFBDWESJ37W2S", "length": 1863, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "popdose.com", "title": "The Popdose VIDEO Interview: Nick Offerman (\"Parks & Recreation\")", "raw_content": "The Popdose VIDEO Interview: Nick Offerman (\u201cParks & Recreation\u201d)\nWritten by Will Harris\u2022 June 3, 2011\u2022 Popdose, Popdose Interviews, Television\nYou\u2019d have to be a fool to turn down a chance to chat with the man who plays Ron Swanson on NBC\u2019s \u201cParks & Recreation,\u201d and, buddy, we here at Popdose are no fools.\nWhat\u2019s this? A video interview?\nThat\u2019s right: Popdose was offered the chance to chat with Nick Offerman, who plays the one and only Ron Swanson on NBC\u2019s \u201cParks & Recreation,\u201d in conjunction with his participation in Anheuser-Busch\u2019s \u201cGrow One \u2013 Save A Million\u201d campaign.\nNot familiar with the campaign? Here\u2019s Anheuser-Busch\u2019s description, in a nutshell:\n\u201cBudweiser is asking adult men across America to help save one million gallons of water by not shaving in the days and weeks leading up to World Environment Day (June 5). As part of Budweiser\u2019s ongoing commitment to water conservation, the Grow One. Save a Million program allows consumers to get involved and save roughly 5 gallons of water for each shave they skip. (The average shave uses 3-10 gallons of water.)\u201d\nIt\u2019s a great cause, and we here at Popdose were glad to help spread the word. Of course, we were also glad to get a chance to talk to the man who plays Ron Swanson and ask him about his work on \u201cParks & Recreation,\u201d too. Basically, it was a win-win situation.\n[kml_flashembed movie=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/-PW06gZ32Ms\" width=\"600\" height=\"344\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" fvars=\"fs=1\" /]\nTags: Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser, Grow One - Save A Million, Nick Offerman, Parks & Recreation, Ron Swanson, slider Last modified: June 14, 2011\nBlu-ray Review: \u201cAmerican: The Bill Hicks Story\u201d\nCD Review: Blondie, \u201cPanic Of Girls\u201d\nBlu-ray reviews: \u201cPaper Towns,\u201d \u201cMe and Earl and the Dying Girl,\u201d and \u201cDope\u201d\nTV Top 10s: \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d\nDVD Review: Diablo Cody\u2019s Directorial Debut, \u201cParadise\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 295.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://popularopenwheel.com/fia-formula-2-championship-2018-season-calendar-unveiled/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:21Z", "digest": "sha1:QI7UFRPVYILHN5OP7W3XDYZXSCORK3WX", "length": 2137, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "popularopenwheel.com", "title": "FIA Formula 2 Championship 2018 Season Calendar Unveiled - POPULAR OPENWHEEL", "raw_content": "New season comprises twelve support events of Formula One World Championship\nThe 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship calendar was confirmed today. For next season, it will consist of twelve rounds in total, all support events of the Formula One World Championship. Eight rounds will be held in Europe, including new venue Le Castellet in France, and there will be four flyaway events to complete the calendar, with the addition of new venue Sochi in Russia.\nThe second season of the FIA F2 Championship will kick-off overseas at Bahrain International Circuit on April 06-08, and the paddock will then fly to Baku in Azerbaijan on April 27-29. The action will resume in Europe two weeks later, beginning with Barcelona on May 11-13 followed by Monte Carlo on May 24-26.\nNew venue Le Castellet on June 22-24 will open the busiest month of the year, with three back to back race events: France will be followed by first Spielberg in Austria on June 29 \u2013 01 July, and then Silverstone in Great Britain on 06-08 July. There will be a two-week breather before Budapest on 27-29 July.\nAfter a well-deserved summer break, the action will pick-up at Spa-Francorchamps on August 24-26 before going to Monza a week later on August 31- September 02. The paddock will then fly to another new venue in Sochi, Russia on September 28-30, with the season finale taking place once again at Yas Marina on November 23-25.\nFIA Formula 2 CEO Bruno Michel said: \u201cI am pleased to announce that next year\u2019s calendar will hold twelve events alongside Formula One. One of our mission statements is to prepare young drivers to the next step: F1. Having all of our race weekends take place with F1 will help our drivers to learn as many F1 tracks as possible, but also to prove their race crafts directly in front of the F1 paddock.\n\u201cThe 2018 calendar includes two new venues: Le Castellet and Sochi. It features one more event compared to this year, and is a good balance between racing on F1 circuits in Europe and overseas.\u201d\n2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship Calendar*\nYas Marina, UAE\nRelated ItemsF2featured\n\u2190 Previous Story Leclerc Becomes F2 Champion in Crazy Ending", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 6516, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 292.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ppiclaimcompany.co.uk/news/801563479/Bank-charges-Banks-told-to-raise-capital", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:30Z", "digest": "sha1:LRUMBW3NE7EAP2ZWGID4TFT6SPKNGQDZ", "length": 1065, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "ppiclaimcompany.co.uk", "title": "PPI Claim News Bank charges: Banks told to raise capital", "raw_content": "PPI Claims > Latest PPI News > News Archive 3/2013 > Bank charges: Banks told to raise capital\nBank charges: Banks told to raise capital\nThe Financial Policy Committee has said that some banks will need to raise \u00a325 billion in capital but did not disclose which ones this applied to.\nIt has instructed banks to raise capital to protect them against future losses due to bad loans.\nSuch investments aided in causing the financial crisis in 2008. During this time, some banks had to acquire funding in order to avoid closing. Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group had to be bailed out by the government. The taxpayer now owns around 80 per cent of RBS and 40 per cent of Lloyds.\nHowever, these banks will need to tighten spending further if they are to raise the amount of capital required under new regulations.\nPlans to increase the amount of capital that banks need behind them have also been put forward in the European Union, which is looking to standardise banking regulations across member states using recommendations from the Basel Committee.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 3988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 239.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://precious-testimonies.com/BornAgain/d-g/DuffyV.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:54Z", "digest": "sha1:W3QWRQKFBWVV7ZGSQCRT4BHP72NCQY7B", "length": 16295, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "precious-testimonies.com", "title": "STOP THE PAIN!", "raw_content": "By: Vicki Duffy\nCan you imagine hating life so bad that you cut and burn your body to try to feel better? I have over 250 cut marks on my body that I'm not proud of ... but they are past reminders of what my miserable life was like before God rescued me from my self-destruction. If you can identify and are looking for some hope ... please keep reading.\nI was born in 1968 in Pennsylvania. I was raped by a male acquaintance of my mother's at age five. I was physically and sexually abused by my older brother from ages 7 to 17, and raped twice by an uncle at age 19.\nLike most - as a result of the sexual abuse and violence that occurred, it led me into a path of destructive behavior, and a life of utter confusion and feelings of great inadequacy.\nThere's no doubt in my mind that due to the abuse and sexual violence I was visited with through those first 20 years of living, the many problems and psychiatric issues that visited me stemmed from all that abuse.\nFrom an early age ... I struggled with feelings of inadequacy, low self-esteem, anger and hatred toward men. (Being sexually abused at a young age typically does that to a person). As a child I was in therapy, a bed-wetter, was attracted to girls, had strong desires to be a boy, and often dressed as a boy. As I entered my teens, I endured a sexual identity crisis, dealt with self-destructive behavior, developed anorexia and bulimia, was an alcoholic, dabbled in drugs, was in and out of therapy and entered the Marines.\nBy early adulthood I was causing self-inflicted injuries on my body as a way of coping, in and out of Eating Disorder Units and psychiatric hospitals, dealt with suicidal tendencies, battled with numerous suicide attempts, was diagnosed with a chemical imbalance, clinical depression and Borderline Personality Disorder (BDP).\nBy age 25 I had self-injured my body by cutting and burning (one 5\" scar and one 4\" scar from 3rd degree burns and over 250 scars from cutting). I had been involved in various relationships, led a homosexual lifestyle, was in a gang, had an abortion, filed bankruptcy due to high medical bills, was on psychotherapeutic medication (17 pills daily), had battled with mental illness and was in and out of psychiatric hospitals.\nAs I approached 27, I was dependent on psychotherapeutic medications, totally exasperated and felt as though I was just existing and taking up space. I was at a point in my life that although I doubted anything could be better, I was drastically looking for my life to somehow change.\nAlthough I thought I had tried everything possible to get better, somehow I was still open for help. It seemed that whatever I tried, it was only good for a few hours ... maybe a day. Sometimes - if I got \"lucky\" - it lasted a couple days.\nI was not brought up around church or anything godly. One Sunday in March of 1995 I was invited to church and reluctantly went. It was my first time going to a church in over 15 years, and this was no church like I had ever been to. From the moment I stepped through the doors, I sensed something different.\nWhen I walked into that church in Florham Park, NJ, I remember sensing such love and peace. (I honestly thought it would be over once I left because that's the way everything else went). I wasn't quite sure what my spiritual beliefs were, mainly agnostic, as I spent most of my life blaming God, or questioning Him, why all this had happened to me. Can you identify? I was at a point in my life where I was not ready to be let down again. I was so tired of being let down again and again.\nAll I knew was that when I walked into that church, I felt great and didn't remember feeling so much peace like that ever before. And I knew it was real. No medication made me feel this alert and alive. I knew it was real.\nI wanted so much to be normal but had no clue how to do it, as everything else I had tried proved a failure. After going to that church, I asked God to make Himself real to me.\nWithin days I noticed that I was more peaceful, able to think clearly and the negative desires I had were not so strong. Even though to an outsider that would seem so small of a change ... for me, it was a big thing just to see any change. It was then that I knew God was real. Nothing had ever lasted this long!\nA few weeks later, I bought a Bible and it opened right up to the book of Mark. I began reading in Mark, Chapter 5, verses 1 through 19. As I read, I saw that a guy who had cut himself day and night and appeared to have mental illness; he was healed by Jesus. I then became very agitated with God and threw the Bible to the floor. I just didn't understand why I wasn't well; if He had healed this guy so long ago, why did I have to be in so much pain?!\nI began to yell and swear at God: \"If You are real, then why the $%#@ can't you help me? Why can't you do for me what you did years ago for that guy? I'm so tired of this !@#*, and tired of living this way. Don't You understand that I'm tired of crying all night long ... cutting and drinking because I cannot cope? Life isn't supposed to be this way. I don't want mental illness. Please help me.'\nI do realize now that swearing to God may not have been the best thing, but at that time I wasn't accustomed to talking with Him and tried my best to be nice. After saying this, I pleaded with God; I truly petitioned Him for His help.\nI figured my last resort was this God who I wasn't even so sure about. I put all my doubts aside and immediately I began to pray to God. Actually - I challenged Him that I wanted answers and that I would give Him three weeks to 'prove Himself' to me. Even though I wasn't sure if I believed in God, I thought it would be a good idea if I at least put my efforts into it. I wanted my life to change and was looking for a difference.\nI figured that I had done everything else possible, so why not at least give God a chance? It seemed as if nothing else had worked, but I had never thought of including God . . . because I mainly blamed God. Part of me thought that what happened to me was His fault. Additionally, part of me wasn't convinced that He even existed. I wasn't sure what I believed in -- I wasn't even certain about God.\nGod honored those three weeks, I'm so thankful to say.\nEver since I \"challenged\" God, my life turned around completely and has never been the same! I 'officially' accepted Jesus into my heart and life in April, 1995, during a revival meeting with Janny Grein. What happened over the next 1 1/2 years was absolutely breathtaking!\nWith the love and mercy of God, I learned to cope with the past and look forward to the future; there is hope and there is a better way of life. I learned that I don't have to live my future based on my past. I am not sure why God allowed all that happened to me, but I do know that what was meant for bad is now being turned around for good. God has now given me opportunities to help others who have been abused and because of my past abuse, I can identify with them, and I can have compassion for them that I probably may never have had otherwise.\nI have forgiven all the people that have hurt and abused me. It took me a long time to discover that forgiving those who abuse you is the only thing that will set a person completely free from the pain and devastation the abuse causes. It takes the help of God to forgive, I realize, but He is right there waiting to help a person forgive, when they are ready -- ready to be set completely free and be made whole.\nLet me say something before going further. Forgiving those who has made your life a living hell makes no sense whatsoever, I realize. Humanly speaking, they don't deserve forgiveness, right?! They deserve to rot and burn in in hell, right?! Yet think of this -- if that person who abused you was burning in hell right now, would that heal you of all the things going on in your life? Would it somehow suddenly deliver you from the emotional hell you have known so long? What is your real heart's desire? To be free from your hell, and be made whole, or vengeance against the one who has abused you? Why not do yourself a huge favor and do what God will help you do if you want to be healed and made whole the way God would like you to be? Please don't waste another day suffering because of what someone else has done to you that has so messed up your life. Take some action that will shut off the poisonous tie your soul has with that person. Do you want to know what God's remedy is that will cut that poisonous soul tie off from the one who abused you, so you can put yourself on the road to total freedom from your emotional hell, and be a whole person? It's the \"medicine\" God prescribes called: forgiveness.\nOh -- c'mon now, Vicki. Now you're playing those stupid religious games! I'm not going to forgive that person for doing what that person did to me! They don't deserve my forgiveness! Besides ... I couldn't forgive them even if I wanted to!\nFair enough. Please consider this, though, before rejecting my offer completely. Let's say the role was reversed. Let's say you were the one who did the violent raping. Let's say you are the one who has hurt other people and made their life a living hell. And ... let's say you didn't want to risk going to hell on the Judgment Day. Let's say you would like God's forgiveness for all the terrible things you did against other people, so you could be positive you would go to heaven and stay there for eternity, and not go to hell. Wouldn't you like a heavenly Judge who actually would and will forgive you?\nTake it a step further. Let's say you're a serial killer. Let's say you've raped a few dozen or more little girls and boys and then murdered them. Let's say you are about to die by lethal injection for it, and you now would like to be certain that somehow you could get God's forgiveness for all the wrong you have done? You know full well you don't deserve to be forgiven -- certainly not by the living relatives of those you killed, nor can you possibly forgive yourself, so why in the world would God want to forgive you, right? You don't deserve forgiveness, and you know it ... though you surely would like to be forgiven.\nSuddenly ... God shows up in front of you and says ... \"I'm the Creator, and do you know that I died on the cross and paid the penalty for all the wrong and evil you caused against those little innocent girls and boys? Do you know that I shed my innocent blood - I gave my life ... when I didn't have to ... so that you can be forgiven, and be made a new spiritual creation? Do you know that there is no evil -- no wrong -- no amount of wrongs ... that I won't forgive, if you'll just accept My love. My sacrifice on the cross is the evidence of My love for wrongdoers - for sinners. It isn't because you deserve it, I want you to realize. You deserve punishment in hell for eternity. But ... my loving sacrifice frees you from hell and everlasting torment ... if you will just grab hold of it and accept it as the free gift to you that it is. It's a free gift to anyone who wants it, no matter how much wrong they have done to others.\"\nYou see ... that is what the heart of Christianity is: Love and Forgiveness. God loves us so much that He forgives us of everything wrong we've ever done, because of the sacrifice Jesus Christ gave on the cross. You've probably heard that, though maybe you sort of flipped it off as a bunch of religious garbage, or lies. It's not, precious one. It's the secret I found to be set free from the hell I was living in. I came to the conclusion ... that if God is willing to forgive me of every one of my wrongdoings ... He will give me the power and strength and courage to forgive those who have wronged me. When I forgive them, God releases healing power in me. The one who has abused me isn't free from answering to God about their wrongdoing ... but I get set free from my hatred and bitterness (emotional cancer if you will) and the torturous memories from the abuse of the one I forgive. This can only happen though with God's help. We don't have the ability to do that by ourselves. But I can assure you God will be right there with you to give you the courage and strength to do it.\nLet me say this as well. Forgiving someone who abused you doesn't mean God is expecting you to like that person either! Liking a person and forgiving a person is entirely two different things! When I hold bitterness and anger toward someone who has hurt me ... it is like drinking a glass of emotional and spiritual poison every day of my life. I am committing slow suicide without even knowing it! Bitterness and anger is poison to our soul, and the only sure remedy that God says works is telling God you forgive that person for what they did to you. Remember ... God is not going to forgive that person for what they did to you, if they don't ask His forgiveness, and they will answer on the Judgment Day to God for what they did to you. However ... that is between them and God. When you forgive ... God makes certain you get rewarded for it, and for starters, your reward is healing!\nWell, with God's help from the Holy Spirit, I forgave my tormentors, and I am a living testimony that forgiveness works! I am completely healed, recovered and overcome in every area! I am now married to a wonderful Christian man. We married in April, 1999. My life has taken a 360 degree turn and I am amazed at what God can do! He can do the same for you, and even more ... if you're ready to be set completely free. All you have to do is mean business with Jesus Christ.\nIt is my hope that every person reading this will come to the realization that they can overcome anything in their life, as nothing is hopeless! Hey folks ... we're talking about being connected with the Creator of the universe here ... the Creator of all things. Nothing is impossible for Him!\nWhatever you have gone through, or may be facing right now, you can get through it just like I did -- get completely healed and set free from it -- and lead a normal healthy life as God intended for you to live. You do not have to let the past hold you in its painful grip. You do not have to be a victim of circumstances of the past. You can be victorious over life ... instead of being a victim of life. God wants you to be victorious! I'm not lying to you one bit.\nWhy did God allow all your hurt to happen to you in the first place, you still want to know? You may not believe there is a devil right now, but let me tell you, there's a devil alright, and he is using evil people to abuse children and older people every hour of every day somewhere on this planet. There is a battle between good and evil going on in this planet ... and if you want to spend the rest of your life hating God for what has happened to you, God gives you that right, but it grieves Him when you do. Please ... don't waste any more time hating the very One who can help you, and set you free from the pain you are in. He truly wants to, but you have to do things His way, not yours. He's God. He knows what He is doing.\nI had such a lopsided view and understanding of God. Everyone does to one degree or another, until they become saved -- become spiritually born again -- and get properly connected to God and be around spiritually mature people who can help you and pray with you and encourage you. Once that happens, the Holy Spirit helps you to begin to understand the way things really are. The scales come off our eyes, and we begin to see and understand God in a totally different light. It is incredibly amazing!\nGod will touch you. He will change you. He is just a prayer away. Are you ready to surrender to His love and forgiveness and help that knows no limitations? He longs to set you free from your hell. His heart grieves over your pain. Truly it does.\nI know God will heal anyone ... anytime ... of anything. They just have to either be desperate enough, or courageous enough - or both.\nThank you for letting me share my heart with you. If you would like to talk, feel free to email me. You can also click on my website if you would like.\nBlessings to you ... Vicki\nEmail: info@endallthpain.com\nMy website is: www.endallthepain.com\nTo view Vickie's testimony on video: http://www.cbn.com/700club/features/Amazing/Vicky_Duffy101607.aspx", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 21942, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 287.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://preschoolersandpeace.com/blog/2013/1/28/reading-horizons-discovery-review-and-giveaway.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:38Z", "digest": "sha1:TSOUQUWOM47UREF4TUNPVJSLVA2IL5DZ", "length": 4028, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "preschoolersandpeace.com", "title": "Reading Horizons Discovery Review and Giveaway \u2014 Preschoolers and Peace", "raw_content": "Reading Horizons Discovery Review and Giveaway\nJanuary 28, 2013 by Kendra in Educating at Home, Resources, Reviews\nOur 8th child is a total game-changer. Mighty Joe has 4 holes in his brain as the result of a nasty virus he contracted when he was just 7 weeks old, which in simplest terms means he has some hurdles to jump. He's bright and funny and quirky and absolutely adorable, but he will have a trickier time making his way through academics, at least early on.\nBecause of the damage to his brain, we don't really know exactly what we're dealing with. The largest cavity is in his occipital lobe, which means that he is missing the part of the brain that controls vision. He should be blind. But God wants Might Joe to see, and so he sees. However, his visual processing is off and he likely will struggle with dyslexia and other learning challenges.\nProvidentially, I was given the opportunity to review the newly revised Reading Horizons curriculum for at-home users. I have to tell you that I have only ever used 2 other reading curricula, and wasn't at all looking to use something new. But again, Joe is going to need a different approach, and Reading Horizons is especially geared toward the struggling and/or dyslexic student.\nJoe is not ready to begin reading, but Christian is the perfect age to start. I figured if I became comfortable with the program with Christian, I would be ready to go when Joe is ready to learn.\nAt 5, Christian is midway through kindergarten and starting to sound out words on his own. We're using the Reading Horizons Discovery Program, and we're liking it very much.\nThe program is hands-on. Each lesson is interactive, and so either Christian or I are writing down words and sounds as we approach them. I'll often ask, \"Do you want to write today, or should I?\" He feels as if he's a little in control of the lesson, when really I'm just giving him the opportunity to flex his writing muscles or to read what I am jotting down.\nWriting words for himself\nEach day's lesson takes us about 30 minutes, but because the format of the lessons is flexible (there are activities like games and flashcards that you can use or pass on), you certainly could take more or less time depending on the needs of your student.\nReading Horizons has its history squarely in the Orton-Gillingham approach to learning, so it is takes advantage of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic tools. This is great; for those of us with more than one child to teach, Reading Horizons is a curriculum that should be a good fit for almost every single one of our kiddos.\nAt the same time, it's simple, well-organized, and ready to go. No mom-prep except for taking an hour or so to get acquainted with the materials at the outset. What comes in the Discovery kit:\n6 sturdy, well-designed, spiral-bound teacher's manuals\n1 sturdy, well-laid-out, spiral-bound games supplement\n1 set of readers, designed to be read at certain skill levels as you use the program\n1 large set of colorful, sturdy flash cards\n6 card stock posters of vowels, phonetic skills, decoding skills, sounds, blends, and special vowel combinations\nDisks for each teacher's manual with practice pages that can be printed out\nReading Horizons hopes to serve the homeschool community well, and I think they're making a great start. In addition to the hands-on materials above, Discovery includes colorful and engaging software that moves at a child's pace.\nReading Horizons Discovery is pricey (see pricing here), and you are making an investment, which may be a better fit for those of you just starting to homeschool and have little ones coming up behind. They do offer a 3-time payment plan for the software bundle priced at $66.34 for each payment, which covers 2 students.\nWant to win one of 10 Reading Horizons Discovery online subscriptions? How about a grand prize of the Discovery software and instructor materials bundle (including every resource mentioned above)? Just enter the Rafflecopter below and a winner will be chosen by February 25th!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://primary-ideas.blogspot.com/2015/02/give-them-answer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:17Z", "digest": "sha1:PP5U7O7U6VYKIKLQSZIN2QPMQSQO6FKH", "length": 1491, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "primary-ideas.blogspot.com", "title": "Primary Ideas: Give Them The Answer", "raw_content": "When completing calculations in maths, I've sometimes found that a child has gone through a whole lesson and some how managed to get all or most of the work wrong and not been picked up by a peer or an adult. While on one level this is not a huge problem, as it can be followed up later, it's not ideal.\nI'd been looking for a way to avoid this and here's what I came up with...\nGive the children the answers.\nA) Get the children to start and after a few minutes show the answers to question one for all levels of differentiation, a few minutes after that the next ones and so on...\nB) Get the children to start and then put the the answers to the first three questions only, as a guide. Children complete the rest of the work without know the answers.\nC) Give the children the questions, with the answers already filled in.\nBy no means do I use this all the time. It's a idea, to use now and again. Does it work? Yes. The children need to understand that maths (or any work) is not always about getting the right answer. Mistakes are ok. In a lesson, children are learning, trying out and developing methods. Not doing a 'getting ten right answers' exercise. Children need to be confident in trying out their methods or jottings, comparing their answer to the one given and then, if there are any errors, they need to look for what went wrong, seek help from a peer or talk to an adult.\nGive it go. Not every lesson though.\nLabels: math, mathematics, maths, self assessment, Tips and tricks", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 172, "original_length": 9904, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://professorjohnnyp.blogspot.com/2016/03/balkun-brothers-release-self-titled.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:52Z", "digest": "sha1:DZJGDUBUGTBVLFL6JQA4TYTEP7CDAZF7", "length": 5709, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "professorjohnnyp.blogspot.com", "title": "Professor Johnny P's Juke Joint: Balkun Brothers Release Self-Titled Album", "raw_content": "I\u2019ve written several times about how much I appreciate artists pushing the boundaries of their art form. Without these courageous people who challenge themselves and we as audience members by asking \u201cWhat if\u201d we would rarely find the next great sound, or visual image, or even the next horizon.\nWe don\u2019t always have to like what they discover, but we should always respect their journey.\nLast year I, along with most of the world, discovered the Balkun Brothers through their first release, ReDRova, which garnered some good reviews and more than a little airplay. It was quite the departure from the standard blues issue; the Balkuns were an interesting mix of blues, metal, and with just enough punk to spice up the attitude factor several points.\nWhile they were out on tour with Popa Chubby they found an ally and someone who helped them produce and record their latest CD on DixieFrog Records, BALKUN BROTHERS. This album is all about the duo, heck the performers on the album include the two Balkun Brothers \u2013 Steve on guitars and vocals and Rick on drums and vocals; and Dave Welles on piano.\nEleven of the twelve songs are written by the Balkuns, and the one that isn\u2019t is written by the blues with attitude master himself, Johnny Winter.\nWithin a fraction of a second of Been Drivin\u2019 starting off the album, you know that you are in for something different. They are assured musicians, but the sound sounds like so much more than a couple of guys playing chords against heavy drums. It\u2019s hard to define the music quickly, but you can hear various influences. It\u2019s going to be an interesting ride.\nThe tempo slows down a fraction with I Know What Ya\u2019 Did, but the intensity stays high. The song has a little touch of swamp in it and it has an ominous feel to it as well. There is a real menace to this song, a real bite.\nSteve drives the next song, She Got It All, with some good slide work while Rick adds a driving beat. So far there is nothing quiet about these boys \u2013 they are pounding their songs hard and I can only beat that the younger crowd that catches them in a club would go nuts over them.\nWe start off a little more old school with Control Yourself and some nice guitar work. The Balkuns quickly move it more into their wheelhouse and the song has more of their signature sound. The harmonies are good and I have a hard time believing that this is a two-man operation.\nCold Heart starts out driving hard and never really lets up. It definitely has a metal edge to it with pounding drums, driving guitar and vocals that seem like they are on a different plane.\nThe brothers get a little funky with Pawn Shop with the sad tale of a musician having to pawn his guitar. The bass line turns into an electrified guitar break and I could actually see this one (maybe in a different interpretation) being handled by a number of the old masters. Great songwriting on this one.\nJohnny Winter\u2019s Mean Town Blues gets Balkunized next and it feels right at home in their hands. Nice guitar work on top of those driving drums makes for a great sound. It just shows that they are capable of taking other artists\u2019 music and doing capable covers without losing their own identity. Listen for the crazy Bo Diddley beat.\nThe Painkillers starts off with some psychedelia that morphs into a stronger backbeat. The vocals on this number are pure emotion, the singer just reaching deep into his gut to pull out his voice. A very strong song.\nThere\u2019s some more funk with Bapadubap, and no I don\u2019t have a clue as to the meaning behind the word. There\u2019s a little soulful hip hop flavor with this song and I guess that the title refers more to an emotion than an actual word. Whatever, it\u2019s still got a good beat to it and it\u2019s a fun song.\nThings really slow down for the start of Jail Bird. It\u2019s got a real Delta flavor and the arrangement starts out with simple instrumentation. Whichever Balkun is singing, the growl in the voice fits beautifully and the addition of the piano is a great touch. One of my favorite songs on the album.\nThe old school style continues with the swamp laced Storm For The Devil. It\u2019s another song with power guitar over driving drums, but it still has that Delta feel and it catches your soul quickly. A great follow up to the previous song.\nThe Balkuns end the album with Rainy Day Front Porch Blues. Talk about old school, this starts out with a jaunty little guitar plays while the rain falls all around. This is the most stripped down of any sound on the album. Seems like just when you think you figure these guys out, the really change the questions in a big way.\nLike they did with their last album, the Balkun Brothers are hitting the road playing in front of every crowd they can find. They are looking to bring some younger audiences to the blues with their own brand of music and if sheer force of will can accomplish that, they just may be the ones to do it.\nMake no mistake about it, BALKUN BROTHERS is not for everyone. Many purists will not be attracted to this album, but perhaps some who are looking for a different musical adventure might find themselves really enjoying their approach. Somehow I think the guys couldn\u2019t care less about what I think, they are just happy to be pushing boundaries.\nFrankly, I\u2019m glad they\u2019re doing it.\nTo find out more about them, to pick up some of their earlier CDs or to find out where they will be playing, check out http://balkunmusic.com/. I see that they are scheduled to play in Richmond in late May but the venue isn\u2019t settled yet. I will keep you posted as soon as I know something, because I want to be there to catch them live.\nLabels: Balkun Brothers, Dave Welles, DixieFrog Records, Popa Chubby, Rick Balkun, Steve Balkun", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2697, "original_length": 45057, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 317.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://pssbtravel2u.my/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:33Z", "digest": "sha1:OIUBDYHCDGZAETZ65LVO5PNC72UUX5UF", "length": 1670, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "pssbtravel2u.my", "title": "PSSB Travel & Tours Sdn Bhd \u00bb About Us", "raw_content": "SSB TRAVEL & TOURS SDN. BHD. (PSSB) has been in operation since January 2010. Lead by a team of dynamic and young individuals with an experience in tourism and business industry. PSSB Travel & Tours Sdn. Bhd. is a travel company incensed by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Tourism Malaysia under license no KPL/LN 6908. We are based in Malaysia.\nWe are strongly committed to deliver professional services to all our customers and make a conscious effort to see to the needs of all those in our care. Our accomplishments are greatly attributed to our experienced, efficient and dedicated staffs who deliver their best in every task entrusted to them.\nAt PSSB we are prompt in our replies to your queries. Associated with leading hotels across the country, enables us to give our clients their money worth. This coupled with our reasonable rates makes us most attractive tourist agency having your best interest at heart.\nPSSB TRAVEL & TOURS SDN. 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Don Young, R-Ak) was approved by the narrow margin of one vote. More recently the U.S. Senate is reviewing their own project S-472, more known as the Craig Bill (Named after its main sponsor Sen. Larry Craig (R-Id). This project has gone through several workshops and public hearings by the Energy and Natural Resources Committee under the leadership of Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Ak).\nAt the present time both the statehood and commonwealth parties include definite, irrevocable American citizenship in their own platforms and status definitions. Both groups account for an overwhelming majority, nearly 96% of all voters (As per 1993 plebiscite). Some advocates for independence favor the retaining both Puerto Rican and American citizenship. With this in view we can state that a totality of Puerto Rico voters would favor continuing our American citizenship.\nA controversy exists in which the Popular Democratic Party and proponents of commonwealth claim there exists a bilateral agreement by which any changes to the U.S.-Puerto Rico relationship requires the consent of both sides, and the claim that American citizenship is irrevocable. After considerable research we have not found any evidence of these two claims. The commonwealth advocates have been unable to produce any documents or evidence of such claim. The statehood followers and the New Progressive Party claim our status falls within the \"territorial clause\" of the constitution and at the mercy of Congress. The same, they claim, holds true for our American Citizenship (For us born and residing in Puerto Rico). A number of congressmen and experts have voiced the same claim.\nWe invite the Popular Democratic Party to submit their evidence of the above-mentioned claim in order to clear both items. Said evidence will be published, when received, under this subject.\nJohn A. Regis Jr., July, 1998\nWe invite political parties, politicians, organizations and the general public to submit articles dealing with the Self Determination process and its influence or effect on United States-Puerto Rico relationships, mainly American Citizenship.\nConsiderable information regarding the process of free determination can be found in our own web page as well as under puertoricoherald.org You can access this web page directly by \"clicking\" on www.puertoricoherald.org under our Links Section. This is an excellent up to the minute web site specifically on the subject of free determination. You will find puertoricoherald.org very interesting and informative.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 3573, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://puresouthernrock.com/southern-rock-bands/ozark-mountain-daredevils/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NYYTMZR6NSTZUEXU6XP3S4I4I6TKERSL", "length": 2590, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "puresouthernrock.com", "title": "The Ozark Mountain Daredevils | Southern Rock Bands | Puresouthernrock.com", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbSouthern Rock Bands\u00bbThe Ozark Mountain Daredevils\nhttp://puresouthernrock.com/songs/ozark-mountain-daredevils-if-you-wanna-get-to-heaven.mp3\nOzark Mountain Daredevils \u2013 If You Wanna Get To Heaven\nThe Ozark Mountain Daredevils combines humor and diverse talents of the writers and musicians in the band to play feel good, cozy alt country, Appalachian rock & roll. In short, they created timeless Southern rock.\nThe Ozark Mountain Daredevils was formed in Missouri during the early \u201970s with and Steve Cash and John Dillon on guitars, Michael Granda on bass, Randle Chowning on vocals, Buddy Brayfield on keyboards and Larry Lee on drums.\nTheir demo tape found its way to Jerry Moss, founder of A&M records and in 1973 boys found them selves in the studio recording self-titled debut album that featured hit \u201cIf You Want to Get to Heaven\u201d. It helped the album gain more exposure and was eventually certified gold.\nSecond album \u201cIt\u2019ll Shine When in Shines\u201d followed in 1974 and single \u201cJackie Blue\u201d became their biggest hit to date, peaking at #3 on billboard charts. With the release of third album \u201cThe Car Over The Lake Album\u201d there was a musical turn from country rock to more laidback country pop.\nNext three albums, Men From Earth, Don\u2019t Look Down, and double live album It\u2019s Alive saw decreasing sales, multiple personnel changes and Ozark Mountain Daredevils was finally dropped from A&M roster in late 70\u2019s.\nIn 1980 The Ozark Mountain Daredevils signed to CBS records and made one more album, but buying audience didn\u2019t agree with their modern sound and The Ozark Mountain Daredevils slowly faded away from music scene before making their comeback in mid-nineties.\nAfter forty years and over two million albums sold, even today The Ozark Mountain Daredevils keeps performing live on selected dates with original members Michael Granda, Steve Cash and John Dillon.\nThe Ozark Mountain Daredevils videos\nOzark Mountain Daredevils ~ If You Wanna Get To Heaven\nStandin' On The Rock - Ozark Mountain Daredevils\nOzark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue\nThe Ozark Mountain Daredevils Discography:\n1975 It\u2019ll Shine When It Shines\n1975 The Car Over The Lake Album\n1976 Men From Earth\n1978 Don\u2019t Look Down\n1978 It\u2019s Alive (Live)\n1980 Ozark Mountain Daredevils\n1981 The Best (compilation)\n1985 The Lost Cabin Sessions\n1989 Modern History\n1990 Now Hear This! (released on as cassette)\n1997 Archive Alive (Live)\n1999 Concert Classics(Live)\n2000 Time Warp (Compilation)\n2006 Rhythm And Joy (Live)\n2006 Our Most Dangerous Stunts (compilation)\nOfficial website: www.ozarkdaredevils.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 4963, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://qbdelhi.com/iso22000.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:52Z", "digest": "sha1:HUMTA5S3JEXOQAYD5Z2LQXZIUVWKQQEJ", "length": 1782, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "qbdelhi.com", "title": "QB Delhi consultants, iso 22000 consultancy service in delhi, iso consultants, iso consultancy", "raw_content": "ISO 22000 family of standards relate to food safety management systems and are designed to help organizations of any size and at any stage in the food chain to ensure they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders. The standards are published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and are available through National standards bodies.\nISO 22000 deals with the fundamentals of food safety management systems. ISO 22000:2005 deals with the requirements that organizations wishing to meet the standard have to meet. It has been designed to be compatible with other management system standards such as ISO 9001 and can be implemented within an integrated management system.\nIndependent confirmation that organizations meet the requirements of ISO 22000:2005 may be obtained from third party certification bodies.\nISO 22000:2005 specifies the basic requirements for a food safety management system (FMS) that an organization must fulfil to demonstrate its ability to consistently produce food products which are safe for the end consumer.\nWhich organizations can implement ISO 22000?\nFood ingredients industry\nPacking of food materials\nSelling of food (retail or wholesale)\nServing prepared food (super markets)\nProduction of food equipment\u2019s\nApplies to all organizations in the global food supply chain.\nComplies with the Codex HACCP principles.\nAn auditable standard which provides a framework for third-party certification.\nThe structure aligns with the management system clauses of ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004.\nSystem approach, rather than product approach.\nSystematic management of prerequisite programs.\nIncreased due diligence.\nDynamic communication on food safety issues with suppliers, customers, regulatory bodies and other interested parties.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2223, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quickreleasecover.com/arca_swiss_d4_geared_tripod_head_quick_set_classic_plate_not_included_870103_2.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:43Z", "digest": "sha1:BVWU246QZ5WFH7WE7Q6WVODHBDNHO5SN", "length": 3434, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "quickreleasecover.com", "title": "Arca Swiss D4 Geared Tripod Head Quick Set, Classic (Plate Not Included) #870103", "raw_content": "Arca Swiss D4 Geared Tripod Head Quick Set, Classic (Plate Not Included). The Arca Swiss D4 Geared Tripod Head Quick Set (Classic) is a symbiosis between a spherical head and a 3D tilt head. The head is very small, even compact and the levers that otherwise get in the way have been consigned to history. On a tripod, the D4 can be used like a normal spherical head. If the x and Y axes are open, one can move the camera freely.\nIn contrast to standard spherical heads, the D4 allows one to perform the movements separately, one at a time. This can even be done with both axes open, if one of the axes is fixed this may be performed even more precisely. A rotating device, which allows camera alignment, is to be found on the base of the head. The second panorama is above the axes and allows the performance of a perfect panorama shot with an already aligned camera. The D4's innovative design puts the centre of rotation of the x and Y movements in the same place, making the pivoting radius of these movements very small, thus allowing users to maintain perspectives already found during readjustment. The head's swiveling is equipped with a self-locking shock absorption feature, allowing for near total compensation of the camera's weight. Another noticeable feature is the positioning of the spirit levels, which are located underneath the upper panorama adjustment and are arranged at a 90-degree angle. Both are sufficiently well visible as to allow photographers effective leveling, even from a low viewpoint. 977g / 2.1 lbs. 75 lb / 34 kg. For over 35 years we have been serving professionals as well as amateurs in the photographic, video, digital imaging and telescope fields. We offer the best combination of quality services, vast selection, knowledgeable staff, and competitive pricing. Adorama Camera is your #1 source for the best and newest products in the photographic industry, and the largest inventory of items such as Digital Cameras, Digital Camera Accessories, Memory Cards, 35mm Cameras, Medium Format Cameras, Lenses, Video Cameras, TV's, MP3 Players, Binoculars, Telescopes, Scanners, Inkjet, Dye-Sub & Laser Printers, Office Fax machines, Shredders, Projectors, Inkjet Paper, Photographic Accessories, Filters, Batteries, Cases, Tripods, Flashes, Lighting & Studio Equipment, Film, Darkroom Products and Audio Video Equipment.\nIn an effort to comply with our Authorized Dealer contracts with the manufacturers and to best control our inventory levels we reserve the right to limit quantities or cancel orders to Resellers and Exporters. Please note: Inventory is not reserved until the item is paid for. These charges must be borne by the recipient. Adorama has no control over these charges and cannot predict what they might be.\nIf the item does not have the option, please don't ask. No guarantees for other times. Approved Change Requests may not be updated on eBays portal, please check the emails.\nMemory cards and any other Blister Pack items are not returnable once opened. Printers are not returnable once the Toner Cartridges have been installed or released. The item \"Arca Swiss D4 Geared Tripod Head Quick Set, Classic (Plate Not Included) #870103\" is in sale since Thursday, March 29, 2018.\nThis item is in the category \"Cameras & Photo\\Tripods & Supports\\Tripod Heads\". The seller is \"adoramacamera\" and is located in Elizabeth, New Jersey. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 4028, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 307.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://quintadacotovia.com/Obidos_en.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DY7DH3GAHTOPK7JL4AMJPOLB6X4IKRVW", "length": 1731, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "quintadacotovia.com", "title": "Quinta da Cotovia | Obidos", "raw_content": "Obidos: 107 km from Quinta da Cotovia\nThe beautiful town of \u00d3bidos, with white houses decorated with Bougainvilleas and honeysuckle, was conquered from the Moors by the first King of Portugal, d. Afonso Henriques, in 1148. Later the town of d. Dinis to his wife, the \"Holy Queen\" Rainha Santa Isabel. From that time until 1883 was \u00d3bidos and the surrounding land still in the hands of the Queens of Portugal.\nSurrounded by medieval walls and crowned with a Moorish Castle, which is rebuilt by d. Dinis and nowadays a Pousada \u00d3bidos, is home to one of the most perfect examples of the Portuguese medieval castles. As in former times was the access via the southern port, that of Santa Maria, decorated with azulejos (tiles) from the 18th century. Within the castle walls, which adopt a golden color in the setting sunlight, breathes a cheerful medieval atmosphere. \u00d3bidos consists of steep streets, whitewashed cottages with blue and yellow tones, with Windows and niches in Manueline style, reminiscent of King d. Manuel I (16th century), who here works great has left behind, and colourful flowers and plants.\nDon't forget to visit the mother church Igreja Matriz de Santa Maria, the pretty chapel Capela de S\u00e3o Martinho and, outside the castle walls, the Church Igreja do Senhor da Pedra.\nOf the events are held annually in \u00d3bidos are the festivities around Easter during the Semana Santa (the steps of the Via Sacra are represented), the Festival of Antique music \"Festival de M\u00fasica Antiga\", in October, and for the sweet tooth the chocolate festival (Festival Internacional do chocolate), in March, which is part of an international competition where the recipes are reviewed by an international expert jury , the most famous.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2137, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 211.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://radicalnews.in/gadgets/152/from-nowhere-to-now-here-nokia-ozo", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:34Z", "digest": "sha1:SYRR42WAYH622IIE3454GVDDQOIUSMH2", "length": 1685, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "radicalnews.in", "title": "From NOWHERE to NOW HERE: Nokia OZO", "raw_content": "Nokia has joined the Virtual Reality market by introducing \u2018OZO\u2019, a virtual reality camera that is able to capture videos in 360 degrees. A 360 degree video is one where the viewer is able to change his or her field of view as the video plays, thus giving a 360 degree view of the incidents taking place in the video. So you\u2019re not only watching a video, but interacting with it. It has been a few months since YouTube published the first 360 degree video, but they have come into limelight only recently.\nSo how is OZO able to record videos in 360 degrees?\nOZO captures stereoscopic 3D video through eight synchronized global shutter sensors. The spatial audio is recorded with the help of eight integrated microphones. Later, the dedicated software puts together these fragments of video from different cameras, much like a puzzle. The resultant is a 360 degree video, which gives the user the feeling of being there. You navigate through a video the same way you used to navigate images in Google Maps\u2019 Street View. Software built for OZO also allows real-time 3D viewing.\nWhat does the future hold for OZO?\nVirtual Reality is still in its infancy. There is a lot of scope in this field: with gadgets like Oculus Rift, cameras like Nokia OZO, and advanced software, one can experience and explore all sorts of places while sitting at home. Such systems can help humans reach inaccessible places, for training purposes in military and for navigation as well. On the lighter side, virtual reality is a hit in gaming and cinematography. Companies like Jaunt have come forward and shown support for OZO. It\u2019s only a matter of time before our movie viewing experience changes altogether!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://radiofreeliberal.com/viewtopic.php?t=23609&p=414841", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:18Z", "digest": "sha1:CAX6YTDYYYIJAB7QAD3KQ4GAAQIJ6Q4T", "length": 17852, "nlines": 74, "source_domain": "radiofreeliberal.com", "title": "RadioFreeLiberal.com \u2022 View topic - Cast, Crew Quit Film Project After Discovering Its Pro-life", "raw_content": "Cast, Crew Quit Film Project After Discovering Its Pro-life\nPost subject: Cast, Crew Quit Film Project After Discovering Its Pro-life\nhttps://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/ ... fe-message\nCast, Crew Quit Film Project After Discovering Its Pro-life Message\nA feature film about the infamous Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision is facing intense opposition after it was revealed that it is pro-life in perspective.\nNick Loeb, a producer, director, and star of the movie, told the Hollywood Reporter that actors and crew have bailed on him, and owners of filming locations have barred filming, after they learned that the movie takes a decidedly pro-life approach to the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that gave women the \u201cright\u201d to kill their pre-born babies.\nAs just one example, Loeb recalled that a crew member, a woman working as the film\u2019s on-set electrician, stormed up to him and demanded to speak with the director over the content of the film. \u201cWhen I told her I was [the director], she told me to go f*** myself,\u201d recalled Loeb, who had hidden the true intent of the film by using the working title 1973. \u201cThen she threw her headset on the ground and walked off. I found out later she was our electrician.\u201d\nSaw this on DU, let me fix one problem with it though - the title should NEVER include the words PRO LIFE, they are NOT that at all...\nis this source a Bircher society?\nPost subject: Re: Cast, Crew Quit Film Project After Discovering Its Pro-l\nThe New American (TNA) is a print magazine published twice a month by American Opinion Publishing Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the John Birch Society (JBS), an organization which has been described as a radical right and far-right organization.[2][3][4][5] The magazine was created in 1985 from the merger of two JBS magazines: American Opinion and The Review of the News.\nhttps://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/faith-and-morals/item/29458-cast-crew-quit-film-project-after-discovering-its-pro-life-message\n\"Pre-born\"\nDumb bigots.\nDaily Beast has more:\n\u201cThey\u2019re not keeping people in the loop with the script,\u201d one crew member said. \u201cWhen people finally receive the script, they\u2019ve dropped out really fast. After people started dropping out, they said, \u2018OK, don\u2019t send people the scripts anymore.\u2019 Instead, they\u2019ve been changing lines and scenes before they shoot.\u201d\nConservative actors Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Sorbo were initially cast as Supreme Court justices but left upon receiving the script. \u201cThat\u2019s where it started as far as not sending out full scripts to actors, because they backed out and then it was a mad rush to find people to be the Supreme Court justices, and when they got on set they had no idea what they were doing. They didn\u2019t get their lines until they got on set. They were kept in the dark,\u201d according to a crew member.\nEven some anti-abortion conservatives can't stomach it. It's obviously a very nasty right-wing hit job.\nBut two members of the Roe v. Wade cast have been kept secret from much of the cast and crew: Tomi Lahren and Milo Yiannopoulos. The right-wing trolls have been cast in one-scene cameos, with Lahren portraying Supreme Court Justice Blackmun\u2019s daughter, Sally, a Planned Parenthood volunteer who challenges her father (Blackmun penned the court\u2019s opinion on Roe v. Wade); and Yiannopoulos as Dr. David Sopher, a British abortion doctor who invented the Sopher ovum forceps and \u201cwho\u2019s performing abortions and feels they don\u2019t matter,\u201d according to a crew member.\nIn Yiannopoulos\u2019 yet-to-be-filmed scene, Dr. Nathanson (Loeb) witnesses Dr. Sopher (Milo)\u2014who is described in the script as \u201can Anglo-Jew from India, with an unusual habit of an awkward giggle at the end of every sentence\u201d\u2014perform 32 abortions between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., an alleged event Dr. Nathanson recounted in his book The Hand of God. \u201cYou blokes are missing out on a fortune over there in the colonies,\u201d Dr. Sopher tells Dr. Nathanson after performing the procedures.\nMost other cast members are not aware that Lahren and Yiannopoulos are making cameos in the film. \u201cThere aren\u2019t even pictures up of them in the production office,\u201d a crew member told The Daily Beast. \u201cSomebody requested that no pictures of them be up.\u201d\nThis is nothing more than a Fox News summer camp production. Obviously, they're just having friends on with no acting experience. It's how the right does things.\nI predict a poor box office take, if it gets that far. Probably like a lot of these vanity projects it'll screen out in east nowhere to cheering audiences of very scary people, and that'll be the end of it theatrically. It'll become one of those cult Internet things, preaching to the already converted.\nI don't have time to look up who the money people are. Anyone know?\nThis sort of thing happens regularly. That bunch has been trying to take over and propagandize parts of The Industry since at least the 1990s.\nZoWie \u00bb Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:57 am wrote:\nMy actor friend and ( are in this, background, several scenes.\nmy friend Mark and I, and we cant find it anywhere to watch, last we heard they did get a distributor but so far nothing, no trailers, nothing.\nMost distributors make drumpf look like a model citizen. It's mostly about the money going into a black hole, though. Straight counts don't happen in The Industry.\nIn a new development, the Daily Beast acquired a copy of the script:\nAbout ten pages in, however, things take a very pro-life turn. The year is 1966, and elderly Margaret Sanger, the world\u2019s preeminent birth-control activist, is speaking to Larry Lader on her deathbed. Just before she passes, her dying words to Lader are as follows: \u201cWe do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population,\u201d she says. \u201cLarry, they can\u2019t see this coming.\u201d The reproductive rights movement is thus framed by the film as a racist plot on a par with Hitler\u2019s Final Solution.\nThis oft-repeated conservative falsehood, shared by everyone from Herman Cain to Ben Carson, stems from the willful misinterpretation of a 1939 letter Sanger wrote wherein she outlined her plan to connect with prominent leaders in the African-American community and allay their possible fears concerning family-planning clinics. Sanger wrote, \u201cWe do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.\u201d\nWhile Sanger did dabble in eugenics, PolitiFact has repeatedly debunked the claims that Sanger bore great racial animosity against African-Americans. The fact-checking website cited Jean H. Baker, author of the biography Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion, who maintained that Sanger \u201cwas far ahead of her times in terms of opposing racial segregation,\u201d as well as author Edwin Black, who wrote in his book critical of the eugenics\u2019 movement, War Against the Weak, that \u201cSanger was no racist.\u201d\nRather, \u201cSanger\u2019s correspondence shows this sentence advocates for black doctors and ministers to play leadership roles in the Negro Project to avoid misunderstandings. Lynchings and Jim Crow laws gave blacks good reason to be wary of attempts to limit the number of children they bore. In Harlem, [Sanger] hired a black doctor and social worker to quell those fears,\u201d explained PolitiFact. \u201cShe attracted an impressive roster of supporters, including Du Bois; Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of National Council of Negro Women; and the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church. Eleanor Roosevelt also backed the effort. For Sanger to launch a genocidal plot behind their backs and leave no true evidence in her numerous writings would require powers just shy of witchcraft.\u201d\n\u201cAfter reading the script, you realize no, this isn\u2019t opinion, this is lies and propaganda that they\u2019re trying pass off within some historical context,\u201d a crew member on the film, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told The Daily Beast. \u201cWith the Margaret Sanger quote, they twisted it and used it to discredit everything that she possibly did. It\u2019s similar to what the right-wing media is doing now: they take one thing that someone said\u2014or even half-said\u2014and then they turn it into something that isn\u2019t true in order to discredit everything they\u2019ve ever done.\u201d\nIn addition to Sanger, the villains of Roe v. Wade are undoubtedly the abortion-rights movement\u2019s inner circle, consisting of Larry Lader, Cyril Means, Dr. Nathanson and Betty Friedan. They\u2019re depicted as a shady cabal of rich lefty Jews who meet in exotic locations like St. Croix and the Russian Tea Room to boast about the money they\u2019re raking in through abortions\u2014over daiquiris or pastrami sandwiches. \u201cIt pays to fight for a good cause!\u201d Lader exclaims at one point before the crew clinks martini glasses; at another, Dr. Nathanson sings a song that goes \u201cThere\u2019s a fortune\u2026 in abortion,\u201d which he\u2019d referenced in his book Aborting America.\nAgain, the situation is complicated.\nYes, Sanger unfortunately did sometimes get the support of eugenicists in the early 20th century, and there is some evidence she didn't reject their offers stridently enough. This does not seem to be because she particularly agreed with the eugenicists' views, but she was in a tough battle with religious authorities and would-be self-righteous moralists, and needed all the help she can get.\nBut yeah, saying she founded Planned Parenthood to \"genocide\" minorities is just so ridiculous, it really wouldn't require refutation - other than that people like Carson keep repeating it.\nIt's looking to me like this film is a hatchet job on Roe (the case itself - Norma Roe herself famously reverted and became pro-life IRL ... not that that matters) ... but what seems to be bothering the cast and crew that are fleeing the production is that the filmmakers didn't seem to be honest on what type of film they are making... an anti-abortion polemic.\nThat sounds very \"O'Keefe\"-ian to me, and typical of his methods.\nFollow the money. Who's above the line here? Where are they getting support? Is there a dummy partnership for the production that disappears afterwards to avoid liability?\nWhat do these people have lined up in the way of distribution? Is this another vanity project by righties with money who think they'll get famous running in a bunch of podunk theaters and/or a four-walled L.A. house for Oscar qualification? Or is it for video? Or they're going to stream it somewhere and die happy thinking they've made one of those cult propaganda things?\nIt's got Milo Yap and Tomi Lahren in it. I think that should tell you something right off the bat. Stacey Dash and Jon Voight are also in it. (Not as themselves. It's set in 1973.)\nAlveda King is one of the producers ... btw, she is the infamous anti-gay/anti-choice \"black sheep\" of the King family.\nYou've got to read the entire dish on this. As I'm using basically almost the full article, all credit to the author at Daily Beast.\nInside \u2018Roe v. Wade\u2019: A Disturbing Anti-Abortion Film Featuring Milo Yiannopoulos and Tomi Lahren\nCurrently shooting in New Orleans, the secretive project\u2014the brainchild of heir Nick Loeb, most famous for his embryo battle with ex Sofia Vergara\u2014has been mired in chaos.\nby MARLOW STERN\nhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-ro ... omi-lahren\nOn Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter published a strange piece about a secretive anti-abortion movie currently filming under a \u201cfake title\u201d in New Orleans.\nThe story, told primarily from the perspective of the film\u2019s writer-director-producers Nick Loeb and Cathy Allyn, revealed that the title of the project is Roe v. Wade; that it chronicles \u201cthe 1973 Supreme Court decision that guaranteed a woman\u2019s right to an abortion\u201d; that it has a \u201cpro-life tilt\u201d; that the conservative pundit Stacey Dash will play Mildred Jefferson, a founder of the National Right to Life Committee; and that several other outspoken conservative actors are portraying Supreme Court justices, including Jon Voight and Robert Davi, along with Corbin Bernsen, John Schneider, Richard Portnow, Wade Williams, William Forsythe, and Steve Guttenberg. Filming reportedly began on June 15 and hopes to wrap by July 15.\nTHR\u2019s piece also cast the filmmakers as victims, detailing their struggles to secure filming locations and keep control of cast and crew who objected to the \u201cPG-rated\u201d film\u2019s \u201cpro-life tilt\u201d\u2014a particularly hot-button issue in light of Justice Anthony Kennedy\u2019s recently-announced retirement and the precarious state of Roe v. Wade.\nWhat the THR piece failed to disclose is why the cast and crew of Roe v. Wade have been quickly dropping out of the project, as well as the project's true nature\u2014including several graphic scenes depicting aborted fetuses, according to several crew members who spoke to The Daily Beast on the condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals.\nRoe v. Wade is currently filming under the title 1973. Crew members have told The Daily Beast that the filmmakers have misrepresented the project from Day 1, distributing a \u201cwhitewashed synopsis\u201d to location contacts in order to convince them to film at their respective spots. \u201cTulane University has been the only main [location] where we started shooting there and then they found out what the movie was about and kicked us out,\u201d one crew member said. \u201cThere are other locations where they\u2019ve just said no. The whole attitude on the project has been, \u2018Don\u2019t tell anyone any more than you have to tell them.\u2019\u201d\nThis attitude extended to members of the supporting cast and crew, many of whom were told that the film was a vaguely pro-life project tackling the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case \u201cfrom another perspective,\u201d only to arrive on set, view the script, and be shocked by the extremity of its point of view. \u201cWhen I read the first two pages, I was like what the fuck is this?\u201d one crew member told The Daily Beast.\nThe film\u2019s director and first assistant director dropped out on the first day of shooting, forcing producing partners Loeb and Allyn, who co-wrote the screenplay, to assume directorial duties. A costumer, location manager, and several other crew members abandoned the project upon learning of its severe anti-abortion content.\nConservative actors Stephen Baldwin and Kevin Sorbo were initially cast as Supreme Court justices but left upon receiving the script. (*) \u201cThat\u2019s where it started as far as not sending out full scripts to actors, because they backed out and then it was a mad rush to find people to be the Supreme Court justices, and when they got on set they had no idea what they were doing. They didn\u2019t get their lines until they got on set. They were kept in the dark,\u201d according to a crew member.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a low-budget film. People are taking rates that are less than they\u2019re used to; they\u2019re being cheap with everything,\u201d the crew member added. \u201cThere\u2019s Jon Voight and very strong ties to the Fox News crowd. We\u2019ve got Joey Lawrence, Jamie Kennedy. Just looking at our cast of people, this isn\u2019t playing out like a low-budget film. There are a lot of big names flying in and doing favors to Nick [Loeb].\u201d\nKennedy plays abortion-rights leader Larry Lader, while Lawrence is Robert Byrn, a Fordham University law professor who fought against abortion. Other cast members include Greer Grammer (daughter of Kelsey) and Justine Wachsberger as Sarah Weddington and Linda Coffee, the attorneys representing Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe; Lucy Davenport as Betty Friedan; Ellery Sprayberry as Norma McCorvey; and Loeb himself as Dr. Bernard Nathanson, an abortion doctor and co-founder of National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) who later became an ardent anti-abortion activist. Loeb also narrates the film as Nathanson in a nod to the controversial 1984 anti-abortion film The Silent Scream.\nThere is also the matter of Loeb and Allyn\u2019s directorial abilities. Crew members claim that, given that it\u2019s their first stab at directing and they have little filmmaking background, their incompetence has left some actors frustrated.\n\u201cThe first day of shooting, the actual director and the first AD quit. So then they decided that Cathy was going to be the main director, and she has very little experience, so she and Nick have no idea what they\u2019re doing. Shots aren\u2019t being set up right, and there have been communication problems with the cast,\u201d the crew member recalled. \u201cThere was a moment where Joey Lawrence was trying to do a scene and Cathy said to him, \u2018Now make a face like this,\u2019 and he called her out and said, \u2018That\u2019s not what a director does. You tell me what I\u2019m feeling and where I\u2019m coming from, you don\u2019t just say to make a face.\u2019 A lot of actors are fed up with it because it\u2019s amateur hour.\u201d\nRoe v. Wade is executive produced by Alveda King, the conservative commentator and niece of Martin Luther King Jr., but crew members say she\u2019s been scarce. \u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever seen her on set, which is interesting,\u201d one crew member recalled. \u201cIt\u2019s very weird, because there\u2019s the main people, Nick [Loeb] and Cathy [Allyn], and then now other producers are coming in out of the woodwork for money reasons. They\u2019ve been keeping the producers very secret.\u201d\nI know, it's almost hard to believe who's involved in producing this, let alone \"acting\" in it, but there it is.\nAnd again, they are being extremely deceptive to people about even the agenda and title of the film, and who's going to cameo in it.\n(*) Kevin Sorbo as a SCOTUS judge!\n\"I'm the almighty Jerk-ules!\"\nNicholas M. Loeb\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_M._Loeb\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alveda_King\nNick Loeb's pro-life movie is so insane, even Kevin Sorbo turned it down\nhttps://news.avclub.com/nick-loebs-pro- ... 1827395837\nGotcha. A trumpoid pol and a rich kid, trying to make the next Birth of a Nation.\nFigures. There are always a few such people, buzzing like flies around the fringes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 25958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 254.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://radiorebecca.blogspot.com/2007/08/its-true-i-am-dutch.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:26Z", "digest": "sha1:OJPKH7PT2R3EKPABR5RMNGCKIJZWEEGM", "length": 3217, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "radiorebecca.blogspot.com", "title": "South Africa: It's True. I am Dutch.", "raw_content": "A street sign in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town's Muslim quarter. VanderMeulen is my mother's maiden name.\nIt\u2019s not often that I\u2019ve been a visible minority. I\u2019m a white farm girl from eastern Ontario. But here on the campus where I work, I\u2019m one of just a handful of white faces. And so far, I\u2019m the only one with this so-called American accent.\nNot surprisingly, just down the road at the nearby shopping mall, it\u2019s a different story. The mall is a frustrating maze: corridors snake endlessly in a thousand directions. Still, shoppers are undeterred and tirelessly navigate through the congested traffic. Here at the mall, I easily slide back into the majority. There are some black people, but most of them are behind the tills. There are \u201ccoloured\u201d people (the word \u201ccoloured\u201d has become part of the language here. It refers to those with both African and European blood. Most speak Afrikaans). But for the most part, the mall is just like any at home: a dizzying sea of white suburban moms and dads, stylish teeny boppers and middle aged, thin lipped women with their pot bellied husbands in tow.\nThe mall is an antiseptic and shiny cocoon from the shack villages we all passed on our drive here.\nIt\u2019s easy to feel ashamed here. Especially if you\u2019re white. And Dutch. And Christian Reformed.\nMy parents were born in the Netherlands and were among the thousands of Dutch immigrants who moved to Canada after the war. They brought with them their earnest work ethic, their farming sensibilities and perhaps most important, their Calvinist beliefs. The Dutch who moved to South Africa a few centuries earlier brought much the same.\nBy the time my parents reached Canada, the Dutch immigrants-turned-colonists in South Africa had settled in nicely, thanks to their Apartheid regime. It\u2019s especially embarrassing since they pinned their regime on the teachings of their faith -- my family\u2019s faith. Meanwhile, the Christian Reformed Church in Canada did little to break ties with its sister church in South Africa. Even as violence escalated and the country faced international sanctions, the Christian Reformed Church in North America sat on its hands and did nothing. In 1989, just a few years before the African National Congress won the fight, the church finally cut the umbilical cord and severed ties with the church in South Africa.\nAnd so when I leave my residence in the morning and walk across the commons and cross paths with the dozens of keen, bright-eyed black students making their way to class, I can\u2019t help but feel complicit in this country\u2019s horrific history.\nTouring the Cape Town Harbour\nWhat do you mean by potbellied men in tow? They are leading the charge to escape.\nYes, it's all YOUR fault what happened in South Africa. It's that dang time machine of yours isn't it? You couldn't just use it to gamble on some sporting events, no. You had to take over a country.\nNow, sit in the corner and hang your head.\nCOMPLICIT? I am impressed, Beck.\nsunbeam said...\nAah, white guilt. If you have it, you are a sucker. Colonialism has been going on for centuries, everywhere, and you can't undo do it!\nI recommend reading 'warriors' by Max du Preez and then the follow up book. I think you might enjoy them. Regards.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 3860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rainbow.liberty.k12.az.us/news/what_s_new/last_day_of_school_2018", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:40Z", "digest": "sha1:GRYO27EYJX3ENKIAZ5WWLTDPIUJHF6LQ", "length": 1702, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "rainbow.liberty.k12.az.us", "title": "Last Day of School 2018 - Rainbow Valley Elementary School", "raw_content": "Rainbow Valley Elementary School \u00bb News \u00bb What's New \u00bb Last Day of School 2018\nOur school-wide moving up ceremony will be at 9:30 on Friday, May 18thin our Amphitheater. I know that Friday is a full day of school, but we are still moving up that early due to how warm it is in the afternoon and because it is not safe to attempt to do it in the gym \u2013 way too many bodies in such a small area.\n**SCHOOL HOURS EXTENSION NOTICE**\nTeachers and administrators were delighted to welcome back our students this past Friday. I was able to visit each school to meet students and teachers for the first time. Our teachers were overjoyed to be with their students again, and our children were eager to re-engage in learning. Schools are quickly adjusting schedules for important end-of-year events. Those revised dates will be communicated shortly.\nWe do not anticipate any changes to 8th grade promotion ceremonies or upcoming field trips.\nThe question on everyone\u2019s mind is whether the school year will be extended. Although our schools were closed for six days, the loss of those instructional hours will not require extended school days at the end of our calendar to meet Arizona Department of Education requirements. However, we will need to extend all early release days to full school days until the end of year. This includes early release Wednesdays as well as the last day of school. All three of these days will be full school days. If needed, students may be signed out using the standard procedures.\nThank you again for your patience and understanding. We plan to thoroughly make the most out of the final days in the school year and enjoy every moment with your fabulous children.\nLori Shough, Ed.D.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 3907, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rapidfireband.com/Book_Contact_The_Band.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:17Z", "digest": "sha1:SJQNX4IAPZMGMJWZYLOXAYJE4YT6P42Q", "length": 278, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rapidfireband.com", "title": "Book/Contact the Band", "raw_content": "RapidFire wishes to thank you for your inquiry. Please leave all of your pertinent information as well as a brief explanation of your requirements. Please provide a date and time for your event and someone will be in touch with you soon. Don't forget your email address. Thanks.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 853, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://recabanting.com/2017/12/29/turkeys-cavusoglu-us-tillerson-speak-by-phone.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:KKV7GLAQTIGXZZTLHTUGRXAEWTZ5TTOQ", "length": 3776, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "recabanting.com", "title": "Turkey's Cavusoglu, US' Tillerson speak by phone", "raw_content": "There are at least 11 USA citizens now under arrest in Turkey.\nTurkey had \"adhered to high level assurances\" made to the United States and, as a result, the US State Department \"is confident that the security posture has improved sufficiently to allow for the full resumption of visa services in Turkey\", the embassy said in a statement.\nTurkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu spoke with his USA counterpart Rex Tillerson on the phone about Washington's decision to lift restrictions on visa services, a diplomatic source said late Thursday.\nThe State Department will fully resume visa services for Turkish citizens.\n\"Based on adherence to these assurances, the Department of State is confident that the security posture has improved sufficiently to allow for the full resumption of visa services in Turkey\", the U.S. Embassy in Ankara said Thursday. The employee of United States consulate was arrested over suspected links to a cleric blamed for last year's failed coup in Ankara.\nIn a reciprocal move, Turkey also lifted restrictions on visa services for American citizens, according to the embassy.\n\"By lifting restrictions on USA visa applications for our citizens, we welcome the decision to return to the old plan as of today\".\nEarlier, the United States had said it was suspending the processing of all non-immigrant visas in Turkey following the \"recent events that have forced the United States Government to reassess the commitment of the government of Turkey to the security of US mission facilities and personnel\". The embassy stressed, however, that the Turkish government has given no assurances to Washington, refuting the US embassy's earlier claim.\nThe US decision to stop handing out visas was implemented from October and was followed by the tit-for-tat move by Turkey to stop giving Turkish visas to Americans.\n\"Regarding the assurances expressed in the U.S. statement, we would like to emphasise that Turkey is a state of law, and that our government has not provided any assurances concerning the ongoing judicial processes\", the Turkish embassy's statement read.\nKlopp tells Liverpool to focus on Euro ambitions\nIf we stay consistent and avoid our mistakes, mistakes like [on Friday], we will win much more games than we lose or draw. We played the better football, created a couple of chances and luckily we've got on level terms.\nPolice were able to secure the area and take the suspect into custody after a brief exchange of fire, the station reported. Officers managed to get into the apartment and apprehend the suspect, Howard said.\nBitterly cold air moves in with low temperatures dropping to 8 degrees north of I-70 to 12 degrees at the Lake of the Ozarks. Highs near 24\u00b0 but wind chills will be in the single digits and drop below zero after sunset.\nChristmas hours for grocery and drug stores 2017\nForgot to shop for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? Christmas Day hours are 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. On Friday, stores will open at 6 a.m. and remain open until 9 p.m. on December 24.\nKHLOE Kardashian has revealed she is six months pregnant already - and has revealed her excitement about the upcoming year. Kourtney Kardashian's ex-boyfriend Scott Disick was at the party along with her current modely boyfriend Younes Bendjima.\nHome security provider Blink earlier this week announced a new wireless doorbell that'll debut at CES next month. That service requires cameras, and while Amazon already launched one of its own , it just bought several more.\nThey are asking everyone in the Arjay area to stay away from the dog if sighted and call them immediately at 606-337-6174. 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Reid 'credit and permission' statement following the article must be included.)\nThe FETI was developed by Russell Strand with the US Army Military Police School. It combines the best of child forensic interviewing techniques (open-ended questions, non-leading questions, avoiding influencing the interview subject, etc.) along with the principles of critical incident stress debriefings (discussing the emotional and physical impact of the event and the repercussions) and neurobiology research to obtain not just the who, what, when, why, where and how of the incident, but also the three dimensional experiential aspect of the crime. This process solicits and documents critical forensic physiological evidence.\nBefore discussing the content of the FETI, here is some general background information on memory, brain functions and the effect of trauma. Trauma is a life changing, world view changing event it changes our perspective. The assault experience is remembered in fragments and infused with intense emotion and recollections of sensations such as tastes, smells and sounds.\nMemory is comprised of electricity, chemicals, vibrations and frequencies. It is not a file cabinet where you can just look something up. Parts of the memory include the\nCognitive memory (names, places, phone numbers, language, who, what, when, where information); Muscle memory (riding a bike, typing, dancing, playing an instrument);\nEmotional-Affect memory (grief, fear, joy, anger); and, State memory (state of being -violence, stress).\nThe structure of the brain includes the Prefrontal Cortex that part of the brain that allows control of such activities as:\nchoosing where to focus our attention and thoughts\nholding thoughts, memories and other information in mind so the individual can imagine alternatives to their present and past\nfocusing inside and reflecting on the individual s feelings, thoughts and actions\ninhibiting habits and automatic responses\nregulating emotions, including how strong they are, how long they last and if and how they are expressed\nIn non-traumatic situations our actions are chosen, deliberate, and mostly the result of conscious awareness. However, during a traumatic event a sexual assault, a serious traffic accident, a domestic assault, etc., when the prefrontal cortex is under stress it becomes highly impaired, and old, primitive brain structures take control, such as the Amygdala, which functions as a radar that is always on and is designed to detect threats. During a traumatic event chemicals start to flow as the alarm stage heightens which can result in a freeze, flight or fight response.\nMemory is a cluster of little pieces that are in there of sounds, emotions, smells, images, body sensations, behaviors, thoughts and feelings they are all in the memory but they are jumbled all around they are not set in a sequential order. The things that are more strongly encoded in the memory are those things that were seen by the subject as the most significant threats to their well-being. Consequently, the traditional line of questioning, Please tell me everything that happened from the beginning to the end is not appropriate in the initial interview of the trauma victim, but rather a question that solicits from them their experience of the event is more appropriate.\nDuring the FETI it is imperative that the investigator is genuinely empathetic understanding of the victim s feelings. Victims should not be treated as witnesses to their own crime witnessing an event is completely different from experiencing the event. For example, witnessing a car accident is completely different from being in the car accident.\nHere are the core elements/questions of the FETI interview:\nAcknowledge the subject s trauma/pain/difficult situation\nWhat are you able to tell me about your experience?\nTell me more about . (the room; the person; etc.)\nWhat was your thought process during this experience?\nWhat are you able to remember about .. 5 senses\nWhat were your reactions to this experience\nWhat is the most difficult part of this experience for you?\nWhat if anything can t you forget about your experience?\nWith respect to item 2 above, the words able and experience are key they allow the subject to describe their strongest memories first without feeling the frustration of having to come up with an exact chronology of events.\nWith respect item 4 above, it is important not to put the victim on the defensive by asking questions such as, Why didn t you run? Why did you do that? Why didn t you do this or that? which all can cause the subject to close down because they may not be able to articulate the reason for their actions. It is easier for them to respond to a question like What were you thinking at this point? What was going through your mind when this happened?\nWith respect item 5 above, sensory information is oftentimes strongly encoded in the memory during traumatic events, so questions such as, When this happened what did it sound like? smell like? What did your body feel like? your arms? your torso? your head? How did that feel physically? emotionally?\nOverall sensitivity and empathy are the keys to a successful victim interview. Be patient, thorough, don t stop asking open-ended questions until you can in some way experience what the victim has experienced. Give the victim time to process and work through the trauma.\nOnce the investigator has facilitated all that they can about the subject s experience, then they can attempt to clarify other information and details of the incident.\nFor more information on the FETI:\n* A 1 hour and 33 minute webinar by Russell Strand on the FETI at:\n* A 34 minute presentation entitled: Neurobiology of Trauma by Dr. David Lisak at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py0mVt2Z7nc\n* A 23 minute presentation entitled: Sexual Assault: A trauma Informed Approach to Law Enforcement First Response Part I and Part II at:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlXzD2pYSA and\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Om695cHjg&pbjreload=10\n* CertifiedFETI offers certification training in the Forensic Experiential Trauma Interview - https://www.certifiedfeti.com/training\nCredit and Permission Statement:\nPermission is hereby granted to those who wish to share or copy this article. In those instances, the following Credit Statement must be included \"This Investigator Tip was developed by John E. Reid and Associates Inc. 800-255-5747 / www.reid.com.\" Inquiries regarding Investigator Tips should be directed to Toni Overman toverman@reid.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 19444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 206.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://religiopoliticaltalk.com/socialisms-failure-thomas-dilorenzo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NIHGGYYQ5S3W6XRS52JR3MK3Y3F5EOLU", "length": 16008, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "religiopoliticaltalk.com", "title": "Socialism\u2019s Failure ~ Thomas DiLorenzo | Religio-Political Talk (RPT)", "raw_content": "Socialism\u2019s Failure ~ Thomas DiLorenzo\nEnjoying a wonderful book\u2026 and excellent primer on socialism and the free-market. The book is by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, and is titled, The Problem with Socialism. Here is an extended excerpt\u2026 I highly recommend the book:\n\u2026economist David Osterfeld wrote: \u201c[S]ocialism, by its very nature, rewards sloth and indolence and penalizes diligence and hard work. It therefore establishes incentives that are incompatible with its self-proclaimed goal of material prosperity. The inherent dilemma of socialism is that individuals who respond \u2018rationally\u2019 to the incentives confronting them will produce results that are \u2018irrational\u2019 for the community as a whole.\u201d\nIn the early twentieth century some socialists argued that socialism would somehow rather magically transform human beings, effectively taking the place of God to create a new \u201csocialist man\u201d who would no longer be acquisitive and interested in pursuing his own self-interest. This was long ago proven to be a farce, as it never occurred anywhere on earth despite the use of terror and mass murder by the former Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other socialist regimes in vain attempts to \u201cprove\u201d their theory to be correct.\nA second reason for the inherent and inescapable failures of socialism as an economic system is known in the economics profession as the \u201cknowledge prob\u00adlem.\u201d This problem is associated with the writings of the Nobel prize-winning economist Friedrich Hayek, who first explained the idea in a 1945 academic jour\u00adnal article entitled \u201cThe Use of Knowledge in Society.\u201d In that article Hayek explained that the kind of knowledge that makes the economic world go \u2019round is not just scientific knowledge but the detailed and idiosyncratic \u201cknowledge of the particular circum\u00adstances of time and place\u201d that the millions of people who make up the world economy possess and utilize to perform their unique jobs and live their lives. No government planner could possibly possess, let alone efficiently utilize, such vast knowledge.\nFor example, consider something as simple as a slice of pizza. What would it take to make a pizza from scratch? Well, the first ingredient would be dough, which would require a wheat farm to raise the wheat that is turned into flour, which in turn is turned into pizza dough. The wheat farm requires all of the engi\u00adneering know-how that is used to build all of the trac\u00adtors and other farm equipment; farm tools, fertilizers, irrigation systems, and what not. Then there is the grain storage business and all that goes into it, along with the trucking industry that is used to transport the grain. The transportation industry requires gasoline or diesel fuel, which means the petroleum industry must become involved, including all of the sophisti\u00adcated engineering knowledge that is used to extract petroleum from the earth (or the ocean floor) and refine it into gasoline.\nSo far, considering just one ingredient of a common pizza\u2014dough\u2014we learn that it requires the efforts of probably hundreds if not thousands of people from all over the world, all with very specialized \u201cknowledge of the particular circumstances of time and place\u201d that they use to do their jobs.\nThen there is the tomato sauce, which requires a tomato farm and all the farm equipment, tools, fertil\u00adizers, irrigation, transportation, and so forth that is involved in growing and marketing tomatoes. A dairy farm is then needed to produce milk, which is turned into cheese for the pizza. And on and on. The lesson here is that what makes the economic world\u2014indeed, human civilization itself as we know it\u2014possible is the international division of labor and knowledge in which we all specialize in something in the market\u00adplace, earn money doing it, and use that money to buy things from other \u201cspecialists.\u201d All of this occurs spontaneously without any government \u201cplanner\u201d consciously dictating how to make pizzas, how many to make, or where pizza parlors should be located.\nAs Adam Smith explained in his famous 1776 trea\u00adtise, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, what motivates people to put forth all of this effort and cooperate with each other to give us \u201cour meat and our bread\u201d is not their selflessness or their love of their fellow man, but their concern for their own wellbeing. By pursuing their own self-inter\u00adest in the free market, they coincidentally, as though led by an \u201cinvisible hand,\u201d benefit the rest of society as well. As for socialism, it is worth repeating that no government planner or group of government planners with the most powerful computers available could conceivably possess and utilize all of the constantly changing information that is needed to produce even the most common and simple consumer goods, let alone sophisticated products like automobiles and computers.\nThe false notion that government planners under socialism could possess and make better use of all this information than the myriad consumers, workers, entrepreneurs, business managers, and other market participants in thousands of different industries was labeled \u201cthe pretense of knowledge\u201d by Hayek in his Nobel prize acceptance speech in 1975. It was, said Hayek, the \u201cfatal conceit\u201d of socialists everywhere.\nHayek also pointed out how the free-market pricing system is indispensable as a tool of any functioning economy. Government-mandated prices, such as we have in socialist economies, produce nothing but chaos. In a market economy, prices are like road signs; in this case, they reflect the relative scarcity of goods and ser\u00advices, the intensity of consumer demand, and help us order our economic lives. When a product or service becomes more scarce consumers look for alternatives, which is one engine of innovation. When prices rise, investors are alerted to consumer demand and look to provide consumers with what they want at a lower price or to improve on the existing product or service.\nWithout market prices, rational economic decision making is impossible, which is another core reason for the failures of socialism to produce anything but pov\u00aderty, misery, and economic chaos.\nTHE CALCULATION PROBLEM\nThe most devastating critique of socialism is known as the \u201ccalculation problem.\u201d Economist Ludwig von Mises explained it in his 1920 treatise, Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis, and in his later 1949 treatise, Human Action.\u201d Socialists who advo\u00adcate government \u201cplanning\u201d with government owner\u00adship of the means of production face an impossible task, said Mises, because they have no idea how to go about arranging the production of goods and services without real, market-based capital markets (such as the stock market, private banking system, and so on). It is capitalist entrepreneurs, Mises wrote, the profes\u00adsional speculators, promoters, investors, and lenders, who all have a personal financial stake in the invest\u00adments they make, who allocate capital in a market economy. Their indispensable tool is market prices, which guide them to invest in a rational, profitable way, meeting consumer demand. Under socialism, where government owns all the means of production and capital \u201cmarkets\u201d are nonexistent, and resources are allocated by bureaucrats to meet \u201cplans\u201d that might have no basis in economic reality.\nIn a capitalist economy, entrepreneurs have to meet consumer demand or go bankrupt. This doesn\u2019t mean that capitalist markets are \u201cperfect,\u201d only that there is an enormously powerful incentive for private investors to invest their money in ways that will be rewarded by consumers. This incentive, however, is totally absent from a socialist economy, where it is not consumer demand (and the investors\u2019 desire to make a profit and avoid a loss), but government direction, that allocates economic resources, which is why Mises deemed social\u00adism to be \u201cimpossible\u201d as a viable economic system; it simply makes no economic sense.\nSome seventy years after Ludwig von Mises first explained the impossibility of rational economic calcu\u00adlation under socialism, the well-known socialist econo\u00admist Robert Heilbroner authored a momentous essay in The New Yorker entitled \u201cThe Triumph of Capital\u00adism,\u201d in which he begrudgingly admitted that \u201cMises was right\u201d about socialism all along. At the time, the seventy-year-old Heilbroner was the Norman Thomas Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research and had spent the previous thirty years of his academic career advocating and defending socialism. (Norman Thomas was a twentieth-century presidential candidate of the American Socialist Party.)\nThe point here is to note the irony of the renewed popularity of \u201csocialism\u201d today, especially among a segment of the college student population, when even longtime twentieth-century defenders of socialism such as Robert Heilbroner finally admitted that it was a massively failed and misconceived idea. To be a mod\u00adern-day advocate of socialism is to completely ignore all sound economic logic, more than a century of his\u00adtory, and the words of honest socialist intellectuals like Heilbroner who were finally forced to confront reality after ignoring it for most of their adult lives.\nThe pervasive rallying cry of socialists is \u201cequal\u00adity.\u201d Capitalism creates too many inequities, they say. But they ignore the fact that all human beings are unique, and inequality is thus inevitable. The relentless socialist crusade for \u201cequality\u201d is not just a revolt against reality; it is nothing less than a recipe for the destruction of normal human society, as the Russian and Chinese socialists of the twentieth century, among others, proved. In the name of social\u00adist equality they destroyed their economies, condemned hundreds of millions to poverty, and executed millions of dissenters. And even after all that, they never cre\u00adated anything remotely like an egalitarian society.\nDemocratic-socialist countries that have not gone to these murderous extremes have nevertheless been content to live off of the capital accumulated from limited or previous free markets in their countries.\nSocialists are less concerned about equality before the law, or equal rights to liberty, than they are with material equality, which, of necessity, has to be forced upon society by the state. Rabbi Daniel Lapin, a cler\u00adgyman who is also an economic writer and speaker, points out that anything made by God, whether it be humans or stones (which can range from small pebbles to glittering diamonds of infinite variety) is unique; while things made by man, like bricks, can be made uniform. The essence of the socialist enterprise is to use the coercive powers of government to turn us all into identical bricks.\nThe desire to turn unique human beings into iden\u00adtical socialist bricks explains why socialist regimes are often totalitarian\u2014because it is the only way they can make a serious attempt to achieve their aims.\nThe socialist obsession with equality has always been at war with the division of labor and knowledge that comes naturally in a market or capitalist econ\u00adomy. Ludwig von Mises noted that \u201cThe fundamental social phenomenon is the division of labor and its counterpart, human cooperation,\u201d which, in turn, is what leads to economic progress and development. The uniqueness of every human being\u2014our differing physical abilities, mental abilities and interests, different aptitudes, preferences ad infinitum\u2014mean that we naturally tend to specialize in something, to focus on what we do best.\nIn a market economy, this allows us to specialize in what we do best, and get paid for it, and then trade with other \u201cspecialists\u201d for the goods and services we desire. An obvious consequence of this is that a capi\u00adtalist economy creates an interconnected community that constantly strives to supply all of us with the best goods and services at the lowest price; it provides employment for people of all imaginable talents and abilities; it blows past subsistence economies (where one individual or family or village has to do every\u00adthing itself); it creates wealth (which can support char\u00adity); and it encourages international trade, because not only are human beings unique, but so are their mate\u00adrial and geographical resources. No government program, for instance, can ever change the fact that Saudi Arabia is a vast desert with huge supplies of oil, or that\nthe American Midwest contains millions of acres of some of the most fertile farmland on earth. The Saudis specialize in oil and sell it to Americans; Americans specialize in agriculture and sell food to the Saudis whose irrigation systems, as sophisticated as they are, still render agricultural production several times more expensive than what can be achieved by American farmers. The international division of labor, as much as a domestic division of labor, results in everyone becoming more prosperous. Another point is that the division of labor (and knowledge) has always spawned a different kind of human cooperation in the form of teamwork, for many tasks cannot be performed by single individuals. Hence, people tend to become spe\u00adcialists not only in some skill or trade, but also as members of a team that produces goods and services. The division of labor and the pursuit of profit encour\u00adage human cooperation.\nIn a market economy people are paid, and businesses earn profits (or incur losses) strictly according to how good a job they do in meeting consumer demand. A good definition of capitalism in this regard would be: \u201cGive me that which I want, and I will give you that which you want.\u201d\nInequalities of income are inevitable because of competition\u2014some businesses and entrepreneurs do better than others. The key point, though, is that the market is fluid. Businesses can change or improve; workers can find more profitable enterprises or better ways to apply their skills.\nTo socialists, it is not just generic \u201cinequality\u201d that is wrong and has to be eliminated by government, there is also the so-called \u201cIron Law of Oligarchy.\u201d This is the insight that in every organization or activity, a few people will typically emerge as the leaders or top pro\u00adducers. Thomas Jefferson called this the phenomenon of a \u201cnatural aristocracy.\u201d We see it with \u201celite\u201d athletes in professional sports; \u201ctop-of-the-chart\u201d musicians and entertainers; Fortune 500 companies; lists of the top one hundred doctors, lawyers, or schools; and so forth. In a market economy, such \u201celite\u201d individuals and institutions can demand higher wages or tuitions or whatever than the average. To most of us, there is nothing wrong with this. But socialists, and sometimes mere bureaucrats, often think differently.\nThe great H. L. Mencken noted that all govern\u00adments, not just explicitly socialist ones, are enemies of the most energetic, productive, and motivated. In his words:\nAll government, in its essence, is a conspir\u00adacy against the superior man: its one per\u00admanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is supe\u00adrior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among men. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.\nThomas J. 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That\u2019s by far the best record in MLB in that situation. In fact, every other team in MLB has lost at least six games in which they allowed four or fewer runs.\nThe Yankees explosive bats have helped them win many games \u2014 they entered the series tied for the AL lead in games with multi-run innings \u2014 they beat the Orioles by scoring exactly one run in four separate innings. This offense may be on pace to break the single-season home run record, but you can\u2019t call it one-dimensional. After Friday\u2019s win, the Yankees improved to 4-6 (.400) in games without a multi-run inning; the MLB average win percentage in those games this season is .196.\nSonny Gray continued his mystifying, Jekyll-and-Hyde act on the mound, bouncing back from a disaster start against the Angels last week to throw a solid six innings, with one run allowed on four hits. The most encouraging number might be zero \u2014 the number of times he walked a batter. It was his first zero-walk start since joining the Yankees last summer.\nAlthough he started 12 of 22 batters with ball one, he was able to battle back and retire 11 of those 12 guys. That\u2019s a waaaaay different Sonny Gray than we\u2019ve seen this season. Entering Friday, he\u2019d put 102 batters into a 1-0 count, and nearly half (49) of them had reached base; his .480 OBP allowed in that situation ranked 10th worst in baseball (min. 70 batters faced).\nHis biting curveball was electric as the Orioles whiffed on five of their six swings against the pitch (the only contact was a foul ball) while taking six more curves for called strikes. None of the 22 curves he threw were put into play by the Orioles hitters.\nGreg Bird gave the Yankees the lead for good with his first career triple in the fifth inning, driving in Brett Gardner from second base to put them up 2-1. He entered the game slugging .778 with runners in scoring position since the start of 2017, the best mark in the AL and fifth-best in MLB (min. 50 plate appearances) through Friday.\nSaving Tanaka\nAfter waiting out a non-rain-delay of one hour and 44 minutes prior to Saturday\u2019s contest, the Yankees went to work against the Orioles pitchers, pounding them for eight runs on 13 hits \u2014 including seven for extra bases \u2014 and cruised to an 8-5 victory.\nThey improved to 37-17, the earliest into a season (54th game) they\u2019ve been 20 games over .500 since 1998, when they first reached that mark with a record of 29-9 on May 19. The parallels don\u2019t end there: both teams started slowly, with the 1998 club going 1-4 in their first five games and the current 2018 squad treading water at 9-9, before ripping off massive runs.\nThere\u2019s another other season-long stat that deserves mention here: The Yankees still haven\u2019t lost more than two games in a row. This is the deepest the Yankees have gone into a season (54 games) before suffering their first losing streak of at least three games since 1955, when they didn\u2019t lose three straight until their 58th game on June 12.\nIn order to get this win, they had to overcome another bout of homeritis by Masahiro Tanaka, who surrendered three home runs in a game for the 11th time in his career. Since his debut in 2014, the only pitcher with more three-plus-homer games than Tanaka is James Shields (15).\nDespite all the balls flying over the fences for Orioles, the win was hardly a stunner. Masahiro Tanaka has gotten the highest run support among major-league starters this season, with the Yankees scoring an average of 6.75 runs in his starts after Saturday\u2019s eight-run outburst.\nMiguel Andujar and Giancarlo Stanton provided the thump in the lineup, as Miggy turned a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 advantage with a home run in the second inning and Stanton went deep in the third inning for his first homer since May 19. For Andujar, it was his first career home run that gave the Yankees a lead.\nHe also added an RBI double in the eighth, his 20th career two-bagger. Playing in his 51st career game, Andujar is the second-fastest Yankee to reach that milestone. The only guy who got there in fewer games was Joe DiMaggio (46 games) in 1936.\nSunday\u2019s game was postponed due to rain in the Baltimore area, the sixth postponement \u2014 five rain-outs and one snow-out \u2014 that the Yankees have endured this season (not including their suspended game against the Nationals). That\u2019s one more postponement than they had all of last year and their most in a season since they had nine in 2011.\nSo now they\u2019ll play three doubleheaders this season, the same number they played in 2017. If you\u2019re curious (and I know many of you are based on my twitter mentions), the most doubleheaders played in a season by any MLB team is 46(!) by the 1945 Braves. Yes, that\u2019s 46 days of doubleheaders \u2014 92 games \u2014 in a 154-game season. The most the Yankees have played in a single season in the Wild Card Era (since 1995) is six in 1996.\nFiled Under: Analysis Tagged With: Baltimore Orioles, Giancarlo Stanton, Masahiro Tanaka, Miguel Andujar, Sonny Gray, Yankeemetrics\nGiancarlo Stanton is having lots of trouble with righties, but it\u2019s still too early to worry\nAfter a slow start to the 2018 season, Giancarlo Stanton is starting to hit his stride as a Yankee. He went 10-for-31 (.323) with six extra-base hits during the nine-game homestand, drawing five walks against only six strikeouts. In fact, Stanton has struck out only twice in his last 28 plate appearances. That has dropped his season strikeout rate to a still high but more manageable 31.1%.\nStanton is hitting .252/.339/.516 (127 wRC+) at the quarter point of the season, which is both very good overall and below expectations for the reigning NL MVP. One thing Giancarlo has done, literally since his first at-bat of the season, is mash left-handed pitchers. He took lefty J.A. Happ deep in his first plate appearance as a Yankee, and 40 games later, his numbers against southpaws are silly. Look at this:\nvs. RHP 120 .192/.297/.325 70 3 10 33.3% 10.9% 35.1% 56.8%\nvs. LHP 35 .457/.487/1.171 326 7 10 23.1% 7.7% 74.1% 33.3%\nGoodness. Stanton\u2019s numbers against lefties are comical. I mean, he\u2019s slugging 1.171 with a 74.1% (!) hard hit rate against southpaws. Yeah, it\u2019s only 35 plate appearances, but they\u2019re 35 out of this world plate appearances. They all count too. All the damage Stanton has done against lefties has helped the Yankees win games (like this and this one).\nOn the other hand, wow has Giancarlo been bad against righties. For reference, his 70 wRC+ against righties is on par with the overall season numbers for guys like Jordy Mercer, Jose Iglesias, and other no-bat/all-glove middle infielders. Stanton has always been better against lefties than righties, there\u2019s nothing unusual about that, but his platoon split was never this massive.\nTwo things stand out to me watching Stanton against righties this season. One, he\u2019s been swinging and missing a lot, especially at fastballs. Not just fastballs, but hittable fastballs. Last year he missed with 25.9% of his swings against right-handed fastballs. So far this year it\u2019s 34.5%. And just like last season, most of those swings and misses have come on high fastballs:\nElevated fastballs are a great swing-and-miss pitch, especially against Stanton. There is always going to be some swing-and-miss in his game. That\u2019s just who he is as a hitter. This year though, he\u2019s swinging and missing against right-handed fastballs far more often than in the past. We\u2019ve even seen him swing through less than elite fastballs too. It\u2019s not only the guys throwing 97-98 mph who\u2019ve gotten heaters by him.\nAnd two, when Stanton does make contact against righties, he\u2019s hit an awful lot of ground balls. Go look at the table at the top of the post again. He has a 56.8% ground ball rate against righties. Last season Stanton had a 44.0% ground ball rate against righties. It was 38.0% the year before. His career rate is 43.7%. Check out Giancarlo\u2019s spray chart against right-handers so far this season:\nStanton has been wearing out the left side of the infield with jam shot grounders. How many bats has he broken this season? It feels like two a game. For a power hitter \u2014 the game\u2019s preeminent power hitter at that \u2014 a 56.8% ground ball rate against righties is a problem. You can\u2019t hit grounders over the fence. Against righties, Stanton has been swinging and missing a bunch, and he\u2019s been hitting lots of ground balls. Not a good combination!\nThe question now is why. Why against righties is he swinging and missing so much and hitting so many ground balls? I\u2019m certain it\u2019s a combination of things rather than one thing. To start with the obvious: Is Stanton\u2019s stance too closed? I mean, look at it:\nI can\u2019t remember seeing another hitter with a stance that closed. It is extreme. Is Stanton too closed? Maybe! But he crushed righties last season and was NL MVP using that extremely closed stance. I\u2019m inclined to believe the closed stance is not the problem right now. I\u2019m going to defer to Giancarlo here. He knows what works for him and what doesn\u2019t.\nNew pitchers? Pressing? Small sample size? All possible explanations for Stanton\u2019s struggles against righties. Right now I\u2019m in wait and see mode. As bad as they\u2019ve been, I don\u2019t think 120 plate appearances warrant a mechanical change or outright panic. Give it a few weeks, see whether Stanton is coming around against righties, then reassess.\nThe good news is the Yankees are scheduled to face a lefty tonight (Gio Gonzalez), two more lefties this weekend in Kansas City (Danny Duffy, Eric Skoglund), and another lefty next week in Texas (Cole Hamels). Stanton crushes lefties and the Yankees are going to see some the next few days. At some point they\u2019re going need him to come around against righties though. They need Stanton to be more than a high-end platoon player.\nFiled Under: Analysis, Offense Tagged With: Giancarlo Stanton\nYankeemetrics: Comeback Kids strike again (April 30-May 3)\nMay 4, 2018 by Katie Sharp Leave a Comment\nCooled off in Houston\nThe Yankees nine-game win streak came to a screeching halt on Monday as the offense flatlined, recording just three hits in a 2-1 loss.\nCharlie Morton carved up the Yankees lineup with his nasty fastball-curve combo, taking a no-hitter into the sixth inning before Austin Romine crashed the no-no party with a single into right field. It was the third time this season the Yankee had failed to get a hit in the first five innings, the most such games of any team through Monday\u2019s slate.\nThe silver lining in Monday\u2019s debacle was the much-improved performance of Sonny Gray, who gave up two runs on four hits across six innings in his best start of the season. As we\u2019ve noted before, first-pitch strikes and pitching aggressively when ahead are so critical for Gray in the batter-pitcher matchup.\nCheck out these splits from Monday, based on whether he started a batter with a first-pitch strike or a first-pitch ball and the result of the at-bat:\nBatters 14 11\nAnd now let\u2019s update our season-long numbers from that previous article: he\u2019s held batters to a .407 OPS when getting ahead 0-1 (MLB average is .609), and a 1.242 OPS when falling behind 1-0 (MLB average is .826).\nOne thing that was different for Gray on Monday compared to his previous starts was an increased reliance on his four-seam fastball and the ability to generate swings-and-misses with the pitch, especially up in the zone.\n42 of his 97 pitches were four-seamers against the Astros, a rate of 42 percent that was well above his 30 percent usage in his first five starts. He got five whiffs on those 42 four-seamers (12 percent), after netting just eight whiffs on the 125 four-seam fastballs (6 percent) he threw in his first five starts combined. As you can see below, all five of those whiffs (the pink dots) on Monday came in the upper third of the zone or higher:\nDeja vu for El Gary\nFor eight innings, the Yankees were caught in a recurring nightmare \u2014 getting totally dominated by Justin Verlander, again. The former Cy Young and MVP winner tossed eight scoreless innings, striking out 14 batters without a walk. Yet that ridiculous gem wasn\u2019t enough to get him a win because \u2026\n\u2026 after the Astros ace was pulled following the eighth inning, the Kraken was released again, and when the final out was recorded, the Yankees had notched yet another stunning win.\nVerlander overpowering a Yankees lineup is nothing new; Tuesday was the second time he\u2019s struck out 14 Yankees in a game. He is the only pitcher in major-league history with multiple 14-K games against the Yankees. Yet at the same time, the way he absolutely mowed down the Yankees lineup was unprecedented. He is the first pitcher ever with 14 strikeouts, no walks and no earned runs in a game against the Yankees.\nAnd the Yankees still won. So, how improbable was this victory?\nOnly two other teams in baseball history has a team won a game in which the opposing starter struck out at least 14 guys while allowing zero earned runs and zero walks. On June 19, 2015, the Rangers beat the Chris Sale and the White Sox; on July 25, 2004, the Rockies beat Randy Johnson and the Diamondbacks.\nGary Sanchez ensured that Yankee fans would be celebrating on Tuesday night with one swing of the bat in the top of the ninth inning. With the score tied 0-0 and two men on base, he destroyed a first-pitch hanging slider from Astros closer Ken Giles, drilling the poor baseball 423 feet and over the centerfield wall.\n#FunFact Alert! Sanchez is the seventh Yankee since 1925 to break a scoreless tie with a ninth inning home run, and just the fourth to do it on the road.\nMay 1, 2018 Gary Sanchez at Astros\nJuly 22, 2004 Ruben Sierra Blue Jays\nSept. 14, 1977 Reggie Jackson Red Sox\nJune 30, 1971 Roy White at Senators\nMay 18, 1969 Joe Pepitone Angels\nMay 31, 1959 Bill Skowron at Senators\nJuly 24, 1955 Yogi Berra at Athletics\nEven more amazing is the fact that El Gary pulled off nearly the same feat last week when he crushed his first career walk-off homer in the ninth inning against the Twins on April 26. Going back to at least 1925, Sanchez is the only player in franchise history to hit two go-ahead ninth-inning homers in a span of six days or fewer.\nSevy and Stanton Show\nThe Yankees extended their domination of the Astros into Wednesday, notching a second straight shutout, 4-0. It was the first time in franchise history they blanked the defending World Series champs in back-to-back games.\nGiancarlo Stanton was a one-man show on offense, going 3-for-4 and driving in all four runs with two homers and an RBI double; the rest of the lineup was 6-for-32 (.188). He put the Yankees up early with a two-run shot in the first inning, lifting a sinker from Dallas Keuchel just over the fence in right field. With a projected distance of 339 feet, it was the shortest homer Stanton has hit since Statcast tracking began in 2015.\nIn his next at-bat in the fourth inning, he got hold of a down-and-in slider from Keuchel and drilled it into the left-field seats. Entering the game, Keuchel had pitched in nine games against the Yankees and faced 236 batters over 62 1/3 innings \u2014 and none of them had hit a homer. So, of course, the newest Bronx Bomber, Stanton, hit two homers in his first two plate appearances as a Yankee against Keuchel.\nThis was Stanton\u2019s 30th career multi-homer game, and coming in his 1,016th career game, he became the third-fastest in MLB history to reach 30 multi-homer games. The only guys who did it in fewer games were Juan Gonzalez (1,004) and Ralph Kiner (743).\nLuis Severino was a one-man show on the mound, going the distance for his first career complete game and shutout, striking out 10 over nine brilliant innings. At 24 years old and 71 days, he was the youngest Yankee to pitch a shutout since Sterling Hitchcock on May 21, 1995 vs Orioles, and the youngest to throw one with double-digit strikeouts since Stan Bahnsen on August 1, 1968 against the Red Sox.\nIs there any doubt that Sevy has cemented himself as the staff ace and one of the very elite pitchers in baseball right now?\nMost Starts of 1 or 0 Runs Allowed Since 2017\n#LoveThisTeam\nThe Yankees capped off one of their most impressive road trips in recent memory with a thrilling comeback win in Houston on Thursday. Nothing seems to faze these pinstriped Comeback Kids, who staged yet another stunning rally in the ninth inning and won for the 12th time in their last 13 games.\nThe Yankees are the only team in the majors this season with three wins in games they trailed at the start of the ninth inning.\nThe late-game heroics were needed after the Yankees pitchers imploded in the seventh inning, snapping their most dominant stretch of run prevention in nearly a decade. When the Astros scored four runs in that frame off Masahiro Tanaka and Chad Green, it ended a 28-inning scoreless streak, the longest by a Yankee pitching staff since August 7-9, 2009 against the Red Sox (31 innings).\nThe wild ninth-inning comeback was highlighted by the newest Comeback Kid, Gleyber Torres, who produced his first True Yankee moment with a bases-loaded two-RBI single that knotted the game at 5-5. Combined with his second-inning sac fly, Torres became the youngest Yankee with a three-RBI game since Derek Jeter on June 4, 1995 against the Angels at Yankee Stadium, and the youngest to do it on the road since Bobby Richardson on September 25, 1955 in Boston.\nAaron Judge clinched the inspiring comeback with an RBI groundout that scored Aaron Hicks from third base. It was his 143rd career RBI in the regular season, but the first one in the ninth inning or later that gave the Yankees a lead.\nFiled Under: Analysis Tagged With: Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, Gleyber Torres, Houston Astros, Luis Severino, Sonny Gray, Yankeemetrics\nYankeemetrics: Bombers streaking, sweep Twins (April 23-26)\nApril 27, 2018 by Katie Sharp Leave a Comment\nThe Yankees welcomed their longtime punching bag \u2013- the Twins \u2013- to the Bronx for a four-game set starting Monday, and predictably whipped them, 14-1, in the opener.\nEntering this year the Yankees owned a 78-31 (.716) regular-season record against the Twins since 2002 (the last time they lost a season series to the Twins was 2001!). That\u2019s the highest win percentage by any team in a head-to-head non-Interleague matchup over the last 16 seasons. Including the postseason, that record improves to a whopping 91-33 since 2002, or the equivalent of 118 wins over a 162-game schedule.\nMiguel Andujar continued to swing a scorching-hot bat, homering in the second inning and doubling in the sixth to extend his streak of games with an extra-base hit to seven games. That tied Joe DiMaggio (1937) and Mickey Mantle (1955) for the longest such streak in franchise history by a player age 23-or-younger. Andujar also joined A-Rod (twice in 2007) as the only Yankee third baseman with an extra-base hit in seven (or more) games over the last 75 seasons.\nGiancarlo Stanton broke out of his early-season Bronx slump with a 4-for-4, 2-RBI night. The four hits on Monday were one fewer than he had in his first 12 games combined at Yankee Stadium this season.\nDidi Gregorius put an exclamation point on the rout with his second career grand slam in the eighth inning, boosting the lead to 12-1. The only other shortstops since 1925 to hit multiple grand slams in their Yankee careers were Frankie Crosetti (3), Phil Rizzuto (2) and Fred Stanley (2).\nGleyber Torres singled in the eighth, getting not only his first career major-league hit but also earning our #FunFact of the game: He became the youngest Yankee infielder with a hit in a game since a rookie named Derek Jeter in 1995.\nRinse, repeat, another rout\nThe Yankees lived up to their Bronx Bombers nickname for a second straight night, belting four home runs en route to an easy 8-3 win on Tuesday.\nThe fireworks were supplied by the usual suspects \u2014 Gary Sanchez, Aaron Judge and Didi \u201cI\u2019m Not a Home Run Hitter\u201d Gregorius \u2014 who went a combined 8-for-13 with four dingers while driving in seven of the team\u2019s eight runs (alas, the rest of the lineup was 2-for-22).\nSanchez delivered two blasts for his ninth career multi-homer game. He\u2019s the only player in major-league history to tally nine multi-homer games within his first 200 career games.\nJudge smashed an opposite field shot in the seventh, showing off his ridiculous power to right field. Since the start of last season he is slugging 1.075 and has an isolated power of .626 on balls hit to the opposite field. Not only are those two marks the best in MLB, but he\u2019s lapping the field by a wide margin. No other qualified hitter even has an oppo-field slugging percentage of .900 or an oppo-field isolated power of .500.\nDidi contributed an RBI single in the third inning and then hit a booming two-run homer in the fifth, increasing his team-leading totals to 27 RBI and eight homers. He is the first shortstop in baseball history to reach each of those marks this early into the season. Among Yankees, only A-Rod during his 2007 MVP campaign and Babe Ruth in 1921 have matched or bettered Didi\u2019s totals in the team\u2019s first 22 games.\nCC Sabathia was in late-career vintage form, generating tons of weakly-hit balls with his crafty mix of sliders, cutters and sinkers. Per Fangraphs, 50 percent of the 16 balls in play were categorized as \u201csoft contact\u201d, tied for the second-best rate in any game of his career.\nStatcast measured his average exit velocity at 76.4 mph and all 16 batted balls against him were clocked below 90 mph. Since Statcast tracking began in 2015, he\u2019s the only pitcher in the majors to allow at least 15 balls in play in a game, with none them coming off the bat at 90 mph or faster.\nDidi and Tyler\u2019s World\nNot even another ugly start from Sonny Gray could keep this pinstriped train from chugging to another win over the Twins. Thanks to their relentless offense, another power barrage and a lockdown performance from the bullpen, the Yankees won their fifth game in a row, 7-4, on Wednesday night.\nAnother game, another dinger for the ridiculously hot Didi Gregorius. His game-tying solo shot in third inning \u2013- his ninth of the season -\u2013 etched his name in the record books. He is the:\nonly shortstop in franchise history to go deep in four straight games\nonly Yankee shortstop with at least nine homers and 25 RBI in any calendar month\nonly shortstop in major-league history with at least nine homers and 25 RBI in April\nFor more context on Didi\u2019s nine homers in 20 April games, consider this stat: In his first season as a Yankee in 2015 he hit nine homers in 155 games!\nTyler Austin delivered the game-changing hit, crushing a tie-breaking three-run homer in the third to give the Yankees a 5-2 lead they wouldn\u2019t relinquish. It was his 12th career homer, and 10 of the 12 have either tied the game or given the Yankees the lead. He is slugging .914 with a 1.299 OPS in 35 career high-leverage at-bats. Since his rookie season in 2016, that\u2019s easily the highest slugging percentage and OPS in high-leverage situations by any MLB player (min. 25 at-bats).\nGleyber Torres showed off his his lightning-quick bat speed with another two-hit performance, including his first career extra-base hit (a double in the fourth). He became the youngest Yankee with back-to-back multi-hit games since a 20-year-old Mickey Mantle pulled off the feat in 1952.\nKraken FTW\nThe Yankees capped off their sweep of the Twins in stunning fashion, with a dramatic walk-off win on a sunny Thursday afternoon in the Bronx. Gary Sanchez wore the hero\u2019s cape as he crushed a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth to turn a potential 3-1 loss into a thrilling 4-3 win.\n? Here\u2019s a few #FunFacts to celebrate Gary\u2019s first career walk-off hit. He is the \u2026\nFirst Yankee with a come-from-behind, walk-off blast against the Twins since Jason Giambi\u2019s memorable game-ending grand slam on May 17, 2002.\nYoungest Yankee since Don Mattingly on May 13, 1985 to hit a walk-off home run when trailing by multiple runs. Oh, and the losing team in that game? The Twins, of course.\nOnly Yankee catcher (since at least 1925) to hit a game-ending shot with his team facing a deficit of two runs or more.\nThere was little to celebrate about this game before El Gary snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in the bottom of the ninth. Twins starter Kyle Gibson took a no-hitter into the sixth inning before Brett Gardner\u2019s two-out single broke up the no-no. That was the only hit Gibson allowed in the game, and combined with his career-best 10 strikeouts, he joined an exclusive list of pitchers to allow one or fewer hits and strike out at least 10 Yankees in the Divisional Era (since 1969):\nKyle Gibson April 26, 2018\nChris Sale May 22, 2014\nBartolo Colon Sept. 18, 2000\nPedro Martinez Sept. 10, 1999\nNolan Ryan Aug. 29, 1973\nFiled Under: Analysis Tagged With: Aaron Judge, Didi Gregorius, Gary Sanchez, Giancarlo Stanton, Gleyber Torres, Miguel Andujar, Minnesota Twins, Tyler Austin, Yankeemetrics\nStanton\u2019s possible new short porch friendly approach\nTwenty-two games into the new season, Giancarlo Stanton has yet to provide the Yankees will the kind of impact expected from the reigning NL MVP. Granted, he is hitting .213/.307/.438 (105 wRC+), so it\u2019s not Stanton has been completely useless. He just hasn\u2019t been an MVP caliber performer to date. It\u2019s early. Give him some time to get comfortable and he\u2019ll mash.\nLast year Stanton made a noticeable in-season adjustment and closed up his batting stance, allowing him to better reach the outside pitch. That closed stance remains this year. Stanton now appears to be making another adjustment, and it\u2019s a common one for new Yankees: He\u2019s taking aim at Yankee Stadium\u2019s short right field porch.\nStanton, a right-handed hitter, is hitting the ball to the opposite field far more often this year than he has in the past. Here are his pull and opposite field rates going into last night\u2019s game:\nGiancarlo\u2019s home run Monday night was yanked to left field, sure, but he also had two opposite field singles in the game. His two Opening Day homers were hit to the right field side of center field, remember. So far this season Stanton has four opposite field hits. He had 17 all of last year, 13 the year before that, and five (!) the year before that.\nThis opposite field approach didn\u2019t come out of nowhere and the regular season isn\u2019t the first time we\u2019re seeing it. Stanton worked on shooting the ball to the other way all throughout Spring Training. Remember all those rockets he banged off the right field wall during Grapefruit League play? Many on hilarious low-effort swings?\n? \u201cMy usual approach to batting practice,\u201d said Stanton to John Harper in February, throwing some cold water on the idea that he was gearing up for the short porch during Spring Training. \u201cI just hit the ball to right, make sure I get backspin, stay inside the ball, see how I feel. I let it go when I need, get ready for the game.\u201d\nUsual approach or not, Stanton is hitting the ball the other more often this season than he has in the past. His highest single month opposite field rate last season was 27.4% in May. No other month was over 20.3%. Here are Stanton\u2019s best opposite field months among his 31 months with at least 90 plate appearances:\nMay 2014: 30.3%\nMarch/April 2018: 30.2%\nJune 2016: 27.1%\nThere are still six games to be played this month, so that 30.2% opposite field rate can come down in a hurry. Right now though, Stanton is on track to have only his second career month with at least 30% of batted balls going the other way, and his first since way back in 2014. Coincidence? Possibly! Given the inherent advantage of going the other way as a right-handed hitter at Yankee Stadium, there might be more to this than sample size noise.\nIf Stanton is consciously trying to hit the ball to the opposite field \u2014 and again, he might not be \u2014 is it a good idea? Does he need to change his approach? Stanton has had a ton of success as a pull hitter, and it\u2019s not like he\u2019s short on power. He can hit the ball out of any ballpark. Being a pull hitter \u2014 Stanton\u2019s 43.4% pull rate from 2010-17 ranked 119th among 467 qualified hitters, so he\u2019s not an extreme pull hitter \u2014 has worked for him, so why fix what isn\u2019t broken?\nTo me, this is similar to the batting stance change last year. It\u2019s all about getting better. The Yankee Stadium short porch turns fly balls that are routine outs elsewhere into home runs. If Stanton is able to better use the opposite field to take advantage of the short porch without ruining what he does best \u2014 ferociously pull the ball \u2014 great! I applaud him for trying. Every stadium is unique and hitters (and pitchers) are smart to tailor their game to their home ballpark.\nNow, if the opposite field approach doesn\u2019t work \u2014 we\u2019re still a long way from knowing that, I\u2019d say \u2014 going back may not be so easy. Mark Teixeira and Brian McCann became enamored with the short porch and it cost them production. It doesn\u2019t seem like the short porch could hamper a right-handed hitter the same way we\u2019ve seen it hamper a left-handed hitter, but who knows? What if Stanton turns into an opposite field singles hitter? Oy vey.\nThe 2018 season is still young and we\u2019ll see how Giancarlo approaches his at-bats in the coming weeks and month. If the opposite field approach continues, it\u2019ll be a pretty good indication he\u2019s doing this on purpose. If not, well, either it was a fluke month or something Stanton abandoned early. Stanton doesn\u2019t need the short porch to hit for power. But, if he figures out how to use it without hurting his ability to pull the ball, the Yankees will be that much more dangerous.\nGiancarlo Stanton\u2019s trouble with the fastball\nThe first 16 games of the Giancarlo Stanton era have not gone according to plan. Well, 15 of the first 16 games have not gone according to plan. Opening Day was pretty rad. Overall though, Stanton is sitting on a .197/.293/.409 (96 wRC+) batting line with a 38.7% strikeout rate in the early going, and he\u2019s getting booed on a daily basis at Yankee Stadium. It\u2019s dumb, but whatever.\nNaturally, there are no shortage of theories why Stanton has started slowly. He can\u2019t handle the pressure of New York, he doesn\u2019t like the cold, his swing is a mess, last year was a fluke, blah blah blah, yadda yadda yadda. I fall in the \u201cdude, it\u2019s been 16 games, give it time\u201d camp. Stanton didn\u2019t suddenly forget how to play baseball. That doesn\u2019t make his slow start any less frustrating or any less damaging to the team, of course.\nOne aspect of Stanton\u2019s game is obviously lagging in the early going. He\u2019s not crushing fastballs anymore. You don\u2019t hit 59 homers in a season and average 44 homers per 162 games in your career without being able to murder a mistake fastball out over the plate. So far this season, Stanton has been unable to do that. Look at his numbers against fastballs in the strike zone:\nStanton 2015-17 .319 .382 .414 95.5 mph 14.1\u00b0 23.2%\nStanton 2017 .356 .445 .432 94.6 mph 11.6\u00b0 23.3%\nMLB AVG 2018\n.284 .192 .366 91.1 mph 12.6\u00b0 16.2%\nStanton annihilated fastballs in the zone in 2017. Again, you don\u2019t hit 59 homers without hammering heaters in the strike zone. Stanton crushed fastballs in the zone in 2015 and 2016 as well, just not as much as he did in 2017. Not surprising. Point is, from 2015-17, Stanton had a ton of success against heaters in the zone. A ton.\nThis year though, Stanton has been comfortably below average on fastballs in the strike zone in terms of results. A .267 AVG is below average and a .200 ISO is basically average, possibly even slightly below-average once you factor in Yankee Stadium. Also, that whiffs-per-swing rate? Oy vey. It\u2019s way up. More than double the league average more than 50% worse than last year.\nThe good news? When he does connect with a fastball in the zone, Stanton is hitting it hard and with a similar launch angle as last year. A drop in exit velocity and/or launch angle would be a big red flag(s). The fact he\u2019s still making high-end contact on these pitches when he does connect is reassuring. He\u2019s just not connecting often enough. Not nearly enough.\nThe question now is why. Why is he swinging and missing on so many fastballs in the zone? Beats me. That\u2019s up to Stanton and hitting coaches Marcus Thames and P.J. Pilittere to figure out. My guess is it is not one thing. Stanton\u2019s probably out of whack mechanically, he\u2019s probably pressing, and facing pitchers he doesn\u2019t have much history with is probably contributing to all this as well.\nAs long as he\u2019s not injured \u2014 a drop in exit velocity and/or launch angle could be a sign of injury, but those numbers are fine \u2014 I\u2019m confident Stanton will get things straightened out. He\u2019s slumped before \u2014 he\u2019s slumped badly before, this is a dude who once went 0-for-17 with 15 strikeouts \u2014 and he\u2019s come out of every time. Stanton went 6-for-12 against the Red Sox last week. You don\u2019t have to go far back to see the last time he looked good at the plate.\nRight now, for whatever reason(s), Stanton is not having much success with fastballs in the strike zone, the pitches he should be mashing. Instead, he\u2019s swinging through way too many \u2019em. He\u2019s only 28, it\u2019s not like we should be worried his bat speed is deteriorating. Stanton has a history of mechanical funks and there\u2019s a pretty good chance he\u2019s pressing at the plate. Give him time, and soon enough a bunch of those empty swings on fastballs in the zone will turn back into loud contact.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 282, "original_length": 43486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://riverside.soccermaxwebsites.com/content_page_2.asp?QS1=29&F=HTML&QS2=template", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:26Z", "digest": "sha1:EBQAPMZB42Q7E5EHPDPVVGWMRDLMHONR", "length": 733, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "riverside.soccermaxwebsites.com", "title": "Riverside FC - Youth Soccer Club in Riverside California - Powered By Soccer Max Websites!", "raw_content": "Welcome to the new RFC official website! We are an elite soccer club in Southern California. 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Ticket holders have learned over the previous forty-nine performances here that they were soon to be richly rewarded with a top-notch, first-class experience.\nSuzy Bogguss, the acclaimed CMA, ACM, and Grammy award-winning singer, brought her entire treasury of collective experiences for her Holstein performance. Whether performing for a command performance at the White House, the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Regis and Kelly or Holstein\u2019s own Clausen Center, she truly is the consummate entertainer. The two gloves fit the hand perfectly with her accompanists: a double bass player, Charlie, and Craig, a country western acoustic guitar player from a small island off the northern Scotland coast. (I know, weird!).\nAfter growing up in a small town just across the river in Illinois with her brother, who played football for the University of Iowa, Suzy spent almost five years living in a camper, traveling the country as a troubadour. Her dad was a machinist for International Harvester, and her growing up years included activities like snipe-hunting, so Suzy was the perfect fit for the Clausen Center\u2019s eighth year Opening Night!\nFrom the very first song, Suzy had us. I mean lock, stock, and barrel, she had us. A rich, alto voice that was perfectly suited to storytelling served her well. Her melodies were honest and true: \u201cyou change just like the weather,\u201d her vocal stories revealing: \u201cI\u2019m fallin\u2019 for a cowboy in a Coupe de Ville,\u201d and her endearing small town qualities were seeping throughout every song and personal story: \u201cI make the little spider cookies at Halloween and everything.\u201d As she referenced our \u201cintimate audience,\u201d she let loose with many stories and one-liners, not only to entertain, but also to give us her insight, perceptions and humor. \u201cDid you ever buy a cured ham and then wonder what it had?\u201d\nSuzy has had a life-long love of Merle Haggard\u2019s music and did a tribute album to Merle called \u201cLucky\u201d from which she performed the title cut, \u201cI Always Get Lucky with You\u201d \u2013 a haunting, smoky, grab-at-your-gut piece of satisfaction. \u201cThese are meaty melodies, meaty stories,\u201d she says of his songs. \u201cI love sinking my teeth into them.\u201d Well, if Merle provides the meat, Suzy provides the dessert! The audience was treated to a beautiful guitar solo in the song, \u201cToday I Started Loving You Again,\u201d and the tribute included the always-fun, \u201cLet\u2019s Chase Each Other Round the Room Tonight\u201d.\nAs a frequent guest on PBS\u2019s \u201cA Prairie Home Companion\u201d with Garrison Keillor, Suzy toured with him in 2009. A Keillor trademark was an audience sing-a-long. This led to heart-gripping, emotion-grabbing songs that pull you in as if Suzy was a vacuum and the audience spilled Cheerios. Those songs included the gorgeous, \u201cOh Shenandoah\u201d and \u201cRed River Valley\u201d and \u201cI am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger.\u201d You couldn\u2019t not feel both the empathy and the jubilation from her offerings. At one point in the show, the house lights came up and absolutely everyone was focused on Suzy with rapt attention, not so much as anyone scratching an itch, and all leaning forward. She had us!\nHer flip side gave us toe-tapping, knee-slapping, \u2018ye haw\u2019 songs like, \u201cDrive South\u201d and \u201cI Want to be a Cowboy\u2019s Sweetheart\u201d with a little bit of yodeling thrown in for good measure. Her ability to transform and pull us into her musical world made her mesmerizing.\nThis writer was able to talk with Suzy at the conclusion of her performance, and she left me with these thoughts about the Rosemary Clausen Center for Performing Arts facility: \u201cYou can have anybody here, playing in that auditorium, anyone that you want in the whole wide world . . . you can bring in any entertainment you want.\u201d High praise from someone who has seen it all and experienced most of it.\nRemember the \u201celectric glow\u201d from the beginning of the concert? Well, it followed everyone out of the auditorium and into their cars, and it lasted throughout the ensuing hours, days, and weeks. 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RYLA aims to: demonstrate Rotary's respect and concern for youth, provide an effective training experience for selected youth leaders, encourage leadership of youth by youth, and recognize publicly young people who are rendering service to their communities.\nWe do this through speakers who address: ethics of positive leadership, community leadership and involvement, problem solving and conflict management, the importance of communication skills, building confidence and self-esteem, exploring values and moral responsibility, and what is Rotary. We develop leadership skills by team building activities with organized games such as volleyball, relay swimming and a low ropes course. The challenge of the high ropes course then builds self-confidence.\nRYLA is a official activity of Rotary International. The program was first developed in New Zealand and Australia in 1959 to fulfill a need to recognize and develop outstanding young people. 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Each chapter discusses one of those attributes in detail and includes: Vision, Wisdom, Responsibility, Integrity, Self-Control, Strength & Endurance, and Love & Commitment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 2214, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://rusautonews.com/2016/03/04/kamaz-revenues-down-by-13-in-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXH7XQDXF7XRHGTNZCGNLYWWEAKVMLTR", "length": 1253, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "rusautonews.com", "title": "KAMAZ revenues down by 13% in 2015", "raw_content": "KAMAZ revenues down by 13% in 2015\nRusAutoNews.Com \u2013 KAMAZ Board of Directors has summed up the preliminary results of the operations of the OJSC KAMAZ Group companies for 2015.\n29704 ready-made KAMAZ trucks have been sold in 2015, more than 23,100 domestically and 6600 exported. According to preliminary data, the total revenue amounted to 96.3 billion rubles in 2015, declining by 12.3% year-on-year. The company plans to increase the revenues to 112.1 billion rubles in 2016, as stated by KAMAZ press office.\nOn the other hand, 24 June 2016 has been set as the date for the annual general meeting of KAMAZ shareholders. Proposals have also been made as to which issues to include for discussion in the general meeting of the shareholders. The election lists of candidates for the Board of Directors and the Audit Commission have been approved. 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An alumna of Marquette University, Evanston Art Center, and the Noyes Cultural Art Center, she is the recipient of numerous painting awards including Best in Show at Winnetka\u2019s Art in the Village and at Art on the Plaza in Wilmette, Illinois. O\u2019Gara\u2019s rural, Midwestern roots are a thoroughgoing and consistent influence on her work, which centers around skillfully rendered, painterly depictions of farm structures and prairie flora, as well as still life. Her technique is an adaptation of impressionism, beginning with a trip through the countryside, then drawing on a reference photo back in the studio just long enough to spur an emotive, spontaneous application of paint. Her work is typically finished alla prima, meaning wet-on-wet, and in one session, maximizing her sense of connection to the environment that inspires her.\nStriped Pottery\nBrown Barn\nOil on Yupo paper and panel\nBeets, Leaning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 2997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sajog.org.za/index.php/SAJOG/comment/view/1312/0/33042", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OK3UAJSLWM54XX7POMPK6C5MTXPOPMEG", "length": 346, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sajog.org.za", "title": "Reader Comments", "raw_content": "\"Shofner Vance\" (2019-01-20)\nI\u2019m impressed, I have to admit. Rarely do I encounter a blog that\u2019s both educative and amusing, and let me tell you, you have hit the nail on the head. The issue is something not enough people are speaking intelligently about. I am very happy that I stumbled across this during my hunt for something relating to this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://saloncanada.com/SaintEdouardDeLotbiniere_Quebec_Hair_Salons.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:11Z", "digest": "sha1:6YOR2D4XVZDBAR64MANXVZ7AUWKT2J5Q", "length": 568, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "saloncanada.com", "title": "Saint-Edouard-De-Lotbiniere Quebec Hair Salons - Salon Canada", "raw_content": "Saint-Edouard-De-Lotbiniere Quebec Hair Salons\nNeed to look your best for a special occasion? Whether you\u2019re looking to get a special up-do, colour your hair, or just simply get a trim, you can find the ideal hair salon that bests you and your wallet with our Saint-Edouard-De-Lotbiniere directory. With various locations and types of hair salons to choose from, you\u2019ll find what you\u2019re looking by using our Saint-Edouard-De-Lotbiniere directory today.\nYour comprehensive guide to Saint-Edouard-De-Lotbiniere Quebec Hair Salons\nSitemap for Saint-Edouard-De-Lotbiniere:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2855, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 215.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://saloncanada.com/SaintRomain_Quebec_Hair_Salons.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:24Z", "digest": "sha1:YRHV4WJTK5TL654WUAYBS5HEVZFQNXLI", "length": 493, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "saloncanada.com", "title": "Saint-Romain Quebec Hair Salons - Salon Canada", "raw_content": "Saint-Romain Quebec Hair Salons\nNeed to look your best for a special occasion? 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A hand specialist diagnosed him with a vasospasm \u2013 this means the blood vessels in his finger constricted, not allowing much blood through into the finger tip.\nNot enough blood in extremities of the body is a huge issue. For example, gangrene is the result of a loss of blood supply; if the issue isn't fixed, sometimes the body part needs to be amputated.\n\"I went on a blood thinning drug in hopes that it would allow flow to the fingertip. I used it for a month, but had bad side effects,\" Schulte told ScienceAlert.\n\"The good news is that it did restore some blood flow to the fingertip. Since the threat of amputation was now gone, I just went back to normal.\"\nBut I know what you're thinking: how did it happen? Was it to do with the yo-yo string looped over the finger, as some have suggested?\nIf you think back to a more innocent time when a yo-yo may have been in your own toy arsenal, you'll know that's not it. The normal place for a yo-yo to sit is actually on the middle digit.\n\"The injury is most likely caused by the impact of the yo-yo on the hand when I catch it,\" explains Schulte.\n\"The biggest misconception of the injury is that I put the slip knot on my index finger to yo-yo. I do not do that, I attach it to the normal place.\"\nThe scare of amputation didn't stop Schulte yo-yoing though. He started the practice in college to try and get through a stressful finals season. Now, he has racked up 26 years in the yo-yo game.\nThat said, the finger blood flow problem hasn't cleared up entirely.\n\"The issue is always present, but I do not notice it until the cold months of the year. The blood flow is still slightly restricted, and the finger gets very cold,\" he said.\n\"In the summer months days will go by and I will not even think about it.\"\nAnd if you want to check out Dazzling Dave in action, we're just going to leave this video below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 3410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://scores.nbcsportsboston.com/cbk/story.asp?i=20190211182509202438708&ref=hea&tm=&src=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:21Z", "digest": "sha1:SHGJ2K7YL2EKKLVPE4DHEWUSESE4U3LX", "length": 325, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "scores.nbcsportsboston.com", "title": "NCAA News Story - West Virginia dismisses Ahmad, Harris for rule violations | NBC Sports Boston", "raw_content": "MORGANTOWN, W.Va. 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From that point, everything went from wrong to worse. The little baby, 8-month-old Kaia Zautner, died five days later, Hiatt was fired, and then, in April, Hiatt could no longer cope with or live with her mistake - the first major mistake she'd made in her medical career of 24 years - and she hanged herself in her home. ... Nurse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 3247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 339.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seoulbeats.com/2018/04/buzzbeats-17-who-run-the-world-women-who-inspire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:39Z", "digest": "sha1:4H2FR76N5IZZG2FXRX35JW5D7MHOAHPE", "length": 1592, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "seoulbeats.com", "title": "BuzzBeats #17: Who Run The World? Women Who Inspire \u2013 seoulbeats", "raw_content": "BuzzBeats #17: Who Run The World? Women Who Inspire\nWelcome back to another episode of Buzzbeats.\nWith the passing of March\u2019s National Women\u2019s History Month and now April being National Sexual Assault Awareness Month and the rise of #MeToo in Korea, it seemed like a good time to have a Buzzbeats focused on women within the entertainment industry in Korea. Even though K-pop seems to have a more dominant focus on males in general, but it isn\u2019t all about them. So for now, we have shifted our focus to the women who entertain, inspire, and ultimately, we respect.\nFor this podcast, I am joined by Lo, Jennifer, and Cjontai. We talk about BoA, Lee Hyori, f(x), EXID, Sunmi, Song Ji-hyo, and many others females who fit the the points above. We also touch on female groups that has disbanded and would love to see comeback.\nI must apologize again for the audio quality. I am convinced that my microphone (or recording program) hates me for there were no abnormalities in audio that was recorded earlier in the day. It has been edited to the best of my ability and it does not take away from the topic at hand, so I hope you will be able to enjoy it, despite my blunder.\nDefinitely pushing for Buzzbeats to be bi-monthly. So please look out for that soon and see you on the next episode!\n(Additional music: bensound.com; Image: Grazia)\nTags: BoA, BuzzBeats, f(x), Lee Hyori, Seoulbeats Segments, Song Ji Hyo, Sunmi\nGamer, K-music lover since 2002, radio personality prospect, voice talent, cosplayer.\nSamuel is a Vocal Powerhouse in \u201cOne\u201d\nSeoulbeats March Madness 2018: Congrats to our Winners!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5093, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://seyguide.com/en/seychelles-infos/Praslin.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:06Z", "digest": "sha1:UT53V6MKNYF4RY77QLLYEAI5W6N7X5BJ", "length": 8263, "nlines": 51, "source_domain": "seyguide.com", "title": "SeyGuide, a few words on Praslin", "raw_content": "Hotel Restaurants & Take away Food and Beverages Art & Culture\nGuest House Car rental Walk tour guide\nSelf Catering Taxi Private tour with driver\nBudget Holiday Public transports Nature Sites\nPrivate Tour with driver Boat excursion& fishing\nA FEW WORDS ABOUT PRASLIN (Valle\u0301e de Mai, Fond Azore, Fond Ferdinand, Salazie, Montplaisir, Inner Islands, Beaches)\nPraslin is situated 45km to the northeast of Mahe\u0301. It\u2019s area is 37,56 sq.km with a population of about 7000 people. Praslin is Seychelles\u2019 second largest island, after Mahe. The island is divided in 2 districts: Baie Ste Anne and Grand Anse.\nThe island was discovered by the french explorer Lazare Pinault while on is 2nd expedition in 1744. He named the island Isle des Palmes in reference to it\u2019s luxuriant vegetation. In 1768 an other expedition was sent. It was then that the island was named after the Duc de Praslin, the French Minister of Marine when the original \u2018Stone of Possession\u2019 was erected on the island in what is still known as Anse Possession.\nPraslin is a popular destination for nature lovers. It offers and maintains numerous paths to remote areas of the island where one can hopefully see rare birds like the Black Parrot. The island is mostly known for its unique tree, The Coco de Mer Palm which bears enormous nuts. The tree can live hundreds of years and produces its 1st fruit after 20 years and the tree can grow up to 30 mtrs. The curious Coco de Mer is the biggest nut known in the world and is found only on Praslin and Curieuse islands.\nPraslin owes its reputation to the beautiful Valle\u0301e de Mai, one of Seychelles\u2019 two UNESCO World Heritage Sites in addition to its magnificent sandy beaches. Amongst them, Anse Lazio and Anse Georgette, who both appear in the world\u2019s best beaches list.\nPraslin is central for the departure of numerous excursions to neighboring islands (Cousin, Curieuse, St Pierre, Aride and La Digue), some of which are regarded as important sanctuaries nurturing rare species of endemic flora and fauna.\nDISCOVER PRASLIN\nOpen every day from 08:30 to 16:30.\nClosed on 25th December & 1st January.\nEntrance fee: 350 SCR/ pers.\nFree for child under 12.\nFree guided tour 7/7: 09:00 & 14:00.\nOfficial guides at the entrance :\n- 70 \u20ac /2 pers. (private tour)\n- 10 \u20ac / pers. for groups 3 to 10 persons. Discount rates for groups of more than10 persons.\nTrails offered 1, 1.7 and 2 Km, lasting from 45 minutes to 2 hours.\nVallee de Mai is a nature reserve listed as Unesco World Heritage site in 1983. This primary forest covers an area of approximately 20 hectares. The 3 main criss-cross paths will bring you in the center of a unique ecosystem where many endemic species both animal ( Black Parrot, Dutch Pigeons, Sunbird, geckos, chameleons, snails...) and vegetal (palms, Vacoas, Pandamus, ferns, Orchids) live.\nThe forest comprises mainly of a unique habitat for the famous Coco de Mer palm. It is an endemic and very rare palm that grows naturally on Praslin and Curieuse island. Its growth is very slow and it takes 20 to 25 years before bearing its first fruit. Only the female tree produces the nut, the largest in the world (15 to 25kg). Sales of the Coco de mer nuts are strictly controlled.\nFree and accessible to all. Just about 200 meters from the Vallee de Mai entrance (opposite the bus stop), au sein d\u2019une ve\u0301ge\u0301tation tout aussi luxuriante et tre\u0300s similaire. This short trail of 1 kilometer awaits you all. If you are lucky you will see some Blue Pigeons (pizon olande in creol).The trail is wide but sometine a bit steep. It goes through a clearing leading to a viewing tower where on a clear day you can even see Denis and Bird island.\nEntrance fee: 125 SCR /pers.Free for children\nunder 12. Open everyday. Closed on 25th December & 1st January. Tel: (+248) 423 76 13 - 272 28 46.\nVisit with compulsory guide only.\nFree visit 3 times a day, walking time 1h30-2h (09:30, 11:30 & 13:30) / walk with private tour guide also available .\nThere are many trails lasting from 1h30 to 4 hours (highest point of view 250m, superbe view).The excursion start from Anse Marie Louise on a large path leading to the ticket office at the base of the mountain. The various trecks are generally easy and cross rich vegetated zones full of endemic species.\nNote: sale of coco de mer nuts on site.\nFree and accessible to all. The trail starts from Pasquie\u0300re on the North East coast and crosses the island through the plaine hollandaise to Grande Anse (about 1 hour walk). Very nice walk with beautifull views of Curieuse and rich in vegetation.\nJust behind Cote d\u2019Or, this short trail bring you to a small typical seychellois village.\nDo not miss this unique village where locals are so inviting. They will inevitably talk about life on the island of Praslin.\n- CURIEUSE & St PIERRE ISLANDS is involved in the protection of giant land tortoises and they roam freely at Baie Laraie. From there, a trail leads through the mangroves and over the hill to the other side of the island to a magnificent beach called Anse Jose. Entrance fee: 200 SCR. Free for children under 12.\n- COUSIN ISLAND is a nature reserve since 1975 and is a bird watcher\u2019s paradise. A guided tour lasts about 2 hrs and an entrance fee of 500 SCR is payable. Free for children under 12.\nOn the North West side of the island, facing Curieuse, it is a long and finesandy beach bordered by coconut trees and is on the coastal road leading to Anse Lazio.\nSituated on the southern most tip of the island, it is a small beach with a lot of coral. However the scenery has something magical about it.\nConsidered one of the most beautiful beaches of the Seychelles bordered with huge granite boulders. Swimming can be difficult at certain times of the year because of big waves. Access is by boat, by a trail from Anse Lazio which takes about 1 1\u20442 hrs or through the Lemuria Hotel but permission has to be sought from the hotel.\nSituated at the very end of Cote d\u2019Or beach, it is a lovely little bay with calm and clear crystalline waters.\nANSE KERLAN / PETITE ANSE KERLAN\nThese two beaches are within the grounds of the Lemuria Hotel and offer a nice relaxed setting.\nSituated at North East tip of the island, it is the most untouched and natural part of the island.\nAs its name indicates, this beach has powder like fine white sand but is only accessible by boat.\nAt the northern tip of the island, it is the most famous beach of the Seychelles and considered one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. It is bordered with big Takamaka and coconut trees, and huge granite boulders frame the clear turquoise sea. In some periods of the year waves come crashing onto the beach. When it is calm, Anse Lazio is a great beach for swimming and some snorkeling.\nSituated on the South East of Prasin, it offers a panoramic view of the ocean and of Mahe in the distance.\nA small cove of white sand near Anse Governement, reachable only by boat.\nGranite boulders frame this lovely little white sandy beach with calm turquoise sea. It is accessible only by boat or through the hotel le Domaine de la Reserve. Please note the access to the beach by Le Domaine de La Reserve is a private area.\nThis beach is situated on the north coast of Praslin and it was named by Capt Marc-Joseph Marion-Dufresne after the king of France (1768) when the French officially took possession of the islands. It is a lovely bay bordered with takamaka trees, the sea is calm and shallow and rich in marine life.\nGranite rocks divide this beach up into little coves shaded by casuarina and takamaka trees. The beach is part of Curieuse Marine National Park. There are 2 other Anse Takamakas on Praslin, one near St Sauveur and the other near Anse Madge.\nSituated on the north coast, this 3 km long beach is the main tourist beach of Praslin. It is a hive of activity with restaurants, boutiques, hotels. The sea is always calm and it is ideal for a relaxing swim and there are watersports facilities at the beach eg canoeing, snorkeling, scuba diving. The tiny island of Chauve Souris is a 10 min swim from the beach and it takes about 30 mins to swim around the island.\nThis beach is on the South West coast of Praslin near the airport and borders the largest bay of the island. The sea is generally calm and shallow..", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 9072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 287.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shikharinsurance.com/ninth-annual-general-meeting-notice-notice-published-in-abhiyan-daily/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:32Z", "digest": "sha1:TQLC3LYATRK5FW7VSMVOBDIMQLP43UTS", "length": 257, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "shikharinsurance.com", "title": "Shikhar Insurance Co. Ltd.", "raw_content": "As per decision on the 101th Board Meeting held on 26/05/2014, 9th Annual General Meeting is going to be held on 20/06/2014, 11:00AM at the Company's Head Office, Thapathali. Share Holders are requested to attend the meeting to discuss on various proposals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 176, "original_length": 5442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 55.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://showmeyournews.com/dts/episode-73-nfl-cincinnati-new-england/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:14Z", "digest": "sha1:4DWPHS5ILV6D4RUJCGKHPGCU3Y5UQBMV", "length": 2033, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "showmeyournews.com", "title": "Episode 73: NFL - Cincinnati at New England - Down the Sidelines", "raw_content": "Youko | October 2, 2014\nEpisode 73: NFL \u2013 Cincinnati at New England\nPeter is ashamed of Michigan, as his alma mater has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, regarding player safety this week. Meanwhile, Joel comes to terms with the elimination of the Pittsburgh Pirates from the MLB playoffs. Which teams have the best chance of making the World Series? Also, NCAAF Week 6 picks, NFL Week 5 predictions against the spread, and the odd stories from the last week of college football.\n\u2013 Michigan mismanages player safety\n\u2013 MLB wild card games and playoff predictions\n\u2013 Texas A&M at Mississippi State (-1.5) (SAT, 12 PM ET)\n\u2013 Oklahoma at TCU (+4.5) (SAT, 3:30 PM ET)\n\u2013 Alabama at Ole Miss (+6.5) (SAT, 3:30 PM ET)\n\u2013 Stanford at Notre Dame (+2.5) (SAT, 3:30 PM ET)\n\u2013 LSU at Auburn (-8) (SAT, 7 PM ET)\n\u2013 Nebraska at Michigan State (-8.5) (SAT, 8 PM ET)\n\u2013 Extra Point: Wake Forest at Florida State (-38.5) (SAT, 3:30 PM ET)\n\u2014 Peter: Michigan at Rutgers (-3) (SAT, 7 PM ET)\n\u2014 Joel: Kansas at West Virginia (-25.5) (SAT, 4 PM ET)\n\u2013 Chicago at Carolina (-2.5) (SUN, 1 PM ET)\n\u2013 Houston at Dallas (-4) (SUN, 1 PM ET)\n\u2013 Baltimore at Indianapolis (-3.5) (SUN, 1 PM ET)\n\u2013 Arizona at Denver (-7) (SUN, 4:05 PM ET)\n\u2013 Cincinnati at New England (+1.5) (SUN, 8:30 PM ET)\n\u2013 Seattle at Washington (+7.5) (MON, 8:30 PM ET)\nEpisode 73: NFL - Cincinnati at New England [ 1:12:11 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download\nCategory: Podcast Episodes | Tags: alabama, arizona, auburn, baltimore, baltimore orioles, baseball, brady hoke, carolina, chicago, cincinnati, dallas, dave brandon, denver, detroit tigers, florida state, houston, indianapolis, joel, kansas, kansas city royals, los angeles angels, los angeles dodgers, lsu, michigan, michigan state, mississippi, mississippi state, mlb, nebraska, new england, notre dame, oakland athletics, oklahoma, peter, pittsburgh pirates, playoffs, rutgers, san francisco giants, seattle, shane morris, st. louis cardinals, stanford, tcu, texas a&m, wake forest, washington, washington nationals, west virginia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 91, "original_length": 3539, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shrivenham.hitsnetball.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:23Z", "digest": "sha1:KU4XWJKUXZQXRQMVNMVGEIVXVF4UM7FP", "length": 778, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "shrivenham.hitsnetball.com", "title": "Shrivenham Ladies Netball Club : home", "raw_content": "Welcome to Shrivenham Ladies Netball Club website!\nWe are a thriving friendly club that plays in Shrivenham village on a Tuesday evening. Training usually takes place from 7 to 9 pm on the single tennis court at the Recreation Ground in the village (Manor Lane, SN6 8AD). The last 1/2 hour of training is reserved for matchplay for teams competing that week.\nWe currently have around 40 members and have three competitive teams playing in the Oxfordshire Netball League. Matches are played on Monday, Wednesday or Thursday evenings (depending on Division) at a Central Venue in Oxford.\nPlayers of all standards are welcome although we do not currently have a junior division. You can choose to play competitively or just for fun.\nFor more information CONTACT US or just turn up!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 238.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://shybowel.com/home.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:34Z", "digest": "sha1:6P5NB6DWZKY36LVEBS4TIH45V3MUZMP3", "length": 3151, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "shybowel.com", "title": "Toilet Phobia Help Site", "raw_content": "Welcome to the Parcopresis Website\nWhat is Parcopresis?\nParcopresis can be described as: \u201cAn inability to defecate when other people are perceived or likely to be around (e.g. in the same public toilet, the same house or the same building).\u201d This inability limits the sufferer to being able to defecate only in a limited number of \u2018safe\u2019 places thus restricting their lifestyle. The level of restriction varies depending on the severity of each sufferer\u2019s condition but in extreme cases it can force people to give up their jobs, avoid holidays they would love to take, and generally dictate and limit most aspects of their lives. A medical description is \u2018Psychogenic Faecal Retention\u2019. It affects both men and women, of all ages and backgrounds; it is a form of toilet phobia. The term \u201cParcopresis\u201d has been coined by the creators of this website since, as far as we know, no medical term has previously existed for it until now. Another name for it is \u201cShy Bowel Syndrome\u201d.\nThe Equivalent Problem With Urination.\nParcopresis is the faecal equivalent of paruresis (psychogenic urinary retention). The UK support site for paruresis is at:\nhttp://www.ukpt.org.uk\nCan I be cured?\nThere may be no 100% cure; however up until now there has been very little if any research or documentation on treatment of this condition so it is impossible to say. Techniques such as cognitive-behavioural therapy and hypnotherapy appear to be useful and sharing experiences and insights seems to help too (see the message board via the link on the left). It is also worth trying to stop thinking in terms of cure/no cure... and to focus instead on 'improvement' (which is definitely possible).\nYou can get in touch by email. Click on the link on the left called \"Contact us\" for further details.\nInternet based information and support:\nThe link to the Message Board is in the menu options on the left. There you can read messages posted by others, you can post yourself, and you can reply to existing posts. Use it to ask questions, seek support, or tell your story. You can be as anonymous as you like. Just remember it is there for support, so abstain from insensitive comments. The board is actively monitored (moderated), and any abusive or misleading postings will be edited, erased or, as a last resort, the poster can be barred.\nThis website is NOT a substitute for medical advice and does not constitute the practice of medicine, psychiatry, clinical psychology, clinical social work or any other mental health profession. If you are having trouble defecating, you should always contact your doctor because difficulty with voiding can be a symptom of a serious physical medical condition.\nThe purpose of this website is to help people cope with faecal dysfunction that has a psychological or social origin. On it we are NOT practising medicine, psychiatry, clinical psychology, clinical social work or any other mental health profession.\nYou should have your doctor evaluate your condition before diagnosing yourself, and seek the appropriate necessary mental health counselling if warranted. The owner of this website disclaims all legal liability whatsoever.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 3267, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://simplyalexandramyfavoritethings.blogspot.com/2016/06/have-you-heard-throwback-9-to-5-dolly.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:22Z", "digest": "sha1:OQTZVBOTKKX2EURUGJRQCWSUZRM3SFA2", "length": 1528, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "simplyalexandramyfavoritethings.blogspot.com", "title": "My Favorite Things: Have You Heard? // Throwback // Dolly Parton - \"9 to 5\"", "raw_content": "Have You Heard? // Throwback // Dolly Parton - \"9 to 5\"\nHello friends! It's FRIDAY!\nAt work I have been taking on some new administrative roles, and we have had two big meetings in the past two weeks. I have spent a lot of time and energy working on those, way out of my wheel house, and I am so glad to say... they are over! & everything went smoothly. :) HUZZAH!\nSo of course.... I've been thinking of this Dolly classic.\nI probably don't share it a lot, but I think Dolly Parton is a national treasure. She's sassy, she's honest and real, and she knows that she shouldn't be one to judge. I know a lot of people think she's fake because she's got fake hair and fake whatever else they want to claim. But she's quick to speak her mind, and boy does she say some incredibly honest things. She knows who she is, and it doesn't matter if her hair is fake... SHE is real and she is true to herself. :)\nKC and I saw that she was coming to KCMO in July... and we got tickets!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!\nSo, what is more appropriate to share this week? (answer: nothing)\nAlso, has anyone else seen this movie?! It's incredible. I didn't even know it was a movie, but gosh it's fantastic.\nAbsolutely ahead of it's time in terms of women in the workforce. It's also just hilarious and delightful. So if you get a chance, queue it up for a movie night! You will laugh and laugh and laugh.\nNow, lasso up the weekend and hold on tight.\nLabels: Dolly Parton, Have You Heard, Movie Recommendations, music, Music Recommendations, What I'm listening to", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 239, "original_length": 6341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 250.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sinbin.vegas/forever-vegas-strong/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:03Z", "digest": "sha1:BOOGNDQYPJN6RSLT4XXEHREITSW2XGF2", "length": 5519, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "sinbin.vegas", "title": "Forever Vegas Strong - SinBin.vegas", "raw_content": "One year ago today was the worst day the city of Las Vegas has ever experienced. 58 lives were senselessly taken, thousands of memories were forever tarnished, and millions of lives were affected. It was, is, and always will be, in a word, horrendous.\nHowever, that day taught the world a lot about the greatest city in it. That day showed what a tremendous community we have. That day showed how we rally for our own and for our visitors. That day broke down a lot of the barriers and stigmas about what Las Vegas really is and who actually lives here.\nThat day showed that we are Vegas Strong.\nToday, the Golden Knights will make their way around the city participating in a number of community visits that will touch the lives of hundreds who were affected by 1 October. The Golden Knights are Las Vegas\u2019 team. They are beloved in a way that every sports franchise in the world dreams of, but very few have. They have become heroes after their awe-inspiring first season and today they will use that status to hopefully bring joy to the real heroes of this city.\nBut today they will be seen much differently than they were this time last year. At that time, they had never played a game. Aside from Fleury, individual players were relatively unknown. They hadn\u2019t yet connected with the city like they were about to a few days later and over the course of the next 12 months. They were not beloved sports icons. The words Wild Bill, Marchy, and Belly meant nothing to anyone. They were really just millionaire athletes who were dropped here, involuntarily in most cases, and were told to go help the city heal the worst tragedy it has ever seen.\nLooking back, it was a ridiculous ask, and yet, somehow, they pulled it off, and they\u2019ve been pulling it off ever since.\nI\u2019ve told this story many times before, but I\u2019m going to do it again.\nOn October 3rd, 2017, less than 48 hours later, a small group of Golden Knights made an appearance at the Las Vegas Metro Police Headquarters downtown, it was one of three appearances they made that day. At this particular one, they were tasked with walking into a room of over 400 people who have just experienced two of the worst days of their lives and were supposed to lift their spirits. Deryk Engelland, Jon Merrill, Griffin Reinhart, Erik Haula, William Karlsson, and Jason Garrison were the players that attended. I only mention the names because, at the time, these weren\u2019t household names. Engelland, maybe, but the rest you could have swapped out with random people wearing VGK jerseys and 95% of the people in the room wouldn\u2019t have known. When they walked into the big room it was fairly quiet despite a few hundred police officers already present. Within minutes of the players walking in, the volume cranked up. Laughing, joking, picture taking, hugging, handshakes, the furthest thing from a sad place as you can imagine. This is a room of people who have probably not slept in days, have seen and heard things that will scar them forever, and have not stopped working for a second all in an effort to assist the city. These are not people who should be easy to make smile at this time, yet the Golden Knights did it, and did it with flying colors.\nHow does a sports team, that has never even played a game have this kind of impact on that group of people at that time? I still don\u2019t really know or understand the answer, and most of the players who were there that I spoke to didn\u2019t either. It was incredible to see and it\u2019s something I\u2019ll never forget. It was the very first time I saw the Golden Knights embraced by the city of Las Vegas. I\u2019ve seen it plenty of times since, I\u2019ll see it again today, and I\u2019ll probably see it thousands of times in the future, but never will it leave the same impression that it did that day.\nI wrote an article after it about how the team became the city\u2019s real Knights that day. Every word in that article still holds up today, but never in a million years could I have predicted what was to come and how true some of the words would ring. Specifically these\u2026\nHere we are, in need of those who can \u201cprotect us.\u201d Who will not let one heinous act ruin our great city. Who will always help us \u201cadvance.\u201d\nThat\u2019s what I wrote. Three days before the first time the Golden Knights took the ice for real. One week before the most incredible season opening night in sports history, and oh my goodness did they ever help us \u201cadvance.\u201d\nThe Golden Knights and 1 October will forever be connected because of the way the city responded to the team. Las Vegas latched on to them, gripped tightly, and have never let go.\nOnce a year the calendar will flip to October 1st, and every year it\u2019s going to bring back the horrible reminder of what happened that night in 2017. But every year the Golden Knights season will be just days away and there they will be, to help remind us of what we are, and what we will always be.\nVegas Strong.\nI think the link to the old article is broken.\nThanks for pointing that out. It has been fixed.\nWell done, Ken. Well done\nThank Ken for this article. Yes we have become a stronger community and The Vegas Golden Knights made it possible too.\nThanks for that Ken\u2026about a year ago today, I was meeting some buddies up north for a guys weekend. I got there late, so they were all passed-out (bunch of wusses). Turned out to be a good thing because the Golden Knights\u2019 home opener was on the tube. What a class act! Deryk Engelland\u2019s incredible speech brought a tear to my eye and made me proud to be a puck-head.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 9032, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sindhishaan.com/article/spirituality/spir_12_02.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:15Z", "digest": "sha1:KI7PP47RRTPDCR6GWLBQ3O2LYDIDWOI3", "length": 9012, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "sindhishaan.com", "title": "Sindhishaan - Upanishads", "raw_content": "It is said that the gods dictated the Vedas, and the sages first heard them internally and then passed them on. The authorship of these earliest scriptures is thus regarded as nonhuman (apauarusya) in origin. Upanishads, which are also called \u2018Vedanta\u2019 or literally meaning the end of the Vedas, are in fact part of the Vedas. Even so Upanishads also herald the first of the many transitions the Hindu theology would go over the coming centuries and millennia. Hinduism thus came to become a rather dynamic religion incorporating changes according to time and situation. The unique factor about these changes however is the change took place in most subtle manner without invoking any confrontation and violence. The old were always revered but ingeniously modified.\nThe early Vedic scriptures were more occupied with mythological nature gods, such as the sun (Suray) or the moon (Chandra). In later periods of the Vedic era (1000\u2013700 BCE), there was a shift toward the Brahmana rituals and sacrifices that were devoted to the transcendental divine. The Upanishads (800\u2013500 BCE) represent the subtle reaction to the glorification of the ritual philosophy, giving more attention to the mystical or transcendental thoughts, such as identity of the individual soul (atman) and the soul of the universe (Brahman). The rituals and the nature gods were not totally disowned; rather these have continued till today with some modifications, often commanding utmost respect and attention, occasionally occupying a very dominant position!\nThe Upanishads or the Vedanta are the scriptures that contain the essence of the Vedic philosophy. \u201cUpanishad\u201d literally means \u201clearning at the feet of\u201d; meaning \u201cat the feet of a Master.\u201d Thus was born the ancient guru system in Hindu society. In each of the Vedas, there are two main divisions: the Karma Kanda, which deals with the rituals, and the Jnana Kanda, whichdeals with spiritual knowledge or wisdom. The Upanishads are part of the Jnana Kanda. The guru would lead his pupil (shishya), step by step, to the stage whereby the pupil recognized the Self, or the Divine in himself. This is indeed the avowed final destination of a Hindu life.\nThese learning discussions are also known as samvada\u2014the teacher talks and the student listens. The student can ask questions to clarify genuine doubts, but the topics under consideration only deal with the spiritual knowledge of the Divine (Brahmvidya). It is thought that thus may have been the beginning of the \u2018democratic thought\u2019 in mankind! The Upanishads truly heralded free thought in Hindu society.\nDiscovering the Divine, or Self, within also implies elevating oneself to the highest spiritual status. This is, in reality, the sacred stage of all virtuous conduct. The Upanishads are therefore considered a road map, complete with a \u201cguru guide,\u201d to reach the highest peak of human development.\nMost of the Upanishads are the reproduction of the dialogues and discussions between the teacher and his pupils\u2014the guru and his shishyas. In the Upanishads, we also see the identification of the sage (the Rishi) associated with each teaching program, a factor that was conspicuous by its absence in the Vedas. The major Upanishads, or the Primary Upanishads, were formed along with the Vedas.\nThese were compiled before the Buddhist era, around the seventh century BCE or earlier. The Vedas are vastly full of many prayers, rituals, and ceremonial verses. The learned gurus of the Upanishads brought the important virtuous teachings to the forefront and downplayed the teachings that were less relevant to mankind. The spiritual teachings were properly explained with correct interpretations.\nSwami Paramannanda, one of the pioneer gurus of Hindu philosophy in the West, writes:\nIn the Vedas, we find a clear distinction between what man calls his own self, the Jivatman, and the Divine Over-self, the Paramatman. The search for God is man\u2019s eternal quest. Every person must do this for himself. The method of this individual search can be traced to the Upanishad teaching. It is not so much the learning of the Divine, which is important; it\u2019s living like the Divine that is essential in this pursuit.\nThe earlier Upanishads (Brhadarayaka and Chandogya) relied strongly on the rituals used to interpret the spiritual knowledge. The later Upanishads became more and more liberated from the rituals, however, moving toward internal processes of meditation and personal religious experiences. It is more likely that some factions at this stage totally defied the orthodox Vedic supremacy and formed a separate group that advocated the pre-historic (Saraswati-Sindhu Civilization) ancient philosophy of renunciation and meditation, naming it as the Sramana ideology, which ultimately gave birth to Jainism and Buddhism. External rituals were subordinated to internal spiritual practices, called sadhanas. In the Upanishads, we also find the final climb of the human mind, beyond the senses and the mind, into the realm of spiritual realization. The rituals are meant to prepare grounds for learning the ultimate truth of the Divine and the spiritual laws\u2014so, too, is the role of the guru\u2014but when the rituals or gurus become the end, in and of themselves, the very purpose is lost. The rituals, however, did continue their influence and dominance in many different ways in the Hindu society. Even as the new religions and cults opposed and denounced the old rituals, they soon formed their own new rituals.\nRituals in the Vedas were essentially based on the principle of sacrifice. The various ingredients, mainly the cereals and clarified butter were offered as sacrifice to the fire god Agni. These would be transported in some mystic manner to benefit the worshipper or his ancestors and other family members in this life or another.\nIn Bhagavad Gita, the deeds done in life were considered as the rituals; these would then be called the Karmas. In the Vedas, the rituals formed the Karma-kanda portion of the Vedas.\nIn modern period, Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi named \u2018service\u2019 to other beings as the true sacrifice ritual.\nHindu thought continued to march with the passage of time. Newer Upanishads came into being. In the post-Buddhist and post-Shankaracharya eras, a number of minor Upanishads were created to impart the spiritual teachings to posterity. Indeed, even the writings of modern holy men and women might be regarded as divine revelation, thus maintaining an evolutionary continuity of the Hindu tradition.\nThe knowledge of the Vedas and Upanishads remained out of bounds for most common people for millennia. Dara Shuka, the Mogul emperor, was the first to translate some of these scriptures into Persian in the seventeenth century. French scholar Auquetail Duperron (1773\u20131805) first introduced the ancient Hindu philosophy to Western people by translating fifty Upanishads. Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1775\u20131833) made the first English translation. In 1876, Max Muller presented the German translation, along with extensive commentary. The world interest in these scriptures since that time has continued to grow unabated\nThe Vedas taught worship of the gods of nature, such as the sun, sky, wind, and fire. The Upanishads emphasized that behind the fa\u00e7ade of these many gods, there is but one Supreme God.\nIn fact, the concept of one universal God was also originally expressed in the Rig Veda itself:\nEkam sad vipra bahudha vadanti.\n(One alone exists; sages call it by various names.)\nIn the Upanishads, this ancient philosophical thought came to the forefront, overshadowing the idea of multiple gods, who were considered simply as the icons or manifestations of the transcendental Supreme Divine. Modern world has adopted this concept of God more vigorously, especially in the face of the many religions and sects around the world.\nIn the Chandogya Upanishad, a ponderous dialogue between Shwetaketu and his father guru, Uddalka:\nJust as the salt dissolves in the water, so too the Divine pervades everywhere. It may not be visible, and yet its presence cannot be denied. The great banyan tree has sprung from a tiny seed. So too, are all beings grown from the seed of the spirit. In the tiny seed, the banyan tree is not visible. So, too, we may not visualize the infinite cosmos, inside the spirit.\nIt is interesting to note that the Supreme Court of the United States recommended the use of the term \u201cSupreme Being\u201d in place of \u201cGod\u201d in the Constitution of the United States, after hearing the plea in which the above quotation of the Rig Veda was presented. An eminent Sindhi author and very well-respected attorney Ram Panjwani brought into light this fact in one of his articles published in Hindvasi Weekly! Ancient Hindu ideology was thus vindicated\u2014and the universality of the Upanishads attracted spiritual seekers around the world.\n(Dr Hiro Badlani is the author of Hinduism: Path of the Ancient Wisdom www.hinduismpath.com. 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Best wishes for many more successful years ahead...\nAlex Overwijk January 17, 2016 at 10:38 PM\nThanks-it has been a great journey\nProud Principal of Glebe Collegiate Institute January 19, 2016 at 6:49 AM\nThe work that you personally and the teachers who join in the lesson studies do are a Very Great Thing!!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 5544, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://socialistworker.org/blog/critical-reading/2015/07/17/greece-the-struggle-continues?quicktabs_sw-recent-articles=2-8", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:07Z", "digest": "sha1:55HSMZGZ2Q2QXZFHGZIX5LW4YXNZIA5A", "length": 9019, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "socialistworker.org", "title": "Greece: the struggle continues | SocialistWorker.org", "raw_content": "After pushing brutal austerity measures through parliament on Wednesday, Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has now sacked left-wing members of the cabinet who opposed him. But the fight against the new Memorandum imposed by Greece's European creditors is continuing both inside and outside parliament. --PG\nNew battle lines drawn in Greece\n17 July 2015 | Colleen Bolger\nThe post-referendum political turmoil has reset the political situation in Greece.\nOn one hand, the betrayal of the 61 percent who voted against the 26 June draft agreement has undone the pre-referendum momentum. The working class again has been demobilised.\nOn the other, the beleaguered Tsipras now faces a revolt inside Syriza \u2013 precisely the situation he called the referendum to avoid. The mutiny began last weekend, when two MPs, Ioanna Gaitani and Elena Psarea from the Red Network in the Left Platform of Syriza, voted against giving the prime minister the authority to broker a capitulation to the country\u2019s creditors. More than half a dozen others abstained, including parliamentary speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou. By doing so, they laid down the gauntlet; from there, opposition hardened among Left Platform MPs.\nWhen it came to the decisive vote on Wednesday night, the question was not whether more of the 25 Left Platform MPs would vote against the memorandum, but how many Tsipras would lose from the Party Majority. The Left Platformers were joined by Yanis Varoufakis, who denounced the agreement as akin to the Treaty of Versailles, and Konstantopoulou, whose strident speech will have shaken the party core and was heard in lounge rooms across the country. Varoufakis and Konstantopoulou are the most well-known party MPs other than Tsipras, and popular in their own right.\nGaitani, a member of revolutionary group the Internationalist Workers Left, spoke to Red Flag at a rally in Syntagma Square before the vote on Wednesday. \u201cNo from the left means that there is a left, and that there will be a left tomorrow that will reject the Memorandum of austerity\u201d, she said. \u201cThere are many within the left that are hard for this position. They give the hope that there is still a significant part of the left that does not support austerity \u2026\n\u201cWe need to gather as many forces as possible around an alternative political platform so we [can] go on to fight against austerity in Greece.\u201d\nA statement of opposition signed by 109 of the 201 members of the Central Committee was published hours before the parliamentary vote. It illustrates the depth of opposition at every level of the party:\n\u201cThe agreement with the \u2018institutions\u2019 was the result of the blackmailing of the country through economic strangulation. It is a new memorandum, with onerous and humiliating terms of supervision, disastrous for the country and our people.\n\u201cWe realise that suffocating pressure was put on the Greek side in the negotiations, but nevertheless, we believe that the people\u2019s proud no vote in the referendum must forbid the government from succumbing to the extortionate ultimatums of the creditors.\n\u201cThis agreement is not compatible with the ideas and the principles of the left. But most importantly, it is not compatible with the needs of the working class and the popular masses. This proposal cannot be accepted by the members and the cadres of Syriza.\u201d\nSimilar statements were passed unanimously or by large majorities of the district coordinating committees, which were convened to register members\u2019 opposition to the memorandum. The revolt is strongest in these levels of the party.\nIn the parliament, Tsipras made a final pitch for the agreement. He acknowledged that more austerity will be recessionary. Konstantopoulou declared that it will cause \u201csocial genocide\u201d.\nTsipras appealed to Syriza MPs not to let the creditors and the political right in Greece bring down the government. This argument is a real pressure on MPs who do not want to see the right get back into office. Yet the logic of that argument now seems flawed. As a Red Network statement said: \u201cThis new memorandum essentially and practically overthrows the government led by Syriza: programmatically, but also politically, since it transforms Syriza into an austerity government with an increasingly pro-austerity composition\u201d.\nIn the parliamentary debate, even the pro-austerity forces goaded Tsipras. New Democracy leader Evangelos Meimarakis rhetorically asked why Syriza had for so long attacked his party for implementing previous memoranda, when Tsipras now was asking the parliament to support the worst deal ever. There was no doubt that the agreement would pass, but it is politically damaging for Tsipras to rely on the neoliberal New Democracy and Pasok for votes.\nThe political establishment has been shaken by the fact that Syriza is not the sort of reformist party we are all used to. Social democracy today champions neoliberalism with hardly a whimper of opposition from any of its sections. By contrast, Syriza is rooted in the struggles against austerity and has drawn in people with a track record of standing up for their principles. One example is deputy finance minister Nadia Valavani. She was jailed under the military regime that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974, and spent five months in solitary confinement for her activities in the Communist Youth Organisation. She voted no to Tsipras\u2019s betrayal and has resigned her post.\nGerman chancellor Angela Merkel is unlikely to trust that the government will implement the agreement until it has been cleansed of its left wing. But Syriza does not have an apparatus with a proven record of disciplining the left and clamping down on opposition. There is a hard right section that called for the left to be expelled, and there will almost certainly be a cabinet reshuffle to remove Left Platform dissidents. However, it\u2019s unclear at this stage how far Tsipras can go without further inflaming the opposition.\nStrategies: dead ends and new roads\nSyriza\u2019s failure stems from its flawed strategy of negotiation; of believing that the eurozone leaders could be reasoned with; of being unwilling to mobilise the power of the class; of left illusions in the European project. This is a failure of reformist politics \u2013 the politics that has dominated the party since its inception. But it still needs to be distinguished from old social democracy in order to grasp the scale of the opposition now brewing.\nRevolutionaries within Syriza are not surprised by what has transpired. For years they have been pursuing arguments about how the party should position itself to fight austerity. For example, the Red Network opposed the coalition with right wing nationalists, the Independent Greeks, who all voted for the latest agreement.\nIt was incredibly important that the revolutionaries maintained a hard line and didn\u2019t water down their politics or get caught up in the Tsipras cheerleading that took hold as the party gained strength and took office.\nThousands of party activists who previously supported Tsipras\u2019s strategy are now grappling with why it failed; they want to resist the party leadership. More people now are open to the arguments about what to do next. The Red Network has pledged to fight for the party\u2019s soul. A section of the Left Platform is cohering the opposition and in the process is drawing lessons. That can be the basis for a regroupment of all those within and outside of Syriza who will fight the implementation of the new measures.\nThe federation of public sector unions called a strike on Wednesday to coincide with the vote. It is unclear how widely the strike was observed, but militants I spoke to in the teachers\u2019 union and municipality workers\u2019 union estimate that it was a relatively low turnout on this occasion. That was not surprising.\nAmong the mass of workers there can be a feeling of resignation. Tsipras has undermined the confidence that people gained from the referendum victory. Nonetheless, there recently have been strikes around specific issues, including the dock workers of Piraeus, who shut down the port in protest at the plan to privatise it.\nAs MPs were debating the memorandum inside parliament, the riot police \u2013 present in great numbers \u2013 fired tear gas at thousands of protesters gathered outside. The cops chased people for kilometres. They were like vicious dogs unchained after being kept for too long on a short leash. The radical left, present in large numbers and making up the core of the demonstration, pulled out their masks or handkerchiefs. For many, it was a routine that they had become accustomed to under the previous governments. This was the first time the government of the left had unleashed the state on them.\nBoth inside and outside the parliament, new lines have being drawn.\nHowever, history does not follow the same laws as a wristwatch. The defiance of the working class, demonstrated in the referendum, and the lessons drawn from this defeat will be the basis of reconfiguring a left that is stronger for having given battle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 14676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 274.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://society.deramos.org/2007/08/album-art-shield.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:24Z", "digest": "sha1:RSB6GO7LVTPTNF6MPF6UKSRJQPAG6LIN", "length": 1215, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "society.deramos.org", "title": "The Society of Gloves: Album Art: \"Shield\"", "raw_content": "This is the cover art to the closest thing we've gotten to an epic in 2006. I don't think the story of Hylas and the Nymphs relates to the song \"Shield\" in any feasable way...maybe it has to do with the really long guitar solo at the end.\nAnyway, the art is a visual remix of a John William Waterhouse painting from 1896. I like how the square cover art totally takes the original painting out of context, that is, if the recolorization job didn't already. We have the presumably young Hierophant drawn to the yellow-green woman, while the greener woman looks green with envy. A happy accident, if I do say so myself.\nSo here's the original \"Hylas and the Nymphs.\" One would say that Hylas was a quite a lucky man to have stumbled upon a pond full of brunettes, but in the original myth, Hylas was Hercules' pederastic lover, and I guess one (or more!) of the nymphs persuaded Hylas to leave Hercules and run away with her (or them!). Here's to ponds full of nude brunettes...cheers!\nAnd this is the Society's visual remix, where the Hierophant is drawn to a lake full of paint, and the nymphs vaguely resemble Skittles:\nLabels: album art, art, hylas and the nymphs, liner notes, painting, shield, society of gloves", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 457, "original_length": 7196, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 244.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://societyofarcher-antiquaries.org/forum/search.php?author_id=139&sr=posts", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:23Z", "digest": "sha1:4O6IE4ERJH2QSAPXEAJ4LHOESZM4I2GV", "length": 2222, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "societyofarcher-antiquaries.org", "title": "Society Of Archer-Antiquaries - Search", "raw_content": "Topic: Bishop Collection of Thumb Rings going to auction\nThe Willard E. Bishop collection of thumb rings is scheduled for auction at an on-line auction from 3/18 at 9 am to 3/22 at 2 pm. It comprised some 143 rings and over half are jade. The details are provided thru the following link: http://www.scofieldauctions.com/auction/283402/asian-archery-thumb-r...\nTopic: Sad News: Paul H. Barton 1939 - 2015\nRe: Sad News: Paul H. Barton 1939 - 2015\nMichael Barton sent me this photo of his father Paul amidst his extensive collection. It looks like a most inviting and interesting room filled with artifacts, collectibles, books and other items from a life time of collecting. I'm sure that Paul had many fascinating stories and memories concerning ...\nPaul H. Barton It is with much sadness that I inform you that fellow member Paul Barton recently passed away. Paul had been both a member of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries and the Archery Collectors Guild for a number of years. I have had the pleasure and the privilege of corresponding with Paul...\nI am very saddened to hear the news about Bob Brown. He and I communicated many times over the last few years. He encouraged me to write articles for the Archery Collectors' Guild Newsletter as well as suggesting that I submit an article for the Journal of the Society of Archer-Antiquaries . I wishe...\nJust wanted to say that I like very much the new look and options of the Forum page.\nTopic: Arrivals via the Postal Service\nYesterday, January 6th, was a good \"mail\" day for me. I received Bob Brown's informative \"Arrowhead\", the 2008 SAA Journal [a nice cross section of articles and interests with some great photography] and Hugh Soar's \"The Romance of Archery: A Social History of the Longbow&qu...\nConsidering that the payment for the two CD's is 15 pounds sterling, I would be willing to pay 5 to 10 pounds sterling for the index.\nTopic: Festive Greetings\nFor me, there is always a lot of anticipation taking place at year end looking forward to the arrival of the annual issue of the SAA Journal. I have just finished reading the 2006 Journal and enjoyed it immensely. 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The initial findings were released on 11 January 2013 (report is online here).\nConsultative process to strengthen laws in sexual assault cases\nCNS helped organize and facilitate an open in-person and online consultation to seek input for Justice JS Verma Committee (appointed by government of India) that sought input to strengthen laws to respond to cases of sexual violence. On behalf of Socialist Party, Lok Rajniti Manch, Humsafar \u2013 Support Centre for Women, Asha Parivar and National Alliance of People\u2019s Movements (NAPM), we had organized this in-person consultation opposite Vidhan Sabha Lucknow on 28th December 2012. The recommendations (online here) were officially submitted by us to Justice Verma Committee members on 2nd January 2013.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 6527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sonidorico.com/wp-content/upload/art-x-nomad-2019/c2NyYXBlLTYtMTIxNDI2.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:09Z", "digest": "sha1:UGREHEWSG2JE72T3QLSMIV74Y4RH2ZK4", "length": 45, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "sonidorico.com", "title": "Art-X \u2013 Nomad (2019) \u00bb The Best Music Sites", "raw_content": "Posted on November 26, 2018 by Everette Harps", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 3175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 215.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sophosnetwork.ning.com/profiles/blogs/true-wisdom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:18Z", "digest": "sha1:SMFZNEECK55F2U6DIVYXE77CT67IMJ6S", "length": 1743, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sophosnetwork.ning.com", "title": "TRUE WISDOM - The Sophos Network", "raw_content": "There is so much talk about wisdom and yet the way that we educate our children is the very antithesis of what it is all about. One of my own favourite Einstein quotes is 'We can't solve the problems of the world using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them'. In Ian Gilbert's new book 'Why do I need a teacher when I've got Google?' he explores the issue of a rapidly changing world where we all have information at our fingertips and how more and more people are calling for educational change:\n\"How much of what goes on in schools is the development of children's own thinking - 'education' - and how much of it is transferring to them our own thoughts - the 'schooling' that John Taylor Gatto refers to in the preface of this book? There's a case for both, but the argument against just doing the latter, and at the expense of the former, has gone from a low murmer amongst marginalized teachers, to a more powerful and concerted call to arms.\"\nOf corse the word education comes for the Latin educare \"bring up\", which is related to educere \"bring out\", \"bring forth what is within\", \"bring out potential\" and ducere, \"to lead\", whereas schooling denotes a formal institution designed for the teaching of students under the supervision of teachers. One is bottom up and about the internal needs of the individual, the other top down and about the external needs of the culture - what matters is how we achieve a harmonious balance between the two. But there is then a third factor that encompasses them both and that is how they respond to the needs of the larger system within which they exist. And that is all about wisdom.\nI go into the subject much more on my dedicated education network www.uniquechildnetwork.ning.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2465, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 252.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://spaceweather.com/submissions/large_image_popup.php?image_name=Tom-King-LeonidsWSO2009_1117nn_1258482529.jpg", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QY4YUTIIUHWHBQONK2FHBVH2DEOFYY5K", "length": 530, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "spaceweather.com", "title": "Leonids Meteor Shower 2009", "raw_content": "Amateur Observatory, Watauga, Texas, USA\nEven at the edge of the highest light pollution level in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area (Bortle scale 8-9), the all-sky camera captures 16 of the brightest the Leonid meteor shower has to offer. The distribution of meteors is evenly split from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. local time. The Leonid meteors are more numerous, faster, yet not as spectacular as the recent Taurid meteor shower (November 12th). All-sky camera details: PC164C b/w video camera, 1.6mm Rainbow lens.\nClick here for a video!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 244.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://spain.fashionone.com/news/author/admin/page/102/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:24Z", "digest": "sha1:EAZXLXL6WUZPMFIZGQDICAZKHNQXQ7EA", "length": 1452, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "spain.fashionone.com", "title": "Fashion One |", "raw_content": "Diane Von Furstenberg & Pitti Uomo\nRenowned Belgian-born, American based designer Diane Von Furstenberg, is set to receive the Superstar Award at the Fashion Group International\u2019s Night of Stars Annual Ceremony. The award honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the fashion industry, with past...\nAmerican fashion designer Donna Karan, creator of Donna Karan New York and the DKNY clothing label, has in a recent interview with the New York Times expressed her unhappiness with LVMH, the company that has owned her brand for the...\nLouis Vuitton\u2019s Trunk & David Gandy: Fashion Frontline Season 3 Episode 47\nAll the latest news in entertainment fashion and lifestyle from the intrepid team of Fashion Frontline. Following a collaboration in 2010, Louis Vuitton has again been commissioned by FIFA to develop the official case that will house the 2014 World...\nMore fashion entertainment and lifestyle news fresh from the desks of the Fashion One team. New York based womenswear and accessories brand Proenza Schouler is set to launch its first swimwear line in collaboration with Swimwear Anywhere Inc. Scheduled for...\nF\u00e9ministe mais F\u00e9minine at Chanel for Spring / Summer 2015\nUsing 70s-era feminism as a background, the Spring / Summer 2015 Chanel collection is shaping up to be flamboyant and feminine under the direction of Karl Lagerfeld, with the same sense of functionality and practicality that has been associated with...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 4444, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ssapchat.com/is-fronting-a-win-win-for-mgas/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:48Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3CTIZGW67N6TQBQHDGZ37C2DNI5KBDJ", "length": 4789, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "ssapchat.com", "title": "Risks Fronting | Benefits MGA Agreement | Insurance CPA | Insurance Accounting", "raw_content": "Is Fronting a Win-Win for MGAs?\nBy Maria Vigul\nIn this article, we continue our discussion about fronting arrangements. In our previous post, we focused on the relationship between fronting and fronted carriers, including the benefits of this type of relationship, the risks associated with it, and the governing regulations. However, fronting might include more than just these two parties. Another party that might be motivated to enter into a fronting arrangement is a managing general agent or MGA.\nWho is an MGA? In simple words, an MGA is a business entity with authority to underwrite premiums, handle claims and negotiate reinsurance agreements on behalf of the carrier. The California Insurance Code \u00a7769.81 defines an MGA as a \u201cperson, firm, association, partnership, or corporation who negotiates and binds ceding reinsurance contracts on behalf of an insurer or manages all or part of the insurance business of an insurer (including the management of a separate division, department or underwriting office) and acts as an agent for that insurer whether known as an MGA, manager, or other similar term, who, with or without the authority, either separately or together with affiliates, produces, directly or indirectly, and underwrites an amount of gross direct written premium equal to or more than 5 percent of the policyholder surplus as reported in the last annual statement of the insurer in any one quarter or year together with one or more of the following: (1) adjusts or pays claims in excess of an amount determined by the commissioner, or (2) negotiates reinsurance on behalf of the insurer.\u201d\nWhat are the benefits of MGA agreements? MGA agreements may result in several benefits both to an insurer and to the MGA. When the MGA enters into an agreement with the insurer, it immediately gains access to all markets the insurer is already licensed in and provides an opportunity to leverage the insurer\u2019s rating while not needing to worry about writing capacity and capitalization requirements.\nFrom the carrier\u2019s perspective, the key advantage of working with the MGA is the MGA\u2019s expertise. An MGA brings an established book of business in specialty areas the carrier has no such expertise or presence in that can turn into a consistent revenue stream resulting in higher profits. Given the MGA\u2019s familiarity with the business and underwriting authority, it is given, the need and the cost of bringing this expertise in-house for the insurer gets almost eliminated. In addition, MGAs often have lower operating costs that can result in substantial savings to the insurer since underwriting and claims handling processes and expenses associated with them are shifted to the MGA.\nWhat are the possible relationships between the carrier and an MGA? There are multiple scenarios this relationship can create. Predominantly, it depends whether or not a carrier is genuinely interested in taking on risk from the business produced by the MGA. If not, the relationship will most likely result in a fronting arrangement, where the fronting insurer will cede practically all the business to a different reinsurer. In this case, there is no risk to retain as the insurer is merely a pass-through for the business being compensated for providing its paper by earning a fronting fee. On the other hand, if the carrier is interested in taking the risk, the business the MGA produced will be ceded under more traditional reinsurance treaties, where the carrier will retain part of the risk and will be exposed to a share of the losses that MGA\u2019s business generates.\nWho has the \u201cskin in the game\u201d? In both of these scenarios, the party who has real interest in the business is the reinsurer who ultimately assumes the risk under fronting or other reinsurance arrangement. This reinsurer may be a true independent partner or may be a captive risk-bearing insurer created by the MGA. It is common for reinsurers created by the MGA to incorporate outside the United States, where the capital requirements are lower and regulatory environment is less challenging. If this is the case, it is in the MGA\u2019s best interest to produce high-quality business that results in minimal losses. When the reinsurer is independent, the MGA might not be as motivated by the profitability of the book of business since the MGA\u2019s captive is no longer subject to sharing risk associated with it. Even though MGAs do an excellent job in their niche areas resulting in high-quality and profitable business, monitoring the relationship by each of the parties involved and including a contract provision allowing monitoring is vital.\nIf you have questions about fronting arrangements, JLK Rosenberger can help. Call us at 818-334-8623, or click here to contact us. We look forward to speaking with you soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 6320, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://st-james-nottingham.org.uk/about-st-james/beliefs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JGR5OMIUSFQO7URAIRISTVQ4AKY6I65I", "length": 1112, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "st-james-nottingham.org.uk", "title": "Beliefs \u2013 St James Porchester", "raw_content": "St James is a Christian Church\nWe hold to the orthodox Christian faith passed down to us in the Bible and creeds of the church.\nSt James is an Anglican Church (Church of England)\n-We accept, under, God, the leadership of our bishops.\n-We are part of a church in which there is a diversity of opinion, practice and traditions.\n-We believe in the authority of the Bible in all matters of faith and behaviour.\n-We believe that each individual must make a personal response to Jesus Christ.\n-We are open to the work of the Holy Spirit among us and through us.\n-We believe that the gifts of the Holy Spirit are available and helpful today.\nLike all churches, St James has its own emphasis and style;\nWe believe that our purpose at St James\u2019 Church is to look for a consistent and enduring relationship with God. Through His grace we seek to enjoy fellowship together and to provide support to one another. By the strength of His Holy Spirit we wish to be witnesses for Christ in our community by His word and by our deeds and our hope is to see others drawn by the Spirit into a living relationship with Jesus Christ.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 1825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stanwing.com/Caribbean_03-Star%20Airlines%20Pilot%20Hat%20Badge.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:37Z", "digest": "sha1:MGXINTTHVY4CJECGXSGBUWHUPMGTGZUK", "length": 452, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "stanwing.com", "title": "StanWing.Com - Insignia of the U.S.A.", "raw_content": "Caribbean Star Airlines Pilot Hat Badge\nThe airline was incorporated in Antigua in January 2000 and started operations with the Dash 8 regional turboprop in June 2000. It was owned by Texan businessman Allen Stanford, through his company Stanford Financial Group. Its sister airline, Caribbean Sun Airlines Inc., launched its maiden flight three years later. The two were affiliated but separate companies. In January 2007 the airline merged with LIAT.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 581, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 217.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://starchprojectsolution.com/faq/Tapioca_Syrup_844.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:53Z", "digest": "sha1:LB4HPW66KT6NJSOBNOOBSSGVHFXH6Q3U", "length": 878, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "starchprojectsolution.com", "title": "What Is Tapioca Syrup ?_FAQ", "raw_content": "Home / FAQ/What Is Tapioca Syrup ?\nWhat Is Tapioca Syrup ?\nTapioca syrup may be used in place of honey\nTapioca syrup is a syrup made from the cassava tuber, or yucca root, a plant that is indigenous to the tropics of South America. The syrup is made when natural enzymes are introduced to the cassava tuber. This process is known as enzymatic hydrolysis. After enzymatic hydrolysis is complete, a sweet syrup is formed. The syrup is considered to be a healthy sweetener.\nTypically, tapioca syrup is a light golden color, and it contains a neutral flavor. The neutral flavor makes it an ideal candidate as a food additive. The flavor is not beany, and the texture is not grainy like some other syrups. It can be added to soy and dairy products.\nPREV\uff1aWhat Is Garri ?\nNEXT\uff1aWhat's the difference between cassava flour and tapioca flour?\nLeave a Message About What Is Tapioca Syrup ?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3229, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 336.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stjohnclerkonline.org/my-calendar/?mc_id=138", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:03Z", "digest": "sha1:62QWTCSOFL5DX7VSCFZHN5Z64NCKFCLO", "length": 71, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "stjohnclerkonline.org", "title": "PETIT JURY#245 DIV \u2018B\u2019 for TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2018 at 9:00 am Cancelled | March 20, 2018 |St. John the Baptist Parish Clerk of Court", "raw_content": "PETIT JURY#245 DIV \u2018B\u2019 for TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2018 at 9:00 am Cancelled", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 143, "original_length": 4852, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 240.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://stmarksdubbo.org.au/category/pentecost/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:13Z", "digest": "sha1:GVQYQPQUWILY6ZUM2XLS7FVNCDHL7CGJ", "length": 12747, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "stmarksdubbo.org.au", "title": "Pentecost \u00ab St Marks Lutheran Church Dubbo", "raw_content": "Archive for the \u2018Pentecost\u2019 Category\nJohn 15:26, 27; 16:7, 8; 13\nBut very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment:\nThe words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be acceptable in your eyes, O Lord, our rock and redeemer. Amen.\nThis Sunday we will be celebrating the Pentecost, the fiftieth day after our Lord\u2019s resurrection, and the traditional birthday of the church. The day when all those years ago, this promise our Lord Jesus spoke was fulfilled. The morning where the Holy Spirit of God came down as flames on the disciples, gave Peter the words to speak to the crowd and baptised around three thousand (Acts 2:1-41).\nThese people were convicted of their sin, their rejection of Jesus Christ as God\u2019s Son and their rejection of His Words. They were shown the truth of their lives and actions, that they had sinned and were sinning. They also heard the truth of Jesus\u2019 forgiveness of their sins and the gift of the Spirit received through baptism. This is the Spirit of truth guiding the disciples into all truth and convicting the world.\nJesus has promised us that the Holy Spirit will guide us too, I pray not only for them, but for those who will come after (John 17:20 ). But how do we know that we are listening to This Spirit, how do we know we are living in truth? Last week we heard from John 17, just a little later in John\u2019s Gospel, Jesus praying to the Father, \u2018sanctify us in the truth, your word is truth\u2019 (John 17:17). The Word of God is true and is where we find truth, and not just in the written Bible, but also the word became flesh and made His dwelling among us (John 1:14). Jesus is the Word of God fully, but graciously God has also provided us with His Word written down by His people over 2000yrs.\nIt is through the Bible that we learn the truth, by the guidance of the Holy Spirit. But how do we know if we are guided by a spirit of God and not a different spirit? We are to test the spirits against the truth (1 John 4:1), John tells us that we know the Spirit of God because He confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (1 John 4:2). Also earlier in the letter He writes that, \u2018if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us\u2019 (1 John 1:8).\nThe people who deceive themselves and believe the lies of this world or society also condemn themselves to death, because they reject the truth. Those who reject the conviction of the Holy Spirit also reject the salvation of Jesus. But Jesus has promised that the Holy Spirit will guide us with truth and to truth. The Holy Spirit is our advocate, our helper, our comforter and our guide.\nThe grace of God which passes all human understanding guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus, now and always. Amen.\nBehind your fears\nWhat do we normally do when we\u2019re afraid? Normally we try to protect ourselves.\nThis protection may take the form of putting up some kind of barrier, such as a wall, closing a door, or securing something with locks. For example, we might lock our precious belongings away because we\u2019re afraid of losing them. We might lock our houses and cars. We may shut doors to strangers. We might slam doors to create a barrier between ourselves and the person we\u2019re angry with, out of fear we\u2019re not in control of the situation or our emotions.\nWe also protect ourselves by increasing our distance from danger. This might include avoidance, We might avoid going to the doctor because we\u2019re afraid of the results. We might steer clear of people because we\u2019re afraid of their anger, abuse, lies, or manipulation. We might stop our children from participating in certain activities or interacting with certain people because we\u2019re afraid they might get hurt. If we\u2019ve been hurt by a broken relationship in the past, we might avoid any new relationships because we\u2019re afraid of more pain.\nAnother form of protection is attack. Because we\u2019re afraid, we might yell at, abuse, insult, and hit out at those around us, and not always at the people who are the cause of our fears. For example, we might be angry with developers or mining or resource exploration companies because we\u2019re afraid they\u2019ll take away our land, our livelihood, our lifestyle or our home. Or, a church might be afraid for the future of their congregation: that they might not get a new pastor, or if they do get one, he might not live up to their expectations. Because of our fears \u2013 fears of being left out, forgotten, or of not being in control \u2013 we might be tempted to lash out at the leadership of our congregation, our previous pastors, our district, or the LCA.\nFears can control us and our actions. We build physical and emotional barriers around ourselves. We might hide behind jokes and safe conversational topics. We protect ourselves from probing questions or from revealing secrets about ourselves. We might build a wall of anger and punishment around us to protect ourselves from the things and people we\u2019re scared of.\nMany times, people won\u2019t admit to their fears, but secretly everybody\u2019s afraid of something. We\u2019re afraid of losing loved ones through sickness or accident, losing respect, losing dignity through aging, losing farms and homes, losing our mind, our health, our faith, or our life.\nSometimes we may even be afraid of God. Maybe we\u2019re afraid he won\u2019t like us, so we might try to make him like us by doing all the right things. Maybe we\u2019re afraid of what he says because it\u2019ll affect the way we live, so we might try to ignore, \u201cdumb down\u201d or modify what he says. Maybe we\u2019re afraid to admit we\u2019re wrong, so we may try to disregard his words and his people.\nOur fears constrict us, burden us, trap us and bind us. Our fears cripple us and make us sick with worry. Our fears control us and make us do all types of silly, irrational things. We can be \u2018locked up\u2019 by our fears, and we \u2018lock\u2019 others up because of our fears.\nThen Jesus comes among us and says \u2018Peace to you\u2019. Peace?\nEven though we long for peace, we can also be afraid of it. We would rather manufacture a false peace \u2013 a peace which involves barriers and distance: a peace which involves anger and punishment. Yet we also know our barriers and bravado offer no peace, just isolation with our fears.\nYet Jesus somehow gets past those barriers to offer us peace. He comes to bring us peace this morning. But this peace might scare us. This peace tells us to step out from our locked room, get out from behind our barriers, and go out again into the troubled and fearful world. This peace challenges us to trust him more than we trust our fears.\nThe peace Jesus offers us today, challenges and authorises us to forgive others. But we can also be afraid to forgive. When we forgive someone, we can\u2019t hold them to ransom for the pain they\u2019ve caused us anymore. But who are we really hurting by not forgiving? We lock up ourselves in chains just as much as the other person by withholding forgiveness. Yet by forgiving someone, we not only free them from their chains of sin, but we\u2019re also freed from our fears. Of course, that forgiven person might hurt us again: that\u2019s what we\u2019re afraid of. Fears trap us: forgiveness frees us.\nJesus offers us peace even though our relationships might be breaking down, our loved ones are dying, our property is being taken from us, and our health declines. Jesus says, \u201cPeace to you.\u201d\nOur idea of peace might be when God takes away everything we\u2019re afraid of. We may think peace is when God gets rid of our enemies, gets rid of our sickness, gets rid of those who pick on the little guys, and makes us feel successful, whole and happy. We might think peace is when things go our way. We might think peace is where we\u2019re free, but everyone else is restrained and kept \u2018locked up\u2019.\nGod\u2019s peace isn\u2019t like that. God doesn\u2019t always take away all our troubles, but he still says \u2018Peace to you\u2019. God seems to let people get away with their hurtful crimes, but he still says \u2018Peace to you\u2019. God doesn\u2019t always heal our sickness and won\u2019t stop our loved ones from dying, but he still says \u2018Peace to you\u2019. God may delay things for us, yet he still says \u2018Peace to you\u2019. God is willing to forgive those we fear and don\u2019t and he still says \u2018Peace to you\u2019.\nGod\u2019s peace is different from what the world offers. God\u2019s peace is different from the peace locks, barriers and distance offer. God\u2019s peace somehow comes to us even if all the safety barriers and security blankets are taken away. God\u2019s peace comes even when we\u2019re terrified.\nGod\u2019s peace isn\u2019t necessarily when God takes away the people or situations we\u2019re afraid of, but rather, God\u2019s peace comes when he takes away our fear of them.\nBut how does God\u2019s peace come to us and how does he drive out our fears\nGod\u2019s peace comes to us through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit.\nThat can sound a bit \u2018airy fairy\u2019 ,vague and elusive until we get a bit more specific.\nFor instance, God\u2019s peace washed over us when we were baptised. If we were scared of God beforehand, we have no reason to fear him now because we\u2019re safe in Jesus. Our sins were washed away and our name is written in the book of heaven. We\u2019re at peace with God for the sake of Jesus. Of course, baptism doesn\u2019t guarantee we\u2019ll live happily ever after in this life on earth, although in one sense it does. It means that whenever we\u2019re afraid or troubled, we can shout like Martin Luther used to, saying \u2018I am baptised!\u2019 Baptism assures us that we are God\u2019s forgiven and saved children. Nothing in all of creation can separate us from God\u2019s love, or from God\u2019s peace through faith in Jesus.\nWe also eat and drink God\u2019s peace in the Lord\u2019s Supper. Jesus comes to us to give us a real and certain assurance that we\u2019re at peace with God through Christ\u2019s willing sacrifice for us. Just like we invite friends and loved ones to our dinner table, Jesus invites us to come to his banquet table as his honoured guests to receive an assurance of his forgiveness and peace. We\u2019re not enemies, but dearly loved people who are at peace with God through Christ\u2019s death and resurrection. Anything we\u2019ve thought, said or done that might create barriers between us and God or between ourselves and those around us, are forgiven and taken away by eating and drinking in faith. In this sense, we come in peace to receive peace by eating and drinking. We then go out from this meal in peace in order to bring God\u2019s peace to all those around us.\nThe forgiveness of sins is closely connected to God\u2019s peace. God\u2019s forgiveness drives away our fear.\nWhen our sins are forgiven, locks are opened that even the best locksmiths in the world can\u2019t unlock. It\u2019s like Jesus has handed sinful human beings the keys to his own house. The heavenly house, or more so, heavenly home.\nThrough the forgiveness of sins, the gates of heaven are unlocked and swung open for us.\nThese are the tools, the instruments, or the means of grace and peace that Jesus gives his people: the Word of God, Baptism, the Lord\u2019s Supper, and the authority to forgive people their sins. These tools, these keys, unlock heaven for us. These are the tools through which the Holy Spirit comes and comforts his people. These are the instruments which drive out fear and replace it with peace. These are the keys to peace on earth.\nThen, as God\u2019s peace has driven away our fears and brought down the barriers of protection, we go out from this place to become peacemakers in this fear-filled world. We go out from this place with a message of peace through the forgiveness of sins. We\u2019re led by the Holy Spirit to forgive others in order to bring God\u2019s peace to a troubled and fearful world. Forgiveness is the key to unlocking us from fear. Forgiveness is the key to bringing a glimpse of heaven on earth. Forgiveness is the key to true peace on earth that drives out our fears.\nWhen we go home today, it may be tempting fate if we don\u2019t keep your belongings secure and lock them up and so still will be. It would be silly not to. But also don\u2019t be afraid to live in the freedom of Christ. Don\u2019t be afraid to let some of those barriers come down and those distances reduce as Jesus takes away our fears and replaces them with his peace \u2013 peace knowing we\u2019re a loved child of God who lives under the care of Christ. Go out from here as forgiven people who are at peace with God and at peace with each other and likewise let us be prepared to unburden and release others through your forgiveness so they too may experience the peace of God as we do.\nIn this way, may\u2026\u2026the peace of God, which surpasses all human understanding, guard our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 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The Reiki practitioner opens them self up as a conduit for a semi-sentient energy summoned from a higher source to facilitate healing or correct a person\u2019s aura. The Reiki Practitioner is not a healer per se \u2013 but the energy moves through them to work with the recipient\u2019s higher will in correcting imbalances and treating situations from the core causal point rather than the effect. This is thought to have a beneficial effect on the body, mind, and spirit, emotional and in Indian systems - the chakra system.\nEverything in the universe is thought to have an underlying energy that gives it form, structure, health, strength and autonomy. This invisible, but formidable force is called the Chi by Chinese mystics and martial artists and referred to as Prana by Indian masters and healers. It is also called \u201corgone energy\u201d and the practice itself is also described by the names Chi Gong and Polarity therapy. Whatever you want to call it, the word Reiki literally means \u201cUniversal Life Force.\u201d Reiki is capable of healing anything because it works at very fundamental levels of reality. The level of reality where Reiki operates is the underlying energy structure of matter, as the physical matter we see around us is a solidified form of energy.\nThe health, flow and strength of this force are thought to be affected by our thoughts. Think negative thoughts and manifest diseases and unfortunate events. Think positive thoughts and good health and good fortune. Think nothing and achieve bliss. Reiki is really about helping those who are stuck in self, access the healing energies of a higher power. In some ways too, Reiki can be called an active, ritualistic form of prayer.\nA Reiki healing is a very simple, and quite religious act of faith. In essence, the Reiki Healer or Master can be seen as a channel or vessel for the transformative power of God\u2019s love. The practitioner places his or her hands upon the person to be healed with the intent for healing to occur, and then the energy begins flowing. Into the afflicted part of the body, without any judgement or thoughts from the Reiki Master. The healer draws exactly the amount of needed energy to the recipient. There is no conscious intervention or appeal on the part of the healer who are there to keep the \u201chealing space\u201d open between the diseased or troubled person and the divine love before. The healer/s job is to get out of the way and be a conduit. Often, if you will observe a Reiki healer, he or she will appear to stop and watch or listen for signs of what to do next, from a silent voice.\nTraditionally, the healer is taught a set of hand positions that are postured over the sick or troubled person\u2019s body. These sometimes look like the Reiki master is giving the person a massage from mid hair. The Reiki Practitioner will occasionally make scooping or actions like he is smoothing a bedspread. This is all part of his intent to intuitively correct energy imbalances in your aura. Some healers will also place their hands directly on a sick or ill part of a body and keep them there as long as necessary.\nReiki can also be used to still emotional storms as well as heal relationships. This is done by correcting the subtle energies of what is known as the \u201corgone body\u201d, \u201celectromagnetic field\u201d or the aura. Often, hands are passed through the air, once again, removing blocks and negative entities or thought forms from the person\u2019s force field.\nReiki is also used to heal individuals at a distance. This is also called \u201cremote healing\u201d. Although it is not always necessary, the Reiki healer will ask for an object or create an object that represents the ill person. 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Currently she is studying technology's impact on\nthe metaphysics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 5134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://sugab.web.id/number-1-web-hosting/domain-names-reseller/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:34Z", "digest": "sha1:VF7O7B434N2FI2IQDTTNUGFRFU25Q3YJ", "length": 4020, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "sugab.web.id", "title": "Techniques for being a prosperous domain reseller", "raw_content": "The World Wide Web is an ever-increasing system that furnishes new ways to earn money online. One of these ways is to become a domain reseller and sell domains to end users, making revenue from the difference between the wholesale and the retail price of each and every domain name. Thousands of domains are registered each day, and there are 1 000 000's of currently active domains, so this is an enlarging business niche that you can be a part of.\nA domain includes two pieces - a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). If we take domain.com, for example, \".com\" is the Top-Level Domain and \"domain\" is the Second-Level Domain.\nGeneric and Country-Code Top-Level Domains\nThe top-level domain names can be generic or country code. The generic top-level domain names include the most widespread domain name extensions like .com, .net, .org, .mobi, .info, while the ccTLDs contain 2-character abbreviations that stand for each country. Instances of country-code TLDs are .ca, .me, .fr, .es, and so on. 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I'm in Love.\nFew things make me happier than finding a hidden gem on the Internet.\nI was recently reading a copy of \"HGTV Magazine\" (my newest obsession), and one of the rooms they were featuring had some vintage looking posters framed and hung up around their house. I thought they were cute, but kind of dismissed the thought because, honestly, who has time to search flea markets and antique stores for the \"right\" vintage poster that matched the feel and decor of their homes??\nUntil I looked in the fine print at the bottom of the article. These posters came from a website. A FREE website. www.freevintageposters.com I quickly hopped on my iPad typed it in the search bar. I was immediately in love. I want them all. Okay, maybe not all of them, but I want a bunch.\n^ This is perfection. It matches my living room/dining room to a T. Most definitely downloading it.\n^ Vintage Disneyland?? It matches nothing in my house, but I have a feeling I'm going to make it fit somewhere.\n^I just think it's fun and I'm envisioning it having a home somewhere in Avery's playroom.\n^A vintage poster promoting snail mail? Heaven. Can't you picture this in in a home office?? I don't have a home office.....yet.....but I downloaded it anyway.\n^Here's the one that's just plain silly. But I love everything about it. I love the colors, the styling, the lettering...all of it. I don't know where this will go, but I will incorporate this into my decor somehow.\nAren't they fun?? I've recently decided on my style of home decor and feel pretty comfortable in how to decorate my home (it'll take years, but I'll eventually get it exactly how I want it) and I'm not afraid to incorporate silly, fun pieces if they actually mean something to me. In fact, I found this quote on Pinterest this weekend that solidified that thought:\nFor a long time, I've been worried about picking pieces that looked a certain way. I thought I needed to pick things straight out of the Target Threshold home decor line to make my house look like something out of a magazine. But recently, I've been drawn to homes that are a mix of the old and the new. I admire people that can take old things and look at them a certain way and then make it fit into their home decor.\nI've decided I don't want my home to look a certain way....I want it to feel a certain way. I want it to be homey, warm, inviting. I've decided that I'm going to be visiting lots more flea markets, yard sales and antique stores to accomplish this. Follow me on my journey?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 5132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://surfme.org/taylor-swift-tweets-im-back-in-the-studio", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:54Z", "digest": "sha1:OEBFETUB22EYDQAQ2SNYHZIVP2JOSKIX", "length": 1671, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "surfme.org", "title": "Taylor Swift Tweets: \u2018I\u2019m Back in the Studio\u2019 : Surfme", "raw_content": "Taylor Swift Tweets: \u2018I\u2019m Back in the Studio\u2019\nUh-oh, indeed.\nTaylor Swift tweeted Thursday that she\u2019s returned to the studio, presumably to record more music.\n\u201cBack in the studio. Uh oh\u2026\u201d she wrote Thursday afternoon.\nThe tweet was especially ominous \u2014 well, if you\u2019re Harry Styles, anyway \u2014 as it came on the heels of Swift\u2019s breakup from the Mick Jagger-esque member of One Direction.\nOf course, as any fan of Swift will know, many of her biggest songs were inspired by her past relationships \u2014 especially her most-famous ones. (We\u2019re looking at you, John Mayer!)\nSo does this mean that her split from Styles has her wanting to record again, so soon after her latest CD, \u201cRed,\u201d hits shelves?\nIt\u2019s very possible.\nSo, just in case you\u2019re out there reading this, Swift, we\u2019ve come up with a list of seven song titles you may want to use for whatever it is you\u2019re recording.\nCheck them out, below, readers, then share your ideas in the comments.\nSure, the title\u2019s a little obvious \u2014 but then again, so was \u2018Dear John.\u2019\nAgain, obvious title. But c\u2019mon, everyone knows Taylor\u2019s songs are about her ex-boyfriends.\n\u201cLondon Called (And I Hung Up)\u201d\nNothing quite helps you get over a breakup than a female-empowering anthem.\n\u201cIt\u2019s Not You, It\u2019s Me?\u201d\nSeriously, who is to blame for all of Swift\u2019s failed relationships? This song could explore just that.\nBecause she probably wishes she was a bit older and settled down and all that stuff now.\nTaylor spends a lot of time writing about her exes \u2014 so why not focus on herself, instead?\nRumor has it, Taylor was up for the part of Eponine in \u2018Les Miserables.\u2019 Now would be the perfect time to record a cover of the role\u2019s big number.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5076, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://survivalinstitute.com/tag/victim/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:47Z", "digest": "sha1:BTIO5AF4ZYD2HKKKNSZHXCUXTNZZJBWG", "length": 284, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "survivalinstitute.com", "title": "Victim \u2013 Survival Institute", "raw_content": "In many ways, it is a sad world that we live in, a world in which abusing the weak and defenseless is acceptable to many people. That\u2019s bad enough, but when those who are weak and defenseless are abused by the people who are supposed to protect them, then you have a world that seems\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 111.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://targetweeklyad.info/161/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:55Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4N7JIFUZBZB444C3WCAIRWGGLYLBFOR", "length": 2994, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "targetweeklyad.info", "title": "Target Weekly Ads", "raw_content": "In the past, large multinational corporations and smaller mom and pop shops alike relied upon traditional marketing strategies to capture and retain customers for their products and services. One of the most popular of these marketing strategies consisted of placing large print ads in magazines and newspapers. Another one of the most popular marketing strategies consisted of placing large billboards in busy city intersections. Another one of the most popular marketing strategies consisted of showcasing products and services at large annual and semi annual conventions; the most successful companies always made sure to reserve booths and tables at the conventions which regularly attracted thousands of potential clients and investors.\nHowever, these larger multinational corporations and smaller mom and pop shops alike did not just place ads in any magazines, newspapers, city intersections, or conventions. They did not select their locations thoughtlessly. Instead, they tried to target ads so that they would reach the kinds of customers who were most apt to purchase the kinds of products and services that they were trying to peddle. Oftentimes these companies hired marketing researchers who would find markets at which companies would target ads. Then they hired ad designers who would develop campaigns which would target ad certain groups of people who were most likely to purchase the products and services that the company wanted to peddle.\nToday, digital technologies such as the internet have obviated many of the traditional marketing strategies and target weekly ads. Companies can no longer expect to capture and retain customers for their products and services using newspaper ads, billboards, and conventions now that the vast majority of customers learn about new products and services through social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter and through search engines such as Google. Despite changes in technology, however, companies still believe that it is important to target ads to specific segments of the popular. In fact, many experts actually believe that it is more important to target ads than ever because there are simply so many companies and websites on the internet that it easy for a customer to become lost or to not find the company that he needs.\nConsequently, many companies hire third party internet marketing specialists who develop advertising campaigns which target ad certain segments of the population. These target ad specialists research keywords and key phrases which are associated with their clients\u2019 products and services. Then they write articles and blog posts which use that word. Finally, they post these articles on the companies\u2019 websites and on websites which link back to the company\u2019s website. In this way, these companies target ad specific segments of the popular who are most likely to purchase the companies\u2019 products and they ensure that these people see the target ads.\nTarget Ads | homepage | June 12, 2013 8:01 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4159, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tarsiersoft.com/books/books.php?topic=AD", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:ABTTWRWQGLCMY5I7YNJSQ236DB2A2ANX", "length": 913, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "tarsiersoft.com", "title": "Books Reviews", "raw_content": "\u00bb Application Design\nApplication Design Clicking on book titles highlighted in green will take you to the publisher's description of the book. Clicking on a publisher highlighted in green will take you to the publisher's home page.\nThere are 7 books for this topic. Scroll the list to see them all.\nConstructing Intelligent Agents in JAVA\nBigus, J. P. & Bigus, J. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997 S$56.96\nISBN:0471-191353 366 pages Paperback\nData Mining Techniques : for marketing, sales, & customer support\nBerry, M. J. A, Linoff, G. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997 S$63.49\nWeiss, M. A. Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 1998 S$45.21\nGUI Design Essentials\nWeinschenk, S., Jamar, P., Yeo, S.C. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997 S$63.39\nKimball, P. E. Prentice Hall P T R 1995 S$91.49\nVirtual Machine Design and Implementation in C/C++\nBlunden, B. Wordware Publishing Inc. 2002 S$159.95\nHoward, M., LeBlanc, D. Microsoft Press 2003", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2620, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tavolo.pl/en/wspolpraca/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:35Z", "digest": "sha1:YSO5VLNXK4IZWNUL6UEGDDZM4HEOF6SW", "length": 626, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "tavolo.pl", "title": "Work with us", "raw_content": "We welcome architects, designers, interior design studios and all who seek unique tables for their dining rooms, salons, wine cellars, conference rooms or offices to work with us.\nTavolo Design is open to creating individual designs and projects that will thrill even the most demanding of clients with aesthetics.\nThanks to manual handling, each table is unique and one-of-a-kind. This will allow you to carry out even their clients' most difficult project assumptions related to a solid and modern solid wood table.\nBy establishing long-term cooperation with Tavolo Design, you can expect an individual offer on all designs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 759, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://technicians.org.uk/technicians/tom/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:45Z", "digest": "sha1:RJ6LRSBMCNOJRPC4UKQBXJZSAPXLBSJ2", "length": 2425, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "technicians.org.uk", "title": "Tom - Technicians | Make It Happen", "raw_content": "Tom\u2019s revealing the secrets of climate change with mud from around the world\nAs a field technician, Tom travelled around the world extracting sediment from remote places: \u201cI worked in Iceland, Patagonia, the South Pacific; drilling into lake, ocean, floodplain, and bog sediment \u2013 which is challenging, especially when you have to carry the extracts out on your back!\u201d\nWhile Tom loved the travel, he wanted to be involved in the analysis. Fast-forward two and a half years, and Tom is a teaching and research technician in the Geography Department at The University of Manchester. By looking at metre long sediment cores from up to 30 metres deep in the ground, he has a snapshot of the earth over two millennia or more: \u201cThe stuff at the bottom is the oldest and stuff at the top is the newest. It\u2019s like a 2-foot long time-machine!\u201d This \u2018time-machine\u2019 can show Tom the changes in chemistry from 20,000 years ago, and sometimes more.\nTo analyse the chemistry, Tom uses a special non-destructive x-ray machine, alongside other laboratory equipment. Changes in chemistry can be caused by the climate at the time the sediment was deposited.\nUltimately, his work is helping us to find ways to save the planet from climate-change. \u201cWe help researchers to reconstruct past environmental change, so we can better understand and predict future climate behaviour; we monitor environmental pollution to measure the scale of the problem and develop a strategy. We teach students a scientific way to problem-solve which will hopefully lead to them arguing for evidence-based improvements to environmental policy. As technicians we try our best to be environmentally conscious, reducing energy usage and using materials that can be used again or recycled.\u201d\nTom - Career Pathway\n1st technical job in a photographic laboratory\nCompleted A levels in Geography, English, Economics and History\nCompleted an undergraduate degree in Geography at The University of Manchester\nBecame a Field Technician at the University of Southampton\nCompleted a PHD in Physical Geography at The University of Southampton\nBecame a Teaching & Research Technician in the Geography department at the University of Manchester\nStats - Teaching and research technician\n046689 Mechanical/Electrical Workshop Technician\nElectronics Technician for Particle Physics\nClaire has the job she always dreamed of \u2013 using her natural creativity to test the theories of physics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4527, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 274.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://technopolis.blogspot.com/2012/01/stalinist-tactics-in-software-anti.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:48Z", "digest": "sha1:CKAXQUISMESFQXVVTMITK7YOJWIBRNJQ", "length": 3432, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "technopolis.blogspot.com", "title": "Technopolis: Stalinist tactics in software anti-piracy campaign", "raw_content": "Stalinist tactics in software anti-piracy campaign\nJoseph Stalin -- patron saint of software \"anti-piracy\" gulag\nAs a little boy growing up in 1950s California, I learned all about the evils of Communism, especially those perpetrated by the arch enemy of the \"free world,\" the U.S.S.R. Although there were many features of the Soviet system that my teachers and the media identified as horrifying, there was one that always stuck in my mind -- the \"fact\" that people in the Soviet Union were encouraged -- encouraged! -- to turn in any neighbors, colleagues at work or family members who were violating the principles of Communism in any way. Even little children, I was told, were expected to rat on their parents if they suspected them of any transgression from Soviet principles. \"What a horrible system,\" I thought to myself, \"asking family members to betray their relatives.\"\nMemories of those lessons returned to me today as I heard a radio advertisement advising listeners to be vigilant against the dread menace of \"software piracy.\" While I don't have the exact text of the ad, the gist of it was that employees should inform on any employer whom they believed to be using illegally copied software in the workplace. As reward for ratting on their boss, the ad promised a handsome cash reward.\nAfterward I tracked down the sponsor of the campaign, the Business Software Alliance. Its web page describes the purposes and methods of this ambitious program.\n\"Software audit defense firm, Scott & Scott, LLP, reports that the Business Software Alliance (BSA) has been increasing the number of radio ads encouraging confidential reporting of software piracy for a potential cash reward. Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco areas in particular are hearing more anti-piracy ads.\n\"The Business Sofware Alliance (BSA) is a global software industry group owned and funded by big name companies, including Adobe, Microsoft, Autodesk and Symantec.\n\"The BSA has been aggressively marketing financial incentives to disgruntled employees to make anonymous software piracy tips against their employers with reward payments. Based on the number of radio ads in September, Los Angeles. #1, Chicago #2, New York #3, San Francisco #4, and Dallas #5 targeted markets, in their national \u201cwhistleblower\u201d radio campaign according to statistics provided by AdScope.\"\nWhat an opportunity to earn some extra cash! Not only can I enjoy spying on my colleagues in various firms and on university campuses, but I can also refresh some cherished childhood memories. All that talk about the paranoia and cultural repression imposed by Joseph Stalin will no longer be just an abstraction, but a living part of everyday life.\nOh, thank you, Business Software Alliance, for reviving this crucial part of modern political culture -- terror, surveillance, betrayal of friends and family, and the renewed affirmation of what truly matters -- the rights of private property over everything else!\nPosted by Langdon at Tuesday, January 03, 2012\nLabels: anti-piracy, intellectual property, Soviet Union, Stalinism, surveillance, terror\nShealin 7:57 AM\nWell i appreciate this initiative, indeed is a good way to keep people making more comments and to seem your blog is more active.\nThat there looks like blog-spam, Langdon. Whatever you do, don't click that link.\nDoc Mara 12:30 AM\nI'm turning you in for thinking. No soup for you! Six months!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 7846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 337.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thaifixhb.com/menu-item/tom-yum-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:12Z", "digest": "sha1:GYT2N5QDLSVIZQIUO5GMV6AAIY5F42WC", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thaifixhb.com", "title": "Tom Yum (Large) | Thai Fix", "raw_content": "Hot and sour soup with herbs, mushroom, tomato, onion", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 567, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 176.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theamateursguide.com/inter-mission-life-between-cancer-remissions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JWEZSM7MP3NVFDCZRIANDDV2H7YJXTZL", "length": 5784, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "theamateursguide.com", "title": "Inter-Mission: Life between cancer remissions \u2013 The Amateur's Guide To Death & Dying", "raw_content": "Inter-Mission: Life between cancer remissions\nCasa de Caridad formation community members, left to right: Romina, Janet, Denise, Peggy, Whitney and Carol.\nby Janet Gildea\nMost cancer survivors will admit that they never quite stop looking over their shoulders to see if a recurrence is creeping up on them. Having been caught by surprise once, nobody wants to be blind-sided again. My initial experience of ovarian cancer came in February 2008 when I was 52 years old, a Sister of Charity of Cincinnati practicing family medicine at the U.S.-Mexico border near El Paso, Texas.\nI finished a course of radiation in November, and I heard the glorious words, \u201cYour PET scan is totally clear!\u201d I heaved a sigh of relief and spent the month of April at the New Jersey shore to cap off my recuperation and to see if I could begin to write a book about my journey with cancer, its recurrence and the transition to back to a new normal again. The project flowed well and I returned home to the border determined to continue writing on a regular schedule. But as I picked up my other ministry commitments and life resumed its usual pace, the document lay dormant.\nI have had four months to come to terms with the probability of entering into a time of chemotherapy. It feels very different than the shock of my initial diagnosis in 2008, an experience than Jean Shinoda Bolen has described in Close to the Bone: Life Threatening Illness as a Soul Journey as \u201ca personal earthquake.\u201d My sensors not only detected what was coming, but I also knew how to use the waiting to prepare myself for the shocks ahead. From very practical details, such as knowing when to expect the loss of my hair and what type of liquids I find most palatable, to how to gather my spiritual and emotional resources, I have been able to get ready for this experience.\nVisualization has been one of the helpful tools both to prepare me for treatment and to sustain me in its aftermath. In prayer I call on five spiritual \u201cmothers,\u201d three from my Sister of Charity tradition, as well as my own mother and Our Lady of Guadalupe. I have invited these dear women into my presence while lying under a radiation beam, trusting their hands to direct the energy exactly where it was needed and to protect my vital tissues from harm. During infusions of chemotherapy I give each of them an area of responsibility, and I find great comfort in their presence. Although I just happened upon this practice, a spiritual director suggested that it is perhaps a form of kything, a tradition that has been around for a very long time. What I know is that it brings me a sense of inner companionship during moments that are particularly lonely.\nI have had time to consider what I will be able to do during chemo and what I will need to let go or put on hold. I cleared my calendar as much as possible for the next four months. I talked with my community and close friends to help me make some of the difficult decisions about where and how to use my energy. I spent time upfront establishing balance in my life rather than frantically trying to do as much as possible up to the moment I started chemo. This meant asking others to take on some of my responsibilities \u2014 and not feeling guilty about it. I had a great confirmation of this decision when I turned my wall calendar over to October and read, \u201cAccept the gift you have given to so many people. Let people love you back.\u201d Excellent advice, especially during this time, thanks to Jeanette Osias.\nWith whatever time I had left, I felt a call to serve in a capacity directed towards future generations in the church and in our congregation. Interestingly to me, as I lost all my generative organs I felt a surge of generativity, as though a creative energy was unblocked within me. A sense of urgency gave me the courage to imagine something new: a part-time diocesan ministry with young adults, while I resumed my congregational position as coordinator of vocation ministry and served with my sisters at Proyecto Santo Ni\u00f1o, a day program for children with special needs in Anapra, Mexico. As I finished chemotherapy and began the transition to survivorship, I felt that I had been \u201cre-missioned.\u201d\nWhat will this new course of treatment hold for me? Having experienced six years with NED (cancer lingo for \u201cno evidence of disease\u201d), I can hope for that again. The possibility alone gives me a different perspective as I begin chemotherapy. Instead of dropping everything as I did during treatment the last time, I feel that I will be able to continue some home-based ministries that feed my soul. One of those is directing the pre-novitiate program for three women discerning with our congregation. The experience of intentional community living is a key part of the initial formation process. Living together in community in New Mexico during the next year we desire to create an environment where all of us can listen with our hearts to discern the \u201cwhat\u2019s next\u201d of our lives. My experience of cancer treatment will be part of the mix as we learn to be sister to each other, sharing prayer and shouldering the chores and challenges of daily life and ministry.\nAn additional learning from last time around is that writing helps me make meaning of the experience of illness. This is what I hope to do as I write my way through the healing process over the next months in Global Sisters Report. I believe that this is a time of \u201cinter-mission,\u201d to live my call between remission and remission, when I have much to learn, to discern and to discover as I open myself to God\u2019s healing ways.\nCategoriesSpirituality TagsSpiritual Concerns\nPrevious PostPrevious British death exhibition has skeletons, mummies and even fantasy coffins\nNext PostNext Dia de los Muertos (Day Of The Dead) 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 9449, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theblockchainfeed.com/bitcoin-news/370-billion-asset-manger-janus-says-us-stock-market-is-careening-toward-recession/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:32Z", "digest": "sha1:4OPXRR6VNN3CNFXUFN5UHJ2O22R5AVSJ", "length": 4243, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "theblockchainfeed.com", "title": "$370 Billion Asset Manger Janus Says US Stock Market is Careening Toward Recession - The BlockChain Feed", "raw_content": "$370 Billion Asset Manger Janus Says US Stock Market is Careening Toward Recession\nAccording to George Maris, the co-head of equities of Americas at Janus Henderson, an asset manager with $370 billion in AUM, a recession in the U.S. clearly remains a near-term risk, which could fully reverse the bullish trend of the U.S. stock market.\n\u201cIt\u2019s [a U.S. recession] clear a near-term risk. If we can\u2019t get trade negotiation results favorably, we\u2019ve got weakening investment to look forward to. I mean there\u2019s going to be a problem,\u201d Maris said on Bloomberg Markets.\nThe Janus Henderson executive outlined geopolitical risks, domestic politics, and various uncertainties surrounding the U.S. stock market as the core issues that may lead to a full-blown recession in the near future.\nVery Little Appetite to Get Things Done in the U.S., Stock Market Momentum in Decline?\nOver the last seven days, major indexes in the U.S. stock market in the likes of the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq Composite have retraced following a strong few weeks in January.\nWhile some analysts have said that the recent momentum of the Dow and its peers has convinced retail investors to invest in the U.S. market, fundamental issues remain unchanged.\nThe Dow has recovered, but the U.S. stock market continues to grapple with fundamental problems that could stifle futures gains.\nPrimarily due to the domestic politics in the U.S. and the focus established on strengthening the southern border, Maris said that the appetite to move forward from both investors and companies has declined.\nMaris noted:\n\u201cGiven the political issues in the United States, there seems to be very little appetite to anything done, so it will be hard to get fiscal expansions, whether it is infrastructure-based or otherwise; tax cuts, etc. to happen is going to be unlikely.\u201d\nConsidering the state of U.S. politics and the lack of significant progress in the U.S.-China trade talks, the Janus Henderson executive emphasized that risks of recession will inevitably elevate.\n\u201cSo with that kind of uncertainty happening over the economy, you know recession risks are going to elevate,\u201d he added.\nThe executive echoed the sentiment of Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, who said that the U.S. market is in a worse place than it was 10 years ago during the Great Recession.\nIn the last ten years, Maris explained that the ammunition or the options of the central bank to prevent a recession have declined, which increases the probability of a recession in the upcoming years.\nAm I missing something? I hope so. But right now I can\u2019t see an end to this that doesn\u2019t first involve the economy and the general state of American life going to hell. 6/\nThe Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq are currently waiting on the outcome of the U.S.-China trade talks with low volatility and a relatively high level of stability.\nIf the U.S. gets a comprehensive trade deal accomplished by March 1, most of the risks involved in the market could be eliminated.\nHowever, Maris warned that in a possible scenario in which a trade deal is not achieved, there exists a possibility of a steep downturn in the market.\n\u201cIf you get trade resolved, then you can start to see those risks diminish. I think what Paul Krugman was talking about was, in fact, there is less central bank ammunition to fight off any sort of recession or financial crisis that we had in 2008 and I think he is right with respect to that.\u201d\nEven If a Recession Occurs, It Won\u2019t Be Anything Like the 2008 Financial Crisis\nIf a recession occurs in the next year or two, Maris stated that it will not reflect the disastrous impact the previous 2008 financial crisis had on the U.S. economy.\nThe fundamentals in the local economy remain strong with employment rates and household balances sheets at record levels.\n\u201cThe actual fundamental elements of the economy are good,\u201d the executive said, adding that even if a recession occurs, the effect it could have on the U.S. market is limited.\nBinance Partners Malta Stock Exchange to Launch New Digital Exchange\nVietnam\u2019s Central Bank Thinks Cryptocurrency Miners Should Be Banned\nLINE Launches $10 Million Token Fund, Lists TRON on Crypto Exchange\nThis Week in Bitcoin: McAfee\u2019s Bullish Prediction and a Guy Living in His Car", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 6244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 228.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theclassyturtle.blogspot.com/2012/03/manhattan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:41Z", "digest": "sha1:USBZ6TADGTEUQNDR46RPOKAMR2YAGACD", "length": 1532, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "theclassyturtle.blogspot.com", "title": "Manhattan | The Classy Turtle", "raw_content": "Hello everybody, I just watched Manhattan. This movie stars Woody Allen and was released in 1979.\nThe first thing I noticed about this movie was that it was shot in black and white. Isaac, Woody Allen's character, mentions in the opening monologue that he always pictures Manhattan in black-and-white with music from George Gershwin. Out of all of the elements in this movie, the cinematography seemed to be the greatest. The intro portrays black and white postcard-esque images of the bustling town, complete with Ershwin's soothing music, lights, and cars. The images later in the film also exemplify the amazing camera work, especially the scene in the space museum. This movie is truly a work of art.\nThe acting is phenomenal for some of the characters, but also quite average for some others, in my opinion.\nWhile this movie is not a-laugh-a-minute, I still found it funny occasionally. The subplot about Isaac's ex-wife, her becoming a lesbian, her writing a book about Isaac and her love life, and Isaac apparently attempting to run over her new lover was quite hilarious.\nThis movie flows very smoothly, and ends with somewhat of a cliffhanger. The story, albeit sounding slightly cliche and strange according to today's society (a 42 year old man dating a 17 year old girl), was great. Overall, I'll give this movie a 8.5/10.\nPlease let me know what you think of anything, be it my review quality, or a differing opinion in the comments section below.\nLabels: Allen, Art, Manahattan, Woody\nThis film is absolute brilliance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 219.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefutoncritic.com/showatch.aspx?series=2", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:30Z", "digest": "sha1:CR6V4EU4WQUZD3E37XAL6XAA23MYZD3J", "length": 1766, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "thefutoncritic.com", "title": "Shows A-Z | TheFutonCritic.com - The Web's Best Television Resource", "raw_content": "2 BROKE GIRLS 9/19/11 -\n2 DOPE QUEENS 2/2/18 -\n??? 2/15/19 HBO fridays\n(11:00 PM-12:00 AM EST) currently airing\n2 FAT 2 FLY 8/16/14 -\n4/18/15 4/17/16 OWN completed airing its current season canceled/ended\n20 GOOD YEARS 10/11/06 -\n11/1/06 5/14/07 NBC not on the schedule canceled/ended\n20/20 6/6/78 -\n??? 2/15/19 ABC fridays\n20/20 DOWNTOWN 10/7/99 -\n??? ??? 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NBC not on the schedule canceled/ended\n21 THUNDER 3/1/18 -\n??? 3/1/18 NETFLIX completed airing its current season on hiatus or fate to be determined\n212, THE 10/16/18 -\n??? 11/27/18 FUSE completed airing its current season on hiatus or fate to be determined\n24 11/6/01 -\n7/14/14 7/14/14 FOX completed airing its current season canceled/ended\n24 HOUR CATWALK 1/5/12 -\n24 HOUR RESTAURANT BATTLE 7/18/10 -\n6/23/11 6/23/12 FOOD completed airing its current season canceled/ended\n24 HOURS IN THE ER 9/27/11 -\n24 HOURS ON EARTH 3/11/14 -\n3/18/14 3/18/15 BBC AMERICA completed airing its current season canceled/ended\n24 TO LIFE 4/12/16 -\n??? 10/15/18 LIFETIME not on the schedule on hiatus or fate to be determined\n24/7 4/15/07 -\n24/7 WILD 5/7/12 -\n5/27/12 5/27/13 NAT GEO WILD completed airing its current season canceled/ended\n24: LEGACY 2/5/17 -\n4/17/17 6/7/17 FOX completed airing its current season canceled/ended\n25 WORDS OR LESS 8/6/18 -\n??? ??? SYNDICATION not on the schedule new in 2019/2020\n2GETHER 8/15/00 -\n3/19/01 ??? MTV not on the schedule canceled/ended\n2M2MM 8/16/09 -\n10/21/09 10/21/10 G4 completed airing its current season canceled/ended", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 65937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 330.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thefyldeclinic.co.uk/our-treatments/pigmented-lesions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:50Z", "digest": "sha1:WOHKDZUFDCX3MU6RKZOHKBNVF256Z2ET", "length": 2537, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "thefyldeclinic.co.uk", "title": "Pigment Removal and Reduction - The Fylde Clinic", "raw_content": "Pigment Removal and Reduction\nPigmented lesions such as age spots or freckles can be successfully lightened or removed with Laser or Intense Pulsed Light. Birthmarks and other deeper, larger areas of pigmentation can be successfully treated with a Q-Switched Laser system. All of these treatments are non-invasive, suitable for both the face and body and will result in a more even skin tone.\nPigment Removal/Reduction Procedure\nIntense Pulsed Light systems release short pulses of filtered light that is readily absorbed by the high concentration of melanin found within freckles, sun spots or liver spots. The rapid absorption of light energy heats the melanin and causes the destruction of the melanin-rich cells.\nThe laser is placed on the skin and a short pulse of light is released. The applicator is then moved to the neighbouring area and the process is repeated until the entire area is treated.\nThe length of each treatment will depend on the type and size of lesion present, but a typical session will take 10 to 30 minutes.\nThe number of pigment removal / reduction treatments will depend on the type and size of the pigmented lesion but typically 1 to 3 sessions are required at 4 to 6 week intervals.\nFor more information on Pigment Removal, fill in our contact form.\nMost people are suitable for treatment except for very dark skinned or tanned individuals. Large, dark, mottled or raised pigmentation cannot be treated\nand may need to be checked by a dermatologist. Large, dark moles should not be treated, nor should lesions covering a large part of the body. The pigmented marks\nthat respond the best are superficial lesions such as those caused by sun damage (sun spots) and freckles.\nMost patients describe the discomfort as mild and tolerable and no anaesthesia is required.\nThe treated area may feel warm and sensitive for the first few days post treatment. The lesions may darken and may appear more obvious before they fade and \u2018flake\u2019 away. Sometimes an initial whitening of the area is seen which quickly fades and the pigment gradually fades over the following few weeks.\nThe skin that surrounds the pigmented lesion may become red immediately after treatment. Most people experience no other side effects and the redness usually disappears within hours to a few days. Very rarely a small blister may form or the skin may become temporarily lighter or darker.\nThe number of treatments will depend on the type and size of the pigmented lesion but typically 1 to 3 sessions are required at 4 to 6 week intervals.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 5144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 264.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thegreatzimbabwe.com/2018/08/11/paul-pogba-explains-penalty-row-with-alexis-sanchez-against.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:FVEC6EJOOU6AGEHR5YNN3DZAL67XM5PM", "length": 2544, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "thegreatzimbabwe.com", "title": "Paul Pogba explains penalty row with Alexis Sanchez against Leicester", "raw_content": "Leicester City - the visitors to Old Trafford for Friday's Premier League opener - are reported to have rejected an offer in the region of \u00a360million for their England global Harry Maguire, while Tottenham's Toby Alderweireld has also been long touted as a United target.\nHarry Maguire, who could face United for Leicester today, Bayern Munich's Jerome Boateng and Toby Alderweireld of Tottenham Hotspur were all linked with United, while Atletico Madrid's Diego Godin emerged as a late target yesterday.\nIt was the first senior goal for the 23-year-old left-back as he opened his seventh season in the Premier League, and it turned out to be a match-winner as well, after Jamie Vardy headed home a rebound to get a goal back for Leicester in the 92nd minute.\nNorthern Ireland global Jonny Evans - a former Manchester United player - is unlikely to feature in this one because of injury and it remains to be seen exactly how many World Cup stars either manager selects for tonight's showdown.\nPremier League football returns tonight as Manchester United kick-off the 2018/19 campaign by welcoming Leicester City to Old Trafford.\n\"I think a lot will depend on how his team plays, you know\".\nThat means that United could not realistically replace Pogba due to the transfer window closing in England.\n\"I can't remember the last time I had a break and a long vacation\", he told United Review ahead of Friday evening's clash against Leicester City.\nHe added: \"We play against a team that invest more than us\".\n\"He worked amazingly well Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and he's one of the players that I have to speak to see how physically and mentally he feels\".\nAlthough some were surprised to see Pogba in action again so soon after his post-World Cup break, Mourinho insisted it was not a hard decision to play him because Pogba said he was ready.\nMourinho has made no secret of his disappointment that he was not able to significantly strengthen his team during the close-season. \"I think we are more the head coach than the manager\".\nHowever, he can still rely on one of the world's best goalkeepers as David de Gea put his poor World Cup showing behind him with a fine save to prevent Maddison levelling. \"I am happy with the performance to make this game in this condition, it's encouraging for the future\".\nThe jury has heard how Manafort made tens of millions of dollars for political work with pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Earlier Monday, Ellis threatened to kick reporters out of the courtroom if they continue being \"disruptive\". \"Mr.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 12287, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thescifichristian.com/tag/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:O2YSKIUAMVTEUA42KTVU5P6SF26VQXSX", "length": 991, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "thescifichristian.com", "title": "War for the Planet of the Apes \u2013 The Sci-Fi Christian", "raw_content": "Episode 535: 2017 in Preview and Other News\nTagged as: alien: covenant, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Blade Runner 2049, Cars 3, coco, Friday the 13th, game of thrones, God Particle, grand moff tarkin, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Jumanji, Justice League, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, kong: skull island, Logan, My Little Pony: The Movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Power Rangers, Princess Leia, Sing, Spider-Man: Homecoming, star wars, Star Wars: Episode VIII, Suicide Squad, The Batman, The Dark Tower, The Emoji Movie, The Fate of the Furious, The Lego Batman Movie, The Lego Ninjago Movie, The Mummy, thor: ragnarok, transformers: the last knight, Underworld: Blood Wars, War for the Planet of the Apes, Westworld, winds of winter, Wonder Woman\nFeaturing Matt Anderson and Ben De Bono To celebrate our 6-Year Podcasting Anniversary, here\u2019s our latest news episode! In this episode we look ahead at what is coming up for the Sci-Fi Christian in 2017!\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5140, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.67, "perplexity": 107.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://theshow.kjzz.org/content/708308/millennialsgen-xers-driving-drop-us-divorce-rate", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:52Z", "digest": "sha1:2HZVCOJOEXWKEXACTPRWM3RKS47I5J6U", "length": 6694, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "theshow.kjzz.org", "title": "Millennials,Gen Xers Driving A Drop In U.S. Divorce Rate | KJZZ's The Show", "raw_content": "Millennials,Gen Xers Driving A Drop In U.S. Divorce Rate\nDivorce-TheShow-2018410.mp3\nMARK BRODIE: You've probably heard the off quoted statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce. It's a sobering rate used to warn of the difficulties of the institution and the likelihood that if you enter into it unprepared you'll become another statistic. But it's not that simple.\nPHILIP COHEN: I'm sure people will be disappointed to learn that there really isn't one number which is the divorce rate.\nLAUREN GILGER: Philip Cohen teaches sociology at the University of Maryland, and he conducted a new analysis of U.S. Census data that looks at the current divorce rate in the country. And he says there is some research behind that 50 percent divorce rate that you hear about.\nCOHEN: If you take all the people who marry in one year and you follow them forever, you can figure out how many of them end up getting divorced. I mean, in the end, every marriage ends in either divorce or death. I'm sorry to say. So we have been able to follow some whole cohorts. And the Baby Boomers, who are the most divorce prone generation ever in history, they did approach 50 percent when you look at them having reached the end of their divorce years.\nGILGER: But the Baby Boomers kids' \u2014 us Millennials and Gen X'ers mark \u2014 are doing things a little differently: staying married. Cohen's new analysis shows that Americans under the age of 45 are driving a sharp drop in the country's divorce rate. It's gone down 18 percent from 2008 to 2016. So what's behind this drop? I spoke with Cowen via Skype more about it, and the data he used to come up with these conclusions.\nCOHEN: What I'm using here is the Census Bureau has a big survey called the American Community Survey they've been doing since 2008. They've asked this question: Did you get divorced in the last year? And it's a big survey with millions of people so it's really good. And it's the first time we've been able to really break divorce down by age, and sex, and race, and education and everything else on such a large scale \u2014 and now over almost a decade. So what we think of is the divorce rate is of everybody who's married, how many people get divorced? You can do it in a given year. It's you know it's about 1.7 percent. You can do it over the lifetime of a marriage. That's a projection. That's a guess.\nGILGER: OK, so you looked at this data, this community survey, and you were able to find that even though the marriage rate \u2014 like the number of people who get married has also gone down \u2014 those who are getting married today have a greater chance of staying married than they did 10 years ago. So talk a little bit about what might be behind that change and a little bit more about what you found here?\nCOHEN: Well, I can't look inside people's relationships and know what really caused the divorces, but because it's a big demographic survey we can break it down by some key variables. And so the divorce rate declined about 18 percent from 2008 to 2016. That is the chance of a given divorce ending. And when we look at it more carefully, we can see that's driven entirely by people under age 45. So the divorce rate fell for people under age 45 and did not fall for older people. And then we also see that it's related to people getting married at older ages, and people getting married with higher levels of education. And those are probably the main contributors to the declining divorce rate.\nGILGER: Right. So there's this important demographic divide here it sounds like.\nCOHEN: Yes, and marriage in a way is becoming a more elite institution where increasingly it's people who have college degrees getting married and marrying each other. And those marriages are less likely to end in divorce than marriages used to be, which is great for them, but doesn't really tell us that relationships overall in society are becoming more stable or long lasting.\nGILGER: Yeah. So okay so on the other side of that \u2014 the lower socioeconomic status people with less education \u2014 are they getting divorced more or are they just not getting married at all?\nCOHEN: Well, both. You know people without college degrees; the main divide is between people with college degrees and people without college degrees. And people without college degrees are getting married less than they used to, but their relationships are also less stable even if they don't get married. And those are mostly cohabiting relationships, and including relationships with children. And so what we see is that people are not postponing marriage because they don't want to get married or don't sort of respect the institution \u2014 they're not getting married because they don't feel ready. Because we tend to define marriage as an achievement, as something you do when you have gotten to some level of status and stability. And a lot of people with job instability, lower incomes, housing instability, a lot of debt and so on, they don't feel ready \u2014 and so they don't get married. And in fact, the relationships are not that stable partly because of all those all those problems that they have, or that they're likely to encounter, and so their relationships are more likely to end.\nGILGER: When you look at these generational shifts that are happening \u2014 including the inequities in and how it plays out for each demographic \u2014 what do you think this says about the future of the institution of marriage in the country?\nCOHEN: Well, I think it's increasingly becoming kind of a cornerstone of our system of inequality. Marriage is becoming something that the haves have more than the have-nots. And when the haves have, it last longer. So that's an awkward way of saying it, but I just think what we're going to see increasingly is marriages for people who have already arrived, who have already achieved some status and stability \u2014 and they're going to be divorcing less. And so marriage is becoming a key source of advantage in our increasingly unequal society. The reason I think this is going to continue is because if you look at just the people who are getting married now, you see the trends very strongly there. The gap between college and non-college people is increasing. The age of marriage is increasing, and what we're seeing with the divorce rates \u2014 it just really looks like we're heading into a future where there's one group of people with high marriage, and low divorce and a larger group of people with low marriage rates and much more relationship instability.\nGILGER: Alright. Philip Cohen is a sociology professor at the University of Maryland. Philip thank you so much for joining us to talk about this.\nCOHEN: Oh, thank you very much for having me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 7477, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 258.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thesleepingdogs.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=10812&start=15", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:07Z", "digest": "sha1:SPVFPUTQUXFP22EFMHLYVQV3A7FDB3HE", "length": 6258, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "thesleepingdogs.net", "title": "Dogs Sleeping Forum \u2022 View topic - The End Of GMT?", "raw_content": "The End Of GMT?\nRe: The End Of GMT?\nby Cannydc \u00bb Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:33 am\nIn 1968, there was a three-year experiment when British Standard Time (GMT + 1) was employed all year round; the clocks were advanced in March 1968 and not put back until October 1971.\nThis period provided an opportunity to evaluate the effect of the daylight change on a number of things, particularly road accident casualties.\nA Parliamentary review of the experiment reported that it was impossible to quantify a great many of the more important advantages and disadvantages of this time system and concluded that the final decision on whether to retain the system would rest largely on a qualitative judgement.\nThere was a wealth of support for the proposal from some sections of the public (The Police Federation, The Sports Council, the leisure industry, Age Concern) but strong opposition from others (the building industry, farmers, the Post Office), particularly those in Scotland.\nIn 1998, a report, commissioned by the Government, examined the effect of a move to SDST on road accident casualties. This concluded there would be 450 fewer deaths and serious injuries... Every Autumn when the clocks go back and sunset occurs earlier in the day, road casualties and the casualty rate rise.\nThe effects of clocks going back in October are greatest for the most vulnerable road users. In 2004, pedestrian deaths rose from 56 in October to 76 in November and 78 in December.\nDuring the week, casualty rates peak at 8:00 am and 5:00 pm for adults and 8:00 am and 3.30 pm for children, with the afternoon peak being higher for both the children and adults. The patterns are different at weekends for both adults and children, when casualty rates peak between 12 noon and 1:00 pm and then plateau until about 7:00 pm when they begin to reduce.\nAs an experiment, British Standard Time (GMT +1 hour) was kept all year round for a three year period between 1968 and 1971. Analysis of accident data during this period indicated that this reduced the number of road accident casualties.\nRoad casualty figures during the morning (7:00 am \u2013 10:00 am) and afternoon (4:00 pm \u2013 7:00 pm) for the period affected by time change in the two winters (1966/67 and 1967/68) before the experiment and in the first two winters (1968/69 and 1969/70) when BST was retained were analysed.\nThe data showed that keeping British Standard time had resulted in an 11% reduction in casualties during the hours affected by the time change in England and Wales and a 17% reduction in Scotland. The overall reduction for Great Britain was 11.7%. Although casualties in the morning had increased, the decrease in casualties in the evening far outweighed this.\nOverall, about 2,500 fewer people were killed and seriously injured during the first two winters of the experiment.\nhttp://www.rospa.com/roadsafety/info/su ... _paper.pdf\nby Guest \u00bb Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:18 am\nCannydc wrote: It is exactly as simple as that.\n6 hours of daylight in midwinter equates to 9am to 3pm.\nSo either kids go to school in the dark, or come home in the dark.\nIt's not ONLY about kids going to and from school. What you are proposing to do would further disadvantage those people in Britain who already have fewer hours of daylight than people further south, by making it even later in the day before they see the first glimmer of any of that daylight. Southerners already have more hours of daylight anyway so why do you always think everything should be done to benefit the South of England even if it disadvantages those elsewhere?\nCannydc wrote: In 1968, there was a three-year experiment when British Standard Time (GMT + 1) was employed all year round; the clocks were advanced in March 1968 and not put back until October 1971.\nTraffic patterns and lifestyle habits are entirely different now from 40 years ago so that data is of little relevance to today's circumstances.\nby Fenella \u00bb Sun Oct 30, 2011 11:47 am\nIt's nature - if people want more hours of daylight they should move somewhere else. Tinkering with the clocks all the time just moves those hours of daylight around - it doesn't create more.\nFenella wrote:\nExactly. People who only have six hours of daylight in the depths of winter just deal with it, as they always have done.\nIf anyone wants 12 hours of daylight all year round, they should go and live in Equatorial Guinea or Ecuador.\nEnergy Costs would be far less, ( A kick in the teeth for the Energy Companies)\nCrime Rates would Fall,\nCommunications with EU Countries would be easier,\nSuicide Rates along with Seasonal Depression would fall,\nHeart Attacks would fall (according to figures)\nCommon Accidents rates in the Home and outside would fall,\nLighter evenings means more people would have more time for sports. Healthier Outlook.\nBusiness, shops etc more accessible late afternoon, evenings\nThats without the Road Traffic Accident figures.\nOur lifestyle has changed since the last experiment,\nThe Scottish Farmers milking cows in the dark is no excuse in this day and age.\nGuest wrote: Energy Costs would be far less, ( A kick in the teeth for the Energy Companies)\nYes, farmers work according to the daylight not the clock.\nMost Milking Sheds these days have Electric Lighting,\nYou soft Southerners are so bloody pathetic.\nIt isn't going to happen anyway so just man up and deal with it.\nby Text \u00bb Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:51 pm\n@ title: About time and all !!\nby Big Fat Frosty \u00bb Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:14 am\nno more turning back the clocks\nin this modern age of tractors with lights etc etc\nits just bollox\nThe new programme is called Daybreak\nby S.A.D \u00bb Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:09 pm\n5 '0' Clock, and it's fucking dark :brickwall:\nS.A.D wrote: 5 '0' Clock, and it's fucking dark :brickwall:\nby Cactus Jack \u00bb Wed Nov 02, 2011 12:32 am\nDaylight saving time is a relic of when we were a primarily industrial and agricultural economy, so are the long school holidays in summer, and both can be dispensed with.\n1 - Stick to GMT year round and adjust the working day if you have to.\n2 - In schools, universities and colleges extend the Christmas Holiday to cover the last three weeks of December and the first three weeks of January and only give a two week break in mid-July so we can save millions in heating costs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 14116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thetahealth.co.za/blog/?the-benefits-of-vitamin-b5-pantothenic-acid", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FM3EDWE7EI2V72KXS3UAPVJFGUDLAZFW", "length": 2693, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "thetahealth.co.za", "title": "The Benefits Of Vitamin B5 Pantothenic Acid - Health Blog on Natural Health News", "raw_content": "Published by Theta Health in Diet and Nutrition \u00b7 19 September 2018\nTags: Benefits, Deficiencies, Vitamin, B5, Pantotenic, Acid\nVitamin B5 Thiamine helps to break down proteins, fats and carbohydrates from the food we eat. It is not stored in our body so needs to be replaced daily.\nWhat does Vitamin B5 do?\nHelps with digestive problems\nHelps with the metabolism of fat, protein and carbohydrates\nIs used for infections and inflammations\nHelps fight allergies\nHelps maintain healthy skin, muscles and nerves\nVitamin B5 or pantothenic acid is a water soluable vitamin from the B group vitamins, which runs though our blood system and needs replacing every day as the body doesn\u2019t store it.\nPantothenic acid (vitamin B5) helps the body break down and use fats, proteins and carbohydrates to be used as energy and to rebuild organs and body tissues.\nThe B5 vitamin can be found in most foods but especially in high quantities in foods such as, the outer layers of whole grain cereals, vegetables such as broccoli, eggs, meat, royal jelly, avocado and yoghurt.\nHow Do You Know If You Have A Vitamin B5 Deficiency?\nIf you are deficient in vitamin B5 you will probably experience such symptoms as extreme fatigue, chronic stress and depression, colds, flu, allergies, infections, inflammations, swelling, sinus problems, asthma, tight chests, eczema, arthritis, gout, hyperactivity, aggressive behaviour, cholesterol and blood sugar level problems, digestive disorders, weight problems and obesity.\nVitamin B5 is also key in making the immune system effective and lack of B5 will create a deficiency of white blood cells, antibodies and needed defense mechanisms. It is also needed for hormone formation and the uptake of amino acids and the brain chemical acetylcholine, which combine to prevent certain types of depression.\nThe Health Benefits Of Vitamin B5\nThe health benefits of vitamin B5 can include the alleviation of conditions such as asthma, hair loss, allergies, stress and anxiety, respiratory disorders and heart problems.\nVitamin B5 helps to increase memory, learning and cognitive abilities.\nAlso, it helps to improve the immune system, osteoarthritis, ageing signs, resistance to various types of infections, physical growth, and diabetes and skin disorders.\nVitamin B5 helps in reducing body fatigue and weariness and keeps the function of the body parts working naturally. Vitamin B5 is capable of building the stamina of the human body to perform well in various tasks.\nIf you don\u2019t have a healthy balanced diet that helps to replace vitamin B5 pantothenic acid on a daily basis then you need to use a daily multi-vitamin supplement with B5 to keep your body\u2019s energy level high.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 4805, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 308.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thexigroup.com/our-physicians/ms-chow-ee-ling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2RPNAZC6PBSO72HWHLAJIQKXKKMRBUG7", "length": 626, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "thexigroup.com", "title": "Xi Group | Ms. Chow Ee Ling", "raw_content": "Ms. Chow Ee Ling is a specialist in TCM Lifestyle Diseases Management and Stroke Treatment. She graduated with a Bachelor of Chinese Medicine (Honours) from University Tunku Abdul Rahman.\nMs. Chow completed a year of clinical training at Yangzhou TCM Hospital in China, where she worked with different aspects of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) such as TCM Internal Medicine, TCM Gynaecology, TCM Gastroenterology, Acupuncture as well as Tuina (therapeutic massage). Under the guidance of Professor Ren (an expert in gastroenterology in Yangzhou), Ms Chow is also well trained in the treatment of digestive system diseases.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1578, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 224.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://thoughtspeakcast.com/episode-26-pretender/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:24Z", "digest": "sha1:55RCRP6AVJS7IH665OO3PY2PXCQ365AG", "length": 966, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "thoughtspeakcast.com", "title": "Thought-Speak Episode 26: The Pretender", "raw_content": "I will say right now that the most entertaining aspect of this episode is listening to Coleman\u2019s take on the book at the very beginning of the review, then comparing it to his final thoughts and his review score at the end. Seriously, pay attention to his language throughout and listen for the exact moment when he has a change of heart. This episode we\u2019re talking about Tobias\u2019s next book, which is only really noteworthy because it\u2019s the book where Tobias finally finds out who his real father is. But an episode of Maury, this is not! You will hear us sing praises for this book, as well as kind of break it down and gut it for all it\u2019s worth\u2026 Is this book really deserving of so much praise from the community? We will definitely look into it!\nNEXT TIME: THE HORK-BAJIR CHRONICLES\nSummary and Plot (7:25) \u2022 The guys walk us through book 23, the one where Tobias eats roadkill.\nPrevious Post Animorphs: The Solution\nNext Post Animorphs: The Hork-Bajir Chronicles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/a-sovereigns-decision.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:09Z", "digest": "sha1:MA2XIALZXWNDQDDQJ35CUV3BZTPCJNOV", "length": 9717, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "ticsddhh.blogspot.com", "title": "TIC's y Derechos Humanos: A sovereign\u2019s decision", "raw_content": "The condemnatory sentence of the legitimate TSJ in Bogot\u00e1 to Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Moros for corruption and legitimation of capital, puts the entire political world to run inside and outside of Venezuela (see in Spanish, TSJ en el exilio sentenci\u00f3 a Nicol\u00e1s Maduro a 18 a\u00f1os y 3 meses de c\u00e1rcel por corrupci\u00f3n, at https://www.lapatilla.com/2018/08/15/tsj-en-el-exilio-sentencio-a-nicolas-maduro-a-18-anos-y-3-meses-de-carcel-por-corrupcion/). Inside, because we Venezuelans will know definitively if the official opposition gathered in the National Assembly will support the Magistrates who became a legitimate Supreme Court of Justice outside our borders, or they will end up supporting the regime knowing of the guilt shown during the hearings that were held. performed in Bogot\u00e1.\nAnd outside, because the international community must make a final decision whether or not to support the decisions of the legitimate Venezuelan justice that despite all adversity, has shown that you can act subject to the rule of law, with complete independence between the powers legitimately constituted, and in the supreme interest of Venezuela and the Venezuelans.\nHowever, a contrary force is operating in its entirety, as a consequence of what I called in a last note the \"phenomenon of TSJ-L\" (see The phenomenon of the legit\u00edmate TSJ, at http://ticsddhh.blogspot.com/p/the-phenomenon-of-legitimate-tsj.html) where, long before the trial of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro Moros began, the political forces gathered in the National Assembly were very suspicious of the fact that the magistrates appointed by them behaved with autonomy and their own lives, establishing themselves as the Supreme Court of Justice in exile.\nThey went outside the sphere of influence of the National Assembly, without obeying the political orders of those who were their mentors to be appointed as Judges of the Supreme Court. That break came when they ended up being persecuted with their families and had to flee the country, and completely without the support of the National Assembly.\nThe official opposition, seeing these \"independence\" attempts of the Magistrates, sent the \"ambassador\" Luis Florido as an emissary to all the countries where they lived, to warn them not to \"think of\" taking decisions without the \"approval\" of their \"political bosses\" Ramos Allup, Borges and Barboza \u00a1What a sad role for Florido as a deputy of a party as fierce as VP! When they saw that these \"boys\" decided not to stop from taking on these \"warnings\", which are more similar to those made by Don Vito Corleone's thugs as the boss of the mafia in Mario Puzo's novel, they decided to play \"hard ball\", undertaking it with a plot of disqualification of their President, Miguel \u00c1ngel Mart\u00edn Tortabu.\nIn an unfounded accusation, the National Assembly Directive was mobilized as it had not been before in the case of Maduro's dual nationality to denounce that the legitimate President of the Supreme Court had \"dual nationality\". They did not even sound the flute, like that donkey in the novel, to record in the archives of the National Assembly itself, the documents consigned by Magistrate Martin to compete for that high office. If they had done so they would have found the renunciation of his Spanish nationality long before applying as a Magistrate. But the maneuver was to break the legs of those who considered themselves the boss of that pro-independence \"uprising\" of the Judiciary.\nTake a good look at what's happening so far. Opposition deputies in leading positions in the legislature are sabotaging and interfering with the decisions of another independent power, seeking to maintain control of these magistrates as the regime does, and in the most stale way in the 4th Republic, and that is precisely what we want to eradicate! But the next step was to climb the ladder of the Mafia threat.\nJournalist Jos\u00e9 Domingo Blanco denounced on his Twitter account that the President of the National Assembly, Omar Barboza, together with his former President, Julio Borges, would meet in Bogot\u00e1 with Prosecutor Luisa Ortega D\u00edaz to \"negotiate\" to halt the trial of Nicol\u00e1s Maduro (see https://twitter.com/mingo_1/status/1023569054030868480?s=03)). The denounce of Mingo the same day of the meeting managed to abort the meeting where supposedly that \"opposition\" would negotiate with Ortega to leave her calm of the outrages against the Human Rights that she has committed, in a future government of that opposition, and even with the possibility of a relevant position in that administration, in exchange for freezing the trial, deferring the hearings that were taking place in Bogot\u00e1 in the trial against Maduro. Dr. Ortega knows this technique very well, as all the political prisoners who are still detained because they have not yet had the first hearing due to the lack of the Public Prosecutor's Office.\nThat attempt, as everyone knows, was unsuccessful and the trial continued despite the attempts of the opposition, not only to overthrow the efforts to condemn the corrupt who have destroyed Venezuela (among other reasons because they are also on the list of Odebrecht) but on the way they had stopped the main process that was carried in the legitimate TSJ in exile, leaving the Supreme Court very badly stopped.\nBut the devil's kitchen doesn't stop. The official opposition parties know what comes after this decision of the Supreme Court against Maduro, and have repeatedly dismissed the thesis of the power vacuum put forward by the legitimate Supreme Court of Justice, saying that this trial is not important because Maduro was no longer president since the National Assembly declared the \"abandonment of office\" in January 2017, and that they \"no longer have to do anything\".\nNothing could be further from the truth, as his actions have demonstrated, having persistently ignored the mandate of 16J-2017 ordered by the Venezuelan people, and the legal mandate of the legitimate TSJ to appoint a government to replace Nicol\u00e1s Maduro. What follows this sentence is the appointment of a National Emergency Government by the legitimate Supreme Court of Justice. But the ruling opposition parties are not willing to allow this.\nIn a complaint made public on his Twitter account by Carlos Ortega, President of the CTV (see https://twitter.com/CarlosOrtegaCTV/status/1029195409942618113?s=08), the regime would have squabbled with some deputies of the official opposition and a Magistrate to prevent yesterday's ruling. Although the news is late because those attempts were already known, the new thing is that from the same legitimate TSJ there are Magistrates conspiring to dismantle the Tribunal. How are you? The tentacles can be very long when the corruption money is available.\nWhen not being able to stop the sentence of Maduro what is left to the conspiracy mounted from the National Assembly is the open ignorance to the legitimate TSJ. Remember that we still do not know the report that is still being prepared by the Legal Consultancy of the National Assembly in relation to the ruling of July 2, 2018, which obliges the National Assembly to designate a new government in Venezuela. Now with the condemnatory sentence of Maduro it becomes urgent. Either the National Assembly does it or the legitimate TSJ does it. And we know what is the decision already taken of the official opposition: put in a drawer that decision, perhaps the most important one of the current Venezuela. Hence, they have no choice but to go head-on against the legitimate TSJ with a final delegitimizing letter: the report of the Legal Consultant of the National Assembly. They do not want, for a lot of reasons that we will analyze at the time, that this decision is beyond their control.\nThe Board of Directors of the National Assembly informed through its President Omar Barboza on July 10, 2018 - before Maduro's sentence - that it had proposed \"to wait for the opinion of the Legal Consultancy of the National Assembly on the notification sent this Monday by the magistrates of the @TSJ_Legitimo and the opinion of @lortegadiaz\" (see in Spanish at https://twitter.com/JOSEVICENTEHARO/status/1030158962019262464). The wait has been suspiciously long, and included Maduro's time on trial, the sentence and all the attempts to destroy that decision, as well as something very important: the National Assembly holidays.\nNow it is up to the directive of the National Assembly, which has tried to overthrow the legitimate TSJ, to decide what to do with the hot potato that has just come out of Maduro's sentence, but they want to do it from a Delegate Commission - in cogollito - to overlook another possible decision of the deputies in plenary. This is how the Caribbean ball of politics is played in Venezuela. That report had not yet been made public and its content would determine whether or not the politicians in the National Assembly would support the decision of the High Court in exile.\nWe are not psychics to know the tone in which this report will come, but without seeing anything rotten we can know that something is decomposed by smell alone. And the Board of Directors of the National Assembly, its Legal Consultancy and now the Delegate Commission have a smell like the Morgue of Bello Monte. My question to the people of Venezuela: Will the National Assembly finally be able to sabotage the effort of the legitimate Supreme Court Magistrates to appoint a National Emergency Government that responds to the suffering of this country? Will we allow that head to ignore Maduro's sentence and prevent the people of Venezuela from having a government that truly works from the outside to get us out of this hell? The final decision should be, as always, the sovereign's....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 340, "original_length": 19679, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 248.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time.com/4152804/freddie-gray-mistrial-william-porter-caesar-goodson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:26Z", "digest": "sha1:GWLFA477GNSAPADD3ZAPXIXRNMWGEBQT", "length": 2612, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "time.com", "title": "Freddie Gray Mistrial Could Spell Trouble for Future Cases | Time", "raw_content": "Freddie Gray Mistrial Could Spell Trouble for Future Cases\nThe hung jury in the case of William Porter, the first of six Baltimore officers to stand trial in the death of Freddie Gray, could make guilty verdicts in the five other cases more difficult, say law professors following the case.\nAfter a Baltimore jury deliberated for more than 16 hours over three days, a judge declared a mistrial Wednesday, potentially upending the prosecution\u2019s strategy against the officers involved in the arrest of Gray, who died April 19 from a severe spinal injury he suffered while in police custody.\nDefense attorneys and law professors generally agree that prosecutors chose to try Porter first because they believed his to be the strongest case, but also because the state hoped it could place Porter on the stand against his fellow officers after the legal case against him concluded. Porter, who faces involuntary manslaughter and other charges, might have been particularly useful in the trial of Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., the driver of the van carrying Gray after his arrest, experts say. In his trial, Porter testified that he had suggested to Goodson that they take Gray to a hospital after Gray asked for medical attention inside the van, a request that went unheeded.\nThe question now is whether Goodson\u2019s trial, scheduled to begin on Jan. 6, will move forward as scheduled or whether it will be delayed so that Porter\u2019s case can be retried. University of Maryland law professor Michael Greenberger says moving Goodson\u2019s trial date \u201carguably deprives the defendant of a right to a speedy trial,\u201d meaning Porter\u2019s case could potentially come after the other five trials.\nRead more: What Really Happened to Freddie Gray? Here are 4 Theories\n\u201cThe fact that the jury hung in this first instance is not terrific news for the state\u2019s attorneys,\u201d Greenberger says.\nThe absence of a conviction or acquittal in the Porter case could mean that Porter could invoke his Fifth Amendment rights and not testify against Goodson or other officers.\n\u201cI think there were always questions as to whether they would be able to get Porter on the stand in those cases anyway,\u201d says University of Baltimore law professor David Jaros. \u201cBut this makes it indelibly harder. As long as he is facing charges, he can\u2019t be compelled to testify.\u201d\nRead more: Officer Says Freddie Gray Gave Him No Reason to Call a Medic\nJaros says he expects the state to try to retry Porter before any of those cases. The prosecution\u2019s strategy will likely emerge Thursday, when state\u2019s attorneys will go before an administrative judge to choose a retrial date.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 4878, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://time.com/5318542/first-lady-melania-trump-visit-child-detention-center/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:56Z", "digest": "sha1:552IETXGY7HHZHVUXM462ZEHXOVTKIUF", "length": 3216, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "time.com", "title": "Melania Trump Makes Surprise Visit at Detention Center | Time", "raw_content": "First Lady Melania Trump Makes Surprise Visit to Child Detention Center in Texas\nUpdated: June 21, 2018 1:04 PM ET\nFirst Lady Melania Trump paid an unannounced visit to the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday, one day after President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to keep families together amid an outcry over his Administration\u2019s policy that was tearing them apart.\nThe First Lady is visiting two facilities in McAllen Texas: a shelter for migrant families that is under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, and the Upbring New Hope Children\u2019s Shelter, which currently houses over 50 children from Central America\n\u201cFirst Lady Melania Trump has arrived in Texas to take part in briefings and tours at a nonprofit social services center for children who have entered the United States illegally and a customs and border patrol processing center,\u201d her office said in a statement. \u201cHer goals are to thank law enforcement and social services providers for their hard work, lend support and hear more on how the administration can build upon the already existing efforts to reunite children with their families.\u201d\nTrump\u2019s Communications Director Stephanie Grisham told reporters that the First Lady had suggested making the trip on Tuesday \u2013 othat *ends the Administration\u2019s policy of separating children and parents at the border.\n\u201cShe wants to see what\u2019s happening for herself and she wants to lend her support, executive order or not,\u201d said Grisham. \u201cThe executive order certainly is helping pave the way a little bit, but there\u2019s still a lot to be done.\u201d\nThe Trump Administration had been encountering a deluge of outrage all week after government officials confirmed that more than 2,000 children had been separated from their parents in the past five weeks, a direct result of the \u201czero-tolerance\u201d policy Attorney General Jeff Sessions implemented in May. The policy mandates criminal prosecution for anyone caught illegally crossing the border. Consequently, adults crossing with their children were detained under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, while the children were held in facilities run by the Office of Refugee Resettlement.\nUnder the Executive Order the President yesterday, children who come to the border with their parents will be allowed to remain with them, but the \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy will remain in place. The order is virtually certain to encounter legal challenges, however, and questions still remain about whether the children who were already separated from their parents will be reunited.\nThe order came after the policy, amplified by photographs of tearful children, audio recordings of their wails and first-hand accounts of these separations, drew condemnation across the globe and from both sides of the aisle \u2013 including from the First Lady. She issued a statement this Sunday, telling CNN she \u201chated\u201d to see parents separated from their children and had been lobbying her husband to take action. President Trump acknowledged his wife\u2019s visit at his cabinet meeting, noting that what she had seen \u201creally bothered her.\u201d\n\u201cShe supports family reunification,\u201d said Grisham. \u201cShe thinks that it\u2019s important that children stay with their families.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 5570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 178.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timelineindex.com/content/view/1852", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:Y5QS5CDUBVVT5ZJ257LMAAMFQ5TBYWKD", "length": 1769, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "timelineindex.com", "title": "Euripides, Greek Tragedian - Timeline Index", "raw_content": "Euripides, Greek Tragedian >\nEuripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom a significant number of plays have survived. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but, according to the Suda, it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander.\n\u2022 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euripides\n\u2022 The Cyclops, by Euripides \u2022 Edit\nEuripides was a tragedian of classical Athens. Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three ancient Greek tragedians for whom a significant number of plays have survived. Some ancient scholars attributed 95 plays to him but, according to the Suda, it was 92 at most. Of these, 18 or 19 have survived more or less complete (there has been debate about his authorship of Rhesus, largely on stylistic grounds) and there are also fragments, some substantial, of most of the other plays. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes, and Menander. More...\nRelated > Playwrights \u2022 Poets \u2022 Athens \u2022 Greece \u2022 Hellenistic Age \u2022 Libra \u2022 Literature \u2022 September 23 \u2022 Theatre \u2022 Writers \u2022 People", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 4985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 211.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://timlane.org/blog/long-term-care-obvious-but-often-forgotten", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CY5JHQL5HJOWNJYN3Z4CCEQF3DNHHKWO", "length": 2152, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "timlane.org", "title": "Long Term Care: The Obvious But Often Forgotten \u2014 TIM LANE", "raw_content": "Long Term Care: The Obvious But Often Forgotten\nAs you care for a person or family in a crisis that is long term, there are many things to consider. Some are obvious and some are not. Here are some that may be easily forgotten.\nAwareness of Financial and Legal Needs\nInsurance covers less and less medical care and very little in the way of counseling. In many churches, mission committees may have large budgets. Why not increase the size of the mercy/care budget to prepare for these types of crises? There are ways to set up funds for families to help off-set costs. It will be helpful to develop a filing system to help the family keep up with the bills. Consider bringing in a financial planner since it is going to be long term.\nSeek the advice of a lawyer if needed. It is important to do this with the family\u2019s permission. If possible, have someone from the small group present at these meetings to take notes so that nothing is forgotten.\nCombining Word and Deed\nThis is a form of care that will be largely deed oriented. The longer it continues, the more the word component of care will become important. In general, unless you\nare going to equip your care givers to speak wisely, it is best to encourage them to err\non the side of simply being good listeners. In the midst of long-term suffering there is a cry for understanding. It is here that we need to equip our people to give wise, time-sensitive, Christ-centered counsel as people ask the difficult questions. Helpers can never go wrong by focusing on the Psalms.\nThis may be an opportunity to teach and equip the broader body within your church. Again, have a trained person assist you in providing meaningful information along with a biblical perspective to help the caregivers think, act and speak in sensitive ways in light of the specific crisis issue.\nThe Bible provides guidance for sufferers to express themselves in godly ways and it pulls them out of the temptation to dive inward and become cynical. The following Psalms might prove helpful: Psalm 4, 18, 23, 27, 40, 42, 121, 130 and 142.\nlong term care, financial issues, small groups\nLong Term Crisis: Who Do You Care ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 9186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 274.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tinyhousecommunity.com/author/elainelw/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:12Z", "digest": "sha1:VOXZXMFTT2OHLLQM7V4EDWRT44C6SWM4", "length": 3263, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "tinyhousecommunity.com", "title": "Elaine W. | Tiny House Community", "raw_content": "Articles by Elaine W.\n12/16 \"We had acquired so much stuff over the years, we both started to feel the weight and burden of it.\"\nToday we have a very special home feature for you! Kelly Christine Sutton is a super talented lifestyle photographer and film maker who happens to live in an American Tiny House. Obsessed!!! We were beyond thrilled when she agreed to share her tiny space with us. \u201cOur Golden tiny house [\u2026]\n12/16 Habitat for Humanity celebrates second 'tiny house' being built\nHabitat for Humanity Cabarrus County recently held its newest home dedication with the second \u201ctiny house\u201d the organization has built in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. The first one was built in 2015. The typical Habitat home is built for a family and ranges from around 1,050 square feet to 1,120 [\u2026]\n12/14 Husband & wife move from the big city into 'Housebus' they converted themselves\nThe cost of home ownership, as well as the cost of living, has grown significantly in the last couple of decades, and in today\u2019s uncertain economy, young people are finding it especially difficult to make ends meet. Some are finding it much easier \u2014 and more sensible \u2014 to challenge [\u2026]\n12/03 \"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately\"\n\u201cI went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\u201d \u2014 Henry David Thoreau Henry David [\u2026]\n12/01 Superior Concrete Tiny Houses Offers Tiny Homes in Multiple Designs to Fit the Consumers' Living Needs\nSuperior Concrete Tiny Houses offers tiny homes in multiple designs to fit the consumer\u2019s living needs and price point. All of their tiny homes are constructed and engineered from modular precast concrete employing cutting-edge technology to ensure they are highly durable and look good with little to no maintenance. Most [\u2026]\n11/30 From the Boat Life Diaries: We only regret the changes we don't take\nGuest post from Janna of The Boat Life Diaries Buying a boat and being a live aboard was something that we have always fantasized about. Many friends thought we were completely insane. \u201cBut you have such a beautiful home\u201d they said. \u201cBut what if you have kids?\u201d they said. \u201cBut\u2026But\u2026 [\u2026]\n11/15 Is this the world's most remote tiny house?\nWould you spend the night in a tiny house perched on a remote clifftop? This incredible structure has been built by Slovenian architecture firm OFIS Arhitekti on Mount Kanin, on the border between Slovenia and Italy. The Kanin Winter Cabin is a tiny 9.7sqm, offering shelter for hikers from the [\u2026]\nJust 50 kms outside of Toronto live Mark Su and his girlfriend in a fully self-contained 310 square foot home that set him back a mere $30,000. The environmental consultant didn\u2019t pay a dime for labour as he built his tiny house solo, an expense that saved him in the [\u2026]\n11/03 Tiny solar-powered homestead built by 'right-sizing' couple\nOne might be forgiven for thinking that tiny homes are generally for free-wheeling millennials looking to get out of the mortgage trap. After all, we do see a good amount of young people sharing their stories of tiny house bliss. 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He is funny,...\nThe Sheperds\nFriendship is one of the masterpieces of nature and I have never had two truer friends than Lou Angelwolf and Kevin Rogers. We all met as young comedians in Clearwater, Florida in 1986 at Ron Bennington's comedy scene and we were so earnest about influencing the world in a positive way through our comedy that we...\nIan Edwards is one of my favorite comedians because of the supreme intelligence he brings to his well thought out ideas. 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It was a part of the Children's ITV strand, replacing Granada's popular Get It Together.\nRunning from late summer to early autumn this one featured teams of kids representing their school in various quizzes and challenges with the winners getting the run of the park for free.\nThe first shows were hosted by ex-Selecter singer Pauline Black, accompanied by Bob Carolgees and Spit The Dog and featured Bad Manners (who provided the theme tune), Dexy's Midnight Runners, Toyah, Toto Coelo, Shakin' Stevens and many others.\nUnlike earlier Granada tea-time pop shows this one didn't feature new up and coming talent in an attempt to save money.\nThe following summer saw indie favourites like Paul Haig and The Farmers Boys in amongst The Thompson Twins, Musical Youth and the like, while the 1983 season also saw Musical Youth compete against their old school Duddeston Manor. The 1986 finale in December was a special starring Hull's forth finest The Housemartins. 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It featured a new theme by the band Westworld and featured appearances by Iggy Pop (his first kids' show since his Number 73 incident a year earlier) and Public Image Limited.\nThe show had hosted a full range of representative pop and indie from the mid-eighties and is worth tracing shows or clips for.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 18, "original_length": 2046, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 227.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://tvpopdiaries.co.uk/sasic.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:38Z", "digest": "sha1:PTX7GJJJPWKTTHIYQ43ATCUDH3RMQDNR", "length": 369, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "tvpopdiaries.co.uk", "title": "\ufeff TV Pop Diaries Sight and Sound In Concert", "raw_content": "SIGHT AND SOUND IN CONCERT\nAfter the success of the Old Grey Whistle Test Christmas simulcasts on BBC2 and Radio 1's FM channel a series was commissioned with most of the shows recorded at the Hippodrome, Golders Green, the venue for many of Radio One's In Concert series, with introductions from Radio One DJs Pete Drummond, Alan Black, Anne Nightingale and John Peel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 13, "original_length": 846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 165.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://typedia.com/report/typeface/adobe-caslon", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:05Z", "digest": "sha1:PC7XAVZXVAPGQQLWOJBLOACPVT3FGVG4", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "typedia.com", "title": "Typedia: Report a Problem", "raw_content": "Report a problem with Adobe Caslon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://ukboardingschools.org.uk/schoolen/content1392729746031298.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:31Z", "digest": "sha1:CCACNHVQFAFJ5IEI5OMFKJFDFWLTRJFY", "length": 2546, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "ukboardingschools.org.uk", "title": "Woodbridge School--\u82f1\u56fd\u79c1\u7acb\u5bc4\u5bbf\u5b66\u6821\u5165\u5b66\u4e2d\u5fc3", "raw_content": ">> Near Cambridge>Woodbridge School\nSchool\uff1aWoodbridge School\nWebsite: http://www.woodbridge.suffolk.sch.uk\nWoodbridge School is a co-educational school (11-19) with boarding from 13+ in School House.\nWoodbridge is proud of the care that it offers its overseas students, proud of its academic achievements but also delighted that it challenges students to broaden their horizons by participating in a wide and varied extra-curricular programme.\nA level: 19.2% A*, 46.2% A*-A,73.8%A*-B\nGCSE: 23% A*, 55.1% A*-A, 83%A*-B\nCambridge/Oxford, Manchester, Imperial, Bristol, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds, University College London, Warwick, King\u2019s College London.\nCo-educational boarding and day school, ages 11-19\nTeacher: pupil ratio: 1:8(at A Level\uff09\nPupils: 820 students. The boarding house has 62 students and currently there is 19 Chinese students and 13 Hong Kong students.\nAnnual boarding fees 2015/16: GBP28,266.\nSixth Form/A Levels:\nWoodbridge offers an extensive selection of A Levels, encouraging students to study 4 or 5 at AS, with 3 or 4 taken at A2.\nA broad range of GCSEs are on offer, including Maths IGCSE. The School is particularly strong in the sciences, mathematics, economics and languages \u2013 with both Japanese and Mandarin Chinese available. Most pupils study between 10/11 subjects.\nArt, Dance, Drama and Music\nBenefitting from the 350 seater Seckford Theatre, the School\u2019s music and drama reputation is exceptional, with students each year progressing to study at leading UK Art, Drama and Music colleages.\nBoarding Accommodation:\nA Level students \u2013 single study bedrooms\nGCSE students \u2013 single study bedrooms wherever possible\nThe boarding house is situated in the centre of the School grounds. Offering safe accommodation, the boarding house has an extremely diverse mix of cultures with students from the UK, Germany, Austria,Romania,Mainland China, Hong Kong, Russia, Ukraine,Spain, Thailand,Japan,Singapore and Australia.\nEach student has a designated tutor and it is the School\u2019s aim to ensure that students gain the maximum benefit from such a vibrant atmosphere.\nThe boarding house offers a varied social programme and regular visits to neighbouring cities, such as Cambridge at the weekends.\nThere is a wide variety of sports and extra-curricular activities on offer for all students to enjoy. Students are encouraged to sample as many activities during their time at the School, including studying musical instruments, chess and team sports such as basketball and table tennis.\nIP12 4JH\nNorwich - 1 hour\nLondon \u2013 1 \u00bd hours", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3519, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 278.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://umbcretrievers.com/sports/mbkb/2012-13/bios/wertz_jamar_gyv6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:40Z", "digest": "sha1:AMI2IBBCYYPV5L4PGVF4EVV5AH6CSTLM", "length": 4850, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "umbcretrievers.com", "title": "Jamar Wertz - UMBC", "raw_content": "Related Bios Ryan Cook Malik Garner Joey Getz Quentin Jones Aaron Morgan Brian Neller Chase Plummer Brett Roseboro Adrian Satchell\n21 Jamar Wertz\nHigh School: King's Fork\n2012-13: Did not dress for the ?rst two games, su?ering from a lower body ailment... Suited up at Loyola on Nov. 14, but did not play... Saw ?rst action of the year vs. CCSU on Nov. 20, scoring a ?eld goal in 2 minutes... Gave Retrievers a spark o? the bench with 10 points in 15 minutes vs. Canisius on Nov. 29 and did so again in front of family and friends with 10 points at Norfolk State on Dec. 9\u2026 In 44 career America East games, he has hit 23 of 48 three-point ?eld goal attempts (47.9%).\n2011-12: Started the opener vs. Penn on Nov. 11, but left the game with a lower body injury in the second half and did not return... Started at St. John\u2019s on Nov. 13, but did not start and played a only four minutes vs. Loyola on Nov. 17... Scored eight points in a key 24-minute stint at Towson on Dec. 10 and added nine points and seven caroms vs. Rider in 30 minutes of action on Dec. 17... Played a key role in conference-opening victory at UNH on Jan. 2, scoring 11 points and setting career mark with eight caroms in 24 minutes... Tallied a career-best 12 points, all in the second half, at Boston U. on Jan. 24... Returned to double figures in another Retriever win, scoring 10 points (3/3 fg) in 70-56 victory at Binghamton on Feb. 15.\n2010-11: Made his first appearance in a UMBC uniform on Nov. 14 vs. VMI and scored one point, added three rebounds and a steal... Saw increased action and scored six points in 21 minutes at Loyola on Nov. 17... Converted on three field goals in four consecutive games (Nov. 17-Nov. 27) and is averaged 8.0 ppg in that span... Snared a season-best six rebounds, tying Adrian Satchell for team-high honors, in Dec. 3 contest at U. Conn... Scored 11 points in 20 minutes vs. Towson on Dec. 11... Matched that season-high with 11 points in 19 minutes at Notre Dame on Dec. 22... Corralled seven rebounds vs. Niagara on Dec. 30... Did not score, but made play of the night, as his leaping save of an errant shot with 4.4 seconds remaining resulted in Justin Fry\u2019s two free throws to provide the margin of victory... The lone Retriever to hit 50 percent from the floor vs. Stony Brook, converting 4-of-8 in a 10-point effort. .. Played 25 minutes, scoring nine points and tying season-best with seven caroms at Binghamton on Jan. 12... Earned his first collegiate start at Vermont on Jan. 15... Buried a season-best three treys in a 26-minute effort vs. Boston U. on Jan. 17... Was 13-of-29 (44.8%) from behind the arc in league play...Played 30 minutes at Boston U. and vs. Hartford in back-to-back games on Feb. 15 and 19... Tied season highs with 11 points and seven caroms vs. the Hawks... Played season-high 32 minutes at Albany on Feb. 23 and posted nine points and six rebounds\u2026 Averaged 8.5 points and 5.0 rebounds per game over the last four regular season contests and played more minutes in the final three than any of the prior 26 contests.\n2009-10: Underwent arthroscopic knee surgery in early November\u2026 Returned to practice in January, but did not dress or compete in any contests.\nBackground: Named to the Virginia High School Coaches Association Group and the Virginia Associated Press AAA Second-Team All-State boys\u2019 basketball squad after the 2008-09 season\u2026 Averaged 14.2 points per game last season and helped the Bulldogs (31-1) win the VHSL boys\u2019 basketball state championship\u2026 Buried 63 three-point field goals, hit 73.5 percent from the free throw line, and also averaged six rebounds and 2.3 steals per contest\u2026 A First-Team All-Eastern Region, First-Team All-City and a Second-Team All-Tidewater honoree\u2026A three-time First-Team All-Southeastern District selection, as tabbed by The Suffolk News-Herald... As a junior, he helped the Bulldogs to the Southeastern District tournament title and a berth in the Group AAA state tournament for the first time in the school\u2019s young history\u2026 A First-Team All-Tidewater and Second-Team All-Eastern Region honoree as he averaged 17.2 points, 8.3 rebounds and three steals a game in 2007-08\u2026 Established school career records for three-point field goals (158), free throws made (384), and points scored (1,701)\u2026 Has two older brothers, George (25) and Jeremy (22), and a younger sister, Jasmine (16)\u2026 Lists his favorite book as The Giver and his favorite movie as Coach Carter\u2026 Son of Monica and George Wertz\u2026 Born Nov. 16, 1989.\nYear GP/GS Min. FG/A Pct. 3-pt. FG/A Pct. FT/A Pct. Reb. Avg. PF/FO A TO Blk. Stl. Pts. Avg.\n2010-11 30/6 536 49/125 .392 23/61 .377 17/30 .567 27-46-73 2.4 60/0 19 20 4 7 138 4.6\n2011-12 29/3 354 29/85 .341 9/24 .375 20/27 .741 16-32-48 1.7 34/1 12 17 1 6 87 3.0\nTotals 59/9 890 78/210 .371 32/85 .376 37/57 .649 43-78-121 2.1 94/1 31 37 5 13 225 3.8", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 7459, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 245.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uncommonbody.blogspot.com/2006/09/top-5-meal-replacement-products.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:36Z", "digest": "sha1:DT73U2OK2ROIKTR2P6I2MI5XCUZ4MS2U", "length": 5291, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "uncommonbody.blogspot.com", "title": "Uncommon Body: Top 5 Meal Replacement Products", "raw_content": "Meal Replacements Products (MRPs) are either pre-packaged powdered drink mixes that you mix with water, milk, or juice and then drink; or bars that you eat. Both are consumed in the place of a whole-food meal. Generally MRPs are high in protein, low in fat, have a low to moderate amounts of carbohydrates, and contain a wide array of vitamins and minerals.\nThe majority of MRPs use whey protein, calcium caseinate or micellar casein, soy protein and Egg albumin as the protein source. Carbohydrates are typically derived from maltodextrin, oat fiber, brown rice, or wheat flour. Some also contain flax oil powder as a source of essential fatty acids (EFAs).\nMRPs can also contain other ingredients that are deemed beneficial to bodybuilders. These can include, but are not limited to creatine monohydrate, glutamine peptides, l-glutamine, calcium alpha-ketoglutarate, additional amino acids, lactoferrin, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), and medium chain triglycerides (MCT).\nProhormones are precursors to hormones - and were most typically sold to bodybuilders as a precursor to the natural hormone testosterone. This conversion requires naturally occurring enzymes in the body. Side effects are not uncommon, as prohormones can also convert further into to DHT and estrogen. To date most prohormone products have not been thoroughly studied, and the health effects of prolonged use are unknown. Although initially available over the counter, in 2004 their purchase was made illegal without a prescription in the US, as it now is in almost all countries and sporting bodies.\nCreatine is an organic acid naturally occurring in the body that supplies energy to muscle cells for short burst of energy (such as lifting weights) via creatine phosphate replenishment of ATP. A number of scientific studies have proven that creatine can increase strength, energy, and muscle mass in addition to reducing recovery time. Also, recent studies have shown that creatine improves brain function, improves recognition memory, and reduces mental fatigue. It increases what is known as cell volumization as it draws water into muscle cells, making them larger. This intracellular retention should not be confused with the common myth that creatine causes water retention (or intercellular water retention). Creatine is sold in a variety of forms, including Creatine Monohydrate, Creatine Ethyl Ester and Creatine Malate, among others. Though all types of Creatine are sold for the same purposes, there are subtle differences between them, such as price, water retention and necessary dosage.\nAlthough some have theorized that creatine could be stressful to the kidneys (due to primary renal elimination via creatinine) this has not been proven in a scientific study.\nThermogenic Products\nThermogenics is a broad term for any supplement that the manufacturer claims will cause thermogenesis \u2013 resulting in an increased metabolic rate, increased body temperature and consequently (the promise of) an increased rate in the burning of bodyfat. Until recently almost every product found in this supplement category was comprised of the \"ECA stack\": ephedrine, caffeine and aspirin (however these were normally found in their herbal form of Ma Huang, Kola nut or Guarana, and white willow bark, respectively). However, on February 6, 2004 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the sale of ephedrine and its alkaloids and manufacturers were forced to look for alternatives. Nowadays, the \"ECA\" stack is more likely comprised of bitter orange or Citrus aurantium (containing synephrine) instead of the ephedrine. To date the effectiveness of this new combination is far from conclusive.\nThere are several naturally-occurring plants and vitamins as well as synthetic chemicals that supplement companies claim may produce an increase in testosterone levels. However, the validity of many of these products is questionable due to a lack of valid scientific research showing their effectiveness at this time. The most commonly taken supplements of this type are ZMA and Tribulus terrestris.\nA relatively new drug/supplement marketed as 6-OXO is gaining popularity as a estrogen blocker.\nMany studies show that nitric oxide (NO) acts as a signaling molecule that plays a vital role in causing the relaxation of the smooth muscle tissue that makes up the walls of blood vessels. NO freely crosses the endothelial cell membrane into the smooth muscle tissue of the blood vessels to facilitate vasodilation. Promoters argue this allows more blood and oxygen, and hence more nutrients to be delivered to muscle tissue, while increasing waste removal \u2013 aiding muscle growth. This is called active hyperemia. However, NO supplements do not actually contain nitric oxide but the amino acid arginine and other precursors such as citrulline, Pycnogenol, L-aspartic acid, and ginsenosides \u2013 which the body uses to synthesize NO.\nNO supplements are at this time very controversial. While nitric oxide does give a noticeable increase in \"pump\" (muscle swelling during exercise), there exists little evidence to prove its effectiveness.\nSome NO supplements also include creatine and high levels of mild stimulants like caffeine, the workout intensifying properties of such may be responsible for gains seen with NO products.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 6840, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://usd115.socs.net/vnews/display.v/ART/5991a62b5af11", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:22Z", "digest": "sha1:YK566WGNDAGED3DAHVWMR7JOUXFFMZZE", "length": 76989, "nlines": 458, "source_domain": "usd115.socs.net", "title": "Nemaha Central, USD 115 - NCHS Student Handbook 2018-19", "raw_content": "NCHS LAPTOP POLICY\nNCHS EARLY OUT POLICY UPDATED 2018\nNCHS GET THE WORK DONE POLICY UPDATED 2018\nEarly Out Mondays at NCHS\nHome > breadcrumbs: NCHS > breadcrumbs: Parent Resources >\nNCHS Student Handbook 2018-19\nSENECA, KANSAS 66538-1798\nBen Scism, , Principal Darrel Kohlman, Superintendent\nJoyce Bruna, Counselor Colette Hermesch, Board Clerk\nDeb Kramer, Student Advocate Janet Ronnebaum, Bd. Tres. Dist. Office Secretary\nWarren Seitz, Activities Director Carol Hunninghake, Human Resources\nHeath Lutz, Bookkeeper/Admin. Asst. Brett Brack \u2013 Tech Director\nKaren Holthaus, Admin Asst.\nJoan Buessing FACS Mark Mayberry Science\nKatelyn Swart English/Yearbook Sharon Meyer Mathematics\nCathy Enneking English/ French Todd Krause Instr. & Voc. Music\nJoyce Bruna School Counselor Angelia Steiner Lib/Multi-Media\nMaria Cisneros Spanish Schuyler Mayberry Science\nJason Hajek PE/Health Tony Scism Business/Computers\nMaggie Hasenkamp Health Science/Math Warren Seitz Weights/PE\nApril Gee English/World History Roger Stallbaumer Industrial Arts\nSheila Heinen English Bruce Stanley Ind. Tech, Auto\nKelly Williams Social Studies Jon Thomas Mathematics\nEllie Haynie Art Kathe Vore Inter-related Class\nAmy Schmitz Science Paul Wertenberger Industrial Arts\nMarya Haverkamp Vo-Ag\nMary Haug Paraprofessional Sheila Mitchell Head Cook\nSue Rhoades Paraprofessional Gladys Rusche Cook\nSteve Rothers Head of Maintenance Joyce Rusche Cook\nStanley Weigend Custodian Gilbert Schmitz Custodian\nBOARD OF EDUCATION U. S. D. #115\nDave Clements John Deters Jason Hammes Amy Huerter\nGary Niehues Joe Reitz Owen Zinke\nThe district shall maintain a working and learning environment free from discrimination, insult, intimidation, or harassment due to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or disability.\nAny incident of discrimination in any form shall promptly be reported to a teacher, the principal or other appropriate school official for investigation and corrective action by the compliance officer.\nAny student who engages in discrimination may be reprimanded and counseled to refrain from such conduct. Any student who continues to engage in discriminatory conduct shall be disciplined. Any student who engages in discriminatory behavior may be disciplined in a manner deemed appropriate by the administration, up to and including suspension or expulsion from school. (For additional information see board policy GAAB)\nNemaha Central Schools, USD #115, 318 Main, Seneca, Kansas 66538 does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or handicap in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in its programs and activities. If you have any questions regarding the above, please contact: Darrel Kohlman, Superintendent, 318 Main, Seneca, Kansas 66538 (Title IX Coordinator) & Section 504 Coordinator. (For additional information see board policy JCE)\nFour years of full attendance are required of a student to graduate from Nemaha Central High School. Early graduation is not allowed without board of education approval. These requirements apply to the graduates of the class of 2019 and 2020.\n28 CREDITS REQUIRED FOR ALL 2019 and 2020 Graduates\n3 Credits of Social Studies, including American History,\nAmerican Government, and World History\n3 Credits of Mathematics including algebraic and geometric concepts\n3 Credits of Science, including Biology I,earth space concepts, and one additional\n1 Credit Senior Workshop (new for 2019)\n1 Credit of Health/Physical Education\n\u00bd Credit of Oral Communications\n\u00bd Credit of Consumer and Personal Finance\n1 Fine Arts credit\n11 Electives\nTo be in compliance with the K. S. A. 1988 72-1117, the following is U. S. D. #115 policies:\n1. That a minimum of nine consecutive weeks of Kansas History and Government be offered at the seventh grade level.\n2. That if the student does not pass the course (s)he must then either: a) repeat the course, or b) pass (65%) a comprehensive exam developed by the teacher and approved and administered by the principal.\n3. That if a student transfers into the district after the course has been offered, (s)he is exempt from the requirement.\nAdmission Requirements to the six Kansas Regents\u2019 Universities:\nComplete the Qualified Admissions or Kansas Scholars curriculum with at least a 2.0 grade point average (GPA) in the curriculum. And achieve one of the following:\n21 ACT or 980 SAT or graduate in the top third of the class, and 2.0 GPA or higher on college credit taken in high school.\nDUAL/SCHOOL/COLLEGE/CTE CREDITS\nStudents may earn high school and college credit at the same time by enrolling in dual credit courses. Students must meet eligibility requirements to enroll and must pay fees to the providing institution. Any credits earned outside NCHS and applying to an NCHS diploma are subject to administrative approval. The high school counselor will help with the enrollment process. See the counselor or principal for more information. (JQ)\nDUAL/SCHOOL/COLLEGE/CTE CREDITS GRADE REPORTING\nAll courses taken outside of the NCHS curriculum that have been pre-approved and have potential to earn credits applicable toward NCHS graduation requirements, shall be entered with a PASS/FAIL grade.\nGRADES AND CREDIT\nGrading will be calculated regularly and are available to parents upon request or via the internet. Grade cards will be issued each semester. A notification of students receiving a grade of D or below will be sent to the parents approximately every four to five weeks. All courses are graded with a letter grade with the following exceptions of pass or fail for aide, Work Experience, Driver\u2019s Education, and on-the-job training.\n94 - 100 A 92 - 93 A- 90 - 91 B+\n85 - 89 B 83 - 84 B- 81 - 82 C+\n76 - 80 C 74 - 75 C- 72-73 D+\n67 - 71 D 65 - 66 D- 64 F\nCredit is only given if a student received a passing grade in a class. One-half credit is earned for passing one class for one semester. Only semester grades are entered upon a transcript.\nThe sum of all grade points will be divided by the number of grades received.\nThe result is the grade point average.\nA = 4.0 A- = 3.67 B+ = 3.33\nB = 3.0 B- = 2.67 C+ = 2.33\nC = 2.0 C- = 1.67 D+ = 1.33\nD = 1.0 D- = .67 F = 0\nNo grades of incomplete will be given unless approved by the principal or guidance counselor. Unusual circumstances must be apparent in situations involving incomplete grades. If special circumstances apply, a study plan will be agreed upon by the student, student\u2019s parents, and teacher.\nStudents will be classified according to the number of years of full-time high school attendance completed. Under normal conditions, the minimum number of credits passed per year of full-time attendance is listed below.\nFreshman - - - 0 to 5 unit Sophomore - - - 5 to 11 units\nJunior - - - 11 to 17 units Senior - - - 17 units and over\nThe number of credits earned each year will affect grade classification and possibly affect participation in class activities.\nIf a student for some unforeseen circumstance, would want to or need to attend school on a part time basis, the administration and board of education would have to approve such status. If this type of situation would occur, the administration and board of education would deal with it on an individual basis.\nA. Seniors who are not eligible for graduation must remain in school attendance until a time determined by the administration. Students who do not fulfill the above requirements will be treated as if they had withdrawn from school.\nB. Seniors who do not graduate will not have their photographs included in the class composite that is hung in the school. The principal and superintendent may grant exceptions due to catastrophic circumstances. If, at a later date, a student earns the credits to graduate, his/her photograph will be included upon his/her request with the school year during which the requirements were met for graduation.\nC. Only students who have fulfilled all graduation requirements, who have earned the needed credits, and who have taken care of other obligations, will be allowed to participate in commencement.\nD. Seniors who do not earn enough credits to graduate with their normal class will be allowed, at the discretion of the principal, to attend school during a fifth year to earn the credits necessary for graduation. This attendance may be as a part-time student.\nE. Other special arrangements may be made between principal and student to earn a diploma. These arrangements must conform to local and state regulations.\nF. Besides the honor of being selected for National Honor Society, graduating NHS members receive a special medallion to wear at commencement and are recognized on the program.\nG. Any graduating senior, whether or not (s)he is in National Honor Society, who has a cumulative four-year grade point average of 3.60 or above, receives an honor cord.\nH. Transfer students will be evaluated by the principal and counselor as to the total credits needed to meet graduation requirements.\nI. Appropriate dress for the graduate includes, but is not limited to, dress shoes and informal but not casual clothing. Dress pants, blouse or shirt and tie, or a dress or skirt and blouse are appropriate. Shorts, jeans, and athletic apparel are not appropriate.\nJ. An honor cord to wear will be provided for students who qualify in F and G.\nA foreign exchange student who is recognized as a senior, but is unable to qualify for a diploma, may participate in Commencement Exercises under the following conditions:\n1. Will wear a cap /gown and proceed in alphabetical order.\n2. Foreign exchange students will not be issued a diploma. Student will receive a certificate of recognition. Certificate will not be in a diploma cover, and will be distinctly different from the diploma.\n3. The program will identify the student as a foreign exchange student.\n4. Tassel, if worn, will not be turned to indicate the exchange student has graduated.\nHONOR ROLL AND CLASS RANK\nThe grade point average will be on the 4.0 point system.\nA student whose grade point average is 4.0 will be listed on the Superior Honor Roll. A student whose grade point average is 3.60 or above will be listed on the Principal\u2019s Honor Roll. A student whose grade point average is 3.25 or above, but less than 3.60, will be listed on the Thunder Honor Roll.\nA \u201cD\u201d or an \u201cF\u201d grade will eliminate a student from consideration. An \u201cincomplete\u201d grade will disqualify a student from the honor roll until the work is finished.\nRECOGNITION OF HONOR STUDENTS AT GRADUATION\nAny graduating senior, whether or not he/she is in National Honor Society, who has a cumulative four-year grade point average of 3.60 or above will be recognized at commencement exercises and receives an honor cord to worn during the ceremony. Students must be attendance the full year to be recognized as a Nemaha Central High School Honor student.\nACHIEVEMENT LETTER\nA student may earn an achievement letter at Nemaha Central High School by making the Principal\u2019s or Superior Honor Roll for a semester of the school year. Those students earning a letter for the first time will be awarded an \u201dNC\u201d letter and a gold bar. Each additional time a student makes the honor roll for a semester, a gold bar will be issued.\nNC ACHIEVEMENT AWARD\nEach spring approximately 5% of the total enrollment in the ten departments (industrial technology, language arts, FACS, business, math, fine arts, computers, physical education, social studies, and science) will receive the NC Achievement Award. This award is designed to recognize those students who demonstrate outstanding achievement in one subject, but who may not excel in all areas.\nStudents are nominated and selected by teachers based upon grades, attitude, and potential.\nTo honor the students, a program will be held. The students will receive specially designed certificates.\nHUMAN SEXUALITY AND AIDS PROGRAM\nA. An instructional program shall be provided for all students in the areas of human sexuality, AIDS, and sexually transmitted diseases. The content shall be appropriate for the physical, social, and emotional developmental level of the various groups. Topics shall include at a minimum self-esteem, human sexuality, decision-making, physical growth and development, communication skills, sexual responsibility, and personal relationships.\nB. Parents shall have the option for their child(ren) to receive alternative instruction for any specified portion of the instruction without the student receiving a penalty. Forms to be completed by the parents are provided at the high school office.\nC. The program instruction shall be in writing and available for parent review upon request.\nA. Parents are invited to review the human sexuality and AIDS curriculum at the opening of each school year. After discussing their concerns, if any, with the building administrator, they can specify in writing the portions for which they want their child(ren) to receive alternative instruction. The building administrator is responsible for informing the appropriate teacher as to which students are to be given alternative instruction for specific topics.\nB. At Nemaha Central High School the basic core of the human sexuality and AIDS program will be a part of the ninth grade health course. All students will be required to complete a unit of sexuality and AIDS education unless the student\u2019s parent(s) have followed the above procedure. The principal will determine what qualifies as alternative instruction.\nC. Students enrolled in elective courses, during which human sexuality and AIDS are discussed, are expected to complete all related assignments. Alternative instruction will not be provided for elective courses.\nHigh school seniors will be permitted to enroll in a work-experience program. The high school principal and the counselor will approve all work experience assignments. It should be noted that some work experience assignments may be turned down.\nIn order to receive school credit for work experience hours, students will be required to work during the time they are released from school. These work hours must be during the school time missed and during the school hours of 8:00 a.m. to 3:05 p.m. Students will not be allowed to work for or be directly supervised by their parents.\nStudents enrolled in work experience will receive academic credit - 1/2 credit for each block of work experience enrolled in each semester - and will be graded on a pass-fail basis. Students and parents will be given a work-experience booklet that lists all requirements and guidelines when they enter the program.\nThe counselor is primarily responsible to the students to assist whomever possible in the development, growth, stability, and understanding on the part of individual students. The counselor helps students in the planning needed to reach satisfactory education and vocational goals. Personal problems, as well as factors relating directly to school life, are major functions of the student-to-counselor relationship.\nCHANGE OF CLASS SCHEDULE\nAdjusting class schedules by a student\u2019s choice will be permitted the first 4 days of the first semester. Semester two (2) changes need to be made the last 4 days of first (1) semester. Any change of class schedule must be approved by the parents or guardian and by the counselor.\nFIRST TIME ENROLLMENT\nStudents enrolling in USD #115 for the first time must present written evidence of identity. Also new students enrolling in the district for the first time are required to have a health physical.\nThe enrollment fee is $66.00 for full time students per year. This fee provides for all textbooks, workbooks and a school owned laptop that are used by the student. Paper, pencils, other materials, etc. are not covered by this fee and must be provided by the student.\nThe renter will pay damage to a book. If the purchase of another textbook is required as the result of the damage; the renter will be required to pay the full price of the replacement. If repair is needed, the renter will be charged the actual cost of the repair. If a book is lost or misplaced and a replacement book is needed, the renter will be charged the cost of replacement. If a book is to be rebound, the renter will be charged on the following scale.\nBook 1 year old or less --- full cost Book 4 years old -------- 25%\nBook 2 years old -------- 75% Book 5 years old -------- 0%\nTEXTBOOK RENTAL FEES FOR INCOMING STUDENTS\nSTUDENTS NOT ATTENDING A FULL YEAR -\nINCOMING STUDENTS - RENTAL FEE\n1st 9 Weeks 100% of full price 3rd 9 Weeks 50% of full price\n2nd 9 Weeks 75% of full price 4th 9 Weeks 25% of full price\nSTUDENTS LEAVING DISTRICT - REFUND ON RENTAL FEE\n1st 9 Weeks 75% of full price 3rd 9 Weeks 25% of full price\n2nd 9 Weeks 50% of full price 4th 9 Weeks -0-\nLUNCH PERIOD AND FEES\nBREAKFAST $2.00 LUNCH $2.95 EXTRA MILK .35 SCHOOL EMPLOYEES $3.70\nFree or reduced price lunches are available to students of families meeting the federal income guidelines. These guidelines are available in the office.\nA lunch count will be taken first hour. Students may not charge lunches. Students will not be allowed to purchase a lunch if they are $10.00 or more in the hole.\nStudents may bring a sack lunch from home and leave it in their lockers or we can provide a refrigerated area to store it. Nemaha Central does not permit open lunch.\nAll lunches and food items are to be eaten at the lunchroom tables. Unless an educational purpose is being served (such as FACS) or special permission has been received from the office, food and drink (except Thunder water bottles) may not be consumed during regular classes.\nStudents should not be in the halls or classrooms during lunch. They need to stay in the lunchroom, on the stage, or outside to the north of the building in the picnic table area. Students must stay out of the parking lot.\nSCHOOL OWNED BAND INSTRUMENTS\nStudents will be charged a rental fee of $55.00 to cover normal wear and tear and yearly upkeep and inspection by a professional repairman. Percussion students will pay $22.00 each year they are in band. The student agrees to perform regular maintenance, to practice safe procedures when handling any school instrument, to accept responsibility for negligence, and to pay for any repairs needed.\nSTUDENT PROJECT FEES\nStudents will be charged for all materials that are used in individual projects for art, Family and Consumer Science, woodworking, and metals. Ten percent (10%) of the total cost of the student project will be added to the bill of materials. Bills or materials are to be paid in the office once the project is completed or end of the grading period.\nWork & Family $16.00 Nutrition & Wellness $33.00\nCareer & Life Planning $11.00 Woods Classes $22.00\nProduction Welding I & II $33.00 General Service I $16.00\nArt/Graphic Design $38.00 General Service II & III $22.00\nChemistry and Physics $16.00 Intro to Industrial Tech. $11.00\nStudents who have not taken care of fees, bills, or other obligations as set down by the administration will be considered a student not in good standing and could be held out of school activities until such obligations are taken care of properly. Students who do not take care of obligations by the end of the senior year will not be allowed to participate in the senior trip nor commencement exercises.\nSchool will begin at 8:00 a.m. and will be dismissed at 3:05 p.m. Students may use the library beginning at 7:45 a.m. If students do not desire to use the library, they will be required to stay in the commons area until the first bell, which will ring at 7:50 a.m. Class will start at 8:00 a.m. All students will be required to be in their rooms and in their chairs when the 8:00 a.m. bell rings.\nThe office will be open at 7:00 a.m. for students to conduct school business. Students are requested to visit the office prior to the start of school, at break, at lunchtime, and after school to take care of such business as lunch account and the payment of fees.\nDRIVER\u2019S EDUCATION POLICY\nStudents wishing to enroll in summer driver\u2019s education must either legally reside in the USD #115 District or be approved to attend Nemaha Central High School as an out-of-district student. In addition, students must have completed the 8th grade or be 14 years of age prior to the start of the class.\nAn enrollment fee ($145 in 2018) is charged for driver\u2019s education. Students will still receive the \u00bc credit but the credit will show up as pass/fail and will not impact cumulative GPA. The \u00bc credit will be included in total credits earned.\nThe library will be open from 7:45 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. each day of the school week. All items taken from the library by students and teachers must be checked out. Replacement prices and processing costs will be charged for lost materials. The replacement cost for magazine issues will be $5.00. The librarian will address other rules concerning library usage.\nThe following attendance rules were written in accordance with state law and board policy:\nTARDY --- A student who arrives to class after the tardy bell has rung.\nABSENCE -- A student who is late to class by 20 minutes or more will be considered absent from class. Absences will be on a per class basis.\nTRUANT --- A student is truant if:\n1. (S)He is subject to the compulsory attendance law but is not enrolled in a public or non-public school.\n2. (S)He is subject to the compulsory attendance law and enrolled in school but is inexcusably absent for three consecutive days, five or more days in any semester, or seven or more school days in any school year.\nThe approval of the administration and a signed statement or a phone call by a parent or guardian requesting absence of a student from classes will constitute a valid excuse for such absences from school up to a maximum of five (5) absences per class per semester.\nWhen a student reaches four days of excused absences, a meeting will be held with the principal and the student and an attendance letter will be sent home to the parents/guardians. Once a student has more than five absences for a class, he/she will be required to make up 30 minutes per additional absence. If a doctor's note has been turned into the office, then the absences that are covered by the note will not count against the students\u2019 five absences. For example, if you were absent six times from history class you would have to make up 30 minutes. Unique circumstances will be taken into consideration when applying this policy.\nAbsences will be excused for: 1) illness and health care; 2) death in the family or close friends; 3) working for parents approved in advance by the principal; 4) family trips approved in advance by the principal; 5) educational activities approved in advance by the principal; 6) college/career days arranged by the counselor; 7) absences approved in advance by the principal or his designated representative.\nA telephone call, e-mail, or written note from a parent or guardian stating the reason for the absence will be accepted if received between the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. on the day of the absence, and/or not later than 8:00 a.m. of the day following the absence. If a phone call or note is not received in the specified time period, the absence will be considered unexcused.\nIf the office has not received notification by 9:30 a.m. on the day of the absence, school officials may call to determine the reason for the absence. Absences will not be excused for shopping trips, non-emergency babysitting, haircut or hair styling appointments, senior portraits or, in general, absences for personal business which could be taken care of outside the school day. Oversleeping unrelated to illness or family crisis will not be excused.\nWorking for parents should only be used in emergency or necessary situations. A student\u2019s primary responsibility is to be in school. Working for other than family is not excused unless special arrangements are made with the principal. Working for parents should follow the pre-excused procedure unless it is an emergency.\nWhen a student knows in advance that (s)he will miss school, the student should talk with his/her teachers in advance of the absence. This provision applies to students missing school for school activities, field trips, athletic contests, parent work, family trips, pre-planned appointments, etc. Failure to follow this procedure may result in an unexcused absence.\nThe office will not be responsible for assignments.\nTwo days of make-up time will be allowed for the first day of absence. One additional day of make-up time will be allowed for each additional day of absence up to a point. Students will be required to complete all work assigned during their absence. Students are expected to inquire about work missed during their absence, regardless of the reason for the absence. A student who misses on a purple day is expected to speak with teachers and get all assignments prior to returning to that purple day class.\nThis preceding regulation does not apply to absences due to school activities. Students may be required to complete work in advance of the school-related absence or may be required to turn in missed assignments on the first day back in school.\nTeachers have the right to require students to make up schoolwork missed during the absence (excused or unexcused) before and after school. The makeup time will be mutually agreeable to both teacher and student and should not place undue hardship on either person. Makeup time should not be viewed as punishment and is not associated with \u201cdetention\u201d period.\nSTUDENT ACTIVITY PARTICIPATION\nStudents must be enrolled in at least four classes at Nemaha Central High School in order to participate in extracurricular activities. Additionally, KSHSAA student eligibility guidelines must be met. (Students must also be enrolled in and attending a minimum of five new subjects, those not previously passed, of unit weight, or its equivalency, during the present semester.)\nStudents must be in attendance on the day of the event at least four clock hours to participate in or attend after-school activities such as athletic events and practices, music concerts, dramatic performances, concessions, dances, etc. The principal may waive this rule for unusual circumstances such as family crisis, specialized medical treatment, school sponsored trips, etc. College visitations arranged by the school counselor are considered excused from this regulation. The principal and/or the sponsor may limit or deny participation in an activity if the participant is in academic jeopardy, failing a class, or there are attendance concerns.\nSeniors will be allowed to make two visitations to colleges, universities, vocational and trade schools, to explore post-high school educational opportunities. To be considered an excused absence, the student: 1) must arrange the visitations through the school counselor by a minimum of two days in advance; 2) must provide the school counselor with written parental\npermission in advance of the visitation; 3) must return with a signed verification from a college official. All college visitations should be completed by April 20th of the school year. If a special circumstance would arise, the principal would have discretion to allow the visit.\nCollege visitations do not qualify for the two-day makeup provision. Students will be expected to be prepared with assignments upon their return to school.\nThe principal must personally approve of visitations over the limit of two or visits with unusual circumstances.\nADMIT SLIPS\nAdmits slips are to be picked up in the office prior to the scheduled absence or the day the student returns to school. It is the responsibility of the student to present the admit slip to the teacher at the start of each hour. Students are expected to inquire about work missed during their absence, regardless of the reason for the absence.\nUnexcused absences will be handled in the following ways. The actual step depends upon the individual circumstances. In all cases, the parents will be notified in writing and be offered the opportunity to confer with the principal. During the entire school year the following will be in effect:\n1. At the discretion of the teacher, unexcused absences could result in no credit for the time missed. This means that the student is given a zero on all work assigned, completed, and graded during the absence.\n2. It may be required that time missed be made up before or after school under the direct supervision of the principal. Time will be made up minute for minute. In general, students late to school by twenty minutes or more for \u201cunexcused\u201d reasons will makeup the time. This includes oversleeping, running personal errands, etc.\n3. Two unexcused absences or more may lead to in-school suspension, in addition to making up the time.\nPromptness to class is extremely important. To achieve maximum learning, classes must start on time.\nIf a student is detained by a teacher and is late to class, (s)he should have a pass signed by the detaining teacher. If a student needs to go the restroom, (s)he is to report to class first and obtain teacher permission. See Early Out for more information about consequences for tardies.\nRELEASE OF STUDENT DURING THE SCHOOL DAY\nThe building principal will not release a student during the school day except to a student\u2019s lawful custodian as defined by Kansas law or upon written or verbal request of a lawful custodian.\nStudents will not be permitted to leave the school premises any time during the normal day without parental permission except for school-sponsored activities. Before leaving the building, the office must receive in advance either a note or phone call from the student\u2019s lawful custodian. If it is necessary for a student to leave during the school hours, a permit must first be secured from the school office and the student must check out in the office before leaving the building. He/she must then check in the office when returning to school. Failure to do so will result in an unexcused absence for the remainder of the day.\nStudents, as a general rule, will not be allowed to leave school premises for school work, books, projects, etc. which were left at home.\nSTUDENT CODE OF BEHAVIOR\nAny district employee who knows or has reason to believe any of the following has occurred at school, on school property or at a school-sponsored activity shall immediately report this information to local law enforcement: an act which constitutes the commission of a felony or a misdemeanor; or an act which involves the possession, use or disposal of explosives, firearms or other weapons as defined in current law. (For additional information see board policy EBC)\nPLAGIARISM - CHEATING\nPlagiarism means presenting work done (in whole or in part) by someone else as if it were one's own. Plagiarism is deliberate dishonesty and includes, but is not limited to, the following forms:\n1. Copying from another student, or making information available to other students knowing that this is to be submitted as the borrower's own work.\n2. Use of unauthorized material.\n3. Using direct quotations or large sections of paraphrased material in a report without acknowledgment.\nInstructors should inform students what constitutes acceptable workmanship, proper form of citation and use of sources. Disciplinary consequences involving cheating or plagiarism will be determined by the teacher and administration. Parents will be contacted in all situations.\nBullying is prohibited in USD 115. Bullying means: Any intentional gesture or any intentional written, verbal, electronic or physical act or threat that is sufficiently severe, persistent or pervasive that it creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment for a student or staff member that a reasonable person, under the circumstances, knows or should know will have the effect of:\nHarming a student or staff member, whether physically or mentally;\nDamaging a student\u2019s or staff member\u2019s property:\nPlacing a student or staff member in reasonable fear of harm; or\nPlacing a student or staff member in reasonable fear of damage to the student\u2019s or staff member\u2019s property.\nBullying also includes cyberbullying. \"Cyberbullying\" means bullying by use of any electronic communication device through means including, but not limited to, e-mail, instant messaging, text messages, blogs, mobile phones, pagers, online games and websites.\nAdditionally, bullying means any form of intimidation or harassment prohibited by the board of education of the school district in policies concerning bullying adopted pursuant to K.S.A. 72-8256 or subsection (e) of K.S.A. 72-8205, and amendments thereto. USD 115 will not tolerate these actions by students, staff, or parents.\nAny act of bullying by a student, staff member, or parent is prohibited on or while using school property, in a school vehicle, or at school-sponsored functions. This policy applies to students who directly engage in an act of bullying, to students who, by their behavior, support another student\u2019s act of bullying, and to all staff members who engage in similar behaviors.\nNo teacher, administrator, or school district employee shall engage in, permit, or tolerate bullying.\nRetaliation against a victim, good faith reporter, or a witness to bullying is prohibited.\nA person who engages in an act of bullying, reprisal, retaliation, or false reporting of bullying, shall be subject to discipline in accordance with school district policy and procedures. The school district may take into account the following factors: the ages of the parties involved; the developmental and maturity levels, special education needs of the parties involved, and the severity of the behavior.\nDiscipline guidelines for student and staff bullying are found in the appropriate handbooks. Offenses over time may result in discipline up to and including suspension and/or expulsion from school for students or suspension or termination from employment for staff. Parents participating in prohibited bullying conduct aimed at district students and/or staff members may jeopardize their access to district facilities; district property; school sponsored activities, programs, and events; and/or district students and/or staff members through the district\u2019s communication systems.As appropriate, reports to local law enforcement will be filed to report criminal bullying behaviors.\nHAZING - SEXUAL HARASSMENT\nForcing underclassmen or peers to act against their wills is a serious offense. This manner of conduct will not be tolerated.\nSexual harassment will not be tolerated in the school district. Sexual harassment of employees or students of the district by board members, administrators, certified and support personnel, students, vendors, and any others having business or other contact with the school district is strictly prohibited.\nFighting is considered to be a type of conduct which substantially disrupts, impedes or interferes with the operation of Nemaha Central High School and impinges upon or invades the rights of others. Students caught in violation of this policy will be subject to suspension and/or expulsion.\nWEAPONS OR FIREARMS\nWeapon or firearm means any object, material or substance which in the manner it is used, designed to be used, or intended to be used, is capable of producing death or bodily injury.\nExamples of weapons include, but are not limited to:\nfirearms--loaded or unloaded-including BB guns and pellet guns;\nknives having a blade of three and one-half inches or more;\nany knife which can be opened by means of a switch, button or spring mechanism or which is displayed in any manner which tends to threaten, intimidate, frighten or harass another person, brass knuckles or other objects placed on the fist; nunchucks or any other martial arts weapon; slingshots; bludgeons, including any instrument intended to strike another person.\nWeapon also means any object which is generally used for nonviolent or non-dangerous purposes, but which can be considered a weapon under this policy as a result of its intended or threatened use.\nExamples of weapons include, but are not limited to: rocks, bottles or cans, chains, shoes, belts, belt buckles, aluminum or wooden ball bats, ropes, mace or similar noxious\nchemical substances used in a threatening or improper manner.\nFacsimile or replica of a deadly weapon is considered under this policy if used in a threatening, intimidating, violent or improper manner.\nExamples of facsimile or replica weapons include, but are not limited to:\nwater pistols, cap guns, any \u201clook-alike\u201d weapon\nTHIS POLICY IS MANDATED BY STATE AND FEDERAL LAW.\nA student may be expelled for 186 school days.\nKansas School Safety Hotline - There is a statewide hotline available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to report impeding school violence to the Kansas Highway Patrol. Information received on this hotline will immediately be shared with local law enforcement and school officials. This is to report any information that might threaten the safety of school or students. Hotline # 1-877-626-8203\nDeliberate defacing or damaging of school property cannot be condoned. Students guilty of violating this regulation will be held responsible for payment of such damages and may be subject to disciplinary action.\nFoul language and/or swearing have no place in or around an educational institution or during a school sponsored activity. The teacher or sponsor in charge of the activity will discipline students in violation of this policy. Continued usage of foul language and/or swearing will result in suspension.\nGambling in any form is prohibited in or around an educational institution\nThe following dress code will be followed when at school or attending school-related activities:\nState law states that shoes are to be worn at all times in public buildings. Any clothing that calls attention to, or is suggestive of drugs, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, sex, profanity, or undesirable slogans or pictures will not be allowed. Specifically \u201cspaghetti strap\u201d shirts, shirts that expose the midriff area, shirts that are low-cut under the arms, front, or back, and short shorts will not be permitted. Underwear must not be visible and pants and shorts must be worn at the waist level (no sagging). Students may not wear chains or similar items from their clothing. Chains that are worn as jewelry must be safe, appropriate and non disruptive to the school/classroom. Any adornment that scratches or mars furniture is not allowed. Athletic shorts that come to mid thigh or longer are permissible. This policy will be enforced at all school functions at school or away. Hats and sunglasses will not be worn inside the building at any time during the school day. Students will be sent home to change into appropriate attire if other cannot be found at school. The principal must approve the wearing of special clothing for special events.\nStudents are to use the north exit from the parking lot or wait until the school buses have departed before attempting to use the south exit. The middle lane is for entrance only.\nA student who drives to school will remain out of the vehicle and parking lot until he/she leaves to go home at the end of the school day. Students must have permission from the office to have access to their vehicles during the school day.\nThe speed limit in the parking area is 15 miles per hour. Any student who violates the parking rules may be subject to a fine, serving time or may not be allowed to park on school property for a period of time.\nUse and/or possession of any tobacco product or nicotine delivery device by students is prohibited in any district facility; in school vehicles; at school-sponsored, activities, programs, or events; and on school owned or operated property. Students observed in violation of this policy by a school district employee will be subject to disciplinary action and/or suspension.Administrators may report students who are in violation of this policy to law enforcement, as appropriate.\nFor the purposes of this policy, \u201cnicotine delivery device\u201d means any device that can be used to deliver nicotine to the person inhaling from the device. Such definition shall include, but may not be limited to, any electronic cigarette, cigar, cigarillo, pipe, or personal vaporizer.\nIn consideration for the health of students, staff, and public, there will be no usage of any tobacco products (smokeless or smoking) permitted in any of the district buildings. Smoking by adult, non-students will be allowed on the school grounds outside the building as people desire at such time as during activities and programs.\nBREATHALYZER POLICY BEFORE ADMITTANCE TO DANCE OR OTHER SCHOOL ACTIVITY\nAll students and adults in attendance at a dance or school activity will be required to take a breathalyzer test before they enter. If it is a school activity, the breathalyzer tests will be given at the determination of the administration supervising the activity.\nStudents will enter at one entrance point for the dance or activity so the officers can administer the test.\nIf the breathalyzer registers that a student has been drinking alcohol, the student will be escorted to the school office with an adult witness. The student will take another breathalyzer test. If the student\u2019s test comes up positive again, the student will be questioned and their parents will be called.\nALCOHOL AND/OR CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES\nThe use or consumption and/or possession of any alcoholic beverage or controlled substance by students is prohibited in any attendance center, on school grounds or at any school sponsored activity. Upon direct observation or reasonable suspicion (such as exhibited behavior) by a law enforcement officer, faculty member, or school administrator that a student has consumed an alcoholic beverage or a controlled substance, district personnel shall refuse the student entrance to, or participation in, any school sponsored activity. If a source other than those listed above relates information about a student\u2019s involvement with a controlled substance, the validity of the allegation will be screened. If the information is substantial and reliable, a hearing will be held with the school administrator and action taken as follows:\nFIRST VIOLATION:\nAny student determined to be using, or in possession of, controlled substances as mentioned above, will be suspended or expelled in accordance with provisions of board policy and state law. It will also be strongly recommended that the student receive an evaluation and any necessary counseling from a professional chemical dependence counselor.\nSECOND VIOLATION:\nIn addition to suspension or expulsion, the student will not be allowed to participate in extracurricular events or activities, run for school office, or attend school games and activities for the remainder of the school year. However, if the student enrolls and maintains good standing in a chemical abuse program, (s)he will regain all student privileges after three weeks, beginning with enrollment in the program.\nTHIRD VIOLATION:\nAfter suspension or expulsion, the student may be allowed to return to school, at the discretion of the building administrator, after )1 a meeting with the student, parents, and school administrator, and 2) enrollment and maintenance of good standing in a substance abuse program. If the student does return to school, he/she will not be allowed to hold organizational office, participate, or attend any extracurricular activities or events.\nPOSSESSION AND LAW:\nAny student observed in possession of alcoholic beverage or controlled substance on school grounds will be automatically referred to legal authorities in addition to school action.\nINTERSCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES\nALCOHOL/TOBACCO POLICY (Student Activity Code)\nParticipation in athletics and extracurricular activities is a privilege. It is important that all students and parents are aware of the responsibilities, rules and regulations which are a part of the athletics and activities. Competitive, KSHSAA sponsored team activities will be covered under this policy. Cross Country, Volleyball, Football, Cheerleading, Dance Team, Scholar\u2019s Bowl, Basketball, Forensics, Track, Baseball, Softball, and Golf are included in this policy.\nNemaha Central High School recognizes the use and/or possession of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products (including vaping, e-cigarette, etc\u2026), and other controlled substances as a significant adolescent health problem, resulting in negative effects on the behavior, learning, and total development of the individual.\nThe close contact that the teachers, coaches and administrators of Nemaha Central have with students provides the staff with a unique opportunity to observe, confront, and assist students with substance abuse problems. Nemaha Central High School therefore, strongly supports the use of education, awareness, training and positive action in dealing with the substance abuse problems of any student.\nSTATEMENT OF THE NEMAHA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL\nALCOHOL-TOBACCO/SUBSTANCE ABUSE POLICY\nIn order for any student of Nemaha Central High School to be involved in any athletic program, or extracurricular activity, (s)he must abide by the following regulations:\nDuring the season of practice and competitive play, or while participating in any extracurricular activity listed above, the student shall not 1) use or possess a beverage containing alcohol or 2) use or possess any type of tobacco product (including e-cgarettes, and vaping)t or 3)use or consume, have in possession, buy, sell or give away any controlled substance, nor be in possession of any drug paraphernalia of any kind. It is NOT a violation for a student to be in possession of a legally defined drug specifically prescribed for the student's own use by his or her doctor.\nIf any student violates the above policy 1) while on school grounds, 2) at a school activity, 3) while representing or traveling with Nemaha Central High School away from the school grounds or activity, 4) or at any time, on or off school premises, during the season of participation, and the violation is substantiated by a law enforcement official, faculty member, or school administrator, the following penalties will apply.\nIf a source other than those previously listed related information about a student's involvement with a controlled substance, the validity of the allegation will be screened. If the information is substantial and reliable, the student will be counseled and action taken as described below.\nViolations accumulate throughout the school year, not per activity season. These rules cover any portion of an activity season as governed by KSHSAA.\nAll students have the right to admit they made a mistake. If a student admits (s)he was in violation of any of the above stated policies without any interaction with law enforcement authorities, NCHS staff, or any other substantiated witness, the student will receive the following consequence.\nSELF ADMISSION:\nThe student will lose eligibility for practice, participation and competition for one calendar week, and at least one interscholastic contest/activity in which (s)he would be ordinarily participating, beginning upon completion of a hearing with the building administrator or his designated representative. It will be recommended that the student receive an evaluation and any necessary counseling from a professional substance abuse counselor. The next offense will be considered a second violation.\nThe student will lose eligibility for practice, participation and competition for two calendar weeks, and at least two interscholastic contest/activity dates in which they would ordinarily be participating, beginning upon completion of a hearing with the building administrator or his designated representative. It will be recommended that the student receive an evaluation and any necessary counseling from a professional substance abuse counselor.\nUpon completion of a hearing with the building administrator or his designated representative, the student will be immediately dismissed from the team, organization, or activity for the remainder of the season. It will be recommended that the student receive an evaluation and any necessary counseling from a professional substance abuse counselor. (No chance for reinstatement on that team for current season)\nFollowing a hearing with the building administrator or his designated representative, the student will be dismissed from all team activities for the remainder of the school year. COUNSELING will also be strongly recommended.\nGeneral Statement of Enforcement \u2013 If there are no competition dates that fall during the two week ineligibility period, or if it is at the end of the season of activity, the student will lose eligibility for the next two scheduled interscholastic contest/activity dates which (s)he are scheduled to participate. All consequences will be administered before the end of the school year which the violation occurs.\nBefore any suspension or dismissal would take effect, the student shall be verbally advised by the administration and the head coach of the alleged violation and the student will have an opportunity to explain or justify the action.\nAdditional rules or regulations from the head coach must be cleared by the principal and athletic director. Any additional rules and regulations must be in writing and on file in the school office. (9/10/07)\nEXCESSIVE EMOTIONAL DISPLAY\nThe school is much like a place of work. While personal affection for each other is not a harmful emotion, excessive displays are not appropriate in school. The steps to correction will be 1) teacher warning/conference, 2) referral to counselor, 3) detention and parents contact by the principal.\nPERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES, PHONES, ETC.\nCell Phones and other personal electronic devices, while in the building, will be allowed before school, during break, during passing periods, during lunch, and after school. They are not permitted for use any other time unless permission is given from a teacher. If a student misuses his cell phone or device, it will be confiscated and consequences for the misuse would be issued depending on the severity of the offense. Students who knowingly violate the user policy would have the following consequences:\nFirst and Second Offense \u2013 Phone/device taken away by teacher, student picks up the phone/device at the end of the day from office.\nThird Offense \u2013 Phone/device taken away by teacher. The student will need to have one of their parents come in and pick it up. Student will be issued a detention.\nFourth Offense \u2013 Phone/device taken away by teacher, student will be issued an ISS.\nDevelopment of good discipline is one of the most important goals of education. Discipline is the development of self-control, character, and proper consideration for other people. Understanding the purposes of discipline in school facilitates the formation of positive attitudes and assists the student in doing his/her part to make themselves a better person and the school a better place. So that Nemaha Central High School can maintain the best learning environment possible, the administration and faculty have expectations of the students.\nThese expectations are:\n1) Appropriate school behavior: Classroom behavior that assures the right of every student to learn and the right of every teacher to teach. Appropriate out-of-classroom behavior demonstrates respect for the personal property rights of other students, faculty, and staff.\n2) Arrival at school and to class on time.\n3) Daily school and class attendance.\n4) Appropriate use and care of the buildings and facilities of the school.\n5) Cooperation with all school staff as they attempt to meet the varied educational needs of all students.\n6) Adherence to acceptable standards of courtesy, decency, and morality, and compliance with provisions of civil law.\nAny student who fails to comply with a reasonable request, demonstrates open defiance, is overly disrespectful, or uses profanity in referring to a staff member, will be suspended from school. More serious acts of disrespect may result in long-term suspension or expulsion.\nDETENTION GUIDELINES\nThe teacher will use the detention for discipline problems in the classroom. The principal will assign detentions for major infractions of school rules, makeup time, and attendance problems.\nStudents will be given one full day to make transportation arrangements. The time limit begins when the student receives his written notification. Detentions will begin at 3:05 and end at 3:35 pm. Students are expected to serve when assigned or further disciplinary action could follow. Failure to serve a detention will result in doubling the number of detentions assigned. Failure to serve the extra detentions will result in suspension from school. Students will be expected to work on school work while serving their detention.\n1. A student who receives a fifth detention in a semester\u2019s grading period will have his/her parents notified in writing of said disciplinary problems. Detentions for tardies do not count toward the total.\n2. A student who receives a sixth or subsequent detention in a semester\u2019s grading period will receive a minimum one-day in-school suspension in conjunction to the detention.\nBoard policy and state law reads, in part, as follows:\nThe board extends its authority to suspend any student as authorized by law to the following certified personnel or committee thereof: superintendent, principal, assistant principal, and/or personnel acting in the capacity of assistant principal, attendance officer, director of activities, and athletic director.\n(a) willful violation of any published regulation for student conduct adopted or approved by the board of education, or\n(b) conduct which substantially disrupts, impedes, or interferes with the operation of any public school, or\n(c) conduct which substantially impinges upon or invades the right of others, or\n(d) conduct which has resulted in conviction of the pupil or student of any offense specified in Chapter 21 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated or any criminal status of the United States, or\n(e) disobedience of an order of a teacher, peace officer, school security officer, or other school authority, when such disobedience can reasonably be anticipated to result in disorder, disruption, or interference with the operation of any public school or substantial and material impingement upon or invasion of the rights of others.\nStudents placed upon suspension shall have the opportunity to receive credit for missed schoolwork as arranged by the principal.\nStarting with the second out-of-school suspension, the student suspended will NOT be permitted to make-up schoolwork missed.\nIN-SCHOOL SUSPENSION RULES\nStudents placed on in-school suspension for correction of behavior will be isolated from their peers. Students must report to the office when they arrive at school. A list of in-school suspension guidelines will be discussed with the student.\nDISCIPLINE AND ACTIVITIES\nStudents receiving detention assignments should understand that such an obligation takes priority over any activity, practice, or game.\nAny student on in-school or out-of school suspension will not be allowed to attend or participate in any school event, activity, or contest during the length of suspension. This rule applies to both home and away activities.\nDISMISSAL DUE TO WEATHER\nIf the superintendent decides the weather to be of such a nature that the safety of students is threatened, (s)he will notify the radio/TV stations, Topeka WIBW (Radio AM 580, FM 97.3; TV Channel 13); Marysville KNDY (Radio AM 1570, FM 103.l); Hiawatha KNZA (Radio 104); and Seneca KMZA (Radio FM 92.l), and have a school closing announcement broadcast. Information will also be sent out via social media and textcaster.\nThe signal for severe weather is an announcement followed by a continuous ringing of the bells. When the severe weather alarm is sounded, students are to pass quickly and quietly to the music room. Students are to remain in a group with their classroom teacher, so each teacher can take roll.\nThe school wishes to be helpful to those who need to telephone students during school hours. Students will not be called from class except in emergencies. Permission must be obtained from the secretary or principal to use the telephone during school hours only when both lines are available.\nThe signal for a fire is a continuous alarm. When the fire alarm is sounded, students are to pass quickly and quietly from the building according to instructions posted in each room. Students are to remain in a group with their classroom teacher, so each teacher can take roll. Do not reenter the building until signaled to do so.\nPROCEDURES FOR FIRE DRILL\nEach classroom teacher/staff member will assist any handicapped student at the time of a fire drill. This aid to the handicapped student will provide help to the exit door and beyond. All exits in the main building are free of barriers. In the north building, all exits to the north, east and west are free of barriers.\nThe meeting place shall be the north end of the parking lot.\nPROCEDURES FOR TORNADO DRILL\nEach classroom teacher/staff member will assist any handicapped student at the time of a tornado drill. This teacher aid to the handicapped student will provide help to the tornado shelter.\nThe responsible person is the building administrator.\nSTUDENT BOOK BAGS/LOCKERS\nNCHS students are allowed to carry their backpacks/bookbags into the building to store in their locker during the day. Backpacks/book bags are not allowed to be used during the course of the school day.\nEach student has been assigned a locker. These lockers are to be kept relatively clean and neat. Stickers, decals, or other material are not allowed on the outside of the locker. Keep your combination confidential. The student is responsible for loss occurring when lockers are \u201cset\u201d for opening without the combination.\nSearches of lockers shall be conducted in accordance with the policies adopted by the board. The lockers in the district shall be under control of the building principal and, as such, belong to the school district.\nIn accordance with USD 115 Board of Education Policy JCAB, law enforcement officers may use trained dogs on school premises to identify student property which may contain illegal or illicit materials and to determine whether materials, such as drugs, weapons, or other materials which may threaten the general health, welfare, and safety of the students and/or staff are present in the district parking lots, hallways, locker, classrooms, and/or locker rooms.\nVisitation by parents and patrons is encouraged with advance permission from the office. Visitors must report to the office if they are on school grounds during the normal school day. Visitors who do not have an educational purpose for being at school will be asked to leave.\nAll students are asked to help keep the building clean of cans, bottles, and candy wrappers. A committee of students and teachers will evaluate the cleanliness of the halls and if litter becomes excessive or the rules are broken, the VENDING machines may be closed for a period of time. State guidelines will be followed for the contents and use of the machines. Pop, juice, candy and food items are to be consumed in the commons area only - no hallways, classrooms, tech labs, or gymnasium. Students may not bring containers of drink into the building.\nStudents will have a five-minute break during the morning. Drinks are not allowed on the carpet, hallways, or in classrooms.\nAll articles that have been found should be brought to the office. If the item is not claimed within two weeks, it will be considered the property of the finder.\nMEETINGS AND SCHOOL SPONSORED ACTIVITIES\nAll meetings and school activities of any class or organization must be approved by the sponsor(s) of the class or organization and by the activities director. A regular monthly schedule of meetings is published. Special meetings or activities must be placed on the calendar no later than Friday of the week prior to the event.\nTransportation by school vehicles will be provided for all school sponsored activities. The school must have prior written arrangements between the participant\u2019s parent/guardian and the coach and/or school administrator, for the student to ride with the parent/guardian. All students shall conduct themselves at all times in a manner becoming ladies and gentlemen. Students will wear proper dress for the trip or occasion. Loud, abusive, or profane language or gestures will not be tolerated and shall call for disciplinary action as directed by the sponsor.\nStudents are not to eat or drink on the bus, unless given permission by the driver. The vehicles are to be left clean. All trash is to be picked up and left at the front door.\nRadios and/or stereos will be allowed with the use of headsets only or in accordance with rules set down by the drivers.\nGraduating seniors who are members in good standing with the NCHS senior class may take a trip which does not require the students to miss more than two days of school All plans for the trip must be arrived through consultation with the class sponsors and the principal and must have their approval.\n1. Only seniors who are eligible for graduation and have met all obligations, and are passing all their classes as of the departure date and time for the senior trip, may go on the trip. Ineligible students will be required to attend school during the senior trip and absences may be unexcused unless special circumstances exist.\nForeign exchange students will be allowed to go on the senior trip with the approval of the principal and agency responsible for the student. The foreign exchange student must be passing all of his/her classes and be in good standing to go on the trip.\n2. The senior must not be under any type of suspension as of departure time.\n3. The senior must travel at all times in school provided vehicles. Persons traveling independent of the school may not come in contact with the school group.\n4. Consumption or possession of alcohol or any controlled substance at any time or place during the trip is prohibited.\n5. The senior will be expected to follow all civil/criminal laws.\n6. All luggage and bags will be checked by the sponsors before departing. Any person whose luggage or person contains illegal items or alcohol will not be allowed to go on the trip and will be subject to suspension.\n7. Excessive emotional display and contact is prohibited as per sponsor rules.\n8. To receive all the allotted expense money, students must complete the trip without discipline problems.\n9. Students will be expected to behave appropriately as defined by the sponsors.\n10. Individual students violating trip rules may face the following consequences:\na. Breaking of civil/criminal law may be left to local law enforcement officials.\nb. The student(s) may be sent home from the trip and/or could face in school suspension when (s)he returns from trip.\nc. Serious enough violations may result in students not being allowed to participate in commencement exercises.\n11. Group violations may result in termination of the trip by the sponsors.\nIf the trip is terminated early, it may be required that the class return to school until commencement.\nSCHOOL PARTY REGULATIONS\n1. All parties should be planned and approved well ahead of time and placed on the school calendar one week in advance with the approval of the sponsor(s) and the principal\n2. Whenever possible parties and dances should be scheduled on Friday nights. The prom, and possible other events, may be scheduled on Saturday with the approval of the sponsor(s) and principal. The school function will not be allowed to run later than 11:00 p.m. on school nights and 12:00 a.m. on Friday or Saturday nights.\n3. Guests to school parties and dances are expected to observe the same regulations that apply to our own students. Guests are to be registered with the sponsor prior to the dismissal of school on the day of the party or on Friday for Saturday night parties. Unregistered guests will be denied admittance. Guests enrolled in a Jr. High (below the 9th grade) may not attend. This includes prom.\n4. The same habits of dress and behavior will apply to parties and dances that apply to all school activities.\n5. All school parties will be held on school premises. Students will not be permitted to run in and out of school functions.\n6. If a student must leave a party, (s)he may not return unless (s)he has obtained permission from a sponsor.\nThe Big Seven League, of which NCHS is a member, has officially adopted KSHSAA Citizenship/Sportsmanship Rule 52 to govern activities. A portion of the rule is listed.\nArticle 1: SPORTSMANSHIP is a general way of thinking and behaving. The following sportsmanship policy items are listed below for clarification:\n1. Be courteous to all (participants, coaches, staff and fans).\n2. Know the rules, abide and respect the official\u2019s decisions.\n3. Win with character and lose with dignity.\n4. Display appreciation for good performance regardless of the team.\n5. Exercise self-control and reflect positively upon yourself, team and school.\n6. Permit only positive sportsmanlike behavior to reflect on your school or its activities.\nStudents and patrons not wishing to follow the rule may be banned from attending extracurricular events.\nACTIVITIES CODE\nFor more detailed information concerning activities, please refer to the Activities Code. The code is distributed to all participants by the Activities Director.\nSpecial Education Services are provided through the Marshall-Nemaha County Educational Services Cooperative. Nemaha Central 115 is the sponsoring district. For more information contact the high school office or the director of Special Education at 336-2181.\nBUS TRANSPORTATION DISCIPLINE REGULATIONS\nK.S.A. 72-8302 (2) \u00a9 provides that the board may suspend or revoke the transportation privilege or entitlement of any pupil who violates any rules and regulations adopted by the board under authority of this subsection.\nThe bus driver reports to the school administration potential violations of bus transportation behavior regulations. The school administration is responsible for issuing the consequences for such behavior.\nTherefore, the board delegates to the school administration the authority to follow state statute for offenses deemed detrimental to the safety and control of the transportation system. The steps to be followed are listed below. However, the administration has the right to decide at which step the student should be placed upon as warranted by the discipline concern. Students suspended from bus transportation are responsible for arranging their own transportation to and from school. At all steps a bus conduct notice is mailed to the parents of the student.\n1st offense \u2013 warning that any future problems of a severe nature will result in a suspension from bus transportation. Parents are notified of the warning.\n2nd offense \u2013 a three-day suspension from bus transportation. Parents are notified of the action.\n3rd offense \u2013 a five-day suspension from bus transportation. Parents are notified of the action.\n4th offense \u2013 a ten-day suspension from bus transportation. Parents are notified of the action.\n5th offense \u2013 a 45- day suspension from bus transportation. A hearing will be held to inform the parents and student of the action and to establish the guidelines for returning the student to bus transportation.\n6th and subsequent offense \u2013 the suspension may be for the remainder of the school year or for an entire calendar year depending upon the severity of the offense. A hearing will be held to present the reasons for the suspension to the parents and student.\nThe Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a Federal law, requires that Nemaha Central Schools, with certain exceptions, obtain your written consent prior to the disclosure of personally identifiable information from your child\u2019s education records. However, Nemaha Central Schools may disclose appropriately designated \u201cdirectory information\u201d without written consent, unless you have advised the District to the contrary in accordance with District procedures. The primary purpose of directory information is to allow Nemaha Central Schools to include this type of information from your child\u2019s education records in certain school publications. Examples include:\nDirectory information, which is information that is generally not considered harmful or an invasion of privacy if released, can also be disclosed to outside organizations without a parent\u2019s prior written consent. Outside organizations include, but are not limited to, companies that manufacture class rings or publish yearbooks. In addition, two federal laws require local educational agencies (LEAs) receiving assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to provide military recruiters, upon request, with the following information \u2013 names, addresses and telephone listings \u2013 unless parents have advised the LEA that they do not want their student\u2019s information disclosed without their prior written consent. If you do not want Nemaha Central Schools to disclose directory information from your child\u2019s education records without your prior written consent, you must notify the District in writing by September 1. Nemaha Central Schools has designated the following information as directory information:\n-Student\u2019s name Participation in officially recognized -Address activities and sports -Telephone listing Weight and height of members of\n-Electronic mail address athletic teams\n-Photograph Dates of attendance -Degrees, honors, and awards -Date and place of birth received\n-Major field of study -The most recent educational agency or\n-institution attended\n-Grade level Student ID number, user ID, or other unique personal\nidentifier used to communicate in electronic systems that cannot be\nused to access education records without a PIN, password, etc. (A\nstudent\u2019s SSN, in whole or in part, cannot be used for this\npurpose.)\nPPRA affords parents and students who are 18 or emancipated minors (\u201celigible students\u201d) certain rights regarding our conduct of surveys, collection and use of information for marketing purposes, and certain physical exams. These include the right to:\nConsent before students are required to submit to a survey that concerns one or more of the following protected areas (\u201cprotected information survey\u201d) if the survey is funded in whole or in part by a program of the U.S. Department of Education (ED)-\n1. Political affiliations or beliefs of the student or student\u2019s parent;\n2. Mental or psychological problems of the student or student\u2019s family;\n3. Sex behaviors or attitudes;\n4. Illegal, anti-social, self-incriminating, or demeaning behavior;\n5. Critical appraisals of others with whom respondents have close family relationships;\n6. Legally recognized privileged relationships, such as with lawyers, doctors, or ministers;\n7. Religious practices, affiliations, or beliefs of the student or parents; or\n8. Income, other than as required by law to determine program eligibility.\nReceive notice and an opportunity to opt a student out of \u2013\n1. Any other protected information survey, regardless of funding;\n2. Any non-emergency, invasive physical exam or screening required as a condition of attendance, administered by the school or its agent, and not necessary to protect the immediate health and safety of a student, except for hearing, vision, or scoliosis screenings, or any physical exam or screening permitted or required under State law; and\n3. Activities involving collection, disclosure, or use of personal information obtained from students for marketing or to sell or otherwise distribute the information to others.\n* Inspect, upon request and before administration or use \u2013\n1. Protected information surveys of students;\n2. Instruments used to collect personal information from students for any of the above marketing, sales, or other distribution purposes; and\n3. Instructional material used as part of the educational curriculum for the survey.\nU.S.D. 115 has adopted policies regarding these rights, as well as arrangements to protect student privacy in the administration of protected surveys and the collection, disclosure or use of personal information for marketing, sales, or other distribution purposes. U.S.D. 115 will directly notify parents and eligible students of these policies at least annually at the start of each school year and after any substantive changes. U.S.D. 115 will also directly notify parents and eligible students, such as through U.S. Mail or email, at least annually at the start of each school year of the specific or approximate dates of the following activities and provide an opportunity to opt a student out of participating in:\n* Collection, disclosure, or use of personal information for marketing, sales or other distribution.\n* Administration of any protected information survey not funded in whole or in part by ED.\n* Any non-emergency, invasive physical examination or screening as described above.\nParents/eligible students who believe their rights have been violated may file a complaint with: Family Policy Compliance Office , US Dept. of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20202-460\nSeminar Rules\nPlease read and explain the Seminar Rules to your students.\nEach student must check out if (s)he leaves the seminar room. SEMINAR STUDENTS MAY NOT LEAVE THE SEMINAR ROOM BEFORE THE BELL RINGS (TARDY BELL).\nALL SEMINARS WILL BE USED PRIMARILY FOR ACADEMIC STUDIES, COMPUTER USE, READING, TUTORING, LAB WORK, ETC.\nTuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays are activity seminars. We will schedule all organizational meetings during this seminar time. If students aren\u2019t involved in the announced activity, they are required to stay in class. Sponsors may schedule meetings before or after school if needed. Individual committee meetings should be scheduled on these days.\n1. Behavior expectations are the same as in any regular classroom.\n2. Refusal to work or bring materials to seminar can result in disciplinary action.\n3. Tardiness from location to location will result in being required to pick up a\ntardy slip (office). Two minutes will be allowed for passing time.\n4. Misuse of hall passing privileges will result in suspension of those privileges.\n5. The library is off limits during seminar.\n6. An unexcused absence from seminar is the same as an unexcused absence from any other class and will be treated as such.\nEarly out on Mondays for people with no tardies and no missing assignments and no Fs for the previous week -\nGuidelines for Early Out\nThe list will be based on the previous weeks tardies/missing work/Fs\nExample: Aug. 20-24 determines Aug. 27th early out list\nThe office will create a list of \u201cstayers\u201d from PowerSchool\nLate work must be turned in by 3:05 on Friday to be removed from the list\nThe office will run the list at 8:00 a.m. on Monday morning\nTeachers will label assignments in PowerSchool as missing if a student needs to stay\nDismissal for Early Out\nSeminar will be moved to late\nAll students will report to seminar\nTeachers will take attendance and dismiss anyone not on the list that the office sends out\nStudents who are eligible to leave can choose to stay and work in the library or in the gym\nStudents who have to stay will stay in their Seminar room\nPeople who are staying are not allowed to use their computer unless it is for a confirmed educational purpose\nThis is supposed to be silent work time\nNo Cell Phones! - If a student requests to go to another classroom they need to leave their phone behind.\nGet the Work Done! - Late Work Policy\nThe goal of this program is to limit/eliminate late work/zeros. If students get the work done, they will not have to stay after school.\nThe office will run the Early Out list on Monday mornings. 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In perfect working order complete with 1x battery please not the case is really worn.\nThe item \"Makita GN900SE Cordless Gas Framing Nail Gun First Fix 1st (like Paslode)\" is in sale since Sunday, January 6, 2019. This item is in the category \"Business, Office & Industrial\\Power Tools\\Nail Guns\\Nail Guns\". The seller is \"sophiesmh\" and is located in London. This item can be shipped to United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United States, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, China, Israel, Hong Kong, Norway, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Chile.\nModel: GN900SE\nFeatured Refinements: First Fix Nail Gun\nMPN: GN900SE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1554, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 202.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://uspolitics24.com/2018/09/24/nokia-5-1-plus-launched-in-india.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:32Z", "digest": "sha1:KFVRZN5KQLRNXLJSWXHNOPYRQPULBPBD", "length": 2852, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "uspolitics24.com", "title": "Nokia 5.1 Plus launched in India", "raw_content": "It comes with Slow Motion and Time-lapse modes, but these aren't guaranteed to work on all non-Nokia smartphones either.\nJust as scheduled, HMD Global has gone official with the Nokia 5.1 Plus in India.\nThe USP of the Nokia 5.1 Plus is the design, and the phone does look premium from every aspect, except for the display. The phone is available exclusively through Flipkart and Nokia online store. At that price, the 5.1 Plus kills the likes of Realme 2 and it will be a treat for the users who are looking for a stock Android smartphone around Rs 10,000. It is powered by a MediaTek Helio P60 SoC (four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at 1.8GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at 1.8GHz) coupled with 3GB of RAM. The screen on the Nokia 5.1 Plus is a 5.8-inch unit with HD+ display. The memory can be further expanded up to 256GB via micro SD card slot. The device packs 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage.\nDallas Police Chief Rene\u00e9 Hall issued a statement Friday explaining why no disciplinary action has been taken against Guyger. Amber Guyger \"engaged in adverse conduct when she was arrested for manslaughter\", police said in a press release on Monday.\nTalking about the performance of the phone, Ajey Mehta, Vice-President and Country Head of HMD Global India said \"with Nokia 5.1 Plus we wanted to bring a phone that was high on performance that could get exciting gaming and entertainment experiences closer to a wider group of fans\". The smartphone bears a dual rear camera setup with a 13-megapixel primary sensor coupled with an f/2.0 aperture and PDAF autofocus, apart from a 5-megapixel depth sensor.\nIn terms of optics, the Nokia 5.1 Plus sports 13MP + 5MP dual rear cameras with f/2.0 aperture and an 8MP front-facing camera with f/2.2 aperture. Connectivity options include dual-SIM, 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Global Positioning System. Battery on board the Nokia 5.1 Plus is 3,060mAh and it has a fingerprint sensor at the back as well. Airtel customers will receive an INR 1800 cashback and 240GB free 4G data over 12 months on the plans of INR 199, INR 249 and INR 448. The device will be available in Gloss Black, Gloss White, and Midnight Gloss Blue color options.\nBarrick and Randgold will be hoping that their combination will allow them to cut costs and drive up profit margins. Randgold has operations in Mali, Senegal, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ivory Coast.\nThe effort crumbled a week after Trump tweeted the White House felt \"no pressure\" to resolve the dispute with China. FOX Business' Edward Lawrence reports on the exemptions included in the latest round of tariffs.\nThe deputy attorney general issued a statement saying: \"The New York Times's story is inaccurate and factually incorrect \". The president's comments come hours after a New York Times report that Rosenstein talked about secretly taping Mr.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 12583, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 287.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://vangeog.blogspot.com/2016/01/half-world-lives-on-1-of-its-land-mapped.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:42Z", "digest": "sha1:JEKLXCKELPZTTYG6UHJ5TG3EMT47BBYG", "length": 1781, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "vangeog.blogspot.com", "title": "vangeog - The Art of Geography: Half the World Lives on 1% of Its Land, Mapped", "raw_content": "Posted by: TANVI MISRA\nIn the simple map above lies a stark spatial imbalance: half the people in the world cram into just 1 percent of the Earth\u2019s surface (in yellow), and the other half sprawl across the remaining 99 percent (in black).\nData viz extraordinaire Max Galka created this map using NASA\u2019s gridded population data, which counts the global population within each nine-square-mile patch of Earth, instead of within each each district, state, or country border. Out of the 28 million total cells, the ones with a population over 8,000 are colored in yellow. That means each yellow cell has a population density of about 900 people per square mile\u2014\u201croughly the same population density as the state of Massachusetts,\u201d Galka writes in the accompanying blog post. The black regions, meanwhile, reflect sparser population clusters.\nTake this close-up of South and East Asia. The region in this image alone contains about 46 percent of the world\u2019s population, which isn\u2019t all that surprising considering India and China are the two most populous countries in the world.\nAsia\u2019s densest spots are mostly concentrated in the inland urban areas. Europe, on the other hand, is nowhere as dense as Asia but has its population hotspots sprinkled more uniformly across its area:\nNorth Africa is almost entirely dark except for Cairo, which contains the yellow cell with the largest population in the world\u2014a million people within the nine-square-mile sliver of land:\nA lot of the population clusters in the U.S., as the close-up of the map below shows, are located in many Northeastern, Southern, and Western cities. Overall, the U.S. mirrors the world in the way its population is divided: one half packed in the small yellow regions, the other half spread out across a black expanse.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 229.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://victoriamaryclarke.com/all-about-vmc/speaking-suppers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:38Z", "digest": "sha1:SVVLPBKFQGD4UQH33DH2OWFOWZMQ2ZZF", "length": 921, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "victoriamaryclarke.com", "title": "Speaking Suppers | Victoria Mary Clarke", "raw_content": "but if you do, it gives you an opportunity to practise speaking in front of an audience of diners in a relaxed, fun, informal setting and to receive encouragement and positive feedback.\nThe emphasis is not on being a brilliant speech writer or even a scintillating speaker, it is more focused on improving your confidence when speaking in public and being authentic even if you are totally terrified, especially when you are totally terrified.\nSPEAKING SUPPERS ARE A FABULOUS AND UTTERLY REVOLUTIONARY NEW CONCEPT IN USEFUL, FUN, PRACTICAL ENTERTAINMENT.\nSimply put, a bunch of people eat a meal together and each person has the opportunity to get up and speak for three minutes (on a pre-arranged topic) After which, they get feedback from the audience.\nwww.speakingsupper.com\nfor all the info\nWatch Speaking Suppers TV\nhttp://youtu.be/zdv67PZ8VnUThe Speaking Supper Experience http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdv67PZ8VnU", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3138, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 314.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://w-a-a.co.uk/e.php?e=869", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:16Z", "digest": "sha1:6H7FZTMD4QZ2AWJE2GCWYALD4GSIZFXF", "length": 1015, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "w-a-a.co.uk", "title": "Wellington Arts Association \u00bb FoS Brothers", "raw_content": "Irish Roots Music @ The Arts Centre\nThe FOS Brothers are Dave and Sam McCrory from East Belfast, N.Ireland. Together they create a unique soundscape of acoustic music heavily influenced by their Irish roots. They Have been performing for over 20 years at Festivals, Arts Centres and venues in the UK and abroad.\nMarch 2017 sees the release of their new CD Clear Again featuring many guest musicians who have worked with the band over the years (Sarah Jory, Ted Duggan, Leon Hunt and Jon strong) The CD was mastered by Simon Heyworth who is noted as co-producer of Mike Oldfield\u2019s Tubular Bells. and many King Crimson Albums.\nFOS Brothers will be performing as a 5 piece band during 2018 as budget allows but will continue with duo and trio performances when requested.\nThe line up is :\nSam McCrory - Vocals, Guitar\nDave McCrory - Acoustic and Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Bass, loops\nRom Dobbs/Gary Evans - Drums and percussion\nPete Bingham - Bass\nBox Office: \"Nurtured by Nature\", South Street or Online - Click Here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 3592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wake-island-pi.climatemps.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:FRK7VCYT7GWOVQVHEHLAXWULX6A6LF6A", "length": 2444, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "wake-island-pi.climatemps.com", "title": "Wake Island Climate Wake Island Temperatures Wake Island Weather Averages", "raw_content": "> A-Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z > Usa > Wake Island\nComparisons A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z\nWake Island Climate & Temperature\nWake Island, Usa is at 19\u00b018'N, 166\u00b041'E, 4 m (13 ft). See map.\nWake Island has a tropical wet and dry/ savanna climate (K\u00f6ppen-Geiger classification: Aw) with a pronounced dry season in the low-sun months , no cold season, wet season is in the high-sun months.\nThe annual average temperature is 26.9 degrees Celsius (80.4 degrees Fahrenheit). See the temperatures page for a monthly breakdown and the fixed scale graph.\nAverage monthly temperatures vary by 3.2 \u00b0C (5.8\u00b0F). This indicates that the continentality type is hyperoceanic, subtype truly hyperoceanic.\nTotal annual Precipitation averages 906.4 mm (35.7 inches) which is equivalent to 906.4 Litres/m\u00b2 (22.23 Gallons/ft\u00b2).\nWere you to burrow down through the centre of the Earth from Wake Island you would pop up nearest to the climate station at Jamestown, Saint Helena.\nWake Island Climate Table\nAverage Max Temperature \u00b0C ( \u00b0F) 28 (82) 28 (82) 28 (83) 29 (84) 30 (86) 31 (88) 31 (88) 31 (88) 31 (88) 31 (87) 30 (85) 29 (83) 30 (85)\nAverage Temperature \u00b0C ( \u00b0F) 25 (78) 25 (77) 26 (78) 26 (79) 27 (80) 28 (82) 28 (83) 28 (83) 28 (83) 28 (82) 27 (81) 26 (79) 27 (80)\nAverage Min Temperature \u00b0C ( \u00b0F) 23 (73) 22 (72) 23 (73) 23 (73) 24 (75) 25 (77) 25 (77) 25 (77) 25 (78) 25 (77) 25 (76) 23 (74) 24 (75)\nAverage Precipitation mm (in) 30 (1) 41 (2) 57 (2) 64 (3) 44 (2) 58 (2) 102 (4) 157 (6) 129 (5) 110 (4) 71 (3) 45 (2) 906 (36)\nAverage Daylight Hours/ Day 11h 05' 11h 28' 11h 59' 12h 33' 13h 01' 13h 15' 13h 09' 12h 45' 12h 13' 11h 39' 11h 11' 10h 58' 12h 00'\nSun altitude at solar noon on the 21st day (\u00b0). 50.7 59.9 70.8 82.5 88.8 85.8 88.1 82.9 71.4 59.9 50.7 47.3 69.8\nWMO Normals\nGet Greater Insight into Wake Islands Climate\nClimatemps.com contains over 12 and a half million climate comparison reports ready to view now. Colour coded comparison tables highlight differences and similarities in the data so you can better understand the nuances. Select the first letter of a location (for example one you know well) to discover the greater insight analysing Wake Islands climate relative to these others facilitates: A-Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z\nCountries A-Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z\n\u00a9 2009 - 2017 climatemps.com - Sitemap - Contact Us - Privacy Policy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2856, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 172.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wbj.pl/atal-selling-units-in-new-warsaw-scheme/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:14Z", "digest": "sha1:KPXXC4XFK7PANW7EYTEDAUPOYFKQZKKP", "length": 543, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "wbj.pl", "title": "Atal selling units in new Warsaw scheme | WBJ", "raw_content": "Warsaw Stock Exchange-listed developer Atal has launched sales of units in its Nowa Grochowska \u2013 Lokale Inwestycyjne project in the Polish capital, which are targeted at investors and are meant to be used as rental apartments. The scheme, which is located near ul. Grochowska and ul. Ostrobramska in the Praga Po\u0142udnie district, will comprise 158 such units and is scheduled to be completed in the third quarter of 2020. Atal is now also developing a building with 155 regular apartments within the Nowa Grochowska complex.\nAtalNowa Grochowska", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 115165, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 308.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://welcomehomeschmidt.blogspot.com/2009/08/jubilee.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:VSIMGDBEVIBY266CQ2YQNIUTID6YS7DH", "length": 1224, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "welcomehomeschmidt.blogspot.com", "title": "HOWDY!!: JUBILEE!!!!!", "raw_content": "JUBILEE!!!!!\nAs we all know Trinity is a cheerleader this season. Today, all the schools got together and had a Jubilee. Each football team in the county played a quarter of ball while their girls cheered them on. Although it was a hot, long day, it was tons of fun. The football players were beyond cute in their helmets, and the cheerleaders were adorable. I can't wait for a REAL game!\nTrinity is in the back row (third from the left) next to her best friend, Ali. All the girls did awesome. I was actually quite impressed. I can't wait to see the half-time routine!\nAll in all, this is going to be a great thing for all of us. It's been really nice getting to know the other kids and parents (non-stage moms) and cheering everyone on. I will gladly give up a day of doing chores to go watch a bunch of little boys tackle each other, and see a bunch of little girls with pom-poms screech in response.\nLoves the little life\nIt will only get to me MORE fun as they get older. They are so lucky to have a Mom so \"into\" their lives...hey, you can fold laundry any old day!\nOh, and next time can you get a few pictures of those little \"mushrooms\" running around on the field hitting each other. I'm always up for a good laugh!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://weldriley.com/news-post/attorney-garrett-w-nix-elected-firm-shareholder/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:03Z", "digest": "sha1:2NTD4ZLN2LMQIMJBBZOU3OTRR73WQF5X", "length": 2145, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "weldriley.com", "title": "Attorney Garrett W. Nix Elected Firm Shareholder - Weld Riley", "raw_content": "Attorney Garrett W. Nix Elected Firm Shareholder\nThe law firm of Weld Riley, S.C. is pleased to announce Attorney Garrett W. Nix has been elected a Shareholder of the firm.\n\u201cI love being an attorney because we get to help so many people not only with their problems, but also helping them plan for the future. It\u2019s extremely rewarding work,\u201d Nix said.\nGarrett, a member of the Business section, joined the firm in 2013. His legal practice centers on providing businesses and individuals expert legal counsel on issues relating to business formation, operations, and succession planning. Garrett also assists individuals in developing estate plans which most efficiently achieve each client\u2019s objectives. Garrett has a specialty in farm and business succession planning and serves as municipal counsel for several government entities in western Wisconsin.\nGarrett received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, with a B.S. in Economics and his law degree from Marquette University Law School. While in law school, Garrett provided regulatory compliance analysis while working for a Fortune 500 insurance company. He also interned in the legal department of a large health care provider in western Wisconsin working on issues including risk management, contract review and negotiation, and employment law. He also participated in the Robert F. Wagner National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Competition.\n\u201cI\u2019m truly humbled that my colleagues elected me as a Shareholder. I grew up in western Wisconsin and it\u2019s a dream come true to work in this firm and count all of these fantastic attorneys as my colleagues and friends.\u201d Nix added.\nSince becoming a lawyer in 2012, Garrett has worked with numerous individuals and businesses with planning and transactional matters. Garrett was raised in rural Osseo, Wisconsin and currently lives in Osseo with his wife.\nWeld Riley, S.C. was formed in 1991 and is comprised of Litigation, Labor and Employment, Business, Estate Planning, Real Estate, and Government Relations Sections. The firm employs 76 people in its Eau Claire, Menomonie and Black River Falls offices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 2334, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 181.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/2016/11/misericordia-misera.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:15Z", "digest": "sha1:VCH3P6TXTOPGUFBHAFFGKXLG37UREOCK", "length": 2725, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com", "title": "Whispers in the Loggia", "raw_content": "TO ALL WHO READ THIS APOSTOLIC LETTER\nMERCY AND PEACE\nMISERICORDIA ET MISERA is a phrase used by Saint Augustine in recounting the story of Jesus\u2019 meeting with the woman taken in adultery (cf. Jn 8:1-11). It would be difficult to imagine a more beautiful or apt way of expressing the mystery of God\u2019s love when it touches the sinner: \u201cthe two of them alone remained: mercy with misery\u201d. What great mercy and divine justice shine forth in this narrative! Its teaching serves not only to throw light on the conclusion of the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, but also to point out the path that we are called to follow in the future.\n1. This page of the Gospel could easily serve as an icon of what we have celebrated during the Holy Year, a time rich in mercy, which must continue to be celebrated and lived out in our communities. Mercy cannot become a mere parenthesis in the life of the Church; it constitutes her very existence, through which the profound truths of the Gospel are made manifest and tangible. Everything is revealed in mercy; everything is resolved in the merciful love of the Father.\nA woman and Jesus meet. She is an adulteress and, in the eyes of the Law, liable to be stoned. Jesus, through his preaching and the total gift of himself that would lead him to the Cross, returned the Mosaic Law to its true and original intent. Here what is central is not the law or legal justice, but the love of God, which is capable of looking into the heart of each person and seeing the deepest desire hidden there; God\u2019s love must take primacy over all else. This Gospel account, however, is not an encounter of sin and judgement in the abstract, but of a sinner and her Saviour. Jesus looked that woman in the eye and read in her heart a desire to be understood, forgiven and set free. The misery of sin was clothed with the mercy of love. Jesus\u2019 only judgement is one filled with mercy and compassion for the condition of this sinner. To those who wished to judge and condemn her to death, Jesus replies with a lengthy silence. His purpose was to let God\u2019s voice be heard in the conscience not only of the woman, but also in those of her accusers, who drop their stones and one by one leave the scene (cf. Jn 8:9). Jesus then says: \u201cWoman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?\u2026 Neither do I condemn you. Go your way and from now on do not sin again\u201d (vv. 10-11). Jesus helps the woman to look to the future with hope and to make a new start in life. Henceforth, if she so desires, she can \u201cwalk in charity\u201d (Eph 5:2). Once clothed in mercy, even if the inclination to sin remains, it is overcome by the love that makes it possible for her to look ahead and to live her life differently....\nFULLTEXT (HTML/PDF)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 4758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 270.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wiki.safariltd.com/index.php/Florida_Panther", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:32Z", "digest": "sha1:V3CKM5KAW2QXZGMHGGVS62VMZ4R2QWGU", "length": 3264, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "wiki.safariltd.com", "title": "Florida Panther - Safaripedia", "raw_content": "The Florida panther is an extremely endangered subspecies of the mountain lion (Puma concolor) that is found only in the sawgrass swampland and pine forests in southern Florida.\nOrder \u2013 Carnivora\nFamily \u2013 Felidae\nGenus - Puma\nSpecies & Subspecies \u2013 P. concolor coryi\nCommon Name \u2013 Florida Panther\nFlorida panthers are similar to the other subspecies in the Puma concolor species complex. They are tan above and creamy white below, with black on the tips of their tail and ears. Their eyes are usually yellow or blue. The young are born with spots, but these fade over time. Among the 32 subspecies of mountain lion, the Florida panther is in the middle range of size, measuring up to seven feet long and weighing up to 160 lbs.\nThey can be differentiated from other mountain lion types by the crook near the end of their tail, and a unique patch of fur on the back that resembles a sort of cowlick and does not conform to the natural direction of the rest of the animal\u2019s fur. These traits are the result of a lack of diversity in the Florida panther population\u2019s gene pool, and are much more likely to occur in this subspecies due to inbreeding.\nMating season lasts from November to March, and after a year of gestation a female will give birth to 1-3 cubs. The cubs depend on their mother for the first year and a half of their lives. They are born blind, and the spotted coats of newborns helps camouflage the vulnerable babies from predators.\nFlorida panthers are solitary unless breeding or caring for young. Individual panthers may stake out a wide territory, with a single male claiming an area as large as 250 square miles. They are carnivores and hunt for prey that can include hares, mice, storks, deer, and even alligators.\nThe Florida panther was long considered to be a subspecies of mountain lion, and many still recognize that distinction. Genetic research has cast the status of the 32 Puma concolor subspecies in doubt, and there is some evidence to suggest that there is only one true subspecies of Puma concolor in North America.\nHowever, these panthers represent an isolated population that exists only in southern Florida, and in fact is now the only example of this animal currently living in the eastern United States. Historically, the P. c. coryi subspecies ranged throughout the southeastern U.S., though the arrival of European settlers into the region began a process that would eventually isolate the creature into its current range.\nWith the population so small, scientists were concerned with the lack of gene flow affecting the genetic diversity, so in 1995 female mountain lions from the Texas population were introduced to help add more to the gene pool of the Florida panther.\nThese panthers are critically endangered. Current estimates suggest there may be less than 100 left in the wild. They face threats from many different sources, including habitat loss, mercury pollution, low genetic diversity, vehicular collisions, and diseases such as feline leukemia.\nhttps://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Wildlife-Library/Mammals/Florida-Panther.aspx\nhttps://www.fws.gov/refuge/florida_panther/wah/panther.html\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_panther\nRetrieved from \"http://wiki.safariltd.com/index.php?title=Florida_Panther&oldid=3347\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 4254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 180.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wildlifeforeveryone.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:51Z", "digest": "sha1:M3ONCGLYJGH5VYRKVWFS2VXVRPQFRZIC", "length": 885, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "wildlifeforeveryone.org", "title": "Wildlife For Everyone Endowment Foundation", "raw_content": "Wildlife For Everyone Foundation celebrates the rich heritage of Pennsylvania wildlife, habitat and sportsmen and sportswomen. The foundation provides all wildlife enthusiasts with a way to show their commitment through much needed financial support.\nWildlife For Everyone Foundation funding aids wildlife habitat, scientific wildlife research and education, youth education and land preservation.\nThis 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization provides an avenue of funding for projects and organizations to help enhance Pennsylvania's natural resources as well as promote the rich tradition of hunting and conservation.\nAnswer the call today and help ensure that the natural resources we have enjoyed as children and adults will be here for future generations.\nFuture Wildlife Center Receives $250,000 Grant\nThe Wildlife for Everyone Foundation - Who We Are video\nUS Fish & Wildlife Projects", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1864, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 261.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wildy.co.uk/isbn/9781108415842/state-responsibility-for-breaches-of-investment-contracts-hardback-cambridge-university-press", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:16Z", "digest": "sha1:7SXCXMPP5F7NCGWT5Y7YKPSUU3XIMB6Q", "length": 1363, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "wildy.co.uk", "title": "Wildy & Sons Ltd \u2014 The World\u2019s Legal Bookshop Search Results for isbn: '9781108415842'", "raw_content": "There is a wealth of material that shapes the law of State responsibility for breaches of investment contracts. First impressions of an unsettled or uncertain law have thus far gone unchallenged. But unchallenged first impressions point to the need for a detailed study that investigates and analyses the sources, the content, the characteristics, and the evolution of this law.\nThe argument at the heart of this monograph is that the law of State responsibility for breaches of investment contracts has carved a unique and distinct trajectory from the traditional route for the creation of international law, developing principally from arbitral awards, and mimicking, to a considerable extent, the general international law on the protection of aliens and alien property.\nThis book unveils the remarkable journey of the law of State responsibility for breaches of investment contracts, from its origins, to its formation, to its arrival at the cusp of maturity.\n1. Power and principle in the origins of contractual protection\n2. Arbitral awards and the generation of international law\n3. 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The future of international investment contract claims.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1907, "original_length": 46219, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wilkopr.blogspot.com/2017/03/cuteness-personified.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:50Z", "digest": "sha1:XSWVSOHUY7I6EPAEB3X4LNDIXBT6VAT6", "length": 94, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "wilkopr.blogspot.com", "title": "Pixel Rainbow: Cuteness personified!!", "raw_content": "Cuteness personified!!\nYes we are real but....\nPlease don't knock on the window.\nIt scares us.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 3480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 275.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://williamspioneer.com/article/80066", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:13Z", "digest": "sha1:QP5HIRPYKAHXMG3LPMAF2LHX6YG5MON5", "length": 2543, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "williamspioneer.com", "title": "NeighborWorks appeal decision delayed until January | Colusa County News - (530) 458-4141", "raw_content": "NeighborWorks appeal decision delayed until January\nOn Tuesday, the Board of Supervisors again voted to continue an appeal hearing for a self-help housing project in Arbuckle, which was denied by the county\u2019s former zoning administrator, Stephen Hackney, a year ago.\nIn Nov. 2015, Hackney determined that the project proposed by NeighborWorks, a Sacramento-based nonprofit housing organization, did not comply with the county\u2019s zoning code. The project would be located in the Wildwood Estates Subdivision of Arbuckle, a partially built-out subdivision that currently has five houses and 26 vacant lots. NeighborWorks purchased the vacant lots in October 2014.\nNeighborWorks first appealed Hackney\u2019s decision to the Colusa County Planning Commission in January of this year, which agreed with Hackney\u2019s determination in a 4-1 decision.\nThe commission found that the housing plans submitted by NeighborWorks were not compatible with the existing residences in the subdivision, citing architectural design, scale, and non-compatible building materials.\nThe developer continued the appeal to the Board of Supervisors, who initially heard it in March. The appeal has been continued on multiple occasions \u2014 most recently at the board\u2019s Sept. 20 meeting \u2014 while NeighborWorks and the county work toward finding a solution.\n\u201cAs described in detail, the project is a continued appeal, and was continued from the Sept. 20, 2016 meeting. Since that time, NeighborWorks has submitted conceptual designs for the two-story home,\u201d Greg Plucker, the County\u2019s director of Planning and Building Services, said.\n\u201cStaff has met, and we developed a series of detailed comments in reply, in an effort to have the proposed design better match the existing two-story homes, as well as bring them in line with our peer-review comments that we had done for the single story homes. NeighborWorks has indicated that they have talked to the market rate developer. They are in the process of implementing the changes and developing alternatives. They have indicated that they are forthcoming; we haven\u2019t seen them yet, but I anticipate that based on recent discussions with Donald Terry (director of real estate development for NeighborWorks) that we will get them very soon, at which point we will look at it again, meet with the board appointed representatives and respond accordingly.\u201d\nBecause the entire packet from NeighborWorks wasn\u2019t available at Tuesday\u2019s meeting, the board voted unanimously to continue the appeal hearing to Jan. 24, at Plucker\u2019s recommendation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 5492, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://williamspioneer.com/article/82244", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:02Z", "digest": "sha1:WKNAFAHPRTJBAXZC54OTKLMADGU62TEB", "length": 6836, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "williamspioneer.com", "title": "Pierce\u2019s Worl propels South to win in Lions All Star Game | Colusa County News - (530) 458-4141", "raw_content": "Pierce\u2019s Worl propels South to win in Lions All Star Game\nFive Colusa County athletes help\nSouth end eight-year drought\nAfter his team had secured the first Lions All Star Football Game victory for the South in nearly a decade, head coach Mark Cooley (who heads the football program at Pleasant Valley High School) and his staff huddled to deliberate on who they would name the game\u2019s MVP.\nTheir players \u2013 28 of the top high school football players in Northern California \u2013 were gathered nearby, already prepared for their post-victory photos. A handful of them chimed on the MVP discussion, and they were all saying the same thing: It\u2019s gotta be Dakota.\nFor Dakota Worl, a Butte College-bound defensive lineman and recent Pierce High School graduate, Saturday\u2019s all star contest in Oroville was the game of a lifetime.\nPlaying at defensive tackle, Worl intercepted the ball tipped at the line of scrimmage by Pleasant Valley defensive end Salomon Navarro during the North\u2019s opening possession in the second half. Listed at 6 feet 4 inches tall and 300 pounds, Worl sprinted to the end zone, returning the interception 41 yards to give his team six meaningful points, just 57 seconds into the third quarter\n\u201cI was totally gassed, I won\u2019t lie,\u201d Worl said of the 41-yard jaunt.\nTired as he may have been, Worl was ecstatic, having scored the first and only touchdown of his high school career against some of the best talent he had ever played against.\n\u201cThis is the best feeling I\u2019ve had in a long time. Best week ever. All of my teammates, I love \u2018em,\u201d Worl said.\nThose six points would prove to be the difference, as the South would go on to win 36-30, snapping a losing streak that dated back to 2008.\nAlong with Worl, former Maxwell middle linebacker/fullback Dylan Jones and former Williams wideout/defensive back Juan Fernandez started on the South\u2019s defense. Jones, who was also a team captain, was forced to leave the game with an injury early in the first half.\nFormer RedHawk Graeson Bell saw extended time on the South\u2019s defense as well, and was involved in several big plays in the second half. Fellow Colusa High alumnus Justin Pingrey put in work on offense, defense and special teams.\nThe South got on the board first, driving 80 yards in six plays on the game\u2019s opening possession. Pleasant Valley High School quarterback Kyle Lindquist connected with fellow Viking Payton Williams on a fade for a 24-yard touchdown. On the ensuing two-point conversion attempt, Lindquist rolled to his right and found Paradise\u2019s Riley Potthast in the back of the end zone to put the South up 8-0.\nThe North went three-and-out on their next possession and were forced to punt, but an interception on a halfback pass just two plays later gave them the ball back at their own 35 yard line. Mount Shasta quarterback Thairen Sivongsa plunged into the end zone from one yard out to cap a six-play, 65-yard scoring drive, then found an open receiver in the flat to tie the game at 8-8 with 5:15 left in the first quarter.\nEach team saw a drive stall before the South struck again, this time following a nine-play, 54-yard drive. On first-and-10 from the North\u2019s 13 yard line, Lindquist rolled right on a bootleg and threw back across his body to an open Potthast. Durham\u2019s Jared Heath entered the game as quarterback for the two-point conversion attempt and connected with East Nicolaus\u2019 Nolan Goyet to put the South up 16-8.\nIt took the North just five plays to answer back: On fourth down at the South\u2019s 16-yard-line, Sivongsa and Lassen\u2019s Colby Harris connected for a touchdown. The North attempted to rush for the two-point conversion, but Piere\u2019s Worl broke through the line and stuffed the run in the backfield to keep South up 16-14.\nAfter a South punt, Sivongsa went back to work, orchestrating a ten-play, 71-yard scoring drive. He connected on passes of 11, 11, 9, 17, and 23 yards, with the latter being a touchdown pass to Anderson\u2019s Seth White, who was left uncovered deep down the middle on a post route. Sivongsa hit David Ruiz, of Yreka, to convert on the two-point attempt and put the North up 22-16.\nAfter a touchback, South starting quarterback Lindquist lofted up a dangerous pass on second-and-10 from the 20 yard line. Fellow Pleasant Valley standout Salomon Navarro came down with it and ran for a 40 yard completion. Back-to-back penalties against the North, the first for pass interference and the second for roughing the passer, gave the South first and goal from the 10 yard line. On first down, the South\u2019s coaches reached into their bag of tricks and pulled out the State of Liberty: Lindquist faked a throw and handed the ball off behind his back to Paradise\u2019s Austin Garber, who beat a hesitating defensive end to the corner and sprinted untouched for a 10-yard touchdown. Potthast kicked the extra point through the uprights to put the South up 23-22.\nThe score would stay there until Worl\u2019s heroics put the South up 30-22 in the first minute of the third quarter.\nFollowing his interception return, the South defense forced a three-and-out, but a booming punt pinned their offense back at their own 7 yard line. The field position battle paid off for the North when East Nicolaus\u2019 Nolan Goyet fumbled away possession at the South\u2019s own 16 yard line. Enterprise\u2019s Will Asnicar threw a touchdown for the North on a halfback pass on third down, and a successful two-point conversion tied the game at 30-30.\nThe following possession, the South went 64 yards in 10 plays before their drive stalled at the North\u2019s 16 yard line and they turned the ball over on downs. After grabbing two quick first downs, a pair of holding penalties hurt the North, giving them third-and-25 at their own 22 yard line. The North elected to hand the ball off to Johnny Iniguez, of Fall River, who nearly made a play. Iniguez took a handoff for a sweep play that was supposed to go to the left, reversed field to the right and got to the corner with a blocker in front of him. Colusa\u2019s Graeson Bell fought through the lead blocker to bring Iniguez down, limiting the damage to 10 yards and keeping the North well short of the marker as time ran out in the third quarter.\nAfter the sides traded possession, the South scored the game-winning touchdown with 5:48 remaining in the final quarter. On third-and-goal from the 4 yards line, Lindquist hit Gridley\u2019s Parker Dixon for a touchdown. A botched hold threw off the extra point attempt, but the South were up 36-30.\nThe North marched 68 yards in twelve plays before being faced with a third-and-6 on the South\u2019s 12 yard line. A flag for holding deep in the backfield made it third-and-26 at the 32 yard line. 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Today, public awareness and the need for security and safety is much different today as a result of 9/11 and other recent tragic events.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1918, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wokq.com/missing-teen-in-newmarket/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:21Z", "digest": "sha1:TUHHGHE56XWJZNTUJ2HFJKQKENUGWV2V", "length": 1120, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "wokq.com", "title": "Missing Teen in Newmarket", "raw_content": "UPDATE: Missing Teen in Newmarket Found\nThe 14-year-old went missing on Monday.\nPhoto: Newmarket Police\nUPDATE: Eli has been found by police and is unharmed.\nNewmarket Police seek your help in locating a missing 14-year-old boy.\nEli Longa was last seen around 4 PM on Monday 9/12. Department is seeking the public's assistance with locating a missing juvenile.\nThe Newmarket Police Department can be reached at (603) 659-6636 if you have any tips. According to their Facebook page the description is as follows....\nEli Longa - 14 years of age\nEli is described as being between 5'10\" and 6'0\" tall, weighing approximately 150 pounds with a slender build, with dark brown or black hair. Eli may also be wearing glasses. He was last seen wearing a blue and yellow polo shirt with a zip-up black and red hoodie over it. He was also reportedly wearing light color shorts, and maybe carrying a black and orange back-pack. Eli was last seen at approximately 4:00pm on September 12, 2016. 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This time it wasn\u2019t the tapas, but some fresh seafood and paella in Madrid. Check it out in the latest episode of Let\u2019s Date Food, a World Culture Network Original series.\nTo know more about travelling to Madrid: http://awaradiaries.com/48-hours-madrid-spain/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 324.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://wp.classroomofthefuture.org/cff/cff-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:35Z", "digest": "sha1:KY43BJ5JQ3WK4UCD5WCTC5NYRWY7FFUF", "length": 3378, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "wp.classroomofthefuture.org", "title": "Our History | Classroom of the Future", "raw_content": "Classroom of the Future Foundation: 20 Years of Innovation\nCFF has been in existence for 20 years. Supported by the San Diego County Office of Education and the local business community, CFF\u2019s initial focus in 1997 was to raise the capital necessary to build a regional technology hub that could shape the future of innovation in San Diego\u2019s public schools. The Joe Rindone Regional Technology Center (JRRTC) was completed in 2000 and quickly became the center of educator capacity building and student preparation around emerging technologies in San Diego County. Today, the center serves more than 485,000 children and 25,000 teachers.\nSoon after JRRTC\u2019s completion, CFF became known in the community for being the convener of business, community, and educational leaders around innovation in education. In 2001, CFF brought a seminal group of teachers together, called the TIME Teachers \u2013 Teacher Innovations Maximizing Education. These teachers were paired with local business technology executives to study and build the requirements for effective technological change in our public schools. Their findings were published a couple of years later and used to inform the strategic plans of districts across the County.\nIn 2003, CFF established the Innovation in Education Awards, the marquee event in San Diego County for galvanizing the education and business communities around remarkable classroom programs, educators, and students. Headed into its 15th year, the Innovation in Education Awards continues to draw more than 500 attendees including all 42 San Diego County Superintendents, top school district officials, and business leaders.\nIn 2006, CFF partnered with the USS Midway Museum to help them establish highly innovative educational programming. CFF assisted the Midway in developing their \u201cEvacuation of Saigon\u201d learning experience for students, utilizing the latest innovative educational practices. As a result of the partnership, the Midway is now at max capacity for the number of students it can host for these experiences. Today, CFF and the Midway are working together to bring this valuable resource to more students in the digital space.\nIn 2012, CFF partnered with eight different school districts to help them more effectively implement technology. This \u201cTeamRED Collaborative Partnership\u201d consisted of direct coaching and a collaborative learning space for educators from these districts. As a result of this program, many of the partnered districts, like Vista Unified School District and Coronado Unified School District, are leaders in the County on such initiatives as STEM, one to one computing, open educational resources (OER) and personalized learning. Today, CFF offers professional development workshops to teachers from around the County on the effective use of technology in the classroom.\nIn December 2015, CFF selected a new CEO to lead its operations after its previous Executive Director retired after 18 years of service. Specializing in nonprofit fundraising and leadership, James Wright led the organization through a strategic planning process this past summer which resulted in a new mission, vision, and strategic direction for the next five years. 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As Solicitor General of Oklahoma, Wyrick was then-Oklahoma Attorney General, now EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt\u2019s \u201cdear friend and trusted counselor,\u201d working together on multiple cases challenging the EPA\u2019s ability to protect public lands and clean air and address climate change. In State of Oklahoma; Oklahoma Industrial Energy Consumers; Oklahoma Gas & Electric Company v. EPA; Sierra Club, they challenged an EPA plan to protect scenic vistas in certain national parks under the Regional Haze Program of the Clean Air Act. In State of West Virginia, et al. v. EPA, they challenged clean air standards for oil and gas drilling and production sites under the EPA\u2019s rule, \u201cOil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources.\u201d\nIn two other cases, State of West Virginia, et al. v. EPA, et al. and North Dakota, et al. v. EPA, et al. they challenged carbon pollution standards for existing and new power plants, respectively, also known as the Clean Power Plan. The impacts of climate change are already having devastating consequences across the globe. We simply cannot afford to the Senate confirm to a lifetime appointment someone who helped lead the charge against the biggest step our country has ever taken to address the climate crisis.\nFor these reasons, LCV strongly urges you to oppose the judicial nomination of Judge Patrick Wyrick to the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. We will consider including this confirmation vote in the 2018 Scorecard. If you need more information, please call my office at (202) 785-8683 and ask to speak with a member of our government relations team.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4310, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 178.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.1377x.to/report/1481776/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:45Z", "digest": "sha1:T47HPMOGQCY5TX3RCHTEI6KYXH4MCBEU", "length": 25, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.1377x.to", "title": "Error something went wrong.", "raw_content": "You need to be logged in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 487, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 49.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.365daysinzion.com/2009/10/day-13-october-8-2004-coal-pits-wash.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:38Z", "digest": "sha1:U6VM4YCO6WWLEP44KLR7EH67ZDB42HAG", "length": 987, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.365daysinzion.com", "title": "365 Days in Zion: Day 13: October 8, 2004 - Coal Pits Wash Snake Encounter", "raw_content": "Day 13: October 8, 2004 - Coal Pits Wash Snake Encounter\nOff to the side of Highway 9 is a dry wash called Coal Pits Wash. We decided to take a two day backcountry hike along the wash. It was a dry, hot day and we started late in the afternoon, making the hike a little challenging - not in essentials, but because we were unfamiliar with the area and unsure of how long it would take us to find a suitable place to get water and camp. However, the area is beautiful, rugged country, and well worth the time we spent exploring.\nOf course this picture was taken by Christian, because Karen was standing far away, saying, \"Get away from the snake, you are going to get bit, and I can't carry you once you do!\" This was my one and only encounter with a rattle snake other than at the zoo, and it was indeed frightened of us, and trying to slither away, while Christian followed it to take this shot of the snake sticking its tongue out at him.\nLabels: Coal Pits Wash, Mt. Kinesava, Wildlife", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 2970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 268.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.662online.com/2011/07/exploding-toilet-injures-air-force-man.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:16Z", "digest": "sha1:LPOT77JQWQOY4QFWTU74CKYWJLUPK42C", "length": 1958, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.662online.com", "title": "662online Entertainment, Pop Culture and New Music: Exploding Toilet Injures Air Force Man during Military Exercise", "raw_content": "Exploding Toilet Injures Air Force Man during Military Exercise\nBy The Courier-Mail\nROCKHAMPTON, Australia - A man from the Royal Australian Air Force suffered life-threatening third-degree burns after a portaloo exploded Monday at an airport Down Under -- an incident connected to an ongoing US-led military exercise in the area, The Courier-Mail reported.\nOfficials believe the man was using the portable toilet (also known as a port-a-potty) at Rockhampton Airport, in the state of Queensland, when he lit a cigarette.\n\"There was some sort of explosion,\" a Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said. \"He suffered burns to his head, face, arms, chest and airways.\"\nThe man, whose identity was not released, was taken to the Rockhampton Hospital in a serious condition.\nA spokeswoman from Talisman Sabre 2011 -- a US-led exercise supported by Australian forces -- confirmed the explosion was a military incident but said no further information was available at this stage.\n\"I can confirm that an incident has happened but we're still gathering information,\" the spokeswoman said.\nThere has been speculation that methane build-up in a portable toilet could cause it to explode -- however that theory was not proved when tested by TV science show \"Mythbusters.\"\nOn Saturday officials revealed nine Australian soldiers involved in the exercise were injured when an armored vehicle rolled down an embankment at the Shoalwater Bay Training Area, north of Rockhampton.\nTalisman Sabre features land, sea and air training throughout Queensland and the Northern Territory, and is designed to improve combat training, readiness and interoperability. This year's exercise -- the fourth Talisman Sabre -- involves some 22,000 personnel and runs until July 29, according to Stars and Stripes.\nRead more: couriermail.com.au\nRead more: http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/offbeat/exploding-toilet-injures-air-force-man-during-military-exercise-ncxdc-072511#ixzz1TK6xgyD4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 2470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.662online.com/2011/08/nh-mom-charged-with-using-gun-to-steal.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:25Z", "digest": "sha1:2NLMR5IJMWHLJVDEBIUC5YLAKBA7SXGT", "length": 882, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.662online.com", "title": "662online Entertainment, Pop Culture and New Music: NH Mom Charged With Using Gun To Steal Teen\u2019s Bike", "raw_content": "NH Mom Charged With Using Gun To Steal Teen\u2019s Bike\nMANCHESTER, NH (CBS) \u2013 A 40-year-old New Hampshire woman has been charged with robbing a 14-year-old girl at gunpoint in a dispute over a bicycle.\nOfficers say the teenager was riding a friend\u2019s bike on Ash Street in Manchester, NH.\nAt one point, the friend\u2019s neighbor, 40-year-old Kelley Feeley came out of her apartment and accused the girl of stealing the bike from her daughter.\nWitnesses told police that Feeley demanded she be allowed to inspect bicycle.\nWhen the girl denied that she stole the bike and refused to hand it over, police say Feeley pulled a gun, pointed it at the girl\u2019s neck, and took the bike.\nOfficers later seized the disputed bicycle from Feeley\u2019s apartment along with several guns.\nFeeley is charged with robbery.\nhttp://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/08/04/nh-mom-charged-with-using-gun-to-rob-bike-from-teen/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1395, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aarondavidharris.com/2016/03/five-q-with-annie-martin-orlando.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:37Z", "digest": "sha1:YDXFUZYZNOSN5HPP7VLMDXAP4WOYAYGO", "length": 6151, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.aarondavidharris.com", "title": "The Official Website of Aaron David Harris: Five-Q with Annie Martin, Orlando Sentinel", "raw_content": "Five-Q with Annie Martin, Orlando Sentinel\nJournalism was my ticket into professional writing, something that I aspired to do ever since I learned that a person can make good money by expressing themselves through use of the printed word.\nHowever, once I got into actually working for a newspaper, I was forced to look beyond my own desires because journalism is very much a collaborative effort. You work with amazing people who, unlike myself, are completely dedicated to the craft and practice of great news reporting.\nOne of those amazing people is Annie Martin. I met her while working for the Battle Creek Enquirer. She was a fantastic reporter then, and she is a fantastic reporter now in her role as an education reporter for the Orlando Sentinel. We chatted about several topics that revolve around the role of the newspaper reporter in today's world.\nShe can be reached on Twitter at @reporterannie.\nAnnie is a fantastic reporter who has worked\nin several print media markets.\nAaron David Harris: With all the points people for have accessing information today, what do you believe is the role of the newspaper reporter?\nAnnie Martin: I think we can delve deeply into issues in a way that other outlets can't or won't. Other media outlets offer specific kinds of coverage -- namely breaking news or blogs -- and in many cases, they do it well. I think we're able to provide coverage of everything from local governments to national elections in thorough, nuanced way. I've worked at local papers for six years and I know we've covered issues that other media wouldn't cover, or wouldn't cover as extensively. We provide watchdog reporting and draw attention to cases where elected officials haven't acted wisely or ethically.Without newspapers, many of our communities wouldn't have that kind of reporting.\nADH: You\u2019ve been working the education beat for a while now. Is that something you always wanted or is it something you just fell into?\nAM: I didn't study journalism with the goal of covering education, but I'm so glad I get to cover this complex and diverse beat now. I think education is one of the most pressing concerns for our communities right now and I love feeling like I can contribute to the conversation. You do a wide variety of stories on the education beat, from finances to features. I also find that people are genuinely passionate about the things I write about, and they should be -- whether these issues affect their own children or others in their community, our elected officials are making decisions that affect everyone's future.\nADH: What\u2019s the most interesting story you\u2019ve ever done?\nAM: This is a tough question. I felt proud of a story I did a couple of years ago about a state program that gives tax credits to businesses that donate money for scholarships to low-income children to attend private schools. The private schools can also use this money for religious instruction, which is a big no-no in the public schools. Florida is big on public school accountability, and requires schools to be transparent on almost everything from test scores to teacher salaries to budgets. We live in a state with a very broad open records law. But this program has diverted money that would've gone to the general tax pot to private schools that had to report little about their finances or student performance. This program has continued to grow, and I think a lot of people feel conflicted about the premise, and way it has been executed. Some people think that low-income families should have the opportunity to choose to send their children to private schools, but the private schools should be more transparent if they are receiving tax dollars.\nOn a different note, I love meeting young people who have done amazing things and I've had the privilege of meeting a lot of them.Years ago, I wrote about a local high school graduate who was an immigrant from a conflict-ridden country, had a turbulent home life and lived in public housing. But she had done well in school and given a lot of her free time back to her school and community. She was an extraordinarily warm, loving teenager and was so optimistic about her future. She was one of those people you remember forever and I still think about her a lot.\nADH: A lot of newspaper reporters I know do so many other things now. They host podcasts, run blogs/vlogs, make TV/radio appearances, write books, etc. Is this kind of career diversification helpful or a distraction for a reporter?\nAM: At my current job, we're regularly asked to do short interviews that are aired on one of our local TV stations and I had not done this at my previous employers. While I did not set out to become a TV reporter, I've always tried to embrace these opportunities because I think it's a good way to get people interested in reading the paper and reach a new audience. Our industry is evolving and I see being flexible as part of my job. I don't think it's a distraction because it's in line with our overall goal -- informing and engaging people in their community.\nADH: What advice would you give people interested in a career in journalism, or any kind of career in mass communication? Are there different challenges for women and minorities?\nAM: Make no mistake, this is a tough profession. Our industry has gone through a lot of changes in the past decade, and I don't think we're done yet. Be adaptable. Try new things. Pick up a new skill. You might have to move to a new city or work in a different type of job than the one you expected.\nHowever, don't let anyone dissuade you from pursuing a journalism career if you love it. I think there will always be opportunities in our field because deep down, I think the news will always be important for readers and viewers. This is a rewarding career and given the opportunity to choose a different field, I wouldn't. 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We have an exciting day planned for you on the 16th, so please make your reservations early.\nIt was such a disappointing November for us all. Dr. David Crockett did an outstanding job of explaining the elections at our last luncheon. In fact, many people wished he had given everyone a copy of his speech to study when they got home. I informed him that from now on he is our \"in-house\" expert, and we want him back every two years for an analysis.\nWe are all devastated at the loss of our two sitting District Judges, Joe Brown and Burt Richardson; add to this the loss of Marcia Weiner, J. P. Court and many of excellent candidates. There were a few bright stars on what was otherwise a dark night---three of our local candidates, Frank Corte, Kevin Wolff and Mark Vojdovich who had Democrat opponents all won, as did all of our state-wide candidates.\nSomething has got to change, and it has to start at the local level. We have to get some new direction and new ideas otherwise Bexar County is going to become more \"blue\" with each election. We could learn a few things from the Bexar Democrats. I checked their website frequently just to see what they are doing, especially during the election period. They are so organized at the grassroots level and they constantly update their website to keep everyone informed. Unfortunately the Bexar County Republican website had the date of September 2nd when I checked it today, and much of the information is outdated. They are still listing some of the club presidents from 2007! Check the Republican website at www.bexargop.org and the Democrat website at www.bexardemocrats.org.\nWould you like to serve on a committee or be a committee chair for 2009? 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We want to change attitudes, transform communities, and save lives.\nSet up in 2000 by husband and wife team Martin and Kathy Smedley, Act4Africa has a small UK support team based in Manchester which works in partnership with Act4Africa NGO Partners in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.\nOur holistic approach prioritises the needs of women and girls and poor communities in Sub-Saharan Africa. Working at grass roots level with a focus on women, the charity uses performance arts activities to communicate key issues relating to gender equality, business and enterprise, sexual and reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention. We also organises trips to Uganda and Tanzania for those wishing to do their medical elective or teaching placement in Africa, as well as organising various sponsored events and fundraising activities.\n\u201cAct4Africa is truly transforming the lives of some of Uganda\u2019s poorest women by giving them the tools to lift themselves out of extreme poverty. Their programmes\u2019 success over the years in testament to their dedicated team.\u201d Michael Rothwell, Global Giving.\nAct4Africa is a company limited by guarantee incorporated in the UK: Reg No 4276635.\nAct4Africa is registered as a charity: No 1092074", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 3064, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 230.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.act4africa.org/get-involved/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:37Z", "digest": "sha1:AE4ORGBA5XKXPN7HID5PQWQ7YJPPF7F6", "length": 1084, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.act4africa.org", "title": "Get Involved | Act4Africa", "raw_content": "\u201cIf you think you\u2019re too small to make a difference\u2026you\u2019ve never been in bed with a mosquito!\u201d\nSince Act4Africa was launched we\u2019ve often thought how appropriate Anita Roddick\u2019s joke is to our work. Our small UK Mission Teams and African staff have collectively achieved a phenomenal amount in the fight against HIV & AIDS in East Africa. We\u2019ve delivered HIV & AIDS Prevention and Behavioural Change Programmes to nearly 1 million young people, changing the course of thousands of young lives.\nAnd it\u2019s all down to people like you! Do you have a passion for Africa? Do you want to help us to arrest this modern day scourge and give the young people of Africa hope for a better future, a future without AIDS?\nThere are a whole host of ways you can get involved, to be part of the solution, from an African expedition through to a sponsored event or donating your old mobile. If you\u2019re an online shopper, you can even download an application that sees you donate without you having to spend a penny more! 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Koudelka, P.E.\nLocated at 11929 Starcrest, Advanced Engineering Solutions has established its offices, is hiring employees and competing for clients. In addition to the three partners, the firm has hired two engineering technician specialists and a business manager.\n\u201cWe are a staff of seven at this time, and plan to add more employees as our workload increases,\u201d General Manager, Bob Condit explained. \u201cThe firm is built around Jim Jones and Ms. Koudelka, both of whom are structural engineers. 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Subsequently, the structures must be engineered for the foundation. We think there\u2019s an advantage to doing that for the building or contractor, so he can promote his products as being wholly engineered.\n\u201cCustom homebuilders are real receptive to our services, and as a result we\u2019re getting their business,\u201d he added. \u201cOur niche allows us to bring structural and construction techniques expertise to the table. We\u2019re not just design people, and that\u2019s why we put this company together. We saw an under-served market to tap.\u201d\nInsurance companies also rely on the company\u2019s forensic knowledge and experience. \u201cInformation we gain from our forensic investigations makes us better designers of engineered systems. We rely on each type of expertise to strengthen the other,\u201d Bob concluded.\nThe company\u2019s website can be accessed at www.aes-tx.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 3118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 268.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aewa.org/boards/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1242&p=1619&sid=6340493c684172e135dd58c7e02b34b6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:38Z", "digest": "sha1:DYWAJATZ6JLZJZWBNQN5G3XCSHSH6D22", "length": 2801, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.aewa.org", "title": "West, James Howard, Col, USAF (Ret) - AEWA Forums", "raw_content": "Post by wildbill \u00bb Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:05 am\nWest, James Howard 82 Oct. 05, 1931 Sept. 12, 2014 James Howard WEST Colonel United States Air Force, Retired James H. West made his Last Flight on 12 September 2014 in Renton, WA at the age of 82. James was born in Eureka, CA on 5 October 1931. He moved to Portland, OR in 1941; graduated from Ulysses S. Grant High School in 1949. In 1953 he graduated from Lewis and Clark College with a Bachelor of Science degree. He then entered the United States Air Force Aviation Cadet Program graduating December 1954 as a Second Lieutenant Navigator and Aircraft Performance Engineer at Mather AFB, CA. On 26 December 1954 he married his college love, Helen E. Doig. He earned his Observer Wings in June 1955 and was assigned as an instructor in Engineering. His oldest daughter Denise Cathleen was born in Sacramento, CA June 1958. He earned his Pilot Wings in September 1959 at Reese AFB, TX. Jim's first pilot assignment was 55th Weather Recon Sq., McClellan AFB, CA, followed by a 3-year tour in Japan flying KB-50J's. His youngest daughter Janine Lucretia was made in Japan September 1962. The family returned to Sacramento in 1963, assigned to 552nd AEW&C Wing. A tour in SEA 1967-68 with the 20th Helicopter Sq., Pony Express. Command tour with the Aerospace Defense Command, Inspector Generals Office, Colorado Springs, CO, followed by return to 552nd as Squadron Commander 964th, then the 963rd Sq. In 1975 he was assigned as Base Commander Sonderstrom AB, Greenland for fourteen months followed by a tour at Homestead AFB, FL with the last of the EC-121 Warning Star aircraft. He was then assigned to Tinker AFB, OK as Commander of the NORAD contingent with the 552nd AWACS Wing (TAC). He retired as a Colonel from Tyndall AFB, FL, 1 February 1984 with over thirty years service. Colonel West was a Command Pilot with over 6,000 hours of flying time. During his career he was awarded over 40 awards and decorations. Among his top honors were the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Meritorious Service Medal W/3 OLC, Air Medal W/2 OLC, and Air Force Commendation Medal. He was a graduate of Squadron Officer School and Industrial College of the Armed Forces. He joined The Boeing Company as a Human Factors Engineering Analyst with the 707 and 767 AWACS Programs, retiring in July as part of the Class of '95. Jim was a life member of The Daedalians, Air Force Association, Air Force Sergeants Association, American Legion, Air Force Helicopter Pilots Association, and The Museum of Flight where he was active as a Docent and a member of the Eagle Heritage Society. He is survived by his wife of 59 plus years, Helen, their daughters Denise (Brad) Mower of Bellevue, WA and Janine Lucretia West, Wilsonville, OR.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3741, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 149.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.afceastdaily.com/2013/08/pats-have-less-than-week-to-decide-on.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XQPOOUJF4MGJHAWBETTMA4SZWQFGMFED", "length": 1022, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.afceastdaily.com", "title": "Pats have less than week to decide on Gronk - AFC East Daily", "raw_content": "Pats have less than week to decide on Gronk\nRob Gronkowski is reportedly back on the field participating in individual drills Monday. The New England Patriots have until the end of the week to decide if he'll be able to do any more than that.\nGronkowski is currently on the PUP list and isn't allowed to return to team drills until he's activated. If New England doesn't take him off the list by Saturday, he won't be able to return to the active roster for at least the first six weeks of the regular season.\nThe fourth-year tight end is coming off a back procedure that followed a handful of surgeries on a forearm that he broke twice last season.\nAdding Gronk to the 53-man roster prematurely is a risk given the fact that he could be taking up a much-needed spot without actually seeing the field early on. Then again, having arguably the best tight end in the NFL at their disposal might be a risk the Patriots are willing to take.\nThen again, it's always a risk with Gronk.\nTags: New England Patriots, Rob Gronkowski", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1555, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.africanews.com/2017/03/25/central-congo-militia-decapitates-40-police-officers-in-ambush/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:55Z", "digest": "sha1:AZBEQZZUKXMPUUWERSEBGRQXJMIZYN5Y", "length": 1398, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.africanews.com", "title": "Congo militia decapitates 40 police officers in ambush | Africanews", "raw_content": "Congo militia decapitates 40 police officers in ambush\nMilitia fighters in central Democratic Republic of Congo decapitated about 40 police officers in an ambush, local officials said on Saturday, the deadliest attack on security forces since an insurrection in the region began last August.\nThe Kamuina Nsapu militants attacked the police on Friday as they drove from Tshikapa to Kananga. The militia members stole arms and vehicles, Francois Kalamba, speaker of the Kasai provincial assembly, told Reuters.\nThe insurgency, which has spread to five provinces, poses the most serious threat yet to the rule of President Joseph Kabila, whose failure to step down at the end of his constitutional mandate in December was followed by a wave of killings and lawlessness across the vast central African nation.\n\u201cThey were apprehended by the militia members and they decapitated about 40,\u201d Kalamba said, adding that the militia spared the lives of six other police officers they captured because those officers spoke the local Tshiluba language.\nCorneil Mbombo, president of the Civil Society of Kasai, a province-wide activist group, also told Reuters that about 40 officers had been decapitated.\nMore than 400 people have been killed in the violence in central Congo, according to the United Nations, and the government said on Tuesday that 67 police officers and many soldiers had died in the clashes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 5305, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 323.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.agn.at/kongress/en/start_e/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:30Z", "digest": "sha1:L3WUND5622T6CIB337GWNK2XJ54IAYT6", "length": 587, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.agn.at", "title": "9th Scientific Meedting of the Association of Emergency Medicine - 9. 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As such we are expecting about 1.500 to participate in the meeting in Graz, Austria.\nImpressions from the congress 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.alaskajournal.com/2016-03-09/western-governors-changes-needed-endangered-species-act", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HIEDSXIFL4NISQKSGAKKMDQVDUSVQIMY", "length": 3778, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.alaskajournal.com", "title": "Alaska Journal | Western governors: Changes needed to Endangered Species Act", "raw_content": "Western governors: Changes needed to Endangered Species Act\nDENVER (AP) \u2014 The nation needs to change the way it protects endangered species because the current practice is bogged down in lawsuits and weakened by mistrust, the head of the Western Governors Association said March 9.\nWyoming Gov. Matt Mead said March 9 the problem is nationwide and that he hopes to build bipartisan support for changes in the federal Endangered Species Act, the primary tool for protecting species on the brink of extinction.\nHe stopped short of suggesting specific changes but said years-long legal battles frustrate landowners, local governments and industry and eat up resources that could be used to protect other other species.\nMead, a Republican serving a one-year term as chairman of the Western Governors Association, said the problem is partly in the law itself and partly in the way it\u2019s put into practice. Deciding whether to protect a species is nearly always a long, contentious struggle because federal intervention can result in rules that limit oil and gas drilling, mining, agriculture and other land uses.\n\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s collapsing, but I do think there\u2019s definite chinks,\u201d Mead said after speaking to wildlife managers, conservationists and business interests meeting in Denver to review how well the Endangered Species Act works.\nMead directed the Western Governors Association to conduct the review.\nMead\u2019s initiative comes as southwestern states are battling the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over reintroducing endangered Mexican gray wolves in Arizona and New Mexico, and the federal government is attempting to lift protection from grizzly bears around Yellowstone National Park.\nColorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, agreed that decisions about protecting individual species drag on too long with no definitive conclusion.\n\u201cThere\u2019s got to be a point ... where we can declare victory,\u201d he said.\nHickenlooper, who also spoke at the gathering, declined to say whether the law needs major or minor changes.\nEric Holst of the Environmental Defense Fund agreed the process of protecting species should be faster and less complicated, but he said changes could be made without rewriting the law.\n\u201cWe believe that the law has sufficient flexibility in it to solve some of the legitimate problems that folks in this forum (in Denver) have pointed out,\u201d he said.\nMead and Hickenlooper cited a sweeping conservation effort just getting underway to save the greater sage grouse as a model for how endangered species can be protected with support and guidance from a wide range of interest groups.\nThe federal government decided in September not to list the ground-dwelling sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act, instead opting for new rules and land use policies for federal lands.\nThe birds, known for their elaborate mating ritual, range across a 257,000-square-mile region spanning 11 states.\nEnvironmental groups, mining companies, ranchers and some state governments have filed multiple lawsuits challenging the conservation plan, arguing it either goes too far or not far enough.\nMead said such protected legal battles threaten to leave residents and state and local officials disillusioned.\nMead also argued that court challenges make it too difficult to remove a species from protection, even if it has recovered. Since the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only 1.4 percent of the 2,200 protected species have been removed from the list because they have recovered, he said.\nHe pointed to wolves, which were briefly removed from federal protection in Wyoming but then put then returned to protected status after environmental groups filed lawsuits challenging state management plans.\n\u201cYou have to have a way to reach the goal line,\u201d Mead said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 270.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.albertnet.us/2015/08/can-too-much-exercise-damage-your-heart.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:55Z", "digest": "sha1:T2M6JR3TOVAUB4SKQJWU3C3GQ5ZPMZLX", "length": 15398, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.albertnet.us", "title": "albertnet: Can Too Much Exercise Damage Your Heart?", "raw_content": "I get a lot of bike-related articles in my e-mail, mostly via my bike club. When I get an article from two separate feeds, I know it\u2019s something big. So it was with a recent front-page story in Velo magazine, \u201cCycling to Extremes.\u201d (I read the online version, available here.) The subtitle: \u201cAre endurance athletes hurting their hearts by repeatedly pushing beyond what is normal?\u201d\nWhat is normal? Alas, for American adults \u201cnormal\u201d is almost nothing; a CDC survey found that nearly 80% of adult Americans get less than 2.5 hours of exercise a week.\nBut forget about averages and those who don\u2019t exercise. The point of this Velo article is that ageing endurance athletes\u2014i.e., guys like me\u2014seem now to be in danger. The article declares, \u201cIn the case of endurance athletes who have competed for years \u2014 whose hearts have exceeded the threshold of normal heart rates for decades \u2014 going above what is normal defines them. But it may also be killing them.\u201d\nIn this post I examine the reactions of my pals to this disheartening article; indulge in some knee-jerk denial; examine some other anecdotal evidence; evaluate the article\u2019s claims on the basis of the literature cited; and (perhaps most importantly) provide a scheme for greatly advancing the study of exercise-induced heart complications among the middle-aged.\nMy first reaction to seeing this article was, \u201cOh, crap. I hope nobody forwards this to my wife.\u201d (She\u2019s the designated worrier of the family, which leaves me free to pooh-pooh everything.) But then, I\u2019ve got people depending on me, so I thought I better take the article seriously. First I looked at how my pals were reacting. \u201cHummmm....this is a little scary,\u201d one e-mailed. Another replied, \u201cYeah very scary. I routinely get dizzy when I get up - something that\u2019s happened my whole life but\u201d and here his e-mail ended abruptly. (Had he collapsed mid-sentence?) One guy mentioned an athletic 50-year-old pal who suffers from a heart issue like what\u2019s described in the article. Other responses: \u201cI have to admit, this article gave me pause, especially the way I like to ride bikes ... hung over, and hammering as hard as possible,\u201d and \u201cAlas, all along I thought I was doing something good for myself.\u201d\nOf course it\u2019s tempting to deny the whole thing. The article has some serious flaws\u2014which I\u2019ll get to in a minute\u2014and I almost shrugged and thought, \u201cTypical FUD, designed to sell magazines.\u201d But I resisted the urge. After all, just because an article is flawed doesn\u2019t mean its central assertion is false. Besides, I respect the cautious position my pals have taken, and this isn\u2019t the first time I\u2019ve pondered the mystery of brilliant athletes suddenly dropping dead. The article mentions two marathoners who died while running, and I also recall Matt Wilson, a local rider who died while cycling in 2011, and Steve Larsen, a guy I raced with as a junior, who died while running in 2009.\nNever mind that my own heart has behaved perfectly my whole life (at least, as far as I know). It\u2019s possible I\u2019m doing damage now that will only become a problem in ten years. After all, I know guys who have smoked for years but don\u2019t have lung cancer. Yet.\nI mulled over this article for about a week and a half, and just when it was starting to drift toward unconscious dismissal, I mentioned it to a cycling friend (my age) who said, \u201cOh, yeah, someone told me about that but said maybe I shouldn\u2019t read it \u2018cause it might bum me out.\u201d Why would it? Turns out this guy has had a heart problem for some time now: he\u2019ll be riding along, just cruising, and suddenly his heart rate will go from like 140 up to over 200 and stay there for 30, 40 seconds. Uh oh.\nThe \u201clumping\u201d problem\nMy chief difficulty in deciding how much to worry, and whether or not to change my approach to cycling, is that of \u201clumping.\u201d Is it right to lump myself in with the guys cited in the article, and with the marathoners, and with Steve Larsen? Is it right to lump runners in with cyclists? And is it right to lump various heart problems together and treat them like one phenomenon?\nLet\u2019s take that last question first. The Velo article uses two case studies to make its case: Lennard Zinn, who while bicycling suffered symptoms of \u201chis heart [flopping] like a fish\u201d and beating way too fast; and Mike Endicott, who collapsed and lost consciousness during a cross-country ski race. Was Endicott\u2019s heart also racing? Well, not at first. Endicott\u2019s words: \u201cSomething was beating inside my chest.\u201d The Velo writer describes it as \u201chis heart still doing something strange inside his chest\u201d which led, after an hour or so, to ventricular tachycardia and \u201can immediate, unexpected loss of heart function.\u201d This seems a lot different from what Zinn experienced. Were these two suffering from the same specific heart problem? It\u2019s not clear.\nThe article states that Zinn was diagnosed with multifocal atrial tachycardia, but Endicott\u2019s exact diagnosis isn\u2019t given. The article talks a lot about atrial fibrillation (AF): is this the same as tachycardia? Again, it\u2019s unclear (though this FAQ suggests not). Moreover, the main study the article cites concerns \u201cmyocardial fibrosis, a condition that involves the impairment of the heart\u2019s muscle cells, called myocytes, through hardening or scarring of tissue.\u201d Does myocardial fibrosis lead to tachycardia and/or fibrillation? Do Zinn and Endicott suffer from myocardial fibrosis? Once again, the article doesn\u2019t say.\nIt\u2019s not just this article that\u2019s vague about this stuff. I did a tiny bit of research on Steve Larsen\u2019s death, and turned up something surprising:\nGoogle\u2019s big-font summary makes it pretty clear this was a heart attack\u2014but it wasn\u2019t, according to the first article cited. Nothing else has been written to further clarify this matter; the autopsy itself apparently ruled out heart attack. And yet people seem to remember it as such. Two years after Larsen\u2019s death, when I was corresponding with a friend about Matt Wilson, my friend wrote, \u201cSteve Larsen was the guy who had a [fatal] heart attack two years ago here in Bend.\u201d Meanwhile, I\u2019d always remembered Wilson\u2019s death as having been from a heart attack, but in researching this now (for example, here), I can find no specific cause of death.\nLet\u2019s get back to that Velo article. My temptation, when presented with such ambiguity, is to read the research articles on which the article is based. But the article, while making lots of vague references to unnamed studies, doesn\u2019t provide much. For example: \u201cOver decades of exertion, the myocardial cells of the heart begin to simply fall apart, and you\u2019re left with an unhealthy ticker. Or so these new studies suggest.\u201d And: \u201cLong-term endurance exercise results in a five-fold increase in the risk of developing AF. A review of the relevant research finds many small studies that correlate long-term sports activity with AF.... While none is conclusive, collectively they indicate a pattern.\u201d What studies? What relevant research? There are no citations given here; no footnotes; no hyperlinks.\nThe article does cite two specific studies. One involved rats, and I\u2019m going to dismiss that. (My heart is bigger than a rat\u2019s; rats don\u2019t live 40 or 50 or 60 years, which is the age group I\u2019m trying to learn about; humans cannot be made to exercise as hard as rats.) Velo also cites a study published in The Journal of Applied Physiology: \u201cMRI studies revealed that some 50 percent of the veteran [>50-year-old] athletes had myocardial fibrosis.... In age-matched controls \u2014 people of the same age who didn\u2019t compete \u2014 and young athletes, there were zero cases of the disease. Furthermore, the fibrosis was significantly associated with the number of years spent training, and the number of marathons and ultra-endurance marathons they had completed.\u201d\nOkay, now we\u2019re getting somewhere! I looked at the study itself to get more information. You can read it here. My big issue with this study is that it only included 12 veteran athletes. Of these, 2 had previous heart conditions (1 probable previous mycarditis, 1 probable previous silent myocardial infarction). The Journal study is candid about its limited scope, acknowledging that \u201cLike many studies of this type, the numbers of veteran athletes are small (largely because this is a small and unique population), and generalization is difficult.\u201d\nAnd yet, without the ability to generalize, what are we supposed to do with this (largely anecdotal) information? My frustration is that I feel I ought to evaluate and possibly modify my own behavior based on these cautionary tales, but I have no solid basis for assuming that my behavior matches the profile of the overworked athlete who may be damaging his heart.\nVelo addresses this problem of definition by quoting Dr. John Mandrola, a heart rhythm doctor: \u201cWhat\u2019s too much? That\u2019s the $64,000 question. Though I will say it\u2019s a little like what the judge said about indecency: \u2018I know it when I see it.\u2019\u201d Well, this just doesn\u2019t do me much good, because I\u2019m not about to go to Kentucky to visit this doctor, in the absence of any symptom of any problem.\nI see four possible ways to respond to this information.\nI could completely ignore it\u2014but I think that\u2019s irresponsible.\nI could simply err on the side of caution, and ride less often and less hard than I currently do\u2014but isn\u2019t this completely arbitrary, since somebody who rides twice as much as I could similarly tone it down \u201ca bit\u201d and still be riding way more than I?\nI could continue riding exactly how I currently do, while adding myocardial fibrosis to the pile of things I regularly worry about (which will increase my cortisol levels to the detriment of my health) while feeling guilty for being such a poor custodian of my body. No thanks.\nI can try to get more information about this, with a whole lot more data, so I can more reasonably evaluate and (if necessary) modify my behavior.\nNumber four wins, and that\u2019s where my proposed solution comes in.\nWe need more information! We need more than two anecdotes and a lot of vague references to \u201cthese new studies\u201d and \u201cthe relevant research.\u201d We need more than studies on rats, and we need studies of more than 10 veteran athletes. By \u201cwe\u201d I mean \u201csociety,\u201d and actually society is already really, really good at harnessing massive amounts of data and crunching them to derive useful judgments. Think of how effectively Amazon predicts what we\u2019ll want, and how well the advertising industry can anticipate, and create, our desires. What if we could find a ready source of \u201cbig data\u201d for studying the effect of gonzo endurance athleticism on heart health?\nBut we have it already! It\u2019s called Strava! This social network has 8 million registered users, of which 1.2 million are active and something like 190,000 have premium accounts. (These are estimations since the company doesn\u2019t reveal these numbers; click here for details. Suffice to say, this is a lot deeper pool of data than 10 test subjects.)\nThe number of Strava users isn\u2019t even the best part. It\u2019s the quality of the data set. Consider the type of athlete who goes so hard, and so long, and so often, that he or she is actually at risk of causing heart damage. How many of this type wouldn\u2019t be on Strava? The gung-ho Strava cyclist is exactly the kind of person who might overdo his or her training. In other words, Strava members comprise the perfect group for studying this stuff.\nI\u2019m envisioning a splash screen that pops up when the Strava user logs in. It asks, \u201cAre you willing to participate in an anonymous study about heart function and rigorous aerobic exercise?\u201d I\u2019d guess most users wouldn\u2019t have a problem with this. And anybody who\u2019s having heart trouble would probably be eager to participate, to better understand it all, and could indicate the nature and frequency of his or her problem. Such a study could quite feasibly have millions of workouts per day to crunch (the average workouts logged per day being around 6 million last year, as detailed here). You\u2019ve got your control group and your heart-oddity group both covered, right off the bat.\nAnd what great data there\u2019d be to crunch! You get exercise frequency; exercise duration; heart rate; and history (e.g., how much a rider\u2019s performance is improving or deteriorating). You could start to develop very precise profiles of those whose hearts are misbehaving. Is there an age threshold beyond which these symptoms most commonly present? Are there frequency, duration, and/or intensity thresholds below which no errant heart behaviors are observed? What is the rate of heart trouble for riders exactly my age, who ride (on average) just as often, and in exactly the same heart rate zones I work out in? Of those who work out like I do but who are 10 years older, how many have developed heart trouble? Five years from now, when we see an even more comprehensive integration of \u201cbig data\u201d into our lives, we\u2019d probably have even more ways to correlate the data. (We might know, for example, whether frequent purchases at Starbucks or BevMo factor in to the cardio health equation.)\nFor now, I\u2019m going to assume that the hectic pace of my life, my many familial obligations, my relative sloth, and my unaggressive riding style will keep my heart in good shape. I\u2019m not going to bother shopping my Strava idea around, because I\u2019m confident that the Strava folks themselves, looking for a way to actually make some money, are bound to get the attention of the insurance people, who I assume are always looking for ways to avoid open-ended batteries of complicated tests. I envision all of this happening without any effort from me, probably years before I start getting into the dangerous years where my heart starts \u201cdoing something strange inside [my] chest.\u201d And if you want to forward this link around to speed up the process, please be my guest!\nLabels: ageing, atrial fibrillation, cardiovascular disease, cycling, FUD, health, heart disease, journalism, Lennard Zinn, Matt Wilson, Mike Endicott, myocardial fibrosis, Strava, Velo magazine, velonews\nKen Cluff August 17, 2015 at 11:06 PM\nRider dies at Leadville Trail 100 MTB race:\nhttp://velonews.competitor.com/2015/08/news/rider-dies-at-leadville-trail-100-mtb-race_381559\nDana Albert August 20, 2015 at 8:35 AM\nI'm sorry to hear about that. Tragedies like this will continue to happen, just as people will continue to die, every day, in car crashes. The question is, are we comfortable--each of us--with the level of risk involved in the activities we do? Most of us do drive cars ... is that more or less risky than exercising really hard?\ndarwinian August 18, 2015 at 9:43 PM\nThe Strava idea is good, in terms of a large body of riders in the target range. But I don't think the most important thing would be captured, that being what kind of heart rhythm issue they might be experiencing. The data from a standard HR monitor is not going to show that. But it could be a great way to overlay exercise intensity/duration/frequency etc. with separately obtained health data - I'm thinking of e.g. annual echocardiogram data, EKG data, etc...\nYes, the heart rate data in Strava is only a starting point. I think that, when trying to evaluate the cardiac risk of hardcore cycling, it'd be helpful to get some basic data on frequency of heart issues among ageing athletes, to bridge the gap between the anecdotal and the statistical....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 210, "original_length": 18489, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.aldershottravelburlington.com/blog?category=awesome-stuff", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:09Z", "digest": "sha1:E6HXMOBXUQLEJKHFFUWFIN55LVIRVFRV", "length": 12524, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "www.aldershottravelburlington.com", "title": "Aldershot Travel Burlington's Blog", "raw_content": "Video: The Real Name of Thailand's Capital... Isn't What You Think\nBangkok, right?\nWrong. We've traveled to the Thai capital city many times, but this was the first time BestTrip.TV discovered the full, real name of Bangkok is... well, see for yourself. It's a mouthful!\nThe proper name is also a very beautiful description of one of South-East Asia's most popular and colorful cities that every year makes the list as one of the top 5 travel destinations in the world.\nThe United Arab Emirates is still one of the most exotic and unknown locations on the planet. This federation of absolute monarchies on the southeast end of the Arabian Peninsula was established in 1971. Since then, it's made its mark on the world, first as one of the top ten oil producers, then with the lavish lifestyle of all that oil money, and more recently, as an increasingly popular travel and cruise destination.\nHere are 5 things you might not know about the UAE:\n1. There are 7 emirates in the United Arab Emirates.\nThey are: Abu Dhabi (which also serves as the capital) Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al Quwain. The largest emirate, Abu Dhabi, is nearly 90% of the UAE's land mass \u2013 over 67,000 km squared (26,000 sq. miles). (Abu Dhabi Skyline photo, top. Credit.) It and splashy Dubai are the best known. The smallest emirate \u2013 Ajman \u2013 would fit into Abu Dhabi 25 times. Saudi Arabia surrounds the UAE to the west, south, and south-east, with Oman on the south-east and northeast, and the remaining border is a 650 km (400 mile) coast along the Persian Gulf. The emirates' largest natural harbour and cruise port is at Dubai.\nAbout 10 million people live in the UAE. Only 1/10th of those are Emirati citizens and the rest are expatriates; laborers and domestic workers from mostly 3rd world countries, and some business expats from the West.\n2. It has the tallest skyscraper in the world.\nEven in a region known for surreal cities of glass and steel sprouting out of the desert that surrounds them, the Burj Khalifa (Khalifa Tower) stands alone. Inspired by traditional regional architecture, this mega-tall skyscraper tops out at 829.8 meters (that's 2722 feet). Imagine this: it's so high above the earth that, standing on higher floors of the tower, you can still see the sun for a couple of minutes AFTER it has set at ground level.\nThe Burj Khalifa has blown away dozens of world records, including tallest structure, tallest structure ever built, building with the most floors, highest elevator, highest outdoor observation deck, highest nightclub, and highest restaurant. It's the centerpiece of a massive mixed use development that includes an artificial lake and parkland fed by water from the vast air conditioning units of the tower. You simply will not get a more spectacular view over Dubai than from the tower.\n3. And the world's largest artificial island.\nYou've probably seen photos of this. The Palm Jumeirah artificial archipelago of reclaimed land on the Persian Gulf coast of Dubai, part of a development to increase Dubai's shoreline by 520 km (320 miles). In a complete break from any previous land reclamation project ever undertaken, the development's encircled palm tree design not only takes your breath away, it also maximizes beachfront. Privately-owned villas, hotels and resort areas occupy the palm fronds and circle.\nHotels, resorts and hotel residences in this spectacular setting include: The Fairmont Palm Hotel & Resort, St. Regis Hotel \u2013 The Palm, Kempinski Hotel & Residences, Sofitel Dubai, The Palm Resort & Spa, The Langham, Palm Jumeirah, Waldorf Astoria, Dubai Palm Jumeirah, W Hotel, Viceroy Palm Jumeirah Dubai, and dozens of independent properties. There is no other hotel / resort destination in the world like the Palm Jumeirah.\n4. And the largest man-made marina.\nThe man-made Dubai Marina is built along a 3 km (2 mile) stretch of shoreline on the Persian Gulf. This artificial canal city is said to be inspired by Concord Pacific Place along False Creek in Vancouver. When complete, it will overtake the current world's largest man-made Marina del Rey in California and be home to over a hundred thousand people in its residential towers.\nDubai Marina is a completely new waterfront. Engineers brought the waters of the Gulf into the site of the man-made marina. A large central waterway runs the 3 km length of the site; marine wildlife, including whales, are known to travel inland from the open sea into the marina. The waterways of the marina are complemented by 8 km of landscaped public space. 12% of the land surface of the Dubai Marina is devoted to public space. You may not think of a desert country as a place to go to the beach, but places like Dubai Marina do give you the opportunity to swim in the local waters. (Carefully check and follow designated areas to avoid breaking strict public dress codes).\n5. But the Emirates aren't just ultra-modern cities.\nThere is still Nature in the Emirates. Outside the futuristic, man-made environments of the UAE's cities, are vast deserts with rolling sand dunes, oases that provide water for settlements, and grow date palms, acacia and eucalyptus trees. The desert itself is not barren; grasses and thorn bushes continue to support wildlife.\nConservation programs initiated or supported by the Emirates' royal leaders are helping ensure the survival of wildlife species near extinction from hunting, including the Arabian Onyx, Arabian camel and even wild leopards.\nPolice Car in Abu Dhabi. Photo Credit\nThe United Arab Emirates is one of the most astonishing, contradictory, ultra-traditional and futuristic, spectacular travel destinations in the world.\nApp-Happy Kids at Heathrow with New Travel-Themed Mr. Men Characters\nRemember the delightful Mr. Men and Little Miss book series for kids? They have two new friends: Little Miss Explorer and Mr. Adventure. And they live in the digital world of Augmented Reality at London's Heathrow Airport Terminal 2 ready to be discovered on your mobile device.\nThe beloved, essential British children's book series has 90+ characters, a TV show, and a book sold every couple of seconds worldwide. For some reason, I was given the Little Miss Naughty book as a child (I can't imagine why!). More recently, a friend who's also in media gave me a 'Little Miss-Communication' - pun intended - T-shirt. Now I'm eager to discover my inner Little Miss Explorer.\nMore than 45 years after their creation, the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters have vaulted into the digital age, teaming up with Heathrow airport's 'experience' department to bring smiles and fun times waiting for flights to kids and kids at heart.\nMr. Adventure and Little Miss Explorer are the heroes of a new AR app called Around the World with Mr. Adventure that you can use on any iOS or Android device with a camera. As you (erm.. your kids) explore the airport, you discover hidden digital badges, then the app plays a 3D animated video. You (again, uh, your kids) can take a pic with the digital Mr. Adventure or Little Miss Explorer character or another character from the series.\nWhen you find all 5 digital badges hidden around the terminal, you can trade them in for the real thing; iron-on fabric badges are available from information desks. Wouldn't that be just the best souvenir from the airport for any kid?\nThrough early September, 2017, costumed Little Miss Explorer and Mr. Adventure will also be roaming the airport, meeting and helping the kids (most likely helping the grown-ups. The kids have got this). The airport also has kids\u2019 activities and workshops planned for the busy summer travel season, along with continuing to offer perks like free play areas and Kids Eat Free menus.\nThe Around the World With Mr. Adventure app is available as a free download on the App Store and Google Play.\nNot traveling through Heathrow this summer? Don't worry, you (again, I really mean: your kids!) can still join in. Print out your own interactive bookmark at home and scan it using the app to see Mr. Adventure in 3D. For more information and to get ready to discover the Around the World with Mr. Adventure app, visit Heathrow.com/aroundtheworld\nYou can also buy an IRL (that's 'In Real Life' as the kids would say) Mr. Men book: Mr. Adventure to add to your kids' library and travel pack.\nA delightful app to enjoy sharing the world of discovery with a new generation of travelers. Also have some nostalgic fun yourself. This beats a lot of other ways to kill time at an airport.\nThe Winter Solstice this year takes place on Wednesday, December 21st. The first official day of the winter season, it marks the shortest period of daylight \u2013 and longest period of darkness \u2013 on the calendar.\nNo wonder cultures and religions around the world created winter solstice festivals that celebrate light.\nFor many of us these days, the question is: celebrate winter\u2026 or escape it?\nSo we devote this newsletter to some of the most unforgettable travel experiences we could find for you to create warm memories in cold weather... or bask in sun and warmth.\nHowever \u2013 and wherever - you spend the holidays, we wish you and yours a bright and joyful holiday season.\nHappy Travels and Happy Holidays!\nPhoto: BestTrip.TV in the Kawarthas, Canada\n\u200bHave you ever thought about living in a castle while on vacation?\nIn countries such as Germany, Ireland, France, Italy and Scotland, you can often stay in a castle for far less than a hotel.\n\u2022 Castle Hotel Auf Sch\u00f6nberg This castle is surrounded by a beautiful view of the Rhine River along with vineyards and trails for hiking and is perfect for touring the wine country. The castle was inherited by all the sons in the family instead of just the eldest; it accommodated up to 250 people from 24 families during the 14th century.\n\u2022 Castle Hotel Liebenstein This castle is the highest castle in the Rhine River Valley. Is is a part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Rhine Valley. Liebenstein is furnished in medieval style with decorations that rival those of the luxury Hotel Wernberg. Rumor has it that the castle hotel was built for the younger of the two brothers whose feud over a woman split the family line forever. From the hotel, it is only a short walk down to the river pier where Rhine cruises depart daily.\n\u2022 Castle Sababurg This castle is surrounded by the oldest zoological garden in Europe (Tierpark Sababurg) and an ancient forest with oak trees that are over 650 years old (Urwald Sababurg). It is also the setting for the Sleeping Beauty fairytale. Each of the hotel\u2019s rooms is named after an animal, a nod to the castle\u2019s history. Performances and parties are held both in the castle\u2019s vaulted cellar and in the castle ruins.\n\u2022 Burghotel Schloss Staufenberg This castle is located near Giessen, Marburg, and Wetzlar. It has replaced room numbers with the names of important historical persons. You can stay in Count Gazmar\u2019s Suite or Countess Sophie\u2019s Apartments. During World War II Staufenberg was occupied by Allied troops and used as a refugee camp.\n\u2022 Castle Hotel Colmberg Set in Bavaria, the thousand-year-old Castle Colmberg is a destination on both the Romantic Road and the Castle Road. This hotel has it all: ancient stone towers, fortified walls, overgrown royal stables, and a deer reserve. Ask for one of the historic rooms that have four-poster beds, centuries-old paintings, antique furniture, and wooden ceilings.\nReady set jet!!! Contact us today for more information.\nMake no mistake. Destination weddings can be pricey, but not if you know how to make them work. Besides, the fact that you will host your wedding at your dream destination is all that matters. read more\nThe World's Best Yoga Spots\nThe spot is located on the foothills of Kerala's western Ghat in India. The beauty of nature coupled with the graceful flow of Neyyar Dam water makes it the ideal place to meditate. Among the lessons learnt here includes hatha yoga courses which involves chanting, yoga practice and meditation. read more\nVideo: Top 10 Must Visit Cities Around the World\nDo you want to be a globetrotting traveler? Start your adventure with the 10 cities listed in the vlog and you will have started with a bang. They are a representative sample of what you can expect when you travel the world. read more\nin Panama, Panama\nPanama is a bridge between two worlds. It separates North America from South America. It is a melting pot of cultures. If there is one place to go to experience the best of Americas, it would be Panama. read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 38473, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 267.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.allhealthpolicy.org/the-olmstead-decision-five-years-later-how-has-it-affected-health-services-and-the-civil-rights-of-individuals-with-disabilities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:20Z", "digest": "sha1:3ZORO7QOOAFFEQGN43F7EXYZTDQGIITW", "length": 1369, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.allhealthpolicy.org", "title": "The Olmstead Decision Five Years Later: How Has It Affected Health Services and the Civil Rights of Individuals with Disabilities? \u2013 Alliance for Health Policy", "raw_content": "What was the significance of the Supreme Court decision for Medicaid beneficiaries? What has been the practical impact of the decision five years later? Are more individuals with disabilities being served today in Medicaid home and community-based settings, rather than in institutions, as compared to 1999? Has the mix or quality of services changed? How have recent state budget constraints affected the response to the Olmstead decision? Overall, what is the state of states\u2019 progress in complying with Olmstead?\nTo help address these questions and others, the Alliance for Health Reform and the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured sponsored a June 21, 2004 briefing. Panelists were: Eileen Elias, deputy director of the HHS Office on Disability; Michael Gottesman, of Georgetown University, who was the plaintiff\u2019s attorney in the Olmstead case; Tim Westmoreland, a senior Medicaid official in 1999 and now a visiting professor of law at Georgetown; Matt Salo, director of the Health and Human Services Committee at the National Governors Association; Tom Perez, former head of the HHS Office for Civil Rights and now on the law faculty at the University of Maryland; and Bob Williams, former commissioner of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities. Ed Howard of the Alliance and Diane Rowland of the Kaiser Commission moderated the discussion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 4382, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 235.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.andersonandsonsfh.com/2016/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:29Z", "digest": "sha1:R6PPP74N33QLT27BAZNZJQK5XU2SV6Z5", "length": 2273, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.andersonandsonsfh.com", "title": "October | 2016 | Anderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services", "raw_content": "Richard \u201cButch\u201d Rauscher\nService: His memorial service will be at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, Novemeber 1, at Anderson Funeral Home in Canton.\nRichard \u201cButch\u201d Rauscher, age 71, died Wednesday, October 26, 2016 at Sanford USD Medical Center. Memorial services will begin at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 1 at Anderson Funeral Home in Canton, SD. Family will be present one hour prior to \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nEdline Haugen\nService: Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, October 29, at Canton Lutheran Church.\nCanton. Edline Haugen, 98, passed away Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at Sanford Canton-Inwood Hospital. Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, October 29, at Canton Lutheran Church. Visitation will be Friday from 2 to 8:00 p.m. at Anderson Funeral \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nHelen Volsch\nVisitation: Visitation will be Tuesday from 2-8 p.m., family present from 6-8 p.m., at Heritage Funeral Home.\nService: Memorial services will begin at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 26 at Heritage Funeral Home in Sioux Falls, SD. Private family burial will take place following the service.\nHelen Volsch, age 85, passed away surrounded by her family on Saturday, October 22, 2016 at Dougherty Hospice House. Memorial services will begin at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, October 26 at Heritage Funeral Home in Sioux Falls, SD. Private family \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nGlenda L. Helgerson\nService: Funeral services will begin at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, October 20 at Canton Lutheran Church Canton, SD.\nGlenda Helgerson, age 97, died Sunday, October 16, 2016 at Good Samaritan Society Canton. Funeral services will begin at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, October 20 at Canton Lutheran Church. Visitation will be Wednesday from 2-8 p.m., family present from 6-8 \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nMarlin H. \u201cMarly\u201d Anderson\nVisitation: Visitation will be Monday from 2:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Anderson Funeral Home, Canton, with family present from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.\nService: His funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 18, at Canton Lutheran Church.\nCanton. Marlin H. \u201cMarly\u201d Anderson, 89 passed away Friday, October 14, 2016 at Canton Good Samaritan Society. His funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, October 18, at Canton Lutheran Church. Visitation will be Monday from 2:00 to 8:00 \u2026 Continue reading \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 4361, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 252.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.anglesey.gov.uk/jobs/working-for-the-council/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:IZRQKIRX7F4RCTS2HR5ENGG7WVZIC7MZ", "length": 2936, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.anglesey.gov.uk", "title": "Working for the council | Isle of Anglesey", "raw_content": "The Isle of Anglesey County Council exists to serve its residents and provides a comprehensive range of services and facilities. We are committed to providing the best possible services for everyone on Anglesey and we recognise that to do this we need our most important asset - our employees. Recruiting, retaining and developing the right people with the right skills at the right time are essential for us to deliver services that improve the quality of life for Isle of Anglesey residents. We offer a wide range of job opportunities and careers, and currently employ approximately 3,000 workers.\nIf you would like to be a part of our valued workforce and make a positive difference to the people of Anglesey, we look forward to hearing from you.\nWe operate a Local Government Pension Scheme in cooperation with Gwynedd County Council. Further information about the fund can be found on the Gwynedd Pension Fund website.\nThe annual leave entitlement varies between 21 and 29 days per year - depending on length of service. Staff are also entitled to 8 days leave for bank andpublic holidays, and 3 and a half days over the Christmas period - the half day to be taken on the last working day before Christmas and the 3 days between Christmas and the New Year. 1 March is also a day off for office based staff.\nAs well as the leave noted above, paid absence may be granted in special circumstances such as bereavement, attending medical appointments, undertaking public duties and so on.\nEnsuring that staff strike a healthy balance between work and home life is very important for the Council.\nTraining and Development - people strategy\nIn order to support the Council\u2019s Vision and Strategic Priorities in delivering excellent services, we have to ensure that the people we employ are skilled, trained and motivated to meet the challenging needs ahead.\nEvery employee can expect:\nA formal induction process\nAn annual Performance Appraisal\nA Development Plan\nRegular meetings with your manager\nSupported with the Welsh language and culture\nAccess to a wide range of training and development opportunities\nContribution towards the membership of professional bodies which are relevant to the work.\nWe aim to achieve the highest standard of managing the health, safety and wellbeing of all our staff.\nThere are also a number of addition benefits when working for the Isle of Anglesey County Council,\nan opportunity to work within a Welsh environment - we have a bilingual policy\nfree car parking facilities at most of our sites\nfree eye tests for staff who make regular use of Visual Display Units\nMEDRA Counselling service - free and confidential counselling service for staff\nformal uniform and safety equipment are provided for staff within specific posts.\nFor further information about the Isle of Anglesey County Council employment package, please contact Human Resources. Please see the contact details in the right hand navigation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 473, "original_length": 15091, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.annunciationmonastery.org/events/happenings.html/article/2015/11/29/first-sunday-of-advent-reflection", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ZHTJ23WNDWQMYZ6FC34KNT4GRGLVUDED", "length": 2289, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.annunciationmonastery.org", "title": "Annunciation Monastery : Events : Happenings", "raw_content": "First Sunday of Advent Reflection\nKathleen Atkinson, osb\nI want to begin by telling you about my friend, Curtis. Curtis is a free spirit, spontaneous in a way that unfortunately landed him in jail more than once. Always vowing to think before he acts next time and someday, someday, he is going to make it.\nBut I met Curtis in the ND state penitentiary. One evening he was reading the Scriptures for Mass. As he came to the conclusion he said \"the Word of the Lord....well actually, chaplain, not all of the Word of the Lord cuz I skipped some of the hard names. Is that okay?\" I answered, \"It's okay.\" He straightened up and proclaimed, \"The Word of the Lord, just not all of it.\" And as good Catholics, we responded \"Thanks be to God.\"\nI've been thinking about what Curtis said and he has become one of my theologians - the Word we hear proclaimed this First Sunday of Advent is the Word of the Lord. It's just not all of it.\nIt is a word waiting to become flesh.\nIt is a word waiting to be taken out into the streets and jails and households of our city.\nWe're not meant to cozy up with God's soothing , 'May the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all.' We are meant to hear it so deeply that we move into areas where love seems to be in short supply. We are meant to hear God's word 'There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars' so deeply that we can't help but be concerned about the destruction of this earth which is our sacred home. We are meant to be carrying our recent celebration of Thanksgiving so deeply that we realize the first Thanksgiving was about welcome of refugees...who had traveled a perilous trip across the water...in search of a better life.\n400 years later, how can we not welcome the stranger when they get off the boat?\nIt's the First Sunday of Advent. A time of hearing deeply, responding courageously, and trusting that God is with us.\nTheologian Walter Brueggeman invites: What a stunning vocation for the church, to stand free and hope-filled in a world gone fearful and to think, imagine, dream, vision a future that God will yet enact.\nOr - as my theologian friend, Curtis, would say - you will know that the Word proclaimed is the Word of the Lord - just not all of it.\nThat is for you and me to live forward.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 3330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 296.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.anpcnola.org/announcements/2018nationalnightoutagainstcrime", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:58Z", "digest": "sha1:JR6S22RSE6ZMF3TB5YZCZ45TZTN7VWY6", "length": 742, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.anpcnola.org", "title": "2018 National Night Out Against Crime - Algiers Neighborhood Presidents Council", "raw_content": "2018 National Night Out Against Crime\nposted Aug 31, 2018, 1:08 PM by Algiers Neighborhood Presidents Council [ updated Aug 31, 2018, 1:09 PM ]\nThe 35th Annual National Night Out Against Crime is Tuesday, October 16, 2018.\nThe National Night Out Against Crime in New Orleans is a community-wide event to raise crime prevention awareness, reduce crime and increase the support of local, state and federal law enforcement. It began over 30 years ago with NOPD officer Kelly Marrione.\nThe 2018 Night Out Against Crime Kick-off Party will take place at 5 p.m. at (NORDC) A.L. Davis Park, Central City, 2600 Lasalle St, New Orleans, LA 70113.\nCheck with your Neighborhood Association for the location and time for \"Night Out\" in your neighborhood.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 240.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.antimony.asia/infrastructure-facilities.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EZJXVFW54IYH7L7BRRI4ZG7532VB6UOJ", "length": 1071, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.antimony.asia", "title": "Chemico Synthetics Limited - Infrastructure & Facilities", "raw_content": "We have established well developed infrastructure equipped with latest technology and advanced machinery, quality testing and warehousing facilities. Our infrastructure is divided into various sections to maintain the flow of work. Therefore, it helps in implementing proper coordination enabling efficient business activities.\nThe manufacturing unit is well facilitated with all the machinery and equipment that is required in the processing of antimony salts and its derivatives.\nSome of the machine installed at our manufacturing unit includes:\nWe possess a well equipped research and development unit managed by experts who conduct various experiments and researches on essential matters like formulation of chemicals and intensification of the process. Due to their untiring efforts, we are able to reach to the heart of our clients across the globe. Customers\u2019 complaints, market survey and feedback from periodic market research, etc. provide inputs to our experts with which they redesign and develop products according to latest trends and client's requirements.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.arbookcorner.com/2013/06/book-review-ace-of-diamond-by-vogue.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:01Z", "digest": "sha1:FV3ZGXKL7ZIUB4IOG4P7NTTF5H5MMIBZ", "length": 1779, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.arbookcorner.com", "title": "Authors & Readers Book Corner: Book Review: The Ace of Diamond by Vogue", "raw_content": "The Ace of Diamonds\n4 Stars=Great Page Turner\nThe Santiago drama is back in The Ace of Diamonds by Vogue. In this third installment, Jay has been released from prison and is back rebuilding is empire with Malik. Jay has decided that he wants to change business ventures and get out of the drug game. He approaches an old friend who he believes will be able to get the ball running. Jay soon realizes that everything is not as it seems especially when there are people trying their best to bring harm to him and his family.\nCarmen Santiago Kane is still trying to make her marriage with Michael Kane work. Kane is still determined to bring his wife\u2019s ex down and put him away for life. Carmen is stuck in the middle because she loves both Michael and Jay. When Jay approaches her about helping him with his new business venture it brings them closer. Carmen is soon asking Michael for a divorce, which makes him want to destroy Jay even more. When Carmen agrees to help Jay she is not aware that she is also putting herself in the crossfire of Jay\u2019s enemies.\nBlu is an old friend of King\u2019s who joins the team to be of assistance. When King gets out of jail he is hit with the realization that his friend has tried to take over his family\u2019s empire. King also finds out that harsh decisions were made by Jay and some of his friends are missing. King\u2019s heart darkens and soon he picks up where Blu left off, fighting to take over everything Jay has built.\nThe Ace of Diamonds is about greed, betrayal and consequences. This book is consistent with the first two books of the series and has more secrets, lies and drama. These characters will have readers turning pages until the end. I recommend The Ace of Diamond to others.\nThis book was provided by the author for review purposes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 7117, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.articleon.com/cibn-financial-institutions-t-link-146778.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:30Z", "digest": "sha1:VNLARVEGA56H32DYQFVMFXNREAUUTYOW", "length": 408, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.articleon.com", "title": "CIBN, financial institutions to brainstorm on corporate governance, SMEs financing - Vanguard", "raw_content": "CIBN, financial institutions to brainstorm on corporate governance, SMEs financing - Vanguard\nhttp://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/07/cibn-financial-institu...\nFollowing the slow pace of tackling financial crisis in Nigeria, and Africa in general,the C hartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) and financial institutions across the country have concluded arrangement to deliberate on issues that affect ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 6981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 285.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.artistsharbour.com/artists/index.php?id=74", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:EUNYMOP7HOKTHDI6EKKAB4WPDXJDJDDK", "length": 515, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.artistsharbour.com", "title": "Kate OSBORNE - Artists Harbour Gallery", "raw_content": "OSBORNE, Kate\nKate works very freely in watercolour, with the minimum of compositional drawing; this gives the paintings an unpremeditated look, which attempts to express the beautiful but transitory nature of the subject matter- fruit, flowers and vegetables.\nKate started her career as a floral textile designer before developing her painting and illustration skills. She is a member of Great British Watercolours, a Sussex based group of watercolour artists who have all exhibited nationally and internationally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 889, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.artofsaving.com/minimizing-income-tax-liability-includes-cost-segr-blog-119", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:04Z", "digest": "sha1:HO2RE7RL77MHM2HZ5YP74CGJBBP3ETJP", "length": 5053, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.artofsaving.com", "title": "Tom Stevens: Minimizing Income Tax Liability Includes Cost Segregation! (Real Estate) | Art Of Saving", "raw_content": "By: Tom Stevens Real Estate 1 Follower\nCost Segregation is an IRS endorsed tax strategy that is simple and easy to understand. The purpose in having a Cost Segregation Study performed is to allow owners to depreciate their commercial property in a manner that is different from the standard method of accounting, which is 39 years. Let\u2019s face it, if the owner were a 60-year-old property owner, how much depreciation on the property would the owner realistically expect to enjoy? If you think about this cynically, the Government is betting that the life of the property, in terms of depreciation (39 years), is going to \u201coutlive\u201d most property owners! So, wouldn\u2019t it be nice to dramatically accelerate the depreciation now so that the owner can take advantage of an immediate cash flow in the current tax year? Well, now it can be done legally.\nThe actual basis for this new accelerated depreciation method of accounting has a legal foundation dating back to 1997. The important thing to know is that in order for anybody to take advantage of this program, they must hire an independent 3rd party qualified engineering firm to perform the Cost Segregation Study, according to the IRS Chief Counsel.\nWhen owners elect to have a Cost Segregation Study performed on their commercial building, it allows certain components of the building assets to be accelerated from the standard 39-year depreciation schedule into segments of 5,7, 15, and 27.5-year increments. Some elements of the structure will remain at 39 years. In cases where the amount of the identified accelerated depreciation exceeds the amount of paid in tax from the current tax year, the commercial property owner is even able to go back the two previous years in recouping monies that have already been paid. If needed, this program even allows for a carry-forward of the accelerated depreciation until it is used up.\nSo, what are the engineers actually doing? The role of the engineering company is to: 1) Properly classify each of the structural components of a commercial building, 2) Identify whether the structural components are either permanent in nature or decorative, 3) Determine whether each structural component is incidental to the operation and maintenance of the building, 4) Apply the sole justification test for personal property, and 6) Review applicable Legislative analysis and committee reports. In addition, the engineers are responsible to have the skill-set to comprehend and have knowledge of all the IRS and Court rulings on Cost Segregation Studies from 1997 to the present.\nOnce a commercial property owner has decided to move forward with a cost segregation study, the engineers will require some specific documentation, such as architectural plans, blueprints, depreciation schedule, etc. In addition, the owner or the owner\u2019s CPA will be asked to provide the cost basis of the property to ensure that the study is based on the correct depreciation amount. When the study is complete and delivered, the results of the study are reviewed with the owner and the CPA. None of the owner\u2019s internal staff is needed to perform the study and, with the exception of the site visit and digital survey, the study is done in an unobtrusive manner off-site. The Cost Segregation Study is a legally allowable depreciation method. The key is to find an Engineering firm that specializes in these studies and has staff members who are fluent as construction experts. The engineers performing the study need to know what is \u201cin the walls\u201d and must know how to apply the parameters of IRS approved industry standards and systems. The Engineering analysis needs to analyze construction drawings, standard cost systems, and construction analysis. An IRS memorandum even suggests an \u201cengineering cost segregation study\u201d as the proper application.\nThe Cost Segregation Study typically takes 4-6 weeks. It can reduce the owner\u2019s year-end taxes or reduce the owner\u2019s current quarterly estimated tax payments. Again, the Cost Segregation Study is available to any commercial building. The program does not displace an Accountant; but provides Accountants with a great way that they can endear themselves to their clients by suggesting this acceptable accounting practice that will maximize tax benefits for their clients.\nTom holds a BS degree in statistics and marketing from the University of Alabama and a Master\u2019s degree in management (emphasis in organization structure and dynamics) from Auburn University. Tom\u2019s career includes 33 years in the IT industry where he ended that work as the CIO of the Hechinger Company. In 2001, Tom began working for himself and focused his energies on the development and implementation of marketing programs for small and mid-size companies. In the Fall of 2004, Tom began to concentrate his marketing efforts on cost segregation.\nTom is the president of Cost Segregation Studies, Inc and can be contacted at tstevens@cost-segregation-studies.com, at 770-476-9694 or visit his website for more information at www.cost-segregation-studies.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 7842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 234.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.asiapropertypublishing.com/article/hih-seeks-assets-big-german-cities-korean-investors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:59Z", "digest": "sha1:T63L7LXBRZ7E6CTUDVBRUMEPNAMA6KU3", "length": 195, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.asiapropertypublishing.com", "title": "HIH seeks assets beyond big seven German cities for Korean investors | Asia Property", "raw_content": "South Korean investors continue to look further afield in Europe to secure better returns. German investment manager HIH, which manages \u20ac17bn ($20.1bn) of European real estate, has begun a drive\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 2997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 195.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.assignmentconstruct.com/index.php/assignmentconstruct/article/hensel_vela_lighting_kit/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:56Z", "digest": "sha1:WLSX4RAD4XMZWOBY2EAHWKFI5EARNHKW", "length": 3346, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.assignmentconstruct.com", "title": "Assignment Construct", "raw_content": "This case is one of our primary workhorse cases; it goes practically everywhere we go. In the case, we have three Velas 1500 watt /second packs. We have a little bit of gaffer\u2019s tape. We have five heads.\nEach of the heads is individually labeled with a number, and our contact information if God forbid a heads get left somewhere. Three power cords, several reflectors, and an extension cord. If we need to go beyond where this extension cord will get us, we actually take separate cord kits that are individually packed sets of power cords and extension cords and power strips.\nThis kit is spec\u2019d out so that it weighs one hundred pounds and no more. One of the nice things about this is what we also do in addition is we label the front of it on a white piece of tape the actual dimensions of it and we\u2019ll write on there what the weight is we are working with. So that the airline person does not come out after the fact and say to us that this is too big or this weighs too much.\nSo let\u2019s look at each one of these Vela packs. One of the things that I really like about the Velas is that you can put three heads in it. Each one of these heads is plugged into the pack, and then is adjustable in tenth of a stop increments. From anywhere within the 500 watts/seconds to 125 watt/second range, all the way up to 1500.\nBecause these are 3000 watt/second heads, they\u2019re interchangeable at all of those power settings. So we have three of these, all identical. If one of our packs was to go down, not a problem, we can actually go and use one of the packs or put more than one head on a pack if we have to. That\u2019s the value of redundancy in these packs.\nEach one of these heads is an EHT-3000 head, which means it\u2019s a 3000 watt/second head. We put our contact information on it. From all sides, when you\u2019re looking at the head, you can tell which head you have. And you can make individual adjustments, because we\u2019ve labeled it also with this label at the other end of the cord so that when you\u2019re at the pack you know which one you\u2019re adjusting. So when you\u2019re looking at the head, you know that this is head 7, and this is the power for head 7. When you make an adjustment on the pack to adjust the power of the head, you know which head you are adjusting.\nOne of the nice things about the Versa-Flex cases is they have these handles on the top, to allow you to lift the whole case up yourself. In addition, they have handles on either end. These handles allow two people to carry the pack, rather than just one. You can, of course, carry it from the top as well from these bars. One of the other really nice things, if you look here on the Hensel is this little pouch right here. This little pouch carries the wheels and the wheel bar that this pack rolls on.\nThis Versa-Flex case is really well thought out, from the handles on the top and on the sides to the wheel bar, which we can actually insert wheels into the bottom. A wheel on either side and they screw together. So the wheels will spin on the cases. What\u2019s great about it is if you\u2019re going through an airport and one person is on this case, it\u2019s not a problem to do because of these wheels. But the great thing about it is that these wheels will come off, come apart, and they go into the pouch on the front of the pack. So you aren\u2019t breaking these wheels off when you\u2019re traveling.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 6940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.astronomy.net/forums/blackholes/messages/3875.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:09Z", "digest": "sha1:DA2BQDVG66UP2K42MQFY2ZINEEUDAJX3", "length": 731, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.astronomy.net", "title": "Re: What Is Magnetic Field - an Astronomy Net Blackholes Forum Message", "raw_content": "Re: What Is Magnetic Field\nPosted by Richard Ruquist on February 20, 2001 13:53:06 UTC\nNow I am even more confused. You say that\nBecause Maxwell equations are not relativistic (except for massless photons),\nAre you saying that Maxwell's equations apply to something besides photons.\nThat would be really interesting to know.\nRe: Re: What is magnetic field - bruce - February 20, 2001 - 22:17 UTC\nRe: Re: Re: What is magnetic field - yanniru - February 21, 2001 - 00:12 UTC\nRe: Re: Re: Re: What is magnetic field - alexander - February 21, 2001 - 19:42 UTC\nRe: Re: Re: Re: Re: What is magnetic field - yanniru - February 21, 2001 - 21:14 UTC\nRe: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What is magnetic field - alexander - February 22, 2001 - 00:28 UTC", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.atlapedia.com/online/maps/political/Slovenia_etc.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XNWFCXIR4CD77PIF5RH2MD7XHRXDEVHA", "length": 1042, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.atlapedia.com", "title": "Political Map of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro - Atlapedia\u00ae Online", "raw_content": "Bosnia-Herzegovina is a republic of the former socialist Yugoslavia. It is bound by Croatia to the north, northwest and west, Serbia and Montenegro to the northeast, east and southeast as well as the Adriatic Sea to the south....\nCroatia was a republic of the former socialist Yugoslavia. It is bound by Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast and the Adriatic Sea to the west and southwest....\nSerbia with its semi-autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina, and Montenegro is located on the Balkan Peninsula of East Europe and is bound by the Adriatic Sea and Albania to the southwest, Bosnia-Herzegovina to the west, Croatia to the northwest, Hungary to the north, Romania and Bulgaria to the east and Macedonia to the southeast....\nSlovenia is a republic of the former socialist Yugoslavia. It is bound by the Gulf of Trieste to the southwest, Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Hungary to the northeast and Croatia to the south and southeast....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 17, "original_length": 1626, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 85.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.atnf.csiro.au/computing/software/atca_aips/node11.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:13Z", "digest": "sha1:BM3NKYQFH7HIUZGW4GVOTQ27CCPOKOLV", "length": 4168, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.atnf.csiro.au", "title": "Stokes Parameters and Polarization", "raw_content": "Next: Should I calibrate in Up: BASIC CONCEPTS OF CALIBRATION Previous: Antenna-based gain calibration\nStokes Parameters and Polarization\nThe (Sir George) Stokes parameters provide a very useful description of the polarization state of an electromagnetic wave. Because of the importance of polarimetry in radio astronomy, I will give a brief description of Stokes parameters, their relation to the quantities measured by the ATCA and the ensuing ramifications for calibration purposes. See also the MIRIAD manual for good (we think) descriptions of polarimetric issues involving the ATCA and the ATNF scientific memorandum by Sault, Killeen, and Kesteven on ATCA polarization calibration.\nThe Stokes parameters are related to the amplitudes of the components of the electric field, and , resolved in two perpendicular directions normal to the direction of propogation. If and are represented by and , respectively, then the Stokes parameters are defined as:\nwhere the angle brackets denote a time average. The parameter I is a measure of the total power in the wave, Q and U represent the linearly polarized component, and V represents the circularly polarized component. These values can be converted to a measure of polarization as follows:\nwhere , , and are the degrees of linear, circular and total polarization, and is the position angle of the plane of polarization. The Stokes parameters have the dimensions of flux density, and they combine additively for independent waves.\nThe next question is how to relate the Stokes parameters to the correlations that an interferometer produces. In general, the response of an interferometer is a linear combination of two Stokes parameters, the combination determined by the polarization of each antenna (e.g. linear feeds for the ATCA or circular feeds for the VLA). By observing with different combinations of polarizations, all the Stokes parameters can be determined, and the complete state of the polarization of the wave found. For the interferometer, each Stokes parameter has a corresponding complex visibility. Therefore, the variation of each of the Stokes parameters over the source can be imaged individually, and the polarization of the radiation emitted from the source at any location determined. Note that in the image plane, I is always positive (ignoring noise, errors and beam sidelobes), whereas Q, U, and V may be positive or negative depending on the polarization position angle, or sense of rotation.\nThe correlations from an interferometer with perfectly linearly polarized feeds and identical gains are related to the Stokes parameters as follows:\nwhere the X and Y feeds are orthogonal and in the equatorial reference frame of the source. It is instructive to look at the equations for telescopes (such as the VLA) with circularly polarized feeds as well. In this case,\nIn the discussion of \u00a7 3.1 there is no polarization information explicitly included in the calibration equation; the model must match the data. For circular feeds, the generally represents the RR and LL visibilities and the calibrator model source is assumed to be not circularly polarized so that RR and LL respond purely to Stokes I. However, it is not so simple for linear feeds. Here we associate the with the XX and YY visibilities. But now, the model visibilities should really include the fact that XX and YY respond to Stokes Q and U as well as Stokes I. However, generally, we do not know what the polarization characteristics of a calibrator are, so that this is not straightforward. This is why it is more complex to calibrate linearly polarized feeds compared to circularly polarized feeds.\nThe above equations are for ideal antennas. In reality, the feeds are not perfectly linearly polarized, so that an observation of an unpolarized sources yields a source which appears polarized. Furthermore, the feeds rotate with respect to the equatorial reference frame of the source, so that the above equations are not directly useable. 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You may terminate this Agreement at any time by uninstalling the Licensed Works and destroying all copies of the Licensed Works. Upon any termination, you agree to uninstall the Licensed Works and return or destroy all copies of the Licensed Works, any accompanying documentation, and all other associated materials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 488, "original_length": 19898, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bakers-furniture.co.uk/privacy-cookies-policy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:3MTZO7C7VTRMJGY4LG2QRBH7Q3UNYJCS", "length": 1682, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bakers-furniture.co.uk", "title": "Baker Furnishings Wakefield Sofas Chairs Dining Bedroom Furniture", "raw_content": "The personal information collected on the website will be treated confidentially and dealt with in accordance with this Privacy Statement and the website's Terms and Conditions of Use.\nIf you follow a link to another website this privacy statement will not apply. You are advised to check the privacy policy of the website in question.\nAny personal data you provide to us will be used by us to deal with any enquiry you make through the website and to provide any services which you ask us to provide. We may also add your details to our database.\nWe may use cookies to store session information while users are browsing the website. We may also use cookies at its discretion to enable more accurate reporting of site usage data, such as new visitors, unique visitors and returning visitors. The data stored in the cookie for usage tracking is a randomly generated identifier and does not identify you personally.\nPlease note that we cannot guarantee that any email sent from you to us will be received by us or that its contents are or will remain secure during or following transmission. Likewise we cannot guarantee that emails sent by us to you are secure. If you have any concerns about the security of email transmissions to or from us, you may prefer to telephone or write to us instead.\nWe respect your right to privacy and treat our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 (\"the Act\") very seriously. We will keep your personal information confidential except to the extent that it is necessary to disclose it by law or to comply with a regulatory or legal process or where we need to disclose the information to provide a product or service that you have requested.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 335.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bartastor.com/blog/archives/03-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:50Z", "digest": "sha1:63M4G4K2JK7G3WN7H4AAK4NUUI4JGOXT", "length": 2848, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.bartastor.com", "title": "Blog Archives - Bart Astor", "raw_content": "Dying with Nothing to Say - a Response\nI read an interesting op-ed recently by Katie Roiphe called \u201cDying with Nothing to Say\u201d in which she talks about \u201clast conversations\u201d and being able to have a conversation with a dying loved one. I strongly recommend you read it (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/opinion/sunday/dying-with-nothing-to-say.html?_r=0) and think about it.\nI thought a lot about what Ms. Roiphe wrote and, of course, it makes sense. I have often repeated to people that when my mother died, I felt that she and I had connected and said our goodbyes. I described it as \u201cwe were clear with each other, we were confident in our love.\u201d\nBut I didn\u2019t regret not grilling her with answers to my questions. Of course I had many. Of course I wanted to know everything I could about her, her life, and our relationship, since I knew I wouldn\u2019t have another chance. But is that really the right time? Not in my opinion. There\u2019s no right time to have that conversation (except maybe right now). But if you haven\u2019t, is the right time when your parent is leaving you? Frankly, I don\u2019t think so. I\u2019d like to think what my mother wanted from me on her deathbed was thanks and assurance that I would be fine. Like what Ms. Roiphe said about wishing she had reassured her father that he didn\u2019t need to worry about her or her daughter. I think my mother wanted to die peacefully knowing that the people she loved would remember her, would love her, would appreciate all she did for us, and would go on to have happy, fulfilled lives. Isn\u2019t that what parents want for their children? Isn\u2019t that what we want for any of our loved ones? Isn\u2019t that what I could have given my dying mother? The peace she wanted.\nBefore my mother died and indeed, before my father died many years later, I made sure I asked many of the questions about their lives. I had more and I didn\u2019t get all the answers. But I got what I needed. Questions still come up, many years after both of my parents died. And sadly, I will not be able to get those answers. It\u2019s not like being able to uncover a new room in King Tut\u2019s burial chamber. I won\u2019t know how my mother and my wife would have loved each other because they never got the chance to meet. Or what she really thought when she was on stage singing at the Palace Theater. Or what it was about my father that drove him to go to night school to become a lawyer, despite being a high school drop out. Or what it is about me that comes from them.\nBut I do know that the last time my father and I spoke, just a couple weeks before he died, he told me that he was at peace. He used the word \u201ccontent.\u201d I hugged him then and told him I was happy to hear that. He had seen me grow up. He had seen that my brother and I had created good lives for ourselves. He really was content. We had achieved, what Mr. Roiphe called \u201cclarity.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 3708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 204.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.basbwe.net/event187.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:15Z", "digest": "sha1:YOO3KPR4RZDT2D2URLRQTPXPVBNNMMB2", "length": 412, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.basbwe.net", "title": "BASBWE", "raw_content": "The performance on Thursday 22 September forms part of the London Symphony Orchestra's 2016/17 season launch week, and sees Philip Cobb perform as a soloist in the Haydn Trumpet Concerto. The concert will be conducted by newly-appointed LSO Principal Guest Conductor, Gianandrea Noseda, and will feature two other works that explored new musical possibilities ? Debussy's La mer and Shostakovich's Symphony No 5.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 1830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 145.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bcgavel.com/2018/01/31/ugbc-resolution-calls-referendum-supports-students-sexual-health/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:56Z", "digest": "sha1:GKISXNFRC7PDY6FHXUJJQE23QEDLGYQ6", "length": 4999, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.bcgavel.com", "title": "UGBC Resolution Calls for Referendum, Supports Students for Sexual Health | BANG.", "raw_content": "Home\u203aNews\u203aBC News\u203aUGBC Resolution Calls for Referendum, Supports Students for Sexual Health\nUGBC Resolution Calls for Referendum, Supports Students for Sexual Health\nOn Tuesday night, the UGBC Student Assembly voted in favor of a student body referendum concerning Students For Sexual Health (SSH) and their ability to distribute contraceptives and host meetings on campus.\nThe resolution was passed with 18 votes in favor, four votes in opposition, and three abstains.\nThe resolution concerning a sexual health referendum calls for Boston College to \u201callow the Students For Sexual Health to distribute contraceptives to their peers and hold meetings on campus, without receiving official university recognition and funding.\u201d\nAdditionally, the resolution expresses its support for a referendum of the general student body, which will give students an opportunity to vote on whether or not they agree with the above statement.\nOnce SSH has collected signatures from at least one-eighth of the student body supporting a referendum, the question will be added to the ballot on Feb. 15 for next year\u2019s UGBC president and executive vice president.\nThe resolution was sponsored by President Pro-Tempore Connor Kratz, MCAS '18, and was co-sponsored by senators Patrick Madaya, MCAS '18, and Nicole Booth, MCAS '19.\nAccording to supporters of the resolution, SSH will provide opportunities for students to talk and learn more about sexual health, particularly about critical issues such as STI protection.\nKratz, who is co-chair of SSH, presented the results of a study conducted by SSH about sexual activity and health at BC. 393 students out of the 9,309 undergraduate students responded to the survey, with a margin of error of 4.84%.\nAccording to the survey results, 80% of current BC students are engaging in sexual activity, often without knowing much about preventive measures against STIs or how to access sexual health resources.\nKratz, who has researched the subject extensively, said this study, as far as he is aware, provided the first empirical evidence of prevalent sexual activity and risky behaviors at a private Catholic university in the United States.\nWhile the administration has previously objected to SSH\u2019s activities on campus in the past on the grounds that the organization\u2019s mission is in contradiction the university\u2019s Jesuit and Catholic values, Kratz suggested that the university and SSH might be able to find common ground in some of their concerns raised by the survey results.\n\u201cCura personalis, which focuses on the well-being of the whole person, is often used among health advocates to help explain that our dimensions of health go much further than basic physical and mental health, and we need to consider all of these different dimensions of our well-being,\u201d said Kratz. \u201cOur relationships and sexual relationships are an integral part of that, especially as students are reaching a level of maturity where we are pursuing more intimacy in our relationships.\u201d\nOut of respect for the teachings of the Catholic Church, the resolution specifies that SSH would exist without the university's recognition or funding.\nGeorgetown University, another Jesuit institution, has already set a precedent that student organizations similar to BC\u2019s Students for Sexual Health should be allowed to meet on campus, although they do not receive any funding or recognition from the university.\nThe resolution follows a UGBC resolution from April 2016 that stated that the student body is \u201cin need of sexual health resources and education\" and is committed to \u201ca new endeavor of promoting sexual health resources, education, and dialogue.\"\nDuring the SA debate, the major concern discussed was whether or not UGBC should take a stance on SSH's visibility on campus. This took place prior to students having the chance to express their opinion in the referendum.\nSam Szemerenyi, MCAS '20, proposed an amendment to the resolution that would call for the referendum without UGBC's explicit support. While his proposal was discussed and supported by approximately twelve members of the SA, the amendment did not have enough votes to pass.\nFollowing UGBC\u2019s resolution, SSH will be collecting signatures from one-eighth of the student body in order to ensure that the referendum question makes it to the ballot on Feb. 15.\n\u201cI really hope that a dialogue starts on campus,\u201d said Kratz. \u201cThe goal is to raise awareness, and hopefully engage the students, and eventually the university. Our real hope is that the university will come to the bargaining table to work with students. I do believe that there are ways that we can be compatible and work to meet each other\u2019s needs and address this issue.\u201d\nTagsBoston CollegeCatholicconnor kratzcontraceptivesGeorgetown UniversityJesuitSam SzemerenyiSexual HealthSSHstudent assemblystudent referendumStudents for Sexual HealthUGBC\nWomen's Hockey Stays Undefeated on Path to Hockey East Semifinals\nMacklemore tickets sell out after thousands wait in line", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 360, "original_length": 12344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 278.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.becausejewish.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:35Z", "digest": "sha1:UHUDEXNTHY5UYCRCBSGAT5MUQEPUB5WI", "length": 1264, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.becausejewish.com", "title": "Because Jewish", "raw_content": "FRIDAY MARCH 1st 2019 - ACE OF CUPS in Conversation with Mike Greenhaus, Editor-in-Chief Relix Magazine and Rabbi Daniel Brenner\nThe Legendary Ace of Cups\nThe Beloved All-Female Rock Group from the 1960s San Francisco Psychedelic Scene\nFrom 1967 to 1972, the Ace of Cups were at the epicenter of the \u201860s cultural and social revolution. From the Acid Tests to the protests, from the free concerts in Golden Gate Park to the ballrooms of San Francisco, they shared stages with everyone from TheBand to the Grateful Dead, and were chosen to open for Jimi Hendrix the week after his groundbreaking performance at The Monterey Pop Festival.\nCome hear them talk about that time as well as share how Judaism and spirituality have played a part in their lives. Conversation and music with Mile G. and Reb Brenner.\nGET TICKETS TODAY - CLICK HERE\nAce of Cups Band\nEach Jam includes: Friday Night Ritual, Conversation about Music and Spirituality, Audience Q & A, and more...\n\u201cThe jamband and roots-rock scene that Relix grew out of has always been defined by its traditions and rituals dating back to the Grateful Dead, and I hope this series can explore some of the spiritual matters at the heart of each artists\u2019 musical journey.\u201d\n\u2013 Mike Greenhaus, Editor-in-Chief, Relix", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.berniesdawgblawg.com/2016/01/the-smart-era-and-some-paradigm-shifts.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UPSXXIJQVG3VA6V2MPTPPHQ7IUSPOIBC", "length": 4872, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.berniesdawgblawg.com", "title": "Bernie's Dawg Blawg: The Smart Era and some paradigm shifts", "raw_content": "The Smart Era and some paradigm shifts\nSo now that UGA has entered the era of football where it is \u201cWin or else\u201d, what other changes could we expect that would be in stark contrast to past experiences? Here are some I\u2019ve thought of, but please feel free to expound and/or add some I may have missed.\nMedia Access. This came up last week after the national championship game as it looks like there will be minimal access to players and some coaches/staff. Not a surprising development considering this is what is comfortable to Coach Smart being under Saban for so long. But it\u2019s going to drastically change the way in which those who cover UGA football develop stories as well as how the rest of us read them.\nAs a fan, I applaud it. Mostly because Smart should keep with what is comfortable while he makes this transition. Whether it\u2019s due to less distractions and increased focus, or not having certain news leak out, or if it\u2019s just a part of the process, if it helps us win one more game each season that\u2019s cool with me.\n(Also, I\u2019d prefer that game be located in Jacksonville. But no one\u2019s asking me...and I digress\u2026.)\nRecruiting. There\u2019s a plethora of possibilities under this sub-heading. And admittedly, some of you that follow recruiting more closely are probably better able to answer this one. But some things that jump to mind are gray shirts and roster management. The latter of which had already begun to improve as in 2015 we were playing with a full roster, at least moreso than previous seasons.\nAdmissions. There\u2019s rumors this may have even already come up. But in the past there\u2019s been a recruit here or there that for whatever reason (usually a class showing up on the transcript that might clear the NCAA Clearinghouse but causes some red flag to raise in the Admissions Office, or a discipline issue while the student-athlete was in high school) has been offered a spot on the team and may have even signed the Letter of Intent, but doesn\u2019t clear the tape to get admitted to UGA. For reference, recall michael Grant. He was a highly recruited defensive back (and track star) that chose UGA over Florida, Tennessee, and FSU. He signed but then wasn\u2019t cleared due to a disciplinary infraction that led to his suspension from South Gwinnett High School. He then landed at Stephenson High where he was a star on the gridiron and the track. As I remember, Richt went to bat for him when he was denied admission, but to no avail. Grant was released in full and signed with a grateful Houston Nutt in Arkansas.\nMore recently, Johnathan Taylor ran out of chances in Athens only to be given a famous \u201csecond\u201d chance in Tuscaloosa. I wouldn\u2019t expect that drastic of a philosophy and practice shift. I\u2019m sure Kirby knows that as well. But there\u2019s a lot of new faces around Butts-Mehre. So I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if there are discussions about marginal student-athletes and whether they should be given another chance in Athens.\nThe Jimmy Williamson Situation. This may have already been evolving as well. If so, we have our new President to thank for it. For I have heard many a story of how the head of UGA Campus Police just did not like Mark Richt. Maybe that\u2019s just me hearing things I want to hear, but there have been instances where very minor legal situations were awfully public. Believe me, if a guy breaks a law I\u2019m all for the legal system stepping in and correcting the behavior. But the fact is that Richt was often forced to answer questions you just never heard other coaches have to address. Which is why so many national Herbstreits felt the need to weigh in on occasions. Will Kirby be forced to navigate the Sheriff\u2019s office the way his predecessor did? On the other side of the coin (and for all those that felt Richt was the reason his players misbehaved), how will Smart\u2019s locker room leadership differ than Richt\u2019s? Convincing young men that nothing good happens downtown after midnight is easy. Having them remember that fact when they\u2019re there is much harder.\nTuscaloosa might be just a day\u2019s drive from Athens. But you don\u2019t have to go back too far historically to see things are handled differently here than they are there.\nAlso, roster management can have an impact on team behavior too. Think back to those years when we just didn\u2019t have enough upperclassmen on the roster, at least ones who had been in the locker room since their freshman year. Even if a senior doesn\u2019t play much, the coaches and staff are going to point to them as a model for the younger guys. If guys fresh out of high school are given too much power, suddenly the inmates are running the asylum.\nTo close, I don\u2019t necessarily endorse whole scale changes in the way things are handled, from Butts-Mehre to North Campus. But I think it will be interesting to see some philosophy shifts if nothing else. Like I\u2019ve said, it\u2019s an exciting time. Let\u2019s keep it up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 531, "original_length": 20793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.betweenmylines.com/reviews/genres/psychological/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:07Z", "digest": "sha1:TVANRH3U6ALKSERJHWUGQKQMX4TQ3UZW", "length": 365, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.betweenmylines.com", "title": "Psychological Archives - Between My Lines", "raw_content": "August 5, 2016\ttrish\tBook review\t12 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\nImagine the unthinkable. Imagine being a mother, pouring over your daughter\u2019s social media after her death. Then imagine trying to reconstruct her life and trying to figure out if it was suicide or homicide. That\u2019s the premise of Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight. Thoughts on Reconstructing Amelia by\u2026 Read more \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 7230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 326.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.bexleylscb.org.uk/page.php?section=section_4&id=273", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:34Z", "digest": "sha1:CUVLPFA33XJMY36LZZRXLOQYFE5FFJBY", "length": 3016, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.bexleylscb.org.uk", "title": "Bexley LSCB | Training Programme", "raw_content": "PLEASE NOTE THIS WEBSITE IS UNDER REVIEW AND SOME CONTENT MAY BE OUT OF DATE.\nBexley Safeguarding Partnership for Children and Young People provides training and development opportunities for anyone who works or volunteers with children and young people in Bexley. This is to help them safeguard and promote the welfare of children effectively. The opportunities available reflect different levels of responsibility.\nPractitioners and managers must be able to work effectively with others, both within their own agency and across organisational boundaries. This is best achieved by a combination of single-agency training (which is the responsibility of single agencies) and multi-agency learning and development opportunities (coordinated by the BSCB).\nTraining and Development Framework\nThe Training and Development Framework (which came into effect in April 2017) identifies 4 target groups:\nGroup 1 Staff / volunteers who have occasional contact with children and young people\nGroup 2 Staff/volunteers who might get involved in safeguarding processes\nGroup 3 Staff where a substantial amount of time is spent working with vulnerable and at risk children young people\nGroup 4 Safeguarding Champions\nOpportunities available include:\nBasic online safeguarding training for staff / volunteers who have occasional contact with children and young people (Group 1) or who might get involved in safeguarding processes (Group 2). Details on how to access the BSCB basic online training offer are on the Bexley Melearning website.\nBriefings and masterclass sessions for staff who spend a substantial amount of time working with vulnerable and at risk children and young people (Group 3).\nTraining and development opportunities for the Safeguarding Champions (Group 4) including 3 workshops per year.\nThe purpose of this new approach is to ensure staff who have a lead role in safeguarding vulnerable children and young people:\nHave comprehensive knowledge and understanding of statutory guidance set out in Working Together 2018 and other key documents\nAre briefed on key multi-agency approaches and expectations on safeguarding children and young people in Bexley.\nHave access to new learning and up to date information on priority issues.\nForthcoming Training and Development opportunities\nThe Safeguarding Partnership produces a regular BSCB Training e-Bulletin. The latest Training e-Bulletin is available here. Opportunities are also advertised via the main e-Bulletin (link available from the homes page). If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the Training e-Bulletin, please email bscb@bexley.gov.uk .\nThe Bexley Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence and Violence Against Women & Girls (VAWG) Training Prospectus 2018/19 outlines the training available to professionals working in Bexley.\nOther training opportunities including safeguarding are available for voluntary and community sector groups from the Bexley Voluntary Service Council (BVSC). 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The directive promotes cooperation amongst EU countries (and with countries outside the EU) to help them meet their renewable energy targets through innovative actions and products that are targeting on the maximization of renewable (e.g. solar) energy exploitation. Within the BEYOND Center of Excellence a nowcasting system and short term forecasting system for solar energy exploitation has been developed using advanced technical capacities of Earth Observation (EO) based services in combination with scientific measurement and radiative transfer and neural network modeling results. 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Dylan soldiered on and flourished, and that tour is now sometimes cited as the greatest in rock history. Robbie Robertson was the guitarist in Dylan\u2019s band, the Hawks, and packed a whole lot more into his lifetime before and after.\nRobertson was born in July 1943 to a mother of Mohawk and Cayuga Indian descent, and they lived on the Six Nations Indian Reserve in Ontario, Canada. He started his musical journey at the age of eight years when the power of music overwhelmed him as a couple of relatives were playing guitar. It immediately rang Robertson\u2019s bell.\nHe worked hard doing odd jobs to save to buy a guitar. His first band at age 13 was a local outfit called the Rhythm Chords. At 16 Robertson discovered that rockabilly wild man Ronnie Hawkins needed a new guitarist for his backing band, the Hawks. He set out by train from Canada to Arkansas in the United States Deep South, the fountainhead of American music where Hawkins was based, but the hurt cut when he had to sell his beloved 1958 Fender Stratocaster to afford the ticket.\nRobertson got the job but when he asked Hawkins about the pay the singer replied: \u201cWell, son, you won\u2019t make much money but you\u2019ll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra.\u201d The Hawks\u2019 new guitarist had to try to be inconspicuous at gigs in case he was busted by the liquor inspector for being under-age.\nLater Robertson discovered that his father, a working-class man, was not his real father. His mother had had an affair while her husband was on military service, and Robertson\u2019s biological father was Jewish. The guitarist never met him, as he died in a roadside accident.\nThe discovery gave the half-Mohawk, half-Jewish Hawk an unexpected tie to the Cosa Nostra underworld, with which some of the late Alexander David Klegerman\u2019s family members were entangled.\nLife on the road is indeed sex \u2018n\u2019 drugs \u2018n\u2019 rock\u2019n\u2019roll, and Robertson dishes up plenty of tales about the Brill Building \u201csongwriting factory\u201d in New York, promoter Morris Levy (said to dangle people from windows to get his way), Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Keith \u201cthe loon\u201d Moon, an aspiring guitarist called Jimmy James (shortly to be renamed Jimi Hendrix) and dozens more.\nAfter the rollicking early years with Hawkins, the Hawks embarked on their trial-by-fire with Dylan before forging their own unique sound and mutating into The Band. Their groundbreaking debut album, \u201cMusic from Big Pink\u201d, was a huge success, particularly among other musicians, the likes of Eric Clapton and George Harrison.\nWhile the band/The Band was very much an egalitarian ensemble, with three main singers and precise, unflashy musicianship., their greatest songs \u2013 \u201cUp on Cripple Creek\u201d, \u201cThe Weight\u201d, \u201cChest Fever\u201d, \u201cKing Harvest\u201d, \u201cThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down\u201d, \u201cIt Makes No Difference\u201d, \u201cAcadian Driftwood\u201d \u2013 were largely the creation of Robertson.\nThe Band\u2019s great run of success was eventually derailed by heroin and other wild behaviour, culminating in the famous farewell concert \u201cThe Last Waltz\u201d in November 1976, whereupon Robertson perhaps wisely brings down the curtain on his absorbing memoir.\n\u201cTestimony\u201d covers only the first 33 years of Robertson\u2019s life, which would be several lifetimes for \u201cnormal\u201d people. Apparently written over five years of reflection, it is a fine account of a remarkable musical career and an illuminating addition to rock\u2019s history. There are photographs from his personal collection.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 5812, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 238.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.byfield-pc.gov.uk/Article_MeetingsandMinutes_Minutesfrom8November2018.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:40Z", "digest": "sha1:UMDUQSCNWVUWTPKSRGVC2J37I3YY4TG4", "length": 185, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.byfield-pc.gov.uk", "title": "Byfield Parish Council", "raw_content": "The draft minutes of the meeting held on 8 November 2018 are attached. 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In a hard-fought game, the surprising Husky defense did its part to stifle the USC offensive juggernaut.\nAlthough USC beat Ohio State last week on the road, the Trojans were playing without their much-hyped freshman QB Matt Barkley.\nNonetheless, this victory by Washington over USC, shows that the Husky football program is back on track to relive the glory years of the 80\u2019s and early 90\u2019s. 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We\u2019ll be having a Car Wash three times over the summer, with the first one on Saturday 20th June from 12pm \u2013 see you there!\nCheck out our Facebook Events Page for the latest details : https://www.facebook.com/events/927866740614614/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 1624, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 162.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cantinacenci.it/weather-forecast/?lang=en", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:03Z", "digest": "sha1:HDQ7PRYOPN4ILP727P4YIXVE6Y6LTGAC", "length": 427, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cantinacenci.it", "title": "Weather Forecast | Cantina Cenci", "raw_content": "This area features real time updates from the weather station installed at the Cantina Cenci vineyards. The weather data monitoring is an indispensable tool for the organic farming practices that we utilize to minimize environmental impact. We strongly believe in sharing our approach as a useful resource for all of the agriculturists of the area in order to improve local production.\nThanks to Netsens s.r.l. for the service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 216.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cappersmall.com/forums/printthread.php?t=702615&s=0834eec1f795e5c2c28f9546dda6e17a", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:27Z", "digest": "sha1:2IUIH2NSBEWIBGRVN4PMPGTCWJNVKNMI", "length": 215, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.cappersmall.com", "title": "Sports Handicapping at cappersmall - Friday", "raw_content": "Sports Handicapping at cappersmall (http://www.cappersmall.com/forums/)\n- NHL Hockey (http://www.cappersmall.com/forums/f9/)\n- - Friday (http://www.cappersmall.com/forums/f9/friday-702615/)\nBN727 01-11-2019 06:44 PM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 547, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.caribbean360.com/news/caribbean-teenage-pregnancies-on-the-rise-un-report", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:19Z", "digest": "sha1:TET4V5TFPXBX2VPRMEHPT2L25ZDTTBZR", "length": 2821, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.caribbean360.com", "title": "Caribbean teenage pregnancies on the rise - UN report | Caribbean360", "raw_content": "Caribbean teenage pregnancies on the rise \u2013 UN report\nNEW YORK, United States, Thursday October 31, 2013, CMC \u2013 A new United Nations report has spotlighted what it describes as the high rates of teenage pregnancies in the Caribbean and other developing countries.\nThe report, released here on Wednesday, has called on Governments to help girls achieve their full potential through education and adequate health services.\n\u201cThe State of World Population 2013,\u201d produced by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), notes that out of the 7.3 million births, 2 million are to girls who are 14 or younger, many of whom suffer \u201cgrave long-term health and social consequences from pregnancy.\u201d\nThe report says that an estimated 70,000 adolescents in developing countries die each year from complications during pregnancy and childbirth.\n\u201cToo often, society blames only the girl for getting pregnant,\u201d said UNFPA executive director Babatunde Osotimehin.\n\u201cThe reality is that adolescent pregnancy is most often not the result of a deliberate choice but rather the absence of choices, and of circumstances beyond a girl\u2019s control,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is a consequence of little or no access to school, employment, quality information and health care.\u201d\nIn the Caribbean, the countries with the highest rate of teen pregnancy are Belize, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.\nThe report seeks to offer a new perspective on teenage pregnancy, looking not only at girls\u2019 behaviour as a cause of early pregnancy but also at the actions of their families, communities and Governments.\nIn addition, it says a country\u2019s economy is also affected by teenage pregnancies as adolescent mothers are prevented from entering the workforce.\nBesides funding, the report stresses that, in order to tackle teenage pregnancy, \u201ccountries must adopt a holistic approach, which does not dwell on changing girls\u2019 behaviour but seeks to change attitudes in society so girls are encouraged to stay in school, child marriage is banned, girls have access to sexual and reproductive health including contraception, and young mothers have better support systems.\u201d\nWhile teenage pregnancy is a much bigger challenge in developing countries, the report also found that it is a significant issue in developed ones.\nIn the United States, for example, the report says only about half of the girls who become pregnant as adolescents complete high school by 22, compared to nine out of 10 girls who do not become pregnant.\nThe report says teen pregnancies harms the US economy as a whole costing taxpayers nearly US$11 billion. Click here to receive free news bulletins via email from Caribbean360. (View sample)\nJamaica reports decline in asthma admissions following smoking ban\nPuerto Rican doctors want Obama to clean up military contamination", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 10225, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 218.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.casw.org/new-horizons/speakers/mark-jaccard", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:53:15Z", "digest": "sha1:NYLBXETNR557ZNFYBCGV4IXZRBOULOWO", "length": 984, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.casw.org", "title": "Mark Jaccard | Council for the Advancement of Science Writing", "raw_content": "professor of sustainable energy\nMark Jaccard is an economist who has advised energy and environment policy makers around the world. 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He writes the blog \u201cSustainability Suspicions\u201d (http://markjaccard.blogspot.ca) and made headlines in 2012 as one of 13 protesters arrested for blockading a rail line used to deliver U.S. coal to Canada.\nWebsite: http://www.emrg.sfu.ca", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 75.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.centaurrecords.com/store/albums/wind-ensemble/german-romantic-wind-music-heinrich-kaspar-schmid-quintet-in-b-flat-op-28.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:56Z", "digest": "sha1:EZ6YPO7X2I2QQIHA6I4V3HQ3HGQLC7Y3", "length": 156, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.centaurrecords.com", "title": "German Romantic Wind Music. 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Architectural monuments of Central Asia", "raw_content": "\ufeff Main page \u00bb Countries \u00bb Uzbekistan \u00bb Remarkable sights \u00bb Remarkable sights of Bukhara \u00bb Paykend Site\nBukhara oasis is famous for its ancient historic sites. One of them is the ancient town Paykend (also spelled Paikent), which dates back to the 4th \u0441 BCE - 12th \u0441 BC. It is located at the lower course of the Zarafshan River, at a distance of 60km from Bukhara to the southwest.\nPaykend developed from a group of settlements in around the 4th - 2nd \u0441 BCE as a town with fortresses and other fortifications. It was 20 hectares in area. There stood a square citadel in the center, with a palace and administrative buildings inside and a residential area outside it. A strong defensive wall surrounded the town. A little north of it there was a necropolis with Zoroastrian tombs.\nPaykend was an important trade and frontier town in the west of the ancient kingdom of Sogdiana. It was a significant Silk Road town between Bactria, India and Nakhshab (today\u2019s Karshi) in the south and Khorezm and other destinations in the north. The town enjoyed its heyday in the 6th - 8th c thanks to its strategically important location. Paykend was like a merchant republic; there were a lot of rich people who had earned their fortunes through transit trade and export of the local bronze and ceramic goods.\nWith the Arabs who arrived in Central Asia in the 8th c, Paykend became an important Islamic religious center; they discovered remains of a large mosque and a minaret in the town. As Paykend was a trading town, it had a few caravanserais dating back to the 8th - 12th c. They had rooms for guest merchants and fenced grounds for pack animals.\nThe town existed until the Zarafshan River changed its course in the 12th \u0441. Paykend could not receive enough water then, its residents left it, and soon it was buried under the sands of the Kyzylkum Desert. 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The archeologist who excavated Paykend in the 1980s discovered it was in excellent condition, as if it had been conserved on purpose.\nThe Paykend historical museum built near the site in 2003 shows the unique artifacts discovered at the site: tableware, ceramics, Chinese and Japanese porcelains, jewelry and coins dating from the 2nd - 9th c.\nOther tourist attractions in Bukhara: How to visit Paykend Site:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 287, "original_length": 9179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chandrahoffman.com/blog/tag/peter-pan", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:32Z", "digest": "sha1:JRHYO7SLF7PXE5K2WGTXYN2LOQAP3WKO", "length": 24, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.chandrahoffman.com", "title": "Chandra Hoffman, author - Chandra's Blog", "raw_content": "Entries in Peter Pan (1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 15507, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 281.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.chartnc.com/2012/02/local-response-to-dsm-5-controversy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RVU7EGPWISIYK6UHAVHVMBID77V6EFHS", "length": 2934, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.chartnc.com", "title": "CHART: Chapel Hill Autism Resources and Tools: Local Response to the DSM-5 Controversy", "raw_content": "Local Response to the DSM-5 Controversy\nAt the last ASNCOC coffee meeting, there was a discussion about the proposed changes to the definition of autism in the upcoming DSM-5, which is due to be released in May 2013. The DSM is the manual that sets forth the diagnostic criteria for autism, and there is a great deal of concern that the proposed revisions will exclude a lot of people on the autism spectrum, particularly those who currently have a diagnosis of Asperger's Disorder or HFA. Exclusion from diagnosis equals exclusion from vital services and interventions, in schools, the community, and in the medical field (especially if North Carolina's autism insurance bill is passed).\nIn addition, self advocates with Asperger's have expressed a lot of dismay at having Asperger's lumped under a general category of ASD. For many, being an \"Aspie\" provides a sense of self-awareness and community. There is also a feeling that the public at large has at least a basic grasp of what it means to have Asperger's (as opposed to the far more nebulous PDD-NOS), and is worth retaining for that reason.\nFor those who have not been following the DSM-5 controversy, the changes to autism in DSM-5 will take social and communication, which were previously two categories, and blend them into one. In addition, it will be adding characteristics to the repetitive behaviors category, which will now include sensory issues. The age of speech acquisition will no longer be in the diagnostic criteria. Autistic Disorder, Asperger's Disorder, PDD-NOS, and Childhood Disintegrative Disorder will no longer be separate sub-sets; they will all now be called Autism Spectrum Disorder. A Scientific American article cited several studies that found that the overall design of the new diagnostic criteria are sound, but that they are overly narrow. In particular, studies suggested that if the criteria under category A (social / communication) were changed to require 2 out of 3 symptoms be present, rather than all 3 out of 3, it would reduce the problem of excluding higher functioning people with autism from diagnosis. Personally, I think that seems like a sensible solution, and one that I hope the APA will consider.\nAs for the local response to the DSM-5, you can read reactions from the Autism Society of North Carolina and TEACCH. They express a commitment to continuing to serve all people affected by autism, and a more calm and measured tone than much of what we have read about DSM-5 (unlike the NY Times article that caused alarm to ripple across the ASD community). Hopefully by the time DSM-5 is finally released in May 2013, the APA will have taken steps to address concerns that countless individuals with ASD could be excluded from the interventions that can help prepare them for independent and meaningful lives.\nLabels: ASNC , ASNCOC , Asperger's , autism , autism North Carolina , Autism society , DSM 5 autism , DSM-5 , TEACCH", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 5525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cheapmortgagesrate.com/income-tax-slab-for-fy-2018-19/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:30Z", "digest": "sha1:X6JEQOSD56FMZGDYHTJZ4OKAX444EGJF", "length": 2224, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.cheapmortgagesrate.com", "title": "Income Tax Slab for FY 2018-19 And AY 2019-20 - Cheap Mortgages", "raw_content": "Home Finance Income Tax Slab for FY 2018-19 And AY 2019-20\nNew Income Tax Slab For 2018-19\nFinance Minister Arun Jaitley will introduce the Union Budget for 2018 in Parliament. Prior to the 2018-19 budget sum, the Income Tax slabs cost Rs. Speculation that the government could increase from 2.5 lakhs to Rs 3 lakh. The tax rate can also be reduced to those who earned an income of Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh.\nThe government expects tax exemption limit from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 3 lakh. This can be done with inflation rising inflation. Over the last year, the budget has been reported to increase the government tax exemption limit from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 4 lakh. Arun Jaitley did not make such a statement.\nIn the budget year 2017-18, Arun Jaitley proposed to cut the income tax rate by 5 percent. It has proposed to reduce the number of people who have income from Rs 2.5 lakh to Rs 5 lakh. Annual Income of Rs. 50 lakhs to Rs. 10% surcharge was announced for those with 1 crore. In the budget for 2017-18 fiscal year, 1 crore or 15 percent surpasses surcharge.\nCurrent income tax slabs include:\nAnnual revenue of Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh is annual revenue of 20 percent and income of more than Rs 10 lakh is 30 percent.\nIncome Income Tax rate for 2016-17 Income Tax rate for 2017-18\nRs 2,50,001 to Rs 5,00,000 10% 5%\nRs 5,00,001 \u2013 10,00,000 20% 20%\nMore than Rs 10,00,000 30% 30%\nSenior citizens who are 60 years old and above but less than 80 years\nRs 3,00,001 to Rs 5,00,000 10% 10%\nRs 5,00,001 to Rs 10,00,000 20% 20%\nSenior Citizens who are 80 years old and above\n(Surcharge of 10 per cent on income of all individuals above Rs 50 lakh and less than Rs 1 crore and surcharge of 15 per cent on income above Rs 1 crore).\nIn the 2018-19 budget, the government may bring a new tax slab to individuals with income between Rs 5 and 7.50 lakh per year. These individuals need to pay a 20 percent income tax. The government may reduce their taxes from 20 to 10 percent.\nSource \u2013 http://www.india.com/\nTagsNew Income Tax Slab For 2018-19\nPrevious article Budget 2018: Petrol, Diesel Will be Cheaper; Gold, Silver, Vegetables to Get Costlier?\nNext article What is Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) \u2013 Credit Linked Subsidy Scheme 2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 6991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 307.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cherigillard.com/blog/tbt-babies-baptized-july-1993", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QN6VQI5NDZD5BLBECY2UKTK7U4WFICZP", "length": 3465, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.cherigillard.com", "title": "Raising quadruplets is quite a ride! - Cheri Gillard", "raw_content": "TBT: Babies Baptized July 1993\nTwenty-three years ago this month, we had our babies baptized. I grew up Baptist and we were taught that baptism didn\u2019t count unless you were old enough to decide for yourself and then got immersed completely, like water-up-your-nose dunked. \u200b\nNow I\u2019m mostly Presbyterian and in that version of Christianity, babies can be baptized and they don\u2019t have to be dunked or aware of what\u2019s going on. It\u2019s a symbol, a sign, of belonging to God, of the parents giving them back in a way (though you still have to get up for night feedings yourself). And maybe something happens in the spiritual realm when this ritual, or transaction of sorts, occurs, but we don\u2019t really know, because we\u2019re all taking our best guess anyway. Sure, there are theologians we can quote, and when Jesus was baptized a booming voice spoke and the spirit of God came down onto Jesus somehow looking like a bird, so something was going on with that one, but that was Jesus, and nowadays, we generally don\u2019t get booming voices, whether we get our noses filled or our heads \u201csprinkled.\u201d (It\u2019s more like pouring a cup of water over the head. Sprinkling was more in fashion during water shortages.) Really, what it all means and what happens can only be understood from our own interpretation of things. We can\u2019t get away from that.\nThere are a lot of different perspectives of what\u2019s right and what doesn\u2019t work and what counts. So I guess I could put forth an argument about why I think what I do, but why? I\u2019m not going to convince someone who thinks differently from me to change their mind. And I don\u2019t even want to. There are a lot of teachings and Bible verses that can be used to support either way or somewhere in between. We all see things, including our faith practices, through our own lenses which have been created by our experiences. I wish everyone could realize how impacted our perception of life and God is by who we are and where we\u2019ve been and what we\u2019ve experienced. I\u2019m just glad to know that whoever God is, God is big enough to deal with all of us, whatever viewpoint we come from.\nIn my Chloe trilogy, my divine being is called They, and They is always singular, as in They is this or They says that. Noun and verb agreement doesn\u2019t work. We don\u2019t have enough choices in our language. They is plural, as in complex, as in multifaceted, as in we can\u2019t really wrap our brains around it no matter how hard we try. It\u2019s from another dimension beyond ours. So we can just try, but will always fall short. They is also singular, because together somehow They is one. Again, beyond our brain and language. Also, in Chloe I never use gender pronouns with They, because I don\u2019t want to assign gender. Both men and women come from God, so God includes all masculinity and all femininity. And I rather not call They \u201cit.\u201d That\u2019d just be weird.\nSo anyway, the kids were baptized. It was a good day because our family gathered and we celebrated the fact that we even had the kids and we participated in a ritual, a sacrament, a ceremony, that let us publically express that we were thankful, and we believe they were and are a gift from They.\nNice to see these pictures! You have had a VERY FULL 23 years, that is for certain! I love that you have lived into your creativity in every imaginable way during this time. May you all overflow with blessing and goodness!\nThank you, Elise! I've had fun looking back at these \"throwback\" pictures and remembering.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 4872, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.christy-williams.com/blog/the-downside-of-figuring-out-what-you-love-to-do-for-work", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:36Z", "digest": "sha1:JODXFF4JTXLQD2SLBE2GN45XDXXRWCIM", "length": 5476, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.christy-williams.com", "title": "The Downside of Figuring out What You Love to Do for Work \u2014 Christy Williams", "raw_content": "The Downside of Figuring out What You Love to Do for Work\nA young friend of mine just contacted me to let me know that he received two jobs offers before he has even graduated from college \u2014 and he picked the one that is what he really wants to do for work instead of the one that everyone thinks he\u2019d be great at.\nI am so, so happy for him for working as hard as he has to get to this point \u2013 and for going with his heart in making the decision. And I also want to warn him \u2013 there is a downside to doing what you love for work.\nI have always been that person who wondered why anyone would ever do anything that they didn\u2019t love to do. I figured out as the editor-in-chief of my high school yearbook that I loved putting words and pictures together on a page, so I was one of the lucky ones who knew what they wanted to major in (advertising and communications) before they even got to college.\nThe hardest decision was whether to focus more on the writing side of things or graphic design. But that was only because of the pressure I got from my graphic design professors. Words have always been my first love, so it was a decision that was already made in my heart.\nAfter a year in an advertising agency in Boston, I realized that it wasn\u2019t at all the glamorous profession it seemed to be \u2013 and I didn\u2019t love writing copy for financial institutions. BOR-ING. So I bought a one-way ticket to Colorado and decided to write the Great American Novel. Halfway through writing the book, I met a boy and got a job at a dude ranch. So long, Great American Novel.\nI fell back into marketing when I left the dude ranch, and spent many years writing and managing in-house campaigns for international standards, dental products, and health information software before I realized that I was right back where I started. Bored.\nA successful career transition into human resources kept me happy for a few years, as I helped employees manage work-life balance, find flexible jobs \u2014 and I became a career coach on the side. I had seen so many employees waiting for HR to create their career path for them, when they weren\u2019t even happy doing what they were doing, and it drove me crazy, trying to understand it. But seeing the underbelly of corporate America \u2013 as you unfortunately get to see in HR \u2014 did nothing to help me feel like I fit in the corporate world.\nSo again, I came back to my first love of words.\nBut here\u2019s the thing. The downside of having spent the past few years getting to write and edit articles for a living is that I can no longer pretend anything else will do.\nI can no longer settle for anything less.\nI absolutely love having the privilege of editing other people\u2019s precious words. Every day, when I open the articles, it\u2019s like Christmas. I get so excited about what\u2019s going to be inside the little presents I receive as submissions.\nIt\u2019s not perfect. Some days, it\u2019s like unwrapping a present and finding socks. I recently had a day when I had a few submissions that were from writers whose first language is something other than English, and I spent a lot more time editing than I normally do. Sometimes, I feel victorious at the end, like I\u2019ve helped massage the words just enough to let their message shine through without losing their voice.\nOther times, one whole paragraph makes perfect sense, but the next one is like reading Shel Silverstein\u2019s book, \u201cJabberwocky\u201d. A struggle from beginning to end, with a whole lot of nothing making sense in the middle.\nBut most times, it truly is a gift. I will open up a mindful article full of beautiful language and heartfelt thoughts \u2013 and it seems like the exact message that I personally needed to hear that day. And I am filled with gratitude to get to love on these words and change them only when I have to in order to make the message as clear as possible for the reader.\nThere is so much variety in the articles I get to write and edit every day, and I\u2019ve learned that variety is very important for me to have on a daily basis. But then there is a certain amount of routine, detail-oriented formatting that goes along with editing. Making sure I craft just the right title, pick the appropriate tags for the post, and then choose a photo to go with the article that will make people want to click on it even more. It\u2019s a great balance of creativity and routine and I couldn\u2019t ask for anything more.\nThe downside of knowing all this about myself is that now I know better.\nI know what it\u2019s like to do a job I love \u2013 and now I refuse to settle for anything less.\nWhen I am looking for more gigs, and a dear friend suggests going back to work in corporate America, I can feel my skin crawl. Or someone else suggests editing technical documents and I can\u2019t help but make a face. And I know they\u2019re only trying to be helpful.\nI know what my soul wants to do for work. What it\u2019s wanted to do all along. And now there\u2019s no going back.\nNo matter how frustrated I am that I have yet to find that one more gig that will help me pay the bills. Because now it\u2019s all about words, and until I can find that opportunity, I might entertain some other side hustle that has to do with words. A bookstore maybe\u2026or the library. Two of my happy places.\nMeanwhile, I will keep my young friend, Jackson, in mind \u2014 and the amazing example that he is setting for all of us in doing what he loves.\nNewer PostIs It Time for Men to Hold Each Other Responsible?\nOlder Post3 TED Talks About Modern Masculinity & Why We Need to Redefine It", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 6215, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cirencester-baptist.org/news/prayer-breakfast-at-the-same-time", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:32Z", "digest": "sha1:DPIBVQYNWWEOPBVP3OT2R6M5P5JBUUFX", "length": 161, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.cirencester-baptist.org", "title": "Prayer & breakfast at the same time! \u2013 Cirencester Baptist Church", "raw_content": "Prayer & breakfast at the same time!\nJoin us on Saturday morning for breakfast at CBC, followed by an hour of prayer for the church, the Cotswolds and the world.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3523, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 179.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cityofchelsea.com/staff.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:35Z", "digest": "sha1:C4KRWBZ6F52JCAVTFRG3LNL5MEGZVEYL", "length": 5714, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.cityofchelsea.com", "title": "Staff - Welcome to Chelsea, Alabama", "raw_content": "Crystal Gibson Etheredge\nWhat exactly does a City Clerk do? This is a common question.\nThe City Clerk\u2019s Office serves as the \u201chub\u201d of municipal government and acts as an administrative liaison for all official actions between the City Council and Mayor, as provided by State law and City code. A City Clerk is the designated record keeper for the City and is responsible for maintaining all public documents - both current and archived. The City Clerk also prepares the Council Meeting agenda; attends and records the proceedings of all Council meetings; maintains records of all rulings, ordinances, and resolutions of the Council; acts as custodian of the City Seal; supervises municipal elections; performs all legal advertising for the City; schedules, coordinates, and plans special events and functions for the Council; and provides general administrative and clerical assistance to the Mayor and Council. The City Clerk maintains all permanent files, such as, deeds, contracts, agreements, insurance policies, board appointments, and bonds required by City regulations. In addition, the City Clerk is responsible for business licensing (to include ABC approval letters) and building permits along with zoning verifications and assessments.\nThe City of Chelsea\u2019s City Clerk is Ozark native, Crystal Gibson Etheredge appointed in May 2018. Recently relocated from Auburn, Alabama, Crystal and her husband, Judson, are excited to call Chelsea \u201chome\u201d. They have four children, Matelyn, Cooper, Hampton, and Madeline. The family resides in Chelsea Park and are looking forward to becoming more involved in the community.\nGrowing up in a military family, Crystal had the opportunity to live in multiple states and several European countries. This allowed her to become accustomed to change and rolling with the punches so to speak. Crystal graduated with honors from Carroll High School and went on to earn a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Psychology and Criminal Justice from Troy University Dothan. While working full time at the City of Piedmont Municipal Court as a Deputy Court Clerk/Magistrate, she pursued a Master\u2019s degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Business from Jacksonville State University, graduating in 2003. In 2008, Crystal landed a job with the City of Headland as their Court Administrator and was later promoted to their City Clerk.\nAs I look back on my life, I can clearly see the plan that God has prepared for me with the City of Chelsea. In July, 1986, One month after I married the love of my life, Don King, I joined the Chelsea Vol. Fire Dept. Don and I were very active in the dept. I became a first responder to run wreck/ medical calls, voted VP of the women's auxiliary and also, voted to uphold the dept.'s treasurers position. As the department grew and the Town of Chelsea was formed, there became a need for our community to have a paid dept. instead of relying on volunteers. It was then merged with the town and later became Chelsea Fire & Rescue. I was hired by Mayor Niven, Oct. 1, 2000, to carry on my duties of the fire dept. and other duties of the town. Our office was held on the 2nd floor of the First National Bank building (currently Renasant Bank). With very little space, we carried on the business there for several years. In 2006 our beautiful City Hall was built. In this building I have held several different positions over the years, including, Library assistant, Receptionist, Fire Clerk, Accounts Receivables clerk, Accounts Payables clerk and just recently (Oct. 2013) I was appointed the City Treasurer for the City of Chelsea. This job is primarily responsible for managing the revenue and cash flow of the city, banking, reporting of monthly/yearly reports, disbursements of municipal funds, payroll, employee personnel files, capital projects and assisting auditors...I am very proud and honored to uphold this position and look forward to what the future holds for me with the City of Chelsea!\nI was born and raised in Chelsea and have always been fortunate to live by family. My Family and my faith are two very important things to me. As many know, my world revolves around my two beautiful daughters, Cindy (Kevin) and Kristen (RJ). In my spare time I love to travel or just relax at home.\nMay God bless each and every one of you, as you make the City of Chelsea \u201cYOUR\u201d home!\nGerri Roberts\nI began my employment with the City of Chelsea in March 2006. My main responsibility is being GIS Coordinator. I keep maps current with any new city limit changes and annexations. I keep our US Census information current and well as working with FEMA regarding Flood Maps. I coordinate any special events for the city like the Annual Chelsea Christmas Parade, Homecoming Parade and Big Kaboom. I also work with the Chelsea Youth Club on scheduling ballpark usage and lighting. I work with our webmaster to keep our website current.\nMy husband, Keith, and I have lived in Chelsea since 1997. We have raised our children, Preston and Savannah, here and are proud to call Chelsea Home.\nDana Polk\nBorn in Bessemer, lived there until I married in 1985. Graduated from McAdory High School in 1980 and attended University of Montevallo. We moved to Wilsonville in 1985 and into our house now in the Chelsea area 1996.\nI like to read (of course) but end up listening to the books more that sitting down and reading. I bowl 2 nights a week and love to crochet, and participate in church activities.\nThe thing that I love most about working in the library is helping people find the books they want or need. The best thing a patron can say to me is that they enjoyed a book that I recommended and then get other books by that same author.\nJimmy Springfield", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 323, "original_length": 10836, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 247.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.clarityhealth.ca/2010/02/chj-iphone-applications.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:11Z", "digest": "sha1:OXDFFJFN7TRK5GH5VUNAWQDE3W72BTDB", "length": 774, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.clarityhealth.ca", "title": "Clarity Health Inc.: CHJ iPhone Applications", "raw_content": "CHJ iPhone Applications\nThe Clarity Health Journal is being developed as a state of the art web application, with high levels of security and user friendliness. And in order to make this user experience even more portable, we are developing CHJ apps for the iPhone. These apps will allow a busy, on the road user to make self-monitoring entries for things like blood glucose without connecting to the CHJ, and commit their offline entries to the CHJ at their convenience. The app will also provide a web viewer for connecting to the CHJ proper, and server-side web views which are tailored for the resolution of the iPhone screen. The goal is to provide CHJ users with the convenience required to maintain an accurate and up-to-date personal health journal.\nLabels: Bo Green", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 2297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.climatesciencewatch.org/2010/03/11/open-letter-to-the-u-s-government-from-u-s-scientists-on-climate-change-and-the-ipcc-reports/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:49Z", "digest": "sha1:WXJX27Y46NW4JUWPOMLY2QOXIFH24P6G", "length": 20384, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.climatesciencewatch.org", "title": "Open Letter to the U.S. Government from U.S. Scientists on climate change and the IPCC reports | Climate Science Watch", "raw_content": "Open Letter to the U.S. Government from U.S. Scientists on climate change and the IPCC reports\nAmerica, pay attention. On March 12, \u201cAn Open Letter from Scientists in the United States on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Errors Contained in the Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007,\u201d will be delivered to U.S. federal agencies. The letter thus far has upwards of 150 signers, the vast majority of whom are climate change scientists who work at leading U.S. universities and institutions, including both IPCC and non-IPCC authors. The letter affirms the great and compelling body of evidence developed by the science community over decades, which concludes that the problem of human-caused global climatic disruption is real and that there are multiple reasons for concern about the risks this problem poses. It affirms the great value, fundamental soundness, and significance of the IPCC climate science assessments, while acknowledging the need for careful review of procedures to strengthen and quality-assure future reports, to minimize errors and to correct errors in a timely fashion.\nThe climate science community has been demonstrating its competence and integrity for many years, greatly advancing understanding and making a sustained effort to communicate with government officials and the public \u2013 for what precious little the government and the public have done to understand and act appropriately and effectively in response. Instead of being distracted and manipulated by politically spun-up controversies that seek to impugn the integrity of the science community, let\u2019s find out whether the U.S. government, the news media, and the American people themselves have the competence and wit to pay attention to, learn from, and act effectively on what the climate science community is telling them. See Details for full text of the scientists\u2019 letter.\nFrom the Open Letter website:\n[Note: More than 150 scientists have already signed this open letter and signatures are still being collected. On Friday, March 12, 2010, when the letter has been delivered to federal agencies, a list of signers will be posted. The vast majority of the signers are climate change scientists who work at leading U.S. universities and institutions. They include both IPCC and non-IPCC authors. Additional signers include professionals from related disciplines, including physical, biological and social scientists. If you have any questions, please contact the letter\u2019s authors.]\nMany in the popular press and other media, as well as some in the halls of Congress, are seizing on a few errors that have been found in the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in an attempt to discredit the entire report. None of the handful of mis-statements (out of hundreds and hundreds of unchallenged statements) remotely undermines the conclusion that \u201cwarming of the climate system is unequivocal\u201d and that most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations. Despite its excellent performance for accurately reporting the state-of-the-science, we certainly acknowledge that the IPCC should become more forthcoming in openly acknowledging errors in a timely fashion, and continuing to improve its assessment procedures to further lower the already very low rate of error.\nIt is our intention in offering this open letter to bring the focus back to credible science, rather than invented hyperbole, so that it can bear on the policy debate in the United States and throughout the world. We first discuss some of the key messages from climate science and then elaborate on IPCC procedures, with particular attention to the quality-control mechanisms of the IPCC. Finally we offer some suggestions about what might be done next to improve IPCC practices and restore full trust in climate science.\nThe Climate Challenge\nOur understanding of human contributions to climate change and the associated urgency for humans to respond has improved dramatically over the past two decades. Many of the major components of the climate system are now well understood, though there are still sources of significant uncertainty (like the processes that produce the observed rapid ice-sheet melting and/or collapse in the polar regions). It is now well established, for example, that atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases from human sources have increased rapidly since the Industrial Revolution. Increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere reduce the heat going out of the climate system, i.e., the radiation balance of the Earth \u2013 and so first principles of physics tell us to expect, with a very high likelihood, that higher temperatures should have been observed.\nIndeed, measurements of global average temperatures show an increase of about 0.6 degrees C over the twentieth century and about 0.8 degrees C warming since mid-19th century. The pattern of increase has not been smooth or monotonic. There have been several 10- to 15-year periods of stable or declining temperatures over the past 150 years, but 14 of the warmest 15 years on record have been experienced between 1995 and 2009. Since 1970, observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are already being affected by these temperature increases.\nBecause the long-term warming trends are highly significant relative to our estimates of the magnitude of natural variability, the current decadal period of stable global mean temperature does nothing to alter a fundamental conclusion from the AR4: warming has unequivocally been observed and documented. Moreover, well-understood lags in the responsiveness of the climate system to disturbances like greenhouse gas increases mean that the current temperature plateau will very likely not persist much longer. Global climate model projections show that present-day greenhouse gas concentrations have already committed the planet to about 0.5 degree C in warming over this century.\nIncreasing emissions of carbon dioxide from the consumption of coal, oil and natural gas as well as deforestation have been the major drivers of this observed warming. While we cannot predict the details of our climate future with a high degree of certainty, the majority of studies from a large number of research groups in the US and elsewhere project that unabated emissions could produce between 1 and 6 degrees C more warming through the year 2100.\nOther research has identified multiple reasons to be concerned about climate change; these apply to the United States as well as globally. They include (1) risks to unique and threatened systems (including human communities), (2) risks from extreme events (like coastal storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, and wildfires), (3) economic damages (driven by, for example, pest infestations or inequities in the capacity to adapt), (4) risks from large-scale abrupt climate change (e.g., ice-sheet collapse, ocean circulation slowing, sharply increased methane emissions from permafrost) or abrupt impacts of more predictable climate change (generated by thresholds in the coping capacities of natural and human systems to climate variability), and (5) risks to national security (driven largely by extreme events across the world interacting with already-stressed situations).\nThese sources of risk and the potential for triggering temperature-driven impacts at lower thresholds, as well as the explicit recognition in the AR4 that risk is the product of likelihood and consequence, led the nations of the world to take note of the Copenhagen Accord last December. The Accord highlights 2 degrees C in warming as a target that might reduce the chance of \u201cdangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system\u201d to more manageable levels. Research has shown that increasing the likelihood of achieving this goal over the next century is economically and technically feasible with emission reduction measures and changes in consumption patterns; but it will not be easy without major national and international actions to deviate substantially from the status quo.\nThe IPCC and the Fourth Assessment Report\nThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the IPCC in 1988 to provide policy makers regularly with balanced assessments of the state of knowledge on climate change. In so doing, they created an open intergovernmental organization in which scientists, policy analysts, engineers, and resource managers from all over the world were asked to collaborate. At present, more than 150 countries including the United States participate in the IPCC. IPCC publishes an assessment report approximately every six years. The most recent Fourth Assessment, approved by member countries and released in 2007, contained three volumes: The Physical Science Basis (Working Group I); Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (Working Group II) and Mitigation of Climate Change (Working Group III) and a Synthesis Report. More than 44 writing teams and 450 lead authors contributed to the Fourth Assessment \u2013 authors who have been selected on the basis of their expertise in consultation with all member countries and who were assisted by another 800 scientists and analysts who served as contributing authors on specific topics. Authors donated their time gratis, and the entire process was supported by four Technical Support Units (TSUs) that employ 5 to 10 people each.\nErrors in the Fourth Assessment Report\nIt was hard not to notice the extraordinary commotion that erupted around errors that were eventually found in the AR4. The wrong year for the projected disappearance of the Himalayan glaciers and the wrong percentage of \u2018land below sea level\u2019 in the Netherlands are examples of errors that need to be acknowledged frankly and rectified promptly. In a few other cases, like the discussion of the correlations between crop yields, climate change, and climate variability in North Africa, caveats that were carefully crafted within the chapters were not included when language was shortened for the Synthesis Report. While striving to simplify technical details and summarize major points, some important qualifications were left behind. These errors of omission in the summary process should also be recognized and corrected. Other claims, like the one reported at the end of February suggesting that the AR4 did not mention the millions of more people who will see increases in water availability that were reported in the cited literature along with the millions of more people who will be at risk of water shortage, are simply not true. In any case, it is essential to emphasize that none of these interventions alter the key finding from the AR4 that human beings are very likely changing the climate, with far-reaching impacts in the long run.\nThe heated debates that have emerged around these instances have even led some to question the quality and integrity of the IPCC. Recent events have made it clear that the quality control procedures of the IPCC are not watertight, but claims of widespread and deliberate manipulation of scientific data and fundamental conclusions in the AR4 are not supported by the facts. We also strongly contest the impression that the main conclusions of the report are based on dubious sources. The reference list of the AR4 contains about 18,000 citations, the vast majority of which were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. The IPCC also has transparent procedures for using published but not peer-reviewed sources in their reports. These procedures were not properly followed in the isolated Himalaya case, but that statement was never elevated into the Summary for Policymakers of either Working Group II or the Synthesis Report \u2013 documents that were approved unanimously and word for word by all member nations.\nNonetheless, failsafe compliance with these procedures requires extra attention in the writing of the next round of assessments. We propose implementing a topic-based cross-chapter review process by which experts in an impact area of climate change, such as changes in water resources, scrutinize the assessment of related vulnerability, risk analyses, and adaptation strategies that work downstream from such changes. Here we mean, to continue the example, assessments of possible increases in flooding damage in river basins and the potential for wetlands to provide buffers in the sectoral and regional chapters. This would be most productively implemented just before the first-order draft, so that chapter authors can be alerted to potential problems before the major review step.\nQuality Control within the IPCC and US Review\nThe impression that the IPCC does not have a proper quality-control procedure is deeply mistaken. The procedure for compiling reports and assuring its quality control is governed by well-documented principles that are reviewed regularly and amended as appropriate. Even now, every step in the preparation of every chapter can be traced on a website: First Order Drafts (with comments by many scientists as well as author responses to those comments), Second Order Drafts in which those comments are incorporated (and comments by experts and country representatives on revised versions as well as another round of author responses), and so on, up through the final, plenary-approved versions.\nTo be clear, 2,500 reviewers together provided about 90,000 comments on the 44 chapters for the AR4. Each comment is documented on a website that also describes how and why the comment was or was not incorporated in the next revision. Review editors for each chapter worked with the authors to guarantee that each comment was treated properly and honestly in the revision; in fact, no chapter can ever move forward for publication without the approval of its set of two or three review editors.\nThe US Government opened its reviews of the draft IPCC report to any US expert who wanted to review it. In order to protect against having this preliminary pre-reviewed draft leaked before its ultimate approval by the IPCC Plenary, the US Government asked all potential reviewers to agree not to disclose the contents of the draft. For each report, the US Government assembled its own independent panel of government experts to vet the comments before submission to the IPCC. Anything with scientific merit was forwarded. There were multiple rounds for each of the Working Group reports and the Synthesis Report, and opportunities for US experts to review the drafts were posted as Federal Register notices.\nIPCC principles also govern how authors treat published but non-peer reviewed sources. These procedures acknowledge that peer-reviewed scientific journals contain little information about on-the-ground implementation of adaptation or mitigation \u2013 matters such as the emission reduction potential in a given industrial sector or country, for example, or catalogues of the specific vulnerabilities and adaptation strategies of sectors and regions with regard to climate change. This information is frequently only available in reports from research institutes, reports of workshops and conferences, or in publications from industries or other non-governmental organizations. This is the so-called gray literature. The IPCC procedure prescribes that authors are obliged to assess critically any gray source that they wish to include. The quality and validity of a finding from a non-peer reviewed source needs to be verified before its finding may be included in a chapter text. Each source needs to be completely traceable; and in cases where gray sources are used, a copy must be deposited at the IPCC Secretariat to guarantee that it is available upon request for third parties.\nWe conclude that the IPCC procedures are transparent and thorough, even though they are not infallible. Nonetheless, we are confident that no single scholar or small group of scholars can manipulate the process to include or to exclude a specific line of research; authors of that research can (and are fully encouraged to) participate in the review process. Moreover, the work of every scientist, regardless of whether it supports or rejects the premise of human-induced climate change, is subject to inclusion in the reports. The work is included or rejected for consideration based on its scientific merit.\nIt is important to note that we are not addressing here the criteria and procedures by which the IPCC selects chairs and authors. These are handled exclusively by the IPCC and its members according to terms of reference that were initially defined in the authorizing language of 1988. That is to say, governments or their appointees frame and implement these policies; and they create, approve and staff Technical Support Units for each working group. We do not make suggestions on these topics since they lie beyond our purview.\nThe National Academies of Sciences will shortly release a series of subsequent assessments under the America\u2019s Climate Choices rubric. We expect that the robust findings of the AR4 will be supported by new information gleaned from literature published since 2006, and that IPCC findings will be confirmed \u2013 i.e., that the climate change issue is serious and real. Given these findings, we believe that the climate change issue deserves the urgent and non-partisan consideration of the country\u2019s legislative and administrative leaders. We feel strongly that exaggerated focus on a few errors from 2007 cannot be allowed to detract from open and honest deliberations about how to respond to climate risk by reducing emissions and promoting adaptation at home and abroad.\nAs the process of producing the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) begins, the IPCC should become more responsive in acknowledging errors rapidly and openly as they become known. To this end, we urge the IPCC to put an erratum on its website that rectifies all errors that have been discovered in the text after publication. In doing so, a clear distinction needs to be made between errors and progressing knowledge. IPCC assessments are detailed snapshots of the state of scientific knowledge at a given time, while knowledge evolves continuously through ongoing research and experience; it is the errors in the assessments that need immediate attention. In contrast, progressing knowledge is published in new scientific journal articles and reports; this information should be used as a basis for the AR5, but it cannot be listed as errata for the AR4 because it was not available when that assessment was conducted. The website should, as well, respond rapidly and openly when reports of errors in past assessments are themselves in error. We cannot let misperceptions fester anymore than errors go uncorrected.\nClimate research and the IPCC reports on the state of knowledge provide a scientific foundation for climate policy making, whose agenda is defined by the governments of the IPCC and not the lead authors per se. The quality of and the balance in the knowledge delivered by any assessment is certainly essential, as is clear and explicit communication of associated uncertainties. Given the recent political and media commotion surrounding a few clear errors, it is now equally essential that we find ways to restore full trust in the integrity of the overwhelming majority of the climate change research and policy communities. To that end, we are pleased that an independent critical evaluation of IPCC procedures will be conducted; we hope that the process will solicit participation by the National Academies of the member nations.\nThe significance of IPCC errors has been greatly exaggerated by many sensationalist accounts, but that is no reason to avoid implementing procedures to make the assessment process even better. The public has a right to know the risks of climate change as scientists currently understand them. We are dedicated to working with our colleagues and government in furthering that task.\nGary W. Yohe\nand Columbia University\n\u2190 Michael Mann interview: Denialists are waging \u201casymmetric warfare\u201d against climate science\nLeaked document says Canadian federal climate scientists being blocked from media contact \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 117, "original_length": 22725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 217.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.club-noticeboard.co.uk/richmondpark/professional.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:DYLMXKVU6SUSB6LO5AMRIYJUEWD36SAZ", "length": 1319, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.club-noticeboard.co.uk", "title": "Richmond Park Golf Club - Golf", "raw_content": "Richmond Park Golf Club \u00bb Professional\nThe Professional at Richmond Park Golf Club is Gary Potter, PGA Qualified Professional and former European Tour player.\nGary represents our club on a Local, National and International level, With many years experience of the world of golf, having worked at various stages of his career, as a Tournament, Teaching and Resident Professional.\nHe is available for teaching at adult and junior levels Gary will also be organising various events and competitions.\nAlready organised and 'off the ground' are the following events:\nLadies' Short Game Master Class\nTime:\tCurrently running on a Monday 1:30pm\nPrice: \u00a310.00 per person, max. 6 people including cream tea\nGolf and Gossip\nCurrently running on a Wednesday at 11:30am and 1:00pm\n\u00a310.00 per person 1 hour's tuition followed by cream tea and swing analysis\nThe Winter Challenge\nThis competition has begun and will be running until the final in Early April 2015.\nIt's only \u00a32 per card! - Enter as many times as you like! - Don't forget to enter in the Pro Shop\nPlease hand all scorecards in to the shop, signed so we can regularly update the scoreboard\nGOT TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT!\nIf you wish for more information or would like to join, Gary may be reached on (07584) 828384 or\nPro Shop (01953) 886104\nGeneral Enquiries (01953) 881803", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 337.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cmq.org/page/en/mission.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:51Z", "digest": "sha1:QQWJER3KQIGIEJ4BTVL3H37TDU4VC5QN", "length": 1819, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.cmq.org", "title": "Mission", "raw_content": "Home\u203aAbout the Coll\u00e8ge\u203aMission\nThe Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins is the professional order of physicians in Quebec.\nIts mission:\nQuality medicine at the service of the public\nTo fulfil its mission, the Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins du Qu\u00e9bec:\nMonitors and assesses medical practice in Quebec\nMakes recommendations in order to improve medical practice in Quebec\nReceives and responds to complaints from the public\nEnsures and promotes the maintenance of physician competence\nVerifies the competence of future physicians and their fitness to practice medicine\nIssues permits and authorizations to practice\nMonitors the illegal practice of medicine\nCollaborates with other professional orders in order to maximize the deployment of health and social services provided to Quebecers\nDevelops practice guides and guidelines\nTakes a position, including in the media, on various health topics\nTo perform its functions, the Coll\u00e8ge relies on a Board of Directors and an Executive Committee, and has standing committees and six divisions: the Practice Enhancement Division, the Inquiries Division, the Medical Education Division, the Legal Services Division, the Finances and Information Technology Division and the Executive Office. The Executive Office coordinates the activities of all the divisions and implements the decisions and orientations of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee.\nThe directors, employees and mandataries of the Coll\u00e8ge des m\u00e9decins have adopted Ethical principles that they undertake to comply with in order to fulfil the Coll\u00e8ge\u2019s mission.\nAll this information is presented together in the Coll\u00e8ge\u2019s Statement of services for citizens, which reaffirms its commitments to the public, future physicians and its members.\nBoard of Directors and statutory committees\nAccess to a Document\nWorking at the Coll\u00e8ge", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.colby.edu/magazine/no-easy-answers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:41Z", "digest": "sha1:OJDW5R64LDZK33Z27FWFDLBZGPISWDCA", "length": 5840, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.colby.edu", "title": "No Easy Answers - Colby MagazineColby Magazine \u00b7 Colby College", "raw_content": "Lisa Arellano reveals the dissonance of the paradox behind the contradiction\nBy Gerry Boyle \u201978\nLisa Arellano had just finished teaching her first class for the course Queer Identities and Politics when a student approached her to say, \u201cYou know, I\u2019m from New York, and where I\u2019m from, these issues aren\u2019t even issues.\u201d\nIn other words, if this is Queer Politics Lite, it\u2019s not for me.\n\u201cSomehow she had mistakenly thought that we were going to talk about why homophobia is bad,\u201d said Arellano, associate professor of American studies and women\u2019s, gender, and sexuality studies. \u201cI think the class would have been about that ten years ago. So what is complicated for people in my field, for our students, is how to think simultaneously very consciously about a moment in which gender continues to matter very much but in very different ways.\u201d\nAnd that, Arellano said, is the point: \u201cWhat we\u2019re doing in the field is training students to be mindful of all these paradoxical conversations going on simultaneously and giving them the capacity to participate in all of them and the wherewithal to know which one they\u2019re in.\u201d\nLisa Arellano, Associate Professor of American Studies and Women\u2019s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies\nDon\u2019t look for easy answers with Arellano. In fact, the only thing guaranteed is that one question will lead to another as the current moment is dissected and deconstructed.\nFor example, gay marriage has been ratified by the U.S. Supreme Court and has been legalized in 37 states and the District of Columbia. And yet gay marriage remains one of the litmus test questions for presidential candidates, and it\u2019s anathema to many conservative voters.\nSo, asks Arellano, is acceptance of gay marriage real progress, or is it a conventional conciliation that slowed advances in areas where change would have been more far-reaching? \u201cBoth of those conversations are very important, but we need to be having both of them, and they\u2019re not the same,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you have one without the other, if you talk about gay marriage as conservative \u2026 you\u2019re missing how it actually is quite radical in another framework. That\u2019s the present moment.\u201d\nArellano freezes that moment and zooms in on the images and societal forces that otherwise go by in an unexamined blur. Her Queer Politics class will begin its study with the 1940s, examining sexual practices and mores of the time, from premarital sex to same-sex relationships. Hint: there was much more sexual freedom than we might think.\nSo what of our so-called progress? \u201cIt feels funny, right?\u201d Arellano prods. \u201cThere was a time when having a female presidential candidate would have felt like progress. Now Clinton may not be the most progressive candidate. The conversation about women and electoral politics was very different in 1920.\u201d\nIf predictions are too often based on loosely formed assumptions, Arellano\u2019s own scholarly research will confound expectations. Since her days at Stanford (she earned her Ph.D. there in 2004), she has been interested in what makes people turn to political and social violence. She has written and published extensively on vigilantism and lynch mobs\u2014including her 2012 book, Vigilantes and Lynch Mobs: Narratives of Community and Nation\u2014studying often-disturbing primary documents that reveal the ways people framed themselves and society rationalized their extreme actions. In that book, Arellano explored the ways propagation of myths that turned ritualized murder and torture into acceptable and even chivalric social action.\nNow she\u2019s embarked on research of more ideological violence\u2014from the political left. From labor movements that turned violent to racial justice movements that culminated with the Black Panthers and others in the 1960s, political expression that many today might think was confined to right-wing militias is being subject to her scrutiny. The left, she reminds us, was about more than peaceniks.\n\u201cPart of what I want people to do is know where they\u2019re coming from, but also learn something about how they\u2019ve been constituted in a particular way.\u201d\u2014Associate Professor Lisa Arellano\nWhether these movements are good or bad depends on the observer\u2019s political views, she says, noting that many claims made by radical militant activists are very similar, whether labeled as coming from the right or the left.\nAgain, Arellano is delving deeply into primary documents of the time to discern the motivation of the actors and the reaction of their audiences. One observation (and hint of scholarship to come): while militant activism today may take the form of a ritual or a performance (see the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation in Oregon), militant radicals of the 1970s were seen as a real threat to national order. \u201cWe were at war,\u201d she said. \u201cIt has not always felt this calm, this tamped down.\u201d\nTamped down is exactly what Arellano does not want her students to feel in the classroom. Instead, she wants them to see that there are not only different viewpoints but also traceable and revealing ways those viewpoints\u2014including their own\u2014are formed.\n\u201cPart of what I want people to do is know where they\u2019re coming from, but also learn something about how they\u2019ve been constituted in a particular way,\u201d she said. \u201cHow is it possible that two different eighteen-year-olds at this school could be in such different places?\u201d\nIt is possible, of course. But the reasons may be less apparent until the exploration, the process of careful and deliberate consideration, begins. \u201cWhat makes this work great and this a great time to do this work are all these complications and paradoxes,\u201d Arellano said. \u201cIt\u2019s what makes it always harder.\u201d\nAnd that day\u2019s conversation was a case in point, punctuated with a moment when she broke into a grin and told her interviewer, \u201cHa! You\u2019ve stumped yourself with your own question.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 6330, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.colfaxavenue.org/2012/06/colfax-weirdness-7.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XLJCPABFEBF7HG3Y25CHVCWB2JMHD4JQ", "length": 180, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.colfaxavenue.org", "title": "Colfax Avenue: Colfax Weirdness 7", "raw_content": "The Golden Hours is the Lakewood motel on West Colfax where John Hinckley Jr. stayed for sixteen days and nights (in room 29) while planning to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 202, "original_length": 4488, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 278.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.columbusbmx.com/track-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HSWHSJ5WCBJFTI7WY4LVZSC4FKERLKB2", "length": 1876, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.columbusbmx.com", "title": "Track History \u2014 Columbus BMX", "raw_content": "The origin of Columbus BMX dates back to the early-80\u2019s when the sport of BMX racing was first exploding in popularity all across the country.\nAlthough there wasn\u2019t a local track in Columbus at the time, from 1980 to 1984, Columbus Schwinn assembled a nationally-recognized BMX racing team with local and regional riders. In 1985, with interest in BMX continuing to grow in Columbus, an effort was made to build a track near Columbus Municipal Airport. Unfortunately, the plans stalled and the track was never built.\nAfter fifteen years of no activity, in 2000, a small group of BMX enthusiasts (some of whom were around to witness the failed attempt in 1985) founded the nonprofit organization Columbus BMX, Inc. and devised a new plan to gain support and finally realize the dream of a BMX facility in Columbus.\nAfter two years of planning and fundraising, including a $10,000 grant from the Heritage Fund and donations from local businesses and individuals, Columbus BMX broke ground in 2002 on land adjacent to Kenneth O. Dunn Stadium near the Bartholomew County Fairgrounds. CBMX was sanctioned by the NBL (National Bicycle League) and the first two races were held in September of 2002.\nIn 2003, Columbus BMX conducted its first full season of racing and hosted its first Indiana State Qualifier Series Race. The largest race of the season had 250 riders and over 700 spectators.\nWith tremendous support from the Bartholomew County Parks Department, area businesses, countless dedicated volunteers and, of course, the BMX racing community, Columbus BMX will conduct its 14th full season of racing in 2016. The current volunteer staff is dedicated to upholding the legacy of the track\u2019s founders and continually strives to provide a first-class racing facility and the most exciting and family-friendly BMX atmosphere available anywhere. Come join us and Let\u2019s Go Racing!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 175.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.corporatetranslationsolutions.com/the-10-rules-of-dresses-and-how-learn-more.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RQN6WG6Y37FMX47HP76VBXTC2XOYZX7A", "length": 2898, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.corporatetranslationsolutions.com", "title": "The 10 Rules of Dresses And How Learn More | C T S", "raw_content": "The 10 Rules of Dresses And How Learn More\nThe Factors That Should Lead You When Choosing the Right Bridesmaid Dresses\nIt can be a daunting task to come with the final decision for the dresses that will be worn by the bridesmaids. It is important that you balance between your theme and how excited the bridesmaids will be in wearing the dresses. You should consider the following pointers when choosing any kinds of bridesmaids dresses that will be worn during your wedding.\nEnsure That Your Bridal Gown Acts As the Guider\nYou will be the woman of the day in the wedding and you have to ensure that some elements in your dressing resemble that of the bridesmaids. When you\u2019ll be wearing a more complex wedding gown, you should ensure that your bridesmaids look unique in their simplified dressing. You can ensure that the necklines look similar to those of your bridesmaids to look the same yet different.\nYou should ensure that you identify the colors that will not shout too much and which will cover up for the skin tone of your bridesmaids. Although it is important to be trendy with the colors, you have to ensure that everyone is satisfied with the color that you select. You should ensure that you also consult with the groomsman to find out if your colors are matching.\nYou are likely to be driven to consider a certain look without being mindful of the weather. When you are a type of a person that observes fashion and want your bridesmaid to look in a certain way even during the winter season you should ensure that they are covered to avoid the cold. When the bridesmaids will be wearing heavy fabrics during the summer you should ensure that you provided them with bottled water and make the environment conducive.\nBe Mindful Of the Amount That You Will Spend On the Dresses\nAs a couple, you are likely to a budget for all the details but you have to be considerate with the amount that the maids will spend on the dress. Even if the bridesmaids will be paying for the dresses, you should ensure that you identify the dresses that are affordable and within their means. You should consider doing a research which will ensure that you identify the different online stores that will come with the best prices for the different dressings.\nBegin the Shopping Earlier\nYou will have problems to do with the delivery when you are ordering your dresses at the last moments. When you are working with the timelines, then it will be easier to know the shops that are selling the best clothes at the right prices and make your orders.\nIt is important that you and your bridesmaids to look perfect during your wedding and that will be made possible by the dressing that you select. You should the bridesmaids in the research process to ensure that you get the dresses that will appeal to all of your entourage.\n3 Store Tips from Someone With Experience\nThe Best Advice on Promotions I\u2019ve found \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 5124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.coryholly.com/?q=content/caroline-mundell-csna-master-pursuit-excellence", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:06Z", "digest": "sha1:WON3WYQ7UZGTDTJ7YGHNQ4MXCHDPYCSA", "length": 920, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.coryholly.com", "title": "Caroline Mundell CSNA Master: The Pursuit of Excellence | Cory Holly Institute", "raw_content": "Caroline Mundell CSNA Master: The Pursuit of Excellence\nCaroline is a CSNA Master as well as a personal trainer and yoga instructor. She is the owner of Function Health and Fitness, a wellness company that works with clients to help them create a balance within their lives by addressing not only nutrition, but all the factors that contribute to a healthy lifestyle.\nAs a mother of three, Caroline understands the importance and the challenges of fueling your body properly to have enough energy to deal with the stressors of everyday life!\nCaroline recently competed in her first fitness competition to further challenge herself and expand her knowledge into the intricate workings of the human body. Her goal is to use this information as well as her many other life experiences to educate her clients about living a healthy, well-balanced lifestyle!\nwww.functionhealthclub.com\nV11N9-mundell.mp3\nsnuV11N9c-mundell.mp3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 2022, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.craftyrie.com/2013/07/hooky-writing.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:42Z", "digest": "sha1:2MA5MPSWGXCAHW7FQQIXYCQECZGXJHFW", "length": 666, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.craftyrie.com", "title": "CraftyRie: Hooky writing", "raw_content": "Everybody loved this bag... did you? Well, I loved it so much that I have decided to write up the pattern for you, for me & for the girlie next door. It may take a bit to write it up, I mean, check out my writing....\nHow messy is my script, not only am I writing the pattern row by row, I am hooking it row by row & then comparing it with the pattern and then giving it the tick. I must be doing something right as I can actually see a pattern emerging from the pattern...ok, that doesn't make sense but it makes sense in my head ok!!\nAnneliese 23 July, 2013\n...for the girlie next door and for one - lhough no more this age -- in Germany too. Thank you already now.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 3524, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 314.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crai.com/event/online-lending-policy-institute", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:45Z", "digest": "sha1:T24DAYVYCUNYFAFMGKCTXWCMCRHSU37M", "length": 185, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.crai.com", "title": "Online Lending Policy Institute | Charles River Associates", "raw_content": "The Renaissance, Washington, DC\nBill Hardin will be a panelist on \u201cFraud Prevention, Security and Privacy in a New World of Data for Online Lending\u201d at the Online Lending Policy Summit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.crai.com/publication/ceridian-ucla-pulse-commerce-index", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:03Z", "digest": "sha1:VIAKZOTMSR5FV2OXRPXSOQXBJHH2ONDH", "length": 603, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.crai.com", "title": "Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index | Charles River Associates", "raw_content": "The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index\u2122 (PCI) is a real-time measure of the flow of goods to US factories, retailers, and consumers. April\u2019s results represent the seventeenth consecutive month of year-over-year improvement in the index, up 3.5 percent. A little over a year after its release, the index continues to receive increasingly frequent and widespread coverage in national media. In this CRA Insights, we describe some of the work by CRA and others that led to the creation of the PCI as well as the importance of the index as a strong indicator of the progress of the US economy\u2019s recovery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 154.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.cwcanneycamp5.org/rochester-nh-civil-war-soldiers-monument-restoration-project.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:GNIO37MBG24S6QFKNKJPRYSV6LAE5RC5", "length": 569, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.cwcanneycamp5.org", "title": "Rochester, NH Civil War Soldier's Monument Restoration Project - Charles W Canney Camp #5, SUVCW", "raw_content": "In September 2007, the Camp hired Rika Smith McNally, a conservator from Massachusetts, to inspect the Civil War monument on the Common.\nEven though it was reported that the monument is in good condition, it will cost $30,000 to clean and restore the monument. Additional plans are to replace the four Parrot Rifles that were removed during the WWII scrap drive and setting them on granite holders like the originals (costs are still being gathered est.$11,000 each).\nThis will be one of the Camps largest fundraising projects to date, but will be well worth the effort", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 1801, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 260.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2014/09/20/lieutenant-governor-candidates-discuss-education-immigration-in-interviews", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:58Z", "digest": "sha1:UULGSHSVKKJBQNJLCVHWNY5RR2RVUCAA", "length": 4473, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.dailytexanonline.com", "title": "Lieutenant governor candidates discuss education, immigration in interviews | The Daily Texan", "raw_content": "Lieutenant governor candidates discuss education, immigration in interviews\nThe second day of the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival kicked off Saturday with one-on-one interviews with candidates for lieutenant governor, state Sens. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, and Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio.\nThe candidates touched on different issues, including education, bipartisanship, and health care at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center. They spoke for 30 minutes each, separately from one another.\nPatrick said he supports the voucher system and explained his reasoning for wanting students to leave schools if they felt the need to get a better-quality education elsewhere.\n\u201cNo child should be forced to go to a failing school,\u201d Patrick said. \u201cAlmost 10 percent of our schools we rate in the state as failing. Can you imagine to sending your child to a school rated as a failure?\u201d\nAccording to Patrick, students should not be locked into a school district and should be able to cross district lines if their home district is a failing school.\n\u201cYou should have the opportunity to go to a charter school,\u201d Patrick said. \u201cIf you can\u2019t find a public or charter school, then you can apply for a scholarship from private businesses to go to a Catholic school, Christian school or private school.\u201d\nVan de Putte spoke more about education after high school. She said she supported paying for Texan students\u2019 community college with the \u201cTexas Promise Plan.\u201d\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a subsidy; it\u2019s an investment,\u201d Van de Putte said. \u201cOur rainy day fund, even with the withdraw of the water and transportation, will probably be sitting at $8.4 billion. You can take a one-time allocation of $2 billion to the voters, and the proceeds from that could fund every qualified high school graduate for 2 years of community college.\u201d\nVan de Putte and Patrick both called for health care reform, although in different ways. Patrick said the government is too involved in health care.\n\u201cI want our money to come back in the terms of block grants in the state of Texas,\" Patrick said. \"Our hands are tied in many ways. The federal government is heavily involved. We need to continue and try to provide health care for every Texan.\u201d\nVan de Putte chastised Patrick for his lack of public appearances. She said his first press conference, which happened Friday, was too little, too late.\n\u201cIf voters can\u2019t depend on their leaders to be accessible and accountable to them before their elected, then what kind of behavior will that instill when they are elected?\u201d Van de Putte said.\nPatrick said he has been accessible enough, with more than 1,300 meetings with individuals and groups across the state. He defended the rhetoric of the Republican party, which he has spoken about on the campaign trail.\n\u201cWhat I have been saying is the Republicans are not anti-Hispanic, anti-anyone, we are pro-border law and security,\u201d Patrick said.\nPatrick stressed his focus on protecting Texans from any dangers across the border and out of the country.\n\u201cMy one responsibility is to protect the public,\u201d Patrick said. \u201cThe DPS estimates we have 100,000 gang members here illegally. We must have legal immigration reform in Washington, but, before that comes, we must secure the border.\u201d\nVan de Putte said she also supported securing the border, but that the topic needed to be approached in a sensible manner.\n\u201cJust like many people, I am so frustrated at Washington, D.C.,\u201d Van de Putte said. \u201cIt seems like both sides of the party is more interested in making the other side look bad than focus on what is needed. [Immigrants] need to have a pathway, they need to pay taxes, not be a criminal, be proficient in English, and they need to get in line.\u201d\nVan de Putte said, now that the media portion of her campaign was up, she had an opportunity to take her message to the people.\n\u201cWho is Leticia, what does she stand for?\u201d Van de Putte said. \u201cThe momentum is there. It\u2019s not just the Latino vote. I\u2019m having a significant Republican crossover on this. Very conservative communities are coming together because they know the difference between a frivolous expense and an investment.\u201d\nGovernment junior Tanner Long said he was disappointed the candidates did not address each other directly.\n\u201cI would have preferred Van de Putte and Patrick,\u201d Long said. \u201cHowever, I think that Van de Putte definitely stayed on message. She conveyed her ideas that puts her in a good light that shows her issues with the Patrick campaign.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5846, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/10/22/texas-looks-for-rare-win-over-purple-kryptonite-kansas-state", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:00Z", "digest": "sha1:QDQNB5DHN6XLAGOQUXJOLOK2UEDKE2KN", "length": 2908, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.dailytexanonline.com", "title": "Texas looks for rare win over \"purple kryptonite\" Kansas State | The Daily Texan", "raw_content": "Texas looks for rare win over \"purple kryptonite\" Kansas State\nThe sounds of \u2018we own Texas\u2019 echoed through Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas, during Texas\u2019 23-0 loss to Kansas State last year. The joyous chants from Wildcats fans weren\u2019t just elations from beating the Longhorns \u2014 they\u2019re a proven fact. Kansas State has owned Texas. The Wildcats have a 9-6 record all-time against the Longhorns and have won six of the last seven meetings. Even Texas\u2019 best have fallen to the purple kryptonite.\nThe 23-0 loss still lingers in the players\u2019 minds. But senior cornerback Duke Thomas said the Longhorns have to match the Wildcats\u2019 intensity Saturday.\n\u201cIt was a tough loss,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cI hate losing, period. Stuff like that I don\u2019t really think much about it. I can\u2019t remember much about that game anyway. But moving forward, we got to know what K-State is capable of.\u201d\nIf there was a year Texas could overcome its struggles with Kansas State, it\u2019s this year. The Wildcats started off hot with three consecutive wins but have plummeted back to earth after three losses in Big 12 conference play. Kansas State\u2019s worst was a 55-0 loss to No. 17 Oklahoma last weekend.\nDespite the Wildcats\u2019 recent struggles, the Longhorns know they\u2019ll get a better effort from their opponent Saturday.\n\u201c[Kansas State was] unlucky with that score on Saturday,\u201d head coach Charlie Strong said. \u201cI know that\u2019s not who that football team is. It\u2019s a very well-coached team, a team that doesn\u2019t make many mistakes \u2026 [so we\u2019ve] got to be ready for a team that\u2019s going to be ready to come and play, a team that\u2019s mentally and physically tough.\u201d\nAlthough the Wildcats only average 161 yards a game, which has them ranked No. 81 out of 127 FBS schools, they\u2019ll bring a tough rushing attack to Austin on Saturday. Kansas State will use freshman running back Justin Silmon and junior quarterback Joe Hubener in their run game. The duo has rushed for combined 525 yards and eight touchdowns. The Longhorns will have to guard Kansas State\u2019s run-pass option that it\u2019s found success running. Thomas said he still sees a dangerous opponent, despite their shutout loss to the Sooners.\n\u201cK-State is still a formidable opponent,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cThey\u2019re still a very good team. They\u2019re fundamentally sound. They don\u2019t make many mistakes. They\u2019re going to hold on to the football. That\u2019s K-State \u2013 they\u2019re going to make things happen.\u201d\nSophomore wide receiver Lorenzo Joe said he expects the Wildcats to come out blazing after last week\u2019s loss.\n\u201cKansas State, they\u2019re going to be hungry,\u201d Joe said. \u201cAfter the TCU game we were hungry for a win, went out against OU and got that win, so they\u2019re going to come in here and they\u2019re going to fight hard \u2026 They\u2019re going to be hungry for a win. We\u2019ve just got to hit them in the mouth first.\u201d\nThe Longhorns look to overcome their purple kryptonite and avoid hearing \u2018we own Texas\u2019 chants again.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4299, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 304.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dailytexanonline.com/opinion/2010/08/30/horns-up-horns-down-involving-students-in-budget-cut-decisions-ut-is-the-king-of", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:43Z", "digest": "sha1:JF274NF4HR3LCNCR3FWSGSGWV3PTGKKC", "length": 3880, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.dailytexanonline.com", "title": "Horns up, horns down: Involving students in budget cut decisions; UT is the king of royalties | The Daily Texan", "raw_content": "Horns up, horns down: Involving students in budget cut decisions; UT is the king of royalties\nHorns up: Involving students in budget cut decisions\nThe Senate of College Councils recently announced it will form student committees to help address college-specific budget cuts for the upcoming year. The committees, which will be known as the College Tuition and Budget Advisory Councils, will consist of a Student Government representative from each college, two graduate students appointed by Graduate Student Assembly President Manuel Gonzalez and three students appointed by the respective college council.\nThe college councils are groups consisting of students from a particular college that then lobby for student interests. Students must apply and be accepted to join college councils. The newly formed councils will also include some faculty. Of its potential members, only one will have been directly elected by students.\nWhile representation via varying degrees of separation is not ideal, it\u2019s better than no student input at all. Part of the motivation behind forming the councils was the decision last spring to lay off the school\u2019s only Vietnamese language professor, effectively cutting the Vietnamese program.\nStudents\u2019 most powerful tool in fighting upcoming budget cuts will be transparency. We hope these new councils will be a powerful tool in disseminating information about potential cuts and empowering the student body to take decisive action early in the process.\nHorns up: UT is the king of royalties\nOn Thursday the Collegiate Licensing Company announced that the University of Texas was the highest-grossing university in terms of revenue from royalties. The University made $10.15 million this past year, up from $8.9 million the previous year. The increase has been attributed in part to the football team\u2019s trip to the national championship.\nThe number is remarkable not just because it makes the Longhorns the most profitable collegiate brand in the country, but because it is believed to be the first time a university has eclipsed the $10 million mark, meaning Texas has had the most profitable year in collegiate history royalties-wise.\nWhat\u2019s especially laudable is that money from royalties goes to the University, rather than being funneled directly to an athletic department that is already flush with cash. At many universities around the country, unprofitable athletic programs are a burden on cash-strapped schools.\nAs the University\u2019s budget continues to shrink, our school\u2019s traditional obsession with football can be part of the solution. Here\u2019s hoping the team makes another run for a national title, not just for our pride, but for our budgets as well.\nHorns down: No hope for reform\nThree years ago, in light of sexual abuse allegations at Texas Youth Commission facilities, state lawmakers took action to reform a troubled agency that had become the subject of a federal investigation. Four advocacy groups wrote to the U.S. Department of Justice on Aug. 24 describing, for the second time, allegations of violence and neglect pervasive at the commission\u2019s facilities and encouraged the federal authorities to investigate the state agency again. Then, on Thursday, John Moore became the third independent ombudsman to resign this year from a position created in light of the 2007 scandal. Moore cited health reasons and another job offer as his reason for resigning.\nReactions to the advocacy groups\u2019 letter and Moore\u2019s subsequent resignation ranged from appalled to disillusioned. Saying that last week\u2019s events inspire little confidence in TYC as an agency is an understatement. Given the previous shocking allegations and federal investigation, the notion that any reform efforts are genuine invites skepticism, as does the idea that any reforms could even be lasting without a complete overhaul of the agency\u2019s internal structure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 5263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.debbiepisaro.com/blog/2014/5/1/when-to-pre-pay-your-mortgage", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:HYHWZZGIE5SOSWGGRDOH7HYIWRX3IKXS", "length": 2076, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.debbiepisaro.com", "title": "When to Pre Pay Your Mortgage \u2014 Debbie Pisaro", "raw_content": "Pre Paying your mortgage is a great way to pay off your loan quicker, and will also save you tons of money on interest. Sometimes pre paying your mortgage is not easy, but by doing so, it will save you tons of money in the future, and you will be glad that you will not have any more monthly payments.\nOne of the best ways to start out in pre paying your mortgage is to set up a budget for yourself, and figure up how much extra that you are able to spend each month or pre paying your mortgage. There are many different references that can help you with this, but the first place you should try, is going to your bank. They can help you with your budgeting, and setting up a savings account may also be helpful.\nSome people may find it difficult to pre pay their mortgage, but keep in mind that if there is a moth that you don\u2019t have the extra to pre pay on your mortgage, you do not have to. But by budgeting your money, and set aside any extra that you may have to spend, will help you in to pre paying your mortgage.\nThe interest is what is most expensive, and by pre paying your mortgage, you are going to be saving a lot of extra money, and will definitely be worth it in the future. For example, if you had to pay on your mortgage for 20 more years, by pre paying your mortgage can lower that to 10 years instead of 20, and so on.\nSo there is a great advantage to you, for pre paying your mortgage. Setting yourself up for a budget is the most important thing to do, so that you can stay on track with what you can pay extra each month. Having a savings account is very helpful, as you decide how much you put into it, in which can be for pre paying on your mortgage.\nOne of the best things about pre paying for your mortgage is that you are setting your future up, so that you can have the extra money that you will need, and not have to worry about your mortgage, monthly payments, or that high interest rate that causes you to have to pay longer. Star trying to pre pay your mortgage today!\n7 Things Productive Entrepeneurs ...\n4 buying mistakes (I won't let you ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 3710, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.defenddemocracy.press/social-security-system-crumbling/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:37Z", "digest": "sha1:BU3ONGIQ5AMQYQBGN4R6HVRVBXSVQDFP", "length": 1168, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.defenddemocracy.press", "title": "The Social Security System is Crumbling in Greece | Defend Democracy Press", "raw_content": "The Social Security System is Crumbling in Greece\nThe governing board of the Social Security Foundation (IKA) on Thursday rejected the management\u2019s request for money from the Social Security Capital for the Solidarity of Generations (AKAGE) for pensions for the rest of this year, while the board of the fund of the self-employed (OAEE) approved a similar request to the amount of 150 million euros.\nFor the last few years the ailments of the social security system have become more pronounced toward the end of each year, when the annual funding from the state budget starts to run out.\nThis year estimates put the total deficit of the system at around 3 billion euros, not including the 2 billion euros that IKA and OAEE owe to the healthcare service organization (EOPYY) or the 3 billion that IKA owes to the Manpower Organization (OAED).\nRead the full article in E Kathimerini\nGreece captured in death spiral\nTHE GREEK TRAGEDY AND THE ONE-WAY CATHARSIS\nWhat\u2019s the future of Puerto Rico going to be like after\u2026\nMoney to Banks, not to Greeks!\nWho Profited From the $440 Billion Greek Bailout? Not Greeks\nThe Ugly Truth Behind the Greek Bailout\nSOURCEekathimerini.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 3406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.defense-unmanned.com/article/1281/ga%2C-northrop-demo-more-uav-attack-capabilities.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:28Z", "digest": "sha1:HMNNJYDMKBICOFJSBH32G5CKGFNIS5FJ", "length": 4782, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.defense-unmanned.com", "title": "Defense-unmanned", "raw_content": "GA, Northrop Demo More UAV Attack Capabilities\nGA-ASI and Northrop Grumman Showcase Additional Unmanned Electronic Attack Capabilities In Second USMC Exercise\nSAN DIEGO --- General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA ASI), a leading manufacturer of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), tactical reconnaissance radars, and electro-optic surveillance systems, and Northrop Grumman Corporation a leading global security company, today announced the second successful demonstration of Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper's Electronic Attack capability featuring Northrop Grumman's new Pandora Electronic Warfare (EW) system at the U.S. Marine Corps' (USMC) Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course held at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma on October 22.\n\"Our collaboration with the Marine Corps and Northrop Grumman demonstrates the operational flexibility of the Predator B from being primarily a counter-insurgency aircraft to a platform that can address a broader spectrum of operational requirements,\" said Frank W. Pace, president, Aircraft Systems, GA-ASI. \"We believe this will be important especially in a declining budget environment as our customers will be seeking greater warfighting value using less expensive solutions.\"\nThe purpose of this second demonstration was to evaluate the capability of a RPA to conduct electronic warfare missions in concert with other unmanned aircraft systems and EA-6B Prowlers in a multi-node approach against a more capable Integrated Air Defense System (IADS). The event expanded upon GA-ASI and Northrop Grumman's successes in last April's WTI exercise and focused on delivering a more integrated and networked EW capability.\nGA-ASI participated in the demonstration with a company-owned Predator B RPA equipped with a company-produced jamming pod containing Northrop Grumman's Pandora EW System and controlled by a GA-ASI Ground Control Station (GCS). The Northrop Grumman payload proved to be very effective and was integrated seamlessly with the Predator B avionics and command and control architecture.\nNorthrop Grumman's Pandora is a multi-function wideband solution that provides electronic attack, support and protection. The lightweight, low-power system includes a flexible architecture to meet emerging needs and supports open interfaces to enable integration and interoperability.\n\"These demonstrations show what's now possible with our high-performance electronic warfare solution,\" said Janine Nyre, vice president of radio frequency combat information systems at Northrop Grumman. \"Pandora brings optimal size, weight, and power to current and future high-endurance platforms, opening up a new world of electronic attack capabilities.\"\nThe RPA was able to integrate into a Marine Command and Control (C2) network, enabling control of the aircraft's EW payload and other assets with a higher level of coherency among the platforms to deliver effects across the Electro-magnetic Spectrum (EMS). This C2 capability was exercised from the Cyber/Electronic Warfare Coordination Cell (CEWCC) located at MCAS Yuma and supported a large aircraft strike package which addressed simulated targets located hundreds of miles north at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.\n\"We demonstrated operational concepts using a layered approach to electronic warfare with GA-ASI's Reaper, EA-6B Prowlers, and other Group 3 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles [UAVs],\" stated Brig. Gen. Matthew G. Glavy, Assistant Deputy Commandant for Marine Aviation. \"By conducting multiple events with a networked, pod-based jamming system, we were able to evaluate the viability of UAVs to conduct electronic warfare missions against enemy air defenses in support of tactical strike aircraft.\"\nThe focus of GA-ASI and Northrop Grumman during future demonstrations will be to examine additional capabilities beyond EW and extend the network by linking RPA to deliver effects across the EMS.\nNorthrop Grumman develops manned and unmanned aircraft and sensors for situational awareness and aircraft self-protection. Platforms manufactured for the U.S. military and government agencies include Triton, Global Hawk, X-47B, BAT, Fire Scout, and Hunter. The company's advanced C4ISR systems in service now include the AN/ZPY-1 STARLite tactical radar, LR-100 electronic warfare system, and advanced navigation systems.\nGeneral Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc., an affiliate of General Atomics, delivers situational awareness by providing remotely piloted aircraft, radar, and electro-optic solutions for military and commercial applications worldwide. The company's Aircraft Systems business unit is a leading designer and manufacturer of proven, reliable remotely piloted aircraft systems, including Predator A, Predator B, Gray Eagle, the new Predator C Avenger, and Predator XP.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 8142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 294.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.degreematch.com/browse-schools/accounting_18.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:15Z", "digest": "sha1:RZN2X3D5QX2NF4ZMP2NDPSZR4RBHCHX2", "length": 2682, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.degreematch.com", "title": "Accounting Degree Programs | DegreeMatch.com", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb All Schools \u00bb Business \u00bb Accounting\nAccounting Degree Programs\nEarn a Accounting degree from an accredited school\nThe accounting field is thousands of years old; primitive societies relied on accounting methods to record the growth of crops and herds. In time, accounting has evolved substantially, advancing to keep up with the changing face of business. Today, accounting is referred to as \"the language of business\" and professionals holding certificates in accounting are in high demand.\nSpecific job duties differ across the various fields of accounting and auditing. Accounting used to communicate information to people within a particular business entity is called management accounting or private accounting. Information is provided to employees, managers, owners and auditors, that is then used to make management or operating decisions. Public accounting includes a variety of accounting, auditing, tax, and consulting activities, serving corporations, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and individuals. Public accountants, many of whom are Certified Public Accountants (CPAs), commonly work for public accounting firms or own their own businesses.\nStudents looking to earn an accounting degree have a multitude of both online and campus based colleges and universities to choose from. Accounting is among the most popular majors for students pursuing bachelor's degree online as well as one of the first to be offered as part of a distance learning curriculum. Accounting programs are well suited to distance learning as the requirements include very little practical involvement on the part of the student and no demonstration of technique by the instructor like, say, courses in culinary arts or the medical field.\nMany jobs in the accounting field require at least a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field. Some employers prefer applicants with a master's degree in or business administration with a concentration in accounting. Many colleges and universities offer students the opportunity to gain professional experience through summer internships or part-time work-study programs at public accounting or business firms. Professional experience and the proper certification provide a distinct advantage to individuals entering the job market. According to the\tU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in the accounting and auditing fields is expected to increase by 22 percent between 2008 and 2018, much faster than the average for all occupations in general. Growth in this industry is likely to be driven by an increase in the number of businesses, changing financial laws and corporate regulations, and increased accountability.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 8580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 177.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.digitizedchaos.com/2008/06/13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:25Z", "digest": "sha1:3I4VLA6C5OPP6JEMAFHMNE2V5LRDDHEE", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.digitizedchaos.com", "title": "13 \u00ab June \u00ab 2008 \u00ab Digitized Chaos", "raw_content": "Daily archive for June 13th, 2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 3430, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 71.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.digmb.com/2014/12/07/53795/a-look-inside-sandpipers-holiday-homes-tour", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7C6S4ERMJP3TDHPTNDVIMQNL3AGDAIL", "length": 2301, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.digmb.com", "title": "A Look Inside Sandpipers' Holiday Homes Tour | DigMB", "raw_content": "A Look Inside Sandpipers' Holiday Homes Tour\nMaureen McBride of Tabula Rasa Essentials staged the holiday decor in this Manhattan Beach home on the Sandpipers Holiday Homes Tour 2014.\n2014 Sandpipers Holiday Homes Tour [23 Images] Click Any Image To Expand\nHere's a look at two of the gorgeous homes on Sandpipers 22nd Annual Holiday Homes Tour, which ends today (Sunday, Dec. 7) at 5 p.m. DigMB visited the homes for an exclusive look at two South Bay gems, one in Hermosa Beach, the other in Manhattan Beach.\nA ticket to the tour gives its holder a complimentary visit to the rooftop of the Bank of Manhattan in downtown Manhattan Beach, where a rooftop tasting of snacks and beverages, including wine, is available for purchase until 4 p.m. The 800-square-foot ocean view deck is sure to set the stage for some holiday fun.\nTour homes are at 1134 19th St., Hermosa Beach, 112 20th St., MB, a Walk Street, and 822 John St. A free shuttle service is provided as parking is at a premium and difficult to locate in most of these areas.The complimentary shuttle runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, leaving from home locations approximately 15 minutes apart.\nTickets, $30 per person, for the tour are available at the homes, a free public cafe and boutique at the Neptunian Woman's Club, 920 Highland Ave., and select businesses listed in the attached PDF. This year's tour covers three homes, two in MB and one just over the border in Hermosa Beach.\nSandpipers requests that you wear flat shoes only and do not bring any large purses or bags. Visitors are also asked not to take any photos or use their cell phones inside the homes.\nThe public is invited to attend the cafe and holiday boutique, featuring local artisans and vendors, at the Neptunian Woman\u2019s Club. The boutique and cafe will offer shopping and refreshments for purchase.\nSandpipers is celebrating 83 years of service and is dedicated to serving the needs of the South Bay community through charitable and philanthropic programs such as Back to School shopping, holiday baskets, college scholarships and community service. In 2013-2014, Sandpipers contributed more than $500,000 and thousands of community service hours to individuals and local non-profits in need.\nIn 2013, the Holiday Homes Tour raised more than $71,000 for Sandpipers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 3771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 274.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.djseizure.net/blog/the-legend-bigga-rankin/7/9/2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:45Z", "digest": "sha1:YGZSEKSHLULPDHYJQUMIY5JAIRH55MN3", "length": 4638, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.djseizure.net", "title": "DJSeizure \u2014 The Legend BIGGA RANKIN!", "raw_content": "As quiet as it\u2019s kept, the DJ has been the center of hip hop since day one. Dating back to early block party jams in New York\u2019s notorious South Bronx circa 1975, the DJ has provided the soundtrack for b-boys to breakdance, instrumentals for rappers to rhyme over and musical inspiration for graffiti artists to create magnificent street art.\nToday, as hip hop has gone global, the DJ is just as important to the culture as he always has been. Whether keeping a club jumping until the break of dawn, introducing new music to the masses or backing up your favorite rapper behind the ones and twos in a jam-packed arena, the DJ keeps his finger on the pulse of rap music.\nAnd celebrity DJ Bigga Rankin is one of the most powerful record spinners in the business. He is CEO/founder of one of the most influential DJ crews in the country, Cool Runnings DJs. His promotions expertise has been utilized at such powerhouse labels as Young Jeezy\u2019s imprint CTE, Atlantic Records, Def Jam and Interscope.\nAs well as touring the globe with the likes of Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne, 8Ball & MJG and 2Chainz, Bigga Rankin is rapidly approaching super stardom. His RNR mixtape series has helped to ignite the careers of Plies, Rick Ross, Yo Gotti, B.O.B and Gucci Mane. And in the process, he has collected more music awards than he can keep up with.\nCurrently, he is vice president of the nationally known Hittmenn DJs, a member of the Core DJs and is wrapping up his upcoming documentary and soundtrack soon-to-be released via Good Life Music.\n\u201cDJing isn\u2019t a job,\u201d says Bigga. \u201cIt\u2019s a way of life.\u201d\nBorn in Jamaica, Bigga started his musical career as a dancehall rapper. Since he was always a chubby kid, they called him \u201cBigga.\u201d In Jamaica, whenever you do something spectacular, the term \u201cRankin\u201d is added to your name. He started DJing after he relocated to the United States with his parents when he was 15.\nSettling in Chicago where other family members lived, he was formally introduced to the art of DJing by his two cousins, who were spinning reggae music at local clubs and house parties with mammoth sound systems.\nSeeing how they controlled the crowd with the music and kept the people feeling good, Bigga was immediately hooked. At first, he played strictly reggae. But that changed a few years later when he relocated down South to Jacksonville, Fla. and incorporated his love for rap music into the playlist.\nIn 1990, Bigga and his brother opened famed Jacksonville nightclub Cool Runnings. Each year, the club grew by leaps and bounds and attracted people from around the Sunshine State. By the turn of the century, the club was being recognized all across the country.\nAround the same time, Bigga Rankin founded Cool Runnings DJs. Since the crew\u2019s inception, they have produced and given away thousands of mixtapes and DVDs throughout the Southeast. Bigga\u2019s RNR Radio (Real Nigga Radio) series has hosted the likes of Young Jeezy, T.I., PSC, Plies and many more.\nAdditionally, through his marketing company Team Bigga Rankin, he assists aspiring artists with their career. His team prides itself on eblasts/viral marketing, street promotions and a crew of DJs on radio, in the clubs, putting out mixtapes and hosting events.\n\u201cEveryone works together to help break an artist, the best way they can,\u201d Bigga explains. \u201cOur mission is to provide real results to artists we believe in with professionalism and respect.\u201d\nThose proven results landed Bigga roles as vice president and head A&R at Corporate Thugs Entertainment and vice president at Slip & Slide Records. Keeping his ear to the street, Bigga handpicked some of the music industry\u2019s hottest artists before they came famous via the Diamond Awards. Set in Jacksonville, artists that have graced the stage and have been recipients of Diamond Awards have gone on to mega stardom.\n\u201cThis is not your average awards show, this is a prediction of what\u2019s coming next in the music industry,\u201d says Bigga. \u201cJoin us and get the inside scoop on what the music industry will be doing next.\u201d\nWith more than 20 years and counting under his belt, Bigga Rankin is known for bringing intense levels of energy and hype to the dance floor or to a concert. So whether he\u2019s spinning at a neighborhood hole-in-the-wall club, playing in front of BET Spring Bling Black College Reunion in Daytona or even behind the boards in front of thousands of partygoers, Bigga Rankin is the pioneer of the southern hip-hop movement in Florida.\ncategories / hip hop, news, entertainment, music\ntags / Bigga Rankin, Big Brother, Cool Running DJ\"S, core djs, Florida, Atlanta, Team Bigga Rankin, DJ SEIZURE, Family, Jamaica", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5144, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.djseizure.net/blog/video-of-dozens-injured-at-new-jersey-snoop-dogg-and-wiz-khalifa-concert/8/8/2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:22Z", "digest": "sha1:FQCBTOGNTNJA6I22NZQ7PYZRARJEHUOO", "length": 1432, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.djseizure.net", "title": "DJSeizure \u2014 Video of Dozens Injured at New Jersey, Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa Concert", "raw_content": "On August 5th Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg took to New Jersey for their \"The High Road Summer Tour,\" at the BB&T Pavilion. During their concert they jumped onto the 2nd platform of the stage. The fans surrounding the stage were being blocked off from the stage by railings. At that point Snoop and Wiz got the crowd to scream and the next song came on. At that point the crowd got more excited and the railing (separating the crowd from Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa as well as the drop between both the crowd and stage) fell taking the crowd down with it. Dozens of fans fell from the platform causing dozens of injuries. You can see in the video right when the railing collapses that security escorted both Snoop and Wiz off the stage promptly. The remainder part of the show was canceled and security safely escorted the rest of the fans as quickly as possible, so they can help treat the injured fans. Some fans left with minor cuts and bruises while other had to be transported to the hospital due to broken bones. Thankfully no one was killed. Later on, Snoop Dogg took to Instagram to send prayers out to all his fans that were injured at the concert. Check out the video below.\nInstagram photo by @snoopdogg * Aug 6, 2016 at 8:02pm UTC\ntags / snoop dogg, wiz khalifa, concert, new jersey, injured, fans injured, railing, show, hip hop, the high road, taylor gang\nLawyers of Troy Ave to Host Press Conference at Irving Plaza Today", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1978, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 322.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dlinkworks.com/3887/d-link-launches-gloves-are-off-promotional-campaign", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:44Z", "digest": "sha1:JC5VEL4IETXU5GV2OHMJD4W3ZADF45GE", "length": 1377, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.dlinkworks.com", "title": "D-Link Launches 'Gloves Are Off' Promotional Campaign", "raw_content": "D-Link Launches 'Gloves Are Off' Promotional Campaign\nD-Link, the end-to-end networking solutions provider for consumers and business, today launched the \"Gloves Are Off\" promotion for the thousands of its value-added resellers in the U.S. and Canada.\nRunning now through Dec. 31, 2009, the promotion is designed to show appreciation to new members enrolling in the reseller community that gave D-Link the prestigious honor this year in the CRN Magazine survey where the company was ranked the number one competitor in both Data and Wireless Networking categories. The company is offering a \"ring-load\" of aggressive instant rebates, spiffs* and a grand prize** - a trip to Las Vegas to see the Ultimate Fighting Championship\u00ae (UFC 108) Jan. 1-3.\nUp to $300 Reward Card spiffs are being offered on wireless, storage and surveillance product bundles, and spiffs and instant rebates from $25 to $200 can be earned on the sale of wireless access points (APs) and bridges, and D-Link's wide range of 24 and 48-port managed and 16-port unmanaged switches.\n\"We are very appreciative of the reseller community for voting us the Number One Contender, and this exciting new 'Gloves Are Off' promotion is our way of rewarding our new and existing channel partners and attracting prospective partners,\" said Betsy Roddy, director of field marketing for D-Link's North American operations.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 378, "original_length": 7782, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 244.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dogsandpupsmagazine.com/tag/wheaten/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:56Z", "digest": "sha1:V5ZGARTOWYM2N4MLSH7HEDFYWQXTRQFQ", "length": 5754, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.dogsandpupsmagazine.com", "title": "wheaten \u2013 Dogs and Pups Magazine", "raw_content": "Tag Archive for: wheaten\nYou are here: Home / wheaten\nWheaten Terrier make life beautiful!\nWed, 21 Mar 2012 06:36:37 +0000 /0 Comments/in Breed Profile /by Dogs and pups Magazine\nAlways in good mood, Irish Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier is as sweet as honey. They are loyal companions with whom you would love to share your life\u2026 today and all tomorrows.\nJourney down the lane\u2026\nThe history of the Irish Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier, also called as Wheaten, has been somewhat obscured by its closeness to the other Irish Terrier breeds. The Wheaten is probably the oldest of the four breeds. Their existence for at least 200 years can be inferred from textual references to soft-coated dogs. The relation of the modern Irish Terrier to the Wheaten, though less well documented, appears to have been the result of deliberate breeding experiments. So the humble Wheaten probably has a fairly mixed ancestry. Despite the long history of the Wheaten, it wasn\u2019t until 1937 that the soft coated Wheaten was officially recognised by the Irish Kennel Club. The breed has grown steadily in popularity since and is now well-known worldwide. Wheaten Terriers were used by small farmers to kill vermin or help with the work about the farm. They were used for a long time in the difficult job of hunting badgers and otters.\nA Wheaten is a hardy and active who is well-built and gives the idea of strength. He is neither too leggy nor too low to the ground. His head is powerful, without being coarse and is in proportion to the body. His eyes are dark hazel coloured, not too large, not prominent and well placed. His ears range from small to medium, carried in front and are at a level with skull. His tail is well set, not too thick and carried gaily but never over the back. His coat can range from shades of light wheaten to a golden reddish hue. Single-coated, the texture is soft and silky to feel and not harsh. The coat at its longest is almost five inches (12.7 cm). It is soft, wavy or loosely curled with the sheen of silk. The puppies are seldom born with the correct colour or texture of the coat. They go through several changes of colour and texture before developing the mature adult coat, which usually occurs between 18 months and two and a half years.\nThe height of males is 18-19 inch (46 \u2013 48 cm) while that of females is somewhat less and they weigh around 18 \u2013 20.5 kg.\nExcellent temperament\u2026\nSpirited and gameful, Wheatens are good tempered. They are most affectionate and loyal to their pet parents. They are intelligent and can be a trustworthy, faithful friend. They are defensive but without aggression. They have a special talent to make you consider them just as family members.\nThere are not enough words to describe how much joy and affection a Wheaten Terrier can bring to your home. They are always in good mood and happy and don\u2019t hesitate to display their affection. They take interest in whatever you do and they are extremely close to their pet parents.\nThey love children. They are the best companions ever. Their playful and affectionate temperament matches very well with what children are looking for in a dog company. Although they are not watch dogs, they will instinctively keep an eye on the children of the family and protect the family from strangers if a danger was to occur.\nDaily exercise \u2013 a must\u2026\nThey need to be exercised daily. Irish Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers can live in a flat, apartment only if they daily have the opportunity to be walked in a park for a minimum of one and a half hour where they can run freely unleashed. They are very quiet inside the house, rarely bark but they need outdoor activities.\nThey do not have undercoat so they do not shed at all. They are considered as hypoallergenic dogs and highly recommended for people having allergies to pet hair.\nTraining at an early age\u2026\nWheaten Terriers typically welcome family and friends in a very demonstrative way. They usually start this behaviour when they are still little puppies. So you will need to train them not to do it but never yell at them or hit them! Wheatens are very sensitive dogs. Love is the main thing of the Wheatens\u2019 training.\nGames they love\u2026\nThey love to play ball and to retrieve sticks, even in the water if they were trained since a young age. Some people practice agility with them and they are doing very well. They are Terriers so they were at a time hunting dogs. Long walks in the countryside, where they can smell on tracks, is one of their favourite activities. They do not run away like other hunting dogs so you can unleash them in the fields or on trails. They will follow you and won\u2019t go too far away from you, you will always have them in close sight.\nThe healthy breed\u2026\nPure Irish Soft Coated Wheaten lines don\u2019t have a disease specific to their breed. Some breeders mixed Irish Soft Coated Wheaten Terriers with Poodles and Kerry Blues, to get a fluffy frizzy coat easy to sculpt and more spectacular in shows. These unconsidered matings have brought some diseases like kidney dysplasia. All the hereditary problems that you could read about Soft-Coated Wheaten Terriers belong to dogs from mixed lines.\nOnce you have shared life with a Wheaten, you might have another one and for sure, you would never live without one!\n(Katia Gobbi is a breeder of Irish Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier and is representative of the Irish Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier breed by the French Terrier Breeds Club (CFAT-DT)).\nhttp://www.dogsandpupsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/150x122-images-stories-issue-mar12-029.jpg 122 150 Dogs and pups Magazine http://www.dogsandpupsmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/1254nal.jpg Dogs and pups Magazine2012-03-21 06:36:372014-02-07 17:40:31Wheaten Terrier make life beautiful!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 7082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 280.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.dotheshore.com/content/%E2%80%98shot-down-over-italy%E2%80%99-author-open-aviation-museum%E2%80%99s-free-lecture-and-film-series", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:31Z", "digest": "sha1:C4UDI6JFQV2NH6DQ4FYCT5GXNQB6L3BU", "length": 1842, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.dotheshore.com", "title": "\u2018Shot Down Over Italy\u2019 Author to Open Aviation Museum\u2019s Free Lecture and Film Series | DoTheShore.com", "raw_content": "\u2018Shot Down Over Italy\u2019 Author to Open Aviation Museum\u2019s Free Lecture and Film Series\nSummer is in full swing at Historic Hangar #1! Thursday, July 12 will bring in the first installment of the FREE Summer Lecture & Film Series presented by Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum. Author John Lanza will speak about his novel, \u201cShot Down Over Italy,\u201d and hold a book signing at Hangar #1, 500 Forrestal Rd. in the Cape May Airport Complex. In his thrilling debut novel, Lanza recounts tales from his uncle who was a part of a B-25 Mitchell bomber crew that was shot down over Italy in 1944. Not much was previously known about what happened to these crew members due to fear and shame. Lanza\u2019s novel will take the reader on a journey through the thoughts and experiences of the seven member crew and how they survived after crashing in Nazi-occupied territory. This lecture is open to the public and is a free, family-friendly event. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and the lecture will start at approximately 7 p.m.\nEach Thursday in July will bring another installation to the FREE Lecture & Film Series. For more information, please visit www.usnasw.org or Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum on Facebook. NASW Aviation Museum will be partnering with the Cape May Film Society to show a few spectacular films during this series. Complimentary snacks and beverages will be served to attendees each Thursday night during the series.\nNaval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum is located inside historic Hangar #1 at the Cape May Airport. The site was formerly Naval Air Station Wildwood, which served as a World War II dive-bomber training center. The museum is dedicated to the 42 airmen who perished while training at Naval Air Station Wildwood between 1943 and 1945.\nlower township tours and museums arts and culture free activities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 2857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.downsyndrometest.org/about-the-partners/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:51Z", "digest": "sha1:OYEDGGIRUU642GXFPP6NOEFDHPD7JUQN", "length": 1771, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.downsyndrometest.org", "title": "Down Syndrome Test | About the partners", "raw_content": "The Global Down Syndrome Foundation is a public non-profit 501(c)(3) dedicated to significantly improving the lives of people with Down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. Formally established in 2009, the Foundation\u2019s primary focus is to support the Linda Crnic Institute for Down Syndrome, the first academic home in the U.S. committed to research and medical care for people with the condition. Fundraising and government advocacy that corrects the alarming disparity of national funding for people with Down syndrome is a major short-term goal. The Foundation organizes the Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show \u2013 the single-largest annual fundraiser benefiting people with Down syndrome. Programmatically the Foundation organizes and funds many programs and conferences including the Dare to Play Football and Cheer Camps, Global Down Syndrome Educational Series, and Global Down Syndrome Multi-Language Resource Project. The Foundation is an inclusive organization without political or religious affiliation or intention.\nFounded in 1973, the National Down Syndrome Congress is the oldest national organization for people with Down syndrome, their families, and the professionals who work with them. A 501(c)(3) non-profit advocacy organization, the NDSC provides free technical support and information about issues related to Down syndrome throughout the lifespan, as well as on matters of public policy relating to disability rights. Best known for its annual convention \u2013 the largest of its type in the world \u2013 the National Down Syndrome Congress is a grassroots organization recognized for its \u201cfamily\u201d feel, its \u201cWe\u2019re More Alike than Different\u201d public awareness campaign, and, its outreach to individuals from diverse backgrounds.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 111.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drmgamecast.com/2015/06/the-swapper-review_5.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:45Z", "digest": "sha1:JP6ATKIIE4KMVOBYI5LRVGCW3I53MNMR", "length": 4227, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.drmgamecast.com", "title": "The Swapper Review - DRM Gamecast", "raw_content": "Home Review The Swapper Review\nThe Swapper is an atmospheric puzzle platformer set in space. Players wield a device that is able to clone the user and transfer, or swap, control between them. You then use these clones to solve the puzzles in the game.\nDeveloper: Facepalm Games\nMore than just a puzzle game\nThe Swapper is the first game I've played that made me think \"experience\" needs to be a genre for video games. Yes it has puzzles and they are core to the gameplay but it is so much more than a puzzle game. It is, as I said, an experience.\nThe story, which I will try not to spoil, is one of the most interesting stories I've seen in a long time. And for a \"puzzle\" game, it has some incredibly complex ideas but very solid writing makes it easy to follow. The voice acting is also very well done. The gist of the story, told through visuals, interactions with a mysterious woman and terminals that can be read along the way, is you land on a derelict space station after using an escape pod to escape some disaster on a space ship and you need to find out what happened. A main theme of the story is the idea of cloning a person and transferring their consciousness into said clone.\nThis theme also plays a major role in the gameplay and ties into the games mechanic in a way that blows my mind. I've never seen part of a games story so relevant to the games mechanic. This idea of cloning and the transferring of consciousness is how you do the platforming and also how you solve the puzzles of the game.\nThe platforming is fairly simple. You use the experimental gun to clone yourself and swap control to reach higher ground. You also use the gun to avoid falling to your death from high places by cloning and swapping before you hit the ground to reach lower areas. The body that you just transferred out of does hit the ground with a crunch and dies though and raises the question of whether or not I just killed someone or did I commit suicide. That simple yet thought provoking action is one of the things that make this game awesome. Not to mention it plays into the story.\nThe puzzles on the other hand, aren't so simple. In the beginning some of the puzzles can be quite hard to solve but once you figure out what you can and can't do through experimentation, the puzzles become a little bit easier, but not by much. As you progress through the game, the puzzles begin to add new obstacles to overcome to solve them. Sometimes it's a colored light that prevents you from performing a certain action, e.g. a red light that disables the cloning function of the gun or pressure plates that you have to stand clones on. These plates can be tricky, especially in later puzzles, because your clones move as you do. It will take some trial and error to figure out the right spots to drop the clones from so they stay on the plates allowing you to grab the orb. These orbs are the reasons you need to solve the puzzles. They are used to open new pathways to progress through the game.\nThe clever puzzles of The Swapper are very well thought out, pose a nice but not frustratingly hard challenge and bring a nice sense of satisfaction once you solve one of them.\nThe art style of the game is also impressive. All of the art in the game was literally hand crafted using clay models and other everyday materials making this one of the most visually unique games you can find and only enhances an already engrossing game. You can tell a lot of love went into this game just by looking at it.\nAnother thing worth mentioning is the soundtrack. The music production in The Swapper is top notch and just like the art style, enhances the atmosphere of the game. Every aspect of this game fits together very well.\nThe Swapper is an immersive experience. From the graphics to the story, from the puzzles to the ambient soundtrack, every part of this game kept me engaged until the very end. The one and only problem I have with this game is the length. Depending on how fast you solve the puzzles, it only takes 4 - 5 hours to complete but it's definitely worth your time and money.\n+ Voice Acting\n- Short campaign\nWhat I played: 2 complete playthroughs solving every puzzle, reading every terminal and unlocking all achievements", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 262, "original_length": 11917, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 272.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.drumseateverything.com/2013/07/kevin-gates-430am.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:14Z", "digest": "sha1:SFOYCHA54KQFV5E4HPTLDGFKJRIOAO3C", "length": 322, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.drumseateverything.com", "title": "Kevin Gates, 4:30AM ~ Drums Eat Everything", "raw_content": "I've been a bit light on hip hop lately but thankfully Louisiana's Kevin Gates' latest track is very tidy. I'm not analysing the lyrics, just hit play and respect the depth. Delicate ears beware.\nApparently 4:30AM is on iTunes but I'll be damned if I can find it. Released by Atlantic.\nLabels: 4:30AM, hip hop, Kevin Gates", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 160, "original_length": 3747, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 300.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.easy-walking.com/up-n-go/how-to-order/tips-for-writing-letters-of-medical-necessity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:28Z", "digest": "sha1:JPGNIW7AVF3TCBUZMM4QGZSRE6N77BEV", "length": 1689, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.easy-walking.com", "title": "Tips for Writing Letters of Medical Necessity | Easy-Walking", "raw_content": "In many cases your insurance company will pay for your Up n\u2019 Go, but you will need to write a letter of medical necessity. Here are some tips on approaching an insurance company for coverage for your Up n\u2019 Go.\nThe goal of your letter of medical necessity is to get approval for the Up n\u2019 Go so that you do not have to appeal an insurance claim denial. Although you will have an opportunity to appeal any denials, only a small percentage of denials are overturned.\nYour letter must be geared to your audience. When you are describing your medical condition and the Up n\u2019 Go, use only terms that an ordinary person who has never worked in health care would understand. The people who are reading your letter are not doctors.\nIf your claim was denied because of a policy exclusion, your must show that the Up n\u2019 Go is outside of that exclusion. An example of this is when an insurance company denies coverage for a pre-existing condition. Your condition may not have been treated in the three months before the effective date of coverage, so the condition is not really pre-existing.\nIn evaluating whether a piece of equipment is excluded from coverage, it is often because that equipment is not the least expensive. When this occurs, you must show that the less expensive equipment will not help, and that the Up n\u2019 Go can not be compared to a less expensive walker because there is so much more functionality with the Up n\u2019 Go. If the denial is because there is no specific category for the Up n\u2019 Go, the goal of the appeal is to find a coverage provision in the policy under which the equipment would fall and to demonstrate that the policy contains no relevant exclusion for the Up n\u2019 Go.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 8239, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ecupgrades.com.au/case-study---copenhagen-central-station.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:10Z", "digest": "sha1:TKODHM3L6BDHMMEZ3GSGA27HGEY5Z5NH", "length": 3428, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.ecupgrades.com.au", "title": "Case Study - Copenhagen Central Station Fan Retrofit - ECupgrades", "raw_content": "Ingenious ventilation solution at Copenhagen Central Station\nThe shops and restaurants at Copenhagen Central Station cut power consumption by two thirds by installing new energy-efficient fans from ebm-papst in the existing application.\nebm-papst product manager Henrik Dahl Thomsen\nIt takes a good deal of creativity to save energy in a modern shopping centre housed in a heritage-listed 100-year-old concourse such as the Copenhagen Central Station. The job can\u2019t be done simply by adding insulation or closing off doors. As a result, the search for energy savings quickly fell on improving ventilation in the shops and restaurants. Fitting a modern ventilation system into the cramped, old equipment rooms was impossible, thus leading to the decision to modernise the existing ones. The old AC fans were replaced with ebm-papst EC fans and energy consumption measurements were conducted before and after the refitting. The results showed savings equal to what a new facility would have provided \u2013 at a lower price. The investment paid for itself in less than a year.\n\u201cThe ebm-papst solution at the Central Station is ingenious,\u201d says Property Manager Kim Jensen, who works for the company Steen & Str\u00f8m, which operates 16 shopping centres in Denmark, including the Central Station Shopping Centre with its approximately 20 shops and restaurants.\n\u201cMany suppliers of finished ventilation systems could have achieved similar savings, but the limited amount of space in the old equipment rooms under the station makes installing a completely new ventilation system down there impossible,\u201d explains Kim Jensen, continuing, \u201cthis is what makes the ebm-papst solution so brilliant. What\u2019s a ventilation system really made of? Just cabinets \u2013 and when you put new fans in the old cabinets, the result is in fact a completely new ventilation system.\u201d\nQuick, easy and inexpensive\nFive fans were replaced at the Central Station in two days by three workers from the firm Energy & Environmental Engineering, which has done similar rebuilds elsewhere. Switching from AC to EC fans has led to direct energy savings of 66%, which means the investment paid for itself in less than a year.\nAn additional 10-15% in savings were gained by reviewing and adapting the individual systems to the actual needs; some were merged and others could be completely removed from use. All restaurants and shops are ventilated from two equipment rooms, one of which achieved a savings of at least 78% and the other of about 40%.\nRenovating the ventilation system by combining the old and the new has lead to yet another victory at the Central Station. The advantages can definitely be felt when it\u2019s time to read the electricity meter.\nAll restaurants and shops are ventilated from 2 equipment rooms. Rebuilding the ventilation system and tailored adjustments have meant massive savings. Parts of the existing system were merged or taken completely out of service.\nEquipment room 1: Consumption reduced from 8-10,000KW per month to 1,700KW for savings of at least 78%.\nEquipment room 2: Total savings of approximately 40%.\nIt took just two days to install the new EC fans in the old system at Copenhagen Central Station. The investment paid for itself in under a year.\nInstallation of the new ebm-papst EC plug fan\nThere was no space for a new system in the old equipment rooms at Copenhagen Central Station, but an EC fan retrofit achieved the same savings.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4746, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 266.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.editingluke.net/2016/04/guardian-building-in-detroit-michigan.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EXCJAKAH2VXY32YXQCC7Q3RRWGXCMYPZ", "length": 1505, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.editingluke.net", "title": "Guardian Building in Detroit, Michigan | Editing Luke", "raw_content": "Constructed in 1928, the Guardian Building (originally the Union Trust Building) is a landmark skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan. Located within the financial district, the structure was built by the Union Trust Company, however their occupancy was short lived after the market collapse of 1929. An attempt at reorganization led to the Union Guardian Trust Company, hence the structure became known as the Guardian Building.\nIn World War II, with Detroit's factories converted from manufacturing automobiles, the Guardian Building became the U.S. Army Command Center for war time production. Housing a variety of companies in the years that followed, today the offices of Wayne County are located here.\nThe striking architecture of the Guardian Building was intended to make the structure a standout in the 1920s, and it's arguably even more of a standout today. Nicknamed the Cathedral of Finance, the Guardian Building is a prime example of Art Deco architecture. With streamline moderne designs and Native American and Aztec influences, the building was intentionally designed using warmer tones to differentiate itself from other Detroit skyscrapers. Rising 36 stories, it combines brickwork with tile, limestone, and terra cotta embellishments. All things considered, I think the images allow this incredible landmark to speak for itself.\nThe landmark Guardian Building on the right.\nCatalogue: Detroit , Images , Michigan , Middle America Series , Motor City 2016 , Observations , Photography", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 10216, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.efilmcritic.com/feature.php?cat=dvd&latest=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:16Z", "digest": "sha1:FPROXRO437NOCZVQTTOJYMWBK7EUEROU", "length": 8612, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.efilmcritic.com", "title": "eFilmCritic - DVD/Blu-Ray Reviews for 11/7: \"Arise My Wives! And Hear The Will Of Manos!\"", "raw_content": "For various reasons that we need not go into at this time, the semi-regular DVD/Blu-Ray column that I do has been a little more semi as of late. This, I promise/threaten, will be amended very soon. Until then, here is a brief update of a few of the more notable new titles on the horizon to satisfy your home video needs.\nALADDIN: DIAMOND EDITION (Buena Vista Home Entertainment. $39.95): Though I would not exactly rank this 1992 blockbuster as one of the great Disney animated films, it is an undeniably popular title and its massive fan base should get a kick out of the special edition that has been put together in honor of its Blu-Ray debut. Many of the bells and whistles on display here have been seen in previous editions but it makes up for it with a tribute to the late Robin Williams--whose still-astonishing turn as the Genie gave the film its juice--that includes a number of outtakes of him recording his part and, not surprisingly, going off on bizarre and frequently hilarious tangents. If you have kids, this is pretty much a must-own and if not, it is still pretty much worth a look.\nAUTOMAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES/MANIMAL: THE COMPLETE SERIES (Shout! Factory. $26.99 each ): Proving that pretty much every television show from the 1980s that lasted more than three episodes will one day get its own DVD collection (with the apparent exception of my beloved \"Strike Force\"), these two short-lived productions from veteran producer Glen Larson get their long-awaited due. Essentially an inversion of \"Tron,\" the former in a 1983 series in which Desi Arnaz plays a police department computer nerd who devises a hologram policeman (Chuck Wagner) that can help him solve the crimes that those pesky flesh-and-blood cops can't be bothered with. If that premise seems a little too staid for you, perhaps the latter title is more up your alley. It follows the adventures of a hunky criminology professor (Simon MacCorkindale) with the power to transform himself into any animal (at least those that could be achieved within the show's budget). Rather than looking up Nastassja Kinski for a bit of fun, he uses these powers the way we all would--to help the NYPD solve the crimes that those pesky biped cops just can't be bothered with. Both shows are ridiculous, of course, but those with a taste for this brand of cheese will probably be entertained. Now bring on \"Mr. Smith,\" dammit!\nCODE UNKNOWN (The Criterion Collection. $39.95): Michael Haneke wrote and directed this painful and wounding drama (were you expecting a wacky rom-com?) that uses an incident involving a homeless man and a pastry on the streets of Paris as a springboard to examine the malaise and disconnect running rampant throughout contemporary Europe. With its numerous storylines bouncing off of one another, it is sort of like his version of \"Short Cuts\" and while it is not exactly my favorite of his films (I prefer the likes of the original \"Funny Games,\" \"Cache\" and \"Amour\"), it is formally inventive (it consists almost entirely of a series of long extended takes), beautifully directed and filled with a number of strong performances. Those who admire it more than I do--and there are many of those people out there--will dig this edition, which includes such special features as an introduction filmed by Haneke in 2001, an interview with him from that time discussing one of the film's key sequences and \"Filming Haneke,\" a 2000 making-of documentary featuring interviews with Haneke, producer Marin Karmitz and co-star Juliette Binoche.\nTHE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM MACHINE (S'More Entertainment. $39.98): In the years between the demise of the Smothers Brothers show and the arrival of such landmarks programs as \"Saturday Night Live\" and \"SCTV,\" this show, which aired on public television between 1971-1973, kept satire on the airwaves and helped to foster a new generation of talent as well. Among those who got early exposure through the show include such future stars as Chevy Chase, Albert Brooks (who offered up his hilarious \"Albert Brooks Famous School for Comedians\"), Charles Grodin, Henry Winkler, Penny Marshall and Martin Mull and also included appearances from the varied likes of Andy Rooney, Studs Terkel and Evel Knievil. As a time capsule of a tumultuous era of American history, the 12 hours of sketches presented here are invaluable and many of them still hold up surprisingly well today--at the very least, there are more laughs here than \"SNL\" has accomplished in the last couple of years.\nMANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE (Synapse Films. $24.95): Yes, the infamous 1966 shlock classic from fertilizer salesman-turned-auteur Hal P. Warren--a tale of an ordinary family whose wrong turn while on vacation leads them into the clutched of a bizarre cult consisting of the satanic Manos, his zombified harem (who still manage to get into the occasional catfight) and, of course, his oddly gaited aide-de-camp Torgo, a character who has to be seen (and heard) to be believed--has made its long-awaited arrival on Blu-Ray at long last. That in itself would be all kinds of astonishing but it has in fact arrived in a fancy special edition that almost certainly cost more to produce than the film itself, even after factoring in inflation. The film itself has undergone a full 2K restoration and while it still looks like crap, it is light years better than the muddy PD copies that have been floating around for years. (To prove how much it has been improved, the Blu-Ray also includes a copy of the unrestored version so that viewers can see the difference between them.) There is a commentary track featuring Manos himself, Tom Neyman, and his daughter, Jackey Raye Neyman-Jones, who played the adorable little girl, who provide amusing memories about the making of the film and their disbelief in its current cult status. Finally, there are three featurettes that offer looks at the history and afterlife of the film, how the restoration came about and a woman who has made it her mission to stage the film as a puppet show. Every man, woman and child should see this film, of course, but for trash film aficionados, this disc is essential.\nTERMINATOR: GENISYS (Paramount Home Video. $29.99): Having already scraped the bottom of the proverbial barrel with \"Terminator: Salvation,\" the once-peerless franchise hits new depths with this bit of nonsense that tries to revamp things with nonsense involving alternate timelines that comes across like an exceptionally bad bit of fan fiction written in a Mountain Dew daze. Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in his signature role but he seems as bored with the proceedings as the audience, Emilia Clarke does not get a chance to demonstrate any of the fire or power that she does on a regular basis on \"Game of Thrones\" and franchise-killing lunk Jai Courtney is such a drag as the human hero that you will be rooting for the robots to win once and for all. Frankly, the only surprising thing about the film is that the Blu-Ray package features a quote from James Cameron himself stating \"You Are Going To Love This Movie\"--God only knows how much he was paid to deliver that endorsement.\nTOMORROWLAND (Buena Vista Home Entertainment. $29.95): Going into last summer's box-office derby, this hugely expensive film was arguably the biggest question mark of the bunch in that no one seemed to have much of an idea of what it was supposed to be. However, with the combination of co-writer/director Brad Bird (the guy behind such wonderful films as \"The Iron Giant,\" \"The Incredibles\" and \"Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol\") and star George Clooney, it at least seemed more interesting than most of the formulaic sequels it was up against. Alas, it proved to be one of the biggest disappointments of the season, both commercially and creatively, as the confusing story of a brilliant but rebellious girl (Britt Robertson) who stumbles upon a magical future world known as Tomorrowland and seeks the help of another former visitor (Clooney) to help her return. In a time when most film financiers are getting increasingly conservative in regards to the kind of projects they are willing to finance--preferring seeming sure things to anything that even vaguely smacks of potential risk--I am glad that Bird was able to get the money to bring his vision to the screen but I just wish that the final result could have meant as much to viewers as it evidently did to him. Bird does appear in the special features section to explain his reasons for making the film and there are the usual array of deleted scenes, featurettes and even a new animated short for good measure.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 11896, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.einujackie.com/2009/11/disclosure-policy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:44Z", "digest": "sha1:733DJMLMFAJD6MVCZK6YVZ3FBAVBXSWY", "length": 259, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.einujackie.com", "title": "God Brought Me Here For A Reason: Disclosure Policy", "raw_content": "This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact www.einujackie.blogspot.com.\nhttp://www.u-g-h.com/wordpress-plugins/wordpress-plugin-ppp-review-my-post/\nPosted by Jackie Paraiso at Friday, November 13, 2009", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 8290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eliewieseltattoo.com/2011/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:ODXCZ7ND3ORTLZJYQHC3BXUF2KPEORUO", "length": 30984, "nlines": 94, "source_domain": "www.eliewieseltattoo.com", "title": "October | 2011 | Elie Wiesel Cons the World 2011 October | A Blog Dedicated to Finding out the Truth about Elie Wiesel's Tattoo", "raw_content": "You are currently browsing the Elie Wiesel Cons the World blog archives for October, 2011.\n\u2026instead of the world\u2019s most famous Holocaust survivor?\nJust one year ago, Elie Wiesel gave a speech in Connecticut, while a jury was in session just miles away, calling for the death penalty to NOT be given to two men who had committed an appalling crime against a family of four. Wrapping himself in self-righteousness, he intoned \u201cDeath is not the answer\u201d to the man, William Petit, who had lost his wife and two beautiful young daughters to a couple of amoral monsters, and to Petit\u2019s supporters.\nThe crime committed was so brutal and horrible, and senseless too, that for this writer the death penalty is too good for these perpetrators. You can read about it here and here.\nDid Elie Wiesel have the right to barge into this family\u2019s tragedy as some sort of \u201cspiritual advisor\u201d, for which he was not asked? Of course not. Did he have any right to bring his \u201cholocaust experience\u201d into their personal grief as some kind of Jewish lesson in humanity? No, and it\u2019s in the worst of taste but he is used to flaunting his imaginary suffering to audiences who have been indoctrinated and conditioned to respond like Pavlov\u2019s dogs to his trite phrases.\nThe murderers of this family should not be given the death penalty, says Elie Wiesel.\nLeft, Haley, 17 and Michaela, 11 with their 48 year-old mother Jennifer Petit\u2013all torture-murdered. Sole survivor William Petit on right.\nWiesel tells them, \u201cI know your pain \u2026 believe me, I know.\u201d Does he? He is oblivious to this man\u2019s pain when he tells him he should not desire the death penalty for those who committed such savage acts upon his loved ones. We know exactly what happened to these three women with horrifying exactitude. We do NOT know what happened to Wiesel\u2019s mother, father and sister. With the Petits we have the bodies, and the manner of death and the culprits are forensically determined; not so with Wiesel\u2019s family and so many others\u2013no bodies and no forensic evidence at all. Their deaths, especially in the manner assumed, remain conjecture.\nIt seems Wiesel wants to prevent Gentiles from getting justice for evil done to them, while justice for Jews has always required full punishment \u2026 an eye for an eye. He recently called for bringing Mamoud Ahmadinejad to trial as a war criminal at the Hague simply because he has said he doesn\u2019t believe in the mythical Holocaust. Wiesel wants to make holocaust denial a crime in the U.S. and put \u201cdeniers\u201d in prison. Yet he also wants these child rapists and souless murderers to remain in prison for life, being fed, clothed and given health care, side by side with holocaust deniers!\nIs Elie Wiesel an evil force in the world or just a fool?\nIran has the death penalty. We need the death penalty to deter human trash like these two murderers. Wiesel\u2019s campaign to abolish the death penalty in the U.S. is part of the attempt to further destroy our society and beautiful, gifted white people.\n\u201cDeath is not the answer\u201d for men who tie girls to their beds, rape them, douse them with gasoline and set them on fire, says Elie Wiesel.\nHaley\u2019s bed on which she was tied to be burned to death. The same was done to her younger sister.\nWhat we know happened in Cheshire, Connecticut has no relation to what happened to Elie Wiesel\u2019s family in 1944 in Hungary and Poland. I believe it is the fire\u2013the torching of the live bodies and of the house itself\u2013that drew Wiesel\u2019s attention to this case. The religio/historical accounts written by Jews, such as in the Talmud, are suffused with stories of being burned (destroyed) by fire. Elie Wiesel himself coined the term \u201cholocaust\u201d to describe the expulsion, deportation and incarceration (not incineration) of Jews in concentration camps that took place in 1942-45. Even though many deaths did occur, none were by fire or burning. However, Jewish mythology demands fiery deaths.\nLeft: The Petit family home set ablaze by the murderers to conceal their DNA.\nIn addition to his offensiveness to Petit and his sister and mother who attended the trial with him, Elie Wiesel is a hypocrite because he never said \u201cDeath is not the answer\u201d when Germans were being put to death by the hundreds as \u201cNazis\u201d and nazi collaborators. He never said \u201cDeath is not the answer\u201d when Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to die by an all-Jewish court proceeding in Israel. He never said \u201cDeath is not the answer\u201d as Israelis murdered Palestinians in secret prisons. But once he decided to make a reputation for himself as a humanitarian, he has taken up opposition to the death penalty.\nWhy the death penalty? Well, to prevent justice for families like the Petits, who are white and blonde. Their sufferings should never be taken as seriously as the \u2018holocaust of the Jews.\u2019 Wiesel has likened the death of a Jewish child as equivalent to, or greater in significance than, the death of Jesus Christ. The burning death of 11 year-old Michaela can never be allowed to compete with a Jewish child.~\nAddendum (added Wed. Oct. 26)\nBoth of the murderers have been found guilty and one, Steven Hayes, has been given the death penalty. The younger man, Joshua Komisarjevsky is currently back in court for the penalty phase which began yesterday. His attorneys plan to highlight Komisarjevsky\u2019s \u201ctroubled\u201d childhood, and that he didn\u2019t get the \u201chelp\u201d he needed.\nWell, of course, people who do things like Hayes and Komisarjevsky did have \u201ctroubled childhoods;\u201d there is something wrong with them from birth. But all those who experience difficult childhoods don\u2019t do what they did. We cannot allow offenders to weasel out of paying an appropriate price for their destruction of other\u2019s lives and property; if we do, no one can be held responsible for anything \u2026 which is pretty much what has happened to our society.\nEven if this sick person also receives the death penalty, which I hope he does, it will be years before either one of them faces what the jury recommended for them. In the meantime, Elie Wiesel will be doing all he can to help them weasel out of it.\nCategory Featured | Tags: Tags: Elie Wiesel, hypocrite, Jennifer Petit, Jr, William Petit,\nElie Wiesel\u2019s father Shlomo in 1942, according to Hilda Wiesel.\nIs he 39 or 48 years old?\nA report in the Yad Vashem Shoah Victims database by Yaakov Fishkovitz contradicts Elie Wiesel\u2019s story about his father\u2019s death.\nYaakov (Jacob) Fishkowitz filled out a death form in 1957 for his cousin Shlomo Wiesel, shortly after Yad Vashem first began its \u201cCentral Database of Shoah Victims Names.\u201d1 He also filled out a form for Shlomo\u2019s mother Nisel Basch Wiesel, his aunt. The cousins shared a maternal grandfather, Moshe Basch.\nYaakov was the son of Mentza Basch, daughter of Moshe, and Fishel Fishkovitz. Yaakov recorded Shlomo\u2019s date of birth as 1903, which is much later than has been assumed, making Elie Wiesel\u2019s father only 40 years old when he died! However, since Wiesel himself was 14 or 15 years old in 1943 this makes a lot more sense for an Orthodox Hasidic father-son. I will examine this further on in this article.\nAs seen in the two Yad Vashem Shoah Victim reports below\u2014one by Fishkovitz and the other by Elie Wiesel\u2014Yaakov spells the last name as both Wiesel (German) and Vizel (Roumanian). The German \u2018W\u2019 is pronounced as the English \u2018V;\u2019 similarly with s and z. He also gives both the formal name Salomon and its casual form Shlomo. Elie, on the other hand, spells his father\u2019s name as Vizel and his own name as Eli Vizel, dropping the \u2018e\u2019 in his first name that he adopted for his post-war identity.\nShlomo\u2019s children have never or seldom used the formal \u2018Salomon\u2019 for their father, but they do agree that Eleizer (or Leizer) and Nisel were his parents and that he was born in Sighet; that he was married and operated a store. Yaakov uses the word \u201cmerchant\u201d while Elie uses \u201cshop owner.\u201d Elie adds his mother\u2019s name, Sara Feig, but leaves his father\u2019s date of birth blank, while also giving an incorrect date for his death according to his own book, Night.\nThe details from the forms (the form itself is shown in upper left corner), are translated into English from the Yiddish that was used by Elie and partially by Yaakov to fill out the forms. However, the dates can be read. The first one is by cousin Fishkovitz in 1957; the second one by son Elie in 2004, almost 50 years later.\n(Click on forms to see a larger, full image.) Notice that each submitter fills in what he knows or believes to be important. Yaakov knew the year of his cousin\u2019s birth; it may have been close to his own. Elie did not know, or doesn\u2019t want us to know. He has never written it or given that information to an interviewer. This is important, but even more important is that Yaakov says Shlomo died in 1943 in Sighet*, the year before the deportation of the Jews of Sighet! This changes the entire narrative. [*Correction was made in a later article: it actually says Shlomo lived in Sighet during the war; he died in a labor camp in 1943.]\nWhat evidence do we have for Shlomo\u2019s age?\nIn Elie Wiesel\u2019s Night (\u201ca true story, every word is true\u201d) Eliezer\u2019s father answers \u201cfifty\u201d when asked his age by a friendly Jew when they first arrive at Auschwitz in May 1944. Eliezer answers that he is fifteen years old. The Jew tells them to lower and raise their ages respectively, which they do. (Even so, they\u2019re put in a line that takes them right up to the edge of a pit of fire before they are turned away.) Because of this, Shlomo Wiesel has generally been assumed to have been born in 1894, although that has never been verified. For example, Wikipedia does not give a date.\nIn Hilda Wiesel\u2019s Shoah Foundation testimony, she shows the photo of her father that is at the top of this article, and says it was taken in 1942. Does he look like he is 39 in this photo (born in 1903) or does he look to be 48 (because he was 50 in 1944)? It\u2019s impossible to tell for sure, but he looks like a youngish man to me.\nAs we know, there are no records at Auschwitz-Birkenau or Buchenwald for a Shlomo Wiesel that fits his profile. Nor are there any for Elie Wiesel and his profile. The records that are used by the \u201cWiesel-in-Buchenwald\u201d supporters are those for Abraham Viezel (also spelled Vizel or Wiesel), born Oct. 10, 1900 in Sighet, who died at Buchenwald on Feb 2, 1945. He died in Block 57; the death report was made out on Feb. 3, the following day. Yet Elie Wiesel claims in Night and elsewhere his father died on Jan. 28 and was carted off to the cremation ovens immediately, fully 5 days before Abraham\u2019s death took place.\nDeath record for Abraham Viesel at Buchenwald, brother of Lazar Wiesel whose Auschwitz # was A7713\nThis Abraham Viesel is the same Abram Wiesel who was the older brother of Lazar Wiesel, according to Myklos Gruener, who says the two brothers had become his comrades at Auschwitz-Birkenau after the death of his father. (Auschwitz records exist for Myklos, his father and two brothers, as well as for Lazar and Abram Wiesel, including each of their numbers.) Abram\u2019s Auschwitz tattoo number A7712 is written by hand on this death record, as well as his Buchenwald number, 123488.\nIf Shlomo died in 1943, this would explain why there is no death record for him at Buchenwald. Are there any other convincing reasons to go along with the 1943 date? Yes. In Night and in All Rivers Run to the Sea, we\u2019re told of Shlomo\u2019s resistance work helping Jews with legal problems and those who needed to flee from one place to another. He had been jailed for it, something mentioned by both Elie and Hilda. Elie characterized his father\u2019s tireless efforts as \u201cout of a loving, helpful heart.\u201d But was his father, and his family, more radical than we\u2019ve been led to believe? Was Shlomo\u2019s life a dangerous one? Were there disputes about money\u2014money collected to buy weapons, or for passage to safe places? Or perhaps there was anger within the Jewish community over who was being helped and who wasn\u2019t?\nIn All Rivers, on page 4, Wiesel writes that as a child and adolescent he \u201csaw his father rarely [\u2026] The Sabbath was the only day I spent with him.\u201d \u201cOften preoccupied,\u201d his father spent the week in his little grocery store and at the \u201ccommunity offices where he worked to assist prisoners and refugees threatened with expulsion.\u201d Expulsion from where? By whom? What were the community offices? Wiesel names Sighet as a \u201csanctuary for Jews fleeing \u2026since 1640.\u201d\nWhat knowledge can we piece together about Shlomo?\nShlomo was a preoccupied man. He ran a store. He took in deliveries. He may have been involved in smuggling \u2013 guns, people, documents. Smuggling was a way of life among the Zionists. Jews began going to Palestine long before Elie Wiesel was born. There were different factions of Jews\u2014the Haganah was formed in 1920 to guard Jewish settlers in Palestine. In 1931 the Irgun splintered off and there was sometimes bitter enmity between the two organizations all the way up to 1948. The Irgun policy was that every Jew had a right to enter Palestine and it became the major smuggling arm for the Zionists. The Irgun worked in Poland, for example, in the 30\u2019s to bring Jews into Palestine with the cooperation of secret agencies of the Polish government. (See \u201cThe Role of the Irgun in Central and Eastern Europe\u201d at http://www.eliewieseltattoo.com/elie-wiesel-and-the-mossad-part-ii)\nIt is fully possible that as things heated up in 1943, Shlomo got caught in some crossfire \u2014 perhaps was killed by the Hungarian police. If this were the case, Elie, as only son, may have been sent to France for safety before the deportations of Spring 1944. Further, if this were the case (a story as good as any other), Elie was an Irgun-supporting Zionist from an early age, which fits everything we know about him.\nOn page 8 of Night, Wiesel wrote:\nIn those days [Spring 1944] it was still possible to buy emigration certificates to Palestine. I had asked my father to sell everything, to liquidate everthing, and to leave. \u2018I am too old, my son,\u2019 he answered. \u2018Too old to start a new life. Too old to start from scratch in some distant land \u2026\u2019\nIf he were only 40, that is not credible. Even at 50 he was not too old, unless he really didn\u2019t believe the worst would happen and that things would right themselves. His children were certainly not too old and he would have them to look after him in his old age. Something doesn\u2019t add up here. This \u201cgood man\u201d doesn\u2019t protect his family because he feels too tired at age 40-50 to go somewhere new? He allows them all to be taken prisoner because he can\u2019t see what\u2019s coming, even though he\u2019s spent his adult life helping Jewish prisoners and refugees? Wiesel often fails to give convincing explanations for why events happen as they do in his writings. I have noticed it again and again, and commented on it. It seems to me to be a combination of laziness and lack of true inventiveness. He has admitted that he was rather spoiled and lazy in his childhood and youth; one doesn\u2019t see any evidence of change.\nThe age of the typical Hasidic bride and groom\nBack to the question of the appropriateness of Sholmo Wiesel being age 40 in 1943-44. The Hasidic sect sees the ideal age of marriage for a male as 18-21. They encourage the bride and groom to be close in age. Taken from the New York Times article on an important Hasidic wedding:\nWhat they saw was a marital merger of two leading international Hasidic dynasties, the Bobovers of the BoroughParkneighborhood in Brooklynand the Satmars of Williamsburg. The 19-year-old groom is a grandson of the Bobover Grand Rabbi, Shlomo Halberstam. The 18-year-old bride is a granddaughter of the Satmar Grand Rabbi, Moses Teitelbaum. The two grand rabbis are the descendants of the first Hasidic leaders in Europe. They are also first cousins and close friends.2\nAnother Hasidic wedding is announced, this one in Israel.\nEven longtime Hassidim are raising their eyebrows: A 16-year-old young man is engaged to his 15-year-old second cousin, both great grandchildren from \u201cHassidei Vizhnitz.\u201d Thousands of members of the Vizhnitz Hassidic sect, one of the largest and wealthiest in the world, are expected to attend the festive wedding ceremony, which will take place in approximately another year.3\nIf Shlomo were born in 1903, as Yaakov Fishkowitz has it, he would have been 25 years old in September 1928 when his third child and first son Eliezer was born. His first child Hilda was born in August 1922, when he would have been 19 years old. Perfect for a Hasidic man!\nOn the other hand, if he were born in 1894, he was already 34 when Elie was born, and 28 when he had his first child. That is too old and is not in the tradition of his community! That may be why Wiesel avoids mentioning his father\u2019s date of birth; it does not fit the story of Night, which he adopted as his own. Here\u2019s a thought: Is there an Hasidic law or tradition that forbids lying about one\u2019s parents and other ancestors? Probably, which can be the reason he says so little about his father, mother and grandparents as far as checkable data goes.\nIs it not strange for the \u2018High Priest of Memory\u2019 to be so negligent in recording the history of his family? He only filled out the Yad Vashem form (with a camera aimed at him) at the behest of that institution, as an encouragement to others to do the same. That was admitted in the TV publicity given it. Plus it is the only Shoah victim form he filled out. His mother and sister are not in the Yad Vashem Shoah Victim database! He says it\u2019s because he\u2019s written about them in books, so the bare facts on a form are not necessary. But in his books, he doesn\u2019t give dates or checkable details. Why has no family member recognized the death at Auschwitz of Sara Feig Wiesel and her daughter Tzipora by filling out a form?\nIs Elie Wiesel\u2019s story about his family and their fate entirely or just partially false?\nWe know Wiesel\u2019s story about his family and youth to be full of falsehoods. His book Night has been lampooned as much as it has been praised because of the contradictions and inappropriate descriptions of people and events it contains. He has long been described as a fabricator, an exaggerator, a false witness. However, here at Elie Wiesel Cons the World our mission is to expose every lie, not just the most obvious of them. So we dig deeper.\nElie Wiesel has every reason to want his father with him at Buchenwald since the story in Night, which started out as fiction, is about a son and his father. The story also says his mother and younger sister perished on their first night in Birkenau. But if Shlomo died in 1943 and never went to Auschwitz, did any of his immediate family go? Remember, there are no records for any of them there.\nCould Elie Wiesel have known in 1955 how huge the Holocaust Industry would become? No, no one did. Would Elie Wiesel in 1958 have anticipated the intense scrutiny of this book Night, or his own star status in which he himself would come under intense scrutiny? No, again. Elie Wiesel didn\u2019t prepare for the kind of future he turned out to have, so he\u2019s been \u201cplaying it by ear\u201d ever since\u2014and using his untouchable Jewish holocaust survivor status with which to protect himself. His sisters and other family members and friends were silenced to keep the \u2018wrong\u2019 information from slipping out. Journalists were obviously ordered to stay away from them!\nBut, perhaps unbeknownst to their inner circle, there lay two victim reports with vital information relating to Elie Wiesel in the Yad Vashem databank filled out in 1957 by Yaakov Fishkovitz, one of which is displayed in this article. The other is for his aunt\u2014Shlomo\u2019s mother\u2014Nisel Basch Wiesel, stating she was born in 1881 and died in 1944 at Auschwitz (in her 63rd year). Another form for Nisel was filled out in 1999 by her grandson, Eliezer Shlomovitz, living in Los Angeles CA. He gives her date of birth as 1880 with a question mark. I will write about Nisel Wiesel in a separate article, but for now I want to establish that if Nisel were born in 1880-81 she would have been only 13 years old when she gave birth to her son Shlomo, if he were born in 1894. Since Shlomo was not her first child, but perhaps even her fifth or sixth (undetermined as of now), this is clearly impossible. If Shlomo were born in 1903, it is doable.\nThus, we have every reason to doubt everything about Elie Wiesel\u2019s story of his family history and their concentration camp credentials. I will continue with this fascinating and very important examination of the Wiesel extended family in an upcoming article. Stay tuned.\n1. Yad Vashem was established in 1953 as the official \u201cremembrance authority\u201d (for the Jewish Shoah) by the Knesset, Israel\u2019s parliament. At that time, Jews were told that all Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis or their accomplices during the years of Nazi power, i.e. 1933-1945 could be considered Shoah victims. This includes Jewish soldiers serving in the Soviet and Polish armies, who were taken prisoner and died in Nazi POW camps. Jews who survived until the liberation but died within six months of liberation are also considered Shoah victims.\nAnother category is \u2018Shoah survivor\u2019 All those living in Nazi-occupied territories from 1933 onward could be considered victims of the Nazis, including French, Bulgarian and Romanian Jews, and even those who went deep into the Soviet Union. Also included are \u201cJews who forcefully left (?) Germany in the 1930s.\u201d Even those who went to Israel, obviously No other group has so generously allocated \u2018victim-opportunities\u2019 to its people. This is called Chutzpah in Yiddish. (Information taken from http://www.yadvashem.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_S5?New_WCM_Context=http://namescm.yadvashem.org/wps/wcm/connect/Yad+Vashem/Hall+Of+Names/Left+Links/en/3HON_FAQs)\n2. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/09/04/nyregion/a-royal-wedding-a-family-affair-two-hasidic-dynasties-unite-in-brooklyn-gala.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Further of interest: The Satmars originated in Hungary and the Bobovers came from Poland. [\u2026] Because Hasidic families often have 10 or more children, the two groups now have tens of thousands of followers in Brooklyn and more around the world.\n3. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133130 \u201cWe have a tradition of marrying at a young age, but we usually mean 19-22, although there have been occasions of marriages before the age of 18,\u201d one Vizhnitz member told the Hebrew-language daily Yisrael HaYom. \u201cHowever, marrying at the age of 15 is definitely exceptional.\u201d\nPlease read this article next: New Information \u2013 Shlomo Wiesel dies in labor camp in 1943?\nCategory Featured | Tags: Tags: Abraham Viesel, Buchenwald, Elie Wiesel, Hasidic marriage, Hilda Wiesel, Night, Shlomo Wiesel, Yaakov Fishkovitz, Yad Vashem Shoah Victims Database,\nElie Wiesel joins Israeli Settlers and Intelligence Chiefs to Celebrate Theft from Palestinians\nOne of the leading land-grabbers in East Jerusalem is a settler non- governmental organization by the name of Elad. Elad\u2019s goal is to rid Jerusalem of Arabs. One of its tactics has been to have Palestinian homes declared archaeological sites, whereby the homes can be taken over and the owners/residents evicted. It will do so by hook or by crook, says a left-leaning Jewish website Tikun Olam.\nLeft: Guarded Israeli settlers seize new house in Jerusalem from Palenstinians.\nJoining these settlers at their commemoration service on behalf of this enterprise is Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel. Not only that, he\u2019s the chair of Elad\u2019s Advisory Board. Also attending the commemoration as friends of Elad were two former Israeli intelligence chiefs, Shabtai Shavit and Amos Yadlin, and a number of prominent officials.\nTo Wiesel, anyone who is a friend of Israel is a friend of his.\nAnother friend is John Hagee. In 2009, after reportedly losing a large sum of money he had invested with Bernie Madoff, Wiesel made a cool half million for one speech to Hagee\u2019s Christians United for Israel (CUFI) benefit. During the celebration of the Feast of the Tabernacles at Hagee\u2019s San Antonio TX mega-church, Wiesel was keynote speaker on the \u201cNight to Honor Israel.\u201d CUFI gave $9 million to Israel charities that night, of which $500,000 went to Wiesel\u2019s Foundation for Humanity.\nLeft: Israeli minister Uzi Landau, Wiesel and Hagee\nWiesel has also joined Alan Dershowitz in sponsoring a Jewish anti-Iran group. In an interview by John Hagee, Wiesel said of Iran\u2019s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:\n\u201c\u2026 this man is a disgrace to humanity. [\u2026] This man is the No. 1 Holocaust denier in the world. This man publicly, repeatedly says that he needs, that he wants nuclear weapons to wipe off the Earth one Jewish state. This man should be arrested and brought to Hague to face the international tribunal and charged with the incitement of crimes against humanity. He does not deserve to be a president of any country. He should never be accepted anywhere as a guest, neither to New York nor to Paris, nor anywhere. He must be a persona non grata all over the world.\u201d\nClearly, Wiesel thinks nations should not be allowed to choose their own leaders. They must be vetted by Israel. If they are not friends of Israel, they should be accused of incitement of crimes against humanity and shunned everywhere. He called the Goldstone Report a \u201ccrime against the Jewish people.\u201d\nCriticism of Elie Wiesel from the liberal left is growing. However, they tend to put it in this way:\n\u201cI\u2019m sorry to say that Wiesel has fallen from the high pedestal on which Jews have placed him. He no longer wears a crown of moral righteousness.\u201d\nWhat they don\u2019t understand is that he never was righteous, and neither are the Jews who call themselves survivors necessarily righteous. Survivors of what? They survived a turbulent period in history the same way millions of others did\u2013by luck, by opportunism, and sometimes by devious means. The Jewish deportations were given the name \u201cThe Holocaust\u201d by Wiesel himself, so he says. Meaning, they named their own event to suit themselves. Every Jew who lived within an area of German occupation from 1933-1945, or who felt compelled for whatever reason to move from there to a non-German occupied area is considered a \u2018Holocaust survivor.\u2019\nWiesel is an unabashed supporter of Israel. Like John Hagee and Alan Dershowitz, he excuses the excesses of the State of Israel on religious grounds \u2026 the religion of Zionism and the religion of the Holocaust.\nIt\u2019s time for left, liberal Jews to do more than take up the cause of Palestine by criticizing Israel\u2019s violence and brutality. They need to look at the whole, rotten story of King Wiesel \u2013 and the rest of the \u2018survivors\u2019 he symbolically represents. They can begin that unpleasant task right here at Elie Wiesel Cons The World.\nCategory Featured | Tags: Tags: Alan Dershowitz, CUFI, ELAD, Elie Wiesel, Jerusalem, John Hagee, Settlers,\nDiscovered! The newspaper photograph from which Hilda Wiesel recognized her brother Elie at the OSE home near Paris. (Might take some time to download.)\nAt the end of her video-taped Shoah Foundation testimony in 1995 (the same year Wiesel\u2019s memoir All Rivers Run to the Sea came out), Hilda Wiesel Kudler shows some family pictures: her mother, her father, her sister and brother, and lastly the one above.\nHilda says (translated from French): With the cap, that\u2019s him. My brother with the cap. That is this picture that I saw in Paris and thanks to this picture we met. I was for several months in Paris, as he was too; and we didn\u2019t know we were both alive\u2014and thanks to this picture we met.\nHilda may have been on the look-out for her brother when she saw this photo and thought or hoped it might be him. By contacting that OSE home that was mentioned in the story, and asking about Eliezer Wiesel, they located him there and the brother and sister were reunited. A heartwarming story, but it\u2019s clear to me that the boy in this picture is not Elie Wiesel. Compare the known Elie in the picture below taken at the same time.\nBelow is an enlargement of the chess-playing boy. (click twice)\nThis boy is what you\u2019d call gawky, which young Elie was not as we know from other pictures of him at Ambloy during this same few months of the second half of 1945. This boy\u2019s chin is too long and his ear appears to curve outward away from his head. The nose is short. Both boys faces seem to me to have been retouched in a crude fashion to define the features, especially the eyes. The chess player\u2019s arms and legs are unusually long\u2014compare them to the other boy\u2014which is not true of Wiesel in all the pictures of him we have seen. This suggests he is going to be a tall person, while Elie Wiesel has never been more than 5\u20199\u201d tall. Clearly this lad is a young adolescent, still growing at an uneven rate. If you, dear reader, can believe this is Wiesel, let me hear from you and give me your reasons.\nAnother point is that Wiesel always wore a beret, and I don\u2019t think he would be caught dead in a cap like that. Nor in those striped pants. He took himself too seriously to be going about in such garb.\nYet, Elie writes in All Rivers that he remembers the day when two journalists took a picture of him when he was playing chess with another boy If that is indeed the truth, the picture taken of Wiesel was not the picture published in the newspaper that Hilda Wiesel saw. As I wrote in Elie Wiesel and the Mossad:\n\u2026a couple of strangers wanted to take pictures as we played. One of them asked some questions in bad German; I answered in good Yiddish. Someone said they were journalists, but I had never met a journalist before; they were of no interest to me, and I didn\u2019t see why I should interest them. (All Rivers, p 113)\nHere Wiesel\u2019s orthodox Jewish \u201capartness\u201d reveals itself. Those in the non-Jewish world were of no interest, unless and until they were needed for some purpose. But the question at hand is whether Hilda still believes this is a photo of her brother, or whether she is in on the creation of the Wiesel family legend. Elie must know it is not him, but he seems to attempt to affirm it is when he writes in All Rivers that \u201cthey were of no interest to me\u201d\u2014aligning with the boy in the photograph who does in fact look disinterested.\nIf Elie Wiesel were honest, he would declare the picture his sister saw was NOT of him playing chess. Would that take too much away from his sister\u2019s feeling of pride or importance that she happened to recognize him in a newspaper? When feelings are more important than truth, the actual truth can be shape-shifted in any number of ways.\nThis is the way of Jews\u2014not only about their imagined holocaust but concerning their affairs in general\u2014that the rest of us don\u2019t quite understand and should not be forced to go along with. If they want to lie to themselves, fine, but don\u2019t lie to us. We should call them on it. 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Galician community figure, patron of the arts, and owner of a large estate in the village of Vikno, Skalat county; father of Dariia Vikonska. From 1873 to 1876 he was president and honorary member of the Prosvita society, to which he donated 12,000 guldens. In 1879 he became a deputy to the Austrian parliament in Vienna and later a member of the upper chamber. In 1887 he organized a Ukrainian ethnographic exhibit in Ternopil in connection with the visit to Galicia of the heir apparent to the Austrian throne, Rudolf von Habsburg. Fedorovych's mansion, which contained many collections of Ukrainian art, including some antique kilims, and his library were burned down by Russian soldiers during their retreat from Galicia in July 1917.\nList of related links from Encyclopedia of Ukraine pointing to Fedorovych, Volodyslav entry:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 1589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.english-and-russian.com/Selling_to_Russians-russian-real-estate-agent.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:24Z", "digest": "sha1:V2S655L5OU46GO7FWXMHTV2MIN7AZJEL", "length": 5643, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.english-and-russian.com", "title": "Selling to Russians News: Russian Real Estate Agents vs. Western", "raw_content": "Selling to Russians News: Russian Real Estate Agents vs. Western\nMany of you are interested to co-broke with Russian real estate agents to sell your international properties to Russian buyers and of course you'd like to know what to expect from this co-operation.\nThere are significant differences in how real estate agents work in Russia in comparison with Western countries.\nHere's a voice from the ground - an article by Nuri Katz, real estate agency director who works in Russia helping Western clients buying properties in Russia. He writes:\n\"As the real estate market matures in Moscow there needs to be very serious changes in the way real estate is bought and sold. Real estate agencies, due to competition, will need to work in a much more professional manner. This will be seen not only in the way that agents speak and advertise, but actually in the way they serve their clients.\n\"There is a lack of understanding on the part of real estate agents about who and how important their clients are. This has also has led to a situation where clients themselves do not rely on real estate agents to play the important role they should be playing in the sale of the property. With market maturity, these issues will most likely be solved by looking at the Western model of how real estate is sold.\n\"Throughout the world, the sale of real estate involves two sides - a buyer and a seller. In mature markets, each party is represented by a separate professional real estate agent. There is a buyer's agent and a seller's agent. Both agents, although representing two different parties, are paid exclusively by one party, and that is the seller only. The sale price is fixed by the seller with the advice of his agent, and he pays a commission to his agent, who in turn pays the buyers' agent. Currently in Russia there are often two agents involved in the sale of a property. Each agent is paid by the party he is representing, which is the buyer or the seller.\n\"In Western markets, where real estate agents are licensed, they have no choice but to share their commission with the buyer's agent. If they do not share their commission they can lose their license and will not be allowed to operate. In comparison, the prices of properties are artificially inflated in Russia, due to the fact that two commissions are paid on each sale, as in Russia the buyer has to pay a commission to his agent over and above the sale price.\n\"The Western model is incredibly important for both buyers and sellers, as it allows the agents to serve the interests of the clients, and they do not have to worry about the interests of agents themselves.\n\"They know that the price is a fixed price and they know what and how they are paying the agents. There is no room for confusion or room for surprises when the deal is about to come to fruition. Often in Russia sale terms are negotiated by agents, and only then do the buyers find out they have to pay an additional commission.\n\"The above principle is all predicated on the idea of exclusivity. Exclusivity in Western markets is a legally enforceable contract between the seller and his agent. The seller gives the agent a finite period and price within which to sell his property. During this period nobody else can sell the property and if the seller does, then the exclusive agent still gets paid.\n\"The security of knowing that he will get paid finally allows a real estate agent to market the apartment to the widest possible audience without fearing that he will be doing this work for nothing, as someone else may sell his property and he will not get paid.\n\"All agents find clients through advertising and personal contacts. However, they physically cannot reach everyone, and therefore need to work with other agents who have other personal contacts. If they do not have to hide the details of the property for fear of not getting paid, they can tell all other agents about it. Again, this is all predicated on the exclusive contract being legally enforceable.\n\"Real estate agents currently operating in Russia usually do not market their properties to all other agents. One reason for this is that the agent is fearful that the property will be sold entirely by another agent. Another reason, of course, is that Russian real estate agents do not want to share their commission with other agents.\n\"Unfortunately, agents in Russia do not yet understand the time-value of money, nor do they understand their duty to their clients who are selling property. They do not understand that it is better for both themselves and their clients to sell a property quickly, even if the commission is lower.\n\"Real estate agents do not understand that their business is a transaction-based business - the more transactions the better. In Russia, real estate agents continue to be more concerned with the size of their commissions rather than the speed of the transaction and the interests of their clients. This will certainly has to change.\n\"Once there are legally enforceable exclusive contracts and a binding commission sharing system, then real estate agents will be able to understand who the client is and will be able to serve him best.\n\"As all the agents know when and how much they will get paid and do not have to worry about protecting themselves, they can share their experience and knowledge in order to protect the clients themselves.\n\"When the Russian market reaches maturity in this way, buyers, in turn, will feel confident that their real estate agents are serving them and not only trying to make money off them.\"\nHope this will help you better understand what to expect from Russian co-brokers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 6035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 192.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.enigmaathome.net/team_display.php?teamid=755", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:15Z", "digest": "sha1:226XWT3K7BW7XJEIY3KWWOI7XMVENYOR", "length": 713, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.enigmaathome.net", "title": "Seattle Hempfest", "raw_content": "Seattle Hempfest is founded in the belief that the public is better served when citizens and public officials work cooperatively in order to successfully accomplish common goals.\n

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\nTo educate the public on the myriad of potential benefits offered by the Cannabis plant, including the medicinal, industrial, agricultural, economic, environmental, and other benefits and applications, including domestic industrial hemp production and commerce. In particular, Seattle Hempfest seeks to advance the cause of Cannabis policy reform through education, while advancing the public image of the Cannabis advocate or enthusiast through example.\nWeb site http://www.hempfest.org\nFounder Voyager", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 1325, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 310.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.enjoymagazine.net/2017/08/25/152344/libraries-and-llamas-with-author-sharon-owen", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ZWIFSBBISCG776P42ZDG464PWHAHKZMP", "length": 5614, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.enjoymagazine.net", "title": "Libraries and Llamas with Author Sharon Owen | Enjoy Magazine", "raw_content": "Libraries and Llamas with Author Sharon Owen\nMystery, She Wrote\nThe mystery writer Sharon Owen spent the bulk of her career in the medical field, so it\u2019s not surprising that the protagonist in her Aimee Machado series is a hospital employee. What makes the character unique, though, is her position as a forensic librarian.\nAimee also happens to be multiethnic (Chinese and Portuguese), has earned a black belt in jujitsu and lives in a loft above a llama barn on her parents\u2019 ranch in Northern California.\n\u201cThere\u2019s nobody like that out there, and my publisher thought so, too,\u201d says Owen, who is at work on her fifth book in the Aimee Machado series and is under contract for a sixth. Owen is published by Seattle-based Coffeetown Press under the Camel Press imprint. She uses the pen name Sharon St. George.\nOwen says the idea for her series rounded into shape during the 10 years she worked at the Shasta College library. Her earlier jobs included working as a medical transcriptionist, serving as the medical staff coordinator at Redding Medical Center (now Shasta Regional Medical Center), and a volunteer stint in the library at a 400-bed teaching hospital in Connecticut.\nHer first book, a hospital-based mystery, was not published but it did win a prize in the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers contest. That motivated her to stay with her chosen genre. \u201cI decided to stick with hospital-based books,\u201d Owen says. \u201cThat\u2019s the reason I ended up with a protagonist being a librarian. I wanted to do something I knew well. Who even knows hospitals have their own libraries?\u201d\nThe character of Aimee is inspired by Owen\u2019s granddaughter, Aimee Rose Santone, and her character\u2019s martial arts prowess stems from Aimee\u2019s father, Scott Redden, a sixth-degree black belt and assistant instructor at the Redding JuJitsu Academy. The llamas are based on the fact that Owen and her husband, outdoor writer John Higley, raise llamas on their property in Palo Cedro.\nOwen says she\u2019s not interested in gory tell-alls but would rather focus on stories where she can rely on her knowledge and background. \u201cI know how much goes on to keep patients safe, and in order to keep patients safe, it\u2019s important to know what can go wrong. I try to write my story where there\u2019s an element of realism but not enough to scare people.\u201d\nOwen grew up in Red Bluff and earned an associate\u2019s degree at Shasta College. She put her education on hold after marrying and starting a family. Some 30 years later, she seized the opportunity to complete her bachelor\u2019s degree in English at Western Connecticut State University.\nHer three years at university also allowed her to pursue her interest in performing\u2014which began as a child when her mother enrolled her in dance classes. \u201cI gave up the dance lessons but I was still fascinated by being on stage, so in my late 30s I decided I wanted to get involved in theater.\u201d That desire led to a role in the Riverfront Playhouse production of \u201c6 Rms Riv Vu\u201d in 1990. \u201cIt was me and Wilson Smith and I really enjoyed it.\u201d\nWith some electives to choose from at Western Connecticut, Owen says she opted for an acting class that led to advanced classes in playwriting and literature for the stage, and ultimately a minor in theatre arts. \u201cEverything I learned helped with development of character and expression. It was great the way the two dovetailed. It was perfect for a returning student; I got to major and minor in where my passion was.\u201d\nAfter returning to Redding, Owen reestablished herself at Riverfront, directed one play and then auditioned for the role of Helen Martins in Athol Fugard\u2019s \u201cThe Road to Mecca.\u201d The 1997 show \u201cwas the highlight of my acting career. It was just an incredible experience.\u201d Owen and co-star Samantha Fork each earned best-actor \u201cArpee\u201d awards for their performances.\nOwen returned to the Riverfront stage 20 years later to take the role of Daria Chase in the January production of \u201cThe Game\u2019s Afoot,\u201d giving the community theater company the distinction of casting an actual mystery writer in the popular whodunit by Ken Ludwig.\nInhabiting the mind of Aimee Machado is Owen\u2019s favorite role these days and the novels give her a foothold in the sprawling universe of mystery writers in a \u201chuge, huge genre\u201d that includes everything from police procedurals \u201cto cozy mysteries where the cat talks to the old lady\u201d to action and suspense stories like the ubiquitous Jack Reacher novels.\nThere\u2019s one genre that outperforms \u2019em all: the romance novel. \u201cThey\u2019re kind of like popcorn or potato chips. They\u2019re just devoured by readers,\u201d Owen says. But even in that field Owen is making inroads.\nHarlequin Worldwide Mystery, a publisher of pocket paperbacks, has contracted with Camel Press to publish the first two books in Owen\u2019s series. \u201cOne of the things my publisher likes about my books is that the protagonist is on the outs with her boyfriend, so there\u2019s just enough of that romance kind of element. I even had a reader ask me if they\u2019re ever going to get back together again. People like the mysteries and others follow that relationship role,\u201d Owen says.\nOwen\u2019s longtime role with the Writers Forum was highlighted in March when a C-SPAN crew stopped in Redding to produce segments on local history and literary events/non-fiction authors. An interview with Owen and fellow writer Steve Callan (\u201cGame Warden\u2019s Son\u201d and \u201cBadges, Bears and Eagles\u201d) aired on BookTV on C-SPAN2. Callan\u2019s two books also were published by Coffeetown Press.\n\u201cSteve and I were on C-SPAN2, to the delight of our publishers,\u201d Owen says.\nSharon St. George\nArts+Entertainment, In Print Sharon Owen", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 7501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.essexcountyepc.org/events/event/16980", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:01Z", "digest": "sha1:RXAWLEL3H23U22SY4AJ2U6PGRAML7UKM", "length": 3048, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.essexcountyepc.org", "title": "Year End Tax Update - Essex County Estate Planning Council", "raw_content": "Year End Tax Update\nLocation: Spinelli's, Route 1 South, Peabody/Lynnfield Line\nSpeaker: Ryan Swartz, Esq., McLane Middleton; Jerry Mahan, CPA, MFA\nPlease join the Essex County Estate Planning Council on October 30, 2018, for our annual Year-End Tax Planning Meeting featuring Jerry Mahan, CPA, of MFA Companies, and Ryan J. Swartz, Esq., of McLane Middleton. During the presentation, Jerry and Ryan will discuss The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, its impact on income and estate tax planning, and year-end opportunities to minimize tax burdens. Topics will include the new 199A deduction, avoiding the 3.8% net investment income tax, income tax basis and portability planning, and lifetime gifting to irrevocable trusts. Please join us for this exciting discussion.\nBreakfast will be served at 7:30am, followed by our speakers at 8am.\nRegistration is required for this event. Members that have renewed for the 2018-2019 membership year ($299 for all members this year) may register at no additional cost. (Select the Pre-Paid option durin gregistration.) Guests are $45; please register and pay for your guests online.\nJerry Mahan has 12 years of experience in public accounting. In his role at MFA, Jerry provides\ncomprehensive tax solutions and technical expertise to both individual and corporate clients. His proactive and responsive leadership approach validates his ability to meet and exceed client expectations efficiently and effectively. In addition to managing compliance issues and implementing tax strategies, Jerry provides experienced family and fiduciary tax consulting to address the most complex financial challenges faced by MFA\u2019s client base.\nPrior to MFA, Jerry spent time as a Director at two Massachusetts CPA Firms where he provided tax and assurance services to a diverse client base of closely held businesses, nonprofit organizations, corporations and individuals.\nJerry holds an MBA in accounting from Southern New Hampshire University and a B.S. in Business Administration and Accounting from Mount Washington College. He is also the Vice President of the Essex County Estate Planning Council.\nRyan Swartz is director and vice chair of the Trusts & Estates Department and managing director of the Boston office at\nMcLane Middleton where he advises individuals and families regarding various planning matters, including estate, gift, income and generation skipping transfer tax strategies. He advises fiduciaries in conservatorship, probate and trust administration matters. Ryan also counsels individuals and business owners regarding business succession planning and various asset protection techniques, including limited liability companies, asset protection trusts and irrevocable Medicaid trusts.\nRyan completed a Judicial Clerkship with the Massachusetts Superior Court (2003-2004). He received his J.D. cum laude, from Suffolk University Law School (2003) and his B.A., cum laude, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1999). He also serve on the Essex County Estate Planning Council Board of Directors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 309.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.esuus.org/stlouis/news/issue_56/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:43Z", "digest": "sha1:WHUUUTQZ7AHKMGSD4PY3QGW4ITHJQ3WP", "length": 1707, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.esuus.org", "title": "Walter Hines Page Scholar 2017 - St. Louis Branch", "raw_content": "Walter Hines Page Scholar 2017\nPETER HAMBRIDGE, M.Ed\nSt. Louis Branch ESU\n\"Supporting the Next Generation of Scientists\"\nCocktails ~ 12:30 Lunch ~ 1:00\n$35 members ~ $40 guests\nPeter Hambridge is the Joint Head of Science and Head of Biology at Parmiter's School, Hertfordshire UK, where he has taught Biology, Chemistry and Physics to the school's 11-18 year old students. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Newcastle, his Qualified Teacher Status from Middlesex University and his Master of Education degree from the University of Cambridge.\nAs a Walter Hines Page Scholar, Mr. Hambridge has been awarded a two-week tour in various cities in the United States, to visit comparable level educational facilities (middle school and high school) and to compare and contrast methods of advising young people on college and career readiness. He hopes to offer US schools a UK perspective, while at the same time learning US perspectives \u2014 for mutual benefit. In addition, he also hopes to connect with some US businesses and universities/colleges to further enrich his understanding of their prerequisites for success.\nIn his presentation to our members, Mr. Hambridge will discuss particulars of Science education in England. He says, \" I will cover the good, the bad and the ugly of the Science education system in England \u2014 including curriculum change, work experience, funding and the time afforded to Science in school.\"\nMr. Hambridge has previously spent vacation time in US coastal states but has not been to the Midwest. As his Page Scholar multi-city US tour begins here in St. Louis, our members have the opportunity to extend our celebrated Midwestern warmth and welcome to him!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2607, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 237.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.etest.lt/anglu-kalbos-testai/reading-skills---sport-in-britain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:01Z", "digest": "sha1:DDWQCH746UPKZ4W7DZF66NAOM7QAEQ5B", "length": 2620, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.etest.lt", "title": "Reading skills - SPORT IN BRITAIN - Angl\u0173 kalbos testai", "raw_content": "Reading skills - SPORT IN BRITAIN\nSPORT IN BRITAIN\nEven if you are not interested in sport itself, it is useful to know something about that important part of British life. There are three major sports in Britain.\n1. Football, also known as \"soccer\".\n2. Cricket, a strange game that few foreigners like or can even understand.\n3. Rugby, also known sometimes as \"football\".\nOf these, \"football\" or \"soccer\" is most popular. During the football season, one of the most important things on television is the football match shown on the BBC on Saturday evenings around ten o'clock. On Saturday afternoons, the big sports' day in Britain, some football grounds will have crowds of more than 40,000. Professional teams are organized into four divisions in England and Wales. Scotland has its own divisions. The bottom three teams or \"clubs\" of the First Division at the end of the season go into the Second Division. The top three teams of the Second Division go into the First They are \"promoted\". The same thing happens between the Second and Third Divisions.\nRecently football had been getting less popular. The crowds are not so big. Some clubs are always irn financial trouble. It is said that one reason for this is \"violence on and off the field\". Players tackle each other very hard. They sometimes get into fights. Crowds of young spectators also get into fights. After some matches shop windows near the grounds are smashed up. So are some of the trains that carry football crowds.\nThe only game that comes anywhere near to challenging the popularity of football is rugby. It too is organized on a national scale and there are also numerous local leagues. Rugby is a game that is played rather than watched, however it does not attract anything like the same number of spectators as football.\nCricket seems more paceful. A man with a small ball in his hand runs up to a spot and throws it. A few yards away a man with a bat, called a batsman, tries to hit it. The ball bounces in front of him. Sometimes it bounces up and hits him in the face. It is a very hard ball, and some batsmen have lost a few teeth this way or have had broken jaws. Cricket is played in the summer.\nThe story is told of an American arriving in Britain for the first time. At Victoria Station he saw newspapers with headlines like \"Great Crisis for England\" and 'England's Position Hopeless\". He thought that a war is about to begin or that there was another great economic crisis. In fact, the newspaper headlines were all about a test match being played between England and Australia.\n(from \"Viewpoints\" by Roger Scott, Roy Kingsbury, 1976)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3822, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 202.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.eurocupbasketball.com/eurocup/games/results/showgame?gamecode=333&seasoncode=U2013", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:40Z", "digest": "sha1:M7YW5RQ3H7NB2IWTQT3LLSOIWVNJTKJH", "length": 5934, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "www.eurocupbasketball.com", "title": "Valencia Basket Club vs. Unics Kazan - Game - Welcome to 7DAYS EuroCup", "raw_content": "Unics hangs on in Valencia, claims first place\nIn a clash for the first place between two already qualified teams, Unics Kazan survived losing a big first half lead, managing to hold on for a dramatic 73-76 road win over Valencia Basket on Tuesday. Unics finished Last 32 with a 5-1 record, claiming the first place in Group O and securing a home court advantage in the eighthfinals where it will face either CEZ Basketball Nymburk or Maccabi Haifa Bazan, while Valencia dropped to 3-3 and will play Khimki Moscow Region in the next stage. The visitors had a fantastic start to the game, opening 15-36 lead with combination of stingy defense and efficient offense. Valencia rallied behind Bojan Dubljevic and some three-point daggers, cutting it to 40-48 at halftime, before erasing the deficit in the third quarter. The hosts grabbed their first lead at the start of the fourth, 65-62, but Unics hang on. Andrew Goudelock and Luke Harangody scored key baskets in the final minutes, pulling out a victory for the visitors. Goudelock paced the winners with 25 points. Chuck Eidson collected 9 points, 6 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 assists, while Ian Vougioukas also scored 9 in victory. Dubljevic amassed 20 points plus 12 rebounds for the hosts. Romain Sato scored 11, while Pau Ribas added 9 in defeat.\nUnics had a great start into the game. Goudelock got things going immediately with a jumper, Nikita Kurbanov added put-back, before Kostas Kaimakoglou sank a three-pointer for 2-10. With a jumper from Nikos Zisis and a triple from Eidson, the visitors opened 4-15 advantage. Sam Van Rossom hit the first triple for Valencia, but Zisis countered with a three-pointer and Goudelock with a basket-plus-foul for 9-23. The hosts tried with more defensive pressure, and Dubljevic hustled for a pair of put-backs for Valencia, but Eidson nailed another triple, and Goudelock hit a last second jumper for 15-31 after the first quarter. Margin broke a 20-point barrier start of the second quarter when Ian Vougioukas scored a basket-plus-foul, 15-36. Dubljevic scored twice more from close range, and together with Romain Sato hit 5 of 5 from the foul line, cutting the deficit. Goudelock snapped a 10-0 run with a layup, also added a floater and a jumper to the tally, but Van Rossom cut it to 30-40 with a triple, before Rafa Martinez and Oliver Lafayette hit back-to-back triples, helping the hosts within 40-48 at halftime.\nAt the start of the third quarter, Sato nailed a pair of shots, and Martinez hit a triple, cutting it to 49-52. Vladimir Veremeenko snapped a 9-0 run, before Goudelock and Eidson briefly gave the visitors more breathing room. But Valencia went on another charge, stringing 6 straight points, and a dunk from Juan Jose Triguero got it to 57-58. Pau Ribas drove to the hoop in the final seconds of the quarter, making it 61-61 after three quarters, and the same player made a reverse layup to start the fourth, giving Valencia its first lead of the night. A hook-shot from Dubljevic and a put-back dunk from Sato kept the hosts in front, but Goudelock hit a pair of foul shots twice to keep Unics just a point behind. A fastbreak layup from Doellman made it 69-66, but a tip-in from Kaimakoglou tied it midway through the quarter, and two free throws from Goudelock made it 70-71. A layup from Harangody made it a 3-point affair, and Valencia, needing a 7-point win, started aiming for overtime. Lafayette hit both free throws, and Ribas scored only first and purposely missed second for 73-73. Eidson split free throws with 17.6 seconds to go, and Harangody made a dunk on a fastbreak with 2.5 ticks left for 73-76. Valencia got a last look to send the game into overtime, Lafayette\u2019s attempt was off the mark.\nReferees: ZAMOJSKI, JAKUB; JAVOR, DAMIR; PAPAPETROU, PETROS\n4 TRIGUERO, JUAN JOSE 9:51 6 3/4 2 2 1 5 3\n5 RIBAS, PAU 17:47 9 2/6 0/1 5/6 2 3 5 2 1 4 5 12\n7 DOELLMAN, JUSTIN 29:35 8 2/5 0/2 4/4 1 5 6 2 1 1 1 4 14\n9 VAN ROSSOM, SAM 23:59 6 2/5 2 2 1 1 4 1\n10 SATO, ROMAIN 36:53 11 4/7 0/2 3/3 3 1 4 1 1 4 3 6 11\n14 DUBLJEVIC, BOJAN 31:27 20 7/12 0/3 6/8 8 4 12 5 1 1 3 7 21\n17 MARTINEZ, RAFA 14:23 6 0/3 2/2 5 2 1 7\n20 LAFAYETTE, OLIVER 28:17 7 0/2 1/5 4/4 1 1 6 4 3 3 3 9\n31 BARTON, LUBOS 7:48 0/1 1 1 2 1\n40 SABATER, LUIS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n45 GUARDIA, DAVID DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -\n4 McKEE, TYWAIN 12:20 3 1/2 0/2 1/2 4 2 3 2 3 3\n6 ZISIS, NIKOS 27:20 8 1/2 1/4 3/4 6 6 1 2 3 4 3 8\n7 HARANGODY, LUKE 10:01 6 2/3 0/1 2/2 1 4 5 1 1 1 10\n10 SERGEEV, PAVEL 3:30\n15 VOUGIOUKAS, IAN 13:33 9 4/6 1/1 1 1 2 2 5 3 5\n20 SOKOLOV, DMITRY 2:35 1 1 2 1\n21 KAIMAKOGLOU, KOSTAS 33:45 7 2/4 1/2 1 2 3 3 1 4 2 5\n31 EIDSON, CHUCK 33:27 9 1/2 2/4 1/3 1 5 6 2 4 4 2 2 12\n\"I am very proud of the team, for how we have tried to come back, to look for overtime. I believe that we have had very much merit, and with this game I believe that we can think about winning against Khimki.\"\n\"We deserved the victory. I believe that we did a very good first half of basketball, and we knew that they were going to come back, like they did against Barcelona. They played a very good second half physically.\"\n\"We played a good second half, but with the advantage that they have taken in the first half, it has been very difficult. We have to begin the games better than what we are doing lately.\"\nHARANGODY, LUKE\n\"It's a great road win, we were coming for it, in the right time. We played forty minutes of top level basketball in a great atmosphere out there.\"\nPau Ribas - Valencia Basket vs. Unics Kazan (photo Miguel Angel Polo - Valencia Basket)\nIan Vougioukas - Unics Kazan vs. Valencia Basket (photo Miguel Angel Polo - Valencia Basket)\nBojan Dubljevic - Valencia Basket vs. Unics Kazan (photo Miguel Angel Polo - Valencia Basket)\nAndrew Goudelock - Unics Kazan vs. Valencia Basket (photo Miguel Angel Polo - Valencia Basket)\nPlayers Valencia Basket vs. Unics Kazan (photo Miguel Angel Polo - Valencia Basket)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 259, "original_length": 10069, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fabcaterers.co.uk/events", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EP4QBXVYIANEPX7235ERL4THK4K7YTFJ", "length": 2470, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.fabcaterers.co.uk", "title": "Wedding Caterers, Event Caterers | Roade, Northamptonshire", "raw_content": "Expert Wedding Caterers\nFor London and Northamptonshire\nOn the most important day of your life, you can\u2019t leave your wedding caterers to chance. Only the best is good enough, and that\u2019s exactly what you get with Fab Caterers. As experts in all aspects of catering, we are able to offer you what other event caterers cannot. Based in Roade, Northamptonshire, we offer a range of menu options, which are ideal for your big day. We love being part of a couple\u2019s big day, and we\u2019d be delighted to be a part of yours.\nWhen a wedding comes around there are a million things to think about. Is everybody sat with someone they like? Are the bridesmaids\u2019 shoes going to arrive in time? Is the best man going to get the groom to the church? Worry about one less thing when you choose us. We take care of everything, from helping you with menu choice, to setting up the food in an attractive way, and clearing everything away when you\u2019re finished. Our innovative approach means that we stand out from the crowd. Choose a wedding caterer as unique as you are.\nWe love to party as much as you do. Whether you\u2019re celebrating a birthday, engagement, or anniversary, you can\u2019t have a good party without great food. There are bespoke menus available, as well as fancy dress and thematic options. No party is complete without a cake, and this is something that we\u2019re able to provide too!\nPlanning for a funeral has the potential to be stressful, emotional, and draining. Food may be the last thing that you want to think about, and that\u2019s why we take care of everything for you. The thoughtful set menu that we\u2019ve created allows you to focus on the important things, and there is always room to adapt this to suit you. We take care of everything, even setting up the food while you say your goodbyes.\nTo bring the professional atmosphere of a restaurant into your home, we offer a private dining service. Whether you\u2019re celebrating an event, hosting afternoon tea, or just want an excuse to splash out, we\u2019re here to help.\nAs Corporate hosts, Fab Caterers understands how crucial events (and budgets) are to your business. Our reputation for innovation makes our events, and therefore yours, really stand out from the pack. You will find that creating an event with our 'can do' attitude is stress free.\nWe like to consider that every single Fab Caterers event is a theatrical production \u2013 one that ends with a standing ovation for you.\nCall us for more information on our party caterers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3160, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fccimn.com/poy-745497.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:59Z", "digest": "sha1:TCX66H45XOMI4SJKOFUQNBWKER4EDA4W", "length": 495, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.fccimn.com", "title": "Nominate a Provider of the Year - Family Child Care, Inc.", "raw_content": "Nominate a Provider Online!\nNow, more than ever, we recognize the importance of family child care providers in the lives of children. Please take this opportunity to nominate your child care provider in recognition and appreciation of the high quality of care, support, and professionalism that she/he provides to the families in her/his program and the field of family child care. Nominations are accepted year round. Nominees will be considered from January 1 through December 31 of each year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3716, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 177.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.featheredquillblog.com/2012/01/happy-meals-and-books.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:09Z", "digest": "sha1:QW3SYZBEH7DTQIJKV2RJWEPVSIDI726U", "length": 462, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.featheredquillblog.com", "title": "Feathered Quill Book Reviews: Happy Meals and Books", "raw_content": "I think this is so cool - not sure why, really, but still.... McDonalds is going to be giving away millions of copies of the book \"War Horse\" in their happy meals. Let's get those kids reading! Here's the full story.\nJessica L. Buike January 11, 2012 at 5:30 PM\nGreat post! I linked to it in my blog today: http://authorjess.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-up-wednesday-giveaways-book.html\nFeathered Quill Book Reviews January 11, 2012 at 8:31 PM\nThanks, Jessica! :-)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 4095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 216.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fighting4fair.com/uncategorized/achieving-personal-financial-security-is-important-for-everyone-but-dodgy-research-helps-no-one/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:07Z", "digest": "sha1:HATTSKEIUNEBRNPUNRI6S4BC7MG3OTFO", "length": 12221, "nlines": 61, "source_domain": "www.fighting4fair.com", "title": "Achieving personal financial security is important for everyone. Dodgy research helps no-one \u2013 Prawn of the Patriarchy", "raw_content": "Achieving personal financial security is important for everyone. Dodgy research helps no-one\nWhy slave away crafting a serious academic research paper when you can knock out an under-graduate quality effort that will still be published provided it pushes the appropriate PC buttons? One gets to bang the feminist drum to one\u2019s heart\u2019s content, virtue-signal across the chattering class, and pad out one\u2019s resume all at the same time.\nAnyway, accuracy, objectivity and academic rigor are so last century!\n\u2018Young women can budget in the short term but struggle with long-term investments: survey\u2019 (14 February 2017)\nThis unexceptional article merits its own post only by virtue of the way it exemplifies several of my concerns regarding pro-feminist research:\npresents a non-gendered issue as gendered\nonly surveys women yet uses the results to argue a case of relative female disadvantage\nfeatures lamentably weak research methodology\nonly identifies contributing factors consistent with a predetermined conclusion based on feminist dogma\ninfers that men are primarily responsible for both causing and resolving the alleged situation of female disadvantage\nMy comments are inserted within the body of the article, and shown in blue font.\nThe main premise of the article is that women are significantly disadvantaged in terms of achieving financial security, and warrant special assistance in this regard. This disadvantage is said to stem mainly from a lack of awareness of investment options and strategies. In supporting this position the paper grasps at various feminist chestnuts such as the gender wage gap, the superannuation gap, and gender bias within schools and specific employment sectors.\n\u201cOur investigation into the financial literacy of young women finds they are confident in implementing budgeting and savings strategies, but lack the knowledge and confidence required to implement long-term financial strategies.\u201d\nThe first thought that sprang to mind was \u2018Why focus solely on young women?\u2019, especially if the intention is to assert gender-based disadvantage. What exactly was the goal of this research project? Better understanding a problem that affects many PEOPLE with a view to identifying strategies to help those in need? Or simply opportunistically seizing on the issue of savings and investment in order to add to the chorus of \u2018women have it tougher\u2019?\nThe justification for excluding men from the study is hardly compelling:\nthe average level of retirement savings for men is greater than the average for women\nmen are claimed to be, again on average, more financially literate than women.\nWhat of the fact that many men fall below the male average, and quite likely also the female average? There would certainly be no shortage of men who \u201clack the knowledge and confidence required to implement long-term financial strategies\u201c. Consider too that some women would exceed male average savings, and that this segment is sure to increase in coming years.\nBear in mind too that men\u2019s savings are not necessarily their own, and will more often be used to support dependents. For example, many women are financially supported in later life by current or previous male partners, whilst relatively few men are supported in such a manner. And indeed, far more men than women will have some or all of their savings confiscated via court-ordered settlements following separation or divorce.\n\u201cThis is surprising given that financial literacy usually refers to not only an understanding of how money actually works and how to make and manage money for day-to-day affairs but also how to use this in preparation for the future.\nWhile our results are preliminary, based on social media users and require more detailed research, our results begin to draw links between social, institutional and personal attitudes towards financial knowledge.\nA survey we distributed across social media found that 91% of 175 respondents had confidence in their ability to implement savings strategies (varying from simple to complex), and 89% were confident in their ability to budget. Strategies included everything from planning for a holiday to managing credit cards. Participants also considered budgeting and saving to be the most important aspects of their finances.\u201d\nIt appears that all the survey respondents were female \u2013 a major oversight \u2013 and were likely self-selected from within the ranks of the researchers\u2019 friends/associates. What likely degree of survey bias did this entail? In other words, to what extent are the results meaningful even in a purely statistical sense?\nHowever, our survey participants expressed a distinct lack of appreciation for longer-term financial goals. While 72% of respondents felt that savings were extremely relevant to them, only 38% said the same about superannuation, and they showed even less interest in other long-term investment (23%).\nKnowledge and confidence in implementing long-term investment strategies were even more concerning. Only 17% of respondents said they had a \u201cmedium\u201d knowledge of superannuation and only 1% (or two of 175 respondents) felt that they had an in-depth understanding. In contrast, 55% indicated having little or no knowledge whatsoever.\nThe numbers look even bleaker for responses about investments. A low 12% of survey participants had medium levels of knowledge in this area, while again only 1% felt their knowledge was in-depth.\nWhen asked about why they lacked financial knowledge, the barrier most commonly acknowledged by participants was lack of financial information taught at school (91%). Also 55% of participants reported feeling discouraged from learning about finance because they were women. This is consistent with reports of female students being discouraged from studying subjects such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).\u201d\nOh please! That\u2019s a reach isn\u2019t it? Did male students receive additional education regarding financial information at school? With no corresponding results for young men, the value of the stats provided above \u2013 in terms of supporting a gendered agenda \u2013 are dubious.\nAnd as for the validity of measuring how people \u201cfeel\u201d about things, I would refer you to this paper.\nWhy financial literacy matters for women\nWomen working full-time currently earn 84% of a man\u2019s pay \u2013 at a 20 year average. The impact is this: women will earn around [A$650,000 less than men across their lifetimes].\nWhile the pay gap is considerable, the \u201csuper gap\u201d is even greater. On average women will accumulate 46.6% less in superannuation than men, and one in three women retire with no super at all. Superannuation is the second largest asset for most Australian households, (second only to housing) and contributes significantly to economic security and savings at retirement.\nThe pay gap is based on the average for all men and all women, and when analysed it becomes clear that there a significant variations in the extent of the gap (even with respect to which gender is favoured).\nInsufficient superannuation and savings at retirement have also been linked to high rates of homelessness experience by older women \u2013 a point that has been emphasised by Homelessness Australia. While there are many factors that contribute to homelessness, from drug and alcohol abuse, lack of affordable housing and domestic violence, a 2013 study by Adam Steen and David MacKenzie suggests that the little research done is this area indicates poor financial literacy is also a contributing factor.\nDifference in superannuation savings between women and men are driven by interrelated factors including: the gender pay gap, more frequent participation of women in lower paid industries and jobs, disproportionate participation of women in part-time and casual positions. Also influencing this trend are the fragmented work patterns as a result of time taken off for unpaid care and pregnancy related workplace discrimination. Women also typically retire earlier and live longer than men \u2013 up to 4.4 years longer for a female born today.\nThese are mainly issues of personal choice. Choose different options, for example taking a job in a higher paid sectors, and the situation changes regardless of gender \u2013 as stated in the following paper (and countless others).\n\u201cA Department of Labor study released in 2009, which reviewed upwards of 50 peer-reviewed papers, concluded the wage gap, \u201cmay be almost entirely the result of individual choices being made by both male and female workers.\u201d\n\u201cWomen, more than men, show a demonstrated preference for lower risk occupations with greater workplace safety and comfort, and they are frequently willing to accept lower wages for the greater safety and reduced probability of work-related injury or death\u201d\u201d (Source)\nIn addition to these structural and social factors, our data suggests that women are ill-equipped to manage long-term financial investments.\nThat sounds almost sexist doesn\u2019t it? \u2026 whilst readers can only speculate how much better-equipped men in the same cohort are, as the relevant information is omitted from the \u201cdata\u201d.\nAnd then there are the other factors that might have a bearing on women\u2019s relative unwillingness or inability to commit to long-term financial plans. One of these is female hypergamy, and one of the authors responded to this suggestion in the following manner:\nDo you, dear reader, consider the author\u2019s response to be a) Objective b) Scholarly or c) Butthurt (Circle correct answer/s)\nSome other possible factors are mentioned in the readers comments that follow the article, for example the relative confidence of men v women (as distinct from actual knowledge or skill). Willingness to take risk was also mentioned.\nReduced financial literacy amongst women in comparison to men was acknowledged by the Australian government in 2008 and again by the NSW Council of Social Services in 2016. Likewise it has been acknowledged in the United States and further afield. Our data suggests little has changed.\nBut the authors earlier asserted that homelessness was highly correlated with financial literacy, and yet there are far more homeless men than women. Would someone please explain?\nI\u2019m perfectly willing to accept that financial literacy is a significant factor, for both men and women, in achieving financial security later in life. And yes, this should be a major focus in terms of designing appropriate remedial action.\nWhat I am not willing to accept however is:\nDesigning and providing educational programs for financial literacy that are not available to both men/boys and women/girls\nExtending financial support or other incentives to women, but not men (as in the case, for example, of the ANZ staff Super payment mentioned in this blog post).\nAnd more publicly-funded \u2018research\u2019 like this!\nWomen\u2019s superannuation not so super: The $120,000 gender gap (27 October 2017)\nAussie retirement gender gap much larger than US, UK (17 October 2017)\nBrisbane small business to pay female employees more superannuation than male co-workers (28 September 2017)\nSuperannuation is sexist (6 September 2017) Video\nClaims super is \u2018biased\u2019 against women are nonsense (30 July 2017)\nPosted on February 18, 2017 October 27, 2017 Author adminTags Deakin University, divorce rape, financial literacy, gender income disparity, gender inequality, gynocentrism, media bias, superannuation, The Conversation, University of Western Sydney\nOne thought on \u201cAchieving personal financial security is important for everyone. Dodgy research helps no-one\u201d\nVery good. The common theme running through most classes that have anything to do with \u2018financial competency\u2019 at High School is BORING!!!!! Cheeez!! what 15 year old boy or girl wants a lesson in \u2018saving for old age\u2019. I thought anyone over 35 should have been committed to a concentration camp back when i was that age.\nI think its when babies fly at you, saving starts, we all want to be independent, but most of us also want to look good and feel good, that costs. So we taken present gain and suffer future pain.\nPrevious Previous post: \u2018Diversity\u2019: A buzzword that sounds good but is often misused\nNext Next post: Gender bias and wasted opportunities at the 2017 National Family Violence Summit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 13618, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.film-intel.com/2013/05/coriolanus-blu-ray-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:03Z", "digest": "sha1:QFRQDE4T5IHLAGFRQJTO5SRQQ6ZO224Y", "length": 2266, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.film-intel.com", "title": "Coriolanus - Blu-ray Review | Film Intel", "raw_content": "Coriolanus - Blu-ray Review\n'this might be Shakespeare for a new age, in a new setting, but it's stunningly dull, noticeably missing in the real will to empower the playwright again'\nThere's an interesting idea at the heart of Ralph Fiennes' Shakespeare adaptation, Coriolanus. It's not the first time The Bard has been transplanted to the modern day but there's still something new about the way the director/star approaches the material here. Coriolanus has a real grit, a desire not to jazz up the play for a new audience but to reframe it and send it out into the world as good as ever it was.\nWhat that approach misses though, at least partially, is any sense of dynamic invention. Sure, this might be Shakespeare for a new age, in a new setting, but it's stunningly dull, noticeably missing in the real will to empower the playwright again, something that cannot be levelled at Baz Luhrmann's Romeo And Juliet, still the modern take on Shakespeare all aspire to.\nThere are too some broken decisions here. Gerard Butler, an odd casting choice for this sort of material on the face of things, proves an odd casting choice in practice. It would be pleasant to report unheard of depths but they're not here. This is still a man whose talents are best suited to shouting and kicking people into large pits, not iambic pentameter and decidedly complicated character choices.\nFiennes, a first time director, rarely breaks from safe blood-stained close-ups, which, under the guise of cinematographer Barry Ackroyd, look outstanding but rarely threaten to cure the film's problem with invention. As an actor, meanwhile, this might reassure Fiennes that he is better with this material than as a children's pantomime villain whose name we dare not speak, but again, we're hardly seeing something new. Fiennes as Tullus would have been by far the more interesting casting choice but then everyone here, and the audience, knows that Butler never could have pulled off Coriolanus.\nThe resonance of the play to modern times shines through eventually, expertly considering the suitability of military leaders to govern the people, but it unfolds with all of the excitement and grace of stale bread, despite some half-hearted attempts to appeal to the Call Of Duty generation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 2776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.film-intel.com/2013/05/the-silence-dvd-review.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:26Z", "digest": "sha1:KC44TLXFGAPAALAKU7JAXMIOE223Z3MS", "length": 2194, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.film-intel.com", "title": "The Silence - DVD Review | Film Intel", "raw_content": "The Silence - DVD Review\n'one of the more compelling police procedurals offered over the last few years'\nLet down on occasion by its less than stellar cast, The Silence is still one of the more compelling police procedurals offered over the last few years. Indeed, one of its main strengths is in taking that genre and broadening out what can be offered. There's a relationship of some sort taking place between this and Bong Joon-ho's Memories Of Murder and certainly every member of The Silence's cast of characters is suffering from the latent feelings left by past brushes with violence and death.\nAt the films centre an investigation rumbles into why a young girl appears to have been abducted in exactly the same way as a different girl, twenty-three years earlier. Detective David Jahn (Sebastian Blomberg), grieving from the death of his wife by cancer, gets the least interesting part of the plot, as he recovers under the wing of retiring detective Krischan (Burghart Klau\u00dfner) and stumbles around solving the mystery.\nIn fact, Jahn's less-than-interesting development is mainly down to the fact that he is surrounded by a large band of ambiguous, layered supporting players, none of whom are entirely 'good' or 'bad'. Most interesting of all is Timo (Wotan Wilke M\u00f6hring), whose clear guilt is tempered by an apparent reluctance to be quite as evil as he might be and the hint that he is on the verge of redemption. His eventual conclusion, distinctly individual when compared, again, to other perhaps more mainstream procedurals, is worryingly indecisive and dares to tempt the viewer into dissatisfaction.\nTechnically perhaps, The Silence suffers a little from looking a touch made-for-TV, though director Baran bo Odar does bring in some lovely shots - a car being tracked by an overhead helicopter looks like something out of video game, the bright yellow straw fields are distinct - it can resort to more bland tricks. The music is extremely predictable in its execution and almost everyone who works with David is fairly low-rent hire-a-cop. With all that though, this tries new things in familiar territory and crafts a bleak vision of the influence of death on all around it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 2689, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filmfeeder.co.uk/adult-life-skills-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:31Z", "digest": "sha1:WWPEK3DGO735YPR5QHFZYRMJNHOC2WJW", "length": 4941, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.filmfeeder.co.uk", "title": "Film Feeder Adult Life Skills (Review) - Film Feeder", "raw_content": "Adult Life Skills (Review)\nCAST: Jodie Whittaker, Ozzy Myers, Brett Goldstein, Alice Lowe, Lorraine Ashbourne, Eileen Davies, Edward Hogg, Rachael Deering, David Anderson, Andrew Buckley, Christian Contreras\nBASICALLY\u2026: Anna (Whittaker) is approaching thirty, but she\u2019s still living in her mother\u2019s (Ashbourne) shed and not progressing whatsoever into proper adulthood\u2026\nDon\u2019t you just love it when a film comes almost out of nowhere to delight audiences with its unashamed quirkiness? Adult Life Skills, based on the BAFTA-nominated short film Emotional Fusebox by editor-turned-filmmaker Rachel Tunnard, is only the latest out of these films to make its debut in cinemas, and anyone wanting to find a gem in the rubble created by the endless amount of Hollywood blockbusters will no doubt get exactly what they\u2019re hoping for with this one.\nTunnard has recruited Broadchurch actress Jodie Whittaker, with whom she has been friends since university, to reprise her role from the short as Anna, a 29-year-old who lives in a shed outside of her mother (Lorraine Ashbourne, also reprising her role) and grandmother\u2019s (Eileen Davies, replacing Marcia Warren) home in Yorkshire, and though she has a job working at a local boating centre she mostly spends her time in the shed making odd little films using her thumbs as actors. It\u2019s a way of life that Anna\u2019s mother can no longer tolerate, and she gives her up until her approaching 30th birthday to move out and make an actual life for herself, a notion which Anna all but ignores, even when she has a troubled young boy named Clint (newcomer Ozzy Myers) thrust upon her to look after. But is there a more tragic reason behind Anna\u2019s mental refusal to act her age?\nAs it turns out, there is; without giving too much away, someone close to Anna passed away an undisclosed amount of time ago, in ways that are also undisclosed, and Anna\u2019s slacker attitude is partially due to her struggling to contain her grief (among other things, namely that she\u2019s relatively unambitious). This brings to question the differing methods in which we all try to cope with some form of depression, and in her case she\u2019s decided to live in a shed doing nothing but making films with her thumbs arguing about the nihilistic or existentialist methods of Yogi Bear. Over the course of the film, she\u2019s also plagued by visions and flashbacks of said person, piling on top of her insecurities as she attempts to connect with the limited amount of friends she has, from her mother and grandmother to returning school friend Fiona (Rachael Deering) to socially awkward realtor Brendan (Brett Goldstein), none of which seem to really bring her towards her long-overdue rude awakening. It\u2019s only when little Clint comes into her life rather forcibly, equipped with his own family problems, that she finally gets some perspective on what it is to live as a teenager in an adult body, and what kind of impression she could potentially leave on someone as young and impressionable as this young boy. In that way, it\u2019s oddly uplifting despite some of the more tragic elements, and the film speaks volumes on the overwhelming issue of depression in young adults and how it must be overcome to better the life of oneself and those around them.\nTunnard reflects these themes through the film\u2019s unique quirkiness, in an impressive feature debut that manages to find the awkward humour in tough real-life situations without feeling out of place or in any way misguided. This also rings true with her approach to the main character; Anna isn\u2019t an entirely sympathetic character, but the mixture of Tunnard\u2019s strong writing and direction with Whittaker\u2019s spirited tragi-comic performance equals out to a character you do end up wanting things to go right for by the film\u2019s end. Through her, we see a lost soul who tries to get by with her own warped sense of humour, neglecting her growing responsibilities as an adult in the process, to a point where it all comes crashing down to depths that are far too real for anyone in this situation to truly grasp, even with as light-hearted an approach to it as she has.\nFor our money, Adult Life Skills is a solid debut film that delivers laughs, pathos and tragi-comic elements aplenty, worth checking out if you enjoy small pieces of breakthrough indie cinema like this one. That said, anyone who can be put off by quirky on-screen behaviours or deliveries may find it hard to like, but for everyone else it\u2019s a relatively strong little film that\u2019s worth being a fun little alternative to all the big-budgeted CGI splooge-fests being released right about now.\nAdult Life Skills is a solid debut feature from filmmaker Rachel Tunnard, approaching the always-sensitive topics of depression within young adults and overdue maturity sensitively and giving it a delightfully quirky tone that lead actress Jodie Whittaker more than compliments with a sparky and lively tragi-comic lead performance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 7596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filmfeeder.co.uk/lego-movie-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:00Z", "digest": "sha1:IFK3QT3D6EJ5QVGS6DG6TGMF6GO37M3N", "length": 3962, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.filmfeeder.co.uk", "title": "Film Feeder The LEGO Movie (Review) - Film Feeder", "raw_content": "The LEGO Movie (Review)\nCAST: Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Liam Neeson, Morgan Freeman, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Cobie Smulders\nBASICALLY\u2026: Hapless LEGO man Emmet (Pratt) becomes embroiled in an exciting adventure where he must lead a battle against the evil Lord Business (Ferrell)\u2026\nThe only question \u2013 hell, the only WORD \u2013 you\u2019re left with after watching The LEGO Movie is: \u201cHow?\u201d\nHow is it possible that this movie is so good? How can anyone be this creative and smart with such a basic and nonsensical idea? How do you juggle great story, great characters and great animation among other great things this efficiently and still come out with all of your dignity intact like the makers of this movie have? And how, oh how, do we get that insanely catchy \u201cEverything Is Awesome\u201d song out of our heads?\n(By the way, if you haven\u2019t heard it yet, it\u2019s below. Warning: you can\u2019t unhear it).\nWhatever the answers may be, The LEGO Movie is bona fide family entertainment, possibly one of the best of its kind since Toy Story. Yes, we are serious.\nBut this is far from a \u201ctoy\u201d story in and of itself. It could have been so easy to make this yet another cynical studio machine that only serves to sell its product, but what directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) have done is add something unexpected to it: a personality. It\u2019s odd, it\u2019s quirky and it\u2019s a little psychotic, but also extremely fun to be around. It\u2019s like a clown you hire for your kid\u2019s birthday party but he ends up surprising everyone with the sheer amount of effort and passion he puts into his simple, menial job.\nContinuing their sly eye for comedy with Cloudy and 21 Jump Street (as well as this summer\u2019s sequel 22 Jump Street), Lord and Miller inject an overwhelming amount of humour into its system and as a result create the funniest animated comedy since Shrek 2. In fact, there are so many jokes going on in the foreground and background it feels like the animated equivalent of something like Hot Fuzz. The best thing about it is, 99% of these jokes work and proceed to tickle the funny-bones of any children or adults fortunate to watch it.\nThankfully, the characters are well-written enough to boost its fun levels even higher. Literally, not one character \u2013 from Chris Pratt\u2019s chipper lead Emmet to Will Arnett\u2019s hilariously broody Batman \u2013 feels like a fifth wheel or a waste of space. Each one of them is given at least one or two highly memorable moments to shine and resonate with viewers, including the funniest use of Charlie Day\u2019s voice in recent history during its climax (all we\u2019ll say is \u201cSpaceship!\u201d). It\u2019s such a wonderful cast of characters who are all charming and likable in their own unique way.\nBut beyond its high awareness of humour and memorable characters is something even the biggest sceptics couldn\u2019t have predicted: it\u2019s a very emotion-led movie. For example, one scene around the middle of the movie focuses on Alison Brie\u2019s \u00fcber-adorable Uni-Kitty character, and while we won\u2019t give anything away, it\u2019s shockingly tender and genuinely sad (that\u2019s a real sign of a great character when you\u2019re nearly weeping along with them). The biggest example is a major twist during the third act which we won\u2019t DARE talk about because it needs to be seen to be believed. But even that makes its way to your heart in the best possible way.\nWhat Phil Lord and Chris Miller have brought to the big screen with The LEGO Movie is something truly unique which touches you emotionally and hysterically. It\u2019s true, then: you really CAN build something great out of building blocks.\nThe LEGO Movie is an astoundingly enjoyable family film that literally everyone can enjoy, with great story, memorable characters and beautiful animation that makes you forget the primary instinct was to promote toys. It\u2019s only February, but this is already one of the best films of the year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 6657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 277.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.filmfeeder.co.uk/walk-like-a-panther-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LYXHWIM6JSXRTJ7CI224Q2FVOP6YSGO5", "length": 3992, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.filmfeeder.co.uk", "title": "Film Feeder Walk Like A Panther (Review) - Film Feeder", "raw_content": "Walk Like A Panther (Review)\nCAST: Stephen Graham, Dave Johns, Jill Halfpenny, Sue Johnston, Lindsey Coulson, Julian Sands, Jason Flemyng, Stephen Tompkinson, Michael Socha, Scroobius Pip, Hannah Walters, Stephen Marcus\nBASICALLY\u2026: A group of former wrestlers band together one last time to prevent their favourite pub from shutting down\u2026\nUpon doing research for this review, I learned that Walk Like A Panther, before eventually turning into a feature film, was originally conceived as a sitcom back in 2011, to a point where a pilot episode was even shot with most of the same cast that ended up in the movie.\nSuddenly, everything started making far too much sense, because this film feels, looks and acts exactly like a sitcom that\u2019s been given the big-screen treatment, only in this case there wasn\u2019t even a sitcom that came first, and to complicate matters further, it\u2019s not at all one of the good ones.\nThe basic premise is of a group of former wrestlers living in a small town in Yorkshire, who were big back in the day when wrestling was popular on evening TV, but are now settled in to their more mundane lives and hanging out at The Half Nelson pub on evenings. Things are threatened, however, when they learn that the pub is closing down, and there\u2019s only one thing they can do to stop it from happening \u2013 take a wild guess as to what that could be? Answers on a postcard, please.\nYou know exactly what kind of story this is, and you know even more precisely how it\u2019s all going to play out, so what\u2019s the point of caring about any of it? Truth be told, there\u2019s not much point at all, as this is a great big empty void where absolutely zero laughter can be heard whatsoever, with characters who aren\u2019t necessarily awful but are so thin that you could tear them into pieces like paper, and a completely senseless idea of how a movie is meant to function. If this did ever become a sitcom, with the kind of humour that this film has it would have lasted one series at most, because a lot of it is made up of really naff one-liners and pause-for-laughter bits of slapstick where everything just stops, whether it\u2019s the actors or sometimes even the frame, so they can insert canned laughter right after it, only it never arrives here and it\u2019s just awkward as a result. There\u2019s one cameo in the film that only exists just so they can do a terrible pun based on the show that they are best known for; that\u2019s the kind of humour we\u2019re working with here, and it\u2019s not only unfunny but sometimes painfully so.\nI don\u2019t fault any of these actors for being in this, including I, Daniel Blake\u2019s Dave Johns who\u2019s by far the best part of this movie (primarily because he\u2019s playing it like a straightforward drama instead of the failed sitcom it actually is), but the lines and direction that they are given really don\u2019t lend them any favours, as many of them are stuck with such contrived plots you would find in a half-hour episode of this proposed series, and it\u2019s padded out with such needless filler that scenes will just repeat themselves, over and over again. Only during the climactic wrestling showdown does any sense of fun begin to creep in, because you can tell that the actors are genuinely enjoying themselves once they\u2019re in the ring going at each other, but until then it\u2019s such a slow slog to get through with largely unfunny set pieces and dialogue that will most likely bore you into submission before the climax.\nAny more insight as to why this movie doesn\u2019t work would just be me repeating myself; I don\u2019t really watch a lot of television sitcoms anymore, but judging by this movie, if Walk Like A Panther had actually started out as one, it would have put me off of them for good.\nWalk Like A Panther is a failed sitcom pilot turned into a failed sitcom movie, only they somehow bypassed it actually being a sitcom and went straight into making an unfunny, shoddily written and direction that is padded out to try and make every joke land, but they do so with a great big thud.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 6656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/comixtribe-january-2017-solicitations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:45Z", "digest": "sha1:MI3YYIJHRDAG2DC6LCLZGOT5ET5TLASO", "length": 1043, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.firstcomicsnews.com", "title": "COMIXTRIBE JANUARY 2017 SOLICITATIONS \u2013 First Comics News", "raw_content": "COMIXTRIBE JANUARY 2017 SOLICITATIONS\nby First Comics News on October 19, 2016 COMIXTRIBE JANUARY 2017 SOLICITATIONS2016-10-19T07:18:22+00:00 - Solicitations\nCHUM TP\n(W) Ryan Lindsay (A/CA) Sami Kivela\nA surf noir story about betrayal, murder, and a bag full of cash and drugs. Summer Stanwyck desperately wants to leave Kingsford Island to start a new life, and might have found her way, but if any of the men around her get in her way they\u2019ll be chum in the water.\nhttp://www.firstcomicsnews.com/comixtribe-january-2017-solicitations/http://www.firstcomicsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ComixTribe-Logo-600x253.pnghttp://www.firstcomicsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/ComixTribe-Logo-150x63.png 2016-10-19T07:18:22+00:00 First Comics NewsSolicitations\nCHUM TP NOV161401 (W) Ryan Lindsay (A/CA) Sami Kivela A surf noir story about betrayal, murder, and a bag full of cash and drugs. Summer Stanwyck desperately wants to leave Kingsford Island to start a new life, and might have found her way, but if any of the men around her get...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 6871, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 314.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firstcongucctomah.com/home/children-s-fun", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:47Z", "digest": "sha1:Q5W5LOJAJDHPMEABXXKNMU67K2TJLZOU", "length": 281, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.firstcongucctomah.com", "title": "Children's Activities - Firstcongucctomah", "raw_content": "The Ecumenical Youth Group will meet at the First Congregational UCC on Wednesday, February 13 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm!\nOur Church School Class is giving back to the community.\nThey had a food drive and delivered the food to the local food pantry.\nSee what camp programs are available!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 259.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.firstynews.com/tag/selling-direct/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DQZQEE3GSZAJ6K3PEI46UFPXO6WG6FE7", "length": 283, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.firstynews.com", "title": "FirstyNews | Digital publishing news and views from the Firsty Group", "raw_content": "Browsing the \"selling direct\" Tag\nDirect to consumer (D2C) sales have become an integral and increasingly important part of publishers\u2019 sales strategies... Read More\nSelling direct to consumers has been one of the most significant shifts in publishers\u2019 activities of the... Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 334.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.flagstaffbusinessnews.com/author/jon-gustafson/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:31Z", "digest": "sha1:RVOKLKIH2R7A2WR72KB4VUZJOJ553NXL", "length": 3651, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "www.flagstaffbusinessnews.com", "title": "Jon Gustafson, Author at Flagstaff Business & Online News | Northern Arizona Local Newspaper", "raw_content": "About Jon Gustafson\nJon Gustafson received his B.S. in Journalism and Political Science in 2010 from Northern Arizona University (NAU). While in school Jon honed his reporting and writing in numerous intern positions including the Lumberjack, NAU's Office of Public Affairs and KNAU Arizona Public Radio. He is currently pursuing a M.A. Sustainable Communities at NAU with hopes of one day joining the business world focusing on high-performance construction and energy efficiency\nAuthor Archive | Jon Gustafson\nWinterfest and Growing Winter Tourism and Recreation Economy\nBy Jon Gustafson on January 30, 2012 in Business\nNorthern Arizona\u2019s high-elevation winters have long been desert havens for snow sports like skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing and even dogsled racing. A growing number of visitors have been choosing Northern Arizona as their wintertime destination for more simple pleasures \u2013 enjoying local shops and restaurants and recreating at newly-opened snow play areas like Wing Mountain and [\u2026]\nFlagstaff\u2019s Fast-Casual Dining\nBy Jon Gustafson on November 2, 2011 in Business\nA new style of restaurant is trending in the United States. The service is brisk and customers order at a counter, but it\u2019s not fast food. The food and menu choices are more exotic and creative, but the price ranges are below full-service restaurants. The most distinctive trait though: a reluctance to offer drive-thru [\u2026]\nRemaining Confident through Market Turbulence\nBy Jon Gustafson on October 12, 2011 in Business\nA volatile and unpredictable stock market has brought renewed attention to the likelihood of the United States economic recovery. A combination of the European sovereign debt crisis, S&P\u2019s downgrade of the U.S. credit rating to AA+ and the U.S. Congressional Budget Office\u2019s mid-year projection of modest 2.3 percent GDP growth for 2011 are believed to [\u2026]\nUranium Mining Tied to Regional Economy\nBy Jon Gustafson on June 5, 2011 in Business\nMining companies and local residents are awaiting Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar\u2019s final decision to allow or ban hard rock mining for the next 20 years on approximately one million acres on the Arizona Strip north of Grand Canyon National Park. Surges in the price of uranium from about $10 per pound in 2003, [\u2026]\nSecuring Flagstaff\u2019s Water Future\nBy Jon Gustafson on May 20, 2011 in Business, Local News\nFlagstaff City Council narrowly approved a $1.8 million contract earlier this year to begin drilling six wells at a city-owned property \u2013 Red Gap Ranch \u2013 approximately 40 miles east of Flagstaff. The 8,500-acre property was acquired in 2004 through city bond money approved by voters with hopes of securing Flagstaff\u2019s long-term water supply. Many [\u2026]\nBusinesses Finding Challenge/Opportunity in Rising Crude Prices\nBy Jon Gustafson on February 27, 2011 in Business\nWith global economic recovery slowly taking place, the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) predicts world liquid fuel markets will tighten over the next two years as global demand picks up. The EIA projects regular-grade gasoline will rise from a 2010 average of $2.78 per gallon to $3.29 by 2012, and diesel fuel will rise from [\u2026]\nCementing Hopes for Regional and National Economic Growth\nBy Jon Gustafson on January 25, 2011 in Business, Local News\nDrake Cement\u2019s nearly-complete $310 million production plant is located within Yavapai County in Paulden, Arizona \u2013 once a historic ghost town and about 60 miles southwest of Flagstaff. Bringing Drake to the region is expected to employ approximately 550 people in construction projects and provide 90 full-time jobs within the plant. Local and Regional Development [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 7198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 257.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.flintexpats.com/2008/12/bush-to-rescue.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:05Z", "digest": "sha1:D4RFFY6FHKBCA66ZX533CYY7ROI644I4", "length": 608, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.flintexpats.com", "title": "Flint Expatriates: Bush to the Rescue! Huh?", "raw_content": "Either President Bush has suddenly discovered a new-found love of shoprats, or he doesn't want to be remembered as the next Herbert Hoover. After Republicans in the Senate filibustered to stop a vote on a government loan for the Big Three, the White House announced the Wall Street bailout funds could be used to help the auto industry.\nLabels: bailout, Big Three, George Bush, Herbert hoover, shoprat\ndetroit is not only losing its industry -- it may well be losing its daily papers. read all about it on my blog, jlinx.blogspot.com\nThat would be ONE thing \"W\" has done right in his eight years at the helm.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 301, "original_length": 11669, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fpcplainview.org/what-s-happening/untitledpost", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:08Z", "digest": "sha1:KWEWL5FXRC3UZJT6BRBBR5FGHR3GVH4I", "length": 1869, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.fpcplainview.org", "title": "Holy Week At 1st Pres - First Presbyterian Church, Plainview", "raw_content": "Holy Week At 1st Pres\nposted Mar 19, 2013, 7:51 AM by David Hawkins [ updated Mar 19, 2013, 8:13 AM ]\n2101 Utica\nPalm Sunday, March 24th at 10:30 am\nCelebrate Jesus\u2019 triumphant entry into Jerusalem with us. We will gather in the Fellowship Court and be led into the sanctuary by the children and youth waving palm branches.\nMaundy Thursday Seder, March 28th at 7:00 pm\nThe Seder is a ritual banquet which reenacts the Exodus. Its major feature is the reading of the Haggadah, which relates, in detail, the events of the Exodus of the Jewish people from ancient Egypt, complete with symbolic reenactments using Kosher wine, specially prepared Matzah, and bitter herbs. This celebration will be a potluck meal attempting to be as kosher as possible. A choice of wine or grape juice will be served at the Seder meal.\nGood Friday Tenebrae Service, March 29th at 7:00 pm\nCome explore the deeper meaning of \u2018God\u2019s Friday\u2019. We will remember together the events of Jesus\u2019 last night with his disciples, as he taught them a new commandment to love each other as he loved them and then demonstrated the depths to which that love might extend. The service will be a moving experience of light and darkness, drama and reflection, scripture, music, and prayer. In this time together, we will gain a new understanding of what Easter really means for us all.\nEaster Sunday, March 31st at 7:00 & 10:30 am\nSunrise Service at 7:00 am on the lawn on the north side of the church to joyously welcome the Risen Savior. If you would like to stay for breakfast, please bring a breakfast item to share. At 10:00 am we will have an Easter egg hunt for the little ones. At 10:30 am we will join Christians all over the world in celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord in our beautiful sanctuary.\nElements of Communion will include gluten-free bread at all services. No Communion on Palm Sunday.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 2777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 243.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fredasvoice.com/2018/01/bag-of-bones-by-stephen-king-1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:KAJYJJO42ARXY7HL6TN7WGWTXFYHLOTY", "length": 3109, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.fredasvoice.com", "title": "Bag Of Bones by Stephen King (#1)", "raw_content": "Bag Of Bones by Stephen King (#1)\nPublisher: Scribner (April 6, 1999)\nASIN: B000FBJFZA\nFrom international bestseller Stephen King, a tale of grief, of love\u2019s enduring bonds, and the haunting secrets of the past\u2014the inspiration for the A&E miniseries.\nStephen King\u2019s most gripping and unforgettable novel, Bag of Bones, is a story of grief and a lost love\u2019s enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire.\nSet in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving even four years after the sudden death of his wife, Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his word processor.\nNow his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares of the house by the lake. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike finally returns to Sara Laughs, the Noonans\u2019 isolated summer home.\nHe finds his beloved Yankee town familiar on its surface, but much changed underneath\u2014held in the grip of a powerful millionaire, Max Devore, who twists the very fabric of the community to his purpose: to take his three-year-old granddaughter away from her widowed young mother.\nAs Mike is drawn into their struggle as he falls in love with both of them, he is also drawn into the mystery of Sara Laughs, now the site of ghostly visitations, ever-escalating nightmares, and the sudden recovery of his writing ability. What are the forces that have been unleashed here\u2014and what do they want of Mike Noonan?\nStephen King was born on September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. He graduated from the University of Maine and later worked as a teacher while establishing himself as a writer. Having also published work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, King's first horror novel, Carrie, was a huge success.\nNot my favorite King book.\nI'm actually disappointed. Having read many of his books, and being fans of most, this felt long-winded to me. I wasn't really feeling the ghost story part either. Maybe he should just stick to writing about sickos that are living, I dunno, but this one... UGH!\nThe story frustrated me. It took too long to get anywhere, while sometimes I felt it was going nowhere at all. The characters were boring, for the most part, except for Ki. She was adorable. (Was she based on his grand-daughter? Does he even have a grand-daughter? Again, dunno.)\nYup, still a huge fan of Stephen King, but this is not getting a recommendation from me any time soon. Start with Rose Madder instead, if you're a newbie to his works and don't want to get spooked to badly. It's a good one. Or read The Bachman Books. Good stuff there too!\nMy review for 11-22-63\n**Compensation may be earned from the links within. This copy was purchased. Opinions are owned by Freda's Voice.\nbought ebook horror Kindle mystery\nLabels: bought ebook horror Kindle mystery\nLaura Thomas January 8, 2018 at 6:17 PM\nThis was a bit different from his usual plots and not a favorite of mine either. I did enjoy the mini series more.\nI will have to check it out!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1109, "original_length": 18389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 293.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.freelancing.gr/index2.jsp?link=web2software", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:34Z", "digest": "sha1:2VOV2EDIW42ECLUZVOJYROYKK3BY454D", "length": 62, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.freelancing.gr", "title": "The freelancers collaboration site - Web 2.0 software", "raw_content": "Technologies that we use for Web 2.0 software development are:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 850, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 236.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.friedegg.co/golf-courses/proposed-belmont-changes", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:09Z", "digest": "sha1:UGQSNJ64ODXH6NQW3BMBHYHBOKSN6LYM", "length": 6972, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.friedegg.co", "title": "Major Championship Host and Public Access Tillinghast in Peril \u2014 The Fried Egg", "raw_content": "Major Championship Host and Public Access Tillinghast in Peril\nA.W. Tillinghast is among the most distinguished golf course architects in history. His original designs include Philadelphia Cricket Club and San Francisco Golf Club and Quaker Ridge. His iconic design on the 7th hole at Pine Valley - featuring \u201cHell\u2019s Half Acre\u201d - is among the finest golf holes in the world. Tillinghast courses have hosted a whopping 24 majors - legendary tournament course like Winged Foot, Baltusrol and Bethpage Black....\n...and Belmont Golf Course?\nYes. Belmont Golf Course in Richmond Virginia. It hosted the 1949 PGA championship. Back then, it was known as Hermitage Country Club. Virginia native, Sam Snead defeated Johnnie Palmer 3&2 for his second of three major championships. To this day, the 1949 PGA Championship remains the only major held in the state of Virginia.\nYou probably know nothing about Belmont Golf Course, but you should. Because this historic Tillinghast design hangs in the balance.\nWe know that Tillinghast was quite impressed with the land on his very first visit to the course. After surveying the site in 1916, Tillinghast remarked in a letter to club president O.B. Law:\n\"It has been my pleasure to design a number of Southern courses, and without exception, the features on this tract are far more pleasing and interesting than any I\u2019ve encountered south of the Mason Dixon line.\"\nTillinghast received his commission about the same time as he was building iconic Quaker Ridge. Upon completion Hermitage C.C. was heralded for its spectacular routing, natural land movement and the use of a creek which ran through its property. It became the best championship golf course in Virginia.\nUnlike many similar courses, the club survived the Great Depression and World War II. In the post-war years, Hermitage thrived and began hosting championships. First was the 1945 Richmond Open won by Ben Hogan. Then, the PGA Championship of 1949 - It\u2019s moment in the spotlight.\nAn aerial photograph of Belmont Golf Course from 1952\nIn 1977, the Hermitage Country Club sold the Tillinghast-designed course to the Henrico County. In turn, the course was re-named to Belmont Golf Course. In terms of conditioning, the course suffers from several problems endemic to municipal golf. Years of mismanagement has led to shrunken greens, overgrown trees, and eroded bunkers. The bunkers have drainage problems and poor sand quality. This poor treatment has led to poor playing conditions and a poor public perception. But the \u201cbones\u201d of this course are still very good the strategic values remain. If you show up to 1600 Hilliard Avenue, you can play the course Snead played in 1949. The non-resident greens fees are as low as $24. Find me another major championship site you can play for $24.\nBelmont today\nToday, the Tillinghast-designed Belmont is like an abused Frank Lloyd Wright house. It\u2019s architecturally important, but begging for a restoration. Properly executed, the Tillinghast design has the potential to become one of golf's public treasures.\nA proper restoration would vault the course into the upper-echelon of municipal-owned facilities. There are sterling examples Torrey Pines, Chambers Bay, Harding Park and a few others. Even these can\u2019t boast a Tillinghast original design. A faithful restoration might put this course back on the map and give local golfers an outrageously great, historic golf course to play. It would also stimulate the economy. Belmont rests two miles off of interstate 95, the highway which connects the eastern seaboard. This road is regularly trafficked by golfers going to destinations in North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Belmont and Richmond would provide a great stopping point along the way.\nFor inspiration, Henrico County should look no further than Tillinghast-designed Bethpage State Park. Bethpage Black and Red are both well preserved designs that provided a wonderful course to play for the greater NYC public while also being a tourism driver.\nThis year, Henrico County approved a budget for a golf course improvement. Their improvement plan focuses solely around reducing the maintenance costs of the bunkers. This plan will see the removal, shrinking or altering of all the Tillinghast bunkering.. With the year near conclusion the county has undergone a shotgun bid for construction services.\nHere's a look at the bunkering on the par 3 18th hole at Belmont from 1949, today and what they plan to do. Rather than renovating and keeping the authentic Tillinghast bunkering, it will be vanquished for non-descript shapes which rest farther from the shrunken greens. To achieve this, the construction contractors will also regrade the green edges of the 18th. This is the general plan for all 18 holes and will remove one of the most distinct Tillinghast features Belmont possesses.\nA proper restoration would see that the green has gotten considerably smaller over time. The green originally extended down to the front bunkers. If I were in charge I would build new bunkers in the same position and orientation as they are today and begin to look at ways to get the original green size back. Here\u2019s a photo that illustrates how large the green should be compared to its size today.\nThe 18th green in its current state.\nA closer representation to what the green size and bunker should be.\nThe bid for services closed last week and it appears through looking at Henrico County records that it has yet to be awarded. They should punt. Instead of going for local contractors, bring in a bonafide architect and (at the very least) re-evaluate the way this course is being managed. Take some time to assess your options.\nTillinghast is one of only six architects to in the Hall of Fame. If you want to play a major championship course built by Tillinghast, your public options are Bethpage Black and Belmont. This is a course with tremendous potential. It's surprising that golf courses such as Belmont aren't given a historical designation like a Frank Lloyd Wright house would.\nSadly, the window of opportunity to restore Belmont is closing. This course should and could be a national public golf gem. In today\u2019s game, where affordable, great courses are rare for the public golfer, it would be sad and irresponsible to lose a course like this. Now is the time to save Belmont Golf Course by emailing and calling Henrico County's Parks and Recreation Office.\nAn architect attempted to restore the hisotric Ocakli Ada castle to its original glory and fell short. He was mocked for failing to notice that the building had little resemblance to its original design and that it looked like a popular cartoon character.\nSpongeBob themed restoration of a historic castle in Istanbul via /r/WTF http://t.co/tXZh6p0G3q pic.twitter.com/dWAHmuKu6S\n\u2014 me (@not_actuallyme) August 31, 2015\nDon\u2019t do this to Belmont Golf Course.\nLove golf? Sign up for our newsletter and never miss a beat.\nPublic, Tillinghast, Municipal Golf", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 8098, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.fwtx.com/blogs/fwvoice/how-mayor-price-sees-fort-worth-eight-years-now", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:29Z", "digest": "sha1:WZWQJYPXDJYWTY7J6G7KGRKUC3ARKG7B", "length": 2414, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.fwtx.com", "title": "How Mayor Price Sees Fort Worth Eight Years from Now", "raw_content": "How Mayor Price Sees Fort Worth Eight Years from Now\nFort Worth is strong today, Mayor Betsy Price says, but the city needs to be stronger heading into the future.\nEight years into the future, specifically.\nPrice shared her vision for Fort Worth into 2025 on Wednesday at her annual State of the City Address. Her priorities for the future? Improving struggling neighborhoods, creating new jobs and focusing on education.\n\"What's Fort Worth going to look like in the year 2025 and beyond? Eight years away. It's only a heartbeat in the life of a city,\" she said. \"But in those eight years, major changes will happen that will impact our future, and it's up to us to have a vision for how those changes will happen.\"\nFor Price, one of the first steps to improving neighborhoods is investing in the Stop Six neighborhood in southeast Fort Worth, where 78 percent of residents have moderate-low incomes, and the unemployment rate is 21 percent (the citywide rate is 4 percent). She said the city plans to invest $2.56 million in the area, improving streets, installing new streetlights and establishing community policing among other initiatives.\n\"It's my expectation that the focus on Stop Six is just the beginning of a renewed focus in all of east Fort Worth,\" Price said.\nTo create jobs, the city's economic development team is putting together a strategic plan that will focus on bringing higher-paying jobs to the city, workforce development and education, and other goals. The plan should be ready by the summer, Price said.\nAnother priority is improving education, and Price is optimistic about the Fort Worth Literacy Partnership, formed last year to help increase literacy in the city. The initiative's goal is to have 100 percent of third-graders reading at grade level by 2025. Price encourages businesses to take part. Sewell Lexus, for example, sends employees to schools to volunteer once a week, she said.\nWhile there's a lot of work to be done before 2025, Price said she believes Fort Worth has the capacity to meet its goals.\n\"Making that vision a reality won't happen by accident, but it will happen by design, hard work, unity and determination,\" Price said. \"Does that sound like Fort Worth to you?\"\nThe event also honored the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce's Small Businesses of the Year. Winners were Alpha Industries, LLC; Z's Cafe; The Fulcrum Group, Inc.; and Southwest Office Systems, Inc.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4725, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 204.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/208805/Road_to_the_IGF_Lazy_8_Studios_Extrasolar.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:53Z", "digest": "sha1:FLJIJRC6MNTYZBNC4Z65DSKGZ3YFBFJ2", "length": 7841, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "www.gamasutra.com", "title": "Gamasutra - Road to the IGF: Lazy 8 Studios' Extrasolar", "raw_content": "Road to the IGF: Lazy 8 Studios' Extrasolar\nMore: Console/PC, Design, Business/Marketing, Exclusive, Video, IGF\nFor Lazy 8 Studios, this is the second time that the indie team will be chasing an IGF trophy. While IGF 2010 nominee Cogs didn't manage to win for the studio, Rob Jagnow and Brendan Mauro are hoping that Extrasolar will win them the Nuovo award this time around at Independent Games Festival 2014.\nThe Nuovo award is meant to celebrate the most unique and different indie games, and in this regard, Extrasolar is a perfect fit. As Gamasutra discovered late last year, this alternate reality browser game is unlike anything we've played before.\nExtrasolar sees players taking up the role of a NASA-like employee, moving a space rover around the surface of a planet. As you select co-ordinates and take pictures of your surroundings, you slowly begin to uncover secrets and plot twists.\nAs part of Gamasutra's Road to the IGF series, Jagnow discusses how his love of ARGs shaped the game into how it plays today, and how he's been secretly terrified of how people will react to the game throughout development. (And if you're coming to GDC in March, you can see Jagnow's postmortem on Extrasolar.)\nWhat is your background in making games?\nI stumbled into the game industry a bit by accident. While pursuing my Ph.D. at MIT, I spent a couple summers working at Pixar and planned to go back after graduation.\nBut by the time I graduated, I found myself in a relationship and my boyfriend was stuck in Boston for another year to finish his Ph.D. The job hunt led me to a small game studio and I soon found myself enjoying the challenge of game development and seeing the potential of games as an interactive art form.\nA year later, my boyfriend graduated and got a job at Google, so we moved to San Francisco and I started my own company where I took programming gigs with major studios and spent the rest of my time writing Cogs. That game was a big enough success that my small team earned the freedom to do something crazy and experimental -- thus, Extrasolar.\nOh, and for the record, staying in Boston paid off. We've been together for nearly 10 years and I proposed to him at Machu Picchu last summer.\nWhat development tools are you using to develop Extrasolar?\nWe use quite the array of tools and platforms. The server code, which is responsible for maintaining the gamestate and responding to player actions, is written almost entirely in Python with a few small graphics routines in C++. We tend to do most of our server development and testing on OSX, but the live system runs on Linux with Amazon Web Services (AWS).\nThe client code, which forms the framework of the interactive UI for our players, is written in JavaScript and designed to work on any modern browser, including mobile browsers.\nFinally, the renderer is responsible for creating all the beautiful images that you see in the game. That's written in C++ using MS Visual Studio. All the renderer development is done in Windows and the live environment also runs in Windows on special AWS instances with nVidia GPUs.\nFor terrain generation, we used some third-party tools like GeoControl and bits of the C4 engine. I wrote custom code for generating procedural plant species and other meshes were modeled in Mudbox and Maya.\nIt looks like my earliest notes for the project go back to April 2010, so we're coming up on the four-year mark.\nAs I was out on a walk one day, I started thinking about how I'd love to bring high-end graphics to audiences that have never been exposed to them before. To do that, I'd probably need to render images in the cloud -- and to make that economically feasible, I'd probably really only be able to render one image at a time. So what kind of game might that be?\nThe answer seemed immediately obvious: space exploration! That's not so different from how NASA explores Mars.\nI pitched the idea to Brendan Mauro, who did all the artwork for Cogs. He was immediately sold. We dropped every other game concept that we'd been toying with and focused on a prototype for Extrasolar.\nHow did your love of ARGs mold the game into its current form?\nWhen we started development, I'd never heard of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), but when I pitched the concept to some friends at GDC, that acronym came up repeatedly. So I started my research and learned as much as I could.\nARG history doesn't actually go back that far. \"The Beast\", launched in 2001 in conjunction with Spielberg's movie A.I., is usually credited as the first ARG. These interactive experiences deliver unprecedented realism with stories that blur the line between fantasy and reality. But sadly, I had a tough time finding many non-sponsored ARGs that had run over long periods of time as a successful business model.\nWith Extrasolar, we set our sights on creating the emotional experience of an ARG in a form that's more accessible to a large audience -- a story that can be started at any time and played at any pace without having to be part of a huge community of puzzle solvers.\nYou're up for the Nuovo Award, which celebrates games that are rather unique and different to your average video game. Why do you think the judges picked Extrasolar as something a little \"out there\"?\nFrom within the first few minutes of signing up for Extrasolar, we throw some major surprises at our players. We do this to make it clear from the very beginning: Let go of your expectations. This isn't going to be like anything you've ever experienced.\nThroughout the development of Extrasolar, I was secretly terrified that along the way, someone would say, \"This is almost exactly like .\" But it never happened. Players have said that they're reminded of Myst or The Majestic. But everyone agrees that Extrasolar is something new. It really feels incredible to have that validated with a nomination for the Nuovo Award.\nYou've already been here before, up for nomination with Cogs back in 2010. Is there anything that you are taking from that experience with the IGF into this time, maybe tips you can give to other IGF finalists this year?\nWhen we didn't win any awards back in 2010, it made me that much more motivated to try again. And here we are! My biggest advice would just be to enjoy yourself. Connect with current and future fans, meet the other amazing developers, be inspired, and talk to people who intimidate you. It's your time to shine!\nWere there any design elements that you experimented with that simply didn't fit with your vision?\nTons. The mandatory delay in Extrasolar is very controversial and testers kept asking for ways to spend more time in the world that we'd created. So we discussed all sorts of mini-games, social mechanics, and microtransactions that players could use to do more. But everything we tried made the experience worse -- it felt contrived or broke the fiction. So we threw all of those ideas away and stuck to our core principle: Everything must support the fiction.\nHave you played any of the other IGF finalists? Any games you particularly enjoyed?\nI love Mushroom 11 and Gorogoa. Both have a really spectacular visual style and unique gameplay. And I can't wait to play Samorost 3. I've always been enormously inspired by the artwork of the Samorost series.\nIt is both an amazing and challenging time to be an indie -- amazing because the proliferation of tools are making it easier than ever to bring ideas to life; challenging because, with such a low barrier to entry, there is a flood of new indie games and it's harder than ever to rise to even modest commercial success. Despite these challenges, I think it's a golden era. Indies have finally earned a much-deserved spot in a mainstream spotlight -- and that's good for everyone.\n208805 newswire /view/news/208805/Road_to_the_IGF_Lazy_8_Studios_Extrasolar.php Loading Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 186, "original_length": 10998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 299.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gatr.com/products/2-4-antenna-system", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HEWOO5UE4CDHUDB562TUTL5STVUGE2NG", "length": 892, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.gatr.com", "title": "2.4 Meter Antenna System for C X and KU Bands from GATR Technologies Maker of Inflatable Mobile Satellite Systems", "raw_content": "The GATR 2.4 meter antenna system is GATR Technologies' flagship product. Unlike traditional rigid satellite dishes, a single-band solution of the GATR 2.4 meter antenna system can be packed into as few as two cases weighing less than 99 pounds each. A conventional rigid 2.4 meter portable system can weigh up to 1,000+ pounds and require 6-10 large cases. The GATR offers up to an up to 85% reduction in the overall size and volume between the two.\nThe 2.4 meter is the most popular version of the GATR antenna systems and is currently in use throughout the world. The 2.4 meter system is available in C-, X-, Ku-, and Ka-band configurations (WGS Certified X- and Ka-Bands).\nA flexible dish and radome design enables the transport of GATR's 2.4 meter single-band terminal in two cases, weighing less than 99 lbs. each, making it \"The Most Portable 2.4 Meter Satellite Antenna in the World.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 1788, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 287.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gautengsquash.co.za/leagues/hpp/hp-tips/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DEQKX6MSUN47T3LB5Q55SKNWSS7AYGCA", "length": 2043, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.gautengsquash.co.za", "title": "HP Tips | Central Gauteng Squash", "raw_content": "Long-distance running has its proverbial loneliness. As enjoyable as other exercises may be there remains that troublesome relationship between gain\nSquash, though, seems to be the way to get fit while having fun. To the uninitiated, a game calls for two players, in a white box otherwise known as a court, to smack a small, hot, black projectile against all four walls. And sometimes each other. The aim is to infuriate your partner by reaching every shot without moving from far from the central T painted in red on the court floor, while he or she runs madly from corner to corner before collapsing in a wet heap.\nTennis fans like to suggest that squash is for frustrated tennis players who just can\u2019t keep the ball in court. Ask the squash players and they\u2019ll tell you they like their racquet sports to be fast, furious and rowdy. If you prefer something more polite, they\u2019ll suggest, try tennis. What\u2019s to be gained from it, though?\nCardiovascular fitness and endurance, say the medical experts.\nA good game will have you running, leaping and diving for the ball. And probably very red in the face. You\u2019ll gain leg and butt strength. And the next day you\u2019ll feel the burn from lunging for the ball. You\u2019ll gain flexibility and strength in the back and abdomen from all those twists and turns.\nYou\u2019ll release stress. There\u2019s nothing like whacking a ball to get rid of any anger. Yet while squash develops speed, endurance, agility and co-ordination, the average length of of a match between two recreational players is just 40 minutes.\nBelieve it. Squash is one of the fastest and most athletic sports. Its popularity is due in large part to the intensively competitive workout it generates in a short time. It\u2019s the perfect sport for busy people.\nMore than 15-million men and women in 122 nations enjoy it and the numbers are increasing. The game can be mentally and physically toturous but at the end of the game you\u2019ll be satisfied, exhilirated. And probably a little tired.\nAnd In time, you\u2019ll be fit. And you\u2019ll have had a lot of fun.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 3911, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gazprom.com/press/news/2015/april/article224605/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:21Z", "digest": "sha1:63W4UJK4GYZMU36X4MCAQTHP44Y2D4SV", "length": 1240, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.gazprom.com", "title": "Gazprom and YPF sign Memorandum of Cooperation", "raw_content": "Gazprom and YPF sign Memorandum of Cooperation\nAlexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Miguel Galuccio, Chief Executive Officer of Argentine National Petroleum Company YPF signed a Memorandum of Cooperation in Moscow today.\nThe ceremony was held in the presence of Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of the Republic of Argentina.\nMiguel Galuccio, Vladimir Putin, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and Alexey Miller. Photo by RIA Novosti\nThe document stipulates the main areas of the future bilateral cooperation, including exploration, production and transmission of hydrocarbons in Argentina and third countries.\nYPF is the main oil and gas producer in Argentina, with a market share of more than 43%. It employs 74,000 people directly and indirectly. It operates three strategically located refineries in the country and a network of over 1500 service stations. YPF is the leader in all the segments of the industry (exploration, production, refinery, distribution and sales).\nIn 2013 Gazprom won an international tender for the supply of 15 LNG cargoes with a total volume of one million tons from Gazprom\u2019s portfolio to Argentina between 2014 and 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 10510, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 158.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.generationaldynamics.com/pg/ww2010.cs.gh.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:36Z", "digest": "sha1:HQBZ3TCGJ2GKMOCHMSDJM6HZOXY62OHQ", "length": 877, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.generationaldynamics.com", "title": "Ghana Generational Country Study -- Generational Dynamics", "raw_content": "Generational Country Study: Ghana\nCIA Fact Book: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gh.html\nUS State Dept.: http://www.state.gov/p/af/ci/gh/\nLibrary of Congress: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/ghtoc.html\nGoogle: http://www.google.com/search?q=Ghana\nGoogle news: http://news.google.com/news?q=Ghana\nGoogle books: http://books.google.com/books?q=Ghana\nFree Google books: http://books.google.com/books?as_brr=1&q=Ghana\nYahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Ghana\n-- Ghana: Resistance to British -- ?1887-1902\nUN Humanitarian Profile: http://www.irinnews.org/Africa-Country.aspx?Country=GH\nNational Geographic Music Profile: http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/country/content.country/ghana_19\nKidon Media Link: http://www.kidon.com/media-link/gh.php\nWikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghana\nCountry Flag for Ghana", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 204.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.geniustextiles.com/company-information.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:59Z", "digest": "sha1:WBPGZT2VZHH2V25OQ2C7653GI25PTHPP", "length": 946, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.geniustextiles.com", "title": "Woven interlining manufacturer,non woven interlining supplier,woven interlining trader,India \",a.firstChild&&typeof a.firstChild.getAttribute!=\"undefined\"&&a.firstChild.getAttribute(\"href\")!==\"#\"&&(o.attrHandle.href=function(a){return a.getAttribute(\"href\",2)}),a=null}(),c.querySelectorAll&&function(){var a=m,b=c.createElement(\"div\"),d=\"__sizzle__\";b.innerHTML=\"", "raw_content": "Being quality oriented organization, we always pay our maximum attention towards the quality of products. That is why, our company trades international standard quality products that stand high on customers' expectations. All the products provided by us are widely appreciated by customers for their unmatched quality. unique and contemporary designs. With an objective to delight our esteemed customers.\nWith a motto to ensure safe and well managed storage of products, we have developed capacious warehousing facility. Our warehouse is backed by all requisite facilities that facilitate the storage process. This is segregated into various sections so that we could store products in a systematic manner. For doing so, all the sections have been labeled properly according to the types of products. 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There are many such films which are far more deficient in certain aspects; here, the location is great, the acting is passable and the staging and cinematography are generally decent. However, the film is utterly devoid of anything whatsoever to make it noteworthy. Unless you count its overwhelming blandness, which I don't.\nA year after the death of his wife Helen, which he believes happened after he threw her from a balcony while blackout drunk, Oliver Bromfield returns to his country mansion with his new wife, Ruth, in tow. Oliver's widowed stepmother, who is in love with him, and his loner stepsister, who was in love with Helen, offer a welcome that could be generously described as 'cool' to the lovebirds. Cracks show in the marriage almost immediately, as Oliver suffers from nightmares about his wife's death, and Ruth suspects that the official line, that Helen fell after suffering a dizzy spell, may not be true. After a loooong build up, we get a few murders towards the end, followed by the least-surprising reveal of all time. And that's your lot.\nThe aforementioned reveal really does take the breath away. (Prepare for spoilers.) In some ways it did surprise me, because having the most obvious suspect turn out to be the killer (seriously, if you've made a casual guess as to their identity based on the above synopsis, you're correct) is definitely an unusual approach to a mystery film. There isn't even an ulterior or alternate motive offered, which would retroactively imbue what we've seen with some sort of depth and hitherto obscured meaning; it's all so mind-numbingly straightforward. The first dialogue scene in the film, which is between Oliver and his horny stepmom, takes place directly after his wife's funeral and contains all the material you'll need to construct the key which unlocks this mystery. (This scene was excised from the Spanish version, which would at least heighten the chances of the running time hitting double digits before the viewer knows all.)\nI did briefly consider whether this was a clever double-bluff, a la Eyeball's approach of offering up every single character as a suspect at one point or another, but I genuinely don't think that was the case. One neat touch which I did like was the roll-call of still images of the remaining suspects after each murder (we begin with 5, and end up with 3). The killer is slap bang in the middle of this list every time. A couple of characters-Oliver's new wife Ruth, and the doctor who certified Helen's death an accident-aren't included in the list of suspects, which would have made their being the guilty party/parties a neat twist, with the stylistic flourish of the stills playing an active role in the film's presentation, and obfuscation, of the mystery. But no such luck. The killer is right there, hiding in plain sight. Or rather, acting extremely suspiciously in plain sight, and being proffered as one of the main suspects by the filmmakers.\nOf course, there's a chance that we were meant to pick up on Ruth and the doctor's exclusion from the list of suspects, which would back up the theory of the solution being an attempt to bamboozle the audience into overlooking the most obvious suspect. I myself suspect, however, that I'm giving them altogether too much credit with this line of theorising.\nTo briefly expound on more of the film's flaws, Ruth's suspicions regarding her husband develop literally overnight, after he mumbles incoherently in his sleep while having a nightmare. (It is refreshing to have the tormented soul struggling with the boundaries of reality being a male character; most housebound horrors favour females for such roles.) She immediately decides that he's lying about his ex's death, and takes off to see the local doctor. He, showing shockingly little disregard for confidentiality, or his licence, admits to having falsified the death report, which claimed that Helen had suffered from regular dizzy spells in the run up to her death. This lazy scene, apart from a few brief conversations Ruth has with the gardener and housekeeper, account for the sum total of the investigative angle of the film. It also precludes Ruth and the doc from having being in league together (although it doesn't absolve them separately; we know the doctor's been complicit in covering up a murder-even if he thinks he's just protecting Oliver-and Ruth's 'investigation' could be designed to throw fresh suspicion on her husband, whose estate she's conveniently in prime position to inherit).\nThere's occasional nudity, which is often provided by garishly-lit body doubles, and some classic lesbianism-as-imagined-by-a-man. There's some of the worst poor man's process (where actors are filmed in a stationary car which is rocked slightly to simulate movement) you've ever seen. The murders aren't anything special, nor is the soundtrack. In fact, as stated above, nothing is special. You spend most of the running time searching for hidden meaning or hidden depths, only for the end reveal to confirm that yes, the film is actually that straightforward. Maybe that's the biggest twist of all, or a satire on how we continually search for deeper meaning in life, only to ignore its nuts and bolts.\nMaybe it's not though; maybe it's just a pretty shit giallo.\nPS Jose Larraz, who was responsible for some of the most atmospheric housebound horror films of the 70s, had a hand in the script. Given his films' preference for style and atmosphere over plot, it might have made sense for him to direct this, given the lack of all three in the end product. Or maybe someone who can construct plots could have written it.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 6354, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.girlclumsy.com/2009/03/getting-joke.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:40Z", "digest": "sha1:VH3RHNJLKPQFUKFPA2LW6CVUNELCJYZ6", "length": 5585, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.girlclumsy.com", "title": "The Bruising Adventures of Girl Clumsy: Getting \"The Joke\"", "raw_content": "Getting \"The Joke\"\nI had the great delight today to indulge my inner journalism geek at a day-long symposium at Brisbane's Powerhouse Theatre.\nYes, that's right. A symposium. Girl Clumsy is moving up in the world.\nThe invitation came from my old alma mater UQ, and the subject was impossible to resist for anyone who likes to peer deep into the dark side of human nature: Twenty Years After Fitzgerald - Did They Get The Joke?\nFor those of you not in Australia, you should know that the great state of Queensland was presided over for almost 20 years by a Lutheran peanut farmer from Kingaroy named Johannes Bjelke-Petersen. Sir Joh's likes included power, gerrymandering and false piety. His dislikes included civil protest, condom vending machines in universities, unions and journalists. For commentary so sharp you'll need to wear chain mail, I direct you to this copied version of John Birmingham's obituary for Sir Joh.\nJoh resigned in 1987, after it became apparent the wheels had well and truly fallen off the gravy train that was his government. By that time, lawyer Tony Fitzgerald had been appointed to head up a judicial inquiry into systemic corruption and abuse of power within the police force and political sphere. \"The Joke\", as it was known. The Fitzgerald Inquiry report was tabled in state parliament 20 years ago; and its recommendations implemented \"lock, stock and barrel\". Queensland - while nowhere near perfect - is a better place because of it.\nToday's symposium featured many of the journalists whose reports exposed the corruption and hypocrisy of the era: Phil Dickie, Quentin Dempster and Chris Masters, as well as other news people from the era and academics. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed their stories, and their insights into what the life of an investigative journalist was like at that time. I would have dearly liked to have introduced myself to some of them; but an overwhelming sense of inferiority washed over me.\nThere were a couple of other highlights: Courier-Mail cartoonist Sean Leahy presented a slide show of some of his caricatures of Joh, Russ Hinze, Terry Lewis and other notorious figures of the day. He even drew a picture of Joh, starting with the peanut-shaped head, adding the banana armband and jackboots, and drawing a halo into Joh's hand, as if he were about to place it over his own head. Then, just as you thought he was finished, he quickly flashed his marker pen, and drew a forked tail protruding from Joh's backside. The Devil is in the Detail, after all.\nThe greatest surprise though was seeing a bloke named Geoff, a creative writer and voiceover artist at Austereo. I hadn't seen him for years, and we had a catch-up over a Corona at lunch (he bought me a Coke; filthy non-drinker I am). One of the afternoon sessions was with an ABC producer who was responsible for the famous \"re-enactments\" the 7:30 Report used to do to spice up their Fitzgerald coverage (cameras not being allowed in the courts). He ran through the process, and showed a clip of the day Jack \"The Bagman\" Herbert appeared. He then moved ahead to Sir Joh's own appearance, and described the actor they found to play the Premier as \"the best Joh ever\".\nThe clip rolled. The actor was wearing a white-gray wig and beige suit, but the face was instantly recognisable.\nI turned to Geoff sitting next to me.\nI turned back to the screen to double check.\nI turned back to Geoff, reached out, and slapped him on the arm. \"Get out!\" I whispered loudly. \"I had NO idea!\"\nHe just grinned sheepishly, but the producer's call for him to stand to receive a round of applause for his impersonation confirmed it. I got the story out of him later - he was working for a travel bureau back in '88, and somebody (possibly Sarina Russo) had seen him in some sort of play, and recommended him to the ABC producers looking for acting talent. Bang, there is his, Sir Joh-ing it up! Now it became clear exactly why he was there. What a great coincidence.\nSo, journalism. A marvellous craft, and the people who practice it important guardians of public interest and open democracy. Seminars like today reinforce the need for investment in good journalism; as it's one of the few checks we can have on those in power. It's not perfect, but damn, it's still worth it.\nClumsy Categories: freakin' geeky, journalism\nDan 9:27 AM, March 08, 2009\nMy strongest memories of the time were of it being normal to have your electricity rationed thanks to Sir Joh. It'd go off like clockwork each night depending where you were in Brisbane. People watched the news for details in the same way we watch the weather.\nIt was a bit like being in the blitz.\nThere was a wonderful play at La Boite a couple of years back, based in Fitzgerald times; \"Last Drinks\", I think. Did you catch it?\nLawrence Lyons 10:41 AM, August 30, 2011\nEvolution of a sneering remark:\nThere is a misconception in the media and academia that the situation as opposed to the people involved in corruption was originally so named \u201cThe Joke\u201d. This is because the dishonest made claim to the expression as their own, before and from the witness box so as to say that what they were doing was a \u2018Joke\u2019 upon all others not involved.\nBecause of this they caused their listeners to misconceive the meaning and therefore to miss the point of the remark entirely.\nThe point being that every instance of a corrupt system of things has members that bear a name by which they become known by. Names and symbols delineate people into groups and in some cases those of the group manufacture signals that they keep secret.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 9628, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/why-everybodys-wrong-about-the-g-spot/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:TYHL7ZVZSX4Q3PZI6ECXKEA7BRTJIJG5", "length": 3395, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.gizmodo.co.uk", "title": "Why Everybody's Wrong About the G-Spot | Gizmodo UK", "raw_content": "Why Everybody's Wrong About the G-Spot\nThe female G-spot is a much-discussed phenomenon. For every anecdotal report of its existence, there's a denier. Sadly, for once science doesn't really seem to help settle the matter either, with plenty of past reports suggesting its existence or otherwise. Today, the internet is awash with reports that a new study proves the G-spot is real \u2014 but should we believe it?\nThe G-Spot Exists...\nThe study in question, called G-Spot Anatomy: A New Discovery, appears in The Journal of Sexual Medicine and was conducted by Adam Ostrzenski, director of the Institute of Gynecology in St Petersburg. It claims to shed some real light on the existence of the G-spot, through dissection of a cadaver's vaginal wall. From New Scientist:\n\"He found a clearly defined sac in a layer between the vagina and the urethra close to the perineal membrane. The sac was around 16 millimetres from the upper part of the urethral opening. At less than a centimetre long, it was positioned at a 35-degree angle to the urethra... Inside the sac Ostrzenski found a \"worm-like\" structure with three distinct regions that broadly \"resemble erectile tissue \u2013 normally found in areas such as the clitoral body\".\"\nThis is enough to see many media outlets getting excited over the fact the G-spot finally exists. But woah, steady there. First, Adam Ostrzenski has a vested interest in proving the existence of female G-Spot: he runs a Cosmetic Gynaecology practice that offers \"g-spot fat augmentation\" and \"g-spot surgical augmentation\". According to Improbable Research, he's also filed law suits against other academics because they disagree with him.\nThat's not enough to mean we should ignore his research though: it's a new and interesting study, which should have us ponder on the existence of the G-spot.\n...Unless It Doesn't...\nIndeed, plenty of other academics already are thinking long and hard about its existence, which is why there is \u2014 in the same issue of the same journal as Ostrzenski's research is published \u2014 a review paper collating evidence on both sides of the G-spot argument. It concludes that the evidence \"failed to provide strong and consistent evidence for the existence of an anatomical site related to the G spot.\"\nSigh. Two research papers, with completely conflicting opinions, in the same damn journal.\n...But Does It Matter Either Way?\nAmidst all this G-Spot madness, there are three main takeaways.\nFirst, the The Journal of Sexual Medicine is, arguably, keen to get as much media coverage as possible. Nothing wrong with that, as such, but it does mean that you and I have to read bullshit reports in the mass media that don't actually present the whole truth.\nSecond, the jury is still out. A review of old research is compelling, sure, but new studies like Ostrzenski's \u2014 dubious undertones aside \u2014 are what challenge and change our understanding of science. Based on the work to date, we just can't say one way or the other if the G-spot exists, but one day we might.\nAnd third? We should all quit worrying about the G-spot too much. Seriously. Sexual gratification doesn't rely on the presence or otherwise of the female G-spot. It relies on being relaxed, with a partner you're comfortable with, and having fun. Yes? Yes? Yes! [New Scientist, Dr Petra, Improbable Research, and The Journal of Sexual Medicine]\nImage credit: Girl from Shutterstock", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 4698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 260.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.glendalehouse.co.uk/pages/area.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:43Z", "digest": "sha1:NASMWM4ODSZIWQUZYSO6YSSGQX7Z5B7H", "length": 6645, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "www.glendalehouse.co.uk", "title": "Things to do around Goathland", "raw_content": "There are lots of things to do around Goathland. It is an ideal base from which to explore further afield. Whitby, Pickering, Scarborough and York are all within very easy reach. Eden Camp, Castle Howard and Flamingoland are no more than half an hour away. There are many events throughout the year, including the Wartime Weekend, the Tall Ships race, Egton Show and Castle Howard's \"Proms Spectacular\". Glendale House is also a good place from which to follow the Captain Cook trail, and all the places of interest, from his birth place, to Whitby (where he sailed from), are no more than 45 minutes away. These are photographs of some of the places that are within easy reach of Goathland. For a comprehensive list of events for 2011 - follow the link at the bottom of this page.\nWhitby, Robin Hoods Bay, Runswick Bay, Ravenscar, Pickering, Thornton-le-Dale,\nEden Camp, York Hutton-le-Hole, Castle Howard, Flamingoland, Dalby Forest.\nWhitby (15 minutes from Glendale House)\nWhitby is a historic fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast, about 7 miles from Goathland. From the old town, the alleyways and narrow cobbled streets lead to the 199 steps, then up to St. Hilda's Church and Whitby Abbey. This is the area that was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's \"Dracula\", and Count Dracula is said to be buried in the graveyard. Captain James Cook sailed from Whitby, and a replica of one of his ships, the Bark Endeavour, is often berthed in Whitby harbour.\nRobin Hoods Bay (25 minutes from Glendale House)\nThe ancient fishing village of Robin Hoods Bay, lies 5 miles south of Whitby. The village is built on a steep hill, and is a maze of tiny streets and alleyways, with little stone cottages piled on top of one another. Robin Hoods Bay, once a smuggling port, still has fishing boats, but the pubs and craft shops make it attractive to tourists.\nRunswick Bay (30 minutes from Glendale House)\nThe quaint little village of Runswick Bay, with its white painted cottages, and neat gardens,sits in one of the most beautiful bays on the Yorkshire coast, fringed with golden sands. Take the time to wander through the narrow passages, and maybe sit with a quiet drink outside the pub, overlooking the bay. Although the village only has 40 full time residents, it is a popular village in the summer, but in the winter it is a haven of peace and tranquility.\nRavenscar (30 minutes from Glendale House)\nRavenscar is a tiny village that sits on the cliffs over one of the most spectacular bays along the coast. This stretch of coast is renowned for its rich fossil beds and ammonites and belemnites are often found on the beach. Ravenscar is also home to the Peak Fault \u2013 a major geological fault that has affected the shape of the landscape. For anyone willing to make the trek 600 feet down the cliff path, you may be rewarded by the sight of a colony of seals. Be warned though ...... it's a 600 foot climb back up.\nPickering / Thornton le Dale (25 minutes from Glendale House)\nPickering is a historic market town on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, just a short drive (about 14 miles) or a steam train ride from Goathland. Pickering Castle and the Beck Isle Museum are both well worth a visit, and the town has a good selection of shops and cafes. Nearby Thornton-le-Dale was once voted the prettiest village in Yorkshire.\nEden Camp (25 minutes from Glendale House)\nThis is no ordinary Museum - they have reconstructed scenes using movement, lighting, sound, smells, even smoke machines to transport you back in time to the second World War, to make you feel that you are there taking part in history. Eden Camp Museum is an original Prisoner of War Camp built in 1942.\nHutton-le-Hole (30 minutes from Glendale House)\nHutton-le-hole is a beautiful little village on the Yorkshire Moors between Castleton and Kirkbymoorside. The village has a pub, a gift shop and sweet shop, and is home to the Ryedale Folk Museum. The Museum is set in 3 acres, and there are rescued or reconstructed historic buildings including, shops, thatched cruck cottages, Elizabethan manor house, barns and workshops.\nCastle Howard (35 minutes from Glendale House)\nThe stunning 18th century historic stately home, its beautiful gardens and lake, are well worth a visit. The house is open to the public, and there is a Farm Shop, Plant Centre, Chocolate Shop, Gift Shops and Bookshop. A choice of four caf\u00e9s, including the award-winning Courtyard Caf\u00e9, serve refreshments and meals throughout the day. In the summer, you can take a boat trip on the lake, and there is a a very good children's adventure playground.\nYork (50 minutes from Glendale House)\nYork is a beautiful city with all the modern facilities you would expect, but also steeped in history. It is one of the few cities to have its medi-eval walls still almost intact. The walls, which are 3 miles long, encircle the city, and have four gates (or bars) which are the original entrances to the city. You can walk the entire length of the walls. The city has museums, including the National Railway Museum, Castle Museum and Jorvik Centre.\nFlamingoland (30 minutes from Glendale House)\nThe UK's only Theme Park, Zoo and Holiday Park all on one site. There are dozens of rides for children and families. White knuckle rides include: \"Velocity\" \"Mumbo Jumbo\" a six million pound rollercoaster called Kumali, and the newest one - \"Hero\".\nDalby Forest (30 minutes from Glendale House)\nDalby Forest is situated in the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, and contains a network of forest roads, including the beautiful 9 mile Dalby Forest Drive. The forest has BBQ / picnic areas and childrens adventure play grounds, a lake, visitor's centre, a cafe and shops. Activities include walking, cycling,and horse riding, and for the more adventurous:- the award winning high wire forest adventure course \"Go Ape\", and a spuperb off-roading course at \"Langdale Quest\". The forest also stages outdoor concerts during the summer.\nDalby visitor's centre\nCycling in the forest\nGo Ape (High Wire Adventure Course)\nGo Ape (Dalby Forest)\nLangdale Quest Off-Roading Course\nTo see panoramic photographs of Goathland, click here!\nFor a comprehensive list of events for 2015 click here!\nNorth Yorkshire Moors Railway.\nFlowergate Photo Gallery\nGo Ape High Wire Adventure Course\nLangdale Quest Off-Roading Adventure\nPaintballing with David and Nick\nNukin' with Obama\nhome | house | rooms | rates | goathland | directions | heartbeat1 | heartbeat 2 |heartbeat 3 | heartbeat 4 | heartbeat slideshow | harry potter\nwartime w/e | steam trains | the area | events | winter | calendar | panoramas | videos | Captain Cook | Book", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 7155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.globalbx.com/a_Letter-Of-Intent-LOI-Buying-Business-Commercial-Property.asp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:35Z", "digest": "sha1:WA3JJTT32OBLFXGNCZHY4ZGJ2A3XSBM3", "length": 3230, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.globalbx.com", "title": "Letter Of Intent (LOI) When Buying A Business Or Commercial Property | GlobalBX", "raw_content": "Letter Of Intent (LOI) When Buying A Business Or Commercial Property\nA letter of intent (LOI) is an essential document when the purchase of a business or commercial property is being considered. Simply stated it is a relatively short document that details a purchaser's intention to buy a business or commercial property and outlines a variety of details that are involved in the potential purchase. Typically, the LOI is a non-binding agreement, but it would be prudent to outline some potential escapes if information is revealed that would prevent the eventual sale. The letter of intent can be used to accomplish several objectives.\nIt signifies an intention to buy, while not legally obligating the potential purchaser.\nIt enables the potential purchaser to obtain information about the business or commercial property in a more formal atmosphere than a simple conversation or discussion.\nIt should include a provision that further discussions with other potential purchasers are forbidden and therefore ties up the property for further analysis. Normally this provision is for a period of 90 days.\nIt provides a basis for further in-depth discussions about the purchase prior to the completion of a formal sales contract.\nIt signifies that there is a degree of seriousness about the potential purchase other than just a simple inquiry.\nIt provides some insight into the flexibility of the seller to be amenable to specific sale terms and conditions.\nIt includes provisions that can be incorporated into the binding formal sales contract, which saves fees for work performed by lawyers.\nThe following provisions as a minimum should be included in the LOI:\nThe purchase price which should include the down payment and any detailed financing arrangements that are part of the sale.\nA description of the property and a listing of the assets that are being sold and it should address any exceptions that are negotiated. It should also address any receivables and how they are to be handled.\nA confidentiality agreement that prohibits each party from disclosing the potential sale or any information that is revealed during the negotiations.\nAs previously mentioned, the LOI should prohibit negotiations with another party concerning any potential sale for a set period of time.\nAn agreement that prohibits the seller from entering into any business that would directly compete with the business that is for sale.\nAny contingencies that would prevent the deal from going forward, such as the lack of the seller being able to negotiate acceptable financing or any subsequent disclosures that would place the price or worth of the property or business in question.\nAn agreement that the potential purchaser will assume any expenses incurred by the seller in completing the LOI even if the potential sale is not consummated.\nThere are obvious advantages for the buyer to insure that a letter of intent is completed as soon as it becomes apparent that the likely sale of a business or commercial property will take place. The LOI serves to secure the confidentiality of the potential transaction and provides time for the potential purchaser to insure that business or commercial property is actually worth the proposed selling price.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 6324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gmfus.org/blog/2018/02/09/how-start-startup", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:29Z", "digest": "sha1:N27YBM3MGZNRYKUBS4Z5JYMIHWGOOGRG", "length": 6320, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.gmfus.org", "title": "How to Start a Startup | The German Marshall Fund of the United States", "raw_content": "In my home country of Ukraine, corruption is the single biggest obstacle to the nation\u2019s economic and social development. For this reason, it was life-changing for me to see how the U.S. government supports young entrepreneurs and the startup ecosystem, not only in the United States but worldwide. Somehow my life and work has always kept me in touch with the United States, first as an exchange student at MIT and most recently as fellow of the Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative, which was kindly funded by the U.S. Department of State and organized by The German Marshall Fund of the United States.\nMy preconceived notion that politics and business are completely separate entities that cannot cooperate or support one another was completely dissolved when I saw how it works in the United States. Through the course of a number of meetings with top U.S. government officials and prominent business leaders, I saw first-hand that politics and business not only can but must work together.\nThe key to efficient cooperation is the ability to listen and understand each other on an ongoing basis. I was truly impressed how efficiently and diligently the U.S. government was in supporting the startup ecosystem and how well they were informed of the numerous challenges startup entrepreneurs face. Without this continuous dialogue and synergy, it is extremely hard to maximize the economic potential and the human resources potential. The misconception that politicians and businessmen and women speak different languages turned out to be simply not true. On the contrary, while the functions of one and the other are very different and at times contradictory (one regulating the other), the solution is to convert the word \u201ccontradictory\u201d to \u201ccomplementary.\u201d I guess it is easier said than done, but one thing remains true \u2014 once you see how the U.S. system works, you will know that while it is very difficult to quickly make all the needed changes in Ukraine, it is possible. This is the main message I left with. Within my personal network and professional abilities, I plan to play my small part in building out the future of Ukraine.\nThe three-week program included a trip to Washington, DC and to Salt Lake City, Utah that I will never forget. It was packed with amazing events, trainings, and unique meetings with exceptional people. The first few days in Washington, DC were the most inspirational, rewarding, and busiest days of my life. GMF organized a series of amazing hands-on training and masterclasses, introduced us to the U.S. startup ecosystem, as well as to many business and political leaders of this truly amazing nation.\nAs any young starting entrepreneur, you have more questions than answers on how to start a business, and how to grow it in an efficient, fast, and sustainable way. These are not subjects one can learn in even the best universities of the world. However, during those few days in DC, all of my questions and concerns were addressed in full. By the time we left for Salt Lake City, I knew exactly what needed to be done. I was ready to get my hands dirty in order to build my new business venture. When starting a new business, each case is unique and each entrepreneur will need to answer some basic questions from the start. I had four questions:\n1. When Should I Start Raising Money?\nI was advised not to raise money at the start when all I had was the business idea. As a developer, by trying to build a minimal viable product (MVP) I have learned so much about the best technologies to use for my product, which would not be possible if I would have hired someone else from day one. Second, as I was building the MVP, I tested it with a small group of early adopters, whose feedback significantly improved the product and my business model. Once that part of the job was complete, I could go out and start to raise money, with a better business plan, an MVP, and grasp of the market. My chance of raising money, and from best investors, has significantly improved.\n2. Who Should I Take Money From?\nWhen you are ready to raise external funds, be very cautious with your future investors. Look for smart money, as well as industry expertise. This was especially important in my case, as my industry is extremely niche. Investors are not just about money, they should be your partners and best friends likely for the next four to five years, so choose them wisely. Also, when you start raising money, and you have your list of 10 to 20 potential investors, start with at the bottom and work your way up the list to those top 1 to 3 investors who you think would be the best. Do not be scared of rejection, each investor meeting is a valuable experience to a starting entrepreneur, so use those \u201cso-so\u201d investors to train you before you enter the room with your dream investors, and nail that meeting.\n3. How Can I Prove Product-Market Fit?\nThis part is unique to each business, but I have a few take-aways from my fellowship: Narrow the product/service focus \u2014 it is always tempting to offer everything, but you need to start with literally just one thing. Second, try to narrow your market geography \u2014 you can and should aim big (like addressing the whole U.S. market), but this will not happen on day one, so start with Salt Lake City, Utah and get a solid product-market fit there, before scaling.\n4. How Should I Assess and Track My Progress?\nWell, the answer is data, data, and data again. You must keep track of every number that goes through your business, be it the number of page view, conversions, users (daily/monthly), sales, sales per user, LTV, CAC, churn rate, retention rate, and many more terms you should know and track on a regular basis. In business, gut feeling is good, but real numbers tell you exactly what is happening and what you are doing wrong. Never forget, that a startup is a continuously running experiment as you are testing many different things until you find that winning formula which will enable you to build a big and profitable business.\nUpon completion of the trip, I had a minimal viable product ready, a detailed action plan on how to launch my startup, a strong network in both Washington and SLC, and a few potential investors who were keen to take a look at my startup after the launch. A success to say the least.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 8309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.gmsciencedebate.org.uk/report/comment/00040.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:42Z", "digest": "sha1:D5FOGCD4QYAIHFJN3EDGYKKAFIGC3EJV", "length": 6779, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.gmsciencedebate.org.uk", "title": "GM Science Review - Comments on First Report | GM Science Debate", "raw_content": "Name: Emma Overton Location (optional): Date: 13 October 2003\nPlease find my comments attached.\nGeneral Comments on GM Science Review\nI would like to emphasise that I am a private individual with no scientific background. I am commenting on this report because I think it's extremely important that the public have a say in the future of food production and consumption because of its tremendous impact on human health and the environment. In general I found the report's bias towards GMOs extremely alarming; the assurances given of GMO's safety and benefits are multiple, whilst the arguments against it are infrequently acknowledged and given little voice. The report reads as if the government has already made its decision in favour of GM. However, since I have not yet completely lost my faith in democracy, I would like to exercise my right as a citizen to participate in what I hope against hope, is still a debate, and not a fete a compli.\nThe report's bias is immediately evident in its attempt to portray genetic engineering as an extension of traditional breading methods; for example, on page 56, it is claimed that the 'widely accepted view within the biological research and plant breeding community is that there are many parallels in the properties of plants produced by GM and non-GM plant breeding methods'. Firstly, I would like to challenge the assumption that this is a widely held view, other than within the biotechnology industry. Secondly, the report underplays the difference between traditional and genetic engineering breading techniques when in fact genetic engineering is significantly different from traditional breeding methods. The report seeks to equate GM and non-GM products by emphasizing that there are uncertainties with both, and by making little mention of the wealth of scientific opinion which has severe reservations about GM technologies, sometimes appearing to have added more cautious attitudes as an after thought.\nThe report glosses over the fact that the outcome of genetic engineering is inherently random, disruptive and unpredictable and that testing procedures do not take into account the multifunction of genes, failing to recognise that a gene may be safe in its original organism but not within a GMO. Genes can and do move out of GMOs and enter other organisms, including the human gut. The report claims that risks are the same between GM and non-GM products (see for example page 72), but this is simply not true; genetic engineering crosses boundaries that would otherwise never be crossed. Further, side effects are not always obvious or identifiable, and not always eliminated before growth or sale. In the US, there have been many examples of unexpected effects being found in plants after they have been approved. The report glosses over the wildly unpredictable effects of GM, and focuses instead on GM's alleged positive effects, citing for example the 'second generation' GM crops under development which claim to have improved characteristics, in terms of safety or enhanced nutritional properties (page 62). The report emphasises the supposed 'increased levels of health promoting factors' in some GM crops, intimating that the report's writers see GM products very much as the way forward (page 62). But what about organics which already have health benefits and which the public have demonstrated that they are keen to buy? By contrast, the public has clearly indicated its distrust of, and lack of desire to purchase GMOs. Again, insufficient weight was given to consumer feeling, or to scientific opinion outside the biotechnology community.\nThe report notes that 'many millions of tonnes of GM crops have been produced and consumed internationally over the past eight years without any substantiated evidence of harm when compared with non-GM crops' (page 53). It further states that 'the extent of production and consumption of GM food over the last seven years and the lack of any convincing evidence of verifiable untoward toxic or nutritional effects resulting from its consumption, provides a measure of confidence in its safety when compared with the safety of other novel or non-GM foods' (page 62). If there is a lack of convincing evidence for harm, this is because there is a lack of research into the effects of GM. Firstly, the report fails to note that routine trialing for unexpected effects is not required before GMOs are sold/grown. There is a major shortage of independent and peer reviewed research on health effects, and the government has mainly relied on company data which is not peer reviewed or published. There is a clear lack of transparency and accountability here and a willingness to accept and utilise 'evidence' provided by biotechs which would not be acceptable to the wider academic community. Unsurprisingly the biotechs themselves often find that their products have no negative effects, yet when other scientists look more closely, negative effects are often to be found. Secondly, there have been no epidemiological studies to support the fact that there have been no negative effects from years of GM consumption. Thus to claim that there is no substantial evidence of harm without mentioning that there has been a lack of independent research is, in itself, misleading. The grudging admissions that are made regarding the lack of thorough study in this area e.g. on page 73 it is mentioned that 'at present there are no post-marketing surveillance systems for GM foods in place in any country' are not enough, when compared with the amount of space given over to the claims that GM is 'at least as safe as conventional food' (page 72). As for 'a measure of confidence', the public have clearly demonstrated that they have no confidence in GMOs or in the government's and biotech's assurances of safety.\nIn summary, genetic engineering introduces many random hazards, and the limited level of scientific knowledge means that risk assessment and control measures cannot be reliably designed. Currently, it seems that decisions on the safety of GMOs and the necessary control measures are often not being made on the basis of science, but on assumptions and industry opinion. Many scientists are concerned that GM crops could cause unpredictable and possibly serious impacts on health and the environment. The way in which genetic engineering is being introduced into food production is unnecessary and unsound. There are many good solutions to the problems of agriculture which involve far less risk and uncertainty, and offer clear and substantial benefits. Investment should be preferentially directed at these solutions, and in particular towards greater support for organic and small-scale food production. The report does nothing to address any of the issues.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 7132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.graduatingengineer.com/articles/20060207/Aeronautical-Engineers", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IM5WHKUHNPOLJBJYYUHSWI2DPC3QZ6LH", "length": 16586, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "www.graduatingengineer.com", "title": "Graduating Engineer \u00bb Articles \u00bb Aeronautical Engineers", "raw_content": "Name: Brett L. Anderson\nCompany: Integrated Defense Systems, The Boeing Company\nJob Title: Director of Technology, Tools and Processes, NASA Systems\nEducation & University: BS Aerospace Engineering,\nIowa State University;\nMBA, Wichita State University\nAnderson joined The Boeing Company at their Everett, Wash. location in 1989. Since 1989 he has worked for Boeing Commercial Aircraft, Integrated Defense Systems and Phantom Works. He is currently assigned to Boeing NASA Systems as the director of technology, tools and processes. He is responsible for supporting the efforts of over 7,800 employees working on the Space Shuttle Program, the International Space Station, and the exciting new programs under the Vision for Space Exploration.\nThe Vision for Space Exploration calls for an affordable \"stepping stone\" strategy of human and robotic missions to achieve new exploration goals of returning humans to the Moon and journeying to Mars and beyond. Anderson coordinates with internal and external technology experts to identify short- and long-term roadmaps to match business needs with strategic direction for technology development and business opportunities.\nAnderson is a Fellow of the Society of Allied Weight Engineers (SAWE) and an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He received the National SAWE Ed Payne Award for outstanding young engineer in 1999. Anderson was granted his mechanical engineering license in 1999. He is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and an active team member for the Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (ABET) for Engineering colleges with Aerospace curriculums.\nName: Catherine M. Downen\nCompany: Raytheon Aircraft Company\nJob Title: Manager, Technology and Contracted Research\nEducation & University: BS and MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas\nUpon graduating with her MS in aerospace engineering, Downen was hired at the Raytheon Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kan., and she has worked there for more than nine years. Downen started out as a nacelle designer on a new aircraft program, the Premier I, which is an entry-level business jet, and she spent about six months designing the housing that surrounds the engine.\nHer true interest from school was aerodynamics, so Downen looked for other opportunities within Raytheon and transferred into the aerodynamics group. She did wind tunnel testing, flight testing, and other aerodynamic analysis on the Premier I program until it was certified with the FAA. Throughout her six years on that program, she gained more experience and responsibility in the group, until she was the lead aero engineer on the program.\nDwnen is very involved in the AIAA, and she has been elected to the position of vice president of member services. She also participated in a leadership development program for engineers sponsored by Raytheon.\nBLA: I've been with Boeing for over 15 years in a wide variety of assignments. This job is relatively new and I've been doing it for a little over a year now. My primary responsibilities are to identify and develop technology, process and tools that maintain or improve our ability to support programs that provide our customers with technically excellent products.\nI've also been active on some proposal teams, recently managing multiple leading edge technology development programs in support of a Boeing proposal for a long duration, nuclear powered spacecraft utilizing electric propulsion.\nI'm currently involved in several programs that support the Vision for Space Exploration, as announced by the president on Jan. 14, 2004. These are exciting and challenging projects that really represent the best of what [Boeing] can do.\nCMD: I have worked at Raytheon Aircraft Company for over nine years. After the Premier I program, I joined the Preliminary Design group at Raytheon Aircraft. In that department, I act as a manager and engineer for several research projects we conduct to investigate new technologies in aerospace. One of the most fun projects I have worked on in that group is the design of a supersonic business jet that has a \"quiet\" supersonic boom. Someday, designers will be able to build a supersonic jet that does not produce the loud \"boom\" that resulted in restrictions in supersonic overland flight.\nBLA: The people and the job are fun. I have the opportunity and responsibility to look over the needs for our current and future programs and help [my team] determine what technology or tools need to be available to make us successful. I get to work with the smartest people, doing the most exciting technical work and help everyone figure out how to package [our products] as solutions for our customers. I've always felt that I've had some great jobs within Boeing, but I honestly don't think that anything can top my current assignment.\nOne of the reasons I took this job was that I could see a renewed interest and vigor in our space program. Space exploration is one of the most challenging endeavors that any engineer can tackle. Space is an unforgiving environment, but it has brought our society so many benefits. When you think of the cool stuff we have today, a lot of it came from our technology or engineering advances from space exploration. Just a few of the many examples of these specialized or consumer products with a direct origin in the space program include: digital implantable hearing aids, miniature heart pumps, smoke detectors, fire-resistant aircraft seats, rain water purification systems for developing countries, LASIC eye surgery, satellite radio and television services, cordless tools and GPS navigation. Just think, all of this from addressing the challenges of space exploration. How could anyone turn this type of job down?\nCMD: [The best aspect of my job is] the ability to create something and see it come to fruition. The time I spent working on the Premier I program was incredible because we started with a clean-sheet design for an aircraft and worked together to create a production aircraft. It was so exciting to see the first flight of an airplane that I had helped design!\nI also get to experience this creativity in my current job in the preliminary design group. We are working with some of the leading-edge researchers at NASA and other groups to promote and research new technologies. Some of the projects we are working on may not fly for ten years, but it is very rewarding to know that we are pushing the envelope on new technology for business and personal aircraft.\nBLA: Job satisfaction is absolutely the most important part of any career. I have enjoyed some success in salary, but it is because I have always picked my next assignment based on what I wanted to do or what I was fascinated with at the moment. Do something you love and are passionate about, and you will be successful.\nDo something only for money and it becomes a job. Passion leads to fulfilling careers.\nCMD: Job satisfaction is the most important reward. Engineers are generally paid fairly well, at least enough to lead a comfortable life, so I have never been too concerned with salary. When I'm ready to retire and look back on my life, the money will not be what I remember. I will remember the awesome aircraft programs I have contributed to, the first-flights I witnessed, and the great people I worked with. If you don't get satisfaction out of what you do every day, then no amount of money will compensate for that. I strongly believe that everyone must find a career that makes them happy and inspired.\nBLA: It was a contradiction of the old phrase, \"It's not what you know, it's who you know.\" A group of us were discussing this over lunch one day when our senior manager overheard us. He stopped and listened a bit and then passed on the following thought: It's not who you know, but rather who knows you and your capabilities.\nEngineers do need to network because that does help a career, but you still need to have a solid technical reputation. Build your professional reputation on your actions and work, but make sure you learn about the environment as you do. Over time, the leaders of your organization will recall who you are and put you in the position to work on interesting projects and show your strengths.\nCMD: Look out for Number One. Meaning, be proactive and take control of your own career. After all, who will care about you more than you do? Don't expect your boss to decide where your career path will take you. Figure out where you want to go and how you plan to get there. Then talk to your supervisor and work together to make it happen. If you find yourself in a job you don't enjoy, don't just wait for something to change. Take action! Talk to your boss about your concerns and be involved in the solution. Also, find a mentor who will offer you sound advice and honest feedback on how you can improve. Never forget, this is your career, so don't be a spectator.\nBLA: The first week is a tough time. What impresses me is the individual who takes advantage of this time to really understand the job by talking with their customers and suppliers. All too often, we start employees with a huge list of tools they need to learn how to use, policies and guidelines to follow, and training they need to function in the office. That can lead new hires to sitting at their desk and reading manuals or playing with the computer all day long trying to understand the tools. However, the real job involves understanding how you impact other's work. Show me that you understand where you fit into the process because you've talked to your team, customers and suppliers, and I will be very impressed.\nCMD: Show initiative, enthusiasm and a willingness to learn. Initiative is extremely important to be successful in any job. Look for opportunities to help out, solve problems and improve. If you encounter a barrier that stops you from solving a problem, don't just give up or wait for someone to show you the next step, look for another solution yourself.\nWe don't expect a fresh-out-of-college employee to be able to jump into a project and solve every problem, but we do want you to try, and to ask a lot of questions. Don't worry about sounding like the smartest person in the room; you'll make a better impression if you admit what you don't know. Besides, the senior engineers will appreciate your humbleness and be flattered that you are seeking their guidance. Show a willingness to learn and you will make a great impression.\n6) How did you learn to work with staff outside of your department?\nBLA: It started when my first lead engineer walked me out onto the factory floor and introduced me to the lead mechanic responsible for building the parts of the airplane I was working on. He said, in essence, that this man knew more about my product than I did, and if I was smart, I would work with him to learn more than just analysis. Since then I have always been more interested in the \"big picture\" and spent time understanding how my work fit with that of the rest of the team. Engineering is a single aspect of what it takes to conceive, design, build, market and successfully sell a product. It is important to know how our part fits with the rest so that we can all do a better job. The natural conclusion for me was that you have to go and talk to these people to understand how what you do impacts their job and vice versa.\nCMD: When I first entered the work-force from school, I was terribly shy about contacting people outside my department whom I did not know. I didn't want to appear dumb, young or as if I didn't know my job. I finally realized that if you are just respectful and kind to everyone you work with, they will generally return the favor. I found that it is best to admit when I don't know the answer to a question, and then find the answer. It took time for me to get over this fear, but now I have no problem working with people I have recently met. It actually makes the job more fun to interact with people in different disciplines and with different backgrounds.\nBLA: Honesty and integrity are the traits I admire most. It is always tempting to say how smart someone is, but at this level everyone is smart. Integrity is following through on commitments and knowing when to ask for help. Engineering is a job with a lot of responsibilities and pressures. Knowing when and how to ask for help or deliver bad news is a critical skill that isn't stressed often enough. Sometimes just having the courage to address the issues head on will allow the team to find solutions that aren't obvious to an individual.\nCMD: [I admire] a positive attitude. It's great to work with people who love their work and strive to improve. The only person who likes a grump is another grump. It may be tempting to sit around and complain about things you don't like, but it shows great character to get up and try to make things better.\nBLA: By having fun! Have fun at work, be passionate, and enjoy what you are doing; that will reduce the amount of frustration right at the source. I also enjoy sports-both watching and playing. I am also an avid football fan and enjoy both NCAA and NFL.\nWorking around the house is another stress reliever for me. I am always adding or fixing things, or just working in the yard or garden. Cooking is another great pastime.\nCMD: I find great satisfaction in getting involved with technical societies for engineering. I have become very involved with one particular group, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and enjoy contributing to the local meetings and events. It's a great way to network, meet new friends with common interests, and stay up on the latest technology.\nI have actually found that my involvement in AIAA helped me in getting a job promotion. Early in my career, I wanted to assume more responsibility and move up the ladder, but my superiors thought I needed more experience. It was a catch-22 because I couldn't get more responsibility to gain experience without already having proven my capabilities. This is where my involvement in the technical society helped-I volunteered for leadership positions in my local section and demonstrated my leadership skills in that capacity. My supervisors, who were also members of the same society, noticed the good work I was doing as a volunteer and reacted by giving me more responsibility at work. This is a perfect example of how an outside activity can relieve job frustration and boost your career at the same time.\nBLA: The importance of continuing my education. I was so relieved to graduate and be done with school that it took me over five years to go back for another degree. The truth is that a degree is just a piece of paper. It's the process that counts.\n[At Boeing] we want individuals that have a desire to keep learning. Ultimately, that is our true competitive advantage and it's something we want to foster and grow. The only thing I would change in my career to date is that I would have focused more on learning as an undergrad, and returned to continue my education in the first year or two of working.\nCMD: I wish I had known that it is just as important to interview your first supervisor as it is to be interviewed. The relationship you have with your immediate supervisor will have a huge impact on how much you like your job. In fact, I have seen many people leave a company because they don't enjoy working for their immediate supervisor. This is unfortunate because in many cases, the employee could have changed departments within the same company and really thrived working for another boss.\nMy advice to graduating engineers, therefore, is to take advantage of your time during the interview and ask lots of questions. Don't accept any job offer without first determining if you will enjoy working there. A paycheck doesn't mean much if you are miserable during work hours.\nAsk to meet the person who will be supervising you and determine if you are professionally compatible. Request an on-site interview so that you can see where you will be working and what the group dynamics are. Do the employees in your future department seem happy or stressed out? Pay attention to warning signals and heed them. If the job doesn't seem right for you, then keep job-hunting and another opportunity will come your way.\nfuture of your fieldaeronautical engineering\nartificial intelligence, telecommunications, process engineering, , marine engineering", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 17867, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.greenbalance.co.uk/advice", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:56Z", "digest": "sha1:44FOKW3GEVUXZJ445OYLZ4P6RKGYANVL", "length": 5223, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.greenbalance.co.uk", "title": "Advice | Green Balance", "raw_content": "All projects carried out by Green Balance involve advice in one form or another, but some centre on the presentation of issues and options to enable clients to decide matters for themselves distinctly from our own contribution. This is the kind of assistance which some of our clients require much of the time (see for example our Housing Case Study), but advice can take many different forms.\nAssisting plan preparation by local authorities\nThroughout 2009 Green Balance advised the Peak District National Park Authority on appropriate minerals policies for its Core Strategy, plus management policies for its Minerals Strategy. Despite its status, the Peak District is one of the most heavily quarried areas in the UK. This commission involved not only an assessment of the competing issues but the preparation of draft policies for consultation and an analysis of responses. The authority needed a responsible approach to minerals provision compatible with its national objectives for landscape protection and recreation.\nThe Hope Cement works, described by the Peak District National Park Authority in its Core Strategy as \u201cfundamentally incompatible with national park purposes\u201d.\nGreen Balance advised on the line to be taken between these sharply contrasting objectives. As a result, the Core Strategy proposed, and the Inspector examining it agreed, that in future the nationally rare mineral fluorspar should only be mined underground rather than excavated from surface quarries, closing a long chapter in the Park\u2019s history of surface fluorspar operations as the remaining sites are worked out. The Core Strategy also opened up a debate about the future of Hope Cement Works, indicating that no further land allocations would be made for raw material supplies from within the Park.\nSpecialist Adviser to House of Commons Select Committees\nRichard Bate, Partner of Green Balance, has been Specialist Adviser on Planning to the Communities and Local Government (CLG) Committee and its predecessors in Parliament since 1998, and was also adviser to the former West Midlands Select Committee. The two most recent Committee Inquiries which he has advised were on the proposed Abolition of Regional Spatial Strategies in 2010 and on the draft National Planning Policy Framework in 2011. Richard Bate provided professional planning support for the Clerks, advising Members of Parliament on issues for resolution, on questions they could put to witnesses at oral hearings and on drafts of the Committee\u2019s reports.\nRichard Bate has also advised on enquiries as diverse as Development on or affecting the Floodplain (2000), The Planning Inspectorate and Public Enquiries (2000), Rural White Paper (2000), Planning Green Paper (2002), Planning, Competitiveness and Productivity (2003), and Planning Gain Supplement (2006).\nConsensus building by involving competing interests\nResolving difficult planning issues can sometimes best be achieved by the parties with differing interests working together through some kind of forum. The collective advice provided can highlight substantial areas of broad agreement, thereby helping the decision-maker. Green Balance has provided the Secretary to two substantial investigations by round tables of this kind, one an 'Inquiry into Planning for Housing' by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (find out more in Housing), and the other a 'Northern Ireland Planning Commission' by the National Trust (see Planning Procedures case study). Both aimed for changes in national planning policy and practice.\nGreen Balance has also been a participant in an unusual project on the same principle commissioned by the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). This was a study to examine the future of the Managed Aggregates Supply System \u2013 the Government-backed means of balancing the interests of mineral-producing areas (dictated by geology) and mineral-consuming areas (dictated mainly by population). There was a significant research element in this work \u2013 examining the strengths and weaknesses of the current system, practice in other countries, and alternative arrangements \u2013 but a key benefit was discussion between the parties leading to a comprehensive agreed report Managing Aggregate Supply in England advising CLG in 2008.\nGreen Balance was commissioned in summer 2016 to carry out a full organisational Review of Civic Voice. Civic Voice is the national charity for the civic movement in England, representing its membership of local civic societies and similar bodies. It was established in 2010 as the successor to the Civic Trust. Working with Messer Ltd, we examined Civic Voice's achievements and effectiveness (it punches well above its weight) and reviewed its governance, fundraising and membership. The organisation at the time faced a precarious income shortfall, plugged by grants and project funding which imposed a huge workload on staff. We set out strategic options which Civic Voice could follow, making 43 recommendations which were all accepted as necessary to secure the long term future and continued effectiveness of this small organisation.\nManaging Aggregates Supply in England: A review of the current system and future options\nReview of Civic Voice", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 5826, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 316.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.guatemalaontheweb.com/guatemalan-wins-olympic-silver-in-20km-race-walk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:54Z", "digest": "sha1:Y2TYMO3BGMV6IHKDQUITLH65WTKRIEXX", "length": 575, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.guatemalaontheweb.com", "title": "Guatemalan wins Olympic Silver in 20km Race Walk | Guatemala On The Web Guatemalan wins Olympic Silver in 20km Race Walk \u2013 Guatemala On The Web", "raw_content": "Erick Barrondo, from San Cristobal Verapaz, Alta Verapaz won the silver medal in the 20km Race Walk. This is the first medal at any Olympic Games for Guatemala. The 21-year-old Guatemala, will have a shot for a second Olympic Medal this year on August 11, when running the 50km race walk, his specialty.\nThis a continuation from a series of sports triumphs for Guatemala, that started with the sub-20 Soccer World Cup classification in 2011, and have not stopped since then. Congratulations Erick for our first Olympic medal.\n\u2190 Guatemala wins Miss America Latina of the World", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 5218, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 227.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hannahcenter.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:38Z", "digest": "sha1:RNPNL4YHGO4FML7RI3T5R773N2GGSHQI", "length": 735, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.hannahcenter.org", "title": "Hannah Center - Bloomington , IN ~ Nonprofit ministry serving women, their partners, and families, who are seeking help in making decisions about their pregnancies and related concerns.", "raw_content": "An organization dedicated to meeting the emotional, spiritual, and practical needs of women and families experiencing crisis pregnancies and early parenting challenges.\nMATERIAL DONATION DROP-OFF TIMES\nM: 9-11:30a, 1-4p W: 9-11:30a, 1-4p\nT: 9-11:30a, 1-6p Th: 9-11:30a\nPlease call for an appointment to make a\ndonation at another time.\nTHE HANNAH CENTER\n812-334-0104 \u2022 info@hannahcenter.org \u2022 808 N. College Avenue, Bloomington, IN\nMonday: 9:00-11:30 am, 1:00-4:00pm Tuesday: 9:00-11:30 am, 1:00-6:00pm Wednesday: 9:00-11:30, 1:00-4:00pm Thursday: 9:00- 11:30am Friday: CLOSED\nMATERIAL SUPPORT HOURS\nMonday: 10:00am\u201311:30am, 1:00pm\u20134:00pm Tuesday: 1:00pm\u20136:00pm Wednesday: 10:00am\u201311:30am, 1:00pm\u20134:00pm Thursday: CLOSED Friday: CLOSED", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 219.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hashkafah.com/index.php?/topic/72341-had-moses-cleft-palate/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:27Z", "digest": "sha1:L25XXJFZTQ5HNMMOYPS4NDMYWY4FEJMS", "length": 4925, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "www.hashkafah.com", "title": "Had Moses cleft palate? - Jewish History - Hashkafah.com", "raw_content": "In the article \"The speech defect of Moses\" by Solomon Levin I have read that Moses had cleft palate. I cannot give here much quotes from this article because it is in .pdf But few of them are below.\nThe speech defect of Moses is widely interpreted as stammering.\nIt seems to me that there was some special problem about his mouth rather than the attribute of talk.\nDid Moses have a physical blemish?\nClearly she had some anxiety about him; she had noticed some physical problem, and he needed special attention for three months, the period when he was supposedly hidden from a pharaoh's fictional edict.\nMore likely she scrutinized him because he was born with some abnormality such as a cleft lip or cleft lip and palate.\nAt first opinion it seems unlikely. However... It is a known fact that such inherited defect had pharaohs of dynasty of Amenhotep who lived in the times of Moses. So what? Had Moses cleft palate really? Maybe such pathology was widely spread thousands years ago?\naccording to rabbinic sources, the root of moshe's speech defect was a severe burn he suffered on his tongue in infancy.\nfurthermore, the assumption that yocheved's hiding of moshe for three months was the product of \"having noticed a physical blemish\" is also at odss with the classical sources, who explain that moshe was born prematurely, and thus was able to be hidden until term.\nbut i'm unsure what a person who thinks he was \"supposedly\" hidden from a \"fictional\" edict is doing bothering to try to advance novel explanations of the verses.\nwhat for? why not spend one's time positing alternate theories to explain happenings in the lord of the rings? perhaps suggest that gollum had a genetic disorder which granted him extreme longevity but robbed him of the generally healthy appearance of the hobbits and slurred his speech?\nPeople do post alternate theories about fictional stories they are into. Don't tell me you haven't seen plenty of speculation into the LOTR (or Harry Potter, if that's what floats your boat). It's all very fun and intellectually stimulating.\nbut do they send them to medical journals? furthermore, in those fanfics, i've never seen anyone refer to plot portions as \"supposed\" or \"fictional\".\nIt seems weird to me that it got published, although I don't know what kinds of articles they usually publish. I'm sure any LOTR fan would be glad to have his ideas published in a fancy journal if he could.\nThe latter is indeed a bit over-the-top and unique to people who have to prove that they don't believe in religion. OTOH, since no one actually believes that LOTR is true, there is no need for the author to mention its fictional status. The same cannot be said for the Torah.\n(your avvie needs to be resized, btw)\n(thanks. i'm too lazy, but someday. does it appear stretched or merely cropped? I hate that they put the black stripes around non-square avvies.)\n(it's stretched and blurry)\nasoul - i just remembered that the talmud also indicates an unwillingness to ascribe a physical blemish (mum) to moshe - when one rabbi explained that, at three months old, his voice was like that of a young child (naar), the other rabbi responded \"if [that is your interpretation of the verse] then you have made our teacher into a blemished one (baal mum)\".\n#11 mosheshmeal\nAnyway, the answer to the OP is no.\nAnd also I have read that in some cases cleft palate might appear as result of a ritual custom. It is concerning not Moses but various tribes of Bedouins in the South Sinai. Geographical area is the same... Have/had cleft palate some special meaning for this region?\nMutilation Of The Uvula Among Bedouins Of The South Sinai\nMutilation of the uvula, as practiced by various tribes of Bedouins in the South Sinai, was discovered while carrying out anthropological studies in the area. Partial or total amputation of the uvula is performed on both boys and girls during the first or second year of life, as a ritual custom. Anatomical changes in the soft palate due to the uvulectomy in 115 subjects were studied. The remnant of the uvula (scar) was classified according to size as: very large, large, medium, small, trace or none. A notch or kind of cleft of the palate, as a result of the uvulectomy, was considered the most extreme degree of extirpation. The majority (47%) was of small size and a notch was found in 9.6%. Changes in shape and symmetry of the arches of the palate as a result of the uvulectomy are also described. These changes are explained on the basis of the anatomical structure of the palate and uvula. The possible effects of the uvulectomy on health in general and on speech in particular were also studied.\nhttp://www.tau.ac.il...obiography.html\nbut do they send them to medical journals?\nIt seems weird to me that it got published, although I don't know what kinds of articles they usually publish.\nhttp://jrsm.rsmjourn.../misc/about.dtl\nhttp://jrsm.rsmjourn...isc/authors.dtl", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 13410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.heatherjansch.com/page.php?Id=6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:12Z", "digest": "sha1:N7OQJTUV2AKESPIOY7EVIFVFO2GUCNXE", "length": 542, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.heatherjansch.com", "title": "Book reviews Heather Jansch's Diary... A life in the Year of", "raw_content": "Knowledge is knowledge, belief is something else.\nHeather Jansch's Diary 'Heather Jansch's Diary - A life in the year of...'\n\"For those of us on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean who stand little or no chance of ever seeing her work in person, one of these diaries represent our best opportunity to have a piece of it to hold onto for ourselves. The fact that it\u2019s an entertaining and perceptive read at the same time makes it even that much more of a treasure.\" ~ Richard Marcus\nhttp://blogcritics.org/book-review-heather-janschs-diary-a/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 863, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.heidirubymiller.com/2007/07/heidis-pick-six-adele-cosgrove-bray.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:51Z", "digest": "sha1:WST2U5VVABFF3DGJABZKROQBHIHPGR3Y", "length": 8006, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.heidirubymiller.com", "title": "Heidi Ruby Miller, Author: HEIDI'S PICK SIX - Adele Cosgrove-Bray", "raw_content": "At the moment, that would have to be Rowan. He\u2019s attending college right now, and is living with his Aunt Lydia. You can meet them both in \"Seagull Inn,\" a ghost story which will appear in Ruins, an anthology due to be published this summer by Hadley Rille Books. He also appears anonymously in a very short story, \"Shell Boy,\" which isn\u2019t available anywhere yet, and is the main character in my next novel.\nRowan is typical of many young adults in that he\u2019s not quite sure what he wants to do with his life. He\u2019s known some awful times but, thanks to Lydia, his life is stable right now. That\u2019s bound to change in the novel, of course \u2013 but I won\u2019t give anything away.\nPhotography is a big interest. It\u2019s due to this interest that I met my husband, Richard. We were working as photographers for Conservation Practise, making a visual record of listed buildings and monuments around Liverpool, and taking photos for the company magazine. Richard opened his own tattoo studio in 1993, but we still pursue our photography and have a number of different cameras. We intend to convert the attic for use as a darkroom eventually. All the necessary equipment is ready and waiting; we just need to make the attic light-tight \u2013 and find the time.\nPottery is another interest. I worked for Pretty Ugly Pottery when they had a large place by the docks in Liverpool. As a tour guide, I\u2019d lead international groups of tourists or schoolchildren around the production area and explain how we made the famous Ugly Mugs, before taking them into the Have-A-Go area where they\u2019d attempt to decorate a mug of their own. When there were no tours, I\u2019d be busy making the faces on Ugly Mugs or on large tankards which required a more complex caricature. I\u2019ve also completed college classes in pottery, which I thoroughly enjoyed.\nFine Art painting interests me; I usually paint portraits in oils, though I sketch in ink and watercolours. I went to art school, but I don\u2019t paint anything like as often as I used to. Most of my creative energy is focussed on writing, which is also the reason why I\u2019ve not done any patchwork or embroidery recently.\nGenealogy is another pursuit. I\u2019m the custodian of my family\u2019s genealogical records, having been handed a mass of documents, certificates and notations acquired and developed by an elderly family member. It\u2019s taken me many months just to create some kind of order from the mass of files and folders and plastic bags stuffed with data. My father\u2019s family name can be traced back to 11th century Norman England, while my mother\u2019s family allegedly has its origins with the Picts.\nI\u2019ve literally just begun reading From the Ashes of Angels by Andrew Collins, and the last book I read was Asne Seirstad\u2019s The Bookseller of Kabul, which made fascinating reading and yet was depressing also, simply because of the awful poverty and oppression of the Afghan way of life.\nI\u2019m always reading; on average, I get through forty books every year. I\u2019ve always been an avid reader. I learned how to read at the age of four and have never stopped since.\nAncient history and mythology have interested me since early childhood. I\u2019m fortunate enough to live in an area rich with history \u2013 Celts, Vikings, Romans and Normans have all settled here, in the Wirral Peninsula in Cheshire, England. Most of my short stories are set here, such as A Wirral Otherkin Trilogy, which is available to buy through Amazon.com, which uses a combination of local history and Celtic folklore as a source for ideas.\nMy unpublished novel, Tamsin is set in the district of Aigburth in Liverpool, which is on the opposite side of the River Mersey from Wirral. Tamsin\u2019s description of the area around Lark Lane comes from my own experience of living there. I regularly attended the craft fairs which she visits, and I know Sefton Park and its Victorian Palm House and the boating lake well. Liverpool is such a dynamic city, with a vast maritime history. It once rivalled London to become the capital of England. These-days, Liverpool is described as Europe\u2019s biggest building site, as the skyline is crammed with numerous massive cranes, and there are fascinating new buildings springing up all over the city \u2013 Victorian and Georgian architecture rubbing shoulders with state-of-the-art modernity. I love the tension and interaction between the ancient and the new. This can be found in my writing, too.\nWith short stories, I have absolutely no idea what\u2019s going to happen when I begin writing them. I\u2019ll start off with a vague idea for a character, or with a phrase or loosely-defined initial situation, and then just see what flows into my imagination.\nMy first two novels were written to detailed chapter plans. Maybe this is why they\u2019re best left on the shelf and labelled \u201cLearning Experience\u201d. Or maybe one day I\u2019ll find an editor brave enough to wade through them \u2013 but probably not!\nI find that if I plan things too much, I get bored with the story because I know it already. Ideas are very attractive to me, and if I\u2019ve already explored the idea through the creation of a plan then I become too hungry for the next writing idea. With Tamsin, I began by using creative visualisation with the main characters, imagining scenarios for them and then pasting this onto outline of what I wanted the novel to say.\nIs this where I\u2019m supposed to attempt to make myself sound terribly clever by twittering about Shakespeare and Milton? Maybe I should just skip to question 15?!!\nTwo of my favourite childhood books were Jonathon Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, and Born Free by Joy Adamson. I read those till the ink wore thin, and then I discovered Dennis Wheatley\u2019s novels along with Hammer films. One long summer, in my mid-teens, was devoted to the seemingly mandatory study of all of JR Tolkien\u2019s writings, and then for many years after that I didn\u2019t read fiction at all.\nThe languid mood of Evelyn Waugh\u2019s Brideshead Revisited caught my imagination, and yet I also enjoyed the theme of Edward Bulwer Lytton\u2019s Zanoni. Without realising it at the time, these ideas would come to play a part in my own writings.\nI absolutely have to acknowledge Anne Rice\u2019s Vampire Chronicles as an important inspiration, as it was this author\u2019s imagination and use of language which inspired me to start writing fiction. I\u2019d already had poems and a series of non-fiction articles about dream analysis published by then, but I\u2019d not considered taking writing seriously until this point.\nFolklore, mystery and the local history of Wirral and Liverpool create a unique blend of Dark Fantasy tales by Adele Cosgrove-Bray.\nAdele began writing poetry at the age of fourteen, and at seventeen became a member of Leigh Writers\u2019 Workshop, when her first poem plus a humorous small article were published in Pipes of Pan. Adele went on to write and illustrate a monthly dream analysis column for Your Future magazine under the pseudonym of Niamh Koo. Adele self-published a quarterly music fanzine called Smokin\u2019 Dragon for four years before becoming far more interested in writing fiction. She was elected Chair for Riverside Writers in 2003, a post she still holds. She is also a member of Wirral Writers Inc.\nAdele was educated at Golborne High School and Leigh Technical College in Lancashire, then later at the City of Liverpool Community College (Art & Design Faculty) and also at that same college\u2019s Riversdale Campus (Pottery Studio).\nAdele has worked as an editor for The Birchwood Guidebook, a health promotion officer for South Sefton Health Authority, a library assistant at the Religion & Philosophy Library at Liverpool City Libraries, a photographer for Conservation Practice, a tarot card reader, and as a potter and tour guide for Pretty Ugly Pottery.\nShe has lived on the Wirral peninsula in Cheshire since the Millennium, where she writes full-time and shares life with her husband Richard, who opened his own tattoo studio in Liverpool city centre in 1993.\nLabels: adele cosgrove-bray, heidi ruby miller, heidi's pick six", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 351, "original_length": 64650, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.herdin.ph/index.php/herdin-home?view=research&cid=5709", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:43Z", "digest": "sha1:UE2XEUBIRS7RQJD3CLYOPAWI6DZRJL3O", "length": 2535, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.herdin.ph", "title": "HERDIN - Research Details", "raw_content": "Submitted: 08 July 2010 Modified: 19 September 2018\nHealth care service is an important support system for the effective learning of students and the efficiency of the personnel. In this study, health care services of the school clinics of different campuses of a university were evaluated specifically in terms of medical, dental, nursing health services offered, its health providers, and strategies used in health education given to the clients. Data gathering, document analysis, and ocular observations were done to assess the facilities, equipment, and supplies using the Department of Education School Health and Nutrition Services Manual of 1997.\nSatisfaction with health services was assessed. To gain a deeper understanding of the clients, health providers were interviewed to evoke issues and concerns regarding the delivery of health care services.\nThe study used the descriptive-evaluative design. Respondents of the study were 452 personnel and 394 students who had directly availed of the services of the clinic. The study was conducted during the Academic Year 2006-2007.\nSurvey questionnaires were used to determine the profile of the respondents, perceptions of the personnel and the students on health care services, adequacy ct health care services, and problems encountered by health providers. Frequency distribution, percentage and mean, standard deviation, and Z test Iere used as statistical treatments in analyzing the data.\nFindings show that the school clinics of the university have generally served 1i1G goal to some extent: health promotion, maintenance, and protection of the k'i1oo1 population. It also shows that the personnel have better perception and lDgher satisfaction with the health care services offered. However, there is a significant difference in the level of perception and satisfaction of personnel and students toward health care services. Problems are also encountered by the health providers.\nIt is concluded although clinics have adequate supplies, equipment, and competent providers, enforcement of health education in alleviating, among still be improved to promote and maintain good health among the school population. Taking the history of the client and doing the are also of prime importance in optimizing the health of the personnel. Thus, it is recommended that the medical, dental, nursing and health services of the clinics should enforce health education on of the nursing process as well as coming up with health improvement of the health status of the school population.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 111, "original_length": 4390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 205.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hilcovaluationservices.com/news-media/perspectives/paper-pulp-perspectives-q3-2016", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:22Z", "digest": "sha1:2OVHUS63JBJJ3PA6HMXKQ3J4ZTBZKL6D", "length": 1982, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hilcovaluationservices.com", "title": "Pulp and Paper Perspectives Q3 2016", "raw_content": "Pulp and Paper Industry Perspective 3rd Quarter 2016\nPulp Market Oversupplied\nNorth American softwood and hard-wood pulp prices declined slightly in the third quarter of 2016 due to high supply levels. Northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) list prices decreased $5 per tonne, from $1,000 to $995, while northern bleached hardwood kraft (NBHK) declined $15 per tonne, from $850 to $835. At the end of August 2016, markets remain in an oversupply situation, with worldwide inventory levels approximating 32 days\u2019 supply for softwood and 45 days\u2019 supply for hardwood, both of which are considered above-normal. Prices of fluff pulp, which is primarily utilized for personal care items, such as diapers and in-continence products, remained constant at $1,010 per tonne.\nWorldwide demand for pa-per grade pulp has been strong, with annual increases averaging 2.5% over the last five years.\nDemand mostly has been driven by emerging market growth for tissue products. Pulp prices might come under further pres-sure during the remainder of 2016 and into 2017, however, as additional capacity outstrips the growth in demand.\nOver the last few years, capacity growth for hardwood pulp has been a major concern, with a number of large eucalyptus mills starting up in South America. While concern on the hardwood side persists, unease also has developed with soft-wood pulp as mill startups in 2016 begin to reach full capacity.\nOperators such as Klabin in Ortigueira, Brazil (400,000-tonne capacity) International Paper Company in Riegelwood, North Carolina (365,000-tonne capacity); Domtar Corporation in Ashdown, Arkansas (516,000-tonne capacity); and Sodra in Varo, Sweden (275,000 tonnes increase) are among the mills that started up or added capacity in 2016. The former three mills have the potential to produce both softwood and fluff pulp. The ability and willingness of these mills to switch between softwood and fluff pulp could determine how much prices of these types fluctuate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 4082, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hindonsurgery.co.uk/chaperon-confidentiality/4580317675", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:21Z", "digest": "sha1:B2KGDRT3PBDGGXIP4XKI3KIGD23CFO4K", "length": 1247, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.hindonsurgery.co.uk", "title": "Chaperon & Confidentiality - hindonsurgery.co.uk", "raw_content": "We are registered under the DATA PROTECTION ACT (1988). All staff have been trained in the requirements of the Act and have signed confidentiality agreements as part of their contract of employment.\nOur Information Governance staff code of conduct is below for you to review.\nInformation Governance 2013\nThis surgery is committed to providing a safe, comfortable environment where patients and staff can be confident that best practice is being followed at all times and the safety of everyone is of paramount importance.\nAll patients are entitled to have a chaperone present for any consultation, examination or procedure where they feel one is required. This may be a family member or a friend. On occasions you may prefer a formal chaperone to be present, ie. a trained member of staff.\nWherever possible we would ask you to make this request at the time of booking your appointment so that arrangements can be made and your appointment is not delayed in any way. However if you would like a chaperone present at any time during a consultation when you are being examined please let your clinician know, and we will do our best to organise for another member of staff to be present.\nThis Chaperone Policy is in line with current GMC guidelines.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1786, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.historyandwomen.com/2009/11/white-as-bone-red-as-blood-fox-sorceress.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:03Z", "digest": "sha1:E5ZKWVTZ6NXEAZNKG7ANZKFTPUNXEFVO", "length": 1132, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.historyandwomen.com", "title": "History and Women: White As Bone Red As Blood - The Fox Sorceress", "raw_content": "White As Bone Red As Blood - The Fox Sorceress\nWhite as Bone Red as Blood \u2013 The Fox Sorceress is much more than a vivid portrayal about a turbulent period in Japanese history. It is a gentle coming of age story, one that explores sexuality in all its forms, and the passions of relationships of all kinds. The author, Cerridwen Fallingstar, has weaved an intricate tale of treachery and love that is so realistic, it feels as if the reader is actually a living witness to the tale.\nWhat I found most intriguing, is the fact that the author drew on her own experiences as a shaman and time-traveled to this past life where the story of Seiko was unfolded to her. Because of this first-hand view, coupled with intense research, the author was able to write the story with amazing clarity and a level of detail that held me enthralled from beginning to end. It is historical fiction at its very best, depicting a time and era in history rich with conflict and emotion.\nA sequel named White as Bone Red as Blood \u2013 The Storm God is scheduled for release in the spring of 2010 and is one I am eagerly awaiting.\nLabels: 12th Century, Japan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.homelesspages.org.uk/about-us/our-people/board-of-trustees/lauren-norton", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:45Z", "digest": "sha1:5K6HOHLATKC34IPHTEFOD2F5I24FPHAQ", "length": 590, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.homelesspages.org.uk", "title": "Lauren Norton | Homeless Link", "raw_content": "Head of Housing Services for The Bridge\n@TheBridgeEM\nThe Bridge website\nLauren is Head of Housing Services for The Bridge (East Midlands), which delivers a number of specialist housing related advice, support and assistance services.\nLauren has worked with vulnerable and homeless people for 8 years, in both frontline and senior roles. Lauren's current role sits within the Strategic Management Team, contributing to the charity\u2019s overall Vision as well as delivering the organisation\u2019s strategic objectives and supporting the development of local and national housing/homelessness policy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1317, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 231.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hongkongairport.com/en/media-centre/press-release/2015/pr_1176", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:12Z", "digest": "sha1:6EPCPPU2PLK3OGGFCI3L53EXE35GJ3OE", "length": 2545, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.hongkongairport.com", "title": "Press Releases, Media Centre - Hong Kong International Airport", "raw_content": "Passenger Throughput and Aircraft Movements Continue to Grow in May\nPort Health checks the body temperature of arrival passengers at Southwest Concourse and South Apron Passenger Vehicle entry gate\n(HONG KONG, 14 June 2015) \u2013 Both passengers and aircraft movements at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) registered steady growth in May 2015. During the month, passenger volume rose by 12.1% to 5.8 million, while aircraft movements increased by 4.2% to 34,115 compared to the same month last year. Cargo throughput experienced a slight 0.3% yearly drop to 366,000 tonnes.\nThe growth in passenger traffic in May was mainly due to 18% year-on-year growth in both transfer/transit traffic and Hong Kong resident traffic. Passenger traffic to/from Southeast Asia and North Asia recorded the most significant increases.\nThe slight decline in cargo throughput last month was mainly attributed to a 2% year-on-year drop in exports. Imports and transshipments both registered a 1% increase compared to the same month last year. Traffic to/from North America outperformed other key regions during the month.\nVivian Cheung, Deputy Director, Airport Operations of Airport Authority Hong Kong said, \u201cTo tackle the health risks arising from the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outbreak in South Korea, HKIA has implemented a series of contingency measures to facilitate centralised temperature checking by the Port Health Office. All arriving passenger flights from South Korea will be directed to designated parking stands, and passengers will go through temperature screening immediately upon entering the terminal.\u201d\n\"We have stepped up cleaning work at the Southwest Concourse, South Apron Passenger Vehicle entry gate and the air bridges. Announcements regarding prevention of infectious diseases are being made at the terminals and through flight information display systems. To keep the airport community abreast of the latest developments in infectious diseases, we have arranged briefing sessions and distributed guidelines in conjunction with the Port Health Office,\" added Mrs Cheung.\nSince the start of the year, HKIA has welcomed 27.9 million passengers, 1.7 million tonnes of cargo and 166,745 aircraft movements, marking year-on-year increases of 9.5%, 1.4% and 4.6%, respectively.\nOn a rolling 12-month basis, HKIA has served 65.8 million passengers and handled 398,380 aircraft movements, with both figures increasing year-on-year by 6.9% and 4.5%, respectively. Cargo tonnage increased by 4.1% to 4.4 million tonnes over the same period.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5083, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hoodpad.com/guides/109-top-15-neighborhood-amenities-in-dekalb-il.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:50Z", "digest": "sha1:KWIUW7IDGZXE64ZYZOROB74RJKYFMPCH", "length": 7750, "nlines": 48, "source_domain": "www.hoodpad.com", "title": "\ufeff Top 15 Neighborhood Amenities in DeKalb, IL", "raw_content": "Image Courtesy of: Andy McMurray\nDeKalb, home to Monsato and Northern Illinois University is a small and yet not so small city, as of 2010 the population was around 44,000. The city is named after decorated German war hero Johann de Kalb, who helped the United States during the American Revolution. This guide will show you around the most prominent sites in DeKalb.\nAs part of the university, the art museum's primary mission is to add to the educational experience at NIU, help students develop their creative side and offer them a place to exhibit their own works. The museum is also open to the general public.\nSource: http://www.niu.edu/artmuseum/aboutus/index.shtml\nThe Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb is an Egyptian Revival theatre that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The theatre was built in 1928 and 1929 as part of a much larger wave of national fascination with Ancient Egypt throughout the United States, due, in large part, to the discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922. The theatre was added to the National Register in 1978 and its 1,430-seat auditorium is currently the largest in DeKalb County.\nElmer F. Behrns, who had an interest in Egyptology designed the building. The interior and exterior architecture reflect Egyptian cultural symbols. Stained glass work exhibits designs such as Ra, the Egyptian sun god and the scarab, a sacred Egyptian symbol. The building was nearly demolished in the 1970s but a restoration effort led by Preservation of the Egyptian Theatre (PET) saved the structure. Rumors have long surrounded the DeKalb Egyptian about secret messages hidden in the architecture and hauntings. While the theater maintains there are no hidden messages in the theater the ghost stories have persisted through the years. The Egyptian Theatre operates a 42-week season with up to 125 events annually.\nSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Theatre_%28DeKalb,_Illinois%29\nImage Courtesy of: Teemu008\nThe Ellwood House was built as a private home by barbed wire entrepreneur Isaac Ellwood in 1879. The house is located on First Street in DeKalb. The Victorian style home was designed by George O. Garnsey and underwent remodeling in 1898-1899 and 1911. It was originally part of 1,000 acres (4 km\u00b2) which included a large stable complex that was known as \"Ellwood Green.\" Isaac Ellwood lived here until 1910 when he passed the estate to his son, Perry Ellwood.\nNowadays the house is a museum, operated jointly by the Ellwood House Association and the DeKalb Park District and they offer guided tours for a fee. The museum offers tours seasonally beginning in late spring and ending after the annual holiday celebration in December. The Ellwood House Museum has a visitor's center, which includes a barbed wire gallery, carriage gallery, special exhibits gallery, and a gift shop. The museum offers tourists a chance to glimpse what life was like for the Ellwoods.\nSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellwood_House\nThe House Caf\u00e9 is a DeKalb landmark and favorite hangout for many NIU students. It has been hosting live performances by and for the local community for years, hosting everything from live bands to stand up comedy, art displays, dance lessons, etc. Their food and drink offerings are also extensive, catering to everyone from meat eaters to vegans.\nSource: http://www.housecafedekalb.com/info/\nImage Courtesy of: caedwallon\nNIU Library, Founders Memorial Library\nFounders Memorial Library is the main and largest branch of the NIU Library. It is located on the NIU campus and primarily serves the university's faculty and students, but it is also open to the general public.\nFounders Memorial Library building offers six levels and over 300,000 sq. ft. containing 2 million volumes as well as periodicals, government publications, microforms, maps, recordings, audiovisual materials, and electronic databases.\nSource: http://www.ulib.niu.edu/aboutus/AboutUSIndex.cfm\nImage Courtesy of: - EMR -\nEast Lagoon and park\nThe East Lagoon in DeKalb is located at the edge of the NIU campus and offers a wonderful place to rest and relax. Its serene lagoon and wonderful green spaces are always inviting and relaxing. There is a walking path around the lagoon and multiple benches to relax on.\nImage Courtesy of: Kristen Lash\nPrairie Park in DeKalb offers visitors a disc golf course, arboretum, jogging pathways, green open spaces, and a peaceful creek to walk by.\nImage Courtesy of: lcosta7508\nBuena Vista is a community oriented golf course welcoming everyone, players of any level and any age. It offers a 9-hole course, practice areas, driving range, etc. Buena Vista also offers golf lessons for adults and kids. Kids (ages 4-18) play free on Sundays ! Club rentals for kids are also free !\nSource: http://www.golfdekalb.com/buenavista/\nImage Courtesy of: Steve Burt\nStar Worlds Arcade is a locally owned and operated business for over 30 years. It is a small and off the beaten track place, held in the highest regards by arcade fans from the area and beyond. The arcade was was inducted into the Twin Galaxies International Registry of Historic Video Game Arcades.\nThe arcade is an old-school place with old-school games, it offers pinball machines, game machines from the 1980s up to the 2000s, games like Tetris, Galaga, PacMan, Ms PacMan, Donkey Kong, Joust, QBert, Dr Mario, etc.\nSource: http://www.yelp.com/biz/star-worlds-arcade-dekalb\nImage Courtesy of: Greg Dunlap\nHopkins Park is a wonderful green area in DeKalb. It offers visitors endless green spaces, a peaceful creek, shelter house, baseball fields, playground, picnic areas, and fully equipped swimming pool complex.\nImage Courtesy of: EarlRShumaker\nMardi Gras Lanes is locally owned and operated family business. It offers bowlers of all levels a pleasant atmosphere for a pleasant friendly game or competitive league events. The alley offers 32 modern lanes, fully equipped food and drinks cafeteria, as well as video gaming.\nSource: http://www.mardigrasbowl.com/\nDeKalb Shopping Center\nThe DeKalb shopping center is a collection of major stores in DeKalb, it is home to: Walmart Supercenter, BestBuy, Lowe's Home Depot, MC Sports, Dollar Tree, and many others. There are several fast food venues in the region as well.\nCarmike Cinemas operates or holds an interest in 254 theaters with 2,623 screens in 37 states, and is one of the largest movie theater companies in the United States. The company bills itself as \"America's Hometown Theatre\" and Carmike theaters are largely positioned in rural or suburban areas. The DeKalb branch, Market Square 10, offers visitors 10 screens and all current titles, modern auditoriums and full concession stand. It is also the only major movie theatre in the area.\nSource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmike_Cinemas\nImage Courtesy of: Alex\nGiordano's of Sycamore\nGiordano's is a renowned name in the state of Illinois, it is almost synonymous with Chicago-style stuffed pizza. Giordano's opened in 1974 in Chicago and has since gained critical acclaim, it was named \u201cChicago\u2019s Best Pizza\u201d by NBC, CBS Chicago, New York Times, Chicago Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Eater, and many others.\nTheir Sycamore/DeKalb branch does not disappoint, holding to the same standards as the original Chicago location and offering patrons some of the best pizza, along with other Italian dishes like pasta, salads, sandwiches, and more.\nSource: http://giordanos.com/about-us/\nImage Courtesy of: A Gude\nKishwaukee Hospital\nKishwaukee Hospital, opened in 2007, is a modern 98-bed hospital in DeKalb, IL. It offers a range of emergency and hospital services, as well as hospice, home health, behavioral health, and cancer care services\nSource: http://www.kishhealth.org/about-kishhealth/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 10175, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 188.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hoodpad.com/guides/46-summerlin-house-tour-(price-range-300k-500k).html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:04Z", "digest": "sha1:LBENNQLRRIQ766TN32LUIFXERAZRRIEG", "length": 2734, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.hoodpad.com", "title": "\ufeff Summerlin House Tour (Price Range $300k-$500k)", "raw_content": "Summerlin, located just ten miles off The Strip, is one of Las Vegas' newest neighborhoods. It is master-planned community with all the amenities needed, some of Nevada's best recreational facilities, shopping and schools can be found here.\nSource: http://lasvegas.about.com/\nThe Ashton Park community has an easy access to the Charlston Blvd., Palo Verde high school and Linda Givens elementary school. The nearby park has various amenities, such as a playground and basketball court. A typical house in Ashton Park features over two thousand sq.ft, tall ceilings and an open kitchen.\nAvg Home Size - 2455 sq. ft.\nAvg Year Built - 2003\nhttp://www.easystreetrealty-vegas.com\nImage Courtesy of: Sam Saunders\nChardonnay is part of The Arbors Village of Summerlin, it is located close to John W Bonner Elementary School and the Community College of SV. The houses in Chardonnay average more than 2000 sq.ft and some have garages for up to three cars.\nLocated within the Trails Village, the Highline neighborhood has plenty of amenities, like shopping, recreation and others. The houses are mainly single-family homes, constructed by Woodside Homes.\nThe homes in Sonesta are great for families with their large living rooms and gallery style kitchens. Such homes are designed to bring the whole family together, yet accommodate the needs of every family member individually and provide them with plenty private space. Sonesta homes are a worthwhile investment in the future of a happy family.\nSun City Summerlin, situated not far away from the famous Las Vegas Strip, is a high-altitude community, being over 3000 feet above the sea level. The area includes garden villas, single family and patio homes, and has an easy access to several golf courses and other recreation facilities. Sun City Summerlin is a 55-year age-limited community.\nImage Courtesy of: Maria Eklind\nEquipped with pools and several car garages, the two-story houses in Westridge form a part of The Crossing Village. The Crossing Village has a number of parks around, including The Crossing Park and Oxford Park, as well as an easy access to The John W Bonner Elementary school.\nImage Courtesy of: James Brooks\nEvergreen features all the amenities a young family needs, it has an elementary and middle school, and a great park, The Hills Park, which offers fields, courts and trails for active recreation. It is an area of single family, one and two-story homes, many of which have swimming pools.\nBeing one of the first communities developed in western Summerlin, The Vistas has a large area offering single and multifamily homes. Such facilities as parks, playgrounds for children, basketball and tennis courts, and other sport facilities can be found in The Vistas.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 5835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hoodpad.com/guides/593-top-10-amenities-in-henderson-golf-course-community-tuscany-village-nevada.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:NGB4W4X5EHS7UHFKF34ZTDAHHEDIPH3G", "length": 3652, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.hoodpad.com", "title": "\ufeff Top 10 Amenities in Henderson Golf Course Community - Tuscany Village, Nevada", "raw_content": "Tuscany Village is a beautiful Golf Course community in Henderson. This guard-gated community offers 2 swimming pools, a 30,000 square foot recreation center, tennis courts, basketball courts, and playgrounds for the kids! The homes are a mix of single story and 2 story homes, from 1200 square feet to over 3000 square feet. Prices start in the low $200,000. If this sounds like someplace you would like to get more information about, please contact me!\nTuscany Village, Henderson, NV\nTuscany Village and Golf course - located in Henderson off of Lake Mead Parkway and Mohawk drive, just a few miles from Lake Las Vegas and Lake Mead Recreation area. Beautiful homes on the golf course and many new home sites available now! Contact me for more information.\nGalleria at Sunset is an indoor shopping mall with great shopping and restaurants! Anchored by Macy's and Dillard's the mall includes Kohl\u2019s, JC Penneys, and Dick's Sporting Goods. In addition to the food court there is a Chevy's Mexican restaurant and Red Robin's. New restaurants are expected to open this year!\nBeautiful Lake Las Vegas! Shopping, Restaurants, Hotels and amazing homes and custom home sites. This is where the glamour is! Far from the hustle and bustle of the Strip but, close enough to get there fast! Contact me for more information!\nImage Courtesy of: Carol M. Highsmith\nLake mead Recreation area. This is a national landmark half in Arizona and half in Nevada. The Hoover Dam helped create this amazing place. Boating, fishing, water skiing, and other fun things to do here throughout the year!\nImage Courtesy of: National Park Service Digital Image Archives\nThe District at Green Valley\nThe District at Green Valley Ranch is a wonderful outdoor shopping and dining experience. It is adjacent to the Green Valley Ranch Station Casino and Hotel. This is a highly desirable area to live! Contact me for more information on the Green Valley area of Henderson.\nImage Courtesy of: Lvtalon\nHeritage Park-Senior Center and Swimming pools\nHeritage Park Senior Facility and Swimming Pool. This is another fine example of the public parks here in Henderson. This park features incredible amenities and programs for senior citizens and swimming and sports fields for everyone else to enjoy. The pool is open year round too!\nImage Courtesy of: SarekOfVulcan\nAlbertsons Shopping Center. You will also find dry cleaners, nail salon, sandwich shop, and other shopping nearby. Located at the corner of Lake Mead Parkway and Boulder Highway. Easy access from Tuscany Village.\nImage Courtesy of: erostrend\nThe Target Shopping center is on Lake Mead Parkway. There are fast food restaurants, PetSmart, Marshalls, Ultra Beauty, Big Lots, and other places to shop. There is a medical center there too! Too many things to list them all!\nImage Courtesy of: Peter J. Romano 2nd\nWater Street-Downtown Henderson\nDowntown area of Henderson is Water Street. Weekly Farmers Market runs year round. This is part of the Historic Walking Tour of Henderson. This is where many community events including parades, car shows, art shows etc are held by the City of Henderson. It gives you a real feel for what this city was like when it first got started in 1953!\nImage Courtesy of: jwalsh\nSam Boyd Stadium, previously known as the \"Silver Bowl\", is home to the UNLV football team and the annual Las Vegas Bowl each December. The stadium is used year round for concerts, monster truck rallies, football, soccer, motor cross races etc. There is always something to do in this town!\nImage Courtesy of: Craig Butz\nDana Burnett\nmyTuscanyVillage.com\nThe Little Group Real Estate Team\nDi Lewis Team\nTatiana Moody", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6014, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv020.cgi?read=205761", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:7GMGP4PUKZWRFF2S6CICYBZKQ7XPHT3E", "length": 1526, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "www.hpmuseum.org", "title": "HP-01 \"bargain\"", "raw_content": "HP-01 \"bargain\"\nMessage #1 Posted by Joerg Woerner on 27 Nov 2011, 8:36 p.m.\nAnd you thought a HP-01 is expensive?\nRe: HP-01 \"bargain\"\nMessage #2 Posted by db (martinez, ca.) on 27 Nov 2011, 11:28 p.m.,\nin response to message #1 by Joerg Woerner\nJoerg; point taken. but since it's not RPN i don't want an 01 either.\ni think that if someone paid me 40,000 bones for an old watch; i'd throw in free shipping. hell. i might even go in halvsies on the insurance.\nwait a minute. was that big number in lira?\nin response to message #2 by db (martinez, ca.)\nSince it's now at $305 instead of $40K this was obviously some biding mistake (dropped decimal point) and has been retracted.\nThere are a pile of cancelled bids tagged as \"molesting the auction\" or similar. Not just these insanely high ones either.\nSomething is fishy. Either the top two bidders know each other (how can one outbid the other one going from $300 to $40k in one swoop?) or this is a way to pay the mafia.\nMessage #6 Posted by Massimo Gnerucci (Italy) on 28 Nov 2011, 12:55 p.m.,\ndb: no more Liras since 1/1/2002 But never say never: let's wait and see; a couple more downgrades from S&P e co. and we will be back there.\nor this is a way to pay the mafia\nWOW Namir! Other words of wisdom? o.O\nEdited: 28 Nov 2011, 12:56 p.m.\nMassimo; A couple more shenanigans from the financial sector and the owner class and we may all be there.\nMessage #8 Posted by Frank Boehm (Germany) on 28 Nov 2011, 7:51 a.m.,\nThe last time I've seen one, it ended up with AFAIR 650 USD.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 2344, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 321.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv020.cgi?read=209325", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:11Z", "digest": "sha1:OC7Y4XMBOJ7SH3ORJ3P3ZTW3QAPQW7Q5", "length": 159, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.hpmuseum.org", "title": "HP-35S - Time Since Memory Reset", "raw_content": "HP-35S - Time Since Memory Reset\nMessage #1 Posted by Ilia on 17 Jan 2012, 6:52 p.m.\nIs it possible to determine how long ago memory was cleared on the HP-35S?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 345, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 263.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hse.gov.uk/retail/getting-started.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:16Z", "digest": "sha1:SLXGXX4V35UB2PUBY3IIGE7CM75JWVRM", "length": 1579, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.hse.gov.uk", "title": "Health and safety in the retail industry: HSE and the retail industry - Getting started", "raw_content": "This page provides you with basic information about what you must do to make sure your retail business complies with health and safety law. Local Authorities normally enforce health and safety law in the retail sector.\nHSE's Entertainments, Leisure, Commercial & Consumer Services Sector, has the operational policy lead for the sector.\nHealth and safety law applies to all businesses, no matter how small. As an employer, or a self-employed person, you are responsible for health and safety in your business. You need to take the right precautions to reduce the risks of workplace dangers and provide a safe working environment.\nHealth and safety doesn't have to be complicated. Information on HSE's Health and safety made simple site will make it easier for you to comply with the law and manage health and safety in your business.\nFor many businesses, all that's required is a basic series of tasks. The site will take you through the steps and help you to make sure you have done what you need to.\nInformation on the following can be found at Health and safety made simple.\nDecide who will help with your duties\nWrite a health and safety policy for your business\nManage the risks in your business\nConsult your employees\nProvide training and information\nProvide the right workplace facilities\nDisplay the health and safety Law poster\nGet insurance for your business\nFor some work in the retail industry there may be specific risks and activities you need to consider to make sure you are complying with the law.\nShop risk assessment tool\nManual handling at work: A brief guide", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 3486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hsferdous.net/7project-egov.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:42Z", "digest": "sha1:XUMHEXSBVBPZW4XHVHIXPA6RMXHT3YCL", "length": 2689, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.hsferdous.net", "title": "Project: Hasan Shahid Ferdous", "raw_content": "A Study on the Adoption of e-Governance in Bangladesh\nThe Government has taken strong measures to make the slogan \"Digital Bangladesh\" a success. We investigate how much of these efforts are known and used by the citizens discuss the transition from the old system to the new.\n[Conference Paper] Ferdous, H. S., Ahmed, S., Islam, M. A., Kabir, M. H., and Ahmad, M. A. 2012. A Research Study on Determining the Effect of 3G Cellular Network on the Implementation of e-Governance in Bangladesh. In Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on E-Learning, E-Management and E-Services (IS3E '12), pp. 1-6, IEEE. [pdf]\nThis research addresses the issues affecting e-Governance implementation in developing countries in consideration with implementation of the 3G mobile networks. Implementing e-Governance has always been a challenge either it is social, economical, or political. Besides this, there are many technological problems, which should be understood and met so that a user-accepted e-Governance system emerges. This research provides a quantitative investigation of e-Governance implementation problems with emphasis on analyzing quantitative data gathered in a survey using structured questionnaires that was generated on the basis of our theoretical study. Based on this results we provide a clear conception about those problems, which should be considered at the time of implementing e-Governance services in developing countries.\n[Conference Paper] Ferdous, H. S., Choudhury, F. M., Rifat, M. R., and Moutushy, S. 2012. Usability Analysis of e-Governance Services in Bangladesh \u2014 A Survey and Future directions. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT '12), pp. 417-422. IEEE. [pdf]\nThis research addresses the issues affecting e-Governance implementation in Bangladesh in consideration with a detailed usability analysis and directions for future development. Implementing e-Governance has always been a challenge either it is social, economical, or political. Besides this, there are many technological problems, which should be understood and met, so that a user-accepted e-Governance system emerges. This research provides a quantitative investigation of e-Governance implementation problems with emphasis on analyzing quantitative data gathered in a survey using structured questionnaires that was generated on the basis of our theoretical study. Based on these results we provide a clear conception about those problems, which should be considered at the time of implementing e-Governance services in developing countries like Bangladesh.\nMortuza Asish Ahmad\nFarhana Murtaza Choudhury\nRifat Rashiduzzaman\nShubrami Moutushi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 2994, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 243.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.hudsonsadventures.com/2014/04/happy-rafter.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:11Z", "digest": "sha1:IKZKFQNXAANPLUI2YW7IRQHJNW7IZED3", "length": 56, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.hudsonsadventures.com", "title": "Hudson's Adventures: Happy Rafter", "raw_content": "Happy Rafter, a photo by Kendra & Kirk Wright on Flickr.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 3040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 336.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/site/new/?d=1-11-2016&w=144", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:13Z", "digest": "sha1:A2NZOT5E7D63E7MGZT6HRO6CEAXDU6NA", "length": 16830, "nlines": 101, "source_domain": "www.humanrightsvoices.org", "title": "What's New - 1/10/2016 to 1/17/2016", "raw_content": "Too important to fail - addressing the humanitarian financing gap, Report of the High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing Development\nStatement from Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's Office on Implementation Day of the Iran Nuclear Deal Document\nA handout picture released by UNICEF and taken Jan. 14, 2016, shows a UNICEF employee measuring the arm of a malnourished child in the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, as they assess the health situation of residents of the famine-stricken town.\nMore Starvation Deaths of Besieged Syrians Reported Document\nThe train station where the stoning unfolded\nThree young men from North Africa sought to stone two transgender women in the western German city of Dortmund on Sunday.\nAccording to a report on Friday on television station SAT1.NRW, the men attacked Yasmine und Elisa, two transgender women, near the city's main train station.\n\"Within seconds we were tossed around...and they took stones from a gravel bed on the corner and threw them at us,\" said Elisa.\nA police car at the train station appeared as the stoning attack unfolded and arrested the men.\nThe German media as a general rule do not disclose the last names of victims to protect their privacy. The three men are between 16 and 18 years-old and are known to the authorities because of theft and assault arrests.\nThe Dortmund police official Kim-Ben Freigang said the suspects told the police that \"such persons must be stoned.\" German media reported that one suspect said \"You whores must be stoned.\" Yasmine installed a security camera at her residence where she lives with Elisa after the attacks. \"That was barbaric what they did. They are barbarians,\" Yasmine said.\nShe added that she could not believe that such an act of shamelessness occurred. \"In 2016, in Germany with stoning!\" According to the SATI.NRW report, Yasmine said it was the first time in 30 years she felt unsafe as a transgender woman.\nThe three men, according to Yasmine and Elisa, propositioned them. After the men realized that Yasmine and Elisa are transgender women, the men launched their assault with stones.\nStoning people to death is a penalty used in Muslim-majority countries.\nIn November, a criminal court in Iran's northern province of Gilan sentenced a woman to be executed by stoning for alleged complicity in the murder of her husband Arash Babaieepour Tabrizinejad.\nThe stoning penalty of the woman, who was only identified by the initials \"A.Kh,\" was first reported on the Persian-language Iranian website LAHIG.\nLethal homophobia is widespread in the Arab world and Iran. A 2008 British Wikileaks dispatch noted that the Islamic Republic of Iran executed \"between 4,000 and 6,000 gays and lesbians\" since the Islamic revolution in 1979.\nThe Islamic State in Syria and Iraq has murdered dozens of gays by tossing the men off buildings. Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Qatar, to name just some of the most anti-gay countries, persecute LGBTs with the death penalty and imprisonment.\nNorth African men suspected of stoning transgender women in German city Document\nSecretary of State John Kerry Remarks on Implementation Day Document\nJoint Statement by EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on Implementation Day of the Iran Nuclear Deal Document\nU.S. Secretary of State Confirmation of Verification of Iranian Actions Pursuant to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Document\nIAEA Director General's Statement on Iran Document\nRetired FBI agent Robert Levinson vanished during a trip to Iran in March 2007.\nJewish Captive Robert Levinson Not Among Those Freed by Iran Article\nA refugee camp in Lebanon (AP)\nLebanon regulations 'put Syrian refugees at risk of abuse' Article\nVerification and monitoring in the Islamic Republic of Iran in light of United Nations Security Council resolution 2231 (2015), GOV/INF/2016/1 Document\nLetter from UNESCO to Israeli Delegation Regarding Iran Holocaust Cartoon Contest Document\nRussian and British warplanes. Iran is rushing to purchase weapons systems in spite of sanctions. Photo: Wikipedia.\nIran Rushing to Acquire Military Planes, Weapons Despite Sanctions Article\nThe Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, has severely criticised the signatories and called on the judiciary to act against their alleged treachery. (Kayhan Ozer/AP)\nTurkey Rounds Up Academics Who Signed Petition Denouncing Attacks on Kurds Document\nThe first panel of a photo exhibit on \"International Decade for People of African Descent\" at UN headquarters, New York, January 14, 2016\nUN's \"International Decade for People of African Descent\" Hijacked by Palestinians Development\nIn a press release issued January 13, 2016, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon unequivocally condemned a terror attack at a polio eradication center in Pakistan - but his message was very different a month ago when the victims were Israelis.\nAccording to the January 13 press release: \"The Secretary-General reiterates that nothing justifies terrorism.\"\nIn contrast, in a message delivered on December 14, 2015, at a conference convened by the UN's Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Jakarta \"On the Question of Jerusalem,\" the Secretary General attempted to justify terror attacks committed by Palestinians. In the Secretary General's words:\n\"I also underlined the urgent need ... for Israeli security forces to ensure a calibrated use of force in response to incidents... [T]he violence cannot and will not be addressed by security measures alone. The anger we are witnessing is bred from nearly five decades of Israeli occupation. It is the result of fear, humiliation, frustration and mistrust. It has been fed by the wounds of decades of bloody conflict, which will take a long time to heal. Palestinian youth in particular are tired of broken promises and they see no light at the end of the tunnel.\"\nUN Secretary General: Nothing Justifies Terrorism- Unless It's Against Israel Development\nSuspected assailant shot and killed near Nablus. (ARAB MEDIA)\nPalestinian Stabbing Attack Injures Israeli Officer Document\nA drawing submitted to a Holocaust denial cartoon contest sponsored by Iran in 2015.\nIsraeli Officials Urge UN to Condemn Iran Holocaust Cartoon Contest Article\nHamas terrorists prepare to execute a man in Gaza (File photo)(Reuters)\nGaza: Hamas Sentences Four to Death for 'Spying for Israel' Document\nHuman rights lawyer Wang Yu talks during an interview with Reuters in Beijing in this March 1, 2014 photo. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon)\nChina Has Arrested a Group of Lawyers Already Being Secretly Detained Document\nSamar Badawi received the 2012 International Women of Courage award for her efforts to promote equality of women in Saudi Arabia. (Twitter)\nSister of Saudi Blogger Raif Badawi Arrested and Jailed in Same Prison Document\nThe United Nations has been grappling with so many sexual abuse allegations involving its peacekeepers that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon recently called them \"a cancer in our system.\"\nNow, officials have learned about what appears to be a fresh scandal. Investigators discovered this month that at least four U.N. peacekeepers in the Central African Republic allegedly paid girls as little as 50 cents in exchange for sex.\nThe case is the latest to plague the U.N. mission in the Central African Republic, whose employees have been accused of 22 other incidents of alleged sexual abuse or sexual exploitation in the past 14 months. The most recent accusations come in the wake of Ban's efforts to implement a \"zero tolerance\" policy for such offenses.\nThe United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing more than 100,000 people on the continent, and the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy. Other sex-crime cases have occurred in Mali, South Sudan, Liberia and Congo in recent years.\nLast month, the United Nations published a damning independent investigation that said that poor enforcement of policies in place to deter and report abuse meant that \"the credibility of the U.N. and peacekeeping operations are in jeopardy.\" Experts and officials say systemic problems still hinder the investigation and prosecution of alleged abusers, leading to a perception of impunity.\nThe abuse \"undermines everything we stand for,\" said Anthony Banbury, the U.N. assistant secretary general for field support.\nThe mission in the Central African Republic, where U.N. troops and civilians were sent in 2014 to help end a civil war and support a fledgling government, stands out for its record of sexual abuse and exploitation.\n\"They are preying on the people they've come to protect,\" said Parfait Onanga-Anyanga, the top U.N. official in the country.\nThe most recent allegations involve at least four peacekeepers who are accused of paying girls as young as 13 for sex at a camp for the internally displaced next to the international airport in Bangui, the capital. The site, known as M'poko camp, is home to 20,000 people, mostly Christians. It is a vast agglomeration of white tents surrounding old, decaying airplanes, just yards from the airport runway.\nThe United Nations has not publicly released the nationalities of the accused troops or provided details of the alleged abuse. But in interviews, U.N. officials said the peacekeepers were from Gabon, Morocco, Burundi and France. The prostitution ring they allegedly used was run by boys and young men who offered girls \"for anywhere from 50 cents to three dollars,\" according to one official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation.\nSome officials say there may be many more cases of exploitation by peacekeepers that have gone unreported. Because there is no regular U.N. presence in M'poko, it has been difficult to gauge the scale of the problem.\nM'poko had already had a problem with sexual abuse before the recent cases were reported. Its population had grown sharply since September, when violence erupted between the warring \u00adparties in the Central African Republic.\nHuman Rights Watch documented nine cases of sexual violence between September and December in and around the displacement camp. In several instances, Christian women were raped by members of the mostly Christian \"anti-balaka\" militia after being accused of interacting with Muslims. Across Bangui, the conflict has fallen largely along religious lines.\n\"M'poko is a lawless zone run by anti-balaka thugs a few hundred meters away from the international airport. The camp is not being protected, and women are being raped,\" said Lewis Mudge, a Human Rights Watch researcher focused on the Central African Republic. But this marks the first time that the United Nations has acknowledged the involvement of its employees in the camp's underworld of commercial sex work, which is driven by abject poverty and a lack of law enforcement.\n\"The M'poko camp is unfortunately a place where horrible, unacceptable things happen to women and children,\" said Banbury, the assistant secretary general. \"In some cases, we have credible allegations that there are U.N. personnel that have committed these crimes.\"\nBanbury said U.N. troops plan to begin patrolling M'poko more frequently and will attempt to dismantle the prostitution ring.\nThe U.N. mission in the Central African Republic has been plagued by sexual abuse allegations. The previous U.N. special representative there, retired Senegalese general Babacar Gaye, was fired in August over his team's handling of the accusations. The organization has dispatched special investigators to Bangui to better understand what has gone wrong.\nThe United Nations was also strongly criticized for failing to react to offenses by peacekeepers in the country. As many as 14 troops from France, Chad and Equatorial Guinea allegedly raped and sodomized six boys between the ages of 9 and 15 in 2013 and 2014, before the U.N. mission formally began. The United Nations took no action after learning about the cases until a whistleblower leaked an internal U.N. investigation to French authorities, according to U.N. officials.\nLast month, the report by a panel including former Canadian Supreme Court justice Marie Deschamps found that U.N. staff in Bangui had \"turned a blind eye to the criminal actions of individual troops\" in that case.\nIn August, two women and one girl accused three U.N. peacekeepers of rapein the war-torn town of Bambari. That same month, a U.N. police officer allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl during an operation in Bangui's main Muslim neighborhood. She had been hiding in a bathroom while peacekeepers searched her house, according to Amnesty International.\n\"When I cried, he slapped me hard and put his hand over my mouth,\" the girl told an Amnesty International researcher.\nFractured enforcement\nFor years, the United Nations has been trying to stop the sexual abuse perpetrated by its employees and troops under its command. It has ordered a series of reports to identify weaknesses in enforcement and mandated that a component on sexual exploitation and abuse be included in training for peacekeepers. Ban has also encouraged harsher penalties for the peacekeeping units to which the abusers belong.\nBut the slow pace of investigations into abuse has \"severely undermined enforcement,\" according to a report last year from the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services. Even more problematic, some experts say, is that the prosecution of alleged offenders falls to the governments of the countries that provide the peacekeepers. In many cases, those governments conduct halfhearted investigations and fail to convict offenders.\n\"To say that it is immensely frustrating is a tremendous understatement,\" said Banbury.\n\"The U.N. should stop tiptoeing around, trying not to offend governments, and instead put the victims of sexual exploitation and abuse at the heart of their policy,\" said Sarah Taylor, an advocate in the women's rights division at Human Rights Watch.\nSome argue that the lack of enforcement encourages a sense among U.N. employees that they can commit sexual crimes with impunity while based overseas.\n\"They think 'We're in a special class,' that sexual abuse is not that serious,\" said Paula Donovan, who leads Code Blue, an advocacy campaign working to expose the issue of sexual abuse by U.N. personnel.\nThe number of alleged cases of sexual exploitation and abuse committed by U.N. personnel declined from 2008 to 2014, dropping from 83 to 51, which U.N. officials say is evidence of increasingly effective intervention. But critics say that those numbers are incomplete and that many cases go unreported.\n\"The data is not just porous. It's a joke,\" Donovan said.\nOther analysts say that getting civilians to report sexual crimes in war-torn environments, where there is a mistrust of authority and a lack of law enforcement, is an enormous challenge. The victims might \"fear retaliation by the perpetrator, who in some cases carries a weapon,\" said a report last year on U.N. abuses by the Center for Civilians in Conflict, a Washington-based research organization.\nIn many other cases, impoverished girls and women accept food and money in exchange for sex.\n\"This is already a society whose social fabric has totally collapsed, with youngsters left to fend for themselves,\" said \u00adOnanga-Anyanga. \"This is putting salt into an open wound.\"\nU.N. says some of its peacekeepers were paying 13-year-olds for sex Document\nEgyptian Lawyer Sues Netanyahu for '1967 War Crimes' Article\nPresident Barack Obama speaks during a news conference, November 18, 2015 (AP/Susan Walsh)\nObama Vows to Veto Bill to Restrict Iran Sanctions Relief Article\nStatement of Administration Policy on H.R. 3662 \u2013 Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act Document\nIraqis gather at the site of an attack in eastern Baghdad on January 11, 2016. (AFP)\nIslamic State Kills at Least 51 in Attacks in Iraqi Capital, Eastern Town Document\nIran arrested poet Hila Sedighi on January 7, 2016 (File photo)\nPoet Arrested as Iran Targets Free Speech: Rights Group Document\nHassan Rouhani (AP)\nIran: U.S. to Lift Sanctions in a 'Few Days' Article\nReport of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Makarim Wibisono, A/HRC/31/73 Development\nThe stabbing victim (Twitter)\nYouth Attacks Jewish Man with Machete at Marseille Synagogue Document\nSmoke rises following airstrikes allegedly carried out by the Saudi-led alliance (EPA)\nHospital Bombing Amid Saudi-led Airstrikes in Yemen Kills Four Document\nSince 2011, more than 260,000 people have been killed in Syria while millions have been displaced (File photo)\n12 Children Dead After Russia Strike Hits Syria School: Monitor Document", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 838, "original_length": 32831, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.humanrightsvoices.org/site/new/?d=7-12-2010&w=431", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HWERIKGOMVN6UD3YB6FWUIUCBHHYB3IY", "length": 8068, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.humanrightsvoices.org", "title": "What's New - 7/11/2010 to 7/18/2010", "raw_content": "ICC Chief Prosecutor Says UN Should Do More to Arrest Al-Bashir Article\nAs Iran Bombing Condemned by UN Council, Jundollah Not Named Article\nGoldstone follow-up panel slammed Article\nPeople suspected of al Qaeda, Taliban links can appeal UN blacklisting Article\nUN Goldstone Commission Member Equates Israel with Terrorists Article\nIran FM: Nuclear fuel talks to commence in September Article\nUN probes peacekeepers for sex abuse in DR Congo Article\nUN Moves Forward to Implement Goldstone Report; New UN committee members and UN staffer have anti-Israel connections.\nThis article by Anne Bayefsky originally appeared on WeeklyStandard.com.\nAmong the multitude of attacks on Israel that the United Nations has sponsored over the decades, last year's Goldstone report on the 2009 Gaza war stands out for its dangerous distortions of fact and law. Now the UN Human Rights Council has sponsored a second-team of investigators to press forward with the report's implementation. Just as with round one, the United Nations has guaranteed the result of round two by selecting individuals whose independence is compromised from the start.\nThis second rendition of Goldstone was crafted by a March 2010 resolution of the Human Rights Council. That resolution first declares that Israel \u2013 and only Israel \u2013 committed \"unlawful acts\" in the Gaza war. And then it establishes a committee of experts to monitor and assess all judicial and other proceedings taken by Israel to respond to the General Assembly's endorsement of the Goldstone report and its long list of supposed Israeli crimes.\nThe mandate also asks the new committee to assess the proceedings of the enigmatic \"Palestinian side.\" In the many resolutions on the Gaza war from the General Assembly and the Human Rights Council no mention is ever made of \"Hamas,\" which keeps with the UN fiction that the war entailed wanton Israeli aggression in a vacuum. Instead of eight years of rocket attacks on Israel's civilian population and an elected government that openly advocates genocide, the resolution creating the Goldstone inquiry describes the problem with the Palestinian side as \"crude rockets...result[ing] in the loss of four civilian lives and some injuries.\"\nThe fact that the mandate of the Goldstone inquiry was tainted from the outset, and that its successor is cut from the same cloth, did not deter three more lawyers from taking this latest UN job. They are German Christian Tomuschat (chair), Malaysian Param Cumaraswamy, and American Mary Davis. As it turns out, the takers and their UN associates have more in common than first meets the eye.\nThe members of the new committee were appointed on June 14 by the UN high commissioner for human rights, South African Navi Pillay. One of Pillay's two legal advisers, and chief of her office's \"rule of law\" branch, is Palestinian Mona Rishmawi, former executive director of the Palestinian NGO al-Haq and until 2000 a prominent director of a unit of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ).\nAll three of the new committee members are affiliated with the ICJ. Committee members Christian Tomuschat and Param Cumaraswamy were members of the ICJ's executive committee during Rishmawi's term at the ICJ. Cumaraswamy was ICJ's vice president until 2006. Currently both are honorary members. Mary Davis is currently on the board of the American Association for the ICJ.\nThe ICJ has been closely connected with the Human Rights Council's campaign to vilify Israel over the Gaza war, and in particular, the Goldstone report and its follow-up. In January 2009 the Council held a special session to denounce Israeli actions and adopt the resolution that gave rise to the Goldstone inquiry. Of the thousands of UN-accredited NGOs, the ICJ was one of two-dozen that spoke. It claimed Israel had violated international law during the conflict and called for the inquiry's creation. Then, on October 16, 2009, when the Council held a special session to endorse the Goldstone report, the ICJ was again one of the few NGO speakers. This time it specifically called the Israeli investigations into the Gaza conflict \"ineffective as they lack safeguards of independence and impartiality...\" On June 24, 2010, soon after the appointment of the three senior ICJ members to the Goldstone follow-up committee, the ICJ issued a public statement coming to the defense of Goldstone, his apartheid-era past, and his report.\nThe mandate establishing the committee that is now populated by ICJ members, however, demands the assessment of the \"independence\" and \"effectiveness\" of Israeli proceedings and their conformity with international standards. Not only has the ICJ already expressed an opinion on the subject to be assessed, in its statements it claims that the prosecution and punishment of Israeli \"civilian leaders and military commanders\" for Goldstone's list of crimes is \"essential\" to conform to those standards.\nIn effect, therefore, the new committee will constitute a direct assault against the individuals at the helm of Jewish self-determination.\nThe committee's work will be coordinated and facilitated by a UN secretariat official selected by High Commissioner Pillay, South African lawyer Ahmed Motala. No doubt, Mr. Motala was delighted to get the assignment. On January 5, 2009 in the middle of the Gaza war, he wrote on the South African website www.thoughtleader.co.za the following: \"The war in Gaza and the killing of innocent Palestinians is not about Hamas, but entirely about the forthcoming elections in Israel...What better way to gain the support of the Israeli electorate than to...kill innocent civilians...The costs of victory in an election in Israel are being paid for by the blood of innocent Palestinians.\"\nLawyers Motala, Tomuschat, Cumaraswamy, and Davis will now work together to implement what might even be described as a blood libel at the center of the Goldstone report. In the report's words: Israel \"deliberately...terrorize[d] a civilian population,\" and Israeli \"violence against civilians w[as] part of a deliberate policy.\" Rather than being motivated by self-defense, Israel's political and military leadership allegedly set out to murder the people most deserving of protection, and this new UN cabal will pronounce on the willingness of Israel's judiciary to respond accordingly.\nThe Organization of the Islamic Conference, the League of Arab States, and the United Nations apparatus are furiously pretending this is all about law \u2013 they call it \"accountability\" and an \"end to impunity.\" Not surprisingly, the loudest calls are coming from states that care nothing for either concept when it comes to their own citizens, or accountability for the many heinous acts Palestinians perpetrate on each other.\nIn reality, of course, from conception, the target of the Goldstone report and its follow-up has always been Israel. Though the battleground has been painted over to look like a courtroom, the battle is political. Today it happens to take the form of a partisan committee charged with investigating the independence of Israel's own investigations, supported by pro-Palestinian advocates doubling as UN human rights officials.\nThe only way to respond is to challenge the legal bona fides of the report and its progeny and expose the venality of the political agenda inseparable from them. The case must begin by refusing to lend any credence to this latest mutation of the UN virus.\nUN Moves Forward to Implement Goldstone Report Article\n'Gaza blockade is legitimate' Article\nHuman Rights Committee considers report of Israel (Press release) Development\nUN's internal watchdog faces leadership vacuum Article\nIsrael weighs responses to 'barrage' of international criticism Article\nICC Adds Genocide Charge Against Sudan's Al-Bashir Article\nFormer Iceland Minister Invited to Lead UN Investigation Article\nUN chief makes Netanyahu no promises on Gaza flotilla probe Article\nKarzai to push for removing up to 50 ex-Taliban officials from U.N. blacklist Article\nSrebrenica massacre memorial to point finger at UN Article", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 766, "original_length": 23762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 312.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iastro.com/2016/05/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:36Z", "digest": "sha1:SFWCR6JLYIVZQVERMI4UU7YZPDQ6UXJ2", "length": 334, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.iastro.com", "title": "iastroMay 2016 - iastro", "raw_content": "ROBIN ARMSTRONG\u2019S ZODIAC PREDICTIONS FOR JUNE 2016: ARIES: MAR. 21 to APR. 20: Aries will have a fun loving and happy go lucky first half of June, but by the second half you will have trouble taking care of little things. The first half will be better for personal enjoyment but the second half will be good for communications. If [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 2768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 232.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ifeminists.com/introduction/editorials/2002/0730a.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:21Z", "digest": "sha1:TLL42XKJKJ5YWHDANDNVMVQV2ZEO2PJT", "length": 3060, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.ifeminists.com", "title": "ifeminists.com > editorial > Pentagon Funds Lap Dances", "raw_content": "Pentagon Funds Lap Dances\nWASHINGTON, DC -- Quiz question: Which of the following items have been charged to the taxpayers recently by military personnel wielding government-issued credit cards?\n(a) $38,000 for lap dancing at strip clubs near military bases.\n(b) $3,400 for a Sumo wrestling suit and $9,800 for Halloween costumes.\n(c) $7,373 for closing costs on a home and $16,000 for a corporate golf membership.\n(d) $4,600 for white beach sand and $19,000 worth of decorative \"river rock\" at a military base in the Arabian desert.\n\"Incredibly, the answer is 'all of the above,' said Steve Dasbach, Libertarian Party executive director. \"Thanks to the federal government's policy of doling out credit cards with no questions asked, the military has launched a raid on your wallet.\"\nThe shocking revelations are contained in a General Accounting Office audit released last week that uncovered $101 million in \"seemingly unneeded expenditures\" made by the Air Force and Army in 2000 and 2001. The purchases were made possible by the federal government's lax credit card policy: At least 1.4 million Defense Department employees carry credit cards, and last year they used them to splurge on $6.1 billion in goods and services, the audit found.\nIn one case, a group of 200 soldiers used their military IDs and government-issued travel cards to get cash at adult-entertainment bars, then spent the money there. The clubs charged a 10 percent fee to supply the soldiers with cash -- then billed the full amount to their travel cards as a restaurant charge, the GAO found.\n\"Are these warriors really fighting terrorism while frolicking in a strip club, or defending our country while wearing a Sumo wrestling suit?\" asked Dasbach. \"Americans who support a bigger defense budget, take note: The Pentagon frequently behaves like any other bloated, reckless government agency. It promises your money will be spent on the worthiest of causes, then squanders it on things you could never even imagine.\"\nOther spending uncovered by the audit included $45,000 for luxury cruises, $1,800 for executive pillows, and $24,000 for a sofa and armchair at a military installation in the Middle East, Dasbach noted.\nSome military employees actually defended the purchases, the audit noted, by saying that recreational items such as golf memberships can be \"a useful tool for building good relations with a host country\" such as Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates.\nNot surprisingly, Dasbach said, the audit found \"little evidence of documented disciplinary action\" against those who misused the cards, so taxpayers may end up paying the tab.\n\"It's time to impose a little military discipline on these deadbeat Defense Department workers, and force them to personally reimburse taxpayers for every penny of improper spending,\" he said.\n\"Then cut the Pentagon's massive $379 billion budget to help guard against such wasteful spending in the future. Perhaps that's one way to force the Pentagon to spend its resources defending the country, instead of offending the taxpayer.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 3685, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 295.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.indietalk.com/showthread.php?s=a801bbed5ddd573730ee1bc00a8a7675&p=164466&mode=threaded", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:01Z", "digest": "sha1:6AFD2YPZ3FDZUF3VEKXWCEWM75HTK5AR", "length": 150, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.indietalk.com", "title": "What's the last film you watched? And rate it! - IndieTalk - Indie Film Forum", "raw_content": "Last film I watched was The Other Guys on DVD. It was pretty funny but at times it was just awkward and tasteless. It could've been a lot better. 7/10", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2968, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 251.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.infocision.com/rightcall/category/customer-service-2/page/17/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:10Z", "digest": "sha1:HIXHINUEZVH27ZXTNV5IU2NZLODNPWFM", "length": 24065, "nlines": 87, "source_domain": "www.infocision.com", "title": "Customer Service \u2013 Page 17 \u2013 Right Call", "raw_content": "From a Customer Experience to a Customer Journey\nYears ago, a company\u2019s interaction with customers was largely limited to two points of contact. A consumer interested in a product would come into a brick-and-mortar store location and speak with a sales representative. If the consumer made a purchase and had a question or problem down the line, he or she would call a contact center for assistance.\nIn an age of rapidly developing technology and new channels, however, providing a top-notch customer experience requires a 360-degree approach. In many cases, the customer experience begins far in advance of the consumer\u2019s first contact with a company and, for the most successful businesses, carries on far past the first purchase. In other words, the customer experience is now an ongoing journey.\nFor instance, research reveals that today\u2019s buyers wait until 57 percent of the purchase process is complete before contacting a company. Studies have also repeatedly shown that consumers increasingly expect proactive customer service from companies they patronize.\nBut for many companies, providing this kind of 24/7/365 quality of customer service is a foreign concept; a comprehensive strategy for building and maintaining strong customer relationships simply isn\u2019t part of their core competencies. For these businesses, teaming with a multichannel marketing partner may be a wise decision.\nIndustry-leading marketing and service organizations have the experience and tools to help acquire, retain, upsell and restore customers. These partners can help take some of the burden of providing great customer service off an organization with solutions like:\nTop-of-the line inbound and outbound call center services\nDemographically targeted direct mail campaigns\nEmail and text marketing and service\nAlthough the emergence of new channels creates added complexity for businesses, it can also be advantageous. For instance, research shows that the majority of customers are more likely to share customer experiences than they were five years ago and that consumers increasingly rely on consumer reviews to make purchasing decisions. That means that if a business is knocking its customer service out of the park, other people are going to hear about and be impacted by it.\nSo\u2026are you ready to lead your customers on a journey?\nAuthor nickgPosted on June 9, 2014 Categories Customer ServiceTags customer experience, customer journey, customer service, quality of customer service\nSummer Heat Makes Everybody a Little Cranky: Are you Ready?\nWith Memorial Day in the rearview mirror, summer has unofficially started\u2014and its official beginning is not far off. While the season offers a lot of opportunities for fun in the sun, it also brings warmer temperatures and sometimes, sour moods. In fact, scientific research proves that when temperatures get hotter, so do tempers.\nKeeping that in mind, businesses need to be especially sharp with their quality of customer service during the coming several months. The bottom line is that people are human, and the combination of the heat and service follies like long hold times are going to get under their collective skin. In the summer, a normally cool-headed consumer may not have quite the same level of patience he or she would during the other seasons.\nIf your company\u2019s contact center was barely making the grade during spring, perhaps teaming with a partner for best-in-class customer service solutions is a good plan of action. When the thermometer reads 98 degrees, the fact is that most people don\u2019t want to be on the phone\u2014or any other channel\u2014dealing with a customer service problem. They are often starting the call in a bit of a cranky mood, so it\u2019s up to your representatives to rise to that challenge.\nInfoCision has decades of experience in the contact center and customer service space and can provide the tools you need to excel this summer. Our Communicators are the best-trained in the business and can handle any customer-related scenario that comes their way. Leveraging our experience will give you the peace of mind that comes from knowing that every single contact between your customers and representatives is being handled in a courteous and professional manner.\nIn other words, with InfoCision at your side, cooler heads will prevail.\nAuthor nickgPosted on May 30, 2014 Categories Customer ServiceTags customer service solutions, quality of customer service\nFor Customer Service, Consider Baby Steps Over Giant Leaps\nIn days gone by, great customer service meant employing knowledgeable salespeople and friendly cashiers in-store. But as new channels emerge, and consumer expectations for quality of customer service continue to rise, providing a top-shelf experience can seem like a daunting task.\nWhen looking to make a change, some business owners immediately look to the end goal as opposed to the steps that need to be taken to make an impact. For instance, a contact center manager might hastily decide to completely re-write a call script. Or, a social media marketer might create company accounts on five platforms in a single afternoon.\nOftentimes, the most prudent way to begin re-shaping your customer service is through smaller, incremental steps. Making 100 percent improvement in a single area is usually unrealistic. Making one percent progress in 100 different aspects of an operation, however, is easier to accomplish. Taking smaller yet more impactful steps is likely to immediately yield better customer service. Here are some small steps you can take now to assure quality of customer service:\nReduce your supervisor-to-agent ratio\nProvide more extensive training to new hires\nImplement quality assurance to ensure that every product is manufactured and delivered with ease\nStay abreast of developing contact center technology\nSome of the recent research released about customer service is jolting. For example, 55 percent of consumers said they switched to a different company for a product after a single negative experience, according to a Zendesk survey. But companies should guard against making sweeping changes as a reaction to these kinds of statistics. In other words, just as you shouldn\u2019t throw the baby out with the bathwater, you shouldn\u2019t toss your entire customer service strategy if making tweaks might do the trick.\nAuthor nickgPosted on May 27, 2014 Categories Customer ServiceTags Customer Service Strategy, quality customer service\nGoing Beyond \u2018I\u2019m Sorry\u2019: The Difference between an Apology and Service Recovery\nMuch of what is written on this blog is designed to help business leaders understand the importance of excellent customer service and the tools they need to provide it. But no matter what business you\u2019re in, occasional customer service slip-ups are unavoidable. Sometimes the issue\u2014like an airline forced to delay flights because of inclement weather\u2014is completely out of your control.\nNo company looks forward to these incidents, but if approached with the right perspective they are actually opportunities for you to stand out as a business dedicated to providing the absolute highest quality of customer service. How? By going beyond \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d True Service recovery is more than a simple apology\u2014it\u2019s about making things right. Here\u2019s how you can do it:\nListen closely for subtle clues\nOftentimes, if an agent remains silent while a customer vents they can gain better insight into his or her ideal resolution. For instance, if a customer calls a bank\u2019s contact center because he was mistakenly charged a $30 overdraft fee on his checking account, chances are the inconvenience and hassle are more at issue than the money itself. Sometimes a refund or store credit is a good idea; other times a consumer might be pleased to learn your company is going to re-examine a particular policy. The key to finding the right course of action is really listening, not just hearing.\nYou might be surprised to know how much customers value an empathetic response from a customer service Communicator. Everybody has had a negative experience at some point, so encourage your representatives to put themselves in the consumer\u2019s shoes and think about how they would like to be treated in a similar situation. Coach your agents to validate the customer\u2019s feelings by saying something like, \u201cI can hear you are upset and I will work with you for as long as it takes to get this straightened out.\u201d That kind of compassionate response can help calm the costumer and get the call going on a more positive track.\nTrying to deflect blame, especially back to the customer, only makes things worse. Even if the consumer did play some small part in a mishap Communicators should avoid mentioning it because it is simply not important anymore. What matters is getting the situation fixed\u2014quickly. Agents should be held accountable for their individual actions and, brand representatives should be held responsible for the company\u2019s mishaps, as well.\nUse feedback to make changes\nConsumer feedback is one of the most valuable assets for any company because it allows you to make changes to your best practices based on empirical evidence rather than guesswork. Leveraging customer responses will improve service overall and can be particularly satisfying for customers who see their suggestions put into practice.\nResearch indicates that 96 percent of unhappy customers don\u2019t complain when they have a problem, so you can be sure the ones who do reach out feel strongly about their issue. Though they may be upset at first, if your customer service Communicators make consumers feel their problem is as important to your company as it is to them, you\u2019re on your way to service recovery and loyal customers.\nAuthor nickgPosted on May 6, 2014 Categories Customer ServiceTags customer feedback, empathy, listening, loyal customers, quality customer service\nWhen It Comes To Service, Your Customers Have a Long Memory\nIf you have been keeping up with our blog, by now you are well aware of the impact that customer interactions have on business. In this same vein, you know that top-of-line quality of customer service is critical for improving customer retention, which in turn has profound power over your company\u2019s bottom line.\nAccording to a recent survey conducted by Zendesk and Dimensional research, a stunning 39 percent of consumers will avoid a vendor for two or more years after a bad customer experience. Meanwhile, 55 percent will simply switch to a different product or company following a negative interaction. This same study also reveals that consumers are far more likely to share experiences than they were even five years ago when things go awry with a brand.\nWhat these numbers boil down to is that customers are likely to remember how they were treated by your organization\u2014and for longer than you expect. Here are three ways you can avoid becoming a bad memory:\nNothing makes a customer happier than getting quick answers to pressing problems. On the flip side, it\u2019s why obscenely long on-hold times are always frustrating and why customers continually press zero in the IVR menu. Today\u2019s technology makes it possible for customers to visit a company\u2019s website, chat digitally or even request a call back from a representative so that questions are answered quickly: bottom line. Skills-based routing, for example, ensures that complex calls are received by the Communicator best equipped to handle that particular inquiry. Getting the most seasoned agents on the most difficult calls helps boost first-call resolution rates and, consequently, customer satisfaction.\nCustomer service representatives spend a sizeable amount of their day seeking information needed to effectively manage customer interactions, according to a recent Aberdeen report. That is precious time that can be reclaimed, however, with the right CRM solution. Comprehensive customer profiles and customized scripting that pop on screen as soon as an inbound call number is recognized allow Communicators to skip the tedious and irksome process of asking the customer for personal information and move right into providing personalized customized service.\nLike anything else, call center processes need a regular checkup. Program supervisors that conduct skills assessments each month and independent quality assurance teams that remotely monitor representatives are two ways that managers can ensure that their facilities are embracing constant improvement. To help foster this, supervisors can engage in training exercises with Communicators. For example, a supervisor can play the role of a caller during a mock interaction to give a Communicator a more realistic idea of what a live customer call will actually feel like, from the simplest to the most complicated scenario.\nRather than biting your fingernails at the realization that consumers today have the memory of an elephant when it comes to customer service, take it as a grand opportunity to distinguish your brand. After all, customers remember outstanding service just as they do poor interactions. In fact, 52 percent of customers are more likely to repurchase from a business following a good experience, according to Zendesk.\nWe all want a strong reputation, in life and in business. By taking advantage of the many solutions at your company\u2019s disposal, you can be certain your brand will be remembered \u2013 for all the right reasons.\nAuthor nickgPosted on April 30, 2014 Categories Customer ServiceTags customized CRM, quality assurance, quality customer service, real-time interaction\nThree Crucial Takeaways from the Target Data Breach\nWho can forget the now infamous Target hacking? During the 2013 holiday season, the company suffered a massive data breach where hackers stole the credit card and personal information of perhaps as many as 110 million customers. The network security breakdown is still being scrutinized and, for now, it remains unclear what steps the company might have taken to prevent the breach. What is not disputed, however, are Target\u2019s major failings in the quality of its customer service.\nTarget\u2019s follies, however, cast a spotlight on broader business lessons that can be learned, serving as a reminder of the extreme importance of excelling when it comes to customer service:\nTakeaway #1: Prepare for the worst case scenario\nTaking a proactive approach to service doesn\u2019t mean that you expect something catastrophic will happen\u2014it just means you are prepared if it ever does. Most customer service issues won\u2019t produce the number of queries that Target\u2019s breach did; however, businesses should adopt scalable solutions for one-off scenarios that call for extra capacity. Customers simply don\u2019t want to hear that a situation was isolated and will never happen again; they care about resolving their problems quickly and courteously and you should, too.\nTakeaway #2: Renew focus on agent training and quality of customer interactions\nAccording to Forrester, only 31 percent of organizations closely monitor the quality of interactions with customers. In the meantime, anything could be happening; agent slip-ups, multiple transfers and best practices could be falling through the cracks. Paying close attention to client communications\u2014and coaching agents to help them improve\u2014is vital to keeping your head above water when the pressure is on. In Target\u2019s case, many customers complained about what they perceived as a lack of empathy from agents. The fact is, without a solid foundation in empathy training, your representatives are not going to best prepared in a high-stress situation. A positive and respectful attitude must be cultivated during training and continually developed over time. Once this best practice is created it must also be maintained.\nTakeaway #3: View every customer service challenge as an opportunity for service recovery\nA data breach or any other customer-centric problem is an undesirable position for any company, but it can also be viewed as an opportunity for excellent service recovery. These potential crises can be stressful but they also give your company a chance to show customers how important their business is to you. Service recovery is more than a simple apology\u2014it\u2019s about going the extra mile to rectify the situation. In some cases, this may require checking back in with customers several times to ensure that they are still satisfied with the resolution. As the great American businesswoman Mary Kay Ash once said, \u201cEvery failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise.\u201d\nUnfortunately, no business is immune to mishaps. How those problems are handled, however, is critical to preserving customer relationships and bolstering brand image. According to a recent consumer survey from Zendesk, 87 percent of customers believe brands need to work harder to create a seamless consumer experience, meaning there is a lot of room for improvement out there. So rather than allowing Target\u2019s situation to strike fear in your workforce, take the opportunity to learn from it and make sure you are prepared for whatever comes your way.\nAuthor nickgPosted on April 15, 2014 Categories Customer Service, General TopicsTags customer engagement, customer experience, customer retention, customer service1 Comment on Three Crucial Takeaways from the Target Data Breach\nRetaining Customers with Stellar Inbound Call Center Services and Practices\nThe call center is the front line and starting point for customers\u2019 experiences; they can either choose to continue their journeys with your company or quit cold turkey. This essentially makes your agents the face of your company.\nSo how do you ensure the best quality of customer service in your inbound call center?\nFoster an Atmosphere of Teamwork and Consistency\nTwo of the most important attributes for call center success are a sense of togetherness and consistency of services delivered. One way to help build a sense of teamwork is to keep a low call agent-to-supervisor ratio. This ratio ensures more individual attention and training for agents from supervisors, shaping an intimate work environment that is competitive yet team-oriented.\nCapitalize on Employee Strengths and Training\nOnce you have the analytic tools to measure what agents excel in what areas, you can leverage skills-based call routing to ensure that calls are being sent to subject matter experts mostly likely to be able to resolve them. Combining the power of call metrics and cutting-edge technology solutions ultimately guarantees that the most complex calls go to your most effective agents.\nAccurately Measure Agent Effectiveness\nAs you work to improve your call center, you need visibility into what is working well and what might need some tweaking. Backed by the right call center solutions provider, you\u2019ll get metrics like Average Handle Time (AHT) and Calls Handled per Hour, and the all-important response rate that easily spell out how well your scripts and procedures are working. Just how important are analytics? Consider that companies that use them generate 73 percent more sales than those who do not according to IBM. Keep in mind, however, that while increasing sales is a huge business objective, companies that turn a blind eye to the power of analytics are squandering the easiest way to reach that goal.\nThese services and others can help improve your agent-customer relationships, boost retention and reduce its mortal enemy\u2014customer churn. In fact, the impact of customer churn on your call center can be so devastating that research shows it can cost eight times (or more) as much to acquire a new customer compared to keeping an existing one.\nThe fact is that today\u2019s consumers aren\u2019t interested in hearing the reasons why they aren\u2019t getting their issues resolved\u2014they simply move on to a competitor.\nAuthor nickgPosted on April 1, 2014 Categories Customer ServiceTags customer retention, customer service, inbound call center\nCommunicators vs. Agents: The InfoCision Difference\nIn your time as a contact center manager or business executive, the lengths you have taken to ensuring the best quality of customer service possible has probably led you to read a lot about \u201cagents\u201d or \u201crepresentatives.\u201d These are of course widespread industry terms held by many; however, InfoCision isn\u2019t one of many. If your goal is to create more than just adequate customer relationships and instead set the standard in your field, you may need something more than these industry standard operators\u2014you need Communicators.\nAt InfoCision, we refer to the employees who answer calls as Communicators because they do more than simply represent your company\u2014they are your brand ambassadors. They are essentially an extension of your own internal team responsible for expertly communicating your message and expressing your core competencies. Our Communicators hold an impressive level of credentials including maturity, experience and dedication:\nHave an average age of over 40 years and an average tenure of more than 4.5 years, and 78 percent are full-time employees\nAre provided the opportunity to earn performance-based compensation, and as such are committed to the highest level of professionalism\nIn addition to rigorous training requirements, Communicators are assigned to programs based on their own affinities and skills, allowing them to truly flourish and feel invigorated from the inside out. We also route calls to those Communicators with the skill set to provide the clear resolution of a customer issue on the first service call. In other words, first call resolution isn\u2019t a hope of ours, it\u2019s a hard reality. Combining all of these factors allows companies to provide their customers an unmatched quality of customer service.\nInfoCision has spent decades refining its culture to create best practices that help build customer loyalty. As a leader in the contact center and customer services spaces, we enjoy engaging business colleagues, sharing our experiences and leveraging the lessons we\u2019ve learned as pillars for the years to come. We look forward to communicating with your business in the near future in the hopes of creating partnerships that stand the test of time.\nFor more information about InfoCision\u2019s call center solutions, click here.\nAuthor nickgPosted on March 20, 2014 Categories Customer ServiceTags call center agents, quality of customer service\nCustomer service critical to brand identity and customer loyalty\nIt seems every day there\u2019s a new, exciting technology emerging that aims to make our frenetic lives a little easier. While many of these new conveniences are fantastic, most of us have, at one time or the other, experienced the bumps along the learning curve regarding setup, troubleshooting and the like. And when we need it, that\u2019s when great customer support serves to strengthen that brand. I found Dan Pallotta\u2019s recent Harvard Business Review blog post, Nest and Google\u2019s Customer Service Problem quite insightful. Companies that have grown tremendously because they are incredibly innovative when it comes to technology, are now branching out into service industries. Providing a customer service option that is in tune with their customers is not necessarily in their wheelhouse. As they begin to hear more and more complaints they will begin to realize how critical the customer experience is to brand identity, as well as long term growth and customer loyalty.\nDan\u2019s customer service blog post is timely in that our winter Marketing Solutions magazine just published and is focused on providing an exceptional customer experience. The cover story features our longtime client, Little Tikes, who has built a highly successful culture of customer service. It\u2019s a great story and I encourage you to check it out.\nLike Little Tikes, customer service is in InfoCision\u2019s DNA. What about your company? What are you doing to move the needle? 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Learn how to:\nRegister Your Book at www.quepublishing.com/register to access Chapter 16, \u201cMaintaining and Protecting Your iPhone and Solving Problems,\u201d updates and Bonus Chapter, \u201cFinding and Listening to Music.\u201d\nClick the links below to download the bonus chapters for My iPhone for Seniors:\nBonus Chapter 16: Maintaining and Protecting your iPhone and Solving Problems (36.7 MB .pdf)\nBonus Chapter: Finding and Listening to Music (39.7 MB .pdf)\nUsing This Book ......................xvi\nGetting Started ...................xviii\nChapter 1: Getting Started with Your iPhone 3\nGetting to Know Your iPhone\u2019s External Features ................3\nGetting to Know Your iPhone\u2019s Software ..............6\nUsing Your Fingers to Control Your iPhone .......................6\nGoing Home ........................7\nTouching the iPhone\u2019s Screen 8\nWorking with iPhone Apps ....13\nUsing the Home Screens ...........18\nUsing the iPhone 6 Plus/6s Plus\u2019 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iCloud Keychain .............105\nSetting Up Other Types of Built-In Online Accounts on Your iPhone ......108\nConfiguring a Google Account .......................109\nConfiguring Other Types of Online Accounts ....................111\nSetting Up an Online Account Manually ......................112\nConfiguring a Facebook Account ................114\nSetting How and When Your Accounts Are Updated ..........................116\nConfiguring How New Data is Retrieved for Your Accounts .....................117\nChapter 4: Configuring an iPhone to Suit Your Preferences 123\nGetting Started ....................123\nUsing the Settings App on Any iPhone ..........................124\nSearching for Settings ...............125\nUsing the Settings App on an iPhone 6 Plus or 6s Plus.......126\nSetting Passcode, Touch ID, and Auto-Lock Preferences ................128\nSecuring Your iPhone with Auto-Lock ..129\nConfiguring Your Passcode and Fingerprints (iPhone 5s and later) ..........................130\nSetting Keyboard, Language, and Format Options ...136\nSetting Keyboard Preferences ..........................137\nCreating and Working with Text Replacements .142\nSetting Language and Region Preferences ...............143\nSetting Do Not Disturb Preferences .....................147\nSetting Accessibility Options .......150\nSetting Restrictions for Content and Apps.155\nChapter 5: Customizing How Your iPhone Looks and Sounds 163\nCustomizing Your Home Screens .165\nMoving Icons Around Your Home Screens ................165\nCreating Folders to Organize Apps on Your Home Screens ......................168\nPlacing Icons in Existing Folders ...................170\nConfiguring the Home Screen Dock .......172\nDeleting Icons ...........174\nSetting the Screen\u2019s Brightness, View, Text Size, and Wallpaper .....................175\nSetting the Screen Brightness, View, and Text Size ....................176\nSetting the Wallpaper on the Home and Lock Screens .......180\nChoosing the Sounds Your iPhone Makes ..186\nSetting Up Notifications and the Notification Center ........................190\nUnderstanding Notifications and the Notification Center ..........................190\nSetting Global Notification Preferences .........................194\nConfiguring Notifications for Specific Apps .............196\nChapter 6: Downloading Apps, Music, Movies, TV Shows, and More onto Your iPhone 201\nConfiguring Store Settings .............202\nConfiguring Automatic Store Downloads ...................202\nUsing the App Store App to Find and Install iPhone Apps .........205\nSearching for Apps ........................206\nDownloading Apps .......................210\nUsing the iTunes Store App to Download Music, Ringtones, Movies, and TV Shows ..212\nSearching for iTunes Store Content ..........213\nBrowsing for iTunes Store Content ............216\nPreviewing iTunes Store Content ................219\nDownloading iTunes Store Content.........221\nUsing Your iTunes Store History List ........224\nDownloading Apps or iTunes Store Content You\u2019ve Purchased Previously ................226\nDownloading Previously Purchased App Store Apps ............226\nDownloading Previously Purchased iTunes Content ..............228\nUsing Family Sharing to Share Your Store Downloads with Others ...........232\nSetting Up Family Sharing ..232\nAdding People to Family Sharing ................234\nManaging Family Sharing ....237\nAccessing Shared Content ..240\nChapter 7: Managing Contacts 243\nSetting Your Contacts Preferences .........................244\nCreating Contacts on Your iPhone..........................247\nCreating New Contacts from Email ...........247\nCreating Contacts Manually ....249\nWorking with Contacts on Your iPhone ..........257\nUsing the Contacts App..........257\nAccessing Contacts from Other Apps....261\nManaging Your Contacts on Your iPhone .....263\nUpdating Contact Information ........................263\nDeleting Contacts 265\nChapter 8: Communicating with the Phone and FaceTime Apps 267\nConfiguring Phone Settings .........268\nMaking Voice Calls ..........273\nDialing with the Keypad ........275\nDialing with Contacts .................276\nDialing with Favorites ................277\nDialing with Recents ....................278\nDialing from the SIRI SUGGESTIONS Screen ............280\nManaging In-Process Voice Calls ...281\nEntering Numbers During a Call ...................283\nMaking Conference Calls.......284\nUsing Another App During a Voice Call .........................288\nReceiving Voice Calls ...289\nAnswering Calls ......289\nAnswering Calls During a Call ...........................292\nManaging Voice Calls ..292\nClearing Recent Calls ..................293\nAdding Calling Information to Favorites .......................294\nUsing the iPhone\u2019s EarPods for Calls........296\nUsing Visual Voicemail ...........................296\nRecording a New Greeting .297\nListening to and Managing Voicemails ...........................299\nFinding and Listening to Voicemails .......300\nListening to and Managing Deleted Voicemails 302\nCommunicating with FaceTime ......304\nConfiguring FaceTime Settings .......................305\nMaking FaceTime Calls .............307\nReceiving FaceTime Calls ......310\nManaging FaceTime Calls .....312\nChapter 9: Sending, Receiving, and Managing Email 317\nSetting Mail App Preferences......318\nWorking with Email .......324\nReceiving and Reading Email 326\nReceiving and Reading Email on an iPhone 6 Plus or 6s Plus ................331\nUsing 3D Touch for Email (iPhone 6s and 6s Plus) ......................334\nSending Email ...........337\nUsing Mail\u2019s Suggested Recipients ............341\nReplying to Email .342\nForwarding Email .344\nManaging Email ..................346\nChecking for New Email .........347\nUnderstanding the Status of Email ...........347\nManaging Email from the Message Screen ...............348\nManaging Email from an Inbox ......................349\nManaging Multiple Emails at the Same Time .........352\nOrganizing Email from the Message Screen ............354\nOrganizing Email from the Inbox.................356\nViewing Messages in a Mailbox .....................358\nSaving Images Attached to Email ...............359\nSearching Your Email ..................360\nWorking with VIPs362\nDesignating VIPs ....363\nAccessing VIP Email .......................363\nManaging Junk Email .................365\nChapter 10: Sending, Receiving, and Managing Texts and iMessages 367\nPreparing Messages for Messaging ......................368\nSetting Your Text and iMessage Preferences ...........369\nBlocking People from Messaging or Texting You .........................377\nSending Messages ..........378\nCreating and Sending Messages ..................379\nReceiving, Reading, and Replying to Messages ..............384\nReceiving Messages .....................384\nReading Messages ..........................386\nViewing Images or Video You Receive in Messages ..................388\nListening to Audio in Messages You Receive in Messages ..........................390\nWatching Video in Messages You Receive in Messages ......392\nReplying to Messages from the Messages App ..394\nReplying to Messages from a Banner Alert ...............395\nUsing Quick Actions to Send Messages (iPhone 6s and 6s Plus) .......396\nWorking with Messages ......................397\nReceiving and Reading Messages on an iPhone 6 Plus or 6s Plus ...398\nUsing 3D Touch for Messages (iPhone 6s and 6s Plus) .........400\nAdding Images and Video to Conversations ...........401\nAdding Audio Recordings to Conversations ...........407\nAdding Video and Photos to Conversations ............409\nAdding Locations to Conversations .........410\nBrowsing Attachments to Conversations .....................412\nDeleting Messages and Conversations ...........................414\nDeleting Conversations ...........416\nChapter 11: Managing Calendars, Reminders, and Clocks 419\nSetting Calendar, Reminder, Date, and Time Preferences .............420\nWorking with Calendars .....................424\nViewing Calendars and Events .........................424\nConfiguring Calendars ..............425\nNavigating Calendars .................430\nViewing Calendars ..........................430\nUsing 3D Touch for Events (iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Only) ..434\nAdding Events to a Calendar ..436\nUsing Quick Actions with the Calendar App (iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Only) ....449\nSearching Calendars ....................449\nManaging Calendars and Events ..................451\nWorking with Reminders ...................453\nCreating Reminders ......................456\nOrganizing Reminders with Lists .................461\nManaging Reminders .................463\nWorking with the Clock .......................465\nSetting and Using Alarms ....466\nManaging Alarms .470\nUsing the Stopwatch...................472\nUsing the Timer .......474\nChapter 12: Working with Siri 479\nSetting Up Siri ........................481\nUnderstanding Siri\u2019s Personality ....484\nLearning How to Use Siri by Example ................490\nUsing Siri to Make Voice Calls 490\nComposing New Email with Siri ....................491\nReplying to Emails with Siri ......492\nHaving Messages Read to You .........................494\nReplying to Messages with Siri .......................495\nSending New Messages with Siri .................496\nUsing Siri to Create Events ..497\nUsing Siri to Create Reminders ........................499\nUsing Siri to Get Information .501\nUsing Siri to Play Music ...........502\nUsing Siri to Get Directions ......503\nUsing Dictation to Speak Text Instead of Typing ..........................505\nUsing Siri to Open Apps .........507\nGetting Suggestions from Siri ....507\nChapter 13: Surfing the Web 513\nSetting Safari Preferences ................515\nVisiting Websites ................520\nUsing Bookmarks to Move to Websites ..........................521\nUsing Your Favorites to Move to Websites ..................524\nTyping URLs to Move to Websites...............526\nUsing Your Browsing History to Move to Websites ....................528\nViewing Websites ..............530\nWorking with Multiple Websites at the Same Time ...534\nOpening New Pages in the Background .......................534\nOpening New Pages in a New Tab .............535\nUsing Tab View to Manage Open Web Pages .........536\nSearching the Web .........................539\nSaving and Organizing Bookmarks .......................541\nCreating Bookmarks .....................541\nOrganizing Bookmarks.............544\nDeleting Bookmarks or Folders of Bookmarks .....549\nCreating Bookmarks on the Home Screen .................550\nUsing 3D Touch with Safari (iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Only) ................552\nCompleting Forms on the Web 554\nManually Completing Forms ..555\nUsing AutoFill to Complete Forms .............557\nSigning In to Websites Automatically ................558\nChapter 14: Working with Photos and Video You Take with Your iPhone 561\nSetting Your Photos & Camera Preferences ...........................562\nTaking Photos and Video with Your iPhone ..........................567\nTaking Photos ............573\nTaking Panoramic Photos .....577\nTaking Video ................579\nTaking Photos and Video from the Lock Screen .581\nTaking Photos and Video from the Control Center ....................582\nTaking Photos with Quick Actions (iPhone 6s, 6s Plus Only) ...................583\nViewing, Editing, and Working with Photos on Your iPhone....585\nFinding Photos to Work With by Browsing ................585\nFinding Photos to Work With by Searching ..............593\nUsing 3D Touch with Photos (iPhone 6s, 6s Plus Only) ........594\nViewing Photos in Slideshows .........................595\nWorking with Burst 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Other Cool iPhone Apps Already Installed on Your iPhone ........................644\nTouring Other Cool iPhone Apps You Can Download onto Your iPhone ..........647\nListening to Podcasts with the Podcasts App ....................649\nSetting Your Podcast Preferences ................649\nUsing the Podcasts App to Subscribe to Podcasts .....................652\nChoosing a Podcast to Listen To ...................655\nListening to Podcasts .................658\nManaging Podcasts and Episodes of Podcasts ....662\nFinding Your Way with Maps ........665\nWorking with the Wallet App and Apple Pay .....................672\nWorking with the Wallet App 672\nAdding Passes or Cards to Your Wallet Using an App ............677\nAdding Passes or Cards to Your Wallet by Scanning Their Codes .....678\nWorking with Apple Pay.........680\nAdding Credit or Debit Cards to Apple Pay ..............682\nManaging Apple Pay ...................684\nManaging Your Health with the Health App........................686\nUsing the Health App to Create a Medical ID ........686\nAccessing Your Medical ID ..688\nUsing the Health App for Health and Fitness Information .........................689\nConfiguring Apps to Report to the Health App .690\nUsing the Health App to View Health Information ....................692\nManaging Sources in the Health App ...695\nWorking Seamlessly Across Your Devices.....696\nWorking with Handoff ..............696\nUsing Handoff on iOS Devices .........................697\nTaking Phone Calls on Macs or iPads .....699\nChapter 16: Maintaining and Protecting Your iPhone and Solving Problems ONLINE\nBonus Content: Finding and Listening to Music ONLINE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 504, "original_length": 22980, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 130.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": 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Mexico\u2019s water resources are divided into 13 Hydrological Administrative Regions (HAR), with a total of 653 aquifers. Of those, data show the country is overexploiting 105. [...]\nInterview of the Week: John Donoghue, Allied Wireless and National Fiber Networks Mexico\nBy Sara Warden On December 6, 2018 \u00b7 Add Comment\nAllied Wireless and National Fiber Networks Mexico is a thirty-five-year veteran of telecommunication and IT industries, founder of the first dark fiber company in the US and Mexico. It built out 1,500 cell sites for the first US PCS wireless carriers. President and CEO John Donoghue sat down with us to discuss Mexico\u2019s obstacles to [...]\nThe Week in Infrastructure: Out with The Old, In with The New\nOn December 3, 2018 By Sara Warden\nOn December 1, Mexico officially inaugurated its new President. In his acceptance speech, L\u00f3pez Obrador reiterated his vows to transform the country, with reference to the Energy Reform and social welfare. Pe\u00f1a Nieto leaves behind a legacy that includes an Energy Reform, a Telecommunications Reform and several prolific infrastructure projects such as NAIM and [...]\nTaxes: The Root of Mexico\u2019s Infrastructure Problem\nOn November 28, 2018 By Brenda Salas\nAmong the main reasons why infrastructure projects are not being developed at the necessary rate is the lack of government budget to fund them. According to the OECD\u2019s Revenue Statistics in Latin America and Caribbean report, Mexico is among the six countries with the least total tax income in the region. In fact, the Mexican [...]\nInterview of the Week: Eduardo Orozco, Former Country Manager of Greystar\nOn November 27, 2018 By Sara Warden\nGreystar offers fully-integrated real estate services, including property management and investment management, as well as development and construction services. It has over 437,000 multifamily and student units under management globally and more than US$11.4 billion of sponsored multifamily projects in the US. Q: To what extent is the rental housing market developed in Mexico [...]\nThe Week in Infrastructure: AMLO\u2019s Priorities Brings in Votes\nWith only five days until AMLO becomes Mexico\u2019s newest president, the sector waits for news on what new projects and rules of the game will be for infrastructure development. There continues to be non-conformity surrounding the cancellation of NAIM and companies are looking for more news on the tenders for the Mayan Train. What will [...]\nInterview of the Week: Jack Levy, Grupo VEQ\nGrupo VEQ, born in 2005, has built an important experience in the development and execution of projects that amount to date MX$1.3 billion invested in completed works and more than MX$2 billion in works under construction or in the design phase. 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CMIC and Concanaco made public statements about AMLO\u2019s intended infrastructure [...]\nTapping into Mexico\u2019s Water Sector For Investment Flows\nOn November 14, 2018 By Gabriela Mastache\nThe Mexican state needs to modernize its legislative framework to allow for joint participation between the public and private sectors in water infrastructure, panelists said at the Mexico Infrastructure & Sustainability Summit 2018, as they reflected on the challenges that Mexico faces to ensure access to water for all its inhabitants. \u201cWe need new regulation [...]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 4881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/16f04.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:47Z", "digest": "sha1:TRIDBWUZT32GQLWPXT3YL7I7NF34FLQI", "length": 6073, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.inmusicwetrust.com", "title": "In Music We Trust - Jimmies: Win Some, Lose Most!", "raw_content": "The Jimmies: Win Some, Lose Most!\nEvery once in awhile there is a band so powerful, so melodic, and so fun you know they're going straight to the top. Back in 1995 when I was first exposed to the Jimmies, I was blown away. I followed their progress through a few 7\"'s and two EP's. And then the moment all the punk rockers in town were waiting for came...they were releasing their debut full-length CD, COUNTDOWN (Review). It was late December of 1996, and I knew something magical was going to happen to this band. It just had to. I mean, the album was so bouncy and catchy, you couldn't not dance and sing-along when you heard it. But here we are entering 1999 and they're now label-less while kicking out some of the best tunes of their career. Let's not start the story here though, lets go back to the beginning.\nBorn into the small town life of Longview, Washington, there is no escaping the boring surroundings that stay with you day after day. Besides going to see a movie or listening to music, the only other thing to do to cure the boredom is drink. So drinking lots of alcohol is what the guys who would later form The Jimmies did.\nThe Jimmies started out as a five-piece featuring Chris Brusseau (vocals), his older brother Barry (guitar/backing vocals), their half-brother Tim Ward (drums), and friends Jason Olson (bass guitar) and Eric Parvi (guitar/backing vocals). They would continue this way for quite some time, drinking and playing loud. Eric would play with the band through their \"65 Miles\" 7\" on National Dust, the SOMEONE HAS TO PLAY LAST CD/EP on Schizophonic, and the IT'S A SPLIT split CD on Bittersweet. But, just as they were gearing up to release their first full-length, Eric decided to leave the band. \"It's different, because you can't...individual parts don't sound as cool. The one guitar makes it sound hollow, while with two guitars it sounds really cool. You can do a lot more in the studio that you can't do live, too,\" explains Tim on the departure of Eric. \"He [Barry] bought Eric's amp off him, so he pretty much runs it through the same thing. He has a half stack on each side of the stage, and it sounds pretty powerful. So, looking at it, nothing has really changed all that much.\" Out of the eleven tracks on COUNTDOWN, Eric's last track was the title track. But, even as a four-piece, The Jimmies still manage to whip out muscular sounding '77 style punk rock that relies on its poppy beats to keep the crowds dancing, singing along, and drinking to every note.\nAs grand as COUNTDOWN is, I swore an Epitaph or a Lookout Records would be all over it. But the closest thing they've come to signing with a major-indie label like the above two mentioned was when Panic Button Records (Ben Weasel's vanity label off of Lookout) became interested in them. \"It started out they [Panic Button] was all excited about signing us, so we were really excited about signing to them. But, it didn't happen. I don't know the whole story, but Ben Weasel got some money from Lookout! in court to start a label. It wasn't a bad blood thing or anything, but he got some money from them to start his label. But it didn't work out for us, so we're just going to keep going. I'd like to get signed to a label and have someone put out our records, but if not, we'll put the next one out,\" Tim says, explaining their label-less stance right now.\nBut even though COUNTDOWN is nearly two years old, it still remains a hot seller from time to time in the Portland area. \"One day we were on the A&E's top-selling list for independent bands in the Northwest. You know the list...well, COUNTDOWN was on there once and then never again a while ago,\" Tim says with curiosity in his eyes. \"Yeah, we must have had a good show or something. Or, people were so bored with local music, they decided they really liked the album and picked up a second copy,\" elaborates Jason.\nPlaying around the local area several times a month, The Jimmies are hard at work perfecting their craft for their next album. Polishing the material live, the only way they know how, they're hitting Portland frequently to keep their name out on the market while they work on a follow-up to remind local music fans they are indeed still here.\n\"We've got about nine new songs and are trying to get a few more for a full-length. We've been having some problems though, because the guy that usually records us went back to college. He isn't going to record anything for five years, so we're starting over and trying to find a new studio guy that we like,\" explains Tim.\n\"[The new stuff is] strong stuff, and I'm very anxious to get it out. I really like it,\" Jason says when asked his opinions on the new material. \"Some are more poppier, and some are...it's more of a mix.\"\n\"I hope it doesn't take too long. But, in the mean time, we'll do some artwork and take care of some stuff,\" furthers Tim on a possible release date for their follow-up full-length.\nSo, what should people look forward to from The Jimmies in 1999?\nThe words just jumping out of Tim's mouth, he eagerly states, \"In 1999 we want to get a new record out.\"\n\"And more touring in 1999,\" Jason quickly follows.\nYes, 1999 should, if we lived in a perfect world, be the year when everything starts to fall into place for the band that has seen their ups and downs, lived to talk about them, and put in enough hard work to fuel several punk groups. If we lived in a perfect world they're punk credentials, which are untouchable, would have gained them a substantial underground following and interest from every label that considers themselves 'punk.' But, we'll just have to wait and see. For me though, I'm just eagerly awaiting The Jimmies next full-length, regardless of who puts it out. It's going to rock, because what else would you expect from the best punk band to ever call the Pacific Northwest home.\nClick here to read a review of The Jimmies: Countdown\nJim Basnight: From The Moberlys to The Rockinghams -- pop pleasure Jon Garcia Austin singer-songwriter moves to Portland, releases new record, finds creativity.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 6454, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 231.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.insightmagazine.org/advice/viewcomments.asp?adviceid=684", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:00Z", "digest": "sha1:LZ6V45BP56T7JOFZQ4AX7HHLBHAIFVWE", "length": 311, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.insightmagazine.org", "title": "Insight Magazine Online", "raw_content": "I\u2019ve heard that bad stuff happens sometimes in clubs. I just want to go with my girl friends and have a good time. Should I go?\nDear Club Wary,\nOn the surface, it seems so innocent, doesn\u2019t it? What\u2019s the matter with hanging out with friends in a security-watched spot and just having fun? I mean, ... read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1126, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iostamps.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=IOSTAMPS&Product_Code=3163-LG", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:16Z", "digest": "sha1:OCJTBIGR5MCAX7M4OUVMRI25WUGVAU4N", "length": 102, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.iostamps.com", "title": "Impression Obsession Rubber Stamps Mini Patterns 1", "raw_content": "This is a red rubber cling rubber stamp set. There are three stamps measuring 2.75 x 2.75 inches each.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 1161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 283.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.irinnews.org/photo/201505291257450960/say-tha-mar-gyi-camp-displaced-persons-near-siitwe-capital-myanmars-rakhine", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:39Z", "digest": "sha1:QBGRZSU5W6QUBFAYRPGAZFEMPXJAOZEO", "length": 194, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.irinnews.org", "title": "Say Tha Mar Gyi camp for displaced persons, near Siitwe, the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state | IRIN", "raw_content": "Say Tha Mar Gyi camp for displaced persons, near Siitwe, the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state\nSay Tha Mar Gyi camp for displaced persons, near Siitwe, the capital of Myanmar's Rakhine state...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 309, "original_length": 4035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.74, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.iwanimawocha.com/music/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:18Z", "digest": "sha1:MWGXKKZDKOIQP5KUXRZTMXJVLYBXINZT", "length": 1068, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.iwanimawocha.com", "title": "Music \u2014 Iwani", "raw_content": "Iwani is a composer and performer, who started playing the piano at the age of eight. Since, she has taught herself how to play guitar, ukulele and mbira, which she mostly uses to accompany herself singing. In 2012, she also composed a piece of music that was performed by a youth orchestra in New Jersey, USA. The 53-page piece, entitled Vana Ve Afrika (\u201cChildren of Africa\u201d in my mother tongue, Shona) is a song of empowerment for Africans, especially the younger generation. The piece was debuted as the finale of the \u201cChildren for Children\u201d Concert held at the prestigious Thurnauer. The concert raised over US$4000, all of which was donated to the Sandra Lee Centre, an orphanage Iwani volunteered at for several years whilst still in Swaziland.\nIwani's last project involved composing three pieces of music based on Wassily Kandinsky's synaesthesia-inspired theatre piece, The Yellow Sound. These pieces were performed by members of the NUS Orchestra, and the Yale-NUS Chamber Choir at a performance in April.\nIwani continues to compose and perform in Singapore.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 141.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jackiemorris.co.uk/blog/beauty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:04Z", "digest": "sha1:DRESVQADDIFFFOV77WJ72TTWMDT5KQ6G", "length": 3414, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.jackiemorris.co.uk", "title": "Beauty - Jackie Morris Artist", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Lost Words and the Last Year\nPainting, Music, Words \u2192\nDay began with walking at the beach where creatures drew patterns in the sand. Lines drawings of journeys.\nLater, coffee with a friend and I was reminded of some work that I keep seeing. First it was a giant sparrow on the wall of a building in Haverfordwest. I drove around town twice so I could take a second look. Beautiful. Then in the homes of friends, small birds landing.\nI remembered that the gallery in Solva had some of this work in the window, so went to see, and found\u2026\nWarren\u2019s work is gorgeous. Understated, beautifully drawn, small souls of birds painted on wood. Each bird looks as if it might fly away any second. And the gallery is such a peaceful, interesting place to be.\nI bought a small flock to hang on the walls once I have painted them. We talked about the shape of birds, how all drawing is from memory, how to catch that shape and how the only way to learn is to do, over and over. And after I had bought a robin and four sparrows I said he really should put his prices up. (My advice is to get in there now and fast, because these are such beautiful creatures)\nI think this says it all\u2026.. \u2018I would like to paint the way a bird sings\u2019\u2026\u2026\u2026 you can take that in many ways.\nYou can see more of Warren\u2019s work in Oriel Fach in Solva, near the Harbour Inn, or online on his website.\nSparrers! Aren\u2019t they brilliant! The big painting, is what happens in the top of the fuschia bush in our garden. They gather there, because they can keep an eye on the bird feeder, and the bird bath, and sit in the sun, while doing so. And in the top of the bit we call The Jungle, when they see us coming down the garden to throw grain in there for all the residents. I love them \u2013 quarrelling, scrapping, fluffing, chirruping \u2013 full of it.\nPS Your tweets re. the Japanese whaling, reminded me of this\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026..a different place, but the same thoughts, apply\u2026\u2026\u2026.I sent this to the \u2018comments\u2019 in an article in \u2018The Orkney News\u2019 about the Faroes\u2019 annul slaughter of whales\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. https://theorkneynews.scot/2017/04/19/the-faroes-self-governing-islands/\nAnd, of course \u2013 take part in any actions which you come across \u2013 petitions, emailing The Powers That Be etc etc \u2013 keep working at it \u2013 doing what we can.\n\u201cI accept that I\u2019m an old hippie, and that my way isn\u2019t always other folk\u2019s way, but I\u2019m going to post this anyway. Years ago, when I first head of what happens in the Faroes, with the whales and other marine life which get caught up in the slaughter, I wrote the following to a friend who was also concerned about it and wondering what she could do. It\u2019s worth a try \u2013 nothing ventured, nothing gained.\nI was sitting, thinking about what could be done about that slaughter, as well as what the International wildlife groups are presumably doing, already. Here\u2019s what it came to me to do\u2026\u2026\u2026\nThis may sound a bit nuts, but I\u2019ve done something similar before, when I asked the mice to leave our attic. I connected with all of mice-kind, and asked them to leave, I proposed that they could live in the bank at the bottom of our garden, in the summer, and in the shed in the winter, but not in the attic. And, they left, never to return! Andrew Appleby did something similar when he had a rabbit problem. It\u2019s not quite the same as the dolphins, but it\u2019s a similar idea.\nSo, Liz, I gave it a go. It felt right. It\u2019s worth a try. It\u2019s always worth a try!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 9776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8286-israel-b-moses", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:11Z", "digest": "sha1:CD3E5ENAWMLTNWEFSWYOQBQCP6GIJOH6", "length": 389, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.jewishencyclopedia.com", "title": "ISRAEL B. MOSES - JewishEncyclopedia.com", "raw_content": "ISRAEL B. MOSES:\nBy: Kaufmann Kohler, Philipp Bloch\nPolish cabalist; lived at the end of the sixteenth century. He is known only through his book \"Tamim Ya\u1e25daw,\" in which all verses of the Psalms and the Proverbs found in the Zohar are collected, with the explanations there given. The collection is preceded by a cabalistic treatise on the soul and a \"ba\u1e33\u1e33ashah\" by the compiler.\nK. P. B.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 291, "original_length": 4004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.johnantell.co.uk/obtaining-witness-statements", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QC27DJGNAZ6I4CH7WP2G7XVDWK2KJHWH", "length": 18646, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "www.johnantell.co.uk", "title": "Obtaining Witness Statements - John Antell - Barrister", "raw_content": "Obtaining Witness Statements\nIt may be advisable to obtain witness statements from people who witnessed events relevant to your case. This is important if there are matters which you yourself did not witness, and it can also be important even for things you did witness, if they are disputed.\n1 Using an investigator to take a witness statement\n2.1 How can I find an investigator to take a witness statement?\n2.2 What do I do if I do not have the contact details of a witness?\n2.3 Why do I need an investigator to take a statement from a witness?\n2.4 How much contact should I have with a witness before an investigator has taken a statement from them?\n2.5 What if a witness is reluctant to give a statement?\nUsing an investigator to take a witness statement\nYou can ask a private investigator to take a witness statement. Generally you will need to tell the investigator what the case is about - e.g. a road accident, or how a piece of land was used between 1983 and 2003, or \"a contract with a company starting with when their salesman first made contact and including everything about the service they subsequently provided\" - so that the investigator knows what to ask the witness about. You can ask me to draft a letter for you to send to the investigator explaining what the case is about and any particular questions witnesses could be asked.\nYou will also need to tell the investigator the number and name of the court/tribunal case and which court or tribunal it is proceeding in so that this can be included as a heading on the witness statement like this:\nCLAIM NO: PT-2017-123456\nPROPERTY TRUSTS AND PROBATE LIST (ChD)\nHow can I find an investigator to take a witness statement?\nYou can find a list of investigators at www.theabi.org.uk Investigators provide a wide range of services. Different investigators might carry out surveillance, tracing missing persons, tracing witnesses, serving legal documents (process serving), taking witness statements, and other activities. So it is important, when choosing an investigator to take a witness statement, to first contact them and ask them questions about what kind of work they specialise in - taking witness statement might just be a sideline.\nSome investigators do not take witness statements themselves but outsource this work. Whilst outsourcing is not automatically a bad idea, there is obviously a huge difference between outsourcing to a carefully chosen person who has proved themselves proficient in the past, and using an agency who will pass the work to the next person on their books who happens to be available. A large proportion of agency business is concerned with low value traffic accident claims. These are claims funded by insurance companies who, as part of their policy cover, agree to fund them, and generally the insurance company is more concerned with limiting the cost of litigation than with the result - after all if their policyholder loses the case that means the insurance company can charge them a higher premium on renewal. Consequently the quality of witness statements outsourced through agencies is often not high. So if an investigator outsources you need to ask some searching questions.\nTaking a witness statement is a skilled activity. It is not simply writing down verbatim what the witness says because some witnesses misuse words (e.g. many people confuse effect and affect, or prescribe and proscribe) or may initially give an account which moves back and forwards in time and which needs to be separated out chronologically. Capturing what the witness is saying, in words which will be clear in meaning to the reader - and so not always verbatim - but without introducing any unconscious \"spin\", is a skilled task.\nMany private investigators are former police officers. The normal retirement age for police officers is lower than for most other occupations and many police officers make a second career as a private investigator and have a lot of experience taking witness statements. Criminal law is not the same as civil law but the principles of taking witness statements are essentially the same, and you can ask me to draft a letter for you to send to the investigator explaining what the case is about and any particular questions witnesses could be asked, based on what is most relevant under civil law.\nWhat do I do if I do not have the contact details of a witness?\nIt may be that you do not have the contact details of a witness. For example if you case is about how land you currently own was used by past owners, you may be able to find the name of a past owner from the Land Registry but not their current address. In this case you can ask the investigator to see if they can trace the witness as tracing witnesses is one of the services which most investigators provide.\nWhy do I need an investigator to take a statement from a witness?\nUnless you have some training and experience in taking witness statements, if you yourself try to obtain a statement from a witness it may suffer from one of two problems:\nIt may be too general - just giving the witness's conclusions rather than their detailed recollections\nIt may contain an unconscious 'spin'\nIn order to explain why this is and why it matters I need first of all to give some background about the legal process and how witnesses are questioned at trial. Each party decides which witnesses they are going to call to give evidence. Every witness will be \u201ccalled\u201d by one party or the other (the court/tribunal itself does not decide to call witnesses of its own initiative). When a witness gives evidence, the first thing they are asked after taking the oath, by the barrister representing the party calling them, is to confirm that their witness statement is correct. After that the barrister representing the other side will ask questions in what is known as cross-examination. The barrister representing the other side can ask the witness virtually any relevant question and is allowed to ask \u201cleading questions\u201d. A \u201cleading question\u201d is a question which is worded in such a way as to suggest the answer expected such as \u201cThe car was blue, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d (rather than \"what colour was the car?\"). When the barrister representing the other side has finished asking questions in cross-examination, the barrister for the party calling the witness can ask questions in what is known as re-examination, but the questions which that barrister is allowed to ask in re-examination are limited in two ways: the barrister can only ask questions in clarification of issues which have been raised in cross-examination and leading questions are not allowed. So if the witness had previously agreed, in cross-examination, that the car was blue, for example, the barrister asking questions in re-examination cannot ask \u201cthe car was black, wasn\u2019t it?\u201d\nYou can see from this that the legal process is designed to test the evidence of witnesses: the barrister for the party calling a witness is limited in the questions they can ask, whereas the barrister for the other party has a free hand to put to the witness what they have been told by their client and to suggest to the witness that where the witness disagrees, the witness is mistaken.\nParticularly because of this, the decision by a party whether or not to call a particular witness at trial is an important one. The court/tribunal will set a deadline some weeks before the trial, by which time the parties must exchange witness statements and it is at this stage that a final decision has to be made by a party whether or not it will call a particular potential witness at trial, because a witness statement for each witness which a party will call has to be exchanged at this point.\nIn order to decide whether to call a particular person as a witness, a party, obviously, first needs to find out what the potential witness\u2019s recollections are and this is the purpose of arranging for the potential witness to be asked, at an early stage, for a statement. If the statement indicates that the witness\u2019s recollection is helpful to the party\u2019s case (i.e. the witness\u2019s recollection tends to support the party\u2019s contentions on matters which are disputed between the parties) and the witness seems to be fairly sure about their memory, then, ordinarily the party would choose to call that witness.\nIf the statement indicates that the witness\u2019s recollection tends generally to support the party\u2019s case on matters which are disputed between the parties, but the witness is less than certain about their memory, then the decision whether to call that witness is a more difficult decision to make because the freedom of the opposing barrister to ask leading questions in cross-examination may mean that the witness, if called, ends up agreeing, at least in part, with what the other barrister is putting to them, and that may be worse for the witness-calling party\u2019s case than if they had chosen not to call the witness at all.\nSometimes the statement indicates that the witness\u2019s recollection tends to support the party on some disputed issues but tends to support the other party on some other disputed issues. In this case probably each party would prefer that the other party called the witness (in order to get the advantages of being the cross-examining party) but may not wish to risk calling the witness themselves. Sometimes this means that a potential witness is not called by either party.\nNow, going back to the question of why you yourself should not take witness statements: if you yourself had a question and answer session with a witness you might well get a skewed impression of what the witness's recollections actually are. For example if you described an event which both you and the witness were present at, and asked the witness whether they could confirm that their recollection is the same as yours, if the witness\u2019s recollection is broadly along the same lines as yours, they may well be inclined simply to say they agree with your recollection rather than quibble about some aspect of your account.\nSometimes people confuse giving a statement with something like countersigning someone's passport or licence application. If someone is asked to countersign someone's passport or licence application form they may be asked (depending what the wording of the declaration is) to confirm that (as well as knowing the person applying for a certain number of years) the information the applicant has written on the form is correct as far as they know. Some of the information in the application form may be personal details about the applicant which they did not happen to know - generally they are not signing the form to say that they know all the details to be true but simply confirming that there is nothing they know or suspect to be untrue - i.e. that the details on the form are correct as far as they know. But a witness statement is not the same. It should contain just what the witness has actually seen/heard themselves.\nEven if you do your best (as anyone taking a statement should) to ask non-leading questions, and not mention what you yourself remember, the fact that it is you asking the questions face to face may influence the witness subconsciously so that their account is spun in a way which makes them seem more certain of their recollection than they actually are. Investigators are trained to interview witnesses and obtain their recollections without asking leading questions and, of course, an investigator will have no personal knowledge of the events the witness has seen, but it is quite difficult for an untrained person to take a statement without lapsing into asking leading questions particularly if they themselves have their own knowledge of the events they are asking about, and have a personal stake in the case.\nIf you yourself were to take a statement from a witness you might end up with a statement which looks very supportive of your case \u2013 the witness might say in it that they recall something without expressing any uncertainty (when in fact it is something they believe to be the case but are not completely certain about) or they might echo in their account the way you have worded questions when if they had been asked neutral non-leading questions they would have chosen other adjectives and adverbs which put matters in a somewhat different light. Or certain relevant information they remember may go unmentioned because they were not asked\nSometimes even statements taken by solicitors have a certain spin and, because the courts and tribunals know that (whether deliberately or inadvertently through inexpert taking of statements) this can happen, court/tribunals give virtually no weight to a bare witness statement put forward at trial unless the witness attends the trial and is cross examined.\nNote: If you have applied to the court for an interim injunction you will know that the court, when deciding whether to grant the interim injunction, reads the witness statements filed with the application and the witnesses are not cross-examined - in fact the parties do not even have to attend the interim application hearing if they are represented by a barrister, though most do. However that is because an interim injunction is granted only as a temporary measure - for example to temporarily prevent someone cutting down mature trees, and building on their land, whilst the parties prepare for a full trial at which it will be decided whether there is an enforceable restrictive covenant preventing the work. The court reasons that if the party who claims they are free to build wins at trial, all they will have suffered by being temporarily prevented from doing so is a delay of, say 6 months, and if they have lost money as a result of the delay the other party can be ordered to compensate them. On the other hand if no temporary injunction had been granted and the work proceeded and, at trial, the covenant was held to be enforceable, it would then be too late to return the site to its former condition, complete with mature trees. So the court, at the interim application stage, makes a pragmatic decision about what should happen in the short term, based on witness statement of witnesses who are not cross-examined at the interim application hearing. But those same witnesses will be cross-examined later, at trial, when the parties rights are finally determined. At trial courts give virtually no weight to a bare witness statement put forward unless the witness attends the trial and is cross examined.\nIt is wrong to obtain a statement which is not the witness's own \u201cunspun\u201d account and it is also, in fact, counter-productive because when you ask a barrister to advise whether the potential witness should be called as one of your witnesses, the barrister will be basing their advice on the signed statement you send to them for that witness, and if the statement presents the witness\u2019s recollections as more supportive of your case than they actually are, or as clearer than they actually are, the barrister may advise that the witness should be called when, if the statement had more faithfully reflected the witness\u2019s recollections, with any doubts or qualifications stated, the barrister might have advised not to call that witness but instead to redouble efforts to trace other witnesses. The result of calling a witness whose witness statement contains (unknown to the barrister) 'spin' may be that after cross-examination the overall effect of the witness\u2019s evidence is worse for your case than if the witness had not been called at all. Also if you are asking a barrister to advise on the likelihood of winning, they will be basing their advice, in part, on the signed statements for your witnesses which you send to them so it is important that those statements faithfully reflect the witness\u2019s recollections in order that the most accurate assessment of likelihood of success can be given. All litigation involves risk (in particular the risk of being ordered to pay the other side\u2019s legal costs if you lose) and so it is important to have as accurate an assessment as possible of the likelihood of winning because if chances of success are relatively low, it may be prudent to reconsider options.\nHow much contact should I have with a witness before an investigator has taken a statement from them?\nIf the witness is someone known to you but who you have not had contact with for some time, you will want to check that the contact details you have for them are still correct and to briefly ask them if they would mind telling an investigator, whom you are going to engage, what they remember.\nIf the witness is someone unknown to you then it is usually better to leave the investigator to make the first contact with them.\nIf the witness is someone you have a lot of social or business contact with then it may well be that you have already discussed some of the details of the case with them and, indeed it may be necessary to do so if they are involved with dealing with practical issues which the subject matter of the dispute has raised, but as far as possible, particularly if the litigation concerns purely historical events and there is no an ongoing situation, you should refrain from discussing the details of the case with the witness before the investigator has taken a statement from them. This is to reduce the risk of the witness becoming confused between what they themselves remember and what you have told them of your own recollections.\nWhat if a witness is reluctant to give a statement?\nMost people are happy to help in the administration of justice by telling a court or tribunal what they remember and, for that purpose, giving a statement in advance (a statement in advance is what virtually all court/tribunals require for witnesses who are to give evidence at trial). Sometimes witnesses are apprehensive simply because being a witness in court/tribunal proceedings is something they have not done before. If a witness lives a long way from the court/tribunal and is concerned about the cost of travel when the time comes to attend court/tribunal you can offer to pay their travelling expenses (you would normally do this anyway) or, if they do not drive and public transport is inconvenient/non-existent you can offer to give them a lift to court/tribunal. If they wonder exactly what an investigator is you can explain that the role of the investigator is simply to ask the witness questions about what they remember, write it down in the form of a witness statement, and ask the witness to check it before signing. But if the witness refuses point blank to talk to the investigator then that is their right.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 20210, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.johnroscigno.com/2009/07/driving-again.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3IK44MX3SNNFLC3TAA6TDBLQH5JAHQSE", "length": 803, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.johnroscigno.com", "title": "JohnRoscigno.com: Driving, again.", "raw_content": "Drove back home with Bunny. Driving down seems to go a lot faster than driving up, though a lot of it probably is due to the fact that Bunny was in the car with me today. We started off leisurely, and after a stop in Gilroy picked up speed and got home in plenty of time. Tonight we watched \"Frost/Nixon\" about the interview of Nixon after he resigned. It was a fascinating film, presented as more of a documentary about the making of the interview, and all of the work that went into securing and actually doing the interview. We really liked it, the film is kind of a sequel of sorts to \"All the President's Men\" since it chronologically follows after, and is riveting throughout. No special picture tonight, but this is an awesome sight Bunny, Joe and I saw at the Golden Gate Bridge a few weeks ago.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 3309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.jottings.in/2014/09/from-todays-papers-26-sep-2014.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:32Z", "digest": "sha1:QULJGO5P5YOMZOV5ZQWUEEJEXYC53FBF", "length": 23866, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "www.jottings.in", "title": "Jottings: From Today's Papers - 26 Sep 2014", "raw_content": "India, China end stand-off at Chumar, to pull back troops\nMilitary commanders of India and China today decided to end the two-week stand-off at Chumar in south eastern Ladakh.\nTroops will be withdrawn in phases over the next four days. They will be restored at the positions they held before September 10, sources said.\nThe deadlock was broken after both sides agreed to refrain from construction activity in the disputed areas along the Line of Actual Control (LAC).\nA Brigadier-level flag meeting was held today at \u2018Sppangur Gap\u2019 in Chusul area of eastern Ladakh where the phased withdrawal was decided along with a timeline to do so, sources confirmed.\nSources say the Indian Army will remove its military-use concrete constructions in disputed areas along the LAC in Chumar, while the Chinese will halt construction on a road in the disputed areas or south of point 30-R.\n\u201cStatus quo ante shall be restored,\u201d a source said, adding that the decision was taken at the highest levels in Delhi and Beijing.\nIn today\u2019s flag meeting, the military commanders discussed ground rules to withdraw the troops. The two sides worked out a formula that seemed workable for both. With events being closely watched in Washington, Moscow, Tokyo and Islamabad, the settlement had to look fair to either side lest they look to be ceding ground.\nDuring the April-May 2013 stand-off at Depsang plains, China had agreed to withdraw after India agreed to remove some tin sheds it had erected at Chumar \u2013 which was an accepted formula.\nChinese Ambassador to India Le Yechung had yesterday said that the LAC was not demarcated and due to the dispute it was difficult to tell \u201cwho crossed the border\u201d.\nDuring the current stand-off, India numerically dominated all but one position at Chumar with both sides claiming the other violated the sanctity of the Line of Actual Control. Thereafter, both agreed upon 2005 protocol that barred any troop buildup or construction in disputed areas.\nIndia wanted the People\u2019s Liberation Army (PLA) to withdraw from its positions into its own held areas of Chepzi (Zhipuqi-Quebusi) and China wanted India to withdraw.\nOn September 17, both sides had agreed to maintain a minimum distance along the Line of Actual Control.\nMeanwhile, New Delhi is working on naming a special representative, as demanded by China during President Xi Jinping's visit to India last week, to hold talks on the border issue and demarcation of the Line of Actual Control.\nhttp://www.ndtv.com/article/india/india-china-agree-on-withdrawal-of-troops-from-ladakh-say-sources-597992?utm_source=ndtv&utm_medium=top-stories-widget&utm_campaign=story-3-http%3a%2f%2fwww.ndtv.com%2farticle%2findia%2findia-china-agree-on-withdrawal-of-troops-from-ladakh-say-sources-597992\nIndia, China Agree on Withdrawal of Troops From Ladakh, Say Sources\nThe two week face-off with the Chinese army at Chumur in South East Ladakh ended today following a flag meeting in Chushul.\nSources told NDTV after today's marathon flag meeting both sides have agreed to pull back troops from point 30R and adjoining areas in Chumoor from tomorrow.\nThe withdrawal of troops will be carried out in four phases, sources added.\nBesides, both sides have agreed to restore \"status quo ante as on September 10,\" sources said. In other words, both India and China have agreed not to construct in the disputed area.\nIndia was objecting to China constructing a road in the disputed area - Chebzi to point 30R. On the other hand China has been objecting to Indian constructions in the same area.\nAbout 800-1000 Chinese Army troops and 1500 troops of the Indian Army and Indo-Tibetan Border Police were engaged in face-off since September 11.\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi had raised the issue of transgression with Chinese President Xi Jinping during three day official visit to India.\nDespite the face-off at Ladakh, both sides were engaged with each other through confidence building measures.\nA seven member Chinese Army delegation from the eastern Chengdu Military command is visiting Kolkata.\nPolitical Commissar Chengdu Military Region Command Lieutenant General Zhu Fuxi met the Eastern Army Commander Lieutenant General M M S Rae at Fort William today.\nhttp://www.ndtv.com/article/india/blast-in-submarine-sindhurakshak-was-due-to-lapses-in-procedure-says-navy-597963?utm_source=ndtv&utm_medium=top-stories-widget&utm_campaign=story-5-http%3a%2f%2fwww.ndtv.com%2farticle%2findia%2fblast-in-submarine-sindhurakshak-was-due-to-lapses-in-procedure-says-navy-597963\nBlast in Submarine Sindhurakshak was Due to Lapses in Procedure, Says Navy\nExplosions on board INS Sindhurakshak in August 2013 - which caused the death of 18 sailors and the vessel to sink in Mumbai harbour - happened because critical Standard Operating Procedures, or SoPs, were violated, an internal inquiry into the incident has revealed.\nSpeaking on condition of anonymity, senior Navy officials aware of findings of the Board of Inquiry said, \"Processes were flouted when torpedoes were being loaded on the boat\".\nConfirming that procedures had indeed been violated, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Robin Dhowan told NDTV, \"Perhaps in not following certain procedures things could have gone wrong that led to accidents\".\nSubmarines are highly complicated platforms and detailed Standard Operating Procedures are there for handling them. \"We have found that whenever SOPs are not followed, there is room for error and that could lead to accidents,\" Admiral Dhowan said.\nThis is the first time the Indian Navy has officially ascribed a reason to what was perhaps the worst-ever accident in the submarine arm. (Read: Safety rules violation may be behind INS Sindhurakshak accident, says Russia)\nThe INS Sindhurakshak, a Kilo-class submarine - carried 16 warheads, a combination of Sut Torpedoes and Klub Missiles.\nOn August 14, the submarine was being prepared for a sortie - a dive at sea -- when a major explosion on board led to its sinking and the death of the sailors. The explosion took place in the forward compartment where the weapons bay was located. (Read: INS Sindhurakshak submarine explodes, 18 sailors feared dead)\nForensic examination of the 14 missiles and torpedoes recovered from the damaged submarine ruled out malfunction of ordnance which could have caused the explosion.\n\"Of the 16 warheads, two had exploded. The rest disintegrated, but didn't explode. This indicates that the warheads were stable and processes were violated during loading,\" said an official.\nAdmiral Dhowan said the incident has spurred the Navy to put in place strict remedial measures -- for instance, \"rigid safety audits and examination by operational commands prior to sorties\".\nThe Navy has also tested all other torpedoes and tube-launched missiles in other submarines of the same specification and found them to be \"stable\".\nINS Sindhurakshak, the 9th of the 10 Kilo Class diesel-electric powered submarines, was commissioned in December 1997. It went through a mid-life upgrade between June 2010 and May 2013, which cost $80 million.\nhttp://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/belying-optimism-us-india-defence-cooperation-struggles-114092600039_1.html\nBelying optimism, US-India defence cooperation struggles\nThe US-India defence relationship has been talked up as one of the highlights of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US on September 26-30. Yet, with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government having spent only four months in office, there has been little time to reverse the \"arms-length\" policies of A K Antony's eight-year custodianship of the defence ministry (MoD) that ended in May.\nModi's visit, therefore, is unlikely to achieve the \"deliverables\" and \"outcomes\" in defence cooperation that are used to measure a visit's success.\nAware of the embarrassing absence of substance and big-ticket signings, New Delhi last month initiated the draft of a fresh pact to renew the defence framework agreement that expires in June. The \"New Framework for the US-India Defence Relationship\", signed on June 28, 2005, was valid for 10 years.\nThe proposed new agreement is referred to - tongue-in-cheek - as the \"New New Defence Framework\". With Washington and New Delhi still negotiating drafts, there is little prospect of the agreement being signed during Modi's visit.\nNor are there any big-ticket defence contracts to sign. Defence Minister Arun Jaitley told Parliament in July that India's proposed purchase of M777 ultralight howitzers from BAE Systems is mired in disagreement over the price.\nThe two big contracts that the MoD recently cleared - for 22 AH-64E Apache attack helicopters; and 15 Chinook heavy lift helicopters, together worth about Rs 15,000 crore - have not been cleared by the union cabinet. There could be an announcement that India has selected the two Boeing helicopters, but a contract signature is unlikely.\nBoeing chief executive officer (CEO), James McNerney, will have a one-on-one meeting with Modi in New York on September 29. Company sources suggest Boeing will outline its plans to design and manufacture defence equipment in India.\nAnother CEO with interests in defence who will meet Modi that morning is Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric.\n\"India and US are strategic partners and cooperating across a wide canvas\u2026We cooperate from issues relating to the atom to issues relating to outer space,\" said India's foreign office spokesperson, Syed Akbaruddin, on September 23.\nYet, US officials complain the empty agenda reflects the Indian MoD's reluctance to respond to repeated US defence cooperation proposals.\nTo be sure, much of that stonewalling took place under Antony. After US Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, visited Delhi last month, American officials said they encountered a far more engaged and receptive Indian MoD.\nEven so, progress seems unlikely before Jaitley travels to Washington next month for a meeting of the Defence Policy Group (DPG) - the apex US-India defence cooperation forum, co-chaired by India's defence minister and the US secretary of defence.\nIt is a measure of how moribund the defence partnership had become under the United Progressive Alliance that the DPG, which is supposed to meet every year, has not met since February 2012.\nAs their best hope in resuscitating the defence relationship, New Delhi and Washington are looking to the Defence Trade and Technology Initiative (DTTI). Proposed by US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in 2012, the DTTI's role has never been formally spelt out. Even so, both sides informally agree that its basic role should be to overcome bureaucratic hurdles that arise due to the different working styles of the two defence establishments.\nUnder the DTTI, the Pentagon made a dozen proposals to the MoD during Chuck Hagel's visit last month. He said these would \"transfer significant qualitative capability, technology, and production know-how\" to India.\nOf these, the one that might come up during Modi's visit is a first-ever US offer to co-produce the FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missile in India; and to co-develop a \"next-generation Javelin\" with Indian defence research & development agencies. The Indian Army was poised to buy the Spike anti-tank missile from Israel, but the Javelin offer has caused New Delhi to reconsider.\nSecretary for defence production, G Mohan Kumar, was in Washington on September 23, apparently discussing the Javelin proposal. It remains unclear, however, whether any announcement will be made during Modi's visit.\nIn talking up the DTTI, Washington will cite Secretary Hagel's invitation to Jaitley to a summit level inter-agency meeting in October, where Secretary of State, John Kerry and Secretary of Commerce, Penny Pritzker, would join them. This high-power forum could discuss every dimension of the US technology control regime, which has been a major bugbear in US-India relations.\nhttp://www.livemint.com/Politics/vATJcv4ydCeU7fNRBmu0II/With-canal-and-hut-India-stands-up-to-China-on-disputed-fro.html\nWith canal and hut in Ladakh, Indian army stands up to China\nEarlier this month, the Indian army stationed on a remote Himalayan plateau built a small observation hut from where they could watch Chinese soldiers across a disputed border. The move so irked China\u2019s military that it laid a road on territory claimed by India and demanded that the tin hut be dismantled. India refused, destroyed a part of the new road and promptly raised troop numbers in the area. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making good on election promises of a more robust national security policy, and the fact that around 1,000 soldiers from each side are facing off in Ladakh is evidence even mighty China is not off limits. No shots have been fired, and a brief border war between the world\u2019s two most populous nations was fought 52 years ago. But Indian military officials said the situation in the Chumar area of Ladakh had been unusually tense in recent weeks, highlighting a simmering disagreement between the nuclear-armed neighbours that is back on the agenda at the highest level. Modi was unusually forthright when Chinese President Xi Jinping visited India in mid-September, challenging Xi in private on the question of incursions along their 3,500-km contested frontier. Afterwards, he told a news conference in the presence of the Chinese leader that peace and stability on the border were needed for better economic ties that Beijing has been pressing for. P. Stobdan, a former Indian ambassador and a Ladakhi with deep knowledge of the competing claims in the region, sees a shift in New Delhi\u2019s thinking. \u201cThe hut has become the bone of contention. The Chinese have drawn a red line. They want it demolished before they withdraw,\u201d he said. Last year, the Chinese forced the Indians to demolish another hut in Chumar in return for ending a face-off. \u201cThis time the new government does not seem to be in a mood to budge,\u201d Stobdan added. No longer business as usual Beginning in June, as it prepared to receive Xi, Modi\u2019s government set in train a series of bold actions on the border where Indian officials say China has long been nibbling away at its territory. It ordered faster construction of 72 strategic roads along the border to narrow the gap with China\u2019s vastly superior and intricate network of roads and tracks in the mountains. It has also rebuilt airfields, including a landing strip laid in Daulat Beg Oldi in Ladakh in 1962, the year the two countries fought their short war. Over the past few months C-130 Hercules planes bought from the US have been landing at the airfield some 30 km from Depsang, the site of a 21-day standoff last year when People\u2019s Liberation Army soldiers set up tents on India\u2019s side of the 1962 ceasefire line. V.K. Singh, Modi\u2019s minister for India\u2019s northeastern states, another area where the border is in dispute with China, says it is no longer business as usual on the so-called Line of Actual Control (LAC) dividing the two countries. Incursions from both sides are common along the ceasefire line, because their armies cannot agree where it lies, making a final settlement a distant prospect. \u201cSometimes (in the past), I think for political reasons or other reasons, we would have said okay, leave it. But that perpetuates the problem, it doesn\u2019t solve the problem,\u201d said Singh, a former army chief handpicked to beef up civilian and military infrastructure in the northeast. \u201cYou keep giving a concession, it only perpetuates the problem. So somewhere up the hierarchy someone has to say \u2018let\u2019s hold on\u2019,\u201d he told Reuters in an interview about the latest confrontation with China. India was humiliated in the 1962 war and, since then, while it has built up its conventional military and nuclear and missile capabilities, it has been careful to avoid showdowns at the border, which, despite 17 rounds of talks over two decades, remains unsettled. Hu Zhiyong, a research fellow with the Institute of International Relations at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, told China\u2019s state-run Global Times that Modi government\u2019s move to build up infrastructure and equipment on the Indian side of the LAC signalled a shift in posture. \u201cThe \u2018offensive\u2019 strategy aims to gain more leverage in the talks,\u201d Hu told the fiercely nationalist newspaper. High-altitude hut The chain of events leading to the latest tensions began in Demchok, on the southeastern corner of Ladakh. On 18 August, India started building an irrigation canal there as part of the government\u2019s rural jobs guarantee programme. China protested, saying it was located inside its territory. Then, on 8 September, Indian troops erected their observation hut on a hillock in Chumar, one of the areas along the LAC where India has the tactical advantage of height. Retired Indian army brigadier Gurmeet Kanwal, who has served in high-altitude areas, said India\u2019s position there overlooks Chinese encampments and a dirt road leading up to the area. Beijing\u2019s response was swift. Within a day, some 500 PLA troops crossed into the area and used cranes and bulldozers to build a 2 km road. Later that night, Indian soldiers dug up part of that road, but the Chinese have not withdrawn from the area, which New Delhi considers to be several kilometres inside its territory. Around 1,000 soldiers from each side are ranged against each other, and further to the east, a group of Chinese civilians backed by the PLA intruded into the Demchok sector where India was trying to build the irrigation canal, Indian officials said. China\u2019s public comments on the latest row with India have been measured. \u201cThe China-India border dispute is a left-over from history. The two countries\u2019 border, to this day, has not been designated, and the two sides\u2019 understanding of the real line of control is not the same,\u201d the defence ministry said, adding that both New Delhi and Beijing were resolved to manage the problem. A civilised cup of tea India says China violated the ceasefire line 334 times in the first eight months of this year. Chinese officials with Xi on his visit last week said India had violated the LAC 410 times, according to an Indian government official at the talks. Border patrols have become more frequent and probing deeper into each other\u2019s territories, officials say, often running into each other. Earlier, the two armies sent out patrols on alternating days along the most contentious areas of the border so that their troops wouldn\u2019t come into contact. \u201cIf there is a border patrol that crosses the LAC as perceived by the other side, they are supposed to offer them a cup of tea and ask them to leave immediately. The idea is it should be civilised behaviour. At times this civilised behaviour has spun out of control with soldiers roughing each other up,\u201d said an Indian officer at the army headquarters in New Delhi. But the head of Ladakh\u2019s local government said India had neglected the border area for decades to its own and local people\u2019s detriment. Only now was it starting to plug the gaps, he added, and that had provoked the Chinese. \u201cWe have lost so much pasture land, grazing land over a period of time to China,\u201d said Rigzin Spalbar, chief executive councillor of the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council. \u201cWe told our people not to go close to the LAC, the area was left vacant and the Chinese sent their herders in. Now those areas have become their possessions.\u201d\nhttp://www.deccanchronicle.com/140925/nation-current-affairs/article/india-china-border-issue-india-keeps-china-waiting-flag\nBorder standoff: India keeps China waiting for flag meeting\nIn order to send a strong message to China following the ongoing two-week standoff at Chumar in Ladakh after Chinese border incursions there, the Indian Army is yet to react to requests by the People's Liberation Army for a flag meeting near the Line of Actual Control, while talks between the two governments are taking place to end the impasse caused by the incursions.\nChinese ambassador Le Yucheng met senior external affairs ministry officials Wednesday, when the issue was discussed, but MEA officials dismissed reports that the ambassador was summoned by them.\n\u201cMeetings can take place but it does not mean that an Ambassador has been summoned,\u201d said an MEA official when asked about the meeting with the Chinese envoy. The stand-off is also understood to have been discussed at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi ahead of the Prime Minister's visit to the United States. The Army is also keeping the Government apprised of the latest developments in the situation on the ground at Chumar.\n\u201cIt appears that the Chinese are waiting for some sort of face-saver. India will not be cowed down. The Indian Army is clear that it will not withdraw till the Chinese pull back to their pre-September 10 positions in the area. The Indian Army has neither said 'Yes' nor 'No' to the Chinese request for a flag meeting so far,\u201d sources said on Wednesday evening. But a formal flag meeting between senior officers of the two Armies may take place eventually to break the deadlock.\nOfficers of the two Armies on the ground could be in contact with each other on the ground through telephone hotlines to find a way out of the impasse, sources indicated.\nEarlier, the MEA had maintained that \u201cdiplomacy is quietly at work\u201d between the two countries to resolve the stand-off issue following talks at the highest level recently between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping.\nhttp://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/peoples-liberation-army-china-india-standoff-chumar-ladakh/1/392705.html\nPeople's Liberation Army says situation on LAC 'brought under control'\nChina's People's Liberation Army (PLA) said on Thursday the stand-off along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) had been \"brought under control\" and that incidents along the border \"were the exception rather than the rule\".\nPLA Senior Colonel Geng Yansheng, who is a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence, told India Today that the Chinese military and India had made \"a timely exchange\" on their difference through the mechanisms in place to address the \"recent incidents\". Both sides have been involved in a stand-off along the LAC in Demchok and Chumar areas.\n\"Everything has been brought under control at present and the Sino-India border has regained peace,\" Snr. Col. Geng said in a written response to questions from India Today.\nHe said the boundary dispute was \"an issue left by history\" and with the border \"as yet undemarcated\" it was \"only natural that sometimes the two countries run into some problems\".\n\"However, such cases are the exception rather than the rule and will not affect the friendly cooperation between the two sides,\" he said.\nHis statement came as the Indian Ambassador to China Ashok Kantha held consultations with both the Foreign Ministry and the Defence Ministry, indicating a stepping up of diplomatic effort to defuse the stand-off.\nThe PLA Senior Colonel said the Chinese military was following the consensus reached by President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Chinese leader's visit to India that \"maintaining the peace on the Sino-Indian border underpins the development of bilateral ties\" and that the \"two countries will both be committed to protecting the peace on the Sino-Indian border pending a final settlement\".\nSnr. Col. Geng indicated China was still keen to have the fourth round of defence exercises with India later this year, telling India Today that \"specific arrangements are under negotiation\".\nBoth sides, he said, will also have their first dialogue on maritime cooperation later this year, which he added will deal with maritime security, focusing on anti-piracy and freedom of navigation.\nLabels: china, chumar, face off, LAC, PLA, pullback, sindhurakshak, submarine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 289, "original_length": 28656, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.julievasilemd.com/pages/implant-breast-reconstruction.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:19Z", "digest": "sha1:ZFMPJODKL2JRHU466SU7NG2BWES6YOQ3", "length": 1444, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.julievasilemd.com", "title": "Fairfield County, Connecticut, New York, breast reconstruction, saline, silicone implant", "raw_content": "Implants are the oldest and most commonly used technique for breast reconstruction. The pectoralis muscle is elevated off of the chest wall and the pectoralis muscle insertion is partially divided. The implant is then placed under the pectoralis muscle. Usually the pectoralis muscle covers the upper portion of the implant. Sometimes, cadaver or porcine collagen material (allograft) is placed over the lower portion of the implant. The procedure is sometimes performed in two stages (operations). The first stage consists of placing a tissue expander implant. The tissue expander is inflated by injections of saline into the implant over multiple visits to the office. The second stage consists of removing the tissue expander implant and placing the final implant.\nThe average lifespan of an implant is 10 years. It is recommended that silicone gel implants be followed with serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect leaks. Radiation therapy is considered a relative contraindication to implant breast reconstruction because of the high rate of complications. Thus, other techniques of breast reconstruction are usually recommended with radiation therapy.\nThe nipple is usually created during a separate operation three months after the breast implant procedure. The procedure is done as an ambulatory procedure with the patient going home later in the day. The nipple is created by spiraling two small flaps of skin from the breast.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 2590, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 216.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.julievasilemd.com/pages/tug-flap.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:16Z", "digest": "sha1:VMK2F7NT4F4OBGJ7PT7UJTU6JBUY3R3V", "length": 861, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.julievasilemd.com", "title": "Connecticut, New York, TUG, thigh", "raw_content": "Some women deposit an abundance of fat along the inner thigh. The excess skin and fat from the upper inner thigh can be used to create a breast. The scar is usually located a little below the inguinal crease, and may be visible in a bathing suit until the scar fades. The TUG and TUT flap are two techniques that can be used with medial (inner) thigh breast reconstruction.\nAbout 60% of the time, the blood vessel that nourishes this tissue (medial femoral circumflex artery) branches into many smaller branches; thus, making it necessary to remove a piece of the gracilis muscle with the blood vessels. When a portion of the gracilis muscle is removed, the procedures is called a TUG flap. In contrast to the rectus abdominis muscle, most patients do not notice a difference in the muscular strength of the leg when a portion of the gracilis muscle is removed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 2243, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 210.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kamomekamome.jp/live/index.cgi?date=201710", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:30Z", "digest": "sha1:U6YYTJFFH6XJB3AC6GTBORDYIQCWPD3L", "length": 58, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.kamomekamome.jp", "title": "\u30e9\u30a4\u30d6 | kamomekamome", "raw_content": "THE NO EAR presents \"...from the Dead Town\" TOUR 2017-2018", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kampuzz.com/college/636-indira-college-of-commerce-and-science", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:18Z", "digest": "sha1:NRP5G7GQQM4ZEGY53QQAF4XRROJPRZNN", "length": 1242, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.kampuzz.com", "title": "Indira College Of Commerce and Science- Kampuzz.com", "raw_content": "89/2-A Tathawade, New Mumbai Pune Highway, Tathawade, Pune, Maharashtra, India\nIndira College of Commerce and Science was established in the year 2001 is affiliated to university...\nBBA (Bachelor of Business Administration) , BBM (Bachelor in Business Management) , M.Sc. (Master of Computer Science) , BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application) ,\nIndira College of Commerce and Science was established in the year 2001 is affiliated to university of pune. Indira College of Commerce and Science is approved by government of Maharashtra and NAAC. We have experienced and well qualified faculty members who are always there for the students to assist them in there queries. We provide our students the best facilities and have world class infrastructure. We provide them hostel facilities with hygienic food and security.\nGood placement record.\nWi-fi Facilty\nMs.Vijaya Kumbhar-M.C.S, NET\nMrs.Manisha Patil-M.Sc (Comp.Sci) SET\nMr.Mahesh Jagtap-M.Sc (Maths) NET\nMr.Suresh Pathare-M.Sc (Stats), M.Phil\nMs.Sarita Byagar-M.C.S,NET\nCome under Shree Chanakya Education Society (SCES) which was established in February 1994 by Dr.Tarita Shankar.\nSpread over 5 acres.\nMission is to foster strategic alliances with industry for research and its application.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 317, "original_length": 9854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.karenleefield.com/2011/10/review-100-stories-for-queensland/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:11Z", "digest": "sha1:PHZN7V2OP6AT5FZ7FFGOWI44VA5MLSMJ", "length": 1090, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.karenleefield.com", "title": "Review: 100 Stories for Queensland \u2013 The Desk of Karen Lee Field", "raw_content": "Review: 100 Stories for Queensland\n1 February 2019 4 October 2011 by Karen\nI actually read this anthology a couple of months ago, but never wrote a review as I became tied up with the Hope project and didn\u2019t have time. Now, I\u2019m attempting to catch up on reviews and posts and felt it was time to write a review for this book.\n100 stories. 100 authors. 100 unique ideas published in one book. The stories are extra short and touch on all kinds of wonderful things that stir the emotions. I found myself snickering while reading one story and crying (in a good way) when reading another.\nMost of the stories are light-hearted, set in every day situations. Some of the stories take you away from the world we know and drop you in a fantasy world or on an unknown planet/space ship. All of them give you a moment to appreciate life through the eyes of someone else.\nAnd the profits from the sale of the book are donated to the survivors of the Queensland floods, which devastated something like 80% of Queensland in early 2011.\nThis would make a brilliant gift.\neBook Review: The Color of Magic", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 5738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ke5ter.com/archives/2009/08/06/how-to-make-money", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:37Z", "digest": "sha1:6V4EEUUUUXMRLLAZYQYCS2HTY7IVC4YR", "length": 28, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.ke5ter.com", "title": "How To Make Money | Nathan W. Kester", "raw_content": "Reply to \u201cHow To Make Money\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.59, "perplexity": 299.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.kt.agh.edu.pl/en/node/874", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:02Z", "digest": "sha1:2S73WAKVWKUDTJWAE6WRKDY64QVF5GBE", "length": 1121, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.kt.agh.edu.pl", "title": "Lip Sync - a New Project at the Department of Telecommunications | Katedra Telekomunikacji AGH", "raw_content": "Lip Sync - a New Project at the Department of Telecommunications\nWe are pleased to announce that Miko\u0142aj Leszczuk, DsC and Lucjan Janowski, PhD managed to get a new project as part of the Incubator of Innovation+.\nProject title: Quality Indicator - Lip Sync\nOne of the problems in video signal transmission is sound and image synchronization. Lack of synchronization strongly affects the quality perceived by the recipients of the system, therefore for the content provider it is very important to quickly detect such distortion. Currently, there are practically no automatic systems on the market that detect the problem of video and sound synchronization. In the initial research conducted at the Department of Telecommunications, an algorithm was developed to detect this distortion. Currently, we want to test this algorithm in the realities of business. Therefore, it is planned to prepare for the implementation of a quality indicator regarding audio-visual distortion type lip sync (audio-visual delay) operating in non-laboratory conditions.\nCongratulations on the success of the Quality of Experience (QoE) team.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 28291, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 216.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.laingorourke.com/our-projects/all-projects/newcastle-k8-k9-wharf-upgrade.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:53Z", "digest": "sha1:3IHUV4OSTNJHPLYLYBAMB6LOHPMWKLXA", "length": 3309, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.laingorourke.com", "title": "Newcastle K8 K9 Wharf Upgrade | Laing O'Rourke", "raw_content": "Newcastle K8 K9 Wharf Upgrade. Newcastle. Australia\nIn 2010 Laing O\u2019Rourke finished constructing a coal-loading port terminal at Newcastle, with wharf infrastructure stretching over an 800 m shoreline of the Hunter River. The port works, for the Newcastle Coal Infrastructure Group (NCIG), have significantly increased the export capacity of the Hunter Valley coal chain by 30 million tonnes a year.\nFormed in 2004, NCIG is a consortium of six Hunter Valley coal producers\u2014BHP Billiton (through Hunter Valley Energy Coal), Centennial Coal, Donaldson Coal, Peabody Energy (through Excel Coal), Felix Resources and Whitehaven Coal. The consortium was formed to address fundamental coal capacity issues in the region.\nThe new two-berth coal-loading port terminal on Kooragang Island, 6 km west of Newcastle, forms part of NCIG\u2019s vision to expand the region\u2019s existing ship loading facilities. Each berth comprises land- and marine-based piles under a steel superstructure, which in turn supports a precast concrete roadway and two maintenance platforms.\nLaing O\u2019Rourke was engaged in 2008 to provide project management, administration, engineering and workforce resources to deliver the works. This included earthworks and revetment construction, land and marine piling, prefabrication and erection of a 600 m long composite steel and concrete wharf structure, construction of maintenance bays, and sedimentation basin and drainage works.\nA strict construction timeframe had to be maintained to meet the need for increased coal throughput.\nLaing O\u2019Rourke adopted an innovative approach when designing the project, which involved constructing a temporary jetty from which to build the wharf. This provided many benefits, including a solid construction platform for exceptional accuracy when installing marine piles, and isolation from marine effects such as tides, wind and wave action. The methodology behind the work meant that everything was able to be done on land, leading to fewer dredging vessels in the Hunter River.\nThe temporary jetty solution helped increase safety, quality and environmental controls, which provided an excellent value-for-money proposition. It also gave the client a unique solution to reduce the potential interface issues that marine piling works would have with dredging contractors working in the Hunter River.\nTeam integration was also evident on the project through the use of Laing O\u2019Rourke\u2019s specialist services, Select Plant Hire and Expanded Structures. Select was involved from the project\u2019s inception and provided a complete plant hire solution, while Expanded Structures joined the project team early in the delivery phase to deliver all in-situ reinforced concrete works.\nAmong the successful project outcomes, Laing O\u2019Rourke\u2019s quality and environmental audits achieved consistently high ratings, and 300,000 work hours were performed with no time-loss injuries recorded. In 2010 the project was highly commended at Engineers Australia\u2019s Engineering Excellence Awards.\nPart of NCIG\u2019s vision to expand the region\u2019s existing ship loading facilities\nHas increased the Hunter Valley coal chain\u2019s export capacity by 30 million tonnes a year\nLaing O\u2019Rourke used an innovative temporary jetty to build the wharf\n300,000 work hours performed with no time-loss injuries recorded", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 6202, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lamarledger.com/ci_31636070/lamar-police-report-jan-31", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EHPZPH726WMLDPB6A6CHXVSMQJ7MEYXM", "length": 1507, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.lamarledger.com", "title": "Lamar Police Report - Jan. 31 - Lamar Ledger", "raw_content": "8:32 a.m. - Dog Registration.\n10:40 a.m. - Code enforcement officer observed two lab dogs in the Fairmount Cemetery. The dogs were captured and transported to the shelter. No identification is upon either dog.\n11:38 a.m. - Officers responded to the 400 block of South 1st St on a report of a domestic violence. Larry Coberly, 51, Lamar, was cited.\n1:31 p.m. - Officer responded to the 400 block of W. Maple St. on a request for officers to remove drug paraphernalia found in a residence.\n2:30 p.m. - Code enforcement officer responded to 211 S 12th St. concerning a junk vehicle violation. A notification order was left at the residence and a recheck scheduled.\n2:56 p.m. - Dog Registration.\n3:01 p.m. - Code enforcement officer responded to 203 S 13th St in regards to a dog hanging over a fence. Officer released the dog from the fence and left a door tag at the residence.\n3:57 p.m. - Officers contacted a subject in the 3200 block of Memorial Drive for a warrant. Subject was released due to unforeseen circumstances.\n4:09 p.m. - Officer responded to th 300 block of Savage Ave on a report of a disturbance. Subject was contacted and trespassed from the business.\n11:02 p.m. - Augusta Pacheco (44) of Wiley was contacted at N. Main St. and Crystal St. Pacheco was arrested on an active warrant out of Prowers County and is being held on a $2500.00 bond.\n11:42 p.m. \u2013 Officers responded to a family disturbance in the 800 block of Yucca Dr. Subjects agreed to separate with parties leaving the residence.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 308.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.legandarywood.com/photo-shoot-natasha-suri-latest-hot-instagram-poses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:24Z", "digest": "sha1:FGPD3NO55MY2DSRJ5LETRDJKA7YABVRU", "length": 385, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.legandarywood.com", "title": "Natasha Suri Latest Hot Instagram Poses", "raw_content": "Natasha Suri Latest Hot Instagram Poses :\nNatasha Suri is an Indian Actor, Supermodel and Former Miss World India. In 2006 she won the Femina Miss India World title & was in the Top 10 at the Miss World contest. Suri places in the \u2018Top Model\u2019 bracket in India. Natasha is also a popular TV Host,\nRead Also : http://www.legandarywood.com/photo-story-padma-raise-temperature-bikini-pose/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 2536, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 300.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/159/memorandum/contents", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:05Z", "digest": "sha1:2O6IXAGCSD7DP3UWUILR6EL6BQ2NN4QZ", "length": 101, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.legislation.gov.uk", "title": "The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015 - Explanatory Memorandum", "raw_content": "The Insolvency (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 (Consequential Amendments) Order (Northern Ireland) 2015", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 2928, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 22.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.letshaveacocktail.com/2009/05/bown-chicka-bown-bown.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:33Z", "digest": "sha1:C3BSU3KLFA4FILCLQJSBOAOXNMUWLEPS", "length": 1857, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.letshaveacocktail.com", "title": "Lets have a cocktail...: Bown chicka bown bown", "raw_content": "Something tells me this is not what Van Halen had in mind when they penned their infamous song Hot for Teacher. Unbelievable to me that in the times of constant reports, from coast to coast, of inappropriate contact between educators and students, who knew gratuitous semi nude teachers would be sitting right there in Cocoa Beach, Florida?\nSomething tells me the Board of Education in Brevard County, Florida is a wee bit liberal, yes?\nWhile I applaud the efforts to raise money for the American Cancer Society, I think junior and senior high school teachers bearing it down to the bare skin to make a calendar is just a smidge over the top. This photo is the group of teachers who so willingly donned shirts for a good cause.\nOne of the teachers, Mr. August, claimed the kids don't like to look at their \"goofy teachers\" however, he did think that \"a lot of moms really like the calendar.\" Oh really. I feel like I am about to sip a dangerous (dangerous, bizarre and completely unwelcome) beverage mixed of equal parts Porky's, American Pie, and Desperate Housewives.\nAnd the cherry on top? (of course, no pun intended) the Principle of the school, Tim Cool (Principal Cool, are you serious?) said he was easily persuaded to pose because the calendar supports a worthy cause. A year ago, his mother died of cancer, so the picture also was a tribute to her, he said.\nI am not sure I can think of a single cause that would warrant my child posing semi-nude for a calendar in my memory, honor, or anything else. But then again, we don't live down in\nCocoa \"Awwwww yeah boyeeeeee\" Beach.\nBefore I go, I would like to comment that apparently, at least the Ab Roller is a staple down at the Beach. My oh my, some of these cats don't skip the crunches but I am not even going to comment on the guy in the front row.\nThanks Detention Slip for sharing this tidbit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 4231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.liffiton.net/artartie06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:21Z", "digest": "sha1:QREGO5367M74Z633T3TPXI3PW7TKVGZM", "length": 6642, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "www.liffiton.net", "title": "Artie Liffiton - Liffiton Genealogy & History", "raw_content": "Crescent Athletic Club 1905-06\nArtie Liffiton married Edith Usher of Manhattan Beach, NY, in 1907, and they raised three children, Arthur Edward, Doris, and Donald Usher Liffiton. Edith actually lost her U.S. citizenship by marrying Artie, a Canadian and English subject, but they both became naturalized U.S. citizens following World War I. Artie worked for the Behr-Manning Company in Manhattan and Albany, New York, but later settled in New Jersey, where he died in 1954.\nErnie Fitzsimmons, consulting statistician for Total Hockey, The Official Encyclopedia of the National Hockey Leage (1999), provided the majority of Artie Liffiton's statistics from his own collected reference materials. Other references used include the following.\nBrooklyn Daily Eagle, 1899 - 1916\nThe Crescent, 1899 - 1916 (Journal of the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn)\nFarrington, Jr., S. Kip Skates, Sticks, and Men: The Story of Amateur Hockey in the United States (1972, David McKay Co., New York), 240 pages. (Farrington was associated with The St. Nicholas Hockey Club, and this book focuses on that club with little mention of other early senior level teams. Artie Liffiton is mentioned on page 5 in a quotation from a Januay 7, 1907 New York Sun article.)\nLiffiton, Donald Usher, interview of April 26, 1992\nwww.puckerings.com\nThe Winged Foot, 1899 - 1916 (Journal of the New York Athletic Club)\nNew York Times, 1899 - 1916\nArtie Liffiton\nDetail - Crescents 1905-06\nHero of 1912 Season\nOne of the most important matches of Artie's hockey career occurred in March of 1912.\nThe trophy for the league championship would permanently belong to the team which won a third championship, and the Crescents were tied with the New York Athletic Club which had won in 1909 and 1910. The Crescents were strong, but so was another team known as the Wanderers.\nEach team had lost one match during the season with the Wanderers losing theirs to the Crescents in overtime 5 to 4. It was thought the deciding match would be between the Crescents and the Wanderers on March 1.\n\"There was a big crowd in the rink. Seats were selling as high as ten dollars each. There was not an unoccupied inch of space in the big building and men climbed into the girders that supported the roof.\"\n\". . . the Wanderers seemed to play . . . (the Crescents) off their feet. One could hear all about him in the audience the remarks that the old veterans, Dobby, Wall and Kennedy, had gone on the ice too often. They outweighed their opponents, but the lighter men seem to entirely outskate them. Liffiton was especially disappointing.\"\nThe Wanderers beat the Crescents by a score of 4 -1, but the following week the St. Nicks crushed the Wanderers 7-4 and the Crescents beat the New York Athletic Club 6-5. In that match Liffiton scored four goals, and forced a third and final contest between the Wanderers and the Crescents on March 13th.\nThe Wanderers, who so many years before had ended the Crescents string of four victories, were heavily favored to win. The newspapers said the Crescents were too old.\n\"But when the game was well under way it was seen at once that Liffiton was playing in as good as he ever displayed before.\" He scored three goals as the Crescents won 4 - 1 and claimed permanent ownership of the Amateur American Hockey League trophy.\nA few days after Arthur E. Liffiton arrived in New York City from Montreal in December of 1899, he appeared at Brooklyn's Clermont Avenue Ice Rink to try out with the Brooklyn Skating Club Hockey Team. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported the club had found in young Liffiton, the brother of Charlie Liffiton, \"one of the most famous Canadian hockey players,\" a skater of great promise.\nArtie played three years with Brooklyn and then the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn recruited him. Both teams were part of the first American hockey league, the American Amateur Hockey League. The AAHL had been established in 1896 after the opening of three artificial ice rinks, two in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn, New York.\nSt. Nicholas Rink (Public Domain)\nThe teams varied a bit from year to year, but the perennial league members included the New York Athletic Club, St. Nicholas Hockey Club, the Brooklyns, and the Crescents or \"New Moons.\"\nInitially the Crescents did so poorly the club did not ice a team in 1898 - 1899. By recruiting Canadian players however, the Crescents became competitive and dominated the league championships for several years.\nBy the time Artie was on the New Moon team, the club had won three championships. With Artie skating as right wing , the team won in 1905, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911 and 1912. He was team captain in 1903-04.\nThe year Artie first played with the Crescents, 1903 - 04, he was second among the league's point leaders. In subsequent years he was second (1905 - 06), sixth (1908 - 09), and second (1911 -12). He was selected for the All New York team at least four times, once to play against his brother Charlie's visiting Montreal team. The Spalding Athletic Library featured photographs of Artie in at least two of the company's hockey guides, in 1909-10 and 1911-12.\nArtie retired from ice hockey following an incredible triumph in the the 1911 - 12 season. However he did make at least one subsequent appearance on the ice, scoring a goal in 1915-16.\nArtie's son, Donald, said his father claimed his brothers, Charlie and Ernie, were the better skaters, but that all of the Liffiton brothers were fiercely competitive and hated to lose.\nOnce a reporter described Artie as team captain playing goalie in a practice session. Frustrated with his teammates who could not score a goal, Artie in his goalie gear took control of the puck and skated the length of the rink to put the puck in the net.\nThe New York Sun described Artie on January 7, 1907. \"The Crescent game followed. It was the last of the season for the Wanderers. In the first half Sprague Cleghorn jabbed his stick in Jackson's neck, but he paid for this as Jackson swung at him and cut his head. Later the Cleghorns tried to do up Liffiton and were put out of the game. Liffiton has been playing hockey here for several years and he is noted for his clean play and ability to keep out of any roughness.\" The Cleghorns, also from Montreal, would eventually play in the National Hockey League and be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.\nAs many clubs did, the Crescents had a lacrosse team which played in the Spring and Summer months. 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Let\u2019s get that straight right away please. I have been blessed with some amazing men in my life to date and believe that someone special for the long haul is just around the corner.\nIn my romantic life I\u2019m all for men but having chosen the career path I have, I have so far come across far more female kick-ass, high vibe, movers and shakers and the enthusiasm, the camaraderie and the sheer \u201clet\u2019s find a better way of doing things and do it together\u201d attitude which I see in so many amazing women that I come across in my work is frankly awe-inspiring.\nThese are just of few of the women who have made me sit up and say \u201cwowsers\u201d. They have helped me believe things can change. 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The father who posted this quote was at a very devastating point in his son's illness. At the brink of death many times, this father has fallen to his knees more times than anyone could imagine and continues to keep his eyes on the Sovereign One.\nI have a strong belief that everyone will experience at least one hardship in life. I may be wrong, but so far it seems to be holding true. Some people experience devastating hardship early in life as a child or teen or as a young married couple. Others do not experience difficult times until mid-life or in their later years. Whenever it hits you, your reaction may be to blame the only person you can think to blame.... God. Why would a loving God do this to me? Our family, our child, our community ... He is suppose to be loving and kind? For others it is the only time they reach out to God in a desperate cry for help.\nI have never questioned the role that God plays in my life in regard to suffering. I have watched my child experience excruciating pain and hardship, and could do nothing to stop the journey but instead could only lean fully on His understanding. I have experienced difficult diagnosis and medical journeys and yet I do not blame God or see it as a huge mistake.\nInstead I have chosen the mantra \" Why not me?\". I agree with this father in his quote, that it is very, very bad but definitely not eternally wrong. You see no one loves me more than my God. No one values me more, or accepts me in such an unconditional way. He never promised a life of easy street if I choose to follow Him, but instead He said He would never leave me nor forsake me. The road will be bumpy, hard and excruciating at times but it is still eternally right.\nIt all comes down to trust, and if I trust the Lord with my life including all the \"very very bad stuff\" to realize that it will happen and it isn't about placing blame but instead stengthening my infrastructure to walk through the valleys knowing mistakes are never made by my Creator.\nEverything that happens in life is eternally right with regard to the timeline and the players on my life journey.\nI will forever choose to trust, to rest in His promises and cling to the hope that no matter how bad it is, that I will continue to believe it is eternally right. 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Teaming up with filmmaker Simon Waller, Geoff helped construct the virtual experience used in the film as well as volunteering at the two installation days, where participants were asked to\u200b '\u200bswap places\u2019 with a homeless person for a few brief moments and then feedback on how it felt.\nHomeless people often say they feel isolated and cut off from society, but by donating to The Passage you can help reconnect them with people, places and opportunities to thrive. \u2018Look the Other Way\u2019 challenges people to consider their response to homelessness and offers them a way to make a difference.\nwww.passage.org.uk", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4, "original_length": 854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 289.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lotteinch.co.uk/celia-washington", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:12Z", "digest": "sha1:4I7LBFAHUC2XZ2DSIAGZG2BBOTRDWLAW", "length": 827, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.lotteinch.co.uk", "title": "Celia Washington | Lotte Inch Gallery", "raw_content": "Artist Celia Washington, has lived and worked in Florence, Paris, Tokyo, Madrid, London and Kathmandu, but it was in London in the late 80's that Lotte Inch, aged just five, first saw her work. The picture that she then pointed at in approval still hangs on the walls of the Gallery owner's house today.\nWashington's paintings, prints, sculptures and films are inspired by the places that she has lived and travelled to both as a child and growing up. Her works also possess a mystical quality and connections between her own visual language and that of Magic Realist writers has been frequently observed, as well as acknowledged by the artist herself. Here, the ordinary becomes inextricably linked with the extraordinary, resulting in visual narratives which are simultaneously familiar and dreamlike.\nwww.celiawashington.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 1281, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 167.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.lovejoleen.com/2014/01/project-life-2014-week-two.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KZWPU7WTNMLJSCTB32BI5HJUDWM3SYJB", "length": 845, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.lovejoleen.com", "title": "Love, Joleen: Project Life 2014: Week Two", "raw_content": "This was the first week I was able to introduce the 12 x 12 plastic sleeves to my album and it's also the first layout I've ever done when the pages didn't line up. It's honestly not my favorite, but I can't exactly pin down why. In hindsight, I wish I would have put the gold sequins on the left side of my New Year's layout so that the flip side was the Title Page and not part of Week Two. This wasn't a sequins kind of week. That being said, I absolutely love how the right side of the LO turned out! I really had fun picking out element/journal cards to include. I also used the white stickers that came in my kit to spell \"snow flurries\". I stuck with a black and white color scheme, but used color photos so they'd really pop! 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Their debut album, Room to Breathe, is a combination of songs and styles that feature ten original tracks ranging from the intimate sound of \u201cHide Myself In You\u201d to the driving beats of the title track \u201cRoom to Breathe.\u201d\nBreak My Routine\nTake Us Deeper", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 1339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 255.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Compost.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:47Z", "digest": "sha1:WOPZTGJTR63H7JJGFBL2R62APYZ4DLFP", "length": 15768, "nlines": 42, "source_domain": "www.madehow.com", "title": "How compost is made - material, used, processing, parts, components, machine, Raw Materials", "raw_content": "Compost is a finely divided, loose material consisting of decomposed organic matter. It is primarily used as a plant nutrient and soil conditioner to stimulate crop growth. Although many people associate compost production with small garden compost piles that are tended with a shovel, most compost is produced in large municipal, industrial, or agricultural facilities using mechanized equipment.\nThe expression \"older than dirt\" certainly applies to compost. Nature has been producing compost for millions of years as part of the cycle of life and death on Earth. The first human use of animal manure, a raw form of compost, was in about 3,000 B.C. in Egypt when it was spread directly on the fields as a fertilizer. Later, manure was mixed with dirty stable straw and other refuse and allowed to sit in piles until it was needed. Rain kept the piles wet and aided the decomposition process, producing a rich compost.\nThe Greeks and Romans knew the value of compost to boost crop production and even used the warmth of decomposing compost to produce summer vegetables in winter. Christian monasteries kept the art of composting alive in Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, and by about 1200 compost was again being used by many farmers. Shakespeare mentions it in several of his plays written in the early 1600s.\nIn the United States, Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were prominent landowners during the late-1700s and early-1800s. When they were not involved with affairs of state, they both spent much of their time trying innovative farming practices, including experiments with various composting methods and materials. As years of successive crops depleted the nutrients in the soil on the East Coast, the practice of composting became widespread. This trend continued until the early 1900s when it was estimated that 90% of the fertilizer used in the United States came from compost.\nThat all changed in 1913, when a German company began producing synthetic nitrogen compounds, including fertilizers. These new chemical fertilizers could be produced less expensively than messy animal manure compost, and the farmyard compost pile quickly became a thing of the past. By 1950, it was estimated that only 1% of the fertilizer used in the United States was derived from compost.\nOne notable exception to this trend was the work started in 1942 by J.I. Rodale, a noted pioneer in the development of the organic method of farming. Rodale was one of the first to see the hazards of relying on synthetic fertilizers and the benefits of using compost derived from natural sources. Composting got a short-lived boost during the environmentally conscious era of the 1960s, but it wasn't until the 1980s when it became a big business. This surge wasn't the result of a renewed awareness of the positive aspects of compost, but rather a growing concern over the negative aspects of refuse. In short, in our efforts to get rid of our refuse, we were polluting our air, poisoning our rivers, and quite literally burying ourselves in it with our landfills.\nIn order to divert some of the municipal refuse away from landfills, several cities established recycling centers in the early 1970s where people could bring cans, bottles, and newspaper rather than throw them in the trash. This was followed by curbside recycling, where people could place these recyclable materials in separate containers for pickup in front of their houses. Finally, many cities added additional curbside containers for yard wastes to be composted. By 1992, almost 1,500 cities had yard waste composting facilities.\nAt the same time, tough new environmental laws mandated that industries could no longer simply dump their waste products onto the surrounding land or discharge them into nearby rivers. To meet these laws, many industries began their own recycling and composting programs. Environmental concerns also affected farmers, who were being blamed for the negative health effects that chemical fertilizers and pesticides had on humans and wildlife. As a result, many farmers decided to cut back or eliminate chemicals in favor of using compost.\nToday, most compost is processed in large facilities designed to handle a specific type of raw material. Agricultural compost is usually produced and used on the same farm that generated the raw materials. Industrial compost may be bagged and sold to individual buyers, or the raw materials may be sold in bulk to other composting facilities. Municipal yard waste compost is usually produced in facilities operated by the city or the refuse collection company and is sold to local landscaping companies and garden centers.\nTechnically, compost may be made from any organic material. That is, it may be made from any part of an organism, plant or animal, that contains carbon. Compost also requires a source of nitrogen, oxygen, and water, plus small amounts of a variety of elements usually found in organic material, including phosphorus, copper, potassium, calcium, and others.\nIn order for the organic materials to combine with the other materials and decompose into compost, several living organisms and microorganisms are needed. These include sowbugs, which help digest the materials and transport bacteria; earthworms, which aerate the materials with their tunnels; a variety of fungi, which help digest decay-resistant cellulose; mold-like bacteria called actinomycetes, which attack raw plant tissues; and many others.\nThe most common raw materials used to make compost are yard wastes such as grass clippings, leaves, weeds, and small prunings from shrubs and trees. Most home garden compost piles and municipal compost facilities use yard wastes exclusively because of the large volume of materials available.\nIndustrial compost facilities tend to use waste materials generated within a particular plant or region. For example, sugar beet pulp is mixed with other materials to make compost in an area where sugar refineries operate. Spent hops and grain from breweries also make excellent compost materials. Other materials include sawdust and wood chips from lumber mills, fish waste from canneries, and dried blood and pulverized animal bones from slaughterhouses.\nAgricultural compost facilities use materials readily available on nearby farms. These include animal manure, used stable straw, spoiled fruits and vegetables, field refuse, vineyard and orchard prunings, rotted hay, and other agricultural waste products.\nSome of the more unusual raw materials used to make compost include seaweed, chicken feathers, peanut shells, and hair clippings.\nThe production of compost is both a mechanical and a biological process. The raw materials must first be separated, collected, and shredded by mechanical means before the biological decomposition process can begin. In some cases, the decomposition process itself is aided by mechanical agitation or aeration of the materials. After decomposition, the finished compost is mechanically screened and bagged for distribution.\nThere are several methods for producing compost on a large scale. The methane digester method places the raw materials in a large, sealed container to exclude oxygen. The resulting oxygen-starved decomposition not only produces compost, but also methane gas, which can be used for cooking or heating. The aerated pile method places the raw materials in piles or trenches containing perforated pipes that circulate air. The resulting oxygen-rich decomposition produces a great amount of heat, which kills most harmful bacteria. The windrow method places the raw materials in long piles, called windrows, where they are allowed to decompose naturally over a period of several weeks or months. It is the least expensive method of all. Here is a typical sequence of operations used to convert municipal yard wastes into compost using the windrow method.\n1 Yard wastes are deposited in separate containers by homeowners, and the containers are placed at the curb for pickup on the regular refuse collection day. Homeowners are instructed that only certain yard wastes are acceptable for collection. These include grass clippings, leaves, weeds, and small prunings from shrubs and trees. Short pieces of tree limbs up to about 6 in (15 cm) in diameter are also acceptable. Homeowners are also instructed that certain other yard wastes are not acceptable. These include rocks, sod, animal excrement, and excessive amounts of dirt. Palm fronds are prohibited because the frond spikes do not decompose and carry a poison. Food scraps, fruits, and vegetables are also prohibited because they can attract rodents, carry unwanted seeds, and contribute to odors.\n2 The yard wastes are collected by separate refuse trucks and are transported to the processing center where they are dumped in piles. The piles are visually inspected, and any oversized or unacceptable materials are manually removed.\n3 A large, wheeled machine called a front loader picks up material from the piles and dumps it into a tub grinder. The tub grinder has a stationary vertical cylindrical outer shell with a rotating cylindrical inner shell. As the material passes between the two shells, it is ground into smaller pieces and thoroughly mixed. The ground material falls out the bottom and through a screen where the larger pieces are screened out. The remaining material is transported by a conveyor belt to a holding pile.\n4 The larger pieces are sold to landscaping companies for use as mulch or ground-cover without further processing. The rest is loaded into large dump trucks and transported to the composting area where it is dumped in long rows, called windrows. Each row is about 6-10 ft (2-3 m) high and several hundred feet (m) long with a triangular cross section. A flat space about 10 ft (3 m) wide is left between each row to allow vehicles to move along the length.\n5 The composting area may cover several acres (hectares). After a windrow is laid in place, the material is dampened by a tank truck that moves along the row spraying water. The water aids in the composting process and helps minimize wind-blown dust.\n6 Every few weeks, a special machine straddles each windrow and moves along its length to turn and agitate the material. This breaks down the material into even smaller pieces and exposes it to oxygen, which aids in the decomposition process. After the windrow is turned, it is sprayed with water again. This process continues for two or three months. In hot, dry weather, the windrows may have to be watered more often. During decomposition, the internal temperature of the pile may reach 130\u00b0 F (54\u00b0 C), which helps kill many of the weed seeds that might be present.\n7 The raw compost is scooped up with a front loader and moved to a large conical pile where it is allowed to finish the decomposition process over a period of several weeks. This process is called curing and it allows the carbon and nitrogen in the compost to adjust to their final levels.\n8 After the compost has cured, it is scooped up with a front loader and dumped into the hopper of a rotary screen. This device consists of a large cylindrical screen rotating on an axis that is slightly inclined above the horizontal. The openings in\nDiogram depicting the commercial processing of yard waste into compost.\nthe screen are about 0.5 in (1 cm) in diameter. The compost is fed into the raised end of the rotating screen from the hopper by a conveyor belt. As the compost tumbles its way down the length of the rotating screen, the smaller material falls through the screen and is moved to a storage pile by a conveyor belt. The larger material that cannot pass through the screen falls out the lower end of the cylinder and is either returned to the compost piles for further decomposition or is sold as wood chips.\n9 Much of the finished compost is loaded into large dump trucks and sold in bulk to landscaping companies, municipalities, nurseries, and other commercial customers. Some of it is sealed in 40 lb (18 kg) plastic bags for retail sale to homeowners. Using the windrow method, a typical suburban yard waste processing facility can produce as much as 100,000 tons (91,000 metric tons) of compost a year.\nComposting companies regularly have their finished compost tested to ensure it is free of harmful materials and contains the proper amounts of plant nutrients. The tests measure the size of the particles, moisture level, mineral content, carbon-to-nitrogen ratio, acidity, nutrient content, weed seed germination rate, and many other factors. For example, waste particles should be between 0.5-2 in (1.2-5 cm) in diameter in order to encourage the flow of oxygen within the compost. Likewise, the level of moisture should be above 40% to facilitate the compost process. Moisture levels that dip below 40% slow the process and present the risk of spontaneous combustion. Also, the ideal ratio of carbon to nitrogen should average 30 parts carbon to one part nitrogen by weight. The ideal balance maintains a healthy microbial population that speeds decomposition and minimizes odor.\nHarmful Materials\nCompost made from yard wastes, such as leaves and grass clippings, rarely contains any harmful materials. Problems can occur, however, when compost is made from partially sorted municipal refuse, certain industrial wastes, or sewage sludge. In those cases, unacceptable levels of toxic metals, chemicals, or harmful bacteria may be present.\nTo protect the public, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sets acceptable levels for thousands of materials that might be present in compost. Each state may have its own standards as well. For municipal refuse, source separation\u2014that is, having homeowners sort their yard wastes into separate containers rather than throw them away with the rest of their trash\u2014is felt to be one of the most effective way to produce clean, safe compost.\nBy separating home yard wastes and turning them into compost, it is estimated that municipalities can reduce the amount of trash going to landfills by about 20%. While that is a significant reduction, it is expected that even more trash will have to be diverted from landfills in the future. Materials such as soiled food packaging, disposable diaper padding, food scraps, natural fiber rags, pieces of wood, and other organic materials could all be composted. To do this, municipalities may have to establish municipal solid waste (MSW) treatment facilities to separate the compostible materials from the harmful materials, such as discarded batteries, motor oil, asbestos, and many household chemicals.\nEventually composting may also provide a means for handling and neutralizing even the harmful materials. For example, at several older military ammunition factories and storage facilities the surrounding soil is contaminated with the explosive material trinitrotoluene, also known as TNT. Researchers are using a specially formulated compost mix of vegetable wastes and buffalo manure to neutralize the soil through a simple biological composting process that converts the explosive organic components of TNT into less harmful compounds.\nChristopher, Tom and Marty Asher. Compost This Book! Sierra Club Books, 1994.\nHansen, Beth, editor. Easy Compost. Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Inc., 1997.\nMartin, Deborah L. and Grace Gershuny, ed. The Rodale Book of Composting. Rodale Press, Inc., 1992.\nRaloff, Janet. \"Cleaning Up Compost: Municipal waste managers see hot prospects in rot\" Science News (January 23, 1993): 56-58.\nThe Compost Resource Page. http://www.oldgrowth.org/compost/ (June 7, 1999).\nComposting Council. May 1999. http://www.compostingcouncil.org/ (June 7,1999).\nAlso read article about Compost from Wikipedia\nChild Safety Seat Computer Mouse", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 16478, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marathontraining.com/articles/art_23rd.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:04Z", "digest": "sha1:F5UGIWVOEIG5W4ILEGVOPTT7UJKSQYQH", "length": 3718, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.marathontraining.com", "title": "MarathonTraining.com - Plantar Fasciitis", "raw_content": "By Jason Schultz\nAthletes are at risk of developing Plantar Fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain. It occurs when the long, flat ligament on the bottom of the foot (Plantar Fascia) stretches irregularly and develops small tears that cause the ligament to become inflamed. The pain is described as being dull aching or sharp and can be reproduced by flexing the toes upwards (dorsiflexion) and tensing the fascia.\nAlthough the fascia is invested with countless sturdy \u201ccables\u201d of connective tissue called collagen fibers, it is certainly not immune to injury. In fact, about 5 to 10 per cent of all running injuries are inflammations of the fascia, an incidence rate which in the United States would produce about a million cases of plantar fasciitis per year, just among runners and joggers. Basketball players, tennis players, volleyballer\u2019s, step-aerobics participants, and dancers are also prone to plantar problems, as are non-athletic people who spend a lot of time on their feet or suddenly become active after a long period of lethargy. A recent study found that over 50 per cent of people who suffer from plantar fasciitis are on their feet nearly all day, and many cases of plantar fasciitis seem to occur in 'sofa spuds' shortly after they've made their first trip around their garden with a lawn mower in the spring.\nPlantar fasciitis usually develops gradually. Heel pain may only occur when taking the first steps after getting out of bed or when taking the first steps after sitting for a long period of time. If the plantar fascia ligament is not rested, the inflammation and heel pain will get worse. Other conditions or aggravating factors, such as the repetitive stress of walking, standing, running, or jumping, will contribute to the inflammation and pain. In some cases, the inflamed ligament may not heal because many people who have plantar fasciitis do not completely stop the aggravating activity.\nIn athletes, a number of factors are associated with development of plantar fasciitis. These factors can lead the athlete to change his or her gait (the way the feet strike the ground), which can cause symptoms and injury. Risk factors for athletes include:\nBiomechanical factors, such as decreased flexibility in the foot and ankle, imbalances in muscle strength (muscles in one leg or foot are weaker than the other), abnormal foot mechanics (when stepping down), and tightness in the Achilles tendon. The repetitive nature of sports activities and improper training. Rapidly increasing the number of miles run. Running on steep hills. Wearing running shoes that are worn out. Wearing running shoes that do not have a cushioned sole or enough arch support.\nThe traditional remedies for plantar fasciitis are at best, quite weak. Stretching the calf muscles is often recommended, as are massage, decreasing one's training, losing weight, purchasing better-fitting shoes (with a raised heel and arch support), icing the sore heel, and gulping down prescription-type doses of ibuprofen. While these \u201cfixes\u201d may work for some people, one of the best ways for athletes to overcome plantar fasciitis is one of the easiest. All it requires is dropping a pair of high quality heel seats in your shoes. Heel seats pick up and re-stretch the plantar fascia, redistribute the heels natural fat pad, provide structural reinforcement to the foot, and apply acupressure to relieve the pain while you heal. You literally walk off Plantar Fasciitis. You can find such heel seats through your podiatrist or http://www.heel-that-pain.com/.\nThanks Jason for your article.\nDo you have an article that you would like to submit? If so, we would love to include your article next! Just submit your article!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 31, "original_length": 4468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 302.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marburgerssportinggoods.com/archives/category/hockey-jerseys-cheap/page/7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NFQ57MH3NF7ZJSEUGZKG26QDLORMH367", "length": 8232, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "www.marburgerssportinggoods.com", "title": "Hockey Jerseys Cheap", "raw_content": "Category Archives: Hockey Jerseys Cheap\nSimeon Rice thinks he could still play after 10-year hiatus\nNovember 3, 2017 Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale\tLeave a comment\nFormer Buccaneers defensive end Simeon Rice isn\u2019t kidding around when he says he wants to come back and play. Rice hasn\u2019t taken a snap since the 2007 season, but at 43, he said he can still do it. And he wants to.\nSarkisian said a couple of weeks ago that he\u2019s still adjusting to how NFL defensive coordinators move around personnel \u2014 something he didn\u2019t have to worry about too much while calling plays at the college level.\nAlex Collins, RB, Baltimore Ravens (32.5 percent): We continue to include Collins in this piece as an option for a deeper league with non-PPR scoring, as he has a fairly defined role until Terrance West (calf) returns. Collins has had at least nine carries in five straight games, with exactly zero catches. He\u2019s a deeper league add to consider, with the hope of a goal-line look to chase a touchdown.\n\u201cI should have kept a lot of my thoughts to myself,\u201d said Ward, 30. \u201cI\u2019ve been in this league [for a long time]. This is my eighth year. I\u2019m a fiery person and I wear my emotions on my sleeve. This is all brand-new to me.\u201d\n5. NASA\u2019s Pathfinder landed on Mars on July 4, 1997 after its launch on Dec. 4, 1996. The rover navigated the Martian surface until NASA lost contact with it on Sept. 27, 1997.\n6. Princess Diana of England died in a car crash on Aug. 31, 1997 in France. The circumstances around her death remain embroiled in conspiracy theories.\n7. After losing four Super Bowls from 1977-89, the Broncos won consecutive Super Bowl championships in 1997 and 1998 with Elway retiring after the second title. They went back to the Super Bowl in 2013, losing to the Seahawks, but won it all in 2015 as Peyton Manning walked away on top. Since Elway retired after the 1998 season, the Broncos have had 14 different starting quarterbacks, including La Galaxy Cheap Jerseys Direct Cheap Jerseys current starter Trevor Siemian.\nDirect Cheap JerseysLa Galaxy Cheap Jerseys\nKlingberg, Seguin score early, Stars hold off Red Wings 4-2\nThe first win for the Dallas Stars this season was No. 782 of Ken Hitchcock\u2019s career. And that\u2019s a significant figure for NHL coaches.\nNow in his second stint with Dallas, Hitchcock tied Al Arbour for third place on the all-time wins list Tuesday night. John Klingberg and Tyler Seguin scored first-period goals, and the Stars never trailed in a 4-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings.\nAnthony Mantha\u2019s goal with 4:49 remaining pulled Detroit (2-1) within one, but the Red Wings couldn\u2019t tie the game even with goalie Petr Mrazek pulled for the final 2:56.\n\u201cI was thinking on the bench that we\u2019ve played three great hockey games, and it would have felt poorly to not finish this off,\u201d Hitchcock said. \u201cI thought this was the best balance we\u2019ve had. This looked like something you could really build on.\u201d\nUnfortunately, the bright lights from historic Thames Street in the background washed out much of the photo. The comments section turned into a roast of Horford\u2019s phone with commenters wondering if he had snapped the pic on his Motorola Razr. Even second-year swingman Jaylen Brown couldn\u2019t resist a jab, asking Horford if used his picture phone to take the snapshot.\nWe put that very question to Celtics assistant coach Cheap UK NFL Jerseys Jay Larranaga, who spends more time than anyone in the organization with Horford as his Cheap Vintage Jerseys NBA player coach. On game nights, the two can often be seen crunching film together before Larranaga leads Horford through his typical pregame shooting routine.\nCheap UK NFL JerseysCheap Vintage Jerseys NBA\nIndians\u2019 Bauer set to start vs. Yankees on three days\u2019 rest\nThe final chapter of the drama is about to be written.\nWednesday night at Progressive Field, the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians will play a winner-take-all Game 5 in the best-of-five American League Division Series that is tied 2-2.\nRoethlisberger\u2019s mechanics, arm strength and confidence are not concerns for Tomlin, who also addressed Roethlisberger\u2019s postgame comment that \u201cmaybe I don\u2019t have it anymore.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ve known Ben for 11 years. I know the competitor he is. I know his level of confidence,\u201d Tomlin said Tuesday. \u201cWhat he says after a five-interception performance, moments after a five-interception performance, probably is not reflective of who he is and how he feels. It wasn\u2019t reflective of who he is and how he felt when he walked in here yesterday. He looked like a guy who was ready to gun-sling and ready to get back at it. That\u2019s more in line with the guy that I know and what I anticipate from him.\u201d\nRoethlisberger typically gets a rest day Wednesday, depending on how he feels that day and his discussions with coaches about his workload. Roethlisberger didn\u2019t commit to a full practice Wednesday, but he does plan to set a tone in the locker room by putting last week behind him. That\u2019s Cheap Baseball Jerseys Kids crucial against the undefeated Chiefs.\n\u201cWe want to go in [to Arrowhead Stadium] and be tested by the Cheap Authentic Hockey Jerseys best, probably, in the NFL right now,\u201d Roethlisberger said.\nCheap Authentic Hockey JerseysCheap Baseball Jerseys Kids\nPaul Molitor happy to put uncertainty behind him\nA bleary-eyed Paul Molitor walked into a season-ending meeting with executives Derek Falvey and Thad Levine less than 10 hours after the Minnesota Twins fell to the New York Yankees Cheap Custom Baseball Jerseys in the American League wild-card game.\nAnthony\u2019s relationship with the brand stretches back to his days in high school. He emerged as one of the nation\u2019s top prep stars while playing for Jordan-sponsored Oak Hill Academy. Soon afterward, he wore the Air Jordan XVIII while carrying Syracuse to the 2003 national championship during his lone NCAA season.\nLater that summer, the No. 3 overall pick became the first rookie signed to Jordan Brand with his own signature shoe in the works. Anthony wore a mix of both retro and modern Air Jordans during his rookie season in custom Denver Nuggets colors, such as the XII, XIII, XVIII.5, XIX and XX.\nBehind the scenes, D\u2019Wayne Edwards, Jordan Brand\u2019s then-newly appointed Cheap Donegal Gaa Jerseys design director, was working hand in hand with Melo on his debut signature model for the next season.\n\u201cI met Melo when he was a rookie in his new top-floor apartment overlooking the entire city of Denver,\u201d said Edwards. \u201cHere was this 19-year-old young man with an entire city to save, and I was responsible for designing his signature shoe. He was going to be the first Jordan basketball guy to have his own signature shoe, on top of being the face of the brand. That\u2019s a lot for a 19-year-old.\u201d\nCheap Custom Baseball JerseysCheap Donegal Gaa Jerseys\nO.J. Simpson released from Nevada prison after serving 9 years\nOctober 6, 2017 Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale\tLeave a comment\nO.J. Simpson is a free man once again.\nThe 70-year-old former Heisman Trophy winner was released from Lovelock Correctional Center in northern Nevada at 12:08 a.m. PT early Sunday morning after serving nine years for a 2007 armed robbery in Las Vegas.\nThat plan didn\u2019t go accordingly, as hours after his release, Simpson was in a vehicle at a gas station when a TMZ-style reporter came up with a recorder. Simpson clearly was not pleased, as he let the person know.\n\u201cI\u2019ve been in nowhere U.S.A. for the last nine years doing nothing. Nothing has changed in my life. What are you guys \u2026 what do you expect? Please? Can I have a break here?\u201d\nWhen asked where he was going, Simpson responded, \u201cNone of your business.\u201d\nOn Friday, Simpson\u2019s attorney said of his client: \u201cNo doubt he\u2019s going to Florida.\u201d However, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said Simpson is not welcome there.\nNeuwirth confirmed that the company would continue to keep Newton under Cheap Hockey Jerseys Canada contract without using him, but has started the process of pulling existing advertising that includes Newton.\nNewton replaced actor John Stamos as the brand\u2019s primary spokesman in Cheap Goalkeeper Jerseys January 2015, beating out Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson for the job.\nCheap Goalkeeper JerseysCheap Hockey Jerseys Canada", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 19155, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marsdenjacob.com.au/mining-rehabilitation-fund-review-published/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:14Z", "digest": "sha1:ULRKR774AGAHSOV33J6KEQEG3QMCW3E7", "length": 459, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.marsdenjacob.com.au", "title": "Mining Rehabilitation Fund review published - Marsden Jacob Associates", "raw_content": "Marsden Jacob\u2019s review of Western Australia\u2019s Mining Rehabilitation Fund (MRF) has been published. The review considered whether the MRF remains an appropriate, effective and efficient method of ensuring that funds are available for mine rehabilitation, even if the responsible company cannot be identified or pursued. Following the completion of the review, Marsden Jacob made four recommendations.\nThe Department\u2019s release can be accessed through this link.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 1066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 228.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.maryblackfoundation.org/focus-areas/early-childhood-development/recent-grants-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:QFYI77OKSFD2Q2NCKXUP4U2ZAY2YOVHJ", "length": 16828, "nlines": 100, "source_domain": "www.maryblackfoundation.org", "title": "Recent Grants | Mary Black Foundation Recent Grants | Mary Black Foundation", "raw_content": "Since 1996, the Mary Black Foundation has funded grants in excess of $51 million to improve the health, wellness, and success of the people and communities of Spartanburg County, SC. In 2003, the Foundation selected two funding priority areas: Early Childhood Development and Healthy Eating | Active Living. Since that time, we have invested over $16 million in ECD projects. Below you will find more information about recent grant awards.\nBirthMatters $116,500 to support a home visitation program using community-based doula support for vulnerable, expectant mothers, and their families.\nChapman Cultural Center $60,000 to develop and implement a professional development program for early childhood providers to integrate creativity and the arts in their classrooms.\nChildren\u2019s Museum of the Upstate Inc. $25,000 to support the Palmetto Basics Communication Campaign.\n$62,000 for the second year for a two-year grant to fund programming and instructional signage at the downtown Spartanburg location.\nChildren\u2019s Trust of South Carolina $18,325 to support training and implementation for Triple P expansion throughout Spartanburg County.\nHope Center for Children $77,000 for the second year of a three-year grant to support the implementation of Triple P, an evidence-based parenting curriculum, as part of Hope Center\u2019s Family Strengthening Program.\n$102,000 to coordinate the Healthy Families Initiative, a five-year initiative to increase implementation of evidence-based parent education through the Positive Parenting Program (Triple P).\nImpact America $28,125 for the second year of a three-year grant to provide high quality vision screening to preschool children living in households with low-incomes.\nInstitute for Child Success $142,500 to support core operating expenses leading to systems-level change and policies to improve early childhood development.\nMeeting Street Academy $2,100 to purchase equipment to provide hearing screenings for three \u2013 and four-year olds in Spartanburg County School District 7.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $175,000 for the second year of a three-year grant to provide general operating support for its work in the areas of teen pregnancy prevention and early childhood development.\nReach Out and Read \u2013 South Carolina $39,900 for the first year of a two-year grant to support the expansion of the Reach Out and Reach- Spartanburg County initiative to include the early literacy program in the offices of additional local primary care physicians.\nSouth Carolina Aquarium $8,400 to bring the Rovers Education Outreach Program for Early Learners to preschool programs in Spartanburg County.\nSpartanburg County First Steps $124,500 to support the implementation of Quality Counts, a continuous Quality Improvement Initiative for childcare programs.\nThe Spartanburg County Foundation/Northside Neighborhood Fund $200,000 for the fourth year of a five-year grant to establish The Franklin School, a child development center in the Northside.\nUpstate Family Resource Center $31,000 for the second year of a two-year grant to form a partnership with PASOs, a statewide nonprofit organization, to enhance services for Latinx children and families throughout Spartanburg County.\n$74,820 for the first year of a two-year grant to build the capacity of PASOs, a program that connects Latinx families with health, nutrition, parenting, and education services. The grant will also help other organizations in the community become more culturally competent and effective in serving Latinx families.\nBirthMatters $84,172 to support efforts to decrease teen pregnancy and support families with young children.\nChildren\u2019s Museum of the Upstate $77,500 over two years to fund programming and instructional signage at the downtown Spartanburg location.\nEMERGE (formerly known as Westgate Training & Consultation Network $55,960 to provide mental health services to families with preschool age children.\nHope Center for Children $36,000 to coordinate the Healthy Families Initiative, a five-year Initiative to increase evidence-based supports across Spartanburg County.\nImpact America $84,375 over three years to provide high quality vision screening to preschool of children living in households with low-incomes.\nInstitute for Child Success $46,050 to support efforts to increase systems-level and policy change to improve early childhood development.\n$95,000 to support core operating expenses leading to systems-level change and policies to improve early childhood development.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $56,250 to support general operating support for its work in the areas of teen pregnancy prevention and early childhood development.\nUniversity of South Carolina Upstate Foundation $5,000 to support expert multi-disciplinary training in child abuse prevention.\nUpstate Family Resource Center $29,000 to form a partnership with PASOs, a statewide nonprofit organization, to enhance services for Latino children throughout Spartanburg County.\nBirthMatters $60,000 to support a home visitation program for young moms.\nChildren\u2019s Advocacy Center of Spartanburg $34,500 for the last year of a three-year grant to develop and implement a peer support group for non-offending parents.\nHope Center for Children $21,566 to support the implementation of Triple P, an evidence-based program designed to provide parents with effective parenting strategies.\nImpact America $25,000 for a vision screening initiative serving low-income, preschool aged children.\nInstitute for Child Success $47,500 to support core operating expenses leading to systems-level change and policies to improve early childhood development.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $50,000 for comprehensive support, including parent education and child care, for young families.\nReach Out and Read $66,500 over 2 years to support an early literacy program implemented in physician\u2019s offices.\nSpartanburg Academic Movement $50,000 to pilot a kindergarten readiness assessment with Spartanburg School District 7.\nSpartanburg County First Steps $39,250 to support the last year of a three-year grant to support Quality Counts, a continuous quality improvement program for child care programs.\n$50,000 to support managing implementation of Quality Counts, a continuous quality improvement initiative for child care programs.\nUnited Way of the Piedmont $10,000 to support Imagination Library, an early literacy intervention.\nUniversity of South Carolina Foundation $15,000 to support expert multi-disciplinary training in child abuse prevention.\nChildren\u2019s Advocacy Center of Spartanburg $34,500 for the second year of a three-year grant to develop and implement a peer support group for non-offending parents.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $80,000 for the last year of a three-year grant to support the Adolescent Family Life Program, a project to serve pregnant and parenting adolescents and their families with comprehensive services designed to help them become healthy and self sufficient.\nSC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy $25,000 to support Let\u2019s Talk, a project to improve parent-child communication in targeted neighborhoods.\nSC Department of Social Services $37,900 to support BirthMatters, a community-based doula program serving young families in Spartanburg County.\nSpartanburg County First Steps $2,500 to support two events during the 2015 Week of the Young Child: \u201cPlay in the Park\u201d and \u201cSing and Dance in the Park.\u201d\n$124,500 to support the last year of a three-year grant to support Quality Counts, a continuous quality improvement program for child care programs.\nThe Spartanburg County Foundation $734,000 for the second year of a five year grant to establish a Child Development Center in the Northside.\nUnited Way of the Piedmont $10,000 for the last year of a three-year grant to support Imagination Library, a program that provides free, age-appropriate books to children once a month from birth to age five.\nChildren\u2019s Advocacy Center of Spartanburg $36,000 for the first year of a three-year grant to develop and implement a peer support group for non-offending parents and caregivers.\nHope Remains Youth Ranch $90,905 to support an equine therapy program for preschool children.\nInstitute for Child Success $95,000 to support public policy and advocacy specific to issues related to early childhood development.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $76,284 to support This Is My Child, high quality care and education for the children of adolescent parents.\n$86,000 for the second year of a three-year grant to support the Adolescent Family Life Program, a project to serve pregnant and\nparenting adolescents and their families in School Districts Two and Five with a comprehensive continuum of services designed to help families become healthy and self sufficient.\nProject Hope Foundation $21,072 to provide services to children under age three with autism.\n$47,500 to assist the organization in its efforts to streamline and create efficiencies in programming and operations.\nSC Campaign to Prevent\nTeen Pregnancy $25,000 to support Let\u2019s Talk, a project to improve parent-child communication in targeted neighborhoods. $1,000 to support the SC Campaign\u2019s 20th Anniversary Celebration, which included a recognition of Champions in Spartanburg.\nSC Department of Social Services/BirthMatters $37,900 to support BirthMatters\u2019 community-based doula program in Spartanburg County.\nSpartanburg County First Steps $185,250 to support the last year of a three-year grant to support Quality Counts, a continuous improvement program for child care centers.\nSpartanburg School District Seven $4,700 to support implementation of the High Scope and Conscious Discipline programs at the Park Hills Early Learning Center.\nSpartanburg County School District Six $130,870 to increase the number of staff trained in Triple P, Positive Parenting Program, in an effort to better support families with children ages birth to 5.\nUnited Way of the Piedmont $15,000 for the second year of a three-year grant to support Imagination Library, a program that provides free, age-appropriate books to children once a month from birth to age five.\nUniversity of South Carolina Upstate Foundation $2,500 to support A Brighter Future: Ending Child Abuse through Advocacy and Education, a one-day training.\nZero to Three $3,500 to provide training for preschool teachers and childcare providers on the importance of brain development and early literacy.\nSC Department of Social Services/BirthMatters $70,000 to support a community-based doula program serving young families in Spartanburg County.\nSpartanburg County First Steps $47,250 for the first year of a three-year grant to support Quality Counts, a quality rating and improvement system for child care programs.\nThe Spartanburg County Foundation/Northside\nDevelopment Child Center Fund $1,000,000 to establish a Child Development Center in the Northside.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $49,000 for the first year of a three-year grant to support the Adolescent Family Life Program, a project to serve pregnant and parenting adolescents and their families in School Districts Two and Five with a comprehensive continuum of services designed to help families become healthy and self sufficient and to break the cycle of poverty.\nSC Department of Social Services $50,000 to support the Adolescent Family Life Program, a project to serve pregnant and parenting adolescents and their families in School Districts Two and Five with a comprehensive continuum of services designed to help families become healthy and self sufficient and to break the cycle of poverty.\nREACH Upstate $40,000 for the third year of a three-year grant to support teen pregnancy prevention efforts.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $62,270 for the third year of a three-year grant to support its Family Literacy Program, a program designed to further the education of adolescent mothers, delay subsequent pregnancies, promote parent education, and provide child development to the children of adolescent mothers.\nCollege Hub $15,000 to support the Toolkit for Kindergarten Readiness and Early Childhood Screening Initiative.\nUnited Way of the Piedmont $20,000 for the first year of a three-year grant to support Imagination Library, a program that provides free, age-appropriate books to children once a month from birth to age five.\nSC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy $22,250 to increase parent-child communication in Spartanburg.\nSC Department of Social Services $50,000 to support the Children\u2019s Health Initiative, a project to expand Medicaid enrollment and retention of eligible children in Spartanburg County.\nSpartanburg County School District 7 $300,000 for the final year of a three-year grant to support a high quality child development center for children ages birth to 5 atthe District 7 Early Learning Center at Park Hills.\nSC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy $10,000 to increase access to health services for teens in Spartanburg County.\nSpartanburg County First Steps $62,850 for the last payment of an eighteen month grant to pilot a Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS) in Spartanburg County.\nWoodruff Primary School $2,500 to support the NAEYC programs for three- and four-year olds in School District Four.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $69,190 for the second year of a three-year grant to support its Family Literacy Program, a program designed to further the education of adolescent mothers, delay subsequent pregnancies, promote parent education, and provide child development to the children of adolescent mothers.\nMiddle Tyger Community Center $91,000 to support the Adolescent Family Life Program.\nREACH Upstate $40,000 for the second year of a three-year grant to support teen pregnancy prevention efforts.\nSC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy $22,250 to support efforts to increase parent-child communication.\nSpartanburg County School District Seven $300,000 for the second year of a three-year grant to support a high quality child development center program for children ages birth to 5 at the District 7 Early Learning Center at Park Hills.\nGirlology $6,050 to sponsor educational workshops to help parents begin conversations with their children about puberty, adolescence, and 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birth to 5 at the District 7 Early Learning Center at Park Hills.\nSpartanburg County School District Three $70,000 to support one full-day kindergarten classroom for four-year olds who would have been served by the Therapeutic Behavioral services program prior to changes in the Medicaid eligibility criteria.\nThe Children\u2019s Service Alliance $30,000 to support the Toolkit for Kindergarten Readiness and Screening Initiative.\nUnited Way of the Piedmont $10,000 for the last year of a four-year grant to support Imagination Library, a program that provides free, age-appropriate books to children once a month from birth to age five.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 213, "original_length": 21123, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 241.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.marykraft.com/industries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:16Z", "digest": "sha1:EO2WKH7JOPW6UHLFS6OQEPZL23DYAJ67", "length": 1592, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.marykraft.com", "title": "Industries | Mary Kraft", "raw_content": "Quality personnel are the lifeblood of any organization. However, addressing the acquisition needs associated with staff turnover, attrition, growth and other unique workplace challenges demands flexibility, skill, experience and resources. Mary Kraft has been providing staffing and recruiting solutions for a wide array of clients\u2014from small and mid-sized businesses to healthcare organizations, government contractors and the Fortune 500.\nWe have staffed individuals in call centers, insurance offices, administrative offices on construction sites, and warehouses geared towards printing and communication \u2013 just to name a few. With HR experts and project managers dedicated to finding the best fit for a myriad of staffing requirements, Mary Kraft delivers client-focused, flexible solutions.\nOur healthcare Associates are trained by our HR Specialists to hit the ground running, in some\u2026\nOur highly experienced consultants along with a network of outstanding insurance professionals are available for\u2026\nMary Kraft has been providing administrative staffing support since our founding in 1989. A need\u2026\nRemaining competitive in today\u2019s marketplace often requires the flexibility to meet stringent government subcontracting diversity\u2026\nIt cannot be argued that the IT Sector is a fast-growing industry in the Baltimore\u2026\nMary Kraft has been happily serving the Hunt Valley area since relocating in 2015. Since\u2026\nOne of the biggest needs in Baltimore and the surrounding areas is Education. Mary Kraft\u2026\nThe Baltimore / DC Corridor has a long and storied Non-Profit industry. Since the company\u2019s\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 153, "original_length": 4383, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.matkonet.co.il/the-criminal-no-longer-holds-the-civilian-in-the-state/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:43Z", "digest": "sha1:BZ5T2BXQUWLMTWDNF3GHIWQHKRZXH24V", "length": 2668, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.matkonet.co.il", "title": "The criminal no longer holds the civilian in the state", "raw_content": "The law of 4 March 2002 affirmed the principle of alternating residence.\nIn fact, according to article 373-2-9 of the French Civil Code: \" the child's residence may be fixed alternately in the home of each parent or in the home of one of them. \"\nThis is to allow the child to live successively with one and the other of his parents (every other week, 15 days or a month on two \u2026).\nEither the parents, in agreement with each other, together ask the Judge to fix the alternate residence of the child, or, in case of disagreement, it may also be ordered by the magistrate when only one of the parents so requests; moreover, not being bound by the demands of the parties, the Judge can choose the solution which seems to him to preserve at best the interest of the child.\nIt should be noted that some Family Court Judges are in favor of the establishment of alternate residence and therefore tend to encourage it, while others are resolutely against \u2026\nOften, they will put in place alternation in the form of a test which, if successful, will enable them to definitively order alternating residence.\nOpinions are divided :\nthere are those who think that this measure allows both parents to play a real role with the child, to monitor equally education and the daily life and emotional of the child by sharing his daily life, in short to involve more.\nothers believe that the alternating residence is psychologically difficult for the child, a source of imbalance.\nThe judge must always be guided by the interest of the child and assess whether the establishment of an alternating residence will sufficiently preserve the essential elements for the good development of the child (safety, health, morality, education \u2026) and will not expose him to any danger (such as including violence, alcohol).\nThe child may be heard by the Judge (depending on his age and maturity) or the judge will have the opportunity to order a social inquiry before making his decision.\nEven if the law remains silent on the criteria to be retained, some points seem essential:\nresidences of two close relatives, in order to keep the child the same school, the same friends, the same rhythm of life\navailability of both parents therefore requiring a significant investment on their part\nabsence of a conflictual relationship between parents, which implies that they have a healthy and calm relationship\nLike any decision on the child, the choice of alternate residence may be subject to revision at any time, if new elements exist.\n\u05db\u05ea\u05d1\u05d4 \u05e7\u05d5\u05d3\u05de\u05ea Cohabitation and separation\n\u05db\u05ea\u05d1\u05d4 \u05d4\u05d1\u05d0\u05d4 The compensatory allowance: k\u00e9sako?\nhttp://www.matkonet.co.il/the-criminal-no-longer-holds-the-civilian-in-the-state\">", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 4072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.medwardpowell.com/tag/sovereignty/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:23Z", "digest": "sha1:V5ICTGPZDSZO6QN4EGVOARWEUCXDZJBR", "length": 2527, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.medwardpowell.com", "title": "sovereignty Archives - Wheat and Chaff", "raw_content": "Profound Theology\nApril 25, 2015 May 9, 2015 Matt PowellsovereigntyLeave a comment\nQuestion: \u201cWhy did God make you and all things?\u201d Answer: \u201cFor His own glory.\u201d\nIt struck me today, though not for the first time, that this is a truly profound and crucial theological statement. It\u2019s from our little Children\u2019s Catechism, and kids have been learning this truth for centuries. But I think if we really knew that truth, really knew it down in our bones, we would avoid a lot of errors. There is more that needs to be known, for sure- it is not sufficient. But it is necessary- without this piece of information, you\u2019ll misunderstand and misconstrue everything. That statement right there cures the Arminian error, I believe. That\u2019s just one example.\nHow many times in the Bible do you see God saying something like, \u201cSo that you will know that I am God\u201d or \u201cfor My holy name\u2019s sake\u201d or something similar? These are all statements about God\u2019s self-revelation and how fundamental it is to the whole existence of the universe. This is why everything exists.\nGood theology is the reason we don\u2019t have slavery anymore, and is the reason why you have cell phones and cars and democracy. That\u2019s not to say of course that the company that built your cell phone is Christian, but it is to say that we as a culture and civilization are still reaping from the long trail of benefits from the building of our civilization in northern and western Europe by people who were Christians. They believed that God had made all people in His own image and that God made the universe orderly and understandable, and made man to understand it. These ideas led to the scientific revolution, the concept of human rights and all the rest. That\u2019s not to say they were all perfectly worked out instantly. Some might cite slavery in the US or Europe as a counterexample. But the remarkable thing wasn\u2019t that slavery existed. Slavery has existed everywhere for all of history. The remarkable thing, the thing that requires explaining, is the push to end slavery, which happened entirely in places with a long Christian heritage.\nBecause they knew God. And they knew that God had created the very universe to reveal Himself. They wanted to know Him better, and they paid attention.\nIn a society rapidly rejecting Christianity and the civilization which sprang from it, I expect we\u2019ll be finding out soon whether this thesis is correct, whether a liberal, free, scientific society can long exist without the theological framework which gave rise to that society.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 9419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 258.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/photographers/henson_ar.shtml", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:59Z", "digest": "sha1:E2JCLV4V37ZLDBZMITPM7VW73QV6FKOZ", "length": 1783, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.mhs.mb.ca", "title": "Manitoba Photographers: Aubrey Randolph Henson (1884-1965)", "raw_content": "Manitoba Photographers: Aubrey Randolph Henson (1884-1965)\nAubrey Randolph Henson\nBorn at Totnes, Devonshire, England on 8 August 1884, son of Gerald Henson, he came to Manitoba in 1903 and worked on a farm near Brandon until 1911 when he opened a photographic studio at Newdale, working out of a tent in the summer months. In 1916, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served overseas with the 78th Battalion. Discharged with the rank of Sergeant Major, he returned to Newdale with his wife Carmen Henson (c1886-1953) and opened a shop where he sold photographic supplies, stationery, greeting cards, radios and record players. In 1931, he moved to Minnedosa and took over the photographic studio established by William B. St. John in 1879. He also ran Henson\u2019s Drug Store at Wasagaming during the summer months from 1932 to 1949, was President of the Wasagaming Board of Trade, and served as Postmaster (1941-1959). In 1956, he built a new post office building at Wasagaming. He died at the Misericordia Hospital on 22 October 1965 and was buried in the Minnedosa Cemetery.\nWasagaming [Riding Mountain National Park]\n\u201cA. R. Henson,\u201d Winnipeg Tribune, 21 July 1934, page 11.\nMinnedosa: A Village History, 1878 - 1948 by Minnedosa Women\u2019s Institute, 1948. [Manitoba Legislative Library, F5649.M57 Min]\n\u201cLocal druggist buys store at Wasagaming,\u201d Dauphin Herald and Press, 6 October 1949, page 1.\n\u201cMrs. C. Henson, welfare official dies at 67 years,\u201d Winnipeg Free Press, 24 August 1953, page 29.\n\u201cNew Wasagaming PO gives daily service,\u201d Winnipeg Free Press, 16 May 1956, page 17.\n\u201cBirthdays,\u201d Winnipeg Free Press, 8 August 1964, page 29.\nObituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 25 October 1965, page 27.\n\u201cFor sale,\u201d Rossburn Review, 16 June 1966, page 8.\nNewdale, 1870-1970-2000.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 4251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 153.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mhsc.org.za/site/about-us/vision-mission-values", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:33Z", "digest": "sha1:GNJUMIGEPCZSQPQPXOFUJ63UO7GQVCYJ", "length": 1646, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.mhsc.org.za", "title": "Vision, Mission, Values | MHSC", "raw_content": "Home / Vision, Mission, Values\nTo be the knowledge leader and trusted advisor to the Minister of Mineral Resources and stakeholders on occupational health and safety matters, and to promote the transformation of occupational health and safety in the mining industry towards the achievement of Zero Harm to mine workers and mining communities.\nThe MHSC\u2019s mission is to promote a culture of occupational health and safety in the mining industry by providing advice to the Minister of Mineral Resources, liaising with statutory bodies, fostering an effective tripartite partnership, and creating and disseminating information on leading practices to the mining industry.\nMHSC is pursuing the following goals and all the strategic objectives will be linked to these goals:\nZero Harm to employees and communities as a result of mining activities\nTo provide knowledge leadership in mining OHS knowledge\nThe MHSC prides itself on a set of shared values that inform and guide the interaction between employees, stakeholders and the mining industry at large. The first initial of these core values together spell the acronym \u201cPRIDE\u201d to ignite pride in the way MHSC is portrayed internally and externally.\nProfessionalism \u2013 Professional approach in all our business dealings and interpersonal relationships.\nRespect \u2013 Respect each other and value diversity in ideas, work style, background and skills.\nIntegrity \u2013 Integrity, honesty and ethical approach in everything we do.\nDelivery \u2013 Delivery and results-driven culture through constructive feedback and continuous improvement.\nExcellence \u2013 Excellence and efficiency in the way we deliver on the mandate.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 277.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mideastdynasty.com/?tag=middle-east", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:48Z", "digest": "sha1:SNVAKLG4FK37KJW4I2WIOXDJWNJDG5O5", "length": 414, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.mideastdynasty.com", "title": "Middle East - MidEast Dynasty", "raw_content": "Tag archive for \u2018 Middle East \u2019\nTweet From creating the official event anthem and performing live for the Kobe Bryant Health & Fitness Weekend,...\nTweet The mixtape era has passed. And, even though it is responsible for exposing us to some major hip-hop...\nRed Bull \u201cBreaKing\u201d Middle East Finals 2010\nTweet Red Bull BreaKing is the first Regional B-Boy Championship in the Middle East. It is based on one to one...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 258.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mieranadhirah.com/2016/04/man-swallows-sword-on-britains-got.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:50Z", "digest": "sha1:PH6XCCHZLPGDTAIFIFDQHXPCJKUEKZWK", "length": 5763, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.mieranadhirah.com", "title": "Man swallows a sword on Britain's Got Talent ~ www.mieranadhirah.com", "raw_content": "Don't you somehow love those talent shows where you get to watch people from all walks of life showing of their skills? Some which can make you go all agog, some which annoys you and some that make you do a double take.....\nAnyway, Britain\u2019s Got Talent is back with a bang! At just the first round of auditions viewers and the judges, of course, saw some incredible acts, including Alex Magala, who got everyone shrieking in horror with his sword-swallowing routine..... and here is an interview with the The 26-year-old from Moldova who performed what has been described as \"one of the most dangerous acts ever\" on Britain's Got Talent....\nQ. On your VT you\u2019ve been practicing this act since you were a teenager, what drew you to the element of danger and wanting to swallow sharp objects?\nA. I remember the night very well, it was a rainy evening in Moldova and I was by myself watching America\u2019s Got Talent. I\u2019ve always followed talent shows because I\u2019m really fascinated by watching talented people from around the world. I remember seeing one man swallow a sword - it was so awesome the way he delivered it and the reaction he got from the audience was amazing. It really inspired me and since then I started to practice to get where I am today.\nQ. Were you ever scared?\nA. Yes of course because it\u2019s not something you can learn from books. It\u2019s not like there are tutorial \u2018how to\u2019 videos online so you have to discover it for yourself. It\u2019s a dangerous journey to go on and there was a lot of mistakes along the way as well as the reappearance of eaten sandwiches on the floor when I was practicing so yes it was quite difficult.\nQ. What\u2019s the worst injury you\u2019ve sustained?\nA. The worst injury was actually when I was performing on Italy\u2019s Got Talent. Everything has to be very aligned in order for me to perform so if your breathing isn\u2019t right or you have a dry mouth for example it can go very wrong \u2013 it\u2019s so delicate. I had a very serious injury where I couldn\u2019t actually eat for a week afterwards. The first couple of days after the incident, I was getting a fever and I had severe headaches. My temperature also fluctuated from freezing cold to being very hot and sweaty. I couldn\u2019t swallow so for the first couple of days all I could really take in was water then I slowly moved on to yogurt. It was really hard.\nQ. What do you family and friends think of the act?\nA. When I first started to do this nobody supported me and honestly I kept it all very secret. My parents didn\u2019t really support me and I was practicing a lot at night so if I made mistakes or had any injuries they would heal overnight when I slept. This meant in the morning any cuts I had sustained healed a little so I could eat properly and they wouldn\u2019t suspect.\nQ. Is there anything you\u2019d like to try and incorporate into the act or swallow that you haven\u2019t before?\nA. Yes definitely, that\u2019s pretty much what I\u2019m preparing for. If I get to the semi-finals I really want to show my new trick! I\u2019m not even sure it\u2019s possible but I\u2019m really trying to deliver something new that audiences have never seen before. I\u2019ve never this trick before so right now I\u2019m in the process of rehearsing so I can present it to Britain\u2019s Got Talent audiences and to the judges.\nQ. Obviously you\u2019ve been following Got Talent for a long time, having already spoken about watching America\u2019s Got Talent when you were younger, and you\u2019ve since gone on to appear on various Got Talent shows e.g. France, Russia, Italy to name a few. Why Got Talent in particular?\nA. I think it\u2019s because what I do isn\u2019t for everyone and not everyone enjoys watching it. For me, it was really hard to find my audience and Got Talent is such a great platform. There\u2019s people watching who actually accept me for who I am and what I\u2019m doing. I\u2019ve been getting tremendous support and I\u2019m really happy that I\u2019ve found this show because Got Talent has made me who I am right now. I\u2019m really thankful for that.\nQ. Do you still get nervous?\nA. Every time, you never know how it\u2019s going to end and luckily I\u2019ve been able to pull it off. Every time is like a first time and I\u2019m putting my life on the edge and living in the moment.\nQ. Is there any other Got Talent shows that you\u2019d like to perform on?\nA. Actually my final destination was Britain\u2019s Got Talent - that for me is the biggest show and the most demanding. I\u2019m really open for a new journey so we\u2019ll see. I\u2019m just going to ride this wave and I\u2019m focussed on this moment in time. I don\u2019t know where it will bring me or if I\u2019ll survive but hopefully everything will be fine.\nQ. Is there one of the judges you wanted to impress the most?\nA. Of course I appreciate every one of the judges and I genuinely love them all but I really wanted to impress Simon. During all of these Got Talent shows, the judges have seen everything particularly Britain\u2019s Got Talent which is in its tenth series now. It\u2019s really hard to pull out something new and so I\u2019m really happy that I got a standing ovation from them it was such a big honour and accomplishment for me.\nQ. What is your ultimate ambition, where do you want to go with this act?\nA. I suppose the question is where the audience will go with this act because I\u2019m performing for the people. For me, it\u2019s not a race or for money or fame I\u2019m performing for the people first of all. The feedback that I\u2019m getting is that I inspire other people and I change their point of view in life so that\u2019s what\u2019s important for me and that\u2019s what I\u2019m focussed on.\nBritain\u2019s Got Talent S10 airs as live via satellite Sundays 10:30am (9:30am JKT/BKK) on RTL CBS Entertainment HD.\nPrimetime encore on Sundays and Thursdays at 9pm (8pm JKT/BKK)\nAlex Magala, BGT, Britain's Got Talent, CBS, entertainment, sword swallowing, TV shows Leave a Comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 240, "original_length": 12161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mirag.net/?p=mirag", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:38Z", "digest": "sha1:SUVC6CSCT4FDHTYSN7OHBBMKCWFMSSBE", "length": 1628, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.mirag.net", "title": "MIRAG", "raw_content": "MIRAG is an architectural services company led by architects Pau Millet and Xavier Ramoneda.\nOur mission is to provide an all-encompassing approach to Architecture, covering from big-scale urban planning to detail-oriented interior design. Creativity and design \u2013the driving forces behind our projects- go hand in hand with the management of budget, program and planning of every single project we work in.\nHe graduated in Architecture at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB), 1999.\nAssociate and Creative director of MIRAG Architecture & Management.\nBetween 1997 and 2009, he combined his work at MIRAG with the role of Director of the landscape department at BATLLE I ROIG ARQUITECTES.\nXavier has also been assistant professor at the University of Navarre School of Architecture, and he is currently assistant professor at the Masters on Landscape of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.\nHe graduated in Architecture at ETSAB in 1999. That same year he opened his own company and started his professional career, which culminated with the creation of MIRAG Architecture and Management, a joint endeavour with Xavier Ramoneda.\nHis main contribution to the team is a holistic overview of projects, including the control of budget and timing, as well as the efficient management of clients\u2019 needs.\nHe is one of the founders of the company DASGROUP, in which he takes part in the organisation of international workshops of architecture projects.\nPau holds a graduate in Management Development Program by the IESE Business School and he leads the coordination of the Projects Department at the Sagrada Familia basilica.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1912, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 198.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mizshelby.com/2012/03/silence-of-mockingbirds.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:46Z", "digest": "sha1:Z3NUDN73IOAXTY3Q2DLAJPVFC4WROCTL", "length": 1144, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.mizshelby.com", "title": "ShelbyDee: a silence of mockingbirds", "raw_content": "Calling all book clubs and readers out there. If you didn't know, my mama writes books. Yes, some people say writing is in my blood. The good news is, Mama's new book, is available and being shipped. It also was recently selected to be the Baton Rouge community read book.\nIf your book clubs is looking for a new read, or you're looking for a book to curl up with during these last few stubborn weeks of winter, check out A Silence of Mockingbirds.\nThis is not a simple love story. It is the troubling tale of a father's love for the daughter he was unable to protect.\nKaren Zacharias files a crime story readers won't put down and will never forget. A SILENCE OF MOCKINGBIRDS will open eyes, raise voices, and save lives. - Winston Groom, New York Times Bestselling author\nIf you're worried the book will be sad or hard to read, let me remind you of Flannery O'Conner's words: \"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.\"\nMaintenance Note: I understand some people were having trouble leaving comments. I've updated the format, and hope that it simplifies the process. Do let me know if there are still issues with this.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 2530, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 228.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.montrealchronicles.com/2010/06/diving-skills-by-daniele-de-rossi.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:21Z", "digest": "sha1:S6D5O7QQ674HA4G6PQCNR5JI4UEOCPBK", "length": 186, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.montrealchronicles.com", "title": "Diving Skills by Daniele De Rossi - Montreal Chronicles Reviews", "raw_content": "Diving Skills by Daniele De Rossi\nWatch the image below...\nAt least I got a laugh out of this...Everyone knows soccer players dive, it's just part of the game. 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It hasn't run in a few years and the owner has asked the Long Beach Clubs help in getting it running and roadworthy.\nIt looks to be all original and complete. The serial number is 119xxxxx so it is definitely a 1925. It still has the engine pans and original paint as well as Minnesota dealer plates on the bed and Minnesota Pioneer license plates. It also has pin stripes on the bed, body, and wheels. I think it is a dealer built pickup rather than a factory built one due to the dealer plates and pin stripes, but I am not a 25 RPU expert. The bed appears to be 1925, no fender reveal and front stake pockets, but the rear fenders look like roadster fenders and the tailgate has Ford script. I couldn't get a good look at the rear spring, but it appears to be 8 leaves and the front is 7 leaves.\nWhat is Larry's opinion?\nGee I missed that one, it would look good at my place in Minnesota. Very nice, thanks for the pictures. I hope it is just a tune-up and a clean-up.\nBy Bill Alexander in Albion, Maine on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 07:51 am:\nLooks good to me. Very similar to my '25 pu. Many dealers did put them together as I believe that the factory only did it for a couple months in '25. Tailgate with Ford logo is correct but the pin striping was added, probably by the dealer. I think the spring leaves are also correct. Is there a battery box cover behind the driver in the box bed ? Looks like a great ride once you get it going.\nBy Derek Kiefer - Mantorville, MN on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 08:02 am:\nWoodhead Ford, neat! They had a very impressive collection that was auctioned off several years ago.\nhttp://fordlegacymn.com/woodhead-ford/\nWhat a nice unmolested RPU!\n(I would love it and squeeze it and call it George )\nNice time capsule indeed. From what I know, the few RPU that were built by the factory in '25 did not have the sheet metal sheathing under the pick up frame. Seeing as this one does, I assume that it was a converted roadster. Having said that, the rivets along the bed rail are rather convincing to me.\nBy Mike Walker, NW AR on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 08:54 am:\nJeff -- Thanks for taking and posting all those nice detail pics.\nBy Kim Dobbins on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 10:25 am:\nVery cool Jeff, that's is a nice one!!\nBy Erik Johnson on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 11:03 am:\nMinnesota Pioneer Plate 1697 was originally registered to Joseph Lundquist of 3915 17th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN for a 1925 Ford pickup. I don't have issue dates on my list but, based on the number, I would say the plate was issued in the early 1960s.\nThe Woodhead nameplate is most likely not original to the truck and appears to be from the 1930s. 1) Ford was not using the oval in 1925. 2) Woodhead started selling Fords during the teens in Brainerd, MN but they did not have a Ford dealership in Minneapolis until 1926. The building still stands at 412 E. Lake Street. (It is only 1.5 miles as the crow flies from where Lundquist lived at 39th and 17th.)\nBased on what I see, the truck has been repainted over the original paint (and perhaps over some rust and dirt). That is why it is you see a lot of alligatoring, cracking, checking, flaking and wrinkling of the paint. If you look at some spots, you can see some of the original paint where the repaint has lifted.\n(Message edited by Erik_johnson on February 27, 2017)\nI thought I'd heard of most '25 pickups, but not that one! That is and exceptional example indeed of a late '25 pickup. Notice the '26 features. I hope you can find a good home for it, as you will never find a better example of an original.\nBy Jeff Hood -Long Beach, California on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 01:34 pm:\nI hadn't thought of the blue oval not being period correct as Eric points out. I wonder if this truck was possibly a part of the dealers collection as posted by Derek, and therefore \"restored\" with a possible repaint, pinstripes, and the dealer plates.\nThe only pieces that look to be missing is the front bow for the top, and the correct irons for the folded top to rest on. There are just bolts in the holes now, and they are not long enough for the cradles\nto be in the right position for the top bows to rest in them.\nBill, yes there is a battery box access in the bed.\nThe pickup was not part of the Woodhead auction that was held Sept. 18, 2004. I was there for the whole auction. If it was there I would have tried to buy it. It could have been sold years earlier. Bob.\nBy Erik Johnson on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 02:56 pm:\nJohn Woodhead, III had a collection of Fords from 1903 to 2002. The collection was auctioned off in 2004.\nAll the cars were in pristine condition - either low mileage originals or professional restorations. I saw the collection 15 or 20 years ago. I never saw that truck. It was not in the auction so I doubt John Woodhead, III. owned it. However, there is no reason why you couldn't call him if there is a slim chance that his grandfather (John I) or father (John, Jr.) owned it and/or displayed it at the dealership, etc.\nAs far as I know, John Woodhead, III was never involved in the operation dealership as he was too young. He was a banker and involved in other enterprises. His grandfather established the dealership and his father later bought it from his grandfather.\nAs I indicated earlier, Woodhead Ford was located 421 E. Lake Street starting in 1926. It was sold and renamed Bill Boyer Ford in 1967. I don't know when Bill Boyer left that location. Lake Street runs the full width of Minneapolis and there were many dealerships but they all closed and/or relocated to the suburbs by the late 1980s. Boyer no longer deals in automobiles - strictly commercial trucks. (I had been in the building many times in the 1980s and 1990s because it was a fantastic thrift store/junk store and it was one of my regular stops when hunting for collectibles.)\nThe Woodhead plate was probably just stuck on the truck as a decoration. The Minneapolis AAA sticker is probably from the 1950s or 1960s.\nMy dad has been in the antique car hobby since 1948 and is a charter member of the Minnesota Region of the AACA. He's lived in the same south Minneapolis neighborhood his whole life which is about three miles away from where Joseph Lundquist lived. He doesn't remember anyone named Joseph Lundquist. If I show him the photos of the truck, there may be a chance that he may recognize it.\nIf a person wanted to research the history of the truck, I've already provided a major piece of information. You could hunt down Mr. Lundquist, or, if he has passed away, locate relatives and see if they know anything about the truck. Also, the current owner should be able to tell you from whom he purchased the truck. You could also work backwards from there.\nBy David Dewey, N. California on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 04:36 pm:\nErik mentioned the \"rivets\" along the bed rail. These are actually carriage bolts through the body rail to hold the bed on. These are why I'm not going to put my 25 Ford bed on Barney--I don't want to drill holes in the sides of the bed rail, in case I want to go back to a turtle deck. However, I do have the remains of a Perry wooden bed that doesn't bolt through the body sides I will use instead.\n(Sorry Larry, Barney will not become a \"real\" 25 PU)\nBy Don Allen - Conroe, TX on Monday, February 27, 2017 - 05:00 pm:\nWhile I'm new to Model T's, I'm not new to old cars.\nMy particular interest has become cars wearing their original paint and I've become pretty good at spotting originality.\nThis pickup appears to be a old repaint based on the way the paint is cracking and a few other clues.\nDon't get me wrong, I'm not running the car down...it's still very neat, but most likely a repaint.....probably more than 50 or 60 years ago.\n(Message edited by rustyfords on February 27, 2017)\nIt's a repaint over the original paint, rust and probably over dirt.\nThat's why the paint has alligatored as I mentioned earlier.\nIt's typical of what happens when you paint over the original Ford factory paint. Also, the original Ford finish does not behave in that manner even if the car has poor storage or sits outside and rust starts blossoming through the paint.\nI think it was pretty well established above why the Woodhead sign wasn't original to the car.\nBut I might add that it would be kind of odd in 1925 for a dealership to be touting the fact that they'd been around since 1913.....that's only 12 years!\nSomething about original old cars....I just can't get enough of them. I have a 66 F100 short box Styleside that has thoroughly original paint and low miles. The paint is only rubbed through a little bit where the original owner leaned his arm out the window.\nMy '54 Ford Mainline had just over 10,000 miles on it when I bought it in 1986 and I drove it like a regular used car....put 80,000 miles on it before I did a body of rebuild. The original paint was long gone.\nI've had a few other thoroughly original paint cars...a slant six Plymouth Valiant, a 39 Ford deluxe and a 53 Plymouth Belvedere hardtop to name a few. And...I believe the limited amount of paint remaining on my newly acquired 24 Touring is factory paint.\nThis '25 however is, at least a repaint, if not a rebuild....which is fine, but one should approach it knowing that.\nThe 1913 date is strange because John Woodhead, I didn't open a Ford dealership until 1916 in Brainerd, MN.\nHe did, however, work for the Ford Motor Co. branch in Minneapolis before that so he was probably including those years.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 10820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mtv.com/news/1702923/walking-dead-lennie-james-returns/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:27Z", "digest": "sha1:HGMAVEFVUCHFJQL2YVZ5OOZHDLGFHG4X", "length": 5862, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.mtv.com", "title": "EXCLUSIVE: 'Walking Dead' Actor Explains Why He Returned To 'Clear' - MTV", "raw_content": "EXCLUSIVE: 'Walking Dead' Actor Explains Why He Returned To 'Clear'\nLennie James speaks with MTV News about returning to the zombie drama for the first time since the series premiere.\nWARNING: \"Walking Dead\" spoilers lurk ahead!\nHe's back \u2014 but does he clear?\nOn the latest episode of \"The Walking Dead,\" actor Lennie James returned to the AMC drama as hardened survivor Morgan Jones, last seen in the pilot episode living with his son and unable to kill his zombified wife. In this week's episode, \"Clear,\" Morgan reunited with series lead Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), but as a pale imitation of the man he once was; his son is dead, killed by the very same wife and mother Morgan was unable to put down in the series premiere. Standing in the wake of the tragedy is a thoroughly broken Morgan, who spends the rest of his days killing \u2014 or \"clearing,\" as he puts it \u2014 all of the walkers he can.\nJames spoke with MTV News about what led to his \"Walking Dead\" return, his thoughts on what's happened to Morgan, and whether we'll see the fan-favorite character again.\nMTV: It's exciting to see Morgan back on the show. That's something the fans have wanted to see since the series premiere. How did it come together?\nLennie James: The time tables worked out, and the story has gotten to a point where I suppose they needed a bit more of Morgan. We managed to make the dates work. I'd been in contact with [executive producer Gale Anne Hurd] on and off over the years; she'd check in with me and I'd check in with [AMC]. We finally made it work. It was fairly straightforward, how it came about in the end.\nMTV: Morgan is a very different man when we meet him again. He's unhinged, understandably so, given what he went through. What did you think of where the writers took the character?\nJames: It's one of the things that most excited me about going back: the opportunity to navigate the journey. You very much get to see the journey that Andrew Lincoln's character is on, but you don't get to see Morgan's, even though they essentially set off at the same time. Having the opportunity to encompass what that journey might have been in one episode was one of the things that was most exciting about it. I think the writers and the guys at \"Walking Dead\" did a fantastic job. It was a really exciting episode to film, to fill that gap between the pilot and episode 12 of season three. That was the joy of going back. The way they've done it, almost from the moment you see him again, you realize that this guy has been on one hell of a journey.\nMTV: The story of what happened to his son is brutal. It connects back to the pilot in a very clever way: Morgan had the chance to put his wife down, but he couldn't do it. He suffers the consequences of that decision, as she kills his son. What did you make of that circularity?\nJames: I think what it is, is really well-written things are really easy to film and really easy to get your head to the space where it needs to be and come up with the goods. That's what I was offered up with this script. That story, the initial one with Morgan being unable to shoot his wife, really resonated with fans. I think that was a hook, the reason why people were so interested to see Morgan come back, to round off that particular circle and say, yes, he did kill his wife \u2014 but it was after an even more tragic event that forced him to finally do it. You get the sense of why this guy is completely cray-cray. [Laughs]\nMTV: Throughout the episode, Morgan keeps talking about having to \"clear.\" That's the title of the episode as well. Can you explain what \"clearing\" meant to you and to Morgan?\nJames: He's a man who's grieving, a man who feels he's being punished, and a man who on one level wishes he was dead. But he's not dead. I think at that point, some people with death wishes, they take huge risks. For Morgan, his risk, the only justification he can find in the crazy world he finds himself in \u2014 his wife is gone, and his son is gone, and the only thing he can find to justify that is he must be here for a purpose. And his purpose is to wipe out as many of the walkers as he possibly can, to wipe out everybody. That's all that's left for him. That's the road he's on. He's a man on a mission; he's a man with no name. The only thing he can achieve, and the only sense he can make of not killing his wife and only doing it after she'd bitten his son, is that somewhere, the Gods, the universe, something is saying, \"Your job here is to kill.\" That's what he means. It's his job to \"clear.\"\nMTV: Does that speak to why he didn't go off with Rick in the end? That he's already on a mission, and what Rick is offering will distract him from his purpose?\nJames: Yeah. And I think in a very strange way, what Rick is offering seems like normalcy in this crazy, crazy world of \"The Walking Dead.\" He can't handle anything structured and organized. He can't handle being around too many people. To a certain extent, he has no control over who and why he might kill. In a way, for me, his not going is an act of strange friendship with Rick. \"I can't go with you because I don't know what might trigger the next 'clearing' I have to do.\"\nMTV: Of course, Morgan's still alive at the end of the episode, so the door is open for another appearance.\nJames: If they want me, if they offer something as juicy as what was offered on this particular episode, then I'd seriously consider [returning]. I enjoy my time on \"Walking Dead.\" There are very few shows, almost no shows out there like it. I've really liked my time in Atlanta and my time working with Andy Lincoln. If all of those things match up again, then why not? But I have no idea if I'm in their thoughts or if it's even a possibility at this point.\nWhat did you think of Morgan's return? Tell us in the comments section below or let me know on Twitter @roundhoward!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 221.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.musicxack.com/date/2014/01", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:35Z", "digest": "sha1:4L3HROUXY2CMQEP45HHYUFXZGNPQJEWP", "length": 206, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.musicxack.com", "title": "MusicXack.com | Bollywood Movie Songs, English Tracks, Latest Singles Mp3 Songs Download", "raw_content": "I, Me Aur Main (English: I, Me And Myself) is an upcoming Hindi romance drama film directed by debutant Kapil Sharma, and featuring John Abraham, Prachi Desai and Chitrangda Singh in lead roles. Read more \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 4546, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 100.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.myasylum.com/sbf/messages/4/1476.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:15Z", "digest": "sha1:DB23BJIDNYPYEGYGBT3SBIT6DLY6QH5P", "length": 883, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.myasylum.com", "title": "Re: Installing hard bottom in inflatable... - gwh1bass - Small Boat Forum", "raw_content": "Re: Installing hard bottom in inflatable...\nPosted by gwh1bass on March 12, 2004 at 07:01:29\nIn Reply to: Installing hard bottom in inflatable... posted by bcr #226 on September 29, 2003 at 04:59:29:\nI would also like advise. I've got a 9'-6\" West Marine made by Zodiac inflatable boat. The floor system is missing although I still have the floor board stringers. I have seen the boat with floor installed and took a few notes, so I am going to try to fabricate my own floor system. I still need to find a source for the aluminum \"H\" channel that holds adjacent pieces of flooring together. Its either that or try to make the floor out of one piece of pylwood. 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Check it out below, and please share. The video was made in collaboration with E4PR, a management company for the stars, who agreed for me to use their pictures. They will also be promoting the video and book launch, and we're all looking forward to A Love Rekindled on the screen.\nEfe finds true love with Kevwe, and promises to marry him. Their dreams unravel when Efe wins an American Visa, and fresh violence erupts between their warring ethnic groups. Efe leaves for the States nursing a broken heart. Now, Efe is back in Nigeria, and sparks fly when they meet again. But renewed desire is no match for bitter memories of heartbreak. Can they overcome the traumatic past and rekindle their love?\nThe book can currently be bought at the following outlets. I'll be grateful if as many people as possible buy this weekend so as to give it some push, especially on Amazon. The eBook is $2.99 and the book is $11.99.\nAMAZON PAPERBACK - http://www.amazon.com/Love-Rekindled-Myne-Whitman/dp/1456516868/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2\nKINDLE - http://www.amazon.com/A-Love-Rekindled-ebook/dp/B004SUP3J6/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2\nCREATESPACE - https://www.createspace.com/3499780 Book Launch Discount Code 5% off (5YPZ5L8Y)\nSMASHWORDS - http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/48781\nB&N NOOK - http://search.barnesandnoble.com/A-Love-Rekindled/Myne-Whitman/e/2940012394538", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 2124, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.mysteriousreviews.com/mystery-book-reviews/conger-prison-guards-son.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CY4BLZPDA5WSNCUCCZAIQHKVKRCBGTUM", "length": 2666, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.mysteriousreviews.com", "title": "The Prison Guard's Son by Trace Conger, a Mysterious Review.", "raw_content": "The Prison Guard's Son\nA Finn Harding Mystery by Trace Conger\nReview: Finn Harding lost his PI license but he's managed to keep busy by discreetly accepting assignments that tread the fine line between the legal and not-so-legal and knowing how to respond appropriately. But his latest case seems to rest firmly on the side of illegal, and yet he doesn't seem to care, in The Prison Guard's Son, the third mystery in this series by Trace Conger.\nThree decades ago two boys kidnapped, brutalized, and killed a four-year-old boy. They were quickly captured, tried, and convicted, but due to their own young ages, were confined to a youth detention center. On their eighteenth birthdays, they were ordered released into the protective custody of the federal witness protection program, a very unusual move. Now, the father of the murdered boy, following the death of his wife, believes he has nothing left to lose and hires Finn to find the boys. He doesn't ask Finn to do anything more, but Finn knows that once the boys, now men, are found, the man will have them killed. Still, the brutality of the crime and the fact that the killers were given little more than a slap on the wrist gets under Finn's skin. He agrees to help, but he also knows it's going to be tough to find them. And, to be sure, it is. But using some trusted associates, he manages to locate one, then the other. But in the process, he comes to see that a case he first thought of as starkly black and white has a lot of gray to it \u2026 and isn't sure turning the men over to the dead boy's father is the right thing to do.\nThe Prison Guard's Son is a superbly crafted crime novel. The characters are richly drawn with a rare combination of nuance and depth. Later in the book Finn runs afoul of a government agent assigned to protect the identities of the killers, and she exhibits many of the same traits as Finn, willing to cross a line when necessary to achieve an objective. Even so, the scenes of the two of them together are riveting, two antagonists circling each other, waiting for an opening to take advantage of. A minor quibble might be the sort-of-but-not-quite twist at the end, which was really unnecessary. 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That point aside, this is one of the year's best books; don't miss it.\nAcknowledgment: Black Mill Books provided an eARC of The Prison Guard's Son for this review.\nLocation(s) referenced in The Prison Guard's Son: Cincinnati, Ohio; West Virginia; Texas; Tennessee\nThe Prison Guard's Son by Trace Conger \u2014 A Finn Harding Mystery\nPublisher: Black Mill Books", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3247, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 194.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nasfaa.org/news-item/3669/NASFAA_Statement_on_the_Bipartisan_Student_Loan_Certainty_Act", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:54Z", "digest": "sha1:EQBDVIFY7WWGLZEOXLTBOAG7KWAHQTAI", "length": 3323, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.nasfaa.org", "title": "NASFAA | NASFAA Statement on the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act", "raw_content": "Home Advocacy, Policy & Research Advocacy NASFAA on the Record NASFAA Statement on the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act\nNASFAA Statement on the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act\nWashington, DC, July 18, 2013 -- Today, a group of U.S. Senators from both sides of the aisle introduced a compromise measure to lower interest rates for 100 percent of borrowers who have taken out, or will take out, a new federal student loan after July 1, 2013.\nAccording to a statement released today by the Senate HELP Committee, the Act requires that for each academic year, all newly-issued student loans be set to the U.S. Treasury 10-year borrowing rate (specifically, the yield on the 10-year note as determined by the last auction held before June of each year\u2014not the changing daily rate) plus add-ons to offset costs associated with defaults, collections, deferments, forgiveness, and delinquency. The resulting interest rates for loans taken out this year, after July 1, 2013, would be 3.86 percent for subsidized and unsubsidized loans for undergraduate students, 5.41 percent on unsubsidized loans for graduate students, and 6.41 percent on PLUS loans for parents and graduate students. These rates would apply retroactively to newly issued loans taken out after July 1, 2013. The interest rate would be fixed over the life of the loan to provide borrowers with certainty to plan for the future.\nAdditionally, this bill protects against the threat of unforeseen circumstances by imposing a cap to ensure interest rates never exceed 8.25 percent for undergraduate students, 9.5 percent for graduate students, 10.5 percent for PLUS borrowers. The Congressional Budget Office has determined this legislation would save taxpayers $715 million over ten years.\nJustin Draeger, president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA), released the following statement regarding the compromise:\n\u201cThe financial aid community is pleased to learn that lawmakers have reached a comprehensive, long-term solution on student loan interest rates.\nThis compromise would set interest rates based on market conditions and will ensure that federal student loans stay on par with\u2014or cost less than\u2014private education loans, which contain fewer safeguards for students and parents.\nInterest rate caps will also ensure that loans remain affordable in the future.\nNASFAA applauds President Obama's leadership on this issue, and thanks the sponsors of this bill for reaching a compromise that will benefit millions of students and families.\u201d\nPlease contact us at news@nasfaa.org for additional information or to schedule an interview.\nThe National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators (NASFAA) is a nonprofit membership organization that represents nearly 20,000 financial aid professionals at more than 3,000 colleges, universities, and career schools across the country. 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You\u2019ll find exclusive networks dedicated completely to the cock stroking niche as well as larger and more varied networks which have at least one handjob site but also feature sites from numerous other niches.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 913, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 319.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.news009.com/2016/08/freaky-ali-new-hindi-movie-official.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:16Z", "digest": "sha1:ZEDBJBUJEGMAXDJZ76S35T3EP5PJMYHT", "length": 578, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.news009.com", "title": "Freaky Ali New Hindi Movie Official Trailer, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz khan, Sohail Khan, Amy Jackson", "raw_content": "Freaky Ali New Hindi Movie Official Trailer, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz khan, Sohail Khan, Amy Jackson\nMumbai - Freaky Ali New Hindi Movie Official Trailer, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Arbaaz khan, Sohail Khan, Amy Jackson are playing the lead roles. NS is great actor in India. He is universal actor and can do any type of role, Comedy, Action, Sentiment and all. He got many movies which became super hits at box-office. Most importantly critics will praise his movie a lot. Hope this movie will entertain and will be the best. Salman khan is producing the movie.\nSource - T-Series.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 3990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.news12.com/story/34825643/complaints-by-residents-about-rats-in-the-bronx-are-on-the-rise", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:46Z", "digest": "sha1:LQ3ISL5FWDGDNFNAK3ZIGCNFN6EQWD52", "length": 715, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.news12.com", "title": "Complaints by residents about rats in the Bronx are on the rise", "raw_content": "Complaints by residents about rats in the Bronx are on the rise\nThe city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene met Thursday to discuss the ongoing rat problem, which has led to an increasing number of complaints in the Bronx.\nThe department has been testing a pilot program, which requires inspectors to figure out which areas are plagued the most by rats. Communities high on the list are the Grand Concourse, Highbridge and Melrose. Pest control experts say the best way to fight the rat problem is to throw away trash properly. Residents say it's not just the city's responsibility to fix the situation. They say it's also up to tenants to do their part.\nAnyone who has a rodent problem is urged to call 311.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 1859, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.nicksonline.com/medical-academy-science-technology/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:02Z", "digest": "sha1:C7GOKDAMU7BIGAANB3XORMSB3MXU2KPI", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.nicksonline.com", "title": "Medical Academy of Science and Technology | Nicks Photo Studio Nick's Photo Studio of Miami", "raw_content": "Medical Academy of Science and Technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 937, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 73.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.noelboyd.com/2009/11/paranormal-activity-movie.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:U4IFNHLRG4R4XVKUNUIPA5MCLHQEHNWW", "length": 1156, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.noelboyd.com", "title": "The Noel Boyd Blog: Paranormal Activity - The Movie", "raw_content": "Paranormal Activity - The Movie\nThis was a movie I so wanted to watch. After all, I read so much about it on the net and critics were raving about it. So when we got the chance to watch it, I went ballistic! I was prepared to be scared shitless or maybe, just maybe even shit in my pants.\nBut...I'll tell you now that this movie was a waste of my time. It's 86 minutes that I can never get back. Not once in this movie was I scared. The ending was pretty dumb too. How they got all the positive reviews is anyone's guess. If it wasn't for Katie Featherston's breasts, I would have fallen asleep midway through the movie!\nTo all the people that have been saying that this documentary is real, IT FREAKING ISN'T!!!! You can read about Paranormal Activity on wikipedia.org by clicking on this link.\nI'm gonna figure out how to get back my 86 minutes. 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We asked the senior guard about her injury, her experience playing internationally for Canada this summer and more.\nWhen you got injured last year, it was your first time watching games from the bench. How difficult was that for you mentally?\nIt was really tough because I was used to being out there, but it was a chance for me to work on my leadership skills off the court and try to be more vocal and kind of mentor our younger players. So, I felt like I grew in that way. It was very challenging \u2013 I mean, basketball is a big part of my life, and not being able to have that, it was a big setback and something to deal with, but I think I\u2019m better for it now. It was a good challenge.\nCan you talk a bit about your recovery process?\nMostly a lot of rest, obviously no basketball until most of my symptoms were gone, and even then, no contact. I had an MRI scan, and I did some vestibular therapy, which is like eye movements, because I would still get dizzy.\nHow did playing for Canada during the summer help you prepare for coming back this year?\nIt was amazing to just get into games and be in a different situation. Also, I love playing internationally. FIBA rules are way different, and it\u2019s much more physical, which is more my style of play. Obviously representing my country is something that I love to do and I\u2019ve done a couple times, so it was really fun.\nAs a senior, what\u2019s your goal for your final year at Northwestern?\nI just want to make it the best year yet. I know we\u2019re still a developing program; we want to get to that point where we\u2019re consistently making the tournament, so hopefully, this will be the first year we can start doing that.\nLast year, when you were playing, you were really efficient with a .594 shooting percentage. Are you feeling confident about continuing that into this season?\nI worked a lot on my shot, even when I was out, because I couldn\u2019t do any contact stuff, and now, over the summer too. So I feel like I\u2019m a much better shooter and I\u2019m looking more for my own shot rather than deferring to some of my teammates. So, I\u2019m pretty confident in that respect.\nYou and Alex [Cohen] are the only seniors on the team. Do you guys feel the responsibility of being the team\u2019s leaders, especially with seven underclassmen on the team?\nYeah, for sure. I mean, of course we\u2019ve been here the longest and we\u2019ve seen the program go through a lot of different changes. We\u2019re just trying to lead them in the right direction and bring us to where we want to be and mostly just set a good example on the floor.\nWhat would you say are the team\u2019s biggest strengths this year?\nWe are very athletic \u2013 much more athletic than we have been in the past \u2013 so, definitely, transition offense. I also think we have the ability to lock down teams on defense, we just need to buy into that.\nLast year, you guys had that late-season slide after a strong start. [Northwestern lost seven straight in-conference games near the end of the regular season.] What are you guys working on to avoid that happening again?\nWe\u2019ve been talking about starting fast in practice and just carrying that over. 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The dimensions of the ground screen are 10' X 20' (3m X 6m). This was the first field deployment of the ITS Receiver System.\nOutside view of the equipment shelter at Science Pad 1 at the HAARP site.\nThe idea of a mesh is to let the snow fall through. It does not always work, but the snow was dry and the data was still good.\nTS30I installation at Ascension Island operated by the University of Bath, UK. The receivers have been modified to act as an Interferometer; the antennas are separated by 500 meters (N-S).\nInstallation at Ascension Island (one of four). Snow is not an issue, so there is no need to elevate the structure.\nAt Qaanaaq, Greenland (76 degrees North Latitude), the ITS10 shared rack space with many other instruments as part of a Danish weather observatory.\nInstallation at Qaanaaq, Greenland. The ground plane is a 1.5 m x 1.5 m piece of fencing mesh fitted over an aluminum frame.\nInitial installation of an ITS10 Receiver at Cordova High School. The conflict with student-teacher activities and poor antenna reception caused this site to be quickly abandoned.\nThe antenna installed at Cordova High School utilizes a 1.5 x 1.5 meter ground plane. The antenna / ground-plane assembly is lightweight (albeit awkward) and easily movable by one person.\nThe present Cordova, Alaska installation is at Cordova Auto Rental. The ITS10S receiver shares space with a Naval Research Labs receiver in a cabinet in the tiny lobby of the rental office.\nOld-Style ITS10 (2-band) antenna at Cordova, Alaska. The antenna is positioned on top of an 8 foot x 40 foot shipping container. Since the container is all metal, it serves as an excellent ground plane. However, occasionally, snow must be swept off.\nThis ITS30 installation is at the Aquarium Research Facility at CheCheng in southern Taiwan. This is one of 3 ITS30 installations in Taiwan.\nAntenna installation at Checheng, Taiwan, with the Taiwan Straits in the background. Note the protective dome over the antenna, and the 1.5 m x 1.5 m flat metal ground plane.\nWhen used for mobile operations, the ITS30m and a laptop ride to the required site in the passenger seat. The antenna is transported in the back of the vehicle, and is set up once on site.\nThis is a mobile setup wherein the antenna can be located at a specific latitude and longitude. The antenna is transported inside the vehicle and set up at the desired site. The Receiver and laptop computer are operated from the vehicle battery through a power invertor. This arrangement is in support of operations at the HAARP facility, Gakona, Alaska.\nThis view is of another mobile installation using a larger vehicle which allows the receiver to be placed in the back. While somewhat more difficult for the driver to access, it provides much more room for cables.\nThis picture shows a mobile setup where the antenna is set up on the ground about 25 feet from the vehicle. This arrangement greatly lessens the chance of a signal-destroying feedback between the receiver and the antenna. Note the small (3' x 6') ground plane. The antenna pattern from this configuration is quite good.\nThis is an installation in San Lorenzo, California. The station is located in a residence, in an urban neighborhood, and occupies \"space-available\" in the homeowners' office.\nThe antenna is mounted atop a 12' x 14' pergola, the whole top of which is covered with metal mesh fencing material as ground screen. This is a particularly good installation considering the urban environment.\nThis station is installed at a residence near Medford, Oregon. The receiver and computer are located in a spare 'office' in the home. The receiver was collecting data at the time the picture was taken. The antenna being installed in the backyard of the residence. 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Rush to Confirm More Judges Begins Anew\n\u201cI\u2019m very proud of you,\u201d Mr. Hatch told Ms. Rushing. Mr. Sasse called her an \u201cinspired choice.\u201d\nMr. Kennedy, though, tried to draw her out with a string of offbeat questions: \u201cTell me about your major disappointment in life.\u201d (She said she spent too much time focusing on work and not enough on family, as her husband held their 11-month-old daughter behind her.) \u201cHave you ever failed at something?\u201d (Sports, she said.) \u201cWhat\u2019s the worst mistake you ever made practicing law?\u201d (She said her associates usually caught her mistakes.)\nFinally, sounding frustrated, Mr. Kennedy asked about colleagues Ms. Rushing admired at the law firm of Williams & Connolly, where she is a partner. \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t we appoint them? They\u2019ve been at it awhile. They\u2019ve had a little life experience; they\u2019ve had disappointments, had to pick themselves back up on their feet and keep going,\u201d he said, adding, \u201cI think to be a really good federal judge, you\u2019ve got to have some life experience.\u201d\nHe said after the hearing that he had not yet decided how he would vote.\nMs. Rushing\u2019s conservative credentials are well established. She is a member of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group that has been advising the Trump administration on judicial nominees. She has also worked for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian nonprofit whose clients include Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker whose refusal to make a wedding cake for a gay couple led to a Supreme Court case.\nFive district court nominees \u2014 Thomas P. Barber, Wendy Williams Berger, Rodney Smith and T. Kent Wetherell II, all state judges in Florida, and Corey Landon Maze, a special deputy attorney general for Alabama \u2014 also came before the committee on Wednesday, facing questions about issues including the First Amendment and racial preferences in college admissions.\nBut Mr. Kennedy seemed to stump one of them, Judge Barber, when he asked whether Federal District Court judges possess the authority to issue \u201cnationwide injunctions\u201d barring the federal government from enforcing a law against anyone, not just against the plaintiffs before them.\n\u201cWhat\u2019s the legal basis for that?\u201d Mr. Kennedy asked.\n\u201cSenator, I will confess, I\u2019ll say this much: I don\u2019t know a lot about that,\u201d Judge Barber replied. \u201cI took several courses in law school in federal courts. I never learned about that. It was never taught. So it seems rather new.\u201d\nMr. Grassley has said the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, agreed to Wednesday\u2019s hearing and another to follow it.\nBrian E Jr\nFederal Courts (US)\nPrevious articleWalter Huddleston, Senator Toppled by Mitch McConnell, Dies at 92\nNext articleOn Politics With Lisa Lerer: A Midterm Wave? Maybe It\u2019s a \u2018Cyclone\u2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.odkrywcy.com/polonijny-klub-podroznika/members-of-the-polish-chapter/tony-halik-elzbieta-dzikowska/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CYABV62Y4FA5QUCOPDSJVHZDS2NRRARL", "length": 4872, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.odkrywcy.com", "title": "Tony Halik & Elzbieta Dzikowska \u00bb Odkrywcy - Polonijny Klub Podr\u00f3\u017cnika", "raw_content": "Tony Halik & Elzbieta Dzikowska\nTONY HALIK & ELZBIETA DZIKOWSKA=FI\u201993\nVice Chairman of the EXPLORERS CLUB, Polish Chapter, 1993-1998\nCapt. Tony Halik (deceased in 1998) was one of the leading Polish explorers of this century. Among many discoveries, the most important discovery, was finding the lost Incas Capital of VILCABAMBA in Peru in 1976. He is the author of 10 books, many articles and he produce over 600 documentary films. For past 20 years, he is the most important Polish and Eastern European promoter of explorations and our Explorers Club.\nTony Halik was born on January 24, 1921 in the town of Torun, the home town of Nicholas Copernicus. His first expeditionary excursion took place, when at the age of ten years, he run away from home on board the lumber-jacks raft, prying the waters of the Vistula River towards the open seas of the Gdansk harbor.\nThe second excursion was forced upon in 1939 by the invasion of the Nazi troops into the Polish territory. He then chose not to submit to the Nazi yoke, instead, he escaped to France, where after attending the military school, he joined the British Royal Air force. He was shot down twice. The second time he parachuted in France where he promptly joined the French Underground. There he married and after the war he ended up in Argentina, where he organized and managed a school for pilots.\nHis first expedition was sailing up in Parana River in search of unknown Indian Tribes, about which he wrote and photographed for the Time & Life magazine. Later he became a foreign correspondent of the NBC.\nHe explored the Amazon region in searching again of unknown Indian Tribes, such as Hinam, Bororo and others, that have disappeared since. His documentaries were aired on the NBC\u2019s TV programs. During this period of exploration in north Argentinean jungles, he discovered and large cave which he named \u201cthe White Eagle Cave\u201d after the national symbol of Poland.\nStill in the 1950\u2019s in South America, Halik dared to trail a long passage, where roads did not exist, with a WW II surplus jeep. He started from Tierra del Fuego, on the southers tip of South America, then pioneered through the Andes Mountains, Amazon jungle, and Panama/Colombia jungle, where from necessity he constructed a serious bridge over a Darien region river, known today as The Halik Bridge. He then continued through the Central America territory infested by pirates and sinking mud-holes to Alaska and then insisted on a similar return trip to Argentina with his then broken-down jeep.\nFrom 1960 till 1976, Halik was the NBC correspondent in Mexico and Central America, where he leads and participated in numerous expeditions.\nLatter he married a Polish woman, Elzbieta Dzikowska, who was an explorer be her own right. Since then, for these past twenty years, Halik and Dzikowska, create and run an important television program on the main Polish TV station in Warsaw, as well as many other TV stations all the way from the Urals Mountains and the Ukrainian steppes to the Atlantic Ocean and Great Britain, via satellites.\nThis program, known as \u201cPepper and Vanilla\u201d similar to the NBC\u2019s program \u201cIn Search of Adventure\u201d is of expeditionary and wild life nature and about the roots and origins of civilizations. This program induces and generates interest within thirteen to fifteen millions viewers of all ages.\nIn 1976 Halik and Dzikowska were the founding members of the Professor Edmundo Guillen=s expedition in search of the last capital of the Incas, VILCABAMBA. They trailed through mountains and jungles of Peru, using notes and improvised old maps of the original Conquistadores. They partially starved and often survived on nature. Halik filmed the expedition and they then discovered ruins of Vilcabamba, which later he presented to the world.\nHalik always promotes our Explorers Club activities and ideas. During his programs he exhibits our E.C. flag, and emblem, and verbally promotes The Explorers Club across Eastern Europe. He especially promotes our Club with the European youth, and at every opportunity he encourages them to participate in explorations, which he promises will hopefully lead them to be future memberships of our Explorers Club. Halik also writes and lectures widely, and he promotes our Club with the European press members, where he has considerable influence.\nAt this time, Halik pressed into service all those Polish explorers and scientist who reside in Peru and there are many of them, as well as many Peruvian explorers, such as Professor Edmundo Guillen, Professor Alva Silva, and others in order to form a Peruvian chapter of our Explorers Club. They all are excited with this project, and Halik shall be in touch with our club=s soon, regarding this important matter.\nCapt. Tony Halik continues to promote the Explorers Club in Poland as well as across Eastern Europe and South America.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 8493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 229.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ohthatswhy.com/food-for-thought/it-is-possible", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:26Z", "digest": "sha1:YLBNNCH62ZYHLO7TQRUG75K3WZQ2HZ3L", "length": 188, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.ohthatswhy.com", "title": "It is possible. | Oh! That's Why", "raw_content": "One thought on \u201cIt is possible.\u201d\nSajid on February 1, 2013 at 8:39 pm said:\nGood to see you have found the \u201cinspiration\u201d to write again\u2026by the way Sam and I are reading between the lines \ud83d\ude42", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 1015, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 182.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ohwy.com/il/b/b0226276.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:55Z", "digest": "sha1:2SEGODFD76RMCFX7RZNCA4A4B4FOGRLT", "length": 321, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.ohwy.com", "title": "Function Art Chicago Illinois", "raw_content": "Function Art is recognized as one of the nation's leading galleries specializing in studio furniture and fine decorative craft. The gallery also features art glass, baskets, tables, ceramics, metal and lighting. Open Tuesday through Saturday.\nLocation: 1046 W. Fulton Market, Chicago Illinois 60607 Telephone 312-243-2780", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 2532, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.omgn.com/news/2011/07/10/uncharted-3s-uk-release-date-leaps-forward-a-few-days", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:41Z", "digest": "sha1:ESMMVXHA6QXB3IU5HSE5I4YYJ4TCQHHG", "length": 1429, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.omgn.com", "title": "OMGN: Uncharted 3's UK Release Date Leaps Forward a Few Days", "raw_content": "http://www.omgn.com/news/2011/07/10/uncharted-3s-uk-release-date-leaps-forward-a-few-days\nNews; Jul. 10, 2011; Channels: Video Games; By Tyrone M. Cato\nUnited Kingdom's Uncharted fans only have to wait one day after the U.S. release date\nAnyone in the UK who hates getting games days, sometimes even weeks, after their North American counterparts will rejoice upon hearing Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception will arrive in stores sooner than previously expected -- on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, one day after the NA release.\nNormally, games are released on Fridays in the UK. An exception has been made for UC3, the third installment of the acclaimed third-person action series. While the half-a-week bump forward may seem unsubstantial to some, to diehard Uncharted fans, it makes all the difference.\nRecently, Naughty Dog, developer of the Uncharted series, has held a UC3 multiplayer beta for all Playstation Network users with PSN+ (which is just about everyone after the Welcome Back program) or those with vouchers that came with copies of Infamous 2. 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Before then, the world had been at the brink of small nuclear wars building up, but time has passed since those old days. The story usually takes place in the large encampment town of Bourbon, however there are a few other townships. These are Sandy Hill, Canadaville, Dutch, and Zinc. They are all separated by two hundred miles of ruined cities, dry desert, bloodthirsty bandits and zombie like mutants. There are many remnants of old society, and some of them are inhabited, others are infested. There are many forms of mutated animals and humans that inhabit both the old structures, and open wasteland, even a little mouse could have the thirst to kill a full group of armed bandits. The technology is similar to modern technology as well as conscious robots, and the main source of income is scavenging. Towns send out small groups of scavengers to raid bandit bases, or gather parts from vehicles. The vehicles are extremely valuable, and are a main focus for the towns, enlisting mechanics to work the metal. This area that the story line takes place in is known as No-Mans Land. The town of Bourbon is home to many people, and the buildings are built with rusted metal and old wood, the town has a scrap metal wall and a basic policing structure within, which also has a jail. The other cities follow the same design pattern and they each have one unique building that causes people to travel to and fro. Whether it be an old church, or a famous bar, or anything else, it will be decided when the time comes.\nRead the rules in the game information before you begin.\nOOC - Temporary Closing Down\nDec 16, 2018, 2:46pm by White_Caribou\nHey guys, I know it's been a while and moderation has shifted. But neither WritingBug or I have had the time or the focus to post frequently for this game. However, we do have big things pla ...\nOct 22, 2018, 4:44am by White_Caribou\nHey guys, Caribou here. 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There's a big room with a whiteboard, a projector, and a warm, engaging instructor.\nThe instructor is part stand-up comedian, and part teacher. She's got a \"patter\" of jokes, funny examples, and ways she rouses the class to get them interested in the material, and engaged with her.\nThis is very familiar. I used to be a technical instructor a while back, and I recognize all the techniques. I have used them, and continue to use them myself. Sometimes I'm amused when I realize I do some of these same things on the Big Little Podcast. (For example, first you tell someone what you're going to tell them, then you tell it to them, then you tell them that you just told them. It helps people who learn at different paces, and with different styles to be able to connect with what you're saying. Some people need a second pass over the same stuff to get it from short term to long term memory.)\nI was super pleased to find out when we broke for lunch that there was this italian restaurant I love, Vapiano in the neighborhood. I used to work near the Vapiano in Chinatown, and I would go there for this one particular salad, with double-shrimp on it, at least once a week. It's been over a year since I worked there, three jobs ago, and I miss that salad.\nSo I got it today. I've never been to this particular location, which is subtly different from, yet also similar to the one I went to all the time. I find the weird pattern repetition of mixing old and new kind of endearing, and somewhat meaningful.\nThings do always change. But even in the midst of new experiences, we have the memories of our old ones to compare them to, and use. I love that this sort of training, and this sort of salad, are old friends and new companions too.\nNewer:#365Gratitude Day 92: Just brotherOlder:#365Gratitude Day 90: Phaux", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.openuniversity.edu/news/futurelearn-announces-first-us-university-partners", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:32Z", "digest": "sha1:ILUJHANUQIRMS2LF5AL2DW2XIHWPFUN6", "length": 1674, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.openuniversity.edu", "title": "Futurelearn announces first US university partners | The Open University", "raw_content": "Futurelearn announces first US university partners\nFutureLearn, the leading social learning platform owned by The Open University, has announced partnerships with five key education institutions in the United States.\nAmerican University, Colorado State University, Penn State University, Purdue University and UVA Darden School of Business have all selected to work with FutureLearn and will run courses throughout 2017.\nSince its first course began in October 2013, UK-based FutureLearn has grown fast, attracting more than million registered learners from almost every country around the world. It currently partners with more than 100 world-leading UK and international universities and specialist education providers to offer hundreds of high-quality online courses. To date, FutureLearn has realised more than 13 million course enrolments.\nThe FutureLearn approach is based on a social learning pedagogy that is designed to support learning through conversation on a platform with an award-winning user experience that works on any device with internet access. Its courses can reach huge scale, the largest so far being the British Council\u2019s course, \u2018Understanding IELTS,\u2019which attracted learners from more than 150 countries, including large areas of the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. More than1.5 million learners have enrolled in this course across five runs.\nSimon Nelson, CEO of FutureLearn comments: \"FutureLearn is proud to be at the forefront of transforming higher education\u2026 We work with around a quarter of the top universities in the world and are honoured to be welcoming such a stellar group of US universities to join the FutureLearn partnership.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 189, "original_length": 8040, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.openvoicelive.com/blog.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WKOKABQNZAE2B3TUE6HKRXCN632KFRNQ", "length": 4995, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.openvoicelive.com", "title": "Mignonne Profant: Blog & About", "raw_content": "Mignonne's Blog:\nGrowing up in a suburb of Los Angeles, California I was blessed with a great family and wonderful parents who always supported my desire to be in front of an audience \u2013 whether that was in the back yard or the ballet studio or the local community theater. In an effort to be practical I majored in Communications at UCLA thinking I should have a degree to \"fall back on\". Well, despite many occupations over the years, I have never been hired because of my degree, but I have used what I learned there every day since graduation.\nAfter college I worked extensively as a performer for several Southern California theater companies, including Opera Pacific and Long Beach Civic Light Opera. I was truly enjoying working in theater, and at the same time the joy of singing the songs I heard in my childhood began to captivate my imagination. My father had always played a wide variety of music - certainly the classics and operas, but also vocalists such as Sergio Franchi and Jacqueline Francois. I studied all the old Broadway tunes, as well as standards from the 40\u2019s \u2013 they all seemed to fit me so much better than current music. I brushed up on my French language skills and delved into the songbooks of Charles Trenet, Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour.\nAlong the way, two great classes changed the course of my career:\nOne was scene study with Robert Hanley. He encouraged us look to at a song as a monologue, taking an acting scene \u2013 any scene \u2013 and putting a song in it, in order to learn how to make the words of the song flow from the character.\nThe other was a workshop in how to develop a cabaret act taught by Shelly Markham. There I learned how to take that song \u2013 the monologue \u2013 and build an act that had shape. Suddenly I had the tools to create my own theater piece. What freedom \u2013 and what a creative playground!\nAs I began to develop my cabaret acts I kept working in theater. For over fifteen years I have been performing improvisational interactive theater, and I have certainly leaned a lot from that experience. It has helped me to understand how to talk with an audience, and roll with just about anything that comes along in a live show. Every actor that I work with, every audience that I meet, and every unique performance teaches me something new.\nIn the year 2000 my family founded a non-profit organization, the John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts, in honor of my father. We have given over $200,000 in scholarships to developing artists of all ages since we started, as well as producing free concerts and exhibits of professional artists for the community of Santa Barbara, California. All artists have a spark within and I am happy to help some of them develop that spark, and share it.\nThe joy that I find in singing is overwhelming, and everything I have done so far has helped me to do what I do now. I love bringing songs to life that may have been on the shelf for a very long time, or perhaps have been worn out by elevators the world over. There are so many great treasures \u2013 and I get to dust them off and share them! What a wonderful life!\nWhat is Cabaret?\nExcerpts from an article by Andrea Marcovicci\n\u2026Cabaret singing has its roots in the chansons of Paris at the turn of the century, in the dark political satire of Berlin in the 20\u2019s and in the mellow, smoky nightclubs of New York in the 50\u2019s. But I believe it\u2019s become something quite distinct in the 90\u2019s.\nIt has come to mean an intensely personal evening of song and stories, delivered in a simple, honest way, in an intimate space that shatters the \u201cfourth wall,\u201d a term actors use to describe what\u2019s beyond the footlights. Part stand-up comic, part balladeer, part evangelist, today\u2019s performer often has a theme that unifies the evening (either the work of a single composer, an era like World War II or a genre like theater) and a strong dramatic sense of beginning, middle and end. They also tend to know a great deal about the music they\u2019re singing, be it classics from the American popular song book, obscure treasures or new songwriters just starting out; they are generous enough to share that information in witty and inventive ways.\nBut the real art of the cabaret performer lies in the juxtaposition of songs, putting two or three songs together in such a way that new and deeper meanings come to light, the resonance of one song lingering to change the color of the next. At its best, cabaret can amuse, entertain, and inform, \u2026 it can dazzle you, catch you unawares and make you weep. It is not television. The audience participates in a direct, emotional conversation with the artist and leaves feeling contacted and personally touched.\n\u2026The complex emotions and tender melodies of the love songs that comprise the heart of a cabaret singer\u2019s repertory give us hope\u2013to find romance that never was, to rekindle romance that\u2019s lying quiet, to shed our fears and try again. Love is not dead. Cabaret is not dead.\n\u00a9 The New York Times, 1994. 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The family\u2019s original 1,000 acres were acquired through a Revolutionary War land grant that drew her ancestors from North Carolina to the rolling hills of what would become Middle Tennessee.\nThe land called to her just as it had her forefathers.\nShe returned to the 232 acres of prime farmland where Marianne and her parents, customers of Rutherford Farmers Cooperative, had a Hereford cow-calf operation. Both of her parents are now deceased and she has no direct heirs. But it was important to her to preserve the nature of the farm for future generations.\n\u201cI want to leave things at least as good or better as I found them,\u201d she says. \u201cI wanted to do my part to protect [the farm] even after I\u2019m gone.\u201d\nTo do this, she worked with the Land Trust for Tennessee (LTTN) to develop a conservation easement that would ensure the farm would not be subdivided, developed, or used for purposes other than farming.\n\u201cI\u2019m not against progress, but we\u2019re losing important land to development,\u201d she says. \u201cTennessee landscapes are gorgeous, and I wanted to do my part to preserve it.\u201d\nThe LTTN is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit land conservation organization dedicated to protecting important land across Tennessee. Since its establishment nearly 20 years ago, LTTN has been working to preserve the unique characteristics of the state by protecting and conserving the different types of land that are important to Tennesseans. The organization protects forestland, open spaces in urban and suburban areas, historic landscapes, public parks, and farmland. Its work currently spans 70 counties across Tennessee and some areas directly across the state line in Kentucky. It has protected nearly 125,000 acres with landowners and partners since 1999.\nThe pressures and demands on Tennessee farmland are very real, stresses Emily Parrish, LTTN vice president of conservation. Farmers are getting older. The age of the average farmer in Tennessee is 59 years old, and there are fewer young people choosing to pursue farming as a career. Acres in farmland continue to decline in Tennessee as the demand for land for development increases. The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service 2012 Census of Agriculture showed a decline of 101,986 acres of Tennessee farmland from 2002 to 2012.\n\u201cWhile the LTTN stands ready to help farmers - or anyone - who is concerned about preserving their property for the future, we are careful to help farmers and landowners understand what a conservation easement does and doesn\u2019t do,\u201dsays Emily.\nA conservation easement doesn\u2019t transfer ownership of property, she explains. The landowner still owns the property and can use it, sell it, or leave it to heirs. But the easement stays with the property permanently.\nUnlike a restriction on a deed, wording in a will, or a hand shake and a promise, a conservation easement is a permanent and legally binding agreement.\n\u201cIt gives me peace of mind,\u201d says Marianne. \u201cI saw my parents work very hard to keep this farm, and it would be painful to think about it being used for something else.\u201d\nFarmers who are considering a conservation easement should do their homework and seek professional legal and financial advice to aid them in the decision-making process. They should also discuss their wishes with heirs, as the easement will restrict future value and uses of the property.\n\u201cLandowners can still farm, fish, hunt, and even build additional structures or homes based on the rights they reserve in their conservation easement,\u201d says Emily.\nIf the property is sold or transferred to another person, the easement remains in effect and will apply to all future owners of the property.\n\u201cThe easement runs with the land,\u201d says Emily.\nOne thing an easement cannot do, however, is protect the property against condemnation as part of eminent domain and Emily explains.\nThere are also costs associated with the process of securing a conservation easement, which can include attorney fees, survey fees, appraisals, and stewardship donations. \u201cWhile many of these are must be paid to the landowner, he or she may also be eligible for significant tax incentives. Since every situation is different, farmers should consult with a tax professional to learn more.\nEach of these points was considered by Washington Farmers Co-op customers Wayne Hughes and wife Pam when they chose to place 134 acres of their property in Afton in a conservation easement in 2009. Those acres were part of the last land grant from the state of North Carolina to his ancestors.\n\u201cIt was an easy decision,\u201d says Wayne, though he acknowledges that the landowner should consider the priorities and desires of the next generation. \u201cMy wife was dedicated to the proposition. My children were too young to understand when I did this. But I would think most people would want to have a conversation with their heirs.\u201d\nWayne has 60 mama cows along with some 40 calves on the ground and two bulls. He also sells his beef to area restaurants. He says he will be able to continue these endeavors while still preserving the nature of the farm, stressing that the land and its heritage are more important than the money.\n\u201cI have a lot of myself invested in it,\u201d he says.\nSince 2009, Wayne has bought additional acreage that once belonged in the original land grant to his ancestors and is considering placing at least a portion of it in another conservation easement.\n\u201cIt\u2019s the best legacy I can leave my children,\u201d he says. \u201cAnyone can leave money, but they\u2019re not making any more land.\u201d\nA conservation easement is just one tool for farmers to consider when thinking about estate planning and a vision for the future of their farm. Other options include different business structures, wills, gifts, and lease-buy agreements, among others. There are a number of resources available to help farmers learn about the complexities of transferring a farm from one generation to the next.\nThe LTTN is just one of nine different trust organizations listed on the Tennessee Department of Agriculture website for farmers looking for ways to preserve the future of their farm. Access the page at https://www.tn.gov/agriculture/farms/heritage/ag-farms-farmland-legacy/options.html.\nAdditional resources are also available at the Farmland Information Center at https://www.farmlandinfo.org. The FIC is a clearinghouse for information about farmland protection and stewardship. It is a partnership between the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service and the American Farmland Trust.\nThe Land Trust seeks input for strategic conservation plan\nThe Land Trust for Tennessee is developing a strategic conservation plan to serve as a roadmap as the organization works to protect lands across the state. LTTN is asking for community input for the plan, which will be released in 2019. \u201cWe want to hear from all Tennesseans as to what types of lands are important to them,\u201d says Daniel Brown, LTTN director of communications. To participate in the survey, visit LandTrustTN.org/Future.\nAbout The Land Trust for Tennessee:\n\u2022 Locations: Offices in Nashville and Chattanooga; work across state\n\u2022 Impact: About 125,000 acres of land, including farmland, parkland, forestland and historic sites conserved across Tennessee\n\u2022 Organization type: 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization\n\u2022 Contact: (615) 244-5263, or www.LandTrustTN.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 190, "original_length": 10346, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 231.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ourfatherslutheran.org/2017/04/?cat=16", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:30Z", "digest": "sha1:PT4DUXG6CYSS5HOL6K77NEPWIPR7QAZY", "length": 1612, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.ourfatherslutheran.org", "title": "Sermons \u2013 Our Father's Lutheran Church and School", "raw_content": "The Third Sunday of Easter, Misericordias Domini, April 30, 2017, 10:45 AM\nReadings: Ezekiel 34:11-16, 1 Peter 2:21-25, John 10:11-16. Title: The Good Shepherd. Text: John 10:11-16. Hymns (LSB): 463, 709, 710, 633, 740, 628, 666.\nThe Third Sunday of Easter, Misericordias Domini, April 30, 2017, 8:00 AM\nThe Second Sunday of Easter, Quasimodo Geniti, April 23, 2017, 10:45 AM\nReadings: Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 John 5:4-10, John 20:19-31. Title: Thomas Bears Witness. Text: John 20:19-31. Hymns (LSB): 468, 470, 478, 483, 480, 623, 487.\nPosted in: Sermons\tTagged: John 20, Quasimodo Geniti, St. Thomas\nThe Second Sunday of Easter, Quasimodo Geniti, April 23, 2017, 8:00 AM\nThe Second Sunday of Easter, Quasimodo Geniti, Thursday, April 20, 2017, 7:00 PM\nReadings: Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 John 5:4-10, John 20:19-31. Title: Faith Overcomes. Text: 1 John 5:4-10. Hymns (LSB): 468, 470, 478, 483, 480, 623, 487.\nPosted in: Sermons\tTagged: 1 John 5, Quasimodo Geniti\nThe Resurrection of Our Lord, April 16, 2017, 10:00 AM\nThe Resurrection of Our Lord, April 16, 2017, 8:00 AM\nEaster Sunrise, April 16, 2017, 6:00 AM\nReadings: Isaiah 25:6-9, 1 Corinthians 15:12-25, John 20:1-18. Title: If There Is No Resurrection\u2026. Text: 1 Corinthians 15:12-25. Hymns (LSB): 487, 482, 490, 463.\nPosted in: Sermons\tTagged: 1 Corinthians 15, Easter, Resurrection\nGood Friday, April 14, 2017, 7:00 PM\nReadings: Isaiah 52:13, John 18:1-19:42. Title: It Is Finished. Text: John 18-19. Hymns (LSB): 454, 439:1-5, 438, 439:6-10, 451, 439:11-15, 448:1-4, 453:1-4, 448:5-7, 453:5-7, 450:4-7.\nPosted in: Sermons\tTagged: Crucifixion, Good Friday, John 19", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 4389, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 122.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.outsideofparis.com/2013/05/finally-stopover-at-pisgah-inn.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:21Z", "digest": "sha1:K3EVVRMA2EWDSYZUV6FOX6LTDYIO2STR", "length": 1884, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.outsideofparis.com", "title": "Outside of Paris: Finally, a stopover at the Pisgah Inn", "raw_content": "View looking south from our Pisgah Inn room\nIts kind of cold here at the Pisgah Inn on the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. It must be in the low to mid 50s in the early afternoon.\nI'm sitting on a small balcony in a wooden rocker with a blanket I brought from home wrapped around my legs and lower body. I have a long-sleeve hoddie helping keep the rest of me warm.\nI am looking across the horizon to the east, south and southwest as the evening sun scoots across the mid-May sky heading for its demise in the far west.\nAnd as I sit here, I am typing on my computer.\nYes, out here in the middle of nowhere, on the almost top of the Carolina world, there is WIFI. Its hard to break the habit. If there's a connection, I gravitate to my computer no matter the location.\nI didn't really know if there would be WIFI here. But since it is, I am taking advantage of it.\nWifey and I got here about 2 in the afternoon (on a Tuesday) and decided to go into the restaurant for a dessert. At the time she didn't know we were going to spend the night at this elevation which is at 5,000 feet.\nUpon leaving the restaurant, I told her that when we were up this way we always talked about spending the night, but never did.\nWe walked into the office and when the clerk asked if she could help us, wifey was surprised when I spelled out our last name for the clerk to look it up for our reservation for that night.\nWe were given room 104. That was in the same building as the office and was adjacent to the restaurant, which made it great because of my wife's walking challenge since her stroke.\nIts cold and getting colder. But we'll start getting ready in a couple hours for supper and hopefully a glorious sunset although that big red ball will be going down farther to the north and we'll just get to see the afterglow.\nso beautiful, and all those rockers... that alone would make me visit.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 4324, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 288.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.palacewoodprimary.org.uk/page/?title=2015%2F16+Results&pid=34", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:01Z", "digest": "sha1:GBVPLHIE2PWBZ5UG5A6HVBE53B4LHCDD", "length": 200, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.palacewoodprimary.org.uk", "title": "Palace Wood Primary School - 2015/16 Results", "raw_content": "2015/16 Results/\nAssessment underwent a huge change in 2016, with a move away from levels. This has meant that these results are very difficult to compare with previous years.\n+22% +18% +24% +18% +31%", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 2080, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 177.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pamhirsch.co.uk/2009/10/historical-studies-review-of-practical.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:26Z", "digest": "sha1:TDW4B4BIIYWL7LTAGEYWAOQQOZOFHMSQ", "length": 8720, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.pamhirsch.co.uk", "title": "Pam Hirsch: Historical Studies review of Practical Visionaries", "raw_content": "Historical Studies review of Practical Visionaries\nReview by Cathy James\nMary Hilton and Pam Hirsch, eds. Practical Visionaries: Women, Education, and Social Progress, 1790-1930. Harlow, England: Longman, 2000. Pp. 252.\nPractical Visionaries: Women, Education, and Social Progress, 1790-1930 is a book that is long overdue. Its thirteen essays, written by educational researchers at Homerton College, Cambridge, and at other British universities, focus on the efforts of a group of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century women to bring about radical social progress through education. All were influential activists who believed that education could solve Britain\u2019s most pressing social problems. According to the editors, however, these women, like most female educational pioneers, have been overlooked or discounted in even the most recent studies of the history of British education.\nThis book seeks to address a significant historiographical gap by focusing attention on a distinctly progressive, female-led educational tradition. In doing so it undertakes to broaden the scope of British educational history beyond its still largely male-dominated perspective. It also emphasizes the positive, indeed revolutionary, aspects of educational reform, and in the process provides an important counterbalance to recent studies that consider education to be little more than a tool for the manipulation, subjugation, and regulation of the disadvantaged. Taken together, the essays in this volume constitute a collective biography that highlights the educational philosophies, the familial, ideological, and intellectual interconnections, and the accomplishments of a leading group of female educators. They demonstrate how each of these women challenged and extended the roles customarily assigned them by the patriarchal institutions with which they dealt, including teacher training institutes, the church, the public school system, and the government. Concentrating primarily on fundamental issues of citizenship and social justice, these \"practical visionaries\" saw education as a vital means of empowerment for middle-class women and for the poor of both sexes. Their pioneering efforts had a profound effect on the people with whom they worked directly, and on British education as a whole.\nThe book is divided into five sections, arranged in roughly chronological order. Part One provides fascinating portraits of three of the earliest figures in the movement for progressive education. The first, Anna Barbauld, was a late-eighteenth-century children\u2019s author and literary critic who, in marked contrast to Rousseau, \"believed that the powers of reason grew through experimentation, argumentative discussion\u2019 and familial affection\" (p. 4). Her published works inspired many women of the generation that followed her, including Mary Carpenter, the subject of the second chapter. Barbauld and Carpenter were both Unitarians, a radical group of intellectuals who rejected the notion of original sin and had a deep faith in the power of science and reason. In Mary Carpenter\u2019s case these convictions led her to create a series of ragged schools for very poor children, an endeavour that eventually propelled her into the forefront of the early-nineteenth-century movement for educational reform. Rejecting a commonly held belief that poverty was solely the result of the inherent sinfulness of the poor, Carpenter argued that destitution was largely the outcome of society\u2019s grave neglect of the pressing needs of indigent children and their families. Her life story links nicely to the third biography of this section, which focuses on Catherine McAuley. An Irishwoman, McAuley was the founder of a Catholic teaching order that concentrated on providing a basic education to poor young women, as well as servants\u2019 training for some, and lay teacher-training for a promising few. Her instructional methods were, as her biographer demonstrates, far ahead of their time. Moreover, her work, undertaken in Britain just after the potato famine, addressed a significant educational inequality at a time when Catholics in general, and the Catholic poor in particular, faced a considerable degree of bigotry from mainstream British society.\nThe sections that follow make crucial links between the expansion of women\u2019s opportunities for secondary and tertiary schooling and the roles that those who embraced these new opportunities played in the transformation of the British teacher-training system, educational research, and the enhancement of early childhood education of the urban poor. Part Two offers new perspectives on women\u2019s struggles for higher education, starting with an exploration of author Anna Jameson\u2019s contributions to the education of women through her many widely read essays, books, museum guides, and travel narratives. The next essay examines the career of one of Jameson\u2019s prot\u00e9g\u00e9s, women\u2019s rights activist Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, who financed the creation of Girton College, Cambridge, in 1873 in the belief that women\u2019s higher education was the key to genuine social change. This section also includes essays on Newnham College\u2019s Anne Jemima Clough and her niece Blanche Athena Clough, and on Clara Collet, a late-nineteenth-century girls\u2019 high school administrator who became one of the first women to enter the British civil service. Part Three takes a close look at the transformation of teacher training in turn-of-the-century Britain through the lives of two teacher-educators, Sarah Jane Bannister and Mary Miller Allen. Part Four then turns to developments in kindergarten education, examining first the career of Jane Roadknight in the impoverished Board schools of Nottingham, and then the English Froebelians, a group of professional women who had a significant influence on the schooling of poor children. In Part Five the focus shifts to the impact that Maria Montessori had on educational praxis and on the development of educational research among the very young. The final essay in the collection looks at Susan Isaacs, a highly innovative teacher, teacher-educator, and researcher who made a number of major contributions to the study of early childhood development and the training of kindergarten and primary school teachers.\nMany of the women examined here were linked to each other through ties of faith, family, and friendship. The majority were Unitarian, a fact that serves to introduce one of the volume\u2019s most fascinating and important insights: Unitarianism figured far more prominently in the movement for progressive social and educational reform in Britain than many educational scholars have previously recognized. Inspired by their rationalist and humanist beliefs, Unitarians strongly supported the education of women. They also stressed a pragmatic commitment to curing the ills of the present world and worrying less about the next, a philosophical orientation that provided the individuals considered in this book with a strong foundation for their educational initiatives. This commitment also fuelled their activism on behalf of women\u2019s political and economic rights, and spurred their efforts to extend their own scholarly studies. Of course, Unitarians were not the only religiously motivated educational reformers in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries; Catholic women, as this collection points out, were also important educational innovators. The collection highlights as well the impact of women\u2019s expanding secondary and post-secondary educational opportunities, and the development of the social sciences, on the British educational system as a whole. Altogether, Practical Visionaries explores the myriad ways in which these various elements are linked, offering in the process a unique analysis of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century educational reform.\nThis is an essential book that draws attention to a group of women educators, hitherto largely neglected, who saw educational reform as a significant means to political, economic, and social advancement. It will help to raise awareness of the importance of religious faith in the thought of many British women educationalists and reformers. It will also help to illustrate the complexity of progressive reform and the effects of change at the level of the individual and at the level of policy-making itself. The essays are, for the most part, well-written, and the introduction effectively frames the individual studies while drawing out the major themes and connections between them. In sum, Practical Visionaries is a book that belongs on the shelf of everyone who is interested in the history of education.\nOntario Institute for Studies in Education/ University of Toronto", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 9023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 164.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paranormalsoup.com/forums/index.php?s=6266db4ed573bac3dd4af2a5e5f42df5&showtopic=9255&st=0&p=138446", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:39Z", "digest": "sha1:DY66SFA64BGGWDYD543YY5FMLQWFLOWQ", "length": 48964, "nlines": 261, "source_domain": "www.paranormalsoup.com", "title": "A Haunting In Horicon *long* - Famous Haunts - ParanormalSoup Forums", "raw_content": "Reporting on the haunted house of Horicon\nBy Barrett J. Brunsman\n'Devil be gone'\nDouglas D. Glamann, the chief of police of Horicon, Wisconsin, first heard rumors of a ghost in his town on January 21.\n\"My nightshift officer came in to see me mid-morning that Thursday and said, 'Did you know that we have a haunted house,' \" the chief recalls.\n\"I said, 'Right. Get outta here.' And I just dismissed it as, you know, someone was just screwing around. I never even bothered to pursue the matter.\"\nBy lunch time, five people had asked the chief about the haunted house.\n\"I was hearing it wherever I went,\" Glamann says. \"I was catching this 'blood is oozing from the wall' and I was very skeptical because I thought, 'If it was your house and you had blood coming out of the walls, wouldn't you call me?' \"\nThe Tallmann family -- husband, wife, two toddlers, and an infant who lived on Larrabee Street -- were the presumptive hauntees. Neither Allen nor Debbie Tallmann had called the chief.\nGlamann, who didn't know Allen Tallmann, got on the phone and tracked the man down at work. Tallmann was edgy; he hadn't had much sleep because he had been staying up at night with his kids, who were frightened.\nThey had reason to be. Tallmann described the unnerving things the family had seen and heard in the four-year-old house since June 1987. On January 11 of this year, the family left home for good and moved in with relatives.\nAt the chief's urging, Tallmann and his wife came to the police station the next morning, a Friday.\nAllen Tallmann sat in a chair, his head down, refusing to make eye contact, Glamann says. The man appeared deeply troubled; Debbie Tallmann's words were punctuated by nervous laughter.\nGlamann became convinced that the Tallmanns were serious about what they claimed to have seen. The chief promised to search the house and to shield the family from the press and the public as best he could.\nLate that night, however, Glamann and his men were nearly overwhelmed by the onslaught of people who came to gawk at the Tallmann home, a small, three-bedroom ranch house.\nGhost rumors had swept through the crowd at the Friday night basketball game at the local high school. Hundreds of cars swept down Larrabee Street past the Tallmann home. People walked through the yards of the other nine houses on the block, climbing over fences, peering into windows.\nDrunks showed up -- they weren't afraid of no ghosts. They tried the doors and windows of the Tallmann home, intent on getting inside to prove their bravery.\nWhen the police ordered the drunks and gawkers to stay away from the house, a few would-be ghostbusters told the cops to \"go to hell.\"\nArrests for disorderly conduct were made; the street was barricaded.\nBut people began driving around the roadblocks. Others viewed the rear of the house from a parallel street. More arrests were made.\nAbout 2:30 Saturday morning, a man from Waupun, Wisconsin, a small town about 15 miles from Horicon, showed up. After the police stopped him for driving erratically, they noticed he had open beer in the car -- and a Bible.\n\"I come to help you guys, you're my buddies,\" the man told police. \"I'm going to perform an exorcism on the house and say, 'Devil be gone,' and it's going to be all over, and you guys can go home and go to bed.\"\n\"Super,\" Police Chief Glamann responded. \"Thanks.\" The man was arrested.\nGlamann worked more than 21 straight hours, from 8:00 a.m. Friday to 5:30 Saturday morning, as he attempted to keep the lid on and the drunks at bay.\nThe runaway snowblower\nMidnight, Monday, January 25: Milwaukee Sentinel reporter James B. Nelson was alone in his apartment, catching up on some reading, when the telephone rang.\nHe picked up the phone to find the Sentinel's state editor, Richard Feyrer, on the other end of the line. Feyrer had a peculiar assignment for the reporter: a ghost chase in Horicon, 60 miles northwest of Milwaukee.\nNelson did not second-guess his editor, though the assignment was a far stretch from Nelson's last story: How low-calorie artificial fat developed by the NutraSweet Co. might affect the dairy industry in Wisconsin.\nNelson made the one-hour drive to Horicon early Tuesday morning.\nThough it has a population of just 3,800, Horicon is one of Wisconsin's best-known towns, because it lies at the southern end of the Horicon Marsh, a major stopover on the Mississippi Flyway, a migratory route for fowl.\nEach fall, Canada geese stop at the marsh for a few days, and sometimes weeks, on their journey to warmer climes. Last fall, more than 400,000 geese were at the marsh during the peak of the migration.\nBut on that day in late January, most of the giant birds had long ago departed. Instead of geese, the talk was of ghosts and of blood dripping from the ceiling of a house on Larrabee Street, of a hole to hell in the basement of the house, and of a snowblower that had been seen running up and down the driveway by itself.\nUnfortunately, Nelson was unable to locate anyone who had seen any of these things.\nNelson stopped at the office of the chief of police, located in the basement of the Horicon Library, just across the street from Fat's Tavern.\nThe chief wasn't in, so Nelson sat down to wait.\nShortly thereafter, Connie Polzin Dornfeld, a reporter for The Daily Citizen in nearby Beaver Dam, dropped by the chief's office. What's the word on the haunted house? Nelson asked.\nDornfeld showed Nelson a clip from her page?one story from the previous day's edition of The Daily Citizen. The head read: \"Haunted House in Horicon?\"\nThe story said: \"Rumors have it that furniture is flying about the house, blinds are going up and down, blood is dripping from the ceiling, lights coming on with the power off, writings on the walls, and green lights flashing....\"\nSays Nelson: \"It was the most amazing newspaper story I had ever read.\"\nThe article, written in a light style, poured on the details, including reports that \"exorcists\" had come to Horicon from as far away as California, and that sight-seeing traffic near the house had gotten so bad that the mayor had declared that the commotion was \"scaring the hell out of the children\" in the neighborhood.\nDornfeld had not used the name of the family in her piece. Nor had she talked to the Tallmanns. Only the chief of police knew where to find them, and he wasn't telling.\nWhen Nelson had first heard about the Horicon ghosts, he had figured -- as had his editor -- that pranksters might be lurking about, rather than ghosts. Nothing much would come of the trip to Horicon, Nelson had thought, other than a funny feature story.\nBut as Nelson skimmed the Daily Citizen piece, he sensed that a light approach might not be the right one for the Sentinel. If townspeople and others in the area were really that worked up over reports of a haunted house, maybe the Sentinel ought to report the story straight.\nShut down the bar talk\nChief Glamann finally arrived, and he ushered Nelson into his office. The interview was not enlightening.\nYes, there had been reports of a haunted house. Yes, the chief had been in contact with the family. No, he couldn't confirm any of the rumors. No, he wouldn't tell Nelson how to contact the family. In fact, the chief wouldn't even tell the reporter the name of the family.\nGlamann wasn't playing fast and loose with the press. He had promised confidentiality; that promise was the only thing that had persuaded the Tallmanns to talk to him.\nBut Nelson was undaunted. He walked the five feet from the chief's office to the city clerk's office, where he ran a tax check on the address of the house, which he had obtained from the Daily Citizen reporter. The computer check, which took about 15 seconds, told Nelson the name of the house's owner, Allen Tallmann, the purchase price of the house, how much Tallmann paid annually in taxes, how long the family had lived there, and the name of the previous owner.\nThen Nelson pushed on to South Larrabee Street, just a little more than a half mile from the police station. The reporter found the home, but he discovered that the family had moved out.\nNeighbors said they didn't know where the Tallmanns had gone. And, no, the neighbors hadn't noticed anything strange about the house. Only one neighbor told the reporter that the family had mentioned weird events. But all the neighbors had heard the rumors.\nNelson then drove to the manufacturing plant where Allen Tallmann worked. Tallmann had taken a few days off, the reporter was told.\nNelson drove to several churches in the community, trying to find out where the family worshipped and whether church officials knew anything about the haunted house. The reporter tracked down the family's church, but the pastor refused to speak about the matter.\nThen, it was on to the Dodge County clerk's office in Juneau, some 15 miles from Horicon. Nelson figured the couple's marriage license might provide a lead - the names of relatives with whom the family might be staying.\nHe hit paydirt. The marriage license included the names of the couple's parents, as well as the names of other relatives. Nelson then had the birth certificates of the Tallmann family members pulled, looking for any other details that might aid him in learning more about the Tallmanns and where they might be staying.\nArmed with that background information, Nelson began calling relatives. Some hung up on him after he identified himself and said he was looking\ninto the haunted house story; others seemed interested. In any event, the reporter succeeded in leaving the message that he would like to speak to Allen and Debbie Tallmann.\nNelson returned to the police station about 4:00 in the afternoon. He had amassed a lot of detail and a lot of hearsay, but he still didn't have enough information for the kind of story he wanted to file. So he had decided to take another crack at the chief.\n\"What in the name of God is going on around here,\" Nelson asked Glamann. \"Rumors, rumors, rumors. I can't believe some of the crap that's flying around this town. Things are way out of hand.\"\nThe rumors were so bizarre that it was no wonder people were rushing to Horicon to take a gander at the house, Nelson said to the chief.\nIf the family would speak to the press, stating for the record what they had actually seen, perhaps the wild rumors could be quelled, Nelson argued. A complete story might \"shut the bar talk down.\"\nNo 'Joe Idiot'\nNelson wasn't the only person to want the whole story to come out. Chief of Police Glamann wanted it, too. It might satisfy the curiosity of those who had been flocking in from all over the state. The situation had gotten out of hand. Glamann and his seven officers were being pushed to the limit in trying to keep order.\nAnd, so far, news coverage -- which had been extensive -- had been of no help at all. If anything, it had made matters worse.\nThough Nelson had shown up while the story was still fresh, other news people had been on the scene for two days.\nThe story about the haunted house was first reported Sunday, January 24, by WMTV in Madison, one of the most intellectually and culturally sophisticated small cities in the nation.\nHoricon is about 40 miles from Madison, and WMTV News Director Brian Brosamle says the station learned of the haunted house after making a routine anything-happening-there phone call to the Horicon Police Department.\nThe station sent a crew to Horicon, and an item on the Horicon ghost was featured on Sunday's 10 o'clock news.\nIn Milwaukee, the state's largest city, the morning drive?time comedy team of Bob Reitman and Gene Mueller on WKTI-FM picked up on the story the next day, Monday. They milked it.\nThe Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, a 10,000-circulation afternoon paper, followed with its Monday page?one feature story.\nWBEV-AM in Beaver Dam did a live interview with the police chief, and WISN?TV and other Milwaukee television stations sent feature reporters to Horicon to prepare pieces that would air that night. (It was the Monday night WISN story that tipped off the Sentinel's state editor.)\nNone of the reporters, however, was able to track down the Tallmanns to get the family's version of what had happened in the house. The reporters were content to report the hell-hole and oozing-blood rumors that were flying around town.\nBut, Glamann told The QUILL, there was something about the Sentinel's Jim Nelson, who arrived Tuesday, that led the chief to think that Nelson might be different; maybe the family ought to talk with the reporter.\n\"I didn't realize it till he appeared back at my door with a little smile on his face at four o'clock in the afternoon that he had been out pounding the pavement and doing his homework,\" Glamann says.\n\"He had all the answers to all of the questions. He sat down and went through the whole thing ... and he was on the money with everything he was talking about, so I knew I wasn't just dealing with Joe Idiot.\"\nThe Tallmanns, Allen and Debbie and the children, came to the station that Tuesday night, entering through a back door. Glamann suggested that they meet with Nelson, whom the chief had told to return to the station around 7:30.\nThe Tallmanns were wary. But they, too, were fed up with the rumors. They agreed to speak with Nelson.\nThat night, Nelson filed his first story. The piece ran at the top of page one of the Sentinel's Wednesday, January 27, editions. It said, in part:\n\"HORICON -- A local couple Tuesday night told of terrifying experiences they said included months of paranormal events -- including an apparition of an old lady and flames shooting from their garage -- and vowed never again to live in the home they fled two weeks ago.\n\"Although rumors of mysterious incidents at the house have swept through this small Dodge County community ... Police Chief Douglas Glamann said that, until now, the facts about what happened to the young couple, parents of three children, had not been revealed.\n\"In an interview, the couple said the experiences began about six months ago when a clock radio in their son's bedroom kept changing stations by itself.\"\nThe story also said:\n* That the couple had heard inexplicable strange noises; that a suitcase once had slid out from under their son's bed and back again by itself?, and that a baby?sitter had told the parents that a kitchen chair \"had started rocking back and forth\" on its own.\n* That the mother had quoted her two-year-old son as having said, \"I saw an old lady standing in the door of my room. A little old lady, really ugly, with long black hair and a glow about her like fire.\"\n* That the father said he had \"challenged\" whatever mysterious entity had been causing the commotion. Nelson quoted him thusly: \"I walked in the house yelling at the top of my lungs, 'Pick on me. Leave my kids alone. If you want to fight, I'll fight.' \"\n* That a day after making the challenge, the father said the entity had spoken. The father's quote went like this: \"It said, 'Come here!' real loud. Then it was glowing inside the garage, an orange red. There were flames coming out of the overhead door. There were two eyes in the windows.\"\n* That, around the beginning of January 1988, the father said the entity made a threat. The quote:\n\"This thing came right out of the floor. It was gassy and foggy ... it rose up there and that voice came out of there and it said, 'You're dead.'\n\"These green eyes appeared right out of this thing, and then I saw flames and it was gone.\"\nNelson's story was a straight account of what the family had claimed to have seen. It noted that the police had found no evidence that any of the alleged paranormal events were pranks, that no damage had been done to the house, and that no family member had ever been harmed.\nAs a condition of the interview, Nelson did not name the family or report the address of the house. The story caused a stir.\nThe Associated Press rewrote the Sentinel piece for the wires, and it wasn't long before calls from media outlets throughout the country -- and from Canada and from abroad -- began coming in to the Sentinel, the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, and The Horicon Reporter, the town's 2,500-circulation weekly.\nThe Horicon Police Department was inundated. Chief Glamann did hundreds of interviews over the next three days, many of which were live radio interviews, including one with the BBC. Even The Times of London wanted an interview.\nGlamann, his secretary, and the department's second in command \"were on the phone all the time,\" the chief says. \"And when you hung up the line, there was another one waiting to be answered.\n\"I occasionally stopped answering the phone to go on TV. I'd be doing the interview, and a lot of reporters [in the room] didn't have to ask me very much because while they were waiting to talk they got most of the information they needed just by listening to my conversation with the TV guy.\"\nIn response to a question, the chief declined to be specific about how the reporters acted.\n\"There are good reporters and there are bad reporters,\" he said, \"Just like there are good cops and there are bad cops.\"\nBut he notes, when prodded, that some reporters, particularly TV reporters, were a little \"more pushy\" than others. They seemed offended when the chief refused to tell them how to contact the family.\n\"Do you know who I am?\" was a phrase Glamann heard too often from television journalists.\nDrive-time radio personalities of the zany persuasion from around the country joined the rush to interview Glamann. A few radio people did live remote broadcasts from Horicon, in which they needled the town and its response to the rumors.\nEven \"mainstream\" radio stations had fun with the story. When Chief Glamann picked up the phone to do a live interview with WGN-AM in Chicago, a national heavyweight, he realized that the station was playing the theme from the movie The Exorcist in the background.\nGlamann, who upon becoming chief of police had instituted a departmental policy calling for cooperation with the press, tried to meet every media request for an interview. He mentioned that the family was having a hard time dealing with the strange events and the attempts by the media to interview them. But he refused to expand the story beyond what Nelson had written.\nIn fact, Glamann would refer to Nelson's story during his interviews. The chief had highlighted quotes from the family, and he simply passed those quotes on to the press.\nSome broadcast stations reported the address of the house and noted that it was owned by the Tallmanns. The family and the Tallmanns' neighbors were upset by that, telling Chief Glamann that they feared more gawkers would show up.\nGlamann says he figured it might have been a good thing that the address of the haunted house was reported by the press -- since he had heard that someone might try to set fire to the house.\nAt least if someone did want to torch the vacant Tallmann home, Glamann thought, the arsonist would know the right address -- and not burn down a neighboring house with a family inside. Nothing came of the rumor that the house would be burned down.\nIn the meantime, the Tallmanns continued to duck reporters, except for Nelson. Only two media outlets, other than the Sentinel, were able to get anything from the couple.\nA Current Affair, the quasi-news program produced by the Fox Television network, managed to get a brief voice-on-tape interview with the Tallmanns one night after the couple showed up to meet Chief Glamann at the police station. The arrogant attitude of the crew and the subsequent caustic story annoyed Glamann, who by then had become very protective of the family.\nMilwaukee's WISN-TV also managed to get a brief voice-on-tape interview with Debbie Tallmann after bumping into the couple at the police station. Reporter Julie Matsko was polite, and she played the story straight.\nBut Nelson had the inside track on the story -- and for a week the Sentinel ran page-one scoops about the family, the house, and the parapsychologists called in by police to investigate.\n'Herd journalism'\nPeculiar by its absence, or rather by the absence of stories on the haunted house of Horicon, was The Horicon Reporter.\nThe local paper ignored the story until Thursday, February 4, when it ran a page-one column that said the Reporter hadn't run any stories previously because a \"haunted house\" was not a legitimate news story.\n\"The basic story did not really involve the people in the house, nor did it really involve the Horicon Police Department -- who were caught in the middle especially the middle of the media attention,\" wrote columnist Ed Marolla.\n\"What brought on the big media attention to Horicon around the state and the country was not so much what did happen in Horicon, but rather the reaction of morbid curiosity seekers and people who 'got their kicks' out of what might have happened to somebody else,\" Marolla said in his column.\nAnd the \"mass hysteria\" that had gripped the town was the direct result of \"cruel witticisms, gleefully recited by people who invented things out of thin air, plus irresponsible daily newspapers, TV stations and radio who kept playing up a story where a story didn't really exist,\" he wrote.\nThe columnist noted that the Tallmann family had never been physically harmed by any ghosts, and that the house itself had not been damaged. \"The only real damage was done by the curiosity seekers, the rumor mongers, and the media that reported the rumors,\" he wrote.\nMarolla bought The Horicon Reporter 30 years ago but has since retired, except for the column he writes. But his viewpoint was in harmony with that of his two sons, Ed junior and Julius, who put out the Reporter.\n\"It was a non-story,\" Ed Marolla Jr. said in a recent interview with The QUILL. \"There was no story here; it was a case of herd journalism. Unless something is significant news, we're not going to run a story about it.\n\"We sympathize with the family,\" Marolla added. \"This man believed he saw something, but that doesn't mean he did. It was just a minor incident that got blown out of proportion.\"\nThe Sentinel's stories \"stank of sensationalism,\" Marolla added. \"They were trying to sell papers. We don't have to do that; people buy the Reporter anyway.\"\nWhy discuss it?\nWhile the Sentinel is Wisconsin's oldest paper, The Milwaukee Journal is the state's largest, richest, and most prestigious paper.\nBoth papers are owned by the Journal Company, a media conglomerate of modest size that embraces TV, radio, and commercial printing operations.\nThe Journal and the Sentinel share facilities -- the building (actually, two buildings, joined), presses, advertising staff, business offices, art and photography departments, even a cafeteria.\nBut the news staffs are separate, and hotly competitive.\nNevertheless, like the Horicon paper, the Journal ignored the story -- until Sunday, February 7, when the Journal ran a story by science reporter Paul G. Hayes.\nHayes quoted from the senior Marolla's column about the matter and then echoed the weekly's assertion that the \"haunted house\" didn't deserve coverage.\nThe science reporter took a not-so-subtle jab at the Sentinel, saying the police chief's \"strategy\" to quell the rumors, by introducing the family to Nelson, had \"backfired.\"\n\"Instead of squelching the rumors, the publicity fueled them,\" Hayes wrote of the first Sentinel story, which had recounted what the family had claimed to have seen.\nHayes later amplified his criticism in a conversation with The QUILL.\n\"Why do we even have to discuss whether there's blood dripping from walls or other supernatural events,\" Hayes asked.\n\"We [at the Journal] just began with the presumption that this was just another claim of spiritualism. I don't doubt that belief in spiritualism is rampant, but reporting on it in a way that suggests that a daily newspaper believes in it is the real story here.\n\"That's not objective at all, to give credence to haunted houses,\" he adds. \"Anybody can claim anything. That's just letting people get away with unsubstantiated claims.\n\"Ghosts never occur to the skeptical,\" Hayes notes. \"Just because someone claims something and claims it sincerely doesn't mean we're obliged to run it. We're not the supermarket press; we have a certain obligation to our readers to test these claims.\"\nAs for the hometown paper ignoring a story that was the talk of the town, Hayes says:\n\"I'm a science reporter, and I think community newspapers ought to be pretty chary about reporting on supernatural events, even if the individuals claiming to have witnessed these events are sincere.\"\nAdds Hayes: The Horicon Reporter had taken \"an incredibly enlightened and responsible stand.\"\nChief Glamann disagrees with Hayes. He told The QUILL that the citizens of Horicon were well served by the Sentinel stories because they did end the wild rumors that had been circulating.\n'Ghosts make news'\nNot expectedly, Dick Feyrer, the Sentinel's state editor, takes issue with Hayes and The Horicon Reporter. \"I don't buy the argument that because the local paper doesn't pick up on the story it is, by definition, improper for a major daily to do so,\" Feyrer says. \"I think there's a wide interest in phenomenon such as this. At one meeting when the [Sentinel] editors discussed it, a senior editor said, 'Ghosts make news.'\n\"It never occurred to us that we couldn't cover a ghost story responsibly,\" Feyrer adds.\n\"There was no indication that this was in any way a publicity stunt,\" says the state editor. \"I just felt it had to be treated as a legitimate news story.\"\nTom Luljack, news director of WTMJ?TV in Milwaukee, says he didn't see anything wrong with running the story, either -- as long as a station or newspaper didn't take the alleged paranormal events seriously.\n\"We took a light-hearted approach to the story, to be honest,\" Luljack said. \"We did not report any of the supernatural occurrences up there as fact, and I think some people in this town -- the Sentinel and WISN -- came very close to taking the family at their word.\"\nWTMJ's feature reporter handled the first story that the station aired, and a subsequent longer piece was promoted with the teaser \"Spooky or Kooky?\"\n\"We chose not to approach it in a serious way,\" Lu1jack notes. \"If a ghost appears on camera on our five o'clock newscast, I'll change my mind.\"\nHowever, said Lu1jack, the story could not have been ignored -- if for no other reason than because of the uproar in the community.\n\"For us to totally ignore the phenomenon is to ignore the definition of what news is,\" Luliack said. \"It certainly was very important to the people of Horicon; it was interesting to the rest of our viewers.\n\"My advice is to be skeptical, but not to be blind to the fact that something is going on in the community,\" he added. \"Don't simply spike a story because we say to ourselves that it can't possibly be true. These people were upset and excited. We had a responsibility to cover it.\"\nSteve Olszyk, news director of WISN-TV, one of the media outlets that treated the story straight, echoes Luljack's viewpoint that the story deserved to be covered -- particularly because of the town's reaction to reports of ghosts.\n\"Everybody in Horicon was talking about it before the first newspaper story or the first television story, and to ignore something that everybody is talking about is ridiculous.\"\nAs to his decision that the station should cover the story without making light of it, the WISN-TV news director has no regrets.\n\"These people were very, very genuine people,\" Olszyk said of the Tallmanns. \"I was able to do some background checking, and they're as solid as the day is long.\"\nThe Sentinel's Nelson echoes that point: \"The thing that should really be stressed is that all the way down the line, the family wanted to avoid the media they didn't want to be news.\n\"They were offered $5,000 to be news,\" Nelson says, alluding to an offer The National Enquirer made in an attempt to get an interview with the family. \"And when they became news, they hid because they were afraid of being exploited.\n\"They were staying with relatives in another town, Nelson adds. \"They did not return to their house at all. And eventually they moved to a motel, and then on to another one because they were afraid the media would be able to track them down....\n\"I don't care whether they saw a ghost or not,\" Nelson says. \"They've lost their home, they've moved out of their home, they're living in a motel. It's not like they're sitting on a flagpole trying to draw attention to themselves.\"\nWith regard to how the family views the press coverage, Nelson says: \"My impression is they are just stunned by how the media did this. I felt sort of funny being a part of the pack, though they trusted me. They knew I wasn't going to turn around and make fun of them. I mean, it's not our job to make fun of them.\"\nJeff Hovind, editor of the Beaver Dam Daily Citizen, acknowledges that his paper treated the story as less than serious at first -- but he adds that it wasn't long before the paper changed its approach.\n\"The question I had at the outset was, 'Is this a joke? How do you cover a ghost story? Is this something that actually happened to the family?' \" Hovind says. \"It was definitely the brunt of many jokes in the area, and in our newsroom too.\n\"So, do you cover it as a legitimate ghost story?\" the editor says he kept asking himself. \"Or do you cover it as a troubled family?\n\"From our perspective, the focus of the story changed from, 'Is there a ghost or isn't there, did these things happen or didn't they,' to, 'This is happening to this family.'\n\"And our stories from that point on took a more sympathetic approach,\" Hovind says. \"It was basically based on my perception that we weren't going to answer the question, 'Was there an apparition or not?' \"\nHovind dismisses assertions that the haunted house story didn't merit coverage. \"How can a guy say it's a non?story? It's what everybody in the whole town was talking about. It's probably the most newsworthy thing to come out of Horicon in as long as I've been here, eight years. For anyone to say it's a non?story, when it's the big event in town -- that's just mind-boggling.\"\nDefining 'news'\nWhether the haunted house of Horicon merited the coverage it got depends on how one defines \"news\" and \"newsworthy.\"\nFor some -- particularly The Milwaukee Sentinel- - the story was the definitive example of what news is at its most basic: the talk of the town.\nFor others, such as The Milwaukee Journal, the story was not legitimate, except insofar as they might comment on how bizarre it was for others to treat it as if it were.\nFor many news operations -- especially out-of-state media -- the story was just something to be mined for yuks, for further proof that anything can happen amid the barns and silos out there in the boonies.\nBut for the Tallmann family, the story was just one long nightmare. The apparitions they saw, or that they think they saw, prompted them to abandon their home. And their desire to avoid the media glare caused them to move from the home of relatives to a motel room then to another motel room, living, as Chief Glamann told The QUILL, \"like criminals.\"\nThough the Tallmanns may never know what caused the strange sights and sounds they experienced, or thought they experienced, they have decided that the events were somehow linked to a second?hand children's bunk bed set that the couple had bought for $ 100.\nOn February 19, Nelson reported in the Sentinel that the family had buried the bunk beds in a private landfill in the Horicon area where no one is likely to build a house.\nThat story also noted that the Farmers Home Administration, which held the mortgage on the Tallmann's $50,000 house, had agreed to assume title. Mrs. Tallmann estimated that the family would lose about $3,000 on the deal.\nThe wire services picked up the Sentinel's bunk-bed article, and papers and broadcast stations in the area -- and nationwide -- reported the final chapter of the Horicon ghost story.\nMeanwhile, Wisconsin's paper of record, The Milwaukee Journal, was content to let the rest of the press cover the burying of the beds, much to the approval of science reporter Paul Hayes.\n\"Do you think we ought to run stories about quartz crystals being a cure for cancer?\" Hayes responded when The QUILL asked why the Journal hadn't run the bunk bed story. \"Do you think we ought to report as fact that UFOs will determine the fate of Milwaukee?\n\"In fact, ghosts are a little more preposterous than UFOs -- at least there's a percentage of a chance that other forms of life exist out there in the universe.\n\"It's far easier to explain this as the imperfectability of the human brain,\" Hayes says, noting that people throughout the United States have claimed to have witnessed paranormal events.\n\"Many people throughout the country believe in the supernatural,\" Hayes adds. \"In that respect, Horicon is no different from any other place.\n\"What was different about the events in Horicon was that no one bothered to ignore the story.\"\nThe thing that immediately came to my mind were the comparisons to the Amityville case, they even fled their home in January too!!! This was one of the only accounts of this story that I could find on the net, but the one that I read in \"Haunted Heritage\" was just *way* too long to type out!!!\nIn the account that I read, the pastor upon his first visit immediately told the family it was the Devil. I though that was a bit harsh!! He also told the family that it happened because they didn't go to church, my second thought was \"what a load of malarky!!\" (to the priest's comment anyway!)\n#2 Purr\nLocation:Crazyville\nInterests:Reading: Ghost Stories, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mysteries, True Crime, Romance

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Weirdness: RHPS, Tabletop roleplaying, strange obsession for men in leather and lace :D\nThis is one of my all-time favorite haunting stories. For a second I thought you HAD typed out the long one from the Norman-Scott books and I was impressed.\nI agree that the pastor seemed pretty harsh and wanted to put his own spin on things, but if you read a lot of the details it sounds like maybe he was right? Maybe.. I'm not sure I even believe in \"The Devil.\"\nThe things that creeped me out most about the account was looking outside the window and seeing the glowing red eyes, and the night when the father was sleeping with the girls and the misty figure formed in the room. Gahhh!!\nWas that the story, too, where the mother had told the children that the apparition they saw was the Baby wow, so they wouldn't be scared? And at one point the little kid is telling everyone not to be scared, it's just Baby wow? I got such a huge kick out of that!\nI have GOT to find and re-read this one.. I know I said that the other day but these books are just golden.. Golden baby!\nSignature Recipe:\n1 witty phrase\n1 cool picture\n2 links to your sites\nMix together, add some formatting.\nClick 'Update my Signature'\n*sigh.. I never do anything right*\nYes Purr, this was the story where the mother tells the kids that the ghost is baby Jesus, and the youngest girl, at the point when the activity gets to be at its worst tells her brother and sister, along with their 16-year-old uncle that the misty figure is baby Jesus.\nI agree that the red eyes were really creepy, but the way that the father saw them, the green eyes with the blazing red pupils creeped me out the most. I don't think I could get over that one myself.\nIt's interesting that the family while the haunting was going on went through the attitude changes as well. If I remember correctly, Dark Angel mentioned that this is very common in extreme hauntings.\nWith the pastor, I felt like he was *almost* blaming the haunting on the family because they didn't attend church regularly enough. That's the thing that really ticked me off.\nI have been trying to find more about it on the net, and the few stories that I have found said that the hauntings started to intensify after the family bought a set of bunk beds for the little girls.\nOh, and I almost forgot, the youngest girl, who was about 2 when the hauntings began for her, used to sit up at night and talk to someone or something in her room, and her sister that shared a room with her was never disturbed. Her parents would hear her giggling and almost playing with whatever was in her room.\nAnother thing that the story in the Norman/Scott book, was the fact that the enetity seemed to single out the children. What I mean to say is, that if one child saw it, and was frightened by it, the other to would be in a dead sleep, and not bothered by it, no matter how loud the poor victim was. I also believe that it affected Debbie and Allen the same way.\nEdited to add: Interestingly enough, the Tallmann's sold their house and the people that bought it have not reported any strange activity.\nQUOTE(HelenaHandBaskettGStudy @ Jun 11 2005, 11:34 AM)\nPerhaps it was a 3-way conglomeration of that particular family, the bed, and the location? Or maybe the new family actually attended church! Just Kidding, of course.. playing the part of the pastor from that story\nI think I remember watching this on television--perhaps it was \"A Current Affair\" that I saw it on. (I'm ashamed that I watched that trashy show as a kid, but for some reason I did. ) It scared me at the time, especially the idea that the haunting may have centered around something so innocuous as a childrens' bed, but looking back I wondered how much was actually true and how much was hype.\n[rant mode]\nThe public's reaction to all this makes me mad. The townspeople behaved like cattle and the press behaved like vultures. Rumor really brings out the best in folks, doesn't it?\nSorry...it hasn't taken long at all for me to become very cynical. I just feel bad for this family that the real h*ll came from the publicity as opposed to whatever was haunting their house. The ghosts seem almost friendly in comparison! Jeez!\nOh yeah...they were haunted because they didn't attend church?!? Please! If that were the case, then my house would be putting Amityville to shame. The silly things people say!\n[/rant mode]\nThis story was on Unsolved Mysteries way back when...\nAlso, when I was at a Lutheran Youth Conference in Atlanta in 1998, I had the pleasure of listening to a lecture by a Lutheran pastor who was in service in Horicon while all of this was taking place. As \"easy\" as it is to read about the events here, to hear about this strange, strange haunting from someone who had to deal with the results was quite bone-chilling. I left that room more scared than I had ever been. Although we will never truly know what happen in Horicon, I thank G0d that I was not in the place of that family, the police chief, or anyone else even remotely connected with this case.\nImmediately after the conference, I had emailed the pastor for a copy of his presentation, which I, or course, have since lost. I am trying, however, to contact him in order to present this information to everyone here.\nEdited by Guardian, 11 June 2005 - 02:44 PM.\n#7 Ladywilde\nLadywilde\nInterests:I am a 26 year old, happily married lesbian living in CT. I have 2 dogs and waaaaay too many intrests and hobbies....\nI write poetry and short stories and am a regular at local open mic nights... I am also an amateur ghost hunter and have been fascinated by the paranormal since I was a kid. I have quiet a few experinces, I have never seen a ghost with my own eyes but I have seen and have been touched by things that were not there.\nI also enjoy reading, baking, classic film...\nYeah, this story always scared the poop out of me. I had read it in a Haunted American Anathology I believe and then I saw it on Unsolved Mysteries. That is some scary stuff... It reminds me so much for some strange reason of another story I read as a kid.. it was in a Daniel Cohen book. Anyone remember those? well there was this story called the closet or something... but it was about a back bedroom in a small tract house that was haunted by this appration of a women all decayed and what not.... it scared me so bad as a kid.. I didn't sleep for a week...\n\"I myself am... strange and unusual.\"\nQUOTE(Ladywilde @ Jun 11 2005, 06:27 PM)\nIt reminds me so much for some strange reason of another story I read as a kid.. it was in a Daniel Cohen book. Anyone remember those? well there was this story called the closet or something... but it was about a back bedroom in a small tract house that was haunted by this appration of a women all decayed and what not.... it scared me so bad as a kid.. I didn't sleep for a week...\nI remember this story!!! I used to get nothing but paranormal books from the library when I was a kid, and this story especially gave me the willies. I remember being VERY glad I didn't have to sleep in a cramped back bedroom while I was growing up!\nI have received the contact info for the pastor and I will forward anything I find out from him, with his permission, of course...\nAwesome!! It would be kind of cool to get some information from someone who was involved in the actual case!\nI do know that the police in the town (city?) did a thorough investigation of the house, and no evidence of a hoax was found. No recording devices, no wires, not evidence that the dust in the house was disturbed by wires and recording devices.\n#11 Guest_Guardian_*\nOK, I have contacted the preacher, who has just gotten back from vacation. He said he will need a couple of days to find the information, but that when he sends it, I may share it with all of you. I will definitely post as soon as I hear something back from him!\nI look forward to finding out what he has to say!\n#13 greeneyes\nLocation:Anywhere I shouldn't be\nInterests:The paranormal of course, old movies, antiques ,history, old houses. Basically if it's old and spooky, I love it!\nI live fairly close to Horicon, and I have never heard of this event! Must have been to young at the time to remember. That poor family, having the press attack you on top of everything else. Thanks for a great story so close to home!\n#14 Purr\nQUOTE(greeneyes @ Jun 15 2005, 12:11 PM)\nI live pretty close myself.. but wasn't living here at the time of the haunting.\nQUOTE(greeneyes @ Jun 15 2005, 11:11 AM)\nIt's not the first time the media has attacked a family that has supposedly gone through an extreme haunting. Look what happened to the Lutz's in Amityville.\nThis is a portion of a speech by a Lutheran pastor about the House of Horicon. He was the pastor who performed the cleansing on the Tallman's house. I think I have removed all of the religious aspect, just to get to the series of events.\nI conducted the usual investigation of the circumstances in the Tallman home. No, they had no Ouija Board, they had not held a seance and, as far as they knew, there was no such activity going on their home. Well, I said, do you have any occult books or other occult things in your house. No, they replied.\nThere were only a few other possible answers. A demonic power could have been invited in by someone who was babysitting their 3 children or by someone who had been in the home before. I never was able to determine the exact cause of the \u201chaunting\u201d of the Tallman home. That\u2019s probably why the Cosgrove-Meurer Production Co. decided to tell this story on UNSOLVED MYSTERIES. The Police Dept. and I were able to learn that there was an Astrologer in the neighborhood, a woman with whom Mrs. Tallman did not get along. There was a strange note that Debbie Tallman received several weeks afterwards. It read: \u201cDear Debbie: I\u2019m sorry I did this to you. Signed, A Nightmare on Elm Street.\u201d\nLet me review for you what we have learned thus far by asking the same questions you would use when making a sign or writing a term paper\n>>WHO? The Allen Tallman Family of Horicon, WI, as you saw on the video, but I soon learned that there were many more such cases out there. Whether they called me or the Chief of Police, they said the same thing: \u201cBelieve them; they\u2019re telling the truth. Pretty much the same thing happened to me.\u201d\n>>WHERE? Horicon, Wisconsin, a town of 3700 people in Southeastern Wisconsin about 50 miles from Madison and Milwaukee, but it could just as easily have been your town. How do I know that? Because our local Police Chief followed guidelines for handling such a case which he received from The International Police Chiefs Association, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. He later received an award from this organization for his handling of THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF HORICON. Here\u2019s my point: If a heavy-weight organization such as The International Police Chiefs Association has guidelines for the handling of \u201chaunted houses\u201d, it\u2019s happening a whole lot more often than just once in awhile. At least 28 States have a law regarding a realtor\u2019s responsibility to disclose what is called \u201ca stigmatized property.\u201d One such stigma is a \u201chaunted house.\u201d\n>>WHAT? All I can say for sure that these things happened. The family saw/experienced: 1) a fiery, witch-like figure that appeared to all 3 of the children in their rooms. 2) an invisible being that changed stations on the radio, moved suitcases in and out from under the bed and snatched the dinner bucket out of Allen\u2019s hand one nigh after work. 3) a visible fog-like entity that threatened Allen Tallman and later, his brother, with death.\nI saw the direct effects upon Allen Tallman and his brother after they were confronted by the presence in their house on separate occasions. Their body language was one of terror.\nWhen demonic spirits are driven out of one place or person, they go where there is a spiritual vacuum or where they have been invited.\nThat takes us to the next question: How did this happen? Again, the details are sketchy, but we can point to several well-documented \u201cports of entry\u201d for occult happenings such as in the Tallman home. The scary things happening in the Tallman home for 9 months, culminating with the abandonment of their home, were not nearly as unusual as I first thought. I had handled such a case twice before, so I knew a few of the things to look for and a few of the right questions to ask. One of the first things you ask people who are experiencing such things is whether or not they have any occult objects in their possession. A Ouija Board is the first suspect. A Ouija Board is a DIVINATION DEVICE. It seeks to use the power of Satan to obtain information that is otherwise unavailable. Occult experts tell us that this is the most common means of demonic possession, either of a person or a home.\nAnother suspect is occult activity in a seance. I recall a young couple inviting me to their apartment. She began the story in familiar fashion--\u201dPastor, please don\u2019t think we\u2019re crazy, but there are some strange things going on here.\u201d She then told me of a dresser which would shake and make noise with no one near it. I told her that this usually doesn\u2019t happen unless this object has been set aside for some form of occult activity--Seance or the use of a Ouija Board. Did you do anything like that? I asked. \u201cYes,\u201d she said, \u201c we used the dresser as a table for a Seance. \u201c\nIf a heavy-weight organization such as The International Police Chiefs Association has guidelines for the handling of \u201chaunted houses\u201d, it\u2019s happening a whole lot more often than just once in awhile. At least 28 States have a law regarding a realtor\u2019s responsibility to disclose what is called \u201ca stigmatized property.\u201d One such stigma is a \u201chaunted house.\u201d\nI think that it's interesting that over half of the states in the US have disclosure laws. Maybe sometime in the future, there won't be the stigma on a \"haunted house\".\nThank you for getting this information Guardian! It's fascinating to get the information from a source close to the haunting!\nQUOTE(HelenaHandBaskettGStudy @ Jun 17 2005, 11:30 PM)\nOne day a few months ago, I was wondering why I chose to go to that one seminar out of a week's worth of speeches. We're talking over 100 presentations, and this is the only one I went to in the entire week. Now I guess I know! This whole situation is still fascinating to me.\nAlso, I know that the disclosure laws in Indiana are that the realtor only has to mention something if they are DIRECTLY asked. Other than that, it's don't ask, don't tell...lol.\nWhich kind of amounts to they don't really have to say anything right? I mean honestly, present company excluded, how many people would think to ask if the house that they are considering buying is haunted?\nHonestly? Depends on how old the house is. I am perfectly aware that a house doesn't have to be old to be haunted, but I'm such a fraidey purr that if the house were over 50 years old I'd be asking the realtor. Especially if it was spooky and had red eyes glowing in the window.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 492, "original_length": 55576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 283.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.parentsinx.org/throwing-yourself-your-own-birthday-party/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:37Z", "digest": "sha1:GHOUED4TDOBYLJ3B6V23ZABTTDZMOMBB", "length": 7115, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.parentsinx.org", "title": "Throwing Yourself Your Own Birthday Party", "raw_content": "Throwing a Surprise Birthday Celebration Party\nShock birthday celebration celebrations are constantly an enjoyable means to celebrate your or somebody else\u2019s birthday. Obviously, if you are going to toss a shock birthday event then it may be a little strange to throw one on your own. 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You certainly don\u2019t desire the birthday celebration guest of honor to know that anything is going on, so you may have to have an accomplice in the shock birthday party planning take your buddy or family member out that day to ensure that strategies can be made and also your home or other structure can be quickly embellished.\nSurprise birthday parties are always a lot of fun and these are just a few of things that you need to have a remarkable one for your member of the family or good friend. Decorations, maintaining it a key, along with welcoming lots of individuals to celebrate this special occasion are all essential elements of the shock birthday celebration party!\nUsually birthday celebrations are tossed by the family and friends members of the birthday guest of honor, but that is not how it constantly needs to be. There are several cases in which people prefer to throw their very own birthday events and also there is definitely nothing incorrect with that. 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As a matter of fact, there\u2019s no reason to enhance since you\u2019re not mosting likely to have any individual see them anyway.\nA 3rd upside to the entire throw-yourself-a-party birthday is that you can do whatever you want whenever you desire. If you have a planned birthday party with friends and family then chances are that you\u2019ll have to stick to just what they want to do. On the other hand, not welcoming any person else over methods that you can do whatever you desire as well as could also go out to a bar or a club if you want to. All points taken into consideration, there are practically no disadvantages to throwing yourself a birthday event!\nBirthday Celebration Celebration Fundamentals\nCertainly, you do not want to lose out on all the birthday event essentials even though you are going to be the just one at your party. For instance, you\u2019ll definitely have to purchase a birthday cake to make sure that it\u2019ll in fact seem like your birthday! 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If you are tired of all the hype as well as commercialization of birthday celebration celebrations in the shop after that this may be your perfect opportunity to unwind, kick back, as well as enjoy your personal birthday!\nPrevious August 9, 2018 Kids and Games\nNext August 18, 2018 Diet and Fitness\nImpress With Great Birthday Event Invitations", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 8370, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.paulstramer.net/2016/05/may-10th-us-debt-transmittal-letter.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:33Z", "digest": "sha1:3UVRQBPPPNRDN6ZGJKRNKZCVRWYPLEIM", "length": 6911, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "www.paulstramer.net", "title": "Paul Stramer - Lincoln County Watch: May 10th US Debt Transmittal Letter", "raw_content": "May 10th US Debt Transmittal Letter\nPostal Extension Code 99652\nI am forwarding the content of the following synopsis so that you are fully informed:\nIn the interest of expediting mutual understanding I have organized the key information:\n1. The \u201cUnited States\u201d that has been causing all the trouble is only \u201cthe territories and District of Columbia\u201d. Those \u201cUnited States\u201d known as the United States of America (Minor) have committed fraud against these United States (Major) and the entire rest of the world.\n2. As a result, the United States Major has still not come to the table with regard to the eminent changes in the financial system.\n3. The United States Major issued new Sovereign Letters Patent in November 2015 and appointed new Federal representatives. Mr. Jacob Rothschild representing the UN Corporation and Pope Francis as Trustee have both been notified that THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, INC. has no contract, is acting on a for hire basis only, and is obligated to honor the terms and conditions of the actual Constitution while doing so.\n4. The High Contracting Powers have similarly been informed that none of the ESTATE trusts named after living Americans and created by the UNITED STATES, INC. for its own benefit are contractually valid. These private contracts have been created and secured under conditions of non-disclosure and semantic deceit.\n5. The High Contracting Powers have also been informed that we have acted as the lawful Beneficiaries and Priority Creditors and have authorized the discharge of the \u201cNational Debt\u201d owed by the UNITED STATES, INC. against our already accrued \u201cNational Credit\u201d so as to put an end to all pretense of conflict with or valid commercial claim against the American People and their actual property assets.\n6. The position of the United States Major is one of guarded optimism. Having clearly defined the problem of fraud and misrepresentation by the United States of America Minor, it is now possible to overcome it. That said, we agree that gold has always been the international medium of exchange in modern times and we understand that other nations may desire or require gold in payment for goods and services. We agree that at least for the time being a precious metals standard may serve to restore a degree of honesty and stability to international markets and that new and stringent bank regulatory mechanisms are sorely needed to prevent speculation, insurance scams, commodity rigging and a host of other evils.\n7. We draw everyone\u2019s attention to the fact that the United States Major\u2019s lawful money is and has always been the United States Silver Dollar. We see no reason why our currency would be in any way incompatible with the proposed international return to a precious metals-based system.\n8. We welcome the understanding and the assistance of the international community as we put our house in order and point out that as we have authorized our Trustees to settle all the debts of the UNITED STATES, INC. there can be no complaints or accusations held against the American People nor any continuing claims against their assets based on the fraudulent misrepresentations of the United States of America, Minor.\n9. What remains to be resolved is an arbitration process by which the United States Major is credited back costs which we have incurred by covering the UNITED STATES, INC. debts and which were never agreed to by any fiduciary deputies of ours.\n10. We trust that the banks are well aware of where the accounts actually stand, the fraud that has been committed against the United States Major, and their own fiduciary culpability. A prompt and just settlement of these issues is in the best interests of the entire planet and we stand ready to do our part.\nWe hope this synopsis of the situation clarifies it for everyone concerned. _________________________________________\nPlease note the irrefutable evidence of the purposeful fraud that has been perpetuated against the American People contained in the Protocol Manual and attested to by every Protocol Officer which states that the \u201conly purpose\u201d of the Birth Certificate is to naturalize \u201ccitizens\u201d into the foreign jurisdiction of the United States defined as the \u201cterritories and District of Columbia\u201d.\nNo such misrepresented and undisclosed process of \u201cnaturalization\u201d may be considered valid.\nThe United States of America (Major) is alive and well despite the gross fraud and unnatural ingratitude of its employees.\nI am also enclosing a wet-ink copy of the transmittal forwarded to Pope Francis and the Bank of International Settlements authorizing the transfer of credit from our trust accounts to cover all debts of the UNITED STATES, INC. This was necessary to forestall violence based on false claims and presumptions against the American People and their assets.\nMr. Kerry--- you have a choice. You can voluntarily release all of the bogus franchises that have been created in the NAME of living Americans and save us all a lot of paperwork or you can establish and publicize an agreed-upon process to return Americans to their lawful birthright status.\nThis needs to be done without further obfuscation or obstruction.\nReceipts that prove this was sent Via US Postal with return receipt.\nhttp://annavonreitz.com/images/receipts001.jpg\nLabels: Anna von Reitz, Debt Transmittal Letter\nChad Robinson May 26, 2016 at 4:04 PM\nJudge Anna,\nThank you for the update. So how will an administrative court with no jurisdiction of its own be able to lawfully deceive defendant into saying they understand as in the past became a juristic entity then then the court could hear them and therefore conduct commercial business them because the admin had tricked the subject but without consideration, disclosure nor benefit. Subjects now will not be able to contract commercially at all with any kangaroo court if they have no trust they can be deceived out of by the baal priests calling themselves judges masquerading as judicial article three courts but are under the executive branch having no judicial authority but allow everyone think they are lawfully residing over criminal courts when they are not. and admin court may only issue fines for non criminal citations. No more roman inferior trust for the moment means all american currently upright are no longer lost at sea have return back to the land and have rights (not civil rights = which are privileges only) for the time being and once again even those who are not aware have a political status of American Nationals (not US Citizens or Residents) or are the interlinear federal sates and 14th Amendment remain a barrier to entry for those folks? Is this correct? Thank you for all of your time!\nA A May 27, 2016 at 1:16 AM\nWow...that was pretty concise.\nNotice of Non-Representative Capacity -- Example\nNotice of Withdrawal of Appearance as Agent -- Exa...\nMay 10 to Bank for International Settlements", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 2221, "original_length": 66197, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.peelhealthcare.org.au/doctors-phc/dr-robilliard", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KEHY5GFL76QN7ABAVR66LL4XGLGSFIXP", "length": 360, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.peelhealthcare.org.au", "title": "Dr Timothy Robilliard", "raw_content": "Dr Robilliard has been in General Practice since 1982. He was a GP in Sydney for 14 years and has been involved in Rural General practice since 1997. Dr Robilliard gained his Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery in 1976 (MBBS) at Sydney University. He has been with Peel Health Care since opening in 2005 and has interests in all areas of general practice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2803, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 107.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.petralana.eu/en/news/project_Bytom2020", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4NXO3JP52EHCEK2RWW4S5Z655XJCDJQV", "length": 1009, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.petralana.eu", "title": "Petralana S.A. - PROJECT OF REVITALIZATION BYTOM 2020+", "raw_content": "PROJECT OF REVITALIZATION BYTOM 2020+ | 12.02.2018\nThe city of Bytom benefits from heavy and mining industry. There used to be 11 mines and 2 ironworks in the past. The economic transformation of the last several dozen years resulted in job cuts. Nowadays there is only ethos that reminds us of the past jobs.\nHowever there is a great opportunity for the city to save the heritage. The district renovation project is being implemented and its budged is around 1 billion zlotys. With the support of the Ministry of Development model solutions are to be introduced. The revitalization committee, established by the mayor of the city of Bytom, will serve the opinion and advisory function. The representative of the economic sector is Rados\u0142aw Tumielewicz \u2013the chairman of the PETRALANA SA. board.\nSocially minded projects have always been an important area of our activity. Today we can add to the above and say with pride that the city gave us credit for the knowledge and experience of our company management.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 16, "original_length": 1276, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 249.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.pharmacyinfocus.co.uk/pressure-intensifies-on-squeezed-nhs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:45Z", "digest": "sha1:EELF3F7O7A47OCJSYQWYJXPIZROI6M5Y", "length": 4104, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.pharmacyinfocus.co.uk", "title": "Pressure intensifies on squeezed NHS - Pharmacy In Focus", "raw_content": "New drugs, treatments and therapies are coming on stream and patients understandably want them.\nThe burden of chronic disease continues to rise and that has a price tag.\nThen there is the familiar underlying trend of an increasing and ageing population.\nAll this adds up to a financial squeeze on the NHS in England and there have been new warnings about the impact of that in the next few years.\nThe debate over the HIV prevention drug PrEP focused partly on how to meet rising patient expectations with a constrained budget.\nThe Aids campaign charity that won the High Court battle over the NHS funding the drug (though there will be an appeal) argued it was cost-effective, with the bills for lifetime care of an HIV patient greater than the cost of the preventative medicine.\nNHS England, however, said if it did decide to fund PrEP it would have to be assessed against other requests for new specialist drugs, including one for children with cystic fibrosis.\nThe thinly veiled message from NHS chiefs was that if voters want the service to provide more, then higher funding will be required.\nAs patient expectations increase, so too does the requirement for the NHS to cope with chronic diseases across the population.\nA report from NHS England has laid bare the financial consequences of diabetes.\nIt said that in the last financial year (2015-16) there were nearly 50 million items prescribed for diabetes at a cost of more than \u00a3950m, compared with about 27 million and just under \u00a3515m a decade earlier.\nThe bill last year made up about 10.5% of all primary care prescribing in England, compared with about 6.5% in 2005-06. A continued increase in those numbers seems inevitable.\nFew would doubt that the pressures will intensify and a new appraisal of the financial implications has been drawn up by the Nuffield Trust think tank.\nAuthor Sally Gainsbury returns to the thorny issue of the \u00a322bn of annual efficiency savings that have to be made in England by 2020. She argues that even if hospitals and other trusts manage efficiency improvements of 2% per year there will still be a \u00a36bn gap in 2020.\nMore ambitious efficiency improvements will be required but that has not been achieved at a sustained rate at any time in the history of the NHS.\nNuffield\u2019s conclusion is that curbing the growth in demand for services will be required, which will be a big ask for local health commissioners.\nThe bleak alternatives, according to the think tank, will be extending waiting times, narrowing the range of patients eligible for treatment or cuts to services.\nChris Hopson of NHS Providers, representing trusts in England, argued that the report was another important piece of evidence that the service faced deep-rooted systemic problems: \u201cWe need to be honest with the public about the consequences of the longest and deepest financial squeeze in NHS history. The NHS will be performing heroically well to just maintain existing standards of care.\u201d\nProfessionals sceptical\nFurther scepticism about the \u00a322bn of efficiency savings has emerged with a survey of health professionals who have signed up to attend the UK Health Show in September.\nOf the 400 who responded, 85% said they were not confident the savings could be delivered in full. Only 10% were confident that the \u00a35bn of hospital cost savings identified by the government adviser Lord Carter could be achieved.\nNHS England recently unveiled plans to help trusts control spending this year, including a relaxation of the fines regime.\nA carrot-and-stick approach has been adopted to link additional funding for trusts to efficiency savings. Chief executive Simon Stevens talked of stabilising the finances and \u201ckick-starting wider changes\u201d.\nBut the financial challenges for the NHS are immense.\nThey are likely to occupy an increasing amount of Theresa May\u2019s time once the holiday season is over and the new team at No 10 Downing Street have their feet fully under the table.\nNUMARK AND TEVA UK LIMITED PARTNER TO LAUNCH NEW GENERICS OFFERING\nTosho automatic tablet packing (pouch/sachet) machines are now available in Northern Ireland!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 5932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.phoulballz.com/2013/06/blueclaws-quotables-morandini-on-mecias.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6Y4GQR3PE54TSP56JL2VKCIFLFY7TV4Y", "length": 6907, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "www.phoulballz.com", "title": "PhoulBallz.com: BlueClaws Quotables: Morandini on Mecias, Quinn, Tocci, Gonzalez & more", "raw_content": "BlueClaws Quotables: Morandini on Mecias, Quinn, Tocci, Gonzalez & more\nI spoke with Class A Lakewood manager Mickey Morandini on Friday about several of his players including 20-year-old shortstop Roman Quinn (2nd round pick, 2011), who was placed on the disabled list this week, 21-year-old OF Brian Pointer (28th round pick, 2010) who is hitting at a .325/.400/.500 clip in his last 10 games, and 20-year-old RHP Severino Gonzalez, who joined the BlueClaws' starting rotation this week after posting excellent stats (1-1 record, 1.65 ERA, 33 K, 3 BB in 27 1/3 IP) with Class A Advanced Clearwater, plus plenty more.\nYoel Mecias, photo- Jay Floyd\nMost importantly, Morandini confirmed that Lakewood's lone lefty hurler, Yoel Mecias, who represented the 'Claws in last week's South Atlantic League All-Star Game, is facing Tommy John surgery. Mecias struck out eight batters over 3 2/3 innings in his most recent outing against West Virginia last Saturday, but left the contest after experiencing elbow pain. An MRI conducted on Thursday revealed damage to the ulnar collateral ligament and reconstructive surgery is required for the 19-year-old Venezuelan.\nIn 13 games with Lakewood this season, Mecias posted a 4-3 record, a 3.79 ERA along with an 11.05 K/9 mark. No date has been set for his surgery as of yet.\nRead ahead for more from Morandini...\n- Roman Quinn really put things together and had picked up his offense here as of late. This week, he's struck with a pitch in his left wrist and suffers a fracture, which results in a lengthy stretch of down time. What are your thoughts on this situation for Roman?\nIt was a little disappointing. He was making some strides, you know, getting his at bats in, making some strides with his throwing and his defense. You know, I don't think four-to-six weeks is going to set him back too much overall, but, for us it's disappointing, you lose our lead-off guy, you know, your speed guy, you lose your shortstop, so we're gonna need someone to step up and fill his shoes. It's just a hairline fracture, so it's going to heal and he'll be fine, so that's good.\n- Is Roman at home, healing, till the cast can come off?\nHe went to Florida. He'll rehab. He's gotta be in a cast for four about weeks and they'll reevaluate him then. Hopefully, the cast will come off and he can start doing some rehabilitation and strengthening on it and best case scenario, he'll probably back in six weeks, hopefully, and if not, six weeks takes us to mid-August so, if he's not back by then. he probably won't be back at least for the regular season.\n- And, clearly, he can play in instructs to make up for the time he's missed here during the regular season, right?\nHe'll play somewhere this (off-season), whether it's instructs or some league somewhere, but they're going to want him to go play some more, absolutely.\n- You mentioned losing your lead-off guy. A player that's picked it up lately and earned a crack at the lead-off spot, while Quinn's out, is Brian Pointer. What can you tell me about his recent positive stretch?\nI put Brian in the lead-off spot. He's been stealing bases for us, he draws some walks, he gets hit all the time, it seems like. He's got 15, 16 hit by pitches. So, I just wanted someone at the top of the order I thought could get on base and make some things happen. He'll get the opportunity against right-handed pitchers. I'd like to give (Carlos) Tocci some lead-off experience. I'd like to give (Angelo) Mora some lead-off experience. So, it's going to rotate around, depending on the pitcher and how these guys are swinging.\n- Young outfielder Carlos Tocci's been a guy that has seen improvements and has heated up as the weather has gotten gotten warmer. What are your thoughts on his progress here with the team?\nHe's coming along nicely. He's holding his own here. We really didn't know what we were going to get with a 17-year-old coming into this league. We wanted to push him a little bit and see what he could do here. His defense has been outstanding. He's playing a very good center field. He's throwing the ball very well. And he's starting to drive the ball a little more now. You know, the ball's going a little farther, he's starting to get a little stronger.\nMy main concern is just trying to keep him fresh. This is the first time he's going to play this many games in a season, so I'm going to try and give him some days off in some day games and in certain match ups. But, overall, we've been happy with the way he's been playing.\n- Severino Gonzalez gets added to the roster here after putting up amazing numbers with Clearwater. What went into the move to bring him here and what are your thoughts on him after throwing four scoreless frames in his BlueClaws debut this week.\nI had never seen him pitch, so I was just getting the reports from the guys in Clearwater that he throws strikes, he throws four pitches, he's not afraid to pitch inside, he's got a good game plan, he likes to go right after the hitters, and that's exactly what he did (on Thursday). He's got a good fastball. He throws a cutter. He's got a good breaking ball, threw some change ups. He mixed it up well. He knows how to pitch. Ain't afraid to pitch inside and that's exactly what he did (on Thursday).\nThe reason he came here is he was in the 'pen in Clearwater and they wanted him to be a starter. They wanted him to start getting stretched out and be a starter, so we had an opening, obviously, in the rotation, so it was a good fit for him to come here. We're gonna get his innings and and we're going to continually stretch him out. He was at about a 55 pitch limit in his first start here. So, he was done at four innings no matter if the rain came, or not. But, we're going to continue to stretch him out and if he keeps pitching like he did (on Thursday), then he'll be very successful.\n- Mitch Walding began the season as one of this team's most consistent hitters, but in the past couple months has seen things balance out and he's seen some rough patches. Thoughts on Mitch and his efforts of late?\nMitch is fine. He started off real hot and then, yeah, he went into a little cool-down period there. But the defense has been good. The errors are up a little bit for him, but he plays very good defense. He's got great hands, good feet, some of his errors are just careless mistakes. But, overall, we've been very happy with the way he's been playing defense. Offensively, he's making strides, he really is. He's making strides, starting to pull the ball a little more, driving the ball a little more. The strike outs are down. The average probably isn't where he thinks it should be, but I think for him to come in here and hit .260, .265, .270, I think that'd be a very good year for him.\nLabels: Brian Pointer, Carlos Tocci, Lakewood BlueClaws, Mickey Morandini, Mitch Walding, Q and A, Roman Quinn, Severino Gonzalez, Yoel Mecias", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 12027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.physics-astronomy.com/p/blog-page.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:27Z", "digest": "sha1:KDRSV4N5P3TGCNYXW4IALGW5BMLL67DW", "length": 92, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.physics-astronomy.com", "title": "EMAIL NEWSLETTER | Physics-Astronomy", "raw_content": "Enter your email address and get free updates from Physics-Astronomy in your inbox.....!!!!!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 191.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prayerwalkguides.com/tag/one-perfect-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:GGQ2QWKDHGZYQ3CGHS65YLIVFUQYURIY", "length": 2915, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "www.prayerwalkguides.com", "title": "Post tagged one perfect day - PrayerWalk Guides", "raw_content": "Posts Tagged one perfect day\nOne Perfect Day in Oxford\nWith over 800 years of history, Oxford is a remarkable city that masterfully combines the old and the new, embracing modern advancements while holding on to centuries-old traditions. The University of Oxford, housed within the city, consists of 39 individual colleges with a total of over 20,000 students from around the world.\n8:00 am \u2014 Start the day with a leisurely croissant and coffee breakfast at one of the local shops. I recommend the Starbucks on Cornmarket St. \u2014 not because it\u2019s Starbucks but because the second floor windows allow for some of the best people watching in Oxford.\n9:00 am \u2014 Climb 127 steps up the tower of St. Mary the Virgin for some commanding panoramas of Oxford\u2019s famed \u201cDreaming Spires.\u201d\n10:00 am \u2014 Book an afternoon tour at the Bodleian Library. Browse the free exhibit while in the Bodleian\u2019s courtyard.\n10:30 am \u2014 Have a look around the Oxford Information Centre, ask questions, buy souvenirs, and grab some brochures.\n10:45 am \u2014 Take a pre-booked University & City Walking Tour led by an experienced Blue Badge Guide.\n12:00 pm \u2014 Explore the sights and smells of the historic Covered Market near the site where goldsmiths, tanners, and mercers would trade in the Middle Ages. Grab lunch at one of the quaint eateries like Brown\u2019s Cafe or Sofi de France.\n2:00 pm \u2014 Take a tour of the Bodleian Library, one the oldest libraries in Europe.\n3:00 pm \u2014 Time for a photo op! Take advantage of all the beautiful landmarks in the \u201cheart of Oxford\u201d like the Radcliffe Camera, the Bridge of Sighs, and the Sheldonian Theatre.\n3:30 pm \u2014 Change your shoes for a \u201csmart casual\u201d look and head over to the Randolph Hotel. Relax in the quintessential British atmosphere of the Drawing Room as you enjoy traditional afternoon tea complete with warm, buttery scones, little cakes and pastries, and specialty tea sandwiches.\n4:45 pm \u2014 Cross the street to the oldest public museum in Britain, the Ashmolean Museum. Allow more time or schedule a return trip if you are an avid museum fan.\n6:00 pm \u2014 Attend Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral for an unforgettable experience that defies description.\n7:30 pm \u2014 Do your research ahead of time and book tickets for one of the many concerts in Oxford\u2019s historic venues such as Holywell Music Room (where Handel performed), Exeter College, New College, or the Sheldonian.\nAka. The Bird & Baby\n10:00 pm \u2014 Grab fish & chips at The Eagle & Child where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their fellow Inklings would read and discuss their unfinished manuscripts. This is a great place to chat with Oxford locals.\nA Note About Reservations: If you only have one day in Oxford book your reservations for the walking tour and the afternoon tea at the Randolph in advance either by phone or by email. Booking for Bodleian tour must be done in person on the day of the tour.\nSimilar: prayerwalk, University of Oxford", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 19703, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 311.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.presentationbvm.org/sacrament-of-marriage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WKK5J5QSY3KQX24WVAV2KBF7DQMIOSL5", "length": 33126, "nlines": 85, "source_domain": "www.presentationbvm.org", "title": "Sacrament of Marriage | Presentation B.V.M. Parish", "raw_content": "Home / Sacrament of Marriage\nWe believe that the Sacrament of Marriage is one of the seven Sacraments given by Jesus for the life of the Church. Each of the sacraments directs an individual\u2019s life in different ways towards Jesus and eternal life. The Sacrament of Marriage raises the already good, natural love that a man and woman share with each other to a supernatural level. There, one man and one woman become the channels of God\u2019s grace and presence to one another. By God\u2019s grace, they become the image of Jesus in each other\u2019s lives. Thus, the relationship becomes sacred and lasts into eternity, as does the love of Jesus for the Church. This is the faith of the Church.\nNecessary preparations for the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage at Presentation BVM Parish\nBoth parties meet together with the parish priest at least six months before the actual celebration of the Sacrament for an initial interview and to reserve a date; if the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage is to take place on a Saturday, it must begin no later than 2:00 PM\nBoth parties must be free to enter into the Sacrament of Marriage for the first time. If either party was married before, that previous marriage must be declared null by the Church before scheduling a date for the celebration of marriage in the Church\nN.B. \u2013 a previous marriage will always be presumed valid in the eyes of the Church until evidence is found that indicates that the marriage no longer exists or that it was not valid from the beginning\nIf the former spouse has died, and there were no other marriages, a death certificate should be presented to the priest making the arrangements\nIf an annulment was received from the Church for a previous marriage, that document, itself, should be presented to the priest making the arrangements\nIf a Catholic intends to marry a non-Catholic, a dispensation from the Church needs to be obtained through the priest making the arrangements\nBaptismal certificates for each Catholic party must be presented to the priest making the arrangements; these certificates must be newly issued not more than six months before the actual date of the marriage celebration\nTestimony as to the \u201cfreedom to marry\u201d for each party must be received by the priest making the arrangements\nIf either of the parties would like a visiting priest to witness the marriage, this should be discussed at the initial interview with the parish priest.\nShould the couples wish to celebrate the marriage before a non-Catholic minister, arrangements must be made at least six months before the date with the parish priest. All of the above preparations should be taken before permission can be granted. The marriage must take place in a worship site, i.e., church or synagogue. Permission will not be granted for a celebration to take place in other places, e.g., in a park or at the shore.\nHoliness of Marriage\nGaudium et Spes, # 48, Second Vatican Council\nThe intimate partnership of life and the love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by Him with its own proper laws: it is rooted in the contract of its partners, that is, in their irrevocable personal consent. It is an institution confirmed by the divine law and receiving its stability, even in the eyes of society, from the human act by which the partners mutually surrender themselves to each other; for the good of the partners, of the children, and of society. This sacred bond no longer depends on human decision alone. For God, Himself, is the author of marriage and has endowed it with various benefits and with various ends in view: all of these have a very important bearing on the continuation of the human race, on the personal development and eternal destiny of every member of the family, on the dignity, stability, peace, and prosperity of the family and of the whole human race. By its very nature, the institution of marriage and married love is ordered to the procreation and education of the offspring and it is in them that it finds its crowning glory. Thus the man and woman, who \u201care no longer two but one\u201d (Mt. 19:6), help and serve each other by their marriage partnership; they become conscious of their unity and experience it more deeply from day to day. The intimate union of marriage, as a mutual giving of two persons, and the good of the children demand total fidelity from the spouses and require an unbreakable unity between them.\nChrist our Lord has abundantly blessed this love, which is rich in its various features, coming as it does from the spring of divine love and modeled on Christ\u2019s own union with the Church. Just as of old, God encountered his people with a covenant of love and fidelity, so our Savior, the Spouse of the Church, now encounters Christian spouses through the sacrament of marriage. He abides with them in order that by their mutual self-giving, spouses will love each other with enduring fidelity, as He loved the Church and delivered Himself for it. Authentic married love is caught up into divine love and is directed and enriched by the redemptive power of Christ and the salvific action of the Church, with the result that the spouses are effectively led to God and are helped and strengthened in their lofty role as fathers and mothers. Spouses, therefore, are fortified and, as it were, consecrated for the duties and dignity of their state by a special sacrament; fulfilling their conjugal and family role by virtue of this sacrament, spouses are penetrated with the spirit of Christ and their whole life is suffused by faith, hope, and charity; thus they increasingly further their own perfection and their mutual sanctification, and together they render glory to God.\nSacrament of Marriage at\nIf the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage is to take place on Saturday, it must begin no later than 2:00 PM. Because the Sacrament of Reconciliation will be celebrated at 4:00 PM , the wedding party, family and friends must be out of the church by that time\nPhotographers and videographers may not enter the sanctuary at any time during the celebration; if pictures are to be taken after the celebration, proper respect for the sanctuary must be maintained: the altar may never be used as a prop\nThe unity candle is not allowed in the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage\nThe aisle runner may not be used due to the danger it represents to older people\nOnly Catholics who have received the Sacrament of Confirmation may proclaim the Scriptures or offer the Prayers of the Faithful at the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage\nOnly faithful Catholics may participate in the Offertory procession at Mass\nDuring the celebration of Mass, only Catholics who are properly disposed may receive Holy Communion\nOnly Sacred Scripture chosen by the Church for the Sacrament for Marriage may be used at the celebration of marriage either during Mass or outside of Mass; no other readings may be used or substituted for the Scriptures\nAll music to be used at the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage must be liturgical and appropriate to the occasion; arrangements for music and for any visiting musicians must be cleared through Mrs. Melanie Capoferri\nThe date and time of the rehearsal should be arranged with the priest who will preside at the celebration.\nGenesis 1:26-28, 31\nThen God said: \u201cLet us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the cattle, and over all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground.\u201d God created man in His image; in the divine image He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them, saying: \u201cBe fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and all the living things that move on the earth.\u201d God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good.\nThe Lord God said: \u201cIt is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.\u201d So the Lord God formed out of the ground various wild animals and various birds of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would call them; whatever the man called each of them would be its name. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of the air, and all the wild animals; but none proved to be the suitable partner for the man. So the Lord God cast a deep sleep on the man, and while he was asleep, He took out one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. The Lord God then built up into a woman the rib that He had taken from the man. When He brought her to the man, the man said: \u201cThis one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called \u2018woman,\u2019 for out of \u2018her man\u2019 this one has been taken.\u201d That is why a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.\nThen I bowed down in worship to the Lord, blessing the Lord, the God of my master, Abraham, who had led me on the right road to obtain the daughter of my master\u2019s kinsman for his son. If, therefore, you have in mind to show true loyalty to my master, let me know; but if not, let me know that, too. I can then proceed accordingly.\u201d Laban and his household said in reply: \u201cThis thing comes from the Lord; we can say nothing to you either for or against it. Here is Rebekah, ready for you; take her with you, that she may become the wife of your master\u2019s son, as the Lord has said.\u201d So they called Rebekah and asked her, \u201cDo you wish to go with this man?\u201d She answered, \u201cI do.\u201d\nAt this they allowed their sister Rebekah and her nurse to take leave, along with Abraham\u2019s servant and his men. Invoking a blessing on Rebekah, they said: \u201cSister, may you grow into thousands of myriads; and may your descendants gain possession of the gates of their enemies!\u201d Then Rebekah and her maids started out; they mounted their camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.\nMeanwhile Isaac had gone from Beer-lahai-roi and was living in the region of the Negeb. One day toward evening he went out. . . in the field, and as he looked around, he noticed that camels were approaching. Rebekah, too, was looking about, and when she saw him, she alighted from her camel and asked the servant, \u201cWho is the man out there, walking through the fields toward us?\u201d \u201cThat is my master,\u201d replied the servant. Then she covered herself with her veil. The servant recounted to Isaac all the things he had done. Then Isaac took Rebekah into his tent; he married her, and thus she became his wife. In his love for her, Isaac found solace after the death of his mother, Sarah.\nWhen they entered Ecbatana, Tobiah said, \u201cBrother Azariah, lead me straight to our kinsman Raguel.\u201d So he brought him to the house of Raguel, whom they found seated by his courtyard gate. When he brought them into his home, Raguel sprang up and kissed him, shedding tears of joy. But when he heard that Tobit had lost his eyesight, he was grieved and wept aloud. He said to Tobiah: \u201cMy child, God bless you! You are the son of a noble and good father. But what a terrible misfortune that such a righteous and charitable man should be afflicted with blindness!\u201d He continued to weep in the arms of his kinsman Tobiah. His wife Edna also wept for Tobit; and even their daughter Sarah began to weep.\nAfterward, Raguel slaughtered a ram from the flock and gave them a cordial reception. When they had bathed and reclined to eat, Tobiah said to Raphael, \u201cBrother Azariah, ask Raguel to let me marry my kinswoman Sarah.\u201d Raguel overheard the words; so he said to the boy: \u201cEat and drink and be merry tonight, for no man is more entitled to marry my daughter, Sarah, than you, brother. Besides, not even I have the right to give her to anyone but you, because you are my closest relative. But I will explain the situation to you very frankly. I have given her in marriage to seven men, all of whom were kinsmen of ours, and all died on the very night they approached her. But now, son, eat and drink. I am sure the Lord will look after you both.\u201d Tobiah answered, \u201cI will eat or drink nothing until you set aside what belongs to me.\u201d Raguel said to him: \u201cI will do it. She is yours according to the decree of the Book of Moses. Your marriage to her has been decided in heaven! Take your kinswoman; from now on you are her love, and she is your beloved. She is yours today and ever after. And tonight, son, may the Lord of heaven prosper you both. May he grant you mercy and peace.\u201d\nThen Raguel called his daughter Sarah, and she came to him. He took her by the hand and gave her to Tobiah with the words: \u201cTake her according to the law. According to the decree written in the Book of Moses she is your wife. Take her and bring her back safely to your father. And may the God of heaven grant both of you peace and prosperity.\u201d\nHe then called her mother and told her to bring a scroll, so that he might draw up a marriage contract stating that he gave Sarah to Tobiah as his wife according to the decree of the Mosaic law. Her mother brought the scroll, and he drew up the contract, to which they affixed their seals. Afterward they began to eat and drink.\nTobit 8:4b -8\nTobiah arose from bed and said to his wife, \u201cMy love, get up. Let us pray and beg our Lord to have mercy on us and to grant us deliverance.\u201d She got up, and they started to pray and beg that deliverance might be theirs. He began with these words: \u201cBlessed are you, O God of our fathers; praised be Your Name forever and ever. Let the heavens and all Your creation praise You forever. You made Adam and you gave him his wife, Eve, to be his help and support; and from these two the human race descended. You said, \u2018It is not good for the man to be alone; let us make him a partner like himself.\u2019 Now, Lord, You know that I take this wife of mine not because of lust, but for a noble purpose. Call down Your mercy on me and on her, and allow us to live together to a happy old age.\u201d They said together, \u201cAmen, amen,\u201d\nProverbs 31: 10-13, 19-20, 30-31\nWhen one finds a worthy wife, her value is far beyond pearls. Her husband, entrusting his heart to her, has an unfailing prize. She brings him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She obtains wool and flax and makes cloth with skillful hands. She puts her hands to the distaff, and her fingers ply the spindle. She reaches out her hands to the poor, and extends her arms to the needy. Charm is deceptive and beauty fleeting; the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised. Give her a reward of her labors, and let her works praise her at the city gates.\nSong of Songs 2:8-10, 14,16a; 8:6-7a\nHark! my lover- here he comes springing across the mountains, leaping across the hills. My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Here he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattices. My lover speaks; he says to me, \u201cArise, my beloved, my beautiful one, and come! O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the secret recesses of the cliff, let me see you, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and you are lovely.\u201d My lover belongs to me and I to him. Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away.\nSirach 26:1-4, 13-16\nHappy the husband of a good wife, twice-lengthened are his days. A worthy wife brings joy to her husband, peaceful and full is his life. A good wife is a generous gift bestowed upon him who fears the Lord. Be he rich or poor, his heart is content, and a smile is ever on his face. A gracious wife delights her husband, her thoughtfulness puts flesh on his bones. A gift from the Lord is her governed speech, and her firm virtue is of surpassing worth. Choicest of blessings is a modest wife, priceless her chaste person. Like the sun rising in the Lord\u2019s heavens, the beauty of a virtuous wife is the radiance of her home.\nJeremiah 31:31-32a, 33-34a\nThe days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with their fathers the day I took them by the hand to lead them forth from the land of Egypt. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will place my law within them, and write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer will they have need to teach their friends and kinsmen how to know the Lord. All, from least to greatest, shall know me, says the Lord.\nRomans 8:31b \u2013 35\nIf God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but handed Him over for us all, how will He not also give us everything else along with Him? Who will bring a charge against God\u2019s chosen ones? It is God who acquits us. Who will condemn? It is Christ (Jesus) Who died, rather, was raised, Who also is at the right hand of God, Who indeed intercedes for us. What will separate us from the love of Christ? Will anguish, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the sword? No, in all these things we conquer overwhelmingly through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor present things, nor future things, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.\nI urge you, therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and pleasing and perfect. Let love be sincere; hate what is evil, hold on to what is good; love one another with mutual affection; anticipate one another in showing honor. Do not grow slack in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. Rejoice in hope, endure in affliction, persevere in prayer. Contribute to the needs of the holy ones, exercise hospitality. Bless those who persecute (you), bless and do not curse them. Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Have the same regard for one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly; do not be wise in your own estimation. Do not repay anyone evil for evil; be concerned for what is noble in the sight of all. If possible, on your part, live at peace with all.\nRomans 15:1 -3, 5-7, 13\nWe who are strong ought to put up with the failings of the weak and not to please ourselves; let each of us please our neighbor for the good, for building up. For Christ did not please himself. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to think in harmony with one another, in keeping with Christ Jesus, that, with one accord, you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you, for the glory of God. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.\n1 Cor. 6:13-15, 17-20\nThe body, however, is not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord is for the body; God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? But whoever is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. Avoid immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the immoral person sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, Whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body.\n1 Cor.12:31 \u2013 13:8\nStrive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.\nEphesians 5:2, 21-33\nLive in love, as Christ loved us and handed himself over for us. Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the church, he himself the savior of the body.As the church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything.\nHusbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. So (also) husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. \u201cFor this reason a man shall leave (his) father and (his) mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.\u201d This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband.\nRejoice in the Lord always. I shall say it again: rejoice! Your kindness should be known to all. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety at all, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, make your requests known to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious; if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise \u2013 think about these things. Keep on doing what you have learned and received and heard and seen in me. Then the God of peace will be with you.\nPut on, then, as God\u2019s chosen ones, holy and beloved, heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if one has a grievance against another; as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also do. And over all these put on love, that is, the bond of perfection. And let the peace of Christ control your hearts, the peace into which you were also called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, as in all wisdom you teach and admonish one another, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.\nHebrews 13:1-4, 5-6\nLet mutual love continue. Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels. Be mindful of prisoners as if sharing their imprisonment, and of the ill-treated, as of yourselves, for you also are in the body. Let marriage be honored among all and the marriage bed be kept undefiled. Let your life be free from love of money but be content with what you have, for he has said, \u201cI will never forsake you or abandon you.\u201d Thus we may say with confidence: \u201cThe Lord is my helper, (and) I will not be afraid. What can anyone do to me?\u201d\nLikewise, you wives should be subordinate to your husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by their wives\u2019 conduct when they observe your reverent and chaste behavior. Your adornment should not be an external one: braiding the hair, wearing gold jewelry, or dressing in fine clothes, but rather the hidden character of the heart, expressed in the imperishable beauty of a gentle and calm disposition, which is precious in the sight of God. For this is also how the holy women who hoped in God once used to adorn themselves and were subordinate to their husbands; thus Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him \u201clord.\u201d You are her children when you do what is good and fear no intimidation. Likewise, you husbands should live with your wives in understanding, showing honor to the weaker female sex, since we are joint heirs of the gift of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.\nFinally, all of you, be of one mind, sympathetic, loving toward one another, compassionate, humble. Do not return evil for evil, or insult for insult; but, on the contrary, a blessing, because to this you were called, that you might inherit a blessing.\nChildren, let us love not in word or speech but in deed and truth. (Now) this is how we shall know that we belong to the truth and reassure our hearts before Him in whatever our hearts condemn, for God is greater than our hearts and knows everything. Beloved, if (our) hearts do not condemn us, we have confidence in God and receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him. And His commandment is this: we should believe in the name of His Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another just as He commanded us. Those who keep His commandments remain in Him, and He in them, and the way we know that He remains in us is from the Spirit that He gave us.\nBeloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent His only Son into the world so that we might have life through Him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as expiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is brought to perfection in us.\nAfter this I heard what sounded like the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, saying: \u201cAlleluia! Salvation, glory, and might belong to our God. A voice coming from the throne said: \u201cPraise our God, all you his servants, (and) you who revere him, small and great.\u201d Then I heard something like the sound of a great multitude or the sound of rushing water or mighty peals of thunder, as they said: \u201cAlleluia! The Lord has established His reign, (our) God, the almighty. Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him glory. For the wedding day of the Lamb has come, His bride has made herself ready. She was allowed to wear a bright, clean linen garment.\u201d (The linen represents the righteous deeds of the holy ones.) Then the angel said to me, \u201cWrite this: Blessed are those who have been called to the wedding feast of the Lamb.\u201d\nWhen He saw the crowds, He went up the mountain, and after He had sat down, His disciples came to Him.He began to teach them, saying:\nBlessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, 9 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\nBlessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil\nagainst you (falsely) because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.\u201d\nJesus said to His disciples: You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lamp stand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.\nNot everyone who says to me, \u2018Lord, Lord,\u2019 will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined. When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.\nSome Pharisees approached him, and tested him, saying, \u201cIs it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?\u201d\nHe said in reply, \u201cHave you not read that from the beginning the Creator \u2018made them male and female\u2019 and said, \u2018For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh\u2019? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.\u201d\nWhen the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them [a scholar of the law] tested Him by asking, \u201cTeacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?\u201d He said to him, \u201cYou shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.\u201d\nJesus said: \u201cBut from the beginning of creation, \u2018God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his wife), and the two shall become one flesh.\u2019 So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.\u201d\nOn the third day there was a wedding in Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to Him, \u201cThey have no wine.\u201d (And) Jesus said to her, \u201cWoman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.\u201d His mother said to the servers, \u201cDo whatever he tells you.\u201d\nNow there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, \u201cFill the jars with water.\u201d So they filled them to the brim. Then He told them, \u201cDraw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.\u201d So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, \u201cEveryone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.\u201d\nJesus said to His disciples: As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father\u2019s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.This is my commandment: love one another as I love you.\u201d\nJesus said to His disciples: This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one\u2019s life for one\u2019s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you.\nJesus raised His eyes to heaven and said: \u201cI pray not only for them, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, so that they may all be one, as You, Father, are in me and I in You, that they also may be in us, that the world may believe that You sent me. And I have given them the glory You gave me, so that they may be one, as we are one \u2013 I in them and You in me- that they may be brought to perfection as one, that the world may know that You sent me and that You loved them even as You loved me.\nFather, they are Your gift to me. I wish that where I am they also may be with me, that they may see my glory that You gave me, because You loved me before the foundation of the world. Righteous Father, the world also does not know You, but I know You, and they know that You sent me. I made known to them Your name and I will make it known, that the love with which You loved me may be in them and I in them.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 35156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 291.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/htmlen/index.en.php?id=1070k", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:11Z", "digest": "sha1:DWOQA2OEPKIDUIBBZ4EB4F5FX5PF7L3X", "length": 3408, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr", "title": "AFC - 07/21/09 For Science Without Animal Experiments", "raw_content": "With a powerful performance Animal Friends calls to the marking of the Day of Fighting Animal Experiments\n\"Bloodied\" Animal Friends' activist wrapped up in bandages will be \"crucified\" on a \"laboratory device\" in order to realistically show experiments conducted on animals all around the world. This action will also be a call to citizens not to use products tested on animals and to take a stand for ending the suffering and killing of animals in laboratories.\nThe performance will be taking place on Tuesday, July 21, at 12 noon on King Tomislav Square in Zagreb, and it will mark the Day of Fighting Animal Experiments and the fourth anniversary of the rescuing of the 32 beagles that were intended to be used in experiment of intentionally fracturing their bones at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb.\nDuring the performance there will be an info stall where citizens can obtain educational materials with a Black & White list of brands, sign the petition for the ban of animal experiments, and also obtain the brochure Doctors Against Animal Experiments.\nIt is estimated that 12,1 million animals, including mice, rabbits, non-human primates, dogs, cats and fish, are annually used in laboratories throughout the European Union for a variety of purposes, a majority of which are not directly linked to medical progress. By marking this year's Day of Fighting Animal Experiments, Animal Friends joins the appeal of the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments' (ECEAE) to urge members to prioritize the replacement of animal experiments and to promote a modern humane science policy following today's announcements of the newly elected European Parliament.\nThe ECEAE, a coalition of 17 animal protection and rights organizations from across Europe, Animal Friends Croatia included, specifically asked that Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) consider the concerns of EU citizens and work towards the ultimate goal of ending animal experiments during its next 5-year term.\nThe welfare of animals is a major point of concern amongst European and Croatian citizens. A majority of respondents to a recent ECEAE opinion poll opposed all experiments causing severe pain or suffering to any animal, even for medical research.\nWith a newly elected Parliament, the current revision of Directive 86/609/EEC presents a unique opportunity to bring in a bold and progressive new legislation which focuses strategically on ending the use and suffering of millions of animals in experiments every year. Croatia should implement the revision of Directive 86/609/EEC into its legislation, whilst the established Ethical Committee should already start with its work.\nAnimal Friends and EU citizens will be expecting MEPs to make the right decisions and to support a targeted strategy to phase out animal experiments, to improve current animal welfare standards, to push for change whenever appropriate and to ensure a much better transparency. From Croatian authorities it will be expected to follow \u2013 and even advance \u2013 such changes on behalf of humans and animals.\nBy investing in modern science Europe will show not only that it cares to put an end to using and killing of animals in experiments, but will also do a lot for the protection of humans who will benefit significantly from the new methods instead of outdated, repeated and uneconomical animal experiments that are being conducted today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 9096, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 232.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr/htmlen/index.en.php?id=465", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:43Z", "digest": "sha1:XDUR3ZIHAQRLRS4P4O2O7CGLKGPHXF57", "length": 2388, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.prijatelji-zivotinja.hr", "title": "AFC - 02/06/06 Zagreb Man Among Finalists in PETA's \"Sexiest Vegetarian\" Contest", "raw_content": "Voters Will Pick the Hottest Male and Female Vegetarians\nWhat do Chris Martin, Stella McCartney, Joss Stone, Gwyneth Paltrow, Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon and Morrissey have in common? They're all hot, and it's no coincidence that they're also all vegetarian. Vegetarians' healthy diets help keep them youthful, slim and sexy, and you don't have to be a rich celebrity to take advantage of this beauty secret. Just ask sexy and scrumptious 24-year-old Zagreb resident Ozren Cuk, who has been chosen from hundreds of entrants across Europe as one of the 15 male finalists in PETA's \"Sexiest Vegetarian Alive\" contest.\nOzren, a student of law and volunteer at Animal Friends, turned vegetarian when he realised it was natural. His hobbies are animal rights activism, yoga, sports, roller-coasters and music. Ozren's photo and bio, along with those of the other veggie vixens and hot hunks selected as finalists, can be viewed at peta.org.uk.\nThe female and male voted the sexiest vegetarians alive will each receive \u00a3350 worth of prizes, including a \u00a350 voucher for meat-free foods from The Redwood Wholefood Company, three bottles of vegan organic wine from Vintage Roots and a \u00a350 voucher towards a VegiVentures holiday. The winners will be announced on February 16.\nWhy are millions of people going vegetarian? More and more people want to avoid supporting the suffering inflicted on the billions of animals raised and killed for food each year, and vegetarians are healthier - and sexier. Consumption of meat and other animal products has been conclusively linked to heart disease, strokes, diabetes and several types of cancer as well as salmonella and other bacterial infections - not to mention the human form of mad cow disease. Why sexier? On average, vegetarians are thinner and trimmer than meat-eaters and less prone to impotence \u2013 the cholesterol and saturated fats in animal products slow the flow of blood to all the body's vital organs, not just the heart.\n\"Take one look at our radiant line-up of sexy vegetarian finalists, and it's clear that they\u2019re all winners,\" says PETA Europe Campaign Coordinator Lauren Bowey. \"So whether it's great food in the kitchen or great fun in the bedroom, who wouldn't want to have what these folks have to offer?\"\nFor more information and to vote in the contest, please visit peta.org.uk.\nThe Redwood Wholefood Company\nVegi Ventures", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 13004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.privateyachting.gr/our-crew-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:37Z", "digest": "sha1:WXNKTCHHFJCSZHF5RASSWQBQHTKCFSSP", "length": 1203, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.privateyachting.gr", "title": "Our crew \u2013 Private Yachting", "raw_content": "http://www.privateyachting.gr/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Pejzaz2.mp4\nKonstantinos Antonopoulos\nThe skipper.\nLicensed captain, born on the seaside, in love with the sea, nature and sports. Extremely responsible and well-acquainted with the area of the Ionian Sea, with more than 25 years on the island of Cephalonia, he will literally make your holiday. With a very friendly personality, he will adjust the cruise to your own wishes. Multitalented, professional in many fields, fluently speaks English and Greek, his native language.\nMiona Vujovic\nMarketing & Customer Realtionship\n10+ years of experience as a professional guide all over Greece, she will try to help you choose the best cruise according to your wishes.\nAris Stamopoulos\nHost & Skipper\u2019s assistant\nHospitality & Customer Service Professional with diverse experience in many areas. After a few years in UAE where he worked as International Flight Attendant, he came back to his roots or better say to his coast. One of a kind in all sports, with very friendly and fun character. Speaks English and Greek (native language).\nTSIFTIS\nHost & Captain\u2019s assistant.\nExperienced sea dog, very calm and serious Jack Russel. 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As of March 15, 51 of the largest 200 companies by revenues, as ranked by Fortune magazine, had announced their annual meetings and mailed proxy materials to shareholders. Of those companies, 11 have already held meetings, with four more\u2014Hewlett Packard on March 21, Exelon on April 2, Bank of New York Mellon on April 10, and United Technologies on April 11\u2014scheduled to meet before the annual meeting cycle begins in earnest in mid-April.\nIn 2011, the Manhattan Institute launched its ProxyMonitor.org database, which catalogs shareholder proposals at America\u2019s largest companies. Drawing upon information from the database, we have been examining a growing trend in shareholder activism wherein investors attempt to influence management and corporate practices through the shareholder voting process, sometimes in ways not directly related to maintaining or increasing shareholder value.[1]\nThis finding summarizes early trends in 2012 shareholder proposal findings and examines 2012 results to date in shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation\u2014including the significant role played by the shareholder advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). This report also looks ahead to significant classes of shareholder proposals on the horizon that I have previously identified as items to watch for this year[2]\u2014proposals relating to corporate campaign finance and political spending, proposals to separate the positions of corporate chairman and CEO, and proposals to grant shareholders proxy access for their director nominees. While votes on these issues have not occurred to date, several such proposals are on proxy ballots in the coming weeks, and we expect these to be major issues during this proxy season.\nAt first glance, as shown in the graph below, the average number of shareholder proposals introduced at Fortune 200 companies thus far in 2012 is below the recent trend line, with only 0.8 proposals filed per company to date this year, versus 1.4 in 2011. When adjusting for the actual companies involved, however, the number of proposals does not vary markedly from that witnessed last year: the 51 companies whose proxy statements were filed as of March 15 only saw 0.88 proposals per company in 2011, versus 0.82 this year\u2014a decrease of only three proposals total.[3] Thus, it appears that 2012 shareholder proposal activity is likely to be similar to that in 2011\u2014slightly below earlier trends, owing primarily to the absence of previously widespread \u201csay on pay\u201d proposals calling for a shareholder advisory vote on executive compensation, a mechanism now mandated under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.[4] (With management now mandated to submit executive compensation to shareholders, there is no need for shareholders who care about this issue to seek a vote that encourages management to implement the practice.)\nAt least at this early stage, there does seem to be some variation in the composition of shareholder proposals introduced in 2012. In 2011, almost 47 percent of all shareholder proposals were unrelated to the company\u2019s executive compensation or the procedural rules of corporate governance but instead concerned social, political, or policy goals such as environmental issues, human rights, or health-care policy. In contrast, such social policy proposals have constituted only 35 percent of all shareholder proposals on corporate proxy ballots this year, and more than half of all proposals have related to corporate governance rules. It will be interesting to see whether this trend continues as more companies\u2019 2012 proxy materials are distributed.\nSay on Pay: The Role of ISS\nThe year 2011 was the first in which all public companies had to submit executive-compensation packages to a shareholder advisory vote under the Dodd-Frank Act. Because the overwhelming majority of companies saw shareholders vote to review executive pay annually,[4] most companies will face say-on-pay votes again in 2012.\nAmong the 11 Fortune 200 companies to have held shareholder votes on executive compensation to date in 2012, a majority of shareholders approved pay packages at each company.[5] Actual vote totals varied significantly, however, and this variation demonstrates the substantial role being played by ISS in such voting. ISS recommended that shareholders vote against executive pay at four of the 11 companies\u2014Johnson Controls, Navistar, Qualcomm, and Walt Disney\u2014and these companies received, on average, 64 percent support from shareholders in advisory executive-pay votes, ranging from 71 percent at Navistar to 57 percent at Disney.[6] In contrast, the other seven companies, for which ISS supported pay packages, received, on average, 94 percent support; only Apple, with a new CEO replacing longtime chief Steve Jobs, received under 90 percent backing (83 percent).\nWhile these results do not demonstrate conclusively that ISS\u2019s negative recommendations caused the lower shareholder support (it\u2019s conceivable that ISS and all investors rejected pay packages for the same reasons and that some defect in the packages independently motivated shareholder opposition), it seems very likely that ISS\u2019s position substantially influenced the shareholder vote.[7] An unintended side effect of the Dodd-Frank-mandated shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation would thus seem to be giving a significant and far-reaching \u201cgatekeeper\u201d role over executive pay to ISS, a single private firm giving nonpublic shareholder-vote advice to institutional investors.\nThe influence of ISS recommendations on shareholder votes on executive pay also sheds light on the likely impact of ISS\u2019s new rule, proposed in fall 2011, to challenge management to respond whenever fewer than 70 percent of shareholders have voted for management\u2019s executive-compensation packages in the previous year, even if a majority of shareholders approved. Given that three of the four large companies whose pay was challenged by ISS this year fell under the 70 percent threshold, ISS\u2019s policy effectively acts to increase its power over management pay, even as most shareholders reject the firm\u2019s recommendations. It is questionable whether moving all large-company executive-pay methodologies into ISS-approved packages is for the better, whether or not ISS is generally correct in its executive-pay assessments. Evaluating ISS\u2019s role here is complicated by the fact that the firm\u2019s recommendations and analyses are not public, and this opacity is of even greater concern given that many of the firm\u2019s clients\u2014who pay its bills\u2014are shareholders such as labor-union pension funds and social-investing funds that may be motivated by issues other than maximizing shareholder value.\nShareholder Proposal Issues to Watch For\nTo date, none of the 11 companies holding shareholder meetings has faced proposals related to political spending, separating the positions of chairman and CEO, or proxy access for shareholder-nominated directors\u2014the three key issues that I highlighted in my winter report.[8] (Apple did face a proposal related to political spending, but it was not presented at the annual meeting.) Some such proposals are looming on the horizon, however, and they will merit watching.\nAmong companies to have filed proxy information, seven companies face eight proposals related to political spending or lobbying:\nCitigroup, meeting April 17, has a proposal submitted by the Firefighters\u2019 Pension System of the City of Kansas City, Missouri, asking the company to make semiannual disclosures of all political spending, including contributions to political candidates, parties, or entities or non-tax-exempt organizations; and requiring the company to disclose the purpose of each such contribution.\nHoneywell, meeting April 23, has a similar proposal submitted by Vijay Sendhil Revuluri, which additionally requires that the company post the semiannual report on its website and disclose the \u201ctitle(s) of the person(s) in the Company responsible for the decision(s) to make the political contributions or expenditures.\u201d\nBB&T Corporation, meeting April 24, has a proposal submitted by the Massachusetts Laborers\u2019 Pension Fund that is virtually identical to the political spending proposal submitted by the Firefighters\u2019 Pension System to Citigroup.\nIBM, meeting April 24, faces a pair of proposals related to political spending. The first, sponsored by the social-investing fund Walden Asset Management, asks the company\u2019s independent directors to \u201cinstitute a comprehensive review of IBM\u2019s policies and oversight processes related to political spending and public policy, both direct and indirect including though trade associations, and present a summary report by September 2012,\u201d with a particular focus on the company\u2019s role with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The second, sponsored by another social-investing fund, Green Century Capital Management, asks the company to prepare an annual report on lobbying policy and priorities, including a list of all payments, including to trade associations and grassroots lobbying organizations, and \u201c[m]embership in and payments to any tax-exempt organization that writes and endorses model legislation,\u201d and to post the report on the company website.\nJohnson & Johnson, meeting April 26, has a proposal submitted by James Mackie resolving that the company shall not make any political contributions without the prior consent of 75 percent of shareholders.\nAT&T, meeting April 27, has a proposal co-filed by the social-investing fund Domini Social Investments and three Catholic religious orders, substantially the same as that submitted to Honeywell.\nUnited Parcel Service, meeting May 3, has a proposal submitted by Walden Asset Management, substantially the same as the lobbying-related proposal submitted by Green Century Capital Management to IBM.\nSix companies face forthcoming proposals seeking to separate the positions of chairman and CEO:\nBank of New York Mellon, meeting April 10 (sponsored by the Trowel Trades S&P 500 Index Fund)\nHoneywell, meeting April 23 (sponsored by John Chevedden)\nGeneral Electric, meeting April 25 (sponsored by William Steiner)\nJohnson & Johnson, meeting April 26 (sponsored by the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees [AFSCME])\nLockheed Martin, meeting on April 26 (sponsored by AFSCME)\nAT&T, meeting April 27 (sponsored by John Chevedden on behalf of Kenneth Steiner)\nThis is the first year since 2007 in which the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has permitted shareholders to submit proposals granting proxy ballot access to shareholder-nominated directors. (Such proposals were held in abeyance while the SEC proposed a mandatory proxy-access rule, rejected last summer by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.)[9] While shareholders did, as expected, submit several such proposals, many of these submitted in the early part of the proxy season failed to meet specifications necessary for ballot inclusion: the SEC submitted no-action letters permitting various companies, including Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and Sprint Nextel, to exclude such proposals for technical defects.[10] One Fortune 200 company, however, does have such a measure submitted for a vote at an upcoming meeting:\nWells Fargo, meeting April 24, has a proposal submitted by Norges Bank Investment Management, a division of Norges Bank, the central bank of the Government of Norway, permitting shareholders who have owned 1 percent of the company\u2019s shares continuously for at least one year to nominate directors, up to 25 percent of the total directors up for nomination.\nThis report analyzes information gathered from the Manhattan Institute\u2019s ProxyMonitor.org database, which contains information relating to all shareholder proposals submitted for shareholder vote since 2006, for the 200 largest American public companies.[11]\nSee http://www.proxymonitor.org/Forms/reports_findings.aspx.\nSee James R. Copland, Shareholder Activism: What to Watch for in the 2012 Proxy Season, Proxy Monitor Rpt. (Manhattan Institute, Winter 2012), available at http://www.proxymonitor.org/Forms/pmr_03.aspx.\nThere is some company-to-company variation in the number of proposals to reach proxy ballots. E.g., Citigroup, General Electric, and Walt Disney each received one proposal fewer in 2012 as compared with 2011; Apple and Eli Lilly each received two more proposals this year.\nSee James R. Copland, A Report on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism, Proxy Monitor Rpt. (Manhattan Institute, Fall 2011), available at http://www.proxymonitor.org/Forms/pmr_02.aspx (\u201cAlthough boards of directors variously recommended triennial and biennial pay review, the shareholders of only six companies of the Fortune 150 to have considered the question to date opted for other than annual review: Berkshire Hathaway, Google, Tyson Foods, UPS, Comcast, and Nucor.\u201d).\nNote that because executive-compensation advisory proposals are introduced by management, majority support indicates that most shareholders backed management\u2019s proposal. In contrast, shareholder proposals\u2014including say-on-pay proposals prior to Dodd-Frank\u2014are almost universally opposed by management, so that a majority vote for the proposal indicates that most shareholders disagreed with management\u2019s position.\nJohnson Controls, Qualcomm, and Disney each filed additional materials arguing against ISS\u2019s position.\nBecause ISS reports and recommendations are not a matter of public record, it is difficult to assess the rationale underlying the proxy advisory firm\u2019s objections.\nSee James R. Copland, supra note 2.\nSee Business Roundtable v. SEC, 647 F.3d 1144 (D.C. Cir. 2011).\nSee Emily Chasan, Proxy Access Attempts Failing Before They Begin, CFO J., March 13, 2012, at http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2012/03/13/proxy-access-attempts-failing-before-they-begin/?mod=google_news_blog.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 14955, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 284.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.prweb.com/releases/aca_international/debt_collectors/prweb2689034.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:35Z", "digest": "sha1:IQG3NN5AO7JCAHN2OYDJUKUJN7A3YLMG", "length": 2151, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.prweb.com", "title": "ACA International Submits Testimony to House Subcommittee", "raw_content": "ACA International Submits Testimony to House Subcommittee\nTrade association weighs in on mandatory arbitration clause issue with credit card contracts.\n(Vocus) July 30, 2009\nThe House Oversight and Government Reform's Domestic Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), recently held a hearing questioning the fairness of mandatory arbitration clauses in the contracts of credit cards, mobile phones and other consumer services.\nThe hearing surrounded a report released by Congress that suggests ties were too close between the National Arbitration Forum and the creditors and collection agencies that were to be on one side of the arbitration table.\n\"The debt collection industry and the alternative legal system that has been created around it can no longer be ignored by the federal government,'' Kucinich said.\nACA International was given the opportunity to submit testimony for the official record of the hearing.\nIn ACA's testimony, the association urged Congress to view arbitration within the overall context of the entire credit cycle, highlighted key characteristics of successful arbitration programs moving forward, and pointed out the fact that its board of directors recently approved the directive to establish a National Debt Collection Dispute Resolution Program. This program would provide an unbiased, cost-effective method to resolve consumer complaints against debt collectors.\nThe National Arbitration Forum agreed July 17 to settle a lawsuit filed by Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson that bars the firm from taking on any new consumer debt-collection disputes (State of Minnesota v. National Arbitration Forum, Inc.; 27-CV-09-18550, State of Minnesota, Hennepin County, 4th Judicial District). In testimony, Swanson asked Congress to add new consumer protections to federal law governing arbitration.\nNAF was \"part of one big debt-collection conglomerate,'' Swanson told the committee.\nMichael Kelly, chief operating officer of NAF, responded that \"Arbitration is a simple, fair, and cost-effective way for consumers and businesses to resolve disputes outside of the traditional litigation system,'' he said.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.psychedinsanfrancisco.com/transgender-teens-sometimes-caution-right-approach/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:LCT7JK5OEAEEDSRHNFDYIH6PJYSRAL7O", "length": 6963, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "www.psychedinsanfrancisco.com", "title": "Transgender Teens: Sometimes Caution is the Right Approach - Psyched in San Francisco", "raw_content": "When Marci and her husband James* showed up in my psychotherapy office, they looked tired and worried. They had driven nearly four hours to come to a consultation with me, but that was not the reason for their exhaustion.\nMarci and James are part of the growing number of families who have consulted with me after having a teenager come out as transgender.\nHighly educated, liberal-leaning professionals who have been married for nearly twenty years, Marci and James are parents to ten-year-old Sam and thirteen-year-old Abigail. In our session, Marci and James described the day that Abigail told them she was trans.\n\u201cIt was a completely normal day,\u201d shared James, a research psychologist. \u201cI got home from work, and found a letter from Abigail.\u201d\nI\u2019m not the child you thought I was, began the note. She wrote that she was trans, and went on to detail the immediate changes she wanted to see because of the disclosure, including name and pronoun changes and access to cross sex hormones.\n\u201cWe were shocked,\u201d said James. \u201cThere was nothing in our daughter\u2019s demeanor or history that aligned with her revelation.\u201d\nUntil recently, gender dysphoria was a symptom that usually arose first in early childhood, resolving around puberty in most cases. Only about 20% of the time did it persist into adolescence. In these cases, the young person was overwhelmingly likely to retain a cross-sex identification in adulthood.\nIn the past five or so years, gender dysphoria has begun presenting in a new way. Adolescents like Abigail are identifying as trans \u201cout of the blue\u201d without any childhood history of discomfort with their sex. This was the case with Abby.\n\u201cAbigail was always a pretty typical girl,\u201d recalled Marci in our session.\nDespite their surprise, Marci and James responded to Abigail\u2019s disclosure with empathy and sensitivity, acceding to her wish to change name and pronouns, though drawing the line at medical intervention.\nThey were concerned about possible health consequences and permanent effects of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones. (For this article, I am using Abigail\u2019s birth name and female pronouns both for the sake of clarity and because this is reflective of Abigail\u2019s current identity.)\nTheir first step was to find a therapist who could help Abigail deal with her distress and explore her feelings. Once they started making phone calls to potential therapists, however, they felt increasingly worried and alone.\n\u201cEvery therapist we spoke with \u2013 and we spoke with quite a few \u2013 told us that if a teen says they are trans, then they are, and the parents\u2019 job is to affirm and help them transition. There was no therapist who would say to Abby, \u2018This is not my experience of you.\u2019 No therapist was interested in exploring the possibility that something other than being born into the wrong body could be operating here.\u201d\nFew of the therapists were sympathetic to Marci and James\u2019 cautious approach to putting their child on body-altering medication. Marci said that two of the therapists even chastised her for what they perceived as her \u201chomophobia.\u201d\nMarci and James\u2019 story is not unusual. More and more parents with similar stories are finding their way to sites such as the blog 4thwavenow, which describes itself as \u201ca community of parents and friends skeptical of the transgender child/teen trend.\u201d\nThese parents say that too often, therapists, school administrators, and even family and friends rebuke and criticize them for not immediately affirming their child\u2019s identity and going along with plans for medical intervention.\n\u201cIt\u2019s really worrisome,\u201d says Barbara, a lawyer and mom to three kids who served as a PFLAG leader for years after her now-adult son came out as gay in the early 2000\u2019s. \u201cIf a parent expresses any caution about transition, they are immediately branded as transphobic,\u201d she said. \u201cIn fact, these aren\u2019t usually bigoted parents who don\u2019t want a transgender child. These are supportive, engaged parents who want to protect their kid from potentially dangerous and possibly unnecessary medical intervention.\u201d\nThe puberty blockers and hormones that are currently being used to treat gender dysphoria are being used off-label, and there is some evidence that we may not understand the long-term effects of these medications. In addition, there is a body of writing and vlogging online by detransitioners \u2013 those who pursued transition but then later came to reidentify with their birth sex.\n\u201cParents who try to protect their kids from transition are absolutely doing the right thing,\u201d says Carey Callahan, a detransitioned woman who is currently pursuing a master\u2019s degree in family counseling and blogs at mariacatt.com.\n\u201cMedical transition has significant consequences. I was on testosterone for nine months, and it affected my liver. I know other detransitioners who have tissue damage from binding their breasts, nerve damage from a double mastectomy, and vaginal atrophy from testosterone.\u201d\nCallahan is careful to clarify that she believes some people will need to transition to have their happiest life, and she supports adults having access to these interventions. \u201cBut it can wait until adulthood. I got it wrong at 30,\u201d says Callahan referring to the age at which she started transition, \u201cso I know teens and young adults can get it wrong before then.\u201d\nMarci and James eventually found that when they supported Abigail\u2019s social transition by using her chosen male name, she became angrier, more defensive, and more withdrawn.\nInstead, Marci and James started talking more to Abigail about all the anxiety she was experiencing in her life. It soon became clear to all three that she was using a trans identity as a way of coping with the anxiety. Talking through it, over time, Abigail became calmer and more relaxed.\nWith her parents\u2019 love and support, Abigail has backed away from identifying as trans. Marci and James report that she seems happier and less anxious. They feel relieved that Abigail appears to have avoided a course of action that would have led to medical intervention. But they are cautious.\n\u201cFor now, she is happier in her own skin,\u201d Marci said. \u201cBut in this culture today, it\u2019s very hard to be a girl.\u201d\n*Names and details have been changed to protect privacy.\nShare the post \"Transgender Teens: Sometimes Caution is the Right Approach\"\nLisa Marchiano\nLisa Marchiano, LCSW is a writer and Jungian analyst in private practice. She is interested parenting as a catalyst for personal growth, and she blogs on this topic at PsychCentral. She is on the faculty of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and lectures and leads workshops nationally. Lisa has a particular fondness for fairy tales and what they can teach us about relating to our inner lives.\nPosted in CULTURE and tagged 4thwavenow, detransitioners, gay rights, gender dysphoria, trans, Trans Rights, transgender, transitioners\n\u2190 How to Deal with Toxic PeopleWhen We Mock Trump\u2019s Hands, What do People with Disabilities Hear? \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 10409, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 318.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.putzmeister.co.kr/enu/466.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:18Z", "digest": "sha1:RDSNDM7YIX52GPGIQDMZZL6UFJ443SPA", "length": 861, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.putzmeister.co.kr", "title": "Putzmeister Korea - Shotcrete machines", "raw_content": "Experts in Sprayed Concrete\nSprayed concrete was used for the first time in 1914 and has been permanently developed and improved since then. The major breakthrough came with the development of the wet-spraying technique. Being a flexible, fast and economic construction method, it has replaced the traditional methods of lining tunnel profiles and become the most important tool in stabilising the excavations in tunnelling, underground construction and mines. One of the main reasons for this development is the technological progress in the field of concrete spraying equipment. The expertise which Putzmeister has acquired in the last 50 years has led to the development of world class tunnel and mining equipment, designed to meet today\u2019s demanding technical circumstances.\nfor Tunnelling & Mining\nSika - PM 500, Sika - PM 4210\nSika - PM 5314, Sika - PM 702", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.quotehd.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg-poet-quotes-and-sayings", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:41Z", "digest": "sha1:GIEXVAHRCW47MECUXONSZ6LX7BOVL6WE", "length": 1170, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.quotehd.com", "title": "Allen Ginsberg Quotes | QuoteHD", "raw_content": "Born: June 03, 1926, Died: April 05, 1997, at the age of 71\nAllen Ginsberg American Poet\nMore Allen Ginsberg Quotes\nAmerica, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?\nAmerica, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.\nFortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.\nI saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.\nI think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.\nI want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator.\nPoets are Damned... but See with the Eyes of Angels.\nThe fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.\nThe only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.\nUltimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 3329, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.quotehd.com/quotes/author/harry-johnston-explorer", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:36Z", "digest": "sha1:H57ZKBNHDVUMB4EUS5P4HVK6VZFOKAVE", "length": 536, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.quotehd.com", "title": "Harry Johnston Quotes | QuoteHD", "raw_content": "Born: June 12, 1858, Died: August 31, 1927, at the age of 69\nHarry Johnston British Explorer\nMore Harry Johnston Quotes\nIceland, though it lies so far to the north that it is partly within the Arctic Circle, is, like Norway, Scotland, and Ireland, affected by the Gulf Stream, so that considerable portions of it are quite habitable.\nIn 1628 came the first English attack on Canada.\nNova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 1892, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 148.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.randieandryan.com/?p=790", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:30Z", "digest": "sha1:HI23LB34342AUGF66DSC2657VNUJTGAO", "length": 2020, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.randieandryan.com", "title": "Target Infestation \u2013 Randie and Ryan", "raw_content": "Target Infestation\nOver the weekend, I was visiting my sister and her family in Sandy Eggo. We were running errands and stopped by a Target near their house. This is what I found\u2026 Pink gnomes\u2026 disguised as cutesy and ready to buy in their \u201cpriced right\u201d section as you first walk in. Clearly, the place has a gnome problem and they are trying to get rid of them.\nBy the way, does this remind you of today\u2019s cartoon, or what?!!!\nWhile reading, \u201cWitch is When I Said Goodbye (A Witch P.I. Mystery Book 10)\u201d by Adele Abbott I found myself thinking of the comic and wanted to share this quote with you:\n\u201cThe next door neighbour was out in the garden. At first, I thought she was weeding, but then I realised she was actually having a conversation with the garden gnomes. Oh boy!\n\u201cI don\u2019t care if you\u2019re cold, Harold, you can\u2019t come in the house. Look at Angela; she isn\u2019t complaining, is she? Oh dear, John, have those horrible cats been peeing on you again?\u201d\n\u201cHello?\u201d I tried to catch her eye.\u201d\nShe straightened, and began to rub her back. \u201cHello, dear. I didn\u2019t see you there. I was busy seeing to my little ones.\u201d\n\u201cThey\u2019re such hard work. Do you have any?\u201d\n\u201cShush! Don\u2019t call them that. They don\u2019t like it.\u201d\n\u201cSorry. No, I don\u2019t have any.\u201d\n\u201cTake my advice. Don\u2019t start. You buy one. Then another. And, before you know it, you\u2019re overrun with them. They take over your life.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019ll remember that.\u201d I\u2019d have to make this quick before someone realised this woman had escaped. \u201cDoes Hilary Vicars still live next door?\u201d\nMaybe a certain artist does not have an unwarranted fear of gnomes!\nOh, and the book is part of a series that is full of such fun, but insane, moments.\nI LOVE this, Ying_Ko! hahaha\u2026 AND there\u2019s a Harold, as well! Yes, gnomes get grouchy when the cats pee/spray on them! (our neighbor, who has no known gnomes, have a cat that sprays! But I have gnomes in my yard\u2026 they seem to be okay, so maybe they\u2019ve been spared \u201cslinky cat\u2019s, ahem\u2026 attention)\u2026 in any case\u2026 this is delightful and thank you for sharing!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 4003, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rapreup.com/2018/02/14/ali-kulture-fck-isis-music-video/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:49Z", "digest": "sha1:RWHCTS3WO6F6HWWVRJALNOFHEEACXR2G", "length": 505, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.rapreup.com", "title": "Ali Kulture \u2013 F*ck Isis (Music Video) \u2013 RapReup.com", "raw_content": "Ali Kulture \u2013 F*ck Isis (Music Video)\nAli Kulture is one of 100\u2019s of 1000\u2019s of Muslims who have been directed affected by Terrorism. When he was a child he lost his father, a commissioned airline pilot, to a vicious attack by the Taliban on the Pakistan \u2013 Afghanistan border. Ali Kulture now makes music to inspire people and bring a positive message to the world. 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If you have ever taken a class in international politics and theory, then you are likely familiar with his books International Relations in Political Thought: Texts from the Greeks to the First World War coauthored with Terry Nardin and N. J. Rengger, and Understanding International Relations, written with Kirsten Ainley. Other recent books include Practical Judgement in International Political Theory and Sovereignty, Rights and Justice. He is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and contributes to LSE\u2019s British Politics and Policy blog.\nProfessor Brown answers reader questions about the theory-practice divide, non-Western political theory, the ongoing crisis in Syria, and challenges to the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P).\nI think there are lots of areas where things are happening. One of the things that has interested me the most has been the of revival of realism in recent years, both classical realism, but also the work of Bernard Williams (eg In the Beginning was the Deed, 2009) and Raymond Geuss (eg Philosophy and Real Politics, 2008) the \u2018new political realism\u2019, as it\u2019s sometimes called. The idea is that too much contemporary IPT [International Political Theory] is essentially liberal moralizing, arguing that politics are secondary to morals, whereas what Williams was arguing, and Geuss argues, is for the autonomy of the political. So I think that\u2019s an interesting agenda.\nThe \u2018practice agenda\u2019 is also very interesting. But there are also a lot of things going on in IPE [International Political Economy], and global environment studies, which I don\u2019t know enough about, but think if I did know enough about them they would be extremely interesting.\nWhat are the most important/interesting areas of IR theory that are underdeveloped today or under studied at the moment? Where is there most need and scope for new thinking?\nI think partly the answer I already gave is relevant. People think they understood realism and its implications, and now they\u2019re realizing that maybe they don\u2019t. It seems strange to think of realism as an underdeveloped area, but I think in some respects it is. The serious thinking about this is a more recent phenomenon than one might expect. But the same is true of the \u2018practice turn\u2019.\nThere\u2019s another area that I think is underdeveloped, although I get in trouble for saying this, and that\u2019s the whole area of foreign policy analysis. It seems to me policy analysis is very important. I think theory and practice have got divorced in ways that are undesirable. And to some extent, the analysis of foreign policy is part of that. Another aspect of this is covered in a piece I\u2019m writing for the European Journal of International Relations; one of the arguments I make in that article is that there is a need for critical problem solving. You are probably familiar with the distinction between problem solving theory and critical theory, that\u2019s found in Robert Cox- he set this out 30 or so years ago- and he argued that critical theory challenges the roots and the way questions are set up. Problem solving is just what it sounds like, it\u2019s solving problems that other people have given to you. What I want to argue is that we need more problem solving theory, but we need problem solving theory that\u2019s critical in another sense, that is oriented towards the less advantaged in society globally. So generally, one of the things I try to argue in the paper for the EJIR is that figures like John Ikenberry, John Mearsheimer and Joseph Nye are actually problem solving-oriented academics, and they do very good work, but their concept of the problem is very much, \u2018how do we manage power from the point of view of the powerful.\u2019 What I\u2019m saying is, I\u2019d like to see more work done on problems, but not the problems the powerful have, the problems that the weak have.\nI think the biggest shift that has taken place in my thinking over the past 30 years is that I\u2019m a lot less tolerant of relativist ideas, and multiculturalist ideas than I used to be. And that\u2019s something that when you say it, it induces shock and horror sometimes. 25 years ago, I was writing material that, if it wasn\u2019t poststructuralist, was at least \u2018fellow traveling\u2019 with the poststructuralists, arguing essentially anti-foundationalist ideas, arguing that the Western liberal tradition was just one tradition among other traditions, and so on. In a way, I think I was in bad faith over a lot of that. I believed that liberalism would always be there, and so one can afford to attack it. The events of the last 20 years have shown that that\u2019s really not the case, that a lot of the traditional liberal values of freedom and tolerance are seriously under attack and need to be defended. So I\u2019ve become a defender of the Enlightenment project in a way that I wasn\u2019t maybe 30 years ago- that\u2019s a big shift. I\u2019m not sure that any one particular individual has been significant in the process though- lots of individuals have been.\nWhat is the most important advice you could give to young scholars of IR?\nIf one\u2019s thinking in terms of an academic career, make sure that you know what you\u2019re letting yourself in for. I think an academic career has become much more difficult than it used to be, that the demands on young scholars are much more than they were. So you have to be reallycommitted. Whenever students come to me and say they want to do a PhD I try to discourage them, I tell them- look, it\u2019s awful, the money is bad, you\u2019re going to have four years and you\u2019ll be miserable for most of it-don\u2019t do it unless you\u2019re really committed to a particular topic. The thing that\u2019s got to drive you is that you\u2019ve go to be absolutely fascinated. Don\u2019t drift into it. Make sure that that\u2019s what the driver is, because that\u2019s the thing that will carry you through. And I think that\u2019s true for any area of scholarship nowadays.\nHow do you understand non-Western political theories in relation to IR theory?\nI think this is a fascinating question. At a personal level, I wish I understood more non-Western theories. Some of the work that\u2019s done on non-Western theories seems to me to not be terribly good- I mean, one finds that some quite traditional Western ideas are being fed back from non-Western societies, so it\u2019s a kind of mirror effect- it looks as if it\u2019s coming out of China, but it\u2019s actually coming out of the United States, being mirrored back to the United States. On the other hand- and I\u2019m using China as an example- there are a lot of very serious scholars working on classical Chinese political thought and its implications for the developing state system. It\u2019s a tricky task because Chinese thought is based around the idea of harmony and all under heaven being under one rule, and so there isn\u2019t really a great deal of material as I understand it on international systems, the idea of divided sovereignty, or indeed the ideas of sovereignty at all- it looks like a Western import. So I\u2019m waiting- I do read a lot of the Chinese scholars, not in Chinese unfortunately, but many of them are translated to English. So far, I\u2019m not finding stuff there that looks enormously original, but I\u2019m still looking and I think it has got to be out there. There are other traditions as well- India I think is fascinating. India did have international systems for long periods, there ought to be authors out there with something to say. The only author that anyone ever talks about in the West is Kautilya, a classical Indian thinker. There have got to be others, and his thinking has got to be more sophisticated than we used to think it was. So I\u2019m happily enthusiastic about the idea of non-Western IR theory, but I\u2019m waiting for it, waiting for the books that present an alternative.\nOne thing that one can\u2019t get around, and I don\u2019t think that one is being imperialist in saying this, is that the current world order was created out of the European world order. So there\u2019s a sense in which the dominance of European/North American thinking about International Relations isn\u2019tsimply a product of power- it may be a product of power, but at first remove, if you see what I mean. The Europeans created the current world, as a result of which their ideas are the ones that are most obviously available for understanding how this world works. But this could change. The only really important non-Western idea in International Relations I think of the past 50 years came out of Latin America, and that was theDependency argument of Gunder Frank and similar figures. The problem is that it was wrong, so you have a non-Western vision of the world that didn\u2019t hold up. So we\u2019re still waiting.\nIn a lecture given to the British International Studies Association in 2005, you suggested that in the past 3 decades or so, IR theory in the UK has become more professionalized and sophisticated even as it has become less connected to the rest of the IR discourse. Is that still the case, and if so, is it a concern? How should theory and empirical studies meet?\nSmashing question. Yes, I think it\u2019s so. That\u2019s the first bit- I don\u2019t think anything has seriously changed. I\u2019ve been reading material by some of the Americans on this, particularly Mearsheimer and Walt, and Ken Waltz thought the same thing. They argue that in America, theory is undervalued, and what is valued is empirical research, large-n quantitative studies- Political Science with a capital s: scientific technology, theory testing, that sort of quantitative work. In Britain I think it\u2019s exactly reversed- that kind of quantitative work is being done, and it\u2019s being done more than it used to be, but it\u2019s still a minority practice. Within the British scene, theory is more highly valued than it is within the United States, and in a way, there\u2019s been a kind of division of intellectual labor- economists could explain this in terms of theories of comparative advantage- British political theory has a comparative advantage over a lot of American theory, I think, whereas American applied research has a big comparative advantage over British. British graduate education is much less oriented towards quantitative techniques, the money is not there for large-N quantitative studies a lot of the time. So there\u2019s been a kind of divide between the two countries, and I think the British profession is more theory-oriented, and within the British profession it is theory that has more prestige probably than other areas: if you\u2019re working simply in empirical work it is somewhat more difficult to get the recognition that theorists get. So yes, I think that has happened, and it is continuing. And I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a good thing- we need more work on the theory-practice join. I think we need more theoretically-informed empirical work, much more. And a different kind of theoretically-informed empirical work. It gets back to my point about critical problem solving as opposed to just problem solving.\nDo you have any suggestions for how the theory-practice divide might be bridged?\nYou know, I just said that it hasn\u2019t changed, but it may be changing, I think there might be more people interested in this- the practice turn in theory has pushed people back more into empirics. And I think the kind of divide that Mearsheimer and Walt talk about is not as serious here. In the States it really is- we\u2019re all remembering Ken Waltz at this moment of course because of his recent death- I was at the conference at Aberystwyth for the 30th anniversary of Theory of International Politics, and I remember him and John Mearsheimer talking about the complete absence of new theoretical thinking. Mearsheimer, who is a very significant figure at the University of Chicago, said that he couldn\u2019t appoint good theorists- it wasn\u2019t just his kind of theory that was missing, there just weren\u2019t that many people doing formal theory either. PhD students in the United States are encouraged to do large-n quantitative studies. That\u2019s how you get a doctorate: you pick your little hypothesis and test it, you don\u2019t go from the big theoretical picture. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s quite as bad in this country, there are still theory PhDs being turned out- I\u2019ve supervised some very good ones in recent years, and so have other people in my department. So I think that maybe it will change over time but I think that we\u2019ve got a different problem in Britain than in America. Of course I say that, but it\u2019s really a united discipline because of the intersections between the two, so it\u2019s difficult to talk about them as being separate now.\nAre the recent conflicts and interventions in the Middle East and West Africa raising new questions and challenges for theorists of humanitarian intervention \u2013 or are they confirming existing thinking?\nR2P is an interest of mine, and I think the message from Libya has been very instructive on what the limits of R2P actually are. So I think we\u2019re learning something from that. Syria is teaching us what we should know anyway, which is that caution is always required, and that we have to be very careful what we\u2019re doing. But I think as you say- you mention four cases there, Libya, Syria, Ivory Coast, and Mali- one of the striking things is how different they all are. Generalizing on humanitarian intervention can be very difficult to do. The Libyan case and the Syrian case look as though they have certain similarities, because they both come out of the Arab spring, but they\u2019re very, very different. Assad\u2019s place within Syrian society is very different from Gaddafi\u2019s within Libyan society. In a way, what these cases illustrate is the point I was making earlier about theory and practice: we need to approach these problems from the basis of knowledge about the individual countries; big-picture knowledge about humanitarian intervention doesn\u2019t actually help much if you\u2019re deciding what to do about Syria. What you want to know about Syria is, who is supporting Assad, who is opposing Assad, what is the geopolitical balance, what would happen if we did X- these are empirical questions, they\u2019re not big stories about humanitarian intervention.\nWhat kinds of things should states look at when they are deciding whether or not to intervene in cases like Syria?\nThe most basic thing is don\u2019t make things worse. The key is, can we act in these circumstances in ways where we\u2019re pretty confident that our intervention will improve the situation on the ground for the people who live in the area. I think on the whole it did for Libya, even given all of the problems there. The Gaddafi regime was threatening mass murder in Benghazi, and one of the things that was unusual about Gaddafi was that he did threaten his own population in this way. Governments quite often harm their populations, but they very rarely announce their intention to do so quite so vigorously. It\u2019s difficult to ignore when someone\u2019s saying, \u2018we\u2019re coming in and killing all the rats and cockroaches,\u2019 in circumstances where you can do something. So I think you just have to find out what the situation is on the ground- can you actually improve things by intervening, or will you actually just heighten or make the war worse. And do you have a sense of what kind of outcome you\u2019d like to see, and whether you\u2019ll be able to produce it. That, I think, has become the problem in Syria. Conceivably, if support had been given very early on to the Free Syrian Army, that might\u2019ve been a good thing to do, but now we\u2019ve got to a point where the Syrian opposition seem to be composed of groups we don\u2019t necessarily want to support, and we don\u2019t want to support Assad either. So there\u2019s a sense in which trying to broker a deal is probably the best thing we can do. I think Obama\u2019s got it right on this. He\u2019s keeping out of it and attempting to work with the Russians on some kind of solution, and I think that\u2019s the right way to go.\nYou have argued that humanitarian \u201cinterventions involve the exercise of power.\u201d In a situation like the on-going crisis in Syria, what kinds of power and interest calculations will states like the US, Russia, and Turkey make?\nAs to the first point, this is one of the things that is so obvious that people forget it at times, that intervention is always an act of power. Powerful countries intervene in weak countries, it\u2019s never the other way around. Because that is so obvious, people put it on one side in a box and they don\u2019t think about it. But if you exercise superior power in that way, then you have to be very careful that you\u2019re not engaging in bullying- you have to be very careful that you\u2019re sure of your case before you get involved.\nWhat are the considerations? Well I think the considerations are: is it in the national interest, what are our national interests in these circumstances. One of our interests ought to be- what are the interests of the people in the country concerned, so I think it\u2019s reasonable enough that the world is very concerned about the fate of the Syrian people. But you\u2019ve also got to think about your own position on that. You\u2019ve got to look at the balance of forces within the country; how your action, if you did act, would be received; what the implications would be; and what kind of actions would be needed. That is one of the features of the Syrian case that is different from the Libyan case: in the Libyan case, the Libyan air force was pretty much a joke. Producing a no fly zone took about an hour, it was one night\u2019s work with cruise missiles to take out their anti-aircraft capability. It\u2019s not like that in Syria: Syria has a very effective anti-aircraft capability, they\u2019ve got a lot of mobile missiles, they\u2019ve got a lot of modern fighter jets. Basically they have been preparing for a potential war with Israel for a long time so they\u2019ve got a lot of very good kit there. That doesn\u2019t mean you couldn\u2019t do it, but it wouldn\u2019t be easy, and that has to enter into the calculations. A medium-term campaign to establish air superiority could be a very damaging process, a lot of people would get killed, a lot of civilians. And it would be very difficult to do this without Turkey, but if Turkey gets involved, then that threatens to really become a major regional conflict, to pull in Iraq, Iran, other countries in the region- Israel is a possibility as well. So I think these are the kind of considerations that have to be taken on board. It would be nice to sit down and say, what is the best thing we could do for the Syrian people, but one has to think about all these other factors, partly because they will affect the Syrian people as much as they affect other countries. I mean, if this turns into an even worse war than it is at the moment then even more Syrians will be killed than have been already.\nGiven the lessons that states and international organizations are presumably learning from recent interventions and crises, what kinds of lessons do you think will be drawn for the development of R2P?\nI find that R2P is in a confusing state at the moment, because on the one hand, the language of the Responsibility to Protect has been mainstreamed into the UN system: it\u2019s now the way that the UN talks about these issues, it\u2019s the way that the Secretary General talks about them. So it has been adopted in that way. At the same time, the underlying problems with R2P haven\u2019t been solved. Ultimately R2P tries to depoliticize the act of intervention, and that depoliticization has failed. There isn\u2019t a consensus on the Security Council on these issues, Russia and China think about these things very differently than the way the Western powers think about them, and even amongst themselves, Britain and France think about these things somewhat differently than the United States does. The developing world on the whole, the global South, hasn\u2019t accepted the R2P premise, they haven\u2019t accepted that this is something different from humanitarian intervention. The language has driven out other ways of talking about intervention, but the politics of it is still really not established. So I think we\u2019re just going to have to watch and learn, as it were, as other crises come up. Gradually the language and the practice will come together, either by R2P being changed quite dramatically, or by peoples\u2019 attitudes being changed. At the moment I think it\u2019s still very much in flux. Immediately after the Libyan intervention, people were saying that R2P has now come of age. But I think the Syrian case shows that that simply isn\u2019t true, and the subsequent problems in Libya forced people to reassess whether this was really a great success in the first place. Now people think that it might have been a success but it\u2019s really 60/40, whereas it looked much more clear cut originally. So I think the jury\u2019s still out on R2P, and will be for some time.\nThis interview was conducted by Alex Stark. Alex is Features Editor and a director of e-IR\u2019s editorial board. She is currently studying for an MSc International Relations (Research) at the London School of Economics.\nLabels: conversations, foreign policy, politics, social sciences, world affairs", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 28233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 191.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.remingtonrobinson.com/work-for-sale/california-poppies", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:19Z", "digest": "sha1:3ITVVIELYW4QLICSPNGLNYX6S74VLIIO", "length": 116, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.remingtonrobinson.com", "title": "California Poppies \u2014 Remington Robinson Fine Art", "raw_content": "California poppies next to a sidewalk. One in a series of flower paintings from Spring of 2018 in Boulder, Colorado.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 572, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 92.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.republicheritage.com/2012/06/american-independence-vs-global.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:24:35Z", "digest": "sha1:UH7MUVMKUGJLDH3H3R3EYZZUIDB3HTTJ", "length": 2391, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.republicheritage.com", "title": "Republic Heritage - Latest in Political News!: American Independence vs. Global Government: Are We Losing the Struggle?", "raw_content": "American Independence vs. Global Government: Are We Losing the Struggle?\nIn 1933, H.G. Wells, by then nearing the end of an illustrious career as a novelist, social scientist, and encyclopedist, wrote The Shape of Things to Come, a counter-factual history of the world from 1933 to the year 2106. Ever the utopian, Wells spun out a tale of all-consuming world wars, territorial ambition, and general chaos which would end in a 100-year tyranny followed finally by the establishment of the Modern World State \u2013 the prototype for global govrnment.\nThe book is a chilling portrait, not so much of the world as it might one day exist (it was too static a read for that), but rather of the mind of an early 20th Century utopian who seemed to have no qualms suggesting that the massacre of millions, the forcible eradication of religious, practice and the sequestration of all private property would be necessary for the establishment of a world paradise. The utopian, globalist agenda \u2013 justifying any means to achieve a progressive end \u2013 today casts a pall over the reputations of the socialists who conceived it.\nThe globalist dream did not end with H.G. Wells nor those of his generation. In fact, the movement he and the other Fabian romantics spawned was really just beginning.\nToday, although few advocates talk about a world government in which a single political entity would govern all humanity, a sophisticated and extremely well financed movement to advance global governance has taken root in most western countries. Insisting on the UN as a conduit for enacting international protocols and regulations, almost all of which would override national legislation, globalists use international environmental accords, humanitarian law and international treaties as their vehicles to advance an agenda that is becoming increasingly aggressive and unwilling to brook opposition.\nThis well-financed campaign designed to strip sovereign governments of their ability to regulate and monitor human rights and environmental protection, has naturally put the globalist agenda on a collision course with constitutional democracy. Put simply, transnationalists in the UN and the European Union, but more importantly among America\u2019s elites, are using the demands for a global rule of law to make American constitutional law subservient to a global authority. And in many respects they are succeeding.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 397, "original_length": 15447, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.richfarmers.life/2011/04/movie-music.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:39Z", "digest": "sha1:C2YOZ2MTGI5ZWV5NDTF36TLD6JUJLN3R", "length": 1932, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.richfarmers.life", "title": "Rich Farmers: Movie Music", "raw_content": "Did you ever hear a song in a movie and search it out? I have.\nThere's something about the context of a movie that makes a song seem so much better. It's that tugging at the heartstrings thing, I guess. Listening to the song in isolation isn't near as nice as seeing it played out on the screen, usually during the big dramatic ending.\nI was re-watching Rain Man awhile back, and heard this song, and I honestly couldn't even remember hearing it the first few times I'd watched the movie. I had to search it out, because I had no idea who the singer was. Turned out it was that annoying falsetto singer from the early sixties, Lou Christie. Who knew? He actually is a good singer. Wonder how he ended up saddled with all those crummy songs.\nThere is no video available of Lou performing the song, but I did find a nice homemade video:\nRemember the movie, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles? Steve Martin and John Candy. Timeless John Hughes movie. John Hughes was a great filmmaker, and he also instinctively knew just the right songs to include to enhance his stories. Here's Paul Young:\nSpeaking of that movie, which will always have a special place in my heart, how about this one from Ray Charles:\nRemember Beetlejuice? Featuring a very young Alec Baldwin. Here is Harry Belafonte:\nThis is a great song, with our without the movie, but I confess, I am a Patrick Swayze fan. Here are the Righteous Brothers:\nI could include lots of John Travolta movie moments, but I'm not going to go with the obvious. Here's Boz Scaggs (love Boz Scaggs!) with a song from Urban Cowboy:\nThere are so many great movie soundtrack moments. But bear with me. Sorry if I've posted this before (and I know I have), but this is my favorite:\nDirty Dancing - Time Of My Life (Final Dance) (1987)\nLabels: beetlejuice, dirty dancing, john candy, john travolta, lou christie, movie music, music-revisited, patrick swayze, soundtrack, steve martin, urban cowboy", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 3061, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 301.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.roanestate.edu/schedule/pullcatalog.asp?subjcode=MATH&crsenumb=1530&crn=14162&term=201810§ionnum=E01", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:52Z", "digest": "sha1:IKPGAXMBPTVT6PEYL6QGVBEBTA4OC2ZI", "length": 56, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.roanestate.edu", "title": "Course Details - Roane State Community College", "raw_content": "1/16/2018 to 4/30/2018 MW 12:30 PM - 1:50 PM D-HAR D-207", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1385, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.53, "perplexity": 50.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.rockriversoapworks.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=3", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:29Z", "digest": "sha1:635ZPG4FCFQM65OJ2RLLNEF3VNOR7JEV", "length": 1045, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.rockriversoapworks.com", "title": "Rock River Soapworks Locations and Events", "raw_content": "You can find Rock River Soapworks premium all-natural products at several local farmers markets and festivals throughout the year. The following is a list of events for 2018:\nShreveport Farmers Market - 101 Crockett St, Shreveport, LA 71101 - June 2nd - August 25th, 7:00 am - 12:00 pm. (except June 16th, no market)\nBenton Farmers Market - 495 Simpson Street, Benton, LA 71006 - May 20th - July 15th, 12:00 pm- 4:00 pm,\nRock River Soapworks premium all-natural bath and body products are also offered at these select locations:\nthe Agora Borealis - 421 Lake Street, Shreveport, LA 71101, Hours: Tues-Fri 10:00 am - 6:00 pm\nVitamins Plus - 5819 E Kings Hwy Shreveport, LA 71105 , Hours: Mon-Sat 9:00 am - 9:00 pm, Sundays 10:00 am - 6:00 pm\nthe Shreveport Aquarium - 601 Clyde Fant Parkway, Shreveport, LA 71101 , Hours: Wed - Fri noon - 5:00 pm, Sat 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Sun noon - 5:00 pm, Monday - Tuesday: CLOSED\nTimeline Antiques and Collectibles Mall - 3323 Line Ave, Shreveport, LA 71104 , Hours: Mon-Sat 10:00 am - 6:00 pm, Sundays: CLOSED", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1953, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 317.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.runperseverance.com/tampa-bay-rays-owner-endorses-tampa-site-for-new-ballpark/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:32Z", "digest": "sha1:VZWT3BDYMH6N6EATOGVXHS6Q6BMWHEB5", "length": 5739, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "www.runperseverance.com", "title": "Tampa Bay Rays Owner Endorses Tampa Site For New Ballpark -", "raw_content": "Home > Real Estate > Tampa Bay Rays Owner Endorses Tampa Site For New Ballpark\nTAMPA, FL \u2013 The Tampa Bay Rays announced Friday that the team\u2019s preferred location for a new ballpark is a Ybor City site in Tampa. The announcement was held at the Tampa Baseball Museum. The Rays have said their current ballpark, Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, is outdated.\nCritics of Tropicana Field say the St. Pete location creates problems in drawing fans. The Rays have consistently ranked last in fan attendance among major league teams.\nThe Rays principal owner Stu Sternberg said at a Friday afternoon press conference that the \u201centire focus\u201d of the team is to get the Ybor City ballpark built. \u201cYbor City is authentically Tampa Bay. This is where we want to be playing baseball,\u201d he said.\nHillsborough County community leaders announced a new nonprofit organization Tampa Bay Rays 2020 that is behind the effort. The organization is privately funded and \u201cdedicated to bringing a new Rays ballpark to Tampa.\u201d\nThe organization\u2019s website said: \u201cLed by some of Tampa\u2019s most forward thinking business and community leaders, our organization is the catalyst that will ensure the ballpark becomes a reality. America\u2019s favorite pastime needs a home for generations to come in one of the country\u2019s fastest growing cities.\u201d\nRays fans can sign a petition here to show support for moving the Rays to the Tampa site.\nThe kick-off event at the Tampa Baseball Museum in Ybor City was led by the co-founders of Tampa Bay Rays 2020, Chuck Sykes, CEO of Sykes Enterprises and Ron Christaldi, partner at Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick.\n\u201cThis is all about the future,\u201d said Christaldi. \u201cBringing the Rays to Tampa will transform our region and serve as an economic engine for decades to come.\u201dSykes added, \u201cThis is a unique and rare opportunity to build a ballpark that will be a wonderful community asset for many years. Support from our business community is vital.\u201d\nChristaldi and Sykes are former Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce Board chairmen and emphasized that a primary focus of the new organization is to garner business pledges for a new ballpark.\n\u201cBaseball in Tampa has a rich history dating back more than 125 years, \u201d said Hillsborough County Commissioner Ken Hagan. \u201cIt\u2019s time to build a state of the art ballpark that will transform our county.\u201d\n\u201cThe Ybor City Chamber conducted a poll immediately after our October announcement, in which 92 percent of the businesses said that it will be good for Ybor City,\u201d said Hagan. \u201cThe Rays are not going to stay in St. Pete. They\u2019re either going to be in Ybor or another region.\u201d\n\u201cThis is an exciting day for Tampa and more importantly a great day for our region,\u201d said Mayor Bob Buckhorn. \u201cThis decision is the first step in a long process and I look forward to working with Stu and others across the region to ensure this dream of a downtown ballpark becomes a reality.\u201d\nSternberg encouraged the community effort, saying: \u201cThe Ybor City location represents the finest opportunity for Major League Baseball to thrive in the Tampa Bay region for generations to come. We are excited to explore ways to weave Ybor\u2019s rich history into a next-generation, neighborhood ballpark.\u201d\nLocal leaders in Ybor City also expressed their excitement about the possibilities of a new ballpark.\nJason Woody, CEO of Lions Eye Institute, lauded the effort: \u201cYbor is a phenomenal spot for a new ballpark. Connecting historic Ybor and downtown Tampa will create jobs and enhance the neighborhood.\u201d\nSt. Pete Mayor Rick Kriseman still favors the current location for the team\u2019s new ballpark.\n\u201cThis is the process unfolding as envisioned in order to keep the Rays in Tampa Bay. The easy part is picking a favorite site. Hard part is figuring out the rest. I believe the Trop site is the best future home for the Rays, but we will also begin to master plan the site without a stadium,\u201d Kriseman tweeted Thursday.\nThe competition for a new Rays stadium site has been waged between Hillsborough and Pinellas counties and the selection of the site near Ybor City by Hillsborough County officials last year was considered a significant step in the possible relocation of the team from St. Petersburg.\nHillsborough and Pinellas are the only counties competing for a new stadium under an agreement between the Rays and the city of St. Petersburg reached in January 2016. A rendering of the potential Hillsborough stadium site shows a ballpark between Channelside Drive on the west and North 15th Street on the east.\nHagan said the county has reached a deal to gain control of roughly 14 acres in the Ybor City-Channel District area near downtown. He said the site has access to Ybor parking garages, the street car line (which could be expanded) and a possible marina. He said Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has toured the area.\nThe stadium could cost more than $600 million and Hagan has said that working out a financing plan will be difficult.\nHe said the Rays will need to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to a new ballpark. The era of publicly funded sports stadiums is over, Hagan said. He said the county will not propose a sales tax increase to pay for a new stadium, such as the tax hike that generated money for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stadium.\nThe county commissioner has said there will be \u201cno sweetheart\u201d deals for the new ballpark.\nThis will be a complex financial transaction and there will be several levels of financial support. @HillsboroughFL commissioner Hagan and I have said for many years that we will not place the entire burden on taxpayers. We are going to have to sharpen our pencils on both sides.\u2014 Bob Buckhorn (@BobBuckhorn) February 9, 2018\nImage of Tropicana Field via AP/Chris O\u2019Meara", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 7695, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 268.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sabrinacercle.com/lets-put-back-the-apron-on/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:46Z", "digest": "sha1:X7N5H3JF5OHQZKBXMD5QVI25CXJ34C5H", "length": 3323, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sabrinacercle.com", "title": "It was time to put the apron on again | Sabrina C.", "raw_content": "McHappy Day is a one-day event in support of Ronald McDonald House Charities and other local children\u2019s charities. This year the McDonalds on Barnet Hwy, Coquitlam and Ottawa Street in Port Coquitlam chose to give part of their proceeds to KidSportTri-Cities.\nFor those who know me well, KidSportTri-Cities is a local charity that is close to my heart as I can\u2019t stop advocating for the positive effects of sport when growing up, especially in the world of today!\nI am not sure of the root cause but our new workforce isn\u2019t what it used to be and I want to believe that sport can help our future. A well-balanced child should learn what winning AND losing feels like in order to better attack and succeed in business.\nI only had one sport when I was young \u2013 gymnastics. School gave us a taste of many different sports and it was wonderful to learn different skills, different rules and what it was to be a part of a team, but I lived & breathed for gymnastics. Nothing else! And like anyone taking this path, you lose before you win, you train hard before you get good, you keep training to be the best, and when you are right there\u2026at the top, someone new and better comes along. It might be heartbreaking, devastating and perhaps upsetting but all of those stages and feelings build you, they help you to understand who you want to be, how hard and how long you are willing to fight and what is your threshold.\nWhile there is so much to gain by playing sports such as confidence, integrity, reliability, accountability etc. my main motivation in supporting KidSports is for the kids to earn their spot in the world, to always give and be the best they can be and to never settle for good enough. To teach them never to think that they can earn something that they didn\u2019t work hard for and to not count the extra minutes or hours they put into the work because that\u2019s the only way to go further than anyone else. To be stronger, to be committed and to fight. Life is not that easy, so telling our kids that they are champions without even pushing themselves just doesn\u2019t help. It doesn\u2019t help them and definitely not us & the future of this country.\nAnyway, last Tuesday I was ecstatic to take part in the long-standing Canadian tradition, McHappy Day and serve customers of the drive-through. For every Big Mac\u00ae, Happy Meal\u00ae and hot McCaf\u00e9\u00ae beverage sold, $1 went towards the fundraising initiative. And while $1 may not seem a lot, the one-day national fundraiser has already raised more than $55.6 million since it started in 1977. So $1 suddenly becomes impressive and the difference this money makes is massive when you consider that it helped over 30,000 families to stay together when their children are being treated in medical facilities.\nIf you haven\u2019t had the chance to participate this year or didn\u2019t hear about it until now, please do not worry, McHappy Day will be back in 2019.\nIn the meantime, I would recommend watching \u201cthe founder\u201d. The film is the story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned the two McDonald brothers\u2019 innovative fast food eatery into the biggest restaurant business in the world \u2013 a \u201csaucy\u201d, twinkling star performance by Michael Keaton which makes this movie one of the must-see entertainments available on Netflix.\nAnnual, charity, Community, Fundraiser, giving, McDonald, Sport, Youth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 4659, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sambrady.com.au/croc.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:51Z", "digest": "sha1:4XOSJAFLSGYZSYPJDDUSRILYHUZQO6OC", "length": 718, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.sambrady.com.au", "title": "Sam Brady - Croc-o-Dollars", "raw_content": "The Cairns Croc-O-Dollars is a bumper promotion set to run annually in The Cairns Post. For its launch, readers collected tokens from the newspaper each day and entered the draw to \"live free for a year\", thanks to a wide array of local businesses, all of whom contributed in their own way to the prize pool. Over $55,000 worth of goods and services were put together, attracting thousands of entries leading to 5000 finalists and one grand prize winner.\nI designed and illustrated the croc character and contributed to the design and layout of the marketing material to follow, which included pre-promotional material, cut-out coupons and a life-size corflute cutout along with t-shirts for promotion in newsagencies.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 858, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 198.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scottoverton.ca/blog/2013/1/9/mars-here-we-come.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:36Z", "digest": "sha1:QP744DCCR7OHCL64NVAC52XTFKD52Z2V", "length": 2005, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.scottoverton.ca", "title": "MARS, HERE WE COME \u2014 SCOTT OVERTON", "raw_content": "It was announced this week that the hunt is now on for colonists for Mars. No, not by NASA (who really believed George W. Bush when he announced plans to go to the Moon and Mars back in 2004, and what\u2019s really been done since then other than some paperwork?) No, I\u2019m talking about a private initiative based in the Netherlands called Mars One which hopes to raise a ton of private money and put human colonists on the Red Planet by 2023. Recruitment will begin over the next few months, and training for the\u2026(dare I call them Martianauts?) will take about eight years.\nChief Medical Director for Mars One, Norbert Kraft, a former Sr. Research Associate at NASA states, \u201cIn my former work with NASA we established strict criteria for the selection and training of astronauts on long duration space flights. Gone are the days when bravery and the number of hours flying a supersonic jet were the top criteria. Now, we are more concerned with how well each astronaut works and lives with the others, in the long journey from Earth to Mars and for a lifetime of challenges ahead. Psychological stability, the ability to be at your best when things are at their worst is what Mars One is looking for. If you are the kind of person that everyone chooses to have on their island, then we want you to apply too.\u201d\nYou need to be 18 or older, and have lots of other qualifications, but you can read all about it here.\nThe catch? Well, they have a chance of coming up with a way to get you to Mars, but there won\u2019t be any way to get you back. It\u2019s a one-way trip, and you\u2019ll be alone on a whole planet with the rest of your team for two additional years, until the next group of colonists is expected to arrive.\nDo you really feel like getting away from it all? How do prepare yourself mentally for something like that? Watch all the reruns of Gilligan\u2019s Island?\nOr maybe just haul out all of those lists that end \u201c...would you take with you to a desert island?\u201d\nMars One, Mars colony\nTHANKS FOR THE MEMORIES...AGAIN", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2605, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.scrantons.com/index.aspx?loc=1&cat=25&sub=8&dbx=80", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:04Z", "digest": "sha1:K55Q4T4WGWDQLPQEJRSV4DOBLZCNNUNG", "length": 4033, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.scrantons.com", "title": "Scranton's Restaurant", "raw_content": "Where Did the Word \"Restaurant\" Originate?\nIt originated from soup. A rich hearty soup rich in chunks of meat, hearty with vegetables and barley, rice or macaroni in France was called \"Restaurant\" because people believed that it had \"restorative\" powers. A chef printed the name over his door to tell all that he was serving it. In time \"restaurant\" came to mean a place where all kinds of foods were served. One other interesting fact about soup. In rural France\nLa Soupe was the name given the evening meal the time for enjoying the steaming, savory contents of the simmering kettle. The word for supper was taken from this.\nIs There a Lot of Money to be Made in Restaurant Business?\nThe restaurant business is tough. It's time consuming 14 hour days, it's complicated, it's hot, it's filled with pressure, and there are countless unforseen variables (think Katrina) that can pop up at any moment most of them caused by outside forces and your employee's. The challenges in the restaurant business are plentiful. It's the only business in which there are more ways to lose money than there are ways to make money. The average restaurant has a profit margin of 1 to 2%\nI Like to Cook Should I Open a Restaurant?\nI hear this all the time and this is my answer. Do you like to cook: When you are exhausted? When you are under stress because if you don't do it no one else will? When your sick? 12 hours a day? During major holidays? When everyone is relaxing and having a good time while you are stuck in the kitchen? Every weekend? Every night and day? To be honest the cooking is the easiest part of the restaurant business. The hardest part is making a payroll, dealing with the public, dealing with your employees, dealing with Health regulations, dealing with City regulations, dealing with your suppliers and their mistakes and dealing with the economy.\nDo The Owners Eat Out at Other Restaurant's?\nYes, we do. We are constantly looking for new ideas some of them at other restaurants, from the internet, Newspapers, Trade Magazines and from our customers. Our customers are constantly bringing us ideas most of which they have eaten at other restaurants. One problem with being seen at other Restaurants we always get asked \"What are you doing here?\". It is as if people expect us to eat at our own place for the rest of our lives and we are not supposed to eat anywhere else. We often answer the question by saying that we ate out before we were in the Restaurant Business and we haven't been able to shake the habit. The rest of the explanation is explained in the next FAQ.\nDo The Owners Eat at Scranton's? or\n\"It Must Be Great to Eat Out Whenever You Want\"\nYes, we do but it is not always an enjoyable experience. I was reading Robert St. John's column the other day and he explained it very well. He said \"I don't eat as a customer in my restaurant very often. I am a terrible dining companion when I'm my own customer. I can't help but be in manager-mode as I look around the dining room scouring every nook and cranny in search of a picture that needs straightening, or a glass of tea that needs more ice in it. I worry about the customer who might be trying to flag down their server or that small piece of bread that accidentally dropped off of a server's tray. My business partner Clint Taylor and I call it \"Restaurant Eyes\" my wife, Jill, calls it \"The curse of a restaurateur's wife.\" \"As fate would have it,\" she says, \"We own the two best restaurants in town, and you won't eat in either one of them with your own family.\" * In fact , I eat there all of the time. But most of my dining occurs without my family in the back office, or while standing up tasting new dishes with the other chefs in the kitchen. There are also many meals eaten out of Styrofoam To-Go boxes in the office or at home and the occasional quick lunch with a friend at the bar. 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If the site is designed pretty well, it will most likely be easy to use and models will be amazing. However, if it seems hard to do something there, that won\u2019t be the only problem probably. Luckily, this site left a positive impression on me because of many things on it. For starters, I really liked the color mix. Everything important is in red color and the rest is in black. That means you can easily see what this site offers without searching much for it.\nOnce I am on the site, I like to check out how many models are there. If there are 50 models, there is no need to look for something because I maybe won\u2019t find it. I didn\u2019t like that there isn\u2019t some counter that shows number of online models. I just know that someone said that there are around 400 or little bit more models online. That is pretty much nothing when you compare it to the number of registered models on this site.\nThis isn\u2019t my first time on the site and I most definitely remember it much differently. Whatever they did, it was really good. After I was done with looking at all things, I decided to check out which models are online. I can see that all kinds of models were online just from the main page. However, I couldn\u2019t find someone specific just by scrolling through the main page. It\u2019s much easier to use features that are available for free. The first thing I used was the advanced search. There is usually a small area that says \u2018advanced search\u2019, but this site didn\u2019t have it like that. If someone doesn\u2019t know about this feature, he probably won\u2019t find it because it is shown only as a small button with 3 lines. With this feature, I could select up to 10 tags and everything was included in there. There is no need to use categories one by one or something else because everything that is on the site is available in the filter. I\u2019m not saying that you will have only 1 model on the display when you use this feature, but you will probably have a lot less models than before.\nBefore going to some specific show, I just wanted to see what this site offers. Every online model has a free show. I started opening one by one to see the quality of those shows. I wasn\u2019t disappointed at all. You could see the video quality in there and find out some things about private shows. I didn\u2019t even have an account at that point and that was just too good.\nAfter some time, it was time to find something for myself. Firstly, I went to the free show. I started chatting with the model a bit to see if she will do something I want or not. It would be stupid to pay for something that you don\u2019t like that much. Tipping is not available in the free show so you can\u2019t persuade model into getting naked or doing something. Some model will maybe do that, but I know that I didn\u2019t find a model like that. Spending more time in free show is a waste of time so I went to the private show when I found out enough.\nThe price of this particular show was .98 per minute. That wasn\u2019t high at all because for around , you can get everything from that model, of course, if she is willing to do something you ask. There are some shows that cost per minute or more than per minute, but I wasn\u2019t in those shows so I can\u2019t say if they are worth it. However, I did check out the price of most shows and the average price is around per minute. Don\u2019t expect to see every model do the same thing in her private show. That is just not possible. i asked a couple of them what will they do and I found out that some of them are willing to include sex toys and the rest of them will just get naked. That\u2019s also one of reasons why the price varies.\nIf you want to enjoy a private show fully, you need enough credits. The store offers you multiple packages and you can decide which one you need really easy. The cheapest one has 18 credits and that is enough for around 5-6 minutes mostly in private shows. If you are here for some real fun, you should buy something bigger. However, the biggest package has enough credits for maybe an hour in private shows. That is also too much. The price of 1 credit is little over 1 EUR and you have 5 packages so you can probably find one that suits you the best.\nI mentioned the video quality earlier. All shows I checked out were in full HD. None of them were having problems with lagging and everything was in fluid motion. It didn\u2019t matter if the model was professional one or amateur one, the video quality was high.\nLike I said, I checked out this site multiple times before writing this review so I didn\u2019t just use it on a computer. I was once bored as hell so I decided to try it out on a phone. Everything was pretty much the same. The only difference I didn\u2019t really like was that I had much smaller screen on a phone so I had to constantly scroll up and down to find something.\nPrices are affordable usually. The video quality is in HD. Many models are online, but I am not sure how many exactly. The site works well on a phone. It\u2019s easy to navigate through the site.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 7753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 225.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sessionaltherapist.com/MentalHealthClinic/mental-health-clinics-los-angeles", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:38Z", "digest": "sha1:3WOMRPV57OJLSF5KLKADVXQP3UHWQJP5", "length": 1852, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.sessionaltherapist.com", "title": "Mental Health Clinics Los Angeles - Mental Health Problems", "raw_content": "Mental health services provided include assessments, case management, crisis intervention, medication support, peer support and other rehabilitative services. Services are provided in multiple settings including residential facilities, clinics, schools, hospitals, county jails, juvenile halls and camps, mental health courts, board and care homes, in the field and in people\u00e2\u0080\u0099s homes. Special emphasis is placed on addressing co-occurring mental health disorders and other health problems such as addiction.\nThe Department also provides counseling to victims of natural or manmade disasters, their families and emergency first responders. The Director of Mental Health is responsible for protecting patients\u00e2\u0080\u0099 rights in all public and private hospitals and programs providing voluntary mental health care and treatment, and all contracted community-based programs. The Director also serves as the public guardian for individuals gravely disabled by mental illness, and is the conservatorship investigation officer for the County.\nService Recipient's\nDMH\u00e2\u0080\u0099s services to adults and older adults are focused on those who are functionally disabled by severe and persistent mental illness, including those who are low-income, uninsured, temporarily impaired, or in situational crises. Services to children and youth are focused on those who are seriously emotionally disturbed and diagnosed with a mental disorder. They include wards or dependents of the juvenile court, children in psychiatric inpatient facilities, seriously emotionally disturbed youth in the community, and special education students referred by local schools and educational institutions.\nSource: dmh.lacounty.gov\nAdolescent Mental Health Los Angeles \u2013 Some Facts and ...\nMens Health Care Clinic Los Angeles California | Mens ...\nSeattle Counseling\nWalk-in in Medical Clinics Ottawa", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5068, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.shabait.com/about-eritrea/erina/14398-pilgrimage-to-the-monastery-of-debre-bizen-only-for-men-of-all-ages-part-i", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:33Z", "digest": "sha1:L6WDJ7MOTHEH667DBLYBCW5YB5MLU7CW", "length": 5863, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.shabait.com", "title": "Pilgrimage to the Monastery of Debre Bizen only for men of all ages Part I |", "raw_content": "Pilgrimage to the Monastery of Debre Bizen only for men of all ages Part I\nFriday, 16 August 2013 07:32 | Written by Tekeste Asgedom |\nThe Debre Bizen Monastery of the legendary Saint Abune Philipos is visited yearly by male pilgrims on August 11 according to the Gregorian calendar or 5th August according to the Julian or the Geez Calendar. This year being Sunday August 11, 2013 one would see male pilgrims as young as in their early teens and as old as in their late seventies trekking up towards the Monastery in that grueling journey. Octogenarians may also climb if they confidently believe that they are fit. Otherwise they will need a ride on a mule to take them up to the Monastery. This year it was amazing to see some octogenarians making it on foot, though walking slowly. Some eight centuries ago Abune Philipos has sanctioned that the sanctity of the Monastery would be maintained, only, if no female pilgrim would ever dare to set foot at the Monastery. Ever since, the Debre Bizen Monastery has been the visiting place only for the male population. Female pilgrims utterly respect Abune Philipos\u2019s orders. Very few of them will come in honor of the Debre Bizen religious festivities. However, they will reluctantly be obliged to stay at the Foot of the Monastery. They wait to hear the recount of the male pilgrims upon their return. They ask the male pilgrims to take on their behalf fairly small donations to the Monastery.\nThe Debre Bizen Monastery is located at the tip of an escarpment in the country\u2019s topography. The road from Asmara to Nefasit, 25 Kilometers leading to the foot of the Debre Bizen Monastery, displays a breathtaking view where one would enjoy a gradual descent from 2400 meters above sea level to about 1670 meters. The road forming a hairpin bend seems to demand a good and responsible driving experience. The road was curved out through the mountains, all the way from Massawa, by the Italians at the turn of the last century. Most would drive or cycle to Nefasit as early as 4:00 am. They will leave their vehicles in Nefasit and they start climbing the 825 meters arduous journey on foot. Some pilgrims would walk for tens of kilometers from far away towns and villages, in fulfillment of their vows they have made the year before\nThe strenuous trekking up to the Debre Bizen Monastery would take a young man about 45 to 60 minutes. The old, some holding canes, will make it at the range of 85 to 190 minutes. The range of time may vary. Trekking for the young as well as for the old creates a friendly contest. For the rest it could be a covert competition. Some will even bet as who will pay for lunch or some drinks. It is quite enjoyable. In a way the journey would enable a pilgrim to test his physical fitness. \u201cI thought I would easily make it\u201d stated one pilgrim in his late fifties, \u201cbut I find myself completely worn out\u201d \u201cI therefore have to start a regular jogging\u201d he concluded. He further commented, \u201cAs the age progresses so also it seems as if the Debre Bizen Monastery is increasing in height. A young man in his late twenties, Hadgembes, as he told me his name is , was trekking for his first time. He did not believe that it was such an exhaustive journey. If it was not for the moral support of his friend he could have been tempted to abort his trip. Another young man compared the trip to an incubator. If I were an egg, he metaphorically said, the heat created along this tiresome journey would have hatched me to become a chicken.\nBy the time a pilgrim will reach at the tip of the entrance he will find himself soaked with sweat and thus dehydrated. The old would have to spend another 30 to 45 minutes relaxing before they continue their walk for about 300 to 400 meters to the actual site of the Holy place. Right after the arrival at the entrance pilgrims will rush to pose for a photo by the side of the Big Iron Cross. It will sure be a witness for their trekking along that difficult journey. Most of the pilgrims would have arrived at the monastery by 8:30 or 9:00 a.m. Others will still make it even after the completion of the religious festivities.\nAsmarinos have visited the Debre Bizen three or four time, to say the least, in their life time.\nUsually many of the male pilgrims\u2019 have had trekked to the monastery of Debre Bizen on the eve, (that is August 10th) .Thus they can celebrate through the overnight mass prayers and hymn of praise, accompanied by the mighty sound of drums and cymbals.\nThe sacred procession commenced at 09:00 a.m. It was colorfully celebrated. The monks would march around the church three times in a raw. The ritual basically is meant to escort the Ark of the Covenant, which harbors a replica of the tablets of the Ten Commandments, carried on the head of a monk. The visiting pilgrims in their thousands have also to follow the trails in reverence. The sacred Ark of the Covenant whilst wrapped under cover of an expensive carpet is displayed to the public only during the annual ritual. The inside of the Ark and the Tablets will never be exposed to the public. While in the procession it is customary that the Ark has to be under the shade of a large frame of an umbrella, only designed for the church, hoisted by another monk following closely behind. Such ritual is complemented by the monks melodious songs and rhythmic dances supported by beating of the big drums and their sounding cymbals, in praise of the Lord God. All traditional Orthodox Tewahdo churches are architecturally spherical. The celebrations of the Holy feast were held at an open space in the presence of all the visiting pilgrims. Initially the story of the life of Abune Philipos and his devotion to piety was recounted by a clergy. Later A benediction was given by the highest representative clergy of the Orthodox Church. The celebrations were colorful and inspirational.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 6468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 240.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.shawneedispatch.com/news/2018/jul/09/shawnee-planning-commission-oks-rezoning-prelimina/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:10Z", "digest": "sha1:SV6ZMDMHMOQMTXVJBHJG36TUMQEXG2HR", "length": 4842, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.shawneedispatch.com", "title": "Shawnee Planning Commission OKs rezoning, preliminary plan for revised Bellmont Promenade development | Shawnee Dispatch", "raw_content": "File photo. Shawnee City Hall is located at 11110 Johnson Drive.\nAfter a lengthy discussion, the Shawnee Planning Commission recently approved rezoning and a preliminary development plan for the revised Bellmont Promenade project, set for the southwest corner of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Maurer.\nThose items will soon be voted on by the Shawnee City Council at a later date.\nAt its meeting on July 2, the commission voted 6-4 to forward the items to the council, with stipulations for the preliminary plan being that the setback for the southwest corner of the mixed use project be increased to 40 feet and the southwest portion of the apartment complex be knocked down to four stories from five.\nThe rezoning is proposed to go from commercial highway to planned unit development mixed use.\nThe pedestrian-friendly development, designed for millennials to empty nesters, will consist of 228 residential apartment units and 13,900 square-feet of retail and office space in a multi-story building, which was proposed to range in height from four stories on most of it, to five stories on the west portion.\nIt will also feature at least 12,000 square-feet of commercial and retail on pad sites, which will include a restaurant pavilion similar to the one at Ward Parkway Shopping Center.\nThe development will also include surface parking for 132 vehicles, 52 garage spaces within the building, as well as a clubhouse and storage area.\nThe current mixed-use plan is vastly different from the original one passed last year, which only included retail and restaurants.\nDevelopers changed the plan earlier this year to include a residential component, to keep up with the current mixed-use trend.\nAt the meeting last week, both commissioners and residents in attendance voiced similar concerns about building height of the apartment complex.\nMany felt five stories on the west portion was simply too high, since the complex is set to sit near a rural-type residential community.\nSeveral residents who spoke out during the public hearing told the commission that for the most part, they support the project. They are simply concerned about the proximity of the mixed-use building to their neighborhood, plus the five-story building height on the southwest corner.\nShawnee resident Alan Godsy pointed out to the commission the 60-foot apartments will sit on top of a massive hill and tower 107.8 feet above nearby Bell Road homes.\n\u201cThis is super high and it\u2019s really weird for our area,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is the sightline we will see every day from the end of our driveway.\u201d\nHe told the commission he believed since his neighborhood was rural residential, there should be a more appropriate transition from high-density apartments to his home.\nHe also pointed out that he and many of his neighbors were worried about conserving their property values in the face of such a project.\nAnother Shawnee resident, Dusty Keaton, told the commission his home is located 30 feet away from the south boundary of the proposed development, directly in line with the future apartments, which will tower above him.\n\u201cThe people living in the apartments will look directly into my home, backyard and patio,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s fair nor do I think that\u2019s reasonable just because a developer planned to have a maximum number of apartments. Please put some limitations on this part of the apartments to prevent this.\u201d\nA couple of the residents who live near the project confirmed with the commission that they have met with the Bellmont Promenade development team a few times and they are hopeful there can be changes made to the plan to address their concerns.\nGreg Musil, the attorney for the project, acknowledged the developer is willing to try and lower the height and increase the setback distance.\nDuring their discussion, many commission members agreed the five-story height gave them concern.\nCommissioner John Montgomery was one of several on the board who drove out to Bell Road and spent time with the neighbors living adjacent to the site.\n\u201cThey do not, in my opinion, exaggerate about the impact and the height,\u201d he said. \u201cOne of the things I really respect about the neighbors is that they\u2019re not opposing the project, they\u2019re looking for solutions and they\u2019re willing to compromise and I appreciate that.\u201d\nHe also stated that like many of his fellow commissioners, he supports mixed use development in Shawnee and understands how important the Bellmont Promenade project is for the city, but he hopes the developer has a good solution to modify the setback and building height.\nAt its meeting, the commission also approved a revised site plan for the northern retail and restaurant component of the Bellmont Promenade development.\nELECTION CENTRAL: Kobach leads Colyer by 191 votes with all state precincts reporting; Karleskint, Dove advance", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 6906, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.similartype.com/?m=-104&id=3426&t=102+Dalmatians", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:42Z", "digest": "sha1:QNPPV56ANH2FPXTSOTPCGPV3DTN73IDW", "length": 1140, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "www.similartype.com", "title": "\ufeff Movies similar to 102 Dalmatians", "raw_content": "58 Hudson Hawk (Action, Adventure, Comedy, 1991)\n56 Paulie (Adventure, Comedy, Drama, 1998)\n48 Into the West (Adventure, Family, Fantasy, 1992)\n47 Rat Race (Adventure, Comedy, 2001)\n42 Alice in Wonderland (Adventure, Family, Fantasy, 1915)\n42 Ladyhawke (Adventure, Comedy, Drama, 1985)\n41 The Abduction Club (Action, Adventure, Comedy, 2002)\n40 The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby (Adventure, Family, History, 2005)\n39 The Secret of St. Ives (Action, Adventure, History, 1949)\n39 The Hunting Party (Adventure, Comedy, Drama, 2007)\n38 The Secret of Moonacre (Adventure, Family, Fantasy, 2008)\n37 Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Adventure, Family, Fantasy, 1959)\n37 Kevin of the North (Adventure, Comedy, Sport, 2001)\n37 Castle Rock (Action, Adventure, Family, 2000)\n37 Ride a Wild Pony (Adventure, Family, 1975)\n37 The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box (Adventure, Family, Fantasy, 2013)\n37 Crocodile Dundee (Adventure, Comedy, 1986)\nNotes: Movies similar to 102 Dalmatians, Movies like 102 Dalmatians, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Kevin Lima, Glenn Close, G\u00e9rard Depardieu, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Evans, Films, Video, Movie Similarities", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 216, "original_length": 12486, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.63, "perplexity": 333.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.skillrugby.org/teams/804304-North-Philadelphia-Nomads-rugby-team-website/announcements/1408639-Exiles-Get-in-the-Win-Column-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FPNYEW2D4IYKJVONBQMM5P7NNVGAEKWM", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.skillrugby.org", "title": "TeamPages - Exiles Get in the Win Column!", "raw_content": "Posted by Schuylkill River RFC on Sep 17 2018 at 10:11AM PDT", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3553, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 196.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.smartcoachingtraining.co.uk/observations-overpromoted-manager", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:53Z", "digest": "sha1:GJBO2G44ZIBDNVKO4JOOHLFVMZSIWXI2", "length": 2226, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.smartcoachingtraining.co.uk", "title": "Observations on the OverPromoted Manager - Smart Coaching and Training | Business Support, Consultancy, Mentoring", "raw_content": "A Guest Blog by Michael Shanahan\n\u201cDuring everybody\u2019s career it\u2019s probable they will come across a senior manager that has been promoted above their abilities. People can often talk the talk but when it comes to delivering when elevated to positions of power and authority they flounder. Sometimes they just don\u2019t have the confidence to push forward ideas and take risks, while others believe the promotion is the be all and end all and they can take their foot off the pedal and coast, leaving the hard work to the underlings.\nHow should those reporting to the overpromoted manager react, especially when credit for good work is taken by the boss and brickbats for foul-ups are hurled downwards?\nWho could believe that one of the most interesting examples of an over-promoted boss is currently residing in the White House and is arguably the putative leader of the Free World? President Donald Trump certainly doesn\u2019t fall into the group that lacks confidence in their own abilities and he\u2019s certainly willing to take risks. And while you can\u2019t accuse him of taking his foot off the pedal and coasting, he could be seen by some as being fundamentally lazy. It seems he can\u2019t be bothered to read briefing notes, gets his news from TV and ignores advice, especially about giving up his Twitter addiction. And while it\u2019s hard to feel sympathy for his acolytes in the Oval Office, they appear to be taking a daily kicking from the President for failing to remove him from the holes that he has spent the previous 24 hours digging. And so there\u2019s no surprise that his organization is leaking like a sieve with bad news reports following bad news. His staff are doing what so many people do when they\u2019re treated badly by an incompetent boss. They\u2019re hanging him out to dry.\u201d\nMichael Shanahan \u2013 June 2017\nWriter, recorder, erstwhile interviewer and editor, and long-term observer of people, events and life.\nOur thanks to Michael for highlighting aspects of managerial/leadership behaviour that prompt the wrong kind of response from those on the receiving end of it. Thoughts like these prompt us to take a long hard look at what works well \u2013 get in touch with us to find out how we can work with you to create the right leadership.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 3515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 276.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.socingoutloud.com/2011/06/greek-travelogue-epilogue.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:27Z", "digest": "sha1:52CLTH2CVTBRCZ4QZLKZH6V526FCFWQT", "length": 4503, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.socingoutloud.com", "title": "Soc'ing Out Loud: Greek Travelogue: Epilogue", "raw_content": "Greek Travelogue: Epilogue\nMy trip home was rather uneventful. I had brief layovers in Zurich and Philadelphia. Lauren picked me up at the Atlanta airport, and we stopped for some Buffalo Wild Wings on the drive back to Milledgeville. We didn't end up getting home until around 10:00 PM. Without exaggeration, I don't think I have ever been more tired than that night. The jet lag and the activity of the previous week finally caught up with me. My ankles and feet oddly swelled up when we got back. I felt like an old lady. Luckily, it had mostly subsided by the following morning. It was great to get a full night's sleep and then to get back on my bike for some exercise. Believe me, I got daily workouts from hiking around Athens, climbing among ruins, and generally being on the move (which really gives one a perspective on what life must have been like in the ancient world), but I was fiening for some aerobic work.\nI ended up taking nearly 500 photographs over the week. I spent some time yesterday winnowing those down to just 142. Here is a link to pictures on Facebook.\nHere is a really helpful map of the Acropolis that Rob and Pam used in class. If the pictures of that site are a little confusing, you can cross reference them here.\nI realized that I had forgotten to mention that we had also stopped in Rhamnus during our bus tour on Friday. Rhamnus is an amazingly well-preserved community of a Greek seafaring village. It was a very cool site and, aside from Sounio, offered some of the best panoramic views we encountered.\nI also neglected to write about the animals in Athens and Greece. There are countless cats and dogs that simply wander around and live on the streets. They were all rounded up before the 2004 Olympic Games, fixed, tagged, and released back into the city. People leave food and water out for them, and they are surprisingly docile.\nI noticed an interesting historical parallel between September 11th and the Persian's second invasion of Greece and their subsequent destruction of the Pre-Parthenon. The peoples' reactions were very similar. Both the ancient Athenians and we modern Americans had become very complacent in our militaristic dominance, and with the destruction of the Pre-Parthenon and the Twin Towers respectively, both societies were thrown into existential crises. They also both responded with a military buildup, although the funding of this in both societies was a serious point of contention. I think this might make for a cool paper project for a class with the program in the future.\nI mentioned before that one of our hosts at the CYA surprised us when he said that this was a wonderful time to be a Greek and that he'd want his children to be a part of these historic events, particularly the regular protests against the forced austerity measures at the hands of the IMF, EU, and other VSP's. Most parents in the States would not respond as such, and I doubt that the administration at Georgia College would be excited about our students \"endangering\" themselves by observing. It's refreshing to hear such a perspective in this day.\nGeorge the Wine Merchant kind of epitomized a kind of caricatured Greek for me. He was gruff, blunt, animated, and emotional. We weren't quite sure what to make of him, but he did have some good Nemean wine.\nUnlike in traditional classrooms where the roles of teacher and student are fairly well defined, there is some ambiguity in this respect with study abroad programs. What is the proper/appropriate role of faculty vis-\u00e0-vis students in these situations? I don't think there is one answer to this, but Rob did a superb job of toeing this line. He generally got out of the students way, except when they were obviously lost or when he was formally teaching. He was a great role model.\nOverall, I'm pretty happy with the way this travelogue came together. The one major pitfall was that since we spent so much time doing stuff, I had little in the way of time to write and organize--which, I know, is a good problem to have. I wish that I'd been able to do a little better job of fully documenting everything, and it certainly would have helped if I'd been able to post pictures on a daily basis.\nThank you all for following along in my travels and indulging my vanity. I hope you gleaned some from what I had to write. Please continue to follow me here as I blog more in the future about sociology, religion, education, my pet peeves, and whatever else might be floating around in my cranium. A\u03bd\u03c4\u03af\u03bf!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 5238, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 274.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sommeliercellar.com/blog/what-is-fine-wine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:57Z", "digest": "sha1:COWKDUVKCDGSZJMSCUDNX2I37P5ZCK7U", "length": 2368, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.sommeliercellar.com", "title": "SommelierCellar Blog - What is fine wine?", "raw_content": "\u201cFine wine\u201d is a term used by many in the wine trade (including us, SommelierCellar), but what exactly does it mean? Part of the problem is that there isn\u2019t a commonly used opposite term: what should we call \u201cunfine\u201d wine? Everyday wine? Rough wine? Plonk? For the purposes of this blog, I\u2019ll use the slightly politer term \u201ctable wine\u201d, even though it doesn\u2019t make much sense: \u201cFine wine\u201d will almost always be savoured while at a table with a meal, while \u201ctable wine\u201d is far more likely to be consumed in front of the telly, propped up in an All Bar One, out of mugs in the kitchen of student digs. Everybody in the wine trade talks about \u201cfine wine\u201d, but no-one has really bothered to make a clear case for what it is. Given that we sell what we believe is fine wine, I thought that we should at least try to define it. So here it goes:\nThe average money spent on a bottle of wine in the UK is \u00a34.24. 63p of that is VAT, and 1.69 is excise. Let\u2019s assume that the retailer and the importer both take a fairly modest cut of 15%. The wine has to be shipped, bottled and labelled. By the time you add all that up, more than 80% of your money is going to the taxman and the middle men. If we were to define \u201cfine wine\u201d as wine where most of what you are buying is actually wine, then using these assumptions you\u2019d have to pay at least \u00a313.09 per bottle.\nThat said, a purely monetary definition of what is \u201cfine wine\u201d feels somewhat cold and mechanical. What\u2019s more, price is not always a direct indication of quality. There are some wine-makers out there who are trading on their name and past glories, rather than the quality of what they put into bottles.\nWine is a fickle mistress: hard to understand, different every year, offering the possibility of great pleasure and so heartbreaking when disappointing. A more romantic way to describe fine wine is to say that it is wine that tells a story: wine where the experience of buying and drinking it connects you to the producer.\nA well-made wine will take you on a journey: it is something you will have an emotional reaction to at the first sniff or sip (rather than after the second bottle). Taking these two definitions together is quite useful: a wine that will tell you a story is one where a good winemaker invests the right time and tools to create something great.\nTuesday, 5 October 2010 17:12:00 Europe/London", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3185, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.song-list.net/pinkfloyd/dontleavemenow/tracks", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:45Z", "digest": "sha1:F4DRBG5FVC5NEV6674IIICECRWTCNHJY", "length": 48, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "www.song-list.net", "title": "Don't Leave Me Now by Pink Floyd", "raw_content": "\"Don't Leave Me Now\" is on the following albums:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 557, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 24.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.southsideag.com/archives/2015/5/25/how-to-have-a-happy-mothers-day-life", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:36Z", "digest": "sha1:UI5T376HAQMD3QE452R6HQX5FZ2IDVBF", "length": 118, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.southsideag.com", "title": "How to have a Happy Mother's Day (Life)! \u2014 Southside Church AG", "raw_content": "How to have a Happy Mother's Day (Life)!\nPassage: Proverbs 31:12-13, 23-31\nPosted on May 10, 2015 by Deborah Stephens.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 1455, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 138.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.space-awareness.org/pt/scoops/1701/a-journey-into-deep-space-our-deepest-view-of-the-x-ray-universe/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:26Z", "digest": "sha1:L2NHN62A37LQXG2MQ3GUESCYLY65GH2G", "length": 1815, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.space-awareness.org", "title": "A Journey into Deep Space: Our Deepest View of the X-ray Universe | Ler Space Scoop | Space Awareness", "raw_content": "Did you know there are several types of light? Each one reveals new secrets about the world around us, but only one is visible to our eyes.\nLuckily, we\u2019ve designed telescopes that can see the Universe in \u201cinvisible\u201d light. For example, our friends at Chandra X-ray Observatory are able to study the cosmos by looking at a type of light called X-rays.\nX-ray light (or X-rays) reveals the very energetic and exotic objects in space, like colliding stars and black holes. The picture above shows us what you can see in an area of the night sky \u2013 a little over half the size of the full Moon \u2013 if you look at the X-rays coming from it.\nActually, this picture shows us further into the Universe than ever seen in X-rays before, revealing lots of very faint objects that previous observations weren't able to detect.\nAlmost three-quarters of the light sources are black holes. That\u2019s over 700 black holes inside this tiny section of space. 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John specializes in animated / mixed media / and docu-stye content.\nJohn's superpower of choice: Teleportation\nSOO JUNG YOON / Creative Director and Broadcast Design\nOriginally from Seoul, South Korea, Soo is also a published author. Her first book, I Am Commuting To New York- \ub098\ub294 \ub274\uc695\uc73c\ub85c \ucd9c\uadfc\ud55c\ub2e4 (2010), is a first-person account of her experience as a Korean woman in New York's entertainment and advertising industry. She recently completed a Korean language guide to the art world of New York City.\nSoo doesn't need a superpower. She is Wonder Woman.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 20, "original_length": 1403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 233.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/press-clips/press-clips-week-08-2018/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WINTHFCBOGHYWJCADH4CPOGWDTZHBFGR", "length": 33016, "nlines": 135, "source_domain": "www.spacesafetymagazine.com", "title": "Press Clips Week 08-2018", "raw_content": "Independent Enquiry Commission Announces Conclusions Concerning the Launcher Trajectory Deviation During Flight VA241\nDuring the Ariane 5 VA241 mission, carried out on January 25, 2018 from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana (South America), telemetry from the launcher was lost 9 minutes and 26 seconds into the flight because of a deviation in the trajectory. Signals from the two satellites were acquired after the nominal mission duration, and the spacecraft were confirmed to be in good health, but in an orbit at an inclination of 20 degrees, rather than the targeted 3 degrees. The apogee and perigee attitudes, however, were very close to the targeted values (249 x 45,234 km.). The analysis of data received during the first minutes of the flight, and the reconstitution of the trajectory, confirmed that the launcher and the flight program operated perfectly. The two satellites are now in the process of reaching their final orbital positions, using their own propulsion systems.\nRead more at: Ariane Space\nInvestigators Say Erroneous Navigation Input Led Ariane 5 Rocket Off Course\nA bad input to the Ariane 5 rocket\u2019s guidance system that was missed during pre-launch quality control checks caused the launcher to deviate from its expected flight path and place two commercial communications satellites in the wrong orbit Jan. 25, Arianespace announced Friday.\nThe erroneous coordinates programmed into the Ariane 5\u2019s inertial reference units led the rocket approximately 20 degrees off course from its intended easterly trajectory seconds after liftoff from the Guiana Space Center on the northern shore of South America, officials said.\nChaired by Toni Tolker-Nielsen, inspector general of the European Space Agency, the inquiry found that the rocket\u2019s two inertial reference systems were misaligned. Due to \u201cspecial requirements\u201d for Jan. 25 mission, the azimuth required to properly align the Ariane 5\u2019s inertial units was 70 degrees, not 90 degrees as is usually the case for launches into geostationary orbit, Arianespace said.\nCloudSat Exits the \u2018A-Train\u2019\nMission managers at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, this week lowered the orbit of the nearly 12-year-old CloudSat satellite following the loss of one of its reaction wheels, which control its orientation in orbit. While CloudSat\u2019s science mission will continue, it will no longer fly as part of the Afternoon Constellation, or A-Train \u2014 six Earth-monitoring satellites that fly in a coordinated orbit to advance our understanding of how Earth functions as a system.\nCloudSat launched in 2006 to improve understanding of the role clouds play in our climate system. It joined the A-Train about a month later. In April 2011, the spacecraft experienced a technical issue affecting the ability of the battery to provide enough current to power all spacecraft systems during the time in each orbit when the spacecraft is on the dark side of the planet and the spacecraft\u2019s solar panels are not illuminated. In response, spacecraft engineers at Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colorado, developed a new operational mode for CloudSat that enabled it to continue science operations, but only during the part of each orbit when the spacecraft is in sunlight.\nSpaceX Postpones Falcon 9 Launch Over Payload Fairing Concerns\nSpaceX officials have postponed the launch of a Spanish-owned telecommunications satellite from Cape Canaveral planned for this weekend to conduct additional testing on the Falcon 9\u2019s payload fairing pressurization system, the company announced Saturday.\nSpaceX did not set a new launch date, but the mission was expected to be pushed back multiple days from its previous Sunday launch target.\n\u201cStanding down from this weekend\u2019s launch attempt to conduct additional testing on the fairing\u2019s pressurization system,\u201d SpaceX said in a statement posted on Twitter. \u201cOnce complete, and pending range availability, we will confirm a new targeted launch date.\u201d\nNew Estimates for Tiangong-1 Atmospheric Reentry Suggest Late March-early April\nThe European Space Agency\u2019s Space Debris Office has updated its prediction for the reentry of the doomed Chinese space lab Tiangong-1, with analysis by the Aerospace Corporation also suggesting orbital decay around early April.\nThe latest estimate suggests a window for reentry of ~24 March to ~19 April, which the office, based at the ESOC mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany, states is highly variable due to the complexities of modelling the atmosphere, the dynamics of the reentering object and limitations in observing the spacecraft.\nThe 8.5 tonne Tiangong-1 space lab was launched in 2011 to test docking technology and life support by hosting two crews from the Shenzhou-9 and Shenzhou-10 missions in 2012 and 2013, as a stepping stone to a large, modular space station.\nNASA Confirms SLS Mobile Launcher is Leaning, Does not Require Corrective Action\nThe huge Mobile Launcher (ML) that will be used to launch NASA\u2019s Space Launch System (SLS) is leaning. However, NASA insists it is structurally sound and does not require modifications to counter what is portrayed as \u201csome deflection\u201d. The ML is undergoing a conversion process, realigning it for a role with SLS after initially being constructed for the Ares I rocket.\nThe ML began construction for the Ares I rocket almost ten years ago, marked by trestles and girders arriving at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) by barge in February 2009, beginning the opening phase of work to create a base platform \u2013 one which was designed to be lighter than the Mobile Launch Platforms (MLPs) that previously hosted the Space Shuttle stack.\nThe current level of science and engineering as it is, humans can reach Mars in principle, but no means exist at the moment of protecting them from radiation there, the chief of the space plasma physics section at the Russian Academy of Sciences\u2019 Space Research Institute, Anatoly Petrukovich, told TASS\n\u201cAs far as the technical possibility of flying to Mars is concerned, it does exist. For instance, we may launch Proton rockets [with space vehicle components] several times, then assemble them in orbit the way the railway engine and cars are coupled on the ground and then push the spacecraft towards Mars somehow. The odds are it will reach its destination and may even deliver some crew there. The question is what the chances of getting back will be, bearing in mind the level of radiation,\u201d Petrukovich said.\nInternational Team Publishes Roadmap to Enhance Radioresistance for Space Colonization\nAn international team of researchers from NASA Ames Research Center, Environmental and Radiation Health Sciences Directorate at Health Canada, Oxford University, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, Belgian Nuclear Research Centre, Insilico Medicine, the Biogerontology Research Center, Boston University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Lethbridge, Ghent University, Center for Healthy Aging and many others have published a roadmap toward enhancing human radioresistance for space exploration and colonization in the peer-reviewed journal Oncotarget.\n\u201cOur recent manuscript provides a comprehensive review of radioresistance for space radiation. Currently there is minimal research being done for radioresistance against HZE irradiation. The importance of these types of studies will be to reduce the associated health risks for long-term space exploration and allow for the development of potential countermeasures against space radiation. In addition, the synergy between understanding aging with radioresistance will allow for further benefits for humans in long-term space missions and allow for reduced health risk. This review sets the stage for the potential research the scientific community can do to allow for safe long term space exploration\u201d said Afshin Beheshti, an author of the paper and a Bioinformatician at NASA Ames Research Center.\nWaterbeds Simulate Weightlessness to Help Skinsuits Combat Backpain in Space\nAstronauts tend to become taller in weightlessness \u2013 causing back pain and making it difficult to fit into spacesuits. Astronauts may be more likely to suffer from \u2018slipped discs\u2019 after landing.\nResearchers at King\u2019s College London, UK, have been testing a Skinsuit to combat these problems, using a novel simulation of microgravity: adding magnesium salts to a half-filled waterbed. They were inspired by the Dead Sea, where swimmers float on the surface because of the high salt content.\n\u201cThe high salt content provides additional buoyancy,\u201d explains study leader David A Green. \u201cOur test subjects don\u2019t just sink to the bottom but float on the surface even though the bed is only half full. Furthermore, as heavier body segments such as hips sink into the bed in proportion to their mass, overall the body lies close to being horizontal in an entirely relaxed state.\u201d\nNASA Weighs, Balances Orion For Ascent Abort Test\nResearchers conducted mass property testing of the Orion crew module for the Ascent Abort Test-2 Friday, February 16, at NASA\u2019s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The crew module, built at Langley, was lifted and rotated on its side to determine its weight and center of gravity, known as balance.\nTo get accurate results during the uncrewed flight test planned for April 2019 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, this simplified crew module needs to have the same outer shape and approximate mass distribution of the Orion crew module that astronauts will fly in on future missions to deep space. The markings on the sides and bottom of the capsule used for the test will allow cameras to follow the spacecraft\u2019s trajectory as well as the orientation of the spacecraft relative to the direction of travel for data collection.\nHow a New \u2018Happy Suit\u2019 would Protect Astronauts from the Stresses of Space\nResearchers from Florida Polytechnic University are developing a \u201chappy suit\u201d that they say will protect astronauts from the psychologically harrowing effects of space travel.\nThe technology\u2019s network of wireless sensors would respond to the wearer\u2019s vitals by recalibrating his or her environment in real time. These adjustments could include changes in temperature, light color, light intensity and oxygen levels, Arman Sargolzaei, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the school, said in a statement.\n\u201cIt\u2019s vital for astronauts to be mentally healthy during missions and right now there\u2019s no active, real-time solution to help them when they feel stressed or anxious,\u201d said Sargolzaei, who is collaborating with Melba Horton, an assistant professor of biology, and computer-science student James Holland, on the project. \u201cThis technology would provide them with immediate relief to their state of mind.\u201d\nBoeing, Lockheed Interested in Launching Rockets from Brazil, Minister Says\nBrazil\u2019s defense minister said on Thursday that Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX and other U.S. aerospace companies have expressed interest in launching rockets from its Alcantara military base near the equator and visited the site in December.\n\u201cThey were very impressed,\u201d Defense Minister Raul Jungmann told reporters. \u201cThey showed interest, but I can\u2019t say whether it will materialize.\u201d Alcantara\u2019s location makes it attractive because one-fifth less fuel is used to launch satellites into orbit along the equator compared with sites farther north or south.\nBesides SpaceX, Lockheed Martin Corp and Boeing Co, the Alcantara visit included smaller aerospace U.S. companies Vector Space Systems, which launches small satellites, and Microcosm, which focuses on providing low-cost access to space, an organizer of the trip said.\nSpaceX CEO\u2019s Comments About a Texas Launch Site has Upset a Border Community\nSpaceX received a great amount of praise after last week\u2019s successful launch of the largest rocket by a private company, the Falcon Heavy. However, remarks made by CEO Elon Musk at a press conference aren\u2019t sitting well with a South Texas community that may soon see rockets launch from their backyard.\nTrees in Keith Bloomer\u2019s the backyard partially cover a work site where two dish antennas were installed months ago. The property has belonged to the private space exploration company SpaceX since before breaking ground four years ago. Keith\u2019s family, on the other hand, has lived in the neighboring community of Boca Chica Village for almost 50 years.SpaceX chose the site on the Texas-Mexico border to conduct tests and other rocket launches. The launch pad, which is located just off the Gulf of Mexico and a mile-and-a-half from the village, is still under construction.\nRead more at: khou\nCommerce Secretary: Let\u2019s Turn the Moon Into a \u2018Gas Station for Outer Space\u2019\nThe Trump administration wants to turn the moon into a \u201cgas station for the outer space,\u201d Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told CNBC on Thursday.\nThe development would aid with the exploration of deep space, he said. \u201cRockets would not need as much thrust leaving Earth if they only had to get to the moon,\u201d Ross said. \u201cThen at the moon, you have very low gravity so you don\u2019t need so much thrust to go from the moon to Mars, for example, or another asteroid.\u201d\nThe idea has its supporters in the scientific community. In 2015, an MIT study found that refueling near the moon would allow for humans to get to Mars much more efficiently than launching from Earth with all of the resources onboard.\nRead more at: NYMag\nAstronaut: Trump\u2019s Plan for the Space Station a Huge Mistake\nDonald Trump\u2019s administration is floating a proposal to return to the moon \u2014 and to shut down the International Space Station to help pay for it.\nThe first part of this idea is good. The second is horrible. If enacted, it could well spell the end of NASA\u2019s human spaceflight for the foreseeable future.\nThere is a wild card here, too: I refer to the commercial spaceflight efforts of companies like Elon Musk\u2019s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos\u2019 Blue Origin. For the first time, visionary leaders of commercial companies are striving to build space infrastructure and exploration programs funded by commercial activities. Yes, there is the possibility of NASA partnering with them, but that is not the pressing question in my view now; the continuation of ISS is.\nShiseido Conducts Joint Research on Stress in Closed-off Environment Simulating ISS\nShiseido Company, Limited (\u201cShiseido\u201d) and National Research and Development Agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have conducted a joint research using a closed-off chamber environment training facility (\u201cthe isolation chamber\u201d) in JAXA\u2019s Tsukuba Space Center and observed a disruption in the circadian rhythm of salivary stress hormone (cortisol) and an increased distortion in facial expression during the stay in the isolation chamber.\nThe team has discovered the possibility of quick stress self-assessment by studying changes in saliva and facial expression.\nBased on the results of this ongoing joint research, Shiseido will pursue the development of comprehensive beauty solutions to minimize the effects of stress on skin and body, while JAXA will leverage the results to establish a stress assessment method for astronauts aboard the ISS.\nRead more at: JAXA\nBigelow Aerospace Spawns Spinoff Company to Market its Space Stations\nAfter more than a week of teasing, Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace announced the creation of a sister company called Bigelow Space Operations (BSO). Its mission is to \u201cmarket and operate space stations developed by Bigelow Aerospace that are so capable, so diverse and so large that they can accommodate virtually unlimited use almost anywhere.\u201d\nBSO\u2019s first goal, however, will be to figure out just how much of a market\u2014global, national and corporate\u2014there is for low-Earth orbit space stations, according to a Feb. 20, 2018, press release about the company\u2019s creation. \u201cWe intend to spend millions of dollars this year in drilling down, hopefully, to a conclusion one way or the other as to what the global market is going to look like,\u201d said Bigelow Aerospace founder Robert Bigelow during a media conference call, according to SpaceNews.\nGoodbye, ISS. Hello, Private Space Stations?\nHave you heard? The ISS might go away in 2025. Yep, that ISS\u2014our big, honking space laboratory in the sky, one of the most successful international partnership stories of all time. Continually staffed since 2000. Off the Earth, for the Earth. One of the most expensive public projects ever, second possibly only to America\u2019s Interstate Highway System.\nUnofficially, 2025 has been the station\u2019s retirement year since 2014, when NASA and its international partners agreed to keep it flying through 2024. But there\u2019s always been an assumption that end date could stretch to 2028, a point cited as when degrading hardware might start making life aboard the station a little dicey.\nRead more at: Planetary Society\nNASA\u2019s Mission Control Team Shifts to Younger Recruits\nAsk Chris Kochling what inspired him to be a NASA flight controller and he\u2019ll point to the heroic ingenuity and quick thinking of the men on the Mission Control room floor during Apollo 13.\nIf it weren\u2019t for those men, the three astronauts on the 1970 mission likely would never have returned home after an oxygen tank explosion forced them to abort their trip to the moon. But when Kochling describes this scene, he\u2019s not talking about listening with rapt attention to the NASA airwaves \u2013 he wasn\u2019t even alive then.\nHibernation, Other Methods Suggested to Mitigate Deep Space Travel Radiation Risks\nImagine climbing into a spaceship bound for Mars and entering a deep slumber that lasts the nine-month trip to the Red Planet. It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but a group of researchers believe hibernation could mitigate the risks of radiation exposure during deep space travel.\nHibernation was one of several methods discussed to protect astronauts from harmful radiation in a study published earlier this month in the journal Oncotarget. Developing these methods is increasingly important given President Donald Trump\u2019s renewed focus on human space exploration.\nAmerica\u2019s Starmen are Selling Space, But Who\u2019s Buying?\nRobert Bigelow, back of inflatable space hotels, has announced the formation of a new company to build and market space stations in Earth\u2019s orbit, called Bigelow Space Ops.\nDuring his announcement, the company\u2019s founder made a point to paint a picture of a thriving U.S. industry: American-made hardware launching from American spaceports, leading the way into the orbital future. But what Bigelow and other space barons\u2019 business plans really want are for customers from other nations to emerge. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve always anticipated and expected is that we would be very involved in helping foreign countries to establish their human space programs,\u201d Bigelow told reporters.\nHow SpaceX and NASA\u2019s Rockets Compare\nAt a time when pivotal decisions are being made about our national priorities for spending and investment, it is imperative that our decision-makers and the public are able to distinguish fact from fiction. As Congress and the administration weigh options and strategies for critical investments in deep space exploration and low earth orbit development, the facts need to be clear.\nUnfortunately, a few recent headlines and ill-informed opinion editorials have suggested that the success of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon Heavy test launch spells trouble for NASA \u2014 that somehow the agency\u2019s own rocket, the powerful Space Launch System (SLS), is unnecessary. Nothing could be further from the truth. Without taking anything away from Falcon Heavy\u2019s impressive performance, it is important to keep in mind the major key differences from SLS.\nOp-ed | On the Verge of a Space Renaissance\nWe are entering a renaissance era in human spaceflight. Just as the European masters brought forth a magical period of learning, discovery, invention, fine arts and music 500 years ago, with the advances in the science and technologies proliferating today, we expect a rejuvenation in human space activity in this dawn of the 21st century.\nThe White House has moved swiftly to reinstate a newly constituted National Space Council and, in its first meeting Oct. 5, 2017, directed NASA to conduct a 45-day study with the express aim of returning astronauts to the moon within five years.\nHow the Trump Administration Wants to Make it Easier for Commercial Space Companies to do Business\nThe Trump administration\u2019s National Space Council met publicly for the second time this week to talk about upcoming changes to the US space policy agenda, and the big topic of the day was regulatory reform.\nThe council, a newly formed advisory group led by Vice President Mike Pence, discussed ways that regulations are \u201cstifling\u201d the commercial space industry. \u201cWhile American industry and technology have leaped toward the future, our government agencies have too often remained stuck in the past,\u201d Pence said at the meeting at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Now, the Council says it\u2019s going to work on a number of changes that will make regulations less burdensome to commercial companies, such as streamlining launch licensing and creating a new undersecretary of Space Commerce.\nUS Space Policy Meeting Highlights China\u2019s Space Programme as Threat, Competition and Opportunity\nA public meeting of the White House National Space Council on commercial space and regulatory reform held on February 21 saw divergent views on how to react to the rise of China\u2019s space programme. The event was held at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida and chaired by Vice President Mike Pence.\nWhile the main issues were commercial space business and innovation and the related regulatory regime, highlighted by SpacePolicyOnline.com, the matter of potential engagement with, and threats and opportunities from, the increasingly comprehensive and capable Chinese space programme, emerged as a key issue, as reported by SpaceNews.com.\nChina Speeds Up Research, Commercialization of Space Shuttles\nChina will accelerate research and commercial use of rocket upper stages, a carrier rocket official said on Friday. \u201cThe Yuanzheng rocket upper stage family will have a new member, Yuanzheng-1S, this year, serving launches for low and medium Earth orbit satellites,\u201d said Wang Mingzhe, an upper stage architect of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT).\nUpper stages are independent aircraft installed on the carrier rocket that are capable of restarting their engines multiple times in space to allow them to send different payloads to varying orbits.\nEarlier this month, China\u2019s Yuanzheng-1 rocket upper stage helped send two satellites into orbit on a single carrier rocket for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System in Xichang in southwest China\u2019s Sichuan Province.\nNASA\u2019s Nuclear Thermal Engine is a Blast from the Cold War Past\nTo accomplish what will be the greatest human spaceflight triumph since Apollo 11\u2014sending astronauts to Mars\u2014NASA is looking to a blast from its nuclear past.\nToday\u2019s chemical propellant rocket engines may not be the fastest or most efficient way to send a crew to another planet. One idea for the next-generation rocket engine you\u2019d need is to bring back nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) systems. The technology was studied in the 1950s and 60s, but shelved in the early 70s because of technological challenges, and because there was no clear need for the propulsion system.\nJeff Sheehy, chief engineer of NASA\u2019s Space Technology Mission Directorate, says times have changed. Advances in manufacturing, materials science, and engineering have made it possible to design a better fuel element and nuclear reactor than was possible during the Cold War. What\u2019s more, and what has really been lacking until now, is a reinvigorated \u201cdesire to send crews into deep space,\u201d says Sheehy.\nSilk Fibers could be High-tech \u2018Natural Metamaterials\u2019\nNew research has demonstrated how the nano-architecture of a silkworm\u2019s fiber causes \u201cAnderson localization of light,\u201d a discovery that could lead to various innovations and a better understanding of light transport and heat transfer.\nThe discovery also could help create synthetic materials and structures that realize the phenomenon, named after Nobel laureate Philip Anderson, whose theory describes how electrons can be brought to a complete halt in materials due to their \u201cscattering and defects.\u201d The new findings relate not to electrons, but to light transport.\nResearchers demonstrated how the nano-architecture of the silk fibers is capable of light \u201cconfinement,\u201d a trait that could provide a range of technological applications including innovations that harness light for new types of medical therapies and biosensing.\nSpace Startup wants to Catapult Payloads into Space\nIf we every want to build monster machines in space, cheaper and more sustainable ways to get raw materials into orbit is of ever increasing importance. SpaceX recently made history with with heavy boosters returning after the initial launch of the Falcon Heavy, but a new challenger has a potentially cheaper alternative: catapult.\nSpinLaunch, founded in secrecy in 2014, is now making itself known in an interview with TechCrunch. Founded by Jonathan Yancey, who sold a solar-powered drone startup to Google (which Alphabet killed off last year), SpinLaunch is now showing off its ideas in the hopes of finding big investors.\nThe company wants to build centrifuges that would spin at high speed inside a vacuum for minimal friction.\nThere\u2019s Something Strange Going on Amid the Satellite Internet Rush\nAs Thursday\u2019s SpaceX launch of two test satellites vividly demonstrated, several companies are moving ahead with ambitious plans to design, build, and fly hardware capable of delivering broadband Internet from space. However, as intense as the battle for broadband may be in orbit, the fight is also heating up on the ground. In particular, there is a controversy quietly simmering at the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC.\nIn a somewhat bizarre situation, the founder and chairman of one company seeking to deliver broadband services, OneWeb, has founded a second company to compete with himself. In response, other companies proposing satellite constellations have objected, which has added considerable spice to an already heated battle for valuable spectrum.\nRussia Jails Four for Embezzling Millions from Cosmodrome Project\nRussia on Wednesday jailed three men and a woman for up to 8 years for embezzling state funding worth millions of dollars while working as contractors on the construction of the country\u2019s showpiece Vostochny cosmodrome.\nThe four, who controlled or worked for construction companies, were together found guilty of embezzling 1.3 billion rubles ($23 million) from the national prestige project, in the latest blow to Russia\u2019s troubled space industry.\nMoscow\u2019s Simonovsky district court handed a sentence of 8 years to Sergei Degtyarev, who controlled construction companies involved in building infrastructure at the launch pad in the far eastern Amur region, RIA Novosti state news agency reported.\nColorado Spaceport Designation Under Formal Review\nThe State of Colorado is one step closer today to having an official commercial spaceport designation. Front Range Airport Director David Ruppel shared a letter from the Federal Aviation Administration\u2019s (FAA\u2019s) office of commercial space transportation stating that the application to conduct launch operations from Spaceport Colorado is officially under review.\n\u201cWe have completed our initial review of your application and its subsequent updates, and found that it is complete enough for us to accept and start the 180-day review period. We anticipate making a license determination, in accordance with 14 CFR 413.15, within 180 days of its acceptance, which is by August 19, 2018,\u201d read a portion of the letter.\nThis means that Colorado could have a commercial spaceport by the end of the summer. A spaceport designation would allow the existing Front Range Airport to add FAA-licensed suborbital flight capabilities to its current General Aviation operations.\nRussia: Space Power And Strategic Culture \u2013 Analysis\nStrategic culture is the collective memory and culture of a nation. It is an understudied, but vital variable in shaping any nation\u2019s governmental policies and its behavior when pursuing its national interests. Russian strategic culture has been the focus of numerous studies. The concept \u201cstrategic culture\u201d was actually coined by Jack Snyder in the 1970s, when analysing the Soviet Union\u2019s \u201cattitudes toward limited nuclear war\u201d.\nIn this seminal work, he emphasized the importance of culture and idiosyncrasies in shaping foreign policy choices. He argues that: \u201cneither Soviet, nor American strategists are culture-free, preconception-free game theorists. Soviet and American doctrines have developed in different organizational, historical and political contexts, and in response to different situational and technological constraints.\u201d In his view, strategic culture implies a process whereby individuals are socialized into a distinctive mode of strategic thinking, be it American, Soviet, or that of another nation.\nAustralia\u2019s Future in Space\nAustralia is about to get much more serious about its future role on the high frontier of space. Following last year\u2019s announcement of the formation of an Australian space agency, there\u2019s gathering momentum across government and industry to think more seriously about having an Australian sovereign space capability that\u2019s more than just ground stations and regulatory frameworks.\nDeveloping a sovereign space capability for Australia is the focus of my new ASPI Strategy report, Australia\u2019s future in space, released today. It explores the case for exploiting innovative \u2018Space 2.0\u2019 technologies such as small satellites and \u2018CubeSats\u2019, as well as responsive space launch capabilities, to reduce Australia\u2019s dependency on others and enable it to play a greater role in space alongside key allies.\nRead more at: Aspi strategist\nJSpOC Director Receives Distinguished Space Leadership Award\nCol. Michael T. Manor, Director, Joint Space Operations Center and Commander, 614th Air Operations Center, received the Jerome F. O\u2019Malley Distinguished Space Leadership Award during a ceremony at the Air Force Association\u2019s 2018 Air Force Ball in Colorado Springs, Colo. Feb. 17.\nDuring the ceremony Manor was recognized for outstanding and visionary leadership in the application of space capabilities to deliver integrated and synchronized combat effects to combined and joint warfighting operations. Additionally, the award recognized Manor for advancing O\u2019Malley\u2019s vision of \u201cproviding an intensified space focus and reorienting USAF philosophy toward an operational approach by advocating the operational use of space systems at the highest levels of the Air Force.\u201d\nRead more at: Patrick AirForce\nWilson: Airmen Must Get Creative if they Want to Beat China and Russia\nAir Force Secretary Heather Wilson warned young airmen that in a future war against a near peer rival, they should be prepared to fight without technologies that most consider essential, like GPS navigation and satellite phone lines.\nRival nations like China and Russia are developing advanced missiles and electronic weapons to target U.S. military space-based communications, command and control networks, intelligence analysts have reported. For better or worse, the most wired generation that ever lived will eventually have to deal with this problem.\nWilson called this the reality of preparing the military for the age of \u201cgreat power competition.\u201d\nStar Wars: Why US, Russia, China Make a Big Deal Out of Hitting Satellites\nA country capable of destroying the adversary\u2019s satellites would easily gain the upper hand in modern warfare, Sputnik contributor Andrei Kots notes; adding that at present only three countries can target orbital spacecraft. However, not one of them has developed a full-fledged operating anti-satellite defense system yet, he remarks.\nExactly ten years ago, on February 21, 2008, the US military first shot down a satellite using the RIM-161 Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) system, Sputnik contributor Andrei Kots writes, adding that the experimental strike brought modern warfare to a whole new level.\nUS Ready for Possible Space Wars \u2013 National Security Advisor\nNational Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said on Wednesday at a meeting of the National Space Council that the United States would be prepared for any conflict that took place in space.\n\u201cDue to competitor and adversary actions, the space domain is increasingly contested. Space has now joined land, sea, and air as a war-fighting domain. While we prefer the conflict not to extend to space, the United States will be prepared if it does,\u201d National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said. Earlier in the meeting, Vice President Mike Pence said the United States should be as dominant in space as it is on earth.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 299, "original_length": 38062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 299.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.sparkfutures.org/blandin-fuels-early-ed-momentum/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:20Z", "digest": "sha1:6VKWB5PW3AQDUPTBACUNL3PUCRSHYFP3", "length": 4511, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.sparkfutures.org", "title": "Blandin fuels early-ed momentum | SPARK", "raw_content": "Last week we reported about the Blandin Foundation\u2019s decision to continue its commitment to early childhood education. Sarah Caruso, president and chief executive officer of Greater Twin Cities United Way and Kate Wolford, president of the McKnight Foundation, understand the importance of this decision as it relates to a growing movement happening around the state, which they talk about in this this commentary to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.\nArticle by: SARAH CARUSO and KATE WOLFORD\nEducation for the youngest needs urgent support. The foundation\u2019s renewed commitment helps.\nAlthough we may hear a lot these days about division within our state, there is at least one issue that historically unites us: a shared belief in the value of quality education for all children, beginning in their earliest years.\nMinnesota has a rich history of supporting education from pre-K through postgraduate studies. For more than two decades in the 1980s and 1990s, the state invested heavily in public education, according to the Foundation for Child Development\u2019s case study, \u201cInto the Fray: How a Funders Coalition Restored Momentum for Early Learning in Minnesota.\u201d\nThen we hit a roadblock. By 2008, public funding for early childhood had fallen by nearly 20 percent, while Minnesota children living in poverty had nearly doubled and the number of impoverished families drastically increased. Yet the state chose to divert fiscal attention from critical programs for our most at-risk early learners.\nAs we\u2019ve navigated away from supporting our youngest learners, we\u2019ve seen the educational achievement gap grow to become one of the worst in the nation. This gap in opportunities as well as achievement threatens our economic security and deprives thousands of families of a better future.\nWe must now collectively reinvest with a renewed sense of urgency to advance the education of our youngest children.\nThe good news is that today we are witnessing the elevation of this movement. It includes the launch of four Transformation Zones (Itasca County Transformation Zone, Northside Achievement Zone, St. Paul Promise Neighborhood and White Earth Reservation) through the federal Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant; the creation of the Minnesota Office of Early Learning; the Parent Aware early childhood quality rating system\u2019s establishment and statewide expansion by 2015, and most recently, new annual state investments of nearly $28 million in early learning scholarships.\nMoreover, a growing chorus of voices \u2014 including the Greater Twin Cities United Way, the McKnight Foundation, the Minnesota Initiative Foundations and the state Office of Early Learning \u2014 recognizes that efforts to support kindergarten readiness must also extend into the early elementary years to ensure that all children read proficiently by third grade.\nThe movement received yet another big boost recently when the Blandin Foundation announced its largest grant commitment ever \u2014 $21 million through the Invest Early Initiative \u2014 extending its decadelong investment in early childhood programming by another 10 years. Thanks to Blandin\u2019s initial investment nearly a decade ago, Invest Early has helped change thousands of lives in Itasca County by providing comprehensive wraparound services to help young children succeed. By increasing access to early childhood education, and coordinating services with area elementary schools, health providers and parent educators, Invest Early is helping families to build brighter futures.\nThe Blandin Foundation\u2019s long-standing commitment reflects our collective obligation as keepers of our children\u2019s trust. The time is now: let\u2019s move swiftly to close the achievement gap by continuing to invest in our youth. To that end, Greater Twin Cities United Way and the McKnight Foundation, along with an expanding roster of nearly 100 other organizations, comprise the MinneMinds Coalition. With statewide participation of businesses, leading philanthropic organizations, parents and providers, MinneMinds is guided by the vision that children need better access to high-quality early care and education \u2014 from birth through third grade \u2014 enabling all to succeed in school and in life.\nWe are on the right track, but we\u2019ve got a long way to go. Congratulations to the Blandin Foundation for continuing to be a beacon of optimism and leadership.\nSarah Caruso is president and chief executive officer of Greater Twin Cities United Way. 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Then through fellowship, and studying of God\u2019s Word, continue strengthening their relationship with one another.\nCouples\u2019 retreats and off-site activities help in building camaraderie with other couples and friendships that last for years to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spiritual-short-stories.com/being-patient-pays-buddhist-zen-story-by-osho/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DDYDJM4YBWUO4J2KJ4DFJMBT3KS3XQUA", "length": 940, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.spiritual-short-stories.com", "title": "Being Patient Pays | Spiritual-Short-Stories.com - The #1 Site For Wisdom Stories & Parables", "raw_content": "Home Parables Being Patient Pays\nBeing Patient Pays\nA King\u2019s Minister was once passing with his caravan through a narrow muddy road to his village estate. On the way he came across a bullock cart, which was stuck in the mud and was blocking the way. The cart driver was trying in vain to pull it out of the mud.\n\u201cGet out of my way,\u201d shouted the proud minister.\n\u201cSir, my cart is stuck here. You will have to wait till I can get it out,\u201d said the cart driver politely.\nFurious, the minister picked up a huge stone and threw it at the bullock cart. But alas, instead of hitting the cart, the stone hit the chain of his own caravan and bouncing back, hit the minister\u2019s forehead.\nWrithing in pain, the minster went and complained about the cart driver to the king, who without any enquiry ordered the poor man to be punished.\nBut the Bodhisattva, who was the chief judge, came to know the truth and changed the order. The cart driver was saved.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 2720, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 312.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.spiritwrestler.com/catalog/index.php?products_id=562", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:34Z", "digest": "sha1:OZHV3HYXOW5CU62UL4A2YIJXSQPIPPE7", "length": 1591, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.spiritwrestler.com", "title": "\"festivitea\" tea set #V by Michael Massie, Inuit, M\u00e9tis artist (LM50801)", "raw_content": "\"festivitea\" tea set #V\n\u201cfestivitea\u201d tea set #V\nMedium: silver, brass, bloodwood, bone, hair (horse)\nSize: 8 \u00d7 11 \u00d7 2.75 (teapot)\nSize: 6.25 \u00d7 6.25 \u00d7 1.75 inches (creamer)\nSize: 4.5 \u00d7 5.75 \u00d7 1.75 inches (sugar)\nSize: 10 \u00d7 12.75 \u00d7 12.75 inches (complete)\nThis tea set is a continuation of the theme of the \u201cwonders of a song\u201d teapot. The challenge was to get all the pieces to relate to each other\u2014and I had the idea to make it as a family. This is a family overjoyed by the spring of the new year\u2014when there are plenty of fish to catch.\nThe man is the teapot, and is already in the process of fishing and is signalling (with his thumb stuck up) that the prospects are good and there are plenty of fish. The woman is the creamer, and is expressing her excitement with her arms in the air, holding the ulu\u2026 just ready to cut, clean, and hang the fish to dry. The small boy is the sugar bowl, and is bent over, saying, \u201cwait up, I have found my harpoon\u2014and I\u2019m ready to help!\u201d\nThe tray was made into a circle, to represent the igloo. The structure of the igloo is low, showing that spring is upon them\u2014and it is almost melted. I made the tray smaller than with previous sets, as I wanted that feeling of crowdedness and being cramped\u2014the way it is with most igloos. The feet were probably the most difficult to design\u2026 they are so important to the overall design and I went through quite a number of ideas before the simplest one was so obviously the best. 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Humans and other species of animals can develop Lyme disease, but only by being bitten by a tick that carries the bacteria, not through exposure to an infected dog.\nSymptoms of Lyme disease can vary depending on where the infection develops in the body, but swollen lymph nodes and painful joints are typical. Kidney disease may also develop with long-term exposure to the bacteria. The \"bulls-eye\" rash that is associated with Lyme disease in people is not frequently reported in dogs. A veterinarian can diagnose Lyme disease based on a dog's history, clinical signs, physical exam, blood tests that reveal exposure to the Borrelia bacteria, and x-rays or lab tests that can help eliminate other potential causes of a dog's symptoms. Infected dogs will often develop clinical signs long after being bitten by a tick, so a lack of recent tick exposure does not rule out a diagnosis of Lyme disease.\nOnce a dog has been diagnosed with Lyme disease, treatment with certain types of antibiotics can very quickly improve its condition. Antibiotics do not completely eliminate the bacteria from a dog's body but will suppress the disease to the point where it should not cause any future problems, although future kidney disease remains a possibility. Many cases of Lyme disease can be prevented through the use of effective tick control products. Preventative vaccines are also available for dogs at high risk for developing Lyme disease.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2694, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 171.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.startribune.com/northwestern-24-gophers-14/500757121/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:54Z", "digest": "sha1:UMTPNJCBOL5ISU4BZ4XKDWNBLNDBGI4K", "length": 165, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.startribune.com", "title": "Northwestern 24, Gophers 14 - StarTribune.com", "raw_content": "Northwestern 24, Gophers 14\nThe Gophers couldn't get their sixth win of the season on Saturday, falling 24-14 to Northwestern in the home finale at TCF Bank Stadium.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 343, "original_length": 9224, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 195.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.statisticsviews.com/details/news/7453321/Significance-February-2015-issue-just-published.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:57Z", "digest": "sha1:4YW26R6NMYC6CWSZYUOK2RTJK5DMFYV3", "length": 2782, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.statisticsviews.com", "title": "Significance: February 2015 issue just published - Statistics Views", "raw_content": "Significance: February 2015 issue just published\nThe February 2015 issue of Significance has just published.\nThe issue includes How machines learned to think statistically, a special report on artificial intelligence and the contribution statistics has made to advances in the field. The special report includes a Q&A with Zoubin Ghahramani, the Cambridge professor who's trying to build an artificial intelligence for data science, called The Automatic Statistician.\nThe cover story asks some difficult but important questions about standardised tests. Generally speaking, the more questions you have on an exam, the more reliable the resulting score is. But as test lengths increase, improvements in reliability become ever more marginal. Perhaps there are better uses for that time?\nRCTs have saved countless lives. But, in a world of complex medical conditions and personalised treatment plans, are they still fit for purpose? Herbert I. Weisberg looks to the past in search of a way forward.\nElsewhere in the issue Paul Allin and David Hand bring us up to speed on efforts to find new and complementary metrics used when assessing national wellbeing and progress.\nHow effective are different home security devices, on their own and in combination with others? Andromachi Tseloni and Rebecca Thompson analyse crime survey data in search of answers.\nGame, set and stats: in the post-Moneyball world data analytics are playing an increasingly important role in many sports. Chris Gray makes the case for tennis with a simple probability model for analysing the outcomes of matches.\nRead the full table of contents here. All articles in this issue are free to read throughout 2015.\nSignificance magazine has opened its 10-year archives for access by the public. The magazine's volumes 1-10 are available to read, free of charge. Further, all magazine content will be made freely available one year after its initial publication. Editor Brian Tarran believes free access will demonstrate the importance of statistics and the contributions it makes in all areas of life. Royal Statistical Society and ASA members and subscribers will continue to enjoy exclusive access to the latest magazine content.\nSignificance is a bi-monthly magazine for anyone interested in statistics and the analysis and interpretation of data. Its aim is to communicate and demonstrate in an entertaining, thought provoking and non-technical way the practical use of statistics in all walks of life, and to show informatively and authoritatively how statistics benefit society. It is published on behalf of the Royal Statistical Society and the American Statistical Association.\nThe Digital Patient: Advancing Healthcare, Research, and Education\nThe Wellbeing of Nations: Meaning, Motive and Measurementbook", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 227, "original_length": 6921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 308.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stayingintheword.com/Doctrine/regeneration.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:01Z", "digest": "sha1:ZXRSSR2GIW74MFPBT34OR4XE5RZUFKSI", "length": 980, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.stayingintheword.com", "title": "Bible Studies - Staying in the Word", "raw_content": "Regeneration Download this Page\nRegeneration is a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit by which the divine nature and divine life are given (John 3:3-8; Titus 3:5). It is instantaneous and is accomplished solely by the power of the Holy Spirit through the instrumentality of the Word of God (John 5:24), when the repentant sinner, as enabled by the Holy Spirit, responds in faith to the divine provision of salvation. Genuine regeneration is manifested by fruits worthy of repentance as demonstrated in righteous attitudes and conduct. Good works will be its proper evidence and fruit (1Corinthians 6:19-20; Ephesians 5:17-21; Philippians 2:12b; Colossians 3:12-17; 2Peter 1:4-11). This obedience causes the believer to be increasingly conformed to the image of our Lord Jesus Christ (2Corinthians 3:18). Such a conformity is climaxed in the believer's glorification at Christ's coming (Romans 8:16-17; 2Peter 1:4; 1John 3:2,3).\nReturn to Doctrinal Statement Go to \"Justification\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1332, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 176.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.stayingintheword.com/Doctrine/tribulation.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:24Z", "digest": "sha1:NJSHLYL6UDKPSDNOAJGQGYCDN6P4KQUD", "length": 720, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.stayingintheword.com", "title": "Bible Studies - Staying in the Word", "raw_content": "The Tribulation Download this Page\nImmediately following the removal of the church from the earth (John 14:1-3; 1Thessalonians 4:13-18) the righteous judgments of God will be poured out upon an unbelieving world (Jeremiah 30:7; Daniel 9:27; 12:1; 2Thessalonians 2:7-12; Revelation 16), and these judgments will be climaxed by the return of Christ in glory to the earth (Matthew 24:27-31; 25:31-46; 2Thessalonians 2:7-12). At that time the Old Testament and tribulation saints will be raised and the living will be judged (Daniel 12:2-3; Revelation 20:4-6). This period includes the seventieth week of Daniel's prophecy (Daniel 9:24-27; Matthew 24:15-31; 25:31-46).\nReturn to Doctrinal Statement Go to \"The Second Coming\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 1072, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 99.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.steppinoutballroomdance.com/about.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:18Z", "digest": "sha1:DPM6UETM6LCGFXLHP5CA7Z5RQE5XP2GY", "length": 669, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.steppinoutballroomdance.com", "title": "About", "raw_content": "Steppin' Out Ballroom Dance was founded in 2006 by then solo dance instructor Christopher Hughes. In 2011, joined by professional dancer Angela Wiggins, they moved the business to Rancho Cucamonga.\nChristopher and Angela have each been performing, competing and teaching for over a decade. As co-owners at Steppin' Out Ballroom Dance, Chris and Angela Hughes are so proud to bring this exceptional and unique art form to the Inland Empire.\nWe are a dance family, and all of our students are part of that family.\nOur entire staff believes in the life changing effects that dance has on adults, and the powerful, uplifting and life-long life skills it builds in children.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 1586, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.storylogue.com/docs/interviews.html?documentId=1618", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:54Z", "digest": "sha1:5KIDTTMVWA4IUOA4WLMH5NZOWO7QVPW6", "length": 747, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.storylogue.com", "title": "Interview: Award-Winning Cinematographer/Director Andrzej Bartkowiak, Part 6 (Conclusion) - Storylogue.com", "raw_content": "Julie Lecompte: This interview reminds me to...\nWrite short scenes. Write simple dialogue. Each line of dialogue & each line of action must progress the plot. I keep this note glued to my printer at all time. Writing the story from the protagonist's point of view helps me to stick to the core of my story. When the protagonist isn't in the scene, I still want the scene to be about the protagonist; whatever the conflict between several characters is, or whatever the inner conflict within one character is, I want it to be caused by the protagonist's past action. This discipline forces me to always come back to my protagonist, and to the core of my story. It's more difficult to write, but that's my discipline. Am I wrong/right? Any comments?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 250, "original_length": 11350, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.storylogue.com/search/search.html?p=25&p2=1&sort=created&documentType=Interview", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:49Z", "digest": "sha1:TGQYOWZN7OOWW6X3TRMI6YWX2KHYFEX6", "length": 3447, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "www.storylogue.com", "title": "Storylogue - Storylogue.com", "raw_content": "Steven Pressfield Interview (Pt. 1)\nSteven Pressfield - Novelist Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire and four other historical novels set in the ancient world, including The Afghan Campaign. His most recent book is Killing Rommel, a WWII story. He is also the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance and The War of Art, which Robert McKee wrote the forward to. Mr. Pressfield is a graduate of Duke University and a former Marine. His books are in the curriculum at West Point, Annapolis and the Naval War College, as well as being on the Commandant's Reading List for the Marine Corps. Steven Pressfield's Official Website: www.StevenPressfield.com Steven Pressfie\u2026\nShawn Coyne, Literary Agent, Interview (Pt. 1)\nShawn Coyne, Literary Agent Shawn Coyne is the founder of Genre Management Inc., a boutique literary management company based in New York. Coyne began his publishing career as an assistant to the editorial director at Delacorte Press in 1990. He was promoted to editor of Dell publishing's paperback crime imprint in 1992 and ran Dell's nonfiction Expedition line devoted to first person nonfiction accounts of man in and against nature. Coyne left Dell publishing to become Senior Editor at St. Martin's Press. He founded St. Martin's paperback mystery line and published works across many genres. In 1996, Coyne was hired by Doubleday as Senior\u2026\nInterview with Hotplate Productions Josh Gold & Lowell Cauffiel\nLowell Cauffiel - Novelist, TV Writer Lowell Cauffiel, born in Michigan, is an American writer and TV producer. An award-winning reporter with the Detroit News and Detroit Monthly Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s, Cauffiel began his bookwriting career in 1988 with Masquerade: A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion and Murder. That title, and his 1997 New York Times bestseller House of Secrets, have appeared on many critics' lists of the best works in American true crime. As a nonfiction author, he's known for his meticulous research and accuracy, delivered in novel-like, page-turner style. Thematically, Cauffiel's books often explore how people\u2026\nShawn Coyne Interview Sample\nShawn Coyne - Literary Agent Shawn Coyne is the founder of Genre Management Inc., a boutique literary management company based in New York. Coyne began his publishing career as an assistant to the editorial director at Delacorte Press in 1990. He was promoted to editor of Dell publishing's paperback crime imprint in 1992 and ran Dell's nonfiction Expedition line devoted to first person nonfiction accounts of man in and against nature. Coyne left Dell publishing to become Senior Editor at St. Martin's Press. He founded St. Martin's paperback mystery line and published works across many genres. In 1996, Coyne was hired by Doubleday as Senior\u2026\nSteven Pressfield Interview Sample\nSteven Pressfield - Novelist Steven Pressfield is the author of Gates of Fire and four other historical novels set in the ancient world, including The Afghan Campaign. His most recent book is Killing Rommel, a WWII story. He is also the author of The Legend of Bagger Vance and The War of Art, which Robert McKee wrote the forward to. Mr. Pressfield is a graduate of Duke University and a former Marine. His books are in the curriculum at West Point, Annapolis and the Naval War College, as well as being on the Commandant's Reading List for the Marine Corps. Steven Pressfield's Official Website: www.StevenPressfield.com Steven Pressfield on Am\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 4809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 202.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tedlandau.com/slantedviewpoint/index.php/archives/2007/75", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:AJ3NHMPO3FF7MDNMH3IKZXRGOFVNERNG", "length": 4789, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.tedlandau.com", "title": "Intelligence: Environment vs. Genetics | Slanted Viewpoint", "raw_content": "\u2190 The MDJ vs. MacFixIt\nCan voters be more stupid than this? \u2192\nFor the record, I have little tolerance for these endless environment vs. genetics debates. Too often, they make it sound like an either-or debate: Either trait X is \u201cdetermined\u201d by the environment or by genetics. It has to be one or the other. People who actually study this issue have long ago realized that traits are instead \u201cdetermined\u201d by some combination of the two factors. True, there is a continuum, where some traits may be more influenced by one of these two factors than the other. But it never reaches 100%. It is similarly silly to say that a given trait is \u201c90% genetic\u201d or whatever. This would be like saying that your mother\u2019s apple pie is determined 90% by recipe and 10% by cooking skill. An apple pie is a result of the interplay of these two determinants. You can never completely isolate one factor from the other\u2014or assign a percentage to each one.\nThat said, it is also my belief that most human characteristics, both physical and behavioral, are significantly influenced by our genes. Just because an apple pie is not 100% determined by its recipe does not mean that its recipe is irrelevant to how the apple pie tastes. The same is true for genes and human behavior.\nWhen it comes to human behaviors and skills, our genes place upper limits on what we can achieve. I doubt that anyone believes they could match Michael Jordan\u2019s basketball abilities simply by practicing harder or getting the \u201cright\u201d training or growing up in a different environment or whatever else might be mentioned here. Most of us will never and could never be as good as Michael Jordan, no matter what. He started off with a genetic advantage that the rest of us don\u2019t have. In a different environment, he might not have realized his potential. But most of us don\u2019t even have the potential to realize.\nThis reminds me of a more personal example. I took piano lessons for 10 years, from about the age of 8 to 18. For most of that time, I studied under an excellent teacher and studied quite hard. Still, I struggled to move up the ranks and join the teacher\u2019s \u201cadvanced students\u201d group. I eventually made it but it was not easy.\nMeanwhile, a friend of mine (we weren\u2019t close friends but we were friendly to each other) was taking lessons from the same teacher. We grew up in the same town, were of the same religion and traveled in similar social circles. My friend had a much much easier time advancing. Indeed, he was so good that the teacher wound up giving him his own solo concert when we were seniors in high school. Quite simply, my friend was incredibly talented.\nI was not surprised when, several years later, I discovered that my friend had made a career in music. His name is Randy Edelman and he went on to become a noted film composer. I am confident that there is no way that I could have achieved what Randy achieved, no matter how similar our backgrounds and how hard I tried. There was a genetic component to his talent that I did not have.\nI was reminded of all of this when I read the recent article in the New York Times by Richard Nisbett, titled \u201cAll Brains Are the Same Color.\u201d The main contention of the article is that any racial difference in intelligence \u201chas environmental, not genetic, causes.\u201d\nLeaving aside my prior concern about whether such statements are ever meaningful, and leaving aside concerns about the potential bias of I.Q. testing, I would mainly agree with Nisbett\u2019s contention. It is possible that there is a \u201cgenetic cause\u201d for some of the difference, just as there may be for any physical trait, such as the color of skin. But, if there is, it is too entangled in other causes for us to clearly define it. At least for the moment, it is more reasonable to assume no difference at all.\nBut we have to be careful not to overgeneralize here. It is one thing to say that the intelligence differences between two groups have no genetic basis. It is quite another thing to say that there is no genetic basis for intelligence at all. To me this would be the equivalent of saying that we can all be Einsteins, given the right environment. Or that we can all be Michael Jordan. Or that I could have easily been Randy Edelman. It just isn\u2019t so. Pretending it is so or wishing it were so, does not change that fact.\nAt some level, we all know that some of us are smarter than most of us, and that such differences are not simply a question of environment. Denying this truth, as with the case of any denial of truth, ultimately causes more harm than good.\nSorry for the long gap between this posting and the previous one. I have been busy finishing up my iPhone book. I hope to return to a more frequent posting schedule now.\nThis entry was posted in General, Science. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 6740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 228.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tehachapinews.com/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-the-president-is-doing-great/article_197c7ff8-0241-11e9-83fd-5364887d542a.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:56Z", "digest": "sha1:TFSYXY53YQ6T66KSVEI5WKJOJBHM4YV2", "length": 1143, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.tehachapinews.com", "title": "Letter to the editor: The president is doing great | Opinion | tehachapinews.com", "raw_content": "Letter to the editor: The president is doing great\nBy JEANNE RIESEN\nWell folks, I don't care if you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent. We all live in America and cherish our freedom. It should not be about party lines; it should be about results.\nSo, let's check the report card of our president during the last two and a half years.\nThe economy is booming. The unemployment rate is the lowest it has been in 50 years. The stock market is doing great. Companies are coming back to the United States and that means putting our people back to work. Other countries are finally respecting us. Fair trade for the first time in years. The threat of North Korea has stopped; no more testing their bombs. North Korea and South Korea are talking for the first time in years. We are stopping the flow of illegal immigrants and drugs across our borders.\nSo folks, study the report card of our president and the results. Now, ask yourself if you are not better off now than the last eight years?\nI, for one, am so sick of the hatred in this country along party lines. Just look at how well our country is doing. Think!\nJeanne C. Riesen, Tehachapi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 138, "original_length": 3753, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 276.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tenzinyeshi.com/2012/07/tibetan-immigrants-in-united-states_20.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:00Z", "digest": "sha1:VE6KWDTRYPUZDL5OMJP5Q4QT3FNN26DZ", "length": 11597, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "www.tenzinyeshi.com", "title": "Journey of a Tibetan: Tibetan Immigrants in the United States: Extended Version", "raw_content": "According to Suarez-\u00adOrozco (2001) and Min (2004), many Asian immigrants earned some level of education from their home country prior to their immigration in the United States. They further noted immigrants now, especially those from Asia, were among the best-\u00adeducated and most skilled individuals in the United States. This may be true since Asian Americans were generally confident about financial returns for their investment in education in the United States (Goyette & Xie, 1999). Moreover, because of their marginal status in the U.S. society, Asian Americans of all ethnic groups may view education as the best means to overcome discrimination and other barriers to achieving high social status (Xie & Goyette, 1998). This view was supported by Barringer, Takeuchi, and Xenos (1990) and Hirschman and Wong (1986); they suggest Asian American adults as a group attained more education than other minorities or native-\u00ad\u2010born Americans.\nThough many college educated Asian immigrants have high earnings from professional and managerial occupations, many others struggle, trapped in low-\u00adlevel service-\u00adrelated jobs (Min, 2004). In other words, to claim that all Asian immigrants are doing well, socially and economically, in the United States is untrue. As Suarez-\u00adOrozco (2001) indicated, today\u2019s immigrants in the United States are a highly heterogeneous group of peoples that defy easy generalizations. This seems also true within and between Asian American groups.\nThe first major group of Tibetan refugees to settle in the United States was supported by the 1990 U.S. Immigration Act through which 1000 Tibetan refugees from South Asia immigrated to the U.S. under a resettlement program (Bay Area Friends of Tibet, 2010; Hess, 2006; The New York Times, 1991). Moreover, a 1988 U.S. Congress Bill (Public Law 104-\u00ad319; 22 U.S.C. 2151 note) sponsored Tibetan refugee students each year to study in American universities to obtain degree and non-\u00addegree education and trainings in the United States (Dharlo, 1994). According to the Tibetan Scholarship Program (TSP) Website, some of these students chose to remain and settle in the United States (TSP Alumni Association, 2010). Following these initial settlers, other Tibetans came to the United States as temporary visitors, professionals, and under the Family Reunification Program. As of July 2010, there were around 10,000 Tibetan immigrants in the United States (L. Nyendak, personal communication, July 13, 2010).\nA large number of Tibetan immigrants with \u201ctemporary visitor visas\u201d seek asylum once they enter the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, \u201cTo be eligible for refugee or asylum status, an applicant must meet the definition of a refugee set forth in 101(a)(42) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA): a person who is unable or unwilling to return to his or her country of nationality because of persecution or a well-\u00adfounded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion (p. 1)\u201d (Martin, 2010). Though this definition emphasized \u201crefugee\u201d, it also applied to \u201casylum\u201d in the United States. Tibetans do not qualify as refugees (discussed below). However, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) identify them as asylum seekers.\nThe U.S. government officially recognizes Tibet as a part of China and Tibetans as citizens of the People\u2019s Republic of China (Dumbaugh, 2008; Obama, 2011). This is evident when a Tibetan is granted asylum under race, nationality, political, or religious circumstances. Many Tibetans are surprised to learn that their identity on paper is \u201cChinese\u201d, officially recognized as \u201cOverseas Chinese\u201d (Wangdi, 2008). See appendix J for a copy of the U.S. official document where a Tibetan applicant was granted asylum in 2011 as a citizen of China. This is a concern shared by many Tibetan immigrants in the United States (Hess, 2006). For instance, in the 2010 U.S. census, Tibetans were often urged to mark themselves as \u201cother\u201d than \u201cChinese\u201d under the race category (L. Nyendak, personal communication, July 13, 2010). The issue of race has become rather problematic for Tibetan immigrants as well as researchers of Tibetan immigrants. First, it is impossible to determine the total number of Tibetan immigrants in the United States by using government records. Second, a majority of Tibetans who seek asylum do not possess Chinese citizenship to identify as \u201cChinese American\u201d or \u201cOverseas Chinese\u201d. Third and finally, Tibetans generally do not consider themselves Chinese. Though the problem continues to exist for census takers, for the purpose of this study, the term \u201cTibetan immigrant\u201d means the following: first, Tibetans are culturally, spiritually, politically, and historically unique people and different from Chinese (Blondeau & Buffetrille, 2008) and; second, the existing Office of Tibet in New York City provides a symbolic representation of Tibetans in the United States.\nIn addition to the issue of identity discussed earlier, moving to a foreign country is not easy for a Tibetan, even under the most propitious circumstances. It requires elaborate preparations, much expense, giving up personal relations at home, and often learning a new language and culture (Portes & Rumbaut, 1996). Many Tibetans spend money and energy to immigrate to the United States, a nation many Tibetans consider a land of opportunity and freedom.\nOnce they reach the United States, Tibetan immigrants often support their families back home in India, Nepal, Bhutan, or Tibet with the money earned in their new country of residence (Gyaltag, 2004). Having a culture that strongly values the importance of family wellbeing, Tibetan immigrants generally spend more time, energy, and money in helping their families than on their own future (Wangdi, 2008). Because of strong ties with family back home and with the local Tibetan community, the acculturation of Tibetan immigrants tends to be slow. In New York City, for example, Tibetan immigrant parents often fail to understand the local school education system and policies that effect their children\u2019s education. Though it may not be irrational to maintain one\u2019s own culture, values, identity, and community in the United States, an immigrant must also realize the importance of selective acculturation to acquire a better paying job and a higher standard of living. Olneck (2004) supported this notion that immigrants should maintain ethnic loyalty as well as participate in ethnic communities combined with their acculturation to American culture. Brumberg (1986) also added credence to the importance of new immigrants sharing in the American life and achieving the required knowledge for their successful participation in a modern urban society.\nMany Tibetan immigrants anticipate obtaining better-\u00adpaying jobs, indicating the presence of some motivation towards upward mobility. Ogbu, who studied the differences between voluntary and involuntary immigrants, supported the presence of a motivation to succeed economically among voluntary immigrants, such as Tibetans, in the United States (Neito & Bode, 2010). As with other Asian Americans (Goyette & Xie, 1999), Tibetan immigrants are also generally confident about financial returns from education in the United States. However, from my personal experiences, many adult Tibetans seem uncomfortable or are reluctant to continue learning once their formal education is completed, they get settled into a job, or they get married and have children. This reluctance towards continuous learning may be changing in the United States (hopefully, my study may shed some light on this).\nAs with Mainland Chinese and Indians (from South Asia), Tibetan immigrants also share a preference to settle in New York City where there is a relatively high level of both ethnic diversity and concentration (Portes & Rumbaut, 1996). New York\u2019s flourishing Chinatown and Jackson Heights (Indian concentrated area) seem to provide the lure for many new Tibetan immigrants. As of July 2010, out of the estimated 10,000 Tibetan immigrants in the United States, around 7,000 were concentrated in the area of New York and New Jersey (L. Nyendak, personal communication, July 13, 2010). There seems to be no precise data distinguishing how many Tibetan immigrants reside in New York City and in New Jersey. But, from my personal observations, the population in New Jersey may not be more than 1,000 Tibetan immigrants; they tend to have better living standards than the majority who lives in the five boroughs of New York City.\nTibetan preference for New York City was supported by some scholars who argued that successful adaptation in the United States among immigrants may relate to the patterns of cultural, economic, and social capital they were able to deploy in the new land through the support of peers (Portes & Rumbaut, 2001). Perhaps, most important, New York City provides an opportunity for undocumented jobs for Tibetan immigrants to survive economically while they go through the asylum application process of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).\nHowever, most immigrants in New York City work in low-\u00adskilled, low-\u00adpaying jobs, which not only demand hard labor but also long working hours (Asian American Justice Center, 2007; Min, 2004; Wrigley et. al., 2009). From my personal experiences, this finding rings generally true among Tibetan immigrants in New York City.\n*An excerpt from the dissertation, \"Skills education for adult Tibetan immigrants in the United States: Identification, prioritization, resources, and challenges\" 2012, Page 28-32.\nRead also: Dominance of Rumor-based Facts in Immigrant Communites\nkids jerseys August 27, 2012 at 2:14 PM\nI have been browsing online more than three hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. It\u2019s pretty worth enough for me. Personally, if all website owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the web will be much more useful than ever before\nInteresting and informative !! There will be surely another wave of skilled tibetans coming into US in the coming decades !!\nYourway Migrations September 25, 2014 at 1:16 AM\nThe United States L1 visa is a non-immigrant visa which allows companies operating both in the US and abroad to transfer certain classes of employee from its foreign operations to the USA operations for up to seven years usa immigrations. The employee must have worked for a subsidiary, parent, affiliate or branch office of your US company outside of the US for at least one year out of the last three years.\nnancy john August 28, 2015 at 1:26 AM\nIt all makes sense. People who have a legitimate reason to request legal residence should not worry at all. It seems obvious that external pressure is taking place to avoid likely 'scammers'\nNow h1b visa blog helps people who want to move from one country to another country. This will guide you how a person can settle in USA.\nI don't know if you still operate this site. But if you do, would you name some prominent Tibetan-Americans, like lawyers, judges, performing artists, scientists, and elected officials?\nThomas Galindo October 26, 2017 at 7:26 AM\nMoving it is always a mess. I know that, because last week my friend had this haos with all this things. West Hollywood moving services https://www.moveprola.com/west-hollywood-movers/ was helped him in moving in the shortest time and turned the day of fuss into a comfortable trip.\nYour contents are too simple to read and easy to understand.Joseph Hayon", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 17982, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 187.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.terrybradshaw12.com/eagles-vs-saints-odds-predictions-ats-picks-for-nfc-divisional-game/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:45Z", "digest": "sha1:HIER6BARDCHPFYOHV2OI6UFJS47PK6NR", "length": 2197, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "www.terrybradshaw12.com", "title": "Eagles Vs. Saints: Odds, Predictions, ATS Picks For NFC Divisional Game \u2013 The Terry Bradshaw Show", "raw_content": "The New Orleans Saints will host the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs.\nThe Saints received a first-round bye by securing the NFC\u2019s No.\nHere are their picks for Eagles vs. Saints.\nAt some point, a team is really going to expose Philly\u2019s secondary.\nThe Eagles have done a nice job of getting to this point despite the injuries, but this feels like the week it really catches up with them.\nThe Eagles will do whatever they can to turn this game into a rock fight, with the trenches being instrumental in who emerges victorious.\nAlso, who can forget the Saints\u2019 48-7 beatdown of the Eagles in Week 11?\nHere\u2019s an interesting nugget pointed out by CBS Sports\u2019 John Breech: Since 2012, there have been 14 teams that got a playoff rematch after losing to a team by 20 or more points during the regular season.\nThink one of these teams will be this season\u2019s champion?\nThe New Orleans Saints will host the Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in the divisional round of the NFL playoffs. The winner will earn a spot in the NFC Championship Game.\nThe Saints received a first-round bye by securing the NFC\u2019s No. 1 seed, while the Eagles punched their tickets to the divisional round by defeating the Chicago Bears on Wild Card Weekend.\nThe Eagles vs. Saints showdown is scheduled to kick off at 4:40 p.m. ET.\nNESN.com\u2019s trio of Mike Cole, Ricky Doyle and Andre Khatchaturian made their against-the-spread picks for each of this weekend\u2019s divisional-round matchups. Here are their picks for Eagles vs. Saints.\nPhiladelphia Eagles at (-8) New Orleans Saints, Sunday, 4:40 p.m. ET\nMike: Saints. At some point, a team is really going to expose Philly\u2019s secondary. The Eagles have done a nice job of getting to this point despite the injuries, but this feels like the week it really catches up with them. Drew Brees is not Mitchell Trubisky, and the latter still was able to move the ball with relative ease on Philly last week, at least in the second half\u2026.\nRelated ItemsAndre KhatchaturianChicago BearsEagleMercedes-Benz SuperdomeNew Orleans SaintsNFC Championship GameNFL playoffsPhiladelphia EaglesPickaxeSaint", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6466, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tesserae.eu/team/jim-macneil/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:39Z", "digest": "sha1:LID5YF3ERMWTC3GW4ZQ3Z6CFJ5SPWRGE", "length": 422, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.tesserae.eu", "title": "tesserae", "raw_content": "Jim MacNeil\nA PhD student in Urban Studies at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Jim is working on his thesis that deals with examining the participatory processes of urban regeneration in peripheral/ disadvantaged neighbourhoods: from the initial collection of data and mapping of the neighbourhood and its resources through innovative techniques, to the renovation of urban spaces and the political discourses in between.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 701, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 169.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.testpattern.org/2008/09/is-mccain-more-goldwater-or-kucinich.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:42Z", "digest": "sha1:5HSIXUWGAYQM43HFELZNMOGIJTRE3GWF", "length": 1661, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.testpattern.org", "title": "TestPattern.org: Is McCain More Goldwater or Kucinich?", "raw_content": "Is McCain More Goldwater or Kucinich?\nDid you catch Obama's recent one-liner about McCain's flip-flop on the current financial crisis?\n\"John McCain can't decide whether he's Barry Goldwater or Dennis Kucinich,\" Obama said, referring to the libertarian free-market conservative Republican and the left-wing Democrat who opposes free trade. \"He's not clear about what he thinks or what he believes.\"\nMy wife believes, rightly so, that most voters won't get the reference to Goldwater, but the press did. Obama continues:\n\"Well, I have a message for Senator McCain,\" Obama continued. \"You can't just run away from your long-held views or your life-long record. You can\u2019t erase twenty-six years of support for the very policies and people who helped bring in this disaster with one week of rants. You can't just erase all that with one week worth of rants. What we need is honest talk and real solutions.\"\nObama made mention of McCain\u2019s pledge today to fire Securities and Exchange Commissioner Chris Cox, which a president does not have the legal ability to do in a literal sense, though certainly political pressures can be brought to bear to force a commissioner to resign.\n\"He's calling for the firing of the Securities and Exchange Commission(er),\" Obama said, \"Well, I think that's all fine and good, but here's what I say: In the next 47 days, you can fire the whole Trickle-Down, On-Your-Own, Look-the-Other-Way crowd in Washington who has led us down this disastrous path. Don't just get rid of one guy, get rid of this administration, get rid of this philosophy, get rid of the do nothing approach and put somebody in there who is going to fight for you.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 175, "original_length": 4857, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 237.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thathashtagshow.com/2018/10/05/exclusive-marvel-studios-has-commissioned-a-dark-avengers-script/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:24Z", "digest": "sha1:MGUDETIYF5NZTSQZSNQZTOWZMXSIBJHE", "length": 4727, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "www.thathashtagshow.com", "title": "EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios Has Commissioned A 'DARK AVENGERS' Script - That Hashtag Show", "raw_content": "EXCLUSIVE: Marvel Studios Has Commissioned A \u2018DARK AVENGERS\u2019 Script\nMarvel Studios has enjoyed an unprecedented 10 year run of box office success as that began with 2008\u2019s Iron Man. That film gave the studio the momentum it needed to build a cinematic universe around a few well-known heroes, take some gambles on a few others and tell a longform story unlike any that\u2019s come before. That story, however, will come to an end with 2019\u2019s Avengers 4 as will the tenures of several of the studio\u2019s flagship heroes leaving fans to wonder what comes next. Some of the heroes and franchises will live on post-Infinity with sequels being developed for Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange and Black Panther; other new heroes such as Captain Marvel and Monica Rambeau will be introduced before Avengers 4 and become a part of the story that comes next; new franchises, such at The Eternals, are being developed, showing that Kevin Feige and company are still willing to roll the dice on some lesser known characters even as their deal to bring home the X-Men, Fantastic Four and related characters creeps towards closure.\nAs exciting as the influx of new characters is for fans, Feige couldn\u2019t have counted on them to shoulder the load going forward until the recent approvals to the deal. As a result, Marvel Studios has been developing dozens of properties for potential films and those dozens of properties probably stand at a dozen different stages of development. Some of those properties will feature prominently in the future of the MCU and others will never be known to anyone not lucky enough to be a part of the Marvel Studios brain trust. We\u2019ve been fortunate enough to find out about similar projects in the past and today we\u2019re happy to share another: Marvel Studios has developed and completed a script for an adaptation of Dark Avengers.\nTo be clear, Marvel Studios has many scripts for many projects, not all of which will make it to the big screen. It\u2019s a smart move for the studio to commission as many scripts as possible knowing that at any time someone might come up with a take on an IP that blows people away while also knowing some of them will go straight to the bottom of the pile. We at That Hashtag Show don\u2019t pretend to know where in that pile the Dark Avengers sits, only that a script for the IP was completed .\nThe Dark Avengers were created by Brian Michael Bendis and first appeared in their own title in January of 2009 in the aftermath of the Skrull Secret Invasion. With the people and the government having lost faith in the Avengers, Norman Osborn, who had been in charge of the Thunderbolts, was appointed head of the reformed S.H.I.E.L.D., now known as H.A.M.M.E.R.. Osborn took the opportunity to assemble his own team of \u201cheroes\u201d, including Sentry, Noh-Varr and Ares and to disguise some Thunderbolts as former Avengers. Osborn\u2019s team included a Mac Gargan \u201cSpider-Man\u201d, a Moonstone \u201cCaptain Marvel\u201d, a Bullseye \u201cHawkeye\u201d, a Daken \u201cWolverine\u201d and Norman in the Iron Patriot armor. The initial run of the comic lasted 16 issues and ran throughout the Dark Regin and Seige line-wide arcs.\nKnowing that Marvel Studios has interest in developing the project could give us some indication as to some potential paths Feige and crew may follow post-Thanos. While we can expect an MCU-based team of Dark Avengers to have a slightly different composition than the comic-based team, it\u2019s entirely possible that a new, government sanctioned team of heroes could replace the Avengers. In fact, the seeds have been and continue to be sewn. While we can expect the Avengers to save the day to some extent in Avengers 4, we can also expect that some of them won\u2019t survive. We also know that with Captain Marvel set to introduce the Skrulls, a Secret Invasion story could definitely be coming in the MCU. Though the details of Sony\u2019s deal with Marvel Studios have never been made explicit, we do believe that part of the reason Silver and Black was delayed was because Marvel Studios made an effort to gain access to Norman Osborn, who was originally intended to be in Silver and Black. A little arithmetic and little speculation and you can get from a post-snap universe down the road a bit where Osborn could be leading a team of Dark Avengers.\nOf course this is all speculation and, at this point, the film is just as likely to not be made as to be made. Of course people thought the same about Black Widow and The Eternals, both of which now have directors on board and look to be headed to theaters over the next two years.\nDisney reps did not respond to our request for comments on the story. Stay tuned to That Hashtag Show for more on this as it develops! 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The image may be redistributed for free under the same Creative Commons license but may not be sold, attribution is a condition of the license, see license details below.\nBlood Poisoning by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Alpha Stock Images\nTitle: Blood Poisoning\nOriginal Image: http://www.thebluediamondgallery.com/handwriting/b/blood-poisoning.html", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 2952, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 263.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebodypro.com/content/80766/this-week-in-hiv-research-to-seek-and-to-treat.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:21Z", "digest": "sha1:LQEW6AF4RI3F4HBU4QPEGQE4PAGT4RW3", "length": 6477, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "www.thebodypro.com", "title": "This Week in HIV Research: To Seek and to Treat - TheBodyPRO.com", "raw_content": "This Week in HIV Research: To Seek and to Treat\nIn this week's brief tour of recently published research, we get a new glimpse into the huge successes of Vancouver's years-long effort to reduce harm and increase HIV-related services among injection drug users. We also learn about the relative safety of stem-cell transplantation in people with HIV, the ability of certain biomarkers to predict future serious AIDS- and non-AIDS events, and the factors that increase the likelihood of partner notification among young people living with HIV.\n\"Seek-and-Treat\" Reduces Mortality Among People With HIV Who Inject Drugs\nMortality among people living with HIV who inject drugs has declined significantly since a \"seek-and-treat\" program was scaled up in Vancouver, Canada, a prospective cohort study published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases showed.\nIn 2010, Vancouver scaled up its STOP HIV/AIDS Program campaign with a Seek and Treat pilot program that aimed to identify people at high risk for acquiring HIV and pursue a multifaceted approach of outreach, testing, care and treatment.\nIn the cohort study, researchers estimated HIV-related, overdose, nonaccidental and all-cause deaths among 961 people attending a local Vancouver HIV clinic who reported injection drug use. Two periods, 2010-2014 and 2004-2009, were compared with the base period, 1996-2003. In the 2010-2014 period, the adjusted rate ratio (ARR) for deaths was consistently lower for both men and women compared to the base period. For example, the HIV-related mortality ARR for women, which was 0.65 in the 2004-2009 period compared to the base period, dropped to 0.15 in the 2010-2014 period compared to the base period. For men, using the same comparison, the HIV-related mortality ARR dropped from 0.77 to 0.12.\nOther independent predictors of death among men included intensive use of prescription opioids and white ancestry. That latter finding was unexpected, study authors noted; they called for additional research into the gap in care for this population.\nRelated: Awakening to the Opioid Crisis: A Top HIV Clinical Development of 2017\nHematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplants Safe in People Living With HIV\nPeople living with HIV do not experience a greater rate of serious complications after hematopoietic stem cell transplants (HSCTs) than people not living with the virus, a data analysis published in Clinical Infectious Diseases found. HSCTs, which are used to treat a number of cancers and other immune conditions, have been pursued for years as a potential route to an HIV cure. The only confirmed cure of HIV infection to date was the result of an HSCT performed in 2006.\nThis study found that frequency of most in-hospital complications of the procedure did not differ by HIV status among 39,517 people (108 of whom were living with HIV) who underwent HSCT between 1998 and 2012. These results held for both allogeneic and autologous cell transplants. However, after receiving an allogeneic stem cell transplant, incidence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria and cytomegalovirus were much more common among the HIV-positive people in the study than among those not living with the virus.\nStudy authors cautioned that they were unable to assess complications that might have arisen after a patient was discharged from the hospital. Similarly, no HIV-specific information, such as viral load, was available, nor was there data on specific conditioning regimens prior to the transplants. Because of the limited data, the results should be used only to generate a hypothesis, study authors cautioned, but concluded: \"Allogeneic and autologous HSCT can be safely performed in HIV (+) patients.\"\nInflammation, Coagulation Biomarkers Predict Serious Events\nInflammation and coagulation biomarkers were independently associated with AIDS, serious non-AIDS events or death, an analysis of data from the START trial that was published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases found.\nBlood samples from 4,299 participants in the Strategic Timing of Antiretroviral Treatment (often referred to as START) trial were analyzed for biomarkers of inflammation, coagulation and vascular injury at baseline and eight months later. Higher baseline levels of interleukin-6, a marker for systemic inflammation, or D-dimer, a marker for coagulation activity, were associated with greater risk of developing AIDS or serious non-AIDS events, as well as death. This was true across baseline CD4 counts or viral loads. In the immediate treatment arm, these markers were significantly reduced at month eight compared to the deferred treatment arm, as well as in absolute numbers.\nLonger-term follow-up will be necessary to determine whether viral suppression evens out biomarker levels over the long run independent of when treatment was started, study authors said. They also called for additional research into interventions that might reduce these biomarkers even further in people living with HIV.\nPartner Notification More Likely If Providers Take a Team Approach\nIf more than one staff member talks to a young person who is living with HIV about partner services, partner notification is more likely to be successful, a study published in Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome suggested. But more often than not, the study found, only a single staff member does so.\nA computerized interview completed by 924 people between the ages of 13 and 24 who are living with HIV revealed that at least one person in a health care setting spoke to 99% of participants about letting their partners know that they might be at risk for acquiring the virus. However, 52.4% of respondents indicated that only one person in a health care setting had spoken of partner notification, and only 18.3% had themselves received such a notification about their own exposure. More than half (364) of the 705 people who answered the question notified all of their partners themselves; another third (235) let some of their partners know about their seroconversion.\nResearchers identified three factors that contributed to successful partner notifications: at least two people broached the topic; the participant had been notified of exposure risk; and the young person had at least some higher education. Study authors called for updated guidelines that specify conversations about partner notification by both the HIV tester and the care provider.\nThis Week in HIV Research: A Viral Prediction\nThis Week in HIV Research: Where's the PrEP?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 8832, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 279.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thebritishjournal.com/terms-and-conditions/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:18Z", "digest": "sha1:JJ44MO6ZJ7DL3QII4AYABZGQRTX7PUB3", "length": 597, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thebritishjournal.com", "title": "Terms and Conditions - The British Journal", "raw_content": "Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned or controlled by The British Journal.\nThe British Journal has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further acknowledge and agree that The British Journal shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such web sites or services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 7063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 214.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thecattlesite.com/news/40983/government-targets-milk-and-meat-production-in-budget-increase/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:18Z", "digest": "sha1:5M56HKI5VFZIFAOW7F5BVAWNJKRJIZWN", "length": 1090, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.thecattlesite.com", "title": "Government Targets Milk and Meat Production in Budget Increase - The Cattle Site", "raw_content": "Government Targets Milk and Meat Production in Budget Increase\nRUSSIA \u2013 Beef, Pork and Dairy farms in the Moscow region are to benefit from a subsidy boost of 60 million rubles in 2013, increasing the budget by 20 per cent to 3.6 billion rubles in a bid to support agricultural development, production modernisation and rural housing.\nCurrent Moscow region funding structures grant a \u2018pork budget\u2019 of 19.4 million rubles and a \u2018beef budget\u2019 of 42.9 million rubles.\nPrioritised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food is Moscow's dairy sector which is set to receive 504 million rubles from the regional budget and a further 414 million rubles from the federal budget.\nThe 2013 funding scheme is part of the \u201cDevelopment of agriculture and regulation of agricultural products, raw materials and food, Moscow Region for 2013-2020 years\u201d, a policy started in August.\nAdditionally the regional subsidy for 2013 will support the production of fish and eggs as well as rural tourism, agricultural and suburban promotion of innovative projects.\nEconomics, Marketing, Policy and Regulatory, General", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3765, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 276.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thed3group.org/more-stuff-about-x-rays.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:04Z", "digest": "sha1:2B5ZUCGAKVR6BSCFQKMDRARX2ULDKCXL", "length": 1808, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "www.thed3group.org", "title": "D3 Group - Developmental Dental Defects - - More about X-Rays", "raw_content": "> More about X-Rays\n> Trickier Tooth Bricks\n> Trickier Missing Bricks\n> More about proteins\n> Fairies and Science\nMore STUFF ABOUT X-RAYS\nMeasuring Mineral density\nX-Rays measure how DENSE the minerals are in teeth and bones. The X-Ray Picture (film) reflects how many Bricks lie in the X-Ray Path. Note that two Bricks side-by-side give the\nsame result as two Bricks with a Missing Brick in between (i.e. Row 4 and Row 2 from\nbottom, respectively).\nWhat \"Hypomin\" means\n\"Hypomin\" is a technical way of saying \"chalky\", which is why dentists call chalky molars \"Molar Hypomin\". \"Hypomin\" is short for hypomineralisation and means lower-than-normal mineral density.\n\"Hypo\" Words..............mean a deficiency in:\nHypomineralisation................mineral density\nHypothermia..........................temperature\nHypoglycaemia.......................blood sugar\nHypotension...........................blood pressure\nHypoplasia..............................tissue or cells\nExploring Chalky Teeth with CT\nWhat this means for Molar Hypomin and The D3 Group\nMolar Hypomin (chalky molars) often involves just a small deficiency in Mineral Density (typically less than 15%), making it hard to detect on Regular X-Ray pictures despite being easy to see in the mouth. By providing thin slices and digital quantification, CT Scans help Researchers map the severity of \"Missing Bricks\" in Chalky Enamel.\nThe relatively small loss in Mineral Density leads D3 Researchers to hope that \"Natural Repair\" might be achievable one day (we call this \"Remedial Mineralisation\"). More research into Mineral Density Defects and Repair is clearly warranted.\nX-Radiography (X-Ray Pictures)\nX-Ray Computed Tomography (CT Scans)\nMike Swain's Group and recent research article\nFelicity Crombie's research\nCT images courtesy of Jon Mangum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2341, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.82, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thedorsetpage.com/Genealogy/lewis/Locations/tyneham.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:41Z", "digest": "sha1:RTI3NWLI5LYAK3P7S6CBSPPBFVO7QQA6", "length": 963, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.thedorsetpage.com", "title": "A Topographical Dictionary of England: Tyneham, Dorset", "raw_content": "TYNEHAM, a parish in the hundred of HASILOR, Blandford (South) division of the county of DORSET, 6\u00bd miles (W. by S.) from Corfe-Castle, containing 240 inhabitants.\nThe living is a rectory, united, by an act passed in the 8th of George I., to that of Steeple, in the archdeaconry of Dorset, and diocese of Bristol, rated in the king's books at \u00a311. 0. 10., and in the patronage of W. 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Here was an Alien priory, subordinate to the abbey of Bec in Normandy, which, at the suppression, was given by Henry VI. to St. Anthony's hospital, London; by Edward IV. to Eton college, and afterwards to the Dean and Prebendaries of Westminster.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 12, "original_length": 1172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 93.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.theetla.org/members/benjaminbrafman/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:27Z", "digest": "sha1:3YGZXMRLJQHTNCCENUWFUS2Z2FQ2QCQ2", "length": 1971, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.theetla.org", "title": "Benjamin Brafman", "raw_content": "Brafman & Associates, P.C.\nCriminal Trial and Appellate Practice\nWhite Collar Criminal Law\n1975, New York, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit\nOhio Northern University, J.D., with distinction, 1974\nNew York University, LL.M., Criminal Justice, 1979\nBrooklyn College of the City University of New York, B.A., 1971\nAmerican Bar Association (Member, Section on Criminal Justice)\nNew York Council of Criminal Defense Lawyers\nNew York Criminal Bar Association (Member, Board of Directors, 1990-1992).\nFellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. Recipient: \u201cOutstanding Private Criminal Defense Practitioner Award,\u201d New York State Bar Association, 2005; Norman Ostrow Award, for outstanding achievement in the field of White Collar Criminal Defense, New York Counsel of Defense Lawyers, March, 2006. Presented with the first ever \u201cClarence Darrow\u201d Distinguished Practioner Award by the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 2007. Manuscript Editor, Ohio Northern University Law Review, 1973-1974. Author: \u201cSovereign Immunity,\u201d Vol. III, Ohio Northern University Law Review, 1973; \u201cInventory Search-Fourth Amendment Dilemma,\u201d Vol. I, Ohio Northern University Law Review, 1973; \u201cInsider and Employee Thefts-Role of Corporate Counsel,\u201d P.L.I. #124, 1981. Lecturer, Role of Corporate Counsel-In-House Investigation, P.L.I., 1981. Selected by the New York Magazine as the \u201cBest Criminal Defense Lawyer,\u201d New York, 1997. Lecturer, Cross Examination to Kill NYS Criminal Bar Association, 1990. Lecturer, Cross-Examination of a Tape Recording. Lecturer, Giants of the Bar. Frequent lecturer and Panelist, Criminal Defense Issues sponsored by the United States District Courts in New York, Association of the Bar for the City of New York, New York County Lawyers. Assistant District Attorney, Rackets Bureau, New York County District Attorney\u2019s Office, 1976-1979.\nBorn: New York, N.Y., July 21, 1948", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6319, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 137.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefamuanonline.com/news/view.php/1034108/Garzola-athlete-turned-politician-runs-f", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:07Z", "digest": "sha1:LNK7PSRVUPWH3RXVBGPD2CTO3EGYMDB3", "length": 2662, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "www.thefamuanonline.com", "title": "Garzola, athlete turned politician, runs for city commission | thefamuanonline '); //})();", "raw_content": "Garzola, athlete turned politician, runs for city commission\nBy Gayla Bush | Staff Reporter\nPhoto of Richard Garzola\nRichard Garzola was never interested in politics, but his desire to help others was always important to him. This led to him making a very big decision.\nThe 23-year-old recent graduate of Florida State University is now one of five candidates running for Tallahassee City Commission Seat 3.\nGarzola was born and raised in Miami by two immigrant parents. He came to FSU on a football scholarship and played linebacker for the Seminoles. He graduated in May.\nGarzola now calls Tallahassee his home, and he wants to see his home become better.\n\u201cAs an advocate, that\u2019s what I\u2019m known for in the community. I wanted to run for city commission because I just felt my impact can be quantified in a larger platform,\u201d Garzola said.\nGarzola has been involved in several advocacy projects, including the anti-rally for white supremacy that took place in front of the state Capitol. He is also creating a non-profit called SMILE which stands for Shaping Minorities and Integrating Leaders through Education.\nBecause of the work he has done for the community, he believes he is more than qualified to dedicate himself to the people of Tallahassee.\n\u201cYou can identify me as someone who is just passionate about helping people. I have a non-profit that\u2019s going to be on the way, I have a leadership summit that\u2019s going to start this fall. That\u2019s just the things I like to do genuinely before I ran, and I need people to understand that I\u2019ll be doing that after,\u201d Garzola said.\nGarzola\u2019s plans to improve the city were influenced by minorities and the youth in Tallahassee. He wants them to know that he is fighting for them and that he plans to initiate change.\n\u201cThe people I\u2019m doing this for, they are the ones I relate to the most. They are angry, and they are the ones who want change the most,\u201d Garzola said.\nGarzola has impacted many people including the people who are on his campaign team. Ankevia Taylor, a third-year English student at FSU and Garzola\u2019s public relations intern, admires Garzola and his drive to help others.\n\u201cI met Richard way before the campaign\u2026He is authentically invested in the community, and authentically himself. If you look at the things he\u2019s done, its always been community service, its always been volunteer work. For him, it\u2019s not about winning, its about making a change,\u201d said Taylor.\nGarzola is the youngest candidate for Seat 3. He will face Jeremy Matlow, Lisa Brown, Alexander Jordan and Bill Shack for in next month\u2019s primary.\n\u201cWhen it comes to my people, I\u2019m going to work until I can\u2019t work anymore,\u201d said Garzola.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 9551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 297.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thefirstanzacday.com/2015/04/10th-battalion-casualties-29-april-1915.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:20Z", "digest": "sha1:QQUOWTQYNEQJMALJRKVNR4NY7BOKBBZH", "length": 419, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.thefirstanzacday.com", "title": "The First Anzac Day: 10th Battalion casualties 29 April 1915", "raw_content": "After four days of continuous fighting following the Gallipoli dawn landing, the 10th Battalion was relieved during the night of April 28th 1915. In the book 'The Fighting 10th' Cecil B. Lock wrote \"The men of the 10th were utterly exhausted, and required proper food and rest\".\nIn the early hours of the morning of the 29th the 10th Battalion bivouacked at Shell Green. 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Mendez\u2019s order became public Wednesday.\nRichard Levitt, a Northfield resident who challenged the billboard when its brilliant glare made sleeping difficult for him and his wife, said he was glad.\n\u201cWell, we\u2019re obviously thrilled,\u201d Levitt said. \u201cWe knew from the beginning it was constructed illegally, and now we are on the path to having the right thing done.\u201d\nHis attorney, Stephen Hankin, described the potential demolition as \u201ca major victory for the public.\u201d\n\u201cYou have no idea of the scores of calls I have gotten from people I haven\u2019t heard from in years\u201d who wanted the billboard gone, Hankin said.\nChet Atkins, president of billboard owner Jersey Outdoor Media, said, \u201cThe only thing I really have to say is it\u2019s not over until it\u2019s over.\u201d He declined to say whether he had filed or planned to file an appeal.\nHis attorney, Peter Boyer, said he had seen the order but declined comment because he had not talked with his client. Boyer also would not comment on plans to appeal.\nAt issue is a 50-foot-tall electronic billboard approved by the Egg Harbor Township Planning Board in September 2011 and built on the causeway in early 2012. It operated for only two months before legal challenges pulled the plug by June 1, 2012.\nThe state Department of Environmental Protection found that wetlands had been improperly filled in to put up the billboard. The application was refiled and subsequent township Planning Board hearings reauthorized the billboard, but it remained dark.\nMendez\u2019s ruling last week was a victory for the people who opposed putting up the billboard, but it was also a sharp rebuke to the township\u2019s Planning Board.\nMendez ruled the board authorized the proposal without two key variances from the township\u2019s Zoning Board, improperly mixed business and commercial zones, and ignored the clear intent of the relevant billboard ordinance.\nLevitt, who chairs Northfield\u2019s Planning Board, called on Egg Harbor Township leaders to step in.\n\u201cI would just hope at this point the township takes a responsible look at what the citizens of adjoining towns are asking them,\u201d Levitt said. \u201cI hope they are willing to listen to the public at this point.\u201d\nPaying For Sports Teams Is a Losing Proposition\nDo cities gain from subsidizing sports teams?\nThe National Hockey League season doesn't start for another three weeks, but already hockey fans in Glendale, Ariz., are counting an unexpected victory. Four years after the Phoenix Coyotes went bankrupt and were taken over by the league, prompting endless rumors that the struggling franchise would relocate to Quebec, Seattle or parts unknown, new owners were approved this month who have promised to keep the team in Arizona.\nIt's a victory, though, that will come at a high price. To secure the sale, the Glendale city council agreed to a new lease that requires the city to pay the Coyotes' owners $15 million a year as an \"arena management fee.\" If the deal runs its full 15-year course \u2014 not a given, because the new lease allows the team to leave town if it\u2019s losing money after five years \u2014 the Coyotes' new owners, a pair of Canadian investment bankers, will end up collecting more from the city of Glendale to run the team than the $170 million they're spending to buy it in the first place.\nCity officials say they had little choice. Glendale mayor Jerry Weiers, who in his acceptance speech last fall warned the Coyotes, \"Glendale is not your cash register,\" has now resigned himself to paying for pro sports, saying, \"The council made its decision, and my job at this point is to do everything in my power to make this thing a success.\" His predecessor, Elaine Scruggs, insisted that paying the Coyotes was cheaper than letting the team leave: \"What shall we do \u2014 lock it up, turn off the lights and then pay the debt on the arena?\"\nThe answer, say many economists and sports business experts, is very likely yes. There's no way a city like Glendale will see enough of a boost to its local economy to make lease subsidies pay off. And, they warn, the Coyotes deal is a sign of a new trend in the sports industry: After a 20-year period during which, according to Harvard researcher Judith Grant Long, about $18 billion in public money was spent on a wave of new stadiums and arenas, team owners looking for a leg up on their competition are now demanding additional cash to run the buildings they got for free.\n\"They always do come up with clever little tricks,\" says Rick Eckstein, sociology professor at Villanova University and co-author of the book Public Dollars, Private Stadiums. \"Just when we think we\u2019ve seen it all, they come up with something else.\"\nThis summer's new lease isn't the first time that Glendale has anted up public cash for its hockey team. The suburb of 230,000 people was already on the hook for $9 million a year in debt payments on its new arena, a building for which the team's owners paid only $1 a year in rent. (Glendale also spent $200 million on Camelback Ranch, a spring-training baseball facility for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox.) In 2010, after the Coyotes' bankruptcy, Scruggs poured in an additional $50 million in management fees over two years, raiding its landfill, sanitation, water and sewer funds to raise the cash.\nThe result of all this sports spending has been a massive hit to the city's budget at a time when Glendale was already furloughing firefighters, closing public pools and shortening public libraries' hours. Last month's Coyotes lease subsidy came shortly after the Glendale council discussed a proposal to sell off its city hall to help pay for the previous round of Coyotes payments.\n\"Our police and fire departments were the first ones that started seeing their budget cut back,\" says Ken Jones, a Glendale resident who led several unsuccessful attempts to force a public vote that could have overturned the Coyotes lease deal. \"Libraries were hit pretty hard. They raised our water bills 80 percent, our sales tax was raised, and our property tax was raised. They have robbed the things that people really expect to get from their taxes in order to keep supporting sports.\"\nThe first sports team owner to cash in on this pay-to-play tactic was the New Orleans Saints' Tom Benson, who in 2001 capitalized on rumors that he was considering moving his NFL team to convince the state of Louisiana to pay him $186.5 million over the next 10 years to keep playing at the Superdome. In 2010, the owners of the Indiana Pacers basketball team followed suit by demanding \u2014 and receiving \u2014 $30 million in \"operating subsidies\" over three years to remain at Conseco Fieldhouse, the arena that the city of Indianapolis had spent $183 million to build nine years earlier. (As in Glendale, Pacers owner Herb Simon, a billionaire real estate developer, paid just $1 a year rent.)\nTo pay off the initial Pacers arena cost \u2014 plus the $650 million that it sank into a new stadium for the Colts football team \u2014 Indianapolis' Capital Improvement Board had already cut off all of its arts and tourism grants the year before. To help fill the new gap, Mayor Greg Ballard funneled city property-tax revenues to the board, even as he asked city agencies to reduce library hours and close public pools because of budget shortfalls.\n\"Indianapolis might be a great place to visit, but it should be a better place to live,\" says Pat Andrews, a longtime Indianapolis community activist and blogger who has closely followed the Pacers deal. In addition to cuts to parks, transit and other services, she notes, the city police force has stopped recruiting new officers because of budget cuts, and murders have risen dramatically this year. \"The basic services of the city are suffering at the same time the Simons and [Colts owner Jim] Irsay are making out like bandits.\"\nSimon, meanwhile, agreed only to keep the Pacers in town through 2013 in exchange for his $30 million in cash. The city's Capital Improvement Board has since negotiated a one-year lease extension \u2014 along with yet another $10 million in payments to the Pacers \u2014 while it works out a long-term deal, one that Andrews worries will cement annual operating subsidies in place for good. (CIB officials declined to comment for this story.)\nEven team owners building new stadiums have begun seeking annual operating subsidies.Earlier this year, when Atlanta agreed to provide billionaire Atlanta Falcons owner (and Home Depot founder) Arthur Blank with $200 million in hotel tax money to help pay for a new stadium to replace the 20-year-old Georgia Dome, it tacked on an additional bonus: Any leftover hotel tax money after the first $200 million would spill over into a so-called waterfall fund that Blank could then tap for any future maintenance or operating expenses. Estimated cost: an extra $300 million.\nWatch \"Destination Unknown - Tent City of Lakewood, NJ\" on YouTube\nLakewood is world famous! Not for its rural beauty. Not worth its stellar institutions of learning. Not for its mix of cultures. Not for its special businesses. It is famous for its Tent City. In this must see video you will see how a couple from Holland cope with living in Tent City for a reality TV show.\nRamapo, NY - Angry Residents Storm Town Hall; Say It's Time To \"End Corruption\"\nRockland County, NY - Over one hundred angry residents held a rally calling for a \u201cregime change\u201d outside the Ramapo Town Hall on Tuesday before storming a scheduled Planning Board meeting where they planned to voice their opposition to the \u201cpolitical favoritism\u201d they say is ruining their town.\nLOHUD.com (http://lohud.us/1cvhcVN) reports that many protesters held signs dedicated to the town\u2019s latest hot-button issue, the granting of a temporary permit to the ultra-Orthodox congregation Mosdos Sanz Klausenburg to operate a yeshiva out of a single-family residence on Eckerson Lane.\n\u201cPeople are just fed up,\u201d said 40 year-old activist Michael Miller, who is leading the charge against the Eckerson Lane yeshiva. \u201cThey are fed up with the obvious corruption in this community and the favoritism and mistreatment.\u201d\nThe bulk of the protesters\u2019 ire was directed at Supervisor Christopher St. Lawrence and his perceived favoritism towards the rapidly-growing ultra-Orthodox community on decisions involving land use and development\u2014-opposition ultra-Orthodox leaders often claim is religion-based, but which opponents in attendance denied.\nVideo Below: A large crowd turns out to protest political corruption and favoritism given to the ultra-orthodox Jewish community at Ramapo Town Hall. ( Video by Peter Carr/The Journal News courtesy to VINnews.com)\n\u201cI don\u2019t care what your religion is,\u201d said the Rev. Weldon McWilliams IV of the activist group Wake Up Rockland, \u201cIf your value system is to exploit the community, I want you out of the way. This has nothing to do with religion.\u201d\nFollowing the rally, protesters filed into the Town Hall to voice their opposition on the Eckerson Lane yeshiva, only to see their hopes dashed when the topic was tabled by the Planning Board at the \u201ccongregation\u2019s request.\u201d\nActivists reaffirmed their commitment to return in \u201cfull force\u201d at any future meetings on the matter.\n\u201cThis town, it\u2019s in bad shape,\u201d said Michael Miller. \u201cAnd we can\u2019t go back to where we were. But if we don\u2019t do something, it\u2019s only going to get worse.\nClifton Man Sues Oorah Inc., Kars 4 Kids Over Military-Service Duty\nA Clifton man hired as a corporate lawyer has filed suit in state court claiming that he was subjected to a hostile work environment because of his military-service obligations.\nStephen Schwartz is suing a number of entities all run by the same Lakewood-based management office where, according to the lawsuit, he was hired under a two-year contract to serve as an attorney. The named defendants in the suit, filed Monday in state Superior Court in Paterson, are Oorah Inc., Kars 4 Kids and J.O.Y. For Our Youth.\nOther than characterizing them as corporations conducting business within the state of New Jersey, the suit does not describe the function of any of the named entities, nor would the plaintiff's attorney explain when reached by phone what kind of work they do.\nSchwartz is suing the defendants under New Jersey's Law Against Discrimination for harassment, discriminatory discharge, retaliation and breach of contract. He is seeking compensatory and punitive damages, along with attorney fees.\nSchwartz was hired in September 2012 in a two-year contract \"only terminable upon showing of good cause,\" the suit states. At all times during his employment, he was in the U.S. military service. In October 2012, the suit states, Schwartz advised the defendants' director of human resources of his status in the National Guard and his need for leave. He further told his human resources director that he would withdraw from his military enrollment if the defendants provided him with health care coverage, according to the suit.\nThe human resources director, the suit states, advised Schwartz that \"we can't tell the CEO you're in the Army. He'll think it's disloyal. He'll be upset you didn't tell him in the interview.\" The human resources director further advised him that she would rather that he continue to take time off than to provide him with health insurance, but that they would revisit the issue in April 2013, the suit states.\nIt is unclear from the suit specifically how much time he needed for leave, and how periodically.\nIn April, Schwartz was called into a meeting with company CEO Alwyn Gordon and human resources Director Dina Stern. \"Mr. Gordon stated to plaintiff that the defendants would have never hired plaintiff if they had known of his military service. 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This is generally a place for younger people to meet for a pretty wild night out.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 167.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.themidnightreview.com/2010/01/breitbarts-concept-of-nation-building.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:10Z", "digest": "sha1:2FLVS3M2CYUFH6FG33EN24ZST5WLE25N", "length": 1113, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.themidnightreview.com", "title": "The Midnight Review: Breitbart's Concept Of \"Nation Building\"", "raw_content": "Here is a quickie. On Big Government, there was a link to an article on Breitbart.tv, with the link being titled \"Biden Commits To 'Nation Building' In Haiti.\"\nWhile Biden and the Obama administration are pledging tremendous financial aid for the recent disaster, is appears the conservative twist is to compare it to the more common use of the phrase \"nation building,\" which is closer to what President George Bush had done in Afghanistan and Iraq, where they toppled regimes to place a more Western form of government compatible with our ideals...\nWhile the author of the article might be talking about the amount of aid being given to Haiti for rebuilding efforts, it seems the use of the word in a headline sounded rather condescending of the administrations efforts (maybe because it puts the relief efforts from Hurricane Katrina to shame).\nMaybe I am looking to deeply into something, but given the Andrew Breitbart's bastardization of journalism, I won't put anything pass him or any of the content on his websites.\nTopics: Andrew Breitbart, Barack Obama, Big Government, George W. 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We needed a flexible solution that recognizes our customers and their AR terms which Thermo Credit was able to provide.\u201d\nSeth Block, Executive Vice President of Thermo Credit stated, \u201cIntegrity is an example of the type of well run company with which we are looking to work. We feel our facility will take them to the next level.\u201d\nAbout Integrity General Engineering Contractors, Inc.\nIntegrity General Engineering Contractors is a general engineering contractor that provides underground utility services to the utility industry, ranging from long-line conduit installations for power and fiber to underground structure installations. The company has a management team with more than 100 years of combined experience in the industry and it supports a geographic market from Los Angeles to the Border of Mexico to the South, and Arizona to the East. Integrity is a union contractor and a certified Woman Owned Minority Enterprise through the PUC of California.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 4418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 238.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.thesoccerinsiders.com/2013/12/history-lesson.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:19Z", "digest": "sha1:BVWPOUVEDXRCHE7KTQDA4LN76WQQN4P4", "length": 4159, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.thesoccerinsiders.com", "title": "The Soccer Insiders: History Lesson", "raw_content": "Last time the US played Germany was just 6 months ago, again at RFK Stadium, on June 2, 2013. At the time, people were surprised to see Brad Evans as the starting right back. I am assuming those doubts are at least somewhat diminished by now. In the 14th minute, Graham Zusi sent a perfect cross to Jozy Altidore, who volleyed it directly into the net to give the USA a quick 1-0 lead. The lead was doubled in the 18th minute on an own goal \"credited\" to goalkeeper Ter Stegen, who misplayed a back pass from Benedikt Howedes, the normally reliable captain of Schalke 04. Comparisons to Robert Green at the South Africa 2010 World Cup ensue. Germany got a goal back in the 52nd minute, as Heiko Westermann eluded Omar Gonzalez to head a corner kick past Tim Howard to make the score 2-1. The lead was increased back to 2 goals in the 60th minute when Jozy Altidore sent a ball back from the end line to Clint Dempsey, who volleyed it into the net. Deuce was still on fire 6 minutes later as he scored an unassisted goal when he found himself open after a cutback move just outside the 18 and blasted it into the net to make the score 4-1. Germany would make a late rally, as Germany's best player of the day, Max Kruse, scored in the 78th minute and then Julian Draxler, who looks like he should still be in high school (he was 19 at the time), pounced on a rebound off Tim Howard in the 80th minute to make the final score USA 4-3 over Germany.\nAs for Portugal, the USA has an incredibly remarkable 2 win, 2 loss, and 1 draw record against them. In fact, though Portugal recently shot up to #5 in the FIFA World Rankings, they were ranked 14 last month, and the USA, now ranked 14, were number 13. Are we really equal with Sele\u00e7\u00e3o Portugu\u00eas? Well, they are ranked #5 in the World now. Which is exactly what Portugal was ranked when the USA played them last in Suwon, South Korea, on June 5, 2002. The win is considered the greatest win in US World Cup play since 1950. The first half was all USA. Brian McBride got his head on an Earnie Stewart corner kick, and the ball fell to John O'Brien, who put the USA on top 1-0 in the 4th minute to set the tone. In the 30th minute, Jorge Costa deflected a Landon Donovan cross into his own net to double the score with an own goal. Tony Sanneh sent a cross into the middle in the 36th minute, and Brian McBride scored on a beauty of a diving header. It is the only time the USA has ever scored 3 goals in one half in a World Cup match. Portugal got one goal back just 3 minutes later when Jeff Agoos couldn't defend Beto, who headed a shot that was blocked by O'Brien, but Beto got his own rebound to narrow the score to 3-1. Finally, in the 71st minute, good old Jeff Agoos, being his usual self, volleyed a cross from Rui Costa past Brad Friedel into the USA net to reduce the USA lead to 3-2 and to give each team an own goal. So, no one can say the US won the game because of an own goal because Agoos gave it back. Agoos was at fault on both Portugal goals but thankfully the rest of the team held off FIFA World #5 Portugal then, and they can do it again, as long as Jeff Agoos, Claudio Reyna, Alexi Lalas, or others of that generation don't come out of retirement.\nMr. X December 7, 2013 at 5:31 AM\nYeah, was living in Cologne at the time and caught a couple games of Kirovski's... he was riding pine most of the time or came on late to be ineffectual on a team holding up Bundes2 before they were penalized for being broke, dropped a few levels and then went insolvent (a shame really, cause it was a 5min walk from where I lived at the time). Impressive really, that he managed that goal, all things considered.\nAnd if we do manage to pull off even 5 points in this group (I could see us promoting with 5, going 1-2-0 because that'd require Portugal to have to beat Germany or vice versa and both to ruthlessly crush Ghana to promote out of the group on GD) or even 4pts, that means we either broke the Bob Bradley/Ghana curse and it was him all along, not the USMNT, or we beat Portugal or Germany. Any which way, the only disappointment I'll have is if we turn in a lackluster display akin to Italy 1990.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 236, "original_length": 11364, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 308.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tielabtuc.com/airpotition/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:06Z", "digest": "sha1:ESSWCTZWP5TIWXVR4QE7TDMUJDDYPLXA", "length": 2567, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.tielabtuc.com", "title": "The AirPOTition project \u2014 Transformable Intelligent Environments Laboratory", "raw_content": "TUC TIE LAB Sustainability\nAirPOTition is an unconventional structure which has a double benefit to humans (energy and aesthetic benefits); it suggests a way of saving electric energy, water and money, and at the same time, offers a friendly and healthier environment to the habitants and protects the planet. Our objective is the gradual development of green cores in the cities that could offer a friendly natural place for people to live in. Nowadays, the contemporary lifestyle in every modern metropolis enforces people in an unhealthy way of living. The immoderate waste of natural resources (oil, water) and the use of them in the industrial procedures led to different kinds of pollution and climatic changes. As a result, we waste more energy in order to protect ourselves from these changes, as for example air-conditioning. External airconditioning units dominate the most urban building facades, leading to a deterioration of the local image. Areas with invaluable local culture as long as other areas of the planet, suffer from this phenomenon which also leads to microclimate changes. AirPOTition is a lightweight addon construction that exploits the outer air condition boxes. It is based on the air-conditioning system that it is installed on the fa\u00e7ade of almost every single building in contemporary cities.\nOnly in Greece, there are more than 7.000.000 installed air-conditions and about 350.000 units are added annually. Every 9,000BTU A/C unit produces 10L/day distilled water, while a public building produces 40L/100m\u00b2. Moreover, a 9,000 BTU A/C unit produces 800gr CO2 and a 12,000BTU A/C unit 1600gr CO2. All these useless outputs, in addition to the produced wind and the existing solar energy, were the spark of our concept.\nAirPOTition proposes an alternative use of the units, in order to gain the amount of wasted energy, which comes from the wind produced from the fan and the solar energy. More specifically, it converts the kinetic energy that is being produced by the air, into electric energy and it collects solar energy, by using micro-photovoltaic panels, and converts it into electrical energy. The electrical energy produced by the wind and the sun are stored in a battery and can be used by habitants. Moreover, an AirPOTition unit utilizes the useless water in order to grow vertical gardens in the city. This kind of plantation has a great impact on the city: it improves the air quality, restrains pendulous particles and dust, reduces environmental temperature, absorbs noise pollution and offers better living conditions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 24, "original_length": 3119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 222.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tipjar.com/dan/bringingoutthedead.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:33Z", "digest": "sha1:ICJAACYWU7MNUYCUDFLD7SFXGYJZSNLJ", "length": 3815, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.tipjar.com", "title": "Bringing Out the Dead--The Lybarger Links Review", "raw_content": "Getting sick or injured in New York is not a good idea. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is under-staffed, and too many of its drivers appear to be burned out like Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage). Early in his five-year career, Frank earned awards. Now he\u0092s on the verge of getting fired. He shows up late, leaves early, drinks on duty and teeters on the edge of sanity. He even starts seeing the ghosts of people who\u0092ve died on his watch. Having gone months without saving anyone, Frank desperately needs time off, but he has used up his sick time, and the EMS is too short-handed to dismiss him, much less give him a break.\nHis co-workers are also showing the strain, but in different ways. Larry (John Goodman) spends most of his time preparing for his captain\u0092s test, even though he\u0092s as sick of the job as Frank. Tom (Tom Sizemore) isn\u0092t above verbally (and sometimes physically) abusing the repeat customers who come his way, and Marcus (Ving Rhames) is a religious fanatic who thinks he\u0092s a smooth romancer.\nIn many ways, their job is an exercise in futility. Thanks to poverty and a booming drug trade, many patients rotate in and out of emergency rooms as if they were hotel suites. With nowhere else to go, the hospitals are the only place the indigent have. As a result, the ER finds itself having to prioritize its patients. Heart attack victims, like the one Frank tries to rescue early on, are low on the totem pole.\nDespite the neglect, Mr. Burke, the patient in question, remains alive. Because his survival may bring an end to Frank\u0092s dry spell, he develops a fondne ss for the man and his suffering estranged daughter Mary (Patricia Arquette). However, at the same time, Frank thinks that the silent Mr. Burke may actually be begging him to commit euthanasia.\nIf all of this sounds like a bleak way to spend two and a half hours, it is. Surprisingly, Bringing Out the Dead is actually a compelling and vibrant film. New York-based director Martin Scorsese has a real feel for the energy and atmosphere of his hometown. Oliver Stone\u0092s regular cinematographer Robert Richardson creates an authentically gritty atmosphere that evolves into the stuff of nightmares. As Frank slips deeper into madness, the colors seem to change and Cage begins to look more cadaverous with each scene. The eclectic soundtrack, which includes everything from Van Morrison to Igor Stravinsky, blends seamlessly with the images, giving the movie a demonic aura.\nCage\u0092s performance provides a much needed anchor to the appropriately chaotic proceedings. Frank is a showy role (like the one he had in Leaving Las Vegas), but Cage keeps the eye-rolling and emoting to a minimum. He also makes Frank compassionate and likable enough for an audience to stomach his self-flagellation. There are dozens of memorable characters. New Zealander Cliff Curtis is great as a suave dope dealer, and moonlighting singer Marc Anthony is quite good as a maniac who haunts the streets near the hospital. Some of these people seem to be little more than bad examples, but their faces linger long after the movie ends. There is also a wicked gallows humor running throughout the flick. Scorsese and Queen Latifah are a riot as unseen dispatchers, and the scene where Marcus leads an impromptu prayer circle to save the life of a musician who has overdosed is priceless.\nBringing Out the Dead covers a lot of the same territory that Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader (working from the novel by former ambulance driver Joe Connelly) previously explored in Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Guilt, obsession and loneliness ooze from every frame. These feelings are painful, but they are often universal. Scorsese and Schrader\u0092s partnership remains vital because they have retained their ability to make the madness of others seem like one\u0092s own. 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While the more recent adaptation has a stronger emphasis on physical humor, there really isn't much that's new here, and writers Nancy Meyers and Charles Shyer (the Steve Martin Father of the Bride remakes) might want to brush up on their Queen's English (not many Brits say the word \"tush\" when they mean \"bum\"). Nonetheless, young Lohan is terrific, possessing a range that's surprising wide. The grown-ups are pretty good, too. The scenery (one of the settings is a California vineyard) is gorgeous, and there are enough mild laughs to keep this thing interesting, even if it has been done several times before (PG). 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We are going to have TWINS!\"\nAmazed at how she could know so soon after getting pregnant, I asked her how she knew.\nShe said \"Well, I went to Walmart and they actually had a home pregnancy kit in a twin-pack. Both tests came out positive!\"\nPosted on Fri, January 9, 2015 by Unknown", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 1282, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 195.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.toben.biz/2016/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:26Z", "digest": "sha1:QTFNH4FIUVRQUVXDWQKGILXYBYF7GXGO", "length": 4124, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.toben.biz", "title": "September | 2016 | | Fredrick Toben", "raw_content": "Former israeli president Shimon Peres dies at 93 Wed Sep 28, 2016 1:55AM Source: PressTV A photo of Israel\u2019s ex-president Shimon Peres is seen on the cover of a magazine, which refers to him as a war criminal. Former Israeli President Shimon Peres, known as the regime\u2019s \u201clast remaining founding father,\u201d has died almost two weeks after suffering a stroke. The Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv pronounced the 93-year-old dead at 0000 GMT on Wednesday. He had Read more [\u2026]\nFaurisson, Tehran\nRobert Faurisson found guilty of racial defamation for 2006 Tehran talk. On June 21, 2016 Professor Robert Faurisson was prosecuted, with regard to his 2006 talk in Tehran and his paper \u201cThe Victories of Revisionism\u201c, for \u201cdisputing the existence of crimes against humanity\u201c, and, because of his 60-word sentence alone, for \u201cracial defamation\u201c. Here is the result of that trial as conveyed to us [Bocage] by the Professor\u2019s barrister: ** On September 27, 2016, in the case of the talk Read more [\u2026]\nThe AfD party admitted this week that one of their newest elected politicians was once part of an extremist group. And his Facebook posts reveal more about his troubling thoughts on the Nazis. One of the new members of Berlin\u2019s state parliament from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party used to be a member of the German Defence League \u2013 an extremist right-wing, anti-Islam group \u2013 the party confirmed on Monday. Kay Nerstheimer, who was elected to the parliament as a direct candidate Read more [\u2026]\nUniversities across Britain might be causing psychological distress to black students because they\u2019re forced to learn about mostly white Europeans, the National Union of Students (NUS) leader has said. NUS president Malia Bouattia, herself a black woman of Algerian heritage, believes that as most higher education is based on \u201cEurocentric\u201d subjects, non-white undergraduates end up lagging behind. Her comments follow an announcement from the UK government that universities Read more [\u2026]\nBacha Bazi in good ol\u2019 Germany\nBacha Bazi in good ol\u2019 Germany Sexueller Missbrauch? Nicht doch! Nur ein Afghanischer Sexstrolch-T\u00e4ter mit hoher \u201eHaftempfindlichkeit\u201c (in einer anderen Kultur, anderem Land, anderem Rechtssystem, anderen Zeit, h\u00e4tte man den Sexstrolch mit heruntergelassener Hose standrechtlich erschossen oder erschlagen. Aber in der liberalen, gr\u00fcnen, aber psychisch kaputten, bereits hirntoten BRD wird er mit geeigneten Lustknaben ausgestattet \u2013 zwecks Therapie \u2013 auf den Seychellen (?) therapeutisch Read more [\u2026]\nhttps://www.facebook.com/OfficialMinisterFarrakhan/videos/1090151884425416/\nThe former pub in the Austrian town of Braunau-am-Inn was Hitler\u2019s home THE house where Adolf Hitler was born will be seized by the Austrian parliament next month to prevent it from becoming a shrine to the far-right. The former pub in the Austrian town of Braunau-am-Inn has been a thorn in the side of politicians and townspeople for decades. The taxpayer has been paying more than \u00a34,000-a-month rent to the woman who owns the building for years, just to keep it empty. She has refused Read more [\u2026]\nPresents a brief introduction to Holocaust Revisionism. Shows the trailer for the film \u201cDenial\u201d which will be analyzed closer in later parts. An analysis of the casting and pre-production casting changes to the movie \u201cDenial.\u201d The filmmakers make Irving look like a monster and Lipstadt like an angel. Deborah Lipstadt demonizes Revisionists yet parroted bogus Soviet propaganda claim of 4 million Auschwitz dead. A preview of the next part in the video series\u2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9ZF_DipeXA Read more [\u2026]\nJames Bacque, who was born and educated in Toronto, is a former journalist, book editor (Macmillan of Canada) and publisher (newpress). He has written novels, essays, short stories, a biography, a play and books on the history of postwar Germany. His best sellers Other Losses and Crimes and Mercies have revealed atrocities committed by the allies against German POWs and civilians after World War Two. 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To accommodate this annual chopping fest, at any given time there are around 350 million trees growing on various Christmas tree farms in the United States. As for the other side of things, it\u2019s not clear how many trees are illegally cut each year at Christmas time, although Christmas tree poaching is generally considered a pervasive problem throughout the regions of the world that celebrate Christmas.\nIn the United States where the average live Christmas tree costs in the neighborhood of $40-$50 and an artificial tree can be much more expensive than that, it\u2019s easy to understand (although difficult to excuse) why some turn to crime to decorate for the yuletide.\nTo thwart these villainous poachers, those managing areas containing trees that would otherwise look great decorated with some ornaments and tinsel have come up with a variety of approaches to protect their evergreen charges.\nPerhaps the most interesting of all of the deterrents is fox urine. Containing the volatile chemical compounds delta-3-isopentenyl methyl sulfide, 2-phenylethyl methyl sulfide, 6 methyl-delta-5-hepten-2-one, and trans geranylacetone- all believed to help the fox with its intra-species \u201colfactory communication\u201c- in the great outdoors in winter, you could walk by a place sprayed with fox pee and not even notice it. However, once the sprayed object is brought inside and warmed up, it reeks to high heaven, very much akin to a skunk\u2019s spray.\nThose who use fox urine, like the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, sometimes augment it with other stinky (e.g., skunk essence) and non-stinky (e.g., glycerin and water) substances and spray the whole mess onto any trees that look like someone might like to put them in their living room for Christmas. Together with signs posted identifying the presence of the smell and how it works, the fox urine application has been highly effective at reducing Christmas tree poaching \u2013 according to Lincoln\u2019s parks supervisor, dropping the tree theft totals drastically down, to a perfect zero, in 2012.\nAnother popular option is skunk spray. At Washington State University, prior to taking defensive measures entire trees or the tops of large trees were often illegally cut each year on the campus at Christmas time. But after applying skunk stink to their trees (the smell also being largely benign within a few days after application as long as the temperature is cold), for the most part, trees are no longer poached.\nAt Cornell University, the groundskeepers decided to assault a different sense in their initiative to protect their trees- sight. They mix together red food coloring and hydrated lime to produce a fluorescent pink, non-toxic paint that they use to spray certain of their trees. The pines remain glowing pink for about a month (outlasting the Christmas season), before the color fades.\nThe Curious Practice of Execution By Golden Shower\nHow One Man\u2019s Attempt to Create the Philosopher\u2019s Stone Out of Human Urine Led to the First Element Discovered Since Ancient Times\nWhy Asparagus Makes Pee Smell\nNot all tree-cutting is bad (unless of course you\u2019re the tree ;-)), and in addition to tree farms where you can cut your own Christmas tree (after you pay the owner and get permission of course), you can also cut Christmas trees in many of the National Forests. Beginning in November, some of the national forests start to issue tree-cutting permits for a modest price typically around $10-$20. Subject to rules such as no topping of tall trees, choosing only trees with trunks six inches or less in diameter and not cutting within 200 feet of main roads and campsites, the permit otherwise allows the permitee a fair amount of leeway when it comes to picking and cutting the perfect Christmas tree. However, violations of the permit rules are harshly punished, including with fines of up to $5,000 or six months in jail.\nUnder the Federal Lacey Act that covers illegal tree cutting as well as a variety of other activities related to poaching fish, wildlife and plants in the U.S., civil penalties can reach $10,000 and criminal penalties can reach as high as $500,000 and earn the offender up to five years in prison. Nonetheless, tree poaching remains a major problem, not just around Christmas time. Worldwide, it\u2019s estimated that tree poaching annually results in the loss of around ten to fifteen billion dollars of timber.\nThe average time it takes to grow a Christmas tree to 6 feet is 7 years, although some varieties take as long as 15.\nThere are nearly 15,000 Christmas tree farms, employing more than 100,000 people in the U.S.\nChemical scent constituents in the urine of the red fox\nChristmas Tree Growers Battle Poachers\nCutting a Bad Deal\nFox Urine: Ideal for Preventing Christmas Tree Theft\nHere\u2019s Why You Should Never Illegally Cut\nStinky Spray\nTree Poachers Face Fines\nTree Poaching\nAt Washington State U., they use coyote urine to discourage students from cutting campus trees. As a graduate of the U of Washington, I find this humorous.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 7860, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.touringohio.com/history/august/august-14-a-star-is-born/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:07Z", "digest": "sha1:F33HRNWJ6TOM7OOZADGJUP6VU5MDJUXI", "length": 1112, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "www.touringohio.com", "title": "August 14: A Star is Born", "raw_content": "August 14: A Star is Born\nOn this day Judith Ann Berry gave birth to a beautiful daughter she named Ann. Ann\u2019s father was a hospital attendant and her mother a psychiatric nurse in Cleveland. Little did they know that their beautiful little girl would go on to become one of the world\u2019s most stunning actresses.\nWhile attending Bedford High School, Ann becomes an editor on the school newspaper. With this experience she decides that maybe a career in journalism would be good. But then, she becomes captain of the cheer leading squad, and then in her senior year she is elected class president and homecoming queen.\nWhen Ann turned 17 she represented Ohio in the Miss Teen All-American Pageant. The next year she again represented Ohio in the Miss USA Pageant and later that year she would be a finalist in the Miss World competition. She attended Cleveland\u2019s Cuyahoga Community College. In 2001 she would become the first African American to win an Academy Award. On this day in 1966, her parents gave her a name we all know today: Halle Ann Berry. Happy B-Day Halle!\nFiled Under: August, Born Today, Celebrity", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 1599, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 199.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.travelbyjen.com/cgi-bin/pages.pl?script=show_deal&id=2076", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:23Z", "digest": "sha1:X3OPZIWO5QOGUF6IJAQ2SG5RSQFGYXDY", "length": 839, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.travelbyjen.com", "title": "TravelByJen : Travel agency specializing in discount travel and personal service", "raw_content": "Bellevue Dominican Bay Spring Break Getaway\nSpend 5 All Inclusive Nights at Bellevue Dominican Bay! Only a short distance from Boca Chica Beach and exciting Santo Domingo, this all-inclusive hotel offers a variety of on-site activities along with comfortable accommodations and several on-site dining options. While staying at Bellevue Dominican Bay, guests have access to a number of recreational activities, including on-site dance classes, swimming pools and tennis courts. Horseback riding, surfing, sailing and fishing are also available in the nearby area. Guests at Bellevue Dominican Bay Hotel can also enjoy a variety of dining options, including classic Caribbean, Italian and international cuisine. The hotel also features 4 on-site bars.\nJan2-14 (Small fee for dates traveling Jan15-Jun28, Must be flexible for the lowest rate)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 3777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.treeclinicsurrey.co.uk/services/crown-thinning/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:34Z", "digest": "sha1:BDHJ6IXPSJQ2KQLQMU3UQQIXZV7Z25YM", "length": 1230, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "www.treeclinicsurrey.co.uk", "title": "Crown Thinning | The Tree Clinic Surrey", "raw_content": "Crown thinning is a pruning technique primarily used on hardwood trees.\nThe intent is to improve a tree\u2019s structure and form while also making life uncomfortable for tree pests.\nCrown thinning is the removal of a percentage of the smaller/tertiary branches, usually around the outer crown. This produces a uniform density of foliage around an evenly spaced branch structure.\nThis practice is usually confined to broad-leaved Tree Species.\nCrown thinning does not change the overall size or shape of the tree. Branches should be removed systematically and evenly throughout the tree, the works should not exceed the stated percentage, usually up to 20% and not be more than 30% overall.\nUsually crown thinning works are undertaken to allow more light to pass through the tree canopy, it also reduces wind resistance, reduces overall weight (but this does not necessarily reduce leverage on the structure.)\nThinning Crowns are rarely a once only operation particularly on species that are known to produce large amounts of epicormic growth, such as Lime Trees.\nDuring a Crown Thin, all major deadwood should also be removed as standard.\nThinning a tree is usually a preferred practice compared to Crown reductions whenever possible.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 3421, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.tvthrong.co.uk/tag/pramface-mansion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:35Z", "digest": "sha1:LO7ZKZACXRFM4TR27XYSN5UEHYMFCKKQ", "length": 2656, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.tvthrong.co.uk", "title": "Pramface Mansion - Throng", "raw_content": "Pramface Mansion\nBBC Three - Pramface Mansion\nBBC Three is tackling the issue of single motherhood head-on with its ambitious new series, Pramface Mansion.\nFrom the makers of the very successful Baby Borrowers series, Pramface Mansion is a radical experiment that will see ten single mothers and their children living together for over a month.\nDanny Cohen, Controller of BBC Three, says: \u201cPramface Mansion is a bold way of looking at a growing question for young people \u2013 are there different ways in which people could live together as alternatives to the nuclear family? It\u2019s an intriguing experiment and I\u2019m looking forward to having it on the channel.\u201d\nBritain has one of the highest proportions of single parent families in the EU\u00b9 and their rate of employment is one of the lowest\u00b2. Half of all co-habiting couples who have children split up by the time the child is five\u00b3 and half of all children living with a lone parent are poor.\nWith many single mums saying they feel isolated and lacking in the confidence to turn their lives around this is a problem that the Government continues to grapple with.\nAnna Beattie, Executive Producer at Love Productions, says: \u201cMany single mothers say they struggle to cope on their own and need help. Pramface Mansion is a totally new approach to this massive issue that will give ten mothers the opportunity to support and help each other. Perhaps it might even provide a model for the future.\u201d\nThis bold new series from Love Productions offers single mothers an alternative way of life. Living together in a mansion the women will be totally reliant on each other to improve their lives.\nCan they build up a community that will provide the support and encouragement they need to make positive changes in their lives, be this entering or re-entering the job market, sorting out their relationship with their ex or starting to date again?\nIn the United States, something similar has been happening. Single mothers have chosen to live together with their children in order to support each other. The idea is that they lighten their load by helping each other out and pooling resources as well as providing an understanding ear.\nPramface Mansion will be on a far bigger scale as it invites a group of ten single mums to live together. The ambition is that the women forge friendships that may have a long term impact on their lives and even create the potential for future co-habitation.\n\u201cPramface\u201d is a stereotype which the series aims to subvert. Pramface Mansion seeks to challenge pre-conceptions about single parent families as well as explode some of the myths about the supposed ideal of the nuclear family.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3092, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.twiceasfar.ca/BB%20-%20Timeline/Notes%20for%2099%20JUN%2021.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:51Z", "digest": "sha1:TZG4H36SNPIGS3JSHYGDASTPZNDDUAFW", "length": 7208, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.twiceasfar.ca", "title": "Notes for 99 JUN 21", "raw_content": "99-06-21 0800 - 1730 To SR Technics and then to HB-IWC. Jim FOOT and Larry FOGG present and also taking photos. . . . .\nAt 1000 hrs, I attended the meeting with TSB, Swissair, & Boeing to discuss the upcoming bench tests of the \u2018Auger\u2019 test (see SITE NOTES for details).\nAt 1000 hrs, attended the meeting between TSB, Swissair, and Boeing. John GARSTANG and Jim FOOT were present for TSB; Sandro SIRIU, Yorg? and one other for Swissair; and Larry FOGG for Boeing. The meeting dealt with upcoming wiring burn tests and the Auger Spectroscopy test. It is considered to be a non-destructive test, however it removes one or more angstrom units of material from the outer surface. The theory of the test is that if the examined wire shorted and caused the fire, the wire would melt from the heat produced but then quickly solidify again once the electrical short stops. Because this would happen with little if any fire produced gasses in the local atmosphere, any air trapped in the re-solidified metal would contain normal levels of atmospheric molecules. But any wire that shorts as a result of the fire, the material trapped would contain fire products at levels consistent with the atmosphere during the fire. There should be a difference and the \u2018AUGER\u2019 test should be able to determine the difference. However, this test, although old, has never been used in this manner before. The object of the upcoming tests is to produce benchmarks by which actual wires from HB-IWF can be compared. To do this, Swissair will supply agreed upon wire bundle types, and Boeing will cause them to short under various conditions. Wires will be arced in normal atmosphere, high nitrogen atmosphere, and in concentrations of fire residue atmosphere. Swissair will search for wires of a suitable age and type consistent with the age of HB-IWF. There were some discussions as to the types and numbers of wires, etc. They will include AC & DC, Kapton and Tefzel coatings, IFEN, Boeing, and galley type wires. Then there was discussion as to where the wires would be sent. Both TSB and Boeing wanted them sent direct to Boeing in Seattle. However, Swissair won out by having them forwarded to the TSB in Halifax. TSB will then send them on to Boeing. Alex TAYLOR is the Boeing person setting up the tests in Seattle. Swissair and TSB will be present, and of course Boeing. The wire burns, once completed in August, will be taken directly to Dr. Jim BROWN, a metallurgist with the NRC and CANMET. He has been hired to conduct the test, which is being described as a blind test. Again, Swissair and Boeing (Larry FOGG) will be present along with TSB (Jim FOOT).\nDuring the meeting, I kept a very low profile and did not comment on any of the discussions. However, several problems can be seen in this endeavour. The actual collection of wires seems to be rather unorganised. While types were discussed, there seems to be no specific list. It appears rather haphazard, but with several firm diary dates. The harnesses are to be defined by the end of June (9 days away), built by Swissair by the end of July, and to be in Seattle before the week of August 7th. They will then be taken immediately to Ottawa. Swissair was told to try and locate wires of the appropriate age. They thought that they could find some at their storage depot but that they could not be sure of the age or origin. These wires are not left lying around the hangar for some upcoming Auger test. In addition to wires, ceiling panel material and FR primed metal will be added to the burn.\nIt is interesting to note that the IFEN wires of three strands have a white wire that is of two different manufacturers - one in one area, the other somewhere else in the system. The other two wires are different colours, red and blue. Breakers will be removed from an existing aircraft system and will be used in the set-up. They of course are no longer in use on the Swissair aircraft. While most of the burning will be open wires, some tests will include burning in conduit.\nThere was no plan mentioned about the marking of the wires. At no time was it indicated that they would become actual exhibits, which of course they must become. Each wire will be approximately four feet long, so there should be ample opportunity to mark one end of each with an exhibit tag and have it survive the testing. As such an exhibit, each should be photographed to allow for its documentation.\nNext, testing will be conducted by Boeing, who will set up the equipment virtually from scratch in their lab facilities in Seattle. There was some discussion as to the actual method of hooking up the wires; however, it seems to be a case of trial and error. It would seem that since this is the first time doing this test, perhaps some experimentation is in order to determine the actual set-up with other than the aircraft wires, which by their nature are of a limited source (by type and age). It might also be questioned as to why Boeing is conducting the tests. Time may show that Boeing has a lot to gain or lose in the outcome. Surely someone will later question why the test was not conducted by an independent entity other than Swissair or Boeing. And the question remains as to who will seize and maintain the exhibits?\nThen comes the agreement that everyone can go to Ottawa for the actual analysis and evaluation of the results. There was no discussion given to recording photographically the results before they are tested in this manner. But it was agreed that this would be a blind test. This may be in question if any Swissair or Boeing reps are present with knowledge of the actual burn tests. Surely any input from them in any way can be argued to be an influence on the examiner.\nConsidering the seriousness of these tests and their potential significance in any upcoming legal action, perhaps more consideration should be given to the long-term view of the outcome. This test, until now unknown in fire investigation circles, appears to have a major role to play in serious arson investigations. This file may make the test known on a wide scale.\nThe meeting was over by 1245 hrs.\nAfter lunch, returned to IWN and photos taken on it.\n(Clarification:) One must remember that this was still very early in the investigation, relatively speaking. I was not yet privy to all the intrigue that went on behind the doors of the TSB's side of the hangar, or of their manipulation of correct procedures. Neither did I have any idea of what Lathem would later do to thwart any criminal investigation. As yet, there was little if anything to indicate a criminal source for the fire other than excessive burn damage and the opinions of several of the floor investigators that they had never seen such fire damage.\nOf note, this was the morning when Jim Foot had jumped ahead of me to take photos of the smoke curtain, and then adjusted it before I could take my photos. Twice, I warned John about it, then we broke for this meeting. To say that there were tensions between Foot and me would have been accurate.\nAs well, during this meeting, I asked Sidla about Dr. Brown, and his comment was that Dr. Brown was the best, and that we were lucky to be able to get him for this project.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 7391, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 296.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ubfunkeysblog.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:24Z", "digest": "sha1:QNRHBRALZ55SYG75P6KFBV2Z3AYTWNS4", "length": 5672, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.ubfunkeysblog.com", "title": "U&B Air Purifiers Supplier Firm \u2013 Devices for a clean air", "raw_content": "Why Do We Need an Air Purifier in our Home?\nWe\u2019re all familiar with air purifiers in airplanes, at the mall, and in the hospital, where they keep people calm and stress-free by insuring that the air breathed is cool, clean, and fragrant. The air in our homes, too, can be vastly improved by means of an air purifier.\nIt\u2019s a proven fact, although many of us wouldn\u2019t care to admit it, that the air in our homes is filled with contaminants, making it a lot dirtier than the air outside. There are the usual culprits, such as particles in the air from cooking, from smoking, from enjoying a fire in the fireplace. Pets, no matter how lovable, are going to slough off dead skin in the form of dander, that\u2019s why you should be looking for best air purifier for pets. Carpets and rugs are literally storehouses of all kinds of contaminants, all of which are released into the air when we vacuum. Those dust mites in upholstered furniture are the sources of more. If we have a garden outside or keep indoor plants, there\u2019s going to be pollen in the air. And don\u2019t forget airborne illnesses such as the common cold, the germs of which are wafted throughout our house every time someone sneezes.\nBut we\u2019ve probably gotten quite used to the air in our homes, even if it is, well, polluted. Why should we clean it? There are a number of reasons, the most important of which has to do with our health. People who suffer from allergies of any kind really do need to keep the indoor air they breathe as clean as possible. This goes too for people with any kind of respiratory condition, such as asthma. Even if we don\u2019t suffer from such conditions, air purifiers eliminate germs, bacteria, and mold that can make any of us ill.\nClean air helps us to sleep more soundly and to eliminate stress. There\u2019s an element of convenience involved too: keeping the air clean means less dusting and general cleaning around the house. Carpets in a home with an air purifier will harbor fewer particles, and will last longer with less wear and tear. With less heavy moisture in the house, surfaces naturally stay cleaner and brighter. Our homes have a light, clean fragrance.\nAir purifiers work by removing the contaminants in the air. There are five basic types of air purifiers. Air cleaners are probably the simplest of these. They consist of a special filter through which the air in a room must pass. Air cleaners may be as simple as a filter placed next to the furnace, or they may be mobile stand-alone units. Ionizing purifiers are much more complex, changing the molecular structure of contaminating particles so that they clump together and sink out of the air. Ozone generators function in a way similar to the ionizing purifiers, but eliminate contaminating particles by emitting ozone gas. Adsorbents suck the dirty air through charcoal or some other purifying substance. Finally, there are air purifiers that destroy bacteria by emitting ultraviolet radiation.\nWhen it comes to buying and owning a single air purifier or multiple units for a household or commercial workspace, there is one word to keep in mind. This word is the acronym HEPA. It stands for High-Efficiency Particulate Arresting. HEPA is the gold seal and standard for quality as far as air purifiers go. Not all purifiers are manufactured to this standard, and for some people, the design is not a deal breaker. However, having this kind of unit is something like driving a vehicle with power steering as opposed to one without. To be sure, the added feature is not technically necessary. But the natural question is why would you go without it, especially when they are effective at ridding the air of most every particulate?\nThere are a number of irritants these air purifiers clear out of the air. Some of these particulates include dust mite debris, everyday household dust, human hair and fur from various pets. Some other air pollutants Hepa air purifiers handle are bacteria, spores, mold and different types of smoke. The HEPA purifier is designed to be capture and filter pollutants from the air that measure as small as 0.3 microns. The micron, as the name suggests, is a measurement invisible to the naked eye. And anything smaller than 0.3 of a micron can get past a HEPA filter.\nHepa filters work in four different ways to trap harmful particles floating throughout the air. They use impaction, diffusion, interception and sieving. Impaction works on particles that weigh 0.5 microns or more. These particles are large enough to slam in the material of an air purifier\u2019s mesh and are easily caught. Diffusion works for particles that are around 0.1 microns. At that size, the term impact does not really apply as the particles just float lightly through the air, but they get caught in the mesh of purifiers just the same.\nInterception works for particles that are not heavy enough to pick up speed as they move throughout the air. However, they are big enough in their area that they are easily trapped when they come into contact with mesh fibers. Sieving happens when particles are 1 micron or bigger. At that size, these they are too big to fit into the spaces of fibers of a mesh. These are the particles that do most of the clogging of a purifiers mesh. When all four methods work together ninety-nine per cent of air pollutants are trapped within a HEPA filter mesh.\nair cleaner clean air Get rid from allergy health healthy house HEPA filters home air purifiers\nYou saw one air purifier in one office and now you want to buy for yourself. In our website, we provide general information about air purifiers as well as their advantages. For further details you can email us at:\ninfo@ubfunkeysblog.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 6116, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 310.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.unashamedblog.com/breaking-the-silence-miscarriage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:21Z", "digest": "sha1:522D54XEBVUIVA7D2PH3YUTARFL5RIT4", "length": 3252, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "www.unashamedblog.com", "title": "Breaking the Silence: Miscarriage - UNashamed", "raw_content": "Home Abundant Health Breaking the Silence: Miscarriage\nJacquelyn May 12, 2015 May 12, 2015 Abundant Health\n\u201cThe Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.\u201d Psalm 34:18\nA recent nationwide survey1 reveals that the majority of Americans believe the many myths that surround miscarriage.\nDue to a culture that treats miscarriage as taboo, few realize that pregnancy loss is a common occurrence: 15 to 20 percent of pregnancies result in miscarriage. Some believe the numbers may be even higher. The misconceptions that surround miscarriage often pressures those who miscarry to grieve the loss of their unborn child in silence.\nIn her article about the survey, Laura Geggel also points out that many people do not understand what causes miscarriages. There is a wide spread belief that most miscarriages are caused by lifestyle choices: drug, alcohol and tobacco use, the mother experiencing ongoing stress or a stressful event, lifting something heavy, etc. However, 60 percent of miscarriages actually have medical or genetic causes, such as aneuploidy, where the unborn child haves an incorrect number of chromosomes, or if the mother suffers from a health issue.\nUnfortunately, even though medicine is beginning to understand the science behind miscarriages, 57 percent of those surveyed who admit to having experienced a pregnancy loss were not told what might of caused it. This leaves the would-be parents struggling with finding answers. Many suffer from guilt and shame, feeling as if they did something wrong to cause the miscarriage or that they should have been able to prevent it somehow. Some may feel anger towards the Lord, and well-meaning church members might say something that they intend is comforting but ends up hurting the grieving mother and father.\nWe need to stop treating miscarriage and other forms of pregnancy loss as a taboo subject. We need to have an open, honest conversation in our homes and our churches. Pregnancy loss happens, it happens more often than we realize, and those who experience this tragic loss need support. They need to know they are not alone. That death and pain was not part of the Lord\u2019s plan for humanity and that one day their tears will be wiped away (Revelation 21:1-4)\nThere is a high probability that someone in your family or local church has gone through pregnancy loss. Are we turning a blind eye to someone who is brokenhearted? Crushed in spirit? Do the words we say belittle the pain of their loss?\nBreak the silence! Start a conversation about pregnancy loss in your homes and churches. Click To Tweet\nWhat can we as individuals and local churches do to minister to parents grieving a pregnancy loss?\nFor those who have experienced the pain of this loss first hand, what guidance would you share? Were you able to find the support you needed? What comforted you the most?\nDear Lord, please be near all those who have experienced a painful loss. May they find peace and comfort in You. May You guide each of us into greater compassion towards one another, giving us eyes to see the hurting and minds to know how to ease their suffering.\n1 http://www.foxnews.com/health/2015/05/12/most-americans-believe-miscarriage-myths/\nEncouragement, Relationships. Bookmark.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5791, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 338.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usaf50summits.com/blog/success-on-vermonts-highpoint", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:13Z", "digest": "sha1:T6I4XWWV5PK3TLQTB74Q5QQAVIEXYNRC", "length": 2235, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "www.usaf50summits.com", "title": "Success on Vermont's Highpoint - USAF 50 Summits Challenge", "raw_content": "Success on Vermont's Highpoint\nEighteen Airmen from Ft. Drum, New York hiked to Vermont's highest point, Mt. Mansfield, on Sept 25th, 2015. Led by SSgt Chris LaBerge of the 20th Air Support Operations Squdaron, this group of Air Force members hiked together as an opportunity to build healthy resiliency skills and to show their pride in serving their country.\nThis was much more than a hike up a hill. 24 hours earlier, the team of Airmen was joined by dozens of other service members for a day of discussion and presentations on the different pillars of resiliency. Thanks to chaplains and mental health professionals from Ft. Drum, the Airmen were able to learn about and consider different views on the importance of spiritual, social, physical, and mental health.\nSSgt LaBerge reported they focused on stress management such as \"avoiding catastrophic events (your spouse is 30 minutes late, how do you avoid thinking they're dead, cheating, etc).\" His team also learned about \"mental resiliency with frame of mind, talking yourself up to increase your performance (common with snipers and athletes, believing you can do something and then doing it).\" \"They emphasized on spiritual not being religion, but something to find peace of mind with, nature, golf, stuff like that.\"\nThe learning didn't stop there. Unlike many military mental health events that end after a classroom session, this group of Airmen headed outdoors to practice what they had just learned. Many experts agree: resiliency is not something that can be taught from a book or presentation. Rather, it must be practiced over and over, often in challenging circumstances. The team chose Mt. Mansfield and it's miles of hiking to practice their skills and build up camaraderie.\nThe diverse group worked together during the five hour hike to ensure all who started reached the top. On the summit, they proudly flew the American, Air Force, and TACP flags. Mission Complete!\nSSgt LaBerge said that it was such a success that he and his colleagues aim to do another resiliency hike, but this time it will encompass three state high points: RI, CT, and NJ. We wish them luck and will help spread the word about this morale and health boosting event they are organizing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 2813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.usc.uwo.ca/gazette/1998/November/6/News8.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:28Z", "digest": "sha1:VBF6EO4BUXX5VL4VGFH5VZR5R3FM5MXV", "length": 2284, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "www.usc.uwo.ca", "title": "UWO Gazette - Friday, November 6, 1998", "raw_content": "A study recently completed by a Western professor has highlighted a connection between skin disorders and suicidal thoughts.\nThe study, conducted over five years by psychiatry professor Madhulika Gupta, examined patients with mild to moderate acne and those with psoriasis.\nHer study concluded adolescents with acne have thoughts of depression and suicide comparable to older patients with psoriasis. She explained while a person in their 40s may be able to adjust to changes in appearance, even a few pimples can be devastating for some younger patients.\nOne of the implications of this study is acne may be a more serious condition than was previously thought. \"Anyone treating a patient with mild to moderate acne should not take it lightly,\" Gupta said. If a person is overly focused on the condition of their skin, this could be a sign of underlying psychological problems, she added.\nGupta said she was surprised at her findings because she did not realize acne problems could be serious enough for high suicide thinking.\nPatrick McElgunn, past vice-president for the Canadian Dermatology Association, said he has seen a lot of psychiatric problems related to acne symptoms. \"There is definitely an emotional impact. If you have something that affects your appearance, it can be blown out of proportion.\"\nHe added he is not surprised some adolescents become as depressed as older adults with psoriasis, because some teenagers tend to be overly dramatic. \"I'm not surprised with the correlation both have. [These skin conditions] have a tremendous effect on the psyche.\"\nJudy Misner, founder and president of the Psoriasis Society of Canada, said she found the findings surprising. \"Acne you can outgrow. There is no cure with psoriasis.\"\nShe said she is well aware of how devastating the psychological effects of psoriasis can be. \"People with psoriasis have many, many suicidal thoughts. It's more serious than people think it is.\"\nMisner said it has been her experience that once people come to terms with the fact they have psoriasis, depression and thoughts of suicide decrease. \"Once people accept it, they are better able to cope.\"\nGupta said she hopes to do a follow up study, to see how depressed and suicidal thoughts resulting from skin conditions vary with treatment.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/117866187", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:09Z", "digest": "sha1:225INJ7JGH7Q6QIUP5NJ6YDQ72ZCU7ZL", "length": 1063, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "www.ustream.tv", "title": "2018-10-26-17:15 Full Mantis Intro", "raw_content": "2018-12-05-Ingenuity Award - Janelle Monae\n2018-12-15 Little Man Little Man\n2018-12-04 Ingenuity Rose McElrath-Slade audio only\n2018-12-05-Ingenuity Award Tracey K. 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He did concede that everyone doesn't share his interest, stating that some customers \"were horrified\" while others \"don't see why it is important.\" The underwear is on sale at Scarano's shop 'Mantiques' for $7,500 (EUR6,725). Video ID: 20150603-013 Video on Demand: http://www.ruptly.tv Contact: cd@ruptly.tv Twitter: http://twitter.com/Ruptly Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Ruptly LiveLeak: http://www.liveleak.com/c/Ruptly Vine: https://vine.co/Ruptly Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/Ruptly YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/RuptlyTV DailyMotion: http://www.dailymotion.com/ruptly\nExploring 110 year old 'ghost ship' on the Ohio River\nOhio State!!!\nLaptops On Sale ... 80% Off!\nEVA ELLINGTON GOES DEEP", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 2253, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.84, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.village.germantown.wi.us/100/Absentee-Voting", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:53Z", "digest": "sha1:YLV4EVZC2LIT2PYIAENOQNSCUSEO3EMA", "length": 2265, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "www.village.germantown.wi.us", "title": "Absentee Voting | Germantown, WI - Official Website", "raw_content": "Obtaining a Ballot By Mail\nYou must be a registered voter at your current address in the Village of Germantown to request an absentee ballot by mail. All requests for an Absentee Ballot must be in writing by the elector. Use the Application for Absentee Ballot or write an email or letter requesting an absentee ballot be mailed to you. The application must be received by the Clerk no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Thursday before the election in order for an absentee ballot to be mailed to you .\nAny written requests must include the following information:\nName of the registered voter requesting the absentee ballot\nThe address to which you are registered to vote in the Village of Germantown\nThe address where the ballot should be sent, if different than your residence\nThe signature of the registered voter requesting the absentee ballot. Signature is not required for email requests.\nIf you have not previously provided a copy of photo ID, photo ID must accompany the request. For the full list of acceptable photo ID visit http://bringit.wi.gov.\nRequest an Absentee Ballot by e-mail, fax, mail or drop off your request at the Office of the Village Clerk:\nDeadline for Returning an Absentee Ballot\nThe completed ballot must be received by the Clerk's Office no later than 8:00 p.m. on Election Day. A ballot may be delivered directly to the polling place prior to 8:00 p.m. on Election Day.\nNotice of Voting by Absentee Ballot\nNotice of Absentee Voting Information In-Office Absentee Voting will take place in the Village Clerk's Office, Monday thru Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The deadline for voting an absentee ballot in the Clerk\u2019s Office is 5:00 p.m. on the Friday before Election Day. No ballots may be taken from the Clerk's Office.\nQualifying Care Facility Absentee Voting - 2019 Spring Primary\nNotice of CBRF Voting at Ellen's Home South, Engel Haus, and Virginia Highlands\nMilitary electors should contact the Office of the Village Clerk regarding the deadlines for requesting or submitting an absentee ballot. The Village Clerk can be reached at 262-250-4740, e-mail dboldrey@village.germantown.wi.us, or the address listed above.\nBenjamin Hubrich\nDeputy Clerk/Management Analyst\nVoter Information - My Vote Wisconsin\nPhoto ID Law Information", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 93, "original_length": 3568, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 307.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.village.germantown.wi.us/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=2018&month=2&day=14", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ATMERYXH7KTP6JKW7XDXZRGCDADIAIDK", "length": 110, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.village.germantown.wi.us", "title": "Germantown, WI - Official Website", "raw_content": "- Main Calendar (1) Parks and Recreation Events (1)\nValentine's Music Party with Miss Julie2018-02-14T10:00:00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 132, "original_length": 2723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.68, "perplexity": 239.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.villanocpa.com/background.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:11Z", "digest": "sha1:C4LZES4R7DG5G54CSBBEAS7EYYZ4GYHP", "length": 123, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.villanocpa.com", "title": "Background", "raw_content": "Mark R. 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Inadvertently, I also mentioned Rotarians and Lions Clubs, which I deeply regret.\nThere may be some individuals in society that join various organizations for such reasons. However, I fully recognize and acknowledge that this does not, in any way, diminish the noble charitable work which has been, and continues to be done by these Organizations throughout the country, especially for the poor, needy, destitute and the vulnerable.\nI understand that my comments would have resulted in causing pain of mind to many. To all of them, I express my sincere apologies.\nMinister of Finance and Media\nSpeed and gusty winds expected: Naval and fishing communities be vigilant", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2066, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.weirdca.com/location.php?location=72", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QQKVBX4B6BLYWXABJOSXT7RJZXZLAFUS", "length": 7910, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "www.weirdca.com", "title": "Mount Carmel Cemetery - Weird Illinois", "raw_content": "Weird Chicago - By Joe Parzanese\nThe Biograph Theatre\n1400 S. Wolf Road, Hillside, Illinois 60162\nHome to several gangsters, Mount Carmel Cemetery lies in one of Chicago's suburbs.\nBorn in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899, Alphonse Capone ran one of the most ruthless and legendary mobs from the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Eventually arrested in 1931 for tax evasion, he spent much of his time in Alcatraz before being released in 1939 and retiring to Florida. He died there of syphilis on January 25, 1947. Originally he was buried in the Mt. Olivet Cemetery, but after his mother died in 1952 and his current site was deemed too much of a tourist attraction, he was moved to Mount Carmel Cemetery.\nMount Carmel Cemetery, located on 1400 S. Wolf Rd in Hillside was founded in 1900. This beautiful and immense cemetery hosts the graves for several of Chicago's most famous mobsters. Filled with intricate tombstones and hundreds of ornate mausoleums, the cemetery is am impressive site to behold. I easily got lost when I was driving around the site. If you stop by, I highly advise rolling down the windows, turning off the radio, and driving slowly down the several roads throughout the cemetery.\nHillside appears to host no less than four large cemeteries, several within a few blocks of each other. There are so many people interred within the city, that near the entrance to the cemetery, I found several stores catering to the cemeteries needs including a tombstone decoration store as well as a florist specializing in floral arrangements for funerals and gravesites.\nUpon entering off of Roosevelt Road, if you take the first right, you will come upon Al Capone's grave. There is a tall stone marker for the Capone family, in front of which lies his tombstone, a flat marker bearing simply his name, years, and the words, \"My Jesus Mercy\". Often you will find gifts (flowers, alcohol, coins, etc) on the grave. It is rumored that if you show Mr. Capone any disrespect that his ghost will appear to chase you off.\nAl Capone Gravesite\nFrom the Roosevelt Road entrance, if you continue forward past the war memorial, you'll pass by the Genna Mausoleum. Several of the Genna brothers are interred here. The Gennas gang included Sam, Vincenzo or Jim, Pete, Bloody Angelo, Tony the Gentleman, and Mike the Devil.\nThe Genna's basically made the mistake of getting involved in a three-way war between the O'Banion-Weiss gang and the Capone gang. Although involved with the hit on Dion O'Banion, both rival gangs basically picked the Genna's apart after the successful hit.\nGenna Mausoleum\nAngelo was shot-gunned down and killed by several members of Charles Dion O'Banion's gang including Hymie Weiss, Schemer Drucci (both also interred within the cemetery), and Bugs Moran.\nMike Genna was wounded by police while attempting to flee the scene of a shoot out with Moran and Drucci. He later died in the ambulance. Regardless, two of his own men would have killed him later that day, as two Genna enforcers, John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, had already turned traitor and gone over to Al Capone's mob. (Scalise and Anselmi were Sicilian hitmen who smeared garlic on their bullets hoping that it would cause gangrene).\nTony was set up by one of his own men, Guiseppe \"The Cavalier\" Nerone, in much the same way that Mike the Devil, Scalise, and Anselmi had taken out O'Banion, with a handshake. A few days later, Nerone got his due as he was gunned down outside a barbershop. With the death of Tony, the Genna gang was mostly broken, the remainder members fleeing Chicago.\nDion O'Banion led a feared gang of Northsiders including Hymie Weiss, Vincent \"Schemer\" Drucci, and George \"Bugs\" Moran. His anti-Italian slurs would eventually bring him the hatred of two other rival gangs within Chicago, the Torrio-Capone gang and the Genna gang. Formerly rivals, the Torrio-Capone gang and the Genna's immediately sided with each other when along with O'Banion's racial slurs, O'Banion also set up Torrio and arranged to have him arrested. Mike Genna, Scalise and Albert Anselmi soon entered O'Banion's flower shop and with Mike Genna shaking the Irish man's hand, the other two gunned him down. Angelo Genna played the part of the get-a-way driver.\nThis single act, of course, started a major war between all three gangs with the Genna's being the first to fall. After O'Banion's death, Weiss took over the gang until Capone had him taken out a few years later in 1926. Weiss is also buried in a mausoleum in the cemetery. Drucci is also interred within the cemetery, although sadly I do not have pictures for either sites.\nDean C O'Banion Gravesite\nRumored to have killed over twenty-five men Dion O'Banion was refused a proper burial on consecrated ground by Cardinal Mundelein. It took O'Banion's wife five months of pleading before he was moved to the cemetery proper with a shaft reading \"My Sweetheart\" placed over him. Cardinal Mundelein ordered the monument removed, but a later obelisk was later placed there and allowed to remain. Oddly enough his grave is right across the road from the Bishop's Mausoleum, one of the key areas and nicest of areas in the cemetery.\nThe Bishop's Mausoleum stands on a small hill approximately in the center of the cemetery. It has a small statue of the angel Gabriel on top of it. A beautiful and ornate mausoleum and easily one of the biggest structures in the cemetery it holds seven Cardinals, Bishops, or Archbishops. Archbishop James Quigley had it built between the years of 1905 and 1912. He was interred within in 1915. The mausoleum has the word \"RESURRECTURIS\" written above its door.\nBishop's Mausoleum\nBesides Bishops and Gangsters, the cemetery does in fact hold ordinary people and one such grave is Julia Buccola Petta or \"The Italian Bride\". Julia died while in childbirth in 1921. She was only 29. During the next six years, her mother Filomena kept having dreams about her daughter. Eventually her mother was able to get permission to have her grave exhumed. Upon doing so, the coffin was found to be rotten and appeared to have gone through the six years of decay that it should have. Julia, however, was perfect in every way. She had not decayed a bit in six years. Well the gravesite has a life-sized statue depicting Julia on her wedding day, as well as two urns, all on top of a black pedestal. In the pedestal are two pictures; one showing Julia again on her wedding day and the other showing her after her grave was opened six years after she was buried. It shows her to be perfectly preserved although the coffin can obviously be seen to be decaying within the picture. Such bodies that don't decay are suppose to be incorruptible, a condition that several Catholic Saints are said to have had. Julia is said to wander the cemetery particularly near her grave. Motorists and pedestrians have reported seeing her from Harrison Street. She wears a white wedding gown as she goes on her way. Julia's tombstone can easily be found by entering the cemetery from Harrison Street and turning left. She will be the first tall statue of a lady on your right.\nThe Italian Bride\nRon Stelmarski of Chesterland, Ohio on 2011-03-16 said:\nI visited Mt.Carmel 7 years ago when I visited a Co. in Hillside. I traveled ftom Cleveland and loved taking photos and wanted to see the grave of Al and all the Chicago Gang members buried there. I took my photos but was drawn to this grave of Julia. I did not understand the photos on the monument or what occured. 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There are wood tones, but they are much more subtle than I expected from the nose. A distinct almond flavor seemed to permeate as well. Despite the brown sugar flavor, it did not come across as a very sweet bourbon.\nAfter being opened up a bit, however, this bourbon seemed to really take on a different flavor. It sweetened up significantly, and the original flavors seemed to transform. In place of the brown sugar flavor was a much sweeter and smoother caramel flavor, and in place of the wood tones was more of a coffee flavor. It took on a flavor that reminded me of a caramel macchiato, not the Starbucks-latte kind but rather the traditional, espresso kind.\nI had no expectations coming into this bourbon, but I was pleasantly surprised nonetheless. I really enjoyed it, and it's probably my favorite in the \"Jim Beam\" brand. I think the additional time with the new char really added some depth that I did not expect. 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He certainly did right by me!\nNoah's Mill is the higher end bourbon, so to speak, out of Willett Distillery's regular offerings, or at least the older brother to Rowan's Creek. It's usually pretty available, though for a couple months this past Summer it couldn't be found anywhere by me for some reason.\nThe nose is primarily cinnamon, telling me right away that this is a high-rye bourbon, that it's going to be good and spicy. There's also a lot of wood on the nose as well, which tells me it has some decent age to it, despite that the label doesn't tell you.\nOn the palate, that cinnamon carried over. In fact, it carried over a lot. I've written in the past about vanilla bombs in bourbon, but this is the first I've tried that I would describe as a cinnamon bomb. It's heavy, like Big Red in a bottle.\nDon't get me wrong, other flavors are their, but they are all so intertwined in the cinnamon that it becomes a part of the flavor. There's a long-lasting cinnamon-vanilla throughout, and the flavor really sticks to the back of the throat long after the pour. That vanilla lends to a nice, creamy texture to the bourbon and really makes the cinnamon-heavy nature enjoyable.\nOn the back end, there's a cooling cinnamon-fresh mint flavor as well. This I found interesting, as it seemed to be trying to transform the flavor, but after I had swallowed. While it ultimately couldn't quite overpower the cinnamon, it, again, gave enough to make the heavy cinnamon flavor enjoyable and keep me coming back for more pours.\nAs the bourbon breathed a little, at times I found myself noticing a distinct gingerbread flavor. It wasn't readily present, but I caught the flavor time and time again as I enjoyed each glass. 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Maxxam II", "raw_content": "EPIC challenged two Pacific Lumber THPs and one Simpson THP because the California Department of Forestry did not adequately consult with the Department of Fish and Game, or consider cumulative impacts and wildlife mitigation measures. Extensive cutting occurred during a 25-day period between the date CDF approved the THP and the date the motion for a Preliminary Injunction was granted. The loss of these trees, as well as changes in CDF policies spurred by this Preliminary Injunction and the results of other EPIC cases, was the basis for the trial court\u2019s dismissal of this case on grounds of mootness. While the appellate court upheld the trial court\u2019s decision of mootness, it also stated that \u201cThe record \u2026 leaves no doubt that environmental litigation, such as [EPIC\u2019s] Preliminary Injunction in this case, played an important role in bringing about changes in departmental policies. To this extent, the issue of mootness is a product of [EPIC\u2019s] own success.\u201d One of the THPs at issue in this suit was located in the area of the Headwaters Forest complex, near Lawrence Creek.\nProcedure: THP 1-87-625 HUM, 1-87-690 HUM, 1-87-619 HUM approved March 1988. EPIC filed Petition 3/18/88 (Humboldt Ct. #81790, Judge Buffington). Simpson Timber Company withdrew its plans to log THP 1-87-619. The trial judge disqualified the Attorney General on 1/4/89 for a conflict of interest based on his failure to represent the public interest. Even though this was reversed by the appellate court (#A045615), the Attorney General removed himself from this and other pending forestry lawsuits, forcing state agencies to find private counsel. Suit dismissed for mootness, because THPs completed and because regulations had been changed. Appellate court upheld dismissal, 5/27/92, but held EPIC entitled to fees under CCP \u00a71021.5. Appellate decision published at 4 Cal.App.4th 1373.\nStatus: final.\nAttorneys: Thomas Lippe, R. 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Our many years of experience in the development and realization of business and labor market and structural policies enable us to offer a complete range of services for the successful execution of projects: from conceptualization and development, to project management, reporting and documentation.\nAn overview of our current Studies & Publications", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wilpattusafaricamp.com/planning-your-safari/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:02Z", "digest": "sha1:SJLRZF2YJROSBNNTWQZRWRXNU5M2LUEH", "length": 1053, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.wilpattusafaricamp.com", "title": "Sri Lanka a great Safari Destination - Wilpattu Safari Camp", "raw_content": "Sri Lanka is without a doubt one of the best safari destinations in Asia with a wide variety of species to be seen. The \u201cBig Five\u201d include Elephant, Leopard, Sloth Bear, Buffalo and whales. We have more than 15 National parks and the small size of the country makes all these very accessible with a drive of not more than 4 hours. The special highlights are the \u201cGathering\u201d where more than 300 elephants gather during the dry season (June \u2013 October) at a park about 2 hours away from our camp. Sri Lanka is certainly a \u201cLeopard Hotspot\u201d with some of the best viewing of leopard during daytime both in Wilpattu National Park and Yala National Park. The best \u201cDolphin patch\u201d to see these amazing mammals is just off the coast of Wilpattu National park and about a 90 minute drive from our camp. \u201cWhale watching\u201d is also very popular off the Southern and Eastern coasts during the season. With more than 300 species of resident and migrant birds it is a \u201cBirders Paradise\u201d.\nYour Safari Day | What is included in your safari package | What you need to bring", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 205.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wilsonmj.com/2013/03/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:19Z", "digest": "sha1:IEPAZFIC6JZFEIS26C6ARXPVSAUOHMR4", "length": 26491, "nlines": 182, "source_domain": "www.wilsonmj.com", "title": "Michael J Wilson: March 2013", "raw_content": "'Basket Tree' by Axel Erlandson.\nCreated by grafting 6 sycamore trees.\nThe apricot tree in my backyard is blooming. It was covered in little white flowers this morning and the honey bees were making enough of a racket that I thought they were a generator.\nThe apricot was cultivated in ancient times, pits of apricot trees have been found in sites dating from the copper age - 7000 years ago - in Greece. It is thought the trees were cultivated much earlier. Due to this, the place of origin is unknown. The Latin name - Prunus armeniaca - which translates as 'Armenian plum' comes from a common belief that the plant is from that part of Eurasia.\nApricots are related to peaches, cherries, and almonds. Amaretto is traditionally made from the apricot seed, not almonds, since they are sweeter. Just like almonds, the seeds of the apricots contain cyanide. But only about 2.5% and so they are not dangerous.\nFruit cultivation is such a strange process. The grafting of trees to hybridize or continue strong root system is fascinating.\nThat this is how many trees were cultivated thousands of years ago is even more interesting. The idea that you could take two parts of two different trees, stick them together, and they would continue - even thrive - is a leap of thought that we are not necessarily trained to make. One that few of us could come up with today.\nThat leap is what leads to progress. Culturally or otherwise. It also informs how one gets from point A to point Z in a poem or a work of art. You must go with the words on the page, choose to follow through, hope they arrive intact at the destination.\nFor more tree stuff you can check out an interview I did over at Poets Touching Trees.\nLabels: culture, gardening, history, nature, on writing, plants\nGardening is a process.\nOne that can fail easily. If you forget to water for a few days. If you plant a week too soon - nothing will happen\nI'm about to get all kinds of cliched - so clench your jaw - Writing is the same sort of process.\nSometimes it's not right. It's too cold, or dry, or the wrong zone for the seed.\nJG and I had a back and forth on Facebook about this very thing on Monday. She is having a hard time with it right now. Rejection letters, a general lack of desire, a consuming real life. These are things that do not lead to healthy plant life.\nThere was a rainy year in South America and it has led to more than 30% of coffee crops being hit with a fungal infection called 'coffee rust'.\nThe blight has led to a huge loss in the industry. A possible shortage. Talk of changing generations of precedent for new hybrid coffee plants. Or even to a different crop altogether. To kill the fungus farmers are burning their fields.\nIn the 18th and 19th century the UK controlled huge coffee plantations in India and Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). You don't drink India or Ceylon varietals at your local cafe because coffee rust claimed enough of those plantations by the mid-19th century to lead to a switch in production. To tea.\nAnd while I didn't use these words with JG, I basically suggested the same thing. Switch production. Re-plow or something.\nTake a damn break.\nAnd be OK with that.\nBecause you should be doing this because you want to. You should be doing the thing you want to, the way you want to. And that means experimenting with what to put where.\nHow often to water. What time of year is best. Putting out some compost.\nAnd knowing when it's time to let the field go fallow for a season.\nLabels: gardening, knowing when, on writing, plants, writing\nMy Baby Has Two Twitter Accounts A Facebook And A Tumblr\nRecently I got into a minor Facebook scuffle over my honest discomfort with people sharing their children's photos on the social network.\nMy issue is not that people want to share their children, their love, etc. with people that should get to see these pictures.\nMy issue is that I also get to see these pictures. That these pictures are on Facebook, Instagram, whatever, servers. Most likely for a long time (forever). My issue is that putting these photos on these sites allows your life, your property, your children to have parts of themselves controlled by large corporations.\nWhat happens when Instagram shuts off its servers? What if Facebook decides to utilize the weird parts of its user policy that states they own your content? What happens when that baby is a teenager, an adult looking for work, or a parent themselves ans these photos are still floating around?\nPeople got upset with me and told me to just ignore the posts. To 'silence' them on my feed. But that wasn't the point of my post. I was genuinely asking why we decide to place ourselves and then our children out there like this.\nSome said that the privacy setting means only friends can see the photos. But why do I get to see baby photos of people I don't know? Is it because they didn't understand the privacy settings? Is it because they aren't really private? I'm not a creeper, but there certainly are people out there who are. If I can see the photo without wanting to, I'm sure others can too.\nSome said it was easier than e-mail. Which...just...no. It isn't. Yes, you can post 100 photos of your week old on Facebook and tell everyone to go look. But we don't need 100 photos. Put a few good ones in an e-mail and hit send to the handful that should see them. When we had cameras and film, we didn't send 100 photos to grandma. We sent the best we could take.\nI am in no way an anti internet presence type person. I have Twitter, Facebook, I blog regularly, and I write online reviews. I am firmly online.\nI believe we all should get to make that choice though. And I also think we should be protecting our children better. Why do we allow babies to have internet footprints but don't allow children to trick-or-treat in neighborhoods any more? I understand that the two have little to do with each other but I bet the answer is that trick-or-treating is 'not safe'.\nYet internet footprints are...\nI'm genuinely not sold on the arguments on the pro side of this.\nI know this has zero to do with writing, publishing, or anything like that. But it's been bothering me lately. So there it is.\nLabels: children, Facebook, privacy, question, rant\nSorry I am MIA. I am working on a long for of an old post/thought/thing and need time. I will be back tomorrow with ... something?\nThat is a velvet ant.\nIt isn't really an ant at all.\nIt is a wingless wasp in the family Mutillidae. There are over 3000 species in this family whose female members all resemble large, hairy ants. They live in dry desert climates.\nThere are 400 species of these things in the southwestern US.\nTheir hair can be red, orange, silver, white, black, or gold.\nThey are also called cow killer ants because they have incredible painful stings and are known to attack cows and other livestock.\nUnlike real ants, velvet ants are solitary. They do not have drones, workers, or queens.\nThey do have incredibly hard exoskeletons that are known for breaking the steel pins used by entomologists.\nEggs are laid inside other insect nests, near the young of the home insect. When they hatch, the velvet ant young kill and eat the larva of the home insect.\nThe female has a long movable stinger.\nVelvet ants are known to squeal when stepped on or crushed.\nLabels: ants, facts, insects, knowledge, our world, world\nHieronymus Bosch - The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things\nI know people who have a hard time with friends being published. I have been in a situation where upon telling someone of a recent publication they talk about their own work in the context of how they really should get it out there more. This communicates that 'if you could do it, so could I'. And I feel it, I really do. But that reaction is not supportive.\nPeople I know getting their work out there is a win-win. It allows me to say that they are good people and deserve it. Do I feel that little pang of 'why not me?' Of course. But I know that the people getting published are worth it.\nIt also allows for the mighty connection. And those are bread and butter honey. Envy really starts to rear its head when we start talking about books. There I can be catty, downright mean. Mostly I become self-loathing and terribly lazy with my own work.\nI'm not even positive of why I have an internal distinction. It could be that a 'book' is a physical manifestation of timelessness. It means libraries, classrooms, generations, translations. It means being on shelves. Being in a magazine more and more means being at the end of a link - blahblahblah.com/yournamehere\nThe seven deadly sins are, of course, Wrath, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy, and Gluttony. These sins do not really pop up in the bible though. There are two places where the book gets specific with what pisses off the lord. In Proverbs 6:16-19 the list is given as:\n1. A proud look.\n2. A lying tongue.\n3. Hands that shed innocent blood.\n4. A heart that devises wicked plots.\n5. Feet that are swift to run into mischief.\n6. A deceitful witness that uttereth lies.\n7. Him that soweth discord among brethren.\nIn Galatians 5:19-21 it is:\nadultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, 'and such like'\nThe current sins don't enter the world until the 4th century, though in slightly different variations. They took their current form when Pope Gregory I standardized the list in AD 590.\nI am partial to the original Latin sins. There were 8 of those: Gula (gluttony), Fornicatio (lust), Avaritia (greed), Superbia (pride), Tristitia (sorrow/despair/despondency), Ira (wrath), Vanagloria (vainglory), and Acedia (sloth).\nI look at the list and kinda love the lost sins.\nAcedia is apathetic listlessness or depression without joy. This was changed into Sloth over time. I figure it is because it is not as directly translatable. It is similar to ennui. Or the feeling I get when someone I know publishes a book.\nVainglory is unjustified boasting. The semantic change of the word vain from 'futile' to 'narcissism' led to this being folded into the larger Pride. Again, slightly ill defined. Also very far-reaching. Point me to someone who hasn't boasted once or twice.\nGregory I also got rid of Tristitia, adding Envy in its place. The idea that despair is a sin. A 'going to hell' sin...is amazing. It speaks to the harshness of the early church.\nThese three are evocative to me, more so than the others. I can point to places where I feel them when I read the work of friends. When I smile and say congratulations. I see it in myself when I don't submit to a magazine because I feel like the whole thing is rigged and stupid. I see it when I stare at the words I've written and want to delete until it's blank again. I see it when I talk myself up. When I say things like 'Your poetry is ho shit' and 'My poetry will read yours to filth'.\nI see it, for what it is, smoke and mirrors. I love that people I know. People whom I critiqued in workshop, have become something. And I continue, with the idea that I am something too. Perhaps the 'sins' are there to light that fire. To keep us striving towards something more like the 7 graces - humility, charity, kindness, patience, chastity, temperance, and diligence.\nEmphasis on the diligence.\nLabels: culture, history, keeping on keeping on, religion, sin, writing\nDon't Want No Short...\nThis has been called the best book of 2013\nShort fiction is having a bit of a moment. 2013 has seen the high profile publications of George Saunders' Tenth of December and Karen Russell's Vampires in the Lemon Grove. I've read two collections of stories for Publisher's Weekly in the last few weeks. One good and one OK.\nIn general I am not a huge short story fan. I find most to be lacking in actual story. A lot of writers devolve into telling only parts of a story. And the recent development of stories without endings only amplifies itself in the world of short fiction.\nThere are a few short works I really do love. Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is an obvious one. It is a beautifully told allegory of what it takes to live in society. It is harsh and deeply resonant the first time you read it and reach the point of the 'reveal' of the child shackled in the basement.\nJorge Luis Borges' The Garden of Forking Paths manages to make writing and books themselves events. They become trap and home. They are concept and enacting of concept. Similarly, Julio Cortazar's A Continuity of Parks manages the feat of making a reader turn in their chair at the last sentence to make sure they are not being watched.\nThere are, of course, Conrad's Heart of Darkness and nearly anything Flannery O'Connor produced is perfect.\nOne of the best images is in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper. That of a person entering an image. And of course the subtle violence of Kate Chopin's Story of an Hour.\nNewer up the chain of short works is Cesar Aria's Ghosts. It's 130 pages, but still short enough for my purposes. Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is probably his most affecting short works, though King is a very good short fiction teller. A lot of his best work is in his many collections of short work.\nRecently I have had the pleasure of reading new short fiction collections for Publisher's Weekly. One of them was good but not served by collecting the work together. The other was amazing, and held together perfectly as a work.\nIt got me thinking though, about the collected short fiction. Like a collection of poetry, it should cohere, but only just. You don't want 30 works all on one topic. Unless they are 30 very different takes. You also don't necessarily want a collection of 30 works that seemingly have no relation. It is a fine line.\nFor my money, I want a collection that becomes a sum of parts. I want a feeling of narrative to form, however loose or tenuous. I want a progression. Otherwise what is the point of collecting them together? Save the giant collected that have only you in common for late in life. Give me a feeling, a concept, a place/time. This speaks to my problem with short works in general. I want them to fit in to a larger picture. I want a grand narrative. I want cover to cover. If I don't get that I don't understand why I couldn't just have read it on some website or in a magazine.\nLabels: short fiction, trends, writing\nThis is the oldest poem that I have saved on my computer. It is a poem from September 2000. There are poems with older roots floating around, but this one has the oldest modification date.\nI can't tell you what the original inspiration was, it is lost to me. I think it had to do with that time of year when twilight grows long and the sky takes on that amazing blue glow the last few hours before full dark.\nWhat Joan Didion calls the blue hours. It happens in late May and early September. The start and finish of summer. The sky announcing the growing season with a trumpet blast.\nHere is the poem. It's just called Blue Crayola:\n4 generations of logos on Prussian (now Midnight) blue\nWater wrapped in wood\nDipped in cornflower\nAnd cased in sugar\nCrisp as the sky, yet\nBlurred as the oceans\nAtlantis in a paper cup\nNeptune\u2019s pen of pens\nThe melting point of wax\nBecomes indigo crushed\nA missile from the Blue Man Group\nChew-toy of the young and famous\nAnd not-so-famous\nImplement of famous nights and devastating floods\nA place of worship for faeries\nA Tim Burton movie\u2019s inspiration\nBlue Crayola,\nI have two versions saved. One with the blue words, and one without. I like the idea behind the coloring of the words. That some of them clearly connect to 'blue' and some seem as far from it as can be. Like 'wax' and 'worship'. In my head I can invent new connections for the color and the word.\nI cannot be sure if they are the same as the ones I had 13 years ago.\nThe forgetting of thought process is not a problem for me. Not scary. But it is interesting how ephemeral that thought can be. When I wrote this I am sure it seemed to be important. Imperative, even. I bet I turned this in to workshop. I bet people said nice things.\nWhat would I write today if I was meditating on a blue crayon? Which is what this seems to be ultimately. A thought on a childhood object written at the end of childhood. I think it would be similar, touch on subjects like these. Though Neptune and the sea feel more green to me now. And I think Blue Man Group is too obvious, but the missile is good. I don't like the obtuse references to actual blue things. I feel like it relies too heavily on that. I want it to come sideways. From non-blue parts of the universe.\nSeptember is definitely blue. I will have to revisit this.\nIn the meantime go read Thirty-Six Shades of Prussian Blue by Joshua Cohen.\nLabels: childhood, color, criticism, history, memory, myself, on poetry, poetry\nThese are the rings of Saturn.\nFrom afar they look like solid bands that diffuse as they move further from the planet.\nIn reality they are more like sand. Small bits that form a whole. They are Concentric orbiting particles of ice. There are a sum of parts.\nIn 1995 W. G. Sebald wrote The Rings of Saturn. It is a \"novel\" about a man named W. G. Sebald who goes on a walking tour of Suffolk. In each of the 10 sections Sebald discusses a leg of his trip. In doing so he meanders away from the location he is describing to talk about all of the small things that make up the whole of the area.\nHe talks about silk worm cultivation, Thomas Browne, rich shut-ins, and the history of the houses he passes. There are photos like this odd one of a fish catch in the North Sea. There isn't really a narrative. The narrative is the accumulation of things.\nHe talks about the town of Dunwich which faced a giant hurricane in 1286. Thus began a constant cliff erosion that slowly took the whole town into the sea. The last of the ancient buildings, All Saint's Church, went over the edge in 1922. At present one grave still stands about 15 feet from the edge. That of Jacob Forster.\nSuffolk is where I grew up. I was born in Mildenhall. My family lived in Bury St Edmunds. Bob Hoskins is from there. He recently retired from acting because of his continued battle with Parkinson's. Hoskins is most well known in the US for Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Hook. When my family moved from England to the states the Super Mario Bros. movie with him and John Leguizamo had just come out.\nIt was the first movie I was allowed to go see by myself. I went with this kid we met in a hotel before we moved into our Air Force housing. I didn't really like him. I hung out with him because I felt like I didn't understand America enough to do it without someone. The movie is terrible. But Dennis Hopper gets to chew the hell out of every piece of scenery so it's a win.\nFor the soundtrack they managed to bring together the following: Roxette, Marky Mark, Divinyls, George Clinton, Extreme, Megadeth, Joe Satriani, and Queen. The Roxette song featured on the album, Almost Unreal, was written for Hocus Pocus.\nHocus Pocus may be one of my favorite bad early 90s movies. One of my others is The Witches. Both are campy and hilarious. My love of drag was pretty obvious. Dahl is easily my favorite children's author and The Witches my favorite book. I did a Re-Read post on it last summer.\nThe Great Dish, or Great Plate of Bacchus\nIn 1946 he wrote a short piece for the Saturday Evening Post titled The Mildenhall Treasure. The story concerned the discovery in 1942 of a large hoard of Roman silver buried in the 4th century. The whole area of Suffolk is well-known for the large quantities of Bronze, Silver, and Iron Age archaeological objects recovered.\nDahl's story is a journalistic piece about the discovery. He spent time at both RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath. The bases my father worked when I was born.\nBetween Mildenhall and London lies Cambridge. James Clark Maxwell was there from 1850-56. He left for Aberdeen University to become their chair of Natural Philosophy.\nIn 1859, attempting to beat his former school to the punch, James Clark Maxwell demonstrated that the rings of Saturn could not be solid or they would break apart. He proposed the rings must be composed of small particles. Maxwell's theory was proven correct in 1895 through studies of the rings carried out by James Keeler.\nLabels: England, history, rings of saturn, space, w. g. sebald\nHalf dome of Cathedral of Monreale\nFrom Tom & Lorenzo\nA quick update to my post about Bye-and-Bye yesterday.\nThe Dolce & Gabbana fall 2013 collection took its inspiration from the Monreale mosaics. A perfect example of the out of context religious icon I was talking about.\nThe Cathedral of Monreale was begun in 1174. It is one of the best preserved examples of Norman architecture. Every inch of the walls and ceiling is covered in glass tiles.\nDolce & Gabbana are known for their referencing of Sicilian culture in their collections. In recent years they have made the black lace dress highly popular among stars.\nI wouldn't mind these heavy, mosaic looking dresses popping up on red carpets and streets. I love the luxurious look of it. I will reiterate that I find the stripping of meaning interesting. Is this crass? Are they being religious? Is it just pretty?\nThe message is cloudy and that is what makes it interesting.\nLabels: art, fashion, history, on culture\nDust Jacket : Bye-and-Bye\nBye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems\nDesigned by: Quemadura\nPainting by: Piero della Francesca\nReligious iconography is always fascinating. The faces glancing upward in fervor or down in reflection.\nI often find myself at museums wandering aimless through the galleries of old relics. The altars that open to reveal triptych of faith, death, heaven or hell itself. All painted in fading colors on thin veneers of wood.\nEach layer of paint seemingly easy to peel. The wood separating at the edges. You could imagine taking the tip of a finger and picking at the parts until some came off in your hand. What would that feel like? That ancient wood and pain sitting in your palm.\nThis is what I think about in these galleries.\nThat and the strange devotion to something that would lead to the objects being created.\nOne of my favorite examples is the Chapter House at Westminster Abbey. It is an octagonal room built in the 1250s. The ceiling is vaulted and very high. It looks like a circus tent. The floor is a rare complete 13th century tiled pavement. Covering the walls are murals depicting the Apocalypse. They date from the 14th century.\nA lot of the panels are hard to see. There are whole sections that are just faded to white. These sit next to sections that are in beautiful condition.\nThe effect of standing in the room is to feel like history is arbitrary. That there is no reason for one section to carry over for generations while another fades beyond memory.\nThis is what I think about as I walk around the objects amassed in museums. The cases of Mary's with child. The gilt halos. I think about what other objects vanished. What remained and why. And I wonder what will remain from today. From me.\nThere are great examples of religious art. Goya. El Greco. DaVinci. Earlier works like the Chapter House murals. These things are from a time where the Christian god was very very real. Was feared. Was held at bay and worshipped through these works and others like them.\nTo see them held in cases. Stripped of most of their power. Left with only aesthetic.\nThe cover is the center panel of an altar. The full panel has a very different feeling than the close-cropped version of the book jacket.\nHere what we interpret as a sad woman reflecting on life. On religion. On the poetry within. Here she is a giant, triumphant. Welcoming the masses into her cloak of protection. She is Mary, mother.\nWhat's interesting is that I'm not sure which version I like more.\nThe washed out one in close from the cover is interesting because of the introspection. The larger, true painting, is interesting for the strength and the message.\nThis reminds me of when J and I went to see Tatzu Nishi's 'Discovering Columbus'. Nishi built a living room around Gaetano Russo\u2019s 1892 statue of Columbus in Columbus Circle. 70 feet in the air, you came face to face with this:\nSuddenly the city around me, the statue, the man from history classes - they contracted. And all I could think about was his jaunty pose. One hand on hip, smirking across space and time. The chopping of the rest of the monument, the cutting off of the noise of the intersection. It changed the work. It made it mean something else.\nThis is why I walk the rooms full of religious artifacts. Because those cases of things make it all mean so much more.\nAnd so much less.\nLabels: covers, culture, design, dust jacket, graphic design, on covers, poetry, religion\nA short story of mine was published in KNACK. Go read it.\nI have been so so so lazy with this blog lately. I try to not get too meta with my posts - you know posts about posting - but I am sorry for the lameness. I have less time on weekdays to write, I am doing the reviews for Publishers Weekly, and in general I am not focused on this site at the moment.\nWill try to be better. I have a Dust Jacket post for Monday and a Re-Read that I am trying to get finished. So there are things to come.\nThe big problem is that the books I am reading are mostly for the reviews. And I can't talk about them here. So I can't write the posts about what I'm reading in context with larger things. Because of contracts, etc.\nWhich is lame. But is a real thing.\nI can tell you what books I have reviewed and link to those reviews, so I will:\nLife Form by Amelie Nothomb (good)\nThe Average American Marriage by Chat Kultgen (I tore this one apart)\nLa Boutique Obscure: 124 Dreams by Georges Perec (how do you review a 40-year-old book?)\nMary Coin by Marisa Silver (out March 7th - read this book NOW)\nSightings by B. J. Hollars (out March 21st - review coming soon)\nI also interviewed Marisa Silver. She was a kind and gracious interviewee and answered this amateur's questions beautifully. I will try to link to it when it comes up.\nThis turned into a very ME post. But I feel like I got the cobwebs out of here. It's good to touch base, even if it feels narcissistic and silly. Keeps you honest or something.\nMy Baby Has Two Twitter Accounts A Facebook And A ...\nSorry I am MIA. I am working on a long for of an o...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 390, "original_length": 31407, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 336.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.windowonheartland.net/how-to-compose-a-paper-on-child-abuse-5-useful-hints", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:05Z", "digest": "sha1:KVLX46UJQGHVABAT7P2STFLRUCSRJWIB", "length": 2581, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "www.windowonheartland.net", "title": "How To Compose A Paper On Child Abuse: 5 Useful Hints", "raw_content": "Writing Essays On Child Abuse: 5 Helpful Strategies\nWhen giving advice to high school or college students as to the different ways one should go about writing on a controversial subject like child abuse, most experts suggest a few helpful strategies that aim to keep writing informative, appropriate, and worthy of academic and critical discussion. Here is a list of the top 5 strategies for composing essays on child abuse:\nWrite in the third person with a lot of facts\nWhen writing this kind of essay, and most academic essays, you should use the third person voice. When writing on a controversial issue you certainly include a lot of facts and remove any editorial language that suggests that the information presented is your own (i.e., \u201cMost parents would be horrified\u2026\u201d). It can be easy to offend when composing an essay on this subject, so review your content before submittal.\nTreat the opposite side appropriately\nMake yourself the Devil\u2019s Advocate when writing on a controversial subject. Using this technique will allow you to consider the opposition side of an argument, even if you don\u2019t entirely agree. Consider every question, piece of evidence, and argument you have presented and make yourself view it from the opposite side.\nBeware of the one-sided righteous support\nSurprisingly, certain components child abuse subject can be quite polarizing. Issues such as tradition, religion, parent\u2019s rights, international law, etc., can each switch the pendulum of a fair and even argument towards one end or the other. When researching information you might find that one side is more accessible than the other. It might be best to review your intent and possibly change your topic.\nLeave a way back out of a single side\nGive yourself the opportunity to leave a topic in which you cannot avoid injecting your personal opinion, unless the assignment has asked for it specifically. Remind yourself that you are supposed to analyze and evaluate the evidence you find from a neutral point of view. If you find yourself misrepresenting evidence in order to put forth a personal belief you have gone from composing an academic paper to a composing an opinion piece.\nPrepare for oppositional criticism\nRegardless if you have chosen this topic on your own or if you were given it by your instructor, you\u2019re bound to find some readers who are critical \u2013 especially if it\u2019s reviewed by your peers or classmates. Be prepared to respond positively to academic and constructive criticism. Don\u2019t take things personally and try to respond by citing elements contained within your paper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 114, "original_length": 5962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 338.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.wistv.com/story/17168263/suspects-rob-man-after-he-refuses-to-perform-sex-acts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:12Z", "digest": "sha1:ZK5LDCIZSTNFFHOSG74EDNPQI2VDWZJO", "length": 365, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "www.wistv.com", "title": "Suspects rob man after he refuses to perform sex acts", "raw_content": "Suspects rob man after he refuses to perform sex acts\nORANGEBURG, SC (WIS) - Three men robbed a 20-year-old man after he refused to have sex with them.\nAccording to an Orangeburg County Sheriff's Department incident report, the 20-year-old man was walking home on Campus Drive around 4:30 a.m., when he was approached by three men in an unknown vehicle on March 10.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1676, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 104.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.woolandwheel.com/2009/09/patterns-and-roses.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:40Z", "digest": "sha1:NMR4FZUD3KNSM2PXJX3C6OVVJCAKJMMY", "length": 2066, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "www.woolandwheel.com", "title": "Wool and Wheel: Patterns and roses...", "raw_content": "I am such a sewing nerd. Hobby Lobby has Simplicity patterns on sale for 99 cents each this week. So of course, I got all excited, and I went and bought 9 patterns (there's a 10 limit) to add to my collection. I just love having new patterns. I love pattern envelopes and the instructions and tissue paper inside. But most of all, I love thinking about all of potential in that little envelope. A whole new project, whether it's a dress or Christmas tree skirt or poodle skirt (which is *hopefully* going to be my Halloween costume). Okay, I'm finished gushing about my strange love of patterns for now.\nMy mom has a rosebush that has these beautifully colored roses on it.\nI was just trying to multi-task while my photos were uploading. I had an iTunes card I've been holding onto for a while, until I was absolutely sure which songs I wanted to buy with it. So I was just buying \"Let's Get Together\" and \"The Parent Trap,\" both from the original \"Parent Trap\" movie. Annette Funicello sings them. Somehow the page seemed to freeze up, and I was clicking. Next thing I know, I've purchased a whole $9.99 CD of Annette Funicello singing Italian-themed songs. I thought it was some sort of a joke. But no, something happened, and now I've accidentally wasted $10 on a CD that I might listen to one or song off of (no...since it's been done, I'll force myself to listen to the songs). I did not click the Yes button when it says, \"Are you sure you want to purchase \"...\"?\" What a rip-off. I had big plans for those songs...Sinatra and Michael Buble and classic movie soundtracks.\nLabels: Flowers, music, photography, sewing\nyikes, I'm sorry that it made you randomly purchase music. I'm wondering, did you ever listen to the songs? I feel the same way about buying patterns, imagining what kinds of fabric I'll use to how it will look on me and what kind of drape I want it to have and how it will come together...the whole process is so exciting and like an adventure. And then you get to own a unique piece of clothing that no one else owns!\nBeautiful rose pictures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 6823, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.yamsfiles.com/araw-ng-kagitingan-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:IITM7FJV63NJAX5GQ4BX4ILQSVZXVUUX", "length": 535, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "www.yamsfiles.com", "title": "Araw ng Kagitingan 2015 | Yam's Files", "raw_content": "Araw ng Kagitingan (Filipino for Day of Valor), also known as Bataan Day or Bataan and Corregidor Day, is a national observance in the Philippines which commemorates the fall of Bataan during World War II. (Wikipedia)\nImage credit: My daughter N and People\u2019s Tonight, Editorial, April 9, 2015.\nThis entry was posted in government, Occasion and tagged Araw ng Kagitingan, Araw ng Kagitingan 2015, Bataan Day or Corregidor Day, fall of Bataan on April 9, 2015 by Yami.\n\u2190 Music lesson this summer Official School Calendar for SY 2015-16 \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 3236, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.youblawg.com/accident-claims-law/head-on-collision-a-dangerous-type-of-truck-accident", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:16Z", "digest": "sha1:O3DCXPROP4CBZ6HQXPETBTN6KOY5WI7B", "length": 2789, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "www.youblawg.com", "title": "Head-on-Collision: A Dangerous Type of Truck Accident", "raw_content": "Head-on-Collision: A Dangerous Type of Truck Accident\nby lawfirm on January 12, 2013\nHead-on-collision is one of the dangerous forms of accidents and Miami reports several of these fatal accidents each year. In Miami, it is the trucks that collide with other vehicles. When the truck collide with motor vehicles or other smaller ones; they are reduced to nothing and driver of the truck is hardly injured whereas on the other hand driver of other vehicle is severely wounded or even dead.\nThe common types of injuries that result from head-on-collision are brain injuries, injuries in spinal cord, fractured bones, paralysis and even catastrophic injuries. Sudden accidents bring with it excessive financial pressure as it involves high medical expenditure and loss of work. Most of the time family of the injured person are confused how to deal with this excessive medical expenses.\nReasons behind head-on-collision\nIf the head-on-collision occurs due to fault of someone else; file a personal injury lawsuit. From the past cases it is seen that common reasons behind head-on-collisions are negligence, reckless driving, excessive speed and distracted driving. However, proving that the accident occur due to fault of others is not simple. It requires extensive investigation and research.\nThe family of the injured person or the injured person is not in a position to carry out those extensive and in-depth processes in order to claim compensation. Thus, in most situations they give away the claim. However, it will be much simple if you seek legal assistance to make the claim.\nConsulting with a lawyer\nA skilled Miami Truck Accident Attorney knows how to approach with a case of personal injury. They will involve experts and collect evidences required for filing a personal injury case. The lawyer will also help to estimate the compensation amount. Apart from medical costs and lost wages other things that have can be considered are emotional distress, loss of support, pain and suffering.\nTruck accident cases can be either settled inside or outside court. Regardless of where the case is settled, for personal injury cases it is imperative to appoint an experienced lawyer. Even if the case is settled outside court, the lawyer will negotiate with insurance adjusters and recover adequate compensation. It is tough to deal with insurance representatives and retrieve compensation. Lawyers who is in this field for several years and deal with these types of cases successfully in past know what evidences to produce at the time of negotiation and how to make them pay suitable compensation.\nTagged as: accident attorney, Miami Truck Accident Attorney, Truck Accident lawyer\nPrevious post: Stray Dogs Kill 2 Pets in Anaheim Hills\nNext post: The Fallout From Hip Replacement Recalls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 133, "original_length": 5563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 336.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://www.zero-books.net/authors/aylwyn-walsh", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:36Z", "digest": "sha1:MB6U24FL6IX4H2NZITQIVVEP2BYEJ35D", "length": 529, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "www.zero-books.net", "title": "Aylwyn Walsh || Zero Books || Author Profile", "raw_content": "Aylwyn Walsh is a performance studies scholar working on the arts and social change. Her work is concerned with exploring the intersections of interdisciplinary methodologies. She is currently researching women\u2019s prisons in the UK. Aylwyn is a lecturer at the University of Lincoln and artistic director of Ministry of Untold Stories. 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In his lab, he uses Aplysia califonica, (sea slugs), to trace the behavioral, neura and transcriptional changes that occur when the animal forms a new long-term memory. His articles have been published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience and the New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience.\nPhD, biological psychology, Wayne State University\nMA, cognitive psychology, Wayne State University\nBA, philosophy and cognitive science, Albion College\nBehavior Research and Statistics I and II", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 3312, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://xbodyconcepts.com/why-your-fitness-tracker-is-your-accountability-partner-you-desperately-needed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YXOMBETC67NCL3Q46AQZCPWSGHQD63MY", "length": 4407, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "xbodyconcepts.com", "title": "Why Your Fitness Tracker Is Your Accountability Partner You Desperately Needed \u2013 XbodyConcepts", "raw_content": "Why Your Fitness Tracker Is Your Accountability Partner You Desperately Needed\nFitting fitness in is always a problem. It\u2019s why the US is among the fattest nations on the planet, with two thirds being obese. Staying accountable can be difficult, especially if you don\u2019t have any friends who are willing to make sure you get on your feet every day. But your fitness tracker could be the accountability partner you need to keep you moving.\nThey are different from the simple counters that measured your number of steps previously. They do so much more, and this article is going to show you why your fitness tracker is your accountability partner you desperately needed.\nYour fitness tracker is far more advanced than ever before. They do more than just track the number of steps you have taken. Put one on your arm and you can find out everything from your current heart rate to the number of calories you have burned. You can even find out your average walking speed.\nThe more you are willing to pay for a fitness tracker the more features you are going to get from it. Furthermore, you can wear them all day whether you are working out or not. Get into the habit of slipping it on at the start of the day and measuring your results at the end of the day.\nMany trackers will even automatically post your results to the cloud. Yes, the more expensive ones can even connect to the Internet in order to log your results.\nA Measurable Goal\nHumans are logical creatures and they depend on a clear line between success and failure to know how they are doing. The fitness tracker is the ultimate way of doing this. Let\u2019s say that you want to walk 10,000 steps every single day. You either walk 10,000 steps every day or you don\u2019t. There\u2019s no grey area, and that\u2019s what makes the fitness tracker so effective.\nMany people will purposely walk more steps just so they can reach their measurable goals. Additionally, unlike tracking your steps on your iPhone, your fitness tracker is always with you so you can be 100% sure that you have reached your goals.\nIt\u2019s a Psychological Thing\nAccountability to something is so effective because of the psychological effect it has on people. Many fitness freaks feel guilty when they miss a session at the gym, even if they happen to be sick with flu and they absolutely couldn\u2019t make it. Your fitness tracker can have the same psychological effect on you.\nWhen you don\u2019t meet your targets you will feel guilty. Rather than making you feel ashamed, it will encourage you to walk more the next day. It will encourage you to go out of your way to do more. That\u2019s what keeps people going in their quest for fitness. It\u2019s the numbers that are important.\nChanging the Way You Live\nDue to the changes to your psychology, the fitness tracker will turn your fitness into a game. As the hours tick down and you have realized that you are still a few thousand steps short of your goal, you will try to find ways to increase the number of steps.\nNow you are actively looking to take the stairs instead of the elevator. You are looking to see if you can leave the car and walk the rest of the way home.\nThese changes won\u2019t exist just when you are wearing your fitness tracker. They will become engrained within your mind. You will be naturally adopting these mannerisms for years to come without thinking about it. And that signals a massive change in your life.\nBut Remember What Fitness is All About\nYou are not going to get fit and healthy just by walking a few thousand steps every day. A fitness tracker can take care of the fitness side of things, but it isn\u2019t going to take care of everything else. Diet makes up the vast majority of the fitness journey. If you are not eating right, you are not going to burn off those pounds.\nMake sure that alongside a new fitness regime you are adopting a different diet. You should always be thinking about what goes into your body because you are really what you eat. If you can\u2019t do this, it doesn\u2019t matter how many steps you decide to walk per day.\nA fitness tracker can completely turn your life around, if you let it. 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The exhibit will be open to the public through June 7 during regular Mount Dora Center for the Arts hours.\nPatel\u2019s fine art photography collection features snapshots of India. \u201cSutra,\u201d translated from ancient sanskrit means \u201ca thread or line that holds elements together.\u201d In this collection, Yatin reveals the beautiful textural fibers that are woven into the environments of present-day urban India, evocative of its ancient society and civilization at large.\nAs a believer in giving back to society, all of Patel\u2019s artwork is done for charity. 100 percent of proceeds from the Mount Dora Center for the Arts exhibit will go back to the organization.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 209.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://yfsmagazine.com/2016/09/14/top-social-media-sites-that-matter-for-startups/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:42Z", "digest": "sha1:J725YIYSO4F6RRSSRTRS2ICVSLABUBAF", "length": 5631, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "yfsmagazine.com", "title": "Top Social Media Sites That Matter For Startups \u2014 YFS Magazine", "raw_content": "Photo: \u00a9 Astarot, YFS Magazine\nTop Social Media Sites That Matter For Startups\nHere's an overview of the major social media platforms, along with quick stats, so you can choose which ones are best for your business.\nBy Kai Elisha\nWith so many different social media platforms out there, it\u2019s hard to know the differences among them and understand which ones are most suitable for your business. From an SEO consultant\u2019s perspective, this article will give an overview of the major social media platforms, so you can choose which ones are best for your business.\nMonthly Active Users: 1.71 billion\nMonthly Active Users \u2013 Mobile: 1.57 billion\nFacebook is the single biggest social media platform that exists today. With 1.71 billion active users, it is an essential social media platform for any business. Women make up the majority of users (77%) on Facebook and the platform skews younger with \u201c82% of online adults ages 18 to 29 [using] Facebook, along with 79% of those ages 30 to 49, 64% of those ages 50 to 64 and 48% of those 65 and older.\u201d\nIt\u2019s pretty low-maintenance as far as posting frequency. Studies indicate you can post up to 2x per day before likes and comments begin to drop off dramatically. As a rule of thumb, \u201cDon\u2019t overwhelm your customers with content on Facebook, and be selective about what you\u2019re publishing. In other words, spend more time crafting better Facebook posts, and less time crafting a lot of Facebook posts.\u201d\nMonthly Active Users \u2013 Mobile: 256 million (82%% of MAUs)\nTwitter is incredibly popular with the younger crowd. So, if you want to reach a younger, college-educated audience it\u2019s a prime place to hangout. As of late Twitter has begun to lean more toward male users. Previously it was a more gender-balanced social network. Pew Research found that, as of August 2013, 25% of men use Twitter, while only 21% of women do.\nBrands are increasingly using Twitter to boost engagement in 140 characters or less. From retweeting and interacting with followers to using hashtags to extend post reach, Twitter is a great tool to educate your audience. When posting to Twitter, don\u2019t forget to upload an image. Research has shown that Tweets with photos get 313% more engagement.\nMonthly Active Users \u2013 Mobile: 20 million\nGoogle+ is probably one of the most under-utilized social platforms out there. Unlike other social networks, Google+ has a significant impact on your SEO and search traffic volume. One of the Google+ products, Google My Business is a relevant tool for business owners by helping local businesses get found within Google.\nPhoto: Google+\nInstagram, acquired by Facebook in 2012, is a powerful platform for creating visual content for your business. It is also the best place to start conversations with your audience.\nIn fact, \u201cInstagram is recognized as the \u2018king\u2019 of engagement for branded content on a social media platform. According to data collected by Forrester, branded content on Instagram generated a per-follower engagement rate of 4.21%. That\u2019s 58 times the engagement driven by the same type of content on Facebook or Twitter.\u201d Instagram is also a great platform to reach young adults, given roughly half of internet-using 18-29-year-olds (53%) use Instagram.\nMonthly Active Users \u2013 Mobile: Undisclosed\nWhen visuals and mobile matter most, Pinterest is your go-to social network of choice. Reports suggest four-fifths of Pinterest\u2019s traffic now comes from mobile devices.\nPinterest continues to make the case that it is less a social network and more a search and discovery service (i.e. like Google), but nonetheless the photo sharing platform is used by marketers to ramp up their social profiles. Women dominate Pinterest and the ease of use makes it a fan favorite for users to find recipes, styles and even gift ideas in less than two minutes. Each year Pinterest serves more than 1.5 trillion recommendations via its virtual inboard interface.\nMonthly Active Users \u2013 Mobile: 50 million (50%)\nMost people wouldn\u2019t associate LinkedIn as a social media platform for businesses, but it\u2019s becoming more and more important as a marketing tool. For business-to-business (B2B) social networking, LinkedIn is a great way to connect with professionals. Meanwhile, the targeting is pretty impressive.\nFor instance, marketers can leverage their demographic data (filter by Job Function, Seniority, Company Name, Geography, Industry, etc.) and interest-based data (i.e. target members by the LinkedIn Groups they belong to, their field of study, the skills they self identify, etc.). If you\u2019re trying to target specific professional persona\u2019s (i.e. Opinion Leaders, Business Travelers, etc.) LinkedIn offers targeted reach. At a minimum you can use LinkedIn to grow your personal network, share blog posts and increase the reach of your content.\nMonthly Active Users: 1 billion\nYouTube, owned by Google, is a social media behemoth. With over a billion users \u2014 almost one-third of all people on the Internet \u2014 every day people watch hundreds of millions of hours of video on YouTube and generate billions of views. Males dominate YouTube viewership at 62%, with female users at 38%. While only 9% of U.S. small businesses reportedly advertising on YouTube to-date, don\u2019t overlook its potential.\nKai Elisha is an online marketing strategist at mediagurus.org.au, a fast growing online marketing solutions company helping small to large scale businesses evaluate and deploy intelligent strategies. Kai has a master degree in relevant subject with more than 5 years of experience in marketing, public relations, and blogging. Connect with @Kai_Elisha83 on Twitter.\nKai Elisha", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 235, "original_length": 11535, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 257.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zephyrsbaseball.mlblogs.com/2011/06/03/zephyrs-wrap-up-series-in-omaha/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:33Z", "digest": "sha1:WQ2GJFTAFDKNUBRXKLD3YOXTTLFMSYDY", "length": 1397, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "zephyrsbaseball.mlblogs.com", "title": "Zephyrs wrap up series in Omaha \u00ab Catching Z's", "raw_content": "Zephyrs wrap up series in Omaha\nThe Zephyrs will wrap up a four game series today against the Storm Chasers.\nHere are some notes about last nights game between the Z\u2019s and Omaha.\n*The Zephyrs blasted seven home runs and routed Omaha, 22-6. Chris Aguila hit a grand slam in the first inning, and the Z\u2019s scored 17 runs over the final three frames, powered by six home runs, including two from Matt\nDominguez. Ruben Gotay led the way with six RBI, and Josh Kroeger scored five runs as the Z\u2019s pounded out a season high 20 hits. Chris Sampson picked up his second victory on the year, giving up three runs in six innings.\n*Chatsworth High School \u2013 Is as high school in suburban Los Angeles, in last nights game Chatworth alum\u2019s Matt Dominguez, Bryan Petersen and Mike Moustakas combined to hit four home runs.\n*With 22 runs and 22 RBI last night, New Orleans erased franchise records set in a 19-4 win at Iowa on June 9, 2007, surpassing the club mark for runs scored (19) and RBI (18) in a game. The 22 runs are the second-most\nscored in the PCL this year behind Colorado Springs, who tallied 24 runs in a 24-6 win over Fresno on May 29.\n*The Zephyrs tied a 10-year-old record for most home runs in a single game with seven. The Z\u2019s hit seven home runs in Omaha on April 29, 2001. The seven home runs are a PCL-high on the year; four teams have\ncracked six homers in a game.\nHere is today\u2019s line up:", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 4194, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 281.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zermin.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-president-speaks-on-resurgence-of.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:37Z", "digest": "sha1:54AITB7WMWB3WK6YLA4HKY4W4FCV6UFH", "length": 68, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "zermin.blogspot.com", "title": "Blog von Diplom-Betriebswirt Helmut Zermin: The President Speaks on the Resurgence of the American Auto Industry", "raw_content": "The President Speaks on the Resurgence of the American Auto Industry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 196, "original_length": 6342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 196.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "http://zionhb.org/new-to-zion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:64BDU7MHDZQUJ42OOHOIHRQQODO6L5NA", "length": 3007, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "zionhb.org", "title": "New to Zion? | Zion Lutheran Church", "raw_content": "Zion Lutheran is a member congregation of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. We have been worshipping as part of God\u2019s family for over 160 years in Hillsboro. Our mission is to spread the Gospel to the surrounding community by being the serving arm of Jesus Christ. Find out what Zion members believe under the \u201cWhat We Believe\u201d tab.\n\"Grace and peace from the Lord. As you desire to know whether my painted seal, which you sent to me, has hit the mark, I shall answer most amiably and tell you my original thoughts and reason about why my seal is a symbol of my theology. The first should be a black cross in a heart, which retains its natural color, so that I myself would be reminded that faith in the Crucified saves us. \"For one who believes from the heart will be justified\" (Romans 10:10). Although it is indeed a black cross, which mortifies and which should also cause pain, it leaves the heart in its natural color. It does not corrupt nature, that is, it does not kill but keeps alive. \"The just shall live by faith\" (Romans 1:17) but by faith in the crucified. Such a heart should stand in the middle of a white rose, to show that faith gives joy, comfort, and peace. In other words, it places the believer into a white, joyous rose, for this faith does not give peace and joy like the world gives (John 14:27). That is why the rose should be white and not red, for white is the color of the spirits and the angels (cf. Matthew 28:3; John 20:12). Such a rose should stand in a sky-blue field, symbolizing that such joy in spirit and faith is a beginning of the heavenly future joy, which begins already, but is grasped in hope, not yet revealed. And around this field is a golden ring, symbolizing that such blessedness in Heaven lasts forever and has no end. Such blessedness is exquisite, beyond all joy and goods, just as gold is the most valuable, most precious and best metal. This is my compendium theologiae [summary of theology]. I have wanted to show it to you in good friendship, hoping for your appreciation. May Christ, our beloved Lord, be with your spirit until the life hereafter. Amen.\" - Martin Luther\nAt Zion Lutheran, we are in constant worship of our Father in Heaven in our daily lives. On Sunday\u2019s however, we come together as a family to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ. You can visit Zion at 8am and 10:45am each Sunday morning for a worship service centered in God\u2019s Word and Sacraments. On Sunday morning\u2019s at 9:30am, Sunday School is in session for both children and adult alike. Find out worship at Zion looks like under the \u201cWorship\u201d tab.\nZion's Sanctuary\nZion has been serving the Hillsboro community with Word and Sacrament for over 160 years. In 2015, Zion rededicated its mission focus to be one of service to the community in need. As the serving arm of Jesus Christ, Zion is focusing its mission work on \u201chelping kids be kids\u201d both in the Hillsboro School District with our Beautiful Feet initiative, and the community at large through its annual Grace Day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3958, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 259.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://112.international/politics/azerbaijan-georgia-turkey-to-discuss-regional-projects-in-baku-in-september-20039.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:56Z", "digest": "sha1:AJ4LLPRFI2UDNPNPHISQAQ7GDLLSFFEE", "length": 1224, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "112.international", "title": "Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey to discuss regional projects in Baku in September - Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey to discuss regional projects in Baku in September - 112.international", "raw_content": "Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey to discuss regional projects in Baku in September\nThe countries are to discuss their cooperation on regional projects\nForeign Minister of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov will hold a meeting with his Georgian and Turkish counterparts, Mikheil Janelidze and Mevlut Cavusoglu, according to Interfax-Ukraine.\n\"The meeting is due to take place in Baku in early September. This is another meeting where the foreign ministers will discuss current matters of the regional agenda and trilateral cooperation,\" spokesman for the Georgian Embassy told the news agency on Monday.\nThe parties are to discuss the implementation of big regional projects on their territories, he said.\nThe first trilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey was held on June 8 2012, when the Trabzon declaration was signed. The declaration foresees cooperation in politics, economics, energy, transport, and environment protection. Since then, the meetings have been taking place twice a year.\nRelated: Georgian military to join Independence Day parade in Ukraine\nRelated: Erdogan criticizes German Foreign Minister due to statements about Turkey's interference in lections\nTurkey Georgia Azerbaijan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 90, "original_length": 4671, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://1stdirectory.co.uk/companies/reclaimed-building-supplies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:39Z", "digest": "sha1:GH4NRWHE2RAJAY7L5POTTWPYDYAHSE3P", "length": 120, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "1stdirectory.co.uk", "title": "Reclaimed Building Supplies", "raw_content": "Reclaimed Building Supplies\nLower Farm\nhttp://www.rbsoak.co.uk\nThe map shows the location of Reclaimed Building Supplies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 2533, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 266.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2018aaaeconference.sched.com/event/EKjn/resilient-houston-turning-the-tide-after-harvey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:28Z", "digest": "sha1:VFNR4RSDS4QYCPULYE3NEVUMQZYD6BNG", "length": 2058, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "2018aaaeconference.sched.com", "title": "2018 AAAE Conference: Resilient Houston: Turning the Tide Afte...", "raw_content": "Friday, June 1 \u2022 9:00am - 11:00am\nResilient Houston: Turning the Tide After Harvey\nAfter Hurricane Harvey, the Houston arts community rallied. Our Friday morning plenary will celebrate the city's resilience and ingenuity in the most trying of times, and we'll also examine the learning and problem solving that paved the way to recovery.\nTo open the session, Houston's Poet Laureate, Deborah DEEP Mouton, will perform a reading of one of her pieces.\nPerryn Leech will then share the inspiring and dynamic story of the Resilience Theatre, the alternative performance space that the Houston Grand Opera devised in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.\nFollowing Perryn's talk, Shannon Buggs (Culture Works Greater Houston) will will reflect on the ingenuity, heart, and tenacity that has been displayed in response to Harvey\u2019s devastation. Participants include Marci Dallas (FreshArts), Ten Eyck Swackhamer (Alley Theatre), and Perryn Leech.\nChief Commons Director, Culture Works Greater Houston\nShannon Buggs is the Chief Commons Director for CultureWorks Greater Houston, a management commons for arts, cultural and creative nonprofits. Her professional experience includes working as a Houston Chronicle business reporter and columnist, covering the airlines industry, banking... Read More \u2192\nExecutive Director, FreshArts\nMarci Dallas is Executive Director for Fresh Arts, a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to strengthening the sustainability and vibrancy of Houston's arts sector by bolstering the capacity and professional practice of artists and arts organizations and enhancing the public's engagement... Read More \u2192\nDean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Houston - Downtown\nDeborah D.E.E.P. Mouton an internationally-known Poet, Singer, Actress, Photographer, Wife, Mother, and the current Poet Laureate for the City of Houston. She is a native-Californian who now resides in Houston,TX.\u200bFormerly ranked the #2 Best female Poet in the World, D.E.E.P. has... Read More \u2192\nGeneral Manager, Alley Theatre\nFriday June 1, 2018 9:00am - 11:00am", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 4005, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://25iq.com/2015/12/12/what-are-charlie-mungers-views-on-giving-back-to-society/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:55Z", "digest": "sha1:VMX4H4TYGYWUTW2ACTXQCUGWACCZNTE2", "length": 12460, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "25iq.com", "title": "What are Charlie Munger\u2019s views on giving back to society? \u2013 25iq", "raw_content": "Charlie Munger\u2019s view on philanthropy is clear: \u201cThose of us who have been very fortunate have a duty to give back.\u201d Among the most interesting questions related to this statement are: What is philanthropy? How does philanthropy differ from charity? Are there actions which are \u201cgiving back\u201d that are not quite philanthropy? How does one best give back?\nLooking at the origins of these words is arguably helpful. I use the term \u201carguably\u201d since some of what I am about to say seems in the eye of the beholder, especially on definitions of key terms (taxonomy). Reasonable minds can have different opinions on some of these issues.\nPhilanthropy is the desire to promote the welfare of others. The word comes from: Late Latin philanthropia, from Greek philanthr\u014dpia, from philanthr\u014dpos loving people, from phil- + anthr\u014dpos human being.\nCharity has a different meaning: the aim of giving money, food or value to a nonprofit organization. Origin: mid-12c., \u201cbenevolence for the poor,\u201d from Old French charit\u00e9 \u201c(Christian) charity, mercy, compassion; alms.\nA reasonable interpretation is: all charity is philanthropy, but not all philanthropy is charity.\nIn recent discussions about Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s plans to use their wealth to \u201cpromote change\u201d some people have pointed out that one can be philanthropically motivated even if the effort is not charitable as defined by the United States tax code. As an example, Felix Salmon wrote:\n\u201cMark Zuckerberg isn\u2019t going to be satisfied with small, visible interventions which don\u2019t scale \u2013 feeding the hungry, say, or giving money to the poor. Such activities improve the world, but they don\u2019t change the world.\u201d\nHow would Charlie Munger feel about this? Well, he has said you can change the world in a positive way through doing things like teaching people job skills. Munger has specifically lauded businesses like McDonald\u2019s and Costco for doing just that. These activities are not charitable, but he seems to be saying that they are good for society in ways that positively spillover from the normal desire of a business to seek profit. It seems a stretch to call this type of spillover benefit philanthropic, but it is nevertheless a good thing for society.\nFelix is saying Zuckerberg is doing something bigger. Zuckerberg subsequently said that Felix had accurately captured what he had in mind. as an example, coming up with cheap green forms of energy can change the world. It may be that making an investment can best achieve that change, but the investment may not technically be charitable since it may earn a profit. If the return on the investment is sub-market, then it is something less than charitable and something more than just market driven. What is the best word to describe that activity? If there isn\u2019t a word to describe that sort of activity there should be.\nSomeone who has forgone an opportunity has incurred an opportunity cost. Munger puts it this way:\n\u201cI just wanted to do the best I could reasonably do with the talent, time and resources I had available. That\u2019s what I was doing then and now. Everything is based on opportunity costs. Academia has done a terrible disservice: they teach in one sentence in first-year economics about opportunity costs, but that\u2019s it. In life, if opportunity A is better than B, and you have only one opportunity, you do A. There\u2019s no one-size-fits-all. If you\u2019re really wise and fortunate, you get to be like Berkshire. We have high opportunity costs. We always have something we like and can buy more of, so that\u2019s what we compare everything to. All of you are in the game of taking the lot you have right now and improving it based on your opportunity costs. Think of how life is simplified if you approach it this way.\u201d\nThere are other actions that while not quite charitable might be called philanthropic. These questions can get complex since motivations in the real world can be mixed. For example: Is a teacher who would earn far more money as an investment banker, but still teaches, being partially philanthropic? If that teacher\u2019s non monetary motivation to be a teacher is not philanthropic, what exactly is it? Is there a word that describes forms of giving back that are not quite philanthropic?\nIf you spend money or devote time picking up trans on the side of a road near where you live, lobbying a government to increase foreign aid for the poor or protect the environment, is that philanthropic? If it isn\u2019t philanthropic, what exactly is it?\nReturning to the Chan/Zuckerberg example,\n\u201cIn a letter sent to Fast Company \u201con behalf of the Chan/Zuckerberg Initiative,\u201d a [representative] requested a correction to clarify that Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan are not donating their shares to charity but to \u201cbroader philanthropic efforts.\u201d Further, [the representative] specifically suggested using \u201cphilanthropy\u201d rather than charity in a sub-headline and \u201cphilanthropic efforts or new initiative\u201d rather than charity in the text of the story.\u201d\nWhere I come out on this set of issues is that society is best off if people are contributing to and promoting the welfare of other people in many ways. Philanthropy should be considered the broader term and charity narrower in scope. Chan/Zuckerberg intentionally avoided using the term charity in favor of philanthropy. People who insist that they can only engage in 1) charity or 2) profit seeking activities and nothing else are bonkers.\nAs an aside, not all philanthropy should be tax deductible. Some people don\u2019t believe any charitable donations should be tax deductible since the deduction is a tax expenditure and the money would in their view be better spent by the government. I am not going to get into that issue here.\nOther reactions in the press recently to the Chan/Zuckerberg announcement are essentially different forms of: \u201cThey are refusing to take the tax deduction! How dare they try to change the world without accepting the limits we specify.\u201d I believe Munger would say that this is \u201cbonkers\u201d thinking. Some things that are not tax deductible or even technically philanthropy are nevertheless a very good thing for society in terms of giving back and should be encouraged. The choices should not be limited to (1) give it to an approved charity under the tax code or (2) do nothing.\nTurning to the question of more obvious charitable and philanthropic activities engaged in by Charlie Munger, Janet Lowe wrote in her biography of Charlie Munger (Damn Right!) that at the time the book was written it was: \u201cMunger\u2019s habit to choose just two or three public causes that seem important, then concentrate on making a difference there.\u201d Munger has been the on the board of Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, for example, since 1979. As an aside, in making his recent comments about the business practices of Valeant, Munger is not speaking as someone who does not understand the issues involved in drug distribution and pricing. In his role as chairman of Good Samaritan Hospital, Munger said, \u201cI could see the price gouging.\u201d\nMunger has adopted more philanthropic causes since Janet Lowe wrote her book. But even in 2000 she pointed out that: \u201cMunger has given some of his Berkshire stock to Good Samaritan Hospital, Planned Parenthood, Stanford University Law School and the Harvard Westlake School.\u201d Since Lowe wrote her book, Munger has given away considerably more money and stock to recipients like the University of Michigan, Stanford University, Polytechnic School in Pasadena and the Los Angeles YMCA.\nOn the question of the right timing for philanthropy, Munger has said that whether you give your money away all at once when you die or as you go along is a personal choice. In 2013 Munger said he is choosing the latter approach:\n\u201cI\u2019m deliberately taking my net worth down. If it\u2019s not below a billion, it soon will be. My thinking is, I\u2019m not immortal. And I won\u2019t need it where I\u2019m going. There\u2019s nothing as insignificant as an extra $2 billion to an old man.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m soon going to be departed from all of my money. Why not give more of it away while I get the fun of giving it?\u201d\nMunger believes that people have a duty to give back more than money, especially if they have earned their fortune doing something he feels isn\u2019t particularly productive, like picking stocks:\n\u201cTo the extent that all I\u2019ve done is pick stocks that have gone up and sat on my ass as my family got richer, I haven\u2019t left much contribution to society. I guess it\u2019s a lot like Wall Street. The difference is, I feel ashamed of it.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m somewhat ashamed\u2026 That I\u2019ve profited from being shrewd with money is not by itself satisfying to me. To atone, I teach and try to set an example. I would hate it if the example of my life caused people to pursue the passive ownership of pieces of paper. I think lives so spent are disastrous lives. I think it\u2019s a better career if you help build something. I wish I\u2019d built more, but I was cursed at being so good at stock picking. \u2018The man is the prisoner of his talents.\u2019 You can laugh, but I\u2019ll bet this room is full of people who are prisoners of their talents. It tends to be the human condition.\u201d\n\u201cI do my outside activities to atone, and Warren uses his investment success to be a great teacher.\u201d\nMunger knows that he is a teacher in his own way: \u201cI try to make up for it with philanthropy and meetings like this one today. This meeting is not out of kindness. This is atonement.\u201d\nThere is some indication from statements made by his family that Munger enjoys intentionally acting like a curmudgeon for comedic effect. One example would be this type of self-effacing comment:\n\u201cEarly Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse.\u201d\nThe other way to \u201cgive back\u201d of course is to be a teacher. Munger points out: \u201cThe best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.\u201d\nIn my own small way I am trying to teach too with these blog posts. You have probably figured out by now that I often use Munger as a foil for expressing my own views. He is far more interesting than I am and can generate more page views and reach more people who could use some help with investing. Writing a book or blog to help people with a topic that most people find boring is quixotic, but that\u2019s my choice. That I have only modest success in this effort is fine with me.\nhttps://philanthropy.com/article/No-17-Charles-Munger/153651\n\u201cAlthough Mr. Munger left the University of Michigan before graduating, he became one of its most generous donors when he pledged $110-million last year for graduate student housing and fellowships.\nThe 90-year-old investor is directing $100-million of his gift to build a housing complex where graduate students from varying disciplines can live together and avoid the social isolation that so often accompanies graduate study. The remaining $10-million will go toward a graduate fellowship program designed to encourage study and interaction among graduate students in different fields.\nHe gave the gifts because he believes housing has a big affect on one\u2019s education.\n\u201cIt\u2019s very uncommon that administrations are much interested in creating dormitories because if you\u2019re an elite place and you\u2019ve got 10 applicants for every spot, it\u2019s perfectly natural to think, \u2018Why the hell do we need to do any more for the students? They\u2019re begging to get in,\u2019\u201d he says. \u201cI don\u2019t think you abuse your best customers merely because you can get by with it.\u201d\nThis isn\u2019t his first donation of this sort. In 2011 he gave $20-million to the university\u2019s law school to renovate housing for law students.\nHe decided to donate the money now rather than give it as a bequest so he can see the results of his giving.\nTwo other organizations benefited from Mr. Munger\u2019s gifts in 2013. He donated $38.5-million to the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens for a new education and visitor center that is scheduled to open in 2015. His late wife, Nancy, was a Huntington trustee; not including this most recent gift, Mr. Munger has donated about $27-million to the organization over almost three decades.\nIn addition, he gave nearly $1.9-million to the Marlborough School, a private girls\u2019 school in Los Angeles, for an athletics center. His wife was an alumna of the school, as were a daughter, two granddaughters, and a daughter-in-law.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 14263, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 260.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://2acrestudios.com/social-media-marketing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HRTZ3MKUNGTH5QZNWUQVY73UBTSZUKZG", "length": 1149, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "2acrestudios.com", "title": "What is Social Media Marketing? - 2 Acre Studios - Web Design in Kalamazoo, Michigan", "raw_content": "Social media marketing is using social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, etc., to market your brand or business. You can address your entire customer base through social media marketing, including; customers, employees, journalists and the general public. Strategically, social media marketing includes the management of both active and passive media to establish a firm\u2019s desired social media culture. Marketers incorporate user-generated content into their strategic approach to engage users and gain followers in an organic manner. Social media platforms have their own built-in analytics, where you can monitor the progress, success and engagement of campaigns.\nSharing other\u2019s posts is good, but original content is best. Create original content on your website and link to your website from social media platforms to increase traffic and engagement there. Once there\u2019s an established engagement stream on your social media channels, it\u2019s a good idea to pay to boost your own original content with Facebook and/or Google Adwords, etc.\n2 Acre Studios can manage your social media marketing needs. Let\u2019s talk about your solution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2255, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 283.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://5newsonline.com/2014/08/14/blog-best-paying-jobs-of-2014/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:43Z", "digest": "sha1:DWNYQYQUOIFRH6UZCDL5LOGUNYI3WXEH", "length": 1096, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "5newsonline.com", "title": "BLOG: Best Paying Jobs of 2014 | Fort Smith/Fayetteville News | 5newsonline KFSM 5NEWS", "raw_content": "BLOG: Best Paying Jobs of 2014\nPosted 2:13 pm, August 14, 2014, by Ashley Beck\nCourtesy: doctorshangout.com\nWhat are the best paying jobs? CareerCast is out with it\u2019s list of the top paying careers, all of which are in the six figures. Most of the jobs require specialized education with seven out of the ten in healthcare and requiring a second degree.\nSurgeon with an annual median salary of $233,150\nGeneral Practice Physician with an annual median salary of $187,200\nPsychiatrist with an annual median salary of $178,950\nOrthodontist with an annual median salary of $149,310\nDentist with an annual median salary of $146,340\nPetroleum Engineer with an annual median salary of $130,280\nAir Traffic Controller with an annual median salary of $122,530\nPharmacist with an annual median salary of $116,670\nPodiatrist with an annual median salary of $116,440\nAttorney with an annual median salary of $113,530\nBusiness Owner Talks About New Minimum Wage Law\nUS Added 250,000 Jobs, Wage Growth Fastest Since 2009\nAmazon To Add Headquarters In New York City And Northern Virginia After Year-Long Search", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 4019, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 249.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://670thescore.radio.com/cubs-manager-joe-maddon-mark-loretta-bench-coach-circumstances-future", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:42Z", "digest": "sha1:GXU2USPPTFCL7VL7IXLMUWRSK522ZCN2", "length": 4479, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "670thescore.radio.com", "title": "Mark Loretta Understands Circumstances He Enters As New Cubs Bench Coach | 670 The Score", "raw_content": "CHICAGO (670 The Score) -- A major leaguer of 15 seasons, Mark Loretta for years had considered returning to the dugout. Since retiring after the 2009 seasons, he spent the last nine years in the Padres' front office but had the itch to be down at field level with the team.\nThen the Cubs came calling, with friends in Theo Epstein and Jed Hoyer reaching out for Loretta's interest in becoming the team's bench coach. He had been considered previously but never interviewed. Loretta said he was all in.\n\"This was just too good of an opportunity to pass up,\" Loretta said at Cubs Convention on Saturday.\nLoretta, 47, was named the Cubs' bench coach on Jan. 2, filling a position vacated by Brandon Hyde being named the Orioles' manager. It was the second straight season the Cubs' bench coach left for a managerial job, as Davey Martinez landed with the Nationals the year prior. That's the kind of positive turnover Loretta knew well going into this interview.\nBut Loretta had questions about the other changes to manager Joe Maddon's coaching staff too. The Cubs dismissed hitting coach Chili Davis after their wild-card game exit last October, and pitching coach Jim Hickey resigned in November. After the 2017 season, the Cubs parted ways with hitting coach John Mallee, pitching coach Chris Bosio and third-base coach Gary Jones.\nThen there's the 64-year-old Maddon, who's working in the final season of a five-year contract without any assurances beyond 2019. The manager who led the Cubs to their first World Series in 108 years and four playoff berths in four seasons is considered a lame duck, and there's some wonder as to whether Loretta is the Epstein-picked replacement waiting on the bench.\nLoretta received a two-year deal with the Cubs and spoke with Epstein and Hoyer about the team's situation with the coaching staff before accepting the job.\n\"It's not strange because Joe's not making it strange,\" Loretta said of Maddon's status. \"I think he's so sure and confident in his ability that I don't think it's going to be any kind of an issue for him, and I think it will be a trickle-down effect for everybody else.\n\"I understand the speculation (that Loretta would replace Maddon). Start adding things together, things like that. But Joe is a huge reason why I'm interested in taking this job. I think he's one of the best managers in the game, for sure. One of the best people.\"\nAs Loretta spoke with several reporters Saturday morning, Epstein took a stage solo at the Cubs Convention for a panel typically conducted by multiple members of the front office. Epstein wanted to be available for the fans and answer alone to the uncertainty surrounding the Cubs' future, including what lies ahead for Maddon.\n\"My bet is that it goes extraordinarily well with Joe and the whole group, and he's here for a long time,\" Epstein said to the convention crowd.\nBut how Maddon is graded as manager by Epstein will be one of many key storylines to this season. The Cubs have averaged just shy of 97 regular-season victories under Maddon's watch and reached the National League Championship Series three straight years before an early exit this past October.\nPlayers have made clear their full support of Maddon, whose easygoing personality creates a loose clubhouse environment. Epstein is looking for something different and hopes to find greater urgency from this 2019 team after the Brewers captured the NL Central crown with a win against the Cubs in Game 163 at Wrigley Field last October.\nTheo Epstein: Don't think we're done in free agency\nEpstein hopes the Cubs respond in 2019 the way he envisions, that Maddon earns a new contract with the team and that Loretta helped create a great support system on the bench.\n\"What's great is the last nine years, I really learned a lot about everything that goes on in an organization, whether it's scouting, player development, community relations, all that kind of thing,\" Loretta said. \"So, I feel like when these guys come up to the big leagues, I know exactly what they've gone through -- in this era.\n\"It was different when I was coming up. There's been a lot made of these millennials or whatever. But I've been around that.\n\"A bench coach role can be like a veteran teammate almost, kind of like a mentor as somebody who's been there, been through their struggles and knows what it takes to prepare for a major league season. That's kind of my mindset going into the year, to be that support system for the players.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 273, "original_length": 10849, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://800ceoread.com/products/endzone-john-u-bacon-english", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:20Z", "digest": "sha1:ANH2WKDB7ZS5MQPHA2ZRFDEH4UDQUOD5", "length": 5961, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "800ceoread.com", "title": "Buy Endzone by John U Bacon, in bulk. Bulk discounts on 9781250079329, 9781250078971", "raw_content": "By John U Bacon\nEndzone tells the story of how college football's most successful, richest and respected program almost lost all three in less than a decade - and entirely of its own doing. It is a story of hubris, greed, and betrayal - a tale more suited to Wall Street than the world's top public university.\nAuthor John U. Bacon takes you inside the offices, the board rooms and the locker rooms of the University of Michigan to see what happened, and why - with countless eye-opening, head-shaking scenes of conflict and conquest.\nBut Endzone is also an inspiring story of redemption and revival. When those who loved Michigan football the most recognized it was being attacked from within, they rallied to reclaim the values that made it great for over a century -- values that went deeper than dollars. The list of heroes includes players, students, lettermen, fans and faculty - and the leaders who had the courage to listen to them.\nTheir unprecedented uprising produced a new athletic director, and a new coach - the hottest in the land - who vindicated the fans' faith when he turned down more money and fame to return to the place he loved most: Michigan.\nIf you love a good story, you'll want to dive into Endzone: The Rise, Fall and Return of Michigan Football.\n\"This is an obvious must-read for University of Michigan fans but is also recommended to anyone interested in college sports, university administration, and organizational leadership.\" - Library Journal\n\"John Bacon is deservedly regarded as the poet laureate of Michigan Football, but his writing is essential to anyone who wants to understand how Big Time College Sports works and why it is stuck in hearts even when it makes us crazy.\" Joe Drape, author of New York Times Bestseller Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen\nNo person is more qualified to tell the story of the milestones and missteps in Michigan's football programs than John Bacon, who has the sources, relationships and storytelling mastery to pull back the curtain at an institution where the curtain is thick. ENDZONE provides a fascinating view into a powerful and successful program that, for a while, lost its way. Joe Schad, ESPN College Football Insider\nJohn Bacon has fast become the preeminent documentarian of all things Michigan football and this is just the latest in a long line of must-read material. Rich Eisen, Lead Host, NFL Network, author, Total Access\nJim Harbaugh always has been one of the most intriguing figures in all of football, the NFL or college.ENDZONE brings them together, helping to understand what motivated Harbaugh to leave the successful San Francisco 49ers for the struggling Michigan Wolverines, and why Michigan fans have received him as their savior. Adam Schefter, ESPN NFL Insider\nMore than just the story of how Jim Harbaugh came home to Ann Arbor, Endzone takes readers deep inside one of college football's most storied programs at a critical moment of uncertainty and tumult. Bacon's incisive reporting reveals details even die-hard fans couldn't know about what went wrong with Michigan football and who emerged to fix it. Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press columnist and editorial page editor, Pulitzer winner for commentary, and U-M class of '92\nYou should read it. If you are a Michigan fan, you should read it. If you are a rival fan, you should read it. If you are part of any organization that has customers and/or employees, you should read it. If you are a fan of a college football team you should read it, then try to get your athletic director to read it.\nThe lasting lesson of Endzone is that one man can't do anything, but many can. It teaches that loyalty out of love is greater than loyalty out of fear and that either is a weak substitute for morality. It teaches that candor is virtue, that authenticity is recognizable, and that a person or a program's aspirations are every bit as important as their accomplishments. Seth Fisher, MGoBlog\nThe \"New York Times \"Bestseller! \" \"\nNo person is more qualified to tell the story of the milestones and missteps in Michigan's football programs than John Bacon, who has the sources, relationships and storytelling mastery to pull back the curtain at an institution where the curtain is thick. ENDZONE provides a fascinating view into a powerful and successful program that, for a while, lost its way. \"Joe Schad, ESPN College Football Insider\"\nJohn Bacon has fast become the preeminent documentarian of all things Michigan football and this is just the latest in a long line of must-read material. \"Rich Eisen, Lead Host, NFL Network, author, Total Access\"\nJim Harbaugh always has been one of the most intriguing figures in all of football, the NFL or college. ENDZONE brings them together, helping to understand what motivated Harbaugh to leave the successful San Francisco 49ers for the struggling Michigan Wolverines, and why Michigan fans have received him as their savior. \"Adam Schefter, ESPN NFL Insider\"\nMore than just the story of how Jim Harbaugh came home to Ann Arbor, \"Endzone\" takes readers deep inside one of college football's most storied programs at a critical moment of uncertainty and tumult. Bacon's incisive reporting reveals details even die-hard fans couldn't know about what went wrong with Michigan football and who emerged to fix it. \"Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press columnist and editorial page editor, Pulitzer winner for commentary, and U-M class of '92\"\nThe lasting lesson of \"Endzone\" is that one man can't do anything, but many can. It teaches that loyalty out of love is greater than loyalty out of fear and that either is a weak substitute for morality. It teaches that candor is virtue, that authenticity is recognizable, and that a person or a program's aspirations are every bit as important as their accomplishments. \"Seth Fisher, MGoBlog\"\"\nPublisher St. Martin's Griffin\nhttps://800ceoread.com/products/endzone-john-u-bacon-english", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 8195, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 315.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://969thegame.iheart.com/featured/the-ben-maller-show/content/2019-02-04-the-saints-would-not-have-done-any-better-against-the-patriots/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:22Z", "digest": "sha1:NHSVNXIWREGS5YZPCRBQED2SIW3MLLHX", "length": 1354, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "969thegame.iheart.com", "title": "New Orleans Saints Would Not Have Done Any Better Against the Patriots | The Ben Maller Show | FM 96.9 The Game", "raw_content": "The Saints Would Not Have Done Any Better Against the Patriots\nBen Maller is floored at the numerous New Orleans Saints fans who have come out of hiding after claiming they would NOT be watching the Super Bowl due to injustices they believe occurred to them in the NFC championship match between the Saints and Los Angeles Rams. Maller explains how these Saints fans believe that their team would have put up a much better fight than the Rams who came away with only 3 points to the New England Patriots' 13. Maller proceeds to say the following:\nThe Rams stank in the Super Bowl, but it doesn't change the fact the Rams won in New Orleans. You can tear Jared Goff apart, but it does not add to your argument. It makes you look like bigger nincompoops, you cockroaches in New Orleans. Jared Goff, (the same guy that looked like he was being held against his will in the Super Bowl) led the LA Rams offense into field goal range down in the final 2 minutes in this horrible pit of vipers in New Orleans and then in overtime, led the Rams into field goal range after an interception of Drew Brees. That is an indictment of Sean Payton.\nThe Rams deserve to be in the Super Bowl. The Saints didn't deserve to be in the Super Bowl. You know why? They're mentally weak, and the mentally weak team does not deserve to go.\nListen to Ben Maller's full take below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 3662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 300.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://9jahotvybes.com/liverpool-will-win-the-premier-league-this-season-sadio-mane/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:29Z", "digest": "sha1:KMHRNAQEGQTG655SSKFV4YHWSJYHHFFQ", "length": 738, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "9jahotvybes.com", "title": "Liverpool Will Win The Premier League This Season\u2019- sadio Mane", "raw_content": "Sadio Mane is adamant Liverpool will win the Premier League this season and insists the Reds will not \u201cchoke\u201d under the pressure of the title race.\nJurgen Klopp\u2019s side are four points clear of nearest rivals Manchester City at the top of the league, with 16 games remaining in the campaign.\nPep Guardiola has warned Liverpool of the pressures of being Premier League leaders but Mane expects his team-mates to cope with the run-in, as they look to end the club\u2019s 29-year wait for the title.\n\u201cThis is not a team of chokers. I am sure we will be champions of England.\n\u201cWhen I wake up, I don\u2019t go to the training ground thinking we will not win. We are determined to show we are the best team in the league.\u201d\nRelated Topics:Liverpool FC news", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 7176, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/127/search-filter?field=subject&starts_with=f", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:38Z", "digest": "sha1:7SCUTSVX547BJNLKRTCXZUDKFFZ327OE", "length": 95, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "aaltodoc.aalto.fi", "title": "Filter by: Keyword", "raw_content": "face-to-face activities (1)\nfacilitated entrepreneurship (1)\nfacility care (1)\nfactor index (1)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 1134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 260.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abovewhispers.com/2018/12/13/look-peng-50-like-connie-britton/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:27:28Z", "digest": "sha1:QJBUI7LZH2USJZCQBXIY6ZM45AD6VLXP", "length": 7306, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "abovewhispers.com", "title": "How To Look Peng After 50 Like Connie Britton - AboveWhispers | AboveWhispers", "raw_content": "How To Look Peng After 50 Like Connie Britton\nBy Aili Nahas\nLike most parents, Connie Britton admits that finding that elusive me time can be a bit of a challenge. \u201cI used to take long baths, but that has gone by the wayside,\u201d says the actress, who is mom to 7-year-old son Yoby. \u201cEven when I finally get him to bed and have a moment, it feels like so much work. I\u2019m tired!\u201d Still, the beloved star, whose fame skyrocketed thanks to shows like Friday Night Lights and Nashville, says she\u2019s becoming more adept at knowing and asking for what she needs and wants, a skill she credits to years of practice. \u201cI stand up for myself much more now,\u201d says Connie, 51. \u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of conscious work around my own sense of value.\u201d Fitting, as Connie\u2019s newest role is playing a successful entrepreneur who sacrifices everything when she becomes ensnared in the web of a dangerous con man on Bravo\u2019s new scripted series Dirty John, based on the popular podcast of the same name.\nFor Connie, the conversation around women standing up for themselves is about much more than her own personal journey. \u201cWe\u2019re in a real watershed moment for women,\u201d she says. \u201cThere may be pushback, but we have to be assertive about our truth. This is a time for more growth than ever.\u201d Over an avocado salad in a corner booth of a restaurant near her L.A. home, Connie speaks candidly about single motherhood, defying conventions, and the wellness ritual that keeps her sane.\nWhat drew you to the role of Debra Newell on Dirty John?\nI\u2019m always looking for a way to explore what makes us tick as women. We\u2019re all influenced by the things in our lives that created us. Particularly now with the #MeToo movement, we have the opportunity to look at the traditions that have been handed down to us\u2014to realize that 50 years ago, we weren\u2019t even allowed to have a credit card. We were encouraged to find a man and take care of him\u2014that was our job. I saw this role as an opportunity to say, \u201cOK, instead of judging this woman\u2014like, how could she stay with this guy?\u2014let\u2019s look at the specific set of circumstances that she grew up in.\u201d There is a part of Debra that bases her sense of value on a man, and I think that\u2019s a common thing, because we come from that history. It\u2019s hard for us to look at ourselves as we stand alone and say, \u201cI\u2019m enough.\u201d\nWhat were the circumstances that helped shape you?\nI\u2019m very aware of the way that I was brought up [in Lynchburg, Virginia]\u2014to be polite, not ever get angry, and defer to others. I had to reshape a lot of that. But even though it was a traditional home, my sister and I were always told that we could do anything we wanted.\nHow has it been balancing work and parenting?\nIt is very difficult to be a working parent. And I\u2019m a single mom, which adds a whole other element. If something out of the blue or scary happens and you have someone to bounce that off of, you\u2019re ahead of the game. It can be incredibly challenging. There are areas of my life that don\u2019t feel full\u2014time for myself, time for a relationship. Finding that balance is hard, but we shouldn\u2019t put so much pressure on ourselves. I have days where it\u2019s like, \u201cWow, I succeeded as a mom today\u201d or \u201cI succeeded at work today.\u201d It\u2019s not all perfect.\nHow do you find your center when things seem off?\nMeditation has been a big part of my adult life\u2014meditation, breathing, and connecting to whatever is my own version of my center. It can be 10 minutes; it can be in the car while I\u2019m driving or just taking a deep breath before I\u2019m about to shoot a scene. It\u2019s about going deeper than the external noise. To me, that\u2019s a really important tool. And I really believe it helps with wrinkles. We can change our body chemistry through meditation.\nWhat is your workout philosophy?\nI don\u2019t love the gym. For a good part of my 20s, while I was pounding the pavement auditioning for acting roles, I taught aerobics in New York. I did step class or good old high-impact aerobics and calisthenics. I spent a lot of time in gyms, but now I really love a mind-body-spirit kind of a workout, and that\u2019s more easily done outside\u2014swimming, hiking, or yoga.\nI have an embarrassingly uncomplicated routine. I do have potions that I put on at night and in the morning. I am obsessed with Beautycounter. But I\u2019m real simple. I\u2019m so boring in that way! I should probably not say this, but I\u2019m not going to make it up\u2014I have mousy brownhair. The first time I dyed it red was when I got a job playing Ariel the Little Mermaid at a toy fair in New York City. It was the worst job ever! I had never colored my hair before, and they said I could do a rinse-out dye. I started putting in highlights after that, and then eventually I went red.\nDo you keep a strict diet?\nI\u2019ve done a bunch of cleanses over the years. Raw food really worked for me, and so did the Blood Type Diet. But now that I\u2019ve turned 50, it\u2019s not so easy. I used to be able to exercise or change what I eat, and in a few days I was good, but that doesn\u2019t happen anymore. I\u2019m in a new phase, and I haven\u2019t figured it out yet. But moderation is important. I eat lots of fruits, vegetables, and clean proteins. And I try to stay away from sugar\u2014it really is a drug for me. It not only impacts my weight, it impacts my body chemistry. Though if I could have a chocolate chip cookie or really anything that is chocolate, I would be a very happy camper.\nHow has your sense of your self changed as you\u2019ve gotten older?\nIt\u2019s true what they say\u2014your body really does change. And I do for sure have those times when I don\u2019t feel good in my skin. In your 40s, you have this genuinely acquired grounded wisdom, and your body is still recognizable. In your late 40s, it\u2019s like, \u201cWhat is happening?\u201d But I\u2019m not super hard on myself, and I allow myself to feel sexy. We have to be patient with ourselves. We are constantly evolving.\nI\u2019m not a fan of it. I think it\u2019s very hard to do social media when you\u2019re a parent. It feels like a job. And if you go deep into Instagram, you\u2019re seeing this very edited, censored version of what everyone is up to. It jumbles your brain. Even without social media, I was constantly comparing myself to others. I had a strong impulse to be negative, and I think a lot of women deal with that. I hope we can start changing the way we speak to ourselves.\nIs your life how you pictured it would be?\nI never could have dreamed it. Every day I\u2019m bursting with gratitude. At the same time, if you had asked me what my life would look like, there is so much that I couldn\u2019t have imagined. I probably thought I\u2019d have biological children, which I haven\u2019t. I also thought I\u2019d adopt a girl, and I got a boy! My family is very girl-dominated, so I was like, \u201cWhat am I going to do with a boy?\u201d He\u2019s such a great teacher for me.\nWhat do you hope for next?\nI\u2019m toying with the idea of taking a little break. I\u2019ve been working nonstop for a very long time, and part of that is because I really love it. But I also want to spend more time with my son and spend more time with myself. I want to be able to breathe and be present in those moments. And it\u2019s hard because my mind is always going in 20 different directions. But those are the moments that serve me most. And maybe I\u2019ll get back to taking some of those baths!\nTags: Aging Gracefully, Connie Britton, Food, Health, Workouts", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 11408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 225.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://abrsdathletics.com/main/teamschedule/id/3621160/seasonid/4208317", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:42Z", "digest": "sha1:4MNC7KK3MKASDB3DWZENBXNAFP36PGYW", "length": 760, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "abrsdathletics.com", "title": "Acton-Boxborough Regional High School Boys Freshman Football Fall 2017-2018 Schedule", "raw_content": "(H) 08/18/17 8:00 AM 8am meeting (9:00-1:00 practice) .\n(H) 08/19/17 8:00 AM 8am meeting (9:00-11:00 practice) .\n(H) 08/24/17 7:00 AM Double sessions 8:00-10:30 & 12:00-2:00 .\n(A) 09/07/17 4:00 PM vs Chelmsford HS Postponed .\n(A) 09/08/17 3:45 PM vs Chelmsford HS Cancelled .\n(A) 09/14/17 3:30 PM vs Reading Memorial HS Cancelled .\n(H) 09/20/17 4:15 PM vs Barnstable HS Leary Field/Richard E. 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By 2001 our old enemy, communism, was 10 years into the dustbin of history. There had been some effort to make the global justice movement into a new foe, but beating unarmed protestors made \u201cus\u201d look like the bad guys. \u2026Then al-Qaeda more or less literally fell from the sky to rescue us from the anomie of life without an enemy. The pedestal, left by all those toppled statues of Lenin, now hosted dictators of so-called rogue states, each to be torn down in their turn. All the while, the idea that we had done something to create these enemies, much as we had failed to consider where previous enemies came from, went unexamined. But enemies do not simply rise from the shadows\u2026\nAuthor: Nina Bunjevac\nIllustrator: Nina Bunjevac\nPublished: Jonathan Cape (Sept, 2014)\nDimensions: 8.7\u2033 x 11.1\u2033\nPurchase: Hardcover in our online store\nThis is a review of Fatherland and how it negotiates the tension between terrorism, a cultural obsession and mental health, a cultural aversion. It is also an exploration of the resemblance we can find between the story in Fatherland and more current events. Here, the terrorists do not look like the ones we know today, but in a way, they have a similar story. They did not climb out of a smoldering cleft in the earth, clutching a detonator in one hand and a home-made bomb in the other. They are the products of their circumstances, circumstances we have more control over than we usually care to admit.\nPeter Bunjevac Sr. was a terrorist. The comic is only half-finished when it is revealed that he has died. Nina Bunjevac goes to pains to describe her father\u2019s upbringing and to illustrate the sociopathic tendencies he manifested at a young age. She describes the brutal beatings her grandfather gave her grandmother in front of her father. She explores the kindness his aunt showed him, the sole kind figure in a troubled life, who was herself an outcast when she got pregnant out of wedlock. She shows how her father was jailed for supporting a popular communist critical of party excess, and how he fled the country and came to Canada as a refugee. In short, she spares no detail in demonstrating all the little cruelties of life that might have helped to make him what he was: a terrorist.\nPeter Bunjevac on left.\nThere is something very old fashioned about the art style that leads us through nearly a century of Bunjevac family history. Combined with the black and white palette, the traditional use of panels and the drawings of family photos, one gets the feeling of leafing through a family album. But normally such keepsakes hide the truths we do not want to see; the drunk father, the scolding grandmother, and other dark secrets of the family. In Fatherland, we are presented with all of this. The scene changes very neatly from Nina and her sister bickering in the present day to her grandfather striking her grandmother as though it were all one story.\nWhich, of course, it is. In contemporary media we usually confront either the banal or the horrific, but rarely both at once. It is a mixture of the everyday and the extraordinary that works very well for historical dramas and was used to great effect in Art Spiegelman\u2019s Maus. It gives the reader a sense that the narrator is very reliable, and that they are enjoying a special relationship with the author. Indeed, Bunjevac occasionally interjects with her own feelings and deepens this sense of intimacy. \u2018Here is my family\u2019s story,\u2019 she says. \u2018Parts of it are boring. Parts of it are awful. Parts of it are cute, funny, even tender. Above all it is human.\u2019\nWhich returns us to the present day. Humanity is the thing that society denies to terrorists when it makes them out to be senseless fanatics. We take them out of context, defining them entirely by the actions we wish to condemn, stripping them not only of humanity but their history. They do not need a reason to be evil in this narrative; they simply are evil. The truth is not so simple.\nTerrorists are always hurt people and they are often sick as well. The two recent \u201cterror\u201d attacks in Canada speak to this point. Both Michael Zehaf-Bibeau and Martin Rouleau were identified by people close to them as mentally ill. Their lives had fallen apart \u2013 Rouleau\u2019s business had failed and he had lost his partner and child. Zehaf-Bibeau was staying in a homeless shelter. He had a history of run-ins with the law. Rouleau was being monitored by government agencies. They did not drop out of the sky. This is also the reminder we get from Peter Bunjevac, Nina\u2019s father. Although he was a terrorist he was not an inexplicable monster who no one could have anticipated. He was very plainly a man to whom the world had been unkind.\nOf Zehaf-Bibeau, \u201c\u2019His behaviour was not normal,\u2019 said David Ali, vice-president of Masjid Al-Salaam mosque in Burnaby. He said: \u201cWe try to be open to everyone. But people on drugs don\u2019t behave normally.\u201d This is not an unusual attitude with regard to people who are unwell. We ourselves are busy or anxious or shy. We do not want to concern ourselves with people who struggle to stay sane. We are especially wary of those who look like they are losing that struggle. But it is the harm and neglect our society causes that creates alienated, desperate, miserable people. We cannot pretend to be surprised when these people resort to desperate acts or when they become desensitized to suffering. They have suffered too long themselves.\nNina Bunjevac reminds us of this. She tells a very intimate story that many would not want to share. She shows the humanity of people who do cruel things and she shows the weaknesses of people struggling to do right. Her mother grapples with leaving her father in spite of his involvement with a terrorist group. People long to speak up about problems in Yugoslavia but fear state reprisal.\nOnly the panels are black and white in Fatherland; the narrative is all shades of gray. We would do well to remember that life is very much like that.\ncomicsfatherlandgraphic novelnina Bunjevacpolitical comicsterrorismToronto comics\nRemembering Debra Jane Shelly\nIt is with much sadness that the Toronto comic book community learned last weekend of the sudden and tragic passing of one of its brightest supporters.\nDebra Jane Shelly was a comics fan, supporter, and self-described (and celebrated) nerd. She was known for her years of behind-the-scenes support at Comic Cons and other events celebrating comics and pop culture. With her partner Kevin, Debra opened the doors of The Comic Book Lounge and Gallery on College St at Clinton in early 2012. The Lounge was unique in serving both as a comic shop and a gathering space, hosting Life Drawing classes, book launches, award ceremonies and socials.\nIn 2013, she co-founded the Lounge\u2019s Ladies Night, which met bi-monthly and became a gathering point for women comic book fans in a community still largely dominated by and catering to a male audience. It was a first for the Toronto comics community, and came at a time when the critical question of diversity in comics (readers as much as creators and characters) was gaining serious momentum internationally.\nYet Debra was known for her positivity, and did less to criticize the comic community\u2019s shortcomings than to nurture the people, spaces, and ideas that were inspiring.\n\u201cTo so many people she was the first person we told of our successes and failures & she always knew the best way to respond -how to congratulate and console us. That kind of contribution doesn\u2019t fit on a resume but it was felt throughout the community.\u201d\n\u2013Alice Quinn, Ladies\u2019 Night co-founder\nThis remembrance has been assembled in conversation with others who knew Debra. The Comic Book Lounge and Gallery has notified its followers that they will be posting memorial service information as it becomes available.\nComic Book Loungedebra shellyladies night at the loungeToronto comicswomen in comics", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 230, "original_length": 28600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adifferenttake.org/2018/01/11/musing-20/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:05Z", "digest": "sha1:G7O45UXJN6JUS2ESGMJ5WLTADDHWDZ4A", "length": 2944, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "adifferenttake.org", "title": "Planning a Trip to Edinburgh, Your Ultimate Guide, Part 2: Museums, Galleries, \u200band the Parliament\u2026 \u2013 A Different Take", "raw_content": "Right, now that you\u2019ve got your accommodation all set in Edinburgh, it\u2019s not just all Castles and Palaces. There\u2019s a different way to look at the history of the magnificent city!\nMuseums, Galleries, and the Parliament Building!\nA beautiful city, Edinburgh has several Museums that you just have to check out! And this, even if you\u2019re not generally a huge fan of museums!\n1.Museum of Edinburgh\nSet in a building that is almost inconspicuous except for the sign that says \u2018Museum of Edinburgh\u2019 up front, the museum is a fascinating look at the history of the city of Edinburgh. Open 10 am to 5 pm except for Sundays when it is 12 pm to 5 pm, the museum is also generally closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. So it might be a good idea to make sure it is open before you go.\n( https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venue/museum-edinburgh )\nLocated inside the Edinburgh Castle, the National War Museum is a must-see on your list of places to see in Edinburgh. With the entry fee already included in the Castle ticket, check out the timings before you visit. ( https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-war-museum/ )\nA wild ride of stories of wars in Scotland, the story of battles lost and won, several personal treasures and several more military artifacts, the museum is definite to pique your interests.\n3. National Museum Scotland\nA massive building filled to the brim with everything you need to know about the history of Scotland and much more, this is one museum you will have to make time for, especially if you\u2019re taking kids. Open between 10 am to 5 pm with free admission, the museum is filled with interesting items and so much fun, you\u2019d never get bored.\nThe museum has also got a cafeteria right inside to even take a break before you finish looking at just about everything! (https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/)\n4. Scottish National Gallery\nA beautiful gallery with several exhibitions, several rooms the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh is another place that you can\u2019t miss!\nCheck out the website to find out which exhibition is going on right now! ( https://www.nationalgalleries.org ) It truly is Art that inspires!\nRight down the road from Arthur\u2019s Seat and across the road from the Holyroodhouse Palace, the Scottish Parliament Building is another place to add to your list when you\u2019re in Edinburgh! Welcoming visitors 6 days a week between 10 am to 5 pm, the parliament building offers several options to look around and learn. You can choose to go on any of the free or guided tours available, and don\u2019t forget to try something at the local cafe! ( http://www.parliament.scot/visitandlearn/24228.aspx )\nAnd that\u2019s not all there is to do in Edinburgh. Stay connected to the blog to learn more soon!\nCategories: Guide, My MusingsTags: Edinburgh, Gallery, Museum, Museum of Edinburgh, National Museum of Scotland, National War Museum, Parliament, Scotland, Scottish National Fallery, Scottish Parliament Building Edinburgh", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5213, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://adventuresofgandt.com/2016/12/11/thoughts-on-a-united-kingdom/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:33Z", "digest": "sha1:HAEFVEEA7P2ENFK7LC5SWNV65TSSTIHX", "length": 4447, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "adventuresofgandt.com", "title": "My Thoughts on A United Kingdom \u2013 The Adventures of G & T in AFRICA", "raw_content": "A United Kingdom is a British made film about the love story of Sir Seretse Khama \u2013 heir to throne of Bechuanaland (which was then a British Protectorate) and Ruth Williams \u2013 a white Englishwoman. They met and fell in love while he was studying law at Oxford. They married in 1948, the same year that apartheid was signed into law in south Africa and racism was rampant across the world. What follows is an incredible story \u2013 unbelievable to me what two people had to go through just to be together. Fighting against prejudices on all sides. Seretse being exiled from his own country and stripped of his birth-right just because of love. How the simple relationship of two people could create so much anger and have such huge political ramifications across multiple nations is mind-blowing.\nYou get to see the legacy of imperialism in action as Britain steps in to protect its interests in southern Africa. After WWII, Britain was in major debt and needed cheap gold and uranium from South Africa to keep its economy afloat. Since they couldn\u2019t afford to alienate South Africa by supporting an inter-racial royal couple \u2013 they forced their hand to try to break up the marriage. You get to see how economic interests underhandedly drive political action. You can see how close Botswana was to being swept up into the apartheid movement and also losing rights to its natural resources \u2013 which were the key to transforming Botswana from one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the fastest growing economies from 1966-1999.\nThe real Ruth and Seretse above his home village of Serowe\nFor me, it was so interesting to get a window into what Botswana was like 50 years ago. The capital city of Gaborone has grown exponentially into a modern urban center, but the rural areas are still very similar to what is seen in the movie. When you drive to outside of Gaborone, you still have vast open empty areas and dirt roads like you see in the movie. It gives a great portrayal of the landscape here and most importantly highlights the amazing sunsets that are so special in Botswana.\nRuth and Seretse enjoying a Botswana sunset in the movie\nThe movie brought up a lot of emotions due to the current political and social climate in the US. I can\u2019t even fathom not being able to chose who I love. But I realize there are many people who have fought this battle and still fight it today. I feel so lucky to never have experienced such prejudice. Living in Botswana is the first time in my life that I have felt like a complete outsider and a minority. Botswana tends to be a pretty xenophobic culture so although everyone is very polite and friendly \u2013 you are often kept at a distance as a white expat. Some things are just much more difficult for me to achieve as a white person. I get treated differently and am always acutely aware that I am different. But this is part of the reason why I wanted to experience living in Africa. I think it is vitally important to step outside your comfort zone to see what its like to live in other people\u2019s shoes. It is the only way you can fully experience life. I don\u2019t know that I would be strong enough to face the hate and racism that so many people have had to bear their whole lives. I am in awe of the people who find ways to flourish in life despite their circumstances.\nThe US has come so far in promoting equality and acceptance it is heartbreaking to see such drastic reversals in the past few months. I just hope so much that people pull it together and get us back on the right track. Moving towards progress \u2013 towards understanding \u2013 towards kindness \u2013 towards love. I hope people open their eyes to the power that one person can have to change the mindset of a nation and how incredibly destructive thoughts and behaviors can be. I hope so much that this is just a blip on the radar and this election does not end up cast in history as the fated turn of events for America like the election of the National Socialist Party was for Germany or the National Party was for South Africa. I know people will wake up \u2014 they just have to!!\nOn a side note \u2013 there is a movie out right now in the US called \u201cLoving\u201d which details the relationship of Richard and Mildred Loving which leads to the landmark Loving v Virginia supreme court case which made interracial marriages legal. It looks really good and similar to the themes seen in A United Kingdom which opens into theatres in the US on Feb 17 2017.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 11302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 235.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aerofarms.com/2016/08/19/old-steel-mill-new-vertical-farm/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:50Z", "digest": "sha1:QFN4MEW7AHZBNZ5LM6M3LTICRDJGQJCI", "length": 2805, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "aerofarms.com", "title": "AeroFarms - Old steel mill will soon be world's largest vertical farm - AeroFarms", "raw_content": "Old steel mill will soon be world\u2019s largest vertical farm\nBy: Ted Shaffrey\nNEWARK, N.J. (AP) \u2014 Stacks of leafy greens are sprouting inside an old brewery in New Jersey.\n\u201cWhat we do is we trick it,\u201d said David Rosenberg, co-founder and chief executive officer of AeroFarms. \u201cWe get it thinking that, if plants could think: \u2018All right, this is a good environment, it\u2019s time to grow now.'\u201d\nAeroFarms is one of several companies creating new ways to grow indoors year-round to solve problems like the drought out West, frost in the South or other unfavorable conditions affecting farmers. The company is in the process of building what an industry group says is the world\u2019s largest commercial vertical farm at the site of an old steel mill in New Jersey\u2019s largest city.\n\u201cWe want to help alleviate food deserts, which is a real problem in the United States and around the world,\u201d Rosenberg said. \u201cSo here, there are areas of Newark that are underprivileged, there is not enough economic development, aren\u2019t enough supermarkets. We put this farm in one of those areas.\u201d\nThe farm will be open to community members who want to buy the produce. It also plans to sell the food at local grocery stores.\nCritics say the artificial lighting in vertical farms takes up a significant amount of energy that in turn creates carbon emissions.\n\u201cIf we did decide we were going to grow all of our nation\u2019s vegetable crop in the vertical farming systems, the amount of space required, by my calculation, would be tens of thousands of Empire State Buildings,\u201d said Stan Cox, the research coordinator at The Land Institute, a nonprofit group that advocates sustainable agriculture.\n\u201cInstead of using free sunlight as we\u2019ve always done to produce food, vertical farms are using light that has to be generated by a power plant somewhere, by electricity from a power plant somewhere, which is an unnecessary use of fuel and generation of carbon emissions.\u201d\nCox says that instead of moving food production into cities, the country\u2019s 350 million acres of farmland need to be made more sustainable.\nBut some growers feel agriculture must change to meet the future.\n\u201cWe are at a major crisis here for our global food system,\u201d said Marc Oshima, a co-founder and chief marketing officer for AeroFarms. \u201cWe have an increasing population that by the year 2050 we need to feed 9 billion people. We have increasing urbanization.\u201d\nRosenberg also pointed out the speeded-up process.\n\u201cWe grow a plant in about 16 days, what otherwise takes 30 days in the field,\u201d he said.\nIt will contain 12 layers of growth on 3\u00bd acres, producing 2 million pounds of food per year. Production is set to begin next month.\nSee the full report at www.bigstory.ap.org.\nTags: AP, Associated Press, David Rosenberg, indoor farming, leafy greens, newark, vertical farm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 3739, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://afibtreatment.com/atrial-fibrillation-genetics-stopafib-org-interviews-dr-patrick-ellinor/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:28Z", "digest": "sha1:3FTZZNLVWD44TZZ3EOU7TH3QK4TIPGKJ", "length": 1025, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "afibtreatment.com", "title": "Atrial Fibrillation & Genetics-StopAfib.org interviews Dr. Patrick Ellinor - Afib Treatment Today", "raw_content": "Atrial Fibrillation & Genetics\u2013StopAfib.org interviews Dr. Patrick Ellinor\nStopAfib.org interviews Dr. Patrick Ellinor, electrophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. In this video interview, Dr. Ellinor talked about his research as part of a consortium that investigates the correlation between genetics and atrial fibrillation. He discussed how in the past five to seven years, they have learned that a family history of afib can be a risk factor for the disease, and cautioned that those with a family member with afib should take palpitations or arrhythmias seriously. Dr. Ellinor is a cardiac electrophysiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. His clinical focus is on cardiac arrhythmias and in particular atrial fibrillation and heritable arrhythmias including long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy. Find more information on the study, Dr. Ellinor, or how to help with the study, at: www.stopafib.org", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 3240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 164.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ag.purdue.edu/envision/dean-karen-plaut/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:15Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYTBPJ4NZGKYLEPCNVBE6QQLV6VN6M43", "length": 7731, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "ag.purdue.edu", "title": "New dean takes the reins \u2013 Envision \u2013 College of Agriculture Magazine at Purdue University", "raw_content": "Wednesday, May 30th, 2018 Maureen Manier\nFew children receive birthday gifts they remember as adults, much less ones that forecast their future life\u2019s work. But Karen Plaut remembers her 11th birthday gift like it was yesterday, and it was certainly nothing short of prophetic.\n\u201cI loved science so much as a kid that I wanted a microscope for my birthday. When I was lucky enough to get one, I remember I was so excited that the first thing I did was take an onion skin to look at its cells.\u201d\nPurdue\u2019s newly appointed Glenn W. Sample Dean of the College of Agriculture says she\u2019s been interested in animals and science for as long as she can remember, and, although her mother was an artist and her sister would become a designer, \u201cThose artistic genes definitely didn\u2019t come my way.\u201d Instead, Plaut\u2019s academic interests were always her passion. From that first experience with her microscope to the research that she continues to conduct with her Purdue lab team of undergraduate and graduate students, the word Plaut most often uses to describe her work as a researcher and her career as a university administrator is \u201cfun.\u201d\nPlaut had another childhood preoccupation that also became a lifetime love\u2014horses. She had horses growing up and has brought a horse to every place she\u2019s moved, from Vermont to California to Indiana. She has trained her current horse in dressage, a series of both simple and intricate maneuvers that requires a kind of symbiotic relationship between rider and horse. As much concentration as dressage requires, Plaut finds it relaxing: \u201cIt\u2019s a chance to concentrate on what you\u2019re doing with the horse, and that gives you a break from everything else. You don\u2019t think about anything but you and the horse.\u201d\nGrowing up in upstate New York, Plaut and her family vacationed in Vermont. When it was time for her to choose a college, the combination of its animal sciences department\u2019s strong reputation and her love for the state brought her to the University of Vermont (UVM), where she would earn her undergraduate degree, meet her husband David and later return as a faculty member.\nInitially, UVM was also the place where Plaut, like many students interested in animals and science, thought she would prepare to attend veterinary school. She soon discovered, however, that her work in the labs and with the animals was her calling. Three professors especially influenced her professionally and personally: \u201cDon Foss, a physiologist, really taught me how to think and allowed me to do undergraduate research in poultry. My adviser, Jim Welch, was an animal nutritionist and I worked in his lab, where I got excited about dairy research. In fact, I lived below the nutrition lab, which was at the University Dairy Farm. There was an apartment in the basement and the research cows lived above the apartment! I also took an endocrinology course from Roger Simmons that inspired my research throughout my career.\u201d\nAfter graduation, Plaut went to Penn State, where she earned her master\u2019s in animal nutrition, and then to Cornell University, where she earned a doctorate in animal sciences focusing on research in lactation biology. Her adviser was in the National Academy of Sciences and well known for groundbreaking dairy research. Plaut then completed a two-year postdoc at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health, where she conducted breast cancer research and developed new tools to bring to animal sciences research. She was especially pleased when the first place she could use those tools was the University of Vermont, where she was hired to fill the position of Roger Simmons, the professor whose class had first inspired her. \u201cIt felt like coming full circle,\u201d Plaut says.\nShe had only been at UVM a few years when another biologist reached out to her to co-write a grant to NASA to study pregnant rats that would travel on the space shuttle. After receiving funding, Plaut and her research partner were challenged to set up two completely equipped and staffed labs in California and Florida. The decision on where the shuttle would land was made without time to travel across the country, and the testing needed to start immediately after the animals were removed from the shuttle. The challenge energized Plaut, who says she especially enjoyed assembling large groups of students to be involved in the effort. A few years later, as Plaut prepared to go on sabbatical, she decided to apply for and was selected as the lead scientist for NASA\u2019s biological research project for the International Space Station.\nSoon Plaut, her husband and her horse were moving to California, where she would work at NASA\u2019s Ames Research Center. Plaut says her first day is one she will never forget. \u201cI walked into a room with carpeted walls and no windows,\u201d she remembers. \u201cThey told me they were going to order lunch for me because I wouldn\u2019t have any breaks. And then for the next eight hours scientists and engineers came in every hour to tell me about their projects they were working on that were scheduled to fly on the space station. When I walked outside to our car I told my husband that there was no way I could do the job. He reassured me I could. It didn\u2019t happen overnight, but slowly I began to feel more confident.\u201d\nPlaut says that experience taught her valuable lessons that are particularly applicable to her new position as the dean of Purdue Agriculture. \u201cPart of what intimidated me that first day were all the specialty areas. But eventually learning how to work across disciplines was what I really gained from this experience, and something that has been especially important in my roles as associate dean and now as dean of our college. At NASA, I also got to work with scientists, engineers, astronauts, children and the public, which helped me learn to describe our work in terms that were relevant to the audience.\u201d\nPlaut enjoyed her time at NASA so much that she considered staying. But she wanted to return to the academic environment where she knew she could innovate. She also missed engaging with students, something she has loved from her first experiences as a teaching assistant, \u201cI especially like sparking students\u2019 interests in the classroom and lab,\u201d Plaut says. She applied for and was hired as chair of the Department of Animal Science at UVM, a position she held for five years.\nAs much as she loved working at her alma mater, Plaut decided moving to Michigan State University, where she would chair a much larger department, was the next opportunity she needed to take. \u201cI knew I wanted to make a difference in different ways, and moving to other institutions was what I needed to do,\u201d she says.\nFive years later Plaut was hired as associate dean and director of research at Purdue\u2019s College of Agriculture. She was later promoted to senior associate dean of research and faculty affairs. In July 2017, she was appointed interim dean of the college before being offered the position of dean in May 2018.\nAlthough Plaut\u2019s career has taken her across country and disciplines and up the academic and leadership ladder, certain truths about who she is are very much like that young girl who opened her first microscope with such glee. She is energized by her research and the students she works with and meets through wide-ranging college activities. She is motivated by making a difference in the lives of students, faculty and staff, the citizens of Indiana, and the people Purdue Agriculture reaches across this country, oceans, and continents. And this evening when she returns home after a long day, she will ride her horse, relax and prepare for the next opportunity.\nBob Taylor: A legacy of extraordinary teaching, mentorship and dedication", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 8518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 231.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aghealth.ucdavis.edu/es/node/1476", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:28Z", "digest": "sha1:N35UM2UG5AQOOGZMW426U6R4HC5UFDMI", "length": 5244, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "aghealth.ucdavis.edu", "title": "WCAHS Fall Symposium | Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety", "raw_content": "Posted by Stacey Neves\nThe Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety met on October 26th at the UC Davis International Center for their Fall Symposium. The symposium\u2019s theme of diverse approaches to agricultural health and safety was explored through research presentations, posters, and breakout sessions. The goal of the symposium was to bring together multidisciplinary research within the center, to obtain feedback, and to provide opportunities for networking and discussion.\nWCAHS Research: From robotics to zoonotics\nFive projects make up the WCAHS research core led by leaders from the UC Davis faculty. WCAHS approaches agricultural health and safety from a variety disciplines. Investigators gave a brief presentation of their respective projects, as described below.\nFadi Fathallah, WCAHS Associate Director, and Professor in the Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering in the College of Engineering and College of Agricultural and Environmental Science presented on his work in developing a mechanical and robotic strawberry harvest aid to optimize workers\u2019 productivity without compromising health effects.\nDiane Mitchell presented for the research project led by Marc Schenker, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences in the School of Medicine. Their project is engaging farmers and supervisors in the development of mobile phone applications (apps) to prevent heat related illness in agricultural workplace.\nKent Pinkerton, WCAHS Director, and Professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine. Dr. Pinkerton, in collaboration with Keith Bein, is assessing the health effects of agricultural air particulates in California with special attention focused on the agricultural Imperial Valley of California and its interface with the Salton Sea.\nRob Atwill, Professor in the Department of Population Health and Reproduction in the School of Veterinary Medicine, is collaborating with the dairy industry to identify and reduce occupational exposure to zoonotic pathogens in dairy farmworkers.\nChristopher Simmons, Associate Professor in the Department of Food Sciences in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Science is developing an innovative technique called biosolarization as a potential alternative to soil fumigation and pest control \u2013 a common practice with inherent health risks associated with agricultural use of toxic pesticides.\nWCAHS Investigators\nL-R Fadi Fathallah (WCAHS Associate Director), PhD, Diane Mitchell, PhD, Chris Simmons, PhD, Kent Pinkerton, PhD (WCAHS Director). Robert Atwill, PhD\nConvening stakeholders\nWCAHS sought to attract attendees from UC Davis who have an interest in agricultural health and safety and are not currently engaged with the Center. Of the over 60 symposium attendees, the majority were affiliated with UC Davis, including students, staff, faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and researchers. In addition, individuals affiliated with UC Cooperative Extension, Cal/OSHA, CalEPA, and other stakeholder communities were in attendance. Members of the WCAHS External Advisory Board and Steering Committee also attended.\nBreakout Sessions: Cannabis, evaluation, and strategic communication\nWCAHS investigators held roundtable breakout sessions with small groups to discuss their research projects in greater depth. The afternoon breakout sessions highlighted the work of the WCAHS outreach core, evaluation core, communication team, as well as several emerging issues being addressed by the Center. Breakout sessions were conducted to foster engagement with symposium attendees and to gain new insights and suggestions. Breakout sessions of particular interest included a discussion of the health and safety risks for workers in the cannabis industry as well as the potential health hazards associated with agricultural practices and the shrinking of the Salton Sea in the Imperial Valley.\nA poster session was held to highlight work affiliated with the Center which facilitated networking and open discussion among all attendees. WCAHS funds graduate students on a quarterly basis. The students funded in the 2016-2017 cycle were part of the symposium and the innovative research supported by WCAHS.\nEmily Shea explains her biosolarization work during the poster session.\nJavier Castro and his work on the California Heat Illness Prevention Study (CHIPS)\nSymposium evaluation \u2013 attendees provide feedback\nThe symposium was highly rated by those who attended. One attendee remarked: \u201cGreat day - it was a wonderful opportunity to learn about the research of the center.\u201d Another noted the \u201cexcellent diversity in topics being addressed by the Center\u201d. Nearly all l attendees said they would attend a future WCAHS symposium and a majority indicated they would seek future funding from WCAHS research programs.\nThe symposium provided rich opportunities for networking and collaboration. Attendees were asked to comment on their general experiences during the symposium. One attendee noted, \u201c[The] format of the symposium made it really easy to network and learn more about projects. 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I\u2019ve said many times that experiences are precious to creators and that it is important that we reflect on and remember them. For me, the experiences of 2015 have been substantial and significant.\nMy year started with a promise of organisation. I bought a leather-bound diary to replace the calendar on my phone, and I used it every day. Writing my plans and to-do lists on paper made me feel more organised somehow, and it helped me keep track of all my due dates and work hours. I did not miss a single deadline this year.\nI started a new job in January, in addition to working the retail job in a grocery store that I had kept for four years. My new job was in an office at the University of the Sunshine Coast, doing outbound calling to new students or current at-risk students, providing them with proactive assistance with university life. We received an award for our service to the university community in November.\nIn April, I graduated with a Bachelor of Education (Secondary) and Bachelor of Arts (English, SoSE), which took me four years to obtain. After writing thousands of words and teaching for hundreds of hours, I finally received two testamurs and a faculty commendation for academic excellence. I was ecstatic.\nBut, I had already commenced the next step in my academic journey. I was accepted in a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) program in February, and was then accepted into a Master of Creative Arts (Creative Writing) program in April. I terminated my place in honours, instead pursuing my master\u2019s, which I am still enrolled in and enjoying immensely.\nAlso in April, I quit my job in retail. Though I was not consistently being given enough hours at the university to survive, I was also tutoring and was occasionally being paid for my writing, so I decided I\u2019d had enough of selling people milk and bread. I never regretted that decision and quitting had an immediately positive effect on my mental health.\nIn 2015, I submitted my writing to a lot of places and had a many of those pieces published. In fact, I submitted one article or story per fortnight, on average. My work found a home at Needle in the Hay, Media for Misfits, MDP Web, Offbeat Bride, the Lane of Unusual Traders by Tiny Owl Workshop, and the University of the Sunshine Coast Journal of Arts and Business. After my work was accepted for USC JAB, I became their chief editor and edited the most recent edition of the journal.\nI also broadened my writing horizons this year, finally becoming serious about writing for and about videogames. I worked on some contract writing and editing projects for upcoming videogames at the beginning of the year. I had articles and reviews published at PlayWrite, PC and Tech Authority, and Impulse Gamer, and I became an editor of PW and a regular contributor for IG.\nOn the back of that success, I attended three gaming and nerd culture conventions this year: EB Expo in Sydney, PAX Australia in Melbourne, and Epic Diem on the Sunshine Coast. I went to EB Expo with a press pass, which allowed me to attend my first ever press evening and to stand in the VIP queues during the exhibition. At PAX Aus, I was on two panels: \u2018Rocket League: Community Building in Competitive Games\u2019 and \u2018Sick Heroes: Exploring Representations of Illness in Games\u2019. I had some serious imposter syndrome sitting across from amazing, qualified people with incredibly clever ideas, but I somehow made it through both panels and I feel like a much stronger person for it. At Epic Diem I sat on a panel called \u2018Redefining Games: Prepare for Unforeseen Consequences\u2019 which also featured Steven O\u2019Donnell\u2014also known as TV\u2019s Bajo\u2014and yet my imposter syndrome was almost entirely gone.\nAs a result of all of this, I played more videogames this year than ever before. I actually feel as though I played broadly enough to have opinions and discussions about the best games of the year for the first time. Although I certainly didn\u2019t play everything, and there are some significant titles that I still haven\u2019t experienced enough of yet\u2014like Rise of the Tomb Raider and Undertale, for instance\u2014I certainly played more comprehensively this year than ever before. I would like to give honourable mentions to the following:\nThe Beginner\u2019s Guide, for shattering what a game can be.\nFallout 4, for stealing hours of my life with organising items in a way that is comparable to reorganising my email inbox.\nRocket League, for giving me something to do on my Friday nights.\nBut my game of the year for 2015 is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I lost myself in this beautiful, vibrant world, and it inspired my first paid article about videogames, so it holds a special place in my heart.\nIf I haven\u2019t spoken enough about videogames, I also dabbled in videogame design and development for the first time this year. I released a number of videogames and participated in my first game jam (and then my second). I learnt basic Javascript, basic C#, and played with a lot of game development engines, including Unity. I am excited to bring my passion for writing and creating to a new medium.\nInbetween these gaming conventions, I had my confirmation for my Master of Creative Arts (Creative Writing). I stood in front of an audience and spoke about my research project, I answered difficult questions about the ongoing nature of my research, and I spoke to a panel of supervisors and reviewers about why I am deserving of their further support. It was the most difficult task of my academic career, and I am proud to say I was confirmed without revisions.\nIn November, I travelled overseas for the first time. I visited Japan for two weeks, and they were two of the most intense weeks I have ever experienced. The culture shock was strange and the feeling of not quite belonging was overwhelming at times, but Japan was so beautiful and exciting that it was all completely worthwhile. I learnt to enjoy rice, to navigate the Japanese subway and railway lines (sort of), to communicate with people who didn\u2019t speak English, and to see the world in a slightly different way. I recorded the lessons I learnt in articles and short prose.\nI returned home to a new job at the university, answering student queries through inbound calls and emails. Although it required similar skills to the position I started in January, I was finally being given enough hours to survive, while still being able to focus on study, writing, editing, tutoring, and all of the other things that make my life varied and exciting.\nI look at where I am now compared to where I was this time last year\u2014working too many hours over the Christmas period in a retail job I did not enjoy, waiting to hear about whether I would be welcomed into an honours program and never truly believing I could also receive an offer for master\u2019s\u2014and I feel completely amazed at what I have achieved in twelve short months. Though there were plenty of overwhelming, anxiety-inducing moments this year, some awful moments in my personal life, some lost friendships, and too many tears, 2015 has been\u2014overall\u2014the most influential and significant year of my life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 7460, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 295.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alewebsocial.com/2013/09/16/5-tips-getting-facebook-fans-author-page/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:58Z", "digest": "sha1:2K4Q3Q3XOKKD5WQB5FCEBUHGU5BXRSME", "length": 5012, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "alewebsocial.com", "title": "5 Tips for Getting More Facebook Followers for Your Author Page - Aleweb Social Marketing", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Guest / 5 Tips for Getting More Facebook Followers for Your Author Page\n5 Tips for Getting More Facebook Followers for Your Author Page\nToday\u2019s guest post is from Brian Flax. Brian is a freelance writer based out of the Washington, D.C. area. He is experienced in a variety of topics including technology and social media marketing.\nSocial media has become an important way to establish a brand and market a product or service online, and authors are no exception. Creating a Facebook page also helps to establish credibility and an online reputation. It allows us to help control what is posted online and focus advertising on our target demographic.\nObtaining Facebook \u201clikes\u201d for an author or book page is a relatively simple process, and you don\u2019t have to pay anyone to do it for you.\nCreate an Author Page\nTo get Facebook likes, an author page must first be setup. To create a page, a Facebook account must be established in the owner\u2019s name. To do this, you only have to register your email, create a password, and fill out a few minor details.\nOnce the email address has been verified, a Facebook author page can be created. The author\u2019s name, details, customized URL, and profile photo can then be set by walking through the step-by-step process. Facebook pages are public by default, meaning anyone can like the page without approval from the owner.\nShare content that offers value to readers and creates a sense of urgency.\nCreate a Book Page\nIn addition to creating an author page, Facebook also allows you to create pages for books and other entertainment media. Similar to an author page, a book page allows authors to promote specific titles and can be \u201cliked\u201d by Facebook users in the same way as an author page. Book pages are also public by default, meaning the owner does not have to approve individual likes. The book page links directly to the author page, meaning when fans search for a title they will also see the author of that book.\nAlthough creating both a book page and author page means separate likes for each one, authors will also get more exposure in search engine results.\nPut \u201cLike\u201d Buttons Everywhere\nOnce an author page and a book page have been created, the next step is to place \u201clike\u201d buttons wherever it\u2019s possible. This means placing them on websites, blogs, individual blog posts, and other social media accounts.\nThis allows readers to like the page without having to search through Facebook. For those who are unfamiliar with the process, Facebook provides resources to help you walk through setting up a like button.\nCreate Content People Will Share\nBuying Facebook likes won\u2019t help at all. In fact, most likes that are bought come from fake Facebook profiles.\nCreating content and posting status updates is the best way to attract new fans. It\u2019s even better if they share the content with their own social networks. As a rule of thumb, be consistent with status updates, use eye-catching images, be entertaining, and offer some sort of value. It\u2019s also a good idea to keep posts as short as possible to keep the reader\u2019s attention.\nCreating \u201clike\u201d buttons allows people to easily connect to an author or book page from anywhere on the Internet.\nFor those who are not on a tight budget, running a Facebook ad campaign is another way to attract high-quality, targeted likes. (This is different than \u201cbuying Facebook likes.\u201d) For an ad campaign to be successful, it must be consistent. Running one ad for a single day will not amount to much. Be prepared to spend a bit of money if running an ad is part of the plan. By default, Facebook charges each time the ad is clicked on. While there are other options for setting up the ad, this is the most cost-effective one, unless you have a sizable budget to spend.\nStarting from zero likes may seem like a tall task to accomplish, but with consistency and dedication, it is possible to attract high-quality likes. Remember to create entertaining and shareable content that offers value to readers, post as often as possible, and place \u201clike\u201d buttons everywhere.\nThe Key to Pursuing a Dream\nFiled Under: Guest, Uncategorized Tagged With: author page, book page, facebook ads, guest blogging, likes\nI apologize for not responding sooner, Don! Your message got caught in my spam filter due to the two links in it. I\u2019ve found that people engage more with an author than a book. So, I rarely recommend having two separate Facebook pages. Given a choice, I\u2019d recommend having an author page, which allows you to build your audience as subsequent books come out.\nIf you\u2019re certain you want a separate page, you have to consider that there will most likely be an overlap between readers. So, there has to be at least some content that\u2019s unique to each page. Otherwise, people will start unliking your pages quickly if they see a lot of duplicate content showing up in their newsfeeds at the same time. If you\u2019re going to post duplicate content, schedule it for different times in order to minimize that effect.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6742, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 267.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://algarvehistoryassociation.com/en/journey-to-portugal/9-ourem-once-upon-a-time", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:08Z", "digest": "sha1:CMNSYP7Z7F5RUREFYRIRHNLAZL67DHDJ", "length": 4327, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "algarvehistoryassociation.com", "title": "Journey to Portugal 5: Our\u00e9m: Once upon a Time ....", "raw_content": "Journey to Portugal 5: Our\u00e9m: Once upon a Time ....\n.... there was a Muslim princess called F\u00e1tima who was kidnapped by the knight Gon\u00e7alo Hermigues and his companions. The kidnap took place on St John\u00b4s Day (24 June) 1158 at Alc\u00e1cer do Sal. The princess was taken to the Serra de Aire in the newly created kingdom of Portugal where she fell in love with her Christian knight and decided to become a Christian, taking the name of Oureana. They married and were presented as a wedding gift with a town and named after Oureana. Here they lived happily ever after. Our\u00e9m is now a city - straight out of a fairy tale. Well, that was how it first seemed to me as we saw a castle perched like magic above a layer of cloud.\nThe nearby town of F\u00e1tima, known as the altar of the world, is within the Concelho of Our\u00e9m. F\u00e1tima draws thousands of people each year as a place of pilgrimage to the spot where the Virgin Mary appeared four times to three shepherd children in 1917. It seems that Our\u00e9m has undeservedly lost its magic for the majority of visitors to this part of the world. Even the Pousada in Our\u00e9m calls itself the Pousada of Our\u00e9m-F\u00e1tima. We have visited the shrine of F\u00e1tima and marvelled at the numbers of pilgrims that still make their way over hundreds of metres on their knees but it is to Our\u00e9m that we delight in returning.\nNone of my guidebooks mentions Our\u00e9m but Jos\u00e9 Saramago in his Journey To Portugal, describes the castle at the top of the hill, as the work of giants who piled stone upon stone up towards the sky.\nSaramago\u00b4s journey began in 1979 and in the old medieval town perched high upon a crag, he found deserted houses, wayside shrines stripped of their imgages and places where even the spiders go hungry. Since that time the old town has been given a make-over and now even the grass in the castle grounds is so well tended that it appears to have been cut with nail scissors. Way below in the valley of the River Sei\u00e7a is the Vila Nova de Our\u00e9m, the modern town with all of the modern amenities.\nIn less romantic reality, the town was bestowed not on a Moorish princess and her Christian husband, but on the Infanta Theresa, fourth daughter of the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques. The Muslims had fortified the rocky crag and called the village Abdegas. The area was reconquered by the Christians in 1136 and the castle served as a watchpost for the Castle of Leiria. The second Count of Our\u00e9m, Jo\u00e3o Fernandes Andeiro, lover of the dowager queen D Leonor Teles, was a Galician. He was murdered by the Master of Avis and his title was forfeited to the third Count of Our\u00e9m, the famous Nun\u00b4\u00c1lvares Pereira, the general of the Portuguese army under D Jo\u00e3o I Master of Avis which defeated the Castilians in the Battle of Aljubarrota in 1385.\nD Afonso, fourth Count of Our\u00e9m, remodelled the castle and built the magnificent Italianate palace both of which have again been remodelled following the damage caused by the 1755 earthquake and by the French Invasions. This Count is buried in a magnificent gothic tomb in the crypt of the Collegiate Church of Our Lady of Mercy in the old town. The title from the date of his death onwards (1460) belonged to the senior member of the House of Bragan\u00e7a, and the present day pretender to the throne of Portugal D Duarte Pio would be the 28th Count of Our\u00e9m. The building in which the present day pousada is located used to be the country manor of the administrator of the House of Bragan\u00e7a.\nIf all the scratch marks on the sides of the very narrow old town gates don\u00b4t put you off, it is well worth driving into the old town. Finding a parking space is easy and a walking tour around this delightful, quirky yet fascinating place repays the effort. In the square facing the gateway is a gothic fountain with the arms of the Avis Dynasty above the water spout. Further along the Tabuleiro da Miseric\u00f3rdia is a small garden with a pelourinho and the old jail which now houses a small museum.\nThe way up to the castle, sometimes known as Pa\u00e7o dos Condes de Our\u00e9m, passes three miradouros. 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This is to provide a positive psychological effect on all passengers and staff using the station and provision of daylight would in-turn lead to reduced energy consumption.\nAlsop also worked with long-term collaborator, artist Bruce McLean. They have developed a concept of public art fully integrated with the architecture.\nThe structures supporting the power substation reference Greek caryatids; the pillars supporting the underground were inspired by 6,000 year-old Minorca-style pillars.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 61, "original_length": 2657, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 315.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allenharimllc.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:32Z", "digest": "sha1:T7SJ3CS2LV37BJDHRI4KN6VJKKRZCSLL", "length": 561, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "allenharimllc.com", "title": "Home - Allen Harim", "raw_content": "Allen Harim is a leading producer of No Antibiotic Ever chicken with deep roots on the Delmarva Peninsula and across the Mid-Atlantic. With nearly 100 years of experience, our company employs more than 1,800 team members and contracts with more than 220 family farmers. Our dedication to our customers, to deliver quality, service, and value is the cornerstone of our company. Our commitment to animal welfare, environmental concerns, and giving back to the community will always be at the forefront. This is who we are, and our promise to you. #WeAreAllenHarim", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1135, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 181.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://allgamers.com/article/6543/all-gods-of-the-aegean-sea-locations-in-assassins-creed-odyssey", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:14Z", "digest": "sha1:JR5RW4TZH7P2T4DATW73JFIBIL7H6AMF", "length": 5462, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "allgamers.com", "title": "All Gods of the Aegean Sea locations in Assassin's Creed Odyssey | AllGamers", "raw_content": "All Gods of the Aegean Sea locations in Assassin's Creed Odyssey\nHunt down some scurvy sea dogs with our guide to finding every member of the Gods of the Aegean Sea in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.\nCults, eh? Always up to no good, and it seems the Ancient Greek variety take their jobs very seriously indeed. Throughout your time in Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey you\u2019ll encounter several factions from the Cult of Kosmos, and it\u2019s up to you to hunt down the members of each cell. This is no easy task, but each group beaten will earn you a powerful armor set and weapon as a reward.\nThe Gods of the Aegean sea are one of the toughest groups to tackle, thanks in large part to their penchant for spending their time on the waves. Each member can be found on a ship, meaning you\u2019ll need to engage in naval combat before boarding them and fighting them personally. Before that though, you\u2019ll need to locate each member. In this article we\u2019ll teach you how to find each member of the Gods of the Aegean Sea in Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey.\nAll Gods of the Aegean Sea locations\nIf you\u2019ve already hunted down The Eyes of Kosmos or the Silver Vein, you\u2019ll know that the location of each member can only be accessed after completing certain quests. There are five basic members, led by a Sage who you\u2019ll be able to find after you\u2019ve killed all the others. Each member of the cult has one piece of the Legendary Pirate armor set, while the Sage will reward you with the Gorgoneion Xiphos legendary sword. Without further ado, here\u2019s each member of the Gods of the Aegean Sea:\nLocation: Between Skyros and Andros\nReward: Pirate Gauntlets\nAfter you finish the Serpents Lair main story mission you\u2019ll be given a list detailing a number of different cultists, including Asterion from the Gods of the Aegean Sea. Despite being listed at level 32, he actually appears as level 28 in game, though this may be patched at a later stage. This could be a tough to impossible fight when you first complete The Serpent\u2019s Lair, but if you\u2019re too low level simply return to the hunt later once you\u2019ve gained some more experience. Once you find him, you\u2019ll need to board his ship to take him down. Don\u2019t worry about the loot falling in the ocean though, you\u2019ll be given your reward automatically for all targets on ships.\nUnlock Quests: Letter to Asterion (Clue), Obsidian Islands Conquest Battle\nLocation: Northwest of Melos\nReward: Pirate Waistband\nYou\u2019ll need to take down Asterion before moving on to Sokos, as beating him will drop a letter hinting as to how Sokos can be drawn out. To lure out this cultist, you\u2019ll first need to weaken Melos and take part in the Conquest Battle. During the fight at sea you\u2019ll be able to attack Sokos on his ship, revealing a clue to the next member of the group.\nUnlock Quest: Letter to Sokos (Clue)\nLocation: North of Messara\nRewards: Pirate Armor\nOnce you\u2019ve dealt with Sokos, The Octopus will be next, and thankfully she\u2019s much easier to find. As with the other fights, you need to board her ship and whittle down her health. Once she\u2019s bested you\u2019ll have earned the Pirate Armor and a clue to Melantho\u2019s location.\nMelanthos\nUnlock Quests: Letter to The Octopus (Clue), Leader\u2019s Note from his Son (Clue)\nLocation: West of Messara\nReward: Pirate Hood\nAfter beating The Octopus, you then need to kill the leader of Messara. The father of Melanthos, he\u2019ll have another clue pointing you to the final location of this cult member who is, as expected, at sea. Despite being marked as level 32, when you find him he\u2019ll actually be level 31, though this could be patched in future.\nThe Mytilenian Shark\nUnlock Quests: Letter to Melanthos (Clue), Sunken Goods (Clue)\nLocation: South of Samos\nReward: Pirate Treads\nThe final cultist member before the Sage, The Mytilenian Shark requires you to have first killed Melanthos, before diving down to the ruins of her sunken ship in the Place of Amphitrite. Inside the shipwreck you\u2019ll find a chest with the Sunken Goods clue. At least you\u2019ll have the Mytilenian Shark\u2019s location, pointing you towards the southern side of Samos. Sail down there and take the fight to him to complete the Legendary Pirate armor set and open up your path to the group\u2019s Sage.\nUnlock Quest: Kill all Gods of the Aegean Sea members\nLocation: West of Kythera\nReward: Gorgoneion Xiphos\nOnce you\u2019ve taken down the Gods of the Aegean Sea, you\u2019ll then be able to take on The Hydra, Sage of the cult. Don\u2019t expect an easy fight however, as The Hydra is a level 50 opponent and, just like the rest of the group, needs to be taken down in Naval Combat. This is one of the toughest battles you\u2019ll find in Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey and we\u2019ve yet to discover a good strategy, so all we can really do is wish you a fair wind and the best of luck.\nOnce you\u2019ve eliminated The Hydra you\u2019ll not only have the full Legendary Pirate armor, but also the impressive Gorgoneion Xiphos legendary sword. If you haven\u2019t already taken down the Silver Vein or The Eyes of Kosmos, this is a great opportunity to do so, and don\u2019t worry, you\u2019ll be spending most of your time on land for them both.\nWe\u2019ve got loads more Assassin\u2019s Creed Odyssey guides for you to dive into here on AllGamers. If you\u2019re having trouble collecting Obsidian glass, here\u2019s our guide for the best ways to obtain it. Considering you\u2019re a high enough level to take on the Gods of the Aegean Sea, you\u2019re probably also just about ready to discover what\u2019s inside the Cave of the Forgotten Isle too...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 6790, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 331.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alpharettainternalmed.com/echocardiogram-echo/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:40Z", "digest": "sha1:JYBSYUHSWE5UESQSICD2SR5ZWJWKHYXS", "length": 4318, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "alpharettainternalmed.com", "title": "Echocardiogram (ECHO) | Alpharetta & Cumming Internal Medicine", "raw_content": "An echocardiogram is a test that uses sound waves to produce live images of your heart. This test allows your provider to monitor how your heart and its valves are functioning. An echocardiogram can also help spot blood clots in the heart, fluid in the sac around the heart, and problems with the aorta (the main artery connected to the heart).\nYour provider may use an ECHO test to look at your heart\u2019s structure and check how well your heart functions. The test helps your doctor find out:\nThe size and shape of your heart, and the size, thickness and movement of your heart\u2019s walls.\nHow your heart moves.\nThe heart\u2019s pumping strength.\nIf the heart valves are working correctly.\nIf blood is leaking backwards through your heart valves (regurgitation).\nIf the heart valves are too narrow (stenosis).\nIf there is a tumor or infectious growth around your heart valves.\nThe test also will help your doctor find out if there are:\nProblems with the outer lining of your heart (the pericardium).\nProblems with the large blood vessels that enter and leave the heart.\nBlood clots in the chambers of your heart.\nAbnormal holes between the chambers of the heart.\nTransthoracic Echocardiography (TTE): This is the most common type of echocardiography. It\u2019s painless and noninvasive. A device called a transducer will be placed on your chest over your heart. The transducer sends ultrasound waves through your chest toward your heart. A computer interprets the sound waves as they bounce back to the transducer. This produces the live images that are shown on a monitor.\nTransesophageal Echocardiogram (TEE): If a transthoracic echocardiogram doesn\u2019t produce definitive images, your doctor may recommend a transesophageal echocardiogram. In this procedure, a much smaller transducer is guided through a thin, flexible tube in your mouth and down your throat. Your throat will be numbed to make this procedure easier. This tube is guided through your esophagus (the tube that connects your throat to your stomach). Your doctor can get a better view of any problems with the transducer behind your heart.\nStress Echocardiogram: Stress echocardiogram uses a traditional transthoracic echocardiogram. However, it\u2019s done after exercise or in tandem with medication to make your heart beat faster. This allows your doctor to test how your heart performs under stress.\nThree-Dimensional Echocardiography: A three-dimensional echocardiogram uses either transesophageal or transthoracic echocardiography to create a 3-D image of your heart. This involves multiple images from different angles. It\u2019s used prior to heart valve surgery or to diagnose heart problems in children.\nFetal Echocardiography: A fetal echocardiography is used on expectant mothers sometime during weeks 18 to 22 of pregnancy. The transducer is placed over the woman\u2019s belly to check the fetus for heart problems. The test is considered safe for an unborn child because it doesn\u2019t use radiation (unlike X-rays).\nECHO tests are done by trained sonographers. You may have your test done in your doctor\u2019s office, an emergency room, an operating room, a hospital clinic or a hospital room.\nYou will lie on a bed on your left side or back.\nThe sonographer will put special jelly on a probe and move it over your chest area.\nUltra-high-frequency sound waves will pick up images of your heart and valves. No X-rays will be used.\nYour heart\u2019s movements can be seen on a video screen.\nA videotape or a photograph can be made of the pictures.\nYou can sometimes watch during the test.\nIt usually takes one hour.\nIt\u2019s painless and has no side effects.\nSound waves will pick up images as explained above.\nWhen the test is finished, the cardiologist will gently pull the probe out.\nYou may feel a need to cough.\nSometimes the probe needs to be closer to your heart to give clearer pictures. You may need a special test called transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). As you swallow, a cardiologist will gently pass a tube with a probe on the end of it down your throat and into the esophagus. (This is the tube connecting your mouth to your stomach.)\nUsually, you can resume your normal daily activities after an echocardiogram. If your echocardiogram is normal, no further testing may be needed. If the results are concerning, you may be referred to a cardiologist for more tests.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 211, "original_length": 8861, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://alzheimer.ca/en/Home/Research/Alzheimer-Society-Research-Program/How-to-apply/diamond-award", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:07Z", "digest": "sha1:5GJHCVOHC742F5J22KXADK5KC4JAMPVO", "length": 4734, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "alzheimer.ca", "title": "The Dr. Jack Diamond Award | Alzheimer Society of Canada", "raw_content": "Home > Research > Alzheimer Society Research Program > How to apply > The Dr. Jack Diamond Award\nIn memory of Jack Diamond, M.D. Ph.D.\nThe Dr. Jack Diamond Award has been created to honour the memory and contributions of Dr. Jack Diamond within his former role as Scientific Director of the Alzheimer Society Research Program and to commemorate his love for good scientific writing. The purpose of this special award is to recognize excellence in Alzheimer\u2019s disease (AD) research carried out by trainees within the field. The award will be offered annually to meritorious authors of published, scientific articles in AD. Each year the Society will publicize the winners through existing channels, such as social media, the Society\u2019s website and Reports on Research that are prepared for donors and the public.\nThe award will consist of $1,000 paid directly to the awardee. Award winners are encouraged to use the funds towards the presentation of their research at a scientific meeting. Awardees will also receive a special certificate. Up to two awards will be announced each year.\nThe following eligibility criteria will apply:\nPublished articles are to be submitted by the authoring trainee.\nArticles would have had to have been accepted for publication during the time the applicant was enrolled as a doctoral student/postdoctoral fellow.\nApplicants must be doctoral students or post-doctoral fellows and must be the first author of the article.\nArticles must be based on research projects in which the trainee has been directly involved during his/her period of doctoral or post-doctoral training. The applicant\u2019s role must be clearly explained in the application form.\nTrainees are required to hold a training award from the Alzheimer Society Research Program, during time the work was done.\nThe research article must have been published in a peer-reviewed journal within six months of the submission (open access publications are highly encouraged).\nCanadians and non-Canadians conducting research in Canada are eligible to apply.\nCanadian doctoral and postdoctoral fellows training in another country are eligible to apply.\nOnly one submission from any applicant is permitted for any given article.\nSubmissions will be accepted once a year with an annual deadline of December 31st. Applications will be reviewed by the Alzheimer Society of Canada\u2019s Research Policy Committee. Applications are to be completed by trainees and submitted online. Review decisions will be made prior to March 31st of each year.\nAbout Jack Diamond\nA prominent neuroscientist, Dr. Jack Diamond died at the Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington on August 19, 2014 in his 86th year. Jack was an honorary member of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience, Scientific Director Emeritus of the Alzheimer Society of Canada and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University. Jack was born in Manchester, (UK) and got his medical and science degrees from the University College London.\nJack built a lively department focusing on developmental neurobiology, at McMaster University and was an enthusiastic participant in the Centers of Excellence for Neurosciences in Canada.\nHis own research, which was imaginative and of the highest quality, was concerned with regeneration and disorders of peripheral nerve; later he also studied risk factors for the development of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Jack wanted to understand beneficial and detrimental roles of collateral sprouting, \u201ca poetry of nerve growth\u201d.\nAfter reaching retirement age at McMaster, Jack served for several years as Associate Director for Scientific Affairs at the Montreal Neurological Institute and was a valuable contributor to the Society for Neuroscience, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International, the ALS Society of Canada and the Spinal Cord Society.\nOne of Jack\u2019s best qualities was the ability to give stimulating and amusing lectures; as a raconteur, Jack could hold an audience spellbound. His sonorous voice resonated beyond the walls of the lecture rooms. He was also a man of great enthusiasms; he loved nature, hiking, running, playing piano and reading detective stories.\n\"His boundless enthusiasm and excitement for discovery has motivated and encouraged a small army of investigators, and in more recent years I gained an added appreciation for his flair for making science understandable and relevant to the public. He was one-of-a-kind, will be sadly missed, but long-remembered.\" -Mark Bisby, Consultant, former Vice-President of Research for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)\nJack Diamond will be missed by his family, friends, students and neuroscientists across Canada and worldwide.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 7931, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 179.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ambrosebuilding.com.au/category/building-and-construction-industry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:05Z", "digest": "sha1:HODIYVSVKUO3G4TTHZI2N2EXWIJU74ON", "length": 77, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ambrosebuilding.com.au", "title": "Building and Construction Industry \u2013 Ambrose Building", "raw_content": "The Wilson Family have received the most devastating news that their sweet...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 3410, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 164.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amconyc.blog/family/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:56Z", "digest": "sha1:PS2EGSVD5NVOLB42RYQGSYY5XTQYZQU3", "length": 686, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "amconyc.blog", "title": "Family \u2013 Fashion publicist turned lifestyle blogger", "raw_content": "Figuring out what to do for exercise once you find out you're pregnant can be overwhelming. There is so much information out there that it can be difficult to know what you can and should do. You're constantly wondering what's safe for the baby and for you, what you can and can't do and if \u2026 Continue reading A Fitness App You Can Trust\nIf the beaches, Ocean Drive, and Art Basel weren't enough to get you down to Miami, Florida; we've got a brand new reason why you may want to reconsider that... AMCONYC has expanded to Miami! Like LeBron James in 2010, we're headed to South Beach with plans for big things to come! AMCONYC's Founder & \u2026 Continue reading Miami is Always a Good Idea", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 4424, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 214.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/adventures-huckleberry-finn", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:37:53Z", "digest": "sha1:YXA4UFOGWXQ4BUCHI7V7ZNP3AXMRWPEF", "length": 613, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "americanenglish.state.gov", "title": "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | American English", "raw_content": "An adaptation of the timeless novel by Mark Twain. Part of the Ladder Series, this volume has approximately 2000 headwords and is appropriate for intermediate to advanced learners.\nThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an adaptation of the timeless novel by Mark Twain. Part of the Ladder Series, this volume has approximately 2000 headwords and is appropriate for intermediate to advanced learners. This tale of Huckleberry Finn and his adventures on the Mississippi River is a well-loved piece of American literature. Considered a classic, this book\u2019s story is one of friendship, loyalty, and difficult choices.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 207, "original_length": 4036, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 123.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanliterature.com/author/leo-tolstoy/book/anna-karenina/part-five-chapter-30", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:37Z", "digest": "sha1:IA6DJK422HJDM2PMAJFKEKF3WQVQ3VKR", "length": 6756, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "americanliterature.com", "title": "Anna Karenina - Part Five: Chapter 30", "raw_content": "Part Five: Chapter 30\nMeanwhile Vassily Lukitch had not at first understood who this lady was, and had learned from their conversation that it was no other person than the mother who had left her husband, and whom he had not seen, as he had entered the house after her departure. He was in doubt whether to go in or not, or whether to communicate with Alexey Alexandrovitch. Reflecting finally that his duty was to get Seryozha up at the hour fixed, and that it was therefore not his business to consider who was there, the mother or anyone else, but simply to do his duty, he finished dressing, went to the door and opened it.\nBut the embraces of the mother and child, the sound of their voices, and what they were saying, made him change his mind.\nHe shook his head, and with a sigh he closed the door. \"I'll wait another ten minutes,\" he said to himself, clearing his throat and wiping away tears.\nAmong the servants of the household there was intense excitement all this time. All had heard that their mistress had come, and that Kapitonitch had let her in, and that she was even now in the nursery, and that their master always went in person to the nursery at nine o'clock, and every one fully comprehended that it was impossible for the husband and wife to meet, and that they must prevent it. Korney, the valet, going down to the hall porter's room, asked who had let her in, and how it was he had done so, and ascertaining that Kapitonitch had admitted her and shown her up, he gave the old man a talking-to. The hall porter was doggedly silent, but when Korney told him he ought to be sent away, Kapitonitch darted up to him, and waving his hands in Korney's face, began:\n\"Oh yes, to be sure you'd not have let her in! After ten years' service, and never a word but of kindness, and there you'd up and say, 'Be off, go along, get away with you!' Oh yes, you're a shrewd one at politics, I dare say! You don't need to be taught how to swindle the master, and to filch fur coats!\"\n\"Soldier!\" said Korney contemptuously, and he turned to the nurse who was coming in. \"Here, what do you think, Marya Efimovna: he let her in without a word to anyone,\" Korney said addressing her. \"Alexey Alexandrovitch will be down immediately--and go into the nursery!\"\n\"A pretty business, a pretty business!\" said the nurse. \"You, Korney Vassilievitch, you'd best keep him some way or other, the master, while I'll run and get her away somehow. A pretty business!\"\nWhen the nurse went into the nursery, Seryozha was telling his mother how he and Nadinka had had a fall in sledging downhill, and had turned over three times. She was listening to the sound of his voice, watching his face and the play of expression on it, touching his hand, but she did not follow what he was saying. She must go, she must leave him,--this was the only thing she was thinking and feeling. She heard the steps of Vassily Lukitch coming up to the door and coughing; she heard, too, the steps of the nurse as she came near; but she sat like one turned to stone, incapable of beginning to speak or to get up.\n\"Mistress, darling!\" began the nurse, going up to Anna and kissing her hands and shoulders. \"God has brought joy indeed to our boy on his birthday. You aren't changed one bit.\"\n\"Oh, nurse dear, I didn't know you were in the house,\" said Anna, rousing herself for a moment.\n\"I'm not living here, I'm living with my daughter. I came for the birthday, Anna Arkadyevna, darling!\"\nThe nurse suddenly burst into tears, and began kissing her hand again.\nSeryozha, with radiant eyes and smiles, holding his mother by one hand and his nurse by the other, pattered on the rug with his fat little bare feet. The tenderness shown by his beloved nurse to his mother threw him into an ecstasy.\n\"Mother! She often comes to see me, and when she comes...\" he was beginning, but he stopped, noticing that the nurse was saying something in a whisper to his mother, and that in his mother's face there was a look of dread and something like shame, which was so strangely unbecoming to her.\nShe went up to him.\n\"My sweet!\" she said.\nShe could not say good-bye, but the expression on her face said it, and he understood. \"Darling, darling Kootik!\" she used the name by which she had called him when he was little, \"you won't forget me? You...\" but she could not say more.\nHow often afterwards she thought of words she might have said. But now she did not know how to say it, and could say nothing. But Seryozha knew all she wanted to say to him. He understood that she was unhappy and loved him. He understood even what the nurse had whispered. He had caught the words \"always at nine o'clock,\" and he knew that this was said of his father, and that his father and mother could not meet. That he understood, but one thing he could not understand--why there should be a look of dread and shame in her face?... She was not in fault, but she was afraid of him and ashamed of something. He would have liked to put a question that would have set at rest this doubt, but he did not dare; he saw that she was miserable, and he felt for her. Silently he pressed close to her and whispered, \"Don't go yet. He won't come just yet.\"\nThe mother held him away from her to see what he was thinking, what to say to him, and in his frightened face she read not only that he was speaking of his father, but, as it were, asking her what he ought to think about his father.\n\"Seryozha, my darling,\" she said, \"love him; he's better and kinder than I am, and I have done him wrong. When you grow up you will judge.\"\n\"There's no one better than you!...\" he cried in despair through his tears, and, clutching her by the shoulders, he began squeezing her with all his force to him, his arms trembling with the strain.\n\"My sweet, my little one!\" said Anna, and she cried as weakly and childishly as he.\nAt that moment the door opened. Vassily Lukitch came in.\nAt the other door there was the sound of steps, and the nurse in a scared whisper said, \"He's coming,\" and gave Anna her hat.\nSeryozha sank onto the bed and sobbed, hiding his face in his hands. Anna removed his hands, once more kissed his wet face, and with rapid steps went to the door. Alexey Alexandrovitch walked in, meeting her. Seeing her, he stopped short and bowed his head.\nAlthough she had just said he was better and kinder than she, in the rapid glance she flung at him, taking in his whole figure in all its details, feelings of repulsion and hatred for him and jealousy over her son took possession of her. With a swift gesture she put down her veil, and, quickening her pace, almost ran out of the room.\nShe had not time to undo, and so carried back with her, the parcel of toys she had chosen the day before in a toy shop with such love and sorrow.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 9939, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 312.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/06/mattis-to-senate-committee-although-we-are-not-winning-afghanistan-war-a-new-strategy-is-coming/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:10Z", "digest": "sha1:FKQBNEOH3IDXLM5FTKKEQRRD5LNSNRAZ", "length": 1888, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "americanmilitarynews.com", "title": "Mattis to Senate Committee: Although 'we are not winning' Afghanistan war, a new strategy is coming", "raw_content": "Mattis to Senate Committee: Although \u2018we are not winning\u2019 Afghanistan war, a new strategy is coming\nThe Secretary of Defense promises to deliver a new strategy by mid-July\nDefense Secretary James Mattis appeared in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee this week, and he shocked those in attendance with bold comments concerning the nearly 16-year-old war in Afghanistan.\n\u201cWe are not winning in Afghanistan,\u201d Mattis told lawmakers. \u201cWe will correct that.\u201d\nMattis promised to deliver a new military strategy for the continued war against the Taliban in Afghanistan to lawmakers by mid-July, a timeline that is already months behind what Congress had expected.\nSen. John McCain, who is chairman of the Armed Services Committee, expressed frustration with the Pentagon\u2019s lack of strategy, especially since President Donald Trump made campaign promises to end the war during the first few months of his new administration.\n\u201cWe can\u2019t keep going like this,\u201d McCain said during the hearing. \u201cYou can\u2019t expect a stable budget if you don\u2019t give us a strategy.\u201d\nMattis promised the committee that a new plan was currently being briefed to President Trump, but hastening such a process could easily end in disaster and risk the lives of troops on the ground.\nShortly following his testimony, it was reported that President Trump gave Mattis full authorization to set new troop levels in Afghanistan.\nThere are currently 8,500 U.S. troops and nearly 5,000 foreign allies still on the ground in Afghanistan, despite official combat operations having been ceased in 2014.\nMore than 2,300 U.S. troops have been killed while fighting in Afghanistan since operations began in 2001.\nVirginia governor says 'there are too many guns on the street' following baseball field shooting\n'I am sickened by this despicable act': Bernie Sanders says suspected congressional shooter volunteered on his campaign", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3513, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://americaoncoffee.wordpress.com/category/monday-madness/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FFYUNDCEEZMMK6CUVUHUBBCGZVCLP4SO", "length": 6996, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "americaoncoffee.wordpress.com", "title": "Monday Madness | AMERICA ON COFFEE", "raw_content": "Category Archives: Monday Madness\nAL PACINO On Coffee\u2026.\n\u201cAll I have to say is that coffee should not be mixedup with an Italian character. So if you want a cup pacino then order a cappucino! Tss-ssh!\u201d\nAlfredo James \u201cAl\u201d Pacino is an American actor of stage and screen, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Pacino has had a career spanning more than fifty years, during which time he has received numerous \u2026\nPosted by America On Coffee on FriAmerica/Los_Angeles2019-01-25T10:56:58-08:00America/Los_Angeles01bAmerica/Los_AngelesFri, 25 Jan 2019 10:56:58 -0800 31, in coffee, Italiano (I Tell Ya I Know), Monday Madness\nTags: #al pacino\n\u201cBILLY PRESTON \u2013 WILL IT GO ROUND IN CIRCLES\u2026\u201d\nPosted by America On Coffee on FriAmerica/Los_Angeles2019-01-11T09:30:21-08:00America/Los_Angeles01bAmerica/Los_AngelesFri, 11 Jan 2019 09:30:21 -0800 31, in black music artists, male vocalist, Monday Madness, r&b\n\u201cCONGA \u2013 Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine\u201d\n\u200b\u201dConga\u201d is the first hit single released by the American band Miami Sound Machine led by Gloria Estefan on their second English-language album, and ninth overall, Primitive Love. The song was written by the band\u2019s drummer and lead songwriter Enrique Garcia. The single was first released in 1985.\nAccording to Gloria Estefan in an interview in the Netherlands television show RTL Late Night,[1] Conga was written after the band had performed \u201cDr. Beat\u201d in a club called Cartouche in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The single was released in 1985 (see 1985 in music) and became a worldwide hit, reaching #10 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and winning the Grand Prize at the 15th annual \u201cTokyo Music Festival\u201d in Japan.\nThe single was certified Gold by the RIAA in the U.S. for shipments of 500,000 copies.[2]\n\u201cConga\u201d was re-recorded as a new remix in 2001, including samples of \u201cDr. Beat\u201d and \u201cRhythm Is Gonna Get You\u201d and was released on Estefan\u2019s fourth compilation album. This new song was released as a promo single in Spain and titled \u201cY-Tu-Conga.\u201d\nPosted by America On Coffee on SatAmerica/Los_Angeles2019-01-05T09:31:00-08:00America/Los_Angeles01bAmerica/Los_AngelesSat, 05 Jan 2019 09:31:00 -0800 31, in latin music, Monday Madness\nTags: conga, Gloria Estefan\nThe Soul Survivors were an American, Philadelphia-based R&B group, founded by New York natives Richie and Charlie Ingui and Kenny Jeremiah, known for their 1967 hit single \u201cExpressway to Your Heart\u201c, which was the first hit by Philadelphia soul record producers and songwriters Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff.[1]\nThe Soul Survivors first played together in New York under the name The Dedications, founded by member Kenny Jeremiah, who released several singles under this name in 1962 and 1964. They adopted the name Soul Survivors in 1965. They signed to Philadelphia label Crimson Records, who put them in touch with Gamble & Huff. \u201cExpressway to Your Heart\u201d was a #1 hit regionally in Philadelphia and New York in the fall of 1967, and the tune reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 nationally. \u201cExpressway to Your Heart\u201d spent 15 weeks in the charts and sold over one million copies.[1]\nThe follow-up was \u201cExplosion in Your Soul,\u201d[2] which was not as successful (U.S. #33); a third release, \u201cImpossible Mission\u201d, also was a minor hit in 1969 (U.S. #68). They quit playing for a few years, but re-formed with a different lineup in 1972. They had one more hit, \u201cCity of Brotherly Love\u201d in 1974.[2] In the 1970s, the group lost its record contract and its manager and eventually disbanded.[3] Charlie Ingui became a landscaper, Richie Ingui became a house painter, Paul Venturini became a restaurateur, and drummer Joe Forgione owned an auto body shop.[3] In 1987, the Inqui brothers began playing occasional gigs as the original Soul Survivors and signed a five-record contract in 1991 with Society Hill Records.[3] As of 2006, they were playing occasional dates in the Eastern United States.\nChuck Trois also went on to release a solo 45 rpm single on A&M Records in August 1969, with \u201cMr. Holmes\u201d on one side, and \u201cA National Band\u201d on the other.\nPosted by America On Coffee on SunAmerica/Los_Angeles2018-12-30T09:33:00-08:00America/Los_Angeles12bAmerica/Los_AngelesSun, 30 Dec 2018 09:33:00 -0800 31, in male vocal group, Monday Madness, music\nTags: soul survivors\n\u201cClarence Henry \u2013 Ain\u2019t got no home \u2013 1956 (Frogman)\u201d\nClarence \u201cFrogman\u201dHenry (born March 19, 1937, Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist and trombonist.[1]\nClarence Henry was born in New Orleans in 1937. Fats Domino and blues singer and pianist Professor Longhair were cited as young Henry\u2019s main influences while growing up.[1] When Henry played in talent shows, he dressed like Longhair and wore a wig with braids on both sides.\nHis trademark croak, utilized to the maximum on his 1956 debut hit \u201cAin\u2019t Got No Home,\u201d earned Henry his nickname of \u201cFrogman\u201d and jump-started a career that endures to this day.[1] A cover of the country artist Bobby Charles\u2019 hit \u201c(I Don\u2019t Know Why) But I Do\u201d, and \u201cYou Always Hurt the One You Love\u201d, both from 1961, were his other big hits.[2]\nHenry opened eighteen concerts for the Beatles across the US and Canada in 1964, but his main source of income came from the Bourbon Street strip in New Orleans, where he played for nineteen years.[1] His name could still draw hordes of tourists long after his hit-making days had ended. He still plays at various conventions, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.\nhttps://youtu.be/SjspaUN7ha0\nPosted by America On Coffee on FriAmerica/Los_Angeles2018-12-21T09:34:35-08:00America/Los_Angeles12bAmerica/Los_AngelesFri, 21 Dec 2018 09:34:35 -0800 31, in 1950s, Monday Madness, r&b\nTags: \u201cClarence Henry \u2013 Ain\u2019t got no home \u2013 1956 (Frogman)\u201d\n\u201cDr. John: Right Place Wrong Time\u201d\nMalcolm John \u201cMac\u201d Rebennack (born November 21, 1940), better known by the stage name Dr. John, is an American singer, songwriter, voice actor, pianist, and guitarist, whose music combinesblues, pop, jazz, zydeco, boogie woogie, and rock and roll.[1]\nActive as a session musician since the late 1950s, he gained a cult following in the late 1960s following the release of his album Gris-Gris and his appearance at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music. He performed a wildly theatrical stage show inspired bymedicine shows, Mardi Gras costumes, and voodoo ceremonies. Rebennack has recorded more than 20 albums and in 1973 scored a top-20 hit with \u201cRight Place Wrong Time\u201d.\nThe winner of six Grammy Awards, Rebennack was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by singer John Legend on March 14, 2011.[2] In May 2013, Rebennack was the recipient of an honorary doctorate of fine arts fromTulane University. He was jokingly referred to by Tulane\u2019s president, Scott Cowen, as \u201cDr. Dr. John\u201d.[3]\nPosted by America On Coffee on MonAmerica/Los_Angeles2018-12-17T09:04:00-08:00America/Los_Angeles12bAmerica/Los_AngelesMon, 17 Dec 2018 09:04:00 -0800 31, in Monday Madness, music\nTags: dr john", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 10740, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 145.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://amyuthus.wordpress.com/tag/cheese/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:26Z", "digest": "sha1:D52LB4TOUVWXS4FQEEV2JLBMDKGUKWB7", "length": 14301, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "amyuthus.wordpress.com", "title": "cheese \u00ab Amy Uthus Ceramics", "raw_content": "Rewind to France\nI\u2019ve been feeling guilty since July about not posting anything on my trip to Spain and France this summer. Time for that feeling to go away! I scrounged my emails and found a pretty funny one, sent to my parents and a couple of friends on my last full day in Paris. The email chronicles how my day, which started on a high note (getting into the Louvre in less than 10 minutes!), spirals steadily downward, ending with stinky cheese for supper. The whole experience wasn\u2019t funny at the time, but I got a kick out of reading about it today. Hopefully you will too! I\u2019ll add some pictures:\nI got up at 7:45 this morning to go to the Louvre to try to beat the lines. The other girls [three of my cousins I was with] were still in bed when I left. They were going to go shopping today. I didn\u2019t get to the museum until after it had opened, and there was already a really long line for security. I thought you had to have your ticket before going through security, so I asked a guard where to buy one. He directed me toward a little gift shop. There were only about 5 people in line so I didn\u2019t have to wait long at all for that. Then I went back to the security line, but I was holding the ticket in my hand, and a guard came up to me and said, \u201cYou have a priority ticket, so if you go up and outside the big glass pyramid (I was under it \u2013 there are a couple different entrance lines), you can cut to the front of the line.\u201d So I did and I got into the museum in under 10 minutes! Pretty lucky! Usually it takes a few hours!\nTurns out that ticket (I still have no idea how I ended up getting a priority one \u2013 I didn\u2019t ask for that kind and it was the same price as a regular one) also let you bypass the heavier security. All I had to do was open my backpack and let a guy glance inside it, instead of waiting in line to send it though the scanner. There were a few hundred people in that line. They would have seen my waterbottle then too and taken it away.\nSo anyway, once I was in, I went straight to the Mona Lisa. Man, was it jammed in that room! And I had a feeling that wasn\u2019t as full as it gets. I got as far as only having one row of people standing in front of me before deciding I could see well enough (being tall has its advantages), taking a picture, and then turning around and fighting my way back out. Then I went and looked at some other paintings by daVinci and other people and then I went to the sculpture area. Paintings only hold my attention for a very short amount of time.\nCrowd in front of Mona Lisa\nThey have so much stuff in that museum! It\u2019s kind of unbelievable. I\u2019d say 3 out of every 4 people I saw were clinging to a map and trying to figure out where they were. I gave up on the map and started just asking the attendants. It was way easier. I managed to find the Hammarabi Code stone and then I quit looking for specific things and just wandered. And then I ate lunch and found 5 euros on the ground. For real. Next I looked at Napoleon III\u2019s apartments, which (in my opinion) are fancier than Versailles palace, and then I stumbled across some Sevres porcelain displays, and then I was exhausted and overwhelmed so I left.\nBy then it was near 4:00 so I went to the Sacre Coeur basilica. I wish I had been able to get the other girls to go with me to that. It was so amazing I almost cried. They ask you not to take pictures inside, so I didn\u2019t, and I can\u2019t show you any of it \ud83d\ude26 . Lots of other people were taking pictures, though, even though there were signs everywhere and a guy was running around trying to get them all to stop. Anyway, the domes were WAY higher than I thought they would be. The stained glass was super pretty, and there were hundreds of mosaics made with little tiny pieces of glass or ceramic all over, in the most unexpected places.\nIf you guys ever go to France and are short on time, skip Notre Dame and go straight to the SC. The basilica is in the Romano-Byzantine style. It\u2019s on the top of what seems to be Paris\u2019s only hill. You have to climb a lot of stairs and steep streets to get there. But it\u2019s in a really neat area. [Neighborhood is called Montmartre.] Lots of shops and cafes and stuff like that \u2013 sort of what I imagined all of Paris to be like before we got there. Seemed like it was the \u201cartsy\u201d part of town. I guess Van Gogh\u2019s house is up there and so is Toulouse-Lautrec\u2019s, but I didn\u2019t know that until I\u2019d already left. I left kind of without thinking a whole lot because after I got out of the church I had a very France-hates-America-and-I\u2019m-going-to-let-you-know-it experience that wasn\u2019t very fun.\nSteps in Montmartre\nYou can pay to climb to the top of one of the domes, which gives a really good view since it\u2019s on a hill, and to go into the crypts. There\u2019s an automatic ticket machine, but it\u2019s set up to only accept credit cards. Specifically, credit cards with chips, which I don\u2019t have because US credit card companies are having a hard time getting with the program. So I got in line to buy my ticket from a person, and when I got to the front, I saw everyone was paying with credit cards and it was working, so I figured it would work for me too (the checker-outers can bypass the chip thing manually somehow).\nI dug my card out from where I was hiding it (in a moneybelt which I shoved way below the waistband of my shorts, practically into my underwear) and had it ready when I got up to the counter. I slid it under the little slot, and said (pleasantly, I thought), \u201cI\u2019d like one ticket for the crypt and the dome, please.\u201d The lady promptly pushed it back at me and said in an unmistakably nasty voice, \u201cNO.\u201d So I confusedly said, \u201cWhat?\u201d I didn\u2019t understand what she was talking about. Then she said, \u201cNo cards.\u201d I was still confused, so I said, \u201cBut everyone in front of me paid with cards.\u201d (I saw 3 people do it, and one of them was a British lady who had been standing in line talking about how her card didn\u2019t work in the machine because it didn\u2019t have a chip.) You know what her response was?? \u201cYes, but just not you.\u201d Same lovely tone of voice. And that\u2019s a word-for-word quote. I was completely blown away.\nI was kind of in shock when I asked why, and she said, \u201cWell, your card is probably no good.\u201d I could NOT believe it. I was speechless. I said, \u201cIt is, but\u2026\u201d I took out a 20E bill and shoved it under the slot. Know what she did then? She very primly said, \u201cNO,\u201d to that too!! Then I got mad. I said, \u201cThat\u2019s all I have. That\u2019s it. I have nothing else to give to you.\u201d Card or cash. Not sure what other forms of payment exist in France. As I stood there, fuming, cash and credit card on the counter, she whips this out, \u201cWhoa! Calm down, calm down!!\u201d Like she was trying to come up with a reason not to sell me a ticket.\nI wasn\u2019t about to give her that reason, so I stood there silently. Ball\u2019s in your court, lady. I had no idea what she wanted from me. Probably to piss me off, and to let me know that I, as an American, am not worthy to see anything beautiful in this country. It worked, but she wasn\u2019t done yet! The total was 8E, so when she finally took my cash, I was due 12E back. Instead of giving me bills (they have 5s and 10s in paper, and 1s and 2s in coin), she gave me all 12E in coin, mostly 1s. She slapped it down on her side of the counter like I was magically supposed to scrunch my hand under the 3\u2033 wide x 1/2\u2033 high slot to retrieve it. Last time I checked, I don\u2019t have jello for bones. I just stood there and didn\u2019t move or say anything. After about 30 seconds of silence, where the couple behind me started peering over my shoulder, she grudgingly pushed the pile under the slot. I think she thought I\u2019d be mad about getting that much coin since it\u2019s so heavy, but I was actually glad because the metro station ticket machines don\u2019t take chipless cards or paper bills, so we\u2019ve been hoarding change for them all the time. And now I wouldn\u2019t have to worry about doing that tomorrow en route to the airport.\nAnyway, I FINALLY got my ticket and I went down into the crypt, where I promptly started to cry. Luckily, it was pretty empty people-wise down there. Unluckily, that meant the acoustics were great because there weren\u2019t lots of voices or footsteps to cover sounds up. So the awful choking/trying not to cry and failing sounds I was making reverberated like crazy off the stone walls, floor, and ceiling. I wanted to try to sit in a corner and hide for a little while but I was scared I\u2019d trigger some sort of security system. So then I wanted to leave but I forced myself to stay down there and look at everything. No way was I going to let that lady run me off.\nAfter I sort of quit crying, I went up to the dome. There are 300 steps, and I bet 275 of them are in spiral staircases. It was a pretty neat climb. The spin of the stairs is really tight, so you can\u2019t see anyone in front of or behind you. Being up on the dome was really cool too, and there weren\u2019t very many people up there, unlike on the top of the Eiffel tower. You can see lots of the major monuments, and take your time looking and taking pictures because nobody\u2019s pushing you or waiting for your spot. I took lots of pictures but haven\u2019t looked at them yet. [Side note, the basilica is newer than I thought it was when I visited \u2013 it was started in 1875 and consecrated in 1919.]\nOn the main dome of Sacre Coeur\nLooking out at the city from the dome. Paris is WAY bigger (area-wise) than I thought it was.\nAfter taking lots of pictures from the dome, I thought I was pulled together enough to go back down and try to get a picture of the whole church from the front. It was super hot, so I bought an ice-cold water from a guy on the street who was selling them out of a 5-gallon pail. A few seconds after we finished our transaction, some other guy standing a little ways away said something, and guy #1 grabbed his bucket and stashed it behind a garbage can, then leaned there nonchalantly. A few beats later, two police officers came walking by. So I\u2019m pretty sure I bought illegal water! Ha!\nThen I got my picture taken in front of the building, and then I got on the metro. I decided to go to the Arc de Triomphe as my last stop for the day. Well, I went to the metro station called, \u201cLa Defense,\u201d which was labeled with an extra brown tag (for historical markers) that said, \u201cle Grande Arche\u201d (sp?) Naturally, I assumed this was the stop I wanted. It wasn\u2019t. Turns out there\u2019s another big arch in Paris. This one\u2019s uber modern. I looked at it for about 5 seconds then turned around to try to find the other one. I decided I\u2019d buy two metro tickets, since this was a main station and the ticket machines took paper money. That way I\u2019d have one to get to the AdT and one to get to my hotel.\nWell, they were the wrong kind of ticket. I got to the AdT just fine, but when I went back into the metro station, neither of them worked, not even the brand-new one (the old one should have been good for another hour too). So I tried to buy another ticket, but there was only 1 machine and it only accepted credit cards. You guessed it \u2013 credit cards with chips. OMG. So then I tried to ask the guy in line behind me if I gave him a 2E coin, would he buy me a ticket with his card please? The tickets were only 1.70E, so he would have gotten a tiny bit extra. But he pretended he didn\u2019t understand me, even though I knew he did. His wife did too \u2013 she tugged on his arm and looked at me and said something to him, but he just shook his head and refused to look me in the eye. I thought I was going to cry again, so I went outside and started walking down the Champs-Elysees. I managed not to cry and I figured I\u2019d hit another metro sooner or later. It took about 15 minutes, but I did, and that one had a machine that took coin, so I finally got to buy a ticket.\nThere was also an older man working at the help desk there, so I decided to ask him if I could buy the special ticket you need to get to the airport, since by then I was thinking I\u2019d have trouble with that tomorrow, based on my luck today. They\u2019re more expensive than a regular ticket (by like 8E) and I didn\u2019t want to run into a person-less booth or a broken machine or not enough change somehow or something crazy tomorrow. He was super nice. So nice, in fact, that I started crying when he innocently asked me if I was enjoying my day in Paris. Poor guy. After I explained to him (in a mix of really awful French and English) that it wasn\u2019t his fault I was crying, he brought me into the little room off the sellers\u2019 window area and let me sit down and gave me paper towels for my nose. He wasn\u2019t surprised that I\u2019d run into some nasty Anti-American stuff. He apologized for it even though it wasn\u2019t his fault and said, \u201cWe not all like that. Just some, are \u2018orrible.\u201d\nHe sold me a ticket for tomorrow, and then I finally got on my train, but I wasn\u2019t thinking and I got off at the wrong stop. I couldn\u2019t figure out why I couldn\u2019t find my connecting train and then I realized I\u2019d gotten off 2 stations early. So I went back and got on the next No. 1 and FINALLY got back to my neighborhood. I stopped in a grocery store and bought some bread and fruit and yogurt and a cheese sampler tray for supper and breakfast tomorrow. Some of the cheese smells a little bit like feet. They\u2019re all unlabeled so I have no idea what I\u2019m eating. I\u2019ve tried 3/4 of them and they\u2019ve been good. The fourth one is a really strange texture and it smells the worst. I\u2019m not sure I\u2019m going to be brave enough to try it. I think one of the good ones is Brie, and another one is some sort of blue cheese. The weird one is white and grainy and in a ball. And it stinks.\nTravel isn\u2019t complete without disgusting bathrooms. This one was in a restaurant near Notre Dame.\ndaVinci, the Virgin of the Rocks\nHammurabi Stone\nLunch on the rooftop of the Louvre\nNapoleon\u2019s apts.\nArt on display in N\u2019s apts. (by Wim Delvoye). It\u2019s a cathedral \u2013 can you see it?\nDo you have any idea how hard it is to paint on ceramic like this? Crazy!\nMain entrance to Sacre Coeur\nOne of many spiral staircases at Sacre Coeur\nLooking out at the city from the dome\nA day of many tickets\nStinky cheese for supper!\nLeave a comment Posted in Uncategorized Tagged anti-American, Arc de Triomphe, cheese, Euros, exhaustion, Humor, Paris, Sacre Coeur, tears, tickets, Travel", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 20437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://anabolicmd.net/2017/08/02/high-protein-breakfast-lowers-weight-8-waistline-4-hba1c-12-in-t2dm-especially-if-the-protein-is-whey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:35Z", "digest": "sha1:JK3MIRX7FMQGNU3EZZQDYV7U3QBUPGUH", "length": 8393, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "anabolicmd.net", "title": "High Protein Breakfast Lowers Weight (8%), Waistline (4%) + HbA1c (12%) In T2DM \u2013 Especially If The Protein Is Whey | Anabolicmd.net", "raw_content": "High Protein Breakfast Lowers Weight (8%), Waistline (4%) + HbA1c (12%) in T2DM \u2013 Especially if the Protein is Whey\nIt\u2019s no news that a high protein breakfast will keep you satiated for longer time periods than a sugary cereal. There\u2019s also existing evidence that whey proteins are an excellent choice for people with type II diabetes as their effects on GIP, GLP1, and insulin help reduce postprandial glucose levels in T2DM. Against that background. it is quite surprising that no previous study did what researchers from the Tel Aviv University, the Central University, Caracas, the Lund University, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem did, recently, i.e. \u201cexamine[] whether a high-energy, protein breakfast containing whey leads to a greater weight loss and reduction of overall postprandial glycemia and HbA1C compared to isocaloric diet with a different source of protein or carbohydrates at breakfast for 12 weeks in type 2 diabetes subjects\u201d (Jakubowicz 2017).\nThe scientists based their assumption that whey would be particularly effective in improving glycemia and the long-term glucose gauge HbA1x on several acute studies that have shown that whey protein exerts a greater postprandial glucose-lowering effect compared with other protein sources, such as soy, fish, gluten, eggs, casein, in healthy (Gunnerud 2012; Hall 2003; Nilsson 2004 & 2007; Bowen 2006) and type 2 diabetes individuals (Jakubowicz 2014; Bowen 2006).\nFigure 1: Overview of the most important results of the study (Jakubowicz 2017).\nFor their study, the international team of scientists recruited fifty-six type 2 diabetes participants aged 58.9\u00b14.5 yr., BMI 32.1\u00b10.9 kg/m\u00b2 and HbA1C 7.8\u00b10.1% (61.6\u00b10.79 mmol/mol) who were randomized to one of 3 isocaloric diets with similar lunch and dinner, but different breakfast:\nhigh whey protein breakfast (WBdiet | n=19, 8 males, 11 females) contained at breakfast 25% fat, 50% carbohydrates and 25% (42 g) protein of which 28 g are whey concentrate (80%);\nhigh mixed protein breakfast (PBdiet | n=19, 9 males, 10 females) contained at breakfast 25% fat, 50% carbohydrates, and 25% (42 g) protein mainly from eggs (7 g), tuna (20 g), soy (7 g);\ncarbohydrate breakfast (CBdiet | n=18, 9 males, 9 females) contained at breakfast 25% fat, 64% carbohydrates and 11% (17 g) soy protein\nAs previously hinted at, the three diet interventions had the same meal-timing schedule and energy distribution consisting of high-energy and protein breakfast (660\u00b125 kcal), medium-sized lunch (560\u00b120 kcal) and low-energy dinner (280\u00b115 kcal).\n\u201cThe composition of lunch in the 3 diets was 29% fat, 48% carbohydrates and 23% protein. The composition of dinner in the 3 diets was 38% fat, 31% carbohydrates and 31% protein. The protein source for lunch and dinner was chicken, meat, fish or turkey. Lunch and dinner did not include dairy foods. The diet plan was calculated for a daily caloric intake of 1500 kcal. However, the daily caloric intake for each participant was obtained by subtracting 500 kcal from the calculated Harris Benedict Equation, in order to achieve progressive weight loss\u201d (Jakubowicz 2017)\nThe subjects\u2019 body weight and HbA1C were examined after 12 weeks. Furthermore, all participants underwent 3 all-day meal challenges for postprandial glycemia, insulin, C-peptide, intact glucagon-like peptide 1 (iGLP-1), ghrelin and hunger and satiety scores.\nFigure 2: The beneficial effects on glucose (A) were probably mediated by a significant increase in insulin (B), GLP1 (C) and C-peptide (D) levels, which are all usually too low in type II diabetics (Jakubowicz 2017).\nWhat the scientists found was that there was an overall postprandial AUCglucose in all both high protein groups, albeit with the greatest reduction in of 19% in the WBdiet, and \u201conly\u201d 15% in the PBdiet compared with the high carb breakfast condition in the CBdiet group (P<.0001).\nThe HbA1c reduction was significant and practically relevant: In fact, the reduction of 0.9% (11.5 mmol/mol) HbA1C achieved with the WBdiet is comparable to the decrease expected with glucose-lowering medications, such as dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) inhibitors, sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, meglitinides and thiazolidinediones (Nathan 2009).\nFigure 3: The Increased satiety and decreased hunger with protein and whey will also help T2DM patients stick to their diets \u2013 and you know: the best diet is the one you can adhere to (Jakubowicz 2017).\nAgainst that background it is not surprising that, compared with PBdiet and CBdiet, WBdiet led to a greater postprandial overall AUC for insulin, C-peptide, iGLP-1 and satiety scores, while postprandial overall AUC for ghrelin and hunger scores were reduced (P<.0001).\nAlso, since all diets were 500kcal below the subjects\u2019 energy requirements, it\u2019s likewise not surprising that after 12 weeks, HbA1C was reduced in all groups \u2014 with WBdiet (0.89\u00b10.05%) > PBdiet (0.6\u00b10.04%) > CBdiet (0.36\u00b10.04%).\nA result that is, by the way, reflected in terms of weight loss, as well with the \u201cthe participants on WBdiet lost 7.6\u00b10.3 kg, PBdiet 6.1\u00b10.3 kg and CBdiet 3.5\u00b10.3 kg (P<.0001)\u201d (Jacubowicz 2017).\nBottom line: \u201cWhey protein-based breakfast is an important adjuvant in the management of type 2 diabetes\u201d (Jakubowicz 2017), the authors write and they\u2019re correct. What one should not forget, though, is that one of the main messages of the study at hand is that the good old adage of \u201chaving breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper\u201d is spot on. As Jakubowicz, et al. point out, \u201c[t]his dietary adjustment may have a therapeutic advantage for the achievement of optimal metabolic control and may have the potential for being preventive for cardiovascular and other complications of type 2 diabetes\u201d \u2013 with whey being a useful, but not a necessary addition to the high protein high-calorie breakfast (and reduced intake at dinner).\nAs the authors point out, their study does, however, suffer from the lack of a healthy control group. \u201cThus [the scientists] cannot determine whether these effects occur also in healthy people\u201d in whom the increase in insulin release with whey protein could potentially entail different long-term effects \u2013 let\u2019s hope that this issue is resolved in future studies | Comment on Facebook!\nBowen, et al. \u201cAppetite regulatory hormone responses to various dietary proteins differ by body mass index status despite similar reductions in ad libitum energy intake.\u201d J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 91 (2006), pp. 2913\u20132919.\nGunnerud, et al. \u201cEffects of pre-meal drinks with protein and amino acids on glycemic and metabolic responses at a subsequent composite meal.\u201d PLoS One, 7 (2012), Article e44731.\nHall, et al. \u201cCasein and whey exert different effects on plasma amino acid profiles, gastrointestinal hormone secretion, and appetite.\u201d Br J Nutr, 89 (2003), pp. 239\u2013248.\nJakubowicz, et al. \u201cIncretin, insulinotropic and glucose-lowering effects of whey protein pre-load in type 2 diabetes: a randomized clinical trial.\u201d Diabetologia, 57 (2014), pp. 1807\u20131811.\nJakubowicz, Daniela, et al. \u201cHigh-energy breakfast based on whey protein reduces body weight, postprandial glycemia and HbA 1C in type 2 diabetes.\u201d The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry (2017).\nMa, et al. \u201cEffects of a protein preload on gastric emptying, glycemia, and gut hormones after a carbohydrate meal in diet-controlled type 2 diabetes.\u201d Diabetes Care, 32 (2009), pp. 1600\u20131602.\nNathan, et al. \u201cMedical management of hyperglycemia in type 2 diabetes: a consensus algorithm for the initiation and adjustment of therapy: a consensus statement of the American Diabetes Association and the European Association for the Study of Diabetes.\u201d Diabetes Care, 32 (2009), pp. 193\u2013203\nNilsson, et al. \u201cGlycemia and insulinemia in healthy subjects after lactose-equivalent meals of milk and other food proteins: the role of plasma amino acids and incretins.\u201d Am J Clin Nutr, 80 (2004), pp. 1246\u20131253\nNilsson et al. \u201cMetabolic effects of amino acid mixtures and whey protein in healthy subjects: studies using glucose-equivalent drinks.\u201d Am J Clin Nutr, 85 (2007), pp. 996\u20131004\nSource: http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2017/07/high-protein-breakfast-lowers-weight-8.html\nThe post High Protein Breakfast Lowers Weight (8%), Waistline (4%) + HbA1c (12%) in T2DM \u2013 Especially if the Protein is Whey appeared first on AnabolicMinds.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 9585, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://animepahe.com/anime/usagi-drop", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CKAZL2QRJHITEDOCAALETEK5HQSQUFCP", "length": 1066, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "animepahe.com", "title": "Usagi Drop ep. 01-11 Bluray HD :: animepahe", "raw_content": "Usagi Drop Bluray HD Mini MP4\n\u3046\u3055\u304e\u30c9\u30ed\u30c3\u30d7 Bluray \u3061\u3073\nDaikichi Kawachi is a 30-year-old bachelor working a respectable job but otherwise wandering aimlessly through life. When his grandfather suddenly passes away, he returns to the family home to pay his respects. Upon arriving at the house, he meets a mysterious young girl named Rin who, to Daikichi\u2019s astonishment, is his grandfather's illegitimate daughter!\nThe shy and unapproachable girl is deemed an embarrassment to the family, and finds herself ostracized by her father's relatives, all of them refusing to take care of her in the wake of his death. Daikichi, angered by their coldness towards Rin, announces that he will take her in\u2014despite the fact that he is a young, single man with no prior childcare experience.\nUsagi Drop is the story of Daikichi's journey through fatherhood as he raises Rin with his gentle and affectionate nature, as well as an exploration of the warmth and interdependence that are at the heart of a happy, close-knit family.\nEnglish: Bunny Drop\nSynonyms: Usagi Drop\nJapanese: \u3046\u3055\u304e\u30c9\u30ed\u30c3\u30d7", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 108, "original_length": 3240, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 251.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/tag/conspiracy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:16Z", "digest": "sha1:2GCN6AJ6PE3T6PDON2YTOVT3GX5JLSIK", "length": 741, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "ansuz.sooke.bc.ca", "title": "Ansuz - mskala's home page", "raw_content": "Mistakenly thought to be djinn\nFirst appeared in talk.bizarre, July 1997\nYou must know that Man was not the first of the Earth's masters.\nA great many unusual people may be seen in the marketplace of Damascus on any hot summer day, but the Adept was definitely out of the ordinary. She strode, alone and proud, though the crowd which parted unconsciously. Foreigners have written that one veiled woman looks like any other, but even the quality of the material of Fatima's veil distinguished her from the rest. The locals, accustomed to making the most of whatever they could get, stared outright, all as if they'd never seen a woman before. They undressed her in their minds as she passed by. 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I hope it will help you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 2443, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 216.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apenasimagens.com/en/robot-ii-hans-berning-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:41Z", "digest": "sha1:PI2VK2GR6G6QWVFRDIULL7P2ZFHYIUR5", "length": 8537, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "apenasimagens.com", "title": "Robot II | Hans Berning \u2013 only images", "raw_content": "Robot II | Hans Berning | 1935-1940\nThis camera was designed in 1930 by Heinz Kilfitt (1898-1980), who at first followed the career of his father, a watchmaker, but soon became interested in optics and photography. He presented the Robot project to Agfa and Kodak, but neither was interested. The design was then sold to Hans Berning who started a new business in 1934, bearing his own name, for the production of the new camera. Two models were released the following year, Robot I and II. The company exists to this day but the Robot camera was discontinued in 1959.\nMany particularities built into this small camera. The most important, the one that is certainly top of mind, is the fact that the film advance and shutter cocking is made by automatically after each shot by a spring mechanism and this allows to shoot up to 4 photos per second. The shutter button needs to be pressed each time. It is said that a photographer well acquainted with the camera can reach up to 5 photos per second if he synchronises his movement well with mechanism\u2019s pace.\nRecalling that the 135 film, the pre-loaded cartridges, was launched by Kodak along with its Retina camera in the year 1934, manufacturers using 35mm film, such as Leitz, for example, who introduced the Leica commercially in 1924 , needed to propose their own solutions to use the film that was always sold only \u201cin bulk\u201d. For Robot, Kilfitt chose to make 24 x 24 mm frames. Something between the 18 x 24 cinema format and the Leica 24 x 36 format. This allowed for something like 50 shots per film load. When using the camera, the square format always brings the comfort of being able to hold the it always up-right as there is no need to rotate it more than 45% to obtain any possible composition.\nIt uses two film cartridges called K-cassettes. The film is loaded on the first and as the photos are taken, it is spooled into the second. There is a special reason for this. Due to the automatic advance mechanism the two cassettes have been designed so that when pressing the camera back, in order to lock it, the slits through which the film passes open and allow it to slide freely without offering any significant mechanical resistance to the movement.\nIt is very important when buying a Robot I or II to verify that the cassettes are there, because without them the use of the camera is impossible. A normal cartridge 135 does not fit into this camera. The second cassette also brings the peculiarity of not having to rewind the film. The camera is always ready to be opened and the film removed, and can be returned to be finished later. Only in 1951, with the success of the 135 format, a the Robot IIa was released accepting the standard 35mm film cartridges.\nThe size of the camera is something that catches the eye. It is very compact measuring 106 x 62 x 31 mm (4\u00bc x 2\u00bd x 1\u00bc inches) but weighs like a 35mm mono reflex. Its all-metal construction makes it very sturdy and stable. The small format made possible to dispense with a rangefinder without affecting the sharpness of the images as focusing by guessing the distances is very effective. Another interesting feature is that the focus ring has \u201cclicks\u201d at some preset distances. With this feature it is possible in the dark, or even with camera inside the pocket of a jacket, pre-adjust the distance if you memorize the sequence and count the clicks.\nAlavanca e visor para \u00e2ngulo de 90\u00ba na lateral da c\u00e2mera.\nThese features all added up to make it a camera much appreciated by the German army. It is also associated with the idea of \u200b\u200bespionage and brings a 90\u00ba viewfinder that helps in concealing the act of shooting pictures. Just turn the small lever on the top of the camera and a mirror sends the image, that enters the front viewfinder, to a second eyepiece positioned on the side of the camera. The fact that it could be fired several times only by acting on the trigger, perhaps with a cable, made it the ideal camera to be hidden in a suitcase or other object unsuspected to take photographs. There was also a specially developed model for the German Air Force, the Luftwaffen Eigentum Robot, which had an extra spring allowing a larger number of photographs without rewinding. Finally, there was a factory retrofit with the option to make an adaptation to minimize the noise of the film advance and allow indiscreet photos even in indoors.\nMany lenses were produced by Zeiss and Schneider to equip the Robots. For Robot II the normal lens was 40 mm but also wide angles of 26 and 30mm were part of the line. In the long focus was used basically the focal 75 mm. Among normal lenses, the standard was Zeiss Tessar 40 mm f / 2.8. Another, more rare, the Biotar 40 mm f / 2.\nIn current use, for those who are accustomed to the standard of the lenses with antireflection treatment, the contrast of these lenses may be lacking and they will have a more dated signature, typical of the period before the Second War. Notwithstanding this feature which tends to produce a more compressed grayscale, the optical quality of the image in terms of definition is excellent for all the optics employed in the Robot.\nThe Biotar was designed by Mert\u00e9 of Zeiss in the early 1930\u2019s. It is a Double Gauss derivative, a concept used, for instance, in the famous Planar designed by Paul Rudolph in the late 19th century. Most modern lenses with apertures f/2 or more belong to this Double Gauss lineage, with the difference that they are usually asymmetrical while Double Gauss was initially drawn as a pair of symmetrical doublets around the diaphragm. Biotar design was developed to the astonishing point of offering an opening of f/1.4 in one of its movie versions.\nAbove the schematic drawing of Biotar created by Mert\u00e9 (source Vademecum). It is easy to understand how such a design would later benefit from coating treatment. There are 8 air/glass or glass/air passages plus two glass/glass. In all of them there is always a bit of light that spreads and eventually reaches the film uncontrollably creating a fog effect and reducing contrast. It is very important to use a lens shade in such cases. However, the viewfinder is so close to the lens that it is almost certain that the a lens hood will hide part of the scene being composed.\nSpeeds are set at a button on the front of the camera, it has B and goes from \u00bd to 1/500 s. Synchronises flash at all speeds through a connector just above and next to the speed setting. The shutter takes advantage of the small frame, 24\u00d724 mm and is of the rotary type, a simple and efficient mechanism. There is a progressive frame counter at the top of the camera that needs to be adjusted every time two new cartridges are installed.\nSome photos made with this Robot. Film T-MAX 100 revealed in Parodinal. These are faithful scans of enlargements carried out on Ilford glossy fiber paper.\nThis photo presents problems of light leakage due to careless handling of the Cartridges. As they have the spring that allows them to open when inside the camera, they need to be handled carefully so this does not happen outside of it. Luckily, I think the final result was still interesting.\nAbove and below a typical more compressed grayscale that one gets with this type of lens when the subject is illuminated diffusely by a cloudy sky, for example.\nIn cases of very contrasted scene, the reduction of contrast in the lens, ends up having a beneficial counter effect by balancing the grayscale more and rendering the textures better.\nWas this article useful for you?\nKevin Reagan says:\nMy mother, who worked at the Pentagon, was given a Robot during WWII, by a OSS officer who had just come back from serving in Germany, undercover as a German citizen. She said it had a very heavy large Carl Zeiss lens that was f1.2, possibly a prototype, I know what you are thinking it was a f2, but it was confirmed by a photographer friend that it was a 1.2. I have seen pictures taken by it, and the contrast, contour rendering, and bokeh is very similar to my 1949, 75mm f1.5 Biotar. I wonder if you have ever heard of such a lens. Unfortunately, it was given away before I was born.\nHello, thanks for your visit, I checked the only literature I have, a Focal Press book only about the Robot system and it does not mention such lens. If it was a prototype you will hardly find any official or regular information about it, like in manuals or advertising. If at least you knew the lens\u2019 construction type, then it would be possible to check its variations. Sorry for not being able to help you.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 9673, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 262.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://app.productionbeast.com/search/2nd-assistant-director-near-burbank-ca", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:22Z", "digest": "sha1:BBTYE4KE43XTAC4ZJWMCJCV5UBJHVNAG", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "app.productionbeast.com", "title": "Search | ProductionBeast", "raw_content": "Searching for \"2nd Assistant Director\" near Burbank, CA, USA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 417, "original_length": 43209, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 193.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://apprequest.charismanews.com/us/74879-internationally-beloved-minister-jack-coe-jr-dies-at-74", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IZKEOTYUN56SSRIBYAC7FNS53IBGK37Y", "length": 3662, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "apprequest.charismanews.com", "title": "Internationally Beloved Minister Jack Coe Jr. Dies at 74 \u2014 Charisma News", "raw_content": "Jack Coe Jr. (Jack Coe International Ministries)\nInternationally beloved minister Jack Coe Jr. died Jan. 21, 2019. He was 74.\n\"The Coe family is saddened by their loss but thankful that Jack is now completely healed and celebrating with his Lord and Savior. Jack was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, brother, friend and will be greatly missed,\" according to a Facebook post on the Jack Coe International Ministries page.\nAccording to the official obituary, Coe Jr. is survived by his loving wife of 55 years, Frieda Coe; son, Jack Edward Coe III and wife, Joyce; daughter, Jill Thompson and husband, Duane; mother-in-law, Dorothy Holder; brothers, Steve Coe, John Coe; sisters, Joanna Herndon, Juanita Wilson; grandchildren, Justin Thompson, Jared Thompson, Rachel Lopez, Ashley Herndon, Andrew Herndon; great-grandchildren Jayde Thompson, Anne Elise Thompson, Levi Thompson, Declan Thompson, Allison Thompson, Arianna Lopez, Amaya Lopez, Bentley Synder, M.J. Herndon, Braelyn Kendall.\nCoe Jr. is the son of Jack Coe Sr., who was one of the greatest revivalists in the 1940s-50s.\nCoe Jr. was born in 1944 and was incredibly close to his father, according to the Jack Coe Ministries website. Coe Sr. died from an illness linked to extreme exhaustion when Coe Jr. was 12.\nCoe Jr. worked in ministry from 1961-1965. By 1969, he established his own ministry, where many people compared him to his father.\nJean Darnall, Key Foursquare Leader Known for Her Prophetic Prayer Ministry, Dies at 96\n\"Of course, holding his father in such high esteem, Jack felt that he could never measure up to that standard. As a result, he experienced many doubts about his own gifts and calling. For the next twelve years, he was in and out of the ministry, always struggling and praying to establish his own identity in Christ. During this time of inner turmoil, Jack and Frieda were divorced. They remained separated from each other for eight years. However the prayers of their twin children, Jack III and Jacqueline (Jill), prevailed. Jack and Frieda were remarried in 1979,\" according to the ministry site.\nIn 1983, he left ministry to go into business. In 1986, he was diagnosed with cancer and given six to eight months to live.\n\"Jack began to seek the Lord afresh, praying in earnest for direction for his own life and for his family. On Father's Day of that same year, while lying in a hospital bed, Jack felt the Lord speak to his heart. God showed him that if he would return to his original commitment to help evangelize the world, He would heal him completely. Immediately, he surrendered to the Lordship of Christ and felt the healing power of God go through his weakened body,\" according to the ministry website.\n\"Just a short time later, Jack was released from the hospital. Doctors marveled at his speedy recovery and renewed strength. Six months later, after a thorough checkup, he was given a clean bill of health. However, this lengthy stay at the hospital left Jack and Frieda broke, so they borrowed $100.00 and a car and once again started to evangelize. Since that time, Jack has been faithful to keep his promise to God, preaching in churches, auditoriums, and tent crusades. Miracles have occurred in his services, with many cancer patients being healed after hearing Jack's testimony and receiving prayer. Broken marriages have also been restored as a result of the Coe's [sic] story,\" the site says.\nCoe Jr. continued in ministry until his death early Monday morning.\nA memorial service is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 26, at 2:00 p.m. at Metro Fellowship (1136 Beltline Road, DeSoto, Texas). There will not be a graveside service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 296, "original_length": 17865, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 218.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://asianhrds.forum-asia.org/?events=pakistan-rights-activist-gulalai-ismail-and-other-members-of-ptm-arrested", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ZMOAMTY3E3UPQGEE2OE3K5S4B5MHBV5B", "length": 3202, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "asianhrds.forum-asia.org", "title": "Pakistan: Rights activist Gulalai Ismail and other members of PTM arrested \u00ab Asian Human Rights Defenders (FORUM-ASIA)", "raw_content": "Arrest, Detention, Freedom of assembly, Freedom of expression, Judicial harrasment\nRights activist Gulalai Ismail was released by Islamabad police late Wednesday, Islamabad Deputy Commissioner Hamza Shafqaat told DawnNewsTV.\nHowever, according to the senior official, 17 of the 25 Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) workers arrested a day earlier along with Gulalai for holding a protest demonstration outside the National Press Club were sent to Adiala jail after the completion of a verification process by police.\nThe official said that the workers were sent to jail under Section 3 (1) of the West Pakistan Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) of 1960.\nUnder the order, the 17 will remain jailed for a period of 15 days.\nGulalai, meanwhile, was released by Islamabad police, DC Shafqaat confirmed.\nEarlier in the day, Gulalai\u2019s father, Professor Muhammad Ismail, told Dawn.com that his daughter had been arrested on Tuesday.\nAccording to Professor Ismail, the activist was picked up from outside the National Press Club in Islamabad while she took part in a protest against the controversial death of PTM leader Arman Loni in Balochistan on Saturday.\nPolice had initially shifted Gulalai to the G9 Women\u2019s Police Station, Ismail told Dawn.com.\nAccording to Gulalai\u2019s father, she was shifted to an unknown location a few hours after the arrest.\n\u201cWe are trying to trace her whereabouts but the police is not ready to share Gulalai\u2019s location,\u201d he had said, adding that so far no First Information Report (FIR) of the arrest had been registered at the time.\nIn October last year, Gulalai had been detained by airport officials in Islamabad following her return from London. She was later released on bail but her passport was withheld by airport officials.\nThe detention had been in connection with an FIR that Swabi police had registered on Aug 13, 2018 against 19 PTM leaders, including Gulalai, for their involvement in a public gathering in Swabi where PTM\u2019s Manzoor Pashteen and Gulalai both addressed the crowd.\nPTM is a rights-based alliance that, besides calling for the de-mining of the former tribal areas and greater freedom of movement in the latter, has insisted on an end to the practices of extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and unlawful detentions, and for their practitioners to be held to account within a truth and reconciliation framework.\nGulalai, a Pashtun and women\u2019s rights activist, was in 2017 awarded the \u2018Reach all Women in War\u2019 Anna Politovskaya Award.\nShe co-founded a non-governmental organisation, Aware Girls, with sister Saba Ismail in 2002. The organisation aims to strengthen the leadership skills of young people, especially women and girls, enabling them to act as agents of change for women empowerment and peace building.\n\u2018Immediate and unconditional\u2019 release\nIn a statement shared on Twitter, Amnesty International South Asia called on Pakistani authorities to \u201cimmediately and unconditionally\u201d release PTM protesters.\nThe rights group called on Pakistani authorities to \u201cdisclose the whereabouts\u201d of Ismail who they said, \u201cmay have been subjected to an enforced disappearance\u201d.\nThey also called on the authorities to investigate the \u201ckilling\u201d of Loni.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 6961, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 311.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ask.metafilter.com/232314/To-be-or-not-to-be-informed", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:23Z", "digest": "sha1:CEZHL7X63IF7KVNXZV7YWOXNPMCAQ26D", "length": 5008, "nlines": 29, "source_domain": "ask.metafilter.com", "title": "To be or not to be informed? - news | Ask MetaFilter", "raw_content": "To be or not to be informed?\nI am looking for intelligent ideas to help me distinguish between what is \"worthy news\" and what is \"gratuitous news\". Can anyone point me in the direction of some good solid writing on this topic?\nDearest Mefites. I am looking for insightful readings on the topic of \"news\". Cultural theory / media theory type writing.\nBackground: I am someone who hates to read or watch the news because I tend to find it terribly upsetting. But I also feel a moral responsibility, as a citizen of the world, to be informed. I grapple with these questions:\nWhat is (legitimate) news? What should be news? What is the value of being informed? Is it our responsibility to be informed? About what, and why? I want to get right down to the nitty gritty of what we have a moral responsibility to be informed about and why. I think there is so much news that we don't \"need\" to know, but there is some that we \"should\" know\u2026 but what guidelines can we use to distinguish between the two?\nFor example, there are horrific news stories that bear no apparent relevance to my life, e.g. shootings in America (I am Australian) that just make me feel incredibly sad and incredibly infuriated. But should I know about these things? When is news that is horrific, still gratuitous?\nOf course there are only people's ideas, but I am interested to hear some intelligent ones\u2026\nIf you can recommend intelligent, insightful, analyses (preferably essays or articles rather than full books) on this theme that I can sink my teeth into, I would be very grateful. Thank you. -beccyjoe\nposted by beccyjoe to Media & Arts (6 answers total) 9 users marked this as a favorite\nMaybe this is not as comprehensive an answer as you would like, but I've found that when a headline ends in a question mark, the article under it is not news. It's total fluff at best, or at worst it's a push-poll masquerading as journalism.\nposted by fritley at 2:47 PM on January 2, 2013 [1 favorite]\nJay Rosen's Pressthink website is almost exactly what you are asking for. The Highlights section on the right of the homepage, with essays like this in it is a great place to start.\nposted by smoke at 2:50 PM on January 2, 2013 [3 favorites]\nI don't think there is much moral responsibility to be informed--there are some practical reasons, sometimes--but I suspect I'm an outlier in this, and I don't expect to change your POV here. Still, you could consider the idea that it's really OK for you to neglect the 99.9% of news that you can't do anything substantive about, especially if it tends to make you sad or angry.\nIn any case, if you are finding the news upsetting, why don't you take a holiday from it? Take a month off from deliberately following the news. See what it's like. Unless you are a hermit, you will find yourself hearing about plenty of current events whether you seek the news out or not. You can think over your moral responsibilities in the meantime, and I suspect the abstention will make it easier to think clearly about what is and isn't really important.\nposted by mattu at 2:52 PM on January 2, 2013\nThis makes me think of Thoreau: \"We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.\"\nI would recommend reading Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. I don't know what TV news is like in Australia, but in the U.S. the cable news channels are almost purely products of show business. The nightly news broadcasts on the major networks are only slightly better. If you are familiar with the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, they primarily satirize the sad state of TV news (cable, network, and local), but people in the media seem to be oblivious to this and tend to think they are primarily satirizing politics. I avoid all TV news, though I still read plenty of written news online \u2014 mostly from the New York Times \u2014 but one strategy I've heard of is only reading the headlines in newspaper machines. Basically, only news that makes it \"above the fold,\" supplemented by friends filling you in on any really big stories. This can be a good way to start conversations, but you have to be okay with not knowing the details of a story when everyone else finds out.\nposted by stopgap at 7:45 PM on January 2, 2013\nThis might not be exactly what you're looking for (and it's primarily about politics, although its parallels are broad), but this recent essay by Alex Pareene in The Baffler is excellent.\nposted by dekathelon at 11:25 PM on January 2, 2013\nThanks @dekathelon, @stopgap and @smoke - will check out those suggestions :)\nposted by beccyjoe at 6:52 AM on January 4, 2013\n\u00ab Older Things to do on the outskirts of New Haven? | best places to start for a beginner chef Newer \u00bb\nWhat are you reading besides The Atlantic? July 10, 2014\nWhat's in your Google Reader/RSS? March 14, 2013\nInternet Goodness December 26, 2012\nFree quality content online. What should I be... March 25, 2011\nDaily media? April 2, 2007", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 303.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://astralblue.livejournal.com/296332.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:09Z", "digest": "sha1:NVDYO3BBST5WWNWMKLAJA6K3364U72GX", "length": 125, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "astralblue.livejournal.com", "title": "Wow - The Lighthouse", "raw_content": "Mexico did a pretty good job; although it lost to Argentina, it managed to keep the scores at 2-1. :o\nTags: soccer, world cup", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://astypalaia.com/history/history_archeology.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:10Z", "digest": "sha1:R5XU35NF2BTHEJIY3LI6QSNODJA4UP2C", "length": 4578, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "astypalaia.com", "title": "Astypalaia - a beautiful island in the Aegean Sea", "raw_content": "Infantile graveyard excavation\nAt the edge of Chora towards the southern part, at Kylindra, there is a big rescue excavation.\nThe only infantile graveyard in the world was found here.\nA sacred place, from the Geometrical years to the Hellenistic age.\nSome thousands of infants buried in pots, in an outstanding archaeological and anthropological interest.\nAlready, foreign and Greek archaeologists, as well as special scientists, are especially interested in these unique findings so a special museum and research centre is needed on the island.\nFor more information look here (UCL Astypalaia Bioarchaeology Project\nThe Astypalaia Archaeological Museum\nThe Astypalaia Archaeological Museum is housed in a ground-floor hall, which was granted to the Hellenic Ministry of Culture by the Ecclesiastical Charity Fund of Astypalaia in 1994. The exhibition was organized in 1995-1996 and in the following years it was improved and enriched with the special audio-visual programme (Echorama). The museum was inaugurated in September 1998.\nThe exhibition contains finds that cover a wide chronological range, from the prehistoric period down to medieval times. More specifically, the museum contains:\nCollection of prehistoric finds: clay vases, jewellery, bronze and stone tools from chamber tombs of the Mycenaean period at the sites of Armenochori and Syngairo, which attest the prosperity of the island since the Late Bronze Age. Remarkable is the discovery in one of the graves, of numerous stone tools, probably connected with the status and the occupation of the deceased.\nTreasure of silver coins of the Classical period, which was found on the island.\nCollection of votive inscriptions from the sanctuaries of the island, which give information about the deities worshipped on Astypalaia in antiquity (Apollo, Artemis Lochia and Eilythieia, Asklepios and Aphrodite). Remarkable among them is a large inscribed votive base of Apollo with the marks of the feet of a monumental statue, dated to the 4th century BC.\nFinds of the Classical and Hellenistic periods: architectural members (inscribed architraves), burial and votive reliefs, funerary altars, male and female statuettes and important inscriptions (funerary, votive, honorary decrees, letters from emperors and other items), which give valuable information about the history and monuments of the island. Some of the important items of the collection are:\na) Torso of a male statue wearing a himation. The garment, which is swathed around his loins, hangs from his left shoulder and is grasped in his left hand, leaving the chest bare.\nb) Relief depicting a symposium. It shows a couple reclining on a couch. At the foot of the couch a female figure is seated in a chariot. Behind the couch are a small servant, a table with food and a tree with a snake coiled around it (a funerary banquet or a banquet for heroized dead persons?).\nc) Relief depicting a funerary banquet. A male figure is shown on a couch, while a female figure in a chiton and himation steps on a footstool. The scene is framed by pillars supporting a cornice with antefixes.\nd) Torso of a male figure wearing a cuirass, of Roman date.\ne) Lower part of semi-nude female statue in one piece with the base. Her himation is wrapped around her waist and hangs in profuse folds to her feet (Aphrodite).\nf) Part of a gold chaplet with leaves and fruit.\ng) Stele inscribed with a sacred law regulating the conditions of entry into a sanctuary (3rd century BC).\nh) Inscribed stone stele with a letter from the emperor Hadrian to the magistrates and Boule (Council) of the Knidians.\nCollection of clay vases from the necropolises of Katsalos and Kilindra, dating from the Geometric until the Roman period.\nMarble panels, capitals and other parts of Early Christian basilicas..\nOfficial Unit: 22nd Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities\nAstypalaia (Prefecture of Dodekanissa)\n6 March (in memory of Melina Mercouri\n5 June (International Enviroment Day)\nSundays in the period between 1 November and 31 March\nThe first Sunday of every month, except for July, August and September (when the first Sunday is holiday, then the second is the free admission day.)\n27 September, International Tourism Day\nMembers of the ICOM-ICOMOS\nPersons possessing a free admission card\nSoldiers carrying out their military service\nUniversity students from Greece and the E.U.\ninvantile graveyard\nThe Archeological museum at Pera Gialos\nCopper statue of Venus, find from third Marmari / Roman era - Archeological Museum, Astypalea\nFinds from the canopy graves at Armenochori", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 5379, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 308.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://athletics.bowdoin.edu/information/green_athletics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:26Z", "digest": "sha1:C25TCKKOS5RRVUBBL6PIYVYBW4S3NWJN", "length": 3560, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "athletics.bowdoin.edu", "title": "Sustainability - Bowdoin Green Athletics - Bowdoin", "raw_content": "Sustainability - Bowdoin Green Athletics\nGreen Athletics homepage\nBeing the Polar Bears, it only makes sense that Bowdoin athletes incorporate the College\u2019s goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2020 into their day-to-day team routines. Bowdoin Green Athletics (BGA) is a student-run organization that collaborates with administrators, faculty, staff and athletes to increase the positive impact that our fitness facilities and our athletic teams have on the environment.\nBGA is inspired by the College\u2019s recent steps to incorporate sustainability into its athletic operations. Both the Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness and Sidney J. Watson Arena are LEED certified, with Watson being the first LEED certified collegiate hockey rink in the United States. In 2014, a 1.2 Megawatt solar array was installed at Farley Field House and Watson Arena as part of a larger array at the former Naval Air Station, projected to provide a combined 8% of Bowdoin's annual electricity use. Additionally, lights for Greason Pool were recently upgraded to more efficient LEDs, and occupancy controls were installed in Sargent Gymnasium to save significant amounts of electricity each year.\nThe main focus of BGA is the Efficiency Initiative, a student-designed challenge where all varsity teams commit to sustainability goals and compete for an award and cash prize. Challenges are tailored to each team and range from bringing recycling bags on bus trips or composting at home competitions to taking shorter showers or going trayless in the dining halls. Teams that complete all five challenges are invited to an end-of-season celebration with complimentary food from Bowdoin\u2019s campus Pub. Each team can also choose to do an \u201cabove and beyond\u201d challenge by creating their own unique task that promotes sustainability even further, qualifying them for the Green Athletics Award and cash prize, presented at the annual All-Sports Awards Banquet.\nThe 2014-2015 academic year was a very successful kick-off, with 14 teams completing all five challenges and over 22 teams completing at least one. Some notable \u201cabove and beyond\u201d challenges included the Men\u2019s Hockey team\u2019s collection of recyclable bottle caps to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House and the Volleyball team\u2019s composting on the bus for every away game. The Crew team won the first-annual Green Athletics award for hosting an Erg-a-thon on campus that raised money for the local Nature Conservancy. The team received a $200 cash prize and is working with BGA to find a sustainability-minded purchase to benefit their program.\nBowdoin Green Athletics\u2019 other major projects include:\nRerun Shoes \u2013 an international program designed to donate used shoes to communities in Africa or upcycle worn shoes into track surfaces\nFood Foward \u2013 an organization focused on donating leftover food from team trips or home events to those in need within the Brunswick community\nEPA Game-Day Challenge \u2013 a recycling competition between athletic teams across the country from all Divisions at one home event during the fall season (Bowdoin has chosen the Football Homecoming Game)\nBGA was founded in 2012 and has already made a major impact on campus in the way that athletes, coaches and spectators both consider and practice sustainable actions on the playing field, in the locker room and throughout their everyday lives. Raising awareness about how small actions can improve our impact on the environment and serve the College\u2019s dedication to the Common Good \u2013 that is the mission of Bowdoin Green Athletics.\nGo U (Green) Bears!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 6665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://atlasti.com/de/observational-research/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:12Z", "digest": "sha1:JIPCCE7EUK6OVLI3HJ4RT5PDZ3EERGLL", "length": 3117, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "atlasti.com", "title": "Observational Research - Definition, Methods & Examples | ATLAS.ti", "raw_content": "What is Observational Research?\nObservational research (or field research) is a type of correlational (i.e., non-experimental) research in which a researcher observes ongoing behavior. There are a variety of types of observational research, each of which has both strengths and weaknesses. These types are organized below by the extent to which an experimenter intrudes upon or controls the environment.\nObservational research is particularly prevalent in the social sciences and in marketing. It is a social research technique that involves the direct observation of phenomena in their natural setting. This differentiates it from experimental research in which a quasi-artificial environment is created to control for spurious factors, and where at least one of the variables is manipulated as part of the experiment. It is typically divided into naturalistic (or \u201cnonparticipant\u201d) observation, and participant observation. Cases studies and archival research are special types of observational research. Naturalistic (or nonparticipant) observation has no intervention by a researcher. It is simply studying behaviors that occur naturally in natural contexts, unlike the artificial environment of a controlled laboratory setting. Importantly, in naturalistic observation, there is no attempt to manipulate variables. It permits measuring what behavior is really like. However, its typical limitations consist in its incapability exploring the actual causes of behaviors, and the impossibility to determine if a given observation is truly representative of what normally occurs.\nIn participant observation, the researcher intervenes in the environment. Most commonly, this refers to inserting himself/herself as a member of a group, aimed at observing behavior that otherwise would not be accessible. Also, behaviors remain relatively natural, thereby giving the measurements high external validity. Case Studies are a type of observational research that involve a thorough descriptive analysis of a single individual, group, or event. They can be designed along the lines of both nonparticipant and participant observation. Both approaches create new data, while archival research involves the analysis of data that already exist. A hypothesis is generated and then tested by analyzing data that have already been collected. This is a useful approach when one has access to large amounts of information collected over long periods of time. Such databases are available, for example, in longitudinal research that collects information from the same individuals over many years.\nSpecial qualitative analysis software tools like ATLAS.ti help the researcher to catalog, penetrate and analyze the data generated (or, in archival research found) in a given research project. All forms of observational or field research benefit extensively from the special capabilities of a dedicated data anlaysis tool like ATLAS.ti.\nWant to try our powerful Qualitative Data Analysis Software?\nDownload the Free Trial Version below to find out how it works and how it can help you with your research!\nDownload Free Trial Version here", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 124, "original_length": 5062, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 145.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://au.sportsdirect.com/sale/football-sale/goalkeeper-gloves", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IWHA76USHM2ZIUWUFTZI7S4QCNED6MFI", "length": 172, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "au.sportsdirect.com", "title": "Football Goalkeeper Gloves Sale | Sports Direct", "raw_content": "You\u2019ve made it your goal to stop someone else\u2019s, now prepare to do it in comfort and style. Our football keeper\u2019s gloves are ready for action - save the day, save the game.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 478, "original_length": 6881, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 309.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://audeliver.com/demo/qdY1ZDbmxDiePS", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FWIQ3RBZG7DWQW74XNXL6NPE2UVEAQ4U", "length": 181, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "audeliver.com", "title": "Aankhon Se Tune Yeh Kya | Bollywood 90's | Remix | Audeliver", "raw_content": "Aankhon Se Tune Yeh Kya | Bollywood 90's | Remix\nUnfortunately no audio was found on the URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UItywTq-dH0. If you want to know more, send us an email.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 893, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.77, "perplexity": 171.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://aurorasights.com/2018/06/27/beyond-a-darkened-shore/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:08Z", "digest": "sha1:EZ6OE6DC43JDIAINNDLTXEAXPPOOKCXO", "length": 3729, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "aurorasights.com", "title": "Beyond A Darkened Shore\u2026 \u2013 Aurora Sights", "raw_content": "\u2018Beyond A Darkened Shore\u2019 by Jessica Leake is unbelievably good.\nSynopsis: Ciara is a warrior princess, heir to the throne of Mide, but she is shunned from her clansmen for possessing powers of darkness. During a battle against the forever raiding Northmen, a crow warns Ciara not to kill their leader. After the battle, she experiences visions of a future so bleak, she sets out on a quest\u2026 with the Northman she saved, for he is to be her partner. Can Ciara put aside their differences to stop the end of the world as they know it?\nCiara is a phenomenal character. She\u2019s a warrior princess that instills fear into the hearts of her own men due to the unearthly powers she was born with. I found her an extremely likeable MC and I enjoyed watching her struggle with her feelings towards Leif. I saw the truth of her powers from a mile away and despite the predictability of it, I was still enthralled by the storytelling that I felt the force of the blow as if I was Ciara. She\u2019s a proud, independent woman and none of her actions disappointed me. I was rooting for her.\nLeif was hilarious. Some of his lines are timed so well that I barked with laughter frequently. He\u2019s got such a swagger about him but also this goofiness with Ciara that is utterly endearing. I loved his words and how he respected Ciara\u2019s wishes on several matters that he didn\u2019t necessarily agree with. Basically, he is a warrior gentleman with a fiercely loyal heart. He is the man you would want on such a dangerous quest because you know he would have your back no matter what. Partner goals here.\nWe see two countries, the home of Ciara, \u00c9irinn, and the home of Leif somewhere north. Both have different religious beliefs and very different rules that they live by. I would be hard pressed to say which country I prefer as they both sound stunning but I would probably lean towards \u00c9irinn, purely for the mythology. I had heard of Morrigan in previous novels but only ever in passing or as a sorceress so I was glad to have a different perspective to this icon.\nReligion is something that is very central to the plot and it went hand in hand with the breadth of monsters that Ciara and Leif met. Sometimes I found the views on the different religions puzzling; I couldn\u2019t make sense of Ciara\u2019s Christianity beliefs after she knew the Morrigan was real. Why wouldn\u2019t you commit to the goddess who helped you? Perhaps there was something I missed that could explain it. There were many other gods/goddesses that were present in the book. At times I had a stupid ass grin on my face because I was HAPPILY drowning in all the awesomeness. It makes me want to go to the library and check out several books on both Celtic and Norse mythology.\nI fell in love with this book. I first heard about it last year on Twitter and I\u2019ve been eagerly waiting for it since. Almost as soon as I started, I knew I was going to fall hard for it. There\u2019s such a wide range of topics in this book and yes, it\u2019s very tropey but I felt like it was handled very carefully and everything was well planned. No part of this book felt forced and it was the fluidity of the plot, as well as the amazing characters that stole my heart. One of the best standalone novels I have had the pleasure to read.\n\u201cDemon, they called me in their minds. Changeling. Cursed.\u201d\nI received this in Fairyloot\u2019s April \u2018Whimsical Journeys\u2019 box.\nPosted in: Book Reviews | Tagged: 2018, 2018 read, 2018 review, adult, aurora, aurora sights, battle, beyond a darkened shore, book, book blog, Book Reviews, characters, death, family, fantasy, fiction, ireland, jessica leake, love, magic, morrigan, mythology, norse mythology, queen, religion, revenge, review, sights, valkyries, vikings, young, young adult", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5842, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 298.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ausnetservices.com.au/good-grid/NIASorry", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:23Z", "digest": "sha1:BZCBB2XCTFFERHNCUECFZ2HQDLUL5I7O", "length": 156, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ausnetservices.com.au", "title": "Sorry", "raw_content": "Unfortunately, we are not running the GoodGrid Program in your postcode area, so we regret to advise that you are not eligible for the Program at this time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 275, "original_length": 5013, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://avaruusmies.com/jokes/nine-months-later.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:00Z", "digest": "sha1:XTE765EXFNJZF6KPJTPWJ6RC7H7EJFEP", "length": 727, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "avaruusmies.com", "title": "Nine Months Later - Forward Jokes!", "raw_content": "Published on Mon 02 September 2002\nJack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob. They loaded up Jack's van and headed north. After driving for a few hours, they got caught in a terrible blizzard. They pulled into a nearby farm and asked the attractive lady who answered the door if they could spend the night.\n\"I realize it's terrible weather out there and I have this huge house all to myself, but I'm recently widowed,\" she explained. \"I'm afraid the neighbors will talk if I let you stay in my house.\"\n\"Don't worry,\" Jack said. \"We'll be happy to sleep in the barn. 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The success of Avida Towers Sucat is founded on the unmatched expertise of Avida, which is gleaned from more than two decades of experience in developing forty residential projects in eighteen locations.\nUltimately, it's the homeowners who benefit from Avida's track record and experience: they are assured of the lasting quality of their dream home and its prompt delivery. This track record makes the Avida name synonymous with trust, quality and dependability.\nAvida Towers Sucat is located on a 2.1-hectare property along Dr. A. Santos Avenue, Sucat Para\u00f1aque, is across a commercial center, minutes away from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport and the Makati Central Business District. Close by are various establishments that cater to their needs and daily business transactions. There are also schools, hospitals and churches within easy reach.\nThe property's strategic location allows its residents to experience the thrill and convenience of a bustling metropolis while enjoying the peaceful suburban environment.\n\"The new phase, comprising of Tower 8 and 9, is named Asturias, after the province in Spain, which is known for its green landscapes. It is all about providing the residents more outlets for their recreation, comfort and living pleasure. As part of our commitment to give priority to bring affordable living at its best, our developments have evolved to match the needs and lifestyles of our residents,\" says Dez Cruz, Avida Head of Residential Buildings.\nNew design, more options\nAsturias, the last phase of the development is being offered to provide more options for customers in purchasing a home within the thriving community of Avida Towers Sucat.\nAs applied to its previous towers, ATSucat T8 and T9's units ensure natural lighting and ventilation. According to Cruz, not only will this give a sense of freedom and expansion for residents, but would also allow them to feel a greater appreciation for and connection with the natural features of the suburban landscape around the property.\n\"You have to experience it to believe it. Residents love staying at Avida Towers Sucat because the suburban environment helps melt away the stresses of urban life.\"\nIts exterior, inspired by the Mediterranean architecture, is also modern and stylish. The studio unit, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units are to be delivered ready-for-occupancy, with upgraded finishes. All units are provided with a utility area, and toilet and bath. Two-bedroom units will have a full toilet and bath and powder room.\nAvida Towers Sucat's new design makes its amenity area bigger and more convenient. 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(December 8, 2015) \u2013 Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP (Baker Tilly) is pleased to announce that Barbara Schaefer McDuffie, managing director of business development for the firm\u2019s D.C. office, has been appointed to the NAIOP Research Foundation\u2019s Board of Trustees.\nThe mission of the foundation\u2019s board of trustees is to provide leadership and vision to advance commercial real estate through practical research.\nMcDuffie has been a member of NAIOP since 1990. She is a past chairman of the association\u2019s Northern Virginia chapter and has served three terms on its corporate board. She serves or has served on a number of key NAIOP\u2019s committees including its business development, industry trends task force, membership and chapter relations and editorial board committees. She also served on NAIOP\u2019s Trends in Real Estate Development National Forum. McDuffie was named a governor of the foundation earlier this year.\n\u201cTrustees play a vital role in leading the foundation into the future and Barbara brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our board,\u201d Wendy Mann, Certified Association Executive (CAE), executive director of the NAIOP Research Foundation said. \u201cBarbara is well known and respected in the industry and will contribute greatly to advancing the foundation and our research.\u201d\nTodd Carpenter, Baker Tilly\u2019s construction and real estate firm practice leader, added, \u201cBarbara\u2019s unwavering commitment to the real estate industry and its impact in our communities is a point of pride for our team. Her passion and willingness to make an impact is limitless.\u201d\nMcDuffie will also serve as chairman of the fundraising committee for the foundation, spearheading the group\u2019s efforts in planning for and meeting the annual fundraising goals and engaging new foundation governors.\nNAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, is the leading organization for developers, owners and related professionals in office, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate. The NAIOP Research Foundation promotes the benefits of ownership and development of commercial real estate through practical research and education. Its mission is \u201cto support developers, owners, and others involved in commercial real estate to meet and exceed the needs and expectations of our communities, now and in the future.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 5010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 165.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://barbarameyers.com/this-lemonade-is-making-me-crazy/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:28Z", "digest": "sha1:4NX74DBNDJYXZEDBYJRRVNWJ6EW6DU4A", "length": 3000, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "barbarameyers.com", "title": "This Lemonade is Making Me Crazy! - BARBARA MEYERS", "raw_content": "Home Publishing This Lemonade is Making Me Crazy!\nThis Lemonade is Making Me Crazy!\nOctober 5, 2011 October 5, 2011 Publishing, Rants, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing, Writing Books\nI am reading an historical novel by an author I\u2019ve never read before for which I paid 99\u00a2 and downloaded to my Kindle.\nI don\u2019t read a lot of historical fiction, but I\u2019ve read a fair amount.\nThe story takes place in 1868, after the U.S. Civil War but before the transcontinental railroad is completed. The main characters are leaving New York City and heading west. Their ultimate destination is Utah. They start out on a train, but eventually (somewhere in Kansas I believe) buy a wagon and mules and join up with a wagon train.\nI\u2019m reading along, following the story, all is well. Until they arrive in the Dakota Territory and all of a sudden they are drinking lemonade.\nI am yanked out of the story immediately. Lemonade? Under these circumstances? In this time period? In this setting? Is that possible? Believable?\nI begin to ask the obvious questions: Where did they get lemons? If lemons were available, wouldn\u2019t they be considered a luxury and therefore expensive? How did they transport them from\u2026wherever to the Dakota Territory in a timely enough manner to keep them from spoiling?\nI query my husband about this, figuring with a degree in U.S. History he should be able to shed some light on the situation. He points out that Florida was settled at that time and lemons would have been available. I agree, but we\u2019re both stumped by the transport issue. Later he suggests that lemons are also grown in Mexico. Again I agree (I\u2019m nothing if not agreeable) but point out that the distance from there to the Dakotas is about what it would be from Florida. Without preservatives or refrigeration what is the shelf life of the average lemon?\nBack to the book. A short time later, one of the characters becomes ill with gastrointestinal distress and admits to drinking lemonade made by one of the other families in the wagon train. Okaaay.\nThey eventually arrive in Utah. They again drink lemonade.\nNow it\u2019s the Fourth of July and there\u2019s a big celebration at a wealthy man\u2019s ranch. Lemonade is once again served. (He at least could afford it, but I doubt he could move lemons across the country any faster than anyone else.)\nI\u2019ve tried to research this online. I\u2019ve recruited a couple of friends to help me, but I\u2019m coming up with nothing.\nIf you can shed any light on this lemonade, preferably backed up by facts, I\u2019d like to hear from you.\nAs a last resort, I e-mailed the author to ask her these questions. I hope she sets my mind at ease and explains it all and offers me a peek at her research documentation. Because at the moment, all the lemonade in this book is leaving a sour taste in my mouth.\nVisit me at www.barbmeyers.com\n#postaweek2011\nbarbara meyers, historical fiction, lemonade, Reading, United States history. 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But the leader of a dreaded gang of robbers was a first for us, and the news quickly spread to our alumni across the world.\nOn a whim, I dialled the alleged gang leader\u2019s phone number a few weeks later. She was pleased to hear from me, but was driving and would call back later, she said.\nThe din of the surrounding Lagos traffic was proof that she was indeed not locked up in a police cell.\nWhen she did call back, she dismissed the police\u2019s accusations, insisting that she was innocent and had simply been \u201cset up\u201d.\nShe has not been convicted of the alleged crimes and is still walking free, despite being paraded before the media and having her reputation irredeemably soiled.\nThe proclivity to parade suspects by the Nigerian security services and declare them guilty before the media, without a lawyer present or trial by a competent court, came to the fore recently in a heartbreaking video that has been widely published.\n\u2018You will not do this to me!\u2019\nNigeria\u2019s spy agency, the DSS, said a woman who they identified as Amina Mohammed posed as the wife of a state governor to gain entry to the presidential villa in the capital, Abuja.\nThe officers forced her to face the camera and confess her alleged crimes.\nBut, she refused. Instead, she covered her face with her veil, screaming: \u201cYou will not do this to me!\u201d\nIn the effort to get her to cooperate, security officials yanked her veil away from her. The woman knelt on the floor, weeping.\nI have covered the undemocratic parading of 'suspects' by security agencies in #Nigeria, and this is easily one of the worst cases of indignant abuse on a citizen presumed innocent until proven guilty.\nThe media should NOT be seen as aiding and abetting this wrong. pic.twitter.com/tkhkPctriX\n\u2014 Peter NKANGA (@nkanga_p) December 6, 2018\nClearly, the woman was dreadfully aware of how many Nigerian citizens have had their reputations irreparably ruined by this process.\nTypically, the suspect makes a full confession before the cameras, the bruises on their faces and the presence of stern security personnel leading you to wonder exactly what might have inspired the so-called admission of guilt.\nFor years, Nigerians have been treated to one such show after another, but this is hardly ever followed up by news of actual convictions.\nThe security agents appear more keen to be perceived as having done a good job, even when they may have little evidence to convict.\n\u25aa Why we move against Daily Trust \u2013 Army\n\u25aa Nigeria\u2019s Daily Trust undermined security, army says\n\u25aa Nigeria owes China $69.3m as Buhari vows to make aviation pride of Africa\nSimilar dramas have been the major characteristic of President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s much touted anti-corruption war.\nProminent Nigerians accused of incredible levels of corruption have been filmed in handcuffs, the case against them detailed in the media, with public opinion immediately declaring them guilty.\nPresident Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s said sometimes individual rights take second place\nYet, almost four years after President Buhari took power, the majority of these alleged treasury looters still roam free.\nOnly a few mostly insignificant convictions have been recorded. The same has been the case for high-profile Boko Haram members captured and paraded by the military.\nIt is possible that these media parades are an attempt by the security personnel to squeeze water out of stone, to exact some punishment for offenders since the Nigerian judiciary is notoriously slow and riddled with corruption.\nThe reasoning seems to be \u201clet\u2019s ruin their reputation even if we can\u2019t get a conviction\u201d.\n\u2018Dictatorial tendencies\u2019\nPresident Buhari has complained publicly about our country\u2019s judiciary, which he appears to view as a stumbling block to his dealing with offenders.\nIn a keynote address at the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association in August, he said: \u201cRule of law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation\u2019s security and national interest.\n\u201cWhere national security and public interest are threatened or there is a likelihood of their being threatened, the individual rights of those allegedly responsible must take second place, in favour of the greater good of society.\u201d\nThis comment and others like it led to outrage from Nigerians, many of whom are only too aware that our democratically elected president once presided over a military government characterised by a number of notorious decrees that violated human rights.\nThe most telling evidence that President Buhari\u2019s conversion from dictator to democrat may not yet be complete is the continued incarceration of Sambo Dasuki, a former national security adviser who is accused of squandering billions of dollars meant for the prosecution of the war against Boko Haram.\nDespite the courts repeatedly granting Sambo Dasuki (R) bail he is still being held in custody\nHe pleaded not guilty and over and over again, the courts have granted Mr Dasuki bail.\nYet, he remains behind bars three years after he was arrested, and has still not been convicted of the alleged crimes.\nMr Dasuki played a role in President Buhari\u2019s arrest back in 1985 when he was removed as head of state during a military coup, and Nigerians cannot help wonder if that little fact may not be linked to this administration\u2019s continued defiance of court orders that the man be granted bail.\nPrevious PostAberystwyth cafe gives free Christmas dinners to the lonelyNext PostNewspaper headlines: Iceland crash and migrant warnings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 237, "original_length": 17174, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bcbuildingserviceselizabeth.com/services.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:14Z", "digest": "sha1:QCG72BFRUOZ4LDCUBIENVQHSNLTG4EY7", "length": 339, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bcbuildingserviceselizabeth.com", "title": "Services | Elizabeth, CO | B.C. 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Most of the leading markets saw a significant decline in trading activity throughout October, but NEO, TRX, QTUM and ZEC posted month-over-month volume increases.\nAlso Read: Venezuela Begins Public Sale of National Cryptocurrency Petro\nBTC, USDT, ETH and EOS Hit\nLowest Points of the Year\nIn the last 30 days, approximately $109.5 billion worth of BTC has changed hands, resulting in an 11.9 percent decline in trading activity from $124.3 billion in September \u2014 the weakest monthly volume posted in 2018 thus far. The drop in BTC trading activity coincided with a similar plunge in USDT trading volume. Despite fears of a widespread USDT \u201cuntethering,\u201d as well as the eradication of 30 percent of Tether\u2019s circulating supply, the trading volume of USDT fell by just 12.6 percent, from $86.5 billion in September to $69.5 billion.\nOctober saw $41.2 billion in trade for ETH pairings, down 30 percent from the $53.8 billion recorded in the preceding month. EOS, meanwhile, returned to its position as the fourth most-traded cryptocurrency, with a 30-day trade volume of $13.94 billion \u2014 down 30 percent from $20 billion in September.\nXRP and LTC Hit Second-Strongest Levels Since May\nXRP has held its top-five volume ranking for the second consecutive month, despite seeing a 45 percent reduction in trading activity. October saw $13.6 billion in trade across XRP pairings, down from $24.7 billion in September.\nBCH was the sixth most-traded cryptocurrency in October, hitting $9.5 billion in trade volume over the past 30 days. BCH saw a 26 percent reduction in trading volume, down from $12.9 billion in the preceding month.\nLTC ranked as the seventh most-traded cryptocurrency for the third consecutive month. About $9.14 billion of LTC changed hands in October, down 4.8 percent from $9.6 billion in September.\nDASH posted a 30-day trade volume of 5.16 billion, settling at eighth place for the second consecutive month. Trading of the currency fell 20.6 percent from $6.5 billion in September.\nNEO Breaks Into Top 10\nNEO saw a massive 76.25 percent increase in trade volume in October, to rank ninth for the month. Approximately $4.6 billion worth of the currency has changed hands in the past 30 days, up from $2.61 billion in September.\nETC fell one position to rank 10th on the list of the most-traded cryptocurrencies in October. It hit a 30-day trading volume of $4.2 billion for the month, down 17.65 percent from $5.1 billion in September.\nTRON, QTUM, and ZEC Post Modest Volume Gains\nTRX hit $3.67 billion in trade volume this past month, up 4.25 percent over the preceding month\u2019s 3.52 billion. TRX was the 11th most-traded cryptocurrency in October, moving up one rank from September.\nCKUSD posted a 16.5 percent drop in trading volume at $3.4 billion, down from $4.07 billion in September. CKUSD ranked 12th for the month, sliding two positions from the preceding four-week period.\nDespite recording a slight 2.5 percent increase in 30-day trade volume, QTUM fell two places to 13th on the list of the most-traded cryptocurrencies in October. About $3.73 billion worth of the currency traded hands for the month, up from $3.64 billion in September.\nTrading of ZEC fell 4.16 percent month over month to $3.5 billion. Despite rising slightly by volume from $3.36 billion in September, the currency slid one place to rank as the 14th most-traded cryptocurrency in October.\nBIX climbed two places to rank as the 15th most-traded cryptocurrency over the past 30 days. The currency posted a monthly trading volume of $1.42 billion, down nearly 30 percent from $2.02 billion in September.\nStellar recorded a monthly volume of $1.33 billion, sliding one position to rank as the 16th most-traded cryptocurrency for October, following three consecutive weeks during which it ranked 15th. Trading of Stellar fell 42.17 percent by volume from $2.3 billion in September.\nNew Entrants in Top 20\nThe declining trading volume across many leading markets saw several cryptocurrencies sneak into the top 20 rankings for the first time in recent months. ZB, for example, ranked 17th with a 30-day trade volume of $1.16 billion, following by XIN at $988 million.\nBTM ranked 19th for the second consecutive month, with $920.8 million traded, despite falling 31.3 percent by volume, from $1.34 billion in September.\nBNB, meanwhile, settled at 20th place in October, with $853.6 million worth of the currency changing hands over the last 30 days.\nDo you think that the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin whitepaper will drive greater trading volume across the cryptocurrency markets? 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Books will be available for purchase. For more information, call (423) 764-4023.\nBartlett, of Kingsport, Tenn., is an avid angler and outdoorsman who has authored \"The Weekend Angler\u2019s Guide to Good Fishing.\"\nCounts, of Abingdon, Va., is a retired educator and the author of novels set in the local area, including \"Rusty Cars and Fallen Stars\" and \"Blackbird, Bluebird.\"\nTennis, of Bristol, Va., has released several history books, including the recent \"Washington County, Virginia \u2014 Then and Now\" and a ghostly tale for children called \"Finding Franklin: Mystery of the Lost State Capitol.\"\nJackson, of Piney Flats, Tenn., is a retired schoolteacher and the author of four books, including a poetry collection called \"My Way\" and an illustrated children's book, \"Georgie the Gifted Giraffe.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 4920, "original_length": 179887, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 194.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://benitafrench.com/recordings/finding-deeper-causes-to-health-issues-part-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:18Z", "digest": "sha1:YKCGPHN2N65PXHRZWJF7BBANNTN2YLXS", "length": 1085, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "benitafrench.com", "title": "HEALTH - S03E02 - What Constipation Means Emotionally - Benita French", "raw_content": "HEALTH - S03E02 - What Constipation Means Emotionally - Benita French\nHome Health, Recordings HEALTH \u2013 S03E02 \u2013 What Constipation Means Emotionally\nConstipation. Why does it happen. What is the emotion driving it? There are always unhealthy emotions driving problems in your body. There is a strong energetic link between your feeling anxious about money and constipation, because\u2026 you\u2019re not in the flow of life and you\u2019re not trusting that things are actually ok or you\u2019re not trusting that things will shortly be ok.\nIt\u2019s the feelings that control what happens in your body, not the facts as such. The facts can say you don\u2019t need to worry, but you are. The facts can say you should worry, but you\u2019re not. If you\u2019re =feeling= negative about your financial situation, you are likely to create that in your body in the form of constipation.\nI give a little exercise to help you heal yourself with regards to this, namely to recall the feeling of being relaxed about money from a time in your life from the past, and the more you get into the feeling, the more you will heal your body.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2182, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bestchristianboardingschools.com/therapeutic-boarding-schools-in-plainfield-indiana/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:12Z", "digest": "sha1:NQPG2EVOEY2ONUF7DN6IGIABVXTGMONN", "length": 3080, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "bestchristianboardingschools.com", "title": "Therapeutic Boarding Schools in Plainfield, Indiana | Best Christian Boarding Schools", "raw_content": "Christian boarding schools in Plainfield, Indiana. Free help finding the best Christian boarding school in Plainfield.\nHome \u00bb Therapeutic Boarding Schools in Plainfield, Indiana\nTherapeutic Boarding Schools in Plainfield, Indiana\nIs your teenager spinning out of control? Looking for a therapeutic boarding school near Plainfield, Indiana?\nThere is nothing worse than having your teen spinning out of control, and no worse feeling than the hopelessness parents experience in the process. It is difficult to know what to do and how to react when your boy or girl daily reaches new lows in disobedience, dishonesty, and disrespect, and chooses the wrong path in life.\nLet us help you in researching the best program whether or not it is near Plainfield, Indiana. We\u2019ve made it our life goal to know all we can about every school, so we can help parents (without cost) find the best possible choice for their troubled teen. We want to help you avoid the same mistake we did.\nNow, every day we hear from many frustrated parents in areas like Plainfield, Indiana, who share how their once normal and happy child has become dangerously out of control \u2014 just like our son was. They talk about how it has disrupted their family and how they fear for their child\u2019s future and very life. \u201cMy child is no longer who she used to be,\u201d is a typical cry from these parents.\nIf your child is out of control, he or she needs you to intervene. That\u2019s why you\u2019ve landed on this site, so allow us to be the resource you need to help you find just the right program, hopefully near Plainfield, Indiana. The downward spiral your teen is on can have tremendous destructive potential with lifelong consequences, or even bring a teen\u2019s life to a quick end. Don\u2019t wait. Act now based on what you know is true \u2014 your faith, your own beliefs, and what you know is best for your teen.\nGive us the opportunity to help you find a Christian boarding school closest to Plainfield, Indiana that will provide your teen with the help and mentoring he or she needs, and within your budget. We\u2019ve visited most of these programs and we know the staff there. We know what they are good at, and what they are not so good at. We poll parents who have placed their teen in these programs, so we know how well they have done to help the teen.\nYou may not want to put your child in a boarding school nearby Plainfield merely out of convenience (like we did). Rather, find the program that is most likely to help your teen, even if it is outside of your state. Give us the chance to tell you about a few of them. Fill in the online form now to begin that process. There is NO CHARGE for this service.\nMore about Plainfield, Indiana:Plainfield is a town in Guilford, Liberty and Washington townships, Hendricks County, Indiana, United States. 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Hunter", "raw_content": "Harold L. Hunter\nLife timeline of Harold L. Hunter\narrow_back Back to Harold L. Hunter\nHarold L. Hunter was 25 years old when Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr.\nHarold L. Hunter was born in 1928\nHarold L. Hunter was 1 years old when Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio. George Herman \"Babe\" Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed \"The Bambino\" and \"The Sultan of Swat\", he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth established many MLB batting records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the latter two still stand as of 2018. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its \"first five\" inaugural members. Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio. George Herman \"Babe\" Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed \"The Bambino\" and \"The Sultan of Swat\", he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth established many MLB batting records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the latter two still stand as of 2018. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its \"first five\" inaugural members.\nHarold L. Hunter was 2 years old when Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,197,000,000 in 2017) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline. Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,197,000,000 in 2017) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries it started in 1929 and lasted until the late-1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline.\nWorld War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries\u2014including all of the great powers\u2014eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries\u2014including all of the great powers\u2014eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.\nWorld War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries\u2014including all of the great powers\u2014eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Soviet Union: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries\u2014including all of the great powers\u2014eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.\nWorld War II: Australian troops defeated Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Kaiapit in New Guinea. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries\u2014including all of the great powers\u2014eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. World War II: Australian troops defeated Imperial Japanese forces at the Battle of Kaiapit in New Guinea. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries\u2014including all of the great powers\u2014eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.\nWorld War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries\u2014including all of the great powers\u2014eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war. World War II: United States Navy and Royal Navy ships bombarded Cherbourg, France, to support U.S. Army units engaged in the Battle of Cherbourg. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries\u2014including all of the great powers\u2014eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.\nHarold L. Hunter was 17 years old when World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China. World War II: Combat ends in the Pacific Theater: The Japanese Instrument of Surrender is signed by Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia-Pacific War, was the theater of World War II that was fought in the Pacific and Asia. It was fought over a vast area that included the Pacific Ocean and islands, the South West Pacific, South-East Asia, and in China.\nHarold L. Hunter was 19 years old when India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. India, also called the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. India gains Independence from British rule after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. India, also called the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.\nHarold L. Hunter was 25 years old when Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr. Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr.\nHarold L. Hunter was 26 years old when The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in public schools because \"separate educational facilities are inherently unequal\" and therefore unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court of the United States. Established pursuant to Article Three of the United States Constitution in 1789, it has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases, involving issues of federal law plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases. In the legal system of the United States, the Supreme Court is generally the final interpreter of federal law including the United States Constitution, but it may act only within the context of a case in which it has jurisdiction. The Court may decide cases having political overtones, but does not have power to decide nonjusticiable political questions, and its enforcement arm is in the executive rather than judicial branch of government. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, outlawing racial segregation in public schools because \"separate educational facilities are inherently unequal\" and therefore unconstitutional. The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest federal court of the United States. Established pursuant to Article Three of the United States Constitution in 1789, it has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases, involving issues of federal law plus original jurisdiction over a small range of cases. In the legal system of the United States, the Supreme Court is generally the final interpreter of federal law including the United States Constitution, but it may act only within the context of a case in which it has jurisdiction. The Court may decide cases having political overtones, but does not have power to decide nonjusticiable political questions, and its enforcement arm is in the executive rather than judicial branch of government.\nHarold L. Hunter was 27 years old when Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. The Disneyland Hotel is a resort hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, owned by the Walt Disney Company and operated through its Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products division. Opened on October 5, 1955, as a motor inn owned and operated by Jack Wrather under an agreement with Walt Disney, the hotel was the first to officially bear the Disney name. Under Wrather's ownership, the hotel underwent several expansions and renovations over the years before being acquired by Disney in 1988. The hotel was downsized to its present capacity in 1999 as part of the Disneyland Resort expansion. Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. The Disneyland Hotel is a resort hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, owned by the Walt Disney Company and operated through its Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products division. Opened on October 5, 1955, as a motor inn owned and operated by Jack Wrather under an agreement with Walt Disney, the hotel was the first to officially bear the Disney name. Under Wrather's ownership, the hotel underwent several expansions and renovations over the years before being acquired by Disney in 1988. The hotel was downsized to its present capacity in 1999 as part of the Disneyland Resort expansion.\nHarold L. Hunter was 35 years old when John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One as the 36th President of the United States. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. As a member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate prior to becoming president. John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas; hours later, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One as the 36th President of the United States. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He served at the height of the Cold War, and the majority of his presidency dealt with managing relations with the Soviet Union. As a member of the Democratic Party, Kennedy represented the state of Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate prior to becoming president.\nHarold L. Hunter was 36 years old when The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a \"record-busting\" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963, their enormous popularity first emerged as \"Beatlemania\"; as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s. The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a \"record-busting\" audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, the Beatles later experimented with several musical styles, ranging from pop ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock, often incorporating classical elements and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways. In 1963, their enormous popularity first emerged as \"Beatlemania\"; as the group's music grew in sophistication, led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the band were integral to pop music's evolution into an art form and to the development of the counterculture of the 1960s.\nHarold L. Hunter was 41 years old when During the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit. During the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit.\nHarold L. Hunter was 45 years old when Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The majority of Americans believe the war was unjustified. The war would last roughly 19 years and would also form the Laotian Civil War as well as the Cambodian Civil War, which also saw all three countries become communist states in 1975. Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The majority of Americans believe the war was unjustified. The war would last roughly 19 years and would also form the Laotian Civil War as well as the Cambodian Civil War, which also saw all three countries become communist states in 1975.\nHarold L. Hunter was 47 years old when India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia. India, also called the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia. India's first satellite Aryabhata launched in orbit from Kapustin Yar, Russia. India, also called the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast. It shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.\nHarold L. Hunter was 49 years old when Star Wars is released in theaters. Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star. Star Wars is released in theaters. Star Wars is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first film in the original Star Wars trilogy and the beginning of the Star Wars franchise. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, James Earl Jones, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew, the film focuses on the Rebel Alliance, led by Princess Leia (Fisher), and its attempt to destroy the Galactic Empire's space station, the Death Star.\nHarold L. Hunter was 58 years old when Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board. The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official name, Space Transportation System (STS), was taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development. Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board. The Space Shuttle program was the fourth human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which accomplished routine transportation for Earth-to-orbit crew and cargo from 1981 to 2011. Its official name, Space Transportation System (STS), was taken from a 1969 plan for a system of reusable spacecraft of which it was the only item funded for development.\nHarold L. Hunter was 61 years old when Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, \"fakir beds\" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the \"will of the people\" in building a socialist state in East Germany. Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, \"fakir beds\" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the \"will of the people\" in building a socialist state in East Germany.\nHarold L. Hunter was 62 years old when Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997. Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.\nCroatians vote for independence in a referendum. Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital Zagreb forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with twenty counties. Croatia has an area of 56,594 square kilometres and a population of 4.28 million, most of whom are Roman Catholics. Croatians vote for independence in a referendum. Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia is a country at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital Zagreb forms one of the country's primary subdivisions, along with twenty counties. Croatia has an area of 56,594 square kilometres and a population of 4.28 million, most of whom are Roman Catholics.\nHarold L. Hunter died in 1999", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 253, "original_length": 87284, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 57.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://biosciencejobkit.com/second-chance-profile-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:JXJFTF3OVP2Z5XO5NQKSPH7YXMTND6EG", "length": 640, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "biosciencejobkit.com", "title": "\ufeff Second Chance - Profile Review - Bioscience Job Kit", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Second Chance \u2013 Profile Review\nREALLY? You don\u2019t want your LinkedIn Profile Review that will optimize your chances for getting found by more recruiters and hiring managers and getting the job you will love?\nI get it. You don\u2019t know me or the quality of my information. I understand. Tell you what\u2026 if you go over to the mini LinkedIn Profile Review and get a quick review from a recruiter who has been reading profiles for over 19 years.\nIs that fair? I have to do this manually so you will have to wait. You will get no email follow ups from me or anything like that. So click that link now. It\u2019s the least you can do!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 8025, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blacktwigllc.com/black-twig-communications-names-andy-teague-new-senior-account-executive/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:00Z", "digest": "sha1:HUVDBJVZRWW2DFBW5J56TMGCLHR7M2TX", "length": 1311, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "blacktwigllc.com", "title": "Black Twig Communications Names Andy Teague New Senior Account Executive - Black Twig Marketing and Communications", "raw_content": "Black Twig Marketing + Communications, a full-service public relations and marketing agency, announces Andy Teague as its new Senior Account Executive. Teague joins Black Twig with more than 10 years of experience in public relations, marketing and communications. Andy specializes in media relations, digital and traditional marketing and promotions.\n\u201cWe are thrilled to welcome a new team member who has a broad range of media industry experience,\u201d said Stephanie Widaman, Managing Partner at Black Twig. \u201cAndy brings a wealth of fresh ideas to the table and he has already contributed significantly to a number of our accounts.\u201d\nTeague has worked with Fortune 500, agricultural, business-to-business, business-to-consumer, non-profit and pharmaceutical clients. Clients that he has worked on include: AT&T, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Monsanto Company, Papa John\u2019s, United Soybean Board and Wells Fargo Advisors.\nPrior to Black Twig, he worked with a variety of agencies in St. Louis, including FleishmanHillard, Visintine and Ryan Public Relations and Osborn Barr. Teague also served as an on-air personality at KWWR-FM and KXEO-AM, located in mid-Missouri. Andy holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Saint Louis University and a Master of Arts in Public Relations from Webster University in St. Louis.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1841, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 130.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.accepted.com/too-many-lawyers/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:10Z", "digest": "sha1:FKSTCSPWADJVUFAE474QKM23L74SBLJ4", "length": 2103, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "blog.accepted.com", "title": "Too Many Lawyers?", "raw_content": "Too Many Lawyers?\nThe Chronicle of Higher Education\u2019s Law Schools Mull Whether they are Churning Out Too Many Lawyers, reports that despite greater student debt, fewer job prospects, layoffs, and reduced salaries, at least ten new law schools are planning to open their doors, in addition to the already 200 law schools that exist across the country. To alleviate some of the pressure on its overcrowded classrooms, The University of Miami School of Law has made an unusual offer to its accepted students: In return for a deferral and 120 hours of public service, students will receive a $5,000 scholarship.\nIn an email to accepted students, Dean Patricia D. White explained, \u201cIn these uncertain and challenging times the nature of the legal profession is in great flux. It is very difficult to predict what the employment landscape for young lawyers will be in May 2012 and thereafter.\u201d\nThe recession has raised questions regarding the need for more law schools \u2014 and more law students. Administrators of current law schools tend to be critical of new competition. James R. Newton, vice dean for administration at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law Schools says, \u201cThere is no market justification for another law school. New York already has more law schools per capita than any other state, and legal employment is saturated, not expanding.\u201d\nHowever, Loren D. Prescott Jr. who is in charge of the law school planning effort at Wilkes University, insists that when the economy recovers, jobs will open up. \u201cShould we deny someone the opportunity to go to law school, or to go to a school in their region, simply because we feel we know better about their chances of getting a job?\u201d\nIrrespective of the growing discussion amongst educators regarding the validity of more law schools, law school applications rose by 4.3%, and accepted students are eager to attend their selected school in the fall. Heidi B. Ship, who plans on starting Marquette University Law School this year, hopes for the best. \u201cLaw schools that are cutting people now will probably be rehiring by the time I graduate.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 4576, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 217.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.gemalto.com/iot/2013/10/14/the-m2m-opportunity-in-the-middle-east/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:07Z", "digest": "sha1:6SILZF4572QVXU5OUVYK6ZRQZACYFUES", "length": 4041, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "blog.gemalto.com", "title": "The M2M opportunity in the Middle East - Gemalto blog", "raw_content": "\u201cMachine-to-machine (M2M) technology will shape the future by laying the foundation for all spheres of life in the UAE.\u201d So said Abdulla Hashim, Senior Vice-President of ICT at Etisalat, one of the largest telecom operators in the Middle East and Africa, at the recent M2M Middle East Forum 2013.\nAnd I couldn\u2019t agree more. M2M promises major advances in everyday life, from helping people make more informed decisions to creating new revenue streams. We are seeing these advances across multiple industries, from emergency roadside assistance call-outs managing to take the most efficient route to get to the accident site without delays to remote and mobile health monitoring to name a few\nThere are naturally more evolved M2M scenarios in certain regions over others, but we know for sure that the Middle East has huge promise and appetite for the technology. So where\u2019s the sticking point? Why aren\u2019t more M2M services deployed?\nAs in other regions where M2M technology is being deployed, the Middle Eastern market is experiencing similar trends in that stakeholders are having to come together to agree on a framework for large-scale M2M deployments \u2013 and this takes time. In reality, the pace at which the Middle East operates is actually faster than other regions, which means that M2M services will be deployed sooner than you think. One comparison is LTE network deployments which have progressed far quicker than in the UK for instance.\nOne of the main differences between the Middle Eastern M2M opportunity and other regions is that M2M is in its infancy and, now that the demand for M2M services is increasing, all stakeholders (including legislators) are coming together to put together the framework to cater for the demand in a standardized and structured manner.\nIn Europe for example there are some large-scale M2M activities being driven by legislation, such as automated emergency call-outs in the automotive industry . These services became a reality through dialogue and communication between all stakeholders and the Middle East market is following similar trends.\nSo, let\u2019s explore further use cases for M2M technology in the Middle East. Some claim that the biggest opportunities lie in oil and gas, with some early adoption in transportation, logistics, utilities and retail sectors. I would argue that the vertical solutions, while useful, only grant certain specific benefits. There is far more creativity to be gained from M2M \u2013 it\u2019s the evolution of the services that depend on the architecture being built and the stakeholders talking to each other.\nWhether usage-based insurance in Saudi Arabia, whereby you can track how well you drive, with the information from the car collated and fed back to a central database to better track drivers\u2019 behaviors and encourage good drivers for fewer accidents on the road, or mobile health offering healthcare to a larger section of the public without needing to go and see a doctor, thus reducing infant mortality, there are major advantages, and opportunities, that M2M offers.\nThe key question that should be asked for any M2M initiative, however, is what the benefits are. With the highly regulated industries it touches \u2013 telecoms, IT, healthcare, automotive and more \u2013 there is a great need for communication and collaboration in order to come to an agreement on standards. Let\u2019s see how this develops.\nWe\u2019ll be exploring the M2M opportunity at GITEX 2013 in Hall 7 booth A7-35 with several M2M demos on show. Follow #GemaltoGITEX or come along to find out more.\nCongratulations and celebrations: NFC\u2019s Eurovision 2016 debut\nPosted on 11 May 2016 by Christian Hartwigsson in Financial Services\nEurovision 2016 is almost here - and NFC is set to make a big impact on the spectator experience.\nAuthenticating Outlook Anywhere\nPosted on 29 June 2011 by Gemalto in Corporate\nAs an organization with security close to our heart I was pleased to learn last week that Microsoft has introduced smart card authentication with Outlook Anywhere, as reported by @PaulRobichaux.\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 7600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 242.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.prophix.com/the-tools-you-need-to-succeed-in-construction/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:50Z", "digest": "sha1:3FRMYI6IUBOLUATR27AAUAOQG3VG3DRJ", "length": 2511, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "blog.prophix.com", "title": "The Tools You Need to Succeed in Construction | Prophix Software Inc.", "raw_content": "Productivity in the construction industry has been falling steadily since the 1960s. With the incredible advancements in technology over the last 60 years, it\u2019s a concerning trend, especially since construction remains one of the world\u2019s largest and fastest growing industries. Some estimates put the construction industry\u2019s growth at close to 4 percent a year through 2030.\nThis marked decrease in productivity is likely due to growing project complexity in the sector, coupled with the increased demand for new buildings and infrastructure. Greater job complexity creates a cascade of overlapping risks that put even the largest firms in perpetual jeopardy. If these jobs are not completed in a timely and productive manner, then construction firms run of the risk of losing profits.\nSo, why has productivity been steadily decreasing? According to a Construction Owners Association of America study, 63 percent of direct labor time on mega-construction projects is spent waiting for materials and equipment, traveling to the area, taking early breaks, and planning how to do the work.\nA lack of productivity also applies to the use of equipment and materials. Expensive pieces of construction equipment sitting idle and huge stores of materials waiting in storage are balance sheet costs that drag down profitability.\nMany construction companies still cost and manage their jobs through spreadsheets. On multi-million-dollar jobs, finance teams must chart hundreds of thousands of spreadsheet cells that represent labor, equipment, materials, financial obligations, etc. This gives construction companies a limited ability to make revisions or forecast future costs. And if finance needs to make changes, an excessive amount of manual work is often required.\nTo increase productivity & succeed, construction companies need to ask more questions: If one variable is changing, how does that affect other jobs? If a job timeline changes, how does that affect the operational requirements for other jobs? How does this new timeline affect the company\u2019s financial position?\nThe answer to these questions lies in the data. Yet, many construction companies lack access to the information they need. To gain a competitive advantage, construction companies need to leverage performance management tools to gain real-time access to their data, allowing them to effectively forecast job costing.\nWant to learn more about Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software for the construction industry? Read our whitepaper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5770, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 316.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.seattlepi.com/ramblinman/2018/07/13/we-visit-dirty-miller-in-grand-chenier-louisiana-ga401/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:30:26Z", "digest": "sha1:BLUMBKCDY4T2V646NWB5KYPIHPQZA6YM", "length": 4072, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "blog.seattlepi.com", "title": "We Visit Dirty Miller In Grand Chenier, Louisiana! (GA401) - Ramblin' Man: Full-time RV Life", "raw_content": "We Visit Dirty Miller In Grand Chenier, Louisiana! (GA401)\nBy jim_jaillet on July 13, 2018 at 5:18 AM\nThe motorhome is parked at Thousand Trails RV Resort in La Connor, Washington. I\u2019ll depart here July 16th.\nThis entry was posted February 18, 2013\u2026\nNO INTERNET SIGNAL AT LAST NIGHT\u2019S LOCATION\u2026LATE POSTING THIS MORNING.\nYesterday we drove the motorhome the about 40 miles from Holly Beach to Grand Chenier, Louisiana. The yellow line on the below Google Earth image shows our route\u2026\nThe day started with a beautiful sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico\u2026\nThe gulf was nearby on our right as we drove east along the shore route\u2026\nWe were also on the Creole Nature Trail\u2026\nWe took the ferry from Holly Beach across the Calcasieu Waterway 1/4 mile to Cameron on the far shore\u2026\nAbout 25 miles later we came to the Mermentau River Bridge where we stopped to take a few photos\u2026\nWe started along this narrow road following the river shore\u2026\nAbout two miles later the road narrowed to a single lane and a sign saying PAVEMENT ENDS. I said to Mary\u2026I don\u2019t think I want to do this. Looking to the left we saw our only escape\u2026a circular driveway\u2026\nAs we made the circle we could hear someone shouting at us. I asked Mary we he said and she replied she did not know. So, I decided to stop\u2026and that\u2019s when we met him\u2026DIRTY MILLER\u2026a crazy, Cajun Coonass\u2026\nAs we approached his shed\u2026he shouted\u2026it\u2019s not done cooking yet! I asked him what was cooking and he replied\u2026Cowboy Stew! With him was his girlfriend Rachael whom he calls Ray-Ray and several other friends. He introduced himself as Dirty Miller. His real name is Pravato Miller. He works for Cameron Parish and has lived there all of his life.\nHe explained the concrete slab in front of his shed covers the remains of his house which was destroyed by Hurricane Rita in 2005\u2026\nNext thing we knew he was giving us the grand tour of his utility shed which includes among other things\u2026a refrigerator, cooking stove, washer and dryer, a great sound system and numerous photos\u2026\nHe had a little to drink by then and kept repeating\u2026I love life and having fun and I\u2019m one crazy Cajun Coonass! He also told us that he was a guide who has had a number of famous people as clients\u2026including Hank Williams, Jr.\nHe and the crowd were super friendly and a barrel of laughs. We were fast becoming friends\u2026so much so that Mary shared a tobacco chew with him\u2026\nAll the while the French Cajun Music was blaring away and dancing happened\u2026\nAs time passed it was time for delicious Cowboy Stew and coleslaw\u2026\nAs he was stirring the stew, I asked the ingredients and you can enjoy his Cajun accent by clicking this link\u2026\nhttp://youtu.be/t2LCubq0RCA\nHe\u2019s a gun collector and showed Mary the largest handgun made\u2026a Smith & Wesson 50 caliber\u2026\nHe wanted to show us how loud it was and we were absolutely amazed when he actually hit the beer can\u2026\nThis dog wasn\u2019t impressed\u2026\nNor this dog\u2026\nHe offered to show us the scenery along the gravel road that included cattle\u2026\nAnd lots of birds and ducks of which Mary took many photos\u2026\nBy now we were fast friends\u2026\nHe invited us to spend the night in his driveway\u2026which we did. Here\u2019s the dinette photo\u2026\nHe and Ray-Ray insisted on cooking us a breakfast\u2026\nSo at 6:00 AM they served us a tasty shrimp, crab and crawfish omelet complete with home-made hot sauce\u2026\nHere\u2019s the view from Dirty Miller\u2019s shed just before we left this morning\u2026\nNeedless to say we had a ball visiting Dirty Miller and his friends. He really did not want us to leave and he actually had tears in his eyes as we made ready to depart.\nA whole bunch of that great Louisiana Cajun hospitality. Thanks y\u2019all for a great visit!\nEnjoying meeting fun and interesting people is another joy in the life of a full-time RVer!\nThe red dot on the below map shows our approximate location in the State of Louisiana. You may double left-click the map to make it larger\u2026\nhttps://otrwjam.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/one-crazy-coonass-cajun/\nForecast for today is sunny and 77 degrees.\nFor more information about my books, click this link: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/panamaorbust", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 222, "original_length": 10413, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 326.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.seattlepi.com/storystudio/2018/05/29/spurred-to-succeed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:25Z", "digest": "sha1:65EKYA5GA4SNPPQEMVGS76ZHH42LDLYE", "length": 6516, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "blog.seattlepi.com", "title": "Spurred to succeed - Story Studio", "raw_content": "The working day begins at sunrise on a family ranch in northeastern Montana.\nThere are horses to feed, cattle to graze and the garden to tend. Weekday or weekend, there\u2019s plenty of work to be done, and everyone is expected to help.\nJustinn Lahaye grew up here. It\u2019s where she learned to ride horses and rope calves. But today, she\u2019s more of a visitor. Because today, she\u2019s a busy and ambitious third-year student at the UW School of Medicine.\n\u201cMy parents work hard, and it\u2019s motivated me to do the same in every aspect of my life,\u201d says Lahaye.\nLIFE-OR-DEATH STRUGGLES\nRanch life is unabashedly tough and unpredictable. Before Lahaye was born, the ranch flooded; this past year, there was a drought. The work is constant, and the animals get sick. Some days, it\u2019s a life-or-death struggle.\nUnfortunately, life-or-death matters have been a constant presence in Lahaye\u2019s life. Her father, Dale Marshall, has been sick as long as she can remember. She was 2 when he was diagnosed with leukemia, and even though a bone marrow transplant cured the cancer, that wasn\u2019t the end of his medical troubles. He had a heart attack when Lahaye was in high school. A sextuple coronary bypass surgery followed, and, a few years later, kidney failure.\nThroughout her father\u2019s health issues and the challenges of ranching life, working with horses was a comfort to Lahaye. \u201cI grew up with them, almost like siblings,\u201d she says. From junior high school on, Lahaye participated in rodeo, eventually making national finals and putting herself through college with scholarships.\nLahaye says ranch life and rodeo taught her discipline, teamwork and the value of persistence. \u201cHard work can get you a lot of places,\u201d she says.\nFROM MONTANA TO MEDICAL SCHOOL\nLahaye was always interested in a career in medicine; her mother suspects that it was all those hours she spent with her dad at medical appointments. She was in college when she realized she truly wanted to become a doctor.\nThere were hurdles to overcome. For one, there was the question of money. Rodeo and academic scholarships had gotten Lahaye through college, but now she would have to take out student loans. Fortunately, she also received scholarship funds from the Friends of the UW School of Medicine, which eased the financial burden somewhat.\nHer father was also a consideration. Despite her dad\u2019s worsening health, Lahaye\u2019s parents supported her decision to apply to medical school. When he was hospitalized with kidney failure, she had to leave his bedside to attend her medical-school entrance interview in Bozeman, hundreds of miles away.\n\u201cIt was really hard, knowing that my dad\u2019s health was poor and I wasn\u2019t able to come home and help as much as I used to,\u201d she says.\nLahaye worried about the future of the family ranch, too. It had always been assumed that she would take over from her parents one day, but medical school \u2014 and a career as a doctor \u2014 could take her far away from home. Together, the family rallied to find solutions, and Lahaye\u2019s oldest sister and her husband agreed to move home to help their parents.\nNow, their three children are growing up on the ranch, learning to ride and work the cattle, and Lahaye teaches them riding and roping skills when she visits.\n\u201cI\u2019m trying to pass on as much knowledge as I can about ranching and rodeo, because they are the next generation, and hopefully, one day, they\u2019ll take over the ranch,\u201d she says.\nTHE CHALLENGE OF RURAL MEDICINE\nFor Lahaye, who grew up inspired by the family doctor\u2019s connection to rural communities, the UW School of Medicine\u2019s WWAMI program was a perfect fit.\nThis five-state medical education program emphasizes educating students from the region \u2014 Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho \u2014 for the region. Founded in 1971, the program is a response, in part, to the growing need for doctors in rural and other underserved areas. Students are exposed to medical care in all sorts of situations: from the tiniest clinic in rural Alaska to large urban hospitals.\nFollowing 18 months of classroom work, students like Lahaye start rotating through various sites, learning about different medical disciplines, meeting patients and getting to know the community. Lahaye has been on rotations since early 2017. She also took part in the WRITE (WWAMI Rural Integrated Training Experience) program, which offers additional training in a rural setting.\nOne of Lahaye\u2019s rotations took place at Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, Montana \u2014 the same place where she was born. Under the guidance of her preceptors, she helped treat patients while learning about family medicine, internal medicine, OB-GYN, psychiatry and pediatrics.\n\u201cJustinn has a good rapport with patients; people like to talk to her,\u201d says Anne Millard, M.D., one of her preceptors. \u201cThey will tell her things that they might not tell somebody else \u2014 including me.\u201d\nMillard is all too aware of the physician shortage in rural areas like hers. \u201cOur biggest issue is keeping doctors,\u201d she says. \u201cThey\u2019ll come out here for a couple of years, and then they leave. It\u2019s not a lifestyle everybody wants.\u201d\nMoving a family here can be difficult, as career opportunities for spouses \u2014 outside agriculture \u2014 are limited. And with fewer specialists in rural areas, doctors sometimes feel overwhelmed at the wide range of medical issues they manage.\nBut, Millard adds, there are compensations. \u201cThis is a very tight community, as most rural communities are. People help each other and take care of each other.\u201d She hopes that, after Lahaye graduates from medical school and completes her residency, she\u2019ll come back to work at the clinic.\n\u201cThe fact that she\u2019s willing to come back to a rural area and do this kind of medicine is just wonderful,\u201d says Millard.\nRURAL LIVING, RURAL DOCTORS\nAlthough medical school doesn\u2019t leave much time for riding, Lahaye stays connected by cheering on her husband, Kody, a professional rodeo competitor who coaches rodeo at Montana State University. And, after graduation, she\u2019s looking forward to settling down permanently in a community like the one she grew up in.\n\u201cI\u2019ve learned how important rural physicians are to these communities. People like my dad struggle with access to healthcare in rural Montana, and the growing physician shortage means it\u2019s going to be harder to get the medical care you need,\u201d she says.\n\u201cI want to be able to give back to those small communities,\u201d says Lahaye. \u201cI can help people like my parents and our neighbors continue to live the rural way of life.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 54, "original_length": 7490, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 201.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.verily.com/2017/12/deepvariant-highly-accurate-genomes.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:13Z", "digest": "sha1:CTGH7JPVPKKZ6BGJI4RLMQLBUWRQKFTW", "length": 6004, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "blog.verily.com", "title": "Verily Blog: DeepVariant: Highly Accurate Genomes With Deep Neural Networks", "raw_content": "DeepVariant: Highly Accurate Genomes With Deep Neural Networks\nteam on applying machine learning to genomics is now available as open source. DeepVariant uses deep learning to reconstruct genome sequences from high-throughput sequencing data with significantly greater accuracy than prior methods. The development team has worked closely with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to make it easy to run DeepVariant workflows on GCP, providing flexibility and scale of execution.\nBelow is the original announcement posted on Google Research and Open Source blogs.\nBy Mark DePristo and Ryan Poplin, Google Brain Team\nAcross many scientific disciplines, but in particular in the field of genomics, major breakthroughs have often resulted from new technologies. From Sanger sequencing, which made it possible to sequence the human genome, to the microarray technologies that enabled the first large-scale genome-wide experiments, new instruments and tools have allowed us to look ever more deeply into the genome and apply the results broadly to health, agriculture and ecology.\nOne of the most transformative new technologies in genomics was high-throughput sequencing (HTS), which first became commercially available in the early 2000s. HTS allowed scientists and clinicians to produce sequencing data quickly, cheaply, and at scale. However, the output of HTS instruments is not the genome sequence for the individual being analyzed \u2014 for humans this is 3 billion paired bases (guanine, cytosine, adenine and thymine) organized into 23 pairs of chromosomes. Instead, these instruments generate ~1 billion short sequences, known as reads. Each read represents just 100 of the 3 billion bases, and per-base error rates range from 0.1-10%. Processing the HTS output into a single, accurate and complete genome sequence is a major outstanding challenge. The importance of this problem, for biomedical applications in particular, has motivated efforts such as the Genome in a Bottle Consortium (GIAB), which produces high confidence human reference genomes that can be used for validation and benchmarking, as well as the precisionFDA community challenges, which are designed to foster innovation that will improve the quality and accuracy of HTS-based genomic tests.\nFor any given location in the genome, there are multiple reads among the ~1 billion that include a base at that position. Each read is aligned to a reference, and then each of the bases in the read is compared to the base of the reference at that location. When a read includes a base that differs from the reference, it may indicate a variant (a difference in the true sequence), or it may be an error.\nDeepVariant transforms the task of variant calling, as this reconstruction problem is known in genomics, into an image classification problem well-suited to Google's existing technology and expertise.\nEach of the four images above is a visualization of actual sequencer reads aligned to a reference genome. A key question is how to use the reads to determine whether there is a variant on both chromosomes, on just one chromosome, or on neither chromosome. There is more than one type of variant, with SNPs and insertions/deletions being the most common. A: a true SNP on one chromosome pair, B: a deletion on one chromosome, C: a deletion on both chromosomes, D: a false variant caused by errors. It's easy to see that these look quite distinct when visualized in this manner.\nWe started with GIAB reference genomes, for which there is high-quality ground truth (or the closest approximation currently possible). Using multiple replicates of these genomes, we produced tens of millions of training examples in the form of multi-channel tensors encoding the HTS instrument data, and then trained a TensorFlow-based image classification model to identify the true genome sequence from the experimental data produced by the instruments. Although the resulting deep learning model, DeepVariant, had no specialized knowledge about genomics or HTS, within a year it had won the the highest SNP accuracy award at the precisionFDA Truth Challenge, outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Since then, we've further reduced the error rate by more than 50%.\nDeepVariant is being released as open source software to encourage collaboration and to accelerate the use of this technology to solve real world problems. To further this goal, we partnered with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to deploy DeepVariant workflows on GCP, available today, in configurations optimized for low-cost and fast turnarounds using scalable GCP technologies like the Pipelines API. This paired set of releases provides a smooth ramp for users to explore and evaluate the capabilities of DeepVariant in their current compute environment while providing a scalable, cloud-based solution to satisfy the needs of even the largest genomics datasets.\nDeepVariant is the first of what we hope will be many contributions that leverage Google's computing infrastructure and ML expertise to both better understand the genome and to provide deep learning-based genomics tools to the community. This is all part of a broader goal to apply Google technologies to healthcare and other scientific applications, and to make the results of these efforts broadly accessible.\nWe are excited about applying DeepVariant to enhance analysis of samples from Verily Clinical studies, such as Project Baseline.\nLearn how you can run DeepVariant by reading the how-to-guide.\nPosted by David Glazer, Director of Engineering, Verily\nWe are delighted to share that our collaboration with the Google Brain team on applying machine learning to genomics is now available as open source. DeepVariant uses deep learning to reconstruct genome sequences from high-throughput sequencing data with significantly greater accuracy than prior methods. The development team has worked closely with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to make it easy to run DeepVariant workflows on GCP, providing flexibility and scale of execution.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 11408, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 285.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blog.vodafone.co.uk/2016/10/11/mascots-netflix-lowdown-years-funniest-movie/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:UI2CDEYQKW67S7OJCQ36XT5VSGESGYTL", "length": 4341, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "blog.vodafone.co.uk", "title": "Mascots on Netflix: The lowdown on this year\u2019s funniest movie", "raw_content": "Mascots on Netflix: The lowdown on this year\u2019s funniest movie\nMascots, the brand new mockumentary from comedy legend Christopher Guest, is landing on Netflix UK this week. Here's everything you need to know.\nHome \u203a Entertainment \u203a Mascots on Netflix: The lowdown on this year\u2019s funniest movie\nIn search of something funny to get you through the darkening autumn nights? We\u2019ve got just the thing for you. Or rather, Netflix does. The streaming giant is adding to its burgeoning list of Original movies this month with Mascots, the brainchild of comedy legend Christopher Guest.\nSo what\u2019s it about, who\u2019s in it and why should you give Mascots one hour, 29 minutes of your valuable time on 13 October? Here\u2019s everything you need to know\u2026\nMascots: What is it?\nMascots is, like a lot of Christopher Guest\u2019s work, a mockumentary, focussing on the (fictitious) world of competitive mascotting \u2013 that is, the people in giant costumes you see at sporting events, product launches and theme parks.\nIts plot centres around the contestants, judges and producers of the World Mascot Association\u2019s 8th Gold Fluffy Awards, at which America\u2019s finest be-costumed buddies try to outdo each other for gongs. And generally humiliate themselves in the process.\nMascots: Who\u2019s in it?\nBeing an ensemble piece, Mascots has a huge army of comedy talent in its lineup \u2013 with stars playing big parts and tiny cameos alike \u2013 so we\u2019ll just focus on a few here to whet your appetite.\nFirst up is Jane Lynch, who plays Gabby Monkhouse in the film. Jane spent much of the noughties building her comedic chops in movies like Role Models and the 40 Year Old Virgin, but most people will probably know her best as Sue Sylvester in Glee, which was arguably her breakout role.\nWho else? Let\u2019s see\u2026 There\u2019s Chris O\u2019Dowd (forever in our hearts as Roy in the IT Crowd), starring in Mascots as a giant fist; actress and musician Parker Posey; Anchorman and This Is Spinal Tap\u2019s Fred Willard; Harry Shearer (of The Simpsons fame) and, of course, writer/director Christopher Guest himself.\nThat\u2019s alongside a laundry list of Chris\u2019 regular collaborators, including Bob Balaban, Ed Begley, Jr, Jennifer Coolidge, John Michael Higgins, Michael Hitchcock, Don Lake and Eugene Levy.\nMascots: Who\u2019s behind it?\nHave we mentioned Christopher Guest, yet? If you\u2019re unfamiliar with his work then you\u2019re in dire need of a quick comedy education. Christopher has penned, been in, or been behind the camera on more than his fair share of hilarious movies over the course of his nearly 40-year career.\nHe has dual English-American citizenship thanks to his UK and US born parents, which shows in his comedy stylings \u2013 he\u2019s able to mix the best of the two nations\u2019 broad and dry styles together. That\u2019s been evidenced time and again in movies like For Your Consideration, Best in Show and This Is Spinal Tap \u2013 all of which he also starred in.\nChristopher played lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel in the mostly ad-libbed Spinal Tap, breathing life to the now immortal \u201cthese go to eleven\u201d scene with his impeccable comedic timing:\nMascots: Other must-watch mockumentaries\nLike us, Christopher Guest sure likes the improvised mockumentary format, so it\u2019s just as well that he\u2019s so good at crafting laugh-out-loud comedy concepts. Here\u2019s his must-watch back catalogue\u2026\nOne of the funniest and most quotable films of all time sees the titular hapless heavy metal band on tour in the US, as onstage mishaps, exploding drummers and more look to derail their pretensions.\nIn Waiting for Guffman the totally talentless residents of Blaine, Missouri vie to make their upcoming local musical (\u2018Red, White, and Blaine\u2019) a huge, unwieldy epic unlike anything they\u2019ve put on before, all for the benefit of a famed Broadway producer.\nCo-written with longtime collaborator Eugene Levy, Best in Show shares Mascots\u2019 highly-strung competition setting. It centres, however, on the surreal and deadly serious world of pedigree dog shows.\nAnother effort co-scribed between Guest and Levy, A Mighty Wind\u2019s plot revolves around a concert dedicated to a recently deceased folk music producer. The only problem? None of the three acts slated to perform have shared a stage together in decades.\nGet more entertainment on your mobile\u2026 You can unlock a world of top TV, music or sport with Vodafone 4G. Click here to find out more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 137, "original_length": 7785, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 331.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2019/01/gorgeous-manuscripts-galore.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:36Z", "digest": "sha1:EEXUNNWOKKZLF3EM74II6JOPDAUND2A3", "length": 7131, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "blogs.bl.uk", "title": "Gorgeous manuscripts galore - Medieval manuscripts blog", "raw_content": "Gorgeous manuscripts galore\nOne of our favourite online resources is the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. It has recently been updated to include fifteen new manuscripts and lots more images.\nThe Stavelot Missal\nYou can already view the enormous 11th-century Stavelot Bible on our Digitised Manuscripts website (Add MS 28106 and Add MS 28107). Two more manuscripts from the Benedictine abbey of Stavelot, in the diocese of Li\u00e8ge, have now been added to the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts.\nThis 13th-century missal is bound in two volumes (Add MS 18031 and Add MS 18032). The litany of saints includes St Remaclus, patron of the abbey, and a notice of the dedication of the monastery ('Dedicatio Stabulensis ecclesie') on the calendar page for June. The manuscript's 14th- or 15th-century additions include a mass for St Poppo of Stavelot and the feast of Thomas Becket, inserted in the calendar (f. 13v).\nThe Crucifixion with Mary and John, from the \u2018Stavelot Missal\u2019, volume I: Add MS 18031, f. 18v. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here, together with the second volume.\nA Psalter from Stavelot\nThis early Psalter with a Latin commentary is one of a group of manuscripts produced at Stavelot around the year 1000 and illuminated in the distinct Mosan style.\nDavid and Goliath in the Stavelot Psalter: Add MS 18043, f. 64v. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here.\nThe Gospels from Tours\nTours was an important centre of Carolingian manuscript production in the 9th century. The style of decoration of this gospel-book is Franco-Saxon, combining elements of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon decoration, including a distinctive combination of orange-red and gold. This framed incipit page includes display capitals in gold on purple grounds.\nIncipit page of the Gospel of Mark: Add MS 11849, f. 72r. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here.\nIsidore\u2019s Etymologies\nThis manuscript of Isidore of Seville\u2019s Etymologies was made at Neuvelle-l\u00e8s-la-Charit\u00e9 in eastern France in the 4th quarter of the 12th century. The decorated page below contains a consanguinity diagram, showing which family members were deemed to be too closely-related to marry by the medieval Church. The entwined foliage with the tendrils held by human figures represents the blood ties between family members, and there are strange hybrid creatures at the three points of the triangle.\nConsanguinity diagram from Isidore of Seville's Etymologies: Add MS 15603, f. 93r. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here.\nThis 12th-century manuscript, made in the southern Netherlands or northern France, contains Marcus Tullius Cicero\u2019s De inventione, a handbook on how to be a good public speaker. It is followed by the Rhetorica ad Herennium, the most popular work on rhetoric throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. These two texts were often copied together and were used to teach rhetoric in a structured and disciplined way.\nCicero seated holding a scroll reading 'Marci Tulii liber primus incipit': Add MS 16984, f. 3r. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here.\nThe Sherborne Cartulary\nThis collection of royal, papal and episcopal charters contains a number of letters written by Anglo-Saxon kings (Edgar, \u00c6thelred and Cnut). The volume also contains a series of liturgical texts including accounts of the Passion of Christ, with portraits of St Mark and St John.\nSt John the Evangelist, from the Sherborne Cartulary: Add MS 46487, f. 52v. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here.\nThese two Psalters, both produced in the latter part of the 12th century, have a similar layout. The text of the Psalms in the central column is surrounded by a gloss or commentary, and there are large decorated initials marking the beginning of the major Psalms. However, the style of illumination points to different areas of origin: the first in England or northern France, and the second in southern Germany or eastern France.\nAn English or French Psalter\nThis elegant Psalter was made in the 2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century. It begins with a large, illuminated initial that includes pictures of David and of Christ preaching to a group of men.\nBeatus initial from a Psalter: Add MS 17392, f. 1r. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here.\nA glossed Psalter\nThe gloss in this 12th-century Psalter is attributed to the circle of Anselm of Laon (d. 1117). Added on the last leaf, in contemporary script, is a tract on curing haemorrhoids (f. 196r).\nDecorated initial from a Psalter: Add MS 18298, f. 143v. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here.\nA Psalter of the Use of York\nThis late 12th- or early 13th-century Psalter was possibly made for the Augustinian abbey of Bourne in the diocese of Lincoln, since additions in the calendar include Abbot Henry of Bourne and Hugh of Lincoln. It seems to have been owned later by a Cistercian monastery, because 15th-century additions to the calendar include the feast of St Bernard of Clairvaux and other saints venerated by that Order. It has large gold and coloured initials at the beginning of major Psalms, many of them with animal heads and bodies entwined in the foliage.\nZoomorphic initial from a Psalter: Add MS 38819, f. 70r. The whole manuscript can be viewed online here.\nThe Percy Psalter\nThe 13th-century Percy Psalter is thought to originate from York. It has beautiful illuminated initials, while the borders contain mythical beasts and graphic hunting scenes. Unicorns were believed to be symbols of purity and grace, which only a virgin could capture; in order to hunt one successfully, it first had to be tamed by a young girl before being killed, as shown here. At the top of this page is the pelican biting its breast to revive its young. The initial depicts David pointing to his mouth, showing that he will avoid 'sinning with the tongue' (Psalm 38).\nThe beginning of Psalm 38, from the Percy Psalter: Add MS 70000, f. 55r.\nOld Testament from Genesis to Ruth\nThis is the first volume of another large Bible (in five volumes), produced in the Meuse valley around 1430. It belonged to the Benedictine abbey of St James, Li\u00e8ge, whose coat of arms and motto (\u2018CONSTANTER AD ASTRA\u2019) is pasted on the spine. The opening page for Genesis has roundels of the seven days of Creation, marginal figures of angels with scrolls containing quotes from Augustine, and paired pagan and Christian philosophers These include Augustine with his attribute of a heart, Albertus Magnus in discussion with Averroes, and Old Testament figures including Melchisedek.\nThe beginning of the Old Testament: Add MS 15254, f. 13r.\nA religious miscellany\nThis miscellany of religious tracts, offices, prayers and meditations was compiled between the 13th century and the 15th century. Some of its texts are connected with Ely Priory, such as a metrical epitaph for Alan of Walsingham, prior of Ely (d. c. 1364). It also includes a story of the Virgin teaching a new Latin prayer, Missus est angelus, to a canon named Arnaud. The large puzzle initial below marks the beginning of a prayer to the patron saint of a church.\nPuzzle initial in a miscellany: Add MS 33381, f. 128r.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 362, "original_length": 12708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 218.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/lessons_from_china/2014/04/all_great_educators_are_entrep.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:16Z", "digest": "sha1:T3KV4ZK6D7QR43M7DWK2V5EWVNSI6WQN", "length": 5682, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "blogs.edweek.org", "title": "Stop Talking, Just Do It: Be an Educational Entrepreneur - Lessons From China - Education Week Teacher", "raw_content": "\u00ab Cutting, Bullying, Suicide: What to Do as a Teacher in Rural China? | Main | Physics by Day, Web Start-Up by Night: How One Teacher has a Lasting Impact \u00bb\nStop Talking, Just Do It: Be an Educational Entrepreneur\nBy Jessica Shyu on April 10, 2014 8:38 PM\nIf there's anything I learned from being a teacher, it's that every great educator embodies an entrepreneurial spirit. Anyone who has not only survived, but achieved, with their students knows what it's like to identify a common problem, get creative with new, innovative approaches in how you do things and try it ... because you have nothing to lose. It's those desperate moments when you frantically try anything, only to find than one out of five times, you actually \"invented\" a new approach to gathering formative data, sharing IEP goals, or tracking student behavior. In other industries, it's called entrepreneurship. For teachers, it's called survival.\nAnd it's no different in China. In fact, it took me until recently to realize that closing the achievement gap in a country of more than 1 billion people is going to take a heck of a lot more than filling millions of classrooms with excellent teachers. It's going to take far more than reforming the government-sanctioned testing systems or changing national policies. It's going to also require educational entrepreneurs who understand the array of problems, who form innovative solutions that work, and who are brave enough to risk failure to give it a shot.\nTo all of my colleagues in China and worldwide who see the problems our most under-resourced children face and are brimming with creative ideas, I dare you to be fearless and launch those after-school student programs you've been saying your students need, to jump-start those Web-based teacher training modules you keep complaining local teachers need, and to kick off those app-based courses for factory workers in your town that you keep dreaming about.\nNot convinced? Here are three reasons to go for it - and three reasons to hesitate:\nThree reasons to do it:\nAnd just do it. No one likes someone who only drones on and on in the teacher's lounge about should happen but does nothing to help. Being an educator means that we are privileged with front row seats to all the problems students, teachers, school leaders and system influencers face. If you're lucky enough to have a creative idea on how to solve these problems, then we're looking for you to do it. I loved reading Ed Week's piece\ntracking the progress of two ed tech start-ups\nin the United States - I swear I've talked to other teachers about ideas like these over drinks at Happy Hour. These folks are actually doing it.\n2. It's easier to start a business.\nIronically, it's far easier to start a for-profit business in Communist China than it is to start a non-profit or to hold a leadership role in schools or the government. The NGO landscape in China is still very new with a lot of red tape and skepticism, principals in China have very limited authority, and government leadership posts are incredibly difficult to land. If you can show that your solution works, addresses a major need and can score an audience, you're better off starting a business. Right now, the overwhelming majority of start-up incubators in China focus on real estate entrepreneurship. Imagine if just half of those start-ups focused on closing the achievement gap.\n3. There is money in it.\nThe magical thing about working under an autocratic government is that top-down decisions are actually followed, even if it takes a long while to trickle down to the villages. China recently published their upcoming five-year priorities for education. Among them are e-learning, a focus on early childhood education and special education, and teacher management. If you have the right connections and your idea works, there is no reason why you should try to take advantage of the opportunities here.\nThree reasons to hesitate.\n1. It's wildly hard.\nStarting a new behavior management system in your class is hard. Starting a business venture is overwhelming. Most start-ups fail. You need money. You need a great idea. You need to show that it works. You need staff. You need connections. You need everything, and you'll still probably fail. What makes me excited is that my organization, Teach For China, is starting to think about how to serve as an incubation hub for our Fellows and Alumni who want to start their own initiative. There are courses, incubators and other programs that can help. But above all, entrepreneurship is a lonely road.\n2. Know your community.\nLeave the savior complex and assumptions of \"what the community needs\" at the village gate. Talk to parents, teachers, students, principals, Education Bureau leaders about the problems they're facing, what they're looking for and will use. Better yet, make them a part of your board.\n3. Do it for the right reasons.\nThere are a lot of people looking to make big money in China and all over the world. What we need now are more people - educators who know their communities and have test-run solutions in their classrooms and schools simply by being a great teacher - who are trying to create great opportunities for the most underserved in the world. It may not pay a lot all that time, but at least the results are priceless.\nOver the next two weeks, I will be profiling three initiatives launched by Teach For China Fellows and myself who have started (or are beginning to launch) ventures not to look for big money, a fancy title, or a great resume builder. They did it because they were/are great teachers who found ways to not only survive, but thrive. Stay tuned.\nPhoto by Bonnie Jiang", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 10870, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.pugetsound.edu/studyingabroad/2013/02/22/immersion/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:11Z", "digest": "sha1:AIDUBFBB6Y6SPXL4CNPBISPTST2A2ZUU", "length": 3124, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "blogs.pugetsound.edu", "title": "Immersion | Adventures Abroad", "raw_content": "The City \u2192\nI feel rather immersed in Irish culture by this point (as I should\u2013it\u2019s midterm this week which means I\u2019ve been here 6 whole school weeks). I can take buses to where I need to go, I can take trains and taxis, I can find Trinity and St. Stephen\u2019s Green and O\u2019Connell Street\u2026\nThis week in particular I\u2019ve felt like I\u2019m part of the city. Last Saturday I went to the Jameson Film Festival and saw the Irish premier of Cloud Atlas.\nIt was quite a beautiful movie. I\u2019ve heard it got a lot of crap or a lot of disinterest, but I\u2019d recommend it. I found it beautiful. I like strange movies and beautiful cinematography, and it made me feel very connected to everyone in the theatre. It\u2019s the first movie I\u2019ve ever seen on my own. Kinda a weird thing to say, but it\u2019s true.\nI also went to see a play! I saw King Lear at the Abbey Theatre. FUN FACT TIME The Abbey theatre was the second national theatre (the first one\u2019s in Munich I think) and was established by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory. The theatre in Ireland traditionally spread the news before there were newspapers or phones readily available.\nIt\u2019s hard to get a sense of the play because I took crap pictures, but this guy was the Fool. He sat out on stage at first and he was really good. He was my favorite first-act character. By the way, this was the first time I\u2019d ever seen the play, so I didn\u2019t know what was going to happen. Edgar turns out to be important, who knew! He was my favorite second-act character. The play did some great visual things and some dance stuff I didn\u2019t really like, but they had Irish wolfhounds wander across the stage at random intervals!\nI got to pet them afterward (this isn\u2019t my picture, it\u2019s from Google). They felt like carpets.\nOn my way back from rock climbing one day, I stopped by a little shop on Harcourt Street.\nIt\u2019s an Irish language store with an Irish-speaking bar in the basement! I bought a grammar and looked at all the books they\u2019d translated into Irish. The shop owners were speaking Irish with a couple of people in the store, and it was the first time I realized I was in a foreign country. I had no idea what they were saying. Sometimes I\u2019d catch an \u2018agus,\u2019 which I know means \u2018and,\u2019 but that\u2019s all. I\u2019ll probably go back. They had The Hobbit in Irish and it looked very, very cool. Couldn\u2019t read a word of it, but it looked neat. And they had Harry Potter and the Philosopher\u2019s Stone, which was \u201cHarry Potter agus an \u00d3rchloch\u201d in Irish.\nFinally, two strange Irish things I experienced. First, I found\nthe Celtic Racing Pigeon Club. Who knew?\nSecondly, I had the most dangerous drink in Ireland:\nIt has a red dye in it that caused ADHD in children and other neurological disorders. It\u2019s illegal in most European countries, but not Ireland!\nTasted a bit like hand sanitizer, but not in a terrible way. If you can imagine.\nSo! Still experienced the good, the bad, and the weird of Ireland here! I\u2019m going on a trip with my dad soon so I\u2019ll have something more interesting to share next week! Until then, I\u2019m going to keep my eyes peeled for more strange, wonderful things in this fantastic country!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5525, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/nickforrington/daily/020708/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:09Z", "digest": "sha1:L7WHNBKRJQFHK7563NVFKZ2FODLRXPZ2", "length": 87, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "blogs.warwick.ac.uk", "title": "Entries for Wednesday 02 July 2008, Nick's blog", "raw_content": "All entries for Wednesday 02 July 2008\n\u00ab Thursday 03 July 2008 - Tuesday 01 July 2008 \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/04/30/the-americans-recap-season-2-episode-10-yousaf/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:38Z", "digest": "sha1:KV7ZNQS64OSB7ZXOGH3ZDAESFKFA43DI", "length": 1112, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "blogs.wsj.com", "title": "\u2018The Americans\u2019 Recap: Season 2, Episode 10, \u2018Yousaf\u2019 - Speakeasy - WSJ", "raw_content": "\u2018The Americans\u2019 Recap: Season 2, Episode 10, \u2018Yousaf\u2019\nPhilip was so tightly wound last week that it was kind of jarring to see him unspool and become cool dad again. This week\u2019s episode picked up after Philip visited Pastor Tim. He apologizes to Elizabeth for waking her up and they have one the most tender moments we\u2019ve ever seen on this show. Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell have such great chemistry and it\u2019s nice to be reminded that they are not only superspies but a couple in love. Outside the chaos of espionage and raising children, \u201cThe Americans\u201d shows us that these two people belong together.\nThis episode focused a lot on the two of them working together, both as parents and as spy partners. Last season, I wrote often about how their work relationship was impeccable, but their marriage needed work. Now that they\u2019ve got those two down, it\u2019s time to work on their skills as parents. They are not bad at it, but they do offer confusing takes on what to do.\nPrevious \u2018Arrow\u2019 Recap: Season 2, Episode 21, 'City of Blood' Next \u2018Nashville\u2019 Season 2, Episode 20, \u2018Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad\u2019: TV Recap", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 573, "original_length": 11283, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 300.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluecrossmafoundation.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:49Z", "digest": "sha1:7TT7GSMCCSE55VPTHPRLTIAQTGXBYOZI", "length": 258, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bluecrossmafoundation.org", "title": "Home | The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation", "raw_content": "An Update on Coverage, Affordability, and Access: Findings from the 2018 Massachusetts Health Reform Survey\nThe Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation seeks to expand access to health care for low-income and vulnerable residents of Massachusetts.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 133.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bluegrasstoday.com/bush-on-the-time-machine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:57Z", "digest": "sha1:7BMW5LYUZGXVOMDEKY5WOJQRW47RR5AQ", "length": 1543, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bluegrasstoday.com", "title": "Bush on the Time Machine - Bluegrass Today", "raw_content": "Bush on the Time Machine\nPosted on August 7, 2009 December 14, 2016 by Brance\nWichita Rutherford has invited Sam Bush to co-host his Sirius radio show, The Grand Old Time Machine, this week. The last time this duo worked together was the year Bush hosted the IBMA Award Show with Wichita co-hosting via video.\nWichita tells me they are going to have a good time with this. Sam will have his mandolin in the studio with him as they host the show. It seems Wichita has issued a challenge to Sam concerning TV theme songs. Wichita has bet $20 that Sam won\u2019t be able to play more than three TV show theme songs off the cuff with Wichita calling them out as they go. I love ya Wichita but I think my money may be on Sam for this one!\nThey also have plans to discuss the history of Bluegrass, and specifically the era of the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s. They\u2019ll also discuss the viability of Satellite Radio and the similarities between the situation now and the old days of terrestrial radio when Bluegrass was just getting started.\nAnother topic of discussion with the recently proposed \u201cMore Bluegrass Law\u201d and its import for the citizens of The City of Bluegrass.\nSam will be hosting a contest as well. It\u2019s a \u201cSound Like Wichita\u201d contest with the winner receiving a guitar shaped commode seat with Wichita\u2019s picture on it! Details here.\nEach episode of The Grand Old Time Machine airs Fridays at 9pm Eastern and Saturday night at 12, then the following Tuesday at 3PM Eastern. So tune in tonight to hear Sam co-hosting with Wichita. It should be a good show!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4133, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 268.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com.preview-live.oscarjournals.springer.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-018-3497-7", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:56Z", "digest": "sha1:YLLKVMFWF52ETUKOSWRSYXS4FFYIEVHP", "length": 31918, "nlines": 128, "source_domain": "bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com.preview-live.oscarjournals.springer.com", "title": "Associations between perceived barriers and benefits of using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and medication adherence among men who have sex with men in Western China | BMC Infectious Diseases | Full Text", "raw_content": "Associations between perceived barriers and benefits of using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and medication adherence among men who have sex with men in Western China\nXiao-ni Zhong1Email author,\nBin Peng1,\nHao Liang2,\nJiang-hong Dai3,\nJu-ying Zhang4 and\nAi-long Huang5\nTo investigate the associations between the perceived barriers and benefits of using HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis medication, including worries about the side effects, disliking taking drugs, perceived burden of taking medication, positive expectations as to the efficacy of the drugs, favourable doctor-patient relationships, and medication adherence among men who have sex with men (MSM) to provide a target for improving medication adherence and reducing HIV infection among MSM.\nMSM were recruited in western China from April 2013 to October 2014, administered oral tenofovir (TDF) daily and followed up every 12 weeks for 2 years. At each follow-up, the medication rate was calculated based on the self-reported number of missed doses over 2 weeks, and then, the medication adherence was evaluated. The barriers and benefits perceived during medication were obtained by a self-administered questionnaire, and their effects on medication adherence were analysed by linear mixed models.\nA total of 411 participants were enrolled in this study, and 1561 follow-up observation points were obtained. The average medication rate was 0.62\u2009\u00b1\u20090.37, and the medication rate increased with longer follow-up (P\u2009<\u20090.05). The medication rate was higher among MSM who were divorced (compared to those who were unmarried, P\u2009<\u20090.0001). MSM with more positive expectations as to the efficacy of the drugs showed higher rates of medication (P\u2009<\u20090.0001), while those who were more worried about side effects had a lower medication rate (P\u2009=\u20090.0208). In contrast, the dislike of taking the drugs and the burden perceived during medication had no effects on the actual medication rate of taking TDF (P\u2009>\u20090.05).\nHow to obtain and maintain high medication adherence among MSM is the key to the PrEP intervention strategy for effective reduction of HIV infection. For MSM in China, we should deepen their understanding of the effectiveness and safety of PrEP and increase their confidence in PrEP, thereby improving their medication adherence.\nChiCTR-TRC-13003849. Registered on 24/06/2013.\nPre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP\nThe report of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS [1] points out that the number of HIV infections reached 1.8 million in 2016 and men who have sex with men (MSM) have a higher risk of infection. The Progress Report on AIDS Prevention and Treatment in China [2] shows that the HIV epidemic currently maintains a low- prevalence trend, with a higher-prevalence among MSM, especially in the western part of China [3]. In 2006, MSM accounted for 2.5% of new HIV infections in China, and the rate increased dramatically to 25.5% in 2017 [4, 5].\nPre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) has been considered the most promising biomedical HIV prevention strategy so far. The antiviral drug tenofovir (TDF) used in PrEP and combined therapy with TDF and emtricitabine (TDF-FTC) have been approved by the USFDA as preventive drugs for the MSM population [6], and in 2014, comprehensive PrEP guidelines were released [7]. Many international clinical studies have shown the effectiveness of PrEP in different groups, including MSM [8\u201310], women [11] and injection drug users [12, 13].\nIn addition, studies have also suggested that adherence to medication is crucial for the efficacy of PrEP [9, 11, 14\u201316]. The iPrEP study demonstrated that the once-daily oral PrEP drug resulted a 44% reduction in the incidence of HIV among MSM and transgender women, while pill use on 90% or more of days showed greater protection (73%), and it increased to 92% efficacy for participants with detectable drug levels [10]. However, a study conducted among African women unable to show the efficacy of oral PrEP due to their low adherence levels [17]. Therefore, an investigation into barriers and facilities associated with adherence to PrEP is required.\nFactors from the perspectives of social, behavioural and psychological areas associated with PrEP adherence have been identified in clinical trials [9, 18\u201320]. However, in China, only one open-label clinical trial has been conducted among HIV-uninfected MSM in western China to assess the efficacy and safety of oral TDF in preventing HIV infection [21], but little is known about the barriers and facilities of PrEP adherence in China. Based on the fact that PrEP clinical trials have not been widely conducted in China, assessing participants\u2019 feelings and attitudes during medication among the very first group of people involved in taking PrEP drugs is important and necessary. For instance, participants who perceive that there are side effects of drugs tend to show low adherence to medication, while sound doctor-patient relationships are a facilitator of adherence [22, 23].\nTherefore, in this study, we aimed to investigate the changes in barriers and benefits that HIV-uninfected MSM perceive during the course of medication and examine the associations between perceived barriers and benefits of oral PrEP and actual medication adherence to provide a basis and some guidance for application and promotion of PrEP strategies among MSM in China.\nParticipants were recruited from Chongqing, Sichuan, Xinjiang and Guangxi by non-probability sampling from April 2013 to October 2014, including via publishing information on gay websites and cooperating with non-governmental organizations. Inclusion criteria: (1) MSM aged 18\u201365 years; (2) self-reported negative or unknown HIV status; (3) had engaged in sex with male partners at least every two weeks; (4) had at least one or more same-sex partners one month before the trial; and (5) willing to take medicine under guidance and comply with follow-up arrangements. Exclusion criteria: (1) HBsAg- or anti-HBc-positive, (2) having a serious illness that investigators considered could possibly interfere with the interventions, follow-ups or assessments of the participants; (3) advanced cancer; (4) alcohol abuse within one year before entering the study; (5) receiving other drugs 3 months prior to screening; and (6) having a history of severe allergies.\nA total of 575 MSM eligible were enrolled in the daily TDF group after the screening, and they were informed about the purpose and content of the study as well as the possible benefits and risks. All participants signed the informed consent and were given standard HIV prevention interventions, including HIV testing, counselling to reduce the risk of HIV infection, free condom distribution, and STI management.\nParticipants were asked to fill in the self-administered quantitative questionnaire for the baseline survey and at each follow-up conducted every 12 weeks, inquiring about their feelings or attitudes during medication, the number of missed pills, as well as the occurrence of adverse events within the last two weeks during the follow-up. In addition, HIV-1 serological detection, blood biochemical examination and haematological examination were performed. At each follow-up, a new round of drugs was supplied. In addition, every two weeks, our trained investigators contacted participants though QQ or telephone to learn about their medication use and provide counselling on adherence.\nParticipants stopped using the medication if one of the following occurred: confirmed HIV infection; serious adverse reactions; failure to participate in follow-up, planning to leave the research study, or other reasons; or medicine withdrawal for personal reasons.\nThis study follows the Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice and has been approved and supervised by the Ethics Committee.\nParticipants reported their age, household registration, educational level, marital status and average monthly income in the baseline survey.\nHIV-related characteristics\nHIV-related characteristics included HIV counselling or testing previously, threat perception of HIV, and HIV knowledge, which was addressed by 13 questions concerning HIV infection and transmission (1 point for correct answer, 0 for incorrect answer; the total scores\u226511 points was regarded as a high level of HIV knowledge). Additionally, the number of male sexual partners, the frequency of looking for sexual partners through the Internet and whether they had been diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) by doctors in the past six months were assessed in the baseline survey.\nPerceived barriers during medication\nThe barriers included a dislike of taking the drugs, worries about the drug\u2019s side effects, and the sense of burden perceived during medication. Participants were asked about the barriers perceived when taking TDF in the face-to-face follow-up surveys every 12 weeks. The barriers were rated as 1 point (not at all) to 5 points (always), and participants rated them according to their feelings during medication.\nThe dislike of taking drugs was made up of 3 items, including \u201cI don\u2019t like the taste\u201d, \u201cI don\u2019t like the formulation\u201d and \u201cI think the drugs are hard to swallow\u201d. Then, the average score of the three was taken. Standard Cronbach\u2019s \u03b1 coefficient varied between 0.72 and 0.79 over eight time points.\nIn addition, the sense of burden perceived during medication was evaluated by \u201cI\u2019m worried about that sexual partners know that I\u2019m taking medicine\u201d, and the worries about the drug side effects were accessed by \u201cI\u2019m worried about drug side effects\u201d directly both at baseline and during follow-up.\nPerceived benefits during medication\nThe benefits included positive expectations to medication and favourable doctor-patient relationships at baseline and during the follow-up surveys.\nParticipants were asked to provide an answer in response to \u201cI think the drugs kept me safe from AIDS\u201d to evaluate the positive expectations to medication, with the answer scored with 1 point (not at all) to 5 points (always).\nThe doctor-patient relationship consists of two items: \u201cDoctors here are friendly to me, and they care about my health,\u201d and \u201cI trust the doctors here.\u201d The Cronbach\u2019s \u03b1 coefficient was 0.71 at baseline and varied between 0.74 and 0.91 over the eight time points.\nDefinition of adherence\nWe used the medication rate in the last two weeks to assess the adherence of the participants. At each follow-up, the participants were asked to answer whether they missed some doses or not and to fill in the number of missed doses if they did. Medication rate\u2009=\u2009(14\u2009\u2212\u2009number of missed doses)/14, between 0 and 1.\nThe enumeration data including demographic characteristics were expressed as frequency and rate, while measurement data were expressed as \\( \\overline{X}\\pm S \\), median and range. Longitudinal data were analysed using a linear mixed model (LMM), reporting the \u03b2 coefficient and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI). LMM was used to assess the change in medication rate over the follow-up and to evaluate which variables were associated with the trend of change. The medication rate in each follow-up was used as the outcome variable to fit the null model and the random intercept-slope model. After the addition of the level 1 explanatory variable (scores of the barriers and benefits perceived during medication) and the level 2 explanatory variable (demographic characteristics), the final model was fitted. The modelling of the linear mixed models was conducted using the Proc Mixed of SAS software. All statistical analyses were performed using SAS 9.4 software and SPSS 22.0 software. P\u2009<\u20090.05 was considered to have statistical significance.\nOf 575 participants who completed the baseline survey in the TDF group, 141 who did not participate in at least one follow-up and 23 who did not report the number of missed doses at least once were excluded. Thus, a total of 411 MSM involved in at least one follow-up with a maximum of 8 and an average of 3.54 were included in the final analysis. A total of 1561 follow-up observation points were provided.\nThe demographical and HIV-related characteristics are shown in Table 1. The average age of the 411 MSM was 29.34\u2009\u00b1\u20097.85 years, and their age ranged from 18 to 61 years. Among the participants, 73.90% were urban residents, and 26.10% were rural residents; 90% graduated from high school and above, and 78.83% were unmarried. Nearly half (48.27%) had an average monthly income above 3000 yuan. The scores of HIV knowledge ranged from 0 to 13 with a median of 9, and only 26.76% had scores above 11. While 64.63 and 81.91% of participants declared that they had ever engaged in HIV counselling and testing, respectively, only 56.97% believed that AIDS is a great threat to themselves and their families. Only 40.63% had only one male sexual partner in the past six months, but only 9.34% had been diagnosed with an STD in the past six months.\nDemographic and HIV-related characteristic\nHousehold registrationa\nJunior high or below\nMonthly income(RMB)a\nHIV knowlegde score\nHIV counselinga\nHIV testinga\nPerceived AIDS severitya\nModerate and low\nPerceived AIDS threat to themselves and familya\nNumber of male sexual partners in the past six monthsa\nLooking for sexual partners though the Internet in the past six monthsa\nAlways/Sometimes\nDiagnosed with STD by doctors in the past six monthsa\naPartially missing data (numbers might not add up to the total because of missing data)\nThe scores of the barriers and benefits participants perceived at baseline and during the follow-up are shown in Table 2. The changes in the scores of \u201cworries about drug side effects\u201d and \u201cpositive expectation about the efficacy of the drugs\u201d over the follow-up are shown in Fig. 1. At baseline, when participants had not yet started to take PrEP, the score for \u201cworries about drug side effects\u201d was 2.97\u2009\u00b1\u20091.15, but it showed a decreasing trend during the follow-up. Participants had a relatively high expectation about the efficacy of the drugs at baseline (3.17\u2009\u00b1\u20091.36), and even though the score was 2.89\u2009\u00b1\u20091.41 at first follow-up, there was an increasing trend throughout the follow-up, which reached 3.72\u2009\u00b1\u20091.37 at the end. The scores of \u201cdisliked taking drugs\u201d and \u201cburden perceived during medication\u201d fluctuated at a low and moderate level throughout the follow-ups, respectively. The score of \u201crelationships between doctor and participants\u201d was high both at baseline (4.20\u2009\u00b1\u20091.13) and throughout the entire follow-up.\nOverall medication rate and scores of the barriers and benefits perceived during medication (mean\u2009\u00b1\u2009sd)\nmedication rate\ndislike of taking drugs\nworries about drugside effects\nburden perceived during medication\npositive expectations to medication\nfavorable doctor patient relationship\nGraph of the changes in the scores of positive expevtations to medication and worries about the drug\u2019s side effects and of predictive medication rate over the follow-up\nThe average medication rate for the entire cohort was 0.62\u2009\u00b1\u20090.37, and its changes during the follow-ups are shown in Table 2. The results of the linear mixed model used to analyse the factors associated with medication adherence are shown in Table 3. The changes of predictive medication rate over the follow-up are shown in Fig. 1. The \u03b2 coefficient for \u201ctime\u201d (meaning follow-up times and coded as 1 to 8) was significant (\u03b2\u2009=\u20090.014; 95% CI\u2009=\u20090.005\u20130.024), indicating that the medication rate increased slightly during the follow-up. After adjusting for potential confounding variables, participants who were divorced showed a higher medication rate (compared with those who were unmarried, \u03b2\u2009=\u20090.179; 95% CI\u2009=\u20090.047\u20130.311). \u201cPositive expectations towards medication\u201d, as a time-varying value, was positively associated with the medication rate over time (\u03b2\u2009=\u20090.033; 95% CI\u2009=\u20090.020\u20130.047), indicating that those with higher scores on positive expectations as to the efficacy of the medicine over time reported better adherence to medication over time. In addition, the more worried the participant was about drug side effects during the follow-up, the lower the medication rate (\u03b2\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.019; 95% CI\u2009=\u2009\u2212\u20090.035\u2212\u2212\u20090.003). However, the dislike of taking drugs, burden perceived during medication, and the relationship between the doctor and participant showed no correlation with the medication rate (P\u2009>\u20090.05).\nLinear mixed model for medication rate over time\n0.400~\u20090.683\n\u22120.039~\u20090.060\nMonthly income(RMB)\n\u2212\u20090.044~\u20090.023\n\u22120.019 ~\u20090.028\nFavorable doctor-patient relationship\nWorries about drug side effects\n\u22120.035~\u2009\u2212\u20090.003\n\u03b2: longitudinal linear regression coefficient for medication rate\nThis study is among the first to examine the potential factors related to PrEP adherence among MSM in a clinical trial in China, and its findings suggest that MSM\u2019s positive expectations towards medication was a facilitator, while their worries about drug side effects was a barrier to PrEP adherence during the whole course of medication.\nIn the present study, a positive expectation towards medication refers to their trust in the efficacy of the drugs, which was evaluated only at a moderate level during the first follow-up but increased as the follow-up continued. The medication rate became higher along with an increase in their expectations during the follow-up, suggesting that it is still urgent to make efforts to publicize the effectiveness of PrEP drugs. Although many clinical trials of PrEP have been conducted worldwide and TDF was first approved by the FDA as a preventive drug for the MSM population in 2012, this is the first clinical research on PrEP conducted in China and according to the previous surveys on the willingness to use PrEP among MSM in China, only 22% of MSM (308/1402) reported that they had heard of PrEP [24], and a similar rate was observed among female sex workers (16.5%, 264/1611) [25] indicating that MSM in China only have a relatively low awareness of PrEP and that the majority of them have very little understanding of this new biomedical HIV prevention strategy. Therefore, providing more clinical evidence to them may contribute to improving their adherence to medication. It has always been said that the efficacy of drugs depends on patient adherence, but efficacy and adherence may complement each other since positive expectations as to their efficacy encourages people to be more likely to take the medicine on their own initiative.\nIn addition, the more worried patients are about side effects, the lower the medication rate, which is consistent with not only those studies examining factors associated with willingness to use PrEP [26] but also results found in clinical trials [27, 28]. Unlike therapeutic drugs, few people would take a preventative drug if it has serious side effects, which is in line with the findings of Mustanski et al. [29] that PrEP is more likely to be used as a preventative strategy for HIV if it has a low burden of side effects and satisfactory benefits are perceived. The worries about drug side effects showed a declining trend in the MSM during the follow-ups, which may be related to the low incidence of adverse events during medication. In our entire follow-up, the main adverse events were nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea, all with a low incidence, and there were no serious adverse events reported. Therefore, in addition to positive expectations of drug efficacy affecting the medication rate, their confidence in the safety of the drugs was also an important facilitator of their medication, which suggested that we should provide them correct information about this drug, inform them of possible side effects, and help them during the follow-ups, thereby reducing their worries about the efficacy and safety of the drugs and improve their adherence to medication.\nThere was no relationship between disliking taking drugs and the medication rate. In our study, the dislike of taking drugs referred to disliking the drug formulation, taste and pill size. The TDF used in this study were white tablets with 300 mg/tablet. During the follow-ups, the score of the dislike of taking drugs was lowest, which means the drug formulation, taste and size were acceptable by participants to some extent.\nNo association between the burden perceived during medication and the medication rate was observed. We hypothesized that taking medicine would give their partners a sense that they are in HIV at-risk status, which may impact their adherence. However, we did not find any such relationship and considered that this may be related to the dosing strategy, in which daily oral drugs had more flexibility when compared with dosing \u2018on demand\u2019, another dosing strategy recommended for MSM (a double dose of TDF/FTC 2\u201324 h before each sexual intercourse, followed by two single doses of TDF/FTC, 24 and 48 h after the first drug intake), and with this dosing strategy (dosed \u2018on demand\u2019), Mutua et al. [30] found that the burden perceived during medication reduced adherence.\nHowever, the average medication rate during the entire follow-up was not very high. We believed that, other than the factors that we have examined in this study, there were some other barriers that existed and impacted the medication rate. In this study, we mainly focused on some attitudinal factors during medication and examined their relationships with adherence, which could provide some guidelines as to the implementation of clinical trials in China, and thus, it is the very first step in the promotion of PrEP in China. Nevertheless, medication is a long-term process, and long-term adherence to medication may be affected by many factors. For instance, patients may forgot to take their medicine, which has been reported in some studies [28, 31] and in our study; when we asked participants why they missed their doses, some reported that they forgot to take them sometimes. Thus, in the future, interventions should be developed to help remind people to take their medicine. In addition, supplying patients with additional correct information about the benefits and potential risks of the drugs, provided to both MSM and clinicians, their confidence in the drug efficacy could increase, and at the same time, their adherence could be improved.\nThere are some shortcomings in this study. First, we recruited the participants by non-probability sampling, which may lead to some bias and limit the generalizability of this study. In addition, even though we enrolled 575 MSM, 141 did not participate in at least one follow-up. However, when compared with those who were involved in all follow-ups, there were no significant differences in their attitudes (positive expectation about the efficacy of the drugs, worries about the drug side effects, the sense of burden perceived, doctor-participant relationship) in the baseline survey. The average number of follow-ups of the 411 participants was 3.5 times, and there was a certain loss to follow-up. Ensuring a high retention rate should be a priority in future clinical trials. In addition, we used the self-reported number of pills in the past two weeks to evaluate the medication rate. Self-report is the most widely used method to assess medication adherence; however, it may have some recall bias. [32]. Other approaches used in PrEP clinical trials in other countries such as pill counts, electronic monitoring device data, and blood drug level have their strengths and limitations, and therefore, a combination of two or more methods to evaluate adherence could be used in the next clinical trial [33].\nHow to obtain and maintain high medication adherence is the key in PrEP to achieve an effective reduction in HIV infection. The results of our study showed that the overall medication rate in the daily medication group is not high. Worries about the efficacy and safety of PrEP were factors influencing the medication rate. For MSM in China, we should work to increase their understanding of the effectiveness and safety of PrEP and increase their confidence in PrEP, thereby improving their medication adherence.\nMen Who Have Sex With Men Men Who Have Sex With Men\nTDF-FTC:\nTenofovir and Emtricitabine\nUSFDA:\nWe thank all participants and investigators in Chongqing, Sichuan, Xinjiang and Guangxi for their help.\nThis study was supported by the National Key Project for Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (grant number 2012ZX10001007\u2013007) and Chongqing Science & Technology Commission (No. cstc2013jcyjA10009).\nYH performed the data analyses and wrote the manuscript; XNZ was involved in the design of the study and collecting data in Chongqing, as well as the revision of the manuscript; BP, YZ, HL, JHD, JYZ was involved in the design of the study and collecting data. 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Aids & Behavior. 2017;22(5):1\u20139.Google Scholar", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 476, "original_length": 37256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 252.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bookgoodies.com/interview-with-author-chirag-jain/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:53Z", "digest": "sha1:OYZWB5QRONREYZ2GJTIHWWXPLHH4XFQF", "length": 2672, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "bookgoodies.com", "title": "Interview with Author \u2013 Chirag jain", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / *Reading Room / Interviews With Authors / Interview with Author \u2013 Chirag jain\nInterview with Author \u2013 Chirag jain\nAbout Chirag jain:\nAn author, a neuroplastician , a neuroscientist, a psychologist and a speaker who provokes \"\u200b Minds\"\u200bto search within themselves\u200b & be what they want to be .\nHe is the executive director and founder of Mindful Gurukul.\nHe has authored the book \"The laws of Neuroplasticity\" and What a comeback!.\nDr Chirag Jain has been practicing as a Surgical Consultant since last 10 years. He has completed Psychology at work from University of Western Australia.\nHe has done his diploma in psychology.\nHe has also formulated the laws of neuroplasticity and authored his second book collaborating the finding and research of various scientist in the field of Neurophysics and Neuroplasticity .His book explains the various autonomous connections in the neural circuit and how they affect our thought processes and decision making.\nWhat a come back is a book about coming back from any situation in life.I was fascinated about this subject when during my interventions with the participants.I saw a complete turn around in the personality of some of the participants.People who were not having any purpose or goals in life, started getting more focused.There were cases where some were going through difficult times like a divorce or abusive partners.They were able to resolve these issues.This prompted me to find out more and started writing the book.\nI started writing when I saw visible differences in the people whom i had intervened.The idea which was in my mind was chnging peoples personality and making them more resilient.This inspired me to write the bonk an reach out to people.The aim of the book is fulfilled if after reading the book,it can change the life of a single individual and help them in their comeback.\nwrite from your heart with the intention of reaching out to people and changing their lives.\nWhen I realized that I had to reach more people with the science of comeback.There has been many views of fixed thinking.The magnitude of the problem and its influence on decision making influenced me to write the book.\nIt needs to be more open and needs to shift from money making business to reaching out to people and helping the world to be a better place to live in.\nWhat genres do you write?: self-help,neuroscience\nWhat formats are your books in?: Print, Both eBook and Print\nLink To Chirag jain Page On Amazon\nLink to Author Page on Smashwords\nFiled Under: Interviews With Authors Tagged With: Chirag jain, comeback, neuroplasticity, neuropsychology, neuroscience., nevergiveup, resilence, whatacomeback", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 166, "original_length": 6570, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 325.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://booksbooksbooks.blog/2016/05/31/the-curse-of-the-bridal-chamber-by-hunter-murphy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:16:28Z", "digest": "sha1:IO7OA4XPTGNOXBK4D54T4XFWNITE7HQH", "length": 2483, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "booksbooksbooks.blog", "title": "The Curse of the Bridal Chamber by Hunter Murphy | Books Books Books", "raw_content": "\u2190 The Amazing Maurice and his educated rodents by Terry Pratchett\nColony of the Lost by Derik Cavigano \u2192\nThe Curse of the Bridal Chamber by Hunter Murphy\nRolltop Publishing\nThe indomitable senior sleuth Imogene and her outrageously endearing Alabama family find themselves in hot water while on a family vacation at a mermaid convention in sunny Florida. When Imogene and her brood, including Goose the bulldog, encounter a dead body floating in the freshwater springs beneath their glass-bottom boat, the local police immediately arrest one of the Alabama visitors for the crime.\nNow the aging amateur crime solver must exonerate her own family, but unearthing a killer among the park\u2019s past and present mermaids and employees promises to be no easy task, since so many of them are thrilled that the victim is sleeping with the fishes. And a decades-old curse that has deposited more than one dead body in the Bridal Chamber spring now seems focused on Imogene and her kin, who are wading into dangerous waters indeed. Witty and colourful, The Curse of the Bridal Chamber will keep you enthralled until the final surprising revelation\nI liked the idea behind this book, but it just didn\u2019t work for me, part of me is hoping that this is not the finished product, it is a very odd book, the first half of the story really jarred with me and seemed really disjointed, with the characters really over reacting at the situations they were in and it just didn\u2019t flow, after the 50% point, it was like a different writer had taken over and the story flowed so much better and the characters settled down.\nHowever, I really wanted to give the sisters Imogene and Agnes a good slap in the face, they were just so obnoxious, yet they are supposed to be the heroines of the pliece.\nI did like the relationships between Billy and Jackson, and Peter Luce and Frances, especially the later 2 who were beautifully defined.\nAnother gripe I have is that the book is too long for the story, a lot of the same things are gone over, when it is not necessary and the story with the monkey seemed pointless and could e removed without detriment to the story.\nIt is a shame because this story has the potential to be a very funny and good read, but it\u2019s just not for me in it\u2019s present form.\nI received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review for an honest review\nThis entry was posted in Crime, Humour and tagged Convention, Mermaid, Murder, Netgalley. 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Our team has extensive experience serving this niche\u2014providing tax and accounting services to clients that range from large fine-dining establishments to franchises and caterers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 302.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bostocksphotography.com/product/manhattan-glow/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:39:45Z", "digest": "sha1:CWVKY4ZBP46E4PLWEBTBUDMRKNMEOODF", "length": 652, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "bostocksphotography.com", "title": "Manhattan Glow \u2013 Bostocks Photography", "raw_content": "Manhattan \u2013 NYC, NY\nUntil you see New York City from the top of the Empire State Building, you haven\u2019t really seen it. The 360-degree views of the NYC skyline from the 86th floor observation deck are nothing short of spectacular. It wasn\u2019t long after arriving here that a storm rolled through, clearing a lot of the crowd off the deck and allowing me to find a good viewing area before the sun started to set. The rain continued to fall, and as the sun began to sink into the horizon, the colours of the sky turned a brilliant orange like nothing I had seen before. This was one of the best sunsets I\u2019ve seen in a while and a perfect ending to the day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 56, "original_length": 3343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 169.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bretttalk.com/bloglist/holiday-inn-at-the-chanhassen-dinner-theatre", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:34Z", "digest": "sha1:RHZ2WPWA57B7II5NQIU33NJAPA6DPPAC", "length": 6038, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "bretttalk.com", "title": "Holiday Inn at the Chanhassen Dinner Theatre \u2014 Brett Talk", "raw_content": "There is one thing I\u2019ve said before and I\u2019ll continue to say it again and again -- Chanhassen Dinner Theatre just gets it when it comes to musical theatre. They know how to entertain in all aspects of not only entertainment but also dining and hospitality. From the moment you walk into the building, you\u2019re under a spell in which you just know you\u2019re in for a treat. Clearly they are also doing something right because this October they celebrated their 50th birthday. Yes, that\u2019s right. This is a great milestone for any theatre and is celebrated across the state. Minnesota\u2019s very own Governor Mark Dayton proclaimed Friday, October 12, 2018 \u201cChanhassen Dinner Theatres Day.\u201d\nThe proclamation stated various facts about Chanhassen that shows their long and dedicated history and roots in Minnesota.During their run they\u2019ve staged over 237 professional theatrical productions across four different stages. These production also were designed and executed exclusively by Minnesota artists from the designers, to the performers and even the musicians. They are also the largest employer of musical theatre professionals in Minnesota, the largest professional dinner theatre company in the United States and is the home to the largest privately-owned restaurant operation in Minnesota. As you can see, again, there was plenty to celebrate which is why on their 50th birthday, Chanhassen celebrated celebrated with opening night of their current running show, Holiday Inn: The New Irving Berlin Musical.\nThis new musical is actually based on the Paramount Pictures film, from 1942, of the same name. The story involves a variety of performers who all have their own desires. Jim has a great life with his girlfriend Lila as they perform under the bright lights of show business every night. However Jim is longing for something more and wants to settle down in a farmhouse in Connecticut. After proposing to Lila and admitting to her that he bought the house, he agrees to live there for awhile until she\u2019s finished with her contract. However life doesn\u2019t go according to plan and Lila ends up breaking the engagement. While Jim feels lost without her, he meets Linda, a high spirited schoolteacher. He soon finds out she has a knack for singing and together, along with his new friend Louise, they turn the farmhouse into a beautiful inn that performs dazzling productions for various holidays. However when Jim\u2019s friend Ted tries to lure Linda away into the sparkling world of show business as his new dance partner, Jim but find a way to save her and the inn.\nOne of the most enjoyable aspects of this show is the music. While the story isn\u2019t as familiar to many theatre patrons, the score is full of hits that people of all ages will know. Some of them are classic tunes that we all know such as \u201cWhite Christmas\u201d and \u201cHeave Waves.\u201d Others are a bit more distinguished with an older crowd including \u201cBlue Skies\u201d and \u201cCheck to Cheek.\u201d These songs make the show more entertaining and the plot more palatable. The plot has some issues. While it does convey a happy go lucky time at an Inn with incredible choreography by Tamara Kangas Erickson, I wanted to know more of the stakes. The climax just wasn\u2019t there for me and when it did hit it just wasn\u2019t big enough. I wanted more excitement.\nThe Twin Cities and surrounding metro area is full of talented and extremely gifted performers. While the plot wasn\u2019t there, the performers were on top of these numbers! There was no small part at all as I felt even the large ensemble all got their individual moments. They sounded great and filled this quaint theatre with beautiful holiday music. Honestly I was ready for Christmas music after this show and it was still the middle of October! The four leads all are triple threats on the stage from their acting, to dancing and singing. Some excelled in various categories more than others but as a foursome, they light up the minute we see them. Jessica Fredrickson plays the almost whiny Lila and nails the role perfectly. Tony Vierling plays Ted and is an impressive dancer whose range and styles of dancing were shown off quite nicely. Ann Michels is a gorgeous voice that soars through the space filling every room. Michael Gruber plays Jim and humanizes him brilliantly. We all feel for him through his highs and lows.\nA new actress to my viewing pleasure, although certainly not to the Twin Cities scene, is Michelle Barber. Barber plays Louise, a local helper who used to work on the farmhouse before it was sold to Jim. She convinces him to let her stay and continue helping him. She is a big scene stealer in this production. Her antics are wild and hilarious with an Elaine Stritch type charm. She\u2019s sharp and honest which makes her easily the highlight of the show for me.\nI think what\u2019s truly special about this production is how the story runs parallels with the background of Chanhassen Dinner Theatres themselves. Before the show started, the daughter of the, now deceased, owners spoke a few words. She talked about how her parents created a dinner theatre in the middle of nowhere for performing art lovers and performers. This almost runs directly with the story of Holiday Inn which makes it feel even more special as apart of their 50th year. Also it was smart to do this show because I assume many people automatically think \u201cOh this is a Christmas musical,\u201d it actually does a nice job of splitting its time across various holidays. From a theatre administrative side it\u2019s brilliant to do it now where society is rushed through non stop holidays October through February\nOverall, Holiday Inn is still a delightful evening of incredible dancing, fabulous performing and magnificent artistry. Chanhassen has once again shown that they are not only one of a kind but also are here to stick around for another 50 years. It was announced as well that Chanhassen will be producing Mamma Mia as their next production and you can guarantee I\u2019ll be there!\nPhoto Credit: Tom Wallace, 2018\nChanhassen Dinner Theatre, Musical, Holiday", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 8442, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brewingindustryguide.com/kane-quality-is-job-one/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:53Z", "digest": "sha1:MOAGTNO6M2BAAHLISKTU5OEHMG4MOAB6", "length": 5426, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "brewingindustryguide.com", "title": "Kane: Quality Is Job One | Brewing Industry Guide", "raw_content": "As part of the second wave of current New Jersey breweries, Michael Kane has seen and experienced a lot of good and bad and climbed many hills that brewers in other states would take for granted.\nCBB // What was your plan in the beginning?\nMK // When we opened, the plan was to be a bit more focused, probably. But because of my homebrewing background, we\u2019re all over the place. We easily get distracted. We\u2019re probably not good at planning and making calendars and saying when something is going to come out and then letting everyone know about it. It\u2019s more like, \u201cHey, this sounds cool. Let\u2019s do that.\u201d\nCBB // You\u2019re known for IPAs and barrel-aged stouts, but occasionally you put out a lager. Why?\nMK // We had some brewers who really wanted to brew lagers, and we thought it was an interesting challenge. So, a year and a half ago, we started playing around with 20-barrel batches.\nCBB // But people won\u2019t line up for a beer like that. I find that fascinating because these are the beers you, as brewers, drink and like making, but there isn\u2019t a lot of beer-geek interest.\nMK // We do a lot of different beers, and there are a lot of different beers for different times. Sometimes it\u2019s a nice \u201chang on the beach with my friends and drink a beer\u201d beer, and then there are other times when I want to drink a 10 percent ABV coconut barrel-aged porter. We brew different beer for different times.\nI believe that we leave it to the customers to decide what they want to drink. When we do the lagers, we sell a lot of it to a different group. It\u2019s not the crowd that lines up for a barrel-aged stout, and that\u2019s fine. Not every beer we make needs the attention and the crowds here. Not everything needs to be a line-up beer.\nWe look at it internally that we sell different beers to different people, and that works for us.\nCBB // What is your hope for craft beer?\nMK // I hope the market can sustain all this. Craft beer has grown a lot in New Jersey and throughout the country. I think there were probably 1,200 to 1,500 breweries in the country when we opened, and now there are 6,000 to 7,000 breweries. You don\u2019t want the industry to turn and go through the same bubble it went through in the mid-to-late 1990s. I hope everyone is able to survive and find their niche and do what they need to do.\nCBB // What\u2019s that path?\nMK // I think the quality of beer is most important. People always ask me where the market is going, and I think it comes down to quality. If you make quality beer, you\u2019ll be fine. You can be a small entity\u2014you might not grow into a Lagunitas\u2014but you\u2019ll be fine and can support a good business.\nWe have a lot of brewers who have left to open their own breweries. That\u2019s been the largest source of turnover for us. When they leave, I tell them, \u201cIf you\u2019re happy running a small family business and being part of an interesting industry, that\u2019s great. If you have higher ambitions, maybe that\u2019s not going to happen.\u201d\nSo, my hope is that everyone can get out of the market what they want and that it doesn\u2019t collapse on itself. That\u2019s where we are. It\u2019s been an interesting seven years for us.\nCBB // I think quality is paramount. We talk a lot about what this industry needs, but quality isn\u2019t top of mind the way it should be because we are in an age where there are brewers putting out cans of IPA that explode, or things spoil, or infections get in, and God knows what else is happening inside the packaging. What do you see as your responsibility as a brewery owner and a brewer to talk to consumers about quality? Where does that conversation start?\nMK // I think it starts right here. I think we need to be the gatekeepers of quality, internally. I think we can try to hold ourselves to a really high standard of quality. If we\u2019re not happy with something, we don\u2019t want to release it. Whether it\u2019s beer quality, packaging quality, release quality, even customer-service quality, we\u2019ve had our challenges. I think brewery owners have to decide what is quality for them. Obviously, there are some brewery owners who are okay with releasing a can that will explode. That\u2019s not okay for me. So, I think it\u2019s the perspective of the brewery owner and the people working in the brewery to say what the quality standards are. Some things you can get away with now, but our quality measures are more of a long-term perspective. I think there are some things we do that you could get away with, but I think they will build on themselves over time, and we\u2019ll lose that perception of quality. That, to me, is important.\nCBB // You recently had to dump a batch.\nMK // We had a chiller go down. We had an accident in the industrial park we\u2019re in, and our chiller was down for a day, and we had a beer that we had brewed the day before get up to 88\u00b0F, and it wasn\u2019t a saison. So, you move on. You dump it. It\u2019s an accident that happens. We probably could have kept that beer and blended it into other batches, and no one would have noticed. But at the end of the day, if the beer is bad, you dump it and move on.\nIf internally, people think that quality isn\u2019t that important\u2014so they can shortcut on the tank cleaning or shortcut the measurements of the canning line\u2014I know no one really cares.\nCBB // It\u2019s like a game of follow the leader.\nMK // That\u2019s sort of how you have to look at quality. You need to look at how every brewery determines what is important from a quality perspective and then go from there.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 6943, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 253.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://brokenworldnews.com/2013/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:27Z", "digest": "sha1:QUVRGXK7JM2HXSL2RR6V5REHRRBVOFGG", "length": 1524, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "brokenworldnews.com", "title": "November | 2013 | Broken World News", "raw_content": "After Thanksgiving, Family Agrees to Meet Again When Grandma Dies\nIf the stuffing doesn\u2019t kill her now LINCOLN, NE\u2013Over the past several years, the Luther family has seen its once-huge gatherings become ever smaller. A decade ago, it was not [\u2026]\nJFK Assassination Re-enactment Highlight of Dallas 50th Anniversary Celebration\nJFK impersonator Lance Kendrick has waited years for this day DALLAS\u2013As the festivities surrounding the 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy came to a close, 150 [\u2026]\nPhoto of the suspect WASHINGTON, D.C.\u2013A two year-old Narragansett turkey is being described by police as the primary suspect in a quadruple homicide in Rock Creek Park. The victims, two [\u2026]\nNovember 21, 2013 by Sal Kingfisher 4 Comments\nLevine was also named Sexiest Man Alive by Homeless Weekly HOLLYWOOD\u2013People Magazine is being lauded by members of the LGBT community following the announcement of Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine [\u2026]\nDeath Toll From Crimson Tide Coach Nick Saban\u2019s Weekly Press Conference Now at Three\nSaban counts the number of reporters he\u2019s killed TUSCALOOSA, AL\u2013James Cale, a beat reporter for the Birmingham Daily Press, has died from injuries he sustained Monday during Alabama Crimson Tide [\u2026]\nStudy Finds Mid-East Hatred of America Mostly Focused on Rhode Island Man\nDeath to America! Especially to Ralph Morgan! WASHINGTON D.C.\u2013In a joint study conducted by the Arab American Institute and the Central Intelligence Agency, researchers have discovered that the majority of [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 5769, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 269.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://buffalonews.com/1997/07/29/casting-the-net-for-womens-medical-information/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:06Z", "digest": "sha1:VRLA4T4ACXK2FMYHUDTTQ5XFAIDTIDA7", "length": 5108, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "buffalonews.com", "title": "CASTING THE NET FOR WOMEN\u2019S MEDICAL INFORMATION \u2013 The Buffalo News", "raw_content": "CASTING THE NET FOR WOMEN'S MEDICAL INFORMATION\nBy ANDREW Z. GALARNEAU AND NICOLE PERADOTTO, DONN ESMONDE, NICOLE PERADOTTO AND LOU MICHEL, Nicole Peradotto, NICOLE PERADOTTO AND GREGORY N. RACZ, NICOLE PERADOTTO AND PAULA VOELL, NICOLE PERADOTTO NEWS BOOK REVIEWER, NICOLE PERADOTTO NEWS STAFF CRITIC, NICOLE PERADOTTO NEWS STAFF REPORTER and NICOLE PERADOTTO NEWS STAFF REVIEWER|Published Tue, Jul 29, 1997\nThe cyber-doctor is in - very in.\nWorld Wide Web sites offering medical information are spreading as quickly as a virus, and everyone's getting infected. This month, for example, about 800,000 visitors are expected to visit Med Help International's vast online library. And that number is expected to double in the coming months.\nFor women with Internet access, this means they can join chat groups to discuss menopause. Look up the latest research on osteoporosis. Ask a doctor about mammograms, and receive an e-mail answer within hours.\n\"These (sites) can be very helpful,\" says local pediatrician Richard Judelsohn. \"There are a lot of complaints from patients that they're not getting adequate information from their physicians. So these can be used to investigate or augment the information they already receive.\"\nDistinguishing science from snake oil on the Net, however, is another matter, he warns.\n\"The consumer has to be very, very wary. If anything is suggested as a methodology of treatment on the Internet, it should always be reviewed with the patient's physician. If followed blindly, such information could be potentially harmful.\"\nWith that advice in mind, The Buffalo News went surfing for women's health sites. We landed on a few that looked good at first glance but, on closer inspection, proved to be nothing more than advertisements -- including one hawking a computerized menstrual planner.\nAnother had an online \"psychiatrist\" offering advice, but not her credentials.\nAfter a byte-by-byte examination, we found six sites to recommend.\n1. Obstetrics and Gynecology\nhttp://www.obgyn.net\nFourteen physicians make up the advisory board of this helpful site devoted to myriad physical and emotional health issues. Doctors write the articles, which include such recent offerings as \"The Pap Test\" and \"Laparoscopy: What Is It, When Is It Done and What Can It Do?\" There are book suggestions, an archive of New York Times women's health stories and chat rooms. \"Ask the Woman Doctor\" allows you to ask your health question and receive an e-mail reply.\n2. Med Help International\nPropelled by the frustrating experience of having to make decisions for her ailing mother without adequate information, Cindy Williams co-founded this site three years ago. Since then it has grown to be one of the most popular health-related sites. One of Med Help's most useful features is its impressive library, the largest online one of its kind, with information from such reputed sources as the National Institutes of Health, Columbia and Harvard Universities and the Mayo Clinic. How it works: Click on the medical library, type in the term you want to search, and you'll be guided to a medical glossary, up-to-date articles, graphics and information about support groups. (Note: This is not just for women.)\n3. Breast Cancer Information Clearinghouse\nhttp://nysernet.org/bcic/\nThis site is easy to follow, offering a list of toll-free numbers and hot lines, breast cancer-related topics indexed by subject, up-to-date information on relevant New York State legislation and heaps of other nicely presented information. The site is maintained by the New York State Education and Research Network.\n4. Barnard/Columbia Women's Handbook\ngopher://gopher.cc.columbia.edu:7 1/1 1/publications/women\nLet's talk about safe sex, baby. And while we're at it, let's talk about eating disorders, body image, disabilities, sexuality, relationships, alcoholism and mental health. This text-only site consists of 54 chapters of frank, reliable information.\n5. Women's Health Hot Line Home Page\nhttp://www.catalog.com/softinfo/womens-health.html\nIn addition to articles about fitness and diet, medical journalist Charlotte Libov's online newsletters tackle those health issues often associated with men. Some headlines of issues past: \"Young Women Not 'Immune' to Heart Disease\" and \"Colon Cancer: An Equal Opportunity Killer.\" She also includes a \"new books\" section and useful tidbits, such as where to receive a free mammogram. This is a site to check out when you want to learn what's new in women's health.\n6. Power Surge: A Virtual Community for Women in \"The Pause\"\nhttp://members.aol.com/dearest/intro.htm\nTwo flashes of virtual lightning flash on the screen and -- zap! -- you're inside Power Surge, one of the rare women's health sites that combines solid information with snazzy graphics, humor and wit. The online brainchild of New York City writer Alice Lotto Stamm, Power Surge offers question-and-answer sessions with a variety of medical, health and exercise experts, including NBC News health and medical correspondent Robert Arnot, exercise guru Denise Austin and \"Passages\" author Gail Sheehy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 6784, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://burmese.voanews.com/a/a-27-a-2004-10-18-1-1-93483844/1228317.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:21Z", "digest": "sha1:3RVVCKJFDX6JVJQFHRX3O5RSVXAIWA5L", "length": 689, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "burmese.voanews.com", "title": "Meeting on Burma Democracy Urges Release of Aung San Suu Kyi - 2004-10-18", "raw_content": "Meeting on Burma Democracy Urges Release of Aung San Suu Kyi - 2004-10-18\nAn international conference on restoring democracy in Burma has called for the immediate release of opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.\nThe conference, held in New Delhi, urged Burma's neighbors to put more pressure on the country's military rulers. It also urged the start of negotiations involvng all parties concerned for an early return to democracy in Burma.\nDelegates from 14 countries took part in the conference, which was convened by India's former defense minister George Fernandes.\nThe convention comes a week before Burmese military leader Than Shwe is to make a state visit to India.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 7111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 131.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://buyolympia.com/Artist/Amy+Cotler", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:09Z", "digest": "sha1:WAWYSW6SR65DKLMA5CHCJTOQ23MW2TWT", "length": 54, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "buyolympia.com", "title": "Amy Cotler at buyolympia.com", "raw_content": "Discover and Enjoy the Pleasures of Locally Grown Food", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 1959, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.81, "perplexity": 250.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://bwhbulletin.org/2015/03/12/link-between-genetics-and-clinical-response-to-warfarin-uncovered/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:10:03Z", "digest": "sha1:NGHJWE65RLNSEH36TPEQSWRKYHVXSRV7", "length": 3384, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "bwhbulletin.org", "title": "Link Between Genetics and Clinical Response to Warfarin Uncovered | Brigham Bulletin", "raw_content": "Link Between Genetics and Clinical Response to Warfarin Uncovered\nIn a study published in The Lancet on March 10, researchers from BWH reported that patients with a genetic sensitivity to warfarin\u2014the most widely used drug for preventing blood clots\u2014have higher rates of bleeding during the first several months of treatment. These patients benefited from treatment with a different anticoagulant drug. Analyses from the TIMI Study Group, which has conducted numerous cardiovascular disease clinical trials since its founding in 1984, suggest that using genetics to identify patients who are most at risk of bleeding, and tailoring treatment accordingly, could offer important safety benefits, particularly in the first 90 days of treatment.\n\u201cWe were able to look at the data of patients from around the world who were being treated with warfarin and found that certain genetic variants make a difference for an individual\u2019s risk for bleeding,\u201d said Jessica Mega, MD, MPH, a cardiologist at BWH, senior investigator in the TIMI Study Group and lead author of the paper. \u201cFor these patients who are sensitive or highly sensitive responders based on genetics, we observed a higher risk of bleeding in the first several months with warfarin, and consequently, a big reduction in bleeding when treated with the anticoagulant drug edoxaban instead of warfarin.\u201d\nWarfarin has been in clinical use for 60 years. Genetics has been thought to influence an individual\u2019s sensitivity to the drug, and the FDA label for warfarin notes that genetic variants in two genes can help determine the right warfarin dose for an individual. But a conclusive link between variation in these two genes and bleeding had only been debated.\nResearchers used data from the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 trial, an international trial in which patients with atrial fibrillation\u2014an irregular, often rapid heart rate\u2014received either a high dose of edoxaban, a lower dose of edoxaban or warfarin to prevent blood clots from forming in the heart and leading to stroke. TIMI investigators were able to observe important connections between genetic differences and patient outcomes. The trial represents the largest study of this kind to date and included nearly three years of follow-up with participants.\nIn ENGAGE-TIMI 48, patients were randomly assigned treatment and followed over time. The research team divided 14,000 study participants into three categories based on genetic makeup: normal responders, sensitive responders or highly sensitive responders. During the first 90 days, sensitive and highly sensitive responders who received warfarin experienced significantly higher rates of bleeding compared to normal responders. As a result, during this early time period, edoxaban was more effective than warfarin at reducing bleeding in sensitive and highly sensitive responders.\n\u201cThese findings demonstrate the power of genetics in personalizing medicine and tailoring specific therapies for our patients,\u201d said Marc Sabatine, MD, MPH, a cardiologist at BWH, chairman of the TIMI Study Group and senior author of the paper.\nWarfarin remains the most common anticoagulant in part due to economics and availability, but several novel oral anticoagulants have entered the market. Edoxaban received FDA approval for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation earlier this year based on the results of the ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 trial.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4271, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 296.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCABRE91J19U20130220", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:55Z", "digest": "sha1:PKFEFVFP4OLI2OS7ZTQMGOWS4WSFNSQ3", "length": 2052, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Bombardier signs deal with Ilyushin for up to 42 jets | Reuters", "raw_content": "Bombardier signs deal with Ilyushin for up to 42 jets\nTORONTO (Reuters) - Bombardier Inc (BBDb.TO) said on Wednesday it has inked a deal to sell Russian aircraft leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co up to 42 of its new C-series jetliners in a deal that could be worth as much as $3.42 billion.\nVisitors take photos in front of a Bombardier Global 6000 commercial plane at the China International Aviation & Aerospace Exhibition in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai November 12, 2012, one day before its official opening on Tuesday. REUTERS/Bobby Yip\nThe agreement, which is subject to a vote by Ilyushin shareholders, expands on a tentative agreement signed in 2011 to buy at least 10 of the aircraft.\nMontreal-based Bombardier\u2019s shares rose about 3 percent in the final 20 minutes of trading after the deal was announced. The shares finished the session up 4.1 percent at C$4.28 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.\nIlyushin will buy 32 of Bombardier\u2019s 130-seat CS300 jetliners for about $2.56 billion, based on the list price of the aircraft. It has an option to purchase another 10 jets, which could bring the total value to about $3.42 billion, Bombardier said.\n\u201cUltimately, it\u2019s a good deal in that it seems to quite a bit bigger than was originally envisaged,\u201d said David Tyerman, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity.\nHe cautioned that large deals with leasing companies tend to be finalized at lower prices, which can make it harder for airlines to squeeze margins from them.\nBombardier, the world\u2019s No. 3 plane maker and largest passenger train manufacturer, said in November it was delaying by six months the inaugural flight of the C-series planes, which mark an attempt to muscle into the mid-size jet market dominated by Boeing (BA.N) and Airbus EAD.PA.\nThe CS300 is not expected to enter service until the end of 2014.\nAs of the end of 2012, Bombardier had booked orders and commitments for 382 C-series aircraft, it said.\nBombardier will report fourth-quarter results on Thursday,\nReporting By Cameron French; Editing by Gary Hill and Leslie Adler", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2992, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 211.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idCAL1N1OK1N6", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:00Z", "digest": "sha1:XPKHGNK5MVHFECYKDMZME4IT4EZJ6MON", "length": 621, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Canada's Manitoba province trims deficit forecast | Reuters", "raw_content": "Canada's Manitoba province trims deficit forecast\nWINNIPEG, Manitoba, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Manitoba shaved its deficit forecast for the 2017-18 fiscal year on Wednesday to C$827 million ($644.28 million) from C$840 million, and said the economy was growing faster than expected.\nManitoba\u2019s economy, which depends on farming, manufacturing and mining, is expected to expand by 2.3 percent in 2017, compared to an estimated of 2 percent last spring, Finance Minister Cameron Friesen said in a report. ($1 = 1.2836 Canadian dollars) (Reporting by Rod Nickel in Winnipeg, Manitoba, editing by G Crosse)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 227.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idCABRE95M0B120130623", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:11Z", "digest": "sha1:EKC7AM4OI6HB5HKTD2KSJRUBRY5OIM2F", "length": 4246, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "'Monsters University' scares zombies to lead box office | Reuters", "raw_content": "'Monsters University' scares zombies to lead box office\nRonald Grover, Chris Michaud\n(Reuters) - \u201cMonsters University,\u201d the prequel to Pixar\u2019s 2001 animated blockbuster \u201cMonsters, Inc.,\u201d scared up $82 million in weekend ticket sales to easily outdistance the week\u2019s other new movie, the big-budget apocalyptic thriller \u201cWorld War Z,\u201d which came in with an impressive haul of $66 million.\nLife-sized characters of Mike (R) and Sullivan pose at the premiere of the film \"Monsters University\" at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California June 17, 2013. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni\n\u201cWorld War Z,\u201d, the story of a zombie pandemic starring Brad Pitt, was Pitt\u2019s biggest opening weekend ever, easily outpacing the $50.3 million for \u201cMr. And Mrs. Smith.\u201d\nLast week\u2019s top movie, the Superman reboot \u201cMan of Steel\u201d, was third with ticket sales of $41.2 million.\n\u201cMonsters University,\u201d featuring the voices of Billy Crystal and John Goodman as monsters who flunk out of the college\u2019s scare program, continued the tradition of hugely successful films produced by Pixar, a unit of the Walt Disney Co.\nIt was Pixar\u2019s 14th consecutive film to head the box office for the weekend it premiered in theaters, according to Paul Dergarabedian, president of Hollywood.com\u2019s box office division, easily outpacing industry projections of a $70 million weekend.\n\u201cIt definitely exceeded our expectations,\u201d said Dave Hollis, executive vice president of distribution for Walt Disney Studios. \u201cThe first film was so beloved and set such a high bar so we\u2019re ecstatic.\u201d\nHollis said \u201cMonsters University\u201d was boosted by word of mouth.\n\u201cIt\u2019s turned into a bit of a date night option,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd there haven\u2019t been a lot of family options in the marketplace.\u201d\nDistributed by Paramount Pictures, \u201cWorld War Z\u201d was delayed from its initially planned December release after the studio decided to reshoot the final third, pushing its budget from $170 million to more than $200 million, according to published reports.\nParamount said the film, which Pitt produced, cost $190 million to produce. Pitt stars as a former U.N. crisis specialist called upon to help defeat zombies who threaten to take over the planet.\nThe film had been forecast to rack up ticket sales of about $50 million, according to Hollywood.com\u2019s box office division, while the studio said it was looking to the high 40s, given the competition from \u201cMonsters\u201d and \u201cMan of Steel.\u201d\n\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a person on the planet who thought this would open at $66 million,\u201d said Don Harris, Paramount\u2019s president of distribution. \u201cThese are pretty heady numbers.\u201d\n\u201cWe\u2019re in really good shape\u201d heading into the lucrative peak summer season weeks including the July 4 holiday, Harris said.\n\u201cAnd we certainly broadened the audience,\u201d he added, noting the film\u2019s 51 percent female-49 percent male audience breakdown, unusual for a big budget summer action film.\n\u201cMan of Steel,\u201d which stars British actor Henry Cavill as the muscled superhero, has generated domestic ticket sales of $210 million, already more than 2006\u2019s \u201cSuperman Returns,\u201d which starred Brandon Routh and took in just over $200 million.\nDirected by Zack Snyder, the current version was distributed by Warner Bros.\n\u201cThis Is the End,\u201d the apocalyptic comedy written by star Seth Rogen and his childhood friend Evan Goldberg, collected $13 million to take fourth place in the United States and Canada.\n\u201cNow You See Me,\u201d starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as magicians who evade the police after high-profile robberies, was fifth with ticket sales of $7.9 million, pushing its total domestic take to just under $95 million.\n\u201cDespicable Me 2,\u201d which opens July 3 in North America, had a strong debut in Australia where Universal opted to open the film early to coincide with winter school holidays. The film took in $4.3 million, added to $2.1 million from paid previews last week.\n\u201cMonsters University\u201d was distributed by the Walt Disney Co. Warner Brothers, a unit of Time Warner, distributed \u201cMan of Steel.\u201d Viacom\u2019s Paramount Pictures unit distributed \u201cWorld War Z.\u201d Sony\u2019s film studio distributed \u201cThis is the End.\u201d \u201cNow You See Me\u201d was distributed by Lions Gate Entertainment.\nReporting By Ronald Grover and Chris Michaud; Editing by Bill Trott", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 5331, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 211.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCABRE9BG16M20131217", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:45Z", "digest": "sha1:QNJ44SAIRTAY54SVFSVRFYW5PJ6R3Q5G", "length": 2364, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Nearly half of Americans like 'Happy Holidays' as greeting: poll | Reuters", "raw_content": "Nearly half of Americans like 'Happy Holidays' as greeting: poll\nCHICAGO (Reuters) - Nearly half of Americans say stores and businesses should greet customers with \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d or \u201cSeason\u2019s Greetings\u201d instead of \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d out of respect for people of different faiths, according to a poll released on Tuesday.\nPeople carrying shopping bags leave a shopping store advertising sales in New York, December 24, 2012. REUTERS/Keith Bedford\nThe issue has become increasingly political, with 49 percent of Americans supporting \u201cHappy Holidays,\u201d up from 44 percent in 2010, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. A minority, 43 percent, prefer the specifically religious greeting.\n\u201cAmericans seem to be turning a corner on the appropriateness of more inclusive holiday greetings during December,\u201d said Robert Jones, CEO of PRRI.\nOpinions split along political lines - 61 percent of Republicans favor using \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d instead of \u201cHappy Holidays,\u201d while 58 percent of Democrats say the opposite.\nAmong white evangelical Protestants, 62 percent would prefer that businesses use the religious greeting. However, most minority Protestants (55 percent), the religiously unaffiliated (58 percent) and half of Catholics (50 percent) favor the more generic greeting.\nThe answers also differ by generation. About two-thirds of young adults, ages 18-29, support stores using a non-religious greeting, as opposed to 39 percent of American seniors, the poll found.\nSome conservative pundits have criticized the use of \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d as a sign that religious festivities have come under secular attack. This year, Texas passed a \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d law, allowing public school students and staff to say \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d and sing Christmas songs without fear of punishment.\nGordon Billingsley, 58, of Overland Park, Kansas, said he\u2019s fine with any holiday greeting.\n\u201cWhy should I be offended by someone who is choosing to be inclusive as they offer me a kindness?\u201d Billingsley said. \u201cIt makes it no less kind, and it sort of gives me some hope that the spirit of the season can reach across our differences.\u201d\nThe telephone and cell phone survey of 1,056 randomly selected adults was conducted from December 4-12 and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.\nReporting by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Gunna Dickson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 3367, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 292.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCABREA0N17220140124", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:52Z", "digest": "sha1:BGFBWZBMTXXH34LAL4TDYAEPZTDPU3NR", "length": 3229, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ca.reuters.com", "title": "Real Philomena calls for changes to Irish adoption laws | Reuters", "raw_content": "Real Philomena calls for changes to Irish adoption laws\nDUBLIN (Reuters) - The 80-year-old Irish woman who inspired the Oscar-nominated film \u201cPhilomena\u201d launched a campaign calling for access to adoption records on Friday, hoping her story will highlight the plight of tens of thousands.\nActor Steve Coogan from the film\" Philomena\", an Oscar Best Picture nominee, arrives with Philomena Lee, whose life was featured in the film, at the 25th Annual Producers Guild of America Awards in Beverly Hills, California January 19, 2014. REUTERS/Fred Prouser\nPhilomena Lee\u2019s 50-year search for the son she was forced to give up as a teenager has struck a chord with movie fans across the world and received four Academy Award nominations last week, including one for actress Judi Dench, who plays Lee.\nLaunching the \u201cPhilomena Project\u201d, Lee called on Dublin to legislate for the release of more than 60,000 files withheld by the state, private adoption agencies and the Catholic Church that are the sole source of many adopted peoples\u2019 identities.\nLee, who like many unmarried mothers in 1950s Ireland was forced to work in convent laundries while their children were put up for adoption, said access to records would have provided a different outcome to her story.\n\u201cIt would have meant an awful lot to me, I would have found him. He died thinking I had abandoned him and never found out that I was truly looking for him as he was looking for me,\u201d said Lee, who was unable to find her son before his death.\n\u201cI think a lot of people my age are very reluctant to come forward. I would advise them sincerely to come out with their stories because a lot of their babies are looking for them and they (the government) won\u2019t tell them their origin.\u201d\nA report last year into the notorious Magdalene Laundries where women and girls were subjected to an uncompromising regime of harsh discipline and unpaid work shone a light onto a dark chapter of Ireland\u2019s past that Prime Minister Enda Kenny described as \u201ca national shame\u201d.\nThe report\u2019s findings followed investigations into clerical sex abuse and state-abetted cover-ups that have shattered the authority of the church in Ireland and rocked the Catholic Church\u2019s reputation worldwide.\nThe government has said it is preparing a bill to deal with the tracing of adoption information. But the Adoption Rights Alliance accused ministers of simply paying lip service, as a 1998 Supreme Court ruling would still deprive adopted people of the right to know their origins.\nThe Adoption Rights Alliance, which will work alongside the \u201cPhilomena Project\u201d, said sufficient changes would move the south of Ireland in line with Northern Ireland where, under British law, adopted people have access to their records.\n\u201cThere is a moral imperative on the government\u2019s part to act and act soon before more mothers die. In pretending to protect those mothers\u2019 rights, they are in fact trampling all over the human rights of adopted people,\u201d the group\u2019s co-founder Susan Lohan said.\n\u201cBy preventing adopted people from discovering this information, they\u2019re in clear breach of so many international covenants, so I suspect we\u2019re going to have to bring the government kicking and screaming all the way to the UN.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 52, "original_length": 4246, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ca.vonzipper.com/shop/FCG", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:15Z", "digest": "sha1:AJJDMAGMY4KW7VMMT34JFHYHD6776DFZ", "length": 937, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ca.vonzipper.com", "title": "VonZipper - Sunglasses : F.c.g.", "raw_content": "The fundamental premise of the Freethinkers Conspiracy Guild is that all people have the right to do everything in their power to achieve the greatest amount of pleasure possible to them. The Guild applauds those who question and challenge national myths, strive to be above the chains of mediocrity and seek the greater forms of life\u2019s indulgences. A Society of individuals, Freethinkers, opinions are formed on the basis of an understanding and rejection of tradition, authority or established belief proposed by the trappings of common acceptance.\nThe Guild is a challenge to the direction of eyewear and a direct interpretation of the truths found within the \u201cFCG.\u201d The effects of authority, conformity, or conventional wisdom of popular culture does not limit the collection. Forward thinking and more contemporary than ordinary, these frames are styled independent of any logical fallacies.\nDoubt everything.. Find your own light\u2026.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 5384, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 253.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2010/06/jeremiah-burroughs-the-gospel-of-christ/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:20Z", "digest": "sha1:24FJAXOZHH7JF5SMI7W6EWZAYBWP4TF3", "length": 2008, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "caffeinatedthoughts.com", "title": "Jeremiah Burroughs: The Gospel of Christ | Caffeinated Thoughts", "raw_content": "Jeremiah Burroughs: The Gospel of Christ\nZaun Wins: Thoughts on Iowa\u2019s 3rd District Congressional Race\nFrom Puritan Clergyman and Writer Jeremiah Burroughs (1600-1646):\nThe gospel of Christ in general is this: It is the good tidings that God has revealed concerning Christ. More largely it is this: As all mankind was lost in Adam and became the children of wrath, put under the sentence of death, God, though He left His fallen angels and has reserved them in the chains of eternal darkness, yet He has thought upon the children of men and has provided a way of atonement to reconcile them to Himself again\u2026Namely, the second person of the Trinity takes man\u2019s nature upon Himself, and becomes the Head of a second covenant, standing charged with sin. He answers for it by suffering what the law and divine justice required, and by making satisfaction by keeping the law perfectly, which satisfaction and righteousness He tenders up to the Father as a sweet savor of rest for the souls that are given to Him\u2026And now this mediation of Christ is, by the appointment of the Father, preached to the children of men, of whatever nation or rank, freely offering this atonement unto sinners for atonement, requiring them to believe in Him and, upon believing, promising not only a discharge of all their former sins, but that they shall not enter into condemnation, that none of their sins or unworthiness shall ever hinder the peace of God with them, but that they shall through Him be received into the number of those who shall have the image of God again to be renewed unto them, and they they shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation.\nDavid Brooks of The New York Times has written a piece about\u2026\nWhat God Foreknows\nI decided while waiting for an appointment that I\u2019ll get a discussion\u2026\nThe Duggars Under Fire\nThe latest issue of People magazine has the Duggar family featured in\u2026\nThe Sun Stands Still (Joshua 10:1-15)\n10:1 As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 3178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 277.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://calcoastnews.com/2017/06/arroyo-grande-man-killed-humvee-accident-fort-hunter-liggett/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:28Z", "digest": "sha1:M6DN5XPNKB7AU3XHCKNZKM3R36BXBSQI", "length": 1010, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "calcoastnews.com", "title": "Arroyo Grande man killed in Humvee accident at Fort Hunter Liggett", "raw_content": "Arroyo Grande man killed in Humvee accident at Fort Hunter Liggett\nDoug Bathe\nAn Arroyo Grande man who was working as a civilian contractor for the United States Army was struck and killed by a Humvee at Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County on Friday morning. Officials have released sparse information about the incident.\nAccording to Bathe\u2019s LinkedIn profile, he worked for the U.S. Army for the last 20 years, serving various roles including being a civil affairs commander and an agriculture chief in Afghanistan. Previously, Bathe served in the Marine Corps and National Guard.\nFor the past 24 years, Bathe also owned and operated a family farm in Arroyo Grande. Walnuts were his cash crop, according to his LinkedIn page.\nSubjects: Arroyo Grande death investigation fatal collisions fatality U.S. Army\nFresno gangsters fracture woman\u2019s skull on Avila Pier\nWoman killed in solo crash near Santa Margarita\nTruly a tragedy. Doug was a great guy and a true Patriot.\nHe will be sorely missed by many in A.G.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 3868, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/sait-gets-20-million-in-federal-money-for-energy-efficient-upgrades", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:40Z", "digest": "sha1:673CG4QEEH65XQF2S4THUPQLHDE7FMVE", "length": 3832, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "calgaryherald.com", "title": "SAIT gets $20 million in federal money for energy-efficient upgrades | Calgary Herald", "raw_content": "SAIT gets $20 million in federal money for energy-efficient upgrades\nSAIT students and officials pose for photo after Federal Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan announced $20.7 million in funding for the Calgary post secondary institution on Wednesday October 12, 2016. Gavin Young/Postmedia\tGavin Young Gavin Young / Postmedia\nCalgary\u2019s SAIT campus plans to upgrade aging facilities and improve energy efficiency thanks to a $20-million boost from the federal government.\nOfficials say funding announced Wednesday through the Post-Secondary Institutions Strategic Investment Fund (SIF) will allow for improvements in three unique projects.\nSAIT\u2019s Green Building Technologies Lab and Demonstration Centre will expand advanced research and training opportunities, but will also aim to meet a net-zero energy standard.\nUpgrades to the John Ware Building, as well as mechanical and electrical improvements to the Senator Burns Building, will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent.\nThe projects combined are expected to create more than 270 jobs at any given time over the course of construction.\n\u201cGood jobs begin with a good education, which is why it\u2019s critical that we support our colleges, universities and technical training institutes,\u201d said Marlin Schmidt, Minister of Advanced Education.\n\u201cThese key infrastructure investments ensure Albertans have access to state-of-the-art learning and training facilities, while addressing the need to create jobs and diversify our economy.\u201d\nKirsty Duncan, Federal Minister of Science announces $20.7 million in funding for SAIT at the Calgary post secondary institution on Wednesday October 12, 2016. Gavin Young/Postmedia Gavin Young Gavin Young / Postmedia\nFederal Minister of Science Kristy Duncan added that encouraging scientific awareness in Alberta and across Canada depends on supporting world-class scientists and researchers.\n\u201cInvestments like this can help make our country among the world\u2019s leading nations in the development and use of clean and sustainable technologies and processes, while also creating well-paying jobs for Canadians. Through the Strategic Investment Fund we are helping to strengthen the foundation for building scientific excellence in Canada.\u201d\nDavid Ross, president and CEO of SAIT, said \u201cthe impact of this funding extends beyond infrastructure. This is an investment in our students, applied education and the economy.\n\u201cIt will help us continue to innovate, provide relevant programs and set our students up for success, ensuring they are career-ready when they graduate.\u201d\nMeanwhile, the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) in Edmonton received $35 million to construct a new Productivity and Innovation Centre, which will support several applied research programs.\nUpgrades for SAIT\u2019s John Ware Building is one of the primary uses for $20.7 million in new federal funding announced at the Calgary post secondary institution on Wednesday October 12, 2016. Gavin Young/Postmedia Gavin Young Gavin Young / Postmedia\nWork at this new centre will focus on finding efficiencies in manufacturing processes, facilitating the adoption of new technologies, and developing and commercializing prototypes.\nWednesday\u2019s federal funding investments will work in conjunction with provincial funding received by Alberta post-secondary institutions.\nUnder Budget 2016, the Alberta Jobs Plan, the province provided $449 million for post-secondary capital projects and upgrades in the province.\nAcross Canada, the federal government\u2019s Post-Secondary Institutions SIF is a time-limited program that will provide up to $2 billion over the next two years to accelerate infrastructure projects at universities and colleges across Canada.\nSAIT celebrates centennial with public party Suspect in shooting of RCMP officer near Golden wanted for murder...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 318, "original_length": 9336, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://californiahealthline.org/news/high-risk-pools-may-need-lower-expectations/view/republish/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:52Z", "digest": "sha1:BHNWCHSTSE536L6VSXSS5V2XWRZUHV7T", "length": 9901, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "californiahealthline.org", "title": "High-Risk Pools May Need Lower Expectations | California Healthline", "raw_content": "High-Risk Pools May Need Lower Expectations\nBy Dan Diamond, California Healthline Contributing Editor June 2, 2010\nThere\u2019s less than a month before the first major coverage expansion under the health reform law takes effect, when states are slated to begin opening temporary high-risk insurance pools. However, the ramp-up ahead of the pools\u2019 launch has emerged as a microcosm of the past year\u2019s health debate. Governors have split \u2014 largely along party lines \u2014 over whether their states will participate in the pools, analysts are concerned about the program\u2019s unintended consequences and a new report suggests the program\u2019s promise outstrips its funding.\nParticipation in Pools Splits States\nState regulators have significant experience with high-risk pools \u2014 the model is three decades old and covers about 200,000 residents in 35 states \u2014 but typically high premiums and long wait lists render the option unreachable for many uninsured residents. Meanwhile, the premiums are not nearly high enough to pay claims, leaving states to typically cover about 40% of the cost.\nCalifornia\u2019s existing pool, the Major Risk Medical Insurance Program, is among the nation\u2019s stingiest. The high-risk pool of the nation\u2019s most populous state caps insurance benefits at $75,000 and enrollment at 7,100, less than 2% of its uninsured population, compared with more than 15,000 for Oregon\u2019s high-risk pool.\nThe new federally funded pools are intended to run from July 2010 through January 2014, aiming to offer immediate relief to the most uninsurable people with pre-existing conditions before sweeping changes expand health coverage to millions in 2014. States\u2019 proposals on how they would administer the pools were due to HHS this week, and the agency is expected to approve those proposals and begin disbursing $5 billion in program funds on July 1. The new pools might work side-by-side with existing state programs or, in some cases, absorb them altogether.\nAbout two-thirds of the states, including California, will participate in the program, although there may be little technical difference in states that opted out of the pools, as the federal government says it will guarantee coverage for residents in those states. Moreover, some smaller states reportedly could benefit from participating in a larger, federal pool, which would spread the risk further. At the same time, the more states that operate their own pools, the less pressure on HHS to oversee the pools.\nThe decision to opt in or out could be \u201cseen as a reflection of \u2026 support for the health law,\u201d PBS notes. Most states that elected not to run their own pools have Republican governors.\nOpen Questions on Eligibility\nLawmakers have expressed doubts about the 90-day sprint from bill passage to pools\u2019 implementation, suggesting that the tight timeline means key questions remain unanswered.\nTo qualify for the new pools, uninsured residents with pre-existing health conditions must be without insurance for six months and will be required to pay premiums that are similar to those paid in a \u201cstandard population\u201d for insurance. However \u2014 with just weeks to go \u2014 HHS has yet to define what qualifies as a pre-existing condition, which could determine eligibility.\nAnalysts also have concerns over the fate of the nearly 200,000 U.S. residents covered under existing state-run high-risk pools, who might not be eligible for the new program\u2019s lower-cost and more-expansive coverage. Because such individuals are currently insured, they would have to drop their coverage for six months to try to qualify for the new pools, which may carry premiums that are 10% to 40% less expensive.\nHowever, patients who need continuous coverage \u2014 like those with cancer \u2014 would be unlikely to take that gamble, says Stephen Finan, senior policy director at the American Cancer Society\u2019s Cancer Action Network.\nCalifornia officials also are urging residents to halt applications to MRMIP and wait for the federal high-risk pool to open.\nFears About Cost\nMeanwhile, the pools may cover just a fraction of the intended target population, barring an infusion of new federal funds or a severe cut in benefits.\nThe $5 billion that legislators set aside to fund the pools is likely insufficient to cover the cost of all U.S. residents who will qualify for the program, according to an analysis by the Center for Studying Health System Change and underwritten by the National Institute for Health Care Reform. Between 5.6 million and seven million U.S. residents with pre-existing conditions could be eligible for the new pools, but just 200,000 of these residents would be able to be covered under existing funds, says Mark Merlis, who authored the analysis.\nTo cover more residents, Merlis suggests that administrators could strip down the program\u2019s benefits, such as offering catastrophic, as opposed to comprehensive, coverage. Congress also may need to revisit funding or the program\u2019s structure \u2014 which would be another sign that the high-risk pools, like the reform law\u2019s implementation, remains a work in progress.\nHere\u2019s a look at what else is making news across the nation.\nThe federal government will shoulder almost the entire cost of the Medicaid expansion established in the new health reform law, according to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation study, the Washington Post reports. The findings counter concerns that the expansion would harm states\u2019 fiscal health, which some governors and state officials have used to partially justify lawsuits against the overhaul (MacGillis, Washington Post, 5/27). Four health insurance experts will help manage the federal government\u2019s overhaul of the private insurance market through the new Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, established under the health reform law, Kaiser Health News/Washington Post reports. The office this year will try to generate rules to define an \u201cunreasonable\u201d premium increase, establish coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and make sure that health insurers comply with consumer protections. According to KHN/Post, the appointments signify that the health insurance industry will continue to face heightened scrutiny in the midst of Democrats and Republicans seeking to shape public opinion of the overhaul (Appleby, Kaiser Health News/Washington Post, 6/1).\nUpdates From HHS\nHHS recently released the \u201cNational Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy,\u201d which is intended to communicate health information clearly to U.S. residents, CQ HealthBeat reports. The plan seeks to address the problem that most U.S. residents have trouble understanding and using health information available through the media, websites, medicine labels and health providers (Norman, CQ HealthBeat, 5/28). HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on May 27 also urged insurance company executives to control premiums and cooperate with the implementation of the new health reform law, the New York Times reports. Sebelius met with CEOs from WellPoint, Cigna, the BlueCross BlueShield Association, and Health Care Service Corp., which operates some states\u2019 BCBS plans (Pear, New York Times, 5/27). Sebelius said the U.S. government plans to closely watch insurers to ensure they treat consumers fairly, Reuters reports. She noted that while states still will regulate premiums under the new reform law, HHS will have the authority to limit rate hikes, review proposed increases and mandate that companies spend a certain portion of premiums on medical costs (Krauskopf, Reuters, 5/27).\nHouse Republican leaders last week introduced legislation that would repeal and replace the new health reform law, The Hill reports. Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) said the bill would replace the overhaul with the alternative health reform plan proposed by Republicans in November 2009. Blunt said U.S. residents will want alternatives once they learn more about Democrats\u2019 reform initiatives (Hooper, The Hill, 5/27).\nReform\u2019s Impact\nDespite new laws and political pressure, many restaurants have done little to reduce calories in their menu offerings, according to a report from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Reuters reports. In an attempt to address rising rates of obesity, the new health reform law mandates that large chain restaurants list calorie counts on their menus. New York City and California have limited trans fats, Reuters reports (Fox, Reuters, 5/25). Hospitalists\u2019 affinity for reforming hospital processes and improving patient outcomes makes them \u201cpotential leaders\u201d in the implementation of the new health reform law, the New York Times reports. According to the Times, hospitalists are often young, enjoy working in teams and are more comfortable with technology and making decisions regarding cost cutting. In addition, hospitalists have taken on the in-hospital responsibilities of \u201coverburdened\u201d family physicians, and hospitalists\u2019 skills will be particularly helpful to hospitals and health systems under the reform law, as facilities face penalties for readmissions, medical errors and inefficiency (Gross, New York Times, 5/26). Nearly three in four employers that offer retiree health benefits intend to participate in the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program, a program authorized under the new health reform law that allocates $5 billion to encourage companies to continue offering early retiree medical coverage, according to a survey released last week by Hewitt Associates, CQ HealthBeat reports. Although the law stipulates that the funding must be spent on medical claims costs, the survey found that two-thirds of companies remain undecided about where to allocate the money and are waiting for more guidance from the government. Meanwhile, 16% of employers said they would use the funds to reduce premiums for themselves and for their employees, while 5% said they would use the money solely to reduce retirees\u2019 premiums (Norman, CQ HealthBeat, 5/25).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 21285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 246.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://camberwellsundaymarket.org/page/13/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:43Z", "digest": "sha1:ZTQF65PWBJ7CL5DMLWGGBHFG7IU7FBZC", "length": 1476, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "camberwellsundaymarket.org", "title": "Camberwell Sunday Market | Retro \u2022 Antique \u2022 Collectibles \u2022 Vintage \u2022 Craft \u2022 Music \u2022 Fashion \u2022 Food \u2022 Flea Market | Page 13", "raw_content": "Welcome to the new Sunday Market website!\nWelcome to our new website! You are going to start seeing more changes around Rotary\u2019s Camberwell Sunday Market soon.\nYou will have already seen we have Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts you can follow. If not, you can see them to the right of the screen on large screens or at the bottom of the page on smaller devices like mobile phones. We are very excited about the changes, so please check out our social media accounts and \u2018check-in\u2019 on your favourite social media.\nStall holders will also notice that to access the booking system, a new button appears on this website to you can press to quickly look for available stall sites. Thank you for you support as we have made the background IT changes to link the stall site booking system to this page, but most of all, thank you for your support of Rotary\u2019s Sunday Market. It is a part of Camberwell and a part of Melbourne!\nDid you know you can connect with Rotary\u2019s Camberwell Sunday Market in many different ways.\nOur new social media channels now up and running are Facebook and Twitter. You can click on the logos below to find us.\nYou can see the types of post that we make on Facebook or tweets on this website blog also, to the right of the screen on a traditional monitor. If you are viewing this on a mobile device, you may find that Facebook and Twitter are located to underneath the main content.\nA blog is a form of social media also. So please connect with us!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 75, "original_length": 7592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 339.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://canopusinfosystems.com/data-analytics-services-company/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WE6UQQIPNKXALSJM7UFINPZUPRVSEBRR", "length": 3339, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "canopusinfosystems.com", "title": "Data Analytics Services | Machine Learning Apps | Canopus", "raw_content": "Home| Data Analytics\nData Analytics and Machine Learning Application Development\nWe take ahead the trust of Canopus Infosystems with Canopus Data Insights; with the advancements and the technological revolution, we want to take our legacy ahead hence we choose Data Science which is the latest buzz in the technological world.\nCanopus Data Insights is Data Science & Analytics company based in India and US. We provide Data Science Products, Solutions, and Services to the clients and industries including Logistics, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Marketing, Retail, Financial Services etc.\nWe build advanced Machine learning and Deep learning algorithms with Artificial Intelligence that enables customer centricity by giving insight into data, which improves productivity and increases the depth of customer engagement and predictive modeling to make big decisions.\nData analytics (DA) is the process of examining data sets in order to draw conclusions about the information they contain, increasingly with the aid of specialized systems and software. Data analytics technologies and techniques are widely used in commercial industries to enable organizations to make more-informed business decisions and by scientists and researchers to verify or disprove scientific models, theories and hypotheses.\ndata analytics predominantly refers to an assortment of applications, from basic business intelligence (BI), reporting and online analytical processing (OLAP) to various forms of advanced analytics. In that sense, it\u2019s similar in nature to business analytics, another umbrella term for approaches to analyzing data \u2014 with the difference that the latter is oriented to business uses, while data analytics has a broader focus. The expansive view of the term isn\u2019t universal, though: In some cases, people use data analytics specifically to mean advanced analytics, treating BI as a separate category.\nData analytics initiatives can help businesses increase revenues, improve operational efficiency, optimize marketing campaigns and customer service efforts, respond more quickly to emerging market trends and gain a competitive edge over rivals \u2014 all with the ultimate goal of boosting business performance. Depending on the particular application, the data that\u2019s analyzed can consist of either historical records or new information that has been processed for real-time analytics uses. In addition, it can come from a mix of internal systems and external data sources.\nSupporting companies that prefer to rely on a trusted outsourcing partner in data analytics instead of deploying an in-house solution, we render data analysis services. In this case, our consultants just need an access to our customer\u2019s data sets, the infrastructure and resources for the analysis are on our side.\nMachine learning is a set of artificial intelligence methods aimed at creating a universal approach to solving similar problems. Machine learning is incorporated into many modern applications that we often use in everyday life.\nOur work includes :\nFraud Detection for Banking & Financial companies.\nFailure Prediction for Automobile Companies.\nRecommendation System for Online Media and Advertising Companies.\nCross Sell, Up-Sell, Sales Lead Generation for Marketing Companies.\nPlease visit our new website for Data Science- http://canopusdatainsights.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 8873, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 258.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://caramel.la/museums/Skz4Dz_Im/museums-the-world-over", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:05Z", "digest": "sha1:L24RXSLZFZDTJL6DA6XMQUS5W2VGWFK2", "length": 1045, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "caramel.la", "title": "Museums The World over | Caramella", "raw_content": "You may be surprised to learn that the first museum was built two and a half thousand years ago by the Babylonians in Mesopotamia.\nWe humans have always been fascinated by history: by artefacts, agriculture, art, and so on, as well as the natural world. Since then, many museums have existed, and at the current time there are literally thousands of museums all around the world.\nThese range from the huge history museums in capital cities such as London, New York, and Paris, right down to smaller, more homely museums in towns, villages, and even inside people\u2019s own homes.\nOne man in the UK has turned his home into a Baked Bean Museum, as one example. In this case, the spirit of collecting has inspired the display of collected items, and this same spirit is true even of big museums such as the Natural History Museum in London.\nLondon is literally a museum mecca. As one of the world\u2019s oldest, and most sprawling, cities, it has a huge range of archives and collections that cover a wide range of areas, from the very general... Read more", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 28, "original_length": 1606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 102.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careers.collegeboard.org/job/1507813", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:07Z", "digest": "sha1:CAGFABSL27MIRC2OY2EIKMYJC22K5JA4", "length": 3743, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "careers.collegeboard.org", "title": "Security Controls Assessor \u2013 College Board Careers", "raw_content": "The Information Security Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (ISGRC) department helps support the College Board by maintaining and enforcing security policies, standards, and developing a security aware culture throughout the enterprise. All information security training, security governance, risk management, business continuity, and compliance activities (like ISO 27001, PCI-DSS, and SOC2) are run by the ISGRC function.\nAs a member of the risk management team, the Security Controls Assessor\u2019s (SCA) role is to perform information security-based audits and security controls assessments for all College Board enterprise systems. The SCA performs final gate security checks for IT systems to ensure that all the requisite controls are in place prior to the system going live and annually thereafter. These risk management activities are core to the College Board\u2019s way of doing business and in building our next generation systems. In this role, you will build partnerships with the Information Technology and Operations teams to enhance security compliance for the College Board and its operations.\nThis is a hands-on role where the Security Controls Assessor must work with a combination of executive, technical, and non-technical staff members.\nPerforms a three-tiered approach to security controls assessment including: technical reviews, documentation reviews, and staff interviews.\nTranslates security assessment outputs (e.g. vulnerability reports, weaknesses, etc.) into actionable compliance requirements and definitions.\nProvides analysis of security controls to ensure that they are implemented correctly, operating as intended, and producing the desired result.\nCollaborates closely with other departments to ensure that the information security compliance requirements are met.\nSupports and utilizes security compliance tools and technologies such as: RSAM, Modulo, RSA Archer, and similar capabilities.\nBachelor\u2019s Degree in Computer Sciences, Business Management, or equivalent prior work experience in a related field.\nFive to seven (5-7) years of experience in a computer related field, with at least three (3) years\u2019 experience in Information Security or information risk management in an enterprise setting\nExcellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to present and discuss technical information in a way that establishes rapport, persuades others, and gains understanding.\nDemonstrated experience in information security compliance activities for a cross-functional team with the proven ability to support and manage multiple security compliance activities for technical teams is required.\nUnderstanding of and ability to apply information security compliance requirements from frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC, COBIT, PCI-DSS, NIST CSF/NIST 800-53, etc.\nCurrent Information Security Certification (e.g. CISSP, CRISC, CISM, CISA, or related security certification) preferred or the ability to attain one within 6 months of hire.\nPCI-ISA, CISA, or similar certification highly preferred.\nRelated Skills & Other Desired Skills:\nWorking knowledge and understanding of multiple applications, databases, and operating systems security (For example, Windows Server 2008/2012; Windows 7/8/10; Linux; and their implementation in AWS or Azure).\nConfidence and supportiveness as a member of security teams with a \u201ccan do\u201d attitude.\nAbility to work outside of standard business hours (evenings, nights, or weekends) as needed or required particularly during urgent delivery times.\nAbility to gently influence security risk thinking and business approaches.\nRequires use of a wireless handheld device with messaging capability.\nThis position will be subject to successfully passing a background check.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 4326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 295.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://careers.nahnnet.org/jobs/11960388/registered-nurse-surgical-pcu-orlando-nights", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:10:01Z", "digest": "sha1:CEYZOQHELOBQ6KLFYBF27IERR4KLQO6D", "length": 685, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "careers.nahnnet.org", "title": "Registered Nurse \u2013 Surgical PCU \u2013 Orlando \u2013 Nights, Employment | NAHN", "raw_content": "The SPCU is located on the 14th floor of Ginsburg Tower, with 40 private patient suites that offer beautiful views that enhance the healing process. Patients can expect unrivaled quality care that integrates evidence-based practice protocols as part of a world-class experience. Surgeons and medical staff work closely with our unit clinicians to ensure that patients receive compassionate clinical expertise, coupled with a dedication to service excellence.\nIf you want to be a part of a team that is dedicated to delivering the highest quality in patient care, we invite you to explore the Registered Nurse \u2013 Surgical PCU opportunity with AdventHealth Orlando and apply online today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 163, "original_length": 11172, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 255.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cartripple.com/stores/4684-1800mattress", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:12Z", "digest": "sha1:OCI6CDCKDW3ABON2ASBTJDVLPHX3RS7T", "length": 327, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cartripple.com", "title": "1800Mattress - CartRipple", "raw_content": "Whether you know them as Dial-A-Mattress, or 1-800-Mattress, or 1800mattress.com, they\u2019re synonymous with a good night\u2019s sleep. Over the years, their name has changed, but their promise to customers has never wavered: the most comfortable mattresses on earth at the most competitive prices with impeccable service and delivery.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 1212, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 176.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cas.uab.edu/peacefulsocieties/2008/01/24/lepcha-language-accepted-into-unicode/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:55SJNGLNYQ5FD5C4FMBD6KBJIJTZDBEK", "length": 2820, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "cas.uab.edu", "title": "Lepcha Language Accepted into Unicode | Peaceful Societies Lepcha Language Accepted into Unicode | Peaceful Societies", "raw_content": "Lepcha Language Accepted into Unicode\nThe Lepcha language has gotten the nod from the Unicode Consortium to be added to edition 5.1 of Unicode, which is due to be released in March or April. As obscure as it may seem, the recognition of being included in Unicode is an important step in preserving the language and culture of the Lepchas.\nAdding the written Lepcha language to the international standard for encoding characters on electronic media will allow it to be displayed on computers, interchanged electronically with other world languages, and included with word processing programs worldwide.\nDr. Helen Plaisier, who is at the Leiden University in the Netherlands, has evidently been spearheading the initiative to include the language. Last week she told a news service, \u201cthe acceptance of the Lepcha script in the Unicode standard is of great importance for everyone who wishes to use the Lepcha script on a computer.\u201d\nThe researcher, who recently completed a database of 300 Lepcha bird names, has been joined by other scholars in all parts of the world in urging the Unicode Consortium to accept Lepcha in its database of languages. The names used by the Lepchas for their birds, insects, plants, and other wildlife are keys to understanding their knowledge of their natural environment. That natural environment is threatened by massive hydropower developments in the Dzongu region, the section of Sikkim sacred to the Lepchas next to Mt. Kanchenjunga.\nThe Unicode Consortium, a non-profit organization based in California, seeks to coordinate and develop standards so that all written human languages can ultimately be represented and manipulated in a consistent fashion on computers. The goal is to make the transliteration schemes compatible in a multilingual environment. Many older character encoding schemes are incompatible with one another, a failing that the Unicode initiative will correct as languages are added to it. The unified character sets have been widely implemented in internationally-used computer software programs.\nWhile numerous major languages have been accepted into the Unicode standards, many of the world\u2019s lesser-known scripts have still not been encoded, for various technical and scholarly reasons. Scholarly communities need to agree on the details of representing the characters of a language before it can be added. Furthermore, artificial scripts, such as Klingon, used in the Star Trek film series, and the Middle-Earth languages invented by J.R.R. Tolkien, have not yet been accepted by the Unicode Consortium. The Consortium rejected the proposal of the Star Trek supporters as \u201cinappropriate for encoding.\u201d Evidently, Lepcha is appropriate.\nindigenous languageUnicode\nAndr\u00e9s Henestrosa, Prominent Zapotec Author, Dies\nHutterite Children Take Photos of their Colonies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 9596, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 207.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://caseysullivan.wordpress.com/2018/01/31/spring-is-coming-get-a-jump-on-spring-cleaning-and-breathe-new-life-into-your-tired-spaces/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:59Z", "digest": "sha1:LV6YPFAOJHIKK5TYJW7R2RNQCL6BVH2S", "length": 2279, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "caseysullivan.wordpress.com", "title": "Spring Is Coming: Get a Jump on Spring Cleaning and Breathe New Life into Your Tired Spaces | Casey Sullivan: Dedicated, Dependable & Fast", "raw_content": "\u2190 Curious About Homeowners\u2019 Association (HOA) Fees? Here\u2019s What You Need to Know\nThe Mortgage Helper: How to Find the Perfect Tenant for Your Basement Suite \u2192\nSpring is almost here \u2013 and with it, the need to clean out the clutter and freshen up your home. Let\u2019s explore a few tips that will help you to get a jump on your spring cleaning so that you can get outside and enjoy the nice weather later.\nNeed It? No? It\u2019s Got To Go!\nDo you consider yourself a bit of a \u2018hoarder\u2019? Is there furniture, appliances and other items in your home that have been collecting dust since the \u201990s? If so, it is time to minimalize your lifestyle. A great rule of thumb is the one in bold above \u2013 if you don\u2019t need it, it\u2019s time to get rid of it. Consider listing anything you don\u2019t need up for sale on a local resale marketplace as you may find an interested buyer willing to give your old stuff a new home. Once you have the clutter kicked out, the actual cleaning can begin.\nYour Garage Is Not A Storage Locker\nIf your garage is so full of miscellaneous junk that you can barely get your car door open, it\u2019s time for a thorough cleaning. Again, the first mission is to get all of the stuff you don\u2019t need either thrown out or otherwise disposed of.\nLetting go of your old possessions can be tough, but you will be amazed at how much space you have once it\u2019s all gone. And that space can be put to better use \u2013 once it\u2019s cleaned.\nConsider Hiring Help For The Deep Clean\nFinally, don\u2019t be afraid to enlist professional help if you are feeling overwhelmed. Having a couple of cleaners come into your home for a few hours is a cost-effective way to speed up the spring cleaning process. Note that it\u2019s best to have cleaners join you after the clutter has been removed, so they aren\u2019t wasting their time trying to move old furniture and other items you are going to dispose of anyway.\nUnless you absolutely love washing walls and cleaning out closets, spring cleaning is rarely fun. However, it is necessary to ensure that your home stays in tip-top condition. If you have decided that you are in need of more space, or are looking to downsize your home, contact us today. Our friendly team of mortgage professionals are happy to show you some financing options that will perfectly suit your needs.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 315.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://celebrityhautespot.com/2017/11/20/alexa-friedman-releases-new-single-meant-to-be-officialalexaf/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:20Z", "digest": "sha1:HRQGJKTAOSY7GTOMCJM7QANW76BSN3CW", "length": 350, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "celebrityhautespot.com", "title": "CelebrityHauteSpotAlexa Friedman Releases New Single \u201cMeant to Be\u201d (@OfficialAlexaF)", "raw_content": "The talented Alexa Friedman recently released her latest single \u201cMeant to Be.\u201d Friedman is popularly known for her previous single \u201cEnraptured\u201d which is about heartbreak and betrayal in a friendship.\n\u201cMeant to Be\u201d is available now on iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, and Amazon.\nClick HERE to subscribe to see more of Alexa on our channel in the future!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 2985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 291.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://centsai.com/life/real-estate/real-estate-blogs/living-at-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:54Z", "digest": "sha1:IBCCE4XAKADG7DU3TKHAJTYGPRBP2T3X", "length": 6635, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "centsai.com", "title": "The Real Reasons Millennials Are Living at Home | CentSai", "raw_content": "Jonan Everett\n6 second take: What do you do when faced with high rent? For some people, it's an apartment or nothing. For others, living at home is a necessity.\nUpon graduating from college, I packed all my things into garbage bags and returned to my childhood doorstep. One inalienable truth became clear to me as my mother reminded me to take my shoes off when I came inside: I needed an apartment. Or a house. Or a condo. Honestly, a cardboard box would probably have done.\nI\u2019d spent four years away from my parents, and it felt like a perversion of the natural order for me to be living at home \u2014 back in my pajamas, on the couch, rolling my eyes at my father as he asked if I had seen our newspaper lately.\nSo I began the hunt immediately. I was lucky enough to land a job at the end of my senior year, so I had a small amount of funds to work with.\nMy friend and I were looking in the Boston area, and we wanted to cap our rent at slightly less than $1,000 per month for each person.\nWhat we saw, primarily, can kindly be described as dumps, and more aptly be scheduled for demolition.\nOur favorite real estate nightmare had us walking around the streets of Cambridge for an hour in the roasting heat, only to finally find the apartment, meet the agent standing in front, and hear him say to our faces: \u201cHonestly, this place is a piece of crap. I don\u2019t know why you want it.\u201d\nNeedless to say, he didn\u2019t get a brokerage fee from us.\nLong story short, we did end up with a decent apartment for that price, but it was more an example of good timing (tenants moving out, us being the first to see the apartment) than any abundance of great housing.\nThese days, though, sites like Featured Rentals can help make the process easier.\nof Living at Home\nSaving money: Undoubtedly the biggest pro of moving back in with your parents is saving hundreds of dollars a month on rent. This means you can spend that money on other things, like student loan debt, or save.\nHealthier options: A lot of college students get into a slump when it comes to cooking, but maybe you\u2019ll be less likely to buy that junk food if your mom is watching!\nLess responsibility: Your parents will probably do most of the grocery shopping and you may even get the odd hamper of laundry done every so often, if you\u2019re lucky.\nLack of privacy: Living under your parents\u2019 roof again means sharing a space with people less understanding about privacy than your former college roommates were.\nUnwelcome advice: If your parents suddenly see every detail of your life they may feel inclined to chip in with some advice every now and then \u2014 as unhelpful as it might be.\nNot entering the property market: The longer you live at home, the longer it\u2019s going to take you to enter the property market by yourself. This may not be a concern right now, but a couple of years down the line, you may regret your choice.\nStruggling With Rent vs. Living at Home\nI have postgrad friends renting in New York City (Brooklyn, Chelsea, and South Harlem) and Philadelphia, and several others who are still living at home to save money.\nMy friends in New York pay around $1,200 a month, Philly a little bit less \u2014 because, you know, it\u2019s Philly.\nWhen I asked my friends about rent in a group chat, the consensus was that \u201canywhere between a quarter to a half of your monthly salary usually goes to rent.\u201d This means that after rent, utilities, groceries, and living expenses, we\u2019re looking at a very thin balance at the end of the month.\nSeveral friends have opted to live with their parents. Some are dealing with student loans, which are virtually impossible to pay in tandem with rent. Some are living at home due to \u201cextenuating circumstances\u201d \u2014 athletes who are training, graduate students commuting to nearby schools, etc.\nBut for the majority of us, living on our own isn\u2019t a \u201cluxury\u201d that we chose. It\u2019s simply what we have to do, and what we must prioritize our finances on.\nThe Math Behind Living at Home\nSo what is the big hullabaloo over millennials and housing? Has living away from our parents truly become something that we should aspire to in the long term rather than the short term? Was I acting spoiled when I wanted to move to my own apartment ASAP?\nIf we assume that the average rent is less than $1,000 a month in most cities, then this must mean that most people my age can\u2019t afford $12,000 a year in rent, which raises the question, what are we spending money on instead? The answer: loans, credit card debt, unnecessary and out-of-control spending . . . the list goes on. (Those who are struggling with debt may wish to refinance or consolidate their debt with companies like SoFi.)\nThe new \u201cdata\u201d on \u201cmillennials\u201d (try to visualize my huge air quotes) suggest that many of them prefer living at home. In fact, 15 percent of 25- to 35-year-olds live with their parents, according to the Pew Research Center. You save money, you\u2019re living in better digs, and you get the occasional laundry basket done by mom. But this line of thinking bothers me. When did the question of comfort become the driving factor in housing?\nThe Truth Behind Millennials Living at Home\nEvery adult I\u2019ve ever spoken to, regardless of generation, has always laughed about their first apartment, how crappy it was, and all of the ramen noodles they had to eat in the first few years.\nPostgrad life has never been luxurious, so it bothers me when articles cite \u201cthe need to be comfortable\u201d as the reason to stay at home.\nMany people simply can\u2019t live anywhere else. \u201cWhen I left college in my mid-twenties, I was hit with some major medical problems and couldn\u2019t work, so I moved back home,\u201d says Reddit user /u/SnarkyMalarcky. \u201cBut that was only for a year and a half. Now I live on my own again.\u201d\nOthers use living at home as a way to make sure that they have enough savings to afford their own place down the road. This includes Reddit user /u/GL432, who says that, \u201cI got a good job straight out of college, so I moved home to have next to zero expenses, and buy a house about three years out of college.\u201d\nIt\u2019s not a question of what\u2019s more enjoyable. Rather, it\u2019s a question of what you have to do.\nMy friends who have the financial capacity to live on their own unilaterally live on their own. Those who don\u2019t have enough money to move out live at home. It\u2019s not about comfort, it\u2019s about necessity.\nAdditional reporting by Emma Finnerty\n5 Great Ways to Save Money With Friends\nYour Moving Costs May Be Higher Than You\u2019d Expect\nHow to Find an Apartment (Even If You Have No Credit)\n5 Questions to Ask When Renting an Apartment\nAdult Children Living at Home: Financial Genius Or Plain Lazy?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 249, "original_length": 11222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chadwickandamy.com/2015/06/10/cutthecrap-challenge-learn-from-others/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:40Z", "digest": "sha1:EGHJ5PTEFQRZZ4N5GBABDNQ2MBZH4XIN", "length": 1769, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "chadwickandamy.com", "title": "#CutTheCrap Challenge: Learn from Others | Chadwick and Amy", "raw_content": "We live at a time when there are endless opportunities to see and learn from others in a way that has never been possible before. Google is nearly always at our fingertips, and a world of answers, advice and suggestions are there whenever and wherever we need it.\nNavigating your life in an effort to simplify, declutter, and be more intentional is not a new concept\u2026 and in the digital age, others have been documenting their journeys and offering helpful insight to anyone willing to take not. It is a great time for the collaboration of learning with others. By learning from and about others\u2026 we are able to develop our understanding about simple living and minimalism\u2026 but also go deeper into the knowledge of our self.\nMaybe you will be able to learn from the mistakes of others, so that you don\u2019t make a potential mistake that sets you back.\nYou don\u2019t have to have all of the answers today\u2026 but you should be making a conscious effort to develop your strengths by learning from others\u2019 strengths\u2026 how they know that they are successful\u2026 the steps they took in their journey\u2026 obstacles they have had to overcome\u2026\nThen, you use this new knowledge to refine the steps that you need to take\u2026 and continue on.\nHere is a list of folks that inspire us\u2026 spend some time reading their words\u2026 bookmark their pages\u2026 and carry on\u2026\nFlorida Minimalist\nYouthful Minimalist\nMore Time Than Money\nLorilee Lippencott\nIf you know of any good sites to add to this list, please leave a comment below\u2026 and we\u2019ll keep it building.\ncutthecrap minimalist simple living white cloud michigan\nThank you so much for the mention above! I love my Minimalist blogging community, and am inspired every day!\nYou are welcome. Thank YOU for sharing pieces of your life for the rest of us on the way.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 4222, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 239.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://charlotteraven.com/portfolio/animation-film-chase-scene-2015/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:05Z", "digest": "sha1:R6LAP3RDU5IZ6K7UDUANFLHJ5KYPBM53", "length": 109, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "charlotteraven.com", "title": "Animation Film \u2013 \u2018Chase Scene\u2019 \u2013 Charlotte Raven", "raw_content": "Here we see the Owen and his family driving away from the evil villain who is chasing them on his motorcycle.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 466, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 175.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cheringtonhr.com/newsletters.php?subaction=showfull&id=1292515464", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:02Z", "digest": "sha1:YVUZJKIARDNAKRCOZKD2FYJL6H4ZYNP3", "length": 711, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "cheringtonhr.com", "title": "Human Resource, People and Change Management - Cherington HR", "raw_content": "Agricultural Wages Board (AWB)\nIf you run a business covered by the AWB, you will know that it sets terms and conditions to protect workers in the agricultural sector. However, the Government has proposed to abolish the body, but this proposal is to be incorporated into the public sector reform bill which has yet to be published and go through the parliamentary process (which may take up to autumn 2011.) So whilst there are rumours of its demise, it is still there for the moment and may yet be in place for another year. If it is abolished, workers currently covered by the AWB will then only be protected by the National Minimum Wage and Working Time regulations as they apply to workers in other sectors.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 1577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 127.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chicagoinsuranceonline.com/2015/11/16/7-ways-to-deal-with-the-impending-bankruptcy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:54Z", "digest": "sha1:VZ3HJFUMI4TW3AUBQR5MGH3Q7NXYNSYB", "length": 3074, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "chicagoinsuranceonline.com", "title": "7 Ways to Deal With the Impending Bankruptcy", "raw_content": "Comments Off on 7 Ways to Deal With the Impending Bankruptcy\n7 Ways to Deal With the Impending Bankruptcy\nWhen the reality bubble bursts, many people need to endure the pain that they are financially troubled. It is natural for many people trying to absolve themselves from blame. They may blame it to external things, such as flawed government rules and weak market conditions. If we find ourselves having poor financial conditions, we shouldn\u2019t be panic. In some cases, bankruptcy is almost a certainty. However, it is actually possible for us to walk free from debt and regain our position. Here are things that we should do when we find ourselves deep in trouble:\nSeek helps: If friends and relatives are unwilling to lend us money, we could find help from Citizen\u2019s Advice Bureau. Although they won\u2019t give us money, we will certainly get financial assistances and we could be assigned with special financial advisor.\nSet personal budget: When we are threatened with bankruptcy, budget is essential and we need to prepare it ourselves. We may ask help to create a proper budget. In general, the budget should include income, essential expenses, emergency expenses and others. The budget should also include debt repayments with prioritization on debts with the highest interest rate or largest collaterals.\nNegotiate with creditors: If we are having financial difficulties, it is important to write to creditors to apply for a new kind of repayment. People could make genuine attempts to settle their debts and bringing the whole thing to the court may cost us too much. The local authority could also be approached so we will get lower rebate or rate. In general, we should avoid failing into arrears with rates and this could be considered as real criminal offense, making imprisonment a possibility.\nSeek help from Department of Work & Pensions: People with financial difficulties could ask the Department of Work & Pensions for help. We could be entitled to some supplements, such as family credit.\nDon\u2019t borrow more money: We should never borrow more money to pay off our outstanding debts. This will make our problem more severe.\nTry to simplify things: We may need to give up and share anything we can do without. As an example, we could choose Pay as You Go mobile plan, than the usual mobile phone contracts. We could look for fixed rate or cheaper deals with our utilities providers. We may also choose less complicated hairstyles, so we don\u2019t have to visit hairdressers. We should eat at home, instead of eating out or ordering foods.\nMake extra efforts to save money: There are many things we can do save more money. As an example, we should pay everything we can on standing order. This will allow us to reduce our bills and avoid penalty. We will also know how much goes our each month and how much money we will have left. By taking in lodger, it is possible for us to make extra money. However, we should check our lease to know whether it is permissible. We may need to sell of unnecessary items, such as surplus furniture, stereo equipments and others.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 5577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 307.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chirocredit.com/stateApprovals/requirements/US-colorado-Licensed_Dietitians_and_Nutritionists", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:59Z", "digest": "sha1:635HCLMTGJDLV4IWB77SBBRMTUWL6OQ4", "length": 1445, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "chirocredit.com", "title": "colorado Licensed Dietitians and Nutritionists Requirements", "raw_content": "Colorado Dietitian / Registered Dietitian Continuing Education\nColorado Department of Law, Consumer Protection Continuing Education Requirements:\nColorado has no licensing requirement. In order to use the title Dietitian or Registered Dietitian in the State of Colorado you must have a valid certification from the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association (CDR). * The continuing professional education requirement for recertification with the CDR is 75 hours every 5 years.\n*The requirements for recertification through the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the American Dietetic Association (CDR) can be found at http://www.cdrnet.org/pdrcenter/\nColorado Continuing Education requirements posted on this page are based upon the most up to date information available. Colorado continuing education requirements are subject to change and therefore, Colorado Registered Dietitian are ultimately responsible for being up to date with the Colorado continuing education requirements.\nContinuing education courses offered on OnlineCE.com provide Online CEU for Colorado Registered Dietitian. The online courses increase and expand the knowledge bases of Registered Dietitian to enhance their clinical therapy practice. Free 1 hour approved online home study CE credit course for new Colorado Registered Dietitian users at www.OnlineCE.com\nCourses Accepted For Licensed Dietitians and Nutritionists in Colorado, US", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 377, "original_length": 11337, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 247.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chocolatevent.com/tag/art/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:35Z", "digest": "sha1:AKBFPCM5PJMNWML3FWPYE5NBHC73DGGB", "length": 3636, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "chocolatevent.com", "title": "Art \u2013 Chocolate Vent", "raw_content": "Ann Lowe \u2014 a highly sought after designer in her day \u2014 is the first world-renowned black designer who created dresses for socialites and brides. She created looks for families including the Auchinclosses, DuPonts, Kennedys, Posts, Rockefellers, and Roosevelts. She is also the first black designer to own a boutique on Madison Avenue. And her stunning creations were also sold at Henri Bendel, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Neiman Marcus.\nLowe was born in Clayton, Alabama in 1898 although the specific date is unknown. Lowe was a great-granddaughter of a skilled seamstress slave and a white plantation owner. Her mixed-race grandmother, Georgia Tompkins, was given her freedom after being purchased by a freeman named General Cole. Ann learned to sew from Georgia and from her mother Janey Lowe, who made dresses for Southern society women. Janey Lowe died in 1914 when Lowe was sixteen. At the time of her death Janey Lowe was working on four ball gowns for the First Lady of Alabama, Elizbeth Kirkman O\u2019Neal. Lowe finished the dresses.\nIn 1912 when she was fourteen, Lowe married Lee Cohen with whom she had a son, Arthur Lee. Lowe\u2019s husband wanted her to give up working as a seamstress but she left him after she was hired to design a wedding dress for a woman in Florida. In 1917, 19-year-old Lowe and her son moved to New York City, New York where she enrolled at St. Taylor Design School. The segregated school required Lowe to attend classes in a room alone. After graduating from St. Taylor Design School in 1919, Lowe and her son moved to Tampa, Florida. The following year, she opened her first dress salon \u201cAnnie Cohen.\u201d In 1928, Lowe returned to New York City after saving $20,000 of her earnings. While there she began to work on commission for Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Henri Bendel, Chez Sonia, and other prominent retailers.\nIn 1946, Lowe designed the dress that actress Olivia de Havilland wore to accept the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1950, Lowe and her son open a second salon called Ann Lowe\u2019s Gowns, on New York City\u2019s Lexington Avenue. Here Lowe created designs for some of the most prestigious families in the nation including the Rockefellers, the Lodges, the DuPonts, the Posts, and the Biddles. In 1953, she was hired to design a wedding dress for Jacqueline Bouvier for her wedding to Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy but was never properly credited for her creation. Lowe was chosen by Jacqueline\u2019s mother Janet Auchincloss, who previously commissioned Lowe to design the wedding dress she wore when she married Hugh D. Auchincloss in 1942. The wedding dress was widely admired at this highly publicized social event.\nThroughout her career, Lowe worked for wealthy clients who often persuaded her to charge hundreds of dollars less for her work than her competitors. Eventually in 1962, she lost the salon in New York City after failing to pay taxes. That same year, her right eye was removed due to glaucoma. Lowe also developed a cataract in her left eye which was saved by surgery. In 1968, at the age of 70, Lowe opened a new store called Ann Lowe Originals, on Madison Avenue. She retired two years later in 1972.\nLowe was married twice. Her son by Lee Cohen, Arthur Lee, was Lowe\u2019s business partner from the 1930s until his death in 1958. Lowe married a second time but that marriage also ended in divorce. As a single woman, Lowe later adopted a daughter, Ruth Alexander.\nAnn Lowe died on February 25, 1981.\nCV Question of the Day \u2013 What is something you just can\u2019t understand the appeal of?\nREADERS: Question of the Day \u2013 What is something that undoubtedly puts you in a better mood?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 12323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 179.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chomsky.info/20090209/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:32Z", "digest": "sha1:RD2O7QGYVED6R5VFLNCPDZGFSTMSBQDI", "length": 35021, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "chomsky.info", "title": "Gaza and its Aftermath", "raw_content": "Gaza and its Aftermath\nNoam Chomsky interviewed by Assaf Kfoury\nZ Magazine, February 9, 2009\nAK: From the carnage in Gaza in recent weeks, there is a silver lining in the US, at least at the popular level. The devastation of Gaza has elicited something different, compared to the Lebanon war of 2006, or the Lebanon war of 1982, or other episodes of violence visited by Israel on Palestinians and Lebanese.\nThis time, for the first time perhaps, the public response in the US has been closer to the public response outside the US. Greater sympathy and support for the Palestinians, more criticism and anger at Israel\u2019s actions. There were almost daily protests and demos, in major cities in the US, closer to the kind of public expressions we had been accustomed to see in Europe, Latin America, Asia and elsewhere.\nThis time, for example, we have seen significant participation in the US of Jewish groups in support of the Palestinians and against the Israeli government. We had never seen it before, certainly not to the same extent. This kind of participation has been coming through, not always in the mainstream media to be sure, but through alternative media channels on the Internet. For example, when 8 Jewish activists chained themselves and obstructed entrance to the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles while others carried signs reading \u201cClosed For War Crimes\u201d on January 14, the news came through the alternative channels, but not the New York Times, Washington Post and other major newspapers in the US.\nIs this an exaggeration of the public response? And if it is not, can it be developed into a popular movement and, by extension, an effective pressure group on policy-makers?\nNC: You are quite right that there was a difference in the reaction, a very noticeable difference, and that might turn out to be important. Many people, even knowing little about the matter, were revolted by the savage cruelty and cowardice of the IDF, brutally attacking defenseless people locked in a cage.\nBut we have to be careful in assessing the popular reaction. Most people are unaware of anything beyond the highly sanitized version that passes through media filters. Al-Jazeera is effectively barred in the US, so there was little direct visual reporting. And while the reality cannot be totally concealed, it is presented in fragments, and within a framework of apologetics \u2014 and of course portrays the US as an innocent bystander, dedicated to peace and justice, as always.\nThe strong and principled reaction is from a select part of the population. Polls showed a pretty even split between support for the invasion and opposition to it, and the opposition is mostly on grounds of \u201cdisproportion.\u201d More revealing are the polls after the war ended \u2014 ended theoretically, that is; it is continuing, bitterly, though the facts are scarcely reported. A CNN poll on Jan. 24 found that 60% supported Israel, 17% the Palestinians. 63% felt that Israeli military action was justified, 30% disagreed. A Pew poll had rather similar results (Bloomberg News, Jan. 24).\nThe results are not surprising in the light of how the events were reported and interpreted by the media and the political class. The mantra is that Israel has the right to defend itself against rockets. Virtually no one pointed out that the issue is quite different: did Israel have a right to resort to violence in self-defense? No state has that right if there are peaceful alternatives. And in this case there surely were. A narrow alternative would have been for Israel to accept a ceasefire, as proposed by Hamas shortly before the invasion. In the past, Israel had accepted ceasefires formally, but never in reality, including the ceasefire in July 2008, observed by Hamas (Israel concedes that Hamas did not fire a single rocket) but not by Israel, which terminated it with a direct attack on November 4. A broader alternative would have been for Israel to stop its US-backed criminal activities in the occupied territories, both in Gaza and the West Bank, such as the near-complete economic strangulation of Gaza since January 2006. That is the way to stop the rocket firing. But matters like these are almost entirely off the agenda in mainstream discussion.\nIt is remarkable that even when George Mitchell was appointed Obama\u2019s special envoy, these obvious facts were suppressed. That is quite an impressive achievement by the doctrinal system and its practitioners. Mitchell\u2019s major success, after all, was to broker a peace agreement in Northern Ireland. The British agreed to end their violent response to IRA terror and to attend to the legitimate grievances that were at its root. The cycle of violence was broken. There was progress in human and civil rights in northern Ireland, and IRA terror ended. The analogy to Israel-Palestine is so close that it took real discipline for the media and educated classes to be able \u201cnot to see it.\u201d\nAK: By contrast, public pronouncements by US officials do not seem to change. If we were to listen to what the politicians say in Washington, we would think it has always been the Palestinians\u2019 fault. The Palestinians are to blame for all the bloodshed and hostilities, now and in decades past, since 1948 and before. In the recent Gaza events, for example, that the Israeli-to-Palestinian casualty ration was one-to-a-hundred or one-to-a-thousand does not seem to disturb their conscience in any way. That Gaza has been reduced to a large impoverished, blockaded, and practically defenseless ghetto, does not seem to bother them.\nSo was passed in the US Congress the perverted resolution condemning Hamas for Israel\u2019s attack, by a vote of 390 to 5 and 22 voting present in the House and by unanimous voice vote in the Senate. In fact, however limited, there is more dissent in the Israeli media than in the US Congress. But what is remarkable is that if US officials are out of office, they may say the truth or something closer to it, e.g., former President Carter\u2019s statements.\nWhat are the reasons for this grotesque disconnect between official policy and public opinion in the US? The same imbalance between the two is on other issues. But, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is extreme.\nNC: It is worth noting that it is not all that different in Europe. Statements by EU officials are often as bad as those of Congress. You are quite right about Carter, but he is unique, and sharply criticized in mainstream circles. One illustration is that in punishment for his crime of honesty, he was effectively barred from the Democratic Party Convention in August 2008. That is unusual if not unprecedented for a former President.\nFurthermore, the disconnect you mention, while very real, is not far beyond the norm: on a host of major issues, public opinion and public policy are sharply disconnected. The observation has even entered mainstream political science (see, for example, Benjamin Page, The Foreign Policy Disconnect; the same is true of domestic policy). That is one of the reasons why party managers design the marketing campaigns called \u201celections\u201d so that that they largely avoid issues and focus on personalities, body language, and other trivialities. The general population objects and wants issues discussed, polls show. But here too we find the familiar disconnect between the public and policy.\nConsider, for example, the invasion of Iraq. There was substantial public opposition, but virtually no principled opposition among the political class and media. Obama, for example, is praised by critics of the war for having taken a principled stand. That is false, which is a revealing illustration of the prevailing conformism to power, even among dissidents. Obama regarded the war as a \u201cstrategic blunder.\u201d One could have read the same in Pravda when Russia invaded Afghanistan. Nazi generals said the same about Hitler\u2019s two-front war, after Stalingrad. There is nothing \u201cprincipled\u201d about such a stand. It is completely unprincipled.\nAuthentic opposition begins by applying to ourselves the same standards we apply to others. It therefore would have condemned the war as a crime, in fact \u201cthe supreme international crime\u201d that encompasses all the evil that follows, in the wording of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Much of the public did take that position, but it was, and remains, inexpressible in the media or the corridors of power.\nThe same was true of the Vietnam war. By the war\u2019s end, 70% of the public regarded it as \u201cfundamentally wrong and immoral,\u201d not \u201ca mistake.\u201d Within the media and journals of opinion, the most extreme criticism was that the US began with \u201cblundering efforts to do good\u201d but it became a \u201cdisaster,\u201d costing us too much, and we were therefore unable to realize our laudable goals (according to Anthony Lewis of the New York Times, who was at the critical extreme within mainstream opinion).\nThese are the standard kinds of criticisms of state crimes that do not succeed at acceptable cost. They are similar to the critique of Israel\u2019s attack on Gaza that one finds throughout mainstream commentary, which maintains that the attack was clearly justified, but \u201cdisproportionate,\u201d and with few gains for Israel.\nThere are many other examples. In fact, it is the norm. It is a fundamental doctrine of the ideological system that we cannot apply to ourselves the standards we rightly apply to enemies. Whatever the facts, our leaders are benevolent in intent while their enemies are wicked and deserve harsh punishment. Our leaders may sometimes fall into \u201cstrategic blunders,\u201d and there are some bad people (like the torturers at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, or the soldiers at My Lai in Vietnam). But our fundamental benevolence remains untainted, and the leadership is immune. This is quite the opposite of the Nuremberg tribunal after World War 2, which did not try SS guards who threw people into gas chambers, but rather the leadership, accused of such crimes as \u201cpreemptive war.\u201d\nElite intellectuals in the West sometimes reach levels that are literally reminiscent of North Korea in their worship of state power and doctrine. Thus in the Clinton years, US foreign policy was praised by elite intellectuals in the US and Europe for entering a \u201cnoble phase\u201d with a \u201csaintly glow,\u201d as an \u201cidealistic New World bent on saving humanity\u201d is acting from \u201caltruism alone,\u201d in defense of \u201cprinciples and values\u201d for the first time in history; and on, and on, one of the most embarrassing periods of Western intellectual history. Praise of Israel sometimes reaches similar rhetorical heights. But public opinion is often far more sober and reasonable.\nI nevertheless agree that the US-Israel case goes beyond the norm, even though I think it fits within the general pattern of \u201cour conformist subservience to those in power,\u201d to borrow the characterization of Western intellectuals by Hans Morgenthau, the founder of \u201crealist\u201d international relations theory.\nBefore Israel\u2019s massive victory in 1967, Israel was largely ignored by intellectual opinion, consistent with the US stand of mild but not particularly strong support. But after Israel\u2019s triumph of arms, everything changed. Israel had performed a major service to US power by destroying the center of secular Arab nationalism (represented by Nasser\u2019s Egypt) and protecting the radical Islamists of Saudi Arabia who were Washington\u2019s primary ally. That service established the US-Israel relationship in its current form. Significantly, Israel\u2019s successful use of force also won great praise among the educated classes, with a large impact on reporting and commentary that lasts until the present. The reasons were partly domestic. It is important to recall that at that time the US was failing to suppress Vietnamese resistance. The mood among liberal intellectuals was captured accurately by the prominent historian Arthur Schlesinger, who wrote that US violence will probably not succeed, but if it does, \u201cwe may all be saluting the wisdom and statesmanship of the American government.\u201d\nIsrael came along and showed how to treat Third World upstarts properly; there were witticisms about how we should send Moshe Dayan to help our military in Vietnam. Furthermore, Israel was able to sustain an aura of profound humanitarianism: it was upholding the highest values, \u201cshooting and crying\u201d in the idiom of the day, in self-defense against an implacable foe bent on its destruction. The combination of humanitarianism and mastery of the means of violence is irresistible to the mainstream intellectual culture. And much has happened since to reinforce the imagery.\nAll of this is quite apart from the powerful strategic and economic factors underlying US-Israel relations, as well as deep-seated cultural links between the two countries, including their historical experience as they are shaped by imagery and myth. The US, after all, is the only country to have been founded as a \u201cnascent empire\u201d: a superior race was removing the native scourge that had no legitimate right to be here, and was bringing civilization and development to a wild land. After liberation from England, the father of the country. George Washington, declared that \u201cthe gradual extension of our settlements will as certainly cause the savage, as the wolf, to retire; both being beasts of prey, though they differ in shape.\u201d Israel\u2019s reigning mythology and rhetoric, and of course practice, strike a very familiar chord; and accordingly receive the same acclaim. It is also useful to remember that Christian Zionism long precedes Jewish Zionism, and both movements are animated by a kind of messianic providentialism: God has a design for the world, and we, the chosen people, are the agents of the divine mission. There is a counterpart among secular elements. It is not surprising that the numerically dominant component of the \u201cIsrael lobby,\u201d by a large measure, consists of evangelical Christians; deeply anti-Semitic but strongly supportive of Israeli expansion and violence as an agency of divine will. That has been particularly significant during the past 30 years, when party managers realized that they could mobilize a huge voting bloc by presenting the candidates they market as \u201cpeople of faith.\u201d\nSuch factors as these should not be ignored.\nAK: Reading or hearing the daily reports of the atrocities in Gaza, we naturally focus attention on the events themselves. We focus on the immediate and largely ignore the larger context. Specifically, we ignore the role which the state of Israel has played in support of US and Western interests. This is perhaps unavoidable, given the scale of the catastrophe befalling the Palestinians now.\nBut stepping back a little from the events, how would you place the most recent attack on Gaza in the wider context, which has developed over several decades? But also looking ahead, what will be likely developments that may redefine Israel\u2019s role in the US-led Western alliance, perhaps pulling the two apart, and allowing or forcing a different relationship between Israel and its neighbors?\nNC: There is no need to review here the evolution of the US-Israel relationship. To mention just the bare bones, since 1967, the relationship has conformed to the recognition by US intelligence 50 years ago that a \u201clogical corollary\u201d of US opposition to \u201cradical\u201d (that is, independent) Arab nationalism is reliance on Israel as a base for US domination of the region and its incomparable energy resources. It was clearly understood that this would alienate the \u201cArab street.\u201d But that was dismissed as insignificant. At the same time, the National Security Council, the highest planning circle, gave a clear answer to Eisenhower\u2019s question why there is a \u201ccampaign of hatred\u201d against us among the population, though not the leaders. The reason, they explained, is that there is a perception in the Arab world that the US blocks democracy and development, and supports tyranny, so as to gain control of the oil resources. The NSC observed that the perception is accurate, and concluded that we must continue on this course. It is the task of the allied dictatorships to control \u201cthe street.\u201d That was long before US support for Israel became a major issue. These remain guiding principles.\nBy now Israel is virtually an offshore US military base and intelligence center. That fact was illustrated dramatically on December 31, right in the midst of the fierce attack on Gaza, by a Pentagon announcement that the US was commissioning a German commercial vessel to bring a huge shipment of armaments to Israel (the shipment was blocked by the Greek government, so different means had to be found). The announcement passed without notice, just as the media takes no notice of the fact that Israel is relying on US weapons, in violation of US law. The few who inquired were informed that the arms were not intended for Israel\u2019s attack on Gaza, but were being pre-positioned for the use of the US military \u2014 that is, for aggression, which is routinely called \u201cdefense\u201d and commitment to \u201cstability.\u201d\nIsrael is also a valued high-tech center, as illustrated by the increase of investment in Israel by leading US high-tech firms: Intel, Microsoft, etc. In military industry, relations are so intimate that one of the leading Israeli military producers, Rafael, plans to move most of its development and manufacturing operations to the US \u2014 to provide the arms more efficiently to the IDF. And Israel performs many other services to state and corporate power.\nIn contrast, Palestinians offer nothing to US power centers. They are weak, impoverished, and defenseless. Accordingly, they have no rights, by elementary principles of statecraft. In fact they have negative rights, since their plight stirs up \u201cthe Arab street.\u201d Enhancing Israeli power at the expense of Palestinians therefore makes sense.\nThe primary goal of the attack on Gaza was to silence any Palestinian opposition to the US-backed Israeli takeover of whatever is of value in the West Bank, while undermining the prospects for a viable two-state settlement in accord with the international consensus that the US and Israel have blocked for over 30 years, in international isolation, and still do \u2014 other facts that are scrupulously kept from the general public and unknown to the educated classes as well, with rare exceptions. West Bank opposition has been largely controlled by Israeli violence, now with the support of collaborationist Palestinian forces trained and armed by the US and its friendly dictators: it is notable that Obama, in his few statements on the conflict, stressed Jordan\u2019s constructive role in training these forces. But Gaza \u2014 the other portion of what remains of Palestine \u2014 had not yet been subdued. In that context the destruction of Gaza and annihilation of its social and cultural institutions makes good strategic sense.\nAnd it also makes sense for US-backed Israeli settlement and development projects to proceed in the West Bank while attention is diverted to the destruction of Gaza.\nBut there are counter-forces. These actions rely on the willingness of the West to support them, and on the complicity of Arab leaders. And all of this in turn depends on whether the populations will passively accept their contribution to criminal violence, repression, and illegal expansion. On that matter, as you mentioned before, the mood is changing, and may change sufficiently to bring the US to conformity with the overwhelming international call for a viable two-state settlement, and to induce the EU to adopt a stance more independent of US power. Something similar might happen, in some fashion, in the Arab world. Palestinians have shown astonishing courage and endurance, but they cannot, alone, confront the overwhelming power of US, tolerated or supported by the EU and the Arab dictatorships.\nAK: This is related to the previous question, but away from global geopolitics and closer to how Israeli society views itself, if it is to live peacefully with its neighbors in the future. There are well-informed commentators who have a bleak reading of Israel\u2019s history, not because of its past deeds, but because of how it projects itself now and into the future \u2014 a society that will remain an advance post of the West against a rising East \u2014 and because of its dogged refusal to acknowledge that its interests, as it sees them, have been predicated on the destruction of Palestinian society and antagonism to its neighbors.\nThis is a reading that can come from the right, reflecting the view of an unavoidable \u201cclash of civilizations\u201d as propounded by people like Samuel Huntington. And it can come from the left, that there is no possible compromise, that this is \u201cthe logic of colonial power.\u201d This is the title of a recent essay by Nir Rosen, commenting on the Gaza events. Rosen is an intelligent journalist and highly informed on Middle East affairs. According to Rosen, short of a transformation which Israel and its overwhelming majority reject, Israelis and Palestinians cannot coexist in historic Palestine, one of the two national groups will have to be excluded (forced to flee or emigrate, or just killed). One of the two societies is doomed in the long run. But, of course, such a scenario cannot be limited to Israel/Palestine and will engulf an already deeply wounded region into many more decades of bloodletting.\nAnything in the horizon that may give the lie to this apocalyptic vision?\nNC: The description is accurate enough, but I am skeptical about the conclusion, for reasons to which I will return.\nAs for the description, in 1971, Israel made a fateful decision: President Sadat of Egypt offered a full peace treaty to Israel, with nothing for the Palestinians. While he spoke of implementing full withdrawal, in accord with UN 242 as understood at the time by the US along with others, it was clear that his prime concern was the Sinai. If Israel had accepted Sadat\u2019s peace offer, its security would have been largely guaranteed. Israel considered the offer, recognizing it to be a genuine peace offer, but rejected it, preferring expansion \u2014 at that time to the northeast Sinai, where programs were soon implemented to drive out the Bedouin inhabitants and to build Jewish settlements and a major port city, Yamit.\nIsrael was compelled to accept Sadat\u2019s 1971 offer, at Camp David in 1978-79, but only after a major war that was a near-disaster for Israel.\nSince 1971 Israel has, with rare exceptions, preferred expansion to security. That of course entails reliance on the US as its protector. There have been many examples. One of the most noteworthy was Israel\u2019s invasion of Lebanon in 1982, intended, as was hardly concealed, to put an end to annoying Palestinian peace initiatives and to enable Israel to carry out its illegal settlement and development programs (another goal, not achieved, was to install a client state in Lebanon). The pretext for the attack was to protect the Galilee from rocketing from Lebanon. That was utter fraud, but it is commonly accepted in the US, even by critics of Israeli policies, like Jimmy Carter: that is the one serious error in Carter\u2019s book on Israel-Palestine, but was ignored in the barrage of criticism, because the lie is so convenient and commonly accepted. The goal of the war was expansion. It hardly contributed to security.\nOne cannot say that the policy has failed. It has largely achieved the goals explained by General Ezer Weizmann, commander of the Air Force in 1967 (later President of Israel): Contrary to the propaganda, Israel faced no threat of destruction at the time but the conquests enabled it to \u201cexist according to the scale, spirit and quality she now embodies \u2026 We entered the Six\u2030\u00e5\u00e5?\u2019Day War in order to secure a position in which we can manage our lives here according to our wishes without external pressures.\u201d\nThe same reasoning holds for the expansion into the occupied territories. It is illegal as Israel was at once advised by the government\u2019s top legal advisers, but that does not matter: it enhances the \u201cscale, spirit and quality\u201d of the state. The Palestinians are systematically crushed, but neighboring states pose little security threat, and in fact relations are slowly improving. And with firm US backing, Israel can reach the same conclusion as that of the Eisenhower administration 50 years ago: the \u201cArab street\u201d does not matter, as long as the populations can be controlled by force.\nThere is a tendency to underestimate the efficacy of violence. Quite often it succeeds. The history of the United States is a very clear example. The colonies became a territorial empire by violence, though some of the founders lamented the fate of \u201cthat hapless race of native Americans, which we are exterminating with such merciless and perfidious cruelty,\u201d so wrote John Quincy Adams, long after his own major contribution to the crimes. And it has greatly expanded its power since. On a smaller scale, Israel might aspire to a similar course, at least as long as its actions receive US backing.\nThe outcome might not be as apocalyptic as the grim forecast of Nir Rosen and others. From 1967, Israel has had plans to take over whatever is of value in the occupied territories, and to leave the Palestinians to \u201clive like dogs,\u201d as Moshe Dayan put it, perhaps as picturesque figures leading goats in the distance for tourists to watch as they speed along Israeli-only superhighways. These are the plans that are being implemented right now. They are not concealed, except from the American public, which sustains them. Contrary to many erroneous conclusions, these plans should not pose an insuperable \u201cdemographic problem\u201d for Israel \u2014 the perennial problem of too many non-Jews in a \u201cdemocratic Jewish state.\u201d Palestinians can be left to rot, without Israel taking responsibility for them. They can call the fragments left to them a \u201cstate\u201d if they like, or they can call them \u201cfried chicken,\u201d as the ultra-right Netanyahu government suggested in 1996 when it came into office, as it presumably will again in a few weeks. That appears to be the first indication by an Israeli government that it might tolerate a Palestinian state; the prospect had been forcefully rejected by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, as he was about to leave office in 1996. Gazans can survive as \u201cdrugged roaches scurrying in a bottle,\u201d in the elegant phrase of Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan. Arab citizens of Israel can be removed either by transfer or by border modifications, in accord with the proposals of Avigdor Lieberman, the Moldovan head of an ultra-nationalist right-wing party that is expected to gain in the elections, and to be part of the governing coalition. His proposal was at first bitterly denounced as racist, but it has now migrated to the center as the country lurches to the jingoist right. It is advocated, for example, by Tsipi Livni, the head of Kadima, considered a dove in the Israeli spectrum.\nHardly attractive, but not apocalyptic either. And not at all unlikely as matters are now progressing.\nIs there any hope for a more attractive future? Quite definitely. Eight years ago, in negotiations in Taba, Israeli and Palestinian high officials came close to an agreement that approximated the long-standing international consensus. In their last press conference they said that in a few more days they might have concluded an agreement, but the negotiations were called off prematurely by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. That week in Taba is the one real break in over 30 years of US-Israeli rejectionism. The negotiations could proceed because they were tolerated by President Clinton, in his last month in office: in fact, they took place within the loose framework of his \u201cparameters.\u201d It is worth noting that the famous Lobby, which rarely challenges US power, was silent at the time.\nA great deal has happened since then, but the fundamentals have not changed so radically that a return to that possibility is out of the question. What it requires, again, is the willingness of the US government to permit a peaceful diplomatic settlement. And while there is no sign of that now, with sufficient pressure within the US, or from the outside, it could happen. If such an arrangement is reached, it may be a step towards a more humane outcome in the future.\nAK: Not to forget, it is not only Israel that has been implicated in the devastation of Palestinian society. Arab states, in particular Egypt and Saudi Arabia, have played a particularly pernicious role in the recent Gaza onslaught. Both made clear that Hamas cannot be allowed to prevail in Gaza. That Hamas was democratically elected in January 2006 mattered for naught, it had to be destroyed, no matter the price to be paid by the Gaza population. Egypt and Saudi Arabia are crucial pieces in the system of domination led by the US.\nPart of the battle for a progressive grassroots movement in the US in relation to Israel is relatively easy to identify. The tasks are straightforward: confront the Israeli lobby AIPAC and the many apologists of Israeli excesses in the intelligentsia, promote dissent within the American-Jewish community, demand accountability for the enormous foreign aid package that Israel receives from the US, etc.\nBut where do we begin to confront the US-Egypt connection and the US-Saudi Arabia connection? True, Egypt is the recipient of the second largest foreign aid package from the US, for which we should demand accountability, but there is no constituency to speak of inside American society that is prone to defend the excesses of the Egyptian dictatorship. In the case of Saudi Arabia, there is even less in which we can engage political activists. It seems we need to confront these connections simultaneously (US-Israel, US-Egypt, US-Saudi Arabia) and expose the way they deeply depend on each other. How do we do this?\nNC: It is true that Egypt is the second-largest recipient of US aid, but that is because of its willingness to support \u2014 at least tacitly \u2014 US-backed Israeli policies, and US regional policies generally. If the US were to permit a peaceful diplomatic settlement for Israel-Palestine, the need to support the Egyptian dictatorship would decline, and opposition here could more easily be organized. Saudi Arabia is a different matter. It is the oldest and most valued US ally in the region, for obvious reasons: that is where most of the oil is. Like Egypt, Saudi Arabia long ago joined the international consensus that the US and Israel have blocked. The \u201cSaudi plan,\u201d adopted by the Arab League, even goes beyond the consensus in calling for full normalization of relations with Israel. It is significant that President Obama, in his first foreign policy statements, praised the plan while deliberately excluding its central component: a two-state settlement. But though so far Obama is at least as extremist as Bush on these matters, that too can change, and if the US joins the rest of the world, the US-Saudi connections can be addressed in a different manner. That is not the whole story, of course; oil politics is a separate matter, though of course related. But I think that a lot of ground would be cleared if the US were to abandon its rejectionist stand.\nAK: There is now a cease-fire of sorts. It is a very temporary relief. It stops the carnage, but does it make the Palestinian plight any less desperate? Yes, after what has happened in Gaza in recent weeks, peace with Israel seems more remote than ever. Israel may not have achieved all of its proclaimed goals in Gaza, and some commentators on the left even maintain that \u201cIsrael was defeated\u201d or that \u201cthe war on Gaza was a another setback for Israel\u201d \u2014 allowing for some hyperbole, perhaps this is so from a long-term historical perspective. But for the immediate next few years, Israel, far more than the Palestinians, can continue to live with an unresolved conflict. Israeli society continues to function reasonably well, on its own terms of antagonism to Palestinians and other Arabs around them, and its economy is still running and barely affected by the Gaza war. More perhaps, a continuing unresolved conflict is precisely what Israeli leaders want. By contrast, Palestinian society is more fragmented than ever, its economy largely broken and increasingly dependent on external handouts. Obviously it will be a long struggle to turn things around, but for the immediate, where do we focus our efforts in the US and the West more generally? What can we do in specific ways to provide the Palestinians with sustenance for the long haul and help them survive for a better day?\nNC: You are right to say \u201cof sorts.\u201d Hamas did call for a cease-fire, but Israel, while formally issuing its own cease-fire, instantly rejected it. Israel insisted that no cease-fire can be implemented without the return of the captured soldier Gilad Shalit. He is a household name in the West, unlike the Muammar brothers, the two Gaza civilians kidnapped in an IDF raid one day before the capture of Shalit. Uncontroversially, kidnapping civilians is a far more serious crime than capture of a soldier of an attacking army, but in the West, only Shalit exists \u2014 and of course there is no attention to Israel\u2019s regular practice over many decades of kidnapping civilians in Lebanon or on the high seas, sending them to Israeli prisons, sometimes secret prisons, sometimes held as hostages for many years. But thanks to deep-seated Western racism and imperial mentality, the Israel demand that there can be no cease-fire without the release of Shalit appears reasonable.\nThat is only the beginning, however. The London Financial Times reports that \u201crebuilding homes and fixing Gaza\u2019s broken infrastructure will depend on Israel\u2019s willingness to let in cement, bricks and machinery. Israel is adamant that it will not allow in such supplies in the near future, fearing that a speedy reconstruction of the war-ravaged strip would benefit Hamas and enhance its legitimacy.\u201d That form of savagery is also considered natural among Western elites, who have only contempt for democracy unless free elections come out \u201cthe right way.\u201d Hence Israel can continue its brutal siege, undermining the cease-fire. A siege of course is an act of war.\nI also agree that Israel \u201ccan continue to live with an unresolved conflict.\u201d In fact, a leading principle of Zionist doctrine long before the state was established, and continuing since, has been to try to delay diplomacy while establishing \u201cfacts on the ground,\u201d to determine the contours of some eventual settlement. That is exactly what is happening now.\nApart from providing Palestinians with whatever relief we can, the focus of action should, as you say, be in the United States. What are the proper tactics? For those who care about the fate of the Palestinians, the tactics will be chosen so that they work \u2014 primarily, work to pressure the US government to depart from its rejectionist stance, so that diplomatic efforts can proceed, and Israel will withdraw to negotiated borders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 35482, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 244.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://chrisaram.net/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:13:25Z", "digest": "sha1:HH5RB67RRHYG3TXRENAVE4TW2EPW3M6I", "length": 288, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "chrisaram.net", "title": "Home - Chris Aram", "raw_content": "Welcome, friend! I'm glad you're here.\nI'm a husband, father, entrepreneur and coffee snob; but most of all, a student of life.\nThis site is primarily a collection of a few articles I've written, as well as my book notes. 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The Silver Skate Festival is the longest running winter festival in Edmonton. Over the years, it has grown in leaps and bounds, from a small skating event to a large-scale, winter extravaganza.\nEach year, the festival transforms Hawrelak Park into a winter wonderland with fun for the entire family. Here, you\u2019ll discover breathtaking snow sculpture, winter sports, and horse-drawn sleighs carrying families through the park. Sit in a Cree Winter Camp and cook bannock over an open fire. Compete in the winter triathlon or speed skating events. Take in live music and theatrical performances with your friends and loved ones. Our festival activities are as diverse as the people who call our Northern community home.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 100, "original_length": 2816, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 237.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://city.plus/events/202837", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:45Z", "digest": "sha1:OQQOECS7PQW5MOCSEOIZR3ZTZZPKTF2A", "length": 65, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "city.plus", "title": "ABSTRACTION #6, Le Transbordeur, Friday, december 21, 2018 | city.plus", "raw_content": "ABSTRACTION #6 concert\nFriday, december 21, 2018 11:00 PM-2:00 AM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cityofmidlandmi.gov/204/Jack-Barstow-Municipal-Airport", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:31Z", "digest": "sha1:OOF5SO25C3PB2B7VQ2AHE2VAYSHTIHFC", "length": 3424, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "cityofmidlandmi.gov", "title": "Jack Barstow Municipal Airport | Midland, MI - Official Website", "raw_content": "Jack Barstow Municipal Airport is a general aviation airport located in the northwest area of Midland adjacent to the Midland County Fairgrounds and the City forest. The airport's airfield encompasses over 500 acres and serves the needs of 65 based pilots, many of whom fly for recreation and business.\nThe airport has 2 runways to accommodate various wind conditions in flight and various sizes of small aircraft. The airport handles about 20,000 operations (take-offs and landings) each year, and approximately 40 aircraft hangars can be found on site.\nA 2,100-square-foot terminal building that opened in summer 2005 is centrally located within the airfield at the end of Barstow Drive. Pilots and visitors alike can enjoy the use of the new terminal building, which includes a pilot's lounge for tired travelers, a conference room for meetings, and an aviation weather service to assist pilots with flight planning.\nQuick Facts About the Airport\nLeasing Hangar Space: Call 989-835-3231 to review available hangar locations and building sites at the airport.\nFlying Lessons: Contact the airport at 989-835-3231.\nHow It's Funded\nThe Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and State of Michigan provides the majority of funding for capitol improvements at the airport. On typical projects, the City of Midland's share is only 2.5% of the total cost. Proceeds from aircraft hangar rental and land lease rentals also help fund operations, and aircraft fuel sales make up a small amount of revenue.\nThe Aviation Advisory Commission advises the Midland City Council on user charges and other aviation costs affecting the use and development of the airport. The commission also advises the City Council on airport development plans including runways, hangars, building construction and other improvements.\nEach summer, teens have the chance to learn about the wonderful world of flying through the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Aviation Camp at Barstow Airport. This 5 day day camp is open to teens entering 10th - 12th grades in the fall, and offers a variety of information on:\nOccupations in aviation\nLocal aircraft builders invite campers to their hangars to view the variety of unique airplanes based at Barstow Airport. The students also visit MBS International Airport to get a 1st-hand look at the control tower, fire barn, and corporate hangars. Campers get lots of hands-on experience including planning a cross-country flight.\nClasses are held at the Ormond Barstow Educational Center at Barstow Airport. Classes are taught by volunteer pilots, flight instructors, and special speakers from a variety of aviation fields who introduce young people to the aviation/aerospace world.\nFor more information, visit the EAA website, call 989-615-1103, or send an email.\nOperational as of April 2009, AWOS has put Midland on the National Weather Service map. This data-gathering system allows pilots to get up-to-the-minute data about the weather in mid-Michigan, and helps ensure safe takeoffs and landings.\nThe new system is certified through the Federal Aviation Administration, and gauges information such as:\nRainfall in the area\nWind speeds and direction\nFor additional information about Aviation Airport Commission-related items or any other airport-related questions, contact City Engineer Joshua Fredrickson in the Engineering Department at 989-837-3348, or email Joshua Fredrickson.\nEmail Joshua Fredrickson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 271.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cityofmidlandmi.gov/973/Youth-Swim-Lessons", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:52Z", "digest": "sha1:5HKC7KK5FI54DTREIREJDTRD6US2V5TK", "length": 3082, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "cityofmidlandmi.gov", "title": "Youth Swim Lessons | Midland, MI - Official Website", "raw_content": "Swim lesson registration begins simultaneously online and in person on Wednesday, May 30 at 7:30 a.m. New for 2018, staff will be on site at PARKS AND RECREATION (4811 N SAGINAW RD) at 7:30 a.m. to take your registration or you can register online. No registrations will take place at Plymouth Pool.\nLessons are available for 7 levels of swimming and are taught under the direction of American Red Cross Water Safety Instructors. Classes meet Mon through Thursday for two weeks. The cost per each two-week session is $40.00 and each class lasts 45 minutes (there is only 30 minutes of instruction in the Pre-K class). All classes are held at Plymouth Pool.\nHere are some important things you should know about swim lessons...\nSwim School Flyer (PDF)\nLessons are held on rainy days.\nTesting is done on the second Wednesday of the class and the second Thursday is a \"fun day.\" If a class is canceled it will be made up during the second week and the fun day will be eliminated. If a second class needs to be rescheduled, it will be made up on the second Friday. There will be no more than 2 makeups classes per lesson.\nOn the first day of lessons please make sure your child is prepared to start on time. We have a lot of information to cover in a short period of time.\nYou will only be allowed to view your child's lesson from outside the fence. This will allow our staff to maximize their time with your child.\nDuring swim lessons we do not allow any kind of flotation devices in the the pool. This includes water wings and life jackets. Goggles are acceptable.\nPlease review the lesson descriptions carefully. By signing your child up for lessons, you agree that your child is able to complete all the benchmarks of the prior level. Parents are responsible for ensuring their children are in the level-appropriate lesson for their child. If our staff finds that a level is too advanced and poses a safety risk for the child, the child will be removed from the class.\nParents will only be able to pre-register children for one level higher than the child's current level.\nPlease know it is highly common for children to repeat levels before they are able to demonstrate each skill (and we encourage it!) It is not important how quickly they move through the program but that they master each skill within the level.\nShould you wish to speak to one of our staff, our swim lesson supervisor will be on deck before and after your child's lesson.\nTo be notified of lesson cancellations you must have registered to receive Rainout Line notifications or call our Rainout Line. Information on the service is to the right.\nDuring each lesson, we will provide a ratio of 1:6; 1 instructor per 6 children.\nIs your desired class already full? Please join the wait list! We use the list to determine classes for the following year. 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State 12-6 in Game-Two of Doubleheader Saturday\nCLEMSON, SC \u2013 Wilson Boyd\u2019s two-run, go-ahead single was part of a seven-run eighth inning that enabled #7 Clemson to rally for a 12-6 win over N.C. State in the second game of a doubleheader in front of 4,895 fans at Doug Kingsmore Stadium on Saturday. The Tigers, who took a 2-0 series lead by sweeping the doubleheader, improved to 12-1 overall and 2-0 in the ACC. The Wolfpack dropped to 11-3 overall and 0-2 in ACC play.\nThe Wolfpack maintained small leads late in the game, including a 6-5 lead entering the eighth inning. But the Tigers scored seven runs in the eighth, keyed by Boyd\u2019s go-ahead, two-run single with one out and John Hinson\u2019s three-run double with two outs. The Tigers took advantage of 11 walks issued by N.C. State pitchers, including one in the eighth inning with the bases loaded that tied the score.\nTiger freshman righthander Dominic Leone (1-0) earned his first career win. In the final 3.0 innings pitched out of the bullpen, he gave up just two hits, no runs, and no walks with six strikeouts. N.C. State reliever Anthony Tzamtzis (1-1) suffered the loss, as he yielded three runs on one hit and two walks in 0.1 innings pitched.\nThe Wolfpack took the game\u2019s first lead in the top of the fourth inning. Pratt Maynard was hit-by-pitch, then Chris Schaeffer hit a two-run homer to left-center, his second long ball of the day and third of the season.\nIn the bottom of the fourth inning, Kyle Parker led off with a walk and Boyd followed with an opposite-field, two-run homer to left field, his second long ball of the season.\nN.C. State responded with two runs in the top of the fifth inning to regain the lead. Kyle Wilson led off with a single through the right side, stole second, and scored on Dallas Poulk\u2019s double down the right-field line. Andrew Ciencin followed with a double down the left-field line to plate Poulk.\nIn the bottom of the fifth inning, Mike Freeman drew a two-out walk and scored on Jeff Schaus\u2019 double down the left-field line.\nClemson evened the score in the sixth inning. Brad Miller\u2019s triple down the right-field line. After Chris Epps walked to load the bases with two outs. But Freeman lined out to left field to keep the score tied 4-4.\nThe Wolfpack retook the lead in the top of the seventh inning thanks to the long ball. Ciencin led off with a single to left and Drew Poulk followed with a long two-run homer down the left-field line, his second home run of the year.\nIn the bottom of the seventh inning, Schaus cut the N.C. State lead in half when he led off with a solo home run to right field, his fourth long ball of the season.\nIn the eighth inning, Hinson led off with a double to left-center, then Epps and Freeman walked to load the bases with no outs. Schaus came back from a 1-2 count to draw a walk, scoring Hinson to tie the score. Epps was retired at the plate for out #1 on Parker\u2019s fielder\u2019s choice. Boyd then gave Clemson its first lead of the game when he grounded a single through the right side on a 3-2 pitch to score Freeman and Schaus. Two batters later, Miller walked to load the bases with two outs, then Pohl was hit-by-pitch to plate Parker. Hinson followed with his second double of the inning, this time to right-center, to score Boyd, Miller, and Pohl.\nThe Tigers, who totaled 10 hits in the game, were led at the plate by Boyd. The fifth-year senior was 2-for-5 with a homer, four RBIs, and two runs. Schaus went 2-for-4 with a homer, double, three RBIs, and two runs, while Hinson came off the bench to go 2-for-3 with two doubles and three RBIs.\nWilson led N.C. State\u2019s 12-hit attack by going 4-for-4 with two steals, while Ciencin and Drew Poulk both added two hits apiece.\nClemson and N.C. State will play the series-finale on Sunday at 1:00 PM.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 6820, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clemsontigers.com/clemson-will-play-host-to-25-wake-forest-sunday/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:55Z", "digest": "sha1:YEMHTJ46VCNREAD6Y7ZBWFSLBADB53W2", "length": 1020, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "clemsontigers.com", "title": "Clemson Will Play Host to #25 Wake Forest Sunday \u2013 Clemson Tigers Official Athletics Site", "raw_content": "Clemson Will Play Host to #25 Wake Forest Sunday\nCLEMSON, SC \u2013 The Clemson men\u00b9s tennis team will play host to 25th-ranked Wake Forest Sunday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. in Atlantic Coast Conference action.\nClemson has a 9-9 record overall and a 1-5 mark in the ACC. Wake Forest is ranked 25th nationally according to the latest ITA poll. The Deacons are 13-6 overall this season and 3-1 in the ACC.\nLivestats for this match are available on the clemsontigers.com website.\nThe match will be the 65th meeting between the Tigers and Deacons. Clemson leads the overall series 42-22. Clemson leads the series in matches played at Clemson 22-6. The series began in the 1925 season as Wake Forest won the inaugural match 5-1.\nThe 2009 season marks the 100th year of men\u00b9s tennis at Tigertown. Clemson first sponsored men\u00b9s tennis in 1910 when two Tiger tennis players entered the annual state tournament. The first dual match Clemson played was in the 1921 season as the Tigers defeated Wofford 2-0 on April 28, in Spartanburg, SC.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 3939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clemsontigers.com/lawson-named-freshman-all-american/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:42Z", "digest": "sha1:PBQWKTMXNETWWKTSPZSAYNWNMX6CFYIL", "length": 770, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "clemsontigers.com", "title": "Lawson Named Freshman All-American \u2013 Clemson Tigers Official Athletics Site", "raw_content": "Lawson Named Freshman All-American\nCLEMSON, SC \u2013 Clemson true freshman defensive end Shaq Lawson has been named a second-team freshman All-American by College Football News and a third-team selection by Athlon.\nThe product of nearby Daniel High School finished the regular season with nine tackles for loss and nine quarterback pressures to go with three sacks. He is fourth on the team in tackles for loss even though he played just 26 plays per game.\nOverall, Lawson has 32 tackles in those 319 plays, just over a tackle for every 10 snaps. He had 2.5 tackles for loss in the nationally televised Thursday night victory over NC State in Raleigh back in September. He had at least one tackle in every game, the only Clemson freshman who could make that claim this year.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 3515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://clemsontigers.com/qb-of-the-defense/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:09Z", "digest": "sha1:EPFU4RZWCX7SEJT4WX6RWGHHLPIQWCCD", "length": 6037, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "clemsontigers.com", "title": "QB of the Defense \u2013 Clemson Tigers Official Athletics Site", "raw_content": "QB of the Defense\nTiger safety Robert Smith has a knack for finding the football. Smith roams around the Clemson secondary, anticipating the quarterback\u2019s next move.\nHow does Smith know the opposing quarterback\u2019s every move? He was the star quarterback at Woodland High School before he donned the Orange and Purple.\n\u201cGrowing up, I was a quarterback,\u201d said Smith. \u201cI never even played defensive back until I came to Clemson. I would play a few snaps on defense in high school, but my dream was to play quarterback. In reality, I knew if I wanted to make it to the next level, I would have to switch positions because of my height.\u201d\nHighly recruited, Smith had the option of playing safety or running back as a Tiger and decided to move to the defensive side of the ball because of the potential for early playing time. While he did not see much action on defense during his freshman season, Smith competed in all 14 contests, primarily on special teams, and has played in every game of his college career. That is a rarity in college football, especially for a player in the secondary who delivers hits all season.\nSmith is related to another former Tiger who made the switch from offense to defense. Tye Hill began his career as a running back before making the transition to cornerback. The switch paid off for Hill, as he was selected in the first round (No. 15 overall) by the St. Louis Rams in the 2006 NFL draft.\nHill embraced the opportunity to help his cousin become the next Clemson secondary star.\n\u201cHe helped me throughout the whole process by keeping my mind right,\u201d said Smith. \u201cWhen I went home, he helped me with footwork drills, some ladder drills and defensive back drills, so he helped me with the transition in many ways.\u201d\nWhile playing every game, Smith was primarily used as a backup his first two seasons, working behind former Tiger and now Buffalo Bill, Jonathan Meeks. It was a tough transition for the athletic Smith, who had grown accustomed to being the star at Woodland High School. But after playing with some of the older players, Smith began to learn to be patient.\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard when you\u2019re coming from being a big fish in a small pond to being a small fish in a big ocean,\u201d admitted Smith. \u201cI had a lot of former players like Jonathan Meeks, Rashard Hall, Coty Sensabaugh and Xavier Brewer who I really looked up to, and one thing I really learned was how to be patient and just wait for my time. They showed me how to read plays, helped with my footwork and where to keep my eyes.\u201d\nWhile Smith was familiar with Clemson due to the success of his cousin, the loyalty shown him by the Tigers ultimately led to his commitment. After earning a host of offers prior to his junior season in high school, Smith tore his ACL. Several of the teams that recruited him so passionately withdrew their offers. However, the Clemson coaching staff continued to vigorously recruit the coveted athlete.\n\u201cClemson was one of the teams that offered me early and they didn\u2019t back off,\u201d stated Smith. \u201cThey told me if I tore my other ACL, they would still sign me.\u201d\nThe dedication by the coaching staff has paid huge dividends for a defense viewed as one of the best in the nation. While many in the media are infatuated with the stout front seven, the secondary has played extremely well and is 14th in the nation in passing yards allowed per game (179.4).\nSmith uses the \u201cweak link\u201d criticism to motivate not only himself, but his teammates in the secondary.\n\u201cThat definitely motivates us because we don\u2019t want to be treated as the weakest link,\u201d said Smith.\n\u201cAs the year has progressed, we\u2019ve improved. We knew we\u2019re going to start off a little shaky because there are so many young guys back there, but once they got the hang of playing in front of 85,000 fans, we knew we\u2019d all see improvement.\u201d\nThe improvement was obvious in Clemson\u2019s win over NC State on October 4. The Wolfpack entered the game averaging 40 points and over 500 yards per game. But the Tigers pitched a shutout, thanks in part to a secondary that allowed just 35 passing yards, the lowest figure by a Clemson opponent in five years.\nThe youth and inexperience of the secondary has been a major concern for the Tigers, as many players are freshmen and sophomores. As the elder statesman along with Garry Peters, Smith is teaching the younger players the same way he was taught.\nWith his college career winding down, Smith is looking to his future. His dream since he was five was to play in the NFL, and after the past few seasons, he has demonstrated that he is capable of an opportunity. It doesn\u2019t matter where he has to go, as long as he is suiting up on Sundays.\nDoes Smith wonder what the future would have held for him as a quarterback?\n\u201cI don\u2019t regret my decision at all. A lot of people have recently been asking me, \u2018do you wish you went to Georgia Tech or Appalachian State to continue your dream of being a professional quarterback?\u2019\n\u201cOnce I got to college, I was glad I didn\u2019t play quarterback. Being 5\u201911\u201d and having guys like Isaiah Battle at 6\u20197\u201d, it\u2019s hard to see over those players, so I don\u2019t regret it at all. I feel like God put me in position to be the most successful.\n\u201cGod had faith for me to be at Clemson in another way. When I came here, I couldn\u2019t get (jersey) #15 because Coty (Sensabaugh) was wearing it. I didn\u2019t care what number I got. Coach (Dabo) Swinney gave me #27. Ironically, my dad wore #42 in high school and I wore #15, and 42 minus 15 equals 27. 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Colby", "raw_content": "Do not operate heavy machinery after reading this book.\nThis book is not for teenagers. If you do, you\u2019ll soon find yourself acting with determination, persistence, and setting goals, which may prompt your parents to ask what is wrong. You may suddenly give 100% effort in school, sports, and at your part-time job, allowing you to gain entry into college like Ford Stevens did. Beware.\nDo not read these books if you have medical issues.\nThe fictional stories expressed in any of Lawrence A. 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Illinois recently legally recognized a long-practiced type of divorce called Collaborative Divorce.\nAs of January 1, 2018, there is a new law in Illinois called the Collaborative Process Act (750 ILCS 90/1 et sq.) officially recognizing and endorsing the practice that some attorneys and clients have sworn by for years. Collaborative Divorce is exactly how it sounds: collaborative. It involves the two divorcing parties coming to a civil, amicable agreement that helps them move forward with their lives with mutual satisfaction. There is no magic involved. Simply, both parties and their attorneys enter a comfortable environment to negotiate their divorce on their own terms. The parties may also be joined by other professionals\u2014a Divorce Coach, a Financial Specialist and a Child Specialist (if needed)\u2014 who help guide the process in follow up meetings. Consider this as a \u201cteam\u201d rather than two sides, like in standard litigation. Not every specialist need attend every meeting, but they may attend meetings as many meetings as are relative to their specialty topics, such as child-related issues and division of assets.\nCollaborative Divorce is the most effective way of dissolving a marriage for a few reasons: First, it removes the litigation from the process, allowing the couple to work through their divorce without going to court. This can save couples precious time and resources. Second, it is respectful, cooperative and clients control the process. The agreements are constructed by the parties and their attorneys with input from the outside specialists to reach the best outcome and compromise for each party. Ultimately, the open information sharing and commitment to work in good faith to reach a common goal allows a couple greater control of the divorce process than would traditionally be possible.\nWhat is different about Collaborative Divorce is that, unlike traditional litigation, the goal is not to work toward separate outcomes for each client. Rather, in Collaborative Divorce, all parties agree to work toward a common outcome. When all specialists and attorneys work together in an unbiased way for a united goal, the outcomes are favorable to both parties; thus, avoiding the possibility that one party may come away dissatisfied. An agreement will not be signed until both parties are on board, and the team of professionals works with this outcome in mind to ensure that that happens.\nFinally, it\u2019s a supportive process. Without the daunting stigma of appearing and reappearing in court, couples feel safer and calmer than in traditional divorce. And the supportive specialists are trained to maintain that calm environment, providing emotional support during all steps of the process. For many people, this component is the most important reason to choose Collaborative Divorce over a traditional one; the recognition of and assistance through a separation that can be emotionally painful is often the determining factor in how one fares through the process. With Collaborative Divorce, the chances of a positive long term outcome increase because it reduces the negatives associated with the traditional divorce process.\n\u201cCollaborative divorce is a client-centered, non-adversarial negotiation process. It is a voluntary, private, contractual agreement between the parties to resolve issues outside of court.2 The parties each agree to hire a specially trained collaborative attorney who helps them reach a win-win solution by problem solving, often with the help of an interdisciplinary team, including such other professionals as psychologists, parenting coaches, and financial planners. The parties sign a participation agreement stating that if the parties cannot reach agreement, the attorneys must withdraw. Each party may then hire its own trial counsel.\u201d \u201cIllinois Compiled Statutes: Families Collaborative Process Act.\u201d Illinois General Assembly. Legislative Information System, Springfield IL.\nWhen a couple enters into a Collaborative Divorce, both parties sign an agreement to work together civilly and respectfully by providing relative documents including financial statements. In this agreement, both parties consent to participate in the process. Then, over a succession of meetings, the couple and their team are guided by supportive specialists to reach the best possible agreement for both parties.\nSpecialists, such as Financial Advisors, Accountants, Child Specialists, Social Workers, and Parenting Coaches, may be present during meetings, according to the needs of the couple. Some specialists attend each meeting after the first or may attend subsequent meetings according to need. They are neutral parties acting with the sole purpose of assisting the couple in reaching the best outcome in the most satisfying way possible. The Collaborative Divorce Attorney representing one party gathers members of this team according to the client\u2019s needs and may add additional specialists to the team on an as-needed basis. Finally, after the amicable agreement is reached, the attorneys will construct a legal document signed by both parties, that is then presented in court for entry. The entire process may take less time than traditional divorce and is directed by the needs of the couple.\nIn the initial agreement, the parties recognize that if they fail to agree, the attorneys will withdraw, and each party will seek alternative counsel for trial. The key here is that Collaborative Divorce attorneys are there to make an agreement, not work against each other. And so, in the rare cases where the parties cannot agree, the lawyers do not pursue litigation. Their sole purpose is to collaborate, and thus, they would withdraw.\nAfter the initial agreement, goals are identified, issues are identified, and a schedule will be set for the frequency and number of meetings. Before subsequent meetings, information is gathered, and shared with both parties and experts. From there, the negotiation process commences and pursues in consecutive meetings.\nOne reason Collaborative Divorce is successful is that everyone is working toward a common goal. In fact, the attorneys answer all of their client\u2019s questions and together, with the entirety of the team, brainstorm outcomes and solutions. The client, along with the other parties, remains engaged for the duration of the process .\nThe Law Office of Miriam Cooper & Associates, LLC offers Collaborative Divorce in the Chicagoland area. Miriam Cooper understands the challenges clients face when going through a divorce and is versed in the Collaborative Law process, is committed to address and fulfill all of her client\u2019s needs.\nThis entry was posted in Collaborative Divorce, Collaborative Law. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 9662, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://commonreader.wustl.edu/c/the-dharma-of-dollars/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:05Z", "digest": "sha1:PCTCQUZP7VRE6HRIFNB2UST3Q7P6B7KV", "length": 21045, "nlines": 62, "source_domain": "commonreader.wustl.edu", "title": "The Dharma of Dollars | Common Reader", "raw_content": "The Dharma of Dollars\tHinduism and money: a colonial reflection\nI. Hinduism and money?\nIs the prevailing stereotype, namely that so-called \u201cEastern\u201d cultures revolved and continue to revolve around spiritualism and so-called \u201cWestern\u201d culture centers around materialism, actually true? Or is this stereotype a clever marketing ploy first put forth by Swami Vivekananda more than a century ago, and now perpetuated and capitalized upon by new-age, Yoga-professing neo-Hindus? By reactionary right-wing Hindutva fundamentalists? Or by imperialist colonizers (in the past and present) desiring to (continue to) exploit and to dominate (formerly) colonized countries economically?\nWhat exactly is the connection, imagined or otherwise, between money/material accumulations, Hinduism, and Hindu practices?\nBut first, what is Hinduism?\nII. Hinduism(s)?\nHinduism is a conglomeration of a variety of beliefs and practices with no one, or official, set of doctrines or religious authorities. Though \u201cHinduism\u201d is often heralded as the \u201coldest religion,\u201d it is possible to argue convincingly that it is among the youngest of the world\u2019s religions. This claim, which at first glance seems implausible, is justifiable if one examines the history of the invention of the term \u201cHindu\u201d itself and its original uses. Students in introductory courses to Hinduism are often surprised to learn that Hinduism does not have a founder as does Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. They are even more surprised to learn that Persians developed the term \u201cHindu\u201d and that they used it as a geographic, rather than a religious, term. In the singular the term referred to the country through which the Indus river flowed while in the plural it referred to the people who inhabited the land of the Indus. The term slowly evolved (devolved?) into a religious one when it was used by Muslims, by Christian missionaries, by British colonizers, by colonized \u201cHindu\u201d reformers such as Ram Mohan Roy, and by Hindu nationalists like Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Consequently the term has developed a life of its own, outside the imagination of its first creators and, ironically, has become the means by which the majority of \u201cHindus\u201d self-identify.\nMoney and its accumulation, as I will show, is a matter of dharma (proper duty and behavior). Hinduism, at least according to the passages found in Manavadharmashastra, encourages the majority of its adherents to be money-oriented and materialistic.\nThough the origin of the term is clear, this does not mean that \u201cHinduism,\u201d a contrived category, has clear boundaries that differentiate it from other religions, nor does \u201cHinduism\u201d have essential teachings that are purportedly held by all adherents, despite the claims of contemporary Hindu nationalists. Those who believe that the mechanism of karma is a unique Hindu idea and, therefore, a defining characteristic, would also dispute my claim. Karma is not, I contend, an exclusively Hindu concept. After all, it is a key component in both Jainism and Buddhism. Others hold that the sutra (thread) that ties together all Hindus is the centrality of a body of texts known as the Vedas. While some Hindus do indeed uphold the sanctity of these Sanskrit texts, not all Hindus endorse the epistemic authority of the Vedas. Attempts to define the scope of Hinduism are thus fraught with problems: either the proposed definition is too broad (such as defining it in terms of karma) or it is too narrow (such as defining it in terms of the Vedas).\nThe term \u201cHindu\u201d is thus notoriously difficult to define. Substantive definitions have been tried, as have experiential ones. Defining Hinduism in terms of family resemblances and overlapping Venn diagrams, currently in vogue, though somewhat useful, is only partially satisfying as the resultant classifications are far too broad.\nTo offer readers a definitive account of the connection between Hinduism and money would thus be deceitful and definitively incorrect. My reflections here, then, will be somewhat limited and reflect only the sentiment found in the Manavadharmashastra, The Law Code of Manu (hereafter \u201cManu\u201d) a so-called \u201cBrahminical\u201d/Sanskritic \u201cClassical\u201d text. There is no doubt that this is only a sliver of all of the possibilities and I would not claim otherwise. So, why this Brahminical/Sanskritic/Classical text and not others?\nIII. \u201cClassical Hinduism\u201d and \u201cBrahmanical Hinduism\u201d\nI will stipulate \u201cClassical Hinduism\u201d to encompass Sanskrit texts and practices between 200 BCE and 11th century CE. The \u201cClassical\u201d age is noteworthy for being a time when the dharmashastras (treatises on proper duty and behavior) were produced and later codified. I will stipulate \u201cBrahmanical Hinduism\u201d to refer to the Sanskrit texts and practices of the Brahmins (the so-called \u201cpriestly class\u201d) from Vedic times to the present. It allows scholars to pick out Brahmanical norms from those put forth by other varnas (classes). Their prescriptions for proper behavior, most importantly, are somewhat systematized and uniform thus making this constructed category useful for the purposes of this analysis. Money and its accumulation, as I will show, is a matter of dharma (proper duty and behavior). Hinduism, at least according to the passages found in Manavadharmashastra, encourages the majority of its adherents to be money-oriented and materialistic.\nManu was one of the first texts to become part of the European world. Translated in 1794 by William Jones, the text was further translated into several languages, including French and German. Nietzsche, the German philosopher, mentioned the text several times in his corpus. The British, moreover, looked towards it as a pre-eminent example of Hindu law and they thus integrated it into their colonial rule of India. It is surprising that, with knowledge and awareness of this text, the first colonizing Orientalists did not object to the portrayal of Hinduism as spiritualistic, rather than materialistic. But, as I will suggest below, perhaps not accepting the material sensibility of Hinduism helped colonizers to justify their colonization.\nManu is centered upon issues of shuddha (purity) and ashuddha (impurity). It offers a detailed account of how to act in almost every imaginable situation in the world and simultaneously maintain one\u2019s purity. There are rules about when and how to eat, to bathe, to have intercourse, to get married, what sort of woman would be an ideal wife, what sort would not, what sort of job one should have, funerary practices, and so on. These rules about how to behave in the world were differentiated according to varna (class), ashrama (stage of life), and gender. There are four ashramas. These are brahmacharya (celibate student), grhastha (householder), vanaprastha (forest dweller), and samnyasi (ascetic renouncer). The ashrama system was contrived and constructed concurrently with the systemization of dharma in the dharmashastras. While it is not followed strictly by the vast majority of Hindus (either today or in the past), it has played a role as an idealized or aspirational model.\nAre texts like Manavadharmashastra prescriptive or descriptive? That is, did they put forth ideals towards which society ought to aspire or were they detailed characterizations of what was actually transpiring? In all likelihood, a relatively small group of people, primarily Brahmins, were aware of the ideals but may not have followed them strictly, if at all. Even today, Hindus are aware of Manu (though they may not know much of the content) though they refer to it as an unattainable or superannuated ideal.\nIt is for these reasons that I am using Manavadharmashastra as the text around which to orient questions concerning Hinduism and money.\nIV. The dharma of dollars?\nIn the idealistic eyes of many contemporary (and deluded) \u201cyoga\u201d practitioners and in the Orientalist eyes of 19th-century American transcendentalists, Hinduism and so-called Eastern religions and philosophies have been envisioned as an antidote for Western ills and materialism. Since Hinduism does not have a founder, as already mentioned, it has made itself even more available to fulfill the imaginary projections of its sycophants, proponents, and opponents. So it has been remarkably easy to imagine Hinduism to be anti-materialist, to be relativist, to be a mysticism, and, for some, to resemble, in some \u201cprimitive way,\u201d Christianity. And since there are no official Hindu spokespeople, as there are for Catholicism for example, there have been disconnected and unofficial attempts to address blatantly false or dangerous imaginations, or, in some cases, to try and replace them with their own imaginative possibilities.\nSince Hinduism does not have a founder, as already mentioned, it has made itself even more available to fulfill the imaginary projections of its sycophants, proponents, and opponents. So it has been remarkably easy to imagine Hinduism to be anti-materialist, to be relativist, to be a mysticism, and, for some, to resemble, in some \u201cprimitive way,\u201d Christianity.\nBut what do the dharmashastras (treatises on proper duty and behavior) state about money and the accumulation of wealth? What does one find in actual texts, deemed \u201cHindu\u201d? How is money addressed in Manavadharmahastra? Does it confirm or clash with the standard Orientalist stereotype?\nV. Manavadharmashastra: Money as a means\nManu wholeheartedly supports and enjoins the accumulation of wealth, specifically for the grhastha (householder), but not for the brahmacharya (celibate student) and not for the samnyasi (an ascetic). The brahmacharya and the samnyasi stages are more alike than different: while the brahmacharya is beginning close study of the vedas and is learning to be detached from material things, the samnyasi practices and meditates upon the vedas and has renounced all material things, wealth and objects (artha) accumulated during the grhastha phase. Manu\u2019s sentiment (and the sentiment presented in the ashrama system), to be poor when one is a student and to get a job and save some money after one is married, and then to downsize when retired, is not unusual!\nWealth, however, must not be accumulated in excess and must not be accumulated by the incorrect means. Manu writes:\n\u201cExcept during a time of adversity, a Brahmin ought to sustain himself but following a livelihood that causes little or no harm to creatures. He should gather wealth just sufficient for his subsistence though irreproachable activities that are specific to him, without fatiguing his body.\u201d (Manavadharmashastra 4.2\u20144.3 Hereafter MDS) (all translations of passages from Manu are from Patrick Olivelle\u2019s The Law Code of Manu, Oxford University Press, 2004)\nThe restriction concerning sufficiency is, in part, linked to attachment. That is, there ought to be no attachment to material things\u2013though this does not mean that they ought not to be accumulated (as is the case for the brahmacharya and samnyasi). Manu explains:\n\u201cHe must never seek to obtain wealth (artha) with excessive passion, through forbidden activities, when he already has sufficient wealth from just anyone even in time of adversity; nor shall he be passionately attached to any of the sensory objects (artha) out of lust, but using his mind he should stamp out excessive attachment to them.\u201d (MDS 4.15-4.16)\nSo, it would be perfectly reasonable for the married Hindu man to purchase a Bentley or even a Ferrari, but he should not be perturbed if and when it gets stolen or damaged. He should also not lust after one.\nBut what is the purpose of material accumulations (artha)? Is their pursuit a means to a greater end, or an end in and of itself?\nManu explains that all activities are centered on vedic study and practices, begun as a brahmacharya:\n\u201cHe should forsake all pursuits (artha) that interfere with his vedic recitation, eking out a living some way or other, for that recitation constituted the fulfillment of all his obligations.\u201d (MDS 4.17)\nSo, the aforementioned Bentley/Ferrari is necessary only insofar as it is conducive to vedic recitation. But would not a KIA or a Hyundai be sufficient? Or even just a used bicycle? Manu explains:\n\u201cLet him be a man who stores grain sufficient to fill a granary, a man who stores grain sufficient to fill a jar, a man who has sufficient grain to last three days, or a man who keeps nothing for the next day. Among all these four types of twice-born householders, each should be recognized as superior to the ones preceding it and better at winning the heavenly world, according to the Law.\u201d (MDS 4.7-4.8)\nSo, according to this passage, the Bentley/ Ferrari is preferable and more instrumental in progress towards moksha (liberation from the cycle of birth and rebirth)! The more wealth that one accumulates, the better one will be at attaining moksha. This seems rather ironic, and I will return to it shortly.\nThere are many other passages in Manavadharmashastra (and other dharmashastras) that relay similar sentiments.\nThe stereotype that Hinduism is less materialistically oriented than other traditions is clearly false.\nThe aspirational model, of course, is the brahmacharya (celibate student of the Vedas)/samnyasi (ascetic renouncer), which are merely two side of the same coin. Like their Jain counterparts, but not nearly to the same extent or intensity, one of the four central aims of the grhastha (householder) is to support and venerate the brahmacharya/samnyasi. That is, the laypeople are expected to support the novice monk (i.e., the brahmacharya) as well as the full-fledged ascetic.\nThe student is pampered in expected ways, as is the samnyasi. When I was a graduate student in at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago studying Sanskrit and Indian philosophy, among other subjects, there were a number of people, some close relatives, who were attuned to their dharma (duty, obligation) to help support the student. To this end, they made every effort to assist me in my studies\u2013by feeding me when possible, by giving me a desk, and generally keeping an eye on my well-being. I was even supported by two Hindu temples, whose boards saw the traditional importance of supporting students of the Vedas. Those people and institutions that could afford to assist me were sufficiently prosperous such that they could afford to support an impoverished student such as myself.\nThe expected accumulation of wealth by the grhastha and the expected abandonment of the same envisioned when one becomes a samnyasi seems contradictory, or at least ironic. The paradox, though, is less paradoxical when one considers that the grhastha supports, wholeheartedly, the overall project and model of the archetypal brahmacharya and samnyasi, namely, the non-attached. A similar, but more pronounced version of this is found among Jains, where members of a very wealthy lay community take vows to abandon (and distribute) all of their possessions and to be models of detachment. Lay Jains and lay Hindus accumulate wealth, in part, to support and venerate those who have nothing, who either are training to become detached or have renounced all worldly possessions and social relations.\nDespite this aspirational model of detached asceticism, it is still not possible to characterize Hinduism as spiritual and to confirm the unfortunate stereotype.\nVI. What about Goddess Shri Lakshmi?\nIn popular forms of contemporary Hinduism, the goddess Sri Lakshmi is revered as the goddess of wealth and prosperity. The Goddess is believed to be Lord Vishnu\u2019s wife. In the Visnusmrti (99,4) she is identified with prosperity:\n\u201cYou are Lakshmi; you are beauty; you are prosperity.\u201d\nIn contemporary renditions (posters, postcards etc.), her iconography includes several pots of coins. She holds one pot that is overflowing with gold coins and that spills into a second pot. In some images she is also depicted as producing gold coins from her raised right hand in the abhaya mudra (gesture of fearlessness) intended to indicate her protection, in this case, monetary.\nWhen I was a graduate student in at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago studying Sanskrit and Indian philosophy, among other subjects, there were a number of people, some close relatives, who were attuned to their dharma (duty, obligation) to help support the student. To this end, they made every effort to assist me in my studies\u2013by feeding me when possible, by giving me a desk, and generally keeping an eye on my well-being.\nWhile Sri Lakshmi is found in contemporary (and ancient) Indian temples, and especially ones associated with Vishnu, her image is also found above cash registers of businesses owned by Hindus and in Hindu homes.\nAre these the same Hindus who are only spiritual, in contrast to their \u201cWestern\u201d materially-oriented (and materialistic) counterparts?\nVII. Perpetuating the stereotype: What\u2019s at stake?\nSo if the stereotype is wrong what is to be gained by perpetuating it? And, of course, who benefits from it?\nIt is easily demonstrated that perpetuating such dichotomies justifies the colonization of the so-called East, whose denizens, though pleasantly idealistic in their spirituality, require the patronage and guidance of their Caucasian/Western oppressors. One of the most infamous expressions of this patronizing and condescending sentiment is found in Rudyard Kipling\u2019s \u201cThe White Man\u2019s Burden,\u201d in which he demonizes and infantilizes Filipinos. In his now infamous poem, he encouraged Americans to nurture the Philippines, which had been ceded to the United States by Spain as part of the settlement for the Spanish-American War of 1898. (Speaking of money, Spain was paid $20 million in compensation for the loss of the Philippines. Colonialism used to be something of a cash-and-carry affair.) The United States refused to recognize an independent Philippine republic. Kipling writes:\nTake up the White Man\u2019s burden, Send forth the best ye breed\nGo bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives\u2019 need;\nTo wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild\u2014\nYour new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child. (1899)\nHere, saving Filipinos from themselves is characterized as a responsibility to be endured by \u201cWhite men\u201d who must, ironically, improve the lives of those who have been newly colonized. This savior complex is re-articulated whenever colonized brown-skinned primitives are saved from either themselves or from other brown-skinned primitives. Moreover, the so-called brown-skinned primitives are dehumanized by Kipling and considered to be spawns of the Devil, tracing their recorded ancestry to the most insulting and unflattering creatures in the Christian hierarchy. Kipling closes his unfortunate poem infantilizing them, calling them \u201chalf-child.\u201d\nLike children, then, who cannot be trusted with, or do not know the value of money or other materials things, members of these spiritual traditions need someone better equipped to manage them. (I am reminded, unfortunately, of the condescending attitudes of some business people and business oriented faculty in universities towards their (spiritually minded) and \u201cidealistic\u201d humanities brethren.) I am reminded of the patronizing and condescending attitude that some take in connection with the preservation of ancient Hindu \u201cart\u201d by removing it from India and storing it in western museums.\nSuch attitudes surely justify and legitimate colonial exploitation.\nWhen one combines these sentiments with those that link capitalism and Christianity (perhaps Protestantism?) then it is also easy to portray Hinduism and other religious traditions deemed to be spiritually minded to be very low on the hierarchy.\nVIII. Mimicry, mockery, money\nIt is amusing that, in recent times, the tables have been turned and many Hindus, and people who claim to be Hindu, have branded a certain kind of Hindu spiritualism and marketed it with tremendous success in the West, just as Swami Vivekandanda did more than a century ago. One need only look at the phenomenally successful Deepak Chopra, who has combined new-age Hindu spiritualism with Ayn Rand-ish individualistic capitalism. Or perhaps at Bikram Yoga and all of the thousands of avatars of American yogis, wearing costly Lulemon yoga pants and drinking expensive Whole Foods recovery concoctions (with Sanskrit names!). But perhaps the most ingenious rebranding of Hindu spirituality was instituted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose establishment of the International Day of Yoga has brought money and Hinduism together with more power, pizazz, and potential than any other.\nBut is the merging of Hinduism and money in this way a mimicry or a mockery of so-called Western materialism? English-educated colonial Babus dressed in British clothing styles and adopted British mannerisms both as a way of mimicking their colonial superiors and mocking them? Are these new and improved fusions mimicry, mockery, or just simply good marketing?\nEither way, Hinduism certainly is not mere spiritualism. 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People who've been in prison are essentially no different to other clients and present with a similar range of issues, but with some specific considerations to take into account.\nThe prison/rehab culture clash\nTips for addressing barriers to working with people who've been in prison\nThe transition from prison to a drug and alcohol residential treatment setting can present challenges for the client and impact on staff and other clients in the service. These transitional issues stem from the institutionalisation experienced by people while in prison and can result in behaviours that appear to be in direct conflict with the behaviours you expect in a drug and alcohol program. This has been identified as a 'culture clash' between prison and the treatment service.\nThe key is to understand the impact of 'doing time' on a person's behaviour and then make small adjustments in your practice. 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You have acquired their naturalization papers, which includes the name of the ship and the date on which they arrived. It also includes the birth place in Europe. None of the people in this family appear on the manifest of the ship and the town is unidentifiable. How can that be possible?\nIn this session we will discuss the particular challenges often encountered when researching Jewish families,, and look at some tools to help in the search. We will discuss name changes, challenges posed due to languages, ways to locate mysterious towns, unique information that can be found in cemeteries, and more.\nThere has been a Jewish presence in the United States since the colonial period. This session will primarily focus on the challenges of researching Jews who arrived in the US beginning in the 1880s from Eastern Europe, although it will touch on Jewish immigrants from Central Europe and from the Mediterranean countries. We will examine the changing maps of Europe, the languages used by the immigrants, and how those languages affected both the names and the places from which they came. This session will benefit anyone who struggles with research pertaining to Jewish genealogy, whether they are beginning researchers or more experienced. Some of the information, such as identifying places, may be of more general interest.\nNOTE: Janette will be at the Conference all week, and is available for one-on-one chats. Email her at [email protected] to schedule a time.\nDr. Janette Silverman is a Senior Genealogist / Research Team Manager at AncestryProGenealogists, specializing in Jewish genealogy. 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Exclusion of Liability All information on this site is intended for private usage.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 199.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://connell-group.com/blog/connell-group-proud-be-wearing-red", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:44Z", "digest": "sha1:6OCBQEP3CP5RPIW275A3R77DPNT6PM2W", "length": 3485, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "connell-group.com", "title": "The Connell Group is Proud to Be Wearing Red! | The Connell Group", "raw_content": "The Connell Group is Proud to Be Wearing Red!\nThe Connell Group\nThe AHA: champions of women\u2019s health\nThe first Friday in February is a day set aside by the American Heart Association to support their Go Red for Women campaign to raise awareness of heart disease and stroke.\nIn years past, heart disease was only considered to affect predominantly men. Clinical trials, guidelines, and even treatment options were largely male dominated. National Wear Red Day kicks off an entire month dedicated to raising awareness and education for women.\nThe natural history of heart disease is altered by basic interventions, including learning how to make evidence-based heart-healthy choices that affect behaviors, lifestyles, and of course, diet. The AHA estimates that up to 80% of cardiac and stroke events may be prevented through patient-centric education and action. Sex-specific interventions and education play a critical role in preventative care. The American Heart Association has been at the forefront at championing awareness and evidence-based guidelines for prevention of cardiovascular disease in women. In 1999, the AHA was a trail blazer, publishing the first women-specific guidelines. In 2003, the AHA and the NHLBI inaugurated National Wear Red Day.\nMajor trials, such as the Women\u2019s Health Initiative have demonstrated that the clinical approach to cardiovascular disease in women differs from the male-based one-size-fits-all approach that was practiced in years past. A perfect illustration is the erstwhile recommendation for aspirin as primary prevention for males is not recommended for women <65 years.\nResearch has demonstrated significant need to develop guidelines and evidence-based practices for women. For example: women tend to suffer ischemic stroke at a higher rate than men \u2013 stroke is a greater CV risk than atherosclerosis in women, while it is the opposite for men. Furthermore, women have different risk factors for stroke, such as pregnancy and hormone therapy. Hypertension, a major risk factor for stroke, tends to increase more so for women than men. Until the guidelines, women also were less likely to receive anticoagulation therapy for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation. These interventions have shown initial success. Age-adjusted mortality from CV disease dropped substantially from years past, although CV disease still claims US women at a rate of 500,000 per year. Today, heart disease is still a killer. Despite successes, obesity and other modern diseases may be reversing the trend, and deaths from CV disease are increasing in middle-aged women. Furthermore, there are racial and socioeconomic disparities in prevalence and CV morbidity and mortality. Hypertension, dyslipidemia, obesity, and Type 2 Diabetes all contribute to developing CV disease. Education and awareness are key, and the AHA campaign is a wide-ranging educational program that socializes key differences by sex in symptomology, treatment strategies, and importance of proactive, health-generating or saving behaviors. Interventions can be relatively simple, such as education to recognize the signs and symptoms of a heart attack (and to call 9-1-1 when the symptoms are perceived), dietary, exercise, and smoking cessation measures.\nWe at the Connell Group proudly will be wearing red this Friday, February 3 in support of continuing education, awareness, and to support evidence-based guidelines to prevent CV disease in women.\ngoredforwomen.org\nwear_red.jpg", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 3921, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cookarr.herokuapp.com/recipes/with/almonds,arugula,baking,bento,chicken-breast,creme-fraiche,dried-onion,oranges,rice,side-dish,smoked-salmon,snack", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:19Z", "digest": "sha1:UCWO4ZTGRTBOHGLYCBIKQYU2VEXCIZNB", "length": 152, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "cookarr.herokuapp.com", "title": "Recipes with almonds, arugula, chicken breast, cr\u00e8me fra\u00eeche, dried onion, oranges, rice, smoked salmon, bento, side dish, snack, and baking in CookArr, a cooking blog", "raw_content": "4 Bento, Side dish, and Snack recipes with Almonds, Arugula, Chicken breast, Cr\u00e8me Fra\u00eeche, Dried onion, Oranges, Rice, and Smoked salmon made by Baking", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 256, "original_length": 4560, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 292.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://coolgameslike.com/rpg/icewind-dale/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:34Z", "digest": "sha1:5AH3M246YEZM35NV6FIWI2FBHBMOAZN4", "length": 2482, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "coolgameslike.com", "title": "38 Best Games Like Icewind Dale - Coolgameslike", "raw_content": "Icewind Dale is known as a 2000 Adventure, Role-playing, Single-player and Multiplayer video game published by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment. It is held in the Dungeons and Dragons Forgotten Realms world and the Icewind Dale\u2019s region. In this game, the player controls a party of adventurers, and his ultimate task is to complete a variety of quests to progress through the game. The player will control the party of members using point and click interface and can lead them to the end of each level to earn rewards. Every character has its unique abilities and a set of weapons, which he uses to kill enemies. During the exploration, the player interacts with non-player characters to advance through the story. The party consists of up to six members, and the player can create his party by selecting the characters who are available or can export them from the previous title. With the addictive gameplay, detailed graphics, and superb controls, Icewind Dale is the best game to play and enjoy.\nLets us help you by providing this interesting list of games like Icewind Dale for you to pick up. Learn below.\nAll (38) PC (25) Android (3) iOS (6) Mac OS (10) Linux (4) Windows (25) PS Vita (4) PS2 (2) PS3 (12) PS4 (7) PSP (1) Xbox 360 (14) Xbox One (4) Nintendo 3DS (3) Nintendo Wii (1) Nintendo Wii U (2) Steam (10)\n1. Avadon: The Black Fortress\n4. Gothic 2: Gold Edition\n5. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition\n20. Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines\nVampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines is an amazing RPG, Action \u2013 Adventure video game with the first and third person perspective, which is created by Troika Games. The places where the game\u2019s world happens are Santa Monica, Hollywood, downtown Los Angeles and Chinatown. The story of the... View more\nFirst Person Open World Third Person\nFable 3 is a breakthrough shooting, Hack and Slash video game created by Lionhead Studios. The game is put in the boundaries of an ancient called Albion, where the main character tries to scramblethe throne of the King at that time. When taking part in Fable 3,... View more\n28. The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2\nThe Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing 2 which by NeocoreGames is a great action-RPG video game. The second version of this series takes you will take you to the magical land, epic enemies, supernatural events and Science madness, etc. The plot of the game talks about... View more\nCombat Exploration Hack n Slash Open World", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 331, "original_length": 18929, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 213.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cordmagazine.com/tag/mikser-house/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZGCKNYD2RV4ZAEKIXMJOJKQJOGJYHGIF", "length": 677, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "cordmagazine.com", "title": "Mikser Archives - CorD Magazine", "raw_content": "Tag: Mikser\nNew concept of the cultural institution, which connects cultural, educational, and commercial activities in a multifunctional space\nThe 10th edition of the Mikser Festival will be held from 24 to 26 May 2019, throughout Dor\u0107ol, Belgrade. This year's festival is held under...\nMaja Lali\u0107, Creative Director Of Mikser House:\nCreative Heart Of Belgrade\nThere is no ordinary working day at Mikser House - rehearsal for a punk concert takes place at the same time as business meetings, and just a night after the premiere of Mikser\u2019s own theatrical production, the space is being rearranged for some lecture or weekend festival. There are programmes here 365-days-a-year", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 9307, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://corkgaa.wordpress.com/tag/gaa/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:31Z", "digest": "sha1:KPIQ4MJTBJGD5UB7A4KJJFQECINQTQUT", "length": 484, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "corkgaa.wordpress.com", "title": "GAA | Cork GAA", "raw_content": "Cork 1-12 Dublin 0-12 FT \u2013 National Football League 2012\nCork: K. O\u2019Halloran; E. Cotter (J. O\u2019Sullivan); M. Shields; R. Carey; S. Kiely (P. Kissane); G. Canty; E. Cadogan (O\u2019Leary); A. O\u2019Connor (N. Murphy); P. O\u2019Neill (0-2); F. Goold (0-1); P. Kerrigan (0-2); P. Kelly; C. O\u2019Neill (0-4; 0-2f); A. \u2026 Continue reading \u2192\nPosted in National Football League 2012\t| Tagged Aidan Walsh, Cork, Daniel Goulding, Eoin Cotter, GAA, National Football League, Sean Kiely, Sheehan\t| Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 5967, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 337.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://costadelsolproperty.eu/property/R3313051_sale_detached-villa-benahavis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:20Z", "digest": "sha1:RBGO73FUKHJKVUBQLX3D5NUI5KQHA7GD", "length": 924, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "costadelsolproperty.eu", "title": "Property - Costa del Sol Property", "raw_content": "A lovely brand-new contemporary villa situated in the area of La Alqueria, a convenient area situated in Benahavis, just two km from the sea and a short drive from the Puerto Banus and the golf courses of El Paraiso and Atalaya are situated in the immediate area. The property enjoys beautiful sea views towards Gibraltar and north Africa, with large windows to allow lots of natural light to enter the property. Built with fine quality materials over two levels, this property comprises an entrance hall with guest toilet and staircase up to the living-dining room with open plan kitchen, master bedroom ensuite and terraces. On the garden level there are three more bedrooms, and three bathrooms, two of them ensuite with access to the garden and infinity swimming pool. Private garage for two cars. This is a very well priced property in today's market and is well worth viewing to appreciate the value and location.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 2962, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://countdownworld.com/yom-kippur", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:37Z", "digest": "sha1:HK3NPDC7YESVSU5AL6543SLFFLXKHP7V", "length": 833, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "countdownworld.com", "title": "How many days until Yom Kippur?", "raw_content": "Yom Kippur!\nYom Kippur, translated as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for devout Jews to atone and repent for their sins from the past year.\nWhen is Yom Kippur?\nThe Yom Kippur will be on Tuesday, September 18 2018, the day marks the end of the 10 Days of Awe - a period of introspection and repentance that follows Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year.\nYom Kippur is said to be the 'Shabbat of Shabbats' a day upon which one must afflict one's soul. Leviticus 23:27 decrees that Yom Kippur is a strict day of rest.\nHow do you celebrate Yom Kippur?\nThe day is observed with a 25-hour period of fasting, intensive prayer and worship. No work is done on this day. It is customary for religious Jews to dress in white on Yom Kippur. Some married men wear kittels, which are white burial shrouds, to signify repentance.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 15, "original_length": 1493, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 196.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://covetedition.com/tag/mid-century-modern-home/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:22Z", "digest": "sha1:VC6EE6PDZZURK7H4JUPBL3HDV2MHWEYC", "length": 556, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "covetedition.com", "title": "Mid-Century Modern home \u2013 Covet Edition", "raw_content": "Everything You Need To Know About Mid-Century Modern Architecture\nEverything You Need To Know About Mid-Century Modern Architecture \u21d2 Since the beginning, we felt the need to take cover and create a place to call our own, a place of comfort. This evolved into an actual art form and nowadays we are lucky enough to witness some of the biggest architectural pieces of modern time. We feel so passionately about this subject that today CovetED brings you everything you need to know about mid-century modern architecture! \u21d2 Subscribe to our Newsletter and...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 159, "original_length": 3157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 138.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cpj.org/data/people/gleydson-carvalho/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:53Z", "digest": "sha1:4HP6SHNJTSTRESKPJRIU2PAMER5R6I3L", "length": 3057, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "cpj.org", "title": "Gleydson Carvalho - Committee to Protect Journalists", "raw_content": "Gleydson Carvalho\nCarvalho was shot dead by two men as he was presenting his afternoon radio show in the town of Camocim in the northern state of Cear\u00e1. The two suspects entered the offices of Radio Liberdade FM 90.3, saying they wanted to place an ad. Once inside, they shot Carvalho three times, according to the indictment by Camocim's public prosecutor, a copy of which was reviewed by CPJ.\nCarvalho was the director of the small station and presented a one-hour morning show and an afternoon show from noon to 3 p.m., in which he often criticized local police and politicians, Tadeu Nogeira, a friend and colleague who worked on a companion blog to Carvalho's show, told CPJ.\nThe journalist had received death threats from anonymous sources that police said were in connection with his on-air reports on corruption and wrongdoing by local police and politicians in Camocim.\nA police spokesman who asked not to be identified told CPJ the journalist's cellphone contained messages sent to family members saying he was afraid because of death threats made against him. Nogueira told CPJ similar threats had been left on his Facebook page.\nA day after the murder, police arrested Gisele de Souza do Nascimento, 23, and Francisco Antonio Carneiro Portela, 18, in the nearby town of Senador S\u00e1, the police spokesman told CPJ via phone. The suspects were accused of providing a safe house for the gunmen. Police said they found the clothes that were worn by the suspected shooters, as well as two revolvers and ammunition. The two are in custody and have been charged with murder, according to news reports.\nPolice also detained a third man in the neighboring town of Martin\u00f3pole. Daniel Lennon Almada, 31, was accused of providing the killers with the getaway motorcycle, the police spokesman told CPJ. Lennon was identified as the nephew of Jo\u00e3o Batista Pereira da Silva, the uncle of the mayor of Martin\u00f3pole. He is in custody and has been charged with murder.\nThe prosecutor's indictment also named the alleged gunmen as local residents Thiago Lemos da Silva, 22, and Israel Marques Carneiro. \"[The gunmen] are on the run and we are searching for them,\" the police spokesman told CPJ\nAccording to the indictment, the two killed Carvalho because he had criticized James Mel, the mayor of Martin\u00f3pole town.\nIn September, police arrested Lemos and his wife, Regina Rocha Lopes, 19, who was accused of collaborating in the planning of the crime, press reports said. According to police, Lemos admitted participating in the murder but denied shooting Carvalho.\nPolice identified the mastermind of the crime as Silva, the mayor's uncle, according to the indictment. Souza do Nascimento said Silva agreed to pay 9,000 reals (about US$2,300) to the gunmen to commit crimes, including the murder, the police spokesman and press reports said. Silva remains at large. In December 2015, police arrested his brother, Francisco, who is accused of funding the crime, according to local news reports.\nBrazilian journalist dies after being shot while hosting radio program", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 337, "original_length": 7752, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 259.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cr6study.info/study-data/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:45Z", "digest": "sha1:I3QHIA76VL7MNHDD4OL52UQVHRB72PNR", "length": 1414, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cr6study.info", "title": "Download Cr(VI) Mode of Action Research Study Data", "raw_content": "Download Cr(VI) MOA Study Data\nTransparency and objectivity are critical aspects of scientific research. The Cr(VI) MOA Research Study team has facilitated transparency by making all of the peer-reviewed research articles from this study Open Access. In further support of transparency, the Cr(VI) MOA study team is also providing major study reports from our collaborator/subcontractors, as well as additional data files that scientists can download and analyze on their own. Major study reports include those from Southern Research Institutes (Birmingham, AL), who conducted the in-life portion of the toxicity studies, and Experimental Pathologies Laboratory (Reston, VA), who conducted additional histopathological analyses. Importantly, raw data files are being made available to scientists interested in conducting their own toxicogenomic analyses on the study data. Other important data sets related to chromium, such as tissue distribution data, glutathione content, as well as in vitro data, are available for download.\nWhere applicable, data underlying each table and figure from each publication related to the Cr(VI) MOA Research Study can be downloaded. Click the \u2018Download Study Data\u2019 link to access a list of the manuscripts, the associated figures and tables, and name of the dataset(s) underlying each figure. These data files are freely available for download to registered users upon logging in.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 2390, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 315.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://cwsbestgift.org/gift/share-of-a-school-water-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:27Z", "digest": "sha1:WN42SXPWGRPELLH5CA4FGVXMTQ2Z234X", "length": 402, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "cwsbestgift.org", "title": "Share of a school water system in Myanmar | CWS Best Gift", "raw_content": "Share of a school water system in Myanmar\nRivers are a big part of life in many villages in Myanmar, but the water is not safe to drink.\nGive a share of a school water system to provide water that is clean and won\u2019t make students sick. You\u2019ll be saving these kids from having to miss school while they travel to clinics, and you\u2019ll help their families put money towards food instead of health services.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1802, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailycollegian.com/tag/mgmt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UMKX2276RNU3MOPV4W42W2FGDRW2A3HJ", "length": 996, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "dailycollegian.com", "title": "MGMT \u2013 Massachusetts Daily Collegian", "raw_content": "MGMT recaptures the memorable synth-pop of its early days in fourth LP \u2018Little Dark Age\u2019\nNew album \u2018MGMT\u2019 is no \u2018Oracular Spectacular\u2019\nBy Emma Sandler\nMany fans of MGMT were expecting a return to the \u201cKids\u201d, or \u201cElectric Feel\u201d sound for the group\u2019s latest record, but that is not the album they received. MGMT's eponymously self-titled third album was released for streaming...\nYeasayer returns to NoHo\nWhile the nation waits with baited breath for the election results to come in, avant-garde indie band Yeasayer prepares to kick off its tour at Pearl Street Ballroom in Northampton. Yeasayer is promoting its third album, \u201cFragrant World,\u201d released in August by the independent record ...\n2010 marks major year for the music industry\nFor better or for worse, it cannot be denied that 2010 was a big year for music. While many may argue that most of the albums released were mediocre at best, the sheer number of major CDs released can\u2019t be ignored. The Internet also saw a revolutionary year...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 2469, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dailynorthwestern.com/2016/05/27/top-stories/in-focus-saving-karl-eikenberry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:24Z", "digest": "sha1:2AGSXWMGXXNFDNCL5PMGEKL45QXM6IOD", "length": 17227, "nlines": 87, "source_domain": "dailynorthwestern.com", "title": "The Daily Northwestern | In Focus: Inside administrators\u2019 efforts to preserve the appointment of former ambassador Karl Eikenberry In Focus: Inside administrators' efforts to preserve the appointment of former ambassador Karl Eikenberry", "raw_content": "In Focus: Inside administrators\u2019 efforts to preserve the appointment of former ambassador Karl Eikenberry\nJulia Jacobs and Tyler Pager\nKarl Eikenberry had already bought a house in Winnetka.\nThe former United States ambassador to Afghanistan had been appointed to serve as the first executive director of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies last November. Administrators were gushing about all the new opportunities the well-connected former U.S. Army leader and Stanford University faculty member would bring when he assumed the position Sept. 1.\nBut debate over Eikenberry\u2019s appointment mounted during Winter Quarter. Faculty and students questioned whether someone with military experience but without a Ph.D. would be the best person to lead an academic research institute. The Buffett Institute serves as a hub for Northwestern\u2019s programs and research on global issues.\nAs concerns arose over whether he could serve in an environment where many opposed his appointment, administrators took measures to secure Eikenberry\u2019s place at the university.\nDays before news broke on April 14 that Eikenberry would no longer serve in the position, Provost Dan Linzer and executive vice president Nim Chinniah flew to California to meet with the former ambassador, Faculty Senate president Ed Hughes said.\nBut their efforts failed to convince him to come to NU. Eikenberry informed administrators he was pulling out of the position, the provost told The Daily.\n\u201cWe very much wanted him to come,\u201d Linzer said. \u201cThis is a guy who is connected to everything, and he could have provided people with access to leaders, to committees. \u2026 And so that\u2019s a lost opportunity.\u201d\nEikenberry declined to comment for this story.\nHughes, a Kellogg professor, learned on April 2 that Associated Student Government was putting forward a resolution that week opposing Eikenberry\u2019s selection with the support of some faculty. As a result, he scrambled to conduct his own investigation.\nHughes embarked on a \u201ccrash course\u201d to learn about the appointment, calling members of the search committee that weekend and questioning them on the process.\nHughes met April 4 with the Faculty Senate executive committee, the leaders of the organization. They decided to deepen the investigation, aiming to write their own resolution before the faculty and student senates each convened two days later.\nAt a March 30 meeting of ASG Senate, students introduced a resolution asking the University to withdraw Eikenberry\u2019s appointment because he lacks a Ph.D. and they worried his military experience made him unfit to lead the Buffett Institute. Spanish and Portuguese Prof. Jorge Coronado, one of the faculty organizers who opposed Eikenberry\u2019s appointment, stood with the students as they introduced the resolution.\n\u201cWe felt, my goodness, that the word of the professors should be heard,\u201d Hughes said. \u201cIf the students proceeded with that vote, believing that they were advancing the will of the faculty \u2026 that would have had negative consequences for Ambassador Eikenberry\u2019s decision of whether to ultimately come.\u201d\nHughes said he had spoken with Eikenberry in March, when the former ambassador expressed concern over whether the \u201cenvironment would be constructive for his leadership.\u201d The next month, Eikenberry canceled a visit he had scheduled to the University, Hughes said at the April 6 Senate meeting.\nAt that same meeting, Communication Prof. Robert Hariman, a member of the executive committee, said Eikenberry\u2019s \u201cappointment might be in peril,\u201d according to the meeting\u2019s minutes.\nThat weekend, Linzer and Chinniah went to California, Hughes said.\n\u201cAs the students got more engaged, central administration got more and more concerned,\u201d said Coronado, who is co-director of Andean Cultures and Histories at the Buffett Institute.\nLinzer said ongoing meetings with senior-level hires are not unusual and any meetings would have been to resolve any questions that came up \u201cduring the process of finalizing the arrangements.\u201d\n\u201cI\u2019m not confirming nor denying that there was such a meeting,\u201d Linzer said. \u201cBut it is standard to have discussions with people throughout a process. \u2026 It\u2019s not relevant where it was or if it took place in a certain way.\u201d\nSeeking an executive director\nIn March 2015, the University announced the launch of a search committee for a new leader of the Buffett Institute. Chaired by former University President Henry Bienen, the committee had 11 members including Chinniah, Kellogg dean Sally Blount, vice president for research Jay Walsh and Ron Braeutigam, associate provost for undergraduate education. It also included five additional NU professors and Ivo Daalder, the president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.\nThe search committee was announced following a more than $100 million donation by Roberta Buffett Elliott (Weinberg \u201854). Elliott\u2019s gift benefited the Buffett Institute and increased international student financial aid.\nBienen said the committee\u2019s charge was broad and a wide range of candidates were considered.\nThe search committee worked with an independent search firm to identify candidates for the position. Search firms provide a list of names ranging from 50 to 100 people, Bienen said. Members of the committee also reached out to candidates they thought might be interested. He said roughly 30 to 40 people applied for the position.\nBienen reached out to Eikenberry, whom he knew through their work on the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit international affairs think tank. Eikenberry retired from the military in 2009 as a lieutenant general after serving 35 years. He was then chosen by President Barack Obama as the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan from 2009 to 2011. He is now a faculty member of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford.\nCandidates, Bienen said, included academics, ambassadors and members of the policy community. In the end, Bienen said the committee interviewed about 10 people and submitted three finalists \u2014 in no particular ranking \u2014 to University President Morton Schapiro and Linzer, who selected Eikenberry.\nMuch of the criticism about Eikenberry\u2019s appointment has been directed at the search committee.\n\u201cSomebody from a non-academic background was chosen \u2026 with no experience in this sort of leadership role,\u201d Coronado said. \u201cThe fact that he was chosen was maybe the most important sign that something had gone wrong with the search process.\u201d\nSome faculty said the committee was not transparent and that it didn\u2019t have enough meetings.\nBienen adamantly refuted these criticisms, calling them \u201cnonsense.\u201d\n\u201cIt was not any more closed off than any other search,\u201d he said. \u201cThe notion that the committee didn\u2019t meet and it didn\u2019t meet as a committee with all its members \u2014 of course not every member was there for every time \u2014 but it was a very conventional search.\u201d\nJake Julia, associate vice president and associate provost for academic initiatives, staffed the search committee and said it met four times.\nCommunity mounts opposition\nFaculty raised concerns about Eikenberry\u2019s candidacy as early as September, said political science Prof. Jacqueline Stevens, one of the main professors organizing opposition to the appointment.\nShe said she sent an email to Bienen on Sept. 30 outlining faculty concerns, asking the search committee to consider other candidates and to invite Eikenberry to give a talk at the university.\nSome faculty took their criticisms public in February when 46 faculty signed a letter to The Daily asking Schapiro and Linzer to rescind Eikenberry\u2019s appointment. In the letter, faculty said they had concerns about Eikenberry\u2019s lack of academic experience, namely the fact that he does not have a doctorate.\n\u201cThe Ph.D. is a marker of faculty who are engaged in research as well as teaching, and especially at the intersection of research and teaching, which is what the university is all about,\u201d Coronado said.\nFaculty were also worried about a speech he made at the 2014 Chicago Humanities Festival, in which he discussed using the humanities to advance U.S. soft power, which is a persuasive approach to international relations typically involving appeal rather than coercion.\nSchapiro and Linzer wrote their own letter to The Daily in response, reaffirming their support for Eikenberry.\n\u201cKarl stood out in his global engagement and visibility; access to a broad array of scholars, government officials, and world leaders; and ability to integrate the diverse backgrounds and viewpoints of the military, diplomatic corps, and academia,\u201d they wrote.\nCoronado said some people have tagged him and other faculty members as \u201cagainst the military\u201d for their opposition to Eikenberry\u2019s appointment. He said a military background can be coupled with an academic one, but Eikenberry didn\u2019t have that combination.\n\u201cThe issue was that we had somebody with absolutely no background or training in this sort of profession being put into a post with enormous funds and authority,\u201d Coronado said.\nFight in Faculty Senate\nAfter months of back-and-forth letters arguing over the former ambassador\u2019s selection to lead the Buffett Institute, debate was first opened on the floor of the Faculty Senate on March 2. At that meeting, senators and invited guests discussed for about an hour the merits and flaws of a man who was never in the room.\nAt the March meeting, the executive committee invited Linzer \u2014 who oversees all faculty \u2014 which frustrated some professors who felt people could be nervous about criticizing Eikenberry after the provost spoke in support of him.\n\u201cPeople cannot speak freely about problems with the provost when the provost sits there,\u201d said French and comparative literature Prof. Michal Ginsburg, the faculty senator who originally brought the issue to the Senate. \u201cEven people who have tenure, even people who are big shots \u2026 why would they want to make their life difficult by speaking critically?\u201d\nStevens, who is director of the Deportation Research Clinic at the Buffett Institute, said Linzer was allowed to \u201cdominate\u201d the time at the meeting and faculty members were inhibited from speaking candidly while he was there.\nAlthough Hughes said he sees some merit to that concern, he said, \u201cpeople are adults and can speak.\u201d\nCoronado, who had spoken on the Eikenberry issue at the March Faculty Senate meeting along with Stevens, had no clue the Eikenberry appointment would be discussed at the next meeting in April. But two-and-a-half hours before the April meeting started, Coronado and Stevens were invited to speak. The two professors, along with Ginsburg, rushed to make it to the 5 p.m. meeting.\n\u201cWe had no idea what was happening,\u201d Coronado said.\nThe Faculty Senate was considering a resolution in support of Eikenberry\u2019s appointment, citing evidence from the executive committee\u2019s investigation that the search had followed standard procedures in selecting him.\nAn email with the meeting\u2019s agenda and documents pertaining to the committee\u2019s findings had been sent to senators about 90 minutes before the governing body convened, violating a Faculty Senate rule that the agenda must be dispersed at least five days in advance of the meeting.\n\u201cWhen I got to the April meeting, I hadn\u2019t seen the documents beforehand,\u201d said English Prof. Barbara Newman, a faculty senator. \u201cI got there, I was amazed Eikenberry was on the floor again. I thought, you know, \u2018Why are we talking about him again? Haven\u2019t we finished with this?\u2019\u201d\nHughes said although he regretted the agenda\u2019s late release, he said the executive committee was under \u201cextreme time constraints\u201d after learning about the ASG resolution opposing Eikenberry\u2019s appointment days before the meeting. He also said since the beginning of the year sending out the agenda a day or two in advance \u2014 instead of five \u2014 had become standard procedure.\nThe Senate voted in support of Eikenberry\u2019s appointment with 32 in favor, five against and nine abstentions.\nAt the May meeting, Newman introduced a motion to declare the Senate vote in support of Eikenberry invalid because of rule violations, including dispersing the agenda and accompanying documents late, entertaining a motion to cut off debate even though it interrupted a guest\u2019s speech and failing to ensure both sides of the issue had equal opportunity to share their perspectives. The motion failed, upholding the Senate\u2019s April vote in support of the appointment.\nNewman said her main concern was not about Eikenberry himself but with the Senate leadership \u201cdisregarding\u201d its own rules.\nAlthough Newman said she thought it was normal for the provost to speak at the March meeting, she would like to see the Senate as a whole take a more \u201cindependent course,\u201d separate from the administration.\nGinsburg said not only did the Senate fail to play a useful role in the issue but it became a \u201ctool of the administration\u201d in rallying support around Eikenberry.\n\u201cThree times in a row the Senate was kidnapped,\u201d Ginsburg said. \u201cIt was appropriated for the sake of the administration rather than playing its role as enabling faculty.\u201d\nHughes said he\u2019s familiar with the accusation that Faculty Senate leadership has been a \u201clackey\u201d of the administration amid the Eikenberry debate but that, in reality, their decision to pursue the issue was independent from the administration\u2019s suggestions.\nThe debate moves to ASG\nRight after the April meeting adjourned, several faculty and administrators \u2014 including Linzer \u2014 went directly to the ASG Senate meeting. There, Weinberg senior Neha Reddy and SESP junior Matt Herndon were preparing to deliver their resolution recommending the University rescind Eikenberry\u2019s appointment.\nMinutes before Reddy and Herndon were called up to speak, then-ASG President Noah Star, a Weinberg senior, pulled them aside, saying Linzer had advised him to be wary of potentially defamatory language in the resolution.\nReddy said Star\u2019s warning caught her and Herndon off guard.\n\u201cIt definitely felt to Matt and I like an intimidation tactic,\u201d she told The Daily after the incident. \u201cI tried not to make eye contact with any of the administrators and we just said what we prepared.\u201d\nStar said he later apologized to Reddy and Herndon, saying he did not intend for the message to be alarming. He said his goal was just to inform them of the conversation he had with the provost.\nReddy also approached Stevens, who seemed \u201cfurious,\u201d Reddy said.\nStevens said she went up to Linzer before the students delivered their resolution to ask how it could be construed as defamatory, but she said he did not indicate specific sections. When she followed up over email, he did not provide specifics, according to emails viewed by The Daily.\nWhen asked about the incident, Linzer said he was just trying to make sure the students were safe. He said the Office of General Counsel alerted him of potential concerns with the resolution.\n\u201cWe don\u2019t want to put our students in a situation where they have any legal risk,\u201d Linzer said. \u201cI went back to (Star) and I said, \u2018Please let the students know that they should be careful in how they phrase this.\u2019\u201d\n\u2018A missed opportunity\u2019\nWith Eikenberry no longer an official part of the Buffett Institute\u2019s future, Linzer and Walsh, the vice president for research, have pushed up discussions about long-term planning for the Institute. Originally, Linzer said the discussions were planned for the fall once Eikenberry would have arrived on campus, but they are now slated to begin this spring.\nIn an email sent last week to the Buffett Institute community, Linzer and Walsh said they want to develop strategies \u201cto move Buffett and Northwestern into the top ranks of global studies institutions.\u201d\nThe executive director position, however, remains vacant.\n\u201cI\u2019m not about to jump into another search immediately,\u201d Linzer said. \u201cNo, let\u2019s listen to people and talk it through.\u201d\nSociology Prof. Bruce Carruthers, director of the Buffett Institute, said Eikenberry\u2019s decision to withdraw is \u201ca missed opportunity,\u201d but he said the Institute hasn\u2019t slowed down its activity.\n\u201cDon\u2019t assume that because there\u2019s not a big ugly fight going on that there\u2019s nothing interesting going on,\u201d he said.\nSchapiro told The Daily in April he was disappointed Eikenberry would not be joining the University.\n\u201cI hope he stays engaged with us,\u201d he said. \u201cHe had the potential to be a transformative leader.\u201d\nEikenberry will speak on campus Tuesday at a Buffett Institute event in recognition of National Military Appreciation Month. 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Too often, first-time buyers are categorized as young professionals in search of a one-bedroom near a Metro line. While in many cases that is true, there are a number of first-timers on the hunt for a larger place.\nSo, this article picks out the best neighborhoods in the area split up by property size: one-bedrooms, two-bedrooms or three-bedrooms.\nAre there other neighborhoods out there that first-timers should look into beyond those mentioned below? Absolutely. These neighborhoods are just our choices for where they can find a place for under $400,000 in a given property segment.\nOne-Bedrooms \u2014 Cleveland Park\nConnecticut Avenue in Cleveland Park\nWe can hear it now.\n\u201cYou chose Cleveland Park???? That is home to some of the biggest houses in the city?!?\u201d\nYes, that is true. But the Red Line neighborhood also probably has the highest percentage of well-priced one-bedrooms in the city.\nThe average sales price for the last 15 one-bedroom units (condos and co-ops) in the neighborhood came in at $349,000. And at $460, the average price per square foot for these units is also on the low side for DC. While monthly fees can run high (averaging $470), it is important to remember that many of the one-bedrooms in Cleveland Park are co-ops where the monthly fees include property taxes.\nBeyond the real estate, Cleveland Park checks a number of boxes for the young, professional first-time buyer. It sits on top of the Metro and several bus lines run down Connecticut Avenue. There is a retail strip that has gotten increasingly better over the past few years and offers everything from restaurants to movies to places to pick up everyday items. And, while not as trendy, the neighborhood remains relatively peaceful and quiet compared to its neighbors to the south and east.\nTwo-Bedrooms \u2014 Silver Spring\nUrbanTurf discovered that finding a neighborhood in the DC area with a healthy stock of two-bedroom units available for under $400,000 was a tall order.\nHowever, downtown Silver Spring, just on the other side of Northwest DC, proved to be a place where there were a number of options\u2026for below $300,000.\nThe average price for the last ten two-bedrooms to sell in downtown Silver Spring was $290,000. Given our surprise at the low number, we took a closer look to make sure we weren\u2019t including distressed homes in the mix. We weren\u2019t; the listings ranged from homes in garden-style complexes in need of work to move-in ready units in high-rises.\nDowntown Silver Spring may not be a destination at the top of the list for prospective buyers in the region, but places like the AFI Silver Theatre, the relatively new music venue The Fillmore and an increasing number of restaurants are making it a place to look.\nThree-Bedrooms \u2014 Michigan Park\nDC has a handful of neighborhoods where homebuyers can find a single-family home for under $400,000, and Michigan Park is one of them.\nThe average sales price for the last 10 three-bedroom homes in the northeast DC neighborhood came in at $388,000 with an average price per square foot of just $262. To be clear, these sales figures include homes that needed some work or renovations down the line, but most were in livable condition when purchased.\nCompared to DC\u2019s suburban-like neighborhoods in upper Northwest, Michigan Park is notably more modest and a bit slower. And there isn\u2019t a lot of variety in the housing stock: the tree-lined streets are largely lined with red, box colonials. The retail options are quite limited, but people generally move here because it is a bit quieter than the rest of DC, while still being in the city.\nUnfortunately, it is not a neighborhood where homes come on the market that frequently. It took going back through four months of records to find the ten three-bedroom sales used for our analysis.\nReaders, are you saying \u201cHoly smokes, they didn\u2019t include that one?\u201d Make your case in the comments section.\nSee other articles related to: dclofts\nThis article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/dcs_best_neighborhoods_for_first-timers/7436\nGreat concept. I agree with these and would also add in col hts for one beds and Woodridge for three beds.\nJ. Martin said at 3:01 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nI would say Fairlawn. Traditional row houses, row houses with garages, bungalows, single family homes and condos. Renovated homes can be had for $270k to $330k. Great location close to Capitol Hill and some shopping nearby on Penn. Ave or shops in Anacostia. Great neighborhood!\nKea said at 3:10 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nI agree that Woodridge in NE DCis a nice neighborhood. Decent sized houses and big yards. Great for young families!\nknm said at 3:22 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nDon't forget Hyattsville!\nRick said at 3:34 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nI'd throw Trinidad and Kingman Park in there for affordability and being west of the river. What are people's thoughts on Congress Heights and Mayfair?\nStringsAttached said at 3:47 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\n@J. Martin...I agree with you because I live in Fairlawn and actually get to experience the neighborhood. Unfortunately, real estate websites such as Urban Turf, and frankly the type of individuals that visit their site, can't overlook the negatives of the neighborhood (every neighborhood has its negatives) to suggest it to their readers. I'm sure people would be quite shocked to learn that Good Hope Road, in the infamous Southeast quadrant of the city, once sported \"Whites Only\" signs and that the row homes you reference were once owned by Caucasians who eventually left because they didn't want to live next to Black Americans. UT would rather send people to Silver Spring than east of the river and forego the sweeping views we have of monuments and other DC landmarks, proximity to the downtown, and the suburban (yes, I said suburban) feel neighborhoods offer. I love how people drive down one or two streets in Anacostia and then feel as though they are EOTR neighborhood experts. I don't fault UT because their job is to appeal to the masses. P.S. I reviewed my post more than I should have and almost didn't submit it because I felt it may come across as being \"angry\"; it's not. I meant it to be informative and hopefully eye-opening to some people. From a real estate perspective, essentially every UT article regarding value housing (looking at $/sq. ft., access to public transportation, neighborhood improvements, proximity to downtown, access to major highways, parks, bike trails, etc.) in DC should include something EOTR. It's that simple.\nWill said at 4:13 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nThat small neighborhood between Brookland and Petworth occasionally has houses for sale and they are usually under $400K (that's what 121 Hawaii NE is going for now). Not really sure what neighborhood you would say it's in but it is within walking distance to both. You got to get creative and aggressive to find a place in DC. And even that doesn't always work.\nJamie said at 4:26 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nAnacostia -- Douglass -- Congress Heights. We've been in Douglass for 5 years now and our mortgage (3 BR) is less than the cost of a 1 bedroom in Cleveland Park.\nRyan said at 4:40 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nSome 3 brs in north Eckington are still going under/around $400k. Close proximity to downtown, metros, and all that's developing in NoMa and Bloomingdale.\nDave Baer said at 5:15 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nThis is a very informative article. Thank you! If anyone has an interest in a First Time Home Buyer seminars I am actively do them and willing to present in front of other groups (15 minimum). I work with SEED and HOPE now and looking to expand the awareness of the opportunities in and around DC area. Rates for people earning $84,700 or less is < 3.75% .\nNick said at 5:28 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nI recently bought a house in Lamond North of Kansas Ave. The area is usually advertised as Takoma but is technically Lamond-Riggs. It's a 10-15 minute walk to the shops in Takoma DC/PK. I got it for well under $300k but prices in the neighborhood have been skyrocketing. It's probably increased in value about $45k in 9 months. I'm not a fan of Woodridge but I think Michigan Park, Brightwood, Lamond-Riggs, Manor Park, and their surrounding neighborhoods are all good values. Basically everything in close proximity to Petworth, Brookland, and Takoma.\nYupCap said at 5:47 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nThis was very informative. Thank you. What was most informative is that if you actually ARE a \"young professional in search of a one-bedroom near a Metro line,\" you're out of luck. When you consider someone in this group, they are likely young, ambitious, career-centered, and craving energized urban atmospheres that support that lifestyle. Cleveland Park feels like a suburb.\nSW, DC said at 5:52 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\n@Strings Attached - I would assume a lot of people have a tough time overlooking the violence and lack of amenities and walk-ability EotR neighborhoods generally have to offer. You can't put a price on a peace on mind and an overall positive, progressive clean environment. Sure there are great views, but they are not stunning enough to move the masses. EotR needs more. Looks like it is on the way, but I can completely understand why UT and UT readers could be sour on EotR real estate. BTW I grew up on the northern end of Naylor Road and still have lots of family EotR.\nOh, and SW (near waterfront metro) is a great place to get an affordable one bedroom in a neighborhood that will be BOOMING after the Wharf redevelopment, DC United Stadium and all the other development planned for the area. It has a great location in that you can walk/bike almost anywhere in the city (except way uptown of course).\n@StringsAttached- I agree Fairlawn, Anacostia and other areas east of the river should always be mentioned in articles like these. There are alot of things going on/planned on this side of the river; not to mention being right across from Anacostia Park. The area is very under rated and for what people are paying for U Street studios you can have a nice row home here or new construction ie. Sheridan Station (which is now sold out by the way) for $250k. Since I've lived here the neighbor hood is definitely changing and becoming more diverse economically and racially. The row houses here are charming and the views of DC are the best!\nSL said at 6:22 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nFor 1BR units I would recommend Adams Morgan 's Lanier Heights as an even better option - mostly older co-op buildings that are a lower price per sq ft than new construction condos in trendier areas, but a more fun neighborhood for younger buyers. If Lanier Heights is too expensive , you can still get 1 BR units in Petworth for under 300K, that are walkable to metro and also Columbia Heights.\nAnacostiaFan said at 7:36 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\n@SW, DC - many neighborhoods east of the river have great walkability and growing amenities. Take a look at Anacostia - Martin Luther King Ave coming off of the new 11th street bridge is a classically walkable neighborhood with great transportation access (metro, buses, capitol bike share, and of course 295) not to mention gorgeous views of the monuments. The H Street Playhouse just became the Anacostia Playhouse, and has relocated to Shannon Place. The area is bikable to Capitol Hill too. Haven't seen much more violent crime in this neighborhood than we see in other parts of the city - in recent years. With the new DC United Stadium coming over and the new Reeves Center, it seems like the area is a great investment too.\nEmptyNester said at 7:43 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nAnacostia fan sure historic anacostia has lots of potential. But the places cited earlier were NOT historic anacostia, but places EOTR with more suburban layouts - if thats what you want, there are lots of suburbs where you can find that - at higher cost/longer commute, but with better schools and less crime. Historica Anacostia has the walkability, but it IIUC it has higher crime than many of those other areas EOTR. maybe that will change soon - with the redevelopment of Barry Farms, the streetcar, the opening of St E's and the movement of more DC offices there.\n3rd Generation Washingtonian said at 8:19 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nIf people want to stay IN NW,DC- Another neighborhood to look at is Brightwood... they have homes under $300k too. If people are open to other quadrants of DC- Trinidad, Fairlawn, Congress Heights are also options. People do need to realize that each neighborhood has its own personality and also as long as your looking for something near a metro or HIGHLY accessible (meaning you don't need to drive to get to the bus/metro stop, or the bus runs pretty frequently in the night) by public transit you WILL be paying a pretty penny!.. Another person also mentioned Hyattsville (another up and coming area), but prices in this area are also going up... I'm just saying people will need to keep their options open and not get tunnel vision (especially if they have a set budget). D.C. (as well as the neighborhoods surrounding it) is not what it used to be, with the fast growing population it IS getting crowded and we all know what happens when there's higher demand!!!....\n@SW,DC the Columbia Heights area its fair share of crime still believe it or not (but has improved since the early 90s)! I saw three teenage kids snatch a girl's purse in front of my house. I think people just want to be there because it looks new and shiny, and has more attractions and other places around it are more accessible. U St also has crime, but people are still there?...\njag said at 9:50 pm on Friday August 9, 2013:\nWhy would someone choose EotR instead of the places mentioned in this article? Serious question. I don't get it. As the article notes, you get get a pretty good bang for you buck without sacrificing safety, amenities, public transit access, good schools, walkability, etc. in places like downtown Silver Spring. Why would someone actively choose EotR over that? The prospect of big $$ when you go to sell after dealing with the bad times? Or is there something else I'm missing? TIA.\nMary said at 3:19 pm on Saturday August 10, 2013:\n\"East of the River\" is a pretty broad brush to be tarring very different neighborhoods with. I mean, EoTR includes Hillcrest which has no issues with crime and nicer houses than Michigan Park with no better or worse transit access. While Historic Anacostia has really charming housing stock, a lot of potential for business along MLK, good transit, and still quite a bit of crime. On the leafy, suburban and quiet neighborhoods, in addition to Hillcrest, I'd point out Cheverly. Low crime, right at a metro station, very affordable homes and even a little tennis and swim club for the neighborhood. If you have kids you'll have to do the charter/private school thing in any of the neighborhoods talked about here, though. I concur that SW is a great buy for one and two bedrooms (and there are still rowhouses with decent space selling in the 400s although more in the 500-700s now, I think) close to transit. Brookland also has condos at similar price points, with transit...and, bonus, a nice built in pool of future renters if you want to hang onto said started condo as an investment.\nEponymous said at 3:26 pm on Monday August 12, 2013:\nAnother comment for Hyattsville! It's one of the few places near a Metro where it's still quite possible to find a very nice house with a yard for under $400k (though most homes that go on the market in that range do need work). I don't think SW is a very good option - most of the properties for sale there are co-ops, and from what I understand it can be hard to obtain financing (even if you are comfortable with the concept of owning a co-op outside of New York City - which I'm not).\nMary said at 3:45 pm on Monday August 12, 2013:\nOn coops - yes, there are three coops in SW (in addition to many condo buildings) but financing isn't all that complicated, so that in and of itself shouldn't be daunting. The principal difference is that they usually require you to use one of several agreed upon lenders (all of them include banks like PNC and Bank of America on thier list). And banks typically will only give conventional fixed term mortgages (so no ARMs or jumbo loans) for coops and, these days, require a 10 or 20% down payment. The upside of all of this is that they have a very low foreclosure rate, which is quite nice for your home value.\nSW, DC said at 3:51 pm on Monday August 12, 2013:\n@AnacostiaFan - sure you can walk in Historic Anacostia, but by walk-ability I meant actually walking somewhere. For the time being, there are little options. Not saying options are not coming, but they clearly aren't there yet. And as far as I remember the new soccer stadium is slated for SW (WotR). Of course that development will ultimately help Anacostia, but for now unless you are looking to make a savvy, long term investment, I would steer clear of LIVING EotR. And I spend A LOT of time EotR for business, family, and drinks at Union Town. Try walking to the top of W St. after drinks at Union Town. You may never make it!!! \uf61d\nSomePerspective said at 6:07 pm on Monday August 12, 2013:\n@SW, DC you keep talking about EofTR like its the same. Some very nice places EoTR with very low/comparable crime to NW counterparts. It depends on what you are looking for. There is a beautiful english style Tudor home on woodcrest dr on sale right now for the price of a 1000ft condo in some of these NW areas being mentioned. To each their own, but you paint with a very broad brush my friend. Not everyone has the same priorities, fears, or prejudices for that matter. To broadly state EoTR is not a place for people to \"LIVE\" begs so many questions.\nBrock said at 3:06 am on Tuesday August 13, 2013:\nNo Petworth? Seems like Petworth is worth mentioning. right on metro, 2 miles from ColHi (but safer) and still affordable. Am I missing something?\nlajoyce said at 3:24 am on Tuesday August 13, 2013:\nNorth Petworth. There are condos and some houses and also coops that are crazy affordable compared to fancier neighborhoods. And I agree about Lamond-Riggs. Nice and quiet but convenient.\nJorge said at 10:16 pm on Tuesday August 13, 2013:\nTo Brock, Pet worth is safer than ColHi? Yes you are missing something\naasnow said at 7:25 pm on Thursday August 15, 2013:\ndowntown Silver Spring definitely deserves it's place on this list. Most of the pros and few of the cons of both urban and suburban living. It's a lifestyle in higher and higher demand and I don't see that tapering off anytime soon.\nDrew said at 12:52 pm on Sunday August 18, 2013:\nCheck out Riverdale Park. Walking distance to the MARC train, between two metro stops, well inside the beltway, and close to UMD. The town has several 3 bedrooms with larger lots which sell for 250k to 300k. Popular Farmers market and at the north end of the Route 1 Arts District.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 397, "original_length": 31617, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dchawks.com/photos/varsity-baseball-vs-bd-52717", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:43Z", "digest": "sha1:NYIR32A4VWZ5DACOBI3LSSRQZPJVWAAQ", "length": 61, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "dchawks.com", "title": "Decatur Central - Team Home Decatur Central Hawks Sports", "raw_content": "Boys Varsity Baseball \u00b7 May 27 Varsity Baseball vs BD 5/27/17", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 231, "original_length": 4251, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 327.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://deadline.com/2015/12/point-break-early-china-release-new-model-box-office-1201667231/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QSH53XWKCVEQQGJ5NOHFWWBKXLZ3BFSO", "length": 5873, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "deadline.com", "title": "\u2018Point Break\u2019s Early-Release Experiment Makes Waves In China; Is It A New Model? | Deadline", "raw_content": "\u2018Point Break\u2019s Early Release Experiment Makes Waves In Chi\u2026\n\u2018Point Break\u2019s Early Release Experiment Makes Waves In China; Is It A New Model?\nEarlier this month, Alcon Entertainment/DMG Entertainment/Warner Bros\u2019 Point Break tried out a new experiment by releasing in China three weeks ahead of domestic. The decision was strategic \u2014 in part to be the final Western film in the PROC ahead of the December blackout and also to give the film a boost going into the rest of its worldwide rollout. The U.S. premiere of the film is tonight in Hollywood, and executives have a reason to smile on the red carpet: The experiment has been surfing a wave of strong box office and holds in a market that\u2019s become trickier to navigate during the past few months.\n'Point Break's China World Premiere Is First Of Its Kind - Photos\nTotal Middle Kingdom takings as of today are $34M after 12 days in release. Point Break entered a market that\u2019s said to have had little mainstream familiarity with Kathryn Bigelow\u2019s seminal 1991 surfers & robbers crime thriller (outside the notorious piracy) and no major stars. So this particular spot on the calendar was a boon, backed up by a strong push from Beijing-based DMG Yingi, which engineered a splashy premiere and capitalized on word-of-mouth.\nPoint Break essentially had two weeks to find an audience before the big kahuna of Chinese movies, Mojin \u2013 The Lost Legend (aka The Ghouls) surfs in on December 18, and it has made use of the window \u2014 taking the No. 1 spot on its debut weekend of December 4-6. It\u2019s currently still No. 1, ahead of local movies that have begun flooding the market as the blackout ramps up.\nBut nothing is ever cut-and-dried in China, and this past weekend, a surprise was launched by a film that initially was due in previews on Saturday and Sunday. Surprise, a fantasy comedy, which was expected to have about 5% of the PROC screens, ultimately was granted 40%, pushing all others down a notch. It\u2019s now out of theaters until its official opening on Friday, and both Point Break andred-hot The Martian are back at the top of the charts. That\u2019s a vagary of the Chinese market where films are not booked into exhibitors for a full week, they\u2019re booked for a screen, I\u2019m told, and can be knocked out at the flick of a switch.\nGetting back to Point Break\u2019s strategy, I understand the idea was the get traction with what the producers felt was a strong action movie for the China market. It was also key to go ahead of the U.S. because the film would have otherwise had to wait out the blackout period, then potentially get clobbered by Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Kung Fu Panda 3 at either end of January.\nRelated\u2018Star Wars: The Force Awakens\u2019 Advance Ticket Sales \u201cStaggering\u201d\nThe initial run began on about 15% of Chinese screens and increased over the first weekend based on word-of-mouth. That was key for PROC exhibitors.\nThis could have gone the other way, though. A worst-case scenario in which Point Break opened lower and then dropped precipitously could have had a knock-on effect of other markets second-guessing, and bad press was a real risk. The folks at Alcon, DMG and Warners believed they had a good movie and rolled the dice.\nThis certainly could be a model that others will follow, I hear. Especially because it in a way reverse-engineers the piracy issue. If that\u2019s a concern, an exec opines, why not release first in the country that is the most notorious?\nAnd, as China increasingly encroaches on the U.S. as the biggest global film market, an important element might be the U.S./China collaboration status that Point Break has. That\u2019s different from the quite elusive co-production status, which ups the door take from 25% to 40%. Collaboration status gives producers the opportunity to \u201cpick\u201d their release date in advance. Gatekeeper China Film Group has the last word, of course, but by showing particular Chinese involvement, CFG will lean in.\nDMG has bases in both Beijing and L.A., but its Chinese studio, DMG Yinji, allows it a jump \u2014 though a film must meet the five disciplines: development, production, financing, distribution and marketing. That designation also allows a hold on theaters and gives the company an earlier lead on marketing and promotional opportunities, whereas studio quota films are often not informed of their dates until about 30 days out, thereby shortening the window.\nIt\u2019s not only DMG that can carry out this model. It\u2019s speculated that companies such as Fosun (partnered in Jeff Robinov\u2019s Studio 8) or Huayi (in STX) could have similar muscle.\nAlcon put up most of the financing on the $105M Point Break, and the company\u2019s Andrew Kosove tells me he is very happy with the outcome thus far. \u201cThe cumulative box office result is going to be quite handsome,\u201d he said. \u201cThe playability is unprecedented in terms of drops week-to-week. That confirms what test audiences in the U.S. have said. They dig the stunts that have never before been done on film. To see that confirmed in Asia in encouraging and portends for the rest of releases.\u201d\nRegarding this new-style release pattern, Kosove said: \u201cWe\u2019d rather be at the forefront of the change. Studios can play follow-the-leader, but we have to be out in front of a changing world.\u201d\nHe also credits Warner Bros brass for encouraging a great opportunity \u201cto see what happens on someone else\u2019s nickel.\u201d One has to be opportunistic, Kosove said: \u201cAs opposed to looking at North America, now we\u2019re looking at Asia.\u201d\nWhether this will be a sort of model going forward remains to be seen, but if China has a role in a film \u2014 be it co-pro or collaboration status, or just plot elements \u2014 it might be one to follow.\nAt the end of the day, Point Break is going to open elsewhere a week after Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and that\u2019s an uncertain time. 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Because they can use multiple combinations of simpler components, there are hundreds of thousands \u2014 if not millions \u2014 of potential AETs, said senor security architect Mark Boltz.\n\u201cThe additional 124 [AETs] that we have discovered are just the tip of the iceberg because of the possibilities out there,\u201d Boltz said.\nThe value of identifying 124 new AETs is not so much to create defenses against them but to raise awareness of what Stonesoft says is a significant new threat that has not been adequately addressed.\nHackers may have advanced evasion techniques\n\u201cIt allows the community to look at how well our architecture is addressing the issue,\u201d Boltz said.\nStonesoft announced the new AETs at the RSA Security Conference being held this week. The new techniques have been given to the Finnish Computer Emergency Response Team, which is coordinating the global response, the company said.\nThe company began researching this subject in 2009 as part of an effort to see how well its own products responded to evasion techniques. It found that some combinations were able to slip through undetected, and it identified 23 AETs for which tools from other companies also were vulnerable.\n\u201cEvasion techniques have been around for quite some time,\u201d Boltz said. \u201cWhat\u2019s new is that we have demonstrated that if you combine different evasions you make the whole thing more effective. The combinations have a cumulative effect. They protect each other as well.\u201d\nEvasion techniques manipulate TCP/IP protocols that underlie the Internet and other IP networks, using tricks such as packet fragmentation and TCP segmentation. Breaking up an exploit and putting it into packet fragments, for instance, can confuse intrusion prevention systems. But the packets will be reassembled by the host device being attacked.\n\u201cThe IPS doesn\u2019t like to reassemble the packets, and they don\u2019t necessarily have the ability to interpret how the target is going to interpret it,\u201d Boltz said.\nThis simple technique could be easily defended against, but other techniques can work anywhere throughout the TCP/IP stack, so the combinations built into AET can thwart most defenses. Because of the vast number of possible AETs and the ease of making small changes in them, signature-based defenses are not adequate.\nThere is no single solution to the threat, but \u201cthe problem can be fixed,\u201d Boltz said. What is needed is better normalization of TCP/IP traffic by network defenses to strip away the evasive tricks and expose the exploits. Progress should be possible through upgrades of current products without requiring wholesale replacement of the security infrastructure, he said.\n\u201cIt\u2019s only a matter of time before people start engineering these techniques into their attacks,\u201d he said.\nAttacks using AETs have not yet appeared in the wild, Boltz said. \u201cNot that we\u2019ve found. 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Every year there are a variety of speakers from all parts of the web industry and all the talks have a focus on Front-end technology/concerns.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1501, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 248.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=32156&p=478506", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:27Z", "digest": "sha1:OFOBQJ5R5LPMZZX5SO7VBZED4H7BOGWA", "length": 13009, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "dhammawheel.com", "title": "in my opinion the buddha knew science and technology - Page 2 - Dhamma Wheel", "raw_content": "in my opinion the buddha knew science and technology\nRe: in my opinion the buddha knew science and technology\nPost by Laurens \u00bb Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:49 pm\njustindesilva wrote: \u2191\nI've never encountered anything that would suggest accurate, specific predictions of the future came from the Buddha. Nor did he say anything specific about science and technology.\nThe Buddha taught of the path to the end of suffering, and specifically said he was not a god. I don't think it's useful to think of him as such, just put his teachings into practice\nThe predictions of lord buddha over the dreams of king Kosol at the time if budda as incidents to come in the future world is seeing to be true . Even the bad weather patterns and behaviours of people along with the distresses seem to be a true reflection of the reveals of dreams of King kosol. Sixteen are such dreams which had been explained to come true in the future times.\nI'm not sure exactly what you are saying. Sorry I don't study suttas in great depth at this moment.\nAre you saying there is a sutta that mentions predictions which come true within the context of the sutta? Or a sutta that mentions predictions that came true in subsequent history?\nPersonally, I think people are good at retroactively finding prophecies. Not so great at finding prophecy before hand and that stated event actually coming to pass.\nThe problem being that words can be interpreted in such a way as to seem like they might fit this or that event, but really it's a bit vague at best. People do it with the Bible, with Nostradamus etc. People did it with the whole 2012 thing.\nIf the sutta is a self contained account of a supposed prophecy coming true, then I would say this doesn't count for great evidence that the actual historical Buddha could accurately predict the future. The simplest explanation would be mythology.\nPost by dylanj \u00bb Fri Jun 22, 2018 9:53 pm\nThe Buddha accurately predicted the future destruction of the city of pataliputta by fire & floods, & the time it would take for buddhist apocrypha to arise, i.e. 500 years\nPost by Laurens \u00bb Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:00 pm\nScottPen wrote: \u2191\nLaurens... IME, there are people in every worldview who believe that there is a source of knowledge that is inexorably infallible. It's an \"all or nothing\" idea. In Buddhism, some people seem to think that \"if the Buddha wasn't omniscient, why should I even trust the 4NT and the 8FP?\" Many Christians hold the same view of Jesus. \"If he wasn't divine and perfect, how can I trust his advice on how to go to heaven?\"\nIf the people that think this way aren't harming themselves or others by it, it's cool with me. But if it causes them or others to suffer, then maybe it should be looked at critically.\nThe Buddha himself said that we ought not take his word as infallible, that we should practise the teachings and see for ourselves if they are true. That has always been my view.\nI think that placing over emphasis on the historical Buddha as some kind of super-being totally distorts the teachings. This is why the Zen masters say that if you meet the Buddha on the road you should kill him. Looking for predictions of the future, and other supposed confirmation of the Buddha's super powers in the texts to me is a huge distraction. If the dhamma came from a lowly, illiterate street sweeper it would be just as meaningful and true as if it came from a heavenly being.\nI don't get all this trying to prove that the Buddha is a god, he himself said that he was not such a being.\nI would need to look into this, but I can easily think of explanations that aren't pointing to the Buddha being a super-being.\nFirst off if the sutta in question is not documented to exist prior to the events they supposedly predicted, then it could simply have been added retroactively to make the Buddha seem like he knew about the future or for some other reason.\nIf you could prove it was a prediction, i.e: that the sutta existed before the events described in datable form then it could be a case of it being vague and subject to interpretation. I don't know what it actually says.\nMy guess would be that it is the former. The suttas so far as I know weren't recorded for quite some time, and they existed as oral traditions. Which can be added to, or subtracted from for various reasons, such as sectarian conflict over certain things etc.\nPost by dylanj \u00bb Fri Jun 22, 2018 10:13 pm\nBut the proper response to such a claim isn't to simply try to \"think of explanations\" against it....that's intellectually dishonest & quite obviously undermines anything you'll say, given you've clearly decided upon your conclusion beforehand irrespective of what evidence there might be.\nPost by Laurens \u00bb Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:28 am\nIts the opposite of intellectual dishonesty in my opinion. It doesn't affect my practise whether or not the Buddha was a fortune teller, and I don't preclude that he was, just that we can't know because other more plausible explanations exist for the kinds of evidence at hand. That's actually intellectually honest. I practise Buddhism, I would actually like evidence that it is watertight... But I can't just let what I'd like to believe lead me to accept something that might not be true.\nThis is what I would consider evidence in this case: a carbon dated fragment of the sutta containing the predictions that predates the events themselves. If that exists then I'd have to rethink my position. Otherwise any evidence can be subject to interpretation and thus doesn't qualify as distinctive proof to my standards.\nIts the same reasoning I'd apply to Jesus's supposed rise from the dead. Maybe it happened, but the only accounts we have of Jesus's life are written by Christians decades after the events. If it happened then the evidence would need to be stronger, because its simpler to say that people created the story of Jesus rising from the dead after the fact than it is to say one man, unlike any other man in history managed to come back after being dead for three days.\nI just have a different set of standards for what I would consider as evidence. You may use whichever standards you like and I'm happy to accept that we differ on that front. At the end of the day it doesn't affect anything important with regards to practise, so there is no use getting heated over it. My main point here, is not to debate specifics really. The thing I am trying to get across is that all this trying to make a god out of Buddha is a distraction that runs contrary to what he taught. The Buddha was asked if he is a god, he said no. The Buddha told people that they ought not make images or representations of him to worship. The Buddha was all about teaching Dhamma. If the practise of Buddhism remains the same whether or not such and such a point is true, then you know you are getting caught up in things that don't matter.\nLast edited by Laurens on Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:36 am, edited 1 time in total.\nPost by dylanj \u00bb Sat Jun 23, 2018 7:33 am\nI just have a different set of standards for what I would consider as evidence. You may use whichever standards you like and I'm happy to accept that we differ on that front. At the end of the day it doesn't affect anything important with regards to practise, so there is no use getting heated over it. My main point here, is not to debate specifics really. The thing I am trying to get across is that all this trying to make a god out of Buddha is a distraction that runs contrary to what he taught. The Buddha was asked if he is a god, he said no. The Buddha told people that they ought not make images or representations of him to worship. The Buddha was all about teaching Dhamma. If the practise of Buddhism remains the same whether such and such a point is true, then you know you are getting caught up in things that don't matter.\nBut the issue I'm pointing out is not your lack of belief, it's your decision to preclude the possibility & actively look for alternate explanations, it shows you have already made up your mind & are not concerned with investigating the matter without bias.\nThe fact that you argue on the basis of the suttas you like but put yourself against the ones you dislike just shows you're only interested in serving your own aims & ideas, not interested in truth.\nSo, sorry you had to type all of that but it's not really relevant.\nNo one is trying to make the Buddha out to be a God.\nThe issue is that so far as I am aware people can't accurately predict future events. If it was a normal occurrence then I'd say \"yeah no problem, I believe you\". The thing is it is not a normal occurrence. Thus it would take quite a substantial degree of evidence to preclude normal explanations. Writings that weren't written down until way after the events don't really count, because someone might have decided to add a prophecy into the canon in order to bolster the weight of their claims. The same thing happened in the gospels, the authors of Luke and Matthew made changes and put words into Jesus's mouth in order to make him fit their interpretation of the infant Christianity that was developing and dividing rapidly. This often happens in religious texts. If we are to look for a wise premonition of the Buddha, it would be that he saw this and the potential that it would have when it came to the Dhamma. This is why he said:\n\"Now, Kalamas, don't go by reports, by legends, by traditions, by scripture, by logical conjecture, by inference, by analogies, by agreement through pondering views, by probability, or by the thought, 'This contemplative is our teacher.' When you know for yourselves that, 'These qualities are skillful; these qualities are blameless; these qualities are praised by the wise; these qualities, when adopted & carried out, lead to welfare & to happiness' \u2014 then you should enter & remain in them.\nI am actually very interested in truth. I'm not sure why you'd make such an accusation based upon such a minor point. For some reason you seem to think that analysing something with respect for possible explanations is dishonest but its the opposite of that. If an infertile man's wife came home and told him that she was pregnant and that it must be a gift from God, if he chooses to believe that this is evidence of the divine at the expense of other slightly less saintly explanations then he is lying to himself. The man who thinks 'hmmm maybe my wife is being unfaithful' is the guy who is being honest with himself.\nMy thinking of other possible explanations is precisely because I'm interested in truth. As I say I'd like to believe the Buddha was somehow omniscient, it would definitely help with the hindrance of doubt. But I can't let what I'd like to be true guide my beliefs. The reality is the opposite of what you are accusing me of. If I wasn't interested in truth I'd be happy to believe it, and thus go about my practise thinking 'well there is no need to doubt, there's proof that the Buddha was all-knowing'.\nPost by Dinsdale \u00bb Sat Jun 23, 2018 8:46 am\nfurthermore, science if it is to be believed must conform with the dhamma, not the other way\nI think this is trying to compare apples and oranges.\nPost by justindesilva \u00bb Sat Jun 23, 2018 3:16 pm\nIf one needs , just type \" 16 dreams of king Pasenadhi Kosala\" on google , there will be details that can be downloaded on this subject.\nEg : also see www.scribd.com ( a very interesting book by a bante with details ofpredictions and results)\nwww.tserinpoche.com\nalong with similar webs and utube details will describe.\nThese dreams are often described by bantes in sermons as buddhist literature descrbes this. It is not fare to find suttas to describe all details from lord budda.\nPost by TRobinson465 \u00bb Fri Jul 06, 2018 5:01 am\nanyway, the lord buddha could see many aeons into the past, at least 91, in which many many civilizations would have arisen and fallen. and we know if we look thru digha nikaya that humans/beings lived a lot longer than they do now, for being virtuous\nif ever they pursued technology or if technology is a worthwhile pursuit, they would have had much longer and more resources\nanyway if we want to stand out from the omniscience thread we could talk about science being ultimately simple, contrived, reducible. seeing into the future as well, knowing that humans will develop very low life spans but then take up virtue and gain much longer life spans by the time lord metteyya comes about\nscience is a dhamma, the lord knew or knows all dhammas, and expounds a superior method of investigation\nme personally i started as a physics major but dropped out and looking back on it i was disenchanted with it then but attributed that to depression\nI think he probably did also, given its clearly stated he could recollect countless past lives, its highly unlikely he did not have a life that experienced a degree of technology similar to our world now or greater. 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That\u2019s according to an announcement on November 6 from the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), which reported that a new, blockchain-powered version of its Trade Information Warehouse (TIW) platform has entered testing.\nThe DTCC has already made more than a few headlines in the blockchain world. By 2016, it was exploring blockchain-based solutions for financial trade processing. It announced in early 2017 that it was working with IBM, Axoni and R3 to begin building a distributed ledger framework for post-trade derivatives processing, and later that year, it reported that it was on track to roll out a blockchain-based platform for tracking credit default swaps by early 2018.\nIt\u2019s unclear whether the latter platform ever actually appeared or if the initiative was rolled into the larger project of retooling the DTCC\u2019s TIW platform using distributed ledger technology. Either way, what is clear based on the DTCC\u2019s latest blockchain-related announcement is that TIW is now undergoing \u201cend-to-end, structured user acceptance tests.\"\nThe DTCC expects to complete these tests by the end of Q1 2019 and to then take the platform live.\nFifteen of the \u201cworld\u2019s largest global banks\u201d are participating in the testing, according to the DTCC\u2019s statement. The DTCC has not publicly identified those banks, but Barclays is one of them. Lee Braine, who works at the CTO office at Barclays, said in a statement that his company is excited \u201cto bring distributed ledger technology to life in a demonstrable way that will enhance efficiencies and lower costs and risks for the industry.\u201d\n(In an earlier announcement regarding its blockchain initiative, the DTCC identified Barclays, Citi, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, J.P. Morgan, UBS and Wells Fargo as banks that were providing input on the project. 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The New York\u2013based company handles the majority of securities transactions in the United States, as well as a good chunk of those that take place worldwide. Its TIW platform processes $11 trillion worth of derivatives annually. Thus, the DTCC\u2019s embrace of blockchain technology as a way to improve financial trading represents a major example of an established, very influential financial company taking decentralization seriously \u2014 not just another fintech startup working to disrupt industry giants via a distributed ledger.\nThe DTCC has been mostly tight-lipped about how, exactly, distributed ledger technology factors into the new version of the TIW platform that it is now testing. However, given that the platform serves in part to store and manage contracts for financial securities trades, it seems a safe bet that the company\u2019s goal is to store those contracts on a distributed ledger, where information will be more reliable and more accessible to stakeholders. We presume that the platform is using a permissioned blockchain deployed by Axoni, which was set to \u201cprovide distributed ledger infrastructure and smart contract applications,\u201d according to an early 2017 statement from the DTCC.\nInterestingly, R3\u2019s role in the effort is to serve only as a \u201csolution advisor,\u201d according to the same statement, even though R3 also offers blockchain infrastructure and, in that sense, competes with Axoni. The DTCC has managed to partner with both blockchain providers, though it apparently chose Axoni to build the actual infrastructure for its new TIW solution.\nThe bottom line: given the DTCC\u2019s stature within the finance industry, its blockchain-powered TIW platform could be a very big deal. 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TAYLOR\u201d\nBroner vs. Taylor, a 12-round super lightweight bout, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 6, is promoted by Golden Boy Promotions and R&R Promotions in association with Star Boxing and in the co-main event, Lucas Matthysse faces Roberto Ortiz in a 10-round super lightweight bout promoted by Golden Boy Promotions in association with Arano Boxing and Pepe Gomez\u2019s Cancun Boxing. In the televised opener, former welterweight world champion Andre Berto will face Philadelphia\u2019s Steve Upsher in a 10-round welterweight match-up. The event is sponsored by Corona and AT&T and will take place at U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, Ohio live on SHOWTIME (immediately following \u201cALL ACCESS: Mayweather vs. Maidana 2\u201d Episode 2 premiere at 9 p.m. ET/ 6 p.m. PT). The event will also be available in Spanish via secondary audio programming (SAP).\nTICKETS: Tickets, priced at $128, $78, $53 and $28, are on sale now and are available\nby calling Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000 or online at www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets will also be available at the U.S. Bank Arena Box Office.\nFor more information, visit www.goldenboypromotions.com and www.sports.sho.com, follow on Twitter at @GoldenBoyBoxing, @AdrienBroner,@RobertoMassa24,@USBankArena and @SHOSportsfollow the conversation using #BronerTaylor, become a fan on Facebook at www.facebook.com/GoldenBoyBoxing andwww.facebook.com/SHOBoxing.\nPrevious article WEDNESDAY! FLOYD \u201cMONEY\u201d MAYWEATHER TO HOST INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONFERENCE CALL\nNext article MSG ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA DIGEST, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 223, "original_length": 9132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 308.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dovecenter.org/blog/item/76-calling-all-men", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:02Z", "digest": "sha1:2H67O2MESDZRTQF75KS2HEYEJVIDRHWP", "length": 11325, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "dovecenter.org", "title": "DOVE Center, St. George, Utah - Calling All Men: Domestic Violence is Your Issue, Too!", "raw_content": "Victor Rivas Rivers\nOn March 24th, DOVE Center will host our annual gala. We are so excited to provide an opportunity this year for community members and DOVE supporters to hear from one of the leading male voices in domestic violence prevention, Victor Rivas Rivers. Mr. Rivers is an actor by trade, but his triumph over abuse and other adverse circumstances, led him to the most important role of his life, that of anti-violence activist and voice for survivors of family violence. More on Victor and the gala in a moment.\nMale voices in the chorus against domestic violence are not new. But recent trends, increased awareness, and diligent activism are helping to amplify them. For years, we at DOVE have strategized about how to involve more men in volunteerism and leadership roles. We are motivated by our knowledge of the difference it is making in reducing rates of violence, particularly violence against women and girls. When men speak to other boys and men about the importance of respect and the value of each individual; when men call out and identify abusive language, attitudes, and behavior; and when men help other men understand consent and personal boundaries, men respond and rates of violence decline. By men taking an active role in education and activism, abuse and sexual violence become shared problems, not a woman's problem. And some of the leading male voices on the subject are taking it further, saying that because of our male-dominated society, and because violence committed against women is mostly perpetrated by men, prevention isn't just a shared issue, but a men's issue and men need to show leadership in finding solutions that ultimately end violence against women and girls.\nTony Porter is one such voice. He is the founder and CEO of A Call To Men, a violence prevention organization that works to upend gender socialization, the process by which we learn about social expectations and attitudes associated with being \"male\" or \"female.\" They call into challenge the unhealthy, even dangerous characteristics of masculinity that have been learned and practiced over time. Tony's organization is a \"respected leader on issues of manhood, male socialization and its intersection with violence, and preventing violence against all women and girls.\" Their vision is to \"create a world where all men and boys are loving and respectful and all women and girls are valued and safe.\" (acalltomen.org) They call on boys and men to be accountable for behavior, attitudes, and language that contribute to a culture where violence against women is tolerated and normalized. A Call To Men's educational programs cultivate a different, more healthy definition of manhood -- one that abandons traditionally learned sexism and replaces it with love and respect. It ultimately empowers men to be the solution that ends violence and abuse.\nFor over 20 years Tony and his team have provided education to men and boys in schools, on university campuses, in government, and the armed forces. They have worked with the National Football League, National Basketball Association, Major League Baseball, and the National Hockey League. Their efforts are paying off and showing measurable results. Tony began training NFL players in 2014 on domestic violence and sexual assault prevention. Since that time, there has been a 42% reduction in the number of NFL players arrested. This is astounding and oh, so hopeful! As Tony himself puts it, prevention helps us get in front of response because, \"what we're actually responding to is women getting hurt and killed. And isn't the goal for that to stop?\"\nJackson Katz, Ph.D., is another anti-violence educator and leading male voice in the call to end domestic and sexual violence. Like Tony, he makes the argument that male violence, misogyny, and homophobia are inextricably linked to the way our culture defines manhood. Jackson is the co-founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), a long running, highly influential violence prevention program and the first of its kind used in sports culture and the military. Katz and his partners at MVP pioneered the concept of bystander intervention, a practice that is proving to be highly effective in preventing violence against women and girls, LGBTQ, and ethnic minorities. MVP introduced bystander intervention to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and was instrumental in helping military branches implement gender violence prevention programming. MVP further helped the military create a framework around prevention that makes it a leadership issue for military brass. In fact, one of Jackson's main premises is that violence prevention is always a leadership issue, and specifically a male leadership issue.\nBeyond his work with DOD, Mr. Katz has trained thousands of educators and others on his bystander and leadership-based approach to prevention. He has trained gang and youth-violence activists; college and university faculty and administrators; high school educators; men's health advocates; and service providers at domestic violence and sexual assault programs like DOVE. From his website: \"In these trainings, Katz introduces participants to his trademark way of conceptualizing the role of men in what historically have been considered 'women's issues.' Instead of seeing sexual and domestic violence as women's issues that 'good guys' need to help out with, he argues that they are men's issues about which men from all ethnic and racial backgrounds should be educated and active--especially men in positions of family, community, professional and political leadership.\" Mr. Katz is a dynamic and engaging presenter and highly effective at bringing his points to life. Thankfully, he has provided an avenue for everyday people like you and me to learn about his most important lessons through a wildly popular TED talk and full-length documentary, Tough Guise.\nAdmittedly, it has been a little slow-going for bystander intervention to fully catch on. But within the last few years, it has taken a front row seat in domestic violence, dating abuse, and sexual assault prevention education programs, including DOVE's. Experts point to bystander intervention as a key to ending gender and minority-based violence. Beyond diffusing a situation where someone is being, or is about to be harmed, interrupting gives personal power back to the person being assaulted and holds a perpetrator accountable, letting them know their behavior has been noticed.\nWhich brings us back to Victor Rivas Rivers. Bystander intervention is part of what saved his life. Victor grew up in an intensely violent household and endured horrible abuse at the hands of his father. But when he presented himself to local police at age 12 asking for help and literally baring his body to show his injuries, police turned him away. They told Victor what was happening to him was a \"private family matter\" and sent him home to an unknown fate. But individuals in his community including teachers, coaches, neighbor moms, and others took a stand on his behalf and, quite literally, saved his life.\nVictor talks about the responsibility each of us has to take a stand, to speak out on behalf of vulnerable victims, to get involved and give support in ways that help end domestic violence. Like Tony Porter and Jackson Katz, Victor's activism challenges cultural norms that tolerate men's violence against women. He is continually working to revise the traditional definition of manhood. \"I see men and boys trying to outdo each other to see who's more tough, more manly,\" Rivers said. \"But I believe a man is one who joins in the movement to end violence against women and children, who confronts those who commit the violence, who sets an example for boys and younger men, and who stands up to protect and respect women. That is a man.\"\nAs a survivor-turned-activist, Victor is committed to engaging more men in violence prevention. One way he is accomplishing this is by providing mentorship and leadership through The Victor Project. This fatherhood empowerment program was created in partnership with Richstone Family Center, a domestic violence prevention program in Victor's hometown of Hawthorne, CA. It was launched in June 2017 and is designed to help fathers have a positive impact on their children and in their communities. Participating dads generally have limited resources and are in need of the support and empowerment that can come from this type of mentorship and camaraderie. Through education and access to resources participants can improve coping skills, learn conflict resolution skills, and make connections with other men. This creates a circle of support that is specific to dads; it helps them be more successful parents and ultimately contributes to a violence-free atmosphere at home and in the community.\nObviously it's not just men who need to be involved in ending violence, every individual must participate in creating a safer, more peaceful and just world. Victor advocates for exploring new strategies to end and prevent abuse and remains committed to combating the stereotypes and cultural prejudice that contribute to it. He has served as a national spokesperson for the National Network to End Domestic Violence since 1999 and has testified before Congress, met with governors and other leaders, and has spoken extensively at school assemblies, international conferences, fundraisers, and in the media, telling his story with hope, humor, and honesty every single time.\nWhich brings me back to DOVE's annual gala. DOVE Center could not provide this amazing opportunity to hear from Victor without the generous support of our sponsors, and this year we owe a special thanks to Headline Sponsor Carpets Plus. Owner and longtime local businessman Joe Gibbons doesn't necessarily like the limelight, but he stepped up his level of support this year because he wants to honor a dear family friend and local businesswoman, Kristy Manzanares, who lost her life to domestic violence last summer. Joe wants to help others find safety and resources before it's too late. \"It won't bring her back, but it helps soften our sadness, and we hope it inspires others to step up and donate as well.\"\nWe have been inspired by this, especially in light of an ever-increasing need for services. Last fiscal year DOVE saw a 25% increase in the number of individuals needing domestic violence services; and a 60% increase in the number of rape and sexual assault victims seeking support in the hospital ER. Since we rely on community donations for half of our funding, our clients need your support more than ever. We hope you are inspired as well and will attend our biggest fundraiser of the year on March 24th. With a male presenter, speaking on the role men can play in ending domestic violence, made possible by a male sponsor, it is already an historical event. Join us to take a collective stand to end domestic violence forever. For tickets and more information, visit dovecenter.org.\nFor information on prevention education, send an inquiry here. 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For more information, see Class D - Active Military Duty Page.\nClass D - New Driver Under Age 18 Page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 184, "original_length": 6991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 305.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/287315", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:26Z", "digest": "sha1:LMPQZCAHTYNR6TG67JMIJ6G4PCGMWGYB", "length": 1451, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "dspace.library.uu.nl", "title": "Performance-Based Budgeting and Management of Judicial Courts in France: an Assessment", "raw_content": "Performance-Based Budgeting and Management of Judicial Courts in France: an Assessment\nKirat, Thierry\nThe efficiency of civil justice has become a central issue in several communities, including national states that have undertaken to reform their civil procedures rules and/or to implement methods of case management (such as the USA and United Kingdom)and international organizations such as the Council of Europe and the World ... read more Bank. Of course, there has always also been interest on the part of legal academics and judicial/court administration professionals.Court systems have two aspects: on one side, as public institutions, their funding, the recruitment of judges and clerks and employees, the procedural rules they must comply with, are determined by the state. On the other side, as organizations producing dispute resolution services, their operation and management are borne by the chiefs of courts. The importance of capacity management of the former, who are most often judges, is now acknowledged by most specialists, even if the compatibility between legal rationality and managerial rationality is questioned by some of them. 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One of the best YA novels I've read in a very long time.\"\n\u2014Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places\nSeventeen-year-old Flora Banks has no short-term memory. Her mind resets itself several times a day, and has since the age of ten, when the tumor that was removed from Flora's brain took with it her ability to make new memories. That is, until she kisses Drake, her best friend's boyfriend, the night before he leaves town. Miraculously, this one memory breaks through Flora's fractured mind, and sticks. Flora is convinced that Drake is responsible for restoring her memory and making her whole again. So, when an encouraging email from Drake suggests she meet him on the other side of the world\u2014in Svalbard, Norway\u2014Flora knows with certainty that this is the first step toward reclaiming her life.\nBut will following Drake be the key to unlocking Flora's memory? Or will the journey reveal that nothing is quite as it seems?\nAlready a bestselling debut in the UK, this unforgettable novel is Memento meets We Were Liars and will have you racing through the pages to unravel the truth.\nPraise for The One Memory of Flora Banks:\nAn EW Most Anticipated YA Novel of 2017\n\u2605 \"[A] remarkable odyssey...an enthralling story...a deftly, compassionately written mystery.\" \u2014Booklist, starred review\n\u2605 \"Barr's tale mingles Oliver Sacks\u2013like scientific curiosity with Arctic adventure and YA novel in a way that's equally unsettling, winsome, and terrifying.\" \u2014Horn Book, starred review\n\"Perfect for fans of both young adult romance and psychological thrillers, The One Memory of Flora Banks is destined to become one of your favorite beach reads of 2017. Promise.\" \u2014Bustle\n\"Mesmerizing, electric, and achingly lovely, The One Memory of Flora Banks is unforgettable. One of the best YA novels I've read in a very long time.\" \u2014Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places\n\"Ultimately, this title will leave readers with a sense of hope and faith in the human spirit....A strong choice for YA shelves.\" \u2014School Library Journal\n\"Flora's situation may be singular, but her desire for autonomy should speak loudly to teens in the midst of their own journeys into adulthood.\" \u2014Publishers Weekly\n\"An affecting portrayal of living with amnesia and discovering one's own agency.\" \u2014Kirkus\n\"[T]his is [Barr's] first YA novel and it is a good one. 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Though Austen\u2019s books are still widely read and praised today, and she is considered to be one of the all-time best English writers, the author only published four novels during her life\u2014with three other completed works released posthumously. At the time of her death, Austen had completed 11 chapters of Sanditon, her final novel that she began writing in 1817. The unfinished work will now be adapted for the small screen.\nWant deals on great ebooks? Sign up for Early Bird Books' newsletter for the latest sales on great reads sent straight to your inbox.\nITV\u2019s Head of Drama, Polly Hill, announced that the unfinished novel is going to be extended into eight episodes. Andrew Davies, the acclaimed screenwriter of the 1995 Colin Firth-starring television adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, among other Austen adaptations, will write each episode.\n\u201cJane Austen managed to write only a fragment of her last novel before she died \u2013 but what a fragment!\u201d commented Andrew Davies in a MASTERPIECE press release.\nStill from Pride & Prejudice (1995), featuring Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet and Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy.\nSanditon will air on MASTERPIECE on PBS in the United States. The series is known for adaptations of other works of classic literature and period pieces like Little Women, Downton Abbey, and Victoria. ITV, Red Planet Pictures, and MASTERPIECE on PBS are working together to bring this story to life.\nSanditon follows Charlotte Heywood\u2014the eldest Heywood daughter still living at home in Sussex. When a carriage transporting Mr. and Mrs. Parker flips over near the Heywood\u2019s home, the family offers them a place to stay while they recover. During their stay, Mr. Parker discuses his plans to turn a their hometown, the small fishing village of Sanditon, into a booming seaside resort. To show their gratitude for the Heywood family\u2019s hospitality, the Parkers bring Charlotte along as a summer guest when they return to Sanditon.\nFrom there, scandal, marriages of convenience, and small-town drama fill the eleven chapters of this unfinished book. We\u2019ll have to wait and see just how Davies finishes it. The cast will be announced soon, and the show is set to start filming in Spring 2019.\nFeatured photo: Wikimedia Commons\njane austensanditonadaptationspbspagenews", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 3682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eastafricaluxurytravel.com/category/watersports/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:17Z", "digest": "sha1:HJPB453PLYUWPV3P3QAOKC4RISJNZIIP", "length": 2687, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "eastafricaluxurytravel.com", "title": "watersports \u2013 LUXURY TRAVEL IN EAST AFRICA", "raw_content": "Come say hey to EALUX team at this years concours d\u2019Elegance & get discounted #MagicalKenya holidays!\n21 Sep 2017 LuxeQueen\nThis year we have the opportunity to exhibit at the upcoming CBA Africa Concours d\u2019Elegance held at Nairobi Racecourse on Sunday the 24th 2017. 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A significant proportion of the crowd is in the 17 to 35 year age bracket and women enjoy dressing up for Concours day.\nThe 2017 edition will be the 47th annual Concours organised by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club (Kenya) and will be held in the grounds of Nairobi Racecourse on Sunday, September 24th, 2017.\nThe Concours has Africa continental status for cars and motorcycles and has been an FIM-Africa recognised and sanctioned event since 2006.\nIn addition to the assessment of the classic and vintage cars and motorcycles, there are 28 Motor Trade stands, a Motor Sport Arcade, a Classics Car and Motorcycle Sale section, and a collection of old machinery and equipment under the amptly named Heritage Collection section.\nOver the years, the event has attracted entries from Argentina, Australia, England, Germany, Malawi, Mauritius, Mexico, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zanzibar and Zimbabwe.\nThe overseas competitors have generated coverage of the Concours outside Kenya and the event has been reported by the BBC, SABC, Reuters, AFP, AP, EATV and UTV. DSTV regularly airs a half hour TV programme of the event each year.\nThe international reputation of the Concours has brought visitors to Kenya and has helped to publicize the country as a holiday destination. The Kenya Tourism Board uses DVDs of the Concours TV programme as a promotional tool for sports tourism and visits to Kenya by special interest groups.\nInformation courtsey of https://concourskenya.com/\nUncategorized, watersports Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 348, "original_length": 25758, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eastcoastdesignerbuilders.com.au/construction-management/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:28Z", "digest": "sha1:FFUDTJD4NK6LLBFTKXOYCX23TKSF6FAY", "length": 192, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "eastcoastdesignerbuilders.com.au", "title": "Construction Management | Home Builders | Cairns | East Coast Designer Builders", "raw_content": "East Coast Designer Builders Construction Management Services involve the management of the overall planning, organisation, co-ordination and control of a project from inception to completion.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 221, "original_length": 3545, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 109.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ebfsd.org/places/united-states/california/pebble-beach/on-farm-market/monterey-gold-honey/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:35Z", "digest": "sha1:D7HJ3EDRV2TPIJCU3SOMDCRNTZNIXMQJ", "length": 371, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ebfsd.org", "title": "Monterey Gold Honey - Eat Better Farm Stand Directory", "raw_content": "Home > Places > United States > California > Pebble Beach > On Farm Market > Monterey Gold Honey\nMonterey Gold Honey\nProducts Offered: Honey,\nPO Box 94 Pebble Beach California 93953 United States\nHours: Mon: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM;Tue: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM;Wed: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM;Thu: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM;Fri: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM;Sat: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM;Sun: 6:00 AM - 10:00 PM;", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 3073, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.56, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://edunaij.ng/jamb-2017-reasons-reduce-exams-duration-2-hours-registrar/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:14:12Z", "digest": "sha1:STYWUDPQD5AGYL2Q2N7USUVJTFBR26N7", "length": 1817, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "edunaij.ng", "title": "JAMB 2017: Reasons we reduce Exams duration to 2 hours [Registrar] - Education Nigeria", "raw_content": "JAMB 2017 \u2013 The Registrar of the Board of Joint and Matriculation (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, explained on Wednesday that the exam referee decided to cut one hour off of the three hours that last candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination ( UTME).\nHe explained that it had been demonstrated that the demographic population destined to the UTME had a short attention span and that, therefore, maintaining them for more than two hours would make them lose their mental presence.\nAccording to him, the reduction of hours was also in line with the best international standards and practices where no candidate stayed in a test like UTME for more than two hours.\nOloyede expressed this in Kaduna during the opening ceremony of a strategic planning retreat on the monitoring, monitoring and evaluation of UTME 2017 with the theme \u201cInclusion and awareness of key external actors\u201d.\nHe said: \u201cWe are going to reduce the duration of the UTME test this year because we can not keep children of this age for three hours.\n\u201cTherefore, we are considering the reduction in the time they spend, because once it is more than two hours, they can not be expected to retain their presence of mind.\u201d\nIn addition, it revealed that a total of 240,000 candidates had so far registered for the examination scheduled for May 20, just one week after the start of the sale of forms that is expected to end on April 22.\nOloyede added that of the 13 commercial banks and the Nigerian Postal Service that had expressed interest in the sales of the admission forms, only nine had paid the number of application documents that they required in the first instance.\n2019 INEC Election Will not Affect JAMB 2019 Examination \u2013 Registrar\nEgwabor Blessing\nPlease kindly help me 76196706IC/[email protected]\nCongratulations you scored 231", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://electronicintifada.net/comment/31150", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:04Z", "digest": "sha1:XC5S5756ULLMRAYNZHQG74RFGPNJ53HG", "length": 8516, "nlines": 60, "source_domain": "electronicintifada.net", "title": "Israeli exports hit hard by Palestinian boycott, World Bank says | The Electronic Intifada", "raw_content": "Maureen Clare Murphy Activism and BDS Beat 2 October 2015\nPalestinians call for boycott of Israeli goods in the West Bank city of Nablus in June 2012.\nThe Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli goods has exacted a major cost on Israel\u2019s exports to the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.\nThis victory is quietly acknowledged in a World Bank report released this week.\nPalestinian imports from Israel dropped by 24 percent during the first quarter of 2015, the report states.\nThe World Bank explains that the drop \u201cis the result of reduced economic activity, but also a growing trend among Palestinian consumers to substitute products imported from Israel by those from other countries, as a result of which non-Israeli imports were up 22 percent.\u201d\nCaptive market under occupation\nIsrael controls the movement of people and goods to and from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Those territories are a captive market for its goods and one of Israel\u2019s primary export destinations.\nThe value of Israeli goods sold to the West Bank and Gaza Strip stood at $3.4 billion in 2013, according to Israeli government statistics. In 2014, it fell to $2.9 billion \u2013 a drop of almost one fifth.\nThe further fall in 2015, indicated in the World Bank report, suggests the boycott by Palestinians alone could cost Israel hundreds of millions of dollars a year.\nDespite the drop this year, Israeli goods still represent 58 percent of total imports to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.\nThe World Bank adds that the Palestinian trade deficit declined by 6 percent during the first quarter of this year relative to the same period in 2014.\nBut the trade deficit stands at 38 percent of GDP, which is \u201cextraordinarily high.\u201d\nThe trade deficit describes when a country\u2019s imports exceed its exports.\nMeanwhile, sales of Palestinian goods from the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the rest of the world \u201cremained very low averaging about 15 percent [of GDP] in recent years due to the low productive capacity of agriculture and industry that is held back by Israeli restrictions,\u201d the World Bank explains.\nGaza\u2019s exports are currently only 6 percent of what they were prior to Israel\u2019s imposition of the blockade in 2007.\nStagnation in Gaza\nProduction in Gaza has ground to a halt after years of closure. Israeli bombing last summer left 247 factories and 300 commercial establishments there fully or partially destroyed. This is on top of the destruction of hundreds of other productive facilities during earlier Israeli attacks.\nBusinesses in Gaza say \u201cthey are hesitant to invest in capacity expansion to reach export markets because of the extremely uncertain political outlook and the related likelihood of another war or restrictions being reimposed,\u201d according to the World Bank.\nPut more simply, few in Gaza are willing to spend scarce money building a business only for it to be destroyed by Israel, or its products warehoused at the border.\nThe economic standstill in Gaza has resulted in an astonishing unemployment rate of 42 percent \u2014 one of the highest in the world. Among youth the rate soars to 60 percent.\nThe World Bank says that in both the West Bank and Gaza, \u201cPalestinians are getting poorer on average for the third year in a row.\u201d\nMeanwhile, \u201ccompetitiveness of the Palestinian economy has been progressively eroding since the signing of the Oslo accords\u201d by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the mid-1990s.\nIsrael must pay a price\nThe World Bank warns that \u201cthe status quo is not sustainable and downside risks of further conflict and social unrest are high.\u201d The international body calls for increased aid to the Palestinian Authority to offset this.\nIt also recommends that Israel lift its restrictions on the movement of Palestinians and their goods. But it fails to call for any measures to pressure Israel to do so.\n\u201cGranting Palestinians access to production inputs and external markets and enabling unimpeded movement of goods, labor and capital \u2026 would drastically improve growth prospects of the Palestinian economy,\u201d the World Bank states.\nIn other words, an end to the Israeli military occupation would allow for Palestinian prosperity. Yet the World Bank studiously avoids use of the word \u201coccupation\u201d in its report, instead referring to Israeli \u201csecurity\u201d measures.\nThis gives the false impression that the pernicious impact of such measures is incidental, and not by design of Israel\u2019s system of control over the Palestinians.\nThere is no reason to believe that Israel will change its behavior unless there is a penalty for it.\nAnd as the World Bank has had to acknowledge, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is beginning to exact that price.\nGaza exports\nWorld Bank and BDS\nPermalink Deborah Kapell replied on Sat, 10/03/2015 - 13:10\nThe World Bank report had many disgusting things to say about economy in the Occupied Territories but I saw nothing in the WB article that you referenced that meant \"And as the World Bank has had to acknowledge, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement is beginning to exact that price.\".\nPlease let me know which part of the WB article (or any other) that acknowledges BDS success. Thanks\nHi Deborah - if you click\nPermalink Maureen Clare Murphy replied on Sat, 10/03/2015 - 14:05\nHi Deborah - if you click here and then download the PDF, you\u2019ll find the relevant passage on page 5.\nThe words \"boycott\", \"divest\"\nThe words \"boycott\", \"divest\", \"Divestment\", \"sanction\", \"Sanctions\", or \"BDS\" do not appear in the report.\nReread paragraph four of this\nReread paragraph four of this story. The World Bank euphemistically says \u201csubstitute\u201d instead of \u201cboycott\u201d but it is obviously referring to the Palestinian campaign to boycott Israeli products.\nHow is your inference in\nHow is your inference in regard to what you \"think\" you see in the article, versus what is actually written, supposed to be taken seriously?\nAnyone with the capacity for\nAnyone with the capacity for critical thinking can understand that when the World Bank says that Palestinians are substituting Israeli products for non-Israeli ones, and when it adds that Israeli exports decreased by 24 percent while non-Israeli exports increased by 22 percent, it is because Palestinians are boycotting Israeli products and going with non-Israeli alternatives. Meanwhile, the Israeli goverment\u2019s own data show that there is a years-long trend of decreased exports to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. So please take your trolling elsewhere.\nIt is not \"trolling\" when you\nIt is not \"trolling\" when you are called out for making erroneous statements that are based solely on wishful inference. The terminology, phenomena and even time-frames you cite as proof of your conjecture don't even appear in the source material you yourself provide. How can this be trolling?\nSo when the World Bank cites\nSo when the World Bank cites \u201ca growing trend among Palestinian consumers to substitute products imported from Israel by those from other countries,\u201d what do you think it means if not the boycott? Please enlighten us.\nI can't say definitively why\nI can't say definitively why or how the world bank came to this conclusion, and neither can you. I can however say definitively that the world bank does not attribute it to the BDS movement; if they could, they would. One cannot arbitrarily add inferences or emphasis or terminology so as to ensure the message of what is meant to be an impartial report conforms to the editorial position of a commentator.\nThe only actual conclusion one can reasonably draw is that some people prefer not to buy israeli - who cares? Perhaps the World Bank can examine whether or not the BDS movement can and/or should be credited with this nebulous sentiment, but until then, you cannot contend this was either the purpose of the report, or the substance of the evidence provided. Case and point, the words \"boycott\", \"divestment\", \"divest\", \"sanction\", \"sanctions\", or \"BDS\" do not appear anywhere.\nIf BDS is going to have any discernible affect on the Israeli economy, then it will need to organize against Apple, SAP, Google, Twitter and Facebook. From when I was last in Ramallah (December 2014), I saw no evidence that anyone there was particularly keen on that.\nOne last thing; United\nOne last thing; United Airlines just announced a 3x weekly flight from San Francisco to Israel due to the uptick in business-integration between the two tech meccas.\nIsrael\u2019s exports to the Gaza Strip?\nAren't they suffering under a blockade?\nhttp://www.theguardian.com/soc...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 10311, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 273.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elitesportsny.com/2015/12/30/new-york-knicks-forward-cleanthony-early-robbed-shot-leg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:45Z", "digest": "sha1:OVX4J6LWPSRJTDTWVAXNIUPFWDEUK6W7", "length": 1537, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "elitesportsny.com", "title": "New York Knicks Forward Cleanthony Early Robbed, Shot In The Leg", "raw_content": "New York Knicks Forward Cleanthony Early Robbed, Shot In The Leg\nNew York Knicks forward Cleanthony Early was robbed and shot in the leg early this morning outside of a strip club.\nCleanthony Early has been between the New York Knicks\u2018 D-League squad in Westchester and the main team all season long, thus he has made very little news if any at all.\nEarly this morning that changed in the worst way, per the New York Daily News.\nEarly was leaving a Queens strip club early this morning when he was robbed and shot in the right knee. He is currently in stable condition and the injury doesn\u2019t appear to be life-threatening. According to the report, Early was robbed of his items and his jewelry while leaving the club in an uber. The incident occured at 4:15 a.m.\nThis comes just a little over a week after Early\u2019s Knicks\u2019 teammate Derrick Williams was robbed of $750,000 worth of jewelry from his Broadway apartment by two women that he brought home from a nightclub. Like Early, Williams\u2019 incident occurred late at night.\nAccording to Larry Celona and Joe Tacopino of the New York Post, Williams was flashing jewelry on Instagram, and according to the Daily News Early was wearing gold teeth and a gold necklace to the strip club. It would be fairly easy to spot that both men had money. Not that it\u2019s an excuse to get robbed of course, and certainly not shot but hopefully Cleanthony is more careful the next time he is out at 4:15 in the morning.\nWe wish him a speedy recovery and hope that he is back on the bench with his team soon.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 267, "original_length": 5779, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://elr.info/litigation/43/20006/sierra-club-v-tahoe-regional-planning-agency", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:31:43Z", "digest": "sha1:YP6HTPI2VVWMMHEM35O6RJQ6UHVWLXAJ", "length": 500, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "elr.info", "title": "Sierra Club v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency | Environmental Law Reporter", "raw_content": "Sierra Club v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency\nNos. 2:12-0044, (E.D. Cal., 01/04/2013) (Shubb, J.)\nA district court, in a 114-page opinion, held that a regional planning agency violated the California Environmental Quality Act when it approved the expansion of a ski resort near Lake Tahoe. The evidence fails to support the agency's finding that a reduced alternative was not economically infeasible....\nTags: Environmental Assessment/Impact Statement, Environmental impact reports (EIRs), ski resort", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 2463, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 171.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://emiliajordan.com/2014/04/13/writing-music-and-the-places-where-they-overlap/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:48Z", "digest": "sha1:WQC5FXLSUPIFSL7ZV5SRJB2DV2VQHXVU", "length": 12217, "nlines": 63, "source_domain": "emiliajordan.com", "title": "Writing, Music and the Places Where they Overlap | Emilia Judith Jordan", "raw_content": "Writing, Music and the Places Where they Overlap\nSo many things have me revisiting my musical past as of late. It\u2019s really kind of odd how so many things converged at once. Sometimes I feel like, for whatever reason, I just really let music slip away for awhile, and over the last month, a switch has flipped and all of a sudden, I\u2019m back.\nI think I\u2019m a little too embarrassed to admit one of the things that started all this. I\u2019ll just say this: it was a TV show. And it wasn\u2019t that I loved the music on the show so much as one of the characters reminded me of how I used to feel about music, and that got me listening to CDs again, and trying to rebuild my old music collection by buying a bunch of used CDs, and looking into concerts and shows again. Okay, I\u2019ll give a hint, since it sort of relates to the remainder of the post, this TV show I don\u2019t quite want to name is named after a song.\nYou know, though? I think what really kicked it off was AWP, when in the middle of a panel, while a writer was talking about how he looked at his work (which had something to do with baseball, can\u2019t remember all the details now) to find the topics that come up over and over again, the things he can\u2019t not write about, and uses that as a guide to what he really wants to say, that I had the epiphany that for me that was music. Some people have told me to take some of the music out of my manuscript\u2013it can be alienating, I think, for those who aren\u2019t into music, or the same kind of music\u2013and I can see that point of view.\nBut that\u2019s my thing, music, my life obsession that I write about all the time. Even nowadays, with more current writing, I\u2019m always, always, always writing about music. I may do this long-form project about a horrible relationship I had, and even though it was awhile ago, the writing is really raw but it\u2019s all about music. We met because of music (TOOL). Every moment, good or bad, somehow relates to music in some way. I even thought at one point about naming every section after girlie songs, which he\u2019d probably hate. And my original title for the project (which I may or may not use) was that of a Joni Mitchell song.\nSometimes I think of my writing in terms of music. What do I mean by that? The project I\u2019m currently revising and working on intensely, called Moonchild, well, each chapter starts with a song lyric quote. so for the table of contents, I listed the songs and now my table of contents that looks more like the track listing on an album. It\u2019s all subject to change but for now, this is where it\u2019s at:\n\u201cRibbons Undone\u201d \u2013 Tori Amos\n\u201cUntil the Ocean\u2026\u201d \u2013 Malfunkshun\n\u201cMoonchild\u201d \u2013 Chris Cornell\n\u201cMiss World\u201d \u2013 Hole\n\u201cPaper Bag\u201d \u2013 Fiona Apple\n\u201cCall Me a Dog\u201d \u2013 Temple of the Dog\n\u201cComing Down\u201d \u2013 Eleven\n\u201cZero Chance\u201d \u2013 Soundgarden\n\u201cA Murder of One\u201d \u2013 Counting Crows\n\u201cJimmy\u201d \u2013 Tool\n\u201cUnforgiving Hours\u201d \u2013 Drain S.T.H.\n\u201cI Wish I Was Here\u201d \u2013 Dog\u2019s Eye View\n\u201cSunshower\u201d \u2013 Chris Cornell\n\u201cCrazy Baby\u201d \u2013 Joan Osborn\n\u201cNow Is Mine\u201d \u2013 K\u2019s Choice\n\u201cPrison Sex\u201d \u2013 Tool\n\u201cToast\u201d \u2013 Tori Amos\n\u201cRain King\u201d \u2013 Counting Crows\nLike a soundtrack. And the chapters that don\u2019t make it into the final version? I think of them as B-sides. Maybe all the stories and early work I\u2019ve posted here are my early demos, my version of \u201cFecal Matter\u201d (Nirvana) or \u201cY Can\u2019t Tori Read?\u201d (Tori Amos). And all the things that have never made it, and probably never will, like the chapters of Summer of Dreams (discussed below) are the rare, unreleased demos. And the stories and chapters of Sugar Coma (discussed below) are the lost songs. That\u2019s how I think of writing without meaning to, as music.\nI was originally planning to go through and write a post to explain the lyrical heading for each chapter of Moonchild, but I only ever did the first chapter. I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about going back and restarting that, especially as I\u2019m revising the manuscript.\nThis whole thing about naming writing pieces after songs is not new. In fact, I think the first time I ever thought of doing something like that was when I was in ninth grade. I was working on this story. I honestly don\u2019t remember much of the details of the story, except that it was a love story and I was going to name it Sugar Coma after a song on Hole Unplugged and it was going to explore the illusions of love. I\u2019m not really sure where I came up with that or what I thought I knew about love based on, you know, infatuations with dead rock stars, unrequited crushes, playing rollerblade hockey with my hot neighbor in seventh grade and kissing boys at summer camp. I mean, seriously! But, I had this detailed story idea, and it would end up with a happy ending, but not until the two characters broke out of the \u201csugar coma\u201d of new love. Literally, I had the whole story arc completely planned out. Wish I could remember all the details.\nI named the characters Violet and Chris, and I don\u2019t remember much else other than that all the important turning points in their relationship were going to revolve around music. In fact, I remember knowing two songs would factor in prominently and having it really sketched out, which chapters these would happen in, how it would change the story, and so on. I don\u2019t remember what the song at the end was, but somewhere in the middle, I was going to put \u201cAlways\u201d by Bon Jovi. LMAO, well, it was 1995 in New Jersey, so, yeah. And much as I was a teenage cynic about love, I was at the same time, a sucker for epic songs about undying love. Go figure.\nI only actually wrote about three chapters and they\u2019re probably in some box in my parents\u2019 place. If I\u2019m lucky. They may just be nowhere. Oh and I remember I set it in the fictional town of Alexandria, MA (why, I have no idea) and while working on this book, somehow heard of the town in VA of the same name. I remember worrying if it was okay to use a real town name in a false state in my story.\nLater, in high school, I wanted to write about this one dramatic summer and early fall, and I imagined it in book form, called Summer of Dreams with each chapter covering a week or so. Like with Sugar Coma, this project also ended up with about three finished chapters, which I have (and kinda wish I didn\u2019t, they\u2019re pretty horrible), and worked out extensive outlines. And, every chapter was going to be named after a song. There was even some lyrics I was going to use from songs I didn\u2019t like, I think it was something from \u201cSemi-Charmed Life\u201d by Third Eye Blind or something like that that I didn\u2019t really like but the words still fit the feeling. BTW, I recently learned that that song is about a couple on a meth binge.\nHoly shit! I didn\u2019t think I still had that table of contents (a lot of my old files were .cwk files which used to be hard to convert, but I actually was able to find this one, and convert it almost effortlessly into a readable format). Now, this is a trip!\nThe file just has the lyrics, so I\u2019m filling in the artist and song. Probably a similar case with the Sugar Ray song as with Third Eye Blind, wasn\u2019t crazy about them either, but for whatever reason, it fit. I can only vaguely remember what these were actually supposed to be about. I\u2019m skimming through the outline and honestly, most of it is nonsense to me. Not surprisingly, there are lots of notes about buying CDs and listening to music. Anyway, here was my list of tentative chapter titles:\nWeek # Title (Lyric)\nPrologue You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth (Smashing Pumpkins \u2013 \u201cTonight, Tonight\u201d)\n1. One who doesn\u2019t care is one who shouldn\u2019t be (Alice in Chains \u2013 \u201cDirt\u201d)\n2. Sleep delays my life. . . dreams they complicate my life (R.E.M. \u2013 \u201cGet Up\u201d)\n3. If only I could be as cool as you (Silverchair \u2013 \u201cFreak\u201d)\n4. I want something else to get me through this semi-charmed\nkind of life (Third Eye Blind \u2013 \u201cSemi-Charmed Life\u201d)\n5. Put your arms around me baby (Sugar Ray \u2013 \u201cFly\u201d)\n6. I live in a Cemetery (Silverchair \u2013 \u201cCemetery\u201d)\n7. One more thing, before we go (Local H \u2013 \u201cFritz\u2019s Corner\u201d)\n8. Violet with the Ultraviolet (311 \u2013 Ultraviolet)\n9. You think you know where I\u2019m coming from (Local H \u2013 \u201cFritz\u2019s Corner\u201d)\n10. Sand Rains down and here I sit, holding rare flowers in a tomb (Alice in Chains \u2013 \u201cDown in a Hole\u201d)\n11. Just want to start this over (Tool \u2013 \u201cSober\u201d)\n12. Into this sea of waking dreams, I follow without pride (Sarah McLachlan \u2013 \u201cPossession\u201d)\n13. I know that pain, and I won\u2019t run away, like I used to do (Alice in Chains \u2013 \u201cBrother\u201d)\n14. I can\u2019t forget you, but I can\u2019t remember (Live \u2013 \u201cTurn My Head\u201d)\n15. I do not mind if all I am is just a friend to you (Green Day \u2013 \u201cPaper Lanterns\u201d)\n16. I take all the blame. Aqua seafoam shame (Nirvana \u2013 \u201cAll Apologies\u201d)\n17. You\u2019re happy \u2018cause you smile, but how much can you fake? (Our Lady Peace \u2013 \u201cSuperman\u2019s Dead\u201d)\nAnd even now, I\u2019m still doing the lyrical thing. \u201cLights in the Distance,\u201d that piece that\u2019s being considered at Creative Nonfiction has 13 sections and one\u2019s named after an album, two are named after song titles and four are named after lyrics. And, separate from the section titles, in the actual text there\u2019s talk of a poster of Layne Staley from Alice in Chains, listening to From the Choirgirl Hotel by Tori Amos, writing lyrics to a few songs into a scrapbook, exchanging CDs and mixtapes, and so on. Even with a piece that at the outset, isn\u2019t about music at all, there\u2019s music all over it.\nAnother recent(ish) piece is named after a Jeff Buckley lyric from \u201cLover, You Should\u2019ve Come Over.\u201d My essay about organic chemistry, which again would seem to have nothing to do with music and isn\u2019t named after any song or lyric, does feature discussions of \u201cThis is War\u201d by Ingrid Michaelson and \u201cRed, Red, Red\u201d by Fiona Apple.\nI\u2019ve mentioned a few times that I\u2019m working on a totally fucking weird hybrid piece that\u2019s part fiction and non-fiction and has alternating points of view. Well, there are TONS of mentions of music all over it. It\u2019s divided into seven sections, and I think one of them is going to be fully focused on discussing songs and memories. And the seven sections? Of course they\u2019re named after songs. The whole thing might be too. And for some reason I feel very compelled to have the song \u201cSomebody That I Used to Know\u201d play a prominent role in the story. Oh yeah, and since it has seven sections and would be (hopefully) a lot, lot, lot shorter than a full-length book manuscript, you\u2019d think I\u2019d think of it like a novella, right? But to me, it\u2019s an EP. That\u2019s always how I\u2019ve conceived it in my head.\nSo, I guess I\u2019ve decided not to fight it. Music is what I\u2019m drawn to in writing. And if it turns some people off to my work? I think I\u2019ll live. Deciding to go with it might mean making sure to provide context, to deeply explore why it\u2019s there and what it means. Whatever I need to do to make the music in the manuscript really work, and matter, I\u2019ll do it. Because it does matter.\nIt\u2019s just a little interesting, all this timing. I shuffled the order of Moonchild a bit, and I\u2019m going through them in the new order, and I\u2019m up to this chapter, which is mostly about being fourteen and all about music. It got me reliving my old music days, pulling out memorabilia and such that I forgot I had, but that\u2019s a topic for another day.\nFor today, I\u2019ll give you the version of \u201cSomebody That I Used to Know\u201d that I lovelovelove and have been playing to death for almost six months now.\nIf there\u2019s a point to this whole post, it\u2019s that if you\u2019re writing, or painting or making music or pursuing science or whatever it is you\u2019re doing creatively, if there\u2019s a topic that speaks to you, that you come back to over and over and over and over, ride that wave. It can be baseball for some. For me, it\u2019s music. Don\u2019t fight who you are, you know?\nP.S. And now for an overdose of adorable:\nThis entry was posted on April 13, 2014, in Music, Writing and tagged Alice in Chains, Army of 3, current writing, early work, essay, fiction, Fiona Apple, Hole, Hole Unplugged, Ingrid Michaelson, Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Lights in the Distance, Local H, memoir, memories, Moonchild, Nirvana, non-fiction, organic chemistry, personal essay, Silverchair, Tool, Tori Amos, writing process. 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And a top researcher at Parker says that this is just the first of many such industry collaborations, as Parker\u2019s group looks to ramp up translational work on a range of new cancer drugs.\n\u201cThis would be one of other partnerships we are planning to do,\u201d says Ramy Ibrahim, the vice president of clinical development at the institute. 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Boor, an assistant professor at Purdue University. They found that crawling children breathe in four times what an adult would breathe in walking across the same floor. (Purdue University image)\nAn international study on how much and the types of biological material babies stir up by crawling on carpet was led by Purdue University's Brandon Boor. (Image courtesy of the American Chemical Society)\nWhen babies crawl, their movement across floors, especially carpeted surfaces, kicks up high levels of dirt, skin cells, bacteria, pollen, and fungal spores, a new study has found. The infants inhale a dose of bio bits in their lungs that is four times (per kilogram of body mass) what an adult would breathe walking across the same floor. As alarming as that sounds, lead researcher Brandon Boor of Purdue University is quick to add that this isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing.\nWhen babies crawl, their movement across floors, especially carpeted surfaces, kicks up high levels of dirt, skin cells, bacteria, pollen, and fungal spores, a new study has found. The infants inhale a dose of bio bits in their lungs that is four times (per kilogram of body mass) what an adult would breathe walking across the same floor.\nAs alarming as that sounds, lead researcher Brandon Boor of Purdue University is quick to add that this isn\u2019t necessarily a bad thing.\n\"We are interested in the biological material an infant inhales, especially during their first year of life when they are crawling. Many studies have shown that inhalation exposure to microbes and allergen-carrying particles in that portion of life plays a significant role in both the development of, and protection from, asthma and allergic diseases,\" Boor says. \"There are studies that have shown that being exposed to a high diversity and concentration of biological materials may reduce the prevalence of asthma and allergies later in life.\"\nA YouTube is available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqTi9fK70t0&feature=youtu.be.\nScientists have previously done studies to determine how much dirt and biological material is kicked up and resuspended into the air when an adult walks indoors, but this is the first study to look at what happens with infants and their unique forms of locomotion.\nHuman babies are the only mammals that can't get up and walk soon after being born. Elephants, giraffes, horses, all can take a few wobbly steps soon after they enter the world, but it's months before a human can claim the same accomplishment.\n(Anthropologist David Tracer of the University of Colorado has suggested that based on studies of indigenous cultures, crawling is not necessary for human development. In fact, he has suggested, it only became common once people began living in structures with wooden floors.)\nAs babies roll, slide and crawl on the floor, their movements stir up more particulates into the air, and their mouths and nostrils are much closer to the floor where the concentrations are greater. This is countered somewhat by the fact that babies tend to move in much shorter bursts of activity than do older children or adults.\nTo study just how much of the floor debris babies breathe, the research team built a robotic crawling baby (which is much less adorable than the real thing) and tested it crawling on actual carpet samples they had removed from homes. Then the researchers measured and analyzed the particulates in the breathing zone.\n\u201cWe used state-of-the-art aerosol instrumentation to track the biological particles floating in the air around the infant in real-time, second by second. The instrument uses lasers to cause biological material to fluoresce. Most bacterial cells, fungal spores, and pollen particles are fluorescent, so they can be reliably distinguished from non-biological material in the air,\" Boor says. \"We also worked with a microbiology group at Finland's National Institute for Health and Welfare, which conducted DNA-based analysis of the microbes we collected onto filters.\"\nThe researchers found that a concentrated cloud of resuspended particles forms around the Pig-Pen wannabes, and that the concentrations around them can be as much as 20 times greater than the levels of material higher in the room.\nMoreover, infants' bodies aren't as good at blocking this dust storm, Boor says.\n\"For an adult, a significant portion of the biological particles are removed in the upper respiratory system, in the nostrils and throat. But for very young children, they more often breathe through their mouths, and a significant fraction is deposited in the lower airways\u2014the tracheobronchial and pulmonary regions. The particles make it to the deepest regions of their lungs.\"\nCounterintuitively, perhaps, this may be just what nature intended.\nIn the late 1980s, British epidemiologist David Strachan was the first to propose the \"hygiene hypothesis,\" which says that too clean of an environment may suppress the development of the immune system. Allergists also sometimes refer to this as \"the farming effect.\"\n\"Exposure to certain bacterial and fungal species can result in the development of asthma, but numerous studies have shown that when an infant is exposed to a very high diversity of microbes, at a high concentration, they can have a lower rate of asthma later in life. Such exposures act to stimulate and challenge your immune system,\" Boor says.\nIn Western societies, infants spend nearly all of their time indoors, where indoor dust resuspension may contribute significantly to their respiratory encounters with biological material.\n\u201cWhile our research established new methods for infant microbial exposure assessment, much remains to be discovered,\u201d Boor says. \u201cI hope to continue to work with microbiologists and immunologists to better understand the role of indoor air microbes and allergens on early-childhood health.\u201d\nSource: Purdue Newsroom\nBrandon Boor, a Purdue University assistant professor of civil engineering and environmental and ecological engineering, together with graduate students Danielle Wagner and Tianren Wu, are studying air quality in indoor environments. Their most recent study focused on what babies breathe while crawling on carpets. (Purdue University photo by Marshall Farthing)\nInfant and Adult Inhalation Exposure to Resuspended Biological Particulate Matter\nTianren Wu, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA; Martin T\u00e4ubel, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland; Rauno Holopainen, Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Oulu, Finland; Anna-Kaisa Viitanen, Sinikka Vainiotalo, Timo Tuomi, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland; Jorma Keskinen, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland; Anne Hyv\u00e4rinen, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland; Kaarle H\u00e4meri, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; Sampo E. Saari, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland; and Brandon E. Boor, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA\nHuman-induced resuspension of floor dust is a dynamic process that can serve as a major indoor source of biological particulate matter (bioPM). Inhalation exposure to the microbial and allergenic content of indoor dust is associated with adverse and protective health effects. This study evaluates infant and adult inhalation exposures and respiratory tract deposited dose rates of resuspended bioPM from carpets. Chamber experiments were conducted with a robotic crawling infant and an adult performing a walking sequence. Breathing zone (BZ) size distributions of resuspended fluorescent biological aerosol particles (FBAPs), a bioPM proxy, were monitored in real-time. FBAP exposures were highly transient during periods of locomotion. Both crawling and walking delivered a significant number of resuspended FBAPs to the BZ, with concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 2 cm\u22123 (mass range: \u223c50 to 600 \u03bcg/m3). Infants and adults are primarily exposed to a unimodal FBAP size distribution between 2 and 6 \u03bcm, with infants receiving greater exposures to super-10 \u03bcm FBAPs. 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A Maryland Department of the Environment review determined the county's fee would be \"insufficient\" to pay for the water cleanup efforts required by a state-enforced permit. The fee of 1 cent per eligible property is estimated to raise $487 annually for county water programs. \"We believe that this level of funding will be insufficient to support the people, programs and projects that will be necessary for the county to meet its obligations under the Watershed Implementation Plan and the new MS4 permit that we expect to issue to your county next month,\" stated an Oct. 25 letter written by Robert Summers, the state's environmental secretary. The county could get slapped with fines of up to $32,500 per day for each violation of its storm water permit, which is in the process of being renewed, the letter continued.\nTagged in: BOCC 2010-2014, Chesapeake Bay, FNP, Frederick County, MDE, Paul Smith, stormwater, water quality", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 33191, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://epicmorocco.co.uk/cities/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:47Z", "digest": "sha1:HBF4RYIA3S7TBAQY2AVQ65I4L7FSNULK", "length": 4516, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "epicmorocco.co.uk", "title": "Morocco City Breaks, Marrakech, Fez and more - Epic Morocco", "raw_content": "IMMERSE YOURSELF IN HISTORY & VIBRANT STREET LIFE\nCharacterised by ancient walled cities \u2013 or Medinas \u2013 fused with modern cities dating back to the French protectorate at the start of the 20th century, the most distinctive cities of Morocco offer history, monuments and colourful street life. Marrakech and Fez are the \u201cheadlining\u201d medinas, the former offering cosmopolitan experiences alongside ancient history and the latter offering a fiercely traditional flavour for the connoisseur. Rabat is the country\u2019s stately capital and Casablanca is Morocco\u2019s most European-style commercial city. Add to these, interesting and attractive smaller towns like Taroudant, Meknes and Chefchaouen and you have a country that offers a high degree of urban variety.\nIn the far north of the Morocco, Tangier has long been Europe\u2019s gateway into the country and the continent \u2013 a melting pot for Mediterranean cultures for over 2000 years. Its stunning coastline and views over the straits of Gibraltar, coupled with its intricate old medina and wealth of history are reasons enough for visit. Although rather more restrained than in days of old, Tangier retains its uniqueness and Cecil Beaton\u2019s reference to the place as an \u201cOriental Cheltenham\u201d makes a certain sense as you wander the streets of this most international of towns.\nMarrakech, the Red City, offers its guests exoticism in a maze of old medina streets, markets and monuments, together with fine dining and evening entertainment. A destination to suit all \u2013 whether you\u2019re looking for relaxation and rest, or adventure and new experiences, it can all be found here under the sunny blue skies of the south of Morocco. As the country\u2019s main flight hub, it\u2019s the most accessible of Morocco\u2019s cities, and if you are searching for the best all-round Moroccan experience then Marrakech is the place to head for, either as a weekend break destination or as a spring board to adventures further afield in Morocco.\nFez: quite simply the world\u2019s greatest living museum and a must-see destination in Morocco. Once the country\u2019s capital, this Unesco World Heritage site offers the visitor an experience like no other: a richness of culture, tradition, religion and craftsmanship all housed together in its tall medina walls. The city is set on a hillside and its medina is composed of a warren of winding alleyways, at times barely shoulder-width. Seek out a rooftop, either in your riad accommodation or in one of the city\u2019s many historical monuments, and admire over a thousand years of history laid out before your very eyes.\nA historic walled town set in the beautiful Souss valley, Taroudant is a perfect place to discover Moroccan culture and the Berber way of life. It has a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, lively cafes, varied and interesting local crafts and fewer tourists than the medina cities further north. The town is likened to Marrakech, with resembling ramparts and a characteristic bustle, but remains more compact and manageable, making it a worthwhile proposition for those favouring a more tranquil experience. The town makes an excellent stopover en route from the desert to the south-west coast, or between Marrakech, the High Atlas and the coast.\nWhile the Hassan II mosque is without doubt Casablanca\u2019s premier tourist attraction, the city is also home to some excellent art-deco architecture, some very good restaurants, the most modern hotel accommodation in Morocco, and some lively nightlife. Many visitors experience Casablanca as a single-night destination, stopping either for their first or last night in the country, particularly given that the only flight from the United States currently arrives into Casablanca from New York. In this sense, Casablanca provides an interesting and convenient stopover, staying in either the characterful Doge Hotel or the newly-open Four Seasons in the centre of the city.\nWithout a doubt one of the prettiest towns in Morocco, Chefchaouen\u2019s blue-painted hillside medina is both a fascinating and peaceful destination. Discover and enjoy the hassle-free souks, the historic Kasbah and the chilled atmosphere of this friendly town, and then hike to the ruined \u2018Spanish Mosque\u2019 and on into the overlooking Rif mountains. The town is a real gem and makes a good stopover en route from the north coast to Fez. The town is home to a number of fairly simple, but characteristic, places to stay and we recommend a stay of a couple of nights as part of any itinerary that focuses on the northern half of the country.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 5771, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://episodecalendar.com/en/show/alias-grace", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:28Z", "digest": "sha1:TIIBXAP3Z5MBMEOSZX7JBWB3X7FBXUHO", "length": 646, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "episodecalendar.com", "title": "Alias Grace - TV Episode Calendar", "raw_content": "Convicted murderess Grace Marks is interviewed by Dr. Simon Jordan. He becomes conflicted by Grace's enchanting, persuasive nature and her claims of having no memory of the events surrounding the murder.\nIn 1859, Simon investigates the murders; in 1842, Grace befriends a woman who dies from a back-alley abortion.\nSimon attempts to extract Grace's memories; Grace starts working as a servant at the Kinnear farmhouse.\nSimon is intimate with Mrs. Humphrey in 1859; Jamie confesses his love in 1843\nIn 1859, Grace tries neuro-hypnosis in an attempt to recover memories.\nIn 1859, Simon joins the Union Army; Grace gets some unexpected news in 1872.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 150, "original_length": 3623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 309.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ethosandempathy.org/animal-liberation-human-liberation/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:52Z", "digest": "sha1:FETRNIDDNS27VEKZTYFGXGAHEL2NZDH6", "length": 34, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ethosandempathy.org", "title": "animal-liberation-human-liberation - Ethos and Empathy", "raw_content": "animal-liberation-human-liberation", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 47, "original_length": 1612, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.66, "perplexity": 192.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://euobserver.com/digital/132153", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:HCZUHQ7CQFMVZIJ4DYJ27VNOJLFDLHE4", "length": 6805, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "euobserver.com", "title": "EU rules on 700 MHz: technical issue or power grab?", "raw_content": "EU rules on 700 MHz: technical issue or power grab?\nWith the increasing popularity of mobile broadband services, there is a sense that more frequencies should be made available for those services. But who should coordinate that? (Photo: Nicolas Nova)\nThe European Commission is trying to convince EU countries that they should commit to some coordination in the assignment of a specific set of radio frequencies, after it failed to garner support for more broad, common rules.\nWhile this week's proposal on the coordination of the 700 megahertz (MHz) band may sound very technical \u2013 and the details of the plan are \u2013 it deals in essence with the question of how much power 'Brussels' should have.\nOettinger: \"this is not about removing competences [powers] from member states\" (Photo: European Commission)\nThe radio frequencies, or spectrum, are a finite resource. With the increasing popularity of mobile broadband services, there is a sense that more frequencies should be made available for those services.\nThe commission's plan, published on Tuesday (2 February), aims to free up space in the 694 MHz to 790 MHz range, by moving the digital television services that mostly occupy those frequencies now to a lower band (470-694 MHz, to be exact).\nAccording to the digital commissioner, vice-president Andrus Ansip, the migration \u201cis needed to cope with rising demand in Europe for audiovisual content and services over wireless networks, which is driven mainly by video consumption on the move\u201d, he wrote in his blog.\nThe commission thinks that member states should agree to a 30 June 2020 deadline by which the move is done, so that the EU is ready for the deployment of 5G, the expected faster fifth generation of mobile networks.\nIt proposes that EU states adopt and publish their national plans for the distribution of the band \u2013 usually done through auction \u2013 by 30 June 2017.\nThis in itself is not too controversial.\nBut there are some worries that the proposal is only the beginning of the commission grabbing more power on the spectrum, which to many member states is a revenue source over which they want to retain complete control.\nThe commission knows this, judging by a speech given by digital commissioner Guenther Oettinger (Ansip's deputy) on Wednesday.\n\u201cI want to be absolutely clear however that this is not about removing competences [powers] from member states,\u201d Oettinger said at an event in Brussels.\n\u201cRevenues from auctions should remain exclusively with them. It's about working together towards achieving common goals and addressing shared problems such as increased connectivity through mobile coverage and through more investments,\u201d the German commissioner added.\nBut Ansip said in his blog post that the 700 MHz proposal is \u201cthe first step towards further and better coordination of spectrum\u201d - something which member states previously opposed.\nAlready in 2013 did the European Commission try to create more EU coordination on spectrum-related issues through the Telecom Single Market Package.\nThe package, proposed under Ansip and Oettinger's predecessor Neelie Kroes, suggested that the commission should have the power \u201cto harmonise spectrum availability, the timing of assignments and the duration of rights of use for spectrum\u201d.\nBut when the package, which also included new rules on network neutrality and roaming surcharges, reached the negotiations phase with national governments and the European Parliament, it was clear that the former would not agree to the spectrum part.\nA deal was reached just before the end of the Latvian presidency of the EU, but without a word on spectrum.\n\u201cThe Telecom Single Market was more about regulatory rules governing spectrum in general,\u201d a commission source told journalists at a technical briefing in Brussels.\n\u201cThe main difference is that this is a much more targeted decision,\u201d she said.\nThe contact added that this specific decision will be supported by the national governments.\n\u201cThere is broad agreement amongst member states that agreeing on a common deadline to release bands can be beneficial,\u201d she added.\nAnd on content, there is not that much opposition to be expected, a senior diplomat from one of the member states told EUobserver.\n\u201cI do think there will be a lot of questions \u2013 we certainly have them \u2013 whether we need specific legislation for this. Why not have an implementing act on the basis of existing legislation?\u201d he said.\nImplementing acts are a mostly procedural decision-making tool of the commission, in which the member states and European Parliament have a smaller role. For this proposal, the commission needs both institutions to actively discuss and adopt it, and most likely will need to mediate between the two on changes each wants.\n\u201cOur concern is that with this proposal the commission is trying to create a precedent and that it's trying to grab some power,\u201d the diplomat noted, adding that his country may seek some reassurance from the commission that this is not the case, before agreeing to the plan.\nAustrian member of the European Parliament Michel Reimon, of the Greens group, told this website in a written response that he thinks \"harmonisation is a process that will move forward at some point, it is only a matter of when, not if\".\n\"The proposal is less overarching and by being targeted at 700Mhz gives a possible blueprint for a enhanced coordination in the future while also allowing different approaches to be discussed for other situations,\" said Reimon, who was involved in the negotiations on the Telecom Single Market package last year.\nDoes the member state diplomat fear that the commission is now trying to achieve its 2013 goals by breaking the original plan up and having it adopted in separate stages?\n\u201cOur own thoughts are not far away from that,\u201d the diplomat said.\nThe commission has already announced in its digital single market strategy paper last year that it will present a plan \u201cfor an ambitious overhaul of the telecoms regulatory framework\u201d, that will include creating a \u201cconsistent single market approach to spectrum policy and management\u201d.\nThat plan will be presented before the end of the year.\nProposal for a Decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the use of the 470-790 MHz\nCommission tussles with member states over radio frequencies\nEU agrees deadline for 5G internet plan\nEnough with EU's empty words on 5G\nThe commissioner wants to increase its influence in the management of radio spectrum, but member states are resisting.\nNational governments agreed to free up bandwidth to be dedicated to mobile internet by 2020, although they insisted on a possible two-year extension.\nWith its current policies on telecoms, the EU has set the stage for USA and Asia and handed them the trophy without even attempting to win it ourselves.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 208, "original_length": 13403, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://euobserver.com/social/139502", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:27Z", "digest": "sha1:LZTXXP47PBDFSMVTUQTVS3XGDK3ILVYC", "length": 8475, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "euobserver.com", "title": "Member states eye agreement on posted workers", "raw_content": "Member states eye agreement on posted workers\nThe treatment of the transport sector remains one of the main blocking points in the discussion. (Photo: EUobserver)\nAfter months of negotiations, EU member states are trying to break a deadlock in discussions over the revision of a directive on posted workers before a crucial meeting next Monday (23 October).\nThe issue revolves around differing pay levels for workers temporarily posted in another EU country compared with native workers.\n\"We had to go against the idea that there are emitter countries and receiver countries,\" said EU parliament rapporteur Elisabeth Morin-Chartier. (Photo: European Parliament)\n\"A deal is within reach,\" an EU official said on Tuesday.\nBut he warned that some elements of the discussions would \"demand a political compromise.\"\nDiplomats will try on Wednesday to prepare the ground for employment ministers, who meet in Luxembourg next Monday.\nDiscussions between some EU leaders will also take place on the margins of the EU summit on Thursday and Friday in order to overcome the last blocking points.\n\"We cross fingers\" that a deal will be reached on Monday, so that it doesn't go up to the EU leaders at their next summit in December, said another official.\nThe issue has been controversial since the European Commission proposed in March last year to revise a directive dating back from 1996.\nArguments over 'duration'\nDiplomats admit that different groups of countries are still at loggerheads on issues like the duration of long-term posting, the date of application of the new rules and the transition period; or the treatment of the transport sector.\nThe commission is proposing that the directive applies on postings for 24 months, before workers fall under national labour laws.\nSince Emmanuel Macron came to power in spring, France has been insisting on applying the directive only for 12 months, while some other countries would like six months.\nAnother major stumbling point is whether lorry drivers should be included in the scope of the directive.\nFrance wants them to be considered as posted workers, in order to protect its national sector. Paris is supported in its demands by Germany, Austria and the Benelux countries - Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg.\nCountries like Spain, Portugal and Poland, whose transport sector is active across Europe, reject the idea. Others, whose economy is mainly based on exports, like Slovenia, also want transport to be treated differently.\u2028The blocking countries argue that a mobility package proposed by the commission in June would be enough to regulate the sector.\nUnder the rules proposed by the commission, a driver would be guaranteed a higher remuneration after being \"at least for three days in a month in a member state with higher pay rate.\"\n\"On this issue, contrary to others in the directive, there is a blocking minority\" to exclude drivers, a diplomat told EUobserver, insisting that \"all sides will have to make a compromise.\"\nMember states are under more pressure to find an agreement after MEPs in the employment committee adopted on Monday a report setting out the the European Parliament's position.\nThe report is expected to be adopted by the plenary on 26 October.\nIf member states succeed in agreeing on Monday, final negotiations between the EU Council, where member states meet, and parliament could then start before the end of the year.\nThe parliament's report, elaborated on by Elisabeth Morin-Chartier, a French centre-right MEP, and Dutch centre-left Agnes Jongerius, include new elements to the commission's proposal.\n\"The objective is to ensure a fair competition between companies and fight against social dumping, in order to guarantee a fundamental freedom, the free movement of services, but also the free movement of workers,\" Morin-Chartier said about the compromise found in the parliament.\n\"We had to have a new look at the 1996 directive in the light of today's Europe and of this political objective: equal pay for equal work,\" she said.\nThe text proposes to extend the directive's legal basis, to make it relevant to the social legislation and not only to the freedom of services legislation.\nIn order to achieve the principle of 'equal pay for equal work', it also proposes that \"allowances specific to the posting shall be considered to be part of remuneration\" and that \"expenditure on travel, board and lodging \u2026 shall be provided for by the employer and shall not be deducted from remuneration.\"\nThe parliament proposal also states that \"for the calculation of the remuneration, all mandatory elements, laid down by law, applicable collective agreements or arbitration awards, should be taken into account, provided that these elements are also applied at local level.\"\n\"We had to get out out of the rut that was the issue of different payslips,\" Morin-Chartier noted, explaining that \"it is the key of the use of posted workers to do social dumping between workers and create unfair competition between companies\".\nThe parliament's text is a compromise between political groups but also between MEPs from different countries, on an issue that has pitted some eastern members states against western countries.\n\"We needed clear political lines,\" the French MEP said. \"We had to go against the idea that there are emitter countries and receiver countries. There are posted workers all across Europe.\"\n\"I didn't see much difference in the parliament's position to where the council is at the discussion now,\" noted one of the EU officials.\nHe said that discussion between member states over the equal pay for equal work were \"very much in line\" with the parliament's position.\nMuch of an agreement in the council on Monday, and with the parliament later will depend on the French position.\nA Macron priority\nMacron, who toured the eastern EU in the summer, has made the issue a top one on his political agenda and has obliged others to take a position themselves over his demands.\nBut while he has made the 12-month duration of posting a key element in the discussion, he could back down if others of his demands are met.\nBetween 90 and 93 percent of posted workers work no longer than 12 months, and the average duration of their work is 44 days.\n\"What is the meaning of 'set a duration'? It is much more important to set the length of the mission with very clear rules that can be controlled,\" said Morin-Chartier.\nThe parliament's proposition is \"not at 100-percent the French position, but it contains very important progress,\" a French source said on Tuesday, pointing out to anti-fraud mechanisms that are included in the text.\nThe source said the French government also hopes that \"a good agreement\" will be reached by ministers on Monday at the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council (EPSCO) meeting.\nParis expects that a package that includes the revision of the directive as well as an EU regulation on social security will be adopted.\n\"With Macron, we are looking at the same finish line,\" Morin-Chartier noted. \"France really wants to succeed on this text.\"\nBut agreement wil also depends on how France's views reconcile with those of countries like Spain, Poland of Hungary.\n\"There is one more EPSCO before the end of the year, and we could agree after in a week or two.. It is not like we want to go forward at any cost,\" one of the EU officials said.\nEU parliament delays a posted workers vote\nMEPs set out to give posted workers equal pay\nCommission defends equal pay for posted workers\nMacron goes east to test appetite for EU integration\nEU overcomes divisions on posted workers\nA bid to make the controversial labour market reform more social was postponed on the request of the centre-right EPP group.\nA revision of the posted workers directive aims to make the single market fairer, but critics see efforts to root out \"social dumping\" as disguised protectionism.\nEmployment commissioner Marianne Thyssen remains committed to treat local and posted workers the same way, despite opposition from eastern EU states.\nThe next few months will be decisive in selecting who stays in the core of the EU and who stays behind, writes Tomas Prouza, a former state secretary for European Affairs of the Czech Republic.\nAfter a 12-hour discussion, EU employment ministers struck a compromise to reform the rules on workers posted in another country. 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We are part of the $1.7 billion global distributor, Electrocomponents, serving as Allied Electronics & Automation in the Americas and RS Components around the rest of the world.\nOur global footprint and world-class logistics allow us to give customers the products they need, when they need them.\nWe understand that our customers are people first and customers second. That's why we offer multiple service options to ensure customers are able to choose their preferred way of doing business with us: online, over the phone, or in person.\nWe Speak Automation & Control\nWe carry more automation and control brand names than any other distributor in North America. With more than 3.5 million parts available at www.alliedelec.com, customers look to Allied for a broad range of products from more than 300 brand-name suppliers.\nWe ship from our centrally located, 357,000-square-foot office and distribution center in Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. We have more than 150,000 products on the shelf, ready to ship. Our streamlined system uses RF technology to accommodate paperless pick and put-away processes and gives us the ability to pick, pack, and ship in-stock items the same day.\nWhether you're searching for parts, looking to get your products on our shelves, or want to join our growing team, please get in touch \u2013 we're here to help.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 791, "original_length": 15829, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 286.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://eyebulb.com/already-promoted-original/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:17:40Z", "digest": "sha1:M7CLRFQTOCHSGO4VC6IZGF3PJQ2R5HU2", "length": 2810, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "eyebulb.com", "title": "If you already promoted, do it original | eyebulb.com | Marketing Blog", "raw_content": "If you already promoted, do it original! Modern society is so fed up with is that the vast majority of its representatives have developed a natural immunity to the latter. Still, if we really read the information from all billboards, walls subway advertising pages in Newspapers and magazines, sought out the banners on the Internet pages, listening to radio spots advertising and looking into TV commercials we probably would have finished in an insane asylum.\nWhere not only advertise creativity bizarre and ambitious Agency\u2026 is the Most talented of them reach their goals, and their message into the consciousness of the consumer key. Below are 5 unique advertising vehicles from a blog Small Business Branding. Enjoy!\nBumvertising \u2013 adds the advertising message to the signs of homeless people asking for money in the subway or on the street. All such people usually have a cardboard sign on which they briefly describe their problem. Some companies are already thought to place there the advertising message. Bums happy to agree \u2013 after all, they get money.\nAdvertising tattoos. Another way to earn good money, is attached to this minimal effort. Let\u2019s say an advertising tattoo on the forehead will bring you about $5000. But if you still extroverted and your Manager doesn\u2019t mind that his employees show up for work in a rather strange form, then putting the parts of his body in the lease is exactly what you need.\nAdvertising on the roofs. The concept is not new, but despite the proliferation of Google Earth, very promising. Today such advertising can be seen on the roofs of houses, which belong to the Target. At least you\u2019ll never confuse them if you search the address on Google maps\u2026 or fly close to the plane.\nAdvertising in space, which was the result of an initiative of students from MIT and Georgia Tech, on a plan similar to the advertising million dollar page. Students gather to launch its own satellite into orbit of the planet. But let\u2019s not waste space on the machine! So they decided to sell it to embed the images advertisers who agree to pay a certain amount. Who knows, maybe in a few decades, the satellite will descend from an orbit and go into space. And there \u2013 and to alien forms of life in the neighborhood. Otherwise, how modern companies will be able to convey information about their products and services to aliens?\nFinally, graphical waterfalls are another wonderful way to distribute their advertising messages. It is very difficult to describe \u2013 can only be seen. And if you happen this is your overtime can\u2019t take my eyes off her. What you see in the video posted at the link, it\u2019s not just a graphic image projected on the water, and these water droplets, which with the help of special technology form of advertising signs and images in the air. 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A graduate of the U of Nebraska and Dallas Theological Seminary, Mark has enjoyed pastoring two incredible churches: one back in rural Nebraska and for the past three decades as senior pastor of Fellowship Bible Church. Mark is married to Lisa, a pursuer of God, and together they raised four children (also pursuers of God) who have given them at last count six grandchildren. Mark\u2019s passion is summed up in Colossians 1:28-29: to proclaim Christ so that every person can be presented complete in Christ.\nDave and his wife Deanna have been members at FBC since 1995. They both grew up in Christian homes and both attended Cedarville University, where they met. Their two sons, Matt and Adam are both grown and living in Virginia. Dave has spent his years at FBC serving in the music and children\u2019s ministries. You will find him each Sunday morning teaching in the fourth grade learning center or playing the trumpet in the worship band. Dave and Deanna attend the FSAT services.\nPhil Covell\nScott Newlin\nGreg is married to Tammie and has five children, Amanda, Adam, Hannah, Natalie, and Reagan. Greg has attended FBC since 1996 and currently serves as an elder, is a member of the Counseling Leadership Team and along with Tammie leads a community group for young adults. He desires to help people understand the wonderful grace of Christ that he has come to know through the teaching and fellowship at FBC. He also desires to see people connect both to each other and to the ministries of the church. Greg enjoys spending time with family, reading, and a perfectly mowed yard (It should look like a baseball diamond).\nLes Sillars\nLes and Jennifer Sillars have been members of FBC since 2002 and Les has been an elder since 2017. Most of their ministries have involved helping people better see their lives in light of biblical truth. They both work at Patrick Henry College (Jennifer in the library, Les teaches journalism). They are vaguely astonished to find themselves old enough to be grandparents, yet they are, and they\u2019re really happy about it.\nMike and Donna have three grown and married children and two wonderful grandchildren. Mike has been an elder at Fellowship Bible Church since 2006 and considers it a privilege to under-shepherd this local body of Christ. He once responded to the question \u201cWhy do you want to be an elder?\u201d with \u201cIf Christ died and rose for His Church what could be more important to give my life and energies to than that?\u201d Mike and Donna enjoy the outdoors on foot, sometimes getting there by car. We also enjoy being with our families!\nPastor of Biblical Counseling\nJohn has been married to Diane for 37 years. They have four children, two children-in-law and two grandchildren, most of whom live in Texas where John and Diane came from over 25 years ago. As Pastor of Biblical Counseling, John's responsibility is to encourage the church to engage more fully in authentic fellowship and to equip Biblical counselors to do the work of the ministry (Eph. 4) by training, resourcing, supervising, and supporting them. John is so confident of the freedom for which Christ has set us free that he desires more than anything to help people see that the chains are off and we have been set free. John is an exuberant Texas Longhorns fan! Hook \u2018em!\nMasters in Biblical Counseling, Masters of Divinity - Dallas Theological Seminary\nDon Den Hartog\nPastor of Biblical Education\nDon and his wife Patty have four married kids and have been at FBC since 2004, where Don serves as Pastor of Biblical Education. His role is two-fold: to provide classes where the Bible is taught accurately and secondly, facilitate small groups where believers, in community, will encourage one another in Christ. For Don, trout, pheasants, and college football bring fun but joining Patty in being grandparents of 13 great kids brings greater joy.\nJohn is married to Susan and they have five adult children and seven grandchildren. He grew up in southwestern Michigan where he came to know Christ and grew in his desire to serve the Lord in ministry. As the Pastor of Family Life, John desires to see families strengthened in their relationships with each other and intentionally growing in authentic relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. He enjoys nothing more than spending time with his family and any time a Chicago sports team wins he\u2019s a happy guy.\nMike Lukens\nPastor of Worship & Creative Arts\nMike and his wife Laurie have three adult children, Katie, Michael, and Abigale and have been at FBC since 1991. He serves as the Pastor of Worship and Creative Arts and oversees the worship gatherings at FBC. Mike desires to point people to the glories of God and His grace poured out at the cross. He has a passion for seeing the church gather together to celebrate and respond to God\u2019s greatness. He has a love for coffee, hiking, and photography. All three at the same time make for a good day!\nCharlie has been a Children\u2019s Pastor for 26 years, with the past 13 years at FBC. He and Sharon have been married 41 years and have three adult children and three grandchildren. Charlie\u2019s passion is to see children nurtured and trained in the Scriptures in order for them to see their need for a Savior in Jesus Christ at an early age and to become lifelong disciples of Christ.\nMaster of Arts in Christian Education - Dallas Theological Seminary\nDennis joined the FBC staff in January of 2017 after having attended for 17 years serving in various roles. He is married to Ivette and has five children. Previously he worked for a local manufacturer as an Energy and Facilities Manager and served in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear operator. Dennis\u2019 prayer for our students is that they would know the love of Christ. His hope for the youth ministry is that we would be characterized by the simple Christianity stated in 1 John 3:23 - that we would \u201cbelieve in the name of His Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as He has commanded us.\u201d\nScott Santmier\nPastor of Local Outreach\nScott met his wife Karen in high school. Together they have four children and four grandchildren. Yearly family vacations are a cherished and required calendar event for them. Scott has the heart of an artist and loves to create in any medium. As Pastor of Local Outreach, he has a desire to see every Christ follower realize that they are missionaries to the people they work and live beside. You may have heard Scott ask; \u201cDo you think Jesus really meant it when He said - love your neighbor\u201d?\nScott McManigle\nPastor of Global Missions\nScott is married to Annette and they have four adult children and eight amazing grandchildren!! Scott is the Global Missions Pastor at Fellowship and travels extensively to help teach and equip pastors and church leaders in many different countries. His desire is to see each pastor equipped to disciple their churches unto a mature faith. Scott loves his family, coffee, hunting, fishing, and talking about the finished work of Christ and what it means for us as believers.\nJim Pool\nAssociate Pastor of Global Missions\nJim is excited about and loves what God is doing inside the walls of Fellowship, but his primary ministry happens in the world outside our local community. As the Associate Missions Pastor Jim focuses on the 17 countries and hundreds of churches that we are currently working with, building relationships with church leaders and equipping them to lead their churches unto maturity. Jim, his wife Rachel, and their two kids Henry and Calvin are thankful to be a part of what God is doing around the world. You can always find a stash of Starbucks Vias next to his well-worn passport for emergency coffee needs while traveling.\nAndrew Behm\nAndrew is married to Jennifer and has been for over 28 years. In his role as Executive Pastor, Andrew is responsible for the churches operations, strategic planning, administration, finances and human resources to achieve the mission and vision of Fellowship. He enjoys working out, Mastiffs, and spending time with his wife.\nJerry Harpool\nPastor of Senior Adults\nThis picture does not do me justice, even though it looks exactly like me. It captures my 73 years perfectly and proves that I am in the right ministry dealing with the Senior Adults at FBC. My beloved wife Jan (in whom I am well pleased) and I have the privilege of ministering to the Encore Class (60+). It allows me the opportunity to teach God\u2019s Word, to care for the pastoral needs of this group, and to experience real fellowship by sharing community. We have three African-American daughters (all born in Africa) who are married to our three, multi-talented sons-in-law, who have provided us with five exuberant and exceptional grandchildren that we can regularly spoil. We are blessed!\nBen Santamaria\nPastor of Hispanic Outreach\nBen has been with FBC three years pastoring the Hispanic community in the area with the vision of reaching out to the community and teaching them about the Grace and love of God. He is married to Gaby and has two adult children. All of Ben's family were born in Mexico City which helps him to understand the difficulties that the Hispanic community goes through while living and trying to adjust to a different country. Ben enjoys reading, teaching, and watching TV with his eyes closed.\nRich Brito\nPastor of Visitation\nRich is married to Karen and has one adult daughter, Kaiti, son-in-law, Kevin, and one granddaughter, Kora. Rich was previously the Congregational Care Pastor but has now retired to part-time as Pastor of Visitation. Rich desires to continue to help lead the congregation in genuinely caring for one another through selfless acts of service, visitation, and general kindness. He continues to be active with a group of over 50 men in the Crack of Dawn Men\u2019s Study on Thursday mornings.\nGet to know the group that keeps Fellowship rolling behind the scenes.\nKaren is married to her high school sweetheart, Scott, and has four children and four grandchildren. She is the KidZone Worship Director and has a passion for bringing honor and glory to God by training true worshippers. Pointing children and teens to Jesus is her passion, and she loves doing that in her home and here at Fellowship Bible Church. Karen loves time with her family, enjoys taking walks in the woods, going to the Outer Banks, and reading a good book.\nNursery & Little Hearts Coordinator\nWife of Joshua and mother of three beautiful and rowdy children, Josiah, Eli and Addison. Tara serves as Nursery and Little Hearts Director at Fellowship Bible Church. Her passion is watching children fall in love with Jesus and coming alongside parents as they lead their families. She loves coffee and family vacations.\nNow that her four children are grown, Caroline and her husband Jeff are enjoying some much needed traveling together when they get the chance. Being involved in Children\u2019s Ministry for over 20 years allows her to fulfill a passion for serving the families here at FBC by supporting the many wonderful volunteers that teach Jesus to the preschoolers. Where else can you color, eat goldfish, and learn just how much Jesus loves you?! She also has the most perfect granddaughter and a puppy who is sweet but not very bright.\nNursery & Preschool Coordinator (FSat)\nWorship Leader & Events Production Manager\nMark has been an active member of Fellowship since 2000, serving over the years in many aspects of ministry. As a worship leader, he loves seeing people engage with God through singing along with coordinating the musicians to help accomplish that goal. He also assisted in the launching of the Fellowship 3 and Fellowship Saturday worship venues. As an event coordinator, Mark\u2019s passion is to see God work in the lives of people through the planning and implementing of the variety of events held at FBC. Mark\u2019s wife is a professor at Shenandoah University and they have two boys, Tyson and Pierce.\nRoger Lauck\nTechnical Systems Director\nRoger is a Winchester native and is proudly married to the other Lauck on this page of biographies. His association with technology began with 'Space Invaders' nearly 40 years ago and has taken some interesting turns along the way - leading up to his current role as FBC's Technical Systems Director. In that role, he works alongside the church's ministries to use technology to share the Good News not only locally, but globally. In his downtime, he can be found studying about anything and everything from archaeology to piano to how to speak Spanish (but please don't actually ask him to say anything in Spanish - it will just embarrass both of you).\nRose Lauck\nWorship Production Manager & Creative Designer\nRose Lauck is married to Roger, the Technical Systems Director of Fellowship. Together they have raised three children. She serves as production manager which allows her to use all of her passions - visual arts, music, education and a great love for people to inspire the congregation to worship God using their gifts and to enjoy the giftedness of others. It\u2019s hard to find her without a cup of coffee in her hand.\nAshton Burzio\nCommunication Manager & Worship Leader\nAshton was born and raised in the Winchester area and has been attending FBC since before he was born. His passions for music and ministry collided while serving with Cru in college. He began working at Fellowship in 2012 doing videography, traveling with missions, worship ministry, and communications. He is passionate about discipleship, the global Church, and worship. Ashton\u2019s ideal day would begin with a strong, black cup of coffee and some cleaning (Type 1 on the enneagram). He met his wife, Sarah Avery, in 2001 when they were just youngsters. They started dating in 2013 and were married in 2015. They have two awesome kiddos named Avonlea and Shepherd, the best dog on the planet named Denali, and three chickens named Gwen, Sage, and Pru.\nDirector of Student Ministries & Discipleship\nCourtney was invited to FBC at nine years old, and she hasn't left since! She joined our staff in 2014 as Director of Student Ministries and Discipleship. Her passions include seeing students make faith their own, music, counseling, playing outside, and talking about her adorable cat named Kitten. She loves the motto: Regularly preach the gospel to yourself and to each other. Her hobbies are breakfast, lunch, and dinner.\nB.A. Bible/Youth Ministry - Moody Bible Institute\nM.A. Pastoral Counseling - Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary\nFrom Astoria, Oregon, Larry has been married to Bev for 40 years, has three adult children, six grandchildren, and three dogs. He retired from Fairfax Water in 2010 and began his service to the Lord in 2012. Larry\u2019s role at Fellowship is to make sure the church is ready for all events as well as the weekend services. He and the maintenance staff want to make sure the facilities are clean and glorify God in the process.\nKathy Budnie\nWomen's Counseling Supervisor\nKathy Budnie is the women\u2019s biblical counselor at Fellowship Bible Church. She and her husband Mike have attended FBC for 36 of their 40 years of marriage. Kathy has a passion for discipleship and teaching, and with her husband she shares a passion for God\u2019s beautiful creation. One of her joys in life is seeing the light go on in people\u2019s eyes when they exclaim, \u201cOh, I get it now!\u201d\nDeborah has been married to her husband, Randy, for almost 42 years and they have three children and nine grandchildren. As Congregational Care Coordinator, it is Deborah\u2019s mission that members of the body of Christ minister His love to one another and that His compassion be felt in times of need. She is a member of the Auxiliary of The Gideons International and is passionate that all people have a copy of the Word of God and an opportunity to know Jesus. Deborah teaches a self-contained classroom of children with disabilities within the JOY Ministry and is a Stephen Minister. In her SPARE time, she enjoys puzzles of all kinds (except Sudoku!)\nChris Canzurlo\nChris is married to Joe and they have three adult children, Jesse, Joey, and Grace. Chris is the financial manager at FBC and is responsible for keeping the lights on and clearing paths so the work of the ministries can go forward. In the curling event that is FBC, consider her a sweeper. Chris grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and is also a fan of a certain college football team in the midwest with red uniforms, well, actually they are more scarlet (and grey, and they have a great marching band.)\nAssimilation Administrative Assistant & Receptionist\nJennifer is married to Michael and they have 2 sets of children, the \u201cWhat have we gotten ourselves into\u201d set (Julianna & Justin) and the \u201cWe\u2019re going to get it right this time\u201d set (Jonathan & Jacob). Jennifer is the all-around, do-everything, when-you-need-it-done administrative assistant. Jennifer grew up in a remote village in the far east, also known as the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. Her husband has successfully indoctrinated her into the culture known as Big Blue Nation (AKA - the best college basketball team in the Midwest).\nCarmen Dowty\nAdministrative Assistant - Community Groups, Biblical Education, & Local Outreach\nCarmen is married to her sweetheart, Rodney. They have three wonderful children and four fabulous granddaughters. Carmen juggles several ministries and pastors including Adult Biblical Education, Community Groups, Local Outreach, Iglesia Bautista Hispana, and PrimeTimers. She and her husband are rabid Virginia Tech football fans. When \u201cfootball therapy\u201d is over, she can be found creating quilts in her \u201cGirl-Cave\u201d aka sewing room.\nFaye Berkemeyer\nAdministrative Assistant - Worship Ministry\nFaye has been married to Wayne for over 40 years and they have one child and two energetic, lovable toddler grandkids. She is the Worship Team Admin Assistant and newest rookie supporting the music ministry in their multitude of tasks. Faye grew up in North East MD, spending many days at Sandy Cove Bible Conference. She has been a church pianist since age 13 and loves singing, playing piano, playing with grandkids, organizing, clipboards, quilting and long drives (and motorcycling), but participating in a music ministry where worship honors the Lord is truly music to her ears.\nSherri Libby\nAdministrative Assistant - Counseling & Care Ministry\nSherri has been married to her best friend, Phil, since 1986. Three sons and a daughter have been gifted to them during that time. Sherri serves as the Biblical Counseling Ministry Administrative Assistant. She considers it a privilege to have a small part in connecting people in need, to the hope found only in God. While she loves being part of the Counseling Ministry, you will find her on Sunday mornings, following her heart in 5th grade. And on rare occasions, you may even find her playing her flute!\nAngie LeMay\nAdministrative Assistant - Children & Youth Ministries\nAngie is married to Tim and they have three adult children, Lauren, Ashley, and Drew. Angie is the Children\u2019s and Youth Ministry Administrative Assistant. Angie is responsible for coordinating events, keeping track of the little people that walk through our doors, and making sure everyone has signed their permission slips. Angie has lived in other states but calls Virginia her home. She loves the NFC, hiking with her family, gravy and spending quiet time with Jesus every morning.\nJulie Zilke\nAdministrative Assistant - Family Ministry\nJulie has been married to Dale for 35 years, and they have five grown children and five grandchildren. Julie is the administrative assistant for Family Ministry. She is loves helping to equip the body of Christ with tools to help them be intentional in their walk with Jesus. She loves being a grandma, reading and encouraging others.\nLisa Grams\nAdministrative Assistant - Global Missions\nLisa is married to Mike and has been an Administrative Assistant at FBC since the early 90\u2019s. Currently, she is Admin to the Global Missions Department and loves ministering with people from around the world. She enjoys reading, crafting, and her two extraordinary cats, Gracie and Birdie.\nRich Petro\nCharlie Strother\nCustodian & Property Care\nKim Byram\nKim is married to Tim Byram. Together they have two children. Caleb who is college student at VA Tech and Sarah a senior at Sherando High school who is heading to VA Tech in August 2019. GO HOKIES! Kim is responsible for the weekly cleaning of the Administration building, Nursery, and preschool. 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I presented a 10 minute talk about sexist online harassment, cyber mobs and both the destructive and uplifting power of online communities. In this talk, I use the analogy of an MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) to explain how these types of large scale harassment campaigns operate.\nAfter my Kickstarter project began to attract a huge amount of media attention this summer, I made the strategic decision to try and use that as an opportunity to highlight the larger problem of online harassment faced by many women in gaming spaces and on the internet more generally. To that end, over the past several months I\u2019ve devoted a substantial amount of time and energy giving talks (like this one) and doing dozens of media interviews as well as communicating with a handful of game companies on the topic. There have been many inspirational women speaking out about online and gaming harassment issues for a long time and my hope has been that I can use my personal story to contribute to this important and critical conversation. In some ways this was a difficult decision because it means I\u2019ve become an even bigger target and also because I\u2019ve had to take time away from working on my Tropes vs Women video series (which frankly I\u2019d much rather spend all of my time on). Still, I believe the trade off is ultimately worth it if by sharing my experience it can be a small part of moving us towards systemic change and a more inclusive digital world.\nAlso don\u2019t anybody worry, my Tropes vs Women in Video Games series is currently in production, we\u2019re working hard make these new videos as comprehensive and expansive as possible. And I\u2019m pleased to say that progress is coming along nicely! As always, project backers will be the first to know of updates and details on the project so if you are backer make sure to regularly check the Kickstarter page!\nI\u2019d like to share with you a story about how I accidentally become the villain of a massive online game, in real life.\nFor the past four years, I\u2019ve been running a video series on YouTube called Feminist Frequency where I deconstruct the representations of women in the media. I try to provide the tools to give people the language to talk sexism and issues of gender using accessible language from popular culture such as tv shows, movies, comic books and video games. Now video games are really interesting because it\u2019s actually the fastest growing form of mass media today.\nThis is a photo of me at age 10 playing Super Mario World on the Super Nintendo, so I\u2019ve been playing games for quite awhile and in addition to being a lot of fun to play, games have lots of positive benefits as well. So again, I\u2019ve been playing games for awhile but there\u2019s something that\u2019s always bothered me.\nIt is no secret that the video game industry boasts some of the most sexually objectified, stereotyped and downright oppressive portrayals of women in any medium.\nSo with that in mind I decided to launch a fundraising campaign on the crowd funding website Kickstarter, where I would create a series of videos to look specifically at the way women are represented in video games.\nThe idea being that if you were interested in the project you could donate and if you weren\u2019t interested, you could choose not to donate.\nIt\u2019s pretty straightforward right? I mean what could possibly go wrong?\nTurns out that there are a bunch of male gamers out there who were, shall we say, not to excited about this project.\nNow, I\u2019m a pop culture critic, I\u2019m a feminist and I\u2019m a woman. And I\u2019m all of these things, openly, on the internet so I\u2019m no stranger to some level of sexist backlash. I\u2019ve sadly gotten used to sexist slurs, and sexist insults, usually involving kitchens and sandwiches\u2026\nBut what happened this time was a little bit different. I found myself the target of a massive online hate campaign.\nNow the next couple of slides represent just a tiny fraction of the harassment I received and they come with a very large trigger warning.\nAll my social media sites were flooded with threats of rape, violence, sexual assault, death \u2013 and you\u2019ll notice that these threats and comments were all specifically targeting my gender.\nThe Wikipedia article about me was vandalized with sexism, racism and pornographic images.\nThere was a campaign to report all of my social media accounts including my Kickstarter, my YouTube, my Twitter. And they would report them as fraud, spam even as terrorism in an effort to get them suspended.\nThey attempted to knock my website offline, hack into my email and other accounts. They attempted to collect and distribute my personal information including my home address and phone number.\nThere were images made, pornographic images made in my likeness being raped by video game characters and sent to me again and again.\nThere was even a game made where players were invited to \u201cbeat the bitch up\u201d in which upon clicking on the screen, an image of me would become increasingly battered and bruised. You get the point, we\u2019ll move on.\nWhat\u2019s even more disturbing, if that\u2019s even possible, than this overt display of misogyny on a grand scale, is that the perpetrators openly referred to this harassment campaign and their abuse as a \u201cGame\u201d. They referred to their abuse as a game.\nSo, in their minds they concocted this grand fiction in which they\u2019re the heroic players of a massively multiplayer online game working together to take down an enemy. And apparently, they cast me in the role of the villain. And what was my big diabolical master plan? To make a series of videos on YouTube about women\u2019s representations in games. Yeah.\nSo, if they think of their abuse as a \u201cfun game\u201d then let\u2019s examine this.\nWell, often when we talk about online harassment we think of teenage boys in their parent\u2019s basements and while I was attacked by some teenage boys, I was also attacked by thousands of grown men.\nAnd this isn\u2019t entirely surprising considering the average age of the male gamers in the US is about 30.\nWhere is this game played?\nWell, the perpetrators turn the entire internet into a battlefield. So, in my case they came after everything and anything that I possibly ever had online. They also have a home base where they coordinate their raids and work together and communicate and this usually takes place on largely unmoderated, largely anonymous message boards and forums. And these are places with no real mechanisms for accountability.\nSo what is the goal?\nWell, the immediate explicit goal is to stop the villain and save video games from\u2026me and my crazy feminist schemes. And they tried to do this by silencing and discrediting me and my project.\nBut the larger implicit goal here is that they\u2019re actually trying to maintain the status quo of video games as a male dominated space and all of the privileges and entitlements that come with an unquestioned boys club.\nWell, Its fundamentally a social one.\nNow we don\u2019t usually think of online harassment as a social activity but we know from the strategies and tactics that they used, that they were not working alone, that they were actually loosely coordinating with one another.\nThis social component is a powerful motivating factor that works to provide incentives for players to participate, or perpetrators rather, to participate and to actually escalate the attacks by earning the praise and approval of their peers. We can kind of think of this as an informal reward system where players earn \u201cinternet points\u201d for increasingly brazen and abusive attacks. Then they would document these attacks and they would bring them back to the message boards as evidence, to show off to each other \u2013 kind of like trophies or achievements.\nSo, we have a general structure of a social game. We have players, we have the villain. We have a battlefield. We have this informal rewards system.\nBut the thing is\u2026Its not a game. It\u2019s an overt display of angry misogyny on massive scale.\nIts not \u201cjust boys being boys\u201d.\nIts not \u201cjust how the internet works\u201d.\nAnd it\u2019s not just going to go away if we ignore it.\nIts really not a game.\nSo what is it than? Well, the usual terms that we use to describe online harassment such as \u201ccyber bullying\u201d, \u201ccyber stalking\u201d, even trolling, don\u2019t adequately describe a hate campaign of this scale.\nWhat happened to me, and sadly other women as well, can best be described as a cyber mob.\nAnd whether it\u2019s a cyber mob or just a handful of hateful comments, the end result is maintaining and reinforcing and normalizing a culture of sexism \u2014 where men who harass are supported by their peers and rewarded for their sexist attitudes and behaviors and where women are silenced, marginalized and excluded from full participation.\nA \u2018boys club\u2019 means no girls allowed. And how do they keep women and girls out? Just like this. By creating an environment that is just too toxic and hostile to endure.\nThis is pretty grim and depressing stuff, I know, but there is another side to all this.\nDo you wanna know what happened to my fundraiser after all of that? Well first, the cyber mob failed to silence me, as is evidence by me being here today. And it turns out that quite a few people are actually were interested in project that would deconstruct the representations of women in gaming and who are totally outraged at the harassment that too often plagues our gaming communities.\nI actually raised 25x times what I initially asked for. Nearly 7000 individuals contributed to make my Tropes vs. Women in Video Games project bigger and better and more expansive than I could ever have imagined. Instead of just being 5 videos, it\u2019s now 13 videos plus a classroom curriculum that educators can use for free. Feminist Frequency went from a part time side project to a full time endeavor.\nI received countless messages of support and words of encouragement. People expressed their solidarity with me and my project publicly through videos, through fanart, through comics and blog posts. I\u2019ve even been invited to speak at video game studios internationally.\nThe overwhelming support that I received is just a small manifestation of a larger cultural shift looming on the horizon. A growing cross-section of gamers and game developers of all genders are fed up with the way women are treated in gaming culture and they\u2019re speaking up to demand change.\nNow this change is happening slowly and kind of painfully, but its happening.\nEveryday I am encouraged by the women who persevere, who continue to engage and who refuse to be silenced. I truly believe that if we work together, we can create a cultural shift where women, without fear of intimidation, without fear of threats or harassment, can be full and active participants in our digital world. Thank You.\nGlobal Television Interview about Harassment in Gaming\nRecently, I was interviewed for a TV segment on Canada\u2019s Global News about my experience and the wider epidemic of harassment women face in gaming spaces. 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Continued sleep shortages contribute to depression, heart disease, lowered immunity, obesity, and type-2 diabetes. Millions of people explore numerous trips to doctors and pharmacies in search of drugs and recommendations for better quality sleep. Americans spent an estimated $41 billion on sleep aids and remedies in 2015; that amount expects to grow to $52 billion by 2020. The issue of acute sleep deprivation impacts people more prevalently today than at any time in history.\nA recent study determined that over 1/4th of people have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. Nearly 70% of people struggle to fall asleep at least one time per week. Stress and anxiety rob people of the very remedy needed to combat diseases caused by stress and anxiety. Most people do not function well with less than seven hours of sleep. Daily routines convince people that they aptly manage on less than seven hours but the truth remains uncompromised by busy schedules. Most sleep sufferers do not realize or acknowledge the problem and never understand that improved sleep drives so many aspects of quality healing and life.\nChiropractic offers a research-based solution. Research completed in 2015 linked an increase of specific sleep-related hormones following a spinal adjustment. Chiropractic improves hormone chemistry throughout the entire body by adjusting misaligned areas of the spine which hinder mobility and nervous system communication. An intimate relationship between the brain and nervous system exists in every person\u2019s spine. The nervous system directs all healing and function throughout the body by communicating through the spinal cord. The bones of the spine surround and protect the spinal cord and direct nervous system functions. Copious amounts of neurons lace the spine and communicate with the brain every single second. Clear communication requires appropriate alignment and movement of each spinal vertebra. 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There are few opportunities to make money since all kinds of extra taxes have been levied on the sector and the utility price reduction is causing revenue problems. But is that such a big problem? Why shouldn\u2019t energy supply be state-owned and non-profit? I don\u2019t know the answer to that, but I do know a country where the state acts as supplier and which has been witnessing utility price cuts for decades.\nKyrgyzstan tends to be dubbed the Switzerland of Central Asia, because its territory is largely covered by mountains (though that is where the similarity largely ends). The mountains are high. Jengish Chokusu (Victory Peak) has an altitude of 7,439 metres. Lots of snow falls in winter, which melts in the spring and large volumes of water flow down from the mountains in rivers. It\u2019s also home to numerous mountain lakes, with Issyk Kul being the world\u2019s second largest. Where there are slopes and a lot of water and natural water reservoirs, building hydroelectric power stations is the obvious thing to do. That was recognized in the Soviet era too, and Kyrgyzstan had plenty hydroelectric power stations producing cheap electricity when it embarked on independence in 1991. We might think how lucky they are.\nAnd, at first glance, that\u2019s indeed the case. Hydroelectric power accounts for more than 90% of Kyrgyz electricity production, and the cost of production is one of the lowest in the world. It could be used as the basis for developing whole energy-requiring industrial sectors in the country, and considerable revenues could be obtained from exporting electricity. Unfortunately this is where populism gets in the way.\nAs you can see from the figure above, even though the production of electricity is cheap, the population only has to pay half the cost price. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s been for years. (Another country with a low electricity cost price is Tajikistan, where the situation is eerily similar that in Kyrgyzstan.) The result is unsurprising: the state-owned energy sector does not have any money to maintain the necessary infrastructure. The hydroelectric power stations are falling apart and the entire distribution network is decaying, with the result that grid losses amount to one third of the electricity production, an alarming level of wastage. Of the four electricity distribution companies, one alone (Severelectro) reported an average of 15 power outages daily, rising to 20 during the severe winter. That\u2019s particular troublesome, because the majority of the population heats with electricity thanks to the cheap price of electricity and high cost of imported hydrocarbons. In terms of quality of electricity supply, Kyrgyzstan is ranked 91st place of 104 countries studied in a survey conducted this year.\nThere is no money for development, though the country is currently producing only 10% of the hydroelectric power that could potentially be harnessed.\nSo what drives a government to keep such a crazy state of affairs going? Kyrgyzstan provides a striking illustration of that too. In January 2010 President Bakiyev doubled the retail price of electricity, increasing it to slightly above the cost price. Or we could say he introduced a market price. The aim was to generate funds for refurbishment and development.\nBy April revolution had broken out. The present was forced to stand down and the new government reduced the price of electricity again. Of course that was not the only reason for the unrest \u2013 Bakiyev was corrupt and fixed the elections, as is the custom in that neck of the woods, but the increase in utility prices likely played a part in the outbreak of the revolution to oust him.\nWe should avoid taking the Kyrgyz path.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 6107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 183.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://fursylima.wordpress.com/2011/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:D4QUDLRBATTGYK2QQH6GVKWURZ52PYBL", "length": 6129, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "fursylima.wordpress.com", "title": "September 2011 \u2013 Danielle Lima \u2013 Corners of my mind", "raw_content": "This is a quick and easy one. So simple, and it goes over great during the summer at barbecues and potlucks. We tease my Mom because once we were having a conversation about what food we\u2019ll be remembered for when we\u2019re gone. She was concerned that there wouldn\u2019t be a \u201cspecial dish\u201d that would inspire us all to think about her when we ate it. My husband said to her, \u201cdon\u2019t worry Cathie, you\u2019ll always be remembered for your tomato salad!\u201d\nDon\u2019t blink or you\u2019ll miss this one \u2013 it\u2019s that quick to throw together.\n2-3 tomatoes or more \u2013 depending on size\n1/2 large or 1-2 small onions (red onions or really sweet onions are best)\n1 bottle vinaigrette salad dressing (I most prefer Kraft Sundried Tomato and Oregano for this)\nSlice tomatoes and onions. Layer in a casserole (like French White) with a lid.\nPour entire bottle of dressing over the tomatoes and onions.\nCover and refrigerate at least 1-2 hours.\nThat\u2019s it! The longer this stuff sits, the better it is. It\u2019s even better the next day, so if you can make it the morning of, or even the night before, it\u2019s best.\nIf you\u2019re having burgers, some of us like to put this salad directly on our burgers for extra zing.\nThe Help \u2013 Book and Movie Review\nI never knew why I have never reviewed the book The Help by Katheryn Stockett as I read it quite a while ago and absolutely loved it. Gave it 5 stars, recommended it to everyone I could possibly think of to recommend it to.\nNow I know why. Because I was waiting for the movie to come out, so I could review both at the same time. I almost feel the need to review them both at the same time, because they seem like two halves of a whole to me. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever watched a movie based on a book that I\u2019ve read that made me feel like this one did. I truly felt like it was an extension of the book. And I loved it.\nThe story takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962. It revolves around three main characters, and is told in each of their voices. Skeeter, a white, 22 year old woman who just graduated from college, comes home to get a job at the local newspaper. She has dreams of being a journalist, a novelist, both. She is idealistic, and has huge dreams for herself, way beyond the small town and her \u201cfriends\u201d there that live their lives around their bridge club, and the white society that they have built up for themselves.\nThe other two characters in the story are Aibileen and Minnie. They are two black maids that work for white families in the town. The line between the black folk and the white folk is drawn so carefully, and observed so firmly, that it is enough to make you so incredibly angry at some parts at the ignorance and audacity of some of these people and the way they think. Though it was so common in the South at the time.\nI won\u2019t ruin the story, but it basically centers around Skeeter wanting to write a book about \u201cThe Help\u201d and how they are treated in Jackson. There is a ton of back story, so much to this story, and it is written using the voices of three very different women, who come together to do something that will maybe, hopefully, make a difference.\nI loved this book so much. I loved how each woman\u2019s voice was so distinctive. Even though her name was written at the top of each chapter, it was written with such individuality that it was unnecessary.\nThis movie I felt really did the book justice. They did take some liberties with the story, and changed things around, as they often do when making a movie, but these didn\u2019t bother me at all and I\u2019m sure were mostly done due to time constraints. It would be impossible to fit all the bits of story into a two and a half hour movie. It would be more like a mini-series. But the casting choices were bang on I thought. There were many familiar faces. All of them perfect for the roles they were chosen for.\nRead it. See it. That is all.\nWell, the saga continues. What a blast I am having reading these books. Janet Evanovich is a genius. In the next two installments of the Stephanie Plum series, Three to Get Deadly and Four to Score, she has once again succeeded in making me laugh out loud. Several times.\nThis series is outrageous. It is insane to believe that Stephanie et al get into the situations they do and remain breathing. There are a couple of close shaves \u2013 and in some cases desperate need for a shave (when you meet Sally Street you\u2019ll know what I mean). Stephanie is getting a little bit smarter, but is still desperately inexperienced. She is very lucky to have people around her that are experienced with the bad guys and that care enough about Stephanie to look out for her.\nShe does things that make you want to yell at her, but Evanovich manages to keep her so likable, so real, that you\u2019re constantly rooting for her. Luck is not always on poor Stephanie\u2019s side, and often a simple cut and colour job can turn disastrous, but that\u2019s part of what makes you keep rooting for her.\nThere are new characters introduced (Sally being one of them), we get to know some previously introduced characters a little better, including prostitute-turned-file clerk-turned-wannabe bounty hunter Lula. Thankfully we get a bit of Grandma Mazur, Stephanie\u2019s hilarious grandmother added in. We also see the return of Ranger, Stephanie\u2019s incredibly sexy badass bounty hunter mentor, and Joe Morelli \u2013 vice cop that has been weaving in and out of her life since she was six years old. Will she finally get the Morelli induced orgasm she has been needing so badly? You\u2019ll have to read to find out.\nIn Three to Get Deadly, Stephanie is on the trail of \u201cUncle Mo,\u201d an elderly candy store neighbour from the Burg, who has jumped bail and disappeared. There turns out to be way more to Mo\u2019s story than meets the eye, as Stephanie finds out the hard way.\nIn Four to Score, Stephanie is after Maxine Nowicki, a waitress who has gone and got herself into a ton of trouble, and is on a mission for revenge. Another tale of crazy hi jinks, that will have you laughing, and shaking your head.\nSo I\u2019m off to the mall this weekend, Indigo has the \u201cBuy 3 get the 4th free\u201d sale on. I think I\u2019ll pick up Volumes 5 through 8. Can\u2019t wait!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 15974, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 247.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gadflyonthewallblog.com/2017/07/08/more-truth-in-teacher-written-education-blogs-than-corporate-media/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZN3LNQHT73XXBHBZRSRXMGIOLD5RPZBM", "length": 15688, "nlines": 102, "source_domain": "gadflyonthewallblog.com", "title": "More Truth in Teacher-Written Education Blogs Than Corporate Media | gadflyonthewallblog", "raw_content": "HomeMore Truth in Teacher-Written Education Blogs Than Corporate Media\nMore Truth in Teacher-Written Education Blogs Than Corporate Media\nJuly 8, 2017 stevenmsinger Accountability, bloggers, Campbell Brown, Charter Schools, Common Core, Competency Based Education, Corporate Education \"Reform\", Credibility, Education, Journalism, Politics, privatization, Propaganda, School Choice, school segregation, school vouchers, Schools, Standardized Testing, standards, Teach for America, Teachers, Value Added Measuresbias, bloggers, blogs, education, Education Bloggers Network, educators, Journalism, teachers, teaching, whistle blowers\nLet\u2019s get one thing straight right from the get go: I am biased.\nSo are the parents, students, principals and school directors. So are the policymakers, the corporate donors and professional journalists.\nEveryone involved in education policy is interested in one side or another of the debate. It\u2019s just that some pretend to practice a kind of objectivity while others are open about their partiality.\nIt\u2019s unavoidable. I\u2019m a public school teacher. Not merely someone who\u2019s taught in a public school for a few years \u2013 I\u2019m an educator with more than 15 years experience in the classroom. And I\u2019m still there.\nI\u2019m not a Teach for America recruit who committed myself to three years in front of children after a few weeks crash course. Where I am now was my goal in the first place. I\u2019m not doing this to get the credentials for my real dream job, being an education policy advisor for a Congressperson or Senator. Nor do I plan to become a Superintendent, Principal or school administrator someday.\nAll along, my goal was to have a classroom of my own where I could help children learn.\nMoreover, I\u2019m a public school parent. My daughter goes to the same public school my wife and I both attended as children. We could have sent her to a charter or private school. But we made the conscious choice not to, and we\u2019ve never regretted it.\nOur local district serves a mostly high poverty population. More than half of the students are minorities. The facilities aren\u2019t as up to date as you\u2019ll find in richer neighborhoods. Class sizes are too large. But we decided that being a part of the community school was important, and much of what my child has learned there simply isn\u2019t taught at schools where everyone is the same.\nSo when you read one of my blogs (even this one), it comes from a certain point of view. And I\u2019m okay with that. You should be, too.\nHowever, when you read an article in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times or Pittsburgh Tribune Review, there is a presumption of detachment and neutrality. But it\u2019s bogus.\nThose articles are written by human beings, too, and thus they are likewise biased.\nThe only difference is what exactly that bias is.\nMy preference is plain and on the surface. I am in favor of public schools over privatized ones. I support teachers over corporations making decisions about how to educate. I\u2019m an advocate for children and families.\nWhen you read an article in the mainstream media, you frankly have no idea which direction their inclinations swerve.\nHowever, you do know that money often plays a major role in their editorial spin.\nJournalism is a business. Perhaps it should be a public good. We used to look at it that way. We used to try to keep it separate from advertising. It didn\u2019t have to make a profit.\nBut that\u2019s all changed. Now it\u2019s expected to bring in money. It\u2019s expected to generate \u201cvalue\u201d for the corporation that owns it. However, we rarely stop to think how corrupting an influence that is.\nFor some people, my position as an educator discredits my knowledge of schools. Yet getting paid by huge testing corporations doesn\u2019t discredit journalists!?\nI speak here from experience, too. I used to be a professional journalist.\nBefore becoming a teacher, I worked full-time at various daily and weekly newspapers in Western Pennsylvania. I can tell you first hand that sometimes editors encouraged or physically rewrote articles to spin the story the way they wanted.\nI remember writing a story about a local tax collector seeking re-election. I didn\u2019t know him, personally, but I had heard several rumors about unsavory practices he had allegedly engaged in while employed in a different capacity as a public servant. So I did research and found that they were true. I had proof. I even confronted him, personally, with what I had found to give him a chance to explain.\nHowever, when I submitted the article, my editor had a conniption. Apparently, the tax collector had called the paper threatening to cause trouble. So the article was completely rewritten to downplay what I had discovered.\nNone of it mattered that much. It was just a local tax collector\u2019s race. Frankly, I can\u2019t even remember if he won re-election. But it was demonstrative of what happens in editorial departments.\nI\u2019ve seen businesses complain about news articles and threaten to withdraw advertising. I\u2019ve seen colorful, glossy info-packets sent to reporters seeking articles about subjects enticing them with the ease of approaching it from their point of view. I\u2019ve had editors assign me stories that I thought were non-issues and then they tweaked my finished product so it had the implications they intended from the get-go.\nIf that happens at the local level, imagine what happens at the biggest corporate offices.\nI\u2019m not saying that mainstream media is nothing but lies. I\u2019ll leave that claim for the President. But it IS biased. And as smart consumers of media, we need to be aware of it.\nWe need to be aware that corporate media is often going to take the side of big corporations. They\u2019re going to be in favor of standardized testing, Common Core, charter and voucher schools. They\u2019re going to talk up computer-based depersonalized learning. They\u2019re going to uncritically criticize those standing in the way of corporate profits \u2013 i.e. teachers.\nThis doesn\u2019t mean readers shouldn\u2019t trust education reporting from professional journalists. There are writers out there who are trying to present both sides of the issue without editorial meddling. There are reporters who understand the big picture and are trying to expose the truth. Moreover, they have resources that bloggers often don\u2019t \u2013 copy editors, fact checkers, knowledgeable and experienced colleagues in media, etc.\nHowever, they are frankly working with significant limitations that teacher bloggers don\u2019t have.\nWhen I want to know how public schools work, I can simply appeal to my first hand experience. When a reporter want to do that, she is often stymied by rules and regulations that keep people like them out.\nThey are rarely permitted inside our schools to see the day-to-day classroom experience. Legal issues about which students may be photographed, filmed or interviewed, the difficulty of getting parental permissions and the possibility of embarrassment to principals and administrators often keeps the doors closed. In many districts, teachers aren\u2019t even allowed to speak on the record to the media or doing so can make them a political target. So reporters are often in the position of being unable to directly experience the very thing they\u2019re reporting on.\nIf I read a book about baseball, I might know a lot of facts about the players. But that can\u2019t compare with someone who\u2019s actually been to the games, been on the field, even played in the World Series!\nAt the same time, education blogs aren\u2019t perfect either. For one, you have to be cognizant of who is writing them.\nYou\u2019re currently reading The Gadfly on the Wall Blog. But that\u2019s worlds different than reading the Education Gadfly. The latter site is owned and operated by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. This organization actually runs charter schools in Ohio. They spend millions of dollars spreading propaganda on charter authorization, school choice, standardized curriculum, digital learning, standards, testing, etc.\nI, on the other hand, am just a school teacher with a laptop. Education Gadfly has a paid staff. No one pays me a dime nor do I even sell advertisements.\nTo be fair, I operate on a free WordPress site and sometimes WordPress puts ads on my page. But I don\u2019t see any of that money. It\u2019s just the cost of having a free site. If I wanted to pay for it, I could get an ad-free site.\nAlso, once in a blue moon a Website that reposts my blog pays me a couple of bucks for the privilege. So maybe I\u2019ve ordered a pizza or two with money from the blog, but I certainly couldn\u2019t survive off the revenue from it. I would literally make more money working one week at WalMart than I\u2019ve ever pulled in from three years of education bloggery.\nThese are the reasons why teacher-written education blogs are superior to the competition.\nThey aren\u2019t beholden to corporate money or influence. They have first-hand experience of the subject.\nJournalists have a hard job and they deserve our respect. But they can\u2019t compare to the expertise of practicing educators.\nIf editors included our voices more, perhaps the mainstream media wouldn\u2019t be so skewed towards corporate interests.\nBut that\u2019s really the goal, in the first place.\n\u2190 Where Did All The Integrated Schools Go? Why Segregation is Still Bad\nThe Problem With Public Schools Isn\u2019t Low Test Scores. It\u2019s Strategic Disinvestment \u2192\n33 thoughts on \u201cMore Truth in Teacher-Written Education Blogs Than Corporate Media\u201d\nnyarteacherblog says:\nThe mainline media hasn\u2019t served the public interest for at least my whole life. They lied about Vietnam and then Iraq. They wouldn\u2019t report on torture, wiretapping or election fraud. The leaks showed the media colluding with the Hillary campaign and everyone knows Fox has been neocon propaganda for decades.\nWhen it comes to education, the media is well compensated to push reform or bury the news so thank god for the indie bloggers. But watch carefully that they don\u2019t come after net neutrality because the truth is making them look bad.\nListen to This #8 \u2013 Live Long and Prosper says:\n[\u2026] More Truth in Teacher-Written Education Blogs Than Corporate Media [\u2026]\ngfbrandenburg says:\nExcellent work as usual, Paul.\nhttps://gfbrandenburg.wordpress.com/2017/07/10/whos-biased-everybody-including-those-who-pretend-to-be-objective/\nThanks, GFBrandenburg, but my name is Steve.\nThe Problem With Public Schools Isn\u2019t Low Test Scores. It\u2019s Strategic Disinvestment | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] It\u2019s time our nation\u2019s journalists give up this old canard. [\u2026]\nEd News, Tuesday, July 11, 2017 | tigersteach says:\n[\u2026] Teacher-Written Blogs vs Corporate Media Steven Singer, on his GADFLYONETHEWALLBLOG, has a bone to pick with the corporate media. For various reasons, which he delineates, he doesn\u2019t believe they can fairly and [\u2026]\nMore Truth in Teacher-Written Education Blogs Than Corporate Media | IEA Voice says:\nCorporate media fails to help us understand what\u2019s going on in our lives - LiberalVoiceLiberalVoice \u2014 Your source for everything about liberals and progressives! \u2014 News and tweets about everything liberals and progressives says:\n[\u2026] This week, Steven wrote a great post titled \u201cMore Truth in Teacher-Written Education Blogs Than Corporate Media.\u201d [\u2026]\nCorporate media fails to help us understand what\u2019s going on in our lives \u2013 News Feed Center | The Internet At A Glance says:\n[\u2026] Singer describes similar experiences working for local papers in Western Pennsylvania. Every reporter will tell you the same thing. [\u2026]\nCorporate media fails to help us understand what\u2019s going on in our lives says:\nCorporate media fails to help us understand what\u2019s going on in our lives | Alt Left Press says:\nCorporate media fails to help us understand what\u2019s going on in our lives | Politically Brewed says:\nSteven Singer: Learn about Education by Reading Teacher-Written Blogs, Not Corporate Media | Diane Ravitch's blog says:\n[\u2026] Singer says that anyone in search of understanding education today should turn to teacher-written blogs, not the corporate media. The teachers know what they are talking about. The corporate media, with a few exceptions, recycles [\u2026]\nDale Lidicker says:\nSuperb job, Steve. You have an uncanny knack of speaking for all teachers.\nWhy do we read each others\u2019 writing? \u2013 Conundrums and Issues in Schools says:\n[\u2026] https://gadflyonthewallblog.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/more-truth-in-teacher-written-education-blogs-t… [\u2026]\nThe Problem With Public Schools Isn\u2019t Low Test Scores. It\u2019s Strategic Disinvestment. | Newsrust.com says:\nThe Problem With Public Schools Isn\u2019t Low Test Scores. It\u2019s Strategic Disinvestment. - News Project says:\nDear Teachers: Don\u2019t Be Good Soldiers For The EdTech Industry | C cLear says:\n[\u2026] are a lot of seemingly more pressing concerns than listening to a teacher-blogger jabber about the intersection of politics and our [\u2026]\n\u2018Schools of the Future\u2019 And Other Scams to Monetize Your Child | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] these privileged fools ever logged on to the blogosphere? The Internet is fit to bursting with teacher blogs overflowing with ideas about how to change thing\u2026. This very blog has been pushing authentic reform after authentic reform \u2013 but the powers that be [\u2026]\nI Was Blocked From Facebook for Criticizing School Privatization | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] That\u2019s the benefit of being a blogger. No one can stop you from telling the truth. [\u2026]\neducationrickshaw says:\nPublic School Teachers Are Absent Too Much, Says Charter School Think Tank | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] I know it\u2019s become trendy to defend the media when our lame-ass President attacks every factually-based report that puts him in a bad light as \u201cfake news.\u201d But the giant media conglomerates aren\u2019t doing themselves any favors with lazy reporting like this. [\u2026]\nKilling Net Neutrality Would Muzzle Many Teacher-Activists | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] would effectively stifle hundreds, thousands of grassroots activists who\u2019ve taken to the Web to educate and protest against the plutocracy strangling our democratic [\u2026]\nWhite Privilege, Public Schools and Ugly Christmas Sweaters | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] I won\u2019t say it happened recently or at my current district, but after teaching in the public school system for almost two decades, you see a lot that most people never hear about. [\u2026]\nPublic School Teachers Are Absent Too Much, Says Charter School Think Tank - Garn Press says:\nEconomists Don\u2019t Know Crap About Education | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] But shame on us for letting one field\u2019s myopia dominate the conversation. [\u2026]\nAbsurd Defense of Standardized Testing in Jacobin Magazine | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] It just goes to show you how little policymakers on both sides of the aisle understand education and how ignorant they can be when we don\u2019t force them to include the experts in the conversation. [\u2026]\nBurning Down the House at TEDxCCSU \u2013 Speaking Truth to Power with a BOOM! | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] There\u2019s a reason our society rarely hands teachers the microphone. [\u2026]\n[\u2026] So have pundits and media personalities on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC. So have CEOs and tech entrepreneurs and economist and anyone \u2013 really \u2013 whom our society seems to take seriously. [\u2026]\nNationwide Poll Shows Overwhelming Support for Public Schools in All Areas Except One | gadflyonthewallblog says:\n[\u2026] reason is simple. National perception is formed by the media. Local perception is formed by actual empirical [\u2026]\n[\u2026] School policy is created at several removes from the classroom. We rarely even ask workaday teachers for input less than allowing them to participate in the decision making process. [\u2026]\n[\u2026] I don\u2019t care what corporate journalists are being forced to report by their billionaire owners. [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 338, "original_length": 21998, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 288.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gadgets7.news/technology/smartphones/oneplus/oneplus-5t-confirms-to-be-launched-on-november-16-in-new-york-15038.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:57Z", "digest": "sha1:DFSWDFIU3KCACWJRIORC2GE7HGOZN5PH", "length": 1797, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "gadgets7.news", "title": "\ufeff OnePlus 5T Confirms to be Launched on November 16 in New York - Gadgets7", "raw_content": "OnePlus 5T Confirms to be Launched on November 16 in New York\nThe OnePlus 5T, Sales in North America and Europe starting on November 21. The OnePlus 5T will be available in China on December 1. In India, OnePlus 5T will be able to get their device through a flash sale on November 21.\nOnePlus just had confirmed that company would introduce its 5T smartphone in New York but did not mention the date and time. Now OnePlus has officially sent out a press invite for its upcoming launch event which will take place in New York City on November 16 at 11.0 AM ET.\nRecently a first press renders of the OnePlus 5T appeared which looks very similar to OPPO R11s. Recently OnePlus CEO Pete Lau hinted that the 5T will be priced under CNY 4,000 (approx $600) on Weibo.\nThe launch event will start on 11:00 a.m. ET and tickets will be available on company\u2019s Launch Page for $40 USD on November 8. The launch event will also be broadcasted live on its YouTube channel.\nThe OnePlus 5T, Sales in North America and Europe starting on November 21. The OnePlus 5T will be available in China on December 1. In India, OnePlus 5T will be able to get their device through a flash sale on November 21, while official sales start on November 28.\nAccording to previous reports, OnePlus 5T will come with similar dimensions as the OnePlus 5 and is not expected to have major upgrades from the OnePlus 5. The benchmark listing says that OnePlus 5T will come in two variants, 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, while the high-end version includes 8GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. It may run on OxygenOS based on Android 8.0 Oreo.\nRecently A GFXBench recent listing reveals that OnePlus 5T could have a 6.01-inch 2160\u00d71080 pixel resolution display with 18:9 aspect ratio and a 20-megapixel front camera lens.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 1895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 166.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://geekmotivation.live/2017/07/11/wonder-woman-2-set-in-the-cold-war/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:31Z", "digest": "sha1:PPJ5CXVXOXQEJIG6TUFKEZWLKNO7H66J", "length": 1814, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "geekmotivation.live", "title": "Wonder Woman 2 Set In The Cold War", "raw_content": "July 11, 2017 July 11, 2017 Christian QuilesLeave a Comment on Wonder Woman 2 Set In The Cold War\nWonder Woman 2 Set In The Cold War\nLess than two months has passed since its release (and a whopping $745.8 Million Worldwide), and fans are already anxious for details regarding the next Wonder Woman film. Not even director Patty Jenkins has confirmed to direct the sequel (officially, that is), but news arrived on what could be the Amazonian\u2019s next adventure.\n(Photo: Comicbook.com)\nScreen Rant has learned about production details regarding the sequel, and it looks like it will take place during the 1980s. In this time period, \u201cthe film will send Diana against the forces of Soviet Union in the closing days of the Cold War.\u201d It is also believed that the same production team of the first movie will remain for the sequel, and confirming that legendary writer Geoff Johns will develop the script. Meanwhile, Patty Jenkins is said to be negotiating her return with a new contract deal.\nSPOILER ALERT FROM THE FIRST FILM!\nThe most surprising information about this report is the return of none other than Captain Steve Trevor. Chris Pine is set to return for the sequel, but no information on what or why is he back (Winter Soldier-ish vibe, much?). Screen Rant believes that his return could be due to the immense popularity of the character and the wonderful (no pun intended) relationship between Steve and Diana. This makes sense since Patty Jenkins has stated she would like to take the Amazonian Warrior to America. As to how this would play out, either it be Steve\u2019s revival or his descendant, fans will have to wait.\nWonder Woman is currently playing in theaters.\nPrevious Marvel\u2019s New Warriors TV Cast Revealed \u2013 Including Fan Favorite Squirrel Girl!\nNext John Oliver\u2019s Role In The Live Action Lion King", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 6006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 293.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gemsny.org/past-seasons/2017-2018/71-midtown-concerts/past-seasons/midtown-2017-2018-season/356-september-14-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:55Z", "digest": "sha1:UZ5P5TXO2OFDPKRPCM4YCUUX4QHOHSGG", "length": 1267, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "gemsny.org", "title": "September 14, 2017 - Gold and Glitter - Gotham Early Music Scene, Inc.", "raw_content": "September 14, 2017 - Gold and Glitter\nAmong the most prolific composers of the first half of the 18th century, Georg Philipp Telemann contributed to the development of all pre-Classical styles in Germany, including operas, cantatas, masses, Passions, orchestral and chamber music. To commemorate the 250th anniversary of Telemann's death, the ensemble Gold and Glitter will perform two of his Paris Quartets.\nFrom the canals of Venice and music salons in German courts to the bright candlelit halls of Versailles, the early music ensemble Gold and Glitter shines a new light on 17th- and 18th-century masterpieces of the Baroque era. Their aim, through great attention to detail and emphasizing historical performance practices, is to perform this music with flair, virtuosity, and passion in order to understand the composers\u2019 intentions and make audiences love this music as much as they do. The four members of the ensemble, all with different backgrounds, studied in Europe and the US and now perform and teach all over the world. Their love and respect for this music brought them together in this great exploration of music from Bach\u2019s time and before. www.danielslee.com\nSang Joon Park, Baroque flute\nDaniel Lee, Baroque violin\nMartha McGaughey, Viola da gamba", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2217, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 172.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://genery.com/wiki/en:file_gedcom", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:50Z", "digest": "sha1:QXYVQNZT5SPSWG2MXZAKCKG4WCLKQF7G", "length": 818, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "genery.com", "title": "Agelong Tree", "raw_content": "You can export your family tree to Gedcom file, see the menu All actions \u2013 File \u2013 Export:\nThe data is exported taking into account the active filters of the Persons table, that is, only persons present in the Persons table and all objects associated with them are recorded in the Gedcom file. 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In this case, in the Gedcom file, the paths to the photos will be recorded relative to this folder, and the resulting Gedcom file and photo folder can be transferred to another computer to import the data into another program.\nen/file_gedcom.txt \u00b7 Last modified: 2018/04/23 10:16 by genery", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 2178, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 308.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://getthat.com/property/rent/retail/umm-al-quwain", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:19Z", "digest": "sha1:5CUQ2T42QV2L5GL6FXSCZZ52Q25EHSLJ", "length": 32, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "getthat.com", "title": "Retail for Rent in Umm Al Quwain - getthat.com", "raw_content": "Retail for Rent in Umm Al Quwain", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 748, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 229.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gettingthedealthrough.com/people/133558/esteban-aguero-guier/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:38Z", "digest": "sha1:4IA4YGRM2IOZKOO5FEYNZR64V43SNXKJ", "length": 1045, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "gettingthedealthrough.com", "title": "Esteban Ag\u00fcero Guier \u2013 Getting The Deal Through \u2013 GTDT", "raw_content": "Esteban Ag\u00fcero Guier\nEsteban Ag\u00fcero is a Partner in the Central American Law Firm Aguilar Castillo Love. His practice focuses in Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions, International Trade and Dispute Resolution. He obtained his JD Degree from the University of Costa Rica and an LLM degree from Georgetown University and a Post Graduate Certificate from the University of Barcelona. He is admitted to practice law in Costa Rica and New York. He has been involved in some of the most important M&A transactions in Costa Rica and Central America, including the acquisition of an iconic chocolate factory in Costa Rica, the acquisition of an important beverages factory, the acquisition of a medical devices exporting factory, and several different telecommunications regional transactions, among others. Mr. Ag\u00fcero is ranked in Chambers and Partners, the Legal 500, Who\u00b4s who legal, and other important international legal directories that recognize him as one of the leading lawyers of Central America.\nAuthor of Costa Rica for Private M&A 2019", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 111.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://globalpossibilities.org/is-resilience-the-new-sustainababble/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:13Z", "digest": "sha1:6CAAAGJOMNQVCX756DGPHIALPFYE6IUV", "length": 4810, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "globalpossibilities.org", "title": "Is \u201cresilience\u201d the new sustainababble? | \"Global Possibilities\"", "raw_content": "Home \u00bb Sustainablity \u00bb Is \u201cresilience\u201d the new sustainababble?\nIs \u201cresilience\u201d the new sustainababble?\nbuy (default)], online [https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gardeningfriends.jpg?w=480&h=270&crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 1px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5))], [https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gardeningfriends.jpg?w=640&h=360&crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 321px))], [https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gardeningfriends.jpg?w=960&h=540&crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 321px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5))], [https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gardeningfriends.jpg?w=1024&h=576&crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 641px))], [https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/gardeningfriends.jpg?w=1500&h=844&crop=1, (only screen and (min-width: 641px) and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5))]\u201d />\nBy Laurie Mazur and Denise Fairchild GRIST\nSuddenly, \u201cresilience\u201d is everywhere. It\u2019s the subject of serious books and breezy news articles, of high-minded initiatives and of many, many conferences. After Superstorm Sandy, it was triumphantly plastered on city buses, declaring New Jersey \u201cA State of Resilience.\u201d\nWhat\u2019s going on? Does all this talk about resilience mean that we\u2019ve basically given up on averting climate change and other environmental catastrophes \u2014 and that our only hope is to roll with the punches? Have we leapfrogged over denial, anger, and bargaining, landing squarely in acceptance?\nNot necessarily. Resilience, like sustainability before it, is an idea with potentially transformative power. Resilience is all about our capacity to survive and thrive in the face of disruptions of all kinds. If we were to take resilience seriously (highly recommended in our increasingly disruption-prone world), we would make some far-reaching changes in how we live.\nA truly resilient city would look very different from those we now inhabit \u2014 in ways that would make Grist readers proud. For example, our resilient city would:\nRely on distributed, renewable energy, rather than on the ridiculously vulnerable centralized grid \u2014 so that a disruption in one area doesn\u2019t mean lights out for everyone.\nSupport diversified local agriculture, so that when supply chains are cut off, we can continue to eat.\nFoster social equity and inclusion, so that the greatest risks are not dumped on the most vulnerable communities.\nReduce greenhouse gas emissions, because the worst projected impacts of climate change are simply more than we can adapt to.\nOr at least that\u2019s what resilience should mean. But right now, the meaning is up for grabs. And it seems that resilience might be following the same trajectory as \u201csustainability.\u201d That concept shaped the thinking of a generation of enviros, and laid the foundation for real improvements in energy efficiency, recycling, and more. But it has also been co-opted to cover up distinctly unsustainable practices, mutating into what Bob Engelman of the Worldwatch Institute calls \u201csustainababble.\u201d After all, it is more profitable to pretend to be sustainable than to actually be so.\nNow the co-opters are hard at work on \u201cresilience.\u201d For example, the pollutocrat-friendly American Enterprise Institute, which opposes efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promotes instead what it calls the \u201cresilience option\u201d for climate change. (In essence: Deal with it.)\nAside from out-and-out co-optation, there is a danger that resilience will be defined too narrowly, and deprived of its power to transform. Too often, resilience is simply seen as bouncing back after disaster (let\u2019s build bigger beach houses on the Jersey shore!) or as protecting the status quo (the Stafford Act, which funds federal disaster response, requires that everything be built back exactly as it was before).\nYou could say that \u201csustainability\u201d was hollowed out by co-optation, but also by a failure of imagination. We enviros haven\u2019t really mounted a challenge to an economic system based on growth and profit at all costs, and we have missed opportunities to join forces with others challenging that system. If \u201cresilience\u201d is just about making that system stronger, it, too, will ring hollow.\nSo, is resilience the new sustainababble? It doesn\u2019t have to be. The need for resilience could jump-start significant changes in our built environment, our relationship with the natural world, and our relationships with one other. But to seize that opportunity, we need to get real about what resilience is \u2014 and what it isn\u2019t.\nThis is the first in a series of posts where we hope to do just that. We will lay out some truly transformative thinking about resilience, from a diverse group of ecologists, activists, urban planners, and others \u2014 including Grist readers. Stay tuned.\nfederal disaster response\nstafford act", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 165, "original_length": 7708, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 279.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gmhl.net/article.php?article_id=57299", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:38Z", "digest": "sha1:6IWNUQZY2WOWTXSKT2PSVQKFZ4PHHLJ5", "length": 6066, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "gmhl.net", "title": "Article :: Greater Metro Jr. A Hockey League", "raw_content": "February 6th, 2019 at 11:15AM February 7th, 2019 3:47AM\nJohan Lundskog (Middle), holding the European Trophy.\nGothenburg, Sweden- Last night, Red Bull M\u00fcnchen (DEL) took on Frolunda HC (SHL) in the Champions Hockey League Finals. Frolunda HC would go on to win 3-1, winning their third European Trophy. Frolunda HC has won the European Trophy the most times in Champions Hockey League history, winning it three times in 2016, 2017, and now 2019. Amongst the coaching staff for the 2017 and 2019 years has been former GM/Head Coach of the Bradford Rattlers, Johan Lundskog.\nJohan began his career as a player, playing for the Toronto Rattlers, which at the time was an independent touring team that went around and played different teams, including top end NCAA DI schools such as Mercyhurst University and Harvard University. Johan played for the Rattlers for three seasons between 2003-2006, as a left-handed defenceman. He was known for having an edge, as well as having an offensive touch, and in the 2005-2006 season he posted 10 Goals 22 Assists for 32 Points in 32 Games Played, while acquiring 212 Penalties in Minutes. The following year, Johan received the opportunity to try out in the ECHL, however, never ended up signing for any team.\nIn 2006-2007, the GMHL was founded. The Bradford Rattlers were one of the seven original GMHL teams. Johan became the Assistant Coach for the Bradford Rattlers in 2006-2007, thus beginning his coaching career. The Rattlers became the first GMHL Champions in history going 37-1-4 in the regular season and then going on to win the Russell Cup. They continued their dominance going into the 2007-2008 season, going 37-4-1 and winning the Russell Cup back-to-back. The Rattlers are still the only team in the history of the GMHL to win the Russell Cup back-to-back. The Rattlers then saw a slight decline following their two Russell Cups, and while making it to the Semi-Finals in the next few seasons, they weren\u2019t quite as dominant as they had been in their first two years.\nIn 2009-2010, the Rattlers saw a change behind the bench, and Johan was promoted to Head Coach of the team. The Rattlers still couldn\u2019t find their way past the Semi-Finals though, losing in the Semis in 2010, 2011, and 2012. After the 2011-2012 season, it was announced that Rattlers General Manager, Todd Miller, would be leaving to join the Barrie Colts as their Assistant Coach. The Rattlers then promoted Johan to General Manager and Head Coach going into the 2012-2013 season. Johan was eager to push the Rattlers over the hump this season and began to build a championship caliber team. The result was the most legendary season in GMHL history. Johan\u2019s team would go on to have a perfect season, with a record of 42-0-0 in the regular season. Only three teams in the history of junior hockey have recorded a perfect season. The Rattlers would then go on to win their third Russell Cup Championship, which is the most won by a single franchise. Following up a year like that is tough, by any means, however, Johan refused to have a hangover year, and tried to build a team that would make a repeat. Although the Rattlers performance in the 2013-2014 regular season was nowhere near the level it was the year before (30-8-4), the Rattlers managed to find themselves back in the Russell Cup Finals for a second year in a row. Unfortunately, they were prevented from a back-to-back Russell Cup, losing the series 4-1 to the Bradford Bulls. In his time with the Bradford Rattlers, Johan had a record of 271-45-21, appearing in the All-Star Game as Coach (2011-2012), winning Coach of the Year (2012-2013), and winning three Russell Cups (2007, 2008, 2013). He is certainly the most decorated coach in Rattlers history and maybe even GMHL history.\nThe following season, Johan decided to move on from the GMHL, joining IK Oskarshamn in Allsvenskan, the second tier professional league in Sweden. The team would go on to have a good season, finishing the year with a 22-21-9 record. After the 2014-2015 season, when Johan\u2019s contract expired with IK Oskarshamn, he joined former Rattlers Coach Al Sims (2013-2014) in the ECHL with the Evansville Icemen. Johan enjoyed his season with the Icemen, and with Al Sims, however, his family had remained in Sweden, and he was looking to return to the hockey world there.\nIn 2016-2017, after jumping around the past couple of seasons, Johan finally found a home, and was hired as the Assistant Coach for Frolunda HC, one of the most successful teams in the SHL, the top professional league in Sweden. Johan immediately found success at Frolunda HC, and they went on to win the European Trophy in the Champions Hockey League that season. The following year, in 2017-2018, while Frolunda had a bit of a quiet season by their standards, Johan had the pleasure of being the defensive coach for Rasmus Dahlin, who was the top NHL prospect, and went on to be drafted first overall in the NHL by the Buffalo Sabres. The following summer, Johan was invited by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL to be a guest coach at their 2018 Development Camp. The success continued for Johan and Frolunda HC this season, when last night Frolunda HC beat Red Bull M\u00fcnchen 3-1 to win his second European Trophy and Frolunda HC\u2019s third.\nOverall, Johan\u2019s coaching career has been one filled with success, with three Russell Cup Championships at the junior level, and two European Trophies at the professional level. The GMHL is proud to have had Johan as a GM/Head Coach in our league, and we are proud to see that he is having continued success at the professional level. We wish Johan continued success in the future, and we want to congratulate him on his second European Trophy.\n*Updated 02/06/2019, 10:44 PM: This updated version fixes a mistake made in the previous version. The coaching staff at IK Oskarshamn was not fired and Johan was not made interim Head Coach in the 2014-2015 season. He finished the season with the team as Assistant Coach, when his contract expired he moved on to the ECHL for the 2015-2016 season.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 109, "original_length": 9569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 97.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gndr335fall2011.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/519/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:40Z", "digest": "sha1:YCHXYVGNGOC7PQD3UEBVCTZUSIYN3WMC", "length": 2095, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "gndr335fall2011.wordpress.com", "title": "Disheartening Reality | Explaining Sex and Gender Differences", "raw_content": "\u00ab Faulty Gaydar\nA Billion Wicked Thoughts (of People with Internet Access) \u00bb\nDisheartening Reality\nThe more Eric Sawyer spoke about his challenges of being a gay man in a time period when that lifestyle was particularly frowned upon, the more I felt for his particular situation. I was so surprised at the amount of opposition he faced when advocating for the rights of individuals who were HIV/AIDS positive and the blatant disregard of his advocacy by the US government. I was also marveled by the fact that he conquered so much, even in the face of this opposition. Sawyer started his own advocacy group, ACT UP, which has made strides in gaining support in fighting the AIDS crisis and started a housing program for homeless people fighting AIDS. Seeing as how the government or President Reagan did not even mention the term \u201cAIDS\u201d until the last year of his presidency, it is so surprising to me that Sawyer and his colleagues were even able to get their programs off of the ground.\nIn addition, the 1970s were not a great time for the understanding of the effects of certain diseases (particularly AIDS) on the human population. Public health seemed to be a foreign concept to some agencies, seeing as how their solution for housing homeless AIDS patients was to put them up with patients suffering from Tuberculosis. Today, as we now know that AIDS is an immuno-deficiency virus, we can conclude that housing them with a TB patient would almost surely result in certain death. However, some argue that this was the goal of government officials, to weed out those with AIDS by infecting them with other life-threatening diseases. This mirrors other \u201cgenocide-type\u201d practices, but people didn\u2019t notice because it was happening behind closed doors. The fact that the US government was ostracizing a certain group of people as recently as 50 years ago is very unsettling. One thinks of these practices as happening to an ignorant, uninformed societies in far off places when it has in fact happened here on our very own soil.\nTags ACT UP, Eric Sawyer, HIV/AIDS\nCategories LGBT, Uncategorized", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 50, "original_length": 4563, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 241.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gordoncstewart.com/category/death-and-dying/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:49Z", "digest": "sha1:UT2ZJNKRVUWEJ5MROYCXV5IZYF6MCXGI", "length": 25210, "nlines": 70, "source_domain": "gordoncstewart.com", "title": "Death and dying | Views from the Edge", "raw_content": "The Straw that Breaks the Camel\u2019s Back\nIt\u2019s a familiar idiom from the old proverb that \u201cit\u2019s the last straw that breaks the camel\u2019s back.\u201d\nThe last straw is not the only straw. It\u2019s the seemingly insignificant weight added to all the accumulation of straws. Wikipedia describes it as \u201cthe seemingly minor or routine action that causes an unpredictably large and sudden reaction, because of the cumulative effect of small actions. This gives rise to the phrase \u2018the last straw\u2019 or \u2018the final straw\u2019, meaning the last in a line of unacceptable occurrences, provoking a seemingly sudden strong reaction.\u201d\nThe American public is deeply divided. Though the number of straws placed on the president\u2019s back increased daily with the straws of guilty pleas and convictions of his inner circle, his support remains strong among his base. The president can do no wrong. He can lie. He can cheat. He can slam the press. He can belittle the disabled. He can blame \u2018the deep state\u2019. He can paint himself as a victim. But, then, something happens. One more straw appears that draws a gasp. Even on FOXNews, as in Brit Hume tweet yesterday, \u201cStill not a kind word about McCain himself.\u201d\nWhatever one\u2019s political leanings, people have learned that you respect the dead. You don\u2019t speak ill of the dead. However much you may not have liked the deceased, common decency demands something different.\nPresident Donald Trump listens to a question during a town hall with business leaders in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Tuesday, April 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)\nThis morning the Washington Post reports that an official White House tribute prepared in advance of John McCain\u2019s expected death, was squelched by the president. In its place the president issued the insensitive tweet that may be the straw that breaks the camel\u2019s back.\nNo matter what other news the president creates this week, John McCain\u2019s casket in the capitol rotunda and the funeral to which the president has been disinvited will dominate the news irrespective of any particular medium\u2019s political bent. John McCain, the POW whom the Donald Trump viewed as a loser, the former Republican Party candidate for president, will lie in state with nothing more than a disrespectful tweet from the President and Commander-in-Chief.\nSome things are deeper than politics. Some things we can all understand. Some things \u2014 like the violation of the most basic civil code most Americans understand \u2014 have a way of provoking a seemingly sudden reaction.\nPosted in America, Death and dying, Life, Politics, Social Commentary, Uncategorized\t| Tagged Donald Trump, John McCain, provoking a seemingly sudden reaction, the straw that broke the camel's back\t| 9 Replies\nA Profile in Cowardice\nNews of Senator John McCain\u2019s death highlights the contrast between John McCain and Donald Trump, who belittled McCain\u2019s service, never mentioned his name at the recent announcement of the defense bill that bears McCain\u2019s name, and sent a terse condolence to the McCain family on the occasion of his death:\nThe \u2018respect\u2019 was for the family, not for the Senator, one more back-handed slap at the now deceased senator. What kind of person expresses \u2018respect\u2019 for a grieving family?\nPresident Trump\u2019s disrespectful tweet calls to mind President Kennedy\u2019s autobiography, Profiles in Courage. Whatever one thought of JFK\u2019s claim of war heroism, and whether or not one supported John McCain\u2019s politics and candidacies for president, the chasm between the two men of courage and Donald J. Trump is unfathomable. But fathom it we must.\nCan you imagine John McCain announcing his decision to fire a staff member with a tweet without a face-to-face meeting? Announcing a firing in a tweet, as Trump has done repeatedly, violates the most basic moral norms of common decency. Firing someone in cyberspace without meeting eyeball-to-eyeball in real space and time is not only insensitive. It is everything John McCain was not; it is cowardly.\nSenator John McCain was no fan of Donald Trump and Donald Trump was no fan of John McCain. The late Senator criticized Mr. Trump openly on matters of public policy; the president impugned McCain\u2019s character as a loser. Big difference.\nBefore his death, Senator McCain requested that President Trump not attend his funeral and asked that Mr. Trump\u2019s predecessors, Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush deliver the eulogies. Click this link for more information.\nPresident Obama\u2019s condolences to the McCain family include the following tribute to Senator McCain:\n[W]e shared, for all our differences, a fidelity to something higher \u2014 the ideals for which generations of Americans and immigrants alike have fought, marched, and sacrificed.\nFew of us have been tested the way John once was, or required to show the kind of courage that he did. But all of us can aspire to the courage to put the greater good above our own. At John\u2019s best, he showed us what that means. And for that, we are all in his debt.\nThe American people salute John McCain\u2019s honest character, and his courageous service to his country before and after he endured five years as a POW. The late senator leaves office as a winner.\nPhoto of newly elected members of Congress.\nMeanwhile, the president who disrespected him remains in the White House until Congress fires him face-to-face, and Presidential historian Michael Beschloss publishes the biography of Donald J. Trump, A Profile in Cowardice: High Crimes and Misdemeanors.\nPosted in America, Death and dying, democracy, Life, Politics, Uncategorized\t| Tagged A Profile in Cowardice, barack obama, Donald Trump, John McCain, McCain funeral, President Trump, Profiles in Courage, Senator John McCain\t| 2 Replies\nNo one owns a woodpecker!\nIt was only a matter of time. Its girth was huge \u2014 much too big to get our arms around. Its top had fallen off. What remained was filled with gaping holes, but still standing at the southwest edge of the land with the cabin by the wetland.\nThe tree had stood here decades before we imagined ourselves to be its owners last August. We paid good money to buy the property, including the naked tree that had not yet fallen. It was only a matter of time before it fell. It concerned us that it would topple on someone playing on the back of the yard \u2014 Barclay, the canine member of the family, one of the grandchildren, or the grounds-keeper who comes by every three weeks \u2014 but not enough to take it down. It continued to stand there with a still attached heavy limb causing it to lean slightly toward he east. It would fall of its own weight or by a lightning strike in due time.\nTom, the Mennonite grounds-keeper, found the upper parts of the dead tree on the lawn last week while we were away. Its five-feet girth logs now serve as a barrier between the woods and the open space where the cabin sits. There\u2019s no one left to remember how old the tree was, and what remains of it is too rotten to identify the rings. But the fallen tree that once fed the pileated woodpeckers continues to serve the community as a grocery for ground-feeding birds and other animals that feast on the termites and carpenter ants that once drew the woodpeckers.\nProperty is only a matter of time. No one owns a woodpecker. No one owns an insect!\nGordon C. Stewart on the wetland, August 16, 2018.\nPosted in Death and dying, Life, nature, Spirituality, Uncategorized\t| Tagged a matter of time, no now owns an insect, no-one owns a woodpecker, property, tree, woodpeckers\t| 2 Replies\nGood Friday Kind of Grief\nGood Friday is not a happy day. It\u2019s a day to stand at the abyss of hopelessness and to turn what Otis Moss III and his father Otis Moss, Jr. call \u201cpathetic grief\u201d into \u201cprophetic grief\u201d that lifts up others.\nGood Friday is a day for heart-felt reflection. A day to stop talking. A day to listen carefully to the Gospel readings and the Requiems of Gabriel Faur\u00e9 or Maurice Durufl\u00e9. A day to let the tears well up in us. A day to stop pretending. A day to experience afresh the pathetic grief that links us with all the world until is becomes the prophetic grief that turns the world right-side up.\nI wish you a meaningful Good Friday.\nGordon C. Stewart, Chaska, MN, Good Friday, March 30, 2018.\nPosted in Death and dying, Faith, Religion, Sermons, Spirituality\t| Tagged Good Friday, Otis Moss, prophetic grief\t| 1 Reply\nINTRODUCTION: There\u2019s nothing like an old friend when you have nothing worth saying, as though you ever really do, and are focused on getting back to writing a novel instead of your blog. One such old friend is the Rev. John M. Miller, or \u201cthe Least Reverent John Miller,\u201d as I call him, whose sermon from The Chapel Without Walls arrived by email this morning. John remembers a Pickles comic strip. I think of George Burns.\nFOR OLDER AMERICANS WHO ARE GETTING OLDER\nText \u2013 \u201cFor everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die.\u201d \u2013 Ecclesiastes 3:1-2 (RSV)\nThis sermon has taken many years to germinate. In one sense, it has taken almost seventy-nine years for it to come to full fruition. Thus the first reason for preaching this sermon is that the preacher himself is an older American who increasingly realizes he is getting older. The other reason which prompts this sermon is that Lois and I have lived in a retirement home for almost three years. That has given me the opportunity to have observed more than three hundred other older people getting older. That leads someone such as I to reflect on what all that means.\nHilton Head Island has a much older average population than the average American community. That has been true for at least the past fifty or sixty years. Over time we had three large retirement homes built here, plus several other smaller facilities of various types for various older people. The Seabrook, where we live, has 225 residents. Of those people, a hundred are ninety or older. We even have eight centenarians, people who are a hundred years of age or more.\nAmericans are getting older. Of course everybody is getting older, even newborns. However, by means of advancements in medical care, nutrition, and physical activity, many millions of Americans are going to make it into old age, whether they like it or not. Are we thinking about that? Are we consciously and conscientiously preparing for it? Or shall we just let it happen, come what may, with little or no thought given to it and what it might portend?\nA member of The Chapel Without Walls sent me an email piece which he received as an email from someone else who no doubt received it as an email. It is called Ramblings of a tired mind. Among other things, it said these things: \u201cI was thinking about old age and decided that old age is when you still have something on the ball, but you are just too tired to bounce it\u2026.The older you get the tougher it is to lose weight because by then your body and your fat have become really good friends\u2026.Aging: Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.\u201d\nBut what happens if you realize you are old and you\u2019re not bragging about it, or you fear it, or you wonder what is going to happen to you because of it? What if you\u2019re older and not feeling well, and you think you are probably going to feel worse and worse, or you are fairly certain you\u2019re going to run out of money because you lived too long and you see no way out of that heretofore unforeseen eventuality? Old age isn\u2019t for sissies, they say, but must it be a severe trial for everyone who makes it into old age? For everyone, no, but for many, sadly, yes.\nWhen I was young, I didn\u2019t like the Book of Ecclesiastes. I thought the writer, who is variously known as Ecclesiastes, Koheleth, or The Preacher, was too skeptical and cynical and sour. Now that I\u2019m old I am more positively drawn to the unquestionably older person who wrote Ecclesiastes than to any other writer in the entire Bible. I suggest all of you take an hour or two this week to read this short book, and then ponder it and ruminate upon it. It is directed especially to older people who are getting older, and it has multitudes of golden nuggets for golden-agers. I\u2019m serious. Read Ecclesiastes. Throughout this sermon I will use isolated quotes from Ecclesiastes. I won\u2019t identify them as such, but if you listen closely, you\u2019ll recognize them when you hear them, because you heard two readings earlier from this outstanding book.\nI have said this before in several different ways, but I want to say it again: God does not determine when or how or why anyone dies. In my opinion, it is a serious mistake for anyone to believe God determines those things, because it can turn people into puppets or doormats. \u201cNature,\u201d terminal illness, or longevity may terminate our lives, or we ourselves may do that, but it is never God who settles when anyone dies. Young or old, we die when we die. There is no explaining when or how or why it happens, other than medically or forensically. Theology can\u2019t unveil why death happens when it happens. We die when we die, and faith cannot explain why.\nThat having been said, it behooves all of us, particularly as we get not only older but actually old, to contemplate everything we need to do to prepare for death. This may sound morbid, but what is really morbid is not to prepare for death by merely waiting passively for death to negate our existence. When we are living is the only time we have to prepare for death.\nSo what do we need to do? We need to have a written will, and a living will, and a medical power of attorney, whereby we designate someone to make medical decisions for us if we are physically and/or mentally incapable of expressing our own wishes for ourselves. We need to make sure somebody knows where all our important papers are, and to have access to them if they are under lock and key. We should establish a legal power of attorney for someone we trust who can handle our financial affairs if we are unable to handle them ourselves. We need to let our spouse or children or other relatives or attorney or somebody know what our wishes are concerning some sort of official recognition of our life soon after we have died.\nI\u2019m going to give you an opinion about which I have thought a great deal, probably more than most people. In my vocation, one is thrust into thinking about these things more than most other people. My advice? Please don\u2019t tell your children or your lawyer that you don\u2019t want any kind of service after you die. That is unfair to those who have known you and loved you, even if you are an irascible or ornery old coot, which of course no one here is. Everyone is a child of God, and as such, other children of God should be granted the opportunity and privilege to acknowledge and give thanks for the life of everyone who dies. Those who know they are going to die may not want a service, but a memorial service or celebration of life is for those who have lost the one who has died, and not for the deceased. Everyone dies, and everyone else should have the option of giving thanks to God for that person\u2019s life when anyone dies. In my long-considered opinion, it is unseemly for a dying individual to prevent others from joining into a celebration of that person\u2019s life, and also in a witness to the resurrection for those who are Christians.\nHalf a century in the ministry has convinced me that sadly, many people live too long. Most such people are not happy about that situation, but slowly or rather suddenly, there they are. For many oldsters, their quality of life declines into oblivion. It is my three years in a retirement home that have alerted me as nothing else could to the heart-wrenching reality of how relatively quickly too many Americans discover themselves to be living too long. Laws, customs, and faulty theology all contribute to their dilemma. The long-running British comedy on PBS called Waiting for God accurately describes this sober circumstance in a humorous but also telling manner.\nLast Monday evening Turner Classic Movies showed a bittersweet film called Whales in August. It was about some elderly people on the Maine coast, and it starred Betty Davis in her final role, Lillian Gish, Ann Southern, Vincent Price and a couple of other loveable, colorful geezers. In the movie, Betty Davis and Lillian Gish play elderly sisters. The sister who is nearly blind says to her more positive and able-bodied sibling, \u201cWe have outlived our lives.\u201d That was an honest, but sober, statement. We have outlived our lives. \u201cSo I hated life, because what is done under the sun is grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind\u201d \u2013 Ecclesiastes 2:17).\nOutliving one\u2019s life in advanced age is a circumstance no one would ever choose. Nonetheless it is a situation confronted by increasing numbers of older people. Where once they were hale and hearty, now they are frail and weak. Where once their funds were sufficient, now they wonder which shall give out first, their money or them. Is it wise or prudent \u2014 or ethical \u2014 to run out of money in old age? In any event, can it always be avoided? \u201cIn the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; God has made the one as well as the other, so that man will not find out anything that will be after him\u201d Ecc. 7:14).\nCountless older people have told me that wherever they are living is the last place in which they shall live. They say they are too old for another move. Don\u2019t count on it. Circumstances may force older people to move to a nursing home or to be closer to children in other quarters or in a nursing home there. We like to think we are in control of our lives, but we may not be.\nThus far society has not made sufficient preparations for the legions of oldsters who are confronting the viability of the American health system. Social Security, pensions, and 401Ks cannot handle the costs of maintaining everyone who needs to be maintained. Here is an extremely sober and sobering question: Is it valid for any of us, if we are very old and sick, to keep on living? Voluntary, not mandatory answers to that question are the only valid ones.\nIllness of any sort becomes a growing concern for older people. Dementia is a far greater concern. The older we get, the more likely we are to be afflicted with Alzheimer\u2019s disease or some other form of dementia. Dementia requires more care than almost any other form of illness. If one spouse in a marriage begins to lose memory, demands inevitably shall increase for the other spouse who is still doing relatively well. Both can only try to make the best of it.\nA few days ago I saw my longest-term close friend on the island. I hadn\u2019t seen him for a couple of years. I was astonished at how much he had aged in that time. He has lost weight and is stooped and uncertain in his gait. His wife has had dementia for perhaps eight to ten years, and he is at the point where he simply is no longer able to give her the care she needs, but he has not found a suitable and affordable memory care facility for her. And so they both toddle along into a darker and ever more uncertain future. \u201cSorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of countenance the heart is made glad\u201d (Ecc. 7:3) Was Koheleth correct when he wrote that?\nOne of my favorite comic strips is Pickles. It features flinty Earl, his wife Gladys, and their grandson Nelson. Earl and Gladys look to be in their seventies, and Nelson is about six or seven. Last Monday Earl was in the kitchen with his hand on his chin. Gladys asked him what he was doing there. \u201cI came here to get something,\u201d he said. \u201cTo get what?\u201d she asked. \u201cI don\u2019t know. It slipped my mind. But I\u2019m not leaving until it comes to me!\u201d Exasperated, Gladys disappears. Earl looks after her, saying, \u201cHow about bringing me a chair?\u201d On Tuesday he was still in the kitchen, trying to remember why he came there. She offered him a cookie while he waited. \u201cNow I know why I came here!\u201d he said, happy that the mystery of his muddled memory had been solved.\nIt is wise for older people to do what they can while they can still do it. Take trips. Go on cruises. See relatives, or have relatives come to see you. Visit friends. Go to the movies. Walk. Play games, especially \u201cthoughty\u201d games like bridge. Have fun. Enjoy life. \u201cI have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with. He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man\u2019s mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end\u201d Ecc. 3:10-11). Life becomes more of a mystery in old age.\nOn the cover of the bulletin today is a quote from an article wisely entitled Old, frail, called by God (Christian Century July 17, 2017. It was written by Joyce Ann Mercer, who teaches pastoral theology at Yale Divinity School. The author quoted the psychologist Erik Erikson. \u201cOld age in one\u2019s eighties and nineties brings with it new demands, revelations, and daily difficulties.\u201d He said it is the time of the struggle between integrity and what he ruefully identified as \u201cdespair and disgust.\u201d He went on, \u201cLoss of capacities and disintegration may demand almost all of one\u2019s attention. One\u2019s focus may become thoroughly circumscribed by concerns of daily functioning so that it is enough just to get through a day intact, however satisfied or dissatisfied one feels about one\u2019s previous life history.\u201d To me, Erik Erikson sounds a lot like Ecclesiastes, Koheleth, the Preacher.\nCommenting on this, Dr. Mercer writes, \u201cPerhaps at no other time\u2026does the body occupy such a premier place in defining the contours of life\u2026.The heightened body consciousness of older adulthood critiques the cultural overvaluing of independence and autonomy.\u201d How true that is! Why should anybody imagine, as we get older, that we should be physically able to do all the things we could do when we younger? Can a fifty-year-old Triumph sports car still do 140 miles per hour for four hours? Can a century-old clock still keep perfect time? Why do we think we can do what we always did? Why do younger people expect us to do more than we can do?\nJoyce Ann Mercer ended her article with these words: \u201cGod\u2019s call in older adulthood sometimes takes place in a receptive-dependent mode, a vocation of forming others in faith by evoking in them the practices, habits, and dispositions of faithful people\u2026.God\u2019s call for older adults to receive care from others is also a call to experience the care and presence of God.\u201d Or, as Koheleth put it, \u201cThat which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away\u201d (Ecclesiastes 3:15).\nIt has often been said that in old age people are \u201ccramming for their finals.\u201d That phrase is meant to be humorous, but it is also very serious. Many who are older feel closer to God. If that is true, we should make the most of it. Cram away! Carpe diem; Seize the day! If you didn\u2019t do it before, do it now; get as close to God as you can, because God is getting ever closer to you.\nSome of you have met my wife\u2019s sister, Millie Ruhl. Millie has been visiting us for the past three weeks. In December, she will moving into The Seabrook. Lois has the second-best memory of anyone I have ever known, but Millie is the unquestionable Number One Rememberer.\nWhen Loie and her two sisters were in grade school, their parents were the counselors for three summers at the Nottingham Camp in northern Maryland, near the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. It was a very fine camp which attracted girls and boys from wealthy families all over the Northeast. The three Seifried girls had a free ride there for those idyllic years. Millie was reminiscing about the prayer the entire camp recited every morning. It was composed by the camp director, Cal Burley, a remarkable man about whom I have heard much through the past twenty years. \u201cO God, forasmuch as without Thee we are not able to please Thee in anything we may undertake, mercifully grant that Thy Holy Spirit will direct and rule our hearts and minds in all that we do this day, so that, at the end of the day we shall hear the eternal benediction: Well done, thou good and faithful servant.\u201d He is now gone, but well done yourself, Calvin Burley.\n\u201cIf a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life\u2019s good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he\u201d (Ecc. 6:3). Mr. Burley taught values to his campers, and his life continues to live on in them. May we also live on in those who shall live after us long after we are gone.\nRev. John M. Miller, Chapel Without Walls\nThe Rev. John M. Miller, Chapel Without Walls, Hilton Head, N.C., Nov. 12, 2017 sermon.\nJohn Miller has written and published six books including The Irony of Christianity: A Pastor\u2019s Appeal for a Higher Theology and a Lower Christology, which was published by The Institute for Religion in 2002. The book remains available thru Amazon.\nPosted in Death and dying, Family, Life, Sermons\t| Tagged Ecclesiastes, getting older, John M. Miller, Joyce Ann Mercer\t| 2 Replies", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 421, "original_length": 48778, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://gracecathedral.org/events/flow-piano-sound-bath/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:03Z", "digest": "sha1:EJMDMQRTHIXDWHOQTR4LLFQRF273K7X4", "length": 1306, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "gracecathedral.org", "title": "Flow Piano Sound Bath - Grace Cathedral", "raw_content": "Flow Piano Sound Bath\nJoin us for this one-of-a-kind live musical performance and meditation experience led by award-winning composer and pianist Rav\u00e9 Mehta. Rav\u00e9 will take you on a musical journey by playing the piano for one hour as a continuous improvisational piece that will slow time down and help you let go so you can tap into your flow and drop into a blissful healing state. Meditation experience is not required, just dress in comfortable clothing and bring a yoga mat or something you can lay on, and anything else that helps you feel comfortable and relaxed (pillow, blanket, etc.).\nAbout the Pianist: Rav\u00e9 is an award-winning composer, pianist and bestselling author. Rav\u00e9 is the founder of Flow Labs and has spent 15+ years researching the science behind fear and flow to gain a deeper understanding of how we can learn to access more of our superpowers. Rav\u00e9 has performed around the world integrating the principles of flow into his piano sound bath performances to help people drop into a deep healing state for a unique experience. Rav\u00e9 is also the author of \u2018The Inventor\u2019, a bestselling graphic novel based on the true story of Nikola Tesla and a recipient of the Tesla Vision Award by the Tesla Science Foundation.\nDoors open at 7 pm and close promptly at 8 pm.\nwww.pianosoundbath.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 251, "original_length": 5736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 325.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greatergc.com/2018/07/11/republican-gubernatorial-forum-tonight-next-tuesday-registration-deadline/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:51Z", "digest": "sha1:S627W3WWT6QTOOM36GCJGMGSYNUJTOA5", "length": 1583, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "greatergc.com", "title": "Republican gubernatorial forum tonight; next Tuesday registration deadline \u2013 Greater Garden City", "raw_content": "The first of two gubernatorial candidate debates is scheduled tonight at Garden City High School, with the second coming in two weeks.\nTonight most of the Republican candidates for governor will appear at 5:30 p.m. Former state senator Jim Barnett, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, state Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer will be on hand, and Lt. Gov. Tracey Mann will appear on behalf of Gov. Jeff Colyer.\nCandidates will be allowed an opening statement followed by a question and answer session. After the forum, there will be a reception allowing the public to ask candidates additional questions.\nDemocratic candidates for governor will get their turn at a July 24 forum scheduled for 5:30 p.m. at GCHS which will follow the same format as the Republican forum. Democratic candidates include former Wichita Mayor Carl Brewer, state senator Laura Kelly, and former state ag secretary Josh Svaty.\nThe Democratic and Republican primary elections are scheduled for Aug. 7, and the general election will be Nov. 6.\nAnother declared candidate for governor, Independent Greg Orman, will not appear on either primary ballot but his name will be on the Nov. 6 ballot. Orman\u2019s running mate is Garden City state senator John Doll.\nAnother important date to keep in mind is the deadline to register to vote. Those interested in voting in the primaries need to register by Tuesday, July 17, at the Finney County Clerk\u2019s office. A party affiliation must be declared to vote in either party\u2019s primary.\nThe Garden City Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting this month\u2019s gubernatorial forums.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 220, "original_length": 9479, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 226.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greenlivingguy.com/2011/10/uc-davis-breaks-down-what-they-got-in-green-lighting-funds/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:58Z", "digest": "sha1:3HLKIKHT5JYUCBWOFMQNUWZUBEZZK7EY", "length": 2255, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "greenlivingguy.com", "title": "UC Davis Breaks Down What They Got In Green Lighting Funds! - Green Living Guy", "raw_content": "UC Davis Breaks Down What They Got In Green Lighting Funds!\nThe California Lighting Technology Center at UC Davis was established in 2004 with funding from the university and the California Energy Commission\u2019s Public Interest Energy Research Program, with additional support from the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association.\nNow with the Green Lighting campaign away it seems UC Davis will focus on many things from increasing the use of energy-efficient lighting (including daylight) with energy utilities, lighting manufacturers, end users, builders, designers, and government agencies; and to educate the next generation of lighting engineers and designers.\nThe center now has a total of about $2.5 million per year from utilities, government agencies and the university UC Davis.\nThe center says they are working with 50 manufacturers and big time customers. The center has more than 30 employees, including professors, full-time staff members, graduate-student researchers and student interns.\nIn recent weeks, the center received three major new grants:\n$5 million from the U.S. Department of Labor to the center and the National Electrical Contractors Association for training on advanced lighting systems controls;\n$3.2 million from the California Energy Commission for lighting research; and\n$2 million, also from the California Energy Commission, for commercial lighting retrofits in collaboration with the Energy Efficiency Center and the Western Cooling Efficiency Center, both at UC Davis.\n\u201cEducation continues to be at the core of our mission,\u201d said Siminovitch. \u201cNew lighting and lighting-control technologies will save energy only after they are installed. The next generation of lighting designers, architects, contractors and facility managers need to know about them to make that happen.\u201d\nCategories: Conservation, energy efficiency, green business, Green Jobs, Green Lighting, green living news, LED LightingTags: Conservation, Do It Yourself Home Energy Audits, energy efficiency, green business, Green Jobs, Green Lighting, green living news, LED Lighting\nPrevious PostJustin Timberlake honored at 2011 Environmental Media Association Awards Next PostHow Much Mercury Do CFLs Actually Contain?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 5031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 233.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://greentradertax.com/category/irs-relief/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:18Z", "digest": "sha1:YZHY2X6SGY4QL2H2UX6THOA7GKQS3JOY", "length": 6530, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "greentradertax.com", "title": "IRS Relief | GreenTraderTax", "raw_content": "Category: IRS Relief\nHow To Protect Puerto Rico Tax Incentives In The Wake Of Hurricanes Irma And Maria\nPostscript Oct. 4, 2017: There is good news in IRS Notice 2017-56 helping hurricane victims retain bonafide residency status in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for 2017. If they fail the presence test, they jeopardize territory tax incentives like Act 22 for traders in Puerto Rico. Many island residents had to flee, and they cannot return for an extended period. \u201cAn individual is considered to be present in a U.S. territory on any day that the individual is outside the relevant territory because the individual leaves or is unable to return to the relevant territory during any 14-day period within which a major disaster occurs in the relevant U.S. territory.\u201d Notice 2017-56 relief: \u201cThe 14-day period is extended to 117 days, effective beginning September 6, 2017, and ending December 31, 2017.\u201d (IR 2017-168)\nPuerto Rico\u2019s low-tax environment was tailor-made for American investors, traders and investment managers willing to move to the island. When Hurricanes Irma and Maria severely damaged the island this September, though, many had to evacuate, leaving traders to wonder how they will satisfy residency requirements.\nThere is some relief.\nActs 22 and 20\nEnacted in 2012, PR Act 22 allows investors and traders with bona fide residence in PR to exclude 100% of all short-term and long-term capital gains from the sale of personal property accrued after moving to PR. Act 22 does not require investment in Puerto Rican stocks and bonds; trades can be made with a U.S. broker or on any exchange around the world.\nFor example, a trader living in California can go from paying federal and state taxes of more than 50% in the top tax brackets to zero taxes on capital gains, just by becoming a tax resident of PR. The U.S. and PR assess capital gains taxes based on where the seller\u2019s \u201ctax home\u201d is located.\nPR Act 20 has a 4% tax rate for companies, including investment managers, who export their services from PR.\nThese PR Acts have residency requirements, including a day count. (Learn more about Acts 22 and 20 and requirements on my blog post: Puerto Rico\u2019s Tax Haven Status Is Made For Traders.)\nClient questions and answers\nI asked tax attorney Mark Leeds of Mayer Brown, LLP to help answer clients\u2019 questions.\nOne customer writes: \u201cI\u2019m wondering if/how Hurricane Maria\u2019s impact on Puerto Rico affects the annual requirements for Act 22, mainly the presence test. I have currently spent 171 days in Puerto Rico out of the required 183 minimums, and I am not sure I\u2019ll be able to complete that requirement by the end of the year. I\u2019m also concerned with the 90-day limit in the U.S.\u201d\nMark Leeds: \u201cFirst, the \u2018less than 90-day presence in the U.S. test\u2019 and the \u2018183-day presence in Puerto Rico test\u2019 are separate tests. Satisfaction of either of these tests will enable you to satisfy the presence test for 2017.\n\u201cThe silver lining to the current disaster is that a day spent in the U.S. because you are unable to return to Puerto Rico during any 14-day* period within which a major disaster occurs in Puerto Rico for which a FEMA Notice of a Presidential declaration of a major disaster is issued in the Federal Register is treated as a day spent in Puerto Rico. Such an order was issued by FEMA Sept. 21. Thus, if you already spent 171 days in Puerto Rico, you should be able to add 14 days to this count, bringing you to 185. As a result, you should have at least 183 in Puerto Rico for 2017 to satisfy the residency test. (*IRS Notice 2017-56 extended the 14-days to 117 days, effective beginning September 6, 2017, and ending December 31, 2017.)\n\u201cPlease note that this is the second FEMA Notice of a Presidential declaration of a major disaster issued this month. The President previously issued a declaration in connection with Hurricane Irma. I believe that these declarations should be considered separately, with the result that if you left Puerto Rico or were unable to return due to that hurricane as well, you\u2019d have up to 28 days in the U.S. that would count as days in Puerto Rico.\n\u201cIf there is a mandatory evacuation order in effect for where your condo is located, you can treat each day that the order is in effect as a day in Puerto Rico even if you are not in Puerto Rico.\u201d\nWhat a problem situation could look like\nSuppose a trader spent late May through mid-September in the U.S. states and planned to spend the remainder of 2017 in PR. He planned to meet the 183-day presence test, and assume he cannot meet any of the other presence tests.\nBefore Irma struck on Sept. 7, he already had 140 days in PR from Jan. 1 through late May. He does not plan to return to PR for the remainder of 2017. With IRS relief, including 14 days for Hurricane Irma and 14 days for Hurricane Maria, his new day count is 168 days, falling short of the 183 days needed.\nIf this trader lives in a home that is subject to a mandatory evacuation order, he can count those days spent outside of Puerto Rico toward the 183-day requirement. Conversely, if there were no evacuation order, he would need to go back to PR for 15 more days before year-end or try to satisfy an alternative presence test.\nIf the trader does not meet the PR residency requirements, the consequence is being assessed U.S. taxes for the entire year 2017. That trader stands to lose zero taxation on capital gains and instead pay IRS taxes on capital gains and all other Puerto Rico-source income (other income remains subject to U.S. tax in any event). Some states might argue that leaving a state for one year or less did not change his state domicile, which brings state taxation into the fold, too.\nThese tax matters are very complicated, so it\u2019s wise to consult U.S. and PR tax experts on these issues, to protect you from losing the tax advantages as a result of these hurricanes.\nAs PR-based tax experts resume operations, I expect to hear more news from them on these fiscal matters. Stay tuned!\nThe devastations Hurricanes Irma and Maria brought to Puerto Rico, and its people are terrible; I encourage traders and others to give plenty of charity and support. Traders and investment managers can bring vital resources and talent to help rebuild PR.\nIRS Offers Help to Hurricane Victims: A Recap of Key Tax Relief Provisions Available Following Harvey, Irma and Maria\nMark Leeds contributed to this blog post.\nThis entry was posted in IRS Relief, Puerto Rico Taxes and tagged Puerto Rico on September 26, 2017 by Robert Green.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 219, "original_length": 16796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 286.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://grokscience.wordpress.com/transcripts/lawrence-lessig/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:13Z", "digest": "sha1:JAGWF2KSJWZQX5I7TDJHPZZNZ5LX7272", "length": 18986, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "grokscience.wordpress.com", "title": "Lawrence Lessig | Groks Science Radio Show and Podcast", "raw_content": "Creative Commons and Free Culture\nProf. Lawrence Lessig\nProfessor of Law, Stanford University\nAuthor, Free Culture\nAuthor, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace\nChairman, Creative Commons\nScientific America Visionary, 2002\nIn an ideal world, art and science are only limited by the laws of nature, but with the increasingly commodotized character of technology, creative works are often bound by the laws of copyright protection. Over the years and especially in the past few decades, copyright protection has been consistently increasing, thereby granting exclusive rights and virtually interminable limits of creative works to few powerful entities. Lawrence Lessig (LL) joins Frank Ling (FL) to talk about his efforts at reversing this trend and strengthening the rights of creative individuals. Lawrence Lessig is currently professor of law at Stanford and in 2002, was named one of the top 50 visionaries by Scientific America.\nFL: Professor Lessig, thanks for joining us today.\nLL: Thanks for having me on here.\nFL: There is a growing number of people who feel that our copyright laws are increasingly stifling creativity and innovations which are the basis of our economy and our political growth. Perhaps, to put us in context, tell us what we need to do about this.\nLL: Well, I think the first thing is to recognize really an unintended and dramatic change that has happened in the last 10 to 15 years. Unintended, because nobody who wrote the copyright laws had the internet in mind when they wrote their system of regulation that governs what kind of creative work you can make and what kind of permissions you need up front. But dramatic, because while the copyright law for most of our history regulated a very small group of commercial publishers, it\u2019s now essentially regulating everyone who wants to engage in creative activity using digital networks. And the world it creates is the world that asks permission first. Of course that is not only costly for lots of creators and impossible for many. It\u2019s also stifling of a certain kind of creativity because if you need to get permission, then obviously you are not going to say things that are critical in a way that the person that needs to give you permission wouldn\u2019t give you permission. So a permission culture is who we have become and my claim is that for most of our history, we\u2019ve been a free culture where copyright was respected but it didn\u2019t have this extraordinary and extreme control over how people create content.\nFL: And we rely on this freedom for our country\u2019s growth and political strength?\nLL: Absolutely, technology companies in the (Silicon) Valley are increasingly seeing just how costly overly burdened copyright regulation is. It makes it hard to develop technologies. The technologies they develop have to be burdened by this extremely cumbersome, inefficient digital rights technology and so many people are asking, \u201cIsn\u2019t there a better way to make sure artists get paid without forcing us to break the internet in the process?\u201d So that\u2019s the commercial cost, but increasingly we are seeing a democratic cost too because the internet \u2014 through blog technology and through the opportunities to rip and mix content \u2014 has an extraordinary potential to create, to produce and distribute political messages and increasingly, we are seeing how even in the political context, copyright regulation is blocking the opportunity for people to express themselves powerfully.\nFL: You are involved in many project these days. One of them, the Creative Commons, has been receiving a lot of attention lately and impressively, has been used for over a million pieces of work. I believe it is now 3 million? I think many of our listeners would be interested to know a little more about this.\nLL: So the problem that you face in the internet right now is that the default, given to us by the RIAA, is no. The default is whatever you find out there, you have no permission to use unless you find somebody to clear permissions upfront. So what we\u2019ve decided is to build a simple way for creators and speakers and authors to say upfront freedoms that they want their content to carry. So, Creative Commons if you go to our website creativecommons.org, you can very simply select what the law calls a license that gets attached to your content and basically says I am allowing you to use this and you have a couple choices. You can say you want to require attribution or you want to forbid commercial use or you want to restrict derivative uses. There is basically eleven different options that you have and once you express those freedoms that gets attached to your content and people know they can rely upon those freedoms when they come across your content. So we have wonderful examples. For example, this guy Colin Mutchler, a very important creator in the space of building digital freedoms, but he is also a guitarist. He produced a wonderful little guitar track called My Life, released it under a Creative Commons license, and that license then meant that others can download it and use it and change it as they want it. Seventeen year old violinist named Cora Beth downloaded it and added this extraordinarily beautiful violin track on top of the guitar track and rereleased it back to the internet under the title My Life Changed and the product of that collaboration is extraordinarily beautiful. The important point is there was no lawyer in between these two creators. They didn\u2019t have to secure permissions and find a record label to enable them to be able to share work, sign contracts. They were able to do it because the freedoms were already built into the content. Now, there are a lot of people who thought that\u2019s the way the internet was in the beginning. That it said you are free to do anything you want and a lot of us wish that was the basic rule about the internet. But the copyright war that the RIAA has been fighting for the last five years has basically changed the default of the internet into a regime that says you have to ask permission first and we think that is wrong.\nWe don\u2019t know of any actions that have gone to court and of course given the inefficiency of our legal system, you go to court as a last resort. A last recourse for any hope to defend your rights. So then our hope is that you don\u2019t need to go to court in this context. There have been battles, lot of misunderstandings, lots of people saying you use my work in ways I didn\u2019t give you permission for, but what\u2019s great about having a common set of licenses that literally millions of people are using is that it develops its own common law or we can call it common\u2019s law where there is a pretty simple set of understanding for developing. People know what what they should be allowed to do and we can rely upon that to make any disputes go away.\nFL: You were originally trained as a constitutional lawyer. I\u2019m wondering how you got interested in copyright protection and why now? Has the internet made an impact on this?\nLL: I\u2019m a lawyer with a guilty conscience. I was inspired many years ago by work of, for example, Pam Samuelson who is a professor here on campus who is increasingly trying to demonstrate how the law had lost touch with its original motivating ideals and I got into copyright law indirectly because I was writing a book called Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. And that\u2019s a book about the relationship between technology and legal policy, and as I worked out the relationship in the context of copyright, it was for me the most interesting example of how legal policy can be subverted by technical infrastructure or architecture. So that\u2019s when I first began to see the debate, but as I got into it more and more, I was more outraged by the extremism which the law has spun to. We have a very strong balanced tradition in the United States to protect the rights of creators. That\u2019s an important part of it but also the rights of the public to get access to build upon other people\u2019s creativity and Congress has been bought by a narrow set of interests who have have a narrow set of interests about what copyright law means. So they pretend that their vision is connected to our past, so when Congress was considering the Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act, which extended the term of existing copyrights by 20 years. Mary Bono, who was Congressman Bono\u2019s wife before he died, introduced a bill and and said that she believes that copyrights should be very strongly protected and they should maybe consider Jack Valenti\u2018s proposal that copyrights be forever minus a day. Obviously, that is unrelated to what our framers had in mind when they said that Congress has the power to secure copyrights for a limited time. A limited time is not forever minus a day. It\u2019s not even the 95 years that Congress has now given to copyright holders so my motivation for this was just seeing how the law had gotten out of control and it was destroying a really important democratic opportunity. People could speak and use this technology in ways that were impossible before. And just at the time, the technology makes us available to a wide range of creators and speakers. It\u2019s wrong for the law to come in and take that freedom away.\nFL: The internet is a great medium for distributing these works. What do you see as the greatest threat against the proper evolution of the internet?\nLL: Well, we are in the middle of the piracy wars and the copyright wars and Congress is convinced that unless they force technology companies to build into their technologies the systems of perfect control, then we will lose the copyright industries. And my fear is that in the next 5 years, there will be such a radical shift in the basic infrastructure of the internet to answer the demands of the copyright holders that the picture of an internet where people are free to mix and express themselves using this content will be just out of distant memory. You know, I don\u2019t think see it right now because the fact is you can rip your CD, you can mix it with a DVD that you\u2019ve ripped, you can put them together and you can post them on the internet and there is nothing technically to stop you and if there is, the technical controls are relatively weak. But in 5 to 10 years, as these trusted infrastructures for computing become more prevalent, it bet you to do that with content will increasingly depend upon on whether content owners give you that permission. If you think of content in the model of DRM (digitalized management content) then you would have these freedoms to these importantly democratic things with your content will not be guaranteed. It\u2019s basically, the permission plantation culture will choose which part of our culture which they own, you\u2019re allowed to use, and that will restrict people\u2019s freedom to create in fundamental ways.\nFL: You recently had a book that came out, Free Culture, which is available on the Creative Commons License and available freely on the web right now. Some people have taken it and made their own versions of it. Maybe you can tell us a little bit about some of those.\nLL: Yeah, this is one of the most exciting things about the book. My publisher, actually my editor, after reading the book and editing it, suggested that we try to convince Penguin Press to release the book free online when it goes for sale in bookstores. And I had intended to try to persuade Penguin from the beginning and now I had my key ally. So they convinced Penguin that this would sell more books. Penguin is not in the business of giving away their assets. You want to sell books, so we convinced them it was a good way to sell books. My objective of course was to spread the ideas as broadly as I could. So, in the months since the book has been out, there has been more than 175,000 downloads of the book, but the part that nobody even thought about was because we released it under the Creative Commons License that allowed people to create derivative works for non-commercial purposes, I selected the license that said you have to give attribution and you can do it only for non-commercial purposes. Within a day, there were nine separate formats of the book posted on the internet. A day and a half, someone suggested doing audiobooks, so different people have volunteered to read chapters and they read chapters and posted it back to the internet. So you can download a free audio version of the book. Somebody put a wiki of the book up, so they took the whole book and made it so that literally now anybody in this wiki community develops the book however they want. So the book has a life of its own. I just came back from a meeting with people in China who have put it into a Chinese wiki to enable people to translate it so there is a community project to translate the book in China right now. And to put all of these reuses or remixes of the content, it would never have happened if the traditional regime had been in place because everybody knows you have to get permission up front and if you didn\u2019t get permission, you would be subject to extraordinary high copyright liability and so it would have been better to spend their time doing something else. Well, from my perspective, it\u2019s better to spend their time investing in ways to spread the ideas of free culture broadly and I hope it turns out good for their publishers too because that will encourage more publishers to do this in the future.\nFL: We should get Robin Williams to read it.\nLL: That would be great.\nFL: So tell us a little bit about your other projects. You are also involved with the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Science Commons. Could you briefly talk about them?\nLL: So Creative Commons was launched a year ago December and we just received funding to expand the idea into the context of science. The same problem exists in science that exists in the context of culture. Increasingly, companies are insisting on proprietary controls over data and proprietary controls even over research results and both of these controls make it harder for people in the business of doing science to get access to the information they need and the data they need to do their work. Now, you can understand the restrictions in the context of culture easier than in the context of science because there is a norm that is deep within the science tradition, which is you produce results and make them available for others to test. Now, if they are only available to elite American universities because they are the only universities that can afford to pay very high prices for getting access to these journals, it\u2019s not science anymore. It\u2019s got to be equally available around the world if the ideals of science are to be met. So the Public Library of Science was started with some very substantial generous funding to try to build an alternative model for publishing scientific results. And this is an open access model for publishing. Basically, there is some very high quality journals that PLOS has started. PLOS Biology was the first. These journals are printed and they are beautifully printed journals, but every article printed is marked with a Creative Commons license and posted in a PDF form on the internet and anyone can build their own archive of these articles. But what that means is it\u2019s guaranteed forever this content will be freely available around the world and PLOS is trying to sell this idea of this way of publishing to people in science generally. Now, there are two kinds of arguments that go on here. I think of them as a European argument and an American argument. The Europeans love to think of this in a quasi-communist rhetoric of publishers or evil profiteers and their making money instead of spreading science, and you know if that rhetoric does it for you, fine. But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what\u2019s important here. It is not about punishing publishers, it\u2019s not about making it so that people can\u2019t make money. It\u2019s instead about trying to find a way to produce and spread science that guarantees that this fundamental value of science is realized, that science is available universally. So this is just a different business model for producing science. It\u2019s a non-profit business model for the publisher but people are getting paid to print things and people are getting paid to host content on the web. So this is not non-commercial in a deep sense, but it\u2019s objective is different from the objective of the traditional publisher\u2019s model and my fundamental point is we should see if we could do it this way because if we can, we can produce much greater value to the world than the alternative: we lock all of our content to proprietary expensive journals.\nFL: So how do we maintain a good level of peer review for these articles?\nLL: These articles in PLOS Biology go through the same peer review process that any article published in any biological journal would. So it\u2019s the same process except instead of the way the system works in general now, researchers will write an article for free, submit it to a peer review panel, which reviews it for free, and then submits it to a journal and then his or her university has to buy the information back from the journal. This system has it so that you are producing it for free, you are having it peer reviewed, there is some author support to get the article published, but once it is published libraries around the world will be able to get access to this information for free.\nFL: So, it is free for both the author and the reader?\nLL: In the initial model, the author is supporting some of publication through author publication rights. So actually in the context of biology, it is a common feature. The real beneficiaries of this though in the long term will be libraries, which can get access instead of paying an extraordinary amount of money to these journals, you can get access to it for free. And people outside of Berkeley, Stanford, Harvard, and Yale who have easy access to this content because we are elite American universities, people in Bangalore, people in South Africa can get access to this information just as easily as you and I can and that\u2019s more consistent with the values of science than the proprietary model is.\nFL: Well, it\u2019s been a fascinating talk with you. Are there any last words you\u2019d like to add about yourself or your current work?\nLL: Nothing about myself of my current work, but I would like to say something about the work that people here ought to be doing. This is an extraordinary important struggle because it will define the freedom that people have to help build and change their culture. And we will only claim back the opportunity for that freedom from Washington if more people get involved so I would really urge people, who are beginning to see the insanity of this law, not just to fight the law by disobeying it but by fighting it to get it changed. It has no connection to our tradition and we ought to stop it.\nLL: Thank you for having me.\nBy: Tomeka Tapian on February 5, 2011", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 23438, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 255.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://growthledge.com/decoding-influencer-marketing-and-its-frenzied-success/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:30Z", "digest": "sha1:PDENLXK6R5BVOAVNCH7HZRYHYNUYLC3D", "length": 3419, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "growthledge.com", "title": "Decoding Influencer Marketing and Its Frenzied Success - GLA", "raw_content": "Influencer marketing is all the rave in the new age digital marketplace and companies continue to jump on the bandwagon of success. Although it has been around for decades, brands and professionals alike are only now beginning to realize its massive potential. Influencer marketing is when a brand or company forms a relationship with an influential person of charisma and focuses its efforts on them instead of the target market as a whole. In theory, these brands are banking on the reputation and influence of the target to guide the rest of the market. Michael Jordan selling sneakers may have been an earlier form of influencer marketing, but it was also more of a celebrity endorsement. Influencer marketing has long evolved into something much more mainstream that has taken social media by storm and reaching people on a personal level.\nInfluencers are typically trusted people within their social communities who have extensive knowledge of the products or services they are promoting. They must also have a consistently loyal following on various social media platforms. Unlike celebrity endorsements, influencers create and promote their content. They do integrate the company\u2019s specific advertising stipulations into the campaign, but they portray the brand as they see it. This is considered to be a more genuine recommendation from a person of sizable clout. The size of an influencer\u2019s social following determines their monetary value to the brand. Influencer marketing gives brands the opportunity to reach very specific niche audiences.\nIt is crucial for a brand to build trust with its audience, but consumers are skeptical of ads on social media. The dawn of the internet has shrunken the size of television audiences to just a fraction of what they used to be. This has left companies scrambling to find a way to both advertise and build trust with skeptical consumers. Using influencers allows companies to advertise through a trusted figure in the social community. The thought is that the social community already regularly engages with and trusts the influencer. Influencer marketing allows brands to advertise to specific niche markets through borrowed trust.\nIt is also a much more affordable marketing method with a high return on investment. Consumers are smart, and they want information before they commit to a purchase, be it service or product. They use the internet to find that information. Influencer marketing reaches consumers on a personal level they are already comfortable with, so they are not as guarded. If influencers love the product or service, then the social community assumes it will too. Influencers are also easy for the social community to connect with and they can answer questions. A personal recommendation has always been the best form of advertising, but influencer marketing takes that to the next level.\nTools have even been created so that brands can ensure an influencer\u2019s social community is organic and not purchased or fake. 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Just grab yourself a handful of walnuts, almonds or pistachios and you\u2019ll be well on your way to improving your heart. Over time, these snacks can help lower cholesterol, reduce the buildup of plaque in the arteries and prevent blood clots. Try eating nuts a few times a week to reap the greatest nutritional benefit. For other heart-healthy foods, check out a recent issue of AtlanticView >\nHeart Disease Programs and Screenings\nCardiologists, medical staff and other guest speakers will address a variety of heart health topics. 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But there's a bigger picture involved when determining what's considered too high. Put another way, the same number could be in the normal range for one person but considered high for another.\nMONDAY, Nov. 19, 2018 -- If you're bullied by a bad boss or co-worker, your heart may pay the price, new research shows.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 5702, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://harleighq.com/2018/01/24/the-millennial-crisis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:59:29Z", "digest": "sha1:2LAMO6MKV6JURUBB47GZ2JXPYHODROVG", "length": 6938, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "harleighq.com", "title": "The Millennial Crisis \u2013 Harleigh Q", "raw_content": "Posted on January 24, 2018 by missharleighq\nHarleighQ is back, baby! I hope you didn\u2019t miss my love-filled rambles too much. I came to the realisation that something has been missing in my life, and although I don\u2019t always take myself seriously as a writer, this thing is my baby! I have been throwing myself in to my fiction (we\u2019re about 10 chapters in to my yet untitled epic) but my baby needs to be nurtured. As do I.\nWhich brings me to the topic at hand\u2026 the Millennial Crisis.\nWelcome to the beginning of a series I\u2019m going to call \u2018First World Problems\u2019 where I will unashamedly discuss things that are petty but relevant to my generation, because we all deserve to be heard, and we all need to know we aren\u2019t alone.\nOur government rarely listens to us, we\u2019re struggling financially, we don\u2019t know what we want to do with our lives, our love life is a shambles, our mental health is struggling, our friends are just as fucked up as we are or they\u2019re already married with kids. There\u2019s constant pressure to work out our future, have savings, be loved by everyone, settle down and appreciate how \u2018good\u2019 we have it. Fucking hell. Hello quarter life crisis. My name is Leigh and I have no idea what I\u2019m doing.\nI\u2019m sure I\u2019m not alone in expressing my guilt when it comes to how overwhelmed I feel. I often sit and reflect on how it was for our parents\u2019 generation, and their parents. They didn\u2019t have the freedom we do, the endless opportunities when it comes to careers and following our dreams. They were ruled by obligation and inherent sexism. We are so lucky! We are so privileged! Yet why do so many of us feel like we are swimming upstream, mere seconds from drowning?\nI think it comes down to the simple fact that we want happiness to be a constant, not a fleeting memory. Every human on this planet deserves happiness. Otherwise, what\u2019s the point? Just because it\u2019s taken until now for us to practically be able to pursue this mentality doesn\u2019t mean that we\u2019re wrong, or dumb, or dreamers. We\u2019ve just finally come to terms with how short life is and how important it is to live it to the fullest. Why shouldn\u2019t we spend it smiling and choosing not to hurt anyone in the process?\nWhat\u2019s my crisis? Take a seat friends.\nI am a dramatic person. I will own that. But I also struggle with quite severe anxiety. It\u2019s come on as a mixture of things in my life, a combination of genetics and experiences I\u2019m sure. Sometimes I don\u2019t know where to draw the line between my dramatics and an actual genuine feeling of being overwhelmed by life. Then I start to feel tremendously bad. I have the most incredible family, and career wise I am totally sorted. But you know what? Everything else is a struggle! I\u2019m allowed to admit that. At the moment, it really is.\nI travelled so much in the last couple of years with little regard for future Leigh, and now I\u2019m paying for it. It was so worth it at the time, but now my life is on hold while I move home to do damage control. Yeah that\u2019s right, most of my issues are totally self inflicted!\nLet\u2019s not even get started on my love life. There\u2019s a reason I declared myself Millennial Bridget Jones on Facebook the other day. I am well and truly stuck in Daniel Cleaver faze. Honestly? I don\u2019t deserve any better either. I\u2019m not ready.\nI\u2019m pretty lonely, living in quite an isolated suburb in an isolated city spending more time with myself than anyone else. I\u2019m an extrovert. I drive myself and my family crazy after a while. I really am a lot. I start fixating on things like the news as a mental escape which only drives me more mental.\nI feel guilty when I don\u2019t believe all of the claims in the #metoo movement pinpointing men in Hollywood, my heart bleeds for my American friends dealing with a tyrant like Trump. I want to cry because our government wasted billions of dollars humiliating my friends in the queer community just to prove a point, and the reef is dying, as are the people abandoned on Nauru. There are so many things swirling around my mind at all times that sometimes I wish I could revert back to childhood, when my only worry was if my bike chain fell off. Even then, I knew how to fix it.\nNone of this is a poor me, or a poor us. But if we don\u2019t change this mentality of \u2018you don\u2019t know how good you\u2019ve got it\u2019 whenever people bring up mental health issues, we\u2019re going to go backwards. We have come so far from that toughen up mentality. Let\u2019s keep moving.\nWe are such a powerful, caring, socially conscious generation. I\u2019m writing this post to remind my beautiful friends that it\u2019s okay to feel overwhelmed. We are just trying to do our best, and make the world a better place as we go. That weighs really fucking heavy sometimes. We are trying to reverse decades worth of damage. We have to remind ourself and our peers daily that it\u2019s okay to be who you are. You don\u2019t have to hide anymore. You don\u2019t have to feel ashamed; be it your sexuality, mental health, gender identity, kinks, dreams, stupid financial decisions, putting travel before your career or vice versa.\nYou don\u2019t have to be strong and closed off. Openness is beautiful. It\u2019s not dangerous to let people in, to wear your heart on your sleeve, to stand up for what you believe in. It\u2019s okay to be kind, honest, sweet. Getting hurt is a part of life. Pick yourself up, dust off, and let them all back in again. If you need help with that, I\u2019m always here with advice. I don\u2019t follow my own, naturally. I\u2019ve got lots of love to give though!\nPain is relative. I have nervy b\u2019s every few days and you know what? I\u2019m going to stop beating myself up over my sensitivity. I have pretty valid reasons to be upset most of the time, and just because I\u2019m privileged doesn\u2019t mean I can\u2019t cry. We all need to cry it out sometimes.\nWe don\u2019t have to know what we\u2019re doing, or where we\u2019re going. We just need to be kind, listen to our hearts, surround ourselves with supportive people and the rest will follow.\nI love you all so much. Never feel like your feelings aren\u2019t valid. Life is a roller coaster, baby. It\u2019s better to feel the highs and the lows than nothing at all.\nSome people may call us weak, but you know what? I\u2019d rather be weak than an asshole.\nI hope a few of my fellow crisis kids feel a little better after reading this. I promise, you aren\u2019t alone. It\u2019s going to be okay.\nPosted in Leigh's MusingsTagged Advice, anxiety, australia, australian, australian blogger, australianblogger, beingyourself, blogger, blues, confidence, culture, family, Feminism, freedom, friends, friendship, fulfillment, girls, goals, growingup, happiness, happy, harleighq, health, home, inspiration, inspirational, kindness, learning, Leighsmusings, life, lifegoals, lifelessons, lifestory, lifestyle, living, love, mental health, millennial, opinion, passion, People, personal, perth, politics, relationships, sadness, SELF LOVE, single, singlelife, strength, Travel, travelblogger, traveller, truth, women, work, writing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 8890, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 274.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://harlowsbeat.com/2011/11/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:45:44Z", "digest": "sha1:4P4IFJHXKL43AK3ECSBIYQOZOSQERESC", "length": 2480, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "harlowsbeat.com", "title": "November | 2011 | Harlow's Beat", "raw_content": "At the hairdressers with mummy. No haircuts for me yet.\nMy cousin Brianna\nI may have mentioned my cousin Brianna in previous blogs, as she loves me and adores me very much. When I lived in Australia and she would come to visit she would play with me and give me lots of cuddles and kisses. In fact I was the first person she would want to see when she went to visit Omi and Poppy.\nThis blog today is dedicated to her as I am really proud of her and she is famous!!\nMummy showed me a picture of her in an article in the Southern Highlands Newspaper. Brianna has Type 1 diabetes and this article was all about how brave she is and how she is trying to help raise money to help JDRF find a cure. I will include the link so you can see it for yourselves.\nBrianna was diagnosed with Diabetes when she was on holiday in the US when she was only 3 years old. Diabetes is not easy to live with, every two to three hours (even when she\u2019s asleep) Brianna must prick her finger to test her blood glucose levels or inject insulin into her body to keep her alive. She has to monitor everything she puts her in mouth as it can affect her sugar levels. As she is getting older she is a lot more aware of how to deal with this and is very good at saying no to treats and testing her blood herself. I am so proud of her, she is very brave.\nEvery year around this time JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) organise a 5km \u2018Walk for a Cure\u2019 fundraising event. It is in aid of raising lots of money to help find a cure for young people with Diabetes. This year the walk was in Parramatta Park and Brianna walked the full 5km. Omi, Poppy, Aunty Melissa and Uncle Nathan and lots of other family and friends all dressed up and joined her. So far Brianna has raised almost $2000 but I want to help her raise a little bit more. So I thought it would be great to share Brianna\u2019s story with my readers, friends and family. I would really appreciate if you can dig deep and help my favourite cousin reach her goal by donating to her fundraising page. It\u2019s really easy to do, and will only take a min.\nhttp://walk.jdrf.org.au/teamParticipant.asp?participantID=2255\nYou can also read her article if you want to hear more about her story.\nhttp://www.southernhighlandnews.com.au/news/local/news/general/living-with-type-1-diabetes/2361828.aspx?storypage=1\nMy cousin Brianna and I - Two little Princesses.\nFiled under Family and tagged Brianna, Diabetes, JDRF |\t2 Comments\nMummy is letting me feed myself.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 284, "original_length": 33633, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 324.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://haymanproperties.com/class-a-office", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:44Z", "digest": "sha1:SK2Y22OT3NAGC2ADDT3X2EXEXRDM67PJ", "length": 468, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "haymanproperties.com", "title": "Hayman Properties, LLC. | Vibe Cottonwood", "raw_content": "6440 S. Wasatch Boulevard\nIn August 2015, Hayman Properties closed on an exciting 71,700 sq. ft., Class A office buidling located in the Cottonwood Canyon area of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Cowboy Partners Center, recently rechristened Vibe\u2122 Cottonwood, is a multi-tenant, stabilized office building in a high quality infill location, offering some of the best views in Salt Lake Valley. The property offers strong cash flow and is projecting a long term IRR above 16%.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 95, "original_length": 1991, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 329.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hcamidwest.com/about/newsroom/detail.dot?id=aa18ad53-8576-4646-befd-b2a3452155a9", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:50Z", "digest": "sha1:VS7W4JCZ74SLYBACCEJURH3RWZI3OGWQ", "length": 4124, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "hcamidwest.com", "title": "Research Medical Center CEO Jackie Desouza-Van Blaricum Appointed to Prestigious Women Who Mean Business List by Kansas City Business Journal", "raw_content": "Research Medical Center CEO Jackie Desouza-Van Blaricum Appointed to Prestigious Women Who Mean Business List by Kansas City Business Journal\nResearch Medical Center CEO Jackie...\nResearch Medical Center September 05, 2017\nJackie DeSouza-Van Blaricum, Research Medical Center Chief Executive Officer, was recently named to the Kansas City Business Journal\u2019s Women Who Mean Business list. An accomplished healthcare executive\u2014and the 127-year-old hospital\u2019s first female and person of color to serve as CEO\u2014DeSouza-Van Blaricum\u2019s leadership continues to elevate the strong patient care tradition of one of Kansas City\u2019s largest hospitals. Research Medical Center is part of HCA Midwest Health, Kansas City\u2019s leading healthcare provider.\nDeSouza joined HCA in May 2000 as an Administrative Resident of HCA Health ONE\u2014The Medical Center of Aurora in Aurora, Colorado. She moved to Kansas City in 2003 when she was named Associate Administrator to support the Division President and Chief Financial Officer in the Health Midwest acquisition and conversion to HCA. That fall she was promoted to Overland Park Regional Medical Center as Chief Operating Officer and in 2006 DeSouza joined Research Medical Center where she served five years as Chief Operating Officer. She was named CEO of Lee\u2019s Summit Medical Center in 2011 and Research Medical Center CEO in 2014.\nIn 2012, DeSouza was named to Modern Healthcare\u2019s prestigious list of Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare in America and in 2013, she was recognized as one of the Kansas City Business Journal\u2019s NextGen Leaders in its inaugural class. Becker\u2019s Hospital Review named her to the List of 500 People to Know in American healthcare in 2014.\n\u201cJackie is an exemplary employee who personifies the excellence of HCA Midwest Health System,\u201d says M.L. Lagarde III, HCA Midwest Health System President. \u201cAnyone who has worked with her can tell you she is driven, inspiring, motivating and passionate\u2014not just about work, but also about her employees, the community and the patients and their families her team serves. That is a key value for HCA Midwest Health System as we build our future leaders.\u201d\n\u201cI am thrilled for this recognition of my work with HCA Midwest Health System and in the community and honored to be named among this group of such highly accomplished women,\u201d DeSouza-Van Blaricum says.\nCommunity service is an important element in DeSouza-Van Blaricum\u2019s life.\n\u201cOne of the most profound examples of paying it forward came to me at a young age,\u201d DeSouza-Van Blaricum says. \u201cMy father grew up as one of 12 children in deep poverty in Kenya; his family had no electricity or running water. However, he and several of his siblings went to medical school. Today I emulate my grandfather and father\u2019s spirit of giving back by serving on the boards of several nonprofit organizations\u2014including the board of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce\u2014 and being an engaged and avid community volunteer.\u201d\nDeSouza-Van Blaricum has served as the chairperson for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society\u2019s Light the Night, the American Heart Association\u2019s Heart Walk and the Kidney Walk and participated in Dancing with the Kansas City Stars to raise funds for educational scholarships for low-income youth. Her efforts have collectively helped these organizations raise more than $5 million.\n\u201cI am proud to work in a progressive city like Kansas City, which doesn\u2019t rest on its laurels and is always looking for ways to improve the quality of life for its residents,\u201d she says. \u201cResearch Medical Center plays a vital role in that community wealth and, as a leader, it\u2019s in my DNA to be philanthropic and participatory. And here at Research, we have a commitment to the care and improvement of human life, above all else. My team works to carry out that mission each and every day.\u201d\nDeSouza-Van Blaricum holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Services Administration from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and a Master of Health Administration degree from Medical College of Virginia Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 324, "original_length": 21378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 178.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb68.jsp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:58Z", "digest": "sha1:4BBCN43CU3PUJQNWEKXGHZHCNDZYRTSK", "length": 16023, "nlines": 87, "source_domain": "hcup-us.ahrq.gov", "title": "Statistical Brief #68", "raw_content": "Hospitalizations for Brain Cancer, 2006\nEach year, an estimated 51,400 Americans are diagnosed with a brain tumor in the United States. About 40 percent of these brain tumors are malignant.1 Cancerous brain tumors can grow rapidly and the effects can be debilitating, including memory loss, emotional disturbances, speech difficulties, seizures, paralysis, and death.2 Even though this form of cancer is generally difficult to cure, the five- and ten-year survival rates for brain cancer have continually improved over the past ten years. 3,4\nThis Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on stays related to brain cancer, or malignant brain tumors, in U.S. community hospitals in 2006. Characteristics of stays for brain cancer are compared to all hospital stays, excluding newborns and maternal stays for childbirth. Differences by age, gender, payer, and region are also investigated for principal and secondary brain cancer diagnoses. In addition, common principal diagnoses for brain cancer-related stays are outlined. All differences between estimates noted in the text are statistically significant at the 0.05 level or better.\nIn 2006, there were nearly 73,500 hospitalizations involving brain cancer in the U.S., a rate of about 24.6 hospitalizations per 100,000 population. Slightly fewer than half of these stays (35,200 hospitalizations) were principally for brain cancer and totaled approximately $655.5 million in hospital costs. Nearly 38,300 hospitalizations cited brain cancer as a secondary diagnosis.\nAs shown in figure 1, the overall rate of brain cancer hospitalizations increased slightly between 1995 and 2006. As a principal diagnosis, the rate has remained stable. However, as a secondary condition, the rate has increased over 18 percent, from 10.8 stays per 100,000 population to 12.8 stays per 100,000 population. The greatest number of stays occurred in 2005, when there was a substantial increase in all hospitalizations involving a brain cancer diagnosis, particularly those as a secondary diagnosis.5\nThere were nearly 73,500 hospitalizations related to brain cancer in 2006, or nearly 24.6 stays per 100,000 population.\nBetween 1995 and 2006, the rate of hospitalizations principally for brain cancer remained stable, but the rate with brain cancer as a secondary diagnosis increased over 18 percent.\nDeaths in the hospital due to brain cancer have decreased by nearly one-third since 1995, from 6.2 percent to 4.4 percent.\nThe rate of brain cancer-related hospitalization increased dramatically with age; men over 65 had the highest rates of hospitalization for brain cancer.\nThe Northeast had the highest rates of hospitalization related to brain cancer.\nAbout 55 percent of all brain cancer-related hospitalizations had some form of cancer or cancer therapy as the principal reason for admission. Many of the remaining cases were admitted for treatment of conditions that are likely sequelae of cancer and its treatment.\nCompared with adults, children have lower hospitalization rates for frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobe tumors and higher rates for cerebellar and brain stem tumors.\nTable 1 presents general characteristics of brain cancer hospitalizations in 2006. Compared with all other hospitalizations (excluding newborns and maternal stays for childbirth), the mean length of stay for hospitalizations principally for brain cancer was nearly 2 days longer (6.9 days versus 5.1 days). For hospitalizations with a secondary diagnosis of brain cancer, the average length of stay was also longer than for all stays\u20146.4 days. Though brain cancer-related stays were longer, the average cost per day was dependent on the type of hospitalization. Stays principally for brain cancer were approximately $800 more costly than average ($2,700 versus $1,900), yet costs for secondary stays were no different from the average hospitalization ($1,800 versus $1,900).\nPatients principally admitted for brain cancer were substantially less likely to be admitted from the emergency department than the average hospitalization (35.1 percent versus 55.7 percent). Furthermore, brain cancer patients were more likely to die in the hospital than the average patient (4.4 percent versus 2.6 percent). Over time there has been a decline in deaths in the hospital for patients admitted for brain cancer\u2014deaths decreased by nearly one-third from 1995 to 2006 for brain cancer hospitalizations, from 6.2 percent to 4.4 percent (not shown).\nPrivate insurance was the primary payer for nearly half of all brain cancer-related stays (50.5 percent of principal stays, and 46.0 percent of secondary stays), followed by Medicare, which covered about a third of stays. This varied from the average hospitalization, in which Medicare was the payer for nearly half of all stays and private insurance covered one-third. Uninsured patients accounted for a smaller percentage of brain cancer-related stays than the average hospitalization (3.5 percent of principal stays and 2.1 percent of secondary stays compared with 5.8 percent uninsured among all stays).\nBrain cancer hospitalizations, by age and gender\nThe overall rate of brain cancer-related hospitalizations increased with patient age (table 1 and figure 2). Patients 45 years and older accounted for nearly two-thirds of all brain cancer-related hospitalizations, but the highest rates of hospitalization occurred among patients 65 and older (28.5 stays per 100,000 population for principal brain cancer and 27.5 stays per 100,000 population for those with the disease as a secondary diagnosis). Patients 45 and older were hospitalized slightly more often with brain cancer noted as the principal diagnosis. On the other hand, patients younger than 18 were hospitalized twice as often for secondary brain cancer\u20144.8 stays per 100,000 population for principal brain cancer versus 9.8 stays per 100,000 population for brain cancer as a secondary diagnosis\u2014possibly indicating follow-up treatment for other conditions associated with brain cancer.\nOverall, brain cancer-related hospitalizations occurred more often among males than females. Males accounted for 55.7 percent of hospitalizations principally for brain cancer and 54.2 percent of stays with a secondary diagnosis of brain cancer (table 1). Figure 3 provides the rates of hospitalization for brain cancer by age and gender. While males had slightly higher rates of brain cancer-related hospitalizations than females among patients younger than 45 years old, the difference between males and females was much higher among patients 45 years and older. In fact, the rate of brain cancer hospitalizations was highest among men over the age of 65, with 36.6 stays per 100,000 population for principal brain cancer hospitalizations (62 percent higher than females) and 34.5 stays per 100,000 population for stays with a secondary brain cancer diagnosis (55 percent higher than females).\nBrain cancer hospitalizations, by region\nAs shown in Figure 4, hospitalizations with a brain cancer diagnosis occurred more frequently in the Northeast than any other region\u201430.1 stays per 100,000 population. As a principal diagnosis, there were 13.0 stays per 100,000 population in the Northeast, and 17.1 stays per 100,000 population with a secondary diagnosis of a brain cancer.\nOverall, the South and West had the lowest rates of all brain cancer hospitalizations, each with nearly 23 stays per 100,000 population. When viewed by type of diagnosis, however, the rate of hospitalization varied: the Midwest had the lowest rate of stays for brain cancer as a principal diagnosis, and the West had the lowest rate for secondary diagnoses of brain cancer\u2014each with 10.7 stays per 100,000 population.\nSpecific locations of brain cancers\nTable 2 shows the percentage of hospital stays for brain cancer by the specific location of the tumor for various age groups, based on a principal diagnosis of brain cancer. Compared with adults, children younger than 18 years have lower hospitalization rates for supratentorial tumors, or tumors in the upper brain (i.e., cerebrum, frontal, temporal, parietal, and occipital lobe tumors) and higher rates for infratentorial tumors, or tumors in the lower brain (cerebellar and brain stem). In general, frontal lobe tumor hospitalizations decrease with age while temporal and parietal lobe tumor hospital stays increase with age.\nPrincipal diagnoses for brain cancer-related hospitalizations\nLess than half (47.9 percent) of all hospitalizations related to brain cancer had the diagnosis as the principal reason for the hospitalization. More often, another condition was listed as the principal reason for admission. Table 3 lists the top 20 principal diagnoses for all brain cancer-related hospitalizations. About 55 percent of all hospitalizations related to brain cancer had a form of cancer or cancer therapy as a principal diagnosis, including brain and nervous system cancer (47.9 percent), maintenance chemotherapy and radiotherapy (6.0 percent), secondary malignancies (1.0 percent), and other cancers (0.9 percent)\u2014lung, leukemia, kidney, breast, and other forms.\nOther disorders affecting the nervous system were also common principal diagnoses among hospitalizations related to brain cancer. Epilepsy and convulsions accounted for 4.0 percent of stays, followed by other nervous system disorders (1.3 percent) and other hereditary and degenerative nervous system conditions (0.8 percent). Acute cerebrovascular disease, or stroke, was the principal diagnosis for 1.7 percent of brain cancer-related stays. Other conditions reflect the severity of illness for these patients\u2014pneumonia, septicemia, pulmonary heart disease, aspiration pneumonitis, and respiratory failure. Over three percent of brain cancer patients experienced some complication of medical care.\nThe estimates in this Statistical Brief are based upon data from the HCUP 2006 Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) and the 2006 Kids Inpatient Database (KID). Historical data were drawn from the 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 NIS. The statistics were generated from HCUPnet, a free, online query system that provides users with immediate access to largest set of publicly available, all-payer national, regional, and State-level hospital care databases from HCUP. Supplemental sources included data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Annual Estimates of the Population for the United States, Regions, and Divisions and U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P60-226, Coverage by Type of Health Insurance.\nFor this report, Brain Cancer diagnoses were defined as CCS diagnosis:\n\u2013 35: Cancer of Brain and Nervous System\nThe HCUP Kids\u2019 Inpatient Database (KID) is a nationwide database of hospital inpatient stays. The KID is the only dataset on hospital use, outcomes, and charges designed to study children\u2019s use of hospital services in the United States. The KID is a sample of discharges from all community, non-rehabilitation hospitals in States participating in HCUP. The target universe includes pediatric discharges from community, non-rehabilitation hospitals in the United States. Pediatric discharges are defined as all discharges where the patient was age 20 or less at admission. For this analysis only discharges for children 17 years and younger were included. The KID's large sample size enables analyses of rare conditions, such as congenital anomalies and uncommon treatments, such as organ transplantation. It can be used to study a wide range of topics including the economic burden of pediatric conditions, access to services, quality of care and patient safety, and the impact of health policy changes. The KID is produced every three years; prior databases are available for 1997, 2000, and 2003.\nFor a detailed description of HCUP, please refer to the following publication:\nHolmquist, Laurel, M.A., Russo, Allison C., M.P.H., Elixhauser, Anne, Ph.D. Hospitalizations for Brain Cancer, 2006. HCUP Statistical Brief #68. March 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb68.pdf\n1Statistical Report: Primary Brain Tumors in the United States, 2000\u20132004. Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States. Hinsdale, IL. 2008. http://www.cbtrus.org/reports/reports.html (Accessed 2/6/2009).\n2What You Need to Know About Brain Tumors. National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD. 2003. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/wyntk/brain/ Accessed 2/6/2009).\n3Brain Tumor\u2014Adults. Medline Plus. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Medicine, 2009. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus (Accessed 2/19/2009).\n4Ries LAG, Melbert D, Krapcho M, Stinchcomb DG, Howlader N, Horner MJ, Mariotto A, Miller BA, Feuer EJ, Altekruse SF, Lewis DR, Clegg L, Eisner MP, Reichman M, Edwards BK (eds). SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975\u20132005, National Cancer Institute. Bethesda, MD. http://seer.cancer.gov/ (Accessed 2/6/2009).\n5While it is not known what caused this increase, the spike in hospital admissions in 2005 is corroborated by the National Hospital Discharge Survey (NHDS), a survey of hospital stays based on a different sampling strategy from the data used in this report.\n6HCUP CCS. Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). May 2008. U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/toolssoftware/ccs/ccs.jsp\n7HCUP Cost-to-Charge Ratio Files (CCR). Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). 2001\u20132006 . U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/db/state/costtocharge.jsp\nTable 1. Characteristics of hospitalizations related to brain cancer compared to hospitalizations for all conditions, 2006\nHospital stays principally for brain cancer\nHospital stays with a secondary diagnosis of a brain cancer\nTotal number of hospitalizations 35,200 38,300 30,142,300\nAggregate costs $655.5 million $433.5 million $297.6 billion\nPercentage died in hospital 4.4% 4.1% 2.6%\nExpected primary payer:\nYounger than 18 years 10.0% 19.2% 6.5%\nPercentage of male patients 55.7% 54.2% 46.4%\n*Hospital stays for newborns and maternal childbirth have been excluded.\nTable 2. Hospitalization rates for specific types of brain cancer by age group, 2006*\nBrain cancer type*\nStays per 100,000 population\n\u203918 years\nCerebrum 7.6 3.6 2.9 2.9\nFrontal lobe 7.5 33.5 28.2 23.2\nTemporal lobe 5.0 14.6 17.9 20.7\nParietal lobe 3.2 8.9 14.1 16.7\nOccipital lobe 1.4 2.2 3.5 4.0\nCerebellum 16.7 5.1 1.3 1.2\nBrain stem 11.4 2.7 1.2 1.2\nSpinal cord 3.5 3.0 1.9 0.8\nVentricles 11.4 2.1 1.3 0.0\nUnspecified 16.9 9.5 11.7 12.1\n* Brain cancer is the principal diagnosis.\nSource: AHRQ, Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Nationwide Inpatient Sample, 2006 and Kids\u2019 Inpatient Database, 2006\nTable 3. Top 20 principal diagnoses among all brain cancer-related hospitalizations, 2006\nPercentage of all brain cancer hospitalizations\n1 Brain and nervous system cancers 35,200 47.9%\n2 Maintenance chemotherapy, radiotherapy 4,400 6.0%\n3 Rehabilitation care, fitting of prostheses, and adjustment of devices 3,100 4.3%\n4 Epilepsy, convulsions 2,900 4.0%\n5 Pneumonia 1,400 1.9%\n6 Complication of device, implant or graft 1,300 1.8%\n7 Complications of surgical procedures or medical care 1,300 1.8%\n8 Acute cerebrovascular disease (stroke) 1,200 1.7%\n9 Septicemia (except in labor) 1,200 1.7%\n10 Disease of white blood cells 1,100 1.5%\n11 Phlebitis, thrombophlebitis, and thromboembolism 1,100 1.4%\n12 Fluid and electrolyte disorders 1,000 1.3%\n13 Other nervous system disorders 900 1.3%\n14 Pulmonary heart disease 900 1.2%\n15 Secondary malignancies 800 1.0%\n16 Other cancers 700 0.9%\n17 Urinary tract infections 600 0.8%\n18 Other hereditary and degenerative nervous system conditions 600 0.8%\n19 Aspiration pneumonitis, food/vomitus 600 0.8%\n20 Respiratory failure, insufficiency, arrest (adult) 600 0.8%", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 30179, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 330.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://heirsweb.wordpress.com/category/past-conferences/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:50Z", "digest": "sha1:RL5VJQ4CZF2B35FOC3B2DB45KGB52BRI", "length": 8564, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "heirsweb.wordpress.com", "title": "Past conferences \u2013 HEIRS", "raw_content": "Category: Past conferences\nContinue reading \u201cProgramme Second Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration\u201d \u2192\nContinue reading \u201cConference Report 14th HEIRS conference: \u201cEuropean Integration or Disintegration? Causes and Origins of the Crises in Southern Europe\u201d\u201d \u2192\nCfP Second Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration\n*Deadline: 31 March 2018*\nThe Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration is a joint initiative between the Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre (ADG) and the two European associations of young researchers, RICHIE (R\u00e9seau international de jeunes chercheurs en histoire de l\u2019int\u00e9gration europ\u00e9enne) and HEIRS (History of European integration research society).\nContinue reading \u201cCfP Second Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration\u201d \u2192\n5 January 2018 5 September 2018\nConference Report 13th HEIRS conference: \u201cThe Informal Construction of Europe\u201d\n13th History of European Integration Research Society Conference, 23-25 March 2017, Luxembourg\nThe 13th annual conference of the History of European Integration Research Society (HEIRS) raised the important topic of \u2018informality\u2019 in the history of European integration. While the majority of historical or political science research on European integration has focused on the formal institutions and the diplomatic procedures of establishing them, informality has played a crucial role in European integration. While indeed, treaties, laws and EU institutions constitute the formal fundaments of European integration, informal activities on the European intergovernmental, supranational and transnational stage have often been a necessary precondition for concerted action leading to binding agreements and political change. The theme of this conference invited scholars to elaborate on the role of informality in European integration in various guises. The aim of the conference was to bring together PhD students and several senior researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds ranging from history to political sciences to discuss their research on informality in European integration. The conference was held at the Historical Archives of the European Parliament and the Maison Robert Schuman in Luxembourg and was organized by the HEIRS members Mechthild Herzog (University of Luxembourg) and Lennaert van Heumen (Radboud University Nijmegen). Continue reading \u201cConference Report 13th HEIRS conference: \u201cThe Informal Construction of Europe\u201d\u201d \u2192\nCfP 1st EUI/RICHIE/HEIRS Graduate Conference\nEuropean University Institute, Florence, 18-20 September 2017\nThe Annual Graduate Conference on the History of European Integration is a joint initiative between the Alcide De Gasperi Research Centre at EUI and the two European associations of young researchers, RICHIE (R\u00e9seau international de jeunes chercheurs en histoire de l\u2019int\u00e9gration europ\u00e9enne) and HEIRS (History of European integration research society).\nContinue reading \u201cCfP 1st EUI/RICHIE/HEIRS Graduate Conference\u201d \u2192\nInternational colloquium: \u201cForms of Europe: of the European Union and of other organisations\u201d\nUniversit\u00e9 de Lausanne, 21 and 22 October 2016\nThis colloquium was organised by the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l\u2019Europe, in collaboration with HEIRS and RICHIE and supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The theme was Forms of Europe: of the European Union and of other organizations.\nContinue reading \u201cInternational colloquium: \u201cForms of Europe: of the European Union and of other organisations\u201d\u201d \u2192\n1st HEIRS-RICHIE Conference: Capitalism, Crises and European Integration from 1945 to the present\nEuropean University Institute, Florence, Italy, 26-28 May 2016\nThe severe multidimensional crisis that has been affecting Europe since 2008 calls for a critical rethinking of European integration history. Europe\u2019s present difficulties highlight both the importance of crises in shaping European integration and the role of European governance in asserting a certain form of capitalism. Crises have punctuated and defined European integration history from the start \u2013 the mushrooming of integration and cooperation projects sixty years ago were responses to the chaos of post-\u00ad\u2010war Europe. The present crisis also raises questions about the nature of the European \u2018project\u2019, which appears today to differ in many ways from what it was at its inception. Arguably, European integration took ot in a moment of exception in the history of capitalism, when inequalities were at a historical low \u2013in sharp contrast with the present era of globalised \u2018neoliberal\u2019 capitalism and record inequalities. This conference will explore the interconnections between European integration and the history of capitalism and its crises, in an effort to highlight the shifting nature of the European integration process. Continue reading \u201c1st HEIRS-RICHIE Conference: Capitalism, Crises and European Integration from 1945 to the present\u201d \u2192\n12th HEIRS Conference: National societal actors in a multilevel environment\nUniversit\u00e9 Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), 21-22 April 2016\nProcesses of globalization have given birth to new (or renewed) fields of research in the social sciences. Numerous attempts have been made to develop transnational or global studies and history. It has been argued that history has to be written within a new framework that transcends national boundaries and takes into consideration the interconnectedness of human societies (Knudsen and Gram Skoldager; 2014: 146). Some authors have suggested a need to overcome an excessive focus on the state as the \u201cprimary unit of historical inquest\u201d (Robin, 2009: 486). While recognizing the necessity to go beyond national histories for social science and historical analysis, however, the state and national actors are not necessarily weakened. We take the epistemological stance that there is no \u201cnecessary trade-off in power between national governmental and supranational institutional actors\u201d (Kaiser and Meyer; 2013:1). Continue reading \u201c12th HEIRS Conference: National societal actors in a multilevel environment\u201d \u2192\n22 April 2016 2 November 2016 Leave a comment\n11th HEIRS Conference: Narratives of European Integration\nUniversity of Portsmouth, 15-16 April 2015\nNarratives, or ways of telling stories about history, identity and culture, are powerful tools. They can serve to legitimate or contest regimes, facilitate or undermine social and cultural cohesion, and influence notions of identity and otherness. They are cultural constructs, created by state and societal actors, individuals and groups, sometimes deliberately with a political goal in mind, sometimes unintentionally and implicitly.\nA variety of actors have developed such narratives for Europe as a cultural space and for the present-day European Union as an economic and political entity. Analyzing these stories told in the past or in the present, about the past, the present and the future of Europe and the European Union, can provide crucial insights into the actors promoting them, their motivations and objectives, and about the stories themselves, their focus and forms of narration and their dissemination across borders in Europe. Narratives thus are a very fruitful subject for analyzing the history and current state of Europe and the European integration. Continue reading \u201c11th HEIRS Conference: Narratives of European Integration\u201d \u2192\n10th HEIRS Conference: History, Memory and European Identity\nMaastricht University, 5-6 June 2014\nThe question of how to generate a sense of belonging to a multinational political community has preoccupied intellectuals and politicians since the founding moments of the European Union. Particularly in times of stress and doubt calls for a European identity have become a central topic. Currently, in the wake of the on-going EU crisis discussions about the connection between the construction (or the lack) of a common European identity and legitimacy of EU governance are coming back to the fore. Debates centre on the question if and how the EU can effectively and lawfully operate if its citizens do not sustain the integration project sufficiently enough. Apart from discussions on the possibility of and the need for a political identity we can discern a separate discourse on questions surrounding the development of a cultural identity and common memory of Europe. The concepts of identity, memory and lieux de m\u00e9moire are in fact deeply interwoven. Continue reading \u201c10th HEIRS Conference: History, Memory and European Identity\u201d \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 12186, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 321.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://helen.rehometowne.com/areas/Oakland+Twp", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:25Z", "digest": "sha1:5RTIFJLALBEMUTZLNOT5NYQJXARKGP7M", "length": 3308, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "helen.rehometowne.com", "title": "Oakland Twp Real Estate - Find Your Perfect Home For Sale!", "raw_content": "Oakland Twp Real Estate - Find Your Perfect Home For Sale!\nOakland Twp Listings Summary\nOakland Twp - Town vs. County Stats\nAvg Price in Oakland Twp: $808,000 / County Avg $483,100\nAvg Taxes in Oakland Twp: $7,000 / County Avg $4,700\nAvg Sq. Ft. in Oakland Twp: 3,886 / County Avg 2,364\nAvg Price per/ft2 in Oakland Twp: $208 / County Avg $204\nAvg Walkscore in Oakland Twp: 9 / County Avg 30\nAvg Year Built in Oakland Twp: 2001 / County Avg 1978\nAvg Days on Website in Oakland Twp: 97 / County Avg 94\nOakland Twp Listings\n900 E Gunn Road\nOakland Twp Real Estate Market Health\nCharter Township of Oakland is an affluent charter township on the north Oakland County outskirts of Metro Detroit, in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is colloquially referred to as \"Oakland Township\". The population was 16,779 at the 2010 census.\nOakland Township is less densely populated than neighboring townships to the west, south, and east; and retains many elements of a rural, wooded residential bedroom community. Local ordinances and zoning laws are aimed at limiting commercial and industrial development while maintaining a cap on population density by way of a master plan.\nOakland Township has the distinction of being one of the Michigan's oldest townships, and was first named in surveys using the guidelines set by the Land Ordinance of 1785. A General Land Office opened in 1818, bringing the first permanent settlers to the area. It was one of the original 25 townships in the Territory of Michigan when counties were further divided into townships in 1827. Township boundaries and area (36 sq mi) were finalized in 1837 when Michigan gained statehood.\nGoodison Station was a flag station built in 1872 on the Detroit and Bay City Railroad. Another branch of track served the Detroit United Railway. In 1926, a head-on collision between a passenger train and freight train near the Goodison depot resulted in one death and 37 injuries. Passenger service on the lines had ceased by 1950.\nPaint Creek Trail opened in 1983 as the first rail trail in Michigan. The trail is in the right-of-way of the former Detroit and Bay City Railroad, Michigan Central Railroad and Penn Central Railroad lines; linking the village of Lake Orion with the city of Rochester and passing through the unincorporated village of Goodison. The original rail line was in service until the track was removed when Penn Central's railroad operations were taken over by Conrail in 1976 The property was purchased by the a trail commission representing local governments in 1983 for $450,000.\nOakland Township is one possible location as the final resting place of former Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa, who had been missing since 1975. A specific piece of property came under scrutiny in January 2013 after Tony Zerilli, 85, the son of reputed former Detroit Partnership boss Joseph Zerilli, told investigators that Hoffa was buried there. It was reported that the property had at one time been owned via land contract and intermediate businesses by Jack Tocco, a convicted mobster who also had legitimate real estate holdings in Metro Detroit, including Oakland Township. On June 17, 2013, FBI investigators arrived to conduct a thorough search of the area. On June 19, 2013 authorities concluded the search after no evidence was discovered.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 8201, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 208.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hellogiggles.com/celebrity/dylan-sprouse-joined-riverdale-cast/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:39Z", "digest": "sha1:RUVQBTDPMVLW2S674AKDKITXHUSGTUYE", "length": 2690, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "hellogiggles.com", "title": "Dylan Sprouse sneakily joined the cast of \u201cRiverdale\u201d for a day - HelloGiggles", "raw_content": "Dylan Sprouse sneakily joined the cast of \u201cRiverdale\u201d for a day\nRich Fury / Stringer / Getty Images\nFor people who grew up watching The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, seeing Cole Sprouse on Riverdale without his twin brother Dylan is a little bit jarring. Cole is great at playing Jughead, but fans are always wondering if his brother will show up as a guest star. But wonder no more, because Dylan Sprouse found a way to join the Riverdale cast. Sort of.\nSadly, Dylan\u2019s appearance with his brother\u2019s castmates \u2014 including Cole\u2019s off-screen girlfriend Lili Reinhart \u2014 didn\u2019t actually happen on set. Or even in person, for that matter. But it was documented on Instagram. Here\u2019s what happened: Dylan cheekily posed with a poster of the whole Riverdale cast. And considering that Cole has been outspoken about not wanting his brother to appear on the CW show, this might be the one time we see Dylan with the crew.\nThe blonde-haired Sprouse twin posted the pictures to his Instagram Story, and they\u2019re a feast for the eyes. In each photo, he did his best imitation of a different main character. He also included a word that spells the message, \u201cLook I\u2019m a Riverdale cast member lol.\u201d Flip through this slideshow to see Dylan\u2019s poses as the Riverdale cast members.\nWe\u2019ve gotta say, it seems like Dylan still has the same sense of humor that he had on The Suite Life.\nEven though his selfies with the Riverdale cast makes it look like Dylan might want to be on the show, Cole has publicly said that it\u2019s not happening. In an interview with Glamour, Cole opened up about it, saying, \u201cI think it would just be silly. It would be super, super weird and totally not appropriate. I also just don\u2019t think Dylan wants to; to be honest, I wouldn\u2019t want to either.\u201d\nKnowing that Dylan won\u2019t be making an actual appearance on Riverdale is a little heartbreaking.\nThe two brothers had so much on-screen chemistry on The Suite Life. And it doesn\u2019t hurt that they\u2019re both \u00fcber attractive.\nUm, we mean comedic chemistry, obviously.\nDespite Cole\u2019s adamant quotes about not wanting Dylan to join him on the show, it kind of would make sense. In the original Archie comics, Jughead actually has a twin cousin named Souphead. Cole said it would be \u201csilly\u201d and \u201cweird\u201d to have his brother on the show. But if Souphead showed up, it might be even weirder if Jughead\u2019s twin cousin was played by someone other than his actual twin.\nPerhaps there\u2019s still a little hope that both Sprouse boys will appear together again on TV after all.\n\u2026Or not. It makes a lot of sense that both twins want to do their own thing. If we ever ~need~ to see Dylan as part of the Riverdale cast, we\u2019ll always have these pics for reference.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4551, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 310.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hellogiggles.com/news/stranger-things-season-3-dark/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:36Z", "digest": "sha1:E2JXBJRHTCEZ2G3CXN6KYMK2GURLWZUT", "length": 3169, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "hellogiggles.com", "title": "Stranger Things Is In For A \"Darker\" Season 3 - HelloGiggles", "raw_content": "Stranger Things is going to get \"dark\" for Season 3 \u2014 even with Hopper being a new dad to Eleven\nStranger Things Season 2 may have seen Will Byers possessed by the Mind Flayer and the brutal murders of one Bob Newby and Mews the cat, but apparently the Netflix series is about to get a whole lot darker in Season 3.\nFilming for the third season of the breakout Netflix science fiction series is currently underway, and details from the upcoming season are being firmly kept under wraps. But executive producer Shawn Levy recently dropped clues regarding the season\u2019s darker tone. In a new interview with Deadline, he revealed, \u201c[It\u2019s] definitely going to yet darker still, places that I think audiences are going to really love.\u201d But while the series may be getting darker, it\u2019s not going to lose its famous wit. Levy added, \u201cIt\u2019s got so much heart and humor.\u201d\nThe darker tone for the season is just the latest in coy details Levy has dropped on fans, who are eagerly awaiting news from the beloved thriller series. In March, Levy confirmed that Season 3 would see a time jump, picking up in the summer of 1985.\nHowever David Harbour, who scored his second Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Chief Jim Hopper in Season 2, hinted at a few of the famous 1980s references fans should expect from the upcoming season. Without being too specific, Harbour directed Deadline toward major films set in \u201ca specific\u201d season in 1985.\n\u201cIf you\u2019re a real fan of Stranger Things and you really want to know,\u201d Harbour divulged, \u201cI would go look at the great films that were released in \u201985, of which there were many, and just go down that list and think of the possibilities that we could be going with. I think it is a specific season to 1985, and so you\u2019ll see references to that.\u201d\nFor reference, Back to the Future, The Goonies, and Cocoon were all released in the summer of 1985 \u2014 aka the same time Stranger Things 3 takes place.\nIn addition to dropping hints about impending \u201980s references, Harbour also opened up about what Hopper will be like in Season 3. He told Deadline that the upcoming season will see Hopper as the culmination of the gritty, \u201cColumbo\u201d-esque sheriff introduced in Season 1 and the more paternal Hopper as seen in Season 2.\n\u201cThere was a sort of swashbuckling guy that we put on the back burner, so I think we\u2019ll see a little more of the swashbuckling Hopper you may have liked from Season 1,\" Harbour said. \"It\u2019s almost like [Season] 1 plus two, equals three. It\u2019s like you have this third character now, who goes back to the swashbuckling guy of Season 1, but also has behind him this adopted daughter who he loves very much, so it\u2019s really cool.\u201d\nOf how the series continues to break into new territory, Harbour said, \u201cWe\u2019re experimenting a lot this season, and we\u2019re taking risks, and I hope that they pay off but they are risks. We\u2019re going into territories we\u2019ve never been to before, and it\u2019s exciting.\u201d\nOh no, Stranger Things is getting darker and riskier? As if we weren\u2019t already nervous for our beloved Hawkins residents. Hopefully Season 3 hits Netflix sooner rather than later so we can ensure the survival of our favorite Demogorgon hunters.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 5065, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://herrmann-kraeuter.de/en/careers.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:55Z", "digest": "sha1:HWXSGXRCIX4TUZDV243GDX4NTHV3S5SR", "length": 251, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "herrmann-kraeuter.de", "title": "Career at Herrmann Herbs in Neuss", "raw_content": "Here, you will shortly be able to find information on our careers.\nPlease try again at a later date. Meanwhile, you can send us a message using our contact form, write us an email or simply give us a call. We are more than happy to answer any queries.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 793, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 264.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://highlandwaters.com.au/about-us/the-vision", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:49Z", "digest": "sha1:B5E3TVD7N3LCNQPTVB7RHJ2M3YFOZUMY", "length": 1845, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "highlandwaters.com.au", "title": "The Vision", "raw_content": "The Highland Waters Vision\nOne of the beautiful things about fly fishing for trout is that you will only find them in pristine country. And rude, impatient and uncaring people have never the time or attitude to master the art of fly fishing so you never find them there.\nHighland Waters expresses the remarkable vision of Jason Garrett, who was born and raised in Tasmania, where he first acquired his love of fishing. Over the years Jason has refined that childhood pastime to an art form.\nJason has travelled the world many times as a champion trout angler. He captained Australia\u2019s fly fishing team in competition in Poland, the Czech Republic, the USA and Spain and was a member of the Australian team in Wales, New Zealand, Canada and Italy. In 2013 Jason was the Captain of the Australian Team at the 33rd World Championships in Norway and in 2014 was the Australian Captain of the Inaugural World Masters Fly Fishing event in Chile as well as Captain of the Australian Team at the 16th Commonwealth Championships in Devon.\nIn the early 1970s Jason and his wife Barbara developed London Lakes trout fishery, a larger-scale initiative that confirmed Tasmania\u2019s reputation as a world class trout fishing destination. Such was the success of London Lakes that the World Fly Fishing Championships were held there in 1988. London Lakes is adjacent to Highland Waters and is the source of its guaranteed water supply.\nDevelopment of Highland Waters began in 1990 on a summer cattle run that was drained marshland. The project is now in its final stages.\nThe sustainable, quality design of Highland Waters reflects Jason\u2019s commitment to excellence, appreciation of Tasmania\u2019s unique natural beauty, and enduring passion for trout fishing.\nYou can read more about the Highland Waters Vision in issue #73 of FlyLife Magazine: Article 'Garrett's Way", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4302, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 241.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://history.lds.org/chdaily/1132015?lang=eng", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:58Z", "digest": "sha1:K2UOEKMSRQG4VPPVVTK4T6SSSRXLMXTE", "length": 389, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "history.lds.org", "title": "Where the Church in Korea Started Where the Church in Korea Started", "raw_content": "Where the Church in Korea Started\nThe first baptisms in Korea took place on August 3, 1952, in Busan, but they were the result of the baptism of Kim Ho Jik on July 29, 1951, in the Susquehanna River\u2014the same river where Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery had been baptized so many years before.\nHee-Chul Seo, \u201cThe Church in Korea: Gospel Light Shines Through Hardship,\u201d Ensign, Sept. 2014, 35", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1198, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 156.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Vivian-Apple-Needs-a-Miracle/9780544390423", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Q7GVTBVX55I3PX67DV2TMLJ6Z45VTRHU", "length": 9425, "nlines": 35, "source_domain": "hmhbooks.com", "title": "Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle | HMH Books", "raw_content": "\u201cGET ANGRY. We should all be so pissed at the Church of America that we\u2019re willing to break our hands in the metaphorical punching of its metaphorical face.\u201d \u2014Harpreet Janda, fugitive\nThe predicted Rapture by Pastor Frick\u2019s Church of America has come and gone, and three thousand Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend, Harpreet, are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church\u2019s diabolical power grab . . . and to locate Viv\u2019s missing heartthrob, Peter Ivey. This fast-paced, entertaining sequel to Vivian Apple at the End of the World challenges readers to consider how to live with integrity in a disintegrating world.\nKatie Coyle grew up in Fair Haven, New Jersey, and has an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. Her short fiction has appeared in One Story, The Southeast Review, Cobalt, and Critical Quarterly.\n\"Like its prequel, Katie Coyle's ostensibly YA novel Vivian Apple Needs a Miracle examines pretty heavy themes \u2014 spirituality, faith, love, and how doing the right thing can be really hard, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.\"\n\u201cAn utterly chilling look at what happens when a dying world so desperately wants to believe in anything to survive.\u201d\n\"The characters are well rounded and believable and represent multiple personalities and ideologies...Readers will be questioning their own belief systems and asking themselves just how far they would go to uncover the truth.\"\n\"Coyle adeptly handles an exceptionally multifaceted plot, easily seguing from snarky social criticism to heart-pounding action to stomach-fluttering romance, creating a breathless whirlwind that keeps the pages fying until the very end. A distinctive, complex, and thoughtful page-turner certain to leave readers clamoring for more.\"\n\"Unpredictable and unique, this book wil leave readers in awe, aspiring to be as brave and graceful as Vivian Apple herself.\"\n\u2014VOYA, Teen Reviewer\n\"Nonstop twists and breathless action flirt with crossing the line into absurdity, but that's just part of this sequel's appeal. Fans shouldn't hesitate to continue Viv's quest along with her, and they'll be satisfied with how her mission to save humanity from fear-fueled delusion plays out.\"\n\"As before, Coyle takes an intriguing premise, covers it with questions of faith and loyalty, adds a gallon of cynicism, and keeps it moving...Along with the questions about religion and consumerism that are in the forefront of the girls' quest, tucked away are important insights about human nature.\"\n* \"Coyle dials back the urgency of her debut, adopting a more languid pace while still delivering plenty of action...As Vivian and harp attempt to solve the mystery of the faked Rapture in an effort to expose the Church as a fraud, Coyle again offers searing commentary on present-day religiosity and consumerism.\"\n\u201cIt was right here,\u201d Harp says.\nWe\u2019re standing a couple of blocks uphill from my half sister Winnie\u2019s apartment in San Francisco, staring at an empty space of curb. A space with no car parked in it. It\u2019s early afternoon, and the sky is an unsettling red, like the inside of a blood orange. Harp steps off the sidewalk, moving her hands carefully around the general area where the roof of the car should be. Like it\u2019s simply invisible. Like it\u2019s still a tangible object in front of us.\n\u201cViv.\u201d My best friend turns to me. \u201cI swear\u2014this is where I left it.\u201d\nA year ago, before Harp and I were friends, when we were just girls who lived in the same neighborhood, one of us timid and aggressively well-behaved (me), the other a whirling dervish of schemes and creative combinations of expletives (her), I might have suspected Harp to be playing an unnecessarily cruel prank on me. But we\u2019re coming off the longest night of our lives. We haven\u2019t showered, we\u2019re tired and frightened, and anyway, Harp has a wild look in her eye, so sharp I can\u2019t look directly at it.\n\u201cMaybe it\u2019s another block up.\u201d I scan the stretch of road leading up the hill, looking for the little black sedan that has carried us so far. If I believed in some kind of god right now, I\u2019d pray for Harp to be mistaken. \u201cAll these buildings look the same to me.\u201d\nHarp shakes her head and points to the house behind me. There\u2019s a handmade sign propped up in the first-floor window: FRICK IS A PRICK.\n\u201cI remember seeing that when I got out of the car,\u201d she says. \u201cI laughed for a solid five minutes. Why did we never think of it before? The rhyme. So simple, so powerful.\u201d\nI try to stay calm. But the car is all we have. With it, we\u2019re revolutionaries. If it were here, we\u2019d drive back over the Golden Gate Bridge into the forests of Point Reyes, where Prophet Beaton Frick\u2019s secret Church of America compound lies, to find two things: (1) Peter Ivey, the bluest-eyed boy I\u2019ve ever met, whom we left behind when we escaped; and (2) evidence of the thing we now know to be true: there was no Rapture. The world is not ending, at least not in September, as predicted. The disappearances, the fear and panic, the families torn apart\u2014all of it was engineered by the Church of America Corporation. Because they could do it. Because they could make money off it. Once we had evidence, we\u2019d expose them. And then? There\u2019d be no Church. My life wouldn\u2019t go back to normal\u2014it\u2019s changed too much\u2014but it isn\u2019t hard to believe the lives of others would. With the car, we are the most dangerous teenage girls in America.\nBut the car\u2019s not here. If we\u2019ve lost it, we\u2019ve lost everything: suitcases, clothes, most of our money, my diary, Harp\u2019s Xanax. My only pictures of my parents\u2014I want them badly now; I want the picture of my dad. It\u2019s taken three thousand miles to get to this point, and along the way I\u2019ve lost everything I\u2019ve ever owned, and most of the people I\u2019ve loved. The adrenaline I\u2019ve been running on since last night fades, and with it, the pain in my hand\u2014the hand I might\u2019ve broken on the face of Frick\u2014throbs harder. I feel the pinprick of a headache forming between my eyebrows.\n\u201cYou didn\u2019t park here,\u201d I tell Harp. \u201cYou parked somewhere else. You saw the sign while you were walking.\u201d\nHarp looks confused. \u201cAre you . . . trying to hypnotize me?\u201d\n\u201cYou didn\u2019t park here!\u201d I mean to sound confident, but my voice comes out shrill. \u201cWe\u2019ll do a loop around the block. You just thought you parked here. You didn\u2019t park here.\u201d\nShe nods uncertainly, and the two of us spring back in the direction of Winnie\u2019s apartment. Harp chews the inside of her cheek. I try to calm myself with rationality\u2014what are the odds our car could have been stolen? What are the odds that since this time yesterday, I could have learned the truth about the Rapture, confirmed that my parents were dead, abandoned in the woods the closest thing I\u2019ve ever had to a boyfriend, learned that actually my mother is not dead and has just been chilling in the Bay Area with the half sister I only recently found out about, decided to leave said alive mother in favor of taking down the Church of America alongside my equally pissed and confused best friend, and had my car stolen? What kind of vengeful Old Testament shit is this?\n\u201cViv?\u201d\nHarp is several paces ahead, but she stops to gape at me. I don\u2019t understand why until I hear myself\u2014I\u2019m rooted where I stand, laughing in a gasping, hysterical way, tears streaming down my face. I taste the salt in them. It\u2019s not funny, the way Harp looks at me, but for some reason that makes me laugh harder. She takes a tentative step toward me.\n\u201cOh shit, dude,\u201d she whispers. \u201cIs this it? Have you finally gone bonkers on me?\u201d\nI shake my head. I can\u2019t breathe. I want to say, My dad. I want to say, Peter. But I can\u2019t calm down, and if I say their names, it will only get worse. Harp\u2019s expression softens, and I can\u2019t look at her, because I know she understands. If Harp understands, it\u2019s real\u2014I\u2019m not imagining this pain\u2014and if it\u2019s real, I\u2019m never going to stop feeling this way. I\u2019m going to hurt this much forever. I tip my head back. I start to feel dizzy, like I\u2019ve taken a half step outside my body. I have a brief, delirious moment of understanding: This is how I die. Not proudly, not fighting for the things I believe in, but of a panic attack in an unfamiliar city while Harp looks on helplessly.\n\u201cI\u2019m really, really sorry about this,\u201d I hear her say from somewhere far away.\nThen\u2014screaming pain. Everything goes white. I open my eyes. I\u2019m on my knees on the sidewalk, and Harp has my injured hand in hers. She barely touches it now, but I know a second ago she squeezed it. She has a fierce look in her eyes, like she\u2019s ready to do it again.\n\u201cNo, no, no,\u201d I gasp. I pull my hand from hers. \u201cI\u2019m okay. I\u2019m okay.\u201d\nHarp leans down and hugs me. Even in my post-hysterics state, I\u2019m surprised and weirdly touched by her willingness to publicly display affection for me.\n\u201cI know how it feels, Viv.\u201d Her voice is rough in my ear, and I hold tighter to her. It\u2019s only been a few months since Harp\u2019s brother, Raj, was murdered by Believers, and if Harp\u2019s Raptured parents escaped the fate of my father, we have no idea where they might be. \u201cIf we\u2019re going to survive it, we have to feel it. Even when we think it\u2019ll wreck us. We\u2019ll lean on each other. You won\u2019t let it wreck me and I won\u2019t let it wreck you. I\u2019ll be right here, and I\u2019ll pull you out of it when you need to be pulled out. Okay?\u201d\nI nod. 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Read this article to learn how to make your home safer and keep intruders away.\nDo you let your dog outside when you leave the house? Your dog is an excellent place to hide your spare key. Find a place to securely fasten the key to your pet\u2019s collar where it\u2019s not visible. If you have a pet that does not trust strangers, this can help you get into your house if needed.\nLook at the prices for all of the security systems that you are interested in. Several different firms may offer similar protection for wildly divergent prices. Get three quotes or more before making a choice.\nFire-resistant building materials are the way to go, both inside and outside the home. This adds an extra layer of protection to your home, especially if you live in a very dry area with power lines. Home security also includes taking steps to prevent a fire from completely destroying your home.\nIf you\u2019re going on a trip for an extended period of time, switch the ringer off on all home phones. Intruders might be attracted by a phone that rings constantly without anyone picking up.\nDon\u2019t ever put your spare key under your doormat or in a planter. You might think this protects you against being locked out of your home, but it also gives intruders access to your home. Burglars are well aware of such hiding places. The wisest course of action is to leave a spare key with a trusted friend or a reliable neighbor.\nThe wiring outside of your home can be valuable. A lot of people do not know this until a thief steals them from the house. The copper in the wiring is valuable and can be stripped off of the outside of the home in a relevantly short period of time. That\u2019s why it\u2019s important to hide your wiring, or make it hard for criminals to have access to it.\nBefore letting someone from a security company into a house, get some sort of official identification. Criminals can easily pretend to be from a security firm as a means to gain entry to the house. This can lead to harm befalling your family and possessions. Be cautious to stay away from those potential dangers.\nIf you\u2019re going to hire a company that provides home security, read everything in the contract before you sign it. You need to find out about hidden costs, such as cancellation fees in case you want to cancel your contract before it expires. It is best to know all you can about a service you sign up for.\nYou and your loved ones deserve to live in a safe and secure home. Crime may strike when you\u2019re off-guard. What you\u2019ve read here will help you to prepare. Don\u2019t put it off. 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We will map of an area of approximately 15 square kilometres of unique geology, part of the remains of an ancient rift zone.\nWhilst producing high quality research is important to us, our aim is for the expedition to be more than just an undergraduate mapping project. We want to engage with young people through undertaking our expedition, in order to increase awareness of the study of Earth Sciences and highlight its global importance.\nWe need your help to raise the money needed to make this exciting expedition a success!\nWe are a group of four second year Earth Scientists. We love geology and the outdoors, and want to be able to share that passion with others.\nIzzy - 19, St Anne's, Expedition Leader. Procrasti-bakes geology themed cakes when she should be revising.\n\"I've always loved travel, hiking and spending time in the mountains, so I am very lucky that my degree offers me an opportunity to spend 7 weeks doing just that! The more I read about it the more I feel drawn to Greenland and the Arctic, so I'm looking forward to being able to get out there and see it for myself.\"\nCamille - 20, St Anne's, Social Media Officer. A turtle neck jumper fanatic.\n\"I'm excited for our expedition because, as our location is so remote, it may be the only chance we have to go. I can't wait to experience the different cultures in Greenland, as well as getting the opportunity to really explore our surroundings through field work.\"\nTamsin - 20, Univ, Outreach Officer/Treasurer. We call her Tammo.\n\"I'd say for me it's a perfect academic challenge: unique geology, and an amazing setting to be looking in. Also a personal challenge - I've never done anything remotely like this before, so it's an exciting step into the unknown.\"\nJo - 19, Teddy Hall, Social Media Coordinator. Has taken a selfie with a yak in the Himalayas.\n\"This trip is important for me because I didn't really leave the UK as a child and I just want to see more of the world! It's the perfect mix of adventure and academia, I am so excited to see what the trip throws at us.\"\nWhy Greenland?\nAs a location for a mapping project, Greenland is unconventional and ambitious. We hope that this will capture the attention of the people we wish to engage. We will be camping for 7 weeks with limited access to facilities, and spending long days building a geological map from scratch in challenging physical conditions; a test of our physical and mental endurance.\nAs part of our undergraduate degree, we are required to undertake a geological mapping project. We want to use our experiences as a lens to show the opportunities offered by the field of Earth Sciences, inspire people to undertake their own expeditions and raise questions surrounding sustainable resource management in the Arctic. Often in expeditions, only the end result is seen, rather than the work needed to get there. We feel that by showing the entire process from planning to completion, we will be able to show that undertaking a project such as this is achievable for everyone.\nEarth Sciences is the key to understanding many of the problems which the world faces, and in order to tackle these problems we need people from a diverse range of backgrounds to study STEM subjects. We will be sharing our experiences by working directly with young people through an outreach project (giving presentations and workshops to school children, and running interactive stands at science fairs) both before and after the expedition. Our entire expedition process will also be documented online so that people we have connected with are able to follow our progress.\nWe hope that Greenland represents a location which will enable us to effectively complete our aims of encouraging public engagement in earth sciences and expeditions:\nProduction of geological maps of an area totaling approximately 30 square kilometres surrounding the village of Igaliku.\nRaising awareness of the study of geology and promoting the value of expeditions, through visiting students in schools, and via our social media and blog.\nInitiating discussions about the role of resource management in the Arctic, through opinions gathered about a mine which is proposed to open near to our mapping area from Greenland locals.\nAn expedition to Greenland doesn't come cheap, and will require a considerable amount of financial support. Our total expedition budget is just over \u00a316000.We have already received some funding from our department, and are hoping to be able to secure a considerable amount through grants from our colleges and from grant giving organisations. However, we need your help to ensure that we have enough money to cover our target budget and be able to undertake the expedition.\nOur main expenses include:\nFlights - \u00a33500\nBoat transfers in Greenland - \u00a3650\nFood - \u00a32500\nTents - \u00a3800\nInternet access - \u00a3700\nIf we reach our minimum, this money will be spent on essential expenses necessary for the expedition to run. If we raise our target, or even more, this will enable us to ensure that our expedition has the maximum possible impact, such as buying a GoPro camera so we can record even more of our adventures.\nThroughout the campaign, we will be regularly sharing updates of our planning and preparation. Please do get involved on our social media pages, and let us know of any thoughts and ideas. We would love to hear from you!\nWe have a range of great rewards on offer, for donations big and small. Please see the right hand side of the page for more information, and just give us a shout if you have questions about any of them.\nIf you are wondering where you can go to keep track of our antics, fear not! We will be extensively posting about our progress on all of our many social media channels. Follow us for tales of nerve-wracking interviews, rock smashing and maybe even some camping stove come-dine-with-me!\nBlog | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Snapchat | YouTube\nWe would also welcome any thoughts and ideas you may have, so feel free to get in touch. You can also contact us via email . You can also contact us if you know of a school or organisation who you feel would benefit from a visit from us.\nThe success of our project depends on the contribution of donors, like you. Every donation, of any size, will help us to achieve our goal.\nIf you'd like to help us further, or if you are unable to donate, please share our project with anyone you think might be interested in our expedition \u2013 on Twitter, Facebook, email, telephone, word of mouth, or any other ways you can think of! The more people who hear about our project, the more likely we are to succeed. By clicking the button at the top of the page, you can share your own unique link, to help others to find a way to our page where they can make a contribution of their own.\nIn case you missed it, here are all of our social media channels:\nWe are very grateful for all donations, whether big or small. Please sponsor us to help us to make this expedition a success!\nMapping love,\nIzzy, Camille, Tamsin and Jo\nBe named as a supporter on our blog, and we'll give you a shout out on social media to say thank you.\nAll of the above, plus we will send you a handwritten thank you postcard after the expedition, featuring a photo from Greenland.\nAll of the above, plus receive a set of 5 high quality A5 prints of photographs from our expedition\nAll of the above, plus we will write and send you a thank you letter whilst we are in Greenland.\nAll of the above, plus an invitation to a post expedition drinks reception in Oxford. We will be in touch to confirm details.\nAll of the above, plus we will record a personalised thank you video for you whilst in Greenland.\nAll of the above, plus an invitation to the Oxford Earth Sciences department after the expedition for us to show you all of our samples and completed maps. 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Since his earliest years, he\u2019s nourished himself from the cooperatives at home, he\u2019s analyzed them in LANKI, and he has tried to communicate the values of the cooperative movement in many projects. Now he has written the lyrics to the soundtrack of the Experience.\nFor you, what is the Humanity at Music Project?\nIt seems like a really appropriate idea \u2014 I was very happy when I heard about it. The area of art, among others, has been a weak point among the cooperatives, and this project is novel in that respect. There have been some small initiatives, not really corporate in scope, but this is the first time such a large-scale project has been undertaken. The proposal his its risks and its limitations, but I think it\u2019s coming together well. For me, it\u2019s a pleasure to work with artists such as Fernando Vel\u00e1zquez, Josu C\u00e1mara and Jon Maya \u2014 it\u2019s stimulating. And it will be wonderful to see participation in the project growing, seeing hundreds of people at rehearsals and on stage.\nYou wrote the lyrics to the compositions. What was your message?\nIn my work, I\u2019ve always tried to develop my own point of view on the cooperatives, a fairly complex point of view, and not always a sympathetic one. My point of view comes from three angles: a positive one, a critical one, and a constructive one. In these lyrics, the positive and constructive ones predominate. At times, you need to leave certain things in the background. You need words to put in the mouths of large numbers of people, words they can identify with.\nThe chorus will be gigantic.\nFor the lyrics to be sung by such a large group, there are some characteristics it needs, like comprehensibility, simplicity, certain phonetic or sound characteristics\u2026 At the same time, we have to say something worth saying, with the lyrics, the music, the dance and the stage management. I\u2019ve weaved the lyrics to create something everyone can sing, and also something that respects each individual\u2019s point of view. It\u2019s not an apology, it\u2019s a celebration. Lots of things are said in the eight movements, but the idea we wanted to get across is that all this deserves to be sung \u2014 what these generations have built together, what the cooperatives are doing and will do, with all the uncertainties, contradictions and worries that the future brings.\nThere\u2019s a desire to get people from across the cooperatives working together. What would you say to cooperative members to encourage them to participate in the project?\nThere won\u2019t be many opportunities to do things like this, and since the idea has come up, let\u2019s do it right. We\u2019re rigid and brief in the area of celebrations, as in some other internal issues. This is a small occasion to show that the cooperative movement is patriotic. Not really to show outsiders, but to live it from the inside. The creation, the rehearsals, the staging\u2026 all this could turn into a very powerful experience and it will be a real pleasure to participate in. If we pull it off, it could be an event we remember for many years to come.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 303, "original_length": 26990, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 187.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://humanrightscare.com/my-work-for-surrey604-magazine/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:BEP5NZVARPVOGAGVXS2PMWD3KWT37YUZ", "length": 303, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "humanrightscare.com", "title": "My work for Surrey604 magazine \u2013 Journalist for Surrey604, advocate for human empowerment, The United Nations contibutor", "raw_content": "http://surrey604.com/2017/08/26/roads-of-ithriyah-a-full-length-movie-on-how-war-and-dictatorship-affect-peoples-lives/\nhttp://surrey604.com/2017/08/20/how-i-survived-tasting-18-kinds-of-beer-at-surrey-bcs-battle-of-the-brews/\nhttp://surrey604.com/2017/08/28/samsung-has-launched-its-first-art-piece-tv/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 25, "original_length": 965, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 159.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iamgeek32.org/2018/05/10/rick-and-morty-renewal-saves-day/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:23Z", "digest": "sha1:IEUMQH6QQ4L6S4AJLOVQSIKTICOLOTGH", "length": 2408, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "iamgeek32.org", "title": "Rick and Morty Renewal Saves Day | I Am Geek", "raw_content": "Rick and Morty Renewal Saves Day\nGeeklings, today was a dumpster fire of a day. Seriously, if today had a face I\u2019d punch it. And pretty hard too. Just to let it know I\u2019m not tolerating any more of its nonsense. I\u2019m kind of fried at this point. You know the day I\u2019m talking about. It\u2019s that kind of day when you\u2019ve been on vacation that reminds you why you needed a vacation in the first place. That kind of day.\nNo joke, by twelve o\u2019clock my brain was a puddle of goo and there seemed to be no escape. I had my lunch, which is entirely too short this week, almost finished my book and went to refill my water bottle before going back to work. It was during this adventure that I learned some news that kind of saved the day for me. That restored a little bit of that goo into a brain like shape again. At least temporarily.\nWhy you ask? Well, my friends, because Rick and Morty is coming back! It was a little touch and go there for a bit but Adult Swim, Dan Harmon, and Justin Roiland have finally reached an agreement for season four. In fact, they\u2019ve reached an agreement for seventy more episodes of Rick and Morty. Seven. Ty. That\u2019ll bring the show up to a hundred one episodes total and, what I imagine will be, ten seasons of show. That\u2019s pretty spectacular.\nIn fact, it was enough good news to help save the day. Suddenly the dumpster fire was still burning but didn\u2019t smell as bad. For those who can\u2019t see me as I\u2019m writing this, I\u2019m sitting here pretty proud of that analogy.\nOf course, today was the type of day that wouldn\u2019t allow us to relish in the positive as Fox saw it upon themselves to cancel Brooklyn Nine-Nine, trying to harsh our Rick and Morty mellow, but I\u2019m going to not let them have it. I\u2019m going to focus on the good news here. I\u2019ll fully deal with the sadness of losing the Nine tomorrow.\nTonight is all for wubba lubba dub dub\u2026 of course, I know what it means. Yes, I\u2019m using it bittersweetly. No, I don\u2019t want to talk anymore. I told you my brain is mush.\nRick and Morty forever, and ever, ever, and ever. Ten seasons\u2026\nPosted in General Geek\t| Tagged Adult Swim, Book, Brain, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cartoons, Dan Harmon, Dumpster Fire, Fox, Fox Tv, Geeklings, Justin Roiland, Lunch, Morty Smith, Reading, Rick and Morty, Rick and Morty season 4, Rick Sanchez, Today, Vacation, water, water bottle, Work, Writing, wubba lubba dub dub | Leave a comment |\nAtlanta Season Two Review \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 3736, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 322.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ideas.repec.org/a/ucp/jpolec/v104y1996i2p298-345.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:29:23Z", "digest": "sha1:ZZGYY65HBX5GWXQ3VLNUHKOAAZODZJO2", "length": 12183, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "ideas.repec.org", "title": "Understanding Risk and Return", "raw_content": "This paper uses an equilibrium multifactor model to interpret the cross-sectional pattern of postwar U.S. stock and bond returns. Priced factors include the return on a stock index, revisions in forecasts of future stock returns (to capture intertemporal hedging effects), and revisions in forecasts of future labor income growth (proxies for the return on human capital). Aggregate stock market risk is the main factor determining excess returns but, in the presence of human capital or stock market mean reversion, the coefficient of relative risk aversion is much higher than the price of stock market risk. Copyright 1996 by University of Chicago Press.\nCampbell, John Y, 1996. \"Understanding Risk and Return,\" Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 104(2), pages 298-345, April.\nCampbell, John, 1996. \"Understanding Risk and Return,\" Scholarly Articles 3153293, Harvard University Department of Economics.\nJohn Y. Campbell, 1993. \"Understanding Risk and Return,\" NBER Working Papers 4554, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nJohn Y. Campbell, 1995. \"Understanding Risk and Return,\" Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers 1711, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research.\nFama, Eugene F & French, Kenneth R, 1992. \" The Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns,\" Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 47(2), pages 427-465, June.\nCampbell, John & Shiller, Robert, 1988. \"Stock Prices, Earnings, and Expected Dividends,\" Scholarly Articles 3224293, Harvard University Department of Economics.\nJohn Y. Campbell & Robert J. Shiller, 1988. \"Stock Prices, Earnings and Expected Dividends,\" Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 858, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.\nJohn Y. Campbell & Robert J. 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White Center for Financial Research.\nFama, Eugene F & French, Kenneth R, 1988. \"Permanent and Temporary Components of Stock Prices,\" Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 96(2), pages 246-273, April.\nFama, Eugene F, 1970. \"Multiperiod Consumption-Investment Decisions,\" American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 60(1), pages 163-174, March.\nRoll, Richard, 1977. \"A critique of the asset pricing theory's tests Part I: On past and potential testability of the theory,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 4(2), pages 129-176, March.\nRoll, Richard & Ross, Stephen A, 1980. \" An Empirical Investigation of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory,\" Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 35(5), pages 1073-1103, December.\nFerson, Wayne E & Harvey, Campbell R, 1991. \"The Variation of Economic Risk Premiums,\" Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 99(2), pages 385-415, April.\nJohn Y. Campbell & John H. Cochrane, 1994. \"By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior,\" CRSP working papers 412, Center for Research in Security Prices, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.\nJohn Y. Campbell & John H. Cochrane, 1994. \"By force of habit: a consumption-based explanation of aggregate stock market behavior,\" Working Papers 94-17, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.\nCampbell, John & Cochrane, John H., 1999. \"By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior,\" Scholarly Articles 3119444, Harvard University Department of Economics.\nJohn Y. Campbell & John H. Cochrane, 1995. \"By Force of Habit: A Consumption-Based Explanation of Aggregate Stock Market Behavior,\" NBER Working Papers 4995, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nJorion, Philippe & Giovannini, Alberto, 1993. \"Time-series tests of a non-expected-utility model of asset pricing,\" European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 37(5), pages 1083-1100, June.\nAlberto Giovannini & Philippe Jorion, 1989. \"Time-Series Tests of a Non-Expected-Utility Model of Asset Pricing,\" NBER Working Papers 3195, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nLo, Andrew W & MacKinlay, A Craig, 1990. \"Data-Snooping Biases in Tests of Financial Asset Pricing Models,\" Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 3(3), pages 431-467.\nAndrew W. Lo & A. Craig MacKinlay, 1989. \"Data-Snooping Biases in Tests of Financial Asset Pricing Models,\" NBER Working Papers 3001, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nLo, Andrew W. (Andrew Wen-Chuan) & MacKinlay, Archie Craig, 1955-, 1989. \"Data-snooping biases in tests of financial asset pricing models,\" Working papers 3020-89., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.\nFama, Eugene F. & Schwert, G. William, 1977. \"Asset returns and inflation,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 5(2), pages 115-146, November.\nCampbell, John Y., 1987. \"Stock returns and the term structure,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 18(2), pages 373-399, June.\nJohn Y. Campbell, 1985. \"Stock Returns and the Term Structure,\" NBER Working Papers 1626, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nCampbell, John, 1987. \"Stock Returns and the Term Structure,\" Scholarly Articles 3207699, Harvard University Department of Economics.\nSims, Christopher A, 1980. \"Macroeconomics and Reality,\" Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 48(1), pages 1-48, January.\nKandel, Shmuel & Stambaugh, Robert F., 1991. \"Asset returns and intertemporal preferences,\" Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 39-71, February.\nShmuel Kandel & Robert F. Stambaugh, 1991. \"Asset Returns and Intertemporal Preferences,\" NBER Working Papers 3633, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nChen, Nai-Fu & Roll, Richard & Ross, Stephen A, 1986. \"Economic Forces and the Stock Market,\" The Journal of Business, University of Chicago Press, vol. 59(3), pages 383-403, July.\nFama, Eugene F. & French, Kenneth R., 1988. \"Dividend yields and expected stock returns,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 3-25, October.\nCraig A. MacKinlay, \"undated\". \"Multifactor Models Do Not Explain Deviations From the CAPM (Revised: 21-94),\" Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Papers 15-93, Wharton School Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.\nBreeden, Douglas T., 1979. \"An intertemporal asset pricing model with stochastic consumption and investment opportunities,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 7(3), pages 265-296, September.\nAlberto Giovannini & Philippe Weil, 1989. \"Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Substitution in the Capital Asset Pricing Model,\" NBER Working Papers 2824, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nCampbell, John Y & Shiller, Robert J, 1988. \" Stock Prices, Earnings, and Expected Dividends,\" Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 43(3), pages 661-676, July.\nEpstein, Larry G & Zin, Stanley E, 1991. \"Substitution, Risk Aversion, and the Temporal Behavior of Consumption and Asset Returns: An Empirical Analysis,\" Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 99(2), pages 263-286, April.\nKeim, Donald B. & Stambaugh, Robert F., 1986. \"Predicting returns in the stock and bond markets,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(2), pages 357-390, December.\nDonald B. Keim & Robert F. Stambaugh, \"undated\". \"Predicting Returns in the Stock and Bond Markets,\" Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Papers 15-85, Wharton School Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research.\nGikas A. Hardouvelis & Dongcheol Kim & Thierry A. Wizman, 1992. \"Intertemporal asset pricing models and the cross section of expected stock returns,\" Research Paper 9218, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.\nLawrence H. Summers, 1982. \"Tax Policy, the Rate of Return, and Savings,\" NBER Working Papers 0995, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nEstrella, Arturo & Hardouvelis, Gikas A, 1991. \" The Term Structure as a Predictor of Real Economic Activity,\" Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 46(2), pages 555-576, June.\nArturo Estrella & Gikas A. Hardouvelis, 1989. \"The term structure as a predictor of real economic activity,\" Research Paper 8907, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.\nFriend, Irwin & Blume, Marshall E, 1975. \"The Demand for Risky Assets,\" American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 65(5), pages 900-922, December.\nHall, Alastair R., 2004. \"Generalized Method of Moments,\" OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198775201.\nChen, Nai-Fu, 1991. \" Financial Investment Opportunities and the Macroeconomy,\" Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 46(2), pages 529-554, June.\nBlack, Fischer, 1990. \"Mean Reversion and Consumption Smoothing,\" Review of Financial Studies, Society for Financial Studies, vol. 3(1), pages 107-114.\nHarvey, Campbell R., 1989. \"Time-varying conditional covariances in tests of asset pricing models,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 24(2), pages 289-317.\nPoterba, James M. & Summers, Lawrence H., 1988. \"Mean reversion in stock prices : Evidence and Implications,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 27-59, October.\nJames M. Poterba & Lawrence H. Summers, 1987. \"Mean Reversion in Stock Prices: Evidence and Implications,\" NBER Working Papers 2343, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.\nChan, K. C. & Chen, Nai-fu & Hsieh, David A., 1985. \"An exploratory investigation of the firm size effect,\" Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(3), pages 451-471, September.\nHansen, Lars Peter & Singleton, Kenneth J, 1982. \"Generalized Instrumental Variables Estimation of Nonlinear Rational Expectations Models,\" Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 50(5), pages 1269-1286, September.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 20027, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 251.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ienrichher.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015799291-Where-is-my-money-held-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:58Z", "digest": "sha1:53AZSUMWRHPKIJKAHS4KKE45PW6BM2OP", "length": 228, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "ienrichher.zendesk.com", "title": "Where is my money held? \u2013 EnrichHER", "raw_content": "For each Loan, an escrow account will be set up to hold funds during the financing raise process. This escrow account will be closed at the end of the campaign with funds transferred either to the Founder or returned to Funders.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1006, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 252.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ilbusinessdaily.com/stories/511578191-deputy-gov-munger-named-acting-dceo-director", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:25Z", "digest": "sha1:TB5DJAX4U24APD2HEDFSAS66TFJ52RCP", "length": 2653, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "ilbusinessdaily.com", "title": "Deputy Gov. Munger named acting DCEO director | Illinois Business Daily", "raw_content": "Deputy Gov. Munger named acting DCEO director\nBy Asia Mayfield | Sep 24, 2018\nhttps://www.scott.af.mil/News/Art/igphoto/2001572607/\nGov. Bruce Rauner has tapped Deputy Gov. Leslie Munger to lead the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO) on an interim basis.\nMunger's first day on the job was Sept. 24.\nRauner made the announcement at a press conference with on Sept. 21, noting that she has a strong network with the state's business leaders and a deep understanding of development plans important to Illinois.\n\u201cLeslie has more than two decades of private-sector experience, has connections with top business leaders, and is familiar with our pending economic development projects,\u201d Rauner said.\nDeputy Gov. Leslie Munger\n\u201cIn addition, she\u2019s our point person on the Amazon HQ2 bid and leads the Bicentennial effort. She is the clear choice to take on this interim role.\nThe announcement comes as former director Sean McCarthy transitions to the private sector.\n\u201cDirector McCarthy has built a great team,\u201d Munger said, in accepting the new post. \u201cI look forward to continuing to work with our partners at Intersect Illinois and with leaders in business, technology and education throughout the state to build our businesses and create jobs for Illinois.\u201d\n\u201cSean is a tremendously capable manager whose leadership has helped to re-energize our state\u2019s business development efforts,\u201d the governor explained at the press briefing. \u201cHe was instrumental in helping Illinois attract companies such as Flex-N-Gate, Buddig, Faber-Castell and Haribo's North American Headquarters. He\u2019s been a difference-maker for minority entrepreneurs and small businesses, and he has been an outspoken champion of transparency.\u201d\nMunger, who grew up in Illinois, was appointed deputy governor in February 2017. She previously served as the state comptroller.\nShe\u2019s played a critical role in the governor\u2019s business development project, the Discovery Partners Institute. The institute\u2019s goal is to foster working relationships between businesses and state research universities.\nMunger obtained her bachelor\u2019s degree at the University of Illinois. She earned her master\u2019s degree at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She\u2019s worked for major corporations, including Proctor & Gamble, Helene Curtis/Unilever, and Mckinsey and Co.\nWant to get notified whenever we write about State of Illinois Department of Commerce & ?\nSign-up Next time we write about State of Illinois Department of Commerce &, we'll email you a link to the story. You may edit your settings or unsubscribe at any time.\nState of Illinois Department of Commerce &", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 6352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 220.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://illinoisgenealogy.org/rock-island/official_documents.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:48Z", "digest": "sha1:N2OUFII4CIWZBSDBEQZRAMAIS4XJZDK3", "length": 3127, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "illinoisgenealogy.org", "title": "Official Documents | Illinois Genealogy", "raw_content": "Joint Resolutions Of The Iowa Legislature \u201cBE IT RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Iowa, That the senators in Congress from this State be requested to use their utmost exertions to procure the establishment, at the earliest possible time, by the Government of the United States, of an Arsenal and Armory, for the distribution of arms to the states of the northwest, on the Island of Rock Island, in the State of Illinois. \u201cRESOLVED That the Secretary of State be requested to forward to each of the Sena-tors and representatives in Congress a copy of these resolutions.\u201d `Approved March 24, 1861.\u201d No session of the legislature of Illinois had been held immediately prior to this action, but Governor Yates and the other state officers, both civil and military, ad-dressed a letter to the Secretary of War, urging the location of the Armory upon Rock Island. Certificate From The Government Agent \u201cI, T. J. Pickett, Government Agent for the Island of Rock Island, hereby certify that the lands owned by the Government on said island are free from the claims of squatters, and that the only occupants thereon are eight in number, who hold leases under and acknowledge themselves tenants of said Government, in which lease it is specifically agreed that the lessors are to vacate the premises in thirty days from the date of receiving notice requiring them to leave T. J. PICKETT, Government Agent. Rock Island. Ill., Oct. 25, 1861.\u201d Copies of the above memorial were freely distributed among the members of Congress and laid on the desk of every senator and representative. An act of Congress providing for the Arsenal and Armory, and making an appropriation of $100,000, was passed July 11, 1862. In May of the following year a commission, composed of Major F. D. Callander, Major C. P. Kingsbury and Captain F. J. Treadwell, was sent by the Ordnance Department to locate the proposed Arsenal building on Rock Island. Sites also for magazines on the island were recommended by the commission. The report was adopted and Major Kingsbury was ordered to take charge of the work of construction. He arrived in August, 1863, and on the 3d day of September broke ground for the government building at the lower end of the island. From an article prepared by Captain L. M. Haverstick, and published in the Chicago Inter-Ocean at the time we quote the following, with a few changes adapting it to our purpose: \u201cAn arsenal merely for the storage and repair of arms was not what the Ordnance Department contemplated, nor what the country needed at Rock Island. Therefore in August, 1865, General T. J. Rodman was assigned to the command of the island, with instructions to prepare plans for an armory and arsenal combined, where small arms and other munitions of war could be manufactured as well as repaired and stored. The great scientific knowledge and long experience of General Rodman peculiarly fitted him for this work, and the result was an elaborate plan, equal to the wants and interests of the country.\u201d\nPreviousNatural Scenic Beauty\nNextSome Old Time Merchants and Citizens in 1855 and Prior", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 6598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 172.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://illiterateblondes.com/2017/05/26/sweet-tooth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:19Z", "digest": "sha1:T2ACVVQ235FF7V7I7TXFC2XRPIPU45II", "length": 2003, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "illiterateblondes.com", "title": "Sweet Tooth \u2013 illiterateblondes", "raw_content": "This is a post about overcoming the odds, and fighting for what you want. And it all begins with a soft-serve chocolate and vanilla twist. Allow me to begin.\nIce cream cones taste better in the summer, and this is a fact in my book. Maybe it\u2019s the 95 degree heat, the beads of sweat on your upper lip, or the way you have to eat it extra quick to avoid getting sticky fingers (little kids don\u2019t care about this, clearly).\nI live about four minutes (three if I\u2019m really craving it) from a local ice cream parlor. This is a blessing and a curse, but mostly just a blessing. One summer, when I was nine or ten, my mother took us to get ice cream every single day for about a month and a half. But even then, I ordered the exact same thing for sixty days straight.\nThanks to my nut allergy, I can pretty much kiss eating desserts (that aren\u2019t homemade) goodbye. Bakeries, candy stores, and ice cream shops always have the risk of cross contaminating a peanut-free piece of double chocolate chip cake with an accidental stray almond.\nHowever, when it comes to soft-serve ice cream, you put milk, cream, and sugar inside the machine, and out swirls the magic. The fact that it won\u2019t kill me makes it even more mouth-watering, and I can\u2019t get enough of this wonderful, safe-to-eat dessert.\nNow comes the bubble-bursting, tear-jerking part of the story. I got a cavity filled two days ago, and it hurts like a stubbed pinky toe on a metal coffee table. It hurts to smile, it hurts to laugh, it hurts to drink through a straw. It hurts to drink coffee, it hurts to eat yogurt, it hurts to chew carrots, and today marks the third day of hurt.\nThat being said, I refuse to be deterred by anything.\nI am strong, I am powerful, and I am determined. I know what I want in life. And what I want today, heck, every day, is a small chocolate and vanilla ice cream cone.\nThis pain-in-my-mouth cavity isn\u2019t going to hold me back from chasing my dreams, and I will continue to enjoy my soft-serve ice cream all summer long.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/8-news/14824-new-minimally-invasive-cost-effective-method-shows-promise-in-treating-cancer-without-harming-healthy-cells.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:56Z", "digest": "sha1:I3YBIMB4OW4TCRY3T4MP23IWK5CWGWSF", "length": 2872, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "imperialvalleynews.com", "title": "New minimally invasive, cost-effective method shows promise in treating cancer without harming healthy cells", "raw_content": "New minimally invasive, cost-effective method shows promise in treating cancer without harming healthy cells\nWritten by Chris Adam\nWest Lafayette, Indiana - Purdue University researchers have developed a minimally invasive technique that may help doctors better explore and treat cancerous cells, tissues and tumors without affecting nearby healthy cells.\nThe method, called PLASMAT - Plasma Technologies for a Healthier Tomorrow - combines three emerging techniques that appear promising in the fight against most types of cancer. PLASMAT combines cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) with electroporation and/or photoporation to kill cancerous cells without harming nearby healthy ones. The method has proven effective in the laboratory against several types of cancerous cells and cancer lines, including types of breast cancer, mouth/cervical cancer and prostate cancer.\nCAP, a near room temperature ionized gas, is used to introduce active oxygen or nitrogen species into the cancerous cells, tissues or tumors. An electric field or a laser is used to open the membranes of the cells for introduction of the species. This introduction leads to apoptosis, or killing, of cancer cells once a critical level of reactive species is reached. Nearby healthy cells are either unaffected or minimally affected to a point they are able to easily restore themselves to a normal level.\n\u201cUsing these three techniques in a combined method has been shown to be 70 to 90 percent more effective in killing cancerous cells than other treatments,\u201d said Prasoon Diwakar, a postdoctoral research associate in the Purdue School of Nuclear Engineering, who developed PLASMAT along with Ahmed Hassanein, the Paul L. Wattelet Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering. \u201cWe are using the synergy of these three treatments to provide an efficient, non-toxic and cost-effective approach to fight cancer with minimal chemical and toxic effects.\u201d\nThe National Cancer Institute reports that more than 1,600 people die each day in the United States from cancer, along with about 5,000 new cases diagnosed each day. Although current treatments of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery have proven effective, they can also be expensive, weaken the immune system and not work well for all patients.\nDiwakar said PLASMAT does not introduce chemicals into the body during treatment and is significantly less expensive than chemotherapy or radiation. The technique is also more mobile than traditional cancer treatments because the required equipment is small and easily accessible in most medical settings.\n\u201cOur method is easy to integrate with existing method technologies,\u201d Diwakar said. \u201cPLASMAT can be combined with nanomedicines for further effective cancer treatment.\u201d\nA patent application has been filed by the Purdue Office of Technology Commercialization, and the method is available for licensing.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 44, "original_length": 4012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 253.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ink.enderuncolleges.com/tag/titans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:22Z", "digest": "sha1:V7GKZUDV2SFWPEEBOYHRRZ3XDYXXNOS6", "length": 431, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "ink.enderuncolleges.com", "title": "Titans - INK Enderun", "raw_content": "Tagged: Titans\nby Sonny Alfonso Both ladies\u2019 and mens\u2019 futsal varsity teams beat their opponents in tight, exciting UA&P Championship games last Saturday November 11, at UAP\u2019s gymnasium in Ortigas Center, as some forty bleachers of...\nLast December 16 2011, the varsity team, The Enderun Titans, played against the Futkaleros in a battle of Futsal. The game began at 5:30PM. There were four rounds during the game, each with the...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 188, "original_length": 6121, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 331.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://inkedautist.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:43Z", "digest": "sha1:A5XNRDLXL6EITNWPDC35HXAL6WHVGI6Z", "length": 2008, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "inkedautist.wordpress.com", "title": "Uncategorized \u2013 The Inked Autist", "raw_content": "Silly Haiku\u2026\nThis is kinda fun. Song lyric haikus? What can you come up with? Mine was:\nWe will find you acting on\nYour best behaviour\nOh oh oh oh! Oh oh oh\noh oh\u2026 The white stuff!\nOk, this is not serious, but I just thought it was funny that this fit the three lines of a haiku. And believe me, when a snow storm hits town, you need to find something to laugh about\u2026 LOL And for the youngest, or the people who wouldn\u2019t get the joke, here\u2019s what this was inspired by;\nJanuary 1, 2019 Lynn Blair 1 Comment\nWell here we are, the first day of 2019. An odd-numbered year, so not a leap year and luckily not an election year in the US. I\u2019m so over that bullshit I could fucking scream.\nAt the very least, I can say 2018 was for the most part uneventful, save for a few major personal tragedies. That\u2019s not to be expected, but at least for me personally, it broke the cycle of each succeeding year being worse than the previous, as had been the case for a decade prior. If anything, moving home after being taken away from home in 2017 made it better than the previous year.\nSo what will 2019 bring for me? Well that\u2019s yet to be seen, but for sure more ink (obviously), lots more cigars, wines, beers and scotches to review and maybe a new career. We shall see, but even if this career is only in my spare time (which I\u2019ll have more of as I work from home on a most-time basis for my day job) it\u2019ll be a nice outlet. As always, one thing that will NOT rear its ugly head in my 2019 is a relationship. I remain committed to my permanent single status as well as my childfree status (in accordance with my antinatalist philosophical views).\nI\u2019ve never been one for resolutions to be honest. I think they\u2019re a bunch of phony bullshit. There\u2019s nothing magical about the day January 1 for which you decide to make some lifestyle changes. You can do that any day of the year. Quit treating that as a special one.\nThanks for being with me for the two and a half years I\u2019ve had this blog, and here\u2019s to many more. Cheers!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 12375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insandoutsblog.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:17:37Z", "digest": "sha1:2SVNW4BTJURXBMKXJRNVJCFQY7XUQEP2", "length": 312, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "insandoutsblog.com", "title": "Ins & Outs", "raw_content": "Welcome To Ins & Outs\nIns & Outs is a new blog dedicated to all things related to pediatric nephrology. Bookmark this page, subscribe to the RSS feed, or join the mailing list (it's free) by clicking the \"Subscribe\" link above to get the latest content as it appears. Stay tuned as this web space starts to fill!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 33, "original_length": 1010, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insightandclarity.com/2008/01/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:25Z", "digest": "sha1:QIVK4DXMIPBC5WNVELEU4KPFNCFZSU3P", "length": 10278, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "insightandclarity.com", "title": "January | 2008 | Arthur Fink -- Eyes Open", "raw_content": "Why are so many computer programs hard to use, with misleading or confusing screen prompts, counterintuitive methods to accomplish simple tasks, and lots of options that are rarely used but that clutter the screen and that often slow users down? There\u2019s no need for me to ask whether this is the case, as friends and colleagues complain to me all the time. On what appliance other than a personal computer would you press a \u2018start\u2019 button to turn the machine off?\nAt home, these issues may be simply an annoyance. At work, they represent lost productivity, increased training time, and, often, less accurate data. Programs that are hard to use cost the company every day.\nAs a user-interface designer, and a usability consultant, my job is to insure that programs are easy to use, intuitive, friendly, receptive to good data and likely to reject data that doesn\u2019t make sense. My secret in this work? I spend lots of time with the users \u2014 first learning about the tasks they need to do, then watching how they use their current systems, paying careful attention as they try out our proposed designs in rough prototype form, and remaining attentive during further testing.\nEven with my extensive training and \u2014 dare I say \u2014 vast experience as a computer software designer, I must confess that the users know more than I do! They live in their subject world, and regularly use their knowledge of that world as they take orders, review insurance claims, schedule manufacturing or repair orders, or whatever. Not paying attention to their experience is a much too common, and often fatal, mistake.\nHere\u2019s the story of one interface design assignment, and how careful listening turned the whole project around. The project seemed straightforward, if not exciting. My new client had developed a computer system to help collection agencies in their work, and wanted me to redesign the screens, and to offer some advice about the underlying technologies they were using for development. That\u2019s what I though, before I arrived at their office.\nActually, their primary agenda was more mundane and problematic. They wanted me to magically stuff a lot more information on the already crowded screens. It wasn\u2019t at all clear how this would be helpful, and I knew that it would make their screens uglier and harder to use. But how could I say this in a polite and helpful way, while steering this client to a more productive agenda?\nFor me, the first step was quite clear. My business card says, \u201cListening to Users\u201d, and that is exactly what I planned to do. After a brief review of the system design, I asked it we could visit their one client who was in the same Midwestern town as their offices. They agreed, expecting, I believe, that we\u2019d spend an hour or two. We ended up spending two days, and totally transformed our agenda and their product.\nI asked for a \u201ctraining harness\u201d, so that we could hear the debt collectors conversing with their \u201cclients\u201d as I watched them navigating through the screens of this computer system. It turned out that most of these \u201cclients\u201d were repeats, who regularly defaulted on medical payments, furniture store bills, checks written pizza parlors, and credit card bills. The computer system showed all these bills, payments made towards them, and promised payments that were never made. Typically there were screens and screens full of data.\nIn between calls, I had time to ask the collectors about their work \u2014 how they assessed each situation, when they felt they were getting honest responses, how they decided on a strategy, and what led them to accept the final agreements (or lack thereof). There were many interesting and complex stories, often filled with amazing complexity. Along with these details were the feelings of heartache, as more and more of these \u201cclients\u201d were getting caught up in a web of debt that seemed inescapable.\nMy role was that of the cyber-age anthropologist, noting the debt collectors behavior, and beginning to discern some patterns. I could see some common themes \u2014 almost some rituals \u2014 but some aspect of the collectors\u2019 behavior kept eluding me.\nFinally, on the second day, I blurted out what might have been obvious from the start: \u201cSo you\u2019re in the business of getting these clients to make promises that they will keep . . . and it\u2019s the keeping part that is so important!\u201d The collector I was with almost jumped out of his chair with excitement. \u201cWow\u201d, he said. \u201cNobody has ever said it so clearly. Yes \u2014 that\u2019s exactly what we do, and the keeping promises part is what it\u2019s all about.\u201d\nI ventured another statement, a bit more tentatively: \u201cAnd what are you doing with all these screens of data? Are you computing how often clients have kept their promises (or not?)\u201d The collector was even more excited. \u201cWhy that\u2019s exactly it\u201d, he said. \u201cI want to know what promises the client has offered or agreed to, and how well those were kept.\u201d And he eagerly agreed when I suggested that, \u201cIt sounds like we need to display some indexes of promise-keeping\u201d. When I followed up with the question, \u201cHow would you compute these?\u201d we began an active dialog, with the user taking the lead. The initial computer screens should show the promise-keeping indexes, with all the data details available to the collector on later screen, but often not needed.\nAs long users regard me as a priest of technology, they\u2019re hesitant to come forward and play an active role. Once the discussion shifted to how data is managed in what now felt like their system, however, I became the process consultant, they were the experts.\nUnfortunately, users typically are in the back seat as systems are being designed, and yet they are the ones with the most real subject knowledge. By listening carefully to the users, responding thoughtfully, and really trying to understand their work process, I could get their active engagement in this design process. In this case it led to a radical redesign of the whole screen concept, and, I believe, to a much more powerful system.\nThis is an especially clear example of a scenario that I see constantly \u2014 Users who would not have been part of the process of designing the very systems they will use, but whose deep knowledge and understanding is critical to the system\u2019s success. Typically the users feel technically inferior, and, in fact, they don\u2019t speak the \u201csystems\u201d language that computers consultants are so fond of using. They absent themselves from the process, and are not invited by anybody else to join in.\nIn lecturing on the system design process, I explain that my first attempts to design a system are usually reasonably good, but it\u2019s the users who correct me and really take it to a higher level. Watching them work with rough prototypes I can see where they struggle with my designs, and where they can easily find their way. And when the users have to struggle to use the proposed system, the problem is almost always that my design is not clear enough \u2014 not that the users need more training or experience.\nWhen computer systems are hard to use, most of us blame ourselves and our lack of experience or training. We don\u2019t consider that usability should be a prime characteristic, or that as reasonably intelligent people we should be able to find our way through. We also tend to assume that the system is properly designed to give us the benefits we expect.\nOften, however, the systems we use today are simply reworks of systems designed earlier, that are themselves reworks, and at some point we can trace back to a system modeled on how people do a task. Years ago I was asked to work on a system for an organic produce distributor \u2014 who wanted me to track exactly what was on-hand of each product in their coolers. This sounds reasonable enough \u2014 until you realize that on-hand quantities were not what this distributor was selling. They had trucks full of produce coming east from California, and were selling what of those expected arrivals were still available for promise to customers after subtracting what items had already been sold. That\u2019s a lot of computation for people to do, but not hard at all for a computer. The computer system had to be rethought so that it could feed its users the necessary available to promise data that were the basis of sales and pricing decisions. My job was to step back from the detailed operational data, and focus on how users are trying to interpret and understand this data and use it to make critical business decisions.\nInformation systems will add value when they truly enable users to be more productive, more confident, more correct in communicating with customers, vendors, and with other employees. Simply using the latest technologies, having the fanciest and most beautiful screens is clearly not enough. Buzzwords like \u201creal time\u201d or \u201cbus architecture\u201d mean little by themselves. Here are some guidelines that can help insure that systems are really workable and usable tools, that exemplify best practices, and that really work for your organization:\n1. Include actual system users, at a variety of levels, in the design and review of the system. Their experience and insight are critical.\n2. Start with a clear understanding of the business goals of the system. Don\u2019t be guided by just a list of data elements to be tracked, or reports to be produced.\n3. Watch the users working with the system \u2014 whether it is in rough prototype form, or is a production system running with lots of real data. Learn how the system is really used, and to identify times when it probably should be used but, for whatever reason, is not.\n4. Don\u2019t count of your most technical staff to carry these concerns. Just as you need architects, engineers, and builders to design and construct a new facility (and, in fact, you need lots of subspecialties within this list), so you need people with skills in usability, user testing, analysis, system design, modern programming methodologies, and coding techniques to design and build a new system, or to review and revise an existing system.\n5. Insist that the overall system design be written in language that is comprehensible to you and to many of your users.\n6. Keep looking at your systems, even after you believe that they are \u201cfinished\u201d. Most systems can be improved, but many never are.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 140, "original_length": 14256, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 269.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2010/2/vets-face-four-times-higher-risk-suicide-general-public/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:43Z", "digest": "sha1:PFZCH57YLBPXJ7T3BIP3N7PHGSUPTXYS", "length": 1492, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "insightplus.mja.com.au", "title": "Vets face four times higher risk of suicide than the general public - MJA InSight 2, 2 July 2010", "raw_content": "Issue 2 / 2 July 2010\nCOMPARED to the general public, doctors and other health professionals are known to have double the risk of suicide but veterinary surgeons have double that risk again.\nIn an effort to identify factors contributing to such high vulnerability within the profession, researchers at the UK\u2019s University of Southampton School of Medicine reviewed studies relevant to the mental health of vets dating back to 1970.\nThe evidence pointed to a complex interplay between personality factors common to high achievers (such as neuroticism, conscientiousness and perfectionism) and career-related factors including work isolation and stress.\nPredictably, environmental factors including the professional and social isolation of private practice were also important, as was ready access to lethal drugs such as barbiturates.\nBut it may be a more permissive attitude to suicide, arising from the profession\u2019s familiarity and exposure to euthanasia, which sets vets apart from their medical colleagues.\n\u201cThe veterinary profession\u2019s role in providing animal euthanasia and so facilitating a \u2018good death\u2019 may normalise suicide, with death perceived as a rational solution to intractable problems,\u201d the paper\u2019s authors wrote.\nThey said research is urgently needed to identify whether veterinary school applicants might be predisposed to mental health problems and whether vet students develop maladaptive coping strategies during training.\nVet Rec 2010; 166: 388-397.\nPosted: 5 July, 2010", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 2485, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://interfaith-observer.squarespace.com/journal-articles/2015/1/28/opening-the-indigenous-door.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:30Z", "digest": "sha1:BJ4WWXJONHO2I62UTKHZVD3XKTHKBXCO", "length": 9895, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "interfaith-observer.squarespace.com", "title": "Opening the Indigenous Door \u2014 The Interfaith Observer .sqs-featured-posts-gallery .title-desc-wrapper .view-post", "raw_content": "Indigenous Traditions, July 2016, Indigenous Spirituality\nOpening the Indigenous Door\nReconciling Indigenous and Institutional Religion\nFull Disclosure \u2013 Don Frew and Paul Chaffee have been friends and colleagues in the interfaith vineyard for more than 15 years, and Don has been a TIO supporter from the time the idea first glimmered. However close this association, though, devoting a credible exploration of \u201cIndigenous Traditions in the Modern World\u201d and leaving him out would be impossible. For 30 years Elder Don Frew has been the official interfaith representative of Covenant of the Goddess, the world\u2019s largest Wiccan tradition. Don is a witch, a misunderstood word which can repel those unacquainted with paganism. But his relations with leaders from all traditions, established and indigenous, and within his own community are a perfect antidote to that discomfort. A grassroots bridge-builder with a global reach, he has championed indigenous, Earth and Nature-based traditions around the world, developing ways for them to be in dialogue with the rest of the global interfaith/interspiritual community. If you are interested in pagan and indigenous interfaith relations, you need to know about Don Frew. Ed.\nDon Frew was raised in an up-scale neighborhood south of San Francisco to parents who provided him the means, without job hunting, to devote himself fully to a religious/interreligious study and ministry. He attended his first Pagan coven when he was 12, began a lifelong study of ancient religions (over 25,000 books in his home and garage), and was initiated into Gardnerian Neopaganism.\nThe scope of his vocation has been remarkable. In the 80s, Don worked with San Francisco law enforcement and the FBI, responding to the public dismay about \u201cSatanism\u201d stories. This two-year collaborative study resulted in a report, Satanism in America: How the Devil Got Much More than his Due, convincing law enforcement that claims of Satanism are typically a symptom, not the cause, of violent behavior in an already disturbed mind. In interviews with 60 Minutes and others Don sought to humanize pagans, to undercut the demonizing stereotypes almost all indigenous traditions have suffered at the hands of dominant institutional religion over the centuries.\nFrom the start though, as a representative voice for Wiccans, Frew\u2019s collaborators largely have been religious, spiritual leaders from interfaith organizations as well as under-represented pagan and indigenous traditions. In 1985 he joined the Berkeley Area Interfaith Council, one of the first interfaith councils in the nation, and a year later was elected to its executive council. An early self-appointed task was building relationships with Christian Evangelicals, members of the Spiritual Counterfeits Project in Berkeley, which opposes \u201ccults\u201d and \u201cthe occult.\u201d He tells the story of these astonishing friendships in \u201cWhen Wiccans and Evangelical Christians Become Friends,\u201d published in TIO three years ago.\nGrassroots interfaith organizations became stepping stones for Don\u2019s interfaith career, always joinng as \u201cthe first pagan member we\u2019ve ever had.\u201d Covenant of the Goddess (COG) was the first Pagan organization to be welcomed into the North American Interfaith Network, a considerable accomplishment given the dominant attitude towards paganism and witchcraft 15 years ago, attitudes persisting in much of the world. In 1993 Don and colleagues succeeded in having official Neopagan representation at the centennial celebration of the Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions, where he made a major presentation titled \u201cPagans in Interfaith Dialogue.\u201d He has presented at all the modern Parliaments and been invited to the Parliament Assembly of religious leaders which usually meets prior to each Parliament.\nDon meeting with URI indigenous interfaith leaders in Peru in 2009.\nIn 1998-99 Don represented Wicca at the interfaith summits held at Stanford to create United Religions Initiative (URI). He worked for months to ensure the capitalization of \u201cEarth\u201d in URI\u2019s official purpose: \u201c\u2026 to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.\u201d Everyone finally agreed: it makes a difference every time you see the word.\nHe was elected to URI\u2019s initial Global Council in 2000 and has served as an officer ever since. URI has grown to more than 650 \u201ccooperation circles\u201d in 85 countries. Don helped create several of the most active, including Spirituality and the Earth Cooperation circle, and Expressing URI in Music and the Arts circle, which published the first ever interfaith songbook (unhappily, no longer in print).\nIn 2000 he was also elected to the board of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio (ICP) in San Francisco, a consortium of interfaith groups from around the Bay Area that manage a beautifulformerly military interfaith sanctuary. Here, in a local grassroots setting, Don helped secure funding for and lead a variety of imaginative projects. An annual \u201cPeople of the Earth\u201d event, an ecumenical gathering of global indigenous leaders, is held at the Presidio Chapel, bringing together people who share a great deal but hadn\u2019t known about each other.\nCan you design sacred space where everyone is comfortable? \u2013 160 beautiful answers were submitted.\nAn \u201cInterfaith Sacred Space Design Competition\u201d attracted 160 submissions coming from architectural/design teams in 17 countries. The challenge? To design sacred space where all traditions will feel comfortable and at home. A magnificent exhibition was held in the Presidio. ICP published a book that Don edited, Sacred Spaces, containing images from all 160 submissions. A 30-minute video telling the story is on the right.\nPerhaps most ambitiously, inspired by the 2000 Cape Town Parliament\u2019s focus on \u201cGifts of Service,\u201d Don created the Lost and Endangered Religions Project, with half a dozen sites around the world. A nonprofit hosted by the ICP, it works with marginalized religious communities in several countries to preserve religious traditions in danger of being lost forever. Religious treasures on European and American university shelves that can be copied \u2013 and which have gone missing in their culture of origin \u2013 are copied and returned to those who had lost them. Don tells the story of this happening the first time when he managed to return sacred texts to Yezidis he met in eastern Turkey who had lost their Black Book.\nDon, in purple robes, participates in an interfaith ritual 20 years ago in Berkeley.\nDon Frew has the body of a linebacker and is gentle as a dove. Though ever calm in meetings that can get animated, he is a tiger for accountability and following institutional bylaws, often to gnashing of teeth by peers who want to cut corners for all sorts of \u2018good\u2019 reasons. Typically he accepts the role of secretary at meetings, a scribal role he extends to all his interfaith work. Covenant of the Goddess members get detailed narratives from all the trips he makes to interfaith gatherings near and far. This accumulating narrative is perhaps the most comprehensive record existing of the modern interfaith movement.\nWithin his own Wiccan community, Don is recognized as a scholar who has written extensively and made dozens of presentations about Gardnerian Craft. He and his wife, Anna Korn, have written a commentary on Gardner\u2019s work, noting and evaluating the hundreds of variances in the many editions around the world, a massive scholarly task. And he reaches out to non-pagan thinkers in discussing \u201cpolytheistic, panentheistic monism,\u201d referencing pagan texts from classical antiquity, as a way to describe how he understands his own tradition. Wikipedia records many more of Don\u2019s accomplishments than can be included in a short profile.\nA Foundational Interfaith Commitment\nTo know Don well is to know his abiding commitment to interfaith relationship. Writing to his COG family about the Declaration of War against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality, he shares a revealing story:\n\u201cI was at the 1993 Parliament of the World\u2019s Religions in Chicago at which members of the Lakota read this statement. The Lakota hospitality suite was on the same floor of the Palmer House hotel as the joint Covenant of the Goddess/Circle/EarthSpirit hospitality suite. After the Declaration was read, we walked over and engaged the Lakota in conversation. We explained many aspects of the spiritual practices they felt had been \u2018stolen\u2019 by Neopagans \u2013 addressing four directions, \u2018sweat lodges,\u2019 and more \u2013 had actually been a part of the spirituality of our ancestors as well. We shared their disapproval of appropriating material from other cultures.\n\u201cOver a few days, friendships grew. They held a sunrise pipe ceremony outdoors, to which they invited the Neopagans. We held a full moon ceremony in a nearby park to which we invited the Lakota and other Native Americans, and they came and participated. Significantly, our ceremonies were the only two ceremonies held outdoors at that Parliament.\u201d\nA surgeon\u2019s slip of the knife on a nerve to his left arm has meant Don lives in considerable pain most days. He\u2019s doesn\u2019t hide it, but never complains and rarely slows down. As this is being drafted, he is in Cairo, Egypt for 10 days, studying mid-level hieroglyphics. Then home to Berkeley and his wife, Anna, a scientist who co-sponsors their coven with him. Here\u2019s a prayer for his long life and the hope that his lasting influence will be as strong as his bridge-building achievements have been.\nTagged: Cooperation Circles, Covenant of the Goddess, Don Frew, People of the Earth, Yezidi's Black Book, lost and endangered religions project, sacred space design competition, studying Satanism in America, Paul Chaffee\nNewer PostSaving Pagan Lives\nOlder PostCollective Impact and Islamophobia", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 11682, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://iowadot.gov/crashanalysis/data/county/driver/_inattentivedistracted/inattentivedistracted20072011/featurecounts/html/howard20072011.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:43Z", "digest": "sha1:QTNGVAELODCAUVMUDG6ODDWIYMZME2QP", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "iowadot.gov", "title": "Crash Analysis Resources - Iowa Department of Transportation Office of Traffic and Safety", "raw_content": "Totals: | 15 0 0 1 4 10 | 6 0 0 1 5", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 36, "original_length": 796, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.54, "perplexity": 133.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Microscopic_colitis.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:37Z", "digest": "sha1:PXPZHUE5ORGNHQPLRTJFCQF6WKLYXTDL", "length": 8602, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "ipfs.io", "title": "Microscopic colitis", "raw_content": "Micrograph of collagenous colitis, a type of microscopic colitis. H&E stain.\nMicroscopic colitis refers to two related medical conditions which cause diarrhea: collagenous colitis and lymphocytic colitis.[1][2] Both conditions are characterized by the presence of chronic non-bloodly watery diarrhea, normal appearances on colonoscopy and characteristic histopathology findings of inflammatory cells.[3]\nPeople who develop microscopic colitis are characteristically, though not exclusively, middle-aged females. The average age of diagnosis is 65 but 25% of cases are diagnosed below the age of 45.[1] Patients have a history of non-bloody watery diarrhoea, which may be profuse. Patients may also experience abdominal pain, fecal incontinence, and weight loss.[3] Microscopic colitis is the diagnosis in around 10% of cases investigated for chronic non-bloody diarrhea.[1]\nColonoscopic appearances are normal or near normal. As the changes are often patchy, an examination limited to the rectum may miss cases of microscopic colitis, and so a full colonoscopy is necessary.[1] Multiple colonic biopsies are taken in order to make the diagnosis.[3] Histological features of colonic biopsies indicating microscopic colitis are: greater than 20 intraepithelial lymphocytes per 100 epithelial cells and, additionally, 10-20 \u03bcm of a thickened subepithelial collagen band in collagenous colitis.[3] Inflammation of the lamina propria, with mainly mononuclear cells, may be observed in collagenous colitis.[3]\nDifferential diagnoses, which should be ruled out, include celiac disease, Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and infectious colitis.[3]\nIncidence and prevalence of microscopic colitis nears those of ulcerative colitis and Crohn\u2019s disease.[4] Recent studies in north America found incidence rates of 7.1 per 100,000 person-years and 12.6 per 100,000 person-years for collagenous colitis for lymphocytic colitis, respectively.[4]\nA higher incidence of autoimmune diseases, for example arthritis, Sj\u00f6gren's syndrome, thyroid disorders, and coeliac disease, has been reported in patients with microscopic colitis.[3] Associations with various drugs have been found, especially proton pump inhibitors, H2 blockers, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).[1][3] Bile acid diarrhea is found in 41% of patients with collagenous colitis and 29% with lymphocytic colitis.[2] Additionally, smoking has been identified as a significant risk factor of microscopic colitis.[3]\nMicroscopic colitis is characterized by an increase in inflammatory cells, particularly lymphocytes, in colonic biopsies with an otherwise normal appearance and architecture of the colon.[1] Inflammatory cells are increased both in the surface epithelium (\"intraepithelial lymphocytes\") and in the lamina propria. The key feature is more than 20 intra-epithelial lymphocytes per 100 epithelial cells.[1] These are the principal features of lymphocytic colitis. An additional distinguishing feature of collagenous colitis is a thickened subepithelial collagen layer, which may be up to 30 micrometres thick, that occurs in addition to the features found in lymphocytic colitis.[3] The fact that the two types of microscopic colitis share many features including epidemiology, risk factors and, response to therapy has led to the suggestion that they are actually subtypes of the same disease.[2]\nLymphocytic and collagenous colitis have both been shown in randomized, placebo-controlled trials to respond well to budesonide, a glucocorticoid.[5][6] Budesonide formulated to be active in the distal colon and rectum is effective for both active disease and in the prevention of relapse.[1][7] However, relapse occurs frequently after withdrawal of therapy.[3]\nStudies of a number of other agents including antidiarrheals, bismuth subsalicylate (Pepto-Bismol), mesalazine/mesalamine (alone or in combination with cholestyramine), systemic corticosteroids, cholestyramine, immunomodulators, and probiotics have shown to be less effective than budesonide for treating both forms of microscopic colitis.[1][3][8][9]\nAnti-TNF inhibitors. split ileostomy, diverting ileostomy, and subtotal colectomy are options for management of steroid-dependent or refractory microscopic colitis.[3][10] Currently, the need to resort to surgery is limited considering the improvement of drug therapy options.[10] However, surgery is still considered for patients with severe, unresponsive microscopic colitis.[10]\nThe prognosis for lymphocytic colitis and collagenous colitis is good, and both conditions are considered to be benign.[11] The majority of people afflicted with the conditions recover from their diarrhea, and their histological abnormalities resolve,[6] although relapses commonly occur if maintenance treatment is not continued.[1][3]\nThe condition of microscopic colitis was first described as such in 1982.[12] Lymphocytic colitis was described in 1989.[13] Collagenous colitis was recognised earlier, in 1976.[14]\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 M\u00fcnch A, Aust D, Bohr J, Bonderup O, Fern\u00e1ndez Ba\u00f1ares F, Hjortswang H, et al. (2012). \"Microscopic colitis: Current status, present and future challenges: statements of the European Microscopic Colitis Group.\". J Crohns Colitis. 6 (9): 932\u201345. doi:10.1016/j.crohns.2012.05.014. PMID 22704658.\n1 2 3 Rasmussen MA, Munck LK (2012). \"Systematic review: are lymphocytic colitis and collagenous colitis two subtypes of the same disease - microscopic colitis?\". Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 36 (2): 79\u201390. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2036.2012.05166.x. PMID 22670660.\n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Park, Tina; Cave, David; Marshall, Christopher (2015-08-07). \"Microscopic colitis: A review of etiology, treatment and refractory disease\". World Journal of Gastroenterology : WJG. 21 (29): 8804\u20138810. doi:10.3748/wjg.v21.i29.8804. ISSN 1007-9327. PMC 4528022 . PMID 26269669.\n1 2 Storr, Martin Alexander (2013-04-18). \"Microscopic Colitis: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Current Management\u2014An Update 2013\". ISRN Gastroenterology. 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/352718. ISSN 2090-4398. PMC 3654232 . PMID 23691336.\n\u2191 Chande N, MacDonald JK, McDonald JW (2009). \"Interventions for treating microscopic colitis: a Cochrane Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Functional Bowel Disorders Review Group systematic review of randomized trials.\". Am J Gastroenterol. 104 (1): 235\u201341; quiz 234, 242. doi:10.1038/ajg.2008.16. PMID 19098875.\n1 2 Fern\u00e1ndez-Ba\u00f1ares F, Salas A, Esteve M, Espin\u00f3s J, Forn\u00e9 M, Viver J (2003). \"Collagenous and lymphocytic colitis. evaluation of clinical and histological features, response to treatment, and long-term follow-up.\". Am J Gastroenterol. 98 (2): 340\u20137. doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2003.07225.x. PMID 12591052.\n\u2191 O'Donnell, Sarah; O'Morain, Colm A. (2016-10-19). \"Therapeutic benefits of budesonide in gastroenterology\". Therapeutic Advances in Chronic Disease. 1 (4): 177\u2013186. doi:10.1177/2040622310379293. ISSN 2040-6223. PMC 3513866 . PMID 23251737.\n\u2191 Chande N, McDonald JW, Macdonald JK (2008). \"Interventions for treating lymphocytic colitis.\". Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2): CD006096. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD006096.pub3. PMID 18425936.\n\u2191 Chande N, McDonald JW, Macdonald JK (2008). \"Interventions for treating collagenous colitis.\". Cochrane Database Syst Rev (2): CD003575. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD003575.pub5. PMID 18425892.\n1 2 3 Bohr, Johan; Wickbom, Anna; Hegedus, Agnes; Nyhlin, Nils; Hultgren H\u00f6rnquist, Elisabeth; Tysk, Curt (2014-08-21). \"Diagnosis and management of microscopic colitis: current perspectives\". Clinical and Experimental Gastroenterology. 7: 273\u2013284. doi:10.2147/CEG.S63905. ISSN 1178-7023. PMC 4144984 . PMID 25170275.\n\u2191 Mullhaupt B, G\u00fcller U, Anabitarte M, G\u00fcller R, Fried M (1998). \"Lymphocytic colitis: clinical presentation and long term course\". Gut. 43 (5): 629\u201333. doi:10.1136/gut.43.5.629. PMC 1727313 . PMID 9824342.\n\u2191 Kingham JG, Levison DA, Ball JA, Dawson AM (1982). \"Microscopic colitis-a cause of chronic watery diarrhoea\". Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). 285 (6355): 1601\u20134. doi:10.1136/bmj.285.6355.1601. PMC 1500804 . PMID 6128051.\n\u2191 Lazenby AJ, Yardley JH, Giardiello FM, Jessurun J, Bayless TM (1989). \"Lymphocytic (\"microscopic\") colitis: a comparative histopathologic study with particular reference to collagenous colitis\". Hum. Pathol. 20 (1): 18\u201328. doi:10.1016/0046-8177(89)90198-6. PMID 2912870.\n\u2191 Bogomoletz WV, Adnet JJ, Birembaut P, Feydy P, Dupont P (1980). \"Collagenous colitis: an unrecognised entity\". Gut. 21 (2): 164\u20138. doi:10.1136/gut.21.2.164. PMC 1419351 . PMID 7380341.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 246, "original_length": 12342, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 178.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXoypizjW3WknFiJnKLwHCnL72vedxjQkDDP1mXWo6uco/wiki/Toxic_megacolon.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:08Z", "digest": "sha1:D2MEH2L252MEECRB26M47LPYA2D3ZFYL", "length": 3700, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "ipfs.io", "title": "Toxic megacolon", "raw_content": "Micrograph of pseudomembranous colitis, a cause of toxic megacolon. H&E stain.\nmed/1418 radio/702\nToxic megacolon (megacolon toxicum) is an acute form of colonic distension.[1] It is characterized by a very dilated colon (megacolon), accompanied by abdominal distension (bloating), and sometimes fever, abdominal pain, or shock.\nToxic megacolon is usually a complication of inflammatory bowel disease, such as ulcerative colitis and, more rarely, Crohn's disease, and of some infections of the colon, including Clostridium difficile infections, which have led to pseudomembranous colitis. Other forms of megacolon exist and can be congenital (present since birth, such as Hirschsprung's disease). Also, it can be caused by Entamoeba histolytica and Shigella.\nThere may be signs of septic shock. A physical examination reveals abdominal tenderness and possible loss of bowel sounds. An abdominal radiography shows colonic dilation. White blood cell count is usually elevated. Severe sepsis may present with hypothermia or leukopenia.\nToxic megacolon in a patient with ulcerative colitis: The patient subsequently underwent a colectomy.\nThe objective of treatment is to decompress the bowel and to prevent swallowed air from further distending the bowel. If decompression is not achieved or the patient does not improve within 24 hours, a colectomy (surgical removal of all or part of the colon) is indicated. When surgery is required the recommended procedure is a subtotal colectomy with end ileostomy.[2] Fluid and electrolyte replacement help to prevent dehydration and shock. Use of corticosteroids may be indicated to suppress the inflammatory reaction in the colon if megacolon has resulted from active inflammatory bowel disease. Antibiotics may be given to prevent sepsis.[3]\nIf the condition does not improve, the risk of death is significant. In case of poor response to conservative therapy, a colectomy is usually required.[4]\nA pathological specimen showing toxic megacolon\nPerforation of the colon[5]\nEmergency action may be required if severe abdominal pain develops, particularly if it is accompanied by fever, rapid heart rate, tenderness when the abdomen is pressed, bloody diarrhea, frequent diarrhea, or painful bowel movements.\nColonoscopy is contraindicated, as it may rupture the dilated colon resulting in peritonitis and septic shock.\n\u2191 \"Toxic megacolon\" at Dorland's Medical Dictionary\n\u2191 Seltman, AK (December 2012). \"Surgical Management of Clostridium difficile Colitis\". Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery. 25 (4): 204\u20139. doi:10.1055/s-0032-1329390. PMC 3577611 . PMID 24294121.\n\u2191 Autenrieth, DM; Baumgart, DC (August 2011). \"Toxic megacolon\". Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 18: 584\u201391. doi:10.1002/ibd.21847. PMID 22009735.\n\u2191 Benchimol, EI; Turner, D; Mann, EH; Thomas, KE; et al. (June 2008). \"Toxic megacolon in children with inflammatory bowel disease: Clinical and radiographic characteristics\". The American Journal of Gastroenterology. 103 (6): 1524\u201331. doi:10.1111/j.1572-0241.2008.01807.x. PMID 18510624.\n\u2191 Panos, MZ; Wood, MJ; Asquith, P (December 1993). \"Toxic megacolon: The knee-elbow position relieves bowel distension\". Gut. 34 (12): 1726\u20137. doi:10.1136/gut.34.12.1726. PMC 1374472 . PMID 8282262.\nThis article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine (Toxic megacolon), which is in the public domain.\nAusch, C; Madoff, RD; Gnant, M; Rosen, HR; Garcia-Aguilar, J; H\u00f6lbling, N; Herbst, F; Buxhofer, V; Holzer, B; Rothenberger, DA; Schiessel, R (March 2006). \"Aetiology and surgical management of toxic megacolon\". Colorectal Disease. 8 (3): 195\u2013201. doi:10.1111/j.1463-1318.2005.00887.x. PMID 16466559.\nToxic Megacolon at eMedicine", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 241, "original_length": 7417, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 271.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://irishamericancivilwar.com/2012/05/31/nurse-mary-mccoy-the-battle-of-fair-oaks-and-a-tin-dipper-for-president-lincoln/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:03Z", "digest": "sha1:KWNZ4EGHWPQBWLVKXIHKIIFRYQUM4YFO", "length": 2884, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "irishamericancivilwar.com", "title": "Nurse Mary McCoy, The Battle of Fair Oaks and a 'Tin Dipper' for President Lincoln \u2013 Irish in the American Civil War", "raw_content": "best email for dating sitehttps://irishamericancivilwar.com/mujeres-solteras-brasil/\nhttps://irishamericancivilwar.com/house-of-payne-online-dating/\nAs the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Fair Oaks approaches, it is interesting to note the contribution of one Irish woman to the battle, which was remembered long after the war. New York newspapers in 1899 carried the obituary of a clearly remarkable woman, who deserves to be better known amongst those Irish who served in the Civil War.\nMary McCoy was originally from Co. Limerick, and was most probably born in the 1820s. At the outbreak of the Civil War she was living in New York, when her three brothers and 35-year-old husband James decided to enlist in April, 1861. They all joined the 71st New York Infantry, which became part of the State\u2019s Excelsior Brigade. Mary clearly decided that she was not going to leave her four closest male relatives to their own devices, and accompanied the regiment to war. She was appointed an army nurse by Secretary Stanton, and by all accounts appears to have preformed her duties well.\nA Field Hospital after the Battle of Savage Station, 1862 (Library of Congress)\nMary is noted as having particularly distinguished herself at the Battle of Fair Oaks, where her work among the wounded on the firing line earned her a compliment for bravery from none other than General McClellan. Shortly afterwards, when President Lincoln visited the army at Harrison\u2019s Landing, he noticed Nurse McCoy and asked her if he could have a drink. The Limerick woman hesitated to serve him in one of the ordinary tin cups she had to hand, and went in search of a glass. The President called her back, saying \u2018If a tin dipper is good enough for the soldiers, it is good enough for me.\u2019\nMary returned to civilian life with her husband following the war. After his death in 1893 she once again decided to give her life over to the care of others, and she made her home in St. Mary\u2019s Hospital, Brooklyn, assisting the sisters there in their work. It was here that she passed away on October 7th, 1899, survived by her niece. It is a mark of her impact during the war that 34 years later her death inspired notable obituaries in papers such as the New York Times.\nNew York Times 9th October 1899: \u2018An Old Army Nurse Dead\u2019\nIrish World 14th October 1899: \u2018Mrs. Mary McCoy, who died\u2019\nJames McCoy Pension Index Card\n\u201cHe Went Home to Ireland to Die\u201d: Hearing the Voices of 19th Century Roscommon Emigrants\nThanks for this. I appreciate your articles on Irish women during the war\nNo problem Patrick, glad you enjoy them!\nReally interesting piece Damian! Good on Mary. Nice to read about the female involvement in the war\nemeralds82\na record of an Irish American nurse\nhttp://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/10833\nI must look into her service a bit more, fascinating stuff!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 401, "original_length": 16670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 248.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://is.gd/k90rtW-", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:06Z", "digest": "sha1:IAVKDRD6PMT7UAV3RXUZO5DBLPUHJSNH", "length": 60, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "is.gd", "title": "is.gd - Shortened URL", "raw_content": "http://www.hindinuskhe.in/health-benefits-of-pears-in-hindi/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 9, "original_length": 696, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 205.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jaclyneturner.wordpress.com/2011/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:45:50Z", "digest": "sha1:VFM2XQPPDB2LC73B6ZQBQCHSGQMCOGGI", "length": 13493, "nlines": 40, "source_domain": "jaclyneturner.wordpress.com", "title": "September | 2011 | Live Simply", "raw_content": "Never Beyond: I Have Wagon Wrecks Too\nMel Gibson is one the greatest actors of all time in my opinion. Mad Max, Lethal Weapon, The Patriot,Braveheart, and The Passion of the Christ are probably his most well-known movies. My mother loved Mad Max, so as a kid I saw it more than I wanted too. I have never been a Lethal Weapon fan, but then again it\u2019s just not my style. The Patriot & Braveheart are two of my favorite movies. And then there is The Passion of the Christ. This movie helped to re-open my eyes to Christ. It helped bring me back to God.\nRecently my husband and I watched a more recent of Mel\u2019s movies, The Beaver. I think it is kind of fitting for his recent behavior. In this movie Mel\u2019s character, Walter Black, suffers from severe depression and is kicked out of his house by his wife. Upon getting totally smashed, he attempts to commit suicide, but fails due to a \u201ctalking\u201d beaver puppet. The beaver then goes on to help pull Walter out of his depression and reclaim his life. I won\u2019t give the whole movie away, but I will say that it is well worth the watch. It gives great insight to those suffering with depression or other mental disorders.\nI thought about Mel\u2019s recent struggles while watching The Beaver, and I have to admit that I thought it was kind of ironic that he would do a movie like this. I mean, come on. He just publicly fell off his rocker in front of the entire world! My husband and I talked briefly about Mel and his struggles, and we both agreed that he is still an excellent actor. But isn\u2019t he much more than that? Isn\u2019t his life worth more than the movies he acts in or directs? Isn\u2019t his value in more than what he does for a living? I have to answer yes to all of these questions, as a believer in Jesus Christ. As a Christian, I know that no one\u2019s value, worth, or identity is found outside of Christ. And with that knowledge, I have to know that Mel is valued, treasured, loved, and accepted by Christ just as I am.\nMel may have fallen off the wagon in front of the entire world, but I have fallen of the wagon more times than I would care to admit. My wagon wrecks may not be in front of the entire world, but they are still wrecks just the same. I fall of my rocker many times, and struggle to find my way back in it. I call people names that I know are not uplifting, maybe not to their face or where anyone else can hear, but it\u2019s still wrong. I have found myself in a drunken state of mind, not fully aware of my behavior at the time. I have lashed out unnecessarily. I have hurt people. I have strayed. And yet, I am still a daughter of the Most High God. Loved more than I can imagine. Treasured beyond any treasure here on earth. Valued beyond my comprehension. Given a second chance when I didn\u2019t deserve it. So, who am I to declare Mel beyond a second chance? Who am I to point the finger at his wagon wreck? Who am I to do anything but offer the same grace and love of Christ that I was given?\nThis post is part of POTSC Never Beyond series. POTSC is all about overthrowing judgment and liberating love. Who would you give a second chance?\nPosted in Attitude, Changing the World, Crazy Love, Faith, grace, grace toward others, Holy Spirit, Hope, Jesus, mercy, Miracles, Moments, Never Beyond, People of the Second Chance, Prayer, Reaching Out, Teen Issues, Uncategorized\nThe Place of Loneliness\nLoneliness. It\u2019s a tough place to find yourself. It\u2019s an empty place. It\u2019s a hurtful place. It\u2019s a place no one wants to be. But a lot of us do find ourselves in this very place. It\u2019s uncomfortable. It\u2019s depressing. It\u2019s icky. It\u2019s\u2026well\u2026lonely.\nI believe none of us were created for this place of loneliness. I believe we were created to be people of community. We may not all be social butterflies, but we were all created to be social creatures. But if that is the case, then why do we find ourselves in the place of loneliness at times? Why does it even exist? Maybe it\u2019s from our own choice(s). Maybe it\u2019s due to someone else\u2019s choice(s). Maybe it\u2019s an attack from the enemy. But one thing is for certain. It is NOT by God\u2019s doing. God doesn\u2019t want us to be in the place of loneliness. And His heart breaks whenever one of His children is in this place. He wants to rescue His children from this place.\nI pray that if you are in this place, this place of loneliness, that you will cry out to your Heavenly Father. He will hear you. He will answer you. He will rescue you. You are never out of His reach.\nPosted in Changing the World, Crazy Love, Faith, grace, Holy Spirit, Hope, Jesus, mercy, Miracles, Moments, Prayer, Reaching Out, Teen Issues, Uncategorized\nNever Beyond: Choosing Grace Instead\nWhat an image huh? It\u2019s an image that some of us know more about than others. It\u2019s an image that we have seen in numerous history textbooks. It is an image that speaks volumes and brings to mind harsh words. Violence. Abuse. Racism. Hate. Inhumanity. Injustice. Terrorism.\nBut what if we replaced those harsh words with a different set of words. Mercy. Forgiveness. Peace. Love. Grace. What if instead of having feelings of hate, bitterness, and resentment stir inside of us, we would instead have feelings of forgiveness, acceptance, and grace. Now, in no means am I saying that we have to accept the evil acts, but I am asking us to reconsider our reaction to the people. It is a hard pill to swallow, I know. I mean, how we could ever forgive such horrible events? How we could ever offer grace to those who show no mercy? How we could ever accept those who do not accept us?\n\u201cFather, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.\u201d Luke 23:34\nJesus, himself, chose to react to the horrific actions against him in a different way. He chose not to give into bitterness, resentment, or hate. Instead, he chose to forgive. He chose to show grace & mercy to those that withheld it from him. If we truly are disciples of Christ, then this is how we are to live also. By choosing to follow Christ, we have chosen to offer mercy and grace instead of hatred and bitterness. I know it is not easy. I know there are times that we fail. But we have the power of Christ dwelling within us. We have the Holy Spirit that empowers us to live as Christ lived. We must choose to be bold with our grace. We must choose to offer grace no matter what. My friends, we have been called into Promised Land living. We have been called to an abundant life. It is challenging, yet beyond rewarding.\nWhatever image of hurt, hatred, abuse, violence, inhumanity, or injustice you come across in your life, I pray that you choose to give grace boldly.\nThis is part of People of the Second Chance (POTSC) Never Beyond poster series. Overthrow judgement. Liberate Love. Find out more at www.potsc.com\nPosted in Attitude, Changing the World, Crazy Love, Faith, grace, grace toward others, Holy Spirit, Hope, Jesus, mercy, Miracles, Moments, People of the Second Chance, Prayer, Reaching Out, Teen Issues, Uncategorized\nFrom Party Girl to Celebrated Girl\nOnce upon a time I was known as the \u201cparty girl\u201d. You know the one who was always up to try new things. The one who was all about a good buzz, and the one who thought it was cool to be mischievous. I really knew no limits. Oh, don\u2019t get me wrong. I HAD limits, but I was all about going beyond those limits that had been placed on me. I thought I had all my stuff together and knew what was best for me (being accepted in the crowd). I was sooooo cool. Or so I thought\u2026\nIt wasn\u2019t until my mid-twenties that I realized that I really wasn\u2019t as cool as I thought I was. All the things that I had thought made me cool, really were evidence of something that I tried desperately to hide. I really didn\u2019t have it all together. Inside I was falling apart. I was a huge mess, and I was trying to hide that with drugs, alcohol, relationships, and anything else I could get myself into. I needed help. I needed Jesus.\nJesus was what was missing in my life. He was what would put me back together again. All the kings horses and all the kings men couldn\u2019t do it, but Jesus could! And He did! I left the \u201cParty Girl\u201d label behind, and He gave me a new one. \u201cA Celebrated Girl\u201d He celebrates me! He loves me! He accepts me! Despite the mess I made of things in my life, He still welcomed me into His arms. He poured out His grace upon me and made me new!\nSo, I say to all of you \u201cParty Girls\u201d, you can have a new name! You can be put back together! You can be a \u201cCelebrated Girl.\u201d You are valued beyond measure, and your are loved far more than you can ever imagine!\nPosted in Attitude, Changing the World, Crazy Love, Faith, grace, Holy Spirit, Hope, Jesus, mercy, Miracles, Moments, People of the Second Chance, Prayer, Reaching Out, Teen Issues, Uncategorized | Leave a comment\nYesterday I was having one of those \u201cI want everybody to like me\u201d moments, and unfortunately some of it has crept over into today.I mean, who doesn\u2019t like to be liked? This unfortunately is one of my weaknesses. I want everyone to like me, and if someone doesn\u2019t (or I get it in my head that they don\u2019t) I begin trying to figure out just why they don\u2019t like me. I often create scenarios in my head that never took place, nor will ever take place. (I over analyze things sometimes.) Maybe I didn\u2019t smile enough. Maybe I gave them a look that I didn\u2019t realize I was giving. Maybe I didn\u2019t\u2026\u2026.Oh, the \u201cmaybes\u201d are many.\nBut today, as I sat on my bed this thought came to mind. \u201cThose that know me, KNOW me. Those that think they know, don\u2019t know me. And those that don\u2019t know me, think they know me.\u201d Those in my circle of friends and my family, KNOW me. Those that just want to say they know me and might even wave at me in passing, are the ones that don\u2019t really know me. And then there are those who don\u2019t take the time to get to know me (for whatever reason) yet speak about me to others as if they know me, but in all actuality don\u2019t know me at all. We all have these different people in our lives. And we all would love to have everyone be the first kind of people, the ones that really know us. The real us. Not just the us that is displayed on the outside, but the us that is within.\nThe wonderful thing though, is that we have One who does know us, and REALLY knows us. God knows who we really are. He knows us better than we know ourselves. He knew us before we were even born. He knows the \u201cus\u201d from the inside out. And He wants us to know Him that intimately as well. So, the next time we encounter the people who fall into the category of not really knowing us and we get all in a tizzy; we can remind ourselves that God knows us. Even if no one else on the planet knew us, we would be known by the One who really matters. That should put a smile on our face! We aren\u2019t made to make everyone happy and have everyone like us. We were made to know Him and make Him known! And by doing that, we are known by Him!\nPosted in Attitude, Changing the World, Crazy Love, Faith, Friendship, grace, Holy Spirit, Hope, Jesus, mercy, Moments, Prayer, Reaching Out, Teen Issues, Uncategorized | Leave a comment\nTyson and Anthony are Just Like Us\nTake a look at the faces above. Not just a glance, but a good long look. What thoughts come to mind? What images play in your head? What feelings and emotions begin welling up inside of you?\nMost of us probably began remembering Tyson\u2019s famous ear biting incident, and Casey Anthony\u2019s trial for the disappearance of her daughter. Most of us probably could picture each of these incidents play by play. And most of us probably began feeling anger, upset, and sadness. We probably even had the thought of \u201cthose horrible people.\u201d Let\u2019s be honest. Don\u2019t try to hide it or deny it. Let\u2019s be honest enough to say that we are guilty of passing judgment on Tyson and Anthony, and quite possibly condemning them.\nBut what if? What if Tyson was our son? What if he was our brother? Our husband? Our cousin? Our father? Our friend?\nBut what if? What if Casey was our daughter? What if she was our sister? Our cousin? Our wife? Our mother? Our friend?\nBut what if? What if Tyson was us? What if Casey was us?\nHow would we want others to respond to us? How would we want to be treated? Would we want people to give us a second chance?\nOften times we see other people through a distorted lens. We see \u201cwhat they have done\u201d, and have failed to see THEM. We don\u2019t think about what if the shoe was on the other foot. We distance ourselves and disconnect ourselves from the reality that it can very easily be someone we are close to or even ourselves found in their situation. None of us are immune to reality of this.\nDid you catch the \u201cALL\u201d part of that verse. Not some. Not a few. But ALL. That includes you and me. Yes, Tyson\u2019s and Casey\u2019s sins may have been displayed across the media for everyone to see, but we ALL have our own sins and shortcomings displayed in our own lives. And with that understanding and realization, we should keep that in mind the next time we begin to think that people such as Tyson and Casey don\u2019t deserve a second chance. When we begin to pass judgment instead of grace or condemnation instead of mercy, we need to remember that we too have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. God\u2019s grace is for ALL people. May we be more than willing to share it.\nPosted in Attitude, Changing the World, Crazy Love, Faith, grace, grace toward others, Hope, Jesus, mercy, Miracles, Moments, People of the Second Chance, Prayer, Reaching Out, Teen Issues, Uncategorized | Leave a comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 232, "original_length": 17108, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 299.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://japan-animemusic.com/en/news/Anime%20Key%20Player%20Interview%20%236Mr.%20Shiro%20Sasaki%2C%20the%20president%20of%20Flying%20Dog%20Part.%202", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:57Z", "digest": "sha1:N7MZ6QB6FT3CA3PFSPLRDQRZDQAI2I6A", "length": 7906, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "japan-animemusic.com", "title": "Anime Key Player Interview #6 Mr. Shiro Sasaki, the president of Flying Dog Part. 2 | JAPAN ANIME MUSIC LAB", "raw_content": "So Flying Dog was established in 2007 under Victor? Was this label created just for anime songs?\nYes. Well, there was always a department that worked on anime songs. In 2007, our department which was called department #4 went to a different company as a whole. So after we moved there, we couldn\u2019t say we are part of Victor anymore. That\u2019s when we decided to just make a new label just like Starchild from King Records. We put thought into and decided to name it Flying Dog.\nThe name Flying Dog is so cute. Is there a reason behind this name?\nSo Victor Entertainment\u2019s mascot is a dog. I was also born in the year of the dog (laugh). We knew how nice the people from Victor were, and we wanted to keep that aspect from Victor. We wanted to name it something dog, or dog something to begin with. The name Flying Dog was a name of a rock label that Victor owned before I started working there. The Rock label was gone so the name was available. I initially wanted to use a new name, but Flying Dog is such an easy name to remember. Also, if you\u2019re a creator there are times you do things that are impossible. For example, in Peter Pan, children thought they can fly but when you become an adult you can\u2019t fly anymore. So the truth is, if you don\u2019t have it in you to think you can fly, you can\u2019t fly. So when you get older, you experience a lot of things and realize that you can\u2019t fly. We thought this name was a good choice because even if you are a dog if you believe you can fly, you CAN fly.\nThere are a lot of dreams and hopes to the name Flying Dog.\nYes. When you\u2019re working in this field someone ought to say, \u201cThis isn\u2019t going to sell.\u201d There\u2019s always one person that says, \u201cNo, this will sell!\u201d and it actually does. So the feeling of liking something and holding a passion for something creates a miracle. Miracles will never happen unless you have the feeling of love towards it.\nYeah, so miracles don\u2019t happen when someone is too clever. You have to be crazy for a miracle to happen. You need that craziness. For Flying Dog, we have a slogan saying \u201cWe can fly\u201d which is like Peter Pan. We decided on this slogan for that very reason. We are able to fly now with Victor\u2019s dog.\nPlus it\u2019s easy to remember. So it\u2019s been about 10 years since Flying Dog was established?\nJanuary 2019 will mark its 10 year anniversary as a company. The label was created in 2007 but it became a company in January 2009. So it\u2019s going to be 10 years soon.\nDuring these 10 years are there any anime titles or artists you were happy working with?\nI worked with so many titles. So in the last 10 years, the title that sold the most was probably Macross Frontier. Macross Frontier started in April 2008. If you put in the movies, it was a title that was on for a very long time. The biggest anime in Flying Dog\u2019s 10 years was definitelyMacross Frontier. Macross Delta, of course, is big too. Macross Frontierhappened as we were establishing the label so it very memorable for us.\nIt seems like the artists involved are popular too.\nYes, the music was composed by Yoko Kanno. The first opening theme was performed by Maaya Sakamoto. Macross always have singers as main characters so there were two girls, one named Ranka Lee and Sheryl Nome which were represented by May\u2019n and Megumi Nakajima. For Ranka, we had an audition throughout Japan and Nakajima was chosen.\nThis marks her first anime debut?\nYes. May\u2019n was also singing under a different name and changed her name to May\u2019n during this time. They were both High School seniors at the time.\nMay\u2019n, Megumi Nakajima, Maaya Sakamoto are all popular in Japan but also popular overseas. They all perform outside of Japan and May\u2019n was at Anime Expo last month as well. How do you feel about expanding overseas?\nWhat\u2019s hard about performing outside is bringing over the whole band. Using karaoke tracks are actually very easy but we actually like to bring over musicians but that ends up costing a lot. If events are ok with karaoke tracks we can go anywhere. Maaya Sakamoto usually sings with her band too. She just had her first event in Taiwan and Hong Kong. During that time, we brought over the Japanese tour members.\n(L to R) May\u2019n, Megumi Nakajima, Maaya Sakamoto\nBringing over the bands seems tough.\nBut you would like to expand overseas more in the future?\nYes, of course. In Anime Expo, May\u2019n spoke in English during her whole talk segment. She got that from Kanno san. Kanno san likes to speak in the native language of countries she visits. Also, I noticed people are happier when they speak in that countries\u2019 language.\nI saw her at Anime Expo too. I heard her speak English and wondered if she is going to speak in Japanese but I was surprised.\nMay\u2019n speaks better Chinese than her English actually.\nWow! Did she study Chinese?\nWe also have a strong desire to speak the native language there. Anime as well as anime songs air in countries other than Japan so artist has to keep in mind that they will be performing in different countries. It\u2019s important to speak in their own words, not off a script. It\u2019s actually good to say slang words instead of talking the way textbooks taught you. People get happier hearing stuff like that. We tell them to study and also tell them to ask interpreters how to say something. It\u2019s good to know foods that are popular too.\nYes, that will definitely make fans happy. I\u2019m sure you have gone to many conventions in the past. Which event was the most memorable for you?\nHmm\u2026I\u2019ve been to too many.\u3000Many conventions are operated by fans and it works differently from Japan. I tell all the Japanese staff members beforehand that many things will happen but don\u2019t get mad at every little thing.\nBut because they are volunteers, they have a great passion for the event and they work harder than normal workers sometimes leading to a lot go good outcomes.\nYeah, also Japan is number one being a perfectionist. But I don\u2019t expect trains to come on time in other countries. That\u2019s more normal. Sometimes recording doesn\u2019t go the way you want to either. The first place I went to recording was in Russia, Moscow. It was for an orchestra. We tried to do everything perfectly, and people think we are crazy for working until 10-11pm. So Japanese people are in a way very different, they are serious and unique (laugh). People from different countries look at us like \u201cwhy are you working so hard?\u201d I learned a lot from them. It\u2019s the way when recording too and it\u2019s the same for conventions. For conventions, it was memorable seeing the audience singing along in Japanese. Like let\u2019s say if Eric Clapton comes to Japan to sing, I doubt people can actually sing the whole song from the beginning to the end. It\u2019s actually really hard; we can sing the verse though. I thought it was amazing to see fans actually sing Japanese, a language that is so foreign. A lot of fans actually try to pick up Japanese too. They learn it to understand anime and games. But the fact that they try to learn Japanese makes us happy.\nAre there more people familiar with anime songs now compared to the 80s?\nYes, there are a lot more now. It\u2019s funny because in Japan back in the days, liking anime was seen as \u201cnot cool.\u201d Being cool was liking Jpop and JRock. Anime was looked down upon. It was seen as something otaku\u2019s were into. That\u2019s how it was in the past. Kanno san didn\u2019t want that image stuck on her so she made music that would level with music overseas. Nowadays anime became cool!\nI guess for other countries, it\u2019s not about being cool or not but just liking what they like. It\u2019s interesting how much things change over time.\nYeah, back then JPop singers didn\u2019t want to sing for anime but now artists like Gen Hoshino sings for anime too.Back then it was like \u201cno anime tie-ups.\u201d I\u2019ve been working all these years wanting to change that too especially during the 80s and 90s.\nNext: Shiro Sasaki Interview Part 3 will be published on 2 Oct, 2018!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 8787, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jas.sljol.info/articles/abstract/10.4038/jas.v14i1.8454/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:05Z", "digest": "sha1:F6JG7E7WEZR2FVBAEC2IX3RTBJMC4NE7", "length": 3976, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "jas.sljol.info", "title": "Natural and Induced Glufosinate-resistance in selected Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Varieties in Sri Lanka", "raw_content": "Reading: Natural and Induced Glufosinate-resistance in selected Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Varieties in S...\nNatural and Induced Glufosinate-resistance in selected Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Varieties in Sri Lanka\nR. A. D. D. Lakshika,\nThe Open University of Sri Lanka, P.O. Box 21, Nawala, LK\nAbout R. A. D. D.\nD. S. P. Munasinghe,\nAbout D. S. P.\nS. R. Weerakoon ,\nAbout S. R.\nS. Somaratne\nPurpose: Herbicide-resistant rice varieties in combination with post-emergent broad-spectrum herbicides improve the effectiveness of weed management in rice fields. Herbicide-resistance can be acquired naturally or induced by classical or modern breeding techniques. In the present study, screening of Sri Lankan rice varieties to glufosinate was examined and attempts were made to develop glufosinate-resistant rice varieties with the help of the breeding technique, mutagenesis.\nResearch Method: Natural glufosinate-resistance was studied in seven (7) traditional and eighteen (18) inbred rice varieties under 0.27, 0.30 and 0.33 kg ha -1 glufosinate concentrations. Induced glufosinate-resistance in seed-derived calli of four glufosinate-susceptible rice varieties using Ethyl Methane Sulfonate was also observed and these were then treated with 0.2% (v/v) glufosinateto to determine induced glufosinate-resistance in seed-derived calli.\nFindings: Two traditional varieties (Pachchaperumal, Ma Wee) and fifteen inbred varieties (At362, Bg250, Bg300, Bg352, Bg357, Bg358, Bg359, Bg360, Bg366, Bg369, Bg379/2, Bg403, Bg450, Bg454, and Bg94-1) were resistant to glufosinate. Hardly any distinct yield penalty in Bg94-1, Bg403, Bg454, Bg379-2 and Ma Wee was observed under all glufosinate concentrations. Visual symptoms and chlorophyll damages caused by glufosinate for all varieties recovered within 14 days of treatment. Higher glufosinate-resistance was observed in EMS-mutated calli derived from seeds of naturally glufosinate-susceptible varieties. Molecular (AFLP) analysis confirmed in vitromutation and theM31E10 primer combination was a potential AFLP marker to identify glufosinate-resistance in rice varieties.\nResearch Limitation: The study reports the results of screening natural and induced glufosinate-resistance in Sri Lankan rice. Inheritance of glufosinate-resistance is to be tested through several generations in Sri Lankan rice varieties.\nOriginal Value: Study provides a screening method applicable to Sri Lankan Rice varieties in identification of herbicide-resistance to permitted concentrations of glufosinate.\nKeywords: AFLP , EMS , Glufosinate resistance , Oryza sativa , Seed culture\nHow to Cite: Lakshika, R.A.D.D., Munasinghe, D.S.P., Weerakoon, S.R. and Somaratne, S., 2018. Natural and Induced Glufosinate-resistance in selected Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Varieties in Sri Lanka. Journal of Agricultural Sciences \u2013 Sri Lanka, 14(1), pp.17\u201333. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/jas.v14i1.8454\nLakshika, R.A.D.D., Munasinghe, D.S.P., Weerakoon, S.R. and Somaratne, S., 2018. Natural and Induced Glufosinate-resistance in selected Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Varieties in Sri Lanka. Journal of Agricultural Sciences \u2013 Sri Lanka, 14(1), pp.17\u201333. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/jas.v14i1.8454\nLakshika RADD, Munasinghe DSP, Weerakoon SR, Somaratne S. Natural and Induced Glufosinate-resistance in selected Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Varieties in Sri Lanka. Journal of Agricultural Sciences \u2013 Sri Lanka. 2018;14(1):17\u201333. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/jas.v14i1.8454\nLakshika, R. A. D. D., Munasinghe, D. S. P., Weerakoon, S. R., & Somaratne, S. (2018). Natural and Induced Glufosinate-resistance in selected Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Varieties in Sri Lanka. Journal of Agricultural Sciences \u2013 Sri Lanka, 14(1), 17\u201333. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/jas.v14i1.8454\nLakshika RADD and others, \u2018Natural and Induced Glufosinate-resistance in Selected Rice (oryza Sativa L.) Varieties in Sri Lanka\u2019 (2018) 14 Journal of Agricultural Sciences \u2013 Sri Lanka 17 DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/jas.v14i1.8454", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 5274, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 229.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jasonbiblechurchmember.com/2017/10/24/1572-do-all-in-his-name-his-power-the-truth-in-love-the-truth-in-love/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:13Z", "digest": "sha1:2MTCB5ZKESOBPEN5LJEGETM34EWQHDFA", "length": 604, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "jasonbiblechurchmember.com", "title": "1572 Do All In His Name: His Power \u2013 The Truth in Love \u2014 The Truth in Love \u2013 Jason Bible Church Member", "raw_content": "1572 Do All In His Name: His Power \u2013 The Truth in Love \u2014 The Truth in Love\nColossians 3:17 states, \u201cWhatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God through Him.\u201d What does that mean for the Christian? What hope does it give us for achieving what God wants? The post 1572 Do All In His Name: His Power appeared first\u2026\nvia 1572 Do All In His Name: His Power \u2013 The Truth in Love \u2014 The Truth in Love\nPrevious 1571 Do All In His Name: His Person \u2013 The Truth in Love \u2014 The Truth in Love\nNext 1573 Do All In His Name: His Glory \u2013 The Truth in Love \u2014 The Truth in Love", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 164, "original_length": 4589, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 306.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jeighhayeshealth.com/about", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:01Z", "digest": "sha1:EIG3LDXCZREAR26ND4EY6BSI4PUAFB2L", "length": 1257, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "jeighhayeshealth.com", "title": "About google83e1c1b7a456c399.html", "raw_content": "I am a Licensed Professional Counselor and have been practicing for the past 7 years, working with children, families and adults. I have spent time working with families in local parenting programs as well as with children and their caregivers navigating school and home based difficulties. In recent years, my focus has shifted to working with an adult population which has proven to be a very rewarding experience. Depending on location and availability, I am able to offer in-home sessions with new mothers who have HUSKY insurance.\nI participated in a yearlong collaborative while working at Child and Family Agency. The focus of this experience was to learn and implement Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I also completed a yearlong Trauma Certificate with the Justice Resource Institute. I am certified as a Mind Over Mood therapist assisting new mothers in the transition to motherhood and the treatment of mood related symptoms.\nI have worked on the Mashantucket Reservation as a Clinician and then as the Clinical Coordinator. Prior to this I worked in a Child Guidance Clinic and spent time in a school based health center guiding middle school students through age-appropriate transitions and immersion in a dual language curriculum.\u200b", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 14, "original_length": 1649, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 207.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jerseydigs.com/cannabis-company-founder-sees-new-jersey-silicon-valley-weed/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:58Z", "digest": "sha1:V2HVRLDXNZD5QJUWST2WNKMYNU6HAVXQ", "length": 4924, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "jerseydigs.com", "title": "Cannabis Company Founder Sees New Jersey as the 'Silicon Valley' of Weed | Jersey Digs", "raw_content": "Home Jersey City Cannabis Company Founder Sees New Jersey as the \u2018Silicon Valley\u2019 of Weed\nA batch of 1906\u2019s premium edibles. Photo credit 1906 via Facebook.\nSince Governor Murphy\u2019s first promised the legalization of recreational weed on the campaign trail, industry insiders have kept a close watch on the state. Its geography, density, affluence, and history together make the state ripe for a new generation of cannabis consumers. And although legalization is moving forward slower than the Governor originally promised, it\u2019s moving forward in a way that could create a new type of cannabis industry.\nRolling Stone recently sat down with Peter Barsoom, CEO of 1906 Edibles, a Colorado-based company that specializes in mood-targeting cannabis treats for both the medical and recreational markets. Barsoom is a New Jersey native and is extremely bullish on his home state.\n\u201cPersonally, I think New Jersey is one of the most exciting states,\u201d Barsoom says. \u201cOf all the places that I\u2019d want to operate in, New Jersey would be my number one.\u201d\n\u201cNew Jersey has a unique set of circumstances that I think allow it to potentially become one of the leaders in the cannabis industry, not just in the U.S., but globally.\u201d\nTo start, because of strict prohibition enforcement over the last few decades, New Jersey has some social justice issues to right that a well structured and regulated cannabis market could help fund.\nHe also sees the legislative process as an opportunity, saying:\n\u201cIf you have the right level of executive leadership, then you can put in the right industry, the right regulation and New Jersey will be the first state in the country to legalize and put in a regulated system through legislation.\u201d\nMore interestingly, New Jersey is a heavily healthcare-oriented state. With world-class medical schools, biotech companies, and research universities, the state would be the perfect place to further research into the therapeutic benefits of cannabis. Because cannabis is still federally illegal, quality scientific research has lagged behind.\n\u201cIf we can unshackle that, the people of New Jersey make it the research center of the U.S. \u2014 same way Silicon Valley is known for tech.\u201d\nLastly, Barsoom points out the demographics and affluence of New Jersey. It\u2019s comprised of what he sees as the perfect clients, \u201chigh-functioning adults as opposed to young stoners, [which] makes it exciting from a market opportunity.\u201d\nAs opposed to other states like California that had a strong underground marijuana market prior to legalization, the industry has struggled to move beyond its \u201cstoner culture.\u201d In New Jersey, Barsoom sees an industry where cannabis is \u201creally gonna be medicine, or is gonna add to their wellness, as opposed to just a vehicle for getting stoned.\u201d\nHis company has secured property in Jersey City near Liberty State Park where they are \u201cplanning to build a world-class cultivation and manufacturing facility that would be a destination.\u201d\n\u201cMost other cannabis facilities are behind big fences and dark buildings with a lot of secrecy. This would be a state of the art facility that would welcome people to come in to become educated about cannabis. It\u2019s glass, there\u2019s transparency, and we think it will be a destination site, whether people from New York or people from around the world. \u201d\nIf all goes as planned, Barsoom hopes 1906 Edibles and their beverages, chocolates, tablets and other products will bring a public benefit to the state, saying \u201cI think will give people the ability to get off opioids, reduce their alcohol consumption, and have a better night of sleep.\u201d\nRead the full interview on Rolling Stone.\nJerseycitynative October 5, 2018 at 10:55 am\nIf this location is on Pacific Ave we will fight it and fight it and fight it!\nArty October 5, 2018 at 12:59 pm\nNo we won\u2019t!\njim October 6, 2018 at 9:24 am\nElmo James October 5, 2018 at 11:36 am\nLight up light up light up\nLight up and leave me alone\nRoll another one just like the other one, you\u2019ve been hanging on to it and I sure would like a hit.\nI\u2019ve no doubt in my mind smoking marijuana is a hell of a lot better than taking all these pills that lay in your stomach and rip your stomach apart.\nhttps://youtu.be/68TgTQ0Ef9U\nSteven M Herrick October 5, 2018 at 1:14 pm\nIt is probably going to be part of the new science and research lab hub next to the Liberty Science Center. That would make sense. Yay Jersey City!\nMike Wnorowski October 5, 2018 at 1:28 pm\nMake it legal already\nMig October 5, 2018 at 4:40 pm\nI hope not, but if it does become legal, tax it very high and use the tax money for infrastructure. We need to fix the roads, the trains, and bridges.\nHortence Nanglewarp October 7, 2018 at 11:47 am\nJersey City?! Why?! There are thousands of acres of farmland down in \u201cThe Pines\u201d where there is far less risk of encountering contaminated soil, vandals and thieves and where the property (and the taxes) is much cheaper.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 8461, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 261.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jkpauthor.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/perfecting-perfection/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7CYIS6F3EDJ42DNTTMPWDFCTRUGIBCGQ", "length": 1692, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jkpauthor.wordpress.com", "title": "Perfecting Perfection \u2013 Living ,Growing ,Being", "raw_content": "Today I allowed myself the muse over the idea of something being \u2018perfect\u2019. The first place that I had to go was, the pregnant imagery that the word promotes. Perfect, flawless, complete, the highest level of refinement. Then I realised that there was something else going on with the word, it meant no further work required and it shed all motivation to do work after it had been attained, there was no need for time, thought, work or aspirations for this issue because it was \u2018perfect\u2019. To get to perfection we are thought that we need to apply the highest manifestation of work, vision, precision, skill and then, like speeding to a brick wall once achieved\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.stillness. For the first time I could see this construct of perfection as a manifestation of death, no movement after the point of realisation. As I search my soul to see if this new insight could find a home in my feeling of being-ness, I am relieved to find that it does not fit. It does not resonate within me. This thing called perfect has no use in the normal workings of creation where constant movement is the universal law and also an experiential fact.\nNow I am convinced that perfection is a lie\u2026\u2026\u2026.Nothing can be perfect or it condemns itself to inaction. I have no doubt that if I amplify this thought and pitch it our through the cosmos to the source of all this energy that the mind will be forever enriched by the possibilities of this new knowledge. But who could have done this, trapped us in our minds to stop us from seeing even the most simple truths\u2026\u2026.nothing can be perfect, it would stop itself from existing and would just be\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\nPrevious Previous post: Culture with-in\nNext Next post: Stop, drop & roll", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 3047, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 233.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jobs.marketingweek.com/job/573087/product-marketing-manager/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:29Z", "digest": "sha1:5PSDRCPQF6YEY3X7JED64C7FSJDS57RC", "length": 1395, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "jobs.marketingweek.com", "title": "Product Marketing Manager job with Hays Sales and Marketing | 573087", "raw_content": "Your new company are fast growing publisher part of a larger media group and they are looking for a Product Marketing Manager to join the UK operation, based in Central London. You will benefit from working in a highly skilled team, operating in a dynamic and challenging commercial environment. You will find we provide the opportunity to work with a diverse group of people with varied background.\nYour role will be to support the Publishing Director to grow the business within the UK. You will analyse the marketing and understand the needs of the consumer to produce new products from idea to print. You will work closely with multiple internal/external stakeholders enthusiastically on promotional activity to drive sales. You will build a marketing strategy with full support and freedom to make a real impact in within this organisation.\nYou will be an enthusiastic Marketer with a passion for driving a business forward. Experience within media would be desirable but not essential. You will be results driven, creative individual capable of working autonomously on multiple projects to deadlines.\nYou will be paid a salary of \u00a335,000 and an additional benefits package. You will work in an established organisation and get to be part of the growth of the company. You will work in a busy working environment which offers a challenge and great opportunity to further you're credentials.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 4002, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 241.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://joestevensmusic.com/lessons", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:02Z", "digest": "sha1:IW65YGHK7U4DNLLC3CPQZ5J4M577EZKM", "length": 1929, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "joestevensmusic.com", "title": "Joe Stevens - Lessons", "raw_content": "I offer guitar, banjo, and songwriting lessons, in-person (in the Sacramento area, or sometimes on the road!) and via Skype. Here's my angle: I was a self-taught guitar player until I went to school and received a Bachelor of Music from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle WA in 2004, with a focus on guitar, voice, and music composition - but I never really caught on to \"formal\" lesson-taking. Through my self-taught days I learned a variety of tricks to make things as easy as possible while finding options for many different chord sounds, and formal schooling taught me the theory behind what I was doing and what other possibilities where out there. I want to teach folks how to play the songs they love, and how to write their own, if they want.\n$40 a pop. Lessons usually run about 45 minutes\nBulk deal - $150 for four lessons, which will save you some bucks\nFor inquiries, contact Joe\nWhat I find is that most people want to learn how to play the songs they love and maybe create a few of their own, to share with family and friends and to express themselves. As a self-taught player at heart, I learned many tricks along the way that made playing easier and more comfortable, and also discovered a wider palate of sounds to choose from. One of the main points in my teaching is to help you learn how to learn the songs you love.\nThere is a perceived distinction nowadays between \"musicians\" and \"non-musicians\" that didn't exist not too long ago. The whole community used to be involved in the music-making process, before there were iPods and radios and top 40 hits. I believe music making should be accessible to all people. It has the capacity to bring joy and deep understanding to anyone who seeks it. A person's own musical style is like their handwriting or finger prints - no two are the same, none more worthy than another. If you have the drive to learn to play music and go after it, then it can be yours!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2231, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 196.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://johnhallwas.jimdo.com/the-hallwas-collection/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:51Z", "digest": "sha1:QRUVXKXTQYD22TRCUQ37SLOFQBAEUU5T", "length": 3582, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "johnhallwas.jimdo.com", "title": "The Hallwas Collection - John Hallwas", "raw_content": "The John Hallwas Collection, at Archives and Special Collections, Malpass Library, Western Illinois University, contains an extensive array of materials related to the life and work of the long-time Illinois literary scholar, regional historian, newspaper columnist, and teacher of university classes and adult-education programs.\nHis twenty-eight books, scores of journal articles, and hundreds of newspaper essays are central to the collection. The articles often focus on Illinois history and literature, Macomb and McDonough County heritage, the importance of reading, and the issue of community in books, films, and modern life. But there are also extensive files of historical materials and/or annotated typescripts relating to most of the Hallwas books, including The Poems of H: The Lost Poet of Lincoln\u2019s Springfield (1982), Thomas Gregg: Early Illinois Journalist and Author (1983), Western Illinois Heritage (1983), McDonough County Heritage (1984), Illinois Literature: The Nineteenth Century (1986), Macomb: A Pictorial History (1990), Spoon River Anthology: An Annotated Edition (1992), Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois (1995), The Bootlegger: A Story of Small-Town America (1998), First Century: A Pictorial History of Western Illinois University (1999), Keokuk and the Great Dam (2001), McDonough County Historic Sites (2002), Dime Novel Desperadoes: The Notorious Maxwell Brothers (2008), Remembering McDonough County (2009), Here to Stay: Reflections on the Dead in a Small-Town Cemetery (2012), and On Community: A Crucial issue, a Small Town, and a Writer\u2019s Experience (2015). The collection of his writings and source materials also includes hundreds of files about local and western Illinois regional history topics (often related to journal or newspaper articles that he wrote). In addition, the collection includes many unpublished talks and radio program scripts, on such matters as famous Illinoisans, western Illinois history, small-town life in the Midwest, notable authors and books, modern values or issues, and contemporary spirituality. Scripts of, and commentaries on, his several Illinois-based plays, videos of his local history TV shows, recordings of some of his speeches, and reviews of his books are also part of the collection.\nOf course, the collection also has materials directly related to the life of Hallwas, on such matters as his background, university teaching, adult-education programs, other professional activities, community service, interviews, awards, and correspondence. There are many photographs too. It should be noted as well that hundreds of short, Illinois-focused memoirs, submitted for possible publication in the multi-volume Tales from Two Rivers book series, which John Hallwas co-edited over several decades, while not part of the Hallwas Collection, are available elsewhere in Archives and Special Collections at Malpass Library. Some of those short memoirs were published in the Tales from Two Rivers series, but many others were not selected and remain in manuscript.\nTo access the one hundred-page finding aid to the Hallwas Collection, or to ask questions about the collection\u2019s contents and its use, contact Kathy Nichols (309-298-2717) or email to K-Nichols@wiu.edu.\nThe WIU Archives and Special Collections is located on the 6th floor of the Malpass Library at Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois.\nHours: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; closed on University holidays.\nFor more information call (309) 298-2717,\nor send e-mail: malpass-archives@wiu.edu.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 3997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 180.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://journal.unnes.ac.id/sju/index.php/chie/publicationethics", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:17Z", "digest": "sha1:GWNWES7YMLMJ6O57RJU7CEBVMQRG3CIE", "length": 2176, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "journal.unnes.ac.id", "title": "Publication Ethics | Chi'e: Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching", "raw_content": "CHIE: Journal of Japanese Learning and Teaching (ISSN: 2252-6250) is a peer-reviewed journal published by Japanese language education department, faculty of language and literature, Semarang State University. This statement clarifies ethical behaviour of all parties involved in the act of publishing an article in this journal, including the author, the chief editor, the Editorial Board, the peer-reviewer\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad and the publisher. This statement is based on COPE\u2019s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.\nThe publication of an article in a peer-reviewed CHIE journal is an essential building block in the development of a coherent and respected network of knowledge. It is a direct reflection of the quality of the work of the authors and the institutions that support them. Peer-reviewed articles support and embody the scientific method. It is therefore important to agree upon standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: the author, the journal editor, the peer reviewer, the publisher and the society.\nJapanese language education department, Faculty of Language and Art, Semarang State university as publisher of Izumi journal takes its duties of guardianship over all stages of publishing extremely seriously and we recognize our ethical and other responsibilities. We are committed to ensuring that advertising, reprint or other commercial revenue\nhas no impact or influence on editorial decisions. In addition, Faculty of Language and Art department, Semarang State University and Editorial Board will assist in communications with other journals and/or publishers\u2019 where this is useful and\nThe editor of the CHIE journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The validation of the work in question and its importance to researchers and readers must always drive such decisions. The editors may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 7973, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 210.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://journaltimes.com/sports/high-school/wrestling-halter-family-files-lawsuit-against-wiaa/article_529e37b4-7373-5e5f-9c1f-4424ec070aa0.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:31Z", "digest": "sha1:3XY3KLXCSFSMVDENQMPBYNU4AJK6MR3T", "length": 3982, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "journaltimes.com", "title": "Wrestling: Halter family files lawsuit against WIAA | Prep Sports | journaltimes.com", "raw_content": "Hayden Halter is going to court to keep his wrestling season alive.\nThe Waterford High School wrestler and his family filed a complaint in Racine County Circuit Court on Thursday night in hopes of restoring Halter\u2019s eligibility for Saturday\u2019s WIAA Division 1 regional meet at Pewaukee.\nHalter, a state champion wrestler at 106 pounds last season and ranked No. 1 at 120 pounds by Wisconsin Wrestling Online this season, was disqualified from competing individually for the remainder of the season after the Southern Lakes Conference Tournament at Elkhorn last Saturday.\nHalter received two unsportsmanlike conduct penalties in the 120-pound championship match against Union Grove sophomore Cade Willis.\nThe Halter family hired Jeremy P. Levinson, an attorney for Halling & Cayo S.C. based in Milwaukee. Levinson said on Thursday that he\u2019s optimistic the case will be heard Friday.\n\u201cWe filed tonight so that when we call the Racine Court Friday morning, they will know exactly what we are talking about,\u201d Levinson said. \u201cIt\u2019s all going to depend on how busy the court is. But there is a good chance that it gets heard tomorrow.\u201d\nLevinson described Halter as a \u201crock-star wrestler\u201d and said that the WIAA should have never issued a disqualification.\n\u201cHe got a goofy suspension,\u201d Levinson said. \u201cAnd this alleged one-game suspension, in reality, is more like a three-game suspension because he wouldn\u2019t be able to compete at sectionals or state.\n\u201cMy biggest question for the WIAA is, \u2018Why can\u2019t you let him compete provisionally?\u2019\u201d he added. \u201cThere\u2019s a provision in the WIAA rules that allows for the undoing of an athletes accomplishments; if we are overruled in this case, then just strip him of his title if he ends up winning it all.\u201d\nIn the complaint, a copy of which Levinson provided to The Journal Times, Halter asks the court to issue a temporary restraining order on the WIAA and allow him to participate in all meets for the rest of the season.\n\u201cI think we have a very compelling case,\u201d Levinson said. \u201cI\u2019ve reviewed the video several times and I don\u2019t think Hayden did anything wrong. I\u2019m hopeful that the judge who oversees this can see that this isn\u2019t worth suspending a kid over.\u201d\nThe complaint says Halter\u2019s actions at the SLC meet were \u201cin no way disruptive, disrespectful, flagrant, vulgar, or otherwise ill-mannered or unsportsmanlike.\u201d\nOn the other hand, the actions of the referee of the match \u2014 Michael Arendt, the athletic director at St. Catherine\u2019s High School and a former teacher and coach at Union Grove High School \u2014 were \u201carbitrary, capricious, and contrary to the standards promulgated by WIAA and NFHS (National Federation of High Schools),\u201d the complaint said.\nThe complaint also said that Waterford wrestling coach Tom Fitzpatrick attempted to have Halter serve his suspension by preparing to compete in a junior varsity match at Lake Geneva on Tuesday, Feb. 5. Halter made weight and was eligible to compete in the meet, but sat out, therefore serving his suspension, the complaint said.\nBut the WIAA deemed that insufficient and told Halter he was barred from a second match \u2014 the regional match on Saturday \u2014 the complaint said.\nLevinson said he expects the WIAA to cooperate if a hearing takes place.\n\u201cI spoke with the WIAA\u2019s lawyer and he indicated that he would intend to appear by telephone conference if the hearing happens tomorrow,\u201d he said.\nFitzpatrick said talks with the WIAA were quiet on Thursday. \u201cWe didn\u2019t hear a lot from the WIAA,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s going to come down to this injunction. We are hopeful that this all works out for Hayden.\u201d\nIf the disqualification stands, Halter could wrestle again if the Wolverines win the regional team title at Pewaukee on Saturday.\nHalter would be allowed to wrestle at the Division 1 team sectional dual meet scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Mukwonago. The winner of that meet would be one of eight Division 1 teams to qualify for the state team tournament March 1-2 at Madison.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 366, "original_length": 11630, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 283.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jumpstartenergy.co/companies/osu", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:45Z", "digest": "sha1:GRCIKMWTASMDMRGDMUVWGSMOH6LR7E2J", "length": 740, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "jumpstartenergy.co", "title": "The Ohio State University Profile | Jumpstart", "raw_content": "The Ohio State University, located in Columbus, Ohio, enrolls over 58,000 undergraduate and graduate students. A 20-year wind power purchase agreement to buy 50 megawatts of wind power generation capacity annually from Blue Creek Wind Farm in northwestern Ohio demonstrates the school's exceptional support of the development of new clean energy resources in the U.S.. Following two years of negotiations, Ohio State's purchase, one of the largest single green power purchases by any university in the country, represents 16 percent of the wind farm's total generating capacity. The long-term commitment helps to guarantee the supplier's financial viability and accelerate the development of a planned expansion in Ohio.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1244, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 170.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jumpstartenergy.co/companies/united-natural-foods", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:40Z", "digest": "sha1:PBET6TVL4CWDTSJP5SWNHH4OTQZ4HGLY", "length": 1736, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "jumpstartenergy.co", "title": "United Natural Foods Profile | Jumpstart", "raw_content": "UNFI is a leading independent national distributor of natural, organic and specialty foods and related products. The company has committed to producing and purchasing clean, renewable energy for its distribution centers and office buildings for a portion of its electricity consumption, and they are seeking additional ways to incorporate green power into its business activities. UNFI\u2019s concern for the environment, including its deep focus on environmental stewardship, has been the main driver of its sustainability initiatives. Tom Dziki, UNFI's Senior Vice President of Sustainable Development, says \"Through our efforts as an environmentally-conscious organization, we continue to increase our production and procurement of clean, renewable energy, while remaining committed to managing costs and improving shareholder return. Investing in renewable energy is the right thing to do, and it\u2019s been an enjoyable process to formally commit ourselves to a high level of environmental integrity through this Green Power partnership program.\"\nAccording to UNFI, their investments in onsite solar power generation have exceeded expectations, and they find that purchasing RECs is an easy and often inexpensive way to also invest in green energy. The company has saved thousands of dollars through its use of clean power, but they believe that the environment has been the biggest benefactor of their green power commitments. Moreover, the company-wide commitment to sustainability is inspiring associates across the organization. Seeing the economic and environmental returns from clean power, people throughout the company are more supportive of additional projects that help protect both the environment and company\u2019s bottom line.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2230, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 204.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://juniorbakersarnia.com/about/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:04Z", "digest": "sha1:WQR23EAWNEKVGOCNFFIDKZMES7II5RRP", "length": 1793, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "juniorbakersarnia.com", "title": "About |", "raw_content": "Junior Baker, The Downtown Sarnia Bakery, opened on December 15th 2003. Junior Baker makes customized baked goods for people with food allergies and sensitivities. The business offers a full line of Gluten Free Products, and can accommodate Vegan, Soya, Corn and Sugar Free. The bakery is 100% dedicated Gluten Free/Wheat Free. We do not use peanut or any tree nuts in the bakery. We are a by-order bakery\u2026 meaning we will make your order fresh and have it ready for you to pick up. Often times we get asked to make products last minute, and although we will always do our best to accommodate your orders, sometimes we are unable to take care of your request. It is advised to order one week in advance for all regular orders and two-three weeks in advance for all cake orders.\nFor a custom order please phone 519-336-0440\nJunior Baker has been a member of the Chamber of Commerce since 2003.\nJunior Baker was awarded for their customer service in 2010 and 2012\u2026winning the Outstanding Business Achievement Award for Outstanding Customer Service. Junior Baker has been nominated for many other awards and would like to thank the community for their continued support.\nIf you would like to nominate Junior Baker for an Award through the Chamber of Commerce\u2026please go to:\nSarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce \u2013 OBA Award Nomination\nDonation Requests: Junior Baker gives back to the community through donations to lots of different organizations. If you would like to make a request for a donation please make sure to inform us at least 8-10 months in advance as we have a limited amount for donations throughout the year.\nJunior Baker is proud to sponsor:\nYearly Hockey Sponsorship \u2013 Brendan Dale Powassan Ontario #31\nOur Nephew\u2026Blocks!!!! Go Brendan!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrNe-XYQUqE", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 27, "original_length": 2042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 314.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://justwandering.org/2006/everything-travel-related/geek-stuff/favorite-travel-blogs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:45Z", "digest": "sha1:OEWFXS4S7K2OXHNXPXFBN5CBDWNWC6HA", "length": 1284, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "justwandering.org", "title": "Something to tide you over | Just Wandering", "raw_content": "I\u2019ll be away again for a 3-day \u201ctrip,\u201d after which I hope to go home alive *drama*\nHere\u2019s two of my favorite travel blogs to entertain you during my weekend off.\nAmanda, Jen and Holly are three twenty-something living the fast life in New York City. In the middle of a quarterlife crisis, they began to question why their careers are now their identity. Plans for a year-long round-the-world trip was hatched. From New York, they plunged into South America, taking in the beauty of the continent and the men of Brazil (yes, that merits a special mention). Right now, they\u2019re in Kenya (where the lions and tigers are!)\nSoul Travelers 3\nAnother party of three round-the-world travellers, but what makes them different? They\u2019re a family of three and they\u2019re doing it for 2 and a half years. Starting in the Netherlands, they\u2019re working their way slowly to Spain (they\u2019re currently in France), where their 6-year old daugther (who just spent her birthday at the Eiffel Tower), will attend a local school. Read about what inspired them to make this trip, how they made it happen and keep up as they make things happen.\nfemale_travelers, lost_girls, travel_blogs, travel_with_children\nHave fun & try to relax, unwind, & enjoy yourself!\nUpdate in a couple (or more) hours\nHoly packing sheet!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 4260, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 328.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://jwafs.mit.edu/research/projects/2015/bioassay-based-approach-food-safety-china", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:53:38Z", "digest": "sha1:HBTRPY62MJUP4V6RQE4O46XHORXLZX3C", "length": 1590, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "jwafs.mit.edu", "title": "A Bioassay-Based Approach to Food Safety In China | Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab", "raw_content": "Anthony Sinskey, Professor, Department of Biology\nStacy Springs, Director of the Center for Biomedical Innovation, Engineering Systems Division\nVishal Vaidya, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School\nsolutions, food, water, sustainability\nChina has experienced an unprecedented increase in average wealth since 1980 that has resulted in a commensurate rise in the demand for safe and healthy foods, particularly meat. However, weak regulatory effectiveness among other factors, has resulted in a series of severe episodes of intentional, economically-motivated adulteration.\nOur analysis of the supply chain and farming practices suggests that meat is a uniquely risky product because of the misuse and overuse of veterinary drugs in farming, including Chinese traditional medicines.\nIn this proposal we set forth a series of experiments directed toward establishing proactive approaches to food quality control. In the first, we set forth a series of absorption and toxicity screens of a network of compounds based on known poultry farming practices. In the second, we propose the development of a robust bioassay for toxicity in chicken based around a currently active unsolved adulteration in chicken.\nWe believe this work could serve as the basis for holistic regulatory decisions that account for the polypharmacy that is frequently used in farming. Further, we believe that this approach could fundamentally transform approaches to unknown toxicant identification by measuring the biological effects of tainted foods rather than testing for one or a few likely toxicants at a time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 70, "original_length": 3297, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kashmirreader.com/2014/02/22/apprise-the-masses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:03Z", "digest": "sha1:T3RRELLJ54B7HXKPBCD6RESATNULDI2M", "length": 2431, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "kashmirreader.com", "title": "Apprise the Masses | Kashmir Reader", "raw_content": "Apprise the Masses\nBy K Reader on February 22, 2014 Comments Off on Apprise the Masses\nA Home Ministry statement issued last week said that New Delhi had been in touch with Kashmir leaders, and went on to add that Mirwaiz Umar Farooq had met a former intelligence officer in November last year. Fortunately, the disclosure has not served the intended purpose. Vested interests have always tried to erode the credibility of the leadership here by issuing such statements. But taught by experience to see through such tactics, the people of Kashmir do not fall prey to this machination. New Delhi deployed similar strategies against Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. He was intimidated and ultimately blackmailed into submission.\nBut times have changed and so have the people of Kashmir. It is the government of India that has to prove its sincerity viz-a-viz Kashmir. New Delhi betrayed the Sher-e-Kashmir, and then the individual used to dethrone him in 1953 too was discarded. It stabbed Dr Farooq Abdullah in the back, but he failed to learn the lesson. The state constitution was vandalized in the name of so-called integration. Article 370 of the Indian constitution guaranteeing special status to Jammu and Kashmir was eroded over the past five decades. The Kashmiris, therefore, have no reason to trust the government of India.\nThere is no denying the fact that the leadership here has, at times, committed mistakes, but it commands respect and makes millions of hearts resonate. Criticism notwithstanding, people trust their leaders. This casts a duty on the leadership to stay prudent. There is no scope for secret diplomacy in revolutionary politics. Nobody has opposed the meetings Kashmir\u2019s leaders have held with politicians in Delhi, or intelligence officers. But people have a right to know as to what happens during such exercises which, the leadership must bear in mind, remain secret only as long as New Delhi wishes so. Finally a time comes when it decides to go public on the issue and the leaders are caught on the wrong foot. This problem can be addressed if the leadership is open with the public. This, on the one hand, will ensure transparency and mass involvement in the decision-making process, and on the other, enhance the credibility of the leaders. There is absolutely no need to hide material facts from the public. The masses must be taken on board.\nApprise the Masses added by K Reader on February 22, 2014", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 6577, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 265.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kb.ettus.com/Internet_Relay_Chat_(IRC)", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:36Z", "digest": "sha1:F6VPHMNRNESVLKKNQGCYXW4HOV4S72ON", "length": 1818, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "kb.ettus.com", "title": "Internet Relay Chat (IRC) - Ettus Knowledge Base", "raw_content": "Community-based support channels are hosted on the Freenode IRC network for both USRP and GNU Radio. These channels are generally active and can often be a great way to get live, real-time help. While Ettus Research only provides official support through the usrp-users and discuss-gnuradio mailing lists, and by direct email at \"support@ettus.com\", IRC can be an excellent supplementary support resource. Please note that although Ettus Research is not able to continuously monitor these IRC channels, and cannot not guarantee a timely response via IRC, you will often find people from Ettus Research online, and the members of the community are technical, helpful, and knowledgeable.\nIRC is a free, open-source public chat system.\nPlease see the resources below for more information.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IRC/Tutorial\nhttp://www.ircbeginner.com/ircinfo/ircinfo.html\nhttp://www.pyladies.com/blog/irc-resources/\nhttps://github.com/fizerkhan/irc-etiquette\nThere are two relevant support channels, listed below. Both are hosted on the IRC server irc.freenode.net.\nThe #usrp (webchat) channel is aimed at discussions about USRP and UHD.\nThe #gnuradio (webchat) channel is aimed at discussions about GNU Radio and SDR signal processing.\nThere are numerous free open-source IRC clients for all operating systems.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mobile_Internet_Relay_Chat_clients\nSome specific popular clients are listed below.\nHexChat (https://hexchat.github.io/)\nIrssi (https://irssi.org/)\nWeeChat (https://weechat.org/)\nmIRC (http://www.mirc.com/)\nA list of chat commands is below.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_commands\nRetrieved from \"https://kb.ettus.com/index.php?title=Internet_Relay_Chat_(IRC)&oldid=3724\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 3468, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 285.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://keysnews.com/article/category/business-briefs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:08Z", "digest": "sha1:BC3CK27BHHBWAHILAMCQCID4MZSZJCLN", "length": 4110, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "keysnews.com", "title": "Business Briefs", "raw_content": "Investment workshop offered\nDr. Joseph Kiely will be presenting a free educational investment workshop on Tuesday, Feb. 26, from 6 to 8 p.m., at the historic Gato Building, in the first-floor conference room. Dr. Kiely is a long-time Key West resident who is a former finance professor at East Carolina University, Texas A&M, California State and the University[\u2026]\nUWFK announces funding cycle\nUnited Way of the Florida Keys recently announced the release of the 2019-2020 application for the annual Community Investment funding of local nonprofits. Grant applications will be available online through March 8 at http://www.keysunitedway.org/apply-united-way-funding. In addition to the eligibility qualifications based on community impact areas, funding will only be considered for nonprofit organizations recognized by[\u2026]\nKEYS board OKs annual report\nThe Utility Board approved Keys Energy Services\u2019 annual audit and Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2018, at their regular meeting in January. Per bond resolution, the board independently audits the financial statements of the utility within 180 days after the close of the fiscal year. James H. Hill[\u2026]\nRebuild Florida assistance available to landlords\nRebuild Florida is a federally funded program for homeowners who meet eligibility requirements and need financial assistance to repair, elevate, rebuild or replace a structure that was damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Irma. Rebuild Florida reconstruction funds also are available to owners of rental properties who rent housing to people who meet affordable/workforce income levels.[\u2026]\nKEYS offers numerous discounts\nEnrollment for Keys Energy Services\u2019 discount program for qualifying senior citizens or disabled American veterans residential customers is now open. Customers who have previously participated in the program must requalify by March 31. Once qualified, customers will receive a $15 discount on their monthly energy bills this year. In order to qualify for the discount,[\u2026]\nRealty group adds to business\nBerkshire Hathaway HomeServices Knight and Gardner Realty recently announced the acquisition of Christie\u2019s American Caribbean Real Estate Middle and Lower Keys Sales Division. The latter now operates as Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Keys Real Estate. Through the union, Knight & Gardner Realty adds a market-leading brokerage, 24 seasoned agents and access to the vibrant Lower and[\u2026]\nCFFK provides leadership board training program\nThe Community Foundation of the Florida Keys is accepting applications for its 2019 Leadership Success Academy board training program. CFFK\u2019s signature program provides national best practices in leadership development and governance skills and is for anyone working with or serving in an advisory capacity with a nonprofit organization or other community group. The three hands-on[\u2026]\nRebuild Florida registration deadline extended\nRebuild Florida, a federally funded program implemented by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity, has extended its deadline to register to March 29. In the first phase, $50 million is earmarked for Monroe County homeowners to rebuild, repair and elevate their homes due to damage or destruction caused by Hurricane Irma. This funding is a[\u2026]\nAll-inclusive resort reopens\nThe adults-only Bungalows Key Largo, a 12-acre, 135-unit, all-inclusive resort, has reopened under management of Noble House Hotels and Resorts. Located at Mile Marker 99, bayside, the resort features a zen garden spa, two in-ground pools, a fitness tiki hut, 1,000 feet of shoreline, three piers to accommodate 40-foot-long boats, 800-square-foot bungalows and 4,000 square[\u2026]\nPigeon Key festival call for fine artists, craftspeople\nThe Pigeon Key Art Festival will be celebrating its silver anniversary, Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 2-3. The 25-year-old art emporium is to be spread among the open-air Marathon Community Park, Mile Marker 49, in a tropically themed oasis of exemplary artwork in the form of pottery, paintings, glass, sculpture, photography, jewelry and more. Fine artists[\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 218, "original_length": 7914, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 312.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kingscsc.co.uk/victoria-preston/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:21Z", "digest": "sha1:VJUN46OBHH7HINXNCPLUV2T6TZ24ENPY", "length": 630, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "kingscsc.co.uk", "title": "Victoria Preston \u2013 King's Centre For Strategic Communications", "raw_content": "Email: victoriapreston@hotmail.com Website: www.futurealt.com\nVictoria has provided strategic communications advice to corporate and government clients for three decades and has undertaken assignments in over 30 countries, including in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and the Americas. She is the founder of Future Alternative Ltd, a strategic communications advisory and is an Associate Fellow at King\u2019s Centre for Strategic Communications (KCSC) at King\u2019s College London. She is a Group B Officer in the General Service Corps, 77 Brigade and holds an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 1012, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 91.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kitchenremodelsacramentogurus.com/california/chipps.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:16Z", "digest": "sha1:X5PSJOHEUFEARTUAPQ35T5ZV35JELFG6", "length": 4463, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "kitchenremodelsacramentogurus.com", "title": "Kitchen Remodel Sacramento in Chipps, California", "raw_content": "Kitchen Remodel Sacramento in Chipps, California\nYou may create many ideas for the contractors near me in Chipps, California to work on, and they will show you what they can do with your kitchen. The kitchen will feel much different after you have completed the work. You may walk into your kitchen to see what you want to change, and you may bring the contractor with you to learn how large the room is. They will take measurements that go into their plans, and they will begin working on the sketches or designs that must be used as they complete their work.\nYou are searching for something that makes your home beautiful to live in, and you are attempting to create a kitchen that you may cook in every night, that you may host parties in and that you may congregate in as a family. Your kids will love coming into the kitchen, and your family will love your kitchen in Chipps, California when they come over for a holiday meal. The hosting you do in the house will be much better because you have a kitchen that is made for this, and you will feel as though you are cooking in a TV kitchen that was made to look good on-camera. You may check prices next, and you will learn how to manage the cost of a kitchen remodel.\nChipps Kitchen Remodel Sacramento\nThere are quite a few things you will learn about the kitchen when you are having it remodeled in Chipps, California, and the people who work on the job when show you the colors and styles that they think will look best. You may choose something that will help you build a new kitchen, and you will feel good knowing that you have made the best decisions for your home. The home you are creating will feel better because it was built around a modern design concept, and you may choose an open concept or other style you like.\nYou must have your kitchen remodeled in Chipps, California by someone who has done this process many different times, and they will give you steps that help you with designing the kitchen. The program you use for the job will make it simple to complete the work, and there are many things in 2017 that will make your remodel go by much faster.\nThe work that is done in the home in Chipps, California is devoid of the mistakes that often happen because technology is used to manage each part of the project, and you will see the process unfold in a number of media before your very eyes. The project plan will be emailed to you when you need it, and you will receive emails every day that show you what the company plans to work on that day. They are honest with you about the pace they are working, and they will show you the schedule they are using for the job. You may see the worksheet that was created to manage the job, and they will help you understand what they are doing that day that you may not quite comprehend.\nYou may build a kitchen in Chipps, California that will offer a high return on investment, and you may build one thing that is modern. And exciting for anyone who enters your home. The company will give you advice that helps you save money, and they will do many clerical things that make the house easier to manage. You may ask the contractor how they plan to make your kitchen look beautiful, and they will give you many of these options:\nThe trends that are current for the industry are important to you, and you will find that the company may give you advice for designing the room. They will show you how the kitchen in Chipps, California may look with all these different things. They may give you advice that explains how they would plan the kitchen in Chipps, California if they were in your position, and they will show you many online.\nThey will write up and share your contract for the kitchen remodel in Chipps, California\nThe contract for your remodel in Chipps, California will reflect many different things on the job that must be done, and you will have your own copy that you may follow when the work is done. You may not realize how complex a job such as this is, but you will see it completed according to the contract you were given.\nYou will close the process with an inspection that shows how the kitchen was remodeled in Chipps, California. The people on the team will inspect your home, and they will guide a code enforcer through your home if they wish to visit. The kitchen will look beautiful when it is completed, and it will give you a peace of mind that your home is prepared for entertaining and parties that you wish to host.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 200, "original_length": 14610, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 304.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kristynmlevis.com/index.php/blog/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:56Z", "digest": "sha1:RER36ONAQQIIKHMQQXCWCCUKH4V3CCYD", "length": 1834, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "kristynmlevis.com", "title": "Blog | K.M.Levis", "raw_content": "February 5, 2018 By kmlevis Leave a Comment\nMy top 3 writing rituals\nWriting rituals are quite common for authors whether they are a newbie or veteran. It\u2019s different each one and there is always a story behind that ritual. When I started writing fiction books, I never thought I would end up having a ritual of my own. But it turns out I do. I don\u2019t touch a rabbit\u2019s foot, or sharpen\u2026 Read More\nHappy new year everyone! I hope your year is going well so far. Mine is already filling up with new projects, which is always a good thing. Last year, I had the opportunity to talk with students and answered some of their questions about writing. Since we ran out of time, I thought I would answer their questions on\u2026 Read More\nHow to face criticism Every writer, in my belief, needs to learn how to face criticism with grace. Seriously, it is a skill you need have in order to survive in the publishing world. I was lucky I learned to accept criticisms even before becoming an author. My training as a journalist came in handy. It doesn\u2019t mean it doesn\u2019t\u2026 Read More\nOctober 3, 2017 By kmlevis Leave a Comment\nThings I learned from reviewing books\nI love reading books and writing about books. One of the things I learned is that if you want to write, you need to read a lot. Like maybe 50 books a year. I\u2019ve been lucky I had the opportunity to be one of the regular book reviewers for the New South Wales Writers\u2019 Centre. And I\u2019ve been enjoying that\u2026 Read More\nThere are several reasons why your manuscript was rejected by the publisher you pitched it to. None of these reasons is personal. In my years of pitching to publishers before getting published, I\u2019ve accumulated probably almost a hundred rejection letters. You\u2019d think I would have given up by now, buried myself under the pile of \u2018no thanks\u2019 I\u2019ve gotten (thankfully\u2026 Read More", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 4063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 243.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/21889", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:57Z", "digest": "sha1:SMKC4QN7MWOAAWXHN5J33BNJBMHQGJSS", "length": 1133, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "kuscholarworks.ku.edu", "title": "STREAM CO2 DEGASSING: REVIEW OF METHODS AND LABORATORY EVALUATION OF FLOATING CHAMBERS", "raw_content": "STREAM CO2 DEGASSING: REVIEW OF METHODS AND LABORATORY EVALUATION OF FLOATING CHAMBERS\nRawitch_ku_0099M_14443_DATA_1.pdf (4.066Mb)\nRawitch, Michael Jess\nMeasuring the amount of CO2 exiting headwater streams through degassing could play an important role in environmental chemistry. The objective of this project was to develop a method to measure CO2 flux from headwater streams such as those at the Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological Research Site and Biological Station (Konza), and to determine the effects of stream morphology and turbulence that can affect CO2 degassing. The project comprised an in-depth critical review of literature on the topic of measuring degassing in small streams, as well as a series of experiments that developed and tested methods of quantifying the flux of CO2 from a simulated stream. The experiments evaluated the effectiveness of multiple floating chamber designs to measure CO2 degassing in flowing water at a range of water velocities and dissolved CO2 concentrations. Both the literature review and experiments suggested that the floating chamber is viable method for use in headwater streams.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 3272, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 258.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kwakudavidphotography.com/light-and-digital-sensors/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:28Z", "digest": "sha1:6TPTCMJSCX5XZDXWGSL3YMIZNPQDXZPL", "length": 2672, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "kwakudavidphotography.com", "title": "Light and Digital Sensors - Kwaku David Photography", "raw_content": "Anyone who has ever owned a traditional camera understands that light has an effect on the surface of the camera\u2019s film.\nWhen the shutter opens, it allows light to enter the camera. The lens reflects the image directly onto the film.\nThe reflected image tells the film how to record the light that came through the open shutter.\nAll of this is affected by the camera\u2019s settings, including the film speed (ISO), aperture (F-stop) and shutter speed as well.\nDigital photography has a great deal of the same language and also requires the use of the shutter, ISO and f-stop, as well as a special medium that is capable of recording the image in front of the camera accurately.\nThe digital age means that no film stock is placed into the body of the camera, and instead a sensor receives and interprets the data.\nThe same effects are created by the camera settings, with the exception of the interpretation of true colors, and only the recording of the image takes place in a different manner.\nCurrently there are two available devices that are installed within the bodies of digital cameras as a means of recording images \u2013 CCD and CMOS \u2013 both of which are referred to as sensor.\nThe CCD means \u201ccharge-coupled device\u201d and CMOS translates to \u201ccomplementary metal oxide semiconductor\u201d and both result in the same process within the camera\u2019s sensor unit.\nBasically the sensor device is covered by a grid of miniscule electrodes known as \u201cphoto sites\u201d. Every single digital photograph is composed of the data translated by photo sites, usually called pixels.\nPath of light through a digital SLR camera\nBefore the camera allows the shutter to open it charges all of the photo sites in the sensor. When light strikes them they release some of their electrons and the software within the camera then measures each of the areas of the grid to record the locations of all of the electrons.\nThese are then converted through a special converter which ultimately translates to pixels and the photographic image that is stored on the camera\u2019s memory card.\nAdditionally, the sensor and photo sites must be able to record or understand colours which is accomplished by a filter applied to the surface of the sensor, and which is capable of distinguishing a set range of colours within the recorded image.\nEliminating the mystery\nUnderstanding how the sensor of a digital camera works is not as important as understanding the effects achieved through changing the settings, but it does help to eliminate any of the mystery around taking photographs in this popular and rapidly advancing format.\nThe traditionalist Anyone who has ever owned a traditional camera understands that light has an\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 4029, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 210.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://kxci.org/podcast/lonesome-desert-tucson-country-blues-live-studio-2a/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:53Z", "digest": "sha1:2YPQ4YMLQADE4IQ4AFPCU5U2ZCYE6L66", "length": 506, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "kxci.org", "title": "The Lonesome Desert Tucson Country Blues Live in Studio 2A / KXCI", "raw_content": "https://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/LO-Pod-10-03.mp3\nHank Topless, Chris Hall, Freddy Parish, Tom Walbank and Austin Counts perform live in Studio 2A for the second hour of Locals Only. They are all appearing on The Lonesome Desert Tucson Country Blues, Volume I. The compilation is being released at the Flycatcher on Saturday, Oct. 8th.\nAustin Counts, Chris Hall, Freddy Parish, Hank Topless, Live Music, Local Music, Locals Only, Studio 2A, The Lonesome Desert Tucson Country Blues, Tom Walbank,", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1480, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 320.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lady.co.uk/node/5087", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:47Z", "digest": "sha1:4AUIGLFLY3S37D2J2S7TB4G5M5HPYKDG", "length": 2201, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "lady.co.uk", "title": "Whitewash | Lady.co.uk", "raw_content": "Sometimes it\u2019s good to cover things up with whitewash, says Sam Taylor\nRichard Nixon might have claimed \u2018There can be no whitewash at the White House\u2019, but at Rock House I\u2019m planning a full cover-up. Before 1840, five years after the house was finished, the craft of the painter and decorator was a tough one. Paint was lead-based and the basic paste for the pigment needed to be ground by hand on a stone slab by the long-suffering apprentice. Even after the introduction of paint manufacturing on an industrial scale, it was still an expensive way to introduce colour into a house and was usually reserved only for principal rooms and woodwork of note.\nIt certainly never made it down to the scullery. Beady-eyed viewers of popular period dramas like Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey will know that it was bare brick for those behind the green baize door. Whitewashing reduced the chance of the scullery brickwork flaking by acting as a holding agent and also gave the appearance of \u2018cleanliness\u2019.\nThe whitewash in these below-stairs parts would be re-coated on a yearly basis, although a single application could last for upwards of 30 years \u2013 the lime literally glues itself to the surface. It was traditionally made from quick lime added to milk with a bit of salt as a preservative and a bit of fat added for water-resistance. It is now very much \u2018on trend\u2019 as decorators like to say, with the basic recipe adapted to a combination of five parts hydrated lime with one part table salt with water added until it looks a bit like pancake batter.\nApplying it with a wide, rough brush gets the best result. Purists wash some of it off after a few hours so that patches of the brick show through, although I don\u2019t think Mrs Patmore would have approved.\nOliver, who lived here for 50 years before moving to a cosy, centrally heated Victorian terrace up on the West Hill, came for dinner last week and seemed happy enough to sit at the dining table in what used to be his garage. However, he did look startled when his meal emerged from what he euphemistically used to call the \u2018garden room\u2019 on account of the mould on the walls.\n\u2018I\u2019m planning a whitewash cover-up,\u2019 I said.\nNext week: Brass beds", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 5156, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ladyvictoryandherquestforglory.com/2016/01/11/ubiparipovics-journey-to-indy/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FXYJ7W7OH27555IX2LABWKDHJSBXWFD3", "length": 10370, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "ladyvictoryandherquestforglory.com", "title": "Ubiparipovic\u2019s journey to Indy \u2013 Lady Victory and Her Quest for GLORY", "raw_content": "Posted on: January 11, 2016 April 7, 2016\nAs our days are filled with longer hours at work, dwindling vacation time, and increasing addictions to fast food and social media, we fail to realize how precious life can be. The norms of society work in ways in which we forget how crucial family and friends are to our daily lives. But as the Indy Eleven season slowly encroaches upon us, the newest member of the \u2018Boy\u2019s in Blue\u2019 will remind everyone in Indianapolis of how valuable life really is- I can only hope his story has an enduring impression on us Hoosiers.\nSini\u0161a Ubiparipovic (pronounced sin-EE-sha OO-bee-pare-ee-poe-vich) is a nine year veteran of Major League Soccer and the North American Soccer League. Drafted in the third round of the 2007 MLS Super Draft by the New York Red Bulls, Ubiparipovic was a two time NSCAA All-American and Mid-American Conference Player of the Year in 2006, while attending Akron University. But what makes Ubiparipovic unique is his family\u2019s story of the struggles to survive and escape a country torn apart by war.\nHailing from what is formally known as Yugoslavia, now Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ubiparipovic tells of a childhood we could never fathom. \u201cDuring the Civil war down there we had to move once or twice due to war, but you know I feel like it has affected my childhood in several different ways,\u201d stated Sini\u0161a. \u201cFirst, it wasn\u2019t easy and second it made me mature a lot quicker. It made me realize how precious life is and how precious every single moment of your life is.\u201d With his Father Serbian and Mother Croatian we cannot begin to imagine what Ubiparipovic and his family went through after the breakup of Yugoslavia. The Bosnian War as it is known by, was a bloody civil war that coincided with genocide. The war only lasted three years, but it still has a lasting impact on the region today. \u201cI grew up around many people with a similar situation as me,\u201d Sini\u0161a said. \u201cWhich helped me bond with many of them and I still stay in touch with. My best friends growing up, I still talk to them. Not every day, but I talk to them minimum once a month, sometimes once a week. Depending on what\u2019s going on, if there is any news on my side or their side.\u201d I was scheduled for a thirty minute interview, which I was quickly reminded by Sini\u0161a that talking and discussing growing up in Bosnia may take up the entire session. This only shows the war has had a long and lasting impact on him and his family.\nFirst, it wasn\u2019t easy and second it made me mature a lot quicker. It made me realize how precious life is and how precious every single moment of your life is.\u201d\nFrom a young age it was Ubiparipovic\u2019s dream to play soccer. \u201cEver since I was a child, ever since I can remember, I was with a soccer ball and loved the sport, followed it closely, watched many games, and I still do,\u201d Sini\u0161a said. \u201cThe opportunity to play at the professional level pretty much my entire life I can\u2019t be grateful enough for everything I have right now.\u201d Growing up, his support and loyalty was for a Serbian soccer team. \u201cMy favorite team growing up was Red Star Belgrade. When I was really small and young they were successful. So obviously they drawn a bunch of kids my age to fall in love with them. They won the European cup which is called champions league today in 91,\u201d Sini\u0161a stated. \u201cThe entire country was frantic about them. They had fans all over the former Yugoslavia pretty much, even though they were from the Republic of Serbia.\u201d\nUbiparipovic\u2019s favorite players growing up did not play for Red Star Belgrade but for the Gal\u00e1cticos. \u201cDuring that time I enjoyed Real Madrid because they had Davor \u0160uker and Predrag Mijatovi\u0107 who were at the time were on the Yugoslavian national team. Later \u0160uker was Croation and Mijatovic was Serbian Montenegro. Mijatovi\u0107 was my idol I growing up. I watched his every game for Real Madrid and even Valencia before that. He was just a player I\u2019d admired.\u201d\nAlthough his childhood was difficult, Sini\u0161a still had soccer. What is remarkable is that through all of the battles of the Bosnian War, the soccer associations still made an impression in this part Europe. As Sini\u0161a said, \u201cSo the childhood down there even though there was war and it was difficult, it was a great one. There was still plenty of soccer. Believe it or not the leagues were still going on.\u201d Ubiparipovic played in the youth leagues of the professional teams in Yugoslavia from the age of 11 to 14 before his family made their way to the United States.\nUbiparipovic has been blessed to play for some remarkable coaches as a collegiate amateur and professional. In his senior year at Akron, Sini\u0161a had to opportunity to play for Caleb Porter. Now head coach of the Portland Timbers, leading the club to a MLS Cup in 2015, Porter is one of the hottest commodities United States Soccer has to offer. Of course, it is no surprise to Ubiparipovic that Porter went on to win an MLS Cup. He saw that Porter had the ability and potential to become an incredible coach even in his first year at the helm of the Zips. \u201cI believed in him, I believed in his ability, and I believed in his approach to the game. I liked how he viewed the game and how he wanted to play it. He certainly proved that at the college level in the beginning. He changed the system a lot and he changed the college game for better I believe. During those years, the Akron teams played very attractive, very attacking minding possession in soccer that we see today at the top level, top clubs in the world.\u201d\nAnother coach that Sini\u0161a has played for, followers of the NASL are familiar with. Marc Dos Santos only coached the Ottawa Fury for two years, but he guided the Ontario based club to an unforgettable season in 2015. \u201cYes everyone knows he\u2019s a well-spoken guy in the media and he gets his point across. But it was a pleasurable time for me to play for him. He had similar views as Caleb when it comes to soccer. He wanted to play and he wanted to instill European soccer and European mentality in his players and the system that he played and I enjoyed playing for him. I have all the best to say about him.\u201d\nRecruiting a talented squad and building an attacking style of play, Marc Dos Santos constructed one of the most entertaining teams to watch this past season in the NASL. Now that Dos Santos has left to join Sporting Kansas City\u2019s coaching staff, it seems what was built in Ottawa is gone. \u201cIt\u2019s sad because we had a good group of guys, a good core. We had a great special locker room, everyone had respect for each other, everyone liked each other, everyone enjoyed each other, and we enjoyed working with one another,\u201d Sini\u0161a said. \u201cBut it\u2019s part of the game, its part of soccer, and its part of so to speak business. People and players and clubs will always look to better themselves and put themselves in a better situation. We all have families now and some will have some in the near future and we all have to put them in the best possible situation to support them.\u201d\nBut what lead the 32 year old to sign with Indy Eleven? \u201cI heard they had a good organization and they have good relationships with players. Players enjoy playing there. Fans are great, the attendance is great, one of the best in the league, if not the best. And it\u2019s also close to my house, to my home in Cleveland. I couldn\u2019t take a better spot and when I take all of those attributes and put them all together, I couldn\u2019t be in a better position.\u201d\nUbiparipovic\u2019s style of play will add depth to an attacking midfield position that was occupied last year by Dylan Mares, when healthy. Coming off of a 2015 season that saw Ubiparipovic score 5 goals and 8 assists in 2012 minutes of action, he wants to do better in 2016. \u201cPersonally, I just want to have the best year yet of my career. I want the team to make the playoffs. I want to put ourselves is a situation to make the playoffs. If we manage to do that then the title is up for grabs and it\u2019s a clean slate.\u201d\nOf course, being an experienced player includes a strict training and nutrition schedule. He trains four to five days a week, two of those days being strenuous to help prepare for the preseason. It is also important for Sini\u0161a to stay away from a carb and starch loaded food called bread. \u201cDiet wise I just try and stay away from bread. It\u2019s very difficult in my house hold but I\u2019ve stayed up on it. My Mom cooks every day, she makes bread literally every day or every other day. Believe me that bread is amazing once you start eating it you can eat the whole loaf. I\u2019ve been good and have stayed away from it completely because I know once you get going it\u2019s hard to stop.\u201d If he ever earns a brick from the Brickyard Battalion this coming season, they should have to include a homemade loaf of bread just for Ubiparipovic and the hard work he put into the game.\nSini\u0161a does not go too far away from the sports world when he is not playing soccer. \u201cI enjoy watching other sports as well. I enjoy basketball and football. Being that I was in Canada for the last couple of years I wasn\u2019t able to keep up a lot with, especially college football and college basketball. I\u2019ve been completely out of it. But NFL and NBA I know, still watch, and I like to watch. Besides enjoying sports, the professional soccer player always finds time for his family and friends a few times a week during the offseason in Cleveland.\nThere is a possibility we could see him on the sidelines coaching the game he loves when he hangs up his boots. \u201cI enjoy coaching. I coached a little for my Godfather in his youth club. I go once or twice a week. This offseason it\u2019s been a little harder because I actually just got engaged so I have a bunch of other obligations I have to fulfill besides coaching. So I don\u2019t have much time for that. In the near future I would like to continue soccer and at the coaching level.\u201d\nIndy Eleven and their supporters knew they were getting one of the best in the NASL with Ubiparipovic\u2019s play making ability. What they underestimated was how much he has been through to escape a war-torn country, the sacrifices his family made, the adjustment to a new culture, and how grateful he is to be a professional soccer player. A remarkable story. A story that enthusiasts of the \u2018Boy\u2019s in Blue\u2019 will come to appreciate once the 2016 season begins.\nPosted in Player ProfilesTagged Player Profiles", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 11762, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 226.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://laitman.com/2014/08/the-unbeatable-weapon-of-unity/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:52Z", "digest": "sha1:YTVDFAXUCSTOAC6TVHUFUGRCIO4ECOID", "length": 3872, "nlines": 20, "source_domain": "laitman.com", "title": "The Unbeatable Weapon Of Unity | Laitman.com", "raw_content": "The Unbeatable Weapon Of Unity\nQuestion: It seems that if the Arabs fought one another, it would be for the benefit of Israel since they would leave us alone then.\nAnswer: We will never be left in peace. First, there are enough people in the Arab countries, hundreds of millions. They destroy each other, but it doesn\u2019t make them any weaker. It is a very primitive perspective.\nDon\u2019t assume that they would leave Israel alone because of their inner wars. On the contrary, this way, they actually prepare themselves for the war against the Jews. They would never forget about us because they are occupied with each other.\nIn Syria, they are fighting and killing each other every day, but do they grow weaker? Every day, thousands come to Syria to replace those who are killed, and newer and better rockets are produced. These things are not related at all, and it is very na\u00efve to hope for a solution of this sort.\nThe nation of Israel is a very special natural phenomenon. Nature has given it a very special mission, and it is up to them to determine whether the world will be united or separated. The entire structure of the world depends on the inner structure of the Israeli nation. The state of the Israeli nation, whether united or separated, determines the state of the entire world since Israel is the central point of the world. Isn\u2019t that clear by the way the world treats us and pays attention only to us?\nTherefore, the world turns to us and tells us that we must change the world for the better and help it unite! The global crisis broke out, and circumstances obliged us to bring the world to unity. The nations of the world cannot unite by themselves. The global crisis is the exact outcome of people\u2019s inability to get along with one another because of their ego. Only the Israeli nation can provide humanity with a cover for their ego.\nQuestion: It isn\u2019t clear how Israel can help the world unite if we are torn by competition and different inner conflicts. They are killing each other in Syria with weapons, while in Israel, we are doing it in legitimate ways.\nAnswer: It is your fault that the Arabs are killing one another in Syria. It is your fault that there are thefts, murders, and crime all over the world and that the world is full of hate. The Israeli nation is responsible for that and especially you.\nThe nations of the world cannot correct themselves, unite, and come to good terms among themselves. They cannot do that since they are dominated by the ego.\nQuestion: However we, Jews, also have an ego, even a super ego!\nAnswer: That\u2019s right, but it is the kind of ego that can be controlled and corrected. When we correct our ego and connect, it will influence the nations of the world and will force them to connect. Without us, they will not be able to do so. It is only if the nation of Israel is connected that it will lead to the good connection of all the other nations, and then the world will reach correction, peace, and wholeness.\nHowever, this can happen only if Israel leads the world to such changes since only Israel can perform them. Therefore, throughout history, the other nations have hated the Jews because we don\u2019t fulfill our role. Today, however, we have reached the true fulfillment since the world is in a state of general crisis, and the nation of Israel has returned to the land of Israel and must fulfill its unity here, in this place, which means to reach brotherly love, the state of \u201call of Israel are friends.\u201d\nThus, we unite the entire world. This is called, as it is written, \u201ca Light to the nations.\u201d\nFrom the program \u201cA New Life\u201d 7/17/14\nA Jew Is Not A Nationality, But A Mission\nIsrael Under A Powerful Magnifying Glass\nFiled under: Anti-Semitism, Israel, Israel Today, Kabbalah Dissemination | Add Comment \u2192\nConvention In New Jersey \u201cDay One\u201d \u2013 08.08.14\nThe Fog Of Uncertainty At The Beginning Of The Path", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 215, "original_length": 8181, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 224.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/karen-pinkus/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:29Z", "digest": "sha1:7NKPTPMNN75GEJISD6IXK6JM2JKSQKYZ", "length": 507, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "lareviewofbooks.org", "title": "Karen Pinkus - Los Angeles Review of Books", "raw_content": "Karen Pinkus is a professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the chair of the Faculty Advisory Board of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. She has widely written on climate change and the humanities, as well as on literary theory, visual arts, Italian culture, and cinema. Her books include Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism and Alchemical Mercury: A Theory of Ambivalence.\nKaren Pinkus contemplates \u201cStar Trek: Discovery\u201d and the future of fuel....", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 5498, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 167.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://larrykintreats.com.au/about-us/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:15Z", "digest": "sha1:QIWZK3QIGFTVD7PH5DJGKFRF7J44A7MS", "length": 526, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "larrykintreats.com.au", "title": "About Us \u2013 Larrykin Dog Treats", "raw_content": "What\u2019s not to love? Made with top quality, human-grade ingredients my dog treats don\u2019t contain any artificial additives, preservatives or animal products. They taste great and are great for you too.\nI\u2019m often asked why I got into making dog treats. The answer is simply that every time I bought treats I\u2019d have to spend hours googling the ingredients. Seriously, who wants to eat all those preservatives and artificial flavorings? Much better to eat Larrykin vegan dog treats, made from simple, wholesome, natural ingredients.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 21, "original_length": 924, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 290.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/no-evidence-las-vegas-cop-who-allegedly-threatened-to-kill-nfl-star-didnt-have-body-camera-running/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:05:34Z", "digest": "sha1:DJRCYFFPNHRHBB2ZD75MDLACNNL7VWAH", "length": 4645, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "lawandcrime.com", "title": "'No Evidence': Las Vegas Cop Who Allegedly Threatened To Kill NFL Star Didn't Have Body Camera Running | Law & Crime", "raw_content": "\u2018No Evidence\u2019: Las Vegas Cop Who Allegedly Threatened To Kill NFL Star Didn\u2019t Have Body Camera Running\nby The Associated Press | 10:30 am, September 30th, 2017\nLAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Police acted appropriately and professionally detaining Seattle Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett when he ran from a casino as officers searched for an active shooter following a report of gunfire at an after-hours club on the Las Vegas Strip, the head of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Friday.\nA review of hundreds of videos, including police body-worn cameras, found no evidence that the three officers who had direct contact with the NFL star early Aug. 27 profiled Bennett by race or used excessive force, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said.\n\u201cMr. Bennett has a valid perspective as a person who experienced a reasonable-suspicion stop for a felony crime,\u201d Lombardo told reporters. \u201cThose who experience such a stop, especially when they have not committed a crime, are not likely to feel good about it.\u201d\nBennett committed no crime, the sheriff said. But he was detained at gunpoint, handcuffed and seated for about 10 minutes in the back of a patrol car until police searching the crowded casino just hours after an Aug. 26 boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Conor McGregor concluded that what people thought was gunfire was actually the sharp sound of velvet rope stands knocked to a tile floor during a scuffle.\nVideo shows an officer with his gun out while handcuffing Bennett as he lies prone in a traffic lane on Las Vegas Boulevard outside the Cromwell casino.\nBut Lombardo said there was nothing to support Bennett\u2019s allegation, made in a Twitter post more than a week later, that an officer put a gun to Bennett\u2019s head and threatened to blow his head off.\n\u201cFrom the evidence we have at this point, we don\u2019t know (the officer) said that,\u201d the sheriff said.\nBennett\u2019s post, titled \u201cDear World,\u201d said, \u201cLas Vegas police officers singled me out and pointed their guns at me for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time.\u201d\nBennett announced in early August that he would sit during the national anthem this season to protest social injustice and was one the first NFL players to protest this year. He made the decision before protests by white supremacists at the University of Virginia. But Bennett said his decision was solidified by what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia, including the death of a young woman who was struck by a car deliberately driven into a group of counter-protesters.\nBennett has remained one of the most outspoken pro athletes on numerous social issues. Last month, he held a benefit for the family of a pregnant black woman who was fatally shot by two white Seattle police officers in June. Police said the woman threatened the officers with at least one knife after calling 911 to report that someone had broken into her apartment and stolen video-game consoles\nBennett\u2019s attorney, John Burris in Oakland, California, said he wants to review videos more closely. But he said he believed the clips shown verified Bennett\u2019s accounts.\n\u201cHe was not acting improperly,\u201d Burris told The Associated Press. \u201cHe was not acting suspicious. He was not involved in any criminal activity.\u201d\n\u201cThere\u2019s nothing to go on, no description, other than you see this big black man running,\u201d the attorney added. \u201cHe was running like everyone else, trying to get away.\u201d\nBurris said the officer\u2019s gun was near Bennett\u2019s while he was being handcuffed, and he said he heard profanity in audio recordings captured on body-camera video. Burris said he heard no reference to race.\n\u201cThere\u2019s a dispute over whether he threatened to blow his head off,\u201d the attorney said. \u201cBut there\u2019s no question that the officer said, \u2018Keep your hands up and keep them where I can see them.\u2019 \u201d\nLombardo used a stop-motion narrative of casino surveillance video showing Bennett appear to dart behind a row of slot machines, and then body camera video from a sergeant joining the chase when officers noticed him running.\nNeither Lombardo nor the executive of the 3,000-member Las Vegas police officers\u2019 union, who attended the media briefing, identified the officers involved in the incident.\nUnion official Steve Grammas said he believed Bennett owes them an apology.\nThe officer who chased Bennett and handcuffed him didn\u2019t have his body camera on at the time, Lombardo said, and might face departmental discipline.\nOtherwise, \u201cI believe they acted appropriately and professionally,\u201d the sheriff said of the officers.\nConor McGregor, Floyd Mayweather, Joe Lombardo, Michael Bennett, Steve Grammas", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 88, "original_length": 6743, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 294.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lawaspect.com/crime-delinquenc/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:51Z", "digest": "sha1:C6LHE632Q4E6BQF3NG5MAO3RFASLZYQN", "length": 6173, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "lawaspect.com", "title": "Crime & Delinquenc", "raw_content": "Crime & Delinquenc\nThe results of a child\u2019s rehabilitation often depend on resources invested in this process, as, in Geraghty\u2019s opinion, richer families often have a better chance to rehabilitate their children after criminal offenses (Geraghty, 1997, p. 190). This demonstrates that psychology and counselling are powerful means of dealing with criminals, and the psychological state of the juvenile offender does matter in his or her posterior life. These are other reasons to maintain separation of juvenile courts from adults ones and limit transfers of minor offenders to criminal courts.\nThe trial of children in juvenile courts is more justified because the range of their offences is usually less serious than with older criminals. Most professionals agree that the scope of juvenile offense for the most part encompasses \u201cacts such as petty larceny, minor assaults, disorderly conduct, underage drinking, truancy, and running away from home\u201d (Dodge, 2000, p. 52). Retaliating for these crimes with a full-blown adult sentence is hardly effective and can result in negative consequences both for the offender and society that will receive a hardened criminal where the system could have spared him or her from imprisonment at all.\nThe restorative justice system that begins to gain popularity is expected to be far more effective in helping criminals overcome their past and return to society as normal rehabilitated members. The treatment of juvenile offenders in a special way and in special courts is based on the assumption that \u201cthere are significant psychological differences between adolescents and adults, and that these differences are provoked by the normal process of development, age-related, and legally relevant\u201d (Steinberg, 2000, p.1).\nThis premise seems sound given everything that is known about adolescent development. In this light, the treatment of adolescents with full considerations of their age-related peculiarities seems totally justified from the legal and social standpoint. The Culpability of Young Offenders While the public no longer views minor offenders as children unaware of what they are doing, most people believe that they are in any case \u201cless culpable than adults\u201d (Grisso, Scott, 1997, p. 137).\nThe ability of young adults to withstand a criminal trial exercising the same capabilities as adults is not indisputable. The young can command less ability to participate in adult trial both by virtue of their inferior ability to make judgements concerning their criminal actions and their limited knowledge and understanding of the court proceedings. Adults tried in criminal courts can have a better chance of acquittal because of their more mature understanding of life and improved experience.\nResearch shows that many children are not as competent as adults to stand trial in a criminal court. Grisso et al (2003) demonstrates that many children younger than 15 cannot stand criminal trial. Adults are considered incompetent to stand trial only if there is a severe mental impairment. However, Grisso et al (2003) shows that about one-third of those aged between 11 and 13 and a fifth of those between 14 and 15 demonstrate the same level of competence as mentally affected adults. At the same time, there is no to little difference in the capacities of older adolescents and adults.\nThis suggests that children can be seriously disadvantaged compared to adults if they are not given an opportunity to stand trial considering their abilities. Steinberg (2000) explains lack of adjudicative competence in adolescents by lower level of development in several important faculties: \u201cability to engage in hypothetical and logical decision-making, to demonstrate reliable episodic memory, to extend thinking into the future\u2026, to be able to take perspective of others, and to understand and articulate one\u2019s own motives and psychological state\u201d.\nSince all these capacities are underdeveloped in many youngsters compared to adults, a fact that is to be expected given that they are in the process of development, this impacts their adjudicative competence negatively. Adolescents will in their absolute majority have well-developed faculties of the above list at age 16; however, at 13 the picture may be more varied. Adolescents in criminal courts are placed in an adversarial model of justice, while in juvenile courts the pattern can be more cooperative.\nAll of the above suggests that many adolescents can be unprepared to be tried in the same way as adults are. Conclusion Trial of adolescents in adult criminal courts in the same way as adults can result in negative outcomes that will jeopardize the effectiveness of the process. Evidence from the research points to increases in recidivism after trials in which adolescents are transferred to criminal justice courts. This can be explained by lack of attention to the restorative side of justice in such trials and impossibility to attend to the special needs of younger offenders.\nMany of those are unable to stand criminal trial on a par with older offenders as they are impaired in their ability to make judgements and defend their interests in adversarial environments. Further research can focus on how else increased recidivism rates are linked to transfers to criminal courts and how juvenile courts can more effectively address adolescent needs.\nReferences 1. Bishop, D. , Frazier, C. , Lanza-Kaduce, L. , & White, H. 1996. The transfer of juveniles to criminal court: Does it make a difference?\nCrime & Delinquency 42, 171-191. 2. Dodge, L. M. (2000). Our Juvenile Court Has Become More like a Criminal Court\": A Century of Reform at the Cook County. Michigan Historical Review 26(2), 51+. 3. Fagan, J. (1995). Separating the men from the boys: The comparative advantage of juvenile versus criminal court sanctions on recidivism among adolescent felony offenders. In B. J. Howell, B. Krisberg, J. D. Hawkins, & J. Wilson (Eds. ). A Sourcebook: Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.\nMain solving of the crime\nContributory/Shared Responsibility on Crimes\nIs crime rational?\nElectronic and high-technology crime", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 8079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 240.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://leeherald.com/2017/01/04/police-end-naacp-sit-attorney-general-nominee/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:34Z", "digest": "sha1:EBXCH2WN4WASXB66ONMPL7SM24QWD5WJ", "length": 4218, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "leeherald.com", "title": "Police end NAACP sit-in against attorney general nominee - Lee Herald - Lee County's only FREE Digital-Only Newspaper", "raw_content": "Police end NAACP sit-in against attorney general nominee\nIn this Nov. 29, 2016, file photo, Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., is shown while meeting with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) \u2014 The national president of the NAACP and five others were arrested after staging a sit-in Tuesday at the Alabama office of Sen. Jeff Sessions, the nominee for U.S. attorney general, the civil rights group said.\nThe organization held the demonstration to protest Sessions\u2019 nomination by President-elect Donald Trump, criticizing Sessions\u2019 record and views on civil rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and voting rights enforcement.\n\u201cWe have an attorney general nominee who does not acknowledge the reality of voter suppression while mouthing faith in the myth of voter fraud,\u201d NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said by phone earlier in Tuesday\u2019s protest. Brooks called Sessions a poor choice to lead the U.S. Justice Department.\nThe sit-in at Sessions\u2019 office in Mobile, Alabama \u2014 the city the Republican senator calls home \u2014 began around 11 a.m. Tuesday. Demonstrators refused a request by the manager of the building\u2014 which includes several other tenants in addition to Sessions\u2014 to leave when the building closed for the day at 6 p.m. Police could be seen on video footage coming and handcuffing the six protesters and escorted them to a police van.\n\u201cWe all are aware of the laws of trespass. We are engaging in a voluntary act of civil disobedience,\u201d Brooks told the officers who arrived at the scene.\nThe NAACP broadcast the events live on the organization\u2019s Facebook page. WKRG of Mobile reported that the six, which included Brooks and the president of the Alabama NAACP, were charged with misdemeanor criminal trespass and released on bond.\nThe all-day protest ended in handcuffs but without confrontation. Brooks shook the hands of the officers and the officers allowed the protesters to kneel and pray before they were led away.\nBrooks criticized Sessions\u2019 prosecution of African-American voting rights activists on voter fraud charges when he was a U.S. attorney in Alabama. The group also raised concerns about immigration policies under Trump, the future of the Voting Rights Act and noted allegations \u2014 raised decades ago in Sessions unsuccessful 1986 confirmation hearing for a federal judgeship \u2014 that Sessions made racially insensitive remarks when he was a U.S. attorney.\nSarah Isgur Flores, a spokeswoman for Sessions, said in a statement that the nominee has dedicated his career to upholding the rule of law, ensuring public safety and prosecuting government corruption.\n\u201cMany African-American leaders who\u2019ve known him for decades attest to this and have welcomed his nomination to be the next Attorney General. These false portrayals of Senator Sessions will fail as tired, recycled, hyperbolic charges that have been thoroughly rebuked and discredited,\u201d the statement added.\nSessions was in Washington D.C. and not in his Mobile office at the time of the protests.\nIn testimony at the 1986 confirmation hearing, Sessions was accused by some hearing witnesses of saying the NAACP was \u201cun-American\u201d and saying he thought Ku Klux Klan members were \u201cOK until I found out they smoke pot,\u201d\nSessions said during the hearing that the Klan remark was a joke and that other remarks were mischaracterized. What he had said, Sessions said, was that civil rights groups hurt themselves when \u201cthey take positions that people think are un-American they hurt themselves.\u201d He then praised the work of the NAACP.\nThe demonstration marked the latest criticism of Trump\u2019s pick for attorney general. Sessions\u2019 confirmation hearings are expected to begin next week, highlighted by a vigorous push both by those favoring the nomination and those opposed to it.\nFormer Democratic Massachusetts Gov. 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With the median list price for the Commerce Twp (63171) area being $133,500 and the median price per square foot of $14 you will be able to find a home that meets your criteria.\nfor Commerce Twp (63171) Real Estate", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 4167, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 224.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://library.pnw.edu/welcome-back-from-the-library-director/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:34Z", "digest": "sha1:JH7O27J5CUPBU73VGHC4Q6UOUETRK46C", "length": 1170, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "library.pnw.edu", "title": "Welcome Back from the Library Director \u2013 Library", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Library Newsletter / Hammond Campus / Welcome Back from the Library Director\nWelcome Back from the Library Director\nHappy 2019 and Welcome back to campus!!! I trust that you all had a restful couple of weeks and are ready to hit the ground running and rock this New Year and semester. We are happy to be here and want to fill this month\u2019s newsletter with reminders of all the services that we offer, and the technology that we have in case you have forgotten, or never knew we had. So, please take a minute to look it over, and either bookmark it or print it out for future reference. Always remember that we are at your service 24/7 in one way shape or form. We are trained to know the ins and outs of research, information literacy and technology and how to connect you to what you need to complete your research, assignments and projects. You may reach us in person, by phone, online, and most recently by using our Mobile App, which was launched last month. Come on in, get reacquainted or meet us for the first time. I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. Again, Happy New Year, and welcome back.\nTammy Guerrero\nDirector of the University Library", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 106, "original_length": 2995, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 276.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://library.tu.ac.th/online-database/cambridge-journals-online", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:14Z", "digest": "sha1:GOAI36X5KFLEW6AILJVJSNTZ3ADSOGTE", "length": 274, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "library.tu.ac.th", "title": "Cambridge Journals Online | THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY", "raw_content": "In line with the commitment of Cambridge University Press to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide, the Press currently publishes over 200 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. 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Bishop Ryle's comments are taken from his commentary on the Gospels first published in England in 1854, and still in print today.\n\"You have here the account of our Lord Jesus Christ's baptism. This was His first step, when He entered on His ministry. When Jewish priests took up their office at the age of 30, they were washed with water. When our great High Priest begins the great work he came into the world to accomplish, he is publicly baptized. Let us learn from these verses to regard the sacrament of baptism with reverence. An ordinance of which the Lord himself partook, is not to be lightly esteemed. An ordinance which the great Head of the Church submitted, ought to be ever honorable in the eyes of professing Christians.\nThere are few subjects in religion on which greater mistakes have arisen than baptism. There are few which require so much fencing and guarding. Let us arm our minds with two general cautions.\nLet us beware on the one hand, that we do not attach a superstitious importance to the water of baptism. We must not expect that water to act as a charm. We must not suppose that all baptized persons as a matter of course receive the grace of God, in the moment that they are baptized. To say that all who come to baptism obtain like an equal benefit, - and that it matters not a jot whether they come with faith and prayer, or in utter carelessness, - to say such things appears to contradict the plainest lessons of scripture.\nLet us beware on the other hand, that we do not dishonor the sacrament of baptism. It is dishonored when it is thrust out of sight and never publicly noticed in the congregation. A sacrament ordained by Christ himself ought not to be treated in this way. The admission of every new member into the ranks of the visible church, whether young or grown up, is an event which ought to excite a lively interest in a Christian assembly. It is an event that ought to call forth the fervent prayers of all praying people. The more deeply we are convinced that baptism and grace are not inseparably tied together, the more we ought to feel bound to join in prayer for a blessing whenever any one is baptized.\nWe are told of the presence of all three persons of the blessed trinity. God the Son, manifest in the flesh, is baptized. God the Spirit descends like a dove, and lights upon Him. God the Father speaks from heaven with a voice. In a word we have the manifested presence of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Surely we may regard this as a public announcement that the work of Christ was the result of the eternal counsels of all Three. It was the whole Trinity which at the beginning of creation said, 'let us make man.' It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, 'let us save man.'\nMay we ponder these words well! They are full of rich food for thought. They are full of peace, joy, comfort and consolation for all who have fled for refuge to the Lord Jesus Christ, and committed their souls to Him for salvation. Such may rejoice in the thought, that though in themselves sinful, yet in God's sight they are counted righteous. The Father regards them as members of His beloved Son. He sees in them no spot, and for His son's sake is \"well pleased.\" (Ephes. i.6.).\"\nLabels: Matthew 3:13-17", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 753, "original_length": 15625, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 267.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lifeinthescriptures.blogspot.com/2013/10/morning-psalm5-2-kings-615-23-2-tim.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:20Z", "digest": "sha1:XPVLQXAE2OQCTFHCXLNDDCLZPKTYKP5T", "length": 2421, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "lifeinthescriptures.blogspot.com", "title": "Life in the Scriptures: Scripture and Commentary, Tuesday after Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity", "raw_content": "Scripture and Commentary, Tuesday after Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity\nMorning \u2013 Psalm 5, 2 Kings 6:15-23, 2 Tim. 1:15-2:13\nEvening-Psalm 11, 12, Ecc. 6:1-12, Mt. 22:34\nIn verses 34-40 a lawyer continues the barrage of questions designed to trick Jesus. He is not a lawyer as we think of them today. He is a theologian, a scribe who specializes in the massive body of regulations which had largely replaced the Scriptures as the rule of life in Israel. Again, no matter which single law Jesus chooses the theologian can offer many arguments against it and for others. But Christ dismisses the man-made regulations and goes straight to the words of Scripture. The first commandment, to love God, summarises the first four of what we know as the Ten Commandments. The second commandment to love one\u2019s neighbor as one\u2019s self summarises the meaning of the next six of the Ten Commandments. Together, they express the true meaning and purpose of all the commandments and all the words of the prophets. This is what all the law and all the messages of the prophets are about. The lawyer couldn\u2019t argue with that.\nIn verses 41-46, Jesus asks a question. The religious leaders had tried to confound and discredit him. Now He will confound and discredit them. He asks them one question in two parts. The first part, \u201cWhat think ye of Christ?\u201d has captured the imagination of preachers and commentator since the day Christ spoke the words. But it is actually the second part that is the essence of the question; \u201cwhose son is he.\u201d Jesus asks this question knowing the Pharisees will answer as they do in verse 42, \u201cThe son of David.\u201d And, according to the flesh, that is the correct answer. The Messiah was to be a descendant of David. That\u2019s why Matthew goes to such great lengths to trace Jesus\u2019 lineage back to David in chapter 1, and to call Him the son of David in the very first verse of his Gospel. Son of David was a Messianic title. That is why the blind men called Jesus by that name near Jericho (Mt. 20:30).\nJesus catches the Pharisees and scribes in His trap easily. If Christ is David\u2019s son, why does David refer to Him as his Lord in Psalm 110:1? 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She is pictured above (L-R) with her younger brothers, mother, and our Head Social Worker in Kenya, Eliud Kipkorir. June\u2019s mother and father first met at church in Nairobi. Kwa Njenga is the city\u2019s second-largest slum. No updates (roads, utilities, etc.) have been made since it sprang up. June is able to attend the 4th grade at Gifted Prince school due to support from Light Up Hope\u2019s LIFT program, which pays her school fees. June is a talented student, even though she struggles with epilepsy. The wages earned by her father \u2013 who is diabetic \u2013 as a security guard mostly pay for medicine for himself and his daughter, as well as for food and rent for the family. June\u2019s mother helps out with the family\u2019s needs by seeking day labor washing clothes for neighbors in a nearby affluent area. The gift of school fees has allowed the family to send the younger two children to school, as well, although they still struggle with finding clean water, paying their rent (which has increased), and dealing with unsanitary and difficult conditions in the slums. [\u2026]\nSherline \u2013 who is being sponsored by LIFT (our family unification program) \u2013 makes her home in Kwa Njenga with her grandmother, 2 siblings, and 2 members of the extended family. This 6-person family lives in a one-room shelter made of corrugated metal. Sherline\u2019s youngest sister, Winfer, is disabled and must attend a special school. Kwa Njenga is a sprawling slum on the outskirts of Nairobi. Here, many families live on the edge of dissolution, in extreme poverty. The main housing material is corrugated metal. Most families live in very cramped conditions, with trash littering, and raw sewage running, in the alleyways between residences. Families must purchase water and carry it back to their residence for household use \u2013 drinking, cooking, and cleaning; in other words, in addition to a lack of sewage and garbage service, there is no running water. Schools in Kwa Njenga are either underfunded or beyond the means of many families (who cannot afford school fees). We are sponsoring several families in Kwa Njenga through our LIFT program, where the need for help with food, education, and health care, is especially great. 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Outstanding British Film Nominations For British Academy Film Awards 2016 | A Listly List", "raw_content": "Updated by Soubin Nath on Jan 13, 2016\nBAFTA 2016!!! Outstanding British Film Nominations For British Academy Film Awards 2016\nThe 69th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, will be held on 14 February 2016 at the Royal Opera House in London, to honor the best British and international contributions to film in 2015.The nominees were announced on 8 January 2016 by Stephen Fry and Gugu Mbatha-Raw, with Bridge of Spies and Carol both having the most nominations at 9 each. Here is the list of nominations for outstanding British film category.\nSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69th_British_Academy_Film_Awards\nWith Charlotte Rampling, Tom Courtenay, Geraldine James, Dolly Wells\nIn the week leading up to their 45th wedding anniversary, a couple receive an unexpected letter which contains potentially life changing news.\nDirected by Asif Kapadia\nWith Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Russell Brand\nThe story of Amy Winehouse in her own words, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks.\nWith Saoirse Ronan, Emory Cohen, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent\nWith Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw\nWith Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Sonoya Mizuno\nA young programmer is selected to participate in a groundbreaking experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I.\nWith Jacqueline Abrahams, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Jessica Barden, Olivia Colman\nhollywood 2016 bafta bafta 2016", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 67, "original_length": 2988, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 179.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://littleflatrockchurch.com/author/littleflatrockchurch/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:37Z", "digest": "sha1:LDR2ZN4HY6GRUC3QJPT6MMYVLFXMUS26", "length": 4758, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "littleflatrockchurch.com", "title": "littleflatrockchurch \u2013 Page 2 \u2013 Little Flatrock Christian Church", "raw_content": "Author: littleflatrockchurch\nAdvent: Christingle\nIn the Czech Republic and other places, the Christmas celebration includes \u201cChristingles.\u201d A Christingle is an orange, representing the world, with a candle placed in the top of it to symbolize Christ, the light of the world. A red ribbon encircles the orange, symbolizing the blood of Jesus. Four toothpicks with dried fruits are placed through the ribbon into the sides of the orange, representing the fruits of the earth.\nThis simple visual aid vividly represents the purpose behind Christ\u2019s coming \u2014 to bring light into the darkness and to redeem a broken world by shedding His blood and dying.\nIn John\u2019s account of Christ\u2019s life, the disciple describes Jesus as the Light of the world. He wrote of Christ: \u201cThe one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world\u201d (John 1:9). Not only did Christ the Light come to penetrate our world\u2019s darkness, be He is also \u201cThe Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!\u201d (v.29)\nThink of it! The baby of Bethlehem became the living, risen Christ who has rescued us from our sin. And so John instructs us to \u201cwalk in the light as He is in the light\u201d (1 John 1:7). May you find in Jesus the peace of walking in His light.\n\u2014 from For God So Loved: 10 Reflections from Our Daily Bread 2015\nAdvent: For God\u2019s Little People\n\u201cIn those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered\u2026. And Joseph went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem\u2026to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.\u201d Luke 2:1-5\nHave you ever thought what an amazing thing it is that God ordained beforehand that the Messiah be born in Bethlehem (as the prophecy in Micah 5 shows); and that he so ordained things that when the time came, the Messiah\u2019s mother and legal father were living in Nazareth; and that in order to fulfill his word and bring two little people to Bethlehem that first Christmas, God put it in the heart of Caesar Augustus that all the Roman world should be enrolled each in his own town?\nHave you ever felt, like me, little and insignificant in a world of seven billion people, where all the news is of big political and economic and social movements and of outstanding people with lots of power and prestige?\nIf you have, don\u2019t let that make you disheartened or unhappy. For it it implicit in Scripture that all the mammoth political forces and all the giant industrial complexes, without their even knowing it, are being guided by God, not for their own sake but for the sake of God\u2019s little people \u2014 the little Mary and the little Joseph who have to be got from Nazareth to Bethlehem. God wields an empire to bless his children.\nDo not think, because you experience adversity, that the hand of the Lord is shortened. It is not our prosperity but our holiness that he seeks with all his heart. And to that end, he rules the whole world. As Proverbs 21:1 says, \u201cThe king\u2019s heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.\u201d\nHe is a big God for little people, and we have great cause to rejoice that, unbeknownst to them, all the kings and presidents and premiers and chancellors of the world follow the sovereign decrees of our Father in heaven, that we, the children, might be conformed to the image of his Son, Jesus Christ.\n\u2014 from Good News of Great Joy by John Piper\nAdvent: Is Jesus Still Here?\nTed Robertson\u2019s home in Colorado was one of more than 500 destroyed by the Black Forest Fire in June 2013. When he was allowed to return and sift through the ash and rubble, he was hoping to find a precious family heirloom made by his wife \u2014 a tiny ceramic figurine of baby Jesus about the size of a postage stamp. As he searched the charred remains of their home, he kept wondering, \u201cIs the baby Jesus still here?\u201d\nWhen our lives are rocked by disappointment and loss, we may wonder if Jesus is still here with us. The Bible\u2019s answer is a resounding Yes! \u201cNeither death nor life, neither angles nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow\u2026will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord\u201d (Romans 8:38-39).\nIn a corner of what used to be his garage, Ted Robertson discovered the burned remnants of a nativity scene, and there he found the baby Jesus figurine undamaged by the flames. He told KRDO NewsChannel 13, \u201c[We\u2019ve] gone from apprehension to hope . . . that we\u2019re going to recover some parts of our life that we thought were lost.\u201d\nIs Jesus still here? He is indeed, and that is the everlasting wonder of Christmas.\n\u2014 from God with Us: Christmas Reflections from Our Daily Bread. Pick up your free copy at the church.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 193, "original_length": 13688, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 294.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://liverpoolhistorysocietyquestions.wordpress.com/tag/mayer/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:58Z", "digest": "sha1:Z7FGNDNUQKVXA4DZZ6YK5PNR2DSJVE3C", "length": 6945, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "liverpoolhistorysocietyquestions.wordpress.com", "title": "Mayer \u00ab Liverpool History Society Questions", "raw_content": "I have been following the postings on Jos Mayer and would like to find out more about his life. Can you obligue?\nPeter Falkner-Abbot.\nMayer\u2019s benevolence and commitment to public enlightenment ensure his position as an important civic figure of the nineteenth century.\nJoseph Mayer, (1803\u20131886) was collector of antiquities and works of art, and was born on 23 February 1803 at Thistlebury House, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire, fourth son and the sixth of eleven children of Samuel Mayer (1767\u20131838), tanner, currier, and mayor of Newcastle under Lyme, and his wife, Margaret (1773\u20131859), daughter of John Pepper, architect.\nHaving attended Newcastle under Lyme grammar school, he moved to Liverpool in October 1821 at the age of eighteen. He began an informal apprenticeship as a silversmith under his brother-in-law, James Wordley (fl. 1817\u20131861), entering into partnership with him in 1834, and setting up on his own as a jeweller and goldsmith in 1844. He demonstrated a remarkable flair for business and the financial success he achieved enabled him to indulge a passion for archaeology and collecting which he had had since childhood. This had first manifested itself when he was eight when he acquired a small hoard of Roman coins and pottery sherds whose unearthing he had witnessed\u2014a minuscule foreshadowing of the scale and comprehensiveness of the collections he later amassed, displayed to the public, and finally bestowed on the city of Liverpool.\nBorn into a radical and nonconformist family, Mayer was a natural patriot, and realized the value of cultivating learning and the arts among all classes in Britain. From his twenty-fifth year he contributed readily to loan exhibitions and made gifts to mechanics\u2019 institutes. He was an exhibitor at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and at the 1857 Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition. He was sustained in his endeavours by the support of a wide circle of friends, distinguished by their contributions to archaeology, to historical studies, and as influential moulders of opinion in the decorative arts. The development of his collection was greatly furthered by a close collaboration, in particular, with Charles Roach Smith and Augustus Wollaton Franks. Mayer\u2019s acquisition, in 1854, of the collection of Kentish antiquities excavated by the Revd Bryan Fausset was an outstanding event in the history of British archaeology, and his purchase in 1855 of the Byzantine and medieval ivories of Baron G\u00e1bor Fej\u00e9rv\u00e1ry was an equally invaluable contribution to art collecting in Britain.\nMayer regarded his collections as a public resource which he willingly made available to those able to employ them to positive ends, and also funded several scholarly publications and sponsored archaeological excavations. His own contributions to literature were more modest, constituting a series of articles in the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, of which he was one of the three founding members, on 20 March 1848. In 1855 he contributed a paper, \u2018History of the art of pottery in Liverpool\u2019 (revised edn, 1873), which remains fundamental to the study of the subject. Mayer was one of the earliest systematic collectors of ceramics, with important holdings of Liverpool porcelain and pottery, and a notable collection of Wedgwood wares. His most striking achievement in this connection was his discovery and acquisition of the vast hoard of documents of Josiah Wedgwood, the foundation deposit of the Wedgwood archive collection now at the University of Keele. Mayer generously put these papers at the disposal of Eliza Meteyard and advised, and assisted financially, in the completion of her Life of Josiah Wedgwood (1865). Mayer\u2019s collection was first made accessible to the general public in May 1852, when he opened an Egyptian Museum (later the Museum of National and Foreign Antiquities) in Colquitt Street, Liverpool. In 1867 he presented the collection, then valued at \u00a375,000, to the Liverpool Free Library and Museum. In recognition of the munificence of his gift and other services to the town, the corporation of Liverpool commissioned the life-size statue of Mayer by Giovanni Fontana in St George\u2019s Hall, Liverpool. As with other surviving portraits, it reveals him to have been throughout his life a person of distinguished appearance, with an authoritative but sympathetic bearing. The Mayer collection continues as a significant constituent of the collections of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.\nThe honour which Mayer most valued, however, was the fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London, awarded in 1850. In 1860 he was appointed captain of the Liverpool volunteer borough guard, and in 1864 captain of the 4th Bebington company of the 1st Cheshire rifle volunteers, a unit he had raised at his own expense. He had moved in 1860 to Pennant House, Bebington, Cheshire, where he continued his benefactions, endowing the borough with a well-stocked lending library, public gardens, and a lecture hall and picture gallery. Retiring from business in 1873, he applied himself, inconclusively, to writing a history of art in England, amassing more than 20,000 drawings, prints, and autograph letters, as well as continuing to collect works of art and antiquities. This collection, with an estimated value of \u00a310,000, was dispersed by auction in Liverpool on 15\u201316 December 1887. He also collaborated with his nephew Frederick Boyle in the publication of two works which remain of permanent value in the study of the life and work of George Stubbs (1724\u20131806): Early Exhibitions of Art in Liverpool with some Notes for a Memoir of George Stubbs RA (1876), and Memoirs of Thomas Dodd, William Upcott, and George Stubbs RA (1879). In his retirement he pursued an interest in gardening, having in 1870 successfully cultivated in the open air the giant Victoria Regia water lily. He died unmarried at Pennant House on 19 January 1886, aged eighty-two, and was interred on 23 January 1886, at St Andrew\u2019s Church, Bebington.\nSourced from my battered, well worn Volume of Oxford DNB\nProgramme Secretary & Web Administrator\n02/12/2009 Posted by Liverpool History Society Questions | Joesph Mayer`s Life\t| Liverpool, Mayer, Merseyside, National Museums Liverpool | 1 Comment\nJ. Mayer Silver Coffee Pot\nI am inquiring about a sterling silver coffee pot or tea pot that my sister found after Hurricane Katrina struck our region. It was obviously of value to someone as it had been secured in a plastic bag.\nFrom what we can tell, it was a product of J. Mayer Silver, the maker was Robert Hennell III, it was made in 1855 and is in incredible condition. It has very elaborate raised carvings of farm animals. According to our research it is sterling silver, made in Liverpool. We cannot find another one like it online anywhere.\nJohnnie Easton\n22/06/2009 Posted by Liverpool History Society Questions | Joseph. Mayer\t| Mayer | 1 Comment", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 320, "original_length": 16827, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 166.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://livingnow.com.au/can-angels-make-mistakes/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:20:02Z", "digest": "sha1:IWFPC4EXM6POQKEF5WNVPTJPHM5U5DB5", "length": 4448, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "livingnow.com.au", "title": "Can angels make mistakes? \u2014 LivingNow Magazine Australia", "raw_content": "Can angels make mistakes?\nIn Insight and Experience by Barry Vissell September 2, 2009 Leave a Comment\nDo you ever feel that you are totally alone and unsupported in difficult times in your life? The feeling of isolation can be very painful. I have a story to remind us that we are never really alone and there is a beautiful support that we may not even be aware of.\nOur daughter Rami got married to River on June 27 in our garden, with a background resplendent with colorful flowers. This is a story about them, but mostly it is about spiritual help that is supporting us in difficult times, even when we may not know it is there.\nRami met River seven years ago. Their relationship seemed to lead up to the point of marriage, when suddenly after four years the relationship ended. Rami and River did not see each other after they separated. I do not know what River was experiencing because I didn\u2019t see him, but I do know Rami was going through a very difficult time. My mother Louise, who was 89 at the time and living right next door to us, positively adored River and always felt they should get married. We tried to tell her they were no longer together, but she had a difficult time accepting this.\nDuring this time of Rami and River\u2019s separation my mother started to go through her dying process. Our family took care of her at home for the year leading up to her death and this was a totally transforming experience for all five of us. In the beginning of this year my mom would mention to one of us that she still thought River would make the best husband for Rami. We would patiently tell her that the relationship was over. Finally she seemed to get it and did not talk about it again. In the last two weeks of my mother\u2019s life she was having beautiful experiences and visions of the place to which she was going. She was both peaceful and excited about her dying journey.\nOne week before she died she was particularly clear and was able to see both me and the angels that were there to help her in her transition. I was asking her different questions about what she was seeing and she was describing the indescribable. At one point I couldn\u2019t resist asking, \u201cMom could you please ask your angels if they know who Rami is going to marry?\u201d At the time I didn\u2019t really think I would get an answer, but figured it was worth the try.\nShe looked at me for a moment and then smiled, \u201cI want to know the answer to that question as well. I\u2019ll have to close my eyes for this one. I\u2019ll be right back.\u201d She closed her eyes and then asked in a quiet voice, \u201cDear angels, who is my granddaughter Rami going to marry? I\u2019d like to know before I die.\nThere was a long period of silence and I figured my mom had fallen asleep. She finally opened her eyes and said, \u201cI guess my angels don\u2019t know everything. They said Rami would marry River, and they are already working on it.\u201d\nI took my mom\u2019s hand. \u201cOh mom, you know that they are no longer a couple. Rami is trying to move on from that relationship.\u201d\nShe again closed her eyes and was silent for a long time. I passed the time looking at her vast collection of photo albums and just watched her sleeping. Startling me, she again opened her eyes and said in a commanding voice, \u201cJoyce, you are to invite River to my memorial service! I want him to be there.\u201d\nMy mother died one week later in a beautiful and peaceful way. Keeping her wish, after checking with Rami, I invited River to her memorial service. My mom and her angels apparently did their magic. River and Rami connected again at her memorial service, which was one year after their separation. They have not been apart since. I believe the happiest person present at their wedding was my mom smiling from her new home, perhaps saying, \u201cI told you so\u201d.\nIs this just a nice story about Rami and River, my mom and her angels? I am hoping that you can see it as a story about you as well. Can you imagine in some of your darkest hours of life when you feel totally alone and unsupported, that there is unseen help already working towards your higher good and growth. There are times when life can be very confusing and doesn\u2019t seem to be going your way at all. But perhaps during those darker times a beautiful growth is coming into your life that ushers in something new and wonderful. Even though we may not see or hear this help, there is a loving presence working on something beautiful for us. Now I know for sure, angels are never wrong.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 134, "original_length": 7453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 263.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lluniversity.com/page/5/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:36Z", "digest": "sha1:JA7D5CENNRYDXGK55LSKDK3WGO5VAFOJ", "length": 2734, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "lluniversity.com", "title": "Leanness Lifestyle University - 5/85 -", "raw_content": "Got Plantar Fasciitis? Real-Life Sufferers Share Solutions\nGot plantar fasciitis? There are a bazillion websites that'll tell you what it is. I'll start with what the Mayo Clinic says it is and then I'll give you real-world suggestions from clients and friends who suffer from it and have found what works for them. According to the Mayo Clinic Plantar fasciitis (PLAN-tur fas-e-I-tis) is one of the most common causes of heel pain. It involves pain and inflammation of a thick band of tissue, called the plantar fascia, that runs across the bottom of ...\n13 Wholes Punched Into a Popular Elimination Diet\nby David Greenwalt Diets that tell you to completely exclude certain foods or food groups rarely have any scientific basis. An exception to this could be elimination diets, which can help people with food allergies or intolerances figure out which foods they have reactions to. More likely, however, medically unsupervised exclusionary diets are an attempt by their authors to get you to purchase their latest diet book and/or \"official\" supplements \"approved\" by them. Be sure and take the ...\nHow Much Food Variety is Best for Starting Weight Loss?\nVariety is the spice of life. It means we should try many different kinds of experiences, because trying different things keeps life interesting. Does this cliche hold true for food during the starting phase of weight loss? We live in an obesogenic (obesity promoting) environment that produces passive overeating and physical inactivity. The environmental conditions are complex but one piece of the puzzle researchers are looking at is dietary variety. The variety of high-calorie, low-nutrient ...\nby David Greenwalt \"Biggest Loser\" contestants have screwed their metabolisms for good and they, like anyone who loses a lot of weight quickly, are doomed to regain all their weight lost and be morbidly obese forever, a new study published in the respected journal \"Obesity\" didn't say, at all. If you read the headlines about this across a number of popular news and entertainment outlets you'll be convinced we're all screwed if we want to lose a lot of weight--absolutely screwed. Is it ...\nWhich Foods May Be Addictive? The Roles of Processing, Fat Content, and Glycemic Load\nAccording to research published in PLOS ONE, Pizza, French fries and ice cream may be the kinds of fake foods many of us love to indulge in after a night of drinking. But research earlier this year suggests we can actually have benders on these food-like-substances all by themselves, and it may even be a sign of an addiction. Can we be addicted to food? No, or it's SO rare it wouldn't register on any research-based survey or test. But it's VERY important that you know what FOOD is so you ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 336.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://loc.harpweek.com/LCPoliticalCartoons/IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=Topics&IndexText=Richmond%2C+Va.%2C+Confederate+capital&UniqueID=31&Year=1861", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:49Z", "digest": "sha1:VWAKSHROJMDGLT5QIQRVSBVHQZNUCGY5", "length": 728, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "loc.harpweek.com", "title": "HarpWeek | American Political Prints 1766-1876 | Medium Image", "raw_content": "THE OLD GENERAL READY FOR A \"MOVEMENT\".\nConfident Union propaganda from the summer of 1861, claiming dominance over Confederate troops led by generals P. G. T. Beauregard and Gideon Pillow. Union commander Winfield Scott sits on a mound in the center, holding a noose and awaiting the emergence of president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis from his \"Richmond\" burrow. With his feet Scott pins the tails of two foxes, Beauregard (on the left), near Mannassas Junction, and Pillow, near Memphis.\nThe print was probably issued before the Battle of Bull Run, while Beauregard's troops were stationed at Manassas Junction, protecting the Confederate capitol at Richmond. Memphis was not won by the Union, however, until June 1862.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 8, "original_length": 977, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 322.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://luakabop.com/news/want-to-go-to-a-party/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:03Z", "digest": "sha1:I3YD77TYA3UNQ2MGPWU7H2QERL7W3ZP5", "length": 267, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "luakabop.com", "title": "Want to go to a Party? \u00ab LUAKA BOP", "raw_content": "This entry was posted on Monday, October 21st, 2013 at 12:27 pm\tand is filed under Front News, News, William Onyeabor. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1339, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 209.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lucasmland.com/2013/01/21/the-myth-of-human-difference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:31Z", "digest": "sha1:7NL5OKQ2GDA3DA742IWCWX3OLCCYMM2W", "length": 6910, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "lucasmland.com", "title": "The Myth of Human Difference \u2013 Transforming the Body", "raw_content": "Agriculture Biology Civilization Creation Culture Development Earth Environment Evolution Genesis History Indigenous Industrial Native Nature Primitivism Sustainability Technology\nThe Myth of Human Difference\nSustainability is one of those words in our culture that have been so thoroughly abused as to almost lose all meaning. Like the words \u201cgreen\u201d, \u201corganic\u201d, \u201cnatural\u201d or \u201ceco-\u201d, sustainable is often appended to a wide variety of terms such as \u201csustainable growth\u201d, \u201csustainable development\u201d, \u201csustainable design\u201d, \u201csustainable travel\u201d, \u201csustainable style\u201d or even \u201csustainable websites\u201d. This is particularly unfortunate as it is one of the words we most desperately need to understand, if we hope to have a viable future for the continuation of our species. Sustainability, most simply, is the state in which a process or system is able to continue indefinitely without depleting the resources on which the system or process depends.\nMany of our problems related to sustainability stem from some basic assumptions about who we are as human beings and how we relate to the non-human world. Most of us in the Western world have been enculturated into some powerful myths that continue to prevent us from understanding sustainability and our place in the world. The myth of human difference, the myth of control, the myth of technological salvation and the myth of scarcity all conspire to keep us committed to a framework that has set us on a trajectory toward ecological disaster. In this chapter we will explore these myths and their impact on how we think about sustainability, who we are as human beings and how we relate to the non-human world.\nFrom the creation stories in Genesis to the myths told over and over again in modern popular culture, we as a species, homo sapiens, think of ourselves as having somehow graduated from nature because of our large brains and good posture. We often tend to have very short memories when it comes to who we are as human beings. So, let\u2019s first take a look at the history of homo sapiens with a much longer lens.\nMost of us have difficulty thinking back centuries, but the history of our species covers millenia. The evolution of our species began about 500,000 years ago. Modern homo sapiens that we would recognize as our relatives appeared around 200,000 years ago. Agriculture, which makes civilization and cities possible, appeared only 10,000 years ago. 10,000 years normally sounds like an incredibly long period of time. However, in light of the full history of our species it is a relatively new development and comprises only 2-5% of the existence of our species.\nWhen we look back on the history of our species, we talk about everything that happened before agriculture as \u201cpre-history\u201d and the people that lived prior to agriculture and civilization as \u201cprimitive\u201d people. There are perhaps some good reasons for this involving the development of language and writing, but it has relegated everything prior to agriculture and civilization to a lesser status. We continue to think of the evolution of our species as a linear march of progress in which we have very little to learn from \u201cprimitive\u201d peoples. This is explicit in the way that we treat those very few hunter-gatherer societies that have survived. During the centuries of colonial expansion in which Europeans conquered much of the world, one of the justifications for the oppression, enslavement and genocide of indigenous people across the globe was that they were somehow less than human. Stephen Jay Gould explains the way we relate to our \u201cprimitive\u201d past and our relationship to nature thusly,\nWhat we criticize in ourselves, we attribute to our animal past\u2026What we prize and strive for, we consider as a unique overlay, conceived by our rationality and imposed upon an unwilling body\u2026Little more than ancient prejudice supports this common belief\u2026It has roots in\u2026our desire to view the history of life as progressive and to place ourselves on top of the heap (with all the prerogatives of domination). We seek a criterion for our uniqueness, settle (naturally) upon our minds, and define the noble results of human consciousness as something intrinsically apart from biology.\nIn the more recent past (in terms of millenia) homo sapiens have gone from manipulating nature through simple agriculture to the technological innovations of everything from automobiles to smartphones. This ability to manipulate natural resources into devices and infrastructure which insulate us from nature allows us to experience much of life, particularly in urban areas, as separate from nature which exists primarily in parks and preserves. The truth is that all of the devices and infrastructure that insulate us from nature depend on the extraction of various mineral and hydrocarbon resources from the earth for their existence. In addition, fewer and fewer people in \u201cdeveloped\u201d nations participate in agriculture (less than 1% in the United States). We are not aware of our own connectedness to the earth through what we eat and the things we use and depend on everyday. The truth is that there is nothing that does not come from the earth.\nSo, for all our technology and advancements, we continue to be connected and dependent on the earth for our existence, civilization and all that entails. No matter our perception or myths about being separate, above or different from other creatures, we continue to be subject to the same limitations and laws that govern them. Gould says that it is ,\u201dour unwillingness to accept continuity between ourselves and nature, our ardent search for a criterion to assert our uniqueness\u201d which prevents us from reconciling ourselves to nature and perpetuates the myth of human difference.\n4 comments on \u201cThe Myth of Human Difference\u201d\nI\u2019m looking forward to reading more. You make an excellent point about how little of our homo sapien existence has been spent in agriculture (and therefore civilization). I\u2019ve pondered (and been blown away by) the brevity of our time on the planet in relation to the rest of life, but never thought about how new we humans are at agriculture relative to the existence of our species. Is that still true if we limit it to our subspecies homo sapien sapien? As I\u2019m sure you know, genetically it has been shown that humans are very closely connected and amazing similar to other life as well.\nThanks for your thoughts. I\u2019m not an expert on this, but my understanding is that homo sapiens sapiens is a different way of naming the same species. As I said in the post, even if you start with our closest relatives at 200,000 years ago, agriculture comprises only 5% of the history of our species. It is definitely a mind blowing perspective and that\u2019s why i wanted to include it in the chapter.\nPingback: Perspective \u00ab Practicing Resurrection\nPingback: Wisdom Pyramid Part 2: Nature, Revelation, and Wisdom \u2013 Transforming the Body", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 9464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 236.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lumber-tycoon-2.fandom.com/wiki/Whitelist/Blacklist", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:25Z", "digest": "sha1:EVRM5ZQU6YJ7P5H62IJL73Y6YRVMA7AN", "length": 2039, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "lumber-tycoon-2.fandom.com", "title": "Whitelist/Blacklist | Lumber Tycoon 2 Wikia | FANDOM powered by Wikia", "raw_content": "Whitelist and Blacklist are tabs that can be found in the Menu. They contain helpful features that aid gameplay.\nWhitelist allows other players to access one's items and structures regardless of location. It can only be activated manually for each player at its tab in the Menu.\nTo whitelist a player, one must first open the Menu, then click on the Whitelist tab. The Whitelist tab will be shown, including text and two separate boxes, one being \"Players\" (players within the same server) and the other being \"Whitelist\" (players that can interact with one's item). Clicking on a player's name on Players will transfer them to Whitelist, and clicking on a player's name on Whitelist will transfer them back to Players.\nTo obtain one's item, the player must press E on the item pointed to and ownership will be transferred to the player who pressed E. To obtain a structure from another player, he/she must transfer the structure to his/her Land plot and ownership will be given.\nThough almost all items are allowed for interaction by other whitelisted players, the players cannot delete structures, but can move them. A player does not need to be whitelisted to fill in Blueprints or mill wood in a sawmill.\nBlacklist creates an invisible barrier 10 units around one's base that restraints players chosen. Apart from the own avatar of the player, their items and vehicles are also restricted. If the player in one's Land is blacklisted, they will be teleported to their own Land, but not their items and vehicles.\nTo blacklist a player, one must first open the Menu, then click on the Blacklist tab. The Blacklist tab will be shown, including text two separate boxes, one being \"Players\" (players within the same server) and the other being \"Blacklist\" (players that cannot get near one's Land). Clicking on a player's name on Players will transfer them to Blacklist, and clicking on a player's name on Blacklist will transfer them back to Players.\nRetrieved from \"https://lumber-tycoon-2.fandom.com/wiki/Whitelist/Blacklist?oldid=176348\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 162, "original_length": 4378, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 313.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://luxtimes.lu/archives/11315-deciding-the-next-move", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:33Z", "digest": "sha1:PFISLAJJQENQFZLLDKWAKEMQAONUMHVL", "length": 6297, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "luxtimes.lu", "title": "Luxembourg Times - Archives - Deciding the next move", "raw_content": "Deciding the next move\nHow can Luxembourg's foreign residents move on after the overwhelming rejection of full foreigner voting rights in Sunday's referendum? Community leaders share their thoughts.\n(JB) Sunday's clear rejection of full foreigner voting rights in Luxembourg closes the door on an idea that would have enfranchised 46 percent of the country's population.\nBut, far from removing any doubts about the issue, the referendum question appears to have generated more questions about confidence in the government, sovereignty and political inclusion.\n\u201cI think the more important issue is that the strong 'no' vote really doesn't change much but it does clarify the reality many of us didn't understand \u2013 that the large majority of foreigners makes Luxembourg frightened of losing control of their country,\u201d Paul Schonenberg of the American Chamber of Commerce told wort.lu/en.\nCertainly, maintaining sovereignty and attachment to the country's motto \u201cwe want to remain what we are\u201d played an important role in the vote, but it was not the only consideration.\nHilary Fitzgibbon of the Irish Club Luxembourg suggested the 'no' vote was intended as a message to the country's leaders, a sentiment that has been confirmed by more than one voter. She said: \u201cPersonally, I don't know whether this was people just trying to show they are not happy with the current government. That could be a part of it...I honestly don't think it was meant as an affront to foreign residents. But it might be seen like that.\u201d\nVoting and standing in elections\nOthers blame the question, one of three posed in Sunday's referendum. The question asked if foreigners should be allowed to vote provided they meet certain criteria, among them a 10-year residence.\nBut, as some critics point out, the question did not address the other intrinsically linked issue about whether foreigners would then be allowed to stand for election to parliament.\n\u201cI thought it strange the fact the government asks for the right to vote but never mentions the right to be elected during the campaign,\u201d Brazil Business Chamber Chairman Laertes Boechat said. \u201cOne right goes hand-in-hand with the other. The right to vote and the right to be elected.\u201d\nDean of the Miami University John Dolibois European Center Dr Thierry Leterre said the proposal made in the referendum question was far from ideal.\n\u201cI honestly don't think it was meant as an affront to foreign residents\n\u201cIt created second class citizens- able to vote but not to be elected,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cIt was not a bad move per se as it offered a reasonable compromise. It was nonetheless a compromise against the principal of political equality.\u201d\nThe information campaign in the run-up to the referendum has also come under fire. Ms Fitzgibbon, an Irish national who campaigned door-to-door in Ireland in the run-up to the referendum on gay marriage, expressed surprise at the lack of direct campaigning with Luxembourg residents.\n\u201cIt's completely opposite to the way the referendum was run in Ireland (where) every single person was involved. People were going around knocking on doors. (In Luxembourg) I didn't get very much material through my mail box. I didn't see many posters around. I don't know how it was advertised,\u201d she said.\nDespite Luxembourg's 2015 referendum being purely consultative, the government has always said it will respect the outcome, suggesting that full foreigner voting rights will not be considered again, for now.\nThe next related step by the Luxembourg government will be a reform relaxing the requirements for foreign residents to acquire Luxembourgish nationality.\n\u201cIf political parties are wise enough to work on a compromise regarding nationality- and in particular get rid of the Luxembourgish language as a precondition, the referendum will be a progress,\u201d said Dr Leterre, looking to the future.\nYet, even with this condition relaxed, gaining nationality to vote may not be an attractive option for everyone, particularly those from countries where they would have to renounced their original nationality to become Luxembourgish.\nAnd for residents who can adopt dual nationality, it is not always appealing. As an Irish national, Ms Fitzgibbon renounced any right to vote in Irish elections when she moved to Luxembourg. She said she wants to vote somewhere but would she adopt Luxembourgish nationality for that right?\n\u201cI'm a proud Irish person. I'm very happy with my Irish passport. The only thing that the Luxembourg passport would give me is the vote. I would have to think strongly about taking another nationality,\u201d she said.\n\u201cIf you are offered something and then it does not happen, it is a potential breach of trust\nOverall, few community leaders expressed surprise at the result of Sunday's referendum, on the question of full foreigner voting rights.\nNo-one was bitter but, Dr Leterre warns that there is a risk that this result has changed the way foreign residents view their place in Luxembourg.\n\u201cThe risk is high because voting rights were not adamantly demanded by non-Luxembourgers. It was an offer from the government...If you are offered something and then it does not happen, it is a potential breach of trust.\u201d\nMr Schonenberg is hopeful some of the damage can be repaired by the government, by showing a \u201ccommitment to inclusion\u201d. He wants to see the state offer another kind of mechanism that would give foreign residents an \u201cinfluence commensurate with their contributions.\n\"That's going to be the challenge going forward. We have to bridge the divide between the foreign and the local community. We will need to figure out ways to bridge the gap for the benefit of the foreign and Luxembourg community.\u201d\nDr Leterre warned against oversimplifying this divide, saying the referendum hides Luxembourg's multi-stratified society. \u201c(the referendum) should not hide that great social divide between state employees and private employees among Luxembourgers. Nor should it lead us to dismiss regional differences and political divisions.\n\"Among foreigners, there is a great political divide between nationals from the European Union, who carry a common citizenship with Luxembourgers and non-Europeans who cannot,\" he explained.\nClick here to view more articles about the referendum question on foreigner voting right.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 7718, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 250.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://luxuryflooringinc.com/ecology-of-a-cracker-childhood-book-synopsis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:28:19Z", "digest": "sha1:S5B2HOTIQOBQB32ZIBK7UEY6BAWJC7GS", "length": 3920, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "luxuryflooringinc.com", "title": "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood - Book Synopsis - Luxury Flooring Inc", "raw_content": "Ecology of a Cracker Childhood \u2013 Book Synopsis\nJunkyard Families\nThe book Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray shows the life of a young girl as she grows up with her family that owns a junkyard in Appling County Georgia. Many experiences may have been different for her, but she still lives as many children do; with rules, and playing outdoors with her imagination.\nThe main reason that his book was written was to depict the life of a young girl as she grows up in a situation that most do not encounter. She and her brothers spent many hours outdoors playing in the junkyard; they would play baptism where one kid would pretend to be the pastor and the other would be the one being baptized. Sometimes the pastor would leave the baptized under too long. One trait that her father wanted her to have was to be able to play the piano. She hated it so much and eventually told her father that she would not play it anymore. She would rather play outside with her brothers in the junkyard. They would be very creative in what they did with their spare time. They would tie gasoline tanks together and make a raft. She would play with her dolls in the back of the car, pretending to nurse them. She loved pretending she was a mother.\nHer father is very smart. He knows how to take old beat up cars off of other people\u2019s hands, even if the car holds a special place in the owner\u2019s heart. Her father loves animals and cannot stand to see or hear that an animal has been tortured or hurt, big or small. He stands up for all animals, a homing pigeon, a dog, a snake, a tortes, a stork, and a turtle.\nOne time, a turtle was walking across the road. A boy started playing with the turtle with his foot. It was a snapping turtle and supposedly they do not let go until it lightnings. The turtle grabbed a hold of his foot and would not let go. The boy stomped his foot on the ground and broke the poor turtle\u2019s jaw. Soon after the incident, her brothers told her father what had happened. After their father talked with the boy, he turned to his children. He pulled out his belt and gave them all whippings with it. He thought that the could have prevented the incident. If kids were fighting, all he had to do was touch his belt and they would stop immediately.\nAnother time, her dad found a dog lying on the side of the road. He gave the dog some prescription pills that he had at the house to ease it\u2019s pain even though he believed that it would not survive the night. In the morning, he went back to check on the dog and it was still alive. He nursed it back to health then set it free. He found many animals and all of them he tried to help. He found a stork that they let live in the house. Soon after finding the stork he built a house for it outdoors.\nHe even saved his son\u2019s life once. Three of his four children go for a boat ride and do not know how to swim. The two boys sat on a bench in the boat and one of them stands up because he thought he saw an alligator. The other two boys went flying overboard. It was Sunday and they had just come home from church. Their father was still dressed in his suit and dove in after his sons just in time to save them. He would have given anything to keep them safe. He wanted to keep them so safe that he did not want his children to be corrupted by the outside world. He threw out the only TV that they ever had soon after they bought it. Also, to make sure that his kids did not get made fun of for the way they lived, he did not allow his children to bring friends to the house. To avoid awkward situations he did not allow them to go over to other friends\u2019 houses either.\nI really liked this book since it had short stories that I could remember even a long time after reading it. Her book was very descriptive and did a great job of showing the way that she grew up. It was very realistic and I hope that many people get to read her book.\nSource by Tim H Jackson", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 5938, "language": "en", "language_score": 1.0, "perplexity": 237.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://lwlies.com/reviews/first-man/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:39Z", "digest": "sha1:FDLLAFLAJAFWGIY7R2KNG6UFXVX6BZPL", "length": 4210, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "lwlies.com", "title": "First Man review \u2013 A small step in Damien Chazelle\u2019s career", "raw_content": "Claire Foy Jason Clarke Ryan Gosling\nFrom La La Land to the lunar landing with Chazelle and Gosling.\nVisually impressive, but Armstrong remains a frustratingly enigmatic figure in this story.\nA small step in this filmmaker\u2019s career.\nDamien Chazelle\u2019s dramatisation of the Apollo 11 mission only scratches the surface of its human subject.\nWhen Apollo 11 took flight on 16 July 1968, it was the culmination of centuries of dreaming and more than a decade of solid planning, during which time each small success was met by a seemingly giant setback. Millions of dollars and many lives were expended as America bid to become the first nation on earth to put a man on the Moon, and it is the human cost of this historic event that provides the main narrative thrust in Damien Chazelle\u2019s starry follow-up to 2016\u2019s La La Land. Despite some heart-stopping set-pieces and fine performances all round, however, the act of balancing personal drama with effects-driven spectacle proves, well, rocket science for this director.\nBased on the 2005 biography of the same name by aerospace professor James R Hansen, First Man charts the literal ups and downs of NASA\u2019s Apollo program over the course of about nine years, from its inception at the dawn of the Space Race, through numerous trial-and-error tragedies, to the iconic moment when the \u2018Eagle\u2019 lunar module completed its mission and Neil Armstrong uttered that immortal soundbite.\nRyan Gosling \u2013 tiptoeing and twirling away in the moonlight once again \u2013 plays the eponymous spaceman alongside Claire Foy as his long-suffering but supportive wife, Janet. Their relationship comes under increasing strain as Neil rises through the ranks before eventually being earmarked for The Big One. Early on the couple are shown mourning the loss of their young daughter, Karen, to a brain tumour, which leaves a palpable emotional scar \u2013 particularly in Neil\u2019s case. As per Hansen\u2019s book, Armstrong is portrayed in the film as a gifted pilot and engineer, but also a distant man who is often found looking to the heavens when he should perhaps be focused on matters closer to home.\nThis is the essential conflict of Chazelle\u2019s film. As members of Congress and senior NASA officials begin to question the program\u2019s short-term viability, and public support wanes against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the people at the centre of this dangerous mission are left to ask themselves whether they can really stand to lose another colleague or loved one. It is an undeniably inspiring story of human fortitude, perseverance and scientific endeavour, but Chazelle and screenwriter Josh Singer, whose previous credits include Spotlight and The Post, only scratch the surface of the individual aspect of it.\nChazelle is a romantic filmmaker with lofty ambitions of his own, and he spends a good chunk of First Man\u2019s two-hour plus runtime attempting to frame the film within the wider social and cultural context of the 1960s. But just as he gestured at paying tribute to jazz under the guise of a Golden Age Hollywood musical in La La Land, here he pays lip service to the civil rights movement by having an unnamed black man recite Gil Scott-Heron\u2019s protest poem \u2018Whitey on the Moon\u2019 in the shadow of Cape Kennedy. He would have been better off keeping things more intimate, sticking with the Armstrongs and their immediate domestic struggle, instead of reaching for greater meaning.\nAs it stands, this is a confident but pretty bland technical exercise, in which theme park ride hydraulics and some nausea-inducing shakycam are employed to convey the sensation of being catapulted into space. Multiple scenes detailing the procedures and protocols followed by the various Apollo crew members are filled with code words and terminology that will fly straight over the head of your average non-astronaut moviegoer. The overall result is an authentic, visually impressive viewing experience that doesn\u2019t quite land.\nTags: Claire Foy Damien Chazelle Jason Clarke Ryan Gosling\nEmma Stone and Ryan Gosling are a match made in old-school movie heaven in this dazzling musical.\nShake, rattle and brawl. A student drummer faces off with his psycho teacher in Damien Chazelle\u2019s pulsating drama.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 123, "original_length": 6997, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://magazine.gilcrease.org/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FD7EQFNSJ6DGQ2BHZTXA2TWQEOZ3LTBG", "length": 1678, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "magazine.gilcrease.org", "title": "Gilcrease Magazine - Winter 2018", "raw_content": "Seasons of the Desert: Landscapes of the American Southwest\nDirector's Report Spring 2018\nFind Yourself at Gilcrease\n\u201cThe most important thing to understand about today\u2019s museum visitor is that one size does not fit all.\u201d\nA Message from the National Advisory Board Chair\n\u201cNearly a decade into the successful partnership between Gilcrease Museum and The University of Tulsa, these two unique organizations continue to collaborate, foster interest and raise awareness about their unparalleled collections.\u201d\nBank of America Amplifies Support of Gilcrease\nThrough Bank of America\u2019s generosity, tens of thousands of students have had the opportunity to visit Gilcrease with their classmates at little to no cost to their schools.\nGilcrease Awarded Second Consecutive IMLS Grant\nThe three-year, $277,566 grant will support the cataloging and imaging of 1,500 American Indian ethnographic items under stewardship of Gilcrease Museum.\nTaking Part in Making Art\nGilcrease\u2019s new Drop-in Studio program provides opportunities to explore various materials, processes and concepts under the guidance of a teaching artist on three Sundays each month.\nExhibition Feature Spring 2018\nExploring The Big Trail promises to provide valuable insights into the production of the film, an understanding of how the American West has been presented to audiences around the world and the role Westerns played in shaping the mythology of the West.\nCollection Feature Spring 2018\nMonroe Tsatoke: Modern Artist\n\u201cIn 2016, while researching Native American paintings in the Gilcrease collection, I found Portrait of an Indian Man deep in the vaults.\u201d\nGilcrease Museum Website\nCopyright \u00a9 2019 Gilcrease Museum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 1975, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 306.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://magnumres.com/upper-east-side/apartment-for-rent/e-102nd-st/82278", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:32:12Z", "digest": "sha1:5OEVDH4VDSOY7CSKINPLQ6WSOPFLD63I", "length": 810, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "magnumres.com", "title": "E 102ND ST. | New York Apartments: Upper East Side 2 Bedroom Apartment for Rent", "raw_content": "Space: 2 bed with office\nExceptional 2 Bedroom Duplex Near Upper East Side Area\nAmazing 2 bedroom duplex with an entire floor to use as an office for rent and 1.5 bathroom. This apartment features stainless steel appliances and hardwood floors, all of which are completely renovated. A whimsical spiral staircase leads to a spare room or you may choose to use it as an office, which has it's own bathroom. Overall, this is a well maintained building that provides heat and hot water that is included in the rent. Cable ready.\nConveniently located literally 2 minutes from 6 subway line or the M101, M102, and M103 bus\nCafes, restaurants, groceries all just a short walk away. Central Park within walking distance.\nOPEN HOUSE - SATURDAY - 12:30 - 1:30PM - PLEASE EMAIL TO RSVP\nPlease go to 118 East 102nd Street", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 136, "original_length": 2874, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://manjubhat.wordpress.com/2012/06/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:18Z", "digest": "sha1:6RR2N6M3HL3EE77Q6BB5VFJN3ZGNJOLF", "length": 7086, "nlines": 38, "source_domain": "manjubhat.wordpress.com", "title": "June | 2012 | No fluff, just stuff...that matters.", "raw_content": "Related post: https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/02/27/purpose-work-love/\n\u201cHe who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how\u201d \u2013 Nietzsche\nWhat doesn\u2019t kill us makes us stronger. \u2013 Nietzsche\nThere are no facts, only interpretations \u2013 Nietzsche\nHe who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. \u2013 Nietzsche\n\u201cFind something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it\u201d \u2013 Dan Dennett\nTruth is so much more than facts.\n\u201cIt\u2019s impossible,\u201d said pride. \u201cIt\u2019s risky,\u201d said experience. \u201cIt\u2019s pointless,\u201d said reason. \u201cGive it a try,\u201d whispered the heart. Unknown\nJust completed reading the book by Dr. Viktor Frankl \u2013 a world-renowned doctor by profession and survivor of the holocaust. He\u2019s the \u201cFather of logotherapy\u201d, a school of psychoanalysis.\nWords do not do justice to how it has touched the inner recesses of my mind. I have always thought of a transcendental reason for human existence, but this book crystallized my ideas.Dr. Frankl presents an account of the experiences in the concentration camp in a manner that doesn\u2019t evoke pity or sympathy but an appreciation of what it takes to go through life\u2019s suffering. And in the process, he teaches profound life-lessons that seek to give life a meaning, a purpose.\nHere are a few takeaways and excerpts from the book \u2013 in fact, I read one in a long time and couldn\u2019t stop once I started. Few paragraphs are replicated here as-is with the hope that it might help somebody someday.\n1. I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about to do. At that moment I became intensely conscious of the fact that no dream, no matter how horrible could be as bad as the reality of the camp which surrounded us, and to which I was about to recall him.\n2.We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms \u2013 to choose one\u2019s attitude in any given circumstances, to choose one\u2019s own way.\n3. We need to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as being questioned by life. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.\n4. These tasks and therefore the meaning of life, differ from man to man, and from moment to moment. Thus it is impossible to define the meaning of life in a general way. Questions about the meaning of life can never be answered by sweeping statements. \u201cLife\u201d does not mean something vague, but something very real and concrete, just as life\u2019s tasks are also very real and concrete. They form man\u2019s destiny, which is different and unique for each individual. No man and no destiny can be compared with any other man or any other destiny.\n5. No one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them.\n6. \u201cExistential vacuum\u201d \u2013\nThe feeling of the total and ultimate meaninglessness of their lives. They lack the awareness of a meaning worth living for.They are haunted by the experience of their inner emptiness, a void within themselves. No instinct tells him what he has to do. No tradition tells him what he ought to do. Sometimes he does not even know what he wishes to do. Instead he either wishes to do what other people do (conformism) or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism)\nThe meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters therefore is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person\u2019s life at a given moment. To put the question in general terms would be comparable to the question posed to a chess champion:\n\u201cTell me Master, what is the best move in the world?\u201d\nThere simply is no such thing as the best or even a good move apart from a particular situation in a game and the particular personality of one\u2019s opponent. The same holds for human existence.\nOne should not search for an abstract meaning of life. Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus everyone\u2019s task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.\n8. We can discover the meaning of life in 3 different ways \u2013\na. By creating a work or doing a deed\nb. by experiencing something or encountering someone.\nc. by the attitude we take to unavoidable suffering.\nThe first, the way of acheivement or accomplishment is quite obvious. The second and third ways need further elaboration.\nThe second way of finding a meaning in life is by experiencing something \u2013 such as goodness, truth and beauty- by experiencing nature and culture or, last but not least, by experiencing another human being in his very uniqueness \u2013 by loving him. Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.\nThe third way of finding a meaning in life is by suffering.\nIn some way, Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice. Man\u2019s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer , on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.\nLet me make it clear that in no way is suffering necessary to find meaning. I only insist that meaning is possible even in spite of suffering \u2013 provided, certainly, that the suffering is unavoidable. To suffer unnecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.\n9. A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is self-determining. What he becomes \u2013 within the limits of endowment and environment \u2013 he has made out of himself. Man has both potentialities within himself \u2013 to behave as a swine or to behave as a saint; which one is actualized depends on decisions but not on conditions.\n10. We have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Aushwitz; however he is also that being who entered the gas chambers upright, with the lords prayer on his lips.\n~~~ Amen ~~~\nFiled under: General, Quotes, Spirituality |\tLeave a comment \u00bb\nSAML Single Sign-On (SSO) Service for Google Apps\nhttps://developers.google.com/google-apps/sso/saml_reference_implementation\nFiled under: Internet and Web, Protocols, Software, Technology |\tLeave a comment \u00bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 204, "original_length": 9611, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 280.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matangmanok.wordpress.com/tag/iraq/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:05Z", "digest": "sha1:IWYYPHYP37Q72W2ESQWAGVXWDCFNNPQS", "length": 11016, "nlines": 83, "source_domain": "matangmanok.wordpress.com", "title": "Iraq | Matangmanok", "raw_content": "The Music is the Same, Just a Different Dance Floor\nThis is from William Blum\u2019s December 2011 post:\nUSrael and Iran\nThere\u2019s no letup, is there? The preparation of the American mind, the world mind, for the next gala performance of D&D \u2014 Death and Destruction. The Bunker Buster bombs are now 30,000 pounds each one, six times as heavy as the previous delightful model..\nBut the Masters of War still want to be loved; they need for you to believe them when they say they have no choice, that Iran is the latest threat to life as we know it, no time to waste.\nThe preparation of minds was just as fervent before the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. And when it turned out that Iraq did not have any kind of arsenal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) \u2026 well, our power elite found other justifications for the invasion, and didn\u2019t look back. Some berated Iraq: \u201cWhy didn\u2019t they tell us that? Did they want us to bomb them?\u201d\nIn actuality, before the US invasion high Iraqi officials had stated clearly on repeated occasions that they had no such weapons. In August 2002, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz told American newscaster Dan Rather on CBS: \u201cWe do not possess any nuclear or biological or chemical weapons.\u201d1\nIn December, Aziz stated to Ted Koppel on ABC: \u201cThe fact is that we don\u2019t have weapons of mass destruction. We don\u2019t have chemical, biological, or nuclear weaponry.\u201d2\nHussein himself told Rather in February 2003: \u201cThese missiles have been destroyed. There are no missiles that are contrary to the prescription of the United Nations [as to range] in Iraq. They are no longer there.\u201d3\nMoreover, Gen. Hussein Kamel, former head of Iraq\u2019s secret weapons program, and a son-in-law of Saddam Hussein, told the UN in 1995 that Iraq had destroyed its banned missiles and chemical and biological weapons soon after the Persian Gulf War of 1991.4\nThere are yet other examples of Iraqi officials telling the world that the WMD were non-existent.\nAnd if there were still any uncertainty remaining, last year Hans Blix, former chief United Nations weapons inspector, who led a doomed hunt for WMD in Iraq, told a British inquiry into the 2003 invasion that those who were \u201c100 percent certain there were weapons of mass destruction\u201d in Iraq turned out to have \u201cless than zero percent knowledge\u201d of where the purported hidden caches might be. He testified that he had warned British Prime Minister Tony Blair in a February 2003 meeting \u2014 as well as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in separate talks \u2014 that Hussein might have no weapons of mass destruction.5\nThose of who you don\u2019t already have serious doubts about the American mainstream media\u2019s knowledge and understanding of US foreign policy, should consider this: Despite the two revelations on Dan Rather\u2019s CBS programs, and the other revelations noted above, in January 2008 we find CBS reporter Scott Pelley interviewing FBI agent George Piro, who had interviewed Saddam Hussein before he was executed:\nPELLEY: And what did he tell you about how his weapons of mass destruction had been destroyed?\nPIRO: He told me that most of the WMD had been destroyed by the U.N. inspectors in the \u201990s, and those that hadn\u2019t been destroyed by the inspectors were unilaterally destroyed by Iraq.\nPELLEY: He had ordered them destroyed?\nPIRO: Yes.\nPELLEY: So why keep the secret? Why put your nation at risk? Why put your own life at risk to maintain this charade?6\nThe United States and Israel are preparing to attack Iran because of their alleged development of nuclear weapons, which Iran has denied on many occasions. Of the Iraqis who warned the United States that it was mistaken about the WMD \u2014 Saddam Hussein was executed, Tariq Aziz is awaiting execution. Which Iranian officials is USrael going to hang after their country is laid to waste?\nWould it have mattered if the Bush administration had fully believed Iraq when it said it had no WMD? Probably not. There is ample evidence that Bush knew this to be the case, or at a minimum should have seriously suspected it; the same applies to Tony Blair. Saddam Hussein did not sufficiently appreciate just how psychopathic his two adversaries were. Bush was determined to vanquish Iraq, for the sake of Israel, for control of oil, and for expanding the empire with new bases, though in the end most of this didn\u2019t work out as the empire expected; for some odd reason, it seems that the Iraqi people resented being bombed, invaded, occupied, demolished, and tortured.\nBut if Iran is in fact building nuclear weapons, we have to ask: Is there some international law that says that the US, the UK, Russia, China, Israel, France, Pakistan, and India are entitled to nuclear weapons, but Iran is not? If the United States had known that the Japanese had deliverable atomic bombs, would Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been destroyed? Israeli military historian, Martin van Creveld, has written: \u201cThe world has witnessed how the United States attacked Iraq for, as it turned out, no reason at all. Had the Iranians not tried to build nuclear weapons, they would be crazy.\u201d7\nIt can not be repeated too often: The secret to understanding US foreign policy is that there is no secret. Principally, one must come to the realization that the United States strives to dominate the world. Once one understands that, much of the apparent confusion, contradiction, and ambiguity surrounding Washington\u2019s policies fades away. Examine a map: Iran sits directly between two of the United States\u2019 great obsessions \u2014 Iraq and Afghanistan \u2026 directly between two of the world\u2019s greatest oil regions \u2014 the Persian Gulf and Caspian Sea areas \u2026 it\u2019s part of the encirclement of the two leading potential threats to American world domination \u2014 Russia and China \u2026 Tehran will never be a client state or obedient poodle to Washington. How could any good, self-respecting Washington imperialist resist such a target? Bombs Away!\nLeave a comment\t| tags: human rights, imperialist powers, invasion, Iran, Iraq, Israel, madness, media lies, Oil reserves, propaganda, Saddam Husein, US foreign policy, war, western powers, WMD\t| posted in Asia, Bush legacy, Capitalism's greed, Europe, Fragments and Moments, Imperialism, Influences, Middle East, North America, politics, terrorism, Uncategorized\nRandom and Not-so-Random\nA few months ago I was invited to be part of a small group of writers from different parts of the world who freely share valuable critiques on each other\u2019s poetry online, in a private forum so our work could remain \u201cunpublished.\u201d Discussions are very stimulating \u2013 not just about poetry or creative writing but pretty much anything under the sun.\nEvery week or so a prompt is posted and each member gets to write a poem out of it. The prompt could be a photograph or a series of photographs, a word, a piece of music, etc. I\u2019ve managed to come up with new work from this exercise and have become rather addicted to this practice. Recently a new prompt was posted that I continue to struggle with. It\u2019s a beautiful photograph of a sunset against what looks to me as pine tree branches. Mostly red, yellow, orange and black.\nBefore this time I had told myself I would like to write something about the Maguindanao Massacre of 2009. I have tried to incorporate the photograph with the massacre, but so far nothing feels right. The other day I accidentally stumbled upon an old poem that needed to be revised. So for the meantime I dealt with that. Here is version 2.\nOh, before the poem\u2026 Hillary Clinton is visiting the Philippines to \u201cstrengthen ties.\u201d I think she means \u201cshackles\u201d or something worse. There\u2019s a mathematical explanation to the saying about keeping your friends and enemies \u2013 the distance and equivalent value. When I figure it out I\u2019ll share it with the rest of the world.\nRandom Thoughts on the Haditha Massacre on Valentine\u2019s Day\nOn Nov. 19, 2005, U.S. Marines allegedly killed 24 people in revenge for the death of one of their own, caused by an improvised exploding device (IED). The 24 individuals, six of whom were aged 10 and under, were shot at point blank range.\n\u2013 United for Peace and Justice\nAbdullah Walid, 4\nHere is a photograph of a room, familiar\nas an aunt\u2019s house. How can I like\nthe colour red now after seeing this?\nThose bursts are not flowers\nor abstract art. They are echoes\nforcing me to hear doors being broken,\ncries, pleas, gunfire, explosions.\nThe weight of boots\nover silence. An eye\nfor each bullet hole.\nI know your name and age\nfrom scraps of stories handed down\nby sources who never knew you.\nDo I add one more violation\nby imagining you surviving?\nHow your index finger might have felt\nthe fine edges of each bullet hole,\nan odd sensation rising\nbetween horror and laughter.\nAbdul Hamid Hassan Ali, 76 \u2013 grandfather, father and husband,\nwho used a wheelchair, due to a leg amputation\nfollowing complications with diabetes. Died with nine rounds\nin the chest and abdomen.\nKhamisa Tuma Ali, 66 \u2013 wife of Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali.\nWisdom does not go\nfreely with age.\nYet we know there is something\nworth hearing from somone\nolder than us. They have seen\nmore lives, more deaths perhaps\nthan our eyes can bear.\nAnd another. Together.\nThey once spoke\nunfamiliar to us.\nas they held hands\nat the end of another day.\nFacing a new day\nagain in each other\u2019s arms.\nFor who knows how many years?\nFor who knows how many more years?\nAnd then that suddden\nvoid of an embrace.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haditha_killings\nAftermath of US raid - photo from \"The War Profiteers\" taken from a video shot by Taher Thabet.\nLeave a comment\t| tags: children, civilians, Haditha, Haditha Masscre, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Maguindanao Massacre, Philippines, President Bush legacy, US foreign policy, US Military atrocities\t| posted in Asia, Bush legacy, Capitalism's greed, Fragments and Moments, Imperialism, Influences, Literary News & Articles, Mga Tula / Poetry, Middle East, North America, poetry, politics, terrorism\nNEWS ITEM: Journalist attempts citizen\u2019s arrest of Blair in EU parliament\nDetail from a cartoon by Leon Khun\nEUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS \u2013 A Brussels reporter attempted to place Tony Blair under a citizen\u2019s arrest on Monday (22 March) for his role in the invasion of Iraq, during a visit by the former UK prime minister to the European Parliament for a hearing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\nOn the seventh anniversary of the invasion almost to the day, late afternoon, David Cronin, an Irish journalist with the Inter Press Service news agency and a regular writer on European Union affairs for The Guardian, the British centre-left daily, approached Mr Blair, as he was due to discuss with MEPs his current work as a Middle East special envoy.\nPlacing his hand on the former prime minister\u2019s arm, Mr Cronin said: \u201cMr Blair, this is a citizens\u2019 arrest.\u201d\nLeave a comment\t| tags: citizen's arrest, David Cronin, George Monbiot, Imperialism, invasion of Iraq, Iraq, Tony Blair, war crimes\t| posted in Europe, Fragments and Moments, Imperialism, Middle East, politics, terrorism", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 436, "original_length": 27067, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 318.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mathstories4u.com/arithmetic-beautifulangel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:35Z", "digest": "sha1:VADAAI4LNZD4QLYZNQ2SHMQS2OAS2NZO", "length": 3713, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mathstories4u.com", "title": "Beautiful Angel \u2013 Math Stories For You", "raw_content": "Mister Lacky Jones was a rich married man. He had a son named Jay, and no other children. When the son became 20 years old, he got married to a girl named Angel. Angel was really beautiful. The bride and the groom started to live in the same house as Lacky and his wife. After a few months, Lacky \u2018s wife did not like Angel anymore. Angel always tried to show that she was far more beautiful and quick witted than her mother in law. This rivalry resulted in frequent quarrels between the two. Jay\u2019s mother and wife both complained to him almost on a daily basis.\nLacky also warned Jay that if his wife kept this up, he would have to leave the house. Jay countered with a will from his grandfather showing a clause that gave him several rights to the property. They wanted to go for a court battle but a counsellor convinced them to compromise. It was decided that all the property should be divided into four equal parts \u2013 one would go to Lacky, another to his wife, a third to Jay and the fourth to Angel. Lacky agreed to this settlement because he wanted his son to live well and did not want any court drama. Also, he knew that upon the death of the parents, everything would belong to his son anyway. Other parties also agreed to the deal.\nLacky had 24,204 square meters of agricultural land, 32 cows, 9 houses and $12,340,232 in cash in different accounts. The mediator assessed that all the agricultural land was of similar value.\nMost of the decision was straight forward to divide each type of property in 4 parts. For each item, he could divide the number with the factor 4. When he factored the 24,204 square meters of land into 4, he got 6051 x 4. This meant that there were 4 equal lots of land of 6051 square meters each in the total land of 24,204 square meters. Cows were easy \u2013 because 32 could be factored into 8 x 4 meaning that each person would get 8 cows.\nThere were 9 houses. When he factored 9, he got 3 x 3. There was no 4 in the factors. He examined the situation more carefully. There were 8 houses of equal value. He could divide them as 4 x 2, giving two houses to each person. The difficult part of the deal was the ninth small house. He called a realtor and asked for its value. The realtor said that this was a small house and needed a lot of repair but the value of the land in that area was very high. Therefore, its price was about $2,300,000.\nMediator\u2019s suggestion\nThe mediator said that the small house ($2,300,000) plus the cash ($ 12,340,232) was worth $14,640,232. He factored this amount as 3,660,058 x 4. He told them that they could either sell the house first or one of them could accept the house but take less cash. The person who got this house would get $2,300,000 less than the others. Angel wanted to keep the house and others had no objection to it. Lacky and his wife each received $3,660,058 as did Jay but Angel got the house worth $2,300,000 plus the cash amount of $1,360,058.\nLacky thought that it to be good that the whole property had been divided into four parts to prevent future disputes. The mediator could have given one half to Lacky and the other half to his son but then wives might have disputed this later on.\nAt the end, there was the matter of the fee for the mediator. It had been agreed at $50,000. It was factored as $12,500 x 4. Each party paid $12,500.\nAngel says that she has 9 jackets, 9 skirts, 16 shirts, 12 dresses and 18 pairs of shoes. List the items whose numbers have 2 as a factor, 3 as a factor and both 2 and 3.\nJackets: 9 = 3 x 3\nSkirts: 9 = 3 x 3\nShirts: 16 = 2 x 2 x2 x 2\nDresses: 12 = 2 x 2 x 3\nShoes: 18 = 2 x 3 x 3.\nOnly the numbers of dresses and shoes have 2 as a factor but the number of every item has 3 as a factor.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 4756, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 219.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://matthewsdesigngroup.com/brochures/med-legal/ml-flipbook-thumb1/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:05Z", "digest": "sha1:B5STH5NMXCTAGJYJTC5EVORU54UWOHI4", "length": 53, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "matthewsdesigngroup.com", "title": "ml-flipbook-thumb1 | Matthews Design Group", "raw_content": "Published November 27, 2015 at 170 \u00d7 137 in Med-Legal", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 26, "original_length": 542, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 222.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mb.nawcc.org/threads/becker-floor-clock.157961/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:15Z", "digest": "sha1:JFCVLHU3AGWRFQ7VTXCBHDRXBRFGJ35M", "length": 1970, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "mb.nawcc.org", "title": "Becker Floor Clock | NAWCC Message Board", "raw_content": "Becker Floor Clock\nDiscussion in 'Your Newest Clock Acquisition' started by twl1066, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:47 AM.\ntwl1066 New Member\n#1 twl1066, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:47 AM\nHello, I am new to the forum and jumped in heavily with many clocks, looking for my mid-life crisis hobby and future retirement activity. I enjoy reading through the postings and seeing the unique clocks and the wealth of information provided by the community.\nI found the following Gustav Becker floor clock, but it is missing the coil gong. The movement was rebuilt and is currently ticking away. I was told a US Serviceman brought back many clocks in the early 1960's, which were sold and gifted to family and friends. This clock was sitting, the movement sitting loose probably since then. The case has been re-finished (primed and repainted a lighter brown). The glass is the cabinet appears original and the movement has a art-deco style that was very appealing to me.\nThe movement has a serial pointing to the early 1900's.\nI am looking for help to confirm its age and identify gong information. I would like to obtain the actual gong that could have been in it. However, a period specific would be good as well.\nThe patent on your clock was issued 1904/6, so your clock is after that date. I have not access to the GB serial numbers but there is a member of this site who has done a great deal of work on them and I am sure he will be able to help in due course.\nI would not describe this as an art deco clock - to me it show the last vestiges of art nouveau/Jugendstil before the art deco began. I see that particularly in the dial and hands.\nIt is nice that you have given this old clock a new life.\n#3 KurtinSA, Feb 11, 2019 at 6:58 AM\nThe clock serial number dates to the middle of 1906. John Hubby has some info on the patent in this post:\nPost Your Gustav Becker Clocks Here\n#4 twl1066, Feb 11, 2019 at 5:29 PM\nRe-posted my original message on \"Post Your Gustav Becker Clocks Here\" thread.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 179, "original_length": 5143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 320.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mbird.com/2016/04/resurrection-the-grace-of-doing-nothing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:51Z", "digest": "sha1:PHYQKCMQ4MQ2NXEFX2BRKRICRZ64BYB5", "length": 13188, "nlines": 32, "source_domain": "mbird.com", "title": "Resurrection & The Grace Of Doing Nothing | Mockingbird", "raw_content": "Everyday / Philosophy / Theology\nResurrection & The Grace Of Doing Nothing\nby Scott Jones on Apr 7, 2016 \u2022 4:54 pm 3 Comments\nTowards the end of his first missive to the Corinthian church, the Apostle Paul offers a mini tour-de-force in defense of the veracity of the bodily resurrection of Jesus. For Paul this conviction is central not just to the future hope of the people of God but also to orient the pilgrim life of the faithful in this present broken age. \u201cThe sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ\u201d ( 1 Cor. 15:56-57). Then the argument concludes with something that, to some, might seem a bit surprising. Rather than quietistic comfort rooted in a longing for the sweet by and by, we find these words: \u201cTherefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain\u201c (1 Cor. 15:57).\nNumerous scholars, pastors and theologians have pointed out in recent years that the resurrection of Jesus is not the divine abandonment of a forsaken world; it\u2019s an embodied commitment to the world\u2019s redemption, warts and all. This is certainly right, and it\u2019s at the heart of the church\u2019s conviction that extraordinary things happen to the rather ordinary and sinful stories which constitute our lives when they intersect with materially unremarkable things like water, bread and wine. Karl Barth was fond of pointing out that God wasn\u2019t limited to word and sacrament to reveal his reconciling presence to sinners. He could use a flute concerto, a communist manifesto or a dead dog. The Risen Christ does indeed play in thousands upon thousands of places. But what is the nature of the labor in which the post-Easter people of God are called to in a posture that is steadfast and immovable with a confidence that it is not undertaken in vain?\nIt\u2019s quite fashionable in many theological circles to see the work of the church as building the Kingdom of God. It doesn\u2019t matter what denomination you find yourself in or where in that fold you find yourself on the theological or ideological spectrum. There are right-wing and left-wing Kingdom builders. There are Kingdom builders who identify as both radical anti-establisment types as well as those who see the Kingdom of God advanced by incremental and unglamarous investment in society\u2019s institutions.\nIt\u2019s interesting to note the verbs used in the New Testament concerning the church and the Kingdom\u2013no where do you find the church building the Kingdom of God. When the Kingdom is mentioned in relation to God\u2019s people, the latter \u201creceive\u201d or \u201cinherit\u201d the former. For all the would-be Kingdom activists, there are very few corresponding active verb tenses to be found in the inspired witness of the apostles or their associates. What\u2019s a Christian to do then in light of the reality of the Risen Christ? What about\u2026nothing?\nThis was H. Richard Niebuhr\u2019s suggestion in response to those like his brother Reinhold who were convinced in the early 1930s that the best response to Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia was military intervention:\nIt is when we stand aside from the conflict, before we know what our relations to it really are, when we seem to be condemned to doing nothing, that our moral problems become greatest. How shall we do nothing?\u2026\nThe issue is brought home to us by the fighting in the East. We are chafing at the bit, we are eager to do something constructive; but there is nothing constructive, it seems, that we can do. We pass resolution, aware that we are doing nothing; we summon up righteous indignation and still do nothing; we write letters to congressmen and secretaries, asking others to act while we do nothing. Yet is it really true that we are doing nothing? There are, after all, various ways of being inactive, and some kinds of inactivity, if not all, may be highly productive. It is not really possible to stand aside, to sit by the fire, in this world of moving times; even Peter was doing something in the courtyard of the high-priest\u2019s house\u2014if it was only something he was doing to himself. When we do nothing we are also affecting the course of history. The problem we face is often that of choice between various kinds of inactivity rather than of choice between action and inaction.\nH. Richard Niebuhr\u2019s inactivity is a qualified sort. It\u2019s not the inaction of the pessimist who \u201cdoes nothing in the international crisis because he believes that the way of Japan is the way of all nations, that self-interest is the first and only law of life, and that out of the clash of national, out of that of individual, self-interests the greater good will result.\u201d The inactivity of the pessimist is \u201cone of watchful waiting for the opportunity when, in a precisely similar manner, though with less loss of life and fortune, if possible, he may rush to the protection of his own interests or promote them by taking advantage of the situation created by the strife of his competitors.\u201d This sort of inactivity encourages and rewards the \u201cself-asserters\u201d and \u201cit fills them with fear of the moment when the new competition will begin.\u201d\nNeither is the inactitivity Niebuhr advocates the kind motivated by frustration and moral indignation. This second kind of inactivity is much different than that of the pessimist. The morally indignant inactivity is like \u201cthat of a man who is watching a neighborhood fight and is waiting for the police to arrive\u2014for police who never come.\u201d This man has \u201crenounced for himself the method of forcible interference, which would only increase the flow of blood and the hatred, but; he knows of nothing else that he can do.\u201d The indignant inactive subject is \u201cforced to remain content on the sidelines, but with mounting anger he regards the bully who is beating the neighbor, and his wrath issues in words of exasperation and condemnation.\u201d The indignation and anger continue to increase, and if the police fail to arrive, force this man to either enter the conflict himself despite his moral qualms or convulse in apoplexy.\nNiebuhr also eschews the inactivity of the Marxists of the day. They see nothing constructive can be done in moments like these but understand that the unfolding of such events are the preliminary prerequisites to a revolutionary change that will eliminate the conditions that make such imperialistic and egoistic conflicts so possible and prevalent. Marxist inactivity \u201cis the activity of a cynicism which expects no good from the present, evil world of capitalism, but also the inactivity of a boundless faith in the future.\u201d Marxists know that war is often the midwife of revolution. The discontent and suffering war brings are the stuff out of which new worlds may be born. The Marxist sees an opportunity \u201cnot for direct entrance into conflict, not for the watchful waiting of those who seek their self-interest, but for the slow laborious process of building-up within the fighting groups those cells of communism which will be ready to inherit the new world and be able to build a classless international commonwealth on the ruins of capitalism and nationalism.\u201d This is \u201cinactivity with a long vision, a steadfast hope and a realistic program on non-interfering action.\u201d\nNiebuhr\u2019s inactivity is distinct from all the aforementioned and appears to many to be the most impractical because it is rooted in the \u201cwell-nigh-obsolete faith\u201d in a living, even present God:\nFrom this point of view, naively affirming the meaningfulness of reality, the history of the world is the judgment of the world and also its redemption, and a conflict like the present one is\u2014again as in communism\u2014only the prelude both to greater judgment and to a new era. The world being what it is, these results are brought forth when the seeds of national or individual self-interest are planted; the actual structure of things is such that our wishes for a different result do not in the least affect the outcome. As a man soweth so shall he reap. This God of things as they are is inevitable and quite merciless. His mercy lies beyond, not this side of, judgment. This inactive Christianity shares with communism also the belief in the inevitably good outcome of the mundane process and the realistic insight that good cannot be achieved be the slow accretion of better habits alone but more in consequence of revolutionary change which will involve considerable destruction. While it does nothing it knows that something is being done, something which is divine both in its threat and in its promise.\nThis sort of inaction, rooted in faith in the God who died and who raises the dead, may provoke painful self-reflection. It quickly unmasks righteous indignation as lacking in real righteousness. By grace it offers a complex set of lenses through you might look at the world, lenses that reveal the \u201copposite approach from that of the irate father who believes that every false reaction on the part of his child may be cured by a verbal physical or economic spanking.\u201d This way of doing nothing, Niebuhr claims, is what the \u201cold Christians called repentance.\u201d\nThe inactivity Niebuhr calls for may be the kind of labor that Paul calls the Corinthians to do and assures them in light of the resurrection it is not done in vain:\n\u2026it is the inaction of those who do not judge their neighbors because they cannot fool themselves into a sense of superior righteousness. It is not the inactivity of a resigned patience, but of a patience that is full of hope and is based on faith. It is not the inactivity of the noncombatant, for it knows that there are no noncombatants, that everyone is involved, that China is being crucified (though the term is very inaccurate) by our sins and those of the whole world. It is not the inactivity of the merciless, for works of mercy must be performed though they are only palliates to ease present pain while the process of healing depends on deeper, more actual and urgent forces\u2026But if there is no God, of if God is up in heaven and not in time itself, it is a very foolish inactivity.\nSo many calls to action in the name of building the Kingdom of God often are rooted in the kind of pessimism, indignation or \u201crevolutionary\u201d fervor that Niebuhr describes. Whether on a personal or societal level, there are numerous things that make us fearful and anxious. And what better antidote to fear and anxiety than action and control (or even better action that controls)? How often in the face of real pain do we speak or act too quickly not to alleviate the suffering of the other but to assuage the unease in us that is caused by proximity to it, and to them?\nIn an essay written in 1980 entitled \u201cResurrection, the Holocaust and the Obligation to Forgive,\u201d Stanley Hauerwas writes the following about Easter faith and the sort of Christian engagement with the world it animates:\nFar from marking God\u2019s retreat from the world, the resurrection of Jesus announces that Christians can do nothing to alienate God\u2019s steadfast will to forgive and love them. The Holocaust presents a profound challenge to this. Like the Apostle Thomas, the painful lesson to be learned is that the resurrected Lord is also the crucified Messiah. The God Christians worship is one whose power resides in steadfast graciousness, not in making the horrible reality of the crucifixion or the Holocaust come out right. Freed to live as Easter people\u2014not triumphalistically, but chastened by the history of suffering of the Jews, which is thus their history\u2014Christians recognize their obligation to accept and to ask for forgiveness.\nActivity in the world that begins and ends with the need to ask for and accept forgiveness, asking God again and again for the grace to live forgiven may be the seed of a blessed inactivity that is certainly not undertaken in vain.\nThis piece was sparked by a recent conversation with my friend and colleague Bill Borror. You can listen to it here.\nTags: Corinthians, H. Richard Niebuhr, Kingdom of God, Paul, Resurrection, Stanley Hauerwas\nRead more on and from Scott Jones.\nIt should be noted that a certain kind of activism presupposes action that is not only non-sensical, but absurdly condescending.\nI recall an anecdote where a young white girl approached Malcolm X after a talk he gave. She asked him what she should do, and he responded with \u201cNothing\u201d. It\u2019s not the white girl\u2019s responsibility for righting wrongs, more than anything she needs to get out of the way.\nOr I remember Rick Warren asking McCain and Obama what they would do about evil in the world. Obama gave a nuanced Niehbuhrian (Reinhold) answer, and McCain gave a gung-ho, I\u2019ll hunt America\u2019s enemies to the gates of Hell. How absurd are these questions?! What can man do about Evil, in that cosmic sense?!\nDoing \u201cnothing\u201d is sometimes the only realistic option, and the humble one. It\u2019s as you say. Doing the work of God is as that last Richard Niebuhr quote puts it so eloquently.\nJim McNeely says:\nDoes this mean you\u2019re not going to vote this year?\nI\u2019m happy to vote \u2013 as long as there is one worthy of voting for. If not, should one vote merely for the sake of voting?", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 17833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 306.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mbird.com/tag/mockingbird-conference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:59:59Z", "digest": "sha1:5TPDOGPXOKR7TUBFLHVUSP5IZKMQ2A7E", "length": 10681, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "mbird.com", "title": "Mockingbird Conference | Mockingbird", "raw_content": "Posts tagged \"Mockingbird Conference\"\nIn Praise of Distraction \u2013 Curt Benham\nVery happy to share this conference talk from Oklahoma City, featuring the Rev. Curt Benham, who shares about the surprising blessings of distraction. (Note: minor technical difficulties with the video in the first 10 minutes. But the audio is clear throughout!) Enjoy:\nIn Praise of Distraction \u2013 Curt Benham from Mockingbird on Vimeo.\nGrace in an Age of Distraction 1 \u2013 Steven Paulson\nby Mockingbird on Nov 14, 2018 \u2022 2 Comments\nVoila: the first video from our recent conference in Oklahoma City! Here, keynote speaker Steven Paulson \u2014 author of Luther\u2019s Outlaw God \u2014 introduces the conference theme: distraction\u2026 Trust us, you\u2019ll want to give your attention to this one. \ud83d\ude09\nClick here to watch Part II.\nOKC 2018 Recordings: Grace in an Age of Distraction\nAn incredibly heartfelt thank you to everyone who helped put on our conference in Oklahoma City last weekend, especially the good folks at All Souls Episcopal Church, The Anglican Foundation, Commonplace Books, and all-around miracle-worker Carol Johnson. We\u2019re also supremely grateful to Terry Prather and Doug Klembara for filling in on A/V at the last minute.\nAs per usual, we\u2019re making the recordings available at no charge; if you weren\u2019t able to attend but would like to make a contribution to the cost of putting on the event, Lord knows we\u2019d appreciate it! You can do so via our Support page.\nDownload links are followed below by an in-line player for each session. And everything\u2019s available on our Talkingbird podcast if you prefer to listen that way. Videos of the talks will be rolled out gradually over the next few weeks. Photos courtesy of Casey and Travis Squyres at Stellate Photography.\n\u201cGrace in an Age of Distraction I\u201d \u2014 Steven Paulson\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/01-Grace-in-an-Age-of-Distraction-pt-I.mp3\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/02-In-Praise-of-Distraction.mp3\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/07-The-Distraction-of-Our-Lives.mp3\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/08-Grace-in-an-Age-of-Distraction-pt-II.mp3\n\u201cI\u2019m So Worried: How God Loves Me Through Anxiety\u201d \u2014 Carrie Willard\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/09-I_m-So-Worried_-How-God-Loves-Me-Through-Anxiety.mp3\n\u201cA Discussion on Law & Gospel\u201d \u2014 Steven Paulson and Jady Koch\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/10-A-Discussion-on-Law-and-Gospel.mp3\n\u201cSinners in the Hands of\u2014SQUIRREL!\u201d \u2014 David Zahl\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/11-Sinners-in-the-Hands-of-Squirrel.mp3\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/06-Marriage-Salvation-Events-3.mp3\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/03-Instagram-Scrolling-and-Twitter-Rants_-Today_s-Solutions-to-Luther_s-Anfechtung.mp3\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/05-Grace-in-Distracted-Parenting.mp3\nhttp://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Johnson-mbird-OKC-2018-talk.mp3\nTransgressors, Transgression, and the Perilous Bridge of Forgiveness \u2013 A Conference Breakout Preview\nIn this past week\u2019s Another Week Ends, I mentioned very briefly the newest season of Invisibilia, one of our go-to podcasts. That particular episode, \u201cThe Pattern Problem,\u201d tells the story of a woman with a seriously checkered past, some her fault, some not at all. She\u2019s the child of addicts, an ex-addict and ex-felon herself, and yet she\u2019s made an against-all-odds comeback: after a couple stints in prison, she gets into law school and is now studying for the bar. A panel of judges overseeing the bar in her state is deciding whether or not her past precludes her from such an unlikely future.\nI won\u2019t give away what ends up happening, but you can see where the focus on \u201cpatterns\u201d comes into play. Does her criminal past foreshadow the future? Can we really be sure she\u2019s changed? Patterns provide ways for people to make sober decisions. They are the conditional protective measures for how we decide to invest our time, our money, and in this case, our forgiveness. Courts as institutions are not known to be particularly forgiving\u2014it\u2019s not their job\u2014but the same patterns are at work for us, in our minds, in the ways we read the news and process the actions of our strangers and friends alike.\nHuman beings don\u2019t just dole out our forgiveness to anyone. To the contrary, unforgiveness is tended to like a formal garden. Each garden has hard boundaries with designated entrances, and strict guidelines for keeping its delicate order alive. It has to be that way. Otherwise, the garden would be indistinguishable from the chaos surrounding it. I am not trying to be glib. This is really how it has to be.\nAt the same time, social science has made it clear that unforgiveness will, in the end, kill you. For all the sensible order our fine gardens provide, they are solitary places, kept alive by stress, numbness to intruders, and estrangement. In other words, unforgiveness may simplify the \u201cpattern problem,\u201d but forgiveness, we are told by social science (and by the New Testament), is the way to new life.\nIn this breakout, we will talk about the psychology of forgiveness, its proven biological and psychosocial benefits, its various meanings in our culture, and the real, totally practical hope it expresses in the Bible.\nRegister for the 11th Annual Mockingbird Conference here! Miss out, and you\u2019ll never forgive yourself\u2026\nby Mockingbird on Apr 11, 2018 \u2022 1 Comment\nI Don\u2019t Identify as Human: The Hidden Image of the Hidden God \u2013 A Conference Breakout Preview\nby Mockingbird on Apr 4, 2018 \u2022 1 Comment\nThis NYC 2018 Conference breakout preview comes from Adam Morton, pastor of Christ Lutheran Church and associate pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, both in Lancaster, PA.\nThen God said, \u201cLet us make humankind in our image, according to our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild animals of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.\u201d So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.\nYou\u2019ve heard that bit before. If not, purchase or steal a Bible (we can work on the ethics of acquisition later), and crack it open to the very first chapter. It\u2019s a good read. This passage is one of the small set that might come out of the mouths of folks who have little or nothing to do with the church; nevertheless, they have heard that humanity is somehow the \u201cimage of God,\u201d and this is surely important. But what does it mean?\nModern life is such that the definition of a human being seems to be daily renegotiated. The pet food commercials tell me that my pair of cats (let us never speak of them again) and my son are more or less equal objects of my care. I doubt this, but clearly not everyone does, else General Mills wouldn\u2019t have offered $8 billion to acquire Blue Buffalo. Various experts and news stories have warned me, repeatedly, that if the robots don\u2019t rise up to kill us, they\u2019ll seduce us instead\u2014and that this sort of thing is one day going to be perfectly normal. Silicon Valley appears awash in the notion that humanity can be\u2014no, that\u2019s too weak\u2014will be transcended by way of the proper application of consumer electronics to the body. Sad as it is to say, neither are we anywhere near rid of the notion that certain colors or other configurations of the anthropoid form are markedly less than human.\nHear enough of this stuff and you might begin to suspect that we don\u2019t yet really know what a human being is. This ancient notion of the image of God might be helpful in such a mess, if only we could pin it down. However, the thorny heart of the matter is that this image isn\u2019t all that apparent in my daily life. I can\u2019t see it, and while I could make several plausible suggestions as to its meaning, settling on which one (if any) is true is another matter\u2014which means, strangely enough, that it has something in common with the God whose image it is supposed to be.\nIn this conference breakout we\u2019ll try to talk about this image-of-God thing, what it means for it to be hidden from us, and how this confusion impacts us on a daily basis. Along the way we\u2019ll enlist the help of Johann Georg Hamann, the greatest 18th century German writer you\u2019ve never heard of (yes, I know, that\u2019s hardly a selling point\u2014but trust me, this guy is hilarious in a very un-German and un-18th century way).\nYou can sign up for the 11th annual Mockingbird conference here! No human beings will want to miss this!\nNYC Preview: I\u2019m New Here. I Don\u2019t Know Anyone. And What the &%*! Is Going On?\nby R-J Heijmen on Feb 25, 2014 \u2022 3 Comments\nRecently, one of my current coworkers, whom we shall call Will, made a confession to me about his first Mockingbird Conference. A friend of mine, with whom Will worked at the time, had convinced him to come along, and so, after flying into LaGuardia, Will found himself in the backseat of my car on our [\u2026]\nby Todd Brewer on Mar 22, 2013 \u2022 2 Comments\nPerhaps this is not your issue, but I often find that the language we speak as Christians when talking about Christianity simply fails to really connect. Whether it be in a sermon, prayers, or music, full of talk of \u2018justification\u2019, \u2018grace\u2019, \u2018redemption\u2019, etc., when we hear the words, nod our heads in assent, but fail [\u2026]\nA major thank you to everyone who helped put on this past weekend\u2019s conference in New York! We could not be happier or more grateful for how it all went. We are offering the recordings free of charge again this year; we only ask that those who were not able to attend this year *consider* [\u2026]\nMy Heart Would Poison You, But God Wants My Poison Heart\nby Matt Schneider on Apr 26, 2012 \u2022 2 Comments\nI just came across this quote from Yitzhak Zuckerman, who was a Jewish resistance movement leader in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising during World War II: If you could lick my heart, it would poison you. Wow! You see, although a hero of the resistance movement, plagued by survivor guilt, he became an uncontrollable alcoholic later [\u2026]\nby Nick Lannon on Apr 3, 2012 \u2022 11 Comments\nC.S. Lewis described four kinds of love (based on the four Greek words): affection, friendship, romance, and charity (unconditional love). Since I\u2019m about half as smart as him, I\u2019ll say that, at the root, there are two kinds of love: love that requires something, and love that requires nothing. In this break-out session at the [\u2026]\nDavid Jones C-C-Confronts His Mortality, AKA When Bowie Prays God Listens\nGrace in Goofiness\nThe Joys of Agnostic Eating\nThere Is A Valley: Old Age, Creativity, and the Return of Bill Fay", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 19352, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 245.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mcphersonguitars.com/artists/chris-looke/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:13Z", "digest": "sha1:R25FJK5USJ6AVYJ6ZXL62ZX7ABRXUVVO", "length": 1694, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mcphersonguitars.com", "title": "Chris Looke - McPherson Guitars", "raw_content": "Chris Looke\nChris Loocke is a Nashville based guitarist who graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2008 with degrees in Music Business/management and guitar performance. While at Berklee he honed his skills as a session guitarist. Since graduating, he has been booked solid on the road and in the studio. Chris has played guitar with: Josh Gracin (American Idol, #1 single Po\u2019 Folks), brazilian jazz legend Rosa Passos (Sony Records), American Idol\u2019s Kristy Lee Cook (Broken Bow Records, American Idol), James Wesley (Broken Bow Records), Love and Theft (RCA Records), The Lunabelles (Sony Records), Recorded guitars for Dashboard Confessional\u2019s Mike Marsh. He has played with a long list of other talented musical groups in a wide variety of genres.\nChris has recorded guitar on major musical theater productions by Ted Swindley, Parrish Stanton and a host of others. These productions have been featured nationally, at the Country Music Hall of Fame and famous Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, TN. He has recorded guitar on a growing list of records with famous and up and coming artists. Chris has been featured in major music videos (Arista records, Sony) on MTV Networks, Country Music Television and Great American Country. In addition, Chris has co-written songs with The Nappy Roots, Josh Gracin, Aaron Accetta (Universal Motown, forever the sickest kids, Jordan Knight), Dave Thomson (#1 hit Canada \u201cCalifornia\u201d, Sony/ATV publishing), and many other songwriters with major publishing deals. Chris Loocke\n\u201cI\u2019m loving my new guitar, it\u2019s turning heads already. It sounds amazing, and feels so good to play!\u201d\nGet to know McPherson Artist Chris Loocke in the \u201cArtist of the Month\u201d video.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2464, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 186.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://members.whyberwyn.com/events/details/honey-island-swamp-band-09-27-2018-8606", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:41Z", "digest": "sha1:EENNVP3GR5J6PMVW6FAJQZL4AEPNBA5Z", "length": 4199, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "members.whyberwyn.com", "title": "Honey Island Swamp Band - Sep 27, 2018 - Why Berwyn? - Why Berwyn?", "raw_content": "Name: Honey Island Swamp Band\nWebsite: http://www.fitzgeraldsnightclub.com\nNew Orleans, LA or San Francisco, CA\u2013 From the pristine waters of the Honey Island Swamp, to the vibrant streets of New Orleans, to the hazy corner of Haight-Asbury in San Francisco, this band has endured devastation, relocation, and revitalization. A group whose sound has been tagged \u201cBayou Americana,\u201d the Honey Island Swamp Band takes the hammer to the nail with the help of producer Luther Dickinson, and presents Demolition Day to the world April 29 on Ruf Records.\nThis album marks the 10-year anniversary of the Honey Island Swamp Band, which formed in San Francisco, CA via New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina displaced the founding members. With little hope of returning to their beloved city, the band channeled the blues and emotions of their circumstances to develop a soulful style and sound that critics have compared to legendary Blues-Roots-Rock Artists such as The Allman Brothers, Little Feat and The Band.\nRecording at the Parlor Studio in New Orleans, Honey Island Swamp Band teams up with producer/musician Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars to capture a rhythm and a feel born straight from the heart of Americana. The album features a host of New Orleans finest musicians, including guest appearances by keyboardist Ivan Neville and Tab Benoit on pedal steel.\n\u201cTheir all encompassing sound of blues, roots, country, and soul has been described as \u201cBayou Americana.\u201d \u2013 No Depression\n\u201cWe\u2019ve always wanted to record to two-inch tape, to get that old analog sound,\u201d says bandleader Aaron Wilkinson, \u201cand this was our first opportunity to make it happen. Luther was the perfect producer to help us nail that old-school, authentic sound. He was great at keeping us focused on the spirit of each performance, not getting bogged down in details and perfectionism. That\u2019s what we were looking for and what we needed.\u201d\nAfter all, polish isn\u2019t necessary when you\u2019re working with songs this strong. Across its eleven cuts, Demolition Day tips a hat to most of the great American genres, while adding the Honey Island Swamp Band\u2019s inimitable thumbprint. There\u2019s the spring-heeled slide-blues of \u201cAin\u2019t No Fun\u201d, the upbeat funk of \u201cHead High Water Blues\u201d, the cat-house piano and country-fried guitars of \u201cHow Do You Feel\u201d. But then, on the emotional flipside, there\u2019s also the reflective wah-guitar lilt of \u201cSay It Isn\u2019t True\u201d, the mournful funeral-jazz slow-burn of \u201cNo Easy Way\u201d and the heart-in-mouth acoustic confessional of \u201cKatie\u201d.\n\u201cWe\u2019re diverse and complex people,\u201d explains Chris Mule, the band\u2019s guitarist, \u201cand our audiences are as well. So we try to let our music reflect that.\u201d\nDrawing from their diverse backgrounds, the band\u2019s lyrical content is quite colorful. \u201cThey really are all over the map,\u201d Aaron explains of the topics explored on Demolition Day. \u201cSome are rooted in reality and personal experience. \u201cHead High Water Blues\u201d is a look back at the Hurricane Katrina experience now that ten years has passed. Much has been rebuilt, but much has not and never will be \u2013 and the song is more about the emotional scars that can never be fully erased. Others are just fiction and storytelling. We had the music for \u201cThrough Another Day\u201d, and it sounded sort of old and epic and Southern, and that inspired this Civil War-era storyline that became the lyrics. Others are just sort of playful nonsense about life and relationships, like \u201cWatch And Chain.\u201d\nDemolition Day is about rebuilding more than tearing down. It\u2019s about a renewal of purpose, reflected through powerful lyrics and stories, great slide guitar on top of deep bass and rhythms that continue to move the foundation that the band was built upon.\nNew Orleans has a deep well of music, and that well has no rules \u2013 the only boundaries are the ones that we place on ourselves.\nOn Demolition Day, the Honey Island Swamp Band breaks these boundaries to deliver a sound so relevant and honest that even in the darkest of days \u2013 like the violent storm that brought this group of musicians together \u2013 Demolition Day still shines brightly. http://www.honeyislandswampband.com\nFitzGerald's, 6615 W. Roosevelt\nSept. 27, 8:30 pm", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 5592, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 250.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mensfitclub.com/anti-aging-antioxidants-you-should-add-to-your-diet/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:28Z", "digest": "sha1:KB2WWFYG6CSANAAZM2UCJ3M2DKYHU735", "length": 3683, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "mensfitclub.com", "title": "Anti Aging Antioxidants You Should Add To Your Diet | Men's Fit Club", "raw_content": "As we grow older, we unfortunately begin to show signs of aging. Lines on our faces begin to become more prominent, our skin becomes looser and droopier, and grey hairs begin to sprout up on our heads. Yes, aging is something that, as of yet, is irreversible in humans, and at the moment, that\u2019s just the way it is. We all want to look our best, and look as healthy and as youthful as we possibly can, and for that reason we should take the best possible care of ourselves that we can. Growing old and appearing old, are two entirely different things, one of which can be prevented, or at least held at bay, by making a few alterations to our lifestyles and our diets. Sure, we can\u2019t stop time, or travel back in time and prevent us growing old, but we can help make ourselves appear younger, simply by consuming a number of anti aging antioxidant rich foods. These antioxidants have been shown to help reduce the signs of premature aging, and help people look and feel younger and more youthful than they actually are, and by consuming enough as part of your diets, you too can do the same.\nVitamin C found in many fruits and vegetables \u2013 When people discuss antioxidants, vitamin C is often the first one to get a mention, and for good reason too. Vitamin C is great for the immune system, helping us to stay illness and disease free. Not only that, but vitamin C also helps to dramatically boost collagen levels in the skin. collagen is responsible for our skins\u2019 firmness and plumpness, meaning the more there is, the firmer and fuller it appears. Vitamin C is commonly found in fruits and vegetables, two great examples include oranges and broccoli.\nProanthocyanidins found in berries \u2013 These antioxidants may be pretty difficult to pronounce, but that certainly doesn\u2019t take away their anti-aging properties and benefits. These ingredients help to keep the cells in our body healthy and well maintained, which in turn helps us to look and feel healthy and youthful. They also help to prevent cancer and reduce the risk of heart disease. Common foods that contains these proanthocyanidins include a variety of berries such as blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries.\nCatechin Polyphenols found in Green Tea \u2013 Green tea is a wonder beverage, and has a whole host of benefits to offer us. It is absolutely packed with a number of healthy beneficial antioxidant vitamins, as well as catechin polyphenols which are famed for their anti-aging properties. These antioxidants help to repair and reduce wrinkles in the skin, as well as to repair and clear any visible skin damage, resulting in the skin looking more youthful and healthier. It can also help to reduce any visible damage resulting from UV rays from the sun, as well as finally having a whole host of other health related benefits, include being an extremely effective anti-cancer food\nPosted in Anti-Aging & Wellness, HealthTagged anti aging antioxidant, anti-aging foods\nThe Madness Continues at NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament: Syracuse, Villanova Out\nThere has been a lot of research done on exactly what makes a man attractive to women and all of these studies seem to have one basic thing in common and that is broad shoulders. Women seem to be unconsciously attracted to a man with broad shoulders so we are going to look at training [\u2026]\nSurprising Ways to Burn Calories\nFor the professional athlete or bodybuilder torching calories comes easily as taking an afternoon stroll. To the traditional gym goer burning calories means spending time at the local gym performing a series of workouts to maintain a healthy and fit physique. But suppose you wake up tomorrow morning and realize you didn\u2019t need to join [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 158, "original_length": 10512, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 277.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mev.com/portfolio/white-pine-system/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:20Z", "digest": "sha1:YKB5BD6MNKMI6GW3PKABLVMTAGJMADYP", "length": 2724, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mev.com", "title": "White Pine System | MEV", "raw_content": "White Pine System\nCustom software that improves efficiency\nDate: 2/2012Client: White Pine Diamonds\nWhite Pine Sales operates a growing Diamond Auction that is changing the way the diamond industry trades. We designed and developed a custom web-based software that would manage the auctions and automate complex manual processes. Before the system was built, White Pine had been managing the entire auction process with a number of very large and complex spreadsheets that listed Sellers, Buyers and their respective lots and bids. They manually tracked it\u2019s progress and, once an auction had been completed, painstakingly calculated out the outcome. This approach left a lot of room for manual error which forced their team to triple check everything they did, adding considerable time to the process and restricting their ability to scale.\nBecause of the uniqueness of their business needs a lot of details needed to get nailed down. We dove deep into White Pine\u2019s Auction structure to understand the ins and outs of their process before we even thought about UX or UI.\nTo do this we spent a lot of time with their employees learning about the complex combination of processes that made up their current Auction Structure. Together we were able to define the pain points that needed improvement as well as positive elements that could be improved upon. We also needed to understand their business goals and makes sure that the system took into account future growth and change.\nThis gave us the insight needed to start bouncing some ideas back and forth and working together to draft a UX document that outlined the entire structure of the software and all of it\u2019s moving parts.\nThe UX document served as a guide for extensive wireframing that visualized the entire process and helped our teams determine the overall structure of the software. Zen Framework and ExJS were used to build out the complex system. For calculating the results of each Auction, a custom algorithm was built using the Python programming language then integrated into the systems processes.\nFirst, we tested the system manually, running through the entire auctions as well as recreating specific case scenarios. We also built an Auction Simulator that automatically created and ran auctions populated with randomized data. The simulator not only ran the entire auction from start to end but it was also able to analyze the outcome, making sure that the algorithm and the system both worked properly.\nAfter all the hard work, the system we built helps White Pine efficiently manage their auction process from beginning to end, allowing them to focus on improving and expanding their business. them to focus on improving and expanding their business.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 3148, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 324.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mgdaversa.com/2016/07/28/im-a-spiritual-being-living-out-a-human-experience/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:55Z", "digest": "sha1:6QLGO7VKPFSIG2L7DQ2FS5HOYOFWIRQB", "length": 3715, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "mgdaversa.com", "title": "I\u2019m a Spiritual Being Living Out a Human Experience \u00ab This Is MGD Time", "raw_content": "I\u2019m a Spiritual Being Living Out a Human Experience\nThose of you who have visited the Crazy Horse Memorial and watched the video presentation that they show in the visitors center will immediately get why I chose Crazy Horse as my backdrop for this post. But for the benefit of those who have not yet been, I offer this brief explanation. In the video of which I speak is a gentleman who expresses his appreciation for the concept of being a spiritual being living out a human experience. I may be paraphrasing, but the point is that I share in his appreciation. I would love to give credit where credit is due, but the concept (and quotes thereof) has been attributed to more than one philosopher and used by several motivational writers/speakers, including a favorite of mine, the late Dr. Stephen Covey. So if nothing else, I find myself in pretty good company as I attempt to share a few words of my own on the subject.\nI must point out that I have never written about this before\u2014indeed I\u2019ve only even discussed it with a select few whom I deem closest to me\u2014so forgive me if this post comes across as sparse, disjointed, or utter nonsense. I\u2019ll be the first to agree with you. So with that out of the way, and if you\u2019re still reading, pull up a chair, pour yourself a drink, smoke\u2019em if you gott\u2019em, and let\u2019s talk.\nAt face value, I\u2019m considered a \u201ccradle Catholic\u201d in that I was born into the Church and am still an active member. In-between, however, lies a substantial gap of some years, during which I wandered in the desert and denied many things, including my Catholic identity. This post isn\u2019t about all that. It\u2019s not about religion at all, really. I only bring this up because even during that period of years, I never stopped being spiritual. I\u2019m not even sure what that means, yet I know it to be true,with certainty.\nPhilosophically, I subscribe to the notion of the whole person being comprised of body, mind and spirit. If I deny any of the three, I deny a part of myself. And I am obligated to feed, nurture and develop all three in order to live fully. Believe it or not, the component with which I struggle most is the mind. Why? Because it cannot stand alone. A chemical imbalance within the body can and will cause the mind to falter. Yet an unbalanced mind can also destroy the body, either directly or indirectly. Sometimes I wonder if the mind, as we understand it, is nothing more than the intersection of body and spirit. That to me makes sense.\nBut what of the spirit? And what the hell is it, anyway? Yeah, I knew we would end up here sooner or later. Bear in mind, I am neither an expert nor a scholar in this matter. I can only speak from my experience, which has shaped my paradigm. My sense of things is that of the three components that make up the whole person\u2014body, mind and spirit\u2014the spirit is either the largest or the least contained. Surely ones spirit can be lost or broken, but it can also stand alone. Without bringing religion into it, I can\u2019t really get into the concept of the spirit pre-existing (or surviving) the physical person\u2019s existence, so I won\u2019t go there. I will say, however, that I have seen things and experienced things that have shaped my personal belief system, or B.S.for short.\nYes, I am a spiritual being living out a human experience. I like that concept. It seems to fit. If you were expecting tales of the supernatural, well, that\u2019s not really what this is about. Besides, you gotta\u2019 walk before you can run. Thanks for hanging with me.\nThis entry was posted in Metaphysics, Religion, Spirituality and tagged human experience, Spirituality.\n\u2190 Maybe You Can Go Back: Update on The Old Schoolhouse\nFun with Leftovers: A Philly Meatloaf Grinder \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 6145, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mgdaversa.com/2017/07/30/ups-and-downs-part-1-of-3/movie-nommies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:02Z", "digest": "sha1:WXKTYEUHUPW2FTQ4Q7AYBZKBJS2QL5ZI", "length": 81, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mgdaversa.com", "title": "Movie Nommies \u00ab This Is MGD Time", "raw_content": "Movie Nommies\nPublished July 30, 2017 at 720 \u00d7 960 in Ups and Downs \u2013 Part 1 of 3", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 29, "original_length": 933, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 261.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mhc.ab.ca/ProgramsandCourses/Academic-Programs/Courses/BNUR517", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:15:48Z", "digest": "sha1:VRANCJVUW5AZL6FK3GPBGTOCKVROPZYJ", "length": 641, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "mhc.ab.ca", "title": "BNUR517 - Philosophy and Practice in Palliative Care", "raw_content": "Philosophy and Practice in Palliative Care\nExamination of the philosophy of palliative/hospice care, taught to faculty from an disciplines. An important focus includes the students' self-exploration of their own beliefs, values, and attitudes about life, illness, death, and dying, and how this self-exploration shapes interactions with those we care for. Third and Fourth years of the Nursing program are University of Calgary courses. The numbering system is based upon the guidelines of this institution. You must register through the University of Calgary - fees are charged by the University of Calgary.\nCorequisite: BNUR 585 & BNUR 589", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 34, "original_length": 1372, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 249.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://misterio.tv/en/tag/ancient", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:27Z", "digest": "sha1:PDHIG5KNAHXRRSJ3U6TOELP2X4XOWQ37", "length": 63, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "misterio.tv", "title": "ancient archivos -", "raw_content": "The arrival of alien astronauts thousands of years ago on Earth", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3035, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 138.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mobile.reuters.com/video/2018/05/06/giuliani-trump-lawyer-may-have-paid-off?videoId=424472787", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3AVHUJAY2YIUYQVUBRQR2H5J62HY2GRI", "length": 281, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mobile.reuters.com", "title": "Giuliani: Trump lawyer may have paid off other women | Reuters.com", "raw_content": "Giuliani: Trump lawyer may have paid off other women\nRudy Giuliani on Sunday told ABC News that Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, could have facilitated payments to more women that just adult film star Stormy Daniels in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 167, "original_length": 3684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 297.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moderncultureoftomorrow.com/miu-miu-resort-2018-collection/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:16:44Z", "digest": "sha1:2YIUXDAEBQAIZJXG3CAH35N755SOKWOS", "length": 2028, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "moderncultureoftomorrow.com", "title": "Miu Miu Resort 2018 Collection - MODERN CULTURE OF TOMORROW MAGAZINE", "raw_content": "Miu Miu stages in the H\u00f4tel Regina in Paris. A jewel of Belle \u00c9poque overlooking the Jardin des Tuileries and the Louvre, the hotel is situated in the Place des Pyramides, a public square that is home to Emmanuel Fr\u00e9miet\u2019s iconic 1874 gilded bronze equestrian statue Jeanne d\u2019Arc. A new reproduction of Fr\u00e9miet\u2019s work is situated inside the hotel lobby aquarium and the spirit of Joan of Arc hovers over the event, a symbol of the transgressive woman.\nAn eclectic cast of models and actresses, many of whom have appeared in Miu Miu campaigns, present the collection, including Naomi Campbell, Alexa Chung and Uma Thurman.\nThe space is designed by six-time Academy Award nominated and BAFTA award winning production designer Sarah Greenwood. Acclaimed for her time-transcending vision with director Joe Wright on period pieces Anna Karenina, Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, and Darkest Hour as well as Guy Ritchie\u2019s Sherlock Holmes and Disney\u2019s live-action Beauty and the Beast, Greenwood takes a cinematic approach to the 2019 Croisiere show bathing it in an infused light that emulates the twilight atmosphere known to cinematographers as the golden hour.\n\u201cThis is an occasion to celebrate the freedom, camaraderie and vivacity that embodies the spirit of Miu Miu,\u201d notes Greenwood, who describes Joan of Arc as \u201cthe original feminist, a young woman\u2019s voice who still resonates today \u2013 pop punk over classical.\u201d The contrast between the cinematic set design, Belle \u00c9poque luxury hotel setting, and gilded symbol of radical resistance set the scene for the latest offering from Miuccia Prada: a decisively contemporary take on timeless traditions of femininity.\nA dinner follows the show and then latest iteration of the Miu Miu Club featuring a performance by Sneaks and DJ sets by Louise Chen, Agathe Mougin and Emerald Rose.\nCredit: Miu Miu\nTags: #MCOTmag, fashion, Fashion inspiration, Miu Miu, Miu Miu Resort 2018 Collection, MODERN CULTURE OF TOMORROW MAGAZINE, Paris, Style, Trends\nNEW LADY DIOR CAMPAIGN \u2013 MARION COTILLARD", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 3665, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 282.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moneymorning.com/2017/04/21/top-3-retail-stocks-to-short-now/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:32:12Z", "digest": "sha1:2P7ZHFGXT56M7F7PJBGMPWEJKJTMBL5L", "length": 3090, "nlines": 23, "source_domain": "moneymorning.com", "title": "Top 3 Retail Stocks to Short Now", "raw_content": "Subject: Top 3 Retail Stocks to Short Now\nURL: https://mney.co/2pMbXLN\n+ seven = 8 Required Please enter the correct value.\nStocks: GNC, M, SHLD\nTop 3 Retail Stocks to Short Now\nThe markets as a whole have continued to enjoy the \"Trump Bump\" this year despite the recent leveling in gains. However, the retail sector is severely lagging behind.\nWhile the Dow has gained over 4% so far this year, retail stocks as a whole are down almost 14%, according to FactSet. And two of the retail stocks we recommend shorting are down almost 30% so far in 2017.\nThis severe underperformance is what landed these companies on our top three retail stocks to short list\u2026\nRetail Stocks to Short No. 3: GNC Holdings Inc.\nShares of GNC Holdings Inc. (NYSE: GNC) have been in steady decline for years. The company hasn't posted growth in earnings since 2013, when it earned $460.5 million. Last year, the company lost $173 million.\nDespite the losses, GNC continued to increase its dividend payout annually between 2013 and 2016. The dividend stood at $0.22 per share quarterly in 2016.\nThe company finally canceled its dividend completely during the annual report conference call in February. The explanation for canceling the dividend was so that the company could pay down debt, which may be too little too late. Between 2012 and 2016, the company's debt rose from $1.089 billion to $1.54 billion.\nIn a world that is increasingly e-commerce oriented, GNC is one of the holdouts that prefers to focus on in-store sales. This alone could be the kiss of death for this company. Having a store in a dying mall or strip mall isn't the way to grow in today's economy.\nGNC stock is trading at $8.31, with shares down 26.6% year to date (YTD).\nRetail Stocks to Short No. 2: Macy's Inc.\nMacy's Inc. (NYSE: M) had 850 stores at its peak. As of January, the company operates 725 stores and is planning on closing 100 of them this year.\nWhile the company has several online e-commerce platforms to diversify its income, the efforts don't appear to be paying off. The company is trying to raise cash through real estate sales, which isn't a good sign. Macy's just sold its Minneapolis flagship store for $59 million.\nEarlier this year, the upscale retail giant announced plans to close about 100 stores and lay off more than 10,000 employees. According to Cushman & Wakefield, mall traffic between 2010 and 2013 declined from 35 million customers to just 17 million, largely due to e-commerce options.\nMacy's reported that its 2016 holiday sales were down 2.1% from the prior year for licensed stores and down 2.8% for all of its brands.\nA survey of 16 of the analysts following Macy's shows they expect this quarter's revenue to shrink 5.2% compared to the same quarter last year. If this happens, the company's stock will likely drop even more than it already has this year.\nM stock is currently trading at $29.66, with shares down 17.2% YTD.\nWhile shrinking revenue is a good way to get on the retail stocks to short list, announcing that bankruptcy is imminent is a great way to top the list\u2026\nGNC 0.01 (0.34%) 2.95", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 318, "original_length": 12425, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 219.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://montalcinoblog.com/2015/10/20/new-york-wine-experience-photos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:04Z", "digest": "sha1:KMHRUMFX2XPDZR7EEXMZBVVYNNDI47PR", "length": 1625, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "montalcinoblog.com", "title": "Stefano and Barbi at New York Wine Experience this weekend | Montalcino Blog", "raw_content": "Taste Fattoria dei Barbi / Vigna del Fiore\nStefano and Barbi at New York Wine Experience this weekend\nAbove: A scene from last year\u2019s New York Wine Experience, one of the wine world\u2019s premier events (image via WineSpectator.com).\nIt\u2019s kind of like \u201cministerial week\u201d at the United Nations, when world leaders gather in New York for the biggest summit on the planet each year.\nNow in it\u2019s 35th year, Wine Spectator magazine\u2019s New York Wine Experience brings together the world\u2019s leading winemakers for tastings and seminars in Times Square in the heart of Manhattan.\nThe only criterion for an invitation to join this exclusive club? One of the estate\u2019s wines must have received a score of 90 points or higher from the Wine Spectator editors.\nFattoria dei Barbi is there every year and this year, owner Stefano Cinelli Colombini will be on hand himself to pour the wines and to chat with guests.\nThe bad news is that the event (which costs $2,195 per person!) sells out months in advance. Sadly, there are no more tickets to be had. But if you are already planning on being there, please be sure to stop by the Barbi tasting table to say hello and taste with Stefano (who will be pouring the 2010 Brunello di Montalcino Vigna Fiore which received 92 points this year in a review by Senior Editor Bruce Sanderson).\nThe good news is that proceeds from the event go to the Wine Spectator Scholarship Foundation, \u201cwhich provides grants and scholarships to a wide variety of wine-related and culinary programs.\u201d\nSounds like a \u201cwin-win\u201d to us!\nPrevious post \u2190 1967 Barbi Brunello SPECTACULAR!\nNext post My big fat Sangiovese grosso \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 3248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 310.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://moongipsies.com/moongipsies/2018/06/6-19-18.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:39:07Z", "digest": "sha1:7PE4IUXSNUE3YVSRR27PDGGSCFYOG6OR", "length": 790, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "moongipsies.com", "title": "6-19-18 \u2014 MoonGipsies", "raw_content": "For those of you who follow my blog, you know that I have been cleaning out the basement -- upcycle projects, random wood, board lumber, et all. The deal was... I clean out the basement of stuff I will probably never finish anyway... sell as much of it as I can... and gift the rest... and the money goes towards a strand of beads I have had my eyes on for a long time.\nWell, my hubby had mercy on me... and he went ahead and OK'd the purchase of the beads.\nThat said... I made all but about $20 for the strand (which I will make up)... and the basement is now void of extra stuff.\nAND.. last evening he gave me the strand. SAPPHIRES!!!!\nI can't even tell you how excited I am to use these...\n\"Multi-color rondelle Sapphires. Smooth, hand cut. Sized 4.5-4.8mm diameter, 2.6 to 3.8mm thick.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 39, "original_length": 1400, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 337.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mountainpeakmarketing.com/resources/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:00Z", "digest": "sha1:RWDYIGX67M2UQ4AYMOUR72E372L2VMY4", "length": 113, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mountainpeakmarketing.com", "title": "Resources \u2013 Mountain Peak Marketing", "raw_content": "Here are a few of the resources and tools we use on a regular basis and recommend to our clients.\nIntelligent CRM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 470, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 302.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mrdesigner1.com/2018/10/12/italy-as-fashion-trendsetter/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ZYP32VAE7GJ7DSMA2TWOZ5GDVSXDIZ42", "length": 1750, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "mrdesigner1.com", "title": "Italy As Fashion Trendsetter \u2013 My Blog", "raw_content": "Italy has been one of Europe\u2019s significant trailblazers since the mid eleventh century, when the nation\u2019s real urban areas started creating lavish textures, articles of clothing and embellishments. Amid the Renaissance, Italian outlines were mainstream for being lavish, frequently underscoring expensive embellishments, for example, strips, brocades and gems.\nBetween the 1600 and 1700, in any case, Italian form fell behind as plans worn in the courts of Spain, England and France turned out to be more popular. It was not until the point that the 1950s when Italy returned into the spotlight. This is to some degree because of the endeavors of Giovanni Battista Giorgini, who held a few fruitful form appears in 1951 to 1953, planning to bring back the ubiquity of Italian outlines.\nIn the 60s, Florence was viewed as the nation\u2019s form capital. Plans amid that period were for the most part for the rich and well known. Salvatore Ferragamo, one of the most established and most well known Italian design houses, was set up there. Other recognized creators from the city are Roberto Cavalli, Emilio Pucci and Enrico Coveri.\nMilan turned into the pioneer in the 80s, when Italian design veered toward prepared to-wear attire. Armani, Dolce and Gabbana and Versace set up their first boutiques in the city. Today, Milan keeps on being one of the world\u2019s best form capitals. The vast majority of the nation\u2019s significant brands, for example, Gucci, Valentino and Prada are headquartered there. What\u2019s more, the city holds a design week semiannually.\nRome is additionally as of now perceived as a focal point of mold. It is home to Bulgari, Fendi, the House of Biagiotti and the House of Brioni. The last has practical experience in high quality suits.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4227, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 203.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mrmatthewhenry.com/2013/12/22/hear-a-7-minute-audio-from-a-paraphrase-on-the-lords-prayer-part-1-our-father-which-art-in-heaven/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:22:25Z", "digest": "sha1:77YZD5YVVEIFUOJCHTNW6B2WSBHGDEOT", "length": 448, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mrmatthewhenry.com", "title": "Hear a 7 minute audio from \u2018A Paraphrase on the Lord\u2019s Prayer\u2019 part 1-Our Father which art in heaven. \u00ab A Method for Prayer", "raw_content": "Hear a 7 minute audio from \u2018A Paraphrase on the Lord\u2019s Prayer\u2019 part 1-Our Father which art in heaven.\nhttps://mrmatthewhenry.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/a-paraphrase-on-the-lords-prayer-1-our-father.mp3\n\u2190 A Discourse on Meekness and Quietness of spirit. By Puritan writer Matthew Henry\nYou are Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending. Revelation 1:8, 11 & 21:6 & 22:13; Isaiah 46:9, 10; John 1:1; Colossians 1:18; Hebrews 1:10; Romans 10:4. \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 4594, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.75, "perplexity": 169.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mrsmakohn.weebly.com/homework-policy.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:54Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4VYZHWBVFAJRFJIQIANQ2Q3G7MFK4N3", "length": 1331, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "mrsmakohn.weebly.com", "title": "Homework Policy - Mrs. Makohn's Middle School Site", "raw_content": "Homework is very important. Students are expected to return their assignment on the day that it is due (usually the following day). Time is usually given in class to start an assignment. I will post all daily homework assignments on the board. It is each student\u2019s responsibility to copy the assignments into their planner.\nIn order to receive full credit, all work must be turned in on time. Late or incomplete assignments will receive a 10% reduction from the final grade. Assignments that do not have a name on them will also receive a 10% reduction. Any paper with scribbled out information will receive a 10% reduction. In my classes, pencil or erasable pen is a must. I expect all work to be completed and look high quality, like a finished product, not a mess!\nStudents will be assigned an absent partner. This partner will keep track of any work that is missed when a student is absent on an absent sheet. Students should keep their absent sheet until all work has been completed, turned in, and returned with a grade. Absent work must be turned in within a reasonable amount of time-generally one day for each day absent.\nBy middle school, students have been taught good work and study habits. These years are a time to prepare for High School, so it is important to be ready, responsible, and respectful in the classroom.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 80, "original_length": 2677, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mslakeman.wordpress.com/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:33Z", "digest": "sha1:YINIHVVG6WVPDD5ERXIP763Y42LNAWPT", "length": 367, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "mslakeman.wordpress.com", "title": "Ms. Lakeman's Homeroom \u2013 Education. Conversation. Community.", "raw_content": "Hi everyone! I\u2019m Ms. Lakeman. I\u2019m a teacher candidate from Ontario, Canada who enjoys discussions on educational theory and practice. This blog is a place where I hope to share my ideas regarding education in the elementary (K-6) grades and beyond. Feel free to like my posts and share your thoughts in the comments! I\u2019d love to hear what you have to say.\nMs. Lakeman", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 32, "original_length": 1518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 242.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musepublicspeaking.com/workshops/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:52Z", "digest": "sha1:A3CPFELJKEN5H7RSMJXF6SO3QCXDU4WK", "length": 1925, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "musepublicspeaking.com", "title": "Workshops - MUSE Public Speaking", "raw_content": "Public Speaking: SOLO\nThe fundamental work of the SOLO public speaking workshop comes in two parts. First, we conduct an assessment of your goals, strengths, and challenges. Then, in our public speaking workshop series , we use hands-on exercises and immediate feedback to develop those areas.\nA public speaking lesson package will consist of a series of 45-minute sessions that work on two fundamental areas: technical skills and individual creativity. Through playful exercises that build technical skills such as body language, poise, vocal expression, and speech construction, we will find the public speaking persona that best fits your style, your audience, and your stories.\nThe goal is to craft a dynamic, natural version of you that thrives in that most unnatural of settings: public speaking. We will work from general to specific, so that by the end you have a well-crafted, rehearsed public speech on the topic of your choosing.\nThe sessions will involve a lot of hands-on work, a lot of fun, and a lot of self-discovery. Once you like the person making the speech, so will everyone else.\nKey Performance Play: Group Work\nFor organizations looking to have some fun and grow the public speaking skill set of a group of employees, we offer the Key Performance Play Group workshop. The same skills and development mentioned above will be covered, but in a more abbreviated group setting.\nThe emphasis here will be on exploring the challenges and dynamics of public speaking in a safe environment, helping the group to work as a team, and finding a common language and sense of play. Sessions can be one-to-three hours and can be one-off or in a series, depending on interest and need.\nPublic Speaking E/R\nFor those with a deadline just around the corner, MUSE offers a third option, the Public Speaking Emergency Room. Here, we will work specifically on fine-tuning that speech you have to make in a one-off session.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 22, "original_length": 2277, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 332.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musiccritic.com/gnarls-barkley/the-odd-couple", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:09Z", "digest": "sha1:5DBLHCVA5GXIZ2JCRPA4EFVMYC5CKAFH", "length": 3121, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "musiccritic.com", "title": "Review: THE ODD COUPLE by Gnarls Barkley Scores 70% on MusicCritic.com", "raw_content": "Album Review of The Odd Couple by Gnarls Barkley.\nHome \u00bb Rap \u00bb The Odd Couple\nBuy The Odd Couple from Amazon\nThe Odd Couple - Fairly Good, Based on 6 Critics\nIt may be presumptuous to assume who plays slovenly Oscar to fastidious Felix in Gnarls Barkley. Still, this Odd Couple has proven surprisingly well-matched. After all, their pairing yielded a Grammy-winning debut, 2006\u2019s St. Elsewhere, and the interplay between avant producer Danger Mouse and rapper/singer/Curtis Mayfield disciple Cee-Lo Green remains a gratifying alchemical achievement.\nIn a world where it's the norm to have a one-off collaboration between a producer and a rapper, something special has to happen to prompt a sequel. Of course, \"Crazy\" was all the prompting needed for Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse to rejuvenate Gnarls Barkley, their collaboration by mail that sparked the brightest and catchiest single since OutKast's \"Hey Ya.\" But fans and critics have to understand that these two were exactly the types to walk away from a follow-up simply for the purpose of a cash-in, which makes that follow-up, The Odd Couple, such a strange proposition -- it's exactly like St. Elsewhere, and fails to reveal a single new thing.\nReview Summary: Surprisingly mediocre despite more cohesive.Gnarls Barkley have become notorious for their costumes during live shows, photo shoots, and interviews. Among their acts are gladiators, airline crew members, tennis players, and famous characters from classic movies such as The Wizard of Oz and A Clockwork Orange. Often, they open with cover songs and change their name to fit their theme of the day.\nThe Summer of Love chorus ringing in \"Surprise\" has no bearing on the truth at hand: This Odd Couple is from the future, even if Gnarls Barkley's second LP comes littered with shades of the past. Evoking Nina Simone's \"Four Women\" tremble, Cee-Lo Green haunts the reverb-twinge of \"Who's Gonna Save My Soul,\" confessing, \"I got some bad news this morning, which in turn made my day.\" The Goodie Mob veteran keeps pace with his ganglier counterpart, \"Run (I'm a Natural Disaster),\" getting his freak on as a \"Would Be Killer\" over the loaded-up muscle lifted in Danger Mouse's gym, the site of some innovative work. \"She Knows\" dances Haight-Ashbury atop modern drum machines.\nIn the wake of their debut album, St. Elsewhere, the odds seemed good that Gnarls Barkley would end up a one-album phenomenon. This wasn\u2019t for any evident lack of commitment to the project on the parts of deejay/producer Danger Mouse and emcee Cee-Lo, or because it sounded too insubstantial to carry on. Even before a single beat reached the street, the collaboration seemed to feed on the energy of two artists who would naturally be eager to tear on to the next experiment.\nIf you\u2019re hoping Gnarls Barkley come up with another massive pop smash on their highly anticipated sophomore release, The Odd Couple, you must be crazy. If Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo Green could do Crazy more than once, they would\u2019ve filled up their first disc, St. Elsewhere, with other equally memorable tunes rather than resorting to Violent Femmes covers.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 4418, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 233.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://musiccritic.com/the-pigeon-detectives/we-met-at-sea", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:51:56Z", "digest": "sha1:2ZYGYH4BUXYHGAYFQWK54FX6JN33QYMB", "length": 1615, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "musiccritic.com", "title": "Review: WE MET AT SEA by The Pigeon Detectives Scores 45% on MusicCritic.com", "raw_content": "We Met At Sea\nAlbum Review of We Met At Sea by The Pigeon Detectives.\nHome \u00bb Pop/Rock \u00bb We Met At Sea\nRecord label: Cooking Vinyl Records\nBuy We Met At Sea from Amazon\nWe Met At Sea - Mediocre, Based on 3 Critics\nThe Pigeon Detectives were massive once. In the wake of Arctic Monkeys\u2019 runaway success, they were one of the many slightly less talented indie bands who suddenly shot up the charts. Two Top 5 albums, Wait For Me and Emergency (the former of which went platinum) and four Top 20 singles in just over two years made them a serious prospect. If not dominating the big leagues of British guitar music, they were certainly occupying a respectable mid-table position.\nOriginality has never been West Yorkshire\u2019s The Pigeon Detectives\u2019 \u2018thing\u2019. They are a band who\u2019ve stuck to the indie formula first concocted on their 2007 debut \u2018Wait For Me\u2019 (a record that, lest we forget, went to Number Three in the charts), which was full of big hooks and tales of one-night stands and break-ups. Four albums later and it\u2019s more of the same, minus the big hooks.\nWhen the singer of a band says \u2018We don\u2019t try to be too specific with lyrics. We\u2019re not the kind of band who preach,\u2019 you do wonder if he genuinely thinks there are millions of people furiously searching iTunes for artists who promise a sound that is both vaguer and less prone to sermonising than the norm.Although, should those lost souls really exist, you\u2019d imagine The Pigeon Detectives would appeal greatly to them. For everyone else, it\u2019s a statement which serves to set your expectations for \u2018We Met At Sea\u2019 at the appropriate level.\n'We Met At Sea'", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 2735, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://mwc-cmm.org/content/churches-latin-america-call-prophetic-peace-witness", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:52Z", "digest": "sha1:ER4YQZJECF4HKZPQB5VXV3TPPUYXLWVA", "length": 4291, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "mwc-cmm.org", "title": "Churches in Latin America call for prophetic peace witness | Mennonite World Conference", "raw_content": "Churches in Latin America call for prophetic peace witness\nPhoto courtesy of Toni Sadikin (Pan Y Paz in Riohacha, Colombia)\nPietermaritzburg, South Africa \u2013 As Mennonite World Conference (MWC) member churches celebrated Peace Sunday on 20 September 2015, they also recognized the ways in which peace continues to be wanting in their communities.\nIn Colombia, Mennonite and Mennonite Brethren churches, and Global Anabaptist Service Network agencies Justapaz and Mencoldes considered the meaning of peace as gospel. They celebrated Peace Sunday with the national event Pan y Paz (Bread and Peace) where many congregations shared bread and blessings in their neighbourhoods. Pan y Paz called local churches to reflect on the relationship between economic justice and peace, and focused on supporting the peace talks in Colombia with a theme of \u201cStop War: Make Peace Happen.\u201d\nIn Central America, Iglesia Evangelica Menonita Hondure\u00f1a, an MWC member church in Honduras, along with Casa Horeb, a Mennonite congregation in Guatemala, released pronouncements on Peace Sunday about the ongoing challenges and injustices they face.\nIglesia Evangelica Menonita Hondure\u00f1a reminds us that insofar as some people live in poverty while others do not check their greed, peace will still be in want in their country. They observe that governing authorities embody different values than those of the Kingdom of God.\n\u201cWe point out the inability of the ruling class in its responsibility of imparting justice, applying unequal, rigid, and malicious processes. To date, the militarization of a society as an alternative to provide security, does not meet the expectations of the people and the continuous deaths which are adding up in the neighborhoods and colonies of the country on a daily basis, is linked to this, instead of seeking real solutions to the economic crisis, offering populist actions that are not a response to the huge needs of the majority.\u201d\nAnd yet, our Honduran brothers and sisters continue to work toward a holistic peace as they seek to participate in the Kingdom of God and be led by its values.\n\u201cHistorically, we are a peaceful and nonviolent church, founded on the values of the Kingdom of God, such as love, justice, peace, forgiveness and reconciliation. We believe in conflict transformation through sincere and fair dialogue, and in promoting respect for human rights.\u201d\nCasa Horeb also released a pronouncement for the need of God\u2019s Kingdom to be made apparent, both in the world and in the Guatemalan context. \u201cIt is with humility that we express our call, founded in radical claims demanded by the Kingdom of God, especially in this country that considers itself as Christian: love, that makes us see one another as neighbors, justice, demanding from us to be welfare builders, and peace which compels us to live a life of service (not for selfish advantage, assaulting everybody\u2019s heritage and cynicism to find justifications).\u201d\nPeace is realized when we make intentional efforts to live in right relationships with one another, with God and with creation. Our sisters and brothers from Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala remind us, however, that as long as people continue to suffer, injustice occurs, corruption steals from those in need and people continue to assume that violence will bring about the shalom the world so desperately needs, we are still in want of right relationships.\nThus, our sisters and brothers from Honduras call us to action: \u201cTo all members of Iglesia Evang\u00e9lica Menonita Hondure\u00f1a, to all our Mennonite brethren around the world, and to all brethren of the churches with whom we share the honor, subjection, and obedience to the name of Jesus Christ, to declare a day of fasting and prayer for our nation, asking our Lord to guide us towards a true social transformation, freeing our people from social injustice, corruption and impunity.\u201d\nOur mission to be peacemakers and to realize God\u2019s peace continues. May we heed the call from our fellow sisters and brothers.\n\u2014Andrew Suderman, MWC Peace Commission, secretary\nTo see the full pronouncement of Iglesia Evang\u00e9lica Menonita Hondure\u00f1a, click here.\nTo see the full pronouncement of Casa Horeb, a Mennonite congregation in Guatemala, click here.\nTo see a video of Pan y Paz in Colombia, click here.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 149, "original_length": 8152, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/serve/events/52986", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:43Z", "digest": "sha1:RWR4CQEU4Y3DVEX2YLC644UUG5W7VRYT", "length": 334, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "my3.my.umbc.edu", "title": "American Red Cross Blood Drive \u00b7 UMBC Community Engagement Network \u00b7 myUMBC", "raw_content": "Did you know that every two seconds someone in the U.S. is in need of blood, with over 21 million blood component transfusions taking place every year?\nThe American Red Cross of Maryland and The American Red Cross Club, in collaboration with Student Life, will be holding a blood drive 2/26 to 2/28 from 8am-9pm on Commons Mainstreet.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2094, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 152.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://myfrontdesk.cloudbeds.com/hc/en-us/articles/218512827-How-to-search-a-reservation-by-the-name-of-the-additional-guest", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:17Z", "digest": "sha1:MGERFX6ETBXSBPUVA4ELG2LITCCDDUDV", "length": 342, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "myfrontdesk.cloudbeds.com", "title": "How to search a reservation by the name of the additional guest \u2013 myfrontdesk", "raw_content": "How to search a reservation by the name of the additional guest\nColin Slade \u2014 April 18, 2017 14:09\nYou can search for a reservation by the name of the additional guest and not only the main guest.\nIn the search box, type in the name of the Additional Guest.\nIn this case, I am searching \"Ron\" for Ron Burgundy.\nReservations for Unmapped Rooms", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nakaseke.go.ug/uganda-independence-day", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:4Y7UKACDPTUCVAX3JG56OLN3HV4YTJLT", "length": 531, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nakaseke.go.ug", "title": "Uganda Independence Day | NAKASEKE DISTRICT", "raw_content": "Uganda gained her independence on October 9th 1962. Since 1894 she was a British protectorate that was put together from some very organized kingdoms and chieftaincies that inhabited the lake regions of central Africa.\nBy 1959, Uganda had 16 districts and at the time of independence in 1962 one more district was created. In 1945 Uganda divided into four provinces of Buganda, Eastern, Northern and Western. The provinces were sub-divided into districts In 1962: Uganda became independent on October 9.\nKololo Independence Grounds", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 89, "original_length": 1835, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 196.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://namelessintaipei.com/2010/08/03/tis-is-not-the-season-to-be-jolly/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:11Z", "digest": "sha1:7Z4PIDTVODMSZ7GZVDEDOJYLVOJNUJXT", "length": 7082, "nlines": 52, "source_domain": "namelessintaipei.com", "title": "T'is is NOT the Season to be Jolly! - Nameless in Taipei: Business. Motherhood. Marriage. And Life.Nameless in Taipei: Business. Motherhood. Marriage. And Life.", "raw_content": "\u2190 Men Whores\nWhy haven\u2019t I been blogging for 2 days? \u2192\nT\u2019is is NOT the Season to be Jolly!\nThree couple friends in 24 hours.\nTwo breakups. One on the way.\nInasmuch that summer is moving towards autumn, breakup season signals its dire return.\n\u201cHon, can you please call me?\u201d I asked Trader today after his work. There is just something about breakups, especially when the issues on why the couple broke up that mirrors yours, that makes anybody insecure about their relationship. Or maybe it\u2019s just me?\nFor Breakup #1 and 2, the issue is simple: Both women are older than their significant other. One is 3 years older, while the other is around 8 years older.\nYes, like me, they are also cougars. \ud83d\ude00\nAnyway, returning back to the issue, whereas younger women don\u2019t have the pressure of worrying too much about the future (e.g., they can screw around and waste their time with men without much consequence), older women do.\nCall it biological clock, pressure from the \u2018rents, or the growing dismay of watching all your year-mates post their baby photos on Facebook every second, but yes, we women by the time we reach our late 20s, start to worry about whether the guy we\u2019re dating is in for the long haul or not.\nMy friend #1 has the same worry. She said, \u201cLook Bonita, it\u2019s not that I want to get married now. Actually I understand that given his youth, marriage is the farthest thing from his mind. However, I do want to know that he actually wants to get married in the future\u2026\u201d\nMy friend #2 talks in similar terms but adds that she wants to know whether the guy can marry HER in the future. This makes sense because though a guy is happy to marry, there is really no point in worrying about it if he\u2019s marrying someone else.\nFriend #2 broke up because the guy\u2019s parents disliked her quite strongly. On his vacation, the guy was sat down by his parents and was explicitly ordered that marriage between him and Friend #2 is an impossibility. A definite no.\nI asked the guy why not fight for the girl? Come on, we\u2019re no longer kids and being the first born and only son, he had more leeway in negotiating with his parents. It\u2019s not as if they\u2019ll cut him off if they needed to continue the legacy\u2026\nFor Friend #2, the issue is a lot more in-depth. Aside from the parents avid disapproval, they are also socially incompatible. The guy comes from a richer home, while she had industriously laboured her own wealth. She is admirably a small business owner having started from scratch her business with her sister. I have the deepest respect for her.\nAlas for her, the guy felt that if he cannot offer marriage to Friend #2, then they should just painfully call the relationship off. \u201cNo use to waste her time if I cannot offer her marriage in the future,\u201d he sadly said.\nIt pains me to see these happening.\nFor Friend #2, it\u2019s just a matter of maybe a guy being too practical.\nHe had decided that though she was a terrific girl, there was really no way that he can fight for her and offer her marriage, even though she was happy juts to continue on without it. \u201cShe really wants marriage, Bonita, even though she says she doesn\u2019t need it. It\u2019s unfair for me to string her along when another guy can offer it.\u201d\nFor Friend #1, it\u2019s just a matter of choosing a guy too young, too immature. He\u2019s merely 25 years old and it should take around a decade before he decides to walk down the aisle if ever. Being Caucasian and particularly French don\u2019t help either.\nThese issues mirror mine closely.\nBeing almost 30, I feel the pressure ticking, not by my biological clock but rather in the lack of reassurance that Trader is the guy who I\u2019ll be marrying in the far off future.\nFor one, his parents strongly disapprove of me, mirroring that of Friend #2\u2019s case.\nAnd second, I am older than Trader by 2.5 years.\nIt wasn\u2019t because we both chose it. It was just how it turned out.\nGiven this, I am in more of a hurry than Trader. I don\u2019t want to marry now don\u2019t get me wrong, but he has to want to marry earlier because he is younger. I personally believe a guy shouldn\u2019t even consider marriage till he\u2019s 32, but how can Trader do that if that makes me 35 by then?\nLastly, not only does his parents disapprove of me, but they have launched an aggressive campaign against me.\n\u201cYour sister, we\u2019d love her to get married. You, you should wait.\u201d\n\u201cWhy choose her? There are so many other women out there. You shouldn\u2019t be in a rush to get married.\u201d\n\u201cWhy not choose someone younger?\u201d \u2014 Okay, THIS stung. I mean, is it really my fault that I was born the year I was born?\nAdding on to poor Trader\u2019s pressure is his upcoming sister\u2019s wedding which is later this year. In a way, this puts him in a spotlight, a place that no guy wants to be in.\n\u201cI am terrified of marriage,\u201d he said yesterday. \u201cI don\u2019t understand how they can get married if their ducks aren\u2019t yet in a row?\u201d\nTrader has a long timeline on how and when he wants to get married. He firstly wants to get settled, start and manage his bsuiness and once he\u2019s financially stable, get married.\nThat would put me comfortably at the age of 38 years old unless he\u2019s Speedy Gonzales. \ud83d\ude41\nOkay, I exaggerate \u2013 but you get the picture. \ud83d\ude41\nWhat even makes it more unfair is the fact that as I am, practically speaking, it would not be difficult to find someone who would marry me in the near future. You are only as good as your options, and thankfully, it\u2019s not a bad thing to still be single and out there looking.\nPeople often think that after breakups, their life is over.\nIn fact, it\u2019s just the beginning of something new.\nThere are immense opportunities out there. People to meet. Experiences to be made. Flirting to be tried of.\nBut you cannot do that when you\u2019re attached.\nAnyway, I\u2019ve talked to Trader this evening about this. He was, as always, as patient and sweet as he can be. He wasn\u2019t defensive or angry when I asked him such sensitive questions. He was\u2026 loving.\nAs it turns out, he has also started thinking about the future. And though marriage was never mentioned, at the very least, I do find some comfort that I am part of his future when he thinks about it.\nHe does plan on how to integrate me in his family. A tough ask by any means but a reasonable request.\nHe does plan our traveling plans. We make plans to see each other late August.\nIn a way, I don\u2019t really get my answers straight up. Trader has not proposed nor he should. There are still limits to how guys reassure women and proposing is not one of them, nor should it be.\nBut I do know this: Trader loves me. Quite a lot.\nAnd that is probably the best reassurance I can have for now.\nAnd as a reassurance to him even though he doesn\u2019t read my blog (nor should he ever), is that I don\u2019t really care when I get married if ever. I do care however that I am with someone who loves me.\nAnd tonight had shown me that my heart\u2019s at the right place.\nHope that everything\u2019s great in your side of the world as well. It\u2019s shaky in mine but soon, things should turn out allright.\nThis entry was posted in Boyfriend, Family, Favorite Posts, Reflections, Relationships. 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Where the channel was broadcast in 2008, and the Birds \u2026\n13 companies are unveiling plans to launch the fifth generation of phones in 2019 and 2020\nSince early February, so far, the number of smart phone manufacturers who have unveiled plans to launch fifth generation mobile phones, 13 companies. 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The owners don\u2019t want to lose a full season and they feared decertification enough to file a pre-emptive lawsuit to block it.\nOn the other side are some owners telling David Stern he didn\u2019t have the right to offer a 50/50 deal and that that BRI split number should be walked back. Those owners would like to throw the \u201cflex cap\u201d idea back on the table, a suggestion the union called a \u201chard cap\u201d said it would never accept.\nBoth of those sides get their stories leaked into media reports so that the other side can be sure to hear it.\nWhat all that means is the hardliners on both sides (however you choose to define them) are trying to keep their leaders from doing the logical thing on Saturday when labor talks restart \u2014 compromising, meeting in the middle and getting on with the season.\nAnd so long as those hardliners are the ones making the decisions, there will be no end to the lockout. There will be no NBA games.\nThe threat of decertification is the last, best card the players have to play. To in essence do away with the union and sue the league on anti-trust grounds is a powerful card and about the only thing the players can do the owners might fear because the courts are unpredictable and if the union wins the damages would be stiff.\nThe players should have done it \u2014 in July. Like the NFL players union, it should have decertified the second the lockout was imposed. At the time the union thought that could slow negotiations, but the reality is the two sides didn\u2019t really start negotiating until September anyway.\nBut right now the threat is muted, unless there are a majority of players who would be willing to blow up the entire season. I\u2019m not really sure here are. My guess is if you put to a vote of the full 400 plus NBA players either decertification or taking the owners 50/50 offer, the players would cave. By a wide margin.\nThe owners have not been bargaining in good faith throughout this process. They have had the leverage and used it to radically overhaul the system.\nBut in doing so they have given the players little, and that\u2019s why we are still here. Derek Fisher and Billy Hunter need a path out of this, something they can sell to their constituents that is not a total defeat. They need the owners to give a little to make this end and the owners \u2014 and particularly David Stern \u2014 have not. The owners are up 40 points with the clock winding down and will not call off the full-court-press.\nStern and Hunter could get a deal done Saturday, a deal both sides could live with. A deal that would mean games before Christmas. It\u2019s right there for the taking.\nIf their hardliners will back off and let them.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 22375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 334.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nccnews.expressions.syr.edu/tag/upstate-new-york/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:58Z", "digest": "sha1:7Q4BAJQ7WHQ5E4O755D2WZPGFC3RVJCX", "length": 3095, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "nccnews.expressions.syr.edu", "title": "upstate new york | NCC News", "raw_content": "\"upstate new york\" Tagged Articles\nOne Local Professor Responds to Negative Job Market Comments\nBy Dominique Patrick SYRACUSE (NCC News) \u2014 There has been a lot negative news for Upstate New York\u2019s job market, in part triggered by comments made by President Trump. The President recently endorsed Foxconn, and its move to Wisconsin. 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The event is a 5K and 10K where runners and walkers are invited to dress up in their Halloween costumes for the race. \u201cWe wanted to make it a family friendly [\u2026]\nCentral New York, Education, Government, Transportation\nCommunity Leaders React to Startling Syracuse Poverty Statistics\nBy Arlety Gonzalez Chile, BDJ 464.01\nBy Arlety Gonzalez SYRACUSE N.Y. (NCC News) \u2014 Poverty in Syracuse has been an issue of concern for both community and political leaders for quite some time. But it is being discussed even more now, after Syracuse was identified as the city in the nation with the highest poverty concentration among Hispanic and Black communities. Community [\u2026]\nBusiness, Central New York, Consumer, Government, Transportation\nDebate Over Bringing Ride-Sharing Services To Upstate New York Rises In Syracuse\nBy Nicole Acevedo, SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) \u2013 Students at Syracuse University are trying to team up with other college students in Albany, Rochester, and Buffalo to push the New York state government to allow ride-sharing services like Uber and Lyft to operate in Upstate New York. \u201cThese 3 major universities in these 3 major cities [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 5301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 326.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ndocsoftware.com/2012/06/accountable-care-organizations-acos-can-post-acute-providers-participate-in-acos/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:59Z", "digest": "sha1:ULESGP7R6VXU62CNSFL2TGIPHC6DSTFW", "length": 2357, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "ndocsoftware.com", "title": "Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Can Post-Acute Providers Participate in ACOs? | Thornberry Ltd.", "raw_content": "Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs): Can Post-Acute Providers Participate in ACOs?\nACO is the buzz word we hear today. We learn about ACO\u2019s related to hospitals and physicians, but what about post-acute care providers? Post-acute-care providers such as homecare, hospice and HME need to be included in the \u2018big ACO picture\u2019 as well.\nSection 1899(a) (1) (A) of the Affordable Care Act defines ACOs as \u201cgroups of providers of services and suppliers\u201d that work together to manage and coordinate care for Medicare fee-for-services beneficiaries.\nThe statute lists the following groups of providers of services and suppliers that are eligible to participate as an ACO:\nACO professionals, i.e. physicians in group practice arrangements\nPartnerships or joints venture arrangements between hospitals and ACO professionals\nHospitals employing ACO professionals\nSuch other groups of providers of services and suppliers as the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) determines appropriate\nThe final regulations go on to define ACO providers and suppliers as follows: ACO provider/supplier means an individual or entity that\u2013 (1) Is a provider or a supplier; (2) Is enrolled in Medicare; (3) Bills for items and services it furnished to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries under a Medicare billing number assigned to the TIN of an ACO participant in accordance with applicable Medicare regulations; and (4) Is included on the list of ACO providers/suppliers that is required under Section 425.204(c)(5).\nThe commentary to the final regulations governing ACOs makes it even clearer that post-acute providers can participate in ACOs: We do not believe that we should be prescriptive in setting any requirements for the number, types and location of providers/suppliers that are included as ACO participants.\nThe commentary also states that ACO participants are defined as any Medicare-enrolled provider or supplier, including pharmacists. Consequently, based upon the statute, the final regulations, and commentary to the final regulations, it is clear that post-acute providers may join doctors to form ACOs.\nIs being a part of an ACO part of your business plan?\nPosted in Uncategorized on June 8, 2012 by Thornberry Ltd..\n\u2190 Hospice Needs Your Voice for the HELP Act KLAS Reports that Thornberry Customers are Very Satisfied with NDoc \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 320.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/life-after-faith-the-case-for-secular-humanism/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:55Z", "digest": "sha1:5ISUCBRTUV424RHQ3O5UUW5B7DOPIPFP", "length": 16930, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "ndpr.nd.edu", "title": "Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame", "raw_content": "Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism\nPhilip Kitcher, Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism, Yale University Press, 2014, 175pp., $25.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780300203431.\nReviewed by Alvin Plantinga, University of Notre Dame/Calvin College\n\"The central purpose of this book,\" according to the preface, \"is to show how a thoroughly secular perspective can fulfill many of the important functions religion, at its best, has discharged\" (p. xiii). Philip Kitcher concedes that this may take a while: \"a fully rewarding secular world cannot be built in a day\" (p. 2). Kitcher seems genuinely sympathetic to religious concerns, and genuinely concerned to understand them. He writes with sensitivity and insight. He has an attractive style and writes well (although it isn't always easy to tell precisely what he means to say).\nKitcher begins (chapter 1) by explaining why he rejects religion. Here he is more nuanced and less bombastic than the dreaded new atheists, who, as he suggests, overlook the central role religion plays in the lives of most of the world's population: \"Yet the atheist movement today often seems blind to the apparently irreplaceable roles religion and religious community play in millions if not billion, of lives\" (p. xiii). Nevertheless, he claims, religious beliefs, beliefs about \"the transcendent\" as he takes them to be, are \"almost certainly false\" (p. 105). I'll begin by outlining his suggestions as to how a secular outlook can serve the same functions and goals as religion; then I'll examine his arguments for atheism.\nIn chapter 2, Kitcher considers the connection between religion and ethics or morality: why is the idea of a tight link between religion and ethics so perennially popular? \"The answer,\" he suggests, \"lies in the difficulty of producing any persuasive rival account of ethics -- and of values generally -- that will not reduce ethical life to the expression of subjective attitudes\" (p. 27).\nHis aim in this chapter, then, is to give a naturalistic vindication of values; an account of ethics that fits with secularism but doesn't reduce the ethical life to the expression of subjective attitudes. As he notes (p. 28) it is common to think of moral or ethical standards as independent of human desires and aspirations, having a sort of objectivity that fits well with their being divinely commanded. On Kitcher's account, of course, these standards don't originate in anything like a divine command, and Kitcher's account of ethics and morality doesn't give it that sort of objectivity. What status do ethical standards have, according to him? It's not easy to tell. As far as I could make out, Kitcher believes that ethical rules have simply evolved over the centuries as a means to the reduction of \"functional conflict\" (p. 53) and the promotion of harmony in a society. It's a good idea for us (as members of a society) to follow these rules, and to coerce the unwilling also to follow them, in order to introduce and maintain functional harmony in our society. On this prudential account, of course, there isn't any such thing as objective moral obligation, and there would be nothing wrong, morally speaking, in my flouting current ethical precepts (provided I could escape detection).\nIn chapter 3, Kitcher treats \"refined religion\", i.e., versions of religion in which all doctrinal statements are taken to be literally and strictly speaking false, but can be usefully read as metaphorical or allegorical ways to guide conduct: \"At the core of religion, then, is not a body of doctrine, a collection of descriptions of the transcendent, but a commitment to values that are external to (independent of) the believer, and indeed to all human beings\" (p. 64). Although he is sympathetic to refined religion, in the end Kitcher rejects it as not going far enough:\nSecularists resist the thought that only the myths and practices of religions can address the human condition. . . . [Secularists] foresee successors to contemporary religious life that draw on a far broader range of cultural items -- borrowing from poets and film makers, musicians, artists, and scientists, cultivating social institutions to develop the sense of identity and community traditionally fostered by religion. (p. 94)\nIn chapter 4, Kitcher turns to \"Mortality and Meaning\": religions promise immortality, and a connection to the transcendent can confer meaning upon one's life; how can a secular outlook provide something similar? First, he reiterates that any meaning conferred by religion rests on a fiction: \"In the end, any additional comforts religion offers depend on ignoring the arguments of Chapter 1, and settling for substantive doctrines that are almost certainly false\" (p. 105). He goes on to suggest that \"being dead is nothing to be frightened of\" (96). He goes still further: following Bernard Williams (\"The Makropulos Case: Reflections on the Tedium of Immortality\") he also argues that a genuinely eternal life would \"reach a point when immortality became tedious and burdensome . . . because there was nothing new under the sun\" (p. 99); it would succumb to \"weary staleness of repetition\" (p. 113). Finally, a connection to the transcendental is not necessary for a meaningful life: \"Mattering to others is what counts in conferring meaning\" (p. 101). But just what is meaning, or a meaningful life? Here I found it hard to tell what Kitcher had in mind. And as for mattering to others: Hitler certainly mattered to those he persecuted; did this make his life a meaningful one?\nIn his final chapter, \"Depth and Depravity\", Kitcher turns to the thoughts that the secular life lacks \"depth\" and that there is a sort of deep depravity in human nature (depicted, for example, in Shakespeare's King Lear and Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov) that can only be appreciated and addressed by religion. Kitcher disagrees. I wasn't sure just how depth and depravity figure in; but perhaps the central claim of the chapter is that \"The idea of the religious life, permeated by doctrines, lore, and the rites of a particular tradition, gives way to a different vision: secular life, at it keenest, undertakes a passionate engagement with what it is to be human\" (pp. 156-57). Secular humanists, therefore, believe that we human beings can flourish without religion. Kitcher argues that there is no proof that this isn't so; he adds that it's very much worthwhile trying to see if a fulfilling secular world can be achieved.\nIn what follows I'll concentrate on Kitcher's arguments against religion.\nBut first, what is the distinguishing feature of religion(s)? Kitcher's proposal: \"Religions are distinguished by their invocation of something beyond the mundane physical world, some 'transcendent' realm, and they offer claims about this 'transcendent'\" (p. 3). Prime examples of claims about the transcendent, of course, are the sorts of claims about God offered by Christians, Jews and Muslims.\nNow what, precisely, is he saying about such claims? He speaks frequently of \"secular skepticism,\" the core of which, \"is skepticism about anything 'transcendent'\" (p. 6). But Kitcher goes far beyond skepticism: as he sees things, any claims about a transcendent realm are \"almost certainly false\" (154); \"there is every reason to think all of the clashing doctrines the world's religions have proposed about the transcendent are thoroughly false\" (p. 124). The diversity of religious opinion shows, he says, that the source, whatever it is, of religious opinion is unreliable. Consider whatever cognitive processes it is that produce religious opinion: since those processes produce such a variety of mutually conflicting opinion, much or most of what they produce is false. Hence, those sources must be considered unreliable. And if they are unreliable, Kitcher thinks, the opinions they produce are almost certainly false: \"Secularist doubt is prompted by probing the processes that generate specific beliefs about the transcendent. Those processes are so unreliable that all of the conflicting specific religious doctrines are, almost certainly, false\" (19).\nBut why should we suppose that they are all almost certainly false? Couldn't it be that some of them are true and others false?\nWhy think that all of them are almost certainly false? As far as I can make out, Kitcher's argument is two-fold. First, Kitcher is impressed by the fact that \"we find an astounding variety in religious doctrines. Impersonal forces, sacred places, ancestors, ghosts, spirits, demons and a wide variety of deities have all figured as supposed manifestations of the transcendent\" (p. 7). So the first point seems to be that there is great religious diversity: there are very many different religions, and they frequently contradict each other. He is also impressed by the fact that religion is apparently culture-bound in a significant way. What religious opinions a person has seems to depend, at least in part, on when and where that person is brought up: \"To face it clearly is to recognize that if, by some accident of early childhood, he had been transported to some distinct culture, brought up among aboriginal Australians, for example, he would now affirm a radically different set of doctrines\" (p. 8).\nBut how strong are these points, taken as arguments for the falsehood of religious belief? Take the first: true, there is indeed a wide variety of religious belief; but how does it follow that they are all almost certainly false? Here we should distinguish particular religious beliefs, for example belief in God, from whole systems of religious belief, for example the 39 articles of Anglicanism or the Heidelberg Catechism. Such whole systems are incompatible with each other; but many such whole systems agree on some very important points -- the existence of the God of theism, for example. At that level there is vastly less diversity. So Kitcher's first argument wouldn't apply to belief in God.\nBut even for whole systems: there is certainly wide variety here, but how does it follow that they are all almost certainly false? Or even that any particular one is almost false? Kitcher's book is an exercise in philosophy. The variety of philosophical belief rivals that of religion: there are Platonists, nominalists, Aristotelians, Thomists, pragmatists, naturalists, theists, continental philosophers, existentialists, analytic philosophers (who also come in many varieties), and many other philosophical positions. Should we conclude that philosophical positions, including Kitcher's low opinion of religious belief, are all almost certainly false? I should think not. But then wouldn't the same be true for religious beliefs? The fact that others hold religious opinions incompatible with mine is not a good reason, just in itself, for supposing my beliefs false. After all, if I were to suppose my views false, I would once more be in the very same position: there would be very many others who held views incompatible with mine.\nKitcher's second point is also weak, at least as an argument for atheism. True, if I had been brought up as an Australian aboriginal, I would probably not hold the religious beliefs I do hold; no doubt I would not so much as have heard of those beliefs. But, once more, isn't the same true for Kitcher? If he had been brought up as an Australian aborigine, he would not have held the philosophical and religious beliefs he does hold -- including his skeptical beliefs about religion. But what follows from that? Surely not that the beliefs he does hold are almost certainly false. And doesn't the same go for the religious believer? If she had been brought up as an Australian aborigine, she would not have believed in God; but why should she conclude that her present beliefs are false and that there is no such person as God?\nSo first, neither the variety of religious opinion nor their relativity to cultural circumstance shows that these opinions are all almost certainly false. Should we conclude, instead, that it is irrational, or somehow contrary to reason to hold any particular religious opinion, at least if you are aware of this diversity? But again, the same question arises about philosophy. Kitcher is certainly aware of the diversity of philosophical opinion: does that mean that he is irrational in holding any particular philosophical position? His views about religion, for example? Does rationality require that he give them up? I certainly can't see why. On a given occasion he is struck by the enormous variety of philosophical opinion; perhaps then he should rethink his own opinions, looking at them again carefully and critically. But if he does so, and they still seem to him to be correct, isn't he entirely rational, entirely within his epistemic rights in continuing to hold them? Of course he might be mistaken; but isn't he, under those conditions, entirely rational in continuing to hold them? I should certainly think so.\nBut again, isn't the same thing true of the religious person? Apprised of the apparent relativity of her religious and philosophical beliefs to her circumstances of place, time and culture, she carefully reconsiders them. It seems to her that she is sometimes in contact with God when she prays; she can't see how there could be genuine right and wrong apart from God; on many occasions it has seemed to her that there must be such a person as God and that she is in God's presence. Of course she might be mistaken; but isn't she entirely rational, entirely within her epistemic rights in continuing to believe?\nStill, it isn't just the variety of claims about the transcendent that occasions Kitcher's skepticism; it is also the particular character of the sources of religious belief. What are the processes that generate specific beliefs about the transcendent? According to Kitcher, \"the bases of belief are remarkably similar across the entire array of religious traditions\" (p. 7); and what these bases consist in, he says, are fundamentally cultural influence and tradition. \"The beliefs of each tradition stand on much the same footing; complete symmetry prevails\" (p. 8).\nBut is it really true that, as he says, \"complete symmetry prevails\"? Religious believers would certainly reject that idea. Christians and other believers in God, for example, may follow John Calvin in citing a \"sensus divinitatis\", a sort of grasp or apprehension of God's presence with which God has created us human beings; belief in Baal, or the Great Pumpkin, results from a corruption of the sensus divinitatis. To suppose that complete symmetry prevails, as Kitcher does, is already to reject, e.g., Christian or even theistic belief. The claim that complete symmetry prevails can't sensibly be proposed as part of an argument against religious belief.\nKitcher, however, isn't much impressed with the idea of a sensus divinitatis; this idea, he says, \"is fruitless, a fig-leaf covering for dogmatism\" (p. 8). It's clear, here, that Kitcher disapproves of this idea; but what exactly is his problem with it? I think, but can't be sure, that his idea is that believers in God cite the sensus divinitatis as their ground (evidence) for theistic belief; so taken, he thinks that idea is fruitless. But here, I think, he is seriously misconstruing Calvin and those who follow him. It isn't that those who think there is a sensus divinitatis appeal to this sensus as evidence for their belief in God. It isn't as if such people, if asked why they believe in God, if asked for evidence for their belief, will say, \"Well, there is this sensus divinitatis, and it tells me that there is such a person.\" Not at all. It is rather that the supporters of the sensus find themselves with belief in God; they note that the same or something similar holds for much of the rest of humanity; so they conclude that there is a faculty or process that produces this belief. Of course they think this belief on their part and the parts of these others is true; and since they do think this belief is true, they call this process a \"sensus\", thus analogizing it to sense perception.\nAt bottom, therefore, Kitcher's brief against belief in the transcendent is just that such beliefs display great diversity and that \"compete symmetry prevails\" with respect to the origin of religious beliefs. But diversity as such doesn't prove much of anything (after all, the same holds for philosophical beliefs, including Kitcher's opinion about religion). And as for completely symmetry, to claim that it prevails is already to reject religious belief; hence it offers no promise as a decent way of arguing against such belief. As far as I can see, therefore, Kitcher's arguments for atheism are wholly unsuccessful.\nAccording to Gary Gutting, \"This is the most philosophically sophisticated and rigorous defense of atheism in the contemporary literature\" (back cover blurb). As a believer in God, I'm tempted to hope this is true.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 17623, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 264.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://netplaymag.com/2016/06/23/champs-crowned-in-nj-based-us-open-national-playoffs/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:26Z", "digest": "sha1:AKCVGK2YRVCUXFI6YLNXUWHXK2IYXK5W", "length": 2044, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "netplaymag.com", "title": "Champs Crowned in NJ-Based US Open National Playoffs \u2013 NetPLAY Magazine", "raw_content": "For many, simply attending the US Open is a dream.\nOver the last four days, tennis players throughout New Jersey had a chance to actually experience it.\nThe US Open National Playoffs Middle States Sectional Qualifying Tournament came to an end Wednesday night at Mercer County Park, wrapping up five days of tennis action in which more than 200 players competed. The champions in men\u2019s singles, women\u2019s singles, men\u2019s doubles, women\u2019s doubles and mixed doubles now advance to the US Open National Playoffs in New Haven, Conn., which runs Aug. 19-27.\nThe idea behind US Open National Playoffs is simple: to give players a shot to compete on the world\u2019s biggest stage.\nThe tournament was first launched in 2010 to provide anyone 14 or older the chance to compete in one of the world\u2019s most prestigious sporting events: the US Open in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. In the past, the tournament incorporated three divisions: men\u2019s singles, women\u2019s singles, and/or mixed doubles. Now, for the second year, the tournament features men\u2019s and women\u2019s doubles on the draw sheet.\nThe Middle States qualifying event has taken place at Mercer County Park each year. The semi-final and final rounds generally draw a large crowd from the local community, many times bringing together several hundred in the stands and grass surrounding the courts.\nThe US Open National Playoffs begin as a series of 15 sectional qualifying tournaments, held in different USTA Sections across the country. The winners at each local site advance to the national stage to compete against the other winning players/teams from across the country.\nUS Open National Playoffs Middle States Qualifier: Final Results\nMen\u2019s Singles: Jose Statham d. Justin Natale: 6-1, 6-3\nWomen\u2019s Singles: Sophie Chang d. Alexandra Perper: 6-3, 7-5\nMen\u2019s Doubles: Andrei Daescu/Costin Paval d. Karl Poling/Brian Shi: 6-0, 6-2\nWomen\u2019s Doubles: Alexandra Perper/Nika Kukharchuk d. Sophie Chang/Alexandra Mueller: 6-3, 5-7 (4)\nMixed Doubles: Andrei Daescu/Anda Perianu d. Lindsay Lee-Waters/Jose Statham: 6-2, 6-4", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 5166, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 234.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://netplaymag.com/2017/02/08/usta-middle-states-accepting-2017-hall-of-fame-nominations/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:07Z", "digest": "sha1:44BUSK22NHWEGQGIN5OKEHJJUREHWLQ6", "length": 1154, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "netplaymag.com", "title": "USTA Middle States Accepting 2017 Hall of Fame Nominations \u2013 NetPLAY Magazine", "raw_content": "The United States Tennis Association (USTA) Middle States Section is now accepting nominations for the 2017 Middle States Hall of Fame.\nSince its inception in 1994, 103 of tennis\u2019 most influential players, coaches and volunteers have been inducted into the prestigious institution.\nNominations for the 2017 Hall of Fame, which will take place at Rivercrest Golf Club (Phoenixville, Pa.) on Oct. 19, can be submitted on middlestates.usta.com. The nomination period is open until March 6.\nFormer inductees into the Middle States Hall of Fame include tennis legend and women\u2019s rights pioneer Billie Jean King, and former USTA Presidents Jane Brown Grimes, Dave Haggerty, Merv Heller, Judy Levering and Martin Tressel.\nThe event provides an opportunity for all who love the game of tennis to celebrate the past and support the future.\nProceeds from the Middle States Hall of Fame benefit the Middle States Tennis Patrons\u2019 Foundation and are utilized to support junior tennis programs and further tennis education objectives in Middle States.\nFor more information about the Middle States Hall of Fame, visit middlestates.usta.com, or email events@ms.usta.com.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4232, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 270.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://neurosurgery.vcu.edu/our-team/physician/dennis-j-rivet-ii-md/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:01:50Z", "digest": "sha1:DM2CZ2WA5LMMON5I32QULQRYE6GFUPZK", "length": 675, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "neurosurgery.vcu.edu", "title": "Dennis J. Rivet II, M.D \u2014 Department of Neurosurgery", "raw_content": "Dennis J. Rivet II, M.D\nB.S. with distinction, chemistry, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.\nM.D., Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.\nInternship, general surgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.\nResidency, neurosurgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.\nFellowship, endovascular surgical neuroradiology, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo.\nCervical disc replacement (artificial disc)\nGeneral neurosurgery \u2013 Spine\nNeurotrauma \u2013 traumatic brain injury\nNeuroprotectants for cerebral ischemia\nEndovascular device development", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 2149, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 139.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newlie.com/blogs/news/45226817-huffington-post-asks-leslie-about-running-her-own-company", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:08Z", "digest": "sha1:SDOZUH67P6HZWTADJRMWSZIHXQ2UWM3Q", "length": 209, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "newlie.com", "title": "Huffington Post Asks Leslie About Running Her Own Company \u2013 Newlie", "raw_content": "In a Huffington Post interview, Leslie is asked all about running her own business, experiences she has learned from, and what advice she gives to other women wanting to start their own business. Check it out!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 1338, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 253.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.avclub.com/updated-bill-cosby-charged-with-felony-sexual-assault-1798287569", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:34Z", "digest": "sha1:45YDZ45TKKY757FWUPDYPUEGQBKZ5RFA", "length": 1547, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "news.avclub.com", "title": "UPDATED: Bill Cosby charged with felony sexual assault", "raw_content": "UPDATED: Bill Cosby charged with felony sexual assault\nAs the sexual assault allegations against Bill Cosby continue to pile up, one of the most frustrating aspects of the whole sad affair has been the impossibility of prosecuting the cases in criminal court. The statute of limitations on most of the cases has long since passed, leading to a series of suits and countersuits as the accusers are left to seek retribution in civil court. Emphasis on the \u201cmost,\u201d as NPR reports that prosecutors in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania\u2014a suburban township outside of Philadelphia\u2014have formally filed felony sexual assault charges against Cosby.\nSpecifically, they\u2019ve charged him with aggravated indecent assault, a first-degree felony that, according to Time, could land him in jail for up to 10 years if he\u2019s convicted. The charges stem from allegations made by a former Temple University employee who says that, after she rejected his sexual advances, Cosby drugged and then raped her, the same fucked-up story that has been told by more than 50 women at this point. The alleged assault took place in January of 2004, meaning that, according to Pennsylvania\u2019s 12-year statute of limitations on felony sex crimes, these charges were barely filed in time for the January 2016 deadline. Cosby is expected to appear in court today.\nUPDATE, 2:00 PM CT: Not only has Cosby appeared in court, according to Variety, he\u2019s been booked, and bail has been set at $1 million. He\u2019ll reportedly be released this afternoon, having arranged his bail earlier in the day.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 2854, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 182.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.cancerresearch/lynch-syndrome-a-common-cancer-explained/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:08:48Z", "digest": "sha1:ACMJAT4SBVMOPNR3YJFWCVRE4ZAR5DIN", "length": 6512, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "news.cancerresearch", "title": "Lynch syndrome - a common cancer risk explained", "raw_content": "Lynch syndrome \u2013 a common cancer risk explained\nLynch syndrome is a common, inherited condition that affects thousands of Australians and greatly increases the risk of developing cancer. Yet 95% of those who have it don\u2019t know about it.\nLynch syndrome is the most prevalent inherited cancer syndrome affecting both men and women. It is caused by an inherited gene mutation affecting one of four mismatch repair or \u201ccancer protection\u201d genes (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2).\nMismatch repair genes should repair mistakes that can occur when DNA is copied for cell division. Faulty mismatch repair genes allow errors to accumulate in cells, which can lead to uncontrolled cell growth and cancer.\nUp to one in 250 people may carry a mismatch repair gene fault. As many as one in 280 carry a fault in a Lynch syndrome gene.\nA parent with Lynch syndrome has a 50% chance of passing on the faulty gene to their children, regardless of gender. However, because a carrier inherits one faulty gene and one properly functioning gene, some people with Lynch syndrome may never develop cancer.\nLynch syndrome does not cause cancer and has no readily identified symptoms, but the faulty gene predisposes carriers to a dramatically increased risk of developing one or more primary cancers over their lifetime. As this tool shows, the risk varies by type of tumour, age, gender and the particular mismatch repair gene that is affected. In people with the syndrome, cancers are often fast growing, may occur simultaneously and tend to occur from a much younger age (under 50 and sometimes in the 20s or earlier).\nIf an individual knows they have Lynch syndrome, they can adopt life-saving strategies for cancer prevention, early detection and treatment.\nWhat cancers are associated with Lynch syndrome?\nPatterns of Lynch syndrome cancers in families were first observed by Dr Aldred Warthin in the 1890s. However, the condition is named after Dr Henry Lynch, who persisted against the prevailing wisdom of the 1960s-70s \u2013 which disputed a hereditary basis for cancer \u2013 to document, describe and establish the genetic basis for Lynch syndrome.\nFor a time, Lynch syndrome was called hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer. That was an unfortunate misnomer because Lynch syndrome cancers can involve polyps and don\u2019t just involve colon cancers.\nLynch syndrome is most commonly associated with colorectal and endometrial cancers. It also significantly increases the risk of cancer of the ovary, stomach, hepatobiliary tract (liver/gallbladder), urinary tract, pancreas, brain, skin, oesophagus and small bowel.\nSome tumours may also present differently in individuals with Lynch syndrome. Examples include the unusually flat, difficult-to-detect polyps and tumours sometimes observed in bowel and breast cancers.\nHow is Lynch syndrome diagnosed?\nGPs should suspect an individual may carry a Lynch syndrome gene when there is a compelling family history of cancer. This means three or more family members have been diagnosed with cancers identified above, two consecutive generations or more are affected by those cancers, and one of those affected family members was diagnosed with cancer before 50 years of age. It should also be suspected where a patient has little or no access to their family\u2019s health history information and has already had one or more relevant cancers before age 50.\nFamily history of cancer as above could signify Lynch syndrome. Source: Lynch syndrome Australia.\nIf Lynch syndrome is not identified and the patient develops cancer, they will typically require surgery to remove the tumour. Current best practice for all colon and endometrial tumours for patients under age 50, or who have a strong family cancer history, is for the treating team to order a pathology test to check mismatch repair genes are functioning properly.\nUnfortunately, research reveals less than half of these tumours are tested and patient follow-up is confusing and inconsistent.\nAny patient suspected of carrying Lynch syndrome should be referred to a family cancer clinic. There, a genetic counsellor will conduct a thorough assessment and explain the gene-testing process and its implications. With patient consent, the clinic will arrange testing of a tissue sample from a past tumour (either the patient\u2019s or another family member\u2019s) to search for a mismatch repair gene mutation.\nIf a gene mutation is detected, risk-reducing strategies are discussed. Diagnosis for other family members then involves a relatively simple blood test, which looks for the same mutation.\nHow is Lynch syndrome managed?\nManaging Lynch syndrome involves a surveillance plan of regular tests to detect problems early. Then polyps can be removed before they become cancerous or cancers can be removed at an early stage. The potential for risk-reducing surgery (to remove organs, such as ovaries, that are high risk yet difficult to screen) or supplements such as aspirin (which longitudinal studies suggest may significantly reduce the incidence of Lynch syndrome cancer) may also be considered.\nGuidelines recommend annual colonoscopies (from age 25 or 30, depending on the gene mutation, or five years younger than youngest relative diagnosed with bowel cancer) and prophylactic removal of the uterus, fallopian tubes, ovaries and cervix be considered after childbearing is complete, or by age 40.\nFrequent colonoscopies are important because the average time from polyp to bowel cancer reduces from ten years in the general population to just 35 months in patients with Lynch syndrome. Similarly, the average age for developing uterine cancer reduces from 64 years to 42-46 years.\nAn individual\u2019s surveillance plan may be further tailored to address specific cancer risks for them, based on family history or environmental factors. For example, a family history of gastric or skin cancers may justify including annual endoscopy or dermatological reviews.\nEffective diagnosis and management of individuals with Lynch syndrome can be life-saving. Unfortunately, this is not the experience for thousands of Australian families. It\u2019s important we raise awareness of this condition among medical professionals, health organisations and the general public.\nSharron O\u2019Neill is a Director for Lynch Syndrome Australia and is part of a Macquarie University research team led by Dr Natalie Taylor and funded by the Translational Cancer Research Network.\nNatalie Taylor receives funding from The Cancer Institute New South Wales Translational Cancer Research Network", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 155, "original_length": 8819, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 291.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.psu.edu/story/148280/2012/06/22/penn-state-wilkes-barre-partners-marcellus-shale-education-center", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:41Z", "digest": "sha1:BRWXAFKPIWRKXFJ3TEJNAPH72VN2DSE6", "length": 3392, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "news.psu.edu", "title": "Penn State Wilkes-Barre Partners with Marcellus Shale Education Center | Penn State University", "raw_content": "Penn State Wilkes-Barre Partners with Marcellus Shale Education Center\nIn an effort to better prepare members of the local workforce for job opportunities in the Marcellus Shale Industry, Penn State Wilkes-Barre has partnered with the Marcellus Shale Education and Training Center (MSETC) at Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport.\n\"As an affiliate of the Marcellus Shale Education and Training Center, Penn State Wilkes-Barre acquires expanded curriculum and instructional capability needed to train and educate existing employees of gas companies, and those who want to enter the natural gas industry,\" said John Swayze, education program associate at Penn State Wilkes-Barre\u2019s Northern Tier Center. \u201cStudents who enroll for Marcellus Shale training programs at Penn State Wilkes-Barre\u2019s Northern Tier Center will have access to a wide range of resources offered at MSETC, which addresses a multitude of training and education needs of the natural gas industry.\u201d\n\"We feel these courses will complement the other successful industry programs offered at Penn State Wilkes-Barre,\" said Tracy Brundage, assistant vice president for Workforce Development and Economic Development at Pennsylvania College of Technology. \"Our Marcellus Shale Education and Training Center (MSETC) has trained in excess of 4,000 students over the past 18 months and our MSETC Affiliate Program is expanding throughout the region to help meet the demand.\"\nThe Marcellus Shale Education and Training Center is a collaboration between Pennsylvania College of Technology and Penn State Extension to provide a wide variety of resources to the community and the oil and gas industry.\nThat demand, Brundage said, is the demand for trained workers to support the various occupations associated with the development of Pennsylvania\u2019s natural gas resources. According to MSETC studies, each well requires a workforce of approximately 420 individuals working across 150 different occupations.\nSome of the initial programs available at Penn State Wilkes-Barre through the MSETC include training for Onshore Rigging & Hoisting, SafeLandUSA, Hazard Recognition, Natural Gas Measurement, and Roustabout.\n\"As the demand for natural gas training programs continues to grow across the Appalachian Basin, Penn College is excited about our opportunity to expand with that demand,\" Brundage said.\n\"The MSETC has a strong reputation throughout the Commonwealth in serving the workforce development needs of this quickly expanding industry,\" said Swayze. \"Penn State Wilkes-Barre is proud to have this affiliation.\"\nPenn State Wilkes-Barre Continuing Education is part of Penn State Outreach, the largest unified outreach organization in American higher education, serving more than 5 million people each year, delivering more than 2,000 programs to people in all 67 Pennsylvania counties, all 50 states and 80 countries worldwide.\nFor more information regarding MSETC courses that can be offered at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, visit http://www.msetc.org.\nRachel Rybicki\nrco3@psu.edu\nhttp://www.wb.psu.edu/\n$1 million pledge jump-starts Wilkes-Barre Career Services Center\nPenn State Wilkes-Barre hosts Robert Smith: 'Making Ethical Decisions'\nHonor society students give almost 1,000 pounds of goods to soldiers\nNortheast Region, Wilkes Barre Continuing Education, Wilkes Barre Faculty, Wilkes Barre Staff, Wilkes Barre Students", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 185, "original_length": 5909, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 290.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.stonybrook.edu/newsroom/press-release/general/bizarrecrocodile/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:50:17Z", "digest": "sha1:6MZWPJENUS63BJB3BC2IICSR6C6MWMUF", "length": 6270, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "news.stonybrook.edu", "title": "Bizarre Crocodile Fossil Discovered by Stony Brook University Researchers Dispels Notion That These Reptiles are Static and Unchanging | | SBU News", "raw_content": "SBU News > Newsroom > Press Release > General > Bizarre Crocodile Fossil Discovered by Stony Brook University Researchers Dispels Notion That These Reptiles are Static and Unchanging\nBizarre Crocodile Fossil Discovered by Stony Brook University Researchers Dispels Notion That These Reptiles are Static and Unchanging\nHead skeleton structures described in exceptional detail down to the pathways of the tiniest nerves and blood vessels\nSTONY BROOK, N.Y., December 8, 2010 \u2013 We all know that crocodiles are reptiles with long snouts, conical teeth, strong jaws and long tails. But according to researchers at Stony Brook University in New York,\nSkeletal reconstruction of Simosuchus clarki in side view (artwork by Lucille Betti-Nash).\nwe don\u2019t know what we thought we knew. Rather, some crocodiles possessed a dazzling array of adaptations that resulted in unique and sometimes bizarre anatomy, including blunt, pug-nosed snouts, pudgy bodies and short tails.\nThese anatomical adaptations of the incredibly diverse group of reptiles called notosuchian crocodyliforms are brilliantly illuminated in a new Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. This massive, richly illustrated volume, edited by Drs. David W. Krause and Nathan J. Kley of Stony Brook, clearly dispels the notion that crocodiles are static, unchanging \u201cliving fossils.\u201d\nThe volume, which gives an account of fossil crocodyliform anatomy that is unprecedented in its thoroughness, is set for publication on December 8, 2010.\nThe epitome of crocodyliform anomaly is represented\nLife reconstruction of Simosuchus clarki as it may have appeared walking through the semi-arid grasslands of Madagascar in the Cretaceous Period. (Photo of type locality by Raymond Rogers; sculpture of Simosuchus by Boban Filipovic; montage by Lucille Betti-Nash).\nby Simosuchus clarki, which lived in Madagascar at the end of the \u201cAge of Dinosaurs\u201d (about 66 million years ago). First described preliminarily in 2000 from a well-preserved skull and partial skeleton, Simosuchus shattered the crocodyliform mold with its blunt snout, leaf-shaped teeth, and short, tank-like body covered in a suit of bony armor.\n\u201cSimosuchus is easily the most bizarre crocodyliform ever found,\u201d declared Dr. Christopher Brochu, a leading expert on fossil crocodiles from the University of Iowa.\nOver the next decade, expeditions to Madagascar recovered more skulls and skeletons, now representing nearly every bone of Simosuchus. A reconstruction of this uncommonly complete fossil reptile and an interpretation of its place in the crocodile evolutionary tree became the subject of the new volume.\n\u201cThe completeness and preservation of the specimens demanded detailed treatment,\u201d said Krause, Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. \u201cIt just seemed unconscionable to not document such fantastic fossil material of this unique animal.\u201d\nBrochu, who did not participate in the research, said that \u201cvery few crocodilians \u2013 even those alive today \u2013 have been subjected to this level of analysis. This reference sets a new standard for analyses of extinct crocodyliforms and is going to used for decades.\u201d\nSkull and lower jaw of Simosuchus clarki in side view (photo by Jeanne Neville).\nA separate chapter of the monograph is devoted to each of the major parts of the animal \u2013 skull, backbone, limbs, and armor.\n\u201cThe skull and lower jaw in particular are preserved almost completely,\u201d said Kley, assistant professor in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. \u201cThis, combined with high-resolution CT scans of the most exquisitely preserved specimen, has allowed us to describe the structure of the head skeleton \u2013 both externally and internally \u2013 in exceptional detail, including even the pathways of the tiniest nerves and blood vessels.\u201d\nBut while it is easy to lose one-self in the details of these incredible fossils, one of the most amazing features is the overall shape of the animal. Two feet long, pudgy, with a blunt snout and the shortest tail of any known crocodyliform, Simosuchus was not equipped to snatch unsuspecting animal prey from the water\u2019s edge as many modern crocodiles do.\n\u201cSimosuchus lived on land, and its crouched posture and wide body probably meant it was not very agile or fast,\u201d said Joseph Sertich, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook who participated in the research.\nIn addition, its short, under-slung jaw and weak, leaf-shaped teeth show that it probably munched on a diet of plants. While the idea of a gentle, vegetarian crocodile is unusual to us today, the new memoir makes it easy to imagine Simosuchus ambling through its semi-arid grassland habitat, pausing to nip at plants and crouching low to hide from predators like the meat-eating dinosaur Majungasaurus.\nThe paleontologists also found evidence that pointed to the evolutionary origin of Simosuchus. \u201cInterestingly, an analysis of evolutionary relationships suggests Simosuchus\u2019 closest relative lived much earlier, in Egypt,\u201d said Sertich.\nDetails like these are crucial to deciphering the pattern of the dispersal of life around the globe, an area of scientific study known as biogeography. Whatever its ancestry, Simosuchus has set a surprising new standard for what constitutes a crocodile.\nThe article appears in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6, Supplement) published by Taylor and Francis.\nFounded in 1940 by 34 paleontologists, the Society now has over 2,000 members representing professionals, students, artists, preparators, and others interested in vertebrate paleontology. It is organized exclusively for educational and scientific purposes, with the object of advancing the science of vertebrate paleontology.\nThe Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology\nCitation: D. W. Krause and N. J. Kley (eds.), Simosuchus clarki (Crocodyliformes: Notosuchia) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 10. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(6, Supplement).\nMEDIA ADVISORY for Thursday, October 11 IMPORTANT: All media must RSVP Stony Brook Medicine Media Contact: Cassandra Huneke Email: Cassandra.Huneke@stonybrookmedicine.edu Phone: 631-444-7880 Stony Brook University...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 156, "original_length": 12580, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 281.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.stonybrook.edu/oncampus/arianna-huffington-to-speak-at-staller-on-october-25-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:21Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJNILCHGGCURX66FKYZW3RC2PEINRHRW", "length": 1540, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "news.stonybrook.edu", "title": "Arianna Huffington to Speak at Staller on October 25 | | SBU News", "raw_content": "SBU News > On Campus > Arianna Huffington to Speak at Staller on October 25\nArianna Huffington to Speak at Staller on October 25\nArianna Huffington, Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post, will be speaking at Staller Center on Monday, October 25, at 8:00 pm. The event is sponsored by Think Magazine, the University\u2019s progressive, student-run publication.\nThink Magazine was selected as a winner in a nationwide contest to host Huffington as she travels the country on a promotional tour for her latest book, Third World America. Think Magazine was selected as one of 15 finalists out of more than 200 nominees nationwide. More than 440,000 votes were cast in less than a week of voting, and Think Magazine was one of three winners.\n\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly excited to be given this opportunity to host Arianna,\u201d said Think Magazine Executive Editor Katie Watt. \u201cShe\u2019s one of the biggest names in journalism, in politics, and in pop culture.\u201d\nHuffington will appear on stage with moderator Howard Schneider, Dean of the School of Journalism. A 45-minute conversation will be followed by a question-and-answer segment, and Huffington will sign copies of her book before attending an invite-only reception sponsored by the Department of Political Science.\nThe talk is open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members on a first-come, first-served basis.\nthinksb.com was selected as the 2009 Best Publication Web site in the country, and it is the only publication in the SUNY system to partner with Huffington Post College.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 157, "original_length": 8095, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 161.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://news.uhd.edu/2016/05/31/criminal-justice-lecturer-presents-at-international-conference/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:48Z", "digest": "sha1:F5CWQDRSTSRD7FHF7F5LAY7ZI5ULX5JZ", "length": 1322, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "news.uhd.edu", "title": "Criminal Justice Lecturer Presents at International Conference", "raw_content": "Criminal Justice Lecturer Presents at International Conference\nSaturday, May 14, Vanessa Leggett, criminal justice lecturer at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) presented at the 17th annual conference of the International Academy of Investigative Psychology (IAIP) in New York City.\nLeggett's presentation, \"Sex Offending and Homicide,\" was chosen along with a dozen others from 60 lectures and posters to represent the U.S. The conference featured members from 56 universities, institutions, and agencies from around the world, including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Swedish National Board of Forensic Medicine, and the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, where Leggett spoke in 2004. Leggett said, \"It was terrific to have scores of practitioners and researchers from all over the world. The conference was the perfect confluence of research and practice\u2014each feeding into each other so that both can do their work more effectively.\"\nShe also added that the conference was one of a kind. \"It sounds clich\u00e9, but paradigm-shifting is what comes to mind\u2014where you return to work the same person, but suddenly what you've been working on takes on a new dimension.\"\nThe conference was hosted by the Investigative Psychology Research Unit at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 272, "original_length": 6446, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 102.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://newsline.kitplanes.com/advert/rotorway-162f-project/1200px-rotorway_exec-162f_vh-ccw/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:43Z", "digest": "sha1:RQP5535JKQFL2VDLOHXMW6X6CLWHAQ4G", "length": 201, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "newsline.kitplanes.com", "title": "1200px-Rotorway_Exec-162F_VH-CCW \u2013 Kitplanes Newsline", "raw_content": "1200px-Rotorway_Exec-162F_VH-CCW\nBy Nachoman-au - A digital photograph taken by myself., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=391181\nPrevious PostPrevious Rotorway 162f Project", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 98, "original_length": 3811, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.58, "perplexity": 330.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nicholas.duke.edu/people/studentgroups/dukeenvent", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:31:41Z", "digest": "sha1:CV4DLAEZOVITAEPMKQ4AFMF57A275VAO", "length": 765, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "nicholas.duke.edu", "title": "DukeENVENT | Nicholas School", "raw_content": "DukeENVENT\nThis group is currently on hiatus and is inactive. If you would like to breathe new life into the group, contact Nancy Kelly (nkelly@duke.edu) to learn how.\nThe mission of the organization is to cultivate community and accountability for environmental entrepreneurs and facilitate the commercialization of new triple-bottom-line ventures. Based on our experience at the Nicholas School, we believe there is substantial demand for these types of resources among aspiring environmental entrepreneurs. If we can equip those entrepreneurs with the resources they currently lack, we increase their chances of creating real environmental, social, and economic value for their communities and the world. This kind of impact is authentic, scalable, and enduring.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 217, "original_length": 4134, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 279.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nightshadekills.wordpress.com/category/movies/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:35:10Z", "digest": "sha1:UICSIKIGHC7EDO5T6SRJFWGZKRZVIZTY", "length": 8319, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "nightshadekills.wordpress.com", "title": "Movies | nightshade", "raw_content": "Top Romantic Disney Movie Moments\nPosted by mydisneyblog in Movies\nSource: Top Romantic Disney Movie Moments\nClick on the link above ^\nI enjoyed this article, and just wanted to share this before Valentine\u2019s Day.\nI think my favorite might be Lady and the Tramp, so cute.\nCheck out Danielle\u2019s blog and give a follow and like.\nHercules (2014) \u2013 Movie\nDwayne Johnson, Hercules (2014), Hercules Movie, Ian McShane, John Hurt, Rufus Sewell\nHercules (2014) Movie\nIn my never ending quest to find things to watch on Netflix, I came across this newly added movie, Hercules from 2014 featuring Dwayne Johnson, but also Ian McShane, John Hurt (I swear\u2026he is in so many movies, it\u2019s unbelievable!), and Rufus Sewell (who I remember from Dark City).\nFrom the first five minutes, I was already hooked, they started off really well and I was really impressed with the movie. The action scenes were awesome, really good effects, good acting. Ian McShane\u2019s character was great. I am so surprised that it didn\u2019t go over bigger at the box office, or in the previews last year.\nI loved it, I\u2019d watch this again anytime.\nThe Book of Life \u2013 Animated Movie\nIt\u2019s so hard to find good things to watch!\nJust found The Book of Life on HBO, this is a great movie. I knew it was going to be good when I saw on the opening credit: Guillermo del Toro; plus Ron Pearlman, I\u2019m a fan of Hellboy.\nCool soundtrack too.\nHoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil (2011) \u2013 Movie\nI must say, I am a fan Hoodwinked. I have been waiting for the sequel to come out for years! The first movie was released in 2006, a surprising twist on the story of Red Riding Hood. The character of Red Riding Hood, Red for short, is a young girl who delivers goodies for her famous goody baking Grandma. The Wolf (played by Patrick Warburton from The Tick) doesn\u2019t try to eat anyone, and is accompanied by his highly caffeinated buddy, Twitchy, a squirrel. Back in Hoodwinked 1, Chief detective Nicky Flippers, a frog who can disco, is trying to capture an unlikely villain who was stealing recipes from all the forest folks, putting them all out of business. Red, Wolf, Twitchy, Granny Puckett, and the Woodsman team up to catch the bad guy. While Red is on her quest she meets a singing goat named Japeth who was cursed by a witch, and he must sing everything he says. Japeth really stole the show in my opinion. I couldn\u2019t wait until the sequel just to see this singing goat!\nIn Hoodwinked Too, the story revolves around the main characters of the first movie with the addition of the HEA (Happily Ever After Agency headed up by Nicky Flippers) and some new bad guys. New characters include Hansel and Gretel, and a wicked witch (played by Joan Cusack \u2013 excellent choice). In Hoodwinked Too, the main plan of the villains is to obtain a powerful recipe that will render anyone who eats it \u2013 invincible, and to force Granny to bake them these power-packed treats. Red and company need to retrieve the recipe, the treats, save Granny, and catch the bad guys. We see the return of Japeth, who is dogged by bad luck throughout the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed the thick German accents on the short and chubby Hansel and Gretel (voiced by Bill Hader and Amy Poehler). Despite the low ratings you might find online at Rotten Tomatoes, or other websites, I highly recommend this movie. Check out Hoodwinked (2006) and follow-up with Hoodwinked Too! (2011). If you enjoy animated movies, if you are a fan of The Tick, like singing goats, thick German accents, chubby German kids eating Schnitzel on a stick (from Hoodwinked 1), chances are you will love this movie.\nGnomeo & Juliet (2011) \u2013 Movie\nI was really looking forward to seeing this movie in the theater back in Feb. 2011. Somehow we ended up not catching it on the big screen and had to wait until it came out on DVD. As the name implies, it\u2019s the classic story of Romeo and Juliet. Strangely enough Shakespeare adapted to little garden gnomes works. I thought the movie was really well done and entertaining. The vocal cast is composed of A list talent, including Patrick Stewart, Michael Caine, Emily Blunt, and Jason Statham. The soundtrack for the movie is packed with Elton John songs, which I love, another charming addition to this movie. Cute gnomes and Elton John songs, you have a winning combination. If you can make kids enjoy Shakespeare, you know it\u2019s not going to be high brow entertainment. But if you are a kid at heart you should enjoy this movie. Keep your eyes open for the gnome sporting a V style thong bathing suit\u2026hilarious.\nSucker Punch (2011) \u2013 Movie\nThis movie was written by Zack Synder, of Watchmen and The Owls of Ga\u2019Hoole fame. Wow, where do I start. I hated this movie. It was incredibly sad and hard to watch, it had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. It was full of villains and showed nothing but the total sexual exploitation of women, primarily very young teenage girls, which was hard to watch. Sexual abuse is one of the most disturbing of all themes. I know that they tried to play down this aspect a bit, by not explicitly showing sex acts, but the implied abuse is enough to put you on edge throughout the entire movie.\nThe movie is about a girl, nicknamed Babydoll, who ends up in a mental hospital due to her evil stepfather. It doesn\u2019t get better from there. She ends up creating a fake reality where she and the other girls are trapped in this sex brothel trying to escape. They are forced to put on exotic dance shows for fat rich business men. It\u2019s got the feeling of a comic strip world where everything is wrong and corrupt. She is forced to dance for the boss and she blacks out into another fake reality where she and her friends (actually other mental hospital patients) fight robots, nazis, monsters etc with swords, guns, bombs, and other weapons. Each time she is forced to dance she has an episode of this kind. When she wakes from it, everyone is mesmerized by this \u201cdance\u201d that just happened. The audience never sees her actually dancing. Long story short. She doesn\u2019t get revenge, on her captors or her stepdad, which makes this movie completely pointless and meaningless. The writer tried to give it meaning by saying \u201cYou have all the weapons you need. Now fight\u201d, but that is bullshit because the only girl who got out \u2013 Sweet Pea, didn\u2019t fight her way out, she got out because Babydoll sacrificed herself as a distraction to give Sweet Pea time for her escape. Sweet Pea was stopped by police while trying to board a bus out of town, and she said NOTHING. If it wasn\u2019t for the busdriver, her \u201cgaurdian angel\u201d (the gaurdian angel appeared in Babydoll\u2019s trance induced fight sequences), who gave her an alibi for her whereabouts to the police, she would have been taken back to the mental hospital. So if by \u201cfight\u201d he means sacrifice yourself for maybe a slim chance that another person might get away while evil still exists and is taking over your entire world; or perhaps keep silent while the police are about the drag you back to the hell hole you just crawled out of\u2026\u2026.Way to go, you obviously didn\u2019t think that through. They couldn\u2019t fight their way out, all the power was held by adults, and to compound the depressing nature of this film, anyone who had the power and ability to help them at the mental hospital let them all down becuase they weren\u2019t fucking paying attention to the abuse right under their noses.\nIf a movie isn\u2019t going to at least give me some measure of justice, revenge, or some meaning after exposing me to that much depravity and despair, it is indeed worthless.\nRevolver (2005) \u2013 Movie\nRevolver is a Guy Ritchie movie, and by far my favorite movie he has done. This may actually turn out to be my favorite movie of all time. I really loved it that much. I watched it twice in a row and could probably watch it a dozen more times and not get tired of it. I had read a bunch of comments and reviews online. It seemed to have gotten a lot of bad reviews. I think that the people who don\u2019t like this movie, don\u2019t understand what they are talking about. If you haven\u2019t seen it yet, you should. The main focus of the movie is trying to rid yourself of your ego, it tells the progression of the main character Jake Green, played by Jason Statham, and his journey to becoming enlightened. 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Here are the top 5 health benefits of rock salt:\nIt enhances appetite and improves digestion.\nIt has high content of magnesium, calcium, iron, copper and has more than fifty minerals, which contributes to a stronger immune system.\nIt reduces sinusitis and acidity,\nIt is extremely useful in the treatment of allergies, cold and asthma.\nRock salt is also used to make lamps, which can increase the flow of oxygen in the air and is beneficial in managing stress.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 2970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 264.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://njtheatrealliance.org/jobs?keys=&type=All&page=1", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:52:11Z", "digest": "sha1:ZC4W47KD3X4N76JTTFASEJ6FS6GUVJAK", "length": 1907, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "njtheatrealliance.org", "title": "Job Board | New Jersey Theatre Alliance", "raw_content": "Work Light Productions is a company dedicated to creating and producing live entertainment. With offices in Summit, NJ and Charleston, SC, we have a dynamic team that produces national and international theatrical tours. Our 2018-19 season includes Rent, Cinderella, Something Rotten!\nPaper Mill Playhouse, recipient of the 2016 Regional Theatre Tony Award and one of the country\u2019s premier not-for-profit theaters producing musicals, plays, professional performance training and renowned arts education and access programs, seeks a full-time Education Associate to join its Ed\nGeorge Street Playhouse, a non-profit professional theater in New Brunswick, NJ, seeks an energetic self-starter to join its Development team tasked with raising funds to support the $5 million organization\u2019s highly acclaimed mainstage and educational programs.\nThe Growing Stage: The Children's Theatre of NJ is currently looking for a 2nd piano accompanist for their production of BABES IN TOYLAND opening November 23 and running to December 16. Opening night is the only Friday show with the remainder being Saturdays and Sundays at 4:00 PM.\nThe Theater Project- Think Fast, Short Play Competition\nSubmission Deadline is December 1, 2018\nThe Theater Project, an award-winning, professional theater in Maplewood, NJ, is now soliciting short plays for \u201cThink Fast,\u201d its fifth annual short play competition March 22, 23 and 24, 2019. The contest is open to adult playwrights in the New Jersey-New York area.\nCall for Submissions: Lead Teaching Artists with Cars\nPlease submit by Nov. 16\nPremiere Stages: Call for Lead Teaching Artist Submissions\nActors needed for Reading\nLooking for one man and one woman for a staged reading on Sunday, Nov. 11 at the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, NJ. 4 staged readings of new \"Plays Inspired by Art.\"\nThe Play: Soul Mates Runs 10-15 minutes (one of 4 plays to be presented the same day.)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 103, "original_length": 4323, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 217.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nnsl.com/hayriverhub/world-religions-conference-held-for-third-time-in-hay-river-area/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:03Z", "digest": "sha1:E7F6YIC4PB6VCK3F7IEZ2JJL43FGERVE", "length": 3514, "nlines": 26, "source_domain": "nnsl.com", "title": "World Religions Conference held for third time in Hay River area", "raw_content": "Frontpage Hay River Hub World Religions Conference held for third time in Hay River area\nWorld Religions Conference held for third time in Hay River area\nOn Sept. 17, a World Religions Conference returned to the Hay River area for the third time.\nThe conference on the Hay River Reserve was organized by the Calgary branch of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama\u2019at Canada, which presents such gatherings across the country.\nAs in previous years, a panel of three \u2013 representing different religious traditions \u2013 discussed a topic, which this year was Fundamentals of Establishing Lasting Peace.\nK\u2019atlodeeche First Nation Chief Roy Fabian, speaking from the native spirituality perspective, talked about the Dene\u2019s strong relationship with the land as the basis for their language, culture, integrity and capacity.\n\u201cThe way the elders talk about the relationship was a relationship with God,\u201d he said. \u201cSo when we had relationship with the land, it was synonymous to a relationship with God. So everything was about God.\u201d\nFabian said the elders explained that the Dene are people of God.\nBashir Islam, left, of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama\u2019at Canada in Calgary and K\u2019atlodeeche First Nation Chief Roy Fabian, were among the speakers at a Sept. 17 World Religions Conference on the Hay River Reserve. Paul Bickford/NNSL photo.\n\u201cTo a Dene, God is already in us,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s just like God is in the land.\u201d\nFabian added that, through a relationship with the land, Dene develop their divine relationship with God.\nRev. Francis Delaplain of St. Andrew\u2019s Anglican Church in Hay River spoke from the Christian viewpoint.\n\u201cI wish I could say that in order to build a lasting peace just think like a Christian, but truthfully I have to stand here and recognize that a lot of people who have subscribed to the Christian ideal have done a lot of terrible things,\u201d he said. \u201cIn fact, maybe as much as anyone or maybe more than many, the church first has to take a posture of repentance and apology because it\u2019s not enough just to think a certain thing to develop lasting peace.\u201d\nStill, Delaplain said Jesus outlined the right path to peace in the Sermon on the Mount.\n\u201cIt\u2019s that it is a hard path and very few want to take it,\u201d he said, adding that the point is to act right, have the courage of our convictions and live our lives with integrity.\nCalgary\u2019s Bashir Islam of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama\u2019at Canada represented the Islamic perspective.\nIt is easy just to talk about peace, he said. \u201cBut we actually need to do it and that I think is the most difficult aspect of it. But a good start, we believe, is recognizing the Creator.\u201d\nIslam said, without that, people won\u2019t be able to establish peace.\n\u201cNot in our own personal life, not in our domestic lives, not at a community level,\u201d he added.\nIslam also called for nuclear disarmament and the elimination of weapons profiteering, which he noted prolongs conflicts.\nAbout 20 people attended the conference, almost half of them representatives of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama\u2019at Canada.\nThe purpose of such conferences is to allow members of all faith communities to meet and remove any misunderstandings between them.\nAhmadiyya Muslim Jama\u2019at Canada is part of an international organization founded in India in 1889 and now with chapters in over a hundred countries.\nThe World Religions Conferences began 122 years ago in India and they have been held in Canada for 35 years.\nPrevious articleNEIGHBOURLY NEWS: Three in running to be mayor of Fort Smith\nNext articleNorthern author debuts memoir at museum", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 147, "original_length": 6521, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 288.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://novelheights.wordpress.com/tag/legal/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:51Z", "digest": "sha1:VRJG2ORWYW4EDOJKVT7P3P6K3MNRCZLD", "length": 4535, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "novelheights.wordpress.com", "title": "legal | Novel Heights", "raw_content": "Ford County \u2013 John Grisham\nTitle \u2013 Ford County\nGenre \u2013 Legal\nFord County is the setting for a number of Grisham\u2019s trademark legal thrillers, including A Time to Kill, and in this case provides the location for a series of short stories.\nFollowing quickly on the heels of 20th Century Ghosts this was another disappointing collection of short stories. I had expected that because the stories shared the same setting that they would have something in common \u2013 a location, a character or similar thread providing a connection, but no. In fact the setting didn\u2019t seem particularly important and if they had been set in a number of different locations I\u2019m not sure it would have made any difference.\nThe stories themselves were based around a legal premise although not all involved lawyers but for the most part they seemed to lack much in thrills, or legal twists. At best focussing on the characters in the stories and often delivering a moral message these weren\u2019t engaging and I felt as if they were working towards some sort of climax but they failed to carry through.\nNot a collection I would recommend.\nPosted in 2 star and tagged John Grisham, legal, review, short story on November 13, 2016 by suzigun. 2 Comments\nThe Defence \u2013 Steve Cavanagh\nTitle \u2013 The Defence\nPublished \u2013 March 15\nEddie Flynn is an \u2018ex\u2019 \u2013 he\u2019s an ex-husband, an ex-con artist and and ex-lawyer. The man pointing the gun at him in the gripping opening doesn\u2019t seem to be aware of any of this. He wants Flynn to get a bomb into a courtroom on the pretext of defending his boss (Olek Volchek, the head of the Russian mafia in New York) on a murder charge. As if the gun and the bomb weren\u2019t enough (not to mention the ex-partner!) they\u2019re holding his ten year-old daughter hostage.\nIt\u2019s a thrilling opening. He has to defend Volchek on a murder charge in court on the day he is \u2018persuaded\u2019 to become a human bomb and the clock is ticking \u2013 he only has forty eight hours before the bomb explodes and the Russians leave him to his fate. As Flynn starts by complying with the kidnapper\u2019s demands he draws on the skills he used in the past when he was lawyer and before that a con artist. He\u2019s determined not to let any harm come to his daughter and is prepared to do anything in order to protect her.\nThe first person helps to draw the reader in and Flynn is a likeable character, I could see something of the TV character MacGyver in him. Although the plot flies along, the pace was interrupted by backstory and it sometimes felt as if Cavanagh was trying to cram all his brilliant ideas for scams in to the one story.\nI can see the appeal in the unusual mix of legal/thriller/scam but the combination was too much for me. Thank you to the publisher for the netgalley. You can see another point of view on Raven\u2019s blog.\nPosted in 3 star and tagged Debut, legal, review, steve cavanagh, Thriller on March 6, 2015 by suzigun. 1 Comment\nThe Associate \u2013 John Grisham\nTitle \u2013 The Associate\nIt seems like a long time since I\u2019ve read anything by Grisham \u2013 the fact that this was published in 2009 tells me that it\u2019s at least four years. Despite that, it all felt very familiar \u2013 brilliant legal student Kyle McAvoy has a secret that catches up with him and he becomes embroiled in a world of espionage. Forced to change his plans from working in legal aid helping migrant workers he has no choice but to take a job as an associate working in New York for the largest law firm in the world. I was pleased when it became clear that Kyle wasn\u2019t going to accept the situation and just wait out events, and the bulk of the story is about his efforts to outwit those who have seemingly trapped him.\nThis is more about spying than it is a courtroom drama but there\u2019s plenty of legal flavour as Kyle gets to grips with his new role. The picture Grisham paints of the dreadful hours and hard work of these lowly \u201cgrunts\u201d made me tired just reading it, but a reminder of the ridiculous money involved and the promise of the $$ they can earn as partners does make the sympathy evaporate quite quickly. As ever Grisham\u2019s writing makes an effortless read with plenty of tension and this is ideal beach reading for me (too bad we don\u2019t have the weather for it).\nI have seen some reviews that criticise the ending, but whilst it\u2019s actually the sort of end I might be disappointed by I thought the tension kept up until the last page and I was happy with the conclusion of the story.\nPosted in 4 star and tagged John Grisham, legal, review, Thriller on May 21, 2013 by suzigun. 2 Comments", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 151, "original_length": 14833, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 286.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://nuwebwave.com/pr-agency-for-travel-tourism-in-india.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:44Z", "digest": "sha1:WDOOPHDCCRMV42LABCHS5GCWPJEOFM2B", "length": 4511, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "nuwebwave.com", "title": "Top Travel & Tourism PR agency in India | Best Travel & Tourism Advertising Agencyin Mumbai", "raw_content": "PR (Press Release) For Travel & Tourism\nPR Agency For Travel & Tourism In India\nBest Travel & Tourism PR Agency In South Mumbai | Top Travel & Tourism PR Agency In Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.\nLuxury travel agencies looking for media attention then we are one of the leading companies who provide public relations coverage for any brand in news papers, blogs, startup news, and different social media pages. 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April 6, 2015.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 141, "original_length": 3343, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 86.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/08/background-president-s-trip-techboston-academy", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:56:19Z", "digest": "sha1:DSQFJ2KHPUNBX6FXVQWFFDGNMR2LYANV", "length": 6369, "nlines": 30, "source_domain": "obamawhitehouse.archives.gov", "title": "Background on the President\u2019s Trip to TechBoston Academy | whitehouse.gov", "raw_content": "Background on the President\u2019s Trip to TechBoston Academy\nOn Tuesday, March 8th, President Obama will be joined by Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in visiting TechBoston Academy in Boston, Massachusetts, where he will continue to build on his State of the Union call for America to out-educate the competition to win the future. The President will visit a classroom and speak to students, faculty, and partners of the school as well as local and national education, business, and philanthropic leaders about the shared responsibility that government, businesses, philanthropists, and communities have to promote effective and innovative education strategies that will prepare American students to compete in a 21st century economy.\nTechBoston Academy incorporates technology into every classroom, provides access to cutting-edge curriculum, and establishes partnerships with philanthropic and business leaders to provide its students a powerful educational program.\nTechBoston Academy is a 6th \u2013 12th grade pilot school within the Boston Public Schools. The Boston Pilot Schools Initiative serves as an innovative model for education reform established by the school district, with greater autonomy to decide what\u2019s best for students. As a pilot school, TechBoston Academy has greater control over staffing, curriculum, instructional program, and the school day.\nTechBoston Academy fully integrates technology throughout all of its academic courses, to better engage and personalize learning for its students.\nTechBoston Academy offers a 21st century curriculum. Their instructional program provides additional learning time and opportunities for real-world internships, preparing students early for college success.\nTechBoston Academy was founded in September 2002 with the support of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Boston Foundation. In September 2009, TechBoston Academy expanded to include grades 6 to 8 (a lower academy) to serve more students.\nTechBoston partners with the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), a program operated by the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools. BTR is an effective residency-based teacher preparation program that recruits and prepares effective teachers in high-need areas, and provides intensive and ongoing support in their first years of teaching, in partnership with the University of Massachusetts, Boston. It is supported by a Teacher Quality Partnership grant from the U.S. Department of Education, and is one of 49 winners of the Investing in Innovation fund.\nTechBoston benefits from strong community and business partners, including:\nGates Foundation and Boston Foundation, which were both instrumental in creating the school\nCisco, which supplies wireless infrastructure for every classroom and training for teachers on Cisco Networking Academy\nMicrosoft, which has sponsored workshops for educators and provided software and industry certification program opportunities\nIBM, which has provided computer donations for teachers and been a partner for student shadowing and conferences\nHarvard University, which has a partnership where faculty members share educational research and data to improve teacher and student experience\nLenovo, HP, and SMART Technologies, which have all provided technology (laptops, printers and smartboards for classrooms)\nGoogle, which has made TechBoston a pilot site for the use of technology applications to enhance communication and the sharing of student work\nThe TechBoston graduation rate is 82% (compared to an average graduation rate of 63% in the Boston Public School district). TechBoston graduated its first class in 2006, and 92% of that first graduating class went to college.\nMore than 94% of TechBoston graduates are attending 2 and 4 year colleges and universities (85% of whom are first generation college students).\nTechBoston Academy students score proficient/advanced on the 10th grade English Language Arts and Mathematics Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests at rates of 55% and 65% respectively.\nThe daily attendance rate is 94%.\nAcademic Requirements and Supports:\nTechBoston Academy supports a 21st century curriculum, with rigorous graduation requirements, including 4 years of science, 4 years of math (Pre-Calculus, Calculus, or AP Calculus) and 4 years of technology. Courses at TechBoston include Biotechnology, Forensic Science, Entrepreneurship, and Computer Science. The school also offers industry certifications in Microsoft Office, Adobe, and Cisco Networking.\nTechBoston and its partners offer internships at local companies, and offers all students the opportunity to take challenging honors and AP courses, regardless of test score history. The school also requires community service hours for graduation.\nCore technology requirements include classes in web development, digital art, media arts, and other similar areas.\nEvery student from grades 8-12 is provided a state-of-the-art laptop and technology is integrated into all academic courses, for example with students designing technology-based presentations, developing websites, and creating videos.\nInnovative Teaching and Learning:\nThe school features an effective and involved staff dedicated to providing the students the best education possible. The majority of TechBoston faculty have advanced degrees and dual content/special needs/ ESL certifications.\nTechBoston has a strong commitment to continuously improve its instruction for students. It invests 257 hours each year (approximately 40 days) in professional development and weekly collaborative planning time, providing teachers the opportunity to share and observe lessons, and review student data to improve instruction.\nTechBoston operates on an extended day program as a key strategy to promote academic achievement, personalize learning, and promote enrichment. The school day for all students lasts from 8:15 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., and an extended block until 4:15 p.m. for sports, clubs, one-on-one learning time with faculty, and extra academic support. Classes are 60 minutes long. Many students participate in internships or summer help sessions in July and August.\nTechBoston students apply through the Boston Public School\u2019s choice lottery system (any student can apply) and reflect the community demographics.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 321, "original_length": 11809, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 208.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/12/19/readout-presidents-call-japanese-prime-minister-noda", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:48:48Z", "digest": "sha1:TOCNBJ4ZWFVFN24XZOVKNZNBM55EVTMZ", "length": 580, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "obamawhitehouse.archives.gov", "title": "Readout of the President's Call with Japanese Prime Minister Noda | whitehouse.gov", "raw_content": "Readout of the President's Call with Japanese Prime Minister Noda\nPresident Obama spoke by telephone with Prime Minister Noda of Japan this evening. The two leaders conferred on the situation on the Korean Peninsula following the death of Kim Jong Il. The President underscored the United States\u2019 commitment to the defense of our close allies, including Japan. He also conveyed the importance he places on maintaining the stability of the Korean Peninsula and the region. Both leaders agreed that the United States and Japan would monitor events carefully and stay in close touch.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 290, "original_length": 5981, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 174.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ocoee.org/729/Commercial-Developments", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:20Z", "digest": "sha1:DI4T7BYFSNXLA37JL7MPXZ6NX2B26WVI", "length": 1227, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "ocoee.org", "title": "Commercial Developments | Ocoee, FL", "raw_content": "Ocoee has a 150-year-old tradition as a place where Central Floridians can grow successful businesses and cultivate rich, abundant lives. Since 1995, our community has grown from 18,000 residents to over 38,000 in population to become the third largest city in Orange County. We have enough land available to expand to over 75,000 residents, and we encourage quality growth with low fees and expedited permitting. Please take a few moments to learn more about our community and see why it is a great place in which to locate within the Orlando Metro Area.\nOcoee Tax Incentives\nOcoee voters approve a citywide job-creation-tax abatement referendum in January 2012. The Program authorizes the city to grant qualifying businesses a temporary city property tax exemption of up to 100% for up to 10 years. Read the Tax abatement program (PDF) information sheet.\nFlorida State Financial Incentives\nThe State of Florida provides financial incentives for qualified businesses of all sizes. Florida offers a cost-effective alternative to other competitive high-tech states which means land, labor, and capital are more affordable in Florida than some other states. Visit the Florida Government website to get all the latest information.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 85, "original_length": 2813, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 319.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://okinawahai.com/august-events-taco-loco/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:51Z", "digest": "sha1:YAXPZFR3Z2BUTRZAERYAXNNKOYBSP45M", "length": 6623, "nlines": 49, "source_domain": "okinawahai.com", "title": "August Local Events Calendar by Taco Loco- Okinawa Hai", "raw_content": "Home Living Okinawa Hai August Local Events by Taco Loco\nOkinawa Hai August Local Events by Taco Loco\nContributed by Keri C.\nSponsored by Taco Loco, Authentic Mexican food.\nJuly 16th \u2013 August 31st *\nHilton Okinawa Chatan Resort, 3F Terrace \u2013 Summer Festival 2017\n*Thursdays and Sundays only during this period (with fireworks being on Sunday nights). This summer festival will run from 7-8:30 p.m. on the dates mentioned and will feature hula dance performances, taiko dance, festival foods like kakigori (shaved ice), yakisoba, and takoyaki, etc. The festival is free to enter but snacks will require a voucher (that you have to purchase at the 3F reception area of the resort). Please visit the following website for more information: http://hiltonchatan.jp/activity/kids/summer_festival\nHilton Okinawa Kitaya Resort 40-1 Mt. Kitaya cho, Nakagami-gun, Okinawa Prefecture 904-0115\nJuly 21st \u2013 August 31st *\nRyukyu Mura \u2013 Ryukyu Mura Summer Festival\n*This event is occurring throughout the time period listed above except for on Sundays and Mondays (when they will be closed).\nThis event occurs between 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. during the period listed above and requires pre-booking on the Ryukyu Mura website (listed below). The admission fee is 3500 yen per adult, 2800 yen per child 6-15 years old, and 1000 yen for children 3-5 years old. Admission includes all-you-can-eat barbecue, shows, and games (including a firefly-watching tour). Please visit the following website for more information (as well as to reserve a spot if you choose to go): https://www.ryukyumura.co.jp/en/official/plans/ennai/family/65/\nJuly 22nd \u2013 August 26th *\nOkinawa Children\u2019s World Zoo & Museum \u2013 Zoo at Night\n*This event only happens every Saturday during this time period and during the hours of 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.\nDuring this period the Okinawa Children\u2019s World Zoo & Museum will be open 3 hours each Saturday night (after usual zoo closing time) for a nighttime zoo exhibition. This might be a fun way to visit the zoo while escaping the heat of summer days. Admission is 500 yen for adults, 200 yen for middle and high school students, 100 yen for children ages 4 through elementary school, and free for children 3 and under. Please visit here for more information: http://www.okinawastory.jp/event/600009329\nHigashi Village (sports field) \u2013 Higashi Village Matsuri\nFrom 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. (with fireworks starting around 8:45 p.m.), enjoy a day of festivities in the Higashi Village area. There will be live music, a fun \u201crock paper scissors\u201d competition to watch, a Bingata experience, boat rides at Fukuji Dam (while the festival is free to enjoy, the boat rides cost 500 yen for middle school-age children and older and are free for elementary and younger kids), etc. They are even giving out 200 free pineapples at the festival (while they last). The following link goes directly to the festival flier from the Higashi Village website:\nhttp://www.vill.higashi.okinawa.jp/UserFiles/File/2.KIKAKUKANKOU/HIGASHISONMATSURI/HIGASHISONMATSURI.pdf\nTaira, Higashi, Kunigami District, Okinawa Prefecture 905-1204\nAugust 6th (Possibly moved to August 5th)\nKokusai-dori (Kokusai Street) \u2013 10,000 Eisa Parade\nCome see an iconic event in Okinawa, the 10,000 Eisa Dancer Parade on Kokusai Street! This event is free and always has a massive crowd. Watch as 10,000 Eisa performers parade down Okinawa\u2019s iconic International Street performing traditional song and dance. The parade starts at 1 p.m. and festivities go on until 6:30 p.m.; however, because of the crowds and the parking situation, we recommend you show up early if you don\u2019t want to miss anything (plus they\u2019ll block the road to traffic about an hour before the parade starts).\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/LtCbiQA4Atr\nNago Fishing Pier \u2013 39th Nago Haarii Dragon Boat Race\nVisit the Nago Fishing Pier between 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. on the 6th to enjoy a summer haarii (dragon boat race), a free sporting event rich in local culture. More than 180 teams participate in this event so it is sure to be a good time.\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/qEywpzWsxYt\nOgimi Village, Shioya Port park \u2013 Ogimi Village Eisa and Furusato Matsuri\nFor some free fun, check out this cool local festival at the port in Ogimi Village between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. (Saturday the 12th ) and 12:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. (Sunday the 13th ). Sunday night at 8:15 p.m. there will be fireworks and the day-specific festivities include a children\u2019s tug-of-war on Saturday and a goat tug-of-war on Sunday.\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/58Qw4jtFvA82\nIshikawa Dome \u2013 All-Island Summer Bullfighting Tournament\nAt 1 p.m. on August 13th visit Ishikawa Dome to enjoy a cool event: Okinawan-style bullfighting! This bullfighting isn\u2019t like what you\u2019ve seen in other countries and is more like sumo wrestling between two bulls. The admission cost is 3,000 yen or 2,000 yen for foreign guests. Please visit the following website for more information: https://www.oki-islandguide.com/things_to_do/all-island-summer-bullfighting-tournament\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/PBQxd8WArrS2\nKuwae Park, Chatan \u2013 38th Chatan Eisa Festival\nFree festival in Chatan to enjoy traditional Eisa music and dance. The festivities start at 5:30 p.m.\n\u3012904-0103\u6c96\u7e04\u770c\u5317\u8c37\u753a\u6851\u6c5f467-1\nItoman Fishing Port \u2013 Itoman Summer Festival\nIf you\u2019re visiting southern Okinawa (main island) on the weekend of the 19th \u2013 20th why not stop by the fishing port and enjoy free festivities? This summer festival will have a fireworks finale on the last night, sometimes around 8:45 p.m.\n\u7cf8\u6e80\u5e02\u897f\u5d0e\u753a1-4-11\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/t7uzShkh7M32\nYonabaru \u2013 35th Yonabaru Daisuko Festival\nVisit Yonabaru Town for a fun day of festivities including a big tug-of-war. The event is free and parking for the event can be found at the nearby elementary school or the Higashihama Baseball stadium (link below to the elementary school parking). The pre-tug-of-war festivities start around 3:30 p.m., there\u2019s a parade around 4:30 p.m., and the actual tug-of-war starts at 5 p.m. There will also be fireworks around 8:50 p.m.\nParking: \u3012901-1303 Okinawa-ken, Shimajiri-gun, Yonabaru-ch\u014d, Yonabaru, \uff17\uff13\uff15\nHeiwa-no-mori Baseball Field, Yomitan \u2013 Yomitan Eisa Matsuri\nFrom 5 p.m. visit the Heiwa-no-mori baseball field in Yomitan for eisa music and dancing. This event is free and a great way to enjoy some local culture.\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/nRMvn5mqEGN2\nChatan Park Athletic Stadium \u2013 Eisa Furusato Matsuri\nBetween 3 and 9 p.m. on the 27th, visit the Chatan Park Athletic Stadium to enjoy some eisa music and dancing. Eisa performances are a memorable part of an Okinawan summer so be sure to check out some while you can.\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/4dQc5eZe2uw", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 168, "original_length": 9107, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 339.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://okmagazine.com/news/bob-harpers-cover-shoot-mens-fitness-its-hard-work/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:54Z", "digest": "sha1:V74GCYIJBYFP2UUMODS7CVXR3I4QJ2T2", "length": 1119, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "okmagazine.com", "title": "Bob Harper's Cover Shoot for 'Men's Fitness': \"It's Hard Work!\" | OK! Magazine", "raw_content": "Bob Harper's Cover Shoot for 'Men's Fitness': \"It's Hard Work!\"\nMen's Fitness really put Bob Harper to the test for his cover shoot. The Biggest Loser trainer had to do a real workout for the photo shoot and while it was hard work, Bob was up for the challenge.\nOK! NEWS: THE BIGGEST LOSER'S JESSICA LIMPERT & RAMON MEDEIROS \u2014 WE LOST 240 POUNDS & FOUND LOVE\n\"I've got to tell you, they've been working me out. This was supposed to be a photo shoot,\" Bob told Men's Fitness with a laugh.\nBob had to demonstrate his workout routine and discussed his strengths and weaknesses. His biggest weakness is pull-ups.\n\"It's hard work trying to look good for the cover of Men's Fitness!\" he said.\nOK! INTERVIEW: ALISON SWEENEY & BOB HARPER\nSmart Success is Bob's new line of weight-loss kits that includes workouts, supplements, cleanses and motivational tips. For those who don't get to be on The Biggest Loser, there are other options to help get motivated!\nHe explained, \"Sometimes we need that extra boost and motivation to kick start any diet.\"\nWatch a behind-the-scenes video of Bob's cover shoot with Men's Fitness, below.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 94, "original_length": 3847, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 278.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://online.king.edu/information-technology/how-drones-are-being-used-by-businesses/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:58Z", "digest": "sha1:NQ4MLSE7TP74K74DNRUALWKP3ZKO3ZNU", "length": 6979, "nlines": 36, "source_domain": "online.king.edu", "title": "How Drones are Being Used by Businesses | King University Online", "raw_content": "As drones grow in popularity, more businesses and governments are learning to take advantage of this new technology.\nIn fact, a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) found that drones are expected to replace $127.3 billion in current business and labor solutions in the coming years.\nDrones are used across multiple business industries, including agriculture, internet services and more. Their uses range from spreading seeds in farming to aerial photography to delivering goods to consumers.\nThe drone industry exploded in late 2015, when the Federal Aviation Administration streamlined the registration process, first for individuals using drones for pleasure and secondly for companies looking to use drones commercially.\nAs the commercial drone industry grows, it is providing new opportunities in terms of jobs, product optimization and safety. Here are examples of how commercial drones are impacting industries across the globe.\nWith the global population expected to break nine billion by 2050, the United Nations projects that farmers around the world will have to produce 70 percent more to feed the global population.\nWith pressure on farmers, the agriculture industry is innovating at a rapid pace, especially when it comes to drones.\nFarming giants like Monsanto and John Deere are working with drone companies to help increase yields. As drones become smaller and less expensive, individual farmers have been able to purchase drones to increase productivity and yields on their acreage.\nDrones can be used for many tasks. Some drones are equipped with water, pesticides, or herbicides, and can release their payload on a specific area, with the farmer watching from yards away on a screen.\nOne drone, from American Robotics, has the ability to deliver crop health reports on scouting missions, which can tell farmers crucial information about a section of their farm and how its crops are doing, whether it\u2019s flooded or too dry, and more. Drone technology is increasing efficiency among farmers, which is necessary as the world\u2019s population grows.\nOne of the most dangerous jobs in the country is a utility technician.\nWhen a thunderstorm knocks out power, we see someone from the electric company use a crane to stand 20-feet in the air to resolve the problem. Technicians could be electrocuted during the repair and are at the mercy of weather conditions.\nNow thanks to advanced drone technology, those repairs can be done from a much safer location.\nAT&T recently sent drones on a reconnaissance mission to inspect cell towers, and the New York Power Authority used drones to inspect an ice boom near Lake Erie. For AT&T, there had been 34 communication tower related fatalities, but by using drones, that number can be reduced significantly, if not to zero.\nIn addition, before drones the NYPA would spend more than $3,000 to inspect ice booms, but sending a drone cost just $300. For AT&T, there had been 34 communication tower related fatalities, but by using drones, that number can be reduced significantly, if not to zero.\nOther energy companies have gotten in the act, using drones to inspect power lines or windmills, cutting down on cost, time, and danger.\nThe internet, and the marketplace that lives within it, could be the industry with the highest projected growth.\nWhile companies have made incredible advancements in broadband internet technology over the past decade, there are still billions of people across the globe with limited or no internet access.\nToday\u2019s internet giants, from Facebook to Google, to telecommunication corporations such as AT&T, are looking to solve these problems.\nAT&T has launched a drone that can be used as a temporary cell tower, with the drone hovering over areas decimated by a natural disaster \u2013 such as Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017 \u2013 or at a mega-event such as the Super Bowl or the World Cup, where local infrastructure could struggle to handle the mass of cell phones using its network at once.\nBoth Google and Facebook are taking a more global view, trying to provide the entire planet with internet connectivity.\nGoogle X\u2019s Project Loon plans to send hundreds of solar-powered drone balloons into space that provide internet connectivity to rural areas. Facebook\u2019s project, Aquila, will send a solar-powered drone into flight over rural areas for up to three months at a time, providing internet service for the same rural populations.\nBoth projects are still being tested, but it could only be a few years away before pilot projects are approved in areas across the world.\nReady for a Technology Degree?\nTechnology is consistently moving forward. This field needs forward-thinking, innovative professionals. King University Online's Information Technology degree prepares you to meet the demand.\nWe still need a person to hand-deliver mail or packages to a specific location, whether a post office box or a customer\u2019s front porch. But with Amazon\u2019s ambitious Prime Air project, we could see drones delivering packages.\nAmazon tested drone delivery in late 2016, and in select locations it is offering drone delivery for packages weighing up to three pounds.\nThe autonomous drone will deliver a package in 30 minutes, according to Amazon.\nTo protect soldiers, conduct reconnaissance missions, and launch targeted rocket strikes, many militaries are working with the latest drone technology.\nA report from Goldman Sachs projected that $70 billion in military spending would pace the drone market as more drones are used in warfare in place of humans on the front lines. Some military drones could sit in the air for up to 17 hours, sending back real-time images back to military personnel protected on the ground.\nThe U.S. military also uses Google Artificial Intelligence technology for its drones, in order to locate certain targets and capture images.\nThe growth of drone technology gives individuals and companies alike a new way to interact with the world, but it doesn\u2019t come with a free license to fly.\nIn recent years, the FAA has codified rules and regulations that drone operators must follow, including no-fly zones, staying below 400 feet and for amateur drone pilots, keeping drones within eyesight.\nThere are private companies that offer drone training courses for individuals and corporations, which include FAA regulations and how to avoid crashes and incidents.\nLearn More About the Impact of Drones\nDrone technology is set to impact global business to the tune of more than $120 billion. If you want to be a part of the future of drone-related services, consider enrolling in King University\u2019s online BS in Information Technology. In our flexible program, you\u2019ll learn the key skills needed to excel in the IT industry, including learning cybersecurity, information systems and technology research methods. You can complete major coursework in as little as 16 months and even better, our fully online format allows you to balance your education with your already busy life.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 8598, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 287.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://orahlondon.com/collections/steel/products/steal-peridot", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:15:16Z", "digest": "sha1:CNMW5B3WK2GS2SLSNTHLVH7UTL2RQQVD", "length": 40, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "orahlondon.com", "title": "Steal Steel Peridot Ring \u2013 Orah London Jewellery", "raw_content": "High grade stainless steel with peridot.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 932, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.89, "perplexity": 175.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://orschelnproducts.com/suspended-foot-pedals-for-construction-equipment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:38Z", "digest": "sha1:JYZCDEET6AJ5DP2VRXEDAEF6IZCUAVU4", "length": 909, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "orschelnproducts.com", "title": "Suspended Foot Pedals for Construction Equipment - Orscheln Products", "raw_content": "Suspended Foot Pedals for Construction Equipment\nOrscheln Products, an international manufacturer of motion control systems, produces quality suspended foot pedals for construction equipment, farm equipment, heavy-duty trucks, buses, and other heavy-duty applications. Orscheln\u2019s suspended foot pedals for construction equipment are designed to be adaptable for a range of electronic throttle applications and can help provide smooth driver operation. The suspended foot pedals are made with lightweight polymer components and at 0.7 pounds, they can weigh as much as half the weight of current pedals in the marketplace. In addition to suspended foot pedals for construction equipment, Orscheln Products also produces floor-mounted foot pedals for the heavy-duty marketplace.\nFor further inquiries about Orscheln Products\u2019 suspended foot pedal for construction equipment, please contact the Sales Team today.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 3084, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 269.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://osipt.com/important-info-coaches-parents/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:46:40Z", "digest": "sha1:HNF4MWZJPE6K3HE5NTBYFO33BT445MPP", "length": 5147, "nlines": 21, "source_domain": "osipt.com", "title": "Important Info For Coaches And Parents (Saint's fans must read) - OSI", "raw_content": "Important Info For Coaches And Parents\nOur baseball weekend, the good, the bad, and the ugly. *Important info for coaches and parents*\nAhh baseball, the token summer sport for us in MN. Who doesn\u2019t love to sit back, grab a beer and a dog, and enjoy the hot summer weather while watching some ball? You gotta \u201croot, root, root for the home team, and when the Twins inevitability don\u2019t win it is a shame, (but we\u2019re used to it), for it\u2019t 1, 2, 3 strikes you\u2019re out, at the ole Saints game\u201d\nYes, \u201cTake me out to the ball field\u201d is something I like to do when the weather is nice. Whether it\u2019s a Twins game, a Saints game, or my brothers game, baseball is something I can enjoy at any level.\nMy family and I just went to a Saints game, and it was a hoot! The atmosphere at Midway stadium is so much fun, and I encourage everyone to get out there this summer, because the old Midway Stadium will be no more after this season.\nWhat I love about the Saints game is how much fun they are for the crowd. The announcers are really involved with crowed participation in games and jokes, and the atmosphere is very relaxed. There are fun races/games in-between the innings that make fore great entertainment, and the tailgating in the parking lot before hand is the best part!\nThe fireworks after the game left me \u201coohing and awing\u201d and grilling on my baby girl before the game was funny. It got the job done for some pre game franks and beans though.\n\u2013 Here is a link to their schedule and ticket prices: http://saintsbaseball.com\nTickets are cheap for a night of fun for the whole family, or group of friends.\nFireworks at the Saints game\nMore like the AWFUL. Unfortunately my brother James was at a baseball game in Ham lake, and witnessed a lady get struck by lightening. The Ump had called the game because he saw some flashes in the distance, and everyone was leaving for coverage. My parents were in their car when they described to me \u201cthe craziest flash and noise they have every seen\u201d. They said that you could hear the \u201cwhip\u201d of the bolt, and then they just saw someone sprinting across the field towards a downed lady. My brother and his teammates were under shelter, not to far from the downed lady, and my brother witnessed the strike. He said it was the scariest thing he had ever seen, and yelled for someone to call 911. The lady seemed to be unconscious the entire time, and then the ambulance came and took her to the hospital. My brother led the team in prayer, and we are still praying for her today. I haven\u2019t heard anymore on her status, but I wanted to take this opportunity to go over some weather safety.\nAmazing photos of lightening by Keith Harding (my old neighbor)\nAthletic Trainers can\u2019t be at all events, and a lot of times youth summer leagues of all sports do not have them there. Please take the time to read these Position Statements on weather related injuries, and if you are a coach I encourage you to print these and keep them in a binder with your equipment, you could save a life!\nLightening Rules for Play: http://www.nata.org/sites/default/files/2013_lightning-position-statement.pdf\nCold Injuries: http://www.nata.org/sites/default/files/EnvironmentalColdInjuries.pdf\nHeat Illness: http://www.nata.org/sites/default/files/ExternalHeatIllnesses.pdf\nFluid Replacement for Athletes: http://www.nata.org/sites/default/files/FluidReplacementsForAthletes.pdf\nSo with any sports there is a chance of injury. This injury happened when my dad and brother were playing catch. My brother is working on his pitching, and my dad took a fastball to his lower shin/ankle. He got a pretty nice bruise over where the ball hit, and we all just thought it was a simple contusion. I told him to ice and do some ankle circles to keep it moving.\nAfter a couple days my dads whole lower leg swelled up, and was pretty red in color. I then told him that he needs to go in to get that looked at. I feared there might be a fracture or even a blood clot in there. Blood clots need to be address by a medical personal because they can be dangerous. If a blood clot is left untreated, there is a possibility of it traveling to your lungs or heart causing SERIOUS health concerns.\nWhen he went to the doctor, they diagnosed him with a blood clot, and got him on some medications for it right away. After a couple days on the blood clot medication, he still was having pain and was not getting any better. He had been keeping up the ice, but had still been working and weight bearing on it for the majority of the day.\nI told him that he needs to go in and get a second opinion and possibly an xray. It didn\u2019t seem right to me that he wasn\u2019t getting any relief. Sure enough he had an infection in his leg, and should have been on antibiotics right away. I am glad that he kept going in to get it taken care of. Sometimes I feel that people are scared to go back in to a different doctor, because the first one \u201cmust have it all right\u201d. Sometimes that is not the case, and if you truly listen to your body, and something is not right, go back in! He is on the road to recovery now, and just has to work on getting the swelling and infection down.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 298, "original_length": 10940, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 259.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ota.com/news/press-releases/17153", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:15Z", "digest": "sha1:2MXOLHEE53ETUSXGP4L6FZC6GII7KGQT", "length": 3918, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "ota.com", "title": "Organic industry briefs Congress on its efforts to fight deadly citrus disease | OTA", "raw_content": "Home > News > Press Releases > Organic industry briefs Congress on its efforts to fight deadly citrus disease\nOrganic industry briefs Congress on its efforts to fight deadly citrus disease\nConcerns rising about dangerous chemicals being used to ward off disease\nAs concerns rise over the heavy spraying of unhealthy chemicals in many of the most productive citrus regions of the country to fight off a deadly citrus disease, staff members from more than a dozen congressional offices gathered for a briefing on Tuesday to hear from the organic industry on its efforts to find safe approved organic ways to ward off the threat.\nDr. Jessica Shade, Director of Science Programs for The Organic Center explained the importance of the research on the disease known as citrus greening, and told policy makers they can help in the campaign to find safe ways to combat the disease by letting their constituents know that they too can get involved.\n\u201cCitrus greening is not just an organic problem, and this research is not just for organic growers,\u201d said Shade. \u201cThis disease is threatening both organic and conventional citrus growers, but many of the non-organic methods being used to fight it are proving to be not only inadequate, but pose dangerous risks to the environment and human health. The solutions we find for organic can be used by all.\u201d\nThe Organic Center (TOC) has launched a comprehensive multi-year study to find methods to prevent and treat citrus greening disease, or Huanglongbing (HLB) that are compliant with the strict organic standards established and enforced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s National Organic Program. The Organic Center is partnering with industry members, academics and other non-profits in its effort, and is sponsoring a major social media campaign #SaveOrganicCitrus, along with a crowdfunding drive to raise more funds for this important research.\nCitrus greening is the most devastating disease ever faced by the citrus industry, but most research on controlling the disease has concentrated on conventional citrus production and on methods such as heavy chemical spraying that are prohibited to organic growers under federal regulations, and are harmful to the environment.\nOne of the most dangerous insecticides being used heavily in the conventional citrus industry to control the disease is a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids. Neonics, as they are known, are banned for use on organic farms and groves.\nThe use of neonicotinoids by conventional agriculture has skyrocketed in recent years, and a study just published by the United States Geological Survey has found that neonicotinoids are polluting streams throughout the Midwest. The use of neonicotinoids has been associated with bee deaths and its use on citrus has been found to be having detrimental effects on pollinator populations.\n\u201cConsumers love citrus. They are consuming more and more organic citrus, and they value the fact that they are eating fruit that has not been sprayed with dangerous chemicals,\u201d said Shade. \u201cWe wanted to make sure members of Congress and their staffs were updated, because they need to know how their constituents are being impacted, and what they can do to encourage effective solutions.\u201d\nShade added, \u201cConcerned individuals can become involved in helping our research efforts and in finding an answer to this critical problem by going to our crowdfunding site and becoming a part of the solution.\u201d\nThe Organic Center's mission is to convene credible, evidence-based science on the health and environmental benefits of organic food and farming, and to communicate the findings to the public. As an independent non-profit research and education organization operating under the administrative auspices of the Organic Trade Association, The Center envisions improved health for the environment and for people through the conversion of agriculture to organic methods.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 257, "original_length": 9497, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 239.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://palsolidarity.org/sitemap-pt-post-2013-08.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:52Z", "digest": "sha1:766FS4VKQ4SHVAPRCN4U47Q6KUYFYVQK", "length": 4496, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "palsolidarity.org", "title": "XML Sitemap", "raw_content": "https://palsolidarity.org/2013/08/illegal-extremist-settlement-of-yitzhar-expands-during-peace-talks/ 80% Weekly 2013-09-07 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"pam-moore.com", "title": "#We\u2019re With Her \u2013 Pam Moore", "raw_content": "My great grandparents immigrated to the United States in the late 1800\u2019s to escape the pogroms in Eastern Europe. Once here, they had three girls, including my grandmother, Edith Berger Sinel. Having skipped a grade, she and her older sister graduated high school the same year. Their father said, \u201cGirls, I can buy a house or I can send you to college.\u201d They said, \u201cPapa, you can always buy a house, but we want to go to college now.\u201d My Memee and my great aunt Ruth were two of ten Jewish girls admitted to Pembroke\u2019s (now Brown University) class of 1932. The quota system allowed a maximum of ten Jews in one class. My grandmother majored in German, but because of the Nazis were beginning their political ascent in Germany, she cancelled her plans to study there upon graduation.\nIn the 1960\u2019s my grandfather passed away suddenly. leaving my grandmother to raise two boys and to run the family scrap metal business, which her father established in 1916. That business has provided for my family for a century. My dad finally retired this year. My uncle, my brother, and a cousin still work work there.\nFor two weeks, every day after preschool pick-up, before lunch, I took my daughters, ages two and four canvassing to get out the vote. We would get to anywhere from four to ten houses at a time, but we made steady progress. I think my grandmother would be proud.\nI am a proud member of Pantsuit Nation\nPosted in: Uncategorized | Tagged: parenting\nOne thought on \u201c#We\u2019re With Her\u201d\nHugs. That\u2019s all.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 65, "original_length": 5030, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 281.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://parkterracehotel.com/rooms/premier-room/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:47:13Z", "digest": "sha1:C42HCVO7J3P6ILLHI4Q2SNYKLFBNNHRA", "length": 262, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "parkterracehotel.com", "title": "Premier Room in Midtown Manhattan | Park Terrace Hotel", "raw_content": "Rooms & Suites / Premier\nConnect to the vibrancy of the city with a stay in our Premier Rooms with space for up to 2 guests, which feature luxe amenities and high-tech finishes for an elevated NYC stay.\nTap into our best-in-class technology throughout the hotel.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 148, "original_length": 5290, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://partnersinexcellenceblog.com/being-present/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:53Z", "digest": "sha1:RR3KMBTT7SMCHJ42C7FYVWLIAT67B3S2", "length": 9004, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "partnersinexcellenceblog.com", "title": "Being Present | Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference", "raw_content": "The other day, someone called me. He wanted to pick my brain (feeble pickings) for some ideas and ask for some help. I was delighted with the call, both because he\u2019s a prospect, and it was ego gratifying to be asked for the advice. But the call ended up being a waste of time\u2013mine and the prospect\u2019s.\nSee, the problem was the multitasking being done by the prospect. He was in a car\u2013fortunately not driving, other people were in the car, having a different conversation, which my prospect would interrupt our conversation, to inject a comment into the other conversation. There were also long pauses (and some background clicking), as I could hear him texting or emailing during our conversation.\nI had to repeat myself several times, I could tell he wasn\u2019t getting it, he clearly was distracted. I suggested we speak later in the day, when he was in his office and could focus. If this were an isolated incident with this individual, it may be excusable. But it was his modus operandi\u2013and it was the central issue to his effectiveness as a leader in the organization. His people would tell me, \u201che isn\u2019t listening, he\u2019s always multitasking,\u201d \u201cit takes 3-4 times of explaining the sale thing, until he understands.\u201d \u201che wastes my time.\u201d There was clearly a performance and morale problem in his organization\u2013and his behavior was at the core of the problem.\nWhenever I tried to confront it with him, he\u2019d listen with one ear, looking at something on his computer screen, while simultaneously, texting, and every once in a while injecting an \u201cuh-huh,\u201d or \u201cwhat was that again?\u201d\nThat afternoon, I called the executive up, it was to follow up on our conversation earlier in the day. He said he was really glad I called, the issue was important, his boss was breathing down his neck. As I started to speak, I started hearing the key board, hearing the distracted responses. I stopped the conversation and hung up.\nMoments later, my phone rang, it was the executive, \u201cWe must have been disconnected, what were you saying?\u201d I responded, \u201cNo we weren\u2019t disconnected, I hung up. Clearly, you aren\u2019t ready to have this conversation.\u201d\nThere was a moment of silence, \u201cWhat do you mean, I need to get this done!\u201d was the angry response. I replied, \u201cThis apparently isn\u2019t important enough for you to focus on it, so I\u2019ll wait until you are ready to be present in our discussion. Until then, we are wasting each other\u2019s time. Would you call me when you are ready to put everything aside and pay attention solely to our conversation?\u201d I then said good bye and hung up.\nAbout 15 minutes later, my phone rang again. It was the executive. \u201cI was so angry, I had to take a few minutes to calm down. What do you mean?\u201d I explained to him what was going on, I walked him through some of the meetings I had participated in recently, how little had been accomplished, how upset his people were. We had a long conversation \u2014 the good news was he wasn\u2019t multitasking, he was totally focused on the conversation. For the moment, he\u2019s making a strong effort not to multitask\u2013you can see small improvements in attitudes with his people already. They see him listening, they know he is paying attention.\nWe see it everyday, sometimes I fall victim myself. This morning, I had breakfast with some colleagues. It started with each of us conversing while tweeting, reading texts, looking at emails, distracted by people wandering the hotel lobby\u2014we decided to put away our devices and pay attention to our conversation.\nI did notice the tables around us. Filled with business professionals, all intent in their conversations, but most distracted by the iPhones and Blackberry\u2019s. I wondered what was happening.\nThere are all sorts of studies talking about how bad multitasking is. Most studies reach the conclusion that people are less productive multitasking, than if they focused on one thing, completed it, moved on to the next.\nI\u2019m convinced, too many multitask only as a narcissistic show, \u201clook at how busy I am,\u201d \u201clook at me, I have to do a lot of things at once.\u201d It\u2019s funny, I meet with a number of very senior and truly exceptional leaders. Each of them is confident, each of them is totally present. When we meet, it\u2019s us speaking with each other, paying attention, engaging, and being present.\nMulti-tasking is the ultimate demonstration of your lack of respect\u2014for those who you are not paying attention to, and to yourself.\nDo you respect yourself and your time enough to be present in what you are doing?\nDo you respect those you are working with enough to be present and engaged in the conversation, not letting anything else distract you?\n\u201cI Want To Follow-Up Our Earlier\u2026\nWhen The Customer Doesn\u2019t Respond The Way You\u2026\nFrom \u2192 Busyness, Multitasking, Time Management\nMeagan permalink\nExcellent article! I see this in my personal life as well, not just business. I remember there was an article a few years ago, essentially telling parents to put down the blackberry and start paying attention to their children. Strange times we live in.\nMeagan: Thanks for the comment. It starts in the family, but needs to go to all our relationships-if we don\u2019t care enough about the conversation, then we should not participate and waste others\u2019 time.\nBeing present is an indicator of being emotionally intelligent. The brain was never designed to multitask contrary to what some of us have been lead to believe. Congratulations for taking action and disconnecting from the individual. Not sure what the pressing issue is, but this individual may benefit from an EQ assessment.\nGreat post and thanks for sharing,\nThanks for the comment Leanne, it\u2019s always good to see you here!\nJaNohn Bowen permalink\nMegan, as a Mom, I can relate. We are a tech-savvy family. Sometimes, you have to put the electronic devices down, look someone in the eye and have a meaningful and purposeful conversation.\nIn a recent meeting, some type of electronic device, buzzed or jingled at least three times. Although no one answered the device, it was a distraction to the conversation.\nDavid: I enjoy your articles. Like the others this one is timely. Multi tasking is not the key to improved performance. It is funny this article is being written. Earlier this week, I was thinking about how I can be intentional so my channel partners will be intentional. The day can get away from us as we multi-task. Whatever/whoever screams the loudest gets our focus. What if we were intentional about how we react, what is important and why we move with urgency?\nAny suggestions on that are truly welcomed.\nWonderful article \u2013 keep them coming.\nEnjoy the upcoming holiday.\nJaNohn: Thanks for the thoughtful comment. I like your comment/queston about being \u201cintentional\u201d or purposeful. Your instincts are right on\u2013you have to set the example by being purposeful in everything you do with your channel partners. I wish I had \u201cthe\u201d answer. I think it\u2019s a lot of small things that are consistently executed. For example, a published agenda for every meeting, follow up notes with committed action plans, tracking and follow up on those. Making sure that each interchange creates value\u2014if you can\u2019t figure that out in planning the meeting, then you aren\u2019t ready for the meeting. Eliminating waste\u2013for example, needless reports, adminsitrivia.\nThe notions of intention and purposefulness are critical, but very tough. I think it fist starts with being conscious\u2013I think too often we go unconscious, just going through the motions. We have to be conscious first, then we cand be intentional and purposeful.\nVery tough issues, but my sense is you are on the right track\u2013the way you are expressing the ideas reali resonate with me. Feel free to contact me directly to talk more. Have a great Thanksgiving! Regards, Dave\nTina Mora permalink\nThis was an excellent article! I was impressed with the writer\u2019s \u201cguts\u201d to set down boundaries of how he spent valuable time. It is tough to make that call sometimes! I will walk away from this more prepared to focus on one thing at a time, if for no other reason than to respect my colleagues!\nTina: Thanks for the nice comment. It\u2019s actually not gutsy, it\u2019s valuing yourself and your time. Even if it\u2019s a customer or prospect, if they don\u2019t value my time as I value theirs, then we are both wasting time. People respect that, it changes the quality of the relationship.\nGood article David.\nThere is a concept called \u2018continual partial attention\u2019 that was coined by former Microsoft executive Linda Stone. Continual partial attention means that you are never fully present. 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We have looked at the instructions for the box containing the covenant between God and his people, and the cover of this box, the place where atonement would be made, the very throne of God. We looked at the table filled with bread and wine, the lampstand giving light, the curtains and the structure of the tent itself. We looked at the altar in the courtyard, where sacrifices would be made, and we looked at the priests, outfitted and set apart for service in God\u2019s tent. Now, toward the end of chapter 29, we see the purpose for which the whole tabernacle was constructed.\nExodus 29:38 \u201cNow this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day regularly. 39 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight. 40 And with the first lamb a tenth seah of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering. 41 The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, and shall offer with it a grain offering and its drink offering, as in the morning, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. 42 It shall be a regular burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD, where I will meet with you, to speak to you there. 43 There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory. 44 I will consecrate the tent of meeting and the altar. Aaron also and his sons I will consecrate to serve me as priests. 45 I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.\nImportance of the Daily Offering\nOfferings were to be made on the altar every morning and every evening of every day. This is what the tabernacle was for. It was designed to be a place where God is approached through his appointed sacrifices. These daily offerings were a big deal. Throughout the rest of the Old Testament, these offerings set the rhythm for the people of God. When David brought the ark to Jerusalem, he charged the priests to offer the daily offerings (1Ch.16:40). These daily offerings were part of the purpose when Solomon built the temple (2Ch.2:4). Under the divided kingdom, king Abijah highlighted the fact that Judah was obediently observing these daily sacrifices as part of the reason that they would experience the favor of the Lord (2Ch13:11). Ezra led the exiles back to Jerusalem, and one of the first things they did was rebuild the altar and begin to offer the daily offerings (Ezr3:3). In Ezekiel\u2019s visions, he is shown the new temple, where these offerings would resume (Ezek.46:13). Daniel records the time of significant events by when these daily offerings were to take place (Dan.9:21). In the prophecies of Daniel, the threat of taking the daily burnt offerings away is seen as a devastating display of the Lord\u2019s disfavor (Dan.8:11-13; 9:27; 12:11).\nDaily Offering a Burnt Offering\nIn verse 42 we are told that this twice daily offering is to be a burnt offering. The burnt offering, as we have seen, is the foundation of the whole sacrificial system. According to Leviticus 1, when a burnt offering was made, the worshiper would place their hands on the head of the animal, and God would accept the animal in their place to make atonement for their sin. The animal was killed, its blood thrown against the sides of the altar, the animal was butchered, prepared, and placed on the altar, where the whole thing would go up in smoke as a pleasing aroma to the LORD. The seriousness of sin was demonstrated and God\u2019s justice was satisfied.\nPerpetual Burnt Offering\nThis offering, offered morning and evening, was to be a perpetual offering. It was to happen \u2018throughout your generations\u2018. Leviticus tells us that \u2018The burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all night until the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be kept burning on it \u2026The fire on the altar shall be kept burning on it; it shall not go out \u2026 Fire shall be kept burning on the altar continually; it shall not go out. (Lev.6:9,12,13). This was to be a regular, continual, perpetual offering. There was never to be a time when the smoke of this offering was not ascending to the Lord. The implication is that there was never a moment that the sins of the people did not need to be appeased. Continually they needed the covering of the smoke of this burnt offering.\nNotice where this offering was to be made. \u2018At the entrance to the tent of meeting\u2018. This name for the tabernacle highlights its purpose. It is the place where God would meet with his people. God is rightly outraged at our sin, but he is not eager to destroy; he is eager to extend mercy and forgive. He established this system of sacrifices so that sin would be taken seriously and still he could meet with his people. See how this is emphasized in the text. It is \u2018the tent of meeting\u2026 where I will meet with you\u2026 there I will meet with the people of Israel\u2026 I will dwell among the people of Israel and be their God\u2026 that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God\u2018. Our God is a God who desires to be with his people. He is absolutely just, but he is eager to extend mercy.\nWe also see that our God is a God who desires to be known and who loves to communicate with his people for their good. He says \u2018they shall know that I am the LORD their God\u2018. God wants to be known by his people. God wants us to understand the truth about who he is. He says \u2018where I will meet with you to speak to you there\u2018. Our God is a God who reveals himself primarily in words. He is the unseen God, manifested in cloud and darkness and fire, his awesome power is evidenced, but he most clearly makes himself known to his people in his words. In chapter 33 of Exodus, Moses asks God show him his glory. God responds by proclaiming his name to Moses, declaring his character and nature.\nThese two concepts, God dwelling with his people, and God revealing himself to his people come together in the divine Word made flesh (Jn.1:1); the Word who was with God and who was God, the second person of the trinity, who became flesh and tabernacled among us, communicating most clearly God\u2019s character and nature. The book of Hebrews begins by pointing us to Jesus, who is the final and ultimate communication of God to man.\nHebrews 1:1 Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, \u2026\nNot only is Jesus the ultimate fulfillment of God\u2019s communication with his people, Jesus is also the place where God meets with his people. Where does it say that God will meet with us? There, at the entrance to the tent of meeting, there at the burnt offering, there at the lamb.\nJesus is the one place where the Father can meet with sinful man.\nThere is no other way, no other place where we can experience God\u2019s favor, but through Jesus. Outside of Jesus, all we will experience of God is his just wrath against our sins.\n1Timothy 2:5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time.\nThis offering, given every morning and every evening, consisted of a whole burnt offering of a year old lamb, along with a grain offering of about 2 quarts of fine flour mixed with a quart of pure olive oil, and a drink offering of a quart of strong drink, which Numbers 28 tells us was poured out to the LORD in the holy place. Verse 41 says that it is \u2018for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.\u2019 This phrase \u2018a food offering\u2019 with \u2018a pleasing aroma\u2019 is repeated 3 times in the Numbers passage. This was something that pleased the LORD, that he enjoyed, that satisfied him. Yet it was not sufficient, not complete, not lasting. These sacrifices had to be offered over and over again, so in a sense, they did not satisfy God. They point us forward to something greater. When David confessed his sin to the Lord, he said:\nPsalm 51:16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.\nThis too points us to Jesus. His Father said of him at his baptism:\nMark 1:11 And a voice came from heaven, \u201cYou are my beloved Son; with you I am well pleased.\u201d\nAnd again at his transfiguration:\nMatthew 17:5 \u2026 a voice from the cloud said, \u201cThis is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.\u201d\nThe Father was well pleased with his only Son. Even when Jesus cried out from the cross \u201cmy God, my God, why have you forsaken me?\u201d (Mt.27:46; Mk.15:34), we see the satisfaction of his Father in Isaiah 53:\nIsaiah 53:10 Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush him; he has put him to grief; when his soul makes an offering for sin, he shall see his offspring; he shall prolong his days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.\nJesus pleased his Father by his flawless obedience.\nPhilippians 2:5 \u2026Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, \u20267 \u2026 made himself nothing, \u20268 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.\nJesus is the once-for-all final sacrifice who is forever well pleasing to his Father. Jesus is the perfect expression of who God is. Jesus is the one and only meeting place between his Father and sinful man. Jesus is the perfectly obedient Son who, in his life and in his death, was a pleasing aroma that fully satisfied his Father.\nThe Sanctifying Glory of God\nBefore we leave this passage, there is one more thing I think we should look at. We have seen, especially in the last two chapters, that everything in the tabernacle was to be sanctified or consecrated, set apart to God. The unique outfits of the priests set them apart to serve in the tabernacle. The multiple animals that were offered were to sanctify or set apart the priests. Blood was applied to the altar to set it apart to make it holy. But here, God says \u201cit shall be sanctified by my glory\u201d. God says \u201cI will consecrate the tent of meeting\u201d and \u201cI will consecrate Aaron and his sons to serve me as priests\u201d God here claims to be the one ultimately to set things or people apart for his use. God\u2019s glory, the awesome radiance of his presence, his weightiness, his gravity, is what sanctifies, purifies, cleanses, makes holy. Malachi says of Jesus\u2019 coming:\nMalachi 3:2 But who can endure the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appears? For he is like a refiner\u2019s fire and like fullers\u2019 soap. 3 He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the LORD. 4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the LORD as in the days of old and as in former years.\nIt is the presence of God, the glory of God that sanctifies us his people. We, today, can look on the transforming glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.\nDo you long for holiness and sanctification? Do you long for purity? Do you long for transformation? Do you long to be more like Jesus? 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Registration...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 245, "original_length": 7419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 202.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://philadelphianeighborhoods.com/2017/02/22/mayfair-cdc-executive-director-aims-to-keep-neighborhood-current/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:16Z", "digest": "sha1:NZLLNJ3OENKD57QKOBAISC5LKHA22DI7", "length": 5688, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "philadelphianeighborhoods.com", "title": "Mayfair: CDC Executive Director Aims to Keep Neighborhood Current \u2013 PhiladelphiaNeighborhoods", "raw_content": "HomeTopicsBusinessMayfair: CDC Executive Director Aims to Keep Neighborhood Current\nFebruary 22, 2017 Bryan Fink and Julianne Johnson Business, Economy, Environment, Featured Stories, Mayfair, Neighborhoods, Uncategorized 1\nLuka Lakuriqi has made it his mission to make the Mayfair community the place to be in the Northeast.\nHe leads the Mayfair Community Development Corporation, located on the second floor of the Mayfair Community Center at 2990 St. Vincent St. Lakuriqi and his team serve everyone from business owners to residents to make sure that Mayfair\u2019s refreshed look is not going unnoticed.\nNow, as times are changing, it is up to Lakuriqi and his team to keep Mayfair current.\nCould you tell us a little about yourself and how you came to be with the CDC?\nI\u2019m the executive director of the Community Development Corporation, which is a non-profit organization. We are funded through a city program, which is a tax credit program.\nMy background is in architecture and architecture is very much about improving neighborhoods and the way of life. While working at a firm before this, I entered the Citizens Planning Institute, which is located downtown, for all people who want to be involved and are enthusiastic about making some sort of change in a neighborhood. I entered that program and through some contacts there I was introduced to the CDC. I asked to be involved and now I am its director.\nWhat\u2019s it like being an Executive Director?\nMy main role is essentially to be a liasion between the community, people, businesses and city.\nFrom organizing events to every issue that basically exists, we have a very active council in the neighborhood that helps out when issues are beyond my capabilities to handle. Community events, night markets, fixing blighted properties, dilapidated homes are all ways we get involved with the city.\nMayfair has changed in some ways and has stayed the same in other ways. Can you speak about what has changed and what hasn\u2019t?\nI\u2019ve lived in Mayfair since 1995 and practically grew up here. The topic comes up a lot. To me, it\u2019s a very natural cycle and process that cities and their neighborhoods change. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s Philadelphia, New York, etc.\nMayfair used to be more family-oriented but there are still plenty of small businesses still active in the community. There always will be. Frankford Avenue has played the same role since it wasn\u2019t even an avenue. It was called the King\u2019s Highway. It\u2019s always been this place for exchange, binding neighborhoods together all the way to Fishtown, to Northern Liberties.\nNeighborhoods change and yes, I embrace change. If neighborhoods stayed the same, I think it\u2019d be boring. It makes my job challenging, but I\u2019m all for it and following the natural cycle.\nHow have you seen the community embrace these changes?\nWhat I think is important for people to understand is that this neighborhood has been this blue-collar neighborhood. It\u2019s been a starting point for some people \u2013 whether it\u2019s immigrants, people with low income, etc. Once they were in a stable place, they would move on to bigger and better places.\nThis is what Mayfair is about.\nNow, new families move in and they continue the cycle. I tend to be one of those that like it here. I like the proximity to I-95, the fact that I can be in the city in 20 minutes but still have a front lawn, a garage, etc. These are more of the things that people should be focused on with the good parts of the neighborhood as opposed to some renter moving next door.\nIf the neighborhood is friendly enough, they will eventually buy a house. It\u2019s a starting point and it has to be engraved into people\u2019s heads that we cannot go back 20, 30 years. You see it with technology, with Amazon and things being bought online, businesses working online. It\u2019s tough times but those who can adapt are lucky and those who cannot, it\u2019s unfortunate, but they move on.\nWhat do you love most about your role in the community?\nI get to have a direct impact on what happens. What I tackle first is people\u2019s perception of the neighborhood. It\u2019s easy to find bad things, but my role has been focusing on pulling out all of the good parts. I see through social media and the night markets that the perception has changed and people are starting to focus on the neighborhood. I work directly with people in a community and I get to actually witness change with them.\nWhat makes Mayfair Mayfair?\nIt is a neighborhood in a big city but it still has that small town, suburban feel.\nWhen I talk about change, that\u2019s the one thing I never want to change. I don\u2019t want Mayfair to lose that touch. I love being in the city but that small town feel is very precious.\nAre there any upcoming events you would like people to know about?\nIn the summer, we are a very active organization.\nMayfair Night Markets have been a big hit. Last year, we had about 40 vendors, thousands of people and food trucks. They are going from June to October. All of these urban characteristics bring them into a small town feel.\nThe Pennypack Park Music Festival hosted by the Mayfair Civic Association is also a big event. We are also active every week in local schools hosting cleanups and volunteering. We are always looking to attract new businesses like coffee shops, which is one thing Mayfair is lacking big time right now.\n-Text and images by Bryan Fink and Julianne Johnson.\nUniversity City: Catholic Church Embraces Change Expanding Services to Serve Faithful\nFairhill: Sidewalk Sale Attempts to Raise Money for Church Restorations\nWest Kensington: Weathering an Economic Storm\nLuka Lakuriqi\nmayfair civic assocation\npennypack park music festival\nGreat article with great information!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 178, "original_length": 8606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 307.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://philohunter.com/2015/02/11/the-megatropolis-amazons-vs-the-girls-night-out-released/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:57Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3JHVXC4DXKOJKSDIZHOGHSV347JGJXW", "length": 1403, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "philohunter.com", "title": "\u201cThe Megatropolis Amazons Vs The Girl\u2019s Night Out\u201d Released! | Philo Hunter Erotica", "raw_content": "\u201cThe Megatropolis Amazons Vs The Girl\u2019s Night Out\u201d Released!\nAnother short in my backlog ready for release and up for sale on Amazon!\nOnce a month Archbaroness, leader of the Megatropolis Amazons, takes her team for a girl\u2019s night out. This time, however, they are in for more than they bargained for. The new drug Super GHB has flooded the streets of Megatropolis and even though the team of superheroines have been busy busting its distribution chain for the last week much of the illicit substance is still in the hands of some of the city\u2019s citizens. Citizens like the staff of the Amorous Gem, the very night club the heroines are headed for their moral building girl\u2019s night out.\nArchbaroness, Champion Girl, Lab Rat, and Brickhouse all intend enjoy a night without involving themselves in any moments of peril or sexual shenanigans, but their teammate Psychia has other plans. Using her telepathic powers Psychia ensures the five heroines are drugged by the staff of the Amorous Gem. They are left depowered and mentally suggestible.\nThis is a 14,000 word one handed read that comes with four bonus illustrations! The story contains scenes of detailed and graphic sexual nature, and is not intended for readers under the age of 18.\nThis entry was posted on Wednesday, February 11th, 2015 at 11:03 am\tand posted in book release.\tYou can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3668, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 301.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://physics.nd.edu/events/2011/03/30/28598-colloquium-harry-swinney/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:06:24Z", "digest": "sha1:QTPNK5MAGCRILBURY2FV6GUPOMRLZ7TP", "length": 243, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "physics.nd.edu", "title": "Colloquium: Harry Swinney // Department of Physics // Department of Physics // University of Notre Dame", "raw_content": "Colloquium: Harry Swinney\nWed Mar 30, 2011 4:00PM - 5:30PM \u2022 Calendars: Colloquia\nEmergence of Order in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems\nProfessor Harry L. 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His poster was titled, \u201cCalibration and Simulation of the Foundation Survey.\u201d\nFoley has been working on the Foundation Supernova Survey under the mentorship of Dr. Dan Scolnic and Dr. Rick Kessler of the University of Chicago Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. This is a new low-redshift supernova survey that uses the Pan-STARRS telescope to measure distances of Type Ia Supernovae in the Hubble flow. It will be used in the coming years to further constrain the Hubble constant and fulfill the WFIRST low-redshift sample requirement for measurements of dark energy. Foley has been working particularly on the calibration and simulations of the survey, and he presented that work, along with a few aspects of their first data release, at the American Astronomical Society meeting in this poster.\nThere were 113 undergraduate students and 62 graduate students entered in the competition at the meeting in January 2017 \u2014 all of whom are junior members of the Society (a requirement to be in the competition). 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Check it out above.\nCrystal Castles' new album will be Ethan Kath's first without former singer Alice Glass, who contentiously left the group last year. 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The amount swelled from an estimated $425 million because of strong sales.\nThe winning numbers in Tuesday evening's drawing of the \"Mega Millions\" game were: 34-44-57-62-70, Mega Ball: 14\nSix second-prize tickets worth $1 million were sold. Of the six second-prize tickets, three were sold in New York: Pleasantville, Canton and Little Neck.\nThe other three second-price tickets were sold in Ohio, South Carolina and Texas.\nThe New Year\u2019s Day Mega Millions jackpot was the eighth largest in history.\nMega Millions is played in 44 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the US Virgin Islands. A chance at a new life will only cost you $2.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 4111, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 179.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://playfightrepeat.com/tag/we-need-to-get-on-the-same-page/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:21:25Z", "digest": "sha1:YLG52V567S4ABU5LAP4DQ2CLKXRPV5YP", "length": 31, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "playfightrepeat.com", "title": "we need to get on the same page \u2014 Play. Fight. Repeat.", "raw_content": "we need to get on the same page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 3042, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 116.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://pmi-new.org/index.php/about-us/chapter-bylaws", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:11:27Z", "digest": "sha1:Z33EC3EMVO3JO65QFXUW66JECNCSXVEF", "length": 19989, "nlines": 81, "source_domain": "pmi-new.org", "title": "Chapter Bylaws", "raw_content": "PMI Northeast Wisconsin Chapter Bylaws\nEffective: 5 December 2015\nThis organization shall be called the Project Management Institute, PMI\u00ae Northeast Wisconsin Chapter (hereinafter \u201cPMINEW\u201d). This organization is a Chapter chartered by the Project Management Institute, Inc. (hereinafter \u201cPMI\u00ae\u201d) and separately incorporated as a non-profit, tax exempt corporation (or equivalent) organized under the laws of the state of Wisconsin. All Chapters formed within the United States must be incorporated as 501(c) (6) organization.\nSection 2. The PMINEW shall meet all legal requirements in the jurisdiction(s) in which the PMINEW conducts business or is incorporated/registered.\nThe principal office of the PMINEW shall be located in Appleton or the North East area in the state of Wisconsin. The Chapter may have other offices such as Branch offices as designated by the Chapter Board of Directors.\nArticle II \u2013 Relationship to PMI\u00ae\nSection 1. The PMINEW is responsible to the duly elected PMI\u00ae Board of Directors and is subject to all PMI\u00ae policies, procedures, rules and directives lawfully adopted.\nSection 2. The bylaws of the PMINEW may not conflict with the current PMI\u00ae\u2019s Bylaws and all policies, procedures, rules or directives established or authorized by PMI\u00ae as well as with the PMINEW\u2019s Charter with PMI\u00ae.\nSection 3. The terms of the Charter executed between the PMINEW and PMI\u00ae, including all restrictions and prohibitions, shall take precedence over these Bylaws and other authority granted hereunder and in the event of a conflict between the terms of the Charter and the terms of these Bylaws, PMINEW shall be governed by and adhere to the terms of the Charter.\nArticle III \u2013 Purpose and Limitations of the PMI Northeast Wisconsin Chapter\nSection 1. Purpose of the PMINEW.\nGeneral Purpose. THE PMINEW has been founded as non-profit, tax exempt corporation (or equivalent) chartered by PMI\u00ae, and is dedicated to advancing the practice, science, and profession of project management in Northeast, North Central Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in a conscious and proactive manner.\nSpecific Purposes. Consistent with the terms of the Charter executed between the PMINEW and PMI\u00ae and these Bylaws, the purposes of the PMINEW shall include the following:\nTo supplement the purposes of PMI\u00ae as set forth in the PMI\u00ae bylaws and strategic plan.\nTo encourage and facilitate education, certification and professionalism in project management.\nTo provide a forum for discussion and examination of problems, solutions, applications and ideas related to the management of projects.\nTo disseminate within the primary area of operation of the chapter information regarding the developments in project management.\nTo foster communication between the public and private sectors, including academia, regarding project management.\nSection 2. Limitations of the PMINEW.\nGeneral Limitations. The purposes and activities of the PMINEW shall be subject to limitations set forth in the charter agreement, these Bylaws, and conducted consistently with PMINEW\u2019s Articles of Incorporation.\nThe membership database and listings provided by PMI\u00ae to PMINEW may not be used for commercial purposes and may be used only for non-profit purposes directly related to the business of the PMINEW, consistent with PMI\u00ae policies and all applicable laws and regulations, including but not limited to those law and regulations pertaining to privacy and use of personal information.\nThe officers and directors of the PMINEW shall be solely accountable for the planning and operations of the Chapter, and shall perform their duties in accordance with the Chapter\u2019s governing documents; its Charter Agreement; PMI\u00ae\u2019s Bylaws, policies, practices, procedures, and rules; and applicable law.\nArticle IV \u2013 PMI Northeast Wisconsin Chapter Membership\nMembership in the PMINEW requires membership in PMI\u00ae. The PMINEW shall not accept as members any individuals who have not been accepted as PMI\u00ae members. Membership in this organization is voluntary and shall be open to any eligible person interested in furthering the purposes of the organization. Membership shall be open to all eligible persons without regard to race, creed, color, age, sex, marital status, national origin, religion, or physical or mental disability.\nMembers shall be governed by and abide by the PMI\u00ae Bylaws and by the bylaws of PMINEW and all policies, procedures, rules and directives lawfully made there under, including but not limited to the PMI\u00ae Code of Conduct.\nAll members shall pay the required PMI\u00ae and PMINEW\u2019s membership dues to PMI\u00ae and in the event that a member resigns or their membership is revoked for just cause, membership dues shall not be refunded by PMI\u00ae or the PMINEW.\nMembership in the PMINEW shall terminate upon the member\u2019s resignation, failure to pay dues or expulsion from membership for just cause.\nMembers who fail to pay the required dues when due shall be delinquent for a period of one (1) month and their names removed from the official membership list of the PMINEW. A delinquent member may be reinstated by payment in full of all unpaid dues for PMI\u00ae and the PMINEW to PMI\u00ae within such one month delinquent period.\nUpon termination of membership in the PMINEW, the member shall forfeit any and all rights and privileges of membership.\nAll chapter members in good standing are eligible to vote and hold office.\nSection 2. Classes and Categories of Members. The PMINEW shall not create its own membership categories. PMI\u00ae Chapter membership categories shall be consistent with PMI\u00ae membership categories.\nArticle V \u2013 PMI Northeast Wisconsin Chapter Board of Directors\nSection 1. The PMINEW shall be governed by a Board of Directors (Board). The Board shall be responsible for carrying out the purposes and objectives of the non-profit corporation (or equivalent).\nSection 2. The Board shall consist of the officers of the PMINEW elected by the membership and shall be members in good standing of PMI\u00ae and of PMINEW. Terms of office will be two (2) year terms,limited to four (4) consecutive elected terms in the same position, and no more than nine (9) consecutive years on the Board in general. These positions are staggered so that three (3) positions are elected each year. If there is no individual willing or able to fulfill an open position on the Board due to this limit, that expiring officer may be re-elected for an additional term by a majority vote of the members.\nSection 3. The President shall be the chief executive officer for the PMINEW and of the Board, and shall perform such duties as are customary for presiding officers, including making all required appointments with the approval of the Board. The President shall be responsible for the strategic business plan. The President shall also serve as the Ex-Officio with the right to vote on all committees except the Nominating Committee.\nSection 4. The Vice President of Operations shall be the chief operating officer for the PMINEW and shall be responsible for the operational effectiveness and the maintenance of the chapter\u2019s processes.\nSection 5. The Vice President of Finance (\u201cTreasurer\u201d) shall oversee the management of funds for duly authorized purposes of the PMINEW.\nSection 6. The Vice President of Communications (\u201cSecretary\u201d) shall keep the records of all business meetings of the PMINEW and meetings of the Board. The Vice President of Communications shall be responsible for the recording and posting of minutes from the Annual Business meeting. The Vice President of Communications shall also maintain the chapter\u2019s website and provide support for membership communication.\nSection 7. The Vice President of Membership Services shall maintain membership records and be responsible for membership welcome, support and for the recruitment and support of chapter volunteers.\nSection 8. The Vice President of Programs shall be responsible for the program meetings of the chapter. This responsibility includes member certification and the annual professional development days event when held.\nSection 9. The Vice President of Outreach is responsible for developing and supporting initiatives which maintain or improve member satisfaction and community support for the defined geographic areas which our chapter serves. In addition, shall be responsible for corporate outreach to the communities the PMINEW serves.\nSection 10. The Immediate Past President (Ex-Officio) shall be the PMINEW mentor for all Officers and Directors.\nSection 11. The Board shall exercise all powers of the PMINEW, except as specifically prohibited by these bylaws, the PMI\u00ae Bylaws and policies, its charter with PMI\u00ae, and the laws of the jurisdiction in which the organization is incorporated/registered. The Board shall be authorized to adopt and publish such policies, procedures and rules as may be necessary and consistent with these bylaws and PMI\u00ae Bylaws and policies, and to exercise authority over all PMINEW business and funds.\nSection 12. The Board shall meet at the call of the President, or at the written request of three (3) members of the Board. A quorum shall consist of no less than one-half of the membership of the Board at any given time. Each member shall be entitled to one (1) vote. At its discretion, the Board may conduct its business by teleconference, facsimile or other legally acceptable means. Meetings shall be conducted in accordance with parliamentary procedures determined by the Board.\nSection 13. The Board of Directors shall declare an officer position to be vacant where an officer or Vice President ceases to be a member in good standing of PMI\u00ae or of the PMINEW by reason of non-payment of dues, or the Board may remove an officer who fails to attend two (2) consecutive Board meetings. An officer or Vice President may resign by submitting written notice to the President with notification to the Vice President of Communications (Secretary) for the purposes of archiving the information. Unless another time is specified in the notice or determined by the Board, the resignation shall be effective upon receipt by the Board of the written notice.\nSection 14. An officer may be removed from office for just cause in connection with the affairs of the organization by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members present and in person at an official meeting of the membership, or by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the Board.\nSection 15. If any officer or Vice President position becomes vacant, the Board may appoint a successor to fill the office for the unexpired portion of the term for the vacant position. In the event the President is unable or unwilling to complete the current term of office, the Immediate Past President shall immediately assume the duties and office of the presiding officer for the remainder of the term. The Board may call for a special election by the chapter\u2019s membership to fill the vacant position.\nArticle VI \u2013 PMI Northeast Wisconsin Chapter Nominations and Elections\nSection 1. The nomination and election of officers and directors shall be conducted annually in accordance with the terms of office specified in Article IV, Section 1 and Article V, Section 2 and this Article VI. All voting members in good standing of the PMINEW shall have the right to vote in the election. Discrimination in election and nomination procedures on the basis of race, color, creed, gender, age, marital status, national origin, religion, physical or mental disability, or unlawful purpose is prohibited.\nArticle VII \u2013 PMI Northeast Wisconsin Chapter Committees\nSection 1. The Board may authorize the establishment of standing or temporary committees to advance the purposes of the organization. The Board shall establish a charter for each committee, which defines its purpose, authority and outcomes. Committees are responsible to the Board. Committee members may include member and non-members of the chapter. The committee Director shall be a member of the chapter. The PMINEW officers and/or Directors can serve on the PMINEW Committees, unless it specifically is restricted by the Bylaws.\nSection 2. All committee members and a chairperson for each committee shall be appointed by the Board member who is responsible for the committee with the acceptance of the Board.\nArticle VIII \u2013 PMI Northeast Wisconsin Chapter Finance\nSection 1. The fiscal year of the PMINEW shall be from 1 January to 31 December.\nSection 2. The PMINEW\u2019s annual membership dues shall be set by the PMINEW\u2019s Board and communicated to PMI\u00ae in accordance with policies and procedures established by PMI\u00ae.\nSection 3. The PMINEW Board shall establish policies and procedures to govern the management of its finances and shall submit required tax filings to appropriate government authorities.\nSection 4. All dues billings, dues collections and dues disbursements shall be performed by PMI\u00ae.\nSection 2. Special meetings of the membership may be called by the President; by a majority of the Board; or by petition of ten percent (10%) of the voting membership directed to the President. Notice of all special meetings shall be sent by the Board to membership a reasonable amount of time in advance of the meeting so as to allow membership the opportunity to participate in such special meetings. The notice should indicate the time and place of the meeting and include the proposed agenda. Action at such meetings shall be limited to those agenda items contained in the notice of the meeting.\nSection 3. Quorum at all annual and special meetings of the PMINEW shall be those members in good standing, present and in person.\nArticle X \u2013 Branches of the PMINEW CHAPTER\nUpon written permission granted by PMI\u00ae via the charter agreement, the Chapter shall be permitted to organize its members who reside in geographically limited areas in groups (hereinafter \u201cBranch\u201d) for the purpose of delivering its services locally. A Branch of the CHAPTER shall be governed by these Bylaws and shall conduct its business in compliance with the CHAPTER\u2019s policies and procedures and its charter with PMI\u00ae.\nSection 2. Geographic Area\nEach Branch formed to service a defined geographic area will not extend its services beyond the geographic boundaries defined of the Chapter.\nSection 3. Distribution of Dues All CHAPTER dues & fees will be collected by PMI\u00ae\u00ae on behalf of the CHAPTER and will be forwarded to CHAPTER. The CHAPTER will allocate funds to the Branch in accordance to CHAPTERS\u2019 policies & procedures. Branches shall not create its own membership or dues.\nSection 4. Limitations:\nBranches shall abide by the limitations consistent with the chapter\u2019s charter agreement with PMI\u00ae.\nSection 1. No member of the PMINEW shall receive any pecuniary gain, benefit or profit, incidental or otherwise, from the activities, financial accounts and resources of the PMINEW, except as otherwise provided in these bylaws.\nSection 2. No officer, director, appointed committee member or authorized representative of the PMINEW shall receive any compensation, or other tangible or financial benefit for service on the Board. However, the Board may authorize payment by the PMINEW of actual and reasonable expenses incurred by an officer, director, committee member or authorized representative regarding attendance at Board meetings and other approved activities.\nSection 3. The PMINEW may engage in contracts or transactions with members, elected officers or directors of the Board, appointed committee members or authorized representatives of the PMINEW and any corporation, partnership, association or other organization in which one or more of the PMINEWS\u2019 directors, officers, appointed committee members or authorized representatives are: directors or officers, have a financial interest in, or are employed by the other organization, provided the following conditions are met:\nThe contract or transaction is fair to the PMINEW and complies with the laws and regulations of the applicable jurisdiction in which the PMINEW is incorporated or registered at the time the contract or transaction is authorized, approved or ratified by the board of directors.\nSection 4. All officers, directors, appointed committee members and authorized representatives of the PMINEW shall act in an independent manner consistent with their obligations to the PMINEW and applicable law, regardless of any other affiliations, memberships, or positions.\nSection 5. All officers, directors, appointed committee members and authorized representatives shall disclose any interest or affiliation they may have with any entity or individual with which the PMINEW has entered, or may enter, into contracts, agreements or any other business transaction, and shall refrain from voting on, or influencing the consideration of, such matters.\nSection 1. In the event that any person who is or was an officer, director, committee member, or authorized representative of the PMINEW, acting in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the PMINEW, has been made party, or is threatened to be made a party, to any civil, criminal, administrative, or investigative action or proceeding (other than an action or proceeding by or in the right of the corporation), such representative may be indemnified against reasonable expenses and liabilities, including attorney fees, actually and reasonably incurred, judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement in connection with such action or proceeding to the fullest extent permitted by the jurisdiction in which the organization is incorporated. Where the representative has been successful in defending the action, indemnification is mandatory.\nSection 3. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the PMINEW may purchase and maintain liability insurance on behalf of any person who is or was a director, officer, employee, trustee, agent or authorized representative of the PMINEW, or is or was serving at the request of the PMINEW as a director, officer, employee, trustee, agent or representative of another corporation, domestic or foreign, non-profit or for-profit, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.\nArticle XIII- Amendments\nSection 1. These bylaws may be amended by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the voting membership in good standing voting by electronic ballot; or by two-thirds (2/3) vote of membership present and voting at an annual meeting of the PMINEW duly called and regularly held; or by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the voting membership in good standing voting by mail ballot returned within thirty (30) days of the date by which members can reasonably be presumed to have received the ballot. Notice of proposed changes shall be sent in writing to the membership at least thirty (30) days before such meeting or vote.\nSection 3. All amendments must be consistent with PMI\u00ae\u2019s Bylaws and the policies, procedures, rules and directives established by the PMI\u00ae Board of Directors, as well as with the PMINEW\u2019s Charter with PMI\u00ae.\nSection 1. In the event that the PMINEW or its governing officers failed to act according to this bylaws and PMINEW\u2019S or all PMI\u00ae policies, procedures, and rules outlined in the charter agreement, PMI\u00ae has a right to revoke the PMINEW\u2019s Charter and require the chapter to seek dissolution.\nSection 2. In the event the PMINEW failed to deliver value to its members as outlined in PMINEW\u2019S business plan and without mitigated circumstance, the Chapter acknowledges that PMI\u00ae has a right to revoke the PMINEW\u2019s Charter and require the chapter to seek dissolution.\nSection 3. 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The free copies will be provided by AMACOM, the publishing arm of The American Management Association, the book\u2019s publisher. For information about the book, click here. For information about the drawings, go to http://pmworldlibrary.net/monthly-drawing-for-free-books/.\nRevised to reflect the latest changes to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK\u00ae) and the Project Management Professional Exam \u00ae, the fourth edition of the AMA Handbook of Project Management provides readers with a clear and broad overview of the project management discipline.\nCovering everything from individual projects to programs and strategic alignment, the book addresses:\nProject initiation and planning\nScheduling, budgeting and meeting business objectives\nManaging political and resource issues\nImplementing a PMO\nMeasuring value and competencies\nThe book compiles essays and advice from some of the project management field\u2019s top professionals and features new chapters on stakeholder management, agile project management, program management, project governance, knowledge management and more. Updated with fresh examples, case studies and solutions to specific project management dilemmas, the book remains an essential reference to the critical concepts and theories that all project managers must master.\nPaul C. Dinsmore, PMP, is an international authority on project management and organizational change. An author of many books and articles on these topics, he has been honored with PMI\u2019s Distinguished Contribution Award and is a PMI Fellow.\nJeannette Cabanis-Brewin, Editor-in-Chief for Project Management Solutions, Inc., and principle of The Word Source, LLC, has written about project management for many years. She is also a recipient of the PMI Distinguished Contribution Award.\nThe PM World Library (PMWL) is a global resource for continuous learning in portfolio, program and project management (P/PM). 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Stone, Medical Section, NATOUSA\nFrom Fred L. Soper\nRepresentative Rockefeller Health Commission in North Africa\nCivil Affairs Section.\nSubject: Demonstration of use of Louse Powder at Prison camps at Oran and Casablanca.\nThe Health Commission group consisting of Drs. W.A. Davis, F.S. Markham, L.A. Riehl and myself, in the company of Major M. Furcalow, USPHS, NAEB, arrived in Oran on Oct. 17th as planned. Contact was established with the Surgeon's office and arrangements made for an initial visit the same day to P.O.W. camp 131 at Mangin. The officer in charge reported that the prisoners in some of the older stockades were relatively clean but that stockade #11 was known to be lousy. Preliminary investigation confirmed this statement and arrangements were made to begin louse counts the following day to determine the degree of prepowdering infestation.\nOn Oct. 18th, Lt. J.P. Stallworth, NAC and 12 enlisted men (colored) were on hand for training in louse counts. These men showed great interest in their work and some of them became quite adept. All had an adequate opportunity to search for and identify the various stages of the life cycle of the louse.\nDuring the day the clothing of 252 man was examined. One or more lice were found on 193 (77 %) and 10 or more lice were found on 75 (30 %) men.\nOn Oct. 19th, the application of powder in stockade 11 began. In addition to Lt. Stallworth and his 12 men, Capts. Heaton and Sieg of the Sanitary Corps were on hand with additional men. The work in Stockade 11 could easily have been finished in one day, had more of the Dobbins dusters been available. (Dusters used 15). As it was the work carried over to the morning of Oct. 20th.\nThe prisoners were powdered at their tents, all extra clothing and bedding being powdered at the same time. Note was made of absent men sleeping in each tent and these were dusted later. The prisoners were anxious to be powdered and were most helpful in handling clothing and blankets and even in operating the dusting machines.\nStockade # 11 had some 1500 men when visited on Oct. 17th but this number had been reduced to about 1100 by the withdrawal of labor units on the 18th and 19th. Since these withdrawals were irregularly distributed among the tents, it is impossible to know exactly how many men were dusted but it is believed that the number was between 1300 and 1400.\nA list of the 282 prisoners examined in Stockade # 11 was left at the camp and the request made that none of these men be removed previous to re-examination planned for the 4th and 5th of November. It was also requested that no new lots of prisoners be added to Stockade # 11 previous to re-examination.\nIt is a pleasure to record the full collaboration given by the Surgeon's and Provost Marshall's offices in Oran. Col. Hutter was very interested in the work and Lt. Col. Cooke was most active in making all detailed arrangements necessary. Lt. Custer worked right with us at the Camp. Among those who saw what was done were Col. Hutter, Lt. Col. Cooke, Major Flynn, Col. V.H. Hornell, Lt. Col. Mason and Major Riser, Capt. Feldman (MC) and Capt. Rainwater were most helpful at the camp itself.\nOn Oct. 20th, F.L. Soper proceeded to Casa, Dr. Markham and Major Furcalow arriving on the following day. Contact was made with the Surgeon's office and arrangements made to visit P.O.W. Camp 101 at Berechid on the 21st. This visit was made in the company of Col. Parsons, of the Provost Marshall Service. Preliminary inspection showed P.O.W. Camp 101 to be relatively free of lice. Rapid examination of several enlisted men (POWs) failed to reveal lice but two of six or seven officers were found infested. Arrangements were made to begin work the following day with 10 men from the Camp company and ten men from hospital units (2 men each from 5 units).\nOn Oct. 22nd, the clothing of 141 of the 282 Italian officers in Section 4 of Camp 101 were examined under the supervision of F.L. Soper, F.S. Markham, Major Furcalow. Such infestations as were found were light and it was difficult to get the men doing the work to show the same interest in their work as did those working at Camp 131. One or more lice were found on 37 (26 %) of the 141 men examined. All of them infestations were light, none running beyond 15 lice. This is probably due to the fact that this group of officers had been deloused with methyl bromide 5 days previously.\nAll but one of the 282 officers in Section 4 were powdered together with their additional clothing and blankets on the 22nd and the morning of the 23rd.\nAs a check on conditions in Section 4, work was done in Section 8 on the 23rd. Section 8 contains some 1600 enlisted POWs who are grouped in Labor companies of about 144 men each. These men have been in camp several months, have been deloused with Methyl Bromide, have adequate supplies of soap and water and are reputedly free of lice. Examination of the clothing of 182 men by the relatively untrained men doing the work revealed one or more lice on 11 (6 %) of them. These infestations were all light none running over 15 lice.\nDue to the light infestation present, the decision was taken to powder 3 companies, companies A, B and C of the 1st Port Battalion, Eng. Detachment, of 144 men each. All clothing, whether in use or not, was powdered but blankets and bedding were not powdered.\nSplendid collaboration was received from both the Surgeon's and Provost Marshall's sections at Casablanca. Col. Burnet and Col. Haller personally viewed the work and took an interest in making all necessary arrangements. Majors Zuker, Hoffman and Snyder were most helpful in handling details and Capt. Bramwell accompanied the first day's work at the camp. Lt. Hill in charge of processing at camp 101 was most helpful in making local arrangements.\nIn the work at Camps 131 and 101 the Dobbins Superbilt Duster was used. Since the delivery tube of this duster is inflexible it was sawed in two at the middle, which makes it easier to manipulate. When the louse powder is dry, this duster works satisfactorily but when the powder is moist, it tends to clog both at the outlet from the powder chamber and at the nozzle itself. Definite observations have not been made but it has been suggested that the louse powder is \"wetter\" at low temperatures than it is at high temperatures. Some workers prefer using the straight open tube without the nozzle, others preferring the nozzle.\nThe Dobbins duster can probably be improved by enlarging the holes leading from the powder chamber to the delivery tube and fitting it with a flexible delivery tube.\nThe supply of Dobbins dusters in this theater seems to be uncertain. At Oran none were found on the stock lists but 13 were retrieved from an open box of dusters returned after usage. An identical experience was had at Casablanca where 13 used dusters were found in an open box.\nIn the absence of an adequate supply of dusters, it is suggested that these be used for dusting persons and the clothing they wear and that cylindrical cans with holes punched around the circumference near the base be used for dusting blankets and extra clothing.\nThe amount of powder used was in excess of preliminary estimates. At Camp 131, 280 pounds of powder were used on the clothing and bedding of between 1300 and 1400 men. At camp 101, 110 pounds of powder were used on the clothing and bedding of 282 officers and on the clothing (not including bedding) of 432 men. From these figures it is apparent that complete application to clothing and bedding requires about 1/5 of a pound per person. (We were greatly surprised at the amount of clothing and the number of blankets in the possession of the Italian prisoners). Apparently they made a point of being taken with all their equipment).\nIt was found that the application of powder to bedding and additional clothing required a great deal more labor and time than does the dusting of the individual with the clothing he wears. Considering the duration of activity of the louse powder, further observations are needed to determine the practicability of dusting only the clothing in constant use at the season of the year when treatment is given.\nAttention should be called to the importance of light infestations such as that inspection 8 at camp 101 at this season of the year. With the onset of cooler weather, much more clothing is going to be constantly worn and less bathing and washing of clothing indulged in. 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Six people were charged and convicted, including three former Walker staff, but no charges were brought against Walker. Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm issued a brief, telling statement: \"After a review of the John Doe evidence, I am satisfied that all charges that are supported by proof beyond a reasonable doubt have now been brought and concluded.\"\nThere is no doubt that Walker emerges from the scandal in a stronger position to advance his extreme legislative agenda and his plans for higher office.\nWalker's recently-unveiled budget is covered with American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) fingerprints: his tax plan disproportionately benefits the top one-fifth of earners while putting a whopping $2 in the pockets of the bottom one-fifth; his school voucher program would leave 870,000 public school students with no additional funds; and his food stamp stipulations would force the needy to look for the 212,400 jobs that the governor has promised but failed to create. To top it all off, his ALEC cronies want to cover their tracks with a bill that would put a price on the public records that expose them.\nTax Breaks for the Wealthy Disguised as Support for the Middle Class\nWalker kicked off his February 20 budget address by announcing what he called \"a middle class tax cut\" worth $343 million. He claimed the cut targets rates for lower and middle class taxpayers, but an analysis from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau found that Walker's proposed tax cuts would primarily benefit the wealthy: the top fifth of income earners (those earning more than $100,000 per year) would get more than half of the total cuts. Taxpayers in the bottom 20% would receive a tax cut of just $2 a year.\n\"When the top 20% of earners in Wisconsin are receiving almost 50% of the tax break, you know this is not a middle class tax for us,\" says Senator Chris Larson (D-Milwaukee).\nIf the cuts go into effect, raising taxes again will be a formidable task, thanks to an ALEC bill that Walker signed in January of 2011. Assembly Bill 5, which resembles the ALEC Super Majority Act, requires two-thirds support in the legislature to increase taxes. Thankfully, the legislature adopted the measure as a largely unenforceable statute rather than a constitutional amendment, but with a Republican majority, there's more than a good chance they will abide by it.\nThe proposed $343 million cut is the result of what Walker calls \"turning Wisconsin around.\" \"This allows us to invest in our priorities -- priorities I've talked about in every corner of our state over the past few months.\"\nApparently, these priorities do not include public education. In Walker's 2011-2012 budget, he cut $800 million from K-12 education, but rather than restoring some of that funding in this cycle, he is giving a handout to the wealthy and $2 per year to everyone else.\nPrivatizing Public Education\nThose priorities are further defined by Walker's budget proposing a virtual freeze on funding for public education, but a nine percent increase for a classic ALEC agenda item: private school vouchers. This would amount to $73 million in additional funding for \"vouchers\" that send taxpayer funds to private and religious voucher schools.\nState schools Superintendent Tony Evers says the proposed increase in voucher funding would leave the vast majority of students at a disadvantage. \"Private voucher schools will receive $73 million in additional funding and spending authority, coupled with a dramatic statewide expansion,\" said Evers. \"This means an up to $1,400 per-pupil funding increase for the 25,000 students in voucher schools, while freezing spending for the 870,000 in public schools.\"\nThe proposal would expand vouchers to any district with more than 4,000 students where two or more schools within the district receive a 'D' or 'F' grade on their state report cards. This would expand vouchers to Green Bay and Madison, two of the largest districts in the state. Struggling districts would only receive a 1% increase in aid for their failing schools, while a minority of vouchered students would benefit from a whopping 9% increase in funding.\nA study that directly compared students in Milwaukee's voucher program and students in the Milwaukee Public Schools found that students in the voucher program performed worse or about the same as their public school counterparts.\nThe results of the study didn't faze Representative Robin Vos (R-Racine), the ALEC State Chair for Wisconsin and a vocal supporter of the voucher plans. \"The governor has proposed excellent options to help students succeed at every level,\" said Vos. His support comes as no surprise, given that Walker's voucher plan contains elements of ALEC's Parental Choice Scholarship Accountability Act.\nVoucher programs are being pushed in the state by a pair of prominent ALEC alums. Disgraced former Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen is top lobbyist for the American Federation for Children, a Milwaukee-based organization promoting public school privatization. AFC is an ALEC member and is represented by Jensen on the ALEC Education Task Force, home to several public school privatization model bills. When Jensen was in the legislature, he was the ALEC State Chair. Also pushing vouchers in the state is Jeff Fitzgerald, who was an ALEC member when he was in the legislature and now lobbies for School Choice Wisconsin.\nAnother ALEC ally, the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, has spent $20 million to promote so-called \"school choice\" vouchers in Milwaukee, and has funded similar education privatization programs around the country. The Bradley Foundation has also given millions to ALEC over the years. The foundation's ties to Walker run deep: Bradley's current president and chief executive Michael Grebe chaired Walker's campaign during the 2010 gubernatorial race and the 2012 recall election.\nPlacing Pricey Stipulations on Food Stamps\nAlso on Walker's agenda is a proposal to require all \"able-bodied adults\" who receive food stamps (and don't have dependent children) to train or search for work in order to continue receiving state benefits under the FoodShare program. The proposal would limit Wisconsinites to three months of benefits over a three-year period unless they are participating in 20 hours per week of job training or searching.\nAccording to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the job-training program will cost the state $17 million. The same source tells us that Walker is 212,400 short of his promise to create 250,000 jobs, which recently prompted him to propose new ways of tracking employment data.\nWalker's proposal mimics a number of ALEC model bills, such as the \"TANF Applicant Job Search Program\". This ALEC model legislation proposes able-bodied recipients of state welfare participate in job searching or training for a minimum of 30 hours a week in order to receive benefits, a task made extremely difficult during an economic downturn.\nWalker's proposal to place requirements on receiving benefits from FoodShare was met with skepticism by Congresswoman Gwen Moore (WI-4). \"Once again our governor has put his ideology before the needs of the people,\" said Moore. \"Instead of focusing on job creation to reduce the number of those on the FoodShare program, his policy change could increase the number of hungry adults in Wisconsin... The Hunger Task Force estimates that the state would lose $82.3 million annually in federal benefits if the mandatory work requirements were implemented.\"\nWisconsin's FoodShare program is administered by the Department of Health, which is now led by ALEC alum Kitty Rhoades, whom Walker appointed to the position just weeks ago. She is the third ALEC alum to head a major agency in Wisconsin's Executive Branch: Walker, himself an ALEC alum, has also appointed former ALEC State Chair Mike Huebsch to head the Department of Administration, and former ALEC Telecommunications and Information Technology Task Force Chair Phil Montgomery to lead the Public Services Commission.\nAttack on Public Information and Transparency\nOne of the best tools for tracking the influence of ALEC and its member corporations is through public records requests. ALEC is a notoriously secretive operation and it is only through open records requests that CMD has been able to demonstrate the organization's role in Wisconsin policy.\nA new piece of legislation could place government transparency and records access at risk. AB 26, introduced by ALEC operatives Representatives. Joan Ballweg, Chris Kapenga, and Tom Larson, among others including Democrat Josh Zepnick, would make it more expensive to access public records by charging for redaction costs. The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council made a statement on the bill, which was heard in the Assembly Committee on Government Operations and State Licensing on February 27, 2013.\n\"The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council considers this bill a serious threat to the public's ability to obtain public information. It will allow custodians to make some records unaffordable to some requestors, and it will lead to abuse,\" read the statement.\nWisconsin ranks 42 in job creation in the United States, a figure that is deeply out of synch with the Upper Midwest and most of the nation. With an ALEC-inspired agenda that will have zero impact on job creation, Wisconsinites are in for more hardship.\nBrendan Fischer contributed to this report.\nCharter Industry Strong-Arms Public Officials; $3.3 Billion Spent (Part 5)\nEmails Show Walker Chief of Staff Oversaw Changes to Wisconsin Idea", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 182, "original_length": 12641, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 298.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://psucompbio.org/spine-biomechanics/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:55Z", "digest": "sha1:3EBMW743U4UWXACQYNS3VABESSY6XUKD", "length": 1757, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "psucompbio.org", "title": "') } function openClose(theID) { if (document.getElementById(theID).style.display == \"block\") { document.getElementById(theID).style.display = \"none\" } else { document.getElementById(theID).style.display = \"block\" } } // -->", "raw_content": "Working to understand mechanisms and micromechanics from dynamic loading...\nIn the civilian population, the estimate of people living with a SCI has grown to more than 2 million people worldwide. In both the military and civilian populations, rescue and medical transport play a critical role in long-term outcome. Unfortunately, it is estimated that up to 25% of SCI may occur after the initial insult, either during transit or early in the course of medical treatment. During evacuation the goal is to provide an environment for stable and painless transport that enables optimal neurologic recovery. Air transport, one aspect of civilian and military medical evacuations, is a harsh environment and there has been limited research concerning the effects of aircraft vibration and gravitation on long-term SCI recovery. Understanding all the effects requires multidisciplinary knowledge of the mechanisms of injury, physiology, biomechanics of the spine and the extrinsic operational environment. Furthermore, spinal cord injury and recovery are related to cellular processes which lead us to the question: Do vibrational and gravitational forces during medical transport get translated to cellular damage within the spinal cord? Cellular pathophysiology has provided considerable evidence that microstructural abnormality of white matter integrity in SCI is linked with clinical outcomes. 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Signed John Elwell, 1/1, English 2006.\nLength overall: 105 cm (42 inches), length of Zeppelin 95 cm (37 inches). Scale 1:250 (approx).\nNote: The Graf Zeppelin is considered the finest airship ever built, and flew more miles than any airship had done until that time, or would in the future. It first flew on September 18th, 1928, and in August 1929 encircled the globe. The trip, financed by William Randolph Hearst, took 12 days, stopping only at Tokyo, Los Angeles and Lakehurst, New Jersey. In Its 10-year lifespan, the Graf Zeppelin made 590 flights totaling over 1,000,000 miles (1,609,344 kms) and carried 13,110 passengers. It was 776 feet (237 m) long and 5 x 550 Mayback diesel engines provided a top speed of 80 mph (130 km/h). It carried more than 70 passengers in unrivalled luxury and the accommodation included a dining room, library, lounge with grand piano and large observation windows.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 2060, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 160.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://punkmuzik.com/?q=article/marvelous-darlings-northern-pop", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:49:53Z", "digest": "sha1:6UXOBPPGDMEEJALYDXF7MFLFFLEFCORE", "length": 1143, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "punkmuzik.com", "title": "Marvelous Darlings: A Northern Pop | Punk Muzik", "raw_content": "For the most part, Teenage Lobotomy hasn\u2019t steered me towards anything I regret hearing. That\u2019s not any different after having heard Marvelous Darlings. At the same time, though, I might rather listen to my roommate have a go at dropping a deuce in the morning before heading out to work. The band, a Canadian one at that, deals in punk, but of the poppiest variety possible. There\u2019s no Blink 182 nonsense here. Or Green Day. But the guy who fronts this group can actually sing, which in a lot of cases, this one specifically, changes the music\u2019s dynamic. A guy with a voice always sounds like he\u2019s got one, even if fronting a hardcore band. So, taking that pent up punk energy and running it across a spate of singles \u2013 there\u2019re six over at TL \u2013 resulted in something of an inconsistent listen despite my dismay after hearing \u201cI Don\u2019t Want to Go to the Party.\u201d\nBy the time listeners make it to 2009\u2019s Sleeping Like A Dead Man and it\u2019s second track, \u201cCall it a Night,\u201d and that acoustic guitar, not to mention the harmonica, it\u2019s just about time to give up. There\u2019re a few moments of success, but not enough to warrant a further investigation.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 73, "original_length": 4101, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 273.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://qualityvapes.ca/product.php?id=320", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:25Z", "digest": "sha1:F3M5TI72EDSIDAPT47GBECD6HYDYTDJQ", "length": 453, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "qualityvapes.ca", "title": "Quality Vapes - VGOD ELITE MECH MOD", "raw_content": "The thread of the VGOD ELITE MECH Mod can directly connect the atomizer to the battery cathode, which improves the conductivity and lowers the resistance. Its fire button is on the bottom of the mod with a built-in design, it is easy and convenient to use. There is a spring inside the button, which expands according to the length of the battery. 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An in-depth look. https://www.gci.org/bible/rev\nExploring the Book of Acts: By Michael Morrison. https://www.gci.org/bible/actsintro\nA Study Series on Ephesians. https://www.gci.org/bible/eph\nReflections on the Gospel of John. https://www.gci.org/bible/john\nExploring the Word of God: Hebrews Through Revelation. https://www.gci.org/bible/other\nRelationship With Christ: A Bible Study. https://www.gci.org/jesus/relation\n1 & 2 Corinthians: https://www.gci.org/bible/corinth\n1 Thessalonians: https://www.gci.org/bible/thess\nAre There Three Resurrections? https://www.gci.org/bible/rev/3resurrec", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 43, "original_length": 1285, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.7, "perplexity": 148.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rallytogetherwithjen.com/2017/02/05/404/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:14:52Z", "digest": "sha1:S4QBFOROREZIUU3NWNLHKQLTS4PS64IF", "length": 384, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "rallytogetherwithjen.com", "title": "Rally Together With Jennifer", "raw_content": "\u201cIt was such a blessing to find myself thriving in the middle of the pain. Unless you find a way to do that, there\u2019s always going to be this fake illusion that once you get there\u2013wherever \u201cthere\u201d is for you\u2013you\u2019ll be happy. But that\u2019s just not life. If you can\u2019t find happiness in the ugliness, you\u2019re not going to find it in beauty, either.\u201d\n~Jo Gains~\nNext Article Superbowl Sundays", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 62, "original_length": 1606, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 259.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rarebooksocietyofindia.org/postDetail.php?id=196174216674_10154461521461675", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:13Z", "digest": "sha1:3MCDPILF72MK6D4WOVXW3BM7HKMFFFIV", "length": 1587, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rarebooksocietyofindia.org", "title": "RBSI - Digital Book: Thy Hand, Great Anarch! India 1921 1952 by Nirad Chaundhuri Published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., New York - 1987 Read Book Online: http://bit.ly/2eFtdQJ Download pdf Book: htt", "raw_content": "The first volume of Chaudhuri's memoirs, The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian , 1951, met with lavish praise (\"the one great book to have come out of the Indo-English encounter\"V. S. Naipaul), general admiration and some harsh criticism, particularly from Indian nationalists. This second volume, almost 1000 pages long, perhaps surpasses it, in the depth, range and authority of its socio-historical commentary and the pungency of its language. Chaudhuri's fundamental thesis is that the British Raj in its 19th century heyday brought the breath of life to Indian, and more specifically Bengali, culture, while there is more corruption and lawlessness in India now than there was then. Yet he lambasts the British for the arrogant racism that hastened the demise of their Indian empire, and running though his book like an ominous and finally tragic groundswell is the seemingly ineradicable hatred of Hindus and Muslims for each other, and of both for the British. There are iconoclastic portraits of Gandhi, Nehru and Mountbatten, a touching one of Tagore and a shrewd appraisal of nationalist leader Subhas Bose whose hatred of British rule threw him into the arms of Hitler. Among major events described are Gandhi's non-cooperation campaigns and the political wranglings that preceded, then the bloodshed that followed Britain's \"abandonment\" of India in 1947. This is a courageous, provocative, sometimes provoking but unquestionably major book by a fiery polymath, now in his 91st year, who seems as much at home with Beethoven, Pascal and Cicero as with his compatriot Tagore.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 145, "original_length": 5916, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://readersfavorite.com/book-review/destinys-future", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:13Z", "digest": "sha1:C5W3DUZIHGFHEIS54SAP6VX36QZ3T446", "length": 4918, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "readersfavorite.com", "title": "Book review of Destiny's Future - Readers' Favorite: Book Reviews and Award Contest", "raw_content": "Daughters of the Crescent Moon Book 3\nby Patricia C. Lee\nContact Author - Patricia C. Lee\nDestiny's Future by Patricia C. Lee is an exciting entry into the fantasy genre and a stunning conclusion to the Daughters of the Crescent Moon series. Rhiann is an adopted daughter whose life could have been as normal as any ordinary girl\u2019s, except she is a guardian of a powerful magical relic, a coveted Talisman. So, when she is attacked and badly hurt, she knows she must undertake a dreaded mission to protect this sacred item --- she must travel to a time where magic is nonexistent, two thousand years away from her time. But she has to meet more challenges that she could never have imagined, including rescuing the Prince, who\u2019s sacrificed his life for her, from a distant point between two worlds.\nThe narrative style is unique, embellished by a masterful use of descriptive language. At times the read is poetic, evoking powerful images and emotions, allowing the reader glimpses into the state of mind of the characters. Told in the third person narrative, the author does an exceptional job in creating distinct, unmistakable POVs. The entire series features the kinds of characters that most readers will root for. Rhiann and Prince Rayja are a pair to follow closely and their adventure offers numerous surprises and breathtaking moments. The plot is well conceived and beautifully accomplished with sudden twists and surprises that make the entire read fun, exciting, and nonstop. In Destiny\u2019s Future, Patricia C. Lee creates a world of pleasant escape for fans of fantasy, a work that I\u2019d recommend to anyone looking for a well-accomplished story.\nRhiann is entrusted with a very delicate task of protecting the Talisman that has been passed down through different generations in her family. The Moon is a precious magical item coveted by a powerful enemy, someone who will do anything to have it. Now she has to travel two thousand years through time into an age when magic is not practiced and when the item can be kept safe. This mission, though very challenging, gets riskier for her because someone seems to know about her plans and this isn\u2019t the type of person she\u2019d want to face, but there is more. A prince who\u2019s fallen in love with her is caught between two worlds and her mission would be incomplete without rescuing him. Destiny's Future by Patricia C. Lee tells the story of a girl caught in the most challenging of dilemmas; a story of courage and fidelity to one\u2019s mission.\nI loved Patricia C. Lee\u2019s writing and was drawn into the atmosphere of the story right from the start because of her poetic diction and the powerful prose. I loved her characters, especially Rhiann with her humble origins and noble mission. Following this character as she grows in courage, determined to fulfill her mission, is not just entertaining, but inspiring. The characters like Rayja, the prince, will remind readers of how far the power of love can drive the human heart. Destiny\u2019s Future features great conflicts and these conflicts help to move the plot forward in very interesting ways. There is a lot to love about this last part of Daughters of the Crescent Moon series and I won\u2019t hesitate to recommend it as an engaging and utterly entertaining read to fans of fantasy. A well-crafted story with compelling characters.\nDestiny's Future by Patricia C. Lee is the kind of work that will appeal to readers who love stories involving time travel and magic, a beautiful conclusion to the captivating Daughters of the Crescent Moon series. The main character, Rhiann, stands out immediately because of her background and many other interesting aspects of her personality. She is an ordinary girl with the sacred mission to safeguard a very important Talisman, a relic that many people would want to possess. What would happen if such an item fell into the wrong hands? Another powerful plot element is the relationship between this ordinary girl and the Prince. The adventure of travelling through time to find an era that is safe for the Talisman is exciting enough, but when the life of the Prince is in danger, the excitement becomes dizzying.\nPatricia C. Lee has a gift for plot and character, and readers won\u2019t need to read much into the work to realize this as they are immediately swept away by the engaging descriptions, the poetic allure of her language, and the powerful narrative voice right from the opening lines of this beautiful story. The story also touches on a good number of very interesting themes and they will speak to many readers because they are very close to their own experiences. Love, sacrifice, betrayal, and a sense of duty are among the most recurrent ones. I loved the way the characters evolved throughout the story. They are engaging and fully-fledged. Destiny\u2019s Future is one of the very few novels I have read that deals with time travel, and I found it greatly satisfying.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 319, "original_length": 13304, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 242.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rebeccagethin.wordpress.com/2018/03/19/questions-about-voices-in-the-garden/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:44Z", "digest": "sha1:QGALCCSO2WKKN5JBKVCCNCKYLMCH5FMD", "length": 2888, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "rebeccagethin.wordpress.com", "title": "Questions about \u2018Voices in the Garden\u2019 | Rebecca Gethin", "raw_content": "\u2190 Julie-ann Rowell & \u2018Voices in the Garden\u2019\nDaphne Gloag & How Long is Not Long \u2192\nJulie-ann kindly answered some questions I sent her about Voices in the Garden. So I thought you\u2019d like to hear more about her marvellous book about the remarkable person, Joan of Arc.\nFirstly, I asked her to tell us more about the title:\nThe title came from the understanding that Joan first heard her \u2018voices\u2019 or her saints speaking to her in her garden at home. For three years the garden was most often the place where she heard them give advice or instructions. The house she was born and lived in and the garden still exist and can be visited today.\nThen I asked about the inspiration:\nI knew nothing about Joan except that she was burned at the stake until I saw a documentary on the BBC by the historian Mary Castor. I was captivated by what I heard and after that read every book I could find about her life, including the transcripts of her trials. The idea of writing poems about her came very gradually over a period of about two years as my research deepened. A French historian made the comment that the more you find out about Joan, the more you have to know, she just becomes more and more fascinating. She does not disappoint! She was truly extraordinary for any historical period.\nAnd then I wanted to know a bit more about the characters involved.\nOne can\u2019t write about Joan really without mentioning the people who made an impression on her, for instance, the Dauphin \u2013 she adored him though history hasn\u2019t treated him as well as it might. I also wanted to look at the other women in her life. This included the prostitutes she chased out of camp who really despised her. Also Catherine de la Rochelle, the other \u2018seer\u2019. She thought she could top Joan\u2019s experiences but she had met her match, Joan was not going to be outdone by anyone and her treatment of Catherine is such a good example of this.\nThe woman who impersonated Joan most impressively after she died, Claude des Armoises, was so daring, almost as daring as Joan herself. She nearly pulled it off, but in the end I think she couldn\u2019t go the distance and had to confess. She made a lot of money though. Joan inspired people to act, to love, to hate in great measure. Conversion is the voice of a character who is supposed to have existed, an English guard\nwho hated her the most of any of her guards and treated her really badly, but was converted to her side by her incredible courage when she was executed. The knight who felled her at Compi\u00e8gne, was outraged that she wouldn\u2019t surrender to him because he didn\u2019t have a high enough rank! That was Joan for you! She stirs people quite violently in one direction or the other, love or loathe, there is no middle ground.\njulie-ann@jgserv.co.uk\nMy new poetry collection Voices in the Garden is published by Lapwing Publications and available now\nwww.freewebs.com/lapwingpoetry", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 254, "original_length": 7715, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 245.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://recon-static.t101cdn.net/en/News/Article/member-article-my-journey-has-only-just-begun/2762", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:15Z", "digest": "sha1:3NYBPNYPGWLMMVXJDNYDYP6KLD2AJCYS", "length": 4370, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "recon-static.t101cdn.net", "title": "MEMBER ARTICLE: My journey has only just begun - Recon", "raw_content": "By rbbr0jc\nAs far as I can remember, my first sexual thoughts were at the same time my first fetish fantasies. Many tell of their first contact with a particular fetish or of a date they were introduced to a particular fetish. I cannot tell a story like that. The attraction that rubber or bondage exerts on me has always been there.\nNot least because of the environment in which I grew up, I was ashamed for my sexuality during my youth \u2013 ashamed to be gay and of being into things that quite a few people would call \"abnormal\". Nevertheless, it became clear to me relatively quickly that nothing would change in my feelings and that I would have to find a way to deal with it. At the age of 18 I bought my first rubber shirt. Since then my collection of rubber and other toys has grown year after year. Today you can fill a wardrobe with that collection.\nDespite coming to terms with my tastes early on, I've not had the opportunity to fully live out my fetishes. It's not that I haven't had some rubber or fetish dates over the years, but these dates were much too rare and could almost never give me what I was really looking for. This is certainly due to the fact that you only learn what you are really looking for, and what your needs are, through experience. On the other hand, it is also because I'm not necessarily the most extroverted person, I have difficulties approaching strangers and talking openly about my needs. I have always admired people who deal openly with their fetish, socialise and make fetish friends - people who are part of a lively fetish community.\nSeveral years have passed since I ordered my first rubber shirt online. This year is my 30th birthday. I have a wonderful husband who doesn't share my view of fetish 100%, but still stands 100% by me and gives me the freedom I need to live out my fetishes and fulfil my needs. That is not always to be expected, and I am very grateful to him!\nThere is a need that has grown particularly strongly in me in recent times: the need to become a part of the above-mentioned fetish community. I want to find new friends and live out my fetishes with them. I want to be part of a community in which you can exchange ideas and discover new things together. That's why I recently made the decision to make 2019 the year in which I will participate in my first fetish event! The only problem is that all the things that have kept me from living out my fetishes in the last few years have, of course, not disappeared over night. The idea of going to a fetish party alone makes me more than nervous. I'm not a huge fan of parties. I prefer the smaller and quieter settings. There are hardly any parties that I have attended in my life. I'm afraid of feeling swamped and not knowing how to behave. I'm afraid of feeling alone and lost there. So, what do I do? How do I approach it?\nI have thought a lot about it, and I have come to the decision that accessing the community via individual contacts and friends is easier than trying to hurl oneself into something on one's own. So, this year, I not only want to attend my first fetish party, I also want to get over my concerns and get to know a lot of the guys I only know from Recon. In this way I hope to find access to the fetish community and meet many people from all over the world who are proud of their fetish. I hope that one day I'll be able to make my own contribution to a lively community and to have fetish friends and contacts in many different places. I want to broaden my horizon through sexual adventures, as well as being able to enjoy fetish in a relaxed way on quiet evenings with friends.\nDecisions have been made. The plan has been set. And the first step is about to be taken! The first personal meeting with a really great Recon contact is scheduled for 2nd February. Despite the nervousness and excitement, I am at the same time extremely looking forward to that personal meeting. I don't know how this meeting is going to go. I also don't know exactly when I can really overcome myself to take part in a fetish party. But I have the feeling that on the 2nd February, I will take my first step in the direction that I have decided to go. I have the feeling that my journey into the fetish world has only just begun...\nIf you'd like to share your fetish experiences send your ideas to: social@recon.com\n- rbbr0jc\u2019s Recon Profile", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 4830, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 250.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rehabreviews.com/equinox-recovery-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:41Z", "digest": "sha1:KN77NRTURGF5UJ57AKHHWO6E2QU3EQMZ", "length": 4310, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "rehabreviews.com", "title": "Equinox Recovery Reviews, Cost, Complaints", "raw_content": "You are at:Home\u00bbRehab Reviews\u00bbOutpatient\u00bbEquinox Recovery\nEquinox Recovery\nFounded in 2015 in Asheville, North Carolina by Brian Mishoulam, who has seven years of sobriety, Equinox Recovery provides high-end sober living, along with wilderness therapy for men in recovery from chemical dependency. Their mission is to help men connect to their Higher Power while they experience the beauty of nature in their backyard.\nEquinox Recovery accommodates between 14 and 15 men in a lush Cape Cod style house, which sits on a a full acre lot, a short distance away from the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. The house has herb gardens, a fire pit, sitting areas and is surrounded by trees. The wrap-around porch provides a scenic mountain view.\nBetween two and three men share comfortably furnished rooms, which include twin beds, dressers, walk-in closets, nightstands, windows and a private attached bathroom. The house includes a fully equipped kitchen with stainless steel appliances, a gas range and granite counters. The kitchen is fully stocked with groceries, which is purchased by staff on a weekly basis. Additionally, there is a list that includes any special food requests. Residents are responsible for their own meal preparation.\nOn Sundays, residents enjoy a family-style dinner, followed by a house meeting with members from the local recovery community, as well as Equinox Recovery alumni. Amenities include a 65\u2019 plasma HDTV, Netflix, gaming systems, laundry facilities, gym memberships, Wi-Fi and an office with a computer and printer. Two residential managers live on the premises and oversee operations. While Mishoulam doesn\u2019t live there, he spends a majority of his time at the house, providing support and guidance.\nPrior to admission, clients are required to have undergone 30 days of primary care at a drug rehab. A 90-day minimum length of stay is required.\nAt Equinox Recovery, clients participate in a three-phase system. During the first phase, which lasts between 30 and 60 days, residents delve into the local 12-step community and staff helps them build a healthy routine which includes getting a job, enrolling in school or signing up for community service. Residents are not permitted to have cars, nor are they allowed extended curfews. Additionally, residents must complete eight weeks of Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOP) at The Road, Inc. Treatment includes nine hours of group therapy. Other requirements include attending five 12-step meetings, getting a sponsor, doing the steps and participating in morning meditations. Residents are allowed to transition into the second phase per staff\u2019s approval.\nDuring the second phase, clients must be actively working, enrolled in school or regularly doing community service. Also, they must be working actively with their sponsors. In the third phase, residents begin to re-enter society. Staff works closely with clients and helps them prepare discharge plans. The curfew is 10:30 pm Sundays through Thursdays, and midnight on Fridays and Saturdays.\nOther services include job support, case management, sponsorship assistance, nutritional counseling, group and individual therapy, on the premises. Both sessions are held weekly, and are facilitated by a CSAC. Random drug and alcohol testing is conducted. Those who relapse are immediately evicted from the premises. The 30-day cost is $4,000 and is all-inclusive, except for the IOP at The Road, which is usually covered by insurance.\nWilderness therapy is an integral part of the program, and clients participate in hiking, biking, basketball and other outdoor activities.\nBy May 2016, Equinox Recovery is relocating to a more spacious home in the local vicinity.\nEquinox Recovery offers high end, comprehensive sober living with additional perks for clients who want to build a solid foundation in their recovery, as well as for those who are seeking refuge in the great outdoors, which can be very healing to recovering alcoholics and addicts.\nEquinox Recovery (new address)\n36 Timberwood Dr\nEquinox Recovery Cost: $4,000 (30 days). Reach Equinox Recovery by phone at (866) 604-2651. Find Equinox Recovery on Facebook and Google+\nDo you have a complaint or review of Equinox Recovery to add? Use the comments area below to add your Equinox Recovery review.\nNorth Carolina Sober Livings", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 146, "original_length": 7248, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 288.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rei.iteso.mx/handle/11117/5325", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:59Z", "digest": "sha1:XI5IJZJ53FK6OJULHHMF2DGAQS57QO5V", "length": 678, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "rei.iteso.mx", "title": "Testing the Capital Asset Pricing Model using the Kalman Filter: Empirical Evidence from the Mexican Stock Market", "raw_content": "Testing the Capital Asset Pricing Model using the Kalman Filter: Empirical Evidence from the Mexican Stock Market\nSamaniego-Alc\u00e1ntar, \u00c1ngel; Casillas-Aceves, Santiago A.\nThe Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) widely used for the valuation of financial assets may have periods of low expla- nation (low R-square). For those periods, the factor models have a low confidence. The Kalman filter is able to sort out the noise that often have the data, such as the high volatility of the time series in financial markets. This chapter presents empirical evidence of CAPM model calculation using the Kalman filter from the Mexican financial market data.\nNombre: Testing the Capital ...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 2288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 320.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://relationshipscience.com/organization/washington-university-in-st-louis-school-of-law-24568710", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:57:57Z", "digest": "sha1:TZLVFNKAAAFGYAH73SNERNI52UUOEPZB", "length": 2904, "nlines": 45, "source_domain": "relationshipscience.com", "title": "Washington University in St. Louis School of Law - Relationship Science", "raw_content": "Anheuser-Busch Hall,One Brookings Drive,St. Louis, MO 63130\nWashington University School of Law (WULS) is a private American law school located in St. Louis, Missouri.[1] The law school is one of the seven graduate and undergraduate schools at Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1867, the School of Law is the oldest continually operating private law school west of the Mississippi River.\nhttp://www.law.wustl.edu\nTrying to get in touch with decision makers at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law? Subscribe today to access their professional contact information and receive a one time promotion of free Contact Data credits!\nCalvin G. Butler, BGE Chief Executive, to Give Keynote Address at...\n2U, Inc. Announces a 12-Year Contract Extension with Washington University in St. Louis School of Law\nMichael Peil\nLecturer, Law, Associate Dean, International Programs & Executive Director, Transnational Law Program\nAssociate Dean, Administration, Chief Financial Officer\nDean & Howard & Caroline Cayne Professor of Law\nDorsey D. Ellis, Jr.\nDean Emeritus & William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus\nPhilip Berwick\nAssociate Dean, Information Resources, Senior Lecturer in Law\nDavid M. Becker\nAssociate Dean for External Relations & Joseph H. Zumbalen Professor Emeritus of the Law of Property\nTomea Mersmann\nAssociate Dean, Strategic Initiatives, Lecturer in Law\nAssistant Dean, Admissions\nColleen Erker\nAssistant Dean, Academic Services, Registrar\nAssistant Dean, Graduate Programs\nR. Mark McCareins\nCharles W. Burson\nFormer Executive Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel at Monsanto Co.\nDouglas L. Kelly\nAssistant General Counsel at Wells Fargo Advisors LLC\nPeter Van Cleve\nPartner at Bryan Cave LLP\nAlan Bornstein\nPhilip D. Shelton\nThomas E. Lowther\nOf Counsel at Armstrong Teasdale LLP\nAlicia McDonnell\nAttorney at Washington University in St. Louis\nBrian C. Cunningham\nFormer Head, Counsel at Cooley LLP\nMichael A. DeHaven\nFormer Senior Vice President & General Counsel at BJC HealthCare\nCharles N. Bensinger III is now Partner at Jones Day\nYabo Lin is now Partner at Sidley Austin LLP\nDeborah S. Davidson is now Co-Chair, ERISA Litigation Practice at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP\nPaths to Washington University in St. Louis School of Law\nThis web site is not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, maintained, authorized, or sponsored by Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. The use of any trade name or trademark is for identification and reference purposes only and does not imply any association with the trademark holder. The Presence of Washington University in St. Louis School of Law's profile does not indicate a business or promotional relationship of any kind between RelSci and Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.\nhttps://relationshipscience.com/organization/washington-university-in-st-louis-school-of-law-24568710", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 191, "original_length": 8437, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 227.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://researchbank.acu.edu.au/theses/144/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:NHESWFSQBVC7ZS3P5SRGJXRVVOJRHHLR", "length": 6708, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "researchbank.acu.edu.au", "title": "\"Praesentia Substantialis: An examination of the Thomistic metaphysics \" by Colin Robert Goodwin", "raw_content": "Praesentia Substantialis: An examination of the Thomistic metaphysics of the Eucharistic Prescence\nColin Robert Goodwin\nGoodwin, C. R. (2006). Praesentia Substantialis: An examination of the Thomistic metaphysics of the Eucharistic Prescence (Doctoral thesis, Australian Catholic University). Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.4226/66/5a94b4175e4bb\n1. Aim of the Thesis. This thesis is concerned to investigate the schemata of metaphysical concepts, and the lines of philosophical argument, used by Thomas Aquinas in reaching conclusions about the nature of the change through which Christ becomes present in the sacrament of the Eucharist, and about the nature of this continuing presence. Although the object to which the thesis relates is provided by doctrinal and theological affirmations, the perspective within which the investigation takes place is that of the reflective rationality distinctive of philosophy. Put differently, the aim of the thesis is to examine the speculative rational work undertaken by Thomas Aquinas in the course of his discussion of issues relating to the change of bread and of wine into the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist - a discussion that Thomas introduces by first arguing to traditional Catholic belief about the outcome of this change. The examination engages with the reasonable explanatory power of the conceptual resources and the philosophical arguments drawn upon by the Angelic Doctor in his systematic study of the Eucharistic change, and of the implications of this change relative to the continuing presence of Christ in the Eucharist. 2. Scope of the Thesis. The parameters of the thesis are set by St Thomas's discussions of Eucharistic change and presence that take place in part three, questions 75-77, of his Summa Theologiae, book four, chapters 60-68, of his Summa contra Gentiles, and book four, distinctions 10-11, of his Scriptum super Libris Sententiarum Petri Lombardi. Within these parameters are to be included contributions to the issues discussed by St Thomas made by Thomas de Vio Cajetan, Domingo Banez, and Silvester of Ferrara (Ferrariensis), major commentators on the work of Thomas. Extensive presentation, and scrutiny, of opposing arguments from Duns Scotus are also included.;Following an introductory chapter concerned to situate, summarise, and indicate its principal assumptions, the thesis explores what is, for St Thomas, a major objection to affirming the substantially real presence of Christ in the Eucharist: such an affirmation is said to imply the ontological impossibility that Christ's bodily reality is simultaneously present in more than one place. The response to this objection involves an analysis of the distinction between the primary and the secondary formal effects of dimensive quantity, and the use of this distinction to argue at some length that one and the same material thing may be simultaneously present in more than one place if the secondary formal effects of dimensive quantity that would spatially situate this thing in relation to its immediate surroundings are suspended. The thesis then considers three issues dealing with what becomes of the substance of the bread and of the wine at the Eucharistic consecration. In the first of these, Thomas rejects the claim that the substance of the bread and of the wine remains in existence on the altar, affirming that the bread and wine are changed at the level of substance into the body and blood of Christ. This position requires, and receives, sustained treatment of philosophical questions concerning 'substance', and change affecting the whole substance of a thing (within a hylomorphic understanding of material realities). Related problems of individuation, causal agency, and the logic of language that both signifies, and brings about, change, are considered. The second issue investigates the claim that the substance of the bread and of the wine is not changed after all into the body and blood of Christ but is either annihilated or changed into matter-in-an-earlier-state.;This claim is rejected by St Thomas on philosophical grounds, and this section of the thesis engages critically with Cajetan on several points connected with Thomas's arguments The third issue concerns, and affirms, the capacity of bread and wine to be changed substantially into the body and blood of Christ, at which point the thesis widens out to contrast a hylomorphic with a hylomeric account of matter, and to consider at some length Duns Scotus's metaphysics of the Eucharist which oppose those of St Thomas. Chapter six of the thesis explores in some detail the responses of Cajetan and Ferrariensis to the challenges issued by Scotus, and the concluding chapter (chapter seven) provides an analysis of Thomistic ideas regarding three modes of the emergence of being: creation, natural change, transubstantiation. 3. Conclusions. The title asserts that the thesis is 'an examination of the Thomistic metaphysics of the Eucharistic presence'. This examination endorses the following conclusions: 3.1 The schemata of metaphysical concepts employed by St Thomas (e.g. the concepts of substance, accident, esse, primary matter, substantial form, creation, natural change, obediential potentiality, primary/secondary formal effects of dimensive quantity), and his lines of philosophical argument, provide a clearly valid response to 'the exigencies of the inquiring mind at work' in relation to the presence of Christ in the Eucharist. In other words, their reasonable explanatory power is evidently to be affirmed. 3.2 Pari passu the thesis indicates something of what could be called 'the mystery of matter' - the inexhaustible depths and potentialities of matter that the inquiring mind confronts when exploring matter in the distinctive situation that is matter's special dependence on the First Cause in the Eucharistic change (transubstantiation). 3.;3 The thesis is an instance of philosophical work undertaken in the first decade of the 21st century, and within the socio-cultural context of this time. This socio-cultural 'situatedness', although vastly different from the socio-cultural 'situatedness' of Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, Cajetan, Ferrariensis, and Banez, has created no culturally relative barrier - no 'incommensurability' - such as to prevent an understanding of the conceptual/argumentative activity in which these thinkers engaged some centuries ago. Human beings always and everwhere 'fit into' the same Universe through their abiding and ineluctably shared openness to being and its first principles.\nPhilosophy Commons, Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion Commons\nhttps://doi.org/10.4226/66/5a94b4175e4bb", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 68, "original_length": 7730, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 251.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://resource-yourself.com/discover-your-love-just-walk/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:22:35Z", "digest": "sha1:CPAYCZPAYQNRLFXDTHGFXGMF4WDTAGZO", "length": 5359, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "resource-yourself.com", "title": "Discover Your Love \u2013 JUST WALK! | ReSource Yourself", "raw_content": "Do you know what love feels like? Are you sure?\nThe fact is: We don\u2019t all have the experience of how the energy of love feels. That may sound harsh. But let me explain.\nWhat we call love is usually related to relationship experiences, and encompasses closeness, trust, desire, need, a mutually fulfilling exchange \u2013 or sometimes just a strong attachment to the other person.\nWhen I talk about LOVE, I mean something so much bigger than the before mentioned, something that has to do with all the areas of your life, with yourself, your work, your self-esteem, your way of being and living, and of course, your relationships.\nWhen we look at love as an energy, it can actually be quantified. We can \u201cmeasure it\u201d. It is an energy that calibrates over 500 on Dr. David Hawkins\u2019 Scale of the Levels of Consciousness. And it can be measured with the method of kinesiology, a muscle test. But most importantly, it can be noticed, felt, and has a huge effect on you and your life and those around you.\nLove energy has to do with the experience that life is a flow, that there are no coincidences, that things are connected, and even that everything is connected. Love energy comes with the experience of gratitude, joy, forgiveness, creativity, flow, inspiration, intuition, and trust in life. Doesn\u2019t that sound amazing? When you get to experience a state of love, you really don\u2019t need anything else. You don\u2019t need to reach a goal, or even be with the person you love. That\u2019s why you can even love someone who doesn\u2019t return your feelings \u2013 without suffering! Just feeling that exquisit experience within yourself is enough, and nurtures you and others.\nOnce you experience a state like that, you will always want to return to it \u2013 and it\u2019s a huge motor of inner growth and change. When you know in your heart that life can be easy and joyful, that you are safe and guided and that your life is meaningful and you are loved \u2013 you can go about your every day life in a very different and much more relaxed way.\nI have spent a large part of my professional and life journey figuring out how to \u201cget there\u201d, and how to help others to do the same. The fact is, we all have it in us. It is accessible. And it cannot be attained, not as something you need that is outside of yourself. But it can unfold from the inside out.\nOpening up to this kind of love in your life has everything to do with being willing to feel. And in fact, that is a beautiful truth also in relationships: Loving a person has to do with being willing to feel everything they are (including the negative or painful aspects). Loving yourself means allowing yourself to be all you are at any given moment, and to choose to be positive and nurturing with yourself through it all (yes, even when you think you fail, you are guilty, shameful, worthless, or fearful!)\nMoving towards the experience of love as an energy and a level of consciousness can be a life path, a life journey, and I think it\u2019s also an attainable goal, something that is possible to reach (but not to hold on to). In my experience, a big part is being willing to take responsibility of the negativity within yourself, and to learn how to transform it \u2013 doing the \u201cinner work\u201d.\nDoing the inner work can also mean to be willing to feel pain (it doesn\u2019t have to, though). And being loving means to be open to feeling the pain of others, the world, and your own. But when you let go if the idea that you have to avoid pain, when you let go of that resistance, it is oh so sweet. Behind all the control and the holding on, there is an ease, a beauty, a faith in yourself and in life, a strength, and the ability to see the positive \u2013 and that frequently transforms the pain, without you even doing anything. All I can say about this is \u201cI LOVE MY LOVE\u201d, the process, the openness, the vulnerability, the sensitivity, the connecting \u2013 and all the beautiful sensations and experiences and perspectives they bring.\nMaybe you don\u2019t understand what I am talking about, or maybe you can relate. This is what you experience when the energy in your system rises, and when you let go of old patterns and burdens. This is what you experience when things \u201cshift\u201d \u2013 as you go through your inner process. All that this shifting does is to show you that love, that flow, that immense power within yourself. And maybe you are not experienced yet in how to go with these processes, how to be with them, use them, and ignite them.\nBut in any case, there is an aspect that is so simple, and really helps: JUST WALK.\nJust walk through life, and be willing to be there, feel, be present. Stop being afraid of failing or of pain \u2013 and walk! because when you move, you make new experiences, and you can be more aware as you do. As you are more aware, you can understand, let go and surrender, and make new experiences. And if it is the experience of a consciousness level of love that you want, that is where your subconscious will guide you.\nEnjoy the path, meet you there! And please share your experiences and questions \u2013 that\u2019s what the comments section is for!\nPS: And should you be interested in discovering this energy and consciousness level in you life, but you don\u2019t know how to go about it \u2013 I can help. I can help you see your potential, and get an understanding for the steps to take! Book in a free talk with me, and we\u2019ll take it from there!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 69, "original_length": 7011, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 242.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://restorelogs.com/replacing-rotten-logs-webb-lake-wi/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:41Z", "digest": "sha1:CASE4WQN5H5L6PXX3B2J3HX2DJTM6CN2", "length": 1926, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "restorelogs.com", "title": "Replacing Rotten Logs in Webb Lake, WI | Edmunds and Company", "raw_content": "Home > Replacing Rotten Logs, Webb Lake, WI\nReplacing rotten logs in this Webb Lake, Wisconsin home was an important part of its restoration. This 75+ year old home had stood the test of time, but over the years it had developed some rot. Like many log cabins, it was nicely situated on a lake, but unfortunately, like many cabins built in this era, the lower logs were too close to the ground, making them susceptible to rot.\nOur goal when working on any log home is to maintain as much of its original design as possible. In the case of this log home, it was determined that it would be best to make a change in the picture window. The problem with the bowed wall underneath the window was resolved by removing one of the bays and filling in with new logs. This allowed for more structural support for the other two windows.\nThis cabin had rot caused by lack of \u201cfreeboard\u201d, which means the logs are too close to the ground. This allows water to splash off the ground onto the logs, and over time, they often rot. One solution to this problem is to put some sort of slab or foundation along the wall to get the lowest log up higher, but this is not always a practical solution.\nThe owner chose to have Edmunds & Company replace the rotten logs with kiln-dried cedar logs. Cedar is naturally resistant to rot, and using fully dried logs means they are stable and will not shrink or shift. One thing we often recommend when there is a lack of freeboard is to install gutters where possible to keep water from splashing onto the lower logs.\nPeople often ask if cedar logs will blend in with their original logs after staining. The answer is \u201cyes\u201d. We have used them for years with great success.\nTo learn more about this or if you would like an estimate for replacing rotten logs on your cabin, give us a call at 715-373-5744. We have over 40 years of experience!\nGutters can help prevent rot\nLeaks around windows can cause rot", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 97, "original_length": 4142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 256.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://revjktullos.com/tag/ems/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:43Z", "digest": "sha1:EN4NODYGM2XZG4CYPTCG5BVSFYQ5RMNS", "length": 5581, "nlines": 15, "source_domain": "revjktullos.com", "title": "EMS \u2013 Random Thoughts and Ramblings", "raw_content": "An Open Letter to Houston County, TN Commissioner George Jeram\nCredit: WKRN-TV Nashville\nDear Mr. Jeram,\nI have been following with great interest the ongoing saga involving Houston County EMS and the mandate that you helped to craft which prevents them from effectively doing their job. This policy, while you may have intended it well, endangers patients and can very possibly cause great harm to them.\nThe policy where Houston County EMS providers are forced to call doctors at Houston County Community Hospital is dangerous.\nI believe, however, that this policy is borne out of two things: Ignorance and desperation to try and save your county hospital. As for the ignorance portion of this equation, please allow me to educate you.\nOn a typical ambulance crew you will find two levels of providers: An Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and a Paramedic. I am not sure of the specifics of scopes of practice and protocols for Tennessee so allow me to speak in general terms. An EMT is someone who has completed what is typically a semester long course and passed skills and cognitive testing certifying they are competent to render care at the basic life support level. EMTs can perform a variety of functions including obtaining vital signs, administering medications such as oxygen and oral glucose, performing various procedures such as applying a traction splint for a fractured femur, perform defibrillation by using an automated defibrillator and even more. Many patients require only this level of care en route to a hospital.\nParamedics have completed the EMT course and certification and have also completed a technical program (often leading to an Associate\u2019s degree) through a hospital, community college or other institution of higher learning. Paramedics typically take two years to complete all of the requirements for their education and certification. Paramedics are educated in things such as anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology (disease process), a variety of medications, cardiac rhythms and their treatments, and airway management. Paramedics can initiate IVs, administer various medications such as Morphine and Valium (often without consulting a doctor due to standing orders), intubate (placing a breathing tube in a patient\u2019s trachea) and perform many other invasive procedures. In some places, paramedics can even initiate and maintain chest tubes, surgical airways and more.\nIn short, EMTs and Paramedics do much more than simply throw someone on a stretcher, take a blood pressure, and drive 80 MPH to the closest hospital. There was time when that was the normal\u2026 50+ years ago. A lot has changed and now EMS crews are able to keep a patient stable until they reach an appropriate facility for definitive care. Typically they do not have to call a doctor for orders or to \u201cfind out what\u2019s going on\u201d because they have already determined that and are treating the patient. Perhaps you were simply not aware of the capabilities of EMS providers. I would encourage you to ride a full shift with Houston County EMS in order to see it up close. I\u2019m sure they would have no problem letting you see what they are capable of.\nAs for the second part of this issue. A Google search reveals that you are a member of the committee which oversees Houston County Community Hospital and have fought hard for the hospital by encouraging your elected state officials to provide more funding for the hospital. A store by WKRN also reveals that the hospital is in serious financial trouble. I admire that you are willing to do anything in order to help the hospital stay open but this policy related to EMS is not the way to save your hospital.\nAs I mentioned, this policy is dangerous. If a patient is having a heart attack they need to be transported to a facility with a cath lab as soon as possible. If EMS is forced to transport to the local hospital first, this only serves to delay care. The patient can have a significant impact on their health up to and including death because of this delay. If there is nothing the local hospital can do in order to fix the heart attack, stopping there is a waste of time.\nI am no longer a full time paramedic but I work part time in a county that does not have a hospital within its boundaries. The nearest hospital from here is at least 30 minutes away by ground depending on which part of the county the scene is in. If a patient is having a heart attack, stroke, or has severe trauma then we have to call for a helicopter to transport the patient to a facility further away with more capabilities. We do not transport simply because the hospital is nearby. We make a decision based on the best interest of the patient. Your EMTs and Paramedics should have the same ability. That is part of their job.\nI hope that this policy is reconsidered soon and rescinded. While I will not presume to speak for your local EMS providers, I know I would not work at an EMS with such a policy and would immediately resign. I could not ethically or morally be employed for a service with policies that will not allow me to render the best care or to ensure that my patient receives the best care once they leave my cot. This policy not only hamstrings your EMS crews but is also a disservice to the citizens of Houston County.\nI highly doubt you will ever see this post, Mr. Jeram, but I hope that someone is able to convince you that while this policy may have good intentions it is most assuredly flawed. For the sake of the citizens and EMS providers of Houston County, I hope this policy is changed.\nRev. 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A judge granted the Grammy winner\u2019s wishes and placed a gag order on her estranged husband, banning him from speaking about her, their marriage and their divorce proceedings to the press.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 261, "original_length": 8063, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 284.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rideforhealing.com/honoring-the-wall-with-music/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:43:14Z", "digest": "sha1:DNIITXWHXBBVAYA4QXEFXCPW2VLMBOBT", "length": 134, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "rideforhealing.com", "title": "Honoring The Wall \u2013 with Music", "raw_content": "Tim Williams composed and performed the song \u201cThe Wall\u201d and has dedicated it to the Vietnam Vets, Tim would like to share it with you\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 58, "original_length": 1406, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 74.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2017/02/79020/planning-board-split-on-solar-farm-environmental-study-requirement/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:09:04Z", "digest": "sha1:MULEV6RVICQCDXA74UFJ6UPBOYFFA34D", "length": 3139, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com", "title": "Planning Board split on solar farm environmental study requirement", "raw_content": "Planning Board split on solar farm environmental study requirement\nThe Riverhead Town Planning Board decided in a split vote Thursday to require an environmental study for the latest Calverton solar farm proposal.\nUtah solar company sPower is seeking to build a 20-megawatt solar panel installation on 109 acres at a sod farm located south of Route 25. In 2015, the company built the 9.2-megawatt solar farm on 45 acres on the east side of Edwards Avenue. That project didn\u2019t require an environmental study.\nPlanning Board chairman Stan Carey said Thursday the environmental study is needed in order to determine how the solar farm will affect the land, as well as its potential impact to the town\u2019s agricultural industry.\nIn addition, the town has been also dealing with the issue of whether glare from the solar panels will affect aircraft landing at the two runways at Enterprise Park at Calverton.\nMr. Carey added he believes the Planning Board\u2019s decision isn\u2019t a vote against the plan and stressed the vetting process is needed in order to address the town\u2019s environmental concerns.\nThe board voted in favor of requiring the study by a 3-2 vote. Board members Ed Densieski and Richard O\u2019Dea cast dissenting votes.\n\u201cAs far as I\u2019m concerned, the community is better served with a solar farm than a sod farm,\u201d Mr. Denieski said.\nThe amount of taxes and payments in lieu of taxes sPower will make to the town from the proposed solar farm is about $800,000, whereas the taxes and PILOTs the land pays as farmland is only about $6,000, according to sPower representatives.\n\u201cIt\u2019s not the Planning Board\u2019s job to handle money, but $800,000 can go a long way,\u201d Mr. O\u2019Dea said.\nDuring the public comment portion of the meeting, Long Island Farm Bureau administrative director Rob Carpenter urged the board not to require the study because that process could delay the project by more than nine month and cost as much as $50,000.\nMr. Carpenter added farmland can easily be turned back into farms once the solar panels are removed.\nRick DeLea, whose family owns the sod farm, said the loss of 109 acres won\u2019t hurt the local agriculture industry because he\u2019s already purchased 230 acres less than a mile away and plans to turn it into another sod farm.\nJamesport farmer and former Planning Board member Lyle Wells said that when the town was developing its commercial solar regulations, the town\u2019s agricultural advisory and farmland preservation committees described solar farms as an \u201cad-hoc\u201d way of preserving farmland.\n\u201cThere\u2019s very low disturbance of soils and if the solar panels become no longer viable, the land can be converted back to farmland very easily,\u201d he said. \u201cEveryone was in agreement that this was a less expensive way of preserving farmland that purchase of or transfer of development rights.\u201d\nPhoto: Long Island Farm Bureau administrative director Rob Carpenter addresses the Riverhead Town Planning Board on Thursday. (Credit: Tim Gannon)\nCalverton solar farm, Long Island Farm Bureau, Riverhead Town Planning Board, Riverhead Town solar, Rob Carpenter\nSouthampton Blotter: Riverhead man caught with cocaine\nTheodore Settanni", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 192, "original_length": 8375, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 311.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rivertonfreelibrary.org/2015/01/whats-new-treat-yourself-to-a-new-read/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:48:57Z", "digest": "sha1:XMO2YVSOIZDF6URAEQZN6W6IIFAPZR33", "length": 1500, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "rivertonfreelibrary.org", "title": "What\u2019s New? Treat Yourself to a New Read | Riverton Free Library", "raw_content": "What\u2019s New? Treat Yourself to a New Read\nThis is the first of a series of book reviews by staff member, Nancy Fort. Looking for a great book to read? Check out her recommendations!\nYou\u2019ve heard of \u201cEat the Rainbow\u201d\u2026now you can Read the rainbow. Several of the books that I have read recently use colors to add depth to the characters and story.\nThe Book Thief by Marcus Zusak I didn\u2019t really want to read another book set during World War II but this offers such a unique perspective that I was immediately drawn in. Zusak\u2019s narrator often notes the color of the sky or landscape to illustrate the emotional temperature of the scene. There is a film adaptation of this novel available at the library and I just may borrow it to see if the filmmakers carried this use of color into the film.\nColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami This was the first book that I have read by this well regarded author but it won\u2019t be the last. The story begins with the teenager Tazaki and his group of four friends. All of their names refer to colors in Japanese, except for Tazaki\u2019s. He feels this makes him a bit of an outsider to the group and as the story unfolds, he spends many years trying to reconcile this image of himself with the events of his life.\nSacr\u00e9 Bleu, a comedy d\u2019art by Christopher Moore This story follows the quest of French impressionist painters for the sacred blue. It is a strange and fanciful tale of painters and the lengths they will go to for their art.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 30, "original_length": 2193, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 233.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rnbcincy.com/87152/teacher-suspended-for-stepping-on-american-flag-during-lesson-on-first-amendment/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:20Z", "digest": "sha1:NKP3BN5PCSLKHYR6EB53AU3MP57GX237", "length": 867, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "rnbcincy.com", "title": "Teacher Suspended For Stepping On American Flag | 100.3", "raw_content": "Teacher Suspended For Stepping On American Flag During Lesson On First Amendment\n11/30/16- Roland Martin talks to Lee Francis, the black male teacher in Fayetteville, North Carolina who was suspended for stepping on an American flag during a teaching of the First Amendment. The fate of his professional teaching career will be found on today, Wednesday November 30th.\n\u201cit was not act of defiance at all. we were teaching about the American Revolution. We were going through each amendment and we get to the part about symbolic speech. I used the flag as a demonstration. It was a couple taps of my foot, I don\u2019t deny that I stepped on it, but that was it. I was not in any way influencing them,\u201d Francis said.\nTeacher Suspended For Stepping On American Flag During Lesson On First Amendment was originally published on blackamericaweb.com\nLee Francis\t, Roland Martin", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 144, "original_length": 3515, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 321.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rosetta.cnes.fr/en/ROSETTA/index.htm", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:47:02Z", "digest": "sha1:FICV2JWFYKXFGKAIGZG6TFAKZYGPJSDN", "length": 2319, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "rosetta.cnes.fr", "title": "Rosetta/Philae | Rosetta/Philae", "raw_content": "Orbiting and landing on a comet\nMission Study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and its behaviour as it approaches the Sun\nLaunch date 2 March 2004\nPartners ESA (initiator), CNES, DLR\nLocalisation In orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko\nMission lifetime 12 years (18 months of close observation)\nThe Rosetta spacecraft arrived at comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, going into orbit and releasing a lander to study the composition of its surface and learn more about how our solar system formed.\nIn 2004, Europe\u2019s Rosetta probe departed Earth on the start of a 10-year journey to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, which it began observing close up in July 2014. Then in November 2014 Rosetta released the Philae lander onto the comet\u2019s surface to analyse it from all angles, studying the composition of its soil, its physical properties and level of activity.\nThis science phase is planned to last at least 18 months in an effort to gain new insights into the formation of the solar system. As comets were formed at the same time as our solar system 4\u00bd billion years ago, well before the planets, they offer a glimpse of what conditions were like when it was born.\nThe orbiter and its lander\nTo accomplish this mission, the orbiter and its lander are carrying no fewer than 21 instruments (11 on the orbiter, 10 on the lander). The Rosetta mission is part of the European Space Agency\u2019s Horizon 2000 programme. France and CNES are contributing to this mission in several areas. For the orbiter, CNES is overseeing the CONSERT instrument (Comet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission), a radar designed by the IPAG planetology and astrophysics institute in Grenoble, the LATMOS atmospheres, environments and space observations laboratory and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany to study the inner structure of the comet\u2019s nucleus. Airbus Defence & Space Germany (formerly EADS Astrium) is the prime contractor for the orbiter. For the lander, CNES supplied the primary and secondary batteries.\nThe agency is also responsible for the mission\u2019s Science Operations and Navigation Centre (SONC) and oversaw development of the CIVA camera (Comet Infrared & Visible Analyser) by the IAS space astrophysics institute in Orsay and the LAM astrophysics laboratory in Marseille.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 378, "original_length": 8700, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 211.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://royalartistgroup.com/ernest-ranglin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:56Z", "digest": "sha1:ORUM6HWK23GUB5Y76LJDZYQSXG7HMI2H", "length": 6631, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "royalartistgroup.com", "title": "Royal Artist Group - Ernest Ranglin", "raw_content": "\"The venerable musician, arranger and A&R man was content to saunter around the stage, stopping near whichever colleague he wanted to vibe with.\"\n-United Reggae, July 2016\n\"When Ranglin came onstage, his musical memory was flawless. Over the course of a 90-minute set with Avila, he put on a clinic that touched on jazz, ska and, most certainly, reggae guitar.\"\n-Seattle Times, August 2015\n\"Ranglin was a key figure in shaping the sounds of ska \u2014 influenced by New Orleans jazz and R&B \u2014 in Jamaica in the late 1950s. The effects of Ranglin's fluid and rhythmic playing on Jamaican music, from mento to reggae, are deep and long-lasting, but his work as a jazz artist is equally amazing.\"\n-NPR, August 2014\n\"This is music built to last by a sage old cat who still happens to be one of the most interesting, and classiest, guitarists around.\"\n-NPR, October 2012\nErnest Ranglin was born June 19, 1932, and grew up in the small town of Robin\u2019s Hall in the Parish of Manchester, a rural community in Jamaica. Ranglin\u2019s destiny was set from an early age when two of his uncles showed him the rudiments of playing the guitar. Ranglin learned how to play by imitating his uncles, but he was soon to be influenced by the recordings of the great American jazz guitarist Charlie Christian. He moved to Kingston, ostensibly to finish his studies at Bodmin College, but his true lessons came from guitar books and late-night sessions watching the Jamaican dance bands of the time. In 1948 he joined his first group, the Val Bennett Orchestra, playing in the local hotels. By the early fifties, he was a member of Jamaica\u2019s best-known group, the Eric Deans Orchestra, touring around the Caribbean and as far north as the Bahamas. The big bands gave Ranglin the chance to learn how to orchestrate and arrange. The constant tours and meeting musicians from other traditions also gave Ranglin a wider vision. Once, for instance, in Nassau his performance was heard by Les Paul, who gave Ranglin a guitar in admiration of his talents.\nIn 1958 Ranglin was leading his own quintet, playing the leading hotels in Kingston and the resorts on the north of the Island. One engagement in Montego Bay was a show caught by a young would- be record producer called Chris Blackwell. Immediately impressed by Ranglin\u2019s extraordinary talents, Blackwell offered him the chance to make a record. The album featured pianist Lance Heywood with Ernest Ranglin. It was the very first release by Island Records and the start of a long association between Ranglin and Blackwell. In 1959 Ranglin had joined the bassist Cluett Johnson in a studio group called Clue J and His Blues Blasters. This was a very different kind of style to the big bands: it was traditional Jamaican music superseded by a tough urban stance influenced by the pervading sounds of American R&B. Johnson and Ranglin recorded several instrumentals for producer Clement \u2018Coxsone\u2019 Dodd. The first of these tunes, \u201cShuffling Bug,\u201d is widely regarded as the first example of ska, the shuffle rhythm which exaggerated the \u2018jump beat\u2019 heard on New Orleans\u2019 R&B records of the fifties. Ska became the bedrock of Jamaican popular music, leading to rock steady, reggae, ragga and all the innovations the island has brought into the global mainstream.\nRanglin\u2019s fluent and versatile guitar style, coupled with his arrangement skills, meant he was in constant demand right through the ska era, working with the likes of Prince Buster and Baba Brooks among others. Around this time Blackwell had a song he thought could be a pop smash. Blackwell brought young Jamaican singer Millie Smalls and Ranglin to London; they recorded \u201cMy Boy Lollipop\u201d which, in the spring of that year, reached No. 2 in the U.K. chart. It went on to become a worldwide hit, the first time ska had infiltrated into the vocabulary of pop music.\nIn 1964 Ranglin was in London with Blackwell, who asked if Ranglin could play Ronnie Scott\u2019s Jazz Club. Initially the manager was reluctant, but allowed Ranglin to perform. The reception the audience gave to his performance was overwhelming and Ranglin was invited to become the venue\u2019s resident guitarist. He stayed for nine months, backing numerous guest artists as well as appearing on stage with the Ronnie Scott Quartet and Quintet. Ranglin\u2019s tenure at Ronnie Scott\u2019s brought him to the attention of U.K. Jazz audiences. Ranglin took first place in the guitar category of Melody Maker\u2019s 1964 Reader\u2019s Jazz poll.\nUpon his return to Jamaica he found himself once again doing session work with Coxsone Dodd. He was involved in the recording of The Wailers\u2019 track \u201cIt Hurts to Be Alone\u201d released by Island Records. Ranglin was also music director for the recording of The Melodians\u2019 song \u201cRivers of Babylon.\u201d The closing years of the sixties found Ranglin working with the Jamaican producers Lee \u201cScratch\u201d Perry and Clancy Eccles; both of whom were instrumental in developing and establishing the new genre of reggae. Ranglin played on the Eccles-produced \u201cSay What You\u2019re Saying\u201d by Eric \u201cMonty\u201d Morris, which is one of the earliest records to feature reggae drumming.\nIn 1973 the Jamaican government awarded Ranglin the Order of Distinction for his contribution to music. Ranglin toured with Jimmy Cliff in the dual role of music director and guitarist, which resulted in the 1976 album \u201cIn Concert: The Best of Jimmy Cliff.\u201d Ranglin was the lead guitarist on the Lee \u2018Scratch\u2019 Perry recording sessions for the 1977 album \u201cHeart of the Congos\u201d album by The Congos. In recent years, Ernest Ranglin has gone back to his roots and has made various cross-cultural collaborations and concept albums. In 2002 Ranglin was awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of the West Indies for his outstanding contribution to the development of music in Jamaica. In 2006 he was the subject of a documentary \u201cRoots Of Reggae: The Ernest Ranglin Story\u201d produced and written by Arthur Gorson. In 2008 Ranglin was inducted into the Jamaican Music Hall of Fame.\nRanglin shows no signs of slowing down and he continues to unselfishly give himself to the music, his fans and his collaborators, including the band he played and recorded with in the summer of 2011, Avila. Their music blends Ranglin\u2019s beautiful ska reggae energy with an expansive new sound from this international supergroup of musicians. This band includes drummer Inx Herman, (Hugh Masekela, Paul Simon, Sting, Mickey Hart Band, Hamsa Lila), bassist Yossi Fine, (Gil Evans, John Scofield, Kenny Kirkland, Lou Reed, Rub\u00e9n Blades, Stanley Jordan) and keyboard ace Jonathan Korty (Vinyl, Electric Apricot).\nwww.ErnestRanglin.com", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 8356, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 182.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://rstv.nic.in/tag/representation-of-the-people-amendment-bill-2017", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:11Z", "digest": "sha1:JJI4VE4M5RU4KYVYRXM52F3LYGKTWVWZ", "length": 117, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "rstv.nic.in", "title": "\ufeff Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill 2017 Archives - Rajya Sabha TV", "raw_content": "RRepresentation of the People (Amendment) Bill 2017\nPosts Tagged /Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill 2017/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 194, "original_length": 13593, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 170.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://runamukacres.com/about-me/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:21Z", "digest": "sha1:IFFY6U7JJVY6JP5W2HHKEGYPILAOOGO7", "length": 6418, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "runamukacres.com", "title": "About Me \u2022 Runamuk Acres", "raw_content": "I am Sam; Sam I am.\nSam(antha) Burns\nFarmer. Beekeeper. Blogger.\nPollinator Conservationist. Local Food Advocate.\nWorking to increase my own self-sufficiency in hopes of living more lightly upon the Earth.\nMine is a story much like that of many other farmers today, for we are all of us faced with the same challenges: land access, lack of capital, and a steep learning curve\u2500just to name a few of the hurdles. I however, had to go and check the box for just about every disadvantage a farmer might have to overcome in order to succeed. I\u2019m a first-generation beginning farmer, with a focus on honeybees at a time when bees are dying at a rate of 37% per year\u2500oh, and by the way, I happen to be female. I also choose to call economically deprived Somerset County, Maine, my home.\nLoving life on my new farm in New Portland, Maine!\nMost farmers are acting on some kind of intrinsically motivating principle, for farming and growing food in itself has become one of the most radical of acts of protest against the corporate powers that we know today. Working in harmony with nature, in direct support of ourselves, in support of those we care about, and in support of our communities, we are doing the most essential thing necessary to change the world: we\u2019re changing ourselves.\nThat\u2019s what my story is about. It\u2019s about one woman\u2019s love for nature and how it led her to a life of farming and conservation. Every choice I have made in my life has been motivated by a desire to live alongside nature, to have this deep and inspiring connection to the Earth. I want to be tied to the ebbing and flowing rhythms of life in an intimate way. This love for nature and the Earth is so deep and so strong that I am compelled to take action to protect that which I care about.\nOnce I had children I became more determined to make changes in my life that aligned with that desire. I wanted my boys to grow up to love and protect the Earth the way that I do, in hopes that a future generation might find a way for humanity to exist without destroying the planet we live and depend upon. I became a proponent for recycling, composting, reducing waste, increased self-sufficiency, animal rights and wildlife conservation. I learned to cook my own food, bake my own breads, and how to grow my own food. Over the years my affinity for nature has led me to a life in agriculture. Eventually I realized I could earn my income using the skills I\u2019d developed, and I found my calling as a farmer and a beekeeper.\nI\u2019ve been working in the Call Center at Johnny\u2019s Selected Seeds since January 4th, 2015!\nFor nearly 20 years, I have been studying and practicing methods of living that are geared toward living more lightly upon the Earth. It started with recycling, organic gardening, and composting, but gradually led to livestock husbandry, beekeeping, and market-farming.\nIn 2011, I took the Master Gardener course offered by UMaine\u2019s Somerset County Cooperative Extension, and I have been active within the surrounding communities ever since.\nIn May 2012 the Xerces Society held their Pollinator Conservation Short-Course at MOFGA in Unity and I attended, learning more about how to preserve and create habitat for native pollinators. In 2012 the Somerset Beekeepers participated in both the Skowhegan State Fair, and the New Portland LIONS Fair for the very first time\u2500and I was there with display and with bees to tell the public all about Maine\u2019s native pollinators.\nFor 5 years I led the Somerset Beekeepers\u2500a local chapter of the Maine State Beekeepers\u2019 Association. I served as the group\u2019s president, working throughout the communities of Somerset County to teach people about the importance of pollinators, and to teach new beekeepers about the art and joy of beekeeping. Though I recently stepped down from both of those positions in order to better meet the demands of my own farm, I still serve as a beekeeping mentor in the area, and promote pollinator conservation through other channels.\nI\u2019m a bold advocate for local food access.\nI established the Madison Farmers\u2019 Market in 2012, and have served as Market Manager for the last 5 years. I stand on the front lines of the food revolution as a farmer and as an advocate for increased access to fresh, locally produced food for the same community that I grew up in\u2500the same communities that both my mother and my father grew up in.\nFollowing a divorce that left both my farm and I landless, I\u2019ve found solidarity working for other farms while I regained my footing. Eventually I found myself in the Call Center at Johnny\u2019s Selected Seeds, in a part-time position that affords me ultimate flexibility for my schedule. Working there I have been able to continue growing my apiary and farm-operation, and now\u2500after nearly 10 years\u2500I have finally managed to buy a farm for Runamuk to be able to put down roots. Finally I can bring to life the vision that I have for a pollinator conservation farm and I am chomping at the bit to make it happen!\nI have been writing since high school, for a short time as a correspondent to the Kingfield Irregular, a small local paper here in Maine. More recently I\u2019ve worked as a freelance writer, publishing online and with local publications such as the Somerset Cooperative Extension\u2019s monthly newsletter, and also the Beeline\u2500a bi-monthly publication produced by the Maine State Beekeepers\u2019 Association. Click here to read some of my work, which includes not only topics about sustainable living, but also materials for homeschooling, especially geared toward secular homeschoolers, scientific pursuits and nature studies.\nConnect with Runamuk\nMine has not been an easy journey. It is a raw tale with real-life twists and turns to the plot, but somehow whenever I fall, I always manage to pick myself up once again. Somehow I continue working toward my goal to generate the entirety of my income, to support myself and my family, through the labors of farming. Through the keeping of bees no less, an industry which is struggling under the pressures of the modern industrialized corporate system that chokes our planet and sucks at our souls like something akin to a Dementor.\nSubscribe to the Runamuk feed by email (see the widget in the sidebar!) to follow along with my story. Keep in touch with Runamuk by connecting with me via one of the social networks that I am active on, or feel free to stop by the Madison Farmers\u2019 Market to say hi!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 110, "original_length": 8143, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 271.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://runwright.net/2016/03/20/redefining-wellth/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:59Z", "digest": "sha1:IMOXMLP3VAEM42ECTITWRIXHUYKIL6D3", "length": 3068, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "runwright.net", "title": "Redefining Wellth \u2013 RUN WRIGHT", "raw_content": "Redefining Wellth\nI bet you have a savings account. It\u2019s where you put all the spare money you get, accumulating it for a rainy day \u2013 sometime in the future when you will need it. It\u2019s nice to have a little nest egg. It\u2019s reassuring to have a little cushion so you don\u2019t have to worry about every little thing that happens; a little savings account gives you some peace of mind when the unexpected happens. Building wealth starts with making consistent deposits into your account and keeping them there until you need them.\nBut what if I told you your life savings shouldn\u2019t be in a Chase bank account \u2013 that, instead, your life savings should be on your body. Actually, it should be your body. Your \u201clife savings\u201d is how well your body can do the things you need it to. Your life savings, then isn\u2019t your wealth; it\u2019s your Wellth.\nThat\u2019s what Jason Wachob says in his new book Wellth: How I Learned to Build a Life, Not a R\u00e9sum\u00e9 . Wachob is the founder of MindBodyGreen and in the book, he talks about the tenets of health \u2013 mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health \u2013 and how these are the measure of happiness; not the accumulation of money and material wealth.\nWellth, then isn\u2019t a typo \u2013 the true indication of a life well-lived is wellth, not wealth.\nThere\u2019s a quote attributed to David Geffen in the book that says:\nAnybody who thinks money will make you happy hasn\u2019t got money.\nSure, we all want some money \u2013 enough to buy the things that make us comfortable \u2013 good clothes, a home, education, reliable food supply. But what after that? Talk to anyone who\u2019s sick and they\u2019ll probably tell you they\u2019d give everything they have in exchange for health. I know when I\u2019m sick \u2013 even just the cold or allergies that I\u2019ve been dealing with the last few weeks \u2013 all my focus is on getting well. I\u2019m willing to give up any food that I like if it means I can get better faster. Wellth then isn\u2019t money, it\u2019s happiness, freedom from disease and freedom from worrying about it.\nLike other books in this genre, Wachob discusses how each of several actions helps to make a person more \u201cwell-thy\u201d. What distinguishes Wellth from other books like it are the practical examples \u2013 how to make deposits in your wellth account, how to marry Eastern and Western treatments to find the best treatments for you, how to find the best diet for your body, how to have the best relationships. Each chapter ends with tips, some from the authors experience, many from experts in other fields, on how to live to be wellthy.\nI enjoyed reading this book. In fact, I am in the middle of a health phase right now where I\u2019m focusing on practical things I can do to increase my overall health so I read Wellth from cover to cover in just two days. I am recommending it because I think other health-conscious folk will enjoy it too.\nAuthor: Jason Wachob\nPrint: Hardcover\nNote: I received a free copy of Wellth from Blogging for Books in order to write this review.\nHealthWealthWhat it means to be healthy\nPrevious Post 10 Books On My Spring TBR\nNext Post Transitioning To Plant Based Eating", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 6722, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 327.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://ruraltimberwindow.co.uk/flush-casement-windows-stratford/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:06Z", "digest": "sha1:XJNIVER4YYSQ7NVAC4M5DFQ7QLNK5BGE", "length": 2184, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "ruraltimberwindow.co.uk", "title": "Flush Casement Windows | Stratford Upon Avon", "raw_content": "Flush Casement Windows Stratford Upon Avon \u2013 Rural Timber Windows\nOctober was a busy month for the Rural Timbers team, with one of our projects to replace the existing uPVC windows and doors of a detached home in the medieval market town of Stratford-upon-Avon. The owner of the 1920\u2019s house was keen on restoring the property so that it would resemble its original appearance, whilst still maintaining high levels of energy efficiency.\nWe carefully removed the existing uPVC windows and doors before replacing them with beautifully crafted flush casement windows. The new windows operate by using openers which close directly into the frame. These then finish flush with the face of the window, giving very clean and simple lines, which complement the key features of the house.\nHand crafted Georgian glazing bars also helped to emphasise the period style windows, creating an aesthetically pleasing finish to the overall look of the house. The timber frames were coated with Farrow & Ball\u2019s Pointing paint, a popular shade of off-white which has a light yet warm undertone, making a great alternative to the stark finish of the commonly used bright white gloss. The client chose classic Chrome Peardrop handles for the windows, in keeping with the traditional feel of the property.\nAlthough the appearance of flush casement windows is very traditional, the performance of these window units is highly contemporary. Double glazed panes help to keep the warm air inside and the cold air out, rendering the windows energy efficient and on a par with more modern styles.\nThey are also extremely secure, and intruders will have a difficult time trying to break through the strong glass and the well-constructed timber frames.\nWe\u2019re pleased to report that the client was delighted with the result, and expressed their surprise in that the windows and doors complemented the house so well \u2013 the bespoke design fitted the property perfectly!\nIf you are looking for new windows and doors for your property but don\u2019t want mass produced plastic window frames, get in touch with our team on 01905 841 199 and we will recommend a high quality alternative which will be perfect for your property.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 82, "original_length": 4646, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 322.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://russianlife.com/stories/online/exercise-frozen-bikes-illegal-yoga-sturdy-stolen-statues/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:00:32Z", "digest": "sha1:C2FSGKQMZTXNCZCYDM44EOKH5KKZN3KG", "length": 2339, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "russianlife.com", "title": "Exercise! Frozen bikes, illegal yoga, sturdy stolen statues - Russian Life", "raw_content": "Sport can be hazardous to your health\n1. Dreaming of a bike Christmas: what better way to celebrate -27 degrees (-17 F) temperatures than a brisk bike ride through the capital? That\u2019s what about 500 bicyclists did in Moscow on Sunday. They had two goals: first, prove that bicycles are workable transportation all year long. Second: not get hypothermia. At least false beards, fur coats, and heated handlebars could help out with the latter.\n2. How much do you love your honey pie? Enough to swipe a statue from a public park for a New Year\u2019s present? That was one Moscow man\u2019s idea of a gift for his girlfriend, but he was caught red-handed while trying to make away with a gilded statue from Sokolniki Park. The statue \u2013 which depicts a \u201cChief Accountant Fairy\u201d (you know, one of those) \u2013 cost about 3 million rubles. Any chief accountant would bewail its disappearance, so it\u2019s lucky a good fairy ensured its return.\n3. Do a downward dog...all the way to the jailhouse. A yoga teacher is on trial for suspected illegal missionary work after a lecture on yogic philosophy. The man who filed a complaint against the yogi is a Russian Orthodox activist whose wife left him to join a cult \u2013 presumably linked to yoga. The trial is controversial, with the yogi claiming his lecture was purely academic and one of the police officers involved doubting his own signature on the police report. Sounds like everyone involved needs a good meditate.\nWhat did 2017 look like in 1967? National Geographic shows you exactly how the Soviet past imagined the future.\nRussia\u2019s got plenty of nature, but there\u2019s plenty left unexplored. Take a peek at some new natural wonders.\nLearning the names of Russia\u2019s oblasts? Now you can do it through song, at last! Really, that\u2019s a line in it. With 85 federal subjects of Russia, it only gets better.\n\u201cIn a sense, we can say that yoga merges with religion. And in fact it\u2019s been that way since the beginning, because the root of \u2018yoga,\u2019 which means \u2018connection,\u2019 carries the same meaning as the Latin words \u2018religare\u2019 or \u2018religion,\u2019 that is, a person who goes the way of yoga communicates with God.\u201d\n\u2014The words that allegedly triggered the police to arrest Dmitry Ugai while he was giving a lecture on the history and philosophy of yoga.\nTags: RussiaMoscowbikeslawyoga\nRussian Fairy Tales of Royalty and Rappers", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 129, "original_length": 5161, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 321.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2018/11/12/uc-davis-vet-students-animals-camp-fire/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:25:22Z", "digest": "sha1:ZJRDGVTHSKLGGBGOVOTR7ISEJUHNQNDM", "length": 742, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sacramento.cbslocal.com", "title": "UC Davis Veterinary Students Help Animals Hurt In Camp Fire \u2013 CBS Sacramento", "raw_content": "UC Davis Veterinary Students Help Animals Hurt In Camp Fire\nFiled Under:Camp Fire, UC Davis\n(source: UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine)\nBUTTE COUNTY (CBS13) \u2014 Helping animals big and small forced from their homes by the Camp Fire, the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine is working hard to treat animals hurt in the blaze.\nThe school posted photos Monday showing the efforts from faculty veterinarians, residents, students, and vet tech staff, working together to treat the animals hurt in the fire.\nThe school noted that this work is being done at no cost to animal owners and is being funded by donations given to the Veterinary Catastrophic Need Fund.\nIf you would like to donate to this fund, you can make a gift on their website.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 203, "original_length": 9326, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 329.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sainfoinc.com/portfolio_page/firstouch", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:28Z", "digest": "sha1:WPX2EQMAI7PHOU653EEFSVUL5ARCI6N3", "length": 243, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "sainfoinc.com", "title": "First Touch - Sainfoinc Technology Pvt Ltd", "raw_content": "First Touch is passionate about creating the best Brand experience for your customers at every touch point. For the last 10 years they\nhave been innovating in design, material, technology and manufacturing systems to offer that WOW experience.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 60, "original_length": 1518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 283.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sajems.org/index.php/sajems/article/view/1681", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:09:32Z", "digest": "sha1:2MFISIPIAZL2SHMAEMZ3A6JIRLAOU6FF", "length": 799, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "sajems.org", "title": "Financial innovations and bank performance in Kenya: Evidence from branchless banking models | Chipeta | South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences", "raw_content": "South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences | Vol 21, No 1 | a1681 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v21i1.1681\t| \u00a9 2018 Chimwemwe Chipeta, Moses Muthinja | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0\nSubmitted: 25 October 2016 | Published: 03 October 2018\nChimwemwe Chipeta, School of Economic and Business Sciences, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa\nMoses M. Muthinja, Department of Finance, Risk Management and Banking, College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa; and Department of Business, Faculty of Business and Communication Studies, St Pauls University, Kenya\nfinancial innovation; financial performance; branchless banking; network externalities; industry adjusted ROE/ROA", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 4347, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 326.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://samgentle.com/posts/2015-09-24-middle-out", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:48Z", "digest": "sha1:4YWWCVBDI6BVKSLKSHAG46VQR7NE7TNC", "length": 3130, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "samgentle.com", "title": "Middle-out - Sam Gentle.com", "raw_content": "Middle-out\nWhen creating something, it often seems like you start from a particular point and fill the rest in around it. For example, you start with an amazing character idea and build a plot around that character, or alternatively you start with a great plot idea and find characters that can drive it. Or, if you're Asimov, you just write your ideas down and hope for the best.\nIn software businesses there are similar starting points. You can start with a particular product and figure out the engineering necessary to build it - that's most modern web startups. You can start with an engineering breakthrough or scientific discovery and figure out how to turn it into a product \u2013 that's basically the rest of the startups. Even in the software itself, you often have to choose which components to start with, which database or web framework or game engine, and that decision then shapes all the subsequent decisions you can make.\nAnd I think that really misses something. Because when you commit hard to an early decision it means there are significant limitations to how you can make all the other decisions. You can often feel this in a codebase, a kind of impedance mismatch where you can see lots of translation layers between different modules because they're designed in different ways that don't line up well. Or you avoid that by only using modules that fit nicely with the existing ones, even if that means they don't work well in other ways.\nI once read that Jony Ive's philosophy on design is different because he spends so much time thinking about materials and how they can complement or inform product design. The particular choice of metal or plastic, or what kind of manufacturing process to use, doesn't come right at the end, as it does with many other companies, but is part of the process the whole way through. Instead of saying \"we want a laptop this size, therefore we'll make it out of metal\", or \"we want something made out of metal, how about a laptop?\", it's more like \"we like laptops, we like metal, I wonder if those can go together\".\nUltimately I think this kind of philosophy is best. Obviously there's nothing stopping you from picking one most important starting point and fitting everything around that, but I believe that really amazing feats of design and engineering only happen as a kind of simultaneous equation. You consider all of the possible options for all of the aspects of the thing you're making, and among those you find a set that fits together so beautifully that the resulting product just falls out naturally.\nOf course, that's much easier said than done. All of the options for all of the aspects is a fearsome combinatorial explosion to deal with. In practice, you probably have to pick your battles on that front, and be sensitive to the limitations of your poor fleshy brain and the time available to the project. However, I think that in many cases picking one place to start is a very early optimisation, and an unnecessary one. Taking the time to think about the right set of primitives can give you something much better than you could have designed incrementally.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 11, "original_length": 3233, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 273.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sandiegofengshuiblog.wordpress.com/tag/feng-shui/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:57Z", "digest": "sha1:3MRK42C7OAPRJ5VOQI4WEYS6VTVDYMF3", "length": 2839, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "sandiegofengshuiblog.wordpress.com", "title": "Feng Shui | Feng Shui that Makes Sense by Cathleen McCandless", "raw_content": "Letting go of What No Longer Serves You with Feng Shui\nThis article is taken from my December 2016 Newsletter. To read the newsletter, please click here.\nMany years ago I had a client who had moved five times in two years. She made a joke saying, \u201cMoving five times in two years was as good as a fire\u201d, meaning that moving that often had given her many opportunities to get rid of lots of stuff. Many times when we think of letting go of items in our homes we think of cleaning out our closets, but real letting go involves reevaluating everything in our homes, not just the things we have tucked away.\nWhen I moved from California to Hawaii, I moved out of a rather large home that I\u2019d lived in for 17 years. Prior to moving into that home my mother had passed away, so not only did I have 17 years of my own stuff I had a lot of her things too. Moving over the ocean is a completely different experience than moving over land. I had to evaluate each item I owned; determining whether or not it was worth the expense of shipping it thousands of miles away. In the end, I managed to get rid of about 90 percent of what I owned; shipping only the items that were small enough and/or meaningful enough to warrant the hassle and expense of doing so. The process was emotional, exhausting, and ultimately freeing.\nFeng Shui is about living and working in spaces that feel as good as they look. Part of having those spaces feel good has to do with the emotional connections we have with the things we choose to surround ourselves. Our homes are our sanctuaries, and we need to treat them as such. When the items in our homes lose their purpose and meaning, the energy in our homes and in turn in our lives can start to feel like dull, ordinary, and burdensome. Letting go of what no longer serves an emotional or practical purpose is very liberating, and that fresh new feeling can transfer over to other aspects of our life as well.\nYou don\u2019t need to wait for a move to get started. Here are ten tips to get you going right now.\n1. Go through each room in your home with a box and force yourself to get rid of five things in each room. If you don\u2019t want it, need it, love it, or use it, get rid of it!\n2. When you bring in something new, get rid of something old.\n3. Take photos of items that you no longer wish to keep or store, but that may have sentimental meaning. For example, I got rid of a box of childhood toys that I\u2019d kept for decades. Taking a photo of those items before letting them go helped me to give them up.\n4. Remember that you are under no obligation to keep something that someone gives you. It\u2019s your home and you need to be the one who decides what goes and what stays.\nPosted in Feng Shui, Interior Design, Manifesting what you want in Life\nTagged clutter, Feng Shui, letting go of what no longer serves you, organizing", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 281, "original_length": 32627, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 266.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/485/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:03Z", "digest": "sha1:A3CABWJGWRCRCBXERXQ4Z4L7H3CWM6FK", "length": 288, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org", "title": "Re: [PATCH] increase block size limit | Satoshi Nakamoto Institute", "raw_content": "It can start being in versions way ahead, so by the time it reaches that block number and goes into effect, the older versions that don't have it are already obsolete.\nWhen we're near the cutoff block number, I can put an alert to old versions to make sure they know they have to upgrade.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 23, "original_length": 886, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 263.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://saverilawfirm.com/attorneys/joseph-r-saveri/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:11Z", "digest": "sha1:TKF7ZRSEB3JQN3UB5CYOOFY2GD5HJ5H6", "length": 10050, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "saverilawfirm.com", "title": "Joseph R. Saveri - Joseph Saveri Law Firm", "raw_content": "US Court of Appeals \u2013 First Circuit\nUS District Court \u2013 Northern District of Illinois\nUniversity of Virginia Law School, J.D.\nUniversity of California, Berkeley, B.A. History and Economics (double major), with Honors\nJoseph R. Saveri specializes in antitrust law and complex civil and class action litigation in state, federal, and international arenas. With 30 years of civil litigation experience, he has handled cases involving numerous industries including banking and financial services, insurance, energy, pharmaceuticals, agricultural products, computer hardware, computer software, travel and transportation, paper products, cosmetics, and consumer electronics. Representing individuals, consumers, small business owners, public officials, and heads of corporations negatively affected by monopolistic business practices, he has established himself as one of the country\u2019s top litigators in the antitrust field.\nJoe has a long track record in the fields of antitrust law and complex litigation. In 1987, he started his career doing general litigation work at the San Francisco law firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen. In 1992, he joined the plaintiffs\u2019 firm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein (\u201cLCHB\u201d), where he founded and developed the firm\u2019s antitrust and intellectual property practice, which he established and chaired. He also served as the firm\u2019s Managing Partner and Chair of the firm\u2019s Antitrust and Intellectual Property practice group, which in 2012 was recognized as one of the top five practice groups in California. During 20 years at LCHB, he handled numerous groundbreaking and landmark cases.\nIn the course of his work at LCHB, Joe developed a highly-respected antitrust department and led his team in a number of high-profile antitrust lawsuits including: recent litigation against Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe Systems, Pixar, Lucasfilm, and other tech companies for illegally agreeing not to poach each other\u2019s employees; a class action representing direct purchasers in price-fixing claims against TFT-LCD manufacturers; a class action lawsuit on behalf of consumers and others against Bayer for exclusionary drug pricing agreements involving the generic version of the drug Cipro; and another landmark class action against De Beers SA, the diamond company, for monopolizing the rough diamond trade. He also served as lead counsel in other state and federal trials involving brand-name prescription drug price-fixing and the pharmaceutical industry.\nJoe has continued that work at the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, which he founded in May 2012 to provide the highest quality legal work to clients throughout the United States. Since the inception of the firm, courts across the United States have appointed him and the law firm to leadership positions in important antitrust cases, class actions, and other complex litigation.\nCipro Antitrust Litigation: The firm represents a class of California consumers and insurers who brought antitrust claims against Bayer Corporation, Barr Laboratories, and other generic drug manufacturers, alleging that the companies paid drug manufacturers to delay the release of a Cipro alternative. In May 2015, The California Supreme Court ruled in Plaintiffs\u2019 favor. The case settled in 2017 for $399 million;\nDental Equipment Antitrust Litigation: The firm represents dental equipment purchasers in a class action lawsuit alleging that three of the nation\u2019s primary distributors of dental products illegally boycotted competitors in order to maintain and extend their dominant position in the market for dental supplies and equipment;\nGlobal Distribution System (GDS) Technology Antitrust Litigation: The firm serves as Co-Lead Counsel on behalf of U.S. air travel consumers. The lawsuit alleges that leading providers of GDS technology imposed unlawful contractual constraints on airlines that removed the airlines\u2019 leverage to negotiate lower GDS fees and to develop alternative technologies;\nHigh-Tech Employee Antitrust Litigation: The firm served as Co-Lead Counsel and obtained in September 2015 a Court order approving a $415 million USD (NT $12.454 billion) settlement against Google and other Defendants\u2014the largest settlement ever obtained in an antitrust case brought on behalf of a class of employees;\nHP Printer Firmware: The firm has filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of U.S. consumers against HP Inc. The suit charges HP with designing and implementing a malicious firmware update to disable printers using competitors\u2019 ink cartridges on affected computers to gain an advantage in the market;\nLenovo Spyware Litigation: The firm represents purchasers of certain models of Lenovo notebook computers in a class action lawsuit alleging that Lenovo installed and concealed spyware, resulting in multiple violations of federal computer fraud, racketeering, and consumer protection laws as well as corollary and other common law claims under California, New York, and Ohio law;\nLidoderm Antitrust Litigation: The firm serves as Liaison Counsel for Lidoderm End-Payors in a class action lawsuit against Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc., Teikoku Seiyaku Co., Inc., and Actavis Inc., along with their respective subsidiaries. The suit alleges that the companies entered into an illegal reverse pay agreement, forcing companies and consumers to pay higher prices for the Lidocaine-based pain patch, Lidoderm. In February 2017, Judge William H. Orrick granted the End-Payor Plaintiffs\u2019 motion for class certification;\nQualcomm Antitrust Litigation: The firm represents Apple iPhone and iPad direct purchasers in a class action lawsuit against electronics manufacturer Qualcomm Inc. The suit alleges that Qualcomm inflated the prices Plaintiffs paid for Apple iPhones and iPads by violating patent licensing agreements and illegally maintaining a monopoly in the market for baseband processors;\nRestasis Antitrust Litigation: The firm represents the Self-Insured Schools of California in a class action lawsuit against Allergan, Inc. The suits alleges that Allergan participated in a scheme to delay generic competition to Allergan\u2019s blockbuster Restasis drug and extended its monopoly in the Restasis market through a series of fraudulent and anticompetitive acts. On March 22, 2018, Judge Gershon appointed the firm as Interim Co-Lead Counsel on behalf of End-Purchaser Plaintiffs;\nTitanium Dioxide Antitrust Litigation: The firm served as Co-Lead Counsel to a class of direct purchasers of titanium dioxide in an antitrust price-fixing case against titanium dioxide manufacturers DuPont, Huntsman, Millennium Inorganic Chemicals, and Kronos. This case produced a settlement of $165 million on the day before the trial was to commence; and\nJoe is a frequent author of articles on antitrust and complex litigation issues, and a frequent lecturer on a variety of matters, including antitrust, complex litigation, class action practice, and discovery. He also serves as an author of California Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law, the legal treatise published by the State Bar of California\u2019s Antitrust and Unfair Competition Section. He is on the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute and is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.\nFrom 2010 through 2013, Joe served as a Lawyer Representative for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He also has served and serves on a number of court committees charged with developing rules and programs regarding complex litigation, ediscovery, and a variety of other matters. He was chosen to serve as a member of the Northern District\u2019s Civil Rules Advisory Committee from 2009-2012, the committee to establish rules and procedures for expedited trials (which the Court adopted as General Order No. 64, \u201cExpedited Trial Procedures\u201d), and the committee which crafted new ediscovery rules and procedures recently adopted by the Court.\nJoe has received numerous ACCOLADES from a broad array of legal entities, including:\nACQ5 (Acquisition Finance magazine): Global Award\u2014Antitrust Litigation Lawyer of the Year (2014, 2015); Law Award\u2014Antitrust Litigation Lawyer of the Year (2014);\nAcquisition International (magazine): \u201cOne to Watch\u201d (2014);\nALM Media Properties: Selected as \u201cTop Rated Lawyer\u201d and featured as same in American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, and the National Law Journal (2012-2018);\nAmerica\u2019s Top 100 LLC: Lifetime Achievement Award\u2014one of \u201cAmerica\u2019s Top 100 Attorneys\u201d (2016);\nBest Lawyers: Best Lawyers in America book edition (2012-2019). Also Best Lawyers Northern California\u2014Antitrust Law (2017-2018); Best Lawyers Business Edition San Francisco\u2014Antitrust Law (2014 (winter), 2015 (winter, summer), 2016 (winter, summer)); Best Lawyers San Francisco: Litigation\u2014Antitrust (2015);\nChambers USA: \u201cBand 1\u201d (top-ranked) plaintiffs\u2019 antitrust attorney for California and nationwide (2014-2018);\nDaily Journal: \u201cTop Plaintiff Lawyers\u201d (2018); \u201cTop 100 Lawyers in California\u201d (2018, 2016); CLAY Award\u2014California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (2016); One of California\u2019s Leading Labor & Employment Lawyers (2014);\nKHM Media Group: \u201cAntitrust Litigation Lawyer of the Year \u2013 USA\u201d;\nLaw 360: \u201cTitan of the Plaintiffs\u2019 Bar\u201d for his leadership and vision in extending the reach of antitrust cases into new areas such as pharmaceutical reverse payments and \u201cno-poach\u201d agreements by high-tech employers (2014);\nMartindale-Hubbell: AV Preeminent rating\u2014Top Rated Lawyers (2008-2017);\nNational Law Journal: \u201cTrailblazers\u2014Mergers & Acquisitions and Antitrust\u201d (2015);\nSuper Lawyers: Super Lawyers Northern California\u2014Antitrust Litigation (2006-2018). Also \u201cSuper Lawyers Top 100 Northern California\u201d (2015-2016); Super Lawyers Business Edition\u2014\u201dTop Attorneys in Antitrust Law\u201d (2011-2018); Super Lawyers Corporate Counsel Edition\u2014\u201dTop Attorneys in Antitrust Law\u201d (2010, 2012); and\nWho\u2019s Who Legal: One of the top plaintiffs\u2019 attorneys worldwide via Who\u2019s Who Legal: Competition, publication of Who\u2019s Who Legal and Global Competition Review (2015-2018).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 107, "original_length": 14939, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 214.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scholarship.law.ufl.edu/facultypub/775/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:21:00Z", "digest": "sha1:ZK3GDK7WGKEFJLN44MSR3OTEMMQHQLV6", "length": 1404, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "scholarship.law.ufl.edu", "title": "\"An Aggregate Approach to Indirect Exchanges of Partnership Interests: \" by Karen C. Burke", "raw_content": "An Aggregate Approach to Indirect Exchanges of Partnership Interests: Reconciling Section 1031 and Subchapter K\nKaren C. Burke, University of Florida Levin College of LawFollow\nThis article examines indirect exchanges of partnership interests in light of the distinctive continuity-of-investment principles of section 1031 and Subchapter K of the Internal Revenue Code. Part II of the article focuses on the failure of judicial responses and alternative approaches prior to the 1984 Act to prevent the potential abuses of direct exchanges of partnership interests. Part III examines section 1031(a)(2)(D) against the background of two recent decisions by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit concerning successive tax-free exchanges. Part IV focuses on planning techniques involving like-kind exchanges coupled with partnership contributions and distributions. Part V proposes that a strict aggregate approach to successive tax-free exchanges is necessary to reconcile the nonrecognition provisions of section 1031 and Subchapter K. Finally, the article concludes that combined use of these nonrecognition provisions could be permitted without rekindling the old abuses of direct exchanges of partnership interests.\nKaren C. Burke, An Aggregate Approach to Indirect Exchanges of Partnership Interests: Reconciling Section 1031 and Subchapter K, 6 Va. Tax Rev. 459 (1987), available at", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2279, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.88, "perplexity": 282.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/urc/2015/Posters/10/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:33Z", "digest": "sha1:FW7P6DLKP4DHXELHJ76DB2H247QG44BD", "length": 610, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "scholarworks.sfasu.edu", "title": "SFA ScholarWorks - Undergraduate Research Conference: Crime Rates on College Campuses in Texas", "raw_content": "Crime Rates on College Campuses in Texas\nJeffery Downs, Stephen F Austin State University\nThe purpose of this study was to determine whether or not there was a significant difference in the average crime rates between public and private universities in Texas, per 100 students from the years 2011 and 2013. Data was randomly compiled from an online database of 30 universities from both public and private universities. A two sample t-test was applied to see if there was a linear relationship between the crime rates and the year for both public and private universities separately from the years 2001 to 2013", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 2301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 126.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scitools.com/build-727/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:40Z", "digest": "sha1:LUQUWFKAOXNLUVGNMHLXTFWY44Q73DJM", "length": 69, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "scitools.com", "title": "Build 727 | SciTools.com", "raw_content": "Posted June 13, 2014 at 10:03 pm by KevinG & filed under Build Notes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 2723, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 154.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scotsfamily.com/the-ex-factor-guide-review/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:53:54Z", "digest": "sha1:JB77H237YZX2POC35OU2STVZ2O4HO7RY", "length": 6216, "nlines": 27, "source_domain": "scotsfamily.com", "title": "The Ex Factor Guide Review: A User's RESULTS EXPOSED!", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Relationship and Dating / The Ex Factor Guide Review\nThe Ex Factor Guide is a 137-page guide that will assist you in your efforts to get your ex back. No one enjoys a hard breakup, especially when you still want to be with your partner. Before you take ANY action, read this guide so that you can succeed, winning your ex back with ease.\nThis guide is intended for those who would like to get their ex back. Regardless of your situation, you can learn a lot from this program, before you achieve your ultimate goal. For many, they panic and in many ways, essentially harass their ex \u2014 this is the LAST thing you want to do.\nThe program is eye-opening in the sense that there is a better way. Regardless of your situation, this get ex back guide will help you break that barrier so that you can reconnect. In fact, whether you win your ex back or not, this program is a great support system and helps you better understand your own self-worth.\n1 About The Ex Factor Guide\n2 What\u2019s Included within The Ex Factor Guide?\n3 Benefits of The Ex Factor Guide\nAbout The Ex Factor Guide\nIf you are aiming to win your ex back, this program will help you do just that. If you follow the steps throughout, you will create an opportunity for love to blossom once again. Reflect on who you are, as well as what being a \u2018good partner\u2019 means. In many ways, the guide takes you on a personal journey, allowing you to connect with yourself, as well as your ex.\nLearn about the effectiveness of the \u2018No contact\u2019 rule \u2014 leaving your ex be for at least a month. Although this may be challenging, it will significantly increase your chances of winning them back. You have to play it cool and even play the field \u2014 all which all outlined throughout this program.\nAbout the author: Brad Browning appears to have been hurt in the past, and he was sick of seeing people suffering from a broken heart. Working as both a relationship coach and expert, he knows what it takes to help those in need. He specifically wants to help those who lost someone they love, helping them see their own worth before winning them back.\nWhat\u2019s Included within The Ex Factor Guide?\nThis informative guide is broken down into various chapters, showcasing the steps you need to take in order to succeed. Although not an inclusive list, here is what you can expect from this program:\nIn chapter 1, you will see how Brad is here for you, as well as the real reason why you\u2019re alone. He helps you realize that he too was once heartbroken and grieving, but today, he\u2019s happy and well. He provides the level of support you need during this emotional time.\nBy chapter 2, you will learn about all of the attractive characteristics of a partner. Ask yourself, are you a leader? Do you do what you want, despite what others may think? Do you take care of yourself in terms of your appearance? All of these factors and more are discussed throughout this enlightening chapter.\nIn comparison, chapter 3 highlights a list of unattractive characteristics. This is meant to provide some guidance in terms of your own situation \u2014 if you can relate to some of these characteristics, this may be a great time for self-reflection. No one is perfect, including your ex, so in order to get their attention, you can work on some of these traits, showcasing positive change.\nBoth chapters 4 and 5 are critical and need your special attention. Basically, the last thing you want to do is panic and pressure your ex. The BEST thing you can do is follow the \u2018no contact\u2019 rule. This means that for a full month, you do not reach out to your ex. Practical suggestions are offered in order to use your time wisely, working on you and your needs. Whether you begin exercising or pick up a new hobby, this is your time \u2014 enjoy it!\nEven you don\u2019t want to, chapter 6 offers the benefits associated with dating other people. This is especially true if you have mutual friends or still have each other on social media. Let your ex know that you\u2019re playing the field \u2014 even if you desperately want them back. You\u2019ll also learn what you should do if your ex begins dating someone. This ties into chapter 7 \u2014 what if your ex contacts you? As well as chapter 8, what if your ex doesn\u2019t contact you at all?\nChapter 9 you will love, because it involves going on a date with your ex. By this stage, you will have mastered what it is you should and shouldn\u2019t do in terms of achieving your goal. From body language to tone of voice, everything is covered in detail. Chapter 10 is the best case scenario, providing tips on how to seduce your ex all over again.\nBenefits of The Ex Factor Guide\nLet\u2019s face it \u2014 nobody wants to be alone or missing their ex. If this is you, then you can benefit from this program. Many of us do not know what to do when we split up with our partners \u2014 we panic, and in turn, ruin our chances of ever winning them back.\nThe program takes a unique approach, helping you every step of the way. You no longer need to wonder \u2018what if\u2019 \u2014 because as long as you follow the advice throughout, you will know that you did everything in your power to reconcile your relationship. What\u2019s even better, is that you will likely come out of this program a better person, more confident in your own skin.\nJust some of the way which you\u2019ll benefit include, but are certainly not limited to:\nBrad\u2019s sincere support \u2014 the author of this program truly wants to help you bridge the gap between you and your ex so that you can find peace and happiness. Although he was hurt in the past, today, he has a clear, motivated mind. He wants to help others achieve their relationship goals, as they fight to win their ex back.\nA guide that is easy-to-follow \u2014 broken down into informative chapters, you can skip ahead to areas of interest, but be sure to read the program in its entirety. Well-written and simple to understand, anyone can implement the advice into their life, ensuring the results they seek.\nNo obligation or risk \u2014 with the 60-day money back guarantee, there\u2019s no risk.\nAre you tired of feeling like you don\u2019t know where to turn or what to do next? If you want your ex back, then this relationship guide is the perfect solution. Order now and get back with your ex ASAP!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 81, "original_length": 8004, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 290.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://screenrant.com/the-conjuring-2-set-visit-report/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:26:59Z", "digest": "sha1:Y4M7AK6UONKUXK7OC5EJKOUQO66WWAE3", "length": 6193, "nlines": 24, "source_domain": "screenrant.com", "title": "The Conjuring 2 Set Visit Report: The Enfield Poltergeist", "raw_content": "The Conjuring 2 Set Visit Report: The Enfield Poltergeist\nby Sasha Capelli\nWhen The Conjuring released in the summer of 2013, its meteoric success couldn\u2019t have been predicted by the wildest psychic. Even the subjects of the film itself \u2013 paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren \u2013 might\u2019ve found the film\u2019s success a near-supernatural event. Critical raves, audience fanfare and $300 million later, it was obvious that the film deserved \u2013 and would certainly get \u2013 a proper sequel. But its massive success only helped to propel director James Wan deeper into the blockbuster realm of the Fast and Furious franchise. Fans were held over by the success of film\u2019s demonic-doll spin-off Annabelle, but after three long years, appetites are high for a true sequel.\nEnter The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Poltergeist, spinning the highly publicized story of Ed and Lorraine Warren\u2019s terrifying confrontation with a London entity in 1977. Where the first film told the tale of a tight-knit American family ravaged by a local spirit, the sequel focuses on a divorced, single-mother of four, Peggy Hodgson. Struggling to protect her children \u2013 most especially her daughters Janet and Margaret \u2013 from the demonic force that\u2019s stalking them, Margaret enlists the help of the Warrens.\nScreen Rant was invited to the set of The Conjuring sequel to get a sense of the story and how the period-London setting would re-define The Conjuring franchise. \u201cThis really took us into a different world,\u201d says producer Rob Cowan. \u201cParticularly with London at that time. The 1970s, pre-Thatcher, the look of it, the whole idea of these council homes, row houses... It still had the basic bones of the original movie, but we wanted to try something new, make the audience feel like they\u2019re seeing something fresh.\u201d\n(L-r) VERA FARMIGA as Lorraine Warren, SIMON McBURNEY as Maurice Grosse, PATRICK WILSON as Ed Warren and FRANCES O\u2019CONNOR as Peggy Hodgson\nIn the darkness of a semi-flooded basement, director James Wan excitedly sets up the scare. Actor Patrick Wilson, reprising his role as Ed Warren, is about to make contact; a second actor, ragged and impossibly old, looms silently in the shadows, waiting to strike across the rippling floor. The scene runs. A flurry of movement; gutteral screaming in the darkness. The ever-excitable Wan calls cut and what-if\u2019s another shot \u2013 what he calls his \u201cAnaconda Shot,\u201d tracking through the murky water. It\u2019s a confident, off-the-cuff improvisation, the earmark of an innovative director with as much energy as focus.\nHe reads the scene, responds to the set, and maps out yet another scare.\nThe Enfield event is in many ways a more popular and widely documented case than the story of the first film, subject to scrutiny and skepticism even today. Chances are good that if you\u2019ve ever watched a real-life haunting documentary, you\u2019ve heard the story.\n\u201cIt\u2019s a very Google-able case. Whether or not it was a hoax was very prevalent at the time. You can\u2019t hide from that,\u201d says producer Peter Safran. \u201cEd and Lorraine have to deal with skeptics all the time, with being called charlatans\u2026But there\u2019s no doubt at all in Janet\u2019s mind or Margaret\u2019s mind that this took place. And Lorraine never tries to persuade you over to her point of view. For those involved, it was very, very real.\u201d\nWhether it\u2019s the Warrens themselves or the real-life victims, Wan and his team strive not only to craft a terrifying film, but to the honor the survivors. \u201cNobody \u2013 especially living people \u2013 wants to see themselves as flawed characters,\u201d says producer Rob Cowan. \u201cIt\u2019s a real fine line to walk. There\u2019s some creative license, obviously, but we wanted to be sure that the movie was telling the essence of who they really were and what they went through.\u201d\nAs the day wraps up \u2013 Farmiga feeding Wilson the scene\u2019s final lines \u2013 planning turns to the next day\u2019s scene. And while we\u2019ll have to wait a few more months to see it, Safran and Cowan gleefully tease one hell of a surprise. The opening sequence, promised at the conclusion of the first Conjuring and paid-off at the opening of the second:\nAmityville. The Great, White Whale of haunted houses.\n\u201cWe wanted to kick off the movie with a fun, little thing,\u201d says Cowan. \u201cAnd that\u2019s the cool thing about the Warrens, that they\u2019ve touched upon so many of these very well known events.\u201d\nVERA FARMIGA as Lorraine Warren and PATRICK WILSON as Ed Warren\nAnd really, that more than anything is what makes The Conjuring so unique. No other horror series in recent memory has opted to follow its heroes instead of its villains. Iconic slashers and titular creatures are dime-a-dozen in horror these days, but The Conjuring keeps the focus firmly on the Warren and the families they dedicated their lives to protect. And wherevdr a particular evil finds favor with the audience, there\u2019s always spin-off potential.\nWhen asked if there\u2019s an element to this Conjuring similar to the possessed rag-doll Annabelle, Cowan only grins. \u201cAbsolutely, there is. I can\u2019t say much about him\u2026but it\u2019s a character we love and hope that eventually \u2013 like Annabelle \u2013 it could spin off into its own story.\nAnd while we wait to see this June just who that character might be, we can\u2019t help but wonder if Wan and his team are already thinking further down the road.\n\u201cIn terms of a third Conjuring,\u201d laughs Safran, \u201cwe haven\u2019t delved into that yet. It all depends on where inspiration. The Warrens are a great resource. You have to make sure you come up with something that\u2019s worthy of the franchise.\u201d\nBe sure to check out our on-set interviews with Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga and Frances O\u2019Connor. And prepare yourself for The Conjuring 2 when it releases on June 10, 2016.\nPatrick Wilson Set Visit Interview For The Conjuring 2\nVera Farmiga Set Visit Interview For The Conjuring 2\nReprising their roles, Oscar nominee Vera Farmiga (Up In the Air, Bates Motel) and Patrick Wilson (Insidious, Fargo), star as Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.\nThe Conjuring 2 opens in theaters June 10, 2016.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 102, "original_length": 8681, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 289.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://screenrant.com/walking-dead-15-behind-the-scenes-photos-every-fan-needs-to-see/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:03:36Z", "digest": "sha1:LJ25H7CDQNJ474UYAGGNKD6VNELBOZQ2", "length": 13318, "nlines": 67, "source_domain": "screenrant.com", "title": "Walking Dead: 15 Best Behind-The-Scenes Photos | ScreenRant", "raw_content": "Walking Dead: 15 Behind-The-Scenes Photos Every Fan Needs To See\nby Kieron Moore\nRick Grimes and his gang have been hacking and slashing the hordes of the undead since 2010 , but still the walkers continue to cause trouble. It's been a grueling struggle for them, but it does mean that The Walking Dead has been entertaining us for seven whole seasons, with an eighth on the way this October.\nSome of Rick\u2019s gang, including his son Carl and the fan favorite Daryl, have been with us for all this time, and so it\u2019s no surprise that they seem to have built up a solid on-set camaraderie. Other cast members have dipped in and out, with characters often being killed off suddenly, but that hasn\u2019t stopped their behind the scenes antics from looking like a lot more fun than an actual zombie apocalypse.\nOn a show like this, too, a whole load of effects are needed, particularly when it comes to the gory sequences, and so it\u2019s fascinating to get a look at just how all of it is put together. With that in mind, here are fifteen photos that show how life on location for The Walking Dead is both a ton of hard work and a whole lot of fun.\n15 Stuntman's Tiger Pounce\nWhile Season 7 of The Walking Dead was an uneven bunch of episodes, with the pacing sometimes tryingly slow, the finale episode \u201cThe First Day of the Rest of Your Life\u201d really ramped up the excitement.\nOne particular highlight of this was the moment when we finally got to see Shiva, the tiger belonging to King Ezekiel, in action. She\u2019d not done much more than sit by his side previously, but in the entertainingly insane battle against the Saviors, she pounced on a poor chap and proceeded to rip his face off.\nThis photo showing how the scene was shot, however, isn\u2019t quite as gruesome as the finished product. There was no tiger on set \u2013 for obvious safety reasons \u2013 but a stuntman in a blue unitard bouncing off a trampoline, later to be replaced with CGI. Not as scary, but somehow just as entertaining to look at.\n14 Negan Hangs With Walker Sasha\nAnother highlight of the Season 7 finale was the moment when Negan was ready to reveal to the citizens of Alexandria that he had Sasha captive, only to find that Sasha was, appropriately, given she was being kept in a coffin, very dead \u2013 undead, in fact.\nThis shocking moment came at the culmination of a torturous storyline for Sasha, who\u2019d set herself the task of killing Negan, after he'd murdered several of her friends and securely earned his place as one of the nastiest villains on TV. It\u2019s fair to say that the two characters really didn\u2019t get on.\nWhich makes it all the more pleasing to see this photo from the set of that very scene, with actors Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Sonequa Martin-Green looking much more upbeat and relaxed around each other.\n13 Walkers Need To Stay Dry Too\nThe Walking Dead\u2019s eponymous animated corpses have been tormenting Rick and his allies since 2010, and have been impaled, skewered, shot, and decapitated on screen, among a whole range of other gory deaths.\nBut it\u2019s important to remember that walkers are people, too \u2013 in real life, at least. Hordes of supporting artists have appeared in the series as the undead, and three of them can be seen here keeping themselves dry between takes.\nThe umbrellas probably serve an important purpose of keeping the rotting flesh makeup intact \u2013 it may look messy, but it\u2019s very precisely applied! Plus, our walkers are modeling the latest fashions in undead chic \u2013 bloodstained light brown is this season\u2019s color \u2013 and it would be a shame to get it wet!\n12 The Saviors And Their Captive\nThis may look like a grunge rock album cover, but it\u2019s in fact a candid shot of three of Season 7\u2019s stars \u2013 Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Norman Reedus, and Austin Amelio \u2013 hanging out on set together.\nSasha wasn\u2019t the only person to suffer in Negan\u2019s prison cell this season, you see, as Reedus\u2019 fan favorite biker Daryl spent a good half of the season in Savior captivity. During this time, he refused to submit to Negan and struck up a rivalry with Amelio\u2019s Dwight.\nAgain, it\u2019s nice, if a little disconcerting, to see the actors who play such violently opposing characters getting on well as they hang out on set. Though we would still love to hear that album, even if all the songs were covers of \"Easy Street\".\n11 Robert Kirkman Meets David Morrissey\nThe Walking Dead has become a massive TV hit in and of itself, but let\u2019s not forget that it\u2019s based on a series of comic books, which have been running since 2003 and were created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore.\nThere\u2019d be no Walking Dead without Kirkman, who gave permission for AMC to adapt his comics to TV, and has been an executive producer on the show since the beginning of its run. He\u2019s also written several scripts for the series.\nAs a busy writer, he can\u2019t make it to the set all the time, but here he is saying hello to David Morrissey and Alanna Masterson, who play the Governor and Tara, during filming of Season 4. They\u2019re no doubt thanking him for creating the show that\u2019s given them such fun jobs -- and seeing if he knows how long it'll be until they get killed off.\n10 Glenn\u2019s Smashed Head\nThat cliffhanger at the end of Season 6 split opinions, but it got everyone talking \u2013 just who\u2019s head had Negan bashed in? One of the main contenders was Glenn Rhee, who takes Negan's bat Lucille to the head in the comics.\nWhen Season 7 finally began, we found out that Abraham was in fact first to take a horrific pounding, but poor Glenn nonetheless met his fate later in the episode. The effect as we saw his head being smashed in by the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire was one of the show\u2019s most horrifyingly bloody moments yet.\nAnd seeing how the effect was done only worsens the nightmares. Here\u2019s actor Steven Yeun with a hell of a lot of blood and gore makeup, as well as having his eye held wide open, alongside a model of Glenn\u2019s smashed-in head. We really don\u2019t know how Yeun can keep on grinning.\n9 Walkers Send A Message\nHere\u2019s another one from Norman Reedus\u2019 Instagram account, which seems to be a goldmine for sneak peeks into everyday life on the Walking Dead set, where you\u2019re never far from yet another horde of the undead.\nDaryl Dixon would usually be in full combat mode if faced by a large group of walkers, getting quickly out of their way but not before firing off a volley of crossbow bolts into a few of their decaying faces.\nReedus, however, is able to chill while around the supporting artists who play the walkers, though they all seem to be united around a certain hand gesture here \u2013 well, you would want to tell the post-apocalyptic world to f*** off after living in it for so many years, wouldn\u2019t you?\n8 Alanna Masterson Being Goofy With A Walker\nUnlike Reedus, Alanna Masterson doesn\u2019t look quite so chill around this walker. Maybe it\u2019s because the effects here are particularly nasty \u2013 even Greg Nicotero, the makeup expert who designed all the walker effects, looks freaked out by the sight of his own work coming to life.\nSince Season 4, Masterson has played the role of Tara, who was originally a member of the Governor\u2019s crew before she found her place alongside Rick and his comrades; she\u2019s now one of the more popular citizens of Alexandria and is also notable for being the series\u2019 first LGBT character.\nMasterson has brought a distinct charm and humor to the role, which is also on display in her behind the scenes appearances, such as goofing around with this bloodstained, rotting guy.\n7 Merle\u2019s Undead Makeup\nMerle Dixon, the violent and abrasive brother of Daryl, made recurring appearances across the first two seasons before becoming a regular in Season 3, which saw him act as a lieutenant to the authoritarian Governor of Woodbury.\nThis didn\u2019t last, however, and by the end of the season, Merle had fallen out with the Governor so badly that the eye-patched villain shot and killed him. But in the world of The Walking Dead, death is not final, and we had one final memorable scene in which Daryl was faced with the reanimated body of the brother he had such a volatile history with.\nMerle\u2019s undead look needed to be perfect to hammer home the impact on Daryl of seeing his brother in this state, and as usual, The Walking Dead\u2019s effects team didn\u2019t let us down. Here\u2019s Michael Rooker with some touches being made to his facial makeup, as well as a prop version of his upper body, presumably used for the shots in which Daryl stabs him repeatedly.\n6 Carl And Double\n\u201cCarrrrlll! No... you\u2019re Carrrrlll!\u201d\nRick Grimes\u2019 young son has been by his side since the very beginning of the show, and has come of age in the world of the zombie apocalypse. In fact, actor Chandler Riggs was just eleven when the series began.\nBut working on a TV shoot is tiring work, especially for such a young actor, and so the use of a body double is often needed, whether for certain stunts or just for shots where the actor\u2019s face is not visible.\nHere\u2019s Chandler Riggs hanging out with his double during shooting of the oft-remixed scene in which Carl eats chocolate pudding while sitting on a roof. We\u2019re not sure why exactly the double was needed for this scene \u2013 perhaps Riggs couldn\u2019t manage all the pudding by himself.\n5 Bob Stookey\u2019s Leg\nFormer army medic Bob Stookey, played by Lawrence Gilliard Jr., joined the cast in Season 4, but he didn\u2019t last long. Shortly into Season 5, he was bitten by a walker, then captured by cannibals from Terminus, who amputated and ate his leg. Not his best day, then, but at least he got the satisfaction of revealing to the cannibals that they\u2019d eaten walker-tainted meat.\nHe did so while laughing hysterically, which is a good way to deal with all the horrors of the post-apocalypse. It\u2019s a similar cheery attitude which Gilliard and Lauren Cohan, who plays Maggie Greene, seem to be taking to his injury in this snap. A shame Sonequa Martin-Green isn\u2019t quite as upbeat.\nWe can also see how the amputated leg effect is done \u2013 with Gilliard\u2019s actual leg wrapped in a bright blue fabric which can be removed in post, and a prosthetic leg stub attached at his knee.\n4 Heart Shaped Bucket Of Blood\nIf you\u2019re squeamish about the red stuff, or anal about keeping your clothes spotlessly clean, then you wouldn\u2019t last long in the world of The Walking Dead. You have to wonder where Rick and co. keeping getting shirts from, as rarely an episode goes by without them getting covered in blood and guts.\nThe production of The Walking Dead must go through fake blood faster than the Mad Men shoot went through whiskey, and so the makeup and costume teams have become very adept at applying it to the cast for maximum effect.\nThey\u2019ve also come up with ways to cope with the horror of it all \u2013 at least, we assume that\u2019s the reasoning behind the bright pink heart-shaped bucket from which this crew member is applying Steven Yeun with fresh blood.\n3 Green Screen Action Scene\nThe Walking Dead is mostly shot on location around Georgia, and its post-apocalyptic world has a very specific look to it, with lots of gray and dilapidated concrete buildings, as well as lots of grimly brown and green woodland.\nMost of this can be shot on location, and you would be forgiven for assuming that\u2019s always the case, as it does seem that Georgia has a lot of concrete buildings and woodland. However, from time to time, a more specific look is needed for a scene.\nThat was the case with this sequence from Season 4, in which a group of our heroes carried out a raid. They can be seen shooting the action against a greenscreen, which was replaced in post-production with a suitably apocalyptic landscape.\n2 Rick and Darryl\u2019s Bromance\nThe last one from Reedus\u2019 Instagram, we promise. There are just so many gems on there.\nRick Grimes and Daryl Dixon are without much doubt the two biggest stars of The Walking Dead, having been key members of the gang of survivors since the first few episodes. In that time, they\u2019ve come out of many close scrapes fighting, and somehow avoided adding themselves to the show\u2019s serious body count.\nThe series has done a lot of good for Andrew Lincoln and Norman Reedus, catapulting them both to stardom. Lincoln\u2019s gone a long way since being that adorable guy admitting his affection for Keira Knightley through giant flash cards. It\u2019s great, then, to see the two of them having fun together on set \u2013 even with faces covered in blood, there\u2019s still time for a bit of bromance.\n1 Nicotero With Walker Prop\nThe Walking Dead wouldn\u2019t be anything without its walking dead, and so it\u2019s only right that we use the last item in this list to express our thanks to Greg Nicotero, the man behind the gruesome look of the series\u2019 walkers.\nNicotero, who developed an interest in special effects after watching Jaws, got his first major job on Dawn of the Dead, the iconic zombie film directed by the legendary George A. Romero. He soon built up a seriously impressive CV, including Evil Dead II, From Dusk Till Dawn, Scream, and much more.\nIt was a great coup, then, when The Walking Dead secured Nicotero as its special makeup effects supervisor. He\u2019s also directed several episodes and even appeared as a walker himself. Here he is getting stuck into his work and hauling around a prop corpse.\nDo you have a favorite behind-the-scenes snap from this bloodiest of shows? Let us know in the comments!", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 154, "original_length": 16221, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 275.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://scroll.in/article/890178/five-things-modi-focused-on-in-his-latest-interviews-and-one-that-he-did-not-mention", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:26Z", "digest": "sha1:I5NLFKZ3PSAWGAMRMK5J5WCHFL7AYNR5", "length": 9382, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "scroll.in", "title": "Narendra Modi interviews: From lynchings to Assam\u2019s citizens\u2019 register, five subjects he covered", "raw_content": "Modi speak\nFive things Modi focused on in his latest interviews (and one that he did not mention)\nThe prime minister was dismissive of the Opposition\u2019s attempts to form an alliance ahead of 2019 and confident of the BJP\u2019s victory.\nWith the final Independence Day speech of his term as prime minister around the corner, Narendra Modi gave interviews to two news organisation that were published on the weekend. In the interviews to ANI and The Times of India, Modi spoke about key subjects such as job creation, the economy, Assam\u2019s National Register of Citizens and the 2019 general elections.\nThe prime minister condemned incidents of lynching and mob violence, which critics have accused his government of encouraging. He also said that his government was taking steps to engage with digital media platforms to prevent fake news.\nHere are the main takeaways from the interviews.\nOn employment\nModi and his government have been routinely criticised for failing to create more jobs. That criticism seemed to obliquely come from within the government too. For instance, Union minister Nitin Gadkari, in reference to the Maratha protests in Maharashtra to demand quotas in government jobs for the community, said on August 4, \u201cLet us assume the reservation is given. But there are no jobs. Because in banks, the jobs have shrunk because of IT. The government recruitment is frozen. Where are the jobs?\u201d\nModi\u2019s stock answer to the unemployment question \u2013 since a television interview in January in which he suggested that selling pakodas counts as being employed \u2013 is that the problem is not a lack of jobs but a lack of data about jobs. In other words, one should trust his government that there are jobs, it is just that there is no data to prove this.\nIn the interview to The Times of India, he repeated this assertion:\n\u201cRather than the so-called failure of this government to create jobs, I believe the shortcoming lies in the absence or lack of streamlining of jobs. Naturally, in the absence of information, our opponents will exploit this situation and blame us for not creating jobs...\n\u201cIf you look at claims made by state governments \u2013 Bengal says it created 68 lakh jobs and the previous Karnataka government claimed it created 53 lakh jobs. Are we saying that all the country\u2019s jobs are being created in some states and that other states and the country as a whole, are not creating jobs? This propaganda on jobs by the Opposition is nothing but a political gimmick.\u201d\nOn lynchings and mob violence\nThe Modi government has been accused of encouraging mob violence, especially attacks on Muslims and Dalits by cow protection vigilantes. While some ministers have on occasion decried such violence, incidents like that of a Union minister garlanding lynching convicts have added to this perception. Modi\u2019s response has been to say that such incidents should not be politicised.\nThis is what he told ANI too:\n\u201cIt would be a great travesty to reduce these incidents to mere statistics and then indulge in politics over them. That shows a kind of perverse mindset that looks at violence and criminality as something to be milked, instead of unitedly opposing. Even a single incident is one too many and deeply unfortunate. Everyone should rise above politics to ensure peace and unity in our society. My party and I have spoken in clear words, on multiple occasions against such actions and such a mindset. It is all on record. Also, we are people who go beyond just words. Look at the actions of our Home Ministry to see how we have acted against violence.\u201d\nAs before, Modi \u2013 who once dismissed journalists as \u201cnews traders\u201d \u2013 did not offer a full-throated condemnation of fake news but said that the most effective solution for it is \u201cself-realisation\u201d and \u201cself-restraint\u201d.\nHe told The Times of India:\n\u201cAs individuals, we all must know the dos and don\u2019ts of social interactions. The moment a person decides \u2018these are the lines I won\u2019t cross, come what may\u2019, then I am sure all aspects will be taken care of.\n\u201cDigital media stands for equality and furthers the spirit of freedom of expression. It is a bastion of free speech and creative expression. There was a time when one had to be \u2018eminent\u2019 to be heard. Digital media has changed that. The power of one Facebook post, tweet or Instagram story is immense.\u201d\nOn Assam\u2019s National Register of Citizens\nAssam\u2019s National Register of Citizens \u2013 an exercise in drawing up a list of Indian citizens in the state, separating them from undocumented migrants \u2013 was the subject of much debate during the monsoon session of Parliament that concluded last week. There was an outcry after four million names were left out of the final draft, which was published on July 30.\nWhile the Bharatiya Janata Party maintained this was an important exercise to remove Bangladeshi infiltrators, Opposition politicians such as Mamata Banerjee, Rahul Gandhi and Mayawati were critical of the exercise.\nIn the interviews, the prime minister accused the Opposition of playing \u201cvote bank politics\u201d and maintained that the Congress lacked the \u201cpolitical will and courage\u201d to implement the National Register of Citizens.\n\u201cI am sure all Indians will agree that sovereignty and citizenship are essential aspects of any nation. Those unnecessarily raising controversies need to realise the genuineness of this exercise and that is monitored by the Supreme Court. It is ironic that our opponents who do not have faith in the CJI [chief justice of India] now don\u2019t even have a faith in a Supreme Court-monitored exercise. It is only an issue of national interest. There is no place for politics when it comes to national interest.\u201d\nIn the interview to ANI, Modi said:\n\u201cOnly those who have lost faith in themselves, fear loss of popular support and lack faith in our institutions can use words like \u2018civil war\u2019, \u2018blood bath\u2019 and \u2018desh ke tukde tukde\u2019. Evidently, they are disconnected from the pulse of the nation. As far as Mamataji\u2019s stand is concerned, she should remember what she said on the floor of the Parliament in 2005. Was that Mamataji correct or is this Mamataji correct? The Congress is also playing politics over the NRC [National Register of Citizens].\u201d\nThe prime minister was referring to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee\u2019s contention that Assam\u2019s National Register of Citizens would lead to \u201ccivil war and bloodbath\u201d, and to her statement in 2005 when she reportedly sought a discussion on the subject of undocumented immigrants in West Bengal.\nOn the 2019 elections\nWith the general elections a year away, Modi and the BJP have been dismissive of Opposition efforts to form a mahagathbandhan or grand alliance. In the interviews, too, the prime minister exuded confidence of his party retaining power.\nModi told ANI:\n\u201cLet us understand the true character of the mahagathbandhan. The mahagathbandhan is for personal survival, not for ideological support. The mahagathbandhan is for personal ambitions, not for people\u2019s aspirations. The mahagathbandhan is purely about power politics, not about people\u2019s mandate. The mahagathbandhan is about dynasties, not about development. The mahagathbandhan is not about any union of minds or ideas, but about rank opportunism. The only question is whether they will break up before the election or after!\u201d\nRejecting the Opposition alliance as a \u201cnon-ideological alliance of desperate and disparate groups\u201d, he told The Times of India:\n\u201cI am very confident that my party will continue to get the love and affection of the people as we have received in the past four years. We will definitely get more seats than we got the last time and I am confident that we will break all records of the seats won by NDA [the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance] in the past and achieve greater glory. The people are with us and we have nothing to fear.\u201d\n(Not) on demonetisation\nIn both interviews, Modi spent some time talking about the Goods and Services Tax \u2013 one of two major financial policies of his government that are likely to define his term in office. But he was conspicuously silent on the other policy: demonetisation, the government\u2019s decision in November 2016 to withdraw 86% of the currency in circulation and replace it with new notes, ostensibly in an attempt to root out black money. This was meant to be a major policy effort for the Modi government. But in the face of a barrage of criticism, demonetisation has not been a major part of the BJP\u2019s political rhetoric of late.\nIn The Times of India interview, this question seemed to give the prime minister an opportunity to speak about the policy: \u201cWhat are government\u2019s three initiatives/achievements that have brought you the greatest satisfaction? What are the three things you wished you could have done better?\u201d\nHowever, Modi chose not to give a definitive answer, only saying:\n\u201cAll my government\u2019s steps since we came to power have been taken with passion and commitment. Singling out favourites that provide, as you say, \u2018greatest satisfaction\u2019 would be unfair and not in keeping with this government\u2019s policy. We are working towards a vision for New India and taking initiatives for the same. To sit and ponder on the success of past initiatives would take away precious time that can be dedicated to new ones.\u201d\nLynching incidents\n\u2018It is always India first\u2019: Narendra Modi showcases his government\u2019s achievements in last four years", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 121, "original_length": 12333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 272.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1202311457", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:20:32Z", "digest": "sha1:SZ4L2THEX4UEQ6M366PW4OQN6VK5JMUR", "length": 4694, "nlines": 43, "source_domain": "sculpture.gla.ac.uk", "title": "Francis John Williamson - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951", "raw_content": "Francis John Williamson\nSculptor, studio assistant, modeller\nBorn in Hampstead, London. His father had various occupations including a blue maker and messenger. A younger brother, John Henry (born c.1843) was a silversmith. Francis studied first with John Bell at Somerset House. During this time he met John Henry Foley and became an articled pupil for seven years. Francis stayed on for a further fourteen years as a studio assistant.\nWilliamson came to the attention of Queen Victoria when the latter was visiting Foley's studio and she became one of his most important patrons. The first major commission he received from her was for the memorial at Claremont to princess Charlotte and her husband Prince Leopold in 1870. There followed sittings for portraits of most of the royal family. In addition to portrait busts he carried out numerous commissions for statues and monuments. In 1877 he created the Jubilee bust of Queen Victoria, copies of which were placed across the empire. He died at his home in Esher after a long illness.\nMrs W. Wills\nFaire Hellenore\nFaire Serena\nHer Majesty Queen Victoria\nAddress 17 Osnaburgh Street Regent's Park London | View on map\nAddress High Street Esher | View on map\nExhibited at Exhibition of Modern Paintings, Sculpture, &c., at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1868\nExhibited at The Sixty-First Autumn Exhibition, at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1887\n'Her Majesty the Queen'\nExhibited at The Seventy-Sixth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1902\n'Her Majesty Queen Victoria'\nExhibited 38 times, an average of three works per year (ranging from one in the early years to four or five in the 1870s), a mix of portrait busts, medals and ideal works.\nExhibited at Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, Works of Modern Artists, The Thirtieth, 1875\nExhibited at Autumn exhibition of modern pictures: the eighth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1878\nSunrise (cat. no. 1052, high-relief in marble, \u00a373 10s.).\nExhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the fifteenth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1885\nBriseis (cat. no. 1420, marble, \u00a351 10s.); Miranda (cat. no. 1432, marble, \u00a352 10s.).\nMiranda (cat. no. 1432, marble, \u00a352 10s.).\nExhibited at Autumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the twentieth (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), 1890\nThe Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, MP (cat. no. 1283, not for sale); Jubilee Bust of Her Majesty the Queen (cat. no. 1285, plaster, not for sale); An Eastern Shepherd (cat. no. 1310, marble, \u00a347 5s.); Cupid and Psyche (cat. no. 1314, marble, \u00a352 10s.).\nInvited to join Royal Society of British Sculptors\nAmongst the suggested second wave of those invited to join 'without further nomination' [2 March 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]: but name removed from list following further discussion at next meeting [3 April 1905, Royal Society of British Sculptors, Minutes of Council Meetings, Vol.I]\nPupil of John Henry Foley\nArticled to Foley [see Who was Who (1920-2008)]\nStudent of John Bell\nPrecise dates uncertain, however Bell taught him at Somerset House [see Times (1920)]\n'Modeller (Apprentice)'\nAutumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the fifteenth, 1885 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool\nAutumn exhibition of pictures, in oil and water-colours: the twentieth, 1890 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool\nCatalogue for the Thirtieth Exhibition of the Bristol Academy for the Promotion of the Fine Arts, 1875\nClass: HO107; Piece: 1496; Folio: 806; Page: 15; GSU roll: 87828-87829\nClass: RG10; Piece: 863; Folio: 36; Page: 4; GSU roll: 827765\nRoyal Birmingham Society of Artists, Exhibition of Modern Paintings, Sculpture, &c., at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1868\nRoyal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Seventy-Sixth Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1902\nRoyal Society of Artists, Birmingham. The Sixty-First Autumn Exhibition at the Rooms of the Society, New Street, 1887\n2 March 1905; 3 April 1905.\nThe Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Vol. 8: Toft to Zwecker\nThe Times, Saturday, Mar 13, 1920; pg. 18; Issue 42358; col B Mr. F. J. Williamson. Category: Obituaries (accessed 11 February 2010)\n'Francis John Williamson', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1202311457, accessed 15 Feb 2019]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 139, "original_length": 7132, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 222.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1209419834", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:01Z", "digest": "sha1:SX7TU6WMSHXFAMBDU6GCXRTEPGPACLWD", "length": 318, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "sculpture.gla.ac.uk", "title": "Miss Helen Edwardes - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951", "raw_content": "Miss Helen Edwardes\n'Tired'\nEmployed at R. Jackson & Son\n'Miss Helen Edwardes', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib5_1209419834, accessed 15 Feb 2019]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 41, "original_length": 1608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.73, "perplexity": 248.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seattle-personal-injury-attorney.net/Blog/A-Personal-Injury-Attorney-in-Seattle-Explains-Ho", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:32Z", "digest": "sha1:75FFLUJFDTVGW42YAMQJLRLHFSV2QTMI", "length": 2107, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "seattle-personal-injury-attorney.net", "title": "A Personal Injury Attorney in Seattle Explains How to Spot Unsavory Insurance Adjusters", "raw_content": "A Personal Injury Attorney in Seattle Explains How to Spot Unsavory Insurance Adjusters\nIf you\u2019ve been injured in an accident, it can be difficult to work the insurance company. This is because they don\u2019t truly have your best interests at heart, and, indeed, really don\u2019t want to settle unless it is necessary. You may run into insurance adjusters that use less than \u201cabove board\u201d tactics to bully you. A personal injury lawyer in Seattle can help you spot and respond to these tactics.\n\u201cOur Lawyers/Experts Don\u2019t Think You Have a Case.\u201dSometimes, an adjuster will tell you he/she has had an expert doctor or lawyer review your case and found it wanting. As your personal injury lawyer in Seattle can tell you, these so-called experts are likely bought and paid for by the insurance company. Their opinions are often based on incomplete facts. These biased reports are used to try and reduce your claim unfairly. Rely on your personal injury attorney in Seattle to review your case instead.\n\u201cIf You Don\u2019t Settle, the Whole World Will Know Your Business.\u201dUnscrupulous adjusters may try to use your lifestyle against you. If you have what they consider an unfavorable lifestyle (motorcycle gang membership for example) they may try to tell you no jury would sympathize with you. Let your personal injury lawyer in Seattle be the one to advise you about jury strategy and your personal circumstances.\n\u201cYou Don\u2019t Really Want to Travel Back Here for a Trial Do You?As your personal injury lawyer in Seattle knows, some adjusters try and use geography against you. If you were injured while traveling, an adjuster may try and convince you their low offer will really save you in the long run. Your personal injury attorney in Seattle can give you a realistic idea of how much travel might be involved (if any).\nIf You Have Been InjuredIf you have been injured in an accident caused by another person\u2019s negligence, you have rights. Don\u2019t be victimized a second time by an unscrupulous insurance adjuster. Get an experienced personal injury lawyer in Seattle on your side. Call Chris Thayer today at (206) 340-2008.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 53, "original_length": 4976, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 333.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://seekingalpha.com/article/4239233-activision-blizzards-coming-370-million-dollar-tax-liability", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:51Z", "digest": "sha1:CTBBK7WCO2D7Y65ORIBGZCT7WAU5K5HF", "length": 3835, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "seekingalpha.com", "title": "Activision Blizzard's Coming 370-Million-Dollar Tax Liability - Activision Blizzard, Inc (NASDAQ:ATVI) | Seeking Alpha", "raw_content": "| About: Activision Blizzard, Inc (ATVI)\nby: Alexander Johansson\nActivision Blizzard (ATVI) bought King in march 2016 and its Swedish subsididiary Midasplayer AB is fined extra on immaterial rights.\nSwedish tax Agency (Skatteverket) is claiming 370 million dollars in tax.\nThis is not the first time King or its owners have been forced to pay more tax to \"Skatteverket\"\nKing was founded in 2003 and created the enormously successful game Candy Crush in 2012. The following two years it registered about 300-350 million dollars in profit. King was listed on the NYSE in 2014 and bought out soon after by Activision Blizzard (ATVI) for 5 billion dollars in 2016.\nNow the Swedish tax Agency wants its share of the slice. It claims that Sweden has lost the immaterial rights to games like Candy Crush and Farm Heroes and demand that King's Swedish Company Midasplayer AB pay 3.6 billion Swedish Crowns (SEK) or about 370 million dollars.\nWe believe that there has been a transfer of rights of the Company in Sweden. We want to tax this transaction by half of the value on the immaterial rights.\nSays Roberth Glansberg, specialist for internal pricing at Skatteverket.\nPreviously it has claimed over half a billion SEK, equaling 55 million dollars, because it believes profits belonging in Sweden have been moved to Malta. This time the fine is considerably larger.\nThe tax claim was decided in December 2018 and covers everything from King's software and collected data for brands like Candy Crush and Farm Heroes. When the deal was made with Activision Blizzard in 2016 they were valued at about 32 billion SEK or about 3.4 billion dollars.\nAnd Skatteverket now wants to tax half that amount since it believes the immaterial rights was disposed outside of Sweden.\nKing must pay the fine by the end of February.\nThe lawyers of King want Skatteverket to follow the guidelines from OECD regarding the pricing of immaterial rights, but the Swedish agency says no.\nThe guidelines constitute of no law from a Swedish perspective and can only be used as guidance.\nWrites Skatteverket in its decision.\nKing has not yet appealed the decision.\nWe are sorry that Skatteverket does not share our view about how to price King's business in a correct and fair way.\nWrites Charley Tesch.\nAccording to us this decision shows a lack of understanding of the business, we manage and the international environment we work in.\nWe look forward to an ongoing discussion with Skatteverket to find a solution to the issue.\nKing was founded by four Swedes and two British and used to have its headquarters both in Stockholm and London. Later a subsidiary was created in Malta.\nThe gaming company has previously claimed that 10 percent of the revenues are attributable to Malta and the rest evenly distributed between Sweden and Great Britain. Skatteverket regards the Swedish and British companies as those which create the value in the group.\nThe IRS will have its due\nI believe it is very likely all or large parts of the tax claim will end up at Activision Blizzard's plate. It is of course possible that the deal it made with the founders of King protects it against parts (or all) of the claim. But we now see the European Union hammering down on big American corporations and I believe Skatteverket is making an example out of Activision Blizzard.\nIf you want to do business in Europe make sure you pay taxes here.\nExpect Activision Blizzard to end up with the 370-million-dollar cost. Perhaps it will get a fair amount of time to settle the claim (maybe by the summer) but one way or the other it will be forced to pay most of it.\nAlso, if it chooses to fight this hard it will be viewed harder in the future by the European Union whenever it seeks to buy companies in Europe. So for the sake of future good business in the EU it is simply better to pay up.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 74, "original_length": 5118, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 330.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sensenbrenner.house.gov/press-releases-statements?ContentRecord_id=47309EAB-9A7E-4A62-9475-30993B801D00", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:34Z", "digest": "sha1:IF5HOYJPGFIE4V5DJUK3VQT63LGZBIXQ", "length": 3840, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "sensenbrenner.house.gov", "title": "The EPA\u2019s Misguided Carbon Plan - Press Releases & Statements - Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner", "raw_content": "The EPA\u2019s Misguided Carbon Plan\nDuring the House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing Wednesday titled, \u201cEPA\u2019s Carbon Plan: Failure by Design,\u201d the committee examined the implementation of technology-based standards under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act.\nCongressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.): \u201cIn his ideological pursuit of climate change reform, President Obama has chosen to disregard the facts. A Democrat-controlled Congress rejected \u201cCap-and-Tax\u201d in 2009 because it would be bad for jobs. Nevertheless, this administration continues to pursue a radical climate change agenda that would have a crushing impact on the economy, especially in coal dependent states like Wisconsin. The EPA rule is yet another example of the White House bypassing Congress to exert its will on the American people.\u201d\nCharles McConnell, the Executive Director of the Energy and Environment Initiative at Rice University, said in his testimony, \u201cIt\u2019s certainly not impactful environmental regulation,\u201d and was \u201cdeveloped for political leverage in a global climate discussion.\u201d McConnell added, \u201cIt impacts a fully developed .18 percent of the global CO2 that\u2019s emitted in the world, less than two-tenths of a percent. It will impact global warming and climate change by .01 degrees centigrade. And that, if you do the mathematics in climate change technology, would affect the level of sea-rise by about one-third the thickness of this dime that I am holding.\u201d\nThe proposed rule is 645 pages and in an effort to be \u201cflexible,\u201d the EPA has created a convoluted \u201cbuilding-block\u201d structure that will require the states to comply with certain benchmarks. The concern is that this will inevitably lead to a cap-and-tax plan, at least regionally, since the states have such a short amount of time to compose their own carbon reduction plans. Further, power companies are unsure of how the rules will affect them. They are dependent on state plans, which have to be constructed in a very short time period.\nThe EPA\u2019s own analysis of its rules projects an electricity price increase of 6-7 percent in 2020 and annual compliance costs between $5.4 and $7.4 billion in 2020 and $8.8 billion in 2030. Since 2001, energy costs for middle and lower-income families have increased by 27 percent, while their incomes have declined by 22 percent.\nAccording to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, CO2 emissions from U.S. power plants represent only 4 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Between 2011 and 2030, non-U.S. power sector carbon emissions are projected to increase by 4,692 million tons\u2014offsetting the reductions coming from EPA\u2019s rule more than eight times over. Because of its growing economy, China emits about 45 percent more CO2 in one month than EPA\u2019s proposal will reduce in an entire year.\nLike under a cap-and-tax proposal, states that rely more heavily on coal will be more negatively affected. Since some state\u2019s energy needs are more coal dependent, to be in compliance with the building blocks, these states would find themselves at a bigger disadvantage than those states with other energy sources. No state could achieve these goals through technological or operating improvements at coal fired power plants. Instead, any state plan would inevitably require wholesale changes to how the state\u2019s utilities provide electricity to the public (i.e. more wind, solar, etc.).\nThe initial high level annual cost estimates for the state of Wisconsin to implement the four building blocks included in EPA\u2019s greenhouse gas proposal are about $175-$350 million in 2020\u2014increasing to about $300-600 million by 2030.\nPresident Obama is ignoring real world issues and exaggerating the benefits of the rule in an effort to meet the demands of a climate change ideology.\nPermalink: https://sensenbrenner.house.gov/2014/7/the-epa\u2019s-misguided-carbon-plan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 5768, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 200.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sentry.ca/en/press-release.html?media_id=2952", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:19:21Z", "digest": "sha1:SP6TCBMUJGOXHNL6AENCBRA7TLVTOTW3", "length": 3503, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "sentry.ca", "title": "Strategic Energy Fund (TSX: SEF.UN) Announces Proposal to Reorganize to Convert into an Open-End Mutual Fund", "raw_content": "Strategic Energy Fund (TSX: SEF.UN) Announces Proposal to Reorganize to Convert into an Open-End Mutual Fund\nTORONTO/CALGARY: Strategic Energy Fund (the \u201cFund\u201d) announces that the Board of Directors of Strategic Energy Management Corp., the manager of the Fund (the \u201cManager\u201d), has approved the recommendation of the special committee of independent directors (the \u201cSpecial Committee\u201d) to call a special meeting of the Fund\u2019s unitholders to determine whether the Fund should be reorganized to convert the Fund into an open-end mutual fund which will hold the Fund\u2019s public issuer portfolio and transfer the Fund\u2019s private issuer portfolio to a new closed-end fund, the units of which will be distributed to the Fund\u2019s unitholders, subject to regulatory approval. The new fund will hold the private issuer portfolio for the purposes of liquidation and the Fund\u2019s public portfolio securities would be managed in a traditional open-end mutual fund structure. Important information concerning the post-reorganization structures will be contained in the information circular which is expected to be mailed in December 2008 for an anticipated meeting date on or about January 15, 2009.\nThe Special Committee was comprised of John Brussa, Jeff Errico and Richard Zarzeczny, who are members of the Board of Directors of the Manager and are independent of the management of the Manager and the Fund\u2019s investment advisor.The Manager will continue publishing the weekly net asset value (\u201cNAV\u201d) of the Fund\u2019s portfolio on the www.sentryselect.com web site. The Fund\u2019s weekly NAV is calculated as of market close every Wednesday and is published on the www.sentryselect.com web site on Thursday. As soon as the information circular is mailed, the weekly NAV, along with a separate weekly NAV excluding the value of the private securities, will be published each Thursday to the www.sentryselect.com web site.\nTrading information: The Fund\u2019s units trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol SEF.UN.\nCertain statements included in this news release constitute forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, those identified by the expressions \u201cexpect\u201d, \u201cintend\u201d, \u201cwill\u201d and similar expressions to the extent they relate to the Manager. The forward-looking statements are not historical facts but reflect the Manager\u2019s current expectations regarding future results or events. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the special meeting of unitholders not being held, the structure of the proposed reorganization of the Fund being changed before the special meeting of unitholders, and the Fund failing to receive all required regulatory approvals to implement the reorganization should it be approved by unitholders at the special meeting. Although the Manager believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and, accordingly, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein. The Manager undertakes no obligation to update publicly or otherwise revise any forward-looking statement or information whether as a result of new information, future events or other such factors which affect this information, except as required by law.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 112, "original_length": 7301, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 226.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sg.gsk.com/en-sg/media/press-releases/2015/gsk-announces-major-new-commitment-to-asia/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:12:23Z", "digest": "sha1:223PUM7UIK6VNDSOIZG44ZRC5KLRSOSS", "length": 4290, "nlines": 14, "source_domain": "sg.gsk.com", "title": "GSK announces major new commitment to Asia | GSK Singapore", "raw_content": "GSK announces major new commitment to......\nGSK announces major new commitment to Asia\nNew global headquarters for Asia to help build talent and better support patients and consumers across the region\nGlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is strengthening its presence in Singapore by establishing a new global headquarters for Asia; further expanding its commitment to patients and consumers in the region, the company announced today.\nGSK has signed an agreement with Boustead Development Partnership joint venture entity to develop and lease a new building which will be the company\u2019s new global headquarters for Asia. Located at the \u2018one-north\u2019 development in the Rochester Park area of Singapore, GSK will move all employees currently based in Gateway West to the new headquarters during the second half of 2017 once the site is fully fitted.\nSir Andrew Witty, CEO, GSK, said: \u201cGSK and Singapore\u2019s histories are entwined. Since building our first site at Quality Road in 1972, we have continued to significantly expand our footprint, capability and talent base. In our experience and my own personal experience, Singapore excels in fostering talent, supporting business growth and offers an excellent base to access Asia. This is why we are making a significant decision to further increase our presence in Singapore as we continue to modernise and advance GSK.\u201d\nThe Consumer Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines markets are forecast to grow significantly faster in countries covered by the global headquarters for Asia* than in the rest of the world. The new global headquarters for Asia will support local GSK businesses across the region by providing the relevant leadership, expertise, capability and services to make the right decisions for our company, patients and consumers.\nCongratulating GSK at the opening, Dr. Beh Swan Gin, Chairman of the Singapore Economic Development Board, said: \"Singapore is heartened that GSK chose Singapore as the home for its global headquarters for Asia and has decided to establish a new headquarters building here. Its decision is testimony to our value proposition as a trusted biomedical sciences hub, where companies can access global talent and build strategic capabilities to spearhead their growth in the region.\u201d\nThe new global headquarters for Asia will help the company attract and develop the best people to drive innovation and access across the region, ensuring appropriate patients and consumers are able to benefit from GSK medicines, vaccines and products.\nThe eight-storey, nearly 15,000 square metres facility will have capacity for up to 1,000 employees across GSK\u2019s Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare businesses. Key leadership and Asia expertise is already transitioning into the region with almost 150 global or regional roles moving to Singapore in the last year. GSK has over 700 office-based employees in Singapore and expects an additional 100 roles to move into the country as the headquarters nears completion.\nGSK has been present in Asia for over 40 years. The new global headquarters for Asia will have a full range of corporate capabilities allowing key decisions for Asia to be taken within the region by people who have extensive experience of working in this continent. Construction is expected to be complete by the end of 2016.\n* Global Pharmaceuticals will transition to supporting all countries east of (and including) Turkey, but excluding Russia, from the new global headquarters for Asia (i.e. the Middle East North Africa/Commonwealth of Independent States region, India, South Asia, South East Asia, China, Japan, Australia and New Zealand). GSK Consumer Healthcare will support the Asia, Middle East and Africa region from the new global headquarters for Asia in Singapore.\nGSK has a significant presence in Singapore with 1,600 employees working across three manufacturing facilities (Quality Road, Jurong and Tuas), R&D partnerships and commercial operations for all three core businesses (Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines, Consumer Healthcare).\nGSK is partnered with the Singapore Economic Development Board on a range of programmes across education, research, manufacturing and talent development to help create sustainable economic growth, vibrant business and good job opportunities for Singapore.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 315, "original_length": 14235, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 224.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shanihay.com/press/63", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:34:42Z", "digest": "sha1:YR2K7XRRCKM6LCICSIVCRUKT6WDPPKWG", "length": 275, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "shanihay.com", "title": "Apartment Therapy | Sarit Shani Hay", "raw_content": "Apartment Therapy | 9.6.11\n\"When I first saw this space I thought it must be in a children's museum or fancy preschool. It's actually in a hotel, the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem, which, as far as I'm concerned, just threw down the design gauntlet to the world's hotels.\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 35, "original_length": 775, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 226.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shawfloors.com/stores/dealerprofile/7882/wills-wallpaper-and-floor-covering-inc", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:54Z", "digest": "sha1:GGNIFBMGGNBSJY6J5OUQ4C4EER5QJCNS", "length": 79, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "shawfloors.com", "title": "Will's Wallpaper And Floor Covering, Inc. in Batavia, NY 14020 | ShawFloors", "raw_content": "WILL'S WALLPAPER AND FLOOR COVERING, INC.\nhttp://www.willscarpetonebatavia.com/", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 115, "original_length": 3079, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.57, "perplexity": 272.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shepherdexpress.com/arts-and-entertainment/books/wisconsin-veterans-tell-their-stories/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:12Z", "digest": "sha1:SH7OL2SFYTR7I6X6L4X4RS5736Y6THWQ", "length": 2185, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "shepherdexpress.com", "title": "Wisconsin Veterans Tell Their Stories - Shepherd Express", "raw_content": "Home A&E Books Wisconsin Veterans Tell Their Stories\nWisconsin Veterans Tell Their Stories\nMark Concannon wasn\u2019t thinking about a book when he sat down in 2012 and began interviewing veterans. A longtime broadcast journalist familiar to Milwaukee television audiences, Concannon was tapped as the interviewer for the War Memorial Center\u2019s Veterans Story Project, an effort to preserve the stories of Milwaukee area vets as a video archive.\nThe project led to a set of three documentaries, \u201cMettle & Honor,\u201d for Milwaukee PBS. Culling from all 59 interviews, Concannon edited his conversations with veterans into a book, Mettle & Honor: Wisconsin Stories from the Battlefield.\n\u201cThe World War II guys came first,\u201d Concannon says, explaining that he worked his way forward through Korea, Vietnam and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Each war had its own set of emotions. \u201cThe World War II folks were incredibly humble. They didn\u2019t think being at Iwo Jima was any big deal\u2014and of course it was!\u201d he says. \u201cThe Korean War veterans also had a sense of duty but felt they were forgotten. Many of the Vietnam veterans felt vilified when they came back. Some of the Afghanistan and Iraq vets were kids when 9/11 happened. They felt they had to be there.\u201d\nConcannon found the legacy of wartime trauma in some interviews. A Vietnam veteran recalled putting a Vietnamese kid in his gunsights during an incident on the perimeter of his base\u2014and stopping himself before pulling the trigger. The fact of coming so close to killing the boy \u201cleft him so traumatized, he never felt able to become a parent.\u201d\nMany of the stories collected in Mettle & Honor tell of unassuming courage and endurance. One was related by a Milwaukeean who became a POW during World War II. He was down to 70 pounds when liberated. \u201cHe didn\u2019t make anything of it,\u201d Concannon says. \u201cHe felt that serving was just something he had to do.\nMark Concannon will discuss Mettle & Honor: Wisconsin Stories from the Battlefield at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7, at Boswell Book Co., 2559 N. 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She holds degrees in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Modern Culture & Media, and Cognitive Neuroscience, which she uses mainly to over-analyze trashy television and argue over semantics. She never outgrew 90s rock music and hopes she never will. 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Benson\nBetween 1875 and 1879, Edwin Purple contributed several articles to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record on the first three or four generations of some of the ancient families of New York. Those articles, collected in this volume, feature the surnames Van Schaick, Siecken, Tymens, Brevoort, Varleth, Gouverneur, and those of other ancient and allied families. This volume also includes Purple\u2019s instructive list of Dutch aliases and variant surname spellings.\nThe History and Antiquities of Every Town in the State of New York\nPioneers of Steuben County, New York: Migrations from New England, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, 1722-1790\nNew York Probate Records: A Genealogist\u2019s Guide to Testate and Intestate Records", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 19, "original_length": 1142, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.79, "perplexity": 320.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shop.halifaxtrails.ca/product/the-atlantic-coast-a-natural-history/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:51Z", "digest": "sha1:UITXHUPLBNJMBNKXLMS5HZLBMN63DA6P", "length": 5304, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "shop.halifaxtrails.ca", "title": "The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History | Shop.HalifaxTrails.ca", "raw_content": "Home / Books / nature / The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History\nWinner of the Lane Anderson Award for Best Science Writing, the Evelyn Richardson Memorial Award for Non-Fiction, and the Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction.\nAn authoritative and fascinating exploration of the natural history of the east coast of North America.\nThe North Atlantic coast of North America \u2014 commonly known as the Atlantic Coast \u2014 extends from Newfoundland and Labrador through the Maritime Provinces and the Northeastern United States south to Cape Hatteras. This North Atlantic region belongs to the sea. The maritime influence on climate, flora, and fauna is dominant \u2014 even far inland. This is where the great northern boreal forests intermingle with the mixed coniferous-hardwood forests farther south and where the cold, iceberg-studded Labrador Current from the Arctic and the warm Gulf Stream of the tropics vie for supremacy.\nFilled with stunning photographs, the book includes chapters on the geological origins of this region, the two major forest realms, and the main freshwater and marine ecosystems and also describes the flora and fauna within each of these habitats. Finally, it looks at what has been lost but also what remains of the natural heritage of the region and how that might be conserved in future.\nWritten by the Atlantic region\u2019s best-known nature writer, Harry Thurston, The Atlantic Coastdraws upon the most up-to-date science on the ecology of the region as well as the author\u2019s lifetime experience as a biologist and naturalist. It is both a personal tribute and an accessible, comprehensive guide to an intriguing ecosystem.\nPublished in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.\nSKU: 2694 Categories: nature, Books, Nova Scotia Tags: nature, nova scotia, ocean\nA wonderful portrait of a key region of our world. With evocative writing and scientific rigor, Harry Thurston takes us from the deep time of drifting continents to the environmental challenge of today. \u2014Ronald Wright\nHarry Thurston is the best naturalist/writer in the Maritimes (and probably well beyond), and any book by him is well worth the read. This one is an especially valuable addition to anyone\u2019s library and a veritable fount of knowledge about the wildlife of the Atlantic Coast and about that world itself. \u2014Farley Mowat\nThe Atlantic Coast, a sweeping overview of thousands of kilometres of shoreline by prolific East Coast environmental writer and poet Harry Thurston. \u2014Tyrone Burke, Canadian Geographic\nHere is a book that will make you swoon . . . Harry Thurston and Wayne Barrett are a dream team. Both are gifted, multiple-award-winning artists, but it is their intimate knowledge of and profound appreciation of and relationship with nature that makes this book exceptional. Thurston gives us the big picture of the Atlantic coast\u2019s ecosystem, his writing accessible to a wide audience . . . Bravo to David Suzuki Foundation and Greystone Books for finding Thurston and Barrett. This is a book that comes along once in a generation. \u2014The Buzz\n. . . often-lyrical narration and the book\u2019s luminous photographs submerge the reader in the experience of nature . . . \u2014Atlantic Books Today\nSometimes the natural wonders of the world are right in your own backyard. And now, one of the region\u2019s best-known nature writers is putting the Atlantic Coast of North America on the map as one of the richest and most diverse coastal regions in the world with a new book, The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History. \u2014The Guardian Newspaper (PEI)\nMixing observations, in-depth research, and vivid prose, Thurston explores the region\u2019s geologic, ecologic, and cultural history, from the plate tectonics that created the landscape millions of years ago to the recent legislation protecting the degraded waterways of the east coast. Barrett\u2019s gorgeous color photographs of land, sea, and sky supplement Thurston\u2019s vivid descriptions, reminding us of our country\u2019s great beauty. \u2014Publisher\u2019s Weekly\nThurston\u2019s writing is well-researched, clear and engaging, and the pictures, taken by photographer Wayne Barrett, are nothing less than astounding and beautiful . . . Certainly a worthy read. \u2014Michael Johnsen, The Telegram\nWayne Barrett is a partner in Barrett & MacKay Photography. His photographs have been featured in advertisements, magazines, and calendars and have appeared in numerous books. He lives in Prince Edward Island.\nHarry Thurston is the author of several collections of poetry and twelve nonfiction books, including Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy, winner of three non-fiction prizes in the Atlantic region; The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands; and A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist\u2019s Reflections on the Salt Marsh, which received the 2005 Sigrid Olson Nature Writing Award in the United States and was shortlisted for the 2005 BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He has also written for such magazines as Audubon, Canadian Geographic, and National Geographic. Thurston lives in Nova Scotia.\nBe the first to review \u201cThe Atlantic Coast: A Natural History\u201d Cancel reply\nSea Kayaking in Nova Scotia (3rd edition): A Guide to Paddling Routes Along the Coast\nA Sea Glass Journey: Ebb and Flow South Shore Facts & Folklore\nYou're viewing: The Atlantic Coast: A Natural History $20.00", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 152, "original_length": 7609, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.91, "perplexity": 220.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://shopbahari.com/pages/the-world-of-bahari", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:19Z", "digest": "sha1:WS5FS7DIUB7YWJRWRWWOYEXT6TMESWPY", "length": 1689, "nlines": 11, "source_domain": "shopbahari.com", "title": "About The Brand - BAHARI BAHAMAS", "raw_content": "BAHAMIAN LUXURY\nAT BAHARI, WE ARE COMMITTED TO BEING A WORLDWIDE LEADER IN THE FASHION INDUSTRY.\nWe deliver products and services of uncompromising quality and integrity consistent with our brand and our image.\nWe are committed to listening and responding to the needs of our customers, associates, and business partners, and to honoring their individual values.\nWe are dedicated to personal and professional enrichment through an environment of open communication, teamwork, trust and respect.\nWe continue to give back to the community, support our customers, and contribute the Bahamas' creative community as part of our responsibilities.\nWe remain committed to an entrepreneurial spirit that fuels the growth of our company and increases value, not only for stakeholders, but for the the country at large.\nThrough principled leadership, we embrace creativity, and we cultivate innovation, pride, and passion to propel the Bahamas' fashion industry to new heights- Bahamas To The World.\nDURING THE 15TH CENTURY, THE LUCAYAN INDIANS INHABITED THE EXOTIC ISLANDS OF THE BAHAMAS. 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Was there anything those things couldn\u2019t do, and might we primitive 21st century humans develop a similarly powerful handheld diagnostic technology? The Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, announced in 2012, officially opened registration in early 2013 to find out.\nComputers and sensors are smaller, lighter, and more powerful than ever. A creative pairing of the two, with AI onboard, and a cloud connection could change the way we do healthcare forever. Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, told Singularity Hub the winning devices will be like \u201cOnStar for the body.\u201d\nTricorder X was first conceived during the X Prize Foundation\u2019s annual three day Visioneering summit back in 2010. In fact, the prize began life as two prizes\u2014Artificial Intelligence (AI) Physician and Lab-on-a-Chip. 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As the first openly lesbian member of the Nevada State Legislature, she supported a constitutional amendment to make marriage equality the law of the land; introduced an amendment to ban anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination; and convinced the state Assembly to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment - making Nevada the first state in four decades to adopt the amendment, which has still not been enacted on a national level. As a member of Congress, Pat will fight to pass the Equality Act, enact comprehensive protections for women and minorities, and finally bring an end to the legal discrimination Congress has ignored for so many years.\nAs a U.S. Army Veteran, Pat understands the sacrifices made by military members and their families. In the state Senate, Pat strived to help the Nevada Department of Veterans Services, so that they could provide veterans with the support they need. As a member of Congress, Pat would continue to dedicate herself to helping her fellow veterans by expanding access to childcare for military families, assisting veterans and servicemembers who have survived sexual assault during their service, and ending the epidemic of veteran homelessness by ensuring veterans have access to well-paying jobs when they return from service.\nPat earned a Doctorate in Business Administration with an emphasis on Renewable Energy, serves on Nevada\u2019s New Energy Industry Task Force, and is a widely respected speaker on the subject. In the state Senate, Pat has worked to cut back energy costs, expand the solar energy economy, establish annual goals for clean energy savings, and bring cost-effective efficiency programs to working Nevadans. In Congress, Pat will fight to protect the environment and provide Americans with clean energy job opportunities.\nPat ran for state Senate because she witnessed firsthand the devastation caused by the Great Recession and wanted to do something to improve the lives of her friends and neighbors. As a state Senator, Pat has fought to make the American Dream a reality, working to diversify job opportunities and advocating for an increased minimum wage. As a member of Congress, Pat will continue to push for economic diversification so that all Americans have access to well-paying, fulfilling jobs.\nAs President of the San Marcos Consolidated School District, Pat saw first-hand the challenges that parents, teachers, and administrators face in ensuring every child has access to public education. As a state Senator, Pat introduced and supported legislation to help students refinance loans, increase Opportunity Grants for college and trade school attendance, invest in early education, raise Nevada education funding by several hundred million dollars each year, and promote the development of a mentorship program between the state\u2019s higher education system and local businesses. Pat will continue to passionately advocate for affordable, quality education for all Americans.\nHealthcare is a right, not a privilege. We must work to achieve affordable universal healthcare without compromising healthcare benefits for active members of our military, their family members, and veterans. As Chair of the Senate Health Committee, Pat has worked to provide better care to children living with rare diseases, co-sponsored a bill that expanded reproductive health freedom in Nevada for the first time in 17 years, and fought against GOP schemes to take away health insurance from millions of Americans. As a member of Congress, Pat will advocate for the implementation of Medicare-for-all to guarantee that all Americans have the insurance they deserve.\nWe need sensible and compassionate immigration reform. Despite the racist, anti-immigration rhetoric embraced by the GOP, Pat knows that diversity is key to the strength and success of our nation. Undocumented Americans are just as much a part of our society as anyone else, and they deserve a pathway to citizenship.\nHardworking citizens have spent their lives paying into their Social Security accounts. Social Security is a vital, financial safety net for many of our seniors. It\u2019s unthinkable that some politicians would try to take this away. Yet sadly, that is the case. Pat believes it is of utmost importance that we keep our promises to the older generation.\nLegalization and Decriminalization of Marijuana\nAs Senator, Patricia Spearman has created legislation that allows for the growth of the Marijuana industry. As Congresswoman, Patricia Spearman will aid and advocate for the use of Medical Marijuana growth, research, and regulation.\n\" Let's fight for a brighter tomorrow, together!\"", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 45, "original_length": 5670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 208.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://specialoperationsmemorial.org/medals/profile/?wid=610", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:54:59Z", "digest": "sha1:PGLF57M5BHIFB6G7226EIRTBPGSK6QKG", "length": 1354, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "specialoperationsmemorial.org", "title": "David G. Ouellet Medal of Honor Recipient | Special Operations Memorial Foundation", "raw_content": "David G. Ouellet - USN (MOH Citation))\nFor conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. As the forward machine gunner on River Patrol Boat (PBR) 124, which was on patrol during the early evening hours, Seaman David G. Ouellet observed suspicious activity near the river bank, alerted the boat captain, and recommended movement of the boat to the area to investigate. While the PBR was making a high speed run along the river bank, Seaman Ouellet spotted an incoming enemy grenade falling toward the boat. He immediately left the protected position of his gun mount and ran aft for the full length of the speeding boat, shouting to his fellow crewmembers to take cover. Observing the captain standing unprotected on the boat, Seaman Ouellet bounded onto the engine compartment cover, and pushed the boat captain down to safety. In the split second that followed the grenade\u2019s landing, and in the face of certain death, Seaman Ouellet fearlessly placed himself between the deadly missile and his shipmates, courageously absorbing most of the blast fragments with his body in order to protect his shipmates from injury and death. His extraordinary heroism and his selfless courageous actions on behalf of his comrades at the expense of his own life were in the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 2433, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 246.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/78nkmq/after-the-nfl-pot-saved-boo-williams-life-hes-trying-to-return-the-favor", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:06Z", "digest": "sha1:FFCUP3BCZJHKDSOMIBOASCPJFR7HUPWH", "length": 17237, "nlines": 56, "source_domain": "sports.vice.com", "title": "After The NFL, Pot Saved Boo Williams' Life. He's Trying To Return The Favor. - VICE Sports", "raw_content": "Eddie \"Boo\" Williams, formerly a tight end with the New Orleans Saints, is sitting on a bench and pulling on a blunt not far from his home in San Diego. He is describing the moment, back in 2011, when he decided to take his own life. \"I was in a dark place,\" he said. \"I thought I was a small person in a big person's body. I felt like I had no purpose.\"\nIn that deep and dark place, Williams walked not far from the Saints' training facility in Metairie, Louisiana and lay down on railroad tracks. He closed his eyes, whispered final prayers to his kids and family, and awaited the end. His life was saved when two homeless people pulled him to safety.\nToday, Williams talks openly about the depression he suffered, a condition that he says was triggered after his NFL career was cut short by injury. \"You're trying to find an identity because for so long you've just been inside of a helmet,\" he said. \"When you get out of those pads, you're no longer 'Boo the football guy.' You're like, Who am I? What do I do now?\"\nAfter his suicide attempt, Williams entered rehab at the Crosby Center in San Diego. His stay extended for months as he began to heal, both physically and psychologically. Beyond the assistance he received from the Crosby Center, Williams attributes his recovery and well being to marijuana.\nRead More: How The NFL Got Away With Hooking More Than A Thousand Players On Painkillers\n\"I stay medicated,\" he said, flicking his lighter at the slowly disappearing blunt. \"When I got into cannabis, that's when I started sleeping. The racing thoughts stopped. I started processing stuff right.\"\nWilliams is among dozens of former NFL players who are publicly and loudly touting the recuperative powers of cannabis. The group includes quarterback Jake Plummer, wide receiver Nate Jackson, fullback Lorenzo Neal, defensive end Marvin Washington, and at least two of Williams' former teammates, running back Ricky Williams (no relation to Boo) and offensive lineman Kyle Turley.\nThey promote marijuana as a non-addictive, non-toxic alternative for managing pain after games and practices. They argue that marijuana is \"cleaner\" than the pharmaceutical tsunami of opioids and other painkillers customarily prescribed by NFL team physicians and trainers. They also want the NFL to reconsider its prohibition on marijuana and to study its efficacy for recovery from concussions and brain injury.\nSeveral of the players, including Williams himself, are now investing their NFL earnings in cannabis-related businesses. They're betting that weed will become a sort of 420-infused 401k.\nPot remains illegal in this country, of course, and it is a banned substance in the NFL. Currently, some 25 states have enacted laws allowing for medical marijuana use, and Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana. Those numbers are expected to swell next month, with recreational marijuana on the ballot in five states. November's biggest prize is California. If Proposition 64, formally known as the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, passes, recreational marijuana would become legal in the Golden State. (Medical marijuana is already legal in California.)\nFormer Napster founder and Facebook president Sean Parker is backing the pro-Prop. 64 effort financially, and Gavin Newsom, the state's lieutenant governor, has endorsed it. Former U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, is leading the opposition.\nA recent Los Angeles Times poll found that 58 percent of voters favor Prop. 64. Passage of the act in the nation's most populous state (not to mention the nation's most storied producer of marijuana) would shake up the cannabis marketplace.\n\"The green rush is gonna be on!\" Williams said. \"They can't stop us.\"\nSome former NFL players who advocate for medical marijuana, like the New York Giants' Leonard Marshall, claim that they never tried cannabis until after their playing days. Marshall told the New York Daily News that he is a \"cannabis convert\" who now uses medical marijuana for the headaches that began plaguing him after his career.\nBoo Williams, on the other hand, was an early adapter. Born and raised in Florida, he smoked marijuana for the first time in the tenth grade, a couple of days after he sustained his first concussion playing football.\nHe and some teammates from Lincoln High were \"hot-boxing\" in an old Delta 88. \"I can remember, man, we sat there and talked about all kinds of stuff for hours,\" he said. \"That really was a turning point in my football team because we got closer. It's called a peace pipe for a reason because you pass it around and sing 'Kumbaya' and talk about different things.\"\nWilliams self-medicated through high school and at his next stop, Coffeyville Community College in Kansas. He says he never smoked during practice or games, preferring to wait until afterwards, when he could relax.\nHis methodology seemed to work. The 6-foot-4-inch, 230-pound wide receiver was a two-time All-American at Coffeyville before transferring to the University of Arkansas in 1999. The next season, Williams led the Razorbacks with 52 receptions for 739 yards and seven touchdowns. He was ready for the NFL.\nWilliams came out to California after college to select an agent, and says he smoked the state's famous bud for the first time while at a party at Jamie Foxx's house. He passed out and had to be carried to the limo. \"The weed in Kansas and Arkansas was terrible compared to California,\" Williams says with a laugh. \"I was knocked on my ass. That's when I learned about the power of the great cannabis coming out of California.\"\nWilliams wasn't drafted, but signed shortly after the draft with the New Orleans Saints, and bonded with running back and fellow traveler Ricky Williams. Boo was told that there would be no drug testing during minicamp, but was misinformed on that front. He tested positive for marijuana, and so was admitted into the NFL's drug program for the next two years. \"That program was a bunch of bullshit,\" he said. \"They have doctors and therapists come talk to you about your use of cannabis. They really think something is wrong with you, that you're crazy. They treat you worse than someone who is an alcoholic because of the stigmatization that's been put on this plant.\"\nWilliams had to quit \"cold turkey.\" He became, he says, \"a hostage to football. I always kept the playbook in my head, even when I was sitting at the table trying to eat dinner.\" Part of this commitment meant adding about 30 pounds to his frame. The Saints switched him to tight end, he made the taxi squad, and then played with the team for the final 11 games of the 2001 season.\nHe soon was enduring the game's quotidian violence. He caught a pass on the one-yard line against the Chicago Bears and turned toward the end zone, only to be knocked unconscious by an opponent who also knocked himself out. \"I do not remember what happened,\" Williams said. \"To this day my neck is damaged from that play.\"\nSlightly to the right of Ernie Conwell.\nHe also learned that the NFL is predicated on players managing their pain and, somehow, finding a way to suit up on Sundays. \"You can't make the club in the tub,\" is the old saw that Williams repeats with a sigh.\nHe ingested the most readily available option available: a shot of Toradol, known as \"Vitamin T,\" fifteen minutes before the game. As a \"prophylactic against gametime pain,\" Toradol allows players to hit for 60 minutes while masking bodily injuries. It also comes with serious long term health threats, including kidney damage and risk of stroke. Former players have sued the NFL over alleged abuse of Toradol. But, for the shortsighted purposes of NFL teams and the players trying to stay on them, it worked. \"It was psychedelic, man,\" Williams said. \"It turns you into a different person, to where you're resistant to pain. But when it's all over, it's a big time crash.\n\"People think it's the big concussions, the knockout blows\" he continued, \"but it's the small ones you encounter every day. We was bang-bang-bang-bang banging every day. Even those blows in the pre-game, when the linemen thud up against each other, that's a shockwave that's happening.\"\nWilliams' life and career were upended in the span of a single week in August of 2005. Just days after he welcomed his second child into the world, he suffered a serious knee injury in the second half of a meaningless exhibition game against the Baltimore Ravens. Two days later, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans.\nWilliams spent the 2005 season on injured reserve and rehabbed the injury, which he claims today was nowhere near as serious as the team reported. The Saints released him in 2006; he later found out that the child was not his. Williams signed with the Giants that year, but did not make the club. He never played another down in the NFL. At 27, his career was over. \"It's like the saying goes,\" Williams says. \"'It's not when you're done with the NFL. It's when the NFL is done with you.'\"\nWilliams tried to piece together the next chapter of his life. He started a landscaping business, then a security business. He opened a gym. He found no satisfaction. \"There was nothing that gave me that adrenaline rush football gave me,\" he said. \"Running out of tunnel with thousands of people calling your name, getting looked at on TV, scoring touchdowns. That's hard to replace. It led to a lot of infidelity on my wife. It led to me not caring about my business. I found myself having only one friend: my drug dealer.\"\nHe started smoking spice, a form of synthetic marijuana that is considerably more dangerous and unpredictable than cannabis, but which was legally sold over the counter in many states until recently. Spice is what allegedly landed New England Patriots' defensive end Chandler Jones in the emergency room earlier this year.\nAfter his wife kicked him out of the house, Williams ended up on the railroad tracks, wanting only for his misery to end. \"Before, I looked at guys like, 'Man, you want to kill yourself? You must be fucking crazy,'\" he says. \"The thing is, you can never know a person's mind.\"\nWilliams laying it out in New Orleans in 2014. Image via YouTube\nHis stint at the Crosby Center convinced him that another way was possible. Williams began to assist other NFL players struggling with post-retirement issues, including bankruptcy, addiction to opioids, depression, and physical and psychic pain. He also turned to cannabis for what he describes as his \"brain issues.\"\n\"I had to get educated and find the stuff that was right for me,\" he said. \"The sativa [a strain of cannabis] was more helpful than the indica. I can function and do what I need to do. I found my purpose: to inspire and give hope to others.\"\nThat led him to Turley, who formed the Gridiron Cannabis Coalition in 2015, to call attention to the issue and encourage more testing about cannabis' effects to treat pain among players. \"I think the NFL is trying to figure out how to deal with this,\" Williams said. \"They're starting to understand that it can help to heal and replenish the body and to help the brain.\"\nOthers have embraced the cause, including Marvin Washington, a defensive end (primarily with the Jets). During his 11-season career, Washington suffered a litany of injuries. \"I had four concussions and seven major surgeries in the NFL,\" he said. \"I've had both my shoulders put back together. I've had tendons reattached. I've had my fingers crushed and malformed.\"\nBy denying current players access to medical marijuana, Washington believes that the NFL is mistreating its talent. \"I know what it takes to get back on the field,\" he said, \"but if I would've known about another alternative, I wouldn't have done half of the opiates and pharmaceuticals that I did. The toll that takes on your liver and kidneys is tremendous. We've seen so many guys leave the game addicted to pharmaceuticals, but we've never seen a guy leave the game addicted to cannabis.\"\n\"Nobody wants to kill football,\" he added. \"We just want to make it safer on and off the field.\"\nWilliams, Washington, Turley, and others are quick to differentiate between recreational marijuana\u2014i.e., weed that gets you high\u2014and the chemical compound known as cannabidiol (CBD), one of the 100 or so active cannabinoids found within the marijuana plant. (The \"high\" that people get from marijuana comes from the active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC.)\nCBD is non-psychotropic, meaning that it does not get you stoned. Many players swear that CBD offers therapeutic benefits for a wide range of ailments, including depression, anxiety, and inflammation.\n\"Once I started taking CBD, I could feel the effect it had on my body,\" said quarterback Jake Plummer, who played for ten seasons in the NFL. \"I want guys that are currently playing to have a healthy option for pain, for stress and anxiety, for sleeping.\"\nResearch experts caution that proof about the efficacy of CBD is primarily anecdotal. That's because very few clinical trials, with the kind of double-blind testing with placebos that is considered the gold-standard within the scientific community, have been conducted on CBD.\n\"There's some evidence that CBD works for anxiety as well as inflammation,\" said Dr. Marcel Bonn-Miller, an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. \"There's also some evidence that CBD serves as a neuro-protectant. But without the clinical trials it's impossible to determine if it's really affecting symptoms.\"\nThe lack of funding and the \"lingering stigma\" of marijuana, said Bonn-Miller, account for the lack of research in the field. \"It still falls under the 'Oh, it's marijuana, and that's a bad thing' category,\" he said.\nBonn-Miller and colleagues at Johns Hopkins University are currently conducting separate studies concerning the effects of marijuana among present and former NFL players. The study was largely funded by Eugene Monroe, a former offensive tackle with the Baltimore Ravens who has become a cannabis advocate since his retirement.\n\"We want to learn about alternative treatments and ways to improve the players' health,\" said Bonn-Miller.\nAlways be branding. Image courtesy of Boo Williams\nLast month, at the Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition held in downtown Los Angeles, the smell in the air was not patchouli but commerce. Convention-goers were dressed like convention-goers: the convention center was awash in business casual khaki slacks and logo-ed golf shirts.\nVendors with names like Cosa Xentaur Corporation, MP Biomedicals, and Apeks Supercritical pitched their wares in elaborate displays that wouldn't look out of place at CES or E3. The array of glossy magazines devoted to the topic would suggest that print is not yet extinct: Cannabis Business Times, MG, Edibles List, Cannabis Now, Cannabis Culture, Dope, The Hemp Connoisseur, Marijuana Venture, Marijuana Business Magazine. Giddy attendees quoted a market-research report published by New Frontier like a mantra: passage of Prop. 64 in California could produce marijuana sales worth as much as $6.5 billion by 2020.\nWilliams and other athletes note that the passage and implementation of Prop. 64 would triple the number of professional teams that compete in states where marijuana is legal, to a total of 29, putting additional pressure on sports leagues to revise their current policies.\nAt the convention, longtime advocate Montel Williams delivered a come-to-Jesus confessional that pivoted from the chronic pain he suffers from Multiple Sclerosis to an announcement that he is launching a line of medical marijuana products. Snoop Dogg's longtime manager, Ted Chung, used PowerPoint to hype the content of Merry Jane, which they hope to establish as weed's go-to cultural platform.\nThrough his BooBeary Kares company, Boo Williams is seeking to join the \"green rush.\" He is developing several CBD formulas and products\u2014a sports drink, a vape, and a topical rub\u2014that he plans to launch by the end of the year. He recently completed a 20-day, 22,000-mile jaunt across the country to publicize his Black Ghost brand.\nHis entr\u00e9e into the commercial side of the medical marijuana business comes as other bold-type celebrities jockey for position in a community previously known for its inclusive, laid-back spirit.\nThe competition figures to be as fierce, as Sports Illustrated recently reported that Ricky Williams, Boo's former teammate, is starting a 420 gym in Oakland along with other cannabis-related enterprises. Family members of the late Bob Marley are doubling down on their name recognition with major investments in cannabis culture; Rohan Marley, the Marley son behind the effort, played linebacker at the University of Miami and in the CFL.\nWhether Williams and his BooBeary Kares line can compete financially with brands the size of Snoop's and Bob Marley remains to be seen. The primary objective, Williams maintained, goes beyond profit and loss. \"This is about perseverance and hope,\" he said, another blunt at the ready. \"I know from my own experience that there's a lot of pain out there. We want to help people feel better and live better.\"\nsmoking that shit", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 120, "original_length": 18309, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 221.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://spottedrocket.com/WonderousLove.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:50:57Z", "digest": "sha1:HGZAABWRVHX5QLJ62DMBSEN6FTMWRFTZ", "length": 344, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "spottedrocket.com", "title": "What Wonderous Love Is This? - flute duet", "raw_content": "This is an arrangement of the Amercian Folk Song, \"What Wonderous Love Is This?\". Perfect for intermediate to advanced players. Highest note is E above the staff. Lowest note is C below the staff. Piece is approximately 2 1/2 minutes long. Great for Lent, Good Friday, and Easter church services! Piece will be delivered as a PDF through email.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 42, "original_length": 969, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://starvingofftheland.com/author/tamar/page/2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:46Z", "digest": "sha1:QPJMERBYQCO44EYTU64URITDO7VMICLY", "length": 923, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "starvingofftheland.com", "title": "Tamar | Starving off the Land | Page 2", "raw_content": "Author: Tamar\nThis is a dead deer. Don\u2019t look away.\nI have a bone to pick with you. With some of you, at any rate. Specifically, those of you who object to articles about killing animals and photos of those animals, killed. I kill animals. Over the past several years, my husband, Kevin, and I have killed most of the meat we eat. We have [\u2026]\nI bought a rifle. I bought a rifle because Kevin and I have been hunting deer in states that, unlike Massachusetts, allow it, and a rifle is a much better tool for deer-hunting than a 20-gauge shotgun with a rifled barrel, the only other gun I own. I should say at the outset that I [\u2026]\nThose of you who come here often already know that Kevin has managed, against all odds, to get me camping. A couple months back, we bought what he billed as a \u2018tiny house,\u2019 but is really a standard-issue slide-in truck camper. We did a shakedown cruise in the form of a one-night stay at a [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 66, "original_length": 2926, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 290.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stcroixvalleymag.com/festival-worth-racing", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:03:16Z", "digest": "sha1:MAYTH4Y3SQFSELBYMZ6ABQAA2G5MV7OV", "length": 588, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "stcroixvalleymag.com", "title": "A Festival Worth Racing To | St. Croix Valley", "raw_content": "Presented by Chateau St. Croix Winery & Vineyard this event begins with a car show and contest. Featured cars from different genres, from retro to sports, can win awards. While the festival is free to the public, car entries are $5 each. Proceeds from the show will benefit the local EMT program.\nHear music by the Craig Draxten Duo and the Studebakers. Adventure\u2019s Food Truck and Big Guys BBQ along with wine and craft beer will satisfy your cravings.\nCars, Music, and Food Festival\nSaturday, June 16, 11 a.m.\u20146 p.m. and Sunday, June 17, 12 p.m.\u20146 p.m.\n1998 State Rd. 87, St. Croix Falls", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 2119, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 261.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stephenbeer.com/Articles/502983/Stephen_Beer/Articles/Contemporary_Issues/The_Tories_death.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:27Z", "digest": "sha1:VCZEJ7Z6UY2OEZGSXIQJR3MFVN2MZQVA", "length": 4104, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "stephenbeer.com", "title": "Stephen Beer : The Tories' death rattle sounds", "raw_content": "The Queen\u2019s speech was a vivid representation of the state into which the Conservative party has got both itself and the country. To have any chance of securing the approval of parliament, the government had to rip the heart out of what was already a pretty faint vision for running the country. Labour is well-placed to harry this government to an early demise; indeed, this is the official opposition\u2019s constitutional duty. But some hard thinking is required on the left too.\nTheresa May talked about people who were \u2018just about managing\u2019 when she became prime minister. There has been precious little done for such people in the past year. Instead, the phrase is symbolising May\u2019s premiership. Reliant in one way or another on Democratic Unionist party votes, the uncertainty surrounding this government\u2019s future is high.\nIt is clear of course that Brexit will dominate parliamentary time, hence the two years being given to the various bills in the speech. The eight Brexit bills are likely to attract most of MPs\u2019 attention and demand from them an unprecedented level of scrutiny. This is as it should be because it will fall to parliament to define what kind of Brexit we want, and to decide what kind of society we want to be outside of the European Union, assuming we do leave. Had the government won a large majority it could have imposed its will in these matters. That it did not suggests the British people wanted their leaders to think again.\nThe period of Brexit negotiation was always going to be a time of uncertainty, which risked affecting the economy. The more uncertain the future appears, the less likely people and businesses are to make long-term plans. That does not mean that investment or other economic activity will grind to a halt, but it does mean activity, and hence growth, will probably be lower than they otherwise would have been. This impact would come on top of the long term consequences of Brexit on growth, due to lower levels of trade, investment, and immigration should we be excluded from the internal market as seems likely. The government could have mitigated the uncertainty by offering a clear vision for the country.\nIt has been much remarked upon, not least by the chancellor of the exchequer, that the general election was not about the economy. This is wrong. The years of cuts to spending plans and the promise of more remorseless years to come have taken their toll and this was a theme. People can see how they are affecting public services. This represents choices the government has made. It also represents the reckoning from the financial crisis, as we discover just how much poorer a country we are compared to the trends in place before 2008. The economy has grown but GDP per person is not that far above pre-crisis levels. Factor in the unequal distribution of income, wealth, and opportunities and the strains we are experiencing are not surprising. The election may not have featured many debates about forecasts of government debt and GDP growth, but arguably the result repeated the call from electorates across developed nations over the past year or so, including the message of our referendum last year. That is, a demand that things change.\nThis places a great responsibility upon the Labour party to be the agent of that change. The party could be close to a 1945 moment if it gets this right. However, it is not the case that the nation is having a revival and returning to times past. A call for change is not necessarily a vote in support of more government either; it is more about direction. People are reasserting some timeless values and expressing frustration that politicians are not getting it. In 1945 people rejected conservativism and embraced a Labour party with vision, experience, and detailed policy agenda. To take the next step and show it is ready, and ensure it can endure in government, Labour needs to do more work to develop an economic approach which integrates pro-enterprise policies with measures that give everyone a worthwhile stake in our economic future \u2013 whatever our future relationship with the EU.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 51, "original_length": 5130, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 223.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stephenbeer.com/Groups/190239/Stephen_Beer/Blog/March_2012/March_2012.aspx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:48:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UEXMKRVTNOVYS25XQIKOAKFWVBK7I2IT", "length": 4329, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "stephenbeer.com", "title": "Stephen Beer : March 2012", "raw_content": "UK GDP growth fell 0.3% in last quarter\nAn example of how we often don't really know what is happening in the economy - the estimate for UK GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2011 has been revised down from -0.2% to -0.3% (according to ONS figures published yesterday). This was a surprise since survey data had pointed to a more optimistic outcome and some analysts were expecting the estimate to be revised upwards. It seems a drop in business investment of 3.3% in the quarter was a major contributory factor. This underlines a fundamental problem with the UK economy at present - business does not seem to be investing as much as it could be. The Office for Budget Responsibility, in its March Economic and Fiscal Outlook, published with the Budget, stated that it had become more pessimistic about the ability of companies to increase investment significantly, at least in the next year or two.\nAs far as we can tell, the lack of a convincing commitment to growth by the government is dampening economic confidence.\nTags: budget, economic policy, economy\nDo we really know what's happening to our economy?\nWe are only two days away from the Budget and there seems to be no shortage of opinion (including mine) about what it should contain. But do we really know what's going on in the economy? At best, we have a general idea. Surveys of manufacturers appear to point to growth around or above trend (whatever trend growth is at present) but the relationship is not guaranteed and besides, the most recent data has been a bit weaker.\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) made the point, in its Autumn Economic and Fiscal Outlook, that GDP data gets revised for years afterwards. It illustrates this by looking at the 1990s recession, using Office for National Statistics and Bank of England data (see its chart below).\nIt shows that the recession was originally estimated to be over 1.5% deeper than it actually was. That's all very interesting, but imagine if you are a policy-maker - the Chancellor of the Exchequer say - in the early 1990s ie during the recession and early recovery. In early 1992, this data did not even indicate a recovery was taking place; you might have believed that the recession was getting worse. Then again, perhaps the revisions from 1993 onwards incorporated the outcome of actions you took (or didn't take) because you thought things were worse than they were.\nIt's not easy being a Chancellor. Charts like the one above show that economic policy needs to be about more than the odd tweak to tax and spending here and there, because they are of limited use when you don't really know what's going on. It is about government words and actions demonstrating clear support for the economy. It needs to do so primarily via direct job creation and investment, since both contribute to the future potential of the economy (as well as increasing well-being), which means that if we over-compensate we at least have increased the productive potential of our economy (rather than simply increased debt levels via over-consumption).\nTags: economic policy, economy, recession, world credit crisis\nSupport grows for jobs policy\nStephen Timms promotes jobs guarantee in new pamphlet\nThe Smith Institute published on Friday by Stephen Timms MP, Job Guarantee: a right and responsibility to work, which promotes the idea of a jobs guarantee. It's not a new idea, as Stephen Timms notes, but he makes the case afresh that promoting employment is good for growth, for the Exchequer, and not least for the people who find work.\nThe pamphlet draws on a number of sources, including my Fabian pamphlet, The Credibility Deficit. My argument is that Labour's position should be that an important role of government to be an employer of last resort. While that is not yet our policy, this debate about a jobs guarantee is exactly the right one to have. It gets us beyond the current controversy about work experience and focuses on what's ultimately needed - to get people into work, which is an important reason for electing a government and a key reason for Labour's very existence and mission.\nTags: economic policy, economy, jobs guarantee, labour party, smith institute, stephen timms\nbudget economic policy economy jobs guarantee labour party recession smith institute stephen timms world credit crisis", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 78, "original_length": 5268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 282.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stephsterner.com/blog/people-pleasing/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:37:00Z", "digest": "sha1:5D45QUYGXSIV7TVQJ2FR5RMAPXCQNH5M", "length": 966, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "stephsterner.com", "title": "People Pleasing Blog | Steph Sterner", "raw_content": "Posts to help with boundaries & people-pleasing\nBy now we all realize that being a people-pleaser has its downside. Putting other people\u2019s needs before your own can lead to exhaustion, frustration and an unfulfilling life. You can\u2019t say yes to what\u2019s most important to you without saying no to distractions. But, of course, staying too focused on yourself makes for a lonely life. So where do you draw the line? When do you stop trying to please everyone?\nIn the first post of this series on people-pleasing, we looked at the downside of needing approval. We also explored the decision-making process. Now let\u2019s look at another sign: making excuses. Often it\u2019s a good idea to tell someone why you can\u2019t do as...\nIn the first three parts of this series, we explored some of the more common signs of the \"disease to please\". Now I\u2019d like to discuss some of the top causes and how to deal with people pleasing. Signs of being a people-pleaser People-pleasers have at...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 64, "original_length": 2721, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 231.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stmartinschurch.org/about/episco-speak/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:36:18Z", "digest": "sha1:UH5IILYFPFX4576W6OQ2DOW4J5CPVPQD", "length": 3646, "nlines": 19, "source_domain": "stmartinschurch.org", "title": "Episco-Speak | St. Martin's Episcopal Church", "raw_content": "Common terms explained.\nGoing to any church for the first time can be a challenge. Churches, like any group, have their own vocabulary that they all know and understand but which can be daunting for a visitor. We hope this page answers some of your initial questions about terminology.\nBCP: The Book of Common Prayer. The \u201cprayer book\u201d helps to define and structure our worship, detailing the readings, prayers, Psalms and more that we use in our services.\nBishop: The Biblical term for the one who exercises pastoral care and authority over a large number of Christians. Our Bishop is the Rt. Rev. (abbreviation for Right Reverend) George Wayne Smith, Bishop of Missouri.\nCollect: A type of written prayer following a particular formula. The first part of a collect addresses God followed by a phrase describing some aspect of God. Then comes a petition, or request, concluding with a doxology (an expression of praise to God, usually to the Trinity).\nDiocese: The area over which a Bishop has jurisdiction. We are part of the Diocese of Missouri, a community of about 51 parishes and missions from the Mississippi River west to the cities of Jefferson City, Columbia and Kirksville.\nEpiscopal Church: The name of our denomination comes from the Greek New Testament word for Bishop, episcopos (literally, \u2018overseer\u2019). We are an episcopal church in that we have bishops.\nHoly Eucharist: The service that includes the reading and preaching of the Word of God and the Holy Communion, or Lord\u2019s Supper. Eucharist comes from the Greek word for \u201cthanksgiving.\u201d\nInterim Pastor: The title for clergy who have received specialized training to assist congregations in transition.\nNarthex: It\u2019s the lobby or foyer.\nPastor: The title used in many denominations for a person exercising a ministry of pastoral care in a local congregation.\nPriest: An ordained member of the clergy set apart by the Church for particular (not better) ministries and authorized to celebrate Holy Communion and pronounce God\u2019s forgiveness in worship.\nRector: The title of the senior priest in an independent (not financially subsidized) Episcopal congregation.\nReverend, Father, Mother, Mr., Mrs., etc.: There are various terms of address for the clergy. Reverend is for clergy what Honorable is for a judge; use it on an envelope (The Rev. J. Q. Smith) but not in person (do not say \u201cHi, Reverend\u201d just as you would not say \u201cHi, Honorable\u201d to a judge). When addressing a Bishop, you may simply call him or her \u201cBishop\u201d or, for example, \u201cBishop Smith.\u201d Either way is acceptable.\nVestry/Bishop\u2019s Committee: The lay leadership board of an Episcopal congregation, named from the \u201cvesting\u201d room in which the group met in colonial days. Persons are elected annually at the congregational meeting in January to three-year terms on the Vestry. The Vestry shares with the priest the spiritual leadership of the church. It also approves the budget and oversees the leadership of the parish. With the guidance of the Bishop, the Vestry has the responsibility for calling a rector for the congregation.\nVicar: The title of the senior priest in a mission congregation (financially subsidized or without enough membership to provide the resources needed to function independently).\nWarden: The term for the senior lay leaders of the Vestry. The senior warden and junior warden are elected annually by the vestry. In many congregations the senior warden is chosen by the rector and junior warden is chosen by the vestry. A bishop\u2019s committee has only one warden.\nAdapted from a document produced at, and used with permission from, Christ Episcopal Church, Cape Girardeau, Mo.\nOur Resource Page", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 4750, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 276.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stmarysoca.org/other.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:18:36Z", "digest": "sha1:OLAJ6ORUWGZA65I46WTGPPD5O7BTP6LC", "length": 280, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "stmarysoca.org", "title": "St. Mary's Orthodox Cathedral, Minneapolis, Minnesota", "raw_content": "Here is an electronic source for a number of basic Orthodox texts; a sort of electronic library, allowing you to either read the text online or download to your computer as a Microsoft Word document. http://www.holytrinitymission.org/index.php.\nDouble-click on the Textbooks link.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 118, "original_length": 2419, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.83, "perplexity": 277.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://store.needtobreathe.com/music-1/acoustic-live-vol-1-cd-1.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:51:25Z", "digest": "sha1:IVV6NWDBRK4U6A7A2P34LQS2UAJEX43P", "length": 49, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "store.needtobreathe.com", "title": "Acoustic Live Vol. 1 (CD)", "raw_content": "NEEDTOBREATHE's Acoustic Live Vol. 1 album on CD.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 105, "original_length": 4814, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.65, "perplexity": 56.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://store.playstation.com/en-au/product/EP0001-NPEB01365_00-ROCKSMITH02DIGIT", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:12:52Z", "digest": "sha1:UUSV2642LANVIS3REPSYD2EISMG7MWFP", "length": 494, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "store.playstation.com", "title": "Rocksmith\u00ae 2014 Edition on PS3 | Official PlayStation\u2122Store Australia", "raw_content": "Moderate sexual references\nRocksmith\u00ae 2014 Edition\nRocksmith 2014 Edition is the fastest way to learn guitar. Plug in any real guitar or bass and join over 1 million people who have learned with the award-winning Rocksmith method. This official sequel is bigger, better, and faster than ever. Rebuilt from the ground-up, you\u2019ll experience new modes, vastly improved features, a new look, more flexible and deeper practice tools, new techniques and tunings, over 50 new hit songs, and much more.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 77, "original_length": 3074, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 325.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://storiesonline.net/d/s9/t2789/gay-stories", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:06:01Z", "digest": "sha1:YWQ7WO2BPXVPRUODDS7ESTXE4JOUXHER", "length": 1396, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "storiesonline.net", "title": "Gay stories by d5000rider | Storiesonline Forum", "raw_content": "I'm looking for a a sex heavy gay or bisexual gay story(male)\n@d5000rider\nUse the 'Category Search' and selecting those under 'Sexual Orientations' shows almost 400 stories. Can't tell you how 'heavy' they are.\nhttps://www.nifty.org/nifty/\nYou can find one of mine there, only it's not \"heavy\" (it only has three sex scenes in the entire story, though each is pretty steamy, if I may say so).\nI never included it here on SOL, because I know there's an actively hostile reception to those types of stories here.\nIn general, you'll find a LOT more hot gay stories there than you'll ever find here, though the chances of finding the excellent ones are more difficult.\nI haven't read any of them, so I don't know if they are any good, but Aussie Speedo Guy has been posting lots of gay hook-up stories. I have been able to determine, just from the descriptions, that they aren't about building relationships, but if heavy casual Gay Sex is what you're looking for in your eLit at SOL, I'd definitely check his stories out. They sound a little formulaic, but I was on a real Doc Savage binge for a while as a teenager, and you can't get more formulaic than that; if the formula happens to mesh with your interests, formulaic is just fine. He's been posting here for a year or so, I think. Rather prolific in his writing.\nEdit to add: He has a definite Speedo fetish, based upon his story descriptions.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 40, "original_length": 2058, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 315.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stpaulswinchester.org/2018/05/12/sunday-school-platform-9-3-4-this-sunday-12/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:34:01Z", "digest": "sha1:2PAFA3FUNIVFI5SEOC3LMLWLC2MUEOHY", "length": 154, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "stpaulswinchester.org", "title": "Sunday School Platform 9 3/4 Postponed until next Sunday! | St. Paul's on-the-Hill Episcopal Church", "raw_content": "Tomorrow\u2019s Sunday school platform has been postponed until next Sunday, May 20.\nAll children, members and non-members are welcome next Sunday at 10:30 am.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 84, "original_length": 2797, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 141.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://stream.realeyz.de/media/mann-liebt-hund/1_yandr5me", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:54:27Z", "digest": "sha1:GUHWZETNFPNTBRW72G6OI4SF3AJGSRCP", "length": 44, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "stream.realeyz.de", "title": "Mann liebt Hund - realeyz | Indie Film Network", "raw_content": "Bis: Tuesday, April 14th, 2020 11:59 PM CEST", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 1362, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.86, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://studentscholarships.org/scholarships/30978/the_upper_carroll_school_high_school.php", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:47Z", "digest": "sha1:SVUY7LZUJGDLWJK4EHK4TZCTHVU7ET26", "length": 352, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "studentscholarships.org", "title": "The Upper Carroll School High Schools", "raw_content": "The Upper Carroll School\nThe Upper Carroll School is located in Brooklyn, New York. Scholarships for students attending The Upper Carroll School can be found in our scholarship database. If you are searching for scholarships for students attending a different high school in Brooklyn, visit the Brooklyn directory.\nThe Upper Carroll School High Schools", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 1414, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 316.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://subeled.com/ca/19-diferenciales", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:12Z", "digest": "sha1:5R73CYMOOLTPJ636JA4ATCMUFT536R6C", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "subeled.com", "title": "Diferenciales - Subeled", "raw_content": "Diferenciales There are 2 products.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 113, "original_length": 2335, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.76, "perplexity": 204.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://sunflowerstateradio.com/2018/11/27/marysville-man-sentenced-to-47-years-for-attempted-murder-related-charges/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:29:14Z", "digest": "sha1:NUYQQDKPSB36IH3YDSTNJTFKKHZ4VUHM", "length": 1649, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "sunflowerstateradio.com", "title": "Marysville Man Sentenced To 47 Years For Attempted Murder, Related Charges | Sunflower State Radio", "raw_content": "KNDY News Marysville Man Sentenced To 47 Years For Attempted Murder, Related Charges\nMarysville Man Sentenced To 47 Years For Attempted Murder, Related Charges\nMARYSVILLE \u2013 (November 27, 2018) \u2013 A Marysville man was sentenced today to more than 47 years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted murder and related charges, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said.\nMatson Zane Hatfield, 31, pleaded guilty last month to one count of attempted first degree murder, two counts of attempted second degree murder, one count of aggravated robbery, one count of aggravated arson, one count of aggravated escape from custody, one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated escape from custody, two counts of criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling, one count of criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied building, one count of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, one count of criminal damage to property, one count of criminal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and two counts of battery against a law enforcement officer. The crimes occurred in October 2017 in connection with an escape from the Marshall County jail. Charges against a second defendant remain pending.\nDistrict Judge James A. Patton today sentenced Hatfield to a total of 568 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections.\nThe case was investigated by the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Marshall County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Marysville Police Department. Assistant Attorney Adam Zentner of Schmidt\u2019s office and Marshall County Attorney Laura Johnson-McNish prosecuted the case.\nPrevious articleKDOT Announces Approved November Bids", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 169, "original_length": 6333, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 224.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://superpowerexperts.com/sps-creating-that-spiritual-center-in-your-heart-focused-business/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:22Z", "digest": "sha1:OMZHDLJ343MCXH3I5LERODXUNBWGIXBR", "length": 10549, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "superpowerexperts.com", "title": "SPS - Creating that Spiritual Center in Your Heart Focused Business | Super Power Experts", "raw_content": "Sharon Wilson, Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of the Coaching from Spirit Institute, joins Jennifer Urezzio on the SuperPowers of the Soul show to guide people in creating a spiritual center in heart-focused businesses. Sharon shares 20 years of experience in supporting individuals on how to use an inner and outer approach to selling, marketing, creating, and expanding a heart-centered business. Listen in as they provide tools and insights on to understand the spiritual center of your heart focused business.\nHello everyone, and welcome. I\u2019m Jennifer Urezzio, Super Power Expert and founder of Soul Language, and this is SuperPowers of the Soul. And I\u2019m with Sharon Wilson today and we\u2019re talking about creating that spiritual center in your hearts focused business. So let\u2019s talk.\nSo I love this topic. I am so from the heart, from spirit. I spent 17 years in marketing and PR, where I wasn\u2019t allowed to tell people the truth.\nAnd we\u2019re gonna do a deep dive in that topic in a couple of minutes.\nBut I always like to start with my favorite question, which is, what is your superpower of your soul?\nThis is such a great question, Jennifer. And I\u2019m so grateful that you offered that to me ahead of time so I could think about it, because I actually didn\u2019t wanna come from my head on this, I wanted to come from a heart space on it. And so I really did have an opportunity to just really sit with that, and even meditate, and say, \u201cWhat is the superpower of my soul?\u201d\nI have a gift of helping people to activate their vision.\nAnd one of the things is that since I was small, I\u2019ve always been someone that seems to have a gift of helping people to activate their vision. When I was a kid in kindergarten, the first week, I brought a little boy home the first week and I told my mom, \u201cMy mom gets me off the bus\u201d and here comes this little boy with me, and my mom says, \u201cWell, who is this?\u201d And I said, \u201cThis is my friend, and everyone makes fun of him because he doesn\u2019t know his ABCs, but I\u2019m gonna show him how to do his ABCs so nobody will make fun of him anymore.\u201d And my mom said, \u201cDoes his mom know that he\u2019s here?\u201d\nSo that was the beginning. And so, it\u2019s interesting because all through my life, that\u2019s really what has really given me the jazz, you know, what\u2019s really excited me in anything I\u2019ve ever done. Just like you, I spent time in marketing and PR and sales and corporate America, non-profit organizations, fundraising, all kinds of stuff, and that was always what really gave me the most amount of fulfillment was seeing other people being activated, their confidence being activated, their sense of higher potentiality being activated.\nAnd whether I realized it or not back then, really a big part of that was helping people to connect to their inner guidance. Even though I didn\u2019t say it that way, it was really about this idea that you have what you need within you. And it was a lot about activating your belief in yourself.\nAnd I thought it was interesting because my title and the name of my company, Coaching From Spirit, you know, that came to me in a meditation 20 years ago. But then my title is chief inspirational officer. So to say that I really feel that that is one of the core things, along with then being able to help people to be able to activate in others that they\u2019re talking to, especially around a business perspective, their potentiality. So that\u2019s when we kinda get into sort of that subgroup of the superpower.\nThat\u2019s amazing. And the next question I have is, as you\u2019ve been on this journey, what has been the common theme that your soul has shared with you?\nWell, I think really the common theme is.. It\u2019s been a mantra that has become so powerful, because like so many of us that have found ourselves with heart centric businesses or doing this kind of work, you know, we have all kinds of stories of all kinds of challenges and contrasts, you know, what people might see as obstacles or things that have happened to us. And for me, it\u2019s really been about, that there\u2019s a mantra that somehow, some way, there\u2019ll be a way. Things will work out and good will come out of even what looks like the most awful things.\nSo I\u2019m sure, like many who are listening to this, I\u2019ve had a lot of challenges in my life. My parents were divorced when I was 18, after 20 years of marriage, which was really kinda crazy. My dad died at 40 from suicide, you know, on and on. I\u2019m sure we all can just sort of lay out all the things.\nBut one of the things that my soul continues to show me and to support other people on is that we have a choice how we experience whatever setback or challenge, and I say seeming setback or challenge. We can either go through it or grow through it. And I\u2019m not sure who said that, I\u2019m not gonna take credit for that. But that is really powerful that we have a choice about how we see what seem to be obstacles, or how we see what seem to be challenges.\nEven how I ended up getting into this work 20 years ago came from having a dark night of the soul. And at the time, that didn\u2019t seem at all like that was gonna be something that was going to be a shining glory. At the time I was considering leaving the planet of my own hand. And so when you look at it at that time, that was a very dark time and a very challenging time. But so much good has come out of it in so many ways.\nAnd so I just think, that as you go through it, you know, I\u2019ve heard people talk about, that beautiful gems are made in the heat, and in the power of the heat. And I\u2019m not sure why as human beings that is the case for us. But I think it has something to do with some soul curriculums that we\u2019ve agreed to, even though I would say, \u201cI never agreed to anything like that,\u201d but I think at a soul level we do agree to certain divine curriculums, I like to think of them, and that you\u2019re assured that somehow you will get through it. And you can even be better on the other side of it, but that there is going to be a lot that will be activated through those kinds of situations.\nYeah. We have two more questions before we break here, but I also wanted to touch base, you know, we talk a lot about sacred purpose and what sacred purpose it, and I believe sacred purpose is first for you, and then for others, right? It\u2019s what here to experience. And my sacred purpose is to alleviate suffering through connection. And so I\u2019m always gonna take people back to that connection.\nAnd you shared some really amazing stories here, and so how is that linked back to your sacred purpose? And how then does your sacred purpose reflect in what you offer individuals and how you operate in the world?\nYeah. Wow, those are great. You really do have a great superpower of asking questions. I really, really wanna acknowledge that. Well, I mean, sacred purpose, so my sense is that my sacred purpose is about being an activator, about activating, activating in myself, activating in others, and being able to then be a ripple effect. The activation has a ripple effect.\nI love what you said, because it really has to start with us. So it\u2019s always about activating whatever wants to be activated in me, and then being able to hold that for others as well, and being able to come from a place of real empathy and connection. But at the same time, to see something more for others, to not see them in their weakness but to see them as they want to be. And I think that\u2019s all of our sacred purpose is to\u2026\nWe\u2019re all one and to support each other in seeing each other as we want to be.\nWe\u2019re all one and to support each other in seeing each other as we want to be. And I think it\u2019s so powerful that, you know, I never have any baggage for anybody else, Jennifer. It\u2019s just baggage for me.\nYou got enough carrying your own luggage around, why do you need to carry other\u2019s luggages?\nYou know, but I have no baggage for you. I think you could do anything. I think everybody can do anything. So I think it\u2019s so important to have people, and for us as people to be those activators for people, and to see each other as we wanna be.\nI don\u2019t know if you watched the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.\nOkay, so, but one of the things that people were talking about which was so powerful was Bishop Curry\u2019s delivery, and when he was talking about envisioning the world coming from love. And I thought it was so powerful that three billion people watched that wedding, I was one of the three billion who watched it, and we all went to church that day. For 20 minutes we imagined a world, governments that were ruled by love, companies that came from a place of love.\nI thought that was so incredibly powerful. I mean, I had goosebumps the whole time, and I thought, \u201cThis is a powerful activation. Wow, this is really what\u2019s happening here.\u201d So there is something so incredible when we can see that even though it isn\u2019t maybe the case right at this moment, and there are a lot of things going on that would say, \u201cOh, we\u2019re nowhere near that.\u201d But the power I think is all of us holding the vision of each of us in our highest potentiality.\nSo I think that is a big part of what we\u2019re all here to do. So that really permeates throughout everything that I hold an intention to do.\nYeah. And if people wanna get started activating something, I\u2019ve said this before, and I\u2019ll give the tip out again, you can use your body\u2019s divine intelligence to put you in that consciousness level, \u2019cause it knows. And it\u2019s simply divine intelligence activates love, or divine intelligence activates safety within my system. And if you keep doing it enough, you\u2019re gonna just\u2026 it\u2019s gonna overflow out into everything you touch.\nAnd it\u2019s really important to not only, If you believe you\u2019re whole and complete, or you have an inkling that you\u2019re whole and complete, then you must treat everyone on this planet as if they\u2019re whole and complete. And that becomes a whole different ball game of love, because then you\u2019re choosing to do and participate in things differently.\nSo we\u2019re gonna dive deeper in this, creating the spiritual center in your heart focused business, in a minute after the break. But how do people get in touch with you? 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The first thing which attracts all the attention is his ever-appealing eyes.\nThen his happily wagging tail. Isn\u2019t it? But if a dog owns such long ears that they are enough to cover his full face, then those ears are going to snatch all of your attention towards them.\nRight? Did you ever try to know about those breeds of dogs with big ears? or Why do Dogs have Different ear Shapes?\nIf your answer is yes then this article is surely a must read for you because here we are going to discuss the names for dogs with big ears who are very famous for their \u201cit\u2019s all about ears\u201d appearance.\nHave a cup of coffee and enjoy reading this article. First of all, let us be clear about one thing that their long ears have specific jobs, it\u2019s not that they are only for making them look beautiful same as we discussed in our previous list for Breeds of Dogs with Floppy ears. Long-eared dog breeds are mainly categorized into hound group which is meant for hunting.\nDogs Breeds with Big Ears:\n1. Bloodhound: One of the very famous long-eared dog breeds is Bloodhound which obviously falls in the Hound group of breeds. They are among those primitive hunting dogs who hunt with the help of their strong-smelling sense.\nTheir ability to smell really well is the reason they were used as tracking dogs and also the reason why people with a good sense of smell are likened to bloodhounds.\nWhat is more, that is not all, they are also known to have the ability to discern the smell of humans from other smells. Bloodhounds have a rather large bone structure and most of their weight is concentrated in this area.\nHowever, due to their very tenacious nature of being one-track minded when it comes to tracking the smell they are following, they may pose some obedience issues.\n2. Basset Hound: This bunch of hound is very famous in the show ring.\nTheir presence and long ears are going to catch everybody\u2019s admiration.\nThey are not very large according to their body size but their ears are bigger.\nThey are mainly native to France and they are well-adapted to apartment living.\nSometimes peoples get confused to recognize a basset hound for beagles, If they look similar to you as well then read about the differences between a basset hound and beagle.\nThis breed may be a good one to have when it comes to having in your apartment with limited space, but you still have to work the 10 essential dog commands you must teach your dog.\nBecause the dog is so friendly and safe to have around children as well as other pets, you will find that it is a fun dog to have around.\nThough the appearance of the dog may suggest a rather mournful countenance, that need not be the truth.\n3. Afghan Hound: This breed is also from the Hound family having long ears.\nTheir ears are so elegant and so furry that you cannot even distinguish them from their furry body while you look at them.\nThey are native to the cold mountains of Afghanistan and that\u2019s why they are so named. Because of their so unique appearance they have been used many times in many animated feature films and TV shows.\nDo not be drawn into believing what the ladylike appearance of this breed seems to suggest.\nYou will still need to invest in all the 10 most important dog tools every owner must have.\nBecause though the Afghan hound is known to be full of dignity, they can take on a playful and fun aspect when they get in the mood for a frolic.\nThis breed which can be good for agility shows, as well as therapy, is a good dog to have as a friend.\n4. Black and Tan Coonhound: It\u2019s a cross between Bloodhound and Black and Tan Virginia Foxhound. Being native to the United States this breed is very popular in chasing raccoons entirely by smell.\nTill date, a Coonhound from Colorado named Harbor set the Guinness Book World Record for the longest ears (12.25 inches for the left ear and 13.5 inches for the right one).\nThis mellow and playful dog is a great pet to have indoors but may not be the best choice when you have a very playful child around.\nAnd you should also remember that the black and tan coonhound can be a difficult dog to deter when it gets on the track of something.\nWith the size of the ears, it has it would definitely earn its place in the list of breeds of dogs with floppy ears.\n5. Cocker Spaniel: Now let us concentrate on the Spaniel family.\nThis guy from Spaniel family owns cute, long, velvety ears which are the cuddliest. They can be kept as a pet but they are very sensitive to loneliness and are at their best mood when with the family members.\nThe very floppy ears that make the cocker spaniel so adorable and cute, also poses some health problems. The long ears can create an atmosphere that encourages organisms to grow and cause problems. We would say keep an eye out for the expression of dogs when they want to say something and ensure that all problems are sorted before they become major.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 119, "original_length": 13001, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 332.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://talkpoverty.org/2016/03/21/felony-drug-ban-keeps-thousands-hungry/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:34Z", "digest": "sha1:NFMU3IO2ENA5FCLRSXSSUAAMDOX5WGWQ", "length": 9280, "nlines": 33, "source_domain": "talkpoverty.org", "title": "How the Felony Drug Ban Keeps Thousands of Americans Hungry - Talk Poverty", "raw_content": "March 16, 2016 | Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer & Congresswoman Barbara Lee\nOver the past seven years, our economy has come back from the brink of catastrophe. The unemployment rate is now below 5.0 percent, 14 million new jobs have been created, and health insurance is now affordable for millions of Americans. By nearly every measure, our nation is doing better today than it was right before the Great Recession. But for more than 46 million Americans, poverty is a harsh daily reality, and the triumphs of our economic recovery have meant little. That\u2019s why we must continue to wage the battle against hunger, homelessness, and joblessness in our communities.\nBecause we are deeply committed to ensuring everyone has the opportunity to achieve the American Dream, we launched the Democratic Whip Task Force on Poverty, Income Inequality, and Opportunity in 2013. Since then, our Task Force has introduced and advocated for policies that provide pathways out of poverty for the most vulnerable, and we have worked to demonstrate our commitment to helping those struggling to make ends meet and get ahead. Last November, we sent Speaker Paul Ryan a letter inviting him to join us in enacting bipartisan policies that combat poverty in America, hoping to find common ground with someone who just last month launched his own Republican task force on poverty.\nWhile it is encouraging that Speaker Ryan discusses the need to address poverty in America, he must back up his rhetoric with action. Unfortunately, even since his election as Speaker, House leadership has continued to block even basic measures that could benefit millions of struggling Americans, such as raising the minimum wage, and they continue to tell families across the country: \u201cYou\u2019re on your own.\u201d\nToday, the House Budget Committee is marking up the Majority\u2019s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2017 that continues to promote draconian budget policies that set back the cause of eliminating poverty. From cutting Medicaid to repealing the patient protections of the Affordable Care Act, from ending the Medicare guarantee to slashing funding for programs that encourage job growth, the Majority\u2019s budget disinvests in our nation and shifts the burden of deficit reduction onto the shoulders of the poorest and most vulnerable.\nDespite making these extreme spending cuts, the most conservative members of the House still believe the proposed budget does not go far enough. Speaker Ryan should not be tempted to move even further to the right in an effort to get the extreme wing of his party to agree to a budget. Any attempt to do so would result in even more dangerous policies that would harm those living in poverty. We strongly urge Speaker Ryan instead to work across the aisle to adopt a budget resolution that adheres to last year\u2019s bipartisan budget agreement and invests in economic opportunity for all Americans.\nThe Majority\u2019s budget shifts the burden of deficit reduction onto the shoulders of the poorest and most vulnerable.\nThe budget released by the President in February\u2014which House leaders irresponsibly dismissed out of hand\u2014laid out a number of proposals that would do just that, such as a mobility counseling program to help families move to safer neighborhoods with better schools and more job opportunities; a permanent program to ensure that children who rely on free or subsidized school lunches are fed and healthy; and an expansion of Pell Grants. We will continue to fight back against disinvestments that hurt working families and the very poor, and we will push for measures like the ones the President has proposed that create opportunities for families to escape poverty.\nIn addition, there are a number of areas where Democrats and Republicans could work together to achieve bipartisan progress. For example, Congress could adopt the Half in Ten Act (H.R. 258), which we co-sponsored, to establish a national strategy to halve poverty over the next decade. We also believe we can work together to expand the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) to childless adults, a policy Speaker Ryan advocated for when he chaired both the Budget and the Ways and Means committees.\nIn the weeks ahead, the Speaker has an opportunity to do more than make promises or launch a new task force\u2014he can partner with the Democratic Whip Task Force to act. For the sake of the more than 46 million Americans struggling to get by, we will be ready to meet with the Speaker and his team to find common ground and help lift families out of poverty and into the middle class.\nWhat South Carolinians Think About Ryan's Poverty Forum\nMarch 15, 2016 | Senator Sherrod Brown\nA lot of folks in Washington like to talk about the economic recovery as though our work is finished. To listen to some politicians in their nice suits and fancy offices\u2014working families are doing just fine. But while the country may have climbed out of the depths of the recession, too many hard-working families are still struggling. That\u2019s because the gains from economic growth have gone largely to the wealthiest Americans, while low and middle-income workers have seen little to no income growth over the past two decades.\nEarlier this month, the Senate Banking Committee, on which I serve as Ranking Member, held a hearing on the economic recovery, and I was proud to see ordinary Americans outnumbering lobbyists in the audience. Instead of expensive tailored suits, they wore T-shirts with a simple but powerful message: \u201cWhose Recovery?\u201d\nThat\u2019s a question we must keep asking ourselves.\nIf we are serious about helping working families and reducing the persistent poverty holding too many Americans back, we need to get serious about expanding and strengthening one of the most effective poverty-fighting tools we have: the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC).\n27 million households earned an average refund of $2,400.\nThe EITC was created with broad bipartisan support in 1975, and it has been expanded by every president since. It encourages people to work by putting thousands of dollars back into the pockets of low-wage and moderate-wage workers. Last year, 27 million American households\u2014950,000 households in my home state of Ohio alone\u2014claimed the EITC and earned an average refund of $2,400. That means millions of families getting a check in the mail this spring\u2014a check making their hard work pay so they can make a down payment on a new car, put a deposit on an apartment, pay off medical debt, or save for a rainy day.\nEach year, the EITC protects more children from poverty than any other government program. What\u2019s more, research shows that it is an investment that pays long-term dividends, improving children\u2019s health, educational attainment, and even earnings in adulthood.\nOne of our most important accomplishments last year was the bipartisan tax package that permanently expanded the EITC, providing certainty for the millions of families who rely on the credit and are counting on it again this year. But there is one glaring hole in the program that we still need to fix.\nUnder current law, workers without children barely earn any EITC. And childless workers under age 25 don\u2019t qualify for the credit at all.\nWe are talking about people working full-time, 40 hours a week, all year round. But at minimum wage or even $9 per hour, they earn less than $20,000 a year. And without a significant EITC, these workers can actually be taxed deeper into poverty.\nThat is shameful. It goes against our core values as a nation, and it has to end.\nThese people work hard and play by the rules. They contribute by paying Social Security and other payroll taxes. How will they save for the future and plan for their families if they constantly struggle to get by, paycheck to paycheck\u2014all the while being taxed deeper into poverty?\nIn the final budget of his presidency, President Obama has proposed expanding the EITC by reducing the eligibility age from 25 to 21 and nearly doubling the maximum value of the credit.\nThis is a step in the right direction, but it does not go far enough.\nThe Working Families Tax Relief Act, which I introduced last year, would nearly triple the maximum value of the EITC to ensure that no one is taxed into poverty. Just expanding the childless EITC as that legislation would do, would lift more than half a million people out of poverty and reduce poverty for an additional 10 million Americans.\nWe must also combine the tax credit with an increase in the minimum wage, to make sure a hard day\u2019s work is rewarded with an honest day\u2019s pay.\nExpanding the EITC will mean more people attending college and getting GEDs. It will mean more Americans working at higher salaries. And it will enable millions of people to earn their way out of debt or to begin saving a nest egg, potentially for the first time in their lives.\nAnd that means stronger communities, and more stable families.\nIf we are serious about creating an economic recovery for all Americans\u2014not just those who work on Wall Street or in Washington\u2014we need to let working people keep more of their hard-earned money. Then when we are asked the question, \u201cWhose recovery?\u201d we will be closer to answering: \u201cAll hardworking Americans.\u201d\nBoosting Economic Mobility through the EITC\nTAGS Congress Earned Income Tax Credit Recession", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 32938, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 232.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://taubmancollege.umich.edu/faculty/directory/malcolm-mccullough", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:38:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VA4FIMNEABMW3YZH6EQRQNZJWXWQ7Q2K", "length": 846, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "taubmancollege.umich.edu", "title": "Malcolm McCullough | Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning", "raw_content": "Malcolm McCullough is professor of architecture at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, where he teaches architecture and media arts. McCullough is the author of four widely read books on digital design: Ambient Commons (2013) Digital Ground (2004), Abstracting Craft (1996), and Digital Design Media (1991, with William Mitchell). Prior to joining Taubman College in 2001, McCullough taught at Carnegie Mellon University, and for ten years at Harvard Graduate School of Design. As his writings are often used in design teaching, McCullough has given invited lectures in more than 15 countries. Currently he is at work on data visualization for the augmented city. His latest book, Downtime on the Microgrid, which is amid reviews and editing, finds something positive and real about smart city memes.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 314, "original_length": 9023, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 119.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teamhewins.com/thuong-thien-cfp/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:07:23Z", "digest": "sha1:P2E75TFLEZT2USWMJMIAZZZEGNP7AWRG", "length": 1956, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "teamhewins.com", "title": "Thuong Thien, CFP\u00ae \u2013 Team Hewins", "raw_content": "thuongt@teamhewins.com\nThuong is a high energy leader with great enthusiasm for her clients and her work. After joining us in 2013 as a Financial Advisor, she proved to be someone her clients and colleagues could rely on for outstanding service and integrity. She soon became a Principal of the firm and moved into a leadership role with our Bay Area advisory team.\nAs a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER\u2122, Thuong consistently demonstrates the highest level of professional competence, but she also knows that patience and understanding are essential elements of effective client work, and she sets the example for her team every day. She helps her clients achieve a big-picture perspective on their lives, which becomes the basis for their long-term financial plans. From prioritizing and identifying immediate deficiencies to protecting assets and providing for families, businesses and the community, Thuong ensures that all things are thoughtfully considered.\nPrior to joining Team Hewins, Thuong spent six years at JSF Financial in Los Angeles as an Operations Manager and Trader, honing her ability to help clients develop holistic, personal financial plans while managing the operations of the firm.\nThuong graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, minors in Global Studies and Southeast Asian Studies, and thereafter earned her Certificate of Personal Financial Planning. While at UCLA, she worked at the international school assisting a diverse group of international students in exploring educational opportunities and American culture, demonstrating the kind of commitment to service we love to see.\nThuong appreciates the connectedness of every aspect of a person\u2019s financial life, and the areas of planning she enjoys most include retirement planning, tax planning, wealth transfer & charitable planning, and investment planning.\nIn her free time, Thuong enjoys traveling abroad, meeting new people and experiencing diverse cultures.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 38, "original_length": 2569, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 257.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techconnectwv.org/homer-laughlin-china-toyota-hailed-for-green-efforts/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:24Z", "digest": "sha1:VKDWUEFFXDTLJONLIKIKPAOAIO5UY2BN", "length": 4524, "nlines": 22, "source_domain": "techconnectwv.org", "title": "Homer Laughlin China, Toyota Hailed for \u2018Green Efforts\u201d TCWV Turning Innovation Into Enterprise", "raw_content": "Homer Laughlin China, Toyota Hailed for \u2018Green Efforts\u201d\nState Journal, Feb. 13, 2015\nBy James E. Casto\nFamily owned for five generations, the Homer Laughlin China Co. is one of West Virginia\u2019s oldest manufacturers. Founded in 1871 in East Liverpool, Ohio, it moved to Newell in 1903.\nComparatively speaking, Toyota Motor Manufacturing West Virginia is a far younger venture. It opened its plant at Buffalo in Putnam County in 1996.\nBut despite the vast difference in their histories and heritage, the two manufacturers share an important common trait. In recent years, both have made significant strides in adopting energy efficiency measures and advanced manufacturing techniques.\nTheir efforts were recognized when the two companies were presented awards at the 2015 Innovation & Entrepreneurship Day, conducted Jan. 28 at the State Capitol, co-sponsored by TechConnect West Virginia and TransTech/Industries of the Future WV.\nHomer Laughlin, maker of the popular Fiesta brand dinnerware, received the Governor\u2019s Award for Leadership In Industrial Energy Efficiency. Toyota was presented the Governor\u2019s Award for Excellence in Green Manufacturing.\nCarl Irwin, director of TransTech/Industries of the Future WV, said the two companies were honored, not just for one or two steps they took, but for a broad range of initiatives.\n\u201cHomer Laughlin is a leader in industrial energy efficiency and green technologies,\u201d Irwin said, citing some of the measures the china maker has implemented. For example, he noted, the company now captures waste heat from its kilns and uses it in other processes, reducing its natural gas consumption by 54 million cubic feet every year, saving $270,000 annually.\nInstalling computer-controlled air compressors, energy efficient lighting and variable frequency drive electric motors has reduced the plant\u2019s electricity consumption by 9 million kilowatt hours (KWH) per year, for a savings of more than $500,000 annually.\nHomer Laughlin now captures and reclaims approximately 775 tons per year of waste coloring glaze, reducing landfill waste and saving an average of $1.2 million annually. And a clay reclamation system has reduced landfill disposal by almost 3,600 tons a year and saved more than $1 million in material costs annually.\nIrwin said several measures taken by the china manufacturer were based on recommendations offered in a plant-wide energy assessment conducted by the West Virginia University Industrial Assessment Center.\nToyota Motor Manufacturing has expanded its Buffalo plant eight times since it opened. The plant now employs 1,400 workers, represents a cumulative investment of more than $1.4 billion and has an annual production capacity of 650,000 engines and 740,000 automatic transmissions.\n\u201cToyota has been a zero-landfill operation since 2003,\u201d Irwin said. \u201cThe plant annually recycles 12 million pounds of materials \u2014 aluminum, steel, cardboard, wood, plastic, paper, even its uniforms. Non-recyclable waste is sent to a waste-to-energy facility in Indiana.\u201d\nThe plant, he said, installed a compressed air metering system that cut its total energy use by four percent, saving $300,000 a year. It also replaced more than 2,000 old halide lights with energy efficient fluorescent lights \u2014 \u201ca step equivalent to taking 280 houses off the grid.\u201d\nImplementing advanced manufacturing technology, the Toyota plant now utilizes more than 100 robots for moving raw materials and parts between assembly stations, as well as moving finished engines and transmissions from assembly lines and onto test pallets or shipping modules.\nAnd the plant, he said, is working with the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing (RCBI) on using 3-D printing for the rapid prototyping of parts for testing, along with research and development.\nToyota was represented at I&E Day at the Capitol by Environmental Specialist George Vickers, External Affairs Specialist Sandra Maynard and Doug Shields, general manager for administration.\nHomer Laughlin was represented by Chief Engineer Sean Adkins and Vice President Ken McElhaney.\nI&E Day was co-organized by Irwin and Anne Barth, executive director of TechConnect WV, who noted the event drew more than 125 people to view exhibits that lined the hallways and rotunda of the Capitol.\nThe event was planned, Barth said, to \u201cput a face on the innovation economy to let lawmakers know this industry is not just a concept, but a reality. And, more importantly, it is creating jobs and opportunity across the Mountain State.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 63, "original_length": 5634, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 273.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/17/the-last-mile-is-launching-its-coding-program-at-a-womens-prison-in-indiana/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:12Z", "digest": "sha1:2CZONBLTVUQ4VJZRLHYEQRHIPN5XSYDG", "length": 1795, "nlines": 7, "source_domain": "techcrunch.com", "title": "The Last Mile is launching its coding program at a women\u2019s prison in Indiana \u2013 TechCrunch", "raw_content": "The Last Mile is launching its coding program at a women\u2019s prison in Indiana\nMegan Rose Dickey\t@meganrosedickey / 1 year\nThe Last Mile, a coding program that first launched inside California\u2019s San Quentin State Prison, has expanded to its first out-of-state prison. Yesterday, The Last Mile announced its plans to launch at the Indiana Women\u2019s Prison with support from Governor Eric J. Holcomb.\n\u201cWe had a desire to go outside of California this year,\u201d The Last Mile co-founder Chris Redlitz told me over the phone. \u201cIt just happened sooner than we thought. It was really [Gov. Holcomb\u2019s] motivation and his team, but ironically, Indiana is a very red state and we come from a blue state. It really shows the non-partisan approach to this that regardless of political preferences or whatnot, it\u2019s an issue that really transcends that.\u201d\nGov. Holcomb envisions The Last Mile transforming the lives of incarcerated women and helping to fill jobs in the state\u2019s tech sector, he said in a press release. The plan, Redlitz says, is to launch no later than April. In Indiana, there is initially space for 24 inmates. Depending on the interest and success of the program, the prison is prepared to open more classrooms.\nThe Last Mile, which first opened its doors in 2012, is live in five prisons throughout California, including two women\u2019s prisons \u2014 one in Chino and one in Folsom. The Last Mile teaches incarcerated individuals entrepreneurial skills, how to code and the elements of web design. Within the next five years, The Last Mile aims to expand to 50 prisons.\n\u201cSo this really is a test for us,\u201d Redlitz said. \u201cIf it works, I think we can more rapidly expand. We just want to make sure we don\u2019t diminish the quality of what we\u2019re producing and the quality of work people are getting out of it.\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 1927, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 236.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://technewsread.com/?s=", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:56:44Z", "digest": "sha1:X7R24B4YOASWMB7AURSBVUCM4H25LBLH", "length": 4116, "nlines": 16, "source_domain": "technewsread.com", "title": "You searched for - TECH NEWS READ", "raw_content": "by ahmet burak February 15, 2019, 4:47 pm 23 Views\nThe Samsung Galaxy S10 will be available at an affordable price of up to $ 600. So, how\u2019s that gonna be? You will be able to exchange your old device with the new S10 models. This swap offer includes Apple, Samsung, Motorola, LG, and Google phones, and you will be charged based on the availability [\u2026]\nDell, one of the world\u2019s technology giants, has backed up the hybrid power adapters it put on the grounds that it threatens health. In cooperation with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, brand officials have decided to recover their hybrid power adapters in case of electric shock, which could also threaten their lives. Dell\u2019s marketed [\u2026]\nby admin February 15, 2019, 4:44 pm 27 Views\nView Full Size Especially the camera that will attract users\u2019 attention V15 Pro model less than a week. Many features for leaked model vivo Two new videos were shared from the official Facebook page. These videos draw attention to the camera\u2019s camera features. 48 MP rear camera Vivo Pro Model from three sensors Comes with [\u2026]\nXiaomi is doing its best to make everyone aware of Mi 9, which will be available soon. The images of Mi 9, which will try to stand out from the many phones announced recently, were also shared. Wang Xing, vice president of Xiaomi, shared the visuals of the back panel of the phone, which he [\u2026]\nThe Geneva Motor Show will start soon. Many car manufacturers are completing their preparations before the fair. Audi, one of the leading companies in the automotive industry, will be at the fair with exciting designs. The Audi Q4 e-tron will be a fully electric compact SUV vehicle. According to Audi, the Q4 e-tron provides a\u00e7\u0131k [\u2026]\nThe NASA spacecraft Opportuniy, which was sent for a 90-day mission in 2003 to discover the surface of Mars with the twin Sprit, has been researching for nearly 14 years. Dr. said they tried all methods to communicate with the discovery tool in question. Tanya Harrison announced on social media that he was completely out [\u2026]\nTechnology giants LGThe new flagship smartphone that will introduce at the Mobile World Congress G8 ThinQ model, the screen will have a new feature to use as speakers said. First used on televisions Crystal Sound OLED or CSO This feature uses the screen as a moving diaphragm to vibrate the entire surface. This is placed [\u2026]\nby ahmet burak February 15, 2019, 11:20 am 27 Views\nBoron was seen as the most suitable substance to be used to safely store hydrogen which will be used in hydrogenated vehicles, which are seen as vehicles of the future. Therefore consistently that Turkey is very rich in boron and boron mine of the future it is the fuel was voiced repeatedly. So why didn\u2019t [\u2026]\nWorld\u2019s Leading the telecommunications equipment and mobile phone manufacturers ZTEsubsidiary company Nubia, sent to the press with the invitation of the Mobile World Congress flexible display announces that it will introduce a device. Can be a wearable smartphone Nubia is being held in Barcelona MWC 2019 at 18:00 local time. The slogan of the event [\u2026]\nWith the increasing acceleration of technology, there will be an activity that can be attended by anyone who has an interest in the robotics that has gained importance day by day. Within the scope of the event, the contestants have the chance to measure their skills and skills in their original and categories. In addition, [\u2026]\nby admin February 15, 2019, 10:39 am 37 Views\nSocial media or friend discovery sites no longer think of anything outside of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Today\u2019s young people have already met on the internet in the middle of these sites, but there are times when it is le very strange internet to find friends through social media sites. The generations trying to socialize [\u2026]\nTesla will terminate the work of nearly 3,000 employees. So what\u2019s going on with Tesla? Here are the details! Tesla will fire 3,000 employees! Tesla\u2019s founder and chief executive, Elon Musk, said in the e-mail he sent to employees that his vehicles are still too expensive for many. 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Introduction of M2M in agriculture supply chain alone can help save up to 18 to 20 per cent of product cost,\" Communications and IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said during a consultative committee meeting on M2M recently.\nMembers of Parliament (MPs) attached to the consultative committee said Asia being the fastest growing region for M2M, India should take rapid strides to lay framework for establishment of M2M network in the country.\nThe MPs also appreciated the government's effort to provide policy framework for making technology an integrated part of government's endeavour to improve quality of life.\nThe participants were briefed about the revolutionary changes that can be brought about in sectors like agriculture, transport, healthcare or public distribution through monitoring and intervention without human involvement.\nThe national telecom M2M roadmap would also facilitate in realising policy goals identified in national objectives including Make in India and Digital India.\nSpeaking at the meeting, Prasad said that technology can benefit in reducing capital losses of massive magnitude.\nHe said up to 20 per cent economy can be reached in fuel consumption while thefts worth Rs 2,000 crore can be checked.\nThe Minister said as on today 75 million devices were connected through M2M in India which is likely to grow to 280 million by 2020. He said globally the number was expected to grow from 12.5 billion to more than 50 billion. This would translate into a revenue growth of USD 1.2 trillion from just 200 billion in 2012-13, he added.\nTags : Industry, Ravi Shankar, M2M, economy, Communication Technology", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 161, "original_length": 8268, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 233.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://telldus.com/webshop/page/3/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:18:58Z", "digest": "sha1:JVH5VGUJQWT77FA7DKNRWNNU2LDHJLQJ", "length": 147, "nlines": 2, "source_domain": "telldus.com", "title": "Webshop Telldus Smart Home | Telldus - Part 3", "raw_content": "Magnet sensor Slim 433MHz\nSends an on-signal when it is opened. In addition, you can set it to send an off-signal after 5 or 10 minutes (optional).", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 135, "original_length": 3777, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.85, "perplexity": 305.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tenkdays.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/1114/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:44:00Z", "digest": "sha1:FLRAOHLAEWA5E7BGBXKEOXEV3RXBOV76", "length": 1276, "nlines": 3, "source_domain": "tenkdays.wordpress.com", "title": "1114 | 10kdays", "raw_content": "The next stop on the metal marathon is thrash. How do you describe Thrash? Have you heard Metallica\u2026 before Enter Sandman. Welcome to Thrash. It\u2019s power and speed. It\u2019s one of heavy metal\u2019s core subgenres. Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Slayer, Sepultura, Kreator, Testament\u2026 the list goes on and on. The band I want to talk about today is one of the lesser known thrash bands- Acrassicauda. I just got a chance to see the documentary \u201cHeavy Metal in Baghdad\u201d and it blew my mind. It\u2019s the story of Acrassicauda, one of (if not the only) heavy metal bands in Baghdad and all their struggles the band has to go through just to make the music they want to make. Every second that I watched, I felt so incredibly fortunate for the things that I have. This past year I was able to throw two concerts with only some minor difficulties. Acrassicauda struggle to get one concert off the ground\u2026 without dying or getting arrested. I recommend the documentary (you can find it on YouTube) to any musician. It\u2019s a tale of people who love their music and will do anything to be able to play it. Here is a song from Acrassicauda (I guess that\u2019s a spoiler but it\u2019s still worth seeing):\nSong 1114: \u201cGarden of Stones\u201d by Acrassicauda\nTags: Acrassicauda, Garden of Stones, Metal, Music, Thrash", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 96, "original_length": 3031, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 192.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://teresarichardswrites.blogspot.com/2015/02/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:23:10Z", "digest": "sha1:6WX6MTWPUFPFRBCEHXJ75O2GU3RAVGDD", "length": 1952, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "teresarichardswrites.blogspot.com", "title": "Teresa Richards: February 2015", "raw_content": "Your Writing Fingerprint\nGood news! Since I've last blogged, I've had two short stories published, in two different online ezines. The first is called Footprints in the Snow and was published in Bewildering Stories back in December. You can find it here.\nThe second short story is called Little Soldier, and was published in The WiFiles. You can read it here.\nSo I am now officially a published author, if not a paid published author!\nI first got serious about writing, with the goal of publication, about two-and-a-half years ago. Since that time, I've studied numerous books on craft and read zillions of blog posts. I've attended writing conferences, talked with other writers, and studied what literary agents are saying. And, of course, I've written and written and written. I've done it all with the goal of learning as much as I can about writing and how to do it well.\nAs invaluable as all this information has been, I've learned that finding your own writing method is not as easy as simply picking the one tried and true method that works best for you.\nA writer's method is like a fingerprint--unique to you and only you. Figuring out your own writing method is a journey. It's the journey. It's a matter of trying as many different methods and techniques as you can, taking the pieces that work for you, and then blending them with your own unique style to create something totally new.\nFinding what works best takes time. After lots of trial and error, I think I've finally found my method. It's made up of bits and pieces I've gleaned from others, as well as bits and pieces from me. The greatest part is that there's always more to learn. When I find something new that works, I add it to what I already have. Like tools in my little writers' toolbox.\nI'm so grateful for all the little bumps that have gotten me to where I am today. I know there's so much farther to go on this journey and I'm excited to see where the road will lead me.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 79, "original_length": 3518, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 198.5, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://textile-network.com/en/Technical-Textiles/Circular-Economy-from-utopia-to-reality", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:23:40Z", "digest": "sha1:QBWTBUCABNI27RDZBNQNC7TVAKQRGOMW", "length": 8315, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "textile-network.com", "title": "Circular Economy \u2013 from utopia to reality | textile network", "raw_content": "Circular Economy \u2013 from utopia to reality\nPopulation growth, mass consumption, rubbish heaps, resource scarcity \u2013 the solution to all of these problems is the circular economy. Cyclical material flows without waste are today more than just a model from the textbooks. C2C is a part of our future and is now starting to become a living reality.\nMarkus and Daniel Freitag on the hunt for materials for their new F-abric collection Photo: Freitag\nMarkus und Daniel Freitag, brothers and founders oft he Freitag company Photo: Freitag\nTake F-abric, for example. Markus and Daniel Freitag were tinkering on this idea for five years, but finally they succeeded: F-abric, a capsule collection consisting of shirts, tops, chinos and dresses, which are \u201cgrown and produced in Europe\u201d and are 100 percent bio-degradable. (Capsule means produced once and in very limited quantities). In order to make F-abric a reality, the two brothers and founders of the Freitag company \u2013 better known for its bags made from HGV tarpaulins \u2013 not only assembled their own team of experts, but also set off to find the right raw materials themselves.\nAcross the Alps and into Normandy \u2013 where they now source their hemp and flax. Last autumn, the first products were launched. A few days ago, the latest blouses and shirts arrived in shops. From tree, to bag, to tree. The makers of Rewrap \u2013 with their compostable bags made of coconut fibres, natural rubber, walnut tree wood and beeswax \u2013 can tell a similar story. Mud Jeans does it slightly differently. The Dutch enterprise requests that its customers return their used jeans to the company in exchange for a discount on a new pair of jeans. Bert van Son and his team then either repair the jeans or reprocess the cotton from the old jeans into new jeans, sweaters or cardigans. This is also a type of closed circuit, but only a technical and not a biological one.\nFreitag, Rewrap and Mud Jeans \u2013 these are all part of a new understanding of economics \u2013 the circular economy. Inspired and fascinated by an American architect and a German chemist: William McDonough and Michael Braungart. It was 13 years ago that they first published their book \u201cCradle to Cradle\u201d. Their concept of a circular economy without waste captured many people’s imaginations, although many also questioned how it could be implemented on a large scale in reality.\n\u201cSew, consume, and throw away \u2013 this linear way of thinking does not belong in an intelligent society,\u201d said Dagmar Parusel, Senior Scientist for Textiles Industry and Agriculture at the EPEA Research and Consultation Institute in Hamburg, founded by Cradle-to-Cradle co-originator Dr. Michael Braungart. However, this is how linear mass-production industries have functioned so far. Although a lot is happening right now in the field of circular economics, it is still difficult to encourage large companies to change their thought processes. Parusel added: \u201cCompared to other industries, implementing circular thinking into the textiles production chain is a particular challenge.\nWe are dealing with huge differences in processing quality from textile to textile. And, as always, the component ingredients of many brands are a black box \u2013 this means that many of the dyes and additives used are undefined, if not problematic.\u201d Additionally, there is the challenge of having to render both transparent and feasible a highly complex supply chain without borders, reaching as far as Pakistan or even China. \u201cSmall, ambitious companies can manage it. However, the question is how C2C can be successfully implemented on a large scale. We are now working on this as part of a feasibility study with a well-known textiles company,\u201d said Parusel.\nThe list of C2C-certified companies is growing slowly but constantly. Among others, the partners include the Dutch bedding manufacturer Auping, which has Silver certification for its mattresses. By 2020, Auping is aiming to become a fully certified C2C company. The same is true of carpet manufacturer Desso, which has been a pioneer in its industry for many years. Just a few weeks ago, Desso was nominated for the 2015 Green Business Leaders Award in London \u2013 not only for their constant dedication, but also due to a particularly innovative project in cooperation with Dutch water supply companies.\nIn this regard, Desso was successful in no longer needing to purchase additional calcium carbonate (lime) for its carpet tiles, using instead upcycled calcium carbonate from the processing of drinking water. In this way, 20 million kilograms of additionally purchased calcium carbonate have been replaced with upcycled calcium carbonate. \u201cThis project shows how strong the power of innovation is in cooperation between different industries, thus paving the way for more sustainable supply chains and products,\u201d said Roland Jonkhoff, Managing Director of Desso.\nWhen it comes to clothing and C2C, then Trigema with its ChangeCollection is one of the most well-known suppliers. This collection for men and women is made from organic cotton, manufactured without non-recyclable or toxic substances, and degrades into compost after use. Trigema’s aim, just like Braungart’s, is \u201cto design products in such a way that the raw materials can be recovered after use without contamination or loss of quality, enabling new, equally valuable products to be created from them and a real, endless, waste-free material cycle to be established.\u201d\nThroughout every industry, C2C is a topic with great appeal. This was recently acknowledged by Swiss materials manufacturer Gessner. Under the Climatex brand, the company is marketing a C2C materials collection for furniture and automobile upholstery. A few weeks ago, the Swiss company presented its new products at the Techtextil specialist trade show in Frankfurt. \u201cWe were surprised by the high demand for our Climatex materials at the Techtextil show. Interest has rapidly increased, and not just in our core markets \u2013 the furniture and automobile industries \u2013 but enquiries are now also coming in from the fashion industry, the transport sector, as well as from footwear and sportswear manufacturers. It is currently of the utmost importance for us to develop our climatising and regenerative textiles for these sectors as well,\u201d said Andreas Heydasch, Managing Partner at Gessner AG in Switzerland.\nHowever, not all concepts are so successful. Back in 2013, sportswear producer Puma brought their so-called C2C InCycle Collection to market, which includes trainers, sportswear, and accessories. Despite a high level of interest from the media, Puma is yet to make its market breakthrough. \u201cWe developed the InCycle Collection for a duration of four seasons. Unfortunately, retailers didn’t order the Collection. We therefore offered the InCycle Collection exclusively in our own Puma stores, but demand was very weak there as well. For this reason, we haven’t developed the Collection further for 2015, but have an appropriate range of products available for corresponding demand. We’ll now be considering what to do with the Collection following 2015,\u201d said the company, based in Herzogenaurach.\nPuma’s parent company, the Kering luxury and sports lifestyle group, has clearly not allowed itself to be discouraged by this failure: Together with H&M, Kering entered into a partnership with start-up \u201cWorn Again\u201d at the end of March. H&M and Kering, with Puma, are already customers of I:CO, a service provider which recovers and recycles used textiles and shoes. H&M, for example, has so far collected 7,600 tons of clothing using this method. Worn Again now intends \u201cto revolutionise the production and reprocessing of textiles.\u201d\nIts chemical process can already be declared a small revolution: according to their own data, Worn Again has developed the first process for extracting polyester and cotton fibres from old textiles. Separating mixed fibres from each other is one of the biggest challenges in the reprocessing of textiles. Using this method of fibre separation, the recovered polyester and the cotton cellulose can be reprocessed into new textiles. This method is still in the testing phase. During the next phase, it should be made ready to bring to market.\nIn this series until now published:\nPart 1 \u201cNot if, but how\u201c", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 126, "original_length": 11495, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 317.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tgrule.com/2014/08/30/health-a-few-posts-of-relevance/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ZPLG2LKUJYWI2BCPPSS554TTPOU7IBHV", "length": 5832, "nlines": 31, "source_domain": "tgrule.com", "title": "Health \u2013 A few Posts of Relevance. | The GOLDEN RULE", "raw_content": "\u2190 Islamic Council of Victoria pulls out of meeting with Abbott\nDisturbing New Chemical Found in Fetuses \u2192\nHealth \u2013 A few Posts of Relevance.\nIt would be possible to spend 40 hours a week, maybe more, in doing myself and this blog, justice in keeping up with the range of topics and posts that comprise our nominated themes, all of which try to cover the major injustices in our crazy world.\nBooks are being published, thousands of blogs contribute to the genuine striving for truth and its dissemination for public consumption.\nThe ungodly behaviour, the devastation of our civilization, the amount of misinformation, the threats to the public\u2019s well-being, are increasing almost exponentially as we are continually herded into a controlled environment and, like the proverbial mushroom, kept in the dark and fed on \u201cmanure\u201d.\nMany blogs fight for our rights to the truth and our well-being. From them, much of the \u201cGolden Rule\u201d information is gleaned.\nAs on some other occasions, a few current posts relevant to our health and well-being are presented for convenience.\nBiological Effects of Fukushima Radiation On Plants, Insects, And Animals\nFrom \u2018Conscious Life News\u2019, ( http://consciouslifenews.com/biological-effects-fukushima-radiation-plants-insects-animals/1176096/ ).\nFollowing the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown, biological samples were obtained only after extensive delays, limiting the information that could be gained about the impacts of that historic disaster. Determined not to repeat the shortcomings of the Chernobyl studies, scientists began gathering biological information only a few months after the disastrous meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan in 2011. Results of these studies are now beginning to reveal serious biological effects of the Fukushima radiation on non-human organisms ranging from plants to butterflies to birds.\nHealth Impacts of Sitting All Day\u2026 and What You Can Do About It\nFrom \u2018Wake Up World\u2019 by Casie Terry, (http://wakeup-world.com/2014/01/21/health-impacts-of-sitting-all-day/).\nIf you\u2019ve been sitting at a desk all week and are eager to jump out of your office chair, you\u2019ll be happy to know there\u2019s scientific evidence suggesting you should do just that. It sounds counter-intuitive. After all, as a society we\u2019ve been bellying up to our desks for 8-10 hours a day with few physiological consequences, right? Wrong.\nIt is thought that many of America\u2019s most expensive and detrimental health problems are directly related to the mere of act of sitting all day, every day. Numerous studies have demonstrated the dangers of sitting for long periods of time, indicating the consequences could include everything from diabetes and heart disease to inflammation, brain fog and even death. In fact, one recent study revealed that sitting for 11 or more hours per day increased risk of death by 40 percent, regardless of other activity levels.\nNow experts are recommending a few minutes of movement and stretching for every 60 minutes spent in the seated position. Another option? Try a standing desk!\nBrave New Medicated World: Free-Thinking and Non-Conformity Now \u201cIllnesses\u201d\nFrom \u2018Wake Up World\u2019 By Zen Gardner, (http://wakeup-world.com/2014/04/04/brave-new-medicated-world-free-thinking-and-non-conformity-now-illnesses/)\nWe, and especially the younger generation, are under serious pharmacological assault. The psychiatry industry keeps lengthening their list of \u201cdisorders\u201d that need to be pharmaceutically \u201ctreated\u201d. How convenient for the drug pushers.\nThis evolution into a dumbed down social condition is important for the would-be controllers to reach their end game \u2013 an enslaved humanity literally loving their enslavement.\nHere\u2019s the latest news in the march towards the \u201cBrave New World\u201d forecast by both George Orwell and Aldous Huxley.\nNew Documentary: Psychiatric Drugs Can Kill Your Child\nFrom \u2018Global Healing Centre\u2019 ( http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/natural-health/new-documentary-psychiatric-drugs-can-kill-your-child/)\nThe Nightmare of Psychiatric Drugs\nPsychiatric drugs are serious business, they have repeatedly been linked to horrible side effects and over 42,000 deaths every year. Unfortunately, psychiatric drugs are also big business. Millions of Americans take them every day and many of them are children. The monsters within the psychiatric and prescription drug industries have sold the American public a box of rocks with fraudulent claims of \u201cchemical imbalances in the brain\u201d that can only be \u201cfixed\u201d with deadly, synthetic mind-altering drugs.\nThe Ebola breakout coincided with UN vaccine campaigns, by Yoichi Shimatsu\n(Source: Rense.com. ) ( http://jhaines6.wordpress.com/2014/08/15/the-ebola-breakout-coincided-with-un-vaccine-campaigns-by-yoichi-shimatsu/ )\nThe ebola pandemic began in late February in the former French colony of Guinea while UN agencies were conducting nationwide vaccine campaigns for three other diseases in rural districts. The simultaneous eruptions of this filovirus virus in widely separated zones strongly suggests that the virulent Zaire ebola strain (ZEBOV) was deliberately introduced to test an antidote in secret trials on unsuspecting humans.\nThe cross-border escape of ebola into neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia indicates something went terribly wrong during the illegal clinical trials by a major pharmaceutical company. Through the lens darkly, the release of ebola may well have been an act biowarfare in the post-colonial struggle to control mineral-rich West Africa.\nPerhaps enough for one day. Interested in your thoughts.\nThis entry was posted in drugs & medication, Fitness, HEALTH and tagged Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Conspiracies, Ebola, Food, Food and Drug Administration, HEALTH, Immunization, Public health, Vaccinations. Bookmark the permalink.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 1224, "original_length": 49157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 296.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-constituent.com/tribute-to-colonel-mark-e-weatherington-by-senator-tim-johnson/speech/3755", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:40:20Z", "digest": "sha1:D63HHP55MY2DOSQNMLXPVJIMWFOYEJYE", "length": 3109, "nlines": 9, "source_domain": "the-constituent.com", "title": "Tribute to Colonel Mark E. Weatherington by Sen. Johnson", "raw_content": "Former Democrat SD\nAbout Sen. Tim\nTribute to Colonel Mark E. Weatherington\nby Former Senator Tim Johnson\nJOHNSON of South Dakota. Mr. President, today I wish to recognize and congratulate the service of Col. Mark E. Weatherington, who will be ending his command at Ellsworth Air Force Base in early April.\nAn Air Force Academy graduate, Colonel Weatherington has served in many leadership and flying positions over his impressive 23-year career. He is a B-1 pilot with 2,400 flight hours. Among his many assignments, Colonel Weatherington has served as commander of the 28th Bomb Wing at both Ellsworth AFB and Dyess AFB; served as chief of staff of the Air Force Fellow; was a National Defense Fellow with the Brookings Institution; and previously served at Ellsworth AFB as chief of weapons and tactics and then assistant operations officer of the 77th Bomb Squadron and wing weapons officer of the 28th Operations Support Squadron.\nColonel Weatherington has served as commander of the 28th Bomb Wing, Ellsworth Air Force Base, the largest B-1 combat wing in the U.S. Air Force, since May 2011. He has distinguished himself during his 2-year stint at the South Dakota installation. He has provided expert guidance during the process to bring the first MQ-9 Reaper squadron, the 432nd Attack Squadron, to Ellsworth Air Force Base, while maintaining the great legacy of the B-1 aircraft and the personnel of the 28th Bomb Wing. Last year, Colonel Weatherington presided over Ellsworth Air Force Base's 70th Anniversary festivities.\nColonel Weatherington's current stint at Ellsworth Air Force Base has lasted just shy of 2 years, but he has provided a lasting impact, overseeing 4,300 military and civilian personnel in the day-to-day operations of the base, as well as the ongoing rotation of airmen to overseas action in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. He has maintained a strong relationship between the Base and Black Hills communities, namely Rapid City and Box Elder. For decades there has been a very warm and cordial relationship between Black Hills residents, businesses, and charitable organizations and the personnel and leadership command of Ellsworth Air Force Base. Colonel Weatherington has been committed to maintaining this bond. The relationship between the civilian and military communities remains very strong, and this relationship continues to make the Black Hills a great retirement option for military retirees who once served at Ellsworth Air Force Base.\nColonel Weatherington will now move to the Pentagon where he will serve as Military Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Dr. Ashton Carter. This role will bring new challenges and responsibilities, but I know the leadership, professionalism, and stewardship Colonel Weatherington showed during his time at Ellsworth Air Force Base will serve him well at the Pentagon and throughout his career. I commend Colonel Weatherington for his service to Ellsworth Air Force Base and his continued service to the U.S. Air Force. I wish him, Stephanie, and their family all the best in future endeavors. ____________________", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 128, "original_length": 15670, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 158.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-funeral-home-directory.com/funeralhomes/NewYork/Bloomfield/service.ashx", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:21Z", "digest": "sha1:RR6N3GMTOH4I5Q3VCIVAEFQBTZCMY462", "length": 1439, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "the-funeral-home-directory.com", "title": "Bloomfield, New York Funeral Homes, Mortuary, Memorial Chapels - The Funeral Home Directory", "raw_content": "Bloomfield, New York Funeral Homes\nSend funeral flowers to a funeral home in Bloomfield, New York. Beautiful sympathy flowers delivered by local florists to any Bloomfield, New York funeral service.\nKennedy & Son Funeral Home Inc\nMap of Kennedy & Son Funeral Home Inc\nAdd a Funeral Home for Bloomfield, New York\nBloomfield, New York Obituaries and News\nShe was born in Lockport, New York, on October 22, 1935 ... Sharon also worked as a building director for West Bloomfield Schools Community Education Department, planning after-school and enrichment activities for elementary grade level students for ... (Daily Mining Gazette)\nSomers Obituary: Robert Calder, 75 February 09, 2017\nBorn in New York, NY, \"Bob\" was the son of the late Lyman and Bertha ... Donations in Bob's memory may be made to Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation, 103 Old Iron Ore Rd., Bloomfield, CT 06002. (Patch)\nDaniel J. 'Danny' Mount, former West Caldwell resident February 08, 2017\n\u201cDanny\u201d Mount, 70, of Manasquan, a longtime resident of Bloomfield, passed away Tuesday ... or the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, 475 Park Ave. S., New York, N.Y., 10016 (or be a donor and save a life!). (New Jersey Hills)\nTAPinto.net, a network of 61 franchised online hyperlocal news sites in New Jersey and New York, marked the beginning of 2017 with ... \"At a time when pundits are writing the obituary for the news media, we are providing a way forward that respects ... (tapinto.net)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 49, "original_length": 2738, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 327.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the-news-archive.com/records/view/120886", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:38Z", "digest": "sha1:EEFS7B43DBTU2IZHEZUR3Y35HRXODTPA", "length": 17243, "nlines": 59, "source_domain": "the-news-archive.com", "title": "On the brink of Brexit, voters reflect: \u2018I feel more strongly now. Let\u2019s get out\u2019", "raw_content": "On the brink of Brexit, voters reflect: \u2018I feel more strongly now. Let\u2019s get out\u2019\nI moved to Bearwood in Smethwick in the hot summer of 1976. We were moving up, leaving behind the sixth floor of a block on the sprawling Lee Bank council estate for a house and garden in a \u201csafer\u201d area with large parks and better schools, a few miles from Birmingham. I grew up there in the 70s and 80s, when there was optimism about our future.\nThe colour bar experienced by a first generation of immigrants in the 60s, in some shops and the bingo hall, had been replaced by our own \u201cWhy would I want to go there anyway?\u201d bar. The days when a Conservative party candidate could run, and win (in 1964) on the slogan \u201cIf you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour\u201d seemed distant. My mother is Jamaican and, like many of my generation, I failed the Norman Tebbit test completely.\nI didn\u2019t support any England team. I would rehearse long debates about how I might reject a for the England rugby team, even if my ability meant that call would never come. Jamaica was great for holidays, but didn\u2019t feel like home: everyone there called me \u201cEnglish\u201d.\nSo while I was always a Smethwick boy, I can still pinpoint the moment I first felt British: in 1992, when Linford Christie won the 100m at the Barcelona Olympics, this most Jamaican of men running around the track with the British flag. We had grown up hearing songs like \u201cThere ain\u2019t no black in the Union Jack\u201d what Christie\u2019s gesture said was, \u201cI\u2019m British: deal with it. \u201d A mistrust of foreigners has been singled out as the driving force behind last year\u2019s vote to leave Europe.\nBut why did places where more than 50% of the population have recent origins outside the UK vote for a policy of exclusion? Smethwick is in many ways typical of the radical changes to Britain\u2019s racial demographic since the second world war: in the 50s and 60s, Commonwealth citizens from the Indian subcontinent and the Caribbean emigrated here to alleviate job shortages, particularly in the NHS and transport. A large number of Sikhs moved from the Punjab to work in Smethwick\u2019s foundries. Later waves of immigration brought asylum seekers, students and workers from around the world.\nWhen I was growing up, my white British friends liked the same music, played the same games and ate the same food as we did. We knew people who joined groups but the various gangs were largely multiracial, affiliated to the area more than anything else \u2014 a loose \u201cSmethwick posse\u201d. There would be running battles with skinheads from Quinton and beyond I can\u2019t remember a Saturday night that was not punctuated by someone being glassed or having a pool cue wrapped around their head.\nToday Smethwick is home to a more diverse range of communities. It is still a relatively cheap place to live, so new arrivals often start off here. You will see Eritrean church services in Victoria Park, eastern European supermarkets on Cape Hill, a Ghanaian wedding at the community centre, alongside the more established Sikh temples and African Caribbean churches.\nSpeaking to Smethwick friends from white British and immigrant backgrounds, you hear support for Brexit from a diverse range of perspectives: there is the \u201cFortress Europe\u201d argument (people of Commonwealth origin not being able to move to the UK, because preference is given to EU citizens) British Asian shopkeepers who don\u2019t like the Polish shops stealing business an objection to the Thatcherite capitalist structure enshrined in the EU. Underlying all these things is a powerful revolt against what is perceived to be a political elite. None of the or immigrants I met on a recent visit to Smethwick thought Nigel Farage would deliver a harmonious society founded on principles of social justice.\nBut the supposed social justice champions, Labour, today have far less connection to the people they seek to represent than they once did. Today\u2019s politicians speak relentlessly about \u201cengaging\u201d and \u201cunderstanding\u201d these alienated \u201ccommunities\u201d. But even their use of the word \u201ccommunity\u201d is loaded \u2014 often based on race or religion or class, as if there were no diversity of opinion among them.\nWhat does the future hold for Smethwick in a Britain? My more pessimistic side worries that inequality will increase, as the fight for a share of an ever smaller pie is orchestrated by a privileged few who use alienation, fear and loathing to divide and rule. But a bigger part of me is optimistic: a younger generation has always found ways of creating new relationships with other people, be they Italian, Irish, Ghanaian, Nigerian or Indian. It might feel claustrophobic at this moment in time, and Smethwick will struggle with the macro issues.\nBut there are enough people there with goodwill, who want to come together, who will want to get on with it. Hamish Crooks, My little boy and I moved here from Birmingham in 2009. I had separated from his father, and when I got here we didn\u2019t know anybody.\nSmethwick is an interesting area because the diversity works really well. Everyone seems to get on where we live. But there are some negative aspects of multiculturalism.\nFor example, there is no butcher around here, and I don\u2019t want to eat halal meat because they don\u2019t always stun the animal before they kill it \u2014 I feel it\u2019s a bit cruel. I\u2019ve had a row a few times with shops advertising places to rent, with signs saying \u201cIndian family wanted\u201d. I said, \u201cYou do know that\u2019s illegal, don\u2019t you?\u201d I remember when they used to have signs up saying \u201cNo Irish, no blacks\u201d.\nMy little boy is the only white English kid in his class, and they don\u2019t celebrate any English things at all. They didn\u2019t do anything for the Queen\u2019s jubilee or birthday. I don\u2019t mind him celebrating Jamaica Day or whatever I just wish they\u2019d also incorporate English things.\nOn VE Day, I took him into Birmingham to see the celebrations, because he has to celebrate his history as well. But he is absolutely oblivious to the fact that other people are a different colour to him. I think children of his generation are integrating more.\nA lot of immigrants here say they don\u2019t want any more immigrants, but I haven\u2019t heard many white people say they voted Brexit because of immigration. I don\u2019t know whether it\u2019s because they\u2019re scared of being accused of being racist. I voted Brexit because of all the money that\u2019s wasted on the EU.\nI don\u2019t think it will stop free movement and I don\u2019t think it means we won\u2019t have any trade I just think it means we\u2019ll have a bit more control. A lot of people have had enough of MEPs making so much money and not doing anything. Who can name an MEP, really? We don\u2019t seem to be getting any more rights out of it.\nWhy not trim off all that excess spending and use it on things we do need? There\u2019s a crisis in social care, and health services are being cut the schools are constantly fighting cuts. When you read about Brexit in the paper, they say, \u201cThe people who voted for Brexit didn\u2019t know what was going on. \u201d It\u2019s hugely insulting to assume that just because we\u2019re poor, we don\u2019t read newspapers and we\u2019re all thick.\nThey\u2019ve got no concept of what it\u2019s like to be poor, and how miserable people really are. I think it was a good result, and I think it taught the government to be careful what they wish for, because they did all this with no plan whatsoever they were so sure remain was going to win. It serves them right.\nI\u2019ve lived in Smethwick all my life. My parents came from north India so my dad could work in the foundry. They were invited over, just like the Europeans were.\nI\u2019ve never had an issue with anyone thinking I\u2019m less British than they are. But when Punjabi people came here, they couldn\u2019t speak English, so they were victimised. Once my dad took me for a drink in the local pub and this guy at the bar started talking to him inappropriately, saying, \u201cButbut dingding.\n\u201d I asked my dad, \u201cWhy does he do this?\u201d and he said, \u201cHe\u2019s been doing it for years, it\u2019s not an issue. \u201d I took the guy aside and said, \u201cHave you been taking the piss out of my dad for 20 years?\u201d He said, \u201cWhat do you mean? He never said anything. \u201d To this day that guy still buys me a drink in the pub, because he remembers that chat.\nI changed the way he thought. Everybody I know voted leave. I voted leave because of my daughters, who are 12 and 15.\nThey go to a grammar school and they feel held back because the foreigners coming into the school don\u2019t speak English well it makes the classes go slower. It was also because Polish people are cutting off my work. I\u2019m a painter and decorator, and I\u2019m not getting the rates I used to because the Polish people are undercutting us.\nThat\u2019s the case generally in the building trade. But I\u2019m angry that my parents voted out. I\u2019m very bitter about that.\nIt\u2019s the hypocrisy of it, because they came over from India and they had an opportunity to integrate \u2014 and they haven\u2019t: my mum still barely speaks English. They\u2019ve made lives and families for people like me, they worked hard everyone else is just trying to do the same as they did. I think the way the Sikh community voted was hypocritical.\nSometimes I regret voting Brexit. In hindsight, without a shadow of a doubt, we didn\u2019t have enough information it was turned into an immigration issue, which it wasn\u2019t, and as a whole we\u2019re going to lose out. Other times, I stick by my decision.\nI need to think about where my work\u2019s coming from. I moved to Smethwick in 1976, looking for work. I also had a pen friend here.\nWe belonged to different divorced and separated clubs I was the of the one in Portsmouth where I lived, and they used to have a magazine and she advertised for a pen friend. We were writing for two years before I moved here. We married in 1977 and were together for 39 years.\nShe ended up having two major strokes, one of which should have killed her, but the hospital brought her round I got another nine months with her. Smethwick has changed a lot \u2014 much of the old industry has gone. There were dirty factories, steel works and car component workshops now they\u2019re all new factories or houses, so in that way it\u2019s better.\nWe\u2019ve got more immigrants than whites. The shops are virtually all Asian, and the ones, like Woolworths and David Greig\u2019s, are gone. It\u2019s less British, because I\u2019ve found, working with some of them, that half the Asians don\u2019t want to mix.\nA very nice lad used to sit with us during the tea break, and he came in one morning and told us that someone in the factory had told his dad he sat with us, and his father had said, \u201cYou are not to sit with them, you are to sit with your own people. \u201d It makes you feel, what\u2019s wrong with us? I voted for Brexit because I think the common market has got out of hand. I think they waste an awful lot of money moving their offices once a month from Brussels to Strasbourg and back again.\nWhat we\u2019re paying them is unbelievable, billions a year, which would do our own health service and schools good. I\u2019d like to see free movement from Europe cancelled. This country can\u2019t keep on taking people the services can\u2019t cope with the influx, and there are not enough houses.\nWhen we won, I thought, \u201cGreat, let\u2019s get on with it. \u201d I feel more strongly now. Let\u2019s get out.\nI\u2019ve been living in Smethwick since 2002, when I migrated from Bangladesh to study for an MBA at Birmingham City University. After completing my MBA, I managed to secure a job. Now I\u2019m living here happily with my wife and two children my son is nine and my daughter is seven.\nSmethwick has become overpopulated and there are more new faces, with a slight increase in antisocial behaviour over the past few years the demand for housing has increased. I had heard about that campaign slogan [\u201cIf you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Liberal or Labour\u201d from the 1964 local election] and that Malcolm X came to visit the year after, which is amazing. But to be honest, I don\u2019t think racial tension is a big issue now.\nFrom my experience, people do understand others \u2014 their religions, their values, their cultural dimensions and characteristics. It could be an isolated judgment, but I haven\u2019t seen the nasty side of community cohesion. People get along quite well, basically.\nI felt Brexit was a protest vote, to show a lost trust in politics traditional politicians are failing to deliver. People feel European migrants are putting unnecessary, undue pressure on public services, the NHS, school places, housing, and that if we come out of Europe that will ease the pressure. These are the issues that people are fed up with.\nI voted and actively campaigned to remain. I was really, really shattered by the result, because in the age of globalisation and connectivity, and at such a crucial time, this isn\u2019t the right decision. It is going backwards, and it was not an informed decision.\nThe message we\u2019re sending to the rest of the world is that we\u2019re not open or collaborative. We don\u2019t want to work with other people: we are detaching ourselves. Nine months on, I don\u2019t feel any more positive.\nI\u2019ve given up on trying to give reasons to remain because I\u2019m in the minority. But I know people who regret voting Brexit they justify it by saying the politicians misled them. I\u2019ve lived here my whole life.\nI was born in Hamble near Southampton, but my mother died having me, so I was brought here to live with my grandparents. Smethwick has changed enormously. My road used to be full of bank managers and teachers, and there were no foreign people of any description.\nI remember seeing men wearing turbans for the first time when I was 10 or 11 and had taken my two cousins out for a walk. One of them said hello, and I said to my cousins, \u201cRun!\u201d because I had no idea: I\u2019d never seen Sikh people before. My father was very racist but I\u2019m definitely not.\nThe priest at my church is Nigerian and we have 22 other nationalities, people of all colours, shapes and sizes, and we all get on. The first foreigners who came were West Indians, and the others have come gradually. I consider them all friends.\nA lady down the road, Surinder, and I were once opposite each other in the hospital and we\u2019ve been firm friends ever since. She called me when I came out, asked how I was and said, \u201cIf you need anything at all, let me know and my family will get it for you. \u201d There are lots of kind people about.\nI voted Brexit. I didn\u2019t vote for us to go into Brussels I voted for the common market and I think we were cheated in that respect. We haven\u2019t only got to trade with Europe, there\u2019s a whole world we can deal with.\nI\u2019m looking forward to getting back to how we were: running our own farms, being able to look after ourselves. Perhaps I\u2019m wrong but this is how I feel, that we weren\u2019t told the full story back in 1975. We were just told it was good to be part of a common market we weren\u2019t told they would be ruling us.\nI\u2019m not really into politics, but the vote happened and I get cross when they try to reverse it. Now I think: let\u2019s just get on with it. I was born in London.\nMy parents were from Zimbabwe, although it was called Rhodesia at the time. We left the UK in 1977 to go to Nigeria. My dad was a civil engineer and had a job with the Nigerian government, building several highways.\nTowards the end of 1982, we went to live in Zimbabwe. In 1995 I moved to Brighton, where I met my wife Catherine, and in 2008 we moved to Smethwick with our daughter. I wanted to study mental health nursing at Birmingham City University, but changed my mind after three weeks.\nI didn\u2019t think it was something I would cope with emotionally. In 2009 I started a course in International Business and Economics at Aston University instead. We had three other children (they are now eight, seven, four and two) and they all settled in school, so we stayed.\nI\u2019ve spent the majority of my life in this country, and I am British. The main change I\u2019ve seen here is the people coming from Poland. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a lot of tension between the different communities \u2014 everybody just gets on.\nWhat I worry about is the segregation, these monocultural ghettos that are springing up: Pakistanis in one area, Polish people in another, white working class in another. It seems everybody is more comfortable with people who look the same as them, which is quite sad. Whether that\u2019s a conscious thing or if it just happens naturally, I don\u2019t know.\nI was shocked by Brexit. I voted to remain. At university I learned to critically analyse things, and I was always arguing against the leave campaign\u2019s points of view.\nUsually when there\u2019s an election, I stay up late to find out who my MP is going to be, but this time I was confident we would remain. It was a big surprise. When I spoke to some of the parents at my children\u2019s school, most had voted to leave.\nI was surprised and upset. My point of view hasn\u2019t changed. It doesn\u2019t make sense to me that people want to leave the biggest market, then try to negotiate a good deal within that market.\nBut I have accepted it. It\u2019s democracy, right? \u2022 This project was created in partnership with Magnum Photos. For more pictures go to Magnum Photos .\nUS Shakespeare theaters report abuse amid uproar over Trump-like Caesar \u2019Global epidemic\u2019 of US-style plea bargaining prompts miscarriage warning", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 18051, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 223.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://the4wdzone.com.au/february-12th-2018-land-rover/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:42:37Z", "digest": "sha1:6FXCPX4AJKF3TQCSJABSGXQPOKLLZV7Q", "length": 2819, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "the4wdzone.com.au", "title": "February 12th 2018 \u2013 Land Rover | The 4wd Zone", "raw_content": "February 12th 2018 \u2013 Land Rover\nRange Rover Sport PHEV is First SUV to Climb to Heaven\u2019s Gate\nPlug-in hybrid (PHEV) performance SUV climbs towering 45-degree, 999-step staircase in world-first Dragon Road challenge\nRange Rover Sport PHEV shows it\u2019s dynamic breadth of capability on one of the world\u2019s most challenging driving roads before tackling the epic climb to Heaven\u2019s Gate rock arch in China\n404PS Range Rover Sport combines Ingenium petrol power with battery technology for supreme efficiency and performance \u2013 plus zero-emissions capability\nP400e model was piloted by Le Mans class-winner and Panasonic Jaguar Racing reserve and test driver Ho-Pin Tung\nThe challenge began at the bottom of the legendary 11.3km Tianmen Mountain Road (known as the Dragon Road). The showroom standard Range Rover Sport P400e took on the demanding course, with Panasonic Jaguar Racing\u2019s Ho-Pin Tung behind the wheel and the Terrain Response 2 system in Dynamic mode.\nAt the summit of the road, the Formula E driver optimised Terrain Response for the second part of the challenge, conquering the towering 45-degree staircase of 999 steps leading to China\u2019s legendary Heaven\u2019s Gate using a combination of Ingenium petrol and electric battery power.\nHo-Pin Tung said: \u201cI\u2019ve experienced Formula E, Formula 1 and won at the 24 Hours of Le Mans but this was without doubt one of the most demanding driving challenges I\u2019ve ever faced. The Range Rover Sport PHEV performed brilliantly as it inspired real confidence on the mountain road and climbed the stairs up to Heaven\u2019s Gate effortlessly.\u201d\nThe new PHEV powertrain gives the Range Rover Sport a zero-emission EV range of up to 50km when fully charged but Ho-Pin Tung used its advanced 221kW Ingenium petrol engine and 85kW electric motor to make short work of the road section of the challenge. The performance SUV then showed its uncompromised all-terrain credentials by climbing the steep staircase to the natural rock arch.\nPhil Jones, Land Rover Experience expert, said: \u201cThis was the hardest Range Rover Sport challenge I\u2019ve ever been involved with because, until we reached the top, we couldn\u2019t categorically say we would succeed. By making it to the summit, we\u2019ve proven the phenomenal capability of the Range Rover Sport plug-in hybrid like never before \u2013 with a genuine world first.\u201d\nThe Dragon Challenge is the latest in a series of adventures completed by the Range Rover Sport after the PHEV model made its debut in a race against two-time open-water swimming world champion Keri-anne Payne and endurance athlete Ross Edgley in Devon, UK.\nPrevious exploits include a record-setting hill-climb at Pikes Peak, USA, a record crossing of the \u2018Empty Quarter\u2019 desert in the Arabian Peninsula and a 2,170m descent of the legendary Inferno downhill course in M\u00fcrren, Switzerland.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 46, "original_length": 3690, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.9, "perplexity": 330.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebeehive.bumble.com/bumbleblog/first-movers-club-alice-paul", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:01:54Z", "digest": "sha1:QXZKLSTAFQZXRKK5NOEQPIWTMO75N4BK", "length": 1560, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "thebeehive.bumble.com", "title": "One Suffrage Superstar's Fight for Women's Voices (and Votes) \u2014 The BeeHive", "raw_content": "While so many Americans across the country were gearing up to fight in World War I, Alice Paul was preparing for a battle of her own. One of the premier faces of the woman suffrage movement, Paul was arrested seven times and imprisoned three over the course of her campaign for women's rights.\nFrom marching through the city streets of Washington D.C. in 1913 to picketing at the White House gates four years later, Paul gave many women the voice they'd long hoped for \u2014 and showed naysayers what it really meant to \u201cfight like a girl.\u201d\nWe honor Alice Paul this Women's History Month, and celebrate her hard-won fight to further women's equality. To learn more about why Paul has our vote, read on.\nPaul first became involved with the suffrage movement while studying in England, where she met fellow American suffragist Lucy Burns.\nPaul led the original women\u2019s march on Washington in 1913, rallying more than 5,000 women to fight for suffrage, including famous activist Helen Keller.\nFrustrated with what she saw as American suffragists\u2019 conservative strategies, Paul founded the National Woman\u2019s Party, which utilized radical tactics such as hunger strikes to fight the status quo.\nIn 1917, Paul and her group of Silent Sentinels organized the first known picketing of the White House, which lasted for months.\nIn 1922, Paul wrote the first version of the Equal Rights Amendment \u2014 almost a century later, the amendment still has yet to be ratified.\nSee more of our fabulous First Movers here!\nBumble and the L.A. Clippers Commit to Equality On Court and Off", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 37, "original_length": 2795, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 212.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebrownbagger.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/well-id-try-it/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:30:03Z", "digest": "sha1:HVXUZQAWLX6LF2ILWQQ7WP5KKGIPACTD", "length": 505, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thebrownbagger.wordpress.com", "title": "Well I\u2019d Try it\u2026 | thebrownbagger", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t Judge\u2026 Breast Milk Ice Cream\u2026 the question isn\u2019t whether you think it\u2019s good tasting or not? Whether it\u2019s gross? Whether It\u2019s sanitary? Or Should you taste it?\nBut Rather how could possibly not try it?\nLooks like the Brown Bagger\u2019s going to have to go to England Eventually.\nI do like afternoon tea and Monty Python and the Holy Grail\u2026\nNew and Better Format Check It Out\nOne Response to \u201cWell I\u2019d Try it\u2026\u201d\nfamishedinnyc Reply March 8, 2011 at 6:24 pm\nNo more breast milk ice cream; they shut it down", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 83, "original_length": 2608, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.87, "perplexity": 322.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thebuttonwoodproject.com/2017/06/29/allocation-model-aggressive-2/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:38:26Z", "digest": "sha1:ZULGHCTSB7AC33PWEGPDHW5QLNCSCV66", "length": 1454, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thebuttonwoodproject.com", "title": "Allocation Model \u2013 Aggressive \u2013 thebuttonwoodproject", "raw_content": "Allocation Model \u2013 Aggressive\nJune 29, 2017 July 3, 2017 thebuttonwoodproject\nToday I am making a few changes to the allocation model for the aggressive portfolio. I am lowering the allocation for Foot Locker from 10% to 5% as the retailer of athletic footwear and apparel is running into significant headwinds from the likes of Amazon.com. The earnings report last month for the first quarter of fiscal 2017 was disappointing as well. The stock has also been brought down by a lack of interest in the entire retail sector. I still believe the company has ample room to grow both here at home and internationally, but the stock is less exciting than originally proposed back in May of 2014. The shares did reach a high point of $79 per share at the end of last year, but are now back to where they entered the portfolio at around $48.50. Pending the results of the company\u2019s next earning\u2019s release in August, I am going to hold on for now, but FL is indeed a stock to watch. To take up the slack, I am boosting the share of the pie for International Paper from 9% to 12%, as I believe the prospects for IP are improving and the stock should do well over the next twelve months. I also like the trend for companies in emerging markets, thus the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF climbs two percentage points to 8%. All other positions remain as they were back in November of last year.\nPrevious Post JPMorgan Chase Lifts Dividend and Stock Repurchase Plan", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 57, "original_length": 4923, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 243.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thefranchiseinstitute.com/our-people/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:46:46Z", "digest": "sha1:DSAHRF2JWE327HZG2WZVS7EMH6YPPBJ3", "length": 3733, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "thefranchiseinstitute.com", "title": "Our People | The Franchise Institute", "raw_content": "James Corne\nJames Corne commenced his career in marketing for Oracle Systems before gaining broader experience in sales and marketing in various organisations including the Canadian Consulate, Telstra and Scitec.\nIn 1998 James left the corporate world and started a successful IT business building up high profile clients including AGL and Toyota Finance.\nIn 2000 James entered the Franchise and distribution industry. He started a number of franchise organisations however he quickly realised the lack of information and professional support available in this industry. James started to research franchising extensively, hiring business coaches, franchise experts and franchise lawyers. He then began to document the methods he found worked best for franchisors. Through many successes and a few failures, he has gained a wealth of knowledge and experience on both what to do and what not to do in franchising. His marketing experience and knowledge has helped him succeed in this industry.\nJames has a Master of Commerce in Marketing from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Business in Marketing from Mitchell College.\nDuring his time at university James was awarded the Leighton Holdings Scholarship for Economic Achievement, an exchange scholarship to Oregon State University in the United States where he completed his undergraduate degree and while there was awarded a Masters Scholarship to the University of Nevada.\nThrough James\u2019 detailed knowledge and actual experience of the franchise industry he has advised and mentored many business owners on how to successfully franchise their business. James is grateful for the outstanding relationship he has with many of his clients and derives great satisfaction from watching as their franchised businesses grow from strength to strength.\nShauna Corne\nShauna\u2019s expertise is in developing systems and procedural manuals. With a background in education working in both secondary schools and workplace training she is able to take a business owners \u201chow to\u201d knowledge of operating their business and convert this into structured, replicatable business systems.\nShauna started her career as a teacher but then decided to follow her passion for health and nutrition and went back to University to study nutrition.\nShe then worked for the National Heart Foundation in Canberra and then for the NSW Department of Health in the preventive health. Shauna was involved in developing Program Management Guidelines for Health Promotion and was also involved in the EQUIPP accreditation process for Central Sydney Area Health Service.\nIn 2004 Shauna joined James in working his franchised businesses and then became integrally involved in the establishment of The Franchise Institute. She brings to the business, excellent organisational skills, workplace efficiency and writing skills.\n(BA, LLB, University of Sydney)\n(BA, LLB, University of Sydney), a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia. Peter has been a qualified practising lawyer for over 28 years.\nPeter began his career at the Sydney office of Baker & McKenzie, an international law firm with over 50 offices worldwide. There, he worked on large disputes involving international accounting firms, tobacco companies and breach of copyright, and gained valuable experience in commercial litigation.\nHe was employed there and in other Sydney city commercial law firms for the following 9 years, and among other things acted in a litigation role for clients such as the Westfield property group.\nPeter Sanfilippo\u2019s approach to the practice of franchising law emphasizes practicality, common sense and personal relationships, but never loses sight of detail and accuracy.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 92, "original_length": 5600, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 234.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thefuturescentre.org/signals-of-change/3037/guests-ritz-volunteer-free-hotel-upgrades", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:07:59Z", "digest": "sha1:Q3UPUQMIAONZUJWQE6DPAYUZ2FNBHRZU", "length": 1778, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "thefuturescentre.org", "title": "Guests at the Ritz volunteer for free hotel upgrades | Futures Centre", "raw_content": "Guests at the Ritz volunteer for free hotel upgrades\nSignal of change / Guests at the Ritz volunteer for free hotel upgrades\nBy Harriet Trefusis / 21 Jan 2015\nDuring the summer of 2014, the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Washington DC ran a reward scheme, where guests received a free upgrade in return for volunteering in a community project.\nThe guests were first given a tour of the DC Central Kitchen, a community kitchen engaged in food recycling and meal distribution, and then volunteered at the organisation. In return, they were then given access to the sports complex, breakfast for two and valet parking. The hotel donated $100 to the project on behalf of each guest who participated.\nSimilar schemes have also been run by the Fairmont hotel chain to encourage interaction between guests and local communities. For example, guests were invited to assist hotel staff with a project to grow healthy vegetables for a school cafeteria, and to clean beaches.\nImage credits: Geoff Livingstone / Flickr\nSuch voluntary schemes could signal a shift towards proactive community engagement on behalf of luxury brands. They also indicate a growing number of tourists keen to gain a deeper understanding of the place they are visiting \u2013 beyond the hotel complex.\n\u2018Voluntourism\u2019 does not come with complexities, however. The involvement of the community in designing roles for volunteers is crucial to ensure local jobs aren\u2019t endangered by a constant stream of well-meaning tourists.\nhttp://www.fairmont.com/press-room/articles/fairmont-initiative-to-help-communities-flourish/\nhttp://www.luxurydaily.com/ritz-carlton-washington-offers-charity-programs-to-educate-guests-about-local-communities/\nSignal of change / Plastic waste could beat price as top concern for British shoppers in 2030", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 170, "original_length": 6157, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 312.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theguyliner.com/tag/what-happened-next/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:28:39Z", "digest": "sha1:B55C4NZEUWRYGAGJJFJ5L45V2IG4SO2F", "length": 282, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "theguyliner.com", "title": "What happened next? \u2013 The Guyliner", "raw_content": "HomePosts Tagged \"What happened next?\"\narchiveWhat happened next?\nYou may think you don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a broken heart if you\u2019ve never had one, but,...\nSecond chances don\u2019t come along every day and you never get another opportunity to make a first impression. It is...", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 158.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehaletelescope.com/19277/sports/football/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:58:12Z", "digest": "sha1:CX3SGMQNRYAXQIQTFPVMLA3KAQKIFSX6", "length": 2497, "nlines": 8, "source_domain": "thehaletelescope.com", "title": "Football \u2013 The Hale Telescope", "raw_content": "Degan Hensley|February 8, 2018\nFootball is a sport where 2 teams play against each other while 11 people from each team go out on the field to try and make a touchdown. Each touchdown is 6 points but whoever scored the touchdown gets a chance to kick a field goal for 1 extra point. There is 100 yard on the field and each 10 yards is a first down. There is a rule where if you don\u2019t get 10 yards in 4 tries the other team gets the ball. That is called a turnover on downs.\nOn offense there is a offensive tackle, quarterback, corner back, wide receiver, running back, tight end, full back,left guard, right guard, and center.\nOn defense there is defensive tackle, defensive line, linebacker, defensive end, middle linebacker, cornerback, nickleback, dimeback, and safety.\nOn special teams there are kicker, holder long snapper, kicker, upback, punt returner, gunner, and jammer.\nIn the NFL there 32 teams including the New England Patriots, The Philadelphia Eagles, the Dallas Cowboys, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Seattle Seahawks, the Atlanta Falcons, The New Orleans Saints, The Oakland Raiders, The Los Angeles Rams, the Minnesota Vikings, San Francisco 49ers, the New York Giants, the Carolina Panthers, the Green Bay Packers, the Denver Broncos, Jackonsville Jaguars, the Tennessee Titans, the Cleveland Browns, the Buffalo Bills, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chicago Bears, the Baltimore Ravens, the Detroit Lions, the Los Angeles Chargers, the Miami Dolphins, the Washington Redskins, the Houston Texans, the Arizona Cardinals, the New York Jets, the Indianapolis Colts, the Cincinnati Bengals, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\nOver this last winter break me and my dad went to the Rose Bowl Game where Georgia Bulldogs played the Oaklahoma Sooners, That was one of the best days ever. The game went into overtime and Georgia ended up winning the game. My dad is from Georgia so that was a very special moment for me and my dad.\nMy favorite teams are The Atlanta Falcons, The Georgia Bulldogs, The New Orleans Saints, and The LSU Tigers. A couple years ago when I was in Louisiana to visit my family I went to the LSU campus met the teams LIVE tiger mascot and went to the football field. American football evolved in the United States, originating from the sports of association football and rugby football. The first match of American football was played on November 6, 1869, between two college teams, Rutgers and Princeton, under rules based on the association football rules of the time.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 142, "original_length": 5303, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 164.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thehumblei.com/tag/al-safarini-al-hanbali-on-who-is-ahl-al-sunnah/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:00:27Z", "digest": "sha1:5STTOJ5IR3GMNXYZNXG7CITWXOAXCQQ4", "length": 68, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thehumblei.com", "title": "al-Safarini al-Hanbali on who is ahl al-sunnah | The Humble \"I\"", "raw_content": "Archive for the tag \u201cal-Safarini al-Hanbali on who is ahl al-sunnah\u201d", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 130, "original_length": 7120, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.78, "perplexity": 310.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theimplantcentre.com/people/jane/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:53Z", "digest": "sha1:QQUF2XPQ6QEAX4HAW2IPQM77HNZ2GV5L", "length": 2643, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "theimplantcentre.com", "title": "Jane, Single Tooth Dental Implant Patient - The Implant Centre Sussex Jane, Single Tooth Dental Implant Patient - The Implant Centre Sussex Jane, Single Tooth Dental Implant Patient - The Implant Centre Sussex", "raw_content": "You are here: Home / Patient Stories / Jane\nBone loss not a problem!\nWhen Jane was referred to us, she was under no illusion about whether or not she would be able to have implants.\nJane had gradually been losing her back teeth over the years, but still had enough teeth to chew with \u2013 that is, until her upper right back tooth finally broke. It was the only upper back tooth she still had, and losing it meant that she really could not chew properly any more.\nShe was also very worried that the teeth on the left side of her mouth would start to fail, now that she was doing all of her chewing on that side of her mouth.\nJane\u2019s dentist showed her the x-ray he had taken of that part of her mouth and pointed out that there was not much bone left for the placement of dental implants. He said that he was not sure if implant treatment was even possible, but he suggested that Jane should come to The Implant Centre, to see if we could help.\nFrom the thorough assessment we carried out at The Implant Centre, it was immediately clear that Jane had very little bone for the placement of implants. She was absolutely amazed when she was shown a CT scan of her jaw, as she did not know this type of technology was even available, but she was very nervous at the thought of needing a \u201cbone graft\u201d.\nShe need not have worried\u2014at The Implant Centre we have some of the most highly qualified and experienced clinicians in the UK. We were able to use growth factors from Jane\u2019s own blood to rebuild the missing bone in her sinus, and were even able to place two implants into the jaw at the same time. Jane was taken completely by surprise when her surgeon told her the procedure was finished, as it had all been so quick and completely painless.\nA few weeks later, we checked Jane\u2019s implants and were delighted with just how well the treatment had gone \u2013 the graft had worked beautifully. We referred her back to her own dentist who made for her two stunning new teeth and fitted them onto the implants.\nJane had feared the worst when her dentist had warned her that she had so little bone that he was not sure if treatment with implants was even possible.\nInstead, she discovered that it was not only possible, but that the whole process from start to finish was quick, simple and completely painless.\nHer implant teeth look and feel so natural that Jane has returned to The Implant Centre to have two more implants placed on the left side of her mouth.\nNow she can eat whatever she likes, safe in the knowledge that she has strong secure replacements for her missing natural teeth, and she knows where to go if she loses any more teeth in the future.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 86, "original_length": 4254, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 323.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thekingcourier.com/2017/12/01/travel-beyond-the-boundaries/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:08:49Z", "digest": "sha1:HN2XMSBS56OQK3QLBMLXMBGB47D4VIUA", "length": 2694, "nlines": 10, "source_domain": "thekingcourier.com", "title": "Travel Beyond the Boundaries \u2013 The King Courier", "raw_content": "Travel Beyond the Boundaries\nWith all the disasters that have occurred this past year, it is important for people to get involved. The National Red Cross (NRC) is an emergency disaster relief organization based in the United States. It was founded in 1881 by Clara Barton and Adolphus Solomons to provide aid to victims of wars and natural disasters. November is National Youth Involvement month. It is a time in which NRC celebrates teens who volunteer to help promote the mission of the Red Cross by organizing events that help with bring awareness to local and world problems. This year\u2019s Red Cross theme is, \u201cTravel Beyond the Boundaries.\u201d\nSusan Su, 12, is the president of the Martin Luther King High School chapter of the Red Cross Club. She, along with fellow officers, not only organize and implement events, but also notify people of volunteer opportunities through social media and club meetings. Su stated that non-Red Cross Club members are always free to volunteer in any of their events. A few of the events being held this year are: a semester long Recycling Competition, Sound the Alarm that ended Nov. 18, and a holiday Toy Drive that ended Nov. 30.\nThe Recycling Event is an event in which students, teachers, and staff are encouraged to bring empty water bottles. Participating classrooms have specific boxes for the water bottles that Red Cross Club decorates. Red Cross Club members gain community service for each bottle. The bottles are then recycled for money. This year all of the proceeds of this event will go to hurricane relief for the Caribbean. In previous years, the proceeds of this event have gone directly to NRC.\nSound the Alarm is an event in which students travel to local neighborhoods that are highly susceptible to fires, such as a mobile home park. They educate homeowners on certain precautions to take to avoid a house fire and they help install fire alarms if they do not already have them.\nRed Cross also hosts a holiday toy drive and donate toys collected to the Children\u2019s Safety Festival on Dec. 12. The Children\u2019s Safety Festival is an event where NRC collect toys from all high school Red Cross Clubs and donates them to underprivileged kids. They also hold booths that interact with the kids in order to inform them of the actions they should take in the event of a natural disaster.\nIn an attempt to raise even more money, Red Cross Club sells donuts at their meetings for a dollar, open for purchase to anyone. For more information on how to get involved in The Red Cross or join The Red Cross Club, follow @mlkredcross on Instagram!\nPosted in Club Beats, December 2017, Home\nPrevious Engineering At Its Finest\nNext PAWSS Thanksgiving Feast", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 55, "original_length": 3619, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 274.1, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thelawyourmoneyandyou.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/new-episode-on-product-liability/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:41:57Z", "digest": "sha1:GXR5LKZSJSPX2AICH63WRJO7JBZOJHGW", "length": 35, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thelawyourmoneyandyou.wordpress.com", "title": "New Episode on Product Liability | The Law, Your Money...and YOU!", "raw_content": "\u2190 Live at the Library: May 23, 2012", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 101, "original_length": 2944, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 164.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themassageblogguide1.my-free.website/find-out-about-the-health-benefits-of-the-best-dubai-massage/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:02:13Z", "digest": "sha1:VGMMMKLB3GKFN4ITUAVLT4KAZQOAZ7XN", "length": 3117, "nlines": 5, "source_domain": "themassageblogguide1.my-free.website", "title": "Find out About the Health Benefits of the Best Dubai Massage", "raw_content": "Find out About the Health Benefits of the Best Dubai Massage\nMany people ask themselves how it feels like to have a massage. Some of them would even ask their friends how their experience was and how it was done. This is because; they are usually scared of stripping. This should not be a bother anymore since the expert does not have to see your entire body parts. If you are wondering where to get one, consider the best Medical Dubai Massage. If you had a long day of working you would find that some of your body parts are paining. Some people would complain to have back pains. This should never happen since you would have to report to work the following morning. Your solution would be to go for a massage to relax your strained muscles.\nAnother advantage of getting a message is that you would never have hypertension. People who do not have the massage for their entire life tend to suffer from high blood pressure. You would not like this to happen to you since its life-threatening. You need to ensure that you get a massage to be able to relax your mind. Medical researchers have shown that stress is normally relieved by having a massage. If you have something disturbing you and leading to stressful moment, your solution is here. The only thing you need is to lie down peacefully and get a gentle massage. You would notice a very different after having a massage than the way you went there. There has been no research showing the type of massage that works best for stress removal. However, the hot stone massage works well during the winter season. Examine the knowledge that we shared about massage www.dubaimassage1st.com .\nPeople who visit the spa after a long day at work feel more relaxed than the ones who do not. They also tend to feel more relaxed hence perform their duties better than the ones who do not. You need to make use of these services to be able to perform well at your workplace. It becomes very hard for some people to get sleep at night. You would find that they would opt to spend their night watching movies. They do not usually think that their bodies are straining. The fact is that if you do not let your body to relax, it will strain a lot. This is not good for your health. For such people, their medicine would get some gentle massage to relax their muscles. Get more information about Dubai nuru massage .\nExperience is one of the factors that you should look at before you select a specialist. You should ensure that your specialist has been in the industry for some decades. This is because such an expert will have gained a lot of information to do with therapy. For this reason; always ensure that the specialist has been doing this kind of job for five years and above. In conclusion, the best place to look for a hospital to get these services is within your locality. This is because; you would have some information that is needed for that health center. Check whether they observe hygiene. This would be crucial since you would like a place you would contract some infections from other people. Learn more about massage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massage .", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 7, "original_length": 3288, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 262.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://themortgagebuyer.com/deed_of_trust_buyer.html", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:25:36Z", "digest": "sha1:T4S7E5DPD7DZAJ6CIKZRG6BZGJDHNCIK", "length": 3084, "nlines": 17, "source_domain": "themortgagebuyer.com", "title": "\ufeff Deed of Trust Buyers | Trust Deed Note Buyers", "raw_content": "Deed of Trust Buyers\nDeed of trust owners considering the sale of their note owe it to themselves to find a reputable deed of trust buyer to do business with. The Mortgage Buyer, Inc. takes great pride in its reputation as one of the nation's most reputable and respected deed of trust buyers. Our long history of doing business with honesty and integrity has made us one of the most accomplished deed of trust buyers in the country. We can help you with expert advice and by offering the highest cash sale price for your deed of trust note.\nRequest a purchase proposal from a reputable deed of trust buyer.\nWe guarantee that you receive the highest sale price for your deed of trust.\n\"I just received the e-mail and wire. I want to thank you for all of your help. You have been all I could hope for. Thank you again.\"\nJ. Pattno, AuSable Forks, NY\nSelling a Deed of Trust\nIf you own a deed of trust note and would like to learn more about the possibility of selling it, explore our website to become knowledgeable about the process of working with a deed of trust buyer and how to receive the best sale price for your deed of trust. Or, if you would prefer to start the process now contact our President John A. Avenia at (800) 618-2485. John is always willing to explain the factors that affect the cash value of your deed of trust note, provide you with a set of cash purchase proposals for it and help you structure the sale to accomplish your most important goals.\nAdvice on the best way to approach deed of trust buyers about selling your note.\nDetailed instructions on how to receive the best sale price for your deed of trust.\n\"Hey John, just confirming I did receive the wire transfer. Thanks again for the wonderful job you did. Your professional manner inspired confidence in me from the very beginning. I never once thought you might \u201cdrop the ball\u201d. All my best to you, and my best wishes for continued success in your business as well.\"\nSara T., Milwaukee, WI\nAs one of America's most experienced deed of trust buyers, we have the ability to convert all, or any portion of your deed of trust payments into one large cash payment. Each of our deed of trust sale options can be customized to provide you with the cash you need - when you need it. As the deed of trust owner, you are in control of how the sale is structured and what it accomplishes for you. Regardless of the sales option chosen, you will have the cash sale proceeds for your deed of trust within three-to-four weeks.\nAllow The Mortgage Buyer to be your preferred deed of trust buyer. Call us today at (800) 618-2485 to receive a no cost - no obligation purchase proposal. Or, you may prefer to complete our online form to receive a confidential purchase proposal for your deed of trust. Either way, you will receive a set of written purchase proposals that will allow you to make the best possible decision about selling your deed of trust.\nLearn about the sale options available for your deed of trust note.\nMarket Value of a Deed of Trust\nLearn what deed of trust buyers consider when evaluating a note.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 48, "original_length": 3970, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 327.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thenordicmovement.com/2008/09/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:52:28Z", "digest": "sha1:A3QVVKFWBPP4NX5VWSVCYTUIMTUZYELF", "length": 379, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thenordicmovement.com", "title": "September | 2008 | Nordic in America", "raw_content": "In a move to help Danish companies fill openings and find skilled knowledge workers, a new organization has just launched a rather extensive career web site. The site, Career Guide 2 Denmark, aims to help both Danish companies, particularly those open and interested in skilled workers from abroad, and foreign workers looking for jobs by listing most of the major as well as [\u2026]", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 72, "original_length": 1882, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 338.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theogbklyngirl.com/category/random/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:04:38Z", "digest": "sha1:NTCMN4YEDWLQC5ZDAQXYBQR22B3QNSWJ", "length": 1171, "nlines": 6, "source_domain": "theogbklyngirl.com", "title": "Random \u2013 TheOGBklynGirl", "raw_content": "Staring into oblivion\nToday, someone decided to tell me not to be angry. Now, most New Yorkers I know who have grown up there have had this resting bitch face before it had a name. I have always had a problem with having a smile on my face. I always feel your feelings should be genuine. This however\u2026\nInstagram is amazing. About 2 weeks ago, I decided to search hashtags especially about tall girls. Now I know tall girls are usually these gorgeous models on runways all over the world. When searching the hashtag tall girls, I found all these gorgeous bloggers that are about 5\u201910\u201d and over. Now while I am late\u2026\nToday at my job, I sat down and was talking with two of my co workers. They are in their late teens to early twenties. I put that in because I am almost 20 years older than them. We were discussing how people will come up with anything to make someone feel jealous or even\u2026\nOh Sarcasm, how you mock me?\nI am not funny. I am not. I know this and some of my friends know it. I am not the one to bring the house down with laughter. I live in the land of dry humor and sarcasm. Some people are naturally funny. They can tell jokes and always be \u201con.\u201d I am not\u2026", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 87, "original_length": 5162, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.98, "perplexity": 292.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thepioneerwoman.com/entertainment/the-philadelphia-story/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:55:07Z", "digest": "sha1:3YVT7GONWAGMLCPBQOZSZOKKCMTUWADA", "length": 9993, "nlines": 64, "source_domain": "thepioneerwoman.com", "title": "The Philadelphia Story | The Pioneer Woman", "raw_content": "by bigmama on April 26, 2012\nWhen I was about nine years old I went to go see On Golden Pond with my best friend and her mother. I have no idea why this friend\u2019s mother thought that two nine year old girls would want to watch a movie about two elderly people visiting their lake house for the summer, but I fell in love with it even back then. And even more, I fell in love with Katharine Hepburn.\nShe was so regal. Even as Ethel Thayer (thounds like I\u2019m lithping) in her sensible pants and button-down shirts. I wanted her to be my grandmother because she was the perfect combination of warm and funny mixed with no nonsense. And even as a little girl, something broke inside my heart when she whispered to Henry Fonda as Norman, \u201cYou\u2019re my knight in shining armor\u201d.\nLittle did I know that I\u2019d just brushed the surface of how much I\u2019d grow to adore Katharine Hepburn.\nIt was years later. I\u2019d just graduated from college and was living alone in an apartment in a city where I didn\u2019t really know anyone. And I decided it might be a good time to watch every classic movie I\u2019d ever heard about but had never taken the time to watch because I was too busy wishing I could meet someone like Patrick Swayze at summer family camp. Even though that would have been really difficult since my family never went to summer family camp.\nSo I\u2019d program my VCR (after I walked uphill in the snow both ways to my television) to record all manner of movies on AMC. I finally watched Casablanca, Rear Window, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and so many other movies I\u2019d always heard about but never seen.\nBut the ones I loved the most were the ones with Katharine Hepburn. Bringing Up Baby, The African Queen, Holiday, Pat and Mike, Rooster Cogburn and Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner.\nAnd then there was The Philadelphia Story.\nHow had I neglected to watch this brilliant love story starring Katharine Hepburn alongside Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart? How had I lived? Where had it been all my life?\nI watched it twice in a row that first night. I couldn\u2019t get over the sharp, funny dialogue, the flawed characters, and the breathtaking dresses.\nThe Philadelphia Story is about a young socialite named Tracy Lord who divorced fellow socialite C.K. Dexter Haven because he was an alcoholic and she had no tolerance for any weakness. Two years later, she is about to marry George Kittredge, a politician and a social climber.\nBut the impending wedding gets complicated when reporter, Macaulay Conner, and photographer, Liz Imbrie, show up from Spy Magazine to get the inside scoop on the festivities. Further complicating things, they are there with Tracy\u2019s ex-husband, C.K. Dexter Haven, who explains to Tracy that she needs to let them cover the story or else their editor, Sydney Kidd, will publish a scandalous article about her father.\nTracy agrees to let them stay in order to protect her family from bad publicity and we watch as feelings develop and she finds herself torn between her ex-husband, the reporter and her fiance\u2019 as she discovers who she really is and what she wants out of life.\nUltimately, it\u2019s more than a love story. It\u2019s a story of accepting people for who they are, realizing that sometimes we all make mistakes, and seizing the moment. It\u2019s one of those movies I can watch over and over again and find something new every time.\nThe best part is that Katharine Hepburn\u2019s career was almost dead in the water before this movie. She\u2019d been declared box office poison and took matters into her own hands. She bought the film rights to The Philadelphia Story and orchestrated her own comeback. It went on to be nominated for six Academy Awards and was a huge success. And that makes me love the woman on the screen even more.\nIf you haven\u2019t seen The Philadelphia Story, go and watch it right now. I promise you won\u2019t be disappointed. In the words of Tracy Lord, it is \u201cyar\u201d.\nBarbara Northington\nYes, I agree it is \u201cyar\u201d. I love it too! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.\nJen Dunaway\nLove Love Love that movie. I watch it at least once a year. I am currently making my 10 year old watch all the old movie I love. You should watch The Awful Truth with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant. It is so funny!!!\nLove Love Love this movie!!! I love any movie with Cary Grant! I was watching classics when I was just a teen and now as a mother of three there\u2019s still not a better movie than these.\nI saw On Golden Pond as a kid too. It was my families first VHS tape and I watched it over and over. I don\u2019t know why it was so wonderful to me then, but I really like the movie as an adult.\nI made a list of things I wanted to do before I turned 30 and one of them was watching all 100 movies on AFI\u2019s Top 100 movies list. This one was by far one of my favorites from the list. This, Chinatown, In the Heat of the Night, Sound of Music and North by Northwest were my top 5!\nLove this movie!!\nOne of The Best Movies Ever. I watched that as a small child and loved it. It\u2019s one that never grows old. And Dinah is always good for a laugh.\nhttp://www.kjsbeadaciousbeads.blogspot.com/\tKJ\nKatherine Hepburn is my favorite actress, ever. Katherine Hepburn is also my standard by which I measure beauty and she was beautiful for all the years of her life.\nhttp://www.yagottahandittome.blogspot.com\tBarilla B\n\u201cC.K. Dexter Haven? OH, C.K. DEXTER HAAAAAAVEEEEEEEN!\u201d\nI love Katherine Hepburn! If she is too manic for you in \u201cThe Philadelphia Story\u201d or \u201cBringing up Baby\u201d I highly recommend \u201cAlice Adams\u201d. I didn\u2019t realize until recently that she could play the vulnerable part so perfectly. She is so sweet in this movie and it has the best crying scene that I have ever seen in any movie.\nJust the fact that you mentioned my favorite, Bringing Up Baby, makes me smile. I can watch that, The Philadelphia Story and Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner over and over again! I fell in love with classic comedies when I was barely out of elementary school: Bringing Up Baby, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Mad Miss Manton, His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire. My mom always said I was born 4 decades late and that I had seen more movies from her childhood than she had.\nhttp://hennasplace.wordpress.com\tSheri D. Maple\nI love Katherine Hepburn and some of my favorite movies with her is Little Women, Stage Door, Summertime, The Lion in Winter, Woman of the Year, and Adam\u2019s Rib to name a few. The Philadelphia Story is another great movie with Kate. I always loved to watch her act. Another one of my favorite actresses is Bette Davis. I thought she was just saucy and consider her queen of the melodrama because she did it so well without going over the top.\nSo true! Love, love, love this movie. Another amazing K. Hep movie that doesn\u2019t get quite the same attention is Holiday, which pairs her with Grant again. Man, now I want to go rewatch all her movies\u2026\nIf you love her so much then surely you will want to spell her name correctly; it is KathArine.\nThe Philadelphia Story is my favorite movie of all-time! I knew I liked you! And I am on my way over to your book signing here in not so sunny Pasadena\u2013can\u2019t wait!\nhttp://iliveinanantbed.com\tI Live in an Antbed\nIt is a wonderful movie! Cary Grant is one of our very favorites!\u201d Bringing Up Baby\u201d is another classic pairing Grant and Hepburn. In \u201cMr. Blandings Builds His Dream House\u201d he is opposite another favorite: Myrna Loy. But \u201cArsenic and Old Lace\u201d has to be his best slapstick comedy.\nMaryMW in the MN\nThis is one of the best-kept secret great movies ever.\nlaura elden\nPhiladelphia Story is one of my favorites, as is the musical version High Society, with the gorgeous Grace Kelly as Tracy Lord, along with Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby. Another favorite Hepburn movie is Desk Set with Spencer Tracy and Gig Young.\nHer name is KATHARINE Hepburn.\nIf Katharine Hepburn is too manic for you in \u201cPhiladelphia Story\u201d or \u201cBringing up Baby\u201d check out \u201cAlice Adams\u201d. Here she plays a sweet, vulnerable young lady. This movie has the best and most tender crying scene that I have ever seen. I love her in this movie.\nI totally agree! I feel in love with this movie years ago. I think the first time I saw it was in a little movie theater in Paris that often showed the classics. I\u2019ve shared it with my daughter because I firmly believe that they should be exposed to good, fast, witty, smart, and clean humor. Not being a prude. I just think that we don\u2019t expose kids to the wonders of the English language.\nI fell in love with Jimmy Stewart and have always wished that I possessed the same grace and fire that Ms.Hepburn did.\nThank you for bringing this back into the foreground.\nhttp://thebigmamablog.com\tBig Mama\nYes, you\u2019re right. I should have proofed that. All the Katherines I know spell it with an \u201ce\u201d and it was just the way I typed it.\nMy inability to spell doesn\u2019t diminish my love for her. \ud83d\ude42\nI love, love Ms. Hepburn and all of her movies. The Philadelphia Story is my favorite of hers. She was a legend in her day despite the scandal she was involved in ( her love affair with Tracy). Back in 1978, I visited an aunt that lived in Old Saybrook, Ct. It just so happened that she lived a mile down the road from Ms. Hepburn! My friend and I took a drive to see if we could see her house, but upon finding the beginning of the driveway, it was posted and ,of course, blocked off from the public. I was in heaven knowing I was that close to seeing her!\nCarlyW\nI stinkin\u2019 love that movie. What a cast, am I right?\nDenai A.\nI love this movie . . . I first watched this movie with my mom when I was 8 or 9 and I\u2019ve been forcing my friends to watch it ever since (high school, college . . .) Sadly, neither Katharine Hepburn nor Cary Grant is on AMC or TCM nearly often enough for my tastes!\nThe Cinematic Masterpieces of my Childhood\nMotherhood and Television\nCall the Midwife Season Finale\nMy Celebrity Hair Inspiration\nClassic Black-and-Whites\nFatal Attraction \u2013 Behind the Scenes\nThe Fall TV Season: It\u2019s Good To Have Goals\nIf Only Mrs. O\u2019Brien\u2019s Bangs Could Talk\nSome Music for Grown-Ups", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 347, "original_length": 13985, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 323.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thequietus.com/articles/07987-the-make-up-reunite", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:24:14Z", "digest": "sha1:MTGSWGAAOLORGEJ372NGFF3RGSY4UZEB", "length": 562, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "thequietus.com", "title": "The Quietus | News | The Make-Up Reunite!", "raw_content": "The Make-Up Reunite!\nBand back together for ATP\nIt has been confirmed today that Ian Svenonius' infamous band of indie-rock-blues insurrectionists The Make-Up have got back together, and will play an exclusive UK show at the Afghan Whigs-curated Sunday night of All Tomorrow's Parties I'll Be Your Mirror event.\nAlso newly confirmed for the three day festival, which takes place at Alexandra Palace between May 25th and 27th, are Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, the Ultramagnetic MCs and Harvey Milk. Check out the full line-up and buy tickets over at the ATP website", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 4776, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 247.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://theredbookprints.com/news/digitalfusion-presents-at-the-jung-neuman-letters-conference-kibbutz-shefayim-israel/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:13:16Z", "digest": "sha1:K7FA4QSTE3ARITPAJUISURZYTG45T7GS", "length": 1326, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "theredbookprints.com", "title": "DigitalFusion Presents at The Jung-Neuman Letters Conference, Kibbutz Shefayim, Israel | The RED BOOK Prints", "raw_content": "The long awaited publication of the correspondence between C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann was a landmark event in the history of analytical psychology. The Jung-Neumann Letters, edited and introduced by Philemon scholar Martin Liebscher, was published by Princeton University Press in their Philemon Series. To mark this important event, an international conference was held, jointly sponsored by The Foundation for the Works of C.G. Jung, the Neumann Estate, The Philemon Foundation, The International Association of Analytical Psychology, and The Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology. The event was sponsored in part by DigitalFusion.\nThe haunting and inspirational images from the Red Book by C.G. Jung were displayed by DigitalFusion at the conference where Hugh Milstein gave a presentation to the more than 300 attendees on the topic of Art, Technology and Preservation of Jung\u2019s Red Book. These amazing enlargements from the original Red Book were scanned in Zurich, and used to publish the Red Book facsimile copy by W.W. Norton New York. The fine art prints made by DigitalFusion once again displayed the amazing level of artistry and attention to detail that Jung brought to his journal, which began over a century ago.\nConference Website: www.jung-israel.org/jung-conference\nPresenting at the Jung-Neumann Conference", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 59, "original_length": 3698, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 192.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thereisabookforthat.com/2017/09/17/monday-september-18th-2017/img_7189/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:58:07Z", "digest": "sha1:FSE3JCGJLMRXFGKT6UAKUWV3ETKITQVM", "length": 72, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "thereisabookforthat.com", "title": "IMG_7189 | There's a Book for That", "raw_content": "Published September 17, 2017 at 480 \u00d7 640 in Monday September 18th, 2017", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 71, "original_length": 2249, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 80.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thespinoff.co.nz/featured/04-04-2016/the-monday-extract-going-south-by-colin-hogg/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T20:44:32Z", "digest": "sha1:IIAVIO2XNTSXPKID56M4EDA5UESMH7JF", "length": 10304, "nlines": 39, "source_domain": "thespinoff.co.nz", "title": "The Monday extract: Going South, by Colin Hogg | The Spinoff", "raw_content": "The Monday extract: Going South, by Colin Hogg\nColin Hogg | Guest writer\nAn excerpt from Colin Hogg\u2019s sweet, elegiac book Going South, about going on a roadtrip with his friend, the journalist Gordon (\u201cGordie\u201d) McBride. The two first met at the Southland Times in Invercargill. Hogg takes up the story in chapter one\u2026\nShortly after turning 21, I packed all my records in my car and moved with my girlfriend and soon-to-be-wife to a job at the New Zealand Herald in far-off Auckland, and two years after that I went to London, where I stayed three years. Then I came back to Auckland and the Herald again, then the Auckland Star, where I got back into the music writing and managed to turn it into a fulltime job.\nIt was after I\u2019d established myself as a record and show reviewer and rock star interviewer up in Auckland at the turn of the 1980s that Gordie took to occasionally ringing me up out of the blue in the early hours. He\u2019d usually be half-cut in a bar in Wellington, arguing with someone about who played what on which song when and wanting me to settle the matter with my apparently unassailable knowledge of such things.\nGordon had made a smart move, I thought, getting across to television. There wasn\u2019t all that much life left in newspapers by then, though that had been coming for a while. The truth is that the newspaper business was already on the start of the slide even way back when Gordie and I signed on in the late 1960s.\nAt the Auckland Star they launched a daily entertainment section, and I started writing music stuff for it and running it, too, after a while. Then they launched a full-blown daily feature section which I was put in charge At one mad point, I had a staff of 16, including several ancient and cynical veterans.\nWe had an unprecedented amount of fun while somehow managing to keep our work standards up, though I couldn\u2019t help noticing increasing evidence that it came at a cost. A lot of us drank too much, and sometimes drank so much that we\u2019d fall out or even sleep with each other when we shouldn\u2019t have. But consequences didn\u2019t count so much then, and, besides, we thought the good times would never end.\nBut they did end. It was when, somewhere behind a closed door one day, the accountants finally won the holy, never-ending war with the editorial department and set about killing the once bold and beloved Auckland Star, not all of a sudden, but by a thousand cuts. Editors came and went. I went, too, several times. Before it was all over, I\u2019d worked for the Star three different times, and the Herald three times, too.\nEventually, I drifted into TV, too, when I figured out that making documentaries was a bit like writing feature stories. They just involved more electricity and people pointing cameras, and it took longer to make them. But the money was good, and there was still some of that precious stuff, freedom.\nSometime in the 1990s, Gordie was up in Auckland for a day and we made contact and met for lunch at one of those upmarket restaurants down on the city\u2019s waterfront. It must have been summer because I remember it was sunny. We ate Bluff oysters and drank a lot of wine. I know that last bit because I had an alcohol-assisted rush of blood to the head and came up with the idea that we should go for a bit of a road trip together sometime, back down south. But, I emphasised to him, we needed a reason to go. Trips are always better when there\u2019s a reason.Then I promptly forgot about the conversation.\nBut Gordie didn\u2019t forget. He\u2019s not only a rock, he\u2019s an elephant. Independently, he decided we should go to Central Otago, and he announced this when a few weeks later he rang me out of the blue at two in the morning and woke me up.\nWe were, according to him, going to Naseby, where we could do some curling if we went in the winter. He\u2019d booked a pub for us to stay at and everything. But I wasn\u2019t so sure curling was a good enough idea, and I didn\u2019t go in the end.\nBut he went anyway, taking some of his new Wellington mates, and turning it into an annual event involving curling and running up massive bar tabs.\nHe kept on inviting me for a few years, but after a bit he gave up and stopped asking. I had cold feet about the curling, though I didn\u2019t tell him that. Also I felt we might get into some sort of trouble. I had kids by then, and perhaps I was trying to put bad behaviour behind me at the time. I probably remembered some of the madness we got up to when we were running together back in Invercargill, and worried that it might spontaneously combust again and there might be injuries or arrests.\nBut still the two of us would make some sort of contact every year or so, though we\u2019d only rarely see each other. And the time rolled by, faster and faster, as it does, just like the old folk warned us it would, though we didn\u2019t believe them.\nOver the years, I have been married, officially or otherwise, three times, and become father to five girls and a boy, and now, incredibly, grandfather (though we don\u2019t use that word) to four, shortly five, grandchildren. All my kids are grown up now and off in several parts of the world with their own lives.\nWell, all except the youngest, who\u2019s 16, still at school and living at home with me and her mother, who I\u2019ve been with for 22 years, bless her. We decided we liked each other so much that we even got married a few years ago. Things seemed settled, life went on, running straight ahead, it seemed, into the rest of the future.\nThen, just when I was expecting nothing to happen, everything changed, as it does sometimes.\nRight out of the blue, we moved to Wellington, which was about the last thing I expected after living 40-odd years in Auckland, having up to that point enjoyed quite a nice fat career doing pretty much what I liked most and being paid quite a lot for doing it.\nBut I really should have seen it coming. Nothing was quite the same anymore, especially in the scribbling business I\u2019d been in for so long. Now it wasn\u2019t so free and easy. Now I was older, I\u2019d been doing what I\u2019d been doing for rather a long time and my relevance, work-wise at least, was less relevant in an endlessly relevant business.\nThe last bit of the good times had been quite good, though. On the back of getting a couple of series commissioned by TVNZ, I\u2019d started my own TV production company, taken a lease on an office on fashionable Ponsonby Road, employed regular staff, made good money, had lots of business lunches, bought a Mercedes-Benz, and started wondering what my next trick might be.\nUp to that point, there always had been a new trick. But then it turned out that there was no new trick. After a few years of making them, my sorts of TV shows \u2014 documentaries and series about books and such \u2014 weren\u2019t the sorts of TV shows the big TV channels wanted anymore. I was being a bit too arty when everything was turning to reality and cooking and singing contests, the stuff of children. I could see the end coming, so I walked towards it, made my last show, shut my company down, had a last big wrap party, said goodbye to the staff and went home.\nAt first, I was more relieved than mournful. I thought I\u2019d go back to writing for print, where I\u2019d started out. But I should have looked more closely. The old business was really dying now, moving from critical to terminal, the country\u2019s newspapers and magazines fading faster and faster, as they were around the modern world. I\u2019d turned back only to find myself chasing an outgoing tide. Everything was downsizing, including me.\nAfter never missing a deadline across 30 years, my column and I were dropped by Woman\u2019s Weekly. The editor, another new one, rang and said I didn\u2019t fit anymore because the magazine was chasing a new demographic, something faintly disturbing called the \u201cyummy mummy\u201d.\nI didn\u2019t know what to say to that. The editor said she knew I\u2019d understand and I said I did, but I didn\u2019t really, and perhaps neither did she because, within a few months, she was gone, too.\nInside a year, I wasn\u2019t being recognised anymore by older ladies in supermarkets, which was a shame. I quite liked being recognised by them. They used to be my key demographic, I suspect.\n\u201cI know who you are,\u201d they\u2019d say to me up the cereal aisle.\n\u201cSo do I,\u201d I\u2019d say right back.\nI loved my elderly lady readers and I miss them sometimes, usually in the supermarket. After giving up on TV and losing the WW column, things went from slightly bad to worse at some pace, until my career had handily shrunk to the point where what was left could be put in my back pocket and taken almost anywhere, even to another city, which is just what happened.\nThe only good thing, it seemed, that could be immediately said about the whole deal was that I\u2019d be in the same town as my old pal Gordon. It was my wife Philippa\u2019s new job that moved us to Wellington, and things didn\u2019t at first go very well. In fact they went bad fast, a bit like the winds in that part of the country.\nBut at least Gordie and I caught up with each other. We had lunches and dinners and drinks. We went to each other\u2019s houses. We seemed to enjoy each other\u2019s company in a new, dare I say mature, way, though sometimes we were still so excited at being in each other\u2019s company that we drank too much.\nMeanwhile, I tried to write my way through the changes in my life, thinking I might have a little fun with the heaviness, turn it into a column. For decades, I\u2019d been writing about myself and my kids for the magazine that had now dropped me so unkindly, and the habit was quite hard to shake.\nBut no one seemed to want to print that sort of thing anymore. Or their budgets didn\u2019t stretch to such fripperies. Or maybe the Auckland paper I offered it to didn\u2019t want the pieces I wrote because they were about an Aucklander moving to Wellington, which was unthinkable. And the Wellington paper I offered the columns to didn\u2019t want them because they were a bit rude about Wellington, which was unacceptable. It was a hopeless situation.\nStill, I\u2019d always found that writing had saved me in some way, even if it never got out to readers.\nGoing South by Colin Hogg (HarperCollins) is available at Unity Books.\nIn a room with Colin Hogg and Sam Hunt, wasted\nJane Westaway\nBook of the Week: Holly Walker reviews Roxane Gay\u2019s short stories about sex, violence, and sexual violence", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 127, "original_length": 12759, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.99, "perplexity": 278.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thirdspacesblog.com/2017/02/24/slacktivism-no-more-sanctifying-digital-humanitarianism-in-a-hypermediated-refugee-crisis/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:19:24Z", "digest": "sha1:3C54TH5FVKX2FB6Q4ZORQMNM552F7HTN", "length": 17793, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "thirdspacesblog.com", "title": "Slacktivism, no more: \u201cSanctifying\u201d Digital Humanitarianism in a Hypermediated Refugee Crisis | Third Spaces", "raw_content": "February 24, 2017 \u00b7 by susannestadlbauer\t\u00b7 in authenticity, civil religion, coping, cultural politics of image, culture, implicit religion, meaning making, media, new media, online coping, online space, ritual, sacred space, social media, social memories, Uncategorized.\t\u00b7\nIn the global media coverage of the present refugee crisis in Europe, digital activism has yet again received a bad name. All too familiar charges of slacktivism or armchair activism are brought upon those who use technology to help refugees from afar. The Atlantic\u2019s Heather Horn ridiculed digital humanitarianism by facetiously asking \u201cDisplaced by civil war? There\u2019s an app for that. Scratch that: there are several dozen apps for that. Which one would you like?\u201d Horn also rehashed the popular clich\u00e9 of the technology community coding their way out of the refugee crisis, accusing the community of evading \u201creal\u201d crisis relief on one hand and foolishly trusting technology to be able to improve refugees\u2019 lives on the other hand. Similarly skeptical of digital humanitarianism, Benton & Genie, the authors of a Migration Policy Institute report on the role of technology in refugee assistance, claim that there is not always an app for that. They blame the accelerated speed of digital humanitarianism for undesirable outcomes: a high failure rate of well-intentioned apps, a duplication and redundancy of navigation and orientation apps, and a lack of coordination efforts with governments and humanitarian organizations.\nThese criticisms view digital humanitarianism as marginal, at best, to the crisis relief that plays out in the trenches \u2013 on the shores of Greece and Italy, for instance, where approximately 800,000 refugees in 2015 alone disembarked from hazardous boat trips on their way via the Western Balkans to northern countries of the European Union. Moreover, digital humanitarianism seems to function outside of a sacred space that humanitarian organizations have long carved out for themselves. In Sacred Aid: Faith and Humanitarianism, Michael Barnett and Janice Gross Stein\u00b9 argue that organizations like M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res or Amnesty International have discursively sanctified humanitarianism as an inviolable zone of moral action. Humanitarianism, and the space it creates, often has a faith-like significance in humanitarians\u2019 lives: its rhetoric commends the principles of acting selflessly, alleviating suffering, and saving lives \u2013 often to the point of risking one\u2019s life or of martyrdom. The language of this humanitarian space, so Barnett and Stein argue, emphasizes the purity of the mission, the justness of the cause, and the sacredness of the obligation to act. It relies on displaying modern liberal principles as transcendent and sacrosanct, while establishing a common humanity that transcends the here and now.\nThis sanctification then creates a humanitarian space that is pure and separate from the profane, the political, and the digital, as it seems. Nevertheless, digital humanitarianism\u2019s strength is exactly this creation of a common humanity that binds people together in times of crisis and transcends the here and now. Its immense potential lies in its hypermediation \u2013 a practice through which people, technological devices, and physical spaces interact with and transform each other repeatedly and outside the bounds of traditional environments and workings. It is important to understand the networks of digital humanitarianism that lead to meaningful relationships between refugees, humanitarian organizations, media, and publics. These networks (1) merge humanitarianism with the digital media technologies the refugees already are using, hence shaping unprecedented communication and aid networks; (2) create stability and security in the lives of uprooted refugees; (3) empower refugees to write themselves into the narratives told about them, giving them agency in shaping their fate; (4) establish affective connections with mainstream publics that influence mindsets and add a human element to the media coverage of the crisis; and (5) shape people into new humanitarian \u201csaints\u201d that inspire others.\nAs has been documented for a while, the physical and the digital go hand in hand on refugees\u2019 journeys as they rely heavily on mobile digital technologies as lifelines for finding relatives, food, shelter, and medical facilities. Many use virtual road maps or messaging services, and WhatsApp seems to be a clear frontrunner. WhatsApp groups for various purposes in various geographic areas have been able to bridge large distances between people. Both refugees and humanitarian organizations use WhatsApp to warn others about potential obstacles and closed borders, to report successes, or to offer general support. These digital networks have also become channels of humanitarian outreach. One example is The Hellenic Red Cross whose workers created a WhatsApp call hotline for refugees, allowing people with poor literacy skills to send voice recordings.\nSomewhat paradoxical to social media\u2019s reputation of being momentary and unreliable, these types of digital networks create stability and security in the lives of uprooted refugees. The London-based non-governmental organization Techfugees has recognized this potential of providing stability through technology and has been coordinating international tech communities to build app solutions to the needs of refugees in Europe. Founded in 2015 as a small Facebook group, their Facebook page now allows viewers to subscribe to their regular newsletter, share ideas and resources on their Hackpad, join their Slack group, or submit new refugee tech projects. At international conferences and \u201chackathons,\u201d refugees and software developers co-create innovative solutions, while coordinating with existing projects of United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF), the Red Cross, or the Red Crescent. In addition to navigation, integration, and education apps, some of the outcomes involved mobile Wi-Fi carriers in the Balkans and the development of online IDs.\nDigital humanitarianism also enables refugees to write themselves into the story that is being told about them and the crisis and thus claim agency in shaping the plot of their own narratives. My ethnographic research in a refugee camp in Southern Germany has revealed that many refugees use their digital devices, especially WhatsApp, as a witness of the atrocities in Syria and as a journal of memorable milestones during their journey. These refugees are aware that their stories count as digital evidence in this hypermediated moment: they are highly motivated to document and publish their own affective testimonies on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.\nFor instance, a student from Damascus nicknamed Ideas created a Facebook journal entitled \u201cIdeas travels: a Whatsapp odyssey in the Balkans.\u201d He made himself a character in his own narrative that unfolds day-by-day and experience-by-experience. On June 14th, 2015, he lists an inventory of his only possessions: a pair of unclean socks, a razor, and his cellphone. He adds a picture of these items being spread out on a table. On June 18th, he posts a picture of refugees hiding in a forest holding sticks, ready to defend themselves against the Serbian mafia. On June 20th, 2015, he reposts a video of the Syrian refugee Whatsapp group that features a large group of Syrians walking through Serbia denouncing the Assad regime\u2019s atrocities. Ideas participates in this narrative at the same time as a refugee, humanitarian, and political activist \u2013 victim and agent \u2013 as he writes: \u201cDo something positive on World Refugee Day and share this vid!\u201d\nDigital humanitarianism also combats widespread stigmatization and fear of refugees by establishing affective connections between European mainstream publics and refugees, hence fulfilling one of the most important requirement for humanitarianism: to witness, stand in solidarity, and speak for those who cannot speak (See Barnett & Stein\u00b9). The BBC\u2019s Media Action: Transforming Lives Through Media Around the World is such a platform. It posted a research report on refugees\u2019 communication needs at different points on their journey and a 3-minute-long video entitled \u201cYour Phone is Now a Refugee\u2019s Phone,\u201d which is a simulated reality of a refugee on a boat crossing from Turkey to Greece. This video\u2019s powerful affective impact relies on transporting the viewer onto a boat from Turkey to Greece in order to become part of the developing story. It creates an embodied experience for the viewers to become a refugee, capitalizing on mobile phones and apps being an integral part of viewers\u2019 physical, mental, and digital lives. The video begins by asking viewers to watch it vertically on a mobile phone and then reproduces the Messages, Maps, and WhatsApp apps on an iPhone interface. In a simulated text message exchange, a refugee and \u201cDad\u201d discuss lost GPS coordinates, with sounds of waves, a boat motor, and children crying in the background. Then, the screen gets wet and the camera takes pictures of terrified refugees in life vests, braving rough grey seas, wind, and rain, some in the water, some getting pulled out of the water onto the boat. A WhatsApp text exchange between a refugee and smugglers discloses the problem of who can be trusted, when the screen breaks and the battery dies. The final text messages state that this refugee crisis in unlike any before: it is the first in a digital age. The video ends with a black screen and a loud vibrating noise, displaying \u201cCommunication is aid.\u201d\nIn this hypermediated environment, these affective connections with mainstream publics often take unexpected turns, shaping people into humanitarian \u201csaints.\u201d One highly publicized example is Nujeen Mustaffa, a young Syrian woman who has cerebral palsy and was only 16 when she fled Syria in a wheelchair in 2015. She arrived on Lesbos, Greece, with her sister in a rubber dinghy, where she started to catch the global media\u2019s attention with her positivity about her future plans: in an interview on the Serbian-Hungarian border she explains that she dreams of being an astronaut, finding an alien, and meeting Queen Elizabeth. After being placed in a Slovenian holding camp, she finally reached Essen, Germany, where she was reunited with her brother and currently awaits asylum. Most of the headlines illuminate the inspirational nature of her story: her determination, courage, and heroism: \u201ca teen\u2019s story of hope\u201d who \u201ctrekked 20 days in a wheelchair getting to Europe.\u201d The affect of this narrative to move the public is established through (1) her status as a victim or the Syrian civil war; (2) her identity as female, under-aged, and as a person with a disability; (3) her very modern aspirations of having a career and a better life; and (4) her determination to overcome hardship and fear.\nThe media coverage of Nujeen\u2019s story moved Last Week Tonight\u2019s John Oliver to play her interview in the episode Migrants and Refugees, published on September 28th, 2015. Oliver brought awareness to the refugee crisis by satirizing the political rhetoric of spreading fear of refugees and of reducing them to terrorists. He emphasized that any country would be lucky to have Nujeen. He was amazed that she learned English by watching NBC\u2019s Days of Our Lives, one of the longest-running American soap operas with over 13,000 episodes. He revealed a surprise sketch including the Days of Our Lives actors Alison Sweeney and James Scott, who play Nujeen\u2019s favorite characters: EJ, who was killed off in the show, and his love, Sami. The sketch starts with EJ ringing Sami\u2019s doorbell and, after a long embrace, telling her the details of his resurrection. The conversation then goes as follows:\nEJ: Coming back from the dead, that\u2019s not hard. You know what\u2019s hard? Getting from Syria to Germany.\nSami: Oh god, have you seen what those migrants are going through?\nEJ: It\u2019s insane. A thousand dollars to bribe your way onto a rubber dinghy and that\u2019s how you get across the Mediterranean?\nSami: And when you make it to the border they offer you a form to make an appointment five years from now.\nEJ: And then, if you are lucky, you get to navigate a barrage of bigotry and hatred from some asshole majors in Hungary. You know, there are some amazing people coming through that border. I read about this incredible 16-year-old girl from Kobani, called Nujeen Mustaffa. Sami: Nujeen Mustaffa?\nEJ: Nujeen Mustaffa! [[The actor turns to the camera with a bright smile]]\nSami: Is she our kind of people?\nEJ: She\u2019s our kind of people! Maybe we\u2019ll get to meet her one day.\nAn overjoyed Nujeen thanked the actors via Twitter, YouTube, and via a video message on ABC News, adding at the end: \u201cI have something to say to the victims of the wars around the world. You are stronger and braver than you think. Fight for what you want and I am sure that you will get it.\u201d\nRecently, Nujeen published a memoir of her journey, entitled Nujeen: One Girl\u2019s Incredible Journey from War-Torn Syria in a Wheelchair, with the goal to add a human face to the Syrian refugee crisis and to inspire others. As advertised on the cover, she co-wrote her book with British journalist Christina Lamb, the bestselling co-author of I Am Malala. This reference links Nujeen\u2019s story to that of Malala Yousafzai, a 19-year-old who grew up in northwest Pakistan where she stood up for female education banned by the local Taliban. Because of her activism, she was shot three times in 2012 by the Taliban, once in her head. Her as sassination attempt generated global outrage and support for Malala. After a long recovery period, her advocacy has since grown internationally and her acclamations are impressive: the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate, recipient of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize, honorary Canadian citizenship, and the Pakistan\u2019s National Youth Peace Prize, among others. Both young women have become visionaries for younger generations, which is underlined by an additional quote by Malala on the cover of Nujeen\u2019s book: \u201cNujeen inspires me to dream without limits. She is our hero. Everyone must read her story.\u201d Here, disadvantaged young women are fighting for their own and others\u2019 better futures by conquering fear, danger, hardships, and death. This very contemporary story plot has a high potential for inspiring others in a Western audience to make a better life for themselves.\nThese inspirational stories are a product of this contemporary hypermediated moment and there are many more. The UNHCR used Nujeen\u2019s story, along with several other inspirational refugee stories, to create the Refugee Emojis Keyboard and to offer \u201ca common language for people to understand the global refugee crisis.\u201d When used in text messages, each refugee emoji depicts an avatar of the refugee that, when sent, comes with a short description of the inspirational nature of a specific refugee\u2019s story. Further exam ples are Subhi, who is gay and was persecuted by the Syrian government and now works for an organization that supports LGBTI refugees and that helped him resettle in the US; Awad, who carried his 80-year-old frail mother on his back for 15 days before the UNHCR transported the family to safe refugee camps in South Sudan; Hany, who is blind and uses photography to escape conflict and chaos; and Alaa, who fled carrying only his violin and a few belongings and now performs live concerts and recorded his own album.\nWe can think about these stories as unfolding on the ground in real time but also as materializing transmedia while accumulating emotionality in each iteration: in Nujeen\u2019s case, her story is remediated through spoken word, images, print, and videos in global news networks; through political satire on a comedy show; through the acting of two popular American soap opera stars; through emojis in text messages; and through the genre of inspirational literature. To use Zizi Papacharissi\u2019s\u00b2 words, each of these platforms is a digital layer that adds sentiment to the story. Every digital layer has a reflexivity that allows the audiences to feel their way into the story \u201cas an organically generated digital manifestation of who we are, and who we might like to be.\u201d Sentiment towards refugees accumulates and creates what Papacharissi calls affective publics that are sustained and mobilized by these accumulations of sentiment, even long after the initial events that called them into being.\nIf Barnett and Stein\u00b9 are right in that relieving the suffering of distant and vulnerable strangers is the fundamental obligation of all humanitarian organizations and is at the core of the sanctity and inviolability of the humanitarian space, then digital humanitarianism exceeds this expectation by far. It is very much part of the sacrosanct humanitarian space. In addition to its obvious outcomes of combating the explosive rhetoric against refugees and raising moral support for refugees, it creates affective publics and sanctifies heroes as saints to inspire the general public and to change negative public mindsets of refugees. In this hypermediated refugee crisis, the refugees, humanitarian organizations, the apps, the local and global populations, and the social media platforms give each other agency and create mediated feelings of connectedness to a common humanity that exceed the conventional workings of slacktivism.\n\u00b9Barnett, M., & Stein, J. (2012). Sacred Aid: Faith and Humanitarianism. Oxford University Press; p. 26.\n\u00b2Papacharissi, Z. (2014). Affective Publics: Sentiment, Technology, and Politics (1 edition). Oxford\u202f; New York, NY: Oxford University Press; p. 311.\n\u2190 The Digital as Salvation: A Digital Poetry after the Sewol Ferry Disaster\nInaugural (Civil) Religion \u2192", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 116, "original_length": 20453, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 297.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thisgratefulmama.com/2014/08/08/thoughts-on-christian-persecution-in-iraq-please-pray-for-the-persecuted/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:57:46Z", "digest": "sha1:CBN3JWSJC64S5URHBZAEE6HMKCWW7X6C", "length": 10926, "nlines": 57, "source_domain": "thisgratefulmama.com", "title": "Thoughts on Christian Persecution in Iraq - Please Pray for the Persecuted | This Grateful Mama", "raw_content": "I'm a Work in Progresss / Friday, August 8th, 2014\nI know I just posted this morning, but these thoughts have been bouncing around my head all day and I need to get them out. I know this is a heavy topic, and not one I usually feel compelled to write about, but it is also a relevant and important one. I don\u2019t know why, but I know I am supposed to write this today.\nI spent most of this morning at a loss for words. Broken as I read the news stories coming out of Iraq. Struggling to fathom that the words I read are true and not part of a terrible work of fiction or from a history book.\nI know evil is rampant, but the news coming from Iraq magnify evil in horrific fashion.\nStories of Christians, forced to flee with nothing or convert, and of men and women slaughtered before their families, neighbors and friends. Hateful. Ignorant. Unacceptable.\nPhotos of the dead. Graphic. True.\nStories of children. Beheaded. Heads stuck on poles in a public park. I can\u2019t believe those words can even be written or that those things have happened. Terrifying. Barbaric. Violent. Medieval. Inhuman. Evil.\nHow can these things be happening? On what planet is any of this OK? How can another human being EVER even think of doing these things let alone DO them?\nTo children?\nDefenseless. Caught up in a spiritual and physical battle they likely do not understand.\nI think it is the stories of the children that grip me so tightly. That make me look at mine and make it hard to breathe as I realize how blessed we are to be HERE and not THERE. It makes me want to scoop my kids into my arms and never let go. Ever.\nBut in these stories, their parents\u2019 arms provide no protection.\nMy mind cannot seem to find rest. My soul HURTS over this, and cries out. As a believer, news like this requires a response of prayer.\nLacking words to pray, I find myself boldly praying, over and over, \u201cCome, Lord Jesus\u201d. This world is so dark, so evil, and so in need of Jesus. How long will evil rule on this earth? How many times will people hate others based on physical traits, beliefs, and well, anything that makes another person different from the next? How does hate grow so deep in a person that they think they are justified in taking the life of another? And how do GROUPS of people come alongside and join in these actions?\nI\u2019ve been praying all day long, and yet still can\u2019t put my prayers succinctly into words.\nWords don\u2019t say enough.\nThe problem is too atrocious, too violent, too hateful for me to fathom how to effectively cover it in prayer. I\u2019m not sure the words exist to express this FEELING.\nBut I keep praying.\nIn the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.- Romans 8:26-27\nI am grateful that God knows the desires of our heart when words can\u2019t seem to describe the sour sickening pit in our stomach. Even in our silence as we just feel our emotions, He receives the unutterable prayers from the deepest part of our soul.\nI know that in many countries across the globe, atrocious things happen on a daily basis. Of most of these things, I am ignorant because I live in the United States. I am ashamed to say that I have not been faithful to keep up with the persecution of the church, except when I get the pamphlet in my church bulletin and even then, the prayers are far too brief.\nBut never have I been affected like this. Like the truth of these things never penetrated this deep below the surface before. The burden is heavy. Dark. Oppressive.\nPerhaps it is because I\u2019ve been praying for a softer soul; that my heart would break over what breaks God\u2019s heart\u2026perhaps it is because I took the time to read the stories in detail.\nI am often guilty of turning the horror off. Of changing the channel (not just when my kids are in the room \u2013 which I will continue to do), of choosing not to read the news stories, choosing to be oblivious to current events. I am not faithful to lift these people up because I do not know what is going on.\nThe stories seem endless. Repetitive. They keep coming. I think along the way I lost confidence in the effectiveness of my prayers and attention since these horrible and evil things keep happening.\nBut my prayers are effective and must be offered. He hears them ALL and it is my disobedience NOT to be praying them. Even when I don\u2019t have the words.\nAnd this is the confidence that we have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. \u2013 John 5:14\nI need to be more faithful in prayer. Not just that God would intervene, but that His presence would be known to both the persecuted and the persecutors. That He will shelter those fleeing from harm, provide for them, and move non-Christians in Iraq to aid them, hide them, and usher them to safe places. That God will give peace and comfort in supernatural abundance as only He can, and that those whose lives are lost in HIS name will be remembered as faithful servants.\nI pray that this uprising of persecution will bring CHANGE to the hearts of an exponential audience.\nIt is hard to see any good that could come of this. I struggle to see how this can be. The word \u2018good\u2019 mixed in with this type of horror hurts my brain.\nBut when you read the Bible, start to finish, you see the story of redemption. You see that there is ALWAYS hope, and how God is ALWAYS working even if He seems silent.\nThe truth remains, good WILL come even if we can\u2019t see how.\nI am sure that in all of this; God is NOT silent. He is not unaware. He IS working, loving, moving, protecting, providing, comforting, sheltering, burning with righteous anger, and is hurting over the mistreatment of His beloved. His plan is bigger than this, bigger than those committing these offenses. They have claimed the position of judge and executioner. They have rejected the true God and have made a grievous error that will curse their eternity.\nDespite the atrocity, I have to cling to hope that there will be stories of the miracles God has performed and IS performing as I write this. There will be stories of those He sheltered, provided for, and led to safety. There will be stories of comfort, peace and forgiveness. Of the HOPE His children are clinging to as they flee.\nBut for now. I continue to struggle. To hurt. To be confused. To be ANGRY. To be grateful for where I live, and where my children live, and at the same time, feel guilty that we are so sheltered, so unaware, so callous to the news stories we hear every day that we turn away and don\u2019t even say a prayer when we hear or see them.\nI don\u2019t know what the answer is to stop this. We know from the Bible that persecution will always exist, until the end of days. I don\u2019t think anyone wants to go to war, I don\u2019t think adding loss of more life helps anything, and I also think doing nothing is just as bad. I am grateful it is not my decision. I pray for those who have to make decisions like these.\nI do know that today, this story, and others like it, has awakened something inside me.\nA fervor and understanding that it is my job to pray for the persecuted on a regular basis. Not just when I catch the news, but with endurance, and with intention. For now, this is my role, my measure of obedience, as I stand with the believers around the world. To be AWARE of what is going on\u2026not to be consumed with it, but to be informed enough to pray for specific places, not just in general.\nToday I am SHOUTING that this has to stop. Imploring God to intervene. Standing with the church around the world, interceding on the behalf of those in harm\u2019s way, in Iraq and elsewhere.\nAugust 8, 2014 thisgratefulmamaI'm a Work in ProgresssPrayer\n6 Replies to \u201cThoughts on Christian Persecution in Iraq \u2013 Please Pray for the Persecuted\u201d\nI know how you feel. I was feeling the same way about what I have been hearing on the news.\nI spoke about this tonight on tge radio how we need to be praying more.\nSavvy Darling\nThis is a heart warming post and I believe it needs to be spread to every social media outlet there is! I was feeling similar to you after viewig a video about the women and little girls being abducted in India and placed into sex trafficking. I did NOT want to watch that video, but my heart told me it was time to unbind my eyes to the hurtful things of this world and that I could no longer act oblivious because of fear, fear that what I was about to witness would hurt me to the core.\nI think sometimes as Christians, we feel we need not open our eyes to the horrible things that happen in our world. But if we have no knowledge of those awful things, how can we intercede in prayer for those whom need it most!? We NEED to be shaken to the core, that\u2019s when action happens! There is spiritual warfare going on and it is bigger than us, but I know good always prevails and God has the upper hand.\nGreat post! I\u2019m gad I follow you!\nThank you to both of you for posting here. I was a little nervous to post on this topic and was surprised by how well this post has been received. I have been feeling rising angst about the persecution in many places around the world for some time and this was the breaking point for me. I definitely need to continue to be more aware of the things going on in this world.\nThose in the thick of persecution do not get to turn off the TV, they are hiding, suffering and living it. Nor do they have the privilege to shelter their children from much of this.\nI am not sure I could have slept last night if I hadn\u2019t written down and sorted through these thoughts. I am glad to hear you are also praying and it is comforting to know others are feeling as I am. It is time for the church to rise as a whole and cry out in unison on behalf of those suffering. If there is power when 2 or 3 are gathered, how much more when the whole church rises together?\nThank you for your thoughtful and encouraging feedback and for reading this blog.\nThank you. You have eloquently stated how many of the believers feel but are at a loss to state what our feelings mean. We live sheltered lives in a semi stable republic and do not feel the direct effects from these atrocities. Yet, as a community of believers, we must seek to continuously encourage and uplift each other and those who are being persecuted anywhere in the world.\nMy Thoughts On Riots\u2026More Heartbreak\u2026More Damage | this grateful mama\n[\u2026] to approach difficult news differently. While I don\u2019t write about emotionally charged topics like these often, sometimes I can\u2019t sleep until I do. In fact, I\u2019ve written and rewritten this [\u2026]\n[\u2026] Thoughts on Christian Persecution in Iraq \u2013 Please Pray for the Persecuted [\u2026]\nPrevious Post 6 Strategies to Keep the Peace When Your Child is Ill\nNext Post 4 Ways to Use DIY Metallic Painted Coffee Beans", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 131, "original_length": 13800, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.97, "perplexity": 306.4, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thoughtcatalog.com/kendra-syrdal/2017/05/literally-shut-the-fuck-up-about-lena-dunhams-weight/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:02:22Z", "digest": "sha1:UOP7W7GGLMZGQ7TQTCGASBEQ6UAXF4HZ", "length": 4789, "nlines": 34, "source_domain": "thoughtcatalog.com", "title": "Literally Shut The Fuck Up About Lena Dunham\u2019s Weight | Thought Catalog", "raw_content": "Literally Shut The Fuck Up About Lena Dunham\u2019s Weight\nBy Kendra Syrdal, May 8th 2017\nhttp://tcat.tc/2qg8VTG\nI don\u2019t know how to intro this because I\u2019m very angry.\nSo before I start yelling, take a look at this:\nAnd take this beautiful blurb into consideration from the Daily Mail:\n\u201cLena Dunham proved the Trump diet is working a treat as she showcased her incredibly slimline new frame at the opening of mentor Tracy Anderson\u2019s studio in New York on Wednesday.\u201d\nBasically, Lena Dunham is (to our unknowing assumption because we\u2019re not privy to what the tags in her jeans read because it\u2019s none of our fucking business) wearing a different size lately. And apparently, while 24 million Americans are at risk for losing their healthcare and unarmed children are being shot in parks and one in four women are raped on college campuses, that\u2019s news!\nHere\u2019s the thing, I get why we love celebrity culture and quote unquote \u201cceleb news.\u201d I do. In a very weird (when you think about it) way, it\u2019s escapism. It feels like turning on Bravo and seeing an extension of your favorite reality show. We\u2019re detached from them enough because we don\u2019t actually know them, but we have enough details that we feel like we\u2019re allowed to have an opinion.\nAnd while I get it, I also get why that\u2019s 50 shades of fucked up.\nBecause celebrities, no matter how zany or wacky or weird they are, are human beings.\nAnd using human beings and their actual lives for escapism, isn\u2019t okay.\nEspecially when we\u2019re talking about something that is literally none of our goddamn business.\nAnd someone\u2019s body is absolutely, none of your goddamn business.\nThe 2016 election and aftermath was and is a very emotional time for a lot of people. And no, that doesn\u2019t mean that the \u201csnowflakes\u201d are still looking for safe spaces get a new joke oh my god. I mean that the outcome and the changes in administration having been weighing heavily on people\u2019s minds and creating an energy shift that was absolutely less than ideal for some 63 million of Americans.\nAnd if you\u2019re not personally aware from experience, emotional shifts can 1010% have physical effects.\nSo yes, some people as a result of being thrust into particularly stressful situations end up losing weight.\nAnd maybe (even though again, you\u2019ll never know unless you are the scale in her bathroom because that\u2019s not. your. body,) Lena Dunham was one of them.\nBut there are others, who you will know this time because congratulations I am telling you, who might gain weight.\nSince November I think it\u2019s safe to say I\u2019ve probably put on about ten pounds. I\u2019m not sleeping very well and that has resulted in midnight snacking I didn\u2019t used to do. I\u2019m extra stressed so that means pouring a third glass of wine I didn\u2019t used to have on a random Wednesday. And since I\u2019m sleeping less that means waking up at 6:30 to go running is more difficult and less appealing. So all of the coupled with the stress eating and a lack of motivation that I haven\u2019t seen in a while has without question, changed my body.\nI noticed it today while wearing a tank top for the first time since last summer. My breasts have considerably more sideboob than I\u2019m used to and suddenly, I\u2019m very self-concious of my upper arms. The sides of my ribs are far less prominent than they were last June and there are little baby stretch marks that peek out on the sides of my hips.\nWhat I\u2019m saying is, this \u201cTrump Diet\u201d isn\u2019t a \u201cfix\u201d we should be cheering on. Because the \u201cstress and anxiety diet\u201d (what they really mean by that bullshit term) looks completely different on everyone.\nAnd critiquing a person\u2019s body in any way shape or form isn\u2019t fucking okay.\nYes! Even if you think you\u2019re complimenting them!\nWhat you\u2019re really doing by commenting on someone\u2019s body is saying, \u201cI deserve to have thoughts about how you look and here\u2019s why you should listen to them.\u201d\nAnd sorry not sorry, but you fucking don\u2019t and no.\nIf it\u2019s helpful, here are some things you could say to someone instead of, \u201cWow! You\u2019ve lost weight!\u201d\n\u201cHow\u2019s life? Honestly?\u201d\n\u201cWhat projects are you invested in at the moment?\u201d\nBasically, we all need to stop assuming that the changing shape of someone is something we have an inherent right to comment on. Because, again! We don\u2019t.\nWe have absolutely no idea what that person, who is a goddamn human being, is going through that could be contributing to their outward appearance. So commenting on it, and talking about it? All it does is make us look like dicks. So we should stop, right? (Right.)\nPeople\u2019s bodies are (say it with me once more) none of our goddamn business.\nAnd honestly, don\u2019t you have something better to talk about?\nLiterally Shut The Fuck Up About Lena Dunham\u2019s Weight is cataloged in Anxiety, Body Image, Dieting, Lena Dunham, Trump, Weight, Weight Gain, Weight Loss", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 122, "original_length": 8895, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.95, "perplexity": 331.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://thriveglobal.com/stories/some-reasons-to-be-wary-of-student-loans/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:26:03Z", "digest": "sha1:K56N7E3DHZEYCV36XCVYNRFFIWMWUCVV", "length": 10964, "nlines": 37, "source_domain": "thriveglobal.com", "title": "Some reasons to be wary of student loans", "raw_content": "Some reasons to be wary of student loans\nPolitical personalities or currents who want to consistently increase tuition fees to the university,\nMudassar Hassan, Blogger, Friend, Brother\nPolitical personalities or currents who want to consistently increase tuition fees to the university, just like what the British Conservatives did and what they are trying to impose (with the setbacks that knows) the Quebec Liberals, give themselves a good conscience by advocating the development of the student loan.\nDo they want to install a wall of money at the entrance of graduate studies? Not at all, they reply, using two arguments: young people from modest families would be or remain exempt from all or part of tuition fees and, for the mass of students, the financial weight of studies would be offset by the development a loan system, to be reimbursed after graduation.\nLet\u2019s leave aside the exemption for social reasons. As in any field, it is legitimate while having its disadvantages: threshold effects, stigmatization, bureaucratic procedures, etc. And let\u2019s focus on the student loan, brandished both as a way to avoid any selection by money and as a factor of accountability (in short: we do not gabble when we live on the loan).\nDebt, a young thing?\nJust as the increase in the smic as it is bizarre \u2013 contested only by people who run absolutely no risk of being paid the smic, the student loan is a formula systematically put forward by those who \u2018will never suffer the disadvantages. Either they have no need to use it for their children, or they can use it safely, their resources being high enough and stable.\nFor others, it\u2019s not so simple. The student loan was a rather abstract notion until the experience of a close person, in a country where studies are paying, come to confirm the problematic nature. The first obstacle, of a psychological order, is none the less very strong: as the promoters of this formula strive not to understand it, the debt is absolutely not a young thing.\nAnd especially not at the time of widespread precariousness, where it often takes, studies completed, chain years of internships and CDD before finally being stabilized \u2026 in an environment where one claims everywhere that the stability is a luxury that we can not afford anymore. From this point of view, the lauders of the student loan are entangled in the contradictions of the liberal discourse: the recourse to the loan would be much more conceivable against a background of classical social guarantees than in the universe that they wish for, where \u201cstructural reforms\u201d undermine the obligations of employers visa employees.\nToday, even a young person who is doing \u201creasonable\u201d education in terms of employment prospects expects to experience some years of precariousness first. But borrowing to realize a major life project is a calculation of individuals professionally inserted, stabilized, persuaded to enjoy a certain economic security. In short, the opposite of a student.\nAnd even more the opposite of a young person who is only considering higher education. Who does not necessarily know in advance which ones or how far? Who is looking for? Who has no certainty that his choice will be the right since he has not even started? Who also has no guarantee of success and who has not really experienced either the labor market or university life. In short, a young, what.\nOf course, some are the opposite: they know what they want and where they go, have already decided everything, pretty much everything and are certain of their success. But everyone will agree that this profile is both ultra-minority and socially quite typical.\nPretending to interpose, between a bachelor and his future studies, the negotiation of a loan whose terms are fixed on the precise programming of the next years of its existence is a nonsense insignia concerning a person who is just doing all respects a leap into the unknown.\nCar title loans sacramento are small, short-term loans that use the clear title of the car as collateral. It is a very expensive form of credit. Any lender will offer a car title loan if there is equity in the car, even if there is no clear title. These loans generally last between 15 and 30 days and are calculated using a three-digit percentage (APR) that is significantly higher than most credits. Car ownership loans typically represent between 25% and 50% of the value of the vehicle. On average, the loan amount is between $ 100 and $ 5,500. But they can earn $ 10,000 or more from some lenders.\nInsecure two generations at a time\nFor the person concerned, it is an artificial proposal, veneered, unreal. Presented as a condition to take or leave to begin studies, it is also a way to extort one\u2019s signature. The conclusion of a student loan places young people in the nets of the banking system. The young person and his parents or relatives, necessarily joint guarantees. Because the bank, as for any loan, seeks to give the maximum guarantees. Evaluating, weighing, claiming force documents, showing an inquisitorial indiscretion.\nBy also applying the cultural prejudices and bureaucratic absurdities of the banking system, which can be spectacular. It is better, for example, that a young person does not have artist parents: even if rich, an artist will always be for a bank a poor person. And it is better for the young person to engage in reputable and fast-track studies whose only statement is to speak to the banking profession.\nThe bonds, very banal, are prevented: in case of failure of the young, the recommended letters will fall dry. Between the conclusion of the loan and the possible failure of the student, parents-sureties bank has an interest in not suffering an economic accident. Or how to insecure (there are some who would say \u201cempower\u201d) two generations at a time \u2026\nAdmittedly, it might be objected that this description relates to an ordinary, purely private student loan, in which the State does not intervene in any capacity. However, wherever the public authorities have sought to develop student loans, the state intervened either to improve the rates or to provide its guarantee, or both. But one could argue in return that these different methods of state involvement have never removed the obstacles to the development of student loans.\nIn its version guaranteed by the State, the student loan is in France, historically and contrary to popular belief, rather a left project. The \u201cstudent social plan\u201d developed in 1990 by Lionel Jospin, then Minister of Education, provided for its massive development. The Ministry was considering 80,000 to 100,000 loans for the first year of application, followed by a four- or five-year increase to approximately 400,000 loans.\nBut the combination of the reluctance of the young and the resistance of the banks made these projects go up in smoke. Not only did the Ministry of Higher Education account for about 60,000 student loans (out of 2,250,000 students) in 2008, but it was mostly \u201cnormal\u201d loans, ie resources and requiring a deposit. So, noted the ministry, \u201cin fact, they are primarily intended for students of the grandes \u00e9coles.\u201d\n\u201cDiscrimination through access to the loan\u201d?\nIn 2007, the Minister Val\u00e9rie P\u00e9cresse announces a project to \u201cend the discrimination by the access to the loan between students of the university and the grandes \u00e9coles\u201d by setting up a student loan without surety, supported by a guarantee of State. The project culminates in 2008: a loan of 15,000 euros, granted without any means test and without parental or third-party guarantee, the risk of default being covered by the State by 70%.\nThe objectives are then to reach 60,000 loans in 2009. But once again (the financial crisis probably having arranged nothing), the forecasts do not come true: in the course of 2009, only 2,800 loans had been granted by banking networks engaged in this scheme.\nIn January 2009, a bill signed by 92 UMP deputies (out of a total of 310, plus 7 related) takes note of this failure and calls for the establishment of a new type of student loan totally guaranteed by the State, to be reimbursed. deferred (once the studies are completed) and conditional (starting only at a certain salary threshold and stopping when the remuneration falls below this threshold).\nFirst step of the \u201cpaying university\u201d?\nThis idea of student loan repayable according to the remuneration of the borrower, however, is embedded in the explanatory statement of the proposed law, a caricature, referring to Britain, Australia and the United States. New Zealand. Three countries where the principle is not or no longer that of free higher education.\nResult of this right-handed rally: passed unnoticed, the bill is, three months later, in full academic movement against the law LRU, emerged from anonymity by some participants in this movement and presented, in a very controversial way, as the imminent first step of the \u201cpaying university\u201d. Charging in this case quite abusive with regard to the actual content of the proposed law (which has joined the cemetery of parliamentary bills, not to be confused with bills from the government). But accusation referring to the origin of the student loan and sanctioning persistent ambiguities of some of its current promoters.\nThe original idea of the borrower\u2019s income-tested student loan comes from ultra-liberal economist Milton Friedman of the University of Chigago, who wrote it in 1955 in an essay entitled \u201cThe Government and Education\u201d. \u201c. The student loan has since been implemented in various ways in the world, but it is only necessary in countries where higher education is indeed (too) expensive.\nA choice or an obligation?\nThis is why the suspicion easily settles as soon as a political speech makes the apology: is it to prepare the ground at the end of the (still relative) gratuity, or simply to improve a mode of funding among others of student life?\nThe development of student loans can replace grants and may be associated with higher tuition fees, but this is not inevitable. This formula can perfectly suit certain studies and profiles and allow its beneficiaries not to work at the same time. From this point of view \u2013 and provided, also, not to underestimate its mental discomfort and material risks \u2013 the student loan remains one of the legitimate forms of individual funding for higher education. But this positive side of early borrowing is noticeable unless the choice exists, that is, if the level of university fees does not equate with an obligation to borrow.\nTwo types of proposal should not be confused: on the one hand, the existence of student loans as a tool among others in a wide range of public and private funding mechanisms for studies, and on the other hand the political proposal for liberal inspiration that constitutes the \u201cgeneralized student loan\u201d as an alternative to free study.\nHow to Save for Your Child\u2019s College Education\nby Marcia A. 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Its name refers to its main sponsor,\nThe Eneco Tour of Benelux is a road bicycle racing stage-race. Its name refers to its main sponsor, the energy company Eneco Energie. It is part of both the UCI ProTour and the UCI World Ranking calendar.\nBMC Racing put in a commanding performance in the last team time trial before the World Championships with victory on stage 5 of the Eneco Tour on Friday.\nThe American-registered team covered the technical 20.9-kilometre course in a time of 23:11 to nudge perennial rivals, Etixx QuickStep, into second place by six seconds. LottoNL-Jumbo claimed a surprise third, in a time of 23:34.\nThe win for BMC Racing was enough for Rohan Dennis to reclaim the race lead he had lost to Peter Sagan (Tinkoff) the previous day. The road world champion\u2019s team started last but could only manage 8th on the stage, with Sagan slipping down the overall.\nDennis, who is targeting two gold medals at the Worlds, now leads the race by 16 seconds, with his teammate Taylor Phinney in second. Tony Martin (Etixx-QuickStep) is third, 24 seconds adrift, with Sagan a further three seconds down.\nWith the World Championships just a few weeks away, the Eneco Tour provided the best possible battle ground for squads to fight over a potentially morale-boosting victory. BMC Racing, who have won the TTT at the last two Worlds, were in control as soon as they rolled down the start ramp.\nWhile the majority of teams struggled to the line with the bare number of riders needed, Dennis and his squad remained strong and coherent. Etixx QuickStep, who briefly held the fastest time, had enough in the tank to take second, despite starting with a man less after Tom Boonen crashed out on stage 4, and they will have seen enough to know that the gold medal in Doha is up for grabs.\n\u201cThis shows why we\u2019re the best in the world,\u201d Dennis said at the finish. \u201cThis was a very good test for Qatar. In the last 3km we averaged 60km/h to equal Etixx, and we came home six seconds quicker than them, so it\u2019s a good way to finish.\u201d\nThe Australian, who is having a fine end to the season, would not rule out Sagan from coming back in the GC with two more days of the race remaining.\n\u201cIt\u2019s still Sagan. He\u2019s only 27 seconds behind and he\u2019s won every sprint stage, I think. If he gets a couple of Golden Kilometres bonus it makes a pretty difficult situation for us, so we have to race very smart, and he\u2019s definitely, outside of our team, the biggest threat.\n\u201cWe still have Greg [Van Avermaet], and Taylor is second as well. So we\u2019ve got myself and Taylor in first and second. We\u2019re in a great position. We\u2019ve got cards to play and we\u2019re going to play them.\u201d\nAmong the other squads, Team Sky posted a decent time of 23:49 but they were soon eclipsed by Lotto Soudal, a team still brimming with motivation after a long campaign. IAM Cycling then posted a respectable 23:37 before Etixx, and then BMC dominated. Movistar, another strong time trial team, finished fourth at 23:36.\n2\tEtixx-QuickStep\t0:23:17\n4\tMovistar\t0:23:36\n5\tIAM Cycling\t0:23:37\n6\tLotto Soudal\t0:23:40\n7\tGiant-Alpecin\t0:23:44\n8\tTinkoff\t0:23:45\n10\tFDJ\t0:23:51\n2\tTaylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team\t0:00:16\n3\tTony Martin (Ger) Etixx-QuickStep\t0:00:24\n4\tPeter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff\t0:00:27\n5\tNiki Terpstra (Ned) Etixx-QuickStep\n7\tManuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team\t0:00:29\n9\tBob Jungels (Lux) Etixx-QuickStep\t0:00:36\n10\tMarcel Kittel (Ger) Etixx-QuickStep\t0:00:37\nPublished on September 23, 2016 by Tiz Category Eneco Tour 2016 Tag 2016 Eneco Tour Stage Races Team Time Trial", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 468, "original_length": 14680, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.92, "perplexity": 241.0, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://today.uconn.edu/2018/12/uconn-research-project-heading-international-space-station/?utm_source=uconn-today-plugin", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:33:38Z", "digest": "sha1:75DTXX5KWZG5UKSWNKB4PNNCNFRN64UE", "length": 5999, "nlines": 25, "source_domain": "today.uconn.edu", "title": "UConn Research Project at the International Space Station - UConn Today", "raw_content": "December 4, 2018 - Jessica McBride - Office of the Vice President for Research\nAn experiment devised by researchers at UConn startup LambdaVision will be launched into space tomorrow. (Leonello Calvetti/Science Photo Library/Getty Images)\nAn experiment devised by researchers at UConn startup LambdaVision was launched into space this month.\nThe company\u2019s robotic system to manufacture films that could cure blindness will be brought to the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. Launch is set for Dec. 5 at 1:15 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.\nThe LambdaVision payload, one of 20 payloads on the 16th resupply mission to the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory. (Courtesy of LambdaVision)\nThe experiment is one of a diverse group of research investigations intended to benefit life on Earth that the Dragon spacecraft will bring to the orbiting research platform. With more than 20 payloads, including the one from LambdaVision, the mission represents the largest number of payloads ever delivered to the ISS National Lab during a single launch.\nLambdaVision Inc. was based on research by Robert Birge, professor emeritus in UConn\u2019s Department of Chemistry. He first considered using bacteriorhodopsin, a light-activated protein, more than 15 years ago to correct age-related blindness. Today, the company is commercializing its technology in the hopes of restoring vision for millions of patients suffering from retinitis pigmentosa and age-related macular degeneration.\nLambdaVision\u2019s retinal implant is similar to a contact lens that is surgically placed in the back of the eye to convert light into energy. The implant doesn\u2019t need hardware or electrodes to send electrical pulses into the eye. Instead, the bacteriorhodopsin-coated membrane replaces native photoreceptor cells in the retina to restore vision.\nLambdaVision is led by UConn alumni and former students in Birge\u2019s research group, Nicole Wagner \u201907 (CLAS), \u201913 Ph.D., and Jordan Greco \u201910 (CLAS), \u201915 Ph.D.\n\u201cOur preliminary animal studies show that the protein-based implant is capable of stimulating the retina,\u201d Wagner says. \u201cWhen the protein absorbs light, it sends signals to the remaining neural circuitry of the retina, which allows it to communicate with the brain. We expect a similar outcome in human patients.\u201d\nCurrently, LambdaVision manufactures its prosthetics at its headquarters at UConn\u2019s Technology Incubation Program facility in Farmington, Connecticut. Producing the flexible, tiny films is a time-consuming process \u2013 on this planet, at least.\nIn the weightless conditions of the International Space Station, LambdaVision anticipates producing a more homogeneous and stable film. If successful, Wagner and Greco anticipate that they can generate a similar signal with fewer layers of protein. This would drastically decrease the time for manufacturing, and save on the cost of materials.\n\u201cOn Earth, issues like sedimentation of solutions and surface tension can interfere with the homogeneity and stability of the thin films, but in microgravity these issues are minimized,\u201d says Greco. \u201cWe are manufacturing them now in microgravity as an experiment; however, if successful, we think it could ultimately help us generate more stable films with better performance, and accelerate our time to market.\u201d\nLambdaVision was selected for this highly competitive opportunity as part of the company\u2019s experience in the startup accelerator MassChallenge in 2016, when the researchers received the CASIS-Boeing Award, along with a share of $500,000 in funding. Since it was incorporated in 2009, LambdaVision has raised nearly $3 million from state, local, and government grants, including support from Connecticut Innovations, CASIS-Boeing, and the National Science Foundation.\nWagner estimates the total value of the MassChallenge prize to be approximately $7 million in resources.\nTo ensure that the complicated space experiments go smoothly, LambdaVision is partnering with Space Tango, a Lexington, Kentucky-based company. LambdaVision will miniaturize the dipping set up and prepare it for space travel. Space Tango can initiate and control the software and run LambdaVision\u2019s experiments from Earth. The experiment will run for approximately six weeks in space before being transported back to Earth.\nBirge, Wagner, and Greco hope this experiment will represent another step closer to a cure for the millions of people suffering from age-related blindness.\n\u201cWe\u2019ve met a lot of people who are suffering or have family members who have these diseases, and we work hard every day to develop a viable treatment option that can improve their quality of life,\u201d says Greco. \u201cWe\u2019re continually encouraged by our preliminary results. We anticipate being at the steps of the clinic by the end of 2020.\u201d\nWith their technology set to launch into space, Wagner thinks back on the technology\u2019s roots in Storrs and the local support that has helped LambdaVision succeed.\n\u201cThis all started in Dr. Birge\u2019s laboratory on North Eagleville Road in Storrs,\u201d she says. \u201cSince then, UConn has been incredibly supportive in the development of our technology, providing access to top tier scientists, facilities, and resources.\n\u201cWe could have relocated out of state, but we chose to keep our company in Connecticut in Farmington, which gave us access to other innovation hubs in New York and Massachusetts,\u201d she continues. \u201cConnecticut also has talented employees and resources like Connecticut Innovations to help us get the technology off the ground \u2013 no pun intended.\u201d\nTo learn more about this mission and the ISS National Lab, visit www.iss-casis.org.\nRead more about LambdaVision: Farmington Startup Sets Sights on Curing Retinal Disease Blindness\nNational Public Radio A Space Experiment That Could One Day Cure Blindness\nKEYWORDS alumni | entrepreneurship | health | research | science | Technology Incubation Program | Women in STEM", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 125, "original_length": 8709, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.93, "perplexity": 292.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tomwicker.org/2012/05/13/lands-end/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:49:36Z", "digest": "sha1:AKDWPUSKSC3CIPUEMDHCETLNODPRMADV", "length": 4227, "nlines": 13, "source_domain": "tomwicker.org", "title": "Land\u2019s End \u2013 TW Writing & Consulting Ltd", "raw_content": "Borders are fascinating, in part, because of the possibility of space in between. What could exist between two things? And what would it mean for identity, cultural or moral, to live there? This is the subject of Belgian theatre company Berlin\u2019s latest project, a mix of media, technology and live action co-commissioned by Brighton Festival and receiving its UK premiere here.\nA sense of being in no man\u2019s land pervades as we are let loose in the production\u2019s location, a massive derelict warehouse set back from a busy road. Netting hangs from the ceiling, presumably to catch debris, and smashed windows overlook a bare, uneven expanse of concrete that recedes into gloom as the occasional wing beat of a pigeon echoes around the rafters.\nThis inhospitable place contains seven macabre mechanical contraptions, which become more elaborate as you move further in. Half a car spins slowly, a foot hanging out of the boot; a fridge door swings open to reveal a body buried in frozen crepes; a metal pipe repeatedly thuds against a sofa cushion; a succession of plugged-in hairdryers dangle ever closer to basins full of goldfish.\nThis playful mix of black humour and ominous suggestiveness is the best part of the show. We eventually learn the significance of these installations, but their intricacy has its own lurid, immersive pull: the techno-fetish equivalent of the gruesome detail of tabloid reporting. Eyes stinging, we cluster around a container in which onions are mangled by a spinning blade, as if watching a peep show.\nThe narrative, inspired by true events, takes shape once we are seated. Via dramatised encounters and reminiscences from real-life lawyers and judges, displayed on moveable video screens, we are introduced to a woman and the man she paid to kill her adulterous husband. They have confessed to involvement in his death but their conflicting accounts of how it happened and their arrest in different countries have resulted in a trial like no other, conducted across a farmhouse table, one end of which is in France and the other in Belgium.\nThis fascinating set-up \u2013 where the country you are in depends on the side of the bed you wake up \u2013 is sketched in amusing detail through interviews with the farm\u2019s inhabitants and officials on either side of the divide. Delivered with a chuckle, complaints about the relative inefficiency of French and Belgian planning departments turn the farm into a nexus for cultural tensions that have softened over time into a bureaucratic pissing contest. Because of French laws prohibiting extradition, it is also the only place in a pre-video conferencing age that wife and killer can be brought together.\nWhat follows is film blended with performance, as two actors come before us to play the protagonists as they are questioned by lawyers on a bank of video screens about their version of events. Unfortunately, the effect is underwhelming, as static staging coupled with the predominance of digital surtitles (the dialogue is in French and Flemish) and pre-recorded footage engulfs the live performance, robbing it of immediacy. At times, it is as if we are watching the production from behind glass rather than sharing space with it.\nThis sensation of distance is intensified by a script that articulates its Kafkaesque themes with icy clarity. As the characters argue from opposite ends of the table about the blurred boundaries between truth and falsehood, love and hate and the co-opting of private misery for public consumption, we listen with interest but little emotional engagement.\nLand\u2019s End brims with great ideas. But as it retreats behind screens in its second half, it becomes less enjoyable; never quite living up to the dark promise of the twisted museum of death at the start or making the most of the space it is in. The connection between the mechanical installations and the murder is ingenious but serves to highlight the diminishing returns of the production\u2019s awkward shift between theatrical modes. As it seeks to explore boundaries, the ones it struggles with most are its own.\nThe Brighton Festival runs from the 5th to the 27th May 2012.\nTagged as: Berlin, Brighton Festival 2012, Land's End\nPrevious Motor Show\nNext Rachael\u2019s Cafe", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 104, "original_length": 5766, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 339.8, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://tonypi.com/stories/an-enchantment-with-apples/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:27:02Z", "digest": "sha1:UEXC4M2E7VNFDUS3RHCIRGW7D625EN6T", "length": 189, "nlines": 4, "source_domain": "tonypi.com", "title": "An Enchantment, With Apples | Tony Pi, F&SF Writer", "raw_content": "An Enchantment, With Apples\nON SPEC, #60, vol 17 no 1, Spring 2005. (fantasy poem)\n\u201cWhen you loathe your skin and bones, be bold\u201d\nHonorable Mention in The Year\u2019s Best Fantasy & Horror 2006.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 99, "original_length": 4402, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.5, "perplexity": 302.6, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://touristscavengerhunt.com/hunts/usa/lower-manhattan-scavenger-hunt/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:05:05Z", "digest": "sha1:SAQ6JCLRY2GPJMX67O6ZZ56SBXALRXAJ", "length": 3337, "nlines": 18, "source_domain": "touristscavengerhunt.com", "title": "Lower Manhattan, scavenger hunt - Tourist Scavenger Hunt", "raw_content": "Home / Tourist Scavenger Hunts / USA / Lower Manhattan, scavenger hunt\nLower Manhattan, scavenger hunt\nAre you planning a visit to New York City? Our Tourist Scavenger Hunt in the financial district, or Lower Manhattan, will take you from Battery Park to City Hall via Ground Zero and the New York Stock Exchange of course!\nThe financial district is also known as Lower Manhattan and Downtown New York. It encompasses the southern tip of Manhattan Island. This is where City Hall and many civic organizations are based. Lower Manhattan\u2019s population is relatively small, at 61,000 in 2018.\nDeparture Point: Bowling Green Subway Station, 24 Broadway, New York, NY 10004, USA\nThe first nations that inhabited the area we know as New York were the Lenape who spoke Algonquin.\nThe Dutch were the first Europeans to settle Manhattan. In 1626 they set up a trading post here on the southern tip of the island and called it New Amsterdam. The first fort was built where Battery Park is today, to defend the fledgling colony. It was named Fort Amsterdam. The Dutch imported African slaves as labor to build the fort and other defenses.\nNew Amsterdam was incorporated as a city on February 2, 1653.\nIn 1664, the United Kingdom conquered the area and renamed the city to New York, in honor of the Duke of York. The African population already accounted for 20% of New York in those early years. The growth of the city was gradual until 1775 when the American patriots started a revolution against Great-Britain.\nThe Americans gained their independence from the United Kingdom in 1783. The first Congress met in New York, in Federal Hall on Wall Street, to write articles of confederation.\nNew York became the first capital of the United States between 1789 and 1790. The first Supreme Court sat here, and the United States Bill of Rights was written here too.\nDuring its first 300 years, Lower Manhattan (the financial district) dominated the economic life of New York. However, this changed in the 1920s with the reconstruction of Grand Central Station into a terminal. This triggered a capitalist revolution in Midtown.\nIn the early 1900s, a construction boom saw the first skyscrapers built here: 40 Wall Street, Woolworth Building, 20 Exchange Place. The first underground train (subway) began in 1904, connecting neighborhoods and municipalities.\nLower Manhattan had a small boom in the 1950s, but it declined over the next decade. Development of the World Trade Center, which opened in 1974, was an important driver for revitalizing this neighborhood. The 917,000 m3 (1.2 million cubic yards) of excavated material was used to extend Battery Park south by 210 meters (700 feet).\nSince 1995, more than 15 million square feet of office space has been converted into housing and hotels. This has greatly helped in increasing the neighborhood\u2019s population from 14,000 to 60,000 in 20 years.\nOn September 11, 2001, the twin towers of the World Trade Center after each was hit by a hijacked plane. Their destruction caused enormous damage to the surrounding buildings and several were subsequently demolished.\nIt took 10 years before the neighborhood regained its economic strength and joie de vivre. But in 2012, Hurricane Sandy ravaged the waterfront and Lower Manhattan with flooding.\nThe Lower Manhattan Tourist Scavenger Hunt is in development.", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 181, "original_length": 6862, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 116.9, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-themes/leeway/nb/default", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:35:23Z", "digest": "sha1:MDBQRK55IMLI2KIJHYLX3FKQQGLTHEA4", "length": 41, "nlines": 1, "source_domain": "translate.wordpress.org", "title": "Translations < Norwegian (Bokm\u00e5l) < Leeway < GlotPress \u2014 WordPress", "raw_content": "Translation of Leeway: Norwegian (Bokm\u00e5l)", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 336, "original_length": 7683, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.8, "perplexity": 281.7, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://travelomaniac.com/leh-ladakh/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:55:27Z", "digest": "sha1:ZSAQABX7NSDZIRWQYMTQ7YZIJGPUPDZV", "length": 3683, "nlines": 12, "source_domain": "travelomaniac.com", "title": "\ufeff Leh-Ladakh \u2013 TraveloManiac", "raw_content": "Don\u2019t listen to what they say, go live. I actually did it, living is not all about going to work from 9-5 or partying all night and then spending the day in hangover, but it is about exploring new places. Every biker, irrespective of his/her age, dreams a bike ride to leh-ladakh once in their lifetime. I am glad travelomaniac made my dream come true. Leh-Ladakh Bike Tour is counted among the best adventure experiences in the Land of High Passes.\nThere are two different routes to Leh; one from Manali and the other one starting from Srinagar. Manali to Leh trip is around 476 km whereas Srinagar to Leh is around 434 km. However, we would suggest you to take the Manali route, which passes through beautiful terrains and also some of the highest motorable passes in the world. Through the Srinagar route you would hit the high terrain gradually rather a quick however it is a steep climb.\nThe best time for bike trips to Ladakh is from mid-May to October. Roads from Srinagar are thrown open from mid-May, whereas the Manali route is opened after May. You can take this road trip only during the autumn and summer season. Or else, you will need to take a flight.\nOne must be prepared to deal with Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS), which will hit you at some point of time. It all depends on your coping mechanism, and how well prepared you are. Some of the places that I visited in leh-ladakh include the Patong Lake, Khardung La Pass, Magnetic Hill, Zanskar Valley, Tso Moriri,Rizong Monastery, Shanti stupa, Indian Astronomical Observatory and Hall of fame.\nPatong Lake is really beautiful. It has gained more visibility after the shooting of last scene of film \u20183 Idiots\u2019 here. It is around 3-4 hours away from Leh. Situated at an elevation of 5602 meters (18379 ft) in the Ladakh region, Khardung La is the highest motorable pass in the world.\nThe Magnetic hill houses are a rare and unique optical illusion that mystify tourists everytime they see it. The magnetic hill is a \u201cgravity hill\u201d capable of giving an illusion that an object which is going downhill seems as if it is going uphill, thereby defying the attractive force of gravity. These magnetic hills can also be found in other countries too like Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom and United States.\nTrekking in Zanskar valley was one of the amazing experiences of life time. This place is full of natural attraction and the beauty of the place is wonderful. Zanskar has sceneic beauty. While you are walking on it, you feel the bliss of silence and ice. Its temperature during day time varies from -2 to -3 and at night it goes down to -32 to -37. Trekking in Zanskar valley is worth all the problems you face while doing it.\nNext was Tso Moriri, one of the largest lake in ladakh. This lake water is fed by snowmelt of mountains in the Changthang plateau. It is surrounded by snow capped mountains from all sides. It is siuated at more than 4500m altitude and offers a great sight of flora and fauna.\nRizong monastery and Shanti Stupa are the religious places of tibetians in ladakh. It is situated at the top of a rocky side valley on the north side of the Indus river. The monastery is also called \u2018The paradise for meditation\u2019 and is noted for its extremely strict rules and standards.\nThe Indian Astronomical Observatory has one of the world's highest sites for optical, infrared and gamma-ray telescopes. It is operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore. It is currently the third highest optical telescope in the world, situated at an elevation of 4,500 meters.\nDrop your comments and let us know about your experiences.\nBikingKhardungLaPassLadakhLehPatongLakeTrip", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 76, "original_length": 4684, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.96, "perplexity": 283.3, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://traveltriangle.com/karnataka-tourism/hampi/places-to-visit/elephant-stables", "date_download": "2019-02-15T22:04:26Z", "digest": "sha1:5JYPC46ZSPUZAP7RXFSCVL6DF2OEZMJA", "length": 4658, "nlines": 28, "source_domain": "traveltriangle.com", "title": "Elephant Stables in Hampi, Karnataka (Timings, Cost, Entry Fee, Place, Route)", "raw_content": "Elephant Stables In Hampi, Karnataka\nAbout Elephant Stables in Hampi\nHampi, a small town in Karnataka, is known for the archaeological ruins, which reflect an integral part of the Dravidian history. The temple complexes belong to the Vijayanagara Empire. The Elephant stables of Hampi are also an important attraction as these stables are one of those structures that have not suffered extensive damage. The Elephant Stables Hampi was used to provide shelter to the royal elephants of the Vijayanagara Empire.\nThe magnificent architecture indicates the importance of royal elephants in the empire and also the amazing craftsmanship of the artisans of that era. There are 11 domed chambers in the structure and the design of the central dome represents the architectural style found in the temples of Hampi, while the other 10 domes represent Islamic style of architecture. These Elephant Stables Vijayanagar can be accessed from the Zenana enclosure. There is also a free sound-and-light show here at 7pm, everyday.\nHampi Elephant Stables history and marvelous structure is a fine example of Indo-Islamic architecture which is different from other monuments of the place, and also it is one of the few monuments which has survived the massive attack of Mughals on Hampi, which led to the downfall of Vijayanagara empire.\nThe Elephant stables of Hampi should be definitely on the list of places to visit of every tourist visiting Hampi. The elephants would have been tied to the chains hanging from the centre of the ceiling as can be made out from the iron hooks embedded in some of the ceilings. These were not the stables for military elephants but for the ceremonial ones which were used by royal household.\nPlaces To Visit In Hampi\nHazara Rama Temple In Hampi\nOne of the most unique and popular temples in Hampi, the Hazara Rama Temple is a gorgeous Temple located at the center of Royal Enclosure. It is dedicated to the Hindu deity, Lord Rama. Among the many unique things, the name \u2018Hazara Ramaswamy Temple\u2019 stands out as it literally translates to a thousand Rama referring to the...\nHippie Island In Hampi\nLocated just a boat ride away from Hampi, the laidback Hippie Island, or Virupapur Gadde is separated from the historical Hampi by Tungabhadra River. A trip to UNESCO World Heritage site of the gorgeous ruins of Hampi is incomplete without a visit to the Hippie Island, deriving its name from the numerous Hippie foreign back...\nDaroji Bear Sanctuary In Hampi\nAbode of the Indian Sloth Bears, the Daroji Sloth bear Sanctuary is located in Karnataka, just 20 kms away from the gorgeous ruins of Hampi. The open scrub forests, undulated hillocks, fallen boulders and sheltering caves of the sanctuary, spread over 83 square feet, are home to a large population of these honey-lovers, end...\nVijaya Vittala Temple In Hampi\nOne of the greatest temples in Hampi, the Vittala temple or the Vijaya Vittala Temple, located near the banks of the river Tungabhadra, represents an exceptional craftsmanship of Dravidian architecture. The Vijaya temple in Hampi is one of the most popular attraction of this ruined town. Dating back to the 15th century, thi...\nLocated in the state of Karnataka in Southern India, Virupaksha Temple is one of the group of monuments at Hampi, which has been denominated as UNESCO World Heritage Site. Adorned with magnificent carvings and sculptures, the temple is surrounded with structures including a pillared walkway, courtyards, entrances, and small...\nBouldering In Hampi\nAn ancient village in the south Indian state of Karnataka, Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. People travel from all over India to Hampi as it is of significant value to the pilgrims. With numerous hindu temples situated in this place, it is a popular location among travelers. Hampi is also popular among travelers due t...\nCamping In Hampi\nAccorded the title of World Heritage Site by UNESCO, Hampi offers an exhilarating venture that anyone can undertake. Camping in Hampi, is one of the most famous outdoor avocation amid the historical ruins and surrounding natural beauty. Explore Hampi to find the most suitable camping destination. With China's camping area, ...\nMatanga Hill Trek In Hampi\nMatanga Hill, Hampi is located at the eastern end of the Hampi Bazaar, offering you an awestruck view of the ruined city and the panoramic view beneath you.Being the top-most point in Hampi, Matanga Hill is amongst the most popular places to visit. The tourists get a mesmerizing view of the city of Hampi. There is a small t...\nHow To Reach Elephant Stables\nMumbai to Hampi\nPune to Hampi\nBangalore to Hampi\nHyderabad to Hampi\nChennai to Hampi", "cc_segment": "crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247479159.2/wet/CC-MAIN-20190215204316-20190215230316-00124.warc.wet.gz", "original_nlines": 544, "original_length": 16825, "language": "en", "language_score": 0.94, "perplexity": 305.2, "bucket": "head" }, { "url": "https://trebel.io/blog/the-10-best-twenty-one-pilots-songs-ever/", "date_download": "2019-02-15T21:11:37Z", "digest": "sha1:WR5WC3BLDMSSGKXZ3PMGVGN4IN5TRRPJ", "length": 7781, "nlines": 41, "source_domain": "trebel.io", "title": "The 10 Best Twenty One Pilots Songs Ever \u2013 TREBEL: Free Music Downloader for Android and iPhone", "raw_content": "By Olivia Perreault | June 7, 2016\nTwenty One Pilots, a duo consisting of members Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, is on an upward climb \u2014 flourishing in the music scene. The band\u2019s genre is difficult to describe because all of their songs are versatile \u2014 ranging from alternative hip hop beats and raps mixed in with electronic, pop, indie and rock sounds. Not only is their music eclectic, but their lyrics focus on deep issues, discussing depression, suicide and life motives. Through their songs, Joseph and Dun are expressing serious topics, but the musical beats make each song intriguing and repeat-worthy.\nAfter releasing Vessel in 2013, the band took a different approach with their 2015 hit album Blurryface, which made Billboard\u2019s Top 200 chart. Although Blurryface is the duo\u2019s second studio album released through Fueled By Ramen, they have multiple songs worth listening to. Here\u2019s 10 of their best songs:\n1. \u201cCar Radio\u201d \u2013 Vessel\n\u201cCar Radio\u201d discusses a true story when Joseph was late to class and accidentally left his car unlocked. When he returned, items where missing, including his car\u2019s radio. For a while, he wasn\u2019t able to listen to the radio while driving anymore, which forced him to think about everything going on in his head. The song is also a metaphor of what it\u2019s like to have something removed from your life and ponder what to do in silence. This song has an edgy tone but includes elements of rhyme and rap, as well as intense rock moments.\nLyrics: \u201cI hate this car that I\u2019m driving/There\u2019s no hiding for me/I\u2019m forced to deal with what I feel/There is no distraction to mask what is real/I could pull the steering wheel\u201d\n2. \u201cTear In My Heart\u201d \u2013 Blurryface\n\u201cTear In My Heart\u201d is an ode to a woman who causes oppositional thoughts. Although she is \u201cthe tear in my [his] heart,\u201d Joseph sings, \u201cTake me higher/Than I\u2019ve ever been.\u201d The song describes a relationship that deals with both ups and downs, but at the end of the day, everything is worth it.\nLyric: \u201cThe songs on the radio are okay, but my taste in music is your face.\u201d\n3. \u201cTrees\u201d \u2013 Vessel\nAlthough \u201cTrees\u201d doesn\u2019t have many lyrics, I think the song is still very powerful. Joseph sings \u201cI can feel your breath/I can feel my death/I want to know you/I want to see/I want to say/Hello.\u201d The song can be interpreted in various different ways, but the surface meaning is about trying or wanting to connect with someone but they are unreachable.\nLyrics: \u201cWhy won\u2019t you speak?/Where I happen to be/Silent/In the trees/Standing cowardly\u201d\n4. \u201cStressed Out\u201d \u2013 Blurryface\n\u201cStressed Out\u201d not only won an iHeartRadio Music Award for Alternative Rock Song of the Year, but also reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100. The song discusses the transition from child to adulthood, and different pieces of life you wish you could change. Joseph sings that he wishes he could \u201cturn back time to the good \u2018ol days,\u201d but now he\u2019s \u201cstressed out.\u201d He sings about when he and his brother were young and innocent, but now, as an adult, there are so many factors of life to think about.\nLyric: \u201cWe used to play pretend, give each other different names,/We would build a rocket ship and then we\u2019d fly it far away,/ Used to dream of outer space but now they\u2019re laughing at our face,/Saying, \u2018Wake up, you need to make money'\u201d\n5. \u201cDoubt\u201d \u2013 Blurryface\n\u201cDoubt\u201d is a very dark song, with very pop-sounding beats, but a serious meaning. It\u2019s a plea for help as Joseph calls out to someone, begging them \u201cdon\u2019t forget about me.\u201d He sings about how he\u2019s scared of immaturity, uncertainty and anxiety. Although the song is very beat-driven, the lyrics are intense, relatable and definitely not a song to be overlooked.\nLyric: \u201cTemperature is dropping, temperature is dropping,/ I\u2019m not sure if I can see this ever stopping,/Shaking hands with the dark parts of my thoughts, no,/ You are all that I\u2019ve got, no.\u201d\n6. \u201cWe Don\u2019t Believe What\u2019s on TV\u201d \u2013 Blurryface\n\u201cWe Don\u2019t Believe What\u2019s On TV\u201d is one of the only upbeat songs on the album, discussing the idea that although TV is unreliable and often promises things that are unattainable, Joseph is searching for something or someone he can trust. This song is talking about love and both the reality and sometimes unreliability that comes along with it.\nLyric: \u201cI don\u2019t care what\u2019s in your hair,/I just wanna know what\u2019s on your mind,/ I used to say, \u2018I wanna die before I\u2019m old,\u2019/But because of you I might think twice\u201d\n7. \u201cMigraine\u201d \u2013 Vessel\n\u201cMigraine\u201d is a super interesting track off of Vessel, taking a different approach than other songs. The song is very fast-paced with strategically placed syntax, rhymes and pauses. This tune has catchy beats with dramatic rhythm, but stripped underneath all of the musicality, Joseph sings about depression and mental illness. He says, \u201cThank God it\u2019s Friday cause Fridays will always be better than Sundays/\n\u2018Cause Sundays are my suicide days\u201d and \u201csometimes death seems better than the migraine in my head.\u201d Although the topic is very intense, Joseph ends the song with: \u201cBut I know we\u2019ve made it this far, kid.\u201d\nLyric: \u201c\u2018Cause sometimes to stay alive,/you\u2019ve got to kill your mind\u201d\n8. \u201cKitchen Sink\u201d \u2013 Regional at Best\n\u201cKitchen Sink\u201d is all about purpose, and how people decide to live their lives. Joseph suggests in this song to create something that has meaning for yourself. He sings: \u201cThen write something, yeah it might be worthless/ Then paint something then, it might be wordless/Pointless curses, nonesense verses/You\u2019ll see purpose start to surface.\u201d Joseph is trying to explain that it doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re artistic or not, but create something that only you will understand-no one can take that away from you.\nLyric: \u201cNo one else is dealing with your demons/Meaning maybe defeating them/Could be the beginning of your meaning, friend\u201d\n9. \u201cOde to Sleep\u201d \u2013 Vessel\n\u201cOde to Sleep\u201d is intriguing within the first 30 seconds of the song. The beat pulls you in and keeps you entertained for the full five minutes of the tune, offering different beats, raps, tones and singing styles. This song takes the listener on a rollercoaster of different emotions. Joseph starts the song by singing: \u201cI wake up fine and dandy but then by the time I find it handy,/To rip my heart apart and start planning my crash landing,\u201d and continues later in the song with \u201cI don\u2019t hear those voices calling,/I must have kicked them out, I must have kicked them out.\u201d\nLyric: \u201cI\u2019ll stay awake,/ \u2018Cause the dark\u2019s not taking prisoners tonight\u201d\n10. \u201cImplicit Demand for Proof\u201d \u2013 Twenty One Pilots\nAlthough Twenty One Pilot\u2019s self-titled album is six years old, this song goes to show how far the band has come. Even without the rapping, heavy beats and rhymes, Joseph\u2019s lyrics and voice stand out. The first minute and a half of the song is completely instrumental, and when his voice slowly comes in, it\u2019s easy to see how passionate he is. \u201cImplicit Demand for Proof\u201d started their first album, and six years later, the passion is still there.\nLyric: \u201cRain down and destroy me\u201d\nTwenty One Pilots is incomparable to other bands out there. They have their own sound, offering unique and inviting beats to back up such passionate, personal lyrics. They\u2019re genre is undefinable-proving that the duo can take on all different types of sounds.\nFind Twenty One Pilot\u2019s music and various other artists on the Trebel App, the world\u2019s only fully licensed app for Android and iPhone delivering unlimited free downloads of the world\u2019s most popular music.\nWhat\u2019s your favorite Twenty One Pilots song? 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